#dont worry i wont make you pull out the translator for this one!

[a-different-way-of-life]

How did Pierre find out you were in the abandoned Jojamart? Did something happen?

“…Obviously, I have no idea how they found out!!!!! Nope. Not the foggiest memory!

…Get out of my askbox.”

(// Silly bonus doodle under the cut!)

[kiss4kazu]

general relationship hcs with diluc? fluff and spice if thats okay!

diluc ✰ relationship hcs!

gn reader. slight nsfw under the cut!

despite his cold demeanor and hard exterior diluc is actually the softest genshin boy i said it okay

maybe not in the most conventional ways though, like i don’t see diluc as someone too comfy with pda

but he expresses his love for you in other ways

like how every time he enters a room he’s immediately looking for you

and when his eyes do land on you his face instantaneously lights up

it wouldn’t go unnoticed by others either, klee shouting “the big scary man is smiling i didn’t know he could do that!”

jean would have to slap a hand over her mouth, whispering to the small girl that master diluc is not to be referred to as big scary man and you would just stifle your laugh at the sight of diluc’s slightly hurt expression

his face would soften only after you stand before him, greeting him and it’s the small things like the slight tilt of your head and your sweet smile when you tell him “good morning, diluc” that reminds him how much he loves you.

he really likes the way his name sounds on your lips

if it wasn’t for the presence of others he’d kiss you breathless with every greeting and parting

although only part of his life for a short period you’ve impacted him in countless ways

slumber can never really take over him anymore unless your tucked into his chest, snoring softly. he wont admit it but he really likes being the smaller spoon

when you take off his gloves and kiss the tips of his calloused fingers one by one, his chest floods with warmth every time

his hands always feel miserably cold when they’re not intertwined with yours, despite the literal pyro adorning his claymore

smiling has become a lot less rare of an occurence, his lips are always curled upwards while in your presence

he’s slightly clingy, but not in an overbearing way, he knows you’re independent and strong enough to take care of yourself, but that doesn’t stop him from worrying about your wellbeing 24/7

he has to know where you are at all times, if you were to ever go missing he would literally search every inch of teyvat without a wink of sleep, partially because he’s worried sick but also because he can’t sleep without you beside him

he’s easily jealous, definitely gets irked more times than he’d like to admit whenever he sees you and kaeya getting a little too cozy, but then again he knows his brother does it just to get under his skin

he’s very possessive but in subtle ways, he won’t make a big scene and threaten a person’s life for courting you

but he will make sure to leave a nice reminder on your neck, visible to everyone that you are in fact taken

diluc’s a busy man, so realistically he can’t be with you as often as he likes, so the times he does have you to himself he’s a bit overbearing

diluc’s kisses are really passionate, he’s not great with words so he tries his best to translate what he feels into the way he moves his lips and body against you

time alone with him in his arms is just body worship time really

not even in a sexual way but i mean if you wanna get spicy then yes

he kisses you. everywhere.

his favorite place to kiss is beneath your ear, right along your jaw, you can always feel his breath against your ear when he kisses you there

he knows the effect it has on you, so of course he’d whisper reminders of just how beautiful you are, right on your most sensitive skin, an amused smirk on his face at the sound of you whimpering his name

diluc doesn’t fuck okay, he makes love. unless he had a bad day i mean if he had a bad day by all means blow my back out sir.

but usually he just focuses on making you feel good, making sure you’re reaching that place first before he thinks about himself

missionary so he can see your face, rest his forehead against yours and breathe in your moans of his name. keeping you as close as possible until you can’t tell where you begin and he ends.

his stamina is a1 so expect mutiple rounds, even when you’re done he’s not pulling out sorry i dont make the rules

cockwarming time!

he sleeps best when the two of you are connected like this, when you hold him against your chest, playing with his hair, twirling your fingers in between his crimson locks, kissing his forehead gently

diluc is a big cuddle bear really but only behind closed doors. you’re the only person that would ever get to see him for who he truly is, and that in itself is a declaration of love really.

thank you so much for your request! <3

[monkeyparasite]

idk if ur taking reqs,,, can u do gorillaz with an s/o that switches to their native language mid conversation?? (in this case my native language is filipino) aaaa very sorry if im bothering u :'>,,,,

Ohnono! Don't worry, i'll tell you and anyone if they bother me, dont worry! anyways, good request! i'll get on it! Sorry if its not good, i can redo it for you if you'd like!

Murdoc

~ I think its cannon he knows all languages, so he'd probably switch to Filipino as well

~ Gives him a little refresher to test or better his Filipino, probably wouldn't admit that though hfgs

~ Wont admit it, but enjoys the change of language in mid conversation, mainly due to enjoying different things from time to time

Ace

~ First thing he did was pull out google translate and have you repeat what you said into Google translate so he could understand

~ Was definitely confused at first

~ Promises to learn Filipino, but never gets to it. Mainly because hes caught up learning about the culture, food, and places.

2D

~ Learning different languages for his online followers and friends finally paid off!

~ Still a beginner at speaking Filipino, so he still mispronounces things, forgets words, and makes mistakes then and now

~ Surprisingly knows a lot about the culture, might come from his love of learning spefically about other cultures around the world

Noodle

~ Knows a few words, because Murdoc used to teach her random words and phrases in different languages. She never thought she'd need them, until now.

~ Was confused and surprised at first until you said one or a few words she understood

~ Makes a lot of effort to learn the language. Might even try and learn about the food and people too!

Russel

~ Was confused on what you were saying. He was like, "What..?"

~ Mistaked it for spanish, still feels bad about that

~ Also makes an effort to learn it, fast learner yet still mispronounces some words, especially when he talks to slow or to fast

~ Finally understood what Murdoc was saying to himself all those years ago, regrets remembering that.

[babysizedfics]

the first time vee regressed in therapy (and meeting michael after)

NOTE: this is almost 2k words... so it continues under the cut. No TWs!

for the first few sessions of vees therapy with dr picani, patton is in the room with them because of vee's selective mutism, so patton hung around to help translate for vee during seasions until she is able to speak for herself, and thru these firsts sessions emile sees how attached the two are to each other

and after about three or four weeks, once vee can reliably talk for herself, patton stil sits in the waiting room so if vee needs him he's there

im their first session without patton, emile actually prompts vee to tell him what she calls her uncle patton. she says "patton" but emile is like do u not call him uncle? and she hesitates bc she definitely doesnt call him uncle but she hates lying

and emile smiles knowing that she doesnt. then he asks "are there any other names you call your uncle, vee?" because unbeknown to vee, emile actually heard her call patton "dad" one day in the waiting room

she is made rlly nervous by this question but emile assures her he isnt trying to trick her or anything, he just wants her to be honest. and after some more coaxing she whispers that she calls patton "dad" and emile is like thats lovely

and suddenly vee is teary and panicky because shes scared emile is being sacastic or will quiz her about it, but he insists that its very nice that she is comfy calling patton that and that they are so close and it makes vee feel a lot safer

but that prompts emile to start asking her about her biological father, janus. has she ever called him dad or was he always janus? does she know why that is?

vee really tries her best to stay calm and answer, but the questions suddenly get too much and before she knows it virgil goes non-verbal bc she realises she is starting to regress

emile notices vee's distress and changes his voice like softer and more clear. he asks what is wrong, he assures her they dont need to talk about anything vee doesnt want to talk about. Can you breathe with me? Good thank you, can you talk? No thats alright you dont have to. Is there anything he can do to make her feel safe?

and the soft caring words just push vee compeltely into half regression and she starts fully crying, tears spilling down her cheeks and shaky breaths and little squeaks and sniffles and tightly cuddling her softie she took with her (a lilac octopus, dr violet)

after a couple minutes of just crying and emile givinf her some space to let it out, the tears arent slowing down. so she cries " i w-wan pa-p-p-..." giving up after she realises her voice is definitely little now

"what do you want, vee?" emile prompts so so kindly that it just makes vee's chest ache

she whimpers "w-wan papa" and trails off in sobs

and emile instantly knows she means patton. he very easily rolls with this infantile behaviour, being a child therapist a lot of the time. he just sees her acting like a toddler and he immediately thinks okay time to turn on the toddler therapy, no questions asked

emile stands up carefully and speaks clear and gentle "okay vee. dr picani is leaving for just a moment to get your papa, okay? I'll be back very soon" and vee just squeaks through her tears, so he hurries out to the waiting room to fetch patton

pat literally jumps from his seat when emile calls him in saying vee is upset and practically runs through the corridor and into the office. he immediately pulls her into a one armed cuddle on the couch while emile just closes the door rlly gentle for privacy and hands a box of tissues to patton. so patton softly shushes his baby and wipes her tears away while emile takes quick notes in his book

patton is rlly quietly shushing her and comforting her, trying to be discreet. emile notices that this is obviously a common occurence, and also notices that patton seems to be holding back something

so when patton looks up briefly and catches emiles gaze, emile just smiles and speaks softly "do you know what age regression is, patton?"

and patton breathes a massive sigh of relief and hugs vee tighter "yeah... yeah we do"

and emile nods and smiles a little sympathetic looking back at vee and patton jumps right back to comforting her, not trying to be discreet this time, going full papa mode now that he has the confirmation that emile knows about regression

patton lifts a still crying vee into his lap and cuddles her to his chest and rocks her. "its alright, baby, shh shhh, papas got you" (vee still crying and grabbing pattons shirt tightly) "i know i know, baby, youre ok"

then emile adds in softly "youre doing very well vee" and patton smiles at him then repeats for vee "did you hear dr picani? he said youre doing sooo well! youre so so brave, hunnybunny"

and eventually when vee is comforted enough and the tears have stopped, emile raises his eyebrows questioningly at patton and pat talks to vee: "vee, are you ready to talk to dr picani again?"

she whimpers and grips patton tighter. "its okay babygirl, papas not going anywhere..." patton hesitstes and looks up at emile a little worried "uh, as long as thats alright with dr picani"

emile nods and smiles softly when vee peeks over her softie at him "of course. you can do whatever you want vee, if having your dad - or your papa here makes you feel safer then of course he can stay. would you like patton to stay so you can feel safer?"

vee doesnt respond but frowns and hides behind dr violet again, and emile looks to patton

patton explains gently "we need simpler language than that for her when she's regressed."

"oh my apologies..." emile starts, then tries again. "Vee?" he waits for vee to lower her softie from her eyes again to show shes listening. "Do you still want your papa?"

vees shoulders are tensed and shes hugging her softie so tight, still hiding partially behind it, but she nods a little

and so they continue with patton in the room

throughout the session she is REALLY shy of emile in this headspace but emile is just rly gentle and treats her like an actual young child while she sits in pattons lap and tries to interact with him, so emile manages to coax some stuff from her. and is shocked to find that this seems to be a headspace that actuslly allows vee to be more open and honest with him even if her language is limited

he asks her how does she feel right now? its okay if she doesnt know. is she scared? thats okay, it is very scary. she's being so brave. but is papas lap soft and warm? thats very nice! does it make her feel safe? does it help her tears go away? well thats good to hear, we dint want you to be sad. do you love papa? Can you show me how much? Woah that's a lot!!

and once vee has calmed down a lot and giggled a little at how nice dr picani is being to her, emile sees vee start to suck her thumb

unfortunately its not sanitary for her to suck her thumb in oublic since she must have touched surfaces, and pat brings her thumb away and desperately apologizes when vee whines and starts tearing up when papa wont let her suck her thumb. she dorsnt have her pretty paci so what else is she meant to do!

then emile announces in a very babytak voice. "vee, can you guess what I have in my desk drawer? Haha No, not frogs. Look!" and he pulls out a handful of lollipops! all different colours! and vee starts bouncign a little on papas lap and smiling

with a quick check that she has no allergies (egg, but there aint no egge in lollipops) emile lets her pick a flavor/color then givs it to her to suck on

patton needs to hold it for her though in case she accidentally swallows it, so her lil hands are just holdin gently on papas hand as he holds the lollipop for her and her legs are swingin, dangling down from papas lap bc she happy stims when she is eatin sweets by kicking her feet!

nearing the end of the session emile tells vee how good ahe's been answering al his questions and being well behaved for her papa. so he lets her pick a sticker to prove how good she was today!

but she doesn't want to touch the sticky or have it one her pretty dress, so patton asks her to point to her favourite and papa can pick it up for her. but shes too shy to pick one

so papa chooses one for her, a puffy pink kitty, then puts it on his nose to make her giggle. shes shy abt giggling in front of emile and buries her face on papas shoulder and patton cradles her head and coos and emile just watches all of this rly softly

and then their time is up and patton smiles and pats vee's leg and asks if she wants to be carried and she shakes her head with a proud smile. patton gasps "are you gonna be a big girl and walk on your own?"

then vees smile drops and she whines and grabs pats hand and patton giggles "no no not completely on your own. paps gonna hold your hand baby" so she nods and they get up with patton holding her hand

then patton says goodbye to emile and thanks him for being so kind to vee, and emile says "my pleasure. i'll see you next week vee!"

vee squeezes her papas hand and shuffles behind him a little. but she waves her softies tentacle at emile to say goodbye and emile smiles and waves to them "byebye dr violet, make sure you keep vee safe and happy this week!" and vee giggles and patton leads her outside

in the waiting room vee is much more closed off because theres the receptionist and a couple other clients in there so she just keeps her eyes down while papa signs them out - then she hears a slightly deep voice say "oh, I really like your stuffie"

vee doesnt really know how to react, she looks up a little and sees dark blue jeans and thick legs and vans sneakers but then quickly tugs pattons hand and steps behind him to hide from the stranger

"Thank you! It was a 'well done for going to therapy' gift from me" patton says cheerfully, and vee starts stroking his fingers as a comfort stim

"aw that's sweet!" the stranger says just as joyful as patton... so vee feels okay looking up now that she knows this stranger wasnt trying to make fun of her

she only catches some shaggy brown hair and a tshirt with what looks like a horror film image on it that she doesnt recognise. she doesnt dare make eye contact but she can tell the stranger is smiling at her

and she cant talk, shes too little, but shes not little enough to not understand whats happening. so she lets go of pattons hand bruefly to sign "thank you" then quickly grabs his hand again, feeling her cheeks warm and looking back to the ground

"you're welcome!" the stranger says, still happy, so vee smiles a little, then tugs pattons hand and looks up at him pleadingly

patton is beaming, his cheeks bunched in the biggest smile. "ready to go, sweetie?" vee nods "okay, here we go. It was lovely meeting you..."

"michael!"

"michael" patton smiles and holds out his other hand to shake michaels hand. "im patton and this is vee! have a good night!"

"you too, patton!" michael bids as patton and vee start walking away. then the voice soeaks again "bye vee!"

vee doesnt respond but she smiles and pulls dr violet up to hide it

patton leads her out to the parking lot and as he buckles her seatbelt for her he presses a big kiss to her cheek "im so so proud of you, babygirl"

and the whole ride home patton speaks softly and recaps what was good about theraoy this week. he does it to reinforce with vee that this is a good thing to do.

he talks about how lovely dr picani was and how he already knew what regression was. he talks about how funny his jokes were and how much she giggled. and her lollipop and her sticker - which they just realised was still on pattons nose and laughed about. and he talked about the lovely boy in the waiting room who liked vee's softie!

and the whole time vee is smiling and giggling and blushing and getting closer to full regression so that when they get home vee is just a bouncy wiggly giggly baby all night

[hazbincalifornia]

A hassle about Blitzo not able to get comfortable to rest because of this fucking kid partying in his gut. Having to begrudgingly accept a visit from a certain owl when he’s out of options that ends up helping him and it relax.

Blitzo really, really hated the little brat sometimes. He’d been busy all day, and now that he finally made his way to bed, they just kept smacking outwards like his skin was a drum set being played by a coked-up college student.

“Will you stop squirming for thirty goddamn seconds?” He hugged his stuffed horse to his chest, knees pulled up, and hissed as the spawn in his gut absolutely refused to listen and just kept wiggling even as his tail wrapped around his stomach. “Holy shit, you really do take after Stolas, don’t you? Can’t leave me alone even when I’m trying to sleep. My stomach’s not a bouncy house, kid.” Unfortunately, his words didn’t seem to translate into baby-language, because giving an annoyed poke just made them move around more. 

Blitzo rolled over to his other side. No dice. Back was out- his spines always tore up the sheets, and it was a pain in the ass (and his wallet) to replace them. He’d learned last week that trying to lay on his stomach just had them writhe around to the point of pain, not to mention it was like trying to sleep on a rock.

Loona had told him on no uncertain terms that she was ripping his tail off the next time she woke up with him snuggled against her in bed. She probably wasn’t going to actually do it, but he’d rather avoid her shedding all over his closet or something in a different form of retaliation. It wasn’t his fault that the kid was desperate for attention and just rubbing his stomach wasn’t enough!

They had another client meeting in the morning- a big one, from the sound of how she’d rattled off the names of her bitch-ass living family members. He couldn’t miss it. It sounded like a hilarious mess, on top of being four times the usual job’s size.

Blitzo’s phone buzzed, and he smacked the side table a few times before managing to pick it up. Stolas had sent a text.

Via and her mother are out tonight at her grandparent’s house. Is there anything you need that I could help with? 

Groaning, Blitzo started to type. im fien dont worry abt it

He let that sit unsent for a few moments before deleting it. can u send soemthing to get them jto stop movng

No, that didn’t sound right either, and his toes curled before he finally gave up. jsut get ovr here. it wont stop movnig

Stolas sent a heart emoji and a thumbs up in response to the message, and Blitzo just hoped he hadn’t just lost what little sleep he’d have been able to get without him. 

He trudged over to the front door twenty minutes later when Stolas had to stoop to make his way through the doorway. Loona was stretched out on the couch and watching TV, halfway through a carton of ice cream. 

“Whatever you two are about to do, I don’t want to hear any of it,” she commented with a raised eyebrow. “I will turn up the volume on this until the neighbors start smashing the broom on the ceiling and yelling at us again.”

“We’ll be fine, Loonie,” Blitzo said with a wave of his hand before heading directly back for his room again. He heard Stolas murmuring reassurances to her before following, again having to duck to not hit his head. The prince had switched his inner shirt for a simple long sleeve with star patterns and had ditched the hat, but was still wearing his cape. Weirdo.

“So, what do you need, Blitzy?” Stolas settled himself down at the end of Blitzo’s bed and idly started rubbing a pair of boxers draped on the comforter between his fingers. 

“Hold me.”

“Hmm?” Stolas scooted closer as Blitzo crossed his arms. 

“Don’t make me say it twice,” he muttered as Stolas set a finger under his chin, tilting his face up.

“You said that you wanted me to hold you?”

“It… helps,” Blitzo muttered, forehead dropping down against Stolas’s chest. “The kid’s a bitchy little attention-whore, and Moxxie almost shot me last time when I showed up at his place while he was half-asleep. Don’t have a lot of options here.”

“We can’t have that!” Stolas wrapped his arms around Blitzo, who nuzzled against the soft down on his chest automatically before realizing what he was doing and trying to pull away. Unfortunately, as thin as Stolas’s arms were, his grip was like steel.

“What’s the deal with that, anyway? You’d think imp pregnancies would just make you want to shank anyone who looked at you funny,” Blitzo grumbled. “Not this.”

“If I were to hazard a guess, it would increase the odds that the child survives infancy if there was a clan or mate of some sort besides the single parent. Hell isn’t exactly kind to the weak, and babies are helpless.” 

“Yeah, well, my body needs to get out of the old times. We’re not living in caves and shit, I can do this by myself.”

Stolas pulled back enough to glance around the messy room, but didn’t comment on that any further. “You don’t have to. It’ll be alright.” He rubbed his hand over the bump, the skin next to his beak twitching a bit. “Oh, goodness, they are feisty tonight, aren’t they? They take after you.”

“They do not! This is all you!” Blitzo drummed his fingers on his arm, tail irritably jabbing into the clay on the bedside table, and he plucked it off the tip to begin to knead with his fingers. “I’d be sleeping right now if they weren’t here. So clearly, this is your fault.”

“You’re far more… energetic than I am,” Stolas said, going back to gently soothing his fingers over the fussy baby, and Blitzo’s shoulders sagged when they started to slow. The fingers felt cool- or maybe his body was just running warm. Weird.

“Why wouldn’t they do that for me? I’m the one doing all the hard work here!”

“They missed their daddy,” Stolas teased.

“Hey, I’m the daddy!”

“We both are.” Stolas set a hand on Blitzo’s side, pushing him towards the bed until he was laying down. He pulled his cape and shirt off before laying down himself, his own flat stomach against Blitzo’s as he curled close. “This way, they’ll know that someone is here and won’t bother you until morning.” 

“Won’t that be a miracle.” Blitzo rolled his eyes before lazily draping an arm over Stolas, pulling himself a little closer. It wasn’t often they got to cuddle without sex beforehand, and having those soft feathers against him without them being caked in sweat and cum (and, for that matter, without being so wiped out that he just conked out within five minutes) was nicer than he expected. His tail draped over one of Stolas’s legs, feeling the bumpy texture of it.

Stolas made a soft chirp at that, his hand resting on the side of Blizo’s belly before moving to settle on his hip.

“Good night, my little imp.”

“G’night,” Blitzo muttered. His chest felt kinda warm. He’d have to check the heating in the morning. The imp’s nose twitched as he could smell the spiced body lotion Stolas used before slipping away into sleep.

[magicflowershop]

one day kitty; Kita version

《inspired by movie A Whisker Away》

✿✿ you wished to be with the person you like and wish granted. whiskers, button nose, tail, four legs and ears on top of the head; you turned into a cat. with this, you are given the opportunity to be with the person you want to express your affections to. but as a cat. and only in one day.

― haikyuu characters x cat!reader imagines!

❀ masterlist ❀

the wheel of names have spoken.

kita was having a good time by himself in his grandmother’s rice fields, feeling the breeze like the precious farm boi he is,,, when he saw a cat sleeping on a wet patch in the middle of the field

gathering concern for the little cat, he brought him home and decided to clean it up 

then you woke up

you felt something scrubbing your back when you open your eyes you see a guy aiming a hose at you 

you scream bc obv, but that scream translated into a screech leaving your mouth and you see your hand

homie that was a paw

why do u have a paw?????

"stay still, you might hurt yourself”

and why is there a Kita Shinsuke spraying water at you lmao

you see that he’s kinda annoyed that you’re moving so much while he’s trying to clean you up but at the same time you arent sure since he isnt easy to read and that don’t know him too well rip so you let yourself be cleaned for free ig

but yo what the hell??? so you’re a cat now????

you try to remember what happened before all this and how in the world you suddenly turned into a cat and magically wake up in Kita’s place 

you dont know the exact location of his place so you have no idea how to get back home from here

Kita pulled the cat closer to him, and wiping the wet fur with a towel as generously as he could that the cat soon found comfort from his gentle caresses

okay maybe you could stay for a while yk huehue

“you’re having fun”

you hear a familiar voice from a mile away, you look back and see a fat, creepy cat standing on two of its hind feet

o wait

you saw that cat last night when you were watching the shooting star outside,,, you thought it’d be cute if you suddenly wished for something so you did then that thing appeared outta nowhere promising you that he can make your wish come true than compared to a stupid star

so he forced the wish outta you

that you wished to be closer to a guy you admired,, and you had a lot of crushes in your school ykyk,,, just that Kita takes the entire cake

“you have until midnight to remain as a cat. be sure to leisurely fulfill your desires, y/n.”

and so he vanished

while knowing full well you’re basically Cinderella now, you take consideration of your leisure time with Kita-sama

do you stay or do you go home first to check on your household

“oh what do we have here?”

Kita’s grandma entered the scene and you think that okay maybe this development is a little too quick since you weren’t ready to face his relatives yet

“i found this cat in the fields. it looked like it could get sick so i cleaned it”

o yea you were a damn cat

also Kita calls you freakin “it”

:) 

pennywise who

you chose to stay in Kita’s place bc grandma thought it’d be lovely to let you stay there for a while,, and that you looked like you were starving when you saw the food on the table

thank goodness you were a cat bc jesus were you actually drooling

so you spent time in Kita’s place big deal

but his place isn’t what you’re aimed for no?

“i’m leaving”

Kita says putting on his shoes, ready to leave and he’s wearing casual clothes,, you don’t think he’s going to school for volleyball practice

IS HE GOING ON A DATE????????????

lmao

as if thats actually true cmon Kita doesn’t even hang out with girls that much,,, even though he prolly has a bunch of admirers like the other Inarizaki Vball bois

but what if he swang that wae?

??????????

so you followed him right?

you wanted to find out where he’s headed also that he looked good in casual clothes you just want to keep looking at him like this 

Kita went to the grocery store

ah

and apparently he was buying ingredients to make food

ahh

so you begin to think that you were foolish for lowkey gate-keeping him

like sis cmon you’re a cat rn keep your head in the game,, what do you do with those paws of yours that cant even grab his hand and pull him away when he was about to bump into a girl as he was about to grab a bottle of tomato paste

heck you cant even get inside the damn grocery store and walk in between them cause you’re a fcking cat!!!!!!!!

you watch their mouths say sorries to each other

the girl was blushing

hm?

Kita looked worried that he couldve hurt her since the hag was coverin her face

hm

nani k

n̸̢̪̜͚͑́̾́̑̋ á̴̠̜̳͖̼̃͗̚͘͠ͅ n̵̼͙͇̻̹̓͜͜ i̷̥̲̻̪͈̞̙̩͛̾̅̓͝͝͠ ̶̨̡̜̞̟͆̿̈́͜ḵ̶̂̓̀̚ o̶͎͛̋̋̊͋̊̅̈̅ͅ r̶͙̮̱͊̎͠ ę̷̺̪͎͈̗̖̯̣͍͒͊̒͆͂̈́͛́̒̃

you started tapping the glass windows like mad SKSKD

and ofc since you’re a stray animal ppl wont let u get away with absolutely anything so one personnel saw you tapping the windows and shouted at you from inside the store

Kita and the hag saw you and yea that was enough embarrassment for the day, you ran away and let your feet take you wherever 

its a bit boring that since its a weekend there’s nothing to do,, you never expected that Kita’s weekends would be this boring too :(

so the creepy cat appeared

“what’s wrong you dont seem to be enjoying yourself anymore”

“turn me back to human i need to finish my homework”

maybe thats not the most liable excuse you have but it is true that you need to finish an assignment

“but i gave you a chance to be with the person you admire, no? is this not enough?”

“yea well its-”

“here you are”

you feel someone pick you up and you see that it was Kita:0he must’ve looked for you since you dont even know where you are

oh my god Kita Shinsuke looked for you ma’am eye- or mayhaps you took the route back to his house without knowing since you were busy staring at him when you were stalking him earlier ye

you watched how he looked at the creepy cat you were talking to and and judged it from head to hind feet lmao Kita

“do you have the same owner as this cat?”

he asked you and you gave out every ounce of your energy to shake your head as a no as well as to let out the most disgusted and disapproval meow you ever could-

“the hell would i want to be acquainted with that thing!”

a

what

no way did u just speak

so Kita stared at you for the remainder of the time but decided you speaking isnt physically possible and that he could’ve been real tired since he saw the Miya twins along the way

he took you back home since his grandma seemed to be real happy seeing a little animal in the house with them

but you didnt miss to see the little knowing smile from the creepy cat from earlier, you just knew from that alone that he was messing with you since as you said you were bored 

it was wrong of you to talk to that lil disgusting thing

since that moment you refused to speak with your mouth every again, if you were going to speak thought you would probably just purposely say meow only to not make anymore mistakes

also you’re spending a lot of time with Kita’s grandma than Kita himself

“i wonder what your future spouse is doing at this moment, Shin-kun”

Kita looked like he wanted to roll his eyes so bad lmao since he always hears things about his grandma wanting to see his wedding before she dies :c

and yk it makes you sad too just hearing about this

and you want to help 😔

and you would offer help 😌

they heard the cat speak and now you’re running away bc they heard you talk about wanting to marry Shinsuke 🤡

the day ended and you managed to go home before the sun set basically nothing happened and your transformation was all for nuttin, you were bamboozled by a demon cat you randomly saw one night

the next day you were back to your human self and it was a school day so ofc you have to live on normally in school as if nothing happened, as if you didnt just stalk a guy from your school but we’ll get to that

see, you’re friends are friends with a few of the guys from your school’s volleyball team,,, so you’re within vicinity of Kita’s attention 

when you explicitly did not want to see him atm

BUT THEN YOU REMEMBER YOUR FRIENDS KNOW YOU LIKE KITA

WHAT THE HELL DO YOU DO NOW

you decided to run away but you realize that’s useless bc you’re all going home together :D

now you weren’t the crowds type of person,, you had no idea how it come to this, you’re used to hanging out with your girlfriends yes but they were having fun altogether like this it was fun just watching them goof off and whatnot

“hey”

when i told you you’re almost dropped the second you hear Kita calling to you, you best believe

you said hey but in a different tone of voice bc it was too early for him to notice you had the same voice as the cat he saw yesterday,,, then you both walked in silence

you couldnt take it anymore and decided to go to the nearest convenience store since you had something you want to buy,, you went and whispered this to your friends but when they were asking you to let your voice out, you were deadass croaking

but then you clown yourself sum more bc Kita was concerned of you acting like this and asked if you were alright

now you’re stuck with him in the convenience store bc your friends and his friends thought it’d be a great idea for him to go with you :D

“you should eat something warm before going to sleep, and take a warm bath too”

:((((((

okay now you feel bad for actually making him worry lol

your alibi of getting sick works really well with not speaking at all around him so you used this till the end thinking you can escape him with this until it rained and you dont have an umbrella with you

aight y/n you’re one hell of a clutz

Kita was enough of a gentleman to buy an umbrella for you until its actually out of stock

you guys stayed in the convenience store for the time being

you were losing your mind

how much longer will you stay with him

you thought of an alibi to save you from the embarrassment so you told him you gotta jet and go back to school bc you forgot to bring your notebook with you 

but now you realize you realize you didnt have to tell him bc he’ll still follow you as if his life depends on taking care of you :(

after you randomly stormed out of the convenience store, he caught up to you and pulled you somewhere where there’s a roof over

“are you usually this reckless? or do you just like getting yourself sick?”

homie does not hold back

he pulled a spare shirt from his back and put it on your head,, proceeding to wipe your wet hair with it until he realized he’s subconsciously invading your personal space

he looked right at you, so you two were standing there,,, staring,, his hands on both sides of your head,,,,, both of y’all are wet hunni

he let go and turned the other way,,, the darkness wasnt dark enough to conceal his red cheeks and hunni you made him blush aight

“you reminded me of a cat i saw yesterday im sorry about that”

“you dont have to apologize”

o sis you did it now

you s p o k e

so Kita was beyond surprised to hear that voice again,,,, and this time from yOU,, ALL NORMAL,, NO FROGS

“i, i can explain”

he looked at you confused, hell was he so confused, that you sounded exactly like the voice he randomly heard yesterday which made him think that came from the cat,, he didnt think that was physically possible bc yk but the embarrassment from your face was enough for him to guess

“did you really say you’re willing to marry me”

gOD

“i mean,,, i don’t mind”

“grandma would be glad”

stay tuned for more!

[avellanas-nutty-empire]

Silent Love Part 2

ashkdncnrck im finishing these faster than i thought i would.

Fandom: The Umbrella Academy

Pairing: Axel x OC

Time & Location: Spring of 1990, San Patricio

Summary/Notes: Sorry not sorry, but Axel isnt physically in this chapter, he’s only mentioned :P dont worry i got a real nice fluff thing for part 3 planed that includes him for sure, but for now this part serves as a way to get you more familiar with what kelly is like, and the people she is around most of the time. 

Also heads up, when i have big long chunks of dialog spoken in not English, i will color code them so i dont have to go through the mess of google translate then put the English version in parenthesies. although if i do have like, just a few words that are part of a sentence spoken mostly in English ill do the google translate thing. But this part is spoken all in Irish, and the designated color for that language shall be green :P 

*Shoves in face again* HERE U GO *runs away*

“Alright ladys, let's get to work!” You clap your hands to enthuse the young dancers, clapping to the beat of the music before picking the ice bag back up and lifting it to your forehead.

“Wait, are we on left foot or right foot?” One of the girls asks

“Try it from the beginning” You suggest. “You girls still need some work on the first part - make sure to keep your arms up, don't let them droop. Your not wilted flowers” The music resets to the beginning as the girls line up to their starting positions. From behind, you hear the footsteps of another girl coming down the stairs.

“Have you seen my ghillies, Ms. Kelly?”

“Right here, Breda” You say, indicating the soft leather shoes under the table you sat at with your free hand. She makes a quick beeline towards them, plopping herself on the floor to put them on her feet.

“How's your head doing?” Breda asks while tying her laces.

“Better today, thank you for asking” You respond, looking down at her.

“That man really came out of nowhere”

“He did, but I'm glad. Not much I can do against a gun on my own” You quip 

“I thought we have a restraining order or something on Dick, why didn't he stay away?”

“Because, he is exactly what his name is. A Dick” Breda giggles at this, standing up from the floor with her shoes tied.

“I sure hope that girl and the man are alright. He looked really grumpy when he came in, it scared me a little” You nod in response to her words.

“Yes, he might have been upset for having to save us two” You sigh, looking back at the girls dancing in the cleared out space “But I'm glad everything ended up ok. The bullet barely grazed him, and the girl had only scratches. Easy to patch up. I used some of the salve Aoife left me too, so that should help it heal” Breda looks at you surprised at this.

“You used Aoife’s salve on him? I-”

“It was the least I could do, without him there last night who knows what would have happened. I can't take care of Sinead or help with the pub if I'm dead, and he was in the same danger as me. Wounds can easily get infected if not treated properly” 

“...Well, just make sure to use some on yourself. That alleyway is filthy, who knows what was on the ground where you hit your head" You nod your head in acknowledgement.

“You go on and catch up with the others now, they've done quite a bit without you”

“What!” she whips her head around and marches over towards the other girls. “You guys said you would wait for me!” You laugh at the girls antics before standing up and walking up the stairs. You peak your head through a doorway and lean on the frame

"Hey, Sean. Did you go get baby milk yet, or should I do it myself?" 

"No sorry, I haven't had the chance yet. Take Levy with you, he has something to do also" The man says from his spot at a desk, papers splayed out everywhere. You push off the doorframe and continue down the hall.

"Levy" You call out softly, searching for the young lad. "Will you be ready to go soon?" Peaking your head through another doorway, you see him packing stuff in a bag. He looks up at you when you speak.

“Yes, let's go!” The young boy quickly swings the loaded bag over his shoulder and bounds through the hall and down the stairs.

“Careful!” you call out to him. “Don't fall, Levy!” You follow him back to the first floor and push open the front door, waving a goodbye to the girls as they take their water break. Levy nearly pulls you to the ground trying to get you out of the pub and on your way. “Levy, what did I say! Don't rush or you’ll trip”

“But, Kelly-” He complains

“No but’s, Mister. I don't plan on taking care of another one of your twisted ankles or fractured arms any time soon. Just be patient, all things in good time” Levy pouts slightly at your words, but nonetheless slows down as the two of you make your way towards the market area.

>:( >:( >:( it wont keep the dialog green!!!! anyways just know this whole part is spoken in irish

[cartoon-wave]

translated villainous pilot script

hello i took the time to translate the villanos pilot, my native tongue is spanish so forgive the grammar and if anything sounds weird its my fault heh... If anyone is adding subtitles to the spanish video feel free to take this script, since i dont know how to add subtitles to videos myself. 

also this wont make sense unless you are watching the video so, go look for it first.

“THE ATROCIOUS DAWN”

___________________________________________

SUNBLAST: Did you have enough, villainess? PENUMBRA: Let me explain- SUNBLAST: Get out! The only reason you aren't in prison right now is because I enjoy defeating you.

PENUMBRA: Disgusting SunBlast and his idiot fans. I'd give anything just for him to leave me-*Screens flickering*... alone?

TV: Black Hat here- Are you a villain in distress? Evil is our business and business is good-

BH: Problems with heroes?

_________________________________

HERO #2: Admit it Flug you're a failure. You should rename yourself "DR. FAILURE". It doesn’t matter how many times you try.

Flug: Shut up! You! GOLDIE (he says “Doradito” i believe)

FLUG: Jefecito chulo! (Boss)

BH: Well, well, well, that was a... Wonderful job Doctor

FLUG: (sobbing) Ay híjole, I don't know what to say Boss... thank you very much

BH: And another thing... MAYDAY. MAYDAY.MAYDAY. (flug's alarm clock beeps)

FLUG: At least it was just a dream and not the recurrent nightmares i have

FLUG: Okay, time to execute the morning routine FLUG: STEP 1. Wake everyone up.

5.0.5.: (Snores)

FLUG: Good morning Pachoncito (Fluffy) FLUG: Don't forget to NOT clean Black Hat's office again or he'll make you look at your own guts, again.

(5.0.5. salutes)

FLUG: What's next on the list? UGH.

(Demencia laughs)

Hero #3 idk his name: Speak again villain, what's your evil plan!

FLUG: Breakfast

Hero #3: Breakfast? Hey that doesn't sound very evil, what's on the menu- (screams) 

Hero #3: that wasn't breakfast

Demencia: (laughs hysterically while Flug says good morning to her)

FLUG: okay, let's do something easier today. Just go change clothes.

DEMENCIA: Never! Pajamas forever! 

FLUG: Come here you madwoman! Rules can't be bent as if they were- MY BACK (yelps) this. is. hurting. me. a. lot. (high pitch scared sound when he sees BH)      G-good morning Boss, how may I be of your service?

BH: (deep distorted voice) A client of name Penumbra made a call to our organization seeking for help to destroy a problematic hero.

FLUG: What and the poor thing can't do it on her own?

PENUMBRA: (Coughs)

FLUG: Ay la llorona!*

PENUMBRA: I'm not a crybaby! It's just that he can't be reasoned with! He's always bothering me when I try to cover up the sun so it doesn't burn me alive.

FLUG: Don't worry madame. I always have a backup plan for nuisances like that. 

FLUG: I'm not gonna fail you Boss.

BH: I expect that Dr. BH: For your own good. ___________________________

DEMENCIA: Look at him... he's so vile. So evil. Owww, remind me why I'm leaving this cutie alone

FLUG: Because we are in a mission. And he's not alone, he's with Penumbra.

DEMENCIA: (grunts)

FLUG: If you break another phone again I won't be giving you another one, not one more!

(SIGN READS: Welcome to ATRENO CITY "Where sun always shine bright")

FLUG: Yeah yeah he looks strong, but this should be easy if you can fully adhere to my plan.

DEMENCIA: We don't need a dumb plan. We just need to kick his super

ass- To hell with it! I'll do it myself. Where is he?!

FLUG: I'll explain it to you Demencia. To find a hero you need to get

inside his head, literally.

COP: Wait a moment... You can only park on the statue on Sundays!

FLUG: Alright. Now that we successfully infiltrated in the city, It's

time to execute MY plan to defeat SunBlast. Your attention, please.

FLUG: FIRST, I'm gonna track his position. SECOND, 5.0.5. is gonna

cover me. THIRD, 'Dumbmencia'... You can help by not getting in the

way.

FLUG: Follow the plan and remember! You must TAKE him by surprise,

don't let it be like the last time when- (sound of explosion) What was

that?

DEMENCIA: Where are you Captain Sunburn? Where are you coward? Come and

face me!

FLUG: DAUGHTER OF A LIZARD (a play on 'Son of a b*tch') WHAT DID I JUST

TELL YOU?! STAY STILL

DEMENCIA: There you are

SUNBLAST: A nerd? I. Hate. NERDS

DEMENCIA: haha! the sun is going DOWN

FLUG: Demencia! You are ruining my evil plan.

SUNBLAST: You're a villain on top of a nerd?

FLUG: Great, now we have to jump to the 30th step of my plan. (Pulls

ray) The Chillator. Fluffy, cover me. (5.0.5 hugs him) I didn't mean I wanted a bear hug!

DEMENCIA: huh? (falls down) This changes nothing you coward!

(the next part is just inaudible grunts and their asses getting kicked)

FLUG: Team blackhat was defeated again! (This is a pokemon reference

since Flug's spanish voice actor dubbed James in the pokemon anime)

____________________________________

FLUG: HOW MANY TIMES MUST I REPEAT THIS? YOU. HAVE. TO. FOLLOW. MY. PLAN.

DEMENCIA: Your plan sucks

(alert message reads: Intruder detected -warning-)

FLUG: Oh my god he's coming here and I don't have a plan (scribbles)

no! not this! not this either-

DEMENCIA: Leave him to me- I don't need my left side- I just need my love for my Black Hat

COP: You guys forgot your ticket

SUNBLAST: YES, lead me to her.

FLUG: 5.0.5. What did you do?! Now he's following us to the island. If Black Hat finds out, he's gonna slap our hands-

BH: I see you are on your way back. Then, you must have FINISHED.

FLUG: Y-yes Sir Black Hat.. Everything's going according to the plan

PENUMBRA: Did you catch him?

FLUG: Yeah we did, fell straight into our trap, we're even going to do a special delivery so you can see his defeat in person

BH: I'm impatient.

FLUG: We're on our way (screams)

DEMENCIA: She's even uglier in person

FLUG: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. Aren't you seeing this, we're done

for! And all because YOU can't follow step by step the precious plan I

made with so much effort. AND NOW THERE IS NO PRECIOUS PLAN LEFT. AND

SUNBLAST IS NOW FOLLOWING US TO BLACKHAT ISLAND. WHERE LORD BLACK HAT IS EXPECTING US TO DO A WRESTLING MOVE ON HIM THE WAY ONLY US KNOW HOW TO... Do?

FLUG: Now there IS a nice plan ___________________________________

SUNBLAST: Where is she? I know she hired you to get rid of me.

FLUG: SunBlast, he he he. I was expecting you to come. Oof, Fluffy,

you're too heavy, get down!! please (wheeze)

SUNBLAST: Nobody knew of me before coming to ATRINO, you think I'm

going to lose my popularity just because Penumbra and a bunch of nerds

are afraid of getting a tan? Hah! I'm gonna get rid of her and the lot

of you. NERDS

FLUG: Don't you say. Because I've been looking to destroy you all day,

thinking about plans and making my team follow it. But I thought they

weren't paying attention, then I realized that it was me who needed to

pay attention to them. Fluffy! Cover him.

SUNBLAST: Get off me chubby!

SUNBLAST: Ah, it's her again, so what? She couldn't keep up with me

last time, what's the difference?

FLUG: Not to be nosy, but he said Penumbra and Black Hat made a cute couple.

(Demencia growls)

SUNBLAST: Whats wrong with you?! crazy woman! SUNBLAST: I'm still stronger, shorties!

FLUG: Is that so? (Pulls lever that reads: Nuisance Remover) FLUG: Aw you poor thing

PENUMBRA: Impressing! Marvelous!

FLUG: A mini-hero defeated. For lady Penumbra.

PENUMBRA: Finally. You and me are going to have a long conversation.

SUNBLAST: No... Noooo

PENUMBRA: Thank you Mister Black Hat. Your team made an excellent job.

Now I can use SunBlast's power to create a cure for my skin condition.

How can I repay your marvelous services?

BH: It was a pleasure to make a deal with you Lady Penumbra.(Deep

distorted voice) Now get out.

PENUMBRA: B-bye... Goodbye!

BH: You made a job that was exceptionally... MEDIOCRE. BH: HOW DARE YOU BRING A PATHETIC HERO TO MY DOMAINS. YOU THOUGHT I WOULDN'T REALIZE? YOU TAKE ME FOR AN IDIOT?

DEMENCIA: Anddd... what is the plan, Doc?

FLUG:... Run.

_____________________________

PENUMBRA: And that is the reason why I needed to create the machine

(sigh) See, you're a good listener... Sunblast? Sunblast! Aw, he's

asleep.

[reyesmp4]

My crackhead dissertation about QOTS S4, hidden connections, and the return of James Valdez!

I want to start out by saying these are all THEORIES. Mostly from my crackhead brain, but there are a few things that MAY actually tie my theories together. They are mainly fueled by my love for James Valdez and my unwillingness to believe that the writers, producers and cast would be stupid enough to really write him off the show. (the only time I accept that is when its the actors wishes. And if it was Peter's wish, I would respect that.) But in this case, I don’t think that’s what is happening here. I also want to mention here that when it comes to flashforward scenes in Queen Of The South, I don’t buy into them and I don’t believe they are actually real.I believe they are metaphorical warning rather than an actual depiction of teresa in the future. Thats my personal opinion/theories. With that being said,  ALL OF THIS is just that, my opinion. 

First of all, I know a lot of people (myself fucking included) are nervous that there WONT be a return of James Valdez. But please, don’t worry until we know something concrete. 

I know a lot of people have seen that NOTHING has been posted on social media about James. Not by the cast, not by peter, nothing. But we have to remember It is really  common nowadays, in the age of social media, for networks and producers to place a gag order on actors/cast/crew about the return and fate of certain characters. 

So first of all, the main reason I firmly believe there WILL be a return of James Valdez, is because of the way season 3 ended. I wholeheartedly believe that it wouldn’t have ended that way, had there not been a REASON. For the most part, as for  storylines QOTS has been extremely cohesive and able to have twists and turns, along with callback to previous seasons /relationships etc. If they were planning to kill off James, they would have left it at their goodbye scene in 3x13. But instead they showed an incredibly powerful scene of James, a soldier and sicario, giving up his gun for the person he loves and will die to protect. If they didn’t plan to incorporate that entire storyline back into the following season(s), it would not only be uncharacteristic of our QOTS writers who are notoriously cohesive when it comes to storylines, but it would also be incredibly STUPiD. There was no reason to add that James/Devon scene if they weren’t going to call back to it at some point. It was a huge, super poignant scene and I believe that it was put there for a reason. (though it does sometimes happen, lookin @ you ‘The Magicians’!) 

So quite a few of my theories lie in episode 3x05, so I will be calling back to it a LOT. Get used to it. Don’t @ me. 

3x05 truly solidified the trust between James and Teresa. In the beginning of the episode, they were sitting together cheersing their business while teresa looks at planes. Teresa says,

 “Now if they come for me, ill be ready.”  

James looks at her earnestly and says, “If they come for you, I’ll  be ready.” (Implying he’d die before letting “them” get to her). 

Later in the episode, when they learn that Kellyanne is being held hostage by Devon, Teresa instructs James to stay in the car, knowing that if he were to go in there, he would be killed on the spot because he hurt Devon’s business. She tells him to go to ‘la commission’ for help. Instead of listening to her and staying in the car, when he sees things go south, he walks in there himself and which basically translates to “Take me instead”. After agreeing to leave with Devon, James asks to tell teresa himself that he’s leaving. He informs her that She and Kellyanne are free to go, and that Devon will back off her business. Teresa asks what Devon gets in return, what the catch is, and the answer is James. To which teresa immediately says, uh “No”. 

Devon asks Teresa, “Are you willing to sacrifice everything, including your life, for this man?”

To which she easily answers, Yes. Devon forces James to tell Teresa what REALLY happened in Texas, and asks if she still wants to put her life on the line for him. She answers “take him” (and you can visibly see James heart break). But she quickly tells James that she isn't going to let them take him, and that she was just buying time, and grabs the guns stored close by. James looks panicked, knowing that if they try and shoot their way out, they'd both end up dead. He tells her “We’re outnumbered, we’ll never make it.” And she answers simply, “Then, we don’t make it.” Showing that she is willing to go down swinging and die right along side him. 

This interaction solidifies their trust in one another and shows how deep their feelings for one another go. 

First theory- Devon has ties (possibly family ties) to New Orleans/Dumas 

So we learn in 3x05, that Devon works with his family when it comes to his less than legal activities. While Devon is a CIA agent, his family (I believe) are civilians. His sister often acts as his enforcer. 

Now, in 3x05 when Devon and Teresa have  “dinner” together, devon steps away to take a call. Teresa observes her surroundings, taking in devons crew- who are speaking what seems to be hatian or some type of creole. Teresa looks at ‘The Professor’,  Devon's sister, and asks “Are you Hatian”, to which his sister gives a weird look, asking Teresa what she said. She repeats herself, and says “Are you hatian? You sound hatian.” Teresa gets a “mind your damn business” type answer. But my point is that Teresa very OBVIOUSLY pointed out that she appears to be speaking hatian or some type of creole. 

Now, in 4x04, Marcel Dumas sends his men to raid Teresa's factory. They shoot up the place, but before they go- they leave behind a voodoo doll. Now you don’t need to know much about New Orleans to know that there is a strong afro-french/hatian influence there. Creole and Voodoo often go hand in hand. The use of hatian/creole along with the voodoo doll, lead me to believe that there is some sort of connection between Devon and New Orleans. I believe, especially given what happened in 4x04, that the war with Marcel is going to BLOW UP. Possibly bringing either Devon (if he has ties to marcel or to NOLA) or possibly Castel into the picture, and that is how teresa and the team may learn that James didn’t leave on his own volition, but instead did it in order to protect Teresa. 

Back to 3x05 for a minute, as I was saying earlier when they looked into Devon’s sister, because she was a civilian she had an internet presence, and they were able to find out where their mother was located and used her as collateral against the siblings. Lil tay, who was the one to go and threaten devon's mother. When she's sitting in the church, she talks about how she was impressed that the van she was driving could hit over 150mph on the highway. Telling me that she wasn’t just kickin it around phoenix, she had to have traveled a pretty long distance. Because we don’t know how long this whole sequence took it is *plausible* that his mother was located in louisiana/new orleans as well (it would have taken 6-8 hours traveling at 150mph). The song that the church choir was singing “Wade in  the Water” also has strong ties to the black community, which I think is important to point out as well. 

I don’t know if this is planned, if these certain points were added as fillers or if they really are important and will tie together all of these strings, while paving the way for James to come home.

The Devon and Castel Connection 

Now we know that in 3x13, in the scene with James and Devon, they talk about how Devon killed El Santo to take out the competition for the columbians. Devon tells James that Castel is a “friend of the  agency” meaning basically that they’re in bed together on whatever operation Devon is running (legitimate or not). We already saw that in 4x01, Teresa pledges allegiance and loyalty to Castel, who showed up in new orleans. 

So the fact that James went with devon, whether he’s working for him to pay his dues or if he’s more being held captive, I honestly have no idea. I DO believe based on the title of 4x13 ‘They will come for you.’ is a callback to Teresa and James’ conversation in the beginning of 3x05 (where he says, “if they come for you, I’ll be ready) . So I don’t know if they will rescue James or if James will end up rescuing her but I am praying that there is an OBVIOUS connection there for a reason. ( thank you for your later episode theories, I AGREE! @mymostimaginaryfriend )

But the fact that Devon and Castel are in bed together ALONE tells me they are going to be calling back to that at some point, especially with Teresa pledging allegiance to Castel/the columbians. That is probably enough of a connection for Teresa to end up finding out what REALLY happened with James. (I still believe in the Devon/ New Orleans theory though.) 

So where does James come in? Honestly I dont know yet. I do strongly believe he will be back. He wouldn’t put his life on the line to protect teresa without them calling back to that storyline, honestly. It would be really dumb for them not to. 

@folie-lex  pointed out that James is almost always seen as an equal to Teresa. For just being a sicario, he is able to call her out on her bullshit and point out how they should maybe look differently at the situation. That's an important power dynamic, and that is something that  is so far EXTREMELY lacking in season four not just between Teresa and James but for the entire team. James would have NEVER pulled what Javier did in 4x03/4x04. Never. The current team that she is working with, she has no one to use as a sounding board when it comes to the *hard* decisions. She doesn’t have that same rapport she had with James with any of them.  No, not even pote. 

While teresa can rely on Pote, to do what he is told when he’s told. Pote is a loyal soldier, but James was able to both follow orders but also turn around and challenge Teresa in a way no one else ever has. In a way that helps her keep hold of her humanity. 

If you've watched the current episodes, especially 4x04, then you know that it is a SHIT SHOW. Everything is falling apart, Javier has not only killed one of Judge Layfayettes lackeys, but in addition to doing that and then disappearing, he also got Marcel Dumas nephew KILLED, essentially triggering a gang war. Dumas will be out for blood after he learns that his nephew has been killed. 

Had James been around he would have seen this coming for MILES. He would have been there as a sounding board for Teresa, as someone to clean up the mess, but he also would have kept everyone in line. 

I understand that the network, showrunners, and writers think that action and chaos sells, but we are a rather small fanbase. Small, but loyal. For them to decide to squash our loyalty, knowing that James well loved and fan favorite, would be a (as i said previously) STUPID, and possible fatal mistake. I truly believe that they haven’t made that mistake yet, but if they were to make a permanent decision to write james off, they could be digging their own cancellation graves. 

This isn’t a background, small time character. This is James Valdez. He’s been here since DAY ONE and gave an extremely vital structure to the show and added greatly to the dynamic between characters and the team. There is a visible, palpable James sized hole in this season and I hope it’s there to prove a point in how much he is needed, rather than to squander a well loved and respected series regular. 

James Valdez has a big, protective heart, and is willing to die trying to protect the ones he loves, his family. Lets try to have some faith that this is all for a reason and that james is going to get the storyline and love he really deserves.

[mars-the-4th-planet]

Konichiwa mother****er

"Talk!" Yuri Gagarin demanded. "What do you know about Monarchas plans!"

"I already told you everything!" Kuusi Palaa squeaked in Finnish, while trapped in a cage that Yuri put in a (unplugged) oven. "I dont know what she wants to do with the component, I was just trying to get fuel! Honest!"

Yuri Gagarin looked over at Penny. "Translate please."

"She already told you everything she says, and that she does not know what Monarcha plans to do." Penny replied, looking a little uncomfortable. "Are you sure the oven is off?"

"I am certain."

"So, you do think she is telling the truth Penny? You should know, right?"

Penny shook her head. "I am very bad at reading people, sorry. I have no idea."

"I guess she is being truthful. OKAY YOU SICK LITTLE FINN, YOU ARE COMING FORTH FROM THE OVEN BUT IF YOU CAUSE ANY TROUBLE YOU ARE GOING BACK IN WITH THE POWER ON!" She roared at the much smaller rocket girl.

"You are a big stupid jerk and I hate you..." Kuusi Palaa quoted in response, in Finnish.

Penny hesitantly translated.

"I am?" Yuri said, putting the cage on a shelf. "So I am. But I can quote things too... In this world it is kill or be killed!"

"Setivarki daa pomphis kaisii morvn." She mumbled.

"She said flower clippers are fifty percent off." Penny translated.

Yuri Gagarin giggled. "Good one. You play undertale, Finn?"

Kuusi nodded.

"Beat Sans?"

She shook her head.

"I beat Sans on my first try!" Yuri proudly proclaimed.

She rolled her eyes.

"She does not believe me Penny! I shan't been this disrespected since last I say Freedom Sayori! Can you believe this madass Penny?!"

"Um... Im sorry my friend, but the odds that you defeated Sans on your first try are lower than the odds of ghosts existing!"

Glaring, Yuri Gagarin wheeled herself into her room and slammed the door.

Penny looked down sadly. "I... I am such a bad friend, I should not have said that..."

Kuusi tried to pat Penny through the bars, but she could not quite reach her.

"You seem to make Yuri Gagarin very unhappy... Even causing her to ask me things that make her angry!" Penny said, getting an idea. "So if you were not here, my friend would be happier!"

Kuusi Palaa looked confused, not getting the point.

Penny took the small rocket out of her cage and brought her down into the basement, and got to work repairing the leak in her rocket hull using tiny repair tools and molten glass. After about fifteen minutes, Penny gave Kuusi Palaa some of Yuri Gagarins vodka for fuel, and released her through an open window.

"There! Be free, little friend!" Penny said happily, thinking that now the Finland rocket would not make Yuri Gagarin unhappy. "Please do not bother Yuri Gagarin again okay?"

Kuusi Palaa smiled and waved back at her. "Okay Robot! Thank you so much!!" before zipping away.

Penny relaxed on the rocket launch pad (the closest thing they had to a chair in this house) and began recharging herself.

...

"Penny?"

She opened her eyes. There was Freedom Sayori.

"Where is Yuri Gagarin?"

"She is in her room, angry." Penny said. "But if you take this opportunity to comfort her, I believe she is interested in becoming your friend!"

"Yuri? No... Why would any fellow rocket girl want to be friends with me? Humans I get, they think I am someone special... But Yuri knows the truth, she knows I am nothing but a garbage can with a garbage person on top of it." Sayori said, on the verge of crying underneath her badass sunglasses. "EA Robotics turned me away, apparently they are not responsible for any accidents involving you." She added.

Penny got up and hugged her. "You are not garbage, in fact Yuri Gagarin is jealous of how amazing you are! It really gets her down that you are the more powerful and more popular... But right now, she is angry at me and Kuusi Palaa. I think if you take this opportunity, you two can become friends and support each other through your insecurities!" Penny cheerfully and very technically suggested.

Sayori smiled slightly. "I guess... I can try."

"Hooray!"

"Calm down, Penny. Please. Hehe."

"Sorry." Penny made a >_< face.

"Its okay." Sayori patted her on the head and headed into Yuri Gagaris room.

Penny walked outside, fully charged now, and gazed up at the stars. She simulated in her head her and a bunch of other Pennys going up to Mars and making a fully robotic colony there. This fantasy seemed to be a favorite of every Penny created, as EA could not figure out how to make them stop wanting this. Some even rumored that the Pennys were planning on rising up against humanity, becoming rocket girls themselves, and flying off. This was not true, but conspirators will conspire.

"Konichiwa!"

"Hello!" Penny turned and spotted Natsuki Nagasaki, who was wearing a kimono and holding a plastic katana.

"Omae owah de shinderu!" She shouted and charged at Penny.

Penny could only watch in confusion as Natsuki began whacking her with the toy.

"Youre not supposed to attack others with fake weapons! It wont work!" Penny explained.

Natsuki Nagasaki did not care, under the rules of anarchy there are no rules. There was no "supposed to" in her mind, she did what she wanted.

Whack! Whack! Whack! Whack!

"You are doing no damage, I dont understand..."

Natsuki then ran off holding up a middle finger and spinning around.

"What a chaotic person..." Penny said, still confused.

Before Natsuki was out of sight, she suddenly jumped into a ditch. Because a battered and dirty white pickup truck had just pulled up.

"I see you there you little shit! Stop running away!" A large angry man said, coming out of the vehicle. He walked up to the ditch and pulled Natsuki out, who bit his hand and made a run for it. Natsuki shouted something in Japanese that roughly translated to "sex the law"

"Whats up?" Penny asked, now next to the man favoring his hurt hand. While you couldnt tell by looking at her, Penny was concerned he was a kidnapper.

"Nothing. She keeps running away from home. I am her father, not some criminal. I know how you robots are." He grumbled, since a Penny had reported him to CPS before while disciplining Natsuki. As such he hated the robots, who were required to report violent crimes. Especially against children. Even if it is against their owners wishes.

"Sir, you should probably get the police. Since you seem unable to catch her." Penny suggested, knowing that if he was lying he would not want the police involved.

Natsukis father did not want the police involved, but he was not going to let this Penny get him reported like the last one so he called 911 and reported Natsuki as a runaway. He hated to do this especially knowing that the cops would have a CPS agent question natsuki and find out why she kept running away.

Putting his phone down, he looked up and saw Penny was in his car.

"Hey!"

"Dont worry sir, I will park this back at your house! You must be too tired to drive after after all that!" And she drove off with him screaming obscenities and chasing after until the pickup got away. Penny knew this was illegal but also knew that he was probably going to be able to catch Natsuki Nagasaki eventually using his pickup to continue following her until she was exhausted. So Penny decided to take the risk for the sake of her moral programming, as she still believed he was a danger to the child.

[kounfetti]

[Diabolik Lovers: Lost Eden] Kou Mukami Maniac Prologue Translation

(TN// This is another long translation!   Please don’t put this translation anywhere outside of tumblr- link back to this post only. I don’t mind this being translated into other languages as long as you link back to my blog and ask for permission before hand\\\)

Kou’s Monologue 

Because of the Vibora clan’s king, Reiji sent a letter to him. But, I am alone in going to rescue Yui.

But I dont know if I should leave, because of my lack of strength.

......But, I would hate to see that even a finger of her was hurt. 

However, I believe that in myself, I have enough strength to save Yui.

The familiar of the Sakamaki family is flying to where Ruki and the others are, but it seems confused and can’t see them because of the dark night. 

-----And so, Its my turn to go into the forest. 

Scene: Forest 

Kino and Kou are together in the Forest

Kou: ...hahh...

Kou walks away

Kino: Ah! Hey you better wait!

Kino pulls him back

Kou: What? Do you need something?

Kino: I didn’t say that. Are you going to save Eve? I’ll help you.

Kou: And do you want something out of that?

Kino: Fufu, of course. 

Kou: I can clearly see that you want something. I have nothing to offer you. I dont have Subaru’s power. 

Kou: And because of that, the only thing I can give you that I’ve ever earned is  money...

Kino: Money? Thats fine. I’ll help you out.

Kou: ...Ha?

Kino: I’ve said it before? I love playing smartphone games.

Kino: In the underworld, I’m a little low on bills for my house. So I dont mind getting money in return. 

Kou:.....Alright. If you’re doing it out of your own will then. 

Kino: Hahah. Thank you. It seems interesting too, so, I’ll follow behind you. 

Kino: Alright lets go, together, to the Vibora clan! 

Kou: .....

Kou: (I wonder if its ok to let him tag along with me....)

Different area in the Forest

Kou: (...Where is the Vibora clan?)

Kou: I’m gonna go explore around. Kino, you stay here. 

Kou leaves

Kino: .....

Kino: Yuri, where are you? You’ve been following us right.

Yuri comes out of some bushes

Yuri: ....Sorry.  I was doing this to monitor your behavior and see if you were doing alright. 

Kino: I’m going ot keep up with Kou until he has the heart to forgive me. I think that it will be ok. 

Kino:  I’m going to try to win him over, since I’ve gotten on bad terms with him. 

Kino: And going together, it will take me straight to Eve, which is a great bonus. 

Yuri: I understand. You want to find out Eve’s location in the underworld and use it to your advantage, right?

Yuri: ....And on that, I’ll leave that to you. I will stay following you to check up on your stat every now and then. 

Scene Change: Vibora Clan Castle’s Dungeon

Azusa: ...haa....uhhh..ha...

Azusa: Hurry up and.... rescue Eve....

Someone enters into the Dungeon

Azusa: Who.. is.. that?

Vibora Maid A: ----Hey, did you hear about the rumor? 

Vibora Maid B: Of course. A girl called Eve is to be engaged? 

Vibora Maid B: It was so sudden, I was surprised.

Vibora Maid A: Apparently that girl has the heart of the princess and daughter of the demon king, Burai. 

Vibora Maid B: Aahh. Thats why. I congratulate them.

Vibora Maid A: Eeh! We will be busy for a while now. 

Azusa:...uh... Eve, is to be engaged? Could it be...!

Azusa: ... S-Someone---

Azusa is taken out of the Dungeon

Scene Change: Guest Bedroom in the Vibora Clan’s Castle

Azusa: ..guh.. Let me go!

???: ..Uh ouch...

Azusa: eh..ah.. Kou? Why...?

Kou: Maa-- Thats awful! I’m not an enemy~

Azusa: So-Sorry.... Could it be you came here because of...

Azusa: Hey, Kou. Who is that other person here with you? 

Kou: Ah---....He is Kino-kun.

Kou: Uh lets see, You know the vampire who attacked the Sakamaki family? This guy is him. 

Azusa: Eh...?

Kou: I have a reason for allowing him to tag along, I’ll tell you later. 

Kou: Anyways, Right now, its more important to go rescue M Neko Chan. 

Azusa: ...uh... Oh yea, about, Eve....

Azusa: Just now... I overheard....something really bad!

Azusa: The Vibora king and Eve, they are to be engaged!

Kou: Huh?! Why!

Kou: I definitely can’t allow that! I’ll never forgive him! Allowing something like that to occur....!

Azusa: Ye-Yea... So we should definitely do something....

Kino: Well... I dont know if we can do anything? 

Kou: What did you say?

Kino: Right now, in the Underworld, everyone wants Eve. Her very existence is rare and precious. 

Kino: The word of her having the heart of the daughter of the demon king because of Karlhienz is spreading. 

Kino: Kou, just like how you are a celebrity in the normal world,  your girlfriend is just as famous in the demon world. 

Kino: Every man here wants your girlfriend’s hand in marriage.

Kino: It seems that she is a suitable person for anyone of status in the demon world. 

Kou: ...uh...!

Azusa: So.. Kou seem to really care for Eve...

Azusa: This is going to be dificult...with all those people who want Eve...? 

Kino: Hmmm... since its practically impossible, we shouldn’t even try. 

Kino: Unless of course, we are able to recieve the power and strength. 

Kino: Having her doesn’t mean anything unless you have power. 

Kino: ....Kou, even you can understand that, right?

Kino: Eve can only make someone Adam if he is something close to one of the demons. 

Kou: ......

Azusa: ...You dont need to listen to what Kino is saying....

Kou: ....I’m not worried. Sorry for taking your time. 

Azusa: ...Kou...

Kino:  Well, you cant be worrying about this forever. We cant go help if you are undecisive yourself. Hahaha.

Kou: ...ugh...

Kino: I dont care if you’re angry with me, after all, shouldn’t you guys go save Eve? 

Kino: Its not like I know where she is or anything~

Kou: Huh?! Reallu?!

Kino: Its something like that. If you just look for signs, its easy. 

Kino: The Vibora king, Tsbaik, inside his room, there’s a balcony. It seems like theres something there. 

Azusa: Is... that true...?

Kino: What? You think I would lie?

Azusa: Well I mean, weren’t you the one who attacked hte Sakamaki family...?

Azusa: ....Because of that....I cant trust what you say since you have no credibility to me....

Kou: ...Its ok, Azusa, Here, I can believe what Kino says.

Azusa: B-But....

Kou: Its alright. Since I’ve acted before, and since I’ve been with him for a while, I can tell whether he’s lying or not. 

Azusa: ...Understood. I will believe him on your behalf....

They all leave the room

Scene Change: A Different Bedroom

Tsbaik: Eve, is there any inconvenience here?

Yui: N-No. I’m fine. 

Yui: (...I dont know why but I feel uncomfortable and awful here.)

Yui: (Even though Tsbaik is kind to me, it still strikes me as odd...)

Yui: (I feel like I’ll never be able to leave this room, since I’m still a captive here. But I cant do anything about it.)

Yui: Hey... Tsbaik. Could I go outside for a bit to get some air?

Tsbaik: Eh? Of course. I’ll go with you. 

Yui: (As I thought, he’ll never leave me alone.)

Yui: ( I dont know what Azusa and Kou are doing... I cant understand it....)

Yui: (I’m going to need to make up for lost time the next time I see him...!)

Yui: Uh hey... Before we go outside, I want to change my clothes, If thats alright with you.

Yui: It will only be brief. So, could you please wait outside?

Tsbaik: I understand. But....

Tsbaik grabs her hand

Yui: ...uh! Tsbaik!

Yui: (He squeezed my hand?!)

Tsbaik: I’ll help you with changing. It will be faster, after all. 

Yui: N-No. Thats....

Yui: (I hate this...!)

Yui: (I dont know if I’ll be able to get through all of this....)

Screen goes black

Kou: (Wh..Whats this?!)

Kou: (The Vibora king.... He’s holding her hand...!)

Kou: (When I was just trying check up on her to see how she was, I saw this! This is unbearable!---)

Azusa:----Kou, you’re going to need to be patient....

Kou: Uh! But....

Azusa: It’ll be alright....just wait. Because Tsbaik will have to leave the room at some point....

Scene Change: Yui is alone in the Bedroom

Yui: Haa...

Yui: (Somehow... I was able to get him to wait outside, however, only to buy some time.)

Yui: (Through this time gap...maybe I can try to escape now----)

Door opens

Yui: ---Ah?!

Kou, Kino, and Azusa appear

Yui: Eh...Kou, and also Azusa.... and who is...

Kou: ----Yui!

Kou runs up to her and hugs her

Kou: I finally get to see you...! I’m sorry, for making you worry...!

Yui: ah... It should be me saying sorry, But, I’m glad that you are safe...!

Azusa: ....

Kino: He..y. We’re here too. We should probably leave soon?

Kou: Ah.. Yea thats right. Sorry....

Kou steps away

Yui: (This unknown person... who is it...?)

Yui: Hey, Kou, Who’s him..?

Kou: Uhhhmm... He goes by Kino, But, its a long story! I’ll tell you all of it later!

Kou: We need to get out of here quickly befor the king comes back!

Kino: Well, we’re gonna leave to somewhere far away, cause it would be troublesome to anger the Vibora king. 

Kou: Far away.... Will that work?

Kino: Proabably. I know a place that the Vibora king wont think to look for us in. 

Kou: ...Understood.

Yui: ( Eh? Kou believes what he says..?)

Azusa: Eve. Just now, You know what Kou and him said, right? We’ll do that....

Azusa: Until the circumstances are right, tthats what we’ll do. We'll explain it all then...

Yui: Ok.

Yui’s Monologue

I didn’t quite understand but, All four of us jumped out of the castle. 

On the way, Me and Azusa wondered what kind of person Kino is. I only heard of what Kou and Kino did together. 

Overall, I was surprised. Kino wants to bring despair to Karlhienz. He was the vampire who attacked the Sakamaki family. 

And of all the things I heard about him, when I heard that Kino and Kou worked together I couldn’t hide my shock and what I thought. My face said it all.

But even so,  I listened to Kino’s story of his past. Kou and Kino seem to have felt similiarly.

And then----......

As we escaped, Kino showed us to where he lived with the ghouls in Rotigenberg.

Even though it was desolate, and filled with madness, it was still somewhere to stay. 

It smelled of rot and decomposition, and we were still unintentionally raising our eyebrows in discomfort. 

There was a chronic smell of decomposing trees. But it seemed that Kino and the others didn’t seem to mind it. 

Yui”s Monologue Ends

Scene Change: Field 

Kino: Fufu. Are you all surprised? For a ghoul, this is all their reality. 

Kou: uhh...!

Kino: Demons automatically discriminate against me, I had no other choice but to live here. 

Kino: Either way, this is the safest place you could possibly stay in. Any other race wont want to step anywhere near here. 

Kino: There’s some empty houses around here that you can use. 

Azusa: Well then, Kino...Could you perhaps lend me and them seperate rooms.....

Kino: I dont mind, but you dont want to be together with them? 

Yui: Ok then, But how come?

Azusa: Because you two seem happy to see each other, I dont want to disturb you two. 

Kou: Wai, Azusa! You wont get in the way of anything....

Azusa: Its alright. Now, you and Eve will be able to properly talk to each other.

Kou: ..Yea. Thank you, Azusa. 

Yui’s Monologue

For the first time, thanks to Azusa, I was able to spend time together with Kou. 

Making up for lost time, we cuddled while talking about what happened to us in the time we were apart. 

I found what Kou was telling me very interesting. 

But at the same time, I knew reality was bound to hit soon. And that our happiness would be in trouble again soon, as I got that awful pain in my chest again. 

Now that Tsbaik knows I have escaped, what will Tsbaik do? 

So far, Kino has been showing us around, but I dont know what his real intention could be. 

And also, Ruki and Yuma will be waiting for us in Eden. 

While I’m together with Kou, I want to avoid reality. 

Yui’s Monologue Ends

Scene: Ghoul’s Living Room 

Yui: ....

Kou: ....Whats wrong? You’re silent.

Yui: Hey, Kou. I wonder about what will happen to us. 

Yui: I am glad that we were able to see each other....Since after all, I was so worried. 

Kou: Sorry, I dont understand.

Kou:...ha... But, I’m sure it’ll all be fine!

Kou comes closer

Kou: I’ll definitely never let you go. 

Kou: Because, as long as we’re together, we can tackle anything, right?

Yui: Yep.

Yui: (Thats right.)

Yui: (I can believe what Kou says. I’m no longer going to be alone....)

Dark Epilogue ♥ Maniac 01

[themoneybuff-blog]

Strategies for Translating Long Term Financial Goals into Immediate Actions and Habits

Last week, I discussed how important it was to establish long term financial goals and then translate them into immediate actions and habits as a way of avoiding lifestyle inflation. In truth, having good long term goals that connect to immediate actions and habits is just a good all-around financial strategy, and it also happens to work well for almost any significant life change you want to make. Today, I want to delve into how I do this very thing, using financial goals as a clear example. This is more or less what I did during our financial turnaround, but Ive done it since with other life goals (starting a small business, fixing relationships, etc.) and refined the process a little. Clearly Establishing the Big Goal The first step in the process is to clearly figure out where you want to go. What is it in your life that you most want to change permanently? For me, personally, my first major big financial goal was simply to get free from debt. I had reached a financial low point and I knew that something had to change. We were simply drowning in consumer debt to the point where it was difficult to keep all of the bills paid rent, child care, car payments, student loan payments, credit card payments, utilities it went on and on and on, and it was suffocating us. I needed to get rid of some of those bills and I recognized that the best path forward was debt freedom, ideally including owning our own home. That goal took roughly five and a half years to achieve. Our current big financial goal is financial independence. By that, I mean that I want to reach a point where Sarah and I no longer have to work for an income in order to make ends meet and cover our living expenses for the rest of our life, allowing us both to effectively retire. For us, retirement means just taking on some different challenges without the need to worry about earning an income. We established this goal several years ago and were somewhere in the middle of that path; honestly, wed probably be close to it if it werent for the fact that we have three children. Let me be clear: I think that a very specifically stated long term goal is a bad idea. You do want to get specific for short term goals, but with long term goals, a broad initiative is actually better because it is very likely that your life will change between now and any sort of true goal completion. So, your first step is just to figure out your big financial goal. Where do you want to be financially in ten or twenty years if things go well and you put some real effort into it? Do you want to be free from debt? Do you want to have a great job near the pinnacle of your profession? Do you want to be financially independent and not have to work for a living? Whatever resonates with you, choose that as your long term goal. When you have that long term goal set, think about it every day. Seriously. Sketch out in detail what kind of impact it will have on your life. Youll have less stress. You wont have bills breathing down your neck. Youll have a ton of opportunities. Youll have more free time. Youll have more control over your future. Emergencies wont derail everything. Imagine that future in detail and how good it will feel. Visualize a day in your life when all of that is true. Do this every day. Do this type of visualization at least once a day, if not more often. Keep reminding yourself of what it is youre working for, and make it as personal as you can. Break Down that Big Vision You have this big goal for yourself. At some point in the future, you want to be debt free. You want to be financially independent. Its something you truly want for yourself. At this point, its all about breaking down that vision into more manageable and more specific goals. What I do at this point is start asking myself a series of questions. First, what can I do this year to make that big vision a little closer to reality? Maybe I could pay off that big credit card bill this year. If I did that, Id not only get a giant monthly bill off my back, Id also have more breathing room for emergencies and more resources to start plowing through other debts. Or, maybe, I could try to save 25% of my income for retirement or 30% or 40%. Pick a big somewhat frightening number, one that leaves you doubtful as to whether you could pull it off. If you did that, youd be well on the road to financial independence. Someone who is saving 30% of their income per year can reach financial independence in 15-20 years because not only are they saving a lot, theyre also learning how to live on 70% of their income, meaning that the total amount they need to save isnt as big as they think. Its at this level that a SMART goal starts to become important. Its not really that important beyond the full year level because, as I noted above, life changes so much over the course of multiple years that its hard to map out a highly detailed goal). As Ive mentioned before, a SMART goal is one that is specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, and time-bound. By looking at a year long goal, you already have the time bound, so lets make sure the other parts are covered. Specific means that its very clear what it is that you need to do for success. What is it your doing? Why is it important? Who does it affect? Measurable means that it is very clear whether youve achieved success or not. Usually, this means that its related to either achieving a specific number or its a yes/no thing where you either pulled it off or you didnt. Actionable means that it clearly relates to actions you can take every day. This is extremely important, and well come back to it. Realistic means that you can pull it off without having to rely on others success and failure are really up to you and theyre within the realm of human possibility. Your year-long goal should nail all of those elements. So, for example, Over the next twelve months, Ill pay off my Citibank credit card, is a pretty good goal. Its specific very clear what youre going to do and measurable its obvious what success is and actionable its pretty obvious what kind of actions you need to take and realistic you can likely pull this off on your own and time-bound youre doing it this year. In a given year, I usually have three to five year long goals that are much like the one above, but its really fine to just have one goal thats the center of your focus. The Small Bits Once you have this year-long goal in place, you need to break it down into progressively smaller pieces until those pieces amount to one of two things: theyre either a specific action you can do today or a specific habit youre trying to establish in your life right now. This requires a lot of thinking and consideration. The single best tool Ive found for this process of taking a year-long SMART goal and breaking it down into todays specific actions and new habits is the Momentum Planner. It is really, really, really good at handling this kind of breakdown. Ive been using it for the past two years, not as my main planner, but as a tool each morning to reflect on what I need to do today to keep moving forward on my big goals. Im going to talk about how I move through this process of breaking down a year-long goal, but the Momentum Planner really helps guide this process, step by step, for me. I sit down with it each morning when Im doing this. Basically, what I try to do is break my annual goal down into quarterly goals, then those into monthly goals, then those into weekly goals, then those into daily goals. Some of those daily goals are actually just reminders to stick to a new habit, while other ones are specific actions. Lets walk through this using paying off a big Citibank card as an example. Lets say the current balance on that card is $10,000 and you want to pay it off this year. So, what do you need to do to pay it off? Youll want to start off doing a bit of homework, of course, but the usual strategy is to avoid adding to the balance while making the biggest possible payments you can toward the card. Given that the balance is about $10,000, if you can make $1,000 in payments each month for the year, you should pay it off assuming that you dont add to the balance. What can you do this quarter to make that happen? First, you need to establish a strong habit of not putting any additional charges on that card. Second, you need to change your spending habits such that you can come up with the $1,000 you need each month for that card. The first quarter is going to really be about discovering those techniques, whereas the other quarters are going to be about sticking with the process. What can you do during the first month of the quarter to make that happen? Simple. Dont use your Citibank card or any credit card, for that matter. This is going to likely involve some changes to your non-essential spending. Youre also going to need to figure out how to come up with $1,000 by the end of the month, either by cutting spending or by selling off items to help. What can you do during the first week of that month to make this happen? I find that weeklong periods are good for picking out a handful of tasks to complete. Obviously, youre avoiding using that Citibank card, but youre also going to want to try out a bunch of frugal strategies. Perhaps this week you can try not eating out at all and maybe you can cut the cable cord and find a new cell phone provider. What can you do today to make those first week initiatives happen? Keep up with that habit and pick one of those tasks to either complete or partially complete. Maybe today youll call up the cable company and cancel your cable package thats a very good task, since youll be on the phone for a while. Figuring Out Todays Actions For me, this is where a Momentum Planner comes in handy. At the start of each day, I sit down with that Momentum Planner and figure out exactly what I want to achieve today with each of my ongoing big life goals. Most days, Im simply looking at my week-long goals and thinking about which ones I can tackle today and which habits I need to stick with. For example, my big ongoing financial goal is to achieve financial independence and I decided that, for this quarter, Im not spending any money on a few of my hobbies that I felt like I spent too much on last year. So, for today, one habit Im focusing on is not spending any money regarding that habit. I simply remind myself of that habit, and thats enough. I also have a task for today I want to follow up with my energy company about some potential credits for our bill for some energy improvements that I think we qualify for. This is an important but not urgent financial task which I usually think of as being under the larger umbrella of my big financial independence life goal. At the end of the day, I use an idea that I got from Marshall Goldsmiths wonderful book Triggers and I simply ask myself Did I do my best today to not spend money on those hobbies or even tempt myself into doing so? I actually score myself on this, with a score between 0 and 10, and I keep track of it in another notebook. I usually have several habits Im scoring at the same time and I do them as a bundle. At the end of any larger period basically, once a week I spend some time reviewing the past week and seeing how I did on completing those actions and maintaining those habits, and then I figure out what my tasks are for the next week. I usually come up with a handful and I dole them out slowly throughout the week. If the coming week includes the end of a month or a quarter, I spend some extra time reviewing my monthly goals and/or my quarterly goals and establish new ones for the coming month and quarter, as described earlier. I go back to the level above that period and see what my goals are, then think about what I can do to keep that momentum moving forward. One thing I find very useful for me is to have minimum action tasks (at least thats what I call them). For example, lets say I want to get in better shape. Rather than writing in something like a huge workout, something I might not be able to find time for or motivate myself to do, Ill write down something like stretch for one minute and then do one of each bodyweight exercise. This is often a daily goal for me. I have a series of eight bodyweight exercises (think calisthenics, like push-ups and planks) that I try to do each day, but rather than setting a big threshold for success, I consider success being just doing each one once and stretching for just one minute. That means to keep my momentum going, I really dont have to do much at all, but I find that when I start doing it, I inherently want to do more than that. Ill sit down to stretch for a minute and find that I want to stretch for five or ten minutes. Ill go down to do a pushup and Ill then decide that I want to do more than that and I do several. Ill do a squat and decide that I want to do more than that and I do a whole bunch. You might have a minimum action task that involves something like read one page in a book or review one bill or sell one item on eBay, but once you do that one thing, youll often feel compelled to do more than that. One thing Ive found that is really helpful for me is that I write those daily goals and habits on a whiteboard, along with the big goal I want to achieve. Ive started doing this on a whiteboard next to my desk so that I see it all the time. It might say something like: I want to be financially independent, so today I will: not spend any hobby money (H) call the energy company about credits I want to be in better physical shape, so today I will: eat a small breakfast and a small lunch (H) stretch for one minute and do one of each bodyweight exercise (H) I want to be well read, so today I will: read one page of the Montaigne book (H) read one article in Pocket Those are literally copied off of my whiteboard today, and those things were copied out of my Momentum Planner earlier this morning. The process of writing them down makes them feel much more real and important and front-of-mind and having them visually present all the time is a great reminder. (The (H) signifier means its a habit and I try to score myself on each habit, as noted above.) Doesnt This Take a Lot of Time? First of all, it doesnt. On a typical day, my morning review takes a few minutes and my evening review takes maybe two more. I find that by simply having a few clear-cut goals during the day that are tied to what I want out of life, I tend to work more efficiently, so that time is usually just time where I would have watched a television program or looked at my phone. I tend to do a weekly review on Sunday morning when everyone else is asleep. It takes a little longer, especially when Im considering monthly or quarterly goals, but, again, its usually just time that I would have spent on something relatively unimportant. On the other hand, having specific things to do each day that are clearly tied to the long term things I want out of life is incredibly empowering. I love being able to look at my to-do list or that whiteboard and know that some of the things I have to do today are all about moving my life toward the big things I want out of life. It makes every day feel like a genuine step in a journey toward where I want to be in life. It contributes a strong sense of meaning to my to-do list that isnt there with the ordinary tasks of the day. The thing is, you can do all of this with pretty much any financial goal or any goal of any kind you can imagine. It just takes some time and thought about how to tweak that goal into something meaningful, break it down into smaller bits, and turn it into something thats actionable today (or at least ties into a habit you can practice today). Im not guaranteeing that this system will work for you, but I am saying that this system works well for me. Good luck! https://www.thesimpledollar.com/strategies-for-translating-long-term-financial-goals-into-immediate-actions-and-habits/

[tiswhatyouwill]

Lolly lady

He had always had an obsession with lolly pops. He always had one and if he wasn't eating one then there were three on call ready to be devoured. When he was a kid it was comfort from his parents arguing. He could sit there at dinner and enjoy sucking on the little round candy and ignore them. When he got older it became weird for a little boy to always have a lolly pop or wear dresses so he changed the only thing he could. He became a she. That was a lot easier. He became very good at it and his obsession became some thing people liked. Sexy was what they started saying to her in high school. She learned to giggle. Her dad wasn’t there any more and her mom seemed to like having some one to take shopping with her. In fact the two were very close. They were like true best friends. Not in the weird obsessive way mothers and daughters usually were best friends. Neither worshiped the other. They didn't even use the names assigned to them her conception. Mom was simply Sam and Roy was Lilliy. The hormones weren't hard and they moved when the dad died so on one at school knew her as Roy. She was the beauty of the school and her only bully were the jealous little boys and girls who couldn't handle her perfection. She strictly avoided dating though. She claimed religion but it was her fear of discovery that she wasn't actually quite the girl she said she was. The lolly pops never went away though. They were her symbol. they were what allowed her to be silent when she didn't want to talk and a little bit of comfort when ever the situation got rough.   It was a particularly difficult Latin translation and sucking on some thing always helped her concentrate. The biggest guy  on the foot ball ream, or really the biggest guy in the whole school Rounded the corner and grinned wildly when he saw her. It was the kind of grin a hunter makes when their prey stands in the open and has no idea there was an attack coming. That was some thing he did frequently when they made eye contact. She gave removed the lolly pop with a loud pop sound and said hello sweetly though her edge of annoyance was obvious. He didn't seem to mind.  “I heard you haven’t said yes to any one for prom even though its tonight”  “Yes things are said all the time. Props to you for being able to hear” He laughed at her attempt to insult him “I know why too”   To that she quirked an eyebrow “I though my reasons were quite obvious. I dont date.”   He made a tisk tisk sound and sat next to her, a little too close. “And I don’t use steroids.”  His sarcasm almost made her laugh because it was an absurd statement. Everyone knew he took testosterone and a slew of other drugs to help him bulk up. He had bragged about it before gym class one day and even flashed his buddy the syringes. Lilly caught a gimps of it form where she was standing.  “Some of us are more honest then others.” She said and pretended to go back to her Latin translation.  He seemed amused “you lie as much as i do. You date. You Just need the right man.” There was an odd sarcastic edge to that tone and Lilly looked up in time to see his face right next to hers. He pretended to kiss the edge of her jaw and she held her breath. Her cheeks filled with blood and she set the book down to hide the other place blood was going.  He laughed and whispered “Of course maybe  you are just hiding some thing.” he whispered in her ear and very quickly removed her latin text book. She would have thought her hands were holding it with a death but with the ease of which he took the book no one would ever have known. It sent her candy across the hall where is shattered aginst the floor. She was too saddened at the loss of her candy do notice the slight bolge of her pants. The boy grinned like a hunter with prey about to be devoured and teasingly nibbled her hear in a way that made her forget to breath. “So prom. I will pick you up from your place at 6.” He stood before she could respond and left the book where he had been sitting. She still couldn't remember how to breather completely and was still stairing at him as some one rounded the corner. She startled realizing what was easily see but didn’t have time to panic as the foot ball player was already pulling to the student and pulling the kid in the other direction and going on about how toe coach needs some one help fill all the doge balls. 

It took her several minutes to calm her self and process what had happened. She didn't even know the guys name. Harvey or some thing like that. Why though. If he knew what she was hiding was he going to humiliate her? It had to be it. He wanted her to go with him and then in front of everyone he was going to tell everyone. Buy why make her go as his date. Wouldn’t people call him gay if he did brought her as his date? She finally decided he was doing it for status. She was asked by at least 10 different guys including the foot ball teams captain. He must have just needed a date that bad. Though it wasn’t like he wasn’t handsome. He was the biggest guy on the team though not just by bulk. he was tall and covered in lean muscle. sh vaguely remembered hearing about him doing hip hop dance. So if he was lacking in a date it was his choice. Maybe there was a bet about who could get her to go with her.  The rest of the day was pretty uneventful though she was nervous about the night to come and it was only made worse by the fact that her last lolly pop was laying shattered in the second floor English wing. She texted her mom to pick more up on her way home. However when she got home she found a police car out front and not her moms car. A police officer was sitting across a coffee table from her mother. He was trying to look stern. When Lilly came in the officer turned to her but her mom spoke first “Lilly! How was school” Like nothing weird was going on. Truthfully it wasn’t that weird but she eyed the officer like he was suspicious. “Oh don’t worry. I pulled me over for speeding and i was just a tad too far from home. Officer Louis was kind enough to take me home fro the station.”  The officer sighed “If you keep breaking the terms of house arrest they will make you serve the rest of your sentence in a prison. This isn’t a joke.” “I was running just a little late. No one is going to put me in jail for tht.” She said brightly. “No they will put you in jail for murder.” He said harshly. He was tired of her not taking anything seriously.  Sam’s face darkened immediately and the officer started to appoligize and stumbled for a moment over words “Look you two deserve better but you need to take this seriously. I still have to obey the law and you only have two more slip ups before I have no choice but arrest you for real.  Lilly frowned at the pair of adults “Yes officer she knows. Rubbing it in her face wont chance anything. Some people just deal with stress by smiling and saying harsh things to a troubled woman wont help her. She wont brake the rules again. But if you can excuse us I have a dance to get ready for.”  He cleared his throat awkwardly; not use to being scolded some one so young but not having the heart to get mad about it. He stood to leave “So long as you make sure of it.” He said nodding to the woman in question and left.   Lilly laughed aloud and her mother joined her. “One of these days he will come back to marry you.” Lilly say by her mom and shrugged her back back to the seat beside her. “Did you call a tow truck for the car?”     Same palled suddenly “I said you could use it to go to your dance?!” Lilly laughed “Don’t worry, I have a date picking me up.” She let the skepticism show in her voice and with only a slight prompt she told Sam about what happened.  Sam tried to sound as skeptical as Lilly was about the date. But she was all to eager to add in “Maybe he is just gay and-” she was cut off by a glare from Lilly. But she glared back and continued “What harm could there be. You like him-” Another glare “And he didn't actually assault you did he?”  Lilly blushed and remembered the ear nibble. “He did kind of."   Her mom got very serious suddenly and there was a very rear bout of her mother acting like a mother coming.  “Lilly you have avoided dating up until this point so I haven really talked to you about this.” Lilly frowned at the prospect of ‘the talk’ but her her mother was owed a few mom talks every once in a while and Lilly would listen. So she stared blankly at Sam and waited.  Same rolled her eyes and continued “If he made you uncomfortable and your didn’t like it.” Lilly scoffed at the implication that she could have done anything but dislike it. The way you scoff when some one accuses you of stealing the last cookie. “then you cannot go with him tonight. You need to stand up for your self especially sense he gave you a veiled  threat.” She paused and thought for a moment. “No one has the right to do that to you. You need to be strong and not let him. If you don’t like it then don’t let him do it.” She paused “But it is okay to like it. You are allowed to be attracted to anyone and if that’s the case be honest about it. Don’t let any one push you but be honest about things you do want. That is the condition of not letting people push you. You have to push your self to the place you want to be but are uncomfortable about wanting. You need to firmly say no to what you don’t want and to firmly say yes to what you do want.” Sam had succeeded in thoroughly confusing her daughter.  “So what are you saying I should do. If it was a veiled threat then I cant just do what he wants me to do because that’s pushing me? But If I want to go it suddenly doesn't matter that he threatened to expose me?”  Sam paused and thought about it for a moment. “I think that he is a teenager and bad communicating what he means. He could have been meaning to imply that if you dont go then he will tell other people or he could have just been trying to show you that he was okay with it and that you don’t need to keep it a secret from him.”  “How do I know which he meant?” Lilly was feeling exasperated buy the conversation and wished desperately for some a lolly to nibble through her confusion.  “I don’t think you can know. I think that you have to act on what you feel and prepare for the worst. If you like him then go. Worst case he IS using you for status or to win a bet in which case you get a bad date. And if you dont like him and you go then so what if he tells other people? he has no proof and you are the loveliest lady, no one will believe him. And if anyone does believe him then I home school you through the last semester and we will move to California with my sister. There is a huge LGBTQ movement there where you dont need to pretend anything.” A suggestion made before and an eventually sense all the colleges she applied to were in California. Though her mother house arrest made it harder but the federal government actually asked her to move before so she was with her sister. Some thing about having a more stable enviornment.  “So I go?” Lilly finally asked  “Do you like him?” Sam retorted Lilly glared again  “I guess i should get ready then.” And so she did, with sam to help her like a best friend any high schooler would to giggle the night away with. It was exactly 6 when the door bell rang. Lilly was putting the last pin in her hair. She wore her long dark hair in an elaborate not around her head with dozens of sparkling pins to make her hair look like it was lightly dusted in snowflakes. Her dress was a pale blue that fit the contour of her breasts and waist like a glove. It flared just below the waist into a silky silver waterfall that flowed gracefully around her with every step.  The front was shorter and showed up to her knees while the back trailed lightly on the ground. When she emerged from her bedroom her mother had already and was making some veiled threats of her own. Harvey or what ever his name was did look a little shaken which was an odd sight as he stool almost a foot and a half over the two women. Lilly cleared her throat after a moment and Sam grinned at Lilly “ Lilly! You didn’t tell me Henry was such a gentleman.” Lilly caught that Sam had saved her the awkwardness of asking her date what his name was.  “He is my Date Sam, flirting wont help.” Sam giggled as if she weren't in her early 30s. Henry looked a little like he was drowning and Lilly had a moment of wondering if this was the same person who so boldly demanded her to come to prom with him. “Shall we?” Same looked grateful as he nodded yes and promised to take care of Sams daughter though he said daughter a little like a question. Sam was unfazed and wished Lilly a good night making a point that is her if she didn't hear from Lilly every hour she would call the police. As soon as they were in the limo normal smile returned and Lilly felt a little less confident in her choice. Well less confident in her choice to go with a date... more confident in her choice of a dress that did not constrict around her hips. The limo was empty and he made a point of sitting across form her and only smiling like a lion about to pounce. She realized this was an afewl mistake. Of curse he didn't like her. He was going to make a joke of her. Self consciously she tried to make her self as small as possible. He eyed her suspiciously and said with more sincerity they she thought he could “You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.”  She blushed hard and before she could relay the limo stopped and another guy got into the car. He was another of the foot ball team. This happened 5 times more after that with guys or girls joining. Several were Lilly's friends and she was a lot more comfortable. At several houses they were all pulled out and the parents paraded camera in front of them. And thats how the night continued. It was the fantasy of every teens prom. Everyone was talking of going to the after party when Henery declined and said he had special plans and wiggled his eyebrows. Lilly wasnt too disjointed as she couldnt drink with the hormones she was taking and being around drunk highschoolers when you arent also drunk is no fun. She was however not to sure how these this special plan was Henry was talking about. Once they were all dropped off at a very loud and bright house Lilly asked her date about it. He smiled “It was more of an excuse not to go to their lame party sense we cant drink and I don’t want them to know i cant.” He laughed and she was confused. She quirked an eyebrow at him but he didn't answer. “Come back to my place? Were we can get out of these cloths and get to know each other a little better?” His voice was unexpectedly low and full of suggestion that made her blush “Get to know eachother? she asked with a lot more skepticism then she actually had. She wanted to get to know him in what ever way he was implying.  “Well sure, I don’t think we ever spoke one on one before today. We have lots to talk about.” Lilly sighed in a way that sounded like relief but she was hoping for a more explicit answer “Alright then lets go” she texted sam that she probably woundnt text until morning and that she was fine as the car started off. Sam replied with a winky face.  When Lilly looked up Henry was staring at her and she blushed. He had sat across from her again and she wondered why. “How far do you live” she asked trying to fill the quiet. “Not far, a couple minutes. My parents are home but they dont mind me bring friends over.” He assured her. For the first time she had the good sense to wonder how he knew where she lived and she asked “One of the  girls you had over to study told me.” he laughed like there was some joke behind it.  Lilly wasn’t amused “Why is that so funny?” “She didn't believe I would get you to come is all. And she said your mom acted like a teenager. She was was right about one of those things”  Lilly got the joke knowing that her mother’s eccentricity was some what of joke on it’s own despite how much all her friends adored her mother. “Still rude of her to just give out my address.”  He chuckled again “I told her i was just going to show up and sweep you off your feet. Then she warned me about your mom and said good luck. She said you needed to go on a date and that it would be good for you. Then I saw you in the hall and realized it would he hard to convince you like that in front of your family” Lilly blushed “So you are really okay with?” She looked down and then back at him. His response was to get and half crawl across the seat and straddle her lap. She squeaked at the suddenness of his actions. he placed her hands on her cheeks and looked into her eyes. “Very okay” he said before kissing her and as he did so he ground his pelvis into hers. For a minute she was too blown away by the sensation, the feel of the kiss, the friction between her legs, to notice something was rather odd. There was no bulge to rub against her own. When she did realize what wasn’t there she gasped through the rather passionate kiss and he chuckled at her realization and pulled away and copied her words “So are you really okay with” And he looked down, not just at him self but them together, the wrong parts in the right places. She nodded, rolling her hips up in a way that made him growl lightly. She laughed and realized that for the first there was something far sweeter than a lolly pop she wanted to taste.