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[spaghettioverdose]

I think it's funny how people call MLs redfash and whatnot for questioning whether countries that the US wants to sanction or bomb are actually evil or if the US is leveraging it's propaganda machine to drum up support for sanctioning or bombing said countries, while at the same time most of the anarchists on here are either racist anticiv RETVRN types, nihilists who believe in nothing beyond blowing shit up, motherfuckers who believe you should depend on the benevolence of random individual pharmacists for your insulin (or to make it yourself if that's not an option apparently???), or morons who worship a yogurt ad who would turn to fascism the moment they discovered Italian futurism.

[riaaanna]

Montreux 2.0: Tracks from Queen Studio Experience (19 Sept 2023)

I'm back to posting some records of my time last year that are still left on my drive, so here we go... read on to hear more isolated tracks!

To nobody's surprise, after the Freddie birthday event in Montreux, it took me less than a month to impulsively book another trip there, at least to experience the Queen stuff that weren't available during the special event.

I cannot over-gush about how beautiful Montreux is and how lucky I was to still be able to visit there on sunny days. My friend Erika (thank you for bearing with me beloved) and I stayed for two nights, enjoying a train ride from Geneva to Montreux and this was our view on the first morning there.

Of course coming back to Queen Studio Experience was on top of the agenda! I needed to experience Made in Heaven and Mother Love on a normal day, so we picked a weekday and I got there 9 AM right as the studio opened. I spent about 2-3 hours there and got the place to myself for about 80% of the time, which was pretty good to get some clean enough takes of these tracks below!

I have written extensively about the inside of the studio before, so I won't go into details anymore. This post will just be for sharing isolated tracks from my session, specifically Made in Heaven!

Now, it's not that I don't like Mother Love, but there were 19 tracks on the board and I had to prioritize. Made in Heaven is just instrumentally more complex and, personally, it was my gateway to fully appreciating Queen's instrumental work and the utterly majestic transformation they did to what was originally Freddie's solo work.

I'm aware there are combined mixes of these tracks already out in the internet (i.e. guitars mix, drums mix, vocals mix etc, which I have) for both MIH and ML, but I haven't found any isolated tracks, so I thought these were worth getting. If you find them after this please don't show them to me I would die 😭. I did get vocals and guitar of ML but I didn't have time to get everything... I can live with having just combined-mixes of ML and not the isolated tracks, since it's one less track than MIH and the drum is just drum machine anyway (so 2-3 less tracks, lol). It doesn't make much difference for me right now.

Disclaimers:

These are amateur recordings, so they are a bit echoey (sounds a lot better with headphones on though!). I did what I can to remove noises, fix the volume, and trim silent parts (start and end only) to make them more listenable but that is also amateur editing.

Even from the mixing board itself these tracks were not perfectly isolated, so if you hear another track bleeding in, that wasn't me because I've made sure all the other tracks were on mute.

I skipped the "effects" track, guilty. I didn't even have time to listen and I hope I didn't miss anything important there 💀

Also I hope I don't get in trouble because the tracks have been on there for literally more than 10 years... surely they won't fuss. 🤞

The BEST one has got to be the backing vocals choir on the top of this page, which is on the bridge of the song 🥺. The rest below are just as excellent, and I hope you enjoy listening to them! ❤

Thank you for reading all the way here! If you like them let me know if you have any favourite tracks! 🥰

[bravo4iscool]

HIIII, I saw this post about where there was a scene!reader and goth!ghost and I was wondering if you could do a goth!reader and goth!ghost and they meet each other?? Thank youu ml!!🖤🖤

THANKS FOR THIS ASK!!

goth!ghost x scene!reader

little disclaimer before you read: i know very little about goth culture, so please be kind😭. i googled all the artist mentioned here, means i never listened to their music or whatsoever lol.

so, i think they would meet in a music store, that typa thing, yk? where all the vinyls are and maybe some guitars and drums.

goth!reader is looking at some vinyls, just relaxing to the music playing in the background, completely shutting their surroundings out.

goth!ghost stands a couple meters away, also looking at vinyls, but glancing at them through the corner of his eye. They’re just so pretty… maybe he should ask them out? they surely would say yes, right?

after a little pep talk to himself he slowly approaches them, looking over their shoulder. “y’listen t’bauhaus?” he asks with his heavy british accent and readers head shoots up.

they look behind them, being surprised about someone standing behind them. he’s tall, easily 6’4, black clothes with a pierced eyebrow.

“i- yeah. but i also listen to ikon and uh, the cure,” they tell him and ghost slowly nods. he knows those bands. of course he does.

“what do you listen to?” reader asks, now fully turning to look at the man.

“mainly the 69 eyes. som’times skeletal family,” he says, his eyes piercing through readers soul. “can y’uggest m’any other artist tho?”

reader thinks for a second before they nod and start to walk towards one of the vinyl shelves. “you know rosetta stone?”

“yea. d’nt listen t’them,” he mumbles, earning a surprised stare from reader.

“you have to be kidding me!”

“nah. n’t my style,” ghost simply shrugs, burying his hands in the pocket of his hoodie.

“y’know what,” reader starts to smile. “i have some good vinyls at home. why don’t we, uh, meet and i show you their music. really show.”

for a second they’re afraid he’ll say no but he only returns their smile, if not as enthusiastic but still, and agrees.

“when are y’free?”

now reader starts to grin and searches for a piece of paper in their bag. they quickly scribble their address down, handing it to him. “tomorrow, 7pm. don’t be late.”

with that they give ghost one last smile before they leave the store, leaving him alone to panic over the date he thought would never happen.

(masterlist)

REQUESTS/ASKS OPEN!!!

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Hype Train! Caged Birds~

F!Pregnant Streamer Reader x M!Yandere Streamer OC

Part 1~

His Info: 📹✨

Part: 1 2

Hype Train! 1, Part 1, here!

!!!MINORS DNI!!!

CW: !F reader, use of she/her when referring to reader, reader has a vagina, YANDERE, pet names (Pretty, pretty girl, good girl, my girl, mama), PREGNANCY in future parts!, reader will be scared of pregnancy, exhibitionism, public use of toys, ML controlled toys, breeding kink, p in v, public bathroom sex, creampie, breeding kink, cum play for a sec, fingering for a sec

from this point on anything on “Hype Train! Caged Birds” will be the pregnancy path! i will be posting “Hype Train! Little Mouse!” parts as well, which will be the NON pregnancy path! Love y’all! hope you will enjoy 😚✨

“Jasper…” You writhe a little, uncomfortable in the velvet chair.

Though… Not because of the chair.

A little remote sits on the table next to his place setting.

“Yeeeessss~ Pretty?” fingertips drum on his chin, maybe feigning some sort of innocence.

You can’t even muster the deadpanned look you wish you could give him as the little butterfly shaped thing vibrates inside your panties.

He bought you a dress before taking you to this fancy ass place.

The second problem therein lies.

The freakin’ dress is too short!

Your panties do NOT hide the toy, let alone your soaked slit.

In fact, they cling to everything.

“C’mon, Jasper…”

“What is it, pretty girl~” His smile is so chilling, you shiver even more intensely in your seat.

“Pleaeeeaaase, there are people all around.”

“Please what? I didn’t hear you, pretty…” He idly picks up the remote and pushes it.

His ankle is lazily crossed over his other knee. Lust fills his eyes, as he’s leaning back in his chair, observing you.

“Please… Tur-nnn i-it offf…” Your hands and legs shake as the heat inside you builds.

*Click* it stops abruptly.

“W—waaait…!” You exclaim, the sudden stop almost makes you feel like crying!

“What is it, pretty girrl? I thought you said, stop…” The grin on his stupidly hot face just widens.

“T-turn it back on…” You whisper breathlessly. Eyes darting around at the faces that could care less all around you. The thought that anyof them could turn and see everything kind of… Turns you on though…

“P-please…” Your legs spread a little wider and you move your hands to the table’s edge.

*Click* “Ah!!” you bite your lip as your pussy convulses, “mm” You force your legs to stay open.

He smirks, “Good girl.” He holds his phone under the table to record your bottom half.

You spread wider for him, face burning immensely as you turn your head and squint in embarrassment.

“Mmm, that’s my girl,” *Click* “Always so good f’me”

Your grip on the table shakes the wine and water glasses, you try to keep your knees apart, but it feels like gravity wants to force them together.

*Click*

“Haaaahhhh” the setting changes to some kind of rising, pulsing vibration that slows back down to an almost stop, then starts over. “Ooooohh nn-n”

You don’t even notice him stand and walk over to you, “C’mon, it’s time fr m’good girl t’get her reward” He grabs the faux fur coat and slings it with his index finger over his shoulder.

You’re barely hanging onto your threads of sanity as you approach orgasm, shuddering in your seat.

Wobbling, you manage to stand as he gently helps you up by your arm.

He enforces your pace, quickly leading you to the bathroom.

It’s honestly a nice bathroom, not that your surprised given the rest of the establishment.

He pats the empty counter space between two sinks, and then lifts you by your sides as you hop up at the same time.

“Jasperrrr,”

“Yes, pretty?”

“Please fff-fuck me, hard,” the things still vibrating on your clit. God, you can’t think straight.

Kicking off your heels, you bring up your legs and spread them as wide as possible.

“S’pretty” He says in awe. “I almost wanna snap a picture first…”

“Please, Jasper…” You move your panties to the side giving him a clear view of your hot, quivering hole.

“Fuck, pretty,” his tongue slowly rounds his lips, before he pulls up his bottom lip between his teeth.

Teasingly he stares at you while so agonizingly slowly opening his pants, and undoing his belt. The chains and keys on his wait jingle.

“Goddddd Hurry, pleeaaseee! I want you so ff-fucking b-bad,” You beg.

He finally gets that huge beautiful thing out, the tip and the piercing shining with his precum.

Now you’re licking your lips, “Oh, Jasper, Pleasee, put that inside me right fucking now, oh my god.”

“Since you asked so nicely, pretty girl, I won’t tease you anymore,” as he says that he slaps your thigh with his cock, getting a little jump out of you.

His lopsided smile is from ear to ear. You’d roll your eyes if you weren’t already brain dead, and thinking of nothing past his gorgeous, thick and veiny length.

You scooch closed trying to take it in yourself, he puts his hand over your mound and pushes the still vibrating toy harder against you.

Your body retreats back with a grunt.

But soon enough the tip touches you, opening you up further, you bite down almost puncturing your lip, brows knit furiously together.

He thrusts in, “F-fuck, Y/N, you’re s’tight,” he rolls his hips first, getting himself nice an wet by your own juices. “I can’t wait t’fill this pretty lil pussy”

“Please! Cum inside me, I wan’it s’ bad, Jasper!”

His hand finds your mouth so you can bite it. You do. Hard.

“Wan’ me to make ya a mama that bad?”

Lost in the moment, as he starts thrusting into you, you open your mouth to say, “Yes! Please!!! I wanna have your babies, Jasper!! Fuck em into me!” he slides his hand down to your throat, holding you in place by it.

“Yeah? You wan’that, pretty?” His thrusts already started off erratic, you can tell that this whole time his arousal was building as much as yours.

He slams harder and harder into you, if you weren’t shoulders against a mirror and holding onto his own for purchase, you’d surly be forced annoyingly away.

“Ah! ff-fuck! Are you ready, pretty?” He asks while speeding up.

“Yes!! Fill me! Fill me up, Jasper!”

He does, white coats your insides and the second you feel that hot thickness filling you so perfectly in harsh bursts, you cum as well. Your walls convulse hard and tighten around him, so he can’t escape.

You wrap your legs around him, keeping him locked from the outside as well.

You’re both panting, your head back against the cold mirror uncomfortably, and his forward, black hair blocking his face from view.

He wraps his arms around you and kisses your neck.

You aren’t letting go and he says, “You really do wan’me t’make ya a mama, huh,” his dick twitches inside you. “Don’t think I ever wanted little ones till I found you… Now I just, wanna fill you… I wanna come home to them running around… like a real person would.” that last part comes out quietly.

“You are a real person, Jasper.”

He laughs bitterly, it makes your heart hurt.

“As long as I am to you, pretty”

You let him pull out, and some of his cum follows, “Oh no, can’t have that can we~” His sing songy voice is back in an instant.

He brings two of his fingers to your dripping cunt, collecting all of his essence that escaped.

“I’m gon’have ta fuck this back into ya, huh? don’t wanna waste any… Now that we’re tryin’”

“What?” You’re thinking clearer in the post absolute bliss, though the thing on you is still freaking vibrating, it’s overwhelming you, but your thoughts still manage to come through.

Are you even ready for kids?!

“W-wait! Jasper!” You try and back up now, but he’s miles away in a different realm. “Haaah!” His fingers curl, and he presses his other hand over the vibrator. He starts rubbing it onto you in a circular motion.

It was already too much, and now your body is shaking like the very earth is breaking open beneath you.

The precipice grows beneath you.

His fingers pump his own cum back into you with more vigor as you get closer to the edge.

“You’re s’pretty, Y/N…” It comes out a whisper.

You come undone again, somehow harder this time. You get your juices all over the counter. he thankfully rips the thing off you in the same moment, so you don’t get overstimulated.

It moves around the floor as it vibrates.

Lips collide perfectly with yours, his snake bites tickle your chin a little. You giggle into him, as his hand comes up to your cheek, and his tongue enters your mouth.

You sigh, he always makes sure the comedown is pleasant and intimate. You forget everything else in the world again, and hug his body.

[heavypressure]

Gained some weight lately (it's a normal thing for me, I usually lose it the next month or so hjkhjg) and it seems it went directly to my belly, and I've been constantly bloated for the past two weeks.. Like for the whole day my belly is super round and full of gas, and I can't even fart to let it out 😖 So I'm just forced to walk around looking 5 months pregnant.. Every time I move, all of the gas inside churns and sloshes loudly

Discomforting but man is it hot🥴 am I finally getting my dream body?? Really tempted to make it worse and drink a 1.5 ml soda to make my belly drum-tight.. Maybe some gas will finally find it's way out of my sore guts

[silviakundera]

I found your blog while watching for love's sake splendid drama and nice commentary from you I saw you watch chinese shows and I have a question am I dumb or because why are they so frustrating I don't know if it's because I'm used to japanese ones where there isn't much romance and this is how romance is written these days or is this a cultural thing because why every one of these I watch has such weird romantic relationships where this dude is breaking his back for her from day 1 and this dudette is out here acting like he's number 5 on her priority list?

yaassss Love for Love's Sake representation. I will never rest from reccing that drama 👏👏 you clearly are NOT dumb & have great taste 😘

for cdramas, my beloved, in my experience of watching in recent years is that there is such a wide breadth of genres & tones. There is just SO MUCH. Definitely chinese entertainment has its own tropes and way of portraying romance. And you either like or you don't. But there are many different flavors. If you feel like you were seeing the same dynamic repeatedly, it may have been bad luck.

If you prefer minimal romance, there are definitely options for that in cdramas! There are mystery/investigation dramas and wuxia martial arts dramas with little to no romance. Because of censorship the gay romances naturally are circumspect and light on the romance (see: The Untamed, Couple of Mirrors, Word of Honor, Spirealm, Guardian). Since you like Love for Love's Sake, I'd rec The Spirealm on Viki - also queer love story about a guy who enters a video game and the people he meets there become real to him; though warning it IS censored and that means the ending is more ambiguous. I can't promise you'll like it. (Semantic Error and Eighth Sense are my other 2 fav korean gay romances btw. )

There are also cdramas that do include romance but in terms of screen time the romance is like 30% of scenes and the plot & character arcs are 70% of scenes. Like in Blossoms in Adversity that I'm watching now, yeah there is most definitely romance but the FL/ML romance scenes compromise like 25% of the overall screen time. It's about way more than who she might marry.

But also in terms of cultural differences? hmm idk because I'm not chinese. I really should NOT speak like I understand their PoV. From an outsider's perspective, I have felt like there are many cdramas with overtly feminist themes - commentary about restrictions on women, the challenges of navigating through a society that can be unfair and entrenched with misogyny. (I joke and yet not that chinese entertainment seems to have 3 propaganda drums that it beats: nationalism/unification, anti-war, and feminism.) It's certainly a fact that many cdramas feature female characters that fall in love but they maintain other priorites & don't let themselves be subsumed in devotion to a man. They have romance & find love but "keep their eye on the prize."

My best guess (??) about this is that it's a rebellion against old cultural mores about women's role being subserviant to father then husband, when during imperial times a woman was expected to prioritze her husband and his family above her own wants, health, and happiness. (It was immoral to be jealous or not follow direction from the man.) Modern chinese screenwriters, both men and women, appear to be writing for an audience that will respect & support the idea of a woman who has her own agenda and maintains focus on her goals despite her love for the ML. Perhaps because this is viewed as moving away from "old thinking". idk.

I presume the target audience in china for romance dramas simply doesn't worry so much that the ML is getting loved enough & aren't as sensitive to thinking he might be at a disadvantage... They're aware society is already set up to his advatange & for much of history he would have all the power in the relationship. (He might bend now and be giving it his all, but the audience knows he can tap into more power & control at will. if she gives up control & her goals, it will be harder for her to recover & reclaim status/money/power compared to him. There are dramas I've seen that pretty much explicitly state that FL wants to earn her own status and money that is hers, thru her own efforts, not lent by him - not prestige or wealth that comes through him and thus could be taken away).

Personally I don't view this as unromantic, just the practical realities of existing in a patriarchal society. (cdramas can hit different imo because they can be blunt about how people operate based on self-interest & pettiness, the realities of classism, the ugliness of rumors, how judgmental people can be about appearances, how you can't always get justice when wronged. Reminds me of the Discworld books that were very frank about how the common people commonly are. It's not saying: this is how people should be; it's saying: this is how things are, the bitterness of life, but you can still find sweetness & meaning within it)

There's another aspect: some cdramas have male protagonists (e.g. Mysterious Lotus Casebook, Blood of Youth, League of Nobleman, Eternal Brotherhood) and some have female protagonists. If you're watching a female protagonist, as the protagonist her priorities & goals are the story driver. So her love interest will take a back seat to that even though it's a romance. He's a support role - his job in the story is to break his back for the protagonist. (A Journey to Love is an example where ML and FL share the protagonist role & you can see that in how things play out, how they each have separate priorities that don't get dropped for love.)

At the end of the day, there are plenty of cdrama romances where I ship it hard and feel a mutual love & devotion between the couple. My fav flavor is where both FL and ML have their own strengths and can be counted on to support each other. I'm not keeping score on who owes who, and neither are they.

But it's all not gonna to be to everyone's taste and that's fine. :) When it comes to international tv, if we enjoy content from other countries then it's our good luck. But if we don't...well, it wasn't made for us. That's ok.

[ozkar-krapo]

[rec. Stephen JAY]

"Africa : Drum, Chant & instrumental Music"

(LP. Nonesuch. 1976) [NE/ML/BF]

[necros-writing-stuff]

YOU WANT TI HEAR ABOUT THE RECIPE I WANNA BAKE FOR EDEN??? 👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️

ALRIGHT FOLKS, I hope y'all are ready for my fav seasonal treat.

I hope Eden would like it too

TODAY'S TREAT ISSS *drum roll*

NUSSECKEN BABY!!

It's a german, cookie-like treat whose name roughly translates to "corner nuts." I'll be using grams and mls because I don't know any other measurments.

INGREDIENTS!

For the topping

200 grams of butter

150 grams of sugar (I usually put less sugar, do as you like tbh)

15 grams of vanilla powder

4 tablespoons of water

400 grams of whatever nuts you like! Almond, hazel, walnuts, you name it. I personally really like almonds, sometimes mixed with hazel.

For the cookie base

300 grams of white flour

1 teaspoon of baking poweder

130 grams of sugar (again I usually use less)

2 eggs

15 grams of vanilla powder

130 grams of butter

extra ingredients

Dark chocolate (you'll need this one to garnish the topping)

Jam (traditionally you use apricot or orange marmelade, but you can use the jam you like most.)

PROCEDURE!

Start with the mixed nuts topping, because it'll have to cool down before you can actually put it together.

For the topping:

- take yor nuts of choice and blend them. Cut them up enough to have a rough crumble. You want them to be crunchy, not creamy. But definetly not big chunks. A crumble consistency.

-in a pot, put in the butter, sugar and water, and melt them.

- add your crushed nuts and cook them for 5-10 minutes MAX. Just enough to combine it all and be a little sticky.

-let it cool down a little.

For the cookie base:

-in a bowl, put all the ingredients together, and start working them with your hands.

-You have to work it like a pie crust. If you don't have experience, here's sone tips:

-don't use electronic tools. Your hand's warmth will melt the butter and combine it better.

- at first, it'll feel dry and crumbly and you'll be tempted to put liquid in it. DON'T DO IT. trust the process. Believe in the slowly melting butter.

-keep working it until a solid dough forms. It has to be firm and the ingredients must be well combined.

-don't overmix it.

COMBINING THE INGREDIENTS

-Take a solid tray, put some baking paper on it. Slap the cookie base on it and start flattening it. Ideally you'd put it in a rectangular shape to cut the cookies better.

-The cookie height should be around 0.5 to 1 cm tall. Depends if you want a tall cookie or not, or if you simply prefer quantity over quality.

-Slap the jam of your choice on the cookie dough. Distribute it on the whole surface. Use more jam than you think you need: it'll help to stick the cookie and the nuts together.

-slap the nut topping directly on the jam. Don't care to keep the layers clean, smear the jam with the nuts if you have to. That shit has to stick together. Distribute the nuts evenly.

-shove the bad boy in an oven at 200 degrees Celcius for 20-25 minutes. Check the sweets, if you want the nuts to be a bit toasty you can put on a grill mode at the last minute. NO MORE THEN A COUPLE MINUTES. Otherwise the nuts might burn.

- let the bitch cool down to room temperature.

- once it's cold, cut it up into triangles. (That's the traditional shape, squares work too)

chocolate topping:

- take a large pot, fill it with water and put it on the heat to boil.

- take a smaller pot, put in enough chocolate to coat the cookies in, and submerge the small pot into tue warming water.

- this is a pretty safe way to melt chocolate without burning it. Just be careful to not splash yourself with the boiling water.

- once the chocolate is melted, take your cookie triangles and dip the corners into the chocolate. Then put them on a tray with baking paper and let the chocolate cool down.

-alternitavely, take a sac-a-poche, fill it with the chocolate and just pipe it on the crumbled nuts. A spoon works too.

Let the chocolate cool down and VOILÀ! NUSSECKEN!

They're not too difficult to make, the only bore is the waiting time for stuff to cool down. Hope y'all like this recipe! ;)

I want to feed it to Eden snsbnansn

OK BEFORE I FORGET:

What kinda sweets do you think Eden likes? I thought about the Nussecken because the nuts remind me the forest(?) somehow and it feels very homely to me. If you have headcanons, oh Maestro of Eden, please share >_<

-💜

1) thank you so much for the recipe, I'm gonna try it at some point and I'll let you know how badly I do at it lmfao.

2) I think you're right that Eden would like this a lot because we see them enjoying roasted chestnuts in game. Which makes me think they'd enjoy those chocolate bars with nuts in them.

Also, scones with fruit jam! Both made by PC! Black Berry jam piled on Eden's shelf in the seasons they grow, ingredients for scones on every shopping list.

Keep Eden away from anything resembling warheads or sherbert. If it's sour they'll die. Just nice and sweet things, but not artificial flavours.

[staybabblingbaby]

Janitor AU (Ambush Part) a1 d2

[Caution: These are not full fics, or even full parts of fics for some, these are part of my writing progress archive!]

Concept: Reader is a member of the cleaning staff at JYP. With a decent history of managing to avoid the idols on staff, Reader keeps to themself and keeps their head down. A chance encounter with SKZ in one of the practice rooms may change that...

Word Count: 1,293

Notes: LMAO Just saw that I already posted this and just didn't put it on the ML. RIP. I'm keeping this one instead of the old one <3

I remember spitting this out really fast and then hitting a dead stop and hating everything about it. Not sure what that was about, it's a pretty standard first attempt for me. Not feeling editing notes rn, so just. have at.

This was pretty heavily inspired by a BTS fic on Ao3 that was MUCH smuttier and about a Brat, but I can't remember the name anymore. If it reads as familiar to anyone, will you please tell me what it reminds you of? I'd love to give proper credits.

Original Notes: This is the first one that really looks like the w.i.p it is lol. The beginning is super awkward and I'll probably redo that entirely. This concept is inspired by another fic, but I'll have to hunt it down bc I can't find it rn. I saw that one and went "I want that but without the smut" and so I wrote it lol. This one needs a lot of work, but I probs got frustrated bc it looks like I left off in the middle of sentence lmao.

Warnings: None that I know of?

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You hum lightly to yourself as you pull your hairband up from where it rested around your neck and push your hair out of your face. You double check that you have the appropriate ‘cleaning in progress’ and ‘wet floor’ signs up and turn to hijack the sound system every practice room was equipped with.

This was the most envied privilege of your assigned areas - you got to blast your music loud and proud as you cleaned instead of hoping your headphones can go loud enough to be heard over your machines without bursting your ear drums. It was envied in your opinion anyways. You wouldn’t trade areas for anything, even if the stink of sweat was overpowering sometimes.

You can’t help your amusement at the thought that there were some fans of the idols you worked for that would adore having to smell their stank every day. It was just an occupational hazard for you, though.

You’re sure being janitorial staff is no one’s dream, regardless of which building you happen to be cleaning. It works for you, though. You wouldn’t say it had been remotely in your life plan to be scrubbing huge mirrors, or airing out the smell of sweat from the JYP practice rooms, but you enjoyed the peace it allowed you.

Two years out of college, with an unrelated degree, in a country you’d never dreamed of moving to, and you still wouldn’t trade it for the world. The twists and turns of life that had lead you here hardly mattered anymore.

Besides, you don’t see the idols as much as you’d assume for someone who cleaned their practice rooms for a living. It was another privilege of yours, if anyone were to ask your opinion. Not that anyone asked you much of anything, aside from your supervisor. Your quiet existence as just another cog that kept everything running smoothly was soothing to you.

You could be loud and take up space outside of work. Not that you really did, but you could if you wanted to. Maybe you should. You were still virtually friendless a year and a half after getting this job. You only really spoke to your coworkers, and barely at that. Your homebody tendencies continue to sabotage your social life.

You had plenty of online friends, it was fine.

You’ve digressed. No idols equals privilege of your area. Right.

You knew several of the newer folks spent a few weeks after their hire giggling to each other when they got to see the idols just casually hanging around and doing their jobs, but you’d avoided them from the start.

At first it was just because you were shy and many idols had a bit of rbf going on. You’d been incredibly intimidated by both their beauty and their success, and your Korean hadn’t been as eloquent as you’d have liked it to be. By the time you’d spoken to enough trainees to relax around the idols, you’d still been unsure with your Korean. And then when you’d gotten that in order it’d been so long you simply felt awkward.

You’d been working in the building for a year and a half and had done a spectacular job at crossing paths with as few idols as possible. You weren’t about to seek them out now. You’d been sought out yourself a time or two, by idols that were close to the trainees you spoke with more frequently. Apparently you’d been labeled “the nice janitor noona with the snacks” and curiosity and food were fabulous motivators.

It didn’t happen frequently. When you’d asked about it, you’d learned that apparently you were being gatekept by the trainees. Ostensibly so they could keep your snacks for themselves, but you liked to believe they just liked you.

You finally get your phone connected to the speakers and start to blast your work playlist. You can’t help doing a little dancey-dance as you begin to sweep, mop, and wax the hardwood floor. What could you say? Your playlist was simply bop after bop.

You’re in the middle of dipping your mop handle low and pretending to sing along to Fall Out Boy when the door creaks open slowly.

You straighten quickly but there’s no way the person at the door didn’t see you goofing around.

“One sec!” You call out quickly, forgetting to speak Korean in your haste. You dash over to the sound system to pause your music, your ears ringing in the silence. When you turn around you’re confronted with the amused eyes of one Lee Know of Stray Kids.

“Ah, Lee Know-ssi!” You bow quickly but politely in greeting. “I’m sorry, this room is being cleaned right now, it’s not available for practice.”

Lee Know gives you a slow nod, looking like he was holding in a laugh.

“I know, I saw the sign,” Lee Know replies, tilting his head at you. You secretly let out a breath of relief at that. For a second there you’d thought you’d forgotten. “I was just curious who was playing music loud enough to hear outside.”

You immediately fluster at that, waving your hands in front of yourself, “Ahhh, I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to disturb!” You gesture at the floor machine sitting pretty in the corner of the room with your supply cart.

“I’ll be waxing the floor in a bit, usually the machine is loud enough to cover it. Hadn’t gotten there yet, though.” You laugh nervously, popping your wrists and fingers just for something to do with your hands.

Lee Know shakes his head, waving your apology aside. “No, you’re good, I got to see something fun out of it.”

You’re sure you flush bright red, and you cant help but bury your head in your hands with a groan. You can hear Lee Know stifle a laugh, but you’re too busy languishing in your humiliation to pay attention to him.

After a moment you peak at him from between your fingers. He still looks like he’s trying very hard not to laugh at you.

“If I bribe you with snacks will you erase this from your memory?” You plead with him. He raises an eyebrow at you and hums consideringly.

“Depends on the snack.” He finally concedes, prompting you to start towards your cart, much more at ease with a potential solution in sight.

“I’ve got a couple kinds,” You start to explain, “Everyone likes to ambush me for them, so I’ve learned to come prepared.”

You hear another huff of laughter from far closer than you were expecting, Lee Know having wandered over while you were distracted with rummaging though your cart. You have to move several things out of the way before you can grab the small basket containing your prize.

You may have gotten used to being ambushed for snacks, but that also meant you’d gotten used to hiding them so that you’d at least get to eat some of them. You swore the trainees could smell when you had their favorites stocked up. Animals, the lot of them.

“Who’s ambushing you?” Lee Know questions with amusement.

“Everyone who knows I have them.” You reply with false despair. “The trainees have a sixth sense for them, I fear.” Lee know snorts at that and you grin at him with equal mirth.

“Ah, yes, as a former trainee, I can confirm that they do.” He tells you somberly. You click your tongue and shake your head.

“I knew it.” you say, “They only love me for my snacks. And here I thought they just liked to talk.” You place a dramatic hand over your heart, acting hurt and betrayed.

Lee Know chuckles at you, but doesn’t respond as he leans in to

[maybound]

a lil 4 am attack for @technicolorxsn ml (and my first time ever drawing drums???)

[mintaka14]

WIP Wednesday (well, it was Wednesday when I was thinking 'I really should post something', so that counts, doesn't it?) 4 April 2024

This is a bit of the ML Lukanette hanahaki fic I've been working on (in between working on everything else). It's a little more angsty than my usual fare, but nobody dies, I promise! So, here... have a bit of Lily White and Blood Red:

Marinette couldn’t tell Alya that the thought of the Liberty was the only thing that had kept her going all day, through the attack of hanahaki that had left her wrung out, and the exhausting tedium of the afternoon’s maths class. It was all that was keeping her upright now.

She could breathe easier on the Liberty.

For such a chaotic, noisy place, it never failed to amaze Marinette how restful it felt to settle on the boxes haphazardly stacked all over the deck, while the band ran through their songs or argued amiably about instrumentation. They all seemed to take it for granted that she was there and a part of it all, and they were all focused on the music, and not on Marinette’s failing love life.

And down below deck, she could retreat to Luka’s bedroom whenever it all got a bit much. She could listen to the sound of the drums and bass rumbling through the hull of the boat as she curled up on his bed while she sketched. The last time she’d apologised for taking over his space, Luka had just given her that easy, sweet smile of his and told her she was welcome to it any time.

That was where he found her when the rehearsal eventually wrapped up and gave way to the muffled sound of talk and the occasional laugh from up on deck. Marinette heard the steady squeak as someone came down the galley stairs from above, and Luka paused in the doorway of his bedroom, his guitar in his hand.

“Hey, melody,” he said, and she gave him as much of a smile as she could muster as he came in and stretched out on the other end of his bed, his back propped up against the bulkhead. “Will it disturb you if I play?”

She didn’t bother to argue that it was his room – she was the interloper here – they’d had that discussion before. She just shook her head, and turned her attention back to her sketchbook as he settled his guitar in his lap and plucked out a soft melody that drifted into a rippling chord that became a familiar riff transposed into a slow, minor key.

He didn’t question it when she stayed where she was long after Ivan had gone home, and Rose and Juleka had vanished somewhere, leaving the Liberty uncharacteristically quiet except for the soft sound of Luka’s guitar and the desultory scratch of her pencil on paper. He might have glanced at her once or twice, but there were never any demands for answers she couldn’t give with Luka, just peace and music, and words when either of them had something they felt like saying.

There weren’t any questions that would force petals out of her mouth with Luka.

[sashi-ya]

𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐂𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄

WAIT. WHAT IF....

You probably remember my theory about the flooding that will destroy de red line, right? BUT what if... is not exactly produced by Luffy and allies but by Im-sama itself? what if Im believe the Red Line is once again their "salvation"?

We know Im and the WG posses "mother flame": the weapon that's able to make islands disappear and leave a huge hollow in the sea, right? [ in my opinion that thing is a dragon, a mechanical dragon/snake replicated by VP from the "real" one that was the one who created chaos during the void century. I have that theory here」. We also know what's happening now after Lulusia disspaeared; a hollow in the sea, an earthquake and the sea level rising for about 1mt more. That is causing islands to sink.

So what if Im will start attacking the people that live "under" the Red Line to drown them (like I believe happened 800 y/ ago) Tenryubitos will be "safe" since they are obviously pretty much above the waters (over the RL) . That's why Im wants Vivi, not only because of Lilly BUT ALSO because I believe they have something to do with the rain.

That's also why Joyboy had Noah... TO SAVE PEOPLE FROM THE FLOODING.

It is clear that Binks no Sake speaks about a storm coming so it's time to sound the drums of liberation!!

I think I was mistaken with who was going to bring THE STORM and create the flood... YET, THE RED LINE WILL BE DESTROYED BY LUFFY. That's WHY tenryuubitos wear those "helmets" THOSE ARE SUPPOSED TO GIVE THEM OXYGEN IF THEY EVER DROWN!! Is not that they "don't want to breathe the same air as the rest".

what if those things they have are actually valves for oxygen tanks?

reminds me a lot of the bubbles from Gyojin Island...

Idk man, I might need to create a ml with my theories :P

[still-single]

HEATHEN DISCO no. 368 (11 Feb 2024)

set 1

Loveliescrushing – Flowered Smother

Blitz – New Age

Squarepusher – Lone Raver (Live in Chelmsford Mix)

Can – Future Days

System – Don’t Disturb This Groove

Murlo – Cat Got Your Tongue

Beth Orton – Daybreaker

Los Doroncos – Drum

Longmont Potion Castle – Cement Pirates

Love Child – Stumbling Block

Michael Garrison – Eruption

set 2

Julee Cruise – Until the End of the World

Beverly & John Martyn – Auntie Aviator

MC5 – Miss X

Faxed – Down JT

David Nance – Cure Vs. Disease

Fiery Furnaces – Leaky Tunnel

Unrest – Cath Carroll (10cc Mix part 2)

The Cardigans – Erase/Rewind

Itasca – Imitation of War

Lupo Città – Only in Love

Eightball & MJG – Comin’ Out Hard (screwed & chopped)

Lès Modernos – Laques1

Claude Fontaine – Play By Play

Gabor Szabo – Every Second Counts

set 3

Dejing - Dejing 3

Just Mustard – I Am You

Skullflower – My Sweet Lord (excerpt)

Batard Tronique – Momo Star Flash

The Equals – Mystic Syster

The Fall – I’m a Mummy

Mope Grooves – Time Runs Out

ML Buch – Solid

Riki – Know

Cabaret Voltaire – Jazz the Computer

Hawkwind Zoo – Hurry On Sundown

Mount Florida – Space Echoes

Data – Blow

Midnight Mines – Cuntsville USA

The Skaters – 3

Janne Schaffer – Postman’s Knock

Shit & Shine – YOUR DADS A LOSER

Water Damage – Ladybird

[thefootnotes]

the outside mv

oh shit he angry

wait is it being seized by nico??? cause nico can do that, right, can seize dead animals as well as dead humans? or is it just dead humans and vultures in various states of life and death?

no dont kILL THE WEIRD UNDERWATER CREATURE YOU BASTARDS

oh hey clance

JOSH ML

oh so after the wreck they washed up here??? which is where exactly??????

ah shit the torch is out

yeah sure just run headfirst into a bush that was just moving dumbass

okay tyler i love you but you gotta work on not tripping over

oh thats an animal skull lovely

NED

ITS NED

OH JDKSFJDSLKFJLSKDJFKLDSJ

the torch is back bitches

NEDS

wait so theyre on the violent island or whatever it is???

sorry i understand the megalodon thing is dead serious but all i can think about is the meg movies? meg and meg 2? the really really shit movies about megalodons that are genuinely so awful and yet so entertaining?

"i am megatron" hi megatron im dad

no genuinely i thought you were clancy

heads are moving up and down? or neds are moving up and down?

sorry fully thought that was a bong for some reason but its a ladle

okay i love tyler but i! want! josh!

oh there he is. with his drums. which i still dont understand how thyere teleporting around.

NED

oh wait are those neds antlers

literally what is he supposed to do with those

oh. that i guess

the eyes are freaking me the fuck out

he's fully making the bishop dance and i find this so fucking funny

i love that josh is just like. "seaweeds on the drum? i sea-no-weeds." who cares."

okay thats creepy as shit the way the gown floats down

thats a lotta flames ngl

ooh who are these guys? just banditos or?

OH SHIT THEYRE THE KIDS

OH SHIT

OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT HOLY FUCKING SHIT THE PLOT TWIST OH MY MOTHERFUCKING LORD