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uglyducklingofthe2000s · 4 months

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Okay so this is kinda specific but can u please write like a one shot with Max or lando or oscar (u can choose) where the reader is in a previous toxic relationship and driver realises it by witnessing an altercation between them or whatever (idk u can come up with what the other person does to reader) and he defends the reader by stepping in between them and confronting the other guy...idk (they didn't meet before btw) and the reader is like appreciating him and he's like acting really sweet towards reader so they eventually get together... it can be just fluff too pls 🫶🏻 and i dont have a gender preference so idk if you only write for one gender but u can also choose that. you dont have to write this but i havent found one like it yet so yeah thats why i am requesting.Thank youu🫶🏻

Touch Her & You Die - Max Verstappen

I feel like this idea is very Max coded, so I'm going to go with him. Also, for anyone reading, obviously if the topic of toxic relationships hits too close to home. Don't read this. I do fully intend for a happy fluffy ending as always but obviously the toxic relationship is how it starts. I do sort of writer exclusively for fem!reader. I've got nothing against gender-neutral or male!reader but it's just not what I write.

Also I know the context behind this clip and I know it's from the taboo DTS but like idgaf, something about Max in this clip got me some type of way.

Max is not the type to chase a taken woman. But he may befriend her and get as close to her as possible without being someone who interferes with her relationship.

Y/n is happy in her relationship.

She works in F1 as one of the commentators every so often and she does a lot of media work for them. Her boyfriend is actually a mechanic for Red Bull.

Annoyingly, the couple seems pretty well matched. The same industry of work means they travel together, but she isn't in his way, they always seem happy together. He's sure he's heard rumours of them being a bit on and off, seeming to take breaks from the relationship but never really get involved in other people and they seemed to get back together fast enough because ultimately they were young but completely happy together.

Or at least that's what Max thought.

In fact had you told him this morning he'd be the witness and the one stepping in between the couple. He probably would've laughed and said you had to be speaking about another couple. Y/n and Davy were just...perfect.

But right now they're hissing at each other, getting progressively louder.

"I said to drop it, Davy." Y/n states, finally loud enough for Max to hear her from the pit wall where he was talking to GP.

"You're being ridiculous." Davy shoots back in frustration making Max perk up a little, mainly out of anger to hear Davy speaking to y/n while she looks near tears.

"I'm being ridiculous?" Y/n laughs coldly, disbelief making her voice heighten. "You-You-" Her gaze flicks around and she notices his expression grow stoney.

"We are leaving." Davy growls but in a moment of going to reach for her with what is obviously going an angry and hard grip on her, Max appears in front of him. His back to y/n and his own icy expression.

"Don't touch her." Max instructs with a tone that even earns attention from other teams since the Red Bull garage had fallen silent seeing Max move faster than his car to protect y/n who had flinched back in preparation to be grabbed before Max got there.

"Excuse me? That's my girlfriend." Davy scoffs looking around Max who doesn't take his eyes off the man. "Y/n, move. Now."

"She doesn't have to go anywhere with you." Max states then turning to y/n who has tears that have escaped. "You don't have to go with him. You can stay here if you want."

Y/n's voice catches in her throat which apparently angers Davy enough to reach around and finally grab her. Again Max acts in impressive speed, grabbing Davy's arm with enough grip that he lets go of her and ends up pushed back onto the ground.

"What the fuck you can't do that! I'll have you arrested."

Davy has never shown this side to him, clearly for a reason. But it's making the rest of the mechanics who all thinks y/n is a very sweet young woman who may have been helping to hide this side of her boyfriend this whole time. Whatever the tipping point, they hadn't seen this side to him before.

"I told you not to touch her." Max shrugs simply as Christian steps down from the pit wall.

"Might be time for you to leave for the day, Davy. We'll have a talk tomorrow when you've cooled off." Christian states earning what sounds almost like a growl from the man. "Go on."

There's a deafening silence as the man storms off, stomping his feet in a way that you might expect from a toddler.

"Alright, shows over." Christian calls out looking around the pit lane which kicks everyone into actually getting back to work.

Max turns around almost hesitantly. Y/n could absolutely not be happy that he stepped in, but instead when he turns around she falls against him in a hug that he returns without a second thought.

"Thank you." Y/n hiccups against him while he sighs hating that she's even crying over someone who clearly mistreated her, but not only that she's thanking him for helping her.

Eventually Max manages to get her into the Red Bull unit to get away from prying eyes and just to help her feel more comfortable.

"Are you ok?" Max asks wanting to check her arm which was definitely grabbed harshly. "Can I check your arm?"

"Oh uhh...I-yeah, yeah you can." Y/n nods seeming not to even think about it. Though when Max tugs the sleeve up her arm she does hiss a little and almost tugs her arm back from where his hand is gently holding her own. "Sorry."

"Don't apologise. I'm sorry it hurt." Max sighs looking almost hating that he didn't manage to stop her from being grabbed.

There's so dark red marks that will probably turn into bruises but nothing that he can really do. When he looks up at her it dawns on him that she has to be in a state of shock and her gaze has focused on something out the window.

Tears still stain her cheeks, her lip is still sort of trembling from her trying to keep her emotions inside while her breaths shake every time she exhales.

"Do you want me to leave you alone?" Max asks knowing that some people just need space.

"No." Y/n whispers then seeming to shake herself back into reality with some force. "Sorry. Oh my god, you have things to do. Go-"

"I have nothing to do." Max cuts in with a soft smile. "If you want me to stay then there is no problem with me staying.”

“Thank you.” Y/n smiles weakly before sighing and rubbing at her eyes. Another silence follows for a few seconds before she speaks, not being able to contain an explanation that she feels she owes to the man who just saved her. “I know it’s always stupid to say that I thought his temper would go away…he was always like that when it was just us. That’s where it started today, he told me I was getting fat and that’s why they hadn’t featured me in the broadcast this weekend.”

“I thought it was because eye had the…the f1 kids as commentators and they just had too many people.” Max frowns since while he might pretend he doesn’t know what’s going on. He is actually very much informed.

“That is why. But…I have gained some weight and Davy didn’t like that. He’d been on me about it for a while but I didn’t think would go this far about it.” Y/n murmurs, her eyes beginning to tear up again. “I guess I was really just being that fucking stupid.”

“You are not stupid, Y/n.” Max frowns shaking his head. “Anyone would’ve gotten caught up in that. The important part is that…you know you were and are always going to be better than being treated like that."

Y/n swallows thickly before she juts her jaw a little.

"We dated for 4 years, and we broke up 23 times...I think I should've seen the warning signs and actually listened to my gut about them." Y/n sighs making Max frown.

23 break ups is a lot of times. Maybe too many times for them to keep trying with each other. But he doesn't know what was going on behind the scenes at the end of the day. It's fairly obvious Davy was not accepting of moments he wasn't in control.

The next morning, Max found y/n asleep on the sofa in his suite. He'd insisted she not be alone tonight. Purely caring as a friend. He wants to make sure she is ok.

He managed to convince her to come to the paddock and upon arriving. They find Davy making his very angry and dramatic exit, presumably he had his "talk" with Christian and has been relieved of his job.

"This is your fault." Davy spits his whole body shaking in what is obviously a blinding rage.

"Mate, don't do this. I warned you yesterday." Max states as security begins to close in on them. "Leave with some pride intact and don't cause a scene."

It's clear the man is seething, y/n is certain he might even just have a heart attack. She's somewhat hidden herself behind Max's frame, hoping to remain safe from her position as security guides y/n out.

"He didn't need to lose his job."

"Christian won't let someone like that work in the team....and I would've insisted he leave anyway.' Max while they continue to walk through the paddock. "You have the right to feel comfortable around here and he would've made you uncomfortable."

Y/n smiles lightly before she swallows thickly.

At some point during the day, y/n is stolen from Max's company in a moment of the marketing girls crowding her and passing on their sympathy.

"Thank you for getting rid of him." Max states as he speaks to Christian.

"It's not as if we're taking a massive loss without him." Christian shrugs then looking over at y/n who is walking through the paddock with a couple of women. "I hope you're going to take this opportunity and use it."

Max remains silent, jaw locked and mouth pressed firmly closed. He doesn't talk about his fondness for y/n so Christian calling him out means he may not be as subtle about it as he was hoping he had been.

The following races, y/n seemed to settle into a new norm of being single. Despite quite a few employees within the teams and F1 were obvious about their interest in her, but she seemed to ignore them.

However, she finds herself more and more drawn to Max's side. He still lets her sleep on his sofa, and whether it's intentional or not he's building her confidence back up from where it had fallen so hard.

Fans had also started to notice the two growing very much closer and closer to each other. With not a mad person about it. Y/n is a fan favourite when she speaks as a commentator. They had noticed her whole personality brighten and she's started to look healthy with a glow about her since the break up.

The interaction between Max and Davy with y/n did make some headlines. The story being gossip within the paddock and managing to gain some attention.

Eventually y/n manages to make her way back to Max.

"Hi." Y/n smiles brightly as Max immediately directs his attention to her.

"Hello." Max greets before noticing that there's definitely something that y/n came over to say. "Whatever you have to ask or talk about. Just say it because you're awful at hiding something being on your mind."

"I think...it's about time I repaid you." Y/n states making Max raise his eyebrows. "Could I...Could we...I want to take you to dinner?"

"Like a date?" Max asks not giving away if he'd like that or not and she immediately looks nervous about it so he speaks up again, settling her nerves. "Because I was going to ask you later if I could take you on a date. Dinner sounds good to me."

Y/n beams with a mixture of joy and relief.

"Ok, I'm going to go look for the best restaurant I can find that doesn't make you like have to break your diet." Y/n grins then moving back in excitement while Max clears his throat.

"Y/n, what time would you like to go?"

"Oh right! Oh uhh...when do you think you'll be free?" Y/n laughs clearly still a little nervous as she speaks. "Would 7 be too early? Maybe 8?"

"We could meet in the middle. 7:30?"

"Yeah. That works perfectly." Y/n nods then moving up with some built up confidence and kissing his cheek before nearly fleeing the scene while Max sort of feels his face flush a little.

Max knocks on y/n's door since despite her sleeping on the sofa's in his suites she does actually have a hotel room paid for wherever they go, hearing her yell from inside, he rocks on his feet a little as he waits.

When the door flies open, Max smiles seeing her in a short white dress, her feet adorned in some strappy heels that wrap around up her ankles, a little pale yellow shoulder bag with a silver necklace and earrings.

Her make up is sparkly, glitter on her eyes and glossy lips. Hair is slickly half up and half down perfectly showing her face rather than hiding it.

"You look beautiful." Max croaks out in a moment of awe seeing her.

He's never really one to have his confidence knocked, especially with the season he's been having. He has to admit the ego inflation of his winning streaks and the windows from even P2.

"You look beautiful too." Y/n smiles while stepping out, checking she has everything she might need in her bag.

During their walk to the foyer, Max manages to link their hands with her latching onto him as if it's lifeline.

The whole drive to the restaurant, she is directing him since she did choose the restaurant and he is a little surprised that it's not some massively expensive, big flashy place. It's quite quaint but seems still like a place he'd trust to make food and not make him ill.

Being a gentleman he makes sure to pull out the chair for her before tucking it in as she sits down. When they sit looking at the menu, Max can't help letting his gaze flick to her. This feels almost surreal and he isn't sure if he needs to be pinched to check that he's not dreaming.

The date triggered a new comfortability between them. Y/n and Max are all over each other, both in public and alone.

"No...I'm so tired." Y/n whines as Max tries to ease her awake.

They're back in Monaco and the jet lag has literally knocked y/n off her feet. It's afternoon and she's slept long into the day with Max having left her to sleep through the morning but he knows she'll never adjust quickly if she's sleeping the day away like a cat in the sun.

She's actually cuddled up with his cats and has the curtains pushed back to she afternoon sun is shining down on her. Warming her tot he perfect temperature to just doze in.

"Y/n, you have to wake up. Come on." Max laughs gently rubbing her back while she groans only trying to dig herself further into the sheets. "If I have to pick you up and drag you out this bed, you know I will."

"Max...please. The cats and I are sleeping-bonding. We are bonding." Y/n whispers as if not to disturb her napping companions before she lifts her hand. "Join us."

"You make it sound like a cult." Max states, though he finds himself moving to lie down with her arm moving to go around him as a satisfied smile settles on her lips since she is counting this as a score under her name.

Truth be told, if there's one thing they've both came to realise. It's that Max will absolutely do anything that gets a smile from her. For everyone else, it's no surprise. For y/n it's just something she loves and for Max it's part of how their relationship works.

The last thing he'd ever want is for her to feel anything negative, especially since she's told him more about just how bad things were between her and Davy. She opened up and trusts him, which means more to Max than he would admit to anyone beyond his inner circle.

They end up spending the whole day lazing in bed with the cats till y/n's stomach grumbles and Max demands for them to get up just to get something to eat. Which she does finally agree to. Some people might say it's a waste of time off or a waste of a day to sleep and eat as how they spend the day.

But Max would give up his career if y/n said she would too and they could spend the rest of their lives living every day exactly like this one. Cuddled up, with the cats, dozing in the sun and just loving each other's company.

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turnstileskyline · 5 months

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lmaoo of course l*zz*e was a member of the temperance movement….. broads like that are always the worst

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and??? are you saying that being against the overconsumption of alcohol is somehow akin to being a brutal murderer?????

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yes

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dont bother engaging with remember1794 his entire blog is posts about the whisky rebellion of 1794 or about how much he hates women

#notborden

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look all im saying is that miss lizzie is unmarried and hasn’t had ANY suitors… and maggie is unwed too. im just saying!

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im so tired of you sapphists projecting your filthy disease onto everyone. no one cares.

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thats not what your mother said to me last night

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wait why is your blog just photographs of mens footwear

#wild ass site

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i think the uncle did it bc what the fuck kind of middle name is vinnicum

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AND hes a butcher ? might as well write murderer on his head lmaoooooooo

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bordenupdates just vagueposted about me

#hope this is ok to rb op bc LMAO

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ever since the 1850s big petroleum has been working to destroy the whaling industry, backed by the naturalists who find a problem with the hunting of whales, despite there being an abundance of the beasts in the sea! do not reject whaling – trust when whale experts say that these creatures will never be at a serious risk, don't fall for the propaganda of big petroleum

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what the fuck are you talking about. did a whale kill your parents or something.

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yes, actually.

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. sorry

#sorry for your loss but your politics suck

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i don't believe that women are capable of a crime so brutal. even when judith slayed holofernes, she did so by the guiding of God. her actions were virtuous in nature. women, being of the fairer sex, who serve God as lizzie does are not capable of a murder so foul. jezebel was able to do as she did because she spurned Him.

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stop lumping sapphist lizzie defenders with these freaks.

#this discourse has been incredible #anyway block godbeliever

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the adventures of sherlock holmes my beloved

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theres nothing wrong an opium reliance.

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i always wanted to fuck her

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does anyone wanna take me to the columbia exposition :( i know its in illinois but still

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#i said it was niche.#lizzie borden

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somuchyoudontknow · 10 months

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If I may add my two cents worth… I’ve seen the ongoing narrative that Chris is being taken advantage of by Scott, his friends and family etc, and that he is being held hostage by CAA or by Alba herself.

My honest, intuitive feel is that this is simply a PR arrangement gone wrong. The reason he continues to associate with her, in my opinion so I may be wrong, is simply because he signed a contract.

Now, I dont believe for one second that he signed it without reading. Chris is not a bumbling golden retriever; RDJ himself has commented that Chris is shrewd.

What I think happened is simply that he signed the contract agreeing to all these things for some good benefits that will come once the arrangement is over.

This ties in to your visions, Sophia, where you say he will get a good blockbuster project that may result in nominations and wins and other good things coming his way.

He may have only realised the optics of being seen as Alba’s boyfriend once he saw that a) she still looks very young and b) once the evidence of her racism and sexual innuendo leaked. Many are saying this was done or it happened after the contract was signed.

By this point in time, they were already knee-deep in the contract, and there was no backing out. He may have lawyers try and negotiate an end, but the contract may not have had clauses or loopholes — and Chris may not have thought he needed them since he has never done long-term PR relationships before. Lesson learnt for him.

Think of it as you signing an employment contract for your job. If you dont understand the terms when you sign, and you try to escape from it later — that is exactly what is happening here with Chris and CAA.

But the point is, whether he likes it or not, he has to ride this contract out and honour whatever he has agreed to.

The reason he looks sick and stressed is simply because of the sheer backlash against him and even his family. His fans hate Alba, and I dont think he or his team could estimate just how much. After all, the fandom has had his back for decades. There was no reason for them to think we would all flip a 180 and walk away from him. There was no reason to ever think that his family and friends would also get the backlash and hate comments and possibly death threats.

And now he is simply seeing the side effects of playing games with people who have supported him through A LOT of crap. In other words, Chrissy just had a “Fuck Around and Find Out” moment.

In many ways, this is the major tower moment that so many readers have predicted for him. Many of them did warn that to get into a relationship with a “20-something clout chaser” — this was talkingtarot’s description of her — would be disastrous for him and would bring a lot of heartache. This is now being proven.

The question is how long he wants to take to learn his lessons in this major tower moment. There is no way out, so he has to suck it up, learn from it and take the opportunity to rebrand himself the way he desires (but never says out loud).

I believe he wants to be taken seriously as an actor — this is backed by the fact he pursued roles like Knives Out and Defending Jacob. He has the chops and the potential, now he needs to reshape himself and his reputation to get the things he wants.

❤️ StarStruck 💫

Hiiii Hope you are doing well 🤗

Oh, I have missed my anon fellow intuitives so much 💙❤ Thank you for coming back and sharing your reading with us.

In, regards to the big role, I feel since he is helping Wild Bunch promote their European movies, he would get a very good payout in the end.

And I strongly agree that Chris is very smart and intelligent. He is not a fool as some people are persistent to make him look like. He knows what he is doing and he must have signed the contract after taking into consideration the condition of the industry and the work prospects available to him after his Cap Era and Covid. The only downside of this pr has been his team underestimated his fandom's reaction due to the age gap and now , no matter how much he dislikes the situation or wants to end it, it might not be possible.

He also wants to be taken seriously as an actor. he doesn't seem to be interested in going back to Disney or doing any superhero roles in the future which is quite understandable. Going back to Disney would not be beneficial. They would lock him down for years and he will not have the creative freedom that he is looking for. He is already in his 40s and almost all his career he has spent a big chunk of his career doing superhero roles. He seems to be desiring to expand his career and not stay limited. If we look at his approach it would be pretty understandable why he chose to do a PR.

#chris evans pr #chris-evans #alba-baptista #intuition #intuitive reading #❤️ StarStruck 💫

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heystephen · 1 year

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i also feel that a lot of taylor’s statements in miss americana were hollow as of late. like honestly she kept saying about how she wanted to speak out (and its fine if you dont!! like being political can be so exhausting. ive worked in journalism and because of my experiences being so entrenched in that shit i find myself avoiding the news and stuff like that because of how exhausting it is) and now she keeps getting associated with racist people and projects and its just. where did that energy go.

i think, and i don’t want to like speak on her behalf so this is purely conjecture, she meant what she said when she said it but it’s easy to talk the talk and harder to walk the walk, if that makes sense? her heart was in the right place but i don’t know if she was ready to commit to the act of intentionally removing shitty people from her life— she tries to avoid making enemies out of other people in the industry. and i’m in no way defending or criticizing that, it’s just my best guess

#i got mail*#anonymous

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zot3-flopped · 1 year

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in a plot twist, every article on daily mail about Harry being robbed are defending him. I dont want to get too much into tit for tat here, but this doesnt reflect that well on Beyonce, even though its her fans. They seem insane. And if it wasnt Harry it would be who else won. She is the most awarded in history ffs. Anyway, i fully knew this would happen if he won. End of day, he won. This twitter rubbish will be forgotten in a month, but not in the history books lol. Harry has the gp on his side, he just pissed off like 3 insane twitter fandoms, thats all this is. Even say the pitchfork article, its all still just stan wars. Half the people going off on twitter probably only know single ladies, it will all blow over.

There was always going to be a twitter storm if a white artist beat Beyonce, but that's all it is. This win is massive for Harry and his career - the top accolade in the music industry.

#backlash anon #this should answer your question #the guardian's chief music critic Alexis Petridis even said in the article I linked #that HsH was not an 'inexplicable' choice #like a few in the past #but well deserved

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classic-bright · 2 years

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I’m gonna be an absolute troll about this because I’ve been seeing it a lot and will I make sense? I’m not really sure. Do all the weird arguments about certain people from Teen Wolf make sense? No. But I think I am somewhat coherent to bring up this amazingly - TERRIBLE concept that some have manifested as their new form of hate mail: claiming actors should not get paychecks. That’s generally what this is. Its the MOST absurd argument I’ve ever seen on here. And come on this is tumblr. But I cant tell if people are being genuine of these statements.

They just say one name and go, hey, (giggles), it would be fun to say actors dont deserve paychecks.

Like they dont want their own favorite actors to get paid for acting.

Yeah, like anyone doesn't need some form of compensation to make a living. And their not evil for taking a well-earned paycheck.

I’m very CERTAIN that people will be skipping some rocks when they hear stiles stilinski is gonna be in the movie. (Before you say anything -He’s not in there - I’m not trying to raise hopes!)

If Dylan O’brien was in this - no one would be shaming him for logging onto the teen wolf movie for anything revolving around a paycheck. They wouldnt be.

Why do I have to mention him first? Because he’s used as the main driving point of why to shame other actors on payment. Dylan doesn't do this, and hey, may not approve of it, but some of his fans do it.

Idk if people realize it - but Dylan gets HIS paycheck out of his work. Listen to that. He’s another actor getting paid for his film work.

This business requires compensation of a paycheck. Any business. Do you think it's simple to stare at lights, mix up a sleep schedule, re-do scenes over and over again until there is a couple of usable tapes/frames that can work? No they make it look easy! Its no walk in the park.

If Theo was back (for those who want him in it for reasons I cannot all list here) - guess who would possibly not be giving his actor a hard time about paychecks.

No one says anything about Tyler Hoechlin aiming for only his paycheck. Which is weird. They say he felt PITY for the movie, instead. Would this be a hate speech in why you should totally shame him? No. But I will say, he is suddenly, filtered all prettily, and he really does sound like a nice guy, but fans dont say anything about - well he’s casting Eli and doing this without a stiles or Braedon, therefore he should not get a paycheck. ( And I highly do NOT encourage that harassment to be turned around to him.)

But - people do know Hoechlin’s getting a paycheck, right? Should we throw him at the stakes too? Maybe everyone who has been on the teen wolf cast and in every tv series thats ever existed? Why am I blowing it out of proportions? Because the arguement feels like that.

Why are we even focusing on blaming people for working and then getting paychecks.

Why should it even be common to argue it? Is everyone okay - or do they not know jobs 101

I dont even have to defend Tyler Posey!

I’m just targeting how atrocious and funny all of this is. If you dont want to watch the movie - then stall and stop spoiling peoples experiences. They want to see their favorite characters. It may not be everyone but there’s at least one character in there they want to watch.

But I dont really want to shame these actors at all. Its so simple. They just get paychecks. They are NOT in charge in the amount they really get, or what other actors get. They are for the most part, restricted to their acting roles. Films are all budget and sometimes the film industry just works like that. Actor’s motive for why they join shouldnt be even a question. Its laughable to see: this person is getting a paycheck, how disgusting. Maybe they should work for free.

Thats what it sounds like. Who wants to enforce that people don't get paid for their work?

Again, they are doing their jobs.

Its great that Arden Cho was able to ask for a bigger paycheck. Good for her. But she did not get it. And hey, if they did not want to pay the amount compared to her fellow white actors then...? Maybe we can still put our hopes up that further down the road she may want to do something pertaining to Teen Wolf, if she still wants to. She did a wonderful job when she was there. But its so bizarre that she received hate when she was in the show and suddenly she’s not really that supported in this hellsite from those certain haters who defend her. She’s just used as a few sentence arguement. She’s not seen, she’s just used alongside the absence of Dylan O’brien. And thats horrible.

Tyler Hoechlin’s part in the show did not raise any ridicule or hate. Tyler Posey received hate, and even death threats. Arden Cho was REALLY bullied and harassed for her character. Dylan O’brien did not receive hate. Ian Bohen’s character was praised.

It’s actually okay to ship whatever you like. Its okay to like any character or actor. And I dont really genuinely shame any actor from the cast for being a part of something that they were apart of for years/seasons. However, maybe we get too passionate, guys. Just like what I have to be in order to bring it out. I’m not the better person at this moment. Obviously, there should be more character affection, not too overbearing. Honestly if your losing people over your hate - well shit?

I cannot say enough that we should really be okay with actors getting paychecks (as they should), and okaying the free-will to ship without forcing it on others who may have different preferences. Do I have to add ships at the last minute- yes I do. For this argument, I somehow do, because the hate spawns from this source.

#teen wolf #teen wolf fandom #teen wolf movie #stiles stilinski #derek hale #kira yukimura

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tea-with-evan-and-me · 7 months

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Like many anons already said, I am actually not that disturbed by the transphobes defending Emma, because while it's of course annoying to see them bash an innocent woman and quite saddening to see there's still so much transphobia in a year 20 fucking 23, they're just helping bring more attention to her horrible behavior and help damaging her reputation.

However, some of Emma minions excuses piss me off.

The "oh, she waited 4 years, she just wanted to ruin AHS Delicate premiere". Okay first of all, that does not change the fact that Emma was transphobic. Like at all. Transphobia doesn't have expiration date (i totally stole that from some comment I read). And even if she told the story just to ruin the premiere. Even if she said it because she's jealous. Even if she said it because she's bitter about the promised AHS season. That does not change the fact THAT EMMA WAS BEING TRANSPHOBIC.

The "she waited so long to talk about it it's sus". No it's not. A black trans woman, waiting years to expose a white, rich, nepo baby who has a powerful aunt in the industry, is not suspicious at all. It's understandable.

The "emma meant she wasn't the lady, because she was aged with make up" THEY BOTH HAD MAKE UP ON. I know Emma tried to excuse herself that way, but that excuse does not make sense because one, like I said, they both had make up to age them. Two, older woman is also a lady? Like there's no age group for ladies... Why would Emma not consider herself a lady because of the make up that aged her...

The "emma was wrong but why she had to make it public" Hm i dont know, so people know that Emma Roberts is a transphobe and that people shouldn't support her? They really wished Angela would talk it out in private, so no one would find out. Oh well, too bad.

The "emma apologized" excuse. Well, her apology was shit because it basically was "I'm an ally, you misunderstood me🥺" And the apology does not change the fact that she's a transphobe. If you cheat and apologize, you're still a cheater. If you abuse someone and apologize, you're still an abuser. And oh wait, Emma is all of them, but haven't apologized for 2/3 because she wasn't publicly canceled for it.

Sorry for the long ask

no need to apologize, i definitely agree. people on the internet don't get to decide when someone who was mistreated have to let it go and move on. they don't dictate whether or not it plays out publicly.

this is where i think it's important to use clear language. for many people, when they hear about someone ''misgendering'' a trans person they think of an accidental slip-up where the person apologizes and didn't intentionally mean any harm. folks are acting like what happened is akin to this and angelica is being petty. they're not thinking about the entire sum of angelica's experience with emma and the intention behind what she did. emma was already making the set miserable for everyone, so it's not like she was some pleasant person who had a weak moment during anger. emma literally received an insignificant, snarky comment from angelica and decided that she would sarcastically insult her in the cruelest way she knew how.

honestly, angelica should not even be expected to accept emma's apology or acknowledge it. she did her a favor by doing so, one emma wasn't owed. she didn't even have to take her call. her fans are right, IT HAD BEEN YEARS. emma never thought about what she did and felt the need to apologize. so i have a hard time imagining what she said was sincere. there's no conspiracy about motives - she was right angry and hurt with what transpired and came to a point where she wanted accountability to be taken.

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Mute

Pairing: Chris Evans x Mute!Reader

Summary: You meet Chris for the first time and he doesn’t know you’re mute. All hell breaks loose.

Warnings: angst, chris being an accidental asshole, fluff, sebastian stan being protective

A/N: I based this on a dream I had, as well as my experience with being a selective mute from 2017-2020, and how I communicated and who I spoke verbally to. Hope you enjoy!

Sebastian was shocked when he met you in pre-production for the first post-endgame Marvel movie, and you didn’t speak, instead nodding and using hand gestures that he later deciphered to be sign language. He knew that you were fairly new to the industry, and so approached Joe Russo.

“Hey, Joe. I just had a question about the new girl, Y/N?” He asked, while watching you walk of with your PA next to you. “Sure, what’s up?” Joe responded.

Sebastian cleared his throat before continuing. “I tried talking to her a little bit, but she didn’t speak, instead she used sign language, and I just was wondering if you knew why? Just so I can be better prepared and know how to help her,”

Joe smiled at Sebastian’s request. Being the insanely caring person that Seb was, his question didn’t surprise him. “She’s a selective mute. She does talk, but it is only when she is acting, and she’s an amazing actor. She mentioned to me that she doesn’t speak verbally unless she is very close to the person and trusts them wholeheartedly, such as her family and best friends. Her PA is her best friend, and can help you communicate with her. But, other than that, just get to know her. She’ll probably open up to you.” Joe finished, before patting Seb on the back, and walking off to talk to some production people.

Sebastian looked in the direction that you had gone, and decided to talk to you. You may not communicate verbally with him, but he wanted to get to know you.

Over the next few weeks of pre-production, both Sebastian and Anthony got to know you, and both were insanely shocked when you performed your first scene with them. You delivered your lines like you had been talking all your life, and with the gravity of an experienced actor. They both congratulated you, and you signed “thank you” in response. If any one had any doubts about your skills as an actor before, they had fully dissipated.

When it had been announced that production would be moving to the UK, Seb approached you and Mackie with the idea of renting a place together. You had agreed instantly, glad that you wouldn’t be living on your own in a foreign country all alone, especially since Y/B/F/N couldn’t come along. Living with both boys was chaotic to say the least, but you wouldn’t trade it for the world. They gave you the biggest bedroom in the house, and began learning sign language so you wouldn’t have to carry your ipad everywhere for your text-to-speech app.

A few weeks in, you began to speak verbally to both boys. They were shocked when you spoke to them for the first time, but were insanely happy. Seb was almost in tears, recalling that you only spoke to those who you trusted whole heartedly. He had become insanely protective of you, and treated you like a sister, which you absolutely loved.

Everything was going great. That was, until Chris Evans showed up.

He had just finished filming his latest project, and decided to come and visit his two closest friends that he hadn’t seen in a few months. Mackie had mentioned that he was coming, and would be staying in the spare bedroom, and you foolishly assumed that he would tell Chris about your mutism.

But Mackie being Mackie, he didn’t. And neither did Seb, who also thought Mackie had told him.

You hid in your room when Chris arrived, not ready to face him at that point. You ventured out just after dinner time, and grabbed a plate of food before retreating back into your safe haven with the cover of working on an assignment that you had told to Seb. They bought it, and you and Chris made eye contact and shared a wave before you disappeared from sight.

A few days later is when all hell broke loose.

Chris seemed to have a habit of searching you and Seb out. It started off with him walking into our bedroom while Seb was talking to you, and admiring how you’d decorated the place. Yo gave him a small shy smile, which he returned, although there was a hint of confusion written all over his face. Then, you were asking Sebastian for clarification on the Romanian lines that you were supposed to speak the next day, when Chris wandered in to the kitchen. He noticed how you instantly fell silent, and whispered a thank you to Sebastian before you scurried past him. How watched your back retreat, and sighed, but grabbed his the beer he came for before walking into the living room.

It was later that night that you had decided that you wanted to talk to Chris. You hadn’t known him very long, but you felt very safe around him, and everyone had told you how trustworthy he was. You had spent the last 30 minutes hyping yourself up in the mirror before walking out on a journey to find him. You heard his voice floating from the kitchen, and as you got closer, your heart instantly broke.

“I just don’t get what her problem is with me.” You heard Chris say. Another voice, Seb, responded.

“Chris, I don’t think she has a problem with you,”

Chris scoffed. “Yes she does. Why else would she not talk to me, and rush out of a room quicker than she entered when I walk in? She has a huge problem with me. I don’t know why she thinks that just because she got a part in a movie that she can walk around all high and mighty, but I’ve done nothing to her. She’s being a bitch,”

You heard Seb exclaim and start to defend you, but you didn’t stay to listen to what he said, instead running back to your room in tears, your confidence shattered. You grabbed your iPad and apple pencil, and began to draw, an activity that let you communicate your feelings. You wanted to show Chris that you didn’t hate him, and that you didn’t think more of yourself just because you got a part in a movie.

You finished it right before dinner, and kept it in your grip tightly when Mackie called you down for dinner. Your heart fluttered in your chest as you made your way down the stairs, but your face fell, and eyes welled up with tears when you saw Chris wasn’t there.

“Is Chris coming to dinner?” You asked Seb, and he shook his head no sadly.

“No. He’s not in the best mood, but dont worry, he’ll be fine.” He said, as he grabbed his plate.

“Oh, okay.” You said, your voice coming out shaky. You looked down at the ipad in your hands, before walking out the kitchen. Seb followed behind you. Just before you reached the stairs, he gripped your arm, causing you to turn around.

“What’s wrong?” He asked sincerely, and you couldn’t hold back the tears.

“I-I heard h-him talking about m-me earlier,” You whispered, and Seb cursed before pulling you into a hug.

“You heard him,” He said. You nodded before speaking again.

“I drew him a picture and I wanted to give it to him to show that what h-he said wasn’t t-true, and that I’m actually a huge fan of his,” You sobbed into his chest. Seb didn’t move, but waited for your tears to subside, before walking with you upstairs.

“He’ll come around. He had a rough night, although that doesn’t excuse his behaviour. I’ll talk to him, okay?”

You nodded, and curled up in bed. “Do you want me to bring you up some dinner?” Seb asked, and you nodded again, before telling him what you wanted.

He left the room, and came down the stairs. he plated the food that you wanted, and grabbed a water bottle out of the fridge.

“What happened?” Anthony asked from the dining room as Seb passed.

“She heard what Evans said, and she’s heartbroken. I’m bringing her dinner, and then I’m gonna talk some sense into that motherfucker.”

“Good, he needs it.” Anthony agreed, watching as Seb walked away.

Seb dropped the food off to you, before walking across the hall to Chris’s room. He answered after the first knock.

“What’s up?”

“First of all, you’re a grade A asshole, and second of all, you need to go apologize to Y/N.” Seb said, anger bubbling in his voice.

“Why? She hates me, I’ve done nothing to her to-“ Chris began before Seb interrupted him.

“SHE DOESN’T HATE YOU!” He exclaimed. “She’s selectively mute, that’s why she doesn’t speak to you! She’s a huge fan of you. She’s in her bedroom, right now, heartbroken, because she heard you talking about her.” Seb finished, his hand pointing at your bedroom door.

Chris felt his heart sink. “Why does she talk to you, but not me?”

Seb sighed. “She only talks to people she trusts a lot, and you met her yesterday. Of course she’s not gonna talk to you right away, and now I’m afraid she never will because you talked bad about her. She drew you a picture in hopes that you would understand that she didn’t hate you, but you broke her heart even more by not showing up at dinner. Now, go and fix it or will not hesitate to call your mother.” Seb finished, before walking away.

Chris sat back down on his bed in disbelief. He’d fucked up, and he didn’t know how to fix it. He thought back to Seb’s threat, before picking up his phone and calling his mom.

You had just finished another episode of Criminal Minds, when a knock came to your bedroom door. You dragged yourself out of bed, and opened the door to reveal Chris. You felt tears welling up in your eyes, and kept them locked on the floor, in fear that he was going to yell at you, and repeat his earlier statements to your face.

“I’m sorry,” Chris breathed out. “I didn’t mean to upset you.”

You slowly moved your eyes up to meet his, and he sucked in a breath when he saw your puffy eyes. “It’s ok.” You signed, and Chris shook his head no, before enveloping you into his arms.

He moved the two of your further into your bedroom, and shut the door behind him.

“It is NOT okay. In any way. I broke your fucking heart, Y/N. I have no excuse for what I said, and I want to make it up to you. Will you let me do that?” He asked, his face buried into the hair atop your head. You nodded and he pulled away from you. You grabbed your ipad, opened up your text to speech app, and typed in a sentence.

“Do you want to watch a movie with me?”

Chris nodded, and smiled, his thumb brushing over your cheek. “Of course. You pick.”

You led him over to the bed, and got in, and he climbed in the opposite side. You picked up the remote, and chose the movie “Swat: Under Siege”. Chris wrapped an arm around your shoulders, and pulled you close to him. You cuddled into his chest as the movies opening scene began to play.

About halfway through the movie, Chris tilted your chin up to look at him.

“I really am sorry. I hate that I said what I did. I just- Seb had told me all about you, and I had seen some of the leaked pictures from set, and all I wanted to do was impress you. When I thought you hated me, I couldn’t handle it, and I lashed out. I’m so so sorry about that.” He said, his thumb teaching over your cheekbone once more. “Also, Seb told me that you drew me a picture? Can I see it?” And you nodded.

You unlocked your ipad and opened the drawing app, clicking on the most recent one, before handing the device over to Chris.

His breath caught in his throat while he looked down at the picture you had drawn of him.

“T-that is amazing,” He said, tears coming to his eyes at the picture that you worked so hard to make of him. “You’re even more amazing than I thought.” He finished. “Thank you,” You signed, before thinking of a question.

You grabbed your iPad once more, and typed into your app.

“Why did you want to impress me?” Chris smiled at the sound of the robotic voice coming from the device.

“I was drawn to you. I dont know what is was, but I couldn’t get you off my mind. I had searched and searched to find another tv or movie you had been in, but nothing came up, and I was so shocked that you got such a big part right off the bat. But I was also insanely excited to see you perform. And when Seb and Mackie told me I could come and stay for a while, I was ecstatic to be able to get to know you, and that’s when I realized that I liked you.”

Your breath caught in your throat at his words. Did Chris Evans really just admit to having a crush on you?

“Now, I understand if you dont like me back, but I had to get that off my chest, especially since I just broke your heart.” Chris said, his eyes focused on the tv to not meet your gaze. You gave him a small smile, but grasped his chin into your hand, and drew his lips into a soft and tender kiss.

He let out a breathy moan, and pulled you closer. His lips travelled from your lips, and all over your face, amking you let out a giggle. He started laughing too, and pulled away. “I’m guessing this means that you like me too?” He asked, and you nodded immediately.

He smiled, and grasped your hand in his. “Well then, can I take you on a date?”

You took a deep breath, and opened your mouth. “Yes.”

Chris’s eyes immediately welled up with tears and he pulled you in for another kiss.

“You spoke to me,” He whispered when he pulled apart, a few tears rolling down his face.

You shrugged and gave him a smile.

“I trust you wholeheartedly.”

#chris evans fluff #chris evans x reader #chris evans #chris evans angst #chris evans x reader fluff #sebastian stan #anthony mackie

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Debunking the arguments for vaccine apartheid

The Biden administration’s (carefully worded) support for a WTO IP waiver on vaccines may not be the full-throated support the issue warrants, but it was still a complete reversal of decades of subservience to Big Pharma, and the industry is waging all-out war.

The arguments against allowing poor countries to make their own vaccines are a mix of racist condescension (“poor brown people are too primitive to make high-tech vaccines”), misdirection (“patents aren’t the problem”) and bad faith (“we don’t have enough materials”).

Writing for Counterpunch, Sonali Kolhatkar teases apart each of these arguments. Take the argument that poor countries can’t make vaccines — laughable on its face, given India’s centrality to the world’s vaccine supply.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/20/why-big-pharmas-arguments-against-patent-waivers-dont-add-up/

The problem isn’t that India doesn’t know how to make vaccines — the problem is that India’s brutal, variant-driven outbreak has caused the country to hit pause on exports, halting the supply of vaccines to much of sub-Saharan Africa.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/biden-has-power-vaccinate-world/618802/

The idea that poor countries are especially prone to unsafe practices that make people hesitant to get vaccinated is pretty rich, given the US experience, where government cronies raked in millions of dollars while spoiling millions of vaccine doses.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/emergent-got-27m-a-month-to-prep-vaccine-plant-then-ruined-15m-jj-doses/

Countries in the Global South can make their own vaccines, but only if the WTO green-lights it. It’s not enough for Moderna to promise not to enforce its patents, because the WTO can still do it for them, raining down terror on poor countries.

Pharma has some very high-profile champions, and chief among them is Bill Gates, who evidently sees defending “IP” in principle as the key to advancing his ideological agenda, both personally and through his foundation.

I discussed Gates’s ideology in depth in this interview with Luke Savage for Jacobin, where I explore the core idea of “IP” as an ideological construct: that the law should empower firms to control their customers, competitors and critics.

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/cory-doctorow-interview-bill-gates-intellectual-property

IP is the tip of the spear for all right-wing ideology, which Corey Robin clearly identified in THE REACTIONARY MIND: the belief that some people are born to rule, and others to be ruled over, and any attempt to thwart destiny makes us all worse off.

https://coreyrobin.com/the-reactionary-mind/

That’s why Gates personally intervened to scuttle the Oxford team’s plan to make its publicly funded vaccine research free to all, coercing them into doing an exclusive license deal with Astrazeneca.

https://khn.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine-oxford-makes-a-deal-with-drugmaker/

AZ promised to sell vaccines at cost to the Global South…once it’s done providing doses to rich countries. This is also the premise behind Gates’s COVAX initiative, whereby poor countries can register for donations from philanthropists, corporations and wealthy countries.

As Gates describes it: “Some of the rich countries including the US and the UK, even this summer will get to high vaccination levels and that’ll free up so that we’re getting vaccines out to the entire world in late 2021 and through 2022.”

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-bill-gates-hopeful-world-completely-back-to-normal-by-end-of-2022-and-vaccine-sharing-to-ramp-up-12285840

That’s the deal that Gates — and other COVAX boosters — want: poor people shouldn’t expect to help themselves. They should “wait their turn.” Some are born to rule, some are born to be ruled over, and upending this natural order will do no good.

Whether driven by greed, racism or ideology, this is not a folly the world can afford. Allowing continued spread through the 125 poorest countries (pop 2.5b) will kill hundreds of thousands, if not millions. 2021 is on track to have a higher covid death-count than 2020.

Even if you identify with the rulers, and not the ruled-over, this is madness. Every time the virus infects someone, it undergoes millions, even billions of replications. Each replication carries a small chance of mutation.

Each mutation has a small chance of becoming more virulent, more lethal, more vaccine-resistant. No one is safe on a half-vaccinated planet. You can’t declare only one end of the swimming pool to have a “no pissing” end.

The fact that COVAX backers claim that once the rich world has been vaccinated there will be capacity to vaccinate the rest of the world reveals the bad faith in the argument that the world doesn’t have the raw materials to make vaccine doses for all.

Adopting COVAX instead of a WTO waiver means that access to vaccines can come with strings attached — demands to privatize publicly owned infrastructure or knuckle under to other demands. A WTO waiver would put poor countries in charge of their own destiny.

The Gates camp is big on being in charge of your own destiny — if you’re one of the born rulers. Just listen to how Gates and ghouls like Howard Dean talk about how strong protections for their privileges provide the “incentives” needed to produce live-saving vaccines.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/08/howard-dino/#the-scream

Nevermind that mRNA vaccines owe their existence to tens of billions of dollars in public investment, with the monopolistic pharma companies only coming in after all the risk was shouldered by what Mariana Mazzucato calls “the entrepreneurial state.”

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/15/how-to-rob-a-bank/#roll-the-dice

It’s a point that was beautifully made by Rep Katie Porter with one of her trademark whiteboard-based Congressional grillings of the CEO of pharma company Abbvie during a hearing on price-gouging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aabrV1OmLU0

Porter asks the CEO how much money his company spends on R&D, marketing, compensation and stock-buybacks and other forms of financial engineering. She already knows the answers, and has circles of colored construction-paper ready to show the relative spending.

All of this builds to a triumphant climax in which Porter affixes a vast blue circle representing “Stock buybacks and dividends” to her Whiteboard of Justice, a circle so big it dwarfs everything else on the board.

The vaccine manufacturers absorbed billions in public cash and have told their shareholders to expect a rosy future in which they charge $175/dose for annual boosters. Their CEOs took home tens of millions in bonuses based on those promises.

Those are the true stakes here: not “IP” as an incentive for those who were born to rule to deign to develop the medicine we all need. We get that from public funding, from competition, and from the scientists who do the real work — not the executives who privatize it.

The cost of letting poor countries control their own epidemiological destiny is depriving monopolists of that control.

The advantages of putting vaccine manufacturing in the hands of the Global South, on the other hand…

The cost of letting poor countries control their own epidemiological destiny is depriving monopolists of that control.

The advantages of putting vaccine manufacturing in the hands of the Global South, on the other hand…

Saving millions of lives

Preventing vaccine-resistant, more lethal variants

Giving people control over their own destiny rather than making them beg with multinational corporations and elite philanthropists for their very lives

#pluralistic

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Hello, I really dont want to anger you, just wanted to ask about Danna? I really liked her, though I don't speak spanish and I was quite brokenhearted when she got cancelled left and right especially considering how people are fine after worse things. I was very scared to support her because multiple mutuals were mad I still reblogged her gifs. I am also super triggered by in**st so I didn't dare to look myself. Sorry for bothering!!

EDIT: this post no longer applies because danna is a certified weirdo that changes her opinion on nasty stuff depending on who is interviewing her. while she spoke out against it on shows like Ventaneando and suelta la sopa, she also gave interviews where she romanticized it so fuck her. BUT!!! other things i said, especially the thing about double standards still apply, whether y'all like it or not 🤪🙄 regardless of her nonsense, y'all hold a bias against WOC!🌝

you’re not bothering me!!!

people decided to cancel her because some fool decided to post one no context screenshot of a comment she made on insta and as per usual, the rpc just ran with it because just like most on the people on social media, they blindly believe stuff people tell them and don’t bother looking into stuff unless it is to defend people like christopher evans and save them from the unapologetic and evil claws of internet cancelation

danna is an grooming and abuse survivor who has been severely harassed by the media who want to force her to relieve her trauma for the sole purpose of their morbid curiosity and need to monetize women’s trauma and since she doesn’t wanna share her trauma with the world, a lot of latin media has ‘frozen’ her and only talks about her or features her in (particularly) mexican media to drag her for her supposed disservice to women. and then add to it internet idiots un the virtue signaling olympics spreading nonsense so you got a winning combo.

and, what people don’t know is that she has spoken multiple times about how wrong what lu and the other dude did, how she and jorge gave multiple interviews talking about it, clearly not supporting it but people aren’t gonna tell you that because standing up for brown women doesn’t get you notes.

please don’t be scared of supporting her. she is genuinely a hardworking person that has been in the industry since she was a very young child and had a lot of people take advantage of her and now that she is famous outside of mexico, some people think they ‘own’ her and they’re the ones behind her success when in reality she had to seek work outside of mexico after people continuously dragged her because she didn’t want to give her soundbites about what her ex did to her and because the people that were supposed to take care of her happily allowed the grooming that happened to her because it gave their telenovela views were the same people that blackballed her. her landing the role in elite was no coincidence.

send your mutuals to me, i’ll deal with them and any monolingual white fools that continue with this nonsense. very interesting how y’all really spent months branding danna as the devil, but timtams charmander is still okay in y’alls books. interesting!

#incest tw #abuse tw #grooming tw #Anonymous #ask

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I dont have a problem with adele outselling taylor. The reason many ppl, not just swifties, are upset with her is her arrogance. She rented out all the vinyl factories in the world, skipping a 6 month line in the process. Now small artists who cant afford to pay them off like that have been set back at least a year. And she keeps going on about how shes the only "real" artist making real music, and knocking down all trendy stuff. You can look up what indie artists and record stores are saying about her. Its hardly limited to our fandom.

Im a long time fan and i have supported her for years, even when she was ahead of taylor, because i admire her talent. But she has changed. Shes essentially become a boomer. Its very offputting to see an artist of her quality talk shit about everyone else. The reason taylor is able to keep succeeding at that level is because she grows and changes with the industry, and supports her peers. She competes in a healthy manner. I dont think someone who jumped the line deserves to break records. The 500k vinyls she printed shouldnt exist in the first place.

this narrative just simply isn't true. vinyl shortage has been going on for at least a couple of years now because there is a sudden increase in demand and not the infrastructure to keep up with it - and then add pandemic related manufacturing delays which are affecting ALL industries and you've got an issue that affects all artists and has nothing to do with adele. she did not skip a 6 month line, she handed in her album 6 months early just like every other artist has to if they want their vinyl releasing for first week sales.

"look up what indie artists and record store are saying about her"

for example, like all these articles (i could go on, they were very easy to find via a simple google search) where people in the industry say it's not her fault and that vinyl delays go way beyond her?

also i fail to see how she's "basically become a boomer" and is "talking shit". i've seen some quotes from her that people take issue with and it always seems like people are deliberately nitpicking her words in bad faith. i'm not even an adele fan, i've never even listened to one of her albums in full (i'm listening to 30 for the first time literally right now) so this isn't even me defending her from the place of a stan or anything i just genuinely fail to see what legitimate problem people have with her at the moment.

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wonuuoo · 2 years

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posting here bc no ones here :)

eaj is just so full of shit. i miss jae of day6. idc how badly he wants to shed that apparent image of him, i can still miss the idea of him.

ever since he started streaming, his personality has just gotten worse. not saying that twitch caused it bc some of the ppl he interacts w seem like p good people. but before jae left jype and day6, when he took breaks, hed just use that time to stream on twitch. no, i cant police what he wants to do on break. yes, i can criticize that if u want a real break, you need to step away fm social media.

hes said other things on twitch streams that have gotten him some heat already (i can think of 3 off the top of my head and i dont even actually follow him) not all 3 situations were actually reflective of specific problematic behavior, but all 3 are def in the literal sense controversial and continue to aggravate his problems with social media, misunderstandings, and "cancel culture"

cancel culture is in quotes bc while cancel culture hurts those who are falsely accused and is also mentally draining to go thru, clearly he hasnt ever been actually cancelled bc he still has a decent following

hes been talking abt how toxic social media is, how tired he is of being misconstrued, and how important the impact of ppls words are, yet here we are, dealing with a problem that embodies all three of those ideas in such a terrible way.

going thru the video and apology of his comments abt jamie tho.

whyd he have to wait to be out of kpop (which he time and time again complains abt its "sanitation" and "manufacturered" nature,* thereby implying that the following statement is a more objective/unfiltered opinion)

he knew this was smth that would get him in trouble (tho i doubt he had the foresight to realize just how much trouble) he knew "thot" wasnt a particularly kind word** based on how much he kept laughing, goading the viewer to snitch on him, knowing how upset jamie was going to get, then flipping back to not wanting to get in trouble and already envisioning how u need to defend urself and how twitter will react***

the notes app apology and tagging jamie. while the public does not know what is happening in private (ie him reaching out privately and settling the matter (i think if he did reach out privately he should've mentioned that he did (attempt to) settle this privately first and that this is the public apology to address the situation)) his public apology still looks terrible. the twt itself is just an @ and a screenshot, so the twt only shows up on the second tab. he literally says "i feel terrible for making jamie feel the way she does" which while is a start, he never goes on to say 'im sorry for using a hurtful word, specifically "thot" to describe jamie'. "friendly banter" my ass how was that comment supposed to be banter if she wasnt even there to actually "banter"/defend herself. "in no way was i referencing any kind of physical behavior or energy" lmao he literally went on to "mock defend" himself in the event jamie went to approach him

he goes on to defend and compliment her on his stream but very quickly makes a slight at her (speaking on how 'vocally jamie is a demon (amazing and unparalleled) but "image-wise? *shakes head and looks away*° idk bro"') like the juxtaposition of praising her and then going but on this front... shrug :eyeemoji: clearly demonstrates contextual contrast he wanted to make

video quote: "i shouldn't have said that (calling jamie a thot) it wasn't worth it"

*truly hate his stance on this bc we all know kpop is messy and the only ppl who strictly hold this standpoint dont rlly know anything abt the industry

**also if u dont fully understand a word, dont use it. do some research. if youre going to hide behind the excuse of not knowing what it means, ur fully in the wrong for using it. even if he used baddie instead, he clearly had the intent to ridicule someone who wasnt there to defend themselves in order to get a reaction. also he himself didnt take it as a compliment when his own "friends" called him a thot

***he says how twitter will respond w how jae is just bitter and is thot-shaming. and honestly yeah he does sound bitter when u compile all the times hes mentioned kpop to stay relevant

°it could theoretically be assumed that he looked away to fix his set up

honestly i feel so bad for the rest of day6 and all the fans who defended him thinking hes better than this. its such an embarrassment thinking hes the same person he used to be. hes obviously changed. he went fm someone who tried his best to someone who keeps tacking bad press to them.

while ik he doesnt technically owe day6 or jype anything, i can still be disappointed in the degradation of his morals.

anyway thats my brain dump idk what else to add if ill add more later

#foreign idol #later #not directly related but #rlly rlly hate his stance on kpop perception #like yes. foreign idols are rarer than domestic kr idols #yes many idols begin training early on #but jae rlly thinks hes super crazy special for being a and joining in #hes ethnically korean #just foreign born and raised #and ik bang chan is v different fm jae #but wow i rlly loved how chan worded his take on kpop and the perceived manufacturing in that interview w refinery29 (i think)#ily chan for that #didn't want this clouding my thoughts on jae

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Pray for the day when people would stop associating blonde hair with yt peepole. The correlation is not there, idk why Nicki is reaching so hard. Nicki is so quick to defend someone doing blackface then have the nerves to look an actual black woman in the face and say that she’s “jealous”

Nicki has always rubbed me the wrong way when it comes to being a Black woman and how she speaks about Black women. She has no problem calling them roaches, calling them “black bitch”, monkeys, the list goes on and on. It’s women empowerment until it’s a Black Woman that’s a shade darker than her.

I used to like Nicki growing up, been a huge fan of her my whole life but there comes a point when the artist and the person behind it just doesn’t align with who you are and that’s just how I feel about Nicki🤷🏾‍♀️

Wow....... i am so glad you sent this.

i definitely think there's this sense that, you know... barbs aren't in the wrong for defending/supporting nicki simply because they're barbs or whatever... and despite everything that's happened so far, im glad to know that this situation is helping us get to the point where we see that that kind of behavior is actually so unacceptable.

not that it was ever really expected or seen from her, but supporting, uplifting and listening to black women (such as leigh-anne, i think) is so... instrumental... and for someone as influential as nicki NOT to do that in an industry that already devalues black women anyway (and then marry a r*pist)... is weird and sad.

like... she literally works w/ these people and KNOWS this? i dont understand how she can praise urself for getting ahead as a black woman and then shit on others for doing the same? what???? white people have done nothing to benefit her and yet thats who she sided with?? SO WEIRDDDDDDD :/

ANYWAY, thank u for sending this, anon! this whole ask is honestly so articulate and i couldn't agree w/ u more, esp given that i want to highlight voices besides my own when it comes to... talking about a subject like this. i appreciate u <3

#let me know if im overstepping talking abt this #i feel sorta weird as a white girl to be criticizing a black woman for being racist but like #ur so right anon... she has been so mean to other black women and its like ????#she should be a success story... not someone who disses people exactly like her #its kinda ironic given that u know... male rappers get away with this all the time and yet she's not allowed to #but i want them to stop too so ... idk #nicki... quit while ur ahead #ask #anon #caitie chats #racism tw #rape tw #drama tw #nicki minaj tw

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Genshin Impact Visions & Gods

This has been bugging me since i started playing in mid november, but what makes a certain Archon give a Character their Vision. Considering i couldnt find any official info, I decided to do some research on each Archon and then on the player Characters we have of each element as of beginning of December 2020.

This will contain spoilers on characters & story!

Note: The travelers will not be included due to them not having Visions and having more then one Element.

I am basing this on overlaping themes and not on anything related to the actual Archon. I did add some info on the archons tho, due to this being about Visions and archons

“It is unclear whether Visions are directly granted by its element's corresponding Archon or by the nation's Archon. There is also the possibility that granting a Vision requires approval from both Archons. Yet another possibility is that they are granted by neither, and are instead given by the gods on Celestia.”

-Genshin Wiki on reciving Visions

Starting with my Favourite Element, Electro.

Electro wise, We have five Characters as of right now: Kequin, Razor, Beidou, Fishl and Lisa. The Electro Archon, God of Eternity, Baal, is the ruling Archon of the Area, Inazuma, whitch is the area we are getting in the 1.4 update in 2021.

To start off i read into any info i could find on Baal and i gotta say, she is a interesting Fellow. As of right now we know that Baal has locked Inazuma down and has initiated a Vision Hunt Decree, due to her thinking Visions should be under the sole domain of divinity. She also hasnt handed out any Visions since this decree which means all Electro characters we know have gotten theirs before this drastic change.

Now, why did these 5 characters get their Visions? Well each character has a different reason, from Razor wanting to protect those he calls friends to Lisa simpley saying it would be of use to her and just getting it. From what I've found there isnt really a big overlap in the reciving of the characters, but what is overlaping is their fixation on something.

Razor recived his vision due to him being fixated on getting stronger to protect his friends after he failed to while being dragged away by an abyss mage

Kequin was fixated on sharing her beliefs, that the people of Lyiue shouldnt rely on Rex Lapis and have their Pride and that their views are of Equal importance

Fishl was so fixated on a book series she changed herself to be like the main character, fishl and her Vision manifested in the form of Oz, one of the characters from said book

Beidou was fixated on killing Haishan, a sea monster, from a young age and recived her vision when she did so

Lisa is pretty much fixated on understanding magecraft and the cost of reciveing a Vision.

Now onto a easier Element, Geo

The Archon of Geo and Contracts, Morax, Archon of Lyiue.

Morax or Rex Lapis, was one of the oldest gods, defended Lyiue in the Archon war, the Currency in Teyvat, Mora, is named after him and as of Chp.1 Act 3 we know that he has taken the form of Zhongli and has retired as the Geo Archon.

Morax, Along with Barbatos, are the only two Archons of the Original Seven that havent been replaced.

Now, who are our Geo Characters? Noelle and Ningguang, two dedicated powerhouses! This one is fairly simple, thanks to voicelines we have of Zhongli since he came out as a player character (Bless the pity pull for giving me this man)

In his “About Ningguang” Voiceline he says: ”Despite the multitude of affairs she deals with in a day, Ningguang always continues to press on. A rare gem indeed. I'm reminded of the time that she used to walk barefoot from Yaoguang Shoal to the south wharf, trying to sell her wares as she went. Time is cruel to humans.”

Noelle recived her vision when Jean Acknowledged her hard work when she tried to get into the knights of favonius. in her “Vision” story it states: This was a lucky day that she would always remember, for she would receive recognition from two all-important sources this day: once from Jean, and the other from the gods. Her hard work has been remembered after all.

So for short: Hard working and dedicated = Geo Vision

Next up we have Anemo

Our wonderful Tone deaf bard, Venti or otherwise known as the Archon of Anemo and freedom, Barbatos, the not really ruling Archon of Mondstadt.

Barbatos is a freedom loving guy and refuses to rule over Mondstadt, the city of freedom and is by far the weakest of the Archons, despite this the people of Modstadt still love and adore their windy God.

I went into this one thinking “Oh this is easy, itll be love for freedom or something!” Nope, it surprisingly wasnt. Jean and sucerose recived their visions through their Determination it seems. Sucerose from doing her 159th Dandilion seed Simmering experiment and Jean seemed to be determened to be a good grandmaster and to protect Mondstadt.

That aside, i couldnt find many overlaps with the two, they are both free spirited and love what they do.

Now on to Pyro

Pyro, the Element of the Archon Murata who is also the god of War, is wielded by the fan fav Diluc, as well as Klee, Xiangling, Amber, Bennett and Xinyan.

Not much is known about Murata, Venti describes her as a “ wayward, warmongering wretch” and thats about all we know. She presides over Natlan.

Now to the characters, this was acually the easiest of them all: Passion.

Every Pyro user has a huge amount of passion that a rolemodel or Loved one ignited within them.

This one definitly surprised me the least and i am really excited for when we meet Murata and Natlan.

Diluc has the same passion his father had

Klee has a passion for Explosives that her mother ignited

Xiangling has a passion for food and cooking she got from her father

Amber got her Passion for Mondstadt and the outriders from her grandfather

Bennett got the Passion for adventure from all the old adventurers he calls dads, yes Dads as in plural, that raised him

Xinyan has a passion for Rock, tho i havent found out more of her story due to her being so new.

Now heading onto Hydro

Hydro, along with Dendro, is the only element where we do not know the name of the Archon. All we do know is that they are the Archon of Hydro and Justice and rule over Fontaine.

So straight to the Hydro characters: Barbara, Mona and Xingqiu.

I dont really count Childe due to the only thing talked about is his dilusion and i am rather confused on if he even has a real vision but i still love him lots

Im going to be honest this one really had me running the brain gears for a while.

All three recived their Vision as an extension of the self.

Barbara got hers after helping a sick boy by singing to him to help him sleep through a fever, Mona rekindeled a learning aid to her vision, to aid her with her search for the truth of the rules of the world and Xingqiu got his after he explained the principles of his clans martial arts anew, litterally saying that martial artists should see Visions as a extension of the self.

Last but definitly not least, Cryo

Cryo, the Element of the Archon know as the Tsaritsa. We acually dont know her corrisponding ideal nor her acual name and this one was just as geargrinding as Hydro.

The Tsaritsa, Ruler of the fatui and the one that gives them their Dilusions, is one interresting lady. We get a description of her from Childe: “Her Royal Highness the Tsaritsa is actually a gentle soul. Too gentle, in fact, and that's why she had to harden herself. Likewise, she declared war against the whole world only because she dreams of peace. Her gaze was cold but pure, arrogant yet sharp. She was not only the sacrosanct Cryo Archon but a true warrior also.”

Kaeya, Chongyun, Diona and Qiqi, our current four Cyro userer, all have rather interesting storys when it comes to how they got their Vision.

All dont accept something

Kaeya felt guilty about hiding who he was from the family that adopted him after his father abandoned him to be a spy in Mondstadt, and told Diluc, someone he used to be very close with, the truth, since then he sees his vision as a stern reminder that he must live his life under a heavy burden of Lies. He pretty much doesnt accept the truth of his situatin and would rather live with that heavy burden

Chonyun is surpressing a part of himself, the condition he has, and as Xiangling says in Chongyuns stories, is denying a part of him. He trys to work around his condition and wont accept it as the way to go about how he practices exocrism.

Diona wont accept the truth about her father being a Alcoholic, and places the blame on the Alcohol industy instead of accepting that he isnt as high and mighty as she thought. She wont accept that her fathers bad control over his drinking habits is the reason he acts as he does and instead blames the alcohol industry.

Qiqi didnt want to accept her death nor does she really accept her Zombie like traits and only uses them when she needs to defend herself.

My theory is the Cyro Visions are recevied when you wont accept the grim reality as it is, if this is positive or negative variates

When it comes to the last element, Dendro, we sadly know nothing nor have we seen any dendro character in action. So that might be a addition later on.

I’m really interrested if we find out the actual criteria for reciving each Vision one day

#genshin impact #genshin diluc #genshin theory #kaeya #diluc ragnvindr #zhongli #childe #genshin venti #genshin chongyun #this game is taking over my life

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Hospital for souls — Tokyo nights.

Rated: SFW

Author note: Man, this one took me ages to write. And I don't even know how I could write this much for the second chapter, this is about 3,2k words. I'm tired because I decided to change lots of things in this chapter and I hope you all like it. Also, feedbacks are much appreciated!

Warnings: This chapter contains cursing, swearing, graphic descriptions of blood, violence and surgical procedures (Kind of inaccurate but only for writting purposes. Don't do it at home, kids). Also, there are slight mentions of anxiety, OCD and PTSD.

Enjoy the reading!

II — Tokyo nights

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You felt anxious.

Everytime you walked through Itachiyama halls, the hairs in your nape would stand and your skin, prickle in fear; a bitter taste would take over your mouth because everything was too much.

"Look, you don't have to worry. Itachiyama wouldn't dare to lay a hand on you because it would mean war." The memory of Suna's voice did nothing to soothe your nerves.

You knew that Inarizaki did not care. If anything, Itachiyama harming you would be like killing two birds with a stone: the Miya would get rid of your existence and then, have a excuse to go after your husband. "They know the twins' intentions, you know. It's not like Sakusa is dumb. Being honest, the guy is the most cautious man I ever saw" you recalled Suna saying it in your wedding's eve.

But one month after the deal, you still felt suffocated.

You opted to lay low and don't wander around the house; Sakusa's men were still suspicious of you and kept sending nasty glares in your direction whenever they saw you.

Since you weren't allowed to work anymore, boredom was killing you. At least, the maids were nice enough — or just too afraid to go against the lady's will — and let you do as you pleased. You then took over some house chores to busy yourself.

Cleaning, tidying and baking.

Sometimes gardening when you needed some fresh air.

"What a shame for Oyabun-sama, his lady is lowering herself to the peasants' level" you would hear some gossip here and there. Not that you cared, though.

"Sakusa-sama" you heard the housekeeper calling, the new name still foreign to your ears.

"Kaede-san? Do you need something?" The old woman wearing a green hakama stood in front of you, accompanied by a girl with dark blond hair.

"This is Kuribayashi Runa, the new maid working here" she said presenting the young woman by her side. The latter politely bowed at you.

"New maid? Why?"

"I'm afraid it's not appropriated the lady take care of house chores. These are strict orders from Komori-sama" her tone was dry. Kaede was never hostile towards you, but you could tell she wasn't fond of your presence either. "Also, remember you're having lunch with oyabun-sama today"

You released a shaky breath, dismissing their presence.

Why yakuza was taking even the smallest things from you?

Prying to the clock on the nightstand, you realized it was past noon and the lunch hasn't been served yet. Sakusa didn't show up either.

After being destitute of your duties, you went for a shower and killed time by reading in your bedroom.

Did something happen? You wondered.

Punctuality was something very fancied in this household and everything inside the mansion functioned like clockwork.

But how come Sakusa didn't show up yet? Why the food isn't set?

"[Name]" The door to your bedroom was open without ceremony, Komori's voice sounding harsh when he called you. The look on his face wasn't amicable either. "Sakusa wants to see you. Now."

The brown haired male did not spare you another glance, turning his back to you. You followed the tall man in an auto-pilot mode, already dreading whatever was going on.

The Kobun was taking you to Sakusa's office.

The large doors always made you feel unsettled; you never were there before. Being called to this room sent shivers down your spine.

Komori knocked the door only to the faint voice of your husband acknowledge your presence. Getting in, you were stunned. The whole mansion held a modern architecture with a minimalist design, and this room was true to Itachiyama's style.

The walls were pristine white and the floorboards were dark and shiny. The furniture held the impersonal style your husband seemed to appreciate and was clean to the eyes. Everything millimetrically positioned, aesthetically appealing.

By the glass wall, Sakusa stood proud. His back facing you, body clad in a black suit. The way he admired the stunning land through the windows held a power you never saw before.

Right now, he looked like a god rulling his own creation.

"Komori, go" his stone cold voice ordered the other male. The kobun did as he was told, leaving you two in this sinister room.

"I don't know if you are too brave ou just too dumb" he didn't turn to face you. The cold tone boomed loud within your ears and you felt cornered.

Forget the god thing. The man in front of you was the demon himself.

"What do you mean?" You asked, brows furrowing when suddenly, his enraged features loomed over you, even from afar.

"Don't fucking play dumb. I've warned you to stay out of my way" his menacing stare made the breath hitch in your throat "Where is the fucking folder?"

"I don't know what are you talking about!" You meekly replied, seeing his body growing close to yours.

"Thats it. You have a death wish." He merely stated "You're the only enemy inside this fucking house"

Without knowing what was going on, you didn't stand a chance to defend yourself. You tried opening your mouth in protest but your brain didn't come up with anything.

"Listen. I don't have the time to play whatever game you and those brothers of yours are planning." Sakusa scowled "In the first opportunity, you get to screw up. Fascinating."

"I don't even know what you're talking about" the cry left your mouth and your body trembled. The man before you grimaced at your outburst. He let out an exasperated breath, still trying to keep his cool.

"Do you expect me to believe you? Fine, I'll play along, then" He sat at the imposing chair behind his desk "The manila folder that was on this desk was stolen. You're the only one inside this house who has reasons to take it."

"It wasn't me! I never entered this room before!" You retorted, anxiety crawling in your skin. He fished his cellphone from his pockets, reading whatever on his screen

"Can't be proven, though it looks like we didn't find anything in your stuff–"

"Wait! You fucking messed with my things?" You cut him off in rage, observing him reaching over for a flask on the wooden surface.

"Well, you messed with mine first." He said while rubbing some hand sanitizer on his palms.

You rolled your eyes at his antics.

"Whatever" and then turned to leave.

"Where are you going?" The sarcastic voice filled your ears, making your steps to halt "As much as I despise it, you won't be out of my sight anytime soon"

God, You trully hated it here.

It was nighttime and true to his words, neither Sakusa nor Komori left you alone for the whole day.

Their presence was unnerving, to say the least, and everytime they talked to each other, you body went stiff.

Their speech wasn't explicit as you thought it would be. Both of them treated the matter as if they were making normal business instead of some yakuza stuff.

It didn't sound violent.

But you knew better.

"Have Fukuroudani made contact yet?" The Oyabun asked.

"Yes. Konoha told me they will be waiting by eleven" Komori peered at his watch "One hour to go. We should get going, then"

Sakusa turned his attention to you.

"Go get changed. We're leaving in ten minutes."

You did as you were told; black would do, you decided. Grabbing a wool coat and a satin scarf, you were ready to go.

Why the hell Tokyo nights were so cold at this time of year?

In the living room, Sakusa and Komori were waiting for you.

"Man, bringing [Name] along will be a pain" the brown haired male said while stretching.

"The stolen docs were about this meeting. We gotta bring her along if Inarizaki tries to do something" The taller one reasoned.

"Ah shit, this is so fucked up. I dont know how you agreed to it" Komori lamented.

Being honest, neither Sakusa did.

"Why do I have to tag along?" Your voice startled them. Your husband scowled at you while Komori opened the front door, both males ignoring your question.

A sleek black car was waiting for you three. Komori took the driver seat and Sakusa sat on passenger's side. You found comfort in the beige leather of the backseat, appreciating the warmth provided by the air conditioned.

"Shouldn't we bring more men with us?" The Kobun asked.

"There's a back up car in downtown. They can reach us in no time if something comes up" Sakusa said while covering his face with a mask "Also, I doubt someone would dare to mess with both Fukurodani and Itachiyama" He spared a glance at you through the rearview mirror.

You sighed. Anxiety didn't let you be for the whole day and now, fear was taking its toll on you.

With your temple resting on the window, you observed the city lights.

You loved Tokyo and how bright it was, although, you loved the suburbs even more; the industrial aesthetic and the narrow streets brought you the comfort you didn't feel in the last three months.

You lived here for your whole life, after all.

It wasn't a surprise when you spotted the building you used to live in.

A surge of homesickness found its place in your guts and your chest constricted in longing.

The drive lasted five more minutes before Komori parked the car by a hangar. When you lived in this neighbourhood, the place was deem abandoned with its vandalized walls and rusty gates. But inside there, you found our the interior was really neat, proving you wrong.

"Sakusa-san, Komori-san!" A blonde male came into view, eyeing you with wariness. "I see you brought your lady tonight. It's a pleasure having you here, miss" the indifferent tone of his voice said otherwise, tough.

You merely noded at him while the heads of Itachiyama greeted the man.

"Shall we start, then?"The blond asked before opening a door to your right. You felt unsettled knowing they wouldn't want your presence there.

"As you wish, Konoha-san" was all Sakusa said while a woman appeared out of nowhere.

"I'm afraid your wife would be pretty bored in our meeting. Yukie here will keep her company for the time being." The man Konoha pointed at the brunette with short hair. Sakusa sent you a hard stare before entering the room.

You both sat on some wooden boxes filled with god knows what. You eyes wandered through the hole place, trying to find something entertaining.

The woman hadn't said anything for a whole eternity before breaking the silence.

"So, Miya-san, huh?" The way she said the damned name tickled you off.

"I'm no Miya"

"Yeah, I know. I've heard of you" Yukie chuckled, looking at you with despise. You cocked a brow ate her.

"Sure you did" She was about to retort before the door was open again.

"Well, it's always a pleasure to make business with Itachiyama. We will see you off, then" Konoha said before reaching for the exit.

It was long past midnight when the meeting ended. The five of you were by the gates, Konoha and Komori doing some chit-chat, when four people appeared out of nowhere, knives in their hands.

"Ara, ara. look at these yakuza big shots" A man with an undercut said, fidgeting with the blade between his fingers. In your periferic vision you saw Yukie running back to the hangar and the three men by your side reaching for the guns by their hips.

Among the other four, a figure seemed familiar to you.

"Kuribayashi Runa" The name left your lips in a whisper. The female let out a mocking laugh and Sakusa frowned at you.

"Explain" Your husband immediatelly demanded, grimacing.

"She is the new maid working in your house. Today was her first day." Runa scoffed at your reply.

"Do I look like a maid to you, bitch?" And then, everything went into slow motion.

The woman came in your direction, holding the knife high in the air whilst you stepped backwards, being cornered by the gate.

You saw the blade glinting under the street lights and saw it aiming for your chest.

But it never came.

A hand pushed you downwards and you fell to the ground along a clattering sound. Sakusa's shadow loomed over you, trying to evade the knife.

By your left, you saw Konoha and Komori fighting the other guys, their guns useless in a hand-to-hand fight.

The adrenaline rushed through your bloodstream, your mind going frantic. It felt like one of those life or death situations you faced in the surgery room.

How can I save someone's life right now?

You saw Sakusa's pistol laying on the ground next to you. He and the woman were a couple of inches from your body.

You knew what you had to do.

With your leg reaching forward, you made her trip. The knife she held was kicked away by your husband.

"Sakusa! Watch out for Komori!" And you threw the gun at him.

A second too late, the bang echoed and an agonizing scream ripped through the night.

By your left, Runa and two of the guys were already running away.

The man Komori fought collapsed to the ground clutching his leg and cursing under his breath.

But the most disturbing sight was the way Komori held his arm, whimpering and cursing while his right hand clutched the knife's handle.

The blade tore his flesh and crossed the limb right next to its joint, in a weird angle.

Yukie came back, carrying a rope and a pistol.

"I sent some of our men to their direction." She said while helping Konoha to restrain the guy who attacked you.

"What the fuck you guys want?" The blond asked before kicking the man in his guts. The latter spat blood, giving a crooked smile at Konoha.

"Johzenji is coming" Was all he said before passing out.

"Yukie, carry him to the basement." He ordered "Since it happened on our territory, we will be investigating the incident. We count with Itachiyama's cooperation and will keep you updated" Konoha bowed at Sakusa, before rushing back to the building.

Komori was still on his knees, head hanging low. A grunt went past his lips and you knew what he was doing.

"Komori! Don't!" But again your shout came too late and the man ripped the knife away from his limb. Blood rushed through his fingers and dampened the suit he wore. "Fuck" you rushed to his side, Sakusa's features going livid.

"We gotta take him to a hospital" you said.

"No!" Komori croaked out, getting a hold of your arm. You knew what he meant, but you also knew what could definetely happen if he ignored the situation.

Sakusa was frozen in front of you two, unsure of what to do. You took a deep breath, mustering up all the courage you had.

"You have to trust me, then" you held the brown haired male by his torso and gave Sakusa a determined glare.

The oyabun noded at you and it was all the assurance you needed before ripping out Komori's blazer and transforming your scarf into a tourniquet.

In your old apartment, you ushered the two males inside, taking them both to your kitchen.

Sakusa sat the Kobun in a chair while you went to another room. A minute later, you brought two metallic cases, some flasks and a first aid box.

In the cupboards you took a flask of alcohol and squeezed it to the table, wipping it with some gauzes.

Positioning Komori's arm over the wooden surface, you sterilized his wounds with povidone and then turned your attention to Sakusa.

"I'll start it now" before proceeding to the sink. Sakusa admired the movements you made while washing your hands "I need you to do the same" and he complied.

The male helped you to put the gloves and mask on and to set your instruments over the table.

Looking at Komori, you realized he passed out in spite of the pain. The blood loss wasn't huge, but you did not knew why he fell unconcious.

You prepared two syringes of anesthesics. Sakusa sent you a weird glare, brows furrowing at you.

"Don't look at me like this. I'm a surgeon you know" and then you did the infusion. "Its not that weird if I have some hospital shit at home".

You opened the cut with a scalpel. Scrutinizing at the wound, you saw the artery was hit.

"Thank god." You let out a breath of relief, realizing the damage was little. It didn't need an anastomosis, so some stiches would do. "The ulnar artery was hit but it won't be too hard to fix. Although, I can't tell if there's a nerve damage" and you started to close the vessel's lesion.

You observed if there was any muscle or tendon damages and proceeded to suture the gashes, making sure the procedure was well done. You then patched it up and imobilized the limb with a makeshift splint, before undoning the tourniquet.

"Let's take him to my bedroom" With that, you both carried the unconcious man to your bed. "I need to check him overnight and– Shit! Your face!" It was just now you realized he had a gash on his cheek.

Sakusa flinched, feeling the blood drying over his skin and dampening the mask he used. He removed the cloth and observed the cut with the front camera of his phone. He frowned at the sight.

"It can get an infection and leave a nasty scar. Do you want me to patch it up?" You offered after checking Komori's blood pressure and his heartbeat.

A please left his lips in a whisper.

You both went back to the kitchen and you used a new set of tools. Holding his face between your gloved hands, you admired his facial features.

Sakusa was pretty.

Almost ethereal with his thin nose, almond eyes and thick brows. In addition, te two moles on his forehead complimented his beauty.

You snapped out of your reverie, getting to work.

"Finished. This kind of suture won't leave a visible scar" you said cutting the thread and reinforcing the stitch with tape.

Your finger lingered a bit longer on the apple of his cheek. Sakusa grabbed your hand and held it for a while before getting away from you and settling himself on your couch. You ignored the ghost of his touch on your skin and went back to check on Komori.

That night, Sakusa realized that no one ever handled him with such care, as if he was made of fine china.

I like that touch, he decided.

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