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bokunoheroanalysisforthefuture · 3 years

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Whoo boy, been a little bit. I can’t really say much besides IRL sucks, so. Back to something that doesn’t suck, which is BNHA. This chapter is dedicated to the good bean Tenya, especially his little smile which forced me to change my pfp on discord because I just couldn’t.

I was kinda planning on doing arc summaries between sections, but honestly, the BNHA wiki already has those, so if you don’t want to go back and read through all the posts I’ve done for the pre-USJ chapters, just head over there and do a skim of the summaries there, I guess?

[No. 12 - Yeah, Just Do Your Best, Iida!]

I just love how his hand gestures are actual effective tools against enemies, I cannot even. Also, a good and friendly reminder that carbonated drinks stall his engines! I have never seen that used in fanfic, whether for crack or whump purposes… a shame.

We head right into the next morning from that battle training, with the kids being held up by the media as they ask about All Might. Izuku is a bundle of nerves as he awkwardly excuses himself to the nurse’s office, Ochako is a darling who describes All Might as super muscly, and Tenya goes into a whole ass speech with a lot of fancy language to explain the honor of being at UA and learning under All Might.

(Honestly, I find it hard to determine whether this is genuinely earnest or if he’s picked up media warding skills from his parents and older brother. It’s probably genuine, but I just love the idea behind low-key troll master Tenya who learned from the best, aka his older brother.)

Katsuki, unfortunately, is still known as ‘the kid from the sludge incident’, which I mean. I am so fucking baffled at how long the media in this have held onto that 'sludge incident' thing, like, you'd think they'd have moved on to other things by now and don't really think about it much.

It’s the same with the general public (as seen in chapter 3), like, yes, I too would have a fucking complex and anger issues if all anyone thought about in relation to me wasn't my high grades or my skill in combat or anything, but that one time a year ago where I was almost suffocated to death while the people who were supposed to save my life did fucking nothing. I mean, Katsuki has always had a complex, but This Didn't Help.

Moving on, we see the media wondering who the fuck this messy looking dude waving them off is, while Aizawa just. Fucking shoos them like they’re dogs or kids or something. His words seem like a vague attempt at being polite about shooing them, but with the hand gesture, well. Basically comes off more as a chastisement.

...honestly, this feels so weird that no one knew about it even though the kids who got in got a message from All Might saying he’d be teaching there. The only thing I and the others can assume is that there was an NDA on him teaching until it was announced to the newspapers on the first day of classes. Which would explain why it didn’t hit the news until said day…

Whatever, it’s weird, let’s just move on.

One of the reporters steps forward, asking/demanding a chance to speak to All Might about his sudden shift to teaching, only for the guy behind her to try and call out a warning - just a touch too late, as the sensors over the gate react, causing the daunting hunk of metal serving as a gate to slam closed right in front of her. Gonna guess she’s new to the reporting scene. The guy explains that the UA barrier locks down if someone without a school ID approaches the gate, and that supposedly there are more sensors throughout the campus.

The panel gives us a diagram of the three ‘levels’ of sensors - the gate/wall around the school, the walkway to the school, and the school itself. Which I think correlates to the security levels that come up later, since it’s a ‘level three’ breach, which means the school was broken into. Was it… always that fucking simple and I just totally glossed over that detail until now? orz

While the newsfolk complain about not getting comments from UA, we get to see the back of a ~mysterious figure~ who definitely isn’t the primary antagonist of the entire series. God, you can see his individual neck vertebrae.

Horrifying.

We transition to 1a’s homeroom, with Aizawa going over the battle training as well as their grades / evaluations. Aizawa calls out Katsuki and tells him to grow up and stop wasting his talent, which Katsuki grudgingly accepts. Izuku jolts at being called out next over his broken arm, and accepts the chastisement of learning to control his quirk, because trying isn’t going to cut it. Aizawa does soften the blow, however, by repeating that Izuku has potential, assuming he overcomes that issue.

With that done, Aizawa ‘Plus Extra™’ Shouta gets the whole class tense by drawing out the next class announcement. While I think it’s a translation error, the whole class sweating as they wonder whether it’s another brutal pop quiz is hella funny. (I’m guessing it was meant to be ‘test’ which would reference to the quirk assessment as well as the battle training, but ah well.) The whole class sighs in relief as one as Aizawa finally reveals that their task for the morning is to choose a class president - a normal, school-like thing in comparison to the past two days.

Pretty much the entire class has their hands raised to volunteer for the position, with Katsuki being particularly aggressive about it (as per the norm). Even Izuku has his hand shyly lifted up from the desk, while his narration notes that the position in normal schools entails mundane tasks, but in UA’s hero course means leading the group - a position suited for a top hero in the making.

Tenya calls for them all to quiet down, drawing attention as he goes on to explain how leading people is a task of heavy responsibility, but that ambition is not equal to ability. He is so intense it’s hilarious as he explains how the office demands the trust of its constituents, and that if it’s to be a democracy, then he puts forward the motion that they choose their leader through election.

Seriously this is just so fucking hilarious, I love this boy so much. And I love whoever it is that calls out that this is a classroom, not congress.

Tsuyu points out that the class hasn’t known each other long enough to build trust, and Kirishima notes that everyone will vote for themselves. Tenya points out that that is precisely the reason that anyone who gets multiple votes will be the best suited for the job. He then checks with Aizawa if this is allowable, which the teacher agrees to so long as it’s quick. And a quick transition, we reveal the winners-

Izuku with three votes, and Momo with two.

Everyone else, it seems, still has one vote, which was their own (as predicted). Izuku is shook. Katsuki is shaking in anger as he demands to know who the hell voted for Deku. Ochako is whistling and looking away, thinking that she’d better not let Katsuki find out.

(Also of note is that Sero is already approaching Katsuki and making a joke here about it being obvious Katsuki wasn’t one of Izuku’s votes, and then seemingly laughing a bit when Katsuki’s temper turns on him?

Hard to say for sure, but it seems Sero is the first of Katsuki’s future friend group to approach him and get away with poking at his temper. Which I feel is something very much overlooked by the fandom in favor of Kirishima for fairly obvious reasons.)

Tenya, meanwhile, is in a funk as he notes he has no votes, and that that is the harsh reality of office. Momo is concerned as she notes that zero votes meant he voted fro someone else, while Sato points out that Tenya was the one to suggest the election, so what did he seriously want? Izuku and Momo go to the front of the class - Izuku a nervous wreck while Momo’s just exasperated with the situation. Aizawa confirms their positions as he gets out of his sleeping bag, and the class talk a bout about the suitability of the chosen pair while Tenya continues to sulk in his seat.

With that, the first half of the chapter is done, so I’ll call it here. I can certainly say I learned a thing or two today, and I hope y’all did as well!

#readthrough #chapter 12 #usj arc #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #midoriya izuku #bakugou katsuki #Iida Tenya #aizawa shouta #good to be back #real life is a pain and a half #I would have worked on this yesterday #but the manga site broke #also more food for the sero baku friendship fans

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smol-and-grumpy · 4 years

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EUPHORIA - Chapter 7

Pairing: Dean Winchester x Reader

Summary: He’s Dean Winchester, owner of a shady night club. She’s a journalist who has been asked to write an article to expose the indecency and debauchery that’s going on behind closed doors. But he’s also Dean Winchester, the boy who sat next to her in class. The boy who was too cocky for his own good.

Chapter Warning: Feelings, fluff (I felt some heart clench, but maybe that’s just me)

WC: 3525

A/N: This fills my ‘rope bunny’ (only mentioned) square for @spnkinkbingo. Please share your thoughts with me, I’d love to hear your feedback.

Beta’d by @deanwanddamons <3

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Dean couldn’t really sleep last night either, but what else is new?

But he’s really glad that she feels better. He could already tell that she was feeling much better after she took that shower. He was in the middle of changing the sheets, when she walked out and it really did something to him seeing her all clean and smelling like him. The shirt was kinda funny, he had to give Claire that. But her pants? He wanted to rip them apart because they were barely covering her legs at all.

When Y/N kissed his cheek, Dean was hard again, and it was even harder to conceal his boner when he’s wearing sweats.

They had an easy morning, and he liked that. Liked that they could talk about old times, liked how easy it was between them when they didn't have judging eyes on them like they had at school. He regrets not talking to her more back then. He was a stupid kid. Too cocky for his own good.

When she said that she was ready to go home, he agreed to take her back, suppressing his own feelings of wanting to keep her around longer. But again, why should she stay? It’s not like they are anything. Hell, he hasn’t even asked her out yet.

Maybe, Dean thinks, he should get the stick out of his ass and do it. Part of him is afraid that she’ll think he’s only doing all this because he doesn’t want her to destroy the reputation of his club. Which is bullshit, because Dean actually couldn’t care less. Any publicity is good publicity is the saying he goes by, and it is the truth. If it’s a bad article, people will be intrigued. If it’s good, people will still be intrigued. That’s just how it is. He never once felt intimidated when she told him that she is going to write that article.

Two days later, she feels herself again. It feels actually pretty great to be back amongst the living. All traces of her sickness are gone.

Dean texted her every now and again, asking her how she feels and she can’t help but blush every time her phone chimes with a message from him.

Y/N was able to go into the office today to finish things that were piling up on her desk. Thank god her colleagues helped with the articles that were due during her absence, but because Rufus thinks that she still shouldn’t be there at all, he sent her home early.

As she sits on her bed with her laptop propped on her thighs and contemplates writing up that article about Euphoria , she hears an incoming text.

D: How are you today?

Y/N: Better, thanks for asking. I went to work but Rufus sent me home early.

D: He did?

Y/N: Said I should rest for one more day.

D: I agree.

She rolls her eyes. She hates texting with him. She never knows if it’s his or her turn. Is she supposed to say something to that last text? It’s not like she can write up an essay when she writes in short sentences. But before she can think about what to write, Dean sends her another text.

D: Do you, by any chance, feel good enough to come to the club?

She bites on her lip and smirks to herself.

Y/N: Sure. Same time?

D: Whenever you are ready, sweetheart.

There’s blood rushing through her head as she gets up and walks to her closet. She has to wear something nice, but again, Dean has seen her at her worst and he wasn’t appalled, which she still can’t wrap her mind around.

She left a little early, therefore, she showed up here earlier, too. She hoped that Dean didn’t mind. The bouncer let her in and she stumbled upon Dean briefing his staff.

He notices her, nods in her direction but he continues to talk. She stands back, not wanting to disturb them, and listens in.

It’s weird. Well, not really weird, but it’s surreal to watch Dean briefing and instructing his staff. He is definitely a different Dean from the Dean she knew back in school. His voice is deeper, he has more facial hair, but what strikes her the most is how he carries himself. How he can come across as this authoritative person. Someone other people look up to. He looks good. Looks like he just walked out of a photo shoot. He has awesome social skills, and has a voice that makes you want to listen to whatever he has to say. She liked the old Dean but she also can’t lie that this Dean turns her on.

When he finishes, the people start to disperse and go on about their tasks. He comes towards her, smiling an easy smile that could make any woman blush. She’s no exception.

“Hey,” He smiles even brighter, his hands come up to stroke her cheek and tuck a loose strand of hair behind her ear, “You look better.”

She chuckles, “Well, that’s not hard, given that I probably looked like an extra from The Walking Dead .”

“You didn’t.” Dean’s smile is gone and his face is a little more serious. His hand is still on her cheek and he trails his finger down her jawline, thumbs at her bottom lip. When he realizes what he is doing, Dean quickly clears his throat, “Right. Are you ready to check out some rooms?”

“Sure,” She shrugs, a little sad that the moment is over.

Dean’s grin returns and he jerks his head towards the stairs, “Then come on,”

Y/N follows him up the stairs and through the VIP room where Claire and some other people were setting up things. They move away the big group of couches lining the middle of the room, carrying around big candles and pillows. They hang up electrical lanterns and silk cloth. She notices that they are all dressed in special gowns too. It has an Arabic feel to it. Girls wear gold bikinis and silken pants or skirts, gold chains around their hips.

“What’s going on?” She asks out of curiosity. She doesn’t even notice that she has slowed down, until Dean walks back to come get her.

He chuckles, “We’re having an Arabian night. There’s a special night every two weeks.” Dean grabs her wrist to pull her along, “Come on. We won’t see anything if you don’t keep moving.”

“But that’s interesting too!” She pouts, but she walks faster to keep up with Dean’s pace.

“Would you like to see that instead of the rooms?” He asks and looks down at her, his lips pressed into a thin line but he grins, she can see.

“What if I want to see it all?” She raises an eyebrow.

Dean’s chuckling softly, “Rooms first. I might have something you like.”

Something she likes? Well, if that doesn’t pique her curiosity she doesn’t know what will. She doubts that it’s going to be another sybian room, though. Maybe she can ask if she can go into that room again some other time. Or maybe he can tie her up in that rope, she was scared at first but it sounds appealing to be dominated and hanging around of a ceiling, the rope tight around her body, the material digging into her skin.

He comes to a halt at the door next to the room with the sybian bull and opens it to let her take a peek.

“It’s the furry room.” He says, and crosses his arms over his chest and leans his back against the door frame lazily.

Y/N’s about to ask him what that means when her gaze registers the clothing rack to the far left side. There’s a big mirror on the right and mattresses on the floor.

“Oh, my god,” She huffs out a breath, “These are costumes, right?” She can see some costumes of foxes and wolves, cats and dogs, lions and tigers and many more, “Are people really into this kind of thing?”

He has to chuckle, “Oh, you poor sheltered girl,” He walks in and picks out a costume to show it to her, “You won’t believe it, but this room is always fully booked. If you want to use this room, there’s a two weeks waiting list.”

“Dean?”

“Huh?” He hangs the costume back on its rack.

“I know, no kink shame and all, but, ewwwww,” She grimaces and shudders.

“I take it you don’t want to try it on?” Dean’s laughing as he walks towards her and takes her hand in his.

“Over my dead body,” She sighs and Dean pulls her out to open the door to the room next door.

“Medical room.” He says, and opens the door wide for her to see.

She steps around him and walks inside. There’s a white desk in the middle and off to the wall is an examination table. Hanging on grids are various sizes of dildos and strap ons. There’s also a tray next to the examination table with medical supplies.

It doesn’t really throw her off like it maybe should, because she can really imagine a lot of people being into that.

“So, the people who book the rooms, with whom do they fulfill their fantasies with? Employees of yours or other members?” She takes the strap on dildo from the grid. The leather is firm in her hands.

Dean walks in behind her, stops by the desk, “It depends. Sometimes members find their way to each other and they try different rooms together. Sometimes they invite an employee. The employee can agree or deny. It’s up to them. They don’t get paid to do it, you know? And sometimes, they mingle in the front first and invite someone to the VIP rooms. Every non-member has to sign an NDA before they enter.”

“You’re thorough.” She grins while she tries to strap the dildo around her waist.

Dean watches her in bewilderment before he answers, “I went on to business school, they taught me to be thorough.”

Y/N wiggles her hips, making the dildo swing around. She’s laughing and Dean can’t help but laugh with her.

“Is this the thing you said I’d like? Because honestly, I do?”

“You’re having way more fun than you should, you know?” He walks closer. His hands go to the strap on and releases it from around her hips. He hangs it back up, “No, it’s the next room that I’m excited for you to see.”

Dean takes her hand and walks out. They pass a couple more rooms until he stops. He exhales before he opens and tells her to close her eyes. She can see that he’s nervous and now she’s anxious about what lies inside of that room. What could possibly make Dean Winchester nervous?

She closes her eyes and Dean places a hand around her waist to walk her inside. Their steps echoes. She can feel from the reverberation that the room is bigger than all the other rooms they’ve been in.

“Okay,” Dean says, “Open up,”

Blinking her eyes open she takes it in and immediately her jaw drops.

“It’s a classroom.” He mumbles behind her.

Yeah, well, she can see that, but it’s not only a classroom. It’s their classroom. Their fucking English classroom from high school. Everything looks exactly the same, apart from the fact that there are no windows. There are still the same books displayed on the bookshelves, the same posters hanging on the walls. A big red ruler on the teacher’s desk, the same one their English teacher used to use to point at the black board. She can’t imagine how much trouble Dean went through to get his hands on all these things.

“Dean— I—,”

“Would it be weird if I say that English was the class I was always looking forward to the most?” His voice is a little lower, a little softer.

“I don’t know what to say,” She confesses.

“You don’t have to say anything,” He shrugs, “People use this room for role play. Usually teacher students kind of thing, you know. But it has a whole different meaning to me.” He walks over to the row where they used to sit in the classroom back at school and she follows him.

He pulls the chair to let her sit down and it’s weird. It’s like they’re catapulted back in time. Dean sits next to her and he leans forward, braces his elbow on the table, “Look here,” He taps at the wood on the side of the table.

D.W.

“You carved it here, too?” She chuckles.

Dean grins, all cocky and bravado, “Gotta let people know what’s mine.”

“This is crazy,” She shakes her head but she can’t hide the fact that she’s impressed with all the details, “You really liked English, huh?”

“You didn’t see it, did you?” He asks.

“See what?”

“Jesus, Y/N,” Dean groans and bends down, leaving his forehead on the table before he tilts his head. She can see that he’s blushing a little, “I only liked it because I sat next to you!”

She’s taken aback by the revelation, “I didn’t know,”

He chuckles at that, “No, of course you didn’t. You always were such a good girl back then and you hung on to every one of the teacher’s words. I’m surprised you even knew who I was.”

Dean’s not wrong. She was kind of a nerd.

“Fact is, I already liked you back then. And I asked you out to prom but you shot me down.” He says in a teasing way and she gasps.

“I didn’t.”

“Eh..ya, you did,”

“What?” She shouts out, “You didn’t ask me! As far as I can remember you asked ‘Are you going to the prom?’ and I said no.”

Dean raises his eyebrows and looks a little annoyed.

And then the penny drops, “Ooooooh! Oh, no, Dean. That’s not how you ask someone to the prom!”

“Yeah,” He chuckles, “I was young and a cocky bastard, okay? I didn’t know how to ask someone out whom I felt something for.”

“You felt something for me, back then?”

He clasps his hand over his face and rubs at this scruff, “Yeah, I did.”

She feels blood rushing to her head. He did like her then? Does he still like her now?

Before she can ask, Dean reaches out to touch her face, fingers skimming over her cheek. He leans closer, “Can I kiss you? I feel like I’m going to die if I don’t.”

Y/N bites her lip which she curves up into a smile, and nods her head in approval.

Dean exhales and leans closer. He grins as his lips ghosts over hers. He’s so close. She can smell his breath hot on her face. His hand is on the back of her neck, drawing her closer to him. They chuckle and it’s awkward. It’s like those awkward first kisses as teenagers. Their noses bump against each other and it’s like she doesn’t know how things work anymore, until Dean takes the lead and presses his plump lips to hers. It’s soft and salty, minty fresh too. His tongue teases along her bottom lip and she opens up her mouth a little more, letting him in. His tastes flood her senses, and god, she likes it.

The kiss is careful, soft. He breaks it after a short while but leaves his forehead on hers, “Always wanted to do that.” He grins and pecks her lips once more.

“We can continue to do that,” She licks at her lips, where a faint taste of him still lingers.

He chuckles, “Nah, I’m afraid that if I start, I won’t be able to stop.”

She frowns at him, “And you have to stop, because…”

Dean stands up and takes her hand, pulls her with him as he makes his way out of the door, “Y/N, I’m a gentleman and not a hot headed teenager anymore. I wanna take you out properly before I even start to think about doing anything else with you.”

“Or do anything to me?” Her grin is cocky, maybe as cocky as his when he was younger.

He groans, and turns around, cupping her chin between his thumb and forefinger to tilt it up, “You have no idea what I dreamed of doing,” He kisses her lips one more time, “You hungry? I know just the place,”

Honestly, she would follow him into a dingy bar if that’s where he wants to take her, just to get it over with. She knows that her thinking might be desperate but maybe she is. She wanted to tell him before, when he said that he won’t be able to stop, that she didn’t want him to. Didn’t want him to stop when his kisses are so intoxicating.

Dean drives her to the diner which is about five miles from their old school. It’s where the students used to hang out and he remembered seeing her there on a couple of occasions, mainly when there was a birthday of someone she knew or one of her circle of friends invited her there. Dean knew that she didn’t have money back then. He had seen her nursing a warm milkshake more times that he would have wanted. He wished that he could turn back time and maybe jump over his own shadow and take her out. Well, he tries to make up for lost time now.

She gets out and looks at the diner, “Oh my god. This is a surprise.”

Dean chuckles and weaves his arm around her waist, pulls her close to him and starts to walk to the front of the diner.

As they sit in their booth, she looks at the menu.

“You like it here?” He asks, but he already knows the answer because she’s grinning like crazy.

“Very much, yes. I was afraid you’d take me to a fancy restaurant where they have too much cutlery and I never know which one to use.”

He has to chuckle at that, “No, I know that you wouldn’t like that. That’s why we're here, and I’m telling you, they have the best burgers.”

“I’ve been dying to taste it,” She says, “You know, after college, I always wanted to come back here but then I kind of forgot about it.”

“Well, you’re allowed to have everything you want.” He grins, “I’m feeling generous tonight.”

After the meal they walk out and Dean has to hold his belly because it’s so full. She’s trailing behind him and groans to which Dean has to laugh, “You okay?”

“I’m just really full.”

He takes her hand and walks her to the car, “You know, you were right about something,”

“What is it?” He can see her raising an eyebrow at him.

“You really don’t share fries.”

She elbows him in the rib and he chuckles, bends down to kiss the top of her head.

It feels easy, Dean thinks, he doesn't know why he was so afraid to ask her out in the first place. He likes how they can talk, how they can laugh together, how she just knows who he really is and not who he tries so hard to be.

“So,” Dean looks over to her when they settle in the car, “Where to next?”

Y/N smirks, “I don’t know? What do you usually do on a date?”

He is taken aback by the question because first of all, she considers it a date, too. And second of all, Dean would usually take the girl back her home after a meal or drink, fuck her roughly once, maybe twice if she’s really good, and then leave with a promise to call her but never does. He can’t tell her that now, can he?

No, he can’t. Instead he says, “I usually go to the club for a drink and then drive the woman home and say my goodbyes.”

She snorts out a laugh, holds her belly and her whole body is shaking. He can’t help but laugh with her, “That’s it? Oh, come on, Dean.”

“I am serious!” He whines, but she sends him a glare.

“Fine, whatever helps you sleep at night,”

“So, where do you want to go?” He asks again, his fingers on the car key, ready to turn.

Pursing her lips into a thin line, she pretends to think, “To your club? I’m really curious about the Arabian night.”

Dean nods, “The club it is.” He starts the ignition, drives off, and he knows that she’s been watching him, so he asks, “What?”

She shrugs, “I don’t know. That easy? What if I would have said that I wanted to go to the movies? Or to a concert? Or a walk in the park?”

He turns his head to look at her, a smile on his face, “Honestly? I would have taken you anywhere you want, Y/N.”

Chapter 8

#euphoria #spnkinkbingo #dean winchester #dean winchester x reader #dean winchester fic #dean winchester x you #dean winchester fan fic #dean winchester fan fiction #nathalie writes

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sharethisgemwithme · 5 years

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Zach and Grace Friday panel at Connecticon 2019

Some highlights and notes from the "Growing Up with Steven Universe" panel featuring Zach Callison and Grace Rolek, Friday afternoon at Connecticon 2019. There are some promo spoilers. Most quotes are approximate from the notes I took on my phone. There may be a recording of the panel, but the camera was blocked by the audience question line for a while and when I got to the front of the line, I saw it wasn't even pointed at Zach and Grace.

Sorted into broad categories:

Movie hype / spoilery talk

Host asked about the poster. Zach said he's kinda looked at it, but not studied it closely. Grace: "Spoiler alert, someone has a neck." Zach: "That's all anyone can talk about."

What's the hardest scene to record that you've done. Zach: "I hate to do this but the hardest scene I've done I did a few weeks ago and I can't talk about it for quite a while." [audience groans]

Audience member: "I have a question about the movie." Zach makes police siren noises, "Oh no the Cartoon Network spoiler police!"

Attempts to get even small details were denied. "So we saw you have a neck. Is your voice going to change?" [pause] Zach: "A week from today (Friday), there's a big panel and there's gonna be a bunch of stuff. I recommend you watch."

This was earlier in the day, when I met Zach in the autograph line. Me: "I'm really looking forward to all the stuff that's gonna come out next week in San Diego." Zach: "There's so much. I'm not going to be there, after six years of going, I need a vacation."

Zach makes ABUNDANTLY clear how excited he is for what's coming up, "I am thrilled with what they've done after CYM."

Reaction to the new gems from CYM. Zach: "Sunstone is one of my favorites now. Like an after-school camp counselor." Grace: "Obsidian is one of the hardest secrets I've ever had to keep on this show." They finished recording CYM in 2017!

Have you ever cried in the recording booth? Zach: "Over a dozen times. One time really badly... with something that hasn't come out yet."

What's the biggest theme you've taken from the show? Zach: "I'm really sorry to do this, but I'm gonna skip this question because the theme I take away is something that hasn't come up in the show yet." He says the show has become intensely personal to him and his experiences, both intentionally and unintentionally, and says if he accidentally gave hints as to upcoming themes, it wouldn't be fair to the crew. (This probably ties in with some of the stuff below under “Outside of SU”)

Favorites and funniest

What's the hardest scene to record that you've done. Among stuff that's aired, Zach: Storm in the Room. Connie: "Either Nightmare Hospital or Full Disclosure when Connie is like 'Stop ghosting me, Steven!' "

What are some funny moments from recording? The opening scene from "Winter Forecast", the directors INSISTED on real marshmallows, "nothing else would do". Grace: "And these were not small. There's jumbo and then there's novelty size." Zach: "They got novelty size." Grace: "I could barely fit one inside my mouth."

Favorite episode (this question might've had a "besides the Big Plot episodes" caveat).

Zach: "Onion Gang. Any of the weird Onion episodes."

Grace: "I realize this is an unpopular opinion but I love the Ronaldo episodes. I have a Keep Beach City Weird sticker on my laptop. I don't like having stuff that's too overtly Steven Universe because I don't like to toot my own horn, but KBCW is great because it's 'if you know, you know'." Zach: "It's a lifestyle."

That segued into talk about "Rocknaldo", which Zach thought was hilarious, especially the way CN trolled everyone with the Bloodstone promo. Grace "Was that the one where Ronaldo tried to kill someone in the basement?" Discussion brings up that's "Horror Club". Grace continues, "That was a great one, like what are we DOING? No one went to jail for this?"

Favorite songs:

First, ones that they did.

Zach said "Let's Only Think About Love". I think he added a second one, but my notes say “or” and then stop there so I think I moved on to the next bit and forgot what else he said.

Grace says "Of course 'Do it for Her'" but also that she loved providing background harmonies for "Escapism". "Aly and AJ was the first concert I ever went to, so to do back-up vocals for AJ was the greatest fangirl moment." (There’s been some confusion as to whether Zach and Grace had vocals on that song, it’s now clear that they did)

Then, overall. Zach immediately sings "It's over, isn't it? Isn't it over?" Grace grumbles that she can't take the same answer, so she throws out "Stronger Than You".

"Back in the start of the show, it was a lot more lighthearted. What's the funniest or weirdest line you had to record?" Zach IMMEDIATELY goes into voice: "A boy on the cusp of manhood can't spend the whole day wackering." Grace enjoyed her line from "Open Book": "Of course you like the ending, you LOVE schmultz."

Pivoting into the weirdness of early episodes, Zach says "Frybo and Cat Fingers were back to back, 5 and 6. I don't know how anyone stuck with the show after that."

What's the biggest theme you've taken from the show? Grace: "I think about Mindful Education all the time. Here Comes a Thought is such a great song but also an important mantra."

Other than Uncle Grandpa, what crossover would you like to do? Zach: "I wanna be the very best!" Audience cheers. Grace says she would've loved to do "Adventure Time".

This segues into a joke that people confuse Zach for Jeremy Shada (Finn), in some cases even when Zach is standing in front of a poster that says ZACH CALLISON. Grace says that her boyfriend loves the joke so much that Zach is listed in his phone as "Jeremy Shada".

Behind the scenes

What was it like seeing the show blow up the way it did? Grace: "I used to go on Tumblr and read all the posts, all the reactions people had, but after Jail Break... couldn't do that anymore." Zach: "I poke my head into a reddit every once in a while."

What's it like in the booth with the rest of the cast? Grace: "Deedee and Michaela always get to do the funniest things."

Discussion of how voice acting lends them a little more anonymity than live-action, and there's still a spectrum of how recognizable people are.

Grace recounts a story from earlier in the day, possibly on the way to that very panel. "The elevator was pretty crowded and I was able to get on but Zach wasn't. And as soon as it closed, one of the other people in the elevator was like 'Oh my god, Zach Callison almost got on the elevator with us!' And I was like 'Oh my god, that would've been so cool!'"

Both Zach and Grace recounted times when they've greeted stranger wearing SU apparel and gotten blank stares in response, like, "Uh, yeah, what's your point?"

Zach: "As of Sunday, I'm leaving the country to be a hobo for a bit." He's flying to Siberia, then taking a 62-hour train ride to get on a boat to Korea, where he plans to visit the Korean animation studio where SU is drawn (as seen in "Steven's Dream"), something almost no actors do (apparently Michaela was more or less the first to do so, for any show at all).

Sometimes Grace will have a lot of "catching up" to do with the plot. "One time Rebecca was like 'oh by the way Lars is pink now." Zach jokes, "Lars is pink, Ronaldo and Pearl are married, oh and Steven is dead."

Have you ever cried in the recording booth? Zach: "Over a dozen times." Grace says she has, sometimes in group records.

More joking around: "Yes, I'm Zach Callison, the voice of Onion. I'll be in my booth." "You should have a print that's just Onion." "With the flames behind him."

What were your auditions like? Grace: "I was reading the sides from 'Bubble Buddies', and Connie is worried she's gonna die with no friends and I was like 'This is a kids show? This is a show for children and I'm supposed to say these words?!'" She saw Rebecca Sugar's name attached to the show, which she recognized as a fan of Adventure Time, particularly Marceline "I'm edgy like her!"

Audience member starts her question: "Ohmygod, my heart is in my ass. Wait, can I say ass?" Grace: "You can say whatever you want, you're not under the thumb of Time Warner." Zach: "Technically, I've never signed any NDA. Oh hell, I'm leaving the country in three days. ACT ONE!" [laughter, and he does not continue with joke spoilers]

Outside of Steven Universe

Tell us about yourself outside of Steven Universe. Zach: "I'm a dirty rowdy hippie." He goes to music festivals barefoot (but not urban ones).

Zach talked about some of the over-the-top scenes he's been in or seen on "The Goldbergs", where he plays a minor recurring character, including one where the actual rain they were filming in wasn't enough, so the producers dumped thousands of gallons of additional rainwater on the cast.

Zach said he hasn't auditioned for anything new in a while (I think he said at least a year) because of burnout. Whenever SU may end, he's ready for a break. Following on with that, discussion of what a shitty industry Hollywood is, especially for kids.

Zach: "A lotta people (in this industry), their big break is a show they hate, and that kills me to think that. And it couldn't be further from the truth for anyone in SU. If I had booked a live-action sitcom that ran six seasons, I wouldn't be here. I'd be in a much darker place."

What would you be doing if not this?

Zach: "I enrolled in college, signed up for things, never went to class, and eventually dropped out. I never had any other plan." Ties into further discussion of what an absolute nightmare Hollywood is for kids, that some of his friends from high school are no longer around.

Grace: "I went to college for two years (she would've graduated this spring), trying to make sure I had a plan B lined up. But flying back and forth from San Francisco to Los Angeles was getting ridiculous and I realized I wasn't being fair to my plan A."

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babe.... bAbe..... u can’t give them the Good Dad Rog shit and the. not follow up with the hot space angst.................... it’s what the people Deserve

i copied this verbatim from our chats so like, if its choppy that’s why. also, this is like….part 1 of what is really 85 pages of hc’s all about hot space so like…more to come??? sorry for the angst

it begins with brian having cheated on chrissie

and dom, who is pregnant with baby #5, takes Offense to it

basically dom gets chrissie her divorce and sets her up with crystal, who has always had a Thing for her

and while in the middle of handling this shit because dom is kickass, dom comes to the decision that Brian Is Wrong and Needs To Be Taught A Lesson

so she convinces ronnie to her side and is like, we do not interact with brian for as long as it takes for him to realize he fucked up

so basically hot space is such shit because dom and ronnie are like for however long you support brian we will not have sex with either of you

like you want to be there for him? fine but your hands gonna be there for you instead of us

john immediately is like good luck brian hope you figure your shit out

kinda backfires actually

roger and john are like uhhhhh

well this is a shame certainly bc we love u

but also

ig we…. gotta fuck each other

Oh No

they’re so smug about it until they receive an envelope from home

its pictures of both women together in various positions

john gives in first but roger is annoyingly stubborn when he wants to be

And that’s why John don and Ronnie all get to go to Bali

they come back

And roger has moved out

and he’s like. uh. can i? am i allowed to see the kids

and they’re like wait what?

and they’re like OF COURSE WHY DID YOU MOVE OUT???

and he’s like. you uh. u said? that if i stuck with brian that we were like. done. and like brian’s a fuckhead and chrissie deserved none of what he did but uhhhhh he’s also like. my best friend and he’s going thru some shit even if it’s self inflicted u know and um. you guys have each other i guess so like i knew you’d be okay but i just.

i’d really like to be able to see the kids

and fucking miami ends up at the door

with all the NDA’s and legal shit they sorted out

like ok so, here’s how separation is going to work

and they’re like wait no no no we just–we were just upset???

but roger is like but you threatened to end our relationship and withhold sex unless i give in to what you guys want and i’m sorry but i…i can’t do that

and miami is literally like you. you all. left. and you took the kids with you. you left a NOTE

what the fuck did u think he was going to think?

and they’re like WE TOLD HIM WHERE WE WERE

WE THOUGHT HE’D COME

miami is like

“bali” is not an invitation

like no you thought you could manipulate him into bending to your way

that doesn’t COUNT

miami is Team Roger

which is how they know They Fucked Up

and roger just kneels down before their little army of kids and gives them giant hugs and is like no matter what i will always love you guys

and then miami like takes him outside and is like i will take you all for everything he’s owed

and roger goes and lives with freddie

brian ofc has NO IDEA any of this is even fucking happening

maybe thats when roger starts The Cross

and its all angsty heartbroken shit and Johns like HE’S QUIT THE BAND

and the three of them are like shit

we do not work together without roger

miami ends up being like the weird go between who picks up the kids for their weekends with roger

and they beg miami for information

and miami is like you do not deserve to know how he is

and crystal is like look, i get that you’re supporting my girlfriend but now you’ve hurt my best friend and my boss like…do you understand how your actions have fucked me???

and roger isn’t really? doing well? but he also know he can’t afford to fall apart because if he goes to shit there’s an excuse for him to not be able to see the kids???? and like he doesn’t wanna think they’d do that??? but he only has legal rights to like. three of them.

and the thought of never getting to see all of his kids keeps him up at night and he spends a lot of time drinking

like a lot a lot

and he writes all the kids letters from where he’s holed up working on the cross and he makes it sound like hes! doing! so! well! on! his! own!

the kids get little gifts delivered? like all the time

bc he’s always thinking of them and he has the money to just.. send them trinkets

ugh ok so they’re separated for a while then like. just under a year maybe?

rog moves out of fred’s after two months

when it becomes apparent that uh

this isn’t

he gets his own little shitty house

this might be for Real

and he tries to get one with rooms for each of the kids

and when they come to visit he’s like look here’s something for you and bunkbeds for the twins that aren’t twins and a pool and maybe we can get a dog?

but the kids just want to pile into bed with him

but one of them like is crying? and john’s like whats wrong? and she’s lke do you think papa is lonely in his big house who’s going to cuddle him at night he’s all alone

and johns like……….. fuck

like not only have we broken the best relationship we’ve ever been in but we have broken our children too

the kids asking roger in the big puppy pile in his bed and he’s like well i cuddle you all SO MUCH while your here that it it keeps me warm even when you go home

that why i hug you all as soon as i see you!!!! i need a top up of your love!!!! gotta keep me toastie warm :)

and freddie is a fucking liar he’s like roger is doing BETTER THAN EVER he is so FUCKING HAPPY NOW and hes like ROGER IS THIRTY FLIRTY AND THRIVING AND YOU GUYS ARE MISSING OUT ON HOW HOT HE LOOKS NOW

like POST BREAK UP HE’S TONED AND FIT AND HE LOOKS AWESOME

flash to roger sitting on the floor of the kitchen in his boxers without a shirt on just sobbing into a pint of rocky road ice cream

roger: vaguely emaciated, surviving on cigarettes and gin and tonics

he hasn’t shaved but the man can’t grow a beard so its jsut ugly patches of hair

but!!! like the other three really only see him when the kids are around and??? yeah??? he looks good!

because no one can KNOW because as far as he’s concerned they didn’t want him

like he’s dressed nicely. he’s lost a bit of weight but well he’s hit his thirties so maybe not the Worst thing even if they did Love His Pudge

and he would never ever ever scare the kids by showing them how he looks

freddie’s like oh yeah roger’s GREAT

SO BRILLIANT

and you can’t tell he doesn’t sleep and has massive bags under his eyes because that is the dawn of the prescription sunglasses

TRIED TO HAVE HIM AROUND FOR SCRABBLE THE OTHER DAY BUT HES JUST GO GO GO THESE DAYS

freddies like you should hear the songs he’s written like that stuff is GOD

(the songs are just him weeping over a guitar track)

cut to the other day: freddie and roger playing scrabble for thirteen hours in between crying jags

the next day: chess, but the pieces are shot glasses

freddie is like in bed next to jim like i dunno how much more alcohol we can drink i’m running out of ways to make him drunk enough to forget

so jim makes him garden with him bc it gets him out of the house so he even gets a TAN but they just drink SO MUCH WHISKEY

then ronnie and dom and john are like look at him he’s golden tan he looks gorgeous

but the kids are like DAD HAS A STRAWBERRY PATCH!!!! AND WE PLANTED SUNFLOWERS TOGETHER

and jim is like he’s only evenly tanned because when he passed out in the garden i rolled him over so his back would get tan too

and yeah they’re like??????????? he looks so good????

and miami lowkey thinks hes helping but he is NOTbecause every time he sees him he’s like okay we can get you think much from your combined fortunes and the beach house and i can make it so you have custody of your legal kidsroger: they’re ALL MY KIDS MIAMI

but rogers mainly like i’m not gonna separate any of the kids that’s????? no. like. they belong as a family

even if i’m not……. part of that family….. any more…….

roger is like look i just want to be able to see them. i won’t take them form their parents and miami is like roger..you’re their parent too

and roger is like no i’m just like, their uncle now?

like i’m not in that family they made i clear that i am not allowed

A N Y W A Y S

ronnie is the one who sorta caves first

she’s lke look we started this and i kinda pushed for us to end it so i’m gonna fix it

john wont bc of the band dynamics, dom is top aware that it could splinter the group back into two couples, ronnie is really the only one who can

yeah and ronnie sorta. just shows up at his house in the middle of the night

and like (luckily for him) he’s just got in from a thing for the cross

so he Doesn’t look fucking awful

but he’s also fucking exhausted so he opens the door and is like FUCK are the kids okay!!! shit!!!! dom??? john???

and ronnie’s like everyone’s fine i just. i missed you?

and roger’s like. he’s so tired he’s just like ronnie….. i can’t do this right now. you can’t. you can’t just show up here

that’s not fair.

and ronnie’s like…. well. she wasn’t sure how she was really expecting it to go because. yeah. they’re literally not been within about 50m from one another in fucking months

but she was. hoping at least for an “i miss you too”

but roger’s like. it’s really late, i’m… gonna go to bed. i really, really cannot do this right now. i’ll see the kids on friday.

and so ronnie goes home and bawls her eyes out to john and dom who are…. also kinda shook?

like. they were NOT expecting roger to turn her away like that, that’s… yeah. but like roger has been mostly by himself this whole time. like they’ve had one another but he’s. just been sorta trying to learn to keep his head above water by himself again and. it was actually a dick move showing up there unannounced. like, they basically left him with little to no warning they can’t just try and walk back in the door y’know?????

and anyway on friday miami comes to pick up the kids and ronnie is like uhhh i’m coming with

and miami is like uh. disrespectfully speaking? you fucking are not

and she’s like oh :) ur not taking my kids then

which. is just. another bad move? tbh

miami is like. right. fine. can i use ur phone to call the other father of ur children to tell him that one of their mothers won’t let him see them

and ronnie is like go right a fuckin head

and dom and john are sorta there like ronnie ronnie wtf are u doing ronnie

but ronnie’s like nah i’m calling his (miami’s) bluff

and dom is like no, uh, roger can have the kids

but. miami calls

and ronnie is like not mine he can’t its all or nothing

he’s stood there in their parlour

and like obviously they can only hear his side of the conversation

dead eyeing ronnie like i fucking hold this band together out of sheer will

i can outlast you no matter what

Miami: Hi Rog, Miami. Yeah, yeah, the kids are fine. I’m at your old place right now, actually. No, yeah. No. Well, actually, Rog. Veronica says you can’t have the kids this week. No, she didn’t say anything to me about it before. No, no. I’m sorry, Rog. I know, I’m so sorry. She hasn’t said anything about next week yet. Yeah. Yeah. It’s alright, it’ll be alright. We’ll work something out. I’ll come right around, okay? Alright. Okay. I’ll let them know. Yeah, I promise. Just like you said. Won’t change a word. See you in a bit.

and ronnie is like what did he want you to say to us?!!!!

and miami just straight up blanks her and dom and john

and walks into the living room where the kids are, all ready to go

and is like hey rugrats!

(which is totes rogers nickname for them)

and they’re all like!!!! uncle miami!!!!! are we going to see papa now???

Veronica is like ho don’t you fucking say it

and he’s like i’m really sorry guys (and ronnie goes to interrupt but he stops her) but daddy has the flu

and the kids are like!!!! oh no!!!!

and he’s like so you can’t go see him this week :( he’s really really upset about it, and he HOPES he’ll be better next week because he misses all his little nuggets so much

and the eldest is like???? but!!!! our hugs keep daddy warm!!! if he’s sick he needs to be warm he can’t be cold!!! who’s going to recharge his cuddles???

and miami is like well he said if you all hug each other reaaaaally right he can feel it! so long as you all keep giving each other lots of hugs he’ll keep tight and cosy

and he goes to leave and is like to the three of them like…. i cannot believe that you are actually doing this. i didn’t know you could be so cruel

and off he trots

and ronnie is like. fuck

fuck

FUCK

and the other three would be like ronnie what…what the fuck was that???

they end up having…. a huge fight over it

like giant

like “hi chrissie can you take the kids for a couple of days” fight

and chrissie is like uh…. i can take a few? but crystal is. away

work emergency

and johns like????? queens on a break????????????

and dom’s like???? ROGER, JOHN. ROGER IS THE EMERGENCY

so they’re like trying to find babysitters so they can fight it out but also maybe go to roger???

because the work emergency is code for roger is trying to destroy himself via alcohol poisoning

like miami knows the second he hung up that roger as going to just drown himself in whisky

so he used a payphone to call freddie and crystal

and is like i don’t care what you have to do or how you do it but you need to be at roger’s yesterday

but brian isn’t looking after their fucking kids

freddie isn’t home

and jim has heard what they did

and hes like that was fucking cruel

crystal isn’t home

miami is gone

fucking RATTY doesn’t pick up

phoebe straight up was like freddie told me if i watched hte kids he’d kill me

he was like i am not even allowed to be speaking with you thank you and goodnight

so they call mary and they’re like please mary

and mary is like as far as i’m concerned if you’re that worried about roger watching his own fucking children i do not know why you would call me as the better option

like fuck you you think roger can’t be with his kids and now you want to DUMP THEM ON ME??? “and anyway, i’m just stopping at home for the booze i have here. we’ve all been banned from the liquor stores with in a ten mile radius of…… a place.”

eventually they manage to scrounge enough family members on john and ronnie’s respective sides

but it. genuinely takes like over a day

everyone is either straight up just not answering or, if they are at home, not willing to step in

[meanwhile miami is on the fucking warpath he is like you wanna play chicken? i’ll roast you for dinner VERONICA he’s writing up a custody agreement so tight it will tie them up in court for years like he sits down at roger’s kitchen table while roger is profusely vomiting up all the alcohol he had and then some and he’s like they’re gonna fucking pay

he’s getting the kids and the houses and over half the money and the royalties and here is a list of available bass players because HE GETS THE BAND TOO]

but yeah john ronnie and dom end up having a giant, fuck off, end all fight

and dom is like. u realise we just took his fucking kids away right

and johns like for fuck sake chrissie is FINE do you really think she wanted me to tank my career and for all of us to blow up our entire family because of her????

but the problem is. it’s BIGGER than the chrissie thing now

johns like she knew what she was getting into and she knew he was a cheater when they were fuckign dating

but really it was like, six different fights that all boiled over in the name of Chrissie’s Honor and then

the biggest thing is that like,

when they were in bali

they did fully think roger would come

and but then he didnt and the spent 3 weeks getting angrier and angrier at the situation and him and brian and it spiraled into this black ugly mess of shit

and they didn’t realize how vital roger was to keeping them together like he’s the fun dad so the kids have been acting out more becasue he’s not there to get them to blow off steam

(plus like, the kids just lost their dad??? like he doesn’t live there anymore he’s at a different house and that is big)

and he’s the peace keeper (surprising despite his tempter but everyone else like stews he’s the only one who’s like lets talk it out)

and he makes them all coffee in the morning so they’re all vaguely caffeine deprived

and now ronnie has fucked it all TWICE first by showing up and then by TAKING HIS KIDS and dom was like when we had baby#2 and it was clearly rogers we promised him we SWORE that he would never ever ever take them away from him

like we said that as long as he was their papa that was IT he was their father and we would never ever take that from him

and ronnie’s like i didn’t MEAN IT he should KNOW I WOULD NEVER MEAN THAT

and johns like. ok. but uh. how would he know

i mean. we sorta

did take his kids away from him

when we went to bali

when we went to bali for a month

and again

and then

now

five days of the week

and now?

i mean

we have been… slowly taking the kids away from him

three weeks ago we made him give them back a day early so that we could do to the beach

bc we could only do it…. as a family…. on the weekend

and then two of the little ones (one of which is his) was sick and we kept them home

because. him seeing his kids is inconvenient to us

and we had them on the actual day of his birthday

which you know is his favorite day of the year because the kids make him breakfast in bed and wake him up singing happy birthday

so. us just pulling the plug isn’t… really all that unrealistic is it?

and dom and ronnie sort of get defensive and backing each other up

dom is like no!! we have NOT!!

and ronnie like how dare you

and johns like. ok. but see this is the problem

this was the problem in bali too

like its us vs. him

we all get caught up in defending ourselves

when he’s NOT HERE TO DEFEND HIMSELF

that everything we do seems right

and he should… just be grateful?

to have us?

to see the kids?

and that we have proven that if he doesn’t agree with us he doesn’t haveus?

like originally it was just sex yeah

but then it was clear that you wouldnt budge

and neither would he and why should he have brian has been there for him longer than he’s even known me

like brian is terrible for cheating but he’s roger’s brother and we literally made him choose his family and when he wouldn’t

we chose for him

and, as we’ve established, chrissie is FINE

and a grown woman

and roger knew that better than any of us because crystal was filling him in on EVERYTHING

she probably didn’t fucking need the two of you, and then me, ripping apart our family, the band, and the various social circles we run in

or even WANT us to do that

and dom’s like……. i really miss him

i’ve been trying really hard not to

bc it’s easier to be angry

and i didn’t want it to seem like i love him more than you guys

because i know it can be hard sometimes like not falling into those couple-y behaviours

and i didn’t want to do that

but i really really miss him

but like, roger is my first

he is my first real love and i love you both so much but he’s my roger

and. it’s been really hard watching [youngest] hit milestones and rogers not here to see them

(and they tried to be nice and send videos and pictures but its not the same!!

so they just stopped telling him hoping that the kid would do it there and roger would think it was the first time

but that just made roger feel like they didn’t care enough about him

to be like oh hey your kid’s walking sucks that you had to learn form the older kid insead of the other parents)

and dom’s like. and it’s made worse because. he wouldn’t have let this happen if it was one of us

and john is like. uh

and ronnie’s like fuck. no. ur right. he wouldn’t have

dom’s like. right back at the beginning he was always saying that he’d make sure we were all involved in the kids lives no matter what that this wouldn’t happen he wouldn’t let it

and we did it to him

and ronnie is like. how the fuck do we fix this

bc shit like that. like their youngest hitting milestones???? like that feels like something they stole from him bc they can’t give that back

for like the first time john actually cries

and is like what have we done

and yeah. the fight just sorta ends with all three of them in tears and just. sort of silent

because maybe that was the biggest issue

because. what the fuck

because chrissie was pregnant and maybe dom was pregnant and they were like imagine this was us

and we got cheated on

and so when the whole Bali Thing happens the kid is like maybe 6 months?

so roger genuinely misses over half of this kids life

and kidlet just. doesn’t have the same bond with him???

because there’s so little you can be there for when you get every weekend

and roger knows

but the other three don’t because they haven’t seen him with the kids?

but the kid just cries the whole weekend and wants his “daddy”

kidlet isn’t really comfy around roger and neither, really, is their second youngest who is withdrawing

and roger is just like???? these are my KIDS

and the second youngest is roger’s

and i’m a STRANGER to them

and he tries so hard! but the other problem is like, we have so many kids

and i am one person

like he is stretched so thin

so he can only do so much like if hte baby is crying he has to take care of the baby sorry oldest ones i can’t go play outside with you

and the three of them just realize, like, what have we done???

cut to roger’s house he’s just lying on the floor not even crying just laying there his bedroom is ruined because he hung up with miami and just trashed it

and is laying on his floor like i want to die here

john calls while the Roger Stomach Pumping Emergency Squad are on day three of their duties

and crystal picks up which is. it’s not the BEST he could have hoped for, which would have been freddie, but it’s the second best bc crystal still nominally works for him

(crystal is like i’m gonna fucking quit like i will take the cross to the NEXT LEVEL even if i have to KILL JOHN TO DO IT)

and johns like ok this is. i’m just calling to say that i’m going to come around tomorrow? i’ll be there are 12. i’m not asking for permission, but i’m just calling to give you a heads up. to give roger a heads up

and so. they uh. sober roger up. do their best to make him somewhat presentable? (does not work. he refuses to shave or shower or get changed out of his Depression Pajamas. he swills some mouthwash, they call it a win)

(depression pajamas are john’s pants and the joke shirt ronnie and dom bought him for his birthday years ago thats like save a drum bang a drummer)

and then. they go upstairs, just leaving miami downstairs except he’s Not Allowed To Talk

he is there, strictly, as roger’s legal representation

miami just holds all the papers for legal divorce and separation the papers that are going to FUCK THEM UP if roger says so

and john shows up and he’s like. oh. um. this isn’t. this isn’t really a legal talk?????? and miami is like yes well y’all do have a history of Technical Kidnapping so

can’t be too careful 🙃

and roger just. doesn’t give a shit

he’s like miami can you shut the fuck up

like what the fuck do you think johns going to do that’s worse than break up with me and refuse to let me see my kids?

what, have you all gangbanged my mum too? just for a giggle?

and john is like. uh. no. winnie is. un-gangbanged. as far as i know.

and rog is like well there you go, everything appears to be Just As Shit as it was yesterday and no worse

and johns like look. i just. ronnie honestly didn’t mean that you couldn’t see the kids, not at all. she just. she just wanted to see you and the kids were… leverage? sort of? which sounds awful

and roger is like. yeah. that sounds pretty fucking awful, actually

and he’s like where’s my alcohol and miami is like as your legal representative and your medical emergency contact i must advise you not to drink anymore as i do not believe your liver will survive

(miami [visibly jots down john calling the children leverage])

but yeah rogers like. well. here i fucking am.

and johns like. this is all. it’s all fucked up. we love you? we never stopped loving you? this has all spiralled way out of control. the girls were just mad about chrissie and

and roger is like?? do u think i give a FUCK about chrissie???? none of this was EVER about chrissie on my side. this was about the three of you deciding that our relationship with acceptable fucking collateral for you to throw about to win arguments and get me to do what you wanted

[miami in the corner scribbling it all down]

that’s now how relationships fucking work, john. and i never thought you’d take my children away from me for it.

and johns like. i know. i’m sorry, we’re sorry. it honestly just grew out of control. when we were in bali we thought you would come and then it would have been fine, but you didn’t and we got angry and

and rogers like?!! i didn’t do what u wanted so you ran away with my children for a month

i couldn’t have come even if i WANTED to

“gone to bali” is not a fucking address, john

(and the thing is when they wrote that? it was tongue in cheek. it was a “come find us”. but, well. that didn’t work out as intended, did it?)

like they thought of course roger would like, call miami to find them or hell ratty or something like they all have the same credit cards they could figure it out…right?

and johns like. i’m sorry. can you. would you be…. interested? in talking to all three of us? we love you, and we miss you. we want to try and save this

and roger is like i dont know

i don’t know if it can be saved

and well. that’s enough to get a foot in the door because. his kids. roger would grin and bear his way thru 16 and a half years of painful awkwardness on his part of it means he gets to be with his kids as they grow

but he’s not saying yes

he’s saying he’ll talk to all three of them together

but miami will be there

and miami is like 💅

and so they set a date for the next monday

and this time roger is wearing like. a fucking suit, he’s all scrubbed up

and they’re like???????? what the fuck

(john totally went home and told the other three how terrible he looked)

but this time like. it’s…. it’s make or fucking break like if they walk out of this and he can’t see it being salvaged then… that’s it

he’ll be giving them the (kindest) separation and custody agreement’s that miami has drawn up

miami has like three all drawn up and ready depending on how it goes

one is niceish one is harsher and the last is scourged earth

nice: they get half his assets, he gets friday evening-sunday afternoon and ¾ of all school holidays

harsh: ¼ assets (minus property and future royalty income from existing tracks), friday afternoon school pick up- sunday evening, and all school holidays apart from three days beginning and end, weekends, and potentially visitation right son Public Holidays (such as christmas day)

scourged earth: ½ present cash assets (nothing else), friday afternoon pick up - Tuesday morning drop off, all school holidays minus weekends (excepting public holidays. so if xmas day falls on a sunday? too fucking bad)

miami is like i will wipe the board with you if he asks and i will not hesitate

and he WILL be going to court to attempt to win rights to have ALL of the children involved in those custody agreements (miami thinks they have a case given how many interviews they’ve given over the years referencing how the children view each other as brother and sister)

plus there’s like squatter’s/commonlaw rights

yeah basically miami is. uh ready to destroy

like roger is the common law parent because he has lived with these kids in that house for 7 years

roger’s one request was just can i have enough to buy a house big enough for all the kids to come visit and can i just see them? like even if its once a month i just want to see them

miami is like i gotchu fam you’re my favorite tell the others

BUT YES SO roger is like i’m really just here to see if there’s anything to salvage.

and like

dom immediately bursts into tears

she hasnt seen him in person since he LEFT

and because??? how could there not be??????????

dom is willing to give ANYTHING to fix it

and ronnie is like. horrified. she keeps going to reach across the table to hold his hand before catching herself

and she starts. she apologised for what happened the other day, for crossing that line

and rogers like… it’s been coming for a while now

because he always knew one day the kids would stop coming

like either they wouldn’t let him see them

or the kids wouldn’t want to come see the guy who was once their dad but now just has his own home

like the two youngest already don’t want him

so it makes sense

yeah.

and dom’s like… do you still love us?

because i still love you

and rogers like. i. i could never stop loving any of you???? but i also cant ever forget the past year and the things that have happened either

That’s what makes it hurt the most is like I still love you?? I will always love you you’re the mothers of my children and John you’re their father like you’re raising my kids

and johns like well. love is a start, yes?

and roger’s like. yes. but i love my kids more, and. i spent the last year hoping we were just… going to work it out. that this was going to stop, but it hasn’t. it’s got worse. and i suppose it’s a good thing that you did what you did last week because instead of the kids being slowly taken away from me and me having to accept it over time, it happened all at once and i can’t take that. i Won’t take that again. and so now i know that if this isn’t going to work out that i am Going to have a relationship with my kids, if i have to fight you all in the courts for it

and ronnie’s like we’re not? we’re not going to fight you

and miami that sneaky bastard pulls out the SCORCHED EARTH custody agreement and is like so you’ll sign this?

and dom’s like what the fuck is it?????? and he’s like custody agreement. in the event of your separation from roger, dominique, and/or his departure from the home you share with john and veronica he would be entitled, by contract, to have the children (ALL OF THEM, those children being those who were born between 1974 and 1983) from friday school pick up to tuesday morning school drop off, and the entirety of school holidays apart from weekends.

and johns like fuck. that’s. a lot of time

and roger is like? i haven’t had all of the children together in over a month

and ronnie is like fuck. you haven’t, have you? there’s been….

and miami picks up another piece of paper and starts listing off reasons

Because he’s been picking them up and dropping them off and every single time one of them isn’t there he writes it down

dentist appointment, flu, stomach bug, school trip, trip to the beach “as a family”

They watch a roger visibly flinches at the “as a family” comment

and dom just signs it. plucks it right out of johns hand who is trying to read it (or the first page) and flips to her page and signs

and johns like fuck!! dom!!!

and she’s like. roger wouldn’t ask us to sign anything that would be detrimental to the kids OR to us

we used to fucking know that, john

She’s like Roger is their father first and foremost and he has the right to as much time as he wants from them. If they miss us I will PERSONALLY but them their own phone line to call us but he gets as much time as he wants with them

and like. john and ronnie aren’t going to sign, not without their lawyer there to check it out, but. that sign from dom? is enough to get roger to agree to try

to agree that maybe there’s something to salvage there

Even if it’s just with dom

Because she was like I have faith in this man and I do not plan on ever losing him again so I’ll sign anything because it’ll never come down to it

Yeah because. well. he can live with that if it means he gets his kids

he can live with knowing that he’s not wholly Wanted in this relationship

if he’s… wanted a little bit and he gets to watch his kids grow up every day

it’s 16 and a half years

that’s doable

He will do what he needs to for his kids

he loves those rugrats so fucking much

he stays at home SO MUCH for the next like. year. bc he is BUILDING that relationship with the youngest two

Like the rest of the break? Is because roger will not leave the house

He is like nope not working I’m with the nuggets

And Freddie is like bring them to the studio just come

Like it’s just him with the kiddos

Writing and trying to get his babies to love him again

And he’s like I’m never leaving you ever again

That first tour? Is ROUGH

like it is hard for roger to leave and he almost is like I can’t do it I can’t leave them what if they forget me again??

Which just adds to the angst because they did that to him

they made him doubt that his kids really love him

so then like, fast forward six-eight months???

oh my god even when they get back together? and get comfy with one another to start having sex again (which takes A WHILE) roger is suddenly. really adamant about using condoms

ugh he’d be sneaky about the condom thing at first too. like. he distracts them? clever fingers, clever mouth, encouraging them to help each otherlike it takes. a Distressing amount of time before finally dom is like I Want You To Fuck Meand that’s when That Whole Thing goes down

she’s like c'mon like how we used to

and roger is like uhhhhh i can’t do that

because you might get uh, pregnant

and the other three can’t think of anything better like yes this will reunite us

an roger can’t think of anything worse because the thought of losing another baby?? he wouldn’t, uh, he wouldn’t survive that

and they’re like????? look if u slept with someone else like. ok that…. hurts. but. get tested and if ur clean it’s fine

and rogers like. no

that’s not the problem

dom has straight up a breakdown about it when she realises what the issue is

because roger is GOOD with kids

roger LOVES babies

but he’s like i do not want to have babies with you because i cannot guarantee that you won’t take the baby from me again

and roger is just sitting here uncomfortable

while dom weeps and john and ronnie are like what the uck is going on

but. he’s not. he’s not comfortable? this doesn’t feel like a family he’s

building for keeps anymore

not really

it feels like something that can, might, will be taken away

he’s like look we can call it what we want but i get it i’m here for sex

and that’s great!! i love sex!! but i’m not going ot risk it

and the baby starts crying and roger sorta. automatically goes to get up before being like. oh. uh. it’s probably better if one of you goes. she. she’s not comfortable around me, she won’t settle if i go in

its not fair to the kids (because that’s who he’s really messed up over)

like they were so upset and it’s not fair to have them have to like, be separated form their homes and from their parents

roger is just so natural around the kids?

like u honestly wouldn’t even notice that he’d been gone

he slips right back in

he’s a bit distant for a few days, learning the new routines, new schedules, new favourites, new dislikes

but once he’s got it? he’s back in there

but just. flinching away from the casual touches that pass between the four of them

so later dom fucks john and forgets a condom and has a pregnancy scare

and roger is like. weirdly……. fine

and dom is like??????? what the hell ur ok with this??? if i am pregnant?

and roger is like…… i haven’t decided yet

and dom’s like wtf do u mean? and he’s like. it would be a dick move of me to just leave ig. so perhaps we could separate but i’d stay living here in a separate room from the three of you?

and ronnie is like? those are the only two options for you

we’ve been back together for like eight months

and rogers like? and we were separated for over a year

i’m still not sure if this is real

AND THEN

freddie calls john one night like. a month or so after the condom revelation (which they’ve all been. sorta sadly going along with? like it ruins the mood a little bit each time bc it’s a reminder that something’s a little bit broken here), and is like. look. i. i really shouldn’t be telling you this? but i think he’ll end up regretting it because i. god knows WHY but i have faith that you guys are all gonna pull thru this. but rog’s munich trip next week for the cross? yeah he’s booked in for a vasectomy.like he wouldn’t say anything because he doesn’t want them to make it a Big Deal

and they’re SO UPSET but they’re like we can’t tell him not to because…if he wants to, he wants to

So when he comes back from munich

they think he had a vasectomy

John is like how does one check for that?? Does his penis look different???

Does his sperm taste different?? How would we know???

but one night he just goes to ronnie Just bends her right over and is like let’s do this and it’s the hottest sex they’ve had

like they have INSANELY HOT SEX and they’re all. laying there. happy and sated. rog is curled up in the middle super asleep and the three of them are just all wide awake staring at the ceiling like huh. what feels weird

and then they realize and they’re like he didn’t use a condom so that means…..

and then they just PANIC

Like ROGER

ROGER YOUR CONDOM

and he’s like oh my godddd shut up i’ve gotta be up for swimming lessons in like. five hours oh my god

and ronnie is like maybe he did maybe he didn’t but like YES YOUR SWIMMERS ARE THE ISSUE RIGHT NOW

THEY MIGHT BE SWIMMING

IN ME

ROGER

and roger is like is…that a problem???

and like they’re panicked bc!!!! he REALLY didn’t want any more kids!!!! they don’t wanna fuck with that they’re finally in a good place again!!!!!

and roger is like, sorry, guess i should have talked to you guys about having another kid???

but ye he’s. secure again. and their youngest is like. older now. he misses babies. and also miami still got all the old paperwork

and they’re like wait….so you didn’t get the vasectomy???

and roger is like lol no

so like, oops, ronnie, you uh, might be uh…pregnant

and they all just sort of fall on top of him because while they’re still not perfect

it’s a start

they have like, five more kids afterwards

also

veronica, the trooper, still having fucking babies into the mid 90s

god bless her

Veronica’s uterus is the real MVP

#hit me up if you want the other 85 pages lol #john/veronica/roger/dominique #John Deacon #roger taylor #dominique beyrand #veronica tetzlaff #caro writes #hot space angst #answered asks

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sasukebarmitzvah · 5 years

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watching every naruto opening and discussing my opinions because im bored liveblog

original

took me a little while to warm up to it idk why maybe because its not as up tempo and its a shonen and i want to get hype but i love it now. love the part where the camera pans around team 7 fighting randos they are babies… also its so funny when sasuke holds out his hand to naruto to help him out of the lake and he jsut fist bumps him. gay boy

Haruka fucking kanata baby!!!!!!!! a fav. like we all know this. i listen to the song just regularly a lot and every time it comes on shuffle im like Oh my god its haruka kanata. read the english translation of the lyrics… sns

this one got stuck in my head for a while lol. i like seeing everyone babie and i like naruto shaking his head at the end to dry off like a dog

DDMnanannaddnnaaaaa naaaaaaaaa nda aaWE ARE FIGHTING DEAMERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OOLI OLI OLIOOOOoohh!!!!! very fun very good also a very good time in the show, hello tsunade

**edgy shonen opening where theres something important in front of a chain link fence**

lol skipping 6-9 bc thats the huge chunk of filler which i didnt actually watch most of

shippuden

heros come back is SO GOOD absolutely one of my favs. banger first of all. i love how its actually choreographed and naruto sakura kakashi are like moving to the beat and i love the part where the animation is like pencil sketchy and theyre running and their bodies warp bro its just cool. the part where everyone dramatically reaches for gaara is fun, also love deidaras moment. anyway i shake my ass to this song eveyrday

distance oh god oh fuck. YOU ARE MY FRIEND!!! the sasuke and naruto stuff where they are little baby at the beginning at the end we return to the same place theyre there and like about to stab each other i’m going to scream. i lvoe the song of course. hello sai! i love team 7s little spotlight moments where they get to pose to the music its so cute. why is sasuke snake jesus? DO you remember that long lost DREAM!!!!!!!!!!

BLUE BIRD YA BANGER ok the whole symbolism. when naruto falling next to sasuke rising is positioned like yin and yang lol. when naruto is falling from the sky but then sasuke comes to mind and he springs into action lol. ok random people from the fillers i dont care about. naruto fell in the lake he picks up the bird feather interspersed with a couple shots of sasuke horgh. additional reading: paper bag by fiona apple

closer is one of the ones where im like eh its ok its not my favorite and then it gets to the chorus and my dumb ass is jsut screaming YOU KNOW THE CLOSER YOU GET TO SMETHING THE TOUGHTER IT IS TO REACHIT. the funniest part where narutos moping and thinking of sasuke and then he just perks up and smiles at the camera like. gay boy. like getting to see the asuma fight scenes in this op, also it was so funny seeing him get all the screentime in this op knowing hes about to die like yeah very subtle

SHA LA LA!!!! LOVE IT i love it i love it soooo much first of all banger second of all naruto looking into the water and his reflection is sasuke. lollllll. metaphor m-e-t-a-p-h-o-r the little prechorus bit in the middle gives me chills. love sasuke walking into the purple pool like a smug motherfucker thats my boy. at the end zooming into sasukes pupil zoom out it’s narutos eye oh the poetry..

signs another one of the ones where im like eh whatever its fine but not my fav but by the chorus i am standing on the table freaking out. like fuck jiraiya but this one got me a lil. the lighting and choreography of the sasuke itachi fight bit is sooooo nice and pretty, love getting to see all the new players in the story. baby ame orphans fading to the shot of yahiko as pain.. :(

this one literally makes me cry. i get chills what the fuck. definitely one of my favs. am i a bitch? maybe. i like the song by itself but like the way the rise/general shape of the melody flows with the visuals its like oh god oh fuck. again fuck jiraiya but like the role his character serves as a link between these disparate groups of people and the way thats used in this opening… how it starts and ends with him writing and this is the arc where naruto reads tales of a gutsy ninja and he learns about how he got his name and jiraiya wrote the book and hes WRITING and im going CRAZY!! i’m starting to tear up watching it rn. the shot of konan and the pains in that moment just before they leap forward. Sayonaaaaaaara aa lksasldfkwpoeifjhnuerIELFeuiertekdjsnlfweiourbg kakashis moment is cool in this op. also love to see the girls getting fight scenes in this op cus they sure dont in the actual show LOL anyway yeah im at the part where the melodys just hitting sooo different oh my god naruto frog eyes

DIVERRRRRRR. FAV literally like naruto is drowning. hes drowning and everyone is pushing him up so he can breathe again everyone is fighting to save him and thnen he s ouf ot the water and then he sees sasuke drowning and he JUMPS BACK IN. FOR ONE PERSON EVEN THOUGH ALL THESE OTHER PEOLE were working to help him out he dives back in for SASUKE whos drowning in the eyehole of obitos mask which is cool. ok yeah this is another one where im like tearing up because THe cymbal is em….. the way The movement of the visuals is choreographed with the song is so much. nico TOUCHED the fucking walls.

this one kinda annoys me i dont know why it just wasnt my favorite. love the sasuke and naruto staring at each other intensely moment though, would this be a shippuden opening without that. also the part at the end where sakura holds up her kunai and it like slashes and covers sasuke and naruto… inch resting…

newsongs so weird i love it. like what the hell is going on. why is naruto running like hes from some weird gmod video from 2013. love the LITERAL choreography, everyone dancing to the song like this is a musical. theres just a lot of weird moments which is fun. love sai naruto and sakura making the seal together to shoot lightning. raikage leaping gracefully across the beach

i do not enjoy this one. i just dont. it just feels like we’re bootlicking which of course we are because this is the war arc and everything is a nightmare

i remember seeing the first episode with this opening and i was excited bc its like… great another naruto pining for sasuke one this is what im here for. a light banger. minato manlet monday. ohh right this was the one where gaara sees his dad again and his OH I SEE SASUKEE

Banger! nico did indeed touch the walls again. i like that this one is like visually thematically consistent thru the whole thing, i like the nighttime dimly lit atmosphere with the bursts of brighter colorful lighting, also whenever i see tsunade i freak out. narutos cute at the end

SUCH A BANGER!!! also very cool visual style, appreciate it for that like the last one, its got that pretty consistent aesthetic with the red sky and the high contrast black blocking its fun and cool to watch. did i mention the song is a bit of a banger. obito passing thru the rock is cool too bad hes an idiot

ok from this one there were two lines i remember always seeing in the english sub that made me freak out. and one of them was like “this red hot love burning my heart” and it was over kakashi and obito fighting like damn OK. also the “i put the candle out with my finger” thing sticks in my head idk why. hate that we have the narutos big meaty claws i mean manly hands moment though. omg its hashirama and madara and then it CUTS TO SASUKE AND NARUTO IN THE SAME POSE LOL OK…

SILHOUETTE IS a banger… not as much so as some of the others but its a lot of fun. very colorful op, we got some naruto pining for sasuke, classic. also love the thing where ppl are running and they age as they do and they sort of grow into their present selves, a fun visual bit. the end where narutos like obito be nice now look at all these people behind me who think youre a meanie please be nice :(((((((((

another one with a really good visual principle ugh i love how the style of the show is integrated w the styles of more traditional printmaking its very swexy and nice to look at

LINE uugrgh i love this one, maybe a fav… naruto chasing after the light and sasuke trying so hard to snuff it out as they both reflect on their memories of each other oh god oh fuck… also i love the bits where it just has all the characters in a row like it reminds me of that one post about how in the endgame trailer they had a shot of all the female characters together to be like Girl power!! and someone was like yeah thats them showing u exactly how many women theyre going to disrespect LMAO but yeah i do love this op. also the song itself being slower w/ the triplet tempo is a nice change of pace

blood circulator hee hee… the version of this with naruto and sasuke moments is A Lot but even just the generic first version is fun. the part where narutos like knocked on his face hes sinking into the tar and hes not even trying to save himself hes just staring at sasuke, but then he sees sasuke distressed and he goes bijuu mode immediately like What did u say about my mans? there is some homoeroticism

i really hate everything about this i hate it all. sasuke is cute. thats it. ok first of all why did choji cut his hair his long hair look was so gooooooood. hinata bimboification? i mean if anything it was fun to watch these fillers just cus it was fun to watch kakashi be the hokage but really goofy and also the Crumbs tossed to the kakairus… but yeah i hate everything temari got bimbofied too like ugh please let her be a dyke :( this isnt even me talking necessarily about the opening this is me just being like i hate the naruto ending. LOL SASUKE AND NARUTOS NO HOMO BRO HIGH FIVE AT THE END LOLLLLL

ok im done

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three-drink-amy · 6 years

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The Final Rose

Chapter Two

Jake was about to crawl into bed when his phone started vibrating. He looked down to see Charles’s grinning face staring up at him from his phone. Groaning, he swiped to answer it. “Hey, Charles. What’s up?”

“How was the first night?” Charles asked excitedly.

“You know I can’t tell you anything,” Jake reminded him.

“Well not anything important, but you could tell me little bits and things, right?”

Jake sighed. “No. I can’t.”

“Is it Ashley H.?” Rosa asked.

“Oh cool, I’m on speaker phone,” Jake said, ignoring her question.

“You are. We both wanted to see how it went,” Charles replied. “And you’ve yet to tell us anything.”

“Because I can’t,” Jake said for what felt like the hundredth time. “I signed an NDA. So, my lips are legally sealed.”

“I read an article that said they might be going with a new face. Is that true?” Rosa probed.

“Am I even speaking?” Jake wondered aloud. “Are the words coming out of my mouth?”

“They are, they’re just stupid. We’re your best friends. It’s not like we’re going to say anything,” Rosa retorted. “Just tell us.”

“Rosa, I thought you hated this show and only watched it to make fun of it.” Jake asked, annoyed, hoping for a way out of this conversation.

She cleared her throat quickly. “Yeah, I do.”

“Then why do you care so much?”

“I-uh, because Charles won’t stop talking about it,” Rosa answered haltingly.

“You guys, I really can’t tell you anything,” Jake said, yet again. Charles and Rosa both sighed on the other end of the call. Jake rolled his eyes, deciding to give them something. “This is all I will tell you. I met her and she is probably the prettiest person I’ve ever met. There, happy?”

“It’s not Ashley H.!” Rosa yelled.

“How did you get that from what I said?”

“You thought Ashley H. had a bad dye job and a weird smile,” Rosa reminded him.

“Oh that’s true,” Charles agreed. “You did not like her.”

“Yeah, because I liked Hannah and she won, so clearly I had good instincts.” He could hear Rosa grumbling in disagreement. “Look, for the thousandth time, I can’t tell you anything. And I definitely wouldn’t have anything to tell after just the first night.”

Another sigh came from over the phone. “Okay. Well are you at least having a good time?” Charles asked.

Jake thought back on the night and smiled to himself. “Yeah, I am.” After a pause, he said, “Look, it’s pretty late and I have to be up early tomorrow to set up shots and everything. So I’ll talk to you guys later.”

After his friends said goodbye and hung up, Jake finally got into bed. The problem was he couldn’t sleep. His mind kept going over the events of the evening. He’d been really excited when he got hired to be a cameraman for the show. Getting ready for the evening had been stressful but exciting. It was up to his team to make sure the show looked good. That felt like a lot of pressure. It’s not like Jake was in charge of anything but his own camera, but still, a lot of pressure.

But as he’d gotten in his position to wait for the limos to arrive, he saw her, looking nervous as hell. About as nervous as he felt. And suddenly, Jake realized his pressure seemed silly. If he fumbled, it was at least behind a camera. Somehow talking to her calmed him down and put things in perspective. It was an awkward conversation, to be sure. He was 99% sure he’d put his foot in his mouth when he told her that even if there were other women, she’d be a standout. What had he been thinking? But she seemed flattered by it, thankfully. What he said to Charles and Rosa was true though; she was the prettiest woman he’d ever met.

Jake tried to make his brain shut off, but it wouldn’t. He kept replaying things he’d heard Amy say. His brain kept a loop going of the moment when she started smiling naturally as he tried to get an interview out of her. She had an amazing smile.

God, what was wrong with him? He’d met this girl once on the set of a show where she was there to date 25 other men. He shook his head and turned on his side, trying desperately to sleep. He hoped that tomorrow he’d be able to function normally.

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Amy noted that the cameraman, Jake, had been right. When she woke up she was informed that she’d be having a group date later in the day. Luckily it seemed simple enough. There would be a picnic to start and then Amy would “surprise” them with a game of dodgeball. Amy huffed, looking at the itinerary. “As long as I don’t have to play,” she said to herself. She put on the clothes hanging just outside her room and went down to eat breakfast.

Thankfully, before the date began, one of the behind the scenes people (she’d really need to learn their titles) briefed her on the guys’ names. There had only been a few that had been memorable enough to hold onto their names, so Amy was grateful for the help. She sat on an impossibly big picnic blanket, waiting for the cameras to start rolling. She looked over to see Jake setting up to start. She bowed her head as she felt herself smiling. “Action!” she heard and she looked up to see 10 men strolling toward her. She wondered if one day she wouldn’t feel so weird about it all. Probably not.

Amy jumped up, a smile plastered on her face, ready to greet her dates. “Hey guys!” she cheered. She could hear the fakeness in her voice. They all hugged her before sitting down to enjoy their picnic. Amy had perused her hidden binder on good small talk topics before coming on this group date, and she was thankful she had. As the bachelorette, she was the one having to steer the conversation.

She could admit that some of the guys seemed nice, like she could get along with them. Teddy gave off a friendly vibe. Dave seemed really smart which Amy could click with for sure. There was a guy named Mike who apparently read a lot of books. Every story he told seemed to be about a book he’d read. She thought it was weird, but she understood a love of reading.

Amy tried to think of the picnic not as a date, but just as her hanging out with a group of guys. She’d done that plenty of times. Given that she had 7 brothers, she was used to being the only girl around sometimes. Once Amy put it in a different perspective, she felt much more comfortable. That is until the picnic part ended and the games began.

She wasn’t fully sure why they’d give the Bachelorette title to such an awkward person. Amy felt like a bad MC as she announced to the guys that they’d be playing dodgeball. “And the team that wins get to go to the campfire and have smores with me!” She wondered why that was a prize. Oh right, because they’re trying to spend time with me, she reminded herself.

Even if it was a dumb prize, the guys got into it. Half were wearing blue jerseys and half were wearing red jerseys. Amy just stood off to the side to watch. A guy named Keith ran up to her, giving her a kiss on the cheek. “I’m playing for you, Foxy,” he said before running back to the field. Amy scrunched up her face in disgust as she watched him run off.

She stood in line where the balls had been lined up. “Are you guys ready?” she called to them. The guys all cheered. “Are you sure?” They laughed and kept cheering. “Alright then. Three...two…” and then she blew the whistle, backing away quickly as the guys charged the center line.

Amy started to feel a bit bored watching the game after a few minutes. She remembered playing dodgeball with her brothers and it was never her favorite game. Suddenly, a stray ball smacked her in the side of the head. The guys were all focused on the game. Amy looked around angrily to see who had thrown the ball at her. She spotted Jake, poking out from behind his camera with a huge grin and his thumbs up. She recalled something he’d said to her the night before. But I can find stuff to throw at you from behind the camera to loosen you up a bit if you’d like. Looking back at him, he motioned for her to smile. She shook her head amusedly at him, smiling more from the interaction than from the need to smile for the cameras. Turning back to the game, Amy started yelling for both teams, cheering when they made good moves. If she was going to have to sell it, she should at least try.

In the end the blue team won. A campfire was being started and the red team (which thankfully included Keith) was heading back to the mansion. They pulled Amy and the blue team aside for talking heads about the afternoon while they waited for the sun to set more and the fire to get going. Amy was kind of sad when Jake was on the separate team interviewing some of the guys. She put on a smile she thought was convincing and talked about getting to know the men.

By the end of the night, Amy felt tired from putting on a show all day. She’d bid the guys good night and was about walk back to the car taking her home. Jake walked up beside her, nudging her with his shoulder. “Hey, got one more talking head in you?” he asked with a grin.

Amy frowned. “I already did those today.”

“You did those for the picnic and the lovely dodgeball game,” Jake informed her. “Now we need you to talk about what it’s like having smores with five guys.”

“They’re messy,” Amy replied. “Boom. It’s simple and it can refer to either the guys or the smores. There’s your soundbite.”

Jake laughed but shook his head. “If only it was that simple, I’m afraid. But they’re waiting, so we kinda have to.”

Amy groaned and followed Jake over to where they wanted to film her. She looked over at him as they walked. “So on a scale of 1 to 10 million, how awkward was I today?” she asked jokingly.

“Hmm,” he said thoughtfully. “That’s a good question. Should we break it down by each activity or…?”

Amy smacked his shoulder. “Rude!” She laughed in spite of herself. “Was I that bad?”

Jake grinned broadly as he looked over at her. “No. You were fine.” She fixed him with a pointed stare. “Really. There was only the one time you looked a little bored and a dodgeball to the head fixed that right away.”

Amy shook her head with a smile. “Yeah, thanks for that by the way.”

Jake laughed loudly. “It worked, did it not?”

Amy sighed dramatically. “I guess.”

They walked the rest of the way in silence. Right as they got up to the interview spot, Jake turned to Amy. “If it makes you feel better, you seemed way more comfortable today than you did yesterday.” Amy raised her eyebrows. “Really. I think you’re easing into it.”

Amy nodded appreciatively. “Thanks. Maybe one day I’ll go on a date with five guys and it won’t even bother me.”

Jake shrugged. “I don’t know if I see you getting that comfortable. I think maybe the time you get truly comfortable with this whole thing, you’ll be sitting on the couch with your beloved in front of a live studio audience talking about how it was all a wonderful dream.”

Amy scrunched her nose and laughed. “Yeah, we’ll see about that.”

Jake placed a hand on Amy’s arm before she walked away. “But honestly, I think they made a good choice. People will like you, even if you get a little awkward. Maybe they’ll like you even more for it.”

Amy stared up at him for a second in silence. “Thanks, Jake. It’s nice to feel like I have someone in my corner.”

He smiled kindly. “Well, if you ever need me, that’s where I’ll be.”

“With things to throw at my head to get me back in the game?” Amy added with a laugh.

“Exactly.”

They looked at each other for a long beat before Amy smiled, squeezing his hand as she walked away.

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#you guys I actually wrote something #A MIRACLE #you can thank erica #the final rose #my writing #b99 fanfiction #b99

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ndrbrnrd · 6 years

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2018: An 8 Month Reflection - Alone vs. Lonely

Here we go again, another week has passed and I still didn’t fulfill my deadline. I have no idea when I’ll learn to be on time. I’ve been late for about an hour for the past two weeks. My excuse for this week was completing last minute assignments that was due at the same time this blog post was due, plus I got home at 11pm. Well it’s not like readers are sitting on the computer waiting for 11:59pm to strike, but I’m just making excuses for myself again. Please have hope for me.

To kinda procrastinate, I’ll go on a little rant session. At this moment it’s 12:45am, and I am alone in my room. Am I lonely? No. My mind is either feeling really tired and wants to sleep (which is why I’m probably rambling) or it’s trying to piece together ideas and sentences for this weekly post. Now, I could go to bed since I do have work tomorrow in the lab which no one is really there, but I really have to type this up. I’ve been disappointed by many people in my life, I can’t be one of those people now. Besides, what would it say about me anyways if I kept delaying it. Bear with me.

I have started to really notice the difference between alone and lonely. I mean it can get really confusing because it seems like they mean the same thing, but it doesn’t. There are four different possibilities: Alone and not lonely, not alone and lonely, alone and lonely, not alone and not lonely. I’m just here to meander about the first three.

How I’ve decided to look at it based on my experience is that being alone is when you are physically and spatially the only person in a given environment, whereas being lonely is where you are emotionally/mentally detached in the environment you are in regardless if there are people or not. They say that a person can feel lonely even though they are with a group of friends, or a person can be in a quiet room or going on a hike alone and not feel lonely at all.

With this whole experience, I pretty much felt alone and lonely. Spatially I was alone every single day. I had a big lab room all to myself and I only had to occupy a quarter of it. On rare occasion the vice-president of product development for company x would come in and work on some assays and experiments, but other than that we would not get in each others way since we had ample amount of space between us. At first being alone everyday felt weird, but at the same time it felt great. I was able to dance around, remind myself of things I have to do out loud, text and message friends, listen to music and more recently binge watch Netflix. The privacy was great, and it was nice to know that no one would get in the way of my lab/personal space. The bliss did not last for long. Not only did I feel physically alone, I felt uninvolved in the company. The fact that I did not feel like part of the team and more like a side project created feelings of loneliness in the lab. This affected my motivation and willpower for daily functions such as eating. Friends could only help to an extent, and not all my friends could be there and support me. Regardless, the loneliness was something I had to deal with on my own.

It was weird how I could feel lonely in the work I do. Maybe it’s because I’m dealing with a long distance work relationship with my superiors and they just did not have time to integrate me in the company, or maybe it’s the combination of the routine repetitive work along with the long distance work relationship. It does get frustrating when you need a second opinion about what you’re doing or any questions you may have and sometimes your superiors are just not the people you need to ask in the moment. It is hard trying to deal with it while maintaining the NDA you have agreed to sign. Whatever this feeling was, it was not something I wanted in a career and in a work environment.

Currently, as the end is near, I still feel alone and lonely in the lab. Day in and day out I do the same thing everyday on the computer and I do wonder if there is any motivation or reason for me to even show up to the lab. I have been using the private time to be alone with my thoughts and reflect about past meetings with my superiors or just anything and anyone such as friends, family, and even what I want in the future. To be honest, if it wasn’t for those alone periods I would not have been able to write this five part series in a short amount of time (relatively speaking). Out of respect towards my employers, I still show up on days where I can work from home, and to fill the void of loneliness, Netflix has become a great source/drug for me at work till the very end.

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davidcarner · 6 years

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The Kiss Ch 14, The Talk, Part II

A/N: In a shocking upset that I didn't see coming this was voted the fic to post on the Chuck fanfiction Facebook site. Do you want to tell Ellie? I don't want to tell Ellie. Someone has to tell Ellie. I give you The Kiss Ch 14, The Talk, Part II

Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck, and we fanfic writers had kinda made Ellie a force to be reckoned with….I'm good with that.

Chuck was about to bite the nail off of his finger. Ellie was signing documents, along with Devon. Chuck had forgotten how many NDAs had to be signed each time someone became a part of this mission….well, he was the only one so far that he had watched do paperwork and he was a little numb at that point about becoming the Intersect.

"This is so exciting," Ellie said finishing her stack and grinning at them. "You must have a lot of government contracts to need this much paperwork."

"You'd be surprised," Sarah said. Chuck let out a nervous laugh and she gave him a look to hush him. Maybe Chuck was right. Maybe she wasn't ready for this like she thought she was. "So let's go show you some things." She led them to the back room, put her hand on the scanner, and it opened to Castle. They went in, Casey lagging behind.

"Awesome," Devon muttered.

"That's one," she heard Chuck say under his breath. She elbowed him in the gut. He hadn't forgotten that last night she said Awesome would say awesome about forty-five times. Chuck cleared his throat. "So, Ellie we have this computer program that has been created by the government and put in someone's head. It must have frequent updates but we're not sure of the material in it, or if it's even safe. We have reason to believe different agencies might try to sabotage this project to get sole access to it." Chuck hit the clicker and the Intersect schematics popped up on the screen.

Ellie studied them, her eyes wide. "Chuck, this is so wild. This is like something out of your and dad's sci-fi movies."

"Awesome," Devon muttered. Chuck held up two fingers and Sarah, trying to look mad, but grinning, grabbed those two fingers.

"You need to stop," she said softly. She turned to Ellie. "We think you can help us figure out the neurological part of the Intersect. Chuck is probably best suited for the software part."

"I mean this would take a lot of work," Ellie said pouring through the schematics. "I just wouldn't have the time."

Chuck grabbed two folders slid one to her and one to Devon. "Sis, we'd like you to come work with us. Please, just take a look." She opened the file, glanced at it, and her eyes widened. "You'd be working with us, it would be family." Ellie closed the folder and looked at Chuck. Chuck gulped.

"What aren't you telling me?" She glanced at the schematics. "Who made this, and whose head is it in?"

"Chuck me," Casey muttered and fled.

Ellie pinched the bridge of her nose. She hadn't yelled yet, but that hadn't stopped Chuck from hiding behind Sarah. Several times she told him to get out from behind her, but he reminded her he was under her protection.

"You don't know who created this program?" Ellie asked again muttering.

"Not awesome," Devon agreed. Sarah felt Chuck's fingers in her back trying to count and she had to fight off the simultaneous grin and grimace. Her head shook a little and Chuck's fingers quickly pulled away. "Do you know where he is? How to find out?" Sarah stared at Devon, if they could find the creator, they could get it out of Chuck's head. Make sure the Intersect was safe and not hurting him. That needed to be the lead mission. Find the creator of Intersect.

"No, but it is going to become our main priority." She turned to Ellie. "Ellie, we need you, this project needs you."

"This program could do damage to someone's head, are you going to let me fix it? Do I get full control over the Intersect?"

Sarah sighed. She started to speak when she heard the words behind her.

"I'm the Intersect, Ellie." Ellie's eyes got wide, as she walked toward him. Sarah stepped in front of her. "Sarah, she's not gonna hurt me."

Sarah nodded. "Sorry," she murmured.

Ellie stared at Sarah. A slight grin played on Ellie's lips. "So you protect him."

"Always," she replied, her voice low but confident.

"Because…it's your job?"

"If you mean my job as his fiance, then yes. If you mean my actual job, yes to that to, but I'd quit my job with the government tomorrow if he'd ask me." Chuck was stunned at that. "I have a lot to explain, I get it. But I love your brother and no one gets to hurt him."

"Good," Ellie replied, her eyes dancing. She turned to Chuck. "Why?"

"It kinda wasn't my fault." Ellie tilted her head to the side and crossed her arms.

Sarah winced and decided to save him. "Bryce Larkin sent it to him. He's a spy in the CIA."

Ellie's eyes got wide, again and turned to Sarah. "Bryce Larkin was a spy?"

"Is," Chuck said softly. Ellie turned toward him. He cleared his throat. "Bryce Larkin is a spy, and he's currently running around the world making the bad guys think he has the Intersect in his head." He watched Ellie's reaction. "Listen, he's a jerk, but, he didn't trust the government with the Intersect, so he sent it to me."

"So it's in your head?" Ellie asked for clarification. Chuck nodded. Ellie grabbed the paperwork and began to sign. Chuck saw Awesome give him a thumbs up and mouth, "awesome!" Chuck turned to Sarah who gave him a glare and grin all at the same time. Ellie finished signing, and smacked down the pen. "Now," she said, pointing at the two of them. "What exactly is going on, and don't tell me it's complicated."

Sarah took a deep breath. "It all started when I was supposed to approach Chuck at the Buy More after Bryce had sent him the program." She stopped and looked at him, a warm smile on her face. "As I was hitting on him, trying to get him to ask me out, a dad came up and had screwed up his daughter's dance recital. He looked at the dad and little girl, and then he looked at me, and mouthed, 'sorry.' He went and had his crew setup a stage, so this girl could dance. He told her real ballerinas were tall, and I was in freaking love and didn't know what to do about." Ellie smiled at them as Sarah continued their story.

"Ellie," Chuck began, looking around at how he was strapped into a machine.

"Hush, Chuck. I need some scans and you need to be quiet or we have to do it again, and if I have to do it again I'll tape your mouth shut." Ellie waved for Sarah to follow her and the two left the room.

"Tape his mouth shut?"

Ellie shook her head grinning. "No, but I needed him to be quiet. I need to ask you something and it may upset you."

"Anything," Sarah replied.

"Are you really that good of a spy?" Sarah's mouth dropped. "I mean I've known you've been in love with my brother for a while now." There was a grin on Ellie's face. "Sarah," her voice was softer, and she took Sarah's hand. "You promise you'll keep him safe." Sarah nodded. "Good, because if you don't you'll have me to answer to."

"You know I'm trained in all…" the look on Ellie's face stopped her cold. "You know what. You're his defacto mom and sister, and I'm not trained in that, so point and threat taken, not necessary, but taken."

"Which makes you soon to be my sister." Sarah grinned. "Sarah, do you want it out of his head?"

"Only if it's unsafe and you can't fix it. We've effectively taken him out of the field, but he does manage to do things now and again."

"What if we gave him some physical move sets?"

Sarah grinned. "I like the way you think."

"So, I'm an emergency doctor for CIA or NSA agents, but I am basically here for you guys?" Devon and Casey had slipped away from everyone. Casey and Devon had a weird kinship. They were both part of the family, but they knew sometimes, Chuck and Ellie just had to work things out by themselves.

"And other medical tests or any tests you can run. You'd be surprised how often we could use your knowledge."

"John, thank you for keeping him safe." Casey studied the doctor. "I know you probably have a military background and Chuck, while I love him to death, must try your patience with how he acts sometimes."

Casey was silent for a second. "I've seen a lot of brave men, but Chuck Bartowski takes the cake. He's had all of this thrown on him and he's done the best he can with it. He drives me crazy but I'm proud to be on his team."

"What about the other two employees?"

Casey grunted. "They were codenamed Gretta, but Chuck decided to give them names so he quit confusing himself saying Gretta all the time." Casey shrugged. "All he did was treat them like human beings and they've basically sworn their loyalty to him."

"Chuck does that," Devon agreed nodding. "He's unlike anyone I've ever met." Casey could only nod in agreement.

"It's made too much like a computer program," Ellie said to the group. "I can tweak it, but we need to find the designer of the program. We need whoever created it, because we need to get it out. It's going to eventually drive him crazy." Sarah glanced over at Chuck, concern covering her face. "Sarah, he's okay, we've got time, but we need to figure this out."

"Well, if we don't at least dad won't be the only crazy person in this family." Ellie stared at Chuck. "I know, bad joke." Ellie looked at the schematics again. "Ellie?"

"Nothing, just thinking. Sarah do you think you can begin looking into the creator of the Intersect?"

"As of right now, it's our main mission."

That night found Ellie digging in the top of her closet for a box. She pulled it out, dug around and found the old notebook she was looking for. She studied the drawing, read the notes, and then closed the notebook. She chewed on her thumbnail for a moment, before she grabbed the notebook and took off across the courtyard. She looked at the door in front of her, took a deep breath and knocked. Sarah opened the door.

"Ellie, come on in, Chuck's in the shower."

"Actually I want to talk to you, can we sit at the fountain?"

"Sure," Sarah chirped, shut the door and followed Ellie. Ellie didn't say anything, but thrust the notebook into Sarah's hands. Sarah opened it, flipped through it, looking at parts, and then saw notes on subliminal imagery. Sarah looked at Ellie. "This was the class at Stanford." Ellie nodded. "These drawings…"

Ellie cleared her throat. "They're part of the schematics that I found in the Intersect. I think my dad may have worked on the Intersect, Sarah. I think my dad might have made the Intersect."

Sarah looked over at the door to her apartment. "We can't tell him yet." Ellie gave her a look. "Ellie, we find your dad and we find out if he is the creator of the Intersect. If we tell Chuck what we think then he'll think he's going crazy just like your dad. We know nothing right now."

"Sarah, this is a bad idea."

"You are exactly right, it's a terrible idea, but a worse idea is to tell Chuck that his dad, who you both think is a little crazy, might be the creator. You know what Chuck will do with that information. He'll go worse case scenario. When we get some facts we'll tell him. All we currently have is speculation. I hope to tell him tomorrow, and if we see this may take some time then, we'll tell him." Ellie nodded.

"I don't like this, but you're right, he'll think up something ridiculous, or worse." Sarah took Ellie's hand. "God, Sarah what if dad did make it and what if he can't fix it?"

Sarah gave Ellie a reassuring smile. "Ellie, there are two other Bartowskis that I know and love, and if anyone can figure this thing out, they can. Now go, I'll get to work in the morning figuring this thing out." Ellie nodded, gave Sarah a hug, and went back to her apartment. Sarah slumped over, her elbows on her knees and her hands on her face. They had to figure this out, because there was no way in hell she was losing Chuck Bartowski.

A/N: Uh, David, dude…..wha? Hoped you liked it, reviews are always welcomed…til next time.

#Chuck #Sarah #Charah #The Kiss #fanfic #fanfiction

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sodomyordeath · 7 years

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A ton of random ass questions

Chi figured I’d be bored so she sent me this thingy she found.

1: when you have cereal, do you have more milk than cereal or more cereal than milk? I don’t eat cereal 2: do you like the feeling of cold air on your cheeks on a wintery day? Nope. I hate cold. 3: what random objects do you use to bookmark your books? Bobby Pins 4: how do you take your coffee/tea? Hot 5: are you self-conscious of your smile? Nope 6: do you keep plants? Nope 7: do you name your plants? Nope 8: what artistic medium do you use to express your feelings? Music/Blood 9: do you like singing/humming to yourself? Yep 10: do you sleep on your back, side, or stomach? Yes 11: what's an inner joke you have with your friends? experts and professionals 12: what's your favorite planet? Mars 13: what's something that made you smile today? A NAZI fuck getting punched in the face 14: if you were to live with your best friend in an old flat in a big city, what would it look like? a cross between a library a computer lab and a vampire lair 15: go google a weird space fact and tell us what it is! Not gonna use google for that one but Gravitational waves have two important and unique properties. First, there is no need for any type of matter to be present nearby in order for the waves to be generated by a binary system of uncharged black holes, which would emit no electromagnetic radiation. Second, gravitational waves can pass through any intervening matter without being scattered significantly. Whereas light from distant stars may be blocked out by interstellar dust, for example, gravitational waves will pass through essentially unimpeded. These two features allow gravitational waves to carry information about astronomical phenomena never before observed by humans. 16: what's your favorite pasta dish? I hate pasta 17: what color do you really want to dye your hair? Black and red is fine thank you 18: tell us about something dumb/funny you did that has since gone down in history between you and your friends and is always brought up. Do you want that one about setting the stage on fire or the one where the club got flooded with cow blood? 19: do you keep a journal? what do you write/draw/ in it? You look at it 20: what's your favorite eye color? Red 21: talk about your favorite bag, the one that's been to hell and back with you and that you love to pieces. Oh my old gucci bag? Someone figured he’d be funny and offerd to by me a handbag of my choice. The tears of regret were sweet to me :-) 22: are you a morning person? Fuck no 23: what's your favorite thing to do on lazy days where you have 0 obligations? Answering dumb questions on the internet. 24: is there someone out there you would trust with every single one of your secrets? No, I signed a ton of NDAs in my life. 25: what's the weirdest place you've ever broken into? a underwater cave 26: what are the shoes you've had for forever and wear with every single outfit? Oh my Krokodile Skin boots

27: what's your favorite bubblegum flavor? N/A

28: sunrise or sunset? Sunrise because it say’s it’s time to go to bed 29: what's something really cute that one of your friends does and is totally endearing? Does eating pizza all the time count? 30: think of it: have you ever been truly scared? Nope 31: what is your opinion of socks? do you like wearing weird socks? do you sleep with socks? do you confine yourself to white sock hell? really, just talk about socks. I have black socks. End of story. 32: tell us a story of something that happened to you after 3AM when you were with friends. Be more specific 3AM sounds like 2 hours before I stop DJing 33: what's your fave pastry? Kürtőskalács 34: tell us about the stuffed animal you kept as a kid. what is it called? what does it look like? do you still keep it? Peter, a blue rabbit. No he left this world decades ago 35: do you like stationary and pretty pens and so on? do you use them often? Nope/Nope 36: which band's sound would fit your mood right now? Pentagram or Project Armageddon 37: do you like keeping your room messy or clean? yes 38: tell us about your pet peeves! I hate people that’s about it 39: what color do you wear the most? Black 40: think of a piece of jewelry you own: what's it's story? does it have any meaning to you? Nope it’s just stuff 41: what's the last book you remember really, really loving? Was re-reading Demon Download by Jack Yeovil earlier today. That one is fun. 42: do you have a favorite coffee shop? describe it! Nope 43: who was the last person you gazed at the stars with? Chiara 44: when was the last time you remember feeling completely serene and at peace with everything? Never 45: do you trust your instincts a lot? Yep 46: tell us the worst pun you can think of. follow Mrs. Kasha Davis twitter for bad puns 47: what food do you think should be banned from the universe? That industrial garbage that fast food chains sell all of it 48: what was your biggest fear as a kid? is it the same today? I had none 49: do you like buying CDs and records? what was the last one you bought? No I like owning ‘em. The last one I bought was 45 Grave “Pick your Poison” for Chiara 50: what's an odd thing you collect? Lovers 51: think of a person. what song do you associate with them? Moonskin by Samal reminds me of Chiara 52: what are your favorite memes of the year so far? a NAZI getting punched in the face 53: have you ever watched the rocky horror picture show? heathers?beetlejuice? pulp fiction? what do you think of them? I’ve seen all of ‘em Pulp Fiction is overrated 54: who's the last person you saw with a true look of sadness on their face? N/A 55: what's the most dramatic thing you've ever done to prove a point? Cut a bitch 56: what are some things you find endearing in people? Creativity, salty and bitterness in combination with charm and wits 57: go listen to bohemian rhapsody. how did it make you feel? did you dramatically reenact the lyrics? You watched too much Wayne’s World 58: who's the wine mom and who's the vodka aunt in your group of friends? why? Me and Me 59: what's your favorite myth? Go read about Hel 60: do you like poetry? what are some of your faves? I’m so cliche I like Shelley, Byron, Goethe, Blake

61: what's the stupidest gift you've ever given? the stupidest one you've ever received? I don’t do stupid gifts and the “stupidest” was by a acquaintance who presented me with a very unremarkable bottle of blended scotch. 62: do you drink juice in the morning? which kind? Nope 63: are you fussy about your books and music? do you keep them meticulously organized or kinda leave them be? I take good care of all items in my collection 64: what color is the sky where you are right now? Black 65: is there anyone you haven't seen in a long time who you'd love to hang out with? Haven’t seen Lily Tombstone in person in a long time 66: what would your ideal flower crown look like? Next 67: how do gloomy days where the sky is dark and the world is misty make you feel? Happy :-) 68: what's winter like where you live? Cold 69: what are your favorite board games? Go! 70: have you ever used a ouija board? yep 71: what's your favorite kind of tea? Black and Green Tea 72: are you a person who needs to note everything down or else you'll forget it? Nope 73: what are some of your worst habits? Nothing comes to mind 74: describe a good friend of yours without using their name or gendered pronouns. They love pizza and play a mean guitar. 75: tell us about your pets! I have none 76: is there anything you should be doing right now but aren't? nope 77: pink or yellow lemonade? I don't care as long as there’s enough vodka in there. I really loved Bikers Farm 78: are you in the minion hateclub or fanclub? Banana! 79: what's one of the cutest things someone has ever done for you? The one time I got my enemy’s head on a silver ... oh wait nope that never happened 80: what color are your bedroom walls? did you choose that color? if so, why White because everything else in there is black or silver

81: describe one of your friend's eyes using the most abstract imagery you can think of. Not now maybe later 82: are/were you good in school? yep straight A's School is boring 83: what's some of your favorite album art? Everything by H. R. Giger 84: are you planning on getting tattoos? which ones? 85: do you read comics? what are your faves? Yep Sandman and The Crow 86: do you like concept albums? which ones? I’m not gonna list each and every concept record in my collection but Alice Cooper’s The Last Temptation is one that’s way underrated 87: what are some movies you think everyone should watch at least once in their lives? Metropolis, Blade Runner, Casablanca, Only Lovers left alive, The Hunger, The Rock Horror Picture Show, Velvet Goldmine, This Is Spın̈al Tap, Paris is Burning, 88: are there any artistic movements you particularly enjoy? Dada & Neo-Dada, Transgressive art, Shock art, Bauhaus, Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, Pre-Raphaelitism 89: are you close to your parents? Yep 90: talk about your one of you favorite cities. Look here 91: where do you plan on traveling this year? All over, as usual 92: are you a person who drowns their pasta in cheese or a person who barely sprinkles a pinch? I hate pasta I hate cheese 93: what's the hairstyle you wear the most? A mohawk for the last 24 years 94: who was the last person you know to have a birthday? My sister 95: what are your plans for this weekend? Stay at home and finally get over that dame flu 96: do you install your computer updates really quickly or do you procrastinate on them a lot? Security fixes are instant 97: myer briggs type, zodiac sign, and hogwarts house? google it 98: when's the last time you went hiking? did you enjoy it? not by itself it’s pointless but walking from a to b in nature is fine 99: list some songs that resonate to your soul whenever you hear them. More by Sisters of Mercy, Sweet Soul Sister by The Cult, Because the Night as covered by Beki Bondage 100: if you were presented with two buttons, one that allows you to go 5 years into the past, the other 5 years into the future, which one would you press? why? Future. Year one after Trump should be interresting

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