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paradoxlemonade · 1 year

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Minecraft Characterization Notes

I've rewatched all the trailers and content I could find/exists (as of November 2022) that contains Steve, Alex, and any of the new characters to take notes on their characterization and quirks :] Information is taken from the playlist of animated trailers in the official Minecraft YouTube channel, caves and cliffs: the musical, and the announcement video from MineCon live. If I've missed anything, please let me know!

First up, Alex. They're first and foremost an explorer, always eager to dive into a new adventure. This manifests as a slight lack of impulse control, but things tend to work out in their favor anyways due to their natural luck. Their hunts give them pretty things to decorate with, feeding their apparent desire for aesthetics. They tend to take on a leadership role in most situations, either by taking charge when exploring with their best friend Steve, or directing the other players. Despite this, they're also a goofball at heart and have a penchant for practical jokes. They seem to have good storytelling skills and talent with redstone.

Next is the original, Steve. They're far more cautious than Alex, which is a good thing given their bouts of both klutziness and misfortune. They often have their head in the clouds and get absorbed into tasks, which results in them startling easily. They're practical by nature and tend to do more by-the-book mining. They love most animals and creatures but are scared of goats. Despite their sweeter, milder nature, they're just as much of a hardened, competent warrior as Alex is (especially when not caught off-guard).

Sunny is the first of the new characters I'll cover. They're a bit reckless but mean well (they heedlessly ran into the deep dark after a chicken). They later recounted this tale as a show of bravado, claiming to have escaped from the warden alive with the chicken (but it's unclear how true that is). Although they seem to enjoy living fast, they also like to slow down and enjoy some time boating on the water (though they may have just been keeping watch for Efe).

Wherever Sunny goes, Efe is sure to be close. They followed Sunny into the deep dark and aided in the recounting, but seemed to mostly play a secondary role in that situation. That's not to say they're any less attracted to danger—we see them fighting a hoard of drowned, using a Trident while underwater to do so. They appear to do this solely for the fun of it as Sunny keeps watch above (perhaps they're not supposed to be this adrenaline-seeking but choose to do so anyways?). Despite their brave nature, they get startled and run from a creeper immediately after. In the chase, they skillfully take to riding a pig at high speeds without a pause to mount up. This shows off their notable athletic prowess.

The last of the new characters to receive significant development is Noor. They're lower-energy than either Sunny or Efe, but not sedate. Their curious nature shines through. They also appear to be more observant than the others, noticing when Steve and Alex came back through the nether portal in the distance as well as the nearby Allay. While they love many creatures (catching a tadpole in a bucket and then later releasing it in a nice location), they have a particular affinity for allays and recall their experiences with the creatures fondly. They tend towards reminiscing and nostalgia. They're a practical person—they brought a bucket and spyglass on their boating trip, not just glowberries to snack on.

The remaining four do not have as many scenes or development, but I will do my best to get as much information from their scenes as possible. (Some of the following may appear to be a stretch for this reason)

The most developed of those who remain is Makena. They're first seen farming as Zuri runs by while being chased. They later show up again with an elytra, making skilled flight maneuvers to return the redstone torch to Alex. Seeing a problem and deciding to help speaks to a helpful and compassionate nature, and their flying abilities show their agile physical abilities.

As previously mentioned, Zuri was running from a creeper. They appear easily startled. Their coordination leaves something to be desired when they're distressed, so they are not likely a warrior.

Ari is another player seen flying with elytra. They accidentally stole Alex's redstone torch but dropped it when trying to activate a rocket to turn around. They appear to mean well but do not have the best hand-eye coordination.

The final character is Kai. Very little is known about them at this time, as their only animated appearance shows them farming. They're slouched over in the introductory promotion image and one might assume they're laid-back or lackadaisical, but that's conjecture at this point.

Someone in the YouTube comments on a reupload of the clip from MineCon Live went through and determined which characters were right or left handed.

[Image ID: A screenshot of a YouTube comment on dark mode. The comment is from SomeBodyKarens1 and has three likes. The comment reads: Freezing the frame on when they are all holding redstone torches (aside from Efe who is on a pig) I believe their dominant hands are as follows.

Zuri: right.

Sunny: Right.

Noor: Left.

Makena: ambidextrous (Even though holding a torch in the right hand, in the scene when running they are holding a bucket in their left).

Kai: right.

Efe: left.

Ari: right. End image ID]

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extremelyputridfishbreath · 11 months

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CLUB PENGUIN OC SHOWDOWN (Side B, Round 1 Match 13)

TOASTEY - GRRR BARK BARK BARK

"Kicked off the rainbow puffle adoption cloud for mauling 3 different puffle hotel staff, he was found as a stray and adopted by a retired EPF agent. He doesn't actually have rabies he's just fucking weird. His current owner adores him and thinks him foaming at the mouth is just a quirky rainbow puffle trick they do when they see food (it's not)." spook-e-smudge's testimonial

WHY VOTERS SHOULD VOTE FOR TOASTEY:

"If you don't he might bite you"

ADDITIONAL INFO:

"I love him very much and I think you should all love him too"

ROBIN - CAREFUL AND CONSIDERATE

"Personality: Robin is a penguin who is considered quiet and contemplative. They're always willing to offer a flipper to those who need it. Often times they would rather help others than help themself out.

While they can seem nervous, they have grown a lot since coming to the island - even if there are setbacks along the way.

Background:

Born not on the island - but arrived when they were just a little chick. Their father and older sibling were actually part of the team that helped get Club Penguin into a site ready for penguins to come live in loads as well as the very beginning construction plans of everything alongside Aunt Arctic.

Things… occurred, and soon Aunt Arctic was the sole one left on their project with their sibling gone and their father taking them to another island to live after. A very stern penguin overall - having disagreed with the direction that the island went on - he was very harsh on Robin.

When they were a teenager, they came back to the official opening! It was… very overwhelming for Robin to be surrounded by so many penguins after being home-schooled for so long, but soon enough, they found a footing. They finished school, got themself a job as a photographer for the yearbook (choosing not to help with the newspaper for the sake of bad memories left in the past) - and somehow found themself wrapped up in being an agent.

(MORE SHALL BE UNLOCKED IF WE BYPASS STAGE 1… and I'm too tired to type more right now-)." dream-unity's testimonial

WHY VOTERS SHOULD VOTE FOR ROBIN:

Bullets points!

Robin is very polite. Look at them. They ask you very politely

They like… deserve a lot. like a heck of a lot after what I put them in both their main verse and their AU versions

OH! They're the character I used in in the Moose and Polo 'official' DND. You can read some of the shenanigans we got up to in the #story-so-far channel at the bottom! We just finished up the campaign a few weeks back now actually

IF Robin gets past the first round I'll up a QNA on them! OOC.

IF Robin gets past the second round I'll try and do more Operation: Back In Time work - at least work with the others to get character posts finished lol -shakes kitty treats at everyone-

If Robin

If Robin gets the fourth round I'll actually start ramping up production on the game as even just working on uploading all their images to Toyhou.se made me buzz with excitement. If this happens I'll scree into the wild heavens.

If like Robin wins I'll draw some art of all the OCs anddddddd try and make a demo come out for BIT by either the end of summer … or more realistically at the end of the year! Haha. (If the others are willing :3c)

ADDITIONAL INFO:

"YES! First, I have a toyhouse! https://toyhou.se/16815004.robin. This contains images from both specifically regular-verse Robin and DND-verse. I HAVE! A SPOTIFY PLAYLIST. For both Robin (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1a25KtwnsBppms4xpXp0Jf?si=fc69c60941144dc4) and EBF (alternate timeline shenanigans! yes i should be coding that why do you ask-) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0tGmnE8op9PLIxCjIf52ge?si=29b612fbf7d6436c OH! AND FANFICTION. Here are three fanfics associated with Robin at this time: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41582811, https://archiveofourown.org/works/41705019, https://archiveofourown.org/works/41707098 "

Character art by: Spook-e-smudge and dream-unity!

#club penguin oc showdown #club penguin oc bracket

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starlitangels · 1 year

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I wanted to finally start listening to redacted but I have NO idea where to start 😭 do you have suggestions?

*sucks in deep breath* There’s a couple ways to answer this.

My first instinct is to literally just say “go to the playlist titled ‘Everything’ and start at the beginning and work your way up” because Redacted’s lore can be confusing if you haven’t heard it in the order it came out in. I listened to Geordi’s first video the day after it dropped as my first video and had no idea what was going on. Then went to Elliott’s playlist and was even more confused because that playlist is major story heavy unlike some of the others

But I understand that the Everything playlist (while most useful for lore digesting and didn’t exist yet when I found the channel and wasn’t an option for me) can most definitely be overwhelming. It’s long, I won’t deny it. But it also gives you the space to get to know each of the characters a little bit at a time

If you don’t want to go that direction though, I have two decent options:

Start with Freelancer, Season 1. You get a fairly good rundown of most of the rules of the magic system, and the difference between daemons/demons, and humans. Redacted’s d(a)emons use the word in the old, more Fae connotation than a Biblical interpretation. They’re more akin to simply supernatural magical entities rather than creatures of evil and damnation or whatever.

So Freelancer S1 isn’t a bad place to start before moving on to whichever characters strike your fancy

But the other of my aforementioned two options is Avior’s story (the playlist is now titled “Sovereign State”).

Now, anyone who’s reading this and has known me for a while is probably chuckling like “of course Star is recommending her favorite character that she never shuts up about loving” but hear me out: Avior’s story has a lot of heavy, heavy worldbuilding lore all dumped into one place for quick access, but is almost entirely separate from the rest of the world Redacted has built, so it’s less complicated than jumping right in with, say, trying to keep track of the three werewolves and how they all connect to each other but also the vampires. Avior’s story is self-contained for the moment and season 1 of it is wrapping up right now so there are going to be some resolutions to a few things hopefully

Heed my warning though: Erik (Redacted) isn’t afraid of tackling some darker topics and heavy situations. If that’s not something you’re comfortable with, pay attention to the Content Warnings he puts in all of his video descriptions with applicable warnings. If you’re not into Yandere characters be mindful that he has three-ish. One of the three has mostly had his story finished but will occasionally pop up for a random reappearance. One of the three hasn’t seemed super Yandere to me yet but I’m sure it’ll get worse. The third is definitely one to be mindful of too because it’s much more magic-based.

Also Inversion and both seasons of The Imperium AU are dark and heavy so if you’re gonna listen to them you might wanna be cautious

So, TL;DR, either do the Everything playlist, Freelancer Season 1, or Sovereign State (technically season 1). From there you should have mostly enough information on the worldbuilding and such to pick and choose whatever catches your fancy from there. Though I’d recommend maybe the werewolves first after those three because they’re less story heavy and just kinda slice of life and also Milo is sexy moving on

If you have any questions about the lore or the plots please feel free to come back. I get questions all the time looking for explanations (usually from another video that the asker just couldn’t quite remember). There’s no shame in it. I’m the resident Lore Gremlin anyway and love helping people understand the world as best I know it

Erik also has a timeline (it’s in his Linktree in the video description of all his videos) but I don’t recommend reading it outright just yet. Because you will be confused and overwhelmed. Let the videos guide you first and then go to the timeline for clarifications

#answered #redacted asmr #redacted audio

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salty-hakuouki · 2 years

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Saito : Ginsei no Shou + Tsukikage no Shou

I managed to sub all the Saito chapters of both games ! You can find them all on my Youtube channel as usual.

Here is a playlist I did that rearranges all the chapters in chronological order ! (That’s why chapter 3 is before chapter 1 and so on, it’s not game order but chronological)

I currently have 449 followers on my channel. When I’ll hit 500, I will be able to make polls. Please consider to join if you want to vote for the next character to have his route in english !

#hakuouki #hakuoki #薄桜鬼 #otome game #乙女ゲーム #hakuouki translation #hakuouki trans #hakuoki translation #haku trans #ginsei no shou #tsukikage no shou #saito hajime #saitou hajime

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krissiefox · 2 years

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Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog - The Magic Hassle (Screenshots and Review)

Before I get this review underway, I finally have to address an unfortunate issue with the order of my reviews and episode viewings- I've been watching them through a playlist on a youtube channel called "Wildbrain - Cartoon super Heroes" and unfortunately, they seem to listed their episode in the wrong order. Given the shows very loose attitude towards any serious continuity, this isn't usually a problem, but in this episode I saw a character who was implied to have been previously introduced in another I hadn't re-watched yet, so I am a missing a bit of context for him. Sorry about that!

(image: Wes shows off his new merchandise! Seeing the magic jar of evil makes me wonder if jk rowling is a regular customer of his...) This episode begins with Sonic and Tails being the stars of a special gathering outside of a fancy...er, money building(?) called the Mobius Mint. It's basically a big vault of cash and also a printing press for dollar bills. Sonic is given the honor of having his face put on the new "12 dollar bill", because Mobius has decided it's currency should be measured in annoying manner that would make counting money needlessly complicated. Agh! Robotnik and his Badnik kids are all watching this take place on the news, and Robotnik is pissed at the fact that he'll have to see Sonic's face every time he goes through his wallet. This inspires him to whip up a scheme of both robbing the Mobius Mint of its existing cash and also manipulating the printing press to put his face on the 12 dollar bill instead. As he works out the details, he sends Scratch and Grounder to distract and pester Sonic - which is actually pretty clever on his part! We know Scratch and Grounder can't ever seem to catch Sonic, but Sonic does find them highly amusing so they would make a great decoy. Also, when Robotnik goes to use his computer it starts making sounds from Super Mario Bros! Maybe Robotnik has an NES emulator on there...? Coconuts rushes in, excited and also wanting to help, but Robotnik dismisses him to toilet cleaning duty. Just as Coconuts is leaving the room, a traveling salesman named Wes Weasly barges in, offering to sell Robotnik some new goods! Immediately upon seeing Wes, Robotnik is annoyed, as he remembers their last encounter where Wes apparently caused him a lot of grief. Robotnik grabs a gun and chases Wes and Coconuts out the front door, firing wildly at them.

Once outside, Wes and Coconuts get a chance to talk with each-other. Coconuts bemoans that he's on toilet cleaning duty and wishes he had a way to catch Sonic and make Robotnik like him more. Wes sees this as a sales opportunity, and shows off that his new inventory contains an assortment of magical artifacts! Coconuts is excited at the idea of becoming a cool wizard/witch (I would be too!) and defeating Sonic with magic spells so he tricks Robotnik into singing a bill agreement over some toilet paper, citing that Robotnik uses a lot (he is a pretty high strung guy, and probably gets constipated and has to wipe a lot!).

(A but of an aside on Wes Weasly - I find him to be a very funny and entertaining character spoofing your typical "shady salesman". He has a similar attire to "Stan S. Stanman " from Monkey Island and has amusing speech mannerisms. The memory of his voice and personality are something that stuck with me all the way from my childhood, so it was cool to get to finally see him in a episode again. He's apparently based on a comedian named "Phil Silvers" whom I may need to look into sometime...)

What follows for a while is a slapstick routine of Coconuts buying different magical artifacts and trying them out on Sonic and Tails, usually being foiled by either Scratch and Grounders interference or Sonic himself. One of the highlights of this is when Coconuts summons a ghost to scare our heroes, but they end befriending the ghost instead. There's also a cute recurring theme the badniks repeated screw-ups keep ending up giving Sonic and Tails the exact foods they were craving at the time - first a pair of chili dogs, and the a couple cans of ginger ale from Coconuts ghost-summoning potion!

After two failed attempts, Coconuts is feeling pretty frustrated. Th next scene is one that got a good genuine laugh out of me - Wes is trying to get Coconuts to buy a magic bone that will turn Sonic into a statue, but the little monkey-bot is so fed up that he just sits and scowls at Wes the whole time he's speaking. It's a great example of how silence and facial expressions can sometimes be a better joke than a corny one-liner.

Coconuts eventually caves, and decides to try out the magic bone. As before, Coconuts struggles with his magic item because he keeps messing up the magic spell like he was Ash Williams. Eventually, he manages to cast his bone spell correctly, and petrifies both Sonic AND Tails, surprisingly!

Robotnik is very pleased with the news, and asks Grounder to meet him at the Mobius Mint. Coconuts of course manages to accidentally set off the cancellation of his magic spell, thus freezing the heroes as they head to stop Robotnik. Coconuts follows, and also Wes Weasly, and after some mayhem at the Mobius Mint, Robotnik and Coconuts are thrown out of the building. The final kicker for Robotnik’s bad day is that We Weasly approaches them to ask for the first payment on the huuuuge bill that Coconuts racked up buying a whole bunch of expensive artifacts under Robotnik’s name. Robotnik is enraged by this and chases them both off, yelling "Get out of my life!" as the episode ends.

In The Sonic Says segment, Coconuts is about to buy a bunch more little nick-knacks from Wes Weasly when Sonic intervenes, warning Coconuts that he won't be able to afford a nice expensive item later on if he blows all his money on little trinkets now. I am...so-so on this message. If you are prepared for paying bills, don't have any major purchases planned, and have a regular source of income, I don't see what's wrong with buying little nick-knacks that bring you joy. I think this segment might have been better framed as Sonic warning coconuts to make sure he saves money for groceries first, before he goes splurging on little toys.

This episode was quite a fun and cute one! It's nice to see Coconuts have a starring role because he's not as much of a regular as Scratch and Grounder, and I find him equally endearing as them. And on top of this we have the very entertaining Wes Weasly character, a bunch of cute character art, and the fun theme of magical spells and artifacts, and this one is definitely a keeper in my book! Til next time, stay cool, Sonic fans!

#Aosth #adventures of sonic the hedgehog #Sonic #sonic the hedgehog #Tails #Miles Prower #Coconuts #The Magic Hassle #Wes Weasly #Dr. Robotnik #Monkey Island #Evil dead #Ash Williams #Stan S. Stanman

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dimentio-cipher · 6 days

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If you're someone who's never understood why classic Paper Mario fans dislike the modern Paper Mario games, yet you still want to attempt to understand their perspective, then I recommend reading this. Remember, most of what I say about these games is just my opinion. It's perfectly fine if you disagree with me on anything I say here.

Here's my ranking of the Paper Mario games from worst to best:

6. Paper Mario: Sticker Star 5. Paper Mario: Color Splash 4. Paper Mario 64 3. Paper Mario: The Origami King 2. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door 1. Super Paper Mario

I think Paper Mario 64, TTYD, and Super Paper Mario were meant to feel like someone was telling you a story from a storybook based on events that happened in the main Mario universe. I think the modern Paper Mario games are the only Paper Mario games that take place in a separate universe.

I prefer the classic games, but I also can enjoy the modern games as well. However, I have a hard time believing that a new Paper Mario game could have characters, a story, or a soundtrack that's way better than Origami King without returning the Paper Mario series to how it used to be.

That being said, if you prefer the modern Paper Mario games, then that's okay. People have different tastes, no one should try to force you to like something you're not interested in. In fact, people having different tastes in video games is why I think having games like the first three Paper Mario games is important for the Mario franchise. I'm pretty sure the main reason Mario has so many different series of games is so the Mario franchise can appeal to as many people as possible.

The 2D Mario games are for people who like 2D platformers. The 3D Mario games are for people who like 3D platformers and adventure games. The Mario sports games are for people who like sports games. The Mario Party games are for people who like party games. The Mario Kart games are for people who like racing games. The Dr. Mario games are for people who like puzzle games like Tetris. And the Mario RPGs are for people who like RPGs. While RPGs tend to have deeper stories than other games, some RPGs have much simpler stories. The Mario and Luigi RPGs had simpler stories. But the classic Paper Mario games weren't just for people who like RPGs. They were for people who liked games with deeper stories, lore, worldbuilding, and a colorful cast of characters. I just wish that everything that made modern Paper Mario fans like the modern Paper Mario games could exist in a separate Mario game series. So that way both sides of the fandoms could have what they want.

If you still don't feel like you understand classic Paper Mario fans at all, then I recommend checking out this series of Paper Mario reviews on YouTube. The YouTube channel is called "The Red Guy" and his reviews are probably the best Paper Mario review videos I've ever seen. I think he does a good job explaining why he and many other classic Paper Mario fans feel the way they do about the games. However, if you already had planned on playing the TTYD remake, then I would suggest not watching the reviews, since they contain spoilers for TTYD. The reviews are also pretty long, so I wouldn't blame you for not wanting to spend so much time watching them. This was just a suggestion for anyone who wanted to try and get a better understanding of why classic Paper Mario fans view the series the way that they do.

Here is a link to the Paper Mario review playlist.

#video games #nintendo #mario #paper mario

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ourcreativefiber · 1 year

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Anika, the fox doll tutorial / crochet pattern

Our Creative Fiber has released a new crochet pattern for a sweet little fox wearing a bow tie. You can check it out in video form in our Youtube channel, or as an add-free pdf pattern in our Etsy store. This is a beginner-friendly project.

In the video format of the pattern, we we go row by row in a crochet-along demonstration. Due to its length, the pattern is divided into several five parts. Here is a playlist that compiles all of the videos from the tutorial:

Our pdf pattern has even more tips sprinkled throughout, and it comes with a free guide that goes over the main techniques to make Amigurumi dolls. It contains dozens of pictures of the whole process.

All the materials needed are listed below:

Yarn: 4 weight in orange, black and white

Crochet hook: 3.75mm

Safety eyes (optional, you can embroider the eyes instead)

Fiber fill

Yarn needle

Scissors

Pins (optional) to keep parts in place as we sew them on

Row counter (optional)

Stitch marker (optional)

The original sketch before creating Anika, next to the final version of the doll.

How the pattern came to be:

Years ago, when I was first teaching myself how to crochet, I decided I wanted to make a little gift for my best friend. When I asked her what type of doll she would like, a fox was one of her top choices. So I put myself to work and designed my first ever crochet pattern. A sweet baby fox in blue pijamas. It was a big project that took many hours to accomplish.

That set the path forward for me. From then on, I created my own designs for more stuffed animals and dolls of different kinds. Bunnies, dogs, monsters, squirrels, birds... However, I just kept coming back to foxes for some reason. And after many iterations, and trials and errors, Anika was born.

This is a good example of a beginner-friendly pattern that does not take too long to finish, and yet leaves you with a strong sense of accomplishment. Using just three different colors of yarn, simple embroidery techniques and the three easiest crochet stitches, you end up with a timeless adorable and elegant doll.

The pattern and video tutorials also include instructions to make the little black bow tie that Anika is sporting in the pictures. It is very easy and takes almost no time to put this accessory together.

Following the pattern:

I tried to make the instructions as detailed as possible in both formats. However, if you have any questions about them, feel free to contact us through any of our social media channels, or by leaving a comment on our videos.

#crochet tutorials #amigurumi tutorials #amigurumi patterns #crochet fox #amigurumi doll #amigurumi fox #youtube video #crochet youtube #crocheters of tumblr #yarn crafts #crochet fox tutorial #crochet fox pattern #beginner crochet

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baboonvest83 · 2 years

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Online video storage sites can stop functioning or cease to be available. Here are the steps you can take to back up your social media profiles on your laptop.

My story isn't particularly long. youtube mp3 playlist converter I was born, went to university, worked, fought, and, finally, made it online. But it does contain certain traumatic events that made me believed that my life was over. One of these was when my personal computer at home went silent... After a few minutes of tweaking, moving my hard drive from my old drive to the new drive and obtaining the new desktop, all my work was restored. It took three days of sweat and tears. But, I learned one important point: Dropbox and personal file servers can be used to automate or manually backup my entire day's work. This is definitely not the ideal solution. You'll have to pay more for maintaining your online data store. It's very simple and appears to be secure. It is also easily accessible and downloadable from any location with internet connectivity. But what happens when the internet is not available? These are the times when I am glad having my laptop with me. It is my last safe place for the backups. I have 2 drives that each have a RAID stack. They both copy each other and ensure there is at least one copy in the event that one of the HDDs is destroyed. Since I don't often copy the contents of the laptop, I've made it so that 2 drives do not get separated at the same time. Another day of great sadness was a few months ago. As I've mentioned before I take care not to lose any work I've done. I now copy it multiple times and have it accessible wherever internet access is available. It was Periscope. I was a frequent user in the past as well as this summer 2020 during riots I did a few live streams.. Then all of an sudden Periscope TV is closing, and all videos will go away in a few weeks time. What should I do? I'm looking to download all of the videos to save them on my laptop. These are very important to me. It's the last time I've been hanging with my friend who disappeared off the radar in Covid and it seems like it got him.. It's a site I often go to. It allows me to download my videos for Youtube, Instagram, and Facebook as well as other websites which host the majority of my live streaming. I am into politics and underground movements, so I record a lot of live events, then save them for future use, publish some on my YouTube channel and when the live stream ends, I save the video to my laptop. youtube to mp4 downloader This is how I do it. Plus it allows me to cross-post videos to different platforms. I can not only post YouTube videos on Facebook, but also upload the video to Facebook and make it an original video of its own. As it turns out, I have more than 3TB of live streams I've created in the past eight years. Periscope will not go away.. This site really helps me. It's like an angel. It is possible to open the video you'd like to download via Periscope, Youtube, or Facebook. Copy its URL by using the share link. Then, I visit the video downloader website and copy the URL. I can then download the video onto my computer or to my desktop. I can also save it to my computer to utilize on other platforms. I can even give it to my friends. youtube to mp4 biz Periscope can't be accessible by all sites. However, this one is.

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two-trucks-with-everything · 3 years

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That’s right, I’ve compiled some of the greatest hits into an Album/statement on where we are as a society/zip file hosted on google docs! This bad boy contains 40 or so tracks of the highest note songs, overall “““““bangers””””””, and some personal choices. It also contains a couple remastered old ones, and some never-before-seen mashups because tumblr just flat out didn’t let me upload them! Oh, it also has Trucks of our Generation without the SFX. And maybe a lil bonus but shhhh you aren’t supposed to know about that.

I’ll also be slowly uploading every song on Spirit Truck to my youtube channel, for those of you who want to put them on playlists or prank your friends on discord. I would’ve made a new account for this, but google only lets you authenticate two channels using the same phone number, and I’ve used them both.

I hope you all like this extremely stupid thing. I’m honestly surprised so many of you enjoyed this blog as much as you have. I just had a dumb idea, and as usual I went with it, so I’m glad that it was able to bring as much joy as it has.

anyway, here’s the links

“““““Album””””” download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UriMOe4d2S8X7ryfeNTGdmTOFasBnC1x/view?usp=sharing

youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNdvtBOArVSTKtduOt9jPWZMUj6CylcBs

TRACKLIST

0 - A Truck’s World?

1 - Bonetruck

2 - Song That Might Play When Two Trucks Have SA-

3 - Break My Tire

4 - When the Truck is Sus!

5 - vs. TRUKU

6 - Those Who Forget Trucks

7 - Trucking is a Concept!

8 - VOLUNTARY FLEXING

9 - Truck’s End Valentine

10 - Truck-mix 10 (DS)

11 - Roadside

12 - Trucks of our Generation [No SFX]

13 - Truck-mix 10 (Wii)

14 - Bloody Trucks

15 - Crazy Noisy Bizarre Trucks

16 - Truck Experience

17 - tRuCkLoVaNiA

18 - Mayor Maynot Flex

19 - Never Gonna Drive Away

20 - Stronger Than a Truck

21 - Truck Conductor

22 - My Ordinary Trucks

23 - Driving Down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams

24 - Driving Trucks Through Coconut Mall

25 - Driving In

26 - Fanboy and Truck-Truck

27 - Two Fuwa Time

28 - Trucks as a Sidedish

29 - Truck Me Maybe

30 - Truck Rock

31 - Two Angel’s Thesis [Tumblr Blocked]

32 - Truck Shop Channel

33 - Gadget Room (Two Trucks Mix)

34 - Mr. Monokuma’s Driving Lesson

35 - Two Bodies have been Discovered!

36 - Take Back the Trucks!

37 - Undertruck Hallow

38 - Two Roses [Remastered]

39 - Truckuda [Tumblr Blocked]

40 - Tomboyish Trucks in Love [Remastered]

404 - CHAOS TRAFFIC

Also contains Out of Truck Thursday.mp4, and bonus track ~.mp3.

#Two Trucks #lemon demon #mashup

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tryingmyves · 3 years

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Girl All the Bad Guys Want

okay i won’t lie, i remembered this song exists and i could not get the idea of a badboy!iida out of my head

this is a bit self indulgent because i was definitely that girl in hs lmaoooo

anyhow hopefully y’all like it too

PAIRING: Iida x Y/N

cw: badboy!iida

✨ tagging the iida army: @coleluuviida + @saturnity + @peachiileaf ✨

You have a reputation at UA, mostly with the male students. It isn’t something you put effort into maintaining or even something you cultivated on purpose, but you’ve gained some notoriety amongst your peers. At first glance, you don’t seem too different from your female classmates. You certainly don’t feel superior or disparate from them, but you’ve also never quite felt like you belonged with them. You don’t excel at being soft and demure, and you refuse to shrink yourself down in order to make others more comfortable in your presence. You spit in the face of all the things typically expected of a lady. And frankly, you’re more than a bit awkward when you hangout with the girls from your class. They always invite you to their sleepovers and shopping trips, and try to engage you in their conversations, but you’re always worried about saying the wrong thing or accidentally offending them. You’re never really able to add anything of value when they talk about the boys in your class - a recurring subject. Mina knows everything about everyone in class; she loves to gossip. It’s like her horns serve as antennae and pick up on all the juiciest secrets. She is always interrogating the other girls about their crushes but you just never really felt that way about anyone. Honestly, you find the conversations about who likes who to be a bit boring. You typically end up hanging out with Bakugo, Kirishima, and the rest of that squad. Boys are just easier to be around. They don’t get offended at your crass comments and your sometimes gruff disposition looks outright friendly next to Bakugo.

Your undeniably attractive appearance, unquestionable skill with your quirk, and nonchalant attitude have landed you in the sights of several of your fellow UA students. You are the embodiment of do no harm, but take no shit and something about you is intoxicating. Mina frequently jokes with you about how the entirety of the Bakusquad is duking it out to see who gets to ask you out first. You roll your eyes at her, convinced she’s imagining things. But in reality you’re just clueless. As cliché as it is, you really are the girl all the bad guys want. Too bad you didn’t want them back.

What you didn’t expect with your tough exterior, competitive nature, and tendency to slack off on class work is that class rep, Tenya Iida, would want you too. God, not even he expected it but he had fallen hard. You frustrate him. You’re just as smart as Yaomomo or Todoroki, but you skate by in class. You don’t outwardly disrespect authority, but you won’t blindly accept orders just because someone says so. He thinks the rap metal music you listen to while training is abrasive and doesn’t understand why all your favorite artists sound like they’re mad at their fathers. He finally gave up on lecturing you on the fact that the fishnets you wear with your uniform are not regulation and he was still wrestling with how he felt about learning you were one of the students caught at a dorm party with alcohol a few weeks ago. More than anything he hates that you’ve so effortlessly got him pining for you and you haven’t even noticed. Iida loves the rules! Order, structure, regulation - these are the things that Iida covets, so why was he craving the taste of your lips on his?

He is tired of silently lusting after you, and decides he’s going to try actively pursuing you instead. Tenya thinks that you like “bad boys” so as foreign as the concept is to him, he concludes he’s going to have to take on that persona. He starts off simply, making a playlist of songs he’s heard you blaring from your dorm. He eases himself into your music, starting with Linkin Park and Korn, before adding Incubus, Machine Head, and even some ICP to the mix. He’s hesitant at first… the music just sounds so hostile and aggressive to him. But soon he finds himself relishing the fierce energy the songs give him. Tenya gets why you train to this sort of music, his workouts becoming more intense than ever. They end in his chest heaving and his hair plastered to his forehead with sweat. His muscular calves throb vigorously after every run and he feels powerful. It gives him a new found confidence that he strategically channels into his interactions with you. For class today, Aizawa simply instructs you all to pair off and spar. You’re about to ask Sero to partner with you when he approaches.

“Y/N. You’re with me.” Tenya doesn’t ask, he’s telling you you’re his partner.

A small sound of surprise leaves your throat at his unexpected forcefulness, but you don’t question it. You just nod, giving a small shrug to Sero before following the class rep to a vacant spot of the training gym.

You look over your challenger, rolling your head on your shoulders a few times to loosen up. “Don’t expect me to go easy on you. You asked for this,” you smirk, bringing your fists up in a defensive stance.

Before you can even blink, Tenya has closed the 10 foot gap between you, sweeping a long leg beneath yours in a circular motion, knocking you off your feet. You land with a thud on your back and the air in your lungs is forced out with a nmph.

“Just try to keep up, Y/N.”

Oh, it’s on. Previously you found Iida’s flustered demeanor around you endearing. But this new, assertive, almost cocky disposition is irresistible. His momentum propels him in a circle while he stays anchored in place on his massive left thigh. As he finishes turning through the motion he reaches forward hoping to pin your arms to the ground, but you’re just getting started. You plant the palms of your hands on either side of your face and kick up from the ground with a boost from your quirk. The added flow of air thrusts your legs up and over your head so you are now standing once more. You are sure that the soles of your shoes connect with Iida’s face during your arch through the air.

“It’s not going to be that easy, specs,” you taunt. Now it’s your turn.

You launch yourself at Tenya, closing the small gap between the pair of you in an instant. He extends a locked arm to block your approach but you simply dip your head, gliding underneath and down the length of his limb until you are just one step behind him. You pivot on your right foot as you swing your left arm across your body. Your open palm lands just between Tenya’s shoulder blades, your natural momentum accompanied by a gale force wind. The impact knocks him off his feet and sends him toppling forward. Tenya’s speed is unmatched and his large frame is covered in tone muscle, but with the addition of the very air around you, your strikes are ferocious. Your air quirk aids in your mobility, but you’ve used it to master hand to hand combat. You dominate in tight quarters, so you just need to keep Tenya close. He’s already returned to his feet, calculating his next move. The moment ‘s hesitation creating an opening for your right shin to collide with his side. Tenya growls through gritted teeth in response to the blow and the feral vibrations send shivers down your spine. Instead of recoiling from your attack Tenya’s hands clamp onto your shoulders like vices. His brows are furrowed in smug determination, and he practically sneers “Recipro Burst!”

You are propelled backwards rapidly, the gym surrounding you flashing by in a blur, the only thing you're able to see clearly is the dark glint in Tenya’s eyes and the zealous grin on his lips. You try to activate your quirk to counter his momentum, but it’s futile, he is pushing you backwards so quickly you can’t manipulate any of the air whizzing past you. Your back is suddenly pinned to the back wall of the gym, Tenya’s large hands holding your slender wrists to the concrete wall. He places a muscular thigh between your legs so his left knee is pressed to the wall as well - he has you completely immobilized. Both of your chests are heaving, your faces no more than three inches from one another. You don’t know what possesses you but you smash your lips to his, desperate to close the miniscule gap between you.

Tenya’s body stiffens in shock for a moment before he opens his mouth, snaking his tongue past your lips. You wrench your hands from his grip, placing one on the back of his neck and tangling the other in the mess of his navy hair. You didn’t expect the class rep to be such an amazing kisser, but when he catches your bottom lip between his teeth you can’t contain the soft moan that escapes you. Tenya swallows your noises and begins to pull away. Your lips hungrily follow after him, but you’re stopped when one of his calloused hands rests on your neck with just enough force to hold you in place.

“Such public displays of desire are unbecoming of future heroes, Y/N. Come to my room this evening and we can finish this privately.” And with that, Tenya separates himself from you completely, already settling into a stance that signals he is ready to continue sparring.

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thefanficmonster · 3 years

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Corpse Infested

Corpse Husband & Reader (Gender Neutral)

Warnings: Mentions of dysfunctional family, Family problems, Swearing

Genre: Humor, Comfort, Platonic fluff, RPF (Real Person Fic)

Summary: When your friend disappears for a long time, seemingly having lost interest in what fueled the most passionate fire in their life, you cannot not worry about them. Even if you wanna give them space, you will reach out, you will offer your help. You will tell them they always have you to rely on and talk to.

Requested by Anon. Hi dear! I’m really sorry it’s taken me so long to complete and post your request, but here it finally is! Hope you come across it and if you do I hope you enjoy the read! Love, Vy ❤

For me, it’s never hard to find things to do. I’ve constantly got things on my mind and tasks to tend to, keeping me occupied and my mind focused at all times. I think that comes with living in a home as dysfunctional as this one. I honestly can’t recall a time when my parents got along nor can I think of a time where there was at least one second of peace while the two are both present in the house. It’s always a warzone up there. I’m saying up there because I tend to live out of the basement of their home. I know living in your parents’ basement is considered a peak loser point, or the bottom of the bottom, but you’d have to believe me when I say - I wasn’t always like this. In fact, I only recently came back to this hell-hole and boy do I regret it. I mean, it was a decision forced upon me by circumstances. Trust me, I tried every other option there was. When my dorm was to be closed down and demolished, we were given a notice to start planning our next move about a month early. You can bet I immediately started looking at places but my very tragic and miserable budget didn’t allow such a purchase. No rent was adequate for me and my near-empty wallet so my second option was moving in with my best friend who was also not in the greatest of situations but I thought I’d give that a shot too.

Spoiler alert: it didn’t work out. She lived in a tiny apartment with her boyfriend and his best friend at the time, so four people in one apartment was a nightmare. Still a lesser nightmare than this one but a nightmare nonetheless. Some unwanted and downright traumatizing events chased me out of that place after barely managing to pack my stuff. Therefore, finding myself on the streets again, I had no other option other than the obvious and least liked one: moving back in with my parents.

Making money during my first year of college hasn’t been easy. Working two jobs at once and also streaming video games on the side was what my time was filled with all throughout the first semester but then this damn pandemic started and now ruined everything for me. I had things going for me, I was slowly getting my life together and now it has all fallen apart yet again. The places I worked at closed down due to quarantine and I haven’t been able to steam, not only cause I’d be the victim of my parents’ comments but also cause my terrible home life would be exposed to all my fans and viewers. It’s not like I could cancel out the commotion going on right above my head, it’s a livestream and this house’s walls are cardboard thin meaning all the arguing I hear almost 24/7 will serve as background noise for my streams.

I haven’t reached out to my friends or fans to inform them of this which I feel slightly guilty about but I’m really not looking forward to having to lie to them, just as much as I’m not looking forward to having to tell them the truth so instead I’ve picked silence which is probably either worrying them or driving them insane. Either way, I’ll make my comeback soon.

Well....not very soon by the looks of it...

I have to gather the money, then I have to find a place, then comes the packing, moving out of here, moving into the new place...oh God, there’s so much to it that I don’t even wanna think about. Just that thought that I’ll be inactive for that long makes my stomach turn. Streaming’s where I’ve been channeling all my negative emotions, turning them into something positive and entertaining with the help of my friends.

Speaking of my friends, I should probably put emphasis on how amazing they are. Basically the older siblings I’ve always wished I had. I’m the baby of the group, the eighteen year old freshman in college, powering through life the best they can cause they are constantly getting tripped up by inconvenient occurrences such as this one for example. I tend to have the gang poke fun at me quite frequently - all lighthearted and with good intentions obviously - but they are also the ones to get super defensive if anyone gets the balls to talk shit about me. They’d never allow me to be the victim of any smack talk or online rumors and ‘cancel culture’ or whatever the hell people will come up with to leave others restless and wondering if they did something shady a decade ago. Well, to be fair, I didn’t even know about the concept of social media a decade ago and I’ve never been one to post much but I still have a protection squad in case anyone decides to come after me.

Little do they know the people I need protecting from are the very people that are supposed to protect me - my parents. Luckily, they don’t venture into to basement very often if at all and I have my own exit to the outside world so I don’t have to run into them unless I absolutely have to. The only time I emerge to the surface of the house - aka the ground floor - I do so to leave my share of rent money on the dining table and I usually do it when they aren’t home or when they’re asleep - that happens often with how many bottles they each knock back on the daily.

*sigh*...at least I don’t have to talk to them, right?

Anyhow, remember how I mentioned I always have things to do? Well, right now I’ve tasked myself with rifling through the large boxes containing random stuff I found in one of the basements down here to see if there’s anything I could possibly sell online. For starters, I’d like to hope there aren’t any severed body parts in here because this was one shady-ass basement before I moved in and un-creeped it a bit so I wouldn’t have to become an insomniac due to the paranoia of there being a homeless person down here with me or some paranormal entity. Regardless, old basements tend to be, apart from haunted, also filled with junk no one would find valuable despite it actually being worth something after all. That’s basically what I’m hoping to find at the moment.

As I dig through the contents of the first box, the YouTube playlist I have put on on my phone cuts off causing me to furrow my brows in confusion for a second before my ringtone pierces the silence the lack of music created.

I quickly mute the ringing and take a look at the Caller ID to see a name I never thought would pop up on my screen as an incoming call - Corpse. I, as well as many of our friends, know that he’s not the biggest fan of talking to people on the phone so this is rather surprising. Still, I pick up the call in case it’s not a mistake and an odd chance that it’s somethin urgent cause Lord knows Corpse doesn’t call people willy-nilly.

Thank God it’s quiet up there at the moment.

“Hello?“ I try my best to cover up the confusion in my voice but I can only assume I didn’t do the best job considering Corpse replies with a slightly awkward chuckle.

“Surprised you, didn’t I?“ He asks, getting my cheeks to redden a bit, “You can’t blame a guy for calling after up and disappearing on him and on the whole internet. Where’ve you been?“

I open my mouth to respond when I hear the sound of glass breaking a shouted curse from upstairs.

Oh for fuck’s sake!

“Um...you know, places?“ I’m aware the answer isn’t only nonsensical but also sounds more like a question, but I can hardly focus on that right now. I’m too buys praying to an entity I don’t fully believe in for the situation above to not escalate.

“Uh, is everything ok over there? Where even are you right now?“ The teasing tone to his voice is all but gone at this point, replaced with deep concern, having obviously heard the commotion that did the exact opposite of what I prayed for - escalated.

“Y-yeah, it’s ok. It’s just another Thursday, you know.“ I attempt a small laugh but it’s blatantly miserable, “I moved back in with my parents when they announced the quarantine so that’s where I’m at now. They’re not the quietest of folks as you can tell so...“

“I FUCKING HATE YOU, YOU PIECE OF SHIT! I HOPE YOU DIE“

Oh crap, here we go.

“...So I can’t really stream a lot...or at all.“ I mutter, cringing with all my might, “But it’s only temporary! I’ll get back in the saddle as soon as I find another place to stay.“ I don’t dare mention how long that’s gonna take me, it’ll be too disappointing and depressing for the both of us. “So yeah...um...thanks for showing concern but there’s really nothing to worry about. I’m ok, everything’s ok, things are just...a bit off the rails, but I’ll fix em no problem. Like I always do!“ I attempt to sound as cheerful as possible with little success due to the overwhelming anger I feel towards those people upstairs and the gut-wrenching nostalgia for the world of streaming I can no longer be a part of because of them. Actually, I put the blame first on the pandemic and second on my parents - if it wasn’t for Covid I’d probably still be in my dorm!

“Hey...um, I think I know an affordable place where you can take up residence. Only if you want to, of course.“ He sounds hesitant but I easily overlook that as excitement bursts throughout my entire being at the sound if an escape being offered to me just like that. Had I known I’d find the solution to my problem in the very people I spent time avoiding because I was afraid of their pity, sympathy and judgement.

“Oh please, it could be a rat and roach infested shoe box and I’d go running to it. How much is rent?“ I ask through a gasp of hurried laughter that’s a result of my inability to contain said excitement. Listen, I’ve been sitting here in Hellsburg for three months now and haven’t gotten a proper shuteye during that whole period, whatever Corpse is offering has to be better than this misery.

“Rent can be discussed once you move in...“ He trails off, “And it’s not rat nor roach infested but there’s a slight issue...“

“Which is?“ I’m honestly expecting the worst: in a bad neighborhood; faulty wiring with a high chance of being electrocuted; faulty piping with a high chance of flooding; people have died there; things get randomly moved around in the middle of the night etc. However, I don’t voice any of them to avoid getting laughed at for my wild imagination.

“Well, uh, it’s corpse infested.“ He says a little awkwardly, causing me to let out an inaudible sigh.

So my ‘people have died there’ guess was on point, huh?

“People have died there, huh? Well, I can turn a blind eye to that as long as I don’t find their bodies in the closet or meet their spirits at 3AM.“ I attempt to joke, now second-guessing my eagerness to accept the offer.

Corpse bursts out laughing his ass off at my statement, getting me to furrow my eyebrows in confusion and wonder what I said was so funny - it was a poor attempt at a joke, it in no way deserves that sort of reaction, barely a chuckle in my opinion.

“You’re golden, Y/N, I swear.“ He says once he forces the laughter to subside, “I meant corpse infested as in Corpse Husband infested.“ He breaks out in another fit as my brain slowly starts connecting the dots.

Oooohh he’s asking me to go live with him

“Wait. Wait, wait, wait, hold up for a sec. Are you aware of what you’re offering me? I mean, we’ve never met IRL, you barely know me and....and for all you know I could be the serial killer in this situation!“ I have no idea why I’m pushing my luck, don’t ask. I just don’t want him to make a decision he’ll later regret, I guess. “Like, I could kill you in your sleep!“

“Would you?“ He asks confidently, silently stating he already knows the answer.

I roll my eyes, “Of course not! But...” He cuts me off.

“Great, the offer stands on my end. I’m not a noisy nor nosey roommate so I suggest you start packing. If you choose to live in that hell-hole over living with me, I’m sorry but I’ll be hella offended, just so you know.“

Corpse sounds like he’s about to hang up on me, a decision already made, so I hurry to stop him. “Wait! What about rent?”

“Fuck the rent, pack your bags.“ And just like that, despite my efforts, he hangs up on me.

Well...this is a chance of a lifetime that I know refusing would lead me to not only remain stuck here but also put me in the hugest loser bin. There’s also the fear of being Corpse’s burden which I’ll try my best not to be - I mean, I’m a super independent person and Lord knows that if this offer came any other time or from any other person, I would’ve declined asap, no discussion.

But streaming

But sleeping properly

But having a normal life again

Yeah those are most certainly the reasons I get up and go into the closet in search on my emptied suitcase. Time to fill it up again, I guess. This time with a smile on my face and excitement fueling each and every movement of mine.

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samwisethewitch · 4 years

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dorm friendly magick for broom-closeted student witches

Got roommates that aren’t into witchcraft/magick? Can’t burn incense in your dorm room? Don’t have time for elaborate rituals between studying for exams and writing papers? I’ve been there. Here are some of my favorite undercover spells and rituals for witches living that college life.

Journal Magick

Keep a manifestation journal! Find a journal that really speaks to you and makes you feel good every time you open it, whether it’s a bulky leatherbound tome or has a holographic cover and hot pink pages -- what matters is that you feel a connection to it.

Every morning, write down the things you want to manifest in your journal in the present tense, as if they had already happened. [Note: this works better if you are writing the same thing every day for at least a few weeks. Consistent intent is key!]

For more information on this type of manifestation, just search “scripting” on YouTube and you’ll find approximately 642934 videos on the subject.

This is a really great technique for closet witches, because no one is going to be suspicious of you writing in a notebook -- plus, it’s normal for people to want to keep their journals private.

Work with correspondences just like you would for a normal spell! You can print out photos of herbs, crystals, tarot cards, astrological signs, or moon phases that correspond to your intention and glue them into your journal (or draw them, if you have artistic talent). You could even get an essential oil that matches your intention and dab a drop of it on the page. You’re essentially creating an altar dedicated to your intention, just on paper instead of in a physical altar space.

Tap into the magick of color by writing your intentions with a pen in a corresponding color (green = abundance/wealth, pink = love and friendship, yellow = academic success, etc.).

Tea and Coffee Magick

Tea and coffee are already essentially potions, and no one is going to think twice about a college student drinking a lot of coffee/tea.

Coffee is associated with grounding and protection, and it adds energy to any spell it is added to. Black tea is associated with protection, courage, and abundance. Green and white tea have their own, slightly different magickal uses. Based on these correspondences, you can use coffee and tea as a base for undercover potions!

For mental clarity and memory retention, brew a mixture of black coffee, lion’s mane, chaga, and ginger. For a caffeine-free alternative, brew an herbal tea with rosemary and peppermint.

To cleanse negative energy and release stress, brew a mixture of black coffee, Ashwagandha, cinnamon, tulsi or basil, and Eleuthero. This is based on a Four Sigmatic blend, lmao.

For a sneaky prosperity spell, brew a mixture of black coffee, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and vanilla. Yes, that is essentially pumpkin pie spice, and yes, you can use a pre-mixed pumpkin pie blend instead of buying the individual spices.

I could go on, but you get the idea. You can customize your morning beverage to suit any magickal or spiritual need.

Most plants have medicinal uses that are the same or similar to their magickal uses. So if anyone asks, tell them you’re adding these extra herbs for their nutritional and/or medicinal value.

You can also charge your tea or coffee with crystals. Just set a small crystal associated with your intention (amethyst for mental clarity, black tourmaline for protection, citrine for prosperity, etc.) next to the mug for a few minutes, or place it on top of your coffee maker. Be sure to charge both the crystal and the drink with your intention!

Candle Magick

If your dorm lets you have candles then congrats, because candle spells are both super powerful and a super easy way to hide your magick in plain sight.

Find a candle in a scent and color that match your intention. For example, you could use a pink, rose-scented candle for a love spell.

You can find custom spell candles made by witches for witches on Amazon and Etsy, and these have the added bonus of having been specifically created for magickal use. Some of the businesses I’ve personally had good experiences with are Art of the Root (available on Amazon), Esoteric Arts (available on Etsy), and Crystal Journey (Amazon).

That being said, I’ve gotten good results with $1.99 scented candles from Walmart, so please don’t feel like you need to spend a fortune on special candles for your spell to be successful.

In a pinch, an unscented white candle can be used for any intention. You can get these at the dollar store, and it’s never a bad idea to have a few on hand.

Oil Magick

Your dorm has a no-open-flames rule, so candles and incense are out of the question. No problem -- you can get similar results with essential oils.

An essential oil literally contains the concentrated essence of a plant. Magickally speaking, this makes them a powerful way to add some oomph to your spells. They’re also commonly used for aromatherapy, so your roommate probably won’t be phased by you diffusing them in your dorm.

You can create custom EO blends the same way you would create an incense blend, by combining different plants based on their correspondences. You can also buy pre-mixed blends online if you’re feeling lazy or if you have a certain blend you know you’re going to use a lot like, say, a focus-enhancing blend for studying.

Another option, and one that’s more traditionally witchy, is to use magickal oils/ritual oils. A magickal oil is an oil that has been created for a specific magickal purpose -- it’s like a spell in a bottle. A ritual oil is created for a specific use in magickal ritual. You can find tons of different ways to incorporate these oils into your daily life for some very subtle witchcraft.

You can create your own magickal oils by combining herbs, essential oils, and crystals that match your intention, or you can buy magickal oil blends from witch-owned businesses. Art of the Root has my absolute favorite oils -- I have like six different blends, and they’re all ridiculously powerful.

Some ways you can use magickal oils: 1.) wear them as a body oil, 2.) diffuse them like you would an essential oil blend, 3.) use them to anoint and bless objects, like tests or study guides, 4.) add them to spiritual baths, and a million more. [Note: many magickal oils come with real herbs and resins in the bottle. These chunky bits could damage a diffuser, so do keep that in mind.]

Personally, I wear magickal oils on a daily basis in the place of perfume, since most of the ones I own smell really good. As I apply them, I say a small incantation to power them up. For example, if I’m wearing an attraction oil, when I put it on I’ll say something like, “I am powerfully attractive to the people and things that will improve my life.” Which oil I choose to wear depends on the day and the area of my life where I want some extra help.

Tech Magick

The nice thing about being a witch in the 21st century is that, if all else fails, you can keep your entire magickal practice contained on your laptop and/or phone. And even if you’re not doing 100% of your witchcraft in a virtual space, you can still use your technology as a tool in your practice.

Pinterest is the ultimate visualization tool. You can create a virtual altar to a deity or spirit guide by dedicating a Pinterest board to them, or create vision boards for the things you want to manifest, or create a brainstorming space to plan your full moon rituals... the possibilities are endless.

Keep your Book of Shadows and/or manifestation journal in a Word document. If you’re really concerned about privacy, you can even password protect these documents. Another pro of an electronic Book of Shadows is that most word processors have a “search” function that lets you look things up more easily.

Make a devotional playlist for a deity or spirit guide. Making Spotify playlists for my deities is one of my favorite devotional acts! I’ll put together all of the songs that remind me of that deity, and I can listen to it anytime, anywhere to instantly connect with them. And don’t be afraid to ask your deities what type of music they like -- you may be surprised by the answer!

If any other witches have similar tips, feel free to add onto this! This is just stuff that I’ve found works for me, but magick is deeply personal and everyone will do things a little bit differently.

And not to shove my content in everyone’s faces, but I did just post a spell to enchant your school notebooks on my YouTube channel, so check that out if you’re interested!

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nriacc · 3 years

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The City | NRIACC: Part 3 |

Nothing Revealed In A Common Crisis

Plot by @imagine-that-100 and @ghostlightqueen

Written by @imagine-that-100

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Word Count: 12.3k

Warnings: This series contains mature content and themes throughout

A/N: We finally have Mattyyyyyyy!!! So excited to finally get my other boy and my other favourite band in here! I’m super thrilled you’re enjoying the series so far and I really hope you enjoy the new part and all the teenage pining! x

The day after Matt’s party your Mum came home and woke you up from a very deep sleep. She was appalled to find you still in bed at 2pm and you were completely dead to the world.

Nevertheless, she got you up and forced you to pack your clothes that you wanted to take away with you for the summer. You didn’t mind too much but doing it with a bad hangover turned a half an hour job into a 3 hour event.

You got it all done slowly with the help of your best friend, as you both replied to your friend’s group texting every now and again. You let her do most of the texting though because you wanted to save your credit so it would roll over into next month.

Before you left Alex’s the previous night he made you promise again that you would text him over the summer. He even made you pinky swear on it so you couldn’t break a promise.

So to keep that promise you wanted to save as much credit as you could. It was a bitch to have to pay for each text you sent and how long each phone call lasted but it was worth it.

And you were hoping that the feeling you got when you saw Alex’s name pop up on your phone would continue. The bubbling excitement in your stomach and the smile that didn’t leave your face until you put your phone back down waiting for his next text to come though.

Saving your credit was high on your agenda and so was getting a decent night's sleep. So after your Mum cooked both you and your best friend your tea and you finished it, you politely kicked her out after giving her the biggest hug and saying goodbye.

You went to bed early for the first time in about seven years getting more than 12 hours of sleep so you woke up in a good mood the following day. Thankfully your Mum left you in bed chilling for a while too and you listened to the music channel for the majority of the day after showering.

That was until around 3 p.m. when you got all of your stuff into your Mum’s car and you both made your way over to Manchester.

You really did love your summers up there. It was something you’d done since you were a small child when your Mum used to have to go on business trips abroad.

You always went over to your Mum’s sister to spend some apparently much needed time with your cousin. And you were glad the tradition had continued on throughout your teenage years because you did love having a mini holiday away from home.

Your cousin Adam was one of your favourite people on the planet. He was amazing in so many different ways.

He had a great taste in music which meant that you always had something to bond over. Adam was also really clever in school which you were always envious of.

Two summers ago you were doing your GCSE’s the coming school year and you weren’t doing the best with your science and maths. So Adam being the gem that he was had tutored you, despite him being two years younger than you.

He learnt it as you both went through it and he explained things to you in a way that actually made sense. You loved him loads and he was a big part of the reason why you got good results last summer.

He was a fun cousin, too. Your favourite childhood memories were ones of you and Adam running around your auntie and uncles back garden.

He was creative, like you, but in a more musical way. Adam had been able to play the guitar from a young age and he was really good at it.

Adam could play any song you asked of him if he was given the chords, or he could even sometimes work them out himself. It was like something just clicked in his brain of how to do it.

He was astounding in all the best ways.

So you were excited on your drive over to Wilmslow. You and your Mum were going there early because your auntie was making you and your Mum dinner before your Mum left.

The hour drive wasn’t too bad over there. You caught up with your Mum and how her work had been treating her.

When you got to your aunties house you couldn’t wait to get out of the car, one because your Mum was starting to annoy you with her questions about how your week alone was, and two, she was teasing you about who had left the mark on your neck.

You’d tried your best to cover it up with concealer and foundation but it turns out that you didn’t do a good enough job as she easily saw through the makeup. Thankfully though she wasn’t fuming at you, she just was trying to find out who’d done it.

You ended up telling her that it was just some random boy from the pub the night of the Monkeys gig. You were grateful that she seemed to believe you and she let the subject slide.

You abandoned your bags and rushed up to the front door. You were sure your mum wouldn’t mind bringing your stuff in.

“Hi,” You say excitedly when your auntie answers her front door.

She gives you a big smile before opening her arms to you, offering a hug, “Hey, I’ve missed you.”

“I’ve missed you too,” You say giving her a tight squeeze before releasing her.

You ask her quickly, “Is Adam here?”

“Yep he’s upstairs,” She nods.

As soon as thats confirmed you start to race up the stairs. But you’re shouted again before you can escape.

“Before you run off Y/N,” Your Auntie shouts you and you pause halfway up the stairs.

You look back towards her and she tells you, “I’m having your room decorated at the minute and unfortunately it took a bit longer than expected. So the paint is drying so you’ve got to share a room with Adam for a few days until I get everything set back up for you.”

“Oh okay cool, what colour have you gone for?” You ask curiously.

“I went for the white and grey like you suggested last time. Your creative mind paid off,” You Auntie smiles at you.

You laugh at that. Last year she was saying she wanted to decorate it because it still looked like a child’s playroom like it once was rather than the spare bedroom. So you had suggested a neutral but sophisticated look of white walls with a feature one in grey.

“I’m excited to see it,” You tell her.

As your Mum walks into the house with your bags, your Auntie also proposes, “I was hoping you’d help me decorate it?”

“I’d love to,” You smile down at her.

“Amazing,” She grins, “Now go and find who you really want to talk to.”

You laughed a little before you finished running up the stairs to find your cousin.

You turn the corner and push open the very familiar bedroom door into Adam’s room and find him lay down on his bed. You don’t really care about that though because you just run in and jump over him.

Adam groans loudly when you land on him which makes you laugh. You look up at him from the position you're in and ruffle the mop that was his hair.

He had Rumours by Fleetwood Mac playing on his record player that his Dad had given him and you recognised The Chain playing. You loved that your cousin also had excellent music taste.

“Hey Ad,” You giggle at him pulling a face at you.

“Y/N,” Adam says nonchalantly as if he wasn’t pleased to see you.

You ignore him and ask, “How’s my fave cousin doing?”

“I’m your only cousin,” Adam points out with furrowed eyebrows.

“Exactly,” You chuckle.

Adam laughs before admitting, “I’m good. Mum’s annoying me but other than that I’m alright.”

“Why’s she annoying you?” You ask getting up off of him.

“She wouldn’t let me go to my mates tonight because she was making us all our tea,” Adam said, picking his phone up from the side of his bed.

You ask him, “She wouldn’t let them come here before we ate?”

“Nope, she made me tidy the house,” Adam pouted and you had to refrain from laughing.

“Sorry about that roomie,” You grin, sitting yourself down on the mattress that was on the floor.

Adam sighs, “Don't remind me.”

“Hey I’m fine to share a room with,” You tell him, faking being offended.

Adam rolls his eyes, “Sure you are.”

“I am, I swear,” You defend yourself.

“Whatever,” He playfully dismissed you.

You laugh a little at what he said before you decided to change the subject, “So when do I get to meet your new mates properly?”

Adam looks to you and proposes, “Matty invited us to his tomorrow afternoon to go swimming, if you’re up for it.”

“Yeah definitely,” You nod, “I’m excited for this fancy swimming pool."

“Yeah, just please don’t tell him that I told you about his Mum and Dad. He’ll probably tell you himself. He can get a bit touchy about it.”

“Don’t worry I won’t say anything,” You assure him.

“Adam, Y/N!” You both hear your names being shouted, followed by, “Tea’s ready!”

“She better stop shouting up the stairs because I’m gunna lose it,” Adam says in a very agitated tone as he gets up from his bed.

You watch him as he abruptly picks the needle up of the turntable and puts it back in its rest. He then removes the record and puts it back where it belongs on his very organised shelves.

“Did you get anger issues for your fifteenth birthday?” You ask him teasingly as you stand yourself up.

Adam fired back, “Did you get sassiness for your seventeenth?”

“Sixteenth actually. Seventeenth was to grow some balls,” You laughed.

~*~*~*~

“Hann?” Adam could hear his friends shouting from the front door.

He couldn’t be arsed moving yet though so he shouted back, “In the lounge.”

“Yes Hann,” George came in and sat down on the other settee to Adam.

“You alright mate?” Matty asked as he walked into the room

“Hiya mate, sit down my mums making us some food,” Adam tells his Matty, moving the remote from the seat next to him.

“Would do but I came to see your fit cousin, not you,” Matty started the running joke early today.

Adam sighed hearing it mentioned again. Since your first Skype call with Adam and his mates had first got a decent look at you, they had all joked that you were attractive and that they wanted to bed you.

Adam knew you would in no way look at any of them that way and he’d tried telling them in every way that you wouldn’t be interested. But none of them listened.

So here his mates were, months later, still carrying this joke on.

“Please don’t carry this joke on, it’s really not funny,” Adam says just sick of it now.

Matty says with a smirk on his face, “Oh, it really is mate. Imma shag your cousin.”

“Like she’d look at you. You’re well younger than her,” Adam bites back.

Matty was lacking for a response but then George stepped in and said, “That’s right mate, she’d definitely go for me instead.”

“You’re younger than him,” Adam points out, trying not to laugh.

Adam didn’t need to encourage the jokes to continue in any way, shape, or form. He needed it to stop.

Especially now that you were here.

Matty then thinks of a good enough response to annoy his mate a bit more, “Step aside George, it’s gunna be me that she goes for and we’re gunna fuck on Adam’s bed.”

“Fuck off Matty,” Adam says seriously and Matty knew it was time to stop pushing then.

Matty knew that he was going to slowly have to build up his new mates tolerance for his jokes. He knew he was a handful, but that's why he had three good mates to bounce off who had a similar sense of humour to him.

Maybe the cousin topic was just a tad too touchy, though.

“You know I’m messin’… Where is she anyway?” Matty asked curiously, dropping the joking persona for a second.

Adam notices he’d dropped the facade and he tells Matty the truth, “She's up in my room.”

“George don’t let him leave. Don’t want him to disturb us,” Matty says before he hastily exits.

Matty races out of one of the lounge and up the stairs, hurtling towards his mate's room. He obviously wasn’t going to try and shag you, but he was really excited to meet you.

Adam had told them all a lot about you and your interests and hobbies. And each thing that Matty was told just made him more and more curious about you.

“Hey Y/N!” Matty calls excitedly

Matty pushed the door open a bit more but his eyes went wide when he saw you. He saw that you were completely topless standing in Adam’s room which took Matty aback a bit.

He only saw your bare back as you didnt have a bra on but he could see that you had lovely shoulder length Y/H/C hair.

“Shit, I’m so sorry” Matty says with wide eyes before turning himself around.

You turn around hearing the commotion behind you and immediately you want to dismiss the awkwardness that the room had just set in.

“It’s okay,” You laugh a little to try and avoid the awkwardness of the situation.

“I was just grabbing the strings to tie it anyway, you wouldn’t have seen anything,” You tell him honestly, actually amazed that a younger teenage boy was keeping his eyes averted from you as you changed.

“Still really pervy of me,” Matty says, still looking at the doorway he’d just walked though.

“Just a bikini, nothing you haven’t seen on holiday I’m sure,” You make light of it again.

This is when the curly haired brunette looks towards you. You see his eyes cast down to your chest for a split second before flicking up and meeting your eyes.

“Still, sorry. Bit Norman Bates of me,” Matty says, trying not to look at your boobs that were being held in a red bikini.

You smile at him before you pick up your top that you’d laid out on Adam’s bed. You then laugh, “Ey you know your films. That reference was pretty spot on.”

Matty admits to you as he watches you hide your stunning chest from his view, “I’m a bit of a classic movie watcher.”

“Isn’t Psycho an eighteen? Should you really be watching that,” You ask him, knowing he’s a fair few years younger than you.

Matty throws back in the same manner you threw the last comment at him, “Should you really be leaving doors open in a house that isn’t yours when you’re getting changed?”

“Good point, well made,” You nod.

He may have been younger but he certainly had the comebacks that your friends had. You think you’d get on just fine with him.

“Well you know…” Matty chuckles a little but then he remembers something, “Wait, aren’t you seventeen? If Psycho’s an eighteen, why have you watched it?”

Yeah you would definitely get on with him.

“I’m adventurous like that,” You shrug, knowing it wasn’t really a huge deal.

“You’re Matty right?” You ask the curly haired boy.

He nods, ”That’s me.”

“It’s good to finally meet you,” You smile and offer him a hug.

He takes the offer and steps into your arms for a quick embrace. You feel the need to say, “Sorry I’m a hugger.”

“S’alright,” Matty smiles as he moves out of your grip, but he doesn’t stray too far away.

“I love your hair, it’s so curly,” You have to tell him as you give it a bit of a ruffle.

You don’t think you’d ever seen hair with such perfect curls. He was adorable.

“Er thanks,” Matty says, not really knowing how to take the compliment.

You just continue to introduce yourself, “I’m Y/N,” You add with smile, “But I think you already knew that.”

“Yeah we did speak on Skype remember,” Matty points out.

“Yes but your video was breaking up remember,” You recall.

Adam’s webcam wasn’t doing too great that night and it kept on pixelating to the point where you couldn’t even make Adam out, despite knowing what he looks like. So you had no chance of making the other boys out.

“Oh shit yeah,” Matty vaguely remembers.

“You excited to come swimming?” Matty asks you with a smile as you pick up your towel and put it in your bag.

You smile, “I am… Adam has bigged this pool up a lot.”

Matty grins at that, “It is good to be fair. I’m lucky.”

“You really are,” You tell him as you both head to the bedroom door.

Once it’s open you both walk towards the stairs. When you start walking down though you add, “You still shouldn’t be watching eighteen’s though.”

“It’s not an eighteen,” Matty argues back with a smile and shaking his head.

“What are you two arguing about already?” Adam says, stumbling out of the lounge which takes you back a little.

You furrowed your eyebrows at his actions but tell him anyway, “I think Psycho is a eighteen and Matty doesn’t.”

“It’s a fifteen,” Adam tells the both of you.

Matty then looks at you in a victorious manner. Amusement that you were wrong was clear on his features.

“Told you,” Matty grins.

“No you didn’t,” You shake your head, “But you’re still not old enough to watch it.”

“Bad boy, what else can I say?” Matty grins at you and you can’t help but laugh.

Definitely had some confidence, this kid. You were certain all the girls at his school would be loving him.

Another young boy made his way out of the lounge then. He was another brunette and a rather adorable little one.

“Hey,” He smiled at you and you gave him the biggest smile back.

You couldn’t not. He was the cutest thing you’d ever seen.

“Y/N/N, this is George,” Adam introduces you.

“Heyyy,” You smile brightly at him offering him a hug which he seems to gladly take.

Adam sighs and says, “Sorry she’s a hugger.”

George doesn’t get a change to respond though because you say, “Aren’t you the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.”

��How old are you?” You ask when you release him.

“Thirteen,” George tells you.

Your eyes went a little wide at that. He looked older than 13 for sure but he was obviously still just a kid.

It certainly explained why he only came up to your chest though. Matty being a year older reached your shoulder. Adam was only a few inches smaller than you now.

“Thirteen that’s mental. You look older,” You tell him honestly.

George smiles at that. He liked that he looked older, he just wished that he’d hurry up and grow a bit. So he tells you this.

“Well, I’m hoping to grow some more before I reach your age,” George tells you and you chuckle.

“I’m sure you will, don’t worry,” You smile.

You then ask another question that springs to mind, “How’d you know each other?”

Adam starts off by telling you, “Well, I know George’s older sister because she’s in my year at school.”

Matty then takes over a little which Adam seemed fine with so you just went with it. Matty spoke quite fast as he told you, “And Hann knew that I could drum so he got his girlfriend to ask if I wanted to join his band, so I told her to get Hann to come talk to me himself and the rest is history.”

You unfortunately couldn’t focus on the story of them meeting though because some information, that you hadn’t heard before, came to light.

“Girlfriend?” You question your cousin with wide eyes.

“Not anymore,” Adam shakes his head.

Your jaw is still agape even when he says that. You have to know, “Adam why didn’t you tell me?”

“You didn’t tell me about your boyfriend,” Adam shoots back at you.

“I don’t have a boyfriend,” You say seriously.

You couldn’t understand why he even thought that. But then it makes sense.

“Your neck suggests otherwise,” Adam smirks knowingly at you.

At that point both Matty and George turn toward you.

You put your hand up to cover the mark that you forgot was there. Thankfully the ones on your boobs were gone but the one on your neck was still very bruised.

“I promise you I don’t have a boyfriend,” You tell him honestly. “It was just some fun at a party. Stop looking at me like that.”

He was looking at you like your best friend and Matt did the night of the party when they spotted it. You hated that look at the moment, he’s looking like he wants to know more information.

“Actually you can stop, I don’t wanna know what you get up to at parties,” Adam says shaking his head at you but the smile never leaves his lips.

You laugh at him then. And you decide to get your own dig in at him.

“I’m sure you lot have some fun at your parties, especially with your girlfriend Adam,” You tease.

But before Adam can reply, you turn to the smallest one of you. You throw your arm around George’s shoulder saying, “Not you though George… You need protecting, you’re too cute.”

“I’m not cute,” George rolls his eyes.

“You really are,” You grin before letting him escape.

You think back to your previous conversation though, about the band, and say a little baffled, “I’m confused though, I thought you were the drummer…” You point to George, “and you were the singer,” you then point to Matty.

“I am now,” Matty tells you, “We got George in because our original singer quit.”

“Ah right okay,” You nod, now understanding.

“And we have Ross as well. He’s meeting us at mine later though. He’s out somewhere with his mum and dad at the minute,” Matty tells you.

“Sweet, I’m excited to meet him,” You smile at the three boys.

You’re about to ask something else about the band but then you hear your auntie shout you all into the kitchen for some food. You all start making your way to the kitchen.

“Hann, are you gunna bring your camera so we can push Ross in the pool?” George asks Adam and he laughs before nodding confirming that he was.

You turn to Matty as you walk and ask, “Why’d you call him Hann?”

“We know a lot of Adams,” Matty tells you. “And by a lot I mean at least twenty.”

“Fucking hell fair enough then,” You say under your breath to him as you all walk into the kitchen.

An hour later you were splashing about in Matty’s pool with the three boys, still waiting on the arrival of Ross. You were in your red bikini which was one of your favourites.

You’d bought it for when you went away to Spain last year with your Mum in the Easter holidays. You’d been really excited and this bikini was by far the best colour and the comfiest one to wear.

You were messing around on floats that Matty had already blown up, trying to tip each other off it. You were currently on the float and the boys were trying to get you into the water when you heard a phone go off.

It seemed to grab everyone’s attention because the boys abandoned attacking you.

“Adam is that your phone?” You ask curiously.

You couldn’t remember for the life of you what his ringtone sounded like.

But your cousin shook his head, “Nah.”

“It’s mine,” Matty announces before he starts swimming as fast as he can to the side of the pool.

Something then seems to click in Georges mind because he then shouts, “It’s gunna be Ross.”

“Shit yeah,” Matty says as you slip back into the water, off the crocodile float.

“Adam quick get your camera.”

“You pushing him in or am I?” Matty asked George as everyone swam to the side of the pool.

“Y/N you’re gunna be the distraction so just keep him chatting,” Matty instructs you.

You once again felt like you were eight years old and taking orders from other friends creating devious plans in a fake story you were acting out. Your friends in primary school always made up weird scenarios to play out, like children did.

But you don’t think you’d ever pranked someone like this since you were around that age. It was going to be funny, but you also hoped Ross would see the humour in it.

“Hiya mate…” You heard one side of Matty’s conversation as Adam got out of the pool to get his camera ready and George waited near the door. “Yeah just come in, gates unlocked… See you in a sec.”

Matty then abandons his phone and jumps back into the pool near you. You guessed that you all had to make it seem normal somehow.

You think responsible for a moment and tell them, “You need to get his phone off him first before you push him in.”

“Yeah you’re right,” Adam agrees with you.

You’re about to reply before Adam abruptly says, “He’s here.”

You all settle into a weird silence before everyone loudly greets Ross as he walks in. Jesus, they couldn’t be more obvious if they tried.

“Why are you out of the pool?” Ross questions the other two.

Adam recovers quickly though, telling him, “George wanted me to film him doing a front flip.”

“Fair enough,” Ross nodded before he turned back to George.

Before a conversation could start though, Adam grabbed his attention once again by asking, “Oh Ross, whilst I’m out of the pool, can I put my new phone number in your phone?”

“Yeah sure, why’d you change it?” He asks your cousin as he hands his phone over.

Your surprised at how quick witted Adam is when he replies, “SIM card broke.”

“Ah right,” Ross believes him straight away.

“Ross, this is the famous Y/N,” Matty says, throwing an arm around your shoulder.

You laugh at that, needing to question, “Famous ey?”

“Yeah, to be fair your cousin speaks very highly of you,” Matty tells you and you’re surprised by that.

You don’t get a chance to question Adam on it though because Ross greets you, “Hey Y/N/N, how you liking Wilmslow?”

“It’s great,” You nod, “I’m loving the pool.”

“Yeah it’s sick,” Ross grins. “I’ll just change and get in.”

You sincerely doubted that, but you had to keep a straight face for the sake of the prank.

Just as Ross turns back around from the edge of the pool, George decides to take his chance as he successfully knocks his friend off balance and Ross goes crashing into the water.

The splash gets you and Matty in the face, but you aren’t too fussed because you were both laughing. Adam and George start laughing too, completely buzzing that the plan worked.

It seems that George’s victory ends up with him too jumping into the pool, and you once again get splashed. Laughter fills the whole room until the two heads pop back up.

“What did you do that for?!” Ross shouts towards George when he returns to the surface.

You could see that his once soft face was now red and bubbling with anger.

George laughs a little, thinking his friend was joking, “It was just a joke mate.”

“No, you arsehole that wasn’t funny,” Ross

“Oh, lighten up a bit,” George says dryly, throwing a small pool float at him as he walks out of the door.

That just seemed to piss their friend off more though. Ross looks absolutely fuming when he turns back and picks up the small donut that is meant to be a floating cup holder.

“Wanker,” Ross yells as he throws the small pool float at George with some force.

You try and suppress your laughter because you can see how fuming the poor boy was. But that just got ten times harder when George chuckled and Matty let out an audible laugh too.

Matty swims to the side of the pool as Adam twists the camera back around towards you. Ross had walked back out into the garden again, trying to control his rage.

That didn’t seem to be working well though because the next thing you knew he was shouting again.

“Ugh! Fifteen quid as well you stupid cunt” Ross shouted obviously even more angry after checking his pockets and feeling that the money was now wet.

“What?” George asks not hearing his mate correctly due to the water around you all still sloshing about.

Matty repeats his mate's question, “What?”

Ross appears in the doorway once more before half sighing, half seething, “Fifteen fucking pounds, George.”

Ross turns back around though, not wanting to look at his cocky mates grinning at him.

“What was?” George shouts after him.

“In my pocket,” Ross tells you all pacing back towards the doorway.

“Fifty?” George questions in disbelief obviously not hearing how fuming his mate was.

“Fifteen,” Ross confirms looking sorry for himself as he headed back outside.

George then offers a solution, “It’ll dry, hopefully.”

“Yeah but… It’s just…” Ross begins to trail off, trying to control his anger again.

Bless him, you were starting to feel really bad.

“Money’s fine,” Matty says.

“Yeah money’s fine for you when it’s in your fucking house dry Matty,” Ross shouts back before he then shouts at Adam.

“Turn that fucking camera off,” You hear and the next thing you know Adam is hastily putting his camera back into his bag.

You decide you should probably step in now and get them to wave the white flag.

You look to the boys in the pool just beside you, not wanting to completely direct it at George, “Right I think this all went a bit too far… Maybe someone should just go and apologise and ask him to come in.”

Matty shakes his head and George says, “Nah.”

“Awh come on I wanna meet him properly and you don’t want him to be pissed off at you all day,” You pout in hopes that would work.

“I guess,” George says before he swims to the side of the pool before pulling himself out of it.

You smiled at the youngest of the boys as he did the right thing and headed off to make amends with his friend. You hoped that Ross was alright and that he’d calmed down a little.

The last thing you wanted was for you to get off on the wrong foot with him.

With the peaceful water of most boys being out of the pool, you decide to just take a minute to yourself. You loved being in the water.

You forgot how fun swimming could be and whenever anyone would suggest it back home everyone else would shrug it off saying it as boring. But if you were with your friends, nothing could be boring.

That didn’t also mean that you didn’t like a peaceful moment in the water. You’d done it a few times when you went away with your Mum last Easter.

You just lent your head back and bask in the silence that the water provided. Granted it wasn’t the same as being in Spain, but the tranquil feeling was still there.

Matty watched you as you lent back into the water so only your face was above the surface. And then time just seemed to slow for Matty then.

He didn’t hear the noise outside that caused you to look back up. All he was focused on was how beautiful you looked in such a peaceful state.

He felt like he was watching you in slow-motion when your wet hair, now dark from the water, followed your movements back above the water. There were also small droplets on your eyelashes which just added to how much your Y/E/C eyes stood out.

You just looked at peace and in the moment and that was beautiful to him.

“You’re really pretty,” Matty said before he could stop himself.

Matty rarely knew when to keep his mouth shut but he didn’t want to just come and outright tell you that. He didn’t want to seem creepy so he felt like he’d shot himself in the foot when he said that.

You’d started treading water again but when you heard those words leave the young boy's mouth, you turned to look at him. You thought you’d turn to him and see him recoil and take it back, maybe feeling embarrassed and him shying away.

But no. Matty was looking at you completely sincerely.

“Thank you,” You said, offering him a small smile.

Thankfully for Matty’s sake the three other boys came racing back in and this time all three of them all consensually jumped into the pool, with George doing a front flip in the air.

Laughter once again filled the room and when the brown haired boys all resurfaced you figured now was your time to meet Ross properly.

“Hey, it's nice to meet you properly and at the same height,” You smile at him.

His hair was now stuck to his head as if it had been completely gelled back.

“Yes it’s nice to see you in person instead of a shitty video call,” Ross smiled at you.

“Yes our Adam needs to get a new webcam,” You say splashing a bit of water towards your cousin.

The water went straight into Adam’s face and when he reopened his eyes, he didn’t look too impressed. That was when he splashed you with a lot of water and it also hit Matty, too.

“You bastard,” Matty said to him.

Matty’s splash then got George and before you all knew it a massive water fight broke out. It was truly mental but it was so much fun.

You all went from a water fight to you all messing about on the floors again. Then you were all jumping in and out of the pool rating each other's jumps.

You all spent a good few hours just messing around like kids which seemed to fly by in no time. You’d had such a fun day though and because the days were longer you all hadn’t realised how much time had passed.

It was 6:30 p.m. when Denise, Matty’s Mum, decided to check in on her eldest child and his friends. She knew that they were using the pool and she wanted to check they were all okay, and to see if they were hungry yet.

So she headed out into the garden and crossed it over to the outhouse that contained the swimming pool and a handful of teenagers.

“Hiya Mum,” Matty called from the other side of the pool which caused you to turn around.

“Hey kids how is everyone?” Matty’s Mum said as she looked around the children who were in the other one.

She wasn’t expecting to see a pretty female in the water though.

“Oh hello, I didn’t know we had another guest,” Denise beamed.

You swam over to the side so you could politely greet her, “Hi, I’m Y/N, Adam’s cousin. Matty said it was okay I come. I really hope it is.”

“Oh yes of course, the more the merrier,” She smiles at you. “You’re welcome anytime… I’m Denise.”

“It’s nice to meet you, you have a really lovely house,” You smile as you get out and grab your towel to wrap it around your shoulders so you could be truly polite and say hello.

“Awh thank you darling, it’s my pride and joy along with my boys. Especially having another baby now and it's not just Matty running around.”

“Matty didn’t tell me he had a sibling,” You tell her looking down to Matty in the pool and he just shrugs at the both of you when you look at him.

Denise shakes her head a little, not surprised at her son's lack of contribution to the conversation.

“Yes we have little Louis. He’s two years old now and he’s pottering around the house like he owns the place.”

“Awh he sounds so adorable. I can't wait to meet him.”

Denise asks you, “How old are you dear?”

“Seventeen,” You tell her.

“Oh so you could be an on-call babysitter for the summer then?”

Matty then groans and rolls his eyes, completely embarrassed, “Mum don’t.”

Denise eases her sons worries by saying, “Matty I’m just joking.”

“I honestly wouldn’t mind if you needed me to. I'd be happy to help.” You tell her.

“I might take you up on it,” She grins at you.

Matty is about to complain again but then he realises that it could mean a night in with you at his house. He already liked you a lot so if he could get to know you better that would be amazing.

“Just let me know, it's not like Adam isn’t already trying to kick me out of his house,” You laugh little and Denise joins in.

She asks you where about you were from and different things every parent asked a new child that they met. She was really lovely though and you think she took a liking to you.

After a five minute chat she could see that you’d started to get cold near the open door so she let you get back to playing in the pool. Something which you were very thankful for.

The water was somehow warmer when you got back into it which was a relief to your now cold body. You started swimming about again to try and feel a little warmer.

“Mum,” Matty calls just before she leaves the outhouse.

“Yes darling?” Denise asks, turning back a little.

Matty points over to the side, just by the shelves in the corner of the room, “Could you please take a few polaroids of us all before we get out?”

Denise agrees and Matty then begins to round you all up. You all get close to each other for the picture and you decide to wrap your arms around Adams neck so you can keep yourself above the water.

Denise ended up taking a fair few different ones of you all. You did two smiling normally and then you did three funnier ones where you were posing or pulling faces.

Matty said each of you could take one home which you thought was really lovely of him. You liked that a kid of that age wanted to take photos to remember fun times as a kid.

Denise left the pictures she’d taken on the shelf on the side and five minutes later you all got out of the pool so you could go inside for some tea. Denise had told you that she was going to put some pizzas in the oven and they wouldn’t take too long so you all wanted to get dry before you went in the house.

You’re one of the first out of the pool and you’re really curious about the polaroids as you’d never actually taken a picture with one or kept a photo. You loved the retro aesthetic of it, with the white frame around the outside of the photo.

You definitely wanted to get one at some point in your life but because the new digital age was coming into the world it made the cameras harder and more expensive to get a hold of. So that would be something you would definitely look into buying when you got started looking for jobs when you got back to Sheffield.

You headed over to the shelf that now held the five pictures and after drying your hands on your towel, you picked them up. The posing ones were actually really funny but the one that you liked the most was the one of you all smiling up at the camera like goofballs.

Your arms were wrapped around Adam and you were both smiling up at the camera with cheesy grins on your faces. Ross was just to the side of Adam and Matty was to the side of you also wearing a grin. George was positioned on the other side smiling too with his arms in the air, looking like he was having the best time.

It was a really lovely picture and one that you intended to keep for a very long time if Matty would let you.

You didn’t just want to take it without double checking that he was serious about you all taking one each. So you decided to ask him if it was okay.

“Matty, would you mind if I had this one?”

“Nah, not at all. Go for it,” He smiled at you.

“Thank you, I really appreciate it,” You tell him honestly.

Matty nodded his head at you, still smiling a little before he looked to the picture.

He smiles as he looks at it, saying, “That’s a good one.”

“Yeah,” You smile. “The others are really funny, I'd choose which one your keeping before the others get a chance.”

Matty ended up going for the other one that was all smiles, leaving the other three to take their pick of the fun ones. You all ended up getting changed in the separate little changing area, which thankfully had a toilet, so you had some privacy and didnt have a repeat of how you’d met Matty.

You all then proceeded to have a really fun evening in the presence of Denise and Tim, Matty’s Dad. You also got to meet Louis and he was the cutest little thing you had ever seen.

You actually hope that you’d be asked to babysit because he was such an adorable child. Even at the age of two you could already tell he was going to be the sweetest kid growing up.

You were really thankful that Adam had introduced you to his friends, and for the fact that they all took to you so well. Instantly you had felt like one of their group, despite the age difference, and you hadn’t stopped laughing the entire afternoon.

When you all started watching some Saturday night TV in Matty’s lounge, you couldn’t help but glance at your polaroid picture very now and again. You really loved it.

Especially now it was dated and you’d all signed it.

You looked at the photo again and thought it was perfect. It had captured your joy of seeing your family and meeting some new friends perfectly and you were glad that moment had been caught forever.

The only thing that ruined it, ever so slightly, was the clear and obvious love bite on your neck.

~*~*~*~*~*~

If one more person mentions the mark on my neck I’m going to come home and strangle you x

You send that text off to Alex with a sigh. Since Adam had pointed out the mark on your neck his mates had started joking about it too, which your Auntie and Uncle then heard and also gave you that annoying knowing look.

But it had just been brought up again because the boys asked if there were any raunchy scenes in the Italian horror film that you were all currently watching. You’d told them that you’d chosen a mild one for them to watch because you don’t think you needed to scar poor little George with some raunchy sex scene.

You were watching the 1987 Italian horror Deliria which you had to explain to the boys that in the UK the film’s name had been changed to StageFright. They were actually pretty willing to watch it as you’d briefed them a little what it was about.

They asked you how you knew and why you watched Italian horror films instead of normal ones and you explained that in your love for it because you and all your college friends watched them together. This was true, it started when you all had to watch a different mild one in your English lessons.

You, Matt, Alex and your best friend had decided to all go round to Matt’s house and watch the film the night before your English exam on the film.

“What? So you watch the raunchy ones with your mates?” Matty asks you, laughing a bit.

Nod with a little smile, “Sometimes.”

“Yeah, of course she does, where do you think she got that mark on her neck?” Adam says with a cheeky smile and you immediately wanted to die.

“You’re not funny,” You tell them as you hide yourself into the sofa a bit more.

That was when you typed out the message to Alex before putting your phone down to concentrate on the film.

This film was a pretty bloody one, there were a lot of people being killed and it was quite suspenseful. And you were glad the boys around you seemed to like it.

You were watching one of the murder scenes when your phone went off again. It was about half an hour later when you got a text back.

You felt your heart skip a beat when the alert came through and a hopeful smile found its way onto your face. You really wanted it to be Alex’s reply.

You picked up your phone and you were delighted to see that it was a text back from Alex. You unlocked your phone and went onto your texts.

You click the unread one with Alex’s name in bold and your eyes go wide seeing his reply.

Can’t promise you I won’t like it xx

You felt yourself blush so hard. Your cheeks instantly heated up and you sunk into the settee a bit more trying to contain your squeal and smile.

Never in your life had you reacted like this over a boy texting you. You’d never had a boy flirt with you before either so it was an all round new experience.

You were so excited when the text came through that you didn’t notice that the boys in the room took notice of the noise too. You were so wrapped up in your phone that you didn’t know Adam watched you open it and saw your reaction to it.

You were only brought out of your little moment of weakness by Adam saying, “Come on then.”

You look up at him and note that he was talking to you. You raise your eyebrows trying to urge him to continue.

Although you wish you didn’t when you heard what he asked.

“Tell us about this boy,” Adam teases.

“There’s no boy,” You defend yourself but your voice gives it away.

You were too high pitched at the end of your sentence for you to not be lying.

“You’re literally texting him now,” Adam states pointing to the phone in your hand.

He then sarcastically adds “Or did you just go all shy and flustered because you enjoyed the murder that we just watched.”

You start to stutter over your words thinking of excuses but you can’t find the words. So you just give in and ask, “What do you wanna know?“

George gets in there first and asks, “What’s his name?”

You mumble, “Alex.”

“What’s he like?” Adam pries with a little smirk on his face.

You don’t know what to say so you just embarrassedly say, “He’s really nice.”

Ross chuckles at that but Adam doesn’t care for your embarrassment. He wants details.

“A little more enthusiasm please,” Your cousin pries.

You scoff at him then, “Excuse me for feeling a little embarrassed that I’m talking to my cousin and his mates about a guy I’m speaking to.”

Adam starts prying more information out of you but Matty wasn’t really paying attention. Not to your words anyway, he was just looking at you.

If he hadn’t fancied you the first day he met you, seeing you in that red bikini, he most certainly fancied you now a week into being here. It was a bit overwhelming for Matty.

Upon meeting you he had no intention to actually form a schoolboy crush on you, despite his joking with Adam about it. But he was sorely mistaken, he fancied the fuck out of you.

He was mesmerised by the way that your face looked as you yapped on about some other boy.

Your smile and the way he could tell you were slightly embarrassed by talking about it. He just kept watching your lips and it was mental that even with one of his favourite films playing on the TV, the only thing he wanted to look at was your mouth.

You were also playing with the ends of your hair which to Matty looked really soft. The soft grin that was on your beautiful face also made Matty’s heart rate increase.

He wanted to be the cause of the way you were feeling right now. He truly wanted you to one day be as excited to talk to him as you were about this boy.

Even at something as simple as a text.

So that was when Matty made himself a promise. Matty was going to one day be the cause of your happiness in a romantic sense.

He knew he wouldn’t succeed anytime soon because he could tell that you thought of him as a kid. But Matty wasn’t going to forget about his promise to himself.

He would work at it and try and make you see that he wasn’t the kid you thought he was. He was going to make you fall for him, whether it took five years or ten, he wanted to call you his.

~*~*~*~

A week later the love bite had thankfully faded and was no longer a problem of yours. Despite Alex texting you promising you that he’d give you another one when you got back home, you told him there was no way.

You tried not to think about the very flirty texts you’d been receiving the past fortnight as you were sat in your Aunt and Uncles’ living room listening to the band have a bit of a practice.

They were coming up with a few songs they wanted to cover as they hadn’t started writing their own songs yet. You were sat next to Matty watching him with his guitar and he started strumming away a vaguely familiar tune.

You couldn’t place it though because Matty was just playing the chords but not singing the lyrics as he was listening to Adam and Ross discuss different song possibilities.

“What song are you playing?” You ask Matty quietly not wanting to disrupt the others’ conversation.

Matty grins at you and carries on playing the tune as he asks you, “Do you not recognise it?”

You nod, “I do but I can’t put my finger on it without the lyrics.”

“Aw, what a shame,” Matty says sarcastically.

You scoff a little and say, “Aren’t you meant to be the singer? Sing it.”

“Only because you asked so nicely,” Matty laughs a little and then he plays through all the chords once more before he starts singing.

You smile as soon as you recognise it to be one of your favourite Backstreet Boys songs, As Long As You Love Me. You couldn’t help but smile at the love song.

Who didn’t love a good love song?

You sat back and listened to Matty sing. He was pretty good and you could tell he sometimes struggled with a few notes but that was nothing for him to be worried about.

Alex was the same. Singing was something that people got better with the more they practiced and you could tell that Matty and all the boys in the room weren’t going to give up on this band for the longest time.

Even the Monkeys at home didn’t have as in depth discussions as these lot were having. So you were really looking to forward to seeing how they all gelled together as a band and you were already excited for the inevitable gigs that you’d be asked to attend.

You grinned at Matty when he finished singing half of the song and you told him, “That was really good. You’re good at singing.”

“You think so?” Matty asked.

You nod, “Yeah, you’ve got a different sound. I like it.”

Matty’s face held a grateful smile and was going to express his gratitude towards you saying that but Ross and Adam stood up quickly. This grabbed yours and Matty’s attention, especially when Ross stood up too.

“Right you don’t all have to leave, I’m not that bad at singing.” Matty furrows his eyebrows at his mates.

That caused the boys to laugh a bit but they all shook their heads.

Adam informed the both of you, “Nah we decided to give it a break for a bit.”

“Gunna go park.” George said with a cute little smile.

“Ah, yes!” Matty said, sounding extremely enthusiastic, before he too stood himself up.

Ross then asked Matty who was putting his guitar back into his case, “Is all our stuff still in your garage?”

“Yeah, should be. So we can chuck the instruments round at mine for our next practice and then get the stuff and head out, yeah?” Matty said and you could almost feel his excitement.

You felt a little out of the loop at this point because you had no idea what Matty was referring to or what needed to be collected from his house to go to the park. You didn’t mind going to the park with them because it was something you still did with your friends.

Granted you don’t think you’d be drinking with 14 year olds in this park but you were still excited to go out with them.

“Come on.” Ross said, offering you his hand to help you up.

You smiled and gladly took it. As he pulled you to your feet, you asked, “So where are we going?”

“Skatepark,” George tells you and your eyes widen as you start following the boys into the kitchen. Evidently you were all leaving through the back door, possibly because you all needed to tell Adam’s Mum and Dad where you were all going.

“What?” You ask, completely dumbfounded.

“You heard. We’re off to the skatepark.” Adam tells you with a mischievous smirk.

Your Uncle looks to you all congregated at the back door and before you leave, he asks, “Which one are you all going to?”

“Just the one on the park. Think Y/N/N would be a bit overwhelmed if we went straight to the indoor one.” Matty tells you uncle.

You furrow your eyebrows at him and he looks at you with a cheeky mischievous grin. He doesn’t give you any time to argue back because they all scurry off outside and you're already lagging behind.

“But I can’t skate.” You call to the boys in front of you.

George brushes your comment off with, “Don’t worry about that.”

“Well, I am pretty worried.” You say honestly.

Adam turns to look at you and sees that you’re actually being genuine. He’s a little shocked because he thought you’d be up for it, so he just tried to ease your nerves a little.

“Look, you’ve got the summer with us, we can just teach you.” Adam says, not letting you back out of this.

He knew you’d enjoy it once you’d got the hang of it.

Ross nods, giving you an assuring smile as you now walk beside him, “It’s not like there isn’t enough of us to help you out.”

“But I don’t have a skateboard.” You say.

You were really clutching at anything to get out of this situation now.

“I have like three, you can use one of mine,” Matty tells you as you all walk down the road towards Matty’s.

“But-“ You begin to make up an excuse but you were cut off.

“No buts. We’re going and you’re gunna learn.” Matty persists and you sigh.

You knew you weren’t going to win this one. You were silent for most of the walk to Matty’s house, your nerves getting to you a little bit.

You weren’t that adventurous so you knew you were bound to hurt yourself. You just hoped that they wouldn’t leave you to fend for yourself because you’d be bored out of your mind.

To take your mind off the inevitable looming situation, you asked the boys a question in an effort to distract your mind. “What’s the band called by the way?”

“At the minute we’ve gone for ‘Me and You Versus Them’.” Ross replies and you just contain your confusion at the band name.

However, you couldn’t really say much when your friends back home were in a band called Arctic Monkeys.

Before you knew it you arrived at the local park and your stomach dropped when you saw the concrete ramps with multiple people skating across them. Never in your life were you going to be able to do this.

You looked down to the board that Matty had lent you and you can already feel your heart in your mouth.

Looking back at what, to you, looks like a mountain of concrete, you say to the boys surrounding you, “There’s no way I can go on that.”

“Oh no. Don’t worry, you’re not.” Matty assures you before he points to the caged tennis courts that were empty just to the side of the ramps.

“We’re going in there and starting you off on a flat surface.” Matty tells you before he ushers you forwards towards the abandoned court.

The other three boys went over to the skatepark and got stuck in pretty quickly. So it was just you and your nerves with only Matty to assist you in easing them.

After thinking how to start, Matty took the board he was letting you use from you.

“Right so, stay there.” He said and walked across the court from you. “Now run over here!” He called to you once he’d reached the opposite end of the court

“What?” You laughed.

“Just run over here!” He repeated. You were confused but did so anyway, Matty kept an eye on which foot you started on and chuckled a bit. “Right, you’re goofy footed like Hann. Must run in the family.”

“Rude?” You laughed a bit.

“Nah, it just means you put your right foot out first, Ross does it too. So that means, your right foot is gonna be in the front and your left will be in the back. Right, nose. Left, tail.” Matty explained and set the board he was lending you down. “When you’re on you wanna make sure to have a bit of bend in your knees and keep your balance like here.” He stated and put a hand over his stomach. You nodded as he set his board down as well. “Easiest way to start is to just...” He walked up to his board and just got on like it wasn’t even there. “Just like you’re walking.” He called as he pushed off once more, he turned back around and smiled as he came to a stop in front of you. “When both your feet are on the deck though, you wanna keep ‘em sideways. You only have your right foot pointed forward when you push.”

“Okay.” You chuckled a bit. “So right foot in the front for me yeah?” You asked him and he nodded. “And I just walk?” You confirmed.

“Kinda yeah. Same motion, more pressure to move forward. Then to stop, just put your back foot down on the ground again.” He smiled. You took a deep breath and walked up to the board, it shifted beneath you as soon as your foot put an ounce of pressure on it.

“I’m gonna eat shit.” You laughed.

“Nah, here, I’ve got you.” Matty laughed and walked up, half next to and half in front of you. He patted his shoulders. You chuckled and put your hands on his shoulders lightly. “Right now just push with your left like you’re walking.” He grinned and you did so, you wobbled as the board slowly rolled forward but Matty steadied you as he walked along with you. “That’s a good start.” He grinned. “George full on slammed his face into the pavement his first time.”

“Aw, poor thing.” You chuckled lightly and pushed off again.

“Ah, he’s a fucking klutz, none of us were surprised.” Matty chuckled, he had let go of you now, noticing you’d found your balance properly. “Now, he does shit like that.” Matty nodded to George in an empty pool, skating around with ease and doing some tricks with the other skaters. “George can do it, you definitely can.” Matty grinned at you again. You skated to the other end of the tennis court and stopped as you reached the fence.

“Hey!” Matty cheered. “Come back so I can tell you how to turn!” He called and you laughed, picking the board up and setting it down properly before just going for it and skating back over to him, picking up a bit more speed than you meant to.

You put your foot down to stop a little too late and ended up taking a few stuttered steps passed Matty as you let out a slightly panicked yell. He laughed a bit as you walked back over to him.

“So you need to work on timing, definitely.” He teased you. You rolled your eyes and lightly punched his shoulder. “There’s two ways to turn.” He stated. “Leaning... Which...” He kicked the board you were using up and caught it, checking the part the wheels were attached to. “Should work on this one, the trucks have enough give and kick turns. For kick turns...” You listened as Matty explained exactly what to do, he got on his board and showed you both types of turns.

Once you’d gotten your turns, pushing and riding down, you just rode around the empty tennis court for a bit. Matty asked if you wanted to learn a trick as you stopped in front of him.

“Already?” You laughed.

“Yeah, pretty easy one.” He nodded. “If you get two down today, you could probably kick flip pretty well by next week.” He grinned.

“You say that like I know what it is.” You chuckled.

“Ah, don’t worry about it for now.” He said nonchalantly. “I’m gonna show you a flat shove.” He said and showed you the trick a few times as he explained it. You nodded a bit and stood on your board, he walked you through it again. Really a surprising good teacher for a teenager. “Right, you’ve got it!” He grinned as you successfully did the trick a few times.

“You’re kidding, I did not.” You laughed a bit.

“No, I’m not, go on. Do it again.” He encouraged you and you did.

“Holy shit.” You chuckled.

“Now you’re gonna ollie.” He smirked.

“We’re gonna fucking what?” You laughed a bit.

“Watch then I’ll explain.” He smiled and skated away from you, the trick he was talking about put the board in the air beneath him. He landed it with ease and turned around, skating back to you with a grin.

“You’re kidding.” You stated. Matty shook his head and explained it to you. “You’re kidding.” You repeated.

“I’m not.” He laughed and explained it a bit before showing you a few more times. “You can totally do it. You don't have to be moving, you can just stay still at first.”

“If I break anything, you’re making it up to me.” You teased him.

“You won’t break anything.” He laughed. “Just don’t fully straighten your knees and you’ll be fine.”

Ollies were definitely the one that put you on your ass the most. The other guys had migrated over to the tennis courts from the ramps to watch.

“You’re on ollies already?” Adam asked, he seemed proud and amused.

“I’m fucking trying,” You laughed and tried again. And again you landed on your ass. “Ugh!” You groaned as you leaned back.

“I think she could probably kickflip by next week,” Matty told them.

“That’s ambitious,” Ross laughed.

“Can one of you lot show me a kickflip so I can decide if I even want to learn it?” You laughed.

“Yeah.” They all said together. You started sitting on the pavement of the tennis court, thankful for a bit of a break. You watched each of the guys do the trick Matty was so sure you could learn by next week. “You’re absolutely mad thinking I can do that by next week.” You told him as he skated over to you.

“Ah, ye of little faith.” Adam laughed as he joined you on the pavement.

“Shut up.” You laughed. “Fucking kickflips, you’re all mad.” You shook your head.

The first couple of days, you had to take a bit just to get to grips with the board and where you needed to place your feet to stay balanced and everything again. You got the hang of it with the help of the boys and each day you needed less time before you were trying the easier tricks they were teaching you to prepare for the kickflip.

They each took their turns helping you out whilst the one that was previously with you went and had some fun on the ramps. When you needed a bit of a breather you went over and watched them, and you were completely astounded at what you saw them do.

They were doing tricks left, right, and centre. You were jealous of their skill, but they assured you that with practice you could do all these things too.

After the first week you were skating on the flat ground pretty well and you felt really comfortable doing it. So then because you weren’t ready for a ramp or anything like that just yet you got Matty and the boys to teach you how to do a kickflip.

Something that did take you a lot of practice to get right. But the serotonin that your brain released when you actually did it made you want to do it again and again.

You felt like you could do anything. Even if it was only a little stationary kick flip. After you’d landed your kickflip a few times, George called you and Matty over to the smallest of the ramps. “Come on, Y/N.” He encouraged you to come over to where he was standing in the middle of the ramp, thankfully the other skaters in the park were preoccupied with the higher ones and the empty pools.

“What are we doing now?” You asked as you and Matty joined him.

“Pumping, get you ready for ramps at some point.” George smiled and showed you what exactly pumping was and talked you through how to do it. Matty joined him.

“Okay but you two do the opposite foot of me.” You chuckled.

“Hann!” Matty called with a laugh. Adam about ate shit at Matty’s sudden shout and you held back your laugh, Matty and George laughed loudly.

“What?” He asked as he walked over.

“Come show her how to pump, we aren’t goofy footed.” Matty said. Adam chuckled.

“Its what they showed you just reverse, Y/N/N.” Adam said as he began to show you. “All you change is your footing, promise.”

“Right, okay.” You nodded and set your board down, you fell into a rhythm with your cousin.

“Alright, Wheels!” Matty encouraged you, he’d just been watching you practice for a bit. You really were doing great for only doing this for about a week.

“Wheels, huh?” You laughed at him and smiled as he gave you a goofy grin and a shrug.

Adam showed you how to get from the middle of the ramp and up to the platform as well as a few other basic ramp things that you would need to eventually do tricks on the ramps. You leaned forward a bit too far on one of your ups, and your board flew out from beneath you but you thankfully caught yourself against the edge before you slammed face first into the edge of the platform above the ramp. The boys all asked if you were alright and you gave them a simple thumbs up before pulling yourself up to sit on the edge. Matty grabbed your board and joined you. You two joked around as you watched the others skate for a bit.

You were now at the level where you could stake to the park on the board which seemed to be much to the boys' relief. They must have all just been itching to get on their boards and skate away from you the first week.

Now you could actually do it yourself, you wanted to be moving that fast all the time and let the breeze flow through your hair.

You’re all currently skating to the park again and Matty makes a conscious effort to make sure you were alright and were straying too far behind. You were thankful that he was looking out for you but you think you could also sense some ulterior motive.

You weren’t stupid, you could tell when kids had weird crushes on people older than them. It was like how you could somehow see little girls taking a strong liking to boys that were much older than them, even sometimes to their teachers.

It was weird but you just tried to ignore the 14-year-old flirt and laugh what he sometimes said off. Thankfully it wasn’t anything that you couldn’t handle, and you just kept it to yourself.

If anything, it kept you entertained. Not that you would ever go there. The thought repulsed you.

Once you all reached the park you just assumed that it would be Matty teaching you something new in the tennis court again, so you headed straight over there. However, Matty shouted you over to near the actual skatepark.

You assumed that he was going to make you watch him do something again, maybe in an attempt to show off. But you were sorely mistaken.

Matty ran his way up the ramp with his board in hand before he turned back to look at you. You were still on the ground, not knowing what he wanted you to do.

But what he did want was a complete surprise.

“Right, come on up here.” Matty says, gesturing at you to walk towards him.

You move closer, not sure you were hearing him correctly, “What?”

“You heard me, come here.” Matty smiles, already seeing your nerves.

You walk up the concrete ramp and Matty offers you his hand which you take. He helps pull you up onto the top of the ramp and you feel very high up all of a sudden. Despite it being maybe only a meter high.

Regardless, you were missing your flat tennis court right now.

“Okay, so now you’re going to learn how to drop in.” Matty tells you and your heart drops.

You shake your head, “Absolutely not.”

“Erm yes. Come on,” Matty says, moving you both towards the edge of the ramp.

You’re very hesitant and pull back against him leading you forwards. You argue, “Matty, I can barely skate on a flat surface.”

“Are you joking?” Matty asks with furrowed eyebrows, “We all skated back to Hann’s yesterday and you kept up fine, plus George and I’ve been helping you with pumping the past couple days.”

“That doesn’t mean I’m prepared to do this.” You say looking down at the bar that lines the edge of the ramp.

“Can’t I do a slope or something first, maybe a smaller ramp?” You ask, feeling your heart beat faster.

Matty sees how nervous you are so his face softens. But he doesn’t let what he’s trying to help you complete go, “Y/N/N, this is a mini ramp.” He laughs a bit as he gestures to the higher ramps around you. He smirks, “Would you rather learn fast or just pussy out and never do more than a kickflip?”

“You’re fucking nasty, you.” You told him with furrowed eyebrows.

He knew you’d been practicing your hardest to perfect a kickflip. He was buzzing for you when you’d done it but that was a little nasty of him to now use against you.

“Listen, you’re gunna slam, no doubt about it. But you’ve gotta try it and you’ve gotta learn.” Matty tells you with a grin.

You could already tell that he was going to get a kick out of watching you fail a few times. But at least you could tell that he did just want you to progress onto the next thing.

Matty was just glad you seemed to be enjoying his company though. And every time you looked at him and smiled when you did something right made his little heart beat so much faster.

Every time you caught him looking at you, he felt himself blush and he felt the need to take a few deep breaths. Needless to say, Matty had it bad.

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WHY THE FUCK ARE THERE NO POSTS ON THE WHOLE COPPA AND YOUTUBE SITUATION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JzXiSkoFKw

Watch this video to understand what’s whappening, but as a general TLDR, if The Children’s online privacy protection act is inforced on Youtube, youtube content as we know it will change forever.

If you don’t have time to watch the video let me summarize it (and other videos on the topic) for you

One of the things COPPA prohibits is the use of personalized ads (Ads based on your location, age, sex, gender, interests, basically all the data that is collected through use of the internet) for children under the age of 13. For this, Youtube was fined and now they’re making changes to the way the platform works.

One of these changes is making creators mark their content as “Meant for kids” or not. However there are a wide range of items that, on youtube’s eyes, classifies as children media.

So basically if your video contains something that falls under any of these categories, even if its just one, and a minor thing, youtube can flag it as kids video and apply the new restrictions to this video or even your channel as a whole. And if youtube’s automated system finds any of these things in a video NOT catered for children, it can penalize you both by applying these restrictions anyways, striking you, or fining you for breaking the law

This is a snippet of a complaint made to be submitted to COPPAS’ feedback page, since they saw how problematic this act and laws can be. The whole complaint was written by a mexican youtube channel called Alfrely, and it reads:

YouTube viewers and creators petition the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to clarify and reconsider the new Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA Rule) regulations on YouTube creators. Shutting off personalized ads on creators’ content will cause more harm than good, especially for children. Quality family-friendly content will shrink, while more mature content will grow — yet kids will still be watching. The FTC should not expand COPPA regulations for content creators. Broadening the definition of “child-directed” to include “child-attractive” would force many more creators to turn off personalized ads. As a result, even more quality content will dry up, and more mature and extreme content will fill the platform. The free YouTube Kids app is a better solution than regulation targeting family-friendly creators. YouTube Kids removes privacy concerns around personalized ads. Parents buy devices and allow their children to watch YouTube Main. Many parents prefer to use YouTube Main because it has more features and less barriers. Creators should not be punished when parents choose not to use YouTube Kids. COPPA is about putting parents in control of protecting their children’s personal information online. The FTC should not use COPPA to remove parents from the process in regulating content and online advertising. While large corporations will survive these changes, small business creators face terminating employees, changing their business model, or shutting down production altogether. These regulations will particularly hurt young underserved audiences who participate in YouTube communities on topics like special needs, faith, and minority groups. Limiting quality free content for kids expands the digital divide. Turning off personalized ads on kids’ content also encourages increased product placement and brand deals within kids’ content. Creators face COPPA fines up to $42,530 per video, yet the regulation and definition of “child-directed” is vague. The FTC needs to provide creators with enforcement clarity. We ask the FTC to: 1. Provide an enforcement statement for creators 2. Clarify the definition of “child-directed,” and not expand it to cover “child-attractive” content 3. Delay enforcement against creators until the FTC concludes its review of COPPA 4. Allow parents to use YouTube Kids or YouTube Main, without forcing creators to turn off personalized ads when parents choose to use YouTube Main

Now onto another point:

The woman from the video replies

“We will start limiting the data we collect from ‘Made for kids content’ to comply with the law.”

The changes that will be applied to these videos are:

Comments

Personalized ads

Info cards

End screens

Stories

Community tab

Notification bell

Ability to “Save to watch later” or add to playlists, just to name the ones listed.

You basically get stripped of everything that makes youtube, youtube.

This change basically encourages content creators that live off the platform to create content that DOESN’T cater to children, creating more mature content that is already frowned upon on youtube and by advertisers, and will inevitaly make kids continue to consume media that is not for them

Not to mention that things like cartoons and videogames will be among the things that people won’t talk about.

Big corporations will always find a way to make this work, and the people who depend on youtube for a living may also find a way to make this work, but at the end of the day, it will ruin the careers and possibly the lives of many many creators, maybe even creators that you enjoy.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS. THE MORE PEOPLE SUBMITTING FEEDBACK TO THE FTC, THE MORE CHANCES TO SAVE THIS WE HAVE. DON’T SLEEP ON THIS.

I’m not good at making any posts like these so I may be forgetting things or saying something wrong so please reblog and correct me or add to what I’m saying. Spread the word.

#youtube #coppa #coppa act #FTC #markiplier #jacksepticeye #google #youtubers #net neutrality #please reblog

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