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#hey guys todays we’ll do an unboxing
bryan360 · 1 year
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Here’s my note before I’ll get started….
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Mash-up style review - Glass Screen Pro, StylusHome Stylus Pens, and JETech Case for my iPad 5th Generation device (and other of my devices)
Hey guys! Consider this will be my last post for this week of March; especially working hard to observe I had when checking this items I’ve owned now. (Also, just in case if I got nothing for today’s last “On This Day” post share. Sorry. 😅)
It’s for my second iPad device that I’ve hoped to give a good upgrade or a good clean. Thankfully after ordering from Amazon.com with my mom; almost until I got the right sized tablet case days later. So yeah….😅
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What that being said though, It’s finally time when going through my mash-up style review. So sorry for taking so long; that includes having our cable connection problem from past weeks. Just a thought, but still.
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Anyways, I got it through recording while setting things up for good measure. However, I put aside of my Fintie tablet case due to “accidental ordering” that I’ve mentioned. I’ll be keeping it unless I can get my own iPad Air soon. We’ll see. Now on with this review of March 2023. Or at least while assembling things for my second iPad device.
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⬆️ 1st through 4th Images (from 1:18 or more to 1:30 P.M.)
First off is where I started back in March. 7th. This is the Glass Screen Pro Protector from one of my packages I’ve unboxed. Though not the first where I wanted to installed at my device’s screen; which happens I’d use for my Samsung Tab E back in 2019. ⬇️
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Now years later though, I’ve got the same thing that also compatible for my second iPad device. It also helped to prevent from dirt, germs, or scratches to high resolution display. At least when reading the front cover or online sites, but nice details to remember. Anyways, I unboxed this while getting started to installing my iPad’s screen. Though I’ve been through this before when doing other of my tablet and video game handheld devices.
Good thing where I followed through instructions by using guide stickers, one cleaning wipe and a cloth to set up. Once it completed by few minutes later, my second iPad’s screen is secured very well. Looking at it, it was pretty nice after being careful of installation. I’ll be saving the full picture after this review is done.
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⬆️5th through 9th Images (started at 3:01 to 3:20 P.M. after unboxing and close-ups)
Now for something different where I moved on to my second item to unboxed. This here was my new magnetic stylus pens from the brand “StylusHome.” It even sell other different pens and accessories if you’re interested. However, I picked with those pens that I’m going with; especially how it looks like any luxury pens while holding them. Nice!
Unlike where I used to work with my “Blackweb” stylus; in terms of coloring, some sketching, or swiping through apps. ⬇️
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Once I've opening this case itself, I have one each black and white pens separate; pre-installed with magnetic tips sealed that I've mentioned before. It also came with four replacement parts to install in case of losing them, a cleaning cloth, a manual book, and the warranty card. Don't expected to have USB cables to charge these pens up; unlike with my "Blackweb" pens that it still working as of today. I'll see I can check it back for my other post soon.
As for this new pens however, they're pretty fine to use without any power buttons on. Unless you'll be looking for other "StylusHome" stylus that does need charging batteries. Though what I have was good looking standard pens that I would needed to be careful when using. Which is why where going to the next part below as I tested out later. ⬇️
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⬆️ 10th Image (ending at 3:48 P.M.)
I went to my PicsArt app minutes later and test out at least with my one stylus pen. This here was my drawling lines I have so far, but doing in both different tips. Regardless which tips suits better to use for drawing/sketching stuff, I pick with the clear disc tip kind. I putted on top next to the below of my second drawing line; while using the fiber tip. They’re not bad, but slightly different in comparison that I would’ve do more of it. However, it’s best I can still use the clear disc tip for hoping of better art tracing experiences. Though only to get closer while tracing. Whatever works.
Good to know my “StylusHome” pens works well that I’m getting started on further art projects later on. Also it good on swiping onscreen (to other tablets and devices) whether using Google app or YouTube app through searches. Well, I usually go with my fingers; especially good for tracing through art sketches from previous times.
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⬆️11th through 18th Images (On March. 11th; started at 5:55 P.M. before bedtime)
And finally this one; though waiting about few days til the 11th of March. Unlike where I “accidentally” ordered the Fintie tablet case, this here was the right size that I would’ve looking for. It came from the “JETech” brand that sells different cases, screen protectors, and other accessories. I helped with my mom to pick the right size for my second iPad that thankfully fits. Its design was made with faux leather material and having a sleep/wake function when opening and close the magnetic cover. As its fit though, Just wanted to make sure to check on the back bottom of my tablet’s model number. Mine was “A1822”; so after checking on what’s on the box, it support that as well. Nice. 😉👍
I also wanted to point out the color of the tablet case itself; which is black, even if I would’ve go something a bit nice or unique. However, appreciate the looks I’ve picked up with. Not only that, it also folds in different position for viewing or working while doing on art stuff. You know what’s coming when sharing this post I got.
My Thoughts:
Do apologies for the long wait I’ve worked up, but worth to check out my three items for the first time. After ordering from Amazon.com; though later when ordering the right sized tablets case was approved. I like the way while hoping to give a good clean upgrade for my second iPad device, but also using with my new stylus pens for 2023. Do hope I’ll be sure to take care of it.
Hope you guys enjoy this review I’ve came up. Again just to note, I’m leaving my Fintie tablet case out until further notice. Mostly if getting my first iPad Air tablet device soon. Who knows?
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⬆️ 19th through 21st Images (On March. 26th at 5:00 P.M.) (Bonus)
As I promised, here’s a closer look of my second iPad device; after installing with the screen protector and my “JETech” brand tablet case. Pretty nice, huh? Very appreciated after ordering from Amazon.com; alongside with my “StylusHome” pens. Anyways, see you guys on April 2023!
Links for these items we’ve ordered from Amazon.com ⬇️
Tagged: @murumokirby360 @carmenramcat @alexander1301 @rafacaz4lisam2k4
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the-fiction-witch · 2 years
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TV SHOW PISTOL COUPLE: MALCOLM X READER (KINDA) RATING: FUNNY + SWEET
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I hurried my feet as fast as they would carry me though the dirty london streets pasted piles of rubbish bags taller than me. I ducked into the little pink shop hurrying to the stock room where I set my bag down and slipped off my jacket. I took a deep sigh before scurrying out to the main part of the shop trying to focus on my work.
"You alright y/n?" Chrissy spoke up from the counter 
"Yeah. Fine" I answered
"Why were you so late today?" Jordan spoke up as she stood unboxing some stuff
"Oohh uhh… I had to grab some stuff on the way to work. Took longer then I imagined" I answered
Jordan nodded and headed back to the stock room
"Where from?"
"Just the pharmacist"
"Is everything okay are you feeling sick?" 
"No it's nothing really i-" I began
"Found it!" Jordan spoke up from the stock room "what's this?" She asks appearing from the curtain with my test in her hand 
"Jordan!" I yelled in shock "that's not mine that's…. Someone else's." I blushed 
"Ohh babe. Your worried?" Chrissy asks 
"A little" 
"Hey." Jordan came over handing me the box "you'll feel worse till you know. Go on"
"Your sure?'
"Course. We'll be right here with you" chrissy smiled 
"Thanks girls" I smiled 
"We've all had scares" 
"Well this is more than a scare" 
"How much more?"
"Well. I just need to know" I said going to the small shop bathroom with the test but I could still hear them
"Well it's no or it's yes" jordan spoke up
"Either way, your gonna know" chrissy added
"What are the instructions?" I asked 
"Uhhhh… do not insert the test stick into your Virgina" 
"Really?"
"I'm not joking."
"Next instructions"
"Make sure to not capture toilet water as this can cause a false reading" jordan read 
"The hells in british water?"
"I hope you drank enough this morning"
"I hope so too" I nodded 
"Wait fifteen minutes for results."
"Okay" I nodded slowly doing my best to follow instructions and take the test
"We've all been here pet. One day late and I'm panicked"
"Yeah I'm on the pill and it still freaks me out"  
"Okay." I sighed as I returned "now… we wait" I said having a seat in the little chair 
"How… pregnant do you think you might be?"
"Uhhh not much" I shrug "last gig really"
"Who is the pretty boy then?" Jordan laughed
"Uhhhhh well…"
"Someone I know?" Jordan asked 
"Yes."
"It's not Steve is it?" Chrissy asks
"No. No." I answered
"Someone from the last gig?" Jordan pondered "someone we know?"
"Which one of the boys? Come on you can tell us" chrisy smiled sitting with me
"You promise you won't tell?"
"Course"
"...... Malcolm"
"What!" They both yelped
"Malcolm? Like malcolm, malcolm?" Jordan asks
"Yes"
"How the hell did that happen?"
"Well…. I was drinking. I do stupid things when I drink!"
"Yeah get on the wrong tube or steal a traffic come stupid not fuck malcolm stupid" Jordan complained
"What exactly happened?" Chrissy asks
"Well I went to the gig same as everyone. And I had fun had a couple of drinks. Once it was over everyone began going off to the boys place but I wanted to head home so I went to grab my coat but malcolm was still there. He offered to get me a drink so I obliged and we chatted for a while, he was being such a sweetie" I smiled
"Are you sure we are talking about the same malcolm?" Jordan asks 
"Continue" chrissy asks 
"And after a couple of drinks he offered to walk me home. He was being so nice and sweet. When we got to my place he asked if he could just come in for a water before he headed home I said sure and we ended up chatting inside for a while and… he said I looked pretty tonight, and one thing lead to another and" I explain "here we are." 
"Did you guys use-"
"No."
"Did he pu-"
"No"
"Did he fi-"
"Yep"
"Okay."
"Well… maybe his… machinery is broken? Maybe his boys weren't swimming?"
"Joseph?" I remind them 
"Fuck yeah." Chrissy sighed "well… what are you hoping for?"
"How can one stupid night fuck your whole life up"
"Hey. Don't be like that. We don't even know if it is yet"
"I am… praying. For negative"
"Well I'm crossing my fingers" Chrissy smiled holding my hand 
"Yeah. Me too" jordan smiled giving me a hug "we do not need any more malcolm in this world" 
"Ummmm. It probably sounds hard to believe but he can actually be really sweet. And admittedly. Fantastic dick."
"Guys who have the best dicks usually are the biggest dicks" 
"Times up. Guess either way your gonna know" 
I nodded and went back to the bathroom where I left the test I didn't want to look but it knew I had to
"Well?" Jordan asked 
And I looked "shit." I sighed seeing that little pink plus sign 
"Well… I wonder who's gonna be more mad at Malcolm, you or vivienne?" 
"I am happy for us to tag team on the beating of his skinny ass" 
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mahkari · 2 years
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hey guys today we’ll be doing an unboxing video of all the birthday gifts you all sent me ^-^ unfortunately i was informed that most of them were ingredients to make bombs LOL ! so arkham confiscated them . it’s okay though , guys , i still appreciate every single one of you
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Modern au where youtuber wei wuxian got cancelled every two months
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spacetime1969 · 3 years
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Surviving Jurassic World! A Brooklynn Exclusive! Intro: Part 3
December 20th & 21st, Instagram posts by BrooklynnUnboxesOfficial:
[Image ID: Darius with his hood up. He is dramatically underlit as he leans over a fire.]
Scary stories around the campfire!
[Image ID: A selfie of Brooklynn standing in front of a Gyrosphere, Darius already inside.]
It’s Gyrosphere day! Dino drive here we come!
[Image ID: There are two photos. One is a selfie of Brooklynn, Darius, and Kenji, posing with a sinoceratops in the background. The other shows Yaz, Sammy, and Ben around the sinoceratops, Sammy is feeding it.]
Up close with a sinoceratops! Make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss it!
December 21th, YouTube video posted to BrooklynnUnboxesTheWorld:
Brooklyn is standing on top of a hill. Behind her there is a herd of dinosaurs grazing.
BROOKLYNN: Hey Brooklanders! Welcome back to Jurassic World! Today we’ll be getting up close and personal with these dinos using Jurassic World’s famous Gyrospheres!
As she says this she turns so that the Gyrospheres come into view behind her.
The video cuts to the view from the inside of the Gyrosphere. You can hear the doors slide close and then it rolls forward. As the sphere crests over the hill the dinosaurs come into view, Darius and Brooklynn both making amazed sounds. The camera pans up as they roll up to a brachiosaurus, showing just how big it is.
Brooklynn pans the camera to Darius who is sitting in the seat next to her.
BROOKLYNN: So Dino Nerd, you got any facts about these dinos that everyone would be interested in?
Darius seems surprised for a second, before grinning.
DARIUS: Yeah! So this herd seems to have five separate dino species. There’s brachiosaurus, parasaurolophus, sinoceratops, stegosauruses, and ankylosauruses.
Brooklynn interjects.
BROOKLYNN: So which ones which?
DARIUS: Oh right, sorry.
Darius points out into the herd and Brooklynn pans the camera to each dinosaur as Darius talks about them.
DARIUS: So first there's the brachiosauruses, they’re pretty easy to identify because they are the only sauropod in the herd. They use their long necks to forage for leaves in treetops, and they eat over 400kg of them a day!
This continues for several minutes. Darius identifies each dinosaur, explains their feeding patterns and behaviors, and their history with the park.
Brooklynn eventually turns the camera back to her.
BROOKLYNN: Well there you go Brooklanders! Dinos with Darius! If you guys enjoyed having more informative stuff like this, let me know down in the comments section and I’ll try to do it more often!
The video cuts, and now shows the gyrosphere following a sinoceratops.
BROOKLYNN: Hey Brooklanders! Check this out! One of the dinos split off from the herd so we're all following her!
The video follows the dino as they chase it across the field, the other gyrospheres moving in and out of frame.
The video cuts and the campers are now in the forest with the dino, all of their clothes a little dirtier. The video is paused and Brooklynn's voice comes over as a narration.
BROOKLYNN: Here we are guys! Take a look at this dino! We followed her here into the forest, and Sammy got her to calm down with her mad cowgirl skills!
Brooklynn's voice gets softer as she walks closer to the sinoceratops, glancing briefly at someone off camera before reaching out to pet it.
BROOKLYNN: I promised I'd get you all up close with dinosaurs, and here we are! Petting a real live sinoceratops!
Brooklynn takes a moment to pet the dinosaur before turning back to the camera.
BROOKLYNN: Well Brooklanders, that's all for today! Make sure to like and subscribe! And I'll see you all next time on Brooklynn Unboxes… Camp Cretaceous! Bye!
Video End
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Just one more part to this arc, and then we move on to the actual story!
One note in case anyone was wondering why some of the more exciting moments have been edited out: Brooklynn is getting paid to advertise the park. This is literally her job, and talking about how she almost died is not a very good look for the park. Or for her actually, since a lot of the issues in these first episodes were caused by the campers. 
However, any contract she had with Jurassic world is going to be null and void by the time they get back. 
Intro: Part1 | Part2 | Part3 | Part4
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ao719 · 3 years
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Moirai - Part 9
I am participating in @wackydrabbles​ prompts. This week’s prompt is If you won’t do it, I will.
A/N: The Moirai (aka: The Fates) were the three goddesses of destiny in Greek mythology.
A/N 2: Thanks to @dcbbw and @burnsoslow for prereading!
Word count: 1984
Catch Up Here
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After a late morning run, Liam entered his quarters. He went directly to the balcony, picking up a hand towel that was sitting on a table, along with his breakfast. He wiped the sweat from his face while lifting the lid off a plate of fruit. There was a knock on his door; he called for them to enter before biting into an apple.
“Morning,” Leo smiled as he met him on the balcony.
“Hello.”
“Morning run on your day off?” Leo asked, and Liam nodded. “Speaking of your day off, that’s why I’m here. I was going to see if you wanted to come help me.”
“With?”
“The guys are moving into their place today. I’m going over to help them get situated. They had all the furniture and shit they bought delivered yesterday.”
Liam’s stance stiffened slightly and he looked away from Leo. “Uh … sure.” Did she come? “Where are they moving?”
“You remember the beach house they were staying in when they came for the tournament?” Liam nodded. “There. A friend of mine owns it and a couple more next to it. I talked to him about them renting, and he said it was fine.”
“Nice.” Why isn’t he mentioning her?
“Great. So I’ll meet you down front in about an hour.”
It had been a month since Liam’s trip to Mykonos when he had run into Alina. In that time he had spoken to her; it was via text message only and just a couple of times. He didn’t bring up her moving, and neither did she. The messages were short, simple “how are you”s, and nothing more.
Liam didn’t ask her if she had made her decision on whether or not to make the move to Cordonia, and Alina didn’t bring it up. And Liam hadn’t asked Leo because he didn’t even tell him that he had run into her during his trip; he didn’t need to give Leo ammunition to nag him.
The truth was, the possibility of Alina coming to Cordonia made Liam nervous. When he was with her in Mykonos, he was beginning to feel something he hadn’t in a long time. It was something he didn’t want to acknowledge and thought he could leave behind when he left. But knowing her moving to Cordonia was a possibility, he did anything but leave it behind. He got into his own head, and Alina had been all he could think about for the past month.
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Leo glanced over at Liam as they drove over to the beach house; he was tapping his foot and drumming his fingers against his thigh as he stared out the window. “Why are you acting all weird?”
“Huh?” Liam looked over at him.
Leo gave him a curious look. “You’re acting all anxious …”
“I … I’m not. I’m just sitting here.”
Leo laughed. “That was really convincing. What, are you worried the guys are going to give you a hard time?”
“No. Why would I be worried about that?”
“I don’t know … you did see Alina on your trip to Mykonos, soooo …”
Liam’s eyes widened slightly. “How did you-”
“We’re here!” Leo interrupted him, pulling into the driveway.
Liam grumbled under his breath as he and Leo exited the vehicle just as Nikos, Cy, Matteo, and Theo came out of the house. No Alina. “Hey!” Matteo greeted them. “Thanks for coming to help.”
“No problem,” Leo replied. “Where do you want us to start?”
“We’re just unloading the furniture now.” Nikos motioned to a large truck that was parked on the side of the road. “The company left it overnight, so we figured we’d get that emptied out first because they’re coming to pick it up soon.”
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While helping to unload the truck, Liam didn’t see any signs of Alina. There were no belongings of hers, and no furniture was placed in an unoccupied room. There was nothing, and nothing was said either. As much as he had been worrying about her coming, he felt a pang of disappointment that she didn’t. He wasn’t sure why, but he immediately shrugged it off. It’s for the best.
After unloading all the furnishings from the truck and getting themselves situated in their respective rooms, the guys headed into the kitchen for a small break. “We’ll have to thank your friend again for agreeing to rent to us,” Cy said to Leo as he handed him a drink.
“He was happy to do it.”
“This is a nice place,” Liam stated, looking around the modern kitchen. He moved to the sliding glass door that led to the back deck. “May I?”
“Go for it,” Theo responded.
Liam opened the door and stepped outside. The deck overlooked the beach and had its own private access there. Liam could make out the sounds of the waves crashing against the shoreline as a light sea breeze washed over him.
The sound of the sliding door of the house next door pulled Liam’s attention, and he glanced over and looked away before doing a double-take. There was Alina, draping a towel over the railing. She looked over and chuckled seeing the stunned expression on his face just as Leo stepped outside. “Hey, Ali!”
“Geia, Leo, Liam,” she smiled before turning and walking back inside.
“You knew she was here?”
“Yeah.” Leo took a sip of his drink. “But she wanted to have her own space, so I talked to my friend, who also owns that house, and he said she could rent it.”
Liam’s eyes narrowed. “And you didn’t think to mention it?”
Leo shrugged casually. “You didn’t ask.”
“You are such a dick,” Liam shook his head.
Leo laughed, clapping Liam’s shoulder. “You should go over there and see if she needs any help.” Liam gave Leo a look. “If you won’t do it, I will. Do you really want me over there with her by myself? Who knows what sort of things I might say …” Liam shoved Leo off him and walked back inside, heading for the front door. He knew Leo wasn’t bluffing about going over himself.
Liam walked outside and across the lawn to the house next door. He took a breath as he walked up the steps to the front porch and raised his hand, tapping his knuckles to the door. A moment later, the door opened, and Alina smiled up at him. “Hi.”
“Hello,” he smiled. “I … I didn’t know you were coming. Not until I just saw you.”
“The others didn’t say anything?”
“Not a word,” Liam shook his head.
Alina chuckled as she stepped aside. “Ela mésa.” Liam stepped inside and was immediately met with the scent of her perfume. “I’m just putting some things away.”
Alina pushed the door shut behind him and walked towards the kitchen; Liam followed her. The house was similar to the other, just a bit smaller, but not by much. And unlike her brother and cousin’s house, Alina’s was almost entirely set up.
“Alina-”
“Ali.” Liam gave her a curious look. “I think we know each other well enough where you can call me Ali,” she smiled as she unboxed some pots and pans.
“Ali it is.” He waited a moment before continuing. “You didn’t mention that you had decided to make the move when we talked …”
“You didn’t ask.” Alina smiled playfully at him. Liam tilted his head to the side with a slight smile. “Truthfully … I didn’t know if you would want to know or not.”
“Why would you think that?”
“Well, the look on your face when I told you that they had asked me to come didn’t exactly scream excitement. You know, for a king, your poker face isn’t very good,” she joked.
Liam rubbed the back of his neck. “Ali, I didn’t mean to make you think that … it just caught me by surprise is all.”
“I wasn’t trying to catch you off guard … it just … seemed like a good opportunity to try something new.”
“How did your yiayia take it?” he chuckled.
“It was the end of the world as we know it,” she laughed.
“And the rest of your family?”
“They were ok. The boys got threatened that they better take care of me,” she laughed.
Liam watched as she continued to unpack more pots, pans, and small kitchen appliances. “Does someone like to cook?” he chuckled.
“I do,” she smiled. “And I’m pretty good at it if I do say so myself.”
“Is that so?”
Alina nodded and smiled as she looked at him. She wasn’t sure what it was about Liam, but something drew her to him. It could be his charm, the way he looked at her with such intrigue, the mysteriousness he himself exuded … or the fact that he was the best she’d ever had. “How about I make you dinner one night? Say … Friday?”
Liam stared at her, feeling those thoughts and worries creeping up. It’s just dinner. After a moment, he nodded. “Ok.”
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Liam’s hands gripped Alina’s hips as she straddled his lap. The pair were entrapped in an all-consuming kiss, their almost-empty glasses of wine from dinner forgotten on the table in her living room.
It had been a month since Alina had first invited Liam over for dinner. One dinner turned into several; some she cooked, some they went out for. And every dinner ended the same way: the two of them wrapped up in one another, just on the edge of taking it further … until Liam would stop it.
They pulled apart breathlessly and Liam looked up at her. “I should go … I have that meeting early in the morning.”
Alina tried to shake off the disappointment she felt. “Ok …” She slowly moved off his lap, brushing her finger across her bottom lip. She reached out and grabbed her glass of wine, draining the rest of it.
Alina was unsure of what exactly was going on between her and Liam. It was clear there was something holding him back; whatever it was, he didn’t appear to be ready to discuss it. Apparently, they weren’t there yet. She wasn’t looking to tie him down into something he wasn’t ready for; she just wanted to know where this was going, if anywhere. She kept pushing it to the side, however. She had only been there a month and knew she needed to give it more time.
Alina and Liam rose from the sofa and walked to the front door. He opened it and stepped onto the porch, turning to face her. “Thank you for dinner.”
“No problem,” she smiled.
“Maybe I should cook you dinner one of these nights,” he chuckled.
“Is that an offer?” she smirked.
Liam smiled and leaned down, softly pressing his lips to hers. “Yes, it is,” he said as he pulled back. “Saturday?”
“Sounds good.”
“I’ll see you then.” He kissed her once more before stepping off the porch and walking to his car.
Liam was trying to fight what he was feeling, but it was proving to be more and more difficult the more he spent time with her. He was hot and cold: wanting her but keeping her just far enough away. He wasn’t being consistent with his heart, the way it pulled and pushed him toward her. It started to become a constant struggle for him, and he didn’t know what to do. She was like quicksand, and the more he tried to fight it, the deeper he fell. But those fears and insecurities of his past continued to win every single time.
Just as Liam approached his car, he paused when he heard his name being called. He glanced up to see Nikos coming from the house next door. “Hey,” Liam greeted him.
“Hey. So, I wanted to talk to you.”
“Sure. What about?”
“Alina.”
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jayeray-hq · 3 years
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Deck the Halls
This is a re-post! I kind of wondered why this post got almost no notes, especially since you guys really seemed to like my How He Shows You Affection: Tsukishima version, the fact that it doesn’t show up in tags answered that I guess. I hope you enjoy it, even it we’re well after Christmas now 😭😭😭. Notes: 4
Warnings: None all Fluff
Character Masterlist
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My part of the secret Santa collab for the Haikyuhagakure server! I had Rue-Rue @animeanxiety​ happy holidays and I hope you enjoy it!
Also quick but also huge thanks to everyone who looked this over for me you’re all amazing and I couldn’t have done it without you!
   “So where do we start?” you asked your boyfriend cheerfully, eying the boxes scattered around the room, nearly bouncing with excitement.
            “Anywhere is fine,” Tsukishima told you decidedly less thrilled than you were at the prospect of the task in front of you, “You know you don’t actually have to help with this right?”
           “But I want to help,” you told him honestly, “It will be fun.”
            He gave you an incredibly dubious look at that, but you were completely undeterred, “Come on Kei, where’s your Christmas spirit?”
             “Upstairs sleeping, the way I wanted to be,” he retorted with a huff, folding his arms across his chest.
             “It’s not that early,” you told him rolling your eyes at his petulance, gently tugging at his arms until he caved and unfolded them for you, twining your hands with his and peering up into his face as you scolded, “Don’t be a Grinch Kei, come on let’s have a little fun at least.”
             “Just what is so fun about Christmas Decorating?” he asked you a put-upon sigh, “It’s a whole lot of work to put it up, and then a whole lot of work to take down again.”
             “It gets you in the mood, the festive spirit,” you answered immediately ignoring the way he rolled his eyes and pressing on, “Besides it could be worse right? You could have to do this all by yourself, but instead you have me here to help you.”
             Tsukishima huffed at that, but didn’t argue, which you knew meant that you’d won. Honestly, you’d been looking forward to today a lot, having your boyfriend’s family invite you over to partake in their family Christmas traditions meant a lot to you. Apparently, his dad was American which meant they did a few different things and believed the holiday revolved more around family than it did around romance like most believed in Japan.
 That you’d been invited made you feel giddy and warm because it made your relationship seem that much more real and serious. Tsukishima wasn’t one to be overt in how he felt, but despite that you could tell this was something big and important.
 You really wanted to make a good impression on the rest of his family too. You hadn’t met them more than a handful of times, your relationship still fairly new, but you hoped they liked you. They’d certainly seemed welcoming, and even now his mom was actually in the kitchen, baking up a storm, including Christmas cookies that the kind older woman had assured you she was looking forward to having you try. The whole house smelled like warm cinnamon and pine needles from her baking and the tree, and it was incredibly pleasant. Now if only you could get your boyfriend into the Christmas spirit.
 “Oy,” he called, diverting your attention as he gently poked you in the forehead, “Don’t think so hard or you’ll combust. Come on, we’ll start with the lights.”
 “Okay,” you agreed as you beamed unable to help yourself, excited to get started and that he was finally showing some initiative. He scoffed and looked away from you, but you could see the faintest pink tinge to his cheeks, one that made your heart feel warm.
             “Oh! Do you have something we can play music on?” you asked, suddenly, reminded of something else that would add to the festive mood that you hoped your boyfriend would enjoy. The look he gave you told you exactly what he thought of such a ridiculous question, but he did show you where you could hook up your iPod.
             “You better not be playing any of the annoying Christmas carols, shortcake,” he warned firmly as you got things set up, though the warning was softened by the nickname he’d christened you with shortly after you’d started dating, the one that never failed to make you melt despite its teasing nature.
             “Would I do that to you?” you asked him innocently, earning a scoff in return that made you giggle, “Don’t worry Kei, I think you’ll like this.”
             He raised an eyebrow but didn’t object as you hit play, the upbeat synthetic tones of Manheim Steamroller’s Christmas album playing throughout the living room. Your boyfriend cocked his head for a minute, listening before nodding in acknowledgment, and gestured for you to follow him over to the tree that was set up neatly in one corner of the room. It was the only gesture of approval you were going to get, but it made you happy all the same, well aware he would’ve told you flat out if he hated it.
             Together the two of you worked together to put the lights up around the tree passing the cord back and forth as you hummed along with the music, earning an amused look from Tsukishima, though he didn’t comment for once.
             Once you had the lights on the two of you set to work getting the ornaments on. Tsukishima wasn’t all that enthusiastic, letting you do most of the work, even as he threw in the occasional snarky comment, and smirked at you when you weren’t able to reach the very top branches of the tree to decorate.
             “Hey looking good!” the comment distracted you from trying to hang your ornament and you nearly dropped it, bobbling it a bit before letting out a breath of relief once you had it safely in your hands again.
             “Ni-san,” your boyfriend acknowledged, looking a bit disgruntled at the new arrival, “Weren’t you supposed to be decorating outside?”
             “I finished,” Akiteru told him cheerfully clearly undaunted by his younger brother’s disapproval, “And I figured I’d come in and see how the two of you were doing.”
             “You mean mom kicked you out of the kitchen for snitching cookies, so you decided to come bother us,” your Kei sighed looking incredibly put upon.
             “You caught me,” His brother admitted with a sheepish laugh, completely unbothered by the accusation. “Looks like you could use a hand though, you haven’t even put up the fun decorations yet.”
             “Fun decorations?” you repeated curiously. Honestly, you’d just been following your boyfriend’s directives up until this point, letting him show you which boxes to grab things from and hanging ornaments where you thought they looked nice.
             “No,” Kei said his tone completely and utterly flat, though you could see the faintest tinge of pink on his cheeks, “This looks fine, there’s no need for more.”
             “Come on little brother,” Akiteru teased with a wide grin, “You can’t go leaving out the sentimental ornaments. They’re cute, and I’m sure your girlfriend would love to see them.”
             Both of them turned to look at you, and you couldn’t help the sheepish look you gave your boyfriend, unable to help your curiosity and clearly conveying that you very much would like to see them. He heaved an enormous sigh looking extremely put upon, but in the end,  he conceded to the pleading eyes you were sending him.
             You immediately bounded over to him and Akiteru who was absolutely delighted to share all kinds of stories, though your boyfriend was more than happy to pay him back in kind with what stories he knew about his brother.
             They both had several of the usual ornaments they’d both made as kids in class to give to their parents, along with a very cute baby hand and foot print set in plaster for each of them. However, the best were some of the ones your boyfriend had given his brother, most of which said things like Ni-san is the best, much to Kei’s complete and utter mortification, though he refused to respond to Akiteru’s teasing about it.
             The boys both had ornament collections too, ones that their parents bought for them each year. Akiteru’s were all different trains, something he’d apparently been fascinated with as a child, and your boyfriend’s were all dinosaurs. Some of them were more on the cool side, clearly from later years, but the ones from when he was a child were all cute, a little cartoon t-rex with a Santa hat. Apparently, his favorite had been a flying dinosaur that apparently your boyfriend had insisted was named after him when he was little, the Ar-Kei-Opteryrx, which you couldn’t help but find completely and utterly adorable much to his mortification.
             “Does the team know about the Ar-Kei-Opteryx?” you asked during a brief interlude when Akiteru had been called away by their mother to help with something in the kitchen, unable to help the giggles that spilled from your lips as you asked, thrilled that you’d actually managed to get something like blackmail on your normally cool and composed boyfriend.
             “No, and they’re not going to find out either,” he warned you firmly, giving you a thoroughly displeased look.
             “I won’t tell,” you promised sincerely, “Your secret is safe with me, even if it was really cute.”
             “Whatever,” he brushed off, his tone and face indifferent, but his red ears and neck telling a completely different story.
             You grinned feeling light and happy, as you finished putting the last ornament on the tree, and stepped back to admire your work. It looked nice, and you couldn’t help but feel rather proud of your work. Until you realized rather abruptly that something was missing.
             “Ah, do you have a topper?” you asked, surprised you’d forgotten what was essentially the pièce de résistance of a Christmas tree.
             “Here,” he told you, casually unboxing a rather gorgeous moon and star topper and passing it to you. You accepted the pretty piece gingerly, admiring it and the way it caught the light.
             “It’s really fitting for your family,” you told him, partly amused and partly awed at decoration in your hands.
             “I suppose so,” he told you with a careless shrug, before ordering, “Go put it on.”
             You moved to do as he said only to belatedly realize there was no way you were going to be able to do so, the tree far too tall. That and you didn’t want to risk breaking any of the ornaments. You turned to him, unable to keep the slight pout off your face, earning an amused huff from your boyfriend.
             “You really are a shortcake, shortcake,” he teased with a smirk.
             “Kei, help please,” you begged, giving him the best puppy dog look you could muster, well aware he was a bit of a sucker for it, even if he would pretend otherwise.
             “Helpless shortcake,” he drawled, clearly amused, though he did move to a hall closet to pull out a small step ladder for you, bringing it over for you to use. Much to your surprise he didn’t move away once he set it up, lingering close, his hands hovering over your waist, not quite touching but close enough you could almost feel the warmth of them through your shirt as he made sure you didn’t topple over on accident.
             Carefully you placed the moon topper on the tree, ensuring it wouldn’t fall, and was nice and sturdy before turning to smile down at your boyfriend, feeling warm and accomplished. He huffed, but you could see the tiniest of smiles hovering by his lips as he carefully helped you down from the step ladder.
             “Wow, you must really like her, little brother,” Akiteru teased, announcing his presence once you were safely down on the ground again, which you were immensely thankful for as his sudden reappearance made you squeak in surprise.
             “Ni-san…” Kei tried to interject, only to be overridden as Akiteru continued.
             “He’s been the one to put the topper on, and insistent about doing it himself since he was about ten I think. You must be pretty special for him to surrender the privilege,” he declared with a pleased grin.
             “Really Kei?” you asked feeling both warmed by the idea and a little contrite, “you could’ve done it. I wouldn’t have minded!”
             “Tch,” your boyfriend clicked his tongue and turned away from the two of you, but he didn’t protest or deny it, instead brushing off the rather sweet gesture, “You wanted to, and it’s not that big a deal.”
             “You’re the best Kei,” you told him sincerely, seeing right through him, “Thanks.”
             “You’re too easy to please shortcake,” he told you teasingly, shaking his head in faux disappointment, though you could tell he was actually rather pleased himself.
             “Anyway, mom sent me to get you guys,” Akiteru informed the two of you, glancing between you with a content smile on his face, and something that looked a bit like mischief dancing in his eyes, “She wants our help decorating cookies.”
             Apparently, you weren’t the only one to see it either, given the extremely suspicious look your boyfriend shot his brother, but the two of you still followed obediently after him into the kitchen. It smelled absolutely wonderful, like sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon, enough to make your mouth water.
             “You’re just in time,” his mother informed you, offering you both a sweet smile, “Come on over and we’ll get started.”
             “Wait!” Akiteru protested immediately from his spot on the opposite side of the kitchen, where he was leaning against the counter. His golden eyes, so similar to your boyfriend’s and yet completely different at the same time were gleaming with mischief as the two of you both froze in your tracks, surprised by the outburst.
             “You’re forgetting something,” he informed the two of you rather smugly.
             You glanced at your boyfriend, completely puzzled over what he might be talking about. Kei however looked just as puzzled as you did, right up until Akiteru pointed up. Both of you followed his finger, only to find a clump of very familiar berries hanging above your heads, mistletoe. You immediately looked to your boyfriend, a faint blush on your cheeks at the implication only to find him glaring at his brother.
             “You set us up,” he pointed out flatly.
             “Come on little brother, it’s tradition! Don’t you want to give your girlfriend a smooch?” Akiteru teased, their mother watching on with an amused smile.
             “No,” your boyfriend snapped immediately, making your heart sink in your chest, a little stung by his quick and fierce rejection, “Not in front of you.”
             “Too shy huh?” Akiteru asked faux sympathetic, though you noted he did cast you a quick apologetic glance, “That’s fine! Guess I’ll just have to kiss her for you then.”
             Before you could protest that you would very much like a say in this, and didn’t particularly want a kiss from your boyfriend’s older brother you found your face held carefully between Kei’s large hands. You blinked up at him surprised, as he searched you for any sign of rejection. Finding none he dipped his head and pressed a quick, sweet, surprisingly gentle kiss to the corner of your mouth before pulling away abruptly and reaching up to yank the mistletoe off the door frame.
             “There,” he informed his brother snidely, the sharpness of his words a contrast to the enormous blush on his face as he threw the decoration at Akiteru who caught it, looking a little surprised but entirely amused, “Now keep your stupid mistletoe to yourself and stay away from my girlfriend.”
             “Alright,” his brother conceded as you blushed up a storm, a little shocked that he’d actually done it, and in front of his brother and mom too. Trying not to spontaneously combust as Akiteru fluttered a sly wink in your direction, you realized he’d egged his brother on on purpose. He had no intention of actually trying to kiss you, shooting your impression of him as the nicer of the two brothers all to pieces, “I won’t kiss your cute girlfriend little brother don’t worry.”
             Whatever he might’ve said in response to that was interrupted by the sound of the front door opening and a call that let you know the last member of the Tsukishima family was home, followed by an exclamation of how nice everything looked.   
 “Did I miss something?” Kei’s dad asked hesitantly as he popped into the kitchen, glancing suspiciously between his two sons and your face, which was still berry red. Of the two Tsukishima parents he was definitely more like your boyfriend from what you’d seen, highly intelligent and calculating. It made him an excellent businessman, and also according to your boyfriend, meant he always knew when he or Akiteru got into mischief.
 “Welcome home dear,” his mother greeted, effectively distracting the man and saving you all from having to explain what had happened, “We’re just about to start on decorating Christmas cookies.”
 “Sounds good,” he told her as he smiled affectionately at her, the look in his eyes making it very clear how much he cared about her, and making you want to swoon at how cute that was. Clearly going along with her and not asking.
 The group of you quickly settled in, to make your cookies, your boyfriend not bothering to do all that much, spending far too much time on every cookie and Akiteru snitching several of them before they could be properly iced. He still occasionally teased the two of you as you worked, right up until Kei started firing back asking where Akiteru’s girlfriend was. It was a bit chaotic, but as Kei slipped a sly arm around the back of your chair you couldn’t help but feel warm and glad. Quietly you wondered if he’d be willing to participate in some of your own holiday traditions, feeling giddy and joyful as you looked at him and hoped there would be many more years to come of celebrating together.
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BnHA Chapter 262: A Fierce Bad Rabbit
Previously on BnHA: The hospital raid squad, which had two jobs consisting of (1) not letting Ujiko get away, and (2) not letting any of the Noumu break free to go ravage the countryside, impressively failed at both of these tasks (or so I assume) in a remarkably short amount of time. The EndeavorZawaMicLock squad were all occupied with having a very destructive fight in the hospital lobby, leaving my girl Miruko, Goddess of Courage and First of Her Name, to do pretty much all the heavy lifting, which, fine!! Except that Ujiko remembered that he had a bunch of High End Noumus just floating there waiting to be activated, and he was all “!!” and fucking activated them, and like five of them went after Miruko all at once and smashed her into a bunch of machinery and glass tubes, which frankly should have killed her but it didn’t because she’s a fucking boss. But now it’s just her (and Crust, who might do something too, but for now JURY’S STILL OUT) against all these guys while Ujiko speeds off to grab Tomura and abscond. So basically everything that could go wrong has already gone wrong so UH. OKAY.
Today on BnHA: Miruko kicks ass. Then she checks her watch and sees that there’s still time for her to kick more ass, so she does. Then there is still time, because this chapter is all about her kicking ass! So she kicks even more ass!! It’s great!! I have no complaints!! She decapitates a man with her thighs!! That’s a thing that really happens!! Also she loses an arm but WHO HASN’T LOST AND/OR BROKEN THEIR ARMS IN THIS SERIES, REALLY. Everyone is doing it. Somehow she manages to make it look cool because Miruko. Miruko can strangle a man with a cordless phone. She can kill two stones with one bird. Miruko makes onions cry. Death once had a near-Miruko experience. Mirukoooooooo. Anyway the chapter ends with Skeptic warning everyone at The Ol’ Villain Hotel that the heroes are coming, so basically WELCOME BACK, EVERYONE, this manga is back with a vengeance.
guys I’m gonna try to do this recap fast because I’m seeing Heroes Rising tonight at 7:30! and I’m so excited! and for those that asked, yes I do plan on doing some kind of write-up about it, though it’ll all be from memory after the fact so we’ll see how that goes. but !! I’ve waited 84 years for this ahhhhh but anyway so in the meantime let’s see what new and creative ways our heroes are finding to screw this up even more
(ETA: I did it but this thing isn’t edited for shit lol. after I get back I’ll give it a more thorough readthrough so sorry if I missed any really obvious errors! also there are probably way more exclamation points than usual which may or may not be a plus or minus.)
look at this helpful announcement
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High End Noumu approaching, everyone. you have been warned. just in case you somehow failed to notice?? IT’S RIGHT THERE Y’ALL LOOK OUT
lmao FINALLY
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MORE HEROES. YOU ALL CERTAINLY TOOK YOUR FUCKING TIME, but hey welcome to the party. and none of that “I don’t see how that’s a party” sassy shit either. you all know what I’m talking about so get out there and have fun
so they’re standing there all “it’s a talking Noumu!” and YEAH. that’s what I’ve been fucking trying to tell you. thank god someone finally fucking said it out loud so that hopefully the EZML squad can finally take notice of this as well. like guys. bigger fish?! get to frying!!
so now Crust is all “there are more of them ahead, Miruko’s in danger!” which, again, thanks for finally letting everyone else in on this formerly exclusive scoop there pal. ‘preciate it
I... really do not understand Crust’s quirk at all. I’m just gonna own up to it
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what is this. what does “zuga” mean fx-wise. why did those scale things on his arms get so big. what are they made of. what’s happening
oh it turns out that if you scroll and read more instead of pausing for ages to ask dumb questions, the thing you were asking about might actually be explained in great detail in the very next panel
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but what are they made out of though. and why “Crust”?? ah well I suppose that’s a question for someone who actually cares more than I do
by the way the quality of this scan is actually really good so far, I gotta say. we’re only two pages in, true, but they either cleaned this up really nicely, or this was a much higher-quality scan than usual. either way I am appreciative!
lol this poor Noumu is shook
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what did I name you two weeks ago, again? Rusty?? anyways he’s doing his best you guys. gambare my dude, though actually you do need to die, so that’s too bad though
Crust is all “you pitiful living corpse!” with tears in his eyes because he’s dramatic! but jokes aside I do appreciate that he has compassion for these monsters who are all still basically innocent victims at the end of the day
does anyone else actually hear that funny-sounding anime narrator guy in your head nowadays when you read panels like this lol
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I can hear the voice so clearly and it’s great
only ten times the strength of a normal human, guys. that’s actually not that bad. I’m only half joking lol. because obviously your average hero is going to be much stronger than a so-called “normal” person too, yes? and I’m pretty sure Miruko has the strength of like 30 humans but I may be overestimating her just slightly but am I though
oh lol I apparently did not learn my lesson about doing commentary before I’m done reading hahaha
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so High Ends are on a different tier of their own above even the “high” tier. well that’s just. yeah that sounds more like the “we’re still fucked” update that I was expecting
oh wait, seriously??
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are you telling me that all of the High Ends were actually cultivated from villains? so maybe not completely innocent, then? is this Horikoshi’s way of trying to make us feel marginally better about the fact that the heroes are shortly henceforth going to have to exterminate these guys with great prejudice? I mean they’re still basically slaves to Ujiko’s programming now though so that sucks
also I missed this earlier but the narration here basically just confirmed that Noumu are all made from corpses. which I kind of suspected, but the still-very-much-alive Tomura would then be a glaring contradiction to that, no? or is that why he’s so special. anyway I do appreciate that we’re getting a lot of much-awaited answers in this Noumu arc, but some of this is also just raising more questions. gotta be patient I guess
speaking of Tomura, Ujiko’s back in the Tomura room, so. I assume some absconding is soon to occur
oh shit!! so there’s another panel explaining that “artificial transplant of quirks” requires surgery and then three months of stabilization time following that. sooooo I’m pretty sure this mofo just confirmed that he gave Tomura some shiny additional new quirks, so that’s nice! that’s real fucking great! I know we were all eyeing Tomura skeptically and thinking to ourselves “this is almost just right, but needs more death”
wait, what?
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“I was already dead anyway” meaning that he knows there’s no way out for him? and so he doesn’t have a secret way out of the lab?? ??? can that really be true?? our intrepid heroes actually did their job right and the villains had no contingency plan?? oh my god I am so terrified of letting my guard down lmao I still refuse to believe this at all
and is that Tomura who’s at 70% stabilization? that would seem to fit with the timeline we were given. holy shit is he unboxing him early fsdfkjalsdk are we about to go from “fucked” to “exorbitantly fucked”
and why am I strangely excited about it sob!!
HAHAHAHA OH GOD
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so this is how liberty dies. with a beep
also fuck you all, now it’s at 71%?! couldn’t leave it at a nice even number for us, could you? you just had to throw that extra percent in there at the last moment to fuck with us all
anyway did you all catch how fucking ripped he was there though? like boiiii whaaaaat. clearly his abs are already at 100%
OH MY GOD
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DOES NOTHING FUCKING FAZE THIS BEAUTIFUL, RULE-BREAKING MOTH
HAHAHA
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RIGHT??
HOLY FUCKING MOLY
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friendly reminder that Dabi was all good and ready to throw down with both Endeavor and Hawks (who were admittedly weakened by that point) that one time a while back, but then Miruko showed up and he was all “lol nope I think the fuck not” and warped out of there. Dabi, whose quirk is so powerful that its only apparent downside is the fact that it roasts him alive as well. that Dabi took one look at Miruko and decided he likes having his spine intact and fucking vamoosed, because that is the smart fucking thing to do when this girl shows up smiling at you the way that she is smiling at these Noumu now
anyway. fucking Ujiko knew he needed at least five High Ends to even stand a chance of slowing her down, is all I’m saying. y’all better respect the FUCK out of Miruko, everyone. it’s the law
anyway. so. quirk: bunny. can smash rl gud
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someone needs to ask Horikoshi the fuck kind of rabbits he has been hanging out with. applied that “and more!” part pretty fucking liberally huh. WHO DID YOU SAY TRIX WERE FOR AGAIN, CHILDREN??
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NOBODY THROWS MIRUKO IN THE BRIAR PATCH AND GETS AWAY WITH IT
fffwhatttttttttt
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that would be our good buddy Max Rebo. so that’s definitely not an elephant trunk-like thing then. we may need a new name for you
on a side note, I never thought we’d meet another character who looks more like Katsuki than Mitsuki does, and yet every damn week Miruko is proving me wrong. goddamn she is great
lmao wait maybe that wasn’t Max at all, but Jester. because this is clearly Max over here
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so Girl!Noumu is a water bender, Jester can do... something weird with his hair, and Max can do anything an elephant can do if that elephant was also powered by steam. nice
HAHAHA BUT MIRUKO IS ALL “KICK!!!”
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HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK!!!
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HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT. I WOULD READ AN ENTIRE MANGA OF JUST THIS LMAO THIS IS TOO MUCH ADRENALINE I CAN’T
JESTER’S WEIRD SPIKY ROCK HAIR IS SLICING HER ARM AND SHE’S ALL “THAT HURTS YOU JERK!!!!” AND GETTING READY TO FREAKING PILEDRIVE HIM I CAN’T, THOUGH!?
SDKFJLDKSJFLKJ
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HER FATHER PEPPY TAUGHT HER THAT. BARREL ROLL ALL OVER THESE BITCHES!!
WHAT THE FUCK
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FUCKING QUIRKS!!!! THOUGH!!!! WILLLLLLLLLD
SDKFJLAS;DHK OH MY GOD OH SHIT
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real talk this is the scariest fucking quirk I’ve ever seen I was like what the fuck looking at her arm and then I saw him doing the twisty hand gesture and just. fuck. YOU’RE NOT CRIMSON RIOT AT ALL YOU’RE SOME PSYCHO TELEKINETIC BITCH AND I FUCKING HATE YOU!!
NO!!!!!
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fuck fuck fuck. I’M SURE HER ARM’S GOING TO BE JUST FINE AND DANDY AFTER THIS GUYS, DON’T WORRY. THIS MANGA HAS SUCH A SERENE AND TRANQUIL HISTORY WITH ARMS. ISN’T THAT RIGHT DEKU
though on the plus side, if she does lose that arm we can count on her to somehow instantly become like 50x more attractive, which I’m pretty sure might cause the very fabric of the universe to unravel but it would be worth it
(ETA: SHE DID AND IT WAS!!)
MADAME PRESIDENT!! MY QUEEN
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OH HELL YERRRRRR
fucking hell guys I’m running out of exclamation points and excited things to say here. AND SHE JUST KEEPS GOING! LIKE HER MOM THE ENERGIZER BUNNY BEFORE HER
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I’M SORRY UJIKO DID YOU THINK FIVE HIGH ENDS WAS ENOUGH?! MAYBE NEXT TIME WE MAKE IT TEN, HOW ABOUT THAT. FUCK OFF
lmao holy shit I can’t stop laughingggg
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well Crimson, at least you get to die happy. is she literally going to crush his face between her thighs. is this entire chapter just one big prank on me. if Miruko was the protagonist would this series have ended in the first chapter. trick question, the answer is it never would have started to begin with because she would have killed All for One years ago!! how much would it cost to hire Miruko to come kick away all of my problems for me
hello good afternoon everyone this is a real panel that really happened in this manga
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I don’t even know what to say about anything anymore
sob she’s all “YEAH RIGHT” and SNAPPING HIS FUCKING NECK WITH A FUCKING TRIANGLE CHOKE, THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING, FUCKING LOOK!! AT!! THIS!!!
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we’re not even gonna make it to 300 chapters. Horikoshi held off for as long as he could, but eventually Miruko couldn’t be contained any longer and he had to unleash her and she instantly went and reckt every last fucking bad guy out there until there was nothing left. who are the kids even going to fight. nobody that’s who. go back to school kids
SON OF A BITCH WHAT IS HAPPENING
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THIS IS THE MOST VIOLENT THING I HAVE EVER FUCKING SEEN AND YET SOMEHOW I SWEAR I CAN HEAR ANGELS SINGING. RESPLENDENT
SOBBING!!!!
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“S’POSE I SHOULD GET THIS ANNOYING THING CHECKED OUT BEFORE I BLEED TO DEATH OR SOME BULLSHIT.” WHAT AN INCONVENIENCE. JUST A FUCKING FLESH WOUND. NOBODY USES ARMS THESE DAYS ANYWAY
“IF THE ONLY WAY TO STOP YOU IS BY CRUSHING YOUR HEADS THIS WILL BE WAY EASIER THAN HOLDING BACK ON A NORMAL VILLAIN.” SOB THIS IS MIRUKO’S WORLD AND WE’RE ALL JUST BEGRUDGINGLY ALLOWED TO EXIST IN IT. MY BARONESS
DID YOU JUST TOURNIQUET YOUR DISMEMBERED FUCKING LIMB WITH YOUR OWN FUCKING HAIR ONE-HANDED FFCKCK KCKCLK JUST MIRUKO THINGS
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Miruko also saw Horikoshi getting ready to end the chapter after 17 pages and was like “EXCUSE YOU THERE” and he backed off because he actually likes having a fucking head thank you very much
LMAO AND NOW OF ALL TIMES WE’RE CUTTING BACK TO THE OL’ VILLAIN RESORT. SIGH
Skeptic seems to have finally cottoned on to them being in some kind of trouble. huh
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how does he know it was Jin who screwed up?? did he realize that Hawks betrayed them oh shit!?!
OOP HE’S SOUNDING THE ALARM
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AND THE CHAPTER IS ENDING. BUT I’M NOT DONE SCREAMING. AHHHHHH well anyways I’m off to watch my children kick lots of ass on the big screen. assuming I can get this posted in time with zero editing whatsoever lol I’ve got like... an hour. WE SHALL SEE!
(ETA: we did it lol just barely! this whole thing is probably a giant mess but oh well! Mirukoooooo)
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medusas-side-snake · 4 years
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Scarred - Chapter 2
Megan works for the Order, she has been on a mission for them for over a year. A mission that was only supposed to last two weeks. Heritage means that she is on thin ice with the rest of the Order, mix that with some heartbreak by the dragon-loving Weasley boy and a certain Black family member with a vendetta and you have the following story.
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When I woke up in Charlie’s bed, my own being the one that Hermione’s currently using, with Bill snoring on the other side of the room, it felt like things were almost back to normal, bar the incredible pain that I was in from the burns and the glaringly obvious absence of one Charlie Weasley.
I was so caught up in my thoughts of missing Charlie, that I didn’t notice that Bill had stopped snoring or that he was currently staring at me from his bed.
“You know, you’re gonna have to go downstairs and face them all eventually, right?”
I sighed, “I don’t look the same, what if I scare them?” My main worry was the burns on my face. If it came to it, I could just put up with the pain in the rest of my body and pretend that those burns weren’t there, I couldn’t, however, wear a mask around my family forever. They would know that something was up. If I was going to stay with them and be around them everyday, it was better to get the unveiling done as soon as possible. But that thought did nothing to assuage my fears, in fact it probably made them worse.
“They love you, they don’t care, they’ll just be happy that you’re alive and that you’re back home. Where you belong.” I knew that what he was saying was right. These people were my family, blood or not and they all loved unconditionally. But there was the nagging in the back of my head, that, what if though…… What if they don’t?
Bill must’ve known by my silence that I was getting drowned by my own thoughts because he left his own bed and climbed into mine. He lay on his side facing me, with one arm propping his head up while the other brushed the hair away from my face.
“Do you want me to plait your hair before you go down?” When I lived with my parents, the last thing on their agenda was teaching me to plait my own hair, they had the elves to do it, and then when I lived with my nana, she had arthritis and couldn’t do it. I never really cared or was interested, as long as my hair was out of my face, usually in a ponytail, I was happy. When I moved into the Burrow, Mrs.Weasley would always plait my hair and she taught me how to do it on myself and on other people and it became a source of comfort whenever one of us (mainly me, Ginny or Molly but occasionally the others joined in too) were upset or worried or anything like that.
“No, it’ll just draw attention to… this.” I gestured towards the new marks that covered my face.
“You know they won’t care about that. Come on, get up.” Bill was pushing on my shoulder to get me to move and sit on the floor.
Once I was seated with a pillow underneath me on the floor, Bill put a leg either side of my shoulders and moved forward so that he was sat right behind me.
Gently, he brushed through my hair before parting it off into different sections. Neither of us spoke while he did this, I just closed my eyes and allowed my soul to be soothed by the familiar feeling of family.
Fleur walked in when Bill was about halfway down.
“Hey, we’ll be down in a bit, just want to finish this.” Bill spoke softly and you could hear the love that he held for her in his voice, it reminded me of how Charlie used to talk to me in the soft moments.
“Don’t worry about it.” Fleur’s accent was strong, but it was obvious that she had been working on making herself easier to be understood since the last time that I had spoken to her at the Tri Wizard. “You ‘ave a package.” She held the brown parcel out to me and, after I took it, came to sit next to Bill on the bed behind me.
“Did your shoes come today?” Bill asked her while he was tying off the plait. With one of the many hair ties that littered Charlie’s drawers.
“No, but they’ll be ‘ere in time for ze wedding so I am not worried.” Bill hummed as she spoke and brushed out the last section of hair for his final plait.
“Wedding? Who’s getting married?”
“We are. Didn’t anyone tell you?” Bill asked.
“She was not ‘ere. There is no way she could know.” Fleur answered before I could.
“Billy boy! You’re getting married?! When?” I tried to turn my head around to look at them both as I questioned them about their upcoming nuptials, but I was stopped by a firm hand in my hair and another on the side of my head, making sure that I faced forward while the final plait was completed
“Stay still! You actually haven’t changed, you still move around too much when I’m doing your hair.” Bill ordered in a sharp voice and I mocked what he said while Fleur giggled slightly at us.
“Congratulations anyway guys! I’d hug you but the hair dictator,” a sharp tug of the strands of hair that he was holding was returned with an elbow to the shin which probably hurt me more than it hurt him, not that I’d let him see that, “won’t let me. What do you guys want for a wedding gift? Do you have a list thing going on or what?”
“Nothing, having the ‘ole of Bill’s family ‘ere is enough.” Fleur put her hand on my shoulder and rubbed slightly as she spoke. I winced as she rubbed one of the burns that was there. “Sorry.” She took her hand away as soon as I had done so.
“It’s no problem, don’t worry about it.”
“What did you get anyway?” She asked, referring to the box in my hands.
I looked down at it, “I have no idea.”
“You’re lucky that I’m done now because you cannot stay still.” Bill said as he was tying off the final plait.
I chose not to respond to him as I tore open the brown paper covering whatever was in the parcel to unveil a very large, unboxed pot. It’s label stated that it was called ‘Dragopren’ and when I unscrewed the lid, it looked like some sort of cream and it smelled funky.
There were no instructions to go with it but a small piece of paper was attached to the bottom of the pot with a hand-written note that read,
‘ apply liberally twice a day until hard, grey skin covers the burns
C x ’
Bill placed his chin on top of my freshly braided hair. “Thank God Charlie only sleeps naked if you’re in his bed because he nearly jumped a mile when I appeared in his fire last night and that is not something I want to see.”
“I’m confused, how, when did you speak to him?”
“Oh, Sirius taught me this thing where you can talk to some through the floo by only putting your head in the fire. The order has been using it for a while. He….” Bill sighed, “He also said that the cream wouldn’t heal the burns, only prevent infection and reduce the itchy feeling. They’ll heal in their own time and they will also leave some pretty nasty scars. I’m sorry” His voice grew quieter as he spoke and I could tell that it was hard for him not to be able to fix all of my problems like he thought a big brother should.
“Not your fault. You didn’t do it.” I tried to do my best to comfort him, I had already accepted that that would be the case anyway so he hadn’t really destroyed any of my feelings. “It smells nasty though.” I tried to shift the subject because it was hard to process all of that and I could see that he wasn’t happy with what he hadn’t been able to do.
“Let me smell.” I held the pot above my head for Bill to get his nose near.
“Merlin, that is bad.” He was coughing as he talked. “You’re gonna be properly stinky from now on. I'll have to warn the others that you may knock them out with smell alone.” He was laughing and even though his heart wasn’t in it, I appreciated the effort.
I scooped out a small glob using my middle and fore fingers, and gently applied it to the mark that ran from my left eyebrow and wrapped itself around my face diagonally and ended at the bottom-right side of my neck. It was only by luck that it had missed my eye and that I wasn’t blind in, at least, one of them.
As soon as the cream touched my face, I sighed in relief. The warm and itchy sensation went away and was soothed by the smelly substance.
“It feels good though, I can tell it’s going to help loads. Can you help me do my back?” I turned my head to ask Fleur. “There’s a couple on my stomach but I think that I can do those, so it’s just my back that I will need help with until I can figure out how to reach them on my own.”
“Do not vorry about it.” Fleur took the pot of cream from my hands. “Stand up and let us ‘ave a look.” I did as she asked, I stood and lifted the back of my shirt up. I heard both of them suck in a breath at the expanse of my back.
“There is barely any untouched skin back here, Pumpkin.” I don’t know what it was that set me off, possibly the feeling of someone looking at my back, maybe it was the fact that they were looking and were so obviously disgusted with what they saw, or maybe it was the sound of the familiar nickname. Either way, I was crying before I knew it. Giant, ugly sobs that pulled at the raw skin of my back.
“It’s okay, it’s okay.” Bill wished me as he held my head with his hands on either side of my face and pushed his forehead against mine. I appreciated the comfort and pushed back against his forehead and placed my own hands on his fore arms and squeezed.
“I know, it just didn’t really sink in how good it is to be home.” My voice was thick as I spoke, my sobs quieting down.
“Are you ready?” Fleur asked from behind me.
“Yeah, yeah. Thanks.”
“It is not a problem.” Her voice was quiet when she spoke and then I felt the first touch of the cream on the middle of my back and let out a sigh and arched into it slightly.
We were all silent for a few minutes, me and Bill still leaning on one another while Fleur was applying the cream to my back.
“There are some that I cannot reach at the top ov your back. You will see to take your shirt off.” I let go of Bill and he stepped away from me slightly as I pulled my shirt off. I dropped it to the floor and used my hand to cover my breasts.
“You have lost so much weight.” Bill’s voice was shocked at my appearance.
“I know.” I looked down.
“No, like a lot. Like too much. It’s…I….I can see your ribs.”
I tipped my head back as the tears started to fall from my eyes once again. “I know.”
“No, no. Don’t cry, I didn’t mean to upset you, I was just shocked. I mean, we could all tell that you had lost weight, it was just a shock for me to see exactly how much though. You’re still one of the most beautiful people I know.” Bill’s arms were suddenly around me, careful not to touch my back.
I couldn’t answer him, I didn’t have the words to express what I was feeling in that moment.
“I ‘ave finished.” Fleur’s voice sounded out. I sniffed and pulled away from Bill. I wiped my eyes and took the pot of cream from Fleur. The mirror was on the other side of the room and once I was in front of it, I dropped my hand from my chest and sucked in a deep breath once I saw that Bill was right, my ribs were clearly visible without breathing, in without bending a certain way. I could count them by sight instead of having to press down on them to feel them. Once I had grown accustomed to that, I did something that I probably shouldn’t have. I tugged down my pants slightly, only to be greeted with the sight of my hip bones.
That proved too much for Bill, who let out an angry puff of breath and turned his head away to the opposite wall.
I applied the cream as quickly as I could to the front of my body and then went to the drawer and pulled out one of the shirts that Charlie had not taken with him and tucked it loosely into my pajama pants.
“Guess Pumpkin doesn’t really fit anymore, hey?”I tried to bring the mood up in the room, but I knew it wouldn’t work. It was too hard for Bill to see me like that when I had always been, I wouldn’t say massive but definitely, overweight my entire life.
I didn’t receive a response from either of the other two people in the room.
There was, however, a knock at the door followed by Remus’ voice.
“Megan?”
“Come in.”
He only opened the door slightly and popped his head into the gap. “The Order is downstairs.”
He didn’t say it but I knew what that meant, I was going to have to go downstairs and tell everyone what happened.
“Okay, I’ll be down in a minute.” With the obvious tension in the room, he just nodded and closed the door behind him. “I guess I better go down.”
Fleur smiled at me slightly while Bill remained motionless, I suspect so that he didn’t have to cry in front of me, but with one last look at his blank face, I left the room and walked straight into the lions’ den.
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whumpallday · 4 years
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Wumpees-R-Us VS Whumpee Barn: Naming My Boyz!
Sorry for the delay! Holidays came around and my brain decided to say, “Nope!”. Brain is back online now! (Hopefully). This is a continuation of a YouTube series that was inspired by @shameless-whumper‘s Unboxing and @my-whumpy-little-heart’s Defective. 
TW: Dehumanization, modern slavery, implied physical abuse.
Video One: First Impressions
The camera turns on, showing Starr in her studio with the usual white backdrop, chair, and table. 
“Hey guys! It’s Starr here, and welcome back to This-Or-That! Today we’re revealing the names of my Box Boys, and I’m so excited to introduce them to you!!!” She smiles widely, flipping her blue hair over her shoulder. 
“So, last video we did the unboxing, if you missed that, click the link in the description and check it out! That video was pretty sweet, but I thought I’d give you a few more clips so you could see how the rest of the unboxing went!” 
She winks, and the camera changes back to the full-studio view, with the two boxes on the ground, and the two boys sitting inside them. It moves to a time-lapse, with Starr walking around, helping the W-R-Us boy up, and untying him. Then the time lapse slows, and the camera moves to a view of just Starr and the redhead. 
“Okay, so one thing that I love about W-R-Us boys are all the positions they come with! I didn’t order any extra positions, just decided to go with the base 25. So let’s test some out!” She moves around the redhead, ruffling his hair a bit. He stood with his arms to his sides, shoulders a bit tense and hesitant. 
“Okayyyyy. Position two?” She looks up from the manual, over to the boy. The boy sinks down to his knees, looking at his hands in his lap. 
“Well done! Okay. Position six?” The boy raises on his knees, fore-arms extended and wrists up. 
“Position seven.” The boy stands up, keeping his hands outstretched, ready for them to be tied, hit, or have something placed on them. 
Starr puts the manual down and hugs the boy from behind. A flash of panic crosses his face before he realizes whats going on, at which point he shifts his weight awkwardly. He doesn’t move from the position, but as Starr comes around to the front and looks at him, he gives her a hesitant, shaky smile. 
Starr gives him a big kiss on the cheek with a mwuah sound, then stands back. “Okay, position two for now. But don’t think I’m done with you!” 
The boy sinks back down to his knees, and the camera focuses in on his face for a bit, showing hesitant, nervous eyes. 
The camera goes into a time lapse again, and shows Starr walking around to the Whumpee Barn boy, trying to do the same thing. Help him up, start untying him. She reaches down, and you can see the boy resisting a bit. Flinching at her touch, pulling away when she tries to help him up, 
It goes on throughout the time-lapse, with the boy pulling away at every opportunity. As soon as she unties his hands, he pulls away from her, wrapping his arms around his abdomen and glaring at the camera, and Starr. The time-lapse stops, and it moves to a view of only Starr and the WB box boy. 
Starr tilts her head at the boy, raising an eyebrow. “Bit jumpy, aren’t you?” She turns to the camera, smiling. “So, the WB manual didn’t come with nearly as many positions. Just a basic five. That was a bit of a disappointment, but the manual says it’s easy to train new positions. Hey, you think I could teach him to hold a camera?” She winks, then turns to the boy. 
“Okay, position one.” 
The boy doesn’t move, staring at Starr with guarded eyes. His eyes flick to the camera, then back on Starr, arms still wrapped around his torso protectively. 
“I said, position one.” Starr says it a bit colder, raising an eyebrow at the camera. At the change in tone, the boy slowly and carefully drops to his knees, planting his butt on his feet and putting a hand on each leg. 
“There we go! So, position one for WB is like position two for W-R-Us.” The camera flips over to the redhead, barely focusing before turning back to the Whumpee Barn boy. 
“Position two.” The boy doesn’t move again, until he looks up and Starr raises an eyebrow. Then he slowly moves to his hands and knees, with a straight back. 
The camera speeds through the last three positions, showing small clips of each one. Starr evidently got bored going through them one by one. In the time-lapse, the boy always hesitates before going into position. It takes much longer than the W-R-Us, but eventually she has him go back to position one, hands on his knees. 
The camera zooms back out, and Starr walks to the middle, sitting down with a kneeling box boy on either side. The redhead’s head is down, focusing on the ground. The blue-eyed boy is still glaring at the camera, his cheeks a bit red. 
The camera cuts back to Starr in the studio, smiling at the “video” thumbnail that’s hovering to her left. 
“So, that was the unboxing! After that I started giving them the tour, and doing introductions!” The camera widens out, to show the redhead on her right, and the blue-eyed boy on her left, both in one of her T-shirts. The redhead waves and smiles hesitantly, but the blue-eyed boy doesn’t move until there’s a small movement under the table, and he flinches slightly. Then he waves, a quick hand up, not looking at the camera. 
“I want to thank everyone who sent in their suggestions for names, guys! And even if you didn’t, you know I love you! We got a pretty good list, so we’re going to go one at a time.” She scoots her chair closer to the Whumpee Barn boy, and pulls out a sheet of paper. 
“My boy from WB won the coin toss, so we’re announcing his name first!” She grins excitedly, putting an arm around his shoulder and smiling at him. He looks away from her, head turned and eyes angry. 
Starr leans a bit closer and stage whispers “Your line.” The boy rolls his eyes and turns his head forward, still not looking at the camera. He pulls out a sheet of paper, and starts reading. 
“We got a lot of names. Here’s the list of her favorites.” His voice comes out flat, and a bit lower than expected. Star leans toward the camera conspiratorially. 
“Our favorites.”
“Callum, Tyler, Axel, Wiley, Ethan and Garret.” He folds the paper up and puts it in his pocket, still glaring at the table. 
“Okay, now go ahead and announce which one was the winner.” Starr puts a hand on the table and leans on it, winking at the camera. The boy’s head whips up and looks at her accusingly. 
“You said you were going to do that.” 
“Oh, but this is a surprise! It’s a once in a lifetime chance to be able to tell the world who you are!” Starr leans back, smiling with bright eyes. 
He makes a face and pulls his head back. “You said I’d just have to read the list, I read the list. I’m done. You do your... video, or whatever.” 
Starr sighs, and the camera cuts to a new angle. The WB boy is still staring at the table, but his cheek is red and a bit wet. He gives Starr a sideways glance, then looks back at the table. 
His voice is lower, almost a mumble. “My favorite was Axel, but the winning name was Tyler.” 
Starr pulls back from where she’s leaning on the table, and smiles at the camera. “Everyone, say hello to Tyler!! And a very special thanks to @comfortforthepain for suggesting it!” She ruffles his hair, ignoring the disgusted look Tyler gives her. Then she scoots her chair over to the redhead, having the camera follow her. 
She puts an elbow on the redhead’s shoulder and tilts her head at him. “So, what about you? You ready to announce your new name?” 
The redhead looks at Starr and nods shyly, keeping his hands in his lap. He looks to the camera, the corner of his mouth tilting up in a tiny smile. 
“Um, we uh, there was a list, but uh, I uh, had a different idea...” He looks at Starr and she nods him on, smiling reassuringly. “So uh, I’m going to uh, read the list first off.” He pulls a small folded piece of paper. 
“So uh, the list that uh, we got... It was uh, Jorden, Henley, Jonny, Louis and Shiloh.” He’s sitting pretty tense, shoulders hunched. 
He glances back over to Starr, who nods again. 
“Go ahead. It’s your name, isn’t it?” She smiles at him, then the camera, wrapping an arm around him. 
He nods a bit, like he’s telling himself that. “But uh, I uh, I thought that uh.... well, I uh...” He glances at Starr again, then back at the camera. “I had an idea... and Starr was okay with it... so uh... Hi everyone? I’m uh, I’m Skyler.” 
Starr had a big smile on her face and squeezed Skyler as he finished up. He gives her a tentative smile. 
“Isn’t he the sweetest? So there’s the names!” The camera zooms back out, showing everyone’s faces. Tyler is still staring at the table, his cheek not as red anymore.
“Skyler and Tyler. Thank you everyone who sent in names, you really helped inspire me and give me a feel for what they should be called! I’ll post the rules of how this comparison is going to work in my next video, but for now, lemme know what you want to see them do! Any challenges, or get-to-know-you’s, leave a comment below and we’ll see if your idea gets picked!” 
Starr smiles, wrapping her arms around both of the boys and bringing them closer, one arm around each of their necks. Tyler has a scowl on his face, and looks very uncomfortable. Skyler is still smiling hesitantly, looking at the camera. 
“As always, don’t forget to like and subscribe, and ring the bell so you’re notified when my new videos are coming out! We’ll see you next time on This-” she squeezes Skyler’s neck gently, “Or-That!” She squeezes Tyler’s neck, maybe not-so-gently. He grimaces, and the picture freezes.
 Starr in the middle, smiling widely at the camera, Skyler to her right, the corner of his mouth curving up, and Tyler on the left, curling his lip slightly as he stairs at the table. 
The words Meet the ‘Yler’s! pop up over it, and then the video ends. 
Next one here.
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leggomylino · 5 years
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[𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚢.]
You’re here. You’re actually here.
He can’t believe it. Surely it must be a dream...another one, anyway…
Okay. Everything’s fine. Just like we practiced.
“Did you have any trouble finding the place?” he asks. You shake your head, your (e/c) eyes absorbing the surrounding atmosphere. 
“Nope, no trouble. Han dropped me off.”
“Dropped you off?”
“Yeah, he started acting weird halfway up the driveway…” You pause a moment, rolling your eyes skyward to think. “...actually, he’s been acting weird since yesterday. Do you know why?” Yes. “Nah, I dunno.”
“Hmm…”
You’re both just standing there. Standing, standing… What are you doing? This is your house! Take her inside!
“Uh…” He points over his shoulder. “You wanna come in?”
You smile. “I already am inside.”
This makes him smile as well. It’s crazy how just seeing you light up has the same effect on him. He rolls his eyes a bit. “You have more coffee this morning?”
You scoff. “No! Actually...I didn’t have anything at all this morning.”
His smile is gone. “Did you have lunch?”
“No...I woke up late. I told Han to pick me up at twelve, but I totally overslept…”
“Knowing you, that’s probably a good thing. You hardly sleep as it is.”
“That’s totally a lie. I sleep.”
“That’s totally a lie.” He shoots back. You grunt a bit but don’t complain. It’s cute to see you get so worked up about petty back and forth banter, he thinks. 
He starts to walk off, motioning for you to follow. “Come on, I’ll fix you something to eat.”
“You mean I’ll fix us something to eat,” you say with a laugh. “You don’t cook.”
“I cook.”
“Just like I sleep.”
He turns from across the island, smirking. “So you admit you don’t sleep.”
“...” You furrow your brows, but your eyes are all sunshine. “Touche.”
It goes on like this for some time, and eventually Felix caves and lets you do the cooking after burning five grilled cheese sandwiches and somehow getting the fourth one stuck to the ceiling. Mom and Dad are not gonna be happy about that--
Thank goodness everyone’s out of the house until September.
“So why’d you stop by the other day?” You ask him while buttering some bread. The two of you figured you may as well make some for the others...if they ever planned on showing up. Felix inwardly sighs. Honestly, what were they expecting him to do? Dip you in his arms like a soldier back from war and make something happen? That wasn’t how things--
“Hey.”
“Hm?” He looks up at you from his perch at the island. 
“Why’d you stop by?”
He grins. “I need a reason to come see you?”
This makes you give him a slightly incredulous look and shake your head, your ponytail brushing against your neck. It’s rather wavy today from the humidity after the recent thunderstorms. It looks good on you, the messy-look aesthetic. “No. I was just curious. In case it was something important.”
It was, but he could never tell you that. At least not yet anyway. “Nah, just...stopping by to say hi. And make sure Han wasn’t driving you up the wall.” Totally not because I was planning on asking you out or anything...
“He can barely drive a car.”
“True. He cheated on the exam.”
“No way!”
“Way.”
“How the heck do you cheat on a driver's exam?!”
“You get someone on the inside to administer the exam. Our friend Minho was all for it...but in his defense, he was a little wasted at the time.”
“Which one?”
“Both.”
“...Great. Now I can never ride in the car with him again with any peace of mind.” You shake your head, flipping the last sandwich onto a plate. “Don’t tell Jaemin. He’d have your friend arrested and Han’s license taken away.”
“Your brother is a cop?” Great.
“No,” You smile over your shoulder, a simple, cute lopsided grin. It makes his cheeks flush, getting lost in the simplicity of it all. “He works for City Hall. He’s an assistant for the Director of Public Works.”
Even better. “Wow. That’s pretty big.”
“Yeah, I’m proud of him but...I dunno.” You sigh. “I worry about him sometimes...a lot, actually...”
He can see the light escaping your eyes like a cloud blotting out the sunlight from a stained-glass window. He’s gotta change the subject. “Hey, you uh...since the others are taking so long, you wanna take a look at the new game?”
Your eyes light up like fireworks at the suggestion, but then you frown all too quickly. “But...shouldn’t we wait for the others?”
Felix gives you a half-hearted shrug. “It’s not like we’re gonna play it. Just look at the packaging. Maybe do an unboxing video?”
Your delighted gasp is music to his ears, the staccato applause the symphony behind it. “Yes! That sounds great!”
“Great,” he says. “But first things first...eat.”
[(𝚢/𝚗) 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚢.]
The usual grin you wore grew tenfold as your fingers brush back delicate wrapping paper, revealing a shiny dark purple and black box with fancy gold lettering. An excited squeal leaves your lips as you bounce in your seat on the large area rug, Felix smiling back at you while getting the camera ready for filming.
“You like it that much, huh?”
You give him an over-exaggerated pout. “Of course I do! I’ve been waiting forever for this game to come out! Are you not excited?!”
He chuckles. “I mean, a little, sure. But I have my doubts about the quality given the last game S.M. Entertainment released.”
“You mean Clash of Enforce?”
He blinks up at you in surprise. “...Yeah. I’m surprised you knew that. It wasn’t a popular game, and it got recalled after the first three months for lack of sales and too many bugs.”
You brush your ponytail back, a smug smirk on your face. “Of course I knew that. I’m a gamer girl, after all. ...I ended up returning my copy for a refund though.”
“Smart. Apparently there was a virus that could lie dormant in your system for months, and it could easily leak into other games and cause all kinds of glitches.”
You swallow. You hadn’t known that tidbit. “...Like...save data glitches?”
Felix deadpans you, a serious look in his eye. “Especially saved data glitches.”
You find yourself regretting your choices about six months ago.
But Felix suddenly smiles again, and it’s just enough to put your worries at ease, bringing some color back to your pale face. “Don’t worry. I can run a scan on your harddrive for you, if you like. If we find the virus, I’ll do my best to remove it, or at the very least disable it so it doesn’t spread to anything. It’ll always take up some space in your storage, but otherwise it’ll be like it’s not even there.”
You find yourself nodding, slowly, when there’s a sudden noise coming from the front of the house.
A series of frantic knocking pulls the two of you away from your thoughts, but Felix insists he’ll handle it while you finish setting up the scene for the release video...you’d been so excited about unboxing everything, it was a bit too late to make a video about it now. 
It doesn’t take long before a tornado of young college boys are tearing down the hallway and ripping you out of Kansas. 
“DETAILS! WE NEED DETAILS!!”
“OH MY GOSH (Y/N) I’M SO HAPPY FOR YOU!”
“For the record I knew you’d two be a good fit for each other.” B))
“SHUT UP HAN IT WAS JEONGIN’S IDEA! QUIT HOGGING THE SPOTLIGHT ALL THE DAMN TIME!!”
“ME?! YOU’RE THE ONE WHO—“
“NO YOU!!!”
“NO YOU!!!!” 
“NO YO—“
There’s a loud POP at the far end of the spacious living room, and Hyunjin and Han both squeak, the forming jumping into the latter's arms as they hold each other for dear life with stunned looks on their faces. Jeongin threw himself beneath the coffee table, and you laugh as all three heads gradually turn to see Felix holding a popped balloon in one hand and a small sewing needle in the other. 
“Are we done now? All of you keep it down, you’re going to freak out (y/n) and then we’ll never get another candidate to fill the girl slot. This video is gonna be great publicity for us.”
Hyunjin crinkles his nose. “...What video?”
“The release video, duh!” Jeongin snaps. He turns his attention back to you and Felix, crawling out from under the table. “Enough of that! Give us details already!”
You list your head. “Details…?”
“Yeah! Y’know, are you two an item now or—“
“Whoa whoa whoa,” Felix interrupts, a bitter look on his face. “What are you three going on about?”
You stand, crossing your arms over your chest. “An item? Why would Felix and I be an item? We’re just friends.”
A heavy, awkward silence fills the room as those words leave your lips, the whole attitude of the spacious living area deflating like the popped balloon. Hyunjin suddenly (shyly) excuses himself, walking slow at first and then rushing all at once for the door once he thought he was out of sight. You hear a frustrated scream before he quietly enters again, his face a stiff mask of hidden emotion as he makes a beeline for the youngest of the crew. 
He’s whispering, but you can still hear him loud and clear as it’s also a yell: “You got the wrong house! That was neighbors!”
Jeongin’s face crumbles. “Ah...hahah...oops?”
Han rolls his eyes. Felix facepalms, swiping it down his cheeks in annoyance.
“Can we please just get to filming already?”
[𝙷𝚢𝚞𝚗𝚓𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚊𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚢.]
[𝙷𝚊𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚊𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚢.]
[𝙹𝚎𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚊𝚍𝚍��𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚢.]
“So what did you guys want to talk to me about?” you ask, filling out your character information. Ultrascape has turned out to be a beautiful game so far; high quality graphics, an intricate backstory, and awesome character customizations. S.M. Entertainment had really outdone themselves this time. 
But then as you’re trying to select a certain outfit, it suddenly changes into a random one you didn’t want. Then your class is suddenly transferred from Buff Support to Sabotage, and in the space where your name should be, it says, “sUck It lOsErs~”
Your mouth drops agape in empuzzlement.
“Um…?”
Your cursor won’t move.
Han sighs. “This is what we wanted to talk to you about...Felix?”
“I’m on it.” The boy gently takes the controller from your hands, and with a few strange combinations and an override to the system, everything goes back to normal. He hands the pink controller he claims belongs to his sister back to you. “Don’t worry, it’s not a big deal. They’re just hackers that have been screwing with us for a while. I reported them two days ago for corrupting my Minecraft account, guess I’ll have to report them here as well…”
“Thanks…” you mutter, carrying on cautiously with your character design. “So...these guys have been messing with you for a long time?”
Hyunjin groans from his spot to your left, shaking his head like a meme. “They’re nothing special. They literally had to steal their name from a Magic the Gathering card because they aren’t smart enough to come up with something cool themselves.”
“Oh really? They have a name?” 
“Yeah. Path to Exile. Pfft,” he rolls his eyes. “Lame, if you ask me. Our name is wayyyy cooler than theirs!”
“Path To Exile…” you repeat. You wouldn’t lie, it sounded vaguely familiar... “...I dunno, it sounds kinda cool to me.”
This earns you a shocked shriek to your left and a small gasp from behind you, where Innie is sitting crisscrossed on the sofa. 
“(Y/n)! Don’t tell me you’re turning over to the dark side!” Jeongin squeaks. Hyunjin nods his enthusiastic agreement.
“I know it seems fun, but we need you here! With us! We...We need you! How can we be (Y/n)’s Angels without (y/n)?! We love you, (y/n)!” His desperate cries turn into a smirk. “Especially Fe—“
He doesn’t get to finish that thought, because a couch pillow manages to cross the room and silence him just in time. You figure they’re just joking around, anyway, and laugh it off. “Okay, okay, I promise I won’t leave you guys...as long as you’ll have me, that is.”
Hyunjin tosses the pillow at Han, who then curses at him and starts a petty feud you’re mostly used to by now. 
“Of course we will! I love having you around!”
“Not as much as me!”
“No me!!”
“No mE!!!”
“NO ME!!!!”
“IT’S ME!!!!!”
“NO IT’S FEL— oW!” Another couch pillow.
Felix grunts, shaking his head as he watches you put the final touches on your character. “Anyway...yes, it’s another gaming troupe that calls themselves Path To Exile. But it’s nothing you should worry yourself over, they’re mainly just…”
“Unpleasantly annoying?” Jeongin offers, mid breaking up the other two.
“Yeah.” He chuckles humorlessly. “Let’s go with that.”
“......” Something is bothering you about the way he’s talking. He’s not telling you everything.
[𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 (𝚢/𝚗) 𝚍𝚘?  ➤𝙵𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝   𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚢    𝙱𝚊𝚐    𝚁𝚞𝚗 ]
“...” With careful breath, you decide to press him further. “You uh...sound like you know these guys on a personal level.”
“......” Felix’s gaze never leaves the 72” flat screen tv, and by now the other three have all paused in their private quarreling to listen as well. “...On a personal level? No. But...I may have met the boy on the other side before...once or twice.”
“Once or...twice?”
He looks away a bit too dramatically, an air of nostalgia coating his words. “It was at a gaming convention...I was still in high school at the time. We both signed up for the tournament, and we’d made it to the final rounds. Near the end of our match, it was clear that I was going to win. There wasn’t enough time for him to gather enough points, no matter what he tried...but in those last few seconds, something changed. First there was a glitch, then just before the clock struck out, his score had grown exponentially. I don’t know what the hell happened, but I just know he cheated somehow. There was no way he could gain so many points in that amount of time, even if he had been pressing buttons like crazy.
“I tried reporting it to the judge, but I was overruled. I wasn’t upset about losing...it was more that I didn’t want some punk walking off thinking he could just cheat his way through life like that. That kinda shit bugs the hell out of me.” He scratches at the side of his neck, an irritable scowl on his face as he continues his trip down memory lane. “After that...I ran into him again at another tournament. I found him picking on some newbies and I approached him about it. Then...we may have gotten into a fight.”
Hyunjin huffs. “So? What’s new? You yell at us all the time.”
Felix sighs. “No, an actual fight. With fists.”
“You engaged in Mortal Kombat with him?!” cries Han. Again, Felix sighs.
“I wouldn’t go that far but...yeah, pretty much. Both got banned and had our titles stripped. That was just before I started college and met you guys...then (y/n).”
“Whoa…” Hyunjin and Han both mumble at the same time.
“So, wait,” Innie pipes up. You realize you’d stopped focusing on your character and make quick work of saving her so Felix can proceed with the game. “Why have you never told us about this before? Also you’ve known Hyunjin and I since high school, asshat.”
“We didn’t start hanging out til after though.”
Hyunjin screeches. “Uh! Rude! I came over twice to work on a school project!”
“You did? When?”
“Junior year, Ms. Kim’s class! Remember? Save the Sea Turtles?”
Felix smirks. “Doesn’t sound familiar.”
Hyunjin’s face settles into something you can only describe as resting b*tch mode. “Fine, I see how it is!” He stands, marching off into the kitchen. “I'll take my compensation through sna—“
You all turn toward the kitchen when the drama king fails to finish his thought. Walking out of the hall he comes in with a sandwich on his head that’s sliding down half of his face, the one that was stuck to the ceiling before, and you all burst out laughing...except for Jinnie, of course.
“Finally,” Han mumbles, pulling out a can of Pringles from his bag. “The shoe’s on the other foot.”
The video and playthrough had gone off without a hitch, minus a few run-ins with Path To Exile; it was no big deal, though, because the five of you had still managed to have a lot of fun, and ended up gaining over two-hundred new fans in the process of filming live...a last-minute idea proposed by Han, which turned out to be his best to date.
You were now sitting in a cab going homebound. Felix and Han both had a late-afternoon class, Hyunjin had to work, and Jeongin was heading back to the dorms to study for finals.
...Path To Exile...something about that name sounds familiar. Where have you heard it before…? And who are they, really? ...Regarding what Felix told you...it didn’t sound like he was completely telling you the truth. 
But then, didn’t that make you a hypocrite all over again? After all, you weren’t being completely honest with any of them, either...so why should he be completely open with you?
Your drumming of fingers against the arm rest seems to be driving the driver a bit mad, so you stop with an apologetic smile, snapped out of one thought and into another.
You’re passing a coffee shop you and Jaemin used to regularly visit when Starbucks was closed or overly crowded, back in your high school days and the first year of college, before you’d gotten sick. Jaemin…
And you’re right back to square one again. Jaemin. You’re still so worried about him...it’s been eating at the back of your mind since yesterday.
The driver pulls to a steady stop in front of your house, and you pay the fare and thank him before hustling out and scurrying inside just as it’s starting to rain.
The rain reminds you of Jaemin, when the two of you would jump into puddles on the sidewalk and see who could catch the most drops in their hands. Then as a chill runs down your back from the air vent, you remember the day Felix came over in February, the two of you curling up for hours watching the snowfall.
“......”
You look at yourself in your bedroom mirror. It’s time to make a change. And you know just what to do.
Tomorrow, you were going to visit Jaemin. Tomorrow, you were officially going to become more independent.
[𝚆𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎? ➤ 𝚈𝚎𝚜    𝙽𝚘]
[𝚂𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚊… 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚗 𝚘𝚏𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛…]
[(𝚢/𝚗) 𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎.]
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𝙻𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚢 𝙶𝚊𝚖𝚎  → 𝙶𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚍  |  [𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚛!𝙹𝚒𝚜𝚞𝚗𝚐 𝚡 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚛!𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚡 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚛!𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚡]
[ 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝙱/𝚈 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 //  ➤ 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝙰/𝚇 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚞𝚎 ] 
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‘Stand By Me’ -1-
Ben Hardy x Reader
Ch. 1 
Summary: You are moving in your boyfriend’s flat. As you unpack, you remember the long road you two have walked down from when you met to where you are now.
Words (this chapter): 1.7K+.
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“Baby. Pass me over that box.” you point over your shoulder.
Furrowing your eyebrows, you huff at the sight in front of you. Ticking your tongue you brace yourself and gather all your force to push the pile of boxes further into the living room.
Ben laughs at the sight of you as he walks beside you, holding yet another box. Placing it on top, the pile gets too heavy and won’t move forward. You groan and stomp your foot on the floor.
“BEN!” you hiss at him.
“What? You said, bring me another box.” Be chuckled with his arms crossed in front of him, casually leaning on the tower of boxes you had constructed.
“Not putting it on top you moron! Now I can’t move it an inch!” you rolled your eyes.
“You shouldn’t have pile them up like this.” he waves his hands innocently in defeat.
“Yeah, yeah, smartypants. Get half and i’ll get the other half up.” you poke the tip of his nose.
After two full hours of carrying cases and chests up and down, you finally set the last two. Falling on each side of the sofa,  you and Ben can finally catch your breaths, swimming in sweat and dirt.
“We’re not doing this again!” you swiped the sleeve of your blouse over your temple “Shit, I need a shower” you sigh closing your eyes.
“Remind me again, why you have so goddamn much of everything? My mind still can’t process how all of this” his hands drawing a circle behind his shoulders “fitted in your tiny Hammersmith studio!”
“Barely” you lifted a brow, “Gonna miss the old dump...” you nod, pouting your lips in confirmation.
“Seriously?” Ben’s voice going an octave higher “I hope you’re joking!”
You chuckled, closing your eyes you let your head fall on the soft pillow behind your back. You let your brain rewind memories of the long road you two have walked since the beginning. “I hope you’re joking.” you hear these words, just same way you heard them when you two met.
It was the first thing Ben ever said to you. You clearly remember that day, the memory is still vivid in your head.
September 2015
Hammersmith, London, UK
“Another windy day in London.” I say to myself, rubbing my arms together. Standing by the misty old window in my flat, I look outside. The view is seemingly the same as every day. Buzzing cars, people rushing hectically in every direction.
“Hopefully, we’ll get at least a few hours of sun today.” i exhale.
Following my morning routine I wash my teeth and face. Looking up in the mirror, I see deep dark circles and dull face. “I’m working too much” I shake my head “thank god for the people who created concealer and makeup.” Applying the rest of the makeup i slip on my favourite sweater and skirt.
On my way to work, as always, I stop at Costa for a mocha latte. Unlike other mornings, today is particularly busy.  I sigh and modestly situate myself at the end of the queue, like a good Londoner, that I am.
Five more people to go, and I am already running late for work, just awesome. Great. By the time I have the coffee in my hand, I frustrate even more about how my boss is going to ramble forever about being late for work. I quickly run to the isle on the other side. Opening the boiling cap I silently swear to myself.
“Come oon. There must be some left!” I madly rumble as I try to get the last bits of nutmeg from the bottom of the small container.
“I hope you’re joking!” a deep voice from behind startles me. Jumping a little I turn around.
“Shit. You scared me!” you squealed at the man in front of you. “Piss off, you git.” you move aside, as he is standing at an uncomfortable proximity to your face.
“Please, I apologise! I didn’t mean to frighten you.”
I look up meeting his graze. Unbelievably soft green eyes.
“All I wanted was to express my disappointment at the shortage of nutmeg.” he is biting his lip, kind of nervously shifting his glance fo the side.
“Aah, yes. Nutmeg.” I nod, trying to assemble the cup of hot coffee.
“I thought nobody liked it.” the man leans against the isle “Need any help?” he eyes my shaky hands.
“I’ve got this, thanks.” I try to make my way out, but instead bump onto this guy’s shoulder. “I’m so sorry. Fuck my life!” I look upon his cashmere scarf “I totally ruined your Burberry!” I try to hide my embarrassment with my palm over my eyes.
“It’s expensive, but I could try and take it to the dry cleaning down the street, they are really good…” I quickly try to wash the flush of my face.
“Hey, hey. It’s fine.” he is even smiling.
“No, it’s not! It’s ruined, and it’s totally my fault. And I’m unbelievably sorry. I’ll take it to the cleaner’s. Just. Just give me a name and address I’ll have it sent to you” my free hand reaches up.
He chuckles, “Nah, I’ve plenty more. How about something else?” he lifts a brow at me.
“What the hell do you think of me?” I furrow my brows, ready to storm off.
“No, I didn’t mean it like this.” his greens wide with the raise in his voice.
“Look, I’m late for work. If you don’t want me to take it to the cleaners, fine.” I spout.
“What I meant is, would you like to have a coffee with me?” his cute lips curl into a shy smile as his head cocks to the side.
I try to brush past him, but he steps in the way, causing me to spill the rest of my coffee all over his shirt.
“You just did that on purpose!” annoyed I huff.
He laughed, examining his shirt and scarf, “Not at all. But, now I can’t let you go that easily.”
“What the fuck?!” I raise my voice, noticing the looks people around shoot at my direction.
“You wanted to compensate for my ruined clothes. So I’m asking you out for a coffee.” his eyes are flicking their long eyelashes at me.
“A’ight.” I can’t help but curl up a smile, at the silly encounter “Same place, after I finish work” I wink at him.
As I try to make my way out through a large group of people, I barely hear a voice calling for me from behind “Hey, wait! I didn’t catch your name!”
“Because I didn’t say it.” I shout back.
As I leave, I can’t help but look inside the cafe, the blonde guy with the green eyes was following my every move open mouthed, waiting for me to do something. I slyer a smile as I made my way  across the street.
Throughout the day, I can’t focus my mind on anything. Every task I take, only leaves me thinking about this stranger I met in the morning. He was very charismatic and handsome, no doubt. And he asked me out, hehe. I can’t help but wonder, what if I’m hyping myself up unnecessarily, what if he was just being nice and polite?
At the strike of the clock, I storm off the office straight to the cafe. Before I push the door open, I stop for a second to check my reflection.
Here goes nothing.
The place is half empty, just some students with their laptops. He doesn’t know when I finish work, or where I work, or my name… why would he even show up?
Sternly I turn on my heel to leave, when somebody crashes over me.
“Ouch!” I cry out “My shoulder!”
“Shit, oh my! I’m so sorry!” The person turns around.
“Oh, it’s you” I cackle at my faith. “You and I are destined to destroy each other, aren’t we!?” I uncomfortably rub my arm.
“God” his face is burning red as he tries to hide his flushed cheeks with his hands.
“My shoulder hurts so much!” Acting classes here you come.
“What? Did I just break your arm? I hope you’re joking… you’re joking right?” His face looks so genuinely worried.
“What gave it away? My fake whining?” I self deprive.
“You’re good then?”
“Yeah, it hurts just a little.” I sigh.
“I need to take you to the hospital.” he reaches for me.
“I’m fine, I’m fine.” I stop his hand in the air.
“Let’s at least sit down.” he pulls me closer by my waist. I hum and nod my head.
After we’re sat opposite each other by the window, I feel all confidence leave my body.
“You’re right. We keep bumping in each other.” he laughs.
I chuckled and shake my head, while rubbing my shoulder.
“You sure you’re fine?” he prompts again.
“It’s just a bit of a uncomfortable feeling, that’s all.” I lift my eyes to find him already searching for mine.
“I’m Ben, by the way.” his hand reaches for a handshake.
I reach my other hand to him “Nice to meet you Ben. I’m Y/N.”
His palm feels so soft and warm, the contact his skin feels rather magnetizing. I quickly pull away from his firm grip and look the other direction.
“So Ben, what do you do for a living?”
“Baby?” Ben is kissing your shoulder.
“Hmm?” you hum flickering your eyes open.
“I say, we leave the boxes for now, as they are. We’ll unbox tomorrow.”
“Good idea Benny.”  you reach for his neck and pull him down for a kiss.
“I love you so much” he murmurs against your lips.
“Even when I’m all dirty and sweaty like this?” you bite his bottom lip, gently pulling him closer to you.
“Especially” he nuzzles his nose in behind your ear.
“I say, let’s get cleaned up, and I’ll take you to dinner.” his deep voice resonates against your flesh, sending shivers along.
You grin widely, “I’d love that.”
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shawnpetermuffins · 5 years
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03.31
March Mendes Madness
Writing prompt #31 How they first met
A/n: since this is the last one for a while, I thought I'd make it longer! Enjoy reading my loves!
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"Dad?" My six-year-old daughter says while I scoop her some ice cream after school.
"What's up, munchkin?" I place the small bowl in front of her and suck the small drip of ice cream from my thumb, throwing the scooper in the sink.
"When did you meet momma?"
I smile because I'd been waiting for the day my kids ask me that exact question. But now I'm wishing Skyler was here to listen too. He's with my mom and dad, y/n should actually be picking him up right about now.
But I rest my elbows against the counter anyway, despite not having Skyler here, and start telling Madi the story of how I met y/n.
"Well..."
I'm walking around with Brian and Matt, trying to find this bookstore that has a new collectors edition of some book Aaliyah wants for her birthday. After minutes of aimless searching, we finally find it sandwiched between this old timey malt shop and women's boutique. The bell above the door rings when we walk in, but there's no one at the counter, or anywhere in here, that I can see. I check the sign on the door to make sure they are, in fact, open. They are. I shrug and the guys go off on their own, looking around.
I don't know where to start looking, so I just plant myself in front of the closest fiction section and scan shelf after shelf. When five minutes have passed and I still can't find it, I go in search of an employee. I find one a few aisles down, but stop short when I get to them. Their back is turned to me, hair flowing down their back, wearing some tight skinny jeans and what seems to be just a plain grey t-shirt. I'm watching as she reads the synopsis of each book before stacking it on the shelf. I clear my throat, startling her, and she turns to face me.
With a book still in her hand, she smiles, "Sorry, guess I was a little occupied. Can I help you find something?"
Her voice. God, it's angelic. And I know I'm for sure staring at her low cut v-neck.
"Sir?" She tries again, pulling me from trance and I finally am able to get a good look at her face. She's beautiful in every possible way.
"Sorry, yes." I clear my throat again, taking my phone from my pocket. "I'm trying to find this book for my sister. When I looked it up, it said you have it here. Is it still in stock?" I don't know how the words are flowing out of my mouth so easily, but I thank God that they do. She standing close to me, looking at the screenshot on my phone and I take in her scent. Warm vanilla. It's intoxicating.
"We should have it up here, if not we might still have some in the back that we haven't unboxed yet. Follow me."
I swallow thickly as I follow her up to the front, heading the opposite way in which I started searching.
"Oh, right here!" She squats down and pulls it from one of the lower shelves. "There you are."
My breath catches when our fingers brush as she hands me the book. "Th-thanks," I stutter, cursing myself for thinking I'd be able to talk to a pretty girl so effortlessly.
"No problem. Is that all you're looking for?" She slides her hands into her back pocket.
"I uh, I think so. I'm not - not really sure what to get her."
She nods, "How old is she?"
"Turning seventeen."
She chews at her bottom lip. "Does she like romance novels?"
I nod, "Yeah. She, she definitely likes those."
She smiles brightly at me, "I think I few that she might like. Can I show you?"
"Please," I gesture for her to walk in front of me.
"Oh," she stops midway between shelves and faces me. "I'm y/n, by the way," she says, holding her hand out for me to shake.
"Y/n," I repeat. "That's beautiful." I take her small hand in my large one, "Its nice to meet you," I say, ignoring the butterflies in my stomach. "I'm Shawn."
She nods, "I've heard some of your music," she says casually, turning back to walk. "You're really good."
"So you've heard of me," I kind of deflate. I was hoping I met someone who didn't know who I was.
"Well you're kind of famous," she teases with a bright smile. It's crazy how at ease she's making me. She's not thrown by the fact I am who I am. She's not freaking out or asking for a picture, she's treating me like I'm just Shawn and that's- that's something else.
A few books later I'm at the register with her, book in a bag and paid for. We're just talking, laughing and completely enjoying ourselves when to hands clap my shoulders. I jump and she giggles.
"Find what you need, Shawny boy?" Matt ruffles my hair and I plea a silent apology to y/n, who's still smiling at me.
"Yeah, you guys find anything?"
Matt nods, "I did."
I move to the side, allowing him to pay. "This was a good choice," she says to him, ringing up the book.
"You've read it?"
"I've read the whole series. It's one of my favorites."
"And who, pretty lady, might you be?" Brian asks, making his way beside Matt.
She laughs, but not unkindly, and holds her hand out for him. "Y/n."
"I'm Brian. This is Matt," he tilts his head to the side. "And I guess you've already met Shawn."
"I have," she takes her hand back and pushes her hair from her face.
"It's nice to meet all of you. I hope you'll come back and see us. I promise to not be the only one working, next time." She jokes.
"Oh, we'll come back." Brian winks at her and I roll my eyes, irritated with how forward my friend is being.
She brushes it off, though. "Have a nice day." And to me she says, "let me know how your sister likes those books."
I nod once, "I definitely will. Thank you for your help."
"Not a problem."
The boys are out the door when I turn back around. "Y/n?"
"Hmm?"
"Can I call you sometime?"
Her smile lights up my world. "Check your receipt."
I dig in the bag to find it and see her number scrawled on the bottom with a little smiley face. "I'll call you later," I promise.
"I look forward to it."
"Uncle Brian tried to hit on Momma?!"
I laugh at her outburst. "Yeah, he did."
"I'm gonna have a talk with him."
I shake my head, "Okay, munchkin. Whatever you want." I look up when I hear the front door open and close.
"Bubba?"
"In the kitchen," I say. I squat down when I see my son running to me. "Hey, little man. You have fun with grandma and grandpa today?"
He answers enthusiastically and I stand up, adjusting him on my hip, to see my wife of ten years walk into the room and place a soft kiss on our daughter's head.
"Ice cream before dinner?" She scolds me and I smile sheepishly.
"Sorry, baby." I make my way over to her and press a kiss to her lips. "How was the store?"
"Oh, you know," she traces my jaw with her finger. "Sold some books, shelved some books. The usual."
I hum, "You need help with dinner?" I ask against her lips.
"Mhm," she kisses me again. "But I'm gonna change first."
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A/n: I can't believe that the month is over! This has been the most fun I have ever had writing and I hope you enjoyed reading these as much as I enjoyed writing them.
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cryptomarkethq · 3 years
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LHR Affects Ravencoin HASHRATE On This 3080 Ti?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbLH-EavULU   hey guys so what is up my pen mining here how and hope you're all doing really well and have a really great day in this video we're going to be testing out a no3d i chill x3 rtx 3080 ti and yeah this graphics card is quite interesting and anyways in this video we're gonna be trying out the ethereum hash rate ravencoin and ergo and we're gonna see how it's gonna fare in terms of power consumption and uh yeah all that stuff i have a separate power supply to see how much the gpu is taking so we're going to see how that all goes within this video hopefully you guys enjoy and i'll also update the hash rate spreadsheet that i have on google docs so link down below you guys may have saw the video where i already tested out a 3080ti founders edition and so i got a bunch of those hashrates already thank you to techshinji he is another youtuber who let me remote in to test that 3080ti so link down below to tech shinji's channel thank you so much man but anyways guys in this video i received this i chill x3 3080 ti from mineshop.eu and it looks like they got a couple of gpus for sale on their website as we speak looks like they have a 30 80 amp holo for sale i'm not quite sure if that's lhr or non-lhr but guys go check them out link down below mineshop.eu thank you so much all right so before i plug in the gpu i just want to show you guys something when i unboxed it the no3d they said here the product is not designed for crypto mining we reserve the right to void the warranty if there's any damage associated with this application no3d so i found that to be pretty funny it was the anti-static bag around this card and i just had to laugh and i posted it on instagram and a bunch of you guys laughed as well but anyways let me just flip it around here so you guys can see what else is going on with this graphics card it's just it's quite interesting there's a lot going on and uh i'll show you something in a sec here but i'm just showing you the back side of it so you guys can see what this gpu is all about and there's the two eight pins for power and here is the io this thing is extremely heavy it's it's quite amazing and i know this is gonna be lit up in terms of the rgb or the light bar as you guys can see on the box that looks pretty cool and then it also came with this like plastic insert that goes onto the back here i guess this is going to be lit up in terms of there must be rgb on the back here and then i had to screw it in and so there's another insert here it's just clear without the x3 marking so i thought that was pretty interesting pretty interesting anyways guys without further ado let me go ahead i'm going to plug it into my test mining rig here i have two 360s right now so i'm going to remove both and we're going to put the 3080ti on a gpu risers.com riser brand spanking new and also on a hp server psu this is from parallel miner using a 1200 watt psu going into a kilowatt meter that you guys can see right there all right so you guys will see the 3080 ti on there right now oh all right so it's been about about a week now i've been playing around with this 3080 ti and i've been kind of just scratching my head figuring out why i cannot get 80 mega hash or more on this 380 ti specifically and i will show you guys my results right now it's it's pretty sporadic between like 68 69 mega hash to like 73 mega hash and here are my settings so let me just talk with you all and what i've figured out with this card specifically and i know a lot of others have gotten different results out there with the 3080 ti and so here are the settings that i was able to achieve no matter what i did doing minus like 502 you know plus 100 or even like you know going from 100 to 200 300 400 500 600 and so on in terms of the memory as i was going higher in the memory i was losing mega hash alright so i don't know if that happened to you guys but let me know down below what 3080 ti that you guys have and let me know what settings you did in order to achieve whatever mega hash that you are able to get on your 3080 ti and i just want to show you like the id in terms of the tech power app it shows 2208 so i think that's the normal id for this you know this model of 38dti so you know we got we can get 71 now it's only been running for about 30 minutes now but you can look at my also memory temperatures which is 88 degrees celsius so that's totally fine and i'm using the latest version of nb miner 39.2 with the nvidia driver 471. 11 okay and no matter what i've tried so now i'm getting 73 now but then it's gonna go back to like 69 68 mega hash it just goes all over the place so there you go i i've tried even like if i go back to stock actually before i do that i want to show you the power consumption we are at the gpu or at the wall it says it's like you know 298 306 it jumps around but in the software it shows 267 okay or for what i'm able to achieve now if i just put everything back to stock okay and now also if i bring up the fan back up because i don't want it to get too hot so at the stock power now uh yeah it's going to change a bit i want to know from you all like if you guys have tested out the latest version of the nb miner with the dash lhr or even without it because i know nv miner now can do the lhr unlock without adding the dash lhr in the batch file okay so yeah that's something let me know down below what you guys get in terms of the mega hash but yeah maybe specifically this no3d i chill x3 which is really cool by the way i don't know what you guys think about this cooler but man it's got interesting rgb lighting on the back here with the little plastic piece i showed you guys earlier it looks like i can change this out if i wanted but i think i like the x3 logo one on it and then it's got the i chill light bar at the top which seems pretty cool but otherwise i don't really care about that i care about the the silicon i guess on this gpu specifically and i'm curious to know if maybe if there is a possibly another revision of the lhr as i think this 380 ti is maybe really recent in terms of manufacturing and okay so anyways just to show you guys 72 mega hash we got up there at about 267 watts and this is at 100 power this is just stock okay with 80 fan and you can see at the wall nothing has really changed we are still at 300 and around 300 watts for this gpu so i don't know what's going on maybe you guys can let me know if there's anything else i can try i did try doing ddu okay on this whole machine in windows i got rid of the nvidia driver installed brand new i did that reinstalled msi afterburner i even tried the latest nvidia driver just to see if that would unlock it maybe even more but no that didn't help at all i i don't know if i'm doing something wrong i tried dash lhr 68 lhr 69 lhr 70. I even tried 71 72 and so on just to see if i could get any better results and like i said earlier i tried all the different numbers in terms of the core in terms of the memory it seems like as i was getting higher memory it was getting worse mega hash so yeah i i just want to know like this is a really interesting card and i've seen people get 80. and there's someone on my discord that was able to get 85 on an evga for the win 3 edition card so i don't know what's up with that i don't know if that has a specific maybe different lhr method from the manufacturer but i want to know from you guys in terms of the brands in terms of the model in terms of the overclocks that you guys are able to use on your 3080ti let me know down below hopefully that will help others out there and yeah i've seen all different types of reports of different hash rates for these 38 dtis and yeah i'm just totally confused as to why this one whatever settings i try to do it just cannot get to the number that i've seen other people get all right so anyways let me know what you guys think i now want to try ergo and ravencoin so let's do ergo first i'll be right back all right we are mining ergo some of you guys were wondering maybe what the power consumption is of the motherboard and the power supply for the motherboard ssd ram cpu all that it's drawing about 21 20 20 watts right now okay and now we're mining ergo on this 3080 ti we're using about 327 watts at the wall i think this hp server psu is maybe not as efficient at the lower levels of power consumption maybe more towards 50 then we'll get more efficiency there but anyways i want to show you guys the ergo hash rate that i can achieve on this 3080 ti 272.5 mega hash on the auto lycos algorithm and the power consumption according to the software says 289 watts and then the memory temperature that some of you may want to know is about 82 degrees celsius so that's pretty good at 80 fan my ambient temperature right now where i am doing this video is it's pretty cool so this the temperature the memory temperature is on this 380ti it's not bad but i'm assuming once it gets hotter i guess during the summer time and now that fall is coming uh you know i won't know and until it gets hotter during the day but anyways that's the ergo hash rate i mean that's really good honestly i'm gonna take the ethereum hash rate the ergo hash rate and the raven coin hash rate in a second here and see what is the most profitable algorithm on this 380 ti that we achieved today okay and here are my overclock settings just in case some people are curious i was able to do 83 power limit minus 100 on the core and plus 1370 on the memory and 80 fan and that is the mega hash that i'm able to achieve on this card all right guys let's do ravencoin all right i have reason to believe that the no3d i chill x3 3080 ti is also like further lhred and maybe they figured out on the ravencoin algorithm kapow because i know for a fact that these 380 ti's are supposed to get above 50 megahash at stock power limit all right and you can see here i just put plus 150 core zero memory i'll show you guys something funny in a second here to show that when i add more memory the mega hash will start going lower so let me just show you guys that right now let me show you the initial power consumption 328 watts and the tdp of this thing is supposed to be 350 watts so isn't it theoretically supposed to be taking up the full power consumption now i wonder if the lhr is already activated because you can see here the tdp is uh 83.9 83 tdp right now even though i have the 100 power limit set and i have tried uninstalling afterburner clean install twice now with a clean install of the driver as well i did ddu and everything and this gpu cannot get above i can't get past 43 or 44 mega hash on this thing so let me just show you guys something let me put this up to let's just say 1000 memory just a moderate 1000 okay we're going to hit check i'm not going to change anything else and i want to show you guys here the i guess the memory controller load it was at a hundred okay it was at 100 before but when i just changed it to a thousand it's now down to about 87 percent now we're gonna see the hash rate drop all right we were at like 43. 44 now we're going to 42 and 42.8 and it's continuing to go lower 42.67 so like do you guys think that this card is lhred like further on ravencoin is it just me or am i going crazy because i don't know from from what i've been seeing out there i've been seeing that this card is supposed to get about 50 to like 56 mega hash mining ravencoin on a 3080 ti so has no 3d figured out a lhr version like number five or something like just i don't know what's going on this is really weird we're getting limited on mining raven coin on this gpu so we weren't getting limited it seems on ergo you guys saw that earlier right on ergo and then of course on ethereum we were getting limited but i wasn't able to achieve the you know the 80 plus mega hash and i was actually reading online there's other people here that tested the uh the i chill x3 right here okay the inno 3d rtx 3080 i chill x4 actually not the x3 x4 but the same brand no 3d and you can see here that they were only able to achieve about 58 mega hash and uh doing the dash lhr 68 okay and actually if we scroll down they say at the end here they say here note that your results may vary depending on their gpu model overclocking settings and temperatures i mean i've said that before and our case our rtx 3080ti should be getting 82 mega hash but our base hash rate was only around 42 which then improved to 62 after the lhr 68 update so you see that they talk about even 82 mega hash but their inno 3d was only able to get up to about 62 and then i was able to only get it to about 73 max and it was always fluctuating between you know 68 69 to 73. So i think this inno 3d brand they figured out how to like limit ravencoin on this gpu on the 3080 ti i want to know what you guys think let me know if any of you have this no3d model specifically and maybe like another chinese brand perhaps like a gain word card that maybe those also have the lhr maybe just like a further revision of the light hash rate lock on these cards for different algorithms now maybe it's not just ethereum now it's ravencore am i just going crazy i want to know what you guys think down below please post your results of you know what brand gpu you have what overclock settings you guys use power limits memory core clock fan speed what have you but the most important thing is to also put down the model which you guys have a 3080 ti and please let me know what results you guys can get let's say on ethereum ravencoin as well and ergo so that you know other people can see this as well if people are watching this and reading the comments it should help those that are maybe wanting to buy these gpus so would i buy this ino 3d i chill x3 3080ti no at this point no because it looks like in my experience limited on mining ravencoin so actually if i just go back to like 100 memory and gonna hit plus there we should theoretically then see the hash rate start to rise okay so yeah like we're getting limited here and also the memory controller went back up to a hundred all right it was uh it was uh at 80 something 88 87 before you guys can see here but now i just changed it and now the mega hash is going back up alright so tell me are we not limited or lhred on this 3080 ti on ravencoin very strange very strange anyways i just want to end off with profitability here i have the raven coin auto lycos and ethereum entered in here in terms of the hash rate that i can achieve on this 3080 ti i'm gonna hit calculate there and we're gonna go down and it says ergo is the most profitable on this and no 3d 3080 ti and then ethereum is the next one at uh looks like 40 cents 30 cents less than ergo and then ravencoin is a little bit further down at about another dollar less it seems okay anyways guys let me know your thoughts about this no3d 3080 ti and if you guys have seen similar results that i have and i know there are many varying 3080 ti results out there but yeah i've been testing this card for a very long time now and i've tried many different things to make sure that i'm like doing this right and correct and i'm not going crazy it feels like i'm going crazy let me know what you guys think down below i appreciate you all let me know your thoughts i'll see you guys in the next video have a good one and peace out Read the full article
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