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WHAT THE HELL IS POP-RAP AND WHY IS IT A BAD WORD?
By Stereo Williams
Published Tue, September 21, 2021 at 2:11 PM EDT
It has been announced that St. Louis rap superstar Nelly is to be honored at the 2021 BET Hip-Hop Awards with the prestigious I Am Hip-Hop Award, an honor that is given to legendary Hip-Hop artists who have moved the culture forward. It's deserving: Nelly enjoyed one of the genre's most successful commercial runs, a fixture at the top of the charts in the 2000s who furthered the rap game's mainstreaming while also helping to put the Midwest on the national Hip-Hop map. 
In the latest Verzuz, chart-toppers Fat Joe and Ja Rule showcased their respective catalogs, with fans seemingly surprised to be reminded of just how formidable Ja, in particular, was back in the early 00s. Ja Rule's Verzuz showing, as well as a subsequent IG debate between Jermaine Dupri and Diddy about who has the better body of work, has put artists who were once seen as (dismissed as?) pop-rap back in our cultural spotlight. 
So what the hell is "Pop-Rap?"
It's one of those distinctions that either makes a person go "What is that?" or makes them cringe. 
For some music fans, "pop" is treated like a dirty word. "Pop" means manufactured and inauthentic, soulless and by-the-numbers. "Pop" means safe. In a lot of ways, "pop" often means white—or, at the very least, created for the interests of white audiences. It's typically not that cool to be thought of as the "pop" version of anything, let alone a genre and culture born of an outsider's spirit. But what about "pop" as in "infectious and accessible?" 
In the late 80s, Hip-Hop was crashing the mainstream. Run-D.M.C. and the Def Jam acts like LL COOL J and the Beastie Boys had kicked down the commercial door, and rap was now selling big. But with that commercial success came some handwringing about where the genre was headed and whether or not it could survive mainstreaming. That conversation would linger for decades, but at the time, it manifest as some criticism of certain rap acts with major crossover audiences. 
The first real "wave" of pop-rappers arrived around the late 80s dawn of Yo! MTV Raps and Rap City; as artists like Heavy D & The Boyz, Salt-N-Pepa, MC Hammer, Kid 'n Play, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tone Loc and Young MC enjoyed major chart success with a style of Hip-Hop built around infectious hooks, slick production and dance-friendly beats. As N.W.A. turned "gangsta rap" into a household term, and as Public Enemy became icons for politicized Hip-Hop; these were the acts who seemed "safe" for middle America. And as a result, many of them wound up being branded inauthentic. 
DJ Jazzy Jeff lamented the idea that he and partner Will Smith aka The Fresh Prince, were portrayed as "suburban rap" by outside commentators. 
"Once we put out 'Parents Just Don't Understand,' once Salt N Pepa put out 'Push It,' anything that got notoriety from the white audience or the pop audience, you were automatically put into this box [like] you weren't Hip-Hop," Jazzy Jeff says. "Like you were from the suburbs. It used to trip me out how people would say Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince are from the suburbs. Will grew up around the corner from Steady B!'"
Steady B is the Philly rap legend of Hilltop Hustlers fame who would be sentenced to life in prison for his role in a 1996 bank robbery that left a police officer dead. 
The kind of success DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince found was viewed with cynicism. 
"Pop success was frowned upon," Jeff says. 
With Teddy Riley's production sheen, and Eddie F's natural leaning towards catchy records, Heavy D & The Boyz were also seen as one of the more accessible rap acts for fans coming from R&B or pop. Heavy's new jack swing flourishes made him ripe for collaborations with everyone from LeVert to Michael and Janet Jackson; his Overweight Lover persona made him a perfect candidate for sitcom guest spots and soda commercials. 
Even with his crossover appeal, Heavy D maintained an undeniable credibility in most rap circles. The Mt. Vernon legend rarely had to endure the kind of criticisms some of his contemporaries faced. 
Despite the rap successes of their early singles like "My Mic Sounds Nice," Salt-N-Pepa became major stars on the strength of "Push It," a monster hit single that featured relatively little actual rapping. The group's debut album Hot, Cool & Vicious would enjoy platinum success, setting the stage for a decade of hits for Salt-N-Pepa and producer Hurby "Luv Bug" Azor.
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The success of Salt-N-Pepa and Kid 'n Play should have affirmed Hurby Azor as a hitmaker of the highest order.
He crafted the kind of rap singles that got airplay in R&B and pop radio rotations, still a rarity for even the most noteworthy Hip-Hop artists of the late 1980s. Songs like "Expression," "Funhouse," "Let's Talk About Sex" and "Ain't Gonna Hurt Nobody" got airplay in areas where they were still avoiding rap on the radio. In Hip-Hop's bum rush of the mainstream, these artists were the ground troops. 
If he'd crafted hits from 1997 to 2007, you'd see lauds for Hurby "Luv Bug" as one of the greatest hitmakers of our time. But timing works against so many of the most accomplished producers of the so-called "Golden Age." They were some of the first consistent across-the-board hitmakers in Hip-Hop, but they came along at a time when purists felt they represented the genre being watered down for pop interests.
- Q-Tip, 1991 ("Check The Rhime")
In the age of MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice, "pop-rap" became a more damning epitaph for artists who'd been deemed cookie cutter by Hip-Hop's more serious-minded corners. Acts like Kris Kross, with their backwards pants and preadolescent voices, were dismissed as novelty, but Jermaine Dupri established his production bonafides with that duo. Like, Hurby "Luv Bug," JD just had a skill for making ridiculously infectious records. And for artists like Kris Kross and Da Brat, he churned out bigass hits. 
Death Row's breakthrough circa late 1992/1993 changed mainstream rap's landscape significantly. The conventional wisdom is that Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre elbowed pop-rappers off the charts, but the truth is a bit more nuanced. The ripple effect of The Chronic was real; artists like Kris Kross and MC Hammer deliberately toughened their respective images to fit the "gangsta" trends. But it's also worth noting that artists like Salt-N-Pepa and Heavy D saw their biggest commercial successes post-Chronic.
The emergence of Sean "Puffy" Combs and Bad Boy Records in the mid-1990s led to East Coast street rap's embrace of pop rap slickness. Coming out of Uptown Records and working as manager for Heavy D, Combs saw firsthand just how powerful melding Hip-Hop lyricism to R&B accessibility could make for major radio exposure. When he launched Bad Boy, he brought that formula with him, and he fully realized its commercial potential in the second half of the 1990s, ushering the "Shiny Suit Era" on the strength of catchy songs with huge hooks and sparkly videos. 
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Hitmakers like Combs and Dupri announced themselves much in the way Azor had: all in the videos, all on the records. They saw the fruits of their melodic approach almost immediately and seemed to be the natural next step after what Azor, Eddie F and Kay Gee had helped ignite. 
In a somewhat ironic twist, Death Row and Bad Boy's commercial wins directly influenced more street-oriented rappers to craft slick, more radio-accessible singles. If The Chronic led to pop rappers awkwardly attempting to prove they could go "gangsta," Puffy's formula led to street rappers now sometimes-uncomfortably attempting to score pop hits. 
But by the late 1990s, Hip-Hop superstardom didn't necessarily require backwards clothes or genie pants. A rapper as gritty as DMX could become a major star, so that era of pop rap wasn't met with exactly the same kind of backlash as those artists from a decade prior. Missy Elliott's catchy hooks and innovative videos made her a fixture across radio formats; and Nelly's unique brand of St. Louis singsongy rhyming also gave him a lot of pop hits in the early 00s. 
It's great to see these hitmakers who defined the popular sounds of their times getting their due. Here's hoping we reach back to that earlier wave of radio superstars; to the Azors, Eddie Fs, Kay Gees, etc. and salute them for also giving us so many hits. Pop-rap doesn't have to be a bad word, as long as it's not bad music.
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if u experienced 90's regional mexican pop music in real time i'm jelly
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starlightblueninja · 3 years
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Ciao! can I please request headcanons for the bayverse turtles with a gender neutral S/O where they’re hanging out one day and they have music playing on shuffle, but then the reader suddenly starts crying because they used to listen to that song all the time when they were little and it just hit them right in the childhood? Comfort ensues 👉🏽👈🏽 please. and thank you.
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Thanks for the request! This took a little while because it’s my first one and I wanted it to be nice UwU and I enjoyed playing around with the bois being comforting since I’ve never really done that before. Hope you enjoy 💙♥️🧡💜💚 @sleeplessdreamer14
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Leonardo
You’re laying on the couch reading while Leo’s doing katas about ten feet away. Every now and again you’ll look up at him, smiling as his practiced movements resemble a dance. Mikey left some playlist running in the background on his boombox before disappearing to make food, and normally music with lyrics makes it difficult for you to read but you were only really half paying attention to the book. You almost enjoy watching Leo practice more anyway.
The music barely distracts you, at least until you hear that… familiar intro. The rest of the world kind of fades away as the song takes you back years.
Nostalgia clogs your senses, eyes watering before you know it and a lump forming in the back of your throat as you try to hold back from crying. You close the book in your lap and let the music fill your senses. It’s been a while since you’ve heard this one. Memories resurface and you try to simply blink away the tears, but it’s inevitable, they fill your eyes until your vision is watery.
“Hey,” you look up to see Leo sitting down next to you, his eyes filled with concern but voice gentle and comforting as he asks, “What’s wrong?”
“It’s dumb, but… this song just… takes me back,” you respond quietly. “I used to listen to it a lot when I was younger.”
You wipe your eyes with your free hand just as Leo takes your other hand in his. His warm, strong, big hand in yours makes the tears easier to swallow. You squeeze his palm reassuringly and he moves a little closer to you before you continue talking.
“It reminds me of the places I used to go and the friends I used to have, feels like a lifetime ago, when things were less… complicated.”
Leo perfectly understands the wish for things to be easy, and he understands how it feels to not want to carry responsibilities. He knows what it’s like to have a weight on your shoulders. And so, instead of telling you it’s dumb or offering simple platitudes, he presses a kiss to your knuckles and nods in understanding.
“I miss it,” you say simply.
“If it’s any consolation,” he starts. “I’m glad that you’re here now.”
You look up at him with watery eyes but you’re wearing a crooked smile at his remark. The song still plays on in the background but right now you’re more focused on the way the terrapin kisses your forehead and buries his face in your hair. You feel his inhale taking in your scent and you smile against his collarbone, relaxing against him.
Yeah, you still miss your old friends and family, when things were easy and you bore less of the world on your shoulders. But for now you have him, and really, what else do you need?
Raphael
Raph’s got his workout playlist on while you sit next to him, bantering back and forth with him as he does his routine. The music is a surprisingly varied mix, you didn’t expect to hear the couple of 80s pop and early 2000’s girl band songs that you did. You teased him a little about it at first but it was all well meaning.
You don’t really notice what song is playing until about halfway through the first verse. You know this song too well. It’s been a long time since you last heard it, though, and maybe that’s why it affects you the way it does now. Raph had been saying something, but his voice kind of fades away as your focus shifts to the music and the memories it brings back.
Flashes of your childhood flit past your mind’s eye. The good, the bad, the in between, and all the other things you thought you had forgotten about. You don’t even realize there’s tears in your eyes until they’re falling, running hot trails down your cheeks and it’s too late to try and hold them back.
“Hey, hey baby, what’s wrong?” Raph must have noticed you go quiet since now he’s kneeling in front of you with so much concern on his face. “You okay? ‘S it somethin’ I said?”
“No! No no no,” you’re quick to reassure him and he relaxes, but only minutely since it’s clear you’re still upset. “I-It’s stupid, don’t worry about it.”
“‘Ey, don’t say that, whatever it is, it ain’t stupid,” his hand sets itself gently on your knee.
“I just used to listen to this song as a kid a lot, takes me back.”
He’s sat down in front of you now, cross-legged just as you are so your knees are touching his, “That ain’t stupid.”
His hand brushes away the tears from one side of your face, your own hand coming up to dry the other side before you lean into his warm touch. The way his hand cups your cheek comforts you immensely.
“Feels stupid to cry over it.”
But he knows what it’s like to miss the innocence lost with age, so he pinches your cheek lightly and playfully in disagreement, bringing a smile to your face even as you push his hand away.
“I can turn it off if ya want,” he offers gently, and you hesitate before shaking your head no.
“It’s fine, I’ll be fine,” you respond.
“Whatever ya say, shorty.”
And with that you two are right back to your usual lighthearted teasing. He leaves a chaste kiss on your forehead before he goes back to working out, the memories fading away to make room for the new ones you make with him. He makes sure to remember exactly what song it is, though, and you don’t consciously pick up on this fact but you never actually hear it from any of his playlists again after that moment.
Donatello
You two often sit in peaceful quiet. Donnie will work on his projects, you sitting there on your phone or working on your own stuff, occasionally handing him various tools when he needs them. He’s often got something going on in the background, usually podcasts or heavy music when he’s alone, but always soft music when you’re around so he doesn’t miss if you say something to him. Like now, with him under the truck fixing something and you sitting cross-legged a few feet away playing a puzzle game on your phone. You’re waiting patiently for him to be done. Bed time for you two was about an hour ago now but you know how important this fix is for him and that it should really be done tonight. So you don’t press the issue but you are ready to sleep.
You don’t often notice the music he’s got playing unless it’s a song you really like or dislike, it’s just some shuffled Spotify playlist that he thinks fits the vibe of today. But you notice immediately when that song starts playing. It’s so familiar to you, after listening to it so much in the past, that it would be shameful not to recognize it now.
Your vision goes blurry as your focus shifts away from your current self. You’re reminded of the past, the radio in your old house, your parents, the way they always had the same station playing in the house and in the car and at cookouts. You’ve heard this song so much now that it immediately throws you back into the past. It happens so fast you might as well have whiplash, but you just get misty eyed instead.
Your bottom lip trembles, warm lines running down your cheeks soon after and Donnie notices quickly that something is up when you don’t respond to his request for the torx screwdriver. He slides out from under the truck but you don’t even notice at first. The music has all but consumed you now.
“Y/N? Darling, what’s wrong?” He’s immediately at your side, a large hand gently on your bicep pulling you back to reality.
You look up at him but realize that it’s a little hard to see him with the way the tears have pooled. He can’t help but think that, even though he hates hates hates seeing you upset, that those tears make your eyes glisten so beautifully under the lights.
His other hand not on your arm comes up to brush the tears away as he repeats the question now that he’s got your focus.
“I used to listen to this song a lot as a kid,” you supply an answer softly, gaze falling from his. “Just makes me sad… I dunno why, I guess it just kinda hit me. Sorry.”
“No, no, dove, don’t apologize,” he says. “I understand and you’re alright, I’ve got you here, now.”
His sugar sweet words and oh so gentle hands comfort you. You offer a watery smile before moving into his arms, letting him wrap his arms around you. You return the hug the best you can with his shell in the way, face tucked into the crook of his shoulder, and he can feel the way more tears fall from your eyes and onto his skin. He doesn’t mind though, he simply holds you. He enjoys just holding you even if he’s never admitted it out loud before. He likes knowing he can be there for you.
And he may not fully understand how your memories attached to this song make you upset, but he understands the pain and will do anything to make you feel better.
His hands run over your back, soothing trails on your shoulder blades over your shirt. Then he’s reaching for a remote he set nearby to turn the radio off. He doesn’t even need to ask you anything to know when you want his hands back on you.
“You’re the best,” you say when your gaze has fully refocused and the tears have calmed.
“No, actually, I think that’s you,” he responds, before pressing a kiss to your hair and deciding to bring you to bed, putting off the truck repairs for grumpy morning-Donnie in favor of treating you like a queen now.
Michelangelo
You and Mikey will play a video game together quietly with music on in the background. Sometimes you’ll lay on his chest and watch him play, but in times like this, when the week has been rough and you both need some quiet down time, you lay on opposite ends of the couch with your legs tangled together playing a multi-player game that relaxes both of you. Tonight it’s Minecraft, and though you both like the music of the game, you’d both agreed on having a playlist on too.
You’re mining out a coal deposit in the game when you hear that song come on the background. Mikey notices faster than any of his other brothers would that something is off. He can practically smell how the air around you sours.
Childhood memories flood back to you as you recognize every line of the song as it plays, pulling you back and away from the now. Good memories give you life vests in the flood, bad memories tie weights to your ankles. You’ve paused in the game, your character just staring at the block wall. People, places, events, all of it suddenly overwhelms you as the music plays.
Mikey is on you in seconds though, throwing himself into your arms as soon as he notices that there’s an issue. You’ve got a lap-full of buff turtle man pulling you back into the present.
“Babycakes, you smell grump, what’s wrong?” He says while littering chaste kisses across your face.
He doesn’t even give you the time to get truly upset, let alone start crying, as he’s so in-tune to your emotions that he’s always right there to comfort you.
“I’m okay, baby,” you responds, wrapping your arms around his shoulders. “Just… thinking about childhood stuff. This song reminded me of it.”
“This song?” He says, suddenly jumping up.
You don’t know where he’s going but can see the humor practically dripping off of him. He storms up to the boombox, blatantly glaring at it. While watching him poke the speaker a few times like he’s threatening one of the many criminals he often fights, you can’t help but smile. He’s so lovely, and always knows how to make you laugh.
“You!” He snaps at the machine like it’s sentient, the same song still playing. “What’d you say to my girl, huh? Punk? Wanna act like a tough guy now? Too late, fella.”
You laugh as he jabs his finger at the skip song button and it changes to something different. You like this song, Hopeless by Khalid, Mikey likes it too. His attention is recaptured when you laugh at his antics. He smiles at you before making his way back over to the couch, crawling easily back into your arms as you continue giggling.
He kisses you before booping your nose, “Don’t be sad about the past, cherry tomato, we got the whole future ahead of us.”
“Cherry tomato?”
“Yeah,” he says, offering no further explanation as he relaxes on top of you with his controller, easily shifting back into the game.
He’s quick to go from one thing to another, but you can tell he’s truly there for you when he continues to lay his head on you, announcing that he’s coming to find you in-game. Every now and again he presses a little kiss to your stomach or chest, wherever his lips meet in that moment. Your confusing and bittersweet past is left buried under your love for your beautiful, caring, protective terrapin.
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hi! sorry if this comes off as rude, but i’m learning german and was wondering if you have any german tv show/film recommendations? i’d really appreciate it if u do, thanks so much!
Hello!! Don't worry, this isn't rude at all :) I haven't seen many of these in a long time but here are a few I really enjoyed (I linked the trailers to the movies/the first seasons of the shows too):
MOVIES
Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944)
Yes, this movie is very old; it's black and white. But it's still shown on German tv and it's pretty funny. A famous writer goes undercover in a school, pretending to be a student since he never got the classic school experience (he was home-schooled). He and the other students play a bunch of pranks on the teachers, and other shenanigans happen.
Das Boot (1981)
This is a classic and was nominated for several academy awards, including best director and best cinematography. It takes place on a German submarine during ww2, so it's a war movie. Usually not my favorite genre but this one really kept me on the edge of my seat. There's also a series that came out recently, but I haven't seen that. I can't imagine that it's better than this though.
Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Takes place shortly after the fall of the Berlin wall and tells the story of a young man from East Berlin. His mother just woke up from a coma, and the doctors say she shouldn't get any big surprises (like, you know, the of the fall Berlin wall) so he tries to fool his mom by pretending the GDR still exists; which is harder than it sounds. The premise sounds a bit ridiculous but it's a really great and funny movie.
Das fliegende Klassenzimmer (2003)
Based on a very popular children's book, this movie tells the story of a boy who's new in a boarding school. He and his new friends find the book for a musical and decide to practice and perform it. (There's a bunch of other stuff happening like a rivalry with another group of students. I haven't seen this movie in forever but it's good and the story is very well known).
Die Welle (2008)
This is based on a true story about a social experiment a history teacher did with his class; maybe you've heard of it before. They create a mock-nazi party to try and understand how they became so popular and how people could buy into their rhetoric. Things go sideways pretty quickly. A great movie and a reminder that none of us are immune to indoctrination and radicalization. There's a tv show with the same name, but I don't think they're connected.
Fack Ju Göthe (2013)
I feel like everyone in Germany has seen this comedy at this point. Objectively it isn't a very good one but I'm going to recommend it simply because every German person I know can quote at least one line from this movie. A criminal takes a job as a teacher for the owrst class in that school, because his accomplice buried the money they stole underneath the school and he needs to get to it. Let's just say his teaching methods are a bit... unconventional.
Labyrinth des Schweigens (2014)
Another movie based on a true story, and one of my favorites. This one really stuck with me. It's about a young state attorney in 1950's Germany, who starts interviewing holocaust victims and prosecuting nazi officers who served in Auschwitz. This movie really shows that many people in Germany would have preferred forgetting the holocaust ever happened and pretend everything is fine rather than confront it.
Tschick (2016)
We actually read the book to this in school. It's a bout two 14 year old boys who steal an old car and go on a road trip together, and all the crazy stuff they experience. To be honest I don't remember that much about it since it's been so long since I've seen it, but I do remember really liking it!
Kästner und der kleine Dienstag (2017)
Remember that really popular children's book I mentioned? Well, this movie is about the author of that book. He's one of the authors who stayed in Germany during the Nazi regime, even though his works were banned and burned. It's about his friendship with a young boy that inspired a character in another famous book of his.
Die unheimliche Leichtigkeit der Revolution (2021)
This movie is about the east german environmentalist movement that started the peaceful revolution, which lead to the fall of the Berlin wall. It's about a teenage girl whose younger brother died due to pollution, and the state is trying to cover it up. Also shows how the GDR was trying to suppress any criticism of the state. It's definitely not the best movie on this list, but I really enjoyed it.
TV SHOWS
Ku'Damm 56, Ku'Damm 59, and Ku'Damm 63
The three mini series tell the stories of three sisters, whose mother runs a dancing school on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. They take place in 1956, 1959 and 1963 respectively. It touches on a lot of topics, including domestic abuse, antisemitism, homosexuality, rape and more. I particularly loved the first season, where the youngest daughter who doesn't really fit into her mother's plans discovers her love for rock n' roll dancing.
Charité
The Charité is a prestiguous university hospital in Berlin with a long history, which this series exlpores. Season 1 takes place in the 19th century, where Robert Koch is lookig for a cure to tuberculosis. Season 2 takes place in Nazi Germany and among other things talks about the euthanasia practices at the time. Season 3 takes place right when the wall is being built (which passed right by the hospital). The show includes charcters based on real people as well as fictional ones.
Deutschland 83, Deutschland 86, Deutschland 89
An East German soldier has to go and work undercover for the GDR in West Germany, at a time where cold war tensions run high. I never got around to watching the last two seasons, but I remeber that the first one was really good.
Club der roten Bänder
This is based on a true story, and there are other versions of this show for example in the US. It's about a bunch of kids with different conditions who become friends in a hospital; two of them have cancer and got their legs amputated, one has an issue with his heart, one crashed a motorcycle, the youngest is in a coma, the girl has an eating disorder. There are other characters who show up as well. The show can get pretty sad, but their friendship is really touching.
Türkisch für Anfänger
This show was wildly popular back when it came out in the early 2000s. A german woman marries a turqish man, and create a patchwork family with four kids; who are absolutely not excited about it. But they have to figure out how to live with each other.
Oof, this escalated a bit, but I didn't want to exclude anything :) I hope you find something you like on this list!
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What’s your favorite sandwich and where did you eat it? A grilled Swiss and pesto. I got it at a local restaurant.
What’s your favorite place on earth? I love the Japanese garden/park near me
What’s one place you've visited that you never want to return? Kentucky
What’s the best show on TV right now? On tv now.. I'd have to say One piece
If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be? Potatoes 🥔
What’s the worst movie you ever saw? Bee Movie
What’s the best thing you've read in the last five years? Cursed Bunny
What’s the one item of clothing you couldn't live without? My favorite shirt
If you could only bring three things with you on a deserted island, what would you pick?
2 books and a lighter
If you could save one material thing from a fire, what would you save? My my kitties' ashes
What’s your biggest pet peeve? When people act entitled
What is your favorite movie of all time? terminator 2 or clueless
What is the best concert you have ever been to? Radiohead
What’s the worst date you've ever been on?
I was still broken up about my ex and while on the date, something reminded me of him (my ex) and I started c r y i n g. 😱
Would you rather be hot or cold?
Cold. I hate being hot
What’s your favorite karaoke song?
Baby, one more time
What is on your bucket list?
Visit japan
What are you most thankful for?
My family
What is your biggest regret in life?
Drinking
What are you most afraid of?
Dying
What do you feel most passionate about?
Human rights
How do you like to spend your free time?
Playing a game or watching Netflix with my kitties and my partner
What would your perfect day be like?
Lots of drugs, live music, and sex. good food, good friends, and a bonfire
What does your dream life look like?
Married to my partner with a kid or 2 and a couple cats. I'd like to own a home and have stable income. I'd like to be able to travel a lot. I'd like to move away from the Midwest. Maybe somewhere overseas.
What is your favorite urban legend that you believe is true? If you hear an owl hooting, death will come soon (not necessarily for you but someone you know)
Would you rather live without the internet, or without bathing?shit bruh, I've got depression. I barely bathe now. Lol.I'd rather live without bathing.
What was the best decade for music?
Late 90s, early 2000s
Is it ever OK to lie?
Yeah, depending on the situation.
Who’s the most overrated celebrity?
Jack black. Dude, you're not funny. Just stop.
What’s the worst seat on a plane?
Anywhere that's not a window seat in the middle of the place.
What’s the most annoying thing people do in public? Exist
Are avocados overrated? They're eh, ok
Who’s your dream dinner party guest, living or dead? Sylvia plath
What would you do tomorrow if you won a million dollars today? Buy myself a house. Buy a house for my mom. Pay off all the debt collectors and people who've loaned me money.
Is a hot dog a sandwich?
No, are you kidding me?
Are you a dog person or a cat person and why? I'm a cat person because dogs are slobbery and gross and like to jump all over you. Ew. I love them but no.
Were Ross and Rachel really on a break?
Dude, I never watched that show and I never will.
Who is the most important person in your life and why? My partner or my mom. My partner is my best friend. He is the sweetest, funniest person and I feel safe with him. My mom is supportive of me and is one of my closest friends.
Who in your life most makes you feel a sense of home? My partner ❤️
Do you have a mentor? Nah
Have you ever broken up with a friend, and why?
Yes, because she was a raging bitch. She was mean and didn't accept me for I am and liked to put me down.
How many close friends is ideal?
Like 3
Do you believe in soulmates?
Yeah, I do
What is the best compliment that you’ve ever received? I like when people call me creative or compliment my sense of style.
What do you want people to say about you at your funeral? She was one bad bitch.
What is something people would never guess just by looking at you? I'm into some kinky shit.
What makes you laugh the most? My partner makes me laugh all the time.
Have you ever made a decision that changed your life? Dude, like lots.
What was the happiest day of your life?
Probably when I picked up the first Borderlands game with my partner. It had come out like the day after my bday and we both took a few days off to stay up late and play it and eat junk food. It was amazing ❤️
What’s your favorite thing about yourself?
My sense of style probably
What did teachers used to say about you on your report card—and is it still true?
Depends on the year. From grade school to junior high, I was great. I was really good and really quiet and got excellent grades. Teachers all liked me and said I was really smart, quiet, and creative. In high school though, I was terrible. I skipped all the time to get high and would show up to class drunk or high. I did that til I decided to drop out. My teachers said I was smart and creative but disruptive, rarely attends class, and I needed to apply myself more. I don't drink anymore but I'd say the rest is still true.
What’s something you wish you could change about yourself? My weight
What’s the most exciting part of your job?
I'm currently unemployed 🙃
What would you want people to say about you at your retirement party? That I worked hard, did a great job, and everyone loved me.
What’s the most important thing you've ever done at work? Stayed with someone as they were dying.
What’s your ideal work-life balance?
Ideally I want to be my own boss and set my own hours.
What’s the best piece of career advice you ever got? Interviews aren't just about potential employers interviewing you. You are interviewing them as well.
What was something you thought was a career setback that actually turned out to be an opportunity?
I got nothing for this one 🤣
What are the most important qualities in a leader? Integrity and honesty
What was your first job?
Server/ hostess at Steak n shake
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summary ~ in search of wine at a party that’s so not your scene, you run into jungkook, the weeb from your film class, and become determined to learn just how much he lives up to his big reputation.
pairing ~ jungkook x reader
genre ~ fluff, smut - college!au
wordcount ~ 8.5k
warnings ~ 18+ only! smut, explicit discussion of kinks/sexual preferences (yay healthy communication), dom/sub undertones during both discussion and sex (dom Jungkook, sub reader), mentions of daddy kink and degradation but both are a no, marking, biting, hair pulling, spanking, they both have a srs pain kink lmao, brief oral (f receiving), penetrative sex, creampie
a/n ~ SO excited to finally have this chapter out for yall! it’s a huge one and i’ve been working on it for quite a while, this includes the first full smut scene for this fic and i would love to know how yall like it or any other feedback. i really enjoyed writing the character development in this chapter too! they’re so cute and whipped for each other already hhhhhh. thank you so much for loving this story so far, i’m really looking forward to writing the rest. hope you enjoy! ❣️
previous: chapter 1 | chapter 2 ~ next: chapter 4 (coming soon!) 
~ read on ao3 ~
CHAPTER 3 ~ particular, perfect
You concluded your walk home by ditching your shoes at the door, swinging your bag off your shoulders to the floor, and plopping down onto the couch immediately. Pulling all three nearby blankets over yourself, you realized you still weren't quite comfortable. You looked around for a second, puzzled, until an absentminded clutch of your boobs reminded you why. Triumphantly, you reached into a sleeve to untangle your bra and chucked it across the room with a deep stretch of relief. Okay, time to overthink again.
Jungkook? What the fuck?
Wait. A bag of chips on the kitchen counter caught your eye before you could descend any further into panic. The perfect emotional crutch. You clutched it to your chest like a safeguard against your own internal monologue, anxiously shoving handful after handful into your mouth. After about thirty minutes spent motionless on the couch with one hand shoved in the chip bag and the other distractedly scrolling through Twitter, your eyes suddenly widened and your hand froze, dropping your next bite of chips back into the bag. Fuck. You had just eaten nearly an entire family-size bag of chips before what could end up being your first fuck in over a year. Well, maybe this was part of why you hadn't gotten fucked in over a year. No, don't go there. You shoved down your own insecurity, knowing you'd just been too busy for a relationship and honestly, probably still were. But that wasn't going to stop you today.
You shook the chip dust off of your hands and got up to head to the shower, turning up your trashiest throwback playlist of getting-ready bops and resolving to at least shave your legs. Going in with no expectations was probably the best strategy here, but it never hurt to be prepared.
~
Having cleaned his apartment in record time, Jungkook was now at the gym. After triple-checking that his roommate Jin would be in rehearsal until 10pm at the earliest, he quickly scanned all the common spaces and his bedroom and realized he didn't actually have that much work to do besides politely closing the door to Jin's still-decent-but-somewhat-messier room. To be honest, Jungkook had mainly bought himself the time after class so he could shave just in case. But then he figured if he had to shower, he might as well hit the gym first. So here he was, burning off an unprecedented amount of nervous energy. Settling comfortably into the leg curl machine, he turned his music up and started on a low weight to put in reps until his thighs burned and his head felt pleasantly empty.
After completing his normal leg day rotation and dutifully stretching, Jungkook prepared to head home. He walked out of the gym feeling more energized and centered, barely even flinching when he switched his AirPods off to say bye to the nice girl at the front desk and the action accidentally blasted "Whistle" by Flo Rida from his phone speaker for the whole lobby to hear. As he walked back into his apartment, the kitchen clock let him know it was only 4:30. He had plenty of time. Jungkook hopped straight into the shower, shampooing his hair, shaving everywhere he normally did, and savoring several extra moments to relax his muscles under the hot stream of water. Finally, he toweled off to wrap up in the black t-shirt and cozy matching sweatpants he'd carefully stacked on the counter. Offhandedly singing to himself in the steamy mirror, he checked the time on his phone, deciding he might as well go ahead and text you before he got nervous again and did something stupid. Like chickening out completely.
hey its jk! im ready when u are :) my apt is 344 glencoe rd #1521 (yes its on the 15th floor sry D: )
His charming old-school smileys lit up your phone while you still had a leg perched on the bathtub's edge.
"Fuck!" you reacted. The hiss resounded, thanks to the too-good acoustics of your cramped bathroom. Your razor clattering to the floor, you paused your max-volume 2000s music to check the message, and then the time. Only 5! That wasn't dinnertime yet. Plugging his address into Google Maps, though, you realized it was a 15- to 20-minute drive from yours on the opposite end of campus. Even if you got ready at light-speed, you would get there closer to 5:30. Which was a bit more reasonable. He was being reasonable! You should be ready by now!
You leaned over to pick up your razor and cursed again as the water stream grazed the blouse you'd left on out of laziness. You'd showered this morning, so there was no need to repeat that with your shave, but now you'd have to change outfits completely. Feeling like an idiot, naked from the waist down but now all the way wet, you peeled the shirt over your head slowly to preserve your good hair day and glanced down at the dilemma you'd been facing. The patch of hair between your legs stared back at you like the final boss of stupid societal beauty standards. You'd only shaved down there once, as an anniversary present for your first boyfriend the summer before college, and it had been a fun, smooth novelty for about two hours and then itchy, red, gross-looking, and miserable for about three weeks. Also, it had kind of made you feel like a little girl, which creeped you out when you thought about why guys would prefer it. You'd been debating whether to try it again for the past fifteen minutes, because if there was ever a right time, this was probably it. But now you didn't have time, if you were going to be respectful and not keep Jungkook waiting. Well, this was the real you. He could take it or leave it.
Slathering a quick coat of lotion over your freshly shaved legs, you prepared to get dressed in a soft pastel sweatshirt and a flattering pair of workout shorts. Wait, should you wear lingerie? Was that too try-hard? You didn't really even need to wear underwear with these lined shorts, which could be a cool-girl move, you supposed. You settled on a cute white sports bra to go with the shorts, not wanting to deal with a real bra and hoping it still appealed to Jungkook's casual, athletic style. You checked yourself in the mirror briefly before grabbing your bag, confirming you looked chill enough but still felt like your best color-coordinated self. Heading out, you shoved a tin of chrysanthemum green tea in your water bottle pocket. Why not?
~
You whizzed over to Jungkook's apartment, yelling along to "Sex With Me" by Rihanna from your throwback playlist to hype you up in the car. When you knocked on his door after a nerve-wrackingly long elevator ride, Jungkook welcomed you with a "C'mon in!" amidst a mouthful of shrimp chips.
"It's not really dinnertime yet," (yeah, no kidding, you thought) "I went ahead and worked out but it's still kind of early, so I figured we could just have a snack and do the homework first."
"Sounds good," you affirmed. "I'm not really that hungry," (read: there's no way I can eat chips AGAIN right now, I'm going to bloat so badly) "but I brought tea so I can go ahead and make that if you want some too!"
"Oh cool, thanks!" Jungkook accepted. "Are you sure you're not hungry though?"
You almost gave into his sweet pout, but managed to convince him, and soon you both sat at the table with laptops open and twin cups of tea. You had a blast working together for the first time, acting out your "conversation" for the discussion board and pretending to respond spontaneously to each other's points like you hadn't already excitedly rambled back and forth through them in real life. You hit "send" five minutes apart, your idea to not seem too suspicious, and kept raving over Rear Window in between. As the sun lowered outside his living room window, you moved on to making the ramen.
After three offers to help Jungkook, all of which he denied, you simply made another steep of the tea, leaving a mug on the counter for him. Standing at the bar counter sipping yours, you enjoyed all the tiny, cute noises he made while chopping green onions and sprinkling extra garlic in the seasoning, like an anime character who came with his own sound effects. You could tell he made these recipe additions every time, because bulk quantities of the same simple ingredients lined the counters of his cozy kitchen. When he beat two eggs and dropped them into the pot, though, he couldn't seem to find a lid, and eventually settled on trapping the steam with a plate. You both waited on the egg for a silent moment, your foot bouncing under the bar while Jungkook restlessly acquired a slight wiggle. As he took a sip of his tea, a strand of hair fell over his eyes, and he yeeted it out of his face. Your inner language nerd cringed, but there really was no more apt word to describe the action.
You offhandedly said you liked his hair long, and he replied with a smile, "Maybe I'll have to keep it then."
"Do you like it too?" you wondered.
"Honestly no, it's kind of inconvenient."
"Oh, then why would you keep it?" you immediately asked back.
"Well..." he dragged out. "You like it? Maybe I should keep it if it looks better this way."
Your eyes crinkled appreciatively at his thoughtfulness, but then you backtracked. "Wait, no, it's okay! If you don't like it, don't feel like you have to keep it just because of something I said. You can do whatever you want."
"Hm, yeah." A demure smile tugged up the corner of his mouth as he lifted the plate from the ramen pot.
You watched him drag a chopstick through the floating, now-cooked egg to tear it into ribbons, then divide the noodles between two generously-sized bowls. He carefully wiped down the drips of broth from each bowl before sprinkling in his fresh toppings, then walked with you to the table.
Serving you with a pleased smile and a slight nod, he announced, "Dinner!"
"Wow," you mused playfully. "So gourmet."
"I'm really particular about my ramen," he admitted. "I have it down to a perfect routine at this point."
You took your first slurp of his particular, perfect ramen. "Well, it's really good. I'm impressed. And thanks for making me dinner, you didn't have to do all that."
"Oh, come on, it's instant ramen," he laughed. "Nothing special. And you brought the tea, so thanks. And thanks for coming over. And doing the homework with me. And...yeah." Rambling again. Why did he seem so...nervous? You were nervous. He couldn't be nervous. What reason did he have to be? But the twitch of his mouth under his wide eyes, his slightly reddened ears, his hand skittering over his neck—fuck—to ruffle his hair...every action turned another page of his open book. It felt infuriatingly unfair that genetics had assigned someone so sweet and shy and unsure of himself to that fucking body.
While you both ate and talked, you kept catching glimpses of any small flashes of skin you could find, as his long sleeves fell to expose his forearms and the wide neckline of his boxy black shirt gaped around his collarbones. What was wrong with you? Even if this did eventually turn into a dick appointment, the boy still had literally all of his clothes on. You tried to refocus on finishing your noodles, while your brain screamed at itself in shame that you could get this turned on by the sight of someone covered from neck to ankle.
Jungkook ate surprisingly slowly, probably because he kept pausing to excitedly explain his favorite things about the Cowboy Bebop episode you were about to watch together. You smiled into your tea through every out-of-context fun fact and "wait, sorry, that might have been a spoiler!"
Finally, he reached the bottom of his bowl and insisted on both taking your dishes to the sink and leaving them for him to clean later. "You sure you want to start on episode 2? Not 1?"
"Yeah, I remember well enough and your summary helped a lot too!"
"Okay, if you're positive!" he double-checked, grabbing the remote.
Gingerly lowering yourselves to the couch in sync, you avoided looking at each other as you both tried to calculate a comfortable distance between you. His hand looked ready to either hold yours or lower to your thigh, but he retracted at the last second, smoothing it over his own leg anxiously and still clearly itching to make a move. You shuffled closer to him until your thighs barely touched, and he shifted to slink an arm around you, letting your head rest on his well-muscled shoulder. After pressing “play”, he began wiggling slightly again, subconsciously grooving to the old-newspaper-style intro. Spike Spiegel appeared on the screen, his broad shoulders squared into a slouch as he listlessly watched TV. Jungkook kicked one leg over another and stretched his arms out symmetrically to echo the pose. Raising an eyebrow, he waited until you acknowledged him with a faux grimace and a hand to your ear, imitating the old man in a lab who’d just called up Spike for a new mission. You both burst into laughter and settled back into your former arrangement, Jungkook holding you imperceptibly tighter. Though you tried to stay staring straight ahead, wanting to genuinely appreciate the anime, you kept catching his doe eyes in the corner of your sight as you both giggled and gasped your way through the episode.
After avoiding eye contact too many times, you finally tilted your head for a cute sideways view of his face. He leaned toward you too, shyly closing the gap to touch his warm lips to your nose, then lower. You responded immediately, rolling your body with his so your chests met as he pulled you up into a full, deeper kiss. The longer you explored each other's mouths, the more Jungkook punctuated your movements with whimpers. He seemed hesitant to let his hands roam away from your face and neck, but his high, breathy moans made it clear that he was just as into this as you. Your hands had naturally found his taut waist, and at some point you started to bring them back up to his face too—but as your short nails grazed his chest, a particularly sensual, voice-cracking moan interrupted you. You drew back in slight surprise, blinking your eyes open to scan from his face to his body.
He followed your gaze, both slowly settling on the massive tent in his pants. You froze. Your breath grew heavier, confronted with evidence of his physical attraction to you, if nothing else. After regaining his composure, he laid a useless hand over his lap in a delicate attempt to distract you and brought his other hand up to tap your face lightly.
"Is this okay?"
His eyes glittered with equal parts hunger and concern.
"Yes!" you nodded, too quickly, too eagerly. "Yes, this is totally okay. Sorry if I'm being weird, I just...it's been a while." You cringed internally at your own words, but couldn't seem to avoid putting your foot further in your mouth. "I haven't really, like, hooked up like this before—like, I've had sex, but never really outside of a relationship. But don't worry, I get this is more your thing, and I'm totally down if you are. I just don't really know what I'm doing, and you clearly do."
Jungkook blinked at your admission, then his face twisted into something curious, inscrutable. Would he decide you weren't worth the potential for drama? His lips flattened out to a tight line, then pursed to speak, and you looked down at your lap, hoping he wasn't as embarrassed of you as you now were of yourself.
"Well, I've never had sex sober."
Your eyes flashed back up to his. A complex half-smirk offset the furrow in his brow as he exhaled in nervous relief. "So, I don't actually know what I'm doing here either."
You tried to delay your response as you processed the implications. "You mean..." You tilted your head for better eye contact, hoping to convey empathy but not pity while you silently contemplated how to proceed. "Never?"
"Yeah, I've always shown up to parties and the hookups just...happened. Nothing I didn't want, nothing bad like that, but always spontaneous. So I guess we're kind of meeting in the middle, because I've never really had to plan ahead for a situation like this and, uh, figure out what I want. Beyond, yknow, wanting to get laid in the moment, of course." Jungkook laughed off the end of his explanation, but the smile never quite hit his eyes.
"Well, okay, let's pause right there." You sighed. Something in his words didn't sit right with you. "What do you want? I want you to be sure about this, of course, but more than that, even—what do you like?"
"I..." he chuckled, sheepish, shaking his hair over his face again. "What, you want me to just tell you? Like, what I'm into?"
"Yeah," you shrugged, trying to project more confidence than you felt in hopes of encouraging him to keep opening up. "I want you to be able to communicate, I want you to be comfortable. And I want to know what you like, so I can make it as good for you as possible."
With your hands still laid flat on his chest, you felt his heart rate jump a tiny bit, and took the liberty of digging your nails in just slightly deeper. His breath caught him, and then he caught himself. "I don't know, I just want what you want."
Jungkook struggled to appear nonchalant as you rolled your eyes with an "Oh, come on," challenging his avoidance. Every instinct was telling him yes. He could hear his mind screaming at him to be intentional for once and let you take him, if not farther, then deeper than ever before. But he still hesitated, because being intentional in this case required him to be real. He had always been a fairly private person, but something about you made him feel so comfortable so fast that it counterintuitively made him more nervous. Of course Jungkook knew you weren't all innocent at this point, but the risk remained that you wouldn't really be down for everything he secretly wanted to explore. Even worse, though he didn't truly think you would, you could easily turn around and spin anything he revealed into yet another graphic rumor. Especially since you had no skin in the game yourself. He glanced down at your fingers, tensed into his chest, and narrowed his eyes.
"Why don't you tell me what you like first? And then I can tell you where we overlap," he grinned competitively. Your eyes widened as he tossed the challenge back your way. Not backing down, you flattened your hands and steeled yourself to settle the stakes.
"Fine—but only if you promise not to just go along with whatever I say. I'll let you know anything that's a hard no for me, but otherwise I want to hear at least one thing that's not on my list. I really do want what you want, that's how I am too, okay? So..." you paused to slide your fingertips over his collar and drag it down with a light scratch, now directly on his skin. You smiled with your eyes, enjoying the way he naturally responded with a hitch of his breath again. "Surely you can think of something specific."
He nodded quickly, before he could convince himself to back out. "Yeah. Promise."
"Okay," you confirmed, slightly nervous but determined to go through with this, for Jungkook's sake if anything. Seeing his body come alive with each new twist of the situation was building your curiosity, not to mention turning you on beyond belief. You could barely stand the warmth of his skin under your hands, so you drew them back to fold in your lap as you began. "So. Uh. To start. I've never really laid it all out like this either. I really like neck kisses? Like, a lot." Equally unused to this kind of directness, you wrung your hands together nervously, but sucked up the boldness to keep elaborating. "That's definitely, like, a big thing that turns me on...and then getting marked up and everything is really hot to me too. Like you can honestly go really rough with me on that, bite me even. I don't know if this is weird but even though it's annoying to cover up, I love taking off the makeup at the end of the day and seeing all the bruises on myself. Knowing I was walking around all day with that as my little secret." You swallowed shyly before continuing, but Jungkook interrupted the brief silence immediately with a hushed "Fuck."
You turned to face him fully and he didn't even move to meet your stare, eyeing the space above your sweatshirt's wide neckline like he was ready to devour you. Emboldened, your smile grew.
"So...yeah. I like being bitten, marked up. Mostly, uh," you rubbed a slightly trembling hand over your shoulder, "I'm just really into pain in general. Obviously not the bad 'I'm too dry and you're jackhammering me' kind of pain, or like, anal. Anal is a hard no. But things like biting, or hair pulling, or overstimulation. Or, like—I don't really know how to explain this, but...getting held too hard? That deep pain like when you get a massage when you're sore and it hurts but it's good, yknow?"
Jungkook looked like he was about to vibrate out of his skin, breathing shallow and rapid. His eyes flicked up to meet yours, just in time for you to whisper in conclusion:
"I love that feeling."
You suddenly looked away, reticent. A thick silence swelled between you, until he composed himself enough to punctuate it. "Okay. Yeah. Pain. So like, BDSM?"
"I mean, kind of? Sure? I don't have much experience with that and I don't really need the whole power dynamic aspect; I just like the, uh, physical pain. I wouldn't be opposed to trying further, but one thing I do know is I really don't like being degraded. And I'm not into the whole daddy kink thing either. I'm just not gonna call you that, sorry," you laughed, and fortunately he giggled too. "But I know that's not, like, necessary to the rest of BDSM, and the part about giving up control is still...interesting, for sure."
"Wait," Jungkook cocked his head, making a mental note of your last sentence before he went back to the previous one. "What do you mean, being degraded?"
You half-chuckled, half-cringed, never having needed to explain something like this, especially to a guy you hopefully were about to fuck. Cheers to better communication, you supposed.
"You know, how some people when they do dirty talk are like 'yeah, you little slut, you're such a whore.' I don't like being called any of that. Like it's fine that other people like it, there's nothing wrong with that, it's just really uncomfortable for me."
His brows knit together as you explained, and he shook his head so fast it almost looked cartoonish, like a little kid refusing vegetables. "Yeah, no. Don't worry, not really my thing either."
You sighed in relief. "That's nice. I feel like it's, like, weirdly common with guys. Maybe just the kind of thing people learn from porn."
"But you still like it rough, huh? Did you learn that...from porn?" he half-joked, trying to overcome both his shyness and his gritted-teeth arousal.
"No, I don’t like porn. Most of it’s really unethical. I learned from experience," you sassed back. "I don't have a whole lot, but enough to know what I like."
"Well. Hm." He worked his tongue over his teeth, poking one cheek out over his tensed jaw. You couldn't get enough of watching him grow fascinated by your every revelation, and you were preparing to keep pressing further when he beat you to it, posing a question. "Is there anything you haven't tried before, but really want to?"
Your face heated up instantly, tasting your own medicine. You looked back to your hands, breaking his intense eye contact to give yourself the courage to be even more uncomfortably honest. "I...I...um." Your first attempt at disclosing your fantasy came out as a squeak. Swallowing, you set your shoulders and tried again, selfishly reminding yourself Jungkook seemed so eager to please that this was 99% likely to get you exactly what you wanted. "I've always been, uh, really into the idea of, um, getting spanked. I've been, uh, too nervous to ever bring it up, before now obviously, but it's definitely one of the biggest kinks I've always wanted to try. Maybe being tied up too, I think I'd like it if I tried but I haven't thought about that as much. But, yeah...spanking, definitely."
"Fuuuuuuuuck."
A lengthened version of Jungkook's earlier under-breath exclamation made you peer up at him. Your thighs already pressed together from the tension of admitting something totally new, you found yourself needing even more friction just from the sight of Jungkook with his head thrown back on the couch, a veiny hand threaded in his hair to pull the long waves back from his forehead. The full reveal of his sharp eyebrows brought a whole new level of intensity to Jungkook's already beautifully carved features. He glanced over at you, then squeezed his eyes shut with a terse exhale. You couldn't place why, but you felt a deep attraction to the way he expertly restrained himself from acting on the lust written over his face—not under your control, but his own.
"Oh, fuck. What the fuck. How the fuck would you fucking know," he swore more in a single burst than he cumulatively had ever in your presence.
"What?" you toyed, heart rate still high but relaxed enough to enjoy agitating him. "Something ring a bell?"
Jungkook shuddered out a long breath, hand ruffling his hair as his other forearm still tried desperately to subdue his boner.
"Everything," he hissed, more willing to elaborate now that you had done the same, and especially now that he could tell you really did enjoy him being more assertive. "Shit. I...I want...I know you said not to just say this but I really do want everything you want. I can't wait to mark you up. I can't wait to hold you down and bruise your neck. I want it all, I want to make you hurt so good. And then—" Breathless. He looked almost embarrassed. "Then you had to go and somehow guess basically my biggest fucking kink, I can't fucking believe you." Both hands had come up to seize his long locks as he held himself back physically, while finally letting his guard down mentally to declare everything he intended to do to you. Letting out a short laugh, he finally met your eyes. "I wanna spank your ass bright red. Fuck. This is crazy. You're perfect."
Your core throbbed at every bold word. Leaning in close to him, you let your lips approach Jungkook's beautifully sculpted jawline as he panted, his chin tossed up to fully expose his neck. You stopped just short of his skin, in awe of how much you'd been able to work him up and still so tempted to take it to the next level. "Fuck," you echoed. "This is so hot," you murmured almost to yourself. Your eyes closing along with his, you dealt the final blow. "I love that we have so much in common. But come on, you promised. One thing that's not on my list."
Jungkook whined. You could tell he needed to touch you so badly, and no one was stopping him but himself. He had no way of knowing that if he cut the whole discussion and just took you, you wouldn't even try to resist at this point. Staring at his trembling mouth from below, you quickly averted your eyes when he opened his, pretending you hadn't been looking. He inhaled a short hiss, and then spoke.
"Okay..." He paused after just the first word, blowing air through the tiny "o" of his mouth as his eyes bugged slightly from nervousness. He couldn't resist a challenge, though, and his urge to please you overwhelmed his reluctance to peel back one more layer. "So, the pain thing. I think we, uh, feel the same about me giving and you receiving. But...I'm really into it for myself too. I don't know if you'd be comfortable with it, I know you maybe want me to be more dominant and I think I like that more too in general, but you can be as rough with me as you want back. I'd love that." Eyes still open but fluttering, Jungkook's tone grew breathier, heady as he confessed. You almost giggled at how bashfully he worded his desire to dominate you, to rough each other up, but the contrast was so hot you couldn't help sucking your bottom lip between your teeth, eager for him to continue. His voice lowered. "I love being scratched, marked, bitten...hit me, push me back, any kind of pain or any way you can hurt me, I want it." He shivered, but his voice firmed up even further. "I want it so bad."
You fought to stay motionless beside him, unable to even process how much more his honesty had turned you on. You felt helpless in your desire for him, your craving to give him everything he wanted and more. He noticed your charged stillness and shifted toward you, removing a hand from his hair to finally reach for your face. Threading his fingers through your hair instinctively like he had with his own, he tilted your head back to access your neck. Jungkook finally felt confident enough to tease you back as he skimmed his lips over your pulse point, tugging your skin between his teeth for a gentle first taste and grinning when you moaned. Seeing someone so satisfied, for reasons better than just his body or their pride, brought the most incredible rush of blood to his head. And his other head.
"And I get why you want it too," he finished with a whisper in your ear. "So trust me when I say I really, really want to give it to you."
In an instant, your hands yanked his hair down to bring his face up to yours, mouths crashing together. Feverish, restless, you kissed him, hastily attempting to straddle his thick thighs before he threw his body over yours and pinned you to the back of the couch. His hands wandered, intrepid, from your waist to a quick squeeze of your breasts before he spiraled you into his strong arms. Pressing your chest flush with his as your mouths meshed, he ground his hips into you shamelessly, enjoying the way you struggled beneath him to align your core with his rock-hard dick.
"Your room?" You rushed out the words.
Jungkook laughed a little, his tone half whine and half dare. "So we're done talking?"
"Come on," you pleaded back. He finally relented, pulling you up with him and dragging you across the living room and through his door, lips not leaving yours for a second. You backed him into the bed with your arms against his strong chest, and once he was sitting perched on the edge, you laid yourself horizontally over his thighs.
"What are you doing?" he murmured, curling a hand over the dip of your waist to hold you gently.
You angled your head back to make unsteady eye contact with him, flipping your shorts down boldly. His free hand automatically reached to slowly conform to the shape of your ass, so eager to touch you but tentative as he grazed your curves.
"Giving you exactly what you want."
"Fuck. Really? You're sure about this?" Jungkook held careful eye contact as you brought your arms back up, crossing your wrists over your head delicately. You nodded slightly and did your best to meet his gaze with confident invitation, convincing him how much you trusted and wanted him.
He smoothed his warm hand over your ass one more time, then brought it up and watched your thighs tighten at the loss of his touch. Breathing in, still a little shakily, he brought his hand down on your right cheek with a loud but mild smack. A grunt of satisfaction involuntarily left him when he saw your face flinch down into the sheets, subduing a small noise of surprise. He returned his hand to caress the light redness he'd left, checking in with you again. "Is this okay? Let me know if I should stop."
You replied with your face still tucked between your arms, muffled by the bed. "More than okay. Please don't stop."
He spanked you again, moving to your left cheek. This time you felt his dick twitch under you and couldn't help grinding down on him a little bit. "Is that as hard as you can go?" you taunted in low tones, brave enough to egg him on but not quite enough to meet his eyes again.
Jungkook's thighs and core tensed under you, and he squeezed his fingertips tighter, digging into the skin of your ass. "Not at all," he said simply.
Deep breath. A few seconds passed, and his hand came down, harshly. You cried out in shock, the timing unexpected and the sting far sharper, and he gave your other cheek a fourth hard smack before you could even process the third one. "Harder?" he tested. "Tell me."
Another spank. "Mmmf."
"You like this, huh?"
"Yes, I told you," you whimpered back, half-teasing even though you were in no position to do so. Immediately, he cut you off with a stinging hit across both cheeks, and you moaned.
"You really do," he breathed lowly. "Fuck yeah. Take it then."
He spanked you again, and again, then paused, tugging down your shorts all the way to your ankles to expose the crease right above your thighs. Rubbing your already sore bottom, Jungkook cupped the underside of its curve in his big, firm hand. Already anticipating your whine, he drew back his touch and hummed in harmony with you. He continued landing satisfyingly hard smacks, alternating to cover your ass evenly. His dick strained through his pants more and more each time you trembled under his touch. Never hitting you hard enough to do serious damage, he still clearly enjoyed his thorough reddening of your ass, and occasionally took a moment just to caress your skin as it warmed from the spanking. The pain lit your senses up from head to toe. Face burning with deep arousal, you mentally thanked yourself for going out of your comfort zone and unprecedentedly admitting your kinks before even venturing into your first time together. Amidst the thrilling sting of his hand meeting your soft curves, Jungkook eventually noticed your thighs clenching together, craving friction but not really wanting relief from the pleasurable burn.
"You're wet," he marveled, sliding two warm fingers up and down your slit.
"Mhm," you mumbled back as you tilted your hips into his hand. He gave you a light slap right on the folds between your legs, eliciting another soft moan.
"So good for me," Jungkook said softly, pulling you up into his lap by your waist. "You look so pretty like this. I wanna see all of you." He tugged your sweatshirt over your head, followed by your sports bra, thankful that it stretched over your head easily. Suddenly grinning, he wound up and shot it across the room like a rubber band, and you smacked his arm, giggling.
"What was that? You cheeseball," you teased, and he blinked, chuckling lightly back. It occurred to him that he'd never laughed, or made someone laugh, during sex before.
"It was so stretchy! Don't make fun of me," he blushed.
"You're so cute," you said, fingers sliding under his t-shirt hem.
"Cute?" His eyebrows rose in mock disbelief, and he reached around to land another hit to your still-red asscheek.
"Hot," you amended. Raising his shirt and finally getting a full glimpse of his enviable abs, you groaned. "You're extremely hot, and also really cute, and it's kind of ridiculous and I don't really know how to handle all of it at once."
His face scrunching up into a smile at the praise, he fell back onto the bed with his arms behind his head. "You are too, you know. Really cute, of course. But really hot too." As you discarded his shirt and moved on to easing his sweatpants down his hips, you held in a gasp as his erection sprung up from the waistband. He was big, thick, and painfully hard, his tip glistening warm with precum and a lone vein running prominently up his smooth shaft. Although you wouldn't be corroborating them, you had to admit to yourself that all the rumors were true. You instinctively curled a hand around it, barely covering half his length, and he winced at your slightest touch. Pulling off with a single slow stroke, you slid his sweatpants and briefs all the way to the floor and then stood, looking up from his legs to his blown-out eyes to take in the glorious sight of his fully naked body.
"You shave," you said, surprised by the clean skin under his arms and between his legs.
"Yeah," he demurred, self-conscious for some reason. He lowered his arms to fold them over his torso, somehow defining his biceps even more. "I'm on the dance team, and it's nice to feel all smooth for practice and stuff. I don't know, I just like it."
"Oh, that's cool! No worries, I like it too. And you don't mind that..." You looked down at yourself, still just standing naked in front of him. "...I don't? Like, down there at least."
"No, you do you!" he said quickly. With a shy smile, he admitted, "I actually kind of like it on you. I do this for me, anyway, not for anyone else," he playfully noted. Slowly, he was sitting up to take hold of your waist and lower you down to the bed with him. Pausing to kiss the sweet spot under your jaw, he continued. "So don't feel like you have to do anything, or not do anything, either."
Jungkook couldn't quite explain the nature of how his attraction to you had developed. Seeing how open and honest you were with him made it easy for him to be honest with you too, and just to feel comfortable being himself. He admired the way he could still tell you sometimes got nervous like him, but it didn’t stop you from getting real or going bolder. Unable to fully express it in words, he just hoped to ensure you felt as comfortable and respected around him as he did around you. He already knew that he wanted this to be more than just a one-time thing, and while he still hesitated to assume that you felt the same, he intended to leave no doubt by the end of the night.
You moaned as he nipped at the skin of your neck. It was so easy to get swept back up in Jungkook. You could barely handle the friction of his dick rutting against your wet folds from below, craving him inside you. "Ughhh. Wait, one more thing. I'm on the pill, are you clean?"
"Yes," he gasped, barely removing his mouth from your jaw. "Are you?"
"Yeah, so we don't need a condom. If that's cool with you!"
"Yeah! But, you're ready?" He seemed surprised.
"Aren't you?" you whined, beyond holding back. He felt so unbearably hard that his coherence and willpower kind of surprised you too. "Please, I want you so bad."
To your surprise, he lowered his head to the crest of your legs, dotting wet kisses down your torso. Keeping his big brown eyes on you, he teased your entrance with a finger and echoed your immediate groan at the welcome stretch.
"You really are ready," he remarked, awed at the ease with which your wetness sucked the digit in. Frankly, you were in awe as well. It had taken your ex-boyfriend months to figure out how to get you this worked up. Jungkook either had even more experience than you'd heard from the grapevine, or he was a natural. Or maybe you were just really, ridiculously, primally attracted to him. He went on to curve his finger in you and lick a messy swipe up your folds, sucking hard once he reached your sensitive clit. You cried out at the delicious burst of stimulation and he rose up to catch your lips with his.
"I had to do that, just once," he grinned breathlessly. "But—"
"Let me suck you off," you interjected, unbelievably fucking turned on and dying to please him.
"No," he gasped with far more fervency than you'd think anyone could refuse a blowjob. "Please, I was about to say—" he choked out a high-pitched moan as you ran a single finger up his shaft in anticipation, sinking the nails of your other hand into his thigh. "—I think I'm gonna explode if I don't get inside you right this second."
So he did have a breaking point. "Fuck," you muttered, bringing your legs around his to tuck your heels under his tight ass as he lined up. He eased his tip in, keeping heavy eyes on you the whole time, and you could feel the hot, thick tension in his thighs as he struggled to hold himself back from just thrusting into your heat. Slowly, he drew closer into you until he bottomed out with a low moan. You whined at the perfect slight pain of the stretch, and Jungkook squeezed his eyes shut, gripping you by your waist. Watching the veins in his forearms stand out as he drove almost all the way out and back into you, you rocked your hips carefully against his with each smooth stroke, getting used to his fullness. When his balls met your ass again, he shuddered a bit and opened his eyes into yours.
You answered his question before he could even ask it. "Jungkook—you feel so good. You can go faster, it's okay."
A smile hit his eyes before his mouth, and he kissed you once, pressing his chest to yours and intertwining your tongues eagerly. You bit his bottom lip as he slowly drew away, tugging it between your teeth to pull a sweet little whimper from his throat. Grinning, he leaned back in to touch his forehead to yours and simultaneously slid a subtle hand under your ass to curve your hips up with his. The slight leftover sensitivity of your skin amplified his light touch, and Jungkook seemed to realize this, curling his fingers to tease you with the tips of his nails. Instinctively, you ducked to bite his neck, not even registering your move to pass the pain back to him until he choked out a beautifully half-restrained moan and snapped his hips into yours. Gasping, you encouraged him to lose himself in you, dragging your lips up to latch around his earlobe. He hissed and thrust into you sharply again, meeting the time of your movements as you swirled your tongue between each of his hoop earrings. Soon he was pounding you rhythmically, finally letting you feel the full force of his strength but keeping remarkable control over both his body and yours. Both of you had gone silent except for your heavy breaths, lost in the moment, but the flexed shivers of his thighs and twitches of his fingers in your hair told you all you needed to know. Suddenly yanking your strands to pull you back from the additional bruise you'd sucked beneath his ear, he earned a new set of scratches on his back as your hands dragged down the muscular expanse in reply. Jungkook switched places with you to draw dark clouds from your skin, a storm brewing under your jaw. Your face fell into pure bliss, eyes shut and immersed in the barrage of sensation from his hands, mouth, and big dick filling you. Already feeling the familiar tension that preceded an orgasm building through your whole body, you chased him closer to his climax too, grinding back roughly into every thrust and raking your hands over every part of his firm body you could reach.
You had really been fooling yourself when you thought you could try something casual for once. You wanted more of Jungkook, all of Jungkook, nothing but Jungkook ever again. Knowing he'd never even gone back to the same hookup twice sank slight anxiety into your stomach, a kind of future nostalgia for this moment you already feared losing. You knew you weren't anything special compared to the catalogue of gorgeous girls he'd had his turn with, but a deviant voice whispered from the back of your mind that you could be, because it was clear none had bothered to learn him like this. You'd still try your desperate best not to want too much from him, but you resolved to do whatever you could to make him crave more.
Rolling your hips in a smooth circle against him, you clenched around his dick and your hands tightened their fierce hold on his tiny waist. You felt his abs tense within your grasp as he tried not to stutter into you.
"Fuck. No." His voice cracked, but held an undertone of ferocity. "You come first." Jungkook rushed a hand to your clit, adding pressure in small, deft motions with a fingertip as he kept fucking you deep. You sank your teeth into his shoulder in response, drawing your hands up his back to clutch him closer to you, and Jungkook cried out. You left your mouth on his golden skin to stifle your moans as he sped up his fingers, and he tried to let you stay there but eventually couldn't help pulling you off him to see your face. Eyes narrowed and eyebrows turning up sharp at the ends, he watched you like a hawk to track the exact moment when he pushed you over the edge. Your face crumpled and you felt your whole body burn under his gaze as you came, squeezing around him in waves of pleasure while he fucked you through your high, unrelenting. Drinking up the bliss obvious on your features, Jungkook's eyes never left yours and his expression grew more and more fucked out. You marveled at how even as you lost control and energy to fuck him back, your body freezing in orgasm seemed to turn him on further. One last pulse of the tension leaving your core made his dick throb inside you, and you impulsively broke your eye contact to lean in and bite down slow but hard on his neck again. He gasped.
"You're amazing." Murmuring into his skin, you kissed the bite marks gently. Jungkook whimpered at the sweet contradiction and lurched into your hips even harder. You recovered to move with him, squeezing him deeper into you every time he bottomed out, and as his breathless moans escalated in pitch, his whole body shivered with each stroke. Pressing wet, heavy kisses all over his neck, you felt his jaw flutter while his lips hung open. His considerable strength spent, Jungkook shuddered one last hard thrust into you and finally let go, coating your walls from within. His hips lightly rocked against yours as he stayed deep inside you, still hard and savoring the euphoric release he'd held back for so long. You felt so incredibly warm and comfortable around his sensitive dick, relaxed but still holding him tight, and he couldn't help holding you up for a languid kiss before pulling out of you smoothly.
He briefly looked into your eyes, and you saw stars. The sun had continued to set outside, and it peeked between the blinds of his window to wrap you both in a warm, slivered glow. Staring down at his hands on your body, Jungkook took a deep breath and collapsed to your side, holding you close. You settled into him, cupping a hand over his head on your chest. With your fingers laced through his sweaty hair, you stroked his temple with your thumb, worrying for a second whether the gesture seemed too intimate but forgetting your fear when he snuggled up into your touch. You felt the need to say something, to figure out what the fuck was next after this, but stayed silent, not wanting to disturb the comforting weight of his frame. Heartbeat still racing, Jungkook stretched out to breathe a long sigh. As he sank back into you, you stretched under him too, letting his solid, warm body drape over you like a blanket. This couldn't be farther from what you'd expected with him, but you weren't about to make it stop. Surely, eventually, he would.
A minute passed. And then five. And then, before either of you could talk yourselves out of it, you were asleep, intertwined.
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inkedtoast · 5 years
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TF2 X Male reader || Chapter 1
Warning: Cursing, drinking, mentions of alcohol (and farther along in the series there will be gore)
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“She will wear you out livin la vida loca
Alright!
Livin la vida loca
She's livin la vida loca!”
My alarm startles me awake with the loud and overly catchy song that somehow lived past the early 2000’s. I roll over and unlock my phone to turn off the alarm, yawning widely. I stretch my arms, kick off my blanket, and then sit up. I stare out of my bedroom window- which is one out of three windows in my whole apartment- and contemplate if I really wanna go to work today. The reminder of my paycheck and slightly overdue bills tells me that yes I should, so I get up and pull on my work clothes. I pat down my hair and put on my favorite hat. Stuffing my bare essentials into my travel backpack, (water bottle, keys, phone and charger, earbuds and wallet, and some of my drawing supplies), the various fandom pins that litter the front of it click against each other. They clatter louder against each other as I zip up the front pocket and hoist the bag over my shoulders. I start walking to the front door, not bothering with breakfast, when I realize I forgot my glasses. Those are kiindaa important…
    I snatch them off of my nightstand and whisk out the front door and lock it. I jog to the bus stop, hoping I’m just in time. As I run to the bus stop, a couple dogs in someone’s yard start barking at me. I slow down a bit and wave to the dogs. They start leaping at the wire fence, making it creak and groan, trying to get a closer look- or smell, I guess. I start jogging again and get to the bus stop fairly quickly. I squat down next to the bus stop sign and breathe heavily.
    “I’ve been jogging to the bus stop everyday for like a month now, I should be used to this. Augh!”, I pant. I stand up and look down the road both ways. I look to the left and see the bus just turning onto the street. Ah, thank god… I think in relief. I grab my wallet out of my backpack and pull out the correct amount of bus fare. The bus is just a couple blocks away when I hear a shuffle, like someone misstepped on the concrete sidewalk behind me. I turn to look behind me and see that no one is there. Huh…. Okay.
The bus pulls up behind me then and the doors ssttttss open. I turn back to the bus and drop my money into the till. The little machine whirs next to the bus drivers seat as it counts my money and sticks out a ticket for me like a tongue. I grab it and take the farthest seat back as is possible. I’m gonna be here a while…. I pull out my phone and plug in my earbuds. I press play on my favorite playlist, close my eyes and lean my head back. I tap my hands and feet to the songs, and soon I’m doing mini air drums to the songs and doing air riffs. My arms get tired from the waving around and I calm down. About three songs after that, I feel like someone is watching me. I open my eyes and lean my head forward. I pull out an earbud and look at the rest of the bus. 
There's an old lady at the front of the bus with her nose in a Kindle and an older looking guy with a very interesting choice of polo shirt (it's bright green and some kinda golfing reference on it). And of course, the bus driver, Marty, who knows me as a regular. All of them are minding their own business, though. The guy with the green shirt notices me looking around and politely waves and smiles. I return the gesture and go back to my music, sinking down into my seat. Man, what is up with me? Guess I'm just feeling a little off today…
In record time (like an hour) the bus approaches my stop. I pull on the… stop cord thing and Marty waves at me.
"Have a good day, son!", He says as he smiles and opens the bus doors. I throw him some finger guns as I step backwards off of the bus.
"I'll do my best." He laughs and closes the doors as he drives away. I stand there for a second and sigh. Ah boy… work time. I turn face and walk a couple blocks to my place of work. The bright orange, yellow and purple sign announces the business for everyone within 200 feet to see. Big Red's Bar and Inn. The place where any self respecting drunk, bar hopper or cheater ends up. Anyone that comes to visit from another city always gets surprised about this bar. 
A lot of new people say "Oh wow this little city has a bar? Not just a bunch of liquor stores? Wow" or "Oh.. quaint". Yeah it's not glamorous, but we have what we need. TV's, food, pool and foosball tables, lotto machines…. We get by. Honestly, I got lucky with this job. It's basically strictly family owned and run, but one of the girls there knew me from highschool and talked with her mom who runs the place. The two of them tackle every problem that comes up in the bar really easily. Once, Jessica -the one who got me this job- pulled a shotgun out from the counter after one guy wouldn't leave this lady alone. He left really quickly after that. I've never had to hold that thing and I hope I never will. I don't like trusting myself with that kinda thing.
I walk up to the front doors and pull out the establishment keys and fumble for a second before jamming the key in and unlocking the doors. My job is pretty simple and not that glamorous. I open up, clean the place, wait on tables during working hours, keep up stocks and take out the garbage. Basically I'm an errand boy. But it's labor intensive so I get paid pretty well and I'm not complaining. I notice a few things are out of place. A couple of chairs are on the floor instead of the table, a bunch of bottles are missing from the shelf on the wall behind the bar and there's a broken tumbler glass on the counter. 
"I hope that doesn't get taken out of my paycheck,'' I mumble to myself. Maybe Jessica was having a rough night? I shrug and pick the glass up, sweeping the broken bits into the cup from the counter and go dump it into the glass receptacle. 
||hours later||
It's just after happy hour and I am exhausted. A group of college kids who just got in decided to celebrate and pretty much trash that bar… during happy hour. At least wait till after 8 you dipshits. Who drinks at 5pm? Fuckin' morons, that's who… I grump to myself. Jessica comes up to me with a tray of Coors beers. 
"Hey can you take these over? These guys are basically black holes for beer," She sighs. I frown. She seems really damn tired and down. 
"Can I put tequila in them to make 'em pass out, so we can cut them off and get 'em outta here?" I joke. She laughs.
"No, we cannot. We can get in trouble for that. On top of that, why waste good stuff on a bunch of kids?" Jessica pats my shoulder and walks into the back.
"Good point, good point," I nod to myself. I carry the tray of Coors over and place them on coasters. The group of guys cheer when I walk up with their drinks. One of them catches my attention.
"Hey, dude, that girl. She single or what?" The guy who asks looks like some jock right out of a 2008 high school movie. Black spiked hair, traces of acne, wiry but somehow muscular frame. Yeah, no, this guy's a douche. I shrug.
"I dunno. Not my business and not yours either, man." I place the last couple beers down and start walking away. Jock McDouche stands up and grabs my shoulder, making me drop the tray. It clatters to the ground as he stares me dead in the eye.
"What'd you say, punk?". Oh boy…. Here we go… I step away from him and try to defuse the situation. I don't need Red getting on my ass about causing a bar fight.
"Dude, don't try and hit on some girl. Mind your own business and let her do her job. She can kick you out and ban you faster than you can say 'Poughkeepsie'." All of these things are excellent points and a few of the other guys in the group side with me. Despite that, though, Jock McDouche pushes me.
"Why you being so defensive of her? She your girl or something?" 
"No, it's just none of your business. If she wanted it to be your business, you'd know." Right after that, Jessica turns up.
"Something wrong gentlemen?" She's got the bar shotgun on her hip, pointing it right at the crotch of the asshole who started this. His face bleaches and bullets of sweat start rolling down his forehead. He covers his junk with his hand, as though that will stop any bullets that get fired.
"N-no ma'am. Just fooling around, weren't we pal?" He looks at me. I raise an eyebrow. I wait a few seconds before answering just to make him squirm.
"Yeah. Definitely." I turn to Jessica and shake my head to let her know it's not worth it anymore. She uncocks the gun and walks away. I bend down to pick up the tray and walk back behind the counter to put it away. I start reorganizing glasses under the counter and stacking them by height and size due to boredom. I sit behind the counter for another ten minutes before Jock McDouche and his posse decide to pay and leave. As Jock pays for his share of the tab, he glares at me. I stare right back at him, letting him know literally I couldn’t give a shit. He scoffs at me and walks out once him and his buddies are done paying.
“Hey, could you go and take out the trash and recycling?”, Jessica says as she comes up behind me. I nod and set down the glass I was rolling in between my hands. I grab the full bags of garbage and recycling out by their drawstrings and tie them. Walking to the back door through the kitchen, I push it open with my back. As I finish struggling to open the huge dumpsters and dropping in the garbage, I hear a few steps behind me. I’ve heard of this being a signal that someone is trying to mug you. Wait isn’t that just in movies?.... I decide that it can happen in real life and grab a broken bottle and turn to chuck it at the person behind me when I feel a sharp pain in my neck. I raise my hand to my neck and feel something that is clearly a mini tranquilizer dart. I look up and see a female silhouette in a dress. I’m not sure but the outline of her dress is…. Purple?
“At least he tried to defend himself… Definitely gives him points..,” I hear her sigh. I feel woozy in seconds and feel my knees collapsing. I try to throw the bottle at her again and it sadly bounces off of her torso and breaks against the ground. I try to stand up, stumbling like I just finished drinking a whole 40 of tequila. The woman, whose face I can’t see, makes a surprised noise.
“You should be out already. Ah, well, that’s something important to note: needs higher dose of tranq,” She scribbles that down on a notebook as I look at her like she just grew three heads. She grabs my head by my hair and jerks it to the left and jabs the dart gun against my neck, shooting a dart deeply into my skin. I instantly feel 200% more tired and promptly start to give in to the heavy, potent drugs.
“Ahh fffuckk...,” are the last words I hear myself say before fall forward and pass out on the lady’s shoes.
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ftscotty · 5 years
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luke hemmings. cismale. he/him. /  scotty  st.james  just pulled up blasting kiss bang by grandson — that song is so them ! you know, for a(n) twenty-three year old musician, i’ve heard they’re really  detached ,but that they make up for it by being so venturesome . if i had to choose three things to describe them, i’d probably say old guitars, the smell of cigarettes and bourbon, and hundred dollar bills thrown in the air . here’s to hoping they don’t cause too much trouble ! ( it’s me! the raq ) 
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tws: parental neglect, drug abuse, stay safe but i think that’s it!
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full name: scotty antoni st.james
inspired by: my muse matty ! but also like.. not at all? kinda? think the anti-matty thats still kinda soft with a v similar backstory sifjad it’s complicated.
songs that remind me of him: king charles by yungblud, diet soda by the maine, scrawny by the wallows, ghost by badflower, am i pretty by the maine, nicotine by panic at the disco, godzilla by with confidence, annnnd original me by yungblud,
basicALLY, he’s really quite… rough around the edges. not an asshole? but not-not an asshole…? skfafa sam would prolly say like a goblin-lite, if you will. scottys been through SOOO much that he naturally, kinda grew to emotionally distance himself from /alot/ of people. hes not anti-social by…. ANY stretch of the imagination nowadays but like just because you know him doesn’t mean you KNOW him. has abandonment issues but rather than being clingy he will just– break up with u before u even THINK about leaving him. tbh that’s if he ever makes “dating” official to begin with. isn’t he lovely?
more in-depth:
alrighty so scotty was born october 21st, 1997 in brooklyn, new york to celia taylors. ( footnotes bc i don’t feel like writing alladat rn buuuut his dad skipped town before he was born bc tea: he has a wife and kids and rlly shouldn’t have been messing around with celia in the first place.) unfortunately, celia was not suited to be a mother by any means. as irresponsible as it comes, she didn’t necessarily make any concessions/change anything about her…. she was still HEAVY into drugs, HEAVY into drinking, and often would forget she left her child in the motel for hours at a time.
so from birth to like 5 he was… very alone and isolated. didn’t really hang out with other kids his age. mostly found himself stuck inside with the tv annnd whomever his mom found to “babysit” him.
by age five he was taken out of his mom’s custody and thrown into foster care. super terrified and uneasy around new people in general he was incredibly timid and scared as he moved around from house to house. he didn’t speak to anyone, stayed curled up in a ball like 99.9% of the time, night terrors, he was.. alot.  so he hoped around foster homes from the ages five to eight.  mainly because of his behavioral issues and each foster parent just... giving up on him. 
when he was ten,  he was on his fourth set of foster parents and they were really great. ryland and elizabeth st.james are two doctors who  were honestly really great, really patient,  and really tried to give him outlets to help him break out of his shell ( ala: putting him in guitar and singing)  and worked! alot better than they expected. scotty really just needed an outlet to express himself and music was the perfect place for that.  from then on ryland and elizabeth really grew on scotty . they are honestly the sweetest people he’s ever met, packing him kale filled lunches with cheesy “ have a good day at school” notes on napkins. they’re the first of his foster parents that he genuinely connected and the first encounter he’s ever had with genuine love . :”)  he’d also meet his best friend , brodie when he was ten on the first day of school. the two connected of a bag of cookies and music lmao .  to  boil it down, scotty’s life really started looking up around this time. 
the st.james’ officially adopted him when he was eleven, legally changing his last name to seal the deal. tbh this is the best day of scott’s life, he definitely will cry if he has to talk about it. 
having fallen in love with playing guitar and writing songs, scotty came up with the idea to start a band a group of his friends. they’d do a few gigs here and there but ultimately finally started making real career moves when they connected with a record label. 
they’d move to los angeles once things started to kick off and the rest was history ! 
personality: 
as aforementioned, scott’s still a little distant to most when first meeting them. mainly because he still fears getting close to someone and them leaving him once they really get to know him. so that’s another thing -- it’s kinda hard to read him? he’s not a fake person or anything, he just has a tendency to keep people at an arms length at all times. it’s not a secret but most people don’t know he’s adopted cause he hates talking about everything before he met the st. james family! 
kinda goes with that, but he’s the type to have alot of “friends” but really he’d consider most of them just random people he knows. it takes alot to earn titles like friends with this guy... sjafsd
tendency to write himself off as “not good enough” for just about every crush he’s ever had in his life.  generally just really struggles with his  self esteem .
i’d describe him as that small boy that was really scared when he was put into foster care in a much more harden shell. sarcasm and not taking anything really seriously, it’s all defense mechanism!  he still struggles with those same childhood anxieties sometimes.  
loves music, particularly 90s / early 2000s  pop-punk , rock, and alternative. 
will write a song about you and deny it because admitting he has enough emotions to?? write a love song about someone?? nahhhhhhh they could hurt him if they knew that.
we love 1 edgy e-boy. 
hmu for any connections cause pls but ideas r
best friends, party friends, exes ( alot of em. i forsee most are him never saying ily, or being like “we’re just.. fwb” real mean stuff fjads), crushes (unrequited?), neighbors, fellow musicians, ex-pr relationships, anything yo 
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My first interview coming to my Tumblr and other media avenues,
@Item_gee Item Gizzle, of Item Gizzle Musiq, is here to share his story.
@item-gizzlemusiqInstagram , up and coming talent working out of, Lagos City!
This artist has been in the trenches riding and building his career.
Be looking for @item-gizzlemusiqInstagram, in the near future. Show love!
I started looking for flow artists to help and support, because, "never despise small beginnings."
There is nothing more exciting than getting in on the ground floor of building something major. I loved Warped Tour, I only got to go to one, but the concept is epic.
Artists put in work,get discovered, but most times it takes some time from the beginning. It looks to the public like a overnight success. You talk to them n they are like no, we been at this a while.
I also recognized as a writing artist, I recognized sometimes there is a lot of friction getting started.
Getting people to take you seriously. Maybe you are like me, and really don't have solid family support to start with. Building your audience is just something you do, but when your starting off from the ground, you need support. We are operating in taking ideas to tangible empires. Sometimes, in the beginning, people can't see your vision.
@Item_gee is a fellow artist who is striving to build a dream.
Item came into the industry saying, "Breaking into the industry is not easy, but we push through."
What kept @Item_gee going was the hope in the dream and believing in that dream.
His inspiration includes: kind Dr. Orlando Owoh. Item says of him, "He, Dr. Orlando Owoh, gave me a lot from his kind music styles. Along with Timaya, "He's a major man to call my mentor and I keep going til today."
Goals that @item-gizzlemusiqInstagram has achieved so far are: a lot of good songs, met a lot of people around the world. "I have achieved the fact that real music has bought me a lot in life." Item states,"He is now looking forward and working on a video and that is his next project as he continues to build his career and public brand."
He is positive about what's to come saying, "It should be more and better than ever, and He's going to keep going."
That determination and consistent persistency is what successful artists consist of. Artists like @G_Eazy and @realmusic would say "There is no plan B. It's music or die trying." I think @Item_gee has something significant.
Item's next goal is to travel, you may see him around as he continues to succeed. Be on the lookout to show love!
He has met a lot of ppl online, he would like to connect with in real time. To visit, and continue to network.
"I hope it's just the beginning of life."
I'd say Item is on the right track, consistently building a audience and successfully networking is the proper way to succeed in almost any industry. Honing networking skills and being resourceful with networking, can only enhance a career and show people you're serious.
I encourage Item to continue to actively seek situations to hone networking skill in real settings to progress.
Background:
Item is from a family of 7 kids. He is the youngest of seven, his parents are from Osum state Nigeria.
Item grieves the lose of his loving mother in 2017, but is glad she, his elder brother n sister got to see his career before her death.
He grieves over his father's passing in 2000 more so due to him but getting to see Item's career n discovery.
Item, I know you are making them proud. There are no words to ease the pain of loss. When we lose ppl too early, I say, we carry them with us each day and live for them the days they did not get to live. It reminds us not t waste moments. Strive for that my friend. You are off to a great start. I am speaking as you have said, only better things from here!
Here is a link to my FB Item album with all the contact links.
Show support! Lots of material. If you connect with Item on WhatsApp he will give a free download of his songHerearelinkstophotosofItemGizzlelinks
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National Best Friends Day! - Newsies (Pride) Month . Day 8
( albert & race ) + ( modernish )
a/n: the best buds which also remind me a lot of me and my best bud so that’s why i picked them :)
it says “modernish” cause im talking about the past but it’s the future (?) like it starts in the past as in the early 2000’s and goes up until today
warnings: none
background: Albert and Race have been friends since kindergarten. They lived in the same neighborhood and were the best of friends. This is how it started as well as how it went throughout the years.
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the first day of kindergarten race walked right up to albert who was engaged in looking at the class pet—a lizard—and introduced himself
race asked him to be his best friend and he said yes and he’s kept that promise ever since
their elementary school years consisted of chasing each other around the playground, playing with pokémon cards, riding in the back of each other’s mom’s mini vans, trading happy meal toys, and always going back inside just in time for dinner
as kids they would bike to each other’s house every day, alternating who went to whose house
then they went to middle school
the same middle school, luckily
all throughout elementary school they were in the same class
somehow it just worked out like that
but 6th grade was all different
this was the first time they had separate classes
but luckily by this time they were close enough to not let a thing like that drift them apart
they might not have had every class together
but the ones they did have were wild
god help their teachers
6th grade they shared english, gym, and math
which was great for them
they both struggled in english so they used that class to make jokes and fool around
math was great for race
he’s always been a math wiz
so he let albert copy helped albert with his work
gym was where they SHINED
these boys have always been athletic and competitive
when they were on a team together, they were the dynamic duo who could communicate without words
when they were against each other it was war...friendly war, but war
they went through 7th and 8th grade similarly, growing and changing but keeping their friendship a priority
they spent those days hanging in skateparks, drinking slurpees till their heads went numb, making mixtapes, playing street sports, and going to each other’s houses to watch music videos on youtube
then
high school started
everything changed in high school
albert got a spot on the hockey team
race became a mathlete
and they lived two very different lives
but that didn’t stop them from being best friends
absolutely nothing could do that
they just had to work harder to spend time together
they had two classes together freshman year
biology—which made dissections interesting—and gym again—which was always great for them, not much others though
sophomore year came and went
race failed his drivers test 6 times so at that point he just gave up
albert got his license first try
so he just drove them both to and from school everyday
which means race spends a lot of time watching him at practice
the matheletes only meet once a week
hockey practice is everyday
but he doesn’t mind that much
he uses that time to practice equations or catch up on homework or just dick around
they spent their first two years hanging out at shops in walking distance of the school, albert teaching race how to play hockey, tutoring at the local library, and falling asleep during movies from school exhaustion
junior year was crazy
they built up a pretty large friend group
but they still kept it close as homies
exams, college, pressure, games, tournaments
everything was crazy
they kept each other going though
by time the ACT roled around they had already been slowly studying for months
they were still both struggling in english
but race helped albert with his math
this time more than just letting him copy
race actually ended up getting a perfect score in math but not much else
and albert finished!
which was a victory in his mind since he fell asleep 5 times
they applied to colleges together
and scholarships
so so so many scholarships
they wanted to pay as little as possible
albert even considered selling an organ to pay for classes
but they just had to do what was needed to be done
they both applied to the same college as to not be separated
and cause it was cheap and they both liked it
they spent that summer driving around the countryside, working at the same restaurant, getting sunburnt at the beach, waiting for acceptance letters, and missing their childhood
senior year was the best and worst year of their lives
they took the easiest possible classes
besides race’s math class cause he’s a genius and a nerd
but other than that they took every basic class and dropped as many as possible
they got free periods, “easy a” electives, and ended up having most of their classes together
they actually had every class together except for one—the period race had math
a miracle by all means
but they didn’t question it
they just quietly thanked whoever was out there and moved on
when they got letters from the only college they applied for they waited to open them together
they screamed when they found out they both got in
and immediately started planning out how their dorms would be set up and what they wanted
albert was now team captain and made it to state with his hockey team
race went on to nationals with the matheletes
they both won their respective events
scholarships rolled in left and right
by time graduation rolled around albert had a full ride on a hockey scholarship and race got huge help from his time in the matheletes and collectively with the rest of his scholarships got nearly a full ride, only having to pay a hundred dollars in total
the day they graduated was so emotional
this was it
they spent every year in school together for the past 13 years and now it was about to be over
after they walked across stage and out the doors of the convention center, they hugged
they hugged so tight for a really long time
neither of them will admit that they cried
but they both did
this wasn’t the end of their friendship
just the end of an era
an era that included staying up late, making jokes no one would understand, signing yearbooks with messages that would be treasured forever, sharing new music, crying from stress, hockey games, varsity quiz competitions, playing video games, breaking albert’s car speakers from playing music too loud, getting mcdonald’s happy meal toys no matter what age they hit, countless birthdays and holidays, gifts that meant so much more than money, and memories they would carry with them until they were dead
but most importantly
the best friendship two guys could ask for
again
this wasn’t the end
it was just the beginning
now they had their whole lives ahead of them
and they were never going to slow down
their real lives were just starting
and they wouldn’t want to go through it with anyone else
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Rockman.EXE Episode 32 Review.
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No, not that one, this one.
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 Gray and boring Internet city from the early 2000′s.
The episode opens with Meiru-chan arriving at Netto’s house, she runs up to his room and turns on his computer while Netto is just waking up. She is excited to show him the new Net City aka Internet city, where she then proceeds to plug-in Rockman before the title card appears.
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“You call my mom an old lady, come into my house, enter my room, log into my computer, and wake me up just to send my Navi to the very thing that made this game based anime even exist?”
Okay, to be fair, Internet city represents a solid place in cyberspace where Navis can walk freely and interact with eachother, all the times we’ve seen Navis travel through the net it is a tunnel created by electrical waves, which is basically what the internet is (and the Wave world, but thats another story).
After the title card, we see Roll taking Rockman somewhere that has strange cube like programs that gather around him, pressumely security programs since Roll is able access something leaving him behind. As Rockman starts to be scanned, Meiru tells Netto how to create an account to enter Internet city, you know, so he can get spam mail and stuff.
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Roll takes Rockman by the hand and they run together to the gates that lead to Internet city, which was cutted from the dub for some reason.
Netto and Rockman are amazed to see the huge city, Roll-chan takes Rockman’s arm and shows him around like they were on a date. As they walk, Rockman recognizes Aki-chan on one of the floating screens.
American viewer: Hey, who is that? Why does Megaman know her?
Dub: She is obviously a famous pop singer in their world, Megaman knows her because she is famous, not because they met in some episode we never aired or anything.
American viewer: O_O ...Ok.
 Rockman and Roll are then greeted by Glyde who asks them if they are shopping together.
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Yes, Rockman, shopping. Have you heard about something called Amazon?
Roll continues to show Rockman around internet city, making me wonder why is there a bank out in the street, but if that wasn’t weird enough they also pass by a Navi fitness shop where a program is saying that Gutsman is fat.
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Navis can get fat? How? Wouldn’t it make more sense if they were saying that he was heavy because he had too many programs installed or something? That would at least explain why Gutsman is too slow compared to Rockman and maybe why he doesn’t have enough memory to articulate words. XP
We cut to Yaito in her very own tennis court where Glyde tells her that he is done with his errands, and mentions Roll showing Rockman around internet city.
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Because she is not in the mood to use the gold bathtub, I’m serious, that is what she says.
One of Yaito’s butlers tells her that her order of strawberry milk shake is delayed and that he is going over with some maids to get it, meaning Yaito is gonna stay home alone for a while, I’m sure that is not gonna be a problem later on.
Yaito leaves to her bath humming Aki-chan’s song who we see in the next scene singing live at internet city for its grand opening. After hearing the long version of Aki-chan’s cheezy song, Roll gets pissed after noticing that Rockman is making a lovey dovey face while listening to Aki’s song and decides to take him away. Aki seems to recognize Rockman leaving by waving her noodle arms at him, something that didn’t made sense in the dub since the episode where they met Aki was skipped.
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American viewer: “It looks like Aki knows Rockman”
Dub: “She would wave to any fan she sees leaving”
American viewer: ...I guess.
They are surprised to find Higureya in Internet city and decide to enter where they are greeted by both Numberman and Higure.
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Netto, it’s the internet, anyone can put up a buisness site for free, which would eventually lead to many internet frauds.
Higure tells Netto about an exhibition match that he is gonna take part in to show everyone the Net coloseum and explain how Net battles have changed since the N-1 grand prix, I’m guessing this is a reference to BN2 that changed the battle mechanics from the first game.
Speaking of BN2, we hear a strange conversation going on with the exact same lines from the beginning of the game before heading over to the Net colloseum.
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With Roll and Rockman joining the audience, Midorikawa appears to explain that the Net colosseum has different battle arenas, sadly, not once in any of the seasons of the anime do we get to see a different scenerio in the colosseum.
We are also introduced to Midorikawa’s Navi Toadman, who will battle Numberman for the exhibition match. During the battle we see Toadman’s musical note attack, and also, he moves so fast that I just now noticed that he is surfing on a lilypad.
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Higure sends a Fire Tower and a cannon, Numberman summons the fire tower, but the cannon appears on the battlefield where Higure can control the fire, for Netto’s surprise.
Though, this seems to be the only change in Net battles because after this the rest of the battle goes on normaly, until Midorikawa attacks Numberman with three mini Bombs and Higure tries to send the Dream Aura only to realized that it is a rare chip, and poor Numberman is blown away.
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Midorikawa and Toadman are the victors, and before logging out, she reminds everyone about the colosseum being the only place in internet city where Navis can use Battle chips.
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Because it’s not like somebody can sneak a virus into the city or anything.
After commercials, Rockman and Roll-chan are enjoying the view of the city, until Rockman notices a strange Navi on top of a building.
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The Navi is dressed in a cloak and seems to be scanning some data before jumping off the roof and dissapearing as he falls, leaving Rockman confused.
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Shortly after this, Rockman receives a call from Glyde telling them that Yaito is in trouble. It looks like somebody infiltrated her mansion’s security program and started to leak poison gas during her bath.
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I guess she should’ve went with the gold bathtub?
Netto and Meiru rush over to Yaito’s mansion with Rockman and Roll going on ahead through the network. The Navis arrive at the entrance of the system, that for some reason has gas in it, and they find Glyde on the ground who tells them that they must fix the water heater program. Rockman tells Roll to stay with Glyde as he enters the gate that takes him to a factory like place where gas starts to blow up from the floor.
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The program is unstable for Rockman accidentally causes a path to fall apart. Needing to get to the other side to fix the water heater program, Netto developes an idea after seeing a screw nut conveniently fall into a pressurised air vent that blows it to the other side.
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Netto tells Rockman to close the valve, then jump above it as he fires his Rock buster to open it up again, he then uses the air pressure to fly accross.
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After Rockman successfully reaches the other side, he finds the water heater program where he is ambushed by three tornados. The attacker is a Navi named Airman who won’t allow Rockman to fix the program. Airman continues to attak Rockman with a series of wind attacks, but Netto, who finally arrives at Yaito’s mansion, protects him with a barrier.
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“What? First you tell me I’m late, and now you complaine about me leaving you with a sword to defend yourself? It’s not like an actual human life is more important than you right now.”
Yaito’s butler comes back with her strawberry milk only to find Netto and Meiru trying to open the door to Yaito’s bath. After seeing that Airman’s intrusion doesn’t allow the butler to open the bathroom doors, Netto decides to use his classic bandalism skills to throw a probably expensive vase at Yaito’s glass door, (causing Meiru to lose her socks in that shot). Gas starts to pour out and Netto uses a folding fan to blow it away for Meiru to run inside and carry Yaito out.
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With Yaito finally safe, Netto can focus on Rockman’s battle. Rockman asks Airman why he is doing this, and Airman’s netop, who’s name is Arashi, tells him that it is because she is the only daughter of the head of Gabgom.
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Netto naturally gets pissed over this reason and begins to battle with everything he’s got. When sending a cannon battle chip, the cannon appears on the field making Netto remember the exhibition match from earlier and starts to fire at Airman.
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Arashi sends in a triple tornado attack making Airman create a giant twister, this causes Netto’s PET to automatically activate the Style Change and Rockman uses the Heat Guts Style to destroy the twister.
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But I think he might have deleted Airman in the process, always use the Heat Guts with caution, kids.
Yaito finally wakes up.
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That is actually what she says in the game, and it’s just as uncomfortable.
Arashi tries to flee from where he is, but he is surrounded by the Net Agents. So I guess the whole conversation in episode 12 about “criminals only being arrested over the net” is thrown out the window here.
 After the police takes Arashi away, Commander Beef receives a call from the public phone where a mysterious voice tells him that Arashi was working for an organization named Grave aka Gospel, and that things are gonna get worse from there.
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And the episode ends with giant dark clouds appearing over Internet city where it starts to rain.
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Well, time to sing.
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My thoughts?
I know, for a place called internet city, it isn’t what we would imagine the internet to look like, it focused more on the economic part of the web because all we see are businesses, shops and banking systems. Internet city is like the “kid friendly” and “safe” version of the internet where Net Battles are the only source of entertainment.
As always the dub changed lines and edited scenes, like the Navi fitness center where Gutsman finds out that he is fat, its changed to him losing in some game, like a cyber casino or something? I guess the idea of Navis getting fat would be a little confusing.
 The poison gas in Yaitos mansion was compleatly recolored to look like steam, instead of attempting to kill Yaito with toxic gas, Arashi had her trapped in a super sauna.
The idea of Internet city is a reference to the cyber squares introduced in Battle Network 2 that are virus free areas where Navis can hang out, buy stuff and enter chat rooms.
This is the first mention of the net mafia Gospel. In the game, Arashii was never arrested, after he lost to Rockman he recieves a call from the Gospel leader saying that they have no need for him anymore, Arashii soon finds out that they planted a bomb in his briefcase that explodes and destroys part of the metro station. We have to keep the anime kid friendly, though they stopped doing that once Axess aired.
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for those boreholes with their cost now this is a USB port all of the softgels guys have a USB port on the left hand side of bike so you can charge your your phone or whatever electronic device you might have off of that USB ports not just you need to just the fat boy that all the soft tells how that so here’s a close to the display here so you guys sure you’re a speedo in analogand then you have a digital VIP passes switch here is your digital readout of your today it should be of your feel their digitally remaining miles if we run out of fuel you clock in there as welland the nest displays your RPMand the gear urine as well throw down or their cell in analog on your speedometerand then everything else is all digital is far as your your fuel your Ranger clock you tripand should beand anything with the 114 set is comes at ABS this is a decorative cath you guys this is spins offand you can put different decorative caps on the tank used to be the fuel gaugeand impasse mauled the snow I feel gauge all the gas goes in the right hand side here dimension of the 5 gallon fuel tank the Santos coming to sizes either 5 gallon or threeand half gallons of this does have the bigger the twoand there’s your bullet holes there in the center of the tank on the center console so they remove the boreholes from the disk wheelsand put in the center console there immersing the lens to the military tribute at this despite his homage to so all these new Sawtelle’s guys all security to all keyless this key here all it does is lock the forksand aluminum keys now need to mention the key limits is really cookieand the actuation in the 4 o’clock is a lot cleaner a lot smoother now that used to be in years past they used one of the things they do the Santos chassis you guys as they reduce the weights here between 30 to 35 pounds I need to these Sawtelle models they do that by really analyzing every party put on hisand tried to cut away wherever they could use a little number they could set a steel to reduce the weightand that you can doesn’t tell that the weight reduction is there so really sat wheels on the same this bike almost reminds you the bikes it is making Tron is really fat lookand style by through aggressive means styling your combined with that headlamp this is a really cool aggressive meaty muscle type of the styling summit go aheadand fire sing of CSand his sanity engineand can see what it looks like visually as it’s runningand everything so things of notes this know what dates they puts a dual counterbalance are in their the original arcade I was offered a touring bike he is single counterbalance in front of the engine download the oil cooler is no voltage regulator so there’s another flywheel in this version of the Milwaukee that specifically designed for the softgelsand that is between via the crank in the transmission cell gave that you counterbalance is on the spikeand so it’s the primary shaking forces are 100 reduced on this there’s very little vibration in Sawtelle fashionand that day was allotted to also really increase the rigidity of this whole bike from top to bottom the frameand the way the engine is mounted to the frameand all that so this bike is a lot stiffer 90 stiffer than the Diane chassis was in the figure thought is a 65 stiffer than previous model softgelsand it’s definitely noticeable guysand everything from rider input into handlebars to that the way that it’s liensand Excelerator to turn everything is just quickerand the reaction time is a lot better society is not it’s fun to go through this cachet as some of the highlights the suspension on these Sawtelle friends to I should I should add is far superior to the old Sawtelle frames it’s it was kind of the weird thing even call them soft tell anymore my frame because it’s it’s really nothing like the old Sawtelle that all funding Sawtelle about analogy still had hidden suspensions suspensions up underneath the seat his available colors guys the first was bike this is 10 black tempest by campus like a bluish blackish really deep like Pearl Flake color this is called industrial gray is a really cool this car lot in the next here is called Bonneville salt Pearl M Callan either started her day sickle colorand this economy is in the video this is the only could readand twisted Sherry to town here’s an anniversary this is legend blueand visit black the fat boy is the only model to come into different or both of the year anniversary colors to this is the non denim finishand this is the denim finish the call legend blue denimand it’s got a tattoo style graphics on its present we got one of these we sold pretty quickly out of the cool color is a musician stats on this thing here so the 107Q begins bike starts at 18 999 that’s for black wine goes up at 400 from their fear from card into it to town ABS is standard on the spike as well as the security system security system standard on all the soft tells this bike has a course in the walkie eight engine walkie eight gets its name from the four valves per cylinder with a total of eight valves has single camand I spent a lot of time on stats here got to what they call the most machined lake stir wheels to Brandon Willis share of a futuristic type of allele like the that I guess said before the solid disk wheel that they use for me years that they have have a futuristic twist on it unless really goodand after the 114 is 20 209 box so looking at about 1300 charge if you want the 114 which in my opinion it’s pretty well worth it so nobody likes to see the horsepowerand torque figures so let me show you what Harley Davidson publishes in their screaming Eagle section of the catalog here so this is for the 114 to begin stop soft tell by Fisher US stock is there for black dot in line down there soand this is at the rear wheel this is not the crank where everybody next to you write about their power to buy another car the crank that it’s about 85 hp at 4500 RPM on these dikesand this is with the 114and then your torque is about 109 foot pounds of torque at the rear wheeland that’s peeks at 3000 RPM so if you live in the websites I believe they claim hundredand 19 foot pounds of torqueand that’s can be measured at the crankand is number 14and on the 107 version they claim hundredand 9 foot pounds of torque at the crank so they go’s office invasive overall general information on this new Sawtelle frame Iand extremely impressed for you my videos ride probably five or six of the softgels of this pointand this never been able to ride a Harley Davidson harderand more aggressively than the softgels the sauces really are the performance frame in the Harley Davidson world which is kind of funny because before this software frame was probably the worst performing form frame councils from the worst to the best overnight there were frame being on staff really worry about because this new Sawtelle to see how performs no frame hands down are frame the question was is busy ethics are frame yes disliked dominates the ethics are freeand close know that the right is our right SARS for a time the FSR was some guides you to meet people live in the blessingand a curse as he was love their motorcycles for a long time Hill in nature God is the most collectible lifestyle is so many things are ingrained in people with you so that you have romanticized on the way things used to be held at the blessingand curse performanceand handling his overall he is power away everything about these new Sawtelle’s sis is better than the old real soft tell chassis that you kneeled to talk to you about family specifically the way I would best describe as a boy is is a muscle cruiser what I mean is this thing looks great very simplistic linesand futuristic flare headlamp in the wheels was still the classic lines in the rear swing armand everythingand the really set is onand everything this thing is not the best handling Sawtelle there’s other hands also like a low rider warrior Bob are you listening from the wheels in the scene because of an one can notice on this bike is as I was entering turns slowly if you’re on the break all turn this one is for this is like to lean overand take her to a slow way down your turn despite the good switch type of roads in the slow say what is really funny despite Dell is latest day start off dead stop’s role in on his like you get this trash in the rear the huge back thereand all I obey is on sky this thing is really fine stop stop by my is for sure it’s youand the suspension the monitor shock rear suspension training this year will turn right there is a perfect example of this need not be the likely the bike down shape the bikeand return to effect the better way why the shot the monitor shock on this bikeand there’s two rulings on the soft tell chassis is 3 inch travel in this rear shot all the mice had a shot with the exception of the Heritageand Bob for travel guides the suspension of this bike is just far superior to the old softgels in the message describe it as you have more than plan for dealing with the wheelsand tires stay in contact asphalt going over little Thompson was in the road like thatand that’s achieved by is the smallest designand also the seal cartridge design in the front for us since the show will the valve system in the front which was developed in a fight through my 27 three model year so he saw me feeling part beneficial theme of this 8 form being put in these the softgels uses is the cooling system is efficient to display the Oakland system that’s treated toilet on the heads really reduces the heat on these engines significantly seeking a lot less of that heat radiating up on youand is embedded in the different engine components of this bike is really apparent to me that he is reduced significantly on his run at a cooler temperature is based you have the cable auditory mice is the walkie engineand then have hydraulic clutch down south bank of the spikes the deal is okay you want so well here shifted the problem so good Smith still that the distinct feeling shifting here would expect from claimsand the sound to it in place a heavy piece of machinery that also really good analyzer nice is a quarter bar all internally wired really clean bar design nine can save on despite the ways everything is real simplistic styling is from Harley Davidsonand Alex forget the size these these sufferings are pretty small guys cells there is no more room on these were on the old Sawtelle’s immediate classroom 6’6 talland so despite was deathly a Francine position for me I know is probably seen despite Dell which back to 3 inches Jason try that out for me if I wasn’t as tall as I am holy the softgels might purchase big fan that because I do a lot of freeway writing tall like fairy radios in the communication of his remains family go through the small year that’s this boy this is this is for the guy that was down the weekends doing patriot Russell in the the more comfortable see if there be back there for more than 20 minutes or so there are two different sizes on this bike I will say you’re were limited on this bike also putting the breakdown of this bike bolted 240 mm rear tire sale of them were limited on your options for the sissy bar you have the more the below profile that you cannot play toward the back of this bike is a new cooldown came out from the softgels as they made it easier for you toward these bikes however this bikeand the breakoutsand the fact Bob will not accept toward cell this Like into the category of some muscle he a cruiser bike real clean lines you have on this by guys real simplistic risers on this life so you years are somewhat down despite the severe grade bike shoes so really good Blake blank canvas to customize this bike so I can say Wayneand his life for his life for someone that wants a bike to really freak on Felix’s work despite really toward the really fun by roleand also the senior pants customize for you like it wrote the classic lines simplistic engineering styling save things to customize it is the Sawtelle frame chassis of view customization options for seating position Chris floorboards lovers so if you’re guided down the freeway you a lot of long distance to arrive probably not the best bike for you persona really likes to call razor sharp handling not to Best Buy for a slowdowns initiated turn on this they really wide sweeping turns real applicable handling on this thing so looking for a roomand Jane Carver Best Buy I was the breaking on his on the softgels even noticing this break the breaking is really good guy support this helper Stasi price really really well so breaking is great on these things us with the way as well he shows to find people that you know life to this break the low rider anymore I really miss on this bikeand all weather race but the break just fine that way is really cool iconic model that leaves only improved on his lot faster the 114 even when I said sure THE SAME PLANT ONE FOR THE LAWN 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gemsfromagemini · 7 years
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What Makes Me Happy?
In no particular order, the following list is comprised of various things that will inevitably make me happy! If any of them would make you smile too, let me know and I just may send ya something! Enjoy!
1.  (Animal Style) Cheeseburgers. Oh. My. Gawwwd, gworl. Any time of day, any day of the week, a cheeseburger (Animal Style) will put me in a better mood. And if I’m already in a good mood, one of these precious lil thangs will only make me happier. And ready for a nap. From the buttery, lightly toasted bun, to the chunky spread, && all the way through to the bottom bun, it’s a penny from Heaven. The Animal Style I speak of is not some dirty variation that cannot be spoken of at the dinner table- its grilled onions, extra pickles, + a mustard-grilled patty. Now that sounds basic but considering how basic and boujee In-N-Out already is, any variation could only make it better! Click the link to check out more items from my favorite burger joint’s not-so-secret secret menu. http://www.in-n-out.com/menu/not-so-secret-menu.aspx \
**Bonus: In-N-Out also does animal style to their fries! That’s right- hot, crispy, made-to-order French fries topped with grilled onions, cheese, + more of that yummy spread! Top with ketchup for a true delight!
2.  My Framily. That’s a combo of friends + family that I learned from some trivial cellphone commercial way back in the day. My nieces and nephews are a delight to be around, hear about, and just think of on a bad day. I’m blessed to be their Titi and I hope my kids are as cool as they all are. My siblings. A hoot. A riot. A ball. And the youngest one- she doesn’t get a title but she is just as important. LOL.  But they encourage me && inspire me && if I’m ever feeling down, they are there to pick me right back up. Or tell me to pick my own fat a** up because they ain’t gonna do it.
Bonus: My friends! They’re the FR part of family. I call my main squad the A-Team: Ali, Asia, Ashley, and Ashley. Those friends make me feel like a magical, ethereal unicorn when life has me beat down and feeling like a jackass.
3.  Listening to music! Just the other day (Monday the 13th, actually) I discovered this artist that my sister has been trying to put me on for months: 6lack. (http://www.free6lack.com) She says “black“, I say “six-lack”, we both say he has really soothing and cool music. He falls into this new genre that most call trap R&B. Also currently loving Khalid, Molly Bang, and Daniel Caesar. A staple in my music arsenal is the talented, top of the charts, too cool for high school (he dropped out) crooner.¦.THE WEEKND. He holds a special place in my heart as his music helped me out of a very dark place in my life and… I met him. And he said he loved me. So {{the weeknd}}, along with other amazing artist make me VERY happy. 
4.    Netflix Binges!Who doesn’t love a good session on the couch or propped up in the bed, going through episode after episode after 2 A.M., chocolate-fudge eating episode of a good Netflix series!? It’s a Godsend, honestly. And the only thing that would make it better is if they added maybe 5 or 6 of those AWESOME Black shows from the 90s/early 2000s. Sister, Sister. Living Single. Smart Guy. Girlfriends. One on One. Any of those would suffice. All would be best. *mic drizzop*
5.    Praise dancing!. Whether it’s watching the children of !Wayside Christian Church!, catching a holy ghost-filled baby on YouTube, or creating && performing a piece with my ultra-talented baby sister. I love to watch people honor && glorify the Lord through dance. Dance is something that is just about as old as time. Native groups danced to bring rain && fertilize their lands. African indigenous people danced to celebrate the earth && what it had given them. And now, we dance to give praise to God. Kind of all sounds the same when you think about it.
 **Bonus: God. All by Himself. Thinking of God’s grace and mercy that has covered me all my life && that brings me joy like nothing I’ve ever known. To be loved by God is a greater love than any human could match.
 6.   Being appreciated makes me hella happy. Is this a bit shallow? Yes. But is it true for me and you? Probably so. It feels really good on the inside to hear someone tell you how happy you make them && how grateful they are for you. As someone who has battled low self-esteem in the past (yesterday), reminders of how worthy I am of my place on earth or how much of an impact I have on someone else’s life make a WHALE of a difference in my day.
 7.    Tacos! Hard shell. Soft shell. Street style. Tex-Mex style. Asada. Chicken. Lingua. Sour cream. Guacamole. Tomatoes. I LOVE TACOS. And yes, they make me happy. While I’ve already mentioned my most *favorite* food item, this is definitely a close 2nd.. It’s a cultural gift that we are forever grateful to our Southern family for.
8.   Hugs make me happy. A good squeeze from someone who cares about you or a bonding end to a great encounter with a stranger, hugs are something we often overlook. I live alone so I don’t do as much hugging as I’d like. I talk to people every day, sure, it’s a part of my job. But do I interact && receive that warmth + security that is offered with a hug? HECK NO! So when I get a good hug, I appreciate it. And it makes me so happy!
9.   Nerdy Black Boys. Oh the joy that THEY bring! Whew! Everyone has their preference + type && sure there are a rainbow of men that make give me heart eyes emojis but something about a darkskinded brotha telling me about a new anime or his favorite character to use in Overwatch really makes my ovaries scream. In my 30 years, I have not met a *ton* of hot, Black nerds who are in to gaming, mangas, and the like so when I meet one, it makes me EXTREMELY happy.
10.  WRITING! Bet ya weren’t expecting that one, were ya? Blogging. Journaling. Leaving silly comments on Facebook. All of those things (except the last one, I kid) make me happy! I love expressing myself in the written form, whether it be typed or handwritten. It’s a way of communication that people have lost respect for. I also enjoy writing books. A new chapter or an A-ha” moment in a fantastic short story will make me smile for hours on end. It is the delight in my own brilliance that gives me that smile.
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imagines-corner · 7 years
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Do-Over: Peter Parker
requested: By my best pal! Thank you for giving me this idea and supporting me while I ran with it!
pairing: Peter Parker x Reader
word count: 1.8k
warnings: a lil bit of Homecoming spoilers, a lot of fluffy tension
summary: Peter missed homecoming to protect his friends, but now you demand he has a do-over to makeup for the experience.
a/n: Welcome to imagines-corner!! I love Peter so much and I can’t wait to write more about him!!
Peter’s hands trembled as he approached the front door to his apartment, his nerves crawling through his body with an unnerving shake as his heart kept a hard and fast tempo. Originally, the idea of having you at his apartment wasn’t a big deal. You had come over so many times before, to the point that you had become close friends with both Peter and his Aunt May, but today felt different. Instead of coming in a group of three with Ned tagging along, it was just you and Peter. Instead of his Aunt May sitting in the living room or standing by in the kitchen, she was off doing laundry, giving Peter enough time with the empty apartment.
“Here we are,” He spoke, breaking the silence that was beginning to grow. Things had changed since he became the Spider-Man, and it wasn’t just his senses that had become amplified. Instead of being the friendly girl he knew from middle school, you had become this unattainable goddess that he longed for constantly. You became one of the things that got him out of bed in the morning, one of the things that helped him up after every fight, and one of the things that he dreamed of before drifting off to sleep.
As he entered the apartment, suddenly hyperaware of every mess and misplaced item in the room, he began to think about why he had agreed to this. You knew he had missed homecoming, even if his reasons for missing it were a lie, and instead of letting him wait until the next one, you demanded that he have a do-over.
“No, seriously, it’s fine,” Peter reassured you, “People get sick.”
“And you got sick on homecoming!” You exclaimed, slamming your hands down on the table, “I insist you have a makeup. It’s only fair.” Peter’s heart skipped a beat as you cocked your head to the side, resting it on one of your fists as you continued your thought. “As one of the trusted and faithful members of the homecoming committee, it's my job to make sure that you are 100% satisfied with your homecoming experience, and you didn’t even have one!”
Peter bit his bottom lip in frustration. He didn’t want to disappoint you, but he was unsure of how he would be able to contain his nerves if he spent an entire afternoon alone with you. He wished the Vulture had chosen any other night to try and steal from Stark Tower. “Fine,” He smiled, “If it’s gonna make you happy, I can’t say no.”
You immediately lit up, a smile radiating across your face like nothing Peter had ever seen before. “Perfect!” You cheered, immediately setting a date and time with him. He suggested his apartment, knowing it was empty, so he could prevent as many terrifying or embarrassing hiccups as possible.
“So,” Peter breathed, “How’re we gonna do this?” He looked to you for answers, studying the curious look you had on your face. It was clear you were making mental notes, but Peter couldn’t tell if you were thinking about homecoming or the fact that there was one of his baby pictures still on the shelf next to the TV. He decided he had to hide it before you noticed.
“We need to move this,” You spoke, pointing to the coffee table, “And I brought a speaker, for the music.” You crossed over to the counter, pulling a tiny speaker out of your bag while also pulling out your phone. Peter focused on the coffee table, effortlessly removing it from what would become your dance floor and moving it into the small corner that acted as a dining room. His ears were suddenly filled with the sound of soft music, his body turning to see you huddled up against the wall, skipping through the songs until you found one that satisfied you. He didn’t realize he was staring until you looked up, a tiny smile breaking out from behind your lips as your cheeks grew redder and your eyes hit the ground. “I wish I wrote down the songs they played. It’s kinda hard to remember the exact order now that it’s been a few days.” Peter nodded, walking over to the middle of the living room as you put on a faster song and headed over to him.
“Obviously,” You smiled, moving your hands in a dancing motion, “We need to get a variety of songs in. Every homecoming has several song categories that must be hit to satisfy everyone. You have your current pop songs, the mediocre 2000’s rap, the oldie but goldies, the truly danceable songs, and the slow songs. If we’re gonna recreate this homecoming, we need to make sure we hit all of those.” You grabbed his hands, giggling as you made sure he was dancing and smiling as well before continuing. “This, of course, hits two bases - current pop and truly danceable.”
Peter’s heart raced as you grabbed his hands, twirling around the room effortlessly in an attempt to amuse him and loosen him up. You could tell he was tense, likely due to the fact that you were making him dance, so your top mission was to make him as comfortable as possible. Unfortunately, Peter knew deep down that he was never going to be relaxed around you, especially if he was trying to retain your friendship by bottling up his true feelings.
As the song came to an end, you made it switch. Peter recognized the song from his early childhood, shocked that you would have something like this on your phone, a smile creeping onto his face as his body movements changed to match the beat.
“This,” You spoke, “Is the oldie but goldie.” You giggled, grabbing the remote off the couch and using it as a microphone to sing your heart out. Peter was beginning to have fun, letting go of some fears he had of your afternoon together. If you were being this outrageous and exciting, Peter knew that it would be harder to embarrass himself.
That was, until the next song drastically changed the mood in the room. He looked over at you, his hands beginning to shake as you stood from your place on the couch. “This is the slow song,” You spoke, grabbing the hem of your shirt to prevent your hands from shaking, “It’s when the DJ would say something weird like ‘alright kids, go grab that special someone and take them out onto the dance floor’ and everyone kinda rushes off to go to the bathroom and call their parents about pickup times while the few couples that are brave enough go rush out to the dance floor to make everyone else jealous and uncomfortable.”
Peter desperately wanted to take you into his arms and sway slowly, but he was too nervous to do any of that. “What-what did you do?” He asked, feeling out your opinions on slow dances. He immediately regretted it as your eyes stared down at your feet, covered in nothing but your socks, wiggling your toes as you contemplated your answer.
“I stood off to the side,” You confessed, “Well, I first tried to find some disaster I could fix, since there seems to always be one, but everything was perfectly under control. I stood off to the side and begged for it to be over.”
It broke Peter’s heart to see you this upset. There was a little part of his subconscious that nagged at him to do the daring thing and ask you to dance with him now, but his conscious mind reminded him that you were just his friend.
And this was just his living room.
Regardless of the circumstances, his subconscious took over. “Do-do you want to, I dunno, redo your homecoming?” Peter asked, pulling at his sleeves nervously, “Since you, you didn’t get your slow dance. I mean, only if you want to.” His heart jumped into his throat as he spoke. It felt like it was about to crawl out of his mouth within the next minute as he waited for your response. In the second that felt like an hour, you nodded, walking up closer to Peter, grabbing one of his hands and placing the other on his shoulder. He hesitantly placed the other on your waist, safely tucking it right under your ribcage. As the two of you swayed slowly in his living room, Peter’s heart raced with excitement. His mind jumped all over, thinking about everywhere this dance could go from there, but the feeling of your head resting on his chest brought him back to the present. He pulled you in a little closer, closing the ever decreasing gap. His hand moved to your back, stiff in fear of making you uncomfortable or pulling away.
“Thank you,” You mumbled, breathing in the scent of his detergent and cologne. This was all you desired, a guy to hold you close to his chest during a song like this, a wordless statement that provided security and comfort. You couldn’t deny the growing feelings that had developed between you and Peter, but you feared that it would be a waste of time to even consider pursuing him. There was no way he could feel that way about a girl like you, especially with the kind of history you shared. But, here you were, standing together in his small apartment in Queens, dancing to a slow song as you pretended to be at homecoming.
Peter looked down at you, resting his head on yours delicately. If you were going to make a move like resting your head on his chest, he was going to try and make another, hoping for some sort of chain reaction. You removed your hand from his, wrapping it around his chest with your other hand, and he followed by doing the same. It was this embrace that made Peter realize he was completely and utterly crazy about you, his thoughts drifting off to what could be. He knew that he wouldn’t be able to sleep that night, wouldn’t be able to focus tomorrow, and would struggle to keep you out of his mind as he swung across the city, fighting crime to keep his city safe, his neighborhood safe, and most importantly, you safe.
Peter almost didn’t notice the door open across the room, as Aunt May trudged in with a basket of laundry. She barely even looked up until she noticed the sudden jump the two of you took, staring at each other with expressions of embarrassment, longing, and satisfaction.
“Did I miss something?” Aunt May asked, staring at the shock on both of your faces. As she began to realize what was occurring in her apartment, a smirk appeared on her face, and she left the basket of laundry on the table by the door before sneaking out behind the door. “I think I left something in the dryer downstairs. I’m gonna go check.” As she closed the door, leaving with a wink at her nephew, the song immediately changed to something more upbeat and exciting. Peter knew that this was the beginning of more than just his makeup homecoming, but a journey with you that he could never predict.
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caveartfair · 7 years
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These Photographers Captured the Youth Culture of the Early 2000s
If you remember Silly Bandz and Tamagotchi, Team Edward versus Team Jacob, and obsessing over your MySpace Top 8 and AIM away messages, you probably grew up in the early 2000s. As young millennials and Generation Z-ers come of age, a wave of nostalgia for the decade that’s notorious for its bad fashion and auto-tuned music is looming across the internet. Youth culture in the noughties, much like youth culture today, was defined by the rise of technology and consumerism—except then, it was flip phones, iPod Nanos, and Juicy Couture tracksuits that were status symbols amongst high schoolers. It’s also the generation that was raised in the wake of 9/11 and the “War on Terror,” and either graduated college in the midst of, or saw their parents cope with, the nation’s largest economic crisis since the Great Depression. This, along with the predominance of social media and hyper-publicized celebrity culture, created an unprecedented level of social pressures amongst 21st-century youth.
Below, we highlight five photographers who captured the energy and angst of the 2000s generation. Some, like Sandy Kim, are inspired by the snapshot aesthetic of the reigning documentarians of ’90s youth, including Ryan McGinley, Larry Clark, and the late Dash Snow. Others, like Lauren Greenfield and Danielle Levitt, take a closer look at the individual stories behind teenage archetypes.
Danielle Levitt
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Danielle Levitt, Rachel 19, Brooklyn, NY, 2011. Courtesy of the artist.
Levitt’s interest in youth culture started young; growing up in Los Angeles, she received her first camera at age 10 and began photographing her friends and eventually, in her teen years, the bohemian subcultures of Venice Beach. Though she started her career in New York as a street style and fashion editorial photographer, she became interested in local youth while traveling around the U.S. as a freelancer and eventually started to approach them to shoot their portraits.
The resulting body of work, published in her 2008 monograph We Are Experienced, features just about every teen tribe, from emo kids, goths, and punks to cheerleaders, jocks, and band geeks. Yet Levitt is conscious to see beyond these stereotypes and builds relationships with her subjects to gain their trust—it’s the opportunity to give the kids a platform that motivates her. “For some of these kids who don’t feel like they’re being heard or being seen, it’s a powerful feeling,” Levitt has said. “I get e-mails from mothers telling how significant the experience was for the kids.”
Ed Templeton
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Ed Templeton, from his series Teenage Smokers, 1994-2015. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts &  Tilton, Los Angeles, California.
Templeton cut his teeth in the ’90s documenting the drugs, sex, and rock-n-roll lifestyle of young skateboarders on tour—a world that was intimately familiar to the professional skateboarder, who met his wife Deanna (also a photographer) at age 14. He then turned his lens to another familiar world, southern California, where he grew up and lives today. Templeton’s photography of candid moments on the streets, from sun-kissed couples to eccentric musicians performing on the pier, is a love letter to the West Coast’s notoriously carefree and hedonistic spirit, as well as its iconic youth culture. His “Teenage Kissers” series (1994–2011), in which young people are entwined in passionate, and sometimes awkward, embraces, seems to have anticipated our contemporary obsession with documenting our private lives on social media. Another, “Teenager Smokers” (1994–2015), features underage smokers from around the world posing with pride, feigned nonchalance, or timidity.
Leeta Harding
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Leeta Harding, Scarlett Johansson for Index, 2001. Courtesy of the artist.
A 16-year-old Scarlett Johansson on the brink of staring in cult classic Ghost World (2001), gazing coolly at the camera in a red v-neck tee; the singer and feminist pioneer Kathleen Hanna of the punk “Riot Grrrl” movement, sporting side bangs, pink lipstick, and a high pony; photographer Juergen Teller in the era of his decade-defining Marc Jacobs campaigns. These are just a few of the iconic subjects captured by Harding in the early 2000s, when she was working in downtown New York as a portrait photographer for magazines like Index and Vice. Harding used overexposed film and posed her subjects against bright backgrounds to mimic the fluorescent-hued rave aesthetic of the time. Following a battle with cervical cancer, she eventually left New York and magazine work and shifted her focus to documentary photography in the south.
Sandy Kim
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Photo by Sandy Kim. Courtesy of the artist.
Kim was first noticed for her raw, behind-the-scenes photographs of the San Francisco-based band Girls, whose members she had befriended while living on the West Coast (she’s now based in Brooklyn). The Ryan McGinley protégé is gaining much recognition her photographs, which include nude selfies, intimate moments with her boyfriend, and group shots of her friends partying, all captured in a carefree, unstudied snapshot aesthetic. “She reminds me of when I was young—out partying every night, snapping away so that the pictures can provide evidence of the night,” McGinley has said. “I think my friends enjoy being photographed by me because I’m capturing a time of their youth,” Kim said in 2012. “And just like for me and everyone else 10 years from now, things are going to be different but we’ll have photos to remind us of our wild youth.”
Lauren Greenfield
Greenfield began photographing wealthy Los Angeles kids in the early ’90s, embarking on 25-year-long photo project that examined America’s growing obsession with wealth. Her photographs from this era include the young Kardashian children, pre-reality show fame, attending a school dance; Kate Hudson at a bat mitzvah; and kids lounging in pools and hot tubs in the backyards of their Malibu mansions. Another photo from 2007 shows Paris Hilton at the peak of her influence, bedecked in a gold corset and headband and chatting on her Sidekick. Greenfield’s work—which is currently on view at the International Center of Photography—traces the effects of the media and global consumerism on the American Dream, including among young children and teens who strive for unrealistic faces and bodies, and read brand-name clothing as a status symbol.
—Demie Kim
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Why we need an archaeology of (and a better name for) Xennials
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By Adrián Maldonado
You must have seen the media coverage of the exciting discovery of a new ‘lost’ culture. Lost in plain sight, these were the kids who were born too late to feel part of Generation X, but are too old to identify as millennials. Only recently has the scientific community (which in 2017 just means the Internet) proposed a name for this mysterious civilisation: Xennials.
While the label is now under consultation by a panel of experts (read: Reddit), the need for this new classification is not up for debate. As a child of 1982, Class of 2000, 8-bit native, I have long felt this was an oversight. I even mentioned it once on this blog, in a discussion of the archaeology of the mp3. While there’s always a desire to delimit a generation to a set of birthdates, my colleagues (read: perennially underemployed drinking buddies) have settled on a fairly simple but irrefutable terminus between Gen X, ‘Xennial’ and millennial: too young to go to a Nirvana concert, but too old to have caught Pokémon on a Game Boy. Irrefutable!
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Terminus ante quem (source)
There are several issues with the discussion being had at the moment, though. Much of the writing I’ve seen on this so far has taken a distinctly anti-millennial stance; it is much rarer to find a similar level of disdain for Generation X. But ‘not-millennial’ is impossible to justify as the defining characteristic of a generation.
The other issue is that the label Xennial makes us seem like the middle movie in a trilogy no one asked for, like the Desolation of Smaug – sure, it’s the best of the three but where’s the honour in being the creamy filling in a shit sandwich?  (I kid, of course – I spent a lot of time with those damn Hobbit films.) It reduces us to sequel or prequel, of consequence but only in relative terms.
Further, if I may put my dusty professor glasses on for just a moment, hybridity is so 1990s archaeological theory. This assumption that new things arise from the mixture of two previously-existing things when they smash together is not only too simple, it is potentially dangerous in an increasingly partisan world. We need to see identity less as an evolution from ‘pure’ to ‘mixed’, and more as messy and continually emerging – not cultures, but contexts.
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Will Smith: also continually emerging in the 90s
But back to the Xennials. The main reason I feel there is something different about the pre-millennial, post-GenX generation is, surprise surprise, because we have a different archaeological footprint.  And what is most different about it is the fact that it is nearly invisible. This is why we were not ‘discovered’ until now. We are Nintendo Power, not just old but recently erased from the Internet. We are the Nokia brickphone, nostalgic but no longer necessary. We are the first disruptive apps Napster and Netscape which were quickly annihilated by big industry. We made it safe to be a nerd through the social networks we built, which we now bemoan as killing nerd culture. As early adopters of the Net, we were all set to change the world until Nine-Eleven silenced us into thinking never-ending war was in the national interest. We are Generation N, and we are nowhere.
Generation N?
The term Generation N has its charms. It kind of reminds me of Captain N, a cartoon many of us (in America at least) grew up thinking was cool and not a weekly, 30-minute Nintendo marketing brainwash. It is also reminiscent of GenerationNext, the “reviled” Pepsi marketing campaign which seems to have been the first to discover the fact that the kids listening to the Spice Girls could no longer be called Generation X (move over/cuz it’s over!).
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In fact, nearly everything that describes us relates somehow to marketing, which is depressing but rather captures us to a T, or should I say, a TMNT: Ninja Turtles pizza industry conspiracy, anyone? To identify ourselves archaeologically is to wade into a sea of cultural garbage, from some of the best-worst pop music ever recorded, to films like Independence Day (1996) which irreversibly fused our national holiday with the summer blockbuster films that dominate the cultural conversation today.
In fact, the main issue with ‘Generation N’ as a term is that it’s difficult to turn into a group term – Generation Enners sounds awful to my ears. But then, so did the portmanteau word blog (yeuch!) back when it first blew up, and here I am trying to be more serious about blogging (history will judge us all).
Archaeology as anti-nostalgia
But is any of it archaeology? This is a question I have asked of various forms of pop culture on this blog, and my most recent attempt at an answer is that this is actually the wrong question. Archaeology is not a category of stuff but a scientific mode of analysis. As much as we associate ourselves with the study of the past, it is in the most literal sense a way of understanding the way that things made in the past (read: everything, potentially) survive into the present. What we say about them changes according to the present situation – five years ago there was no need to identify an ‘Xennial’ despite the fact we were all very much alive then. If the current situation needs a category called ‘Xennials’ then archaeology should be asking why that is, not claiming its carcasses.
The better question is whether there is anything specific to our generation that emerges from our use of material culture. It is something I have been unwittingly blogging about (yeeeuchh!) for a few years now, and will take me some time to retcon fully into existence. Blowing into cartridges was one small thing I identified early on as emergent from the material culture of home videogaming. The increasingly common occurrence of stuff I grew up with ending up in museums is another sign that our artefacts are foreign enough to modern audiences as to merit explanation.
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Must be ritual (source)
And as I have explored here, what we learn from doing the archaeology of my generation is not always nice. An interest in researching the material signature of Blockbuster Video or the birth of the mp3 was born out of nostalgia, but both quickly became lessons in the destructive power of late capitalism. More often than not, what we destroyed was any evidence of our own culture and the way we experienced it. You can archive the early Internet all you want, but the bodily experience of dialling up and getting eye-strain from the completely inadequate CRT monitors as images loaded painfully slowly is undeniably central to our technological education, yet nearly impossible (and unrewarding, one would imagine) to recreate in the present.
The spectre of war also hangs low over Generation N. We were not, of course, the only ones to experience 9/11 and its aftermath. I previously wrote about the 9/11 Memorial Museum as an exhibit about the death of the 90s alongside its other roles, and the idea of a ‘long nineties’ stretching into the early Aughts is now an academic reality. But it is well worth exploring the less tangible shock 9/11 had on the kids who were just coming of age. In the Anglophone world, many of us will have cast their first votes for the parties of Al Gore or Tony Blair, and see how that all turned out; I’ve argued here that it would be years before we would see ourselves as a confident and capable force for change in the world, led as much by Jon Stewart as any politician.
The war on terror has had an archaeological impact beyond the sites of military conflict across the world; it can also be read through the material culture we leave behind right here on the home front. The transformative technology of the Internet which we were just learning how to use at the turn of the millennium was existentially threatened by the dotcom bubble which was bursting just as the planes hit. We allowed our utopian vision of the World Wide Web be slowly nibbled at by the need for security and monitoring, until it was so embedded in our devices we could never again live without it. The landfills full of dumb beepers and Nokia phones will be our most tangible footprint.
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Sometimes it’s OK to forget (source)
One more thing we unintentionally left behind is our digital footprints. We were the first to become addicted to social networking, and our pages are quickly becoming cemeteries. The archaeology of our generation will largely come through the excavation of tweets and facebook posts as much as physical objects. With the advent of Snapchat and an ethos of ephemerality (however naive it is to assume the Cloud isn’t always recording our every move), forgetting has never been trendier. But those of us in Generation N grew up stacking and hoarding our physical media, and find it very difficult indeed to let go. Our Facebook accounts are destined to be long-lived shrines to our (possibly?) short-lived affair with sharing; not nostalgia but commemoration.
An archaeological view on the recent past makes the case for a generational divide more than any neologism, Xennial or otherwise. We may not like what we unearth when we do, but it is our job to prefigure some of the questions that may be asked of us by future excavation.
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