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berenwrites · 9 months

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Beyond the Battle - Chapter 38 - Stranger Things - Steddie

Beyond the Battle: Action & Consequence

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Summary: Steve hits things with a bat or gets hit depending on who you ask. He definitely does not have anything to do with the psychic stuff. That is El’s domain. However, as Vecna is defeated, the rules change.

Pairing: steddie (Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson)

Other Relationships: Steve & Robin, Steve & Dustin, Eddie & Dustin

Rating: Teen

A/N: Multi-chapter story, updated regularly. Honestly not sure how many chapters it will have yet because it's still a bit hand wavy in the middle, but definitely more than 12. Thank you to my beta for find my mistakes and to all those who read/like/reblog.💖 Follow #st:beyond-the-battle for updates.

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Chapter 38. Paternal

“Don’t worry, Darling,” his mom said as they all looked towards the doorway, “I’ve got this.”

He trailed after his mother into the main part of the house with Eddie close behind him. It was ridiculous but he almost felt more nervous about his dad coming home than defending the house from Sullivan and his men. There was no one else to worry about when it came to his dad.

“David,” his mom said, quickly walking over to where his dad was dropping his suitcase just inside the doorway.

“Sylvie, thank god,” his dad said, immediately accepting a quick peck of a kiss and throwing his arms around his wife. “I saw one of the news reports after you called and when I tried to call back, I couldn’t get through. What the hell is going on?”

“So much we have missed,” his mom replied, “but, don’t worry, I will explain it all like I promised on the phone. The lines are mostly up now, but they are still having problems with them.”

It was when his parents broke apart that his dad finally looked up. Steve’s breath caught in his throat when their eyes met.

“Hi, Dad,” he said.

“Steve,” his dad said, coming over quickly, “are you alright? I’ve been hearing terrible things ever since I landed.”

Steve was more than a little shocked to be dragged into a hug before he could answer. They hadn’t quite been back on hugging terms last time they had seen each other.

“I’m fine,” he promised, automatically relaxing into his dad’s arms like he had done most of his life. “It was bad for a while, but we got through it.”

He was instantly distracted by a low-level pain, as his healing instincts fired.

“You’re all in one piece though?” his dad checked when they broke apart.

He nodded.

“Kind of difficult not to be now,” he said, distracted by what he had sensed.

It occurred to him he was picking up his dad’s bad knee, an injury his dad had had since college from a bad jump playing basketball.

“What?” his dad asked.

“David,” his mom said, rescuing him, “that’s part of what I have to explain. I think it’ll be easier if we do this in the study. Steve, why don’t you and Eddie put on a new pot of coffee, I expect we’ll need it.”

He nodded, but didn’t move as he watched his dad notice Eddie properly for the first time.

“Dad, this is Eddie,” he introduced before his dad could ask. “He and his uncle Wayne are staying with us at the moment because their home was destroyed.”

“Hello, Eddie,” his dad said, extending a formal hand in greeting. “Have we met before?”

Eddie accepted the handshake like a pro.

“You might have seen my face on the news, sir,” Eddie replied. “For a while the town tried to blame me for the murders that happened before the quake.”

“There was a ridiculous Satanic panic, Darling,” Steve’s mom added, “just because Eddie runs the Dungeons and Dragons club at the High School. I always knew some people in this town were stupid, but it seems to have been worse than ever.”

“Jason Carver has a lot to answer for,” Steve said, not bothering to keep the protective tone out of his voice. “Shame he’s dead.”

His mom reached out and placed a hand on his arm. She had been horrified by his retelling of what had happened to Erica and Lucas when trying to protect Max. If it hadn’t been for Carver, Vecna might never have broken through into Hawkins in the first place.

“Come on,” his mom said, taking his dad’s hand, “I have a lot to tell you.”

Steve watched his parents disappear with his heart beating a mile a minute.

“Come on, Stevie,” Eddie said. “Let’s make that pot of coffee. If Wayne wasn’t out with Hopper and his Russian friend, I’d get him to do it, but we’re it I’m afraid.”

He looked at the closed study door for a few more seconds before nodding and following Eddie back to the kitchen. The coffee was finished and just sitting there by the time loud shouting started coming from the main part of the house. Eddie hurried through the kitchen door, while Steve followed a little slower. What he could hear was not as startling to him as it was to his boyfriend. In fact, it was a little bit comforting given the situation.

“Steve,” Eddie said seeming to relax a little at Steve’s non-reaction to the raised voice coming from the study, “what language is that?”

“Hmmm, oh, Hungarian,” he replied.

“Your dad’s Hungarian?” Eddie asked, eyebrows almost at his hairline.

“Oh no, Dad’s as American as they come,” he explained, “his grandmother, my great grandmother is Hungarian, and she likes to teach every member of the family to swear and insult people in her mother tongue.”

“You have a great grandmother who’s still alive and likes to make sure all her relatives can swear in Hungarian?” Eddie sounded incredulous.

Steve nodded.

“How old is she?” Eddie asked.

“Umm, ninety-four … no, ninety-five,” he said after doing a quick calculation in his head.

“So do you know how to swear in Hungarian?” was Eddie’s next question.

He nodded again.

“I spent the summer with Nana Katy when I was nine,” he replied. “Came back swearing like a trooper, but since no one in this town speaks Hungarian, nobody cared. I trained myself out of it by high school because it didn’t go with the all-American jock image I was going for. Robin thinks it’s hilarious I can swear and insult someone’s family heritage but can’t ask for directions. My dad is currently comparing government agents to sperm.”

“You just keep getting more interesting, Stevie,” Eddie said with a small grin.

Steve wished he could have returned the expression, but he was still too anxious about what came next.

“I just hope Mom can calm him down a bit,” he admitted. “When the Hungarian comes out, he’s really upset.”

“Yeah, well finding out about the Upside Down and that your son has been front and centre for the whole shit show is gonna be upsetting,” Eddie said, leaning in close so their shoulder’s brushed. “I’m guessing your dad is going to come out of that room and one of two things will happen, he’ll hug you until you can’t breathe, or he’ll ground you for the rest of your natural life.”

“I’m too old to be grounded,” Steve pointed out.

“Wayne grounded me when I said I wasn’t going back after I failed to graduate for the second time,” Eddie revealed. “He spent a week convincing me not to do anything stupid and that I should go back to prove the bastards wrong for thinking I was a lost cause.”

“Wayne is a wise man,” he said.

He had more to say but was distracted when the cursing from the other room stopped. That meant one of two things, his mom had or was in the process of calming his dad down, or there was a standoff going on and the yelling would start again, louder. When nothing happened for over a minute, he began to hope it was the former.

“The tension is killing me,” Eddie commented. “How about you tell me more about Nana Katy to distract me?”

Steve thought it was very sweet how Eddie didn’t call him on the way he was practically vibrating in place and made out it was the other way around.

“What would you like to know?” he asked, because he really could do with the distraction.

“Anything and everything,” Eddie replied. “She sounds like a fascinating lady.”

“Oh, she is,” Steve agreed. “Came over to America by herself when she was nineteen. When she got here, she didn’t have a penny to her name but managed to get mistaken as an heiress running from a despotic father and was adopted into the higher society set in New York. That’s where she met my great grandfather, Jackson, and became a Harrington. Apparently, she confessed everything to him just before they got married, but he was so in love with her he didn’t care.”

“When do I get to meet this woman, she sounds amazing,” Eddie said.

“Well, she lives just outside New York,” he replied, smiling despite his worry because Eddie really did seem excited about his great grandmother. “She converted her house into a shelter for geriatric cats and dogs that people couldn’t look after anymore. Last I heard she has twelve dogs and eight cats. They go for walks around her property every day.”

“I thought you said she was ninety-five,” Eddie said.

“She is, but she doesn’t look a day over sixty,” Steve explained. “No one outside the family believes how old she is. She says helping the animals keeps her young.”

Eddie’s forehead crinkled a little at that in a very thoughtful expression.

“Stevie,” he said eventually, “I could be talking complete shit, but have you considered you might not be the first one in your family to be gifted?”

“How so?” he asked, not picking up what Eddie was getting at.

“Well, the theory is you healed yourself unconsciously every time you had a concussion, right?” Eddie replied. “It was slower and not as complete as the things you can do now, but it’s probably why you don’t have any permanent side-effects from all the concussions you’ve had.”

Steve nodded.

“What if Nana Katy has the same ability, only she was never in the backlash from a psychic super girl ending an interdimensional super villain?” Eddie suggested. “Definitely sounds like she has the same instincts you do for collecting those who need help.”

That was enough to distract him from his worry about his father.

“You think she could be like me?” he asked as he turned the idea over in his head.

“Could be,” Eddie replied. “I mean, having an unconscious ability to heal yourself could definitely keep you younger than your peers. I’m not saying it couldn’t just be good genes, but something to think about for later maybe?”

“She did break her hip a couple of years ago, everyone was worried we might lose her,” he mused, “but she was up and about way quicker than the doctors thought she should be.”

Eddie’s idea made a scary kind of sense. Only it brought up all sorts of issues too.

“We can’t mention this to anyone,” he said as ideas began popping into his head. “After what he did for El, I trust Owens more, but there is no way I am letting him pick apart my family.”

“Agreed,” Eddie replied, making a little cross over his heart. “But I still want to meet your great grandmother. I am so basing an NPC on her in my next campaign.”

Steve would have commented on that, but the sound of the study door opening distracted him. Suddenly he could barely breathe. It was as if everything was going slightly slower than normal as his dad stepped into the corridor, looked up and saw him. He was frozen to the spot, even as his dad walked over.

“Steven,” his dad said, looking him directly in the eye, “I have been underestimating you for so long. Can you ever forgive me?”

Utterly stunned, he just about managed a nod, before his dad wrapped him in the biggest, most encompassing hug he could ever remember.

“I am so proud of you,” his dad told him as he just about had the wherewithal to hug back.

It was almost worse than when his mom had done the same thing. He was determined not to cry, really he was. It was so hard though. All the emotions swirling through him felt too much and he was pretty sure his eyes were wet but the time his dad finally released him. It took everything he had and every distraction technique to fight back the tears as he stood back.

“Dad,” he said, focusing on anything that would help him not embarrass himself, “will you let me fix your knee?”

His dad’s eyes opened in shock at the direct question.

“Thank you, Steve,” his dad said, “but I think we have more important things to deal with right now.”

A neh-neeer sound, like in a game show, came from behind him and Steve glanced at Eddie.

“Wrong answer, Mr Harrington,” Eddie said with a bright smile. “Don’t make Steve break out the psychological tricks. I mean he got Hopper to agree with one conversation and that man withstood Russian torture.”

For a moment Steve wasn’t sure how his dad would react, until a smile broke out on his face.

“I am not caffeinated enough for this,” his dad said with a shake of his head, before looking back at Steve. “Why don’t you convince me over coffee?”

“Okay,” he agreed as part of his brain wondered if maybe he’d stepped into a parallel dimension for a moment. Not that he was complaining as they all headed towards the kitchen. His mom gave him a smile and a quick rub on the base of his back as they came close, and he finally started to breathe easier. It was by no means a done deal, but it was getting nearer.

End of Chapter 38

Chapter 39

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cecesxwickedxocsx · 2 years

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So I stayed up until 4 am watching Stranger Things Season 4 Vol 1 and- I have thoughts. Please note that below the cut there are spoilers

I don’t want Steve and Nancy. I keep thinking about the people complaining that Erica was shoehorned in and like- no. she was fine, great, love Erica. What was being forced in was the ‘romantic’ tension between Steve and Nancy and I hated every moment of it. Also why does Eddie- the guy on the run for a murder he didn’t commit and currently trapped in the upside down, something he didn’t know existed until a day or two ago- giving a flying fuck about the romance between Steve Harrington and Nancy Wheeler- two people he didn’t seem to really know or even like?

Eddie Munson is baby.

Erica is great, again, love her. I think she adds a level of humor that is hard to get from the other characters who are all actually traumatized children.

Dustin is great 10/10 no notes.

Why do they keep having Lucas be like- the one who abandons the friendship? Like??? In his defense, Mike and Dustin definitely weren’t there for his big moment because scheduling conflict but him so quickly lying about D&D and the hellfire club and then watching as the weird jocks beat the hell out of the other guys in the group like??? Other than that Lucas is amazing and I love him.

Max is a queen. Her taste in music is flawless. Also in the trailers it showed Billy’s grave reading Billy Hargrove and later reading William and I know some people had theories about that but in the actual show (so far) it only showed William so was that an editing error or like- I guess we’ll see in July.

Mike kind of sucks. idk what to tell you. Nothing on Finn, Mike is just kind of shit.

Robin’s gay panic is relatable. Her sudden added ‘quirkiness’ is- something.

I would like more Will. I feel like there wasn’t much of him in the season so far other than being angry at Mike- apologizing to Mike (As well as accepting Mike’s apology) and the painting we keep hearing about- which I’m not totally clear on where it is right now? Will packed it but I think they left their packs behind when being gunned the fuck down?

Winona’s face is 10/10. No notes.

The Hopper situation is a lot. Also I’m convinced the Russian guy is not making it to the end of the season.

Murray continues to be great. I would let him and his black belt hold my drink in the bar.

I totally called Grindelwald being 1. I also called him having something to do with the kids dying. However I didn’t predict Jace Wayland actually being the son of Victor Creel. Though in retrospect I should have. fuck Caius. Cheers to them copy pasting and recoloring Red Skull for Vecna’s design tho

Suzie’s family is Mormon, right? I mean they could be quiverfull fundies but like??? They’re in Utah. so?

Fuck Brenner and Owens.

all in all- I think this season just has way too much going on. I completely forgot about the satanic panic led by Preppy Billy and his band of merry hooligans up until I was writing this about Lucas. There was just so damn much to keep up with and while I’m sure it was all necessary to some degree I’m just like- not caring about certain parts of it and it’s a lot to keep track of. I’m excited for July 1st but damn.

also Again. No Nancy and Steve. Jonathan still exists, He and Nancy are still technically dating Like??? Just let them be a throuple or at least have Nancy and Jonathan break up before you push Nancy and Steve in my face.

#stranger things #stranger things spoilers #I had a lot of thoughts.

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profoundtyrantharmony · 2 years

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Title : What a Game

Pairing : Loki x Reader x Thor

Words : 3354

Warning : Fluff and a bit smutty at the end.

Note : Everybody is alive, Endgame happened without permanent casualties

Plot : A game of fu*k marry or kill with alcohol leads the Avengers (original 6 + Loki, Bucky, Sam, Wanda and Vision) and reader to admit dome hidden feelings deep inside of them.

Tags : @im-a-satanic-ritual

Masterlist // Prompt list request

We’ve been on a mission for several weeks now. Since the events with Thanos we could have thought that the human nature would have been less evil...we were wrong. There will always be an other monster wanting to do bad things to innocent in the sole purpose of being richer, more powerfull or just because they can. That’s why we, the Avengers work so hard to preserve the lives of millions of innocents.

This is not easy everyday but fortunately we can count on each other, Steve Sam and Bucky united by their military past, Natasha and Clint bonded years ago when he decided to not kill her, Tony and Bruce over science, Wanda and Vision... it’s a bit fuzzy for now but we can say they’re linked by their appreciation of one another -If I had my say in this, I’d just tell them to get together already- and finally there is me Thor and Loki. At the beginning the two brother were always together -since the redeeming of Loki they got a lot of time to catch-.

At first I befriended Loki over my interest of literature and calm nature. I was coming back from a trip to the library with my arms full of new books when Loki walked by me and helped me to settle them in my room. He looked over my collection and asked me if he could borrow some -which I obviously accepted-. Since that day we could be found in his room or in mine, sometime in the living room reading our own book, sometime reading to each other. After that we started to talk together about everyday life, the further we talk and more personnal our conversation had become. We were now friend and proud to be.

Then some weeks later I befriended Thor over some pop tarts -Yes I love pop tarts too especially those with weird flavors like root beer, pumpkin pie or even maple bacon- this day, I’ll remember it till the day I die. I just finished training with Nat and Clint when my stomach told me it was time to give him some sustenance or else... I went to the kitchen, grabbed my personnal stash of snacks -full of weird flavors snacks that no one in the tower wanted to taste- when suddenly I felt a warm presence behind me, it was too late fo me to hide what rightfully belonged to me. I turned around and without surprise saw Thor with eyes full of mirth and ecstasy at the sight of all the different treats. He asked me what was all of this, I let him try some, he liked it and that’s basicaly how the three of us became really good friends. Our bond is like nothing I ever experience before, it’s more like a fraternal kind of bond, without being blood related.

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The quinjet landed on the Avengers compound, the roars of the engines wake me from my slumber. I’m tired, sweaty and in dire need of a hot shower. I thought we would have to go to the med bay see if everything and everyone were alright then go to our quarter and be free fromany Avengers duties. Clearly, as I hear Tony speaks through my foggy head, I understand that this is not what’s going to happen.

“Guys we need to celebrate our victory !!” Tony happily says.

“Come on Tony, give us a break !” Steve says a bit defeated knowing well Tony won't listen to anyones plea.

“Don’t you think it will be better to celebrate tomorrow, when everyone feel rested ?” replies Bruce trying to coaxe him into reason.

“Bruce is right, we need to rest this mission was physically and mentaly draining !” Adds Bucky with tiredness clouding his eyes.

“Listen up everybody, we’re all going to the med bay, we’re all going to rest for a bit...But tonight at 8:00pm we’re going to spend some time together as a team bonding, to be together as friends more than work colleagues. Is that understood !” Tony explains with seriousness in his tone not wanting to be contradicted.

“Seriously Tony ! I’m tired, sweaty, I look like an old dry cod sticking on the side of the road !!” I start to yell a bit frustrated with him.

“Don’t be too harsh on yourself sweet flower.” Says Loki smiling at me.

“An old dry cod ?! You’re not that old !!” Says Thor laughing at his own joke.

“I hate you both ! I tell both of the gods. And I hate you too Tony, making me stay up when I only want to sleep, that’s mean !” I couldn’t contain the slight smile that wanted to break free from my psudo angry face.

“Yeah yeah I love you too y/n/n ! See you all tonight, there will be acohol an there will be games !” Exclaims Tony with a renewed genuine smile.

“Games ?” Ask Clint and Natasha at the same time.

“A game actually, not plural.”

“May I ask mister Stark what this game, singuar, will be ?”

“You’ll see for yourself tonight Vision !”

“You know I can read your mind Tony ? You can’t hide anything from me.” Says Wanda with a sly smile that make her even more gorgeous than she already is.

“You wouldn’t dare violate the one that offers you a chance to be a better version of yourself in such a rude way would you !?” Tony is almost laughing, it’s all for fun, we ove each other so much that we can laugh and joke about almost everything.

“Actually Clint is the one who offer her first a second chance, just saying. Interrupts Sam. As for this reading mind thing I’m not oppose to because if the game you’re trying to make us play is a fuc*ing Uno, I’m out man !”

Everybody laugh at this, Sam is such a pure soul, so much fun to be around, good vibes, nice, funny and smart...did I mentionned how funny he is ? Because that’s a fact, he even made the Hulk chuckles once !!

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Hours passed since our arrival, we each took a shower and relax for a bit. We’re now sitting in the living room, on the duvets and pillows covered floor. In the middle f it there is a coffee table with on it different type of sat and sugar snacks as well as an unheathy amount of alcohol -There is even a botte of Asgardian mead for Loki and Thor-. We’re surrounding this table, some on the couch and armchairs, some on the floor. The only one not here is Tony, such a diva !

We’re all chatting together, eating, drinking and laughing. I see that Loki as a glass of Asgardian mead in his hands and as I never get a taste of it I’m eager to try it but I’m aso pretty sure none of himor Thor would ever let me... I’ll just have to outsmart the both of them. With the most innocent look I can must I come sit between them and start talking to Loki. As the conversation goes and I see him so entranced by what I’m saying, I put my arms around him from behind as if I was hugging him. I’m pretty convinced I’ll succeed until...

“What are you trying to do here sweet flower ?”

“Ahem... Trying to divert your attention from your glass of mead so I can have a taste of it !”

Thor who is sitting beside him, turns his head toward me once hearing my blatant admission. and couldn’t countain his chuckle.

“My dear rosebud you’ll never cease to amaze me !” He laughs while giving me a side hug.

Trying to divert my attention by pretending to hug me will never work, I can only suggest youto be more imaginative in your touchy feelly strategies.” Loki smiles at me as if I’m the purest thing is ever see.

I know that both of the gods thinks my honesty is rather endearing but as everyone I have filters, that tends to disappear once alcohol enters the game.

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Finally Tony arrived ! The game he wants us all to play is the f*ck, marry or kill but Avengers version. I thought we were all grow adults but apparently not. No big deal, it means more alcohol to supress further embarassment by admitting some secret crushes inadvertantly ! Again no big deal...

Tony explains the rules for Vision, Thor and Loki -even if considering the name of the game, there is nothing more to explain really-.

“Each one of us will have to respond to a FMK question without lying or trying to outsmart the question, Tony looks right into Loki’s, Natasha’s and Clint’s direction, and obviously without using mind control power, again he looks to Loki’s and then Wanda’s. I almost forget, we can’t refuse to answer because of it not being respectful enough toward the ladies around us !” To this final statement he hold eyes contact with the captain and his bestfriend.

“Well let’s begin, Tony FMK Vision, Y/n, Steve ?” Ask Natasha.

“Oh lord what a way to begin Romanoff ! I think I would marry y/n of course, he winks at me and I laugh, then I would...f*ck Capsicle and kill Vision, sorry buddy but you’re like a son to me, it would be so messed up.”

“Your turn Nat FMK Me, Wanda, Bucky ?” Ask Clint with a light smirk on his face.

“Easy, fuck Bucky, marry Wanda and kill you.” She answers matter of factly.

“What a shame, you will never know what a good husband I am !”

“I’m flattered but why won’t you marry me instead of Wanda, I think I’m easier to explain to a familly dinner ?”

“It’s always better with women on the long term !”

“What is ? Be speccific !” All the male ask at the same time, the only answer they get is a knowing smirk on her pretty face.

The game continues for several time, as time passes the more alcohol is being swallowed and less inhibitions are left. Clint chooses to f*ck Tony, marry Bruce and kill Loki. Bucky chooses to f*ck Nat, marry Steve and kill Sam -How sweet don’t you think !- ; Wanda chooses to f*ck Nat, marry Y/n and kill Thor -which outraged him because according to him no human can compare to his godly talents- ; Sam chooses to f*ck Vision -for experimentation purpose only- marry Clint and kill Tony for his money ; Bruce chooses to f*ck Thor, marry Bucky and kill Loki for no peculiar reason ; Steve chooses to f*ck Nat, marry Y/n and kill Wanda -which horrifies him to the point of giving her a bear hug to forgive him !.

“Well brother , FMK Bruce, Y/n and Sam ?” Ask Loki.

“I’ll f*ck Bruce because I can’t kill him, I’ll marry Y/n because she’s my pure and innocent rosebud and I’ll kill Sam because I don’t have any other choice !” He beams hapilly as the other looks at him quite strangely after hearing him compliment me.

“I’ll take charge asking you this reinder games, FMK Y/n, Nat, Steve ?” Ask Tony a bit suspiscious concerning the two Asgardians.

“F*ck Steve, marry Y/n and kill Nat !”

“What !? You choose to have sex with Steve over Nat ?!” Tony is shocked.

“What can I say...I’m an hedonist...and I never had the chance to try this with a supersoldier so... What can I say, I’m curious about it !”

No one says a thing after this, surprised by it but not by him.

“Y-You might be an hedonist and a-all but nor you nor anyone of you wanted to f*ck me...or kill me, which is good, n-not wanting to kill me I mean... Everybody is looking at me, seeing my lack of filter due to being a bit tipsy. None of you think I’d be a good f*ck !? I’m not that innocent though !” My voice starts to get high pitched.

“What are you saying sweet flower you’re incredibly gorgeous...”

“My assets are in great shapes !” Everybody chuckles but I don’t mind, I don’t notice.

“In great shapes rosebud, those who will refuse your advances are blind or foolish !”

“Or both !” Adds Loki.

“Thanks guys you’re a so so nice !” I stare at them through my foggy eyes and give each of the brother a kiss on both cheeks, a kiss that lingered for a bit.

The others understand what’s happening in front of them and couldn’t let them stay in their ignorance of their mutual attraction.

“Y/n last round FMK, Thor, Loki or myself ?” Ask Tony.

Silence. Not a sound. Nothing. Sudenly I start to whisper something.

“I’ll kill you Tony...”

“I’m...flattered I guess !” Silence again, until tis one is broken by a sob, my sob.

“I-I can’t choose it’s too h-hard ! I love them both so much it hurts ! I can’t use one and get rid of the other, it’s-it’s...heartbreaking, they both deserve so much more and way better than this !”

Loki POV

I can’t believe what I’m hearing ! Is this real or just a makeshift produced by my imagination... I see the look of the other as well as my brother. This is definitly real. I want to cry so much right now but I won’t. The fact that she didn’t pick out my brother right away as a husband or a good lay over me is so flattering. All my life, throughout the decades I’ve always been the second guess, the one no one wants or even consider... The one you forgot to invite to a party because you’re not the one people want to see. The worst would probably be in the dating area... I was courting a girl in my teenage years, I was so in love -I didn’t know it was love at the time-, she was beautiful, smart and fun to be around... It apppeared that she was with me only to get closer to Thor. The worse is he didn’t care at all about her, he never looked at her, not even once, but she won’t take no for an answer and continued to use me as a mean to an end. I was young and she was my first love, the fact that my self esteem and confidence wasn’t that high allowed her to treat me in such a way, even with my social status.

Right now hearing and seeing that she won’t blattantly choose Thor over me is mindblowing, heartwarming, endearing... I only want to take her nto my arms and never see her tormented face ever again. But I see the way Thor look at her and I understand. He feels the same way I do. How can we not, she’s smart, funny, charming, honest ad so much more. She’s been our friend almost since the beginning and never left. She’s the sister we’ve wanted but also the one woman we want to be naked with and going wild. Clearly not something we could do to ‘our sister’.

Thor looks at me with understanding. There is a silent conversation between us only disturbed by the hiccups and sobs from y/n. Thor and I know what we have to do, we know what we want for the three of us.

“ Thor and I are going to help y/n back to her room, she needs rest.”

Every Avengers nods their heads and go back to their own rooms, the game night is over.

End of Loki POV

Thor takes me in his ams bridal stye as Loki eads the way to my room. We’re al silent, the only noise in the one from our steps. Once inside Thor put me on the bed next to Loki before sitting right beside me.

“I’m s-sorry for ruinning the game.” I start crying again, tears pour out my eyes.

“You didn’t ruin anything sweet flower ! Loki says, getting closer to my face to kiss my tears away. You could never ruin anything.”

“But it was over some stupid thing, I feel like I’m a child !”

“Trust us rosebud, Thor takes my chin with his fingers and make me look at him, none of us, especially Loki and I see you as a child, he’s so close to my face that I can feel his breath on my lips, each words he speaks make us almost kiss, far from it actually ! The moment those words escape him, I feel him closing the gap between us with a tender but fiery kiss that make me see stars. Loki takes advantage of me being distracted to seal his own lips over the pulse point of my neck and probably giving me hickeys with the passion and fierceness he’s giving me.

Kisses are exchange between the three of us -not between Thor and Loki obviously-, some pecking, licking and groping here and there. We also talk once I’m a bit more sobber -thanks Loki for that fantastic spell-, about us, our mutual feeling, where it would lead us, the polyamory trope of our relation...

We don’t do more than that for now, despite Loki’s magic I’m still a bit off, but that does not stop us from sharing a bed all the three of us. I’m in my pyjama and they’re in their underwear, I’m in the middle of them. We start to sleep, Thor spoon me while I rest again Loki’s chest. Light pecks are share as we snuggle together. As sleep take them I decided to try something, even if we admit how we feel,I can sense they still see me as a some kind of a pure and innocent one, but I’m not.

Slowly and quietly I lead both my hands toward each of their manly package. I feel they’re already half hard by just sharing a bed. I start gently rubbing them, ading more pressure the more hard they get. Once they’re fully erect I push my hand inside their brief and start stroking them using precum as natural lubricant. Of course they start humming in pleasure both thinking it was a dream, until a sudden stimulation of their tip wake them up with a loud and guttural moan of satisfaction. The both of them need some time to get their bearing. Once done they are utterlly arouse by the sighht of me jerking them off with an innocent look on my face as if I didn’t know the effect it had on them.

“You were right rosebud ! You’re not that innocent !” Groans Thor in awe.

“But you’re still the purest of all the nine realms !” Loki sighs thrusting his hips against my hand, too lost in his pleasure to realise it.

Words of praise, love and adoration are thrown their way until their orgasm hits them. They are out of breath, still trembling from their earth shattering orgasm. I kiss them tenderly and affectionatelly on the lips before whispering them a good night. I push back my hands in their brief to feel them once again. They both tense, a gasp escape their mouth before their both get closer to me in order to feel more of my touch. We stay this way all night, occasionnaly pumping one of them -or both-, I didn’t count how many time they came in their brief, they didn’t complained. All I know is that in the morning they were both overexert and sensitive, shaking from too much pleasure but with still twitching and leaking cocks.

I should have probably told them how kinky I am !

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This is the end of this oneshot, hope you liked reading it.

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donutloverxo · 4 years

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Salty Baby

Chapter two

Authors note- thanks to @official-and-unstable-satan for being my beta. I’ll give you a thank you gift soon enough. No smut today next time i promise. happy reading.

Please do not repost or steal my work. Reblogs are welcome.

Summary- When you moved to New York in hopes of living a glamorous life this isn't what you expected. Steve offers to help you but your pride gets in the way. Pride isn't going to pay your rent and college loans.

Pairing- Steve Rogers x reader

Series warning- smut, sugar daddy/baby themes, angst, salty reader.

Word count- 1.5k

CHAPTER ONE | CHAPTER THREE | CHAPTER FOUR | CHAPTER FIVE

Masterlist

The whole week you couldn’t stop thinking about Steve. You went as far as to research him. He had lived such an interesting, accomplished life so many things. You couldn’t help but feel intimidated.

Steve had texted you the details of the restaurant. When you said your favorite food was pizza he took it upon himself to book a table at a five star Michelin star Italian restaurant. You being an uncultured simpleton said yes without knowing what you were getting yourself into.

You had never been to a fancy restaurant. You didn’t own a single dress. Neither could you afford one right now. There’s no way in hell your sister would let you set foot in her closet let alone borrow a dress.

“Are you coming to the party tomorrow?”, your coworker Alyssa asked. She had perpetually been nosy and annoying. Always oversharing or probing you about your personal life.

“No I have a date”

“Oh wow!”, she exclaimed jumping up and down. “Is it with that tall drink of water who’s totally obsessed with you?”

“Well... yeah”

“What are you going to wear?”, she asked propping herself up on her elbow batting her eyelashes at you.

You sighed deeply. “I don’t have anything to wear.” You considered cancelling just because of that. You didn’t have a lot of free time to date or socialize. But then you have been in New York for over a year and had yet to have a fun night out on the town.

“Well we’re about the same size. How about you borrow a dress of mine? On one condition! You have to tell me literally everything.”

“Why?”, while you weren’t keen on accepting help from her there weren’t many other options.

“Because that’s just what girls do!”

Alyssa set you up with a beautiful red dress that ended just above your knee that showed just a hint of cleavage. ‘To leave something to the imagination' apparently.

She also warned you at least ten times not to put out on the first date. Which you probably weren’t going to anyway. After a few touches of makeup you were good to go.

***

To make sure he doesn’t make a fool out of himself, Steve went to Natasha for some advice on modern dating. She was his only female friend. Probably his only friend.

She convinced him to buy bunch of new clothes and a new haircut. He wasn’t so sure about the new look but from what he had observed he looked quite modern.

“Oh new haircut”, Tony comments on the Steve’s new look when he comes and sits in the conference room in front of him. “You don’t stick out like a sore thumb now”

“Steve has a hot date”, Natasha smirked. “he’s kind of nervous about it”

“There’s no need to be nervous”, Tony drawls out pushing back on his chair. “Women love to talk about themselves. Just ask her about her hopes and dreams. She is a real human woman right?”

“I’m not sure I should be taking advice from you” Neither did he want to discuss his love life before an important meeting. Although he had to agree it was pretty good advice.

“And money. Women like money”, he continued going through his phone

“Don’t listen to Stark’s misogynistic wisdom. Not all girls are after money” Natasha said throwing Tony a glare.

“Yeah he’ll find out for himself soon enough”, he threw back.

Steve knew money played a part in relationships. It provided security. He was grateful about the more than sufficient funds in his bank account. Some from his army back pay and some from working for shield and the Avengers. After the days he had seen during the depression he considered himself very lucky to treat you to an expensive meal or anything else you would like. But at the same time he didn’t want you to be interested in him solely for his money.

He parked the car he borrowed from Tony outside your apartment building. Both him and Natasha had given him long lecture while laughing at him when he said he was going to pick you up on his motorcycle.

When he looked at your red dress he was more than glad that he didn’t bring his motorcycle. He tried to supress the fact that he was so mesmerised by you. He gave you the small bouquet of roses he had bought on his way.

“Wow”, you exclaimed looking at his hair. “It suits you. Can I touch it?”

He couldn’t supress his lovesick grin and shyly nodded his headed. Sighing in content feeling you run your fingers through his shirt hair.

He felt you shifting in your seat on the drive to the restaurant. It somewhat calmed him to know you were just as nervous.

You both took and seats and ordered some food. You were looking around at the decor in awe talking about how beautiful and sophisticated everything is.

He hasn’t been on a date in more than 70 years. He did take your coat but forgot to pull your chair out for you, the hostess beat him to it. In his anxiety he had already knocked down a fork and cringed so hard he was sure you noticed.

He was going picking at his brain to find something to talk about. This was your first date. He had to make a good impression.

“So... what are your dreams?”, not the best start but he could still recover.

You tilted your head at him giving him a small laugh. “Just the normal things, I guess. To have a successful career... to be happy. What are your dreams?”

“I... well I’m not so sure anymore. I used to want the simple typical things. But then I became Captain America...can’t exactly have that now”,

Maybe he shouldn’t have started with something so heavy so early on. When he became Captain America his life didn’t belong to him anymore. That alone would be more than enough to scare you off.

“That doesn’t mean you can’t still want those things”, you said lightly shrugging “Why did you? Become Captain America, I mean you’re great at it. But it must be a huge responsibility” you asked as the server placed your food in front of you and filled your glass with wine.

“I’ve just never liked bullies”, he started as soon as the server left “being Cap gave me a chance to fight them”

“That’s ironic. Considering America is the probably biggest bully in the world”, you said with a humorless laugh.

Glumness settled over his face. He nodded at you. He had hoped that 70 years would bring about positive changes in the world. While things were better than before they weren’t nearly as good as he wanted them to be.

“It’s a good thing though. You and your superhero friends can keep the country and the world in check”, you said giving him a cheeky smile stuffing the pasta in your mouth. He returned your smile digging into his food.

As the conversation flowed he found himself relaxing and settling down. It didn’t feel like he had only known you for two weeks, not from how comfortable he felt with you. Talking to you. Holding your hand for a few seconds here and there.

After dessert he drove you back to your home. Walking you to your doorstep something caught his eye at the many mailboxes that aligned the wall.

You looked at the mailbox he was staring at. “That’s my Anna’s married name” You looked back at him. “My sister”, you continued still staring at his confused face.

He gave you a small nod “I work with someone called Rumlow”

“Probably a coincidence”

“Yeah. Thanks for keeping me company tonight doll” As much as he didn’t want the night to end. He had to leave just so he could see you again. Preferably sooner rather than later.

“Doll?”, you asked frowning

“You don’t like it?”, he asked nervously. He still wasn’t sure what was considered appropriate. Everyone told him different things.

“I... well I like my name”, you averted your gaze looking at the tiles on the floor. “Thank you so much for today though. I had fun. Can we do it again?”

“Yes!” He gushed instantly “When are you free I’ll call you or text you?”

You nodded at him playing with the buttons on his shirt before slowly stroking the lapel of his blazer looking up at him with a pout.

Steve maybe clueless when it comes to women but he wasn’t an idiot. He took the hint leaning down to meet you in the middle as you stood on your tippy toes. He lightly pressed his lips to yours.

He had planned to keep it chaste and modest, he was a gentleman after all, but then you slipped your tongue into his mouth and threw your arms around his neck pulling closer to you. There was no holding back now. He slid his hands to your waist and hoisted you off the the ground. Up in the air a few inches to match his heights.

You smiled into the kiss. Stifling your giggle so you didn’t have to break the kiss. Feeling completely pampered and spoiled. He put you down on the ground putting his hands in pockets of his dress or he’d to tempted to steal another kiss.

“Good night” You breathed out after a couple of moments of just staring at each other.

“Good night” He almost called you doll again but stopped himself. Choosing to just say your name. He pressed a kiss to your forehead, he couldn’t help it. And left. Already excited to see you again as soon as possible.

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wonderswritings · 4 years

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Request are Open!

Hey guys guess what?! Requests are now open! I’ve seemed to’ve hit a writing spree and while I’m trying to get my two new series wrapped up, I figured I should open up my requests!

So here are the rules:

1. There are five sections of 55 prompts. The first section is just single sentenced prompts. The second section is two sentenced. The third is three sentenced and the fourth section is four sentenced. The last section has more than five sentences.

2. You can pick up to three prompts from the first and second section. And then from the third-fifth sections you can only pick one.

3. I need you to be specific with what you want. AU, smut, morden-verse, that sorta thing. I also need to know if you want any angst or fluff in it.

4. Be patient! I am going to get through as many requests as I can but it does take time!

5. Have fun! This is meant to be fun!

With that being said, the characters the requests are opened for are for the following:

Bucky Barnes Steve Rogers Clint Barton Oliver Queen Jensen Ackles Chris Evans Jared Padalecki Thor Odinson

Because I have created a new taglist, in order to be tagged you need to go here!

Prompts are below the cut!

💙💙💙💙Section 1💙💙💙💙

1. “We’re all scared. Be angrier than that. Be spiteful. Be compassionate. And do it anyway.”

2. “Let me explain. I was bored and you left me alone.”

3. “Pretty sure the end of the world is an everyone problem.”

4. “I will shoot you. I mean it. I will shoot you and make it look like the enemy did it.”

5. “Hmm. Nope. Not today, Satan.”

6. I have three moods: Fuck you, Fuck off and Fuck me.

7. “Looks like they did a lot more than talk.”

8. “Why did you run? Awfully guilty looking.”

9. “You can borrow - not steal - that hoodie if you want”

10. “I’m off the clock. The pressure’s off.”

11. “They say I’m a traitor. Maybe I am. All I know is that I did what I had to do.”

12. “You can plot and plan all you want, but we both know that you’re never getting out of here. No one is coming for you, so you may as well accept it.” 💙💙💙💙Section 2💙💙💙💙

13. Cap always tells me you have to pick your battles Well I am full of rage and picking all of them

14. Wheres C/N Somewhere disappointing jesus

15. It says 4-99 you're too old. I'm gonna use that one later

16. Am i in hell? No if you were you’d be on the throne and the devil would be packing

17. I assume you realize that this kind of idiocy will not be tolerated on my base. Is there another type of idiocy that you would be more comfortable with?

18. “Sorry, I have a clingy and feverish assassin on my lap. I’ll call you back when I’ve convinced her that a cold doesn’t mean she’s dying”

19. Wake up. I'm not sleeping Im dead. Leave me alone.

20. What have I told you about comparing C/N to the devil? Its offense to the devil?

21. “You don’t get to surrender. You lose when I say you lose, you win when I say you win, you die when I say you die. I haven’t said you can die yet. Pick your weapon up”

22. Please tell me that’s just a smoke grenade. Ok..*explosion*.. it wasn’t though.

23. “You’re an emotional disaster.” “Excuse you, I am an emotional catastrophe.”

24. “The easiest solution would just be to kill him.” “... How can you just say things like that?”

25. You're insolence goes to far. Wrong, it can further

26. You're being really quiet No one plans a murder out loud

27. Why would anyone wanna hurt Y/N? Maybe because they met her.

28. My god, do you ever stop with the “I want to die” crap? Well, I’ll stop when I’m dead, that’s for sure.

29. Y/N do something! I am. I’m ignoring you.

💙💙💙💙Section 3💙💙💙💙

30. What do you call a long haired knife? Idk what? Bucky

31. I have good news and bad news Let's hear the good ones first Well the airbags in your car work perfectly

32. Hey, truth or dare? Sigh, truth What's your credit card number?

33. Ssssh, how did you find me? Oh it was quite easy really. I just listened for the sound of complete and utter betrayal and followed that.

34. “My criminal record? The only illegal thing I’ve done is-” “Don’t. Just, don’t.” “I’m kidding, I’m kidding. I have killed a man.”

35. What’s your biggest fear? Being forgotten. Dam that's deep. Mine is trigonometry, but I feel kinda stupid about it now.

36. Could you please not Y/N or Tony this into a worse situation than it already is? Hold on, did you just use my name as a verb? Why wasn’t Tony’s name first, he does more shit than I do.

37. This is so frustrating! I hate everything! I hate everyone! ….Everyone? Ugh, everyone except you.

38. “I hope we draw the attention of the FBI” “Are you insane?” “I’ve never seen anyone kick a door in before. It’s so exciting!”

39. “Murder wasn’t on today’s agenda.” “It’s not on anyone’s.” “No, it’s on mine, just not until next Thursday.”

40. Would you say Y/N is a night person or a morning person? *watching as Y/N chugs a cup of pure espresso, walk into a wall then stumble into the elevator* She’s barely even a person in general.

41. She tried to kill me! Yeah she does that. Don't insult me. If I had tried to kill him, he’d be dead.

💙💙💙💙Section 4💙💙💙💙

42. I think you should try drinking less coffee. Coffee cures depression I dont think thats how it- More nespresso, less depresso

43. What were you doing here? I- In five words or less Out for a walk, bitch

44. C/N is missing! Can you find them? What, do you think I have them microchipped or something? ….Well, do you? Yeah, hang on.

45. We agreed that’s how we’d raise our kids! Our kids? Steve we’re not married. Well, we’re a little married. I know, I love it

46. I like that we say “oh man” to express disappointment. Because men are indeed annoying. Especially Steve fucking asshole Rogers. What did he do now? What the hell hasn’t he done?

47. Try this. You’re not drinking that shit, it’ll kill you! Down it! Down it! Seriously?! Why do I even bother

48. Well, I made you this bracelet! I'm not a jewelry person. You don’t have to wear it. No, I'm going to wear it forever back off.

💙💙💙💙Section 5💙💙💙💙

49. Let's start by talking about the emotion you are feeling right now. Stabbing. Stabbing isn't really an emotion. It's more of an activity that i hope you don't do to me. See, and emotion if more of a feeling. Well maybe i'm feeling stabby.

50. Do you want to play a game? Sure. I spy with my little eye someone who needs to shut the hell up. Is it me? It’s always you.

51. Talk to him, that’s what friends do. Nope. I’m gonna wait ‘til I’m on my deathbed, get in the last word and then die immediately. That’s your plan for dealing with this? That’s my plan for dealing with everything. I have seventy-seven arguments I’m going to win that way.

52. I have no fears. Y/N come here! Stevie here says he has no fears. Oh really? And what if you woke up one day and I was taller than you? I have on fear.

53. Wanna know something? What? Loving you was the second best thing I ever did. What was the first? Finding you. Don't blame me, it's your fault if i want to propose to you right now

54. Alright team, going to plan b? Technically were at plan g. I thought we were at plan h! How many plans do we have? Is there like a pln m? Yeah but you die in plan m I like plan m!

55. I’m saying there had to be a better way! In high octane situations she refers back to her KGB training and probably would’ve put a round in his heart. Three rounds…. And Clint, not to be outdone would’ve, Added three more rounds Agents…. See, there you go. Six rounds, same result. One dead target.

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surveys-at-your-service · 5 years

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Survey #207

“it’s late, and you’re still staring at the light; to call it an addiction’s impolite.”

Nevermind what gender you ARE, what gender do you WANT to be? Happy being a girl. Do you ever feel ashamed revealing your age? When it's to people who are aware of how behind I am in the adult world in any context, yes. Very. If they know nothing about me, then I don't care. Are you confident enough to reveal your height and weight? Height, I don't care. Weight, fuck no. What do your parents call you? Both usually say "Britt," but Dad's more likely to use terms of endearment like "sweetie" and such. Well, Mom does use "hunny" a lot too. How old were you when you first got to go on the computer? Idr. About the "normal" age for little kids that played Neopets, probably. Would you say you’re an emotional person? Way too emotional. What’s a color that suits you the best? Black. And a color you just can’t pull off/don’t want to? Probably most... I wouldn't know, almost every single thing I wear is black. I have literally one light purple shirt, and I think that's the only non-black shirt I own. Describe yourself when you were 6 years old? Very talkative, extremely imaginative, outgoing, I was definitely weird, tomboyish, very happy... Man, I miss being that kid sometimes. A type of personality you just can't stand? The older and older I get, the more I cannot STAND a closed mind. I like people who accept they're far from always right, and sometimes, your "right" isn't such for someone else, and that is fine. You don't have to see the same way to still get along perfectly (though of course, there's no need to respect an opinion that spits upon, invalidates, or is just plain hateful towards another person/group). Like just as an example 'cuz I feel like I explained that poorly; I'm really not into the idea of polygamy at all, but I'm not against it for people it works with. You do you. Your appearance in one word would be? "Abilify." :^) City type of person or country? I like the live in a more country-ish area, but I found through Chicago I LOVE /visiting/ cities. What’s something you’re obsessed about right now? When am I not obsessed with Mark, meerkats, Silent Hill, opossums (a newer addition), WoW, etc. etc.? My whole life runs on obsessing over something, fren. Your reaction if someone told you you look 10 years older than your age? ZOINKS that would suck ass. Do you really badly want anything right now? For the past couple weeks, I've become more and more antsy to get up to Sara's again. When I land a job, fancyin' up my tattoo just because as I've said again and again it is SO important to me and must be perfect, then I'm saving up to go back up there. What’s something that makes you really stressed out? With all this job searching and such going on, it's like all I can think about, so why not mention what fucked me up at my previous ones: Putting me in a position of responsibility and expected knowledge. Ex., when I was a sales associate and was asked "Oh, do you have this?"/"Where is this?", it was CONSTANT PANIC MODE because I never knew and had to ask somebody, when I was expected to be a knowledgeable employee to the customer, and then comes the horror of feeling like I'm inconveniencing and annoying them. Have any particular standard look you look for in a significant other? I don't have a "standard look," no, but I am more likely to be drawn to a gothic appearance. But I don't actively search for someone that meets that criteria or anything. Do you listen to Wiz Khalifa? No. What are your opinions on marijuana legalization? Please legalize medicinal use already. Recreationally, idk. Do you date outside your own race? I'd have no reservations against it. I dated a Hispanic... less than a day, but still, you get the point that I don't have a problem with it. What are some of your turn-offs? SEXIST/MISOGYNISTIC, too old-fashioned, racist and/or homophobic, raunchy, arrogant/self-centered, lack of sincere interest and enthusiasm in conversation, poor hygiene, I'm gonna get SHIT ON for saying "too slutty," not taking dating seriously... that kinda stuff. I'm so picky. Are you gay, straight, bi, or trans? Bisexual. Are you vegetarian? If not, would you ever consider becoming one? I'm not now, but I hope to return to it after I get to my goal weight... In my few months of vegetarianism, it was proven that my immense pickiness with food was making the diet unhealthy for me, as I was strongly lacking in certain vitamins and such. I'm going to have to somehow overcome that if I want to return to it, which I REALLY do want to do the more and more I get into animal welfare and care. Are you in love? Yes. Are you more of a pessimist or an optimist? Pessimist, I think, out of the two. But I like to see myself as a realist. How much money is in your wallet? Literally just $11 lmao. What’s your favorite sex position? Only experienced in these with a man, so answering with that in mind. I like sitting on his lap, facing him, with my legs around his back. What do you ultimately wish for in life? Happiness and peace. Have you ever been pregnant? No. What do you think about tipping at restaurants? Tip your goddamn waiter/waitress, assholes. I do believe in tipping based on the quality of service, BUT at least give them SOMETHING for working. Do you have your driver’s license? No jkajdsklfaj;wer. I haaaave to practice more. Whenever I'm in the car, I always strongly prefer to listen to my music, controlling it from the passenger's seat, and at least right now, I can't drive with loud music, barely any at all really, so I have a hard time giving up blaring my music while Mom drives lmao. Have you ever passed out from drinking? No. What’s your favorite carnival food? Idk, I don't go nearly enough. Who did you last kiss? Romantically, Sara. Platonically, either my niece or nephew when leaving. Have you seen the final Harry Potter movie? I haven't even see one. Ever been called a slut? No. Would you ever have sex with someone not of your preferred sex? I'm bisexual so like- Would you ever get back together with any of your exes? No. Do you take any meds on a daily basis? Yep. What did you do today? Watched LPs as always; did some job searching; played WoW, way shorter than usual though; took a nap; made a new icon; took a shower; listened to music; did some social media scrolling. The usual stuff. What do you wear to bed at home? A tank top and pj pants. What do you wear to bed when you're somewhere else? The same, but with a bra. Is there a place you keep any prized/secret things whilst you’re away? No. Do you have any phobias? What? Why do you think you have this/them? I'll just talk about the unordinary ones, 'cuz I have a lot. The ones I'd consider "weird" are vomiting, whale sharks, and pregnancy. Vomiting is because it's just incredibly unpleasant, but also because I know what goes down is not supposed to come back up. Like no one likes puking, no shit, but I'm legit afraid of it and lock up on what to do when I feel it coming, like I don't know what to do. Whale sharks... ahaha. It literally came from World of Warcraft. The design of their mouths is fucking horrifying, and I hate hate hate how they sometimes phase in-and-out of the Vashj'ir map so just like pOP UP. NAH, SON. It's just their damn mouths, even though I know their esophagus is far too small to swallow a human. As for pregnancy, just... ew. I'm afraid of parasites, and it's a parasitic relationship. Something should NOT be growing inside of you. What skill do you possess that you are most proud of? I'm very compassionate, especially when it comes to others enduring emotional struggles. I really feel for hurting people. What is your greatest strength (e.g. honest, loyal, brave)? I have strong morals and stick to them. I'll always stand up for what I feel is right. What’s your greatest shortcoming or flaw (e.g. cowardly, alcoholic)? Ah jeez, there's a lot... but probably my anxiety. It's held me back and manipulated my actions since middle school. I struggle not followings its rules, but I'm sure trying. Who do you most admire? Mark, my mom, Sara, Sara's dad, Steve Irwin... man, there's too many great people. Who do you most love? Sara, my mom, and my pets, Teddy especially. What three things do you look for most in a partner? EXPRESSING OF THEIR EMOTIONS/TRULY FEELING!!!!!!!!, compassion, and a cool head. If you could ask God (to atheists - IF there was one) one question, what? Hm. Good question... There's a lot, but mostly little wonders; I feel like I have a decent understanding of the god I personally see, so don't have any magnificent questions. Perhaps regarding why they created our world. That'd be interesting. Rate yourself on these traits from 0 to 10: 0 - do not possess this trait. 10 - you have great amounts of this trait. Calm temper: 7. Charm: *big shrug* Cheerfulness: 3-4. Confidence: 0-3. Courtesy: 8-10. Curiosity: 6-10. Forgiveness: 9-10. Generosity: 8-10. Greed: 0-3. Helpfulness: Well, I like to try to help, but I don't feel I'm very successful at that, so idk. Honesty: 5-9, depending on who I'm talking to and what the subject is, I guess. Loyalty: This is very flexible, and I don't feel like I can put a number on it. It depends on how deserving you are of the trait, and yes, you can lose my loyalty in a heartbeat if you give me reason to take it away. Optimism: 0-4. Patience: This can go from a whopping 0 to a 10, lmao. Very dependent on the situation. Self-sacrifice: 8-9. Wit: -10. Briefly describe your family. Kinda broken. Tight bonds scattered between certain people, no bonds with others. What is the worst thing that has ever happened to you? The breakup. I wouldn't wish that night upon Satan himself. How did it affect you? We know. Have you ever had any recurring nightmares or themes in nightmares? Speaking of that... Jason is in most nightmares I remember. The common theme is it's either after the breakup and we have an awkward running in with each other, or it's long before when everything was "perfect." All things considered, I'd call even that a nightmare. Those fuck with me the most. Do you currently have a boyfriend/girlfriend? Yeah. Do you have any close friends? I can count those on maybe two fingers. Of what are you most proud? Letting Jason go. Of what are you most ashamed? I've talked about the Joel situation multiple times. What is your religion? Theist. Where do you stand on abortion? Mostly pro-choice. Where do you stand on the death penalty? Sometimes justifiable and one's deserving end. Felons are lucky enough it's done humanely. Where do you stand on wearing fur? If you're not surviving out in the arctic, fuck you and all you stand for. Could you kill somebody? I'm perfectly aware I could in defense situations. For what reason would you kill somebody? Defending myself or loved ones. Hell, probably even strangers. I'd kill a rapist with zero fucking hesitation, even if they were assaulting someone I'd never seen before. Would you SERIOUSLY CONSIDER killing anybody right now? No. Do you trust easily, or not? NOPE. What, if anything, would you sacrifice your life for? Defending peace, gay rights, or if it was to protect most of those I love. What are your dreams/ambitions/goals? Be a successful photographer, reach financial stability, come to a point where I'm actually proud of what I've done, play a roll in wildlife conservation, be happily married, and just overall be content and satisfied with my life. How do you plan to reach them? Working my goddamn ass off and not taking "no" for an answer (not about the marriage part tho lmao). Do you ever want to have a family someday? With children? No. Who would you want to start this family with, or do you not yet know? I just want a pet family with Sara. What do you see yourself doing next year? Man, I don't have a clue... What do you see yourself doing in twenty years? I don't want to think of that. That's too far ahead. I'll be 43... I've gotta work on too many things now. Would you ever have an affair? I'm very curious as to who would actually answer "yes" to this. Would you ever have a one night stand? No. Lmaoooo actually this is sad as fuck, but I think I've said in a previous survey just knowing myself, if we were both single and clicked, I'd be doomed if it was Markiplier. My morals would sadly go out the window. If you had a month of nothing (no work, no obligations) what would you do? That's literally been the story of my life for years now, especially the past two. And it's torture. Would you ever choose a career or job where your life was at risk? No. Well, actually, I do want to do wildlife photography, and it can be pretty dangerous. Were you present at any major historical events (e.g. 9/11)? No. Do you have any famous relatives? No. Ancestors, yeah, but not close relatives. Are you a loyal member of any organizations? No. What type of criminal would you be? With how forgetful I am, I'm certain I'd be a very clumsy one that gets caught very quickly, lol. What are you listening to right now? "Voices" by Motionless In White. If you had to choose a stripper name, what would it be? Um idk. If your phone started ringing, who would you hope is calling? Someone for a job interview. Do you drink? Rarely and/or for some special occasions. Never enough to get drunk. Do you smoke? No. What is the first thing you notice in someone? I guess posture? How they carry themselves? Do you get attached easily? BOY! DO I!!!!!!!!!!! Do you like your eye color? I wish they were more blue. Would you go bungee jumping/sky diving if given the chance? Definitely not bungee jumping, I know how I react to that kind of up/down movement, and probably not skydiving, either. Have you ever been to a psychiatrist/therapist? Both regularly since middle school. Are looks important in a relationship? Not very. What is your favorite thing to do? Binge a new song I fell in love with for like days lmao. What was the last thing you downloaded onto your computer? PhotoScape. It's easier to move watermarks for photos on there, and I was working on the ones I took a few days back. Do you like to gossip? No, I feel super guilty. What kind of computer do you have? An Acer. Do you know all the words to your national anthem? I think? Have you ever failed a grade? No. Have you ever made the opposite sex cry? Yes. Have you ever had a crush on a teacher? Nah. Have you ever slapped someone in the face? No. Do you own a designer purse? Hell no. Waste of money for a goddamn purse that's just gonna get dirty and scratched. What’s the weirdest rumor you’ve ever heard about yourself? Jason and I magically had a baby over summer vacation when I was very obviously never pregnant. Do you say the "h" in the word “herb”? No, though I did for a super long time 'cuz I had no idea it was wrong. Do you speak any languages besides English? Not fluently. Can you run in high heels? I wouldn't really know, but boy do I doubt it. Do you have to take stairs or an elevator to get to your house? No. What do you usually order at Subway? Ummm I think white bread, ham, American cheese, bacon, jalapenos, banana peppers, and Chipotle sauce. I think that's it. Did an alarm wake you up this morning? No. How long is your mother’s hair? Past her shoulderblades, near the middle of her back. Is there any particular place you’d like to vacation to next? Surprisingly, I'd love to go somewhere tropical, like Hawaii or some shit like that. Somewhere with clear water and unique, beautiful wildlife and nature. What is your beer of choice, if any? Never tried beer, never want to. The smell is bad enough. That and I associate it with when Dad was an alcoholic. Did you share a bed with anyone last night? No. Well, other than with my cat. Do you know anyone who volunteers regularly? Yes. Have you ever ruined a nice pair of shoes, and how? Maybe, playing in puddles or biking through them and mud as a kid or something. Who were the last friends you went to hang out with? Sara. How many chairs are in the room you’re currently in? None. Have you texted a relative in the past week? Not besides immediate family. Are you doing anything important today? No. If I were to bring you any type of food right now, what would you pick? If I was actually hungry, I have been craving hotdogs on the grill like CRAZY lately. No clue why. When did you move into the house you’re currently living in? April-ish 2017. Do you ever sleep with the light on? No, I can't. Do you pray to Jesus? 20+ years of that did nothing. No. What was the last thing you ordered at Starbucks? N/A Do you have a bonfire pit in your yard? No. Would you consider being homeless if it meant you could travel the world? I don't know; there's lots of factors to consider. Would I be willing to leave my pets (but Teddy, probably; I'd want him with me) with my mom? Would I have something like a camper? Where am I getting this money to travel and provide for myself? Do you know your next-door neighbor? Mom knows one, but I personally don't. What’s something you have never done? Lots of things? As an example, uhhh... I've never done a cartwheel, despite childhood efforts? Name someone you know who is a true risk-taker, adventurer, and free spirit. Do you admire that person? Idk. Do you wish you were more of a free spirit? I think I already am, but it'd be cool to be more of one. Are you allergic to any medications? No. How do you feel when someone says something you’ve experienced doesn’t exist? Tell me depression isn't real, my PTSD isn't genuine, I can "get over" my anxiety if I want to hard enough, stuff like that, and I will not fucking associate with you. These are things that have massively affected my life; I dare someone to tell me these experiences aren't real issues. What worldview do you have? A realistic one, I think. I'm positive in some areas, negative in others. Hm... I'm probably more pessimistic about the world's future, though. Do you have friends who have different religious beliefs than you? Duh? If applicable, who was the first person you “came out” to? Sara. What’s one thing you’d like to do more? Travel. What was your style in high school? Some emo/metalhead hybrid that wished with all her heart to be capable of affording a goth wardrobe and bitch I still do. What’s one thing you are jealous that other people got to do but you didn’t? Have a healthy teenage experience. Have you ever taken birth control pills continuously? I have for years for my cycle. I had just about debilitating cramps and sometimes periods that lasted over a week. Who is your personality twin? Sara is probably the closest. What’s a common name that you hate? Edward, above all. Not a big fan of William, Robert, or Allen, either. Who do you wish you were best friends with? If you don't count my girlfriend as "best friend," maybeeee... Alon still? Or Baylee. I need to talk more to her, she's awesome. Do you own a camera tripod? Yes. Did you ever believe in mermaids? I don't believe so. …in fairies? I believed in the Tooth Fairy. …in Santa? Yes. Have you ever purchased alcohol? Yes. What is your newest hobby? Hm, I don't think I've found a new one for a long while... What gives your life meaning? I don't know. What motivates you to do what you do? The pursuit of happiness. What was the weather like the last time you went out? Too fucking hot. Do you go for walks often? No, though I really want to around a lake at a local, small park. Problems consist of no way to get there myself, it's WAY too fucking hot with my sweating issue, and my knees just wouldn't have it; I know I couldn't walk the full lap around it. Also expect some art installations around the path and probably the gazebo are PokeStops for Pokemon Go and really wish I could play it, so that's bait to do it lmao. What color shirt are you wearing? Pink. What is your favorite type of YouTube video to watch? It really depends on who I'm watching. Favorite on the face of the planet are Mark's ego projects, then my second fave are probably Shane's conspiracy videos, then I love let's plays. Do you need any new clothes right now? I seriously need more pants. And new bras. Do you collect anything? If so, what? Silent Hill merch and meerkat stuff. ^and if not, what would you like to collect? When I can buy shit myself, ya girl is gonna have way too much Markiplier merch. YouTuber stuff in general, actually. Too shy to ask for that kinda stuff now lol. Have you ever experienced a miracle? I don't think so. What was the last thing you ate? A burger. Do you ever eat food that’s intended for kids? ...? Like, baby food? No. Or maybe you mean shit like Lunchables? In cases like that, sometimes? What was the last stupid thing you did? Oh boy, who knows. Do you get embarrassed easily? You. Have. No. Idea. What are your top three names you like for a daughter? Alessandra, then uhhhh... I like Chloe and Adrian. Would you ever film a vlog of yourself giving birth? Hell no. I'd never wanna see it, I'd never want my hypothetical child to have to witness that, etc. Do you like getting caught in the rain? No. Wet clothes are no. Do you think your hair looks best straight, wavy, or curly? Straight, I guess? Though my hair does swoop to the right, so it's kinda a wave? What was the last craft project you completed? Oh, yeesh. I don't do crafts. The closest thing was I guess Sara's Valentine's Day gift for last year? Name 3 YouTubers you would like to meet in person: Markiplier is literally the only one that matters lmao and it's not "would like to meet in person," he will be forced to endure meeting me ok. Meeting Shane Dawson would be amazing, he's such a relatable sweetie, aaaaand #3 would probably be Rhett and/or Link, as similar to Mark, they deserve a tear-filled thanks as well as back-breaking hugs for seriously helping in keeping me alive through my suicidal year. I mean it when I say they genuinely helped me keep going. What color are your nails painted currently? They’re never painted. Do you use a pill box? No. List 3 people you know who were loving and then turned cold: Jason, Jason, and Jason. Have you ever felt threatened for your life? No. Which did you like better: high school or college? My college experience was horrid. High school had great memories, but of course negative ones, too. Which year of your life stands out to you as the most significant so far? 2017. …and why? It was my year of recovery from the breakup. What was the last store you shopped at? I went to Wal-Mart with Mom. I think that was the most recent, anyway. Do you have a favorite pharmacist? No. Do you have a favorite cashier at the grocery store? No. What’s something you discovered recently? I'm a Billie Eilish fan. What makes you more creative? Music. What’s the last magical thing you experienced? YO okay so when my brother and nephew were here, we went to the science museum and into a 360 VR-esque show about astronauts. I got SO nauseous and dizzy, but it was nevertheless extremely cool. What is the theme of your bedroom? It doesn't have a theme. Have you ever lived in a dorm? No. When was the last time you stepped outside of your comfort zone? Just tonight! I ordered at a drive-thru myself. Would you rather ride a camel or an elephant? An elephant! Do you want to lose weight? You have no fucking idea. Which insects scare you, if any? Lmao most. Especially rhinoceros beetles, big beetles in general honestly, cockroaches, earwigs, centipedes... like a lot okay. I like observing praying mantises, but I would probably have a fucking heart attack if one was on me. Do you think it’s silly to be afraid of a tiny insect? Well, yeah, though I get the likely survival reason, that being we know many are venomous, so we're naturally averse to them, especially if we don't recognize the type. Were you raised religious? Yes. Have you ever been abused? No, thankfully. Is there a coffee shop you like better than Starbucks? N/A If you could afford to get your hair professionally done, what would you get? Man, I have SO many color combination ideas. If I could get it done in the safest manageable way by a pro, I saw this look once with totally bleached/pure white hair that fades to blood-red tips, and BOY would I get that in a heartbeat. If you had a lot of money, do you think you would use it wisely? I hope so. I think so. The only thing I imagine myself being weak with are tattoos. Do you know any rich people who are very irresponsible? I don't think so... List five careers that you’d like to have: Meerkat biologist, paleontologist, artist, poet, something in wildlife conservation/protection. List five far-out things that you’d like to do before you die: Scuba-dive, I'd LIKE to ride a rollercoaster (far-out for me, trust me), but I know I never will, and uh... idk. Riding a motorcycle would be cool, but that's another thing I hiiighly doubt I'll do. What was your first imaginary friend’s name? I never had one. What was the name of the first pet that you loved? Chance, a cat my mom rescued. She was our very first family pet. She was absolutely incredible. Do you like to go barefoot? Unless I'm in a house, no. Do you like the same colors now that you did as a kid? Yeah. Do you have a YouTube channel? Yeah. Is there someone who stopped talking to you for no reason? Oh, who to begin with? Did you ever get called horrible names like whore, skank or bitch? "Bitch" more than once. Where did you sleep last night? My bed. Have you ever slow danced with anyone? With Jason, yeah. And I don't think so, but maybe Sara briefly? Have you ever cried in public? Yeah. What would you do if you were pregnant? I don't have a fucking clue. Do you like cuddling? With someone I love. Have you ever cried in school? Yes, but I think I kept it private. Who’s the last person to send you a message on Facebook? A woman whose wedding I'm shooting this Saturday. Have you ever witnessed someone else engaging in a sexual act? Just making out. Where did you get drunk last? N/A What’s your relationship with the last person you texted? She's my girlfriend. If someone went through your pictures, would they find a dirty one? No. How did you do on the last test you took? I haven't been in school for a long time. How come you’re not going out with the person you love? I am.

#survey #quiz #questions #random #bored

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hansbekhart · 7 years

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Top 5/Bottom 5 story meme

Rules: Tag the person who tagged you, always post the rules, list your 5 most popular and 5 least popular stories, and add the date!

So I was tagged by @silentwalrus1 and thought I’d do this even though I’ve been absent from fandom for a few months (it’s been a busy year for me, guys, for fucking serious, and when I had a post blow up my mentions I just sort of shrugged and thought, well, this is a good time to not worry about tumblr for a bit because I can’t see who’s talking to me anymore, anyway).

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1. When I Put Away Childish Things / 9-16-2014 - Hit count-wise, this is far and away my most popular fic, though the comments and kudos are so hilariously undersized in comparison? I console myself by thinking that maybe people come back to read this story, instead of just no one wanting to talk to me. like this fic, though. It’s a nice, warm fic. Like taking a nap on a sunny day.

2. Make A Thing Go Right / 6-24-2015 - **looks around shiftily** This is my favorite story. I love this story so much. When this fic crossed 1000 kudos I actually cried, even though that damn dick measuring fic has almost twice that number, and I just wrote the story mostly for myself and for the, like, ten people I knew on tumblr who also liked Sam Wilson, and even though a writer saying they never expected a fic to blow up is sort of like an actor saying they definitely didn’t even write an acceptance speech for that award show, I just, yeah, I’m so grateful. I love this story so much and it makes me happy that other people love it too. (Uh, I’m actually almost finished with a very indulgent shortish sequel fic, so hopefully people still love it but uh I’m gonna post it anyway)

3. This One’s For Bravery and This One’s For Me / 12-3-2014 - This fic baffles me so much. You know, I’ve never seen it on even one rec list? Like the only time I’ve ever seen this story get crossposted somewhere was on a media fic list? How the fuck does it have so many hits? Who likes this story??

4. A Contest of Stories / 11-16-2016 - coauthored with @samtalksfunny and illustrated by @albymangroves. This fic is fucking awesome, and we worked damn hard on it. I now know enough about WWII to sound really creepy at parties.

5. Ever I Saw Your Face / 2-6-2016 - Ohhhh my god. This tropey bullshit. This goddamn dick measuring fic. You know, when I wrote it I actually had to sort of check myself because it seemed like such an obvious trope, “Steve gets big and boys are gross so obviously he and Bucky measured their dicks” but apparently that was all me, showing up fucking four years late with Starbucks and a dick measuring fic, yep.

Bottom - This feels a little unfair because my least popular stories are all old Harry Potter and Supernatural fics that I crossposted a year or two ago from my Livejournal, because that’s how old I am.

1. Ambiguous / 10-5-2005 - I really hated Remus/Tonks, and wanted to see if I could make the pairing sympathetic to myself. Uh, it had the highest comment count in the LJ community it was first posted to, so I guess it succeeded.

2. Red (Spaces in Between) / 9-11-2005 - Uh, I went to Hong Kong for the first time that summer and thought it was super cool so obviously I wrote some Remus/Draco about it. More experimentation.

3. The Passenger / 7-14-2009 - When Supernatural killed Henricksen, it was really the first nail in the coffin for my interest in that show? I thought he was such a cool character, and I like real life consequences over epic, clumsy theological storylines, so I lost a lot of interest when the showrunners lost dropped the “Wow the Winchesters really look like serial killers” plot and went with “Wouldn’t be cool if somebody was Satan??” But in the throes of this I wrote a Dean/Victor apocalypse fic.

4. Beach Blanket Poltergeist / 9-22-2006 - Um, yeah so even 10 years ago I was doing a fuckload of research to write fan fiction, whaddaya want from me, history is cool, my hometown has a lot of fascinating history and also serial killers, I just love research, okay?

5. Full Tilt Boogie / 7-14-2008 - It’s weird, but I think about this story a lot? Or at least, I think about the person who wrote this story, how damn young she was. Like the sex parts are all fine, or at least as fine as a supernatural, dubiously consensual, incestuous ghost orgy in a disco hotel can be, but there’s a theme running through the fic about disco being this, like, false, glamorous thing that only disappoints you, which was a belief that had a lot to do with the type of people who were in my life at that point, and having swallowed a narrative about music history that shits on anything that Black people, gay people, or Black gay people like. And on that note I was all about “including diversity” in my fics, but ran into problems with that because all of my protagonists were white, and the only roles left were for villains or the chorus, and you can already see how this could get problematic. Talking about this in an essentially public forum makes me feel like Macklemore, but unlearning unconscious biases and teaching yourself how to see institutional bullshit is a process and it takes a long time and a lot of work and you’ll probably fuck up along the way, but it’s worth it even when no one ever yells at you about it (which makes me feel like the opposite of Macklemore because I’ve never had anyone be mean to me on the internet, which is SO UNUSUAL).

Ummmm I’m a little embarrassed to tag anyone because I’ve been so absent from tumblr for the last few months. I feel like that #relatable post about just pretending you’ve died rather than admit to a friend you just forgot to text them back but uh, hi, hello, how’s everyone been? It’s my birthday today and I’m getting married in about six weeks, so uh yeah

#about meme #on writing #for real though I talk a lot of shit #and write about things that it seems like a lot of people get in trouble for #and I try to stay humble and not just be like #IT'S NOT THAT HARD TO WRITE CHARACTERS IN A DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUP THAN YOU ARE #because I can only assume my time will come #where I fuck up and earn a social media thrashing #no one's perfect is what i'm saying #but we can all make the effort to do better #lol hashtag story of my life

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tessatechaitea · 4 years

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Eclipso #3

This looks like my "friend" Bobby Henline.

I put the word friend in quotation marks in the above caption because now that he's a Trump supporter and he believes in God, he's not really the same guy I grew up with. I still wouldn't mind calling him friend (even with the Trump supporting) except, being a God-loving Trump supporter, he now treats me and everything I say as if I'm just another libtard. He always referred to me as the smartest guy he knew but suddenly I'm deluded by the mainstream media and too naive to understand that I should be a racist gun owner. Once when he was twelve or so, he saw a woman on the bus reading The Bible. So he sat behind her muttering "Satan Satan Satan." Even at the time, I thought that was pretty immature. Just a few years ago on Facebook, he responded to something I said with "Guns guns guns!" I reminded him about the Satan thing and how he apparently hasn't matured a bit in his debate tactics. He misunderstood my point, thinking that I was wondering why he didn't go around chanting "Satan Satan Satan" anymore, and told me, "I've grown since then." By "grown," I guess he means "suffered severe PTSD and survivor's guilt from the roadside bomb that took the lives of four other guys and now I have to believe in utter nonsense or their deaths would be meaningless." He seems to believe that more war makes the deaths of his comrades meaningful when actually their lives would have more meaning if he accepted that they died for no reason. Use their deaths to prevent the deaths of more young men by pointing out they didn't need to die and then — and only then — you give their lives meaning! Sure, it's seemingly paradoxical but sending more men to die because you want the deaths of some people you knew to be meaningful is fucking selfish bullshit.

I don't know that the creators of this comic book know how the moon works.

The Creeper begins this issue complaining about jungle drums but not giving a shit that the moon has been full for four months straight. Now I sound like an asshole on Twitter screaming that people are too busy caring about one terrible moment of our finite existence that isn't the terrible moment of our finite existence that the asshole thinks they should be caring about. But I'm not! I don't care what The Creeper is upset about. I just want The Creeper to simply fucking notice how long the moon has been full. Then he can go back to speaking gibberish (both as The Creeper and as Jack Ryder, news reporter). My local news did a segment on the large boulder/small boulder Tweet last night and if I had owned a gun, I swear to God I'd need a new television set this morning. No I wouldn't because after shooting my television, I would have turned the gun on myself. When I "joke" about suicide, they're not jokes. I really don't fucking care anymore about dying. Not that I'd ever take myself out. But if something were to kill me at this point and I had one moment to type one more Tweet, it would be that shrugging whatever emoticon that uses the Katakana for tsu. Mostly I'd choose to make that Tweet before I died because it would take a long time for me to figure out how to type it. Death would be standing over my shoulder saying, "Come on already. Just Google the fucking thing and copy and paste it. I've got a bloody schedule here! Literally!" Then we'd high five and I'd ask him one more time if maybe I could suck his dick for a few more years.

Ha ha ha! "It's funny because it's two guys going on a date," types the guy who just made a dick sucking joke.

To be fair, the worst part about my joke wasn't that it relied on homosexual sex. The worst part was that I assumed Death was male. But I had to! If I picture Death as female then I picture DC's version of Death. And if I picture me giving oral to DC's version of Death then I have to take a break to masturbate. I'll be right back. I get that my "comedy" seems crude and not very subtle. But that's because audiences only have the ability to read the surface layer of anything. They read the words and refuse to go any further. So my sucking Death's dick joke becomes simply a joke that relies on laughing at a man willing to perform a homosexual act. But what the joke is really about is how I just said I don't care about dying and yet I'm desperately willing to suck some bony supernatural hog to extend my life for a few more measly painful years. I suppose I could have come up with a less vulgar and demeaning punchline but we all understand that "sucking dick" is the last negotiating tactic to strike a deal that's almost certainly not going to happen. It's never the go-to! Which seems odd because I'd accept that offer immediately over a lot of other offers when negotiating! If I were selling a house and somebody offered me 400,000 dick sucks instead of 400,000 dollars, I don't know. I might take that offer! By the way, I am not selling a house, you horny, shelter-lacking perverts. Bruce Gordon and his friend go to New York to try to recruit the Justice League in their fight against Eclipso.

Most wars are started because some guy doesn't want to be thought of as a pathetic little man. Guy is a hero!

Guy Gardner is being the responsible one in the above scan, if a little high-strung. Obviously the Justice League isn't going to invade a sovereign country just because somebody who isn't Madame Xanadu told them to. Especially the guy that, in the past, was inextricably linked to Eclipso and his evil acts! I bet this scene is just the tail end of the conversation. Guy was almost certainly peaceful and compassionate while listening to Bruce's complaints. But Bruce probably kept pushing and pushing! "You have to believe my gut instinct and my hunch! I just know Eclipso has taken over Parador! You must invade!" And Guy, the avatar of patience, finally snapped. Poor Guy! He's always being treated so horrifically. Bruce and his friend (I have no fucking idea who she is. I suppose I should know but I didn't reread The Darkness Within annual event before rereading this) decide to approach Sarge Steel for help. He runs Checkmate or the Suicide Squad or the DEO or something.

Why is Bruce so terrified about a disruption in cocaine distribution? Isn't Eclipso less of a menace as a drug lord than a vengeance god?

Sarge Steel directs Bruce and Mona (her name is Mona! I still don't know who she is) to Amanda Waller. She operates the arm of the government that infiltrates and disrupts other countries for the benefit of the United States. No, not the CIA. The Suicide Squad! Meanwhile, Eclipso is busying cutting the fingers off of Mona's father's hands.

Either Simon Bennet has eleven fingers or one of those digits is his penis.

Amanda Waller offers to help Bruce, Mona, and the Creeper sneak into Parador. But that's her only involvement. To help them sneak in through a series of caves, she recruits Cave Carson to be their guide. Did Cave Carson seem expendable in 1993? I hope so because his death is the only thing making me excited for the next issue! Eclipso #3 Rating: C+. At least something other than monologues and soliloquies happened this issue, like Simon getting his fingers and dick chopped off. Plus this issue had so many guest stars: Sarge Steel, Amanda Waller, Guy Gardner, and Cave Carson! That's a lot of cameos for a buck twenty-five! Thank God for DC screwing creators out of "created by" royalties! Can you imagine how much this comic would cost if DC felt obliged to pay France Herron and Bruno Premiani for using Cave Carson, let alone Bob Haney and Lee Elias for Eclipso, Gil Kane and John Broome for Guy Gardner, John Ostrander, Len Wein, and John Byrne for Amanda Waller, and Steve Ditko, Pat Masuli, and Joe Gill for Sarge Steel?!

#Eclipso #Keith Giffen #Robert Loren Fleming #Bart Sears #DC Comics #dc

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Long Drive

a/n: One of my favorite, personal, underrated headcanons for my favorite boho girl. Summary: Brooke takes her Prius to see someone she misses to give them news about something they missed out. Warnings/themes: Coming out Story; incarceration; Acceptance w/c:~2.1k

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Brooke was up at six in the morning. She gathered herself up and went to the bullet blender in her kitchen finding a cute note scribbled on the counter in her mother’s handwriting.

‘Mornin’ baby’ it read.

River Lohst worked the graveyard shift as a nurse, which meant she was home, tired and Brooke was not about to blend up her special coffee with a teaspoon of coconut oil for regularity. A part of her wished Chloe was up at this time. On a Saturday her best friend was probably snoring (though Chloe denied it) away until noon.

It was a small pit stop to get some coffee on the way there. Brooke went into her daily routine of moisturizers and scents, a mix of vials of her own concoctions as well as things she got from working at Lush, making sure her face was soft, supple and well protected from the environments. She hopped into her mother’s car, a pastel yellow hatchback and took to the road.

It was a nice morning. The clouds dotted the graying, early morning sky. The sun had just barely broken passed the horizon line; it was the kind of morning Brooke could cruise for a while and gather her thoughts. Her destination was about three hours away or so depending how smooth high way traffic was. While she focused her eyes on the open road her mind began to wonder…

There wasn’t many times in her day Brooke got to really settle in with her emotions. She spent most of them freely being a high school girl. She was at the mall, groaning at her mom for being uncool, she hung out with friends, got drunk at parties (BAD UNDERAGE DON’T DO KIDS). But there were parts of Brooke that wasn’t a typical high school student. One thing was she had an air of style and creativity. She was a vegetarian. She was homely and somewhat humble for a girl that visited the mall regularly. There was a side to Brooke that didn’t encompass the sleepy drawl of a blonde who was seen as Middleborough’s second hottest teen.

There was a part of Brooke that she didn’t even know about herself. Not well, it was a part she had recently came to terms with one Pinkberry run at 8pm cutting it close to her car curfew time. She realized it then, watching her best friend devour an ice cream, lips coated slightly that there was a part of her she had been subconsciously denying. Over and over again.

A part of her that made cheerleading camp during her middle school days a nervous mess, that made being cheated on, though painful for her broken trust, didn’t sting as much when she no longer had a boyfriend. This part of her was now fully someone she wanted to know and more importantly someone she wanted someone else to get to know too.

The drive ended when she pulled into the heavily barricaded parking lot of a prison compound. She went through a routine line up by the door. Labeled with a paper sticker that read ‘visitor’ and a signup sheet with ID at the front was given to her then it was off to line up against a painfully plain linoleum wall.

Brooke jumped at the sound of a buzzer, the guards moved large, reinforced doors to a cafeteria like space with tables and several chairs. Brooke was batted done once more, scanned for metal and allowed in. She wrinkled her noise at the faint smell of sterile cleaning supplies and factory plastic. Nerves got to her as she waited, she began picking at her nail polish chipping the lime green gel paint right off.

The loud clash of a latch being broken, a door opening as prisoners in their bright orange get ups were lined up and handcuffs were removed as they entered. Brooke’s eyes perked up, she watched as several men waddled in, going to the table with a familiar face waiting. This part always worried her. She held her breath until she saw the face of a salt and pepper haired man, a fairly impressive beard that twinkled upward with a smile. “Daddy” Brooke stood up slow and was embraced by tender arms that squished her uncomfortably against him.

“There’s my girl.” Her father muttered patting the back of her head with slow, soft motions. He inhaled softly, took it in for a good minute or two before sitting down. “What do you think? I got a name on my uniform.” He motioned to the letters embroidered in his uniform. H. Lohst. “How’s your mom?”

“Same ol’ Same old. She’s been working the graveyard shifts like every week. I can’t make my morning coffee shakes.”

“You best mind your mother, turning on that blender you might as well be summoning satan.” He snickered, his voice raspy. Even as nice as he could look as a man in prison the smell of cigarettes made the small hairs in Brooke’s nose cringe. “Its good to see you, my lil babbling Brookey” Nevermind, that old pet name made her cringe.

“Daaaaad” Brooke covered her face, her round cheeks coated with a soft pinky blush of embarrassment; she placed her hand flat on the table. And slowly, with a small tremor, her father grasped it in his. She peeked up from her one hand covering her face and smiled. “…how have you been? Need anything in commissary…that isn’t a pack of Newports.”

Hunter gave a small guffaw followed by an ironic cough. “I know you didn’t drive out three hours to give your papa change for some ramen and ketchup packets.” He shook his head at her. “What do ya need, sweetie?” There wasn’t much a father in prison can do for his family, which to Hunter was the worst part of punishment. He couldn’t do anything for his family; he couldn’t provide not even comfort let alone stability. “Brooke?”

What she needed? What did she need? Why did she drive out this far for a conversation she could have tried having over the phone when he called weekly. Why couldn’t have this waited…now she was here she couldn’t make something up. What she wanted…was his acceptance. “Daddy…its about…well…girl stuff.” She paused watching his eyes go wide for a second, “not like girly …girl but like…ugh…” She started wringing her brain for any drop of sense.

“Brooke Nicollete Lohst is this about a boy?” Her father got serious. Even though he was in prison, he was not there for his aggression or intimidation. Brooke deadpanned at his little show of machismo as he continued. “Because you tell him that you’ve got a daddy in jail and you’ve been takin; those kickboxing classes right?”

“Yes and self defense, daddy it’s not a boy issue.” Brooke squeezed his hand rushing over her words to stop him before this became something it wasn’t. “Daddy…it’s a girl thing”

“Sweetheart I’m lost you just said its not a girl thing, and shouldn’t this be the sort of thing you tell your mama? I know she’s working loads but she’s always up to hear you out..” he paused in mid thought. Her hand was shaking like she had been doused with cold water. Her grip was weak so he squeezed her a little firmer. “Brooke?”

“Its not about a /boy/ daddy” she licked her lips a few times. Right there, on the tip of her tongue the truth babbled out of Brooke. “Its about…girls.”

His face was still mildly confused.

“Because … I’m not interested in boys” she began to slowly clarify and watched as his confusion turned to intrigue. “I…am interested in…”

“Girls.” He finished so she wouldn’t have to struggle getting it all out.

Silence washed over them, Brooke felt her hand grow colder and clammier under her father’s now limp hold. His eyes were staring at her? Through her? As if he was trying to see inside her brain with some Xray vision. She wished he would smile, crack a cute mid-Western joke but he was stoic which terrified her. Her daddy, Brooke’s most important person, the first man she ever loved and probably the last.

Suddenly she felt her brain replay all their happy memories. Camping by the Lake in upstate New York, learning how to blow grass whistles, picking berries out in the open fields, and skipping rocks, having her dad drive her proudly to cheerleading camp. Very snuggle session to an animal based Disney movie, every cute kiss and table topic gut busting memory…would those be her last? Was this were it all severed. Was this were Brooke lost it all?

She forced her blue eyes to stare at her father, her now muted father. She couldn’t almost see into his eyes what he must have been thinking. The thoughts of meeting a man, having a son-in-law, kids, the normalcy that came with having a girl all changed? Was he going to miss it? Was he disappointed? Upset? Was he…

“Well at least I don’t gotta worry about you getting pregnant anytime soon eh?” His lips turned up into a half smile. “That is at least ten years added back to my life not havin’ worry of huntin’ down no good boys.” He beamed for a moment. He mused to himself over the fact he would remain her favorite guy. He mused over the new things he was going to be getting out of this.

“Dad you do understand what I’m saying?” Brooke leaned back against her chair, all that silence and all he had was a joke? That’s it? Not a how, or why? Brooke was half prepared to fight her way to acceptance but it just…came?

“You’re a lesbian, right?” Hunter answered honestly. “I’m glad you told me—“

“And you’re ok with that?”

Now he looked upset, his brows furrowed down the center making three deep creases in his forehead. “Brooke you listen to me, and you listen good.” He grabbed the back of her head and pressed their foreheads together. “You are my baby girl, I don’t care what you come up here with you’ll always be my baby. From the moment you cried in my arms there wasn’t a thing in this world I loved more than you and your momma. Now I don’t care what you do, lesbian, blonde, you can end up callin’ yourself Steve by the time I get out of here but I will love you until the day I die and some, you hear me?”

Brooke chest trembled. Silent sobs broke past her smile, she couldn’t even say yes if she wanted to. Her father’s chapped lips kissed her wet lids and ruffled the top of her hair. “Well…” She sniffled rubbing her eyes a bit, she noticed her father’s eyes were glossy too with emotion.

“Five minutes!” a guard shouted from the doorway. Had it been time already? She felt like she had just arrived. Then again that was usually how this went.

There was so much left she wanted to say, more things she wanted to make clear. Her father gripped her hand tight and smiled, “have you told her momma yet?” Brooke shook her head and he nodded. “So I’m the first?”

Brooke nodded, as the inmates one by one started to stand up. Her heart was both soaring and in pieces all the same. “I’m a daddy’s girl, I guess.” She fell into his arms and locked her fingers around his back. If she could, she would have stayed like this. Thrown a fit that she didn’t want to let him go like she did the first few times she visited him. None of it was enough, talking for an hour, his smile, his laugh, she wanted to steal him back home. Make the family whole again. But his acceptance…his love would be enough for as long as he had to be away. “Bye daddy…”

“See you next week?” He kissed her forehead five times before a guard, somewhat empathically stood there already clamping the cuffs back on to his wrists. Just like that he was whisked away, all the warmth and love moving with him behind that cold, heavy door.

She walked out to her car, tears freely rolling down her face. At least she wasn’t alone. She could see several families, loved ones struggling to recompose. Some were fully wailing outside the parking lot. Brooke held herself together long enough to get to her car, she sat there for a long moment, dabbing her eyes delicately with her ring fingertips.

Before taking off again she reached into her purse and pulled on a sticker. A flag with various stripes in shades of pink leading into white and stuck it up against her windshield. She stared at it for a long time and nodded. She pulled out of the compound’s parking lot, the prison disappearing behind her.

As the long drive began once again, she left with clear thoughts and the blessing of one good man with resonating within her.

#oneshot #fanfiction #fanfic #bmc #be more chill #brooke lohst #boho brooke #bohemian brooke #lesbian #coming out #lesbian brooke #father and daughter #pride #Hunter Lohst is what I'm calling Brooke's dad #and Brook's mom is River #Fucking sue me for the worse npc names but I'm sticking to them #parent in jail

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What’s your favourite cereal? Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Is there a bus stop near your house? There’s one at the end of my block. And a train station a few blocks away too. Do you prefer red wine or white wine? Red. What’s the last airport you were at? Why were you there? Midway, to pick up Sarah when she came here for my birthday.

Who do you live with? My boyfriend and my father and Satan aka my grandmother. Do you read reddit? If so, how often and what subreddits do you like? I don’t. Have you recently broken up with a significant other or even just a friend? Nope. What’s the weather like today? Is it nice enough to go outside? It’s cold. Do you know anyone who’s had a baby recently? My best friend’s sister. She named her baby Hannah after me! Just kidding but a girl can dream. Have you used a pen or pencil today? What did you write down? Yes. What does your last text message say and who is it from? I don’t feel like typing it because it requires so much context. Can you count how many times you’ve seen your favourite film? Nope. I’ve seen it A LOT. When was the last time you ate marshmallows? Recently, in hot chocolate. Do you listen to any podcasts? How do you listen to them? Nope. How old will you be in the year 2030? 40/41. Does your skin bruise easily? Do you have any bruises right now? What from? Yeah. What was the last thing you spent $150 or more on? Christmas presents. Do you prefer yes or no questions or more open-ended questions? In surveys, open-ended. What brand of toilet paper do you usually buy? The store brand. If I knocked on your door right now, would you be acceptable dressed? I’m not at my house. Why did you leave your last job? I was only hired for the season. What colour were the last socks you wore? I’m currently wearing Bob Belcher socks which are black with white heels and toes and have Bob’s face on them. Are you studying currently? What level of education and what do you study? No thank fucking god. Have you ever eaten at a restaurant and left without paying? I have, on total and complete accident. I was in the bathroom and my friend at the time was at the table and she had the check and I was under the impression we agreed she was going to pay but her dumb ass thought I was going to pay. So when I came out of the bathroom, she was outside, so I figured she took care of it, so I walked out to meet her and we were like almost to the car when I was like “so how much was it?” and she was like “i don’t know, I didn’t look because I thought you were paying.” So I went back in and told the waitress what happened and she was cool about it and I paid. What was the last thing that made you laugh out loud? There was probably something since then, but Kristen Wigg and Steve Carell’s skit at the Golden Globes. What’s your favourite scent of air freshener? Ehh, just a fresh scent is fine. How many weddings have you ever been to? Hmm. 3? I’ve been in all of them too. No wait! That’s a lie, I forgot about my cousin’s wedding a couple years ago. I was merely a guest at that one. Do you know anyone named Nora? I used to. My Aunt’s husband’s mother was named Nora, but she passed away a while ago. Are your hands and feet in good condition or could you do with a mani-pedi? My hands and feet are SO DRY. I might treat myself to a mani-pedi this Saturday. When was the last time you played a board game? What did you play? Yikes, it’s been a while since I’ve played with an actual board. I played Cards Against Humanity online the other night with Ellen and Kayla if that counts. How old were you when you first became sexually active? 20. Have you ever been to a festival for beer or other type of alcohol? Yeah, I’ve been to an OktoberFest before. Do you own a record player and/or vinyls? There is one in our attic, but it’s my fathers. I have no real interest in it on my own. When was the last time you went out for drinks? I don’t really go out just for drinks. I’m usually getting dinner too. Have you ever been to a strip club? Nope. I’d love to go to one to be honest. Do you know anyone with a ‘virtue name’? I had to look these up. I know a Faith, a couple Graces, and a Joy. I used to know a Verity but only online. Would you ever wear real authentic leather? Eh. Have you taken out the trash today? Nope. How often do you wear make-up? Rarely. I plan on wearing some this weekend for our shop’s holiday dinner. What’s your opinion on The Simpsons? I don’t hate it but I’ve never really gotten super into it. Do you prefer horizontal or vertical stripes? Both are nice. Do you know anyone who has been through a divorce? A few people, yeah. If you had the money, would you take taxis everywhere instead of driving? No. I hate taxis and uber and lyft. Have you ever done a juice cleanse? No, because they’re all giant scams. Do you have any friends who you can’t decide if they’re attractive or not? I am friends with someone I was friends with in gradeschool on Facebook and she always posts really unflattering pictures of her face but every once in a while there will be a really pretty one so I’m like what is the truth? Is the inside of your fridge clean right now or does it need a clean out? Ugh we need to clean all of them out. The fridge in our kitchen gets filled up because my grandmother saves EVERYTHING she doesn’t eat. The mini fridge Mark and I have in the basement has been ignored because we have a full size one now, which can stand to be wiped down. That mini fridge is so gross we are afraid to open it haha. When was the last time you washed the dishes? Mark is usually the one who does the dishes. Are there any magazines that you read on a regular basis? There aren’t. Do you have to pay for parking in most places in the town/city you live in? Yeah, it’s so stupid because it’s not like there are free buses and trains and shit so whatever you do you have to pay to go places. Unless you are crafty and can find free spots. What’s the first thing you tend to do when you have a headache? Take something. Tell me about your responsibilities at work. I open doors with magic. Can you hear lots of traffic from your house? Does it bother you? There’s an expressway and train track basically in our backyard. I don’t really notice it inside the house, except for if the windows are open, but even then it doesn’t bother me. You become used to it really easily. The trains you can hear and feel on the inside of the house every once in a while, but not enough to disturb anything we are doing. Have you ever had proper Canadian poutine with the squeaky cheese? No, poutine does NOT appeal to me at all because I do not like gravy. Do your parents know how to operate smartphones and/or computers? My dad is pretty good with his phone and computer. How old are your parents, anyway? My father is 67 in April. Are you allergic to anything? What do you have to do to prevent them? Nope. What song is stuck in your head at the moment? There isn’t one. What’s your boss’ first name? Do you call him/her by that name? His first name is Anthony. Everyone calls him Tony. When was the last time you wore a uniform of any kind? What colour was it? It’s been AGES. Did you complete a survey before taking this one? Will you take one after? I did and maybe if I find one I like. Have you ever lost enough weight to drop a dress size? Hah. What’s your favourite kind of bread? Garlic. When was the last time you got pizza? What toppings did you get? It was fairly recently. There was definitely pepperoni on it. Do you own Monopoly? Is it the original or a special version? Yup. I have a Nightmare Before Christmas version I have literally never played haha. I think I have an original version too. What was the last thing you said out loud? ”Okay” You have to choose one: cats or dogs? Cats. How do you travel to and from work? My car that’s probably going to explode any day now. Do you primarily use cash or card for your purchases? Why? My credit or debit card. Because its SO convenient. Have you ever been to a stadium concert? Yeah, I’ve seen a few bands in stadium concerts. I saw Red Hot Chili Peppers with my sister like 10 years ago. And when I was younger I vaguely remember seeing the Counting Crows (hi @tapiooocasurveys) with my sister and father at a stadium. And Bob Dylan too. I feel there’s probably another one I’m forgetting. OH! Blink-182 when I was a pre-teen.

#surveys

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Halloween Quotes

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We should rent you out to record Halloween albums. (Acheron) – Sherrilyn Kenyon • During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter. Martha Plimpton • Eddie discovered one of his childhood’s great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. – Stephen King • Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright. Erin Morgenstern • Everyday has to be different for me. Even if people are like, “You dressed up like a character today, it’s not Halloween.” – Iman Shumpert • Everyone has gone trick or treating, everyone carves a jack o lantern with their parents. If you really look at the stories they sort of focus on what Halloween is like at different stages of your life. – Michael Dougherty • Everything is going killer. It’s loud and dirty and everything that people expect from DOPE . This situation is nothing new for any of us and so far it’s been pretty effortless. We are all crazy excited to get back to Japan and party our asses off, not to mention that we can’t wait to kick some Japanese ass on Halloween. Brian Ebejer • Halloween Costume I Hate: kids dressed as their parent’s poltical beliefs. Oooh! Aren’t you a scary health care reform bill! – Dana Gould • Halloween has always been fascinating to me from a very young age. I think any actor would be fascinated by Halloween because it’s one of the only holidays that advocates dressing up in makeup and costumes and transforming oneself. – Nicolas Cage • Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative. – Judy Gold • Halloween is fun, but it wasnt always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. – Tobin Bell • Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the “spirits” of things. – Dee Snider • Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the ‘spirits’ of things. A few years back, my wife was frustrated with the same old stupid sound effects tape we would play, which ends with the theme from ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Monster Mash’. I told her that Halloween is way too cool a holiday to suffer through this every year. Dee Snider • Halloween is just a made up holiday, created by the razor blade industry. – Anthony Jeselnik • Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes.- Ginnifer Goodwin • Halloween is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. That’s for women. The beginning of the holiday shopping season for men is Christmas Eve. – David Letterman • Halloween is the day I wish I had boobs the most Michael Clifford • Halloween is the only day I can dress up like a hot Latina woman with a beer belly. – Felipe Esparza • Halloween is tomorrow. A group of wine experts has actually come up with a list of the best wines to pair with Halloween candy. They say, “White wine goes great with Skittles, red wine goes great with Twix, and … we’re alcoholics, aren’t we? Jimmy Fallon • Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren’t Halloween. – Rachel Zucker • Halloween put me on the map, and I’m very sad to hear of his death.- John Carpenter • Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, “Never take candy from strangers.” And then they dressed me up and said, “Go beg for it.” I didn’t know what to do. I’d knock on people’s doors and go, “Trick or treat.” – Rita Rudner • Halloween with kids is top 5 holiday. – Christopher Michael Cillizza • Halloween without kids is tremendously bad. – Christopher Michael Cillizza • Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat. Nick Gordon • Halloween: the day each year when strangers give you even more specific reasons to dislike them based on what they are wearing. – Demetri Martin • Halloween’s my favorite holiday because you don’t have to spend it with your family. – Demetri Martin • He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult; from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone’s life … Great times call forth great leaders. – Thomas Jefferson • How late is it? How long have we been sitting here? I look at my watch – three thirty and the day is almost ending. It’s October. All those kids recently returned to classrooms with new bags and pencil cases will be looking forward to half term already. How quickly it goes. Halloween soon, then firework night. Christmas. Spring. Easter. Then there’s my birthday in May. I’ll be seventeen. How long can I stave it off? I don’t know. All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living. Jenny Downham • I actually have a stash of wigs for Halloween. But only for that. Not to play dress-up. – Alexa Vega • I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment. Susan Orlean • I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn’t have a TV, but television didn’t teach you everything. Asking for candy on Halloween was called trick-or-treating, but asking for candy on November first was called begging, and it made people uncomfortable. This was one of the things you were supposed to learn simply by being alive, and it angered me that the Tomkeys did not understand it. David Sedaris • I couldn’t get away with Halloween pranks ’cause my parents owned the health food store. So, it was so easy to bust me. I was the only kid on the block egging houses with those big ‘ole brown eggs. Like, you didn’t have to be a detective to figure it out. ‘Oh, I wonder who Tofuttied my mailbox. Is it the same evil genius who filled my bird bath with Rice Dream? – Arj Barker • I didn’t have to wear a mask on Halloween to scare people, so I didn’t need one to cover my face on the field! – Tommy McDonald • I do love horror movies, but I’m not the kind of guy who would dress up as a ghoul for Halloween. I might go as a member of the Blue Man Group. – Christopher Mintz-Plasse • I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers’ doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it. Rachel Zucker • I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there’s a lot more blood. They’re obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction. Donald Pleasence • I don’t do anything for Halloween. I carry Halloween inside of me.- Mike Mignola • I don’t know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids. – Robert Breault • I don’t remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all. – Rachel Zucker • I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them. Tracy Chapman • I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an ‘X-Men’ fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that. – Jake Epstein • I had Halloween parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe. – Bat for Lashes • I hate Halloween. I hate dressing up. I hate – I wear wigs, makeup, costumes every day. Halloween is like, my least favorite holiday. Amy Poehler • I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular. – Rachel Zucker • I have a night off on Halloween. It’s Halloween for me every night. Let everybody else be Ozzy for the night. People go out dressed as me. – Ozzy Osbourne • I have two rules when you come to my house on Halloween. Wear a costume – ’cause if you’ve manned your door at your own house, you know how many kids will roll up, 14 years old with no costume and an attitude. My other rule: don’t grab. Let me assess you and then design a candy situation for you. – Greg Behrendt • I haven’t put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It’s like I’m wearing a Halloween costume. I’m pretending to be a ballplayer. – Ken Fox • I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you’re not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms. – David Letterman • I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That’s how you grow. • I love Halloween and dressing up. I usually have at least three costumes. Audrina Patridge • I love Halloween! I love it so much that I used to work at a haunted house every year.- Daniella Monet • I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when we youngsters used to celebrate Halloween by making decorations out of construction paper and that white paste that you could eat. – Dave Barry • I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies. • I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it. Katharine McPhee • I loved New Jersey. I thought it was the greatest place in the world because on Halloween kids could start trick or treating right after school. Isn’t that great? – Joel McHale • I only eat candy on Halloween. No lie. – Michael Trevino • I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea – Richard Brautigan • I see my face in the mirror and go, ‘I’m a Halloween costume? That’s what they think of me?’ – Drew Carey • I sort of have a dark, twisted, offbeat way of writing, which I see coming up in my kids. It’s funny, on Halloween, one of my daughters said, “Halloween isn’t supposed to be happy, dad, it’s supposed to be dark. ” No smiling pumpkins at the Sixx household! Nikki Sixx • I take the palette with me, but I have a lot of makeup. I was a makeup artist when I was younger, but I’m not that good compared with my makeup artist, so I keep things pretty simple. I explore a lot with pink and nude lipsticks, but I love red lipsticks. I love a line and a lash and a brow. So I don’t need a lot, but I have a lot. It’s all there just in case – for Halloween or whatever. Gwen Stefani • I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re going to do with Fantastic Four is going to be very grounded and it made sense to me. When I read the script, I didn’t feel like I was reading this larger-than-life, incredible superhero tale. These are all very human people that end up having to become I guess what is known as the Fantastic Four. So for me it was just a really good story and gives me an opportunity to play something different from my own skin. It’s a proper character and that’s my favorite stuff to do. Miles Teller • I think that Michael Myers is an icon. The bad guys, it’s always the bad guys that everybody loves. It’s Michael Myers, it’s Freddy, it’s Jason, they’re like the Dracula and Frankenstein of our generation. I think it started a new wave of horror films. They’re cult classics and they’re something that everybody wants to watch on Halloween. – Danielle Harris • I told Pat I want to be him for Halloween. I almost got hit and I told Pat I should stop teasing him. Tie Domi • I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I’d told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that’d be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties. – Laurell K. Hamilton • I used to compete with my brother to see who could get the most Halloween candy, I remember doing that. – Jermell Charlo • I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year. – Chanel Iman • I want to be Michael Clifford for Halloween. – Luke Hemmings • I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies. • I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film’s future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become. Donald Pleasence • I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once. For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn’t in costume, or if they were they were little bunnies or something, and I went as Michael Jackson. – January Jones • I wish everyday could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks. R. J. Palacio • I would love if gay men responded to me. All I want is for many gay men to dress up as me for Halloween. – Mindy Kaling • If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. • If I could’ve picked a birthday it would’ve been on Halloween. Yeah, it’s always been my favorite holiday. Not because it was my birthday, but actually because, I think it was the freedom, you know? When you were a little kid, you got to go out and be an adult for a couple of hours. You got to, like, just go out with your friends and knock on peoples’ doors and be nuts and pull pranks and stuff like that. You could be whoever you wanted to be, you know, I guess that was the appeal to it. – Frank Iero • If I wasn’t even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That’s always been who I’ve been my whole life, so that’s never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too. – Gwen Stefani • If I were to remake a movie, I’d love to remake Halloween 3 Season of the Witch because even though it’s a very flawed film, at its core is a brilliant idea: An evil toymaker is set to kill all the children of the world on Halloween night – and I think that’s absolutely fantastic. So whoever has the rights can give me a call. – Bryan Fuller • If I’m really honest, I’m not a huge fan of scary films. I remember being a teenager, and people getting out like Halloween [1978] or Saw [2004], and watching them, and I’d kind of just stare at the television logo and blur my eyes and pretend I was watching but I wasn’t because I just found that I would take the movie home with me. I can scare myself like a pro. – Imogen Poots • If people work together, if they can keep a cooperative spirit and use their ingenuity and balance it all with good humor and good will, then there’s nothing to be afraid of. That’s the sappy part of it, … On the other hand, every Halloween for many years when my kids were trick-or-treating I would put on my ‘Ghostbusters’ jumpsuit with a police flashlight to protect all the kids from ghosts. Harold Ramis • If you are an adult, and you are planning to dress up on Halloween… don’t. I will find you. I will hurt you. – Lewis Black • I’ll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.- Charles S. Swartz • I’m a festive guy to begin with and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I went all out on this one costume. It’s a ghoul that makes me approximately 10 feet tall when I wear it. I actually got an offer to work at a haunted house because the costume is so great, and I did it for about an hour and a half before I got too cold and had to quit to go inside. Michigan winters are no joke. – Andre Dirrell • I’m interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience’s expectations. But I don’t like dressing up like on Halloween. – Rachel Zucker • In Cuba they don’t celebrate Halloween but my favorite moments have been trick-or-treating with my kids here in the U.S.: they really enjoy it. – Erislandy Lara • In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee’s character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities. – John Carpenter • In masks and gown we haunt the street, And knock on doors for trick or treat, Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it’s Halloween! – Jack Prelutsky • In recent years, there have been reports of people with twisted minds putting razor blades and poison in taffy apples and Halloween candy. It is no longer safe to let your child eat treats that come from strangers. -Ann Landers • In San Francisco, Halloween is redundant. – Will Durst • In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it’s kind of a costume, if they never do any other time. – Chuck Klosterman • In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let’s not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice. – Dana Gould • It hasn’t even been competitive. That’s the first thing we’re going to have to do is just find a way to stay competitive because these (first two games) have been over by halftime. We saw that last year too (on Halloween). It was 21-3 (Steelers) at the end of the first quarter. Bill Belichick • It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp. – Jeff Lindsay • It was sort of fun tonight, it was a little exciting on Halloween. Hines Ward • It’s said that All Hallows’ Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin – and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright. – Erin Morgenstern • It’s a very appropriate show to be doing around Halloween because it’s very dark and mysterious. There are some great chorus scenes and some dark stuff and funny stuff as well. It’s a really perfect balanced show in many regards.- James Marvel • It’s Halloween! It’s Halloween! The moon is full and bright, And we shall see what can’t be seen, On any other night. Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls, Grinning goblins fighting duels. Werewolves rising from their tombs, Witches on their magic brooms. In masks and gown we haunt the street. And knock on doors for trick or treat. Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it’s Halloween! – Jack Prelutsky • It’s not a giant thing, like graduation, Mardi Gras, Halloween or New Year’s. We do get business from it. That’s why we put stuff out; we don’t skip it. It’s our big thing for March. – Suzanne Smith • It’s not that I want you to be a certain way–don’t you want a boyfriend?” “Why bother with that? Let’s find incubi.” “Incubi?” “Demons. Plural. Like octopi. And we’re much more likely to find them”–her voice dropped conspiratorially–“while swimming naked in the Atlantic a week before Halloween than practically anywhere else I can think of. Holly Black • I’ve had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that’s OK with me. I don’t feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular? – Kevin Costner • I’ve seen lots of Halloween people dressed up like me and they’ll send me pictures. And I found that very rewarding to know that I’ve reached anyone. – Bray Wyatt Joe Manganiello • John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you’d expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off. Donald Pleasence • John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept. Donald Pleasence • just because I don’t have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn’t mean that I’m not a witch. I’m a witch all the time and not just on Halloween. E. L. Konigsburg • Last Halloween a kid tried to rip my face off. He thought it was a mask. Now it’s different when I open the door the kids hand me candy. – Rodney Dangerfield • Last Halloween I ran out of candy and I had to give the kids nicotine gum. – David Letterman • Like at Halloween: I knew I’d arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character. – Jane Badler • Mr. Crossley suddenly wondered why he was why he was worrying about the note. It was only a joke, after all. He cleared his throat. Everyone looked up hopefully. ‘Somebody,’ said Mr. Crossley, ‘seems to have sent me a Halloween message.’ And he read out the note: ‘SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS IS A WITCH.’ 6B thought this was splendid news. Hands shot up all over the room like a bed of beansprouts. ‘It’s me, Mr. Crossley!’ ‘Mr. Crossley, I’m the witch!’ ‘Can I be the witch, Mr. Crossley?’ ‘Me, Mr. Crossley, me, me, me! – Diana Wynne Jones • My favorite memories were never about candy or anything like that. When I got to be a teenager, my friends and I used to get together and do all kinds of crazy stuff on Halloween night. We had a ball starting trouble. Now that I’m more mature I realize that wasn’t the right way to act, but it was the time of my life back then. – Tony Harrison • My favorite time of year is October, Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I know that watching horror movies was such a special thing to me as a child and my only dream is that I get to make it feel like Halloween all year round for other kids, for other weirdos like me. – Matthew Gray Gubler • New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of the American Family Association urged his flock to hand out a Christian-based comic book instead of candy. Excuse me, Halloween isn’t a time to push your beliefs. You don’t see me handing out pot to kids…Okay, well not the little kids. Bill Maher • No matter what time of year it’s always funny when a person walks by me dressed in religious garb and I say Happy Halloween! – Gary Gulman • Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. – Steve Almond • Now, I have a Halloween mask I think you might get a kick out of. That’s scary. – Jay Leno • On Halloween, don’t you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don’t eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people’s houses. That used to be such a tease. – Derrick Rose • On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me. Rodney Dangerfield • On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.- Nick Gordon • On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost, but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters! Mehmet Murat Ildan • One of the tours we had scheduled – the gaslight tour of Jack the Ripper’s haunts, and on Halloween, no less, was canceled at the last minute. I recommend making sure you know the numbers of your tours and destinations so you can confirm your schedule along the way. Also, though we laugh about it now, the Eiffel Tower was on strike so we couldn’t go up! Andrea Phillips • People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn’t want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you’d be married and you’d own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could. – Heather O’Neill • People value Halloween, like Valentine’s Day, because they can tell themselves that it’s not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim. – Amity Shlaes • Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite, All are on their rounds tonight; In the wan moon’s silver ray, Thrives their helter-skelter play. – Joel Benton • Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that’s not just on Halloween. Michael Almereyda • Remember when we used to worry about some weirdo having a razor blade inside an apple on Halloween? Not anymore. Like a kid today would eat an apple. Jay Leno • Right. Because there’s no bigger sign of commitment than a Halloween dance – Richelle Mead • Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, “Tonight is Halloween!” – Dexter Kozen • She liked anything orange: leaves; some moons; marigolds; chrysanthemums; cheese; pumpkin, both in pie and out; orange juice; marmalade. Orange is bright and demanding. You can’t ignore orange things. She once saw an orange parrot in the pet store and had never wanted anything so much in her life. She would have named it Halloween and fed it butterscotch. Her mother said butterscotch would make a bird sick and, besides, the dog would certainly eat it up. September never spoke to the dog again — on principle. – Catherynne M. Valente • Since I was 15 years old I’ve never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl. – Brendan Shanahan • So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: “Say ‘Trick or treat! – Dave Barry • So when it came to making the movie I guess I had a really good sense innately of what it was that makes Halloween really great. In that it is a holiday for everybody now. When I was a kid I felt like it was mostly for kids, maybe that’s just the way it always is when you’re a kid, but I think now more than ever it’s for grown ups too. When I was a kid I don’t think there were quite as many sexy adult costumes and we definitely didn’t have all these Spirit Halloween stores that pop up every October. – Michael Dougherty • Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don’t need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society. Christine Pelosi • Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. William Shakespeare • Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting. Lorna Luft • Target launch date for Falcon I maiden flight is Halloween(October 31) from our island launch complex in the Kwajalein Atoll. For potential customers out there, I should mention that Kwajalein has some of the worlds best scuba diving and snorkeling! It is literally a tropical paradise. Elon Musk • Technically my dog’s naked most of the time. Except halloween, when I dress him up as Liza Minelli. – Craig Ferguson • That’s definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can’t attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween’s and that film about the haunted house… Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we’d watch horror films. – Cate Blanchett • That’s why we’re doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don’t have anything against it (Halloween), but it’s not our tradition. Fernando Flores • The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. – Richard Wright • The biggest surprise was a picture my mom sent me, just about the time that we were about to wrap up the book, of me as a 5-year-old dressed in my first Halloween costume that she made for me. I said, “What’s this? I never saw this photo.” And she said, “We made you this black-and-orange Halloween costume out of crepe paper” – we were too poor to have fabric back then – “and you wanted to go as the Queen Of Halloween.” And I was like, “What?” And she said, “Yeah, the Princess Of Halloween, the Queen Of Halloween, something like that. – Cassandra Peterson • The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn’t like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn’t have been made at all. Donald Pleasence • The holiday is clearly growing in importance for the industry. Halloweens fun, enjoyable and doesn’t require a big investment to celebrate. The primary focus is the child and families typically do all they can to make sure the children have fun. – Richard Hastings • The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking at their doors this Halloween Andrew Spano • The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work. Donald Pleasence • The Jawbreaker writer-director Darren Stein was a huge fan of Carrie and Halloween. He was like a kid. He was 26, so he was such a fan. He wanted William Katt and I, from Carrie, to be in the movie as the parents. We had a little bit more that ended up on the cutting-room floor, but that was kind of fun. Everybody that worked on that movie was really cool, including the girls, especially the new girl, the blonde, Judy Greer. – P. J. Soles • The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.- Wallace Stegner • The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizard brain Liam Lynch to make the video for ‘Burn The Witch’ , a home-made affair that’s just in time for Halloween. For the band, playing both the roles of cast and crew paid ginormous dividends, in the form of a video that cuts the heads off all contemporaries . – Joshua Homme • Then, finally, the third year, begging the parents, I got the Superman Halloween costume. Cardboard box, self-made top, mask included. Remember the rubber band on the back of that mask? That was a quality item there, wasn’t it? That was good for about 10 seconds before it snapped out of that cheap little staple they put it in there with. – Jerry Seinfeld • There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. Jean Baudrillard • There’s going to be a Halloween costume [of lavash from Sausage Party]. The whole thing is just so ridiculous. It’s nice. It’s silly, and it’s surreal. – David Krumholtz • They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they’d ever survive in this era. In a time where it’s recreation, to pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations. – Drake • This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him. Conan O’Brien • Two Polish men at Halloween with burned faces. What happened? They were bobbing for french fries. – Henny Youngman • Waiting is one of life’s hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate. It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you. But to wait for one’s adopted uncle to come home while a greedy and violent man is upstairs was one of the worst waits the Baudelaires had ever experienced. – Daniel Handler • Want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female. If you want to do that, that’s fine. At our shows, it’s like a Halloween party, which isn’t a bad thing. I’d like to see more of it actually. – Twiggy • We had nine pails of candy for Halloween, now we are down to one. They go for a lot of the candy mixes. I think that they buy them for themselves sometimes. Brenda V. Smith • We post photos of the Halloween costumes and the mustaches made of cupcake frosting. We don’t record the tantrums?and that’s as it should be. But we shouldn’t mistake that for reality. It’s stagecraft. Libby Copeland • We talked to a lot of filmmakers who had worked on other anthologies and we looked at every anthology, and we wanted to just find a different way [for Tales of Halloween]. And being that unity was what the whole spirit of the project was – unity and friendship and community. – Mike Mendez • We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean. – Loretta Lynn • We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips. – Ann Hood • We’ve become great friends with Rob Zombie, and I gave him my original script for Halloween for his 40th birthday. Like, Nicolas Cage was there with a shrunken head he brought as a gift, all these things, and I’m thinking, “What can I give Rob Zombie? This is very weird.” And I just happened to look at my pile of scripts and I went, “My kids don’t need all these. I think I’ll give him my original Halloween script, since he told me that was his favorite movie, and I was his favorite actress from that time period.” I said, “He deserves to have that.” – P. J. Soles • We’ve got a major scandal with Clinton. Plus, Halloweens on a Saturday this year. – C. Sue Carter • We’ve never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we’ve done has been around a holiday – Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick’s Day. – Craig Johnson • What we think of as Halloween is really the product of media barons, city mayors, and candy-makers. You know, before the 1920s, Halloween was really a terrible, terrible night. Chuck Palahniuk • When I came off the Halloween movies, they were very stressful movies to make. That had been four very stressful years. I’m happy with how they turned out, but getting the end results took so much fighting with people and so much craziness, that at the end of it I was so burnt out. Rob Zombie • When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween. – Gavin DeGraw • When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it. R. L. Stine • When I was eighteen, River Phoenix was far and away my hero. Think of all those early great performances – My Own Private Idaho. Stand by Me. I always wanted to meet him. One night, I was at this Halloween party, and he passed me. He was beyond pale – he looked white. Before I got a chance to say hello, he was gone, driving off to the Viper Room, where he fell over and died. That’s a lesson. – Leonardo DiCaprio • When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row. – Catherine Hardwicke • When it comes to romance, I’m really simple. I am really a ‘dinner and a movie’ type of person, and I love food, so surprise me and order something different or adventurous when it comes to food, and I’m like a kid at Halloween. Sasha Grey • Who are you writing to, Linus?” “This is the time of year to write to the Great Pumpkin. On Halloween Night, the Great Pumpkin rises out of his pumpkin patch and flies through the air with his bag of toys for all the children!” “You must be crazy! When are you going to stop believing in something that isn’t true?” “When *you* stop believing in that fellow with a red suit and the white beard who goes, ‘Ho, ho, ho!'” “We’re obviously separated by denominational differences. – Charles M. Schulz • With Halloween coming this weekend, they say not one person in the country is planning to dress up as Governor Sarah Palin. You know why? … The costume costs $150,000. – Jay Leno • With Halloween on a Monday this year, that gives people a chance to have parties on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. – Suzanne Smith • With Halloween, the director was this genius wonder boy who was the writer, director, producer, along with his girlfriend. They were this team, and they were making this small movie, and it was just completely different, but it was really inspiring and a lot of fun, and also allowed me to do a lot of improvisation, because they just depended on the girls to expand their parts to bring some real life, being girls ourselves, to the characters. – P. J. Soles • With the garden I planted for the Reina Sofia, each plant related to different celebrations along the calendar – Christmas with evergreen trees, Valentine’s Day with roses, Halloween with pumpkins. All these symbols are so culturally loaded, but they are organic living entities – just like the fish in the tanks. They grow on their own. The symbolic ecosystem is growing without a narrative anymore. It’s a physical and mental landscape. – Pierre Huyghe • You kids have fun, and be home by Thanksgiving!” our parents would call to us on Halloween night, as we staggered out the front door, weighed down by hundreds of pounds of concealed vandalism supplies, including enough raw eggs to feed Somalia for decades. By morning, thanks to our efforts, the entire neighborhood would be covered with a layer of congealed shaving cream and toilet paper that, around certain unpopular neighbors’ homes, was hundreds of feet thick. This is how the Appalachian Mountains were formed.- Dave Barry • You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush – if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn’t need a costume. You’d give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There’s no doubt about it. Tommy Chong • You would think that Halloweens tomorrow because of their attempt to scare the American public. Jim Sensenbrenner • You’ll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It’s almost like Halloween during August. David Carson

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Welcome to Zucktown

By David Streitfeld, NY Times, March 21, 2018

MENLO PARK, Calif.--John Tenanes, Facebook’s vice president for real estate, is showing off the company’s plans for expansion. It will have offices for thousands of programmers to extend Facebook’s fearsome reach. But that is not what Mr. Tenanes is excited about.

He leans over a scale model of the 59-acre site, which is named Willow Village. “There will be housing there,” he points. “There will be a retail street along here, with a grocery store and a drugstore. That round building in the corner? Maybe a cultural center.”

In just a few years, Facebook built a virtual community that linked more than two billion people, an achievement with few precedents. Now the social network is building a real community, the kind you can walk around. It is a project with many precedents in American history, quite a few of them cautionary tales about what happens when a powerful corporation takes control of civic life.

Facebook, Mr. Tenanes says, has a dual mission: “We want to balance our growth with the community’s needs.”

Willow Village will be wedged between the Menlo Park neighborhood of Belle Haven and the city of East Palo Alto, both heavily Hispanic communities that are among Silicon Valley’s poorest. Facebook is planning 1,500 apartments, and has agreed with Menlo Park to offer 225 of them at below-market rates. The most likely tenants of the full-price units are Facebook employees, who already receive a five-figure bonus if they live near the office.

The community will have eight acres of parks, plazas and bike-pedestrian paths open to the public. Facebook wants to revitalize the railway running alongside the property and will finish next year a pedestrian bridge over the expressway. The bridge will provide access to the trail that rings San Francisco Bay, a boon for birders and bikers.

Mr. Tenanes contemplates the audacity of building a city.

“It’s a good thing, right?” he says.

Depends how it goes. Facebook is testing the proposition: Do people love tech companies so much they will live inside of them? When the project was announced last summer, critics dubbed it Facebookville or, in tribute to company co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, Zucktown.

The company has not warmed to these names. “I owe my soul to the company store,” Tennessee Ernie Ford sang. But Facebook’s ambitions are now confronting a more urgent problem: an escalating crisis over the company’s power to sway elections, its casual approach to data privacy and its susceptibility to Russian manipulation. If Facebook’s image is permanently sullied by the furor over Cambridge Analytica, the data firm hired by President Trump’s 2016 election campaign, Zucktown will falter before it is finished.

The social media colossus is not the only Big Tech company in the complicated position of dressing up its expansion as a gift to its neighbors.

A few miles down the 101 highway, another new civic-corporate partnership is underway in the city of Mountain View. Google is promising to place the public “in the very heart of Google’s vibrant community.”

The search company plans a 600,000-square-foot office building with a roof that melts up into soft peaks, kind of like a meringue. It will have stores, cafes, gardens and even a space for theatrical performances, as well as a place for consumers to test-drive new Google technology.

Google will build 5,000 homes on its property under an agreement brokered with Mountain View in December. Call it Alphabet City as a nod to Alphabet, Google’s corporate parent. The company said it was still figuring out its future as a landlord, and declined further comment.

Zucktown and Alphabet City, as well as similar projects being contemplated across Silicon Valley, could at a minimum have consequences for the start-up culture that transformed fruit orchards into the world’s greatest tech hub. Silicon Valley was built by engineers jumping from company to company. That drove the innovation that sped the rise of some firms and hastened the demise of others.

As workers begin to literally live at the office, they will inevitably be more beholden to bosses who also collect the rent. After all, it is much harder to find a place to live in Silicon Valley than a new job. Turnover may slump, and so might the turnover in ideas.

The push into the physical also has implications for the 1.2 million people in Silicon Valley who are teachers, fitness instructors, clerks, baristas--all those who hold jobs that do not come with stock options. As they inch down the clogged streets and bid money they don’t have on miserable houses, they will hear the siren call of Big Tech: We can fix broken communities by building new ones. Trust us.

“Corporations are paying for things that the city or county and state used to pay for,” said Cecilia Taylor of Belle Haven Action, a community advocacy group. “They have a lot of money. A lot of money. More than the city does. And a lot more power.”

On a wall in the Facebook division charged with the company’s growth there is a poster with a classic tech admonition: “Go Big or Go Home.” Facebook is in essence tweaking that to “Go Big at Home.” About 12,000 of its 25,000 employees work in Menlo Park. In a decade, it will have space for 35,000--slightly more than the city’s current population.

The notion of communities run by and for companies has been a fixture in the United States almost from the beginning. Often these places were exercises in plunder.

In the textile town of Lowell, Mass., in 1846, the mill clock slowed down to lengthen shifts and then sped up at night when the workers were off, according to one contemporary reformer. U.S. Steel built Gary, Ind., but took little responsibility for its employees, many of whom lived in substandard housing in crime-ridden neighborhoods.

There were more benign examples too. Milton Hershey began building a chocolate factory in the middle of Pennsylvania in 1903 and then surrounded it with a community where, he pledged, there would be “no poverty, no nuisances, no evil.” In return for surrendering certain rights--like local elections and privacy--workers in the town of Hershey got medical coverage, a free junior college, parks and a zoo.

By the 1960s, the era of the company town in America was fading, even as countries like China picked up the notion. Zhengzhou is a remote Chinese city that was once impoverished. It now has 350,000 workers building iPhones.

Hardy Green, author of “The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy,” said that the tech companies had been reviving elements of the company town in the United States for years now.

The free meals, nap pods, concierge services, yoga classes, on-site laundry and haircuts are a perk but also a modern way of slowing down the mill clock so the workers can spend more time working. But in a society where government is increasingly ineffective, company towns are nevertheless likely to be welcomed, or at least tolerated.

“It may be the best option for many, just as a benevolent dictatorship can be O.K. for as long as the benevolence lasts,” Mr. Green said.

Only seven years ago, Silicon Valley had a very different attitude about building housing for workers, much less the community. A gaunt Steve Jobs, in what would turn out to be his last public appearance, made his case before the Cupertino City Council for a new Apple headquarters.

Mr. Jobs told council members how great the new doughnut-shaped headquarters was going to be. It would have a lot of trees, a theater, curved windows. Architecture students would come from all over to study it.

City Council member Kris Wang had a question: How could the 60,000 Cupertino residents benefit from this new campus?

“We’d like to continue to stay here and pay taxes,” Mr. Jobs said. “If we can’t, we’d have to go somewhere like Mountain View.”

Ms. Wang, a former Cupertino mayor, persisted. “Do we get free Wi-Fi or something like that?”

“I’m a simpleton,” Mr. Jobs replied. “I always had this view that we pay taxes and the city should do those things. That’s why we pay taxes. If we can get out of paying taxes I’d be glad to put up a Wi-Fi network.”

Since that June 2011 meeting, the number of hours commuters in Silicon Valley lose every day to congestion has doubled to 66,000. About 300,000 new jobs have been created, pushing the median apartment rental rate up 37 percent and the median cost of a home to $968,000.

Meanwhile, the big companies--not only Apple but Amazon, which has an increasingly large presence in Silicon Valley, as well as Facebook and Google--are much wealthier.

Apple built a $5 billion campus that, for all its splendor, is not readily accessible by mass transit. That problem was compounded by the company’s apparent lack of interest in where its new employees would live. Decisions like these are no longer acceptable from a public relations point of view, and would not be smart for the companies in any case. If Silicon Valley continues choking on its traffic, the companies will find hiring not merely difficult but impossible. Even for a tech programmer, a $2 million house is a hurdle.

So the virtual companies are being forced to grapple with the most intractable physical issues.

“I don’t think Google, for instance, thought they were going to have to get into the transportation business,” said Allison Arieff, editorial director of San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, a research organization. “But they now have a giant swath of the company devoted to getting people around. Housing seems the next step. No one bats an eye if universities build housing for students, grad students and tenured professors.”

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Judges 2:10-3:31 ~ Luke 22:14-34 ~ Psalm 92:1-93:5 ~ Proverbs 14:1-2

Today is the 23rd day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Here we are, friends, the threshold of a shiny new week and I love the reset of that. We get to step through and live into a new week. It is not yet written. We have not yet lived it. It is waiting for us and every choice that we make is going to make up the week we are about to live and I like it because we can choose now how we’re going to live. So one of the things that we’re going to do as we step through this threshold of a new week is really open up a new chapter, a new season in the Old Testament, a new season in the life of the children of Israel who are newly settled into the promised land. We ended the book of Joshua yesterday with the death of Joshua and we begin today with the book of Judges.

Introduction of a New Book (Old Testament)

The book of Judges from a traditional perspective was authored by the prophet Samuel. Modern scholarship does not really feel that he could be the sole author of the book. They theorize that there are many sources where it came from, but the book of Judges is a whole lot somber than Joshua with all its drama and conquest. Judges is what comes next and we’re going to watch the children of Israel as they fall away and suffer some of the consequences of this back and forth that has been and continues to become their story.

It's not a book of judgment per se. It's not called Judges because of judgment but is warnings that God passes on to the children of Israel. It's called Judges because it is the story of the 13 judges that led the children of Israel after Joshua. They didn’t have a king yet and so they were ruled by these judges. The culminating story in the book of Judges illustrates how one thing builds on another, each decision bearing weight on a great outcome, just like we were talking about as we crossed the threshold into this new week, how subtle decisions by seemingly unrelated and really relatively unimportant people ended up bringing on the terrible annihilation of an entire tribe of Israel.

The book itself was probably written about 1000 BC, so it was 3000 years ago. It is obviously a long time and the irony of that is that although we’re looking back across several thousand years, we’ll have no problem finding ourselves in this book. It resonates with all of our stories. We all have the ebb and flow, the back and forth in this faith journey and we’ve all been able to experience some of the repercussions of allowing that relationship with God to falter as we falter in it and at the same time God's arm is never not outstretched. His words are never not “return to me, come back.” “Please, please come back, my beloved.” His love is no less profound and we’ll find that to be true in the book of Judges.

So we’ll read from The Voice translation this week as we begin Judges chapter 1, verse 1 through chapter 2, verse 9 today.

Prayer

Father, we thank you for this new week, these new mile markers, these new thresholds that we step through that offer us a reset. And as we move into this new book, this new era in the lives of the children of Israel and what comes next after Joshua, we invite your Holy Spirit, because so many of the behaviors, so many of the postures of heart, so many of the activities, they mimic ourselves. They mimic our own lives with different clothes on. So we invite your Holy Spirit to come, to guide and lead us through this week. We consecrate this week to you. We offer it to you now. We offer our lives as a living sacrifice in advance and ask that every word of our mouths, every meditation of our hearts be acceptable to you, Lord, for you are our strength and our redeemer. So come Holy Spirit in every thought, word and deed this week. Show us what to do and what to not do. Show us what to undo. Show us how to live in your kingdom as your ambassadors this week. We ask in the mighty name of Jesus and by his authority, amen.

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Hello, good morning Daily Audio Bible family. This is Jay calling from New Jersey. It's been a long time since I’ve called in, but I'm calling today because I really, really, really want to talk to Mark S. from Australia. Mark S., man, listen, brother, congratulations, man, on being convicted. Most people would shudder at the thought of coming to their brothers and sisters in Christ and first of all, confessing, and then also making yourself accountable. So praise God. Congratulations over the power of the devil because you and I know that Satan will utilize these times that we fall weak and fall prey to sin and hold them over our heads and make us think that we can’t come to God for forgiveness or we can’t come to our brothers and sisters. But Mark, I understand and I want you to reach out to me. My email address is [email protected]. I'm willing to be your accountability partner, brother, so let me just pray for you now. Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we praise you God. We honor you and we love you. Father, we just confess now of any sin that we have committed as well in our hearts, in our flesh that is contrary to your word and to your love. Father, we thank you for Mark S. We thank you for his confession. We thank you for his accountability and we thank you for your grace and your forgiveness. And then Father, we just lift up Mark S. and we lift up myself and we lift up our friends and we lift up our family members and we lift up anyone who is struggling with anything that they just fall prey to. God, we submit it to you and we just ask that you will strengthen each and every one of us. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.

Hey Daily Audio Bible family. This is Stanley from Maryland. This is a prayer of thanksgiving, a call of thanksgiving really. I'm just overwhelmed with the persistent fervent prayer of everyone calling in and now that this is my second year listening to the Daily Audio Bible, I really just want to say well done. Man, how God has shown his face and he is moving. I want to share a quick word with you. Revelation 3:20 says behold, I stand at the door and knock. It's talking about him. He stands at the door and he knocks and he knocks on the door of our hearts and it says that he wants to come in and have a meal with us. I’ve been praying and seeking God a lot and he's been showing me that he is faithful and that he is always ready to come in and to spend time with us, that he is a God of relationship, not a God of… I made the mistake and I had to repent. I was thinking that he was just a God for me to get what I wanted. Like this job teaching in Southeast Washington, D.C., it didn’t really work out. Unfortunately, I had to leave, but it has been such a blessing and now I'm looking for a new position, but I'm seeking God not for what he is going to give me, even though I believe that I am going to get a new job, but I'm seeking him just out of pure relationship because that is what he wants to have with me. He wants to come in my heart and he wants to have a meal and he wants to sit down and talk to me. That's my word. Have a good rest of the day. Bye.

Yeah, hello. This is Steve from South Central Pennsylvania, Franklin County. It's a first time call, but I’ve been listening to Daily Audio Bible with my wife for about eight years. I'm calling in regard to my daughter-in-law, Anna, her and my son, Josiah, had a beautiful baby girl on April Fool's Day and tomorrow will be three weeks. She had to have an emergency C-section and it was a pretty traumatic birth and has had a hard time healing and getting on top of the pain resulting from the surgery and I would like the DAB community to join us in praying that she is able to get past the pain, that the pain will leave, and that she will be able to have joy and being able to hold her baby much more than she is now able to and that you give my son patience and love to give her as he ministers to her. Just pray that with me now. Lord Jesus, I ask that your healing power would cover Anna. Lord, that you would give her your peace. Lord, help her to rejoice in you and not fall prey to the despair that she ___. Lord, strengthen her each day. I pray that you strengthen Josiah, that you give him all the love that he needs from yourself to give to Anna during this time of restoration and healing and, Lord, that they would be able to love on their baby, Josanna. Pray this in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Good morning everyone. This is Elaine from Victoria. I heard Mike call about his brother, Greg, and to Shanna, his wife with cancer. My brother had cancer and I wished they would have known the Lord at this time, but I want to give you a scripture to encourage and help you. And I ask the Lord of peace to be upon you, Michael, and Greg and Shanna. And this is the scripture, Isaiah 41:10. It says do not fear for I am with you. Do not be dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. I’ve asked the Lord about fasting and I'm going to fast for you and for my own family, two are the alcoholics, and I'm going to fast according to the Lord, how he wants me to do it. So bless you guys, all of you at Daily Audio Bible. Bye now.

Hi Daily Audio Bible family. This is Sam calling from Vancouver, also I am in my workplace here in Portland. I'm calling because I heard Tony from Southern California. You called in about a month ago on the podcast in regard to your marriage. Tony, I just want to let you know, man, you are a warrior. I can tell that in your voice. You will be fighting for the honor of your wife and your kids. I just get that sense that you are the kind of man who is that and that is who you are. So I’ll be praying for you, thinking of you and for your wife, that you would just sense his presence, your wife would and your kids would and you would draw strength from that in that moment. And also the listener who called in who is with the native people and wanted to encourage them. Thank you for calling in and I second that. Just appreciate you calling that out. Thanks so much, DAB family, for being present and thanks for being in my life, just each one of you for being who you are. It's just a beautiful tapestry and I know God is just loving this. So thanks to all. I love you guys. From Sam, Sidney, Grace, Serena and Judah. Much love to my wife who finally called in. So from Sam, Sidney, Grace, Serena and Judah, we love you guys. God bless you.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family. This is Candace from Oregon and it's heavy on my heart because my husband and I have three really beautiful children and the second one has just been so loving and helpful and caring toward me as we have lost her dad, my husband, on March 11. So she wasn’t until yesterday able to really talk about her own loss, which is really difficult because of unfinished business, things that really required some confrontation. So would you please come with me now in prayer for her? Lord, I pray for this beautiful, beautiful woman who struggles so hard. I pray that you will break, Lord, every barrier that keeps her from you and that she will find ways to confront the arrows of her own childhood, times of neglect and mistreatment. I pray, Lord, that the life and death and resurrection of your son will be everything to create that reconciliation and the hope and the future and the wholeness that she needs and that can come only from you, Lord. I pray that you’ll show up for her in unmistakable ways. In Jesus’ name and for his sake and to his honor and glory.

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