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risingwiththeheatabove · 1 year

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A Little Honey - Chapter 6 - The Christmas Special - Part 2

Pairing: Josh X Reader

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Warnings for series: Alcoholism, toxic parents, domestic abuse, drug use, alcohol use, explicit sexual content, NSFW, smut, unprotected sex, fingering, oral, blood kink, praise kink, daddy kink, and probably so much more that I am forgetting

Word Count 3.2K

A/N I will be starting a tag list for this series. For those who would like to join please message me or comment. As always thank you for all of the positivity. Peace and love.

In a moment of bravery you set down your beer and pulled him over to the Photo Booth. You pushed him playfully to sit down as you closed the curtain behind you. His hands met your hips as you straddled his lap. Your face hovering just over his. You stare at his lips, a grin still sits upon them. Just before your lips touch his, you dive toward his neck. Peppering it with small kisses and nips. Your fingers find his curls as you pull his head back slightly, a moan passes his lips. Pleased with yourself you pull again, this time meeting his lips with yours. His hands trail up to your waist. Grinding you down into him. You slip a hand down to undo his belt. Just then. BANG BANG. You hear someone smacking the outside of the booth.

“Umm whenever you guys are… done… in there… food is ready.” Hannah said giving her best attempt at holding back laughter. You could hear the rest of the group snickering close behind her.

“I think we have been caught.” Josh says through a grin as he leans in for another kiss. His neck and face smudged with red lip stick. You stand from his lap and he goes to do the same.

“Hold on!” You say before he opens the curtain. He shoots you a cheeky smile and cocks an eyebrow. You turn on the Photo Booth, wanting to document Josh’s current state. You both do a few goofy poses as the camera shutters. Josh pulls you in for another kiss as the photo’s continue. You pick your favorites to print. One strip for each of you. You quickly step out and grab them before anyone else can. You lead Josh to the bathroom to clean him up.

“It’s a shame, I really liked that color on you.” He said gently grabbing your bottom lip between his thumb and forefinger.

“Hmm I like it better on you.” You say pressing a small kiss to his thumb and then his lips. You finish cleaning him up and then touch up your make up. Forgoing any more lip products for the evening, knowing they won’t last. You work your way back to the table.

“Weren’t you wearing lipstick earlier?” Hannah begins badgering you before can even sit down.

“Oh wait! Here it is!” Jake says wiping a finger across a spot on Josh’s neck you must have missed. Jake pleased with him self flashes a big grin.

“How did that get there?!” Josh said pretending to act surprised. He placed a hand on your thigh as he sat down next to you.

The entire meal consisted of the group ribbing you and Josh. You were beet red by the end and Josh was not far off.

“Nora just text! They are on the way!” Jita announced to the group.

You quickly cleared the table and brought out the giant cake Nora had ordered. Placing what felt like a hundred candles on it. You begin lighting the candles as you hear a car door slam shut outside.

“They’re here!” Sam cheers much too loud.

“This place doesn’t even look open.” Danny said to Nora as they approached the front door. You all had done a great job hiding your vehicles.

“It said online it was.” She says trying not to laugh as she opens the door. Danny follows her into the dark building.

“Surprise!” Everyone says in unison as the lights come on. The group erupts into Happy Birthday as Danny approaches his cake. He laughs as he reads the phrase Nora choose to put on top. Happy Birthday Danny! Hope your day is a good as your dick! Your sister, the romantic.

“You guys are the best!” He says in the warmest tone.

“You deserve it! Though Nora did most of the heavy lifting!” You tease offering him a hug. Nora joins in for a group hug between the three of you. You return back to Josh who slips a hand around your waist and kisses you.

“Excuse me?! Did I miss something?!” Nora shouts. Josh shoots her a wink and she looks at Danny who is also utterly confused. They shrug it off and begin to cut the cake. Josh grabs a piece for the two of you to share. You sit on his lap and playfully place icing on his lips before licking it off. “Okay guys, what the fuck?” Nora asks again.

“No more rules.” You say in a hum returning your attention back to Josh.

“Thank fucking god!” She said as she grabbed her own piece joining Danny.

“Alright I need to steal your girlfriend for some business.” Jake said placing a hand on Josh’s shoulder. “Come on sweetheart.” He continued, waving you over to the pool table. You saw Josh tense his jaw at the nickname his brother had always called you. Giving a consoling kiss you hop up and join the group in the billiard room. You pair up into your usual teams. You and Hannah start by playing Jake and Danny. The game felt like it took forever. Josh placing little touches here and there as he passed you. You thought it would distract you but you played your best game yet and beat the guys once more. Josh had similar luck at his table. Jake and Danny then played Josh and Sam in a very heated round. The girls found a table to watch the theatrics of the boys game. Though several rules were broken and new ones even made, Josh and Sam were victorious.

“What do you say, Honey?” Josh said handing you a pool cue.

“I say your ass is grass Kiszka!” You hop over accepting the challenge. You go to break and Josh stands directly behind you. You feel the heat off of his hips. As you shoot you decide to push your hips back into his.

“Get a fucking room!” Sam says pretending to puke.

“Gladly.” Josh responds with a naughty grin.

You continue to tease one another through out the game.

Josh is about to make the winning shot when you whisper in his ear, “If you miss this.. you can cum inside.” You taunt causing him to scratch in shock of what he just heard.

“That was not fair! She…” Josh yelled stopping himself before sharing what you said. “…She cheated!”

“Oh don’t be a sore loser Joshie.” You shoot him a wink as you sink the winning ball.

“You are going to pay for that Honey.” He says with nothing but lust in his voice.

“Hmm what do you have in mind?” You ask pulling at his belt.

“Get the keys.” He says grabbing your chin while his tongue glides along his lower lip.

You dance over to Nora and hold an open hand out in front of her.

“Keys please.” You say in a singsong tone.

“Seriously? You guys are going to leave me here?! You owe me big time!” Nora whines placing the keys in your hand. You would feel guilty for leaving her but you knew the group would make sure she got back to the hotel safe. You jiggle the keys in the air like a cat toy. Josh prances after you as you head to the Jeep. You hum pleasantly as you feel him catch your waist. You spin around to meet his lips with yours. You tease him slowly with your tongue sliding against his. He presses your back against the Jeep door. The cold metal makes contact with your bare shoulders sending a chill down your spine. Josh reaches behind you to pop the door open just slightly. He pulls your body closer to his while he opens the door.

“Get in.” He demands playfully. He meets you with another passionate kiss upon your lips before he helps you into your seat. He gets in the drivers seat and before he can buckle in you are peppering his neck with kisses and love bites. “Honey if you keep that up we are not going to make it to the hotel.” He says as he attempts to keep his composure, though a small almost inaudible moan sneaks out.

“Fine by me.” You hum as you return to his lips.

“I have thought about this for far to long to have our first time be in my car.” He pulls your face away from his just far enough to talk. You rest your forehead on his in playful defeat. He grabs your chin in his hand, giving a single kiss before starting the car.

“Care to share what you have thought about?” You jest, with a small smirk. Reaching a hand out to play with the soft curls that meet his neck.

“I would prefer to just show you.” He says biting his lip and leaning into your touch.

The ride back to the hotel felt like a life time. You finally arrived and Josh sprinted out of the drivers side to open your door. He held your hand as you stepped out. The second your feet hit the asphalt he had you scooped up bridal style carrying you towards the hotel room. You held on tight and enjoyed the ride. Josh had a devilish grin across his face the entire walk to the room. He opens the door some how with out dropping you and carries you to his bed. You sit at the end of the bed with your legs off the end. The inside of legs meet the outside of your thighs. He is out of breath as he looks down at you through his loose curls. You reach up and slowly start lifting his shirt. Your lips trail behind your fingers as his velvet skin is exposed. His muscle twitch with excitement under your touch. His head falls back and eyes closes as he takes in the feeling of your lips. You lift his shirt off and begin removing his belt. Just as your fingers undo the buckle his lips meet yours as if he can not wait a second longer. Your tongue finds his once more and your hands trail his bare back. He places one hand in your hair while the other trails down to the button of your pants. You quickly meet his hand with your as you undo them. Kicking off your docs you pull your pants off and chucking them across the room.

“Someone is a little eager!” Josh teases.

“That is an understatement.” You say as you begin to remove your body suit.

“Let me.” Josh says as his hands meet your shoulders. He stands you up in front of him as he pulls each of your arms out agonizingly slow. The grin on his face informs you he is enjoying this game. As he hooks his fingers into the collar you shimmy as he pulls it down your torso. You step out and stand in-front of him completely naked. His hands trail your body, cupping your breasts then molding to your curves. “Better than I could have ever imagined.” He cooed into your ear. You meet his lips again as his hands find the small of your back. He lifts you onto the bed and sets you down gently on the pillows. Moving to your neck he sucks small hickeys as he works down to your chest. Wrapping his lips around your nipple he flicks it with his tongue causing you to squirm. Pleased with your reaction his fingers finds the other one and mimic his tongue.

“Josh.” Escapes you through a breathy moan.

“Yes Honey?” He teases, flashing you a smile.

“I need you. Now.”

“Where do you want me mama?” You can’t help but blush at the new nickname. Josh notices your reaction. “Do you like that mama?” He says as his fingers slide down into your folds. He gathers up your slick with two fingers and places them into his mouth. “ mmmm sweet like honey. Is all of this for me?” You nod as he asks as, he returns his fingers to your clit. He slowly works it in circles as he climbs over you. His face hovering just above yours. Another moan passes your lips. “That’s it mama, I wanna hear all of your pretty sounds.” His mouth finding yours as you desperately reach for his belt once more. He pulls away and makes quick work of removing his shoes and pants.

“Who is eager now?” You joke.

“I never said I wasn’t.” He laughs at himself as he crawls back on to the bed. He was even bigger than his jumpsuits ever alluded to.

“Lay down for me.” You instruct him as you sit up to meet him.

“Oh no. You are still in trouble for earlier!”

“What are you going to do about it?” You ask as you slide on top of him. A short smack of his hand meets your ass. You bite your bottom lip as you let out a lust filled whimper. He watches you as if he can not take his eyes off of you.

“I think you like that a little too much for it to be considered a punishment.” He teases as he pulls your hips down to meet his and in one motion flips you onto your back. “Now be good and let me take care of you.” He says as he crawls down to your core. He flashes you a wink before placing a soft kiss on the inside of your thigh. His warm breath filling up the space between your legs as his tongue finds your clit. You buck your hips into his face and arch your back. His hands find your hips to hold you. You place one hand in his hair and the other meets his forearm. He lets you ride his face for a moment before he takes over and works you towards your climax.

“Josh… I…. I am going to..” You manage to get out through moans and whimpers.

“Cum for me mama.” He interrupts and continues working you through your orgasm. He licks at your entrance swallowing down your slick as if it were honey. “You look even prettier when you cum. I didn’t know that was even possible.” He says as he wiped you from his face. Slithering on top of you once more. Your hand meets his erection as you glide his head through your wetness.

“Please Josh, I need you in me.” You beg through fuck me eyes.

“Fuck..” Slips past his lips as your guide him to your entrance. He places a hand on your face. “Talk to me Honey.” He instructs as he enters you inch by inch. You moan loudly as he bottoms out.

“Fuck Josh you feel so good inside of me baby, like you belong there always.” You say as he starts gently thrusting into you.

“Tell me what you want mama.” He instructs through his own moans.

“I want you to cum inside me. I want to feel you fill me up. ” His eyes close and his head falls back as he picks up speed. You grab his forearm with one hand and begin circling your clit with the other. Josh pushes your hand away replacing it with his. You arch your back again in response. His speed increases even more as your eyes roll back from pure pleasure. His curls bouncing around his face with every thrust. His mouth hanging open just enough you could see his endearing tooth gap passed his kiss swollen lips. His cheeks flush as his dark eyes were on you and only you. You could feel him beginning to twitch inside of you. “Cum for me baby.” You moan.

“Not with out you.” He continues stimulating your overly sensitive clit as he pounds your core. You feel your orgasm approaching. He feels you tighten around him. “Fuck Y/N I feel you. Let go for me.” And just like that your second orgasm washes over you with a cluster of moans. Josh follows closely behind letting out a breathy grunt. You feel every bit of his warmth inside of you. He lays on top of you without pulling out. He kisses your forehead before resting his head in the crook of your neck. “I love you.”

“I love you Sugar.” You respond as you both lay there for a few minutes enjoying the after glow.

“Care for a bath?” He eventually hums into your ear.

“That sounds lovely.” You coo back.

He pulls himself off of and out of you as he walks to the bathroom. You lay there in pure bliss as you hear him draw a bath. You crawl out of bed and dim the lights as you join him in the bathroom. He has already found a spot in the tub. You take his hand and climb in between his legs. Resting your back against his chest. The warm water continues to fill around you as he places little kisses over your now purple hickeys.

“Now everyone will know you are mine.” He says softly into your ear. You nuzzle into him. It all feels like a dream. You had spent so many months wishing for him to be yours.

“I am just glad we are leaving in the morning so I do not have to hide them from your family.”

“I don’t think you should hide them at all.” He says with a smile turning off the water and wrapping his hands around your waist.

“So what are we going to tell everyone? Not that they don’t already know.” You chuckle at your question.

“We don’t need to tell them anything.” He says in a confused tone.

“I am sure they will want to know we are dating?” You reply also confused.

“Honey…” He says with a familiar melancholy in his tone. His hands gripping you a little tighter.

“…You said no rules.” You whispered trying to keep a level tone.

“I did and I meant it. That doesn’t change the fact that we are about to go on tour for an entire year. This is still so new, I don’t want tour to jeopardize what we have here.” He gives you a comforting squeeze with his arms. Placing his chin on your shoulder while he speaks softly to you. Tears fall silently from your eyes. You thought this was finally it. You thought he was finally yours. No more rules or games. “I just don’t think we should put a label on this right now. Not until we figure out how to navigate tour.” He continued.

“I … I am sorry. I guess I just thought…” You said trying to wrap your head around what he was telling you.

“You have nothing to be sorry for Honey.” He places a kiss to your cheek as you melt further into him.

Your dream suddenly began resembling a nightmare. You understood what he was saying but that did not make it hurt any less. You were also nervous about the stress tour would put on your relationship with Josh. Especially one with such a lengthy and full agenda.

You sat in his arms afraid to move. Afraid this moment would be the only one of its kind. The water eventually grew cool and Josh pulled you from the tub wrapping you in a large, fluffy towel. You followed him to the bed where your body tangled with his. Feeling his bare skin radiate warmth so effortlessly around you. This was your safety. This felt like home and you were willing to accept it in any form offered to you.

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leaveitforthenextone · 1 year

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This hasn’t left my brain since the song came out

Little Girl Gone song fic idea

Whitira, Rosalyn, Hannah and Ohn put on a performance for the group

The stage starts out foggy only three figures can be seen on stage

Rosalyn, Hannah , Whitira and Ohn …… Everyone

Say that again I didn’t quite hear you

Messed with the wrong bitch

So I heard your back in town

And haven’t changed a bit man

You get off talking down to the little man

Time you get what you deserved

Wow!

You’re so fucking stupid

Been a while since my head was this polluted

Lucky I know my own worth

So ya, So ya wanna fight me are you big enough?

Kick the back of my knee are you serious

You keep on trying, but…. I like your blood on my teeth just a little too much

So bite me, slap me round the face

Now I’m twisting your arm till I hear it break

I get stronger everyday

Yeah

Little girl gone

Got the gun from a gangster

Run little girl, run little girl

Bang, ha!

Ohn launches out from behind the three figures as confetti canons go off on each side with a rolling landing dressed as what would fit the Earth image of a rapper

Say that again I didn’t quite hear ya!

Messed with the wrong bitch in the wrong era!

I’ve been at work and I got my badge of honor!

Honey, I’ve changed so much since I last saw you

Hands off my hair how very dare you!

Ding! ding! Hold my earrings for my debut!

Cause I pack a punch backed into a corner

Come at me, don’t tell me I didn’t warn ya!

Poor Cale is sitting frozen in the front row struggling betweeen being so proud of his baby girl, terrified at what he’s hearing because who would dare to pick a fight with any of these women, and ready to rip someone’s head off for encouraging bad language after he just got a lecture from the parental figures of the group

CJS and LSH are laughing hysterically while cheering on their niece

The dragons find it wildly amusing but Eruhaben and Milah both keep a straight face because they’re adults and they shouldn’t encourage bad behavior

The show continues on and Toonka ends up showing up at the end challenging them and proceeds to get his ass whooped by the girls and afterwards Cale because there’s no way he’ll let Toonka get away with challenging his daughter to a fight but he wasn’t about to get on their way when he saw the looks on the ladies’s faces

Song Name: Little Girl Gone by Chinchilla

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#trash of the count's family #cale henituse #rosalyn #tcf #lcf fic #Youtube

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south-park-meta · 9 months

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tbh It made me realise the reason why I loved SP's take on depression was better, if u compare Stan with other characters whose purpose is being social commentary on depression and mental health (Effy Stonem from Skins and Hanah Baker from 13 RW).

Hannah Baker (13RW)

Her character frustates me because 13 RW had so much potential,the idea was creative,narrating how many stuff drove her to suicide: from bullying,h4rr4sment,SA'D r4pe, not only adressing depression but to adress those things as well.

I know the author's intention and Selena Gomez's idea were good and focus on mental health but the development was icky,some dialogues feel rushed to arrive to the tragedy, some traumatic events feel to gave shock value to the audience than genuiely comment on it, besides how the series remarks you that if the love interest would have confesed Hannah, It would have saved her.

Which is very hurtful for many reasons.

A partner can help u throught recovery and being moral support but they aren't ur therapist, adding the fact that selling the idea "if he would have confessed,he would have saved her" when confessing or just be with them doesn't automatically saved them??.

Very different with SP, like Wendy and Kyle genuinely wanted to help Stan, but their moral support isn't enough to get him out of depression and sometimes it can be tiring for others (Kyle)

However If we compare a character that is more similar w/ Stan.

• they are both main characters and the leader of their friendgroup.

• they are the younger sibling.

• they can be charismatic,smart, and independant from such young age

• they can be bit arrogant sometimes.

• both of them are done with everyone's bs.

• both of them distrustful of adults, and sometimes get embarrased at their parent's stupidity.

•struggles with relationship, fear of abandoment.

• heavy uses of alcohol plus depression.

However their character differs on how the writers made them, while Skins's purpose was to show life never ends how u want it to be, and endings could be most be sad or just neutral,healing. Showing adolescence,teens struggling with addictions,disfunctional families,etc.

Skins GLAMOURIZED her depression,unlike her brother's behaviour. He was villianized (bc he was an asshole,he deserved it but he matured),he got heavier consequences. unlike her, while her friends and her love interest were fed up,they forgave her too quickly. it also presents u the narrative "love interest saves depressed person" to a whole level, while she was ""recovering". Out of nowhere,her bf gets killed by her psychiatrist?? Out of shock value. Even when she gets a bit of consequences she managed to manipulate to save herself, even with that smirk of "I'm effy stonem I'm always get what I want".

Effy represents an unhealthy and glamourized ideas of depression that the show pushed on it's female fanbase. (as someone w/ depression, when I saw the show I questioned why my depression didn't make me mysterious and prettier or get a bf that saved me from it)

"Her depression it's destructing her but that makes her even prettier and mysterious, ppl want to be her or fuck her"

and it had such an impact that on tumblr when the show came out until this day, many ppl want to be as mentally ill as Effy or fuck her.

Stan's depression and his self destructive tendencies is never showed as something that makes him mysterious or quirky. Neither his philosophy and way of thinking. His conflicts don't feel like to be shock value.

Althought he didn't get therapy at all,it protrayed realistically how some ppl don't get opportunity to be treated, and how sometimes they just have to move forward, feeling like shit but then a neutral point u don't care about anything,neither happy or sad, and keep moving.

Plus his personality,his behaviour in certain situations makes him more relatable to me than any character.

Tegridy farms burning? It was smth u see was coming. Because his anger is explosive, he puts out with his father behaving like a child,drinking,sometimes belittle him, always fighting with this mom for dumb stuff. The farm was an idea clearly Shelly,Sharon and him disliked. And them fighting over the divorce bc Randy didn't want to share money w/ Sharon was his breaking point, the impulsiveness "oh fuck it farm goes boom bc he is an asshole" cost him sister's life in the bad ending.

They showed Wendy trying to be suppoetive but not as his therapist or "love interest saves depressed person". Neither make Kyle his therapist or sm.

And it sometimes surprised me how SP while is social commentary is also dark humor and parody treated depression withot demonizing Stan neither glamourizing his depression.

Honestly his character is so interesting i could analyze that bitch for hours.

Idk how to expressed it but ugh.

I haven't seen Skins so I don't have a point of reference for it lol. I'm gonna go on a bit of a tangent with this.

Depression in South Park and its fandom is a tricky thing because I think a lot of people don't have realistic, or sensitive, headcanons about depression. Which is probably obvious by my whiny posts lately lol.

But it's also something, both for South Park as a fandom and media at large that needs to be looked at pretty carefully. There's a lot of headcanons that if I'm being blunt I think are God awful and insensitive if people think about it critically at all. Which I do try to weigh with the source being South Park which can in itself be insensitive.

The thing that makes South Park as a source fairly unique is it represents a more stereotypically 'masculine' depression. Which isn't to say women can't or don't act that way. But the 'explosive' depression is something that is more typically present in men. And that isn't something that is often present in media as a whole; the typical depiction of depression is more by-the-book representative of young women. (Again not exclusively so. Some of Stan's more annoying/negative traits are things I've felt and worked to outgrow. Probably some I've failed at lol). It also feels very authentic, presumably because Stan is so much of Trey in ways that characters aren't typically so emotionally autobiographical and usually have multiple writers.

That leads to the crux of my waffling with a lot of handling of depression. It very often is based on female depression, and whether in media or fandom is often based on stereotypes of this, such as cutting etc. A lot of stereotype appears because the authors can't personally relate. But then again, quite often authors DO relate to this, and it occurs so often because the authors themselves are more typically women than men, in particular in fandom. But on the other OTHER hand, depression is often treated as childishly annoying and something to grow out of, and in mocking it it very often is done by exaggerating the female depression stereotype that everyone has in their heads. Even in South Park there's a mess of trying to write mental illness but not being able to relate personally, relating personally but not presenting in the same way as is typical the demographic represented and shown in South Park, and finding mental illness annoying and actively mocking it, usually in these underhanded kind of headcanons.

Anyway this is a mess lol I'm about to clock out for work but hopefully there's still something decent in what I said. Mental illness and its representation is so multifaceted! Maybe I'll talk more about it tomorrow when I'm off :) thanks for the ask!

ETA Now that I'm back home:

Overall what makes good representation is:

Knowing from personal experience

Being earnest

There are at times things you can extrapolate from your personal knowledge of being human and feeling emotions even if you don't know things personally. But it's going to always feel truer when it is truer even with the best of intentions.

Being earnest makes a huge difference, too, and is something I think people forget. Shows like South Park can be and often are insensitive, but the feelings behind them are also often authentic and earnest. Shows like Skins, often aren't earnest by design in that more dramatic/soap opera based shows are usually looking for more shock value than emotional authenticity (someone feel free to correct me if I've missed the mark on the genre though. This is just what I've vaguely picked up from Skins from seeing like 2 or 3 eps and knowing the general premise lol). I think it also speaks to my earlier points in that the VAST majority of the writing credits for this show are men and have no lived experience as being a depressed teen girl. No lived experience and a desire for emotional reaction over emotional connection is, to me, always going to lead to a less 'true' outcome. Even if the show has its own positive merits.

I actually DID read Thirteen Reasons Why (in high school) and watched uhhh about 15 minutes of the show, which I quit because it struck me as OTT in a way that I don't really like. I did like the book okay but also thought at the time 'this dude doesn't know what it's like to be a girl', which is the crux of a lot of problems. But I do think Jay Asher has his heart in the right place which covers up some of the problems. I've heard a little bit about the show that makes me inclined to agree it leans into shock value though.

Side note as a rec, everyone should watch Ordinary People. That movie's good as hell.

#south park #stan marsh #book's p good too it's a pretty direct adaptation #and also a good representation of characters that behave in less demographically typical ways but still feel authentic #hopefully jay asher hasn't been too dickish lol #i only know him as the writer of 13 r w and I pm thought the execution was clumsy but well-meaning

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seancamerons · 9 months

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jem is seriously such a fun cartoon!

YES! I was in my 20s in college when I first heard of it, lol. my bus buddy, whose name was ed, told me about it. I watched it shortly after, and the rest is history. 😊

what's not to love? its got catchy 80s bangers played by a pastel pink haired front woman who is a hologram who turns out to be an alter ego of a girl by the touch of an earring.

to paint a picture, it's like if hannah montana, julie and the phantoms and a barbie all had a baby in an animated series 😆 it's truly outrageous! even for the 80's. the combination of drama with a rivalry, jerrica's secret identity, evil banger playing rivals the misfits who commit multiple felonies with little consequence on the regular ie: kidnapping, vehicular manslaughter, arson and more, heartwarming orphans, evil record exec, a love triangle, glamor, glitter, fashion and fame all wrapped in a pretty pastel package. all in all, it's got something for everyone. jem was created just to sell some off brand barbie dolls during a saturday morning cartoon time slot. genius.

if i ask most women in their late 30s or 40s who grew up in the mid 80s about jem, not only do they know jem, they get all nostalgic and legit happy at the mention. example, a colleague at work had the dolls. my boyfriends older sister dressed as jem for halloween. a college classmate who was my age, and i bonded over jem. this show had girls in the 80s dreaming and thriving. evidently, with streaming, it's accessible. i believe it's free on youtube its now on tubi.

honestly, jem isn't just for girls or children. let’s be real. cartoons aren't just for kids. usually, look to disney, shows like simpsons, fururama, and family guy for comparison, some of these are clearly nit for kids. disney primarily has jokes that go over kids' heads, but can get mom and dad to crack a smile or bust out laughing. same reason parents and kids like bluey.

we don't discuss jem and the holograms (2015) not the same, not even close. looking at a fella by the name of scooter braun, (guy isn't liked by swifties either, might I add if you know you know.) who consulted fans of the og and made it a dumpster fire by not taking any of the suggestions and ideas he asked us for. i don’t even think he took some the suggestions from the creator of jem, he simply thought he knew it all that's the impression i get. to top off he took it out of the 80s and made it gimmicky, wannabe teenybopper shit. it was off. i didn't get that far.

FUN FACT: jem and the holograms (2015) received a 22% on rotten tomatoes.

I didn’t exactly expect a movie like that or one that was more true to jem from 80s to be perfect or win an Oscar by any means, but they could have made it a bit like tongue and cheek, like similar to og jem, or even deep at times like barbie (2023). We likely won't get a redemption or a new one, but it was a shame the reboot didn't do it justice. The girls of the 80s deserved a live action of their childhood favorite! I mean, look at transformers (2007) for the boys. Why can't we have nice things?

Thanks for the ask. 💌

#asks #simonspiervsthehomosapiensagenda #thank you for the ask 💌#🩷#jem #jem and the holograms

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perriwinklesblog · 2 years

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Here are 11 long af questions I’d love to have asked the dsmp panel but they would have been too long:

1. With some of the original characters such as Tommy and Wilbur closing their arcs on the dsmp, do you think this will allow for more creative freedom in other stories and allow to do what media franchises with big casts have done and enter a new phase? Will will the pressure of the original storyline coming to a close be a weight off your shoulders?

2. Would you say this statement about the dsmp is correct or incorrect and why? The dsmp started as a linear story with a clear path for the characters to improv around but has now evolved into more of an open world role play where numerous tales either connected or unconnected can be played out, just all housed in one world.

3. Boomer, do you want Dream to update the server to give you frogs? Also can you and Hannah give us hints about the long term lore ramifications of burning her wings off in an explosion if you’ve thought of them?

4. Everyone on the stage has some sort of connection with Sam Nook or Sam, would any of you introduce other characters for yourself that have become as distinct as Sam Nook? Side question, Tommy do you ever say to same that technically you and him came up with the character together in that one stream and therefore deserve some of the credit of Sam Nook?

5. Connor, you often don’t appear much in lore but when you do you make a huge impact with your presence, often you help balance the serious with your humour delivering perfectly timed one liners or just the way you present the information; how much are these appearances planned and has that always been your intent to help balance the stressful and serious nature the lore sometimes can have?

6. Eret and Philza, both of you have actions misunderstood by the fan base, how do you deal with this? Is there an element of you can’t control the reaction they’ll have and so you hope over time people will understand or does it frustrate you to an extent? Is it different about different reactions? How do you go about remedying the misunderstanding or do you change the character to fit?

7. Jack, you and Niki have a wonderful friendship, how hard was it to have those arguments on the server? How did you both deal with that story arc and the characters rift whilst you stayed close? Do you, and this can go to everyone else as well, ever feel that tension from certain arcs can seep and cross over into personal lives especially when characters can sometimes be very close to who you are?

8. CPK, as one of the newer members, how scary is it to join? In all honesty, the fandom itself knows we can be a handful, did that scare you a bit or were you ready to grab the bull by the horns? Have you enjoyed meeting new creators, again this last part can be for everyone.

9. Tubbo. Tubbo. Tubbo. Tubbo. Do you like breaking our hearts? Hm? Your lore has seen some of the most tragic moments throughout everything, do you enjoy participating in such tragic moments or is it just something you accidentally end up doing? Do you enjoy torturing the audience a little? What would you say has been your best Ahahaha look at all of you cry over my character moments? Also what were those words that kept appearing on your screen?

10. Puffy, you’ve been a parental figure to a lot of characters and watch almost all children you care about die or be harmed, the lasting effect on your character has been devastating, she’s also felt betrayal from all of her friends, is there one aspect of her life on the dsmp you wish you could change? Would she bring back a life for a child? Protect a friend before it’s too late? Not become friends with certain characters? What would you do and why?

11. Ranboo, you character is dead but not. Your approach to ghosts is slightly different than Wilburs is this due to the fact that you’re not a human like wilbur in the lore? Also you have lore planned but are you planning a conclusion for your character too or , as you’ve interacted with aimsey, are you going to become almost like a guide character to newcomers telling tales of lives before and being involved with lore in a new role than before?

#dream smp #tubbo #wilbur soot #awesamdude #ranboo #tommyinnit #philza #hannahxxrose #boomerna #seapeekay #connoreatspants #jack manifold #eret #captain puffy

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inkyu · 2 years

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Rant about your OCs a little bit!

I've always wondered when i'll get asked this question now here it is, there's a LOT of oc's I have so HFSDHFSJ (but I also don't have full drawings sooooo)

Anywho i'm gonna hide it behind a read more and there are more but I'm only gonna do ten so I don't overwhelm this post enough as it is, also sorry for any spelling errors SJSJSJ

This guy is named Ian, Call him emo all you want because that's what he is truly and nothing can change that

Despite him lacking facial expressions he really nice, but he doesn't like being bothered when he's doing something (obviously) he's blind in one eye so he covers that blind eye shocking I know

He's probably the youngest adult in his guild (24 years) (excluding Suzie and Corey because they are children) and because of that Gabe just treats him like a baby just to piss him off (never works, Ian might use it to get what he wants in advantage HEHE)

This is Ian's best friend Damien, (and also roommate but him, Ian, Victoria, and Hannah all share a house together)

He really hates royalty (because of past stuff with it) and he hate's peanuts (just a tiny fun fact about him), He worries more about his friends than himself so he always usually get's hurt which Ian always complains that he needs to be more selfish so he doesn't end up hurting himself more X.X

This lovely lady is Victoria

She isn't really complete (Design wise) so yeah, She's very kind to everyone including her enemies, she only avoids and ignores people she doesn't like, despite her kindness she can be a huge jerk if you do something so horrible to the people she likes (coughs coughs Damon coughs coughs)

These two are probably my favorite married couple, I know the speed sketch looks bad but yeah

These two are actually the only canon couple right off the bat, they've adopted the homeless Suzie and Corey because those two deserve them as parents, Sam is usually cold around other's, almost colder than Ian but whenever he's around Tulip he just can't help but smile. Tulip is a ball of energy and loves her husband, she always makes him smile around the guild which makes him embarrassed because he want's to be serious around people (and that just makes the guild giggle)

I don't really have a full picture of her but this is Hannah

Despite her and Ian being ex' they get a long really well, She likes to stand on stools so she can be tall, but because of her branch's ability she has this annoying pest that looks like her that her and her friends call "Nala", I won't go into branch's or abilities because that's a whole other story, but she basically cannot control Nala and Nala just makes her anger issues worse. But Victoria helps her stay calm :D

This girl is Kiwi (Kiwi hehehehe)

She's not originally apart of their guild but joins it anyways despite her other friends being in another guild (but she has her reasons), she loves to play music and use her vines to throw people around for fun (mostly Jay hehehe), She loves hanging around Nanogie town and provide food+other stuff to those who are struggling there :D

these two...

I haven't finished drawing them but their names are Kiki and Saul!, Saul is the one that flies around the place and bumps his head sometimes, Kiki is the one that keeps him grounded and in the right mindset, Saul's ability makes his head go wonkers so Kiki being there as a refresher and a cope helps Saul not go crazy in the sky (or anywhere for that matter). Kiki's ability was supposed to give her wings but something happened and now she doesn't have an ability because of that reason so that labels her as an "inability" so that sucks but she doesn't care

Camron my favorite traveler

Camron like Kiwi is not one of the main cast members but he is very important!, He travels around the world and watches everyone do their thing, sometimes he might help you or sometimes he might temporarily join your guild until it's time for him to leave, He's the most powerful out of every character in SK, even the second most powerful character can't beat him! how fun is that! (unless he want's to be beaten theeeeeeen whoopie)

I hate this character so much but I also love her

Flora is my version of those stalker/yandere characters, I never really liked how those characters acted, like uhhhh

Let's say this one character is in love with so and so, so much they would mentally hurt them/hurt people they help and would do ANYTHING to get their love and only love them

Yeah I always hated that, so I made her to be something I wanted to see, She does love Ian yes but she doesn't go to the point she hurts people that helps him whenever he's struggling and she also doesn't mentally/physically hurt him, She will give him space if he's super duper mad, and She's also in love with someone else (though she mostly likes Ian)

IK she wouldn't count as a stalker/yandere for what she does but that's how I view her as sooo yeahh

and last but not the last of my OC's! Jay!

This guy is a ball of chaos, despite him doing crazy illegal stuff he's actually a loyal and understanding friend to have, one day he could do something so fucked up and the next he could be comforting one of his friends he's one of my favorite "antagonists" (if i'm gonna be honest everyone I created is my favorite character SJSJSJJ)

#wow a long post o.o I didn't expect it to be that long but when someone asks about my oc's I go off about them non stop #I wanted to go off about them for a while but I wanted someone to ask about them first soooo :D #I'm happy someone asked about them it warms my oc ranting heart!#shadow killed

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dhampiravidi · 27 days

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SPN OC - Oraia

General

Name - Oraia; often uses the epithet "Levantinis" (from the Levantine Sea) as a last name when around humans short-term

Date of Birth - May 9, 3521 BC (age 5526 in 2005); biologically 30ish (here's her timeline; ignore the languages section)

Gender - deities do not have "gender" as a concept because they can shapeshift at will, even into animals when at full power. Oraia often remains in the form she was born into, a female, but she sometimes shifts her genitalia or her whole body into a male one

Sexual Orientation - Pansexual

Species - Deity; "Netjer" (Kemetic) & "Theoi" (Hellenic)

Relatives - Poseidon (father), Nebet-Het/Nephthys (mother), Anpu/Anubis (half-brother), Sutekh/Set (stepfather), Amphitrite (stepmother), various other distant deity relatives

Appearance

Oraia appears to be a human female in her 30s, who has a toned figure. Her hair is an extremely dark brown, which looks naturally tousled with its bouncy, tight waves. Because of her divine nature, her eyes are the ever-changing color of the Levantine Sea, which is typically a dark sea green. Her skin is a tanned version of the light golden-brown she was born with. She typically chooses to stand at 5’5” (165 cm) & she dresses in the bohemian chic style; nowadays, she tends to dress in the bohemian chic style, wearing short, lacy tops and high-waisted pants with open blazers or plain-yet-modern breezy dresses.

FC: Hannah John-Kamen

Background

Oraia’s mother came from a pantheon that frowned heavily upon extramarital affairs, so once her daughter was born, the goddess gave her to Poseidon, the god she’d lain with. The girl of the sea & the dark was so happy at first. She had lots of half-siblings, and all the fish, sea nymphs & whales were nice to talk to. But after a few centuries, her stepmother couldn’t bear to look at her anymore, because she would always be someone else’s. Poseidon took Oraia to an island, telling her he trusted her with the most important job he’d ever given to one of his children. She was to calm the storms that endangered sailors. He said it was noble, so she was proud to work as hard as she did. Again, time made the truth come to light–after what seemed like forever, she realized she hadn’t seen her dad in a very long time. She couldn’t look for him because no one would be protecting the sailors. So she stayed on her island, with just the sea nymphs for company. They taught her lots of things, including what gods were like & how they tended to treat everyone else. After meeting Artemis, who told Oraia all about men and independence and the amazing sights inland…Oraia left. She traveled all around, out of both defiance & curiosity. Then, as her parents' pantheons began to weaken, she found herself accosted by angels, who forced her into servitude. They threatened her brother Anpu/Anubis's life & even though she'd only met him once when he visited Earth (he'd been forced to judge souls), she agreed to hunt on Heaven's command. By the 1700s, Oraia had experienced a lot & her anger led her to kill as much as it did to save. By the modern era, she calmed down enough to realize that you are only free once you let go of what’s kept you weak. So Oraia dances, fucks, and travels as much as she wants when not on assignment. She helps people, because there’s always someone deserving. & she tells herself that one day, she’ll have some kids with someone who won’t abandon them or her.

Personality

For the first few centuries of her life, Oraia was a quiet, obedient girl with a big heart. She did exactly as her father & her stepmother asked, because in her mind, they’d earned her love. Later, when she spent much of her time alone on the island Polyaigos, she began to lose her childlike innocence. The sea nymphs taught her about the Olympians & the humans, explaining that both could be dangerous & cruel, but the humans tended to be more silly & intriguing. This implanted a curiosity for human culture & a fear of the Olympians within Oraia at a fairly young age. She also became more jaded, not to mention despondent when she failed to rescue sailors caught in sea storms. This led her to become a hedonist with a terrible temper & a strong independent streak, who decided to wander the world alone, on her own terms. By the present day, though, her heart somewhat healed. Overall, Oraia is a compassionate, loyal & positive person. She has a special place in her heart for those who were forced to leave their homes, whether it was because of their sexuality, beliefs, shitty parents, etc. Few things make her angry–but if you do make her angry, she’ll quickly resolve the issue, then go back to drinking or partying or whatever it was she was doing moments ago.

Powers/Abilities

Godly Physiology - Includes near-immortality/invulnerability and superhuman speed, strength, agility & durability

Advanced Hydrokinesis - Cannot create water, but CAN control water in the form of vapor, ice, mud, &/or blood

Extrasensory Perception - Can detect/easily perceive supernatural beings such as deities, angels, hellhounds, ghosts & reapers

Sacrifice Empowerment - Though she's never gotten any sacrifices (so it's never been a source of power for her)

Portal Creation - Her portals can go to Earth, Hell or Heaven

Omnilingualism - This includes speaking/reading Enochian

Soul Reading - Can deduce a person's morality & whether or not they even possess a soul just by looking at the individual

Mediumship - Can summon, banish, control &/or communicate with souls (which only belong to humans, not monsters)

Godly Weapon Possession - She carries a golden dagger (gifted to her by her mother) that can kill demons and deities alike

#oraia: headcanon

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thesinglesjukebox · 3 months

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NOAH KAHAN - "STICK SEASON"

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Just to be clear, this post was *not* sponsored by the Vermont Tourism Board... [5.10]

Hannah Jocelyn: Noah Kahan snuck up on me -- I first wondered why Ruston Kelly was opening for this guy who I'd never heard of before. I heard a couple of his songs, they were fine! So I ignored him. Suddenly, last year, a friend (a songwriter herself) was complaining about him, asking "What does the 'season of the sticks' even MEAN?" And from then on, he was everywhere, the same way Ed Sheeran was genuinely grassroots a decade ago before he became the eldritch pop horror he is now. Sheeran and Mumford & Sons ultimately gave us the indie folk of Boygenius and co., as well as Taylor Swift's own forays into indie, all of which I either love or respect. I go to open mics and concerts often, and it's a lot of empowered non-men leading the charge; even the guys I see make more interesting music than "I'm so sad, I'm so fucked up." And now the pendulum's swinging, so now we are back at WGWAGs, and they don't even have the slick production of the Mumfords. I am not afraid of Noah Kahan; this song just sounds like the banality of fuckboys. I am more afraid of everyone following in his footsteps. Bonus point for actually mentioning COVID, though. [5]

Jacob Satter: Back when they were riding the wave of stardom for the first time, I bought tickets to see Counting Crows and a pre-dreadlocked Adam Duritz was going through it. He spent most of the show baffling the audience by lying flat on his back at center stage, talk-singing his way through August and Everything After, genuinely unable to look success in the eye. I take this trip down memory lane to clarify that when I say that every generation gets the self-actualizing folk dorkery it deserves, I'm not exculpating X while side-eying any COVID-worn millennials who embrace Mr. More-Mumford-Than-Mumford here for their mental balm. [3]

Dave Moore: I can google "is Noah Kahan related to Marcus Mumford" (no) but I can't google "do I hate Mumford and Sons" because despite remembering making fun of and claiming I hated Mumford and Sons at the time, I never wrote anything about them. Now that nothing else really sounds like this, I don't mind it so much. [6]

Leah Isobel: At least Mumford & Sons had the showmanship to drop an f-bomb in the midst of their self-regarding self-flagellation. What does Noah have? The word al-co-hol, leaden and imprecise and sung like it's an unbelievable blasphemy? Grow some balls, dude. [3]

Alfred Soto: He's so earnest that he acknowledges a drinkin' problem and the existence of COVID-19 and must sing as if he wants Mike Posner to sell him a pill to take in Vermont. [3]

Thomas Inskeep: His voice just oozes earnestness, and no, that's not a good thing. But strummy guitar guys never entirely go out of style, do they? If his success makes a Lumineers comeback happen, I swear to God… [3]

Lauren Gilbert: Yes, I could write a snarky review that this is a song for girls who haven't yet left their Folklore era. And that's true enough; it's a pretty standard folk pop, with too many words pressed into too few lines, the murmurings of someone who spends entirely too much time in their head. But it's also a pretty good instance of the form. It has more of a hook than Bridgers, and it's less likely to put me to sleep than Clairo. And it does feel like the season of the sticks -- like driving my parents' car through the hills of Virginia, dark, leafless trees silhouetted against a grey, featureless sky, thinking only of the person not sitting in the passenger seat. [7]

Mark Sinker: What if “season of the sticks” but it’s good not bad? (It’s such a gorgeous phrase to attempt to use as a negative… ) Plus Noah’s breath control seems kind of terrible -- the snatch at air plus his kinda squeaky voice makes him seem way younger than he even is (which is already way young), and sorry teens but that really dilutes the resigned agony he’s going for here. [6]

Taylor Alatorre: "I've been called the Jewish Ed Sheeran," says Noah Kahan on stage, with apparent regularity. Cheap heat, sure, but it's also self-deprecation as brand-building, aimed at propping up a certain persona by playfully prodding at the weaker and more exposed parts of it -- and suddenly I'm not just describing the stage banter but also the music itself. Kahan spent much of the last year collecting enough guest artist remixes for an unplugged No.6 Collaborations Project, but one of the few Stick Season songs to remain untouched by this process was the title track, which says something about it. It says that this is the anthem, the legacy definer; this is his own private Vermont, and no one but him (and a sold-out arena crowd, inshallah) can ever do it justice. With some reservations, it's deserving of this pedestal. And no, those reservations have not the slightest to do with Mumford & Sons, who are overdue to be treated as a normal, middling rock band and not a portentous class enemy. When teenage Mumford fans were listening to "Hopeless Wanderer" back in 2012, I imagine many of them were playing in their heads the kind of diaristic scenarios that Kahan sings about here, replacing grandiose Biblical allusions with only slightly less grandiose relationship angst. That was always the correct reading, and one can't fault Kahan for opting to cut out the middleman between his and his audience's experiences. "COVID on the planes" is the line that most loudly announces this isn't your father's indie folk, and it's the kind of lyric whose currency will only grow with time, like the transistor radio in "Brown Eyed Girl" or the satellite radio in "Sequestered in Memphis." At the other end of the realist-romantic spectrum, there's "might not have but I did not lose," a waist-deep k?an that's perfectly befitting of a future dorm room staple. Also fitting the dorm room vibe, less fortunately, is the way the phrasing in the chorus is awkwardly chopped up so as to min-max its drunk singalong value, with the line about alcohol of course being the worst offender. It's a testament to Kahan's affability that I want to forgive his more sophomoric tics -- I mean, who wants to be the one to interrupt a drunk singalong? [7]

Nortey Dowuona: When did Noah Kahan develop talent, and why wasn't it with Joel Little? [9]

Joshua Lu: "Stick Season" starts off as a earnestly mopey torch song, with a steady stream of metaphors and rhymes about his post-breakup blues. The causes and effects of this despair are presented straightforwardly, earning an almost comical feeling: the mom forgetting about him entirely, the excessive drug and alcohol use, his victim complex. It's in the second verse, though, that the song takes an interesting turn into self-reflection: "So I thought that if I piled something good on all my bad / That I could cancel out the darkness I inherited from Dad." That same chorus rings differently in this new light, creating an image of a once-fixed man who has returned to his broken default nature, and whose internal sadness was only buried, not cured, by being with the one he loved. There's something quietly devastating about how resigned he is to his fate -- how he knows that he can't heal his pain, only dampen it with the memory of a time when he couldn't feel it. [8]

Wayne Weizhen Zhang: A [2] or an [8] depending on how much this alerts your anti-Mumford and Sons or anti-Lewis Capaldi radar, and whether or not you have a soft spot for self-deprecating white men telling jokes and making confessions at their own expense. We’ll skew higher since this has aged surprisingly well. [7]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: I’ve heard this around seven times and I’m not exactly sure what he’s singing about, but I like the texture of his words as they spill out of his mouth. Kahan will let a syllable last just a bit longer or shorter than I expect, all while singing fast enough that he feels like he’s uninterested in easy signifiers of the contemplative. The banjo feels like a cheap way to keep the song interesting; he doesn’t need it when every guitar strum is so propulsive. [5]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Loses me after that banjo riff comes in two thirds of the way through. Everything before that is charmingly middling, everything after makes me want to place the entirety of New England under cordon sanitaire. [2]

Will Rivitz: I also love Vermont, having grown up just outside of Boston, and have to admit Kahan's bitter and self-deprecating narcissism quite poignantly encapsulates the sense of drifting listlessly and peevishly through New England's dreary December, mired in one's own solitude and the inexorably self-centered trappings that accompany it. His lyrical acumen is, however, not quite sharp enough to justify exhuming the stomp clap hey brouhaha previously left to rot alongside the word "hipster" a decade ago. If he thinks it appropriate to hire a mandolinist, maybe you were right to break up with him. [4]

Rachel Saywitz: “Stick Season” is a haunting masterpiece, and a triumph for Noah Kahan -- with just a folkloric guitar, illuminating banjo, and a steady kick drum, he traces a love lost with a traveler’s bent and a timeless seasonal metaphor. Wait, this song takes place in Vermont? Wait, he’s American? I can feel the spell breaking, the cloudy haze over my eyes that always appears when I’m listening to mediocre folk-pop by European singers is dissipating. Okay, sorry. Back to normal now. Going to review this again. “Stick Season” is some Lumineers-ass sounding shit. Grow up, stop being a whiny lovesick boy, and pick up an English accent! [4]

Ian Mathers: I'm so pissed that 1. "stick season" is not a reference to hockey which part of my brain irrationally insisted it was; 2. this tweet no longer applies to me. I gave that up for something that's just deeply mediocre, not even entertainingly bad. That the Olivia Rodrigo cover is… fine indicates my problem is less with the song (not bad, kinda standard) and more with Kahan's excruciating indie folk dude presentation. [4]

Will Adams: Outside of a terribly dull EDM feature, I had not heard a single note of Noah Kahan's music until now, so every time I saw his name I would think, "Oh, he does that one song, like 'lady, running down to the riptide, da-da-da'" before correcting myself. Listening to "Stick Season," I wasn't far off: anodyne stomp-clap folk complete with banjo. Instead of a rousing singalong, however, we get a winter doldrum mope-fest where the more a clever line is repeated, the less clever it seems. [4]

Katherine St. Asaph: Big junior-year busker energy. I hope the quad found "once you called me forever, now you still can't call me back" as clever as he does. [4]

Isabel Cole: Mumford-lite, nasal whine, uninspired lyrics: sure. And I, who tend towards particular indifference in the face of men with their guitars, should of all people be somewhere between immune and repelled. But this one fucking got me, I don’t know. There’s something about the unrelenting quickness of the verses, the way it slips heedlessly along axes of register and mood and scope: from the mannered poetry of “all the miles combined” to the indignantly conversational “like halfway through the drive,” from self-pity to self-recrimination, from daddy issues to drinking the pain away. It plunges into melodrama -- “I’m terrified of weather” -- and pivots to a gag, funny enough and also true, about air travel in the era of COVID. He says he’s stuck, and I believe him not because of that line but precisely because the song refuses to alight on any particular complaint for long.

That’s what it’s like sometimes, when you’re in the long process of reconfiguring your life around an absence you never planned for. You scrabble for purchase amidst the concrete and specific, saying all the useless sayable things because the whole truth defies articulation. Your petty irritations and psychological fault lines alike draw you right back into the vortex. You do see him in the weather, which is a way of saying you see him everywhere, and also that you never realized your block had a particular smell in spring until one April morning you found yourself thinking of him and realized it had been a year. You dream a version of him and wake up unnerved and you don’t know if what disturbed you was what the dream got wrong or what the dream got right. You can’t believe you can't talk to him when your uncle dies and when #FreeBritney goes mainstream and every time Marvel puts out a new terrible movie, and in the peculiar gravity of loss these things feel somehow equally consequential.

You wash the dishes and listen to a song that rattles off all these different ways to miss someone and you wonder how long he’ll be the person this type of song makes you think of, and you think about how much he would hate it, how mean he would be about Noah Kahan’s hair, how you have to look up every time if it’s Noah or Noel but you’re still crying at the kitchen sink, how much of your taste was his taste first, how you lost two people, really, because he took with him the person you were when he was here. I am no longer funny, ‘cause I miss the way you laugh. Your head says this is a generous [5], that it’s neither special nor smart enough to quit while it’s ahead, that while the line about being half a heart is trite but serviceable, the clarification of “the other half was you” is unforgivable, truly, taking you out of the song every time. Your heart thinks that so many of the funniest things you’ve ever said were things you only said because he was listening. Noah, not Noel, drops the strumming to sing that line about Vermont one more time and in the emptiness around him you can almost hear the whistling northern wind, the sound of a world turned brittle and cold. Stupid. These fucking songs always do that. It’ll be four years come April. You put the dish in the rack and wipe your eyes with your wrist and before you pick up another dirty plate you hit play one more time. [8]

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spectrophobias · 3 months

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@dollhidden asked: would you like me to stay? — Sam for Josh!

would he like her to stay? of course. does he think it's a good idea? not in the slightest.

sam had been spending an awful lot of time at the washingtons' house since the incident, and at first, it had made sense to him. of course she would want to hold onto the last few threads between herself and her best friend, and she was one of the few people that josh didn't doubt in the intensity of her grief. as far as he knew, she hadn't had anything to do with that shitty excuse prank, and with a heart as big as hers, he couldn't imagine that she wasn't hurting over it.

he had just expected her to stop coming by at some point, he guessed. everyone had slowly gone back to their normal lives, it felt like, everyone but him. first had come the overwhelming waves of sympathy, trays of food, more texts and online messages than he thought he'd gotten in the rest of his life combined. none of it had reached him. he didn't want pity, and he sure didn't think he deserved it either. beth had told him off him so many times about blacking out like that, he should have paid her more mind. what kind of brother even was he? and slowly, when none of it could assuage his grief, people had begun to pull away. that was more in line what josh had expected; if he had learned anything in life, it was that heavy shit like that scared people off. he guessed sam wasn't just 'people' though, was she?

it wasn't the first time she'd refused to leave him in the dust. he had probably talked more to sam about things like mental health than he did his own family, who he never wanted to worry. he always tried to ball up his problems and throw them away, and they always came back to bite him in the ass for it. sam was the only one with the patience and the care to get through.

now, they've nearly made it to june, and she's still here. half a year that his sisters have been gone, and half a year that sam has refused to give up on him. he feels better sometimes, and they goof off like nothing bad has happened at all, and josh feels like he remembers why he's alive again. other days, he still feels trapped in the lowest lows, and sam meets him there too. she still has plenty hurt of her own, he's sure, and even on the days where he's sure he can't face anyone else, being sad with her is better than wallowing alone.

it's not going to be a good night. he knows it's not going to be pretty. it's already not pretty. a few more hours and it will officially be six months, half a year. he's pretty sure he's gone through every stage of grief today alone, going from punching walls to crying to sitting numbly on hannah's bed. none of it is anything he wants anyone else to see, and it's one of the times he feels genuinely grateful that his parents are never home. even they don't understand this.

he realizes after a beat that he actually needs to answer sam, but he feels frozen between the two options. he thinks he wants her to stay, but it feels shameful to ask, to expect her to give him any more than she already has. she's told him a million times though, she wants to be here. it isn't pity or obligation, it's friendship. it makes them both feel better, not just him. he isn't sure what benefit hanging around a sad sack like him has to offer her, but when sam talks, he usually believes her. she's never been the type to lie just for the hell of it.

staring at his hands, folded in his lap as they sit side by side on the couch, josh slowly nods. he wants her to stay, he's sure of it. sometimes, he feels like sam is the last thing standing between him and going absolutely off his rocker, even if he knows better than to talk about himself like that to her by now. she helps keep him from spiraling into that train of thought like he used to, keeps him from spiraling in general. he doesn't know what he would do without her.

"thanks, sam." glancing over at her, he knows his eyes are a red, puffy mess, but he tries to smile anyways. he's glad to have her here, even if he isn't so good at figuring out how to voice just how much she means to him. he reaches out with one arm, pulling her into a half hug for a few seconds before he lets go. "how about we order in and make a night out of it? my treat, obviously."

#something something about them being in the same place/position as our other thread with the most opposite vibes in the world LMAOOOOO #like im so sad they should be kissing and cuddling not whatever the fuck this is!!!!!!!!!#dollhidden #muse; josh washington #catch me writing a wall of text in the middle of the night and then just going back to bed LMAOO as per usual !!!

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COVER REVEAL Title: Second Down Darling Author: Lex Martin Genre: Contemporary Romance Tropes: Single Dad/Forbidden Romance Cover Design: Najla Qamber Photographer: Lindee Robinson Models: Hannah & Trevor Release Date: August 7, 2023

BLURB Jake’s my best friend and first love. There’s just one problem—he belongs to my sister. I’ve been crushing on Jake for years, but never had the guts to tell him. One drunken night with my sister and two pink lines later, and he’s lost to me forever. She doesn’t care that I met Jake Ramirez first. That he and I were best friends first. That I fell in love with him first. Because what my sister wants, my sister gets. When she video-calls me and Jake accidentally walks by in the buff, something in me snaps. Transferring to a different college might seem like a copout, but I have to get away from Jake and my sister before I say or do something I’ll regret. In an act of desperation, I ghost my old life. For the next two years, everything is great—until I come face-to-face with Jake and his son, who my sister abandoned. Jake’s the new wide receiver at my school, and he wants nothing to do with me, which is fine because I plan to keep my distance. Except we’re thrown together in the most dire circumstances that bring back all those old feelings. They say everyone deserves a second chance, but my heart can’t handle breaking one more time. Second Down Darling is an angsty, friends-to-lovers, forbidden romance, featuring a sexy single dad who’s a down-and-out college football player and a nerdy girl determined to overcome her wallflower ways. It has major second chance vibes and lots of steam! Second Down Darling is a dual POV standalone in the USA Today-bestselling series Varsity Dads. GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123193815-second-down-darling PRE-ORDER LINKS US: https://amzn.to/42Hze2D UK: https://amzn.to/3peXStP CA: https://amzn.to/3qKMkiq AU: https://amzn.to/43CKj6u

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The Great Alone | Kristin Hannah | Published 2018 | *SPOILERS*

Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man.

When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision; he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.

Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultous time, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family.

She is desperate for a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if it means following him into the unknown.

At first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers.

In a wild, remote corner of the state, they find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the Allbrights’ lack of preparation and dwindling resources.

But as winter approaches and darkness desccends on Alaska, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture.

Soon the perils outside paul in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother will learn the terrible truth: they are on their own. In the wild, there is no one to save them but themselves.

In 1974, Leni lives with her parents in Seattle. At just 13 years old, she has spent many of her middle-school years moving from place to place, her father never being able to hold down a steady job for very long in any one place. Finding it difficult to make friends because of this, Leni spends her time reading books and losing herself in fictional fantasies.

Her mother, just 16 years old when she got pregnant with her, is now 30 years old and having to deal with an unthinkable situation. Leni’s father, Ernt, had been a POW during the Vietnam War. He went away, voluntarily, and was captured and kept a prisoner for, what I assume to be, 6 years. Leni and her mother were able to get by with help from her grandparents and eventually living on a commune with others, until her father returned and they began their adventure again as a family. But Ernt was never the same man that he was after returning.

He began drinking too much, dealing with nightmares and all of the other symptoms that come with PTSD, and even getting violent at times. Shortly after moving into their most recent home, Ernt receives a letter from a man named Earl, the father of his best friend in the war that was also a POW but wasn’t fortunate enough to return home. The letter states that he has land up in Alaska, and that he’d like Ernt and his family to have it.

Without further discussion, the family heads north to begin living in the wild bush of Alaska. When they arrive, it just nearing Summer, but they are widely unprepared for the coming winter, something the local townspeople discuss openly and tell them they need to be more fruitful. With help from a woman named Large Marge, and several other locals, the Allbrights’ begin their adventure.

Leni begins attending school with a few other children of all different ages in the town, and here she meets Matthew. He is the son of a man that lives near them, and they’re the same age. They quickly become friends. However, the winter months begin and is harsh on everyone. Leni can see her father falling deeply into his PTSD and her mother is unable and unwilling to leave him despite everything they’re going through. She has struck up a friendship with Tom Walker, Matthew’s father, and the flirting the two of them do sets Ernt on the edge.

When the Walker family goes through a terrible tragedy when Gen, Matthew’s mom and Tom’s ex-wife, falls through a frozen lake and dies, everything begins to fall apart. Matthew goes to live with family in Fairbanks to be closer to his sister, as well as to get a real childhood that he deserves, though he and Leni remain close through letters. But, eventually, the darkness that settles over their small Alaskan village sends terror through their own household. Ernt begins beating Cora. When they attempt to leave, they crash their VW van into the wilderness and are saved by Tom and Large Marge. But, alas, they return home.

One evening, Tom and Large Marge appear at the house uninvited. They attack Ernt with their words, telling him that he needs to get his shit together, or they will begin taking the law into their own hands. They have arranged for him to work on a pipeline, being away from his family during the winter months and returning in the spring. Large Marge will move in with them to help them through their first Alaskan winter. Without much choice on his part, Ernt packs up his bags and gets on the road.

In 1978, Leni is now 17 years old and has quickly taken to life in the wild. She has learned to hunt, and can shoot a rifle as accurately as a man on a battlefield. After the death of Matthew’s mother, Geneva, he left to live in Fairbanks with family but returns to finish out the remainder of his senior year in Kaneq. He and Leni are reunited, and so begins their love affair.

Her father loses his job at the pipeline after four years, claiming that someone had found him drinking on the job. He returns to their cabin, and begins making their life a living hell. Leni isn’t allowed to spend anytime with Matthew because of his hatred for his father, Tom.

Ernt really begins losing it after Tom begins to want to make Kaneq a tourism spot to bring in more money. In his anger, Ernt vandalizes the local watering hole, and eventually, he tries to get the Harlan family in on it, Mad Earl only happily complying until his daughter Thelma tells him otherwise.

When the Harlan’s banish Ernt from their land after the death of Mad Earl, Ernt really loses it. He begins beating Cora more often and the townspeople are doing what they can to get her away from him. Cora even goes as far as having him arrested, but he gets out after she fails to press charges.

After an accident that causes Leni and Matthew to be missing for several days, Matthew is in the hospital nearly brain dead and Leni is dealing with the after effects. When she returns, Large Marge offers her a pregnancy test after noticing her showing symptoms of pregnancy. The test is positive, and she tells her mother. Her mother having been young when she had Leni herself, feels disappointed but wants to help. Leni also tells her father, who begins beating her relentlessly. Cora ends up shooting Ernt in order to stop him, leading to his death.

Cora is adamant that they go to the police and tell them that she shot him in self-defense, but Leni says they should get rid of the body so the two of them can go on living their life. After doing so, they let Large Marge know, who arranges for them to leave Alaska, and for them to return to Seattle to be with Cora’s parents, who take them in and get them new identities. In Alaska, they are presumed dead.

Leni has her baby, a son, she names after Matthew. They live in a rented home near her grandparents. She attends and eventually graduates from the University of Washington while raising her son.

Cora is eventually diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and despite efforts to fight it, couldn’t and she passes away with Leni by her side. Prior to passing on, she had given Leni a letter in which she wrote her confession and had her promise to return home, give the letter to the police so she can go back to the life she wanted and who she used to be instead of a fake identity.

Leni and MJ return to Alaska, and they go to the police station, where she gives the chief of police her letter. He ends up coercing her into a confession herself, and puts her in jail, but Large Marge, hearing from Tom who has taken his grandson for Leni while she awaited arraignment that Leni was back in town, arrives and saves the day. The governor has told the judge that all charges against Leni be dropped, and she finally returns to Kaneq.

She meets Tom and his new wife, a Native woman named Atka, and she is reunited with Matthew. He is no longer in the rehab facility, instead returning to his family’s homestead in a wheelchair. He has difficulty walking and talking, but when he is reunited with Leni, the two of them are able to fall in love again. Leni introduces Matthew to his son, and the two of them can start their life.

At the end, we learn that Leni and Matthew remained in Alaska, living on the land that was once her families and had two more children, Kaneq and Cora along with MJ. The two of them have lived happily ever after.

Discussion Questions

1. Before reading the book, what was your perception of life in Alaska? What surprised you? I didn’t know much about Alaska or the bush life. When I think of the bush, I mostly think of Africa, as this is what it’s called there as well. But, I was surprised by how Hannah was able to describe the beauty of it. Almost like I could live off the grid and live that way - even though I know for a fact I couldn’t. I stayed on a remote island in the Arctic Circle for 4 days and couldn’t handle the constant darkness.

2. The wild, spectacular beauty of Alaska. It was otherworldly somehow, magical in its vast expense, an incomparable landscape of soaring glacier-filled white moutnains that ran the length of the horizon, knife-tip points pressed high into a cloudless, cornflower blue sky. The author describes the Alaskan landscape with such electric language - what passages did you find the most moving? Did they help you visualize the place or inspire you? Did you find the landscape to be in contrast to the violence of the story? Or do you think it completented the breathtaking feeling of young love? Anything describing the landscape was just beautiful. Her descriptions allowed you to be able to just have a picture in your mind of how beautiful life in Alaska could be. But, it also allowed us to realize that things can happen in that remoteness that nobody could ever fathom, like what Cora and Leni went through with Ernt and his domestic abuse.

3. What aspects of the lifestyle would you find the most challenging in the wild? How would you handle the isolation, the interdependence among neighbors, the climate? Would you have what it takes to survive? Having to basically forage for food. I’ve grown up in corporate America, where I have grocery stores and everything basically at my fingertips. I’m so tied into social media that having no electricity or running water would be awful for me. I could never live in such a remote place, but I could live in a city like Anchorage or Fairbanks, where those things are easier to come by.

4. Up here, there’s no one to tell you what to do or how to do it. We each survive our own way. If you’re tough enough, it’s heaven on earth. What drives the settlers to Alaska? They’re not all desperate people in desperate need of a fresh start like the Allbrights, but what could be attractive about this unique way of life for some? What brings Large Marge there? The Walker family? Do you think most are hunting for something - or hiding? It’s the ability to live the way they want to live. Nobody telling them how to live their life. Nobody really has to work a job, other than what they have to do in order to survive.

5. We’re transported by the author back to America in the early seventies with plot elements such as the gas shortage, shocking news headlines, counter-cultural ideas, and of course, the wardrobe choices. If you were present for these years, what was it like to see snapshops of it in the story? Did it match with your memories, or color the story for you? What would you add? I was born in 1990, so I was not around for any of the things that happened, though I am a follower of the fashion of the time. I just loved the looks they put together, and I think Hannah described them very well.

6. Did you find Cora’s actions and liberated mine set to be in conflict? When we first meet Cora she’s venting about discriminatory credit practices at the bank while sipping from a feminist-messaged coffee cup,but we soon discover she’s at a tense crossroads in her persona life. What do you think holds her back? Cora lived in a time where a man in your life was everything you couldn’t possibly need. The majority of the women back then didn’t need to work in order to live their lives, their husbands would be the bread winner. While I myself am able to stay home with my kids thanks to a hardworking husband, I do have more abilities in life than Cora could have imagined. I was able to secure a credit card without needing my husband to co-sign for me. I am able to get a job fairly easily and be able to easily earn as much as a man, instead of being discriminated against for simply being a woman. But, she also felt like she could never leave Ernt, because she didn’t know anything else, and that is a feeling I know too well, having been with my own husband for the last 14 years of my life, since I was 18.

7. Leni sees the complexity of her parents’ relationship when in such close quarters with them in the cabin - the rawness of their lives together. Did you think it was going to be the weather or the violence that killed them first? Definitely the violence. Maybe that first year in Alaska the weather would have gotten them if they didn’t have such amazing neighbors to help them through everything. But, the weather also contributed to Ernt’s moods, so it could have been a combination of the two, the violence being the more prominent of them.

8. Discuss the forms of love within this book - crazy and romantic love, neighborly love and compassion, love for the natural world, and a mother’s love. What else would you add? I don’t think I would add anything else. All these types of love are represented well in the novel.

9. A girl was like a kite, without her mother’s strong, steady hold on the string, she might just float away, be lost somewhere among the clouds. If you have faced the loss of a loved one, did you find this quote to have a special resonance for you? What did the author get rid about this sentiment? How else would you describe a mother’s influence? Does Cora serve such a role for Leni - why and why not? Did your ideas change throughout the book? I have lost loved ones, including a parent but I still have my mom and the dad I lost, we were not close, but of course i grieved his absence from my life. Cora didn’t serve such a role for Leni. Leni only ever saw her mother’s weaknesses instead of her strengths, until Cora didn’t have a choice but to overcome that and kill her husband and the person she loved to protect her child, which she didn’t do much of prior to that.

10. Leni and Matthew compare their friendship with Sam and Frodo’s from The Lord of the Rings, but wha tother couples form literature do you think they’d fit nearly into the roles of? I like to think of them as Romeo and Juliet. Two lovers meant to be together despite their families hatred for each other, and a doomed end. But unlike Romeo and Juliet, they ended up getting their happy ending without death involved.

11. This is dangerous, she thought, but she couldn’t make herself care. All she could think about now was Matthew, and how it had felt when he kissed her, and how much she wanted to kiss him again. Do you recall your own days of young love and that rush of feeling? Do you think the experience is universal? I think this feeling is definitely universal. I would risk everything to go spend time with my husband when we first had met each other, telling my mother I was one place but instead was with him in another place. My love for him was strong, even then, so I definitely understand Leni’s unrequited love here.

12. How did the building of Ernt’s wall affect you as a reader? Did you find that the construction heightened the suspense - or was it suffocating? It’s so sad, and very reflective of the times today, with talks of walls being built in order to keep illegal immigrants out of the United States. He wanted to isolate them even further than they already were, which in a town so small, was heartbreaking.

13. Did you see Cora’s explosive act of protection coming? What did it feel like to read that scene? As a parent, do you think you’d be capable of the same act, or be able to write such a confessional letter? I didn’t see it coming at all. I was absolutely shocked but thrilled when she finally stood up to her piece of shit husband. And as a parent, 1000% I would be capable of protecting my child, without question. I’d confess without even an ounce of regret.

14. Did you hold Leni responsible in your mind for any of Matthew’s misfortune? Why or why not? How does Leni show her devotion in the end? Did you anticipate the kind of future that is set in motion for them at the close of the book? I don’t hold her accountable at all. What happened to Matthew was a terrible accident. I’m sure he was devastated when Leni fell, remembering what had happened to his mother and all he could do was stand by and watch her die. He would have done anything to get Leni back, and he did.

15. At the end of the story, Leni ends up back in Alaska - do you think there’s an ultimate place where people belong? How would you know if you got there? Honestly, I don’t believe this sentiment. Anyone could live a wonderful life anywhere as long as they put their heart and soul into it. I have grown up in Illinois, about an hour or so outside of Chicago my entire life. I love this city and my home, but I would go anywhere as long as I had the family I created with me, even if that meant leaving behind everything I’ve known my entire life. I could build a life anywhere as long as I had them. Although, I don’t think I would ever be truly happy in Alaska like Leni was. Her entire life had been there, and that was Matthew. He deserved to know his son.

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Have A Little Faith

Lucas Martin grew up with his parents. Both worked hard to endure both of their kids could grow up to be anything they wanted to be. But Lucas was the only child up until he was seventeen and hew as blessed with a little sister. Not that he would change it because he has always wanted a sibling. It helped him not engross himself into video games as much when his little sister was born and helping his parents out with what they want when he wasn’t in school at the time. But he thinks that has shaped him in ways he can not even explain.

But everything changed when his sister was six years old and she got sick and never fully recovered from it. She had issues for so long, and Lucas, well, he didn’t know what to do. His parents were really struggling with how to get Liberty better. She has been so patient on just allowing them to watch over her, but Lucas, he felt helpless. He felt like nothing would help her. He loves his sister and doesn’t want to give up. But, he was just at a loss as well on what to do when it comes to Liberty as all doctors can’t find anything that was going on with her. Lucas just needed answers and find a place or at least find someone to talk to when it comes to Liberty and how he can do this.

Not that his family was religious. They have never really stepped foot in a church, so Lucas wasn’t sure if it would work, but he had to try everything because his little sister deserved him going to distance and doing what he could to help her. He didn’t want his parents finding out, only because they would tell him to try something else, instead of going there and trying to find an answer as the doctors had no answers for them. He got dressed in some of his nicer clothes and Lucas was out of house and in his car and driving to a place he would never think he would go. He pulled up to the church he has passed every day and never thought twice about it until recently knowing that maybe this would help him.

Lucas got out of his car and he took a deep breath looking up at the door from the bottom of the stairs walking into the place, and he made the push and he was inside and he sat in the back, not wanting any attention on him. He didn’t know how to do this. He looked around and his attention was on the blonde that was singing a song in church. @heavenlymusician had a pretty voice and maybe Lucas shouldn’t have been staring but it was easier then looking around and having anyone else talk to him. Being he wasn’t ready. This was just not easy for him but he was trying. He listened to everything and he just kind of needed some sort of answer in a way why his sister was sick and they couldn’t figure it out.

As the service was done, Lucas didn’t move, he just sat there and allowed everyone to file out and he sat in the back just kind of thinking and hoping to have some answers, but before he could leave, Hannah-Grace came and joined him on the bench and he looked over not too sure what he could say but he just needed to feel some sort of relief in a way and not carry the whole burden of his sister himself right now.

From that day, Hannah and him have been together. She’s seen him at his worst and his best. She also got to know Liberty well through all of this. Her birthday was right around the corner and Lucas wanted to make it special. He wanted to take Liberty to the carnival that was in town. She hasn’t been in a few years and he figured it would be a good surprise. He told Hannah about the idea and they both were going to take her and have the best day. And doing whatever she wanted to do. As Lucas woke up, Hannah did as well and they got ready and he went and got Liberty to wake her up and he was going to make a start on breakfast. Today was going to be fun. Something Lucas was proud of and seeing Liberty thrive and having Hannah there to share it with him.

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Imagine being worth 60mln at the age of 16, wtf but hopefully he plays well. Zidane hair era??? For a second I thought it'd be Kaka and that Kaka look alike not his actual son akdhajhsjsgajahaj

Messi acts like Neymar's father what is Neymar gonna do once Messi retires, Neymar retirement era as well? Skshsbahjshababsjshaha

WHO IS THE SPANISH PLAYER PARK SEONGHWA

I've always had this issue with The Blues, I saw them in match a few times and it was during the seasons when they were mostly defending not attacking and it's not like they always played better teams so it was confusing. Well anyways LONDON IS RED so 🤗 Ronaldo at Bayern wow and Man City, Man Utd fans would be thrilled lmao

Tbh I know it's not always easy to check everyone before hiring them, like all the idols who were mean to people at some point, a lot of the situations were kept in secret. Prison League 💀

I spent some time "studying" the royals, so I have a lot of strong opinions about them, maybe that's why. I obviously don't know them personally, but some things are obvious. Hahaha do you think some of the watch The Crown and actually like it? 👀

Unhinged mid/late 2000s tv shows was such an era. And now they released Teen Wolf the movie IT'S SO BAD. Oh I haven't really watched Wizards of Weverly Place, I saw a few episodes but I don't think I was the target audience when it came out. I'm not really a Disney Channel person, except for Zack and Cody and maybe Hannah Montana

Yeah, Baek not to threaten you, but I might send my army of snakes after you if you keep teasing me 😘 uhm a G wagon to pick up girls???

I started the murderous husband webtoon on a different page that has more chapters, cause I had to see what was going on! It's interesting, but idk how to feel about that relationship, we'll see

The NASCAR cartoon was called NASCAR RACERS idk why I watched it

Soohyuk is clearly dating Hoshi lol also don't forget about our wedding soon!

Everything I've learnt about Coleen Hoover was against my will and now Blake, et tu Brute...

Hold on Baeksy, consider this... the question is, why are they enemies, or is it a one sided hatred? How and why did person 1 fall for person 2? So many possibilities!!!

Me for the past few days: ik Hwa has black hair, I need to accept it. Hwa: *shows up with black hair*. Me: WTF IS THIS 😭😭😭😭

EH, ot8 black hair lovers are winning... but oh well. Now if Seonghwa cuts his hair (99% sure he trimmed it already :/) and gets an under cut I'm gonna have a bigger problem. MILF SEONGHWA COME BACK PLS, L O N G HAIR PLS!!!!!

I need more selcas. Also a missed opportunity to dye it a different colour, but I understand his scalp was damaged :( Seonghwa gives so much, but then he has to take it away...

AND MINGI 🤧🤧🤧🤧

Not him being 👉👈 about the cat beanie photos, best believe once the photos drop I'm gonna eat all my walls!!!

God Pique is so embarrassing what a clown. SO PRETTY YOUR DAUGHTER JSJSHSBANSHAHAH no bc if she was 3 years younger it'd make her 15 years younger and I know some people become parents at the age if 15, so imagine him as her father.... yikes

Oh yes they're right

Also not me not recognising Ateez at Eden's wedding, I especially couldn't recognise Hwa IT'S THE FUCKING HAIR IT'S NOT CLICKING FOR ME. Maddox is my new bias, because his hair aaaaaa. But Seonghwa talking about crying at the wedding, that's my boomer baby boy - DV 💖

hello!!!

Imagine being worth 60mln at the age of 16, wtf but hopefully he plays well. Zidane hair era??? For a second I thought it'd be Kaka and that Kaka look alike not his actual son akdhajhsjsgajahaj

YEAH AT THE AGE OF 16??? i was worrying about my exams and this bro out here earning millions 😭😭 he does, plays super well! his story is quite sad but his motivation is mental, he’s mbappe fast, maybe even faster and he’s only 16! hopefully he does not get injured!! LMFAOOOO FOR A MOMENT I WAS EXPECTING KAKA LOOKALIKE AND WAS SURPRISED IT WAS HIS ACTUAL ONE, his looks still >> zidane hair might not grow! he’s got 4 teams, rm, psg, juventus & bayern wanting him now 😭😭

Messi acts like Neymar's father what is Neymar gonna do once Messi retires, Neymar retirement era as well? Skshsbahjshababsjshaha

he really does, thiago messi who? it’s neymar messi actually 🤚🏻I THINK HE WOULD ACTUALLY he’s been wanting to bc njr said he can’t handle the media pressure anymore 😭😭 hopefully he retires w the wc trophy 😭😭

WHO IS THE SPANISH PLAYER PARK SEONGHWA

SINCE HE SAID THAT I HAVE TWO HYPOTHESES, 1 IF THAT SPANISH PLAYER PLAYS IN THE NATIONAL TEAM THEN ITS FERNANDO TORRES OR PEDRO 🤚🏻 I THINK ITS TORRES

yEAAAHHH the players are underperforming also the tensions w the coach and the head,,, spending MILLIONS in transfer windows atp they’re collecting players like pokémon but those players are not doING SHIT!!!! tuchel should have never left, mourinho is the only hope but i doubt he might come back,,, MAN CITYS CATCHING UP ALVAREZ IS COMING FOR UR REDS 😭😭😭 atp i think cristiano would like to go the man utd too but at least it’s said he’s gonna retire at rm 😭😭

Tbh I know it's not always easy to check everyone before hiring them, like all the idols who were mean to people at some point, a lot of the situations were kept in secret. Prison League 💀

yeah! it’s not easy but at least the bare minimum works 😭😭😭 sometimes a pretty face can get those idols anywhere, to the point of hiding insane stuff,, PRISON LEAGUE FBWKDBWM it’s not world cup, it’s prison wars <3

OOOOOOOO with ur info, who do u think is the better one out of them all? who’s the worst? and who’s ok? i do like philip’s humor he seems like the funny, blunt type of person fbfb i think harry confirmed they see the crown 💀 charles also said he doesn’t mind it but thinks ppl might take the fictional part not seriously and think it’s real dbdb i know edward and sophie love it and made the queen watch it for funsies but she thought some parts were dramatized, i guess we can say they have some sort of humour fbfbf i bet no one watched the diana season 🧍🏻‍♀️🧍🏻‍♀️

GOT at Coachella? Hmmm choices, but that would be funny. Shinee at Coachella tho! Or maybe not there since it's trash. Godddd I hate Paris now because they're getting MuBank in April with Skz and then Lolla with Skz as well??? Fuck them Frenchies, after witnessing their behaviour at Fashion Week this year and last year they don't deserve shit 😤 good for Skz, very proud but also 🔫 //// Unhinged mid/late 2000s tv shows was such an era. And now they released Teen Wolf the movie IT'S SO BAD. Oh I haven't really watched Wizards of Weverly Place, I saw a few episodes but I don't think I was the target audience when it came out. I'm not really a Disney Channel person, except for Zack and Cody and maybe Hannah Montana

yEAAHH GOT AT COACHELLA would be quite polarizing no? the songs would 😵‍💫😵‍💫the audience might find it pretty interesting to listen to all of that,,, SHINEE AT COACHELLA WOULD BE PERFECT, BRUNG OUT VIEW AND TELL ME WHAT TO DO AND ALL THE DANCE POP 😭😭 sm would never, they never sent exo when they were invited, im convinced they’ll never send their bg’s,,, NAURRR WILL U BE GOING?? yeah no the behaviour at the pfw was 😬 maybe lfw would be better

WHAT A GREAT ERA!!!! want the cliche romcom’s w THAT cringe factor back but ppl are so judge about everything they won’t be pleased w nothing 🔫🔫 THEY RELEASED WHAT???? ANON GUESS WHATS BEINF RELEASED FBWMFJWK MY MAIN THOUGHT WAS OH DYLANS GONNA HATE THIS 🧍🏻‍♀️🧍🏻‍♀️wowp was >>> ZACK AND CODY OH MY GOD AND HANNAH MONTANA 😭😭 i have her dolls with the click button on her tummy that when it clicks it sings party in the usa 😭😭 and miss anne? mother.

Yeah, Baek not to threaten you, but I might send my army of snakes after you if you keep teasing me 😘 uhm a G wagon to pick up girls???

yup! they tend to purchase gwagons but always go with girlies who are identical to every other nhl player ☺️ they’re all also slightly racist tho im not surprised on that fbdjck

I started the murderous husband webtoon on a different page that has more chapters, cause I had to see what was going on! It's interesting, but idk how to feel about that relationship, we'll see

IT REALLY IS INTERESTING and the dude makes it even better 🥰 have u read the perfect marriage revenge? it’s actually really good ive read most of it tho i stopped,, it’s very <33 pisses me off a little bc the fucking sister is 🔫

The NASCAR cartoon was called NASCAR RACERS idk why I watched it

wait hello, those are some fine men,, gives me totally spies but w guys vibes!

Soohyuk is clearly dating Hoshi lol also don't forget about our wedding soon! //// Everything I've learnt about Coleen Hoover was against my will and now Blake, et tu Brute...

CLEARLY HE’S DATING ME! I WAS IN THE CAR W HIM https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn7dfkLyMK6/?igshid=Zjc2ZTc4Nzk= he’s so dilf. he’s like perfect, really,, omg,,, HEY HEY IM SORRY I GOTTA STEAL UR GROOM THIS WEDDING CANT HAPPEN 🤚🏻 no srs i wish she backs out of the movie 😭😭😭

Hold on Baeksy, consider this... the question is, why are they enemies, or is it a one sided hatred? How and why did person 1 fall for person 2? So many possibilities!!! //// Me for the past few days: ik Hwa has black hair, I need to accept it. Hwa: *shows up with black hair*. Me: WTF IS THIS 😭😭😭😭 /// EH, ot8 black hair lovers are winning... but oh well. Now if Seonghwa cuts his hair (99% sure he trimmed it already :/) and gets an under cut I'm gonna have a bigger problem. MILF SEONGHWA COME BACK PLS, L O N G HAIR PLS!!!!!

i….omg,,,, the ANGST???? they HAVE to be enemies bc the main character was already with someone and the enemy’s heart broke seeing them all wholesome wHEN ALL THIS TIME HE’S BEEN IN LOVE WITH MC 😭😭 do u think the enemy would accept the heart if the mc brought it back to them,, HE HAS BLACK HAIR AND EVERYONE ELSE IN ATEEZ 😭😭😭😭😭😭 MINGI BROWN AT LEAST

HES SO CUTE HIS HATS BIGGER THAN HIS HEAD 😭😭 THE HAIR IS STILL LONG

This idc for my kpop men looking like regular people 😫 they have black hair every 10 minutes what's there to miss. The only way to win me over with black hair is when the hair is loooooong long. And I literally had a dream about him in this colour, I know he had it for a while, but it's time to bring it back me thinks /// I need more selcas. Also a missed opportunity to dye it a different colour, but I understand his scalp was damaged :( Seonghwa gives so much, but then he has to take it away... :// AND MINGI 🤧🤧🤧🤧

no srs 😭😭 let them look like gods for a minute they’ll go back to black anyway 😭😭 i’ve have seen

idol: *changes hair colour*

fan : *im so upset i liked him in black hair*

also, fan : *DYE YOUR HAIR COME ON1!1!1*

STOP BC THAT HAIR !!!!! THAT !!! HAIR WAS BEST BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO HIM !!!!! ur right, seonghwa ALWAYS gives, ALWAYS.

Not him being 👉👈 about the cat beanie photos, best believe once the photos drop I'm gonna eat all my walls!!! ///// God Pique is so embarrassing what a clown. SO PRETTY YOUR DAUGHTER JSJSHSBANSHAHAH no bc if she was 3 years younger it'd make her 15 years younger and I know some people become parents at the age if 15, so imagine him as her father.... yikes /// Oh yes they're right

im actually going to scream when these photos come out,,, 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

RIGHT THE FUCKING COMMENT HAD ME CRYING ITS SO FUNNY TO SCROLL THRU THEM 😭😭 VIOLATION,,,, omg stop that’s awkward as fuck,, when i first saw the photo i thought it was his sibling 💀💀 bro can’t take care of his kids this new edition would just make it worse,,, they are 100% right, do u rnr that one matz clip where he was manspreading and hongjoong walking to him, need that repeated but in this outfit 💃.

FBWKFBWJJDKWHDWK ITS THE HAIR THWKFHEK THEY ALL LOOK LIKE THEY WERE AT SOME CONFERENCE 😭😭 gave me ceo ateez era im saying, maddox >>> ateez actually 🤚🏻 he always has the best hair,,, ANON U KNOW HE WOULD CRY AT HIS WEDDING TOO LIKE THOSE VIDEOS WHERE THE GROOM CRIES SEEING THE BRIDE WALK DOWN FBWKFJWK NAURRRR WHEN IS IT MY TURN !!!!!!! WHEN !!!!!!! …hyuna and dawn back together?

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???? 😭😭 about the txt cb??

#✉️ : ask #dv 💖 anon

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That took me a really long time lol! Your turn, 1-40

😅 fair enough

1. what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?

Religious trauma, dead dad club, my job in DD 💞

2. show us a picture of your handwriting?

3. 3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and not get bored of?

The Princess Bride, Big Fish, and Stardust.

4. what’s an inside joke you have with your family or friends?

Sure does.

5. what made you start your blog?

I was 12 and had access to the internet.

6. what’s the best and worst part of being online/a creator?

Best is meeting cool people, worst is unsolicited dick pics

7. what scares you the most and why?

Letting down the people I care about

8. any reacquiring dreams?

I have a few.

9. tell a story about your childhood

When I was like 9 or 10 my older brother and I were wrestling in the living room and I fell and smacked my head on the rock fireplace and my parents had to stich my head back together with my hair and superglue.

10. would you say you’re an emotional person? A little, maybe.

11. what do you consider to be romance?

"You're worth losing sleep over" "this song makes me think of you" "no expectations" "I love you as you are, a combination of all the experiences you've had and the ones you'll have in the future, and all the ways they may change you." And lemony snickett-esque poems.

12. what’s some good advice you want to share? Be a fountain not a drain.

13. what are you doing right now? Watching TV with my kitties.

14. what’s something you’ve always wanted to do but maybe been to scared to do?Month-long solo music tour on the road with my doggo 🐶

15. what do you think of when you hear the word “home”? The smell of Mom's homemade rolls 😋

16. if you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I would make myself more confident/assertive

17. name 3 things that make you happy Coco, Boots, Willoughby 🐱🐈🐈‍⬛

18. do you believe in ghosts and/or aliens?

Absolutely 👽 👻

19. favourite thing about the day?

Iced coffee

20. favourite things about the night?

Sleeping

21. are you a spiritual person?

I suppose so? In my own way

22. say 3 things about someone you love

They are witty, with a smile that lights up a room, and makes everyone feel seen and important.

23. say 3 things about someone you hate

Short- asshole- better treat his lady right or I'll start committing crimes

24. what’s one thing you’re proud of yourself for? Kicking ass and stepping up at work enough to give my coworkers the much-needed breaks they all definitely deserved.

25. fave season and why? Fall and spring because pretty colors everywhere

26. fave colour and why?

Cool tones (blue, green, purple) because I've been obsessed with deep space and outer space since I was like 12.

27. any nicknames? Buttons, banana, little Hannah,

28. do you collect anything? I collect everything.

29. what do you do when you’re sad? Listen to music and snuggle kitties

30. what’s one thing that never fails to make you happy/happier? Baby animals

31. are you messy or organised? Messy

32. how many tabs do you have open right now? 17

33. any hobbies? All the hobbies. Art, music, kayaking, hiking

34. any pet peeves? Wet socks.

35. do you trust easily? No.

36. are you an open book or do you have walls up? Walls.

37. share a secret. I kissed a girl and I liked it 😅 lol idk how much of a secret it is but ya girl is Bi

38. fave song at the moment? Mantras- Ellen Winter

39. youtuber you’ve been obsessed with and why? Hannahleeduggan solo van/cottage life she's living my dream

40. any bad habits? I'm a nail biter

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