#the ppl will get to see the fruits of the labor over time

[adsmpgemau]

I... i fucked up my q settings... that many posts was not supposed to be done today... i wanted to have it posted out over time... i am in misery

the instament one was posted on purpose this morning when i finished it. i figured the q would auto go to TOMORROW instead of 3-4pm THE SAME DAY also i made it post to many in one day... yall enjoy the content drop because now im going to greedily hoard the other stuff that was in the q for a bit lol, i'll shedule the other two posts for maybeeee sat and sun day this week.

As a treat you get the info. the following posts are "defiantly" going up this weekend:

A rambling long post on Cinnabar Georges character with some character doodles because he's really fun design to keep drawing (Completed) a long rambling lore info post on Purple Sapphire Karl, Pink Topaz Techno, and Crimson Pearl Tommy (Basically Complete, i need to add stuff about Techno and Karls weapons... Possible Fusion Lore)

[pinklikeroses]

Sooo LO ep 210

*takes a deep breath*

Can’t say I’m surprised but I see ppl already jumping to Hades’s side and even th3 ones claiming “ they’re both in the wrong” still leaning onto Hades……..

I get it he’s “changed” so to speak. But not really.

Throughout the whole comic we see him threatening, belittling, dismissing his staff bc of his status. Gave Persephone special treatment and a position she wasn’t qualified for.

There’s ALOT to unpack here. But I’ll do my best and take my time…..

So

At the beginning of the episode we see her saying that there’s no way in hell her daughter would would be interested in him and though it’s not stated Demeter and hades have a tense history. Demeter’s feelings towards him and the person her is? 100% valid. Dude is businessman at the end of the day, and uses slave labor not the best guy. 10yrs have passed her assuming her daughter has moved on makes sense

10yrs

A whole ass decade mind you Persephone was more eager to send hades a letter, a guy she barley knew for a month or two—-

Whom she’s been pining over for 10 damn yrs, a whole ass decade, without even asking about her mom, how she’s doing it what she’s been up to. Keep in mind her mother was stripped of her powers and has aged 10yrs may not seem like a long time but it is.

Second the votes, ppl are getting on Demeter for trying to bribe Hades with a fruit basket. Okay? And she also tried to bribe Helios when her daughter committed an accidental mass murder as a cover up yet ppl sweep it under the rug bc they just want Hades and Persephone to bone already.

A fruit basket is minor compared to the cover up of the destruction of hundreds of innocent civilians through bribe money.

Should she have handled talking him better ?probably but she also had every right to be upset bc there was no valid reason why couldn’t be queen of the mortal realm. I also didn’t understand why she didn’t get the title when the votes where 3 out of five?? I blame the world building and lack of explanation for this one.

I guess we can assume hades posiden and Zeus out rank the other gods bc they’re kings but it’s never explained

Demeter got three votes she should be queen.

She just wanted to understand why Hades disproved and why he wanted the volcanos , and even wanted to come to fair agreement which was mature of her.

What also bugs me is we’re never given an explanation as to why hades wants these damn volcanoes. Ppl speculate is could have something to do with mom, but if that’s the case then why not say so?

He was also a huge asshole here. He hasn’t changed. This is again another missed opportunity for some heavy character development. We only see hades being nice to Persephone and his dogs. And that’s bc he can’t stop lusting after/ over sexualizing her for 2.5 seconds. He’s not a genuinely nice person. Giving someone special treatment, pulling out a dudes eyeball, hiding her from facing the consequences of her actions, pressing her to tell you about her SA, and stating how “useless” you feel about it that you can’t help her isn’t nice. It makes you a self righteous, white knighting ass hat.

This dude constantly laments about how ppl see him as a monster, that he’s mean and cruel and cold.

That’s cuz you are dumbass. You treat your workers like shit, you threaten ppl with your power and act like Persephone is this savior, and that not perusing her (which your pervy ass did anyway) would be “protecting” her from your baggage.

This scene with him and Demeter made me angry. He’s an asshat and Demeter had every right to be upset with him. He didn’t have to insult and belittle her the way he did. He he didn’t have to dismiss her reasoning. He could have showed a level of respect by talking to her calmly giving a proper explanation.

Demeter has every right to be suspicious of this guy. And every right to be against him “dating” her daughter.

The bathing scene was weird and unnecessary. Like okay we get it Persephone’s drop dead gorgeous can we move on?

Also I laughed my fucking ass off after he asked what on earth it is he’d ever want from Demeter

Persephone is still her own person and ate the pomegranate so she will tethered to the underworld forever but not gonna lie

I really do hope Demeter gives hades hell. He doesn’t deserve peace and happily ever after just yet, he should face the consequences to actions king or not.

Her walking in on their silly flirting was awkward as hell. Yikes.

[mcwerewolfblack]

Yule Ball: Part III - Professor Snape x Reader [Smut]

Synopsis: You and Professor Snape sort out a poorly written examination in his classroom, but somebody sees. With your reputations at stake, only magic can save you now... and a little of something else too, at a time most inopportune. 

Notes: Sorry this is three days late, but I wanted to edit it to perfection, since it’s been a year since the last part! Enjoy, I love all of you so much. Happy holidays x

@fandom-puff​ (sorry I know there are so many more ppl who asked to be tagged but I lost track!) 

Part One

Part Two 

Part Four

The soft bubbling in his classroom late at night was comforting to Severus. He found it helped him think... and grade test scores, as per what he was currently preoccupied with. The moon is full outside, shining through what little window Snape had left uncovered. He ignores the squawk of Hagrid's distant Hippogriff (that thing takes pleasure in ensuring he never got any peace and quiet as of ten o clock at night) and gets back to the paper. He scowls.  

"What is it with these twits?" he murmurs to himself, using his wand to mark a large "fail" on Ron Weasley's test, flopping it onto the pile of Fred and George's equally dismal efforts. Just then, he flips to one with your neat, flowery handwriting on it, and stops.

Well, what's the problem? Just mark it as you would any other student. Besides, this will be nice and quick. (y/n) always gets a perfect score on my examinations.

Beginning to read though, he finds himself beginning to frown. Wrong... another one wrong... He looks up at the ceiling, and clenches his jaw. Of course. Why should he expect any less, when you'd been all over him for the past month?

----

The next afternoon, you’re wiling away potions by watching your quill spin in its inkwell. Wandless magic, along with perfecting the art of apparition, is something you’d been trying your hand at for years, and the fruits of your labor are just starting to manifest now.

“Miss (y/l/n).”

Your attention moves up to Professor Snape, at the head of the potions room.

This your last class of the day, before a much needed weekend rest. You're supposed to get the test grades back this afternoon, and you have to say you're excited-- you studied long and hard for it, attempting to make Snape proud of a little more than your talents of bewitchment.

"Miss (y/l/n). May I see you after class?"

You smile to yourself. "Of course, sir." You expect he'll reward you, calling you his good girl, telling you all about how much you deserve him tonight. Snape was rarely pleased with anything, but you're sure he'd find exception in your astounding work.

After class had finished on the note of homework and groaning, you stay in your seat, assuring your friends you’d catch up later. Once the rest of the unassuming students had filed out, you move to get up and join him by his desk, but he strides over before you can, thwacking the test down in front of you.

"What… is this?"

You look down at it, and give him a charming smile. "The best damn exam you'll ever grade."

Snape makes a noise halfway between a laugh and a groan, sarcasm dripping as he says, "I insist you take a second look."

You frown, and look down at your work, flipping through. As you do, you become more and more frustrated. "But-- but I knew this one! This is... this was clearly draught of the living death..."

"Was it?" Snape asks patiently, staring at you with his arms folded, "I pray you never need to brew it, then."

You huff, glaring up at him. "Do you know, I studied for hours for this--"

"Don't lie to me," he hisses, "I know what you're doing. Fail the exam, get called up to see me when everyone else is safely in their dormitories and get the punishment of a lifetime.” He leans in, glowering. “I know how your mind works."

You balk. "You actually think I'd sacrifice my grades in potions to have sex with you?! You have more of an ego than I thought, professor!"

Snape sputters. It does sound quite far fetched the way you put it, but...

"Perhaps your exams are a little too hard," you raise your eyebrows, and push the test away from you.

"Perhaps. Perhaps I was mistaken as well..." He holds his frown. "I want a perfect grade next time, do you understand me?"

"Oh, perfectly. It's just I've been so preoccupied with extra activities, like the frog choir, that whole tri-wizard competition-- I mean the tournaments are bloody thrilling! They'll be leaving soon, anyway, with all the visitors. Also McGonagall's lessons..."

"There's nothing Professor McGonagall can do that I can't do twice as ruthlessly."

"Yes. I know," you smirk.

“Do not let it happen again. My class takes precedence… you should know that by now.” Snape waits, and when you don't get up to leave, sighs. "That will be all, Miss (y/l/n)."

“Will it?”

He turns back at your teasing tone, and already feels a headache coming on. He fell right into your trap… which wasn’t even a trap in the first place. He brought this on himself, truly. Perhaps he should just forget how to feel guilty. After all, how many times had this happened?

"I'm not wearing anything beneath my robes."

Snape gives a tight lipped smile. "I was never foolish enough to believe you were."

"Proved it a bit difficult in class..." you begin to shrug the robes off, "Malfoy was hanging over my shoulder the whole time, it's a bloody miracle he didn't get an eyeful.”

"Perhaps he did," Snape muses, "We'll never know." You watch him closely, parting your legs. He still looks hesitant, even after all these times.

"We don't have to if you don't want to," you bite your lip, starting to undo the robe, "But Professor… I want to."

He puts a hand on yours to stop you, and you look up in surprise. Maybe this is really where he would take a stand... you were wondering when he would.

But he smacks your hand away, giving you that look. "Don't touch." He turns you around, and slots himself behind you, dark hair falling against your cheek. "That's. My. Job."

You grin, and he slowly opens your robes, admiring how your tie falls between your breasts, perfectly centered.

"This will have to come off," he murmurs, taking the tie with the tip of his fingers, then stops. "Unless..."

"What?" you breathe.

He hums thoughtfully, eyes narrowing. "Perhaps I ought to make sure you receive what you deserve. It was an abysmal examination score, after all..."

A thrill runs through you. "What do you mean?"

"This is the third time we've done this, and somehow I doubt it will be the last. You believe I'd let you get off without a punishment for your dangerous behavior?"

"I believe you'd let me get off.”

"Silence." Though he maintains most of his stern expression, you can sense his impulse to smirk. He takes the tie off, and ties it around your wrists behind your back, laying your back on his desk. He then begins to slowly tug the robes off, and groans when he sees your breasts bare to him in full. You moan, stretching your arms, and bite your lip, blinking up at him.

"You don't deserve what you have in mind," he whispers, "You deserve my lips on you, teasing you, bringing you close until I deny you what you need. That is what you get when you don't take my class seriously."

You whimper, rubbing your thighs together. "But Professor... please, I haven't touched myself all week."

He narrows his eyes. "Why? Preparing for something, were we?"

You avert eye contact, blushing. "I..."

"Go on."

"I expected a good grade. I thought you would reward me, daddy."

Snape inhales sharply at the name, and you see his hips start to slightly shift to rub against the desk. "Well, we both saw how that turned out. Knickers, off."

Just as you're reaching down, you both hear someone mutter an 'alohamora.' The door swings open on you and Snape. There, a boy your age stands, eyes a fraction wider.

"Krum," you breathe. He seems caught, and slowly backs away. Snape's eyes widen slightly, and you pull your robes back on. Before you can run after the visiting student though, your professor grabs your arm, tugging you back.

"He'll tell Karkarov," you protest desperately.

"He will," Snape nods, "Let him. There is little he can prove. It will just seem like dirty sportsmanship for the Durmstrang visitors to try and smear the reputation of one of Hogwarts' best teachers.”

Still... it was unnerving.

---

The next day, you're far more on edge than usual. A meeting had been called, as Snape had relayed to you, and you’re both so sure it’s about… that.

You lay on your bed, flicking your wand about as a feather dances atop you. It floats up, down, with each unspoken leviosa of your wand, and finally, you let it fall against your chest. You would much rather be practicing your apparating—it was a little harder, and would take your mind off the possibility of your getting expelled.

You try and push the thoughts of Snape out of your head, and replace them with where you want to apparate. Focus… focus…

In Dumbledore’s office, Snape takes his seat alongside McGonagall, Dumbledore, Sprout, Flitwick, Karkaroff, and Maxime. Pursing his lips and narrowing his eyes, he doesn’t say a word.

“Well. Let us bring to attention why this meeting has been called,” McGonagall begins, and Dumbledore nods.

“Quite right, Minerva. There has been an incident.”

In your dorm, you concentrate hard on apparating to the library. If you could only… focus…

“A special thank you to Karkaroff, for one his boys, Victor Krum, bringing this situation to our attention,” Dumbledore goes on. “It is a matter we here at Hogwarts, take very seriously.”

Snape is about to open his mouth, when he feels something under the table, directly in front of his legs.

You glance around, confused. Where had you ended up?

“A matter, I might say, that could even have serious repercussions if not looked into further.”

“Mon Dieu,” Maxime tuts, “What has happened, Albus?”

Oh, shit. Oh, shit! Your subconscious had won out. You had been thinking of Severus too much when trying to apparate, and had apparated to the meeting.

Snape could not, for the life of him, figure out what had just materialized between his legs. Pretending to drop a vial from his sleeve, he reached down to check… and the two of you came face to face.

Snape’s eyes widen, then he narrows them into slits. The glare is threatening in every way it could be, and you cower back a little.

I didn’t mean to, you try to mouth, but he’s already sat up again. His boot comes up, and lays to rest on your stomach, keeping you far away from him, yet close enough so the others can’t feel you. If anyone else was to check under the table, it’s not like you have an invisibility cloak—you’d both be dead meat.

“What, might I inquire, would this matter be?” Severus asks, in the most level voice he can manage. He was absolutely furious that you were where you were. Had you no shame? He was about to lose his job over this! You were simply taunting fate, at this point.

“I’m very glad you asked, Severus,” Karkaroff interjected with sinister glint in his eyes, “For this matter concerns you.”

Between his legs under the table, you try to apparate back. Only… you didn’t apparate with your wand on you. Damn wandless magic! Now you couldn’t get back.

“What have I got to do with anything, pray tell, Igor?” Snape is doing a rather good job of sounding unimpressed, bored even. You start to squirm, listening to his deep voice. It still does things to you, even in a situation like this. Especially in a situation like this.

“It is a matter of something Krum saw, Severus,” Dumbledore says slowly, “Something troubling indeed.”

Under the table, desire starts to creep up on you. You had been given a very rare, very exciting opportunity here. You could get back at Snape for grading your test badly, and have a little fun along the way… two can play at that game.

“You see, we have learned that it involves one of our students here at Hogwarts,” Minerva says sternly, “Namely, Miss (y/l/n) of (y/house) house.” You hesitate, then take the chance to unlatch him.

“Miss (y/l/n)?” Snape quirks a brow, “A model student.”

“Seems like such a lovely girl. Tres jolie,” Maxime comments.

Snape begins to frown, feeling your hands on his breeches. You weren’t. You wouldn’t…

“Yes, well there’s no doubt about that,” Flitwick says, “But the news we have heard of her is nothing short of shocking! Nothing we would expect from a young lady of her stature.” You take Snape out of his pants, half hard, and close your mouth softly around his tip. He tries to swat you off, but you dodge him.

“No doubt,” Minerva agrees.

“Surely…” Snape swallows, shifting his hips, “Whatever she has done… can be forgiven?” Oh….

“Why would you be so quick to forgive her, Severus?” Minerva asks, “We haven’t even learned of the situation.”

“I only wish to reprimand students when reprimandation is wholeheartedly deserved,” Snape clenches his jaw, giving you a good whack with his knee, “Otherwise, such punishment would subsequently lose its value.”

“Well. With that I agree,” Sprout speaks up, “But this, from what we’ve been led to believe, is a very serious issue!”

“Out with it, then,” Snape annunciates in that menacing tone, “What exactly has she done, and how exactly… does it involve me?” His hand grabs you by the hair under the table, and tightens. If you’re going to play with him like this, then he will remain in control.

“Why don’t we simply ask the boy himself?” Karkaroff smirks, and with a whisk of his wand and the utterance of Dumbledore’s secret password, the doors open. Victor Krum comes in, rigid as if he had been trained for battle. He gives a swift bow, and stands before them.

“Tell us what you saw, Victor,” Minerva encourages. Krum looks to everyone, brow furrowed. Snape guides your head, gritting his teeth. He’s already close, and he can faintly hear you moaning like a whore.

“Wait for a moment,” Filius says, holding up a finger, “I hear something strange.”

Snape coughs, trying to overpower the sounds of him getting his dick sucked by a slutty little student. “Must be Hagrid’s Hippogrif,” he grumbles, “The infernal thing does not know how to quiet down.”

“Buckbeak only caws at night,” Filius frowns, “This sounds much closer.”

Snape begins to sweat. This was it. If you didn’t quiet down your sounds of pleasure from under the table, you would both be found out, and that would be that. Disgraced, humiliated, cast out--

Igor clears his throat in irritation, and attention is once again collectively returned to Krum. Snape relaxes a little bit, this being the only time he’s ever praised his old death eater friend for interrupting something.

You smirk under the table, quieting your moaning down a little as Snape slams you back into him, your lips sliding down even further over his cock with each thrust into your mouth. It feels so good to be used, especially in such a dangerous situation—you’d never been so wet in your life, and you start to rub yourself, gasping softly and gagging on his large cock.

Snape curses you out in his mind. You’re a troublemaker, more than a troublemaker, and absolutely disobedient little girl. What he wouldn’t do to slam you down over a desk right at this very moment and teach you a real lesson.

“Go on,” Minerva encourages Krum gently, “What you say will never leave this room.”

“Unless required,” Flitwick sniffs, straightening his tie.

“Oh, Merlin,” Snape grunts, crumpling forward a little. He’s on the edge, he’s about to come… Everyone turns to him, their stares burning.

“Something to say, Severus?” Karkaroff jabs, sneering.

Snape’s eyelids flutter, and he white knuckles the table as his orgasm hits him. You moan under the table, feeling it on your tongue, and you come as well, biting back a whine. Fuck, you’re hit little whore… oh, yeah…

“Severus?” Minerva prods, frowning. Snape clenches his jaw, regaining his foothold on the conversation.

“Only a reminder that I am very busy and do not have all day. Consider this an encouragement, Mr. Krum, to spit it out,” he growls, then his lips tug up ever so slightly. “Though not everyone present in this room must take that advice.”

You hold back a giggle, and swallow dutifully.

Through the confused stares of the heads of houses, Krum finally speaks. Snape holds his breath, and you listen carefully, nerves buzzing. At least you went out with a bang.

“I was walking past Professor Snape’s classroom,” Krum begins, staring at the dark Slytherin head of house, “And…” Everyone seems to lean forward. “And spotted (y/n)…”

“Yes?” Sprout murmurs. Snape worries the inside of his lip. This was it. Perhaps he could apparate as smoothly as you had, out of this room. Though he could never match your impeccable timing, surely.

“—I spotted (y/n) stealing lacewing flies from Professor Snape’s personal storage.”

Snape nearly drops his jaw. Everyone at the table looks terribly scandalized, and he counts his blessings that it is not for the reason they should.

“Allow me… to explain,” he says, fixing himself discreetly under the table. “I had given (y/n) an assignment outside of class protocol, brewing a specially modified batch of polyjuice potion for extra credit. I have been tutoring her as somewhat of an apprentice.” He looks up at Krum with a curious sort of respect. “I… appreciate your diligence in reporting what would typically be an unforgivable offense against my private collection of ingredients, Mr. Krum. However, in this particular case… no further action is required, at the bidding, of course, of Headmaster Dumbledore.”

Dumbledore opens his hands. “Your explanation is quite sufficient, Severus. I see no further need to pursue any consequence toward Miss (y/l/n), if her intentions were warranted and academic.”

You sigh in relief under the table, and Snape smirks. Karkaroff is fuming, thinking the matter would absolutely ruin him. The potions master lifts his chin.

“Will that be all, then?”

“Yes.”

“Good,” he growls, and rises. He gets out a small vial, and hands it to you under the table, as the others talk amongst themselves.

“Drink,” he mutters, and you do. Before your eyes, you begin to turn invisible. His potion-brewing abilities never fail to astound you. Flitwick and Sprout spot the slight elevation in the tablecloth as you get out and follow Snape. They frown at one another, and check for an open window anywhere in the office.

You follow Snape to his classroom, and this time, he locks the door.

“You are lucky he said what he did, you little harlot.”

You smirk, the small vial already wearing off. “He knows Hermione. Hermione knows me. It’s only natural he’d cover for me.”

“And what you did back under the table?!” he continues, cape billowing as he paces. You grimace a little, waiting for that. He just sighs, glancing at you. “Will be the reason for my nightly shut-ins.”

You saunter over, kissing his cheek. “I knew you’d thank me.” He doesn’t look up.

“Hardly. Detention for the remainder of the school year.”

“But sir!” You slowly start to realize what that means. “Ah. Yes, sir.”

He can’t help but smile to himself as you leave for your dormitory, admiring your uniform on the way out. Perhaps he hadn’t taken such leave of his senses when he had found you that night at the Yule Ball, as he had so forced himself to believe. Perhaps, instead, he had come to them.

[skin-slave]

Not to get fake deep or anything but I've seen ppl holding up Animal Crossing as a gotcha for anti-capitalists. Like, "You say you hate money but here you are engaging in consumerism in virtual space!" And listen. Idk about the full game, bc my Nintendo is an NES that's old enough to drink. But I do play the mobile. And if anything it's evidence to me that, in a world that's structured differently, ppl would not lie back and atrophy.

We like stuff! We like going places, meeting ppl, doing favors, collecting pretty things, growing, gathering, building, honing skills, solving puzzles, meeting goals, having a place to come home to, learning about other ppl, encouraging each other, being outside, getting what we need and trading what we have left over for other stuff we need or want. We like that stuff. We wanna do that stuff. We wanna do it so bad that we do it in our free time. It soothes. It brings joy.

Now go ahead and throw rocks at me if you want, but doesn't that speak to our inherent need to make and do? Ppl hunt and fish and grow things and cook for their friends for fun. Ppl give gifts for fun. Ppl learn about things and share that knowledge for fun. Ppl build and invent and compose and crochet and sew for fun. Can we not acknowledge that, if we could meet our needs, if we changed the format and form our labor takes, that we really could do the things and enjoy them?

"But no one likes being the trash man or working in a factory!" Some ppl do like "menial" work, Sharon. Some ppl enjoy repetition, patterns, working independently. Some ppl like seeing aspects of their community that are otherwise hidden, or seeing the fruits of collective labor go out into the world, knowing they had a hand in it. Some ppl are perfectly happy to do work that they're ambivalent about, bc it fills the need to be useful to society.

And some jobs could be changed to a huge degree to create satisfaction for the workers. Some jobs don't have to be done between 9 and 5 or the world implodes. Some jobs don't need to be done in a specific place. Some jobs can be automated, but aren't. Some jobs don't need to exist in every community bc we have the infrastructure to be interdependent.

Labor shouldn't erode us. It should build us, and our communities. That should be the point. We say that's the point, but look at us. It's all fucked up. We're miserable, burned out, doing labor that hurts us to survive and trying to find time and resources to do labor that nourishes us between shifts. That's stupid. We should be doing the labor that nourishes us.

I'm not picking digital lemons bc I'm secretly into worker exploitation, doofus. I'm doing it bc it makes me happy. And so I can have them when someone needs one, bc giving them away makes me happy. And so I can redistribute the extras and get silly hats that make me happy. Idk the lemons-to-hats exchange rate, but maybe we should be thinking about that a little more.

[fuck-kirk]

Any tips on how you trained your dog?? I would really appreciate any because my dog gets crazy when he want ppl to pet him

okay so I’m getting this question a lot so I’m gonna answer it here. 

There’s probably tons of ways out there to do this, but this is how I did it. When Xena (my doggo) jumps on me, I cross my arms and turn away. Sometimes I take her gently by the arms and set her back on the ground too (she’s a medium sized dog and doesnt jump with a ton of force-unless shes EXTRA SUPER DUPER excited, so its not too hard) But basically, I don’t give her the attention she wants until all four paws are on the ground. Then I crouch down and give her the pets and attention. Most of the time, dogs jump bc they want to be on your level, they want face to face. So getting on their level helps. (tho this can also lead to over excited face licking and knocking you down if youre not careful so keep that in mind!)

As well, before all this, I taught her to sit. Which was actually easy in her case bc she’s very food oriented and pretty smart. A big big big thing I do with her is sound training. I.E. associating certain actions and behaviors with a sound. When she first learned to sit, I would say “sit” but I slowly switched that out with snapping my fingers, and now all I do is snap my fingers, and she sits. I also use snapping my fingers for “halt, stop!” command too, if we’re on a walk and she starts pulling, I snap my fingers and she (usually) stops. (I use other sounds too, clicking my tongue is basically “ good girl!!” and I use whistle for “come here!” and she does still jump sometimes, but (usually) only on command, if I tongue click and pat my chest, she’ll jump up very gently for some pets (this is usually if i dont feel like crouching down lmao)

So, I think all of this type of basic command training is important for what I taught my dog to do (sit patiently and wait for pats) when I see she starts getting over excited, I snap my fingers, and she knows to sit and wait. 

THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT THOUGH IS CONSISTENCY. If you dont want your dog to jump, you have to keep at it, and BE PATIENT. Every single time they do unwanted jumping, do not give them attention until they calm down.  As well, everybody in the house and guests have to be on the same page. I cant count the number of times my dog has jumped on a person and I reprimand her and a guest goes “oh no its alright i like it!!” and then proceeds to encourage the behavior. Dont let this happen!! let the person know why youre reprimanding the dog, and tell them to do the same that you do. Bc I know my dog behaves well around ME, really getting your dog to behave for you is the EASY part imo....getting them to behave in front of strangers is the real challenge bc they generally get so excited around new people.

my dog still struggles with this. She usually will jump on a person at least once until I snap, then she stops. Thats why I was so excited in my post about her doing it totally unprompted (and in a very exciting situation for her) It really was seeing the fruits of my labor right there lol. 

I also wanna mention that age probably plays a role too. My dog is coming up on three years old and she’s finally starting to calm down. So if your dog is still in the puppy phase it can be a bit difficult and frustrating, but don’t give up!! your dog is just excited and loves you lol 

So yeah, the most important bit is PATIENCE AND CONSISTENCY. this goes for practically anything you wanna teach a dog. As well, look into professional training and additional research if it’s a really huge issue! My dog isnt very big so the jumping was annoying, but not harmful. I’ve known people with bigger dogs where this wasnt the case.  

hopefully this was at least a little helpful!!

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Sickened By Billing Abuses, Readers And Tweeters Stand Up For Sufferers’ Rights

Letters to the Editor is a periodic function. We welcome all feedback and can publish a range. We edit for size and readability and require full names.

Personal Fairness Predators?

To begin with, let me thanks for writing about such an essential problem (“Buyers’ Deep-Pocket Push To Defend Shock Medical Payments,” Sept. 11). I’m going to inform you about my private ache relating to shocking medical billing.

They’ll name themselves Physician Affected person Unity group or every other fancy title, however the actuality is that they’re all predators. I say this as a result of I’m the sufferer of those medical doctors teams. I work as a linguist with the U.S. Military and have top-secret clearance. I might lose my clearance if any of my payments go to a collections company.

I had appendix surgical procedure on Nov. 6, 2018, on the Davis Medical Heart in Layton, Utah. The surgeon had informed me that my surgical procedure would take solely 10 to 15 minutes. After two hours of surgical procedure, I used to be launched from the hospital and despatched dwelling. My insurer, CIGNA, paid all of the Davis hospital payments and I paid my portion of the payments. Then in March 2019, I obtained two separate physician’s payments totaling about $48,000. My insurance coverage was not paying the physician’s payments as a result of they had been out-of-network. The physician’s workplace saved sending me letters to pay $48,000 from my pocket; if I didn’t pay, I used to be informed, my payments can be despatched to collections.

Lastly, I obtained a letter from the collections company saying that if I didn’t pay $26,770, it will ship the data to the credit score companies. Can the Physician Affected person Unity group inform me what I ought to do? Ought to I lose my clearance and my job as a result of I can not afford to pay $26,770? Ought to I borrow cash from the financial institution after which pay excessive curiosity to the financial institution for the remainder of my life?

— Aziz Rehman, Kaysville, Utah

It is a very deceptive article. Many impartial physicians talking out need IDR to resolve the issue of outliers and take sufferers #OutOfTheMiddle. Insurance coverage-backed lobbyists are utilizing this problem as a #TrojanHorse to counterpoint company shareholders at expense of physicians.

— Amy Mecozzi Cho, MD MBA (@amychomd) September 12, 2019

On Twitter, Dr. Amy Mecozzi Cho of Minneapolis identified holes within the article. For instance, she informed KHN, “the contracted charges for insurance coverage are deceptive since our dangerous debt for sufferers with high-deductible insurance coverage is bigger than 60% of their deductible, however insurance coverage corporations gained’t invoice them as a result of they know this. And so our efficient charges for business insurance coverage are literally a lot decrease than contracted. The medical loss ratio and the CBO estimates aren’t capturing these prices to sufferers and physicians.”

Non secular Malpractice

My sister, a hospital chaplain (of Roman Catholic religion), informs me that it’s thought-about chaplain malpractice to attempt to power a affected person to deal with struggling within the precise method others assume they need to (“Firing Physician, Christian Hospital Units Off Nationwide Problem To Assist-In-Dying Legal guidelines,” Aug. 30). It might observe, then, hospital’s requiring employees to “assist” sufferers “recognize the Christian understanding of redemptive struggling” is a paternalistic dismissal of affected person integrity and a type of malpractice. The medical relationship is between the affected person and the physician, not the affected person and the Vatican.

— Gloria Kohut, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Many hospitals in India are managed by non secular organisations (Hindu, Jain, Christian, Muslim) Are in addition they as illiberal to variations in a single’s method to what’s moral in medical observe because the Christian hospital on this case? https://t.co/Nzy6JN348B

— Amar Jesani (@amarjesani) September eight, 2019

— Amar Jesani, Mumbai, India

It’s unfathomable that college students with disabilities can’t get the help they should attend faculty and dwell in the neighborhood! Bravo to this Stanford freshman for combating for providers. It’s previous time for available assist for college kids! #DisabilityRightshttps://t.co/EuVnUzEX8b

— Areva Martin, Esq. (@ArevaMartin) September 2, 2019

— Areva Martin, Los Angeles

Squeezing The Most Out Of Scholar Assist

I noticed Jenny Gold’s wonderful article within the Los Angeles Instances a few disabled pupil’s want for help as she begins faculty at Stanford (“Highlight: A Younger Girl, A Wheelchair And The Combat To Take Her Place At Stanford,” Sept. four). I wished you to bear in mind that the Division of Rehabilitation in California pays for added bills for college kids to coach them for future employment. This contains laptops, provides, transportation bills, mandatory bills. They could additionally pay for bills for care above and past the approval of the state Division of Well being Care Providers.

All college students face the difficulty of assist themselves whereas in faculty. Stanford’s pretty present of training for all who’re accepted is commonly not used because of the excessive bills of that space. Many college students are unable to afford faculty, even with a full scholarship.

Those that have paid their method with pupil loans and are actually employed in excessive service areas, akin to drugs, psychiatry, social providers and instructing, are strapped with lifetime funds. Our greatest and our brightest who serve our communities are in debt to the purpose the place their earnings barely pays their lifetime of pupil loans. Sylvia Colt-Lacayo’s state of affairs could have extra bills, however the debt of $2,000 a month is just not distinctive for a full-time college pupil.

— Teresa L. Pardini, LMFT, Creativity in Counseling, Nipomo, Calif.

This younger lady acquired four.25 GPA & a full experience to Stanford regardless of by no means consuming ANYTHING in school so she would not should pee, bc that is what it takes for

youngsters to excel in an abled world. That she nonetheless has to struggle for care ought to infuriate you.https://t.co/B9vH1c1ATK

— Sonja Sharp (@sic_sonja) September three, 2019

— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles

A Heroine In The Opioid Combat

Please thank this glorious, devoted and difficult lady (“Longtime Crusader Towards OxyContin Begins To See The Fruits Of Her Battle,” Sept. 17). That legal firm and each single member of the Sackler household had been nicely conscious of the whole rip-off for many years, however they saved their mouths shut, turned their heads, denied the whole lot and couldn’t care much less since they had been stuffing their particular person pockets with a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of for every member of that giant household. Each greenback must be clawed again from every member of the family. They’re laughing all the best way to the Sackler Wing of 20-plus museums round this planet.

— David Padawer, Pittsburgh

As the daddy of a recovering opioid addict I see Barbara’s efforts and keenness for accountability is so heroic. The lack of her son is so horrible….

— Dave (@dwpena) September 17, 2019

— Dave Pena, Roseville, Calif.

Senior Starvation And Pangs Of Conscience

I’ve been a medic for over 20 years. I’ve sufferers which have to choose between consuming or taking their drugs. It’s disgraceful. We have to have articles like this written day-after-day (“Ravenous Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Getting older,” Sept. three). Thanks.

— Eric Johnson, Marana, Ariz. 

Many hospital stays are for ppl w problems of hunger and malnutrition – confusion/delirium, harmful electrolyte imbalances in salt, sugar, potassium

We want packages for ravenous Individuals.

How America Fails To Feed Its Getting older https://t.co/gv6Z8HnqZH @khnews

— Tina Chee, MD, MPA (@Tina_Chee_MD) September three, 2019

— Dr. Tina Chee, New York Metropolis

I’m 68, a widower, disabled after two open-heart surgical procedures, with no household left. The final individual to go to me at dwelling was the yearly dwelling well being care nurse, again in February.

I’m identical to the folks in your article: outdated, worn-out and forgotten. After a lifetime of labor, I get by on a verify that’s half of what a minimum-wage employee flipping burgers would possibly make at $15 an hour. I can barely afford to eat the burgers now. Nobody, no insurance coverage firm, no politician is making an attempt to assist seniors out of poverty.

My greatest concern is dying and my little canine being left alone for weeks or months to die earlier than anybody finds me. Having moved to a rural space after my spouse died, folks don’t heat up quick to outsiders. It’s terrible to not converse to anybody for years — yep, years — outdoors of cashiers. Simply letting you already know there are plenty of us out right here.

— Rick Wrenn, Mount Carmel, Tenn.

What occurs when the system designed to guard hundreds of thousands of seniors dealing with hunger is damaged? The Older Individuals Act is one important piece holding many native Meals on Wheels packages collectively. We want you to ask… https://t.co/eicvq9gRln

— Chapa Arts & Photog. (@Berrysicles) September 12, 2019

— Maria De Jesus Chapa, Houston

Double Checking Truth-Examine Details

Because the chairman of Physicians for Honest Protection (PFC), I’ve joined medical doctors across the nation in working to guard sufferers from shock medical payments. I’m writing now to set the report straight on the implications of varied federal insurance policies below debate in Congress. Not solely did KHN’s latest article (“Medical doctors Argue Plans To Treatment Shock Medical Payments Will ‘Shred’ The Security Internet,” Aug. 7) overlook analysis from the American Journal of Managed Care, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, and the Congressional Finances Workplace, it created a myopic interpretation of our argument in an effort to label it as “false,” which resulted in an inaccurate conclusion with respect to a fancy problem that deserves an intensive, data-driven and factual examination.

In accordance with the CBO, a benchmarking method would reduce funds to in-network physicians by as a lot as 20%. This interprets into tens of billions of shifted away from in-network physicians who aren’t sending shock payments over the following decade. Emergency physicians deal with all sufferers no matter their insurance coverage standing. In consequence, 70% of their sufferers are uninsured, seniors or poor households and kids. Subsequently, there isn’t a sensible distinction between decreasing business insurance coverage funds and decreasing Medicaid or Medicare charges. KHN’s personal earlier case research discovered that contributing components to hospital closures embody “excessive uninsured charges and a payer combine dominated by Medicare and Medicaid.” So, a benchmarking coverage would create even bigger disparities in high quality and entry to care over time for weak populations.

Others agree that business funds play a important position in supporting the care of America’s most weak sufferers, together with: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American School of Emergency Physicians, American School of Radiology, America’s Important Hospitals, American Hospital Affiliation, American Medical Affiliation, Affiliation of American Medical Faculties, Catholic Well being Affiliation of the US, Kids’s Hospital Affiliation and Federation of American Hospitals.

As an alternative of talking with well being care consultants to higher perceive how reimbursement dynamics and affected person entry are inextricably linked in in the present day’s economic system, this text relied completely on the opinions of two biased analysis fellows who advocate for the very coverage that our advert opposes and whose statements are deceptive at greatest. The evaluation additionally disregards a quote from the California Medical Affiliation describing a scarcity of accessible anesthesiologists below California’s benchmarking method.

PFC’s mission is to guard sufferers from shock medical payments. That’s the reason, this yr alone, we helped drive constructive compromises that produced new legal guidelines in Texas, Colorado, Nevada and Washington. Equally, on the federal degree, we assist laws that makes use of a confirmed impartial dispute decision mannequin to guard sufferers with out disrupting accountable, in-network practices. To additional shield sufferers, it’s essential that Congress doesn’t create a fair bigger public well being problem with respect to the security internet whereas fixing the true problem of shock payments.

— Dr. Sherif Zaafran, Washington, D.C.

Once I traveled across the state final fall, Kansans made it clear that Medicaid enlargement is a excessive precedence. I will do the whole lot in my energy to make sure this would be the yr we’ll lastly increase Medicaid in Kansas. #RebuildingKansashttps://t.co/gg7BXeopMp

— Laura Kelly (@LauraKellyKS) September 6, 2019

— Gov. Laura Kelly, Topeka, Kan.

Contaminated With Advocacy

Your story about Medicaid enlargement fails to aim any severe description of the explanations for opposition to this enlargement (“How Political Maneuvering Derailed A Purple State’s Path To Medicaid Enlargement,” Sept. 6). The reader is left with the clear impression that opponents are ill-informed, parsimonious, uncaring of others (particularly the poor) or the entire above. There isn’t any suggestion that such opposing is likely to be in good religion. You actually can do higher than this. You insult the intelligence of your readers while you fail to ship the entire story in a good and evenhanded method to allow them to determine for themselves. There may be sufficient “us vs. them” in present media. Don’t drag it into well being care. If you wish to take positions on essential well being care points, please create an editorial web page; don’t infect your “information” with these positions. And no, I’m not a Republican. I’m an impartial uninterested in fixed advocacy within the media disguised as information. Thanks.

— Geoff Hargreaves-Heald, Lincoln, Mass.

Two (not surprising, perhaps disappointing) takeaways:– Citizen intent issues little if just a few state actors know work the system.– Nothing works higher than excessive medical payments for getting center class voters to empathize with Medicaid recipients.https://t.co/JxHaho26pU

— Juhyung Solar (@JuhyungSun) September 6, 2019

— Juhyung Solar, Tucson, Ariz.

Why Prescribed Weight Loss Is In poor health-Suggested

What the writer of the article dismissing the opinion of the dietitian who claimed stigma and yo-yo weight-reduction plan trigger extra hurt than weight problems itself failed to say is that, for many individuals, how weight would possibly contribute to the event of bodily sicknesses is immaterial (Weight problems Stigma And Yo-Yo Weight-reduction plan, Not BMI, Are Behind Persistent Well being Situations, Dietitian Claims, Sept. 17). The prescription to drop a few pounds, in and of itself, is damaging. Most dieters regain 100% or extra of weight misplaced inside 5 years. Moreover, people who find themselves informed to drop a few pounds and subsequently food plan are at considerably elevated threat for physique dissatisfaction, bingeing, disordered consuming and consuming problems.

Well being isn’t just bodily well being. Descartes invented mind-body dualism in a thought experiment within the 1600s. It’s an concept that permeates trendy tradition and drugs to today. Nonetheless, we’re not separate from our minds. Our psychological well being is just not separate from our “true” well being.

Weight problems could or could not trigger sickness. If the method of shedding pounds creates extra sickness within the type of disgrace and consuming problems in addition to well being care avoidance, then persevering with to blindly suggest it’s irresponsible. The advice to food plan must be made with an knowledgeable consent course of. “Being obese could put you liable to growing X, Y and Z. I’m recommending caloric restriction to treatment that. Caloric restriction is thought to be ineffective in the long run, and places you liable to growing an consuming dysfunction or of weighing greater than you do now. The choice to caloric restriction is to thoughtfully study obstacles to your entry of entire, nutritious meals, whether or not they be monetary, psychological or in any other case.

“Compassionately adopting a food plan that over time places extra colours in your plate and replaces processed meals with entire meals could in itself lead each to weight reduction and decreased threat of persistent medical circumstances. Moreover, discovering a approach to improve your bodily exercise, such that the exercise is related to pleasure and self-care, will even be protecting in opposition to persistent circumstances and will contribute to weight reduction. Nonetheless, if at any level weight reduction turns into the purpose somewhat than the logical consequence of sustainable modifications, then we’re again on the weight-reduction plan step, with all its consequent dangers.”

It doesn’t matter whether or not weight problems causes sickness. Intentionally shedding pounds is an ineffective method to addressing what could or will not be an issue, and moreover causes hurt. Allow us to information sufferers towards what they’ve management over: meals decisions and elevated exercise, and let go of the quantity, not as a result of it doesn’t affect well being, however as a result of specializing in it’s ineffective and counterproductive.

If a previously overweight individual is now skinny however depressing, hungry, obsessive, depressed and food-preoccupied as a result of that’s what we developed to do within the context of weight reduction, why is that higher? Any answer has to respect psychological and bodily well being outcomes, or it isn’t really a health-based advice.

— Dr. Sarah O’Neil, Boston

This text ignores the huge rising physique of proof round #weightstigma, argues in opposition to simply two items @chr1styharrison put ahead, then simply makes use of quotes from consultants to rebuff this declare and never proof and using an odd metaphor about carrots.

— Kerry (she/her) (@HAEScoach) September 18, 2019

— Kerry Beake, Mandurah, Australia

Summer season Camp Rehab — Or Torture?

The article “At This Summer season Camp, Struggling With A Incapacity Is The Level” (Aug. 13) portrays what you describe as “mandatory” however what many people adults with disabilities keep in mind as rehab torture — traumatic recollections of painful so-called remedy with questionable or no demonstrable outcomes. Even when this system had outcomes, many people would have chosen to not expertise the ache. It’s old-style rehab of pretending it isn’t torturous and “we all know what’s greatest for you.” This type of rehab was vehemently rejected by incapacity activists years in the past. It’s too dangerous adults who skilled this type of remedy weren’t consulted. I imagine few of them would describe this in constructive phrases. It’s not a brand new idea: In case you work exhausting, with ache, you possibly can turn into impartial! So if you happen to can handle to decorate your self in 4 hours and prepare for mattress in three hours, you’re impartial and met the targets set for you, regardless that you’re so drained you possibly can’t benefit from the remaining few hours of your day. Most adults with disabilities would set a purpose of getting a high quality of life over being impartial. This was a really biased story and may have been extra balanced from very totally different views, particularly from these with disabilities.

— RoAnne Chaney, government director of the Michigan Incapacity Rights Coalition, East Lansing, Mich.

SUMMER CAMP FOR KIDS WITH DISABILITIES! There must be extra camps identical to this one! This Nashville camp was began for teenagers who’ve disabilities that require bodily remedy, and the camp counselors flip the workouts into video games! https://t.co/F2uMFpSSLs

— D’Amore Harm Legislation (@DAmoreInjuryLaw) July 31, 2019

— Tom von Alten, Boise, Idaho

Prescribing A ‘Deep-Dive’ Into Hospital Excesses

I believe KHN Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal’s piece on hospital excesses is true on the mark (“Evaluation: How Your Beloved Hospital Helps To Drive Up Well being Care Prices,” Sept. 5). I used to be affiliated with a New York Metropolis hospital as a voluntary internist and retired 4 years in the past. I’m wondering if it will be doable to do a “deep dive” evaluation of a consultant hospital’s costs and expenditures (a number of New York hospitals come to thoughts as candidates) by an investigative reporting group. I think there may be some huge cash being spent that doesn’t improve affected person high quality of care (i.e., extreme numbers of directors getting egregious salaries). I believe you’ve mentioned the salient causes these contributing price components haven’t been extensively mentioned or debated ― however they have to be.

I keep in mind a information story a few affected person who purchased his synthetic hip implant within the U.S. wholesale and, to economize, took it with him to Belgium to have it inserted. The hospital regarded like a manufacturing facility, and he was reluctant to go in — however he did, and because it turned out the whole lot went nicely and he saved some huge cash!

― Dr. Lawson Moyer, New York Metropolis

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Kevin Cage of @spotlightsaga reviews… Blood Drive (S01E02) Welcome to Pixie Swallow Airdate: June 21, 2017 @syfy Ratings: 0.627 Million :: 0.18 18-49 Demo Share Score: 3.5/10 @blooddrivesource

**********SPOILERS BELOW**********

It’s not that ‘Blood Drive’ is completely unwatchable, because it isn’t, there is certainly an undeniable improvement from E1 to E2. It’s just that as far as options go, particularly within this genre, and television as a whole… SyFy needs to do more than push the boundaries of censorship to keep viewers. The bloody, 'fuck-bomb’, Soska Sisters-wannabe series has already seen a 25% drop in overall viewers as well as that coveted 18-49 Demo Share they need for advertising income from just E1 to E2. No doubt that SyFy has some sort of deal with Amazon Prime & Netflix in place, but they’ll need more than that to secure a renewal. The last two SyFy series we’ve covered were both cancelled after 1 season, and the show we always rushed back to watch (Defiance) was mysteriously cancelled as well despite being SyFy’s too rated show… Marking the last remaining show left over from the tail end of the SyFy Network’s 'Golden Age’. 'The Magicians’ is the only series in the past several years that has actually shown an increase in interest and overall viewership as well as that coveted demo. Just for comparison sake, the universally panned 'Olympus’ averaged 0.551 Million viewers & a paltry 0.14 18-49 Demo Share. SyFy’s 'Wynona Earp’, which is now in its 2nd season is averaging below that, at 0.508 Million & an 0.12 18-49 Demo Share. We assure you, Olympus was at least cheaper to make.

Everyone knows Preacher is back on A&E, right? 'Blood Drive’s core audience seems to be those that are simply impressed with boundary pushing and had big brothers in the 80s who lined their bedroom walls with posters with models like Christie Brinkley, Tawney Kitaen, & Cindy Crawford in skimpy bathing suits with big hair and butt floss. Entering Blood Drive’s 2nd episode, the only character that seems to be of any note is Julian Slink (Colin Cunningham), his motivations besides being a blood thirsty bad ass with a scary demon/deep voiced/possible woman robot boss with multiple copies, Aki (Marama Corbett), who may or may not kill him depending on whatever she feels like doing at the time for no reason whatsoever, are vague and unclear. She loves that Slink showed initiative and killed the over-eager new head of maintenance with the bottom side of a briefcase in the public view of the Heart Enterprises waiting room, so that will buy him time to take the 'Blood Drive’ race on the air to see if they can register better numbers than the SyFy channel. He better hope that he does, though honestly he doesn’t look to thrilled about the idea. Lucky for him, SyFy numbers aren’t hard to beat.

While the race is without its host and partially unsupervised, Good Cop Arthur Bailey (Alan Ritchson) and Bad Ass Female Driver w/little to no character motivation, Grace Argento (Christina Ochoa) take a break from fucking in the front seat of their blood thirsty car that records everything they do and head to 'Pixie Swallow’. Charming, I know. While the 15 year old boys in the audience are stuffing their stiff socks from last week under their bed with an old pizza box, they ready another pair from the dirty pair as the pair checks into a creepy hotel after stealing an Elvis impersonator’s room key. Unfortunately for them, it’s not Arthur & Grace having hot car sex this week (Anyone remember that one movie 'Crash’, the NC-17 one where there was a group of ppl that were obsessed with fucking while crashing cars? Sorry 🚨 ADHD thought alert 🚨).

This week on the 'Blood Drive’ menu, our sex scene is a gay anal scene between a very frail, unkempt and dirty looking 'The Scholar’ (Darren Kent) and a very old, crusty creeper that looks like he could be the cousin of 'The Tallman’ from a parallel universe in 'Phantasm’, but dystopian damaged, and possibly inbred. Yup, I’m talking about 'The Gentleman’ (Andrew Hall). The Scholar professes his love to The Gentleman, but The Gentleman turns his love and affection into hard pumps into The Scholar’s ass. I have a sneaking suspicion that this dude didn’t even spit on it for Christ’s Sake. The Gentleman tells The Scholar tells him that once they win that he can basically fuck off, no going to Bjork’s unpronounceable hometown for him! This makes zero sense for 'The Gentleman’s character. If you want yo get ahead, you wait to screw people over. 2nd episode admittance is kind of like signing your on death warrant in the least original or interesting way possible.

The most revolting two people two have ever starred in a gay sex scene on cable television (is there an award for that? MTV maybe? Possibly the European MTV Awards?) isn’t all that’s on the menu for this round of 'Blood Drive’. The diner connected to the hotel is run by a family of possibly incestual rednecks who are using human meat to make steaks and burgers. This whole schtick has been done to death, nothing new to see here. Anyone remember that bad ass Horror/Exploitation film from 1980 called 'Motel Hell’ or the 80’s film 'Blood Diner’? Well combining two films that are both 30-35 years old doesn’t exactly scream originality. Slightly entertaining? Not really, possibly, sort-of. It’s hard to care. I did mention that 'Preacher’ just started S2 on AMC right! 🚨ADHD thought alert! 🚨 There went another one.

Somewhere along the line, Arthur and The Scholar end up in the diner together, connecting over their disconnection with their driving partners. Arthur is eating his rare burger (ewe, steak ok, tuna ok, but rare human burgers? At least Mid-Well, dawg) and while he’s chewing down he finds one of the fingers from one of the women from the cast of TNT’s 'Claws’. Arthur, of course, investigates and for a reason that wasn’t exactly crystal clear, the owners freak out and a bunch of cannibals take over the hotel. Meanwhile, Arthur’s partner Chris (Thomas Dominique), wakes up at Heart Enterprises and they let him roam around the building, but first they tell him he had 9 erections while he was sleeping. No news as to whether those erections were resituated or grabbed, pulled forward, then let go to smack Chris’ stomach and make a fun noise. Unfortunately, we never find out what happened with those 9 erections and now I’ll forever be haunted by the mystery. In what is the most entertaining scene of the entire episode, Chris goes through Heart Enterprises’ 'Orientation’ and the Aki copy show’s a deep appreciation for her part in the orientation video. The lines are on par, proving that once again, surrounded by total muck and poorly executed ideas, there are some fun moments to be had in 'Blood Drive’.

Apparently great earthquakes created a great scar in the middle of the United States and instead of running from it like everyone else, Heart Enterprises ran toward it… Finding incredible resources in 'The Scar’, such as; “unstable minerals, morally questionable fuel alternatives, unnatural gasses, and deep wells of unidentifiable glowing goo with properties far beyond the realm of modern science. The world ecological disaster was our economical windfall. And now we share with you, the newest member of Heart, the fruits of our labor… We Heart You.” Aki even mouths the words to 'her part’ and makes a heart with her hands as she repeats, “We Heart You.” The scene gets better… Apparently Chris is what this show has been missing. His back and forth with Aki embodies the exact type of silliness, dark undertones, and comedic timing that the Exploitation genre calls for. Chris even calls the Aki copy 'Small Wonder’… Vicky The Robot, anyone?! Aki tells Chris he’s free to roam the building and can leave anytime, but she’s pretty confident that he will stay and join them… So he’s free, but he’s not to contact his partner or anyone else for that matter or he’ll be 'modified’… Behaviorally. Ok. This entire scene just made the rest of this episode completely worthwhile.

There’s some seriously weird shit that goes down in the hallways of Heart Enterprises and again I’d much rather follow Chris, Aki (the many versions), and Slink. These three outweigh our main protagonists by a landslide. That’s not how 'Blood Drive’ is going to work though… And while Arthur, Grace, and The Gentleman search for The Scholar to fix their cars, Chris is returning Arthur’s message and filling him in on the drama going on at Heart… Probably not such a great move, but hey… Blood Drive! There’s a convenient sob story about Grace’s sister and I just thought of how much laundry I have to do… Seriously. 🚨 ADHD thought alert #3! 🚨 Heart and the asylum that Grace’s sister happen to be in are connected. Apparently instead of getting on with the race, they’ll be stopping in that very asylum in the next episode. Back to Chris! I’ve suddenly forgot all about my laundry! Chris is going to stay at Heart and work with them and pledges to one of the Aki Copies his obviously fake as shit loyalty. She accepts. She also delivers on her promise to 'modify’ him as she’s quite aware that he contacted his partner… Former partner, now as behavior modifications are underway. More Chris. More Aki. More Slink. Less everything else.

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VOLTRON COLLEGE!AU KEEF (KOREAN!KEITH) - moody art major with focus on mural arts + art as restorative medium - keith as low income who used to do graffiti but then saw how mural arts actually change communities - KEITH WHO VOLUNTEERS AT PUBLIC SCHOOL AFTERSCHOOL ARTS PEOGRAM - KEITH WHO WILL FORGET TO EAT SOMETIMES WHEN HES RLY CONCENTRATING ON HIS WORK UNTIL EITHER SHIRO OR HUNK (later lance) REMINDS HIM TO EAT AND FORCES HIM AWAY FROM HIS ART TO TAKE CARE OF HIMSELF - keith who is SICK OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATION BULLSHIT IN ART COMMUNITY - keith as hellllla gayyyYyYy - KEITH IN DIRTY DOCS AND RIPPED BLACK JEANS + RED SHIRT THATS BEEN STRETCHED AT THE NECK AND HIS HAIR IN A PONY TAIL USUALLY (but he still had a mullet!!!!!!!) - KEITH FROM TEXAS - KEITH WHO LIVES WITH HIS COUSIN SHIRO AFTER HIS PARENTS DISOWNED HIM AFTER BEING OUTED - KEITH WHO DECIDES ITS BETTER NOT TO OPEN UP BC OF THAT(until ppl HIS SUPPORTIVE AF FRIENDS change his mind) - AWKWARD BB KEITH WHO NEVER??? HAD REAL FRIENDS??? - KEITHS BEEN WORKING SINCE HES BEEN IN HS SAVING UP FOR COLLEGE/ADULTHOOD - Keith who also works at campus bookstore across the street from lance and likes TO READ?????? - KEITH WITH HEADPHONES AND STILL LISTENS TO ANGSTY EMO/SCREAMO MUSIC - KEITH WHO ALSO LISTENS TO PODCASTS ESP ABT S P A C E - KEITH WHO DID TRACK AND FIELD IN HS AND CONTINUES TO RUN LONG DISTANCE TO KEEP IN SHAPE + ZONE OUT/MEDITATE/DESTRESS (think that one taekook fic i gave yall but less angst or the same lvl) - KEITH AS A CAT PERSON AND LOVES SOFT PLUSHIE THINGS BC THEY C O M F O R T HIM - keith who hates lance's guts/attitude when he initially meets him and makes assumptions abt him as a "typical frat bro" and complains to shiro one day and shiro fuckin defends lance by telling keith abt how lance is the one who doesnt tolerate toxic masculinity practices at ALL and is the one who brings it up during meetings AND THEN KEITH KEEPS LEARNING DIFF DIMENSIONS OF LANCE AND WELL SHIT - KEITH AS ULTIMATE LIGHTWEIGHT WITH PIDGE - KEITH WHO IS NATURALLY GIFTED ATHLETICALLY AND ARTISTICALLY (that doesnt mean he works FUCKING hard) - keith who sort of fumes into the library and tries to burn down the math section BC FUCK MATH WHO THE FUCK CREATED THIS BULLSHIT ALL U NEED IN LIFE IS ADDITION SUBTRACTION MULTI AND DIV until hunk + lance + pidge try to stop him and help him with his math hw and shiro will be there for moral support bc shiro is just as clueless abt math as keith is 😀 - keith who is gets caught up in everyone's competition during monopoly but is a p okay player - keith who bumps into lance after volunteering at the afterschool program and begrudgingly says hell treat lance to boba as payback for math tutoring bc pidge and hunk both arent the best at explaining concepts sometimes and lance's were the easiest to understand I JUST DONT WANT TO BE IN DEBT TO YOU OKAY? (lance offers indiv tutoring and keith initally REFUSES until he sees the practice midterm and ???? what the fuck are these symbols FUCK) LANCEEEE MA BOOIII (CUBAN!LANCE) - lance as marxist econ major who DOES MAJOR RESEARCH ON #FIGHTFOR15 AND CUBAN/LATIN AM ECON POLICY ESP DURING US IMPERIALISM AND HOW THISE AFFECTS HAVE LASTING EFFECTS ON LABOR + ECON - LANCE AS BISEXUAL AS HELL - lance who TUTORS AT SAME PUBLIC SCHOOL AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM EXCEPT MATH - LANCE WHO's FROM FLORIDA AND IS FIRST IN THE FAMILY FOR COLLEGE - LANCE WHO SEES HIS FAMILY GO THRU WAGE THEFT FUELING HIS WORK IN UNDOCU LABOR RIGHTS AND ECON POLICIES - lance who joins latinx affinity club with hunk (whos half filipinx) and while hunk is the master chef taste+recipe wise NO ONE MAKES _______ LIKE LANCE CAN BC HIS ABUELITA TAUGHT HIM THE FAMILY RECIPE - LANCE AS A FRAT BOI WHO FUCKIN SERVES AT BEER PONG AND FLIP CUP - lance as vp of said frat and wont let shiro pick the music at parties bc shiro only listens to old 80's classics, shiro we live in the 21ST CENTURY THESE PPL WANT BEYONCE AND NICKI OKAH (lance who listens to hella pop music) - lance who KNOWS HOW TO DANCE AND RELIGIOUSLY GOES TO ZUMBA CLASS WITH ALLURA WHO DRAGS PIDGE's LAZY ASS AS CARDIO BEFORE DOING HIS MUSCLE WORKOUT WITH HUNK AND SHIRO - lance who works at the campus hip coffeeshop/cafe and fucking snapchats the shit out of his shift - LANCE WHO LEARNS ABT HOW DRAWING/DOODLING CAN HELP WITH ANXIETY FROM KEITH AND STARTS TO CARRY AROUND A SKETCH NOTEBOOK - LANCE WHO IS EQUALLY AS GOOD WITH KIDS AS KEITH IS BC HELLO? SIBLINGS??? - LANCE AS AN ANIMAL PERSON BUT LEANS TOWARDS DOGS - lance who needs to be alone at the library when studying and mutters to himself softly a lot when thinking but is on top of his group project/study game with HELLA STUDY GUIDES + tutor tips - lance who chews on pen tips 😭 - LANCE WHO HAS ANXIETY THAT HE ISNT GOOD ENOUGH/SMART ENOUGH AT SCHOOL AND CONSTANTLY THINKS ABT THE SACRIFICE HIS PARENTS AND SIBLINGS MADE FOR HIM TO GO TO SCHOOL AND HIDES HIS ANXIETY+LOW SELF-ESTEEM BY TRYING TO BE RLY EXTROVERTED AND FUN AND FLIPPANT LANCE WHO OVERCOMPENSATES - lance who is initially jealous of keith's "easy" art degree until he fuckin sees the work that keith puts into his art AND THEN APOLOGIZES FOR UNDERESTIMATING KEITH - LANCE WHO ALWAYS LOSES AT MONOPOLY AND STARTS RANTING ABT DECAYING FORMS OF CAPITALISM SHEEREROOOOOOH - shiro as a senior after taking a gap year from a life-threatening injury on his arm FROM A CAR ACCIDENT (SHIRO WITH A PROSTHETIC LIMB??) - SHIRO WHO IS SCARED OF CARS IN RELATION TO INJURY WILL TAKE PUBLIC TRANSPORT UNLESS HE HAS TO TAKE A CAR - SHIRO AS A POLI SCI MAJOR BUT HES NOT A BRO AND INTERSECTIONAL AF - SHIRO WHO IS STARSTRUCK WITH ALLURA's BRILLIANCE IN A CLASS THEY TOOK TOGETHER ONE TIME - Shiro who gets approached by allura for his insightful comment about aapi's for blm during a blm meeting AND THEY CONNECT - SHIRO AS FRAT PREZ AND STARTS CHANGING FRAT CULTURE TO BE LESS TOXIC/PATRIARCHAL/FUCKEDUP - Shiro who has to do rehab for his arm but also works out!!!!!!!!!!! HUNK WHO SPOTS HIM AND MAKES SURE SHIRO ISNT RUINING HIMSELF - SHIRO WHO ALWAYS CONSIDERED KEITH A LITTLE BROTHER SINCE THEY WERE KIDS AND RLY WORRIES FOR HIM SHIRO BEING AWARE OF KEITH's HURT AROUND BEING DISOWNED - SHIRO WHO WANTS TO BE AN IMMIGRATION LAWYER????? - SHIRO WHO GREW UP NORMAL MIDDLE CLASS (will think of family tree later) - shiro who listens to classic 80's pop and rock HE IS A REAL DAD - SHIRO WHO MAKES SURE EVERYONE IS SAFE WHEN PARTYING AND DRINKING ENOUGH WATER (ESP LANCE AND KEITH WHEN HE DOES COME TO PARTIES) - SHIRO WHO GETS ACTUALLY HELLA TACTICAL WHEN GAMING WITH HUNK LANCE AND PIDGE TO THEIR SURPRISE (the unknowlingly competitive type) - shiro who is merciless at monopoly/settlers of catan - DEMISEXUAL SHIRO B Y E PIDGE - GENDERQUEER!pidge - White!pidge (is this even, like a thing or do we already assume pidge is white?) - aromantic!pidge - Pidge as compsci/math slave major who always ends up doing their allnighters to finish their labs - pidge who lives off caffeine - PIDGE WHO IS SICK OF SHITT CISMEN IN GENERAL + MALE DOMINATED TECH INDUSTRY AND WANTS TO EMPOWER WOC/QTPOC IN TECH - pidge who is MORE ruthless during monopoly than shiro - pidge who is a fuckin genius at video games will whoop anyone's ass - PIDGE WHO IS AFRAID NO ONE RLY LIKES THEM AND USES SARCASM AS A DEFENSE MECHANISM - PIDGE FROM A DIVORCED FAMILY AND ADDS TO THEIR GENERAL DISTRUST IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS - PIDGE WHO HASNT MET THEIR BROTHER IN 10 YEARS BC OF THE DIVORCE - Pidge who met lance and hunk in compsci 101 when lance accidentally stepped on pidge's toe when they hadnt had their morning coffee yet (pidge hisses extremely loudly at lance and hunk giving them death glares) - pidge who forgives lance (and in extension hunk) and started hangin after lance got them an aesthetic avocado toast on the house the next day at the cafe - pidge who actually has a hella basic instagram + PIDGE WHO IS OBSESSED WITH GETTING THE PERFECT FOOD SHOT FOR THE INSTA - pidge and lance's snapchat streak is over 9000 - PIDGE WHO CANT EAT SPICY FOOD (i'm FUCKIN WHITE STOP LAUGHING GUYS) - pidge who studies with hunk in the library bc they need background noise/study partners until lance emerges from the quiet floor and they all do a study break leave to get fruit snacks - PIDGE AS LIGHTWEIGHT - PIDGE WHO IS ALSO COERCED INTO BIRD CLUB AT FIRST AND STAYS FOR THE MEMES WAIT HUNKKKKKKKK - hunk as PREMED/VETERNIARY TRACT - HUNK WHO VOLUNTEERS AT ANIMAL SHELTERS AND IS ALSO A ENV JUSTICE ACTIVIST - HUNK WHO LOVES ALL ANIMALS AND IS THE FAIRY OF ANIMALS IS GOOD WITH ALL OF THEM - HUNK AND LANCE AS FIRST YR ROOMMATES TURNED BFFS - HUNK WHO DESTRESSES BY COOKING/BAKING OBVS - Hunk who is actually p insecure abt his body type and isnt comfortable with showing a lot of skin - HUNK WHO WAS BULLIED FOR BEING "GIRLY" AS A CHILD AND WILL NOT STAND FOR THAT KIND OF SHIT AT ALL HE IS INTERSECTIONAL FEMINIST AF BC FUCK GENDER EXPECTATIONS AND MACHISMO - HUNK WHO IS THE BEST SPOTTER FOR WORKOUTS - hunk who cant touch HIS TOES BB - HUNK AS HALF FILIPINX/LATINX - hunk who comes from the east coast but cant stand the cold at all and wears 50 layers - HUNK WHO RUSHES FRATS WITH LANCE BC HE WAS WORRIED ABT LANCE GETTING TOO FUCKED UP AND KINDA ENDS UP IN A FRAT I GUESS BUT HE LIKES SHIRO's LEADERSHIP AROUND GENDER EXPECTATIONS - Hunk who'll be the realest with anyone being an asshole, even if its his friends - HUNK WHO IS PERCEPTIVE AF ESP WITH LANCE WHO TRIES TO HIDE HIS ANXIETY/LOW-SELF ESTEEM - HUNK WHO FUCKIN KILLS AT KNITTING - HUNK IS IN BIRD CLUB BC ACTUAL INTEREST W A I T - Hunk who gets regular morning coffee check-ins with allura and buys coffe for pidge when they come crawling into the cafe - HUNK WHO ACTUALLY RLY LIKES THE BACHELORETTE AND WATTES WITH ALLURA - HUNK WHO MEETS SHAY WHO ALSO VOLUNTEERS AT THE SHELTER AND HAVE A WARM SHY BUDDING RELATIONSHIP ALLURAAAAA MY QUEEEN - Black!Allura - allura who was adopted after living in foster care for so long (Corran adopts her) - Ethnic studies and polisci double major allura who DOES NOT tolerate polisci bros/toxic af bros in general - ALLURA WHO WANTS TO BE A CRIMINAL JUSTICE LAWYER - ALLURA GOES TO ZUMBA WITH LANCE AND FUCKIN KILLS THE ROUTINE BOTH BOND OVER DANCING - fierce sorority queen who believes greek life shud be accessible to all fuck this elitist bullshit - ALLURA IS AS OBSESSED WITH INSTAPERFECT SHOTS AS PIDGE IS - allura who meets shiro at a #blacklivesmatter meeting and hits it off - ALLURA WHO HAS A RLY STRONG SENSE OF JUSTICE but sometimes it makes her rigid when it comes to giving ppl the benefit of the doubt which she did with keith+lance until she gets to know them better + apologizes for making assumptions - CORRAN's NICK NAME FOR ALLURA IS PRINCESS OFC - allura who sees a father figure in corran b l e s s - ALLURA WHO IS AFRAID OF COMMITMENT DUE TO EXP IN FOSTER HOMES AND SHIRO BEING UNDERSTANDING OF THAT - allura who gets competitive at all games MOST ESP with monopoly - allura who works at the cafe with lance - ALLURA ASKS HUNK TO TEACH HER HOW TO KNIT (SHE KINDA SUCKS BUT PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!!!!) AND THEY BOTH WATCH THE BACHELORETTE TOGETHER - ALLURA WHO KNOWS MARTIAL ARTS - allura who drinks tea instead of coffee - allura who will join hunk and pidge at the library bc she also needs background noise to work - allura who teaches shiro math bc shiro is actually useless at math - allura who is actually heavy weight af when it comes to alcohol - ALLURA JOINS BIRD CLUB BC THEY ARE JUST FLUFF BALLS OF SOFTNESS (hunk: what bird is that allura: A GOOD BERB) - ALLURA HAS 3 HAMSTERS AS PETS OFC???? CORAN - your eccentric ass prof in the soci/anth dept with an INSANE mustache - teaches intro to soci/anth which a lot of students take for requirement credits - fuckin speaks 7 languages (two of them are coding lang to pidge's surprise) - loves puns + trivia - invites allura's study group for dinner and burns the pasta so hunk and him end up collaborating with the crew making dinner fest - your favorite uncle - always gives wise ass advice in times if need but will usually give out badly translated sayings (he speaks 7 lang give a break) - rigorous activist scholar - is mistaken for "easy prof" bc of his air-headed nature but actually doesnt take bullshit papers esp for a course that introduces race theory to a lot of privileged straight cismen (who underestimate coran) - will fuck u up with knowledge - asks lance for skin care tips and they bond over latinx music (lance hella impressed with coran's dancing actually) - cooks with hunk - pidge exasperately tries to teach coran abt sns: what is this chat that snaps??????? and these instant grams???? - shiro allura and him with have deep ass convos about systems of oppression + lance sometimes when he gets a chance to join + keith who will quietly absorb their convo if he's nearby (but pretend to read a book) - everyone needs to REST BC SELF CARE IS IMPT DONT KILL YOURSELVES BC OF THESE UNREASONABLE DEADLINES - voltron crew all take coran's class for variety of reasons and meet each other when they all rush to office hours and only to find coran's mess of trying to throw popcorn into his mouth - will stop by library during midterms and finals to give out encouraging messages + snacky snacks (will sneak extra for voltron crew's table) some moments id like to consider (klance and otherwise): - LANCE SEEING THE GWIYOMI VIDEO AND FORCING KEITH TO DO IT IN A GAME OF TRUTH AND DARE AND KEITH DOES IT A GLARE THAT FUCKIN BURNS UNIVERSES AND LANCE AND PIDGE RECORDS THAT SHIT shiro sigh-laughs hunk laughs nervously next to keith allura laughs brightly corran does not know what the fuck keith is doing - Keith and Lance find out they listen to the same NASA podcast when lance annoyingly takes out keith's headphones while abt to enter the school for afterschool program - Keith searches out soft things when he's drunk like hunk's hair or pidges sweater or lance's skin-WHATINTHEFUCK - lance teaches keith how to REALLY dance when he brings voltron crew to a latinx heritage month party (and keith secretly enjoys it) - keith had a big ol crush on lance the minute he saw him until he started acting like a "frat bro" and was turned off (but not rly?) - SHIRO AND KEITH GO HAVE BROTHER BONDING DATES AT SHIRO's INSTANCE BUT KEITH LOVES IT INSIDE - lance and hunk both cry when they watch titanic together - pidge lance and hunk become better friends over avocado toast and rly annoying debugging procedures during lab in compsci101 - they also bond over video games - the voltron crew have board game bight which usually ends up being monopoly and things get fuckin ruthless - the crew once tried to play mario party wii but people broke windows when their remotes went flying off their wrists and they vowed to never play again - they all meet each other (like ALL of them) in corab's intro to socianth class and create a study group-ish thing for it - lance and hunk rush shiro's frat thinking its gna be rly shit but shiro genuinely wants to do teamwork bullding exercises and talk abt feelings and lance and hunk are fuckin set on a frat if shiro's gna lead it - hunk will secretly let keith play with the cats in the shelter - hunk will also secretly let lance play with the dogs - pidge starts to memorize the zumba moves unconsciously and their body will move automatically when they hear the musIC FUCK - they all go out for kbbq on keith's bday bc keith loves korean food bc its home before his home abandoned him and voltron fam try to repaint those memories of hurt with memories of love and NEW family B Y E keith is kinda speechless - keith shows lance how to make ssam with lettuce garlic kimchi meat and miso paste and laughs as lance stuffs it into his mouth - allura fuckin kills at meat grilling - pidge refuses to eat veggies until hunk gives them the mom look - corran is vegetarian but loves seeing his students sated and full - shiro and allura keep their pinkies intertwined the entire bbq when they can under the table - keith and lance hook up once after a frat party one night and the morning after they kinda ??????? oh?kay????? thishappened???? at the memory until they fuckin realize theyre attracted to each other - keith gets slurs thrown at him by other frat fuckbois and lance goes fuckin livid until hunk is there to stop an imminent fight and hunk gives off some p threatening vibes to fuckbois - voltron crew help pidge try to reconnect with their brother by calling diff numbers going thru yellow pages - keith recommends books for lance to read and lance makes keith playlists and tells him to "listen to smth bubblegum happy for one" (keith kinda likes it?) - the art kids start to recognize lance when he drops by to pick keith up to go home together after the program js over - they all do secret santa at coran's house for christmas - coran gives shiro some salad tongs that are decorated with rhinestones he found in a vintage store and shiro is just ??? okay?? (he uses it when they all have dinner at shiro's place a few weeks later) jk coran also gives him some hella effective medicine for muscle and bone ache for his injury hes not that insensitive - shiro gives hunk a rly nice apron that says youre a FINEapple and baking mittens and hunk almost cries - hunk gets allura like new knitting needles and yarn as well as hand-knit cap. allura squeals bc FLUFFY - allura gets keith some good books both nonfiction and fiction + live podcast tix (she got from a raffle) and keith's eyes glows a little brighter - keith gets pidge some yellow tinted glasses bc "pidge your eyes are gna get worse and youre basically already blind" and a fisheye camera lense for smartphones and pidge yeLLS AESTHETIC PHOTOOOOOOOS YESSSSS - pidge gets lance some face masks and a customized snapback that says QUIZNAK on it and lance's eyes go all sparkly ✨✨ - lance gets corran some bombass latinx music cds from his favorite artists and a mustache care kit that coran just "✨✨"'s at - for dem romance: keith invites lance to the podcast with him and lance just smiles his lopsided truly happy smile while handing keith some cute hair-ties ("??? what am i supposed to do with these????" "wear them so that u can look even cuter than u already are????" keith goes beet red and punches lance in the shoulder as lance laughs. lance finds keith wearing them the next day) - shiro gives allura a note planner with her favorite quote on the front and allura gives shiro a handknit scarf its zSo fuckin SWEEET - hunk and shay go in their first dare - pidge and coran have rly fuckin good hot chocolate on the kitchen island and revel in their friends' happiness and recount good memories of the past year - they then bring out the wine and the karaoke machine - pidge gets p drunk and both them and lance sing one of the zumba songs pidge can somehow remember all the lyrics to hoW THE FUCK do I RMEMmber this?!?! (allura laughs evilily) - allura fuckin perfectly raps superbass - lance sings taylor swift ironically but not rly - corran tries to sing a thai song and its gets like awk quiet as ppl are like ?? okay ?? - HUNK STARTS TO BELT OUT BONJOVI AND SHIROS LIKE HELL YE AND JOINS IN - shiro then tries to sing country music but everyone reaches for the cancel button - shiro and allura sing Lucky (jason mraz and colbie caliat or smth) - pidge starts to sing linkin park's numb and gets rly into it. everyone is hype esp keith - keith tries to sing screamo song next but lance cancels before he can start and instead turn on the tune of gwiyomi from his phone and keith chases after lance with intent to kill lance cackling he runs away everyone else shrugs and continues as if nothing happened (keith and lance later return looking a little disheveled and everyone gives them knowing looks: lance averts his eyes and starts to whistle while keith just goes rly red and face palms) - everyone gets spectacularly drunk and decide to all sing bohemian rhapsody together. it kinda works. - They all go to the beach one summer

[a-memoir-of-me-blog]

control the population. population control. keep them at animal like behaviors. keep them asleep? yeah...no. if it affects the economy of the country you live in...it affects you! <3 but ofc....use the system to your advantage, always. lol. am i katniss

Yeeeooooo. They were on this since 1960s. Under "Subsistence Agriculture" heading. It says "the us and other industrialized countries sought to move farmers "beyond" subsistence into industrialized production as a part of development programs in 1960s"

They fucked knewwwww. They're developing hydroponics and vertical farms and NASA is working on making places on mars for this. And the population control had to come to a halt because too many people being born and not enough food. Bruhhhh

"A return in subsistence agriculture has taken hold in parts of the world where farmers feel production for the global market has not benefitted them either financially or culturally (and it's bad for their health with all the Monsanto shit). For example, indigenous people in the southern Mexican states of Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Guerrero have largely returned to subsistence agriculture. The nation reported in 2010 that Zapatista farmers have "in effect chosen to withdraw from the national economy, some weaning themselves off expensive chemical fertilizers and subsisting on corn they can grow, Harvest and barter""

AND ITS STILL GOOD. because ITS FOR THEIR OWN INTEREST. BUT ITS DIRECT TRADE. NO MEDIUM. BRUHH

Omg. Hunger games is fucking real. "Shifting cultivation....primarily found in tropical and subtropical zones where traditional farmers have to abandon plots of land after the soil become infertile".

BRUHHH. The SHIFT. Who's changing this? Who's making the weather bad?! Who's creating these wars to make all the land of FOOD die?! BRUHHHH. POPULATION FUCKING CONTROL

Texts to my first love:

-I fucking volunteer. The hunger games was a fucking warning

-him: idk babe but go for it. Like i have no idea about how and what a farmer in oaxaca, mexico do and shit and honestly really dont care what they do either.

-you should because this literally affects you in everyway (economics...duhhhh)

-him: how

-your health, your money, your freedom to do X Y Z because you are being fed this shit (like their freedom to be healthy...get food actually worth their dollar...etcetc, whole domino effect). There is war over this stuff bc we need land to live and make food and its all about primary means of survival. Literally everythinggggg

-him: who says the supermarket im going to is sourcing from this guy specifically. (omg...lol). Hun this has nothing to do with me fr. hahaha. Maybe to you cause you find it interesting but i know i dont

-no. It has everything to do with you (bc its economics duhhhh). Like literally the ground you are standing on

-him: no it doesnt. Farming outside of the country has nothing to do with my living location or situation

-not them specifically. But in these commercialized places and big agribusiness, they 1) underpay workers 2) keep them out and cant go to family and support them (with already not even enough money for adequate things) 3) their health is bad (pesticides, etc…) 4) their family will have family issues and the kids will also have issues and educational issues as well and are very vulnerable 5) leads to kids acting out and becoming a burden to not just parents but also the economy that they are within 6) the cycle will continue.

Omg. yes it does. This is what makes people sick and what makes land die and what makes food not available and waste water and we all have a war on this…

-him: where in the us do you see this (omgg….third world america. Ppl dying. Ppl getting kicked out of their homes. Its everywhere. It may not directly impact you, but damn, does it indirectly impact you…)

-if you havent noticed, the places war torn and having terrible health and are poor and having issues with their land and bad weather is all perpetuated by monsanto. These countries were the og agriculture that had an abundance of arable land and crops and now they are dying because of food greed. And its so funny bc we are killing the land we are fighting for and we are gonna end up with nothingggg. Bruh. we get our food out there (and that affects food prices and availability). Thats why VERTICAL FARMING and HYDROPONICS and INHABITING mars for that. Because we are literally running out of food for people and water and its all our fault and they cant even go to school because they have to pay for all of this and its just to survive. Like….what happened to having the pursuit of happiness, when all they are doing is just trying to survive, not die on the streets, etc….and its all bc the system and the greed. The greedy white man.

-him: this is on a country to country basis case. Their shitty living situation, education and all this is due to their gov neglect (yeah...neglecting them from being protected from americas corporate greed and their scam…) not US being the sole cause of this. But honestly i dont really for it to be frank. Im worried about actual shit in my life that im dealing with and not a mexican farmer in god knows where and his issues

-you NEED to care for this.omg. This literally causes ALL conflicts because of power issues and if you stand neutral, you chose the side of the oppressor. Power is fighting over needs of resources to survive, right? And people will rob them and hide them because greed and the need to hold power because they are threatened lololol. The powerful one will always want more and more and more (but if you become more than human and dont fall into your condition...then you will give it away. Go make more and more and improve it….) but then they realize they have too much and then will make someone exchange it for a fake ass inflated price with no intrinsic value that wont keep them alive (aka….money and material things) and bruh. Food and water is fucking PRICELESS. We will literally kill for that because it KEEPS US ALIVE. And if they keep killing and also contaminating it, then 1) we will all be bloody af 2) we will have water..but its all contaminated and 3) we will have too much of nothing….and even if things werent contaminated, the balance would be off. We would 1) have too much to consume and it will go to waste, we will be too hype and start having kids at an alarming rate and the baby boom will happen all over again...this literally involve you 100% and the only way i can see this cycle to stop is get out of it. Be more self reliant and community based.

-him: no it doesnt babe...like what 100% involves me is my living situation, work situation that im getting together (he’s moving out to ny for me :’D), school. Like shit that actually is right now affecting my life and i can actually manage and make a change in and not this.

-and really care for your neighbor

-that because the system set it up for you (thats why you need to know how to use it to your best ability and get out) and just continue it on and on and on and keep you working more, keep you held back, keep taxing you more, etcetc….thats like having the farmer work for all the food but doesnt get shittttt for his labor and only people they work under will reap the profits and the food (that they prob dont even want to eat themselves) that goes out to the market and they just keep them doing the sammmeeee thing day in and day out. Farmers dont even get to reap the benefits of their hard labor.

And yes. Take care of yourself now, definitely. But remember to always know the system and take it to your advantage and use it to better yourself. Thats what the system does, it is a literal test. And then you can do more global and huge scale things. Thats what everyone will do. Go thru the struggle of being in the system, find the benefits that are hidden and the keys to get out and milk it so hard and then you can work on what you want to work on for yourself and for others. Because you will only get what you give...do what you wanna do for yourself and others to continue this life and legacy that you have. Thats the give. U gotta give it all and give in to this wholly. And use it to your advantage and all the tools and your own mind and imagination and creation and then before you know it, youre creating your world around you and you dont even realize it...but yes. U give your effort and work for someone and/or something and use their benefit from it and their references (but never get stuck in that!!) and the experience that also happens along the way. Build on your foundation as you go thru it all. Get the good, defend from the bad. Attract the good. Make them want to go to you, and it only works with genuine and care. Thats literally what school and work is for and life. But always remember there is a bigger takeway from this than just the time you are going to sacrifice. Just a lot of people dont know what to take out of it and just study and get good grades and they dont know why they are doing it….or worse, they just start to work and get money and thats it….we are more than money and numbers...we are more than a made up value and we are more than just being in this infinite “time” of “things”. We’re timeless….

-him: thats all i wanna do. Use life experience, corporate experience, life experience all to my full advantage and be able to flourish to my beneift and with that give back fruit of my labor to you, my family, and our family one day. That is an attainable goal i can handle and accomplish

-me: yessss babe. Alwayssss remember to give back to the people around you and your neighbors and your community because theyre the ones who will remember you and care for you and come together for you because they know youre a good person who only helped them. Theyre youre team. Were all on each others team. Lol lorde is woke. I love her pure heroine album

And also be hellllaaaa aware and careful in the corporate world because they can definitely corrupt your mind and the government and the public. Dont become a spawn. Dont let them let you get lost in their sauce and keep you blind from YOUR real goal. They will try to enslave you with their money and their false power giving. So direct a lot of your energy into direct beneficial things. Like thats why im like “why dont corporations/unis/communities, give like not just education stipends, but like stipends that keep their health up” ex google. I think theyre a pretty sustainable and socially and environmentally friendly and conscious company and keep their employees healthy and top notch and best ability to work and not just give them insurance and healthcare (because why take care of it and spend mad money on it when it can be prevented….and with prevention, it is less and you get more out of it…). Like they let them get rest when they need to so they can be more productive and to their best ability and also keep them autonomous so they dont get burnout  and they get a share of their stock so they directly see the benefits going straight to them thanks to their hard work and commitment. And if it doesnt give that, invest money into like...things that keep not just your health up but also the planets. So you can stay away from bad health and then given “meds” to “fix” a “problem” they want you to think you have. And thats why i urge you to stop drinking and smoking all the time.