#dave had to listen to this bs for hours

[rin-hanarin]

Day 2: Fandom AU. A bard and a wandering samurai.

Silly Genshin crossover because I spent an unholy amount of time on this game. Also Electro swirl is dope.

[briamichellewrites]

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Bon Jovi and Richie were getting used to their new home. They loved exploring, though their little legs prevented them from climbing the stairs. When they wanted attention or food, they meowed until they got what they wanted. Because they were identical, Elliot and Phoenix had given up trying to differentiate between them. They didn’t listen to them anyway. Elliot loved picking them up and kissing their little foreheads. He held them over his arm like he was holding a human baby close to his chest.

Bella was also getting used to her new home. Phoenix was working on training her. She and Bruce loved running around outside. Elliot had hired a contractor to install coyote rollers on the top of his fences to keep them out. He was satisfied with their work and that his animals were safe. They were not just animals but his children. They loved him and he loved them.

He responded to their needs like a mother to her baby. Phoenix could tell how much they meant to him. They kept him mentally stable. Bella had the occasional tantrum when she wasn’t allowed to have more food. She whined and pointed her nose to the kitchen. No, Bella. She continued whining while barking. When she discovered she wasn’t going to get what she wanted, she gave her best puppy face. That made Phoenix laugh, but he still said no. Eventually, she gave up.

They both heard that puppies were harder than babies and toddlers. Elliot had to shut the door to their room, so they didn’t destroy their clothes and shoes. The kittens were easier and low maintenance. They knew about going to the bathroom in the litter box and using their scratch post, instead of the legs of the furniture. Yeah, they were hard work but they were worth it.

Before they knew it, the kittens would grow into cats and the puppies would grow to be dogs. Brad asked if he could visit with George and Matt. Yeah, that’s fine. He and Phoenix were just hanging out at home. They were greeted by barking when they got to the house. Phoenix let them in while Elliot held the dogs back. He said hello to Brad and reintroduced himself before introducing himself to George and Matt. Once the door was closed, the dogs were free to say hello to the humans.

The kittens were also curious about them. Matt asked how many animals they had. They had two dogs and two cats. Elliot pointed out who was who as they sat down on the floor. Brad mentioned that he had what he wanted: a house full of animals. Yeah, he did. How was he doing?

“I am mentally stable right now. Though my therapist is still watching for signs of schizophrenia or Dissociative Identity Disorder. Eighteen to twenty is the age of the usual onset of symptoms. I’m taking medication every day and going through my bs twice a week. Phoenix wants me to go to the gym with him.”

“Are you?”

“I’m thinking about it. If he had his way, he would make the attic his gym.”

They laughed. Was that his real name? No, his real name was David or Dave but everyone called him Phoenix because of his red hair. Was he from Phoenix? No, he was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts but grew up in Mission Viejo, California. It was a town in Orange County. He came to LA for college and ended up staying. Matt mentioned he was from Cambridge.

Phoenix knew exactly where that was. It was a little over an hour away. While they continued talking, Richie crawled over to his brother, Bon Jovi who was happily laying down and chewing on a stuffed mouse. He extended his front paws out as Phoenix asked the kitten why he had just walked over to his brother. Richie looked over at his brother, who was still trying to figure out what was going on. The humans laughed, so he snuck up behind him and pounced.

Bon Jovi knocked him over on his back. He wasn’t hurt, though. In retaliation for being knocked down, he pounced again but just missed him. Bon Jovi saw him coming from the corner of his eye. He jumped and his fur puffed up. Elliot took the offending kitten and asked him why he was fighting with his brother. His ears turned as he picked up different sounds.

Did the animals usually get along? Yeah. They got along as well as human siblings. Sometimes they played together and sometimes they annoyed each other. They had yet to break up any fights, which was great. Bon Jovi left the circle to use the litter box against the wall. It was hidden behind the couch, which he and Richie loved because it was private. When he came back, he stretched before going over to the dogs. He was almost stepped on by Bruce.

Meow! Bruce jumped because he was not expecting him to be behind him! Hey! He barked before walking away. The humans laughed. Yeah, they could see what he meant. They could take the dogs to the park. Yeah, they liked that idea! Phoenix asked the dogs if they wanted to go to the park. Yes, human! Yes! They got up from where they had been sitting with excitement!

The humans laughed at them but they didn’t care. We’re going to the park! Their leashes were hooked to their collars. Bella scratched at the door. Let’s go! Let’s go! They had to wait until the humans were ready. Elliot grabbed his keys and put them inside the pocket of his jacket. Finally, they were ready to go! The park was a short walk from the house and the dogs couldn’t get there fast enough! They could hear the humans behind them talking and laughing.

When they got to the park, they were taken off their leashes and could run around. There was genuine happiness in Elliot and it had to do with Phoenix. He was a great supporter of him. If he ended up being diagnosed with a complex mental illness like schizophrenia or Dissociative Identity Disorder, they had confidence he would be there to help him.

George put his arm around his shoulder. Since he was twelve years old, he had been there as his unofficial uncle. He loved him and he was eager to see what he ended up doing with his career. Maybe someday, they would work together. He could see him working behind the scenes as a producer, instead of in front of the camera. Phoenix was talking to Matt and Brad about this and that. They all approved of him dating Elliot, even though he was ten years older and he was only sixteen years old.

Brad was never a traditional father. He let him start drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes when he was thirteen. If they were having sex, he only hoped they were being careful. He didn’t live with him anymore, so he couldn’t prevent them from doing anything. All he cared about was that he was happy and healthy.

After a couple of hours of visiting, the three of them left. On the drive back to Brad’s, they commented on how happy Elliot was! Did he know anything about his boyfriend? All he knew was that he was a friend of Mike’s and they were in the same band. The band considered him their younger sibling and he had been a part of their group since he was ten years old.

“Mike would go into the studio and work with his band. Elliot would go with him because he felt more comfortable with him than Anna. He became very close with them. They would help him with his schoolwork or play Barbies and they would include him in what they were doing.”

“Pretty soon they are going to run out of room, especially when the dogs get bigger”, George commented.

He laughed. “The cats are most likely to take over. It’s what he wanted: a house full of animals.”

“He should get a farm on at least a couple of acres.”

“I think that’s his long-term goal. I wouldn’t be surprised if, in ten years, he has cats, dogs, rabbits, birds, and whatever other animal he can adopt.”

That would be fun to see! He had an empathetic personality toward animals. They were dependent on him and they provided unconditional love. The kind of love he didn’t get before the age of ten. Maybe he would give the animals rockstar names like Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, and Richie Sambora. Maybe Janis Joplin, Freddy Mercury, Jimi Hendrix, or even Eric Clapton. They were excited about his future and what he would decide to do.

@zoeykaytesmom @feelingsofaithless

[spartanguard]

two doors down

Summary: Emma's just had her heart broken—again. But she's going to distract herself by finally going to her friends' party, two doors down from her apartment. The party—and the dashing gentleman she meets at it—prove to be just what she needed.

3.2k words | rated light M | AO3

A/N: Here I go again...back on my Dolly Parton bs. But I make no apologies because Dolly in an inspirational queen. I’ve wanted to write a one-shot based on Two Doors Down pretty much ever since I heard the song, and the @csconcertseries​ seemed like the right opportunity to scratch that itch. (and then Dumb Blonde demanded to be included as well because it’s a bop.) so...have fun!

“Really, Emma?” Walsh sneered when she confronted him. “You thought I was serious about you? I guess you really are a dumb blonde.”

In case anyone was wondering why Emma was crying, it was that. She shouldn’t be—it was dumb, he was dumb, not her—but that didn’t seem to matter, apparently. The asshole had somehow managed to find a crack in the walls around her beat-up, bargain store heart and, once inside, found an old bruise and punched it. Or something like that. She wasn’t great with words.

Or emotions, apparently, or men—though she was already aware of that one (thus: the walls). (Well, okay, and being abandoned by her parents and growing up in the shittier parts of the foster system. But that’s besides the point.) Anyways. She had thought that maybe, finally, she’d found one guy who wouldn’t hurt her—who was safe enough to consider giving her heart to. 

And then she’d caught him sleeping with a coworker. On a mattress in his furniture store. On their anniversary. 

And he apparently had the gall to call her dumb. What a dick.

After giving him the rightful slap he was due, she stormed out and ran home. Then she grabbed the wine she’d been saving for tonight, popped the cork, and drank right out of the bottle.

What a fucking loser.

(She wasn’t sure if that applied more to her, or to him.

Because, at the end of the night, she was the one drinking alone while he was probably still having too much fun on his own merchandise.) 

With about half the bottle gone, she finally hit the point where all her tears were gone and she was probably some level of dehydrated. Her apartment was eerily quiet without the sound of her sobs, it seemed, but she could hear loud music coming from down the hall. 

Oh yeah—Dave and Snow’s party.

They were her neighbors—well, they lived two doors down, but she definitely talked to them more than the grumpy dude who lived between them. They were easily the nicest, most outgoing people on the planet, and had been trying for as long as Emma had lived there to come over to one of their parties. 

Usually, Emma was able to use work as an excuse, or a date (like she was supposed to have had tonight), to explain why she couldn’t go. But it was really fear—fear of rejection, of not measuring up, of plain old awkwardness—that kept her away.

It always sounded like a good time, though, and she could hear the music pumping and people laughing whenever they hosted these get-togethers. Apparently, they were at the drunk-enough-to-sing-loudly part of the night, because she heard the lyrics perfectly as the crowd shouted them:

Just because I’m blonde, don’t think I’m dumb ‘Cause this dumb blonde ain’t nobody’s fool

She laughed, albeit watery, at that, considering Dave was the blond of the two of them. But then she thought about it again, and what her ass of a now-ex had said: there was nothing dumb or foolish about Emma. Maybe she should have listened to that voice that had told her she was out of his league when he’d first asked her out, but right now, she just needed to tune out his grating words and focus on Dolly’s—about kicking trash to the curb and moving on.

And, you know what? She was gonna go to that party.

She blew her nose (rather noisily), then quickly washed her face and changed into something a little more presentable than her pajamas. She probably should be bringing something over, but her wine was gone and Walsh had drank the last of her beer the other night. She briefly considered the half-empty box of Pop-Tarts in her cupboard, but that was breakfast.

So, empty-handed as she was, she headed out the door, locked it, and wandered down the bit of hallway to the Nolan’s place. She could hear the sounds of revelry and pounding bass on the other side of the door, and was nervous—would they think she was intruding? Her knock was equally timid, and probably not even heard by the crowd inside. 

To her shock, though, the door was thrown open a few seconds later. “Emma! You came!” Snow shouted, then launched herself at Emma in an inebriated hug. “Oh, I’m so glad you finally made it! Where’s Walsh?”

Emma cringed, and not just from Snow’s alcohol-elevated volume. “He’s fucking his floor manager. So he’s busy. But I’m not now!” she added, trying to make it sound not terrible.

But Snow gasped anyways, covering her mouth in shock. She ushered Emma in, closing the door behind her, and then dragged her to the living room. “You need wine.”

“I had, like, half a bottle already.”

“Okay, well, you need more.”

“I won’t disagree.”

Snow left her in the middle of a throng of people that thankfully included David, who wrapped her into a bear hug (that only slightly smelled like beer—beer hug?) and made some introductions. Snow returned shortly with a pint glass full of pinot, and the next hour became a blur of booze and dancing. 

She quickly made friends with girls named Ruby and Belle who, once they heard about what had happened to Emma that day, got some shots involved. The music was a solid mix of girl power anthems (there may have been more screaming to “Since U Been Gone” and “Wannabe” from partygoers of all genders) and Emma found herself seriously wondering just what the hell she’d been doing the past few months—both with Walsh and in her avoidance of these parties; she was having way more fun here than she ever had with that douche.

Eventually, she did have to take a respite to visit the restroom and get some water—she wasn’t about to blackout over a breakup—but when she left the bathroom, she wasn’t watching where she was going and slammed into someone else.

“Woah—you alright, love?” the lilting voice attached to the firm body asked. She could feel his hand squeezing her shoulder, but given her very recent track record, was scared to look this guy in the eyes. The last thing she needed was a face as pretty as that accent, or as enticing as the bit of chest hair peeking out through his button-up, or as alluring as the scent of his cologne (which she got a good whiff of when her face collided with his chest).

“Seriously—are you okay?” He sounded so concerned—her head was moving before she could think otherwise.

And that was either the best thing she’d ever done, or the worst.

Dark, messy hair hung over his forehead, where thick brows were furrowed with worry. A strong nose pointed to full lips, surrounded by gingery scruff that led her mind other places. But his eyes—holy crap; even in the dimness of the hallway, they were a bright blue, and she’d had just enough to drink that she thought she just might be swaying along with the waves in their oceanic depths.

(She got poetic when she got drunk; this was a well-established fact.)

“Lass?” Oh god--she’d been staring, hadn’t she? 

“Fine! I’m fine. Sorry. Are you?”

“‘Fine’ is definitely something I’ve been called,” he quipped back, concern melting into cockiness with a wink.

Ugh, she didn’t need any more of that in her life. She rolled her eyes and stepped back, putting enough distance between them to not feel the warmth coming off of him (she was producing enough of that herself--or, at least, the shots of vodka were). “Good to know. I’m just gonna get back out there, then.” Avoiding his gaze, she did her best to slip around him in the narrow hallway.

“Wait,” he called out, and grabbed her wrist as she slipped by. “Sorry; that wasn’t very gentleman-like.” He was definitely being sincere, she could tell. “I, uh, I’m rusty at all this. Let me back up: I’m Killian; I’m a friend of Dave’s from college.”

Of course his name was sexy, too. He’d stuck his hand out amiably; she’d be the asshole not to take it. So she did. “Emma; I live a couple doors down.”

“Ahh, yes--I’ve heard of you: the mysterious neighbor,” he said, running his thumb over her knuckles. “Delighted to finally make your acquaintance.”

Who was this guy? And why did he talk like he had stepped out of a Jane Austen novel? “I bet you tell all the girls that.”

He shrugged. “There haven’t been any of those lately.”

“Guys, then?”

He laughed—a deep chuckle that she wouldn’t complain about hearing again. “No, none of those, either.”

“Good. They suck.”

“What, all of them?”

“Most of them.”

“Well, hopefully I find myself in the minority.” He was still holding her hand, and brought it to his lips to place a kiss on the back of it. Were it not for the slight shiver that went through her at that, she’d be running for the hills (or at least her own apartment); but she was usually good at spotting a lie, Walsh notwithstanding, and she could tell he meant it. 

“Wanna get a drink?” she asked, a bit breathless.

“Absolutely.”

They grabbed another round of wine and took a seat on the couch, which was somehow unoccupied—everyone was still busy dancing and drinking and socializing. Honestly, Emma was a little surprised that so many people fit in a two-bedroom apartment (but it wasn’t like she’d ever tried to have more than a couple people in hers). 

“So, what’s your story?” Killian leaned in close to ask. They were practically nose-to-nose in order to be heard over the music, but she didn’t mind it. And, for some reason, she found her entire life story spilling out to him; not even Walsh had learned everything: about growing up in the foster system, her first heartbreak and the baby she gave up, the reason she’d gone into bailbonds work (so people like Neal couldn’t continue to break hearts). Even the sordid tale of her very-recent breakup.

“He’s a right arse,” Killian said, clinking his glass with hers. “But I’m glad his absence has brought you into my presence.”

“Me too,” she said.

His past was equally tragic: mom died, dad left, then brother died; lost his hand, his girlfriend, and his naval career in the same accident; but he still got to work as an engineer, and still got to go sailing on the weekends.

“God, Killian...you poor thing,” was all she could say.

He averted his gaze—and was either blushing, or flushed from the alcohol and heat of the room—and just said, “It’s in the past, where it belongs. And, honestly, the future is looking pretty good right now.”

“Oh yeah?”

“Well, I hope so.”

She wasn’t bold enough to say it—or confident, given that she was just coming out of a relationship—but she was thinking that, too.

The music switched from girl pop to Disney tunes—it was only a matter of time, considering that Snow was only a few steps away from being an IRL Disney princess—which prompted a conversation about their favorite Disney films, then movies in general, then books and music and all sorts of things. It was casual and easy and, honestly, she didn’t think she’d ever connected with someone so quickly; not since she was a kid and still had some innocence about her.

A slow song came on, and Killian set down his empty glass. “Would you care to dance?”

She gaped a bit; no one had ever asked her that. “What—for real? To this?”

“You just told me you’d seen Enchanted, and I believe that’s what they did to this song. So yes: will you, Emma Swan, dance with me?”

Somewhere, lonely teenage Emma was yelling at her to say yes and fulfill all her wildest prom dreams. Oh, who was she kidding—grown-up Emma still had those dreams. “Yeah, I will.”

He stood and offered her his prosthetic hand; she set her empty glass aside and took it, then followed him up. Gently, he guided her to an empty spot in the room—about 2 feet away—and then put his hand on her waist; she was probably supposed to put hers on his shoulder or something, but she did the same (and definitely noticed the firmness of his core).

They didn’t have much room to move—Dave and Snow were making out a few feet away, as were Ruby and Belle, and another couple—but Killian somehow managed to perform some actual dance steps. 

“What the heck is that, and how do you know it?” she wondered aloud, trying to keep up.

“It’s called a waltz, and there’s only one rule,” he explained, then leaned in to whisper in her ear: “Pick a partner who knows what he’s doing.”

She’d definitely had a bit too much to actually memorize the steps, but she managed to keep up for a bit, until she lost her balance a bit after hitting the edge of the coffee table. Once again, she fell into his chest, but this time, he wrapped his arms tight around her to stabilize her—and she did the same.

“Is this a habit of yours?” he joked, but the twinkle in his eye told her that he wasn’t complaining.

“Just with you,” she tossed back.

“And what makes me so special?”

“You get it.”

He gave her a shy smirk that cut an adorable dimple into his scruff. 

And she couldn’t help it: she kissed it.

The wide-eyed stare he wore when she pulled back told her that it was as much a shock to him as it was to her; she never made the first move. But there was just something about him that made her want to throw caution to the wind—or maybe she just knew it was okay to do that with him. 

Feeling even bolder, she grabbed his shirt and pulled his lips down to hers. He didn’t hesitate to respond in kind and god, he was good: the right amount of pressure, the scratch of his beard, the feel of his hand on her back...oh man.

She normally wouldn’t have done what she did next—not when there were feelings involved, at least—but hey, it was a night for doing new things, right?

“Do you want to take this somewhere else?” she murmured when they eventually broke apart for air.

“Where did you have in mind?”

“My place.”

“Lead the way, love.”

It didn’t seem like anyone noticed as they slipped out, and she’d never managed to get her door open faster. It had just clicked shut before she was on him, pressing him back against it, her hands wandering over his upper body while her tongue picked up where their earlier dance had left off.

Her fingers found themselves near his belt, and before they went too far, his warm hand gently stilled hers. “Are you sure, love?” he asked, panting. “I...I don’t just want to be a rebound,” he confessed.

God, she hadn’t even thought of that. Walsh was already a distant memory. “I don’t want that, either.”

“Alright, then. Proceed.”

“God, you’re a dork.”

“Guilty.”

“Good thing I like it.”

Her lips found his again as her fingers danced over him, and his over her; a trail of clothing marked their path to her bedroom (with only a brief stop against the back of her couch), and they landed naked on her unmade bed.

His large hand and deft fingers found their way to her entrance and were lightly teasing it--the gentlest of brushes that nearly had her seeing stars, and definitely distracted her from fishing the condoms out of her bedside table.

“You don’t mind, do you?”

“Of course not; might need an extra hand, though.”

She almost came back down to earth just to glare at him, but the cheesy grin he wore just made her laugh. It wasn't like she minded, anyway.

She used the opportunity to do a bit of foreplay herself, stroking his considerable length before, during, and after gliding the sheath on. The guttural groan he let out went straight through her.

Enough foreplay—she needed him. She grabbed his shoulders and pressed her chest against his; the brush of his chest hair against her nipples had her arching into him, and his hard cock was pressing right where she wanted him. “You ready?”

“Gods, yes,” he breathed.

And when they came together, she couldn’t remember anyone she’d ever been with before. She was completely aware of the hyperbole but honestly, he just felt so good inside her.

Then he moved, and she forgot her own name, and his, and anyone else’s.

She’d had the kind of sex before where time seemed to stop, but with Killian, it seemed to stop even longer, if that was possible; once they found their rhythm, every press of their hips brought her nearer and nearer to the edge of oblivion, but not so fast that she couldn’t enjoy it.

When she finally fell off, she hadn’t even realized she’d been that close—and let the waves of pleasure wash over her with abandon.

Killian wasn’t far behind her; she felt him still within her as he came with a shout. Normally, she’d be worried about how much noise they made, but she could still hear music coming from the Nolan’s; they were safe.

He collapsed beside her just long enough to catch his breath, then excused himself to clean up. God, he really was a gentleman; a lot of the guys she’d been with hadn’t been so polite about that. He came back a couple minutes later with a washcloth for her to use--seriously, no guy had ever done that. Then he flopped back on her creaky mattress and wrapped his left arm around her.

“You’re bloody incredible, love...and bloody gorgeous,” he said softly, then pressed a kiss on her bare shoulder.

“You’re no slouch, either,” she replied, and hoped the light was dim enough that he couldn’t see how furiously she was blushing. 

“You know...I almost didn’t go to the party tonight,” he said. “It was a long day and I wasn’t sure I felt up to people.”

“Yeah?” Logically, she knew other people had had shitty days, but it was easy to forget about in the face of her own. 

“I’m very glad I did, though,” he continued.

“So am I.”

He pressed a gentle kiss against her lips then, and pulled her a bit closer with his prosthesis. “Think we should head back?” he proposed.

“Mm, nah,” she answered. “They’ll have more parties.”

“Aye, they probably will.”

“And I like the one we’re having right now.”

“Mm, as do I.”

The other party continued into the wee hours of the morning, but Emma and Killian’s went even longer: all through the night, through part of the next day, and for a very, very long time thereafter.

Some time later, she heard that Dolly song again, and another set of lyrics stood out to her:

And you know if there's one thing this blonde has learned Blondes have more fun

She looked over at Killian and smiled; damn right they do.

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A (late) Review of Moby-Dick: A Musical Reckoning

I saw Moby-Dick: A Musical Reckoning by Dave Malloy last month, and I can basically divide it into “The Good, The Bad, and the Racist/Queerphobic/Ableist etc”

Some background: As most people who’ve ever spoken to me will know, I have a special interest in Moby-Dick AND Dave Malloy/Rachel Chavkin musicals (I truly believe that Great Comet is one of the best works of all time) and I consider Malloy and Chavkin both to be my biggest heroes and inspirations, at least when it comes to their respective style of writing and directing. That being said, they’re not perfect. I waited for this musical for about two years, and music/set/etc wise it exceeded my expectations, but it also majorly let me down in a lot of ways.

The Good: The cast! The crew! The set! (It was literally The Pequod - like, they got rid of the stage.) The lighting design in particular was really good - thank you, Bradley King. Manik Choksi, Andrew Cristi, and Starr Busby are gods. I do not have a singular bad thing to say about the cast or the design team! Even the stuff that was tacky/campy (i.e. some of the puppets) was tacky/campy in an enjoyable way. And the “fun” parts of the show were REALLY fun - the fact that they invited the audience on stage, the fact that they TRIED to make Moby-Dick more accessible even if they didn’t do it perfectly at times….the music, when not problematic, was BEAUTIFUL. Listen, I’d be lying if I said Dave Malloy wasn’t one of the best composers when it comes to skill. Everyone in that show sure can act, and sing…the band too, was marvelous, I heard no errors from anyone. This is, what, a three hour long show? And the cast/band was just like, “oh, no big deal.” Which makes “the bad” and “the racist” even worse because these people deserve better. This show deserves better, it deserves to be better.

The Bad: Well, as a book fan, I disagreed with a lot of characterization…most of which can fall into The Racist etc, so I’ll just focus on the “bad but not inherently problematic” here. I really didn’t agree with a lot of things about Ahab’s characterization, i.e. I did not read him as just a bad white guy who’s the epitome of privilege. Stubb, on the other hand is, a canon white supremacist in the book and that barely gets acknowledged in the ways that it should. I do get what Dave was trying to go for, especially in re: Ahab & climate change, but this wasn’t the show for it - or at least, Ahab wasn’t the character for it. Which brings me to my next point: Most of the time, I’m a fan of the quirky Malloyian anachronisms and parallels to modern day issues, but I feel like he was trying too hard here and stepping out of line. Loose adaptations can be fun, anachronistic adaptations can be fun, even INACCURATE adaptations can be fun…but this just wasn’t. It didn’t feel like Moby-Dick, but more like a story vaguely inspired by it. If that had been what he was going for, it would’ve been fine, but he really acted like this would be an accurate adaptation of the book, so I felt let down. The only anachronism/breaking of the fourth wall that I somewhat liked were the talks of Melville and Hawthorne, honestly, and even those I’d sacrifice in favor for accuracy to the source.

And now…The racist/etc.

So. 

Where to begin? I suppose chronologically. Queequeg. Who, according to Dave Malloy, is a stereotypical flamboyant queer person of color! and also a quirky cannibal! He’s trans in the musical, apparently, but there’s not much indication of that in the show beyond from him wearing a binder and a skirt. Now, I am all for trans Queequeg of course, but he was a caricature in this particular adaptation. I do not blame Andrew Cristi. I blame Dave (and mayyyybe the costume designers to some extent). I felt baited. Also, early production rumors and quotes said that there would be a song in which Queequeg saved someone from drowning. That never happened. It pains me to say it, but he didn’t feel that much like an important character (due to the bad writing -- again, it has nothing to do with the actor). 

Additionally, Dave Malloy said that Queequeg and Ishmael would be a clear gay relationship…but the musical left so much room for them to just be interpreted as friends. It somehow became less gay than it is in the original Melville novel. The marriage was excluded, as were the quotes about them being a cozy and loving pair and about Queequeg holding Ishmael like a wife. They were replaced with the “I don’t wanna sleep with a cannibal” song, which was fun to watch at first but way too grossly stereotypical for me to genuinely enjoy it. Queequeg deserves a fun and light-hearted song, but he does not deserve a racist/homophobic one. My advice? Replace it with the actual chapters from the book, please. I do like the fact that The Pacific was a romantic duet and that they sing directly at each other during Squeeze Of The Hand, but those two songs are mere scraps especially compared to, for example, the Bosom Friend chapter of the book. It looked like they were going to kiss during The Pacific and I was very disappointed that they did not. Perhaps the team should keep the songs the way that they are for future productions, but add more romantic staging.

Pip-not-Pip/Elijah/??? (Ashkon Davaran’s character) and Fedallah were also major, major, issues. Not the actors, I love them. Not the book characters, I love them. But the musical characters.

Basically, Fedallah gets this 20 minute long monologue that can be summed up as “religion is bad” and a lot of other things including but not limited to egotistical fake-woke praise on color conscious casting and how badly America is fucked. And that’s not even mentioning the fact that Fedallah is Parsi and Zoroastranian in the book (and it is NOT good rep in the book by any means, trust me, I’ve been calling Malloy out on his racism but I can’t act as if book!Fedallah was anything less than an ~exotic caricature~ either). However, that’s beside the point, at least in this review. Musical!Fedallah is not Parsi nor Zoroastranian. Don’t read this the wrong way, I’m all for Black Muslim rep! But with a character who is already canonically something else? Take a white character and make them a Black Muslim, I encourage that, but when a character is already something else, no.

If the monologue was influenced/written by the actor, that’s one thing and I’d have less issue with it, but I think Dave wrote the vast majority of it, which…yikes…

My constructive criticism: Cut the Fedallah monologue. If the creative team still wants the actor/character to have the same amount of stage-time as he does now, replace it with a different monologue, maybe something from the book? Something about whaling history?

Another thing that needs to be cut or at least completely rewritten: Tambourine. The song starts off with an ableist verse that can be summed up as “you think you’re crazy because you get nervous on the subway? No! I’m more crazy than you!” Don’t take this as me saying that Pip’s trauma/PTSD shouldn’t be addressed at all, but this is the absolute worst way to address it. The song also has a lot of performative lines such as “is god cisgender?” Which, considering this is the same musical that also has trans bait, I truly hate it. Not that I think God should ever be viewed as a cis white man, but much like the “America is awful” stuff in the Fedallah Monologue, this is an offensive and fake-woke way to address such a topic. 

Part IV was really heart-wrenchingly beautiful. No criticism there.

To summarize by part-

Part I: Cut/replace the campy Queeqeug song, but otherwise keep it as it is.

Part II: Cut/replace the racist and xenophobic Fedallah monologue.

Part III: Cut/replace Tambourine. The rest of the Ballad Of Pip (starting with Kim Blanck’s beautiful song) is alright. Good, even.

Part IV: Great! No editing needed besides from the typical tweaking that writers may choose to do after their first draft.

In general: Make Ishmael/Queequeg more obvious, make Queequeg less of a caricature, do some major editing to Fedallah and Pip-Not-Pip/Elijah/???. Tambourine and Fedallah’s Monologue need to be completely rewritten, but I get that the creative team may not want to take scenes away from the actors, which is why I encourage them to remove all of the racist bs and create something completely new/different for the actors to perform. 

I understand that Moby-Dick is clearly a work-in-progress on all levels. I do not dislike for the show for being a scrappy rough draft. I judge it for its racist, homophobic, ableist, etc messages. Dave has acknowledged that this first copy is far from perfect, and I sincerely hope that the racism/etc. is the first and main thing that he fixes. 

[talix18]

November 22

Today I learned what a Japanese tuxedo is (in terms of tattoos) and that David Lee Roth at 65 has more energy in one hour than I’ve had in my entire life put together. I started listening to his appearance on Marc Maron’s WTF? and spent most of that time laughing or with my jaw hanging open. I lost track of Diamond Dave after his stint as an EMT. Now he’s an entrepreneur with a line of skin products formulated for tattooed skin. Gods bless.

Listening to Dave describe his formal music education made me wonder if that’s not what I ought to go back to school for. Music is the thing I love the most but have little actual education in. I took a beginning theory class in college and some sort of classical music appreciation course in grad school; I even played viola for two years in junior high. I guess by the time I got to college I’d ruled music out as a thing one could start studying. One of my high school friends had been playing cello for her entire life and I remember her missing various activities because she was practicing. She’s now making a living with her cello and I guess her example made me assume it was already too late.

Katelyn and I were talking about going back to school the other night. She’s learning young just how hard it is to make new friends once you’re out of school and I think she’d enjoy it, but we’re both looking at our wallets wondering how to pay for it.

School is one of my happy places. I loved learning, I loved feeling my brain work, I hated studying for exams but loved the feeling of understanding the material. I loved explaining to the class what the teacher meant when they couldn’t parse it and I loved making outline after outline of my study notes until I’d whittled the course down to bullet points. I love having conversations with people who are smarter than I am.

I briefly considered pursuing a Certificate of Higher Learning from Oxford because how cool would it be to be able to say I’m an Oxford alum? The majority of classes can be attended virtually, which is where I admit that I don’t just want to be taking classes by myself. I have a wealth of Great Courses available anytime I want to go ahead and start taking them. I want to Go To School. I want to meet smart people. I want to be surrounded by that energy and excitement again.

Now I’m looking up Eddie Van Halen and learning that he’s been in radiation therapy for his cancer for five years and was just in the hospital after a bad reaction to the drugs. Getting older, as my Gram used to say, ain’t for sissies. Love died for me when Eddie and Val got divorced but I’m glad they’re still friends and I’m thrilled he’s been sober for eleven years. I’m not sure I would have survived a rock and roll lifestyle, but then again, I’d rarely be driving.

(Speaking of the brothers Van Halen, how did I never know their mom was Indonesian? Now I understand why Alex’s eyes have looked vaguely Asian to me for all these years. Apparently Valerie has a cooking show and shared Mama VH’s recipe for something that grabbed Mom’s fancy so I can look forward to that!) (Don’t tell her that I’m a little meh on ham for Thanksgiving. She’s finally cooking Brussels sprouts a new way and I am calling that a win.)

(Mom found a recipe YEARS ago that uses Guinness and had faithfully made her “Relapse Brussels sprouts” every year since. They are fine, but they are mushy, and having seen the way, truth, and light of fresh Brussels sprouts roasted with salt and olive oil, I don’t have the heart to tell her that the Relapse BS just aren’t my favorite.)

This is my fourth day in a row of feeling pretty good, and that’s on less sleep than I normally get. I really hope this is because the medication is working. It’s hard to keep putting one foot in front of the other when you feel like you’re doing it in three feet of water. But I’ve been productive at work and at home and actually considered taking on a work training challenge today. I even started my Christmas shopping! (I hate much of what Jeff Bezos stands for, but goddamn if Amazon doesn’t alleviate most of the Christmas crazy.)

The increased meds are not helping the words come out! I have rare free time in front of a keyboard and nothing to say? Maybe that *is* a sign of increased mental health.

December is flat out insane in my family. Thank goodness my aunt moved away with her 12/4 birthday! There were birthday dinners with Mom (12/2), my aunt, me (12/20), and my dad (12/26). My brother’s birthday is also on the 20th and he’s continued the tradition in the latest generation – my niece will be five on 12/1. Her Aunt Lindsay has decided it’s time we start taking her out for birthday dinners. Basically, the fulcrum of the year tips at Thanksgiving and is just a steep slide into New Year’s. (Which I actually have plans for!)

Christmas shopping is so anxiety-laden for me that I have bad dreams about it all year long. (It’s always the same: December 23rd, I’ve purchased nothing, and the only place open in Walgreen’s.) I can’t enjoy the holiday season until I’m relatively sure what everyone’s getting and honestly, I don’t need any more stuff. Just being together and enjoying yummy food is enough for me. The holidays also mean the Hebert Christmas punch tradition from which I’ve been excluded for this will be the 24th time (I can drink anything I want! I choose not to!). My family are all wine and spirit drinkers and most of the time I look around it, but the holidays really make me miss that fuzzy festive feeling.

So how does one achieve that without using? I need to get back on a meditation routine and I need to make upside-down yoga part of my weekly life. Upside-down yoga always made me a little giddy and we rarely invert in the class I take now. I also need to try on my New Year’s Dress and assess how vigilant I have to be between now and then to make it work. I was having some success with an intermediate fasting routine where I’d restrict my calories for two (non-consecutive) days per week. The beauty of that schedule is that I can maintain it through the holidays. I should have just started this week after the colonoscopy.

But I also had a pretty severe mood crash last year and fasting is not for the unstable. Yes, I’m an emotional eater but you know, I’d rather eat my feelings than wish I could opt out of life. I know how to lose weight; necromancy is above my spell level.

Did I ever mention I was a witch and practiced in a coven for a decade? I’ve just gotten to the 20K word mark and it’s likely I’ll start repeating myself any time now. The coven was made of some amazing people but the actual business of witching just felt too much like work. I went in looking for a spiritual experience and what I got was a delightful social experience. That required a lot of time and 40-mile drives and the stagnation of my 12-Step recovery in that decade was not a coincidence.

Yesterday I got to whip out one of my favorite recovery slogans on a friend: “Religion is for people trying to stay out of hell. Spirituality is for people who’ve already been there.” It doesn’t hold up once you consider religions that don’t have conceptions of hell, but it’s catchy.

(The NaNoWriMo website helpfully breaks down how many words one has to produce per day to get to 50K by next Sunday and it is a little overwhelming. I only need 2235 more today to stay on target! [I am not staying on target.])

Somebody give me a topic! (Give me a beat!) Oh! Yesterday I emptied out one of my spare room dressers, which is something that’s been on my project list for, oh, a long time. All I have to do is patch the hole and that room will be ready to paint, which will let me do the floors in that room and the front. With that done I’ll have my closet annex and yoga station all set up and I will finally live in my entire house. And it should inspire me to do the last three rooms.

I’m excited to set up these last two rooms as functional spaces. I can’t tell you what’s taken me so long to surrender to the idea that I need a room-sized closet extension but look…I have to grab joy wherever I can find it. Waiting for the big stuff to fall into place just takes too long and this bizarre timeline provides plenty of reasons to despair. I don’t understand how people can spend eight hours a day in cubes that aren’t decorated and I am not going to limit myself to one of my life’s compulsions if I have room to store it all. (Vanessa is in Tennessee shouting “You’ll never have room for another person in your house that way!” and I’m shouting back “You and your person bought a new house!”)

I do love my house, though, and getting me out of it is going to take some extraordinary conditions. With any luck I’ll meet a life partner who also loves their house and we can commute and share. I still won’t have enough wall space to hang everything I want to; perhaps a rotating gallery space is required. Says the girl who can’t manage to swap the screens out for storm windows and vice versa every year.

[woildismyerster]

Can you write anything with davey? I love how you characterize him!

Y/N:  i need a favor

Davey:  Sure, what’s up?

Y/N:  you just agreed.  no backing out now

Davey:  Y/N.

Y/N:  meet me behind the school

Y/N:  bring a box

“Davey is my best friend,” you cooed into your arms.  “If you like me, you’ll like him by proxy.  Probably.  Hopefully.”

To say that liking you was the same as liking Davey was a stretch, but Davey was winsome.  He would be fine as long as he didn’t do anything stupid.

“And there he is,” you said, grinning at him while he approached.  His eyes were already on what you were holding.  “The life of the party.  The VIP.  The man of the—”

“That’s a cat,” Davey said, voice going up at the end as though it was a question.

“Well spotted.”

“It looks dead,” he said, nothing questioning about it.

“It isn’t.”

It did look it, though.  The kitten was small, patchy, and buzzing with flies.  If it hadn’t been walking when you found it, you probably would have assumed the same thing.  It had settled into your arms without too much of a fuss, which was probably a universal sign that this was supposed to be the Salem to your Sabrina Spellman.

Davey looked at you, then at the box.  “You can’t seriously want to keep that thing.”

You balked.  “Somebody has to take care of it.  Why not me?”

“Because your parents don’t want ‘anymore living things’ in their house,” he pointed out.  “Because you have nowhere to hide a cat, especially if it needs special care.”

“You already agreed to help,” you said with a grin.  “No take-backs.”

“You’re the devil.”

“Irrelevant.”

He groaned.  “My parents will kill me.”

“Suitable.  A life for a life.”  You held the cat out to him, hoping that maybe there was a scrap of empathy in him somewhere.  “C’mon, Davey.  The cat needs help.  I’ll do all the work; I just need a place for him to stay.”

“You can’t do all the work,” Davey said, “when it’s at my house.”

“I’ll come over all the time,” you said eagerly.  “So much you’ll get tired of me.”

“That’s ridiculous,” he said, a strange look on his face.  Maybe it was suspicion.  Maybe he was just thinking it through, imagining how he’d have to change his schedule to fit this in.  “I could never get tired of you.”

“Please?”

“I don’t even like cats,” he said, defeated.  He held out the box so you could settle the kitten in.

“You don’t have to like cats—just the one,” you said, scooping up the box and setting off toward Davey’s apartment.

Davey:  If I touch him, I’ll probably get a horrible disease and die.

Y/N:  dont touch him then

Davey:  This is all on you.

“I feel like a mom,” you crooned.

“The mom of a gremlin, maybe,” Davey said.  He’d locked the cat in a cage, both for his own sake and the cat’s.  He’d read online that the cat needed a chance to get used to it’s surroundings, so he’d been trying to help it chill out in private.  “Or like the queen that gave birth to the Minotaur.”

“Don’t talk about your son that way.”

He snorted.  “Believe me, I’d remember fathering this beast.”

You winked at him, and he went a little pink.

“Not like that, you cretin.”  He sat on the floor with you in front of the cage, crossing his legs.  “We could always give him to a shelter, you know.  To people who know what they’re doing.”

“We’ll take him to the vet tomorrow, and we’ll know what we’re doing after that.”

He sighed.  “You want to keep him.”

“Of course I do.  He’s perfect.”

“He has fleas.”

“He has feelings too, Dave, so watch your mouth.”  You bumped your shoulder against his to soften the words, and he bumped back.  “I want him.  There’s no good reason; I just do.  Please help.”

“Sure, sure.  You know I will,” he sighed.

You grinned, laying your head against his shoulder.  “Isn’t our son beautiful?”

“If you say so, dear,” he said.  After a second, he laid his cheek against your head.  Even through your hair, you could feel how warm his skin was.  Maybe it was just warm in the room.

You weren’t sure there had ever been so many people in Davey’s room before, but cats were a siren call that no rational human could ignore.  None of your friends were rational—aside from Davey, perhaps, but even he had succumbed.

“We took him to the vet,” he told anybody within earshot.  “They gave us a food plan, and he has roundworm—”

“You’re killing the magic, Dave,” Jack said.  “Don’t.”

It had taken a few days for the kitten to get comfortable in his new home, and even longer to reach a point where he didn’t lose his mind around new people.  Your squad had been hankering to see him for ages, but Davey had been adamant about keeping the stressors to a minimum.

“I dunno, guys,” Elmer said.  “I just watched The Haunting of Hill House, and you saw what happened to the kittens they took in—”

“We aren’t kids,” you said.  “Between Davey and I, we can keep one cat alive.  The vet mapped it all out.”

“There are probably other scary movies with bad cats,” Race said.  He grinned, running his fingers along the length of the cat’s head.  “Look out, Davey, the end of days is near.”

“The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe,” Romeo said.

“Lucifer,” Albert said.  “‘Cinderella’ didn’t play around.”

“Mrs. Norris,” Crutchie said.  He hadn’t stopped smiling since he first saw the cat, and the cat seemed to like Crutchie just as much.  No surprise there.

“Or,” you cut in, shooting a sidelong glance at an exhausted Davey, “this cat is gonna be like Crookshanks.  That’d be pretty cool.”

“Not gonna lie, Y/N,” Davey whispered later.  “This is harder than I expected.”

You grimaced.  You’d trust Davey with a cat before anybody else, but you’d never intended to inconvenience him.  “I can ask somebody else to hang onto him, if you want.”

“No,” Davey said hurriedly.  “No, it’s fine, I’ve got it.  I just hadn’t realized how much that would take, before.”

“I could come over more,” you offered.  “Bribe you with snacks.”

He smiled, shooting a look at the shoelace the kitten was chewing.  “That would be nice.”

You grinned back, warming up to the idea.  It was always nice coming to Davey’s house.  There was always good food, and anyplace with Davey obviously had good company.  “You really will get tired of me, now.”

“Impossible,” he said.

Cat NAME POLL RESULTS:

Muffin Man - 2 votes

Name him Davey so we can replace Davey Jacobs with a better model - 8 votes

Jean Ralphio - 4 votes

Dat Ho - 7 votes

Wilson (Jesus, guys, a normal name) - 1 votes

Tom Hanks - 2 votes

“We aren’t naming the cat ‘Davey,’” Davey the Human said.

“That attitude is exactly why we wanted to get rid of you in the first place,” Race said.

“Use the second place name.”

You grinned.  “You know, I thought that ‘Dat Ho’ had a nice ring to it.”

Davey’s glare was withering.  “I should stop hanging out with you guys.  How hard could it possibly be to pick a nice name?  I’m even willing to use a pun at this point.”

Davey the Cat walked across Race’s backpack, claws scritching against the fabric.  He slipped, hit the floor, and proceeded to act as though nothing had happened.

“He even looks a little like you,” you said.  “Fitting to share a name, isn’t it?”

Race threw an arm over Davey’s shoulders.  “It’s a compliment.  Bask in it.”

Les sometimes sent you pictures of Davey with the cat.  They would read together, or Davey would stay up two hours later than usual because he didn’t dare wake the cat up by standing.

You took a screenshot every single time.  After a while, you started setting them as lockscreens on your phone.  You had no good explanation when people asked about it.

“Y/N?”  Davey rubbed his thumb over his lip while he looked at the chess board.  “Are you going to the fridge?”

“Yeah.”

“If you get some cheese, you can give a little to the cat.”

You grinned.  “You give him cheese?”

“Davey the Cat loves cheese,” he said, shrugging.  “Might as well let him treat himself.”

“You’ve gone soft,” you said.  The cat was sitting on the table, looking at that game board with as much interest as Davey was.  Seeing it made you feel a little soft, too.

“I still don’t like cats,” he said.

“Just the one, huh?”

Davey said nothing.  He rubbed the cat’s head, and the cat leaned into the touch.

You showed Jack and Race a picture of Davey with the cat, waiting for their faces to light up.  They smiled, but didn’t seem as taken with it as you were.

“I was surprised when Davey took the cat,” Jack commented on the way to class.  “He’s so whipped.”

“What do you mean?”

“Whipped,” Race said, dragging out the word.  “You know, when somebody does absolutely anything their lover says.  Davey’d jump off a cliff if you smiled at him while you asked him to.  Actually, letting the cat in his house is probably crazier than that.”

“Davey isn’t whipped,” you said.  “He’s just nice.”

“So’s Crutchie, and he would have at least asked his parents before saying yes.”

“Jack, Davey is your best friend.  You know that he doesn’t do anything if he doesn’t think it’s a good idea,” you said.

“Of course it seemed like a good idea.  You told him you’d hang out with him more if he did what you asked.”

You cringed.  “I didn’t say it like that.  He wanted the cat.”

“Davey didn’t want the cat,” Jack snorted.

“He literally told you that he doesn’t like cats,” Race said.  “You need to listen better.”

You scowled at them.  “Davey wouldn’t have taken Davey the Cat in if he didn’t sort of want him, a little bit.”

“He didn’t want the cat,” Jack said, as though you would only understand him if he spoke slowly.  “He just wanted to make you happy.”

“I call BS.”

Jack put his hands on your shoulders.  “Listen to me.  Davey thinks you’re great, and wants to make all of your dreams come true, yada yada yada.  You needed help with the cat.  He could help with the cat.  That’s all there is to it.”

“Please,” you said.  “This is Davey we’re talking about.”

“Exactly.  Why would Davey do something if he didn’t want to?  Because what you wanted mattered more than what he wanted.  It isn’t rocket science.”

It sure felt like rocket science.  Actually, rocket science would probably have made more sense.

So, maybe had taken in a cat because you asked him to.  That wasn’t so crazy, right?

It was a little crazy.

The real problem, the big thing that plagued your mind for days, was the guilt.  You should never have asked him in the first place.  When he hadn’t seemed interested, you should have backed off.  Here he was, stuck with a cat, because he maybe sort of probably would have done anything to make you happy.

You called Jack one night, hoping that talking about it without seeing him might make it easier to ask questions.

“Has he ever told you that he liked me?”

“No,” Jack said immediately.  “Davey’s not really like that, you know.  He’s not really chatty, and he really doesn’t tell people things if he doesn’t want everybody knowing them.”

You knew that, of course.  “What makes you think that he did this because he’s whipped, then?”

“Y/N, don’t be an idiot.  You have eyes.  You know how he is.  If he didn’t want the cat, it was for you.  If he had you come over to help, it was because he wanted you over.  He can take care of a cat on his own.  He likes you.”

You hugged your pillow.  “Okay.”

Jack yawned.  “Is that it?  Can I go to bed?”

“One more question.  Why did I ask Davey to take the cat in the first place?  I knew that Davey didn’t really like cats.”

“Don’t get mad at me for saying so,” Jack said, “but we all assumed that it was because you like Davey back.”

“Oh.”

“Looks, it’s just—it’s always the two of you.  It always has been.  I’m not saying that you guys can’t be regular friends, but I’m not sure that either of you would be good at that.  Not with each other.”

“Davey,” you said.

“Y/N.”  He carefully peeled his string cheese to each strip was around the same size.  

“You don’t have to keep Davey the Cat anymore,” you said.  “Crutchie offered to take him on.”

Davey blinked at you, surprised.  His hands dropped a little, his snack forgotten.  “Oh.”

“You didn’t want him,” you said.

“I know.”

“Now things can go back to normal.”  You didn’t want Davey to be unhappy because he thought it was better for you.  You weren’t sure what to think of Davey liking you—or the possibility (certainty) that you liked him back—but you could try to make life easier for him, at the very least.  “You can have evenings to yourself again, now that I won’t be coming around.”

“Oh,” Davey repeated.  There was no emotion on his face at all.

You grinned, a little too large to be real.  “You were probably getting tired of me, after all.”

“I wasn’t,” he croaked.  The emotion was there now, and you wished you’d talked to him before talking to Crutchie.  “I really wasn’t.”

“You’ll be happier once everything is back the way it was,” you tried.

“I’m not sure that’s true.”

You winced.  “Look, I know that this was all for me.  You don’t have to do this anymore.”

He went a little pink.  “That’s ridiculous.”

“I talked to Jack—”

“Never listen to Jack.  He’s had too much paint water to drink to be sane”

You half smiled.  “Maybe, but he knows you pretty well.”

“No,” Davey said.

“Yes.”

“Maybe.”

“So,” you continued, “I’m going to make this right.”

“I want the cat,” Davey said forcefully.

“What?”

“I want the cat.  I like the way my life is, now.  I like Davey the Cat.  I like having you over.  I like that I’m your lockscreen, and I like coparenting, and I like—”

You kissed him, and everything else was far away.  Sure, you were conscious of everything happening around you.  You heard his food hit the floor.  You heard cars honking outside, and the light tapping of rain against the window.  You were aware of many things, but none of them mattered as much as Davey’s hands going to your waist, or the sharp inhale right before he started kissing you back.

“I, ah, really like coparenting with you,” you said after pulling back.

Davey smiled, baffled.  “Okay.”

“I’ll tell Crutchie that you’ve changed your mind about the cat.”

“Okay,” he said again.  His hands were still on your sides.  “What—why’d you—”

“I’m just not tired of you yet,” you said.

Davey was grinning, still confused but incredibly happy.  “I’m so confused right now.”

You kissed him again.  That would illuminate some things.

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[crystallinerage]

Road Trip to Confession City

I wrote  something, wow. Its just a classic meteorstuck davekat fic. Anyway I’m not fantastic at writing so feedback is appreciated.(Alt title: Dave Stole Fizzy Lifting Drinks)

The air on the meteor is calm, sedated almost. You and Karkat are just kind of chilling in Can Town, sitting just a little closer than would be considered normal back on Earth, you notice. You tell yourself not to worry about it, Earth's dead, and so are all the bullshit social rules that came with it. So who cares about what would have been okay on Earth, right? But, it doesn't stop the dusting of pink that creeps up your neck and onto your ears from just the thought of being so close.

Shit, come to think of it your hands are almost touching. So close that you could just reach over a little and close the space between you. You don't though. It would be too weird.

Karkat's occupied, scribbling doors and windows onto some cans to make buildings, and rambling about some movie the two of you watched a few nights ago. You're responding, but you have no idea what's coming out of your mouth. You must have said something funny though, because Karkat turns to you and laughs in a way that when you had gotten to the meteor you didn't think he was capable of. It's just so... soft and real.

It slowly dawns on you that you have to do something. Anything, just to get something out to tell him. You don't know if you're ready for this. Or if he is either. Or what you're going to even do. But before you can second guess yourself more, you sit up suddenly. It gets you a questioning look from Karkat. The kind where his thick brows are furrowed together, but one of them is peaked up a bit. Confused, sarcastic, and sort of endearing. Jesus Christ you need to get your shit together.

You lean back on your arm a bit, desperately trying to seem casual, "So uh... you wanna like, go somewhere?"

Fantastic. So well executed. The kind of intelligence and way with words that will get you three straight As on your next English papers. Aren't you just the pinnacle of speech.

Karkat's brows crease further. "Go where? And why, what's wrong with Can Town?"

"I... I'll explain when we get there ok?"

"that sounds extremely suspicious but ok, I guess out of everyone on the meteor you’re the least likely to be the one that does me in for good."

Karkat starts to stand up, raising an eyebrow in your direction. You walk towards the exit and wait as he catches up to you.

You walk in silence for a solid three minutes before either of you says anything. You start to wonder whether this was a good idea. Your stupid god tier pajamas don't have any pockets, so you resort to playing with the edge of your cape. You sneak a look over at Karkat from behind your shades and oh god he's looking at you. It's that look with just the slightest bit of confusion and concern. It makes your hands start to shake. Shit, you're staring now. You snap your gaze forward, hoping he couldn't see your eyes from behind your glasses.

He's still looking at you as he asks, "Hey, um, are you like good? You haven’t said anything for the past three minutes and while I’m usually all for you finally shutting the fuck up I still have no clue where you’re taking me and you’re being really goddamn weird about it."

You shrug and try to laugh it off, "nah dude everything is all good, 100%, The goodest it’s ever been and get this it’s about to be even better because would you look at that we’re here."

You panic a bit as you trail off and end up pulling Karkat into the nearest empty room with you.

Shit.

This was a really bad idea.

The room you’re standing in is almost identical to every other room on the meteor. Same grey walls, tiled floor, and fluorescent lights that strain your eyes even with your shades on. You better be able to bs your way out of this one fast.

You flex your fingers, letting go of the cape you forgot you practically had a death grip on. You get another look at Karkat. Oh no. He’s got that look on his face. The one that’s pretty much his standard brand of mildly-and-constantly angry, but with the slightest bit of anticipation in his eyes. The kind of look you’re only able to recognize because you spend so much time with him. On anyone else it’s a look that’s off putting, but with him it’s vaguely pleasant. It’s in the way he looks just slightly up at you, waiting for you to speak, and inevitably ramble your way into oblivion. Speaking of which, you’re doing it again, staring, that is.

You figure at this point Karkat has had enough of standing in silence having you stare him down, because he folds his arms across his chest, sighs, and says, “Alright, so now I KNOW something is up, you dragged me all the way out here, said next to nothing the entire time we were walking, and now we’re in a room that’s completely indistinguishable from any other room on this god forsaken rock and not to mention completely fucking empty. You still haven’t exactly explained what the hell were doing here, so tell me Strider, What. Is. The Deal?”

You let out a long breath, “Yeah ok I guess keeping you in the dark this whole time may have been a bad idea,”

He snorts and rolls his eyes. You probably deserve that.

“But just hear me out okay?”

“Alright Strider, I’m listening. What could be so incredibly important that you had to drag me out into middle-of-nowhere, Meteor City? Am I about to be graced with the most beautiful and moving rap about puppet ass and this room had the best acoustics? Is that it Dave?”

He’s leaning towards you as he says that. He’s close enough that you can see the way his black mess of hair curls around from behind his ears. You know he was just doing it to be sarcastic and condescending but shit if it doesn’t make your heart rate spike just a little. Nothing life threatening, no heart attacks today, but woah.

You laugh and it comes out a little shaky.

“Okay, okay uh, so this is probably gonna sound really weird but just don’t worry about it. I’m gonna say something that I didn’t want to say while we were in Can Town because there’s so many good memories and shit and us being really good friends-like super fucking good friends-and like hell I want to ruin that for myself,shit Can Town is like the one place I can stand to be for more than like two hours, and I also feel like I’d be kinda ruining the sanctity of it or some shit I don’t know -“

“What the actual fuck are you talking about?”

You sigh, God why is this so difficult? It’s not that hard Strider, just get those words out of your dumb shit mouth and hop on the feelings train to confession town. Easy peasy lemon squeezy and all that shit.

“Spit it out Dave.”

Of course this would be the one time you find it hard to speak, of course.

“Alright... alright I-I just, I like you ok, like... a lot. And it took me a while to actually realize it because I was just pulling layer and layer of repression over it and I didn’t want to let Rose know about it because I just know she’d go total therapist mode on my sorry ass so I was just kinda silently freaking out for a while and just kept pushing the thought further and further back in my head. As if I just ignored it long enough it’d go away completely. But then you’d do something that’s just completely fucking mundane and stupid and for some bullshit reason it’d like set something off in my head and I wouldn’t be able to stop thinking about it for literal days on end. And it’s been going on long enough where I kind of had to come to terms with it but as it fucking turns out that doesn’t help! It does exactly jack shit as a matter of fact! It just keeps piling up and the littlest things make my heart speed up and I know I’m kind of throwing a load of shit at you all at once and I basically already know you’re going reject me so hard I’m thrown from this plane of existence but if there’s any chance just... just please tell me you feel the same.”

Oh boy. You realize that that was maybe a lot at once. You cringe inwardly on yourself as you dare another look at Karkat.

He’s… stunned? You assume that would be an appropriate reaction. You have no idea wether it’s good or bad though and it’s eating at you. He looks at his hands, which are halfway inside his sweater sleeves, and back up at you again. There’s something in his eyes that makes you want to cry and scream out of impatience and the smallest, most microscopic bit of hope. You silently will him to say something. Anything really.

He meets your gaze even with your shades on. It’s terrifying, but it’s sincere and filled with earnest. You can see the small patches of red creeping across his face and the hint of a smile on his lips.

“I- oh... oh my god I- holy shit I woah I thought for sure that there was absolutely no way and that came so far out of left field i just woah”

The smile on his face widens, far enough for you to see his sharp teeth. It’s weirdly adorable.

He shakes his head, making his curls bounce out of his face, “I mean Jesus... yeah ok I mean I guess I’ll just cut to the fucking chase here, I like you too, like a whole lot.”

You could swear your feet have lifted off the ground at this point. You can feel how hot your face is and you’re sure you’ve flushed all the way up to your eyebrows. Your heart is moving at a pace you didn’t think was humanly possible. Is this really happening?

“Wait-you’re serious? Like 100% all jokes aside no funny business serious?”

Karkat’s grin threatens to split his face in half.

“yeah... I uh I’m serious.”

“You really like me, you’re sure?”

“yeah, yeah I really really do.”

Holy shit. This is happening. You’re at least an inch off the ground now, you’re sure of it.

Karkat’s fidgeting with his sleeves. You can see his hands shake a little. He looks up at you suddenly, practically bright red (but it’s not like you look much better).

“I- uh can… Can I yknow? Can I kiss you?”

You’re lifted another inch.

“Oh! Shit! I mean yes! Of course, fuck yes you can! God… fuck!”

He takes the two steps towards you that close the space. He hesitates for a second, but puts his hands up and grabs onto the hood of your cape. Oh shit you’re still floating. Embarrassed, you slowly lower your feet back onto the ground. Karkat laughs and, oh god, he leans in so that your foreheads are touching.

“You’re an idiot.”

What remained of the space between you is now gone. His lips are on yours and it’s so… soft. Not like you would expect from the guy that screamed at you for so long he could barely breathe once, but it’s perfect. It’s long and slow and everything you didn’t even know you wanted out of a first kiss. Before you realize what you’re doing you’re pushing your hands up through his hair. It curls around your fingers as you notice that Karkat has pulled you even closer, his arms around your neck.

You break for a second, less than inches away from each other.

“Sorry,” you breathe.

He smiles, “ For what?”

“For taking so long.”

And then you kiss him again.

[spookyjudgement]

GBBO 2020 reactions Episode 4: Chocolate week, in which I presume I must push through my anger as the bakers are punished for failing to do chocolate work in an un-airconditioned tent in the middle of summer.

Ew with Paul being an ass in the preview.

“Chocolate releases endorphins but that tent does not always release endorphins” is both an excellent take and v sad.

Prue doesn’t want decorations...did she mention that when they were telling the bakers what to do this round? Of course not, immediately Lina has decoration.

LOL Matt’s shots at Paul while talking to Dave. A horrible man with a beard. A perfect description of Paul Hollywood.

Oh good luck to Peter, that sounds complicated and Paul and Prue seem judgy. I think it sounds like a good idea! Figs and chocolate go well together!

BAKING’S FOR LOSERS, NOEL PLEASE NOT IN A TENT FULL OF BAKERS

Ruby chocolate returns in Sura’s brownies I should google this and figure out what it is.

Oooooh Lottie is playing it risky with the double bake...good luck with her

Hermine is doing white chocolate, I hope they don’t take shots at her for that. Paul shut up and stop psyching her out about the oven temp. HERMINE DON’T LISTEN TO HIMMMMM

It’s baking, they’re brownies, of course they’re all sweet and of course the bakers will go for sweet toppings! Prue...please don’t follow through on your rubbish pre-bake comment.

You know your meringue is done when you have a trump on your whisk, incredible advice from Mark.

Paul should be banned from the tent/confined to a chair, I hate seeing him lurking behind the bakers.

Oof Lottie has an excellently dark/realistic way of describing things. It’s very funny. Freezer drip...I feel that. I suppose now we have an answer for why bakers don’t always put stuff in the freezer.

How much you want to bet Peter’s brownies are delicious and Paul is just taking it out on him because they’re not plain brownies.

Laura...oh no...Paul is gonna shit on her for it. Prue and Paul shut up about the topping.

Fuck off Paul, he just doesn’t like ruby chocolate and will shit on people for it. I agree with Laura, ruthless.

They’re once more hitting Mark with the stupid too sweet comment. What does Paul mean about the textures comment? Is he just mad about the biscuit base at all?

Of course Hermine got knocked for white chocolate. I didn’t think her flavors sounded like too much...

It seems like they just don’t like anyone’s brownie bakes.

Paul??? Why the fuck are you coming down on Hamish for being messy at the end? They were hot? The bake was good on those.

Moral of the story is that they didn’t want the contestants to do anything but a basic brownie. Like Lottie said, they all tried something different and Paul and Prue were basic as all hell and grossed out by everyone’s brownie variations. Like...what did they think they were going to get? This is Bake-Off, they’re always talking about creativity (and this season they literally saved Rowan for a week based on ideas alone). The inconsistency from P&P is ridiculous.

Mark don’t worry, the audience knows Paul and Prue are full of shit.

Paul, fuck off with the brownie challenge was easy.

Prue stop lurking.

aksdjfakjhdf oh no babka technical.

Well, with any luck Peter will remember what it is from previous seasons so maybe at least one of them stand a chance. I don’t trust whether they’ve been given detailed enough instructions.

Make the dough. Of course.

“Here we are again trying to make rectangles out of circles” iconic words from Lottie again.

LOL SURA THIS IS ALL EXTRA IT’S TOO LONG. Nervous for her for that decision.

How much you want to bet none of them had enough time for proving and baking really. It seems like very few of them have gotten theirs to increase anywhere near enough in size.

Good to see Peter’s looks good. Even though it hasn’t risen “as much” that tells me they had not enough time to prove really.

The fact that plaits didn’t seem to correspond to their taste conclusions tells me maybe they need to think harder about their judging criteria/maybe they are shitty tasters.

“bobka” you’re a judge Prue.

askdfjhasdfkh the fucking weather during chocolate challenges I’m praying for Sura but it’s summer.

OMG NOEL AND MATT’S INTRO TO THE SHOWSTOPPER I’M DYING. No more nappy for Paul!

Ah fuck white chocolate...here’s hoping Paul and Prue don’t slam them for sweetness. White chocolate is sweet. Also the decorations...in the tent...they’ll probably make them temper.

THERE WE GO FUCKING PAUL SAYS TEMPERED AND ALSO SAYS THEY MAY START TO MELT TF DO YOU EXPECT MAN. YOU TELL THEM TO MAKE WHITE CHOCOLATE DECORATIONS ok I’m probably gonna be pissed at this judging.

You only have to be not the worst??? What a vote of confidence in her abilities Prue.

I’m afraid for Sura. We know they do POC dirty and they were explicitly like “you did badly yesterday”.

ohh I’m scared for Peter...chocolate collars...hot tent...fingers crossed

I think Hamish should take Matt’s advice. Or maybe Matt should take Hamish’s advice and do it himself.

“The directions were brilliant” no they weren’t Linda. No they weren’t. Don’t give the bearded man a compliment.

I’m glad Matt is being realistic about Prue and Paul’s sweetness bs. Call! Them! Out!

Peter, the cake-whisperer listening to his cakes.

Oh. It’s too warm. Who knew that was gonna happen. And Paul’s gonna punish them for it as though he could deal with this warmth.

We went from one hour to ten minutes in no time at all...

I’m worried, they all seem like they’re struggling with the white chocolate temps. Peter said he needed chilling time and it doesn’t look like he’ll get any.

Less is not more, I feel that Lottie!

Worried about Sura...she seems stressed. Hamish is trying to help her...but she is many stress...

I’m surprised they think Mark’s looks good? I thought it looked a little plain.

It needs more of a hero flavor??? WHITE CHOCOLATE ISN’T AN OOMPHY FLAVOR!!!!! WHAT DID YOU EXPECT!

Lottie’s looks lovely.

I don’t think Sura’s looks bad! The cakes are a little tilty but the chocolate work is nice! Oh no :’(. Paul took a jab at her recipe since she mentioned the water, really only the bottom sponge seemed underbaked though? Really worried for her.

I mean white chocolate means a darker sponge no? Why’d he slam Dave for it? I feel like everyone has dark sponge edges, they’ve just covered it up with icing!

Hamish’s cake looks cute! I’m glad he got compliments for it.

I’m glad Paul liked Peter’s cake. It seemed a little like Prue had a...more negative comment.

I actually like the way Laura’s looks? It’s like intentionally messy! Which is nice! At least they liked the taste.

I’m living for everyone making fun of Prue’s weird wiggle-moan when she tasted Hermine’s cake.

They’re being clear that they want Sura to go and I am Not Happy About It. I agree with Noel, I love Lottie and Sura, neither of them should go. No one leave the tent. Ever. Everyone bakes on.

I think I like this bunch too much/they feel a lot more level with each other from bake to bake so the bitterness for people going home is just...gonna be heightened for the rest of the competition. Glad Mark won star baker though!

Of course they’re sad that she’s leaving. This is why Sura should have won star baker week one. She deserved it then.

This group seems really close. Probs the effect of being quarantined together.

Sura :’(

[karaokeadvice]

Meaningless Time

It’s a...Tuesday? I think? In the summer? I do know that it’s August, because I moved back to the States on August 1st. So I’m also completely jet lagged and I don’t have any sense of the time of day. To add to my confusion/displacement, I’m staying in my childhood bedroom at my mom’s house which has remained relatively unchanged since the mid-90s. (Case in point, my sister and I still refer to one of the bathrooms as “the new bathroom” although it was renovated in 1995.) So every day I wake up at about 5am craving enchiladas, and unsure about what decade it is, and where I am in my life. But I don’t think this is a unique problem. I assume that most of you are feeling aimless, unsure of the day of the week, and perhaps craving enchiladas at whatever hour you awaken. All of the “normal” markers of life are gone. Seems like a good moment to do a deep (medium?) dive into songs about time. 

Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club 

[This is Karen’s only entry because not only is time meaningless, but I can’t remember any songs I have ever heard at all over the last 44 years.] 

I go through periods every few years where all I want to do is listen to this song on repeat and start crying a little bit when actual chiming reminiscent of a beautiful yet merciless clock gently starts up during the chorus, and if that’s not something you can relate to, I guess you probably didn’t grow up waiting to just get to the part when you’re an older yet wiser divorcee in a peignoir with a high rise apartment featuring large windows to knowingly gaze out of over a twinkling cityscape as a saxophone solo wails in the background. 

Well, some of that has come true for me, but not most of it, but luckily there’s always SOPHISTI-POP to help me cut to that feeling. According to Wikipedia, this is a term applied retrospectively to music “that emerged during the mid-1980s in the UK which incorporated elements of jazz, soul, and pop.” To me it’s songs that came on Top 40 radio after my mid-1980s bedtime of 8:00 pm so I had to listen to them on my clock radio stashed under my pillow and fantasize as detailed above and also something about impatiently taking off a large clip-on earring to answer the phone. 

This feels like a love song but it’s actually a giant dis and a meditation on the sunk-cost fallacy of long-term relationships that are dead in the water. “Time won’t give me time / And time makes lovers feel / like they got something real / but you and me we know we got nothiiiiiiiiiiin’ but time.” At first it feels romantic--we’ve got nothing but time, baby, time to spend together in this beautiful partnership. But wait a minute. Time makes lovers feel like they have something real, but in this case the lovers have...nothing but time. That’s it. Time and nothing else is what’s keeping them together. The charming chiming is actually signalling the death knell of a relationship. “Time won’t give me time.” Isn’t that the truth? Also: an excellent saxophone solo.

Time Passages - Al Stewart

I always get Al Stewart and Dave Stewart of The Eurythmics mixed up. (I know, I know.) This song is actually pretty boring: a perfect fit for this period of ongoing malaise. The experience of listening to it is the equivalent of not listening to anything. It also seems to go on forever, clocking in at 6 minutes and 40 seconds. 

There’s a seemingly endless youtube video someone made which pairs the song with just pictures of sunsets and skies. It’s exhausting and somehow irritating to watch. I think it’s supposed to be relaxing? 

There’s also a weird screaming instrument (or person) at just about the halfway point. So, it turns out I hate this song. I didn’t know until I started this entry. I learned something new about myself today. If you want everyone to die of boredom, you could sing this at karaoke. Actually, that would be a great idea for a room full of drunk kickball players. Please someone take me up on this challenge when and if we can ever safely gather again.

Breathe (2 AM) - Anna Nalick

I don’t know where Anna Nalick came from or where she went after she wisely cautioned us all to “just breathe” at 2am when we are waking up in a cold sweat and calling her for advice. Actually, at 2am I haven’t gone to sleep yet. I’m likely doing one of the following: having a debate with myself in my head about whether or not I should just give up sleeping and start a movie; deciding if it actually matters if I brush my teeth; wondering what things are plugged in that shouldn’t be; and/or mentally cataloging every boy I ever kissed. Also if someone called me at 2am I would scream. I’m calling BS on Anna Nalick actually picking up. At any rate, she is a really good friend to even consider answering the phone at that hour. Also maybe put your phone on vibrate?

Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

This is truly the question for RIGHT NOW. It’s also a really really dumb song. It seems like a filler song, like truly stream-of-consciousness writing (no shade; I’m doing the same thing right now!). But I’m envisioning the producer of Chicago’s album saying kind of last minute, “guys, we need one more song on this record. Literally anything.” I mean, look at the lyrics:

As I was walking down the street one day / A man came up to me and asked me what the time was that was on my watch / And I said / Does anybody really know what time it is 

I mean, maybe I’m not giving the songwriter (Robert Lamm!) enough credit. I guess he’s having the same existential crisis that we all are? But I just find the whole thing so irritating. Who wants to listen to a play-by-play of his day and the people he encounters while on his ambling stroll? TL/dr: one guy wants to know what time it is, some lady feels the need to inform him that her watch has stopped, and then there’s a lot of pushing and shoving (?!) as people are going to and from work. But not our narrator! He’s just walking around, waiting to be approached, so he can NOT ANSWER the question he is asked, and instead ponder the meaning of life. It’s so annoying! And also completely confusing how this was a HIT SINGLE?!! The 70’s, man. (More about this soon.)

Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce

When I lived in England (the first time, as a kid) I had my first BEST best friend, Judith. (Hi Pudes, if you’re reading this.) Like the first person outside my family who actually totally *got* me. I guess we got each other? It was actually how I always imagined friendship to be, but it had never happened like that for me before. 

We hung out every day after school and spent most weekends together. We’d stay up late listening to music in her room and just talking, talking, talking deep into the night. It was just before either of us had discovered boys, so all the energy that would later be used for crushes and romance was channeled into this amazing friendship. 

When we moved back to the US, I was devastated. 

We wrote long, newsy letters to each other faithfully for years. We saw each other every summer. I think it was the first summer we were reunited (her family came to the US to visit) that we sunk a lot of hours listening to “Time in a Bottle” and feeling sad about our fleeting moments together. We took the unusual step of writing the lyrics out on belts (?!!) for each other, and that belt with her handwriting and Jim’s lyrics hung on my closet door for all of high school. 

But there never seems to be enough time / To do the things you want to do / Once you find them / I've looked around enough to know / That you're the one I want to go / Through time with.

The bitter irony here, of course, is I lived in England again until last Saturday, and there still wasn’t enough time to see her. Not that we were allowed to for much of the past several months, anyway. But regardless, we have families and busy lives of our own now, and that brief fleeting moment when friendship is your only responsibility has long passed. 

Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper

I get a Strong Emotional Reaction from the opening chords of this song; do you? Flashback, warm nights!

This is one of three CL songs that I mix up. I always wonder, is this the one that makes me sad and I also think might be good to sing at karaoke? So I start here. Then, I realize, no, the one I’m thinking of has a longer title and something to do with night.

Oh! It must be “I Drove All Night.” So I move on to that one but it’s too upbeat.

Finally, I realize I must be thinking about “All Through the Night” and get the gut-punch nostalgia hit I was seeking from the opening keyboard twinkle. (Twinkle?!)  Hope you enjoyed this tour of my brain.

Anyway, back to this song. Time after time, Cyndi helps me sift through the suitcase of memories, dreaming about my bright future as Mrs. Corey Feldman. Like Karen’s SOPHISTI-POP entry, this is another ten-year-old under-the-covers listening experience. With no baseline for actual relationships, I pictured this as a treatise on Adult Love. A series of gauzy-hued Missed Connections, punctuated by consent issues (you say, go slow).

Upon grown-up relistening, it is a strikingly accurate portrayal of Relationships. She’ll be waiting for her lover, time after time, no matter what; but also literally waiting--what with the clock ticking and the second hand unwinding. I’ll wait for you forever but also it’s 7:35 WHERE ARE YOU.

(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life - Bill Medley / Jennifer Warren

This is not the best song on the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. That honor OBVIOUSLY belongs to “Hungry Eyes” by Eric Carmen. I don’t think you need to hear any more details about my ten-year old fantasies though, so I will spare you. 

“(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” made a recent reappearance in my life when it was played at a Halloween party. I had a drunken miscommunication with my friend Nelson where I stood at one end of the dance floor and ran towards him at full speed, thinking he would somehow instinctively do “the lift”. But instead I just crashed into him and almost broke his glasses and nose. So, this is really just a word of warning. 

Also, Patrick Swayze is SO MUCH OLDER then Jennifer Grey; how did we not notice/care? Just so busy stanning Baby and Johnny Castle. Better or worse than the glaring age gap between David Bowie and Jennifer Connolly in Labyrinth? EVERYTHING IS RUINED.

All My Life - K-Ci & JoJo

Luckily, the YouTube comments have written this entry for us. 

Y.N. 2 months ago

Who’s listening during quarantine?  😁

O.S. 3 weeks ago

If you are also randomly playing old music. Hit like

JO 1 month ago (edited) 0% Butt shaking  0% Drugs 0% Lambos 0% Strippers 0% Cursing 100% TALENT

J.C. 2 weeks ago (edited)

TIMELESS!!!

[allons-y-to-hogwarts-713]

85 Questions Tag!

Yikes! This is very useful for procrastination from homework. 😉

Thank you @party-with-books for tagging me ❤️😊

Rules: Answer the questions and tag whoever you want (originally 20 people but like… that’s also a lot)

The last:
1. drink: Dr. Pepper
2. phone call: I think my mom
3. text message: also my mom
4. song: “Branded” (when I started) and “No More (Acoustic)” (when I finished) by NateWantsToBattle because my cousin showed me his music a few weeks ago and I am OBSESSED
5. time you cried: like an hour or less ago

Have you ever:
6. dated someone twice: lol I’ve never even dated someone once
7. kissed someone and regretted it: familial maybe, but I’ve never had a kiss on the lips
8. been cheated on: that would require dating
9. lost someone special: Yes, several, but the closest and most recent was my uncle, which is the reason for the crying within the last hour
10. been depressed: perpetually
11. gotten drunk and thrown up: never tasted alcohol, I don’t even like the smell of it

Favorite colors:
12. Blue
13. Slytherin Green
14. Black
15. Magic Mint
16. Dark Red

In the last year have you:
17. laughed until you cried: yes
18. found out someone was talking about you: ...I don’t think so? I’m not sure
19. met someone who changed you: sort of yes, and probably other(s) without even knowing it yet
20. found out who your friends are: Yes?
21. kissed someone on your facebook list: technically? (because I don’t have a FB so my lack of kisses can be applied to my lack of a list)
22. made friends: Yes
23. fallen out of love: as in lost love for certain celebrities, yes, but personally I’ve never “been in love”

General:
25. what did you do for your last birthday: went to Dave and Busters with my parents and a friend
26. how many of your facebook friends do you know in real life: All of them, because I don’t have a FB so I know all my zero FB friends
27. do you have any pets: nope, but I’d like to
28. what time did you wake up: around 9:30-10:00am
29. what were you doing at midnight last night: working on homework for my Mandarin Chinese class
30. name something you can’t wait for: seeing Miss Saigon in NYC on Saturday!
31: what are you listening to right now: NateWantsToBattle (OBSESSED)

32: have you ever talked to a person named tom: Several actually
33: something that’s getting on your nerves: lots of things
34. do you want to change your name: no
35. hair color: dark blonde
36. long or short hair: long (but I kinda wanna finally get it cut soon I think)
37. piercings: earrings
38. tattoos: none, unless you count the ones from Racing Stripes Gum that have been applied and removed over the years
39. blood type: I should know but I don’t. But I don’t want the vampires to know what flavor I am anyway so I wouldn’t post it. (Well, there’s a few exceptions...)
40. nicknames: sometimes Kay. (I was given the name 楷莉 in my Mandarin class, so we talked about nicknames today and I guess I’ll go by 楷楷 but only in that class.)
41. relationship status: 🎶everybody’s got somebody but me🎶, and I’m fine with it
42. zodiac: Taurus
43. pronouns: she/her
44. most visited website: This one, but through the app mostly
45. right or left handed: Lefty! 😃
46. surgeries: none that I can think of?
47. sports: umm, mathlete
48. favorite tv show: A LOT OF SHOWS
49. vacations: almost every year with my family to OBX, NC, but idk if we’re going to continue that now without my uncle 😔
50. sneakers: whatever is on sale that won’t fall apart in a week. My newest ones are Vans, but the ones I wore for several years prior were Sketchers and NewBalance

More general:
52. eating: nothing rn, but I recently ate a mini Hershey’s cookies ‘n’ cream bar
53. fave drink: Dr. Pepper, root beer, Mountain Dew Code Red, coffee, tea, EGGNOG, chocolate milk, apple cider
54. what you’re up to: anxiously procrastinating
55. waiting for: better days/a break from all the crap for my family and I, a sense of purpose, a dentist to actually fix my teeth instead of just making them worse, the next Thomas Sanders video, a chance to be in a Broadway musical, etc.
56. want: [see 55]
57. get married: doubtful, which is more than fine with me
58. career: augh idk. Hopefully something in graphic design I guess, since my electives are the only classes I’m actually getting anything out of with this four-year bs b.s. degree in computer science

Which is better:
60. hugs or kisses: hugs if either (at least with my lack of kissing experience)
61. lips or eyes: eyes
62. shorter or taller: no preference
63. older or younger: either? But like a very small age gap either way
64. nice arms or stomach: Both? Both. Both is good.
65. hook up or relationship: solid relationship
66. troublemaker or hesitant: in fictional characters, both, especially if both are in one precious conflicted guy. And I guess even irl, a little bit of both, but small scale trouble, like something that gets me out of my comfort zone that ends up being fun but nothing that’s gonna break a law or get us in any even small amount of actual trouble, so both in one person but weighted toward hesitant.

Have you ever:
67. kissed a stranger: Nope 
68. drank hard liquor: Nope
69. lost glasses/contacts: lost a contact once, but I haven’t lost my glasses which I wear more often
70. turned someone down: yes. Well, I tried to anyway, but it took a while for them to actually comprehend it because I guess maybe I wasn’t quite blunt enough about it somehow because I’m soft spoken and don’t want to be a jerk but also know my right to say no.
71. sex on the first date: No (marriage first (and since I don’t plan on getting married, I’ll likely pass altogether, because that’s actually one of many reasons why I don’t want to get married))
72. broken someone’s heart: No. They might say so, but then that’s their lack of respect for my right to say no as a female, because we were never together for me to have broken their hearts (contrary to the rumor at least one of them spread which was a terrible part of my hs senior year and finalized me not going to prom) [see 70]
73. had your heart broken: yes, but not in a romantic relationship way
74. been arrested: Nope, I’m a good hippogriff
75. cried when someone died: Yes, several
76. fallen for a friend: Not necessarily...

Do you believe in:

77. yourself: lol
78. miracles: yes
79. love at first sight: maybe, but it’s rare if at all, and there’s so much wrongly perceived to be love at first sight that I’d be skeptical anyway even if it actually was. I think you have to know the person to truly love them, and physical attraction by itself usually gets in the way of real feelings and connections or lack thereof.
80. santa claus: 🎶like I believe in love. I believe in Santa Claus, and everything he does. There’s no question in my mind; yes, he does exist. Just like love, I know he’s there, waiting to be missed.🎶 (oh hey look at that, now I’m crying about Mickey Rooney too)
81. kiss on the first date: mayyyyyybe? I’ll let you know if/when I get there
82. angels: yes

Other:
83. current best friend’s name(s): several on here and several in person that idk if I can post
84. eye color: blue
85. favorite movie: too many

I’ll tag: @alys07 @agentmarymargaretskitz @euphoric-melancholyy @karasimmons @swans-and-pirates @cutieodonoghue @hook-come-back-to-me @thegladelf @thesassywitchofthenortheast @techieninja18 @walkmanquill207 @themcuhasruinedme @floridianfireflyfaith @kittennharington @lenfaz @lightsandmetaphors @lieutenantguyliner @captainswansjourney @crowleys-poppet-queen-of-asgard @claravitae @revolting-phantom97 @whatamagicalworld and anyone else who wants to do it, and as always it’s no obligation. 🙂

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#TheAtlantic has some interesting #relationships articles that I plan on reading. First, on BS #LoveLanguages https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/10/how-the-five-love-languages-gets-misinterpreted/600283/ , then #StayingFriends and #RelationshipSpace

The idea that there are five distinct “love languages” may be as familiar to some people today as the idea that there are seven continents, four seasons, or three Stooges—which is a pretty spectacular showing, all told, for a concept that was introduced in a 1992 book by a Southern Baptist pastor that was aimed mostly at married Christian couples. The author, Gary Chapman, based his theory that everyone has a primary love language (that is, a category of behaviors that they most immediately associate with affection) on his own observations as a counselor. Enumerated in the book and now well known to millions, the five love languages are quality time, physical touch, acts of service, giving and receiving gifts, and words of affirmation.

Clearly, the theory resonated: If you were to search for the phrase love language on Twitter, perhaps late on a Wednesday morning, you’d likely find more than 50 tweets from the past hour containing the phrase. Some would be jokes: Brunch is my love language. Downtempo experimental bass is my love language. Listening to Dave Ramsey’s podcast together is my love language. Weed, music, avocado tzatziki—all have been cited as at least one person’s self-described love language. Other tweets would be earnest and self-appraising: Hanging out on the couch with him this weekend made me so happy—guess my love language is quality time. Almost all of them would also identify or explain the person’s own love language.

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Elsewhere on the internet, such as on Reddit’s popular relationship-advice forum, r/relationships, the concept of love languages is equally ubiquitous, though taken a little more seriously. Advice-seekers frequently write in with dilemmas that are variations on a small handful of themes: “My partner and I don’t share the same love language,” “I’m failing to ‘speak’ my partner’s love language,” and “My partner is failing to speak mine.” Over the years, the idea has gotten high-profile exposure from celebrities like the “Millionaire Matchmaker” Patti Stanger and been discussed on TV shows like The Real Housewives of Orange County.

Read: Why are Millennials so into astrology?

Today, people often trot out their self-identified love languages as shorthand to indicate how they behave in relationships, in the same casual and convenient way they might refer to their astrological sign or Myers-Briggs type (or Enneagram type, or Hogwarts house). In a recent Vice story about how the love-languages theory got so popular, for example, the author used zodiac terminology to talk about her love language, identifying herself as “an ‘acts of service,’ with a ‘words of affirmation’ rising.”

This self-focused way of discussing love languages is very different from what the concept’s inventor seems to have intended. As the idea has grown ever more ingrained in the popular consciousness (and ever more disconnected from the text that introduced it), Chapman’s consistent urging toward learning other people’s love languages and modifying one’s own behavior accordingly has been de-emphasized. In its place has emerged a notion that the point of knowing your love language is to find a partner with the same one, or to request that others learn to “speak” it. And as a result, at least according to some researchers, the real value of love languages as a relationship tool may be getting lost in a large-scale cultural game of telephone.

In 1992, Moody Publishers had “high hopes” for its release of Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages. A pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Chapman had been counseling couples for years, and he had recently been teaching the love-languages theory to seminars full of husbands and wives. Now he was putting his ideas into print.

Moody ordered about 8,000 copies of The Five Love Languages in its first run, according to Janis Todd, a publicity manager for the publishing house who has been working with Chapman’s book for 20 years. It enjoyed robust sales for a few years, she told me—and then sometime around 1999 or 2000, “the trajectory for sales began to almost just go straight up.” The book, a long-standing New York Times best seller, has now sold more than 12 million copies and been printed in 50 languages. Chapman’s The Five Love Languages has also spawned five special editions (for parents of small children, parents of teenagers, singles, men, and members of the military), an app called Love Nudge for couples, and a popular website launched in 2010, where more than 30 million people have taken a quiz designed to help individuals identify their own love languages.

Todd is well aware that the idea—that there are five love languages and everyone has a primary one—has eclipsed in popularity the book that introduced it. “People are using the phraseology of ‘love languages,’ and not even realizing it’s coming from this book,” she told me. At this point, she added, “it sort of has a life of its own.” (Indeed, as the Vice story noted, some therapists even impart the idea of love languages to their couples-therapy clients without having read the book: One therapist told the author she knew enough to know it was “a vehicle for people to communicate about yourself to someone else. It’s a way to ask for what you need.”)

But people who become familiar with the concept without reading the book often think, Todd noted, that people should simply express love in the way that feels natural to them and then explain to their partners that that’s their love language—or that the point is to know your own love language solely for the purpose of telling your partner what you want. Certainly, Todd emphasized, it’s good to know your own love language, and it’s healthy to communicate to your partner what makes you feel appreciated and what doesn’t do much for you. But Chapman’s advice, she pointed out, doesn’t stop there so much as it starts there.

If you sit down and read Chapman’s book, it’s clear that the love language you’re meant to think about isn’t your own, but your partner’s. The first chapter concludes by hammering home that the pathway to a more fulfilling relationship is to tailor your own expressions of love to what makes your partner feel loved: “We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it,” Chapman writes. “If we want them to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in their primary love language.”

Chapman then devotes five chapters to identifying each of the love languages in a partner, just one to identifying your own love language, and the better part of six chapters—essentially the rest of the book—to specific strategies for adapting your behavior to your partner’s love language. In other words, what often gets lost in the discourse is that The Five Love Languages encourages attentiveness and behavioral self-regulation above all else.

Which, if you ask some relationship researchers, is a shame—because that’s the part that holds the most promise.

When the love-languages concept entered the cultural lexicon, it soon attracted the interest of a handful of relationship and marriage researchers who wanted to test Chapman’s claims as scientific hypotheses. Their findings have been mixed, but some researchers have found its attentiveness-plus-behavioral-change formula worthwhile. One study determined, for instance, that Chapman’s advice was likely to produce certain established “relational maintenance” behaviors that research had previously linked to higher rates of love, satisfaction, commitment, and equity in relationships. So in theory, it was certainly possible that a couple who applied the principles of The Five Love Languages to their day-to-day lives could end up with higher levels of relationship satisfaction. Another study found that love-language alignment (or two halves of a couple identifying as having the same love language) was a somewhat weak predictor of relationship satisfaction, especially when compared with self-regulating one’s behavior according to a partner’s wants and needs.

Julie Gottman—who co-founded the Gottman Institute for marriage and relationship research and therapy with her husband, the love and relationship researcher John Gottman, in 1996—told me she started getting questions about the love-languages idea about a decade ago. Often, the questions came from attendees at the couples workshops she hosts with her husband. Usually they were about whether they endorsed Chapman’s philosophy, and came from couples who had found the advice helpful.

“In workshops like that, you don’t want to invalidate somebody’s liking of a particular theory,” Gottman said.

Like other researchers in her field, Gottman harbors some doubts about the notion of love languages. For one thing, she’s not so sure about the idea that everyone has one primary language of affection; rather, she says, expressions of affection can vary in significance according to context. In some situations, an act of service or a word of affirmation will be especially meaningful to people even if they don’t believe their love language to be either of those things, for example, and “gifts” folks can encounter moments in which a well-intentioned gesture feels inadequate. Identifying a primary love language can also have a pigeonholing effect, she noted: Partners may begin to express affection in only one way, regardless of context, or recognize only one kind of act as an act of love. Plus, Gottman told me, some elements of a relationship that are framed as “love languages” in Chapman’s theory should be considered necessary ingredients in any healthy relationship—like quality time.

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And when partners use the concept of love languages only as a way to talk about how they themselves instinctively express affection or what makes them personally feel loved, Gottman noted, the idea can actively cause trouble in relationships. Some survivors of combat or sexual-abuse trauma, or some people with autism-spectrum disorders, for example, won’t respond well to partners who insist on physical touch as the way they want to give and receive affection. (“Occasionally, I have encountered a researcher who doesn’t agree with my findings, and I’m okay with that. I welcome the results they discover in their own research,” Chapman said. He added that he likes to learn about other researchers’ models and sample sizes and learn how they arrived at the conclusion that the love-languages theory doesn’t apply.)

When I told Gottman, though, about the research that linked the self-regulating piece of Chapman’s original love-languages idea to actual improvements in relationship satisfaction, I believe her response can fairly be paraphrased as, Well, yeah. Is it any wonder that paying attention to a partner’s needs and wants and acting accordingly results in a better relationship?

In more than two decades of working together, Julie and John Gottman have developed their own model for building successful relationships. Called the Sound Relationship House Theory, the Gottmans’ model imagines a house with seven levels, and the base level of the house—the foundation, if you will—is labeled on the Gottmans’ diagram as “Build Love Maps.” To build a love map of any particular partner, Gottman told me, is to ask yourself, “How well do you know your partner’s internal world? How well do you know what their needs are? Their values, their preferences, their childhood experiences, their history and other relationships, what their current stresses are? What their hopes and aspirations are? How well do you know the person that you’re relating to—how well do you really know them, all the way down?”

If there’s any room at all for the concept of love languages inside the Gottmans’ theory, it’s here—at the base level that’s about “knowing who this person is, and knowing them really well.” Learning your partner’s love language—that is, paying attention to what gestures of affection he or she appreciates and responding accordingly—could be one small part of that. Only after that foundation is laid, Gottman noted, can couples move on to building the next six levels of the house, which include things such as developing the habit of affirming a partner’s bids for your attention and learning how to effectively manage conflict.

The real value of the love-languages theory, then, seems to be that when applied as Chapman advised, it encourages people to simply be more attentive to their partners: to ask questions about how they like to be treated, to consciously express affection and support, to check in about what, as Chapman likes to say, “makes their love tank feel full.” Perhaps what people misunderstand about the love-languages theory is similar to what they often misunderstand about love itself: that considering the needs and wants of the other person first and then adjusting your own behavior—and not expecting it to work the other way around—is what makes the whole thing work.

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The Five 8/2/19 | Breaking Fox News News August 2, 2019

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Hannity Pinned by Hannity 18 hours ago FULL SHOW UPDATE : https://youtu.be/AgA6LPbesDE

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REPLY Don Quijote 1st thing I check: Juan's NOT there!! 😂😂😂🎉🎊🎇🎆

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Johnny Lawrence 18 hours ago TRUMP 2020!!!! The train is moving full steam ahead 🚂🇺🇸MAGA🇺🇸

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Maurice Belanger 18 hours ago

NO  JUAN  WOW 😮👍❤️💕🇺🇾

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Ken Overman 17 hours ago There is no one on the Democratic side that can beat our President Donald J Trump

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REPLY Maxxwell Maxxwell 18 hours ago No Juan 👌🏻

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REPLY Grim Reaper  17 hours ago YES!! No Juan. It's a much better show without him.

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REPLY Audrey Carroll Greg! PLEASE keep Capri and axe Juan🙏🏽

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REPLY Steven Johnson 17 hours ago Obama will not Help the next DNC Candidate. Democrats are what they have always been. Fools!!

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REPLY Pete Duncan 18 hours ago Trump has become everybody's Presedent.

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REPLY ptsd and me 47 hensley 18 hours ago every election that i can remember  [i am 71 ] they are going to fix the inner city. in 4 years it will be the same.  stop the bs

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REPLY joe moreira 18 hours ago (edited) Shes a thousand times more tolerable then jaun when she talks about dems reality in dem is rear trump2020

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REPLY Tay Tollefsen Juan must go!!!!

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woodstock I am so proud of our people. NO Chant just like the president asked. We are gonna win. Sorry. You can't beat integrity, honesty, hard work and loyalty. Democrats have none of that.

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REPLY freethinker 45 18 hours ago President Trump the Peoples President

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REPLY Lisa Noel 17 hours ago Ben. Carson will prayvfirst and then GET IT DONE .WE LOVE. TRUMPS FRIEND BEN CARSON.

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REPLY mr ady and mim yay 17 hours ago Had Cummings shared the 16 billion with his residents, an average household with 4 people would have received $100'000. That would help to pay off some debts and get people back on their feet.

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REPLY Lawrence Foster Lawrence Foster 18 hours ago If YOU LOOK AT ANY DIVESTATED CITY HE SAID.

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REPLY Kathy Sloan 17 hours ago First - Michelle is NOT the most admired 'woman' in the country.  More FAKE polls and FAKE news.  How about doing some investigating for a change like on the video I found. 

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REPLY Lee North 17 hours ago "If the Kingdom of God is within you then everywhere you go you outta leave a little bit of heaven behind" #spreadlove

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REPLY Joy Jarrelson 18 hours ago No classes Trump's got 2020 vision lmfao

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REPLY toneman335 17 hours ago President Trump 2020

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REPLY Made In USA 15 hours ago I live in southern California, and Trump is absolutely right. The Democrats have run our great state in to the ground. I hope he keeps up this theme so we can win back the House.

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REPLY Heinzy 16 hours ago Sorry I'm not American but why is M. Obama admired? Just wondering, not being insulting.

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REPLY mario pena mario pena Julian Castro .. was mayor of San Antonio texas.. LATINOS and Black neighborhoods are poorest.. westside and Eastside.. LATINO for trump.. 2020 . For the private sector.. from San Antonio texas

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REPLY Stephen Nguyen 16 hours ago Yeah, no stupid Juan. Thank you Fox

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REPLY Nirvana 99 17 hours ago No Juan Williams 🥂🍻

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REPLY Dennis Navarro 16 hours ago JUAN PLEASE STAY GONE. JUAN PLEASE STAY GONE. JUAN PLEASE STAY GONE.

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REPLY rogeliogarcia07 16 hours ago I like LIZA BOOTHE,why the 5 don't invite her to the program ?

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REPLY willard fillmore 16 hours ago Obozo was the worst whatever of anyone who sat in our oval office.. He is a bold faced liar. He is a traitor and a big time pedophile..!! I would be very embarrassed to even mention his name..!!

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REPLY Richard Martin 17 hours ago Barak Obama single most significant achievement was the creation and election of Donald J trump, Obama’s failures and smugness put Donald trump the 45th president of the United States 🇺🇸 in the Oval Office

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REPLY Emma White 17 hours ago NO Juan, 👍, I'm watching the " Five ", this lady that took his place it's worth listening. Thanks FOX News from New York, I live in California a blue state, Where I have to keep my mind quiet.❤

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REPLY Sofa Joe 17 hours ago @emilycampanio... you went to go see Guns and Roses the other night, one of your favorite songs is Night Train?... I was in love with you before but now it's official.

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REPLY Mary Annette 18 hours ago Sorry about that but my Mother never forgot her eight kids.  Tragic situation.

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REPLY deathvalleyalex 17 hours ago Mr President   let's focus  on the sanctuary  of California  and the sanctuary  cities  like los angeles ,  San Francisco  ,Oakland   and all the other sanctuaries  the democrats  decided were more important than taking care of americans that are ill, hungry .  jobless or. Homeless

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REPLY Bad Bob 17 hours ago John Wayne had some really interesting music. He made a song called "The Hyphen". That song explained so much in understanding how to relate to an American and not an ethnic label!

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REPLY Tim Schjei 17 hours ago Baltimore received 16 billion dollars in 2018. With 2 billion dollars they could have hired over 16,000 law enforcement individuals for two years, LA has 9000 sworn officers and should have 10,000 more. Where did the money go?

#1 priority of government is the safety of its citizens.

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REPLY Ralph Geigner 16 hours ago OBAMAS  Regime ! Many in the Military felt him and his regime was weak leadership !  EXAMPLE ! Look at Putin's expressions, actions during interviews !    We had funding $ issues for repair parts and equipment overall !  We had Pay $ issues during his regime !  There was many issues at the VA's !   NEVER RATS !   Go ARMY

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REPLY John Kidd 16 hours ago Love the deranged Dems. Waiting for Michelle and Hillary to declare before the deadline. Now that would be a cat fight.

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REPLY Oceans 17 hours ago This President is completely transparent and everyday he is making huge strides in bringing America back to greatness. He knows he has a relatively short time, 4 years, to undo past disasters and give Americans something they can be proud of for generations to come. Your energy is beyond amazing  out at the crack of dawn and working hard until the midnight hour and beyond. AND not taking a penny for your work. 

How many people can say that. You are what America has needed for many years and I continue to be amazed at the monumental changes taking place in the Country you love. Read more

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REPLY James Woodman James Woodman 15 hours ago Dems are the party of Globalist and anti American

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REPLY Gene Lonnon 18 hours ago Bagalia starting chant for Hillary, only hope for Dims, playing out exactly as I called it 2 years ago.  Can you say brokered convention?

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REPLY MCccc7 Cortes 17 hours ago Obama's Legacy First Year: hiked up prices on candy & soda,  Increased prices on automobile plates.( They had to have security at DMV, cause ppl were flipping out) You had to buy or get a free unit to watch Hump back Tv., We now have to use Curly light bulbs, Cash for Clunkers. Obama phones.  Good going Obama great Legacy! Lmao! Read more

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REPLY phantom 7 cross rose 15 hours ago damn, I have to say it,  the 2 conservative babes are hot as most conservative babes are, by contrast, dem women exude hatred, very off putting, but the conservative babes make my sticker peck up😇

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REPLY Jim McCarley 17 hours ago I think President Trump hates wort hogs! Ever notice you never see him with one! I never saw an article where he invited a wort hog to the oval office! You recon he ever invited a wort hog to his mansion for lunch! Oh my! I just realized "for lunch"! He hates wort hogs! He hates wort hogs!

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REPLY Tietje Weaver 16 hours ago Beta males, yeah, we don't want to follow them lol

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REPLY Timeless 16 hours ago

OMG! Brian is no longer a book end, but part of The Five Squad? Fox is improving and Brian looks so relaxed 😎 now. Free!

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REPLY Rebecca Perez 17 hours ago

No this is not human behavior Greg... Children are suppose to be the most important person in someone's life... No... No... No... Lock him up...

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Can we replace Juan with this woman?

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Tim Schjei 17 hours ago Both the Republicans and the Democrats have been wimps since after Ronald Reagan and prior to Donald Trump.

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REPLY Dave Sandlin 15 hours ago This Kevin guy is sure on some powerful crack.

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REPLY JVONROCK 16 hours ago Seattle’s wayward  citizens same as those all over the west coast.   Perverted leaders still haven’t a clue. But disease has a way of cleaning.

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REPLY nobodybutme1000 16 hours ago Emily looks hot...as usual.  Seems she's looking super fit too

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REPLY Ron Fall 16 hours ago Terrible analagy GREG!!!!!  When you have kids then you can TALK!!!!!!! No defense of this guy no matter what.

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Tom Brown 14 hours ago Can someone please tell me what the hell Michelle Oboma can do.  The only thing I remember her doing is ruining school lunches and trying to ban bacon. And lieing about how wonderful Berry was.

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Andyzerg 11 hours ago Emily Compagno monologue 7:53 SPLOOSH!!

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REPLY Hose Kim 9 hours ago Is Juan completely gone?

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REPLY Penni Bingaman 12 hours ago If a woman would forget her child in the car, it wouldn't matter. She's be prosecuted.

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REPLY Steven Johnson 17 hours ago Thoughtful opinions by all on the "Hot Car Case".

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REPLY Trudi Jones 17 hours ago Juan good, but I miss Jesse

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Jethro Payson 17 hours ago Being poor is not a crime.  Making money off of it, lying, and letting criminals fester is different.

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Neide Durant 17 hours ago Get rid of Juan , it was a very pleasant five today !

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gaspar ortega 17 hours ago Kevin you are dreaming

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REPLY tkell31 14 hours ago Haha, the chunky democrat pretending that Pocahontas helps warren.  She knows it's a killer.  Hits right at her character or more accurately her lack of character.  And yeah, +1 for no Juan.

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REPLY Ronnie Bishop 10 hours ago Trump will help the inner city’s if they will have enough sense to vote for him.

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REPLY RayLo RayLo 17 hours ago Hot car kids case: (19:00) You DON'T forget your kids!!! I don't care what may happen to distract you!!! You DON'T forget your precious babies in the back seat!!! Did he not recover in the 8 hours he was working that he realized  'My God, I forgot the kids'???!!!

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REPLY Annette Scott 59 minutes ago (edited) Liz warren milked the school system of thousands because the schools she attended as a student believed her. Dont forget this. This raises school costs on all of us.

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REPLY Downunder Thunder 11 hours ago Talk about depresive talk about Obama. Talk about racial hatred talk about Obama. Lost their jobs lost their homes if your a rapper you feel these bones. Oh we miss you Obama like a rat in trap so glad he is gone will never look back!

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REPLY Kelly Sebzda 17 hours ago Most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard trump doesn’t care about the inner city at all

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REPLY Bea Payne 14 hours ago Trump is doing a great job keep it up.

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REPLY John Lee 17 hours ago Nobody ever intends to kill their child?

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REPLY Dan Henry 14 hours ago Glad Juan is not there

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REPLY R- Sunday 16 hours ago Did Trump throw out DEPLORABLE?!?!

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REPLY MrJorjohn 13 hours ago it is a tragedy that he lost his own based on his mistake. Justice has been served by he. Himself. far worse than any criminal proceeding. Throw salt on his wounds forever.

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REPLY James Smith 17 hours ago Something is going on.  I can not watch    Other news.  I am able to see you and I never choose     Watch out America something is going on already.

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REPLY Tim White 15 hours ago

Love this woman that is the Dem representative......defends her party, but not so rigid that she avoids the facts.

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REPLY Julie Carveth 14 hours ago Every one Obama campaigned for lost

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REPLY unmolested mind 7 hours ago (edited) Fella killed his kids. kids are way to noisy to forget a car is a very small area

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REPLY Steven Johnson 17 hours ago Where can I go to get a full episode of the five?

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REPLY George Sanders 18 hours ago Obama did nothing in 8 years origami did but giveaway America to Europe in everybody else I thought I did nothing Obama is Antichrist helper that darn Antichrist is here and he had three major helpers, is one of them got it yet wake up in the name of God

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REPLY Sally Goozee No Juan, yay!

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REPLY Rayvon Hickman 15 hours ago 😂😂😂what a joke fox news

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REPLY gaspar ortega 17 hours ago Trump 2020

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Lili Tincher 15 hours ago Thy feel sorry for the stupid man that left his two children for their lungs to explode from the heat in the car, after forgetting to drop them off at daycare and taking them to work and forgetting them in the car?  How about feeling sorry for the children that suffered a horrible death!!!

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REPLY rogeliogarcia07 16 hours ago DEMS BUNCH WIMPS.

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REPLY Lisa Noel 17 hours ago The Democrats don't apparently care about old diseases that we. Irradiated along time ago . Lockjaw for stepping on rusting nails. Yellow fever Bubonic Plague. That could take out millions. Of people . A very dangerous disease.  Many others that are coming back because of illegal aliens and. Dirty cities. Clean up the dumps.

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REPLY Craig Johnson 17 hours ago

lose the coffe cup. Stop supporting child grooming!

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REPLY Steven Looney 17 hours ago

Fox News when Obama is elected - "It's been 3 years, he can't use George Bush as an excuse on the deficit anymore." Fox News on Trump - "These problems were there for years before he was elected." No, no bias here to see at all, move along.

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REPLY Lisa Noel 17 hours ago

I WOULD RATHER HAVE BEN CARSON AS PRESIDENT THAN. MRS. CONNECTED TO PRESIDENT OBAMAS  CORRUPTION. NEVER VOTE FOR MICHELLE SHE IS TOO CONNECTED TO MOVIE STARS. DEMOCRATICALLY CORRUPT.

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David Garber 17 hours ago Bad news all the way. Poor kids. Dad screwed up. Bad bad news.

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Timothy Walters 17 hours ago This hot car topic , they say to put something in the back seat with your child , something you wont forget , like a phone or your purse . I can't believe it . INSANE ! You wont forget your phone but you can forget your child , or TWO of them ! This is mind numbing !

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William Gleaton 18 hours ago When I was a kid in Philadelphia  in 1961 and on my mom was my only parent their fore we were poor and lived in the projects off Ridge Ave. I was surrounded by black children and their families, all that time I never experienced any kind of racist remarks or did I ever feel differently NO! . I guess my point is as children the world is amazing, full of wonder and we don't know hate, we don't know about meanness, or racism we have to be taught those things. Let's be more childlike in our hearts (what do ya say) can't hurt. ✌️ Read more

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REPLY fern senchisen 8 hours ago

So Obama created a bunch of democratic politicians the even he cant support? Thanks Obama.

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REPLY tkell31 14 hours ago Come on, they have to attack obammy because he's too tied to Trump.  You can't attack Trump on immigration without attacking Odumbo, you cant attack Trump on inner cities without going after the cult of odumbo.

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REPLY Larry L No Juan equals good show

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REPLY MrJorjohn

13 hours ago i think democrats only vote because it is their duty to elect a democrat. they have no idea who they are voting for because the do no research and they care nothing for politics.. they make decisions for you the other Americans. The enlightened Americans. Illegal aliens are being let in because they know about as much as democratic voters so they also vote democratic.

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REPLY Pam S 16 hours ago Oh please, Obama was not more moderate to the left, he was the stepping stone to the far left, Hillary would have been the final nail in the coffin  We would have lost this great nation.

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REPLY View reply fern senchisen When Democrats and Republicans hear from the people nothing happens. Trump has no choice but to act for the people even when no one supports him. He will do what helps Americans even if he has to walk into a wasp nest.

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REPLY John Kidd No appointment of Trump's will escape sleazy attacks by the Dumb Dems. Now that he's removed Ratcliffe from the DNI nomination, they think they've won. Haha, how does Trey Gowdy suit them or Jason Chaffetz, both of them would be the Dems worst nightmare. Be careful what you wish for. As usual, in opposing everything Trump does, the Dems have shot themselves  in the balls again.

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Prissy Lovejoy Why do so many tv shows and videos show Trumps hair as bright red or “orange” when in actuality it’s almost completely white now.

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REPLY Adrian Johnson The hot car dad is a military veteran, no? I not a parent but if so, am I being unreasonable to have slightly higher expectations of him?

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REPLY DominusLuna Shouldn't Caputo be on Mslsd or something

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REPLY Mortimer Brewster The saddest comment was about the father who left his kids in the car and they died. The middle guy (forget his name) said leave something in the backseat that you can't go without so you have to go back there and then you'll see the kids. What is so sad is that a phone or backpack would be considered my important than the children. It's tragic and I don't think the guy should go to prison (he will be forever punishing himself) but people need to put more priority on their kids than a phone. Also, learn how to drive. I wouldn't be able to forget the kids because I use my rear view mirror all the time -- I see the backseat and someone driving properly would see the backseat and the car seats.

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REPLY Steve Hev THE GREAT DIVIDER  umm

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REPLY mike Lane love it

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REPLY ScootinNPootin ForUHemmroids 18 hours ago

It's funny how now NYC is begging  for the powers that be back them and want the citizens at large to also back them   I always have BUT, now when Officers across the US allow thugs to beat down an elderly woman, I draw the line.  If we have to fin for ourselves so do they.

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Linda T

16 hours ago Go Trump Go!

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REPLY DAT DAT 15 hours ago M.Obama happened upon fame and fortune just by marital association to the elected 44th.  Other than that, she's not qualified to be in the political field...let's get real people.

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REPLY Zoukie Zouk 14 hours ago Cant stump the TRUMP.

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REPLY apache pete 16 hours ago Hey Juan , just cos your Not here ... doesn't mean we miss you .. WE DON'T .. and by the way that Lumpy whale in the white dress smells of Democrap. .. just Another Swamp creature lover.

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REPLY Jimmy Yeakel 17 hours ago I'm having a hard time with the "forgetting" kids in the car opinions. So, if I can prove no intent and my kids died because I forgot about them for 8 hours while I'm at work, no charges but........If I lock the kids in the car for a couple minutes to grab my dry cleaning and they don't die or suffer any physical trauma, I should be charged ?

 I'm not saying locking the kids in the car with the motor and AC running is acceptable, I'm simply saying why charge the case that caused no harm and not charge the case that resulted in death ? Essentially, your charging some one for what "might" have happened and not charging someone for something (death) that actually happened. 

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REPLY willard fillmore 16 hours ago

TRUMP 20/20..!!!

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REPLY Crystl Fire 14 hours ago If president obama would have given all 350 million citizens in this country one million dollars, just think how great he would have left this country. INSTEAD he spend ELEVEN TRILLION dollars and got nothing for it, he would only have had to spend $350 million and got free college and free healthcare for all!!

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REPLY woodstock 17 hours ago that is because there is no democrat strategy. it is just a bunch of virtue signaling driven by corporate leftists on the coasts. they want to try to remake america in the face of google, apple, the NYT etc. the problem is all the hypocrisy among them. it isn't going to happen. I believe in democrat proposals more than the people espousing them do. that is why i will vote trump. I know the difference between virtue signaling and sincerity. I will take sincerity every time and I will be voting trump for that reason.

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willard fillmore 16 hours ago (edited) Wow..!! What a heartbreaking story. I pray for him and his family..!! Just having to live with such a grief driven mistake. Is going to be his life sentence.. He will suffer enough..God Bless..

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REPLY The LoftCast 18 hours ago How can someone forget their children are in the car? I m sorry guys but ones children should be the most important thing on any parents mind so I disagree with what you say. It's gross negligence and the guy should face jail?

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Tim Carter

16 hours ago I disagree with all of them. When you have children, you are responsible for their lives. Even if it was an accident, as they say, it warrants at least a manslaughter charge.

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REPLY Glockbeard 17 hours ago Rumor is Tyrus body slammed Juan into Oblivion

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REPLY MrFetusPretzel 18 hours ago "Put something in the back of the car that you can't leave there"......like your kids?smh

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REPLY Crystl Fire 14 hours ago Harris can beat Trump and Michael obama can beat Trump...ROFL...LOL...LMAO...are you out of your simple mind. NO ONE CAN STAND that boyfriend of obama (michael) NO ONE!! Are these jokes living on another planet??  They must be living on uranus!!

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REPLY CHRISTOPHER BOWEN 14 hours ago If I accidentally kill you am I exonerated? I didn't notice you were in front of my car.

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REPLY Bolt Hayday 17 hours ago

I’m sorry but there is just too many parents killing their kids using a car. All ya gotta do is cry 😭 and say I forgot! Those were NOT newborns. And they weren’t 1st born. Forget the kids but don’t forget your sunglasses 🕶 don’t forget your phone 📱. Anyway an alarm should go off if the seatbelt is still plugged in the back and the vehicle is off. Or the windows roll immediately down. So simple car companies. But omg be sure we have the latest update to make ya comfortable driving!

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REPLY Suzanne Arsenault 17 hours ago There must be some Republican cities that are deplorable?

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REPLY Andy Greaves 17 hours ago Trump supporters are "stable geniuses!' LOL red-neck hicks!

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REPLY ivy kkb 17 hours ago Trump...r u talking about yourself??? WHERE the fund goes....???

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REPLY JOSE BURGOS 17 hours ago JUAN AND M WALLACE SHEP SMITH WHY THIS GUY'S KEEP FOX IN. BUSINESS THE OTHER TRUMP SIDE 👎 TAKING ABOUT TRUMP FRIENDS A CHILD MOLESTER AND NOW HE DONT KNOW HIS COCAINE PARTY FRIEND

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REPLY underdog ishere 18 hours ago Republican Tim Scott  of South Carolina   you never see him backing Trump.  You all watch people he will be running for President one Day 8 =12= 16 years down the road but could be after Trump Leaves.

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David Pursel, Snake Hunter 18 hours ago C’mon, this has gotta be a bogus account. You can’t do any better than 480p? Are you serious?

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REPLY Karen D'Asero 13 hours ago Bummer, no Jesse.

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Diana is a Democrat it shows in all her response.  She’s An Anti-Trump person.

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The 1 Bitcoin Show- Peter Schiff 60 minutes conspiracy theory, Bank bans, Future of BSV, Q&A

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The 1 Bitcoin Show- Peter Schiff 60 minutes conspiracy theory, Bank bans, Future of BSV, Q&A

Hiya every body ah this is adam meister the bitcoinmeister the disrupt meister welcome to the one bitcoin exhibit at present is may the 23rd 2019 robust hand offended via selling be a targeted beast worth your wealth and bitcoin uncompensated all private duties new counterculture conviction and in these days is all about conviction YouTube Google was once giving me all varieties of issues however we getting this exhibit off reside baby a new show here day-to-day even when it goes entirely wack on the YouTube facet pound that like button all you guys have been ready the chat this one’s for you brothers and sisters and yeah I will probably be speakme in long beach at 7 p.M.And that is at about 7 hours getting picked up for it II quickly I gotta take a bathe earlier than then i am getting i’m pumped to talk to all of the humans down in lengthy seaside and hang around with some cool dudes as i’m really energized correct now’s I I was once now not definite this show was gonna get off that you could ask questions I have no idea if we’re gonna have time for questions form in bitcoinmeister in there i do know this chat my god you guys have been yelping it up on this chat I don’t know if folks already asked questions ok good let’s simply get it let’s get into the show adequate sorry this is simply mighty the exhibit even bought the following day at noon japanese Time at midday Baltimore time this week in Bitcoin Alex can be on from lolly and be be gold Edie will likely be on and cash Triggs will probably be on and very well let’s begin with simply pound that like button each girl need to be alive i’ll inform you that so Michael malice used to be on the Dave Rubin show recently I imply like two days ago I watched it and he is talking and that is some thing i have brought up in many instances how these figures in social media and YouTube are warning everybody they are just like the banks are already banning individuals PayPal is already banning persons then Michael malice is lovely calm about this he wasn’t to do about he he used to be just like good there will probably be competitors to the banks in order to take skills of those bannings and the whole lot will likely be first-rate and they will provide you with the solution well let me inform you some thing Michael malice you did not mention Bitcoin at least partially one the solution is already right here the answer is Bitcoin so so every body before all of your fellow 20 percenters percenters work out this predicament that banks will ban persons PayPal is banning folks okay earlier than every person else figures out this difficulty and it can be handiest gonna be 20 percenters you figure it out i don’t believe 80% of may also comprehend this however few realize this I imply there are such a large amount of sensible individuals staying low is the what are we to do what are we to do you get the coin earlier than every body figures out that we have already got a solution to the financial institution bans we have already got a solution so do not go up in arms do not go loopy don’t go doom don’t think the arena is about to end it can be fine you will have obtained huge coin which you can installed your entire system any means you want it with Bitcoin with a purpose to create content material and earn and and so forth etc and have your own bank account precisely be your possess mattress you do not want these banks at all correct now if you are in Bitcoin okay so yeah all of them ban you satisfactory you’ve gotten bought Bitcoin my glory that you would be able to travel far and wide on the planet with it relocating on this is a tweet from Mike boo Sela it’s concerning the CME staff i am who i am hoping known as no longer skipping whatever right here can’t false CME crew quantity see any Bitcoin future stats many strongest month ever q2 adv 164 percentage better than q1 over 2500 accounts have traded Bitcoin futures that’s just right news and on that Institute and that i I imply this is whatever we knew was gonna occur of direction it’s going to this eme the long run is all that nonsense and i’ll i would not ever participate in increasingly folks had been collaborating in it but right here we go from to Shar Jane he says all the colossal OTC desks appear to be having pink volumes to that is amazingly bullish for the enterprise clear signs of institutional money getting into the distance so yeah these are two clear indicators proper there now hey everyone knows what’s gonna happen that we that it’ll occur that uh institutional money is getting into the space generally purchasing Bitcoin as gbtc folks stated that the merchandise that they that almost all people are fascinated about our big coin even though Barry Silbert has all types of different product tasks so whilst you say the space most of these people are pondering Bitcoin when they’re speaking an institutional funding now of course they they out they will die they are going to diversify for the sake of diversification ultimately which I something that’s if they wish to mess with with that then they could try this in view that they don’t recognize that bitcoin is the subsequent Bitcoin one Bitcoin equals one Bitcoin do not follow on all coins now so with thinking of the future of institutional investors coming in and usual traders coming in persons who are used to looking at enterprises and looking at their CEOs and seeing if there is an argument if they’re run safely it’s taking the account I mean that’s how common economic firms are judged spike via very sounds back how sound is that this school how sound is this manufacturer how sound is this product good let’s suppose about bsv for a second consider about tuition a natural totally wealthy institution they usually’re they’re inspecting bsv or a tricked-out or warren buffett if he is watching at the I Warren Buffett sort of character looking watching at the SV they are gonna appear at who’s in cost okay so I mean feel rationally here people I particularly want you to think about the future of BS V when some humans that they make colossal claims about it or they are involved about it or something that’s gonna do anything to Bitcoin suppose about suppose about when when someone appears at that trouble national man or woman how can any rational institution that listens to some thing that comes out of that outfit are not able to even recall shopping that ok day to begin with it going beyond the fake Toshi stuff the other spokesperson is a guy who made all his cash in an unregulated gambling k so traditional associations are they gonna need to have whatever to do apart from disregard concerning the sociopath part of it with the man unregulated playing and lives within the Caribbean okay that’s now not some thing that usual traders in most cases get into k that enormous associations need to be part of so easily put the persons that are buying bsv are crypto children or crypto men and women are on this space are persons who like oh yeah certain he would say something you wish to have and certain he can say some thing he wants to say but there are expenditures to it k and there suppose logically humans consider like a grown-up or any tuition is gonna wish to touch that and all are it any and then feel in regards to the university money that is flowing into the distance in the Bitcoin and as a way to be trickled into some of the high-tier altcoins they are going to look at a few of these top-tier they are going to seem on the theorem particularly we will be able to get the fellow in charge there he is a genius so you know and he would not I imply there may be there isn’t any cursing and screaming and drama and claims and fits and this mat and the other um and he’s okay you know he is long past the fellow accountable for aetherium is is you understand the figurehead behind it here he’s gonna add his option to be friendly with the tuition’s he is very latest he believes in whatever that when radical markets all these commute to all these things which can be so he’s so good for the atmosphere in cetera cetera so again just just giving you guys a little style at some point for you uh so I mean you must feel like an tuition in the case of to that at least do not be a crypto kitty and say well oh maybe probably that’s a out hazard one way or the other gamble over there it is you die you’re welcome Bitcoin learned like button so that there is my take I mean take a couple of secs again when when you hear this bsv stuff and relatively feel after which think in regards to the institutional money that’s coming within the cryptocurrency and see how they fairly do not they’re not going within the identical direction okay so uh this is a funny tweet from jeet he video of the famous track video video killed the radio star video killed the radio began then jeeps line is bitcoin killed the real-estate artwork and liquid investment celebrity i admire that and gold famous person how about that there is my addition to that that’s fascinated by gold peter ship has a new video that is out and on the 40-minute mark or the forty five-minute mark and it towards the top here forty minute mark he started heat one factor that he says he talks about this he starts to speak in regards to the sixty minutes show about bitcoin and he talks about how he had a debate a gold versus bitcoin debate in all this and he has some intriguing world phrase he says nations will buy gold in instruction of a greenback give way and once more this is the same factor that individuals like peter schiff have been announcing considering 1981 i mean which you can go watch doug casey in 1981 on the Phil Donahue exhibit announcing announcing these matters that your country nations are gonna purchase gold and all set into da greenback cave in this buck crumple that’s in nineteen eighty one style of stuff right here but anyway shift still says it and men and women nonetheless buy into it and that i say it’s less difficult for the crucial bank’s to purchase Bitcoin or to make their possess cryptocurrency in fact instead of purchasing gold and he says important financial institution’s will under no circumstances purchase Bitcoin okay those are worse to consider he in reality says these phrases that principal banks will under no circumstances purchase Bitcoin and we in the Bitcoin we just dreamed that k um however once more he thinks the central banks that they they’re gonna buy gold they may be gonna purchase they may be gonna that is that’s the course they will go in to prepare for the battle they the legendary financial type from 1981 that is what he thinks they’re gonna buy he doesn’t consider you already know that he does not consider it is easy it’s simply simple for primary Bucks to purchase to purchase Bitcoin or to even create their possess crypto over buying gold ok so um that that is missing so he felt the 60 Minutes had the giant folks within the area on which is hilarious if he thinks charlie SRAM is a gigantic person or that indian girl is a enormous PerR he says it used to be so biased for bitcoin and at the 45 minute mark he quite starts analyzing this 60 minute hindrance to a point where it can be like a conspiracy theory he comes up with a 60 Minutes conspiracy conception for bitcoin he’s like all of the insiders knew this was once gonna happen so that’s why the pump the fee pumped and yeah pizza man was once interviewed on their it pizza guys one of the significant big avid gamers within the Bitcoin house i want the he is coming up he’s he is very desperate you understand the the reasons that he comes up with commencing on the 45 minute mark it sets on a targeted level it is sad considering that it’s seeing that he comes up with a conspiracy theories about 60 minutes why bitcoin was on 60 minutes and he says the piece was very very confident it used to be a very confident for those who could not ask for any significant coin persons could not ask for something more it can be ridiculous once more my grandmother watched it show she was scared when she was once she’s due to the fact that I mean they’re bringing out medications they’re citing all these matters that scare normies ok so i wouldn’t say it was once tremendous pop I wasn’t tremendous optimistic but that’s besides the factor watch on the go watch Peter cooks video at the forty five minute mark and notice that if he relatively does provide you with in actual fact a conspiracy thought about 60 minutes and Bitcoin now again I I convey this up I mean simply to show you uh that with the historical-university appear with that variety of golden holder he’s acquired some conviction that he’s developing with some wild and wacky stuff there however we should recall that he says that uh he says vital financial institution’s will under no circumstances purchase a large coin k he says that I say it they will they’ll they’re going to Penny Ling that however again I brought this up typically that was once one of the inspirational ideas that Vinnie came up with that encouraged me to get more Bitcoin and whilst you believe of it it makes sense there are quite a few central banks or there are lot of crucial banks to give an explanation for there are numerous international locations on this planet ok that had matters just like critical banks that they that they may be low leading international locations they may be gonna recognize eventually you recognize that is anything to prop us up just a little all correct panel edit button Oh God Almighty i’m so completely satisfied to exhibit his lifestyles here is a tweet from Jay from Kyle bass he has a piece of writing called quiet panic in Hong Kong at present i’m releasing air views on the monetary political and legal plight of Hong Kong I think buyers that have belongings invested there should immediately move them to united states of americaDollars before it can be too late now i am now not saying that i have bringing that up on the grounds that quite high panic the chinese are there a cost of Hong Kong but they’ve had a fingers-off approach however it’s getting more and more and more arms-on so folks who want to guard themselves they’re he’s saying you realize getting to the buck you liquefy your property there before the chinese take your belongings i assume is what he is saying I say they may be gonna peep they are going to be men and women who understand there is a quiet panic in Hong Kong and they’re not gonna purchase US dollar they’re gonna get in the Bitcoin so this if this and i do not need to sit down in a main issue in Hana kinda worsen i need the chinese language to have a fingers-off procedure i’ve been to Hong Kong before they it is it is rocking over there they’ve bought various good matters he it is it used to be big the chinese language didn’t construct that Hong Kong Kane was once underneath below British rule but he did that he succeeded and underneath underneath the Western manner of trade and free markets etcetera etcetera so i am adding love to look it continue that method but if if the chinese get more difficult their force you recognize have a strong hand and begin squeezing Hong Kong then yeah it’ll be just right for Bitcoin it this is just and matters like this this is what in other international locations that identical matters can occur govt becomes extra tyrannical folks are going to silently panic into Bitcoin so I I did I again some individuals will purchase it you liquefy their belongings into you the us bucks they are able to try this if they want to but it possibly less difficult for the k the in that a part of the world they recognize that Bitcoin they without doubt learn about Bitcoin all proper I keep in mind go to disrupt meister calm you could watch 1300 of my over 1300 my shows there the day prior to this after I used to be speaking about the bitcoin having I forgot to say the famous Chris Gilliard line the biggest supply shock within the history of monetary markets BAM i am pumped about that it can be in a year it’s going to it will be in a yr the most important provide shock in the historical past of monetary markets all correct relocating on coin desk article and the only purpose i am bringing it up is due to the fact that it’s it says that you could now make investments that is Robin Hood currently that you would be able to put money into seven cryptocurrencies on Robin Hood crypto Bitcoin be cash be SV a concept of a theorem classic litecoin and dogecoin which you can additionally track price movements and news from 10 additional crypto currencies once more how huge of a participant in the house is is Robin Hood I have no idea they they’ll have some say in what’s a top to your all coin again they acknowledged one of the ones we’re already aware of Bitcoin P cashed aetherium a fair in traditional like coin so dogecoin most folks do not feel that’s and of direction bsv they are evidently including due to the fact good it used to be convenient to include i guess they’re not good they be aware of that the crypto kids are going to use the 19 year olds are gonna use their app to buy so it why no longer promote something that’s wholly insane like bsv once more they are now not they’re not like an tuition now some of the giant institutions or something like that but once more whats up so that is a whats up i am gonna say that i’m gonna i am gonna say it find it irresistible is that may be a confident for bsv if if an app like this desires to include it too in view that they believe they can become profitable off of it to signal it to the crypto kitties then yeah that does raise bsv a little bit but no then is not it BSP isn’t any prime to your offline i’ll let you know but they are able to they may be able to grep that’s an exact real factor if the BSP people you realize they may be into proceedings and all these things as an alternative of that they must drop it and say you know what Eddie we’re cool these are Robin Hood individuals are clearly carrying us you understand that’s simply an actual constructive factor for them however they they are now not too much into that they are into tons of wild and wacky experiences over there within the BSP lamp but anyway Robin Hood yeah you’re doing all of your part to variety of try to solidify what a prime-tier all coin is moot and eventually us store this for the future what is that this Adam oh oh no that is me telling myself to inform all you guys that this Matt Odell tweet he is a it is a very it is a just right definition a Bitcoin if you want to inform your you’re beginner associates what bitcoin is is and he says bitcoin is a new form of cash that is digital and unbiased of world governments or businesses it is hard to seize block or inflate and easy to send all over the world it is the exceptional cash we now have ever had as extra people appreciate this the cost will have to upward thrust in order that was an extraordinarily high-quality to the factor definition that everyone can understand no hard terminologies in there and that i believe that is whatever you should share with your newby newby associates and neighbors if you happen to ever need in the event that they ever requested you what bitcoin is okay well i am checking the chat correct now see if there were any questions excellent i’m pleased no person requested me any questions considering as which you can tell i am i am relatively in a rush now however I bought a gigantic smile on my face due to the fact that I did have that conviction at present and i knew I you i would get to show off Google and YouTube bag you guys you guys will also be so wacky sometimes with how matters work and the way they don’t work well again hopefully day after today at midday jap Time which you could all flip in and there can be no technical difficulties when I’m seeking to get three other guys online with me so i am also going over my notes correct right here as I talk to you to ensure i didn’t fail to remember whatever and i did not so i’ll see a few of you and beach in seven hours i am adam meister the bitcoinmeister the disrupt meister don’t forget to subscribe this channel like this video share this video investigate out the links beneath bang that bow button and you can see the giant smile on my face that is what existence is about men and women stay in optimistic figuring out that you realize should you preserve attempting you’re going to get that show off and whoa and lifestyles goes on someone simply asked me where do you see yourself in five years I still do journey round it’s visiting around i don’t see myself to settle down I see myself nonetheless making these shows nonetheless making these suggests and rather interested by the 2024 happening that is proper that’s where I see myself in 5 years all right all right i’ll see you guys tomorrow and some of you tonight bye bye

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The 1 Bitcoin Show- Peter Schiff 60 minutes conspiracy theory, Bank bans, Future of BSV, Q&A

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The 1 Bitcoin Show- Peter Schiff 60 minutes conspiracy theory, Bank bans, Future of BSV, Q&A

Hiya every body ah this is adam meister the bitcoinmeister the disrupt meister welcome to the one bitcoin exhibit at present is may the 23rd 2019 robust hand offended via selling be a targeted beast worth your wealth and bitcoin uncompensated all private duties new counterculture conviction and in these days is all about conviction YouTube Google was once giving me all varieties of issues however we getting this exhibit off reside baby a new show here day-to-day even when it goes entirely wack on the YouTube facet pound that like button all you guys have been ready the chat this one’s for you brothers and sisters and yeah I will probably be speakme in long beach at 7 p.M.And that is at about 7 hours getting picked up for it II quickly I gotta take a bathe earlier than then i am getting i’m pumped to talk to all of the humans down in lengthy seaside and hang around with some cool dudes as i’m really energized correct now’s I I was once now not definite this show was gonna get off that you could ask questions I have no idea if we’re gonna have time for questions form in bitcoinmeister in there i do know this chat my god you guys have been yelping it up on this chat I don’t know if folks already asked questions ok good let’s simply get it let’s get into the show adequate sorry this is simply mighty the exhibit even bought the following day at noon japanese Time at midday Baltimore time this week in Bitcoin Alex can be on from lolly and be be gold Edie will likely be on and cash Triggs will probably be on and very well let’s begin with simply pound that like button each girl need to be alive i’ll inform you that so Michael malice used to be on the Dave Rubin show recently I imply like two days ago I watched it and he is talking and that is some thing i have brought up in many instances how these figures in social media and YouTube are warning everybody they are just like the banks are already banning individuals PayPal is already banning persons then Michael malice is lovely calm about this he wasn’t to do about he he used to be just like good there will probably be competitors to the banks in order to take skills of those bannings and the whole lot will likely be first-rate and they will provide you with the solution well let me inform you some thing Michael malice you did not mention Bitcoin at least partially one the solution is already right here the answer is Bitcoin so so every body before all of your fellow 20 percenters percenters work out this predicament that banks will ban persons PayPal is banning folks okay earlier than every person else figures out this difficulty and it can be handiest gonna be 20 percenters you figure it out i don’t believe 80% of may also comprehend this however few realize this I imply there are such a large amount of sensible individuals staying low is the what are we to do what are we to do you get the coin earlier than every body figures out that we have already got a solution to the financial institution bans we have already got a solution so do not go up in arms do not go loopy don’t go doom don’t think the arena is about to end it can be fine you will have obtained huge coin which you can installed your entire system any means you want it with Bitcoin with a purpose to create content material and earn and and so forth etc and have your own bank account precisely be your possess mattress you do not want these banks at all correct now if you are in Bitcoin okay so yeah all of them ban you satisfactory you’ve gotten bought Bitcoin my glory that you would be able to travel far and wide on the planet with it relocating on this is a tweet from Mike boo Sela it’s concerning the CME staff i am who i am hoping known as no longer skipping whatever right here can’t false CME crew quantity see any Bitcoin future stats many strongest month ever q2 adv 164 percentage better than q1 over 2500 accounts have traded Bitcoin futures that’s just right news and on that Institute and that i I imply this is whatever we knew was gonna occur of direction it’s going to this eme the long run is all that nonsense and i’ll i would not ever participate in increasingly folks had been collaborating in it but right here we go from to Shar Jane he says all the colossal OTC desks appear to be having pink volumes to that is amazingly bullish for the enterprise clear signs of institutional money getting into the distance so yeah these are two clear indicators proper there now hey everyone knows what’s gonna happen that we that it’ll occur that uh institutional money is getting into the space generally purchasing Bitcoin as gbtc folks stated that the merchandise that they that almost all people are fascinated about our big coin even though Barry Silbert has all types of different product tasks so whilst you say the space most of these people are pondering Bitcoin when they’re speaking an institutional funding now of course they they out they will die they are going to diversify for the sake of diversification ultimately which I something that’s if they wish to mess with with that then they could try this in view that they don’t recognize that bitcoin is the subsequent Bitcoin one Bitcoin equals one Bitcoin do not follow on all coins now so with thinking of the future of institutional investors coming in and usual traders coming in persons who are used to looking at enterprises and looking at their CEOs and seeing if there is an argument if they’re run safely it’s taking the account I mean that’s how common economic firms are judged spike via very sounds back how sound is that this school how sound is this manufacturer how sound is this product good let’s suppose about bsv for a second consider about tuition a natural totally wealthy institution they usually’re they’re inspecting bsv or a tricked-out or warren buffett if he is watching at the I Warren Buffett sort of character looking watching at the SV they are gonna appear at who’s in cost okay so I mean feel rationally here people I particularly want you to think about the future of BS V when some humans that they make colossal claims about it or they are involved about it or something that’s gonna do anything to Bitcoin suppose about suppose about when when someone appears at that trouble national man or woman how can any rational institution that listens to some thing that comes out of that outfit are not able to even recall shopping that ok day to begin with it going beyond the fake Toshi stuff the other spokesperson is a guy who made all his cash in an unregulated gambling k so traditional associations are they gonna need to have whatever to do apart from disregard concerning the sociopath part of it with the man unregulated playing and lives within the Caribbean okay that’s now not some thing that usual traders in most cases get into k that enormous associations need to be part of so easily put the persons that are buying bsv are crypto children or crypto men and women are on this space are persons who like oh yeah certain he would say something you wish to have and certain he can say some thing he wants to say but there are expenditures to it k and there suppose logically humans consider like a grown-up or any tuition is gonna wish to touch that and all are it any and then feel in regards to the university money that is flowing into the distance in the Bitcoin and as a way to be trickled into some of the high-tier altcoins they are going to look at a few of these top-tier they are going to seem on the theorem particularly we will be able to get the fellow in charge there he is a genius so you know and he would not I imply there may be there isn’t any cursing and screaming and drama and claims and fits and this mat and the other um and he’s okay you know he is long past the fellow accountable for aetherium is is you understand the figurehead behind it here he’s gonna add his option to be friendly with the tuition’s he is very latest he believes in whatever that when radical markets all these commute to all these things which can be so he’s so good for the atmosphere in cetera cetera so again just just giving you guys a little style at some point for you uh so I mean you must feel like an tuition in the case of to that at least do not be a crypto kitty and say well oh maybe probably that’s a out hazard one way or the other gamble over there it is you die you’re welcome Bitcoin learned like button so that there is my take I mean take a couple of secs again when when you hear this bsv stuff and relatively feel after which think in regards to the institutional money that’s coming within the cryptocurrency and see how they fairly do not they’re not going within the identical direction okay so uh this is a funny tweet from jeet he video of the famous track video video killed the radio star video killed the radio began then jeeps line is bitcoin killed the real-estate artwork and liquid investment celebrity i admire that and gold famous person how about that there is my addition to that that’s fascinated by gold peter ship has a new video that is out and on the 40-minute mark or the forty five-minute mark and it towards the top here forty minute mark he started heat one factor that he says he talks about this he starts to speak in regards to the sixty minutes show about bitcoin and he talks about how he had a debate a gold versus bitcoin debate in all this and he has some intriguing world phrase he says nations will buy gold in instruction of a greenback give way and once more this is the same factor that individuals like peter schiff have been announcing considering 1981 i mean which you can go watch doug casey in 1981 on the Phil Donahue exhibit announcing announcing these matters that your country nations are gonna purchase gold and all set into da greenback cave in this buck crumple that’s in nineteen eighty one style of stuff right here but anyway shift still says it and men and women nonetheless buy into it and that i say it’s less difficult for the crucial bank’s to purchase Bitcoin or to make their possess cryptocurrency in fact instead of purchasing gold and he says important financial institution’s will under no circumstances purchase Bitcoin okay those are worse to consider he in reality says these phrases that principal banks will under no circumstances purchase Bitcoin and we in the Bitcoin we just dreamed that k um however once more he thinks the central banks that they they’re gonna buy gold they may be gonna purchase they may be gonna that is that’s the course they will go in to prepare for the battle they the legendary financial type from 1981 that is what he thinks they’re gonna buy he doesn’t consider you already know that he does not consider it is easy it’s simply simple for primary Bucks to purchase to purchase Bitcoin or to even create their possess crypto over buying gold ok so um that that is missing so he felt the 60 Minutes had the giant folks within the area on which is hilarious if he thinks charlie SRAM is a gigantic person or that indian girl is a enormous PerR he says it used to be so biased for bitcoin and at the 45 minute mark he quite starts analyzing this 60 minute hindrance to a point where it can be like a conspiracy theory he comes up with a 60 Minutes conspiracy conception for bitcoin he’s like all of the insiders knew this was once gonna happen so that’s why the pump the fee pumped and yeah pizza man was once interviewed on their it pizza guys one of the significant big avid gamers within the Bitcoin house i want the he is coming up he’s he is very desperate you understand the the reasons that he comes up with commencing on the 45 minute mark it sets on a targeted level it is sad considering that it’s seeing that he comes up with a conspiracy theories about 60 minutes why bitcoin was on 60 minutes and he says the piece was very very confident it used to be a very confident for those who could not ask for any significant coin persons could not ask for something more it can be ridiculous once more my grandmother watched it show she was scared when she was once she’s due to the fact that I mean they’re bringing out medications they’re citing all these matters that scare normies ok so i wouldn’t say it was once tremendous pop I wasn’t tremendous optimistic but that’s besides the factor watch on the go watch Peter cooks video at the forty five minute mark and notice that if he relatively does provide you with in actual fact a conspiracy thought about 60 minutes and Bitcoin now again I I convey this up I mean simply to show you uh that with the historical-university appear with that variety of golden holder he’s acquired some conviction that he’s developing with some wild and wacky stuff there however we should recall that he says that uh he says vital financial institution’s will under no circumstances purchase a large coin k he says that I say it they will they’ll they’re going to Penny Ling that however again I brought this up typically that was once one of the inspirational ideas that Vinnie came up with that encouraged me to get more Bitcoin and whilst you believe of it it makes sense there are quite a few central banks or there are lot of crucial banks to give an explanation for there are numerous international locations on this planet ok that had matters just like critical banks that they that they may be low leading international locations they may be gonna recognize eventually you recognize that is anything to prop us up just a little all correct panel edit button Oh God Almighty i’m so completely satisfied to exhibit his lifestyles here is a tweet from Jay from Kyle bass he has a piece of writing called quiet panic in Hong Kong at present i’m releasing air views on the monetary political and legal plight of Hong Kong I think buyers that have belongings invested there should immediately move them to united states of americaDollars before it can be too late now i am now not saying that i have bringing that up on the grounds that quite high panic the chinese are there a cost of Hong Kong but they’ve had a fingers-off approach however it’s getting more and more and more arms-on so folks who want to guard themselves they’re he’s saying you realize getting to the buck you liquefy your property there before the chinese take your belongings i assume is what he is saying I say they may be gonna peep they are going to be men and women who understand there is a quiet panic in Hong Kong and they’re not gonna purchase US dollar they’re gonna get in the Bitcoin so this if this and i do not need to sit down in a main issue in Hana kinda worsen i need the chinese language to have a fingers-off procedure i’ve been to Hong Kong before they it is it is rocking over there they’ve bought various good matters he it is it used to be big the chinese language didn’t construct that Hong Kong Kane was once underneath below British rule but he did that he succeeded and underneath underneath the Western manner of trade and free markets etcetera etcetera so i am adding love to look it continue that method but if if the chinese get more difficult their force you recognize have a strong hand and begin squeezing Hong Kong then yeah it’ll be just right for Bitcoin it this is just and matters like this this is what in other international locations that identical matters can occur govt becomes extra tyrannical folks are going to silently panic into Bitcoin so I I did I again some individuals will purchase it you liquefy their belongings into you the us bucks they are able to try this if they want to but it possibly less difficult for the k the in that a part of the world they recognize that Bitcoin they without doubt learn about Bitcoin all proper I keep in mind go to disrupt meister calm you could watch 1300 of my over 1300 my shows there the day prior to this after I used to be speaking about the bitcoin having I forgot to say the famous Chris Gilliard line the biggest supply shock within the history of monetary markets BAM i am pumped about that it can be in a year it’s going to it will be in a yr the most important provide shock in the historical past of monetary markets all correct relocating on coin desk article and the only purpose i am bringing it up is due to the fact that it’s it says that you could now make investments that is Robin Hood currently that you would be able to put money into seven cryptocurrencies on Robin Hood crypto Bitcoin be cash be SV a concept of a theorem classic litecoin and dogecoin which you can additionally track price movements and news from 10 additional crypto currencies once more how huge of a participant in the house is is Robin Hood I have no idea they they’ll have some say in what’s a top to your all coin again they acknowledged one of the ones we’re already aware of Bitcoin P cashed aetherium a fair in traditional like coin so dogecoin most folks do not feel that’s and of direction bsv they are evidently including due to the fact good it used to be convenient to include i guess they’re not good they be aware of that the crypto kids are going to use the 19 year olds are gonna use their app to buy so it why no longer promote something that’s wholly insane like bsv once more they are now not they’re not like an tuition now some of the giant institutions or something like that but once more whats up so that is a whats up i am gonna say that i’m gonna i am gonna say it find it irresistible is that may be a confident for bsv if if an app like this desires to include it too in view that they believe they can become profitable off of it to signal it to the crypto kitties then yeah that does raise bsv a little bit but no then is not it BSP isn’t any prime to your offline i’ll let you know but they are able to they may be able to grep that’s an exact real factor if the BSP people you realize they may be into proceedings and all these things as an alternative of that they must drop it and say you know what Eddie we’re cool these are Robin Hood individuals are clearly carrying us you understand that’s simply an actual constructive factor for them however they they are now not too much into that they are into tons of wild and wacky experiences over there within the BSP lamp but anyway Robin Hood yeah you’re doing all of your part to variety of try to solidify what a prime-tier all coin is moot and eventually us store this for the future what is that this Adam oh oh no that is me telling myself to inform all you guys that this Matt Odell tweet he is a it is a very it is a just right definition a Bitcoin if you want to inform your you’re beginner associates what bitcoin is is and he says bitcoin is a new form of cash that is digital and unbiased of world governments or businesses it is hard to seize block or inflate and easy to send all over the world it is the exceptional cash we now have ever had as extra people appreciate this the cost will have to upward thrust in order that was an extraordinarily high-quality to the factor definition that everyone can understand no hard terminologies in there and that i believe that is whatever you should share with your newby newby associates and neighbors if you happen to ever need in the event that they ever requested you what bitcoin is okay well i am checking the chat correct now see if there were any questions excellent i’m pleased no person requested me any questions considering as which you can tell i am i am relatively in a rush now however I bought a gigantic smile on my face due to the fact that I did have that conviction at present and i knew I you i would get to show off Google and YouTube bag you guys you guys will also be so wacky sometimes with how matters work and the way they don’t work well again hopefully day after today at midday jap Time which you could all flip in and there can be no technical difficulties when I’m seeking to get three other guys online with me so i am also going over my notes correct right here as I talk to you to ensure i didn’t fail to remember whatever and i did not so i’ll see a few of you and beach in seven hours i am adam meister the bitcoinmeister the disrupt meister don’t forget to subscribe this channel like this video share this video investigate out the links beneath bang that bow button and you can see the giant smile on my face that is what existence is about men and women stay in optimistic figuring out that you realize should you preserve attempting you’re going to get that show off and whoa and lifestyles goes on someone simply asked me where do you see yourself in five years I still do journey round it’s visiting around i don’t see myself to settle down I see myself nonetheless making these shows nonetheless making these suggests and rather interested by the 2024 happening that is proper that’s where I see myself in 5 years all right all right i’ll see you guys tomorrow and some of you tonight bye bye

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rip here we go bois. was tagged by @kwamimusings (yeh bud) i’m very canadian so i changed all the “favorite”s to “favourite”

Rules: Answer the 20 questions and tag 20 like 2 because i’m lazy amazing followers you’d like to get to know better!

Name: let’s go with Yumi

Nicknames: see above. idk y’all can make nicknames or smth??

Zodiac Sign: gemini

Height: 6′4″-ish

Orientation: i sexually identify as an attack helicopter (jk i’m straight)

Ethnicity: chinese

Favourite Fruit: i would kill a man for an orange slice. vitamin c flows through my veins. 

Favourite Season: winter. snow. yes.

Favourite Book: ohhhh boy. i will still have to say the original pjato series, though harry potter and lunar chronicles are really good. 

Favourite Flower: what. 

Favourite Scent: this will sound weird but i like the scent of my friends. also butter frying smells reaaaaally good

Favourite animals: cattens are life. though wolves and marine life are pretty cool too. 

Coffee, Tea, or Hot Cocoa: sauce me my tim hortons iced capp

Cat or Dog Person: did i say i love cattens because cats are my life

Favourite Fictional Character: there’s a lot of those. let’s go with homestuck characters - tz, dave, vriska, roxy are up there. 

Dream Trip: ??? uhhh hiking the lotr scenery in new zealand or driving up to the northern territories to stargaze with mes amis

Blog Created: octoberish 2015?

Number of Followers: 134

What I Post About: whatever’s on my dash + my art. (typically homestuck, voltron, ml, and dumb posts)

Do I get asks on a regular basis: naw son

Aesthetic: stuff that is aesthetic is like really nicely lit photography with good contrast levels, but my aesthetic is like idk neons/pastels/rainbows and crap. i guess idk. 

Hogwarts House: HUFFLEPUFF PRIDE!!!!! WE HAVE NEWT AND WE’RE BETTER THAN YOU 

right so i wasn’t sure if i was supposed to do the next part but i’ll just put a cut right here because it’s getting long

Rules: Write 92 rules about yourself, then tag 25 people. who even knows 25 people

LAST ___:

Drink: watermelon juice at a hot pot place Phone Call: probably my mom????? Text message: i don’t have a phone but last IM thing would be a group chat with some girls from church Song you listened to: no idea let’s say the heathers soundtrack Time you cried: i teared up for logan

HAVE YOU EVER ____: Dated someone twice: “Kinda need to date someone once to do it twice.” -aaron Been cheated on: “Again, kinda need to have ever been in a relationship in order to be cheated on.” -aaron Kissed someone and then regretted it: “Can’t regret it if you’ve never kissed anyone. (Insert picture of guy tapping his temple here)” -aaron (haha single squad) Lost someone special: no, luckily Been depressed: i don’t get affected by much so no Gotten drunk and thrown up: i’m. underage. 

LIST THREE FAVOURITE COLOURS: turquoise is a blessing to this planet, maroon is pre nice, black is the colour of my soul but it doesn’t count, so there are certain shades of pink that are pretty nice, even though i’m a non-conformist. 

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU _____: Made new friends: ya bud new girl in the ib fam and some kool kids here on tumbs Fallen out of love: *insert joke about the bitterness of school* Laughed until you cried: @mrs-linny-universe remember that post with the googly eyes Found out someone was talking about you: no...? Met someone who changed you: i think everyone you meet changes you, because if you never met them then you would be a different person completely and the path of your life would have diverged (is that enough bs yes it is let’s move on) Found out who your true friends are: what does that even mean it sounds omnious Kissed someone on your Facebook list: wat. (actually, yes. i peck my friends on the cheek all the time)

GENERAL: How many Facebook friends do you know in real life: all of them. i keep getting friend requests from friends of friends in edmonton and it confuses me because do i know you? no.  Do you have any pets: i had a crested gecko named charlie but he died Do you want to change your name: no? What did you do for your last birthday: i think a movie with my friends.  What time did you wake up: 9:30am here, 6:30pm back home. heck yeah time zones What were you doing at midnight last night: sleeping lol i only slept 3 hours during the 20-something hour travel time. 

Name something you cannot wait for: for ib to be over and for hiveswap to come out When was the last time you saw your mother: she’s beside me right now hi mom What is something you wish you could change about your life: i never really thought about it?  What are you listening to right now: parents/aunt/uncle/grandparents chatting Have you ever talked to a person named tom: yeah man. every time i see him i say hi to him but he’s neurodivergent so he never really replies Something that is getting on your nerves: vpn is slow but it’s better than not talking to my friends for 2 weeks.  Most visited website: email and tumblr Elementary: classified High school: classified, but it’s a private school and we have hoodies with our uniform which is pretty nice College: i’m still in high school rip Hair colour: black. i’m asian.  Long or short hair: got a pixie cut a few months ago, i always grow it out really long and then chop it off again Do you have a crush on someone: i guess??? What do you like about yourself: arty art Piercings: naw son  Blood type: idk but mosquitoes love me and i hate mosquitoes Nickname: we’ve already established this Relationship status: married to @seokgis​, in a side relationship with @thelifeditch (jokes i’m single) Zodiac sign: we’ve already gone over this Pronouns: she/her  Favourite TV show: idk i guess ml or voltron for animated and stranger things for live action? i don’t think about this much.  Tattoos: underage lol Right or left hand: right

FIRST ____: Surgery: naw son Piercing: lol Best friend: first bestie i remember is this girl named sharon back when i was like 3-7 i think.  Sport: mom forced me to do swimming but i really liked skating before i was too inflexible Vacation: does immigrating to canada count, bc then i think it was the time my friend dz and i went to capilano Pair of trainers: i think this means either bike trainers or what british people call runners but i still don’t get what the question is asking so sure?

RIGHT NOW ___: Eating: just ate an orange. they are my lifeblood Drinking: i literally never drink liquids it’s so bad for me (but yeah i just drank some oj and i’m laughing because i didn’t even realize) About to: sit here and waste time on tumblr, maybe do some tok, probably sleep because we’re going to leave for the airport at like 3-something-am for the chinese tropics or smth Listening to: we’ve done this let’s move on Waiting for: i live in the moment. *snickers and breaks down in laughter because the real answer is i have no idea* Want: sleep, maybe? i always want to sleep. also, like aaron, i would like a hug.  Get married: like i said, i’m already married (jk i’m still in high school, but yeah i would like to get married in the future) Career: “your high school career is very important” - said no one ever (or maybe it’s everyone ever, who knows)

WHICH IS BETTER ____: Hugs or kisses: hugs Lips or eyes: eyes  Shorter or taller: like think is for ppl im interested in right. taller, then.  Older or younger: older would be less weird? Nice arms or nice stomach: arms? i ain’t spending time looking at ppls’ stomachs Sensitive or loud: what.  Hook up or relationship: relationship Troublemaker or hesitant: lemme just ask WHAT ARE THESE QUESTIONS

HAVE YOU EVER ____: Kissed a stranger: naw song lol Drank hard liquor: what defines hard liquor, because i’ve sipped some like really high percentage alcohol but i don’t drink. Lost glasses/contact lenses: rip my contact lens just fell out of my eye once.  Turned someone down: um i don’t think so? Sex on first date: SHEILD MY INNOCENT EYES YEESH I’M 16 I PREACH ABSTINENCE Broken someone’s heart: idk about broken, but maybe Had your own heart broken: nope :) Been arrested: i’m too young for this Cried when someone died: no one really close to me has died so no Fallen for a friend: haha everyone i’ve fallen for has been my friend

DO YOU BELIEVE IN ____: Yourself: yeah? Miracles: if i didn’t i would have to not believe in Jesus (awkwardly phrased but i think you get the picture) Love at first sight: if you see someone and you just “fall in love” then that puts love lightly. i think that love is something really serious and needs to be developed.  Santa Claus: i’m too old for thi-- JUST HEAR THOSE SLEIGH BELLS JINGLING Kiss on the first date: depends on who Angels: yaaa. again, comes with my faith (i hate phrasing stuff like this because it makes it sound trivial but i honestly don’t know how to say it)

OTHER ____: Current best friend’s name: i have several Eye colour: brown Movie: oooooh boy. i love lotr but i’m also that one person that loves every single movie, even the ones that every say sucked. proof: i absolutely loved suicide squad. i’m also a cinematography nerd but i just fangirl over the shots and never really think about them lol

okay i tag everyone who read this to the end and the people who i mentioned earlier because i’m really lazy 

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(all for both skylar and kitty, or whichever you prefer to answer it for) 1-3, 5-12, 14-19, 21-26,28-38,40,42-50

OK i did ALL OF IT

1.What is your OC’s favorite color?

kitty likes red skylar likes purple

2.Does your OC collect anything? What do they collect?

kitty collects rocks! skylar collects Literally Anything given to him hes a bit of a hoarder but only when it comes to gifts. he cant bring himself to get rid of anything given to him

3.What kind of things is your OC allergic to?

kitty is mildly allergic to oranges. skylar isnt allergic to anything

5 already answered

6.What’s your OC’s favorite animal? Least favorite?

skylar loves any and all cats (including kitty(;3)) but tigers are his favourite. kitty likes bears

7.What element would your OC be?

skylar would be. water i think? i think kitty would be earth? but idk.

8.What is your OC’s theme song? 

idk lmao i dont do theme songs 

9.Do you have a faceclaim / voiceclaim for your OC?

been meaning to find some but i havent yet. i should get on that

10.What deadly sin would best represent your OC?

skylar i think would be envy. kitty maybe..wrath? i dont think that fits too much but its the best out of the seven.

11.What are your OC’s hobbies?

skylar likes to sew, kitty likes to cook

12.How patient is your OC? How hot-headed are they?

skylar is very patient. but maybe a little past patient to being just kind of a pushover. but he is very patient. kitty is a little less patient but i wouldnt say shes hot headed? shes a little irritable the days around the full moon but other than that shes pretty ok

15. If your OC could have any pet, what would they choose? Why?

kitty would like a lizard! she just thinks theyre cool. skylar wants a cat. 

16.What does your OC smell like? 

skylar smells like... warm. like warmth has a smell and thats what he smells like. kitty smells like fruit shampoo

17.How do they make a living? What kind of job do they want / not want? What is their dream job? What do they think of their current job?

theyre both highschoolers n dont have jobs but skylar wants to be a nurse. kitty isnt sure what she wants to do n thinking about it scares her a lil

18.What are your OC’s greatest fears? Weaknesses? Strengths?

skylar is terrified of being alone, its the reason he was in his situation before he met kitty in the first place. he will do anything for you if he thinks you will leave him if he doesnt obey.

kitty is terrified of hurting the people close to her, mostly after when she attacked skylar bc of the blood moon bs. after a few more moons they figured out what the deal was but shes still afraid that something could happen and she could attack someone again without warning. before that.. im not sure? i havent thought much about that

19.What kind of music do they listen to? Do they have a favorite song?

skylar likes sufjan stevens n things similar, kitty likes the ready set n things similar

21 already answered

22.What kind of student were they/would they be in high school?

when hes with the right people skylar is a vry good student but before he met kitty he was in the principals office a lot and his grades dropped bc he was so exhausted emotionally from being w the ppl he was friends with and it took a toll on his mental health and his ability to focus and slash or care about school.

kitty is a good student in the classes that can keep her attention (usually science and history) but she has a real tough time if shes not Really Interested in whatever shes supposed to be learning, it just doesnt stick with her well. attitude wise tho shes a good student. she doesnt get into trouble unless the trouble finds her first and then shes too stubborn to back down lol

23.What is a random fact about your OC? 

...........i cant think of a random fact that isnt already mentioned lmao

24.What is their outlook on life? What is their philosophy / what do they think in general about living?

skylar is pretty depressed and negative about His life but very positive abt others? if that makes sense? he thinks everyone has a reason to live and deserves to live. kitty is p much the same but shes not depressed rlly. shes pretty positive all around. 

25.What inspired you to create them / how did you create them? Were they originally a fancharacter? What was their personality / design like when you first made them?

WELL. a looong while back i wrote a vent fic about dave like getting the shit beat out oif him or whatever. and skylar was one of the bg characters. he was very remorseful but didnt do anything to help dave or apologize and was just like.. in the bg for no reason? but then i was like i kinda....wanna do more with this guy. so i kinda like made an alternate ending to what i had where skylar helped dave after instead of leavin him where he was. and then i got attached lmfao.

kitty was made specifically for skylar! for a long while i thought skylar would always be like. a stand alone character it just felt rlly weird giving him a second Permenant character that wasnt terrible for him and then one day i was like WELL.....what if.......this Girl and then kitty was created

26.Who is the most important person in their life? Why? Who is the least important to them (that still has an impact and why?

skylar and kitty are each others Most Important Person. kitty brought skylar out of a dark place and skylar is kittys rock when she gets overwhelmed or breaks down. theyre good for each other. best friends.

there is not a single person however that is not important to skylar he cares abt everyones opinions all the time. kitty tho.. theres someone but im not sure?? who exactly? havent gotten into that or anything.

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29.If they could choose their epitaph for their grave, what would they choose?

man idk. skylar is too scared of death to think about it and kitty just doesnt thing much abt it

30.Do they want to get married? Why or why not? Would they ever want kids? Do they have kids? Why?

kitty would like to get married, shes indifferent about kids. skylar would like to get married and have at least one child !

31.What is their most traumatic memory/experience? What is their favorite memory?

most traumatic.. for skylar probably . being kind of forced to hurt people?? not necessarily forced by other ppl but forced by himself ofc. but it was still traumatic. 

kitty... im not sure. she hasnt really had any traumatic experiences so aside from attacking skylar which she could only remember bits and pieces of anyway idk !

33.Would they ever kill someone? What would someone have to do to push them to kill someone? If they would kill someone, why? 

kitty could kill someone accidentally during a blood moon or if she was pushed too far in a non blood moon Wolf time she could probably kill someone but she definitely wouldnt mean to if she was coherent. shes a little more irritable during wolf times (i think i already mentioned that in this or the other one but) and if she gets too angry the wolf in her comes out a little more and she gets violent. shell only mean to maim but miiight go a little too far. hasnt happened yet though and she is determined to be sure it never happens.

skylar however. after like a year of hurting people hes sort of. learnt to dissociate in the process of it to cope. so if he was also pushed far enough, but like, thatd take more than wolfy kitty. like to the point of his family (including kitty) being seriously hurt or threatened seriously he could sorta. snap and have at it. and he could accidentally kill them. really unlikely though.

34.What social groups and activities does your character attend? What role do they like to play? What role do they actually play, usually?

skylar tends to avoid social groups for long periods of time and if he is w a social group hes pretty quiet and will mostly just talk to kitty between her conversations with other people. uhh id go a little more in depth about how kitty interacts with people but i.. do not go to social groups and interact enough to see how an extrovert.. would interact with other people. at least i dont kno enough abt how theyd interact to be decisive abt it. sorry lol

35.How is your character’s imagination? Daydreaming a lot? Worried most of the time? Living in memories?

skylar is def worried most of the time. he overthinks things especially when asked to do something, like hell overthink whether or not he did whatever thing correctly and overthink every little detail he worries a lot.

kitty likes to day dream! she likes to talk to skylar about her daydreams a lot n shell be able to go on for like an hour about whatever shes thinking about and skylar just likes to listen to her and she doesnt need him to participate a super lot just like. Listening makes her happy. shes got a lotta thoughts all the time

36.What does your character want most? What do they need really badly, compulsively? What are they willing to do, to sacrifice, to obtain?

skylar wants Approval and praise. not like in a selfish way like i did this thing for u so i Deserve your praise and affection for it or whatever but just. its a dpd thing. he Needs it

kitty is... difficult. i really dont have her wants slash needs as fleshed out as skylars which is bad of me :\ i need to get on that.

37.What’s something that your character does, that other people don’t normally do?

well kitty stims she likes to flap her hands and stuff but i think thats still pretty common. idk if skylar really does anything that other people dont do?? shrugs

38.What would your character do with a million dollars?

skylar would probably save it lol. kitty would impulse buy a shit ton of things at once until skylar was like wAIAt WHAT ARE U DOING and make her Calm Down

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42.Does your character have any scars? Where did they get them from? 

skylar has scars on his cheeks, back of his arms, his shoulderish area and on his chest from kitty attacking him.

43.What was the most offensive thing your character had ever said?

skylars probably accidentally said a bunch of offensive shit being a Straight Cis White Boy but idk specifics man. kitty always corrects him tho and he does better hes tryin

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45.If your character was given a slice of pineapple pizza and they HAD to eat it (or something bad would happen), how would they react? Do they even LIKE pineapple pizza?

skylar probably doesnt mind pineapple pizza? its not his favourite but hed be fine with it but kitty thinks pineapple pizza is the most Disgustng thing on earth. she would rather Die. 

46.Your character is given a voodoo doll of themself. What do they do with it? Do they see if it actually works?

kitty would probably curiously mess with it a little but skylar would be too paranoid to touch it lol

47.Can your character draw? What do they like to draw? Do they doodle?

kitty likes to draw furries because she is an Actual Living Furry but skylar doesnt draw much more than like. ur average bored doodling.

48.What were their parents like? How has that affected how they are as an adult?

well theyre both still teenagers but kittys parents have always been very supportive of her. they kno shes bisexual and she hasnt brought up bein partially nonbinary just because she doesnt want to yet and theres nothing they Need to know about that yet but theyd be supportive of that too. shes got really good parents

skylars dad was not a very good person, not like physically abusive or anything but he was a toxic person and he is no longer in skylars life. his mom however! is a very nice person. shes rlly patient with skylar nd was especially when he was in that rlly bad place and was getting into trouble a lot. she knew there was something going on

49.Does your character like candy? Do they get sugar rushes? What are they like when they get a rush?

skylar likes chocolate and kitty likes.. like all candy. i dont think sugar rushes are.. a real thing??? lmao but itd just be kitty when shes excited. skylar doesnt get sugar rushes

50.If your character was presented with imminent and unavoidable death/fatality, how would they react? Would they try to avoid death anyways? Would they try to make their last days count?

skylar is pretty afraid of death but i dont think hed try to fight it. hed probably isolate himself from anyone that wasnt his mom or kitty

kitty would probably kind of just hide it like not tell anyone if it was possible. shes like. the moderate amount of afraid of death n i think if there were ways she could try to avoid it that would at least Extend her time a little she would definitely do that as much as possible but if she knows there wont be much she can do she wont waste too much time with it. shed just make the time she has count