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brightbeautifulthings · 1 year

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The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike

"In that minute, Ilonka both found and lost something precious, a friend more dear than all the gems in all the wide world. 'Found' because she had loved him at first sight, and 'lost' because he was obviously a patient and was presumably going to die."

Year Read: before 2006, 2022

Rating: 5/5

About: Rotterdam Hospice is a place for teenagers with terminal illnesses, and it's home to The Midnight Club, where five teens meet at midnight to share scary stories. They make a pact that the first among them to die will try to contact the others from the afterlife. Trigger warnings: character death, child death, suicide, overdose, guns/mass shootings, drug/alcohol use, terminal illnesses, cancer, AIDS, paralysis, amputation, grief, guilt.

Thoughts: This has long been one of my favorite Christopher Pike novels, and I was excited to reread it in preparation for the upcoming Netflix show. It's one of his sadder and less frightening novels, but it's a prime example of the blend of philosophy and spiritualism that permeates his work. It's almost never overtly religious, and neither is The Midnight Club; it's more an examination of possible afterlives, questioned by the people who are most likely to be deeply concerned about that issue: the dying.

Understandably, it's a very sad book, and I spend the second half of it bawling every time I read it. It's difficult to watch Ilonka cling to herbal cures and the hope that she might be getting better. The characters' storytelling takes up as much or more page-time than the actual events, which take place over a very short span of time. In the first half, I felt they were overwhelming the actual characters, and I wanted to spend more time getting to know them. By the second, however, I was grateful for the stories providing some breathing room from the heavy grief of the novel.

Pike is fond of his stories-within-stories, and he's in his element here. While I doubt some of them, like Spence's trigger happy mass shooter on top of the Eiffel Tower, would go over as well with modern audiences, the stories are often insightful looks into the characters' connections and personalities, particularly with Ilonka's and Kevin's. It's like Pike to venture into past lives, and it's a thoughtful, haunting, and ultimately hopeful study on death and afterlives, with a beautiful bit of symbolism at the end that has stayed with me for years. We have the sense that the characters have been here before and will be again, and while that’s never easy, somehow it's okay. It will always be a favorite.

#book review #the midnight club #christopher pike #horror fiction #ya horror #5/5 #rating: 5/5 #2022 #before 2006

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jaythelay · 7 months

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Microtransaction skins were made as an experiment to see just how gullible the average consumer is, to enable worse.

You cannot convince me otherwise. It's basically fact you have to think very little of yourself to enable companies with such immoral anti-consumerism.

"games cost alo-"

They choose the budget. (and the poor wages and hours and deadlines and blacklistings and pizza firing parties and sexual harra-)

It's a fucking

Game.

It doesn't need more than 10k and some free taco bell for 4 people in a garage.

It's ART.

Your art doesn't need the best canvas material in the world, my dumbass can make whatever you want in MSpaint.

It may not have the fancy technology work behind it, but it costed me nothing and you're 6000$ in the hole on just the canvas nobody can even tell the quality of, not even you.

To then charge them per square inch of visibility? It's not even art at that point, just a social ladder piece people pretend to care about.

I'll just put mine online for free. Fuck you. And fuck your enablers.

#I was reading my old n shit PD2 review from when Overkill overkilledthemselves #and saw TF:GO #and totally forgot that was one of the things that worsened TF2 #Like #man #TF2 always had the go to excuse of weapon and weapon drops #now you have to PAY for skins and like #dude #it's just depressing #It's seriously one of those discussions that's too hard to have with the children that enable and defend it #like you have to start by telling them what having standards and caring about yourself is #then tell them to develop an ego #that they can in fact use against companies instead of whatever “other” they deem worthless #and not be a pay piggy useful idiot #Then you have to explain that giving any company the chance to nickel and dime you only enables further anti-consumer ism #that skins would have been in-game content day one no cost no preorder or liver transplant #before 2006 #then you have to remember #you're talking to indoctrinated kids that the adults from your childhood failed to protect #that standards are currently so #so depressingly low #that you have to #again #explain what standards and giving a shit about yourself even means #it's just...#heart breaking #and microtransactions #especially skins #are just another reminder #that not only did the adults of my childhood fail

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braxlrose · 10 months

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YALL???? THE V LINE?! OH MY GOD IM CUMMING

✮ summary: you and Bill were making out when you finally take it to the next level

cw: p in v sex, oral (f and m recieving), kissing, swearing, dirty talk, cum eating, nipple play, smut, fingering, bill ooc?? idrk, hickies, bills experienced lmao 💀, reader is a virgin but still knows some stuff

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You and Bill had been dating for a couple months now and it has been amazing. He was so sweet and kind. And crazy hot. You two met at a music festival and he was in love w/ you the second he saw you. Like I've mentioned before, Bill believes in love at first sight.

Everything had been so great, he brought you out to restaurants and you hung out w/ him and the band whenever you could and they all loved you. Tom and you became really good friends since you were dating his brother. You couldn't imagine anything better. You had other boyfriends before Bill but nobody was like him. He was the greatest boyfriend you could ever ask for.

Whenever you were tense from whatever he would always lay you down and give you massages, or if you were hungry he'd bring you out to get food. If he didn't have a lot of money you two would stop at McDonald's and order a bunch of stuff. He loves kissing you.

He's so good at it, I can't even explain it. His lips are so soft and he always knows where to kiss your neck to make you feel so good.

Which is what led to this.

You and Bill were in his hotel room making out. He had already taken your shirt and pants off so you were just laying there in your bra and panties. He got you specially made ones that say his name because it makes him go feral. Honestly, he wants his name tattooed on your body. To show everybody you're his. Bill isn't the confrontational possessive type, but he likes, no loves the idea of everybody knowing you're his and only his.

"You look so sexy.." he whispers to you, kissing down your jawline and nibbling on your earlobe, "..look so fucking good underneath me." You lean your head back and move your hair out of the way as he finds your sweet spot.

"Bill~..god s'good...you're always so good." You run your fingers through his hair and close your eyes, "I never wanna leave this moment, never ever. You..oh god-" he bites down on your neck.

"Mmm..found it.." you can feel him smirking against your neck, sucking harder and harder. Your breathing becomes harsher and your thighs squeeze together. It doesn't take long for bill to notice.

"Awh..you want me to touch you? Hmm? Come on schatz, tell me where you want me to touch you." He stops sucking on your neck and instead brings his face right in front of yours so you two are both staring into eachothers eyes, "I know you can do it.." he whispers, placing a little kiss on your nose and running his finger tips down your cheek.

"You know where..you asshole." You reply, biting down on your lip and running your hands up his chest.

"Oh but I wanna hear it..come on? Can't you do that for me?" You look up at him with puppy dog eyes as he speaks. He speaks so sensually, it's practically addicting. His voice is so sexy and oh god..the way he's looking at you is making you melt. You lean in closer to him until you lips are almost pressed together and look him straight in the eyes.

"I want you to suck on my clit and fuck me dumb until I can't think of anything but you.." he just smirked at you and started to kiss down your chest.

"Can I take this off?" He looks up at you, playing with the clip of your bra. All you do his nod as he snaps it off and tosses it to the other side of the room. He keeps kissing around your breasts, squeezing and nibbling on them until he reaches your nipples. They're so pretty..so beautiful. He places little kitten licks on them as he looks up at you. Your lip is on the verge of bleeding from how hard your biting down. Bill stretches his arm up to your face and caresses your cheek to get your attention. You look down at him as he smiles at you.

"Let them hear you...it doesn't matter to me." He mumbles, biting down on your nipple. You gasp and lean your head back. Moans come dripping out of your mouth like honey.

After a couple minutes, he trailed his kisses down to your stomach and finally to your core. He could feel your heat through your panties. But Bill's a little asshole. He couldn't help but tease you. Especially since you sound so pretty.

He kissed down you thighs as more and more moans rolled off your tongue. Leaving hickies all over them. That was gonna hurt like a bitch in the morning. His fingers traveled up your body like an angels finger tips, just barely touching you. He was such a fucking tease.

After his awful; sexy and hot, teasing, he pulled down your panties and placed little kisses on your cunt before sucking on your clit. Your body jolted as he sucked on all of your bursting nerves down there. It had felt like nothing before. You've tried to do it yourself but it never felt as good as this. Never felt as good as bill.

"That feel good? Tell me how good it feels schatzi." He mumbled against your clit, swirling his tongue in figure eights and slowly slipping one finger into you. He finger fucked you so good. He did everything good.

"S'good bill, making me feel s'good," you gasp as he moves his mouth down to your hole and shoves his tongue in, "Augh! Bill!" Your breathing becomes heavier and heavier and you can feel yourself getting closer and closer to your release as he presses harshly against your clit with his thumb. Tears form on your waterline. He was so good with you. So sweet, so sexy, so perfect. You don't know how you got so lucky to be with someone like him. He fucked your hole with his tongue and gripped your thighs like his life depended on it.

"Bill...fuck..I think I'm getting close. S'close." Those gushing tears dripped down your cheeks as you finally came. Your breathing was uneven and your eyes felt all glossy. You couldn't see much besides bill licking up what dripped out of you. You could feel him rising up and kissing you all the lips.

"You taste so good..wanna taste yourself hmm?" He asked you, slipping his tongue past your swollen lips as you nodded like the dumb slut you are. He ran his fingers up your neck and through into your hair. He closed his eyes and pushed his crotch closer to yours.

"This isn't fair." You muttered to him, stopped the kiss.

"What isnt?" He asked, tucking a piece of hair behind your ear. You looked up at him and pouted.

"I'm completely naked, and your still dressed. I wanna see something too y'know." He looked into your eyes and started laughing. God, his laugh was so cute and sexy. He sat up, now sitting against you and his crotch pushing against your now uncovered cunt as he peeled off his shirt. You bit your lip gazing at him. He was super jacked, but he had visible muscles. Sexy muscles...

Your eyes followed down to his crotch. His cock was so hard and you could see the wet spot where pre-cum had come out of. His dick looked huge. I mean, you knew he was big..but my god. You reached your hand down to lightly glide over his dick.. "s'pretty." You mumbled to yourself causing bill to smile down at you.

"You got condoms?" He asked, still smiling and looking down at you. You nodded and pointed to the drawer next to you.

"In there." He leaned over and opened up the drawer. He ripped off one from the 6 pack you had and sat back up. He was about to rip it open before you stopped him. You looked up at his big, brown eyes and pulled yourself up to have your faces closer to eachother.

"I wanna taste you too.." his eyes widened as you spoke.

"Are you sure..?" He looked at you with some worry on his face, "you don't have to if you don't want to. I don't want to make you feel like you need to so-" you shushed bill and kissed him on his lips.

"I want to...please bill?" You kissed him again, this time now rubbing his cock with your hands, "please let me suck your cock?" A big smile grew on his face as he got off of you and sat on the edge of the bed. You got down on your knees and sat in front of him. You brought your hands up to his jeans the pulled them down his legs before they were completely off. You began to kiss up his thighs as he gripped the sheets of the bed. You looked so beautiful. It didn't matter if you two were throwing mud at eachother or doing the dirtiest, sluttiest thing alive. You always looked so sweet and beautiful in his eyes.

You finally reached his crotch and pulled down his boxers. His dick sprung out of his boxers and almost hit you in the face. His eyes widened in horror.

"Oh my god! Are you okay?! I'm so sorry." You just looked up at him and laughed, which made him laugh. "I'm okay bill..don't worry." You said to him, slowly picking up his dick and wrapping your hands around it. You slowly began sucking on the tip which made his head fall backwards and his eyes roll to the back of his head. The more you sucked the more his moans got higher and higher. Then you slowly took your lips off his dick and spit into your hands. You began to pump his dick and slowly bring his cock into your mouth. Putting in a bit more than just his tip.

It felt so good. But you were going so. fucking. slow. If it wasn't your first time, and he knew you were okay with it he would've been face fucking you at this point. Bill gripped the sheets as hard as he could to keep himself from grabbing your hair. You could see the veins in his hands popping out, so you sped up your pace and pumped him harder.

"Oh~ fuck..oh mein Gott- Meine liebling..augh.." he was shaking at this point until he finally came. He came in your mouth which you were totally not expecting and ended up choking. Cum dripped from out of your mouth onto the ground as you coughed. Bill took notice and grabbed tissues. "Shit! I'm so sorry..I didn't even realize." You licked your lips and smiled up at him.

"It's okay bill..I'm okay. Was it good?" You asked, standing up and wiping your chin. He nodded fast and kisses your lips. Bill then laid you down on the hotel bed and grabbed the condom.

"You ready?" He muttered to you while putting on the condom. You took a deep breath in and held his hands.

"Yeah I'm ready, go ahead." He kissed your forehead and aligned his dick up with your pussy. Then slowly pushed himself in. You squealed at the feeling and gasped. Bill noticed almost immediately and looked up at you. "Are you okay? Did I hurt you? Should I pull out?!" You shook your head and pulled him closer. Keep going. You whispered to him and kisses him on his lips. He kept pushing himself into you until he was finally balls deep. He gave you a minute to get used to the feeling and waited for the okay to move. Once you nodded to him, he began to thrust into you. His cock was throbbing and twitching inside of you. I mean what do you expect he's a teenage boy. But God, you felt so amazing. So wet and the way your pussy wrapped around his dick. It's like you were made for him.

So pretty. So gorgeous. All mine. Mine. My pretty. He whispered to you, thrusting deep and hard. You two were holding hands and everything was so messy. Saliva and spit were all over both of your faces as you two kisses. It was perfect and everything you ever dreamed of. He made this so special and perfect for you. You always wanted to wait for the right guy even while tons of girls had been losing their virginity at your age already. Any of the guys you dated before were nothing compared to bill. Bill was your everything. Crazy. That was crazy considered you two are only been together for a few months but that didn't matter. You two hadn't said I love you yet but you knew you did. There was no possible way you couldn't love him. He was your soul mate..and you were his.

A/N: I hope you liked this!!! Ty so much for all the support you guys have given me so far, this has been so amazing. IM SO BAD AT ENDINGS IM SORRY LMFAO

#tokio hotel #bill kaulitz #tokio hotel x reader #tokio hotel smut #bill kaulitz x reader #bill kaulitz smut #smut #fluff #bill kaulitz being sexy as hell #2007 bill kaulitz #2006 bill kaulitz #yall i guess this was before he got his star tattoo #damn #thats crazy #tokio hotel fanfics #tokio hotel edits #bill kaulitz edits

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roe-and-memory · 9 months

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this was my first cars art ever (march) and its louise nash!

i drew it cause memory said, and i quote "i love her backstory of just going out on the track with a number pasted on her car and entering herself in a race bc she wanted to" and we concluded that she wore a pretty dress just because she Can and she slayed

#cars 2006 #cars fanart #cars 3 (2017)#digital painting #drawing #cars fandom #louise nash #why was this so unintentionally barbie core i drew this before any of the trailers were out #ik this attire doesnt quite make sense for this activity #but in my defense i like pretty dresses

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eopederson · 10 months

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Postcard: Casa de la Libertad, Sucre, Bolivia.

"Patio del claustro con la torre zse las iglesia de San Miguel."

"El edificio conocido como Casa de la Libertad fue el lugar en el que se firmó el Acta de la Independencia del Alto Perú (actualmente Bolivia) en 1825. En este edificio se redactó la primera constitución de Bolivia a partir de ese momento y hasta 1898 se reunió el Congreso Boliviano. Se encuentra ubicada en la Plaza 25 de mayo, en el centro de la ciudad de Sucre, capital de Bolivia."

#postcard #cityscape #historical site #casa de ls libertad #sucre #chuquisaca #bolivia #before 2006

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brightbeautifulthings · 1 year

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Fall Into Darkness by Christopher Pike

"That night, she had learned in a way she would never forget what it was like to fall into darkness."

Year Read: before 2006, 2023

Rating: 3/5

About: Ann Rice is dead. Her best friend, Sharon McKay, is on trial for her murder. Nobody saw Sharon push Ann over the cliff. Their friends only heard them arguing, before Ann shouted, "Don't!" and screamed as she fell. Sharon insists she must have committed suicide, but the truth is far more twisted. Trigger warnings: character death, dead body (on page), suicide, severe injury, violence, guns/knives, eye horror, blood, police.

Thoughts: Rereading books I read in high school is always such a ride. I remembered the overall premise of this book but little else about it, including the end. After reading it again, it's pretty clear to me why that happened, since the premise is the strongest thing about it. There's something so compelling about Ann's revenge plot, and I enjoyed the way Pike set it up as a back and forth of court room scenes and the actual night to maximize the suspense. Sharon's lawyer is less a character than a funny, useful device for delivering plot twists, and it works.

Pike does a nice job setting up Sharon and Ann's friendship and motivations. Despite the extremeness of Ann's plan, I always felt like I knew exactly why she was doing what she did, and it makes it easier to suspend disbelief. Unfortunately, this isn't the case for the real villain of the novel. The book hangs on to that surprise for so long that, not only did I not remember who it was, I had no idea why they were doing any of the totally bonkers things they were doing. Well-developed villains are imperative in horror/thrillers for me, but it's a fun ride overall, if a bit silly by the end.

#book review #fall into darkness #christopher pike #ya horror #ya thriller #3/5 #rating: 3/5 #before 2006 #2023

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alexbrokenn · 4 days

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man my life is shit but i drew super sons