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royalwriteroftheuniverse · 2 years

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Happy New Year Ari! Part 2: The Proposal

18+ only just incase

No warning minus Ari Levinson lol ita a whole Lotta fluff I'm trying to post this quickly before the Holiday is over- I think its still light in Cali requested by @hawkeyes-queen who wanted to see the proposal so I'll fix mistakes later

Ari couldnt wait to get out of Temple. He kept stealing glances at his hopefully soon-to-be- fiance. But all this standing up and sitting down a zillion times was not what he had planned for today well sort of. But just getting down and up once. Hopefully lighter.

Ari practically had to twist her arm to go to the beach.

"It's gunna be cold"

"I'll keep you warm"

"Sand gets everywhere its so hard to get out or off."

"I'll help you"

That one made her laugh him getting sand off her feet and out from between her toes -now this she had to see. But, she finally agreed only because Ari had wanted to so much. But she did insist they change out of thier holiday clothes they wore to Temple. Which he agreed. It wook her longer to change then him and he had spent the extra time phasing himself up in front of the mirror and telling himself its fine. And it'll all be fine. Ari almost never planned things out minus getting the initial idea-but this he did- intact he planned to a T. And no back up plan but this wouldn't need one.

"So is it me or did it seem like Temple was even longer than yesterday?"

She laughed at Ari's joke

"You say that every year said yesterday you seemed even longer last year."

"It did."

"I rembember how long it seemed when I was little it was like 5 hours," she laughed "And that was the child friendly family service."

He was holding her left hand and everything, so far was going as planned.

"So why you want to go to to the beach so suddenly"

"No reason." He didn't plan on her asking that but he should of he looked at where with the reflection of the sub off the sea giving her such a gorgeous ethereal look. Making him so happy and he relax.

"What is going on with you?"

"Nothing " he said swinging thier arms with a happy tune to his words

"Somethings I will never understand about you Ari Levinson" she laughed.

There was a moment of silence which panicked Ari. The only thing going through his mind was: don't panic don't panic she loves you don't panic don't panic you love her don't panic don't panic she already said I do so don't panic.

"Ari? Did you hear me."

"Hu no sorry."

"Its ok. Come 'ere let me feel your head you're sweating."

"I'm fine"

"Ari there's a cold breeze and you're sweating."

"I promise you I'm fine," He brought the hand he was holding up to his mouth for a kiss.

"Ok," she said suspiciously."You know this was actually a really good idea.

"You know I love you right?"

"I do " she sing sung the words

"Wait Ethan not sending you-"

"No. No. I promise. Actually No more missions in general."

"Are you serious?"

"Yea," he said with a smile.

"Ari!" She stopped walking and grabbed him for a big hug and a big but sweet kiss.

"Best surprise ever! You have no idea how happy that makes me!" She kissed him.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that" he said under his breath but she heard him.

"Ari?"

"So you know how I love you."

"Ari you just asked me. That you sure your ok."

"I am better than ok"

"I love you everything about you" he said her head dropped to blush and Ari had stopped walking and her hand was tugged she had stopped and turn to him.

"I love everything about you the way you smile in the morning when you just wake up."

"I do?"

" Mhmm. The way your brown eyes turn honey gold when when the sun hit them they turn a golden green. I love how no matter what you always try and give everyone a compliment everyday"

"Its just being nice"

"No its not. Baby. There is no one like you. I thank God every day for you. You have such a good heart a good soul. You love making people smile and you make me so happy. God I am screwing this up."

She still didnt understand.

"Whenever I'm with you I'm so happy I-I feel drunk. I love your little thing about you. I've never been this much never felt so much for someone I- ok I swear I had an actual better speech but.. I love you so much.."

"I love you too Ari."

"I cant imagine myy life without you.. I dont rembember life before you.. it's like.. like it was a whole diffrent life time.. but I dont want to know life without you."

He started to get down on one knee

"You are everything to me."

A she gasped and put her free hand over her mouth nodding yes As he pulled out the ring box with his free hand..

And I want your face to be the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. I want to grow old with you I want to have a family with you I want everything with you because well I... I just... it's nothing without you.. my life was so empty and lonely and thats all I rembember. But like I said it seems a whole lifetime ago. Before you. Before us. Now ...with you....life is just perfect. It's everything I want except one thing. And I want to start the new year off right. So will you make me the happiest man in the world and be my wife?" He was fighting off tears like she was. She couldnt even speak. She nodded.

So thats a yes?

She could only nodded.

"Please say yes baby" Ari had longed to hear her say: 'Yes I'll marry you.' But right now given how emotionally they both are he just wanted to hear Yes.

Yes!

Yes?

Yes! YES Ari Levinson I'll Marry you.

Ari beemed and he grabbed the ring dropping the box but neither cared.

He got up and pulled her into a deep and loving kiss.

Is this why you've been acting so weird why you and my dad have been acting weird.

Uea. Well you are his youngest and the only girl so-"

Ari!

"I really did have a speech but I uh winged it just saying how I feel looking at you."

"Ooh Ari" her hands on his beard.

She gave him another kiss.

Then she turned to the side away from the ocean

"Thank you max for the photos"

"Your welcome congratulations" he yelled back.

"How'd you know?"

"Cause I know you. I know you'd want photos and you know how I feel about wanting photos of things and...well he is a sharpshooter spy I figured he'd be the only one you'd ask."

"I can't believe we're getting married."

"I can't believe you said yes" Max Yelled.

"No comments from the peanut gallery." She yelled back. "God if he has any daughters I feel bad for them. We might have to hide them in our basement."

Ari laughed with her.

But then for the first time she looked down at the ring I mean really looked.

Stopping in her tracks.

It was a fairly large cushion cut stone she assumed a diamond but couldnt care less that has the lightest touch of blush pink, and when the light caught it turned into a beautiful pink and the sun had shone through it to make a rainbow on the sand. Around it were small stones. She gasped. Ari took in everything from just slightly to her side be he had taken a few steps back and wrapped his arms around her.

"You like it?" He smiled. Already knowing the answer.

"I love it. It is the most beautiful thing I have ever. I mean Ari you. I. I'm" she had no words.

"Thats how I feel when I look at you." He wispered.

She pulled him in a loving deep kiss.

Happy New year!

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weaversweek · 26 days

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Let's do it

The greatest 50 singles from 1954-76

An index post for Let's Do It (or #Let5D0It), the follow-up to Fear Of Mu21C from last year.

This is my personal top 50 singles from 1954 to 1976, in an approximate ranking order. (Hard lines to "The Deadwood stage", which would have been about number 20, but is a release from 1953 and hence too old.)

Median entry is from 1965. Most popular year is 1962 with five entries, four from 65 and 73; the only year to draw a complete blank is 1955. No entry from The Rolling Stones, nothing from The Who, The Kinks, The David Bowie, or The Reg "Reg" Snipton.

There are 48 different performers in the list, two of the performers have two entries. The challenge restricts us to two entries from any performer and a third from one act; in this spirit, there are three competition entries from the Eurovision Song Contest, and I probably wouldn't have picked more. Four songs are in a language other than English, and there's one instrumental.

Because of everything else going on in my life, research hasn't been quite as comprehensive as I might like; in particular, there's only one song that wasn't a hit on Billboard, the NME, or Music Week charts. (And for 1960-68, I'll quote positions from the NME chart, rather than Music Week, as the NME was the more accurate survey.) Much of the research was done over the Christmas break, I do not apologise for including three seasonal classics.

Contest sponsor Arron insists that we satisfy the "Jann Wenner Clause" - at least 30% of our lists have to be performed by acts that aren't entirely white men. An entirely laudable aim, done to widen the horizons of some of the other contributors. While I'm slightly uneasy about the assumption that American racial classifications work everywhere in the world, or is sufficiently nuanced (does Bob Dylan count as non-white, given that he changed his name due to perceived antisemitism?), for anglosphere music of this era it's a reasonable guide, and 30% is a pitifully low bar. In any event, my list is about 50% performed by acts that aren't entirely white men.

I'm presenting this as a ranked list; in truth, I seriously ranked the top 22, and haven't sweated bullets over the lower places. I prefer the song at 34 to the one at 44, and not to the one at 24; but on another day I might reverse positions 33-34-35.

There will be a short write-up for each position, and here's the consolidated list.

01 - DOUZE POINTS 02 - ELF 03 - ELF 04 - ELF 05 - ELF 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 "California dreamin'" - The Mamas and the Papas

26 "Blockbuster" - The Sweet 27 "Car wash" - Rose Royce 28 "Bohemian rhapsody" - Queen 29 "The flying saucer" - Buchanan and Goodman 30 "Je t'aime... moi non plus" - Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin

31 "When I fall in love" - Nat "King" Cole 32 "Merry Xmas everybody" - Slade 33 "Blue moon" - The Marcels 34 "Abraham, Martin, and John" - Marvin Gaye 35 "Dream a little dream of me" - Mama Cass

36 "See my baby jive" - Wizzard 37 "Mr sandman" - The Chordettes 38 "Please please me" - The Beatles 39 "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" - Séverine 40 "Yester-me, yester-you, yesterday" - Stevie Wonder

41 "I believe in Father Christmas" - Greg Lake 42 "Devil Gate Drive" - Suzi Quatro 43 "The young ones" - Cliff Richard 44 "Those were the days" - Mary Hopkin 45 "Dancing queen" - ABBA

46 "Remember you're a womble" - The Wombles 47 "Send in the clowns" - Judy Collins 48 "Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious", Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke 49 "Cathy's clown", The Everly Brothers 50 "Beep beep", The Playmates

#let5d0it #let's do it #pop music #20th century #1954-1976

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