#loft partition

[thequeenofsand]

Medium - Garage

Mid-sized minimalist attached two-car garage photo

[nihilminus]

Bedroom - Contemporary Bedroom

[dominipino]

Loft-Style - Bedroom

[dejwrld]

⤷‧₊˚ driver roll up the partition, please.

┊ •° ੈ ⋆° ┊ warning readers discretion is advised — female reader, written with black reader in mind, established relationship between reader and shiu kong (engaged), gangster!shiu, fingering, usage of spit, praise kink (good girl), pet names (doll,sweetie), exhibitionism (kinda), mentions of illegal activities, mentions of reader being a wedding planner, reader calls shiu by his firt name once, mentions of other jjk characters (mainly toji), not proofread at all sorry, standalone one shot for debt, | mdni, other creations

The two of you have been so busy that even your shared expensive loft apartment felt as if it was brand new and no one lived there. On some nights, the two of you had no energy left in your tank to do anything but crash in bed, wake up and repeat the previous day's routine. Shiu doing whatever illegal activity he had on his agenda. Then you probably planning a wedding that wasn't yours. You were planning a wedding between some lawyer's daughter and this actor. Granted, the demands the couple wanted were a bit much (requesting gold silverware for guests to eat with)—the check looked wonderfully in your bank account. So, your own planning for your wedding was put on the back burner until further notice.

This date night though, you were grateful for. You missed the quality time with your fiancé. You missed him coming inside your office with lunch and you two ate together until work tugged you out of that romantic bubble. You missed him picking you up instead of one of the many private drivers that worked under him. Obviously, you missed the lingering touches of his hands touched by sin caressing random parts of your body. From the small of your back to your feet when they were prompted in his lap after a long day of dealing with bridezillas.

"I have reservations at that restaurant you always wanted to go to." Shiu comments to break you out of the sudden trace of your own thoughts.

"How? They're booked for the rest of the year. Not even one of my clients could get a reservation for her engagement dinner." You broke your gaze from looking out the tinted windows of the car you were in to catch Shiu's reaction.

His lips curve into a smirk before sinking further into the leather seats behind his body. "Doll, you know I have connections. Perhaps the owner owes me a flavor or something." His lips curve into a smile that you couldn't quite read.

Your eyes playfully roll at him before speaking, "If I find out that restaurant is just there to clean dirty money for you, I'm going to kick your ass."

His arm snakes around your body—completely displaying his love language of physical touch. His fingers tap at plush thighs in the rhythm of the song that hummed out the car's speaker. You couldn't believe how much of a charm, the man had on. Simply putting his arm around your waist to bring you closer to him in the back of this car caused goosebumps to flutter upon your brown skin. And he knew this. You could sense his smirk as you glanced ahead humming along to the song on the radio.

Your tongue ghosts over your lips before you feel Shiu lean over to kiss your neck. The scent of his Sauvage Dior cologne swirled up your nostrils causing you to feel intoxicated for him. Your thighs clasp together tightly in the heat of the moment before you nudge him away lightly due to the driver having a clear view of the two of you.

"Kong Si-woo, don't start it!" You warned while shooting him a look.

"He's not paying attention to us—" His words were cut off as the partition of the car was rolled up as if Shiu gave him a cue to do that.

"See, doll. He doesn't care." Shiu's voice comes off as a childish whine before he's back kissing your neck. You even can hear him inhale sharply taking in the scent of your expensive flowery perfume that he adored.

His hand reaches in between your thighs to spread them apart. Now it was you who was inhaling sharply to anticipate what was to come. Your teeth nibble on your lower lip muffling a moan when you felt his fingers rub you through the black thong you wore.

Through the sheer fabric of the Versace dress you wore, your nipples hardened at the feeling of Shiu's hands rubbing your pussy through your panties. Your hips roll just a bit to feel a bit more friction, but a little desperate enough for it to be like you're riding his hand.

With your panties pushed to the side and your leg propped on Shiu's thigh to give him more excess to your pussy. Even though he already knew how wet you were, he brings his index and middle up to his mouth coating it with his saliva.

The pad of his fingers rubs at your clit and instantly sends a shock upon your body causing your legs to clasp shut. Shiu kisses his teeth before prying your thighs back off.

"Come on beautiful, you're soaked and eager for just my fingers." He peppers your jawline and neck with kisses before he tries again to fulfill his need for you—even if that is simply wanting you to cum on his hand.

His fingers rub at your wet folds before his index and middle finger sinks themselves inside you. His fingers immediately curl inside you tapping at that spot that causes your toes to bend in the expensive high heels you wore for the evening. Your body arches off the leather seats and your mouth gasps apart to let out a moan. Like a little sinner, your thighs spread apart further because you wanted more—you craved more.

You knew your Shiu was smirking at your actions before he gave you exactly what you wanted. That's the thing you loved about Shiu. You were pretty sure that he got more off at the thought and actions of you being pleased than actually ensuring he get a nut.

With his fingers knuckles deep inside of your pussy that was causing a mess on the black leather interior of the car, he removes his fingers just in time to see you let out a long drag of his name. His fingers rub at your clit in a slow circular motion to tease you because he adores seeing tears of satisfaction pool upon your lash line and the only thing you can call out is his name.

"Shiu, I'm going to—" Your voice cracks in desperation.

But he knew where this was heading. He knew your body so well that he knew you were unraveling like a fresh pack of yarn. Shiu inserts his fingers again, this time it's three and the pace is much quicker. The sound of his hand slapping against your scorching skin echoed upon the back of the car and drowned the sound of the music.

"Shit." You cursed closing your eyes tight in anticipation of your orgasm. You felt like you were on a rollercoaster and just any second as you were sitting at the top, it would drop down quickly.

"Look at me lovely," Shiu says and you couldn't look at him.

You felt so embarrassed as you were almost cumming on his fingers. The majority of the blood in your face felt like it rushed to your cheeks to make them feel so hot. Your eyes were blurred with tears of pleasure that decorated your lash line like the expensive lash extension set you just got done. Your body felt like it would explode any second and if you looked at Shiu's handsome face—oh boy were going to be a cumming mess in the backseat of this car.

Shiu's finger moves your face to look at him and you fall in love again. As the explosive feeling of your orgasm crashed into you like a reckless car accident, the look that Shiu gave you—you've seen it so many times. When you first met at Nanami's engagement party some months ago—once again you were working that day, but he still made it his mission to leave with your number. The same look when you went on your first date. The same look when you made love for the first time as if you two were the only ones on the planet. When he got on one knee in the middle of your office after a late night of work and sharing many takeout entrees. This look was engraved in the back of your mind because you were so in love.

"That's it, let it all out." His soaked fingers remove themselves from your pulsing cunt to rub at your clit steadily to get you through your orgasm. "That's my girl. Good girl."

Your body vibrates against him while you whimper out his name repeatedly like a sweet tune. Your chest heaves upward and downward as you were trying to tug yourself down the floating cloud your body was on. Shiu places a kiss on the side of your temple before he's searching for napkins to clean up the mess that you made in the backseat.

"Joon, could you just take us home for the evening. My lovely fiancé here suddenly got very tired." Shiu said after pressing the button for the partition to be put down.

"You're going have to ask for another favor from that restaurant owner for another reservation," You pointed out while fixing your underwear and dress.

"Sweetie, I'll do anything to ensure you're happy. Even if that means going to that fuckin' restaurant." He flashes you a smile that you can't help but return.

You truly did love this man.

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

My fascination with the way different people have wildly differing interpretations of how to convert a church still has plenty to see. Now, this 1868 church is like nothing we've every seen before. The variations are amazing. It's in Carlinville, Illinois, has 3bds, 3.5ba, and is an affordable $399K.

The entrance hall could be beautiful.

Look at the work they did on the ceiling, alone, in the main room. And, the original lights are still up. This is the Great Room and it has more than 10,000 metallic silver stars. (Who got up there and stuck those up?)

They put up wall partitions. Good idea.

They kept the original altar and moved it to the side of the room, making a fireplace out of it. They are having a moving sale and there is plenty of room in here for that.

A pink dining room with original doorways and wainscoting, plus a tray ceiling.

A glass wall and doors have a clear view of the great room.

There are also approximately 30 chandeliers and fixtures.

Check out the kitchen. Very high end cabinetry and a colorful backsplash.

In this sitting room, an amazing piece was turned into a fireplace.

Each of these beams have different faces carved faces on top. This looks pretty goth, doesn't it?

The half bath has a beautiful sink.

Choir loft stairs. The checkered floors are terrazzo.

The choir loft is so pretty- look at the lacy details on the iron railing.

The primary bedroom has a view of the great room and look at the architectural details.

Room for exercise equipment outside a shower room. That's pretty neat.

And, this bath is nice. Are you noticing the lighting fixtures?

How cute. This bedroom is a few steps down.

They're not kidding about the chandeliers.

Bedroom #3.

They didn't change the building's original structure so some of the baths are a bit awkward, but that's okay.

Looks like they're not quite done with this loft.

I suspect that all of these commercial tables and chairs came with the building. Can you imagine the parties you can have w/all of these? Shoot, I would even rent them out!

8,233 sq ft lot. Looks like there's a nice vine-covered fence, too. The yard has potential.

[humblemooncat]

Crystal (pt. 1)

Sit back and kick your feet up a while, we have a lot of places to go through!

So much so, this will need a reblog with a part 2!

@entropytea - Crystal, Balmung | Mist W13, P42

This house's layout was stunning! Despite it being a small, the use of lofts and partitions made the space seem so much larger!

Not to mention, it's all very beautifully furnished! It looked like I was walking into a designer home! Also, very big fan of the gazebo leading into the house. What a clever use of it!

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Crystal, Balmung | Goblet W9, Sultana's Breath Wing 1 Apt 39

The apartment was similarly gorgeous. The layout is beyond amazing, and really makes you feel like you're stepping into some sort of woodland hut that maybe you should not have. Cozy, but a little ominous at the same time!

@cadrenebula - Crystal, Balmung | Goblet W21, P60

He was trying to blend in with the flowers. Silly boy.

What a lovely FC hall! Very spacious, but at the same time very cozy!

I love all the facilities and how thoughtfully they cater to the company's residents. Even down to the little dressing room leading to the stage downstairs. Very cute.

I also had a toot around the rooms that were open, and I must say, there are a lot of pretty, creative rooms in there! Each one had its own distinct personality, and I loved looking through them all. <3

@alannah-corvaine - Crystal, Balmung | Mist W17, P18

All I have to say is wow

The interior of this house is so well-done, every nook and cranny is filled with decor that really brings the whole thing together! Along with the BGM, you'd think you were walking into an Ishgardian manor, not a seaside cottage!

Definitely worth a look if you're in the area! <3

@wayward-hatchling - Crystal, Coeurl | Goblet W23, P13

I was NOT expecting to be invited to an in-game pizzeria of all things! That said, it was VERY cute!!

It really does give off hometown pizzeria vibes, from the brick interior to the wrought iron-backed chairs. It's extremely charming, and I will definitely be coming back sometime.

But before I left, I had to give my husbuns a little dinner date. <3

HIGHLY recommend everyone to visit at some point! It's a very fun little place! And it even has an arcade!

Just mind the mascots. We've seen too many horror games to trust them...

@disaster-husbun - Crystal, Goblin | Empyreum W26, P42

First off, hello hello! Nice to see you as I rolled through! <3

You made such good use of the space and slots provided in a large! It's hard to do effectively without blocking off a good chunk of it, but it looks very nice! Spacious, but in a cozy way!

I loved how you decorated each space inside, though the warm, cozy study was my favorite.

My second favorite though, was the basement. The floral walls leading to the tables was very nice, and the walls would be a beautiful space to gpose if you need a patterned backdrop.

Overall, very beautiful home! I would highly recommend stopping in if you're in the area!

@cadrenebula - Crystal, Goblin | Empyreum W25, P59

Another cute FC hall!

I love the look of the cafe downstairs! It's bright and open while still feeling communal and cozy. I could see myself whiling away the time with a good book and a cup of tea down there.

Very clever with the bookshelf upstairs btw! It's a nice way to make the place cohesive while still giving everyone a little hideaway to their rooms!

Speaking of; both of the rooms are nice! The second room having only the bath is amusing, but I also totally get it. Sometimes you just need a hot bath and no thoughts. xD

I only had time to get to so many today, unfortunately, but I plan on getting the rest of Crystal and Primal done tomorrow!

Thank you all for allowing me into your beautiful homes so far! I can't wait to visit the rest!

[leibal]

1902 is a minimalist loft located in Brussels, Belgium, designed by POESENVANHIEL architects. The architects introduced a glass partition with sliding doors aligned with the pre-existing steel columns, adding a corridor-like space to enhance the flow within the loft.

[winterspiderpurrs]

" Get the car now!"

More gunshots rang out. Three men were running down an alley, the tall blonde pausing to snatch up and lift the older gentleman to carry him bridal style to protect him from the stray shots. The older man made a growling sound out of frustration.

" Fuck you Rogers! I don't need to be carried!"

A man behind the pair fires off another shot, the sound of glass breaking. The driver in the car slumped over, the car was turning and crashing into the wall once it spun out. The other men in the back of the car scrambled to get out.

Another car speeds up the alley facing the men running toward it and stops just long enough for the trio to get in. The blonde practically toss the older man in.

" Happy get us out of here!"

Tires screeching as the car goes into reverse and backs out onto the street.

" What happened? We need the doc?"

Tony is fuming. It's been a while since someone has tired to double cross Him. And in such a sloppy and public way.

" Friday, scan all signals, any video ctv radio transmission nionitnin the bud, file away for my eyes online so I can analyze late"

He throws his phone at the blonde " What is your problem? I had it handled! You know it will be seen as a weakness when word gets out. Fucking bridal style? I ain't a princess Steve."

Sighing the blonde picks up the phone and tosses it lightly on the empty seat next to Tony. " Boss. I know but you didn't see the blinking green light on your forehead from the sniper. This... was an unexpected move... thank God for Bucky"

Bucky snorts from his seat next to Steve as he types away on his phone. " Clint took out the sniper on the roof. Natasha is going to find out who set this up as we lay low. Best to hide away for a few since this was so public... only going to the Gala tomorrow night and back on lock down."

Happy makes several more turns. Driving away but to no certain destination. " Lake house?" He questions.

Adjusting the cuffs on his jacket, Tony looks out the window. " To far away.. I'm not hiding but we need to lay low.... take us to Warehouse B."

If you were paying attention you would have noticed Happy's eyes widen be he nods his head. He puts up the privacy partition. Steve stares at Tony for a moment, glances over at Bucky then back to Tony. " I trust Bucky... but are you sure.."

That causes Bucky to pause and look up and glance between the two before eyeing Tony. Tony was fidgeting with his watch and his wedding band before nodding. " It's fine. If it gets out we will know why. " Tony raises an eyebrow as he stares Bucky down.

Bucky was newer to the group. Only in the sense of actually all three of them working a deal. Bucky had a civilian life. He was the owner of half the gun ranges and pawn shops in the state. Sometimes, he lets Steve, and by extension, Tony's "group" borrows guns from the shop. He just happens to be with them this time when a meeting went wrong. They wanted Bucky's opinion on the guns that might have been purchased.

It wasn't log til they ended up at a huge warehouse. You can tell that the neighborhood has gone under a major renovation. Happy drops them off down a side alley. Tony stands at the door, pushing a bunch of buttons on the key pad before a door slides open.

Bucky was pleasantly surprised with the layout. The warehouse was converted into a loft. He was still taking everything in when he appeared. He stepped down from what it looked like a roof access point covered in plants, a look of worry on his face. Bucky feels like he has seen him somewhere before. But where?

"Tony? May's cooking still bad?"

" Yeah, kiddo. May's getting more flowers delivered, maybe 2 or 3 bouquets"

You could see the relief on the young man's face before he smiles over at them. It's obvious to Bucky those were code for everything being alright.

" I start dinner then.... How's. ..a.. Pepper and Morgan"

" Fine. Great. Morgan started Kindergarten."

The man nods, finally making his way down the steps to the living room area, turning to smile at Steve and opens his arm for a hug. " Steve! It's great to see you. It's been too long! You should visit more! " Steve laughs and walks over and gives the man a hug.

" I know. Missed you to Pete. I'll try you know Tony keeps me busy"

Bucky glances at Tony and can see his jaw click, a penvise expression on his face. Clearly irritated.

There is definitely a story to tell here.

The man let's Steve go from the hug before tilting his head at Bucky and offers him a smile. He holds his hand out to shake.

" It's nice to meet you. I'm Peter Parker and don't worry I'm not as half as much trouble as this pair" Bucky smirks a little shaking his hand. " Bucky... and don't worry I know this Punk takes all the stupid with him wherever he goes" Nodding his head towards Steve.

"Hey!"

Peter laughs.

Bucky squint for a moment " Hey.. aren't you that..."

Tony rolls his eyes and walks between them to separate them to head to the kitchen. " Yeah yeah he is that singer"

Bucky remembers seeing his photo online as the paparazzi stopped him while he was signing autographs.

"Wow..."

....

Tbc....

Maybe...

[rainbowrelyea]

Supercorptober Day 21: "Lavender"

Read on A03 instead

Lena stands in the hallway playing nervously with the key in her hands. A key she’s surprised she still has. She's stood in front of this exact door a hundred (a thousand?) times, used the key to let herself in at least a few dozen times, probably more - yet here she was, unable to force herself to turn the knob. She’s not really sure how long she stands there, but at some point, she finally takes a deep breath to steady herself, squares her shoulders, and lets herself into Kara’s apartment. 

It hurts more than she expected it to, being back here. The last time she was in this apartment Lena had come to tell Kara she was wrong about Non Nocere, to ask for forgiveness - and then ended up with Alex’s gun pointed at her head. It’s not exactly a fond memory. Before that, it had been nearly half a year, back when Lena still came over for movie nights and cuddles on the couch. Before Lena found out about Kara’s secret identity in the worst possible way and everything went to shit. 

And now Kara is gone. The apartment is quiet and achingly empty without the joyful sound of her laughter to fill it up. It’s been three days since Lena’s deranged half-brother sent Kara to the phantom zone - fucking Lex - and the super friends still have no idea how to rescue her. Lena’s not sure Kara would even want her here, with their friendship still on rocky terms, but she just needed something , some kind of connection, some reminder to keep her from giving up hope. 

The apartment hasn’t changed all that much from what Lena remembers, at least as far as she can tell. She walks slowly around the space, taking in all the details she’s seen so many times before, but that suddenly carry so much more weight now because the details are so uniquely Kara. The fluffy blankets on the couch. A blue coffee mug on the kitchen counter with a red supergirl logo and yellow writing that says “Have a SUPER day!” (a gift from Nia), and another mug next to it covered in a pattern of brightly colored donuts. The easel in the corner with some of Kara’s paintings propped against the legs and her box of painting supplies next to it. The assortment of different sized picture frames scattered throughout the spacious loft on various tables and shelves, filled with smiling photos of Kara’s family and friends. Lena stops short when she realizes the picture of her and Kara together is gone from the shelf where it used to sit. It shouldn’t surprise her, after all the hurt she caused, but it still stings - more than it should, considering Lena smashed her own framed picture of them with a whiskey glass. She squeezes her eyes shut and forces herself to swallow the lump forming in her throat. 

For whatever reason, Lena decides to wander past the partition into the space Kara uses as her bedroom, running her hand over the familiar blue and green patterned comforter on Kara’s bed. When she glances at the bedside table, she feels her heart stop. Kara didn’t get rid of the picture of her and Lena - it’s right there, on the table next to her bed. Right where she would see it every morning and every night. But why? Why would she want to look at that after everything? 

It’s all of a sudden too much for Lena, and she sinks down heavily on the edge of the bed. She can’t stop the hiccuping sob that claws its way out of her chest or the tears gathering in the corners of her eyes, so she grabs one of Kara’s pillows and squeezes it to her body as tight as she can. As she does, her nose tingles with the lingering scent of lavender and vanilla. Kara. Years of being best friends (years of being in love with her best friend), Lena knows that scent, one she used to breathe in and try to memorize every time she and Kara shared a hug or snuggled up on the couch together.

She’d give anything to hug Kara again. 

The sharp pang of her anguish cuts into her like a knife twisting in her stomach, and suddenly she feels like she is drowning under a tidal wave of emotions. She clutches desperately at Kara’s pillow and rocks herself back and forth, while she cries deep gasping sobs that feel like they are being ripped from her lungs. Her eyes burn from the hot tears that are now streaming relentlessly down her face, dripping onto the pillow and sliding down her neck to soak the collar of her shirt. Once again, she feels like her heart is being cracked open, but this, this is infinitely more painful. This isn’t just some fight between friends, this is her possibly losing Kara forever. She doesn’t think she can live with that possibility. 

“I’m so sorry Kara.” Lena chokes out between labored breaths. “I’m so so sorry. This is all my fault. I promise I’ll find a way to bring you home. I promise.” Her voice cracks on the last words, her throat so raw she can barely speak above a whisper. 

Lena cries until exhaustion wins out, until her body hurts as much as her heart, and she has no more tears left to cry. When her breathing finally returns to normal, she decides it’s time to pull herself together and go back to her own apartment. She can’t stay here any longer, it’s just too painful of a reminder of Kara’s absence, and Lena needs to be focused if she’s going to help the team find their missing friend. She breathes in one more deep breath of the lavender and vanilla scented pillow, trying to commit the smell to memory before she leaves. 

She’s about to walk out the door when she stops herself. She turns around and walks back to the couch, where she picks up one of the fluffy blankets Kara always keeps there. One they used to share, with popcorn, and chinese takeout, and hot chocolate, and stories about their respective days. One that still smells like Kara. She takes it with her so she can have just one little piece of Kara to hold onto, a reminder of what she used to have, of who she is still fighting for. 

———

When Lena gets back to her penthouse, she carefully removes the picture of her and Kara from the broken frame and puts it in a new one. She falls asleep with Kara’s blanket wrapped around her and the picture clutched to her chest. 

———

Lena returns to Kara’s loft a week later when the blanket finally loses its scent. Kara is still gone, and the apartment is still too quiet and lifeless. Lena’s heart still feels like it’s been hacked open by a dull axe.

She lets herself curl up on the couch for a moment, finding the other blanket she had left here last time and pulling it tightly around her, breathing in the familiar smell. She imagines Kara cozying up on the couch next to her, socked feet tucked under her legs, her head resting on Lena’s shoulder, blonde hair tickling her neck. She thinks about all the times she wished their cuddling would turn into something more, how she wished she could have had the courage to tell Kara how she felt. 

“Kara…” she pleads to the void. “Please come back Kara. I’m so sorry. For everything. I miss you so much.” 

“Please… I love you.”

The blanket is wet with tears when the whispered confession floats away into the silence of the empty apartment. 

———

Lena ends up staying at Kara’s apartment. She told herself it would be too painful, but it turns out her crippling misery was determined to follow her no matter where she went. So she surrenders, and just lets herself be surrounded by everything Kara. It hurts, but there are also happy memories here, ones Lena wants to hold close to her heart for as long as possible. 

———

Another week and a half drags by, and then by some miracle, the super friends are finally able to rescue Kara from the phantom zone (with help from Lena’s yellow sun grenades, which she is very proud of, as she should be). When Kara stumbles onto the ship and collapses into her sister’s arms, everyone can tell that she is physically and emotionally drained. There’s no time for pleasantries or conversation - Kara needs to be taken as quickly as possible to the med bay for a full exam and to get her onto a yellow sun bed so her body can begin to heal. 

It’s two full days later when Kara is finally recovered enough for the super friends to throw her a welcome back party at the Tower. Meanwhile, Lena’s anxiety is at an all-time high. Her and Kara’s friendship was in a shaky place when everything went down with Lex, and Lena doesn’t know if Kara blames her for what happened. She doesn’t know what Kara may have experienced in the phantom zone and how that might affect her. Trauma does strange things to people, Lena knows that from firsthand experience. Is Kara even the same person anymore? Will Kara still want Lena in her life? 

The first positive sign is that when Kara enters the common room to the sight of donuts, flowers, balloons, and her friends and family gathered around, her face immediately breaks out into a genuine Kara Danvers smile, all full of white teeth, dimples on display and eyes crinkling at the corners. She still seems a bit tired and perhaps a little more reserved than usual, but otherwise very much still herself, and everyone breathes a collective sigh of relief. 

Kara works her way around the room exchanging hugs, each team member expressing their joy at having her back, and Kara expressing her own joy and gratitude in return. Lena is the last one left, and she feels her heart flutter and her throat go dry when Kara’s eyes meet hers. The superhero nods her head towards Lena with a fond smile and her arms open wide, and it takes all of Lena’s willpower to force herself to walk when all she wants to do is run at full speed into Kara’s warm embrace. When their bodies finally meet and they melt into each other, everything feels right again. Like all the empty spaces in Lena’s heart are being filled back up and every ache and pain in her soul is being soothed by Kara’s presence. She’s home. She’s home. She’s finally home. 

“It’s only because you’re on the team that I’m here,” Kara murmurs in Lena’s ear. She squeezes her so tightly it almost hurts, but Lena just squeezes back as tightly as her own strength will allow her. She feels the tears sliding down her cheeks and takes a deep breath through her sniffles, trying her best to hold herself together. When Kara finally pulls back, she pauses for a moment, her hands drifting to Lena’s shoulders. She cocks her head to the side and looks at Lena with a soft smile on her face and a gentle question in her eyes. “Your scent… vanilla and lavender…?”

Lena knows exactly what she is asking, because Lena usually smells like her expensive perfume, or her coconut and hibiscus scented shampoo. And there are a thousand ways Lena wants to answer that question, a thousand things she wants to tell Kara that she can’t put into words just yet. So she tries to pour all her emotions into a single sentence, and hopes Kara understands. She bites her lip to stop it from quivering and gives a tiny shrug, before she answers in a small shaky voice. “I really missed you.” She ducks her head down and tries to swallow, her throat constricted with emotion. She gathers what courage she can to open herself up, to lift her head and make another confession, whispered so softly only Kara can hear her. “The only thing that kept me going was the hope that I would get to see you again.”

Kara is silent for a minute as she stares into Lena’s glassy green eyes, her own tear-brimmed blue eyes searching Lena’s face for some hidden truth. Lena wills her to find it, to see all the love Lena holds in her heart for her. She wills Kara to hear the way that same heart is currently hammering against her ribs, even while it feels like it's stuck in her throat. 

When it seems like Kara has found what she is looking for, she whispers back, her own voice cracking just a little. “I really missed you too.”

There’s a weight to the way Kara says it, the words feeling charged with hidden significance. Lena's thoughts go to the picture of them she found on Kara’s nightstand, and wonders - could she…?  Now it’s her turn to search Kara’s face for answers, and as she does, she finds herself looking into a longing gaze, blue eyes filled with overwhelming affection, and sparking with a sudden fire she’s never seen before. Kara moves her right hand from Lena’s shoulder to softly cup the side of her face, her thumb gently wiping away a tear from her cheek. Lena lets her eyes flutter closed for a second as she leans into the warm touch. There’s a moment between them, a low buzzing electric current connecting their bodies, air thick with anticipation, a silent conversation with their eyes. Kara's eyes flit to Lena's lips, nodding her head almost imperceptibly, and then she leans her body closer to Lena’s, drawing them both towards the inevitable. 

The collision course they are on is abruptly derailed by Alex, completely oblivious to the moment of intimacy she just interrupted. “Apologies from Kelly, she really wishes she could be here, but she had a full day of orientation at Social Services.”

Lena reluctantly steps back to allow the sisters to talk, but she can’t help noticing the way Kara's shoulders droop ever so slightly, and the look of disappointment on her face. A sentiment Lena definitely shares.

(What she doesn’t see is the way Alex glances between her and Kara, and the fleeting moment of realization in the older Danvers’ eyes, followed immediately by a quick flash of guilt, as she puts two and two together). 

The moment is over though. Conversation moves on, and everyone goes about their business as if nothing happened. And as far as everyone is concerned, nothing did happen - only Lena and Kara are privy to the wordless declarations that passed between them. 

But it did happen, and it gives Lena hope. More hope than she’s had in a long time. And she knows there are conversations to be had. Her and Kara need to talk about their fight, and how to trust each other again. Lena should probably explain why she was sleeping in Kara’s apartment. Clearly they need to discuss the feelings it seems they both have for each other, with actual words this time. (though perhaps some of those feelings could be expressed in other ways…)

She knows Kara will need to heal from the emotional and physical trauma of being in the phantom zone, and that alone could prove to be a difficult obstacle to overcome. There’s still a long road ahead of them, and most likely not an easy one. 

But for now, Kara is home, and that’s enough. 

[maristelina]

MILGRAM 2nd Anniversary Stream Translation

Translated by @/JuriTea_ and @/CatDraft0307 46 Pages, 11675 words.

🎴 Host

🔸Takuya Yamanaka 🔸DECO*27

🎴 Guest Voice Actors

🔸Amami Yurina (Es) 🔸Arthur Lounsbery (Futa) 🔸Yuuka Aisaka (Yuno)

🎴Start at 5 min

🔸Amami: Good evening everyone! We’ll now begin the 2nd anniversary for Milgram, a viewer participatory interactive music project

🔸Everyone: You tripped on your words already?

🔸Amami: Sorry~

🔸Lounsbery: Now I feel at ease, she lowered the bar

🔸Yamanaka: Now that she’s lowered the bar, let’s introduce our guests today. First, Amami-san who just tripped over her words

🔸Amami: Now, sing your crime. I’m Amami Yurina in the role of Es. Pleased to meet you!

🔸Aisaka: I have an idea! I’ll let you rest your head on my lap for 1000 yen. I’m Aisaka Yūka in the role of Yuno. Pleased to meet you.

🔸Lounsbery: Don’t take me lightly just cuz I’m a prisoner! I’m Lounsbery Arthur in the role of Futa, pleased to meet you.

🔸Deco: I’m the sound producer for Milgram, Deco*27. Pleased to meet you

🔸Yamanaka: I’m the screenwriter for Milgram, Yamanaka. Pleased to meet you. These are the members that will be delivering the Milgram 2nd anniversary stream today

🔸Everyone: We’ll be in your care.

🔸Amami: Yamanaka-san and I will be the MCs for today. I hope our viewers today can participate through comments and join the fun with us.

🔸Yamanaka: Actually we’ve been receiving a lot of comments at an alarming rate even before we started

🔸Lounsbery: Plus they’re coming from a variety of different countries. I’m so grateful

🔸Amami: I don't understand them, but thank you! I feel your passion.

🔸Aisaka: The sentiment makes me so happy

🔸Yamanaka: We don’t understand them, but we feel the love

🔸Lounsbery: Thanks everyone

🔸Amami: Milgram is already 2 years old

🔸Everyone: Time passes so fast

🔸Yamanaka: What are you grinning about

🔸Amami: It went by in a flash!

🔸Yamanaka: Were you able to make friends with the prisoners, Es-san?

🔸Amami: Ah yes… I have the opportunity to work closely with the prisoners the most. In the first year we were a little distant, but now, and we’ll talk more about this in the later half, we’re working towards the second trial, and I’ve gotten a little, you know, with Aisaka-san

🔸Aisaka: Yes?

🔸Amami: Closed the distance

🔸Aisaka-san: Did you need to say something to me?

🔸Lounsbery: What??

🔸Yamanaka: The distance is still there

🔸Lounsbery: Your message isn’t getting through to her

🔸Amami: This partition is in the way

🔸Aisaka: She’s right. The two producers.. Yamanaka-san and Deco-san asekd me, have you guys become good friends yet? I told them that even if they want us to, it’s hard to build friendships within the recording time only. Then I was told to go out for meals together, so we’re planning to go in the future.

🔸Amami: in our fantasies, for now

🔸Aisaka: Right, we still haven’t decided on a date yet, but we agreed to go SOMETIME in the future, so it’s a step in the right direction

Amami: Yes, we’re making progress

🔸Yamanaka: Amami-san said she wanted to make friends, so I suggested they share their LINE with each other… but that only happened after a year and a half after I made the suggestion

🔸Lounsbery: Isn’t that a little late?

🔸Deco: Not just a “little”…

🔸Yamanaka: So I’m guessing the meal will happen around two years… two years and a half later

🔸Amami: Yes.. we exchanged our LINEs just recently

🔸Aisaka: Slowly, you know? Deepen our bond one step at a time

🔸Amami: Exactly

🔸Lounsbery: I hope you guys have a meal together before the third trial

🔸Deco: I hope it happens before Milgram ends

🔸Lounsbery: I hope you guys go before Milgram ends

🔸Amami: Okay but we are talking about going to LOFT in Ikebukuro where there’s a Milgram pop up store now together.. Um, before everything ends

🔸Aisaka: But if I didn’t bring it up, Amami wouldn’t even have thought of it

🔸Deco: I was there when it happened. It was Aisaka-san’s idea.

🔸Amami: Aww… okay, let’s go.

🔸Deco: You have to go

🔸Amami: we’ll go for sure

🔸Aisaka: I guess deep down, she’s shy

🔸Amami: Yes you’re right

🔸Aisaka: You can’t tell from her usual friendly self

🔸Amami: I’m embarrassed. Please don't focus the camera on me that much

🔸Lounsbery: Just go out for meals already

🔸Aisaka: Yes, I want to build our friendship one step at a time

🔸Yamanaka: Amami, Deco-san and I have opportunity to chat during the CD limited events, but it’s been a while with the Aisaka and Lounsbery pair.

🔸Lounsbery: Yes.. I think since pre-pandemic times? When everyone got together to celebrate the start of Milgram just when it launched. I feel it’s certainly been a while

🔸Yamanaka: How did you feel about Milgram?

🔸Lounsbery: Eh?

🔸Yamanaka: Arthur-sensei, what was your view on Milgram?

🔸Yamanaka: Arthur-sensei, what was your view on Milgram?

🔸Lounsbery: I think it comes down to, “Ah, so this person is forgiven while this person isn’t?” I had a lot of thoughts about that. We can see the changes in the votes in real time, so I wondered at what point did people have changes of heart. At first you can have this person with majority votes, but before you realize, the other person has more votes. I’m guessing that’s due to everyone changing their minds as the speculations are updated. I want to peek into the thoughts of everyone who follows the websites that post speculations and theories. Like why did they decide they could no longer forgive certain issues.

🔸Amami: True, true

🔸Aisaka: I wonder if people also change their minds from reading the prisoner’s conversations on the timeline. Like if they see some more personal sides of the prisoners on the timeline, and go “What the heck. You’re actually adorable”

🔸Yamanaka: That adorableness is the culprit behind dilemmas when casting votes

🔸Aisaka & Amami: True

🔸Yamanaka: Whether it’s a good thing…

🔸Aisaka: I wonder

🔸Yamanaka: or a bad thing, we can’t know for sure

🔸Lounsbery: True

🔸Amami: I’m trembling

🔸Aisaka: Trembling?

🔸Amami: I’m trembling

🔸Aisaka: You’re trembling

🔸Amami: I’m trembling. As Es, I get the opportunity to touch on stories of the prisoners, so I have more information than my colleagues. I’m already trembling.

🔸Aisaka: Oh my

🔸Amami: Yes. I’m nervous with fear. It’s pretty intense, isn’t it Yamanaka-san?

🔸Yamanaka: It’s intense. Let’s talk about how intense it is later.

🔸Amami: Sounds good!

🔸Lounsbery: I’m sure everyone is eager to know more about the second trial

🔸Amami: Definitely

🔸Yamanaka: Deco-san, how has the two years been? It’s already been two years since we started

🔸Deco: It went by so fast

🔸Yamanaka: It was quick wasn’t it

🔸Deco: We’ll talk more about the second trial later, but I just want to say that it’s so fun to produce contents for Milgram. We receive votes from everyone who’s sending us comments right now, and we come up with new ideas based on those votes. Milgram isn’t only made by the people sitting here, but also by the viewers. I felt it’s a very fresh take, and I had a lot of fun

🔸Yamanaka: We can’t prepare the screenplay or music beforehand. It really feels like a free-style rap based on the answers we get from everyone

🔸Amami: True true

🔸Deco: It’s a lot of hard work

🔸Yamanaka: Like if that’s how you’re gonna come at us, then we’ll add these factors in. I have that side to me and I’m sure Deco-san does too, like adding new information or setting. That’s also a part of the fun over the last two years

🔸Amami: I’m telling you the second trial is really intense

🔸Lounsbery: I really think writing scenarios is a difficult job. Plus people speculate and write their own theories on how things are going to turn out. Do you ever feel like you never want to make those theories come true?

🔸Yamanaka: Yup. The story progression has already been decided though

🔸Lounsbery: Of course

🔸Yamanaka: It’s already been decided, and most of the time I already have a feel for how people are going to guess, and what kind of speculation will be born. But there are times when I see something that comes from a completely different angle, and I feel tempted to direct the story that way because it’s so interesting. That’s how diverse the minds of our audience are from all walks of life and various parts of the world, and I feel great value in our contents.

🔸Lounsbery: That’s wonderful

🔸Yamanaka: Because we want to hear everyone’s opinions and comments, in this stream we will be hosting Q&A sessions with each of our guests for the first time in Milgram history, and we have announcements that everyone might be interested in.

🔸Amami: I’m so excited

🔸Yamanaka: Please stay with us until the end.

🔸Everyone: Please do~

🎴Trial Results

🔸Amami: The current status in Milgram is that the first trial just ended, and we are waiting for the second trial. Let’s have a recap on what happened with each of the prisoners. Here we have 6 prisoners that were forgiven, and 4 that were not.

🔸Yamanaka: They’re in descending order based on the highest percentages. Looking at the results sorted in this way gives me a new impression. Like who was forgiven with the highest percentage of “forgive” votes

🔸Everyone: yes…

🔸Aisaka: Heh~ (I see~)

🔸Yamanaka: It was a very close vote for Mu… She was on the edge of being guilty

🔸Amami: Yes, she almost didn’t make it to innocent

🔸Yamanaka: Jackalope mentioned this too in the video after the first trial, but we can see the history of the actions taken to arrive at forgive/not forgive and the movement of each vote, and I can say that Mu was really on the edge. We really didn’t know how it would turn out until the very end.

🔸Lounsbery: We might have had a different result if the vote lasted longer by 2-3 days

🔸Yamanaka: It’s that unpredictable

🔸Amami?: True, true, both Mu and Yuno were really on the edge

🔸Yamanaka: Now that we look back on it, for example, is that high percentage a correct result for Haruka, or is it that high because people voted when they didn’t quite understand Milgram yet?

🔸Amami: True, true

🔸Deco: That could definitely change.

🔸Lounsbery: True, when people get more familiar with Milgram, their criteria can change

🔸Amami: True, if he was later in the line, it could be possible that he wouldn’t be forgiven. That being said, it’s amazing that Kokoto, being the last, was forgiven with the highest percentage

🔸Aisaka: True! Amazing

🔸Lounsbery: It’s interesting

🔸Amami: All of this ties back into the story, and it makes me so excited

🔸Yamanaka: Are there anything in these results that caught your attention? Like ah, this person got forgiven, but that person didn’t. It’s going to be difficult, you need to avoid spoilers

🔸Amami: Good point

🔸Lounsbery: It’s difficult. Like you have to…

🔸Deco: You have to avoid spoiler questions

🔸Yamanaka: Point out something that surprised you, but without spoilers

🔸Lounsbery: It still hasn’t been revealed yet what each character has done, so I’m worried that I might let something slip here. It scares me a little.

🔸Yamanaka: But was there anything that turned out differently than you expected?

Deco: Kotoko has a scene in her MV that shows her clearly beating someone, yet she was the most forgiven character, and that was unexpected for me. Like, why?

🔸Yamanaka: Those of you who voted to forgive Kotoko, please tell us in the comments why you forgave her

🔸Amami: Please do! I want to know.

🔸Yamanaka: I think Kotoko left a strong impression in her drama… it’s like her route is branching

🔸Amami: Es was moved by her as well

🔸Deco: If Kotoko wasn’t there, Es-kun would have been in a predicament

🔸Amami: True true

🔸Lounsbery: Those who didn’t forgive Futa, I wonder what were their reasons? I really want to know. He did the same thing as Kotoko, so why did people choose to not forgive him?

🔸Amami: True

🔸Lounsbery: So I really want to know everyone’s thoughts about that.

🔸Yamanaka: Some people are saying they didn’t really know so they just voted alternatingly

🔸Amami: There’s one saying that Kokoto’s justice is the type of justice they like

🔸Yamanaka: There are actually a lot of comments saying they didn’t forgive Kotoko

🔸Aisaka: Some are saying they forgave her because she’s cute. I think that’s valid

🔸Amami: Yup

🔸Aisaka: That is a valid decision

🔸Yamanaka: Valid indeed. All are valid

🔸Deco: There’s a comment saying they wanted to see how Futa would react, so they chose not to forgive him

🔸Lounsbery: There’s another one saying that it’s because they don’t like people who are similar to themselves… Is that even a thing?

🔸Deco: That’s so harsh

🔸Yamanaka: Like Deco-san mentioned earlier, instead of those with blatant depictions like Haruka and Kotoko, those without any depictions, like Mahiru, are less likely to be forgiven. It’s interesting how people approach Milgram

🔸Amami: I was really surprised by Mahiru-chan. I wonder why she wasn't forgiven? I read up on a lot of speculations through comments and hashtags, and realized there were so many different ways of how her character was interpreted.

🔸Yamanaka: “Mahiru kinda creeps me out” says this comment

🔸Deco: “Futa was the most difficult”

🔸Amami: Ah, I see…

🔸Lounsbery: If they chose to not forgive, then they would become a perpetrator too. It’s difficult. But it’s so interesting

🔸Yamanaka: It’s interesting… I want to read the comments the entire time

🔸Lounsbery: It’s so interesting to read everyone’s comments

🔸Amami: By the way, what do the two of you producers think about the result?

🔸Yamanaka: Ahh… I don’t know about Deco-san, but in my mind I kind of had a hunch about if this person would be forgiven, or if they wouldn’t be forgiven. I was wrong about 2 people

🔸Amami: Wow, two people?

🔸Lounsbery: Can we ask who?

🔸Yamanaka: Hmm what should I do? Maybe just one… hm, what to do?

🔸Lounsbery: We want to know at least one

🔸Yamanaka: Should I do it? What should I do… Umm

🔸Amami: Hey, tell us

🔸Yamanaka: Um… Mahiru

🔸Amami: Oh… Mahiru-chan

🔸Lounsbery: Did it surprise you?

🔸Yamanaka: Well, not surprised per se, but I pictured that she would be forgiven in the beginning. How about you Deco-san? From a composer perspective. Like did you have a feel for whether a song would lean towards being forgiven, or not forgiven?

🔸Deco: Mahiru.

🔸Amami: So it’s Mahiru

🔸Deco: I thought the result would be the opposite. It was unexpected. The song itself was cheerful, cute, a girl in love.

🔸Amami: The comments are saying her voice drama was scary

🔸Deco: I guess she has this something that’s seeping out of her, and that’s scaring people

🔸Amami: I’ve been told that it’s unrelated, but I’m pretty sure her cover song is also influencing the results

🔸Yamanaka: It’s totally unrelated

🔸Deco: covers of Deco*27’s songs are completely unrelated. Unrelated.

🔸Amami: I know it’s completely unrelated, but the song choice makes people wonder if she has that side to her too.

🔸Yamanaka: It’s unrelated though

🔸Amami: It makes me read into it too deeply

🔸Yamanaka: We’re telling you that it’s unrelated all this time, but you don’t believe us

🔸Amami: But it really makes me wonder why the cover songs were assigned the way they were.

🔸Yamanaka: To add to why I found the results unexpected for Mahiru, I was more surprised at how quickly everyone was adapting to Milgram. The rate at which everyone understood Milgram was faster than I expected. They really gained the proper skills to interpret Milgram MVs, and that’s what made the results this way.

🔸Aisaka: I was really surprised that everyone is thinking this far, when I read the comments on Youtube. Everyone really is skilled

🔸Yamanaka: In that aspect, the transition from Haruka’s THAT PV to Yuno’s girly PV must have surprised everyone. The imagery and music are vastly different in genres. After I write the scenarios, I just leave everything to Deco-san and Otoiro-san. I’m always excited to see the results

🔸Deco: I think writing the screenplay, which will be the base for everything, is the most difficult part

🔸Yamanaka: No, I’d say the acting is the most difficult

🔸Lounsbery: No no no, now we’re just going in circles. Someone’s gotta stop it.

🔸Amami: I personally think the theories for Amane-chan are the most interesting. People were saying that she’s a child, so if they forgive her… well ultimately she wasn’t forgiven.. But.. was that part of your intentions when you wrote the scenario?

🔸Yamanaka: Yes

🔸Amami: He said yes

🔸Yamanaka: Well what I mean is, I gave elements that could be thought as forgivable or unforgivable to every character. We don’t know what Amane has done yet, but despite her crime, she’s still a child. I’ve added elements that could be interpreted differently by audiences depending on the stage of their lives. For example, opinions may differ depending on if the viewer is a child, or parents, or someone who just had a child. For Amane-chan, age is definitely an important factor

🔸Amami: Amazing

🔸Lounsbery: It’s been thought through

🔸Yamanaka: It would be fun to think about what kind of questions each character has, and what kind of balance they’re carrying

🔸Amami: This was very interesting to hear, as a consumer myself. I think this will increase the theories. We are starting to find more about the second trial ourselves too.

🔸Yamanaka: That’s right

🔸Amami: So when we hear you say that, we have a lot of thoughts too.

🎴Second Trial Production

🔸Yamanaka: So we just summarized the first trial, and of course the second trial is already in production. How are the songs for the second trial going?

🔸Deco: Second trial songs are… intense. Um, for real, they’re … I choose this word deliberately, but they’re hell. Even in the first trial, there were some scary and thrilling songs, but looking back, they were merely self introductions. Just the surface of the character. We’ve only taken the tip of the iceberg to show the viewers. The second trial takes into account everyone’s votes and we’ve reflected the characters’ turmoils, so it’s hell. Really. So those of you who voted – I think we have a lot of viewers here who have voted – you need to fully prepare yourselves for the second trial, or else it will be very mentally taxing.

🔸Amami: It does feel taxing

🔸Deco: It’s taxing. Especially if it’s your bias

🔸Lounsbery: But it’s a result of everyone’s decisions.

🔸Everyone: Exactly

🔸Lounsbery: The second trial is based on everyone’s choices, so as Futa would put it, “It’s all you! You guys did this!” That’s the case here.

🔸Everyone: True true

🔸Lounsbery: yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

🔸Yamanaka: I think if you keep in mind the fact that you influenced the outcomes of the second trial songs, based on your choices and actions in the first trial, you can get a very different impression, compared to merely listening to them.

🔸Amami: Everyone is starting to get scared

🔸Lounsbery: I’m curious about the differences in songs between the innocent group and the guilty group.

🔸Amami: True!

🔸Lounsbery: like what difference will there be in the melodies

🔸Yamanaka: The scenario, just like the songs, is influenced by everyone’s response for forgiven/not forgiven. It’s like you threw a pebble into their self introductions, and now you can see more of what’s underneath the surface

🔸Deco: It’s crazy. The screenplay is also brutal.

🔸Yamanaka: I’m really having fun writing the screenplay for the second trial

🔸Deco: Oh nooo… I can’t give any spoilers, but if I liked a certain prisoner, and they turned out this way, I really can’t accept it. I wouldn’t be able to stand it.

🔸Lounsbery: Now I want to know

🔸Yamanaka: I’m not doing this out of spite, it’s just that if that prisoner was forgiven, then obviously they’d turn out this way. I’m just following the logic. That’s a rule that I stand by, so I hope that you’ll accept it as a consequence of your choices

🔸Amami: I’ve been recording voice dramas here and there, and I’m like “Eh? That’s how it turns out?”

🔸Yamanaka: How was it? Recording the drama for second trial

🔸Amami: Can I say it?

🔸Yamanaka: Yes, it’s okay

🔸Amami: I’ve recorded a drama with Yuno-chan, and I was like, “Eh?! Yuno-chan?! Eh… you were like this…?”

🔸Aisaka: Ah, true. But I felt that it was very in-character for Yuno

🔸Yamanaka: Aisaka-san knows Yuno’s personality very well, so I think it also would be an obvious result.

🔸Aisaka: I felt like there are a lot of points that I can empathize with, when I was playing her role. How should I put it, like, people have certain expectations for someone because of their preconceived notions of what kind of person that someone is. And Yuno has opinions about that… I’m terrified that I’ll spoil it!

🔸Amami: It’s very tempting, right?

🔸Aisaka: Yeah… I felt like I could empathize with her on that. Like she’s right. I felt it was very realistic, and Yuno has her own unique way of feeling things. That made me like Yuno even more.

🔸Yamanaka: Regardless if it’s good or bad, it’s about learning more about that character.

🔸Aisaka: I agree

🔸Amami: At least it feels like no one from the first trial is here, so everyone please look forward to it.

🔸Aisaka: Everyone?

🔸Amami: I Wonder…

🔸Deco: Maybe everyone… like there could be someone who completely changed, and there could be people who’s affirmation in their opinions grew even stronger

🔸Yamanaka: Or it could simply be that they’re seeing new things from a different perspective.

🔸Aisaka: Humans are multifaceted

🔸Yamanaka: Amongst that, we have Arthur sensei who’s still waiting to record

🔸Lounsbery: Yeah not my turn yet

🔸Amami: You’re after Yuno-chan so it should be pretty soon

🔸Lounsbery: I haven’t recorded the drama yet but we’ve finished the song. I wish I can tell you soon.

🔸Yamanaka: The song is amazing

🔸Lounsbery: It’s totally badass. I can’t tell you the contents because it would be a spoiler, but it’s completely badass and I screamed a lot this time too.

🔸Deco: yup you did

🔸Amami: It’s gonna be awesome for sure

🔸Lounsbery: It’s a really cool song so I hope you can listen to it soon.

🔸Yamanaka: I’m having such a great time using these unreleased songs as my personal BGM

🔸Amami: I’m so jealous

🔸Aisaka: Me too

🔸Deco: I hope people can listen to it soon. All songs for the second trial have been completed. Only the voice drama left

🔸Yamanaka: They’re all amazing songs

🔸Aisaka: For real, they really are

🔸Amami: I felt that all the songs for the second trial, and also the voice dramas, reveal new aspects for each of the characters. I really want everyone to be able to listen to them soon. I’m so excited

🔸Lounsbery: I’m so curious

🎴MILGRAM Novel

🔸Amami: Right? So excited. Moving on, Milgram’s main story is super eventful, and it even had this turn of events. Let’s take a look at the PV

28:38: Taking society by storm even before release! Amazon Ranking Books>Japanese literature number 1 *based on 2022/2/5 data

28:39: An astoundingly shocking controversial work exposing the modern day “Crime and Punishment”!!

28:44: Milgram Experimental prison and the girl warden

28:46: Five prisoners charged with murder

28:46: No. 1 Gentle, a young man who always has a kid smile on his lips

28:47: No. 2 Nervous, a girl who harms herself

28:47: No. 3 Close, a girl who is usually cheerful but starved of love

28:48: No. 4 Two Side,a boy who brightens everyone’s mood

28:48: No. 5 Torch, a boy who has no interest in people

28:49: A prison wrapped in mystery where innocent/guilty is decided, “Milgram”

28:52: The one who investigates their crimes is a girl warden who lost all memories of the past, Es

28:54: The past of the murderers that are gradually revealed, and the cruel punishments sentenced to them

28:57: When the truth of the birth of “Milgram” is exposed, the story avalanches towards an unpredictable astounding conclusion

28:59: When you learn the truth of everything, will you be able to forgive?

29:02: A story born from the musical project “Milgram” by

Deco*27 “Vampire” Spark” “Otome Dissection＂ Yamanaka Takuya “Caligula”

29:05: Milgram Experimental prison and the girl warden

Author: Namitsumi Original concept: Deco*27/Yamanaka Takuya Illustrator: Shokumura On sale now! Price 748 yen (incl. taxes) Mediaworks Bunko

29:05 background text: An astoundingly shocking controversial work exposing the modern day “Crime and Punishment”!!

29:10: That is a Milgram that I (you) don’t know 29:10: Read? Won’t read?

🔸 Yamanaka: This novel is called Milgram Experimental prison and the girl warden by Mediaworks Bunko, on sale now. It’s Milgram’s first novel. Let us know if you have read it already in the comments. We have comments saying that they have.

🔸 Everyone: Lots of people are saying they enjoyed it

🔸 Lounsbery: There’s actually quite a lot saying that they’ve read it

🔸 Yamanaka: With this many positive feedback, we are happy that we took on the challenge of making our first novel

🔸 Aisaka: It’s very well received

🔸 Amami: We’re grateful

🔸 Yamanaka: so grateful

🔸 Yamanaka: “I read it too” It seems everyone has read it

🔸 Amami: Thank you

🔸 Yamanaka: I think everyone wondered how we were going to adapt Milgram into a novel when we announced it. We worked together with the author Namitsumi-san and Mediaworks to express Milgram in a way unique to the novel format. We’d love for you to give it a read if you haven’t done so already.

🔸 Everyone: Please do.

🔸 Deco: You need to be mentally prepared before you read this, right?

🔸 Yamanaka: You can go in prepared, or not prepare anything at all. Even if you don’t know anything about Milgram, for example you don’t follow any of the Milgram contents on Youtube, you can still read it. That’s what makes it unique

🔸 Amami: True, it’s a standalone story in a different timeline

🔸 Lounsbery: It’s a self-contained story

🔸 Yamanaka: Yup. And if you do follow the main Milgram contents, it will be even more interesting to read. I think there are some people who joined Milgram through this novel. What an ideal condition to promote it.

🔸 Amami: At first I was surprised. Instead of the current events in Milgram, the novel is about events before the current Milgram started. It was very interesting to see what happened before the current Milgram.

🔸 Yamanaka: We were quite ambitious going into it, but I’m happy that it was very well received by everyone.

🔸 Amami: The contents are quite shocking, but how does it fit into Milgram as a whole?

🔸 Yamanaka: I’d say it’s a different story from the current Milgram, but as those of you who have read it would know, they’re definitely connected. Maybe your understanding of Milgram will deepen by reading this novel, and maybe it will make you reflect on your past votes and wonder if you’ve made the right decision. It could also act as a standard to how you will vote in the second trial. Right now we finished the first trial and are awaiting the second trial, so it would be the perfect time to read it.

🔸 Amami: I’m so excited

🔸 Yamanaka: I really want to address some more comments but there are so many from our overseas viewers, so I can only appreciate the sentiment

🔸 Aisaka: They’re saying “Milgram fan cult”

🔸 Yamanaka: thank you

🔸 Aisaka: Thank you~

🔸 Amami: I wish I can read english

🔸 Lounsbery: There are also English comments saying it’s scary. “Scary”. And also that they’re excited.

🔸 Amami: The Milgram novel is only in Japanese at this point right?

🔸 Yamanaka: Yes that’s correct

🔸 Amami: Wait so… they’re reading it in Japanese? Amazing?!

🔸 Yamanaka: There are people asking for translated versions on Twitter. Mediaworks-san is looking into it

🔸 Amami: Thank you everyone. We’d appreciate it if you could enjoy the novelized version of Milgram as well. Now we will be moving on to addressing the questions we’ve received from you beforehand for the warden and prisoners. Spoilers are forbidden, so our guests here today, if you’re unable to answer any of the questions, please feel free to say that you can’t answer it. Please be careful when answering~

🔸 Everyone: Got it!

🎴Question and Answer #1

🔸 Amami: Yamanaka-san, would you like to start?

🔸 Yamanaka: We received a lot of questions, so I had a difficult time choosing. First, a question for our three voice actors. “There is a lot of content ranging from prisoner’s songs and drama parts. Which parts did you have the most fun with, and which parts were the most difficult?” From username Shiranui-san.

🔸 Amami: Thank you for your question

🔸 Yamanaka: For example in a song, did you have a certain phrase, or part, or in Dramas, a certain scene, or a certain line that left an impression on you?

🔸 Lounsbery: Can I go first?

🔸 Amami: be our guest

🔸 Lounsbery: Or else we’ll just give the opportunity around to each other

🔸 Yamanaka: Let’s go in order of tallest to shortest

🔸 Lounsbery: In order of height. In my case with Futa, we recorded songs before the dramas. When I was recording the songs, I was told what kind of character Futa is, like he’s a little cocky, and he’s hot-blooded. I wanted to add those nuances into the songs, so I’ve reflected them through growling, like “Don’t fuck with me” like that, and shouting at the end of Bring it On. I wanted to condense some elements of Futa and put it into the songs, so I approached the song recording with everything I’ve got, and that’s what I liked the most. That’ll be the same for the second trial, I have so much fun acting. And also, his cockiness… like how cocky can I be? How cocky should I be? It was very interesting to discuss that with the staff as we record

🔸 Yamanaka: The recording for Milgram is very fun

🔸 Everyone: it’s fun!

🔸 Yamanaka: The singers give it their 100% and don’t compromise, and meet everything we ask for in the dramas.

🔸 Everyone: True

🔸 Yamanaka: It’s a really great environment

🔸 Amami: I feel so at home at the recording set

🔸 Yamanaka: Complete opposite from the vibe of the content

🔸 Amami: Exactly! After we finish recording the contents everyone is like “Ah, everyone worked hard today~” and we relax together. I love that vibe. Thank you~

🔸 Yamanaka: Amami-san, how about you?

🔸 Amami: I have the opportunity to work with each of the prisoners in the voice dramas, and I’m also doing covers of each prisoner’s song to celebrate 1,000,000 views, but what I found the most fun was the voice dramas and they left a strong impression on me. I especially had so much fun with Futa’s drama

🔸 Lounsbery: Ah…you had such an evil expression back then

🔸 Amami: No way, really? For other characters, I kind of put on an unapproachable attitude when I act in the dramas, but for Futa, he provokes me so I provoke him back. So I remember it being really fun. I’m really interested to find out how the voice dramas would change for the second trial. I hope the recording day comes soon

🔸 Lounsbery: Right? I want to read the script already

🔸 Amami: Right? I’m dying to know. That’s all from me. How about you?

🔸 Aisaka: For me, you know how Yuno-chan always.. What’s the word.. Not exactly tease Es-kun, but she tends to drag Es-kun into her pace. But in the later half of her first trial drama, Es-kun was kind of handsome. Like he said, “No matter what, I…” to Yuno, and Yuno-chan seemed happy at that. That scene was fun for me. When I read the script and act, I also want to see Yuno-chan’s true self, so I like acting scenes when Yuno-chan genuinely feels something in her heart. That applies to songs as well.

🔸 Yamanaka: This is my personal opinion, but it’s been a while since we finished recording the dramas for the first trial, and everyone improved so much when they came back for the second trial.

🔸 Amami: That’s great to hear

🔸 Yamanaka: I can tell everyone is comfortable in their acting, and I feel so happy that everyone is growing and becoming more experienced as they work on Milgram. That’s what I feel as we record the second trial.

🔸 Deco: Are you their dad?

🔸 Lounsbery: Parental love

🔸 Aisaka: I think we understand our characters better now

🔸 Amami: True, we have a clearer picture of who they are now

🔸 Aisaka: That too, and we learn more about the characters from everyone’s comments. Like, “Oh, this can be interpreted this way… maybe they have that side to them too”. Everyone is so smart.

🔸 Amami: True… everyone comes up with things that never even crossed my mind

🎴Question and Answer #2

🔸 Yamanaka: I want to ask Deco-san this question too, were there any part of the songs and dramas that left an impression on you?

🔸 Deco: Impression, huh

🔸 Yamanaka: Just off the top of your head

🔸 Deco: I think overall, you know how Milgram songs have parts where each character talks? They speak during the songs, and I think that adds depth and atmosphere to the songs. I have a lot of fun thinking about where I want to add those speaking lines into the songs for each character. If I add too many, it might give too much away, and we don’t need that. So in the first trial, I loved the process of trying to find a good balance to make it the most effective for the song, and where it would sound the best.

🔸 Yamanaka: I think the audience has scenes that were memorable to them as well… if they could tweet them, maybe we can read what left an impression for them

🔸 Everyone: we could be reading them!

🔸 Yamanaka: Amami-san do you want to ask the next question?

🔸 Amami: Hm, which one should I pick?

🔸 Yamanaka: Just pick the first one

🔸 Amami: We have a question from Kansen-san. “How did you…” … can you read it for me?

🔸 Lounsbery: Oh it’s in English? English… Kansen-san, from overseas. “How did you feel when you saw the results of the characters that you’ve voiced? What predictions did you have about other characters, and did they come true?”

🔸 Aisaka: What does it mean?

🔸 Yamanaka: What does it mean?

🔸 Lounsbery: Um, basically, what did you think about the results? The first trial results. And… What are your predictions for the upcoming contents, like for the second trial.

🔸 Aisaka: I see I see

🔸 Lounsbery: in a nutshell

🔸 Yamanaka: Especially the characters you were in charge of

🔸 Lounsbery: Yes, your thoughts on the characters you played

🔸 Yamanaka: In that sense, Arthur and Aisaka-san. What did you feel about Futa and Yuno?

🔸 Lounsbery: I’ve mentioned this before, but his cockiness was fun to act, and in terms of songs, it’s almost like a musical.

🔸 Yamanaka: Ah, I see

🔸 Lounsbery: Of course they’re character songs, and even in the category of character songs, you have to bring out their characters as you sing. “I’m this kind of person. Listen to me. Listen to what we have done”, so it’s very musical-like to me. I enjoyed that a lot. And as for the predictions I have for the second trial, hmm, I wonder how it’ll go down. I feel like whatever I say, it’ll be a spoiler.

🔸 Amami: By the way, by the way, I know you haven’t recorded your voice drama yet, but just based on the song, do you think you’ll be forgiven, or not forgiven?

🔸 Lounsbery: Just from the song, can I say this? Can I say it?

🔸 Yamanaka: That should be okay

🔸 Lounsbery: Won’t be forgiven. Definitely won’t be forgiven.

🔸 Deco: Dahh… well, probably not

🔸 Yamanaka: You never know though

🔸 Amami: It’s amazing that you can say that with certainty

🔸 Lounsbery: Won’t be forgiven

🔸 Deco: Maybe the results would be different if you take into account the speculation and MV, but the first impression you’ll get from just hearing the song is that he probably won’t be forgiven.

🔸 Amami: If the composer and the singer both are saying that…

🔸 Lounsbery: But if there is visualization to go along with it, there’s a possibility he would be forgiven

🔸 Yamanaka: Exactly… and if you listen to the drama, the results could be different.

🔸 Lounsbery: Right… I haven’t recorded the drama yet. But I’ve had a lot of fun singing the song. How about you, Aisaka-san? What did you feel during your acting?

🔸 Aisaka: Wait, what was the first question again?

🔸 Lounsbery: It was about what you thought about the results of the first trial, and what were your thoughts during voice acting for Yuno?

🔸 Aisaka: Let’s see… Yuno-chan was really flip flopping between innocent and guilty, but personally I really wanted her to be forgiven. Just my personal thought, not as a voice actor, but just from watching Yuno-chan, I thought it would be more interesting if she was forgiven. Forgive her! I thought. She was forgiven, and I was like, okay, so she was forgiven by a close margin. But if you ask me what I think will happen in the second trial, this will also, for real, Amami, what I mean is, I don’t want the results to be affected by my opinion, but I also want her to be forgiven again. I feel like she probably won’t be forgiven, probably

🔸 Lounsbery: You think so too?

🔸 Aisaka: Yeah.. based on what I felt when singing, I felt like “Ah.. Yuno-chan, you’re saying a lot of things” so she might not be forgiven, but I wonder what would happen if she was forgiven again… I’m so scared! This is getting dangerously close.

🔸 Yamanaka: It’s fine, it’s fine

🔸 Aisaka: I wonder if I said too much.. But um, I really don’t know. I don’t know.

🔸 Yamanaka: Don’t know. No one knows the answer

🔸 Aisaka: I’ll leave the answer in you guys’ hands.

🔸 Amami: You’re so cool!

🔸 Aisaka: Whichever way it rolls, Yuno will be interesting

🔸 Amami: True!

🔸 Lounsbury: No doubt about that

🔸 Yamanaka: Let’s do that. Whichever way it rolls

🔸 Aisaka: Let’s do that, yup.

🔸 Amami/Lounsbery: Thank you.

🔸 Yamanaka: Next up, username Hanchahan-san. A question for Deco*27-san.

🔸 Deco: yes

🔸 Yamanaka: It’s finally here. “You’ve mentioned that you personally select the pairings for cover songs. Were there songs that were difficult to select, or ones that you decided on instantly? Please let us know” You’ve been complimented on again.

🔸 Amami: I want to know too.

🔸 Deco: Yuno’s Stickybug was decided on in an instant. I thought it was perfect for her voice.

🔸 Aisaka: Yay! It was so fun to sing

🔸 Deco: I wonder whose was difficult…?

🔸 Yamanaka: I haven’t seen any that were difficult to pair. I felt like all the decisions were quick

🔸 Deco: There hasn’t been any that was difficult. I had clear visions for each character’s voice, and I decided who would cover each of my songs pretty fast.

🔸 Yamanaka: it’s a bit different from being difficult, but Deco-san is releasing a lot of new songs, but did you ever feel like one of the new songs would suit a certain character better?

🔸 Deco: I did change some in between

🔸 Amami: Every time a new song is uploaded, I think a lot about which character’s vibe it gives off.

🔸 Aisaka: Now that you say it, that’s another way to enjoy it

🔸 Deco: All because you became Milgram fans.

🔸 Amami: Exactly

🔸 Deco: Every time you listen to Deco*27’s new songs.

🔸 Aisaka: True!

🔸 Amami: Every time a new song is uploaded.

🔸 Aisaka: That seems really fun

🔸 Amami: Like, “This feels like this character” and “doesn’t this one feel like that character?”

🔸 Aisaka: I agree!

🔸 Deco: I see, that’s a new way of enjoying them

🔸 Yamanaka: Milgram fans think you wrote a new song for one of the characters to sing

🔸 Deco: Ah, I see

🔸 Aisaka: That’s so interesting

🔸 Deco: I like that style of enjoyment

🔸 Aisaka: It’s the perk of being a Milgram fan

🔸 Amami: Maybe the second trial cover songs will be exactly as how everyone predicts

🔸 Aisaka: I’m looking forward to it

🔸 Deco: I do want everyone to take a guess though.

🔸 Aisaka: Sounds fun!

🔸 Amami: true

🔸 Deco: I think they’ll probably get it right.

🔸 Yamanaka: Do they get any prizes if they guess right?

🔸 Aisaka: Eh? That’s great. There are prizes? Just for having fun?

🔸 Amami: I think there are those who are starting to record their cover songs now, but when it gets to Kotoko at the end, Deco-san will probably have more songs.

🔸 Yamanaka: That’s right

🔸 Lounsbery: Good point

🔸 Deco: The cover songs for characters going later might change. I might feel that new songs would suit them better.

🔸 Yamanaka: You’re making too many songs, are you okay?

🔸 Deco: I’m okay

🔸 Amami: True, it’s a lot

🔸 Lounsbery: It’s very fast paced

🔸 Yamanaka: You’re releasing them at an intense pace

🔸 Deco: I’m totally okay

🔸 Yamanaka: You’re even making a lot of songs for Milgram, and I often wonder if you’re doing okay. And you keep releasing new songs on top of that.

🔸 Deco: I’m okay.

🔸 Lounsbery: Let’s have everyone take a guess in the comments about which songs we will cover

🔸 Amami: True!

🔸 Deco: Then let’s have everyone guess Yuno and Futa’s second trial cover songs.

🔸 Aisaka: Ah~ Sounds fun

🔸 Deco: We gotta make sure to not give anything away from our facial expressions

🔸 Lounsbery: We definitely can’t give it away with our facial expressions

🔸 Deco: All five of us here know

🔸 Lounsbery: And we’ll all read the comments, so we’ll know if it’s right or wrong

🔸 Aisaka: That’s gonna be so hard

🔸 Amami: Poker face! Poker face!

🔸 Deco: Poker face

🔸 Aisaka: That’s so hard

🔸 Lounsbery: I wonder if everyone can guess right

🔸 Everyone: Oh~

🔸 Lounsbery: I see…

🔸 Amami: I see…

🔸 Lounsbery: There are also requests of which ones they want

🔸 Deco: By the way, songs that have been covered already in the first trial won’t be covered again.

🔸 Lounsbery: So there won’t be overlaps

🔸 Deco: Correct. For now

🔸 Yamanaka: I see.

🔸 Lounsbery: As expected, a lot of people guessed the newest songs.

🔸 Yamanaka: Not that we’ll give you an answer though

🔸 Lounsbery: We don’t answer anything

🔸 Amami: But there are so many that I agree with! Like “Oh yeah that’s great, I want to hear that too”

🔸 Deco: I agree

🔸 Deco: We’re just making them comment and we’re not answering anything

🔸 Lounsbery: Because then they’ll find out. There’s about half a year to go until the second trial, so I hope they can wait for it.

🔸 Deco: But I like that there are a variety of predictions. I do agree that some of them are pretty compatible.

🔸 Amami: I see… so that kind of song could fit that character too…

🔸 Lounsbery: I hope everyone looks forward to it.

🔸 Yamanaka: Amami-san do you want to read the next question?

🔸 Amami: From Umanoko-san. Thank you!

🔸 Lounsbery: Thanks

🎴Question and Answer #3

🔸 Amami: Is there anything that Yamanaka-san pays close attention to when writing the story?

🔸 Yamanaka: What I pay attention to… What I pay attention to…This can be said about all of Milgram, but I want to make it so that your interpretation of it changes depending on your standpoint, thinking processes, and ways of life. I pay great attention to avoid writing the story in a way that depicts something as absolute good or absolute bad, or one thing is right and the other is wrong. I want the story to elicit a different opinion from you when you revisit it as you get older. Milgram is a long term project, so for example someone might discover Milgram when they’re in elementary school, and grow up with Milgram into their highschool years. When they become highschoolers, they can look back on their decisions they made in elementary school, and see how their thought processes have changed over the years. I’d be happy if Milgram could accompany you through your life. I want Milgram to be something that when you look back on your life, you remember it as something near and dear to your heart. That’s what I think about when I write the story

🔸 Lounsbery: I see

🔸 Yamanaka: I gave such a serious response

🔸 Amami: Not at all, you’re completely right. It took about a year and a half to complete the first trial, so everyone is probably already aware that it’s a long term project. It’s completely probable that elementary school kids could become highschoolers during the duration of this project.

🔸 Yamanaka: In the current times, entertainment is very fast paced. Like “Here’s a new mobile game!” and it thrives for a year, then it starts to decline. The society thrives on fast consumption. I hope that Milgram can provide content that progresses at a slower pace, which you can enjoy in between your favorite manga or games as a change of pace.

🔸 Amami: I like that a lot. Thank you for the question

🔸 Yamanaka: Should I read the next question?

🔸 Amami: Please do

🔸 Yamanaka: Username Haru-san. “Good evening, a question for Yurina-chan. You cover the prisoner’s songs as Es, and I always enjoy your commentaries about what happens afterwards. I think your commentaries are always easy to understand. I love Yurina-chan’s covers, and I want to ask which prisoner’s song do you like best? I’d love to know if there are any lyrics that are impactful because they’re from a certain prisoner, or any stories you might have because you covered the songs.

🔸 Amami: Oh~ I see

🔸 Yamanaka: Yurina-chan’s fan

🔸 Amami: There are still some songs that haven’t reached 1,000,000 views, so I haven’t covered those yet, but what I personally enjoyed the most was surprisingly Throw Down…

🔸 Deco: Oh, it’s Throw Down?

🔸 Amami: It was very fun. Of course, songs like “This is How To Be in Love With You” ended up completely different from the original. I wanted to sing in a cute way at first, but Deco-san said let’s not do that.

🔸 Deco: Es would sing it more gruffly and brusquely

🔸 Amami: He told me to be more like Es. So I sang that song in that way. Among the covers of songs that have reached 1,000,000 views that haven’t been released yet, I think you can see a new side to Es in Throw Down. But Umbilical was super fun too.

🔸 Aisaka: I’m glad to hear that. It’s a good song, right?

🔸 Amami: I hope you can enjoy Es Covers while you wait for the second trial

🔸 Aisaka: I want to hear Es sing “Yatchattanda Shitchattanda” (I messed up, I found out) as soon as possible. I think it’ll be great.

🔸 Amami: I think you can hear it sooner than you think. I think it’s the next one?

🔸 Yamanaka: Yes, it’s the next one

🔸 Aisaka: I’m so excited!

🔸 Amami: So I think Yuno-chan’s cover will be released next

🔸 Aisaka: I can’t wait

🔸 Yamanaka: What do you think as Futa, the original singer, about Es’s cover of Bring it On?

🔸 Lounsbery: It was fresh. I did expect Es to sing in a gruff manner, but I was surprised by the talking parts in the later half. It was really fresh. So I really want Es to cover the second trial songs soon.

🔸 Yamanaka: So let’s get the second trial songs over 1M views fast

🔸 Amami: Please, everyone

🔸 Lounsbery: I started thinking about ways how Es would cover it in my head already

🔸 Deco: Ah it’s quite difficult… all of season 2's songs are difficult.

🔸 Amami: Yes… personally –

🔸 Deco: I felt everyone was so amazing for being able to sing them, especially in character.

🔸 Lounsbery: It was properly difficult

🔸 Deco: certainly

🔸 Yamanaka: Every song was difficult, really.

🔸 Amami: Personally, I felt that second trial songs are more in line with each character compared to the first. It shows more of their personal parts. I’m really excited to know what kind of directions I’ll receive when I cover them as Es. I hope everyone, including the prisoners, can look forward to it.

🎴Question and Answer #5

🔸 Yamanaka: Amami-san do you want to ask one more?

🔸 Amami: Yes~ Let’s see which one… Cute… a cute one

🔸 Lounsbery: Which one will you choose?

🔸 Amami: Ice cream…

🔸 Lounsbery: That's great. go ahead and read it

🔸 Yamanaka: Let’s go with that one

🔸 Amami: Is this one okay?

🔸 Lounsbery: You can just read it

🔸 Amami: It’s from Link-san. What’s your favorite flavor of ice cream?

🔸 Deco: They asked, what your favorite flavor of ice cream

🔸 Yamanaka: This is a question specific to Milgram, so please do answer it

🔸 Lounsbery: This has almost nothing to do with Milgram, just what flavor of ice cream you like

🔸 Yamanaka: They want to know

🔸 Lounsbery: What flavor do you like?

🔸 Amami: I like the classic, milk flavor

🔸 Aisaka: Heh~ that’s so like you

🔸 Lounsbery: Milk?

🔸 Deco: Vanilla?

🔸 Amami: Ah, Vanilla! Vanilla milk. I don’t know. Vanilla. I like vanilla

🔸 Aisaka: That’s a good answer

🔸 Yamanaka: That’s a classic.

🔸 Amami: What about you? Yamanaka san?

🔸 Yamanaka: Well, vanilla.

🔸 Deco: We got two vanillas

🔸 Lounsbery: Vanilla is good. Hmm, I don’t really know what flavors are available at foreign Baskin-Robbins

🔸 Yamanaka: You don’t need to think that deep. Just answer casually

🔸 Lounsbery: I like Popping-Shower, but in terms of more standard flavors, I like vanilla and cookies and cream. I like vanilla

🔸 Amami: Hm?

🔸 Lounsbery: what about you Deco?

🔸 Deco: Azuki bar

🔸 Aisaka: It’s delicious

🔸 Lounsbery: True, it’s good. For real.

🔸 Amami: So yummy

🔸 Deco: More than the flavor, it’s about the brand

🔸 Lounsbery: Yes, the brand name. Delicious.

🔸 Amami: They almost break my teeth. Like “Gahh”. What about Aisaka?

🔸 Aisaka: I like mint chocolate

🔸 Amami: It’s so yummy! I love it too

🔸 Yamanaka: Please support Milgram

🔸 Amami: The room is so relaxed

🔸 Lounsbery: We just talked about our favorite ice cream flavors.

🔸 Yamanaka: I like it. We also have a job interview-esque question. From username Yua-san, question for the three voice actors. “How do you feel about getting selected as the voice actor for Milgram characters?”

🔸 Deco: Seriously, it’s a job interview

🔸 Yamanaka: Please respond.

🔸 Lounsbery: I feel like I’m being tested

🔸 Aisaka: I’m very happy, but I do wonder what they saw in us when they chose us. They didn’t ask me to audition for Yuno, so I wonder what they saw in the voice sample on my production company’s home page. But I felt very happy.

🔸 Yamanaka: You didn’t refuse us, so

🔸 Aisaka: Of course not, I would never. I was very excited when I saw the project.

🔸 Lounsbery: True, that’s my case too. When I read about Futa’s character and the script, I was like, this is nothing like anything in my voice samples

🔸 Yamanaka: True, you’re right

🔸 Lounsbery: I’ve never acted for this type of character until Futa came along, so I wondered what they saw in me – like, do people think I'm attacking people on social media? Do I look like the type who’d attack people behind their backs? But I really had fun acting as Futa, and I really like it, so I think it’s a brilliant casting decision. I’m very grateful.

🔸 Yamanaka: We’re choosing for Milgram afterall, so instead of something we’ve heard before, I wanted to excavate a side that no one knows yet. Arthur-kun is elegant in all aspects. I want to hear a Futa from someone who is elegant.

🔸 Amami: That’s a great point

🔸 Yamanaka: That’s what I feel when I’m making the contents, and Arthur-kun’s fans probably also want to see this new side of you, so it’s a win-win if I can excavate this side of you.

🔸 Lounsbery: True. I’m so happy to hear that. I feel like all that growling paid off.

🔸 Amami: It’s really great

🔸 Yamanaka: Warden, your turn

🔸 Amami: Eh~ I wonder… Personally, I’ve always wanted to play a shota-like character

🔸 Aisaka: It’s really great.

🔸 Amami: really?

🔸 Aisaka: I stan Es because it’s Amami

🔸 Amami: I’m so happy! I’ve also always liked Deco-san’s songs, so I wanted to sing them with a shota voice. I was so happy when I received the offer. The casting was done by Yamanaka-san, right?

🔸 Yamanaka: It was a group decision after listening to you sing

🔸 Amami: He was the one who found us though

🔸 Aisaka: How did you find us?

🔸 Yamanaka: I don’t know if I can say this, but we took on Amami as a new challenge for us too. I think for a central character, it’s important to choose someone who wasn’t already known for being in other works. I hope that being at the center of Milgram can have a meaningful impact on Yurina’s career in some way.

🔸 Amami: It has already! Thank you so much

🔸 Yamanaka: It was a new challenge for us too, and we hoped that you would also be able to go beyond your potential

🔸 Amami: I’m so happy, thank you so much

🔸 Lounsbery: That’s a heartwarming story

🔸 Aisaka: I’m so happy

🔸 Amami: I feel warm and fuzzy now

🎴Question and Answer #7

🔸 Yamanaka: There’s one more similar question. It’s about acting. From the username Chikushi-san. Are there characters in Milgram that you’d like to play as, other than your own?

🔸 Amami: Ehh~~ I see…

🔸 Lounsbery: A character that I want to play as?!

🔸 Yamanaka: They’re also asking me, and Deco-san, to answer.

🔸 Deco: Everyone?!

🔸 Aisaka: I want to know!

🔸 Yamanaka: A character that you want to play as.

🔸 Amami: Time to think

🔸 Lounsbery: I’ve never even thought about acting as other characters.

🔸 Deco: Can I go?

🔸 Yamanaka: Go ahead

🔸 Deco: Futa

🔸 Amami: I can see that, you do give off that vibe.

🔸 Deco: It seems fun

🔸 Lounsbery: It’s fun

🔸 Deco: Yeah. He just said that with a huge smile. It looks really fun.

🔸 Aisaka: You were practicing Futa’s lines in the dressing room just before, right?

🔸 Lounsbery: Show us

🔸 Deco: Why?!

🔸 Lounsbery: You were practicing them just before this, in the dressing room

🔸 Amami: It feels lonely, we start by saying our characters’ lines first but Yamanaka-san and Deco-san don’t have any.

🔸 Lounsbery: How about the line on the first page

🔸 Yamanaka: We don’t want to be introduced as cringelord producers

🔸 Lounsbery: Say “Don’t take me lightly just cuz I’m a prisoner!”

🔸 Aisaka: Yeah! You were saying it just a while ago

🔸 Deco: I have to really use my throat right?

🔸 Lounsbery: yup

🔸 Deco: “Don’t take me lightly” like that?

🔸 Aisaka: yes

🔸 Amami: Sounds good

🔸 Lounsbery: Should I do an example first? “Don’t take me lightly just cuz I’m a prisoner!”

🔸 Deco: “Don’t take me-”…. Can I recuse myself?

🔸 Aisaka?: Eh~ But I want to hear it

🔸 Yamanaka: I’m sorry to mention another one of my works, but Deco-sensei has debuted as a voice actor in the game I made, Caligula2

🔸 Amami: That’s amazing!

🔸 Aisaka: Already debuted

🔸 Deco: Thank you for the opportunity

🔸 Yamanaka: He has so much stability that you wouldn’t think it’s his first time. I don't want to sound arrogant but he has great aptitude for it.

🔸 Deco: Really? Then please, cast me for Milgram too. Any role

🔸 Yamanaka: Let’s switch someone out

🔸 Amami: Switching them out?!

🔸 Deco: Then, Shugo

🔸 Yamanaka: Let’s switch Shugo out

🔸 Deco: with Shidou, lol

🔸 Yamanaka: Any characters you want to play as?

🔸 Amami: Eh~

🔸 Aisaka: Yes

🔸 Yamanaka: Go ahead

🔸 Aisaka: I want to play as Haruka

🔸 Yamanaka: Haruka?

🔸 Aisaka: It seems really fun, everytime I listen to him. Horieru seems to be doing both the songs and lines with so much fun. I’m envious. So if there’s an opportunity, I’d love to try playing as Haruka.

🔸 Lounsbery: I see.

🔸 Aisaka: I want to laugh creepily like “gufu gufu” like him

🔸 Yamanaka: “Gufu Gufu”?

🔸 Amami: Eh~ For me it’s…?

🔸 Lounsbery: Go ahead

🔸 Amami: Ah, do you have one?

🔸 Lounsbery: I think Mikoto would be fun to play. I feel like it’s fulfilling to act as him because of the way he is. I want to act as Mikoto in my own style.

🔸 Aisaka: I can see that

🔸 Amami: Yamanaka-san do you have one?

🔸 Yamanaka: When I’m writing, who I think the most fun would be is… I hear their voices in my head, and excuse me for my word choice but I think the one that makes me feel the most complicated is Mu.

🔸 Deco: Do you want to give it a go as Mu?

🔸 Yamanaka: I can’t do it

🔸 Amami: Give it a try!

🔸 Deco: Let’s go!

🔸 Yamanaka: I personally feel like Mu’s character is very exquisite, like she irks me but at the same time I want to forgive her. She has this childishness to her. She has a pretty appearance and pretty voice that makes you want to fawn on her. Like when you see a cute baby, you want to gobble them up.

🔸 Amami: Gobble them up

🔸 Yamanaka: It tickles a hint of my sadism. She’s a complex character

🔸 Amami: Ah I see…

🔸 Yamanaka: Rather than wanting to act as Mu, I want to see many different actors’ versions of Mu

🔸 Everyone: Ah I see~

🔸 Deco: You totally ran away just now. You escaped from doing her impression

🔸 Yamanaka: I ran away and used up a lot of air time doing it

🔸 Lounsbery: you took your sweet time saying a lot

🔸 Yamanaka: We don’t have a lot of time left so let’s move on

🔸 Deco: Not like I can say much, since I recused myself too

🔸 Amami: not at all, not at all

🔸 Lounsbery: This is great

🔸 Aisaka: How about Amami?

🔸 Amami: For me, it’s Mahiru-chan. I respect that she’s so dedicated to love. After listening to O-Miho’s Mahiru-chan, I felt that those kinds of girls are wonderful, so I would like an opportunity to play as her too.

🔸 Yamanaka: There’s a lot going on within her, but on the surface she is always very positive, so she’s interesting

🔸 Amami: That was a very interesting question

🔸 Yamanaka: Now that we have answered a lot of questions…

🔸 Lounsbery: We’ve received a lot

🔸 Yamanaka: We’re almost out of time

Lounsbery: Time goes by so fast

🔸 Amami: It really went by in the blink of an eye. We are approaching the end of the program.

🔸 Lounsbery: Too fast!

🔸 Amami: Let’s take a look at the information for the second anniversary.

🔸 Yamanaka: I’ll take it from here. Please take a look at the slide. This information has been announced already, but we have received a brand new illustration from Akka-san to commemorate the second anniversary. It looks so cool

🔸 Lounsbery: It’s so cool

🔸 Amami: Amazing, so cool. It’s also very different from the first anniversary

🔸 Yamanaka: It’s a perfect illustration after the first trial had concluded. In addition to that, the next slide please. There will be a lot of merch going on sale using this illustration. There is currently a pop up store to commemorate Milgram 2nd anniversary in Ikebukuro Loft. Amami-san, you went already right?

🔸 Amami: Yes! I went.

🔸 Aisaka: So fast!

🔸 Amami: I wanted the can-badges, but because everyone adopted so many, so I wasn’t able to adopt any

🔸 Aisaka: But that’s a happy thing

🔸 Amami: Yeah!

🔸 Aisaka: We’re grateful for that

🔸 Yamanaka: I see..

🔸 Aisaka: I see..

🔸 Amami: Thank you so much everyone!

🔸 Yamanaka: The pop up store will be available for the dates on screen, so please give it a visit everyone

🔸 Amami: Please go~

🔸 Yamanaka: Next slide please. If you purchase over a certain amount, you will get one special post card at random. Each one comes with the prisoner’s signature.

🔸 The slide: You’ll get a free post card “Event limited post cards (12 kinds)” at random with purchases over 2000 yen

🔸 Amami: I want them all!

🔸 Yamanaka: Signed by the prisoners. Please check them out

🔸 Amami: So wonderful~

🔸 Yamanaka: Another piece of information that’s already available is that we are giving pin badges to our members with annual membership on the official Milgram app for the 2nd anniversary. All of our annual members can get the badge by submitting an application, so please don’t forget

🔸 Amami: It’s available until 4/28, which is tomorrow.

🔸 Lounsbery: It’s this

🔸 Yamanaka: It looks cool

🔸 Lounsbery: Yup. Milgram badge

🔸 Amami: It looks cool

🔸 Lounsbery: Please get it

🔸 Yamanaka: It really looks cool

🔸 Lounsbery: Stylish

🔸 Amami: I wear mine here

🔸 Lounsbery: Your collar

🔸 Amami: Yup, it’s here. It’s available until 19:00 on 4/28, so please don’t forget~

🔸 Amami: Okay! Everyone has been waiting for this right? From this point on, we’ll announce the new information

🔸 Yamanaka: Next slide please. Milgram’s official online store will be open soon. This store only carries Milgram products

🔸 Aisaka: I’m so happy

🔸 Amami: They’re the best

🔸 Yamanaka: A store dedicated to Milgram. There are merchandise that can only be obtained here, and there are more products being designed specifically for sale through this store. It will be open in the near future. Please check twitter for updates.

🔸 Amami: It’ll be open soon~

🔸 Aisaka: I’m so excited

🔸 Yamanaka: Next please. It’s been decided that Milgram merch will be made by the popular merch site AMNIBUS as a part of their popular merch series “Ani-Art”. “Ani-Art” is a popular artistic merch series by AMNIBUS. As you can see behind us…

🔸 Aisaka: Ah, that’s right!

🔸 Amami: It’s so great

🔸 Lounsbery: You can see behind us, our own characters and the other characters too

🔸 Aisaka: They’re so stylish

🔸 Lounsbery: There were a lot of comments asking about these illustrations

🔸 Amami: there were!

🔸 Lounsbery: So here’s the answer.

🔸 Deco: They were leading up to this

🔸 Amami: Please check them out!

🔸 Yamanaka: It’s very different from the usual art

🔸 Everyone: Yeah it’s very different

🔸 Yamanaka: I think it’s great

🔸 Amami: So cute

🔸 Yamanaka: Let’s move onto the next slide. Undercover LINE stamps will be on sale soon

🔸 Amami: They’re finally here

🔸 Yamanaka: Undercover has reached over 3M views

🔸 Amami: Thank you!

🔸 Yamanaka: So it’s been decided that we will distribute the LINE stamps from Undercover. These will also be available in the near future so please check our official Twitter for updates. And now…

🔸 Amami: The atmosphere will change from here

🔸 Lounsbery: It’s time, finally?

🔸 Amami: I feel restless

🔸 Yamanaka: There was a hint in our conversation earlier in this stream

🔸 Amami: I wonder what it was?

🔸 Deco: Ice cream?

🔸 Yamanaka: Ice cream

🔸 Amami: Ice cream! Vanilla, maybe?

🔸 Deco: Milgram and ice cream collab?

🔸 Yamanaka: Milgram and ice cream collab

🔸 Aisaka: That’s so good!

🔸 Amami: I want that

🎴FINAL THREAD FINALLY.

🔸Yamanaka: Next slide please! After the novel, it’s been decided that Milgram will be made into a comic!

🔸Lounsbery: Manga!

🔸Yamanaka: It will become a manga.

🔸Amami: What a surprise!

🔸Yamanaka: This was a surprise for us too

🔸Deco: It was quite a surprise.

🔸Yamanaka: It wasn’t like this was decided from the start, it’s because the novel did so well, and we were asked if we wanted to make it into a comic

🔸Deco: We’re so grateful

🔸Yamanaka: It was received so well, and everyone was so passionate about it, and that’s why we were offered to make it into a comic.

🔸Lounsbery: wow

🔸Yamanaka: It will be based on the story in the novel, but I feel like it will also have its own unique story.

🔸Amami: We as the main story can’t lose! Let’s work hard

🔸Aisaka: Exactly, the novel is too popular.

🔸Yamanaka: True

🔸Aisaka: I’m worried people will forget about us.

🔸Yamanaka: That’s so scary, what are you talking about

🔸Amami: Eh?! I’m so worried

🔸Yamanaka: A horror story

🔸Aisaka: I don’t want that

🔸Yamanaka: The last announcement. I feel like there are a lot of people who came today to listen to this.

🔸Deco: Probably

🔸Yamanaka: I’ll announce it now. Slide please! Milgram second trial, commencing July 2022

🔸Lounsbery: Finally!

🔸Deco: It’s finally happening!

🔸Lounsbery: Summer

🔸Deco: The second trial is coming

🔸Yamanaka: The second trial is coming, everyone. How about it, the second trial

🔸Amami: Eh? How about it?

🔸Yamanaka: Just by mentioning the second trial, everyone gets so hyped.

🔸Aisaka: I only have excitement for it

🔸Lounsbery: It pains me that I can’t say anything

🔸Yamanaka: You can’t say anything

🔸Lounsbery: We are so limited in what we can say that people will think we have no love for Milgram

🔸Deco: We’re too scared of spoilers

🔸Lounsbery: Exactly. We can only say things that barely touch the surface

🔸Deco: So it’s just a little over 2 months away?

🔸Yamanaka: yup. You might have thought that the second trial can’t come soon enough, but you only have 2 months left where you’re safe

🔸Amami: Hell is coming

🔸Aisaka: Eh~ but I’m really looking forward to it. I wonder what decisions everyone will make

🔸Yamanaka: I think everyone will see a new side of Milgram, so I hope everyone can watch it.

🔸Lounsbery: I want everyone to watch it soon

🔸Amami: Thank you everyone! Now we are really at the end of the stream. Let’s get a closing comment from each of our guests today. First up, Aisaka-san

🔸Aisaka: I’m Aisaka Yūka in the role of Yuno. I’ve already completed recording for the second trial for Yuno. I hope everyone can listen to them soon. It’s really hard to say without spoilers, but I’m worried that when you first listen to them, you might not forgive her, but I will leave it to everyone’s sensibility and their own interpretations. “This character is saying this, but my decision is that” and maybe it’s a decision similar to what you would make in your own life - I hope that you can make the decisions in simple ways. Please forget everything I said today, and listen to Yuno’s song/drama with a blank slate of mind. I felt lonely because it’s been a while since recording until the second trial, so it’s really great that you guys asked a lot of questions and I was able to address so many today. Thank you everyone!

Amami: Thank you~ Next, Arthur-san please

🔸Lounsbery: First, I want to thank everyone for watching today. Now that the first trial is over, we are heading into the second trial in July. Whether you have listened to all characters’ songs and dramas, or whether you follow only your bias, Milgram can be enjoyed in many ways, even individual contents. You can pursue a single character, and you can also enjoy the novel and the upcoming comic. Milgram is expanding as we speak, and the range of how you can enjoy it is also widening. And as we mentioned today, the second trial is pretty hellish. The songs have powered up since the first trial, and they’re even more enjoyable. Please prepare yourselves for July. Whatever the results may be, “They’re the results of your decisions! Enjoy them until the end!”

🔸Amami: That’s amazing, thank you so much!

🔸Deco: So cool!

🔸Amami: Next, Deco-san please

🔸Deco: Thank you for coming today everyone! I felt your passion once again through your comments today. The recording of second trial songs have been completed, and we are working on the MVs. We’re doing our best to match your passion level to drag you all down to hell. Thank you so much for today.

🔸Amami: Thank you! Next, Yamanaka-san please

🔸Yamanaka: Everytime I visit the set, I really feel like the content creators and the voice actors are really enjoying their work. I hope that the more we enjoy our work and face it head on, the stronger our work can leave an impression on your life. Arthur-kun has said this too, but you can enjoy Milgram just by listening to the songs, or just enjoying the illustrations, and you can listen to the dramas too. There are many different ways to enjoy Milgram. I think Milgram is something that will become more interesting the more people participate. The more different opinions and interpretations there are, the better and more complicated the world of Milgram will be. I want everyone to be aware, and proud that you are a part of what’s making Milgram interesting, and take responsibility Everyone: Scary!

🔸Yamanaka: Milgram is interesting because of everyone’s participation, and I’d be grateful if you can continue to make Milgram a fun content. That’s all!

🔸Amami: Thank you~ Lastly, my turn. Thank you for today everyone, I am Amami in the role of Es. I said this near the beginning too, but as Es, I have the opportunity to work on Milgram longer than the others, so I prepare myself to experience hell before every recording. First trial has finally ended without troubles, and the second trial is starting in July, and I really want everyone to be able to watch the second trial soon. Until then, in the 2 months leading up to July, Es’ covers will be uploaded, so I hope you can enjoy that in the meantime, and fall down to hell 2 months later

🔸Lounsbery: So the hell is a given?

🔸Yamanaka: It’s really hell

🔸Amami: It’s really hell! Haruka and Yuno-chan’s voice dramas are done already, but I can say they were hell.

🔸Yamanaka: It’s not that I intended on making them hell

🔸Amami: Yamanaka-san I think you have terrible personality

🔸Yamanaka: they just became hell naturally

🔸Amami: I felt malicious intent

🔸Aisaka: For real though, Yamanaka-san has bad personality

🔸Amami: It’s bad

🔸Yamanaka: I just calculated everyone’s forgive or not forgiven, and as a result it became hell. That’s all.

🔸Amami: But really, from looking at the votes and all the comments from the wardens today, I feel like a lot of you are onto something. So especially those of you who watched form the first trial, you might be like, “oh, it was like this” and regret your decisions, or you might feel reaffirmed in your choices, so please look forward to 2 months later. Thank you for your continued support of Milgram! We are now approaching good-bye time. We will continue to post new information on the official Milgram twitter. Please look forward to the second trial, and continue to support Milgram. Thank you so much for today!

🔸Everyone: Bye~

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Scenes from December (8/24)

Klaine Advent Day Eight : Thunder

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December, 2013

The loft was loud, annoyingly loud.  It was the first day of winter break and why Kurt thought he’d get a break from the constant noise and commotion always happening in the loft was beyond him.  He had had a long semester.  It had been a long year.  And the only thing he had really wanted was some peace and quiet.  But around here, that seemed almost impossible.  

Rachel was on her side of the loft, practicing runs and scales and peppy versions of Christmas songs.  She had a new job at a mall where she was a Christmas-song-singing elf.  She had tried to get him to join her - but there was no way he was going to spend his precious free time trying to entertain unruly children screaming at a mall while a questionable Santa takes swigs from a flash he hides under his beard.  Nope.  He refused to do it.  

Artie was next to the couch - Sam had invited him over to play video games.  The TV was on, the harshly, heavy metal soundtrack of the first-person shooter was blaring through the speakers and, god, it had been three hours.  How can anyone listen to that kind of music for three hours straight?  The video game, however, was on pause while Sam was in the kitchen, rattling through drawers and kitchens trying to assemble some kind of meal out of food the rest of them had purchased for him.  Artie, meanwhile, was on his laptop, video chatting with Tina, and complaining that he kept finding Santana’s hair everywhere.  

And, god, Kurt couldn’t believe he actually missed Santana as a roommate.  Partly because she would join him when he sprawled out on the couch watching his TVLand marathons.  But mostly because if she could help it, she wouldn’t be there.  Santana’s own drive to go out and discover New York City trumped staying in and doing nothing most days, which was unlike all the rest of his friends.  The world was so much bigger than this one room, and yet here they all were.  

Including himself. He contemplated just leaving.  It was bitterly cold outside, and while there was thankfully no snow, it was getting late, and he really didn’t want to wander around in the dark on his own.  He could see what Elliott was up to - but he already knew Elliott was busy with a gig.  He could just find a quiet cafe where he could catch up on his reading or try doing a few outfit designs.  Or maybe he could just hop a plane and jet back to Ohio to see his dad.  Funny, he never thought he’d ever want to go back to the place where he grew up, but if it allowed him some peace and quiet and actual space, it was at least a tempting alternative to his current situation.  

However, Kurt knew he wouldn’t be going anywhere.  He was snug and comfortable on Blaine’s lap.  Blaine had been casually joining in with the video games, but after Kurt gave up trying to read magazines from his partitioned part of the loft, and with Sam sprawled out on the couch, the only seating was in the kitchen, or on Blaine’s lap.  Blaine happily accepted and even Kurt would admit that Blaine’s lap was far easier to sit on than one of his vintage chairs.  

Blaine himself was being relatively quiet, scrolling through his phone while one of his hands rested lightly on Kurt’s thigh, achingly close to his crotch.  He kind of didn’t care that they were in a loft full of people, he really just wanted Blaine to move his hand about two inches higher and give him a little relief.  Kurt had thought, being engaged and living together, that they would have more time for each other - more time to share things and be intimate and really bond as a couple.  However between work and school and Kurt trying to still have his band and Blaine getting involved in every club at NYADA and their evenings always descending into a mass of people in the loft, they had precious little alone time together.  

A thundering crash came from the kitchen followed closely afterwards by Sam’s screaming apology.  Kurt’s resolve finally broke.  

“Let’s go have sex,” he said to Blaine.  

“What?” Blaine pulled himself away from his phone, not really registering what Kurt had said.  “Did you say sex?” 

“Yes,” Kurt said, emphatically.  “My head is killing me and I think a good orgasm might help with that.” 

Blaine’s eyes bulged as he stammered a response.  “Ku-urt,” he was almost bashful about it as he looked around the room, hyper aware that they were not alone.  He responded in a nervous whisper.  “You know I can’t keep quiet very well.”  

“I don’t think that will be much of a problem if my dick is in your mouth.”  

A smirk twitched on Kurt’s lips - it was always so easy getting Blaine on board.  Blaine didn’t need any more convincing, and nearly toppled Kurt to the floor as he got up.  Interlacing their hands together, they headed back towards Kurt’s partitioned part of the room.  Kurt only hoped they’d be quick enough so none of their friends would notice they were even gone.  

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[abutterflyobsession]

both @elf-kid2 and @magically-strange requested a haunted house house attraction!

Bog breathed in the cool air, a grin spreading over his face. There was a crisp note in the air, the fallen leaves crunched satisfyingly underfoot. It was fall. The perfect season. Everything was pumpkin spice and Halloween was coming up. All was right with the world.

For a moment.

“Are you just going to stand there smirking all day or are you going to help your poor old mom?” Bog’s mother bellowed across the parking lot. Bog hunched up his shoulders and scowled, bellowing back, “I’m coming!” before stomping over to help her unload the car.

There was one spot on Bog’s autumn that resisted all attempts at removing and that was his family’s annual haunted house.

In theory he liked the haunted house attractions that popped up around Halloween. Cheap, tattered, and gaudily colored with orange and red, like fallen leaves blown in by the chilly wind. Bog’s family’s was no different, made up half of plywood, half of cardboard, completely ready to fall down at any moment. As a kid he adored it.

As an adult he viewed it with a heavy heart.

It meant days of chasing customers in and out, enduring screaming children, making sure that the same number of people who went in also came out, and nursing bruises from people who thought it was funny to ‘fight’ the monsters. That wasn’t even getting into the subject of drunk kids throwing up in the middle of the haunted school section.

It was with scowling melancholy that Bog stretched sticky spiderwebs across corridors and double checked that the timer on the lights flashed them on and off on cue. The setup didn’t take too long, he had a horde of helpers--Steph, Thane, Brutus, Gus--and the end result made him wistfully proud. Shame about all the mundane horrors it was about to bear witness to.

The sun set and customers rose from the depths of somewhere. Probably hell. Bog took his post at the exit, ready to deal with complaints. Being over six-foot tall with a face like a cruel joke helped him in this capacity. Customers forgot their words when he loomed over them in his dreadful costume of choice.

This year he had gone simple, too preoccupied with life and heartbreak the really put himself into it. Some makeup to emphasize his sunken eyes and bony face, an artfully made up bloody wound on his neck, some clawed gloves, a leather jacket thrown on top and he called it good. Or a zombie rocker, anyway.

“Sweetie, we got trouble,” Griselda radioed, “I think this smug jerk is trying to make a move on a girl he followed in.”

“Ugh. Got it.” Bog darted over to one of the secret exits, radioing ahead to Thane, “On my signal shut off the lights.”

“Put loft the tights . . .?” the radio crackled.

“. . . give Steph the radio.”

Slipping through the hidden door, Bog could hear the new group coming up and hid himself behind a cardboard partition. Brutus was already there, dressed as some sort of demon or goblin. “Change of plans, we got a jerk hitting on a woman. I’ll take this batch.”

“. . . hold my hand if you’re scared, darlin’,” a voice twinged with the South approached the hiding spot.

“I’m good. So let go.” A woman said, sounding as if she were on her last straw.

The light was just good enough to see the woman plowing forward, dragging the man hanging off her elbow behind her. He was trying to get handsy, reaching for her shoulder, then her hip, then her waist, each time smacked away. “Now, Steph,” Bog said into the radio, narrowed his eyes to preserve his night vision, and jumped out shining a flashlight in the group’s eyes, doing one of his trademark horror villain laughs. Across the haunted house the actors all joined in with their own sinister giggling and snickering.

The group went into chaos. Bog barely managed to catch the jerk and the woman by the arms, inserting himself between them.

The jerk caught his sleeve and held on tight, obviously blinded. “Look, honey, just cuddle up to me and we’ll make it through just fine.”

“Get off.” The woman tried to shake off Bog’s grip.

“I think that’s my hand,” another woman said, voice shaking. “Whose hands am I holding?”

“I’ve got one,” a man said, sounding pleased. Bog rolled his eyes. Young love. Yuck. But the woman must have assumed it was the other woman holding onto her arm because she stopped trying to shake Bog off.

“Sugar, I know this isn’t the best place for regrets but you’ve made it impossible for me to see you face-to-face,” the jerk persisted.

“I hope something in here eats you, Roland.” the woman hissed.

Not quite, but close enough, Bog smirked. He tapped the radio. “Floor lights.”

From experience Bog knew that light cast from below, especially eerie green and yellow, made his face gruesome enough that makeup was hardly necessary. The lights snapped on just as Bog wrenched the jerk forward so he could leer in his face.

There was a satisfying scream from the jerk.

Leaving the jerk to flounder, Bog grabbed the woman by the shoulders and ushered her out one of the secret passages and into the dim yellow parking lot.

“Get off, get off, get--oh.” The woman looked around. “You aren’t Roland.”

“Nope.”

“Are you another creep?”

“Only professionally. I work here.”

The woman looked around. “Did I just get extracted? Am I in trouble?”

“Not anymore, I hope.”

The woman was small, her hair tussled into a mess, her face painted like a zombie and a fake bite mark on her neck. Bog blinked. She was even wearing a leather jacket and had purple fingernails that must have been two inches long. She looked like a zombie rocker too.

Bog’s heart skipped a beat.

[vladimirkrull]

Vladimir krull - Expected Popular Living Room Trends 2023

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Modern Living Room Style:

Modernity is all about simplicity and neutral shades. Bright living room design ideas 2023 compliment this style perfectly. Minimalism is well fit into modernity. Natural origin items of decoration, which include wood, flowers, textiles create an atmosphere of comfort and home. Living room trends 2023 muffle all the shades of bright palette with the calm and soft pastel features. When choosing to work with modern style, you should definitely keep in mind the fact that this one needs light and a lot of it. Windows are wide and tall. With great lighting system, those give a multi-level brightness to the room.

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At first sight, techno is a very complex interior style. Usually, interior design trends 2023 full of too many details are perceived as confusing and too much. Techno is filled with creative, fascinating living room design ideas 2023. Decorations made of glass, metal and plastic make the interior come together as a bright representative of living room trends 2023.Futuristic lamps and folding furniture is exactly what you can very often see as part of techno living room 2023.

Minimalism Living Room Style:

Minimalism is way more complex than you can imagine. One may think that minimalism presumes fewer decorations and fewer items in the room. Therefore, it is easy to execute. However, it is not that simple. Functional features and living room decor 2023 come together in an indescribable harmony. The colors in this style are usually contrasting and vivid. However, it does not in any way exclude the use of pastel shades. Elaborate pieces of furniture blend into the glossy background of creative living room trends 2023. Expressive angles are a big part of minimalism living room design ideas 2023.

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[elejahfanfic]

_klena

*

Dream of Love

_part 2

klaus x elena_ fanfic

ft. Elijah x Tatia

*

Weeks after

New York

Marcel's loft apartment

Klaus woke up and came down the spiral staircase to the lounge area, rubbing his sleepy eyes. Putting the coffee on, he heard mumbling voices behind the partition.

"I really need to go now, Marcel. I am already late. And I have to meet my new art consultant." 

"I missed you, too. And if you want we can repeat this." Camille said.

"I hate to let you go. I really missed you." Marcel kissed the blonde's cheek, looking at her sultry.

"I'd like that very much." the saxophonist said. 

"I'll call you." Camille took her bag. 

Putting his jeans on and white T-shirt, Marcel followed the woman out of the bedroom. 

"Hey" Camille said somewhat startled to see Klaus sitting at the kitchen hub drinking his morning coffee, browsing through his phone. 

"Hello" Klaus said back. 

"This is my friend from New Orleans that I told you about. Klaus Mikaelson."

"Ah, right." Camille now remembered Marcel mentioning that he had a friend staying with him. The Gallerist now blurted "The painter."

"Yeah, that's me. The painter." Klaus said, a bit indignant as it sounded like he was just one of many who keep thinking he is something special. 

"I'm Camille. Camille O'Connell - I am always looking for new rising stars in the art world. I'd love to see some of your work"

Completely unprepared, Klaus stood up and motioned to the woman to come up to the attic with him, but her phone rang and slipping it out of the bag, she apologetically shot a look at him, taking the call.

Klaus shook his head as Camille went to the bedroom to have some privacy as it seemed that the call was important. He motioned to Marcel, asking what was this all about. 

Taking the coffee pot and pouring himself a drink of coffee, Marcel turned to his best friend and replied in a low voice, "She is your ticket to stardom."

"Wtf?!" Klaus mimiced at his friend.

"I'm not kidding," Marcel replied, "I've known her for a very long time. We hook up from time to time. She's been in Europe - I haven't seen her for a while - she is something like an art hunter- anyway -man, I'm telling you, she is now probably with one of her rich clients on the phone. If she likes what she sees, you will get an exhibition and she will put you on the map. Isn't that what you want?"

Klaus didn't know what to say. Being put on the spot was not something he liked, but he knew very well that an opportunity like this was not to be wasted, and he waited with anticipstion for Camille to finish the call.

"I need to go," Camille said as she appeared, putting her phone away, "but I'll swing around tonight or tomorrow. Prepare what you got. Here is my card."

As she slipped the business card to Klaus, the blonde shot a small look at Marcel 'later' and scamperrd out of the loft.

Klaus flipped the card between his fingers.

"She will be back." Marcel said to his friend.

"Right. I am going to go see about that garage studio." Klaus said sliding the card in his jeans back pocket.

"You paid the rent to the end of month. And if you want to stay longer it's fine by me."

"Yeah, thanks. But I need a bigger space to work." Klaus replied as he took a sip of coffee.

"Suit yourself. I'll see you later in the bar." Marcel said trailing off to the bathroom.

"Yeah" Klaus muttered.

He adjusted well to his new life in the Big Apple, though he missed New Orleans and it's easy life style, his friends, the pack. There were times he thought of returning. But then it would have been as if he took a thousand steps back. He knew very well that he was different, that he wanted something else than just conform and give in.

You've always been a lone wolf. Marcel's words kicked in as they discussed their life and choices.

It was the truth. Since he was a child he would be roaming the Bayou woodland area on his own most of the time, drawing, exploring the wild. There, he felt good and secured, away from the world, disappearing into his own world, translating all the good and the bad in his art.

This boy is good for nothing, Esther. He just doodles. Again he didn't finish all the chores. No more. As long as he lives in this house and I feed him, I don't want to see a crayon, a drawing, nothing.

Klaus now pulled out the business card Camille had left him. His eyes suddenly shone with determination.

I am gonna make it.

With that thought he ventured out into the day.

🌟🎉🌞

In Elijah's penthouse apartment, Elena put her phone down, and turned to her friend Bonnie, who finished writing a message to her boyfriend.

"So, Elijah went to St. Petersburg? And you really think these guys will help him find Tatia?!" Bonnie asked.

"Yes. The description fits. And - You know that I always felt that she was alive."

"I also believe that she was fine. But I still don't get how the trail got so cold."

"I don't know. I keep all my fingers crossed, that he gets her home this time. Elijah has been like half dead since the day they told us that she had disappeared." Elena remembered the time Elijah returned from his trip with a dead end.

"I'd love to see them get their happy ever after. They were so in love." Bonnie said.

"Yeah- they were." Elena sighed a little. And by the way she got pensive, Bonnie knew her best friend had another thing on her mind.

"Tell me you didn't slip and went back to Damon?!"

"Please can we not go there" Elena huffed.

By the way Elena tried to dismiss the subject, things were still not clear cut with the brunette's ex and her.

"Oh, Elena! I thought you were done with him. He cheated with Krystal. Or have you forgotten that already."

"I didn't forget. It was just - as you said a slip. I had a bit too much too drink that night - and -"

"You slept with him?!" Bonnie looked at her friend with disappointment.

As a confirmation, Elena drew another deep breath, nodding a little, flashing back to the morning after her slip.

Flashback

"Damon, let go. This was a mistake."

"Maybe we should continue doing mistakes. Big ones..."

"No. We are very much broken up and this - should never have happened."

Elena collected the rest of her clothes, looking for her phone. 

"Come on. We are good together." Damon shot up from the bed.

Finding her phone Elena faced the vampire, "No. We are bad. You are bad for me. This was a bad glitch. I'm sorry if I gave you false hopes that we are back on."

"I know that you are still not ready - but you and I we are meant to be and last night is proof enough - no one can shake you like I do."  Damon said, looking at the brunette smirking like a Cheshire cat.

"It's not all about sex, Damon. And our whole relationship was based on that. It took me forever to realize that there will never be more." Elena spun around and walked out.

"I hope you really slammed the door behind you." Bonnie said as Elena finished telling her friend that she finally crossed her ex off.

"I did. I am done. And one thing is sure - no more Tequila shots for me. Huh - I wish I stayed a bit longer in New Orleans and - "

"Still thinking about 'Prince Charming?!"

"Yeah. God - it was magical. But - he is in NOLA and I am in New York."

"How about we go down to NOLA and look for  Prince Charming?" Bonnie suggested.

"No. This will be like forever that one crazy fairytale thing. I need a break from guys. The last four years with Damon somehow crushed me. I need to spend time to concentrate on me. And when Tatia comes back, she will be my priority."

"I totally get you. And it's right to do that. Ok. I got to go. Call me." Bonnie stood up and giving her friend a small hug, left the apartment.

Elena picked up hwr phone eanting to dial Elijah's number, but then a call came through.

"Hey, Cam" Elena took the call.

"Hey. I have a huge favour to ask" Camille said.

"Sure. What's up?"

"Can you go to Brooklyn? I will give you the address. A guy - Marcel's friend is a painter apparently. Marcel swears that he is good. Can you please go and check out if it so? And if he us I will give you half the comission from all the sale. We need simething new - reftreshing. You know. You got the eye for this."

"Yeah. No probs. Send me the address. I can go check it out. I have nothing on - well, except to work on my PhD." Elena replied.

"You're a star. Thank you. Let's do lunch tomorrow whatever the outcome is."

"Ok. Later."

"Yeah. Bye." Camille said and hung up.

A second later, the messages with the address came through.

As an art historian, Elena was often consulted by the Galleries. As Camille was a friend, Elena did what she would not for any other Gallerist.

But now she wanted to first check in on Elijah.

🎨💕✨

Brooklyn

Hours later

Having secured the garage studio, Klaus returned to Marcel's apartment.

"Yes, Bex. She sounded genuine. Marcel said that she's got her own independent Gallery. I don't know yet. She might not like any of my paintings"

"I am sure she will. Stop this doom and gloom always." Rebekah somewhat scolded her brother.

"Ok. I'm going to work. Talk to you later."

Reluctantly, Rebekah let him be. And as their call ended, Klaus went to work on his latest piece.

Completely enthralled in his work, with the music in the background he didn't hear Marcel shout out that he had a visitor.

"Hey, man-" Marcel said, "Here is someone to see your stuff."

Turning around Klaus stopped in his tracks seeing Elena standing next to Marcel.

🌼✨🎉🎨

[invisibleraven]

'' you said your ex never did these things, so i took it upon myself. '' for PeterPatterLina?

When Julie finally broke free of her awful relationship with Nick, she felt like a weight had been lifted off of her shoulders. It was time for a fresh start. Of course, ending her relationship also left her homeless, and as much as she loved her papi, she wasn't ready to live with him again.

"Why not move in with us?" Luke suggested at band practice one day.

"We have the space since Alex moved out," Reggie said, "And we'd be happy to have you. Even if it's only until you find a place of your own."

So Julie agreed, and found herself bringing her meagre possessions to their place. It was an oversized loft, with partition walls set up to create rooms, but Julie loved it. It felt like the first real home she'd had since leaving her parents. She just didn't have much to move in. Most of the furniture had been Nick's, and she didn't want to argue over who got to keep this table or that shelf with him. She just wanted to break free.

So the guys proposed a trip to Ikea, get her a bed and a nightstand at least. Just so she didn't mess up her back by staying on the couch for too long. They had tried to offer her one of their beds, claiming they could share, but Julie didn't want to abuse their hospitality any more than she already had. So Ikea it was.

"I'm gonna need your help assembling it all," she said once Reggie's truck with full of boxes and their stomachs were full of meatballs. "I'm hopeless with tools."

"What, Nick never taught you to do any of that?" Luke joked.

"He didn't do anything," Julie lamented. "Everything came pre-built, pre-cooked, dry clean only. We never went anywhere or did anything. It was so boring. That's half the reason I left. I felt trapped in a purposeless, boring existence."

"Well that's why you have us," Reggie said, letting go of the steering wheel with one hand to squeeze her knee. "Keep you on your toes."

Julie didn't notice the conspiratorial wink the boys shared, but she was glad that they did teach her how to use an Allen key. Even if the nightstand was still leaning to the left after she finished. But it was straight when she woke up, a little vase with a dahlia in it sitting next to her glasses.

When she got out to the kitchen, however, she stopped. Luke and Reggie were covered in flour, a broken egg shell on the counter, and a distinct smell of burning emanated from the stove. "What the hell are you two idiots doing?"

"Trying to make you breakfast?" Luke said sheepishly.

"Sorry if we woke you," Reggie replied, then frantically waved a kitchen towel at the rapidly beeping smoke alarm.

Julie giggled despite herself. "Okay then. How about you two clean this up before I get out of the shower and I'll show you how to make pancakes?"

They gave her a mock salute, and true to their word, the space was mostly spotless when she emerged once more. She laughed uproariously at their pathetic kitchen skills, but they managed to make something edible between the three of them.

And so it went. Julie would teach them how to cook, and they would blush and grin, and then the three of them would go out and do things together. Sometimes it was a simple picnic in the park, or an underground show. A trip to the beach where they tried to teach her to surf. A game of paintball where Alex whooped all their butts.

Every night they would come home, giddy and grinning. More often than not, falling asleep tangled together on the couch, a movie playing on the television. They didn't talk about how right the snuggles felt. Or how their hearts raced when they awoke still embracing one another. Julie wasn't ready to face another relationship yet. And she certainly didn't want to disrupt the gorgeous balance she had found with Luke and Reggie. Not for anything.

One weekend however, she was called away for work, and she found she ached to be back home in their arms. So she knew she had to face her feelings. Sure, maybe it was a bit weird that she had fallen for the both of them, but the heart wants what it wants right? She just hopped that even if they rejected her, she could stay with them afterwards. Or that Flynn's guest room was free if it went really badly.

Only when she got home, what she found astounded her. Luke was pulling a dish of maple glazed salmon from the oven. A dish that she had definitely not taught him to make. And Reggie was there humming under his breath as he piped filling into...

"Are those macarons?" she asked.

The boys eyes flew to her, their smiles bright and wide as they rushed into her arms, welcoming her home. Julie was grateful for the hugs, but took in the neat kitchen, the difficult food and had to ask. "Wait, I thought you two were helpless with cooking?"

"Yeah, we kind of let you think that," Luke admitted, rubbing the back of his head.

"You said Nick never did these things, like try to learn, and so we took it upon ourselves..." Reggie started, then his voice grew dim. "Well to fake it, so we could help you feel like you weren't doing anything anymore."

"Plus we all had fun!" Luke butted in. "And your pancakes are way better than mine ever were."

Reggie nodded at that, "Like way better." Luke let out an indignant shout and Reggie blew him a kiss. "You know I still love you, inferior pancakes and all."

Luke's face softened at that. "Love you too babe."

Julie looked between the two of them, the sudden realization flooding her, and she blushed. "Oh, are you two... together?"

The boys turned, looking a little flushed with embarrassment. "Yeah," Luke admitted. "For a while now. But we didn't want to like, rub it in when you had just gotten out of a relationship."

"And then, well... we both started to fall for you too," Reggie confessed, and Julie's hopes rose. "We talked about it, and if you feel the same way-not saying you do or have to!-we have room for you in this relationship."

"Guys... I love you both too," Julie replied. "You've both done more for me in these past few months than... anyone else did for years. How could I not fall for you too?"

The three of them rushed into another embrace, gentle kisses falling where they may, teary eyes and happy smiles all around. Julie grinned at them and had to ask. "So, where are we going for our first date?"

The boys smirked, and Julie knew that this relationship would be one where she was never bored, or felt like she was without purpose. Safe in the knowledge that they would all do anything for each other. Even if it was faking being bad in the kitchen.

But she was so going to demand that promised breakfast tomorrow morning. Maybe in bed, if the date went well.