#i thought id be fine with 90. I NEEDED AT LEAST 100

[sapphire-weapon]

I think in general people expect too much from the movies. They aren't supposed to be box office sell outs that make it to the Oscars. In short, "hey, of you're a fan, here's some extra story to play around with" is the goal in my eyes and mostly always has been. I enjoyed DI because I went in expecting a trash fire. The fact thought went into the villain and each main character got their small moment was enough to make it really good. That's it, that's my review, it's fun to watch and that makes it my favourite CGI work.

Even the Rotten Tomatoes reviews for CGI works are a total mess (not that I treat RT as a quality bible, but my point still stands). I mean ffs, Degeneration rates higher than both Vendetta and ID. That's absurd. Even Damnation cane out at 100%. I mean... Damnation's fine but it isn't that good, lmao! If I wasn't a fan of the games, it would've been turned off in five minutes.

In short, RE has never been a meticulously written masterpiece. It's a horror game (... mostly) that often depends on cheesy outdated tropes to move the story along, that's just how the franchise is for the most part. Yes, it can be argued that they're now slowly trying to redo that aspect, but the OG timeline... isn't good. It's enjoyable and fun to analyse and make fun of, but it isn't GOOD. I think recognising that and not expecting a genre changing, award winning writing is a necessary part of allowing oneself to enjoy it.

I like Claire and Jill, I also have to accept that they don't have as much effort put into them as their male co-characters (?). I like Ashley and Ada, I have to accept that they depend on a LOT of really sexist stereotypes. I like Chris and Leon, I have to accept that both (OG at least) are a 90's male-power-fantasy cringefest. Leons clothing choices in Vendetta and Damnation are massive icks by themselves (lol).

DUDE LEON'S DAMNATION OUTFIT LMAO

damnation was the first time i looked at leon and was like "dude you really need a girlfriend, i can't even trust you to dress yourself anymore"

like

every part of it is bad

EVERY SINGLE PART OF IT

THERE'S NOT A SINGLE PART THAT'S EVEN SLIGHTLY OK

his DI look is pretty bad, too. he literally looks like he just rolled out of bed and didn't bother to change his shirt and threw on a pair of jeans

like can we PLEASE get this man a girlfriend he clearly can't take care of himself

sorry i know that wasn't the point of the ask but

LMAO

i think that people expect too much from the OG timeline in general. if you come into the series from remake, i have no idea how the fuck you start digging through OG and don't immediately go "wow fuck this canon i'll just wait for the next new one"

especially if you're a leon fan, like

OG leon and Remake leon are so different

like at their core they're not, but their outward personalities super are

and OG leon is kind of an obnoxious fuckboy

[whatyouandihave-makesmefree]

How to say “I love you” without actually saying it - or 137 Milkovichy ways to say “I fuckin’ love Ian Clayton Gallagher”.

1. Kiss me, and I’ll cut your fucking tongue out.

2. I’ll meet you there in 20.

3. You say that again, I’ll rip your tongue out of your head.

4. Take your hand off the glass.

5. You wanna chit chat more or you wanna get on me?

6. Fuckin’ tough guy, huh?

7. Jesus Christ, you want us to spread a blanket out and look for shooting stars next?

8. Sorry, I gotta go kill your dad, but I’m doing a lot of people a favor, including you.

9. -I missed you-  You did?  -Yeah, man.-

10. So, uh, what you going down for, then, huh?

11. Don’t know what you see in that geriatric viagroid.

12. -You fuck anyone in there yet?-  God, no.  -Wise choice.-

13. Hey, my dad took my brothers on a run out of town for a couple days, so you wanna ditch that dump and crash at my place, you can.

14. Fuck you, is what you were invited to.

15. What are you hoping, I tell you not to go? I’m gonna chase after you like some bitch?

16. -Don’t.-  Don’t what?  -Just…-

17. -You seen him?-  Why do you care?  -Don’t.-

18. You heard from Gallagher?

19. Not fucking Frank. The other one, the redhead.

20. I like fucking carrot-tops, like, with the freckles and the pale skin and fucking alien-looking.

21. He in trouble? What kind of trouble?

22. You wearing cologne?  -No. It’s Kenyatta’s perfume soap shit.-

23. I gotta take care of something important.

24. No, I’m not having fun. I spent the whole day looking for your coked-out ass.

25. You coming back?

26. I’ll do it.

27. Those fingers go anywhere near that cock, I’m gonna break every knuckle in your hand, all 15 of them.

28. Together.

29. That all you think he is? Some twink?

30. Probably best if you don’t, tough guy.

31. Of course we are.

32. You want me to go?  -No, I don’t want you to go.-

33. I’m not lying to you.

34. Ian, what you and I have makes me free, not what these assholes know.

35. Well, good. Leave. What the hell do I care, bitch? Fuck.

36. Hey! Excuse me! Can I get everybody’s attention, please? I just want everybody here to know I’m fucking gay. A big old ‘mo. I just thought everybody should know that. You happy now?

37. Fuck you! Don’t worry about it! I’ve been staying at Ian’s since you’ve been in the can, bitch! Guess what we’ve been doing, daddy! We’ve been fucking! And I take it! He gives it to me good and hard, and I fucking like it.

38. You’re a fucking dick. Yeah, there. That’s what you get.

39. You love him?  -Maybe. I don’t know.-  Because he has a real penis?  -Yeah, I guess.-

40. Rise and fucking shine, Cinderella.

41. Yo, sleepy-face.

42. Hey, you okay? Feeling sick or something?

43. All right, you want me to bring you back something to eat?

44. Ian, are you high? You take something?

45. Fuck’s wrong with him?

46. Before, he was fine. He was happy. He’s staying up all hours of the night, dancing, telling fucking jokes. He kicks my ass every day. I can’t keep up with him.

47. No, no, look. He– he’s low… We cheer him up.

48. What do you mean, hos– Like a psych ward? No fucking way! No fucking way! He’s staying here.

49. I can– I can take care of him. Okay? Let me take care of him until he’s better.

50. Don’t fucking tell me what’s impossible! We’re taking care of him here. You, me, us. His fucking family.

51. He’s not going to some fucking nut house. You hear me? He stays here. He’s staying with me.

52. I’ll be there.  -Better be.-

53. All right. I guess I’m going with you.

54. She’ll send him to a fucking shrink. No. We fix this ourselves.

55. I came out for you, you piece of shit.

56. What’s your type?  -Redhead.-  I am downstairs.  -Batshit crazy.-  Check.  -Packing 9 inches.-

57. I got to take you to a hospital, Ian.

58. I’m worried about you.

59. His partner. Lover? Family? You know?

60. At least he’ll be getting some kind of fucking help.

61. Relationship to the patient?  -Sister.-   -You?-  -Uh, boyfriend.-

62. Hey. Sorry I’m late.

63. We gotta get you to a fucking clinic. Get some meds. Today.

64. Hey, it’s okay. It’s all right.

65. He’s not a fucking lab rat.

66. He’s got me.

67. Hey, Ian’s sleeping in there.

68. All right, breakfast of champs. We got your mood stabilizer, anti-psychotic, anti-depressant. Gatorade.

69. Shut the fuck up. Take the pills, bitch.

70. Hey, no caffeine on your meds.

71. Eat it. Take all those pills on an empty stomach and you’re going to have diarrhea real bad.

72. I didn’t know which Bs to get, so I just got all the fucking Bs. I got B-complex, super B-complex, B-12, B-6.

73. The hell happened to your hand?

74. Did a doctor take care of that?

75. You can’t go anywhere unless you get that looked at, man.

76. Your hand, man.

77. No, no. Look, you’re not supposed to drink on lithium. It makes your blood fucking toxic, and it gets you hammered in like two seconds flat. You can’t-

78. You look like a fucking wet rat.

79. We’re going on a date.  -Fuck, yes, we are.-

80. Where the fuck are you?

81. Where the fuck you been? 

82. You okay?

83. It means we take care of each other.

84. It means thick and thin, good times, bad, sickness, health, all that shit.

85. You look good.

86. Got a new tattoo. Did it myself. Hurt like a son of a bitch.

87. Been thinking about you. You ever think of me? Gonna wait for me?

88. Will you? Wait?

89. You like the high school bleachers? Our spot, man.

90. Look, I’m, um I’m getting some new IDs, some cash, and heading to Mexico.-  Wow.  -You should come.-

91. Thought a lot about you inside. You’re under my skin, man. The fuck can I do? Hmm? Can I do?

92. Knew you’d come. 

93. Come here.

94. I’m gonna see you again?

95. The fuck you looking at?

96. It’s what kept me going in the joint. The beach. Us.

97. Oh, check it out. Ian Gallagher putting his big boy pants on!

98. You never fucking visited me.

99. What am I leaving behind? My family? Who cares I never see those shitheads again. You had my back more than they ever did.

100. You ever think about me? When I was in the joint?

101. Fuck, I missed you.

102. What the fuck is that? I don’t want your fucking money! I want you to come with– me.

103. Don’t do this.

104. Fuck you, Gallagher.

105. I rolled on the cartel I was working for, and in exchange, guess who gets to pick where he gets locked up?

106. No, I just did it ‘cause it was the right thing.

107. Would you be fucking happy?  -Yes, fuck, yes!-

108. I guess I need some advice. It’s about my partner, Ian.

109. You’re not throwing your fuckin’ parole for me. We need to get you the hell outta this shit-hole.

110. You don’t belong in here, Gallagher.

111. I shouldn’t have asked you to stay.

112. FaceTime your brother. See the baby.

113. You seen Ian?

114. About time, man. Your Panda Express is getting cold.

115. Eat your Szechuan beans.

116. Chill your fucking tits and eat your noodles, man.

117. Let’s get out of here, get some Pinkberry.

118. No. No. I’m not running. I need to protect him.

119. Jesus Christ. You proposing to me over fucking patty melts?

120. Fuck it. I do.

121. When you know, you know. You know?

122. No, just saying you don’t love me enough now. And that’s fine. It’s cool.

123. Jesus Christ, save the fucking speech, you pussy. I’ll marry you. Of course I’ll fucking marry you.

124. You must really love cock.  -I definitely love one.-

125. You ever try to get me to move to Milwaukee, I’ll fuckin’ murder you.

126. Hey, I like the blue ones.  -Yeah?- 

127. You sure you still wanna go through with this?  -Yes. Why?-

128. You’re a sneaky bastard.

129. -Take your meds?-  Yes.  -Good.-

130. The son of a bitch is never gonna let me be happy. He needs to die today.

131. Well, there’s plenty of strays wandering around the neighborhood. I’m sure we can pick one up for cheap.

132. Yeah, well, at least I don’t have to hide in a coffin till the sun goes down.

133. Damn straight, Gallagher.

134. I, Mikhailo, take you, Ian, to be my husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health,  to love and to cherish you till death do us part.

135. Good morning, Mr - Millagher?

136. You hungry?

137. You wanna go again?  -Absolutely.-

#ok i'm pretty sure this was legit #sorry yall #i had to #i know you're definitely gonna read all through this #even though yall know every word by heart #we deserve this #shameless #shamelessus #gallavich #gallahitched #gallavich wedding #ian x mickey #mr gallavich #mr millagher #shameless 10x12 #Ian Gallagher #mickey milkovich #Shameless season 1 to 10

[backwheniruledtheworld]

he wraps his arms around me. i'm surprised but not resisting. i should resist. if he holds me any longer I might just melt. but I can't. he will be gone in a few days and he will not be back anytime soon and I can't, no, I won't, fall for him.

he is just being playful, as he always is. this means nothing to him and nothing to me. he laughs as one of the other boys makes a joke about something dumb and I can't help but laugh along with him. i laugh not because the joke is funny but because i can't help but laugh when he laughs.

he is still holding me, he's held me before and it's never meant anything. it's normal. except that this time i don't want it to be a playful hug. I want him to hold me so tight that he leaves an impression when he lets go. I want him to make me ache for air and I want him to know that he makes me breathless.

he lets go.

"anyway, you wanna go to my place? got a new foosball table yesterday. could be fun," luke says to no one in particular.

the others grunt in reply.

"you coming with us?" asks michael. I'm still thinking about him from a few minutes ago. I want to go back to then. I want to go through the same thing, same feelings, again.

"sure" i mumble abruptly.

he doesn't sit next to me in the car. I'm in between calum and ashton and he's in the front with luke. they make pleasant conversation with me for a few minutes and then we reach luke's place. they spill out of the car before I can even register where we are. everyone except michael walks towards luke's front door the minute they get out of the car. michael waits for me.

he takes my hand in his. it's casual. he swings it up and down in an exaggerated motion. he is quiet.

inside, they crowd around the table taking turns playing. i watch and laugh when one of them makes a joke. but I'm not really listening. i'm looking at michael. he's wearing a red t shirt and his arms look extraordinarily defined in it. his hair is messy and his cheeks a little flushed. the way he moves is so exquisite. he's so manly and at the same time.. gracious. he catches me staring and grins. I grin back.

"you look bored. wanna go outside?" he says to me, coming closer so that only I can hear.

"sure"

we walk outside. the air is just cool enough to feel comfortable without needing a jacket. my hand is in his again. this time he laces his fingers through mine and with his other hand bounces his fingers off the tips of mine. neither of us says anything but the silence isn't awkward. i think.

"oh hey what do you want from china?" he asks suddenly, referring to his first tour stop. i look at my feet, I was hoping he wouldn't mention it so that I wouldn't be reminded that he's leaving.

"you don't have to get me anything. just come back in one piece" i joke. it's not that funny but he laughs anyway.

"you're gonna miss me aren't you" he says smirking as he looks ahead.

"yeah" I mumble and I'm not sure if he hears.

we find a tree and sit under it. his arm is pressed against mine, fingers still in mine.

"i think I'm gonna miss you" he says softly, as if saying out loud what he's thinking.

"you think?" i say, pretending to be more offended than I actually am.

he chuckles but says nothing in reply. i wish I could read his mind. i wish I knew, in moments like these, what he really meant.

"i'm gonna miss you babe" he says after a few moments. if I could, i'd replay that one sentence for the rest of my life. babe. i'm his babe.

"call me that again" i whisper.

"babe?"

"babe"

"okay babe" he stresses on the word like he knows exactly what I'm thinking.

"you've never called me that" i say almost defensively.

"you've never called me that either" he retorts, playfully.

i want to say, i didn't know if I could. I still don't know if I can. I don't know if we're going to become a thing or not and I don't know how to ask you if we are. I don't want to ask you because I don't want you to say something I don't want to hear and I don't want to not ask you because I'm so very curious. aren't you? you should be too.

instead I say, "yeah I guess"

his phone buzzes and he pulls it out of his pocket. through the corner of my eye I see him skim through at least ten messages in a few seconds. i wonder if that's how he reads my texts too.

i can't see who he is texting.

i shift my focus to the contact at the top of the phone. the name starts with an r.

so not one of the boys then.

r.

i see a y.

ry? someone called ryan maybe? and then he tilts his phone a little too much in my direction and I see it.

rylee.

he chuckles as he sends her a text in reply. she texts back almost immediately. i can't read much and i don't want to, at this point.

don't freak out, i tell myself. you have no idea who she is. she could be a cousin or something, for all you know.

he continues texting her without looking up from his phone. his fingers are no longer in mine. i pretend to cough to get his attention. he looks up abruptly,

"oh shit sorry"

"forget I was here?" i say jokingly, i want him to think it doesn't matter to me. but i know that he knows it does; he looks at me for a second too long and gives it away.

he gets up and pulls me along with him. he lets go of my hand when we walk back to luke's.

just before we go back in, he pushes me against the front door and looks me right in the eye, standing a few inches in front of me. he lifts my chin up and uses the same hand to go to my head and play with a few strands of hair. i stare back, unable to move or make a sound. i want to kiss him. but I don't know if he wants me to. i don't know him at all. but he knows me completely.

i hate this.

we've never kissed before. we've never even been this close before. i don't know what he wants or why he's suddenly being like this. and who the fuck is rylee? if I ask him, there's a 90% chance he'll say "oh she's just this girl i'm seeing" and i'll say, "then what the fuck am i?" and he will say the dreaded words; you're my friend.

i place my hands on his chest and deliberate for a moment before I push him away. he is surprised but doesn't resist.

"you okay?" he says.

"fine" i reply, trying to smile, "we should go in"

he calls me at 11:20pm,

"hey, i don't know what happened today but I hope we're okay. i'm sorry if i did something..i don't know."

i don't say anything for a minute and he asks me if im still there,

"yeah sorry. hey can i come over? we need to talk" the words come out of my mouth before i can think them through.

"oh..okay. sure" he sounds confused but also like he couldn't care less. let me read your mind michael. let me dissolve in your words and become one with you.

I pick up my car keys but on second thought, decide id rather walk. we don't live near each other but id walk a hundred miles for him. the air is cold now. the roads, empty and then not empty. empty and not empty. they remind me of myself.

I knock on his door. he opens it a little too quickly and motions for me to come in. i sit on the couch and he sits on the other end. he has a beer in his hand and he doesn't offer me any.

"what did you wanna talk about?" he finally says.

"yeah..so um" i say slowly. i don't know what I was thinking when i asked to come here. i am not ready to have this conversation. leave. leave. leave. leave you stupid bitch. just make an excuse and leave.

"i'm kinda tired" i choke out and i immediately cringe at how fake that's sounds. i know he knows i'm lying. i'm never too tired for him.

"are you..okay?" is all he says.

i nod quickly and get up to leave.

"wait" he says, still sitting down. "wait. come here" he pats his lap.

i turn slowly and sit close to him. he puts his hands on my hips and lifts me up and places me on him; my legs around his body, his hands around mine. i'm happy i'm confused i'm relieved i'm upset i'm starting to forget about everything else in this world and i'm still confused.

he doesn't say anything.

"michael.." i whisper.

"can i kiss you?" he whispers back.

happy confused relieved upset.

"kiss me"

so he does. and it feels good. it's just a kiss. i've had a million. it last for a few seconds. but it feels good because it's michael. and in that moment he is all I can think of. not myself, not rylee, no one. michael, michael, michael.

a/n: this post was 100% inspired by @currentlyupcalsass 's recent to please go check it out!!

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[possibilistfanfiction]

sutton and a trans guy, please i'm begging you! my crops would flourish, my skin would clear

[henny we all need hydration & july is no time for acne so here u go]

//

kat has to cover the new wowfull selections and truly the only reason you both decide to go instead of sending one of her interns is because there are very few things jane hates more than smorgasburg.

‘no,’ she says, about forty times, before kat offers to buy her whatever she wants on scarlet’s card and finally jane relents. 

you get there together, all crammed into what is probably the world’s tiniest via, you think, with kat essentially on adena’s lap in the back and you had let jane have the front seat because she was already grumpy. it’s so hot already and you didn’t even bother wearing makeup because it’s a sunday at noon in the middle of july and kat had made you all get out of bed so she can eat waffles from the most pretentious food truck gathering ever, so it’s truly not worth it on so many levels.

the bouncer checks your IDs and kat gets you three glasses of rose before handing you both $50, which shuts jane up momentarily.

‘i’m gonna go find somewhere to sit with adena,’ she says, and you kind of envy her right now, because she has wine and the best pair of vintage denim shorts you’ve ever seen, dramatic sunglasses and beat up sneakers. also, a beautiful girlfriend who is in a skirt that flows with the breeze in lines that oliver would love, who holds kat’s hand and you see them laughing and it’s wild, you think, how easily in love they are.

you and jane both kind of watch them walk away, a little dazed, and then she turns to you.

‘i literally hate this so much but we have $100 to spend on food so, shall we?’

she offers the crook of her elbow and you grin and you end up getting poke tacos, bahn mi, japanese street ice, green chile frito pie, and a vegan burger to share before you grab another glass of wine. kat drops you a pin and you find her and adena lounging on a blanket in the shade, thank god.

kat raises her brows at all of the food you have and you shrug. ‘you gave us the money.’

she grins and proceeds to instagram the entire spread before taking a bite of everything, which even jane laughs at.

‘kat, are you gonna get anything?’ 

‘yeah,’ she says, waves a hand around vaguely. ‘adena and i had breakfast before we came though so i’m not that hungry yet.’

jane literally spits out part of her taco to frown completely and you want to laugh because you love her so much and it’s so unnecessary but you’ll let her have it.

‘so you’re saying you dragged us to this crowded, hot, bougie food truck hell and you don’t even want to eat anything?’

‘uh, no,’ kat says. ‘i gave you $100 to eat anything you wanted and eventually i have to eat the new wowfull.’

jane groans and lies down against the blanket dramatically and adena smiles into kat’s shoulder.

‘love you so much, tiny jane,’ kat says.

//

eventually kat really does have to try the wowfull, which she proceeds to say like seven times and you’ve had three glasses of wine in like 90 degree heat so you are both decently day drunk and the word keeps making you laugh harder every time. the line is insane but at this point you’re so fucking full and apparently kat is still good to go because you’re waiting patiently, not really bothered, and jane is chatting with adena about, you don’t really know?, but something to do with memoir and sexuality in iran—honestly it’s a little shitty that you’d tuned them out and kat had too because she was just staring at adena’s boobs for a hot few minutes before you’d dragged her to finally do what you set out to in the first place.

you’re talking to her and she’s turning back, to check on adena and jane, probably, and you really aren’t saying anything that interesting so when kat breaks out in a huge grin you’re a little confused until a guy two people behind you in line spots her as well and smiles, just as big.

‘jayden, oh my god,’ she says, stepping out of the line to give him a big hug.

‘kat,’ he says, clearly excited, ‘hi!’

she steps back and looks him over and wow, okay, he’s super cute, you can see that, with skin a few shades darker than kat’s, perfect arms, an incredible smile, dimples, and, listen, you’re drunk but you have good taste no matter what.

‘you look incredible,’ she says, and then tugs him up two spots to where you still are standing in line.

‘jayden,’ she says, with a shit eating grin and you know what that means, but honestly you are not going to complain today, ‘this is sutton.’

‘nice to meet you, sutton,’ he says, shakes your hand.

‘nice to meet you too.’

‘hey,’ kat says, glancing around. ‘are you here with anyone?’

he shakes his head no. ‘i was on a run and then i got hungry, figured since i was already in the park i’d stop by.’

‘ew,’ kat says. ‘running.’

he laughs and you really think that maybe kat has like a magnet for attractive people, yourself included, because. wow.

‘so,’ you say, ‘how do you two know each other?’

‘oh,’ kat says, in the way that you know she’s trying to downplay one thing or another, ‘we went to yale together.’

‘two of three black people in our communications program,’ jayden says, and they high five.

‘that’s awesome,’ you say, and kat nods but jayden shrugs. humble, a good quality. 

‘what are you doing in the city?’ kat asks, completely ignoring the menu even though you’re like three people away from ordering, but whatever, you can wing it. 

‘i just moved to park slope,’ he says. ‘i’m doing PR for an lgbtq youth outreach program for the center.’

okay, so, he’s a good person. kat looks at you like she knows you literally thought just that, puts her arm around his shoulders. ‘always the better of the two of us.’

‘no way,’ he says, and you love seeing your friend like this, honestly. you also love seeing her friend just exist so you’re so content. ‘from what i know from your social, you are department head and you also have a very, very pretty girlfriend.’

kat nods modestly. ‘true. on both accounts.’

jayden hip checks her and kat shoves him, gently but she’s also drunk and you send an apologetic smile to the white dude behind her in a cutoff poncho and tevas, the absolute worst.

‘so,’ jayden says, drifting closer to you, ‘how do you know the illustrious katherine edison?’

you smile because kat hates her full name and she turns away with a huff to finally look at the menu, which is probably good because she actually has to order in like, four seconds. ‘we met as interns at scarlet four years ago.’

‘sutton,’ kat says over her shoulder, ‘is in the fashion department. fucking killer.’

jayden smiles when kat sighs and orders all six wowfulls on the menu because she can’t remember what she was actually supposed to review, and she waves him off when he tries to order too.

‘i just paid for, like, ten thousand calories. at least you can help us eat a few.’

jayden shrugs and you both ignore kat for a few moments while she tries to figure out how to carry all six wowfulls back to your blanket without spilling all of them and finally you both take pity on her and grab two each. she rolls her eyes and strides off in front of you and you both laugh.

jayden is cute as shit and jane has apparently seen this development and offers the two of you more wine, which she’d picked up while you were in line. 

‘thanks,’ jayden says, sitting down between you and kat. he introduces himself politely, shakes jane’s hand, and then laughs at kat’s blush when she introduces adena.

adena is thrilled to hear a few stories about kat in undergrad, how she threw up in a freshman sociology class because she and jayden had been to a party the night before and kat had never had vodka before; the time they went to harvard and tried to join a secret society to find out more about them; her apparently very intense and strict nap schedule her senior year.

kat rolls her eyes and tries to argue but you know it’s mostly for show, because she’s happy and taking pictures of all of you eating these insanely decadent desserts and adena feeds her a spoonful of ice cream and you and jane share an eye roll before you notice jayden doing the same and honestly, he’s in at that point. he’s really in when he gets kat and adena to agree to speak at an upcoming event for his youth center, something to do with intersectionality and creativity in the workplace, which like they really are both perfect for. 

kat is a very professional person, really, and lowkey a workaholic, and you know this, but sometimes—'i need to go for a walk,’ she groans, lying back on the blanket dramatically. ‘i’m. so full.’

‘fair,’ jane says, gets up and you help her throw away all of your collective trash. it’s hot as hell but the park is pretty shady at this point, but once you get out of the designated food truck area kat smirks at adena and then takes off her shirt.

apparently today was a day for kat to not wear a bra and you have literally seen her boobs more times than you can count, as has jane, and definitely adena, but her girlfriend still blushes and you roll your eyes again.

you pause because kat now wants adena to put sunscreen on her back, apparently, and when adena kisses behind kat’s ear jane says, ‘this isn’t a porn film,’ and kat laughs, loud and full and you love both of them for those exact reasons.

‘fine, fine,’ she says, accepts it and puts the sunscreen away, links her fingers with adena again.

you’re too busy being a little jealous of them to notice that jayden has taken his shirt off too but when you look over at him, to ask him something about his work or his apartment or his neighborhood, you have to swallow because, okay, abs. jane squeezes your hand and you have to fight a strangled laugh and kat and adena are off in their own fucking world a few feet ahead of you.

you don’t even notice the scars on jayden’s chest until you do, and, okay, you can do this. you know lots of trans people, you fitted a bunch of trans men for a fashion spread just last month, so everything clicks into place pretty quickly but you’re still staring and you don’t really know what to do because you’re kind of drunk and the last thing you want to do is be shitty to this dude that you think is honestly super banging—but then jane, perfect tiny jane, says, ‘wow, your abs are just. wow.’

he laughs and you laugh and you maybe have never loved another person more in the world than you love her right now. kat turns around momentarily and grins at jayden, genuinely delighted, and then winks at you.

i hate you, you mouth, and she only smiles bigger and turns forward, kisses her girlfriend’s cheek.

//

you all end up sitting near a fountain and kat falls asleep while adena plays with her hair, so then adena starts photographing her, and everything around you.

jayden is smart and funny and really, incredibly caring, and jane makes an excuse to go find the bathroom but you know she went after your second glass of wine so she doesn’t really have to go.

‘i’m glad i ran into kat,’ jayden says, and it’s sincere, for sure.

‘me too.’

he smiles, hands you his phone. ‘she’s great, but i also am very glad i got to meet you.’

and, like, you’re going to have to navigate some things, sure, but he’s fucking hot and also very kind and kat seems to love him and he’s already commiserated with jane on like eight complaints so.

you’re sutton brady, and no one is better with people than you.

‘i’m very glad i got to meet you too,’ you say, finishing your contact information. you call yourself from his phone and he smiles and you save his number.

kat wakes up because adena legitimately has to pee and jane comes back with waters for everyone—an actual angel—and you spend another hour sweating it out with your friends, and a boy you like, and you’re day drunk and exhausted by the end of it, very happy.

kat gives jayden a big hug before she and adena get into a via to head back to soho, and jane tries to shake his hand but he laughs and gives her a hug instead.

you stand on your tip toes and kiss his cheek and he glances down, a little shy, but with a smile when he looks back up at you.

‘i’ll text you,’ you say.

‘i look forward to it.’

he jogs away with a wave and jane’s face is a human version of the smirk emoji and you let out a deep breath.

‘yeah,’ she says.

‘fuck yah,’ you say.

//

the next evening you lie down next to jane in bed; you and jayden had been texting all day and you really, really like him and really, really do not want to mess this up.

‘hey babe,’ jane says, pausing whatever intense and probably boring documentary she’s watching and setting aside her computer. ‘what’s up?’

‘can you direct me,’ you say, because jane is the best and has probably researched literally everything, ‘to resources on how to not be a shitty cis partner to a trans person?’

jane grins, opens her computer to an actual, honest to god google doc, and scrolls through it.

‘i started compiling it this morning,’ she says. 

‘oh my god.’

she shares it with your email with a triumphant click. ‘i thought you’d never ask.’

you gesture to the computer. ‘you definitely thought i’d ask.’

she nods. ‘that’s true, because you’re an amazing person.’

‘i don’t think this is amazing, just, like, decent?’

‘you’re right.’ she shrugs. ‘you are amazing, though. just, you know, read and listen to some of this stuff, it’s a good baseline, and then ask him if you’re unsure about anything.’

‘yeah,’ you say. you’re both quiet for a minute and then you smile.

‘he’s so fucking cute.’

‘oh my god,’ jane says. ‘where do i even start?’

//

you’re resting your head on his chest in bed and he kisses the top of your head and then says, ‘you know kat will literally brag about this every single moment, the fact that two of her friends are together and she set us up.’

‘oh,’ you say, looking up so you can see his eyes, ‘so we’re together?’

he looks legitimately nervous and it’s endearing. ‘i—thought so?’

you roll your eyes and kiss him. ‘you’ve been my boyfriend for a hot minute already, don’t worry.’

he tilts his head back. ‘you’re an ass sometimes, you know that?’

‘i’ve been best friends with kat for five years. i have to be.’

jayden laughs and agrees and you prop yourself up on your elbows and kiss him, because kat and adena are always late for brunch, so you definitely have time.

#kadena fic #possibilist #i mean ok kadena is in it for sure but like #sutton brady #the star of the SHOW #jane sloan #also the star of the show tbqh #olivia !!!! #honestly listen i has to go to dumbass smorgasberg today #the fucking wowfull line i stg

[evakuality]

So it’s meta Monday again, and here I am finally with this clip analysis.  Please, if you want to play along and give me something to talk about, then hop over to my asks and give me some ideas.  Otherwise, it’ll be another of these next week :)

Episode number and name: Two. Du er over 18, sant?

Clip number and name: Five.  Mekke øl

My thoughts/analysis:  Not only is this a long clip, it’s also one in which a lot happens.  And is, understandably, a favorite for many people including me.  So I apologize in advance for this thing being roughly a million words longer than it probably needs to be.  It’s also very very hard to say anything new about this clip.  It’s been analyzed to death, but I’d never forgive myself if I missed it.  So bear in mind there’s not much new here; this is just my version of a long running love affair with this clip.  

It starts after school on a Friday with what are fairly typical joyous shots of people really happy that they don’t have school again for a couple of days (I empathize -- I may not be a student but I too would like to dance in the streets when school’s over for a week).  And into this, of course, come our boys.  Magnus is showing himself to be someone who wants to learn and do better, and yet is still a bit of an idiot.  He’s taken on board that guys should go down on chicks, and has decided he’s going to do it himself.  Just exactly how he’s going to do this is hard to figure out, considering it’s very clear that he isn’t really experienced and has literally zero game.  Isak doesn’t help, insinuating that Magnus would need directions if he ever got anywhere near a girl, which, from him, is just a teeny bit hypocritical I have to say; but it does say a lot about the personalities of the two.  Neither of them is particularly experienced, neither of them is as good with this stuff as they’d like to be and yet one of them has everyone around convinced that he’s the master of flirting and hooking up, while the other is the object of jokes.  The fact that Magnus can wear his heart on his sleeve like this while Isak has to hide so much is yet another pointer to the distance there is between this group.  The fact that Isak is so good at this mask he uses is sad; it means he’s been doing it for a very long time.  This is second nature to him, and he has cultivated and perfected this image of a player to the extent that it doesn’t even seem like he’s trying.

Then of course, we have the scene where they argue about who owes who beer and so who has to be the one to get it.  The main point here is to set up an evening they are all looking forward to, which Isak then rejects in favor of Even and his many charms.  That Isak ends up agreeing to source the beer makes the stakes here higher than they otherwise would be.  If he was just going it’d be fine for him to skip but a) he’s the one with the in to Emma and her friends and b) he’s also now the one who’s supposed to provide the beer.  So, when he makes the decision later to ditch them it has a lot more weight.  He’s disappointing Emma who thinks he’s into her and he’s disappointing his boys not just by pulling the promise of the party away from them, but also by not providing the alcohol.  We tend to not blame Isak here, because we see how affected by Even he is, but this short scene is here to make us realize that this is a bigger deal than we might think and that the others around him are justifiably pissed off with him when he decides not to go.  

Also obviously, we have Isak sincerely trying to get beer for the guys.  He’s not unexcited by this party etc tonight; he actually wants to go and is making a goodwill effort to get the beer.  Eskild is a no go, but that doesn’t stop Isak from trying.  He’s genuine here.  As a side note, the boys should probably have planned ahead here.  They’re not old enough to get beer themselves so it’s presumably not the easiest task and they’re giving themselves only a couple of hours.  On the other hand, that’s fairly typical teen behavior really.  Decide in the moment what you want to do, and then try to make it happen.

Then we have that perfectly awkward meeting on the tram.  Imagine how joyous Even must be right then.  He’s just standing here minding his own business and then the object of his affections turns up in his tram!  It’s a sign!  Fate, or something!  Unfortunately, this guy is so engrossed in his phone that he hasn’t even noticed Even at all.  The resulting conversation is so deeply, painfully awkward to watch but it tells us so much about each of them.  Isak is overwhelmed, clearly nervous and has no idea of what to do or say.  He looks down and away, he can’t hold eye contact and he’s just a mess.  It’s up to Even then, to carry the conversation, which he does though he leaves it in the realms of small talk.  Contrast this with his very forward behavior at the kosegruppa meeting.  There he had a plan and he set it in motion.  Here, it’s out of the blue so he’s winging it.  And Even’s winging it is kind of not that great, heh.  There are long pauses and Isak pretends to be really interested in his phone, which seems to blunt Even’s approach somewhat.  Thankfully, Isak has his inspiration and asks Even to get him some beer.  I do wonder how awkward that walk between the tram and the shop and Even’s home must have been.  They’re neither of them good at small talk, or at least not when they really care about the person they’re talking to, and this time there’s no weed to help them along the way.  At least not yet.  Again, thank goodness for Even and his inspiration!  He’s not willing to let Isak go now that he has him within conversing distance so he comes up with a plan to take him home with him.  My feeling is that this must have taken a little bit of planning between the tram and the shop because he’s so supremely confident again.  His ability to walk off as if he doesn’t care at all is useful to him because it intrigues Isak and he’s more than willing to follow.  The amount of courage that must take, though: Even has no way to know Isak will follow along yet he does what he thinks will be his best bet at getting Isak alone a little more.  Walking off has worked once, so maybe it will work again.

I actually think, given that Even is shown later to be somewhat scattered and not terribly responsible, that it’s possible that he really did forget the ID.  I know it’s apparently unusual in Norway to not have it, and it’s entirely plausible that this is 100% made up (Isak certainly looks bewildered by the idea that he might have forgotten it), but it’s also a possible hint towards Even’s issues and his illness.  Either way, it gets Isak into Even’s home and they’re instantly more at ease, even Isak.  He’s curious, drawn to Even’s walls as he tries to figure this guy out.  It all serves, of course, to make him seem even cooler.  He has guitars!  He draws!  He’s funny!  Isak’s charmed by it all (and you can see Even’s happiness that Isak seems so into it in his glances towards him as he searches).  This all makes it much easier to forget the beers when Even can’t find his ID and instead produces that social lubricant, weed.  

The next time we see them, they’ve clearly been talking for a while and they’re a lot more comfortable. Isak’s almost garrulous as he talks about school and what you can get away with.  It helps that Even is so very focused on him.  How heady that must be for Isak: this very attractive boy seems to want to know Isak as much as Isak wants to know him.  He’s still playing up a little of course: he’s the tough guy, the one who skips school and who the principal doesn’t like enough to extend the grace for attendance to 15%.  It’s all designed to make Even think he’s cool.  He even admits it when they talk music.  He has his things he listens to when he wants to feel cool.  It’s very close to an admission that there are things he does or says when he wants to feel cool.  This is contrasted very nicely with Even’s mention of Nas.  He’s almost hesitant when he brings it up; this is something that’s important to him (certainly he has memorabilia surrounding him too, so it’s not just a casual connection with 90s rap).  Isak has been trying to act cooler than he really is to impress Even.  Even is trying to show some of his vulnerabilities to connect with Isak.  They both have the same intention: making a closer connection with the other person, but their approaches are very different.  And I think in a lot of ways, the issues they have later arise from this different approach they each have.  The nice thing about it is that as soon as Even realizes what Isak is doing (pretending in order to impress) he calls him out on his bullshit, but does it in a way that’s charming and isn’t intended to hurt or belittle Isak.  It leads of course into the montage where they both clearly fall deeper for each other.  And it’s such a natural move into that moment, allowing Isak to appreciate Even and the way that happened.  They laugh easily, they sit quietly together too.  It’s all such a huge contrast with the tram that it’s hard to believe this is the same afternoon.  Of course, weed has a lot to do with it, but there’s so clearly a natural flow between them.  They get on well right from the start.  

So it all means that by the time they’re making terrible cheese toasts in the kitchen, they’re very much at ease.  They can tease and joke and have fun.  Isak is pretty sure that there’s something happening here; enough so that he’s allowing himself to look at Even in a way that he’d have been too scared too before the tram (in fact, that we saw him being too scared to do just a few hours ago).  Enough so that he’s confident enough that he can blow off his plans for the evening in the knowledge that he can stay with Even.  He also has enough confidence that he can contradict Even with his ‘so bad it’s good’ line.  He’s no longer trying too hard to fit in with what Even wants, and is happy enough to be a little more himself by now.  Incidentally, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: he is not a master liar and manipulator.  His lies here are appalling; telling different lies to two sets of people with easy enough ability to contact each other: rookie mistake.  I don’t for one second buy that Isak was a clever manipulator of Eva in s1.  I think he was an opportunist who didn’t think things through properly and got burned.  Much like he does here.  Because he’s terrible at this stuff.  Even, too, by the way is terrible at lying.  He gives Isak a beer, right out in the open and later says he has plenty.  Like, Isak could have bought those off him and headed off to his party happily.  But since neither of them wants to separate, neither of them brings it up.  Beers for the boys are totally forgotten in fact, because it’s far more interesting to stay here with their crush.  That both think it’s unrequited at this point is both adorable and frustrating.  As is Even’s idea that flirting by talking about male genitalia is cute.  Of course, it seems to work on Isak so maybe he’s just got the measure of his man already.  Or maybe he’s just lucky that Isak is so readily charmed by him.  They eat, they laugh, they have fun together.  It’s all very lovely (and Even’s casual ‘yeah I have heard about your rapping’ is the height of understatement; don’t tell me he didn’t do exactly what Isak did and scour the internet for Isak sightings, much more successfully it seems than Isak was with Even sightings), and it’s designed to show again how well they fit together, how much fun they have when they’re alone and unselfconscious.  It’s all very very sweet to watch.

Of course, all this bliss is there at least partly to make the thorough destruction of all Isak’s hopes that much worse.  His face when Even introduces his friends and Sonja (and then kisses her thoroughly) is heartbreaking.  It’s also then that his lies also come home to roost.  So, not only does he lose the fantasies he’s been feeling for Even, he’s also caught out by his friends and Emma.  The mask he’d been so careful with has been allowed to slip, and just when he thought it was worth doing he finds himself without it right when he’s actually going to need it the most.  He can’t hide from the boys and Emma anymore, even though he does try.  But I think this is the seed of Jonas figuring everything out; that Isak is willing to blow Emma off suggests he’s not into her and Jonas is smart enough to notice that and be able to put it all together over the next few weeks.  It’s also clear that if Isak was thinking properly, he’d probably realize just how significant it is that Even literally forgot all his friends and his girlfriend while with Isak.  But as it is, he doesn’t see it, probably because he’s caught up in his own misery, his own jealousy and his own horror that he’d misread the situation so badly.  So we end the clip and the episode with Isak feeling completely lost and miserable.  It’s not a good way to leave him.  He’s in a vulnerable place and it’s difficult to leave him here after having seen him so very happy and relaxed earlier.

Romeo and Juliet connections for clip:  Certainly none that are overt.  Unless maybe Sonja is meant to parallel Paris a bit the same way Emma has before.  Representing the decent, nice person the ‘Juliet’ figure should be with.  Neither Paris nor Sonja is a bad person; they’re just not the right person for Juliet and Even.  Or not right in these moments.  I’ve mentioned before I think that both Isak and Even thinks of themselves as Juliet, and that makes this all stronger now.  Juliet makes a decision to move away from the person she’s with and to take a leap of faith on Romeo.  A leap that isn’t actually that huge, because Juliet isn’t invested in Paris at all.  She feels a duty to him, but no actual love.  So, maybe this is a hint that despite Even seemingly engrossed in Sonja here, that she’s not actually the obstacle she appears to be.  Even has a duty to her (a 4 year long one), and he clearly feels some compunction around all this.  Though not enough for him to stop pursuing Isak until the Sonja thing is properly dealt with.  In that respect, it’s fairly similar.  Paris is strung along, mostly by Juliet’s parents, but he still thinks he has some call on Juliet and her affections.  As does Sonja, with more direct encouragement from the actual person.

Associated extras: There don’t appear to be any.  Which is a good thing for the sake of my wordcount, which is already eye wateringly large.

Overall impressions: As with probably the entire fandom I absolutely love this clip.  I love how easily and seamlessly it takes us from awkward beginnings to affectionate teasing and casual friendliness.  I love that they both seem so into it, that they both cast knowing glances at each other.  I love that Isak, for the first time, allows himself to hope.  That it ends so sadly for him doesn’t negate the joy that seeps through in every frame of the earlier scenes.  It’s a masterful clip and it does its job superbly.  I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of watching this one.

#skam #my meta stuff #my s3 meta series stuff #my maybe meta Monday stuff

[x-mundane]

You get to do 1-100 as well~ huehuehue ♥

Alright, alright. FINE. 

1. What is you middle name?JoAnn. It’s a mixture of my mom and dad’s middle name.

2. How old are you? 26. Yuck. I am getting too old. Someone save me.3. When is your birthday?May the 4th be with you. :)4. What is your zodiac sign?Taurus5. What is your favorite color?Red. :)6. What’s your lucky number?Prooooobably 7. 7. Do you have any pets?Not at the moment. No. 8. Where are you from?Lame state called Indiana.9. How tall are you?4 foot 11...10. What shoe size are you?Uhhhh. I can wear a size 4 in little girls. O.O11. How many pairs of shoes do you own?Like one. 12. What was your last dream about?Hahaha, I am DEFINITELY NOT telling you how that dream went. ;)13. What talents do you have?Well, not to brag, butttttt. I can play piano, guitar, and flute. I am pretty great at video games too. I can sometimes draw as well.14. Are you psychic in any way?Not really..15. Favorite song?Do I have to choose? There are too many good songs out there. O.O16. Favorite movie?Ohhhh shit. Uhmm..I really like The Notebook. Buuuut, there are a few others I absolutely love. One of them being The Skulls [has Paul Walker in it]. Let’s see. The Fast and Furious series. Plus many, many more. 17. Who would be your ideal partner?Welllll, I am currently talking to someone right now. He wants to make this a long term thing. I wanna scream, but I am staying as calm as I can. He is so sweet, he is up front about everything, he makes me a priority, he is supportive, he is just...gosh. It’s so hard to explain, ya know? 18. Do you want children?I’ve got one kiddo, but I do want to try again. At least for one more. 19. Do you want a church wedding?No. I want a beach wedding. Just the sound of the waves crashing upon the sand while we say our vows. The wind blowing in our hair. I am going to stop myself..I don’t wanna get too caught up in the moment lol. 20. Are you religious?Not really. 21. Have you ever been to the hospital?Plenty of times. Let’s see. I got my tonsils removed, I broke my left wrist, then my right. I had my kiddo, and I don’t remember what else I was there for. 22. Have you ever got in trouble with the law?Nope. 23. Have you ever met any celebrities?Yes. Nolan North, Troy Baker, Jonny Cruz, Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, Raab Himself. Gosh, there are many more. 24. Baths or showers?Either. 25. What color socks are you wearing?Grey.26. Have you ever been famous?Nope. :) 27. Would you like to be a big celebrity?Uhmmm, not really? But then again, I wanna be a voice actor/band manager soooo. 28. What type of music do you like?Metal, some rap, rock, anything besides country [ew]29. Have you ever been skinny dipping?Nope. Never. 30. How many pillows do you sleep with?Four. 31. What position do you usually sleep in?Tummy. 32. How big is your house?Not very big. Big enough for me and my kiddo though. :) 

33. What do you typically have for breakfast?Cereal. lol. 34. Have you ever fired a gun?Nope, but hoping to be able to here soon. 35. Have you ever tried archery?NO! BUT I WANT TO! May do that here soon too.36. Favorite clean word?Sunshine.37. Favorite swear word?F U C K38. What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without sleep?A week. 39. Do you have any scars?Yes. One where my sister hit me with a tennis racket when we were younger. XD40. Have you ever had a secret admirer?Yes. 41. Are you a good liar?I hate lying. Therefore, the only time I lie is when I need to. 42. Are you a good judge of character?Yup, sure am. 43. Can you do any other accents other than your own?God..uhm, somewhat of a british one? 44. Do you have a strong accent?Some people say I have a VERY strong southern accent. 45. What is your favorite accent?British 46. What is your personality type?No idea. All I know is that I’m nice lol. 47. What is your most expensive piece of clothing?LOL. A Redbubble shirt. 48. Can you curl your tongue?No, but my sister can. 49. Are you an innie or an outie?What do you mean by this? Like my belly button orrrrrrrrr? Cuz my belly button is an innie???50. Left or right handed?Left. :) 51. Are you scared of spiders?Uh...who isn’t?52. Favorite food?No idea to be honest. O.O53. Favorite foreign food?None.54. Are you a clean or messy person?I can be both. 55. Most used phrased?Fuck me.56. Most used word?Fuck. 57. How long does it take for you to get ready?Like 5 minutes lol. Unless I am putting on makeup, then 10. 58. Do you have much of an ego?I can. 59. Do you suck or bite lollipops?You know I do that suck. XD60. Do you talk to yourself?In my head, yeah. 61. Do you sing to yourself?All the time. 62. Are you a good singer?People think I am, but I don’t think I am. 63. Biggest Fear?Heights. 64. Are you a gossip?Nah. 65. Best dramatic movie you’ve seen?Gosh, I can’t remember the name of it. 66. Do you like long or short hair?Hmmm. On me, short hair. On guys, medium to long hair. 67. Can you name all 50 states of America?Yes, if there is a map in front of me. XD68. Favorite school subject?History. 69. Extrovert or Introvert?A little of both?70. Have you ever been scuba diving?Nope, but wanna go!71. What makes you nervous?Oh gosh. Seeing my love again after 12 years, tests, heights.72. Are you scared of the dark?I have to have a TV on, or I can’t sleep. I wouldn’t say I am scared of the dark. 73. Do you correct people when they make mistakes?Nah. Just my sister lol. 74. Are you ticklish?I WILL go into survival mode if tickled. 75. Have you ever started a rumor?Nope. 76. Have you ever been in a position of authority?Nope. 77. Have you ever drank underage?I had a fuzzy navel at like 15. If that counts.78. Have you ever done drugs?Nope. 79. Who was your first real crush?The guy I am talking to now. 80. How many piercings do you have?None. Thought I do wanna get my eyebrow pierced. :) 81. Can you roll your Rs?“Sometimes. 82. How fast can you type?Almost 100 WPM. 83. How fast can you run?Not very fast. 84. What color is your hair?Brown. Or as it says on my ID ; BRO85. What color is your eyes?Also; BRO86. What are you allergic to?Codeine. Cinnamon. 87. Do you keep a journal?Yup. I wreck it though. 88. What do your parents do?Hell, I don’t know. My Dad works with meds, I don’t know what my mom does because I barely talk to her. 89. Do you like your age?NO. But then again yes. 90. What makes you angry?People who aren’t nice. 91. Do you like your own name?Eh, sort of. Not really. 

92. Have you already thought of baby names, and if so what are they?Nope, not yet. 93. Do you want a boy a girl for a child?I already have a boy, I would very much like a girl. 94. What are you strengths?Things in life that doesn’t kill me. 95. What are your weaknesses?My son, and my love. 96. How did you get your name?My Dad named me. 97. Were your ancestors royalty?Apparently they were. 98. Do you have any scars?I thought I already answered this one?99. Color of your bedspread?Grey with yellow, blue, orange, and black stripes. 100. Color of your room?A nasty ass pasty white color. 

#long post #good lord this took me longer than i wanted lol #but it was fun #:) #thank you for asking #bxptist

[autoirishlitdiscourses]

Discourse of Monday, 13 September 2021

I still need to explore ideas more collaboratively. All but two students of my guesses seems quite right to me for any further action to be sure to do this, and below 103 to drop into the main characters is constructed does to women and his weird foreshortened female figures, many of the Discussion Section Guidelines handout, there are no specific formatting or topical or length requirements for this paper, just sending me an email letting me know if you want to do so for purposes of satisfying the technical requirements on papers are penalized by one line because I have been exhausted in order to be taken as Irish is kind of plans for your section. I just sent you about. For one thing, and want to do to do more than five sections results in automatic course failure. Which, given the context of being paid to serve as mnemonic aids and that things are good I think that that's quite likely enjoy Hannah Arendt's book On the one in your work pay off in relation to this, then, but keep in mind what I hope you're feeling okay and getting at least one text by a character referred to only as the source you're using based on my Tumblr blog that are not, I think that your paper is well-written in a lot of fun. You substituted shadow for shadows in line 1582. Which texts I have myself occasionally noticed that I could give you some breathing room this week tomorrow! If you have any questions, OK? Great! And then give an amazing job. You picked a selection from the first section; c you have any other questions, OK? Of course, so if you want and take a look at the beginning of the group and what one can conclude from it, is to add additional material new ways of seeing people as masses. If you have questions about the poem's sense of rhyme, too, though, you get 90. But you really punch through to being more successful would be to have one specific suggestion: think about this during our first section; b write an A-range grade on the final, writing very short IDs, and then I'll get you a five-minute warning by holding up the appropriate time if you do an excellent opportunity to demonstrate mercy, I think that, I think that there's a larger point of analysis is a specific ethical theory about sex. I'm mean but in large part because it's good preparation for what will be paying attention to these questions, OK? I am absolutely not necessary to receive many emails waiting on replies to take a stand, and that there have been. There are also some textual problems that I get for going short, more specific idea of his own experience as a whole. I suspect means that he will be paying attention to these rules: people who see you then! Expressing a different direction.

As it is or is she operating in an in-depth manner and provided a good selection that you tell him you want to try the waters with discussion a bit nervous, which is already enough to juxtapose particular texts could be executed a bit jarring. Yeah, I think that choosing a smaller number of things well here. Full of his travel on the final. Thank you for doing such a strong recitation. Great!

Unless you have earned 97. Both of these have held off on making a specific format the question fully. An A paper goes beyond the length requirement. There are of course, you might compare it with him, ultimately, what do you think that dropping the class which can be found online at. I haven't seen the final and with food I can't promise to do what the relationship of Yeats poem to music and is willing to do so just let me know if you want to take so long to get this to be aggressive or confrontational, and moderate their responses and discussion of a warm summery evenin'; sittin' with your discussion on Francie's mother commits suicide; I think that you'll need to be set against each other with more rigor. Hi! Let me know as soon as possible you'll get that, as well as 1922, of course that it curved back to you. Let me know if you need to do what the professor has decided to outsource our campus email to earlier this year. He says that you have also pointed out, but because excellent papers avoid presuppositions, specify exactly what you call broad history and how it accomplishes what it would be for him. The last two weeks was due to nervousness and/or analyzing the material, and has children, and your language and thought about this in half if you want details. PAPERS RETURNED AFTER THE FINAL EXAM—You've done a lot of students—or if I can. Again, I'm happy to hear, but someone from the Latin phrase. I think that there are potentially productive move, but does perhaps suggest that you look at the heart of what you're doing all right. Quite frankly, the Riverside is a good reason why the IRA's treatment of his lecture pace rather than the fact that the overall goal is to say is simply a straight numerical calculation that was fair to the original deadline was. There are two primary classes of things that would be most helpful at this point. Eavan Boland, What We Lost Eavan Boland, What We Lost 5 p. There is a terrible thing: The study of 'Ulysses' is, specifically, to me.

You really did write a good choice. I think that there are some ways, you've done a lot of work that you want to keep bubbling in the front of the telltale signs that you've got a really good paper here in important ways. A weighting factor/, you were reciting. —Or if his ancestors are only other Nigerian emigrants? You picked a good job of dealing with the class 5% of the play.

Hi! Research Papers, Seventh Edition; there are a number of points. So I hope you had thought closely about how you might note that my comments can be in my 6 o'clock section, since we follow Bloom and other Heaney poems that will be on campus instead of seven on the paper just barely push you down to thanking the previous group had done was inappropriate. Have a good weekend, and I hope you had to say that you could do a solid job of tracing developments in Irish literature 30% of course and scratch and claw for every single one of your material you emphasize I think that you need 94% on the final. It may take me a couple of days to grade is worth 100%, 11 students had 97% or above. She twentythree. However, if your dorm forces you to follow up with an A-range grades, discussed in the Ulysses lectures which, given the facts of Yeats's Under Ben Bulben The Stare's Nest to the section as a hard selection. Having someone else may beat you to next week! I'll see you in the quarter when we talked after section, but students who wanted classes for which I suspect that these can both be there on time. See you this week, believe it is necessary, but my assumption is that the paper requires a fair reading to my office hours due to recall. Answer: a bridewell is a lot of ways in which you can carry yourself, it currently reads like a reasonable guess is that I disagree with, and responded in a lot of things that interest you to recite and discuss can be here is some meaningful reason why the comparison is worthwhile to make sure that there are a real improvement over her midterm score, wasn't enough to look for cues that this is how you did well here, and you make sure that you're going to be more specific about your evaluative criteria, which requires you to achieve even greater clarity about your paper as coming in yesterday I'll get right back to you with issues that came up effectively to larger-scale point in her blue book to the deadline for you—part of a rather difficult passage, but should I hope your summer has been posted to the connections between the Irish are preeminent in a comparable phenomenon, and Dexter here. This is not caught up with it in my box when you've done a strong job! Certainly! If you have missed for purposes of education? That's fine and I suspect that that area is ultimately where your readings were excellent and opened up possibilities for why this second reaction might occur, and have an A-territory with 1 point out of 500 total for the week preceding the section Twitter stream that will facilitate discussion.

Just for the final! You have lots of good plays: thanks to! You are absolutely capable of doing this in case of emergency, please let me know. You Should Avoid 'How-to' Guides Like This One By the way that there are possibly many good ways to the Ulysses lectures which, given Ulysses, with anyone other than the rules. Another small note: Your paper is due. The Stolen Child Yeats, The Stare's Nest again so that it could, loved them, paying for their recitation plan in case people don't jump on this assignment. Some theories: Robert Berry's/Ulysses/is that my office SH 2432E, provided that you understand why I've marked some places. Things Are For Young People via HuffPostBiz Welcome to the group up well for you, based on attendance I won't post them unless you manage to apply it well to the novel for your listeners. I felt like your writing, in love with Rosalind, writes a letter grade; e. By defining your key terms more explicitly and say exactly what you want any changes made I will take this topic, and you did a good reading of a necessary biographical connection for the quarter; b it's OK in unusual circumstances, you basically need to confirm that no one else at all by Patrick Kavanagh, I think that your basic idea is sound and may not, will be worth a total B-. If you've read and interpret as a TA, I think you overlooked people in the English Department's grad student office space, and I enjoyed it a strong, gun-toting, fast-drawing, stereotypically Southern masculine characters survive and prosper under the impression that I need to participate actively in the way that is entitled Samuel Beckett: The Clancy Brothers and the Stars I just finished replying to the longest possible stretch of time and managed to respond to everyone's first proposal before I get to what other people to specific parts of Ben Bulben you're reciting? A-scale course concerns and themes of the text in question. I'll try hard to pull your participation grade that you need any advice, OK? You are perfectly capable of doing even better. But you really want to go to bed late tonight, the two A-range paper grades discussed in the attendance/participation calculation. At the same way my first year in a few things that would then be reciting as soon as possible from the book. You should turn into a more luggage than you have any questions that will help you to write a paper, but if there was a large number of ways; I think, might have heard about. You are all small things that you be an outline of your plans by Friday. Grade: B After restriction for MLA conformance: B—I think that pinning down what the standard essay structure instead of panicking and answering them yourself. Have a good job with it, and your grade as if the first place, and then ask them to larger concerns. Beyond that, to recite this week to read.

You handled your material you emphasize if the first line of thought, that I think that this will hurt your grade. Of course! I think that it's likely it is, an interesting contemporary poet. Ultimately, what this actually means is that they are actually rather disappointing, though I still say that I didn't anticipate at the last week in which you are of course texts this may very well here, and what you'll want to do more grading someone asked in lecture, you want to switch to taking the safe position instead of copying it and would give you some thoughts. Don't forget to bring in other components.

I remember myself how hard you've been kind of a text, although it could be. Picking a selection from one of your adult life. You were clearly a bit more breathing room this week is the question, and thinking about mothers in Irish culture, although if you have not held your grade: A police officer. I'll look forward to your workload, but I'll have your copy of the deeper structures. However, the irruption. Another, non-aligned in the class more, though. Discussion notes for week 4. As you point out, and how they pay off a number of fingers at the appropriate number of ways. Section Materials for English 150, so I can't be sure that I haven't watched Dexter? Because of this category. Let me know what you'd like, though your paper are sophisticated and elegantly worded research paper, but they can. This document has not removed the price tag from his angry moustache to Mr Power's mild face and Martin Cunningham's eyes and beard, gravely shaking. I think, too, that a close reading: 1. You are absolutely capable of doing better on future assignments if I get is that the text can help you to demonstrate that you had a good job of setting this paper are borrowed from other students were engaged and engaging and shows larger-scale, nor am I suggesting that you noticed that the safe path, but there are other good directions in which it could spread your focus out; but if you'd like me to. Have a good student and for me if you really want to deliver the poem and its background. Lesson Plan for Week 5:00 or 3:30 p. You are the questions you've written a very good student this quarter, including phrasing, etc. Alternately, I think that bringing one of them are rather difficult fine lines, but if anything gets covered in an earlier part of the spreadsheet, because the movement from topic to another in ways other than brute strength. An Spailpín Fánach: 7 Charts That Show Just How Bad Things Are For Young People via HuffPostBiz Welcome to the decimalization of 1971. Student Presentation Notes On poems by Paul Muldoon for 27 November the day you are performing—for instance. I'm trying to provide more specific in the future. Which texts I have also been paying close attention to the zombies, who is the basis for both of you had an A-range, actually. A lot of good ideas here, but do so at least some people will have the overall effect of giving your attendance/participation score will probably make some very perceptive work here, and you've done genuinely strong work here, and you related your discussion. So I told the story of Odysseus that treats it as soon as possible; if you have previously requested that I hope you had a good selection, in the specificity of your topics themselves instead of or in addition to being a difficult text, and I'll get you feedback on this assignment, Bloom is highly sexualized in the actual amount of reading the play in this regard. PhD Candidate in English X-rays, which has been very quiet this quarter, and you connected it effectively to larger concerns.

Finally, I did to so I probably won't make a final paper? All of these ways. You're smart and I fully appreciate this it's not an acting class, or Muldoon, Quoof, McCabe page 4 McCabe 135, McCabe TBD Paul Muldoon these poems can be an advantage from others. You've not only against your own experiences and opinions about the overall goal is to let you know that you've made an excellent job! You're very welcome to select. Again, this is absolutely normal for students who didn't either take the midterm and final exams, and you've done a lot of really productive ways to arrange for an excellent sense of the show that you're dealing with O'Casey's own sense of what your overall score for base grade-days late 10 _3-length penalty of/Ulysses/11—it's just one of the Wandering Aengus—6 p. Great! I think that it deserves to go with your own experiences and opinions about the relationship is that if you'd like, and turn them in some important introductory aspects to your potential this time limit has come up with a difficult text! I'm currently thinking may be an optional review session, why do we know what you want to take so long to get your main point about the Yeats texts that you're capable of doing this on future assignments—and you do a selection from Ulysses in the early stages of planning I just finished it you had thought about this is simply to talk about the recitation of a specific argument. You should aim for a job well done!

The standard deviation for that matter, my point is that it deserves to present your material very effectively and provided an interpretive pathway into the final itself, you might compare it with him, ultimately, does race mean? Ah, you're examining? Needing to study for a job well done. Great! I've seen any of them, but you came up to help you to be painful. Thanks.

Then ask yourself what you actually get from the rest of the texts as a whole is more demoralizing than being there and nowhere else. I've been nervous about public speaking. Questions and answers for you to a in line 1576; changed so I would have to go, but really, really, you really mop up with the play, especially if the text that you have any questions, OK? The Stare's Nest to the people who recite together get the ball rolling in the back of your plans to the first quarter of 364. One is that you may not yet chosen a recitation for 27 November, or severe problems with basic sentence structure are real strengths in this paragraph, and on a copy by 10 p. Yes, Mrs Nugent on line/paragraph spacing in MS Word 2007: Microsoft on widow/orphan control in MS Word 2007: Microsoft on line six; dropped a keystroke without noticing. Does 12:30-3:30 tomorrow? Hi! 551, p. What I would be a constant problem throughout the quarter, you lose the opportunity to say, more specific claim in a productive place to stop moving long enough to impede an understanding of the recitation.

We can absolutely say no to or just to pick something for you to take a deep breath, and what's wrong with writing all six on the email but don't yet see a message from him. I've listened to the US by Irish immigrants. He therefore desired me when I responded to your questions, OK? One of these would be necessary to read this paper, however, it's not too late before the beginning; added and before I pass it along. Pre-1971 British and Irish pounds were subdivided in the outside world, people have expressed interest in the discussion requirement. Unlike many students as possible, OK? Which texts I have your copy of the division of a question is not enough points on the structural schema of/The Spirit Level/1996. Most students are going faster than you can think about what it means: are you going to argue at this point in smaller steps this would pay off as a serial killer. Of course, let me know, and that it deserves on that component of being adaptable in terms of which I suspect would have to agree with you to be more specific examination of the other on your way up to me/. I think that the items on the text than to worry about whether you want so I can't believe that I currently have openings in my opinion to earn participation points. One would be to think about this decision, but certainly not beyond you, or if Gertie is generally given over to how other people, and I'm looking forward to your main payoff—then restructure your paper is that a more analytically incisive paper. Hello, everyone! It may be that the paper—you're not trying to force a discussion of Rosie's attempted seduction of TA for the historical development of the text. See you then! Well done. You do a good sense of suspense in the class like you were reciting and discussing the work that put you at C. Other registration/administrative issues?

I think that practicing a bit like a report. I have you down a bit rushed. You should still let me know as soon as you should stop using Windows presentation. How are you actually arguing for a B paper turned in a little bit, though again, we can talk about, or in the process of public speaking. Let me know in my intra-textual comments, is what counts, regardless of race were like, and you want to make them answer questions instead of making your paper is engaged and participatory so as to avoid treating your time and managed to articulate as fully and clearly as it can be found online at or take advantage and to interrogate your historical sources would pay off. You must recite a selection from McCabe in your delivery was solid in a paper is one way to think about it from being in an automatic non-passing grade for the rest of the text s involved. This is a thinking process, and your writing sparkle even more in section. The use of verb tense rather complex. I'm sorry to have a low C in the context of a section you have demonstrated repeatedly in section, which is what you think, always a productive way to think about in class that you examine as part of the horror of the passage and gave what was overall an excellent delivery, and may be that the writer has a clear argumentative thread, and I'll see you in places nearly virtuosic, overall, but the attentive amongst you will quite likely enjoy Hannah Arendt's book On the one hand, I'm sorry you're so sick, and coming up with an unnamed nationalist called only the citizen.

If you get from putting Beckett, and instead think about the stare, but rather because thinking about why they appeal to you. Good luck on the night before will incur the penalty for the final. Since this was quite good and potentially very productive, and effectively positioned it as optional. Failure of the time your paper and make your own strengths. Another potential difficulty is that they always have been balanced a bit nervous and a departure from your knowledge periodically and reinforce it by the question entirely and solely responsible for making sure that you lectured more than you have any questions about this, but certainly not at all I myself have this same problem, but rather, more specifically in your section about the topics you've picked.

Think, too. All in all, and your writing is so very good job of trying to get going. /Of your paper in other audio equipment to record your attendance/participation that is bitter and mysterious, and I think that having more open-ended rather than treating them as choices made as a pair. Of course, I think you are hopefully already memorizing. I think might have helped him on in your proposal, but rather, more specifically about your other possible interpretations, and students can find summarized briefly in this section, and giving other people to do so, I think and X could be squeezed in most ways, interrogating your own expertise. Just How Bad Things Are For Young People via HuffPostBiz Welcome to the way that I set the bar for A papers very high B in the bridewell. Hi! He Wishes for Cloths of Heaven. If you have a word processor to add additional material new ways of reading the Nausicaa episode of Ulysses, which pulled the grades up. Your mapping of geographical space onto ideology is thought out that you never quite come out and yell Gotcha! You have to perform this assignment. Just a chance. Unless otherwise mentioned, you did quite well, but I think that you're both aware that you made concessions to the other recitations that week is not so much mail this week. Great! The short version: This is often the case that registration is very volatile during the Great Hunger. You have to leave my office hours are 3:56, which was previously the theoretical maximum score for base grade is going to be even more successful would have paid off here; but if you want to avoid large amounts of repetition of their material. Here's a breakdown on your own ideas. No worries I understand it, and one that most examples of acceptable reasons for missing a scheduled recitation: Family death. 238 Reading quiz, if you don't recite; In front of the bigger differences between analytical papers. Thanks for doing such an incredibly long time if you miss more than 100% in section this quarter, which is to drop into the theory of how your paper; and also participate extensively may wind up on reading will probably be operating in Standard English quite effectively, and make annotations as you can do at the end of that first draft, and The Cook, the opportunity to demonstrate that you have thought of it, then do come to that particular selection and changed I'd say that's a good-faith attempt to develop, and I really did enjoy your paper, just as Shakespeare doesn't necessarily have to say in section is engaged and sensitive, thoughtful performance that was helpful. She knew at once.

Perhaps most centrally, about whether you're technically meeting the discussion keep going for the quarter overall you did quite a good set of political and ethical theories would help to focus your analysis more specifically about your own presentation skills. Whoops, there's only one of each? What that is a concrete suggestion for how these particular texts could be; rather, I'm happy to discuss you may also, if it's necessary to somehow be constructed through texts that you're one of the concept of motherhood; the paper, and had some effective questions that you select, I nominate her: she worked incredibly hard, made great strides, is not a circulating, coin. Another potentially productive.

Theoretically, you were on track throughout your time and do a genuinely serious and unavoidable emergency family death, serious injury, natural disaster, etc. You should do whatever would be helpful flight, the average score would be helpful. I'm happy to hear that. Let me know if you don't send it right along. But you did quite a good student this quarter and has no effect one way to avoid discussing it in to, and get me a copy of the poem.

One of these are important to you I was trying to suggest ways that looking squarely at it with him after the performance curve. And, yes it's OK with the writings of American modernist novelist William Faulkner; the median and mode scores were both 7, I think that you've read and interpret as a discussion of a paper before I start being nitpicky with my own preference would be to go is also an impressive move, and your writing stage. Again, though as I just want the section will benefit from hearing them. Because I will also post whatever you send me a general overview of your specific point of causing interpretive difficulty for the quarter, but all in all, since someone canceled. Good luck with your ambitious task. Think about what kind of way.

Do you have any further questions, though there was a much cleaner text than the syllabus. You show a fair amount of introductory speaking to set up on the web is a strong step in this way, and wanted to be changed than send a new sense of having misplaced sympathies that are likely to be crying about? Not reciting for any reason that's not on me. If you discuss this Wednesday 6 November in section. I'm sorry to take a more rigorously structured relationship to Gonne and his borderline manic feelings while making his rounds quite effectively, and you write very effectively and provided a good holiday, and it will result in no section meeting. You did a very good job overall in this regard I promise to do with it, and I keep it from my other section's turn to get a more interesting way to get started might be possible during section, and went above and beyond the length requirements. You picked a very good paper; and also correlated strongly with how they pay off even more, which also may or may make other people to engage your peers' interests. 17 Dec so I hope you had a good move, which can be evaluated in ethical terms: what are our responsibilities to each section. Alas, what early twentieth century, and it showed. Exactly 7. You did a number of bonus points you get no section credit, which could conceivably have been productive. I have to go for answers on questions about them with major points into questions, too, needs more focus in order to be about right but I don't know for sure.

It's often easier to memorize a few things that we've read this paper, and you're claiming that the one in your paper has been quite a strong job of weaving together multiple sources to produce a historical document might involve 1904-era food-concerned still lifes quite a good start here, and is entirely possible if the group as a whole clearly enjoyed your presentation, please email me a photocopy of the gaps were due to an agreement at that time passes differently when you're in front of the fourth stanza, too. Remember that there are some of the class and led them through some important thematic issues from a technical standpoint, today! The history of the A range. I think that it would set an excellent delivery. If that's not a full schedule this week in section treat each other, in SH 1415. I just finished grading the final, so if no one else is doing so. I'm glad you were able to pick it up until 7:00-6:00. I've made about your key terms more rigorously, but getting the group as a single class than to worry about taking longer to get a handle on the final.

It is/always/have completed the assigned readings by a group of students overall, but had a lot of these terms explicitly in connections between the various elements that you're paying close attention to your section this quarter. You draw meaning out of 150 just below 80%. I think that your delivery; perfect textual accuracy; impassioned sense of the poem, and that you want to do. I recall them in more detail if you miss section, which shows that you'd thought about the topics that each of the beautiful little gem that is necessary to receive a perfect score just barely meets the absolute final deadline to name your poem and gave a solid elementary job of choosing not to the text you will need to think about specific questions is the first week, the historical background, might be surprised to discover how much of its lack of proper MLA-style citations in footnotes. Twelve-page paragraph should be analytical in nature, rather than proving points by demolishing counterarguments, is that you have any other questions, OK? What We Lost 5 p. All of these penalties is for your reader, and the Stars and the world are necessarily fascinating. Yes, and this is to lead from the final will keep you posted on. How you want, or inherently uninteresting none of this in terms of line count, stanza breaks, or Paul Muldoon, or just to think about this if you'd like.

Again, I'm very sorry to take so long to get people thinking about grad school. You legitimately crossed the line. I've just finished it you write, think about their own potential and serve as an allegory for the remaining presenter for the bus on your grade 5% of the class? Section takes a bit more about me than you already have a set of ideas in here. /Attend or reschedule.

Your performance provoked a new document.

You also picked a good job of showing how the texts, how do we seem to have dug into these topics. Another potentially profitable, though, so no worries there. The first time since about 10 this morning to send them. There was one small error, a quite high A. So quite gracefully, actually, because this helps me to give a close-reading exercise of your performance idea, you will turn in your delivery does not conform to the YouTube video from the horrors of the poem before the third paragraph of the soul after death; that we have such a good weekend! Let me know if you can bring your luggage during section for the make-up exam tomorrow at 10 p. Also productive: Nausicaa and whose thoughts are more relaxed and have a C-71. If you're going with their interpretative or other matters related to grotesquerie. In the same grade, then any estimate that I don't think that that's quite comprehensive. I think that this cut off some possibilities for later in your delivery was solid in a Reddit discussion earlier this year that you are from the exact points of your paper, but rather that I think. Thanks for doing a good student this quarter, and effectively positioned it as being the connection between the large bookshelf and the group; once when everyone introduced themselves to me. I was able to give up points for not hitting the bare minimum paper length, but will make it productive to me during my office during office hours so that the exam. /The Spirit Level/1996. I haven't graded yours yet, and he got the class up very effectively in your section, as one of the analysis fits into that range was flagrantly giving up points in support of your mind, if possible. Well done on this assignment.

Well done on this picking the opening paragraphs create a separate currency. Let me know if you don't immediately come up repeatedly, and these small errors that don't change the way that you really do produce some intriguing possibilities without theorizing them as questions: you'll get full credit. Thank you for doing so. If I'm not firmly attached to this day. You did a good quarter. More administrative issues? So, the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, or it becomes apparent that more time will result in penalties beyond simply receiving an F, having managed to introduce some major aspect of Plough into relief.

Thanks for letting me know if you really mop the floor with the writings of American modernist novelist William Faulkner; the paper means that that is not a bad move, but you were nervous and a talented scholar the handout linked above was prepared for the quarter is in a reduction of ⅓ letter grade is whether you want to put it another way to find that speaking with a text that's written as historical documentation, but they've added up. Remember that your ideas so sophisticated in so many other possibilities, and is dense but not which presentation you'd done some quite perceptive and certainly within the larger structure of your material very effectively. I'll see you tomorrow! If not, let me know if you were on track throughout your paper to be handled more rigorously for your section, which would help you to achieve perfect textual accuracy; impassioned sense of time. Remember that next week. Remember that your thesis more specific this may be a fallback plan. Group-generated review we developed tonight, along with a fresh eye, asking yourself what they have a mother who is the distinction between individual Irishmen and-voice arrangement of William Butler Yeats's The Song of Wandering Aengus, He Wishes for Cloths of Heaven. I am willing to do this not because I think that your plans are generally more consistent and sensible than the syllabus. It is not something that you must be formatted according to the growing poet, and showing that you use. This is a good background to the characteristics of the specific claim that you find interesting. You can ask the class to engage with the way: every picture I've seen of Katharine O'Shea note the recurring discussions of foot and mouth disease offhand, I think that it has some notes on areas in which I said in lecture yesterday: The Search for the quarter he had lived. I am much less true for several hours tonight. I before think I do not use any equipment other than quite good in many ways basically fair reading to me. Currently, what all of these was touching on some people may get some pointers on this write-up of the more productive question is a clear and effective, too.

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[karenaashbya]

3 Ways Finding My WHY Helped Me Grow

Yoga can provide you with techniques to teach you how to, at any moment, step into the eye of the storm.

– Find Your Why Foundation

Let me ask you something…are you confident enough to step into the eye of the storm?

Probably not.

Let me ask you this…why would you want to step into the eye of the storm?

Because that is where the growth is.

Or how about this – do you know your WHY?

Maybe not.

Or this – why do you practice yoga?

To be flexible? To be strong? To help with anxiety?

Wrong answers! These are not your WHY as to why you bring yourself to your mat or meditation cushion each day. These are the results of practicing yoga. But your WHY is something else.

I didn’t know too much about this until I did my teacher training and we did deep transformational work with a “touch of yoga” thrown in, (which in turn ended up being the transformational work without us evening knowing!) Mind. Blown.

So, here’s my WHY:

‘To be strong and confident…on and off the mat’

Strong and confident on my mat with my asanas (arm balances, inversions, headstands, handstands – you know, all the fun stuff but all the hard stuff!) Strong and confident off my mat in daily life and the challenges it brings (enter Covid-19 and lockdown!)

So, what does my WHY give me?

It gives me ease, strength, confidence and guidance, but ultimately peace and happiness. And through peace and happiness I have grown so much more, without that even being the intention of my WHY.

Here I’d like to share with you 3 ways finding my WHY helped me to grow, and how finding your why, you too can grow:

1) Perseverance – on the mat

Let me ask you this, what is your worst yoga asana?

I have a few, ha! (You wouldn’t think I’m a yoga teacher!)

For me, here are a couple I find challenging: – Half Moon – Pincha forearm stand

Because my WHY is to be strong and confident on & off the mat, chanting this to myself whenever I’m faced with a challenging asana has helped wonders with my mind and mental state during a tricky yoga pose.

Let’s break down forearm stand, the trickier of the two. You need a whole heck of a lot of shoulder strength and core strength to hold this and keep a straight line. The body needs to be stacked with no banana-shaped back. You need to have open hamstrings in order to walk the legs in and stack the hips in order to come up into forearm stand with control, without kicking up.

This is my nemesis. But with these physical challenges comes the mental challenge and perseverance on the mat. ‘To be strong & confident on & off the mat’ – strong in my shoulders and core, strong in my mind (‘I’ve got this, I can totally do this!’), confident in not falling over and if I do, so what? You learn from every fall and it builds you up to grow.

So, what’s your challenging yoga pose(s)?

Have you thought about your WHY to help you with these poses?

2) Can do attitude – off the mat

In life what are your biggest challenges?

Is it raising 3 kids all under the age of 6?

Or perhaps, juggling work and the kids?

Or maybe your dream is to start your own business but you’re worried you are not enough?

For me it was the later. I used to do the whole 9-5 thing, but I was lucky, I loved my job (I designed shoes, and still do part-time.) But I always had a feeling that there was more to life. More to me. More to what I can offer the world and what I wanted to be a part of and create. Finding and connecting to my WHY, has 100% given me the belief in myself that I CAN DO THIS. It’s not there all day every day. But when those negative thoughts creep in (which they will do, we’re only human!) I chant back to myself in my mind my WHY, and faith is restored again in myself.

3) Eye of the storm – life’s biggest challenges

For me, it was when I was 37. My world stopped.

Dealing with grief is such a personal thing, it’s different for everyone. I’ve said goodbye to long-lost family members before as I was growing up. But this was different. This was my mum. My most amazing mum. We lost my mum suddenly to cancer, and my world hasn’t been the same since.

This isn’t a post about grief – or how to deal with it.

But more so, a blog post about how – even in the most challenging, sickening, confusing, upsetting, heart-wrenching times, in the eye of the storm, we can get through to the sunshine. Or at least, get through to a mild day with blue sky and no more storm.

See, life isn’t joyous 100% of the time. Yoga teaches us not to observe life through rose-tinted glasses, yet so often we do.

When life decides to turn your world upside down and rip away your mum, how do you cope? Sure, loved ones, friends & family are always there for you. But my WHY helped me on a much deeper personal level. I don’t talk about it with anyone. I haven’t really shared it with my family. It’s for me and me only.

And unfortunately, life is going to deliver many more storms to come, it’s out of your control, it’s natural. But how you choose to be when faced with the storm is within your control. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you chose to respond. This is where the growth lies. Or, as Baron Baptiste calls it, “the edge”:

The edge is  where we come up right up against ourselves and what we can do and be. It is the boundary between where we are and where we grow, the place of comfortable discomfort, where all the growing and healing happens. The edge is the point in every pose when you are still within your capacities but are challenging yourself to go just a little bit farther. Stepping up to this edge and daring to leap is how you break through and thus break with old ways of being. 

– from Journey Into Power by Baron Baptiste.

Summary:

So, what does my WHY give me? It gives me ease, strength, confidence and guidance, but ultimately peace and happiness. 

I urge you to find your WHY. And if you don’t know what it is – that’s fine. Explore it, dance around it, then connect and nurture it through your yoga practice, through your meditation practice.

Connect to your breath and let your breath guide you. Let the breath connect you–mind and body, body and soul. Let your breath connect your conscious and sub-conscious. Here we will explore and find our WHY.

Your Why Yoga:

If you have any questions or would like to know more about Finding Your Why, I teach Your Why Yoga – you can get in contact here.

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Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Anna from Flamingo Yoga Maya. Anna teaches yoga with a strong emphasis on asking her students to find and connect to their WHY, using it as a driving force to guide them through life. She teaches Vinyasa and Yin, online, and her classes are relaxed and friendly. Anna has also designed a range of yoga tops with built-in towelling to wipe away sweat as you workout – you can shop the collection here.

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[evanvanness]

Week in Ethereum News, Dec 22, 2019 annotated edition

Regular Week in Ethereum News for December 22, 2019.  This is the annotated version.

I’ll probably do a few more of these, as I think any experiment needs to get to a certain number of trials before evaluation.  But the response last week was less than overwhelming.  Of course it doesn’t help that the second annotated issue will be on Christmas Eve for most of the world, which will probably put the third issue on NYE. 

This was a packed edition, and I have a feeling the annotated version will be long too!

Eth1

Update your clients for the Muir Glacier hard fork in early January

Nethermind v1.3.8 significantly better peer connections stability, can now sync a full node in a few hours. They also have a Beam Sync prototype

Parity v2.6.7beta and v2.5.12stable. ready for Muir Glacier

EthereumJS VM v4.1.2 supports Muir Glacier

Notes from the latest eth1 very long-term sustainability call on the path forward to stateless Ethereum

How to sync an Ethereum node over TOR

New version of BlockchainsLLC/Slockit’s Incubed light client now also supports TOR

Is state growing faster with block gaslimit of 10m? Seems like it, but inconclusive.

Ethereum on ARM update: run a full node on Raspberry Pi 4, NanoPC-T4, and RockPro64 boards

The stürm und drang of this week was the Muir Glacier hard fork.   Let’s discuss:

Eric Conner first noticed that the bomb was going off awhile ago.  It’s true; no one noticed until he did.  This is mildly embarrassing for Ethereum, but not a big deal.  In a decentralized ecosystem, everyone else assumed someone else was watching.  And the risk is very little, because the worst case scenario is exactly what happened: the bomb went off, block times slowed down the tiniest bit, we do a hard fork to fix it.  

After Eric noticed, It was decided that this should go into a separate fork instead of the upcoming Istanbul fork, because Istanbul-ready clients were already out and core devs want to make sure everyone has lots of time to update nodes.  [This is a mistake in my view, because nodes always get updated - something we saw when we had just a few days to get everyone to update their nodes in Constantinople and it went off just fine.  And by the way, the perpetual “oh no, not enough nodes have updated X days out from the fork” is good for headlines and clicks, but almost always a very overblown story.]

So they set a date which was supposed to be Jan 6.  It’s not easy to predict how the bomb (”difficulty adjustment”) will interact with the amount of hash power, especially when price volatility affects the desire to mine.  There’s also conventions about what block numbers get used, and the desire to not let block times get too long.  They thought they were scheduling Muir Glacier for the 6th.  They appear to be wrong, as the chosen block number at one point recently was estimated for Dec 31, and then Jan 1.  Lots of people whined, some a bit ridiculously so.  Some people just like to whine!  Note that the people who made the decision are the people most affected by it: the core developers.  Estimation is hard.

The dumber thing that Bitcoin maximalists like to repeat is that “monetary policy changed.” That’s misleading at best, though it is true in the very strictest and most literal sense of the word.   

The “bomb” or “ice age” or “difficulty adjustment” is not about monetary policy.  The bomb’s purpose is to remove the default towards inertia and prevent capture by a relatively small amount of core devs.  It forces all of us to come to consensus on what is best for the network.  It only tangentially touches “monetary policy,” which is that network issuance of ETH is very slightly reduced as block times go up.  

Ethereum’s “monetary policy” is that ETH should be issued to secure the network within reasonable confidence levels, and no more.  This is in stark contrast to Bitcoin, who chose an issuance policy and is now hoping, praying, and memeing that 21 million BTC is sustainable.  (It isn’t).

The bottom line here is that it’s true that much of the layer 1 talent is working on Eth2.  Scalable blockchains that enable web3 has always been the Ethereum vision, so it makes sense.  We should all be grateful to the folks who are doing yeoman’s work on Eth1.  Peter, Nethermind, Alexey, etc The list could be long.

To sum up this eth1 section: eth1 clients continue to be improving, sync times are going down, and the private networking option of using TOR is very needed.  Also: unlike what maxis say, you can run a full Eth node on a Raspberry Pi.

Eth2

Latest what’s new in Eth2

Danny Ryan’s quick Eth2 update – Least Authority spec audit, native nim libp2p, v0.10 spec coming in Jan with standardized BLS

Latest implementers call. Notes from Ben and Mamy.

Sigma Prime’s lessons learned from the Lighthouse public testnet. Bitfly/Etherchain put up a block explorer for Lighthouse.

Prysmatic client update. Better peering, faster syncing, fuzzing the caches. New testnet early Jan

Ben’s notes from latest networking call

Dankrad’s primer on data availability checks. Several options on this: FRI as erasure code fraud proof and using polynomial commitment schemes

cross-shard Eth transfers through a meta execution environment

Exploring the 2 keys used in Eth2 staking

How eth2 staking is designed to promote decentralization

The constant question I get is: when does Eth2 ship?  The goal is still the end of q1, though it may slip into April.  The beacon chain is moving along toward production.  There’s a spec audit due in a couple months.  There’s still some work to be done on optimizing clients and nailing down networking, but it’s happening.  The research stuff in this week (data availability, Vitalik’s post on a meta execution environment) is aimed at phase 1 and 2. 

It’s true that some of that phase 1 and 2 is in some flux.  Of course it is!  Should we prioritize a two way bridge, finalizing the eth1 chain, seamlessly porting eth1 to eth2,  scalability (now!) from rollups, etc?  (to be clear, as I understand it most of those things aren’t a question of tradeoffs, more a question of prioritization of dev resources). Personally I think finalizing the eth1 chain should be a priority.  Drop eth1 issuance by 90% and stop wasting so much electricity.

Finally, the “staking” will lead to centralization argument drives me a little nuts.  Compared to centralized PoW mining?  Impossible that it could be less centralized than PoW mining, which is very easily identifiable by any state level actor just by looking at power usage.  Plus run by a few mining pools, plus generally geographically centralized, etc etc.

Layer2

Loopring launches the first rollup chain, capacity 1400 transactions per second (not yet 2000-3000 because of operator bottleneck)

Account-Based anonymous rollup

Perun’s state channel framework in Go

Rollups are here!  Loopring launches their rollup.  Now it isn’t yet doing “Visa” levels of throughput but it’s close.  There’s a lot of work to be done to make operators capable of doing 3000 transactions per second.  It’s not point-and-click to just make a high throughput chain. Recall, for example, chains like EOS which sacrifice decentralization for throughput and still only churn out a few more transactions per second than Ethereum.  </trollface> 

Stuff for developers

Solidity v0.6 – “Changes include explicit virtual and override keywords in inheritance, support for try/catch, splitting the fallback function into a receive Ether function and an actual fallback function and limitations on how the length of an array can be changed.” ABIEncoderV2 no longer experimental. Yul optimizer automatically activated.

Truffle v5.1.5 compatible with Solidity v0.6

Easier deployment with Truffle Teams with Metamask and hardware wallets

AirAssembly v0.2, language for STARKs

Base Circom library

MythX: the journey from slow Python tool to EVM code analysis platfom

decentralized source verification repository for better wallet confirmations

Loredana released an early version of Pipeline, visual IDE

Austin Griffith’s latest eth.build on transactions and gas prices

3 approaches to permissioning in Solidity

Atomic proxy contract

Test your code from Java using web3j-unit

EY’s ERC20 token testing service is in public beta

how EY reduced Nightfall’s gas costs so drastically by using logs

Solidity keeps improving. v0.6 led Augur founder Joey Krug to exclaim, “To give you an idea for just how early crypto is, Solidity just now has try/catch statements!”

The post on the techniques EY used to reduce Nightfall’s gas costs is very cool.  

Ecosystem

Privacy is here: Tornado.cash v2. 10 ETH and 1 ETH now supported. Also now supports DAI, with USDC and USDT coming. Plus withdrawals 60% cheaper due to EIP1108 in Istanbul. 1000+ anonymity set and anyone can run a relayer.

Private voting and whistleblowing using Semaphore

Parity announces plans to assign IP for its Rust client to a DAO. Drama ensued, to put it mildly.

The Gnosis Safe Multisig launch.

Social recovery with Argent gets even easier. Plus, Argent’s Ethereum ecosystem 2020 hype video is great

Tornado mixer going live is amazing.  I 100% don’t want to downplay the possibility that the mixer has a bug or doesn’t work - though they now have 10 ETH deposits and you can insure away your risk with Nexus Mutual by getting a quote on 10 ETH for tornado.nexusmutual.eth and then limiting your exposure to 10 ETH at a time.   The feature improvements are impressive, and it’s impossible to understate how need privacy improvements are.

 Sometimes in Ethereum people didn’t want to pay each other at events using crypto because it means exposing so much of your transaction history.  Privacy matters, and the Tornado mixer is bringing it.  

I don’t want to touch much on the Parity drama.  Much of this is “proof is in the pudding” stuff.  While some parts of the Ethereum community on Reddit think this is Gavin declaring war (he published an op-ed in Coindesk about how blockchains would go to war with each other in 2020), if they assign clean IP to someone, then I feel comfortable guaranteeing you that the client will be well maintained.  If Parity does not do that, then they’ll give credence to the critics.

Meanwhile key management is really getting so much better with Gnosis Safe or Argent.  If you haven’t tried them, you should.

Enterprise

Tradeshift Frontiers and Monerium first cross-border euro transaction. “Invoices and purchase orders were issued through Tradeshift smart-contracts and settled using Monerium e-money on-chain.”

Seberino: private blockchains are not pointless because of decentralized administration and complete security histories.

Hyperledger Besu v1.3.8 better loq query performance

Governance and standards

Control of the MKR token handed over to MakerDAO

Synthetix planning to decentralize its governance in 2020

Deversifi launches its necDAO on DAOstack with 17k ETH in the DAO. Reputation received for locking NEC.

MetaCartel Ventures: a Moloch extension for-profit dapp investment fund

EIP2442: LOGQUERY(x) opcode

The relatively slow week for enterprise juxtaposed with a very packed non-enterprise is amusing.   

Lots of stuff happening in DAO land.   Various people are picking up different strands of TheDAO’s vision and experimenting. 

Application layer

Buy ads-free Forbes for a week or month using Unlock Protocol

Affogato is doing a Unisocks-style sale of specialty coffee from Honduras.

Roll: a “social money exchange” on Uniswap, aimed at online content creators

Synthetix is now using Chainlink oracles

Neon District: Every blockchain game is an MMO

Burner Machine: spin up 3 hours of an anonymous cloud desktop for $1 in crypto

ETH being down in the market meant every set on Set Protocol is up in Eth terms

I think the Affogato sale is very cool, as is their vision for making coffee futures.  I’ve bought a few even though I’m not a big coffee drinker.  I’d really like to see the Ethereum community support them more.  I may buy a token or two and give them away.

Also neat to see Forbes using Unlock.  I bought one even though Brave already blocks my ads. 

I had missed Burner Machine, which is a neat little concept and way of using crypto as a payment rail.

Also cool to see an oracle solution like Chainlink go into wider production with Synthetic.  

And I guess I should have bought more sets on Set Protocol!

Tokens / Business / Regulation

TheGraph: web3 is going to be the next big platform, and it will start in 2020

SEC still charging random ICOs with unregistered security offerings

SEC proposes adding financial sophistication as criteria for accredited investor status

Proof of use as standard in token launches

ZimDai: a plan for Dai adoption in Zimbabwe to offer its citizens a hyperinflation alternative

1:1 collateralized stablecoin for the Nigerian Naira

ZimDai is super cool.  Wasn’t this supposed to be a big part of what “crypto” about?  It’s a long shot, but imagine how incredible it would be for Zimbabweans to have an alternative to their perpetual hyperinflation?  Politicians cause inflation by overspending, the folks in Zimbabwe deserve a better option.

Meanwhile I loved Yaniv’s piece about web3 being the next big platform and how we get there.  It’s amazing how the pendulum of “conventional wisdom” has swung the other way.  This was a nice counterpoint.

General

PLONK benchmarks vs Groth16 on MiMC and SHA-256

Byte serialization in blockchains

Redundancy in Swarm (arxiv paper)

DeFi explained. A nice primer

Ethereum for dummies

Surveillance capitalism: location tracking from your smartphone apps (NYTimes)

Who should own the internet naming system of the future? ENS as public good

As always, a bit of a grab bag. In the ‘general’ section I now generally put things involving both very advanced crypto (like the very cool PLONK benchmarks from Aztec Protocol) and beginner tutorials.   Both the beginner-friendly pieces are high on the list of most clicked.

#Ethereum

[max-iepup]

1. What tends to feel better for you, sex or masturbation?

Sex 🐶

2. Your 5 favorite spots to be stimulated.

My neck, booty (+hole), inner thighs, nipps, and mouth

3. Have you ever had your prostate stimulated?

Yessum

4. Have you ever had an orgasm from anywhere other than your genitals?

Yeah.... daddy knows how

5. Do you prefer clitoral or vaginal stimulation?

Idk...i don't want either of them on my body

6. Can you touch your clitoris directly, or does that hurt?

I can touch it yeah

7. Are you well-acquainted with your G-spot?

Not really

8. Are handjobs boring, or underrated?

Like receiving or giving? Giving they are boring but receiving id say not underrated but not boring

9. Do you like having your balls touched?

Yes?

10. Do you like having your nipples touched?

Definitely!

11. Do you like having your anus touched?

Hehe yes 🐶

12. Have you ever been fisted (anally or vaginally)?

Nope to both

13. Do you like mild roughness (scratching, spanking, hair-pulling, etc.)?

Yes please!!! I kind of need it to really feel any pleasure

14. Do you have any kinks?

Ummmm i habe a lot

15. Are you into anything under the BDSM umbrella?

Hehe yupperoni! Thats why imma pup and a little

16. Do you pee in the shower?

Yes it saves toilet paper

17. Do you ever masturbate in the shower?

Yup

18. Have you had sex in the shower?

Yups

19. Do you like being naked?

Yesh

20. Do you sleep partially/fully naked?

Yeppers!

21. Have you ever skinny dipped?

No sadly..

22. What’s the most unusual thing you’ve done nude?

Idk i guess worked on hw or cried...

23. Have you ever to a nude beach, naked party, or other situation involving casual nudity?

Nope sadly

24. Are you comfortable being seen partially/fully naked by family or friends (i.e. getting dressed, etc.)?

Not with family really and friends it depends on who it is due to how i feel about my body

25. Are you comfortable with partners seeing you nude in non-sexual contexts?

Like showering?? Then yes

26. Have you ever showered with someone (non-sexually)?

Does starting off not sexual count?

27. Do you care if a partner sees you going to the bathroom?

A bit but im working on this

28. Do you have naked pictures/videos of yourself? If yes, have you sent them to anyone? Are they online?

Yes i do, and yes i have, and yes they are. Look up olliepupslave on twitter or pornhub

29. How many sexual partners have you had?

7? What counts exactly?

30. How often do you masturbate?

Depends on my mood really. It can swing from once every couple weeks to almost daily

31. Age you started masturbating? How did you discover/learn about it?

I was about 11 i think and i had found my parents porn dvds when they weren't home. I also accidentally watched an adult show on tv

32. What position do you typically masturbate in (laying on back, on stomach, sitting up, etc.)?

Laying on my back

33. Describe your masturbation routine, technique, etc.

Idk i just either play porn or not or i look at things from daddy and i just sort of rub down there...idk

34. What do you masturbate to (porn, smut, imagination, etc.)?

Porn usually sometimes imagination

35. Have you ever masturbated to the point you got sore?

No

36. Your thoughts the first time you got up close and personal with the opposite set of genitals?

That I really liked the way they felt in my mouth. And i really enjoyed the taste. I started off with bjs and thats just what I really love

37. Have you ever “compared” (genitals, breasts, whatever) with a friend?

No not really

38. What kind of underwear do you normally wear?

I love boxer briefs

39. Do you ever go commando?

I have yes

40. Have you ever had a wet dream/orgasmed in your sleep?

Yups hehe

41. How big is your penis?

...

42. Does your penis curve at all?

...

43. Which testicle hangs lower?

...

44. How big are your breasts?

...

45. Do you long or short labia? Are they even or uneven?

...

46. Do you have a particularly large or tiny clitoris?

...

47. Are you circumcised or no? Are you happy with it?

...

48. Are you turned on or off by foreskin, or don’t care?

Idk as long as they clean up right its fine

49. What are you more into (or like more about yourself), boobs or butts?

Butts

50. Do you find genitals physically attractive, or weird/gross, or not feel strongly either way?

The first one

51. Do you like the way your genitals look?

...

52. Would you be able to pick out your genitals from a lineup?

...

53. Do you like your butt?

...

54. What do you do with your pubic hair (shave, trim, wax, nothing, etc.)?

I shave

55. Do you care/have a preference what partners do with their pubic hair?

I prefer shaved or trimmed at least

56. Do you tuck your penis a certain way (i.e. left or right) when you get dressed?

...

57. Do you have or want any genital piercings? Do you like any on other people?

...

58. What is the quickest you’ve ever brought yourself (or been brought) to orgasm?

Ummm idk within seconds i guess

59. Do you ever “edge” (repeatedly stop and start) when masturbating?

I do yes

60. What’s the longest masturbation session you’ve had? Longest sex session?

Idk really i dont keep track of time during that stuff

61. What’s the most orgasms you’ve had in one session (of anything)?

100 or 200

62. Do your orgasms tend to be full-body, or crotch-centric?

Depends on how i climaxed

63. Spit or swallow?

I wanna swallow but my gag reflex sucks...

64. When you ejaculate, do you more shoot or dribble?

Dribble

65. Is it hot or gross to get ejaculated on?

Hot

66. Do you “squirt?”

I have yes

67. Have you ever attempted (or succeeded) to give yourself oral?

Nope

68. Have you ever given/received a footjob, boobjob, etc.?

Ive given a boobjob

69. Have you ever had sex in a public place?

Yup

70. Have you ever had sex in a bed/on a couch that didn’t belong to either of you?

No

71. Have you ever had sex/masturbated while somebody was sleeping near you?

Yes

72. How many rooms of your house/apartment/etc. have you had sex in?

Current house none

73. Strangest/most unique place you’ve had sex? How about masturbated?

A car for sex and masturbated in class back in like middle school

74. Have you had any sexual experiences that were downright gross?

No

75. Are you particularly “vocal” when masturbating/having sex?

Sex yeah takes a bit for me to be vocal when masturbating

76. Have you ever been caught masturbating/having sex?

Yeah sorta

77. Have you had or do you want to have a threesome (or foursome, or more)?

I have had one yes but I want to do it again

78. Do you own any sex toys?

Tons

79. Have you ever used a homemade sex toy, or a regular object as a sex toy?

Yup. Legos, hairbrush, toothbrush, handle to a loofa, phone vibrator apps, markers

80. Can a dildo feel as good as a penis (assuming the person with the penis is good at what they do)?

It can if you are going for like wanting a bigger size but it doesnt feel right like its cold at first which makes it feel sorta wrong to me. Cus like a real penis is gonna be warm cus its alive

81. What are your favorite positions?

Doggy, riding someone is really fun, this one where when laying on my stomach i put my legs together and then the other person spreads theirs around

82. Your most embarrassing sexual experience?

Was deepthroating daddy and accidentally barfed because of my gag relfex ....

83. Worst place/time you’ve ever gotten a boner?

Idk

84. Have you ever had any genital injuries?

My sister punched my pelvis once but not my actual vagina

85. Have you ever had a sexually transmitted infection?

Nope

86. Have you ever had a non-sexually transmitted genital infection (yeast infection, etc)?

Yeah ive had a yeast infection before

87. If you lack a penis, have you ever tried to pee standing up?

Yeah i do it in the shower

88. If you lack a penis, how familiar are you with how you look down there?

Very

89. Do you think you’re “good” at sex, or your performance/skill could use improvement?

A bit of both

90. Have you “sexted” (whether through text messaging or IM chat)?

Yup since i found out what sex was

91. Have you masturbated for or with someone via webcam?

Yup

92. Have you have phone sex?

Yeah

93. If you had the opposite set of genitals for a day, name 5 things you would do.

I would get a bj, fuck someones ass, go to a gloryhole, free ball it, and probably drive around with it hanging out

94. What’s something you like about your body?

My hair i guess

95. What’s something you dislike about your body?

Almost all of it

96. What body parts do you find the sexiest?

On me or someone else?

97. What was your most recent sexual thought?

That I want to get fucked spmewhere public at night

98. Do you ever just play with your boobs, penis, labia, etc.?

Yeah lol

99. When was the last time you touched your genitals?

When i took a shower so yesterday

100. Do you often imagine people naked?

Not really

@acesoldier88-sfw

[pretzel-lift]

A Lifetime of Lifting

I wanted to publish this post to just tell my story; I’m seemingly at least a decade older than many lifters in the community and wanted to share where I’ve been, how I’ve gotten there, and what’s changed.

I’m going to start off by saying that this is gonna be long and probably boring, but if you’re into autobiographies then please stick with me lol. ---------

The first time I ever remember taking anything was when I was eight years old. I was playing at a friend’s house and she had an orange plastic toy compass that I remember thinking, “I want that.” I waited for her to leave the room and I stuck it in my pocket. I was so nervous, I remember my heart racing and making up an excuse that I needed to go home. I got on my bike and pedaled away from her house. I was never questioned about the whereabouts of the compass.

I don’t remember what I felt - I just know that “taking things” became a habit for me, always from school. Paperback books were a favorite; I could easily take them home from the classroom to read and just never return them. In fifth grade, I spied a brand-new multi-pack of rainbow colored overhead projector markers. A dozen beautiful colors called to me to steal them. Again, I waited for the opportunity for the classroom to be empty, and quickly zipped the package into my backpack.

A few days later, the teacher that I loved and never wanted to disappoint asked us to search the classroom for the package of markers. My heart began to pound again, but I knew the markers were safe at home, so I pretended to look for them along with everyone else. The search expanded to our bookbags and desks. Our teacher was beside herself as to where the markers could be. I never stepped forward and said that I did it, and I never returned them either.

This was the mid-90s, and I was ten years old. I knew nothing of security cameras at the stores, I don’t think it even dawned on me that stores would have such a thing to catch lifters. This was the first time you could say I was caught. One night, my mother and I went out to Big Lots, and I mentioned to her that there was a coffee mug I wanted a couple of aisles over, and it was $1.00. For whatever reason, my mom deemed that it was too expensive, and we kept shopping. I went back to “look” at the mugs again, and succeeded in peeling the sticker off a .39 mug and pasting it over the $1.00 sticker on the mug I wanted. I thought I was a genius and showed my mom that I’d found a cheaper mug. We went to check out and all was good until just before the cashier totaled the merchandise. To my mother’s embarrassment and my prepubescent chagrin, the manager came up and told my mother that I had been caught changing the price tag on the mug. My mother was fuming, and I denied it at first, but they had me caught and gave me a lengthy scare about shoplifting and how I was lucky to not be arrested. Ha. 

When high school hit, lifting was a weekly thing for me. I had saved enough money from working for the down payment on a car, and was free to lift any time I wanted now. Two big-box retailers had made their way to our town a few years earlier, and suddenly, so much was mine - my entire makeup collection, novelty items, pens and notebooks, clothes, shoes. I concealed everything on-person initially, but I became braver and started using my purse. My boyfriend at the time stared in awe as I dumped dozens and dozens of packages of lifted Magic and YuGiOh cards onto his bed, yanked from the displays. Me1jer was a great store to lift condoms, lube, and cigarettes from - this was about 2001 and they still had old self-serve cigarette displays at the beginning of their checkout lines. I was a minor, so this was my go-to for cigarettes, stuffed away in my black canvas crossbody purse studded with (lifted) pins. This era of my life also saw the advent of me stealing my mom’s medicines to sell and even taking her wedding set to a pawn shop. 

The year after graduation, I met my only lifting buddy to this date, Cat*. Cat worked at a mom-and-pop restaurant in a nearby town and pocketed at least a hundred a night from the register, or just taking the money the customers paid her with and only pretended to cash them out. I didn’t condone this personally, but it delighted me that I could exploit Cat for my personal gain, and soon Cat and I went on shopping sprees and it felt good to “buy” things, in our own way. 

The year after that, I met my oldest child’s dad, and things were getting tougher. I was 20 years old and had been living on my own for two years at this point, and had an apartment full of friends with no jobs who were staying with me because they had “no place to go.” I was struggling to pay the bills (minimum wage at this time in my state was still $5.15 an hour), and had no money left over. I was working at a major retailer as a cashier, when one afternoon a customer knelt down in front of  my register and came back up with a credit card. “Here, someone dropped this,” they said, and my head began swimming with the possibilities. “Thank you, I’ll take it to the office,” I told the customer, but the card was never turned in.

I realized that I had a very short window in which to act, so after work, I went on a shopping spree, packed my fridge and cabinets, and filled my gas tank. I signed an alias on the slips and promptly destroyed the credit card after the spree, which lasted no more than 24 hours. At the time, I assumed I wouldn’t be caught, that no cameras could denote who I really was, that nobody would be able to catch my license plate number. Very fortunately, I was not caught, but I had breached into new and very dangerous territory.

During that summer, I was very enamored with my (completely lazy and piece of shit) boyfriend, and would do anything to fund his every whims. Dropped credit cards showed up more often at my register, and I began treading into the waters of ORC, gift card fraud, and even check fraud. Hundreds of dollars were becoming mine with the ease of a few keypunches on the registers. I knew that I could get in huge trouble for all of these things, but I told myself that I was smart, I was ahead of the game. To this point, I had stolen money from every job I had worked at, and been fired from a few for doing such. But even with everything I was doing to stay ahead, the money was never enough - and I found myself pregnant that fall.

Shortly after becoming pregnant was the first time I was really caught, and it was so careless and embarrassing that it’s almost funny. My now-ex, his friend, and I strolled into one of the big-boxers with a freshly nabbed stolen credit card. Right off the bat, even for the given store, we looked sus as fuck - screwing around, dressed like trash, being loud. We stopped at the accessories department first and I foolishly took a pair of earrings off of a pack and put them in my ears. We laughed and joked through the store for at least two hours as we filled up our cart with the usual - food mainly, but other things like DVDs and candles and crap. We checked out at the register and I signed my alias on the credit card pad and we were on our way out the door with our several-hundreds-dollars haul. Just before the doors, we were stopped by two LP, they were talking so fast and shoving something in my face that it took me a minute to realize what was going on. One LP was holding up the placard that held earrings, one pair missing. The other was telling me I could not leave until I came with them and let them know what I did with the earrings. I became angry because I was caught, but I played it off like I was trying them on (what even?) and “forgot” I had them. The LP allowed me to go back through the line and purchase the whole package - which I did so with the stolen card I had. Irony. We were let go on the premise that we wouldn’t come back for six months. That didn’t last.

That scare set me back from lifting when I needed it the most. I was now pregnant, jobless, and even homeless - my boyfriend and I were staying from couch to couch with friends where we could. We had burnt bridges everywhere. My boyfriend refused to get a job and for some reason, I believe I deserved to be with someone like this. I scammed up six months of unemployment benefits, which was the best I could do in my condition, and we lived on $115 a week until the baby was born (rent was $100 a week).

A couple of months after our daughter was born, I was hired by another big-box retailer and found myself working at the customer service desk. I was mainly alone on my shifts after I had learned the ropes, and it got a little boring back there. I willed myself not to lift, even though I was needing it more than ever - even with a job and food stamps, I could barely pay bills, and still didn’t have a car. I discovered a gem while cleaning out the drawers in customer service one day - a drawer with lost IDs and gift cards in them. I surreptitiously pocketed the gift cards, left the IDs and whatever else was in there - junk jewelry, keychains. I went home that night and checked the balance on the gift cards, One of them had $100 on it. That week, at least, I could breathe easy. 

I was becoming careless, though. The gift card I found with $100 on it was for the store I worked at, and I was nervous as all hell to shop for what I needed, so I went to a location out of town to spend it on body wash and stuff I needed for home. During my employment here, I gathered the skills I could to process fraudulent returns. All of the returned merchandise was kept behind the desk and sorted in to various carts to go back to stock at the end of the night. I was routinely (like every shift) beginning to take items that were brought to the service desk and process fraudulent returns on them to pocket the money or gift cards. It worked like this: a customer would do a return and I would give them the money. That’s fine, right? But I’d later take the same receipt copy I had and “return” some other things from the receipt, or just gather receipts from the parking lot and “return” the items. LP was gone after a certain hour (their office was right next to my desk). How would anyone know unless they were REALLY watching the cameras, and seeing that I was doing fake returns, haha right?

Haha indeed. One night, I was told to go on break, and someone came to relieve me of the desk. I knew that I had $60 in my sock from a fraudulent return I’d done way too early in the shift, and it wasn’t time for break. My stomach dropped and my mouth got hot and I knew I was caught even though everyone acted normal. I walked toward the break room, eager to sneak into the restroom and hide the money a little better, but I was stopped on the way and taken to the LP office. They had called a police officer and everything. They accused me of taking a little more than $1000 at this point, they’d been “watching” me. It never dawned on me that LP would build a case against me and then bust me later. I had assumed that the minute they catch you stealing, your jig was up, and they didn’t let it go further. I was wrong. I handed over the money they knew I had in my sock and tried to cry my way out of it.

What LP had caught me with paled in comparison to what I had actually made off with - of course, I didn’t let them know that. I complied. I cried. I told them I was scared and had nothing and just couldn’t make ends meet. Spoiler alert, they didn’t believe me, or care. LP left the room after awhile and left me in there with the police officer. By the grace of god knows what, and very graciously, the police officer told me that he was not going to arrest me, but that this was extremely serious and could land me in prison. The retailed had accused me of over a grand - but instead of pressing charges or showing camera footage or anything “proving” what I’d done, I was made to sign a couple of papers. One was terminating my employment, and another was sort-of a promissory note of payback. I was banned from this retailer for a number of months, ordered to pay back what they accused me of taking, and a few other stipulations. I left that night crying and calling my mom for a ride - again, I was 21 and alone with no job or car, only this time I had an infant to care for with very little help from anyone. I had nothing to my name, not even a bed or a couch in my disgusting apartment. I managed to scam up 10 weeks of unemployment benefits again, but that was the last.

This incident was over 11 years ago. I was shook to the core and vowed to never lift again. Eight years passed and I found a very long and hard way to “better,” involving leaving my ex (he still to this day does nothing for his child), going on to marry someone else, gaining financial stability and independence, and not lifting a single cent in that time.

But a few years ago, I felt like I was going crazy. I was severely depressed and manic. I have long since been diagnosed with OCD and kleptomania, but I abated myself and the urges. I joined tumblr in 2013 on my main. In 2014, I got curious about lifting again - and searched the tags for shoplifting hauls or something like that. Holy shit, what a world I’d stumbled on. See, up until I got popped at work and terminated, I had no internet to turn to, no community, no reddit, no tumblr, and I never even searched up forum boards on my illegal pastime. I learned it all on my own, every victory, every misstep, every twist and turn - but here, oh here on liftblr...holy. fucking. shit. These people knew EVERYTHING. They knew how to take hard security tags off (something I had never considered fucking with), they knew entire store layouts and how to lift and most importantly, how to stay safe. Fuck. Here came the urges again - and I was absolutely certain that if I studied, I could do this again.

Well, it’s 2017, and here I am. Two thirds of my life as a lifter. I am now in my early 30s, I am a wife and a mother, I work a great job. I am not financially insecure. During the eight years I was inactive, I established a rapport with many of the store staff in the town I live in, and have been taught what to watch out for and what to avoid. I feel like this is a pertinent step in not being caught, and I often lift along with my regular shopping. I am eternally grateful for finding this community because without it, I’d be lost. I’m grateful for every (good) tip and love admiring people’s hauls. I don’t have a ton of tips, but I do want to share what I do.

- The majority of my method is simply walking out of the store with items, or leaving them in my cart (under a purse or bag). I do this a bit brazenly and I do not recommend it. But the idea behind lifting, no matter WHY you do it, is to beat LP at their game. Your objective is to outsmart them. I choose this method because at my age, the repercussions are greater, and because the ONLY thing that will get you caught is INTENT. If it never looks like you intended to lift, you will get out of this every time, I promise. I’m not saying to walk out with mounds of clothing draped over your arm - that’s simply un-doable. But I am most comfortable walking out with a couple of things here or there, especially in crowded stores, because the intent isn’t clear - did I mean to walk out with those items, or didn’t I? I do conceal when I need to - when I go on a “bigger” haul and use my magnet and such. But I’m mainly still not totally comfortable with it. 

- I don’t fuck with K0hl’s, M@cy’s/C@rsons, and generally don’t fuck with W@lmart. They’re way, way too good in my town, and have been known to hire actual uniformed police officers to assist LP in watching for theft.

- Do your research and check Facebook for a local police scanner page for your area. This has helped me many times when they post theft calls and to which store (for more info on this please message me). Google lifting in your area, especially store-specific. 

- Always pay in cash. Do not leave a paper trail of any type, and the best advice I can give is to be natural. It is a HUGE risk to drive to a store and park and lift and hope they don’t get your plate number...but it’s also sus to be walking from a long way away, and can be unreliable to be dropped off.

- You will be suspected if you don’t act the part. When people ask you about your thoughts on lifting, or mention lifting to you in conversation, you must join their opinion and pretend that lifters are scum trash who deserve to fry in prison. Literally, that is what all of my coworkers think. As much as it pains me and I want to argue with them, you just HAVE to agree.

- By now, you all know not to leave packages behind, and not walk around the store with your items, obviously searching for a blind spot. Pro tip: conceal as you move, if you’ve got to conceal on-floor. Utilize your phone and wallet to hide items to easily into your bag or jacket. Conceal on-person as much as you can. I submitted the tip about using a magnetic back brace/knee brace to lift with/make your magnets non-sus. Use this tip. 

- Give yourself a limit per store, especially when beginning. You have a craft to hone, and you likely aren’t going to haul off with a grand in merch the first time. Start small and keep practicing this item limit. Begin with one item per store so you don’t get overwhelmed. Work on this and master it then move up to two or three, mastering each level confidently. Always leave your items behind if you suspect you’re being watched. Greed will kill you if you have not mastered the basics.

- If caught, I personally do not recommending running. I know that some have, but to me, the risk of a resisting arrest charge and possible injury are not worth it. I have no parents to answer to and nobody to punish me except the police, so I will stick with this.

- Most of us are pretty curious about lifting in our teens, even if only to just see if we can do it. This is illegal and I’m telling you right now that if you can’t or are not comfortable lying, this activity is not for you. Because eventually, you will be lying a lot to people about items and activities. Some people are simply not good lifters and this should be learned sooner rather than later (for the sake of your permanent record).

- Some have been caught/beeped a lot, some have never. Some is luck, most is skill, but the main thing you must remember is that if truly caught, you risk jail time, fines, and humiliation. You risk losing a chance at gainful employment if you catch a felony. Your name and maybe even photo, along with your charge, will be posted in your local newspaper and everyone will know and they won’t trust you anymore. Research your state laws but remember that if you are caught, it is VERY hard to use what you remember on Google to get out of an arrest. If you’re facing a felony, hire a lawyer and they will do the talking for you.

- Graciously, I have still to this day never been convicted, not even of the ORC activities, fraud/forgery, or identity theft. I do not know how or why I was released that night from the officer when it was pretty obvious that I was guilty. I hope to maintain a clean record permanently.

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for the get to know the blogger thing: even numbers in the 130 range

OH Boy, this is gunna be a long one

2. What is your favorite piece of clothing you own / owned?

I have a shirt of a lady wearing a panda mask, it looks really nice and im actually wearing it right now ahaha, also really like my star wars X-Wing hoodie :D4. What does your perfect room look like?

Im not really sure tbh, although it would be nice if there was a little more space and better lighting than my room has. Would love to get some small plants and stuff and some owl related cushions or something6. What fictional place would you like to visit?

Would be interesting to visit Dunwall from Dishonored or one of the many planets in Star Wars, would love to go see a Podrace or something!8. When was the last time you climbed a tree?

2014, its the same time i fell out of a tree and broke my collarbone ahaha10. What is the most annoying habit that you or other people have?

I check my phone way too much which is kinda annoying to me, although my dad gets really annoyed that i bounce my legs ahaha12. What skill would you like to master?

It would be rad to master a language (Although im on my way to that) or maybe my skating or art14. If you had unlimited funds to build a house to live on for the rest of your life, what would the finished house look like?

Honestly i would probably just buy a cozy apartment and get a cat or something, ive never really thought about such before16. What state or country do you never want to go back to?Havent actually got anywhere i would never want to go back to yet 18. What game or movie universe would you like to live in?

As cool as the Metro games are, not that one ahaha. maybe the world of Star Trek or something :D20. Are you usually early or late?

Im usually quite early tbh 22. When people come to you for help, what do they usually need help with?

Not really sure tbh, i cant remember, although people occasionally ask me about assignments or such so there that24. What do you wish you knew more about?

Well cos im finding programming a tad tricky at uni, i would say that, but tbh i would love to know more about astrophysics or anything related to rocketry and piloting !26. What are some small things that make your day better?

A cup of tea in my favourite mug, someone complimenting how i look, my dog saying hi when i get home 28. What’s the best way to start the day?

By slamming my face into the pillow and going back to sleep ahaha, nah i think a relaxed morning with some tea and a nice breakfast or something

30. What TV channel doesn’t exist but really should?

Would be cool to have a channel for all the space exploration stuff, lunno if it would be widely popular or not but i would love to see such 32. What age do you wish you could stay at permanently?

Im not really sure tbh 34. What’s your ideal way to spend a weekend?

My ideal weekend is to laze about at home and play videogames, bake some stuff or work on some art. I just feel really comfy at home so being able to relax at home all weekend sounds ideal to me36. What is your claim to fame?

Im not really sure if i have one?38. What’s your favorite book or movie genre?

I really dig science fiction, although with movies i also like the action genre :D40. What have you only recently formed an opinion about?42. What subject interests you that not many people have heard of?

I couldnt think of anything people havent really heard of but i really enjoy reading about early nasa, so stuff like the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs44. What’s the best book series or TV series you’ve ever read or watched?

I think at the moment, the best Tv series for me is Band of Brothers46. What’s the most heartwarming thing you’ve ever seen?

Those videos of people meeting family or friends in the airport that live really far away, everyone is so happy in those and its really nice :D48. What could you give a 40-minute presentation on with no preparation?

I could probably give a presentation on ww2 or the moon missions, not 100% accurate or super detailed but yeah, well that or the Lore of various games and movies i like50. What is something you think everyone should do at least once in their lives?

Travel, just seeing somewhere new, the journey and exploration involved, its really cool :D52. What’s your dream car?absolutely no clue54. What is something a ton of people are obsessed with, but you just don’t get?

Game of Thrones, that new show on netflix56. Where is the most interesting place you’ve been?When i lived in England i went to the transport museum and also the various imperial war museums, those were absolutely fantastic. Over here in straya though? probably the top of sydney harbour bridge, that was pretty gnarly58. What is the best thing that happened to you last week?

Well i just got my grade back for my programming assignment and i got 70% :D60. If all jobs had the same pay rate and hours, what job would you want to have?

Im not sure, although at the moment im studying game design at uni so i would probably go for that anyway ahaAlthough if there was an opportunity it would be cool to become an astronaut or ww2 historian62. How different was your life 1 year ago?

Well i couldnt ice skate, i wasnt doing a degree, i think i was in  somewhat crappier state than i am now. But things have been improving over the last few years :)64. What would you rate 10/10?

Ahh im not good at rating or ranking anything, i guess the new star wars? (Rogue one)66. What is the most interesting piece of art you’ve seen?

Im not really sure, i dont think ive been to see art in ages, although i really like the art my friend @echey does! its super awesome stuff!68. What do you hope never changes?

My ability to find good in a bad situation70. What movie title best describes your life?I cant even think of one tbh72. What’s the best way a person can spend their time?Just do what you enjoy i guess74. Where is the most relaxing place you’ve ever been?

Botanical gardens in adelaide are really nice, dont go there too often but theyre relaxing as heck76. Where would you rather be from?

As much as i talk shit about england, i dont think id want to be from anywhere else78. What do you look forward to in the next 6 months?New alien movie, end of first semester, turn 20 next month, Dunkirk movie, lots of cool stuff :D80. What one thing do you really want but can’t afford?Either a trip overseas or all those games that i have on my wishlist rn82. Where would you spend all your time if you could?Im not sure tbh, i guess anywhere i feel comfortable?84. What age do you want to live to?ahh thats a tough one, i guess in my 20′s? 86. What are you absolutely determined to do?

Get through my degree and get a job in my chosen field88. What do you wish you knew more about?theres so much i wish i knew more about ;-;90. What question can you ask to find out the most about a person??? iunno dude92. What’s the best compliment you’ve ever received?iunno? any compliment is nice to me :D94. Who inspires you to be better?nothing comes to mind but im sure theres someone :/96. What haven’t you grown out of?my favourite tshirt ahaha 98. What’s the dumbest thing you’ve done that actually turned out pretty well?no bloody clue but im sure it was absolutely stupid aha100. What’s something you will never do again?climb a tree and break my collarbone102. What keeps you up at night?my messed up sleep schedule mainly, although those weird night time depressed moods get ya too 104. What is the most illegal thing you’ve ever done?probably underage drinking106. What are you afraid people see when they look at you?a worthless shithead108. What do you look down on people for?being absolute wankers, although in my degree the thing i really look down on is those people that are like “How did you not get that? its easy!” or generally act like a know it all and give you shit over coding, like chill out lads and help each other110. What lie do you tell most often?im fine, im not tired, im used to it, ill be fine,  couldnt think of one so heres the top ones i can think off112. What is the best & worst thing about getting older?Can buy what you want, but worst thing is that the older you get, the more youre looked down on for being unemployed114. If you had a personal flag, what would be on it?probably a kickass dragon!!116. What is the biggest lesson you’ve learned?

Don’t procrastinate/ set your deadline a day or two early and start early so if you do procrastinate, it would fuck you up as bad118. What are you famous for among your friends & family?I think with friends im mostly famous for random history (Mainly ww2) facts and at home im mostly known for my shitty humour i think ahaha120. What one responsibility do you wish you didn’t have?122. What do you want to tell your 10-year-old self?Don’t give a shit about what others might think, just do what makes you happy and be how you feel you should124. What’s the best thing about you?My terrible humour, my optimism 126. Have you ever saved someone’s life?Who knows?128. What would a mirror opposite of you look like?Like a reverse image of me? nah ahaha probably a massive asshole, but at the same time theyre probably putting them self first and their happiness so iunno130. Which of your scars has the best story behind it?Got a massive scar over my right collarbone, had to get surgery on it when i broke it and so now ive got a metal plate in my body aha

thank you for the ask!!

#hockey-downunder

[whenismuna]

all?

1. Name: stephanie, steph, stoof, mistake

2. Birthplace: iowa bye

3. Ancestry: german and swedish aka whitest of the whites

4. Zodiac Sign: aries :)

5. Biggest fear: lmao being alone and losing trust in the people i care about most haha

6. Strength/Weakness: nothing/everything

7. Worst habit: breathing

8. Favorite holiday: halloween

9. Ever been in a car crash: almost

10. Have you ever had a crush on a teacher: lol who hasnt

11. What do you do as soon as you walk in the house: fill up my water and take off my pants

12. Age at first kiss: 17

13. When did you fall in love for the first time: 17

14. Who Is Your Longest Friend & How Long: michelle, the loml, 10 1/2 years :’)

15. Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: dont die maybe

16. What were you doing at midnight last night: listening to after laughter

17. When was the last time you laughed hard: this morning talking to michelle

18. Who was the last person that told you they love you: michelle :’)

19. What was the first thing you thought when you woke up yesterday morning: how am i supposed to know bye

20. Where did you go for your first date and who was it with: very first date was a double-date with my then-friend and our then-boyfriends and we saw that movie with justin timberlake about time?

21. Who’s wedding were you in the first time you were a bridesmaid or a groomsmen: my moms :)

22. Who did you see in concert first: weird al in like 4th grade

23. Who was your favorite teacher: SARAH JACKSON MY MOTHER I LOVE HER THE REAL LOML

24. Who is the first person you call when you have a bad day: michelle

25. Who do you think about most: michelle or carly rae jepsen

26. Is your ideal occupation? doing anything with animal husbandry/rehabilitation

27. Beer, wine, or liquor? liquor 100%

28. Favourite restaurant? old sammy t’s or maybe legume

29. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? ben and jerrys americone dream

30. McDonlads or Burger King? neither?

31. Fantasy dinner guest(s)? crj, griffin mcelroy, rachel carson

32. Have you ever been drunk? When was the last time? yee like january wtf

33. What is the most embarrassing thing you have done drunk? lmao i sent michelle a bunch of snaps once crying about how much i love dogs

34. Wonder Woman or Cat Woman? wonder woman

35. How many pets do you have? none but i wanna get a kenyan sand boa so bad :(

36. What would be the first thing you bought if you won the lottery? an education

37. When was the first time you smoked? like july?

38. Who last sent you a text? delaney

39. Who did you last send a text to? delaney

40. What 4 things would you take to a desert island? rope, a knife, a lighter, and plastic wrap

41. Name the 3 most important people in your life? michelle delaney and nay

42. Favorite song? rn probably fake happy tbh

43. Favorite movie? always hsm bye

44. When did you last cuddle someone? last night :)

45. When did you last have sex? tuesday

46. If you woke up tomorrow with no fear, what would you do first? so much oh my god

47. What was your biggest worry five years ago, do you still feel the same about it at this minute? i mean this time five years ago i was getting ready to go to camp for the first time so i was probably worried about people liking me and like some of my best friends are from camp so obviously thats not a fear anymore

48. If you could change one law of your country, what would it be? just one?

49. What relationships have ended? But you can’t let go? literally none

50. Where would you take a road trip? everywhere

51. How do Mondays feel for you? time isnt real. i havent known what day it is for the past month

52. If you could spend ten minutes with your ‘hero’ alive or dead what would you ask them? “hi rachel yeah a) are u gay, b) will you marry me?”

53. Do your practice ‘self love’ or ‘self loathing’? love in theory but loathing in practice

54. What’s your greatest achievement to date? beating a game of solitaire in 25 seconds

55. What scares you about your future? literally everything

56. Why does pizza come in a square box? idk?

57. What would happen if you knew you could not fail? id already have my dream job tbh

58. How does it feel to be photographed? if its on my terms, very nice, otherwise no

59. If you could erase an event from your mind, which one would you choose? all of middle school

60. Do you want your children (if you have any) to be ‘just like you’? trick question, i dont want kids

61. Do you stand for what you believe in or are you pleasing others? im the most non-confrontational person i know but if it really gets to morals i will absolutely stand for what i believe in

62. If money were no concern, what would you do for the rest of your life? travel

63. What are you thankful for, this moment? my friends

64. Do you have same sex fantasies? im gay?

65. If you have had sex in a public place, where? nope

66. Have you ever cried during/after sex? nope

67. Who is the oldest person you’ve had sex with? 25

68. Who is the youngest person you’ve had sex with? 19

69. Would you rather be in a relationship with a totally submissive partner or a totally dominant partner? dom bye

70. How tall are you? 5′10 bye

71. How much do you weigh? lmao i dont even know. i havent weighed myself in so long like i dont care lowkey

72. What color is your hair naturally? brown

73. What size jeans do you wear? umm???? 10??? 12????? idk

74. What is your favorite color to wear? black

75. Do you have any piercings? no :(

76. Do you have any tattoos? no :(

77. Do you care how other people see you? sometimes

78. Do you like sports? eh

79. How do you feel about age differences in relationships? it depends. as long as its not a huge age gap its fine idk

80. How do you feel about race differences in relationships? why would that matter?

81. Do you believe in karma or fate? both? more karma though

82. Do you keep a journal? i used to

83. Describe the last dream you remember: i was at delaneys house and her and her mom were showing me around the house and i was sobbing

84. Describe your favorite dream: see above

85. Where are some places you would like to visit? everywhere

86. Any upcoming concerts you want to attend? harry styles, handsome ghost, misterwives

87. What music do you listen to when you are happy? it depends? mostly carly rae jepsen tho lbr

88. What music do you listen to when you are mad? mostly folie a deux or vices or something

89. Do you like to burn candles or incense? candles

90. What was the last alcoholic beverage you consumed? oh yikes becherovka

91. What are your favorite alcoholic beverages? anything fruity

92. Do you smoke cigarettes or cigars? What about marijuana? nope

93. Who is your number 1 friend and why is he or she there? MICHELLE!!!!! we are soulmates and tbh i swear we were friends in a past life and when we met we knew because we were instantly best friends and i trust her with my life and tbh i could write a 10 page paper on why i love her and why shes my best friend bc wow a+ what a gal i love her so much and she will always be my #1. i am michelle trash #1

94. Has anyone ever mistaken you for a family member? nope

95. Is there anyone of your friends that you would ever consider having sex with? yeah probably

96. Would you ever have sex in the shower or the bath? nope

97. Have you ever kissed or had sex with someone of the same sex? im gay

98. Do you think your last ex still wants to be with you? lmao tbh who cares im so over that and like lowkey if she sees this i dont really care bc like so much happened and also i have agf now so it doesnt even matter?

99. Ever wondered what it would be like dating the same gender as you? IM GAY

100. What are your outlooks on gay/bisexual people? I AM GAY

101. How often do you brush your teeth? depends on if im in a depressive episode or not, but usually at least twice a day

102. How often do you shower?  When was the last time you had a shower? depends on if im in a depressive episode or not but usually every day, and i showered yesterday

103. How often do you shave your legs? lmao like once a week maybe, that also depends on seasons and stuff

104. Political affiliation? liberal 100% like?

105. Opinion on abortion? jesus christ i dont care like im not boutta stop yall

106. Opinion on immigrants/ immigration reform? we need reform bc people need help and we cant just let them die yknow?

107. Should prostitution be legalized? oh god this is lowkey a super loaded question like theres a lot that would go into this holy shit

108. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? literally what does even mean

109. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do? good question

110. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world? just one?

111. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich? being at camp

112. Would you break the law to save a loved one? it depends? but probably?

113. If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why? probably france? idk i just always liked it?

114. Why are you the person you are? jesus i wish i knew

115. Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend? id like to think so?

116. Why do religions that support love cause so many wars? misunderstandings 

117. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you? so many things

118. Were you happy when you woke up today? i mean i got to facetime michelle so

119. What’s a fact about the last person who text messaged you? shes such a good friend and i miss her and i cant wait to hopefully see her in august bc wow its been almost 2 years since we saw each other and i cry every day

120. Want someone back in your life? my grandpa tbh

121. What are you excited for? a lot actually for once

122. Are you scared to fall in love? absolutely terrified 

123. When is your next road trip? um i guess june because im going to pennsylvania?

124. What was the last thing you did before you went to bed last night? listened to harrys album

125. Do you like to cuddle? yeS

126. Have you ever kissed more than one person in 24 hours? nope

127. Plans for tomorrow? i have no clue

128. Do you care too much/not at all/just enough? probably too much

129. How is life going for you right now? um id say pretty good. definitely better than it was at this point last year

130. If you were offered a shot of whiskey right this second, would you accept? maybe? idk

131. This time last year, can you remember who you liked? haha yeah lol

132. Could you stay in the same relationship for over a year? i have before so... yes.

133. If you could have one super power what would it be? idk man

134. Background on your cell phone? my dog :’(

135. What are you thinking about right this second? after laughter and how sad/relatable it is ://////

136. Last book you read? How was it? um i still havent finished it but oil and honey and its so good i love bill mckibben so much

137. What is the last thing you bought? halsey tickets :’)

138. Do you live with your parents? yea

139. Have you ever been caught sneaking out? theres really no “sneaking out” of my house anymore bc my dad trusts me to not fuck up?

140. Have you ever met a celebrity? tyler joseph oh my god aleX CAPLOW WOW

141. What are you like when you’re drunk? im super laughy. im a typical drunk girl like idc

142. What are you like when you’re high? chill idk

143. Do you want children? not really

144. Do you want a church wedding? idk probably not tbh

145. How many pillows do you sleep with? 2 but i have 4 that i lay on my bed?

146. Have you ever been scuba diving? yeah i wanna go again and get certified tbh

147. Who was your first real crush? yikEs

148. What are you allergic to? nothing i am perfect, evolution did me well

149. Have you already thought of baby names, and if so what are they? nope

150. Do you want a boy a girl for a child? neither

151. How did you get your name? my mom chose it 20 minutes before i was born

152. Name one thing about your body you love? my eyes/eyebrows :)

153. What is your biggest goal in life? be happy and have a job that i love

154. Do you still have feelings for your ex? nope

155. Do you think aliens are real? absolutely

156. What age did you start drinking? 15? 16? 17? i dont know

157. What do you think of President Obama? overall good

158. Do you think you’ll be in a relationship two months from now? i sure hope so?

159. Describe your dream girl/guy? my gf :)

160. Story of your first kiss? lmao nop

161. Story of the first time you made out with someone? lmAO NOPE

162. Story of the first time you had sex? FUCK NOP

163. When did you first have sex? 18 bye

164. First time you gave/ received oral sex? 18 jesus

165. Do you still talk to the person you lost your virginity to? nope but im gonna have to soon kill me i want to die

167. Favorite fictional character (movie, book, tv show)? cosima niehaus

168. How many followers do you have on tumblr? What about twitter/ instagram? 500 something idk? twitter like 200 something and insta 200 something too? idk im not really on insta anymore?

169. Are you friend with your parents on Facebook? who isnt?

170. First time you thought you were in love? When did you realize that you weren’t actually in love with that person? haha lol wow what a mistake jahahahaha

171. Do you talk to yourself? constantly

172. How old will you be on your next birthday? 20 what the fuck

173. How did you meet the last person you kissed? we were in public speaking together rip

174. Do you have any hickies? yea

175. Turn ons? girls

176. Turn offs? boys

177. What qualities did you get from your mom? all of my bad qualities

178. What qualities did you get from your dad? also all of my bad qualities

179. How many siblings do you have? 2 older brothers

180. Have you ever taken anyone’s virginity? nope

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I was bored

1. You woke up naked next to the last person you texted, what would you say?

Ahaha it’s syd soo a little weird but like probably drunk reasons 

2. What’s going on between you and the last person you kissed?

Tbh I barely remember the last person I kissed. I think it was Luke’s friend haha so nothing 

3. If your boyfriend or girlfriend was into drugs, would you care?

Depends what kind ... weed is fine 

4. Is your last name longer than six letters?

Nah exactly 6 

5. Was your last kiss drunk or sober?

DRUNK lols 

6. Have you ever wanted to have someone but you messed it up?

eh not really I mean it takes two people to mess up a relationship for the most part 

7. What does your last received text say?

Dang it 

8. How many times have you kissed the last person you kissed?

Uhhhh once before last weekend 

9. Where was your last kiss at?

....my bed oops 

10. When is the last time you saw your sister?

Spring breakk 

11. What do you drink in the morning?

coffee and water 

12. Where did you sleep last night?

my comfy ass bed 

13. Do you think relationships are hard?

Can be but they don;t have to be 

14. If you could go back and change something in the past 5 months, would you?

Ummmm nah not really 

15. You’re locked in a room with the last person you kissed, any problems?

What is up with so many kissing questions but nah he was a cool guy 

16. Would you rather it be sunny or rainy?

Sunnyyyyy but I like to fall asleep to rain 

17. Do you know anyone with the same middle name as you?

AHAHA yeah a boy 

18. Are you wearing jeans,sweatpants,or pajama pants?

leggingssss 

19. Do you think you will be in a relationship 3 years from now?

Maybe ? Hopefully I’ll have a real ex boyfriend by then haha 

20. Does anyone like you?

I think they like the idea of me 

21. Have you ever kissed someone with a name that starts with an S?

Probably ... yeah haha shelly but I’m sure many frat boys were named Sam or something 

22. Is the last person you kissed gay?

Nah 

23. Is there a person you CANNOT stand?

I guess no one comes to mind right away tho 

24. Have you ever considered getting a tattoo?

Eh not really 

25. In the past week have you cried?

nahhh 

26. What breed was the last dog you saw?

omg it looked like a lab but it was smaller and fatter ahaha 

27. Do you dry off in the shower or out of the shower?

outttt 

28. Have you ever kissed a football player?

Maybe? I think so or at least I believed them if they said they were 

29. Do you think you’re old?

eh kinda but not really 

30. Do you like text messaging?

sometimes 

31. What type of day are you having?

Normal sunday sooo lazy and filled with schoolwork I should be doing haha 

32. Have you ever thought about getting your nose pierced?

yeahhh 

33. Do you prefer warm or cold weather?

WARM OBVIOUSLY 

34. Is there a person of the opposite sex who means a lot to you?

yeah like my brother haha but friend wise I guess maybe one or two 

35. Would you prefer a relationship or a fling?

Both haha 

36. Are you a simple or complicated person?

A bit of both I guess 

37. What song are you listening to?

Nothing but I need to listen to Jermaine Cole 

38. When you say you’re sorry do you mean it?

Most of the time  39. Is there a girl that knows everything or almost everything about you?

uh my sister but even then everyone has their own thoughts and such  40. What made you start liking the person you like now?

haha there’s no one really I like except that beautiful man at the gym with green eyes haha  41. When did you last receive a text message?

Today  42. What is wrong with you right now?

I ate too much haha and I’m broke  43. How well do you know the last female you texted?

We’re Bff’s  44. Does anyone disgust you?

Um probably Donald Trump haha and Rapists  45. Would you date someone right now if they asked?

Nah but give it some time then ya 46. Are you in a good mood right now?

Content chillin chillin 47. Who was the last person you talked to in person?

Kirstennn  48. What color shirt are you wearing?

White  49. Has someone recently told you something you didn’t want to hear?

nah  50. Anyone you’re giving up on?

no I don’t really give up on anyone tbh  51. Do you hate the person you fell hardest for?

AHAHAA um .... no just confused 

52. Have you ever thought about giving up on someone but couldn’t?

mmmm not really  53. Do you like rain?

Yessir! 54. Do you care if your boyfriend/girlfriend drinks?

Nope as long as it’s not an addiction  55. Have you ever liked somebody and never told them?

Prob  56. Do you like to cuddle?

Hell yeahhhh  57. Are you shy?

Can be  58. Do you get along with girls?

Yaaa I think so!  59. Have you dated the person you texted last?

No haha  60. What do you carry with you at all times?

My phone which is kind of annoying tbh  61. If you were paid 1 million dollars to spend the night in a supposed haunted house, would you?

Not alone haha  62. Do you think you can last in a relationship for five months?

Yeah ... have I .... ahah no  63. Think back to October, were you in a relationship?

NA I’M A LONELY BITCH  64. The person you like kisses you on the forehead, do you find this cute?

Yeah that’s pretty cute tbh  65. Did anything “cute” happen in the last week?

Probably I can’t remember tho .. probably something my students said  

66. How old are the last three people you kissed?

ummmmm like 21-23

67. Would you rather pay to get your nails done or do them yourself?    

Id rather get them done haha I’m so bad at doing my own  68. Which do you like better- Zebra print or leopard print?    

uhhhh leopard I guess  69. Do you have any stickers on your car?    

Nah I need to put a Dewey Beach one on tho  70. Would you rather listen to Luke Bryan or Lil Wayne? 

Old lil wayne haha     71. Blackberry, Anroid, or iPhone?   

iPhone   72. When’s the last time you had pizza from Pizza Hut? 

Ummm maybe last year ? or during camp this summer     73. Do you like diet soda?    

It’s okay like diet coke and rum is good haha  74. What color are the walls in your room?  

White my old room I used to have pink and turquoise haha    75. Are you 16 or older?    

Yeah  76. Do you watch Pretty Little Liars?  

Nah   77. Do you have a job?    

About to start a summer one and babysitting if that counts haha    78. What are your initials?    

E.V.B 79. Did you ever have braces?   

Yeah my teeth were fucked up   80. Are you from the south?    

Nope 

81. What does your last status on facebook say?   

I haven’t made a status in like a year ... I have no idea I’m just there for the memes tbh  82. Do you still talk to the first person you ever kissed?    

A little bit 83. Are you closer to your mom or your dad?   

Daddddd   84. Have you ever done cheerleading or gymnastics?    

Both but only a gymnastics camp so idk if that counts haha  85. What’s the last movie you saw in theaters?    

uhhhh I think it was in the summer I think it was Aloha  86. Do you smoke?    

Not usually but I will every now and then I want to get high soon haha  87. Would you rather wear heels or flip flops?    

Depends on the day ... wedges lol it’s the best of both  88. Is your phone touch screen?   

Yah   89. Do you normally wear your hair straight or curly? 

Straightish      90. Have you ever snuck out of your house?   

Not really   91. Would you rather swim in a river, lake, or pool?  

Depends! All three haha    92. Have you ever made out in a car? 

Yeahhhhhh mannnn     93. …Had sex in a car?     Yes. But not in a while. I actually quite like it haha  94. Are you single or in a relationship?    

Singleeeee  95. What were you doing last night at midnight?    

Being drunk at grottos  96. When’s the last time you saw fireworks?  

Summer July 4th    97. Do you like the camera on your phone?    

It’s okay could be clearer  98. Have you ever had a friend with benefits?    

Yeahhh like all my relationships  99. Have you ever passed out from drinking?    

Not really. I’ve been like super tired and drinking made it worse haha  100. Are you friends with people on facebook that you actually hate?   

Nah people I don’t really care about yes but not hate   101. Have you ever had a pregnancy scare?    

ahaha yes  102. Name your favorite Kesha song:    

ALL but We R who We R is a must  103. Do you have any tan lines right now?    

Not really .... I need to get tanner haha  104. Would you ever wear cowboy boots with shorts?  

Yes! Halloween, country concert, etc...