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iammistressofmyfate · 1 year

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HI I NEED 33 FOR THE SPICY PROMPTS, PLEASE AND THANK YOU 😘

Ohhhhh! OKAY!!! I have never written anything like this before so here goes nothin'! I hope you like it and thank you for the request, friend!!! 🥰🥰

33. Porn/Sex Tape

(Sweet... but also spicy 🔥)

[Kinky/Spicy Prompts]

Ronan held up his phone, tongue between his teeth, a little smile teasing his lips as he watched Adam across the room on his screen. He was naked, toweling his hair off after they’d run in from the sudden summer storm that had just hit them.

He was all lovely, elegant lines of wiry muscle and Ronan could watch him like this all day, every day.

Thunder rumbled in the distance but Ronan wasn’t paying it any mind, his attention completely on Adam. Adam sighed, pulling the towel from his head, his dusty colored hair all mussed, and damp. He turned his head to look at Ronan, brows furrowing.

“Are you filming me?” he asked, covering himself with the towel, and Ronan laughed, looking at Adam over the top of his phone. He didn’t say anything, letting his eyes slide back down to his screen.

“What the fuck, Lynch?! Stop!” Adam grumbled, throwing something at Ronan, which Ronan dodged, laughing some more.

“C’mon, Parrish. It’s nothing.”

“It’s not nothing,” Adam replied, his Henrietta accent thicker and sweeter because he was irritated and it warmed Ronan down to his core. Adam crawled onto the bed, grappling for Ronan’s phone, but Ronan held his arm away.

He laughed, the two of them wrestling, Ronan keeping the phone out of reach.

“Stop it, asshole. Ow!” Adam hissed, Ronan having bit his shoulder. “That was dirty.”

Ronan hummed, licking the bite, and then kissing over it. “You like it.”

Adam huffed, but didn’t deny it. He was laying mostly on top of Ronan, cock half hard, pressing against Ronan’s hip. Ronan looked at him, resting his free hand on Adam’s waist, fingertips dragging in featherlight patterns over his skin.

Adam blinked slowly, took a breath, let it out. His pretty blue eyes looked darker and Ronan smiled at him. He lifted his head, eyes on Adam’s mouth, and then Adam’s eyes, and then back again, and Adam got the message, because he leaned down to meet Ronan, kissing him.

It was a warm kiss, Adam kissing Ronan’s top lip, then his bottom lip, then both together, sliding his tongue into Ronan’s mouth. Ronan made a soft, pleased noise, arm sliding over Adam to hold him close.

They made out for a few long, drawn out minutes, before Adam pulled away, and Ronan brushed their noses.

“Let me film us,” he murmured, feeling bold. Summer was almost over and Adam would be going back to school for the start of another semester. His Senior year. The final stretch. He was twenty-two and perfect and Ronan was so in love with him it made him ache.

Adam cocked his head to the side, fair brows furrowing, Ronan reached up to kiss the wrinkle.

“Why?” he replied softly. “I send you plenty of nudes for your spank bank.” He reached up, tugging at Ronan’s ear, and Ronan turned his head, snapping his teeth at Adam’s fingers.

“Yeah. I know. But… I don’t know… I miss you when we’re not together. And a video is a hell of a lot better than just dick pics.”

“What about phone sex?”

“Sometimes I want to jerk off to you and you’re unavailable, Einstein.”

Adam rolled his eyes and let out an irritated sigh.

“Besides,” Ronan continued, kissing Adam’s neck, gently biting his skin, leaving what would be a noticeable hickey. “I know you like some kinky shit.”

“Not just me,” Adam murmured and Ronan knew without having to look that Adam's eyes were closed. He pressed into Ronan more and Ronan knew that he was going to get his way. He kissed over the mark he left, sliding his hand over one of Adam’s ass cheeks, squeezing appreciatively.

Adam opened his eyes and looked at him. “On one condition.”

“Shoot.”

“You send it to me.”

“Pfft,” Ronan replied. “Was gonna do that anyway. Anything else?”

“How the hell do we film ourselves?”

It took several long minutes to figure out how to prop Ronan’s phone up which involved Adam McGuverying a selfie stick, a pile of books, the headboard of their bed, and duct tape. Ronan was badly impressed but Adam had always been resourceful and that had always been a turn on for him.

“Solutions guy,” Ronan chuckled, as Adam flopped down next to him, and tugged Ronan closer.

“Yeah, yeah,” Adam sighed, pulling Ronan down for a kiss.

In truth, Ronan forgot all about the phone filming them, getting lost in Adam like he always did when they had sex. He ran his hands into Adam’s hair, kissing all over his tanned, freckled face. He worked his way down Adam’s elegant neck, the delicate outline of his collarbone.

He kissed down Adam’s sternum, running his tongue over one nipple, thumb and forefinger teasing the other. Adam sighed out, hands sliding from Ronan’s head, to his shoulders, long, lovely fingers digging into his shoulder muscles.

Ronan loved the taste of Adam’s skin, salty and familiar. He loved the way Adam’s sparse body hair caught on his own as their bodies pressed together. He loved the noises Adam made, soft at first, uncertain, before growing bolder as he sunk further into pleasure.

Ronan loved knowing what Adam liked. Like how his chest was so sensitive and that he liked when Ronan smoothed his hands over Adam’s ribs. Ronan followed a trail of freckles to the dip of Adam’s hip, pressing a kiss to the faint trail of hair at his navel, all the way down to the darker curls at the base of Adam’s cock.

Adam had a very pretty dick. Long and lean like the rest of him, with a few freckles that Ronan found insanely endearing.

“Ronan,” Adam sighed and Ronan glanced up, hovering over Adam. He smiled at him and winked, before swirling his tongue around the head of Adam’s dick. “Oh fuck,” Adam breathed, mouth open, eyes closed, body pressed back.

Ronan hummed, his whole body warm, heat pooled in his belly, so fucking turned on just knowing that Adam was enjoying this. And Ronan was, too. God, he really was. He sucked the head of Adam’s dick into his mouth, loving the taste and smell of him. He took Adam down, using his tongue and a light scrape of teeth.

He sucked Adam just the way he knew Adam like, the way he knew would get Adam to moan, and maybe even beg a little. Ronan curled his hands around Adam’s lean thighs, stroked his skin as he blew him.

Adam panted against the pillows and Ronan pulled off of him, licking him once more, watching Adam’s chest rise and fall rapidly, his tan skin ruddy. He lifted his head, opened his eyes, and Ronan just grinned devilishly up to him, leaving a mark on the inside of Adam’s thigh.

“Fucking beautiful,” he murmured.

Adam flopped back onto the pillows, raising his hands from Ronan’s shoulders to push against the headboard.

“Fuck, Lynch.”

“We’re getting there, doll. Promise.”

Adam knocked his knee against Ronan’s skull in reply and Ronan snickered. He maneuvered his way back up Adam’s body, humming as Adam’s hands slid down his back to his ass, squeezing.

“Wanna ride me?” Ronan asked, leaning down to slide his lips against Adam’s in a not quite kiss.

“Yeah,” Adam replied agreeably.

They flipped positions, Adam straddling Ronan, running his hands appreciatively down Ronan’s torso, and Ronan felt himself blush. Adam's face was sweet, looking at Ronan as if Ronan was the only thing worth looking at.

Adam smiled, tugging at Ronan’s new-ish nipple piercings and Ronan gasped, the sensation going straight to his dick. Adam shook his head, smiling wider. “I love what this does for you,” he hummed, and kissed Ronan filthily, all tongue and teeth.

They found the lube and Adam lubed his hand, reaching behind himself to stroke Ronan’s dick. Ronan had his lip between his teeth, hands around Adam’s hips, eyes half-lidded as Adam jerked him off with a knowing touch.

“Adam,” he warned.

“You’re good,” Adam cooed back, pulling his fist from Ronan, using his fingers to guide Ronan into him. Ronan watched, holding his breath, as Adam slid down onto him. He went slowly, carefully, eyes closed, brows furrowed, lips slightly parted.

Adam breathed shallowly, concentrating. There was resistance at first and then Adam’s muscles gave, and Ronan slid inside.

“God,” Adam huffed, head tilted back. Ronan’s brain had short circuited, only able to think about the way Adam felt around his cock. He was warm and tight and they were connected so deeply. Ronan slid his hands to Adam’s ass, squeezing, and Adam smiled, starting to move.

It was a slow rhythm at first, the two of them easing into it, rocking together, before Adam picked up speed, and with it, his volume. Soon enough, Adam was fucking himself hard and fast against Ronan’s cock, and Ronan was holding on for the ride.

The bedframe thumped into the wall rhythmically and Adam panted and whined and moaned and Ronan was so gone for him.

“Adam,” he managed before he was coming so fucking hard that lights danced across his vision. And Adam wasn’t far behind, jerking himself off, and fucking himself through his orgasm, cum splashed all over Ronan’s abs and chest, and Adam’s fist.

He collapsed forward and Ronan wrapped his arms around him, face buried in his chest, both of them catching their breath. Adam held him and Ronan pressed kisses to his skin, tasting salt. Adam kissed the top of his buzzed head and Ronan felt him reach for the abandoned towel on the bed, wiping his hand on it.

Adam sighed, sliding both hands under Ronan, holding him. They stayed like that for a while, exchanging little kisses, and soft, sweet nothings, before Adam retrieved Ronan’s phone.

“Wanna watch it?” Ronan asked and Adam laughed, rolling out of bed.

“No. Come shower.”

A week later, Adam was back at school, and Ronan was back on the road. They would meet up again in a few weeks but Ronan was feeling Adam’s absence acutely.

Ronan watched the video. He was surprised how decent it was. The way it really captured Ronan going down on Adam and then Adam riding him. It was… pretty sexy, especially the sound, but Ronan liked that it caught their tenderness, too.

Cuddled together, murmuring to each other, kissing. It made his heart ache and he missed Adam more.

He hadn’t seen the end of the video and watched it in its entirety, surprised.

His face was tucked against Adam’s chest, Adam’s arm around him, holding him, as he reached for the phone. He was smiling, looking perfectly fucked out and gorgeous. He winked at the camera and then blew a kiss, before turning the video off.

Ronan laughed, his heart full, settling the phone on his chest, closing his eyes. Grateful for a boyfriend who loved Ronan just as much as Ronan loved him. He looked at his phone once more and sent Adam a text.

i fucking love you

A few moments later, a reply.

I fucking love you, too.

END

#kink prompts #spicy prompts #asks #asks answered #adam parrish #ronan lynch #pynch

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caffeinated-and-annoying-bard · 6 months

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HELLLOO MUTUAL HII I AM READING YOUR THINGY HERE ARE MY THOUGHTS :D

(This is live commentary btw)

Oh??? Is this a normal dream or Squip induced 🤔 (Pointing at him) autism

This writing style >>>

"It was sure wonderful not to be dead." sure is buddy

OMG VIDEO GAME POITNING POINTING POINTING

“Just brilliant, Jer, ask the creepy flesh with no nose and no eyes that is floating above you in your Jumanji fever dream if it is real. Real Einstein over here,” <- obsessed with this /aff LOVE HOW YOU'VE CHANGED THE TEXT AND EVERYTHING

Jeremy being a DND player >>>>>>>>>>> (fun fact I have a WIP like that) ALSO AURGHHHH THIS WRITING THIS WRITING IT'S INCREDIBLE /GEN /POS Oh the besties lookk at the them go <33 You write them so funky they are like gummy bears /aff SORRY I GOT SO INVESTED IN READING I FORGOT TO COMMENT /POS "There was no fixed point to guide him to his fixed point. " <- obsessed with this line oh my gosh WAIT HUH IT STOPPED THERE NOOOOO I WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENS :(((( /LH GTFUIGHF THIS IS BRILLIANT AMAZING I LOVE IT

VABDHFJDVXKDBFI YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF HOW HAPPY THE LIVE COMMENTARY MADE ME i hope you don't mind i took screenshots of it because i intend to use it as a depression-repellent if the need arises /hj

FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, THANK YOU FOR READING IT /srs i got inspiration for writing another chapter and the tiny flame of confidence for possibly starting to upload this to ao3 in pieces. (Although if anybody ever does read it, i believe they will be disheartened by my dreadful writing schedule /lh)

I will try to make this story worthy, I admire your works a lot and it means a lot to me that you like it /gen

I will probably tag it as No Beta We Die Like Men but in my heart you will by the real beta reader (the real beta reader is the dragonairice mutual we asked to read the wip along the way)

Thank you for reading it /gen :)

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patchesproblem · 2 years

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do you have any spare hcs abt karl or joyce 😭 im starved

YES I DO ACTUALLY!!! I think about those two sm like you don't even understand. I really need to talk about them more, tbh.

I have A Lot to say, so sorry in advance for my nonsensical ramblings.

Actual answer under the cut

OKAY SO!! Starting with our favorite pathetic bean sprout.

I'll separate the au hc's and actual main universe hcs just to keep everything semi understandable. It'll have HC's for relationships with Karl, Planck, Einslas, etc. Also including Elysia and Joffrey because siblings can't be separated <3

AU headcanons:

Joyce is smarter than he gives himself credit for. I'm being serious when I say this. It doesn't express itself as obviously as the Einslas, but that's only because his strengths are in other areas. While the Einslas are extremely smart when it comes to STEM, I feel as if Joyce's strong suit is more in creativity. It's hard to exaplain, but think writing / reading and all that. He enjoys learning new information about things he likes (examples include astrology, writing, etc.) and he will often be able to remember details that others normally wouldn't.

He probably spent a lot of his childhood reading stories, and was probably ahead of his grades reading level. He didn't really have many friends because he has social issues, despite the fact a lot of people did actually like him. He just knew a lot of people, but he wasn't really able to form any close friendships until his insane scientist bestie came along. Though that was partially because he just was awkward and didn't know how to talk to others. Was worried he'd come off as weird or get bullied for his interests.

Tesla probably comes to him sometimes to ask for help with her own writing, actually. Although he doesn't write much himself, he's somehow one of the best people to ask for advice LMAO. They probably bonded over their shared passions, even if they are technically different. (Different in the sense of she's into writing, and he's into reading. They go together hand in hand. Idk I just feel like it's a cute little thing. Besties and siblings <33) He also probably proof reads her stuff occasionally when Einsteins too busy to, though he might've had a few objects thrown at him at some points. He also gives her advice / ideas.

Has a fear of people leaving him bc his parents just kinda. Disappeared leaving him with Karl and Emma as his care takers, and Elyisa eventually left soon after because she got married to Eden and all that. Then when Einstein left with Planck it just kinda destroyed him. He's not upset with them, he's actually really happy for them. Though it gets lonely and he's afraid that he'll get replaced (haha Joachim haha. Sorry.)

Probably really close with Joffrey tbh. Does anything in his power to make sure his little brother has a good childhood. He reads to him A Lot, and actively engages in his ideas. For example: if he has an idea to make something Joyce will help him make it. He also encourages him to pursue his own interests even if it's a one off thing. He'll often draw / write with him too. He's very proud of him

Karl is basically his dad at this point. He doesn't treat him as his nephew, but instead he treats him as if he was his own son in a sense. He's extremely proud of him and that someday he'll make a positive impact on the world. Joyce looks up to him heavily, and wants to follow in his foot steps once he gets older.

When Ein originally came he was terrified of her LMAO. She was an absolute menace as a child and lived up to Karl calling her a brat. He was relentlessly teased and messed with by this tiny goblin who could turn on the water works at any second if she felt like it. She still actually is the reason he's called Welt. Though it's because he's the clumsiest mf in the world, so dual meaning there.

She's actually one of his first actual friends, and partially responsible for his love of space. How they became friends is blurry just because it's more of a "she won't be leaving I need to learn to survive" but despite being eccentric, he eventually came to see her as his bestie / sister. Though he's still absolutely terrified of her. He still has zero clue what goes on in her head and that's terrifying to him.

He's absolutely terrified of Tesla too. Both his besties scare him half to death and he's convinced one of these days they're going to be the reason he gets killed, but that won't happen surely. They're at each others throats constantly, and would probably be those two people threatening to kill the other in a waffle house at two in the morning. They want to throw each other through a wall, but also trust each other with their lives. The only man Tesla remotely tolerates along with Karl. They have sibling energy and you can pry it out of my cold dead hands.

Him and Elysia also probably used to be really close. She cares about him deeply, and would drop anything at a moments notice to help him if he needed it. Though she also does tease him often, as a big sister should. Eden acts as a parental figure towards him as well. They both met when he was young, and he grew up with her around a lot so he just started looking up to her tbh.

He originally goes to Lab 42 to become Einslas assistant while he went to university there, and would help them with stuff similar to how he helped out in canon. Though Tesla basically said "Fuck you, we're your superiors now so you'll refer to us as Dr. Tesla and Dr. Einstein now!" and that's how he started calling Einstein Ein lmao. Tes wasn't amused.

They also drag his ass to Alaska. He never wanted to go on work related trips with them after that.

He's terrified of Planck. That's all. He's terrified. Her constant midlife crisis scares him.

Okay so for non AU headcannons:

Tes and Ein 100% got together in private and planned how to torment him. Just Trust Me on this. They were feeling a little bit silly and goofy and just coordinated together on how to torment him next.

Him and Tes' relationship is a little bit different in the main universe, for obvious reasons. Though they stay besties and have sibling energy. Neither of them trusted each other at first. Tes didn't trust Joyce because 1. He's a man 2. He's a man 3. He's a man and 4. She was scared he'd hurt Ein (was also just jealous and scared she'd pay less attention to her but yanno), and Joyce didn't trust Tesla because she's an angry redhead who would probably kill a man if given the chance. Didn't help that she threatened his life and threatened to castrate him within the first minute of meeting him, but yanno it be like that sometimes.

Over time Tes begrudgingly accepted that he wasn't going anywhere for awhile and that she should probably get used to it. While Eins was out they probably were forced to bond, and eventually Tesla realized that maybe he wasn't as bad as she originally thought and slowly began to trust him. Honestly they were best friends by the time he just decided to die like a pathetic person on them. He'd stay up to make sure she got home okay and alive, and he eventually just became her rambling buddy. AKA Einstein was asleep and she just went on long nonsensical ramblings to Joyce while he just went "uh huh.. interesting.. they did what now?"

Probably admitted some embarrassing things to him in all honesty. Though he'd never be able to tell anyone that considering she herself didn't even remember telling him half the stuff she did, and even if she did she'd actually kill him if he said anything about it. Not like he really wanted to, anyways. Was just happy she was willing to talk to him and didn't completely hate him tbh. Was also happy that he could be there for her considering his whole depression thing and knowing how horrible it was to not have someone there for you.

Though she also always cared and worried about him. Her and Ein had read his 'profile' beforehand, and Tesla immediately was scared and concerned when she realized he quite literally was diagnosed with severe depression. Though she'd never admit that and would prefer to pretend she just found him annoying and pathetic LMAO. At least before his death, after his death is a different story. (AKA she finally admitted years later she cared about him to Einstein and still missed having his dumbass around and constantly had to be held back from nuking Otto off the face of the earth.)

Another note I forgot to add that I'm adding after the fact: He was actually amazed by Tesla's knowledge. Like he knew she was smart, but the extent of it surprised him tbh. Especially after hearing how she didn't even have her degree.

With Ein it's pretty much the same, though she's legitimately just an absolute menace to everyone around her. She intentionally dialed it to ten just to make sure that he was terrified of her and never knew what she was going to do next. She did it just for the funsies tbh. Things were going slow in the lab and as much fun as it is to tease Tesla, it was funny to be able to just bully some random man who had no clue what was happening at any given second. Plus added bonus points for being able to still tease Tesla but making it 100% worse because someone else is around and Tes just gets embarrassed and loses it.

VN is basically two lesbians harass and bully some poor traumatized man for an entire month.

That aside, I feel like him and Joachim got along really well. I like to believe that he took him out sometimes to watch him while Einslas were working, and that Joachim constantly asked the Finn to go see the three. While the Einslas taught him to gaslight gatekeep and girlboss, Joyce taught him actual life lessons and tried to negate the 'damage' the Einslas had done. AKA try to make him stop being even worse than them.

He cared A Lot about Joachim, and probably saw him as his little brother honestly. I feel like they spent a lot of time together, even if it often resulted in Joyce being bullied constantly by three people instead of just two. The explosions also didn't amuse him because he's lame and a coward.

He's terrified of Planck. That's all. He's Terrified.

After his death he intentionally hid from Tesla Einstein and Joachim. He didn't want them to find him, and try to bring him back. He felt like he'd disappointed them all and he felt guilty over what happened, and he was scared they hated him and despised him over what happened. He only shows up for Bronya because he knew that she'd be his successor, and even at that he refused to talk because he didn't want to disappoint her too. Didn't want her getting too attached to him, mainly because he's too scared to hurt yet another person.

Had to end it off depressingly, sorry </3 I'm sure you understand.

Was going to do non AU and AU versions for Karl too but like... He wasn't alive near long enough to even have hcs for the main universe. I've just hit him with the dad beam honestly.

Anyways AU Karl hcs <33

He's a dad. Literally just a dad. Will adopt any insane scientist within a 1000 mile radius.

He met Ein similarly to how he does in canon, and managed to convince her parents to let him and Planck allow her to continue her studies at a college level. Ever since then he's basically become her dad, and that's how she views him. Has accidentally called him dad before.

For a majority of the time he was one of Eins main mentors, though as time went on and he became more busy, Planck began to become her teacher.

He's awkward, and is kinda oblivious. Very Oblivious. He tends to not over think peoples words, and doesn't even think that there's a second meaning in most circumstances.

For the most part he's extremely dedicated to his work, and has issues with accidentally over working himself. All he wants to do is help others, even if it causes himself issues. He's often extremely busy and running about.

Though he also is extremely dedicated to his family and cares about them more than anything. If ANY of them needed anything, including Tesla, he'd drop whatever he was doing to make sure that his family is okay. He loves them all.

I'll have to add more later, but a lot of my thoughts have simply disappeared. I'll dm you on discord when I put more for Karl LMAO.

#nikola responds to asks #magicalmyu #honkai impact 3rd #welt joyce #karl gustav #I have a lot more but like #brains dead #sorry it took so long to respond to this LMAO #nikolas posts

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bills-bible-basics · 8 months

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neptune-midheaven · 4 years

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💓 Astro Notes PT 3 ! 💓

+I’m definitelyy gonna do sign posts soon, like houses, planets, asteroids, and all, it’s all gonna have a theme to each topic yada yada yadaa, so look outtt+

>A bit of a long post here so have fun scrolling through it hehe :))

*All aries risings have sign/house synchronization because the house order doesn’t move or if it does move at all it hardly does, only shifting by a sign or two depending on how late the ascendant degree is, this is notorious of aries’ independence streak by wanting each sign to be in their native houses, to feel its house’s full power, aries rules 1st the house of identity so there’s the more symbolic way for this occurring. It’s pure energy here.

*Venus-saturn, especially conjunction, definitely carry a big daddy vibe. It’s more prominent if the two are placed in the angular houses.

*Taurus and libra are both rules by venus, but these energies are distributed between the two signs in different ways. A basic way to differ the two energy wise is taurus is the “masculine” side of venus, libra is far more “feminine”. Both are delicate but in different ways taurus is “heavier”, for it being an earth sign, contrasted with the airy and flighty libra.

*Libra sun is in fall in astrology, the fall meaning the behavior of the sign contradicts the traditional role of the planet, the role of the sun is to stand out from everyone else, its your radiance, what makes you special, it’s your ego and what you take pride in. But libra wants to be relatable to everyone, to NOT stand out, merge and meet and balance !! This is the opposite of aries, aries is independent, “what makes ME independent, me me me !!”, explaining its exaltation when the sun enters this sign, it’s not absolutely the same as leo sun or the suns energy overall but it’s a close fit, almost... perfect, that’s what the exaltation means represents here. Libra is focused on everyone else around them, everyone other than themselves, the people around them and how they can compromise to fit everyone’s needs. I mentioned before they don’t like to stand out, this is excluding fire placements in a libras chart which will create a person who relates well to others but still demands to stand out in whatever planet is in a fire sign.

*Whatever house leo is ruling is wherever your rising sign’s ego is being expressed in, ex: leo in 11th expresses their ego, creativity with friends, causes. This area of life is where you’ll likely take most pride in, excluding the suns placement in the chart.

*Neptune in 7th can attract a lot of partners in need of healing or help. This person is very healing and guiding in relationships, maybe they could even make a good guidance counselor, but I’m not so sure astrologically because I haven’t looked into it entirely, let me know if this is true.

*Neptune in 2nd is the type of person to browse a shop, find whatever they like but never end up buying it, they change their minds about it by putting it back right before they leave. They could’ve been talking about hooow much they want to get whatever they’re holding onto over and over again but never buy the thinggg.

*Aries mercury were always told to lower their voice or be quiet as kids I swear.

*Uranus in 12th feels they should hide their brilliance, these are veryy creative people they just keep it a secret.

*12th house feels like a never ending game of hide and seek, you find the planet sometimes but you’re always in a never ending loop, always searching for it.

*The moon in astrology, when looking into the mother, who’s ruled by the moon in astrology, describes your relationship with her, what she’s like, how she raised you etc...

*Ex: taurus moons, your mother gave you many gifts, she adored youu as taurus is ruled venus which rules gifts and appreciation, she was also very relaxed in your childhood, she still is now. This relationship is a very calm, steady one, moon is exalted in taurus meaning the role of the moon is comfortable in relaxed and comfy taurus.

*Ex: a moon in 8th, the house of intense and psychic scorpio, could have a psychic or even telepathic bond to the mother, this is a very strong connection overall and depending on its sign and aspects is where you’ll find the specifics of the relationship from, the details, how the relationship is flavored.

*Sun in 12th indicates an absent father figure. This placement is difficult, i’m so sorry if you have it because you can never feel like you can be yourself, it’s hidden from you. With any other placement in astrology, there’s a gorgeous, forgiving upside to it, you’re very healing and understanding of others, an empath or at least someone who sucks in the negative vibes out the environment, it can get quite exhausting !! so always need to seclude yourself now and then, you’re very loyal and caring of your loved ones, people love you for your sensitivity and empathy as this placement also makes you an old soul, someone overflowing with wisdom others rely on.

*5th house shows you what your child will be like, what traits they embody, what they will do and even how they act.

*Capricorn risings look elvish, they have high cheekbones a lot like a LOTR character and elvish, chiseled ears. It’s not OUT there but it’s subtle.

*Chiron in 9th has experienced religious trauma.

*A lot of 12th or 8th house placements carry a lot of karma.

*Mercury-pluto (especially negative) can become inconsiderate in arguments, they bring up a ton of shit to use against you, only as long as they can win.

*Scorpio suns are far more optimistic and light hearted than the moon sign.

*Mercury-ascendant aspects can make even an introverted rising sign more out-going, open, talkative (not that introverted risings can’t be talkative this is just what comes with this placement).

*You may be good at something without realizing it, take a peak at your 12th house or quintiles !! For quintiles, look up the trine form of whatever two planets are aspected for the general description since there’s not too much to find online sadly. 12th house is something you don’t really know or realize you’re good at, especially early in life, the secret talent pertaining to whichever sign or planet are ruling/in this house.

*Leo venus take pride in their loverss like damnnnn they literally treat their partners as royalty, king and queen, kissing the ground they walk on and everything, they’re so devoted in love, it’s adorable !! <33

*Pisces and leo moons, THE dreamiest, most romantic moon sign pairr, it’s well known pisces is the hopeless romantic of the zodiac, however to bring up the flamboyant, dramatic leo moon when describing a dreamy romantic you wonder, really ?? Yes this is extremely true ! Both signs, pisces and leo, are fairly alike, almost alike in fact, considering they both create a inconjunction in the natal chart, two signs who share some similarities while still contradicting one another in ways they express these similarities, both pisces and leo are creative, talented, have a love for the arts, film, music, loyal as friends and love to care for others, both are insanely idealistic. Leo rules the child remember !! so they’re a childlike sign with young idealism, an idealistic moon sign here. Both leo and pisces moons are children at heart, they’re so gooey and sweet.

*Sun in 10th can get any job they apply for, they could even be terrible at that job they want, the one they want to try out for, they would even have a breakdown over how terrible they were in an interview but still get the job like HOWW- WITCHCRAFTT.

*Aquarius mercuries were known as the smartest kid in class, the einstein’s of the class, everyone asked for their answers for the homework, they just carry this flair of intellectual superiority just like the sun sign haha.

*Your 12th house is what you unconsciously give off the vibe of, your ascendant and midheaven are noticeable layers, different types of layers of you !!but the subtle layers of the 12th house, sign or planet, can always be sensed unconsciously, 12th house energies are at a higher octave, a higher vibration than the other houses, even 11th, you can notice a person’s subtle 12th house energy but they’re still completely unaware of it as it’s ! hidden ! from them.

*Aquarius venus, and really all air venuses in general, are soo stereotyped UGHH, what I mean by stereotyped is the descriptions of each of these venus signs is literally like the same shit over and overrr again, they all get terrible reps in the astro community it seems almost close minded because it’s also such a hugee generalization. It’s only about how the air venus energy is used, manifested in the person, if its underdeveloped or not. If it’s underdeveloped it’s going to be chaotically afloat from material love affairs, which earth venuses don’ttt like, water too, fire can handle the floaty-ness but if the passion’s not there- BYE !! If you develop an air venus well enough, you can balance the material and intellectual realms in your relationships, this is kinda natural for earth heavy charts with one the air signs here, however fire or even more air could become a little tricky to ground yourself in relationships. Just let your partners know you deserve your space because you guys can really run out of mental power after a while, so it’s necessary for you to recharge !! just don’t ghost people completely when you do, it’s where this immortal stereotype comes from.

*Saturn dominant people are flawless beings.

*Saturn in 3rd, YOU GUYS ARE SOOOSOO SOOO SMART AHH. Their minds are always running at a fast pace like literal lightning, or they become too overwhelming (not in a bad sense ofcc, it’s just how it is) that the person’s speech rhythm is kinda forgotten about in a way, it feels like that their mouths aren’t always running in sync. The thought they’re going to express into words should come out but it’s so quick or even “heavy” it jumbles up a sentence or it causes the person to mix up a word or two. Their minds are fast fast fastt but they feel like their mouths are running in literal slow motion. There’s nothing wrong with this, this placement makes amazingly smart peoplee. Just relax, try letting yourself go in conversation, let all that big, brain energy freee !!

*Alsoo, as singers they would and definitely ALWAYSS get their notes right, they have actual PERFECT voices, they really should become writers or, like I said, singing would be perfect for them because they would never mess up lmaoo.

*Libra, computerized concern and sympathy...

*Pluto in 8th feel unbeatable, indestructible almost, they have above average regenerative abilities, they have the best survival tactics but they keep it a secret, it’s 8th house we’re talking about.

*Whatever saturn is in is the area where you’ll become flawless in, you’ll master that area throughout your life with time.

*There is a guiding planet in astrology, the planet that is closest behind the sun, it’s considered your “second” chart ruler, or basically has the energy of it because you can probably relate to it being one of the most prominent energies in your chart.

*Sagittarius//9th house mercury is soooo blunt, so blunt. Wait did I mention they’re SOOO SO BLUNT.

*Moon in 5th need to perform, they love to get out on stage and perform with their entire hearts, they’ll do amazing in the performing arts, theatre, and honestly they probably already aree. These people are so playful and generally so fun to be around, they’re natural hypemen as well !!

*Taurus venus love to be appreciated by their partners, the gifts, the kisses, the food and allll.

*Neptune in 3rd feel everything in their environment, they can sift through the energies and vibes, it’s second nature, no not second nature, FIRST nature, they’re one with everything around them. Their minds are like a hazy, cloudy ocean containing every drop, every thought of a place, a person.

*Moon in 11th, and 10th too, have a special ability to understand and sympathize with the public, they always know what the public wants and even how to give it to them. This can easily get them famous since they’re extremely understanding people, especially if moon is healthy in the chart.

*Someone with a lot of capricorn/10th house or aquarius/11th house energy is very extroverted, they enjoy socializing with others but suffer from social burn outs often, they often need to recharge.

*Scorpio risings have intense voices, like their tone radiates throughout your head and it can feel intense overall, even when they’re speaking casually. The specific flavor or tone doesn’t matter but how it sounds overall is piercing.

*In astrology, libra rising starts the house cusps with each houses sister signs ruling each cusps ex: pisces rules 6th house, the house of virgo in astrology. Symbolically, libra wants to balance out the houses by blending the energies with the sister signs together, by with what is (house number) and how it’s done (sign on each house cusp), for balanceee !!

*Moon conjunction uranus TRANSITSS can cause literal earthquakes on earth, shocking news or something shocking or groundbreaking will happen that day either around the world and in personal, daily life. Ex: this transit happened on halloween during the blue moon, so basically no one ever trick or treats in my neighborhood, like barely anyone comes out i mean, it’s always 5 houses apart where people typically hand out candy, some people are just hanging out, we always run out of houses to go to since it’s not very active, but this year EVERYONE was out trick or treating it was so crazy to see so many people out, it was quite literally shocking because that actually never happens also there’s a whole pandemic going on too lmaooo.

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mary all those prompts are 👀👀👀 can i get 33 + tarlos please?

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33. "It hurts to breathe..."

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TK had always been a curious person.

Since he was a child, he would ask questions about every single thing he saw around him. From why a window is called "window" to where we go after we're no longer beating, and it never changed throughout the years. His curiosity only grew as the answers didn't exist, and TK would always find himself making questions he would chase after answers that didn't exist.

TK would wonder why the stars shine, or why the sky is blue ― and who named it "sky" anyway? How are the same thing called in different languages, and none of them is wrong? Why does the fire burn, and how do we feel the heat? Who chose the name of the sea, and who was the first person to ever decide that fishes were edible?

His parents would say that, as a baby, he would touch everything he could and be mesmerized by anything new that would come to his sight. They would say they knew he'd be trouble once he started walking, for his hands wouldn't fear touching a single thing, and TK would only laugh at how right they were about that.

As a kid, he would ask too much until his mother ran out of patience, and Enzo had to come to the rescue, taking him to the nearest bookstore or library so he could have a source of both questions and answers. As a pre-teenager, he would ask his teachers, and some of them would be thrilled to be challenged with their knowledge, while others would just say they weren't an encyclopedia.

As a teenager, his doubts and curiosity would lead him to periodic obsessions that would keep him awake at night, or it was just something he used as an excuse to stay awake. Anyhow, it was an escape from his twisted mind and fucked up head ― so, for what's worth, his curiosity had kept him alive when the bare facts didn't want to do so.

When he became an adult, his curiosity was never left behind. His questions changed, though, and he essentially wanted to know how it felt not to feel as down as he did and how it would be if someone ever loved him the way he had always read about in books and fiction. TK would wonder why the world wasn't as bright as he used to see it and how he could just disappear, even if for a little while.

Wondering why it was something TK was better in than anyone he knew.

He never wondered why it was like that, though.

With his curiosity, TK also learned he had to be patient and observe the world around him, which led him to know people from a different angle. He would notice their movements, word choices, and how their eyes moved in each situation ― he would read into people as he would read into books, and it was pretty nice to know how to do that.

He wished he had done that better, though, when it came to Alex. But he read into himself around that time, and he knew that he was desperate for any type of love and affection ― TK wanted the love his younger self always questioned if his older self would get and didn't think twice before jumping into the change he'd have that.

It was entirely his fault; TK knew it.

And he was determined not to make the same misjudgment twice in his life ― because he feared he wouldn't have a life to get right if it happened again.

When he got to Austin, TK was still mad at the world and at himself for being so stupid and losing everything he had achieved through the years. His anger took the best of him for most times, and so did his sadness ― but it opened his eyes for a few new lenses, and he found out it was pretty cool to have more than one set of eyes to read people and situations.

Judd, under his red vision and bitter analysis, was just someone too mad at life to realize other people had feelings, too. He was hostile, had anger problems, and was a pain in the ass ― not that it was entirely wrong ―, and TK would never ever be friends with someone like that.

Under his blue vision and heartbroken analysis, though, Judd was just someone who needed some space and time to find the way back from the place he had gotten lost. He was sad, and melancholic, and seriously in need of help.

And, under the vision that didn't require lenses, Judd was a big-hearted man with a few pieces falling from his soul. He was kind, had horrible jokes, and was profoundly in love with the woman he had gotten married to ― and it was the kind of person TK desperately needed as a brother in his life.

Marjan was a badass firefighter with strong opinions and more feelings she'd let slip out of her sleeve, not to mention how sweet she could be towards those who'd allow a mask to fall without any judgment. She was strong, fearless, and should be a bit less acid to those who were only trying to help ― but she was a best friend TK had missed in his life.

Paul was a riddle, and TK suspected that was what he wanted people to think about him. He was observant ― a little too much ―, alarmed and always had good advice on the tip of his tongue, even if he'd rarely follow someone's help that didn't come from Grace or Carlos. Paul was attentive, patient, and wise ― and TK was a little scared of it but wouldn't trade a best friend like that for the world.

Mateo and Nancy seemed to get along well, for both of them had unending jokes for every situation and never won from Marjan on any of their video games. TK had no clue about how it happened, but suddenly Mateo just revealed he was a Broadway fan, and Nancy let it slip that she had watched every single Marvel movie and series so far ― and it was the end of the peace around the firehouse.

TK wouldn't trade them for anybody else, to be honest. But he would, for sure, lock Nancy in the ambulance in revenge for eating his piece of the pie Grace had baked.

And then, there was Carlos.

In the first moment, TK didn't want to read into him enough to regret his choice of not wanting something serious. It was notorious, almost like a fact known to all humanity, that Carlos had kindness hanging out from each one of his words and movements. His words were nothing but sweet, and every single one of his actions seemed to be careful and calculated.

It was surprising, really, when Carlos had invited him to dance on that first night after a shift at the Honky Tonk. He didn't touch TK at any moment, only doing it when he approached first ― and Carlos seemed to always give him a second to think and rethink if he really wanted to go all the way.

Even if it was the bare minimum of respect, it was rare to find it around.

From the beginning, TK also noticed how patient Carlos could be and how he would never pressure anyone into doing anything. He was dedicated to his friends ― since they've met, TK lost count of how many times he would stop by the firehouse to give Michelle something she mentioned he wanted to eat or offer her a ride ―, and to his job, being a damn good cop.

He was good with kids, and any call with one would get him a bit sad afterward. Even so, TK had seen him countless times sitting with them in the ambulance, telling them a story or a joke to distract them from the needles and exams. It was heartwarming for whoever would see it.

From the beginning, too, Carlos would be a mystery TK didn't really know how to begin to solve. Unlike everything TK could've predicted or expected, Carlos didn't seem to want him just for his body or pretty face ― he seemed to want to get to know him, and that was something TK really couldn't wrap his mind around.

Not only that, but he was a mystery, too, to everyone in the firehouse. Judd had known him already from a distance, his friendship with Michelle bringing him around for years, but nothing more than cordialities and the usual kindness that evaporated from the man. Grace had known him from calls, as well, and only knew that he was a good cop, a good man, and really cared about those he was trying to help.

Other than that, no one knew much. Paul could tell Carlos was someone who really respected his privacy and didn't talk much when he didn't seem comfortable or didn't have to, being quiet even when going out. He didn't drink much and was absolutely punctual, and Paul somehow knew that Carlos loved giving small gifts to people.

Marjan said that he would always listen and give full attention to what anyone was saying, and Mateo couldn't get over the fact Carlos had a Mjölnir autographed by Chris Hemsworth ― and he would never tell how he got that.

Being curious about Carlos, then, was inevitable.

Getting to read and decipher him, though, was a choice. And a choice that TK would never regret taking.

He wasn't fluent just yet, but TK would spend as much time as necessary to learn every single word Carlos had to say, imply, or erase. It was a book, a whole universe, that TK was willing to find out more about.

Turns out Carlos never touches anybody without their complete consent, but he loves to be hugged and held whenever he can. He never complains, and on hard days, he almost purrs to any skin-to-skin contact.

TK loved to know that because he loves contact just as much.

TK also found out that Carlos is quiet most of the time, not only in public, and only gets to speak a lot when he's incredibly excited over something new. He found out through some night hours when, after TK had arrived back from his shift, he had started to talk excitedly about Einstein's Theory of Relativity and everything that involves the whole thing.

He was sure he fell in love again as each minute passed.

Carlos was punctual, but finding out he got ready for every appointment about an hour earlier was surreal for TK. And Carlos loved giving gifts to people just to make their day better ― TK had cried when, after a shift from hell, Carlos offered him a single dandelion, telling him to close his eyes and make a wish.

TK had kissed him deeply before blowing the dandelion.

And out of all the details TK could've learned about Carlos, one that would always be in red letters on the back of his mind is that Carlos could be quiet not only for his comfort but for the comfort of others. And, although it had been transparent with all of the mess and pain in Carlos' eyes when they talked after the meeting on the Farmer's Market, TK had noticed it on small moments through the days.

Carlos wouldn't speak up about his feelings or open up to anybody. He would be in pain, miserable, and silent, not wanting to bother or worry anyone around him.

He had gotten so used to it through the years that TK wasn't surprised when Carlos seemed shocked that he had noticed something was up.

The thing is that TK paid attention. To Carlos more than anyone, indeed, he had learned a few details that he knew Carlos himself didn't know, like how the cop would talk to himself when he thought no one was looking. Or how his lips would tramble a little every time he was going out, or how he would bite his tongue when the concentration was taking over his worries.

There was also that permanent wrinkle on the top of his nose that would deepen whenever he was confused and even more when he was worried. His eyebrows would follow the movement when he was emotional, and he would press his lips together when he got speechless ― and TK loved to kiss it away and watch as his face melted under his touch.

TK was lucky enough to say that he knew Carlos behind all the quietness and politeness ― he knew the lows, the fears, and the clever jokes.

That's why he knew something was wrong when they were driving back home from Judd and Grace's house on a Saturday afternoon, the sun already setting on the horizon.

Carlos hadn't drunk, not a sip, and seemed to be enjoying the company, the talk even if he was quieter than usual, and the kids ― the Vega twins really had fallen in love with him after the sandstorm. Yet, the man had given TK the car keys as they were leaving the house and didn't say much before walking around the car and taking the passager's seat.

Carlos loved to drive, and TK usually only took the wheel when his boyfriend chose to drink on their night out. He didn't do questions, though, and got in the car, taking Carlos' hand in his and pressing a kiss to his knuckles.

The cop smiled at him, almost thankfully, and then looked out his window.

It was a thirty-minute drive, which had never been a problem for the both of them for some reason, loved to take car rides whenever they could. Ten minutes in the vehicle, though, TK noticed that Carlos was moving quite too much, his hands gripping his pants and his leg bouncing against the floor. His brown eyes wouldn't focus, either, and he would swallow dryly more times in a minute than anyone should.

He wanted to ask if everything was okay, but Carlos beat him to it.

"Stop the car," he asked, his voice seeming to be stuck on his throat. TK frowned worriedly at him but did as he was asked, turning the wheel and parking the car on the curb and watching his boyfriend as his mind seemed to race, and he didn't know what to do.

TK didn't have to wait a second until Carlos was opening the door and walking away from the car, crossing the flower field they'd stopped beside and not looking back at TK, looking too scared to do that. His legs seemed to work automatically, and TK quickly snapped out of his worried state to realize what the hell was going on when Carlos walked towards the empty gazebo further on the field.

Carlos kept walking, his palms feeling sweaty and his feet seeming to work mechanically. He didn't stare at anything around him, his eyes were unfocused, his mouth seemed to have dried up, and he couldn't even hear anything but the thin, high-pitched whistle inside his ears.

The cop found himself walking towards a little empty gazebo, groping the air unconsciously to find the small gate and then opening it and not even bothering to close it before he placed himself against the wall, leaning almost vainly on it. He took a few deep breaths, the warm spring air entering his lungs and seeming to hurt, but he didn't really care.

Carlos closed his eyes, feeling the world and his head spin a few times. His brain could only say "too many people, too many people, too long," but Carlos couldn't utter a single word or move.

Not even when he noticed a movement next to him and could assume that someone was stooping down. He wasn't sure, and he couldn't be sure at that moment. He didn't want to think about it or anything else in the world.

It was when the person sat down next to him, also leaning their head against the wall, that he could connect the dots to the smell of perfume his boyfriend always wore. The other man didn't say anything, just bent his knees and put one of his arms over his legs, and looked straight ahead.

TK knew him well enough to figure that he hated to be seen in such a vulnerable situation.

"I..." Carlos muttered, swallowing hard and looking breathless. "A lot of people, I..." he interrupted himself, feeling the tears that hadn't been falling fill his eyes and roll down his cheeks.

His lips trembled, and he felt frustrated then. Carlos threw his head back, knowing that it would hit the wall. It was then that TK finally faced him and placed one of his hands on his boyfriend's hand that was still on the floor while the other seemed to pull at his hair.

"It hurts to breathe..." Carlos said, then sobbing. TK's grip on his hand got more solid, and Carlos wouldn't stop crying even if he wanted to ― he felt pathetic, overwhelmed, and he hated to be facing that fact about him in front of someone else.

TK inhaled deeply before saying anything.

"You're on a gazebo," the man began, his voice sweet. "There's nothing here but the two of us and a plant I don't know the name of, but you should," he said, and Carlos could hear a small smile in his voice. His hand let go of his hair, and he began to breathe slowly. "There are only the two of us here. And the stars."

Carlos took a deep breath. Once, twice, three times― just him and TK. Just him and TK. It was all right. Everything was fine.

He held his boyfriend's hand weakly, and TK made sure to squeeze it a little. He was there, just him, and everything was fine. He could breathe, there was air, and there was nobody else but him and the man he loved right beside him.

TK didn't say a word, his thumb caressing the back of Carlos' hand and his eyes analyzing each one of his breaths as he breathed just as slowly. His heart was pounding on his chest, and he had a few questions, but it was alright ― everything was fine, and they had time to talk about it.

The minutes went on like this, quietly, until Carlos, a little calmer but still with a knot in his throat, opened his eyes, swallowing hard and analyzing his surroundings warily. His brown eyes seemed alarmed, rimmed, and his breathing was still shaken.

"Allamanda," he said, then, his voice weak and hoarse. His breathing was smooth now, and TK smiled as he noticed it, even though he hadn't understood what Carlos had said until he gestured toward the flowers with his head.

TK chuckled quietly, amused that his boyfriend actually knew what the flowers were, and leaned his head against the wall again. They stood there for some time ― Carlos couldn't tell how long ― until his breathing returned to normal, and his ears were whistled low enough that he could hear around him.

"Sorry," he said, and TK turned his head, still leaning against the wall. "For this. I had no reason and― and I just..."

"Carlos," the paramedic called in a low voice, interrupting him before he could blame himself or try to explain what he wasn't ready to. "It's all right. You don't have to apologize or justify anything. It happened, that's fine," TK said, confident. Carlos swallowed hard. "It's okay, babe. I promise."

Carlos nodded but didn't seem too confident in agreeing with TK's words. TK looked at some spot in front of him again, and Carlos let his head fall until he was staring at his lap, his hand over his stretched legs and his mind racing with wild thoughts. He inhaled deeply, closed his eyes, and threw his head back, leaning on the wall.

"I've never told anybody," Carlos said, then, all of a sudden. TK turned his head in his boyfriend's direction, bending it a bit with the piece of given information. "About this. The disorder or the crisis," he explained, and TK frowned with worry. "Not even Michelle."

TK waited, not wanting Carlos to shut down with any questions. After a minute or two, he spoke up again.

"I feel pathetic," Carlos said, a humorless chuckle leaving his closed lips. "I know I shouldn't because it's perfectly normal and everything, but..." Carlos swallowed dryly, his lips twisting in some shade of sadness. "I'm an adult. I should've left this in my teenage years, shouldn't I?"

TK didn't answer but thanked God it was a rhetorical question. He didn't quite know what to say.

He couldn't help but ask, though.

"How long you've been hiding these crises?" he asked, and Carlos chuckled humorlessly again. It caused TK's stomach to wrap.

"Since they began," he replied, and TK closed his eyes as if it was a painful truth to face. He squeezed Carlos' hand, and the other man just shrugged. "I was going to tell my father, even before I came out to them, but I heard a conversation over some documentary about mental disorders," Carlos said, and TK didn't like his tone. "I should really stop listening to what he and mom talk about. It would save me mental health," he joked, and TK bit his tongue.

Carlos wanted to cry, but he didn't think he could.

"I don't think they realized, you know? I mean, everyone makes jokes about it," Carlos said, then. "They didn't mean harm, I think. But they were laughing," he told TK, turning his head and not really looking around. "It was― eating me alive, and..." he chuckled again. "They were laughing."

TK squeezed his hand.

"So you figured that would be their reaction," TK supposed.

"Theirs and anybody's," Carlos said. "The only ones who take mental health seriously are the ones to whom it's lacking."

And TK didn't have an answer for that because there wasn't one. He could see what Carlos meant when he said that his parents meant no harm ― mental disorders were only a thing if you knew well enough to understand that sick people didn't want attention or were being dramatic; they just wanted peace.

And it was only genuine when someone that mattered hurt themselves over it, and TK knew that. He had experienced it himself, his mother being usually too skeptical to believe that someone wouldn't have control over their feelings.

Until TK had lost control over himself and his heart had lost the strength to beat for the first time.

Carlos had skepticism surrounding him when it came to taboos such as mental disorders ― and having one wasn't quite the solution to deal with it. His family didn't think it was something more than some drama or lack of control over emotions, and even the best-intended comments could hurt when they were only meant to be seen as a joke.

And TK couldn't see how it must have been to Carlos to feel like it for over a decade ― like a joke. Like who he was and the problems he had were too much, inconvenient, uncomfortable for someone he loved to deal with.

From cover to cover, Carlos had felt like a burden to his family. And although it wasn't their intention to make it like it, the fact they didn't seem to be open enough for Carlos to come to them still twisted something inside TK's soul.

"Hey?" Carlos called beside him, and TK lifted his eyes to find his boyfriend's sad face and closed eyes. "Does anybody else need to know about it?"

TK caressed his thumb over Carlos' skin.

"Not if you don't want them to," he replied. Carlos sighed.

"But?" he asked, and TK's heart swollen with how much he knew how to read him.

"It would be nice if you talked to Mitchell," TK said. "So she can have your back at work, you know?" Carlos sighed. "I know you've dealt with it all your life, babe, but someone has to have your back. Especially in our field," TK explained, and Carlos knew he was right. It didn't make things easier. "You know no one would laugh, don't you? And no one would ignore it, either," the paramedic continued, and Carlos weighted his head forward again.

"That's what I'm afraid of," Carlos said, then. "I've been prepared for the laughing and the ignoring my whole life; what do I do when it doesn't come?" he asked, and TK felt his heart clench inside his chest. "Besides, letting people know just..."

"Makes you feel a weird thing you can't really name?" TK guessed. "Something between guilt, regret, and stupidity and not the relief they've promised you?"

Carlos chucked again, and TK followed him. The cop nodded, and his lips trembled a bit.

"Yeah," he agreed. "Something like that."

A beat of silence, and then TK asked.

"Do you regret that I know it?" he said, and Carlos only closed his eyes again. There was no judgment or expectation in his boyfriend's voice, which is much more comfortable to answer.

"Honestly?" TK nodded. Carlos sighed. "Yes," he said, and TK pressed his lips together in a sad smile. "But I, uh...―" Carlos babbled. "I'm glad I can ask you for a hug now," he said, and TK widely smiled when he noticed the words. Carlos turned his head up to him, smiling expectantly, and the paramedic didn't lose a second before hugging him close to his chest.

Although Carlos was taller, TK knew he loved to be held close to someone and be involved in their arms as if he fit in them. Which, when it came to the two of them, the affirmative was nothing but correct ― Carlos fit in TK's arms seamlessly.

They stayed there for a while more, with Carlos breathing slowly against TK's neck and feeling his heartbeats and TK caressing his fingers through Carlos' curls and nape.

When they got back to the car, Carlos was almost sleeping on the passenger's seat with his head pressed to the window, and TK smiled at the cuteness of the scene and the peace on Carlos' face. He didn't say much, not to say anything, all the way back, sniffing a bit and taking some deep breaths.

TK could relate if being honest. Sharing such a personal thing, that something that should lift the weight out of your shoulders isn't as pretty as people make it seem. It's excruciating, tiring, and it feels like all the power you once had over your lack of control vanishes for a while.

It isn't exactly about being vulnerable, but about how much you can pretend something isn't real if no one else knows about it. And, when someone else does know, it feels a bunch more genuine than it was before ― even if the pain was already breathtaking.

As soon as TK parked in front of their house, he took Carlos' hand in his, squeezing it lightly to wake him from his superficial sleep. The cop opened his eyes a bit confused, breathing in deeply before looking out the window and then turning to his boyfriend, who smiled sweetly at him.

Wordlessly, the pair got out of the car and made their way to the front door, Carlos always a step behind him as they went up the stairs. TK couldn't point out if it was Carlos' habitual protectiveness towards those who he cared about or some kind of embarrassment over the things he wished he didn't mind about, but TK decided it wasn't something he shouldn't ask. Not then, at least.

They walked around their house silently, taking their shoes off before walking to the living room, where TK put his cellphone and wallet over the coffee table. Carlos seemed scared, hiding in the shadows around the corners, almost unsure of what he was doing there ― and, damn, it hurt TK to see that. Even if the paramedic knew it had nothing to do with him or the two of them, seeing the man he loved so out of place in their own house was a dagger to the heart.

TK wanted to suggest something, but Carlos seemed so stuck in his head that he wasn't sure he would be heard. So, he went to the bathroom downstairs silently, taking more time than necessary to wash his hands just so he could see if Carlos would move. When he went back to the living room, his boyfriend wasn't there anymore.

Knowing that he probably needed some space to deal with what happened and with the fact that TK knew about it all, the paramedic found a few things to do downstairs. Putting more water in a bottle to put in the fridge, wash the pair of plates and coffee mugs they've left there in the morning, answer a few texts on their group chat and some others from Grace asking if they've made a safe ride home.

He also checked all locks and windows before taking his phone and slowly climb up the stairs, turning off the lights as he went to their room. There, Carlos was still in the bathroom, and TK plugged his charger before taking off his shirt and pair of jeans.

As he laid down, he could hear the shower on and smiled a bit that Carlos had enough disposition to let himself relax around warm steam. TK sighed, sinking under the covers and closing his eyes for a second to let his thoughts settle around his head.

A second might have been longer, though, when he opened his eyes to the turned-off bedroom lights and the only light source being the semi-open bathroom door from where he could see Carlos' reflection moving a bit. His heavy eyelids wouldn't let him sit up or even move too much, but he used all the strength he had to stay awake and stare as his boyfriend left the bathroom and turned that light off, too.

His head was down as he walked to their bed, and he seemed to hesitate for a second before swallowing hard and turning his body a bit, his direction changing from his to TK's side of the bed. The paramedic waited, just to see how carefully Carlos took the blankets off his body and then moved to crawl up the bed.

The mattress deepened, and TK inhaled sharply ― which made Carlos realize he was awake but didn't stop him from doing whatever it was. TK tried to see something in the dark, but Carlos' warm hand over his naked waist caused every nerve to relax, and his eyelids fell heavy once again. He was a little more alert, though, his worried side speaking loudly.

Carlos put himself between TK's legs, his body half over his, and wrapped his arms around the paramedic's waist, sighing heavily and placing his head in the middle of TK's abdomen. Instinctively, TK's hand was in Carlos' curls, and the cop felt like he could cry just with that touch again.

"Am I hurting you?" Carlos whispered in the dark. "Do you want me to move?"

"Nah," TK grumbled. "You okay?" he asked, and Carlos just stood quiet. TK didn't pressure him into saying anything, perfectly comfortable with whatever Carlos wanted to talk about.

The cop closed his eyes for a second and then exhaled wearily against TK's stomach. He moved his legs to tangle it with TK's and the blankets, the coldness of one bringing relief to his racing nerves.

"Not quite," he said. "I'll be."

TK hugged him the best he could manage to in their position, caressing Carlos' bare skin in comfort.

"Don't rush yourself into it," TK murmured. Carlos closed his eyes, ignoring a bit of a headache on the side of his temple.

"Won't," Carlos said, and TK knew he was telling the truth.

Because Carlos was kind, sweet, loving, and the easiest person to love. He's the kind of person the paramedic tried to avoid because TK simply knew that he would fall in love with him ― it was Carlos, after all, and TK knew better than trying to fool himself with the premise he could only do casual.

TK searched for questions without answers, and Carlos had all the answers TK wanted to find the questions to. He was pretty sure he could discover why the sky is blue in the brown of Carlos' eyes. He could find out why the languages change just by kissing his lips. The reason fire would burn would be written over Carlos' skin, and the sea could be explained but never compared to how deeply Carlos felt things.

TK was curious, indeed, but he didn't mind waiting for the answers if it meant he would discover Carlos page by page, breath after breath.

Carlos, deep down, couldn't wait to be deciphered, too. And he knew things would be better and would be good if he tried to see himself through somebody else's lenses. It would take time, effort, and much more talking than he liked to think about ― but it would be alright.

Because they didn't have to wonder if they'd be alone while trying to be better.

Because they didn't have to wonder what it would be like to share some of the weight.

Because the answers weren't written, and they could always wonder what they were.

Because, for now, it didn't hurt to breathe.

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15 Surprising Qualities of the Creative Genius

Creativity. Exactly what is it? And also how do you recognize if you've obtained it? One of the most pre-owned buzzword in self-descriptions on linked in profiles for 2 years running. The primary aspect, throughout 33 markets, to which Lot of money 500 CEOs connect their success. We're captivated by imagination but we continue to struggle in specifying it. Perhaps we could profit by analyzing those people hailed as imaginative wizards. Picasso, Einstein, Edison, Steve Jobs ... What did all these individuals have in common? Listed below I provide 15 unexpected qualities of the Creative Genius.

1. Creative Geniuses are open to brand-new experiences. On a private degree, psycho therapists have identified "openness to experience" as the single essential characteristic of exceptionally creative individuals. Imaginative wizards make a conscious effort to present adjustment right into their lives. They usually place themselves in circumstances where they're more probable to experience the unexpected.

2. Creative Brilliants have a high tolerance for uncertainty. Most of us tremble at the thought of the unknown and also are afraid being out of control. Imaginative geniuses, on the various other hand, have a high tolerance for uncertainty. Picasso was once asked if he knew what a painting was going to appear like when he started it. He answered, "No, obviously not. If I recognized, I wouldn't bother doing it." In general, imaginative brilliants have a tendency to care less about the location as well as more regarding the journey.

3. Creative Wizards practice diffused attention. The majority of extraordinary developers are working with several projects at a time. They're usually troubled as well as have a selection of outdoors passions. Psycho therapists describe this as "diffused attention", or defocused. While periods of intense focus serve for balancing checkbooks and also taking tests, creative advancements are most likely to take place when we're in a state of diffused attention.

4. Creative Brilliants do not care much concerning just what other people think. One more trait common to creative geniuses is their utter and also full absence of self-consciousness. They just uncommitted just what others think about them. Take Socrates' nose, for instance. Or Einstein's hair. What they do not have in self-consciousness, they tend to make up for in self-awareness. Innovative brilliants are frequently reviewing what they're doing at any type of provided moment and they're constantly hearing themselves.

5. Creative Brilliants are extra delicate than most. The old stereotype of the sensitive artist holds true. Imaginative wizards are physiologically a lot more conscious stimulations. In experiments, they regularly price different stimulations (electric shocks as well as loud noises, for instance) a lot more extremely than much less innovative people. This could additionally explain why creative individuals occasionally pull back from the world.

6. Creative Wizards are unusually optimistic. While much of us approach a new challenge with, "Why?" Imaginative wizards test themselves with, "Why not?" It seems that positive outlook plays an important duty in creativity for everybody. One current research located that positive employees are more imaginative than pessimistic ones.

7. Creative Wizards are motivated by something other compared to individual gain. Contrary to numerous wonderful musicians of today looking for fame, success, or money, creative geniuses typically aren't encouraged by personal gain. They're refraining it for themselves. A minimum of, not only for themselves. Creative brilliants develop in order to further their beliefs. They develop with the unique goal of making the globe a much better area as well as changing it through the power of their creativity.

8. Creative Brilliants have cognitive flexibility. Cognitive versatility is specified as the capacity to see the globe with brand-new eyes. Creative brilliants check out challenges as opportunities. They possess this ability to change arbitrary occasions, even blunders, into an opportunity to veer in a completely brand-new as well as unforeseen direction. In various other words, imaginative wizards are able to change tracks effortlessly. They value the process most importantly else, so they keep their minds as well as eyes open.

9. Creative Geniuses are active. Darwin's concept of advancement integrated while he was riding in the rear of a carriage. Mark Twain was well-known for pacing his research. Mozart always took a trip with scraps of paper put right into his side pocket. Imagination calls for kinetic energy and motion tops creativity. Creative wizards understand this and also see to it to stay active. They could not get anywhere literally, but such consistent motion allows them to take a trip far in their minds. As the saying goes, "I have never ever become aware of anyone coming across something while taking a seat."

10. Creative Geniuses see themselves as outsiders. They could become part of a team, yet they never ever quite really feel as though they suit. They are at the same time approved and avoided. Though not a comfy position, it's the excellent configuration for imaginative genius, as all genuinely imaginative suggestions are originally met being rejected. Scientists at John Hopkins College located that denial enhances creative thinking most substantially in people that consider themselves to be "independent minded". That is, those that differ from the world and also celebrate in their Otherness. Innovative brilliants are constantly marginalized to one level or one more. Makings sense because someone completely spent in the status is unlikely to interfere with it.

11. Creative Brilliants make a great deal of mistakes. The concept that very creative people get it "best" the first time as well as don't make any kind of errors is possibly the greatest myth of creative thinking. In reality, creative brilliants make even more mistakes compared to the rest people. This makes good sense when we think about that the even more shots we take at a target, the most likely we'll at some point hit the bull's eye (and the more misses we'll gather, also). Innovative wizards tend to rightfully see their errors as stepping-stones.

12. Creative Geniuses fail well. Carefully pertaining to their propensity to mistakes, creative brilliants also know exactly how to fail. They embrace failure since they know it could offer a beneficial understanding experience, as long as it's in the aid of a continuing procedure. Innovative brilliants fail well. They fail until they get it. They stop working in a thoughtful as well as reliable manner. And also perhaps most notably, they fall short early.

13. Creative Geniuses crave chaos. The word "disorder" is often misused as a synonym for "anarchy". We appear to have offered it an incorrect adverse connotation. But imaginative developments get here in the middle of turmoil. Thus, innovative brilliants hunger for turmoil. If it doesn't occur naturally, they generate it. Assume about Beethoven's notoriously untidy workdesk. Or Einstein's messy love life. These are examples of self-induced disorder. Much from being an impediment to creativity, disorder is a necessary ingredient.

14. Creative Wizards ready at "connecting the dots". All wizards make the world a bit easier. There is this chaotic mess of relatively unconnected information and afterwards someone claims, "Wait, below is how everything mesh." As well as we such as that. Dots are attached. Relationships discovered. Imaginative brilliants take excellent enjoyment in connecting numerous sensations, which at very first sight show up to have absolutely nothing in common.

15. Creative Wizards take a lot of risks. When coming across a brand-new path, we do not always know whether it will certainly lead to a dead-end or an innovation. Innovative geniuses do not care. They take the course anyhow. It helps that innovative brilliants have a high resistance for unpredictability due to the fact that they are, by nature, risk takers. Danger as well as imaginative genius are indivisible. Sometimes the genius takes the chance of specialist ridicule, and often a lot more. Brilliant always comes at a cost. Innovative geniuses are simply extra happy to pay that price than others.

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Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment - Review

Or overview, really, since I know a lot of you were curious but didn’t want to go through the ordeal of reading it. At least not before someone else screened it. So... you’re welcome.

Authors: James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein

Published: 2018

Genre: middle grade adventure

Overall impressions: Conceptually, I liked it. The plot was intriguing, and Max was a likable character. It suffered from the usual problems of a Patterson production: too fast-paced, not enough details, not enough time spent on character building. (Some of these points will come up in my annotations.) However, it worked as a middle-grade novel. It had a lot of empowering messages for kids, as well as an intriguing and mysterious yet fairly simple plot of good versus evil. The lack of specific detail and fast-paced plot is (unfortunately) common in middle-grade novels, so I can’t exactly fault it for that. I’m going to assume it’s far below the reading level of anyone reading this review, but it’s still an interesting read and I’m planning on reading the sequel, whenever it comes out. There were a lot of unanswered questions regarding Max’s past that I really wish were addressed in this book rather than being saved for later.

My reading notes, by page number, are under the cut (warning for a good amount of swearing, and obviously spoilers).

1 - This girl is living in a dilapidated house?? Where are her parents? (Knowing JP she probably doesn’t have parents.)

3 - Oh! Okay! She’s homeless and living above a horse stable. What the fuck.

10 - Randomly bringing up the “I’m an orphan” thing in narration. Typical.

11 - Doesn’t her suitcase get too heavy with all the books in it?

15 - She goes to school???

19 - Bold of you to assume the cops would actually listen to Max

21 - I’d like more of the backstory on Max’s early childhood, since she has that suitcase but doesn’t know who her parents are. Then where did she get her name? [It’s mentioned later that she doesn’t even have a birth certificate.]

29 - HOW is she in college?? At NYU??

32 - Well, this is sketchy as fuck

33 - ...Max watches The Big Bang Theory??

36 - McS’cuse me?? No one’s going to stop this? A lecture hall full of students and no one’s concerned?? [In the scene in question, Max is being dragged out of the lecture hall by two guys in black suits. It would have been interesting, and more realistic, if another student had tried to intervene. You’d think at least a handful of people in a group of 18-22 year olds might feel protective of the only 12-year-old in their class.]

44 - Aww I like Quincy

If that dude wanted to, like, kidnap Max, why send her to the foster care place at all? [This is later explained, although I don’t think it was a good enough justification.]

48 - Why send her to middle school either?

...God I would’ve loved this in middle school. I probably needed it.

As usual, I just wish the narration would slow down. Add more details.

Actually I’m personally offended by how much this book sounds like something I would’ve written in middle school.

59 - Those two seem kinda sketchy NGL

66 - Don’t you fucking DARE touch Quincy

67 - Okay but what’s the point of disposing of people who aren’t really even a threat? [It’s always putting them in a “re-education” or whatever facility, too, which is probably just because the authors didn’t want the villains outright murdering people, even off-page.]

74 - Max just seems too naive/trusting considering what her life has been like thus far. Or maybe I’m used to Patterson protagonists being snarky and cynical. Both, maybe.

75 - 1. Why is Quincy a snitch? 2. Why would Max have told him anything anyway? They didn’t talk much.

83 - This is sketchy as hell. It just seems too good to be true.

95 - Sketchier and sketchier.

100 - One kid wins? Why not just have them all work together to solve the world’s problems? Also: I know they’re “geniuses,” but why only use children? Because they’re impressionable and malleable? Tend to take things at face value?

[The twist at the end, which I won’t reveal, actually makes the design of the test and a lot of the oversights make a lot more sense.]

113 - “Original investment,” “Einstein Project”... was Max genetically engineered by the Corp? Conspiracy theory.

127 - So I guess Yahav is a spy. Fun.

167 - Why the fuck is Yahav still here? He should’ve been fired!!

I wish Quincy had been a major character...

[Got a case of “getting attached to a minor side character with 0.5 personality traits” syndrome.]

172 - Boy, these villains sure are cartoonishly evil capitalists

200 - Can Klaus please stop being such a dick?

208 - Are they even allowed to mention Tony Stark in here? Like, legally?

You know, this is suspiciously similar to Genius: The Game, which was written by Leopoldo Gout. According to his author bio on Amazon, he’s a filmmaker and has worked with James Patterson on a number of projects (including, I believe, the Maximum Ride movie). Coincidence? Probably not.

227 - I’m beginning to think you don’t know what “mercenary” means

230 - “The girl” come on, y’all know her name

244 - Wait, why aren’t they just troubleshooting to see if they can solve the problem? Why aren’t the geniuses being geniusy? Also: this “failure” isn’t solely on Max’s shoulders, so why is everyone acting like it is?

269 - I’m sorry, what

278 - If you suspected Yahav was a spy, why didn’t you get rid of him??

296 - EXPERIMENTS?? Maximum Ride, where you at??

301 - Why let them go??

315 - I’M SORRY, WHAT

Given the nature of this story, the twist makes sense, but WHAT

God please don’t make this het. Max is 12. She’s too young for romantic subplots.

...That’s the end of my annotations! If anyone else wants to read this book and yell about it with me, my ask box and messages are always open. (You can probably find it in your library’s middle grade section; that’s where I found this copy.)

Also, there’s some pretty gorgeous artwork in the back by different artists. I kinda want prints of them.

#they speak #max einstein #max einstein: the genius experiment #james patterson #chris grabenstein #annotations #i hope you enjoyed my lovely commentary yet again #review

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Breaking Dawn (The Boyz) - liveblog reaction

PRISM - What an epic opening. Ooh, hello, electric guitar. Fun whispering voices. This almost sounds like a club song. Especially the “elevate” part. I’m really digging the instrumental but less keen on the vocals. Okay, I do like the section from 1:02 to 1:17, and want to look up all the vocal pass offs. I think I heard my favorite voice Kevin in there? (Edit: Sangyeon, Kevin, to New.) I like this song’s beat. Very groovy backbeat. Wow, I did NOT like the transition at 2:19. I thought my music streaming platform glitched out for a moment at first. 2:29 voice is very nice. I’m guessing Hyunjae? I think the next voice is New? (Edit: One for two! It was Younghoon then New.) Okay, that was fun enough. Probably not gonna be my favorite though.

EINSTEIN - The Boyz do love their all caps titles, don’t they? I hope this song is about Albert Einstein. I like the powerful bass. Hey, wait, was there any rapping in the last song? I like this “Einstein, Einstein, yeah-yeah, baby!” chorus bit. 0:58 voice caught my attention, in a good way. (Edit: Q.) The back-to-back rap voices at 1:10 caught my attention, in a bad way. Eric, maybe, then someone else? (Edit: Nope, it was Juyeon, then Jacob. Maybe there are more rappers in TBZ than I thought there were...) I like the delivery of the voice at 1:27, then immediately following. (Edit: Sangyeon, then Hyunjae.) No clue who’s rapping at 2:17 but I’m liking it. (Edit: Jacob. Is he vocal line AND rap line?) I feel like this repeated chorus outro goes on a little longer than is strictly necessary. I do like the echoy final though.

Breaking Dawn - All right, title track, let’s go. Interesting instrumental start. I think this Kevin with the first line. (Edit: yep!) Wait, is this a Japanese release? 0:34 voice really nice. (Edit: Hyunjae.) Unexpected chorus. Lots of texture in the vocals. 0:58, is this Q? I feel like he has a pretty distinct voice. (Edit: It is!) Okay, I’m kinda into this Eric rap. Note to self: look up the choreography for this; I bet it’s interesting. I mean, TBZ’s choreo always is, I feel like. 2:24, is this Hyunjae? Or maybe Sangyeon? (Edit: It was Hyunjae) 2:34, I think is New. He has a very light voice. (Edit: yes, it’s New.) Gotta love the pause before the return to the final chorus. Ad lib at 2:54, GREAT voice. 3:05 voice, hello! (Edit: Juyeon.)

FLAG - Oh, a ballad? The Boyz don’t do many ballads, I feel. Which is kinda funny since they have SO MANY vocalists. The voice at 0:33 really suits this delicate piano; New, I’m guessing. (Edit: yes.) Delivery at 0:53, then immediately following, very nice. (Edit: Sangyeon, then Jacob.) I like the harmony of this chorus, but the lyrics feels very Les Mis or patriotic or something. Lovely low tone at 1:29 – no clue who. (Edit: Jacob again! His voice is amazing versatile.) I continue to suspect this might be a Japanese release. I didn’t know TBZ did Japanese releases! I’m gonna look like such a clown if this is in Korean lol. (Edit: I’m delighted to report that I am not a clown. Yes, this is a Japanese release. Though Tattoo was too, so maybe I’m kind of a clown after all.) I’m enjoying this whole section starting at 2:32; the voices pass off very nicely. (Edit: Younghoon, Kevin, then Jacob and Q pass back and forth twice.) I’m pretty sure 2:43 is Kevin? (Edit: it is.) 2:52 voice is very nice. Jacob? (Edit: yes!) Also, this is DEFINITELY Japanese. 3:40 voice very strong. (Edit: Younghoon.) I think this is Hyunjae on the last line? (Edit: yes. Wow, maybe I am able to tell TBZ’s voices apart for the most part now.)

Penalty - I’m really into this instrumental opening. I like Sunwoo’s delivery of this rap. 0:41 Q? (Edit: no, Haknyeon!) “Baby, you making me crazy.” The vocals are fine in this song, but I love the instrumental a lot more. Wait, okay, I do like vocals a LOT at 1:08. (Edit: Jacob, but I feel like he’s got some good supporting harmonies behind him in this section.) I like Sunwoo’s rap after the chorus less than the first one. “Is it a penalty?” Voice at 2:17, I am sitting up and paying attention. (Edit: Hyunjae.)

Kiss Me If You Can - “A-ooh.” I like the title of this song. I like the way the music builds during Sunwoo’s rap before the first chorus. Really liked whoever sang the first part of the chorus – Hyunjae? (Edit: yep.) Yes, we love a good call-and-response section! (Edit: Kevin gets the call, not sure who has the response, but I suspect Eric.) I like the layered vocals at 1:26. New and someone else? (Edit: It is New, but I don’t know who’s layering with him.) 1:39 rap, no clue who you are, but hello, you sound good! (Edit: Jacob!) I’m liking this song a lot, definitely a contender for favorite song off this release. The rhythm of the instrumental at the bridge reminds me of the opening of “Breaking Dawn.” Oh, I like the kissing sound haha. This is a fun outro.

HUSH - Of course this song starts with a shushing sound. Feels lower energy than the other songs so far (other than “FLAG”) which I think makes for a nice change of pace. I feel like the kick drum is mixed a little too loud during the chorus, but maybe it’s just my headphones. There’s something interesting in the tone of the voice at 1:15. I think it’s Hyunjae but I’m not sure. (Edit: it is.) “Running out of time, let me do my thing.” Is this Sunwoo at 2:01? Really nice low tone. (Edit: yes, it’s Sunwoo.) I’m gonna have to look up the entire vocal passes off of this section starting at 2:15, because I think it’s arranged really nicely and all of the voices are quite distinct-sounding from each other! (Edit: Younghoon, New, Eric, back to New, then Sunwoo.) Okay high note at 2:53. (Edit: lyric videos don’t say, but I’m guessing New? Possibly Sangyeon.) Ending with a shush too. We love bookends!

Closer - Oh, another lower energy song? Possibly even another ballad? The voice at 0:16 has a lovely tone. Sangyeon? (Edit: nope, Hyunjae!) 0:32 carries emotion quite nicely. (Edit: Haknyeon.) Yes, this appears to be a ballad. TBZ does ballads pretty well, I think. “I need you closer.” Of course. I like the arpeggio of the instrumental throughout this. 1:39 voice caught my attention. (Edit: Sangyeon.) As did 1:46. Kevin? Maybe? (Edit: no, it’s Jacob. Wow, I’ve really noticed his voice a lot this entire release.) The ad libs around the 2:40 mark are stunning. Mostly Sangyeon, I think. Oh, I love the note this instrumental ended on.

Final thoughts: Unlike NCT 127, whose Japanese releases are some of my favorites of theirs, I think TBZ’s Japanese releases are some of my least favorite of theirs. I did like “Kiss Me If You Can” quite a lot, and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the ballads.

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A few hours ago, my browser recommended me the article “There is No Case for the Humanities” by Justin Stover. At first I thought it would be a call to reform of the humanities departments in academia, which I could totally get behind. It was not. If anything, it was painfully regressive in its views on the place of humanistic subjects in everyday life. Apparently, only scholars should bother with literature, history, art, and language. Apparently, this matters to no one outside of a lecture hall.

Such thinking appalls me to my very core.

If you were to buy into Stover’s ideas, then the humanities are only of interest to the scholastic elite. He actually compares humanities professors to members of a golf course, imparting a sense of frivolity to the study of literature, rhetoric, history, art, and religion. To him and to many, the humanities are worthless because they do not give people immediate economic benefit. Hence why everyone insists you’re better off sticking only to STEM majors or business or trade schools. He says the humanities are only really meant for academics who shut themselves off from the world and publish overly-specialized articles in publications no one but other academics read. Of course, they’re useless.

I take issue with the idea that the humanities are entirely frivolous: I have seen how students still write at a fifth-grade level or use strawman arguments when they leave high school; they NEED to learn how to properly write a sentence and communicate their ideas. That’s just part of the working world. Learning to fact-check is also rather important given the media atmosphere of our times. Considering how multicultural the world is becoming, learning how other people see the world isn’t so frivolous an idea either. And do I need to argue that history is important? Like, really? Of course, I do have my own problems with academia, having worked in it, but that isn’t my point here. I just take issue with the frankly elitist notion that “normal,” non-academic people have no use for the humanities. So did someone else as I came to discover.

This rebuttal by Roberto Fubini is simple and direct: yes, we do not need the humanities to continue breathing. However, a world without myth or art or language is a dismal one. Our biological functions do not need these things, but as human beings, we absolutely do.

Fubini argues that the humanities should not be seen as the study of irrelevant, dead things only of interest to specialists, but of things vital to our lives and our understanding of the world. Anyone can benefit mentally and spiritually from the humanities. Here’s his defense for the humanities:

The humanities need no case: a response to Justin Stover and many others.

Editor’s note: This letter was written by a reader of the site; I have provided the links to posts he addresses in his remarks and include his references.

Rimini, Antica Cafeteria, Piazza Tre Martiri / January 2018

Dear Editor,

Your excerpt and publication of Justin Stover’s piece, “There is No Case for the Humanities,” brought to mind the ironies in the attempts to marginalize the study of literature, language, history, philosophy, or religion – in short, those areas we now call the humanities. All these attempts, Stover’s included, create puppets of the humanities and give them voice from their ventriloquism: squeaky, insecure sounds, which offer caricatures and puffed-out straw men. Stover would have us imagine the humanities confined to the university library and lecture hall, with their professors holding forth on the narrowest of subjects. Small wonder, then, that scientists push them aside and receive greater recognition.

These ventriloquists of the humanities may be staging their spectacle with the aim of delighting or antagonizing their readers, but they miss the central point. The staging and spectacle employ the very means they would caricature, namely the humanities. Rhetoric, logic, and language are at the heart of the humanities, and their opponents – as well as many of their would-be advocates – secretly make use of the humanities in their speeches about its worth.

Language: if one sits in a café in a busy square and listens to the conversations, not to eavesdrop, but rather to take in what language reveals, then one comes closer to the heart of the humanities. It is the language of gossip, anger, excitement, exhaustion, distraction; it is the language of lies and love. Federico Fellini in his Amarcord, his film of remembrance, traveled back to this seaside city to record this language. Recording this language, he made a work of art. But this art is not above us, foreign to us. It is not a learned abstraction. On the contrary, its language illuminates our lives. The groundlings in the Globe Theater could applaud Shakespeare’s Tempest, and follow Ariel as much as Caliban.

Stover speaks for many others who would make the humanities into fragile, erudite, and airy subjects. They are much more basic and durable. In fact, they preside over the means of their making. He argues that the humanities produce overspecialized and effete scholarship. We could try to defend this humanities hologram. But this would be only more theater of the absurd, when the drama itself lies in the language of argument. Stover overlooks the real stakes of his “case” against the humanities: the loss of language, or more specifically the loss of care for and love of language.

If we look to poets and thinkers across the centuries, we discover, repeatedly, that they have criticized scholars for their narrow pursuits, and also for their quest for fame and money. So Socrates mocked the sophists, and Lucian the philosophers. Seneca ridiculed their excesses, a theme picked up by Erasmus’s Folly, and then by Rabelais and Montaigne, who stated (or understated) that “the greatest scholars are not the wisest men.” This resonated with the words of Seneca, who called them “a spiritless lot: for people are forever acting as interpreters and never as creators, always lurking in someone else’s shadow” (letters 33 and 87).

But – in case you think I am now being pedantic myself – the point is to learn from the humanities, the range and depth of its literature. By this means we might more fully understand ourselves by understanding others. Scholarship, at its best, serves as the café waiter or maître d’ to these literary offerings.

The humanities are so fundamental that critics (and advocates) easily overlook them, but this oversight is part of our modern malady and one-sidedness. Here Italians are more alive to the dangers of this one-sidedness, which is why Rimini will always celebrate Fellini, and Certaldo its Boccaccio, and why Roberto Benigni, the actor and comedian, can read Dante before thousands of people on the steps of Santa Croce in Florence. The leading television program right now is a tour of Italy’s cultural heritage by Alberto Angela.

Russia, too, has long explored this modern urge to isolate and limit the humanities through science and scholarship. Gogol, in his brilliant Dead Souls, has his protagonist Tchitchikov visit two estates: one is run according to the latest scientific methods; on the other, the learned landowner yearns to educate the peasants in German arts and manners. The first farm is a model of utility and proficiency and the second is in disarray. Gogol shows us the ‘triumph’ of the sciences at a cost, the cost of character and personality, as well as the vanity of erudition. Both extremes exist to the detriment of both.

This is comical, but relevant, as relevant as the question raised in Dostoevsky’s Devils: what is more important, Pushkin or a pair of boots? Stover would have the humanities push literature into scholarly insignificance. But the humanities, at heart, tend Pushkin’s fire, so that his words could warm the spirits of Dostoevsky, Tchaikovsky, and Akhmatova, and through them untold numbers of readers for generations to come. As Joseph Brodsky observed, Dostoevsky found inspiration and insight in the very syntax of the Russian language, in its use of dependent clauses, which led to the spiraling psychological digressions that wind through his work.

Does all this that the humanities provide then need a “case”? Can we ever stand as advocates or lawyers for the humanities? Or do they not, rather, wait upon us to become more alive to their resources? They require not a case, but care. They remain in patient uselessness; they guard the gifts of language, which we all need though too little respect in our preoccupations with science and technology.

Rabindranath Tagore a century ago contemplated the advance of the sciences in words that were pungent and prescient. Tagore held science in esteem and met with Einstein in 1930 to discuss the nature of truth. Yet as an educator, poet, and philosopher, he warned against the single-minded mania for science as the path to fulfillment. He spoke to Japanese students in 1916 just as Japan was pursuing Western technological ‘advancement.’ The life of science, he told them, was a “superficial life”:

Science, when it oversteps its limits and occupies the whole region of life, has its fascination. It looks so powerful because of its superficiality – as does a hippopotamus which is very little else but physical. Science speaks of the struggle for existence, but forgets that man’s existence is not merely of the surface. Man truly exists in the ideal of perfection, whose height and depth are not yet measured. (“The Spirit of Japan,” July 2, 1916)

The height and depth of humanity, then: these are the coordinates of the humanities. We may ignore them as we ignore our inner lives, our need for myth and stories, even our love for flowers: all “useless” things that, somehow, we secretly recognize as essential to who we are, to our self-knowledge and our self-realization. Erwin Chargaff, the great biochemist who explored our DNA, echoed Tagore’s warning, with greater pessimism: “Our time” – he wrote some forty years ago – “when even Old Testament prophets must disguise themselves in laboratory gowns, will not understand when I say that the majority of those things that concern or should concern humanity plays out in realms in which the natural sciences have not bearing at all.”

It is pleasant to be idle in a city like Rimini and sit outside in warm January weather and, like the statue of Julius Caesar in the Piazza, observe the passeggiata of life. Life in the round is the realm of the humanities. This realm is more than the courtoisie of an educated few, as Stover imagines the culture of the humanities. If we listen to the poets and singers that voice our mythologies, our lives follow a richer cadence. Schools and universities may have retreated from these voices, but they have never left us, nor do I think they ever will, if the gods are kind. It falls to us to watch our language more intently, with a sense of wonder before what may appear on the horizon, what new vessel may bring the wandering poets home after what seems so long an exile.

Cordially,

Roberto Fubini

Amen!

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6 Reasons to Work with a Business Development Coach Now

What Exactly is Business Development?

I know that most professionals will give you different answers to this question, and I feel like this is probably why the rate at which businesses fail is so high. Most people only think that it is focusing more on Sales, or Marketing, Or the Relationships that the company has in the market and with its team and culture. While this may be true, there isn't a solid answer. This creates a lot of confusion and I think that this subject needs to be discussed more in depth before I cover the Reasons you need a Business Development Coach. I know that there is a lot of buzz around the word 'coach' these days, and I think that you can appreciate that I am a certified coach by two of the top coaches in the world, as as well as a certified partner and verified copywriter by 2 of the best marketing training companies in the world. IF you don't believe me, you can read more up on my qualifications to talk about this subject here. Of course, If you don't know and understand what business development is, why in the world would you want to know the reasons you would need a coach for it right? Before we can discuss the reasons you need to fix something, let's make this confusion terminology as simple as possible right from the start. I know that Albert Einstein says that when he had to solve a problem he would spend a majority of the time analyzing the problem and very little time actually solving it. There is some real wisdom in that, because most people don't have the patience to wait a red light more than 1.2 seconds after it turns green. He also said if you couldn't explain something simply, then you don't understand it enough. Although I don't want to get into all the reasons this topic of business development is difficult to understand, I do want to give you a very simple explanation of what it is... Business Development is defined by wikipedia as: 'the creation of long-term value for an organization from customers, markets, and relationships.' You can't have a business without customers, markets or relationships. It takes maximizing all three to reach your full potential. So, now that you have a fair understanding of what this term means, I want to dive into the reasons that you need a business development coach.

A good business development coach focuses on developing you as the leader first

Over the last few years I've had the privilege to hear John Maxwell speak on developing leaders in

business. John Maxwell says the first step in developing a business is first to develop the leader within it. And John Maxwell's book the 21 laws of leadership John's first law is the law of the lid. This law basically means that a business or organization can never outgrow the leader that leads it. I know a lot of marketing specialists will probably scoff at this, but let me just say this. The foundations in which a business can develop is built on to major pillars. The people that run the business and the community or groups of people or customers or clients that they serve. To maximize the efficiency of a business you must learn to lead both of these groups of people. And the only way to do this is to become a great leader yourself. Also, another great reference to this is Robert Greene's 33 Strategies of War. Before you learn the strategies of war, Robert would turn the focus on the person leading the war. Their mindset and being able to withstand the pressure. You have to start on the leader first. Because like in sports, there is no such thing as bad teams, or bad companies for that matter. ONLY BAD LEADERS.

A good business development coach will help you focus on the right clients

There always seems to be a gray area when it comes to lining marketing and sales. When I first started my sales career, the marketing department's job was to get as many appointments booked and keep the salespeople in front of people. If you are a good salesman it was your job to close as many people as you could. Over the last five or 10 years this strategy has become more apparent with social media and the Internet. Old tactics of sales and just don't work like they use to 20 years ago. I really think that the first step in doing any type of business is to make sure that you know what type of market or clients that you want to serve. The next thing is to make sure that there is a need for what your company will fulfill to that market. This requires being very specific on not just the type of products and services that you offer but the type of people that you want to serve. This is crucial. I see a lot of people that have been in business 20 and 30 years that still think that they need to market to a broad group of people and this is a very costly mistake. Each marketing campaign should be focused on one specific type of client or customer. A good coach will understand how to help you accomplish this.

A good business development coach will help you craft the right message

I have said this before and I'll say it again. I really believe that leadership is probably one of the most important skills that anyone in business can learn. The second most ( if not tied with first )

important skill to learn is direct response copywriting. John Maxwell wrote a great book named "Everyone Communicates Few Connects. I love this book so much, I'm certified to teach on the subject, and In the book John explained that if everything rises and falls on leadership, the same can be said about communication. Communications are so important in business and in relationships. They can be said that most of the failures in business and relationships are due to poor communications and unfulfilled expectations. Make no mistake of it. If you have the right team in the right market, but the wrong message, your development will be limited. You have to Have great communication between your marketing, sales and the clients. Equally important are the Values and principles that your company offers it's team mates and leaders within the company. Communication is every where, and the lack of it is usually the number one source of major problems and conflicts.

Good good business development coaches help you design systems for your business

I know that Michael Gerber is probably the best person besides Robert Kiyosaki that I heard talk about systems for your business. IF you don't know these 2 giants, check out their first books, Emyth by Gerber and Cash Flow Quadrant by Kiyosaki. They are game changers. I know that McDonald's is famously quoted for their franchise systems that they have to run their

business. Most multilevel marketing companies hail their story to describe the type of systems that run most multilevel marketing companies. I believe that every business needs to have systems in order to function at higher levels. There are so many benefits to having systems in place to run a business, that I can't get on into all of them at this time, but businesses that don't have systems waste a lot of time and money on procedures and processes that could run smoother and at a lower cost to the company. Michael Gerber has famously said that, "Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably." I have had the pleasure to work with companies like Delta, UPS and several other large construction companies. All of the the companies that grossed 50 million or more a year were built on systems and processes. That is the reason why most of these companies will spend 1 to 2 weeks training their new employees on the systems that run their business. These companies understand and know that systems help them achieve more work and less time and with less mistakes. Lower level employees need less supervision and help with the use of systems. I can go on and on about this but the truth is a good business development coach can help you design systems for your business.

A good business development coach will help you find your purpose and build your business around that... and they won't stop there

I know that many good coaches will have business owners and their employees and subcontractors take personality tests. Tony Robbins and John Maxwell used the disk a test in these assessments I believe are very important part of every business is growth and development.

Life Purpose I grew up playing sports and I always remember when being on teams with kids that played the same position for many years suddenly have to change positions and play a different position. In sports its a little different. Most of the time coaches will not know how that player will react and perform until they are put into the situations and prove themselves. In business, very similar to sports, you don't really know how each employee may react or upper level management may react to certain things that happen outside of their control. There is one thing that will help with this however. If you know exactly what type of personality traits each individual has, if you know their strengths and their weaknesses and what areas that they are naturally strong in and enjoy the being in, then this is a huge advantage to business owners and the development of a company. This starts with the business owner. If you don't think this is important then you won't think it's important for the rest of the people on your team and in your company. Finding your purpose and living it out is probably the most important activity that you can surround yourself with, it is also a great way to attract and help the best talent grow in your company. People are always wanting to work for those companies that feel that their growth and development is as important to them as it is to the owner of the company. If you don't believe me, when was the last time you worked for someone that could care less about your own development and growth? Hopefully most of you won't know what that is like. I ,on the other hand, have witnessed this many times and with many companies. A good business development coach will help you find your purpose as well as the people in your company and help everyone reach their maximum potential. Everyone thrives in the areas of their biggest strength, and it is the leaders job to make sure they put themselves and their teammates in the best position to win.

Good business development coaches build companies on customer value optimization

I've saved the best for last. Customer value optimization is the most important and fundamental principle for any business. A good business coach will make sure that you are running your business and marketing incorporating customer value optimization.

If you are not sure what customer value optimization is then I suggest that you join our Innovative Marketing Academy and take the course funnel mastery which teaches about customer value optimization. A good business development coach will show you how you can profitably outspend your competition to acquire a new customer. Dan Kennedy, the famous copywriters said any business that is willing and able to outspend their competition on acquiring a new customer and even sometimes at a loss, will have a huge advantage in the marketplace. Customer value optimization is built on building a relationship with your clients and prospects in a way that adds value to them, and helps them solve their problems, while offering them different offers that will maximize profits, repeat sales, testimonies and referrals.

Conclusion:

I used to be a one man show, and sometimes, I still Revert back to my old ways. A lot of times, it is because I am afraid to ask for help, or because I don't want to look like a Needy Guy. Everyone feels this way at some point, but this is a limiting belief, and you must realize that beyond a little pain and discomfort is growth. Getting help from a business development coach isn't something that most business owners want to do. But sometimes, it is the best thing to do. In doing so, you save a lot of time, money and sometimes, stress. A good business coach will be someone that has been thru the ringer a few times. They have had their ups and downs. They are not afraid of failure, because they know that failure is part of the process. I didn't realize this, until I became a Certified Leadership coach by John Maxwell. He pointed out that sometimes you win, sometimes you learn. He even wrote a book on it. But One thing is always Certain. If you don't try something new, if you are afraid of failure, afraid of being ridiculed or talked down upon, then you can play it safe, but you ultimately lose the chance of being someone great by Default. Don't do that. Schedule a Free Strategy call and lets talk about your challenges and options today. Jeremy Coates Read the full article

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Get to know me

1. Who was the last person you held hands with? my gf

2. Are you outgoing or shy? not really outgoing, but shy doesn’t describe me either

3. Who are you looking forward to seeing? any cat tbh

4. Are you easy to get along with? generally, yes

5. If you were drunk would the person you like take care of you? probably

6. What kind of people are you attracted to? girls that are nice, that I just have this weird connection with from the moment we meet and that have a similar taste in things as me

7. Do you think you’ll be in a relationship two months from now? yes

8. Who from the opposite gender is on your mind? my gf

9. Does talking about sex make you uncomfortable? no

10. Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with? define ‘deep’

11. What does the most recent text that you sent say? ‘relatable’

12. What are your 5 favorite songs right now? I can never decide over these things but can we just pretend I named 5 piano pieces from Oliver Messiaen?

13. Do you like it when people play with your hair? people, plural? I prefer one at a time but yeah it’s nice

14. Do you believe in luck and miracles? sort of

15. What good thing happened this summer? I got a composing commission

16. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again? I’d do it a thousand times

17. Do you think there is life on other planets? yes

18. Do you still talk to your first crush? no

19. Do you like bubble baths? yeah but the last time I had one was in like 2010 or something

20. Do you like your neighbors? yes

21. What are you bad habits? procrastinating

22. Where would you like to travel? many places, especially Germany

23. Do you have trust issues? no

24. Favorite part of your daily routine? when I get home from school, I make sandwiches and eat them in bed, watching HBO

25. What part of your body are you most uncomfortable with? all of it

26. What do you do when you wake up? frankly speaking, I don’t

27. Do you wish your skin was lighter or darker? wtf is this question

28. Who are you most comfortable around? my parents and my gf

29. Have any of your ex’s told you they regret breaking up? no

30. Do you ever want to get married? it could be nice, but I really don’t care about that yet

31. If your hair long enough for a pony tail? lol nope

32. Which celebrities would you have a threesome with? ???wut

33. Spell your name with your chin. nmkjkjllkb kjfrdshjulksadnbihj

34. Do you play sports? What sports? sports? I don’t know her

35. Would you rather live without TV or music? TV??? like what kind of uncivilised barbarian would choose to live without music??

36. Have you ever liked someone and never told them? when I was a kid

37. What do you say during awkward silences? I don’t?? no one says anything, that’s why it’s called awkward silence

38. Describe your dream girl/guy? she would be... sweet, funny, hella cute, amazing hair, likes music, probably plays the clarinet... oh wait

39. What are your favorite stores to shop in? any book/music store and stores where you can buy fancy chocolate and other stuff to eat

40. What do you want to do after high school? not math

41. Do you believe everyone deserves a second chance? depends on the fucking context 42. If your being extremely quiet what does it mean? it could mean a variety of things. I could be having a perfectly normal day with just no one to talk to at the moment, or I could be having the worst day ever. 43. Do you smile at strangers? uhh...no (why would anyone do that?) 44. Trip to outer space or bottom of the ocean? space 45. What makes you get out of bed in the morning? school. or hunger. in both cases, I do so reclutantly 46. What are you paranoid about? people abandoning me 47. Have you ever been high? yes, there was this mountain range on Gran Canaria, it was, like, 2km high or something 48. Have you ever been drunk? no 49. Have you done anything recently that you hope nobody finds out about? my browser history is clean 50. What was the colour of the last hoodie you wore? dark blue 51. Ever wished you were someone else? not permanently, but it’d be interesting to experience the world with someone else’s eyes 52. One thing you wish you could change about yourself? my body 53. Favourite makeup brand? the fuck do I care? oh, maybe all these questions are meant for women (or others) that use makeup... maybe I shoud use makeup... maybe I’m a woman... maybe... it’s MAYBELLINE 54. Favourite store? Stockmann 55. Favourite blog? no opinion on this one 56. Favourite colour? blue but honestly I love every colour (except for that one... yeah, that) 57. Favourite food? pizza 58. Last thing you ate? bread 59. First thing you ate this morning? bread 60. Ever won a competition? For what? I won a costume competition at school in the 2nd grade, I was Harry Potter 61. Been suspended/expelled? For what? no 62. Been arrested? For what? no 63. Ever been in love? oh boi yes 64. Tell us the story of your first kiss? my first gf was over, we lay on the couch and had a LotR marathon. We then discussed a more serious thing, and after that the kiss just happened 65. Are you hungry right now? no 66. Do you like your tumblr friends more than your real friends? let’s be real my only tumblr friends are also my irl friends 67. Facebook or Twitter? Facebook 68. Twitter or Tumblr? Tumblr 69. Are you watching tv right now? no 70. Names of your bestfriends? no not gonna tell u u scary internet person 71. Craving something? What? that mineral 72. What colour are your towels? we’re only 72 questions in and this is what you come up with? 72. How many pillows do you sleep with? 1-2 73. Do you sleep with stuffed animals? occasionally, there’s a doggo 74. How many stuffed animals do you think you have? like 40 75. Favourite animal? cat 76. What colour is your underwear? I wonder the same thing every day 77. Chocolate or Vanilla? (I’ll assume this is about ice cream) vanilla 78. Favourite ice cream flavour? yes 79. What colour shirt are you wearing? red 80. What colour pants? black 81. Favourite tv show? yes 82. Favourite movie? I rarely watch films these days, but I really liked the King’s Speech 83. Mean Girls or Mean Girls 2? only seen the latter 84. Mean Girls or 21 Jump Street? I should watch the first Mean Girls before I can make up my mind, but for now I’ll say 21 Jump Street 85. Favourite character from Mean Girls? can we just stop with the Mean Girls questions already? 86. Favourite character from Finding Nemo? that was unexpected but thanks 87. First person you talked to today? my mum 88. Last person you talked to today? my mum 89. Name a person you hate? trump 90. Name a person you love? my gf 91. Is there anyone you want to punch in the face right now? yes 92. In a fight with someone? no 93. How many sweatpants do you have? 2 94. How many sweaters/hoodies do you have? 4 95. Last movie you watched? Einstein and Eddington 96. Favourite actress? I don’t really have favourites but Emma Thompson is a legend 97. Favourite actor? the same thing as above but David Tennant 98. Do you tan a lot? somewhat significantly, but I don’t really like sunbathing so I don’t know exactly how much 99. Have any pets? no :( 100. How are you feeling? normal 101. Do you type fast? quite so 102. Do you regret anything from your past? yes 103. Can you spell well? yes 104. Do you miss anyone from your past? friends that no longer stay in touch for reasons they apparently don’t deem appropriate to enlighten me about 105. Ever been to a bonfire party? this is Finland... find me someone who hasn’t been to one 106. Ever broken someone’s heart? nopefully hot hopefully not 107. Have you ever been on a horse? no 108. What should you be doing? shut the fuck up I’m not listening 109. Is something irritating you right now? no 110. Have you ever liked someone so much it hurt? yes 111. Do you have trust issues? didn’t we already do this one? 112. Who was the last person you cried in front of? I actually don’t remember but mum probably 113. What was your childhood nickname? in my case, you can’t talk about “the” nickname, there has been so many... 114. Have you ever been out of your province/state? oh no sir where I live is the centre of the world, I don’t need to leave because why would anyone want to experience anything new ever, oh boy you won’t even believe what the Pohjois-Pohjanmaan lakeudet perkele has to offer (tl;dr: yes)

115. Do you play the Wii? the whom?

116. Are you listening to music right now? no

117. Do you like chicken noodle soup? yeah whatever

118. Do you like Chinese food? yes

119. Favourite book? no no no don’t ask me questions like this

120. Are you afraid of the dark? no

121. Are you mean? no if you aren’t an arse

122. Is cheating ever okay? no. fuk u. u ruined the board game.

123. Can you keep white shoes clean? that should be pretty easy, all you need is a sterile bag and a safe

124. Do you believe in love at first sight? no

125. Do you believe in true love? what do mean by ‘true’?

126. Are you currently bored? no

127. What makes you happy? food

128. Would you change your name? no, I would’ve already done that by now, wouldn’t I?

129. What your zodiac sign? Virgo

130. Do you like subway? (insert a joke about public transport)

131. Your bestfriend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do? date her, if you’re literally best friends with someone of your preferred sex, as in ‘I feel really safe and comfortable around this person and I care about them’ then what the fuck is there that prevents you from having the best romantic relationship possible?

132. Who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with? WE HAD THIS QUESTION ALREADY WHY DO THESE EVEN HAVE NUMBERS IF YOU’RE GONNA ASK ME THE SAME THINGS TWICE LIES EVERYWHERE

133. Favourite lyrics right now? i listen to the music, not the lyrics

134. Can you count to one million? yes. but I wont.

135. Dumbest lie you ever told? When I was like 3 I messed with my dad’s watch and didn’t know how to change the time back to normal and when my dad asked me what had happened to the watch I said that it had been on the floor and I had accidentally stepped on a random wrench that had just happened to lie there next to it and the wrench had then launched into the air and landed on the watch breaking it

136. Do you sleep with your doors open or closed? closed

137. How tall are you? 170cm

138. Curly or Straight hair? my hair? straight

139. Brunette or Blonde? my hair? brunette

140. Summer or Winter? Summer

141. Night or Day? Night

142. Favourite month? July

143. Are you a vegetarian? no

144. Dark, milk or white chocolate? dark. milk chocolate is also good if it’s of high quality

145. Tea or Coffee? Tea

146. Was today a good day? has been so far

147. Mars or Snickers? why not both

148. What’s your favourite quote? ‘It amplifies your natural abilities, like a microphone... or a pooper scooper’ -The 11th Doctor

149. Do you believe in ghosts? no

150. Get the closest book next to you, open it to page 42, what’s the first line on that page? “Ei hassumpaa”

#Random info about me

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Akira Live Comments

So I watched Akira last night and my friends made me put my comments in a document:

Impressions: I really like this movie, it is incredibly fast paced and gets so much through just in images and snapshots. Also brilliant use of red flags.

11:58: Akira, Just think. In two short years post nuclear gangs of motorcyclists will be assaulting taxi drivers in cyberpunk Tokyo.

11:58 Like that might actually happen.

12:00: What. Dog murder. This isn’t fucking Jojo. Why is this the anime theme I’ve been dealing with lately? If I wanted to be depressed by dying dogs I’d just watch plague dogs.

12:01: There’s a very old child.

12:04: Oh shit. So there’s also a revolution in the background as the gang war happens. Or atleast mobs of people waving red flags. Which is my favorite kind of mob.

12:05: So the incredubly old child had exploded TETSUO!

12:06: Ancient children are being approached by pod children who look actually young.

12:07: And for some reason my favorite coworker looks like roughly half of the background characters. Extremely short hair, Mustache, very angular face, looks exactly like the Colonel.

12:13: Kaneda helps revolutionaries escape attest if they’re hot women. Sexist, but also semi good Praxis.

12:17: Akira is already doing a good job of establishing this is a collapsing social order. Like capitalism is clearly in absolute crisis, and they haven’t even slightly used those words. So points for that.

12:27: Hah. Communist lady is still a character. And she was apparently involved with a terrorist bombing.

12:30: And she was apparently involved with a terrorist bombing.

12:33: .00005 degrees kelvin isn’t a temperature people can live at movie. I call bullshit.

12:34: his room is just looking like they’re bellow freezing. Rather than instantly freezing them to a painful death. Very slowly.

12:35: Ryu also looks like my coworker. Again. A very solid portion of these characters look like him.

12:37: The communist rebels are relying on millenarian cultists for their hope for the future. I would call that unrealistic, but there are communists who have done dumber things. this is also more radical and more thoughtful than the actual Japanese Communist Party would be capable of.

12:39: Why was the peace of neo tokyo ever left in the hands of a colonel. That’s like, General level responsibilities at least.

12:41: Whoever did the art on this loves angular face mustache men. Which I don’t think there’s anything wrong with. Just a bit hyper specific.

12:41: Oh shit. The bear is moving.

12:41: Oh shit, all the stuffed animals are walking.

12:42: Wait, Tetsuo is just hallucinating.

12:43: And the hallucinations are bleeding cum and attacking him. Oh god thats a lot of cum.

12:43: He scared off the cum monster creatures by bleeding at them from his foot wound. I know it’s milk but the look is too viscous.

12:45: Tetsuo popped those guards like grapes. It was awesome. Good for him.

12:46: Why did the communist terrorist squad recruit Kaneda? He adds nothing beyond so much risk that they’ll get caught.

12:47: Fucking sewer levels. Always lame! Oh, communist lady is named Kei.

12:50: Holy shit. TETSUO has just crushed the cops into a fine paste. Good for him.

12:51: Cum monster stuffed animal things are are back.

12:51: Now they’re just regular children. Who are also seemingly 85 years old.

12:56: Communist lady is already reacting with horror when he gets thrown around? Goddamn. You’ve known him for like a night. Don’t fall in love with him yet.

12:57: Tetsuo keeps saying aloud what he’s psychically told. You’re missing the point of psychic communications.

12:59: Why did they store psychic super child in the fucking olympic stadium?!

1:00: Colonel is staging a crisis.

1:04: Exposition on Akira is happening and I’m very bored by it. They don’t need to explain why there is a psychic child who can destroy the world. He’s just there. Especially when it boils down to him having amoeba powers.

1:06: Is he a pokemon, evolving as an individual, rather than in a process of punctuated equilibrium/gradual adaptation? So there’s now tanks rolling down the street in Neo Tokyo.

1:10: The communist rebels are burning their files in a way guaranteed to burn down their headquarters. Like, you don’t leave the files drifting out onto the very flammable carpet.

1:12: So Tetsuo is going to fuck up the military.

1:13: What the fuck is up with Japan and dudes with little to no hair and just a mustache but a very angular face.

1:14: And communist old guy is dying of a heart attack. Also that cult dead communist is relying on pulled through. Damn. He chose a bad moment to die.

1:16: Kaneda is now going to go deal with the problem for some reason.

1:17: So now there’s an ancient elvis man leading the revolution. Instead of communists. Again I feel like this has happened before.

1:17: Elvis cult man is dead now. Also the Bridge is pretty fucked.

1:19: Well he got to the deep freeze olympics building. He’s walking pretty slow for a rampage. Wow, this has all just kind of collapsed very quickly.

1:20: So communist Kei is being controlled by the bratty half pints who also happen to be like 87.

1:21: Oh shit. AKIRA pod is being flown by Tetsuo.

1:22: By the way, Neo Tokyo is fucked.

1:22: How are those scientists not just doubled over from migraines as the computer flashes at them.

1:24: Oh shit. Akira is just a collection of organs and body parts. Spoilers.

1:24: Also Tetsuos hair has grown massively. Is that just inconsistent art, or has this taken place over months.

1:26: Kaneda is doing pretty alright in this lazer vs psychic powers match all things considered.

1:27: But taking cover is a very dumb plan here. Like, it’s not like Tetsuo needs to see him to pop him like a grape.

1:28: Oh shit Tetsuos being abducted.

1:28: oh shit communist lady is still alive.

1:29: Tetsuo arm cut off. TETSUO!

1:29: TETSUO is literally on a satellite to blow it up. In space. It’s bullshit.

1:30: So Tetsuo murdered the satellite. And Who is actually saying it is SOL?! You’ve been there for like five minutes. Who has been spreading rumors?

1:31: Now his arm is back but robot!? TETSUO gets new powers by the minute.

1:32: The future doesn’t proceed along a predetermined course, there’s a future we can choose. Probably the truest line in the movie.

1:33: Einstein man is really impressed by the science that was made by TETSUO.

1:35: TETSUO’s girlfriend is back and is scared by his cool new robot arm.

1:36: TETSUO is turning into a very aggressive vine.

1:37: Also, poor aim Colonel. You just nicked his freaky arm thing into overdrive.

1:37 So Kanedas power is that he is a biker dude. And that’s it. He has some pretty insane luck. Rolls nothing but 20s.

1:38: Shooting the arm is clearly a bad idea. KANEDA did it again. Like seriously. The last time he did it he just shot out cancer beams to kill a dude.

1:39: TETSUO is going all body horror. And begging for help. and turning into a giant baby from the looks of things. Literally.

1:40: And also, Kaori was crushed to death. But Kaneda popped out like Pus from Sean’s terrible acne advice. The akira tubes have popped.

1:41: and suddenly TETSUO is receding.

1:42: Wait. Fucking what. Akira is alive again.

1:44: Whatever the fuck is happening here is very unclear.

1:49: Whatever the fuck is happening now is pretty incomprehensible. I enjoy it. But I have no fucking idea whats up. Other than that Tokyo is pretty fucked. And millions are dying.

1:50: And that for some reason the Colonel, Kaneda, Kei, and the dude who is so unimportant i don’t even remember when they even said his name are alive.

1:51: TETSUO might be the god of a new universe. Or maybe thats akira. It’s very hard to tell.

1:51: God rays mean deaden my opinion. I’m going to go with god of a new universe given the credits too. They aren’t contradictory.

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