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30 Day Writing Challenge - Day 7

Use the words: small town, bar, jukebox (from this list) ➸ slight future fic in the west wing AU, set probably six months after part 4 which does not exist yet (🫠) so maybe consider it a preview of what’s to come eventually in the series?? corresponds to the beginning of season 3 of the west wing when everybody’s in Manchester for the campaign and based (loosely) on that scene where Toby sucks at pool. ♡ dedicated to my pal @aivley-reblogs who had the chance to influence me to make this fic less weird and horny and chose violence instead ♡

It's only after Foggy has managed to send Karen and most of the remaining staffers that were still holed up in the bar either working or blowing off steam back to their hotel rooms for the night that Matt finally reappears.

“Did I miss the end of the party?” Matt asks.

“We’re calling it a night,” Foggy replies, as he’s futzing with his wallet. He's waiting on the drink he just ordered with plans to close his tab after that. “The team’s picking back up with the speech in the morning. Hopefully, some rest will help.”

“I don’t know if one good night of sleep is enough to make everyone see eye to eye there.”

“Yeah, but it’s almost midnight and I think we’re all entitled to some delusion.”

Matt smiles at that, and says, “You’re heading out, then?”

Foggy leans back against the bar. “After this drink, yes.”

“I’d have another too, if you’re offering.”

“Yeah, alright,” Foggy says, at the exact same moment the bartender reappears with his drink. “Can I be a bother and add one more thing to my tab?”

The bartender gives Foggy the impression of someone who’s probably a school teacher by day and does this for extra cash because the educational system in this country is fundamentally broken. That’s a long way of saying she’s a different breed from the sleek, lithe employees of the downtown DC bars he usually frequents, most of whom could and likely do double as escorts to senators and ambassadors now and again. She’s also probably old enough to be his mother, which makes it charming and not weird when she nods curtly and turns to Matt with a, “Jameson, right, honey?”

“Yes, thank you,” Matt replies, with the sort of humble acquiescence of someone used to terms of endearment from the older ladies at church. Once she’s gone, Matt pokes Foggy’s wrist and says, “You play pool?”

“Not as well as Karen, but…”

Matt smiles, too brightly for the hour and for their current circumstances. “I see news of my humbling defeat has already reached you."

"As if there's a force on this earth that could actually humble you in any real way."

"True enough," Matt replies, his smile only growing. "It's clear to me now that I should have done my homework before challenging her, at least.”

"I hope you didn't put any money on it," Foggy says, casually.

"Nothing I couldn't afford to lose," Matt says, with a shrug. It's hard to tell in the subdued lighting of the bar, but he might also be blushing faintly. "If you're worried, I'll be generous with you. You can lose for free."

"Golly, thanks," Foggy says, drily, making Matt laugh.

"Sounds like a yes to me," he says, before nodding to the raised area in the back of the room where the pool table resides. “I’ll get it set up. Meet me there when you’re all set.”

“Sorry, am I buying and delivering your drinks now, Murdock?”

“Seems like it, yeah,” Matt replies, with a grin that threatens to overtake his face as he effortlessly walks back from the bar without turning away.

“And what do I get out of this arrangement?” Foggy shouts after him.

“The pleasure of my company,” Matt fires back, and then disappears again.

Foggy can’t deny that that’s enough of a draw for him, but he doesn’t have to be stupid and admit it out loud. Instead, he gets Matt’s drink without further complaint, as well as his own, closes his tab, and heads over to the slightly enclosed area at the back of the bar where there’s a pool table with Matt Murdock leaning against it. He hands the drink off to him, and clinks their glasses together before Matt can pull his away.

“Cheers,” he says, for no real reason, and watches Matt’s throat move on a swallow just a little too closely. He feels fine and normal otherwise.

“You know how to play?” Matt asks, inclining his head towards the table as he stands and makes his way to the rack of pool cues.

There’s something loose and warm in the way he moves around the rounded corners of the table, like this is his neighborhood bar and he knows it by heart. Foggy attributes it to the few drinks he’s had over the course of the night and a certain natural grace that Matt seems to possess, but having an explanation for it doesn’t dampen the effect of it at all. Just like he was fascinated by Matt’s throat a moment ago, Foggy now feels like he can’t take his eyes off Matt’s hips, which is a real problem.

“I’m a man of a certain age, Matthew,” Foggy gripes, in the hopes of distracting from his obvious enamored state with sheer bad manners. “Of course I know how to play pool!”

"Good, then I won't go easy on you," Matt says.

"I have a feeling that was never an option," Foggy retorts. "What's a guy like you get out of pool, anyway?

"A guy like me? What's that supposed to mean?

Foggy rolls his eyes. "Don't give me that. It's a pretty visual game!"

"True enough. I was going to ask you to point me in the right direction, depending on whether I end up with stripes or solids."

"I could lie."

"Yeah, but you won't."

"I'm a politician, kiddo. Don't be so sure."

"'Kiddo'," Matt repeats, evidently delighted by it. "You're in a real mood, huh?"

"I'm fine," Foggy says, too sharply. "You want to break or shall I?"

"You go ahead," Matt offers, generously. "I want you to feel like you stood an actual chance, at least to start."

"You're kind of an asshole, you know that?"

"Oh, I'm aware. You can save the energy you're about to put into pretending you don't like it, by the way."

"I don't like it!"

"Sure."

"I really don't," Foggy says, even as he's trying to fight a smile. And winning, but still. "Not right now I don't, at least."

"Yes, you do," Matt replies, knowingly. "Right now, me being an asshole is the only thing stopping you from taking your frustrations out on someone who doesn't deserve it."

Foggy sighs, defeated. "You don't deserve it either."

"Give it fifteen, twenty minutes and see if you still feel that way," Matt says, lightly, and nudges him with his elbow.

Foggy steps up to take the first shot, breaking the neat little triangle of billiard balls that Matt has assembled in the center of the table with the white cue ball easily. Nothing goes into a pocket, of course, not that he really expected it. He's fine at pool, generally speaking, but not great. It's a feeling he's beginning to get used to (and increasingly tired of) in the rest of his life as well.

"Let's keep it simple," he says, as he stands up. "Whoever sinks the most shots wins."

"Easy enough," Matt says, coming to stand next to him. "Where's the cue ball?"

Foggy steps in close to Matt's side, until their arms brush. "Eleven o'clock."

Matt nods and sinks down into his stance. Foggy steps back, both to get out of his way and to admire his form. Matt’s got a nice ass, which is something Foggy noticed about him basically immediately, being gifted by God with both the power of sight and the blessing of bisexuality. He can normally control himself enough to conveniently avoid noticing it, except for right now when it’s late, he’s a little tipsy, and Matt’s suit is perfectly tailored to show it off. It is, quite frankly, a ridiculous situation he’s gotten himself into. Even the dim amber lighting of the bar is blending with the glow of several nearby neon signs—they serve Heineken and Pabst Blue Ribbon here, apparently—to cast Matt’s skin in the dreamiest light possible.

Matt sinks three balls without trouble before Foggy can manage to tear his gaze away from his ass, and even then, it’s only to get distracted by the lovely shape his fingers make around the cue. He misses his next shot by about three millimeters, a miracle that Foggy attributes either to the power of his overwhelming horniness creating some sort of palpable disturbance in the atmosphere or God punishing him for his lustful thoughts by contriving a scenario where Matt’s no longer bending over a pool table in his line of sight. Either way, it’s a reprieve.

“That’s you,” Matt says, still stalking around the table like a jungle cat. Foggy might need to get out more, is the thing.

“How are you this good at pool, anyway?” Foggy asks, as he lines up his shot and delicately avoids letting his hips come into contact with the table. He thinks unsensuous thoughts and doesn’t look over at Matt at all, because, with his luck, if he does, Matt will be innocently fellating the pool cue or some similar such nonsense. Better to avoid it altogether, he thinks.

“Practice,” Matt says, smugly. “And very, very dim vision, technically.”

“I didn’t know that,” Foggy says as he sinks a shot, finally. Even that, the sound of the ball finding the pocket, is kind of erotic to him now because his life is a farce.

“Yeah. Most blind people have some vision. Total blindness is fairly rare.”

“So, what I’m hearing is you totally just let me lead you around most of the time because you really just like walking arm in arm with me. Is that accurate?”

“You caught me,” Matt says, with a soft smile, and Foggy misses his next shot completely. “Not bad.”

“3 to 1,” Foggy replies, pushing himself up.

“You’re on the board,” Matt says, passing behind him closely enough that Foggy catches the scent of his cologne mixed with the Jameson left in his glass. He takes another drink and Foggy wonders what his mouth would taste like right now and also if there’s a historically significant, beautiful river nearby that he could potentially drown himself in. They’re in small town New Hampshire, after all. The chances that Benedict Arnold did something stupid near here back in 1776 and there's a scenic spot with a plaque commemorating it are pretty high. There are worse places to drown yourself, he figures.

“Don’t patronize me,” he grumbles, instead of saying any of that out loud.

“I wasn’t,” Matt says, grinning as he settles into his spot for his next shot.

“How much did Karen beat you by, again? I feel like it might be helpful, for me, to know.”

“It’s not fair,” Matt says in an exaggerated whine that’s in no way convincing. His smile doesn’t help either. “I’m blind and she tricked me!”

“I don’t think her being better at pool than you expected constitutes a trick on her part, Matt.”

“She let me explain the rules to her for like ten minutes!”

“And I bet she let you do that thing where you got real close and showed her how to handle the stick from behind too,” Foggy says, infusing his tone with mock pity.

“Oh, she dropped the ruse well before that point, though I’ll be the first to admit I’m not above that move,” Matt says, unrepentant, and sinks another shot. “But I can always do that for you if you need some pointers!”

“Sure,” Foggy says, sweetly. “Come on over, big boy.”

Matt misses his next shot because he’s too busy doubling over with laughter. “Jesus, Foggy!”

“Don’t put anything on the table you don’t want people to accept, Murdock.”

“I’ll keep that in mind,” Matt says. “Your turn.”

Foggy sighs as he gets into position. Matt comes to stand at his side and, after a quiet moment in which Foggy attempts to line up his shot, puts his hand on the small of Foggy’s back. It takes all of Foggy’s concentration not to jump away from the touch, but he manages to keep his cool, just barely.

“Your stance does need work,” Matt says, mildly, and kicks him in the ankle before Foggy can make a smart comment about what his lower back has to do with his stance. “Bring this foot out a little.”

Foggy complies, because his brain can’t think of anything else to do in this moment. “Better?” he asks.

“Good,” Matt replies, and Foggy likes the tone in his voice a little too much for his own well being. “Take your shot.”

Foggy does, and scratches. The humiliation, at least, cuts through the arousal rather effectively. That’s something.

“Saboteur,” he mutters as he goes off in search of the lost cue ball.

“I can improve your stance, but your aim is your own problem.”

“A likely story,” Foggy says, as he returns. “I’m hip to your little mind games now, Murdock.”

He puts the cue ball into Matt’s outstretched hand. Matt is entitled, per the rules, to place it wherever he likes on the table to set up his next shot, but he stands there cradling it thoughtfully in his palm, testing its weight, instead, for a long moment, like a total sociopath, adding more force to the argument that Foggy is currently being punished by a mean-spirited and vengeful god.

“You know massaging that thing won’t help you score, right?”

Matt gives him a smile that indicates he either appreciates some good trash talk between men or that he’s seen through to the very heart of Foggy’s desires and found them trivial and amusing in the grand scheme of things. Either way, it’s a good look on him.

“Can’t hurt, can it?” Matt asks, smugly, and places the cue ball before lining up his shot and sinking it in one practiced, elegant motion. “5 to 1, correct?”

“Yep,” Foggy says, leaning back to watch the show without guilt now, since he’s paying for it so dearly at the cost of his self-respect. Matt sinks another shot and Foggy doesn’t even care because he’s too transfixed by the way the fabric of Matt’s dress shirt bunches up around his bicep and spreads taught between his shoulder blades. Foggy takes a healthy sip of his drink because his mouth is suddenly so dry.

"You know," Matt says, casually, with his ass unceremoniously in the air because pool is the greatest game ever invented, in Foggy's not-entirely-sober opinion (even if he is losing spectacularly), "we are rapidly approaching the point in the game where you can't actually win."

"Yes, I'm aware. Believe it or not, I can do basic math. It's one of my very few skills."

"I don't agree with that assessment."

"You don't think I can do math?"

"I think you have lots of skills," Matt says, as he brings his score up to seven. "The gift of foresight, for one."

"What?"

Matt smiles. "You were smart to accept the offer not to play for money."

"Oh, right. Sorry, I thought—you're right. That was smart.

"What did you think I meant?"

"Nothing, I—it's not important. I was just confused for a second there."

"Foggy..."

"Just take your next shot, Matt," Foggy interjects, harshly. "You're one point away from ensuring complete domination over me."

Without turning away from him, Matt reaches out to poke the cue ball with his cue, leaving it to roll hesitantly and without urgency into the bumpers around the edge of the table. "You're up," he says, with a helpless shrug, and comes to stand next to Foggy.

He sighs. "Matt, listen—”

"I didn't mean the tobacco thing," Matt says, ignoring him. All of the levity of a moment ago is gone. They're not cheerfully messing around anymore, it looks like. "That's not how I'd bring it up. You know that, right?"

"I do know that. You wouldn't—it's just that it's been on my mind. That's why I went there. It has nothing to do with you."

Matt nods, absently. "I hope so."

"It's the truth," Foggy says, grabbing him by the arm to emphasize his sincerity. "And you've been a real class act for not rubbing my nose in it. I deserved an 'I told you so' at the very least and you haven't given me one, so I should be more appreciative."

"You don't have to thank me for not kicking you when you're down."

"I went to you for advice on how to handle things with the Appropriations subcommittee and then blatantly ignored all of the very good advice you gave me. 'I told you so' would be getting off easy."

Matt smiles, reluctantly. "To be fair, I don't think you really went to me for advice. You knew what you wanted to do before you came to me."

"What was I looking for then?"

"Permission," Matt suggests. "Forgiveness. Maybe some mild fawning over your political acumen."

"All of the above, maybe," Foggy admits, warily, and rubs his face. "I'm sorry."

"For which part?"

"Ignoring your good advice, for one thing. And, well, if I made you feel like I was pulling rank on you, that's not good either."

Matt laughs. "You do outrank me, Foggy."

“Still,” Foggy says. “I like to think I’m not that guy, usually.”

“What guy?”

“The one who’s so far up his own ass that he can’t see anyone else’s point of view.”

“Oh, yeah,” Matt says, thoughtfully. “You’re definitely not that guy.”

“I was to you.”

“Not really. It was one situation where you didn’t take my advice. That’s going to happen if we work together for any stretch of time. It’s going to happen again, I’d guess. I hate to think you’re going to beat yourself up this much every time.”

Foggy nudges Matt with his elbow ineffectively. “You’re being too nice to me.”

“And you’re being too hard on yourself,” Matt replies. “Someone’s got to be nice to you. Might as well be me.”

“I notice this vow of kindness doesn’t extend to letting me win at pool.”

“Even I have my limits of good grace, Foggy,” Matt says, with a smile. “Besides, I already lost once tonight. My ego barely survived it.”

“Yeah, I know,” Foggy says, earning a confused look from Matt. “Karen asked me to check on you before she left. She was worried about your fragile mental state, that maybe you were weeping over your humiliation alone in the bathroom.”

“No such luck,” Matt laughs.

“My theory was that we had you to thank for the back-to-back Shania Twain songs on the jukebox at the time.”

“Also not true, but only because Shania Twain isn’t exactly sulking music.”

“Speak for yourself,” Foggy says. “I could sulk to Shania.”

“Well, that’s why they pay you the big bucks, I guess,” Matt replies, absently leaning his weight onto the pool cue. “I didn’t know you were paying such close attention.”

Foggy pauses with his glass midway to his lips. “What?”

“When Karen and I finished our game,” Matt says, still brightly but with a strange edge, like he’s not sure mentioning this is the right thing to do. “I thought you were still outside with Jeri.”

“I was,” Foggy says, and then reconsiders. “I mean, I was for most of your game, I think. When I came back in, you two seemed to be finishing up.”

They also seemed to be laughing and touching a whole lot, which is why Foggy hadn’t come over. He’d slunk off to drink at a table with Marci and Ben and a few of the new people Jeri had hired to run the campaign while they went nine rounds over the wording of a single sentence in the speech for the President’s official announcement for the bid for re-election. The senior staff and the campaign staff were finding it difficult to mesh together so far and it meant that this important speech was stuck in limbo between them like a child of divorce in a nasty custody battle. Everyone, it seemed, was having a miserable time of it lately, which was especially inconvenient because there’d never been more scrutiny on the administration before this particular moment.

Matt was, technically, campaign staff but he’d been on the payroll longer than anyone else, because he’d been doing polling for them for a while now and they’d just decided to extend his contract and fold it into their re-election efforts. So far, he was keeping his head above water and wasn’t getting embroiled in the stupid little pissing matches happening elsewhere, which was impressive. He’d also been pitching in and helping with the announcement speech where he could, but there were a lot of egos to soothe or flatter in that area and it wasn’t what they were specifically paying him to do. Still, Foggy’s been pleased so far watching him navigate these tense situations and remain professional and undeterred in spite of them. It’s partly because Foggy had been the one to recommend Matt in the first place that he feels such obvious pride, but it’s hard to ignore that there’s another reason for it. He’s trying to make peace with the fact that he’s more than incidentally in love with Matt and constant proximity is not tempering it at all. In fact, seeing Matt every day now and watching him succeed at the thing he loves doing makes Foggy so absurdly happy, it’s almost like these professional victories are happening to him by proxy. Which means, in terms of ever getting past this unfortunate crush, Foggy is monumentally fucked.

“You should have come over,” Matt says, still talking about his game of pool with Karen, oblivious to Foggy’s inner torment. “She said you would, when you got back.”

“I didn’t want to interrupt anything.”

“You wouldn’t have.”

“I’m bad company tonight,” Foggy says, spreading his arms out defensively.

“You’re never bad company, as far as I can tell.”

“What did I ever do to earn such loyalty from you? Just let me call myself an asshole, man.”

Matt sighs, disappointed. “You made one mistake, Foggy. You’ve got to—”

“I made a mistake that could cost us the election!”

“It could, but that doesn’t mean it will! It’s still early and we’ve got a lot of ground to cover. And, more importantly, you got the Justice Department 30 million dollars to go after the tobacco industry! That’s what they asked you to do! That’s a victory! Why don’t you see that?”

“Because there was a larger victory that I left on the table in my need to get anything done in this fucking town,” Foggy says. “I mean, not this town. We’re in Bumblefuck, New Hampshire. But you know…”

“Yeah, believe it or not, I followed that,” Matt says, unimpressed. “And smaller victories are nothing to scoff at. I think you’ve been in this business so long you’ve lost sight of that. Small victories are how you build your way up to bigger ones. In fact, most big victories are comprised of smaller ones. You’re good at what you do, Foggy. You know all this!”

“I don’t feel good at this anymore.”

“Yeah, well, speaking as someone who grew up around professional boxers, I’ll tell you that the right time to ask a man about his next fight is not when he’s just been K.O.’d. You’ve still got the flashlight in your eyes checking for a concussion. I wouldn’t make any career judgments right now.”

“You think we’ve been K.O.’d?” Foggy asks.

“I think the administration’s on its ass right now, for sure,” Matt replies, with the steely calm of a real political operative and Foggy’s pride in him is not misplaced even a little, “but that doesn’t mean you can’t get back up. The numbers I’m seeing are better than expected and they’re built on all the good you’ve done for the last three years. People will remember why they voted for you guys in the first place soon enough.”

“God, I hope you’re right.”

“I am and I think that earns me the right to say something that might hurt your feelings a bit.”

Foggy takes a fortifying sip of his drink, bracing himself. “Go for it, then.”

“As great as you are, this election won’t be won or lost on your actions alone,” Matt says, gently. “I know it’s tempting to decide that what you personally do or don’t do is the most important thing in the universe, to take every setback as a condemnation of your efforts and proof that you need to double down and do more, but you’re a part of a team. It’s not up to you to win this election by yourself. And it won’t be your fault and only yours if we don’t.”

“Why would that hurt my feelings?” Foggy asks, far too casually. He doesn’t know who he thinks he’s trying to fool here.

“Because it would hurt mine,” Matt says, “if our situations were reversed.”

Foggy understands that for what it is: an offer of a hand up off the ground, an acknowledgement that he and Matt are the same in this regard. It’s not nothing and he’d be wise to take what’s being given to him here, but he’s not quite there yet.

“I could have done more, Matt.”

“And you’ll have plenty of chances to do so. Tomorrow’s another day.”

“I think it’s always going to haunt me, the things we didn’t get through, the things we compromised on to appeal to our opposition. I think it’ll kill me, eventually.”

“You’ve done a lot of good too.”

“Yeah,” Foggy agrees, solemnly. “But enough? I’m not sure.”

Matt lets that sit, rather than trying to placate him with some sort of truism, which is nice. It’s meaningful to him that Matt knows this isn’t some empty question coming from him, that Foggy really means it when he asks it. He feels certain that this is something Matt worries about too, that this is a question Matt’s asked himself at the end of many days before. It’s dangerous, honestly, feeling this close to someone. This kind of intimacy isn’t something he feels capable of shaking off and pretending isn’t there, most of the time.

“You didn’t answer my question before, you know,” he says, eventually, even though it feels sacrilegious to break this particular silence.

“Which one?” Matt asks, shifting the cue back and forth between his hands in what could be a nervous tic or maybe he’s just bored with this conversation. It’s hard to tell.

“The one about what I did to earn such loyalty.”

Matt shrugs, staring into the middle distance. “You got me this job, didn’t you?”

“Not really,” Foggy says. “I remembered your name. That’s about it. Everything else was a result of your hard work.”

“Then, I guess it’s all for remembering my name.”

“That’s the real answer?”

“I’ll make you a deal,” Matt replies, leaning into his side. “If you win this game, I’ll give you the real answer.”

“I’d need a miracle for that to happen,” Foggy grumbles. “Are you sure I can’t just bribe you?”

“Okay, final offer,” Matt answers, with a cryptic smile, “you get the eight ball into any pocket on this turn and you win.”

“That’s a stupid bet, Murdock. Where did you learn to gamble?”

“Take it or leave it.”

“You’re winning seven to one. Are you out of your mind?”

“Maybe. Or maybe I’m just that confident that you won’t be able to make the shot.”

“Or maybe you just really want to tell me your deepest, darkest secret.”

“My deepest, darkest secret has nothing to do with you, Foggy. You’re getting a shallow, well lit secret out of me in this bargain, if anything.”

“We’ll see,” Foggy replies, breezily, as he approaches the table to line up his shot. He doesn’t have Matt’s lithe sort of confidence or any kind of delusion that he’d paint a tempting picture right now even for someone who could see him, but he is stupidly determined, so he likes his odds in this situation just fine.

“Oh,” Matt interrupts, innocently, at the precise moment Foggy was going to pull his cue back and take the shot. “Since we’re now wagering on the outcome of this game, I should ask: what do I get?”

“What do you get?” Foggy repeats, irritated. He feels certain Matt timed that question to throw him off and he’s not pleased about it. “You’re going to beat me in the most humiliating way possible! What more do you need?”

“I’d like a secret too.”

“Fine, but you had better be satisfied with an equally shallow, well lit one from me too.”

“That kind of depends on what kind of secret you consider the answer to my question to be.”

“What question?”

“What made you remember my name?”

Foggy actually stands up to consider this fully. It’s hard to tell with Matt, if he’s aware of the way Foggy can’t help but flirt with him sometimes and how seriously he takes it. Matt gives as good as he gets, Foggy thinks, but whether he knows that Foggy would gladly make real on all the innuendo he throws at him is another matter. All of which just makes it that much more confusing why he’d make this request in the first place. Does he want flattery? Does he want some confirmation that the new opportunities in his career were gotten honestly? Or does he want Foggy to admit to something here? And why would he want that? To laugh at him? To clear the air? To prove his suspicions about why he got this job are true?

Foggy’s not prepared for any of those scenarios. Matt is maybe just joking around (though he certainly doesn’t look like it) but he’s asking for a bigger secret than he realizes. And Foggy will not be explaining that to him, because even that would be admitting too much. They’re going to be working together closely for a while yet and Foggy’s not going to ruin it now, not right out of the gate. He’s got more instinct for self-preservation than that.

“Fine,” he says, setting his sights on the eight ball again. “You have yourself a deal. Now, shut up and stop distracting me.”

Matt crosses his arms over his chest, looking self-satisfied and unconcerned. This expression changes into one of shock and disbelief at the sound of the eight ball landing in the middle pocket on the left side of the table.

“Like I said,” Foggy states, rounding the corner of the table, “that was a bad bet.”

“You cheated,” Matt exclaims.

“How?”

“I didn’t hear the cue touch the ball. Did you—did you just move the eight ball with your hand?!”

“Of course,” Foggy says, with a shrug. “You never said how I had to get the eight ball into the pocket, only that it had to happen on my next turn.”

Matt laughs in disbelief. “That’s ridiculous! And very clearly against the rules!”

“Not against the ones you set, though. Technically.”

“Yeah, technically, I guess,” Matt says. “But don’t you feel bad winning this way?”

“Of course not,” Foggy answers, gesturing widely with the cue still in his hands. “I’m a pathetic little man, Matthew.”

“Five minutes ago, I would have argued with that kind of negative self-talk, but I’m no longer feeling generous towards you at all.”

Foggy shrugs as he reaches past Matt for his drink. “I would totally understand if you didn’t want to uphold your end of the bargain, by the way. I mean, if our situations were reversed, I would still do it, but I’m a class act, through and through.”

“You’re a cheat is what you are,” Matt says, and it might be the inadequate lighting in here playing tricks on him, but Foggy thinks there might be color rising in Matt’s cheeks. “This is why no one trusts anyone in Washington, you know.”

“I know,” Foggy says, indulgently. “Like I said, it’s up to you. But you’ll also recall I warned you never to put something on the table that you don’t want your opponent to accept.”

“I didn’t mind the idea of you winning, I just didn’t think you’d cheat to get it!”

“Then you underestimated how baffled I am by your loyalty to me.”

“You shouldn’t be,” Matt says, leaning back to rest more fully against the table behind him. “I think it’s obvious why I’d…what makes me feel that way towards you.”

“That’s still not an answer,” Foggy replies, at the same moment he realizes Matt leaning back didn’t put that much space between them after all. He’d gotten pretty close to reach for his drink and, maybe, just to push this conversation from trash talk more firmly into flirting territory. For someone who doesn’t want to fuck things up, he’s really pushing his luck.

Matt exhales noisily, and Foggy can feel it on his neck, that’s how close they’re standing. They’re in a bar, of course, so they have their excuses. It’s noisy, with the patrons and the jukebox and the TVs. They could need privacy, given the jobs they have and the sensitive nature of the information they have access to as part of them. But that’s not why Foggy’s doing this and he suspects that, even if he’s just following Foggy’s lead, Matt doesn’t ultimately have a better reason.

“Why did you remember me?” Matt asks, quietly. “I mean, me, of all people? What made me stand out? What did I do right?”

Everything, Foggy wants to say. You do everything right. You’re smart and conscientious and charming and everyone likes you and everyone remembers you and you’ve got a mind and mouth that won’t quit and an ass to match. Remembering you wasn’t the hard part. Forgetting you someday will be. “Matthew Murdock,” Foggy says, carefully, appreciatively, like he’s really savoring every vowel and consonant. “Very alliterative. Extremely easy to remember.”

Matt’s answering smile is slow-dawning to the point of decadence and he tucks his chin to hide it. “My middle name is Michael, you know.”

“Goddammit,” Foggy groans, because he can’t say what he’s really thinking, which is, come back to my room and I’ll make sure you never want to leave. He’s so fucking in love, it’s honestly stupid.

“As for me,” Matt says, a moment later, after careful consideration, “and what you did—why I feel so—what you asked, I mean…”

“Yeah?”

“It’s just that—”

A loud, chirping ringtone severs the tenuous connection of the moment. Foggy stares openly at Matt’s face as he doesn’t react to the interruption at all beyond stopping talking mid-sentence. After a few tense seconds, Foggy clears his throat and steps back.

“I think that’s you, Matt.”

Matt blinks, like he’s waking for a dream and he doesn’t know where he is. “Right,” he says, without confidence and fishes his phone out of his pocket. He holds it like he doesn’t remember owning such a thing in the first place for a long moment before he flips it open to answer it.

“Hello?” he asks, frowning in concentration. “Oh, Nadia, hi. Yeah, no, not too late, don’t worry. Can you give me one second?”

He pulls the phone away from his ear and puts his hand over the receiver before addressing Foggy. “We’re doing some polling of potential voters on the West Coast tonight, and they need to give me the early data.”

“Right.”

“The speech writing team is going to want this information tomorrow. It will impact the messaging.”

“Understood,” Foggy nods. “You, uh, need to take this, then.”

“Yeah, sorry,” Matt admits, looking apologetic.

“Don’t worry. Cell service is a little better outside, if that helps.”

Matt frowns briefly before his expression clears and he nods briskly. “Thanks. That might be a good idea.”

“I’ll, um, clean this up,” Foggy says, gesturing to the pool table. “You go ahead.”

“Alright,” Matt says, chewing his lip. “Will you head out after that?”

“I might. I could, I guess. Why?”

“No reason.”

“You want me to wait? Walk back to the hotel with you when you’re done?”

“You don’t have to,” Matt responds, looking awkward. It’s a nice out, and it would probably be better to put a little space between them—it’s just too tempting for Foggy to be around Matt like this, late at night, in casual environments, with alcohol and dumb wagers blurring the lines between them that should be crystal clear.

“I’ll wait,” he says, instead, hating the sincerity in his voice. “I don’t mind waiting.”

The worst part is that it’s the most honest thing he’s said all night.

#HWS30days #homelywenchsociety #im not sure this will make any sense to anyone except me or who hasn’t seen tww but…here we are #tww au #series: a more perfect union #daredevil #mattfoggy #matt murdock #foggy nelson #matt x foggy #i don’t know the actual rules of pool everyone forgive me i just let them make shit up #also I’m not sure it makes sense for Matt to still be good at pool in a no powers AU #but him being a slutty pool shark is really important to me #so it stays #30 day challenge #writing challenge #this is so long RIP

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Weekend Together [Gekko x F! Reader] [End]

Heya again!

This is the final part of the date! I want to continue this whole Gekko storyline because I'm getting many good ideas, but I don't want my blog to be clogged up with this guy only. I might save those for later but I have no idea what to do, haha.

Anyway anyway, this is the part!! This is the section that kept me up so many nights and I'm so nervous posting it, I hope it's good and I hope this entire date has been fun for you guys!

My next work will be about Chamber, so if you're interested in that, be sure to head to #chamber x reader and it should be there within a few days! Or stalk my blog like I stalk everyone else's.

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Gekko x F! Reader

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4

Genre: Fluff

Synopsis: Gekko gets over his anxiety and finally asks you out, watching delightfully as you finally let your guard down. Or so he thinks.

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Gekko’s lips twitched, before parting and taking the small spoonful into his mouth with an abnormal amount of hesitation. And his eyes widened once the dessert made contact with his tongue.

He’s had plenty of lemon cheesecakes before. But for some reason, it tasted so good when you fed it to him. Like some sort of addictive additives were sprinkled throughout whenever you’d lift it with the pie fork. Maybe that was your ability, haha.

“Good work. You know you’re quite the dote, right?”

You noticed confusion take over him as you scooped another slice, smaller than his. This prompted a giggle from you.

"I said you're cute."

He blushed when you put the same fork into your own mouth. Technically an indirect kiss, right…? Gah, you're messing with his head. Gekko swallowed the treat, smiling.

"So, um, where are you from again...?"

"Me? I'm Irish."

Irish? He stared at you, only now taking in the physical details. Beyond, of course, um, your 'structure'.

The scattered freckles that stood out against your pale white skin, your orange hair, and your celeste blue eyes. Of course, how did none of them put two and two together? The features that screamed Ireland?! It’s not like he was going to tell them, though. He didn’t go out on this date just so he could get forty bucks.

“But… your accent’s English, right? Like, the queen’s english, or something.”

“I put it on. If no one can understand me, how will I give out commands?”

“Really? So this isn’t your normal accent? Can I, um, you know, can you talk normally?”

You noticed his enthusiasm just from the way he slightly arched his back. You looked away for a second with a smile.

“Aye. Yer a cute hoor, Matt.” <Yes. You’re a cheeky one, Matt>

You sliced another piece of the cake, lifting it to his mouth.

“Been donkey’s years since I’ve gone on the lash, and here you are, tryna court me.” <Been a long while since I went to drink, and here you are, trying to date me.>

You didn’t notice him taking a bite; only focused on how he was unable to understand more than a few words. Not like it was easy either, he had to dig those out through your incredibly thick accent.

“Hm, I can’t be giving out. You chanced yer arm, didn’tcha?” <Hm, I can’t be complaining. You tried, didn't you?>

You were amused at his expression. Just like everyone who wasn’t Irish, they all had the same look of confusion whenever you’d speak normally.

“You should see my nan. Even my pals can’t understand her.”

“Your grandma?”

“Aye. She thought I wouldn’t land a good job if people knew I was Irish, and taught me the accent.”

You put down the fork as you spoke. Your Irish accent was toned down to a level he could somewhat understand, but he still felt charmed from such a simple move. Just the way you’d ‘tuck in the r’, as he'd say, it sounded like music to him.

“Oh, really? Why?”

“Times were tough on the lass.”

With a smile, you rest your chin on your hand once more, staring through him. And this time, you didn’t bother with the professionalism you worked to carry around all the time.

“You make a holy show, Matt. Always going scarlet around me. But I haven’t laughed this much in a while. Craic’s ninety with you, you know?” <You embarrass yourself, Matt. Always going red around me. But I haven’t laughed this much in a while. I’m having so much fun with you, you know?>

He grinned, enamoured with the way your natural smile carried your cheeks.

“And that’s a… good thing, right?”

“Aye. We should do this again.”

You grabbed the fork once more, scooping up another small piece of the half-eaten lemon cheesecake.

“Now, open wide.”

Just as you lifted the utensil, he complied and gladly bit down on the delicious treat. Getting into Gekko’s head was an easy task for you to take on. So, why not?

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aci32 · 4 months

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MACHINE HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey folks, sorry for running two days late but better late than never, here is my 1st review of 2024, Machine Head!!!!!!!! It was my first gig in 2 months as the last one I saw was Cattle Decapitation and Immolation last December, I was going to see Exmortus but I decided against it due to pre holiday stress getting to me. This was the first time in 4 years I had seen MH as I last saw them when they did their evening with tour, and it was the first of two shows I saw that year a month before covid took a stranglehold on the world, second show was Vader two weeks later. Plus when I saw them 4 years ago it was when they played Burn My Eyes in it's entirety in the 2nd half of their set after they played the first half of their songs from all their catalog, which to me is a show that won't get topped.

Let's begin the festivities!

First band up was Gates to Hell. I had looked them up on metal archives and they looked like a band I wouldn't be into, sure enough my point was proven as I found them boring like I do with a majority of metalcore and deathcore bands and it was all the more reason to save my headbanging energy. I then said to my pal Alex "Stogie" Stojanovic in a joking manner "I at least didn't get splashed with water in my face twice".

Next band up was Orbit Culture!!! Compared to Gates to Hell, these guys were better as their songs were more groovy since they are a mix of Melo Death and Groove Metal and plus they had great stage presence. When I heard them live I was hearing some Dark Tranquillity vibes off of them. At one point during their set frontman Niklas Karlsson had said "Of the shows we've played in Canada, I think this is the biggest? But it's also the weakest" which elicited boos from the crowd but he did give them a pep talk to start moshing and crowdsurfing more, which they did and he would then compliment Toronto's energy and efforts.

After Orbit Culture it was time for Fear Factory!! This was my 3rd time seeing Fear Factory as it had been almost 11 years since I last saw them which was also the last time I would see them with Burton C. Bell as he had acrimoniously left Fear Factory as the previously squashed beef between him and Dino Cazares had ignited almost 4 years ago and it came as a shock to all of us, especially when it was at the height of covid at that time. So they got a new singer from Rome, Italy in the name of Milo Silvestro and his growls and cleans almost sounded identical to Burton's vocal style, which was scary in a sense but I was otherwise pleasantly surprised with that performance. I'll also point out I've now seen Fear Factory three times with three different drummers and three different bassists respectively: 2010 was Byron Stroud and Gene Hoglan from Strapping Young Lad so it was ½ FF and ½ SYL. 2013 was Matt Devries who is also rhythm guitarist for Chimaira and Mike Heller formerly of Malignancy and who now plays for Raven, so ½ FF and ¼ Chimaira and ¼ Malignancy. This year was Tony Campos from Static X and Pete Webber from Havok, so ½ FF and ¼ Static X and ¼ Havok. Also when Dino Cazares had finished introducing the band members he said "I think I speak for all the fat dudes here how many fat guys we got *many raised their horns and yelled* we got some XXL shirts at the merch booth or as I call them Dino size" which had Stogie and I cracking up. Here's FF's setlist:

1. Shock

2. Edgecrusher

3. Powershifter

4. Disruptor

5. Fuel Injected Suicide Machine

6. Linchpin

7. Slave Labor

8. Demanufacture

9. Replica

After FF it was time for MACHINE HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was my 7th time seeing Machine Head and first time in almost 12 years I see them play at a large nightclub as last time that happened was when I saw MH at Rebel as direct support for Dethklok, in which looking back on it MH stole the show. This was also the first time in 12 years I had seen MH on tour with opening acts as I last saw that on January 28th, 2012 at Rebel then known as Sound Academy with Darkest Hour and Suicide Silence on the Unto the Locust tour. Each time I've seen them live they just get better with each performance. Before Aesthetics of Hate and then dedicating it to Dimebag Darrell, Robb Flynn had said the following "Holy Shit Toronto! Goddamn! We got some rowdy motherfuckers for a monday night here in Canada, lemme hear you make some noise Toronto *crowd roars* nah nah nah let me hear you make some NOIIIISSSEEE *crowd roars louder* fuck. I tell you what, it is awesome to be back now, so awesome to be back. We got here, actually we got here last night, yesterday afternoon, I went walkin around, it totally brought back all these crazy memories of the first time Machine Head played in Toronto. So the first tour we did was opening for Napalm Death and Obituary and we played over at the Opera House so I walked by the Opera House and then we came back with Slayer a little while later and we did a little show called umm.. I think it was Much Music or something like that? They had us come on and play Davidian and I walked by that building and I was like 'oh shit' and all these killer memories came back and I just wanna say man it feels good to be back in your fuckin city man thank you". Also at the end of Aesthetics of Hate, there was a silhouette of Dimebag on the screen, which was a touching gesture. As MH were performing Unto the Locust Robb had made commented on the weed being smoked and he admired the smell of it as it made him say "woooooo". Before their last song Halo and opening band acknowledgements, Robb Flynn did another speech "Like I said earlier, we got some rowdy motherfuckers on a monday night in Toronto fuck! How's everybody in the balcony doing man, you guys doing alright back there? Fuckin eh, ragers ragers over here man. And how's all my motherfuckers in the circle pit doing, you guys doing alright? Where's the captain? I love all the masks, everyone's wearing the fuckin ram skull masks I love it, see people go *makes horn crashing sound with his fists punching together* where's the captain at? I need your captain's hat man, I need that no no no, bring it up here, I need that captain's hat, that's some good shit *Adam Cooper brings his hat to Robb Flynn* Slayer captain's hat, thanks Toronto". I'll also point out that Wacław "Vogg" Kieltyka wasn't on this tour due to his commitments with Decapitated so instead Reece "Babyface" Scruggs from Havok was in the band on lead guitar duties, so this tour was definitely linked with Havok members. Here's MH's setlist:

1. Imperium

2. Ten Ton Hammer

3. CHØKE ØN THE ASHES ØF YØUR HATE

4. Aesthetics of Hate

5. Old

6. Locust

7. The Blood, the Sweat, the Tears (Robb Flynn renamed the last part Beers)

8. NØ GØDS, NØ MASTERS

9. SLAUGHTER THE MARTYR

10. Bulldozer

11. From this Day

12. Davidian

13. Halo

Overall, an awesome metal show and a great way to kick off the 2024 concert season for me.

HEAVY METAL FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#heavy metal #machine head #fear factory

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Tord knocked again louder. (Tom said, "It must have been the game." I'll show you, Jehovah Witnesses) This time, it was Matt who was sent to get the door.

The door opened again, the ginger looked at him, then led back.

Tord!... Right? He said.

No, those knocks are just your image. Tom said.

Am I allowed in, Matt? Tord said, seeing the zombies slowly coming closer.

No. Tom said.

Of course! Matt said, stepping aside.

Tord closed the door and locked it as sounds of thumps against the door.

Uh, what was that? Oh, great, you let in the commie. Tom said, looking up, the two then glaring at the other.

Tord! What are you doing here.Edd said, hugging him, making him fall back slightly against the door.

Oof! TJ complained, getting sandwiched between the door and his "father's" body (authors note: i like to picture the squeaky toy squeak when he hit the door.

I was in the area, so i decided to check up on you. Tord said, hugging Edd back, missing him the most. He was the glue who kept this group together. He got a smack from him as he was hugging his good

Ow. He complained, leaning off the door. The monkey got off his back and folded his arms

You're a pain sometimes. Now you have to obey. Tord said in Norwegian TJ, sticking his tongue out, giving Tord the finger.

Edd, Matt, Tom. This is TJ. My son. He said in English, helping take TJ's jacket and shoes off.

Ha, you hooked up with a girl and made a kid! Tom said.

Tom, be nice. Edd said as Tord hung up both jackets glaring over his shoulder. He had missed his friends but not Tom when he's like this... I wouldn't be surprised if he was drunk.

Um... no, TJ is one of my clones from when we were all cloned, that were turned into a baby who I say he's my son. Tord said, embarrassed.

Tom burst laughing. You can't even make a kid properly! Tom said, laughing.

I'm going to... Tord patted around his belt, where his handgun should now be considered before looking to TJ, holding it safely.

Ah! Baby with a gun! Tom said, seeing TJ with the gun.

I'm 3, not a baby, you buffoon. TJ said in broken English (from speaking Norwegian most of the time) .

Did I mention he knows how to use that? Tord purred, enjoying seeing Tom almost shitting himself as he sat in the armchair.

Tord! Edd snapped after trying to get their attention, TJ paddling up and giving the weapon to him before it went where only Edd can reach.

Good, TJ. Edd said.

Suck up. Tord said in Norwegian again, getting raspberries blown at him before TJ disappeared somehow in the house (probably for Tord"s old room to sleep)

Tord, you weren't actually going to shoot Tom. Edd said.

It's a bb gun, Edd. Tord said (lie) besides, We're great pals, Edd. Tord said in English

Not while you're in the room. Tord said in Norwegian before TJ reappeared before him and kicked him in the shin before.

I recommend not leaving them alone. TJ said to Edd before disappearing again.

What a strange kid. Matt said.

He has two sets of memories, mine and his own, and hates me as much as Tom does. But he also has his good aspects whereTom doesn't. Tord said.

Screw you, asshole. Tom said

He kicked you in the shin. Are you ok? Matt said.

Ah! Fuck, it hurts! Tord said in English before showing he was wearing a shin guard before hiding it again as they sat.

I'm getting a drink want anything. Tom said.

COLA! Edd said.

I'm pretty sure the three-year-old could have Por... TJ padded up with four drinks catering to each of them. Before getting a blue water bottle from his backpack (TJ brought in), plopping on the floor... with a Hentai manga making Tord sigh.

Yup, that's your son. Tom said drunkenly from bottle of Smirnoff.

They talked about their adventures. Tord liked their adventures. They were fun. They were fun to have adventures with.

I wish I could have been with you. Those sound really fun. Tord said softly.

I mean you have your own adventures. We read your letters. Besides your doing what you love. Edd said.

Raising a mini version of yourself. Tom said, TJ looking up and glared

Wait, you said TJ is a clone... how many clones are there? Matt said.

I don't. Edd found a Tom in glass recycling... then we forgot about him wonder what he's doing. I released some rejected clones... mostly Toms and Matt. My Tom, Matt and Edd are in the children tv show. I'm surprised Tom didn't kill them or drunk off his ass... he probably is, drunken ass. Oh, and a Tord with Tom's eyes I renamed Odin because it was getting confusing and I felt bad for Edd. Oh, and the asshole who almost killed Edd, I trapped in a theater but we saw walking away and now shooting Zombies, Tord! TJ said standing on hiending in Tord's face with Tord looked unfazed.

Get out of my face, TJ. Tord said.

No, I blame you. TJ said before he got placed on the floor glaring before the theme song for the children came on making him gasp and plant himself in front of the Telly.

YAY! Matt and Tom said

Edd? He said seeing the brown hair wearing a green shirt and gray pants.

Yes? Edd said getting ignored by the

TJ stood before the Telly taking it all in.

Tord scooped up the child so Tom and Matt could watch.

Something is wrong. Edd acting off and he's trying to tell something. TJ said getting a pad and pen, writing it out at Tord's feet as Ringo appeared trying to figure out what Tord brought into its home.

Hi Ringo. TJ said gently petting Edd's cat who was soon rubbing against and purring on his lap. TJ laughing as the cat rubbed against him, hugging the cat slightly before she went and sat on Edd's lap

Tord smiled at his boy.

Zip it. TJ said.

Your adorable. Tord said.

TJ glared at him before yawning and going asleep on him.

You can stay with us. Edd's old room is available if you want to stay. Edd said Tom giving him a look of "pay back, commie." (Karmas a bitch).

Wait... I would go check your room, Tom If TJ was in there. Tord said.

I didn't do anything. TJ said sleepily.

Liar. Tom said getting up and going to his room with Tord following carrying TJ. Watching Tom almost rip his room appart.

You didn't do anything, did you? Tord said

No. TJ said with a yawn Tord noticed the house is completely surrounded by Zombies.

Um, Edd? Is it alright that TJ stay the night. We won't be a bother. Tord said.

Your already a bother.... why are just... Tord was shoved out the doorway and shut the door.

I'm glad I put chilly powder in his underwear. TJ muttered.

What? Tom called.

TJ needs to go to the bathroom. Night, Tom. Tord said.

I actually do put me down. TJ whispered.

Tord did so watching the five-year-old paddle away.

Tord got TJ's bag. He's is in the car. Nope, not going to risk it.

Tord opened the door to Tom's room.

Now what? Tom said looking up at Tord looking at the ceiling before hoping, pushing up a tile in the ceiling making a bag falling at his feet.

Really? What else did you hide? Tom said as Tord Thought then moved four steps to the right and really jumped pushing the the tile Really hard making a sleeping bag fall.

What? Why? This was your room! You had a bed! Tom said.

Night, Tom. Tord said taking the bag and sleeping bag.

What is wrong with you? Tom said as TJ past the door.

Tord, your cell is ringing. Edd said holding it to him.

Ah, thank you, Edd. Tord said and answered.

It was his wife wondering where he and TJ went. He explained everything to her even let her talk to TJ before getting it back... and back tracking getting a charger, new toothbrush and toothpaste (toothpaste doesn't go bad, right?) from behind a poster that Tord was surprised Tom kept up.

Really! Tom said.

Bye, Thomas. Tord purred walking away Tord feeling Tom kick his back making him fall to the floor.

Oof. Tord said but grabbed Tom's ankle bring him down.

They're at it again. Matt said from hallway as they faught.

Edd sighed, something never change.

Tord pinned down Tom.

1023 to 50. Tord purred as Tom growled and head bunting Tord so he was free.

Get off! Tom said.

Ow. Tord said complained as Tom standing up.

So who phoned? Edd said.

Hu, oh Neleta. Just checking to see where her boy went. Tord said ruffling TJ's hair.

Hey! The child said swatting at his hand.

Corporal Larson. Come in Corporal. He heard from his radio, lieutenant Sørensen say in Norwegian.

Yes, Lieutenant. He said (in Norwegian).

You wouldn't mind watching what's going on there do you. Lieutenant said

No, I don't mind. Those three seemed... eh, off so I want to monitor while take down the zombies to help. Besides I have friends here I want to visit with. Tord said.

Don't get to comfortable, Corporal... oh, I got news that a helicopters will come to to take the plane we found to be Analyze. We might need you on site. Lieutenant Sørensen said.

Will do. Tell the men to call me with details. Tord said TJ in front of him listening curiosity.

Will TJ be ok? We can have someone pick him up tomorrow morning. Lieutenant Sørensen said.

No, I want to watch them tak the plane! TJ said, Tord holding the button so the lieutenant could hear.

TJ, you should be in bed! It's pass midnight. The lieutenant said making the 3 year old scurried into their "room" and laid in the sleeping bed.

I didn't mean to wake him, Tord. I will let you both go to bed. Good night, Corporal Larson. Lieutenant Sørensen said.

See you at base. Good night, Lieutenant Sørensen. Tord said and put the radio on his belt as TJ paddled by with his toothbrush and kid toothpaste.

You talk so fast when you talk to them. Matt said.

English is my second language, Matt... does toothpaste expire because I left this when I left. Tord said.

WHAT!? That has not been in the wall since you left. Tom said appearing at Tord's side, Tord looking down at him.

I forgot how small you were, Tom. Tord said softly.

I'm not short. Tom said.

TJ's up to your hip and he's three. Tord said.

He is not. Tom said. Tord gestured to TJ at Tom's side eagerly.

Tord, look I lost a tooth. TJ said holding it up.

Oh, wow. That's awesome, TJ. Tord said.

I'm going to do a trade. You'll get the tooth and I'll tell, Neleta. Ok. Here you go. He said putting the little tooth in his palm.

Hum, hu? Tord said looking at it as TJ got his cellphone shutting the door.

Hu, what just happened. Tord said looking at the tooth as Edd provided a prescription bottle that was his. He put the tooth in.

TJ appeared

Want this? Tord said.

Tord, I know there's no such thing as the tooth fairy. TJ said before disappearing again in to the room.

The three looked at him.

I'm as surprised as you are. If santa and Zanta is real, the tooth fairy must. Tord said as TJ appeared.

I forgot mommy says to put it in my bag so I will be taking the tooth. TJ said walking up to Tord.

Mommy? They said.

Yeah, Neleta. Mommy. I'll be taking that, Tord. TJ said taking the pill bottle.

Hang on, why is mommy and Tord. Edd said.

One: Tord is easier to say (he said her name twice) . Two: I came from a hair from him. He's not my dad and the other Tord clones are my my brothers. Now I need to sleep. I'm tired. TJ said paddling away

Good night. They said, TJ waved bye-bye and shutting the door.

Yep, that's your kid. Strange as... Tord grabbed Tom's collar.

Don't finish that. Tord said.

Ok... this feels like the time I your Hentai collection.Tom said.

Oh right. I want that back. Tord said releasing Tom making it fall backwards.

Like I said, how are you a soldier? TJ said going before Tord.

TJ, go to bed. Tord sighed.

It's a sleep bag. TJ said.

Go. Tord said.

The toddler grumbling as he walked back into the room.

We should all probably go to bed too. Edd said.

Yes. You should! TJ said.

Tord, you can use Tom's toothpaste. Edd said throwing out the three year old toothpaste.

Really. Tom said

Tom, be nice. Edd said.

When are you leaving? Tom said.

Tomorrow. I technically have a hotel room but I'm... well, nice seeing you. It's been swell. Tom said Tord managed to stopped himself ending in the two pushing against the other until Tom fell back with Tord coming down with him, catching himself last minute in a push-up position over Tom.

Cut it out and go to clean up the mess in your room and go to bed. Tord said, tired and now feed up. In the position he was in, Tom gulped and nodded before Tord pushed himself up before helping Tom up.

They went to bed in silence, Tom cleaned up the mess he made looking for what TJ (he didn't but he will 😈) Tord thought he would have a hard time in Tom's old room but the moment his head hit the pillow he was out.

(3 of????)

#eddword fanfic #eddsworld fanfic #edd ew #ew tom #ew matt #ew tord #ew edd

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larva-heartzz · 4 months

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"Hide from the mirror, the cracks and the memories. Hide from your family. They won't know you now."

-Matt Bellamy, Muse, "Screenager"

hello!! im @worm-brainzz!! this is my safespace blog :D heres an intro post to ACTUALLY get to know me.

basic stuff:

names: worm, wormzy, wormz, larva, larv, larvy, larvz, larvzy

pronouns: he/they/it/meow/vamp/star/angel/silly/heart/kitty (HOUGH. MANY MANY PRONOUNS. AND THEY'RE ALL VALID!!!!! YAY!!!!!)

gender: vampcatgender, angelstar, sillygender, angeliwhore, mikucharic, argoscharic, mrplantcharic, heartfloweric, starrycattic, guitarvampic, crazymusicgender (MANY MANY XENOS.)

sexuality: achillean

MINOR!! DONT BE CREEPY. UNLESS YOU'RE TRYING TO BE FUNNY IN MY HORNYPOSTING MADNESS

i have generalised anxiety disorder. please be nice. im begging.

i also have the worst spine problems known to man (exaggeration)

DNI: CREEPS (P3D0S, MAPS/MAP SUPPORTERS AND Z00PHIL3S/Z00 SUPPORTERS), PRINCE, DIVINE0, STARRY-COW, LABRATGURLZ AND ANYONE PART OF A HATE GROUP. HATRED TOWARDS COMMUNITIES SUCH AS THE POC, LGBTQIA+ AND MANY OTHERS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED ON MY BLOG.

accounts:

discord: worm.brainzz

pinterest: w0rm.br41nzz

wattpad: mercuryheartss

insta: p01s0n.appl3

bandlab: mxrcuryheartss

medibang/art street: worm.brainzz

youtube: worm.brainzz

fandoms/interests:

ashur gharavi cinematic universe

vocaloid

project sekai

project diva

hazbin hotel

lacey flash games

village roadshow themeparks

doki doki literature club

nyan neko sugar girls

aussie world (theme park)

psas

pretty dresses hehe (as in like. princess shit. yk.)

music taste:

muse

franz ferdinand

kikuo

maretu

ghost & pals

utsu-p

babymetal

whiteflame/kurousaP

pinocchioP

deco*27

tally hall

rishie-p

love and appreciation like on my main but i think you wont judge me for this :3

@cloudxxiii @bi-squirrel @iwanttokmsbutimtoosilly-4

blogs/tags:

active: @worm-brainzz @larva-heartzz @ask-angel-argos

inactive: @v0idbr34d @plxtogutss

tags:

#larva.txt, #larva hornyposting, #larva answers

WILL UPDATE IF IM WILLING TO PUT NEW INFO IN.

#intro post #larva.txt

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thegeminisage · 6 months

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tng update time, brief because i am BUSY. two nights ago we caught "contagion" together, yesterday i watched "the royale" on my own, and just now i finished "time squared."

contagion: don't know why this one was recced by so amny people because it was VERY boring. because it had romulans in it? it's not even unwatchably bad or anything, i just...didn't care

did like that the romulan commander was a woman though. just like the enterprise incident. where's spock when you need him

the archaeology angle was stupid. "oooh i have to go i've been studying them since i was a lad" you literally do not have to go "well china was thought to be only a myth until marco polo traveled there" bitch, not to the fucking chinese. get a grip.

the fakeout data death...girl we know he's going to be fine! i did like him throwing geordi around though he made the little faces <3 and i was very proud of him for continuing to work when he had a little computer virus. aw. maybe less glad that picard didn't give him any extra priase for doing so but whatever we can't have high expectations for this ep

anyway it was all just very overly contrived. and i was bored.

the royale: this had a great setup because i love when star trek talks about nasa. that made me really excited for what turned out to ultimately be a holodeck episode

played this one on 2x speed genuinely (my deepest dishonor - bad ones get 1.25x, really bad ones get 1.5x, and horrible ones alone get 2x speed)

like, if you changed it a little, you could say the holodeck is broken and won't let you out until you pretend to be investors and win big in the casino! it's the same thing. i guess they didn't want people thinking the holodeck was dangerous and unreliable, which it is

anyway, i liked data blowing on the dice. that was all though

time squared: this one blew my tits clean off. amazing. 10/10. it's like the immunity syndrome, enemy within, and doomsday machine had a time traveling baby

there is like a little bit of time travel technobabble that makes no sense whatsoever. and i did get the final twist spoiled for me. but it doesn't MATTER. neither of those things mattered because i was still sitting there with my jaw on the ground after the end

like, one website called this one confusing. sure yeah a little bit. they were playing very fast and loose with both their own rules established in the episode and the greater rules of the franchise as a whole. but the point is the character arc

like. picard sees himself make a decision that will destroy his ship. he sees himself fail utterly to do everything he holds sacred - he did not even GO DOWN with his ship. he is facing a matt decker doomsday machine of a situation. remember when kirk pitied matt decker because he saw his whole crew die and was helpless to stop it but was also a little put off by him because he couldn't possibly imagine himself in that situation? but with picard IT IS himself. it's green shirt john crichton and black shirt john crichton. they're BOTH the real picard but one of them has been through something unimaginably horrible

AND WHEN THAT PICARD. ENDANGERS THE SHIP. like. IN COLD BLOOD our picard chooses to kill him. and in my personal interpretation he thinks of it as mercy. but like he still shot him while looking directly at him and NO ONE knows what he did because he DIDNT TELL THEM except he called the fucking doctor for some reason

like at the end he's just staring out of a window. and riker is like hi im here to let you talk about it! and picard doesn't talk about it and riker goes away and in the end he is just staring out of the fucking window and they just ROLL CREDITS a real "anyway! these are the voyages of the starship enterprise" of a situation aka what i always loved about tos episodes (honorific)

i THINK this is a cross-section of drag me to hell and there was no laugh track but further contemplation required. straight banger i fucking loved it

i still have to do "the icaurs factor" and "pen pals" alone, but then we get to do "q who" together WHICH IS THE BORG EPISODE i cannot wait. nobody tell me ANYTHING.

#personal #star trek blogging #tng lb #these liveblogs are becoming more word salady by the day #sorry i'm out here inventing entire new dialects to talk about fictional situations in #i guess it's not a new dialect so much as it is completely referential #isn't that a premise of a tng episode actually??

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reallydifferentcaptain · 1 year

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Season 1 tally

Alright so I just finished a rewatch of Daredevil S1 and kept a tally and list of a few things, I plan to do this with every season including She-Hulk and Defenders and wilk be adding fo the growing tally, here we go:

- How many times Foggy says he knows a guy: 2

- Matt turning the lights out on the baddies: 1

- Hallway fights: 2

- Dumpster canes: 2

- Fathet Lantom chats: 6

- How many times Fisk has said "When I was a boy": 3

- Fisk body count (meaning killings that Fisk either orchestrated, planned, ordered or committed):

33 + however many offscreen deaths occurred during the explosions

- And now my personal fave, all the names people call Matt's alter ego:

Man/guy/friend/pal in the (black) mask (any combo of these words is fine)

Literally every swear word ever I refuse to list them

Masked (insert swear of choice)

Nut in the mask

Mike (comics moment 😭)

Idiot in a mask

Devil

Masked vigilante

Masked dog

The Mask

Masked assailant

The Devil of Hell's Kitchen

Terrorist rephrase Nutjob

Man in black

Wackjob

Masked terrorist and psychopath

Terrorist cop killer

Moron

Daredvil

Stay tuned for seasons 2 & 3 and the final post which will be the total for everything

#daredevil #matt murdock #she hulk #marvel

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vicky82gargoylesfan · 1 year

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My Thoughts on Issue 4: Tale Old as Time

I admit, I didn’t do issue 3 as I was busy and the problems with digital copy on Amazon made me look at spoilers before I got my physical copies and they came quite late too.

I got issue 4 a lot quicker, it was actually dispatched on Tuesday, so they arrived on Friday. The Amazon digital copy issue seems to be sorted out as well (but it was still late). So hopefully I will get Issue 5 with no problems, cross fingers

Spoilers

Here some small thoughts on Issue 3. It was still a good story, liked that Broadway was narrating and quickly figured Thailog kidnapped Maggie and Mary. Great to see Xanatos again along with Alex (who’d gotten big) and Fox (her powers are evolving more). Talon and Maggie’s baby is cute, love that he’s named after both of their Fathers. I always figured he would be human and would have lightning powers.

My favourite cover for issue 3 is, Cover D Variant Lesley Leirix Li. I just love this one.

On to Issue 4

The Art/Colouring is amazing, I love it.

.Goliath narrating, which fits perfectly for this issue, due to the ending

We meet Dino Dracon and he’s brutal. He just slammed Pal Joey’s head on the dashboard and kicked him out of the car, due to Pal Joey splashing water on his shoes. Antoinette didn’t even correct Dino when he called her Toni, so she’s definitely scared of him.

I wonder who’s watching TV, Renard perhaps.

In issue 3 we were introduced to some new characters of the other crime families and got there last names in this issue and 2 of those last names were familiar (more on that later) So, Huracan Sanchez, YingPei Choi, Grisha Volkov and Izakk Slaughter.

The Police station has been rebuilt and re opened, so I guess could be 7 or 8 months after it was destroyed. So it could be June/July.

I wonder what Margot Yale showed Matt on the clipboard, he certainly didn’t look happy about it.

The Gargoyles wake up and Goliath was about to talk to the others but they went did there own things. Brooklyn and Katana giving Gnash a history lesson, but he thinks he doesn’t need it.

I wonder what Angela and Broadway wants to talk to Coldfire about and why it’s so exciting, Mating ceremony perhaps, I’m excited now.

Poor Lex, he needs a hug, glad Goliath and Hudson noticed that the Trio are drifting apart and Lex being left out. He’s now spending time in the computer lab, I wonder if he’s online chatting to Amp.

Rosario Sanchez and Peter Choi finally appear, I recognised those last names from the episode High Noon, they saved a child from drowning. So they are secret lovers (referencing Romeo and Juliet) and there families are part of the 5 crime families, Yingpei Choi and Huracan Sanchez.

I assume the masked men in Gargoyle masks are Dino Dracon, Glasses and Pal Joey who are kidnapping Rose and Peter.

I wonder this is what Margot was showing Matt on the clipboard, that they got new choppers. I wonder what the budget was in the end because in Invitation Only, Matt said in his meeting that the Chief and the Mayor were still duking it out over their budget for the Taskforce. So it must be a very good budget to get those choppers. But maybe they could be a donation from someone.

So Goliath has been captured and he’s going to be in prison for longer than 3 issues, due to the description for issue 7.

Can’t wait for issue 5. I wonder Hudson or Brooklyn will be narrating.

#gargoyles #disney gargoyles #gargoyles dynamite

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softladyhours · 1 year

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I posted 2,174 times in 2022

97 posts created (4%)

2,077 posts reblogged (96%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@rat-that-writes

@maxthelocalemeraldmayor

@the-moon-pal

@lady-of-the-spirit

@skeletalheartattack

I tagged 550 of my posts in 2022

#rat<3 - 156 posts

#softie speaks - 77 posts

#markiplier - 42 posts

#unreality - 26 posts

#matt murdock - 25 posts

#thanks for the ask! - 24 posts

#goncharov - 24 posts

#fic rec - 23 posts

#not mine!!! - 21 posts

#markiplier egos x reader - 21 posts

Longest Tag: 138 characters

#also this is making me realize that i think i would be a werewolf if it came down to vamps or werewolves and i…. idk how i feel about that

My Top Posts in 2022:

how babey are the egos on a scale of 1-10

dark: 1/10. most of the time he is smooth sexy bastard man but sometimes he is just in need of cuddles. but even when he wants cuddles hes just like in denial about it

damien: 10/10 the most babey ever . constantly 🥺 at you in search of cuddles and kisses the boy is so touch starved when u kiss him he melts every time

actor: 4/10 usually just whiny little dog of a man not really babey material but when hes sleepy he is just 🥺🥺🥺💕💕💕💕

illinois: 5/10 too suave and cool and sexy to be babey usually but sometimes he just cant stop himself from uwu-ing

yancy: 10/10 OHH BABEYYY !!! <3333 the snuggliest man ever. constant heart eyes constant need to be held constant hand holding just sksdfhjfgdd!!!! owo

engineer mark: 7/10 when around the crew he is Not Babey (well… 99% of the time he isnt…) but get him alone and the boy is just 😄💞🥺☺️💘💗🥰😍 he is so touchy he just gotta grab u and just need to look at ur pretty face

Omg these boys make me so softyttttt

- Dark is ofc a big house cat and so he’d VEHEMENTLY DENY any desire for affection or whatever but then he’s practically laying across u ANY chance he gets jshdjsjskskdj I just want him to rest his head in my lap while I give him head pats😭

- DAMIEN WOULD BE ALL NUZZLY N SHIT HES ALSO A HOUSECAT BUT ONE OF THE SUBER CUDDLY AFFECTIONATE ONES (dark has to get it from somewhere right? Lmao) I feel if ur touching damien, the moment your hand leaves his body he unconsciously shifts closer chasing ur touch. Same w kisses I lub he

- Actor is, in fact, a pathetic wet puppy dog of a man and now I’m imagining him coming home from a day of filming and maybe he had to do a really emotionally draining/intense scene and just had a rough day in general so the second he sees you when he gets home he just kind of does sad puppy dog eyes and grabby hands at u and then u both take a bath and have some wine just tryna get him out of that headspace rUAHH I WANT TO TAKE CARR OF HIM!!!!🥺🥺🥺🥺

-illi 67% of the time is just,,,, the hORNiEsT MAN A L I VE and just always trying to fluster u or act super suave and hawt and shit but then you do something super endearing he just internally screams and can feel his soul leave his body for a sec🙃🫠🫡 (bonus points if he’s silently pining and just miserable bc ur just sO PRECIOUS HE PHYSICALLY CANNOT STAND IT!!!!!

- YANCY WOULD HAVE HIS HAND IN UR BACK POCKET EVERY CHANCE HE GOT!!!!!!!!!!! He’d just be so casually affectionate and touchy bless him you’d be just hangin out at lunch and y’all are listening to the conversation at the table and he just kinda wraps an arm around ur waist with a little kiss to ur jaw and it’s just !!!!!!!!! SO NICE!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel like despite his anxious/insecure tendencies whenever he’s in a comfortable atmosphere he’s just casually very confident and self assured and I just😩😩😩😩

- DONT! GET! ME! STARTED! ON! ENGINEER! MARK! HES SO NEEDY AND BABY AND I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!! Like yes he is a very capable hard worker who’s very passionate about his work but also he sees you doing your work as captain sometimes and his heart just kinda palpitates a bit sugrisudjdj no matter how much he’d deny it he PREENS under ur praise and will do almost anything just to make i smile and I just AAAAAAAAAAAAA the second u get him alone he’s putty in ur hands and just wants love and affection. Give it to him. Now. Do it.

248 notes - Posted May 16, 2022

Drew a little something based off a pic from bestie @rat-that-writes 🥰🥰

@markiplier

251 notes - Posted August 14, 2022

Freckles

Darkiplier x GN!Reader

Warnings: None that I can think of, just domestic fluff with a sprinkling of angst :)

Summary: Dark is feelin sappy and sentimental (with a sprinkling of heartache, for taste)

AN: I’m obsessed with the concept of freckles and moles being the places where past soulmates loved to kiss you the most, so I took that and ran with it -- I hope you enjoy!

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It is a quiet Saturday evening. You have been able to keep Dark away from any extra work successfully, using your sweet kisses and loving promises. After spending the day in each other’s quiet company, away from the chaos of the other egos, you’ve found yourself laying across the couch with your legs across Dark’s lap. His gentle caresses along your calf and knee never fail to spark a few butterflies in your stomach. He had set up the record player to play a variety of moony love songs—as much as he tries to conceal his inner romantic, it makes you so giddy.

You have a book in hand, one that you’ve been trying to make time to read for ages, and Dark simply sits with closed eyes in quiet contemplation. You can’t recall the last time you had seen him quite this relaxed. His features are soft, angelic even, and occasionally he quietly hums along to whatever song is playing, his deep bass rattling your bones ever so slightly. It is in this meditative study of your lover that you notice a single freckle, right to the side of his chin. You can’t help but recall a video you had seen in passing on the internet.

“Hey, Dark?” you ask, careful to keep your volume low. There is honestly a good chance he has fallen asleep—he could be such an old man sometimes.

You hear a gentle Hm? His eyes open slightly to look at you, bleary but full of affection.

“Did you know that, apparently, some people think that prominent moles and freckles are the spots where your soulmate in a past life kissed you the most?”

He smiles gently, “That’s fascinating, darling. May I ask what prompted such an observation?”

You set your book to the side, readjusting so that you’re sitting next to Dark, halfway in his lap.

“I can see that your soulmate in a past life loved to kiss you right—” you place a gentle kiss, “—here.”

It takes everything in Dark to maintain his composure as he is overcome with visions of the past. He remembers the way that you would kiss him—no, not him but Damien—in that exact spot every time he passed an exam with flying colors. He remembers noticing the handful of freckles across his chest or the mole on his shoulder, but now realizes that those were never there on Damien’s body. They were, however, placed in almost the same exact spot you would litter kisses whenever Damien would let you be in control for the night. An almost foreign heat rises to his cheeks, but then he sees you. He notices the small spot under your jaw where he—Damien—would kiss you to tease and fluster you. He sees the place on your forehead where Damien would always place a gentle kiss to calm and comfort you. But Dark can see you now, your brow furrowed in concern. He forces himself back to the present, placing a kiss on your forehead and pulling you into his arms.

You’re caught a little off-guard, but you reciprocate immediately. You’ve seen that look in his eyes before, mostly here and there when you first met. It was a sort of deep sadness, as if he knew something you didn’t. You’d always wanted to voice your concerns, console him if needed, but you had been so shy then.

“Is everything okay, Dark?” you ask, timidly, not wanting to upset him further.

He squeezes you tighter, taking a shaky breath. “Everything’s fine, my heart.”

The pet name makes you blush.

“I suppose I’m just feeling sentimental tonight,” he continues, pulling away from you, but not too far. He still holds you close but can’t seem to look you quite in the eyes. “I am simply so grateful to have you in my life.”

You smile at him, gently turning his face to yours and kissing him tenderly. “I love you,” you murmur, pulling away to look at him. He looks back, his dark eyes soft and adoring.

“I love you too, my sweet.”

You both settle back into each other’s arms, appreciating the music and each other’s presence. Resting your head on his shoulder, you close your eyes, allowing yourself to doze. Dark breaks the silence one last time.

“Also, just for your information,” he whispers, “I’m sure that you are the reason I have that freckle on my chin.”

You smile and let out a small huff of amusement before replying, “Yeah, sounds about right.”

As Dark hears your breathing even out, it takes everything within him to not let his glassy eyes shed a tear. His brain is swarmed with painful nostalgia and the misery of having to keep your entire past from you. The secret bears heavily on what little soul he has left. He won’t succumb to the misery, though. You wouldn’t want that. He instead chooses to focus on the fact that you are here now and that, in and of itself, is more than he could ever deserve or ask for.

273 notes - Posted September 7, 2022

how egos respond to u going “pspspspsps” at them

dark: i mean it gets his attention but he will be grumpy about it afterwards

damien: the boy is so clueless as soon as he hears it he is looking around all concerned then he sees u and just “darling!!🥰💕”

actor: is GREATLY offended that u would do this to him. absolutely heartbroken. he still responds to it tho

yancy: he does it BACK AT YOU like a CHALLENGE

illinois: IMMEDIATELY responds and walks over to u, what a good boy

wilford: will put out his gun, probably

I’m LOSING my MIND over this oml

Dark would give you a death glare but I think if you pet him affectionately he would begrudgingly accept his new role of house cat

DAMIEN!!!! Y/N and Celine would have a running bet to see how many times Y/N can get his attention that way without him noticing anything wrong. Let’s just say Celine owes Y/N a LOT of money

Actor would be such a pissy bitch baby about it but I think as long as you gave him some good love and affection he’d forget about it quickly lol

YANCY???????? The mental image of Yancy and Y/N aggressively spspspspss ing at each other has me ROLLINGGG

I think illi would lowkey like it just bc he’d feel special being the only one you pspspspsp at sjhfjejsj

yea Wilford’s a simple man. You spspspsp and he pulls out his gun idek skdjjdjs

660 notes - Posted May 8, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Inspired by @your-local-eddie-munson-slut ‘s Matt Murdock version—I couldn’t resist lmao

2,044 notes - Posted August 3, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #im so happy my fic got up there:)#also still losing my mind at how well the slutty markiplier meme aged lmao

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janiedean · 2 years

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oh we're back to team let's burn shit down

yeah well that's what you get when you go to war without support

oh hello laenor

hello caraxes

lol HE'S FIGHTING THIS WAR AT LEAST I'M CRY

oh right that was vaemond god I forgot all the names

okay at least this look is more.. daemon targaryen™ than whatever else we saw until now

still not 100% on board but better than we have seen so far

OAKY BUT WHY BEATING UP THE POOR MESSENGER HE DID NOTHING TO YOU

hello randomass skeleton

WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU BURN ALL OF THESE PPL yeah okay figured he would

... the fuck you think you're doing pal

pal you have a plan don't you

yeah okay he had a plan

... that's some videogame level of making it but just fucking barely isn't it

... y'all's archers have the shittiest aim in existence don't they

okay like ridiculousness of daemon just dodging every hit aside this is really well made

ah okay lol I just said it and he got hit twice oh well

... Y'ALL REALLY HAVE A SHIT AIM GUYS XDDDDDDDD daemon go give robb stark pointers he'd have saved himself

there's the dragon coming isn't it isn't it

but why not sheepstealer yet *cries*

I mean for not having a single line I've gotta admit matt smith did bring the paycheck home this episode still not 100% sold but we can work with it more

I KNEW SOME LIZARD WAS GONNA SHOW UP NOW LMAO

enjoy being lizard-roasted my dudes

all in all excellent plan I'd say

why we are at ep 3 and each single battle is better than anything in the last two seasons of got and I'm saying it because I actually didn't hate blackwater and winterfell but come on

... well the searchers-like shot was a choice

... BLERGH DAEMON BLERGH

okay now that he's covered in blood he does look the way he's supposed to

... right I think I might manage four as well >_>

#janie watches hotd #janie watches the lizards show #house of the dragon spoilers for ts

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lifewithoutmeds · 8 months

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October 3, 2023

Haven't written in a while. Positive sign? Who knows.

Recap:

Wednesday, September 20: In office, but Dana wasn't able to make it out to lunch. Some combination of an AABS case going long (WFH) as well as a newly scheduled 2pm meeting meant she wouldn't be coming downtown. Salvaged the day by texting GY who was able to meet me at a local cafe for lunch. It was a breakfast sandwich that wasn't very tasty and was in wild need of hot sauce, but it was good to see her. Thursday, September 21: Coworked with Danielle. pet the doggy, went on walks, talked, probably cried a little, then walked over to get happy hours food and drinks and the vibe and service were terrible but then they forgot to add our last order of drinks so we just said nothing and giggled afterward. Friday, September 22: Had a doctor's appointment that i took off an hour for. kinda told him about what was going on. he had me get an impromptu blood test since i was on a new medication now and i wished i hadn't drunk so much the night before. Oops. later on my mom came by. i don't remember what we did. probably what we always do. eat something. she probably cleaned and washed my dishes and then she would make me watch some random korean show on youtube and i'd make her watch The Office on DVD and we'd both humor each other but not have any fun.

Saturday, September 23: Caroline's baby shower, hosted by her sister. Not particularly memorable. there were alcoholic beverages, which were nice, and then afterward gy and i went to eagle rock for some beers and caught up some. i went home for a quick nap then ubered to west hollywood for Hot Flash, where i met up with kim, her friend steph, and a handful of steph's friend. it was different and interesting, being in a group and not just circulating by myself. i wished i had done a bit more circulating, but it also felt nice to belong. got pizza with them then ubered home, close to 2.

Sunday, September 24: met up my mom for a few local open houses, then i think lunch. maybe ... fish king?

Monday, September 25: Yom Kippur, which normally would have no effect on me but Suzy had it off and we met for lunch in downtown, and i took an extra hour off. we caught up and i cried a little and she hugged me and we said we loved each other and my heart felt full and sad but also mixed with gratitude.

Tuesday, September 26: uncharacteristic in-office day, as the next Tuesday would be Halloween, so i guess ... somehow this would fix things? Don't really recall what happened this day.

Wednesday, September 27: ?

Thursday, September 28: Worked from home, then LT very nicely brought me lunch: my request of In N Out plus my favorite ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins: mint chip. it was really nice to see her. after work i sped off to sawtelle where i met 3/5 of my venice group: kendy, matt, and alex, and we ate at Tsujita Noodles, they brought me cards, and then we had some ice cream next door. We had deep/meaningful conversations, and then i headed home.

Friday, September 29: Amy cancelled on me for a morning hike as her kid had some stomach bug, so i think i just laid around all day until 5ish when Lana and Mirna scooped me up to go to sushi gen. gy met us there, and we ate around 7 some of the best sushi i had in a while, and then we drove over to verdugo bar, where we were met by grace k, her husband steve, amy l, and her pal jenny shin. they all bought me drinks and grace brought a beautiful homemade lemon tart thing and they sang for me and my heart felt full. it was only 8 people including me, but they were some of my favorite people. grace hung out a bit longer and we went to another bar across the street before ubering to our respective homes, where i got home around 2 again.

Saturday, September 30: Woke up at 8:58 and pulled on the clothing off the floor i had worn the night before in time to open the door for my mom who arrived at 9:01 a.m. so we could go to geoffrey's in malibu. without brushing my teeth or washing my face, i ran out and drove us to malibu. it was grey and a little drizzly, but we enjoyed a really nice view, ambiance, and service (but mediocre eggs benedict) before heading back home.

Sunday, October 1: my mom wanted to go to church to express her "gratitude" to God, so we went to lake avenue. i had wanted to go to this progressive, LGBTQ-inclusive church in glendale, but in looking at the photos, the demographic looked very young and i didn't want my mom to feel out of place so we went to Lake instead. it was a solid service, and we went to Sierra Madre for some highly recommended chinese food at a place called: Colette, but it was just okay, and there was this soup that was so bland my mom had to ask for salt and pepper. i probably just laid around the rest of the day.

Monday, October 2: what did i do? worked, i guess? did some dishes. threw out trash. chores. oh, i think i walked to the bank and deposited my mom's very generous birthday gift to me. i had a slight miscommunication with my mom regarding when she'd be coming by (she said wednesday, i thought monday), so she came by today anyway, and brought some rice, and we had dinner of kimchi jigae. she just put an offer on a very nearby condo so we talked about what needed to be done (moving, getting rid of things, etc.) and what it would be like for her to live so close by. oh i also went to the market for the first time in a while.

Tuesday, October 3: today was a pretty productive work day, intermixed with more chores. emails, RAS routing slips, commencement notices, dishes, laundry, floor sweeping, a shower, etc. after work i met caroline and patrick at sanamluang and we chatted and ate for about an hour and a half (their treat.)

this is the longest i've gone without crying. we are at: SEVEN DAYS. also i realized this is the first day in maybe the last month that i didn't text amir or danielle. i have been texting them daily, hourly at times, asking how they are, what they're doing, just desperate for human contact, to feel connected, etc. i've been falling asleep to youtube i think just to hear another voice. i'm sleeping later and later as my eyes dry out and glaze over, obsessively looking for an article that interests me, somewhere i might volunteer at, something i might want to buy, somewhere i might want to go, just desperately reaching, searching, for something to settle on, land on. i'm remembering pre-jadai kristal, and that's ... a lot of unsettledness, a lot of boredom, a lot of trying to figure my way out, to find a reason for being. it feels like two steps forward and three steps back.

oh well. at least i'm not crying, not journaling obsessively, not texting desperately. i guess this is progress.

the week ahead: 10/4/2023: in office day (wednesday) plus the postponed dim sum lunch with dana. 10/5/2023: wfh, but need to clear out my balcony for an inspection. 10/6/2023: taking the day off to take my mom to and from an endoscopy appointment. later that day i will go to costco to get my tires rotated. 10/7/2023: facetime therapy with kelda, then tam o'shanter dinner with Tracy and Ash. 10/8/2023: possibly try out that new church, then host kbbq at my place for lorena and reyna.

i've also been cleaning/tidying bit by bit some more. finally moved my icebox to the garage. finally removed my bbq stuff and camp chair from my car (to the garage.) lugged my rug out of the closet so there'll be room for the camp box to go in once i organize/inventory it. the place feels a tiny bit neater, freeer, cleaner. i'm hoping to get the place in tip-top shape in time for sunday's dinner hosting.

feeling ok today. better than i have in some time. hoping it just goes up from here.

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cesium-sheep · 1 year

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christmas record :v

from friends I got: (so far, I know there are a few more with projects either in progress or in the mail)

a kirby backpack from rou and the baby

a cute seal ornament from mana (who informs me she's named selkie and is a local celebrity)

some very cute pins from diane (a few little pills and a flower, and also a flower sticker)

from mom I got:

mast cells united by amber walker

a big bottle of skinfix chemical/mechanical exfoliant

a $50 etsy giftcard

from dad I got:

a new miniature house kit

a bright yellow daisy notebook

a yarn bowl

a couple skeins of 100% alpaca yarn

from matt (and somewhat also from arin) I got:

bubble waffle maker yay :D

those fidget toy animals I saw at target

a kirby coin pouch

3 palm pals (sheep, shooting star, axolotl)

a kirby digital watch lol

a kirby cup that I’m gonna use for cromolyn

a bear balloon ball

some nice house slippers that shouldn’t scrunch my feet

a big set of bath bombs

a big set of body lotions

a sketchbook

a box of banana pocky

the wheelchair hotwheel

a 1/2kg of fancy spaghetti

a big bear hooded blanket

a pair of enamel pins (a lucky cat and a bell)

which were wrapped with 3 lottery scratchers

a 1929 copy of Alexander and Some Other Cats

also jackie got some greenies from her box and matt also got her a new bag of greenies that he wrapped and put under the tree for her while he was here last XD

now I will put everything away and eat cinnamon rolls.

#christmas #gifts #long post #readmore

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bitcofun · 2 years

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In an unique interview with cryptonews.com, Mitchell Amador, Founder of Immunefi, speaks about the Founding story of Immunefi, developing brand-new web3 security systems, and informs stories about discovering bugs that have actually secured $60 bn+ in user funds. About Mitchell Amador Mitchell Amador is the Founder of Immunefi, the leading bug bounty and security services platform for web3 that safeguards crypto tasks and routine users. In a period of less than 2 years, Immunefi has actually conserved more than $25 billion dollars from being hacked and actively guards over $60 billion in users' funds. Before Immunefi, Mitchell was best understood for making Sophia the Robot an around the world experience as the CMO of SingularityNET and as the VP of Marketing at Steemit, where he drove its adoption and development, leading to a peak $2 billion evaluation. In addition, he belonged to the rLoop Hyperloop group, drove development for the world's dominant web.pdf business, and assisted introduce the biggest user-owned open world, Decentraland. Mitchell Amador provided an extensive unique interview which you can see below, and we enjoy for you to utilize it for publication offered there is a credit to www.cryptonews.com. Highlights Of The Interview Stories about discovering bugs that have secured $60 bn in user funds The starting story of Immunefi - discovering issues in the security stack Blockchain and crypto hacks - will they ever decrease? Anonymous workflow; cleaned gadgets, custom-made os, CUBEs, VPNs, restricted access to socials, and so on Building brand-new systems - it's going to be odd, however it will work Full Transcript Of The Interview Matt Zahab Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Cryptonews Podcast. We're buzzing as constantly, and we got another extraordinary visitor locked and filled for today we have Mitchell Amador, the creator of Immunefi, the leading bug bounty and security services platform for web 3, to secure crypto tasks and routine users. In a period of less than 2 years, Immunefi has actually conserved more than $25 billion from being hacked Holy crap, and actively guards over 60 billion in users funds. The business's paid the most substantial bug bounties in the software application market, totaling up to over 60 million consisting of 10 million for a vulnerability found in wormhole, which is quite bananas. And we'll get to that later on. Prior To Immunefi Mitchell was best understood for making Sophia the Robot an around the world feeling as CMO of SingularityNET. And as the VP of Marketing at Steemit where he drove its adoption and development. She was likewise a member of the rLoop Hyperloop group drove development for the world's dominant web.pdf platform and assisted release the biggest user-owned open-world Decentraland. Without more ado, I'm extremely happy to invite Mitchell Amador to the Cryptonews podcast. Mitchell, welcome to the program, my pal. Mitchell Amador Thank you. It's a challenging list of professional athletes do not hold me responsible to it. Matt Zahab Hey, when there's an excellent bio, it needs to read effectively. Congratulations on the remarkable background and for the listeners in the house who can not see you. That is among the coolest business t-shirts I've seen up until now. How can I snag among those bad young boys? Mitchell Amador Oh, you need to discover an important vulnerability and conserve a great deal of individuals's funds. If you do. I will provide it myself. Matt Zahab Is that how you get Immunefi t-shirt? Intriguing. No, no e-commerce shop? Mitchell Amador No, no paradises no. It's a matter of visual quality. You understand, you can't simply make merch offered it needs to be made through blood and suffering. Matt Zahab Gotcha. Mitchell Amador We have actually made an entire lot of intriguing boodle, however just the very best white hats on the planet can declare it. Matt Zahab So I seem like this might be like a Yeezy 2.0 sort of when it came out and Yeezys were choosing like 10 grand a pop on eBay.

And Craigslist and Facebook market since its supply was so low is that what's going to occur to Immunefi t-shirts like just white hat. That's it? Mitchell Amador Quite potentially. I do not even understand if we'll make enough for a market to form, God ready to loan. Actually unique Hermes design. Matt Zahab Yes, Hermes what a brand name. Absolutely nothing much better than a Hermes tie. By the method. Do you have any Hermes ties? Mitchell Amador No. I didn't even understand they made ties. I didn't understand they made male things. Matt Zahab To me the goat of ties. Unbelievable. Mitchell Amador Okay, well, I'll need to on my partner now, she will evaluate me. Matt Zahab Unless it's unless there's just knockouts. Anyways, enough about style. Let's enter into the enjoyable things here. Immunefi, you are the creator of Immunefi and you and the group have actually paid a definitely ridiculous quantity of cash over60 Mil and cash. Did you ever believe that you 'd be paying such a large amount of cash to individuals actually conserving billions of dollars? Mitchell Amador Yes, I was definitely specific of it. It was the factor we released the business. Matt Zahab Actually? Mitchell Amador Yeah. I suggest, when we when we began. For some context, right, you understand, you can inform from my background, I've been in this area for a long time. And those are really generous functions, you need to handle whatever issues are coming your method. And like the security stack in crypto today is 100 times much better than it was several years earlier. Therefore we would have events like this all the time. And this is what developed the understanding for establishing Immunefi in the very first location. We understood that security was a losing video game. Currently, in this area, we understood just how much cash was at threat, due to the fact that you understand, we had actually been those exchanges who got hacked, we had actually been on the within events, handling them securing a job's Treasury or safeguarding their facilities that handle their secrets.. We understood how susceptible things were. And we understood how important it was to secure them. Due to the fact that we had actually remained in those circumstances where you need to do generally anything. You need to play ball with whoever comes your method. You need to discover a method to secure your properties and your facilities. Due to the fact that to refrain from doing so is specific death for whatever that you've produced. Far the overall damage of the equity that you've labored on for years, and years, and years. It's like you understand, you state, Oh, well, did you believe you would be paying out like a $10 million bounty? Well, yeah, naturally, on a long adequate timeframe. 2 years was quite quick. Not gon na lie, however like on a 510 year timeframe for sure. Since we had like simply looking at the steady coin examples, right, or the exchange examples, there have actually currently been numerous, lots of events, that would have been more suitable to have actually been prevented, were paying 10 mil out of pocket to get rid of that threat element would have been significantly more effective. And understanding that it was a certainty, everyone would take that offer. It was just a matter of time. Till we got to these type of numbers. The only concern was when? Can we bring this brand-new requirement to this area? For how long will it consider individuals to recognize that you actually, actually, actually need to focus on security over whatever else? And we were lucky that it occurs faster instead of later on. Matt Zahab How do you pay these bounties out? Like how do the good white hat guys and do that? who discover the bugs? How did they earn money out? Mitchell Amador The essential concern, so not just preparing to get your Immunefi t-shirt, however you're likewise resembling, how do I get my ticket? Well, it's all, you understand, quite, quite user-friendly.

We've got 2 methods of generally dealing with this. Primary is, white hat sends the vulnerability, right, the bug report goes through our extremely, let's call it in depth procedure for product packaging and structuring that report. That entire deal is settled, which can be a long procedure, in and of itself, right, it can extend over. We've seen things dealt with in 15 minutes, we've dealt with things that take 45 days? Really made complex cases, sluggish cases. Okay. Which can be as basic as alright, all of us settle on the effect and the seriousness cool, or, Hey, appearance, we concur it's genuine bug, however we disagree on the effect. Okay, now we need to discuss it. We get through all that. We verified this is a genuine bug, ideally, for you. Yeah, it's a million dollar important vulnerability. And what do we do now? Well, it's really easy. We state, hey, look, here's the address, we've examined it 3 times, we've observed, you understand, individuals make errors with their address this, we've cut a punch a little functions in, that will triple look at behalf of the users and we state, Look, I'm sending their charge that easy. And it's often paid on crypto, there are some exceptions where we'll send out cash to a savings account. The huge bulk of users choose paying cash in crypto, usually, that's steady coins USDC. In some cases USDT, usually a color, you understand, the white hats, particularly do choose color. And in some cases that's in tokens. For example, some of the European native tokens right there in the Aurora tokens, however it will differ. And there's not a clear connection in between, say bounty size, and whether it's in tokens or steady. CO payment, for instance, was all in trainees. Matt Zahab Can you discuss the distinction in between how a white hat would deal with Immunefi and how a white hat would simply arrange of go their own method? Let's state Company X has $100 million bug and white hat individual, why goes hello, I'm going to work my magic here. What's the like? What are the benefits and drawbacks with dealing with you people, we're versus simply doing it themselves? Mitchell Amador Sure. This is part of the factor we formed the business in the very first location, the experience of rolling your own bug bounty program, right and reveal it significantly more so on the side of the white hats of revealing was so bad, and so horrendous and so unpleasant, that we understood that there required to be a service, or we 'd all be running the risk of disastrous damage throughout the community. If you're on your own, I'm assisting deal a pal offer with the case right now a lot of jobs do not have a bug bounty program, they discovered a remarkable vulnerability that puts major properties at threats. What do you do? Well, you attempt and connect with the appropriate workers at whatever organization that you're handling. Now, if you've ever done sales prior to, for instance, and you're attempting to reach the ideal individual, you understand how tough that can be to browse and resemble, Oh, hello, who's accountable for your security, inside Company X, Y, Zed. You're gon na be on this wild goose chase? Simply for the start, you discovered that like alive payload, you've got a make use of, it can be run, the whatever the organization is, they're susceptible. And yet, you understand, you're going to invest days, weeks, months, simply attempting to get access to the ideal individual. Yeah, then you get access to the best individual. You're fortunate many of the time, you may, you might simply not ever get gain access to, and you simply have to call it a day or you openly divulge whatever. Let's state you get fortunate you make a break and what occurs next, or they have a bug bounty program of their own. Let's state they run it. And they hosted themselves. What occurs next? Well, then you're now talking with who you hope is either it's either going to be an engineer, usually, or is going to be the head of security,

or often it's even going to be the CEO or a COO, if they do not have that sort of function. And in all cases, this individual is going to be rattled. They've simply found that you've got a sword of Damocles, right, a sword hanging by a thread over their head and you've had it for days, weeks, months. And you're stating you desire something for it? A minimum of, that's how they translate it. They're really worried. They're adversarial. They're like this individual might actually mess me up. Do they desire to take benefit of me, that's the only factor they would get in contact? That's not the case. Certainly, the white hat by act by divulging in the very first location is revealing their excellent faith. Individuals in a state of worry do not react that method. Therefore they fret and the tension over it, and now you're attempting to describe, hey, here's the vulnerability, here's how you need to repair it by you understand, please, you understand, likewise pay me for my great. Preferably, you understand, this things does not isn't totally free. And they're like, is it genuine? I do not believe it's genuine. I believe you're attempting to rip-off me. And after that they're like, oh, shoot, it's genuine. I still believe you're attempting to fraud me, simply even if it is genuine. And you divulged in great faith. Matt Zahab So the entire procedure, it's an outright shitshow. And, and once again, I'm attempting to put my feet in the because in a corporation shoes. It's like if I had $100 million hack insight bug rather, inside my corporation in some in John comes out to me and goes, Hey, Matt, you got to pay me 10 mil to conserve 100 What do you state? Like that's, that's a quite insane scenario. You understand, like, those circumstances do not grow on trees. And I would likewise resemble, John, you're complete of shit. And after that I 'd most likely get 100 Mil taken from me. Mitchell Amador That's what Equifax did. And they had like, you understand, half of America social security information from them? It's like we all understand with our consumers, like we truly do. We remained in that position, we understand how tough it is. At the very same time, none of that is the best action. All of that is disadvantageous. All of that develops a terrible experience for the white hat, who is otherwise conserving your bacon, and revealing that they're running in excellent faith. It's damaging your future security capacity, since word goes out, and after that no one wishes to assist you. No one wishes to handle you. Due to the fact that after all, you simply you screw, whoever approaches you in great faith and takes a danger. And it's a mess. And there's nevermind, like, envision determining a benefit. You have no bug bounty program, you have no expectations. Like, how do you determine that? Well, it's straight up settlement, where you're indirectly it's a zero-sum video game. Like, no matter how you cut that, chances are, the white hat is going to be extremely disappointed with you, since you'll wish to protect funds. And no matter what you do, like you will most likely be extremely discontented with what you pay, since you're constantly gon na resemble, well, could not we have gotten a more affordable? There's no sense of what's reasonable worth. It's simply a dish for disappointments. And this is what all bug bounties remained in crypto. For many years. Prior to we occurred, simply consistent disappointments that made bug bounty programs so reliable that the large bulk of the area didn't even trouble utilizing them. Like they weren't even worth the time. Matt Zahab Was there a specific circumstances, that made you feel the requirement to co discovered the business? Like what like, were you a part of a hack yourself? Or a co-founder, whatever the case may be? Mitchell Amador I imply, let's simply state I've been, I've lost lots of cash in our market. That wasn't the thing that kind of stimulated me on. That's like expense of operating. We're in crypto early, you understand, things are a mess. Matt Zahab

Shit's gon na strike the fan.? Mitchell Amador You can do whatever, right, it still occurs like heaps of wallets. I ruined how they develop their seed expressions. Which caused vulnerabilities on the line that's taken place like half a lots times, and let you understand, all the funds you put in there susceptible some years later on. Like, it's simply includes the area. The minute where I was like, Okay, we require a systemic option was when I was on, I was in Switzerland on this on this mountain, I was extremely ill. I was extremely ill and moody and dissatisfied. And I didn't like Switzerland, so pricey. And it was cold, like bad mix of characteristics. For me, the food isn't to my preference. It's like whatever is simply making me irritable. I had all this cash maker now. At and it was a lot for me. And it's gon na be a lot for a great deal of individuals. It was a lot for me. I resembled, I do not actually feel great about this. I do not truly feel safe about this. What do I do about this? I've remained in this area for so long. I understand great deals of security individuals, however for some factor, like, where are my security guarantees here? Why ought to I think that the cash that I put here is safe. And I began inspecting. I resembled, I should not think it, make it out, run a few of the very best security ops and in the area, for sure. When I went to examine, right, why should I be particular about it? You understand, you go and ask the individual you're like, look, all code is insecure. All code is going to have bugs. And we do the very best possible work that we can. They're a remarkable, incredible group. There's simply like that as a danger aspect for them too. And you do not get the within view. You do not get to see the audits. You do not get to see the security evaluations. You do not get to see the QA that's going on to verify how great they're doing it from the exterior. You're similar to, I do not have a great deal of excellent factors to be positive of any specific clever agreement that my cash's in. And it was at that minute when I comprehended so that when I simply did when I absorbed that insight completely, I understood that it's like, fine, this requires a systemic service, we require an entire security stack. And if we do not establish that security stack, we are going to doom this area to an amazing variety of thefts. That security stack, it has to like it requires to begin the most essential piece. And the important things I was completely missing out on resembled, What are your relied on guarantees? What are your security guarantees? How do you secure yourself when you're on Main internet when all the cash's truly there? Which's how we pertained to this conclusion of bug bounties for like, you understand, we determined an entire list of what the issues in the security stack were, where all the important things required to be dealt with, what sort of innovation required to exist, and we concerned the conclusion of Okay, this one, bug bounties is the hardest. It's the hardest. It's the least enjoyable. It's the worst experience. And it's the most crucial to in fact conserving individuals from getting robbed. We're like, oh, well, you understand, me and my buddies, we all had the exact same nature go to the hardest issue. toss ourselves versus the wall. That's what we did. Matt Zahab A number of things there. One, I like that story. Thank you for informing me that. I typically discover that individuals have these aha minutes in life comparable to you did while you understand being on a mountain in Switzerland, freezing your balls off, like when you're out of your convenience zone, like fantastic things take place, you understand, and it's odd like that. It's practically paradoxical, where a great deal of amazing concepts are developed when you're in the very best of minute drinking on a Mai Tai on a beach in Thailand or Bahamas. And on the other side, while you're freezing your NADs off on a cold mountain in Switzerland, it's amusing how the world works.

Not exactly sure if you have any commentary on that. The 2nd is you discovering an unsexy issue. And it being really successful. That's another sort of, you understand, rule in life that is so obvious that nobody likes to pursue, like, if you were to ask me, and no offense to you in the group, I'm sure not offense taken, you people are doing effectively, heck, you simply raised a great deal of cash, however he's prepared to, we'll get to that quickly. Like, I would not desire to be paying out bug bounties. That's not an area I 'd wish to operate in. It's friggin crucial. It's not attractive, however it foots the bill. And it does more than that. It's simply yeah, not exactly sure where I'm opting for those 2 points. Amusing how life works. Often. Mitchell Amador It's real. There's this, you understand, amusing phenomenon, you got those terrific concepts on the one side, however the things that actually move the needle, right, in a systemic method, in a method that uses to everyone, or big populations, the easy things, right, like someone discovered a method to make insurance coverage, inexpensive and simple to compute, and unexpectedly everyone can get insurance coverage for like, Well, why would anyone care about that, however then you have, you understand, 1020 30% of the population no longer worrying, every day of their life, that their home is gon na go on fire, that the home is gon na get flooded. This maximizes this huge bounty of human energy and capacity. Life is like that. And for our part, like, the root of that is the stress and anxiety, the worry that creators have, that we had, when we were constructing. We're, we're constructing all this amazing facilities, we're attempting to develop the rails? We're attempting to produce the piping for a brand-new world. And we're vesting work, we're all in we're putting skin in the video game, where are you understand, all in on our portfolio, like that job is our dream that we're attempting to develop. And our entire life course is contingent on its result. And you're stuck to this frustrating worry and stress and anxiety that a single vulnerability due to the fact that some engineer had a bad day or consumed excessive of a smile, whatever, vulnerability insinuated, and you got trashed. Due to the fact that of that. It's like this unbelievable reverse. It's like a it's like a hell lotto. A lotto from hell, you understand that you may have drawn that fortunate ticket due to the fact that somebody slipped up. And the outcome is the damage of years of your labor. And we're like, fine, that's bad. That's like that's harmful. Now, we're encouraged to go and repair that. Which does indicate, we need to handle like, truly hard workflows and truly difficult issues. I believe that releasing individuals up so that they do not have to fret about these things, either as a creator or as a user of these innovations is eventually very beneficial. Matt Zahab I like that. Can you Mitchell, can you stroll me through a number of excellent stories about discovering bugs that have actually assisted secure a few of those 60 billion and user funds will be romance in the crypto news pod. You do not need to not you do not need to drop names. If you have any actually great stories, I 'd like to hear. Mitchell Amador There's been a great deal of such cases. Clearly, a great deal of this things is discrete. I'm attempting to be mindful with what I state. There was this enjoyable case like I'll go back to the this was a really early days for us. It was this 3rd or 4th vital vulnerability that we handled the task called ArmorFi and the creators A man called Robert Forester, he's a fantastic character, and is a strong security man was a bug Hunter himself. He comprehended right away the worth of what we were doing, and chose to publish this huge million dollar bounty on day one. And he's all prepared, he's pumped, he's gone through numerous audits, he's like, I've done whatever that might perhaps be done.

Now I'm gon na launch within 24 hours, somebody throughout the world had actually discovered a gamebreaking vulnerability that would have enabled somebody to take all the user funds that remained in that item. His was an insurance protection item. Therefore one exploitation, which would occur to be the claim function, somebody might click set off the claim function, and they would simply take it all. It's like the most significant insurance coverage pay day in the history of crypto, right. Matt Zahab One click Mitchell Amador One click, and what was the reason for it? What was the reason for it? An additional asterisk, simply wish to get in touch with screwed up the mathematics, increase the exponent by the exponent. Resulted in all possible funds, simply this small thing that needs to have been captured in QA, need to have been captured by automated tooling needs to have been captured in both audits. Everyone missed it. Everyone did. And as an outcome, like the only individual who might come and conserve the day, this function would have been set off, by the method by the very first individual who declared from that insurance coverage item. It's like, it wasn't like, oh, well, perhaps the hack would not have taken place? No, it was 100% particular that it would have been set off. The very first individual to declare their refund would have taken all everybody's cash. And he would resemble, well, we'll go if I litigate. The person who ended up conserving the day ended up being this young German gentleman who simply looked at it, he was like, Well, you understand, I believe this is an unbelievable task to believe this is unbelievable bounty, and I believe I can resolve this problem. Let me reveal it. Within, you understand, one, 2 hours after the disclosure, we were connecting things down, stopping briefly the agreements, cleaning up whatever up resembling it's all on hold, it's all on hold. And it's an amusing occasion. We repaired it, using funds were all conserved. They had a token with that task in it, and it pumped on the news that the bug bounty worked which the security was so efficient. Pump like 3, really unreasonable, however I enjoyed that it exercised well for him. That was alright. Matt Zahab What did the German lad get? What did he get for his bounty. Mitchell Amador We've got about a million dollars worth of tokens, Commander being what wound up being a bit more by the time it was provided. Matt Zahab Wow, possibly I ought to find out how to code and be a white hat or Mitchell Amador It's a progressively engaging profession course. What can I state? You got to be you understand, truly, actually into it. It's difficult. If you consider bounties.? And you think of security bug bounties are essentially well what if you did code evaluation? If you did vulnerability analysis, however you put it on max problem what's the video gaming term for self-destructive problem? Well stated whatever that is, it's simply all on all of them all the time. Matt Zahab That's a fantastic example that well that's the novella quote right play foolish video games win foolish rewards play huge video games play huge no win huge rewards. There's a quite friggin huge video game you're playing. Mitchell Amador Sure well I've won a great deal of very rewards in my life so Matt Zahab You're preaching choir retweet king of the silly rewards over here. Mitchell we got to take fast break and offer a substantial shout out to our sponsor the program which is PrimeXBT I enjoy PrimeXBT you men understand why? Due to the fact that they use a robust trading system for both newbies and expert traders does not matter if you're a novice or a veterinarian. You can quickly develop and personalize your designs and widgets to finest fit your trading design. PrimeXBT is likewise running a special promotion for listeners of the Cryptonews podcast utilize a promotion code CRYPTONEWS50 that is CRYPTONEWS50 all one word to get 50% of your deposit credited to your trading account.

Once again, that is CRYPTONEWS50 CRYPTONEWS50 all one word to get 50% of your deposit credited to your trading account. Now back to the program with Mitchell. Mitchell, you people ended up being the most significant and leading security platform for all of crypto in less than 2 years. That is absolutely something to compose house about. That is exceptionally outstanding. You got to provide me a couple suggestions here. Couple bits. A number of golden nuggets, clearly correct time best location. No shit. Offer me some non-obvious things that you and the group did to scale to this extraordinary task. Mitchell Amador I can inform you some tricks however they're gon na frighten you Sure. Do you wish to if you wish to. Matt Zahab I'm all ears strike me. Mitchell Amador Okay, well, you understand, top, you got to be fortunate. Time ideal location constantly the most essential thing. For us something that showed incredibly reliable. And it's been the basic viewpoint for how a variety of my circle I think I run our operation has actually been, go and do the difficult things anywhere the hardest issues are, is the significant chance where there's a possibility to produce genuine worth. And we took that to the limitations. With Immunefi, we went, we generally released and we went straight to hardmode. For example, we began taking clients like right from day one, when all we had was a Google kind, right and an average listings page, simply a table, simply a giant A, and we're like, No, we're in organization. Let's go. We did complete on attempting 24/ 7 processing of reports from the first day. They were simply concerning strike our inbox, we would examine them and send out the outcomes back to the clients, which is an extremely tough thing, if you understand what it's like to run 24/ 7 security groups. Matt Zahab I do not which would be headache fuel. Mitchell Amador Almost no one in this area, does it? We're one of the only ones. You understand, we did that. And this is from the first day. Another day. Something, while this was more like day30 When we found this issue, like there were these disagreements in between the tasks, what do we do? It's like, well, you generally require like an arbitration system in between them.? How do we get that in? And the response resembled, there is no law in this. There's no structure for handling there's no absolutely nothing. And it resembled, Well, I think we'll simply need to make it ourselves, which is what we did. And we ended up being the conciliators, now we have an entire set of teachings on how to translate these kinds of occasions and how to manage them and an entire series of case research studies and histories for how to work them out. It was, you understand, this is this typical style of like, alright, what's the most hard issue things that no one have actually ever resolved prior to, that are very unclear, it's like go towards them. They exist as points of user friction, if you fix them, you produce unbelievable worth. For everyone not winning wasn't simply for the consumers? Certainly, it was for us as an organization. It was for the consumers by driving real bug reports. Bug bounties didn't operate in crypto, however for us, we made them work. And it was for the users. Sure, we took that suffering on ourselves, you understand, forever nights, keeping up till 567 remain in the early morning to do the job. Dealing with very difficult cases, and conflicts mediations and making no work. The outcome of that was billions of dollars in funds conserved the outcome of that was the production of an entire market committed to proactively conserving tasks and utilize your funds. Like we went towards the heart thing, and the outcomes was an entire market. And I believe that uses in a great deal of cases. Matt Zahab Well stated. I like seeing how enthusiastic and fired up you have to do with this. Like it's I can inform you definitely enjoy this shit. There's no requirement for Firestarter under your ass any early morning. Mitchell Amador

Yeah, well, I take a look at it in this manner. In addition to simply being quite enthusiastic about making blockchain work, which we're doing, right, like, if we prosper in our objective to make the area more safe, we are straight allowing the blockchain world and if we stop working in our objective, a blockchain world is not possible. The worry of hacks, threat and so forth insecurity in our area will revoke its possible to be the rails the future monetary rails of the world. That's inspiring. You and I, Matt, you and I have cash in this area in this domain. And if we do not safeguard it, well, I do not understand where are you? I'm going to be a quite unfortunate panda. About all of it. I do not wish to get robbed. Inspired. I'm inspired in securing you and encouraging securing me I'm encouraged in producing something for the future. It's, it's beneficial and security is the concept. Matt Zahab Mitchell will crypto hacks ever decrease? Now? I understand this is a tough concern. Due to the fact that even web2 hacks are still obviously all the time he discussed the Immunefi, not Immunefi, Equifax hack, which once again, half a billion users or nevertheless insane it was. This shit grows on trees each and every single day web 2 business get hacked the majority of the time, it's information. And often it's numerous countless dollars. In crypto, it's more cash than anything else. Are we ever visiting the downturn? Or will the hack parade constantly simply be an insane thing? Since of the nature of the decentralized systems in area? Mitchell Amador That's a hard concern that you asked me hard concerns. The response is, it's nuanced. No, the hacks are never ever going to decrease. Number one, however at the exact same time, the hacks will get less destructive? on a portion basis.. What you're gon na see is the rate is going to continue to increase an increasing boost, simply like we see with the history of rip-offs in our area. And we see with hacking and rip-offs in the standard monetary markets, like you do not find out about it. There's 100 times as lots of hacks 600 1000 10,000 times as lots of hacks going on in standard tech and financing that you simply you simply never ever learnt more about. It ends up being a continuous thing which's the instructions where crypto is gon na go. It's simply going to be consistent and never ever ending. Like now we're at the point where hacks are Multiple times a day, that's not going to stop. Which simply features the boost of development in the area. And the boost in the variety of individuals who have the abilities to make use of and you capture that person in a bad day. And he's, he's going to do it. He's bad, he's lost his task. You understand, he got battered by the system, whatever, you understand, he's warranted he feels and making the exploits. That's what it's gon na do. Security in the area is likewise enhancing, right, we're in this never ever ending arms race with human greed and malevolence. Therefore we're likewise improving at securing the area. Every day, a growing number of white hats are registering to us Immunefi finest hackers on the planet are registering to join us in securing tasks. Every day tasks are getting more advanced in their security practices, developing a much better layers of defense, establishing much better bug bounty programs that lead to more eyes on code, and more vulnerabilities avoided from exploitation. Therefore what you're gon na discover is, the hacks are going to continue to take off, fine, and the magnitude of Hacks is likewise going to increase even if that's an analytical phenomenon. on a portion basis, the efficiency of hacks is going to reduce slowly, as security captures up a growing number of. And it's this type of, you understand, we're reducing the damage, we're reducing the dangers, it does not totally get rid of the occasions, they're still going to occur, they're going to get larger, they're going to get even worse, however less of them are occurring typically relative to the quantity of cash at threat.

And you see this with a lot of the hacks now? The larger hacks are a lot rarer. It's normally much smaller sized hacks that are occurring, the basis, that was not how it remained in the early days, where the majority of the occurrences were extremely, large quantities of cash. The trajectory is great.? The trajectory of security in our area is actually enhancing drastically. Day by day. We're definitely doing our part to do that. Yes, the hacks are not going to slow down. And yes, they are going to increase some liberty. Intriguing. We likewise have to be all set for that truth. Matt Zahab Are we visiting what was the most significant hack up until now? What was it wormhole? 350 mil? Mitchell Amador No, no, no, the wormhole case was not it's not even from another location near to the biggest. Matt Zahab What's been the biggest? Mitchell Amador Well appear like you might take a look at the Binance case, which was, you understand, simply today, recently, that was 5 more than 500 mil and BNB. taken from the bridges. Now the aggressor just got away with about6070 That's still you understand, generally totally free mint dilution of the whole base. By about 500 mil. You're the ronin hack, which was nearly $600 million. Yes, yes.. That was a substantial case. Matt Zahab Are we gon na see a 10 figure hack? Mitchell Amador Of course we are. I indicate, it's currently taken place, like the Bitfinex hack years back is equivalently 10 figures, or may be 11 figures today. Matt Zahab I indicate, I suggest, a present day, I imply, on the day, for sure. It's gon na occur. It's gon na take place. Mitchell Amador No doubt. I'm 100%. Specific. I indicate, we for context? We can look at the optimism case, we can look at the polygon case, we can look at some other cases, we understand that aren't public? We have actually currently existed avoiding the 10 figure hack numerous times over, how do you believe we got to the 25 billion number, which is conservative, the genuine number is more around 35 to $40 billion dollars, by the method, at this moment. Like, that's, you understand, that's the are we going to get to a 10 figure hack 40 times over. Alright, consider that. It's not simply a single separated case. There have actually been, I believe, I do not understand if we're up to a lots. You understand, we're not far off. Matt Zahab And you most likely you and the group have actually seen some insane shit that the general public most likely has no hint up. And never ever will. Mitchell Amador Of course, obviously, you understand, the majority of these things. You hear about these amazing cases, like the armor I simply pointed out, or, like the Polygon cases, you hear about them, since the Polygon group is so excellent faith. Therefore vulnerable to public disclosure, and supporting the neighborhood that they're going to share.? What's going on, they have such terrific security practice, generally, that they're going to do that and props to me. Matt Zahab They're not going to provide not gon na provide the real reason. Mitchell Amador Well, they're doing what they're gon na do. And I believe what they that technique of making things transparent is the ideal one, however a great deal of jobs do not, right, or a great deal of scenarios they think about extremely delicate, and those ones never ever make it public. And you can see the quantities of cash walking around, like there's like, it's an excellent reward to be like, Well, alright, well, I can talk or I can keep this personal and their dollars. That's okay. Yeah.. We have heaps and loads of cases, impacting billions and billions of dollars that do not see the light of day due to the fact that everyone concurs for whatever factor is appropriate to them that it's finest to keep it peaceful and we support that, you understand, if the both celebrations desire to keep it personal, that's their company. It's not ours. We enjoy to do our task and securing the neighborhood and we draw ball. Matt Zahab

So, when that scenario occurs, is it like, you understand, Everyone does a virtual handshake, Doc's get signed, and after that NDAs get fired throughout everybody's desk, everybody indications them up, boom, back to sort of that approximate 3rd party, you understand, arbitrator, which's it Case Closed. Mitchell Amador Typically we do not require NDAs or docs. I suggest, I desire you to comprehend a multitude of these white hats divulging are confidential. They're not going to expose their identity. Matt Zahab Like completely, totally non, you understand, no about them. Mitchell Amador Yeah, they wish to do their excellent faith action. They do not desire to get iced. They do not wish to be penalized. Matt Zahab Gotcha. Mitchell Amador Because they did something that they believed was right, which takes place, right, that's occurred a lot in the history of hacking. Which's occurred a lot in the history of bug bounties where you get penalized for doing a kindness. Therefore there's this personal privacy aspect. Therefore some jobs will they might send out over an NDA, and it's like, all right, well, if that remained in the regards to their bug bounty program? Sure, let's do that. That's the best thing to do. That's what you concurred to do. Matt Zahab But if it's not and it does not occur. How did how did these white hatters remain completely non like offer me their methods of interaction? Are they signal plus proton mail? Are they like provider pigeon? Like what's, what do they do? Mitchell Amador It's truly difficult to remain totally unidentified? Since you require such fantastic OpSec that you never ever mistake even when. Okay, which is nigh difficult. That's very challenging to do. That's like composing software application without any bugs. Yeah, incredibly, incredibly difficult to do. There are methods that you can do that. Generally, they're going to have gadgets that are committed to particular performances, and just utilize them for that. They may have something they just utilize for crypto deals that the only usage for bug searching, or they just utilize for interactions, they may be on custom-made operating systems like tails, or heads. Or they may be utilizing cubes to restrict gain access to. Things like VPNs are certainly an offered. They'll utilize other types of masking software application to make it even more hard to pull out details. For example, your web browser is informing, you understand, Apple, or, you understand, we're utilizing Google Chrome, it's sending out Google details back on what kind of hardware you're running? What's the finger print of your maker and an entire lot of qualities. And there's great deals of methods to obstruct that. And to obfuscate that, they're going to generally utilize those, they may likewise restrict access to any socials or facilities that they utilize with this device? Since the minute you log into proton, sure, proton states they aren't tracking anything. Like, they can examine where your IP came from, they can inspect, you understand, attempt and gather more info in your web browser, more details on your hardware if they're smart enough. Therefore you likewise wish to manage how you access all that facilities. A range of procedures like this, in aggregate, integrated with a really, extremely disciplined usage of an extremely little number of tools is how you remain confidential. And like, think about if you actually desire to stand on anyone, like you can't utilize Google Docs. And you can't utilize a lots of applications, your phone, if you utilize an iPhone, it's constantly in lockdown mode, which is you understand, iPhones are not personal at all. You most likely will not even be an iPhone user. You're doing all this things, right to restrict gain access to, making your prospective attack surface area extremely little by utilizing a little number of applications, devoted gadgets, and being very disciplined about how you engage with anything on there. Matt Zahab

So, a minimum of simply from white hat and non user to you and business gets hacked. What's the ways of call? Is it e-mails telegram? Is it signify? What do you people utilize? Mitchell Amador The methods of comms? Well, we utilize our application. The truth is that bug reports are truly complex things to deal with.? It might take us days or weeks to deal with the event. There's a lots of subtlety, you require a great deal of eyes on it. It's not going to be like oh, it comes to us and then we deal with it for them. No, no, it goes to Mike go through our layer of triaging where examining the report, they'll go through an automatic system, and it'll go to the job. The job could be 10 individuals? It might be a single engineer, or it might be an entire engineering and security group. And they require to go back and forth and talk and they might require to speak to us independently. The whole we have an application where all this interaction takes location. Touch and it takes place after the submission of the report that develops essentially the report. And after that from there, we have a huge thread. We're managing all sorts of various kinds of interaction in between the white hat in between the task and after that under different conditions with Immunefi itself. Matt Zahab So all of it occurs. That makes overall sense. Everything occurs within Immunefi walls. Mitchell Amador And we naturally, like this is the most delicate information we comprehend that we are the castle to generate crypto. And so we are continuously browsing our facilities. Manning our walls end to end, locking this down to make it as secured in a safe environment as possible. Matt Zahab No double parenthesis in any Immunefi code. Mitchell Amador Let's simply state that we compose spick-and-span and effective. Matt Zahab Clean, attractive, and effective code. I like it. Mitchell, this has actually been an outright reward male, I've had a lot enjoyable talking with you. And ideally we can do this personally one day, we are getting a little tight for time here. The race, congrats on the race from structure, among the very best VCs in the area. Stroll me through that entire procedure. You understand why you men chose to deal with them? The cash, the entire 9 backyards? What are you gon na make with it? Inform me about the structure endeavor race. Mitchell Amador So that was a hard one? We came to the end of in 2015. And our thesis was simply, you understand, actually starting to remove. Okay? And we're like, Okay, well, what do we do? You understand, next? Well, we require to raise we require we've developed something that's truly remarkable and truly engaging. And it produces a lot worth for the neighborhood. We require more aid. We require more individuals, we require more resources, we require more engineers, like we require a lot more to actually provide on our objective. Let's go out and raise, the very first thing that we did was store that around to all our partners be like, Well, what do you believe? And it's at that point structure, you understand, offered itself, which was amazed they were our seed financiers. And they were extremely encouraging, exceptionally valuable, really hands on item partners, an uncommon thing in our area. And we liked that, however we didn't anticipate them to wish to back us to the next action. They stated, No, no, let's, you understand, let us do it. Let us do it. We began talking back and forth about how it would work. And I indicate, I believe I was truly delighted with essentially whatever and how they performed themselves incredibly high stability, they essentially offered us the pitch for where they were going. And I resembled, alright, yeah, these are the best partners. For us. These are individuals who can assist take Immunefi, to make us the, you understand, the disclosure layer, the 911, layer for vulnerabilities in all of crypto. And they've been that method since. I can count on them to hop on a

call with me and barbecue me about item and get something actually important insights any day of the week. Which is that's, you understand, the very first thing I do not understand, you wish to speak about, you understand, how we're going to utilize the cash or what you wish to do? Matt Zahab Yeah, well, you can enter into it and have some enjoyable here. Mitchell Amador Okay, so we raised $24 million. Which wasn't simply from structure. Structure was the lead, and we're forever glad to them for that, however was likewise a few of our other partners. Essentially, everyone who's invested in us in the past, double, triple, or quadruple down in our last round. That when we people like the plan forest team, that would be electrical capital and other group of remarkable individuals, who would be the quote scale, people, like an entire lot of them. And, you understand, we wished to raise this cash to truly provide on this vision of developing the 911 layer, and the 911 layer of the area needs, you understand, impulse interactions, it needs incredibly reliable levels of purification so that you can recognize what the high concern cases are, right from the start. It needs a very high worth funnel, best and incredibly high worth circulation of attention entering that can develop into high worth bug reports, which you understand, that results in type of our marketing and our neighborhood functions and all the work that we're continuously doing there, to support the security neighborhood and grow it a growing number of and more, we simply do not have sufficient individuals, we've actually do not have adequate individuals in the area right to secure the area. And lastly, and most likely the most essential thing is we're going towards this world where we require more and more trust. The issue with bug bounties is trust. Therefore we're producing all this honestly special innovation these special possessions things that truly have actually never ever been seen prior to in order to facilitate what we feel will end up being a multi billion dollar market for vulnerabilities in the not so long run. Matt Zahab Well stated. Hey, congrats on the race not a doubt in my mind you men are gon na put those down arrows to great to excellent usage. Mitchell outright reward last concern for you hot takes we enjoy hot takes in the Cryptonews pod let's get a check and boots on Step inside the hot take factory What is something that just maybe Mitchell thinks in that most other individuals do not does not need to be crypto associated can be food sports, politics, location, area, celebrities style you call it can be something great? A metric of hot take. Mitchell Amador There's a lot of. How about over the next 100 years there's going to be an entire lot of brand-new faiths that appear and they're going to be great and they're going to spread out like wildfire you understand, some single digit number most likely brand-new Christianity news our app isn't. Matt Zahab Good. If we were beginning the religious beliefs of you understand Mitchell security and, and charming business T t-shirts. What would that appear like? Like inform me if you're if you were the head priest or head preacher of stated faith, what would that appear like? Mitchell Amador I was the head priest. Well, for beginners, we 'd have much better t-shirts? If you're gon na choose taste, you got ta go all the method. Whatever you carry out in this life, you got ta go 110% Matt Zahab You can't be half-pregnant. Mitchell Amador You can't be half-pregnant. I believe, you understand, the visual worth is going to be a huge thing. It's going to be a huge thing for it will be a huge thing for me. It's going to be a huge thing for this future, as all these individuals around the world, figure out that, you understand, the old systems do not work any longer, simply like they do not work for cash. As we're seeing crypto. Well, you understand what, they do not work for a great deal of things any longer.

Therefore they're going to develop brand-new ones. And it's going to be odd. Matt Zahab It's going to work. Mitchell Amador It will, it will work. Which's the important things. There's going to be brand-new faiths and they're going to work and individuals will choose them over the old method of doing things. And for a contemporary, you understand, like you and I, it's like, our world will be cast into the past. Similar to in the manner in which you understand, we consider the ancients resembled pagans worshiping, Hera and Zeus. That's unusual. What does that even appear like? Norse. Behrman entering some unsightly, decaying log temple hoping to an inadequately sculpted statue. What does that even suggest? It's absolutely various, however they're gon na take a look at us the exact same method and our weird gods of modernity and financial wealth. It'll be fascinating. I intend to live enough time to see a great deal of it concern fulfillment. Matt Zahab I enjoy that. Mitchell. Thank you a lot for beginning male had an outright blast. Prior to we let you go. Can you please let our listeners understand where they can discover you and Immunefi online and on socials? Mitchell Amador Sure, so everyone, you can discover me on Twitter @MitchellAmador. That's MITC H E L A M A D O R. You can follow me there. I typically discuss security or Spitfire about how the world's failing, which is a natural leisure activity of all security individuals I feel. There's that and you can find out more about Immunefi and what we do at Immunefi.com That's immunefi.com. Have a look at our blog site on medium. It's got a great deal of these insane stories and specifically great one if you wish to money read is inside the war space that conserved primitive financial resources hail of 48 hours of straight suffering to conserve countless dollars of usage or funds must be enjoyable. Matt Zahab I like that, Mitchell. Thank you a lot, male. What a reward. Can't await round 2. Ideally, it will remain in Portugal face to face with 2 Shure mics and not yetti mics. No complimentary advertisements however sure you're the go. Thanks, male. Value it. Mitchell Amador Thank you. Matt Zahab Folks. What an excellent episode with Mitchell Amador from Immunefi. What's an episode lots of fish stories fresh off a $24 million raise. We 'd like to see it. If you enjoyed this one. I hope you did. Please do subscribe it would suggest the world to my group and I to the group love you people and to the listeners. Thank you a lot. As constantly enjoy you more than you understand continue growing those bags and keep remaining healthy, rich and delighted bye in the meantime. We will talk quickly. Read More

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