#dirty Zach justice

[samandcolbyownme]

Summary: After being a guest on the podcast, you thought your communication with Zach was over with, but that was until you got a certain texts from a certain someone.

Warnings: SMUT18+, strong language, dealer!Zach, mentions of smoking weed, being high, friends to lovers, cuddling, cute actions, fluffy and smutty, unprotected sex, biting, hair pulling, handjob, fingering, sensual filth

Word count: 3.7k | not edited

Sorry this took so long, I’ve had writers block for days. I hope it’s okay, love yas! Enjoy! 🖤

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You walk through the door, “Hello, hello.”

“Ahh!!” Tara says excitedly, “I so happy you’re here!” She walks over to you and you embrace her in a hug, “I’m so glad you reached out, again, thank you!”

“We’re so excited to have you.” Tara says as she leads you over to the seat, “You can have the honor of sitting next to Zach, he’s probably going to target you today anyway. I think he has a little crush on you.”

You roll your eyes laughing as you sit, “Yeah, I seen how he is. I watched a few videos to kind of catch up on everything.”

Zach and Jared walk in and Jared is the first to greet you, “Hey, y/n. How are you?” He walks over and you stand back up to hug him, “I’m good, busy. But good. How are you?”

He nods, “I’m good.” He steps out of the way and you gasp, “Oh my goodness.”

Zach smirks, “Sheesh, I know I’m attractive but no need to make it a big deal.” You shake your head as you walk over, laying a hand on the head of the dog in his arms, “I was talking about the dog.”

Zach nods ever so slightly and his voice is low, “I know.”

You smirk, scooping the dog from his arms, “You just lost your dog.” You walk back over and sit down to put on your headphones, hands going right back to love on the dog in your lap.

“So, this is your first time meeting Zach right?” Jared asks and you look up, giving him a nod, “Yep, first time, I mean. I think we’ve followed each other on Instagram for a little bit.”

Zach holds his hand up and tilts his head, “Oh, so we have decided to pretend like last night didn’t happen, got it.”

Your mouth drops and you gasp, “Zach.” You laugh, “Don’t do that.” Tara raises her hand, “Actually, y/n was with me last night.” She looks at you, “Can I say it!?”

You smile, nodding your head, “Yeah, go for it.”

“So for those of you who don’t know who y/n is, she has multiple brands, a swimsuit line, a make up line-“

Alyssa cuts Tara off, “Which are both really good by the way.”

You smile and blow her a kiss. She pretends to catch it and you laugh and Zach scoffs, “Get a room.”

“Wow. I don’t know who Zach is more jealous of today, Alyssa or Handsome for being in y/n’s lap.” Jared laughs and Zach sighs, “Have you ever heard of the term, think before you speak?”

“Have you?” Tara and Jared yell at Zach in unison and you cover hour mouth, “I’m so glad I showed up today.”

——

Followers in each others Instagram lists is what you and Zach have been to each other for a while.

You’d like his stuff when you seen it, vice versa.

You couldn’t lie when you said his posts didn’t put a smile on your face, or make your heart skip a little beat when he posted a picture he looked a little too good in.

You’ve been newly single these last few months, and you just knew that you were set out to get nervous around anyone you found attractive.

But Zach didn’t make you nervous.

He made you feel comfortable.

You felt like you knew him for as long as you followed him on insta. It was weird, but yet, so refreshing to just have someone talk and joke around with you.

There only thing that was serious about it, was the tension you hoped no one picked up on, but with being a, basically five star rated influencer, you had a fan base that picked apart every thing you did.

So in the long run, you wouldn’t be shocked if you woke up to you and Zach trending on twitter or have new edits posted that ship the two of you that your friends would send to tease you.

Your phone rings, pulling you from your thoughts.

You sit up from your bed and reach over, furrowing your brows when you see a number displayed across the screen.

You answer, kinda skeptical, “Hello?”

“Y/n?”

You pull your head back, slightly shocked, “Zach?”

“Yeah thank Tara for leaving her phone laying around.” He chuckles and you laugh, “You could have just asked for it, you know?”

He sighs, “Yeah, I don’t know why I didn’t just do that.”

You smile and tilt your head, “So, what’s up?”

He doesn’t say anything for a few seconds, “Do you.. want to come over?” He quickly follows up, “Just to hang out.”

The words roll off your tongue with major ease, “I would love to just hang out with you.” You tease, “I’ll text you when I leave.”

——

You pulled back up to Zach’s, chewing on your lip as you text him, I’m here.

He responds back almost instantly, like he was waiting for you already, Come in through the studio door.

You get out, making sure you have everything before you walk towards the door. As you grow closer, Zach pushes it open, giving you a smile, “Hello again.”

“Hey.” You smile as you walk past him and into the house. He nods towards the steps and you follow him, making your way up to his room.

He motions for you to go in and you oblige, walking in, and you know his eyes are on your eyes, but you can only smile.

You turn around as he closes the door and he licks his lips, “So if I did my research right..” he walks over to his nightstand and opens the door, “C’mere.”

You walk around and your jaw drops as the sight in front of you, “Zachary Justice.”

His head snaps towards you, “What?”

You smirk, shaking your head, “What a plot twist you are.” His eyes look around the room, “Not following.”

You sit down next to him and you lean in, “Are you a..” your voice goes barely audible, “..drug dealer?”

He turns his head, his lips inches from yours, “I stay away from the harder shit, so..” he purses his lips, “that would just make me a, weed dealer then?”

You nod slowly, eyes flicking from his lips to his eyes, “I supposed it would, wouldn’t it.”

He smiles, looking back down at the box in front of him, “I can roll us a blunt if you want, a joint. Whatever you want, sweetheart.”

“Well, how m-“

“Mm.” He shakes his head, “Don’t do that.”

“Do what?” You laugh slightly and he looks at you, a smirk toying with his lips, “Offer to pay. If I wanted you to pay, I would have gotten the money first.”

You bite your lip, “Okay.” You swallow, “We can just do a joint or something. Doesn’t have to be much.”

He nods, pulling a pre-rolled joint from a thick plastic bag, “Okay.” He nods towards the bed, “Make yourself comfortable.”

You look at the bed and back to him, “You.. you’re gonna smoke in here?” He nods, “Or whenever you’re comfortable. I usually just do it here while watching a movie.”

“Do they know?” You start to kick off your shoes, “Jared and everyone else?”

Zach nods, “Yeah, they get from me, so they keep it hushed.” He slips his shirt up over his head and walks over to you, placing the joint between his lips as he lights it.

He takes a drag and hands it to you, “I’m going to go get some snacks, tray is there. Remote is here. Make yourself at home, sweetheart.”

You smile, taking the joint from him, “Thank you, Zach.” You watch him walk out before you place the joint between your lips, taking a much needed drag.

You hold in the smoke, eyes glancing over the screen as you look at the movies. You tilt your head back letting out the smoke as you slowly feel the buzz of being high creep its way in.

You hear the door open and tilt your head up, “That was fast.” You take another drag, eyes watching as he walks around to his side of the bed.

He chuckles, setting down the stuff he brought, “Did you pick a movie?” He looks up and over to you, you nod, handing him the joint, “Uh huh. I was just-“

You pause as you watch him take a drag, “-waiting for you.”

He nods, “so nice.” He smirks back at you and hands you the joint. You press play as you take a third hit, really feeling relaxed now.

You move back towards the headboard, leaning up against it as you move around to get comfy.

Zach glances back and shifts over and back to lay between your legs, his arms hooked under, so his hands rest on top of your thighs.

You look down at him, smiling as you take another hit.

You reach down, placing the joint between his lips and he nods his head when he wants you to pull it away.

You sit up, putting the joint in the tray before you slowly lean down. Your free hand on his cheek as your press your lips to his, mumbling out, “Blow.”

He exhales and you inhale the smoke from his mouth.

You peck his lips quickly before sitting up to exhale, “Sorry. I’ve always wanted to do that.” You explain and he tilts his head back to look at you.

You glance down at him, “I had a feeling you’d be okay with it.”

“The only thing you had a feeling about today?” He asks and you shake your head. He bites his lip, nodding his head slightly.

You clench your jaw as each movement of his neck resting against your clothed crotch area sends shivers up your spine.

“I figured I’d take a shot because your eyes..” he smirks, “Your eyes said you were feeling it, too.”

All you can do is nod slowly. Your hand moves to his hand and your run your fingers through the brown stands as he stare up at you, “Talk to me, baby.”

His quiet voice makes you feel weak.

“I feel it.” You whisper out, eyes moving to his glossed over ones, “I’ve never.. felt this way with someone before.”

“It’s nice, right..” Zach laughs weakly, “When you fall so unexpectedly for someone and they feel the same way back.” His hands slide down to give your knees a squeeze and you clench around nothing from the action.

He knows he’s teasing you, but he’s waiting for you to make the first move. Or, for you to tell him to stop, which is something you won’t be doing.

He smirks, looking back at the tv. A little bit goes by and he’s now laying with his arms on either side of your body and his head rested on your shoulder.

His forehead is resting against your neck and you’re nervous now, and the urge to swallow is screaming at your loudly.

You don’t want to seem nervous, but if this goes you know in your gut it’s going, you can’t help but be nervous.

“You know.” Zach says, finally breaking the long silence. You hum in response and he chuckles slightly, “Weed.. be perfect together.”

You giggle slightly, “That’s cute.”

“Get it.. weed..” he laughs weakly and gets serious really fast, “Please don’t leave.”

“I’m not going to leave.” You run a hand through his hair, “You’re cute. You have good weed, and you make me laugh? Please. You’ll have to kill me to get me away from you.”

You feel him smirk and he pulls your body closer to him, “Good thing I don’t want a murder charge.”

You laugh and almost like muscle memory, plant a kiss to his forehead. Instantly, he retaliates with a gentle kiss to your neck.

Neck kisses are your weakness.

You test it again, planting another kiss on his head. He kisses your neck again, and again. And again.

You let out a little moan as he sucks gently, his teeth grazing your skin, “Mm, you like that huh?” Zach’s voice is low in your ear.

You nod, a hand sliding to the back of his head, “Yes.”

He starts kissing your neck again, his hand sliding up to push your sweatshirt up your stomach slightly. Your muscles twitch under the light brush of his finger tips and you gasp, whimpering out as you feel his teeth sink into your skin.

You moan, body pushing closer to his as he kisses up to your ear, “You sound so pretty.” He gently bites down on your bottom lip before his fingers slide to the bottom of your sweatshirt, “Can I go under?”

You raise your brows, “Such a gentleman.” Zach smiles, pecking your lips in between kisses, “I.. just.. want you.. to be.. comfortable.. and.. relaxed, baby.”

You go to sit up and he cups your cheek, bringing you back to him, “Let me do it.” He sits up and quickly but gently takes off your sweatshirt.

You bite your lip and lay back down, Zach lays back down besides your and slips his arm under your head as your leg goes over his hip.

Your hand moves to rest on his neck as your lips meet again, but this time the kiss was hungry.

His hand slides from your thigh to your ass and he pushes you in to meet his hips. You moan against his lips when you feel his hard bulge press against your clothed cunt, “Please.”

He moves his hand from your ass and brings it up to squeeze your boobs, going back and fourth between them.

You tilt your head back, moaning out as you grind down onto him, “Zach..” your tilt your head forward, “P-please.”

He slides a hand down between your bodies, leaning his back so he has room to slip his hand into your sweats and panties.

Your breathing grows rapid as you await the needed touch. His fingers slide down to press onto your clit and your breathing gets caught in your throat as your hips buck forward slightly.

“That what you want? Does it feel good, sweetheart?” Zach asks against your lips. You whimper out, “Feels so good..” you reach down to push his hand down a little further, “Need more of you.”

He waists no time fulfilling your request.

Two of his fingers slip into you, causing a groan to rip from his own lips, “Fuck, you’re so tight just around my fingers.”

Your eyes roll back as his fingers curl to reach that perfect little spot, “F-fuck.” Your chest pushes into his and he groans, “Can you cum for me?” He kisses your neck, “I want to get you off, sweetheart.”

“Close.” You whisper out, “Keep going.”

“Think you can take a third, baby?” Zach asks and you nod eagerly, “Please, please, please.” Your voice is whiney, “Fuck.”

You feel Zach’s two fingers withdrawal but they’re quick to return and you moan louder as the slight stretch you feel as he thrusts them into you slowly.

“F-fuck.” You gasp out, arching your back as Zach leans down and takes your nipple into his mouth.

His tongue flicking and swirling over sends you over the edge, squeezing his fingers and moaning continuously.

Your hands tangle in his hair and tug, earning a groan that vibrates your nipple that’s between this teeth.

He guides you through your high, kissing up to your lips before he pulls his hand out of your sweats.

You wanted more of him.

You grab the waist band of his sweats and tug on them, leaning in to have a turn with his neck. He groans as you kiss and lick upward, whispering quietly in his ear, “I want you to fuck me.”

His cock twitches against your hand, “if that’s what you want.” He whispers as he grips your hand and pushes it down harder.

You squeeze and pull your hand away so you can roll over to take off your sweats and panties. You turn back, shocked at how quick Zach was to take the rest of his clothes off.

“I know, I’m quick.” He smirks and grabs your arm, pulling you back into him. He pulls the blankets back up around your bodies before moving to roam the newly freed skin.

You tilt your head up, lips searching for his. You weren’t sure if it was just because of your connection with him, or the fact that you were high, but you feel so needy for him.

And Zach loved it.

He drapes your left leg over his hip as pulls you closer, his lips connect to yours. You moan against his lips as you feel the head of his cock brushing up agains your soaked opening.

Your nails dig into his back as you whimper, rolling your hips into his, “Baby.”

Zach grips your hips, pulling you down as he pushes his hips upward. You gasp, jaw falling slack as you feel him slide into you.

You look at him, brows furrowed as you slide your left hand to his cheek.

He breathes out quickly before smashing his lips to yours, “Fuck you feel so good.”

You moan against his lips, walls clenching his cock as he thrusts in and out at a slow pace. He had you feeling so good within a matter of seconds, the way you felt from the high mixing in made you feel like you were on top of the world.

Nothing mattered but Zach.

No busy work days.

No constant emails, calls, and texts.

Your world was silent for a moment, for the first time in a while.

“Fuck.” You whine out, digging your heels into the back of his thigh, “Gonna cum.” You smoosh your lips to his, moaning against them as you cum undone around him.

“That’s it, baby.” Zach whispers as his hands press harder into your body, “Just let go for me.” He presses his lips to your forehead before resting his own against yours.

He slides a hand up to your cheek, running his thumb over it as he groans lowly. You slide your thumb to his lips, pulling it down slightly as you moan out, your voice soft when you speak, “You sound so hot.”

He groans at your words, moving to bury his face into your neck as he thrusts into you deeper, “Keep talking, please.”

Your hand slides around to grip the hair at the nape of his neck, “You make me feel so good, Zach.” You gasp when you feel his hand slide down to rub on your clit, “Fuck.”

You tilt your head back and he lifts his head to attach his lips to your skin. You squeeze his cock, earning a moan from him.

You smirk slightly, “Does that feel good?” You tilt his head up to peck his lips and he nods, “Fuck, baby. Yes, so good.”

His hands grip your body and he rolls on top of you, your legs instantly locking ankles on his lower back, “Where do you want me?”

You arch your back, moaning out as he keeps his thrusts as steady as he can, “Just.. pull out if you can.”

He nods, connecting his lips to yours again. You drag your nails up his back, and he thrusts his cock into you, “Sh-“

You feel his cock quickly disappear from you before feeling his cum pool between your hips. He lifts his head from your shoulder and kisses your cheek before he gets up to get something for you to wipe off with.

Your eyes follow him as you regain your breath. He hands you a towel and you smile as you take it.

“So do you want to start the movie where you started distracting me or?” He looks at you with a smirk and you roll your eyes as you sit up, “Hey now. I’m not the one who started the neck kissing.”

“But you did start the kissing.. I mean, the whole sucking the smoke from my mouth?”

You feel your cheek redden and you fight back a smirk, “Mm.”

He nods, slipping on his sweats before bending down to grab his shirt for you. He crawls on the bed, “don’t think I definitely didn’t pick up on that little peck before you backed away “

You roll your eyes, laughing as you take and slip on the shirt, “whatever helps you sleep at night, honey.” You look over at him and he leans back, pulling you with him, “I’m sure hoping it’s you now, but.. yeah.”

You smile, leaning into his body and watching as he hits play, “If that’s what you want.” His hand moves to intertwined his fingers with yours, “If it’s what you want, too.”

You squeeze his hand, “It is.”

——

A little bit into the movie, you’re laying on Zach with your head on his chest and you let out a quiet sigh, “Thank you.”

His thumb moves over your shoulder, “For what, sweetheart?”

You laugh slightly, “Well, not only getting yourself hired as my new dealer.” You smirk and look up at him and he looks down at you, “Oh yeah? Who says I’m taking new clientele.”

You roll your eyes, “Please. I have you wrapped around my finger.”

“And I love every second of it.” Zach leans down and pecks your lips, causing you to smile and giggle slightly, “And for making me feel like a normal person for once.”

He brushes hair from your face, “I figured you could use a little time out of any sort of light, hence why it’s so dark in here if you didn’t- yeah.”

You reach up, laying a hand on his cheek, "Gosh, how lucky am I? You do have a sweet side, Zach Justice." You scrunch your nose, smirking slightly as he smiles at your joke, "Do you think people will judge me for falling for my weed dealer?"

He reaches up lazily hold your wrist as his head turns to press a kiss to your palm, “I only care what you think, baby.”

——

Thank you for being patient.. I’ve had major writers block this last week or so and I’m trying to push through it. Let me know how you liked it!

As always, I love you all! Thank you for reading!🖤

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[blushbunii]

Zach Justice Nsfw

Alphabet

Btw I just recently started watching the podcast so this might not be super accurate but it's the vibe I got from him so far <3

A = Aftercare (What they’re like after sex)

- I feel like he'd be pretty good at aftercare. He would definitely make sure you're okay and cuddle you the second after, but probably in silence, giving you a few praises here and there

B = Body part (Their favourite body part of their partners)

-As much as I'd love to say he's a tits kinda guy, i can most definitely see him being an ass guy. He squeezes it playfully every chance he gets. Whether you're around friends or not he gives it a light smack as you're walking together. And oh my god does he love spanking you. He's fs a brat tammer, always finding a new way or reason to punish you. You'd be bent over his lap, severally confused as to how you ended up in this situation. "Zach what did I even do wrong?" "You talked back to me" "When?" "A week ago. now shut up and take it"

C = Cum (Anything to do with cum basically)

-He totally loves cumming inside of you. half the time he's practically begging you into letting him cum inside. "Aw come on sweetheart, please?? it'll feel so good. I swear I'll never ask to do it again" (he asks every other time you guys have sex)

D = Dirty Secret (Pretty self explanatory, a dirty secret of theirs)

- I kinda feel like he'd get off on the idea of getting caught. Like he'd purposely be louder when someone's home. And you'll be begging him to go slower so that it'll make it easier to be quiet, but it only fuels him more and does the complete opposite of what you ask. "But Zach what if Jared hears??" "I don't care if he hears, I'm not stopping"

E = Experience (How experienced are they? Do they know what they’re doing?)

-I feel like Zach would be very experienced. I mean he brags all the time about his sex game, and only you would be able to tell if they're jokes or not. Before you guys got together, you of course thought that he wasn't being serious, but oh were you wrong

F = Favourite Position (This goes without saying)

-I feel like he would like doggy, but where you're laying on your stomach (Idk what it's called) like he'd just be gripping your hips with one hand and pushing your upper body into the mattress which the other while he pounds into you. You'd barely be able to breathe with your face smooshed into the pillows, but you wouldn't even mind

G = Goofy (Are they more serious in the moment, or are they humorous, etc)

-He is so unserious it's crazy. Zach is the kinda guy to ask you a random question/make a joke while he's making you cum. Like he'll be eating you out and right as your about to cum he pulls away and looks up at you and goes "did you put the milk back in the fridge? You always forget to do that" or "oh my god Alyssa told me the funniest joke earlier-" like why are we talking about Alyssa rn??

H = Hair (How well groomed are they, does the carpet match the drapes, etc.)

-He definitely tries to shave as much as he can, but whenever he tries he kinda just gives up lol. Like he'll be in the shower about to grab his razor and he's like "eh I'll just do it tomorrow" and not get to it for another week or so unless you tell him too. But he definitely hates being super hair, so it's usually pretty trimmed

I = Intimacy (How are they during the moment, romantic aspect...) 

-Zach can be very romantic in a relationship, but I have a feeling he wouldn't be during sex. To him, sex isn't supposed to be romantic all the time. Sex is supposed to be hot and fun, But that doesn't mean he's a complete asshole during sex. He fs praises you left and right. Like the amount of times this man praises you throughout the day is crazy. You'll just be sitting together on the couch and he'll go "Your so pretty sweetheart" or you'll move to give him a blow job during a makeout session and he'll just smile down at you and say "atta girl, always ready to please me huh?" 🤭

J = Jack Off (does he masturbate? If so how often?)

-I feel like Zach would have a high sex drive, like one that nobody could keep up with. So yeah he jerks off at least once a day. He usually watches porn since not being able to actually have sex means one or both of you guys are busy and can't call, but he of course prefers your help and lovesss phone sex

K = Kink (One or more of their kinks)

-Zach would be very kinky in my opinion. No vanilla sex. Even if it isn't super kinky and just a little bit of degrading remarks and light choking here and there, it would still be something. He's a small list of what I think his kinks would be

Breeding (Going back to C, he would love cumming inside you. I feel like he would love it so much that he's adapted a full on kink for it. Like if you're begging him to cum inside you, even if he wasn't close to cumming before, he cums on the spot)

Anal (I feel like he'd have mixed feelings. I mean yeah, he loves your ass, but he doesn't necessarily wanna be inside it, you know. But he'd love how tight it is, and definitely be down to do it whenever you ask)

Humiliation (I feel like he'd love to humiliate you during sex. Like if you're going down on him and you get so needy you accidentally start grinding on his shoe, he'll start teasing you left and right. "Aw, are you so turned on you gotta get yourself off in my leg? What a pathetic princess")

Degration/Praise (He lovesss to praise you. Like, when you're doing so good for him and doing everything he asks of you, he's gotta make sure you know what a good girl you are. But sometimes when you're being bratty, knows you deserve a little degrading, so he gives you just that. And he usually mixes them 🫠 like he always says shit like "Good slut" or "that's my pretty whore")

Dacryfilia (I feel like he'd love to see you cry during sex. Like if your cumming so hard that you start crying without even thinking about it, once he realizes it's not bad tears it boosts his ego wayyy up. Even though it def doesn't need to be boosted)

Impact play (Ive already spoken about how he loves to spank you any chance he gets, so why not a little more than spanks? I don't know if he'd be into all the toys like paddles, floggers, etc. but Sometimes if hes trying to ask you a question while he's fucking you and your too fucked out to listen, he'll smack your face lightly. Not in an abusive way, kinda just to let you know that he wants you to listen to him and or to make you realize he's even talking in the first place)

Choking (I honestly think he'd love choking you or anything close to it, such as jaw grabbing. It's a way for him to assert dominance in the best possible way. He hates thinking he's the 'alfa male' in the bedroom/relationship, but sometimes he wants to be a little more controlling. And what better way than to grab your throat and force you to look him in the eyes while he fucks you?) (bonus points if you hate eye contact like me lol)

And that's just a few

L = Location (Favourite places to do it)

-He'd literally do it everywhere and anywhere. Like he'll be setting everything up to film a podcast episode while Jared is still getting ready, and ends up fucking you on one of the booth seats instead, making you sit in the exact same spot he fucked you in for the entirety of the episode

M = Motivation (What turns them on, gets them going)

-He gets turned on by the smallest things, I swear to god. This man will get turned on if you move your hands a certain way lol. Or he'll see you wearing a slightly shorter dress than the day before (Still barely above the knees and instantly getting turned on, claiming you were meaning to tease him (going back to when I said he'll always find a reason to punish you) but I feel like the main thing that would turn him on is eye contact. Like if you're having a conversation and you're just looking up at him, making direct eye contact as he speaks, he'd be tempted to bend you over the table and fuck you then and there.

N = NO (Something they wouldn’t do, turn offs)

-I don't think he would really have any turn offs, but there are some things that he'd just never like. But I feel like he'd be down for basically anything

Bimbofication (He likes when your a little dumb during sex. Like when he fucks you so good that your brain barely even works, it definitely boosts his confidence and makes him even more turned on. But he definitely doesn't want it every time. And he wouldn't wanna force it on you either. He likes it when you're mentally there to fuel his ego and answer his random dirty questions he'll ask like "tell me how good I'm fucking you. Tell me how much you like my dick inside you baby" or he'll even throw out some rhetorical ones like "what if someone catches us mhm? What would you do then? Keep whining and squirming like a dumb slut? Hell you'd probably like it if someone saw us, saw me fucking you just the way you like?". He'd also be the kind of guy to like to receive dirty talk too. Like even if you just praise him for fucking you good he enjoys it)

Threesomes (I think he'd want you for himself and wouldn't like it if he saw someone else pleasing you. But that doesn't mean Zach would be possessive in a relationship. Like he'd never stop you from hanging out with your guy friends and stuff like that. But he doesn't want you thinking of other people while your together. It's just kinda common courtesy for him in a relationship which I agree with)

Roleplay (He's not into full on roleplay like teacher x student or boss x secretary but I don't think he's mind a little bit of playful roleplay if that makes sense. It probably doesn't but if you called him sir or maybe even daddy in a kinda playful manner he'd like it. I don't know if he'd be into daddy too much but I think he'd low key love being called sir)

O = Oral (Preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc)

-Omg he'd be sooo good at giving head. And he'd do it for hours to, just overstimulating you until you couldn't take it anymore. And he def loves doing it too, but he lovesss receiving. Something about seeing you on your knees for him just drives him crazy. He's playing with your hair while you do it, slowly pushing your head further down every few minutes

P = Pace (Are they fast and rough? Slow and sensual? etc.)

-Zach is usually more rough in bed than romantic. He definitely would rather fucking you fast and hard than slow and deep. But he does like the feeling of going slow because it makes him realize how much of him you can really take of him (he usually does it to tease you and make you beg for him)

Q = Quickie (Their opinions on quickies rather than proper sex, how often, etc.)

-Zach lovesss quickies. Like that's mainly the sex you guys have. He wakes up with a hard on? Quicky. He's gonna be busy all day and not have time for sex? Quicky. He has no issues with them

R = Risk (Are they game to experiment, do they take risks, etc.)

-Zach would be down to experiment with anything honestly. He's the one that initiates most of the experiments but whenever you ask to do something, he's down

S = Stamina (How many rounds can they go for, how long do they last...)

-Zach's stamina is probably insane honestly. Like I feel like he'd be able to last about 15 minutes until having to cum, and he'd be able to do at least 5 rounds. Like this dude could go for 2 hours, barely stopping. And he's also the kind of person to think they're done, but realize they aren't after a minute to breathe

T = Toy (Do they own toys? Do they use them? On a partner or themselves?)

-Zach wouldn't use many toys in himself, but oh my god does he use them so much on you. And this makes his foreplay insanely good. Like you'll just be laying on his head with a vibrator against your clit, hitting your 3rd orgasm of the night before any actual penetration

U = Unfair (how much they like to tease)

-I've already spoken about how he likes to humiliate you, and I feel like humiliation and teasing kinda come hand in hand. You'll be begging him to cum while he's fucking you and he just keeps denying you, smirking when you start to whine at his words. "oh come on, you can't have to cum that bad can you? I mean, we've only been fucking for like 5 minutes. that's pretty pathetic if you ask me"

V = Volume (How loud they are, what sounds they make)

-Zach def moans. Like he can't hold them back most of the time. I think he'd groan a bit too, but he's mainly just moaning in your ear, knowing that it turns you on even more

W = Wild Card (Get a random headcanon for the character of your choice)

-I think Zach would low key like being submissive. I know that is probably a stretch but he's definitely a yes ma'am type of guy in my opinion. He wouldn't have a mommy kink or anything like that (as much as I hate to admit it) but he'd definitely love staring up at you while you ride him, praising him every once in a while "Mmm you look so pretty under me baby. Are you gonna cum inside me again?" And he'd just whimper softly, looking up at you with loving eyes and nodding him head saying "yes ma'am, anything for you"

X = X-Ray (Let’s see what’s going on in those pants, pictures or words)

-Zach would def be like 6 inches or a little over. Like he's not huge, but he's above average yk. He'd be like the perfect length (and as said before he's usually not too hairy down there)

Y = Yearning (How high is their sex drive?)

As said before, Zach has a very high sex drive. Like you guys will literally be in the middle of watching a movie and he just suddenly goes "hey, you wanna fuck?" Or you'll be out in public and he'll just randomly pull you aside into a bathroom and start undoing his pants without saying a word, expecting you to get the hint and follow along

Z = ZZZ (… how quickly they fall asleep afterwards)

-I think he'd fall asleep pretty quickly. He will help you with whatever you need, but once he has you in his arms, he's out

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Thx for reading this, plz give me any tips on how I can improve my writing in the comments :)

[mystshade]

Archenemesis Order (wattpad story) (Blurb)

Hey, there. Just plugging my new story. You can check it on Wattpad. This is a filipino novel.

Conceptualize: 2018 Created: Dec 2023

THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION. Names, characters, events, places, and incidents are all product of author's imagination. Any resemblance to real person,living or dead or actual events is PURELY COINCIDENTAL. No parts of this book shall be reproduced, copied, or transmitted in any form or any means,without the permission of the author. No to plagiarism! It's a crime.

Zach sits on a bench. He is reading a book and uses it as a cover for his face. He was glancing at every student who walked in front of him.

Any person can be an archnemesis, but not everyone can stand out.

He scanned every student that could join his circle of friends.

Every day, he is looking for another ‘friend’ he needs. Yes, he needs, not wants. He is very picky with his friends, someone he can use.

Naniniwala siyang lahat ng tao, dapat pumili ng kikilalanin. At hindi lang dapat dadalhin ka sa mabuting bagay, dapat mapakikinabangan mo rin.

“Too pretty,” he murmured as Georgia passed by. Georgia is a cheerleader at their university.

“Too perfect,” he whispered when the student council president passed by.

“Feeling cool,” he said when a group of gangsters walked out of his sight.

Zach sighed. Napakahirap pumili ng taong pasok sa standards niya. Ngunit, bigla siyang may naisip. Paano kung magsimula siya sa detention room?

Zach maintains a secret club. He call it the Arch Nemesis Order. He didn't make this merely for entertainment. He thinks their nation's justice system is awful and it is absurd to hold a protest or a rally. If they play dirty, they should play dirtier.

A hero once said, ‘Ang kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan,’ so he wants to make it right. No, they’re not revolutionaries; they just want everything in order.

Wattpad link

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[heymonty]

Your thoughts on walex?

uhmm... nothing really. and i'm so sorry!!! 😭 i just didn't appreciate their story as much as other people did. some people would disagree, and this is my opinion, i just see them as forced.

i think the writers failed to make me see why they even have to be in a kind of relationship or winston being in love with alex (when he's still mourning and grieving for monty. i think, realistically, it's hard to fall in love when you're in so much pain, not to mention, when you have this need to find justice to that person you lost. or it could only be my hurt!monty a** being sooo sad over monty's death and i really hate how the writers did them dirty and even framing him which he didn't deserve) again, i'm sorry to say this, but walex is just all too forced for me, and i only take them as a tool for the plot to move.

i mean, look, diego liked jessica, winston liked alex. jessica and alex were the ones who were there when bryce died. winston and diego have this same purpose of knowing who killed bryce, and find justice for monty. winston kept pressing jessica did it, because among the others she's likely have the motive to do it (we all know what bryce did to her). and because winston keeps saying it's jessica, made diego walk out and unwilling to help him anymore to find the culprit, because diego feels deep for jessica. so jessica got away with murder.

eventually, alex confessed to winston he did it. (something i really appreciate) but ofc, one of the writers purpose is to get alex away with murder too, so winston learning it's alex, he didn't do go to the police, because (the writers made) he's in love with alex. well that's how i see walex. they just happened so alex wouldn't go to prison.

so charlie x alex for me is more real. i really fell in love with charlie's appearance, approaching alex at the camping trip. i just think it's so cute. 🙈 especially i ship alex and zach, i never thought chalex would have this magic on me. and then they gave us the prom scene (it's the only favourite episode of mine among the season aside from winston's angelic appearances lol)

but i really love the idea of alex and winston as friends. (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)💙

again, this is my opinion and i respect others who see things differently, so i also wish for you to respect my opinion, especially i used to see wonty and walex fan wars. hence, i don't really include myself in fandom due to nonsense fan wars. (눈‸눈)

i always say, ship who you want to ship. we ship to be inspired in our day to day lives, not for it to cause negativity.

[benhardypout-archive]

004. thank you, alex

a/n: so this is one of my Wonty "comfort fics" - so it's far from canon or never followed the original plot - which i would probably never publish (unless there's one i would like to share), but this time in this fic which i titled "Dirty Little Secret", I'm just going to post some chapters which I enjoyed writing. So the number is the chapter of this fic, and this is the chapter 4, hence, 004. Enjoy reading! 🙈

Perhaps, my crush on Monty was getting out of hand.

I flipped through the Liberty yearbook which Tyler lent me only to feast my eyes over the photos of the guy in Jersey no. 32 through the weekend, as I sat on the floor with my back against the bed.

Montgomery de la Cruz, I chanted in my head, reading his name printed in bold letters.

I stopped by a certain picture of his, running my fingers over the glossy paper, tracing his face. Tyler was lucky to have taken this rare shot of him smiling beautifully like this; those white teeth showing. He was leaning back and wearing a blue tank top. For once, he looked really happy…

I should probably ask Tyler the story behind this shot.

My phone rang a message.

I,  mindlessly, searched for it, not keeping my eyes away from the image. I could feel my heart expanding by this simple picture of him.

Bringing my phone to my face, there’s a  message from Alex: U free this afternoon?

Basically, I'm free for the whole day.

I typed a quick reply: Yes.

And not long after, Alex texted back asking us to meet up at this mall, only a five minute drive.

I wonder if this hang out thing meant anything or just platonic. Anyway, Alex seemed nice. I would love to get to know him more and perhaps get acquainted.

Looking back to the yearbook, I'm so tempted to cut the picture. Or maybe I could just ask Tyler just give me this specific yearbook, like a gift.

* * *

Alex took me bowling. And I'm not so good with the game but so far I'm having fun.

"You're so good at this," I said as Alex hit another strike.

He smiled. "Nah."

"Now, don't be modest on me," I chuckled lightly and took a bowling ball from the rack and positioned it on my hand, adjusting to its weight. Walking by the lane, I put on a stance and ran my tongue over my lower lip, aiming for a strike. Not that I'm expecting to hit one, which of course didn't happen. I looked at Alex, throwing my hands in defeat. "No, not good at this."

Alex went to hit next and of course, another strike. He raises both his arms dramatically and spun around facing me, smiling victoriously, cocking a brow.

"I give up!" I chuckled and sat down by the bench.

"You're named Winston for a reason," Alex commented, sitting beside me.

"What does that mean?"

"Winston, like Winner. Root word, win."

I laughed, throwing my head back a little. "Damn. I think I'm not doing my name justice, then."

"Practice makes perfect."

"Let's just eat. I'm starving."

"Sure."

We walked aimlessly along the mall in silence, with a few side comments about the boutiques or the shops we passed on. Then we saw and spotted some familiar faces. Well, Alex introduced me to some of them, simply pointing from afar and telling their names, since I barely knew anyone from Liberty yet, who also worked here.

Then my stomach decided to embarrass me and did a growl as we reached the food court.

“Someone’s whining,” Alex retorted.

“I know right.”

Since it’s the afternoon, there’s a lot of tables to choose from, not to mention, stalls without queues. A lot of options for us. But we just settled on some corn dogs.

"We should see some movie some time," Alex suggested. "How about tomorrow?"

"Oh, okay." I thought back if I had plans. Is looking at pictures of Monty in the yearbook counted as one?

He smiled and told me the time and rendezvous. And then added, "I-it's a date,"

I blinked. "A d-date?"

"I meant friendly date," he quickly clarified, faking a smile. I could see dejection in his eyes.

I wanted to apologize but perhaps I’m just overthinking the situation and putting meaning on how Alex was acting the past days. I may try to brush it off and act like I’m not noticing anything, but it’s there. Yet, he said so himself ‘friendly date’, maybe he really just meant us to be friendly.

"So you like someone else?" Alex asked after a moment which of course caught me off guard. I should’ve expected that question to come. I almost coughed my Coke out. Good thing, I had swallowed it down. My heart began to skip.

Should I tell him?

I avoided his gaze, and took another sip on my drink. "Uhm… yes," I said in a low voice.

"Oh…. right. Of course."

"Alex-"

"I-I'm just asking," Alex cut me off. Though, I’m afraid I’m already ruining this budding friendship and it’s the last thing I wanted. But, if he ever decides and calls off our little friendly movie date, I'd understand.

"I… Maybe I just need some company," he went on, resting his arms on the table as if for comfort. "And I… I actually like Zach," he glanced at me.

Zach. Oh. I know him.

"I kissed him," he murmured so low I almost didn’t catch it. Then he snorted, lightly. "But… of course he said he's straight."

"I'm sorry," I said in empathy. I wanted to reach for his hands but then decided against it. Then a scenario flashed in my head where I kissed Monty and then he said the same thing-- Ouch!

"It's all right. Thanks for going out with me, and listening." Alex interrupted, saving me from my disastrous thoughts.

I nodded. But then... he asked the question I’m shit scared to answer.

"May I ask who you like?"

Fuck...

I shifted on my seat. "Oh… uhm…It's..." I looked at him, warily. He was indifferent… yet. Wait till you hear this.

With a deep shaky breath I say, "Monty."

* * *

No words had been spoken since, besides the sensational "What the… fuck?" reaction from Alex who wavered before saying the word. And an awkward "Yep" from me, popping the 'p'.

We just went to our own cars and left after.

I'm sure Alex hated me now, or worse, despised me.

I knew it.

Maybe liking Monty would make you lose some friends-- lose some potential friends, rather. We're not even friends.

Was that what Monty meant when he said I got no friends here, as his own experience? Because people didn't like him?

I received a text from Alex later that night, apologizing from how he reacted. Which relieved me a hundred fold. And then he added…

Alex: But… Monty? I just can't believe it! And I think he's as straight as a ruler.

Winston: It's all right. Still a plastic ruler can be bent.

Alex: Correction. Wooden ruler. It just breaks in half, and he'll just break you.

Okay, I couldn't argue with that.

Winston: I guess. But could you keep a promise not to tell anyone?

Alex: Ok

Winston: Thanks.

Alex: So tomorrow. Same time. Same place. And move on from Monty. There's far better guys than that asshole.

Hope it's  that easy…

* * *

I'm glad that Alex didn't change towards me. He still smiled and spoke to me as if I didn't tell him something, which he found horrible.

After buying two movie tickets, we went to the snack bar to buy some popcorn.

"Oh you gotta be kidding me." I heard Alex mutter under his breath, causing me to turn and follow his gaze, only for my world to stop, seeing Monty by the entrance.

I forgot the ability to move until Alex nudged me. I blinked and turned to him. He has this amused smile.

"Seriously, Winston, close your fucking mouth. Some fly would literally rent in there."

I blushed, and sneaked another glance at Monty, longer than necessary, then to the other jocks he’s with. They’re standing by the ticket booth. I shifted closer to Alex and poked his side. "Zach's among them."

"I know. I hate it." Alex then stepped forward as it's our turn. "Two medium-sized popcorn please. Plain... And two cokes?" He told the guy behind the counter and turned to me.

"Coke," I confirmed.

And he went on ordering. But half of my attention was on the noise from the jocks. God… I couldn't believe I would see Monty here.

Oh, fuck.

I desperately searched for any mirror or any surface where I could see my reflection and fixed my hair as I saw them making their way towards us!!!

"Hi, Alex." Zach said beside me. I, discreetly, give Alex another nudge.

Alex barely glanced. "Hi."

"Zachy, I'm gonna have these Hot Tamales," Monty announced, tapping his fingers on the glass display counters, pointing over the Hot Tamales candy bars wrapped in red.

He caught my gaze and it was too late to retrieve my eyes back. So, I threw a soft smile at him, hoping I wasn’t too obvious about my loud attraction.

"Hey, Winston. You and Alex on a date?" he asked instead, and I swore I felt blood rush through my cheeks.

"N-no," I shook my head at once.

"What about you and Zach, Monty? You guys on a date?" Alex cuts in.

"Yeah. Actually it's the four of us, Scott and Charlie."

Scott and Charlie smiled and waved, making Alex roll his eyes.

Zach cleared his throat and looked at Alex. I guessed that maybe he wanted to speak to him… alone, so being a good friend as I am, I stepped aside and took the chance to stand beside Monty. But I made sure to be discreet and just tapped my fingers against the counter, my eyes fixated at the menu posted in front.

Zach whispered something to Alex and I could only catch a few words like 'mad' and 'me', giving me enough hint of what he's saying.

I tensed feeling Monty moved closer to me. "Never thought I'd see you here."

I blushed and glanced at him. "Yeah. Small world."

Then he asked me if we’re going to watch the same movie. A horror one.

“I think we should just sit together, then." Monty suggested, glancing over to Zach and Alex. "Especially, it looks like Zach and Alex have something to talk about."

I chuckled, "Sure." Would love to sit next to you.

"Winston," I heard Alex called and saw that our popcorn was ready. I took one last glance at Monty and uttered a "See you later," before making my way back to Alex.

"What did Zach tell you?" I whispered as we made our way inside the cinema.

"He wants to talk. I said yes."

I just hummed.

"Dammit, Winston. I still like him and I hate it," Alex whined a moment later, making me smile.

We took the seat in the middle section, since it's not too far and not too close, and we could watch properly. Different trailers were being shown and I noticed that there were only a few cinema-goers or maybe only few wanted to see this movie.

Later, I spotted Monty and the group inside looking for a seat, so I gave a secret wave at them, specifically, at Monty. He called his friends after he saw me. Then they made their way to us. I hid a smile. My heart wouldn't shut up about it, and it literally wanted to jump off my chest when Monty took the seat next to me.

Calm down, Winston. I’m afraid he could hear it from here, screaming his name.

Zach tried and asked Alex if he could sit beside him, only receiving a nod from Alex. But I could practically read his mind regretting taking the middle seats, when we could just take the space on either right or left wing, and have all the spaces on our own.

"Are you following me?" I heard Alex mumble to Zach.

"No. I… Monty pointed us here and…maybe I did, by deciding to sit next to you," Zach admitted.

I decided and just diverted my attention to Monty and his Hot Tamales. "Does that taste good?"

"You wanna taste?" He gestured one to my direction. I swallowed, not expecting his sudden offer. Or maybe it's because his shoulder brushed against mine.

"N-no. Thanks."

"Come on," Monty began tearing one package open and handed it to me, "Have some."

I glanced at him and reluctantly reached, staring intently at his hand, tempting to hold it.

"No, don't taste that." One of the jocks interrupted. I stopped. "You will get addicted," he added, grinning.

"Oh, fuck off, Charlie," Monty waved. "Come on. Gimme your hand."

"You're not trying to poison me, are you?" I tried to joke.

And I blushed seeing his boyish smile. "Oh no. It's a love potion," he winked.

Now that sent me. If I happen to be an ice, I've melted by now.

You don't need to give me any love potion, Monty. I wanted to say.

With a trembling hand, I held my palm out and he poured some on it. I uttered a thanks and put everything in my mouth, letting it melt in my tongue.

Charlie was right, it's kind of addicting.

"So?"

"I think I'm in love," I blurted, not breaking eye contact.

He looked away.

Oh no! Wrong move, Winston.

"I mean your friend's right. It's addicting."

He turned back to me and smiled. "I know right." He, then, handed me the Hot Tamales. “Here, have it.”

It would be a shame to take his offer down, so I just took it, our fingers brushing; enough to send electricity down my body. I wondered if he felt it too.

Wishful thinking, Winston.

"Why are you taking Monty's food? It might be contaminated," Alex whispered.

I shrugged him off and offered it to him. "You should try."

"No thanks."

I couldn't help but find Alex's distaste towards Monty, funny. Even though I shouldn't. But I'm afraid I might continue teasing him about it.

The movie finally started. And it's supposed to be scary as it's a horror film. But I'm not a bit scared. However, I'm tempted to hold Monty's hand that was on the armrest between us. But more tempted to pull the armrest up and just lean onto him. Maybe act scared?

As he took his hand away to get some popcorn - since I decided to share my popcorn with him and his friends, who I now know the names of: Charlie and Scott - I, sneakily, placed my hand on the armrest in hopes to be held by him.

Sadly, after he took a handful of popcorn he didn't put his hand back, but my hand stayed where it was. And I just forgot all my attempts on flirting.

"Holy shit!" he exclaimed.

And I tensed not because the scene was scary but because his hand, finally, landed on mine. I hid a smile. And when I thought he would notice and take it away, he didn't, and just stayed there. Though, I wasn't sure if he was ever aware of our hands, or he's too focused on the movie to even notice.

My heart pounded so loud, I could barely hear the show, and could hardly concentrate on it, blocking everything around me but only his presence. I’m only aware of the warmth and the weight of his hand on mine, making my throat dry. I just dreamt of kissing him, or simply lean on him, and embrace more of his scent.

Ugh! Shut it, Winston. Try and hold yourself together.

But how, when he’s close like this? Needless to say, his hand on mine?

The movie just ended without me really understanding everything that happened.

Monty made some comments about it, asking me some of it as soon as we got out to the lobby. I just nodded along, agreeing with everything he said. But Charlie argued with him and they went on, leaving me completely clueless, even though we all watched it together. I should've tried and focused on the show, so I could have a proper conversation with him. But until now, the heat of his hand pricked on my skin.

"Winston," Alex called, and began to walk. I hesitated and followed him outside, not giving me the chance to say goodbye to Monty and his friends.

"Are you alright on your own?" he asked

I frowned, blinking once. "Y-yeah."

"I need to go with Zach," he glanced at Zach, who’s busy chatting or probably saying parting words with his buddies, and rolled his eyes back to me. "Said he wants to talk."

"Oh. Sure."

"Again, beware of Monty. Don't be fooled by his good looks."

"So, you admit he looks good."

Alex stammered but soon gave up, sighing. "Whatever Winston. Don't say, I didn't warn you."

"Okay. Have fun with Zach." I gave his shoulder a pat. "And thanks for inviting me. I really had fun," I smiled.

Alex had to roll his eyes again. "I think I know why."

[ellie-s-list]

Dedicated Hearts

Chapter One

A Levi Ackerman x OC story

WARNING: Contains spoilers from the OVA, A Choice With No Regrets

Sitting on their knees before her, Sadie looked the three criminals up and down, going down the row. They weren’t dirty, roughed up. They actually looked less like how you would think a criminal of the Underground would look. Despite their appearances, they can fight, and they have committed crimes. Going from her left to right, Sadie assessed the criminals.

The first one was a dark-haired man, he seemed to be the leader. He was strong-willed and proved to be difficult to take down, Erwin needed Sadie’s assistance so he wouldn’t get his throat slit. He was capable and formidable.

Next was a young redhead. She had two pigtails, and a defiant look in her green eyes. She was spunky but new to the whole “fighting” scene it seemed. Alaina, the soldier who took her down, seemed to be unharmed, not even a scratch on her face.

Lastly, was a young blond-haired man. He had ice-cold eyes, yet knew when to choose his fights. Sadie could recall him telling the girl, Isabel, to save her energy. He could be an advisor to the other man, helping to guide their actions through logic. It was interesting, and a little scary, since Sadie realized that the way the group acted was paralleled to the way she ran her squad.

The criminals were stripped of their maneuver gear, Erwin taking a set and standing in front of the three. Sadie took her position behind the redhead, keeping an eye on them.

“I have some questions to ask of you three,” Erwin held up the set of gear, “Where did you get your hands on this?” He also looked virtually unharmed, but when Sadie came upon the scene, she knew he was fighting with all he had.

Neither of the three answered, all defiant to the Squad Leader’s question. If it were Sadie in the situation, she would most likely do the same.

“Your technique was excellent, who taught you?” Erwin continued pressing, not showing his annoyance with their defiance. Yet again, though, they did not respond. Erwin walked over to the dark-haired man with an undercut, “You’re the leader, right? Have you received military training?” Again, the dark-haired man kept this mouth sealed.

Erwin, assessing his age, looked up to Sadie, “He looks close to your age, did you see him where you were stationed for training?”

Sadie shook her head, “Even if he wasn’t at my post, with the way he moved there would have been word through the teachers.”

Erwin hummed, looking back at the man. He chuckled, “That’s the face of a man who wants to kill me and escape.”

Sadie smirked, she has felt the same way for Erwin before. But it was usually because he stole the last bottle of wine. Not really the escape part though, but same feeling.

“I’d like to avoid any rough treatment if I can,” Erwin said, he put the gear down by a nearby building, he then turned back to the group. He side-eyed Miche, nodding.

Side-stepping, though she knew she wasn’t in the way, Sadie watched as Miche surged forward. He grabbed the hair of the man, pulling it back and then he plunged his face forward and into a puddle.

“I’ll ask again,” Erwin said, his tone lowering. “Where did you learn vertical maneuvering?”

“We didn’t learn it from anyone!” A voice yelled, making Sadie flinched. She looked down and saw the young girl was the culprit. “You think we’re gonna let a civil servant push us around?”

The blond also spoke, “We figured it out so we could survive in this dump.” He then scoffed, “Anyone who doesn't know what sewage tastes like couldn’t understand.”

Sadie blinked, exchanging a look with Erwin. The two followers seemed to look up to their leader with pride, maybe even love. Yet, their leader was still defiant. Maybe if they hurt one of the followers he would speak.

Erwin decided to relent, “My name is Erwin Smith, what are your names?”

They still didn’t speak, and the three Survey Corps members were getting impatient. Miche pushed the man’s head in again, then roughly pulled his head up to look at Erwin.

The Squad Leader tilted his head, “I applaud your determination, though if you keep it up then we’ll have to move on to your comrades.” He made it a point to look at Sadie, the woman moving forward right behind the young girl. Alaina also came forward, and in succession, the two pulled out one of their blades and placed it by their necks. Their other hand was in each of the criminal’s hair, keeping their head still.

“If you’re gonna do it, do it!” The red head shouted, though not moving against Sadie’s blade. “You’re all bastards!”

Sadie tilted her head in consideration, “I try to be.” She muttered.

Erwin gave the other blonde a look, as if sending her the word ‘really?’ Sadie grinned, winking.

Shaking his head, Erwin asked again, now pointed towards the leader, “What is your name?”

It only took a few seconds, but they dragged on as if they were ages. That is when the man spoke, his voice raspy, “It’s Levi.”

Erwin took a step forward, “Levi.” He knelt, “Would you make a deal with me?”

Levi’s eyes widened, Sadie noticing ,/ the flecks of blue in his dark iris’s. He was honestly a beautiful man, even with the sewage water dripping down his cheeks.

“A deal?”

“I won’t ask about your crimes,” Erwin stated. “In return, you will lend me your strength, and join the Survey Corps.”

“If I refuse?”

Erwin stood up, sighing, “I turn you over to the military police. Considering your crimes, I don’t think you or your comrades can expect decent treatment.” Erwin motioned with his hand over to Alaina and Sadie, the two pressing the blades delicately to their criminals’ necks. “Choose whichever path you wish.”

Levi grit his teeth, looking to his comrades. He then looked up to Erwin, venom in his tone as he spoke, “Very well. I’ll join the Survey Corps.”

To say the least, Sadie felt awkward as the criminals were let to stand. Sadie and Alaina sheathed their blades, and Erwin instructed Miche and Matthew to carry the discarded gear.

“What’s going to happen to the ODM gear they have?” Alaina asked Erwin, the man turning to the brunette.

“We’re going to keep it for testing,” He said simply, quickly ending the conversation.

Sadie rolled her eyes, “Now that you successfully took over my day off, that I put in for three months ago, what are we going to do?”

Erwin fought back a grin, the corners of his lips peaking a little, “I guess you’re free for the rest of the day, right?”

Blinking, Sadie cracked her knuckles, “This would be the time I would start heading back to base.”

“So we head back to base.”

Biting her lip, Sadie glared at her fellow Squad Leader. She then held her hand out, “Can I have the keys to the cuffs? Or are we going to let them go when we get above ground?”

Erwin handed her the iron ring with the sets of keys, “We can uncuff them now, but first search them for weapons.”

“Aye, aye, captain.” Sadie mocked a salute, turning to Miche, Alaina, and Matthew. “You heard your Squad Leader.”

Later, as the eight of them walked towards the southern entrance, Alaina skipped next to Sadie. The brunette seemed excited, her gait bouncy as she slowed to a walk.

“Sadie, I never knew how good you were at darts!”

Narrowing her eyebrows, Sadie looked down to Alaina, “What?”

“Last night, you were winning every match at the bar.” That statement seemed to pique the interest of Levi. The dark-haired man didn’t put up any resistance, true to his word of compliance.

Putting a hand on her chin as she walked, Sadie tried to think back to the night before. She remembered finishing her paper work, and also her last glass of wine.

“Was I already drunk when I entered the bar?”

Erwin looked back at the that question, now also intrigued.

Alaina rubbed the back of her head, looking away from the young Squad Leader.

“Yeah, actually. You were talking about how you couldn’t drink anymore wine, and then…” She trailed off, gazing towards Erwin.

“And then what?” Erwin asked, smirking towards Sadie.

“You called Erwin a bitch.”

Sadie couldn’t help but laugh at Erwin’s following expression. He quickly slated it to emotionless, but the quick allowance of surprise was enough for Sadie. Erwin looked forward, continuing on as if he didn’t hear anything.

“Seems like something I would do, even if I was drunk,” Sadie hummed. She then looked to Levi, who was still gazing at them. Their eyes met and he quickly looked away, staring at the back of Erwin’s head.

“Yeah, you went on about how he took the last bottle of available wine, so now you had to search for more when you came to town. Then a few guys suggested you played darts with them, and then I guess you made a deal with them,” Alaina explained, her eyes getting big as she continued. “You won of course, but I don’t really know what the deal was and I wanted to see if you could tell me?”

Biting her lip in thought, Sadie crossed her arms. She honestly didn’t remember much of the night before, but it would also be like her to accept any deal.

“It was probably something to benefit me… Who were the two I made a deal with?”

Alaina looked up, thinking, “I think it was Theo and Zach.”

Grunting, Sadie shook her head, “It was definitely something bad then. I hate those two.”

“They do make me uncomfortable.”

“Exactly, bitches get what they earn.”

Alaina tilted her head, “So what did they earn?”

“I think I get to beat them up, honestly I’ll do it anyway even if that wasn’t part of the deal.”

“Even drunk you get even?” Matthew piped up, laughing gently.

Sadie nodded, “I serve justice in any form, Matthew.” She then smirked, “Even when I’m dead, I’ll give you hell from the grave.”

Posted 6/27/21, Story by @bakugosbreathmint

do not repost my content, reblogs are fine

[ao3feed-gratsu]

Not a Kinktober 2019

by IckyFinks

Hello! Due to some really rough events this month, my beta and I have missed the traditional one-a-day pattern for the Kinktober challenge. Buuut, I think you guys may appreciate the depth and care of each chapter (I’m still going to call them “Days”).

Tastes can be particular, but this collection will start tame (explicit) and will (dramatically) increase in kinkiness. Please read the chapter names to find what interests you. I’ve also done something nerdy: Days 1, 11 and 21 are solely “solos” and self-love; 2, 12 and 22 are contained to the cutest couples; 3, 13 and 23 talk only of tantalizing trios; 4, 5, 14, 15, and also 24, all use awesome foursome, fivesome and moresome themes.

Fortunately for you, I already said fuck the 31-entry limit. I already have a couple of extra… “postponed” kinks. MORE IMPORTANTLY, I will happily moderate requests to continue certain chapters or to reuse some of the kinks for a different fandom/pairing.

Sorry for how long everything is.

Words: 6135, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 13 Reasons Why (TV), Avatar: The Last Airbender, Fairy Tail, Glee, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, iCarly, Kingsman (Movies), Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Shadowhunters (TV), Teen Wolf (TV), The Fosters (TV 2013), The Fosters (TV 2013) RPF, Twilight Series - All Media Types, Voltron: Legendary Defender, Wizards of Waverly Place, Young Justice - All Media Types, Real Person Fiction, Justin Bieber (Musician), One Direction (Band), Shawn Mendes (Musician)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M, Multi

Characters: I can't... this list...

Relationships: Jesus Adams Foster/Jude Adams Foster, Jake T Austin/Noah Centineo, Charlie Hesketh/Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, Jacob Black/Seth Clearwater, Seth Clearwater/Jacob Black/Emmett Cullen, Keith/Lance/Lotor/Shiro (Voltron), Luke Castellan/Percy Jackson, Ryder Lynn/Jake Puckerman, Natsu Dragneel/Gajeel Redfox, Justin Bieber/Shawn Mendes, Jordan Parrish/Theo Raeken, Freddie Benson/Spencer Shay, Corey Bryant/Mason Hewitt, Mason Greyback/Justin Russo/Max Russo, Seamus Finnigan & Neville Longbottom & Harry Potter & Dean Thomas & Ron Weasley, Magnus Bane/Simon Lewis/Alec Lightwood/Raphael Santiago/Jace Wayland, Nick Jonas/Cameron Dallas, Ethan Dolan/Grayson Dolan, Jake Puckerman/Noah Puckerman, Simon Lewis/Raphael Santiago, Jeff Atkins/Clay Jensen, Clay Jensen/Tony Padilla, Clay Jensen/Alex Standall, Montgomery de la Cruz/Clay Jensen, Zach Dempsey/Clay Jensen, Natsu Dragneel/Gray Fullbuster, Harry Potter/Fred Weasley/George Weasley, Dick Grayson/Jaime Reyes, Jaime Reyes/Roy Harper/Kon-El | Conner Kent/Wally West, Mason Greyback/Justin Russo, Aang/Sokka/Zuko (Avatar), Justin Foley/Clay Jensen, Danny Mahealani/Stiles Stilinski, Danny Mahealani/Jackson Whittemore, Liam Dunbar/Mason Hewitt, Liam Dunbar/Theo Raeken, Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood, Nick Jonas/Shawn Mendes

Additional Tags: Masturbation, Mirror Sex, Edgeplay, Frottage, First Time, Massage, Voyeurism, Exhibitionism, Collars, Sexual Slavery, Gangbang, Biting, Scratching, Marking, Claiming, beach, Pool, Sauna, Scars, Nipple Piercings, Tattoos, Car Sex, Movie Theater Sex, Public Sex, Sex Pollen, Fuck Or Die, Hate Sex, primal, Leather Kink, Finger Sucking, Dirty Talk, Deepthroating, Choking, Police Uniforms, Office Sex, Caught, Sex Tapes, Hand Jobs, Gloves, Wall Sex, Clothed Sex, Peeping, Clothed male/naked male, Double Penetration, Spitroasting, Threesome - M/M/M, Incubus Dean Thomas, Orgy, Moresomes, Circle Jerk, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Bukkake, Cum Bath, Creampie, Felching, hot-dogging, Twincest, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Nipple Play, Incest, Sibling Incest, Strip Tease, Strength Kink, Cock Warming, Pet Play, Licking, Begging, Teasing, Glory Hole, cum dump, Breeding, Bad Dragon, Dildos, Oviposition, ass worship, Rimming, Face-Sitting, double-sided dildo, Stomach Bulge, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Anal Fingering, Knotting, Fisting, Triple Penetration, Ritual Sex, Blood and Gore, Loss of Virginity, Docking, Sounding, Cum Inflation, Shoe Kink, Socks, Foot Fetish, Smegma, Suits, Ties & Cravats, Watersports, Shower Sex, Wetting, Armpit Kink, Scent Kink, Sweat, Gym Sex, Latex, Jock Straps, Overstimulation, Body Worship, Breathplay, Ice Play, Wax Play, Bathing/Washing, Aftercare, Sleepy Cuddles

Source:http://archiveofourown.org/works/21246686

[ao3feed-voltronlegendarydefender]

Not a Kinktober 2019

read it on the AO3 at Not a Kinktober 2019

by IckyFinks

Hello! Due to some really rough events this month, my beta and I have missed the traditional one-a-day pattern for the Kinktober challenge. Buuut, I think you guys may appreciate the depth and care of each chapter (I’m still going to call them “Days”).

Tastes can be particular, but this collection will start tame (explicit) and will (dramatically) increase in kinkiness. Please read the chapter names to find what interests you. I’ve also done something nerdy: Days 1, 11 and 21 are solely “solos” and self-love; 2, 12 and 22 are contained to the cutest couples; 3, 13 and 23 talk only of tantalizing trios; 4, 5, 14, 15, and also 24, all use awesome foursome, fivesome and moresome themes.

Fortunately for you, I already said fuck the 31-entry limit. I already have a couple of extra… “postponed” kinks. MORE IMPORTANTLY, I will happily moderate requests to continue certain chapters or to reuse some of the kinks for a different fandom/pairing.

Sorry for how long everything is.

Words: 4009, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 13 Reasons Why (TV), Avatar: The Last Airbender, Fairy Tail, Glee, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, iCarly, Kingsman (Movies), Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Shadowhunters (TV), Teen Wolf (TV), The Fosters (TV 2013), The Fosters (TV 2013) RPF, Twilight Series - All Media Types, Voltron: Legendary Defender, Wizards of Waverly Place, Young Justice - All Media Types, Real Person Fiction, Justin Bieber (Musician), One Direction (Band), Shawn Mendes (Musician)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M, Multi

Characters: I can't... this list...

Relationships: Jesus Adams Foster/Jude Adams Foster, Jake T Austin/Noah Centineo, Charlie Hesketh/Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, Jacob Black/Seth Clearwater, Seth Clearwater/Jacob Black/Emmett Cullen, Keith/Lance/Lotor/Shiro (Voltron), Luke Castellan/Percy Jackson, Ryder Lynn/Jake Puckerman, Natsu Dragneel/Gajeel Redfox, Justin Bieber/Shawn Mendes, Jordan Parrish/Theo Raeken, Freddie Benson/Spencer Shay, Corey Bryant/Mason Hewitt, Mason Greyback/Justin Russo/Max Russo, Seamus Finnigan & Neville Longbottom & Harry Potter & Dean Thomas & Ron Weasley, Magnus Bane/Simon Lewis/Alec Lightwood/Raphael Santiago/Jace Wayland, Nick Jonas/Cameron Dallas, Ethan Dolan/Grayson Dolan, Jake Puckerman/Noah Puckerman, Simon Lewis/Raphael Santiago, Jeff Atkins/Clay Jensen, Clay Jensen/Tony Padilla, Clay Jensen/Alex Standall, Montgomery de la Cruz/Clay Jensen, Zach Dempsey/Clay Jensen, Natsu Dragneel/Gray Fullbuster, Harry Potter/Fred Weasley/George Weasley, Dick Grayson/Jaime Reyes, Jaime Reyes/Roy Harper/Kon-El | Conner Kent/Wally West, Mason Greyback/Justin Russo, Aang/Sokka/Zuko (Avatar), Justin Foley/Clay Jensen, Danny Mahealani/Stiles Stilinski, Danny Mahealani/Jackson Whittemore, Liam Dunbar/Mason Hewitt, Liam Dunbar/Theo Raeken, Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood, Nick Jonas/Shawn Mendes

Additional Tags: Masturbation, Mirror Sex, Edgeplay, Frottage, First Time, Massage, Voyeurism, Exhibitionism, Collars, Sexual Slavery, Gangbang, Biting, Scratching, Marking, Claiming, beach, Pool, Sauna, Scars, Nipple Piercings, Tattoos, Car Sex, Movie Theater Sex, Public Sex, Sex Pollen, Fuck Or Die, Hate Sex, primal, Leather Kink, Finger Sucking, Dirty Talk, Deepthroating, Choking, Police Uniforms, Office Sex, Caught, Sex Tapes, Hand Jobs, Gloves, Wall Sex, Clothed Sex, Peeping, Clothed male/naked male, Double Penetration, Spitroasting, Threesome - M/M/M, Incubus Dean Thomas, Orgy, Moresomes, Circle Jerk, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Bukkake, Cum Bath, Creampie, Felching, hot-dogging, Twincest, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Nipple Play, Incest, Sibling Incest, Strip Tease, Strength Kink, Cock Warming, Pet Play, Licking, Begging, Teasing, Glory Hole, cum dump, Breeding, Bad Dragon, Dildos, Oviposition, ass worship, Rimming, Face-Sitting, double-sided dildo, Stomach Bulge, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Anal Fingering, Knotting, Fisting, Triple Penetration, Ritual Sex, Blood and Gore, Loss of Virginity, Docking, Sounding, Cum Inflation, Shoe Kink, Socks, Foot Fetish, Smegma, Suits, Ties & Cravats, Watersports, Shower Sex, Wetting, Armpit Kink, Scent Kink, Sweat, Gym Sex, Latex, Jock Straps, Overstimulation, Body Worship, Breathplay, Ice Play, Wax Play, Bathing/Washing, Aftercare, Sleepy Cuddles

read it on the AO3 at Not a Kinktober 2019

[samandcolbyownme]

Warning: These one shots will contain adult content. Please read with caution. 🖤

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Telling the World

Rolling with the Punches

Catching Feelings

The Final Straw

Out-Zached the Zach

How Lucky Am I?

[tootiefrootieroll]

Got some random thoughts on 13rw

Spoilers ahead, triggering words and topics discussed proceed with caution.

One, does anyone else feel that Clay has shown serious signs of schizophrenia or at the very least depression induced psychosis? And I know his parents have tried to get him help in the show, but I don't feel like it was enough?

In fact I don't think they did a very good job depicting how important seeking profession help can be crucial to a person's recovery. Tyler, Monty, Justin, or Alex never saw profession help.

I'm thinking about removing Tyler's name because he did make an effort to go see a school counselor. But I think, Clay did Tyler a disservice to him by not alerting his parents discreetly or not, he almost shot up an entire school, he was suicidal, and was raped.

The humanization of Bryce and Monty is a bunch of BS. period. What's really shitty is Bryce's arch was actually working, for me as a viewer. I had to continually say out loud, BRYCE IS A RAPIST. Now I think it's important to realize that the part of that story arch's purpose was making people realize Bryce and the people around him would only see him as that monster. But I mean, where is the fault in that? He is a grown ass man, he was very much so capable and aware of his actions, there's no "forgiving" or "redeeming" that. So despite the shitty writing on that part, it had a purpose that I think was important.

How Ani was okay with not judging Bryce by his worse actions, but scared of Clay after breaking into his house, makes no god damn sense.

Now that were onto Ani, fuck that shitty ass character. Let's just off the rails throw this show into that hands of a character that had no ties or business narrating a story that had nothing to do with her. She literally self-inserted herself into this narrative by being as nosey as possible, a liar, deceptive and down right careless about anyone around her. Her only purpose was to be the "inside scoop" on Bryce and his "walk to redemption". Literally a waste of time. And confusing as a viewer to adjust to a stranger telling this grand twist and turn crap season. Plus she didn't even bother to nosey her way around Hannah's tapes, give me a damn break.

I think they took way too much "inspiration" from maybe Big Little Lies with the way they went about narrating and portraying this season. And trust me you're viewers are not that dumb that they need to be lead around like a dog on a leash and thrown around about who did it. The fact that they had to change the person of interest of bryce's killer every god damn episode is ridiculous. It just looks like mediocre writing. Also the continued vague referral and dragging out of what happened on homecoming night was annoying, hence my referral to BLL.

Character to character, some of the writing was excellent. Tyler, Tony, Jessica, and Justin's characters were done some justice. Won't go into detail about each one, but things that stood out to me was Tyler confessing to Clay about his assault, that had be crying. Justin's whole struggle as a addict and the whole relationship with Clay. Tony confronting Bryce about how all of this was his fault, a good reminder as to why we are even in a third season in the first place. And Jessica trying to be more than just a victim, and being active in a change in the schools fostering of toxic masculinity and rape culture.

Character that were wronged or annoying: Monty, Zach, Alex.

Monty, do I really need to say. He is a rapist. He knew what he was doing, no amount of closeted frustrations can excuse his actions. Being closeted in a toxic household can do more to a person's mental health and demeanor than making them a fucking rapist. Ugh. Such a god damn disservice to the LGBTQ+ community. Like Netflix already threw that trope at us with Sex Ed. We get it. Thanks, it's a shitty trope. Stop it.

Zach has a few redeeming qualities here and there. But overall I think his "holy than thou", "I'm an innocent", arch was annoying. Honestly they didnt really use his character at to deserve all this hate from me, but really, any time he would show up would annoy me lol.

Alex was done wrong. He was still suicidal, he was on drugs, and kind of just thrown around. And I think the whole "break up with Jessica hurt me" trope was a weak plot device although I don't think it's unreal. I think it's important to realize how breakups can effect a Male's self esteem the same way its portrayed for females. Yet overall I think they still did him dirty. Also his dad is a cop, and can't pinpoint the mental health issues that Alex was portraying???

On that note, even though I think they made the parent's roles absolutely worthless I think they did it right and wrong. I think parents can be blind or just don't know the warning signs of a child in distress. I think the portrayal of parents not knowing what's happening in the lives of their child was correct. I think that the deceptiveness of teenagers was correct as well. So hand in hand I guess it makes sense that the parent didnt do a lot, but also I think just a display of bad parenting??? Hmm I'm a little on the fence but I think this story should of touched on the roles of parents, parenting their child(ren).

Taking a few days and reading around various opinions of this show (through tumblr) I do have to say I would like to revise my statement on characters. I believe that almost all the characters were pretty irredeemable to begin with. Not including Jessica and Tony.

Let's not forget, Tyler took people's pictures without consent, including a potentially sexually explicit situation and distributed them around. Justin let and protected his girlfriends rape. Clay's inability to see it any other way and his obsessive possession with girls is really disturbing. And all the character one way or another contributed to the suicide of a classmate.

That being said I don't think the characters mentioned above aren't worth redemption (not bryce or monty) but I think it's super hypocritical of the shows writing to dedicate an entire season of humanizing a terrible person(s) but throw away all the bad the rest of character have, and expect their audience to be okay with it???

Those are most of the thought I can put together. I wasn't really a fan of the book back when it was released but didn't mind the show, despite the triggering nature and down right ignoring licensed psychologists.

Ps. Shout out to Olivia Baker for calling out the Cops for jumping on this "poor rich white boy" murder, but lazing around when someone was raped, and another was raped and committed suicide.

Let me know what you guys thinks. Try and be respectful. Everyone has an opinion that matters for different reasons (unless you are defending Bryce and Monty then kindly fuck off).

Overall this season was a trainwreck, hypocritical at best, and down right not necessary.

[justinstolemybike]

hey kids

so after contributing 13 hours of my life to the latest season, i have some opinions, so here they are, even though you didn’t ask for them. quick and dirty and probably poor syntax. (obviously spoiler alert)

highlights

- the biggest highlight of s2 for me is that they developed the background for almost every character that deserved to be humanized. i always thought that most of the characters were redeemable, but in s1 they were so one note, so we couldn’t have much doubt in hannah as narrator. s2 really gives dimensions and layers to the characters whose conscience was always there, just not loud enough, even hannah’s and even more important, they showed that some people are just... plain fucking evil.

- another pretty big highlight was how they handled hannah and the perspective of her suicide. a lot of the criticism about the show was portraying hannah baker as a hero for getting revenge on her aggressors by taking her life and shaming them as theoretical murderers, which i agree with. in s2, they tackle that discussion head on by the dialogues clay has with hannah in his mind. she said that she wasn’t looking for revenge, just to tell her story and her story isn’t the only one that matters. i don’t know if that’s what the ‘real hannah baker’ would’ve said  bc this was a hannah that was created by clay but it felt believable to me and a little bit more empathetic. however, i understand if people still have the view of 13rw being ‘tragedy porn’ and gratuitous/triggering w it’s rape scenes but s2 has tried to make up for a lot of that, no matter what the motivation may be.

- i’m happy they didn’t act like jeff just went away.

- they breezed over race privilege. good on them.

- i think my favorite episode was episode 13 and my favorite scene was when everyone danced around clay and held him up at the dance. i didn’t cry at that, though, it was so touching. i did cry at clay’s eulogy. ugh, beautiful.

weak spots 

ok ok ok, so there’s going to be so much more weaknesses than overall highlights, but i did thoroughly enjoy this season, much more than s1.

- the biggest weak spot for me was... how they dealt with the plots? i guess? like, everything that happened this season, i pretty much was glad about BUT i wanted it to happen for DIFFERENT CHARACTERS? for example, tbh, i never cared for skye. i didn’t like how she judged sheri and she just seemed like a stock character and s2 didn’t change that all that much and i knew that it was leading to a clay x skye relationship but... i really really really didn’t fucking want it to? i wanted sheri to be clay’s gf without the mental illness, and skye could still be that really good friend for him bc sheri x clay had that romantic backdrop already and sheri’s really sweet. 

- speaking of characters, let’s talk about tony and sheri, shall we? tony was clay’s #1, last season. they had this crazy-strong relationship, although it was a bit one-sided, looking at you clay but no one could question the authenticity. but then, this season....we barely see any tony x clay.... if at all???? like, i am very glad that tony got a bf that supports all the he is and all that he wants to become, and i’m happy that he’s happy but, it was just so weird that we didn’t get a lot of clony time. it seems like they’re pretty much replacing tony for justin, which... i mean, ok (except he did try to talk about killing him last season) but tony has always had clay’s back. tony stuck by him, defended him, took care of him when he needed it? and i know they spoke about his probation being the reason he couldn’t help anymore, but... it feels fake bc we all know how padilla gets down for the ones he cares for and it seems like he cares for clay more than anyone. that’s another reason why i loved the finale bc we see glimpses of that again. also, his whole story with beating the bigot up for harassing him and ryan also felt weak. like, the way that boy was stressing, i thought he killed a guy and hannah helped him bury the body. like i understand he didn’t wanna go to juvie but... it truly didn’t feel that deep. like wasn’t a big enough payoff for this major secret that made him give his life to follow hannah’s rules and let a rapist go free. but that’s just me. 

sheri. my fave. arguable, but out of all the subjects on the tapes, sheri had the closest relationship with clay. she always tried to check in on him and she really liked him. but no. he ends up with skye, which like i said, makes sense but... no. now she comes back and she still tries to help clay any way she can but... he still doesn’t trust her??? and he’ll trust zach and justin and even tyler to some degree but not her?????? and she wasn’t at the dance or the funeral????? so i’m wondering if she’ll be back for s3 and i’m just??????????? she basically took on the role of tony for this season, being wise and VERY HELPFUL yoda and truly wanting to get justice for hannah and help clay and justin but she just gets cut short, on redemption and screen time. it’s not fair, especially considering they gave it to courtney, who did nothing, honestly. i mean, it’s great she came out but let’s be real, that was about her. that would’ve had to happen whether she was put on trial or not. OH OH OH AND MARCUS GOT TO TELL HIS SIDE BUT NOT SHERI????? SQUARE THE FUCK UP SELENA GOMEZ

- while i am very glad that they spoke about mental illness, it was with the wrong character. as i have posted before, hannah had a lot of terrible shit happen to her by careless people but for her to take her life, i very much believe she had to have some type of disorder going on but yet again, the show does nothing to show that. laughably, they did a better job with showing skye’s symptoms in two episodes then hannah’s in a full 26 episodes. like what? 

- still no jail for bryce. i know they wanted realism and more shit for another season probs, but dude that really sucks. 

- were we really supposed to believe that clay would kill bryce?

- i could do without the alex/justin/jessica triangle. i mean, isn’t that how we got into this mess?

- the new characters, i really don’t care about. even tony’s nice bf who i don’t remember the name of. see? don’t care.

[chelsanitys]

Hubbell and Donohue are skating to Kissing You from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet for the free dance. Thoughts?

between this and soucisse/firus’s dirty diana program, marie france is just GIVING AWAY all the music i wanted vm to skate to to teams that can not possibly do it justice. like giving caviar to a fuckin cockroach 😒also zach remains horrifically off-putting. i’d kill myself too if i were juliet

[mightystargazer]

2018 Readinglist

Drew Hayes Bloody Acquisitions

Drew Hayes The Fangs of Freelance Fred

Drew Hayes Second Hand Curses

Gregg Hurwitz The Rains

Gregg Hurwitz Last Chance

Dean Koontz Oddkins

David Timson Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Kay Hooper Stealing Shadows

Kay Hooper Hiding In Shadows

Kay Hooper Out of Shadows

Kay Hooper Touching Evil

Kay Hooper Whisper of Evil

Kay Hooper Sense of Evil

Kay Hooper Hunting Fear

Kay Hooper Chill of Fear

Kay Hooper Sleeping with Fear

Kay Hooper Blood Dream

Kay Hooper Blood Sins

Kay Hooper Blood Ties

Kay Hooper Haven

Kay Hooper Hostage

Kay Hooper Haunted

Kay Hooper Fear the Dark

Kay Hooper Wait for Dark

Hunter Shea The Jersey Devil

Matt Haig The Humans

Terry Goodkind Nest

John G. Hartness Cold as Ice

John G. Hartness Into the Mystic

John Conroe God Touched

John Conroe Demon Driven

John Conroe Brutal Asset

John Conroe Black Frost

John Conroe Duel Nature

John Conroe Fallen Stars

John Conroe Executable

John Conroe Forced Ascent

John Conroe College Arcane

John Conroe God Hammer 

John Conroe Rogues

John Conroe Snake Eyes

John Conroe Winterfall

Bentley Little The House

Terry Goodkind Nest

Stephen Blackmoore Dead Things

Stephen Blackmoore Broken Souls

Stephen Blackmoore Hungry Ghosts

Peter Cawdron Alien Space Tentacle Porn

A. American Hope

Dean Koonz Richochet Joe

Sarah Lyons Fleming Until the End of the World

Sarah Lyons Fleming So Long Lollipops

Sarah Lyons Fleming And After

Sarah Lyons Fleming All the Stars in the Sky

Robert Bevan Critical Failures V

Perrin Briar Genesis Flowers

Larry Correia The Adventures of Tom Stranger

Larry Correia A Murder of Manatees

J. R. Ward Covet 

J. R. Ward Crave

J. R. Ward Envy

J. R. Ward Rapture

J. R. Ward Possession

J. R. Ward Immortal

Milo James Fowler Captain Bartholomew Quasar

James Smythe The Echo

Ian Tregillis The Mechanical

Ian Tregillis The Rising

Ian Tregillis The Liberation

Harvard Lampoon Bored of the Rings

Barry J. Hutchison Return of the Dead Guy 

Mark Tufo Demon Fallout

Mark Tufo Defeat's Victory 

Morgan Hobbes The Totally True Adventures of Gustav Gustavson

Barry J. Hutchison Dial D for Deadman

Christopher Moore Practical Demonkeeping

Christopher Moore Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

Christopher Moore The Stupidest Angel

Richard Johnson Weekend at Vidu's

Brian Keene The Rising

Brian Keene City of the Dead

Daniel Fite The Zombie Chapters

Edward Zajac A Swift Kick in the Asteroids

Donald E. Westlake The Busy Body

Dean Koontz The Whispering Room

Christopher Moore Bloodsucking Fiends

Christopher Moore You Suck

Christopher Moore Bite Me

Sue Perkins Zoopedia

Anthology Zombies, The Recent Dead 

Anthology Zombies, More Recent Dead 

Brett J. Talley That Which Should Not Be

Christopher Moore A Dirty Job

Christopher Moore Secondhand Souls

Christopher Moore Coyote Blue

Al K. Line Hidden Spark 

Al K. Line Dead Spark 

Al K. Line Wild Spark 

Kim Stanley Robinson Icehenge

Bentley Little The Mailman

Zach Bohannon Empty Bodies

James Peters Black Swan Planet

Peter Meredith The Edge of Hell

Peter Meredith The Edge of Temptation

Gerry Griffiths The Beasts of Stoneclad Mountain

Christopher Moore Fluke Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

C.G. Mosley The Island in the Mist

C.G. Mosley Monsters in the Mist

Russell James Cavern of the Damned

Mike Bockoven FantasticLand

Michael  McBride Snowblind

Michael  McBride The Killing Grounds

Kevin Hearne Scourged

E.F. Benson's Ghost Stories

Donnie Eichar Dead Mountain

Corey Taylor A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven

Viktor Zarkov Megatooth

Steven Bird Erebus

Robert Bevan 5d6 Caverns and Creatures

Richard Kadrey Suspect Zero

Keith C. Blackmore Mountain Man Prequel

Dave Jeffery Frostbite

Christopher Moore Fool

Christopher Moore The Serpent of Venice

Seth Shostak Confessions of an Alien Hunter

P. K. Hawkins Titanoboa

Matt Serafini Island Red

Christopher Moore Island of the Sequined Love Nun

Ambrose Ibsen Asylum

Ambrose Ibsen Forest

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Lucas Pederson Leviathan Ghost Rig

Kara Cooney The Woman Who Would Be King

Jonathan Maberry Mars One

John J. Rust Reptilian

Greig Beck Beneath the Dark Ice

Greig Beck Dark Rising

Greig Beck This Green Hell

Greig Beck Black Mountain

Greig Beck Gorgon

Greig Beck Hammer of God

Greig Beck Kraken Rising

Michelle McNamara Ill Be Gone in the Dark

Stephen R Donaldson The Kings Justice

Jerry Dubs Imhotep

Christopher Moore Lamb The Gospel

Barry J. Hutchison Planet of the Japes´

Bentley Little The ignored

Marty Essen Time Is Irreverent

Thomas Tryon Harvest Home

Dean Koontz The Bone Farm

Dean Koontz The Crooked Staircase

Christopher Moore Sacre Bleu

Benjamin Wallace Junkers

Alex Laybourne Terror from the Deep

Christopher Golden Ararat

Alice Hoffman The Museum of Extraordinary Things

Jim Butcher Storm Front

Jim Butcher Fool Moon

Jim Butcher Grave Peril

Jim Butcher Summer Knight

Jim Butcher Death Masks

Jim Butcher Blood Rites

Jim Butcher Bombshells

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Jim Butcher White Night

Jim Butcher Small Favor

Jim Butcher Backup

Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Jim Butcher Changes

Jim Butcher Ghost Story

Jim Butcher Cold Days

Jim Butcher Shadowed Souls

Jim Butcher Skin Game

Jim Butcher White Night

Jim Butcher Working for Bigfoot

Stephen King The Outsider

The World of Lore Wicked Mortals

Hugh Howey I, Zombie

C. Gockel Archangel Down

C. Gockel Noa's Ark

C. Gockel Heretic

Anthology Aliens Bug Hunt

Shea Ernshaw The Wicked Deep

John F.D. Taff The Bell Witch

Adrienne Lecter Incubation

Adrienne Lecter Outbreak

Adrienne Lecter Escalation

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Adrienne Lecter Resurgence

Adrienne Lecter Unity

Adrienne Lecter Affliction

Adrienne Lecter Catharsis

Barry J. Hutchison The Time Titan of Tomorrow

The Cabin at the End of the World

Chuck Wendig The Blue Blazes

Larry Correia Saints 

Dirk Patton Voodoo Plague

Dirk Patton Crucifixion V Plague

John Connolly Every Dead Thing

John Connolly Dark Hollow

John Connolly The Killing Kind

John Connolly The White Road

John Connolly The Black Angel

John Connolly The Unquiet

John Connolly The Reapers

John Connolly The Lovers

John Connolly The Whisperers

John Connolly The Burning Soul

John Connolly The Wrath of Angels

John Connolly The Wolf In Winter

John Connolly A Song of Shadow

John Connolly A Time Of Torment

John Connolly A Game of Ghosts

Barry J. Hutchison The King of Space Must Die

Dave Itzkoff Robin

Greig Beck The Void

Jim Butcher Furies of Calderon

Jim Butcher Academs Fury

Jim Butcher Cursors Fury

Jim Butcher Captains Fury

Jim Butcher Princeps Fury

Jim Butcher First Lords Fury

Mark Tufo Etna Station

Bentley Little The Resort

Rebecca Roanhorse Trail of Lightning

Michael Rutger The Anomaly

Scott Smith The Ruins

Zach Bohannon Empty Bodies

Zach Bohannon Adaptation 

Zach Bohannon Deliverance

Zach Bohannon Open Roads

Zach Bohannon Damnation

Zach Bohannon Revelation

Stevens, Marc First of my Kind, 2nd Edition

Peter Clines The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe

Nathan Hystad The Event

Michael Crichton Next

Graeme Reynolds High Moor

Graeme Reynolds Moonstruck

Jim C. Hines Janitors Of The Post Apocalypse

Thomas Sweterlitsch The Gone World

Michael McBride Subhuman

Jeremy Robinson The Others

Jeremy Bishop The Sentinel

James D. Prescott Extinction Code

Alan Dean Foster Relic

Bobby Adair Dusty's Diary

Adam Cesare The Con Season

Richard Kadrey Hollywood Dead

Margaret Atwood Angel Catbird

Bethany Blake Death by Chocolate Lab

Bethany Blake Dial Meow for Murder

Bethany Blake Pawprints & Predicaments

Jeff Strand The Haunted Forest Tour

Adam Cesare Tribesmen

Adrienne Lecter Exodus

Ted Dekker The Bride Collector

T.W. Piperbrook The Last Survivors

T.W. Piperbrook The Last Escape

T.W. Piperbrook The Last Humanity

T.W. Piperbrook The Last Command

T.W. Piperbrook The Last Refuge

T.W. Piperbrook The Last Conquest

T.W. Piperbrook The Ruins 1

T.W. Piperbrook The Ruins 2

T.W. Piperbrook The Ruins 3

T.W. Piperbrook The Ruins 4

T.W. Piperbrook Outage 1

T.W. Piperbrook Outage 2

T.W. Piperbrook Outage 3

T.W. Piperbrook The Reckoning

Bobby Adair Zero Day

Bobby Adair Infected

Bobby Adair Destroyer

Bobby Adair Dead Fire

Bobby Adair Torrent

Bobby Adair Bleed

Bobby Adair City of Stin

Bobby Adair Grind

Bobby Adair Sanctum

Tony Peak Signal

Steven Brust Good Guys

Stephen King & Bev Vincent Flight or Fright

Myke Cole Control Point

Myke Cole Fortress Frontier

Myke Cole Breach Zone

Graeme Reynolds Blood Moon

Michael Hodges The Invasive

Jeff Strand Dead Clown Barbecue

Echoes of Evil

Dean Koontz The Forbidden Door

James D. Prescott Extinction Countdown

Sam Sykes Humane Killer

Dan Simmons Summer of Night

Dan Simmons Children of the Night

Dan Simmons A Winter Haunting

Myke Cole Gemini Cell

Myke Cole Javelin Rain

Myke Cole Siege Line

Adam Cesare Video Night 

Deborah Sheldon Devil Dragon

Peter Meredith Generation Z

Peter Meredith The Queen of the Dead

Peter Meredith The Queen of War

Tim Powers Alternate Routes

Richard Roberts I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence!

Richard Roberts Please Dont Tell My Parents Im a Supervillain

Richard Roberts Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon

Richard Roberts Please Don't Tell My Parents I've Got Henchmen

Richard Roberts Please Don't Tell My Parents I Have a Nemesis

Richard Roberts Please Don't Tell My Parents You Believe Her

Michael McDowell BlackWater

Hunter Shea Mail Order Massacres

Jeff Strand Dweller 

Adam Cesare Zero Lives Remaining

Ezekiel Boone Zero Day

Ted Kosmatka Prophet of Bones

Steven L. Kent 100 Fathoms Below

Keith C. Blackmore The Missing Boatman

John Connolly Bad Men

Jeremy Robinson Forbidden Island

Chuck Wendig Under the Empyrean Sky

Chuck Wendig Blightborn

Chuck Wendig The Harvest

Shingles Audio Collection

Robert E. Howard The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

Paul E. Cooley The Black

Paul E. Cooley Arrival

Paul E. Cooley Outbreak

M.R. Forbes Forgotten

M.R. Forbes Forsaken

M.R. Forbes Unforgiven

Jeremy  Robinson Kronos

Jeff Strand I Have a Bad Feeling about This

Mark Tufo Whistlers

Mark Tufo Atlantis

Mark Tufo Convergence

Mark Tufo Valhalla

Laurie Forest The Black Witch

Simon R. Green

Simon R. Green Man with the Golden Torc

Simon R. Green Daemons are Forever

Simon R. Green The Spy Who Haunted Me

Simon R. Green From Hell With Love

Simon R. Green For Heaven's Eyes Only

Simon R. Green Live and Let Drood

Simon R. Green Casino Infernale

Simon R. Green Property of a Lady Faire

Simon R. Green From a Drood to a Kill

Simon R. Green Dr. DOA

Simon R. Green Moonbreaker

Simon R. Green Night Fall

Rob Dircks You're Going to Mars!

Stephen King Elevation  

Drew Hayes Pears and Perils

Alma Katsu The Hunger 

Hunter Shea One Size Eats All

Joseph Fink Alice Isn't Dead

Jonathan Mayberry Glimpse

Jack Ketchum Off Season

Jack Ketchum Offspring

Jack Ketchum The Woman

Chuck Wendig The Blue Blazes

Bobby Akart Yellowstone Hellfire

Bobby Akart Yellowstone Inferno

Laurie Forest wandfasted

Greig Beck Abyss

Barry J. Hutchison Dial D for Deadman

Barry J. Hutchison Dead Inside

Barry J. Hutchison Dead in the Water

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Elise Cooper Interviews Mark Greaney

Sierra Six

The Gray Man Book 11

Mark Greaney

Berkley Pub

Feb 15, 2022

Sierra Six by Mark Greaney is not one story but two stories in one book.  Readers are treated to a double helping of the Gray Man, told from a dual point of view, today and 12 years ago. Both stories per usual are compelling and dramatic where readers are treated to a rollercoaster ride of vivid action, a lot of intrigue, and fantastic dialogue.

Twelve years ago, after the Special Activities Division of the CIA loses a man on an assignment, Court Gentry (The Gray Man) is called in as a replacement and given the designation Gulf Sierra Six. Because he had no military background and always worked alone, the members of the team resented him at first.  But overtime he proved himself and gained the respect of the team and its leader, Zach Hightower.

Twelve years later Court is hired as a freelance intelligence operator to infiltrate the Turkish embassy property in Algiers and plant a listening device. There he comes face to face with Murad Khan, the head of KRF who is responsible for death and destruction years earlier. This terrorist had been reported killed at the time. Now Court is once again on the hunt to stop Khan as he plans another major attack involving dirty bombs in India. 

The story and ending are typical Gray Man, a lot of action, suspense, and tension. As with all his books there are scenes that put the reader in the middle of the intense fight. This book shows why Greaney is one of the best thriller writers today.

Elise Cooper:  Netflix series?

Mark Greaney: What I hear is that it’s coming out in July.  They already have done a test screening in LA, last week.  They bring in those who sign up for it and have them fill out a questionnaire of what they liked and did not like.  I have only seen fifteen seconds of footage, but I did read the script.  I thought it was terrific.  It is based on the first book, The Gray Man, but bring in elements that were in later books.  

EC:  How did you get the idea for the story for this book?

MG: I had talked to my editor for years about writing an origin story where readers could see Court Gentry as he develops.  I decided to write something that relates in the past and present. Readers can see Court as a younger man and then twelve years later.  The stories have two different timelines, two different objectives for the hero, and two different ticking clocks.

EC:  How would you describe the young Court versus the older Court?

MG:  The young Court is 25 years old. He has been trained his entire life to operate firearms and move tactically, without any other skills.  He has no people skills and is not James Bond with the ladies. At this stage of his life, he does not have a lot of world experience, yet comes across cocky and sure of himself. He gets brought down a few pegs in this story. He does missions he is told to do by the CIA. He is a soldier and a spy.

In the present Court is older, wiser, a little laid back, but not as sure of himself.  He seeks justice.  Now he will go against the wishes of his bosses.  He will break away if necessary, playing to his own tune. He has expanded his skill levels with a lot more years and tradecraft behind him. He is much better at what he does. 

EC:  Zach was in the past story, but not the present story?

MG:  I do not want to ever be tied to having to bring all the secondary characters into every story.  There are some books that will not have Zoya, and some not to have Zach.  In the present Court is very much on a solo mission although he does call Hanley and Brewer for some help. I do not want to get into a trap into designing my story surrounded by a cast of characters.  Instead, I want to pick and choose. 

EC:  How would you describe Julie Martinez, part of Court’s team as a CIA analyst?

MG:  Chatty, nerdlike, direct, attentive, persistent, has integrity.  She feels like an outsider. She is focused and has attention to detail.  Like Court, she does what she feels is right.

EC: Julie, his first love versus Zoya, his recent love?

MG:  I think these two characters are so different. Julie is a young CIA officer analyst who is incredibly intelligent.  She is also on the Autism spectrum.  She and Court become friends and then more than friends throughout the course of the novel.  His naivety and her directness were interesting aspects to put together.  Zoya on the other hand is in the same profession as Court, an operative. She is older and a rougher personality.  Because he has changed in the past twelve years Julie and present-day Court would not have worked out so well. Both women and Court feel like outsiders. Zoya has integrity but gets there only at the end.  She and Court both live lives where they must be distrustful, paranoid.  She is a different version of Court, but both are attracted to one another. 

EC:  Why the War on Terror returning?

MG: I wanted to showcase how different things are today than twelve years ago.  Many Gray Man books did not deal with Middle East terrorism.  This was a conscious decision because almost all other thriller writers wrote about the ticking timebomb.  Now I feel we are removed from it. I wanted to take a recent pass and see how my hero deals with it.

EC:  How would you describe the bad guy, Murad Khan?

MG: He is a Kashmirian who went against his own country. He is a member of their intelligence agency but has also created his own organization to fight. Now he is fighting India, his true passion. When I write a villain I must get into their head.  He is against humanity and very cruel, a terrible person.

EC:  The setting also dealt with CIA bases in Khost and Chapman?

MG:  I did some research on where we were twelve years ago regarding the War on Terror. The geography was important.  Camp Chapman was a place where very terrible things happened.  The other bases including Bagram, Jalalabad, and Salerno are all close to the Pakistani border. I wanted to show how Pakistan is not a real ally of the US.  

EC:  The Indian Mafia?

MG:  The biggest one is D company, which I changed to B company.  The real head lives in Pakistan, not India.  He has a real chip on his shoulders, bombing government buildings and airlines.  They did most of their stuff twenty years ago. I thought that my mafia would form an alliance with a Muslim group. I saw the movie “Hotel Mumbai” and read some books about the terrorist attack there. It played into my story, where a terrorist attack happens at a shopping mall in India. 

EC:  How would you describe Priya Bandari?

MG:  She is someone Court teams up with, out of necessity. She is very wet behind the ears as an intelligence specialist and reconnaissance technician on Court’s freelance job.  She is directly out of college.  She is motivated for personal reasons to stay in the fight. I hope readers begin to understand her and see her point of view.  I hope to use her character in other books. She is brave, somewhat defiant, and daring.  None of this comes naturally to her but Priya does rise to the occasion.

EC:  Next book?

MG:  I am currently plotting out the story. It will come out this time next year.  Court, Zoya, Zach, and Brewer will be back along with Hanley to some degree. In July I have another book coming out based on an audio play that was released in December. It is titled Armored. It is about military contractors in Mexico fighting the drug cartel. Josh Duffy is a wounded veteran whose job is to protect a UN delegation that is trying to negotiate a peace deal with a drug lord. There will be a second book, but I do not know what happens after that.  Duffy’s wife, Nicole, is a former army officer and a helicopter pilot.  I could see Duffy and Nicole taking a lead in another book. 

THANK YOU!!

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A Society of Wannabe Vigilantes

by Don Hall

I wonder sometimes, with my overwhelming love for all things superhero, whether or not Alan Moore was correct when he created Watchmen. 

While the Zach Snyder film and subsequent extension of the story by Damon Lindelof fall in line with the standard view of heroes battling villains too large for we mere mortals, Moore's thesis was that the very existence of powered and masked vigilantes was a recipe for fascism.

With the opening of the Pandora's Box of Social Media, the idea of citizen vigilantism is on the rise. Regular non-powered people challenging police officers armed with their smartphone cameras. The Texas anti-abortion law with its lynchpin of enforcement being citizens suing anyone and everyone assisting a pregnant woman pursuing her own private reproductive rights. Podcasters re-investigating crimes for entertainment. 'Karens' behaving as if each of them are un-elected versions of the Neighborhood Watch. Twitter sleuths un-earthing quotes tweeted decades ago to destroy careers of people in their occupational way.

I love the film Mystery Men, a 1999 comedy directed by Kinka Usher and written by Neil Cuthbert, loosely based on Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot Comics. The story focuses on fictional Champion City where the superpowered Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear) has effectively stomped out all crime. The Mystery Men of the title come into play when Amazing is kidnapped by Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) and this group of wannabe heroes band together to save him.

Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller) pretends to have super-strength when he gets angry but doesn't. The Shoveler (William Macy) is literally just a guy with a shovel. The Blue Raja (Hank Azaria) dresses up as a colonized Indian who throws cutlery at bad guys. The Spleen (Paul Reubens) can fart deadly farts on command. Invisible Boy (Kel Mitchell) can only turn invisible when no one is looking and The Bowler (Janeane Garofalo) has a bowling ball inhabited by her deceased father.

It's a fun movie but, at its core, it is about regular people deciding to take the law into their own hands to combat what they perceive as evil. In the presence of over-the-top villains, I suppose it makes sense but when the evil-doers are just other people we disagree with, the cocktail of self delusion mixed with the zealotry of perceived moral high ground is a guarantee for mayhem.

Vigilantism—the private, violent enforcement of public moral or legal standards—grows in two types of situations. It doesn’t come from a government being weak or absent, leaving citizens on their own, but rather when the very principles that make up a government and its people themselves seem to be changing.

And it doesn’t often come from situations where one ethnic or racial group clearly dominates others but rather in times and places where who belongs to a particular community is up for debate. Vigilantism is often about the attempt to establish power.

The KKK. The John Birch Society. The Weather Underground. QAnon. All vigilante groups.

Black Lives Matter. The Black Panthers. Antifa. Likewise vigilante organizations.

There are, however, far more rightwing, white supremacist, anti-immigration vigilante groups out there than leftwing. Like four times as many. No superpowers. Just social media, access to guns, and an agenda to establish and maintain power.

Vigilantism is often about the attempt to establish power.

Power corrupts. We all know this to be true and we see it on display everywhere in the world. Amazon's The Boys is an accurate a snapshot of what it looks like when society gives a greenlight to vigilantism, to frontier justice, to any one person or group declaring that they are judge, jury, and executioner. Is it any surprise that certain groups see The Punisher (no powers except an amazing talent for armed warfare and a grudge) as their patron saint?

By definition, vigilantes cannot be legally justified – if they satisfied a justification defense, for example, they would not be law-breakers – but they may well be morally justified, if their aim is to provide the order and justice that the criminal justice system has failed to provide in a breach of the social contract. Yet, even moral vigilantism is detrimental to society and ought to be avoided, ideally not by prosecuting moral vigilantism but by avoiding the creation of situations that would call for it. Unfortunately, the U.S. criminal justice system has adopted a wide range of criminal law rules and procedures that regularly and intentionally produce gross failures of justice.

These doctrines of disillusionment may provoke vigilante acts, but not in numbers that make it a serious practical problem. More damaging is their tendency to provoke what might be called "shadow vigilantism," in which ordinary people manipulate and subvert the criminal justice system to compel it to impose the justice that they see it as reluctant to impose. Unfortunately, shadow vigilantism can be widespread and impossible to effectively prosecute, leaving the system's justness seriously distorted. This, in turn, can provoke a damaging anti-system response, as in the Stop Snitching movement, that further degrades the system's reputation for doing justice, producing a downward spiral of lost credibility and deference. We would all be better off – citizens and offenders alike – if this dirty war had never started.

What is needed is a re-examination of all of the doctrines of disillusionment, with an eye toward reformulating them to promote the interests they protect in ways that avoid gross failures of justice.

SOURCE

The rub is this: if we allow the self-imposed Batmen and Batwomen to band together and wreak havoc in the name of just causes we are in effect giving carte blanche to those self-imposed Jokers to do the same.

The argument posed in so many of the comic books and graphic novels is that each time we anoint one vigilante, the door is opened for more and some of them (I'd argue most of them) are not looking to leverage power to help those most in need of it but to exact vengeance upon those they disagree with.

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Août 09. Paul Seul + Daoud + December + Détresse collée + Oko + Pute-Acier + Tropical Horses + Sentimental Rave (Qui embrouille qui) – La Station 10. Bajram Bili + Dimitri Rivière + Donarra + Elen Huynh + Harshlove + Jardin + Marylou + Myako + Netsh + Security + Théo Muller + Verset Zero (Qui embrouille qui) – La Station 11. AZF + Bracco + Dentelle + Les Fils de Jacob + Forme étrangère + Teknomom + Hasar De Doria + The Driver + Puzupuzu + Romain de Ferron + Aubry + Betty + Graal + Marcorosso + Mermaid Express + Nathan Zehef + Peev + Sina + Soul Edifice + Von Bikräv + Waldman... (Qui embrouille qui) – La Station 11. Dj Varsovie + Blndr + Illnurse b2b Panzer + Paulie Jan + Blind Delon + Verset Zero – La plage de Glazart 14. Chrysalide – Le Klub 20. Front Line Assembly + Die Krupps – La Machine 24. Fatamorgana + Cyclikweetos – Le Klub 24. Anastasia Kristensen (dj) + Black Merlin (dj) + Scratch Massive (dj) + Drame (Station électronique) – La Station 24. Blush Response + Codex Empire + Sarin + Melania + Philipp Strobel – tba 24. Die Antwood + Carpenter Brut + Dirty Projectors + Parcels... (fest. Rock-en-Seine) – Domaine de Saint-Cloud 25. Nordkapp + Rape & Revenge + Mecano Lacrymo – L'International (gratuit) 25. Awesome Tapes From Africa – Petit Bain 26. L'Ocelle mare + Sholto Dobie – musée sans bâtiment|40, rue Denis-Papin (Pantin) (gratuit) 26. Samuel Kerridge + Claro Intelecto + Ploy (Station électronique) – La Station 26. Jessica 93 + Idles + The Black Angels + Bonobo + Justice... (fest. Rock-en-Seine) – Domaine de Saint-Cloud 28. A Place To Bury Strangers + Entracte Twist – Petit Bain 30. Francky Goes To Pointe-à-Pitre + Tonnerre – Supersonic (gratuit) 31. Boys Noize + Randomer + Kris Baha + Lokier – Docks Eiffel 31. Kontravoid + BadBad + Froe Char – Espace B 31. Acid Mothers Temple + Bambara (Le Beau festival off) – Glazart

Septembre 01. Sholto Dobie – Cneai (Pantin) (gratuit) 01. Lilthics + Fiasco + Mamiedaragon – Espace B 01. Ropoporose + Eskimo – Olympic café 01. Ariel Pink + Vox Low + Cut Worms + Volage + TH da Freak (Paris Inter. Fest. of Psychedelic Music) – La Machine 02/03. Molly Nilsson + Petit Fantôme + Dead Sea + Faux Real + Saint DX... (Paris Inter. Fest. of Psychedelic Music) – tba 04. Thee Oh Sees +  Male Gaze + Prettiest Eyes (Paris Inter. Fest. of Psychedelic Music) – La Cigale 05. Jean-Luc Guionnet & James Rushford – Cneai (Pantin) (gratuit) 05. Feist – L'Olympia 06. Jean-Luc Guionnet & Anna Gaïotti – Cneai (Pantin) (gratuit) 06. Amelie Lens – Rex Club 07. Conflict + Humandogfood + Social Experiment – Le Gibus 07. Astrid Gnosis + Myss Keta + MLML + Bonnie + AJa + Sentimental Rave + Mechanical Heaven + Deeat Palace (Comme nous brûlons fest.) – La Station 08. Bisou de Saddam + Ex Mio – Zorba (gratuit) 08. Jean-Luc Guionnet &  Jason Kahn – Cneai (Pantin) (gratuit) 08. Lyzza + Countess Malaise + La Chasse + BadBad (Comme nous brûlons fest.) – La Station 08. Death Grips – Elysées Montmartre 09. Rrose + Gael Segalen + Rose Mercie + Elen Huynh (Comme nous brûlons fest.) – La Station 11. Sete Star Sept + Brutal Blues + Claude – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 12. Matt Elliott & Vacarme + Lucas Ravinale & Loup Uberto – Centre Barbara-FGO 12. Delgres + Dan Stock + Poppy Ackroyd – La Maroquinerie 13. The Oscillation + Lumerians – Petit Bain 14. Qual – Supersonic 14. Dylan Carlson – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 15. Monolith + Hypnoskull + Empusae + Meta Meat + Diaphane (fest. de la musique electro-industrielle) – Petit Bain 16. Jean-Luc Guionnet & Seijiro Murayama + Eve Aboulkheir + Jules Négrier + Max-Louis Raugel – Cnap (Pantin) (gratuit) 19. Fumo Nero + Chafouin + Siren's Carcass – Cirque électrique 20. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – La Cigale 20. Jean-Philippe Gross + Franz Hautzinger + Jealousy Party (fest. Crak) – église Saint-Merry 21. Chris Abrahams + Tarawangsawelas + Low Jack (fest. Crak) – église Saint-Merry 21. Crisis + Plomb – Petit Bain 22. Eve Aboulkheir + Prune Bécheau + Jean-Luc Guionnet + Muddersten + Ingar Zach – Cneai (Pantin) 22. On Ceim & Le UN ensemble : "Time Elleipsis" + Le UN ensemble : "Unkino" (fest. Crak) – église Saint-Merry 22. The Wedding Present – Point FMR 22. Zëro, Virigine Despentes & Béatrice Dalle – Auditorium du théâtre (Chelles) 22. Paula Temple + LSD + Tommy FourSeven... (Dream Nation fest.) – Docks de Paris (Aubervilliers) 23. Spiritualized – Cabaret sauvage 24. Holy Esque + Jaguwar – Supersonic (gratuit) 24. Oneohtrix Point Never (Red Bull Music fest.) – Le 104 26. Sleaford Mods + Consumer Electronics – Le Trianon 26. Chassol + Thomas de Pourquery + Flavien Berger + Jacques + Ala.Ni + Quentin Rollet + Gaspar Claus + Jocelyn Mienniel + Low Jack + Lucie Antunes + Christine Ott + Serafina Steer + Ghedalia Tazartes + Mathieu Edward + Mélissa Laveaux (Red Bull Music fest.) – Cabaret sauvage 27. Part Chimp – Espace B 27. Yuzo Koshiro & Motohiro Kawashima + Kode9 & Koji Morimoto + Oklou & Krampf + Teki Latex & DITC + Konx-Om-Pax (Red Bull Music fest.) – Gaîté lyrique 27. Scratch Massive – croisières électroniques 28. Rebeka Warrior – La Station 28. La Mverte + Markus Gibb – La Java 29. Terry Riley & Gyan Riley – La Maroquinerie 29. Aurora Halal + Roberto Succo + Elena Colombi + Jasss + Nihiloxica + Front de cadeaux + Julianna + Oko dj + Miley Serious + Jita Sensation (Red Bull Music fest.) – La Station 29. Bleib Modern – Olympic café 30. King Dude + Kaelan Mikla + The Dark Red Seed – Petit Bain 30. Eryck Abecassis & Francisco Meirino (fest. Maad in 93) – Instants chavirés (Montreuil)

Octobre 02. The Melvins – L'Alhambra 03. Maoupa Mazzocchetti + Opéra mort – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 04. Jean-Louis Costes + Monte Verita : hommage à Daniel Johnston – Médiathèque musicale de Paris (gratuit) 04. Oiseaux-Tempête, Mondkopf & G. W. Sok + Princess Thailand – Centre Barbara-FGO 04. Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal – La Seine musicale (Boulogne-Billancourt) 05. Clara De Asis + Simon Henocq & Jean-Sébastien Mariage + Farida Amadou, Olivier Benoît & Julien Desprez – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 06. Melik Ohanian : perf. musicale autour de l'expo. d'Abdelkader Benchamma (Nuit blanche) – Collège des Bernardins (gratuit) 09. Bérangère Maximin + Brutter + Gosheven (Biennale Nemo) – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 10. Richie Hawtin – Olympia 11. John Carpenter – Salle Pleyel 12/13. Les Négresses vertes – Cabaret sauvage 12. Thorofon + Control + Te/DIS – Les Voûtes 12. Les Ramoneurs de menhir vs SP32 – Gibus 12. Villejuif Undergournd + Le Réveil des tropiques + Casse Gueule – Théâtre d'Ivry 13. Françoiz Breut + David Fenech : hommage à Daniel Johnston – Médiathèque musicale de Paris (gratuit) 13. Low – La Gaîté lyrique 13. Aquaserge + Mohamed Lamouri + P.r2b – Théâtre d'Ivry 15. Lloyd Cole – Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord 15. The Necks – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 17. Blurt – Espace b 17. Mark Morgan + La Race – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 20. Tallinn Chamber Orchestra : Fratres, Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten, Adam's Lament, Salve Regina et Te Deum d'Arvo Pärt – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie 20. Les Tétines noires + Dear Deer – Petit Bain 22. Dead Meadow – Petit Bain 24. Motorama – Petit Bain 25. Marissa Nadler – Point FMR 25. Fews – Olympic café 25. Cat Power – Trianon 26. Jon Hopkins – Trianon 27. Killing Joke – Cabaret sauvage 27. CAR + Sentimental Rave – Petit Bain 30. David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke – La Maroquinerie 30. Mariachi & Maria Bertel + Rafael Toral – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 31. Acid Mothers Temple (Le Beau fest. off) – Glazart 31. Phill Niblock & Thierry Madiot + Trio Grands Lacs – Instants chavirés (Montreuil)

Novembre 01. Elysian Fields – La Maroquinerie 01>03. Bon Iver + Fever Ray + Mac DeMarco + Blood Orange... (Pitchfork Music fest.) – Grande Halle de La Villette 02. Emma Ruth Rundle – Petit Bain 04. Peaches Christ Superstar – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 05. Colin Stetson – Café de la danse 05. Echo & The Bunnymen – Bataclan 06. Soft Kill – Olympic café 08. Cold Cave – Petit Bain 13. Hot Snakes – Point FMR 13. MellaNoisEscape + Puts Mary – Petit Bain 14. Peter Murphy & David J jouent "In the Flat Fields" – Bataclan 15. Méryll Ampe + Emmanuelle Bouyer + Anne Flore Cabanis + Matthieu Crimersmois + Frédéric Mathevet + Colin Roche + Anton Mobin... (Extended Score #2) – Le Cube (Issy-lès-Moulineaux) 16. Parquet Courts – Elysées Montmartre 18. Ensemble Links : « Drumming » de Steve Reich – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 21. The Breeders – Le Trianon 21. Lydia Lunch's Big Sexy Noise – Espace B 22. Scout Niblett – Petit Bain 22. Serge Teyssot-Gay, Christian Vialard & Éric Arlix : Hypogé – Le Cube (Issy-lès-Moulineaux) 23. Michael Nyman : "War Work: 8 Songs with Film" – Salle Pleyel 23. Ennio Morricone – Bercy Arena 27. Mudhoney – Trabendo 27. Etienne Jaumet – New Morning 28. Adult – Petit Bain 29. Interpol – Salle Pleyel 29. Esben & The Witch – Point FMR 29. CHDH + Mariachi + Lårs Akerlund + Sten Backman (fest. Bruits blancs) – Le Cube (Issy-lès-Moulineaux)

Décembre 01. Deux boules vanille (fest. Marathon!) – La Gaîté lyrique 02. Beak> – Café de la danse 06. The KVB + M!R!M – Badaboum 08. Père Ubu – Théâtre Berthelot (Montreuil) 09/10. Moriarty – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 14. New Model Army – Trabendo 14. Hangman's Chair + Jessica93 + Revok – Les Cuizines (Chelles) 15. Gaspar Claus – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 18. Drab Majesty – Point FMR

2019

Janvier 22. Emmanuelle Parrenin & Dominique Regref – La Ferme du Buisson (Noisiel) 26. Chloé – Elysée-Montmartre

Mars 20. Oomph! – La Machine 29. Perturbator – Le Trianon

Avril 14. Arnaud Rebotini joue la BO de "120 Battements par minute" – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie

Mai 17. Philip Glass : Études pour piano – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie 18. Bruce Brubaker & Max Cooper : Glasstronica – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie

Juin 26. Magma – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie

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