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#Austin Annihilators
omegalomania · 3 months
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so im sure everyones fully well aware of the magic 8 ball site fob is using to promote a contest to win some tickets to see them in nashville. the little 8ball widget theyve got in browser is also modeled on the physical 8ball that they had in the vip merch packages for tourdust's first leg, which is cool! but of particular note is the way that, to fill out the contest form, you have to pick your favorite fall out boy songs. and the sheer breadth of what is allowed is...interesting? it's not cohesive by any means, but it is really wild the selection of songs they have here because not all of them are fob songs. in fact, quite a few of them aren't.
i went directly to the source code and got a full list of all possible songs that you could input (which you can check for yourself by right-clicking and selecting "view source"). i'm going to list them here for archival purposes, with a few notes/explanations cause some of these are WILD.
there are 187 songs total listed.
bolded songs indicate songs that are demos or never received an official release
italicized songs are songs by other bands
underlined songs indicate songs that are covers
songs with an asterisk beside them (*) indicate they are from patrick's solo catalogue. two asterisks (**) are for pete's.
additional commentary by me will be [in brackets]
20 Dollar Nose Bleed 27 7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen) 7-9 Legendary A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me" A Nice Myth [one of the earliest fall out boy demos, found on their first ep, and only the casette version at that] Allie* Alone Together Alpha Dog America's Suitehearts American Beauty/American Psycho (song) American Made Art of Keeping Up Disappearances As Long as I Know I'm Getting Paid* Austin, We Have a Problem Baby Annihilation Bad Side of 25* Bang the Doldrums Beat It Big Hype* Bishops Knife Trick Bob Dylan Bounce [this is a song that came out on then-Decaydance labelmates The Cab's debut record, Whisper War, which patrick produced. he has writing credit and also is credited with background vocals (and also shows up in the music video)] Caffeine Cold Calm Before the Storm Centuries Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain for My Sham Friends Champion Check Your Phone** Chicago is So Two Years Ago Church City in a Garden Coast (It's Gonna Get Better)* Coffee's for Closers Cryptozoology* Cute Girls* Cyanide** [this is a nothing,nowhere song that pete did some spoken word parts and backing vocals on] Dance Miserable* Dance, Dance Dead on Arrival Dear Future Self (Hands Up) Death Valley Deep Blue Love* [song patrick did for the indie short film "spell"] Demigods Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes Don't You Know Who I Think I Am? Electric Touch [the (in?)famous taylor swift song patrick featured on] Eternal Summer Everybody Wants Somebody* Explode* Fake Out Fame Less than Infamy Favorite Record Fellowship of the Nerd [this is an alternate title for world's not waiting, as far as i can tell] Flu Game Flu Game [yes flu game is listed twice for some reason] Footprints in the Snow [demo from the Llamania ep] Fourth of July From Now on We Are Enemies G.I.N.A.S.F.S. Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part to Save the Scene and Stop Going to Shows) Ghostbusters (I'm Not Afraid) Golden Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy Greed* Grenade Jumper Grow Up and Be Kids [this song is on The Cab's sophomore album Symphony Soldier, which release after they left decaydance. nonetheless, pete does have some writing credits on it. give it a listen and you'll hear for yourself in the first 10 seconds or so] Growing Up Hand Crushed by a Mallet [this is a remix of the 100gecs song of the same name; patrick did some vocals for it] Hand of God Have I Got a Gift for You* [song patrick did for the horror movie black friday] Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet Heartbreak Feels So Good Heaven's Gate Heaven, Iowa Hold Me Like a Grudge Hold Me Tight or Don't Homesick at Space Camp Honorable Mention Hot to the Touch, Cold on the Inside Hum Hallelujah I Am My Own Muse I Don't Care
I Got Nothing, But You Got Something [this is the one that really perplexes me. there's no evidence of this song actually existing, other than an unverified genius post and an article on a single fandom wiki. it is inexplicably listed here despite its very existence being questionable at best.]
I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) I'm Like a Lawyer with the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You) I've Been Waiting [this is technically a lil peep song with fall out boy as a feature] I've Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song) I've Got All This Ringing in My Ears and None on My Fingers Immortals Irresistible It's Hard to Say 'I Do', When I Don't It's Not a Side Effect of the Cocaine, I Am Thinking It Must Be Love Jet Pack Blues Just One Yesterday Lake Effect Kid (song) Lake Shore Drive [this is a song patrick covered on the piano at wrigley, first night of tourdust] Love from the Other Side Love Will Tear Us Apart Love, Selfish Love* Love, Sex, Death Lullabye Mad at Nothing* Miss Missing You Moving Pictures My Heart Is the Worst Kind of Weapon My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up) New Dreams [this is a bonus track on pax am days, a naked rayguns cover] Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner Novocaine Of All the Gin Joints in All the World One of Those Nights [another song from the cab's whisper war. this one has patrick doing vocals very prominently] Open Happiness [this was a huge collaborative piece done for a coca cola commercial. patrick was on it along with big names like cee lo green, janelle monae, and labelmates travie mccoy and brendon urie] Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued Parker Lewis Can't Lose (But I'm Gonna Give It My Best Shot) Past Life [llamania ep] Pavlove People Never Done a Good Thing* Porcelain* Pretty in Punk Rat a Tat Reinventing the Wheel to Run Myself Over Roxanne Run Dry (X Heart X Fingers)* San Diego [this is a blink-182 song that patrick did some writing for] Saturday Saturday Night Again* Save Rock and Roll (song) Sending Postcards from a Plane Crash (Wish You Were Here) She's My Winona Short, Fast, and Loud Snitches and Talkers Get Stitches and Walkers So Good Right Now So Much (For) Stardust (song) So Sick [this is a song patrick has exclusively covered live, so it's a fascinating inclusion] Sober [another blink-182 song patrick did some writing for] Sophomore Slump or Comeback of the Year Star 67 Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea Sugar, We're Goin Down Summer Days (song) [this is a martin garrix song patrick lent some vocals to] Sunshine Riptide Super Fade Switchblades and Infidelity Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today The "I" In Lie* The (After) Life of the Party The (Shipped) Gold Standard The Carpal Tunnel of Love The Kids Aren't Alright The Kintsugi Kid (Ten Years) The Last of the Real Ones The Mighty Fall The Music or the Misery The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes The Phoenix The Pink Seashell The Pros and Cons of Breathing The Take Over, the Breaks Over The World's Not Waiting (For Five Tired Boys in a Broken Down Van) This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race This City* Thnks fr th Mmrs (song) [for some reason the site specifies song here, despite that not being necessary. the only other times this distinction is relevant is when songs share a title with their albums, i.e. save rock and roll] Thriller Tiffany Blews Twin Skeleton's (Hotel in NYC) Uma Thurman Untitled 1 (Colorado Song) Untitled 2 (Jakus Song) [both of these are recently released tttyg era demos] W.A.M.S. We Didn't Start the Fire We Don’t Take Hits, We Write Them [this is a song that famously was only ever performed live. we don't have a studio recording or even a demo, as only live versions exist] We Were Doomed from the Start (The King is Dead) West Coast Smoker What a Catch, Donnie What a Time To Be Alive What's This? When I Made You Cry* Where Did the Party Go Wilson (Expensive Mistakes) Wrong Side of Paradise [llamania ep] XO You're Crashing, But You're No Wave Young and Menace Young Volcanoes Yule Shoot Your Eye Out
in conclusion i have no idea who compiled this list. it doesn't include every song patrick and pete have ever touched (notice the lack of gym class heroes, cobra starship, and hush sound discography) but it has a really weird selection of songs. i mean, blink songs patrick wrote on?? its bizarre.
anyway do you think if we mass request swing me by the rafters they'll have to do it
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rhaenella · 3 months
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idk if ur reqs are open but im obsessed with ur account. i was wondering if u could do a smau of any driver (other than danny ric) x pbr!reader. like shes the only woman to ever compete at NFR in bull riding. shes also 19 and doesnt ride with a helmet (just a cowboy hat) shes also like yhe biggest rodeo barbie you could imagine.
Firstly, I’m sorry it took me so long to get to work on your request, end of the year stuff and other wips got in the way 🫠 Anyways, I decided on Max for this because I almost immediately thought of him and his little Texas outfit 🥰 Also, I have to admit that my (non-American) knowledge of professional bull riding consisted primarily of The Longest Ride so excuse any inaccuracies, but I tried my best to read up on it! That being said, I hope it’s to your liking :) 
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MV1 | Season of Champions
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pairing: max verstappen x pbr!reader
genre: social media au
summary: you and max are each other's biggest supporters as max tries to secure his 3rd world championship title, whilst you're fighting for your 1st in a previously all male dominated sport
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mv.y/nupdates: Tomorrow our girl can secure one of the few select spots in the NFR finals!!! Unfortunately Max can’t be there due to his own race in Qatar, but we’ll be sure to cheer them both on ❤️
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user1: they’re gonna kill it on both sides of the atlantic
user2: POWER COUPLE
user3: omg i hope y/n wins 🙏 she deserves this so much
user4: my alarm is set for 4 am to support y/n 🫡
user5: are you taking a nap between their races??
user4: lol obviously
user5: same 😂 it’s a tough life stanning max & y/n
7 October
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pbr: y/n y/l/n becomes the first woman in history to qualify for the NFR finals in Las Vegas in December! Congrats on this incredible achievement, y/n. See you in Sin City⚡️
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user6: OMG SHE DID IT ❤️❤️❤️
user7: i’m so proud of her, i’ve literally been here since day 1
user8: remember when she used to do rodeo and everyone told her she could never go into pbr… look at her NOW 🔥
user9: she gave her hat to the little girl in the front row 😭❤️
user10: yep i cried
user11: y/n is not only the best, she is the SWEETEST
8 October
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y/n: There aren’t words to describe how it feels to finally have my childhood dream come true. I’m not gonna lie, it was a tough road, especially as a female in this industry. Working my way up through rodeo to where I am today: a NFR finalist!! It’s a real pinch me moment… Little me would be ecstatic (just like present me 🙈) To all the other little girls that share the same passion & dream, it’s possible! Never stop believing in yourself ❤️ Now, let’s get that trophy!!!
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maxverstappen1: My girl 😍 You’ve 100% got this 💪
y/n: Thank you baby 🥰 But first, Texas!
landonorris: GET INNN
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lewishamilton: Legend in the making 🤍
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user12: you’re gonna inspire so many girls to follow their dreams 🧡
user13: ✨role model✨
user14: soooo… idk if anyone’s seen the other finalists but she’s going to absolutely annihilate the competition just saying
user15: fr, they ain’t ready
8 October
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f1: Howdy, y’all, it’s race week 🤠 Austin, here we come! 🇺🇸
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y/n: Looking sharp sheriffs!
carlossainz55: Muchas gracias
charles_leclerc: Have to look our best this weekend, don’t we?
y/n: I wonder who for 🤔
charles_leclerc: 😉
user16: UHM FLIRTY MUCH??
user17: easy there sharl, she’s taken 💀
user18: cota the soap opera, i’m here for it
16 October
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y/n: Switching my bull gear for that other bull gear 💙 COTA LET’S GOOO
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maxverstappen1: Blue looks good on you
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danielricciardo: Yeeeeehaaawwww
redbullracing: Team Bull. Always.
y/n: Hell yeah!!
user19: you can pull off literally anything 😍
user20: y/n is at cota this weekend!!!!!
user21: omfg finally some y/n & max content
user22: we’ve been STARVED
user21: exactly 🥲
user23: GIRL WAIT YOU SWITCHED TO THE CAP??
y/n: Don’t worry!! It was only for the pic 😊
user23: oh thank god
18 October
y/n's story
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19 October
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maxverstappen1: Austin ready 🇺🇸💪
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y/n: There were so many cool hats to choose from but he insisted on wearing mine…😈
landonorris: Initiating the cowboy hat rule just in time before the race… Clever girl
alex_albon: Oooohh everybody watch out
schecoperez: 😂😂😂
y/n: You know it ;)
maxverstappen1: Wait what?
landonorris: Nothing, mate 🤠 You’ll find out soon enough
user24: BYEEEE AHAHAHA
user25: y/n and the whole grid ganging up on max 😭
user26: he’s so oblivious i love it
19 October
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f1: VERSTAPPEN WINS AT COTA! 🏆
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user27: 🔥🔥🔥
user28: the goat does it again
user29: little sad that max didn’t wear the cowboy hat on the podium tho
user30: lmao y/n is probably as well
22 October
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y/n: WHAT. A. WEEKEND. 15th win of the season & 50th altogether!!!🥇Proud of you Maxie 😘😘
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maxverstappen1: Love you 😘
user31: MAXIE??? i’m sobbing
user32: i need to know all her nicknames for him NOW
user33: and i need her to be at every one of his races
user34: same she fitted right in with the crew in the pitbox, joking around and everything :’)
user33: truly one of the few wags who are actually into the sport…
22 October
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maxverstappen1: It’s incredible to win my 50th Grand Prix here today. I feel very proud to achieve this! Amazing job by everyone in the team 👏 And special thank you to y/n, the hat indeed brought us luck!
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y/n: Always trust the hat, you should wear it more often
maxverstappen1: Unfortunately we cannot all break the helmet rules
y/n: 🙄
user35: lmao y/n is like you either die trying or you don’t try at all
user36: she has an aesthetic to look after 💅🏼
y/n: 🤣 You got it!
user36: OMG OMG
user37: BROOO
user38: well at least we’ve got that confirmed now
22 October
y/n's story
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23 October
y/n's story
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23 October
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mv1jet: Verstappen’s jet just touched ground! 🛬 Nevada, United States of America 🇺🇸
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user39: oh god everyone get ready
user40: this can only mean 1 thing
user41: MAX EMILIAN VERSTAPPEN, 3-TIME F1 WORLD CHAMPION, COMING TO SUPPORT HIS GIRL AT THE BIGGEST PBR EVENT OF THE YEAR HELLO YES I AM SAT
28 November
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wranglernfr: Today marks the start of the 65th NFR Finals! Newcomer and fan favorite y/n y/l/n has a good shot at winning the championship this week. However, will she decide to adhere to the mandatory helmet regulations or will she risk disqualification and still wear her self-proclaimed good luck hat? We’ll find out soon, folks. Stay tuned!
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user42: i bet she keeps to her aesthetic
user43: oh def, she basically said it herself already
user44: but but but would they really disqualify her when she wins…??
user45: technically it is against the rules to ride without a helmet during the nfr’s so… yeah they might
user44: 😥😥
user46: please y/n don’t jeopardize it all 😩
2 December
maxverstappen1's story
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11 December
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wranglernfr: NFR 2023 Champion y/n y/l/n⚡️Despite sticking to her famous but controversial cowboy hat, y/n becomes the 65th winner in Las Vegas at just nineteen, beating the runnerup and last year’s champion Billy Youngster!
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user47: SHE DID IT!!!! 💪🔥
user48: i’m bursting with pride i’m so happy for her 🥰🥰🥰
mv.y/nupdates: two world champions this is almost too good to be true 😭❤️
user49: their christmas is gonna be one helluva party
user50: well deserved, that billy kid had it coming
user51: he only won last year because of dumb luck!
user52: FACTS
user53: this year we have a winner who’s worthy of the title ❤️
user54: can’t get over how y/n was so far up ahead they literally couldn’t disqualify her for the hat thing lol
user55: imagine if they had, people would have rioted
user54: omg they would have, with max at the front hoisting his pitchfork in the air, leading the pack
user55: 😂😂
11 December
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y/n: Cowboy hat + racing gloves = champions of the world 🏆
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maxverstappen1: ❤️
sophiekumpen: So proud of both of you 🥰
victoriaverstappen: Coolest auntie (en oom natuurlijk🙊)!!!
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landonorris: Congrats on making champion, champ!!! And wow… Max has got his own hat 👀
y/n: Yup! He deserved it after his triple US win 😍
charles_leclerc: Does this mean that your hat claim has lifted…?
maxverstappen1: Unless you want another inchident, back off
y/n: Uhm... He knows what it means now…
charles_leclerc: 😳
alex_albon: RIP Charles Marc Hervé Perceval Leclerc 🪦
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12 December
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maxverstappen1: Wear the hat…
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a/n: translation of “en oom natuurlijk” > “and uncle ofcourse”
Happy holidays! x
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zvaigzdelasas · 5 months
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday pressed lawmakers to urgently pass the Biden administration’s $105 billion national security funding request which includes significant funding for Israel and Ukraine’s war efforts, arguing that the two conflicts are connected and failing to pass the aid together will embolden US adversaries around the world.[...]
Blinken, Austin and a number of other lawmakers noted the links between the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, with Iran providing Russia with weapons for its war.
“Allowing Russia to prevail with Iran’s support will embolden both Moscow and Tehran,” Blinken said. “To put it succinctly, for our adversaries, be they states or non-states, this is all one fight and we have to respond in a way that recognizes that. If we start to peel off pieces of this package, they’ll see that, they’ll understand that we are playing whack-a-mole while they cooperate increasingly and pose an ever-greater threat to our security as well as to that of allies and partners,” he added. “In both Israel and Ukraine, democracies are fighting ruthless foes who are out to annihilate them,” he said. “We will not let Hamas or Putin win. Today’s battles against aggression and terrorism will define global security for years to come. And only firm American leadership can ensure that tyrants, thugs, and terrorists worldwide are not emboldened to commit more aggression and more atrocities,” Austin echoed.[...]
The administration’s request includes $61.4 billion in aid for Ukraine and $14.3 billion in aid for Israel, $9.15 billion in funding for humanitarian aid, $7.4 billion in funding for Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region and $13.6 billion to address security at the US-Mexico border. In the Senate, the leaders of both parties have pressed to have any funding for Israel combined with Ukraine and border security funding.[...]
Blinken’s opening remarks at the hearing were quickly interrupted by a series of protesters who shouted for an immediate ceasefire.[...]
Much needed aid to civilians in Gaza has only trickled in, with “almost 60” trucks entering daily via the Rafah crossing from Egypt. Prior to the war, 500 to 800 trucks a day with assistance were entering the strip, Blinken said.
31 Oct 23
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mustlikeme4me · 12 hours
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Well, poor Austin and Taylor when leash kid turned nfl athlete lets loose on that easter egg smash game and completely annihilates the others :( (too bad we’ll never see it)
Time for Travis to see just home competitive his girl truly is
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Finished sangfielle ep 33/second jade moon ep and I started taking notes to keep track of the Clown Train Situation
- Was supposed to be one roll so Chine can get a resource for healing. Hired to do a job dealing with a gandy problem
- Affected train is in hung up in a cathedral bdsm style
- fighting against gandy king begins, chine does okay against a minion
- Hazard tries to transfer ravening call to the gandy, fails and gets hurt, ravening call upgrades to ravening beast, gandy king turns into the beast
- Lyke is getting fucked Up by the beast, it keeps doing d8 damage, 6 blood protection but Austin rolls an 8
- Success at a cost on stone chorus and lyke gets hit again but gets away with hazard, chine insists on staying to finish the job
- pickman has joined to help out with no pay after hearing the commotion, also rolls badly
- “You should have gone through the portal!”
- “I just wanted to steal from the church 😿”
- Duvall is now here with annihilate
- Another annihilate and Wrecks it (6 is a 10 and 8 damage)
onto ep 34 I’m sure they’ll get to have a relaxing normal time now
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pascow · 3 months
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CREATIONS FROM EVERY MONTH OF 2023!
Post your favorite and most popular post from each month this year (it’s okay to skip months).
Inspired by @losthavenmine since it looked like a fun way to revisit and recall all my giffing obsessions of the year. 😂
JANUARY
MOST POPULAR: The Menu 'Thank you for your concern.' FAVORITE: The Menu 'That was a shock.'
FEBRUARY
MOST POPULAR: The Last of Us 'Joel's daughters and dogs.' FAVORITE: The Last of Us 'Can I have a gun?'
MARCH
MOST POPULAR: John Wick: Chapter Four 'Bill Skarsgård behind the scenes.' FAVORITE: John Wick: Chapter Four 'Bill Skarsgård as The Marquis.'
APRIL
MOST POPULAR: Annihilation 'I don't think I want either of those things.' FAVORITE: The Last of Us 'Endure and Survive.'
MAY
MOST POPULAR: Pearl 'Thank you for everything.' FAVORITE: John Wick: Chapter Four 'The Marquis + Oral Fixation.'
JUNE
MOST POPULAR: John Wick: Chapter Four 'Suits of The Marquis.' FAVORITE: John Wick: Chapter Four 'I claim the coup de grâce.'
JULY
MOST POPULAR: House of 1000 Corpses 'What's that spell?' FAVORITE: Black Mirror 'Zazie Beetz in Mazey Day.'
AUGUST
MOST POPULAR: Saw X 'Billy the Puppet.' FAVORITE: Saw II 'Is this close enough?'
SEPTEMBER
MOST POPULAR: The Bikeriders 'Austin Butler as Benny.' FAVORITE: 'Saw X predictions.'
OCTOBER
MOST POPULAR: Freddy vs. Jason 'Jason on fire.' FAVORITE: IT 'Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise.'
NOVEMBER
MOST POPULAR: Terrifier 3 Teaser trailer. FAVORITE: Pearl 'Mia Goth as Pearl.'
DECEMBER
MOST POPULAR: Gremlins 'Gizmo plays the keyboard.' FAVORITE: A Christmas Story 'Merry Christmas.'
Tagging (no pressure!): @hellboys @saw-x @dushku @rogerdeakinsdp @chloesevigny @hauntedlilies @stephendorff @katherines @animusrox @bladesrunner @crumb @90scully @bruceewayne @talesfromthecrypts @classichorrorblog @breakfastiffanys
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dreamersparacosm · 2 years
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austin butler - are you looking for trouble, honey?
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warnings ; infidelity, usage of toys, penetration, orgasm denial, public play
prompt ; in which you’re the “other woman.”
a/n ; y’all put this idea in my head so here it is. cheater!austin but don’t worry you’re also the bad guy. two wrongs apparently make a right but like not really also kaia if you ever read this i’m so sorry bestie it’s just for the plot
destinado a morir - miguel
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it’s one of those things where you’re not entirely sure how it started.
maybe it started when your best friend, kaia gerber, introduced you to her new boyfriend, who you assumed was for the month, austin butler, and when you two shook hands, it felt as though you had been zapped by electricity. when you had gazed into his ice-blue eyes, an angry swarm of butterflies or bees or whatever whimsical insect with wings had fluttered within the pits of your stomach.
maybe it started when you three had gone out to a bar, getting incoherently drunk and wobbling back to your respective hotel rooms, but austin had lingered out in the hallway, peering at you longingly.
maybe it started when he had placed a hand over yours, comforting you at your most vulnerable state and whispering sweet nothings in your ear.
or, maybe, just maybe, it started when he kissed you for the first time, underneath the dim lights of the almost-empty bar, as kaia slept peacefully and unknowingly in her bed only a few miles away.
maybe you need to confront the fact that despite your budding feelings and secret meetings and forlorn conversations, it doesn’t matter how it started; it has to end.
“fuck, baby,” he groans out, bottoming into you and filling you to the brim, tears lining your eyes as he stretches you out completely. it’s a daily occurrence, and you should be used to the way your walls tense around his cock, but somehow, he feels bigger tonight. his head lazily falls into the crook of your neck, “you’re so tight. not fucking anybody else but me, right?”
it’s laughable — the way you harness yourself to him, crumble at every word he says, powerless under his spell — but you know better than to go against him when he’s in a mood. you bite back your sarcastic remark, brain jumbled into senseless words as he fucks you with deep, slow strokes, enough to make you submissive and at his mercy. “n-no, aus. i don’t want anyone else but you,” it comes out as more of a breathy moan, a concoction of filthy promises.
“good girl,” he mutters into your hair, his pace steady as he places a hand on your lower stomach, pressing down gently, feeling his length glide into you to meet his hand. he smirks at the sensation, looking back up at your cock-drunk expression, nothing but insatiable hunger coursing through your veins.
you’re not intoxicated in the slightest; it’s just your average tuesday night, in your apartment on the upper west side, the sound of cars honking and the slight breeze brushing your skin from your cracked window, just your typical evening where you let him annihilate your morals and destroy your life. somehow, in that bed, in those silk sheets, you feel drunk. that’s the only way you can justify letting him into your home routinely.
“you always feel so good,” he sinks his teeth into your shoulder, plunging deeper inside of you and speeding up, and your response is nothing short of a whimper. it’s a meek sound that keeps him entangled with your skin, enough to let him know that you’re wrapped around his finger, and enough to remind him you’re never leaving, despite what you may say once everything is all said and done.
he leans his body back a bit, gazing into your eyes that have glazed over with lust. you’re not even sure you’re a person anymore, just a shell of who you once were before this whole thing started. one hand moves from your lower stomach to your neck, firmly gripping onto it. your oxygen is cut short, incoherent thoughts floating your brain. he’s taking you all in; your fucked-out expression, the heaving of your chest, the bite marks he left on your shoulder glistening with his saliva, and for a glimmer of a second, he almost feels guilty for doing this to you.
but only for a second.
you wrap your feeble hand around his wrist, hoping he’ll loosen his grip. he does, just a little, just to see you sigh with relief as he adjusts his pace inside of you. the sound of your juices squelching with each thrust fill the room, small moans spilling from your lips, “p-please don’t stop,” you beg, your lip tucked in between your upper teeth as you lie there at his indulgence.
he just chuckles at how silly and pathetic you sound, his other free hand reaching down to press a finger against your clitoris. that elicits a yelp from you as he rubs circles into your bundle of nerves, stimulating your entire body and shooting fireworks through every limb. you sink into the mattress, body trembling with delight. he knows you’re close, but despite that knowledge, he cares more about his own release; only because he’s well aware that you’ll cum regardless. he is cognizant of the way he controls your mind and body, the way he can maneuver you and make you his private property, to be touched and seen only by him.
with his hand wrapped firmly around your throat, other focused on pleasing your clit, he says through gritted teeth, “look at you, a fucking mess. you’re a fucking slut for me.”
you nod. the voice you use to speak to people, to confidently argue for yourself, is eradicated, dwindled down to nothing but breathy moans and nods. you hate the person you’ve become. “being such a good girl for me, taking my entire cock in your tight little pussy,” his grip on your throat tightens, enough to make you choke on any response you could muster.
you’re taking everything he’s putting out, like the good girl he repeatedly says you are. you’re a good girl when you remind him to take his vitamins in the morning, you’re a good girl when you make him breakfast, you’re a good girl when you take his cock in your mouth to completion, you’re a good girl when you look in your best friend’s eyes and pretend her boyfriend’s tongue was never in between your folds. he continues to pound into you mercilessly, his pace increasing at the thought of meeting his release.
his consistent moans wrap around you like silk. “i’m so fucking close, baby,” he’s now moving like he’s on springs, so desperate and so needy for his semen to exit out of him. and although it’s a nightly occurrence for him to be in your bed, to be skin-to-skin, he still feels the same as he did the first time; absorbed in your body, crashing down, down, down.
“you’re all mine, [y/n]. do you understand me?” he speaks in between thrusts, hips rutting as he paints your walls with his thick semen. small spasms elicit from his limbs, riding down his high. you let him come inside you, not for the first time, and you reach your orgasm within seconds, just like he knows you would. his head falls into the nook of your shoulder, teeth grazing over his previous bite marks. “all mine.”
the absurdity of his statement should make you chuckle — the fact that he’s laid up in another girl’s bed while his girlfriend sleeps a few miles away, empty promises of him coming to see her still in her text messages — but you’re cock-drunk, hypnotized, to say the least. so, you agree, and you fall for his trap, the one that keeps you tied to him for eternity. “i’m all yours.”
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later that week, when you’re positioned in a chair at a five-star restaurant, remote-control vibrator nestled in between your folds, best friend and her boyfriend seated across from you, said boyfriend has access to the settings of the vibrator: you’ll start to realize you might have taken it too far.
“i feel like you guys need to be closer.”
kaia, you don’t want that. really, you don’t. plus, we don’t need to be any closer.
“really? i don’t know, i think i’m okay with where our relationship is at,” you smile feebly, and you pray she can’t see how pale you’ve turned, even though it is the middle of the day and you’re strolling down a crowded street.
but ever so oblivious kaia doesn’t bat her eyes at your reaction. instead, she chuckles, pushing her sunglasses higher up on her nose, “you’re my best friend, [y/n]. i want you guys to be close,” pause. “plus, i think i might really like him.”
you’ve heard those words exit her mouth before. in fact, it was a daily occurrence. she really liked him. she was a girl in love, a girl too kind and too sweet for her own good. your body falls limp, guilt washing over you as it always does. you want to scream at her, tell her to open her eyes, to realize that the reason why austin neglects to respond to her texts after 2 a.m is because he’s curled up in your bed, barbarically making you his. but, instead of the yells and the screams that beg to be heard, you say, “listen, i don’t know about close. how about… friendly acquaintances?”
“that’s basically what you guys are now,” she says matter-of-factly, sipping her green smoothie.
you groan in false annoyance, “i don’t get it. i wasn’t close to jacob, and you guys dated for like, a year!”
“you literally told me you hated him the first time you met him.”
okay, well-played. back when you were a better friend, someone kaia could actually trust, her only confidante in this shallow world beside her mother, you told her jacob wasn’t in it for the long haul. needless to say, you were right and they had parted ways. and despite your inner knowledge that austin also wasn’t in it for the long haul, you kept that tucked away in your brain, somewhere between a secret and a lie, something that would hurt her more if she knew the truth.
“well, i wasn’t wrong, was i?” you joke.
“how about one dinner? just one, and if it ends up being the worst thing in the world, i will personally deliver all the alcohol in the world to your doorstep,”
she drives a hard bargain; she always does. the girl has known you since you were still in your awkward phase, unsure of how to strut on a runway and not look like you were trampled by a bus beforehand, it should make sense, right? despite that, she might not know you as well as she thinks, because right under her nose, was the blatant reason why you couldn’t hang out with her boyfriend for more than 20 minutes at a time.
“i don’t know, kaia…”
“come onnn! please,” she looks at you with puppy dog eyes, ones that would usually make you fold in a heartbeat. this time, it just makes your heart crack at its edges a tad more. “for me.”
“if, if, i agree, we have to go to that restaraunt on bleecker i’ve been meaning to go to,” your lips are pressed together tightly. you know there’s no wiggling out of this one, no sun in between those looming dark clouds. kaia is used to getting what she wants, and it’s no different when it comes to her best friend. “and, you’re paying.”
she groans, “really?” she says it as if she has no abundance of money.
“isn’t austin gonna pay anyway?”
yes, he is. that’s just who he is. he knows how to act like a gentleman under the public lenses, that’s for sure.
“fair, fair,” she sips daintily from her straw, eyes darting around the crowded street as she weaves through people effortlessly. “you better not pregame this dinner.”
there she goes again, with another statement that proves her loyalty to you, and how intricate her knowledge of you goes.
“listen, i agreed to go to this dinner,” you shrug, “i did not say anything about how i got through it.”
a part of it really is true. there will need to be a bit of alcohol consumed if you have to sit through a full four-course dinner with kaia and austin. there will be talk about his job, yours, hers, all while you’ll feel as though a sink hole will appear any second to swallow you up whole. yeah, you’ll need a drink or two.
that evening, you get ready like you always do. you put on a fresh outfit, adorn yourself with gold jewelry, and act as if everything is all fine and dandy in the world. until austin pulls up behind you, wrapping his arms around your waist and squeezing tightly, that your picturesque view of the world fades away. “why did you agree to this again?”
you sigh, “i can’t say no to her.”
“you could’ve said you were busy,” he unwraps himself from you, fixing himself beside your body in the mirror.
“we do everything together..”
“everything?”
he says it with a sarcastic tone laced in. it’s hysterical, and you would laugh under any other circumstances, but these don’t allow for so much as a chuckle. “maybe not everything.”
“is there any other reason to why you agreed to this?” he questions, moving away from you and sprawling out onto your bed, all too comfortable.
“no, she just said she wanted us to be closer —“
he snorts.
“—and that she really likes you.”
there’s a tension that falls over the room, both of you silent. there is not a word left in the world to say. austin’s snide expression falters a little, enough to give you hope that he might rethink his relationship status. but you know better than to go down that road again.
“damn,” is all that exits his mouth.
“yeah.”
he’s mute for another second before he sits up on his elbows, glancing over at you. “can i ask you a question?”
your heart skips a beat for a moment, and you stop applying your lipstick to look over at him, “yeah?”
for only a millisecond, one pocket of time, you find yourself hoping and praying that he might ask you if it’s worth it to allow yourselves to be together. but alas, it’s just another dream that lives rent free in the nook of your mind. he says, “are you sure you’re not doing this to prove something to yourself?”
the question smacks you across the face and leaves red slashes on your cheek. you feel as though you’d been deprived of water for weeks. your mouth slightly parts, sputtering to find the words to respond. yet, you know; deep down, you’re aware that there is a fraction of you that is desperate for kaia to find out, to end the ache and suffering that comes along with falling in love with someone who can never be yours. it’s a ridiculous kind of infatuation, the one where you’re not the good guy, but the villain in someone else’s story.
“no,” you try to say firmly. “she’s my best friend, aus.”
“if you’re her best friend, you wouldn’t be sleeping with me.”
he says it so sure of himself, like you’re the only one who was in the wrong, like you messed up a perfectly healthy relationship, like you wrecked a home that was never yours to begin with. “well, you’re her boyfriend, so what does that say about you?”
he chuckles sadistically, “don’t worry about me, [y/n]. i don’t give a fuck about how this ends.”
you think that you might spare yourself his harsh words, but he keeps spewing fire at you. “it’s like this. i’m up for an oscar, and kaia makes me look good. i’m gonna keep dating her until the show, maybe drag it out for a month after. when that’s over, i’ll be free to do whatever i want. now, what happens between you and me… that’s up to you.”
“how is that up to me?”
“depends,” he sits up, legs hanging over the edge of your bed. “depends on if you’re ready to lose kaia forever.”
if you were sane, bolts and screws tightened in your brain, you would be appalled by the suggestion of losing your best friend to a man. but, in that bedroom, him so close to you you could almost taste him, your judgement is impaired and your morality is down the toilet. you’re not ready to lose kaia. but you’re sure as hell not ready to lose him. “i don’t, i’m not —“
“cat’s got your tongue?” he jokes.
“no. just not in the mood to go down this road when we have dinner with your girlfriend in an hour.”
“how about…” he trails off, standing up on his legs and striding over to you, “…we stop talking about this, and do something else?”
his large hands snake around your hips, pulling you closer into his warmth. he brushes your hair behind your ear, dragging his lips down your lobe to your neck. you melt into him, your thoughts escaping you and blissfully falling into the ignorance you know so well. he drags his lips up to your jawline, peppering kisses before planting a chaste one on your parted lips. he’s not going to give you what you want — he doesn’t believe in dessert before the meal — but a tease for later will get him through the evening.
“i actually brought you something,” he speaks against your lips. your eyebrows furrow in confusion as he removes himself from you, rummaging in his pants pocket to retrieve something; a piece of cloth? “something for you to wear.”
you narrow your eyes into slits, trying to focus on the piece of fabric he holds in his hands. soon, your eyes widen when you realize it is not what you thought it was: vibrating panties, with the little toy sewn in and all. you had discussed playing with it before, but on a night like tonight? you weren’t exactly jumping at the opportunity. “aus…” you begin, but he shuts you up with one stern look.
“i didn’t bring it to ask if you were okay with it.”
his tone is laced with dominance. he’s well aware what he’s asking of you: he’s asking you to hold yourself together while you crumble piece by piece, in front of a packed restaurant. even with the fear and adrenaline of getting caught, you both know it was no use denying that you would submit to him no matter if you tried to object or not. “but, but —“
“sugar, you know you’re not gonna get your way.”
it rolls off his tongue like a bad habit; he knows just what to call you to mold you like putty in his hands.
“but i’ve been good,” you say, expression bleak, eyes falling down to your feet. you feel small, as he towers over you with an unspeakable force, as the balance shifts back into his palms.
“i know, baby,” he reaches out to caress your face, his thumb imprinting upon your cheekbone. “but you got us in this mess in the first place, didn’t you?”
you’re used to the vile words that rot you to your core, and you’re used to brainwashing yourself to believe everything he says. it’s no different when he says it now, standing in your bedroom, eyes gleaming with hunger, panties hanging from his index finger like a white flag. so, you nod, bobbing your head up and down like a slinky, shakily taking the panties from his hand. “good girl,” he remarks.
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an hour later, austin butler finds himself seated next to his girlfriend, across from his other girlfriend — that’s all he could use to describe what you two had — remote control burning a hole in his pocket. his arm is draped loosely over the edge of kaia’s chair, mindlessly tuning in and out of the conversation. he could barely breathe with the knowledge that he controlled your entire body; your pleasures, your desires, your highs and your lows.
you’re shocked by his apprehensiveness towards pressing the green button on the remote. it had been twenty minutes since you three sat down for your meal, and his finger hadn’t lingered near his pocket once. you’re almost certain he’s waiting for a moment where you’re at your most vulnerable, like a predator hiding in the shadows for its prey.
“so, [y/n], have you decided if you’re taking that brand deal with celine?” kaia asks, sipping from her glass of chardonnay, leaning back into her chair. her body languages indicates she would like to be as close as austin as possible, and you can’t help the twinge of burning jealousy that rages through you.
“i’m not sure yet,” you shrug. it wasn’t out of the realm of conversation topics to discuss your jobs. you had met kaia through a modeling gig, a show that you didn’t even want to participate in. she was the only person there who had made you feel seen, like you were more beyond the clothes and jewelry you adorned yourself in. she had made you feel real again, after months of staring at yourself in the mirror wondering if you were just an imposter. “think i’m gonna shelf it now in case i hear back from another brand.”
“really? i would’ve thought you’d go for it,” she says enthusiastically, “you really fit their style.”
“yeah, i guess,” you’re eager to switch the topic to anything but you; you’re too on edge to speak. your eyes flicker over to austin for just a millisecond, and he meets your gaze, allowing himself to escape in you for just that pocket of time. “what about you, kaia? are you gonna walk in new york fashion week?”
“probably!” she sits upright, placing a gentle hand on austin’s thigh. you’re praying she doesn’t notice how your entire body tenses up at the contact; austin, however, notes it. “my mom’s kinda pushing me to do it though.”
“you’ll do great,” you reply encouragingly. “you’re one of the best out there.”
“you really are, baby,” austin leans over to plant a kiss on her cheek, and she giggles at his public display of affection. and just as you think to yourself i fucking hate him, it’s almost as if he can read your mind, and his finger reaches into his pocket, pressing that little green button that turns on the vibrator nestled perfectly on your clitoris.
shit, shit, shit.
it’s a steady stream of stimulation, profanities airborne in your brain as your hand comes into contact with the table, grasping the edge of the wood for stability. kaia doesn’t bat an eyelash. your knuckles are nearly turning white as austin keeps the pace stable, eyes darkening as he watches your unadulterated reaction for any signs of you falling apart.
now it’s your turn to ignore the conversation at hand; kaia and austin fade off into the distance as you press your thighs together, hoping to relieve some of the tension occurring between your core. despite being entangled in conversation with kaia, out of the corner of his eye, he’s inspecting you intently. the second he suspects you might experience a moment of painless pleasure, he lowers the settings within the confines of his pocket. now, it dwindles down to just a measly buzz, pleads bubbling up inside of you. your eyes meet his, bottom lip drawn in between your teeth. he just continues on with kaia.
you sit there numbly, dissolving into pieces as he teeters you over the edge just to reel you back in, like he always does. you’re so absorbed in the sensation against your core that you don’t even hear kaia repeatedly call out your name. somehow, you finally comprehend words, snapping out of your trance. “[y/n?] hello, earth to [y/n],” she jokingly snaps her fingers at you.
“s-sorry,” you manage to stutter out, but to no avail sounding like a child having stage fright. “you know how i am, silly ol’ me, lost in my thoughts.”
you don’t even have to look at austin to know his lips are curled up into a complacent smug.
“right..” she trails off, and if she lets on to your antics, she doesn’t show it, just moves on. “well, i was asking if you’d wanna split the charcuterie board. i know you’re a sucker for brie cheese.”
“uh, yeah, yup, that’s good,” you rush to say before austin decides to torture you again. your fingernails dig into your thighs, leaving marks that you’re sure you’ll have to hide later. his nimble finger reaches into his pocket, upping the speed to a 3, enough to make you squirm in your chair.
your cheeks burn with anticipation, bottom lip red and swollen from chewing on it repeatedly. you’re nearly certain you’ve soaked through your underwear. the room feels as if it’s spinning as you slip down a path you know all too well, mesmerized by the feeling of losing yourself at his mercy.
the noise of your phone buzzing repeatedly against the table jolts you back to reality, back to the conversation kaia and austin are having, back to the way the weight of his gaze falls upon you as his eyes gesture to your cell phone. you shakily pick it up, thighs clenched and all, and read what he managed to text you even with kaia so near.
austin
don’t you dare think about cumming.
your entire being shatters at the text. your fingers don’t come near to the keyboard, eyes just slowly inching up to meet his, a sinister smile plastered on his face as he pretends to scour the menu. your legs shake with longing, to have that release, to let it all go.
to: austin
please, i’m begging
you look back up at him eagerly. instead of responding with a text, he just shakes his head slightly, putting his phone back into his pocket and leaving you out to dry. you’re so drunk on the ecstasy of the vibrations that you don’t notice his wavering hand on kaia’s thigh, the way it lingers for just a few seconds too long.
kaia has looked over at you numerous times, but she thought nothing of it, chalking your silence up to the fact that you just never seemed to like her boyfriends. oh, how you wished that was the case.
“hi! my name’s katie, i’ll be taking your order today! what can i get started for you guys?”
god fucking damnit.
you know what’s coming before he even does it. that’s how well you know his tricks. he glares over at you, finger pushing on the button that brings you up to a 5; the highest setting possible. the waitress is no more than 20 years old, ice blonde and eyes full of light and life, her cheeks a rosy tint, lips bubblegum pink. you ache to be in her shoes, sinless and incorrupt. she pays no mind to the way you’re seated in your chair, fingers wrapped tightly around the stem of your wine glass, chest heaving.
kaia’s voice echoes somewhere, “hi! can we get the charcuterie board? me and her are gonna share it.” you don’t even have the willpower to look in her direction.
the waitress collects her menu, notepad pointed towards austin. his raspy voice utters, “i’m just gonna get the steak. medium rare, please.”
“and, for you?”
you’re mute. silent. absolutely and utterly speechless kaia’s eyebrows furrow, this time, a concerned expression painting itself on her face. “[y/n]?”
sweat beads at your forehead as you swallow thickly, letting out a shaky exhale. “i-i, uh, um.”
you know it’ll be worse if you don’t speak, but somehow you hide behind your words, unable to form a coherent thought with the vibrator pressing into your bundle of nerves, austin’s gaze locked into you. you’re stuck. a mere depiction of what you’ve been since you started sleeping with him two months ago. “can i, um, can i just get, the, oh, the caesar salad?”
there’s a moan tucked into your sentence somewhere, and your brain is screaming, crying, hoping that there’s some form of release coming your way. the inconspicuous waitress asks if you would like any grilled chicken on it. your body is on fire, taking you apart piece by piece, limb by limb, as you stagger on the edge of your orgasm.
you’re aware that when you stop talking, all will know something is wrong. when you attempt to hold your breath, try to anchor yourself by tightly gripping the stem of your wine glass, biting the inside of your cheek roughly enough to draw blood, you’re nothing but his property. “are you okay?” the waitress asks, eyebrows raised.
“she’s fine,” austin reassures. “i think we’re all good here.”
and it’s as if he has a spell on you, his voice powerful enough to send you over that edge. just like that, you’re cumming. you know you’re going to be punished for it at a later date, but none of it matters, anything to calm the storm that was brewing within you. your face turns pale, and your palm meets the tabletop, slamming down on it. kaia is startled by the noise, watching as you squeeze your eyes tight, tight, tight and bury your face in your hands.
stars explode in your vision, different hues flying across your sight as you let your juices splatter onto the chair. austin, however, could care less. he already got what he wanted.
he has you appearing so strung out, and so in agony that your best friend is extending her arm out to comfort you, asking what’s wrong with pleading eyes. but, under the roof of that restaurant, sitting in a chair that was too big to fill you now, your body so tiny and fragile, you’re lulling yourself from the depths of your orgasm, your words from earlier in the week persistently darting in your brain: all yours, all yours, all yours.
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cloudselkie · 2 years
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Moontowers sound like something out of Welcome to Night Vale, but they are real and they are in Austin.
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A moonlight tower or moontower is a lighting structure designed to illuminate areas of a town or city at night.
The towers were popular in the late 19th century in cities across the United States and Europe; they were most common in the 1880s and 1890s. In some places they were used when standard street-lighting, using smaller, shorter, and more numerous lamps, was impractically expensive. In other places they were used in addition to gas street lighting. The towers were designed to illuminate areas often of several blocks at once, on the "high light" principle. Arc lamps, known for their exceptionally bright and harsh light, were the most common method of illumination. As incandescent electric street lighting became common, the prevalence of towers began to wane.
Moonlight towers in Austin, Texas, near TxDOT headquarters, served as inspiration for some of the first high-mast lighting towers in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Wikipedia, "Moonlight Tower"
In 1894, the City of Austin purchased 31 used towers from Detroit. They were manufactured in Indiana by Fort Wayne Electric Company and assembled onsite. Some have claimed that Austin put up moonlight towers partially in response to the actions of the Servant Girl Annihilator, also known as the Midnight Assassin, but in fact the towers were not erected until 1894 and 1895, ten years after the murders took place.
When first erected, the towers were connected to electric generators at the Austin Dam, completed in 1893 on the site of present-day Tom Miller Dam. In the 1920s their original carbon-arc lamps, which were exceedingly bright but time-consuming to maintain, were replaced by incandescent lamps, which gave way in turn to mercury vapor lamps in the 1930s. The mercury vapor lamps were controlled by a switch at each tower's base. During World War II, a central switch was installed, allowing citywide blackouts in case of air raids.
- Wikipedia, "Moonlight Towers (Austin, TX)"
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jameswebb-discoveries · 8 months
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James Webb Telescope Uncovers Possible Dark Stars. Read full article here
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a groundbreaking discovery, capturing images that suggest the existence of "dark stars." These enigmatic objects, potentially much larger and brighter than our sun, are believed to be powered by the annihilation of dark matter particles. The findings, made by a team of astrophysicists led by Katherine Freese at the University of Texas at Austin, could provide vital insights into the elusive nature of dark matter, a fundamental puzzle in the realm of physics. In this article, we delve into the significance of this discovery and its implications for our understanding of the universe.
Unveiling the Dark Stars
The recent analysis of JWST images has revealed three intriguing objects, initially identified as galaxies in December 2022 as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). These objects, designated as JADES-GS-z13-0, JADES-GS-z12-0, and JADES-GS-z11-0, are now being considered potential dark stars. Dark stars, if confirmed, hold the key to unraveling the mysteries of dark matter, which accounts for approximately 25% of the universe's composition. Read full article here
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spockgirl · 1 year
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best books of 2022 post time. there’s six each for fiction and nonfiction because that’s how many i wanted to talk about. these are books i read in 2022, not necessarily published this year, and not in any order other than reverse chronologically on my storygraph.
Best fiction
“Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead” by Emily Austin: Gilda, struggling with obsessive thoughts about death, stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church despite being a lesbian and lifelong atheist. She creates a new persona as a devout heterosexual while trying to investigate the suspicious death of the church’s previous secretary. This is one of the best portrayals of a character with obsessive and depressive mental illness I’ve read and is also an extremely funny book.
“Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” by Olga Torkarczuk: An unconventional mystery novel about a series of murders and an elderly, eccentric woman who is convinced the deaths represent animals taking their revenge on hunters. This book is beautifully written and the story and protagonist are so unique. I read most of it by the pool during summer and it still transported me to winter in rural Poland. Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
“Annihilation” by Jeff VanderMeer: You’ve probably heard of this sci fi novel about a woman who goes on a scientific expedition to the mysterious “Area X” after her husband disappears there. I saw the movie and didn’t love it, but I did absolutely love the book. The prose, the surrealism of the setting, and the suspense all work so well. So good. I haven’t read the sequels yet because I’m worried they’ll be disappointing after this.
“Her Smoke Rose Up Forever” by James Tiptree Jr.: A collection of short stories written by Alice Bradley Sheldon under her male pen name during the 70s and 80s. A lot of these stories have a brutal, angry, cynical tone that you don’t see a lot from contemporary sci fi. The themes about gender, death and social exclusion really stuck with me. Definitely want to read more of this author’s books and also her biography.
“The Memory Police” by Yoko Ogawa: This is a kind of dark magical realist novel set on an island where memories of everyday objects are disappearing, following a ritualized destruction of the objects and enforced by the imposing Memory Police. The protagonist is a writer who finds out her editor is immune to forgetting and decides to hide him from the Memory Police. This book slaps. Maybe my favorite novel of the year? A really unique setting and incredibly compelling sense of melancholy and mourning. Translated by Stephen Snyder.
“Ghost Wall” by Sarah Moss: This is a short coming-of-age novel about a girl whose controlling father is obsessed with early Briton life and raises her to be at odds with modern society. Really compelling and thoughtful, just a perfect tightly written story.
Best nonfiction
“Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family” by Robert Kolker: Exploration of a family that was important to the study of whether schizophrenia is hereditary. Thought this was a really interesting story and sensitively told. (If you’re interested in this one there is a lot of content involving childhood sexual assault in addition to the more obvious themes of mental illness and institutionalization.)
“Carville‘s Cure: Leprosy, Stigma and the Fight for Justice” by Pam Fessler: This is a history of the United State’s involuntary confinement of leprosy patients to a hospital housed on a former plantation. It follows the patients’ resistance, sense of community, and fight against stigma and for better scientific research. Another one of the best narrative nonfiction books I read this year, focusing on a part of history I knew nothing about.
“How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States” by Daniel Immerwahr: Really great work on historical scholarship focusing on U.S. territories and colonization. I feel like this follows the “People’s History of the United States” tradition of very readable books reframing and demythologizing American history.
“How To Suppress Women’s Writing” by Joanna Russ: An exploration of the cultural forces that work against the recognization of women’s role in literature. This is less scholarly and more polemic than the other books on this list, but I thought it was really well-done. I really like Russ’ fiction and I liked how she approached this issue. Women are definitely doing better in publishing than when she wrote this, but a lot of the same historical trends are still prominent.
“Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants” by Robin Wall Kimmerer: This is another one most people have probably heard of that analyzes the dominant academic approach to the environment and value of having a personal relationship with the land. If you’re like me and any form of spiritualism absolutely doesn’t resonate with you, there are going to be times where what Kimmerer is saying does not connect and I want to acknowledge that real difference in perspective that I felt while also really learning a lot from and feeling inspired by her approach. I think this is a great book to read if you want to understand how we as a society could get out of despair and alienation about climate change.
“Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War” by Samuel Moyne: An exploration of the practice of making war more humane and how human rights frameworks have influenced and reinforced conflict and U.S. imperialism. This is a little bit more dry as historical scholarship than the other history-focused books I mentioned, but still readable for the general public. It asks a lot of really important questions that are sort of a third rail in American political discourse right now and has definitely influenced my perspective on current conflicts.
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…..so when DO the boys see carhop reader again ?
honestly they went straight to mexico city from austin i think but i don’t know if they wen’t straight to vegas from mexico bc there was an off weekend between mexico and vegas. idk what they did after mexico n before vegas tbh i can’t remember?? BUT considering they have a weekend off between those two races i think they’d def take the opportunity to go back to texas. they’d verify w their teams they can get that weekend off and ask her to schedule that weekend off and her coworkers would do it immediately but only if she promises to bring them by.
imagine her picking them up from the airport late at night then stopping by her sonic before it closes and all her friend coworkers are there, she’s weirdly nervous ab it like she’s introducing them to her parents. but tbh you need the cooks approval y’know? after sonic the boys are actually hungry and she refused to eat sonic so the boys waited until they left to eat, but not much is open so girlie takes them to waffle house. she tells them all about the waffle house index, which if you don’t know is an informal way of measuring how bad a disaster is. waffle houses are notoriously open no matter what, so if your waffle house is closed, shit is fucked up. i’ve never seen a closed waffle house in my life. they do limited menus during disasters and have trained teams to reopen, if they do close, asap once safe to do so. live laugh love waffle house.
then as soon as they’re back at the hotel they’re rushing to get her into bed because they’ve missed her.
i think she would take them allll around austin. idk much about it but the things i do know ab it is theres an amusement park where you can go karting!!! also rock climbing, mini golf, laser tag, rides, and those classic prize games. she definitely would have gone growing up its like a tradition imo, everyone goes there at least once. one morning when they’re asking what they can do, she’d passively mention it and they’d get so excited about it and she’s like tired from the night before and doesn’t wanna walk around the park all day, but oscar says he’ll give her a piggyback ride the whole time and she refuses that and goes anyways. despite her saying she can walk, he carries her around for awhile just because he wants to. he would insist that she hop on his back so lando can take their picture at least, but then he doesn’t put her down. they’d go on rides and hold her hand and totally beat her at karting. she hates losing so she casually says they should try the rock climbing next , then absolutely smashes the rock wall. before they’re halfway up, she’s scampered to the top, run the bell then dropped back down.
also would looove them somehow convincing her to go to vegas with them ?? getting her all fucked out so she lets them buy her plane tickets and secure all the paddock passes and the next morning she regrets agreeing to ask her boss for a week off work all of a sudden. oscar and lando would promise passes to the race next year, then have to concede and promise to get standard tickets for the people who will be covering her shifts for the week she’s taking off because her manager will only let her have the time off if she finds someone to cover her.
im not in school so idk how the breaks work but im pretty sure they get time off for thanksgiving, and thanksgiving was the thursday after the vegas race soo lets say she has the following week off school for the holiday so they just have to convince her to take off work for the week. vegas was a weird one. lets say she doesn’t have class fridays so she flies to vegas after class thursday and goes straight to the track to see her boys before practice. they’d have gotten her passes and such so she gets in easily, and someone takes her to the mclaren garage and she gets to see them right before practice starts.
and then it swiftly ended when carlos’s car was annihilated by that drain cover. she’s soo sleepy by that time bc it’s late at night but she just sits and watches her boys work, ignores them telling her she should go to the hotel and rest. she eventually gives in to the idea of napping in oscar’s driver’s room when they come back from their interviews, and she convinces them to go with while they have a little break and lay down with her until the next session.
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✨ STAR WARS ⭐ Prequels // Original Trilogy // Sequels ⭐ “Rogue One” ⭐ “Solo” ⭐ “The Mandalorian” ⭐ “The Book of Boba Fett” ⭐ “Obi–Wan Kenobi” ⭐ “Andor” ⭐ “Ahsoka” ⭐ “Star Wars The Old Republic“ 💫 Dark Side enthusiast
✨ HARRY POTTER ⭐ “Harry Potter” Movies ⭐ "Fantastic Beasts” Movies 💫 Ravenclaw’s dark witch
✨ GAME OF THRONES ⭐ "Game of Thrones” TV Show ⭐ “House of The Dragon” TV Show 💫 House Baratheon's Lady 💫 Alicent Hightower’s apologist
✨ THE LORD OF THE RINGS ⭐ “The Lord of the Rings” Movies ⭐ “The Hobbit” Movies ⭐ “The Rings of Power”
✨ THE WITCHER (NETFLIX) ⭐ "The Witcher” ⭐ “The Witcher: Blood Origin”
✨ THE ADDAMS FAMILY ⭐ "The Addams Family” Movies ⭐ "Wednesday”
✨ MARVEL ⭐ "X–Men” ⭐ "Moon Knight” 💫 Magneto was right
✨ DC ⭐ “The Dark Knight” Trilogy
✨ ALIEN UNIVERSE ⭐ “Prometheus” ⭐ “Alien: Covenant”
✨ THE HUNGER GAMES ⭐ “The Hunger Games” Movies ⭐ “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes“
✨ MOB MOVIES // TV SHOWS ⭐ “The Godfather” Part I // Part II ⭐ “Scarface” ⭐ “Goodfellas” ⭐ “Casino” ⭐ “Legend” ⭐ “Pulp Fiction” ⭐ “Reservoir Dogs” ⭐ “Eastern Promises” ⭐ “Peaky Blinders”
✨ PERIOD DRAMAS ⭐ Bridgerton Universe ➽ “Bridgerton” ➽ “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” ⭐ “The White Queen” ⭐ “The White Princess” ⭐ “The Spanish Princess” ⭐ “The Borgias” ⭐ “Agatha Christie’s Poirot” ⭐ “Victoria” ⭐ “The Crown” ⭐ “The Queen’s Gambit” ⭐ BBC’s “War & Peace” ⭐ “The Sissi" Trilogy ⭐ “The Pursuit of Love” ⭐ "World on Fire" ⭐ "The Empress" ⭐ "The Alienist" ⭐ “The English” ⭐ “George & Tammy” ⭐ “Daisy Jones & The Six” ⭐ “The Gilded Age” ⭐ “Downton Abbey” ⭐ “The English Game” ⭐ “Wolf Hall” ⭐ “Band of Brothers” ⭐ “Masters of The Air” ⭐ “1670″ ⭐ Period Drama Movies
✨ OTHER FANDOMS ⭐ "Doctor Who" (9th // 10th // 11th) ⭐ "Midnight Mass” ⭐ “Squid Game” ⭐ “Twin Peaks” ⭐ “The Chronicles of Narnia” ⭐ "Derry Girls" ⭐ “Black Mirror” ⭐ “The Last of Us” ⭐ “Ted Lasso” ⭐ “Only Murders in the Building” ⭐ “Irma Vep” ⭐ “Barbie” ⭐ “The Bear” ⭐ “Dune”
✨ PEOPLE ⭐ Austin Butler ➽ “Elvis” ➽ “Masters of The Air” ➽ “Dune” ⭐ Callum Turner ➽ “Fantastic Beasts” Movies ➽ “Masters of The Air” ➽ “War & Peace” ⭐ Ewan McGregor ➽ “Moulin Rouge!” ➽ “Obi–Wan Kenobi“ ➽ “Star Wars” Prequels ⭐ Ewan Mitchell ➽ “House of The Dragon” ➽ “World on Fire” ⭐ Gemma Arterton ➽ “Byzantium” ➽ “Clash of The Titans” ➽ “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” ➽ “Summerland” ➽ “Tamara Drewe” ➽ “Their Finest” ➽ “Vita & Virginia” ⭐ Harrison Ford ➽ “Star Wars” Original Trilogy ➽ “Star Wars” Sequels ⭐ Hayden Christensen ➽ “Ahsoka” ➽ “Obi–Wan Kenobi” ➽ “Star Wars” Prequels ⭐ James Frecheville ➽ "Masters of The Air" ➽ “Peaky Blinders” ➽ “The Pursuit of Love” ⭐ James Norton ➽ “Little Women” ➽ “War & Peace” ⭐ Jessica Chastain ➽ “A Most Violent Year” ➽ “Armageddon Time” ➽ “Crimson Peak” ➽ “George & Tammy” ➽ “Interstellar” ➽ “Miss Julie” ➽ “Miss Sloane” ➽ “Molly's Game” ➽ “Scenes From a Marriage” ➽ “The Debt” ➽ “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” ➽ “The Forgiven” ➽ “The Good Nurse” ➽ “The Help” ➽ “The Zookeeper’s Wife” ➽ “Woman Walks Ahead” ➽ “Zero Dark Thirty” ⭐ Michael Fassbender ➽ “A Bear Named Winnie” ➽ "A Dangerous Method" ➽ "Alien: Covenant" ➽ “Angel” ➽ “Assassin’s Creed” ➽ “Blood Creek” ➽ “Eden Lake” ➽ “Fish Tank” ➽ “Frank” ➽ "Haywire" ➽ "Hunger" ➽ "Inglorious Basterds" ➽ “Jane Eyre” ➽ "Macbeth" ➽ “Next Goal Wins” ➽ "Prometheus" ➽ "Shame" ➽ "Slow West" ➽ "Song to Song" ➽ "The Killer" ➽ “The Light Between Oceans” ➽ "The Snowman" ➽ “Trespass Against Us” ➽ “X–Men” ⭐ Olivia Cooke ➽ “House of The Dragon” ⭐ Oscar Isaac ➽ “A Most Violent Year” ➽ “Agora” ➽ “Annihilation” ➽ “Dune” ➽ “In Secret” ➽ “Inside Llewyn Davis” ➽ “Moon Knight” ➽ “Operation Finale” ➽ “Scenes From a Marriage” ➽ “Show Me a Hero” ➽ “Star Wars” Sequels ➽ “Sucker Punch” ➽ “The Card Counter” ➽ “The Letter Room” ➽ “The Promise” ➽ “The Two Faces of January” ➽ “Triple Frontier” ⭐ Tom Glynn-Carney ➽ “Dunkirk” ➽ “House of The Dragon”
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My 2023 Year in Review :)
Last year I listed out my favorite movies, shows, books, that I experienced in 2022, so I wanted to do it again :)
MOVIES -
I watched 26 movies this year, which is pitiful, but it's fine because most of them were with book club. 7 were rewatches and 15 were with book club.
Best Movies I watched in 2023:
Bottoms (2023)
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
The Blob (1988)
Movies that are Still Favorites:
Shelter (2007)
Venom (2018)
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
SHOWS -
New-To-Me shows:
The CW's Nancy Drew
Various Dropout TV
Rewatches:
Supernatural (seasons 1 & 2)
Merlin (seasons 1 & 2)
Medium (seasons 1 - 4)
Elementary (season 1)
Leverage (season 1)
New Episodes of Shows I've Watched Previously:
Abbott Elementary
Futurama
Only Murders in the Building
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
BOOKS -
As of 12/24/23, I have read 192 books with an average rating of 3.25 stars. I DNF'ed 66 books.
Rereads:
The Wrong Mr. Right - Stephanie Archer
People We Meet on Vacation - Emily Henry
Red, White, and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
The Fiction Between Us - Julie Olivia
If I'm Being Honest - Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
Favorites:
Adult -
The Roughest Draft - Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
Holiday Romance - Catherine Walsh
While the Duke Was Sleeping - Sophie Jordan
Love Interest - Clare Gilmore
The Good Daughter - Karin Slaughter
Roadside Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Young Adult -
Seven Percent of Ro Devereux - Ellen O'Clover
Woke Up Like This - Amy Lea
The Folk of the Air Trilogy - Holly Black
The Trouble Series - Stephanie Tromly
Honorable Mentions:
Adult -
The Appeal - Janice Hallett
Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
Love, Theoretically - Ali Hazelwood
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Blindsighted & Kisscut - Karin Slaughter
Young Adult -
All Alone With You - Amelia Diane Coombs
Carrie - Stephen King
Hell Followed With Us - Andrew Joseph White
They Hate Each Other - Amanda Woody
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Webb Telescope catches glimpse of possible first-ever ‘dark stars’
Stars beam brightly out of the darkness of space thanks to fusion, atoms melding together and releasing energy. But what if there’s another way to power a star?
A team of three astrophysicists — Katherine Freese at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Cosmin Ilie and Jillian Paulin ’23 at Colgate University — analyzed images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and found three bright objects that might be “dark stars,” theoretical objects much bigger and brighter than our sun, powered by particles of dark matter annihilating. If confirmed, dark stars could reveal the nature of dark matter, one of the deepest unsolved problems in all of physics.
“Discovering a new type of star is pretty interesting all by itself, but discovering it’s dark matter that’s powering this—that would be huge,” said Freese, director of the Weinberg Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Jeff and Gail Kodosky Endowed Chair in Physics at UT Austin.
Although dark matter makes up about 25% of the universe, its nature has eluded scientists. Scientists believe it consists of a new type of elementary particle, and the hunt to detect such particles is on. Among the leading candidates are Weakly Interacting Massive Particles. When they collide, these particles annihilate themselves, depositing heat into collapsing clouds of hydrogen and converting them into brightly shining dark stars. The identification of supermassive dark stars would open up the possibility of learning about the dark matter based on their observed properties.
The research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Follow-up observations from JWST of the objects’ spectroscopic properties — including dips or excess of light intensity in certain frequency bands — could help confirm whether these candidate objects are indeed dark stars.
Confirming the existence of dark stars might also help solve a problem created by JWST: There seem to be too many large galaxies too early in the universe to fit the predictions of the standard model of cosmology.
“It’s more likely that something within the standard model needs tuning, because proposing something entirely new, as we did, is always less probable,” Freese said. “But if some of these objects that look like early galaxies are actually dark stars, the simulations of galaxy formation agree better with observations.”
The three candidate dark stars (JADES-GS-z13-0, JADES-GS-z12-0, and JADES-GS-z11-0) were originally identified as galaxies in December 2022 by the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). Using spectroscopic analysis, the JADES team confirmed the objects were observed at times ranging from about 320 million to 400 million years after the Big Bang, making them some of the earliest objects ever seen.
“When we look at the James Webb data, there are two competing possibilities for these objects,” Freese said. “One is that they are galaxies containing millions of ordinary, population-III stars. The other is that they are dark stars. And believe it or not, one dark star has enough light to compete with an entire galaxy of stars.”
Dark stars could theoretically grow to be several million times the mass of our sun and up to 10 billion times as bright as the sun.
“We predicted back in 2012 that supermassive dark stars could be observed with JWST,” said Ilie, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Colgate University. “As shown in our recently published PNAS article, we already found three supermassive dark star candidates when analyzing the JWST data for the four high redshift JADES objects spectroscopically confirmed by Curtis-Lake et al, and I am confident we will soon identify many more.”
The idea for dark stars originated in a series of conversations between Freese and Doug Spolyar, at the time a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. They wondered: What does dark matter do to the first stars to form in the universe? Then they reached out to Paolo Gondolo, an astrophysicist at the University of Utah, who joined the team. After several years of development, they published their first paper on this theory in the journal Physical Review Letters in 2008.
Together, Freese, Spolyar and Gondolo developed a model that goes something like this: At the centers of early protogalaxies, there would be very dense clumps of dark matter, along with clouds of hydrogen and helium gas. As the gas cooled, it would collapse and pull in dark matter along with it. As the density increased, the dark matter particles would increasingly annihilate, adding more and more heat, which would prevent the gas from collapsing all the way down to a dense enough core to support fusion as in an ordinary star. Instead, it would continue to gather more gas and dark matter, becoming big, puffy and much brighter than ordinary stars. Unlike ordinary stars, the power source would be evenly spread out, rather than concentrated in the core. With enough dark matter, dark stars could grow to be several million times the mass of our sun and up to 10 billion times as bright as the sun.
IMAGE....These three objects (JADES-GS-z13-0, JADES-GS-z12-0, and JADES-GS-z11-0) were originally identified as galaxies in December 2022 by the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). Now, a team including Katherine Freese at The University of Texas at Austin speculate they might actually be “dark stars,” theoretical objects much bigger and brighter than our sun, powered by particles of dark matter annihilating.  CREDIT Image credit: NASA/ESA
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Jack's Big Rambly Nonsense Theory Post About Episode 3 ✨️
I am a merciful fella so the rambles will be contained under the cut.
hey! what's up? this is the only thing I care about for the time being so I'm gonna ramble about it! I don't know what I'm doing! all of this could be wrong! I'm very excited!
Please feel free to reply/reblog or like.. idk, y'all can tag me if you wanna make a separate post jumping off of, responding to, or completely annihilating (in a friendly way!) any of my theories here.
What The Heck Is Antikythera?
i didnt know what this was and it seemed somewhat important since it's in the title (lol) so I looked it up.
one of the first things I found was the wiki article for the Antikythera mechanism, which is basically a computer/calculator from Ancient Greece that predicted astronomical positions and eclipses. It was found in a Roman shipwreck in the Mediterranean in 1901 and might have been constructed as far back as 205 BC. (it had gears and everything! cool!)
Considering this device is related to astronomy and approximately, oh, ALL of our protagonists are interested in and have connections to astronomy, I don't think that's a coinkydink! additionally, since this is fictional and there are no limits, mayhaps the Antikythera mechanism is a part of the story and it can do (and does do) more than predict celestial events...? 👀
Now, I admit I read about this one interesting thing and kinda just ran with it, but in case there's anything else about this itty bitty little island, I did look into it more. According to the Wikipedia, Antikythera was settled and abandoned several times throughout history. This is also where the wreck with the mechanism was discovered (hence the name), and apparently lots of birds use the island as a pit stop during migration, but that's about it. It's enough for me to laugh shrug and carry on with my mechanism theories, lol.
The Ellen Austin, The Bermuda Triangle, & Maybe A Ghost Ship
Since our beloved quartet is confirmed to be aboard the Ellen Austin and they're en route through the Bermuda Triangle/Sargossa Sea where the Ellen Austin is said to have encountered a ghost ship, I'm gonna continue with my previously-held theory that we're getting a ghost ship encounter! (In one story about the Ellen Austin, they had some of the crew go onto the ghost ship to bring it back to shore with them, and the crew ~mysteriously vanished~ which is... interesting. 👀)
I have a few ideas about what this potential ghost ship might be:
An Ancient Greek vessel straight from Antikythera, with or without a mechanism, but probably with. [squints at map] I mean, the Mediterranean isn't that far from the Sargossa Sea/Bermuda Triangle area. And/or maybe there was some time-and-space nonsense happening that could land it on the other side of the Atlantic. If our quartet could get poofed from a satellite in 1835 back to Earth in 1881(?), then a mysterious ship could plausibly get zapped to another place and/or time. Might be a bit too on the nose but c'mon, the name is in the title, there's gotta be a connection to Antikythera, and who says it can't be this? Could also have ghosts!
A slightly less ancient Roman cargo ship like the (shipwrecked) one that had the Antikythera mechanism. (Please see above for hand-waving about date & location.) Maybe the ship has a mechanism on board, and maybe it's also got ghosts—both of the Ancient Greek variety via the mechanism, and of the slightly less ancient Roman variety via it's their dang boat. Bonus points if the Greek/Antikytheran(?) ghosties were scaring the daylights out of the Romans and are responsible for the ship becoming a (double) ghost ship. Of course this also hinges on how literal the "ghosts" in The Ghosts of Antikythera are, but I'll ramble about that in a little bit.
A much less ancient ship from whatever eras make it more likely to be in the Sargossa Sea, but it has an Antikythera mechanism somehow. This would take out a lot of fuss about how the ship got here or how it could have survived this long without being wrecked or discovered, AND it would bring up new and fun questions such as "why does this random ship have an Ancient Greek mechanism" and I call that a win-win. Could be a classic pirate ship, could be a newer vessel that'd be more familiar to the crew of the Ellen Austin... idk im not a boat guy but I think there's some fun possibilities.
bonus theory: the ghost ship has "witch" in the name or has a name related to witches, or maybe literally just has "wicked" in the name, purely based off this tweet:
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thank you @man-down-in-hatchet-town for being my Twitter scout, lmao
Just 'cause, you know... wicked, witches. The waves could be just part of the water theme since (i assume) the episode takes place predominantly at sea, or perhaps the ghost ship is literally carried "this way" by the waves.
Ghosts — Like, Literally? Or Do You Mean Metaphorically?
We already know that Pulp Musicals will be exploring multiple genres—sci-fi, horror, mystery, adventure—so I'm betting episode three will add some horror to the mix, especially after Matt's delightfully ominous words in the trailer:
In this web of mystery, Margaret has begun to unravel her own... but she is not the only one awakening. And soon, our heroes will find that the light of discovery can bring forth shadows darker than anything they could have ever imagined.
...Yeah, sounds like horror and/or ghosts to me! So maybe the ghosts of Antikythera are real actual spooky scary spirits, in which case I am very excited to pull up a chair and listen to Herschel scoff and try to find a rational, scientific explanation for any spooky happenings. (Idk if he believes in ghosts or not, but in this case I hope he doesn't because that will make it much funnier for me. <3 )
On the other hand, "horror" is incredibly vague, so maybe we won't get jump-out-and-say-boo ghosts at all. Maybe the ghosts of Antikythera are more unsettling because they aren't an active, supernatural force wreaking havoc on the open sea—maybe they're just an empty vessel, forgotten memories, and the lingering consequences of the actions taken by people who are long since dead. What's scarier—the dead staying behind to screw with you face to face, or the dead abandoning their troubles & mistakes and leaving clueless strangers to get stuck with the deadly fallout?
Honestly, tho? I'm excited either way, and I'm very curious to see how scary Matt plans to go.
Theories That Don't Have A Ghost Ship, Because You Never Know
I am 100% behind the ghost ship theory, but making theories is fun so why not throw some other ones out there. Full disclosure, I don't think these are that likely, and some are mostly gonna be for laughs.
They find a shipwreck. I'm really only considering this because the Antikythera mechanism was found on a wreck. I don't think the Ellen Austin would stop to investigate a shipwreck if they happened upon one, and I also don't know if they'd even have the equipment to safely or effectively investigate it if they wanted to. Then again, maybe they would stop if they saw the wreck go down, and also who needs to go down in the water if you have a passenger with magic powers? If Margaret could launch the Sagitta, she could probably fish up a wreck easy peasy. Maybe she wouldn't even need the ship to stop, she could just see (or sense?) something in the water and reach out with the Radiance. And if whatever she brought onto the Ellen Austin was haunted, then that could kick off the ghost stuff... huh. I actually kinda like this idea!
Atlantis? I think someone mentioned this in the chat for the trailer's premiere. I'm inclined to say "probably not" though... unless the quartet gets poofed or otherwise summoned closer to Greece. But I think they'll probably be sticking around the Sargossa Sea, since there isn't a lot of time for them to be traveling all around in a ~90 minute episode, and the previous episodes kinda picked a place and stayed there. Doesn't necessarily mean we couldn't get an underwater city (or formerly underwater city), of course. It just probably wouldn't be Atlantis.
...I actually don't have any other ideas right now, lol. I really think it's gonna be a ghost ship. And that the Antikythera mechanism has something to do with it.
Oof okay, for the sake of my eyes and brain, I'm going to stop staring at my phone and thinking for now, lol. I will probably come up with some more thoughts & theories as time goes on, but I think I have used all my batteries for today.
Again, if anybody reads this and wants to contribute or comment, feel free! 💫
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Llego ese momento en el año donde les comparto mi #TopAlbums2023 con lo que más escuché:
25 - St. Paul and The Broken Bones - Angels In Science Fiction https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/15f4swdHoM3mfnML21afJs?si=8j_kVSyMS5qvyX_dCPg14g
24 - Jon Batiste - World Music Radio https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/0cX1ODY38Nd2LuijmfuSjF?si=aSLl_5D3TfSHxgy8wsua3A
23 - Temples - Exotico https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/62RCqdpcd99Gce2f5IsHX5?si=yB9PNvZDTYaSGJIVZs4baQ
22 - The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Future Is Your Past https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/2gSCrwFLHcT0OhMgdMy0Qc?si=OQF4l4TwRgm2HREdOi8_sg
21 - Gorillaz – Cracker Island https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/4wtZQMNTC1O79kDxMBsEan?si=Yvo8hrn_RjOL58atszWyyQ
20 - Greta Van Fleet – Starcatcher https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/7i1NJXQNNFZPyjE0W3GPgE?si=Xx_0FCUPRWij9g9tBRTB_A
19 - Rival Sons – Darkfighter https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/5drsoG7zv1wwOSnKBnW2EZ?si=lPswc_HlQkibyH15Zzs-fw
18 - Diamante Eléctrico - Leche de Tigre https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/2jWdBKOz7I73GULBYQU0k8?si=k58P_8JKSveqKcGGXwyg6A
17 - Kali Uchis – Red Moon In Venus https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/5OZ44LaqZbpP3m9B3oT8br?si=Z_cbsrE4R_uxI-FI5s9N5g
16 - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/53X6xpjjMDMfZ5IWMyonvC?si=DxQNctzUQ66gNIRLTIKqNA
15 - The Revivalists – Pour It Out Into The Night https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/20ywcUH2pPpMThaHW1glPK?si=rH1leMpgRL-UmzvT6Qq2fQ
14 - Black Mekon – NEAT! https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/4RdGpBrySgiwcDfhbNPNGH?si=3BMN9R-BTCWWJ9m8FwhytA
13 - Austin TV – Rizoma https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/51ABCq7no09mPcnuPY7kP2?si=gDlqOt1ZTU2SB6PHqeATEA
12 - Camilo Séptimo – Jardín de las almas https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/6qNDuK7TXMUK0aTKsyevYT?si=y_YskSRIToG4XQCEqawb1A
11 - Queens of the Stone Age – In Times New Roman… https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/2ZTDmH94OLjeNaOvT7Ngwk?si=n0EbqrRzSXSO2RW0FW3X5g
10 - Thumpasaurus – Hard https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/6ShQyPj3NmcKvuqB9Wrqze?si=jpOhVpa1Q-uARcnhNbUFxA
09 - Rodrigo y Gabriela – In Between Thoughts…A New World https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/6yX67VKldwmjZEXSLI6kFx?si=d9nARQ6iQQedfNa_L3qqdA
08 - The Nude Party – Rides On https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/5rhWpaut3ohLsONxiS3ffn?si=d3AfCtXJTpmpGj-_NBYuzg
07 - Royal Blood – Back To The Water Below https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/4B9IAqwQaPYHQi7kJcpPFQ?si=whm9ItBPTGKJLov0wEeaBA
06 - Jungle – Volcano https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/5xnXOCf5aZgZ43DgGN4EDv?si=Hd5mPUAGQJ6-NwCdbVwJdQ
05 - Måneskin – RUSH! (Are U Coming?) https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/2kcJ3TxBhSwmki0QWFXUz8?si=0cpxYXVRQL63fs4T57t4eg
04 - Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/641Z6fcF4G5ZbIuCjsi9zo?si=3rnOG2_jS6y-DcPvT0BPWg
03 - DeWolff – Love, Death & In Between https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/4jmQ3CvZiXkeHaLLUHctr2?si=EDoyo2InT2C6_0OHE7zBWA
02 - The Arcs – Electrophonic Chronic https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/3eU8EWUvHf0uls7ucn2aDJ?si=BI5wyiD3QL2sQhp-tqbqYA
01 - The Heavy – Amen https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/5GcQhWvQf2nEqCylA5dgpc?si=uS-mxQAtRmm29dlGfMqX6g
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