#it's more the opposite. because these things Didn't happen in the 60s and 70s. that's why being on his own in the 80s is hard

[roobylavender]

im really sorry if this question ends up being repetitive: but, if not for bruce’s over reliance on dick to regulate his thoughts and emotions, why would dick grow up into feeling like he needs to repress his emotions so much and his eagerness to act as people’s support? i know youve spoken about wolfman and his altering of their relationship but if ntt is generally an accurate portrayal of an adult dick, to me this nevertheless sounds like the consequences a parent-child relationship where the responsibilities are titled too much towards the child

i suppose this could also segue into asking for recs that would help me better understand your interpretation of their relationship 👀

not repetitive at all! to me the irony of wolfman's depiction of dick lies in that it is simultaneously something you can logically ascertain from prior canon but not for the reasons actually presented by wolfman. if that makes sense. he does extra work that isn't actually necessary to help explain why dick would act the way that he does because there's plenty of reasons for it without rewriting his history with bruce to have always been suppressed and edgy and dark. to me it makes far more sense to capitalize on the inevitable disconnect between bruce and dick as an adult and a child. batman: full circle is a good example of that dichotomy (and although it was published in the early 90s it built on mike w. barr's prior understanding of the relationship between dick and bruce that he wrote into the early 80s). bruce's primary concern for the people he works with is never standards or finesse but safety. he worries constantly about others coming to harm under his watch and with a child in particular those worries were exacerbated. he ran a tight ship not because he believed dick had anything to prove but because the only way dick could keep being robin was if he went about it safely. that was obv easy for an adult to understand. but not so much for a child

to bruce these worries were practical and par for the course (as well as an expression of his love and protectiveness) but for dick their consequences formed the crux of his entire world. as a child he idolized everything about bruce. his heroism. his work ethic. his skill. his resolve. his preparedness. if dick couldn't live up to the standard he set for himself in idolizing bruce then what could he ever hope to amount to? that was the thought constantly going through his head. and it's why the bulk of his childhood and primary tenure as bruce's partner was so precariously protected by the fact that nothing bad ever really happened during it (and admittedly this framing is convenient because even chronologically speaking nothing very significant happened in their history with each other until dick left for university in 1969) (i know dixon opted to write that whole shtick with dent in his version of events but personally i never found it necessary to do so). there is enough there in the idea of dick working hard for the course of a decade to embody who he believed bruce to be that lends itself to it eventually being difficult for him to healthily express himself once the rift between them actually began to emerge

because what about bruce was there to actually see that was broken and dark before dick became an adult? i know a lot of dick fans hate batman #408 because they don't like that it enforced "retirement" upon dick (which i personally believe is a conclusion they come to because of the way batman #416 re-framed the same scene) but to me that's an inaccurate reading of the text. batman #408 was about bruce (admittedly far too belatedly) recognizing that he could not in good conscience continue to ask dick to go out and be a vigilante on what he considered to be his own "orders". he viewed dick's close call with death at the hands of the joker as something directly of his own making. although their tenure with each other had been wonderful if dick wanted to continue to be a vigilante it had to be on his own terms and of his own volition. obv that was logical to bruce and it was something dick managed to accept in the moment. but it's still hard to go from always having a purpose alongside someone you idolized to finally being entrusted entirely to forge your own

in general i like the idea of dick the adult becoming privy to all of the personal problems and conflicts that come with being a vigilante. he was conveniently shielded from a lot of those problems as a child because all he had to do was be bruce's partner and hope to live up to the title. bruce had no reason to trauma dump on him or talk about his worries and concerns at length with him because it was never supposed to be dick's job to field those worries and concerns in the first place. he was a child. the only thing bruce wanted to do was to help channel his emotions through an outlet and provide him with a home to grow up in. but when you become an adult often that dynamic shifts. you're still not responsible for fielding those worries and concerns but you can perhaps be trusted with them. that's why i like the framing in batman #408 of dick now being a man. it's a subtle way to frame the double-edged sword of adulthood. the world is in your hands now but so will be the horrors that come with it. coming to terms with the real world that bruce lives in should be hard for dick. coming to terms with who bruce is when he's not perfect should be hard. coming to terms with how quietly bruce kept his grief because he did not see fit to overwhelm a child with it should be hard. that dichotomy of dick both wanting to be bruce's brother and his son should form the crux of their conflict with each other because you can't hope to be someone's equal and someone's protected at the same time in that kind of relationship. for dick to transition into the position of equal he has to expose himself to the fact that bruce is not in fact an idol but someone irrevocably human. and that should interfere significantly with his head and his own standards for himself

[betterbemeta]

The idea of the barbie movie makes me feel some way that is hard to describe for the same reason a lot of my agender experiences are hard to describe. There's a lot of concrete language, projected expectations, shared understanding of binary gender experiences... but not very much for 'null' experiences.

Nonbinary experiences are muted in general, but often do get described-- in contrast to the binary. Even 'gender-neutral' is usually conceptualized as androgynous, could-be-male-or-female. 'Neither gender' is usually thought of like, 'a secret third thing' rather than 'nothing.'

I grew up disliking barbies because they were a toy my parents didn't prefer. My parents are older, so they saw a lot of cultural shifts: the '60s as kids, the '70s as young adults, the '80s happened as they began to gain stability and had me in the '90s. So the journey from 'baby dolls' to 'fashion dolls' really didn't hit any feminist women-can-be-adults statement to either of them. They were fully awake for Reaganism and how it turbo-boosted femininity as a consumer product. I know that's the opposite of the typical 'my boomer parents' narrative but it's the truth.

So I didn't play with dolls, dress-up or otherwise, much as a child. I found other outlets for that type of play that satisfied me. I played a lot of pretend, I dressed up in my own costumes, I designed characters, I wrote and drew them, and I 'dressed up' avatars in video games. I really didn't feel like I missed anything.

I began questioning my gender more when I had to present more feminine for things like job interviews and for work. I realized that I was playing a role that was not 'me', but dressing up like a doll. You know, not just 'costume time' but 'costume time, with accessories that come in the box.'

It disturbed me for a little while, but eventually I found the idea freeing. For the first time, I was not just 'bad at doing 'girl' but 'someone who can assume the form of a girl' even if the way I acted and felt was just 'me.' It occurred to me that ordinary girls probably didn't feel like they were collecting 'garb' like for a SCA event or a ren faire to go into the city every day. I am going to the party in disguise, I am a shapeshifter, I can Assume The Form You're Comfortable With, impostor syndrome who?

For a lot of people, this would be 'being in the closet.' Or it would be 'girlmoding' or 'boymoding' or whatever. And others might be like, 'it's not trans representation to present as the gender you're assigned at birth!' But it's actually impossible to 'present as' the null. We don't look at the people around us and think 'are they all in costume, pretending? What if they're nothing?'

In fact, conservative power despises this idea and projects it on the most vulnerable people in the queer community. If somebody passes an anti-cross-dressing law, they think they are safe from doubt. But if they went to a wedding and everyone in their gowns and suits told them, we're not men or women, it's dress-up, it would be a nightmare for them.

To me, the idea of 'a doll' is that whatever the plastic looks like, that is not a girl. Ceci n'est pas une pipe, you know?

[sabakos]

Hm, on one hand your post irritates me because I did pretty poorly in my STEM degree but unequivocally Learned Things, but on the other hand I would have definitely Learned More Things if I didn't have to come up with thousands of dollars every year for tuition and transportation. Don't you think failing everyone who gets a C- or less is a bit extreme?

This might have been specific to my experience or to physics rather than all of STEM, but the people who were getting a C- weren't getting a 70% on all of their exams, everything in upper level classes was necessarily graded on a curve. Which is the correct way to do it imo, it's hard to design an exam so that people who "know" the material all score exactly in the 70-100% range on the exam. Usually this is accomplished by erring on the side of challenging the students more rather than less, where 50% or so of the material on the exam is something you expect anyone would know, and the remainder is more challenging and requires an actual synthesis and understanding of the material, and often this gets you a nice distribution. But sometimes the professor messes up and they need to salvage an exam that was accidentally too challenging, where the class average was in the 60s. I even had an E&M exam that was so hard the professor refused to tell us anything beyond "none of you got a passing grade so I'm not counting it." So despite the appearance of numerical data, evaluation is a lot less of an exact science than one might expect!

But to illustrate the point, we had the opposite problem happen once with a newer professor, he accidentally screwed up and made the (take home!) midterm so easy in senior-level Intro to Quantum Mechanics that the median score was 100. This was, admittedly, complicated by the fact that due to our program's research specialties in AMO meant that at least a handful of us already knew everything there was to learn in that class before we took it. But despite this median score, which was achieved by more than just the kids who already knew the material, the lower mode of people still scored poorly! So there wasn't really much to do other than make the final nigh-impossible, which meant that all of those C and D kids failed to graduate on time anyway and had to "retake" quantum the next year when the curve would be more forgiving. I'm skeptical from having talked to and worked with many of them that they actually learned anything beyond intro physics.

However, I am probably being somewhat unfair in ways I don't realize due to, quite frankly, immense privilege. I came into college with two years worth of credit from AP exams and still took a full courseload and graduated in four, not only summa cum laude, but #2 in my class, despite basically taking no freshman and barely any sophomore-level classes to pad my GPA with. I thrived on the stress and conflict of test-taking and laughed (while still crying) about take-home exams that could and did take an entire weekend. I took the Putnam exam "for fun" my sophomore year and got a 10, beating all the math majors who took it that year. I was an obnoxious asshole about all of this, which I should probably regret more than I do. But by all accounts this means I'm the entirely wrong person to know what causes people to struggle with exams even if they do know the material. Throw sharp and heavy things at me, I probably deserve it.

But despite all that... I still feel that I didn't learn all of the physics as well as I probably should have? Many of those curves were strongly weighted in my favor because I happened to be the first or second highest score, which meant I got basically the same final grade in a class whether I slacked off a bit or not. And yeah, I think part of it is that Physics is really hard, and a four-year undergrad program with rigidly scheduled exams is not going to be remotely accessible or accommodating to anyone with a severe disability or extenuating life circumstances.

But when it's the same kids every semester who are barely passing, I think that at some point you have to say that even if the system *is* fundamentally broken and unfair, it's both of those things in a way where the people it's failed really haven't learned anything and so shouldn't receive a degree saying they have? Possibly they often don't even know what they don't know? I think that most physics classes form roughly discrete packets of curriculum, but as someone who has written and scored exams, I don't think 70% on an exam doesn't imply that even close to 70% of the knowledge was mastered. I'm not sure that any exam I took was ever that comprehensive, and I don't think that "learned some things" rather than nothing is really enough to cut it.

[pttucker]

Han Sooyoung spoke through gritted teeth. "Yoo Joonghyuk became an 'author." "Why did he suddenly get such an attribute?" "I guess he wanted to write a new story in a very sincere manner. That is the condition to opening the 'author' trait." I could understand but also didn't understand. A world that couldn't complete the round but was struggling to survive… Yoo Joonghyuk went out of it in order to write his own story.

Okay, so it’s actually possible that Dokja will get the writer attribute one day as well? I assume if he happens to get it, it'll be when he stops thinking of himself as a reader and completely deviates from the novel.

Like, Dokja keeps talking about wanting to make his story, and he has made choices that Joonghyuk didn’t make, but I’m guessing he’s actually been following the novel in some way probably 60-70% of the time. Sure, Joonghyuk didn’t destroy the Throne in his third round but he did eventually destroy it. He didn’t fight an outer god in the early scenarios but he did fight one. He eventually went to the underworld. He eventually did most of the things Dokja has done. So I guess that while Dokja remains somewhat on the path of Joonghyuk, even if he’s stopping to do some things Joonghyuk wouldn’t chose to do, he won’t be considered making his own story.

"Yoo Joonghyuk is no longer a character. What do you think that means?" I closed my mouth. "It is no longer a novel." My heart pounded at Han Sooyoung's words. [The exclusive skill 'Fourth Wall' is strongly activated!]

And speaking of stories, Dokja is really holding onto the idea that this is a novel, isn’t he? I mean, obviously he would see it as a novel more than anyone else, save the author, but I’m starting to worry what might happen if he fully accepts that it maybe it isn't. People are starting to question Dokja over his belief that it's a novel and, honestly, whether it started as one or not, the fact that he's living it right now and can't seem to find a way out of it sort of implies that it's not anymore? Or that it's both at least - a novel and real life.

Actually, Dokja hasn’t gotten back around to looking into it yet (if he even wants to) but there's still so much going on in regards to Dokja being a character (potentially, we don't know what his attributes window says right this moment) and Joonghyuk not being a character. So because Joonghyuk is moving past what the novel has written about him, he can no longer be considered a character, which is the opposite of the apostles who became characters when they reached the end of their knowledge for TWSA.

But that just makes me wonder how Dokja could ever possibly be considered a character. (Without getting into theories of Dokja having always been one, which I’m still on the fence about.)

Obviously the Sooyoung of the 1863rd realm is a character now but I’m starting to wonder if it’s not as simple as “you’ve read up to here and this person hasn’t” or vice versa if you started as a character. I’m wondering if it’ll come down to Dokja really accepting that this isn’t a novel anymore and how that might affect his ability to change (or even read) TWSA.

Also, the fact that both Joonghyuk and Sooyoung were able to split themselves, and that's not even counting the fact that Dokja went into a parallel TWSA while his 3rd round still existed somewhere, really does lead me back to my old theories that Secretive Plotter and/or Joonghyuk's sponsor is going to be alternate universe Dokja and/or Joonghyuk. Not to mention the fact that Dokja's ending is both final chapter and eternity while Joonghyuk is the eternal guy who can't die due to his sponsor's stigma...

It does answer a question I had about whether Joonghyuk could choose not to regress or not. Like, Dokja's Joonghyuk seemingly did just that, but now I wonder if that was just for that moment and if he dies fully he can't stop it? Like, if it were that easy for Joonghyuk to just not regress, why hasn't he before? Unless the only reason 1863rd Joonghyuk was comfortable not regressing was because he believed Sooyoung would save the world for him.

...Which is, uh, kind of similar to the faith Dokja's Joonghyuk has placed in him now that I think about it.

[catoptro-pho-bia]

i do see plenty of people complaining at tryst six venom (p. douglas) being homophobic and fetishizing lesbians, that the women seem "written by a man" and how it is an overall disgusting book, and after reading and analysing it a couple times (because i did enjoy it for... various reasons) i want to have my take on it:

• from what i know, penelope is popular for her bullying romance/s, which (exception tsv) are pretty much heterosexual. i don't say it is a healthy manner to approach romance, i say it is a pattern of her writing that didn't show up when she published a wlw book

• regarding homophobia (because Clay used slurs), i want to ask a question before my argument: how do you see homophobic people act? or talk about queer people? Clay, as a characther, for 70% percent of the book, she's fighting with self homophobia, which i am sorry is this a new word for you? how many queer people fight with this on a daily basis? there are plenty issues with the book, if i like it doesn't mean i can't approach the actual issues, but homophobia because there are slurs in the book? CLAY IS HOMOPHOBIC? RAISED IN A HOMOPHOBIC SOCIETY? how do you expect her to think/talk? don't get me started with the enviroment that allowed/pushed her to grow this way in her teenagehood. they were pretty much explained if you actually TAKE YOUR TIME and read through the lines :D

• another thing is fetishising wlw which i do have some words to add. in olivia's pov, the way she process some events/ interactions, tell the story how she feels being fetishised, realising people can take advantage of your sexuality, besides the bullying, and how pretty much it reflects the real world. you think it's disgusting? it happens daily to queer people. is it toxic for a straight (i dont think she is too straight based on how she wrote some scenes but lets not assume peoples sexuality😭) woman to write about it? yes, IF the character would be made to normalise it. liv didn't. 60% of her development is based on her fighting it, being tired of it, running from it, teasing with it, etc. all the stages, call it what you want. it happens daily. it happens irl.

• the "women that seem written by men" argument pissed me off the most, because in media, from which i've seen, often the lesbian couples are made from one girly/femme girl and the other is kinda masculine/butch or stem which feeds more into the stereotype of "who is the man in relationship?" and that a wlw couple has to contain one feminine and one masculine side. i don't have any issues with these couples. but the fact that both were pretty feminine as style and personality, doesn't mean they were made for the male gaze/ by a male gaze. femmes can fall for other femmes too, you know.

• i think penelope showed through clay how it is to battle inner homophobia (especially as a queer person) and the fear of rejection from the loved ones, and how this can turn into hate and make you do disgusting things. make it make sense how it's homophobic 😭😭😭

there are, as well, lots of problematic parts: from the marker scene (that made me give an instant -1 without discussion, unnecessary scene), from liv accepting a bit TOO MUCH in the name of love -but it's a common thing in these kind of books-, livs brothers that piSSED ME OFF they are annoying, to the almost r*pe scene, i mean i got the idea of it but she could send the message a bit more.. differently, aaaand etc.

are liv and clay one my confort characthers? yes. is the book problematic to some extent? yes. is the book homophobic/fetishising wlw? i'm sorry but it doesn't make sense to me HOW.

you don't like a book, that's cool, but from that to shitting on an author (which i somehow get bc she isn't my favourite as well but you do you) for the opposite she tried to show in a book? :)))) cmon

[waugh-bao]

Keith: people are scared of him, always has a knife on his person. Also Keith: loves to hold hands, enthusiastically hugs and kisses his drummer. Charlie: always described as being kind and gentle, a cinnamon bun. Also Charlie: knocks a man with a gun completely unconscious because he wants peace to watch tv.

There is a real contrast between image and reality, no doubt.

Although I think, because of how famous the story of Charlie punching Mick is, more people realize that he was capable of being tough/kickass than know that Keith isn't nearly as scary as his image might suggest. The quote from Andy Johns, a sound engineer and Glyn's brother, is always good on that:

“I was especially scared of Keith 'cause he's such a scary character. I was scared shitless of Keith for years. The way he looked was so fuckin' evil. And of course he's not like that at all. Keith is an old softie completely. But I didn't know that. And Keith does put up that front. He loves to play that out. Most of the time he believes that.”

The thing is, the older Keith gets, the worse he is at hiding the fact that he actually is "an old softie." Especially in regards to Charlie. You could theoretically trace a whole kind of development pattern with it.

1960s: The Era of Playing It Cool

The early Stones were working hard to cultivate their bad boy image, and Keith certainly contributed by trying to act above it all when it came to Charlie. Not that he was mean (in more than a kidding way, at least), but the enthusiasm for his drummer that we all know and love wasn't quite on display yet:

That being said, even in the '60s, what would develop later was starting to peek through. Keith and Charlie never looked as awkward in publicity shots or candids, for example, as Bill and Brian or Mick Taylor often did together. Those two are about to fall out of the hammock as they try their hardest not to touch each other, while Keith and Charlie are happily curled up with each other on the opposite side:

1970s: The Era with the First Real Glimmers of Fanboying to Come

'70s Keith, like Robert Greenfield's book on the STP shows, was still capable of being a little tough on Charlie, but it hardly ever lasted:

“During the first show the tempo on stage got a little tangled with Charlie hanging back a beat or two and Keith began shouting, 'Faster, Charlie, faster. Fuck you. COME ON,’ stamping in time to show what he meant. It’s something that’s happened before, and the two of them go offstage with their arms around each other.”

This was also when we get the first glimpse of Keith going gaga over Charlie in interviews. The quotes aren't quite as prosaic as they would be later, but the enthusiasm is there in spades:

(He was saying that in reference to a journalist asking why the band was still together in 1978).

And this picture was probably, in retrospect, the biggest sign of what was to come. In that Keith would be less and less capable of hiding the expression as the years went on:

1980s: The Era When It Started to Become Really and Truly Clear That Keith Had It Bad for Charlie

Keith in the '80s, just as before, definitely wasn't above communicating his affection by getting a bit rough, like when Charlie wasn't paying enough attention to Mick's introduction and was, unacceptably for Keith, missing out on the audience's roaring reception for him, but he was as likely to hold hands as throw a fake punch:

Here is when the long, dissertation worthy disquisitions on the personal and professional excellence of Charlie Watts begin to become a mainstay of Keith interviews, too. I won't reproduce the entire (amazing) quote, because it will take up at least two paragraphs of space, but this one from 1988 is a classic of the genre:

"Charlie is incredibly honest...He just sees right through you to start with. And he's not even that interested in knowing, he just does. That's Charlie Watts. He just knows you immediately. If he likes you, he'll tell you things, give you things, and you'll leave feeling like you've been talking to Jesus Christ...So you see what I mean about who the hell can I possibly play with after this guy with such a sense of space and touch. The only word I can use for Charlie is deep."

Of course, it can't be forgotten that this is the Keith who put aside his bitter feud with Mick to go see Charlie's first venture as a solo jazz performer, and to cheer him on together:

1990s: The Era When We Found Out That Keith Wasn't Just a Member of the Charlie Watts Fan Club, He Was The President

Well, co-president, with Mick.

'90s Keith took a sharp turn for the softer about the man he described as "my favorite person", and never turned back. I have limited space here, so I can't get out all the gifs and pictures, but this is the decade when Keith felt absolutely zero shame about kissing Charlie on the side of the mouth, cheek, or head in front of a stadium full of people. Or the international press corps. Or his wife.

What he had to say then reflected the same gentler, more sentimental spirit:

“I drove up to the joint we were rehearsing in one afternoon, and I could hear these drums going. I thought ‘Ah, Charlie’s here’. So I killed the engine and sat in the car for about five minutes listening to him playing – just warming up. ‘Yeah, soundin’ good’. Then I started to get my stuff together to go inside, and I happened to see myself in the driving mirror. I had this silly grin on my face. I didn’t even know I was smiling, but that’s what Charlie does for me.”

He wasn't kidding, either. Charlie simply laughing at one of his jokes was enough to provoke that look:

2000s: The Era When The Full Extent of Keith's Love for Charlie Became Something Anyone (And Everyone) Could See

Between Keith's memoir, Life (which was published in 2010 but written earlier), and Martin Scorcese's Shine A Light, pretty much anyone who hadn't yet caught on to Keith's total adoration for Charlie in the preceding four decades wasn't possibly going to be able to miss it now.

Even a little.

And not only because Scorsese chose to keep in a scene where Keith tries to convince him to stick a camera in Charlie's bass drum because he's "the only one" who sees all of the amazing stuff that happens in there:

As to Life, the easiest way to explain what happened there is to say that one of the early chapters of the book has a 20 or so page saga, written in some of the most excited prose of the book, about everything Keith (and Mick) did to get Charlie to become their drummer, and how it all paid off because Keith snagged himself "the best jazz drummer of the goddamn century", so anyone that thinks otherwise can fight him:

"Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated...also had the young Charlie Watts on drums and sometimes Ian Stewart on piano. That's where I fell in love with the men!...We said, "God, we'd love to have that Charlie Watts if we could afford him" - we all thought he was a God-given drummer - and then Stu put the feelers out...“We starved ourselves in order to pay for him! Literally. We went shoplifting to get Charlie Watts. We cut down on our rations we wanted him so bad, man. And now we’re stuck with him! To me Charlie Watts was the secret essence of the whole thing."

He was just as bad on the book tour:

2010s to Present: The Era of Absolute (Public) Devotion

Honestly, this is probably the Keith that has always existed inside, since the first day he saw Charlie with Alexis Korner and "fell in love" with him, fully liberated.

It's certainly the Keith we're all used to in terms of just limitless physical affection and overwhelming enthusiasm for Charlie. No-one blinks an eye when Keith calls Charlie "absolutely the coolest guy I know" and we expect nothing less than this whenever he has a chance to talk:

"Charlie Watts is playing his arse off! He’s absolutely amazing. It’s indescribable to find a drummer like Charlie Watts, exceptionally brilliant. I can never praise Charlie enough."

The last statement is, of course, the truest.

[mooniemp3]

It's well known that Ollie had a bad relationship with Hawkman (Carter/Katar but in this post I'll refer to him as Katar) It was said that their relationship is bad bc of ideology, Ollie being a leftist/liberal (depending the version) and Katar a conservative. The first time I read Katar being referring as such was in Justice League International #20 btw I love the JLI but its Katar version is a exaggerated one (obviously for fun) and represented him as being a really strict angry man that hates jokes (doesn't understand them and still takes thing seriously) and thinks the JLA was better before bc their were "more serious" (that's a lie btw) It's somehow a strange version bc if you read Katar comics from that time, he was really a chill dude.

When you read Katar and Ollie's interactions from the JLA comics (60s, 70s and 80s), well, actually all that was bullshit. The reason why they have such a complicated relationship is because of their personalities (Katar being too rigid and rule-oriented and Ollie being the opposite, also the fact that Katar is too serious and don't understand jokes while Ollie is always telling jokes, also Katar being an introverted, kinda shy and not so talkative person and Ollie being the exact opposite) In fact, Ollie acted the same way with every JLA member, the only difference with Katar was that he take what Ollie says seriously and cannot say something.

Justice League of America (1960) #104

This was the first time Ollie said something that Katar didn't take well. But as you can see, it's more about they being themselves.

Justice League of America (1960) #109

In fact, when Katar announced that he was leaving the JLA, Ollie had a bad reaction to it. It's not like he hated Katar (although, Hawkman thought that), he just liked to mess with him (as I say, he acts like that with everybody, including Dinah and Hal)

But obviously Katar came back. And then it was kinda common that they tried to had a better relationship, always having Dinah and Shayera by their side bc they are friends. Both, Katar and Ollie tried. But, like I say, it's difficult. Katar tends to take things literally and has a hard time knowing when someone is joking or being serious. And Ollie tends to be too sarcastic, sometimes uses a lot of metaphors and expressions that can be confusing if you are someone who take things literall, also he's too direct with what he's saying and speaks his mind off. They always gonna have a communication problem bc they don't even know about that they have differences understanding and talking with each other.

Justice League of America (1960) #145

Then I think their relationship is more about communication problems and having really different personalities, and not about their ideology. If you think about it, Ollie has this same problem with Barry (Barry is pretty similar to Katar) but with him, the problem also includes ideology (Barry defending the police, I know Katar is also a policeman but for some reason he didn't get defensive like Barry) and issues around who is Hal's best friend.

Justice League of America (1960) #145

See, Ollie says something and Katar just doesn't know if he's being serious and too direct or not, Dinah knows he's being rude with him btw. But after all they kinda develop a nice relationship.

The only time they actually had a discussion about their moral code was when Barry killed Reverse Flash. The JLA had to vote if Barry will continue to be a member or not. Katar voted to expel him and Ollie voted that Barry had to still be a JLA member, also defending him. This is the only one disagreement they have that was tough.

Justice League of America (1960) #225

The funny thing about this disagreement is that not so much later Katar is gonna regret a lot his first opinion about Barry's situation. Like I said before, he is too rigid and rule-oriented but after some thing that happened to him, he understood better why Barry accidentally killed Eobard.

Hawkman Special (1986)

But also sometimes Ollie could be mean and rude with others. The JLA members didn't take him seriously or didn't engage in having a discussion with him. But Katar sometimes couldn't handle it, other moments he just didn't care/ignored Ollie's intention.

Ollie was pretty wild and rude, he was almost all the time arguing with other JLA members or saying whatever thing he was thinking.

Justice League of America (1960) #151

Fun fact: In Hawkworld (1989), a post-crisis comic about Katar's origin story, is established that he was from a aristocratic family living in the Winged World where the upper class were. But he had a different ideology, deciding to join the wingmen (Thanagar's police) to help people from the lower classes. He was also fixated with Thanagar's history, thinking the present of his planet is rotten and horrible. He was a little bit like Oliver (I know this version of Katar is supposed to not be the same one that joined to the JLA but based on Hawkman from 2018 their are the same person now) So, again, their tense relationship isn't from having different ideology.

Btw, in the 00s it was established this version of Hawkman who was too conservative and so annoying and shitty (I hate this version so much omg, I'm going to pretend it doesn't exists) This version is supposed to be the first one that mixed Carter (a guy from the 40s) with Katar (the thanagarian dude) And it was with this version that it was said Hawkman and Oliver hated each other for their ideology and moral code. Another point to add: This version of Hawkman is more aggressive, hothead and, like I said before, annoying. The Hawkman that Ollie knew was really kind and kinda socially awkward, really different btw.

So yeah, I hate the retcon of their relationship bc the original was so funny lmao. I like their dynamic a lot. And they kinda became friends lol.

[janus-show-yourself]

It was arrival day for the conversion camp,and Virgil didn't want to be apart of this at all.He had thought coming out to his parents as gay and trans was going to end up good,he thought they would say they love him no matter what.Instead...Instead he was stupid and idiotic.Instead he was a fool and the exact opposite happened.He was locked in his room until the day came to step into the bus that would'help to cleanse from the demons inside his body'.Yeah..He was stupid and now was regretting it

Janus was in a similar boat, coming out a gender fluid and gay was not exactly the best thing he could’ve done. His parents said that it’s not normal, and said he needed fixing. He thinks it was more of the gay reason because they didn’t exactly know what the term gender fluid was till he told them. He had all of his bags being unloaded into the cabin he was in and setting up his bunk bed where he was on the top of. He had no clue what was going to happen, he’s heard stories that they did years ago in like the 70’s and 60’s so he couldn’t imagine it would be that bad nowadays. He took a deep breath and sat on the top of his bed, in jeans and a yellow and black button down dress shirt.

[imnothinginparticular]

#finishedbooks Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall. Had this on my wish list forever, and wasn't sure what to expect, but it immediately started to remind me a lot of the previously reviewed book "Culture of Narcissism". Both were written in the 70s and felt dated with this one seemingly to have aged worse with the human potential movement seeming to be what he is relating...that we now know led to nothingness more or less because going so far into yourself (relating to "Culture of Narcissism") that social injustices and all those things that mattered in the 60s, devolved into a sort of individual socialism of self help. With that he changes gears and goes into the importance of the role context plays in societies and this was where the book became amazing to me because if you know me I always stress context! He goes about this by providing a high and low scale of context in societies that to an extent is predicated on language and spreads through out. High context (HC) communication is one in which most of the information is either in physical context or internalized in the person while very little is in the coded, explicit, transmitted part of the message. Low context (LC) communication is just the opposite, that is the mass of the information is vested in the explicit code. Relating this to societies, America would be on the lower end of context needed in everyday life than say China where at its most fundamental in language, requires considerable context to understand (there are 214 radicals). Further and fun fact, Chinese orthography (calligraphy) is even an art form, where no low context communication system has ever been an art form, which makes sense because good art is always high context and therefore persists. Spreading from linguistics...anywhere one looks the subtle hand of contexting can be detected. Both HC and LC underlie the law of societies as it is designed to operate a part from the rest of life. In the US there is the common inadmissibility of testimony that sets our courts apart and makes them harsh, inhuman and impersonal. One has to only think of the common court room drama phrase, “Answer the question, Yes or No.” Where one might say, "yes, but..." and be denied the chance to contextualize. Such a statement reveals the US courts as the epitome of low context systems that do not afford equal treatment. But if this system is to operate it requires highly skilled and thoughtful jurors who in effect are in place to bring context to the system balancing it out. In contrast, French courts offer more leeway and in effect want to find out as much as possible about the circumstances behind the surface acts that brought the people to the bench. Everything is admissible, so in effect French trials are much higher contexts than US ones. Pardoxly, the French system then places the decision solely in the hands of a judge, removing the American added source of contexting balance. So you will see one system is not better than the other, only that they are different and are consistently representative of the culture's contextual spectrum. Moving from law to literature the author correctly points to Japanese literature and cites in particular Kawbata Yasunari as a great example of HC which I would entirely agree with. He didn't but I will add Kawabata utilizes mono no awaré while rejecting plot and bases meaning upon simple everyday instances for something terse, laconic, and concerned as much with what is left out as left in....negative space. Things happen and there aren't causal connections like convential narratives, but associative ones more like poetry. There is an intergal structure with an impossibly rigorous internal logic of their own all suggesting the amount of context required. A lot of staples of classic Japanese cinema reinforce this as well from Mizoguchi who refused close ups which I would consider the most LC camera move in cinema to Ozu who would be a perfect example....

[anettrolikova]

A day in my life really depends on what's happening. That said, usually I have themes. For instance, I have a priority list, and I have decision logs that chronicle all the things I am trying to figure out.

I end up trying to insert themes into my days. Like today, for instance, I have a meeting with my small team to begin the week; I reserved my afternoon for product reviews—what we call “greenpathing exercises”—where, oddly, I'm trying to discern how everyone is thinking about the main things we're working on. I do this because oftentimes I feel as though I am the connective tissue combining operations, finance, and more formal business functions with the product itself. This connection helps me to make good decisions.

A lot of this is almost automatic by just having a good color coding system, which is really fun

I made two decisions: one, I'm going to try to learn as much about business as possible. But, if business is very different from software architecture, I'm going to be no good no matter what I do. And so, I ran an experiment to treat engineering principles, software architecture, complex system design, and company building as the same thing. Effectively, we looked for the business equivalent of just turning off servers to see if the system has resiliency. For instance, we used to ask people to use their mouse on their non-dominant hand for a day. We introduced these little nudges to ensure that people didn’t become complacent.

I believe that the job we all have in life is to acquire knowledge and wisdom and then share it. I just don’t know what else there is. This is the bedrock of my belief system.

When I get close to any field, I think about how far I want to go. I'm probably further along with programming. I don’t know if I want to get from 90 to 91% in programming when, with the same amount of work, I could figure out the first 60 to 70% of UX or even something like drawing. There’s a recent book about this called Range, which I really like. The book pushes in this direction and explores this topic a bit more than I do. But I just found myself nodding throughout reading it, because it turns out that very often—really, every field has fundamental wisdom that you discover when you're learning and talking to the people who have mastered it. I find that going wide and learning the best lessons from the people who have dedicated their entire lives to a certain pursuit gets you really, really close to mastery.

people show up with a mastery of certain instruments. Someone ends up being the jazz director and the rest of the band follows

I've always gravitated towards competing against myself in most things.

I really love failing. I feel so good when I do something, and it just doesn't work; especially if I get the feedback about why it didn't work. That gives me a project to work at to improve. And so maybe that's sort of interesting regarding losses.

the major reason why video games are valuable is because of this concept of transfer learning. For instance, people who are good at chess understand when it's time to perform tactics, and when it's time to focus on positional development. Not just in chess, but also in life.

I have found it really, really useful to be able to reason about a relationship without getting egos involved too much. I can have a conversation with someone saying, “Hey, you made a commitment to ship this thing, and you did. That's awesome. That's a super big charge on the trust battery, but you’re actually late for every meeting. Even though that's relatively minor—like it decreases 0.1% on your battery—you should fix that.”

It plays a role like that. That said, it's not useful to talk about trust as a binary thing. People are quick to say, “You don't trust me!” And it's actually more, “Well, no, I trust you to a certain level, but you would like more trust; you want trust at a completely different level.”

if your cell phone is 80% charged, you're not worried about finding a charger. But when your phone in your pocket goes into low battery mode, you're thinking about your phone a lot. What people want to do in a company is get to the 80% or 100% level in the area that they run. You gain full autonomy this way. It’s a process that cannot be given to people by title or something like that.

The reason why it was the best thing for me is because it's almost the perfect counterfactual to how you should run a company. I honestly think that, you know, a coin flip has a batting average of 50%. If you just do the perfect opposite of literally everything about that place, you would probably clock in at 60 to 70% of getting everything right, which would mean you would outperform probably 90% of all companies in the world.

Among other things, almost every incentive system was just wrong. For instance, there was no way you would get a promotion or recognition if you weren't dressed in a suit or if you didn’t use slides in a particular way that resembled the legal profession.

It's infantilization because you literally have a policy about how to dress. If you have a policy on how to dress, that means you don't trust people to dress. It was a pretty stark experience.

We are building hopefully amazing software for absolutely amazing people, like people who are unbelievably brave and really adaptable. Society tries to talk people out of this, like no one wants other people to be successful building companies. Silicon Valley might have gotten to a level of enlightenment where company building is actually encouraged, but the rest of the world isn’t like this.

The learning curve of being a great executive is a lot less like learning the guitar, and a lot more like skydiving. It’s the kind of thing you should not do without an instructor. A coach is probably one of the highest returns on investment anyone can do with their attention. An hour spent with a coach has a 10x, 50x, 100x potential return on time spent.

Our strategy was to hire as many high potential people as we could and have them get to their potential much faster than they actually imagined was possible. Personal growth has no real speed limit. It's more dependent on how often a student is ready, and that often depends on the environment and the norms of a culture around the student. For instance, how often is the teacher appearing when the student is ready? If you can line this up at a fairly high hit rate, then people can go through nearly ten years of career development within a single calendar year. I know the 10x thing is overplayed now, but I have absolutely seen it.

Hey, the reason why you've got this job is not because of everything you know, but because you seem like the kind of person who can figure it out when you need to know something.” That's very basic but also very liberating.

One thing that really makes it work is that we are just extremely different. Almost the only overlap we have is in how much we care about the mission of this company. Outside of that, his skill set is extremely different; his input is extremely different; his life experience is very different. It's very intuitive for us when to go with one of our ideas because this is what a relationship with a 100% trust battery looks like.

I had the source code for Linux, I signed up for the Linux kernel mailing list, and I listened to how they talked about computer architecture. I then spent all my time trying to figure out what these terms meant.

The meaningful thing about this story is that it points at a fallacy. The other important thing is it implies that people in groups end up really cancelling each other's good parts and exposing one another's downsides.

why are technical founders overperforming the market right now? I don't actually think it's because they're technical. I think it's because of a very specific childhood experience that a lot of the people running technology companies have had. Most of us grew up in a world which we knew would change significantly because it was really badly designed given what we knew about the potential coming soon. And this potential coming soon was the march of computers and digitalization. I think that a lot of us, including myself, have leveraged this insight into significant enterprise value.

Norman gave permission to really hate the door instead of hating yourself when you push it instead of pulling it. That is not your fault. No human has ever been at fault for pushing instead of pulling. That has always been the fault of the people who designed the door.

People who learn how to think about how to do things in their environment better, and to understand that the objects in their everyday life have not been designed or created by people who are smarter than they are—they are the people who will become entrepreneurs.

[taka-oneokrock]

Taka do all them NSFW questions for me? I didn't see those.~😏😉

NSFW Asks

1: When did you lose your virginity?

With 16.

2: Rough sex or soft sex?

Both, but I am more on the rough side.

3: Do you have any unusual kinks/fetishes?

No, I don’t think I do.

4: Weirdest place you’ve had sex?

What may seem to weird, may seem normal to others.

5: Favourite sex position?

Sorry, I can’t write done just one here.

6: Do you like to be dominant or submissive?

With the right person I become naturally submissive.

7: Have you ever had any one night stands?

Yes, it happened but I wasn’t looking for it.

8: Sex on the bed, couch or the floor?

The order sounds good to me.

9: Have you ever had sex in a public place?

Yes and I am not ashamed of it.

10: Have you ever been caught masturbating?

No.

11: What does your favourite sexy underwear look like?

I have none so sue me.

12: How often do you have sex?

It has been a long time actually.

13: Is there anybody right now you’d like to have sex with?

Yes and I think you know that person.

14: Do you prefer giving or receiving oral sex?

I can’t really say.

15: Most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you during sex?

Laughed too much.

16: A song you’d listen to during hard/rough/kinky sex?

???

17: A song you’d listen to during soft/slow/passionate sex?

Can’t think of one.

18: Are you into dressing up for sex?

Not really.

19: Would you prefer sex in the bath or sex in the shower?

Shower.

20: If you could have sex with anyone right now, who would it be?

You should know the answer.

21: Have you ever had a threesome? If not, would you?

No and I wouldn’t.

22: Do you/would you use sex toys?

Sure.

23: Have you ever sent someone a dirty text/picture?

Yes.

24: Would you have sex with your best friend?

If we were also a couple then yes.

25: Is there anything you do after sex? (for example, smoke, eat, drink)

Cuddling, kissing...

26: Something that will never fail to get you horny?

Neck kisses.

27: Early morning sex or late night sex?

Both

28: Favourite body part on the opposite sex?

Lips, eyes and legs.

29: Favourite body part on the same sex?

Lips, eyes and arms.

30: Something that you have hidden in your room that you don’t want anyone to find:

Nothing.

31: Weirdest sexual act some has performed [or tried to perform] on/with you:

None?

32: Have you ever tasted yourself? [If no, would you?] [If yes, what did you think?]

I did through kissing and it wasn’t too bad.

33: Is it ever okay to not use a condom:

It is okay if both partners know what they are doing.

34: A food that you would like to use during a sexual experience:

???

35: Worst possible time to get horny:

Right before going on stage.

36: Do you like it when your sexual partner moans?

Yes, I do.

37: How much fapping is too much fapping:

Depends on the person.

38: Best sexual complement you ever got:

Sometimes no words are the best compliment.

39: Favorite foreplay activities:

Kissing, touching each other....

40: What do you wear to bed?

Usually just some boxers.

41: When was the first time you masturbated:

Already answered that.

42: Do you have any nude/masturbating pictures/video of yourself?

I had some pics.

43: Have you ever/when was the last time you had sex outside?

I had sex outside but it has been a while ago.

44: Have/would you ever have sex in public?

Yes to both.

45: Have/would you ever had a threesome?

Not my thing.

46: What is one random object you’ve used to masturbate?

None?

47: Do you watch gay/lesbian porn? why/why not?

I watch whatever looks nice.

48: Do you like oral sex? (why/why not)

I like it because it feels good.

49: How do you feel about tattoos on someone you are interested in?

I love tattoos. I have some too.

50: How would you feel about taking someones virginity?

It would depend on how old that person is. Never going for minors.

51: Is there any food you would NOT recommend using during a sexual encounter?

I pass.

52: Would you rather be a pornstar or a prostitute?

Neither.

53: Do you watch porn?

Yes.

54: Have you ever been called a freak? Why?

No.

55: Do you feel comfortable going “commando”?

With the right person maybe.

56: Would you have a problem with going down on someone if they hadn’t shaved their pubic hair?

No.

57: If you could give yourself head, would you?

No, I don’t think I would.

58: Booty or Boobs?

Booty

59: Have you ever cheated on someone? (Why?)

I never cheated.

60: If you were the other sex for a day, what are five things you would do?

Go to an onsen.

61: have you ever watched someone masturbate?

Yes.

62: has anyone ever watched you masturbate?

Maybe.

63. Have you ever had an erection and someone noticed?

Yes. Best way to start rumors.

64. What is your method of masturbation? (ie. toys, clitorial, prostate)

I have three methods. I bet you can guess them.

65. What is your bra/penis size?

Won’t tell her, perv.

66. What is the strangest thing you have ever put up your vagina/anus?

Nothing strange goes in there.

67. When was the last time you masturbated?

The other day.

68. When was the last time you had sex?

Actually can’t remember.

69. When was the last time you watched porn?

Can’t remember.

70. Have you ever bought a sex toy? If so, which one did you buy last? First sex toy? If not, which one do you plan on buying when you do?

I will let you wonder about that one.

71. Guys:Circumsized?

......

72. Which not-genital part of your body do you like being touched?

Neck, thighs, butt, back....

73. Which genital part of your body do you like being touched?

Really now?

74. Girls:Are you able to achieve orgasm just through breast stimulation?

75. Have you anonymously sent a sexual ask to someone on tumblr?

No, if I asked something it was for a meme and not on anon.

76. When was the last time you have had a wet dream?

Last night.

77. Which wet dream was your favorite?

That will stay my secret.

78. Is there a friend you would willingly have sex with?

No, friends are friends.

79. Is there a celebrity/character you would willingly have sex with?

I am more about chemistry between people instead of looks only.

80. Favorite sexual position?

More than one.

81. Do you like being called a slut or whore in bed?

No.

82. Are you into any BDSM?

Won’t spill all beans here.

83. Have you ever wanted to have sex with someone but knew you couldnt for any reason? Why?

Maybe...

84. Do you like dirty talk?

It can be a turn on.

85. Are you loud or quiet during sex? Masturbation?

I’m on the louder side for both.

86. Have you ever been inturrepted during sex or masturbation? Who/what?

Luckily not so far.

87. What kind of porn do you like to watch?

Secret, haha.

88. Have you ever confessed to someone that you got an erection over them? What about masturbated to them?

Yes, no shame in doing that.

89. Have you ever masturbated because your sexual partner wasn’t there when you needed them?

Doesn’t this happen to everyone once in a while?

90. Have you ever had a one night stand? Do you still keep in contact with them?

Yes, I had and some them are really close friends now.

91. Have you ever had a friends with benefits? Are they still beneficial?

No, never tried that out.

92. Ask whatever you want

You didn’t ask anything.

[berserker-official]

Is that MORE QUESTIONS I see? ANSWER THEM ALL YOU DAMN BEYBLADE. AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH THE HURRICANE DIDN'T TAKE ME. YOU'RE DOOMED NOW YOU SPINNING DREIDEL.

THE HURRICANES MAY HAVE MISSED YOU BUT HURRICANE ZERKER SURE AS SHIT WON’T YOU

1. Would you have sex with the last person you text messaged?

No

2. You talked to an ex today, correct?

Nope

3. Have you taken someones virginity?

Yeah in MTG

4. Is trust a big issue for you?

Absolutely

5. Did you hang out with the person you like recently?

if this means crush “like” then no

6. What are you excited for?

For that Jigsaw movie to drop cuz I’m a dummy that likes that dumb shit

7. What happened tonight?

Last night I beat a minigame on Danganronpa 3 that is BS on the Vita. Tonight I’ll be presenting my photos so that’ll be fun.

8. Do you think it’s disgusting when girls get really wasted?

As long as they’re with a friend to help them out after they have a good time I have no right to judge people and their drinking habits when I don’t drink.

9. Is confidence cute?

Hell yeah

10. What is the last beverage you had?

Listen every time I answer this it’s either gonna be “Arizona tea” or “water”

11. How many people of the opposite sex do you fully trust?

A good amount

12. Do you own a pair of skinny jeans?

boi do you think these thicc thighs can be contained by skinny jeans

13. What are you gonna do Saturday night?

Depends on if a friend comes up for the weekend but probably nothing

14. What are you going to spend money on next?

I might go pre-order a game and buy Baby Driver but idk yet

15. Are you going out with the last person you kissed?

No

16. Do you think you’ll change in the next 3 months?

Hopefully

17. Who do you feel most comfortable talking to about anything?

All of my close friends really

18. The last time you felt broken?

Like a month ago?

19. Have you had sex today?

hell yeah havin sex erryday (no)

20. Are you starting to realize anything?

I gotta step it up

21. Are you in a good mood?

Yeah

22. Would you ever want to swim with sharks?

Nope

23. Are your eyes the same color as your dad’s?

Nope

24. What do you want right this second?

My phone to be charged

25. What would you say if the person you love/like kissed another girl/boy?

Nothing cuz they in a stable relationship and I don’t want my one-sided feelings ruining our friendship

26. Is your current hair color your natural hair color?

Natural the last time I dyed my hair was like a decade ago and it was a MISTAKE

27. Would you be able to date someone who doesn’t make you laugh?

Probably not

28. What was the last thing that made you laugh?

I was watching some LPs earlier and those guys are pretty funny so

29. Do you really, truly miss someone right now?

Not really?

30. Does everyone deserve a second chance?

Probably unless they do something that could never be conceived as an accident

31. Honestly, do you hate the last boy you were talking to?

No

32. Does the person you have feelings for right now, know you do?

Nope

33. Are you one of those people who never drinks soda?

Yeah carbonation makes me feel weird

34. Listening to?

Danganronpa V3 soundtracks

35. Do you ever write in pencil anymore?

Only on tests

36. Do you know where the last person you kissed is?

In hell I hope

37. Do you believe in love at first sight?

I think so

38. Who did you last call?

My parents probably

39. Who was the last person you danced with?

An ex like 6 years ago probably

40. Why did you kiss the last person you kissed?

Cuz I was leaving to go home

41. When was the last time you ate a cupcake?

Yesterday

42. Did you hug/kiss one of your parents today?

No but the day isn’t over

43. Ever embarrass yourself in front of a crush?

Dude all the time

44. Do you tan in the nude?

I’m pale as shit what’s tanning

45. If you could, would you take back your last kiss?

Probably yeah

46. Did you talk to someone until you fell asleep last night?

No

47. Who was the last person to call you?

One of those dumb telemarketers

48. Do you sing in the shower?

Yeah

49. Do you dance in the car?

How

50. Ever used a bow and arrow?

yeah in vidya games

51. Last time you got a portrait taken by a photographer?

Longer than a decade ago

52. Do you think musicals are cheesy?

No High School Musical is the pinnacle of the motion picture art form

53. Is Christmas stressful?

Yeah

54. Ever eat a pierogi?

No

55. Favorite type of fruit pie?

Pumpkin

56. Occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid?

Drummer in a band

57. Do you believe in ghosts?

No but I’ve never witnessed one so

58. Ever have a Deja-vu feeling?

All the time

59. Take a vitamin daily?

Yeah

60. Wear slippers?

No

61. Wear a bath robe?

No

62. What do you wear to bed?

Whatever I’ve had on for the day

63. First concert?

@warlord-official took me to go see A Perfect Circle

64. Wal-Mart, Target or Kmart?

target

65. Nike or Adidas?

Nike?

66. Cheetos Or Fritos?

I’m cool with both but Cheetos

67. Peanuts or Sunflower seeds?

Peanuts

68. Favorite Taylor Swift song?

The Off Button

69. Ever take dance lessons?

No

70. Is there a profession you picture your future spouse doing?

No but if I had to something that makes a lot of money

71. Can you curl your tongue?

Yeah

72. Ever won a spelling bee?

I got like second place in 3rd grade

73. Have you ever cried because you were so happy?

I was laughing pretty hard last night that I cried so

74. What is your favorite book?

Tied between “The Disaster Artist” and “All You Need is Kill”

75. Do you study better with or without music?

With

76. Regularly burn incense?

No

77. Ever been in love?

Yeah

78. Who would you like to see in concert?

Breaking Benjamin maybe?

79. What was the last concert you saw?

PVRIS

80. Hot tea or cold tea?

Cold tea

81. Tea or coffee?

Tea

82. Favorite type of cookie?

Chocolate chip

83. Can you swim well?

It’s been a while but probably

84. Can you hold your breath without holding your nose?

Yeah

85. Are you patient?

I hope so

86. DJ or band, at a wedding?

Either is good

87. Ever won a contest?

I won a giant poster the other week so kinda?

88. Ever have plastic surgery?

Nope

89. Which are better black or green olives?

Neither

90. Opinions on sex before marriage?

I’m cool with it

91. Best room for a fireplace?

Living room?

92. Do you want to get married

Sure but I gotta find someone that wants to even date this sorry ass so

[musicalotter]

The rest of the number ask that you didn't answer yet

Baby! I’m gonna put it under a read more, ok?

1. Who was the last person you held hands with?

Cate!

2. Are you outgoing or shy?

Shy

3. Who are you looking forward to seeing?

Cate!

4. Are you easy to get along with?

Hardly

5. If you were drunk would the person you like take care of you?

Yeah because she knows I’d do the same for her!

6. What kind of people are you attracted to?

Cate!

7. Do you think you’ll be in a relationship two months from now?

In one, but hope we’re still together even longer than that!

8. Who from the opposite gender is on your mind?

Joa, because he’s moving soon and he’s like my little brother

9. Does talking about sex make you uncomfortable?

Nah, I love to talk about it tbh

10. Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with?

Cate

11. What does the most recent text that you sent say?

It was just a busy day.13. Do you like it when people play with your hair?

Yes!

14. Do you believe in luck and miracles?

Luck: yes; miracles: no

15. What good thing happened this summer?

Went on vacay for the first time since high school

16. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again?

Yes! (It was Cate)

17. Do you think there is life on other planets?

Yeah

18. Do you still talk to your first crush?

Nope

19. Do you like bubble baths?

YES!

20. Do you like your neighbors?

Nope

21. What are you bad habits?

Drinking, swearing, can’t think of all of them rn

22. Where would you like to travel?

Everywhere!

23. Do you have trust issues?

OOOOOOOHHHHH YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH!

24. Favorite part of your daily routine?

Sleeping if I can

25. What part of your body are you most uncomfortable with?

All of it

26. What do you do when you wake up?

Cry

27. Do you wish your skin was lighter or darker?

Nah

28. Who are you most comfortable around?

Cate

29. Have any of your ex’s told you they regret breaking up?

One, but she cheated on me so she can rot for all I care

30. Do you ever want to get married?

YES! TO CATE!

31. If your hair long enough for a pony tail?

Not right now, but hopefully soon!

32. Which celebrities would you have a threesome with?

Not interested

33. Spell your name with your chin.

alexs

34. Do you play sports? What sports?

I don’t play any rn, but I played football, basketball, soccer, baseball, and I did color guard and I’m a mixed martial artist

35. Would you rather live without TV or music?

T.V.

36. Have you ever liked someone and never told them?

Yep

37. What do you say during awkward silences?

Nothing, I’m comfortable not speaking39. What are your favorite stores to shop in?

Torrid, Hot Topic, Spencer’s, Forever 21

40. What do you want to do after high school?

Past that point

41. Do you believe everyone deserves a second chance?

NOPE!

42. If your being extremely quiet what does it mean?

Literally anything. I’m fucking quiet as shit!

43. Do you smile at strangers?

Yeah, I work in retail45. What makes you get out of bed in the morning?

Work and Cate

46. What are you paranoid about?

Fucking up and hurting Cate

47. Have you ever been high?

Yes

48. Have you ever been drunk?

Yes

49. Have you done anything recently that you hope nobody finds out about?

Nope

50. What was the colour of the last hoodie you wore?

Green

51. Ever wished you were someone else?

Yeah

52. One thing you wish you could change about yourself?

Be born a girl

53. Favourite makeup brand?

Olay

54. Favourite store?

Torrid

55. Favourite blog?

Cate’s

56. Favourite colour?

Purple

57. Favourite food? 

Don’t have one

58. Last thing you ate?

Chicken sandwich

59. First thing you ate this morning?

Falaffel wrap

60. Ever won a competition? For what?

Yes, color guard

61. Been suspended/expelled? For what?

No

62. Been arrested? For what?

No

63. Ever been in love? 

Yes

64. Tell us the story of your first kiss?

Elementary school

65. Are you hungry right now?

No

66. Do you like your tumblr friends more than your real friends?

Not more than

67. Facebook or Twitter?

Meh

68. Twitter or Tumblr?

Meh

69. Are you watching tv right now?

No

70. Names of your bestfriends? 

Cate, Joa, Paige, Aaron, Cassi, Ray, Alana, and Shay

71. Craving something? What?

Nope72. How many pillows do you sleep with?

2

73. Do you sleep with stuffed animals?

Yes

74. How many stuffed animals do you think you have?

Over 45

75. Favourite animal?

North American River Otter77. Chocolate or Vanilla?

Depends on my mood

78. Favourite ice cream flavour?

Strawberry

79. What colour shirt are you wearing? no shirt80. What colour pants? black81. Favourite tv show? nope82. Favourite movie? none83. Mean Girls or Mean Girls 2? don’t care84. Mean Girls or 21 Jump Street? don’t care85. Favourite character from Mean Girls? don’t care86. Favourite character from Finding Nemo? don’t care87. First person you talked to today? don’t remember88. Last person you talked to today? Paige89. Name a person you hate? Hunter90. Name a person you love? Cate91. Is there anyone you want to punch in the face right now? Hunter92. In a fight with someone? No93. How many sweatpants do you have? 4 pairs94. How many sweaters/hoodies do you have? 1096. Favourite actress? N/a97. Favourite actor? n/a98. Do you tan a lot?no i burn99. Have any pets?yes100. How are you feeling?tired of these fucking questions101. Do you type fast? no!102. Do you regret anything from your past? living103. Can you spell well? no104. Do you miss anyone from your past? no105. Ever been to a bonfire party? yes106. Ever broken someone’s heart? hope not107. Have you ever been on a horse? no108. What should you be doing? killing myself109. Is something irritating you right now? these questions110. Have you ever liked someone so much it hurt? yeah111. Do you have trust issues? yes112. Who was the last person you cried in front of? cate113. What was your childhood nickname? my last name114. Have you ever been out of your province/state? yes115. Do you play the Wii? no116. Are you listening to music right now? no117. Do you like chicken noodle soup? eh118. Do you like Chinese food? eh119. Favourite book? n/a120. Are you afraid of the dark? no121. Are you mean? probably122. Is cheating ever okay? nope123. Can you keep white shoes clean? yeah124. Do you believe in love at first sight? eh125. Do you believe in true love? yes126. Are you currently bored? yes128. Would you change your name? i have to129. What your zodiac sign? aries130. Do you like subway? eh131. Your bestfriend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do? RIP them132. Who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with? cate133. Favourite lyrics right now? idk134. Can you count to one million? yes135. Dumbest lie you ever told? idk136. Do you sleep with your doors open or closed? closed137. How tall are you? 5′8″138. Curly or Straight hair? n/a139. Brunette or Blonde?n/a140. Summer or Winter? winter141. Night or Day? night142. Favourite month? october143. Are you a vegetarian? no144. Dark, milk or white chocolate? dark145. Tea or Coffee? tea146. Was today a good day? nope147. Mars or Snickers? mars148. What’s your favourite quote? idk149. Do you believe in ghosts? yes

[fapangel]

Isn't Kushner and Bannon fighting or is this some WWE button pushing acting/hyped up by the media thing? I don't know all the details. BTW, since you seem to have a lot of support for trump has there been anything you wish he can improve on or anything that he did that you didn't quite approve of but either don't care/par for the course?

I honestly haven’t paid muchattention to the Kushner/Bannon thing; this kind of internal cabinetpower-play personality clash is the kind of super in-depthpsychoanalysis bullshit I’ve never been good at - and, I havealways found prone to being twisted by the biases of those doing theanalysis, and that was before the current mediapersonalities that do it went totally apeshit. 

However, this: 

>has there been anything you wish he can improve on or anythingthat he did that you didn't quite approve of but either don'tcare/par for the course?

YEAH I GOT SOME SHIT TO SAY ABOUT THIS. 

For starters, I feel a deep, deep, deep ambivalencetowards the Trump administration’s “war on global warming.”I can see their reasons for it, but Ireally, really don’t think their approach is going to accomplishanything. Furthermore, I’m deeply suspicious of the motives behindit - it might be entirely due to The Decent Reason,but I doubt it, because there’s a very powerful, widespreadsentiment of “global warming denial” in the right wing thatis nothing but knee-jerk reactionary bullshit; where they reject theentire idea just because THE OTHER SIDE is pushing it. This is theexact kind of shit conservatives detest and loathe when used by theleft wing, and yet they happily employ it themselves. At bestthey’re indulging in the same kind of hypocritical blind tribalismthat defines the left, and at worst they’re actively lettingthe opposition frame the debate in stark terms of opposition; a falsedichotomy that only serves their goals. In short, conservativesreally need to unfuck themselves on this issue.

Trufax: Once Upon A Time, I was aglobal warming skeptic - and contrarianism was a significantmotivator for me. I had learned by that time never to give an inch onanything ~THE LEFT~ supported; to challenge every precept they putforth, because so often even the very foundations of their arguments- and thus the frame defining the entire scope of the debate - wereartificial and false. Under this paradigm of “challengeeverything,” my objections were three-fold:

A. I doubted that Global Warming washappening.

B. IF it was happening, I doubted thatit was anthropogenic (caused by human activity.)

C. If it was both happening andanthropogenic, I doubted that any left-wing policies would dojack shit to address the dire consequences they predicted.

Atthe time - ten years ago, or so - there were Science Reasons to fuelthis doubt.The data was questionable, the models, imperfect, and the question ofpoliticized bias up in the air. There were two main camps ofscientists who openly questioned global warming. The first weregeologists and geophysicists who contested the validity of citingvarious physical phenomena as proof of anthropogenic global warming,(such as melting ice sheet, etc.) when it happened to involve theirgeographic area of study. The second were physicists/geophysicistswho questioned the math behind it, especially the energy balanceequations - most famous of them,IvarGiaever,winnerof a Nobel prize for physics, who famously said“Iam a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.”Saidquote comes out of the U.S. Senate Environment And Public WorksCommittee's minority report, which had over 650 actual honest-to-godscientists on record expressing actual, serious doubts vis a visglobal warming. Thenthere was some theories being kicked around that held global warmingto be happening, but not from anthropogenic sources - the mostconvincing (to me) at the time was the possibility of stellar cycles.A lot of levelheaded scientists wondered if we were coming out of aMaunderMinimum,a 60-70 odd year “super-cycle” in solar activity that might beconnected to the “LittleIce Age.”This struck me as the most likely alternate explanation simplybecause of the limited amount of historical data available; it wasquite likely our current observations on global warming just didn'thave a big enough sample size,so we were over-emphasizing the significance of the data bump. Inshort, I had plenty of reason to scoff at the idea of “scientificconsensus” the left constantly invoked.

Thenthe scientists went and didmore scienceto answerthese objections. You know, like they're supposed to. They diddue diligence, they replicated results, they refined models, and inthe end presented a convincing argument - global warming ishappening,and it iscausedby human activity.

However,that still leaves point C: namely, left-wing policies aren't going todo shit to stop it. Justconsider this graph:

Guesswhich nations didn't even have emissions targets set for them?Developing ones, including China, India, Brazil, South Africa, etc.Yes, China. Slowclap. Andyet, the Kyoto protocol - which set an average target of about 5% CO2emissions for most Western nations - was talked up as the greatmoral crusade of our time, asif a measly 5% reduction was going to do jack shit with China pumpingout enough pollution to create a semi-permanent browncloud visible from fucking space.

Thenecessity of these pissweak efforts are justified with the mostoverblown Chicken-Little sky-is-falling bullshit you can conceive of.From Al Gore's theatrically released power-point presentation thatwept for “drowning polar bears” and predicted global catastrophein ten years (complete with a doomsday clock) to media reports ofManhattandrowning by 2015, the constant flow of emotional fearmongeringbullshithasbeen constant, hysterical, and loud.They'vebeen promising us that the end is nigh for twenty-fivefucking years andyet the apocalypse keeps taking a rain-check. The ObamaAdministration's EPA published atypical example:

If climate change goes unaddressed, the report predicts morethan 2,000 storm-mangled bridges, 57,000 deaths from poor air qualityand 12,000 fatalities from extreme temperature between now and theyear 2100... the report argues that the U.S. will save 7.9 millionacres from wildfire, and prevent more than $10 billion in damage toMidwestern farming counties and coastal communities alike.

The reportitself (which you can download in its entirety) has some realgiggles, such as solemnly including damage to coastal properties -you know, those houses that rich morons build on literalfucking sandbars - I'm sorry, I meant “barrier islands” - andact surprised when thishappens. Oh, and the US taxpayer picks up the tab, too. And of course the seas willswallow the land, the rivers will flood, a plague of kekking frogswill go around slaying first-born trust fund inheritors, etc. But thereally notable thing is the more prosaic things in the report; thesimpler predictions of general economic impacts caused by highertemperatures and the resulting long-term weather patterns andecosystem shifts. These are the things that'd actually change life aswe know it in the long term... but MSNBC's story went straight todemolished bridges and body counts. If it bleeds, it leads.

It'snot just the media filter pushing the hype, though it helps - it's adeliberate debate strategy. In formal policy debate, the“affirmative” team argues for a plan of action, and vindicates itby establishing 1. there's a problem, and that 2. Bad Things happenif the problem's not addressed by their plan. The “negative” teamargues that the plan is bad, because implementing the plan will alsolead to Bad Things.Ergo, victory often goes to whomever's predicted Bad Things are theworst. Thisis known as “impacts outweigh,” i.e. my impacts are worse,therefore avoiding them is more important- hundreds dead in aheat wave is preferable to thousands dead in a war, for instance. Theinevitable heaver-impacts arms-race naturally means that almost every“disadvantage” (negative consequence) in policy debate is GlobalThermonuclear War. Everysingle one.

Thisis precisely why greenies wholeheartedly parrot these lurid doomsdayscenarios with the fervor of religious nuts promising that Armageddonis nigh: the impacts outweigh. The warming mitigation policies theychampion come at real and serious costs to the economy, standards ofliving and ultimately people's lives - so theirimpactsmust outweigh that to hold any water. Thetheocratic tones don't end there, as Megan McArdle of Bloombergpoints out in her excellentarticle on how alarmism poisons the global-warming debate:

The arguments about global warming too often sound more liketheology than science. Oh, the word “science” getsthrown around a great deal, but it's cited as a sacred authority, nota fallible process that staggers only awkwardly and unevenly towardthe truth, with frequent lurches in the wrong direction. Icannot count the number of times someone has told me that theybelieve in “the science,” as if that were the name of someomniscient god who had delivered us final answers written in stone.For those people, there can be only two categories in the debate:believers and unbelievers. Apostles and heretics.

In short, the politics of global warming have fuck-all to dowith the actual science most of the time. Scientistsaren't infallible, andthere is some complicity but for the most part thisisn't even the scientists fault. They'renowhere near“controllingthe narrative.” Becausethe politicians and the greenies are speaking for them, theconservative knee-jerk reaction is to throw the baby out with thebathwater and ignore allthescience and everypossibleconclusion as politically tainted; the result of collusion,conspiracy and cherry-picking to serve an agenda. This is theattitude Trump's administration is taking towards it, and whilethey're not wrong to assume that the existing science data on allthose government websites - and the still-serving employees that madethem - definitely have an agenda, justblanking the pages is the wrong approach. Globalwarming isactually happening, andit is actuallycausing problems, andwe will haveto find solutions for it - and since any conservative will agree thatthe left wing's solutions will cripple the economy and do fuck-all toactually stop warming, those solutions had damn well better be ours.

Theglobal warming debate is not about empirical proofs and causes, butabout consequences and mitigation policies. Asthis briefsearch on Slashdot shows, people are finallystarting to really talkabout geoengineering - active mitigation approaches - on a regularbasis, and many are starting to re-think the benefits of nuclearpower, which conservatives have historically championed as reliable,CO2-free baseline load generation. Climate science data will be vitalin pushing these initiatives, both in the horrifically complex andhigh-stakes considerations we must work through thoroughly beforeattempting geoengineering, and in making the economic case fornuclear power. Theadministration's current approach to “The Science” treats it asinnately hostile; already a permanent possession of the Enemy Camp,when it's anything but.More than playing intothe left wing's hands, it's actively ceding them ground without afight, which is ludicrous. Even if the intent is to “nuke andpave,” blanking all the climate data pending a full review andre-write by a new, more conservative bureaucratic science staff, it'sstill a poor way to do it. The resistance seen from the EPA and othergovernment climate-science related agencies has notbeen the blatantinsubordination and borderline treasonous defiance of lawfulauthority displayed by Swamp Thing bureaucrats in other agencies.It's stuff like tweeting about unclassified, non-security relatedclimate science data and appealing to public opinion - rather tamestuff.

Trumpisn't a very conservative conservative on most any of theconservative “social issues,” which means he's either entirelysidestepped or paid mere lip service to a lotof the Usual Suspectswhen it comes to the usual tribal-savage litmus tests (abortion,etc.) Unfortunately climate change isn't one of them, as far as hisadministration goes. The left wing's been allowed to defile climatescience by using it as a shield for their politics. The naturalreaction is to punt that political football back, but that's stillletting the left wing define the terms of the debate. It's badstrategy, ineffective politics and it all leads to ineffectualpolicy.

[catboywizard]

Ok so I know i said it do it like tomorrow but I didn't have anything else to do so I just did it now lol

1. Would you have sex with the last person you text messaged? -probably not but who knows

2. You talked to an ex today, correct? -nope

3. Have you taken someones virginity? -nope, I’m still a virgin too

4. Is trust a big issue for you? -definitely

5. Did you hang out with the person you like recently? -idk if it counts as “hang out” but we had like a 10 second conversation earlier today

6. What are you excited for? -I was excited for something but I found out yesterday I’m not allowed to go so now I’m in that weird empty period of trying to find something new to be excited about before I just give up and die tbh

7. What happened tonight? -tonight hasn’t really happened yet, it’s only 5pm

8. Do you think it’s disgusting when girls get really wasted? -no, people can do whatever they want, don’t be judgmental

9. Is confidence cute? -definitely but if you’re not confident that doesn’t inherently make you not cute

10. What is the last beverage you had? -milk tbh and now my lactose intolerant ass is dying

11. How many people of the opposite sex do you fully trust? -honestly I don’t fully trust anyone but there’s one who’s pretty close

12. Do you own a pair of skinny jeans? -yep, basically the only pants I wear

13. What are you gonna do Saturday night? -I’m seeing my dad and I’m gonna make him watch interstellar with me because I saw it with my mom about a month ago and I’m obsessed, but we might do that Friday

14. What are you going to spend money on next? -well I’ve got like $10 but that’s supposed to be for emergencies so I’m gonna be responsible and save it. I’ll probably use some of my birthday money to buy the Steven Universe album that’s coming out and I’m so freaking excited but that’s like a month from now

15. Are you going out with the last person you kissed? -nope, I don’t even remember who the last person I kissed was considering the fact that it was 2 years ago during spin the bottle

16. Do you think you’ll change in the next 3 months? -oh definitely

17. Who do you feel most comfortable talking to about anything? -honestly I’m an open book as long as you’re not my parents. If I have a story and you happen to be nearby when I want to tell it, you’re gonna hear it

18. The last time you felt broken? -ha! constantly

19. Have you had sex today? -as if

20. Are you starting to realize anything? -yep

21. Are you in a good mood? -kinda neutral, I am tired though

22. Would you ever want to swim with sharks? -totally, sharks are misunderstood sweeties

23. Are your eyes the same color as your dad’s? -maybe? Idk, I think so

24. What do you want right this second? -milkshake

25. What would you say if the person you love/like kissed someone else? -I wouldn’t really care because I’m pretty sure he’s straight and I’m definitely sure he thinks I’m a lesbian so there’s no chance there

26. Is your current hair color your natural hair color? -sadly yes, I really wanna go pink though

27. Would you be able to date someone who doesn’t make you laugh? -I honestly have no idea

28. What was the last thing that made you laugh? -probably something on parks & rec

29. Do you really, truly miss someone right now? -eh, not really

30. Does everyone deserve a second chance? -almost everyone, depending on what they’ve done

31. Honestly, do you hate the last boy you were talking to? -no

32. Does the person you have feelings for right now, know you do? -no, I didn’t even realize it until like Monday (and like I said, he thinks I’m a lesbian)

33. Are you one of those people who never drinks soda? -idk what you mean by “those people,” I don’t drink soda because my mouth is sensitive to the carbonation but I’m not like pretentious about it or anything

34. Listening to? -Pocket Full of Dreams by Hedley

35. Do you ever write in pencil anymore? -nope, pen & whiteout ftw!

36. Do you know where the last person you kissed is? -nope, like I said I can’t even remember who it is

37. Do you believe in love at first sight? -not entirely but I do think there’s a lot about a person you can tell by looking at them for the first time, enough to decide if you’d like to date them or not

38. Who did you last call? -my mom is like the only person I ever talk to on the phone

39. Who was the last person you danced with? -the only person I’ve ever danced with was my ex boyfriend at our 8th grade version of prom

40. Why did you kiss the last person you kissed? -spin the bottle

41. When was the last time you ate a cupcake? -this morning actually! Because of AP exams and other big tests, the schedule is weird and I had 5th period for 3 hours today and my friend brought cupcakes

42. Did you hug/kiss one of your parents today? -nope, my mom just got home like 2 minutes ago while I’ve been typing this and I don’t see her in the mornings

43. Ever embarrass yourself in front of a crush? -not that I can think of off the top of my head but I know I have at some point

44. Do you tan in the nude? -have you seen me? I don’t tan lol

45. If you could, would you take back your last kiss? -I’m completely indifferent about it

46. Did you talk to someone until you fell asleep last night? -nope

47. Who was the last person to call you? -also my mom

48. Do you sing in the shower? -totally

49. Do you dance in the car? -it’s kinda hard but I guess a little bit

50. Ever used a bow and arrow? -yes! Omg, it’s so much fun!

51. Last time you got a portrait taken by a photographer? -my mom has us do family portraits every year or so and we did them sometime in late January or early February so we could send out family valentines cards since we forgot to do Christmas cards

52. Do you think musicals are cheesy? -definitely not!

53. Is Christmas stressful? -no, I love Christmas so much (mostly just for the presents but also for just the whole atmosphere)

54. Ever eat a pierogi? -I don’t think so but I doubt I would know if I did

55. Favorite type of fruit pie? -Apple, 3000%!

56. Occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid? -I remember I wanted to be a Vet for a really long time, and for like a day I wanted to be a firefighter, there are a ton more but those are the only 2 I remember right now

57. Do you believe in ghosts? -not really but I’m so paranoid that I do a little bit

58. Ever have a Deja-vu feeling? -ALL THE TIME

59. Take a vitamin daily? -no, I probably should

60. Wear slippers? -nope

61. Wear a bath robe? -nope

62. What do you wear to bed? -pajama pants + whatever shirt I was wearing that day or nothing on the top if I’m hot

63. First concert? -honestly it was Idena Menzel

64. Wal-Mart, Target or Kmart? -definitely Tar-jay

65. Nike or Adidas? -I honestly don’t have an opinion either way

66. Cheetos Or Fritos? -definitely cheetos

67. Peanuts or Sunflower seeds? -both gross but I guess sunflower seeds

68. Favorite Taylor Swift song? -I’m not a huge fan but I guess I like Out of the Woods

69. Ever take dance lessons? -hell no, I’m so fucking uncoordinated and I have asthma so I would have died

70. Is there a profession you picture your future spouse doing? -no?

71. Can you curl your tongue? -yep!

72. Ever won a spelling bee? -I am the worst speller that has ever existed ever, also my school has never had a spelling bee

73. Have you ever cried because you were so happy? -maybe? I don’t know

74. What is your favorite book? -the great Gatsby

75. Do you study better with or without music? -definitely with music

76. Regularly burn incense? -nope

77. Ever been in love? -I doubt it but I don’t really have any way to tell

78. Who would you like to see in concert? -tank and the bangas or 21p

79. What was the last concert you saw? -the only concert I have ever seen was Idena Menzel

80. Hot tea or cold tea? -both are gross but cold if I had to pick one

81. Tea or coffee? -coffee but only in cold form like a frappe

82. Favorite type of cookie? -probably plain chocolate chip, or the oatmeal chocolate chip ones from potbelly are really good too

83. Can you swim well? -I’d like to think so but I’m not very fast

84. Can you hold your breath without holding your nose? -yep!

85. Are you patient? -not really but I can be

86. DJ or band, at a wedding? -Band

87. Ever won a contest? -once I won a random raffle for free movie tickets when I was like 7 but that’s it

88. Ever have plastic surgery? -nope, nothing wrong with that though

89. Which are better black or green olives? -definitely black, black olives are delicious, green olives are grown by Satan

90. Opinions on sex before marriage? -you do you (but wear protection!)

91. Best room for a fireplace? -living room? Idk

92. Do you want to get married? -oh dear lord I hope I get married

[blissfullyinfatuated]

All of them

Jeez this will be long, but thank you:

1: is there a boy/girl in your life? Girl but it’s complicated/we aren't together 

2: think of the last person who hurt you; do you forgive them? I told them that I did to ease my heart, but I’m not too sure/I didn't forget 

3: what do you think of when you hear the word “meow?” cute cat

4: what’s something you really want right now? To go home 

5: are you afraid of falling in love? To the “wrong” person/I’m afraid I can't fully fall 

6: do you like the beach? YES! I’m an Island girl :)

7: have you ever slept on a couch with someone else? Yes

8: what’s the background on your cell? A picture of my friend’s fave Irish beach and then lauren Jauregui 

9: name the last four beds you were sat on? mine mine mine and mine 

10: do you like your phone? I could use greater memory, but grateful I even have a phone! 

11: honestly, are things going the way you planned? They never

12: who was the last person whose phone number you added to your contacts? My friend Ali cause snapchat too lit 

13: would you rather have a poodle or a rottweiler? rottweiler because poodle’s fur often mats easily :(

14: which hurts the most, physical or emotional pain? Emotional 

15: would you rather visit a zoo or an art museum? ART MUSEUM fuck zoos

16: are you tired? Always 

17: how long have you known your 1st phone contact? Probably would be my parents haha 

18: are they a relative? More/less

19: would you ever consider getting back together with any of your exes? No. We’ve all diverged and I’ve no sexual attraction towards them anymore. We’re past closure! 

20: when did you last talk to the last person you shared a kiss with? March 

21: if you knew you had the right person, would you marry them today? Yes

22: would you kiss the last person you kissed again? Idk

23: how many bracelets do you have on your wrists right now? None because I hate jewelry (apart from earrings) 

24: is there a certain quote you live by? “I am still learning”-Michelangelo 

25: what’s on your mind? Sleep and how tf am I going to study 

26: do you have any tattoos? Nope

27: what is your favorite color? Equally green and pink

28: next time you will kiss someone on the lips? Spontaneity! No idea!

29: who are you texting? Currently texting “thank you” to everyone who texted me today! 

30: think to the last person you kissed, have you ever kissed them on a couch? LOL no

31: have you ever had the feeling something bad was going to happen and you were right? YES. Always 

32: do you have a friend of the opposite sex you can talk to? Daniel :)

33: do you think anyone has feelings for you? I am certain of one girl, that’s all that I know lol so I’d say no! 

34: has anyone ever told you you have pretty eyes? YESSS especially since I’ve got brown eyes, I retain that compliment :) 

35: say the last person you kissed was kissing someone right in front of you? I wouldn't care! 

36: were you single on valentines day? Yes 

37: are you friends with the last person you kissed? Nope

38: what do your friends call you? Savage, Zaddy, Em haha

39: has anyone upset you in the last week? Nope 

40: have you ever cried over a text? yes ugh

41: where’s your last bruise located? Side of my knee cause I like to drop to music beats intensely smh 

42: what is it from? Above^

43: last time you wanted to be away from somewhere really bad? NOW

44: who was the last person you were on the phone with? My family

45: do you have a favourite pair of shoes? Probably my “white” converse but they haven't smelled the best since Pride ‘17 lol 

46: do you wear hats if your having a bad hair day? No, I wear them on good hair days rip

47: would you ever go bald if it was the style? NO 

48: do you make supper for your family? Nope 

49: does your bedroom have a door? Two doors:)

50: top 3 web-pages? Tumblr, Facebook, Youtube

51: do you know anyone who hates shopping? LMAO YAAA like she hates malls/shopping 

52: does anything on your body hurt? My back 

53: are goodbyes hard for you? very but I get over it 

54: what was the last beverage you spilled on yourself? Coke 

55: how is your hair? Natural rn 

56: what do you usually do first in the morning? Stretchhhh

57: do you think two people can last forever? Yes, but with obstacles and forgiveness 

58: think back to january 2007, were you single? Probably since I was 8

59: green or purple grapes? GREEN, but idc 

60: when’s the next time you will give someone a big hug? Probably today 

61: do you wish you were somewhere else right now? yes

62: when will be the next time you text someone? After I finish this 

63: where will you be 5 hours from now? In the same place #Boring

64: what were you doing at 8 this morning. Getting ready to grab breakfast before my exam 

65: this time last year, can you remember who you liked? Definitively 

66: is there one person in your life that can always make you smile? Yes. A blessing 

67: did you kiss or hug anyone today? nope

68: what was your last thought before you went to bed last night? That I need to fall asleep!

69: have you ever tried your hardest and then gotten disappointed in the end? YES my life 

70: how many windows are open on your computer? Two which is relatively a low for me 

71: how many fingers do you have? 10

72: what is your ringtone? generic iPhone ringtone 

73: how old will you be in 5 months? 19

74: where is your mum right now? At work, back home 

75: why aren’t you with the person you were first in love with or almost in love? because our time ended and we were better off growing by others and ourselves 

76: have you held hands with somebody in the past three days? No

77: are you friends with the people you were friends with two years ago? Yes

78: do you remember who you had a crush on in year 7? Yes lmao

79: is there anyone you know with the name mike? Yes

80: have you ever fallen asleep in someones arms? Yes 

81: how many people have you liked in the past three months? Two

82: has anyone seen you in your underwear in the last 3 days?Probably. I live in residence  

83: will you talk to the person you like tonight? Of course 

84: you’re drunk and yelling at hot guys/girls out of your car window, you’re with? My best friends 

85: if your bf/gf was into drugs would you care? Care enough to bring them to seek help

86: what was the most eventful thing that happened last time you went to see a movie? Sweet ass seats in Imagine Cinema lmao 

87: who was your last received call from? My family 

88: if someone gave you $1,000 to burn a butterfly over a candle, would you? No. I’d cry wtf that’s so morbid 

89: what is something you wish you had more of? Time with the people I love 

90: have you ever trusted someone too much? Unfortunately. I’m rather a transparent person too so fml 

91: do you sleep with your window open? During the summer. It’s so refreshing 

92: do you get along with girls? Very 

93: are you keeping a secret from someone who needs to know the truth? Yes, but I don't think they NEED to know the truth. either way fml  

94: does sex mean love? No

95: you’re locked in a room with the last person you kissed, is that a problem? not at all 

96: have you ever kissed anyone with a lip ring? no

97: did you sleep alone this week? Yes

98: everybody has somebody that makes them happy, do you? I do

99: do you believe in love at first sight? hmm interest leading to love, but not love on the spot 

100: who was the last person that you pinky promise? Emma