#idec go wild

[curryalley]

I need Clint Barton to meet Dick Grayson.

I need Clint to roll into a SHIELD ops assignment meeting having absolutely not read the briefing materials before the meeting. I need Phil Coulson to explain that there has been a serious threat against the life of Dick Grayson. Wayne Corp is about to announce some new initiatives. Intelligence confirms a criminal syndicate plans to kidnap Dick Grayson to force Bruce Wayne to call off the plans. SHIELD needs Wayne Corp to go through with it (and kidnapped sons of billionaires are always a headache) so Clint, we've created an identity for you as a Wayne Corp employee to keep an on things.

And Clint has to be like, "Yeah that won't work."

The analysts immediately take offense. "It's an airtight identity, you've done worse undercover work than babysitting a billionaire's kid."

Clint interrupts. "I can't pretend to be someone else around Dick Grayson. I know him. Me. Clint Barton. We were friends when we were kids."

Everyone at the meeting is losing it and Clint stares at them all. "How many circus kids do you think there are? Haley's and Carson's didn't tour together but our paths crossed in the offseason."

That explains why during his afternoon walk home, Dick Grayson comes across his childhood friend, Clint Barton, wearing jeans and a purple tank top, juggling and doing tricks for cash on the street. SHIELD has adjusted Clint Barton's identity so he's down on his luck, busking for spare change because it's hard to get a job when you're a deaf former circus performer with barely a GED.

Of course Dick wants to help and they reconnect. Dick asks Clint to perform at a Wayne gala. The same gala where the goons attempt to grab Dick Grayson. Dick keeps trying to slip out and change into Nightwing but? Somehow? Clint is always behind him? They're both trying to fight off the goons, still in their civvies, each trying to rescue each other while also not giving away their secret idecities,

"Where did you learn to fight like that?"

"I used to be a cop. Where did you learn to fight like that?"

"Would you believe me if I said bar fights?"

When it's all over, there's some disagreement about who is walking who home but Clint insists since Dick was almost kidnapped. Clint gets into his Hawkeye gear and plans to spend the night watching Dick's building for trouble when he sees Nightwing go swinging away from it.

Naturally he follows. Nightwing is meeting with the bats to report on the kidnapping attempt when there's a wild bit of confusion and mistaken identity as one of the bats slams Hawkeye to the ground and demands to know why he's following Nightwing.

Clint's lying there partially stunned at being nearly splattered by one of the robins or something when Nightwing leans over him.

"Clint?"

"Hey, Dick."

Clint and Dick were already friends but that's the story of how Hawkeye meets Nightwing.

(In the sequel, Clint turns up outside Dick's apartment months later. He's wearing multiple bandages, drinking a coffee with the name on the cup horribly misspelled with a K and holding Lucky's leash. He looks at Dick and says, "The Tracksuit Mafia has moved to Bludhaven, you got any plans tonight?")

#hawkeye #clint barton #nightwing #dick grayson

[northberg]

I think sso needs more wildlife. imagine starling murmurations over silverglade village every evening, deer grazing in greendale, hares on the forgotten fields, geese on silversong river that honk at certain times of day and hiss if you get too close. I want to see rabbit holes in the forgotten fields, fish in the river, mice in moorland, trees with woodpecker damage, animal tracks all over the map!! Jorvik is supposed to be this incredible wild island where humans & nature live in harmony but we never see it!! idec if theyre interactive npcs, i just think it'd make such a rich environment to see them go by

#literally SO obsessed with the animals in mistfall and redwood #sso #ssoblr #star stable online

[chrismho]

will not be watching the Bleach anime and actually just filtered out a bunch of bleach tags, including ichiruki

am still too bummed out about too many things, including:

• the weird, sudden downplay of Rukia’s importance and mad reduction of screentime--she went from co-protagonist to someone who gets less than a second of screentime in the new trailer, is MIA during the final battle, and is separated from the nakama for virtually all of the final arc. So many of her personality quirks, the things that made her so unique and wonderful, (her shitty drawings, her love of cute rabbit-themed things, her interest in the human world, her snark) are gone or hella watered down

it’s an odd observation/opinion but I actually wasn’t all that crazy about her new haircut in the FB arc--it makes her silhouette/form a lot less distinctive and interesting from a character design perspective. I know the idea was she wanted to look less like her sister but knowing how awesome Kubo’s designs are I think she could have gotten a lot more interesting/flattering haircut (again, this is more from a character design perspective so this is more an offhand opinion whatever)

• the weird, sudden downplay of Ichigo and Rukia’s relationship. I adore ichiruki but at this point I’m not even mad they’re not canon--I’m more bummed at how such a fateful, important, powerful, dynamic, symbolic, and unbreakable bond is so absent in the final arc. There’s so much buildup in the FB arc (speed of the world poem, Ichigo dreaming about Rukia, the freaking fullbring powers being unlocked just thinking about her, the way the rain stops when she comes back and gives him his powers) and then...nada. idec they’re not canon, I just wished their bond was a lot more featured (platonic or not), that they got to fight in the final battle together, or at least share a few moments of bickering in the final arc. they’re separated for almost all of it which is wild. Even in the canon WDKALY novels, Ichigo isn’t even the first Rukia tells about her engagement? They don’t interact at all and that just seems so weird to me given all they’ve gone through/how much Kubo himself has hyped up their bond and duality. 

• How Renji is all of a sudden Ichigo’s new BFF...Renji as a whole is such a flimsy and inconsistent character (slashing and slamming Rukia against a pole in one arc, then going on to righteously lecture that “a man who lays hand on another woman is trash” smh) and to give him so much spotlight just felt so weird and off

• ishida and chad doing essentially the opposite of what they vowed in earlier arcs (ishida didn’t want to be like his dad, chad didn’t want to use his fists/strength for money/fame) also ishida being all alone and not even mentioned by his friends in the last chapter was weirdly kind of sad and ugh

early bleach was such a spunky, unique, special thing with ichigo and rukia’s bond giving it such a wonderful spark, it had such character and over time really just became another generic shonen which is a darn shame but what’re you gonna do

#silly rant over #ill be over this show one day i promise lmao #u dont have to agree with anything i post here i just gotta ramble i saw the new trailer and it got me thinking about bleach again

[lizziesquire]

bar study diary no. 23948

can you believe that we've gone from high school diaries to college diaries to law school diaries to now bar study diaries???? wild.

but not feeling at all sentimental today but a lot . crummy. it could be that i finished con law today and it was a lot of learning about shit that the supreme court overturned and got rid of for and with no reason whatsoever, including but absolutely not limited to roe—and it's just fucking bonkers, how off the rails this illegitimate roberts court has gotten, even though it's always been this unprincipled and going after our constitutional rights... this is the first time that it's ever been so brazen, ever since the confirmation of fucking barrett, and i'm just . aw;eoifj so fucking tired at having to pretend like everything is okay and that this exam is valid that this profession is valid that this degree is valid and i just feel. very, very down

and i think it could also be that i just miss high school, when all of my friends were nearby and life wasn't as complicated and even though we were delirious from ~3 hours of sleep every night, struggling to keep up with everything that our outrageous school threw our way (including those "got sleep?" t-shirts that, in hindsight, were so fucking egregious of the school to be selling, completely complicit in just how brutally sleep-deprived and over-stressed we were as children!! children!!!!!!) and esp that i felt as if i could be 100% me with my best friends . not that i'm ever not me—i'm always me, and unabashedly so, and maybe sometimes too much, but .

my friends in my life, now, even despite being folks who will become life-long friends—i just . feel like i have to do so much mothering and emotional labour and . we just speak fundamentally different languages, and i just . miss being on the same wavelength as the people in my life, with friendships being more effortless, and not me constantly trying to balance trying to meet their emotional needs but also being firm about . hey, wear what you fucking want—who cares!!!! about your instagram feed. who cares what shoes you'll wear to that one event. who cares if we don't get a calculator on the bar. who cares. who cares. who cares. and i know that i should be more patient, that anxiety is real, don't i know it, but . after years of being understanding and patient and trying to figure out ways to gently prod towards taking actions with more self-confidence, i'm just . a little bit tired and a lot exhausted

i think, that at the end of the day, i just miss you a lot. our dynamic is strange, now—where we used to talk all day, every day, from the moment either of us opened our eyes to when one of us would fall asleep, just that. constant stream-of-consciousness where we go from . patents to ridiculous reddit posts to baudelaire to the peerage system to some inane details about some legal academic... i miss that. i miss us. but at the same time, i just. i wonder how tenable it is, as different of people as we are. i'm here, planning this bar trip without you, and it feels strange. it feels wrong. it was always supposed to have been us, and it makes me sad and frustrated and yet, maybe this is the way we find ourselves on different paths, to different lives

and these fucking shootings. i . awoekjld having known that bruen was going to come down this term, having been terrified of it, every day. and then it coming down the day before roe. then all the mass shootings in its wake. these "justices" are directly responsible, idec, idec, idec

i just want to be abroad. i feel so much guilt for leaving my parents for two whole months in the last summer of my life, but . i am so excited to finally traverse my way through europe, taking every covid precaution possible. i'm so excited to see my family, return to the motherland after 20 years, 20 missed birthdays, 2 entirely new human beings, my cousins, whom i've never met in person before, despite them being 10 and 4, respectively; 1 missed funeral of my grandmother; so many missed family moments, chuseok, holidays.

i a;woiefj. i'm just tired. today is a heavy day. but i am blessed, and i am lucky, and i am loved and am lucky to love.

#liz does bar study

[bellamygate]

the selena/hailey/justin drama is so fucking funny and wild i fr keep going idec and then getting sucked back its just too good 🤣🤣🤣🤣

#i am not immune to celebrity gossip #lets go back to early 2000s vibes thats what they're HERE FOR. to talk abt to gossip abt to laugh and chat at work around the lunch table

[kwon-eunbi]

I do not miss the constant deadlines of academia at all. Like, I loved going to class and learning and filling my head with interesting things, but the stress of deadlines and exams were awful. Being a librarian would be so amazing, would you want to work in a small library or a big one? Or like a community library or an academic one?

It was actually for Chinese linguistics, it was about tracing modern languages back to Middle Chinese and untangling how they evolved. I speak Mandarin, Russian, and English, and I’m supposed to speak French, but I don’t, don’t tell anyone. I lived in Paris and my dad’s partner is French Canadian, but I can only kind of read it. I love learning languages, though, I started Korean for an ex (when we were together ofc) and even though that’s over I keep going back to it because I enjoy the puzzle of sentence construction.

It's a good cover! Sounds basically the opposite of Wooyoung’s, and yet I think both of them capture the emotions of the song and lyrics in different ways.

I have such a soft spot for “Say My Name”, it was when I started listening to them, and I was like look at these kiddos going WILD. “Bad bitch, watch her do coke” indeed! But I do love when Hongjoong dresses fashionably but in an artsy way, if that makes sense, where he uses looks that aren’t exactly pretty as part of his performance, like the mullet in 2019. But honestly he’s just a crazy good performer, he could wear a paper bag and I’d be applauding wildly like YES king you are SO right. And Wooyoung with his little brother vibes off the chart through the whole era (and every other era tbh).

I like their melodic songs a lot, when I get frustrated with a piece on violin, I’ll play a little kpop song as a reset for fun, and “Precious”, “Horizon” and “Inception” are all go-to songs for that. But when I listen to their more melodic songs, I’m digging through there for the harmonies cause I just find those so much more interesting, when San finally gave in and started modulating in their performances of “Turbulence” on It’s Live? Ohhh those got me. He said no tritones on my watch! I might prefer their less pretty music tho? Like “Fireworks” or “Deja Vu” or “The Real”. I don’t know, but there’s not really a wrong answer.

For “Guerilla”, I joked that I wanted a nardcore comeback, my friends told me to be realistic, I said well now I’m gonna speak it into existence, and when Jason Sears possessed Mingi for those thirty seconds I went back to them like What Did You Say To Me. I think I would have liked it more with less pitch correction but I’m very annoying about punk music so ignore me.

I’ll check out Lucifer then! I need a new show for my cardio workouts, and if there’s five seasons then it’ll last a while. I remember what I saw of it was that it was a fun show, and I love a good monster-of-the-week show, so it’ll be great for those early mornings.

Thanks for letting me ramble haha I love talking about music. I hope you’re resting well and getting lots of sleep.

--🎅

hiiiii, sorry for not responding sooner, i didn't have time to sit down and respond properly bc yk uni and my friend came to stay with me so it's just been hectic lmaoo (i literally open tumblr, reblog the first gifset on my dash i see and close it), but how are you doing?? i hope well!! <33

ahhh i so get you about the deadlines. i enjoy going to lectures the first few weeks of the semester too but then i just... get bored of it and i just wanna skip them all but most of them check attendance so i can't skip too much :(( honestly i would just love to work in a library, idec which one just one yk, but in this economy and yk libraries not being such popular places anymore, i would be lucky to land a job anywhere....

omgggg that sounds sooo interesting!! i really love chinese but i don't think i would ever attempt to learn it cause honestly my brain isn't equipped for that so i truly admire you for not only knowing it but also studying its linguistics wow!! and ohh damn you speak russian too, well yk we could understand each other on basic levels cause my mother tongue is croatian. and yess, korean is so fun to study, i really wish i had more time to dedicate to it.

ohhh so you're basically a "veteran" atiny, love that! omg yess hongjoong and his fashion sense and his painted pinkie ahhhh it's amazing trulyyyy, and i agree he's an amazing perfomer, honestly all of ateez are, they're just crazy good it's insane!!

OMG YOU PLAY THE VIOLIN???!? wooow!! i love violin so much i always wanted to learn to play it wow you're truly so talented wowww!! and honestly i agree with you on it all! they truly have a discography to fit your every mood like no joke! btwww did you see the teasers for the new cb??? i caaant wait tho i am a bit disappointed that we're getting only two new songs but yk they've been working too hard this year i wasn't expecting a cb yet anyway but i'm definitely going to enjoy it fully!!

broo i love punk/rock/alternative in general so i'm really loving all of these new songs, like since rocky i was just AHHHH YESSS this is what i needed!! yk even tho i do love their more melodic songs, i hope they go in this punk direction a little longer cause it suits them so well and i definitely love the songs

yess lucifer is amazing and yk some seasons have more eps so it would definitely last you a while hahah

and feel free to ramble whenever you want! soon in the dms too hehe and again sorry for not responding sooner! i hope you're doing well too and getting rest <333

#annonymous #answered

[nightlyarrows]

anyone that had known tristan even the slightest knew that public exposure aroused him. somehow being in a tight speedo was uncomfortable, but being completely naked wasn’t. they were really going to have to talk to him about what was appropriate and what wasn’t, but FUCK IT. after trying to relax in the sauna he realized that he was still pent up. the archer was on his way to his suite, but that was all the way on the other side of the establishment. it was getting late so no one was swimming in one of the smaller pools on the side and he decided to take up camp there. he sprawled out on one of the lawn chairs and unwrapped the towel around his waist. head pushed back slightly as he wrapped his hand around the base of his cock. a series of small moans escaped the hunter’s mouth as he slowly started to pump his shaft, desperate for a release but wanting to hold out as much as he could. it didn’t take long for tristan to become aware of his surroundings again and that was when he heard someone else’s footsteps.  ❛   fuck...   ❜  this time he didn’t even bother covering himself up, he was too tired for that. instead he just looked over to see if he could make out who it was.  ❛   who’s there? i can hear you.   ❜  he stopped stroking himself, but his hand was still wrapped around his cock.

#gsstarter #i literally have no excuse for this #other than the fact that his pent up #do with it what you will #drag him #help him #spy #idec go wild #shrug emoji he also doesn't know who's dating who at this point so lmao

[blacklinguist]

11k words and 51 days later ,,, i have my initial draft complete !

#i have to go over it for editing later #and also tomorrow before i send it #and friday i'll probably be doing references #a linguist writes a thesis #the way idec abt the actual defense ???? #like ... this was the fun part #it's gonna be wild having my colleagues n family listening tho

[wuunderstruck]

💬 random dialogue starter — @jupitcr​.

“you know... i’m gonna have to ask you to back the fuck up.” forrest wasn’t usually the white knight type, or really the honorable type in general, but tonight, his indignant feelings at the other party just happened to win out. “you're paying a small price compared with what she's going through.”

#𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖘 —— ⦗ forrest ross. ⦘ #forrest is like ... a terrible person #so im thinking the person he's talking to is like his enemy and the girl is his friend and thats why hes so pissed #u could even reply with the girl he's talking abt idec!!! go wild w it #jupitcr

[ariereii]

God,, throwback to last month when someone made a fuckin soukoku incorrect quote post based on a conversation me and my friend @bambixronno had and didnt even say where its from I was ahajskskksst shook

#if she didnt post that i would have #YES thats my group chat name #when my current interest was hannibal i KEPT on thirsting over him and APPARENTLY THAT MEANT IM A CANNIBAL TOO #god this was so funny and wild. like. #the fact this happened is so overwhelming idec about the credit anymore #cOS I KNOW #and whoever reads this shit and my tags on the original rb does #LIKE EVEN THE PRONOUN WAS THE SAME #wE WERE TALKING ABOUT JKROWLING IM LOSING MY MIND #and the 'Dad' part of the name. IM THE DAD of the group. the USELESS dad that SUCKS. #but im also baby #it was a gc obviously lol #God i hope the person that made the post doesnt see this but if they do then im not pissed im just ajsjsksd shook its fine #i love how when u go on rebekahs/bambixronno's blog its mainly just reblogs from my own posts #my no 1 fan🥺 ily bex...

[manchestereyes]

I’M SEEING 5SOS I COULD CRY RIGHT NOW

#yo but my ticket buying was SO stressful though?? #because i HAD a ticket then i stupidly HIT THE BACK BUTTON BY ACCIDENT and LOST IT #and it took me 7 mins to find a new one but i’m going!!!!!! #it’s in the balcony but idec since it’ll probs be a lot less crowded there and better for my mild agoraphobia anyway #but i’m going!!! almost exactly 4 years since the first time i ever saw them too which is wild :’))) #claire chatters #5sos

[wanderingwomanwondering]

Buddie & TPTB

Before I get into it: Queer shit just happens and characters don’t necessarily need to provide receipts for queer desire. Queerness can evolve for a character, with an unexpected moment/encounter catalyzing a self-discovery process. Then before you know it, the character learns something about themselves that they didn’t know before. This is a thing that happens irl, why not on tv.

That said, I desperately want Buck and Eddie to have that kind of love story. I rambled on about that in a previous post. I think it would/could be realistic, compelling, and fun. I also think it’s a pristine opportunity to use the power of storytelling to help the general audience understand the complexity and nuance of discovering one’s queerness later in life/without prior queer receipts.

We know that if/when tptb proclaim Buck and Eddie’s love story and start to show them as increasingly romantically involved, many general audience members are going to feel “blindsided”, and both low-key and high-key queerphobia are going to spike. Idec but I do...to a point.

I hope for better but I’m a frickin’ realist. There are already so many micro- and macro-aggressions perpetrated against the queer corners of fandom when it comes to Buddie. I have no delusions that Buck and Eddie exploring their evolving queerness on screen will be met with resounding positivity, support, and enthusiasm. Many will be okay or at least neutral but the phobes will emerge from their hidey-holes full force. I say bring it, because it’s time for a prominent queer mlm relationship on a network tv show that wasn’t planned to be queer from jump. 

Anyway, the GA doesn’t read queer-coding and queer subtext like queer folks themselves do so the transition will likely shock the shit out of a lot of people, whether they decide to be aggressive angry hemorrhoids about it or not. Whatever happens, tptb have a golden opportunity to allow Eddie and Buck’s process of queer awakening and self-discovery to mirror/guide/inform the general audience, to a degree at least.

They can let Buck and Eddie ask and maybe fumble a bit with some of the same pressing questions the general audience has. The main GA questions that come immediately to my mind are:

Can Buck and Eddie develop queer attraction where they didn’t have or hadn’t realized it before?

Does Buck and Eddie’s deep and abiding love for one another have to be romantic and/or sexual? Can’t they just stay bros?

If they do realize that they want a romantic and/or sexual relationship with each other, what the hell do they do next? 

Frankly, I think it’s a little harder to do this kind of story/character work if both Buck and Eddie are not in the same or similar boats when it comes to figuring out their feelings and desires. But still, even if it’s only one of them. there are rich possibilities. It’s just better if it’s both, in MY headcanon. YMMV.

Can you imagine the world if these assumed straight dudes (by themselves and others) awkwardly, but with determination and pure love, ask the above questions as a complex arc presented on screen, out loud?! If they get to explore separately and together what it means to have these feelings/desires for another man and all the beauty and challenges of that process??? 

I can practically see the authentic, heartfelt, but still maybe awkward moment when they say “I love you and I think I’m in love with you” then the other is like “We gotta be sure, right?” Of course they both know in their heart but they are hesitant. One says “maybe we should kiss? If we hate it then we can just go back to being bros”. Then these fools kiss and it’s electric. No more bro/comphet for these idiots. It’s scary, it’s amazing, it’s beautiful, it’s unexpected, and it’s also completely inevitable in a wild way that blows them both back. Whatever they decide in their romantic/sexual adventure, they can do whatever they want free and clear, sky’s the limit.

A combination of deep conversations and passionate exploration (as much as you can have on a network tv station, FOX no less!). Palpable moments of reckoning with what it all means, but first and foremost LOVE. IT’S ALL LOVE and it’s beautiful and they can’t deny it. They won’t deny it. They may decide to be reserved and thoughtful at first, especially with starting a physical relationship OR they may dive right in but still ask the tough questions at various points. Whatever happens, they ARE NOT COWARDS. They can’t not pursue this, and in so doing they could maybe bring at least a portion of the GA along for the ride.

Again I say, whether the GA accepts canon Buddie or not I want 911 to do this. I want Buddie. I want tptb to be bold enough and forward thinking enough to go there. But how they handle it could have a meaningful real world impact with a host of positive implications for the GA and more importantly for the diverse queer community represented in fandom, if tptb are thoughtful and intentional in the process.

Buddie deserves this! The queer fandom deserves this! If the GA/tptb are open-minded/intentional enough, the GA can come along for the ride. And OH what a mf ride!!!

#911 fox #911 meta #long post #evan buckley #eddie diaz #buddie #queer subtext #queerphobia #queer representation #sometimes queer shit just happens #deal with it

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

BFCD Story Concepts by Nesha

Story Concept 01: No Saviors in the Wild Pt. 5

Read Pt 1 | Pt 2 | Pt 3 | Pt 4

I Am Light by India.Arie plays in background, as it is Shani’s theme.

A Savior is Born: The Rise of the Rebels 02 - A Cage Big Enough for Hundreds

Shani knew what it meant whenever she was escorted back to the dormitories and her files were pulled up and changed. She knew what it meant for the administration to remove her arm cuff, explaining to her that the government had given her a full scholarship for the rest of her studies. When her record was expunged and she was allotted a grace days to recuperate and get back to her regularly scheduled classes with her tuition and lodging paid in full and no sign of the unjust sentence in her history, she knew.

They wanted her to shut up and move on. To just forget about not only what happened to her in the woods, but to the others. To Atlas. She tried to see if she could look him up whenever she got back to the library. The directory didn’t cover Wasteland citizens, so she had to give up after a few days. 

Since she now had free time, not having to work for her education, she decided to get a part time job, for a life skills practice and a few non-academic pleasures that weren’t covered in the tuition + nutrition supply. She started a beret collection, and learning various hobbies as a distraction from thinking about the woods every time she wasn’t involved with a school project.

She bought every single type of M&M that she saw in the store, then grabbed jars to separate them - all plain reds in a big jar, smaller jars for other reds - peanut, almond, etc, and the biggest jar had all of the excess red M&Ms of all sorts put into it. Then... she had several bags of several M&Ms that weren’t red. Researching what to do with them, besides toss them, she found a few recipes for cookies and other treats. Maybe this was a nice time to learn how to bake!

She went knocking on doors of other dorms in her building and nearby buildings, "Hi, I brought you some M&Ms cookies." and they're like... You know what idec. Yes, thanks. Because, the dorms weren’t where the rich students lived. It got her a few suspicious folk, but mostly, people were grateful for something to eat that wasn’t a strict and cheap meal or an even cheaper and far less appealing meal paste. It was the first time that people seemed to begin liking her.

She thinks about getting a tattoo, but they're ridiculously unsafe and very expensive, so instead she gets a tattoo art piece, which is a realistic painting of your body part with a tattoo on it. It's relatively costly, but safe, and hers is an Atlas tattoo, holding the world on his shoulders, on her back, because Atlas had had her back.

She researches Atlas and then goes and finds Greek mythology books in the useless books depository, and takes on learning about it as a hobby. Greek mythology, baking, school, part time job doing data entry, and collecting berets. It kept her occupied, though her mind was frequently on what happened. Months had passed, years were beginning to. She thought for sure that one day, her pain had to be numbed and so she tried not to harp on it. But, how do you just forget somebody who was willing to throw away their life for yours?

18 marked the legal age of adulthood. Shani immediately had a job, right out of school as an interpreter and translator. She was hired at a firm that also allotted her to take more college level courses to advance herself in the field and she began saving up for a place in the city that wasn’t a job related lodging when she had the most important appointment set up for her that she would ever have.

“Hi. I’m Shani, I’ll be helping you today with your assessment. Have a seat.” The wasteland woman looked at the chair that Shani gestured to and smiled, her canines showing and the smile wider than Shani was comfortable with. “Ummm... Sit down?” The woman laughed and nodded. 

“Have a seat. Sit down. Yes. Yes, that makes sense. It took me a moment. You might guess, the wasteland isn’t very prim and proper.”

Shani didn’t want to talk about the wasteland. Instead, she began typing into her computer, “So, Miss... Free... What is your first language?”

“I don’t believe that you have a word for it. I’ll call it wolfen. I doubt it is in your machine.” 

Shani furrowed her eyebrows. “No. I’ve never heard of that before. Where did it originate? If you know...” 

“Hmmm... The Epic of Gilgamesh, maybe.” 

Shani frowned and clasped her hands over each other. “Ma’am. What is this meeting about?”

“I remember you, but you don’t remember me. It’s because you didn’t see me. You didn’t know to look for me. But, I knew to look for you. I’m here, because I have finally found you... Did you think it was right? For them to come in that way? They sent us food. We ate, then they attacked and took my people, took your people, took the wolf with the hair like flames...”

“What are you talking about?” Shani whispered.

“Your mate. He was torn open, then he tasted blood. He became as we are. Not fully, but enough. He became a man who is no longer a man, a man who is now a wolf.”

“Atlas.”

“They took my people. They took your people. You.. were special, somehow. You didn’t go where others went. Why were you special? Why were you spared?” Shani had never considered that she had been either of these things. She lamented over Atlas for so long, she figured that she, too, had been made to suffer. “They were taken to a cage. Some as beasts, some as feed. You were taken to a cottage, and given gifts. Are you a queen?”

“Far from it...” Shani tried to remember what happened in those moments. She vaguely recalled a voice saying, “She was falsely accused. She shouldn’t have been there in the first place, much less get taken to the Kennel. She’s got an arm cuff. She belongs to somebody.” The school. She had been property of the school. She still owed them money and had their equipment on her person, to indicate such...

Her schooling was paid off, not as a means to keep her quiet... but to keep the school quiet. To ensure that they got what she was worth and not ask questions about potential damages she faced while serving a bogus sentence. Sure, she made the most of that, but it had less to do with her and more to do with money.

“They... took them to a cage?”

“A cage big enough for hundreds.”

Tears poured from her eyes and Free took the initiative to offer the woman’s own tissues to her, as she must’ve forgotten that they were on her desk, in her... emotional release. Shani snatched two and tried to clean her face up. They took Atlas to a prison?  “A prison! They... took Atlas to a prison?”

Whenever Free said this, her dark brown eyes glowed amber and at that moment, Shani knew. This... is a wolf. This woman is what she described. A person who is not a person, but a person who is a wolf. “They took everyone there. Everyone but us.”

NOTES: I enjoy the idea of Free being far removed enough from human society that she doesn’t know anything about mannerisms and only has a limited amount of English, that she’s picked up since she’s been scavenging through the wasteland, but that she’s smart (I’d say the smartest wolfen in the series), and she’s adaptable and quick. She’s like a wolfen counterpart to Shani, and that’s why they eventually get on so well. They’re in similar positions, but with vastly different backgrounds. @tiarathief (You are still the first name that comes up whenever I at somebody. Let me know if you don’t want to be tagged to these, please. @shslargue @jacksope-lives

#BFCD Story Concepts by Nesha #story concept #stories #original content #Shani Saviors #A Savior is Born: Rise of the Rebels #writing #Free Saviors #A Cage Big Enough for Hundreds #Story Concept 01: No Saviors in the Wild

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so i’ve had a lot on my mind lately — the good, the bad, the ugly, you know the drill. i’m used to the bad and the ugly, but i think (and ofc by my therapist’s rec) i need to give a little credit to the good, too. not to mention the good is largely comprised of people, and those people deserve a sports stadium wave, yk? idk shit abt sports, whatever, but i know what the wave is and it’s like the grandest gesture i can think of, SO

listen, y’all. to get real here, i hate fandom. my time spent therein has been hit-or-miss, but the misses got me hard and contributed to some major self-loathing, etc etc. we’re not gonna get into the specifics, i don’t owe that to anyone, but suffice it to say things got Rough.

but so much of it can be so, so good. and rn i want to keep on my rose-colored glasses, and the rosiest parts for me have always been @kitten1618x and @mygutsforgarters

(quite a few others, too, but i no longer have everyone’s info. and some ppl are newer friends, or relationships that have moved more slowly. i have mad love for u guys too, obvs, but ik melissa and gus irl so we know each other More and they’re who this post is rly about atm. pls know i don’t want to harsh on anyone’s feelings)

the tl;dr version of events is i met them both via fanfic. i happened upon theirs like “bitch!!!! **i** wanna do this, they’re bomb as hell” and then i made them be friends w me. they’ll tell you they wanted to be friends w me first, but that’s not important bc **i** am the one making this post, so they can both like,, suck it.

ANYWAY.

@ melissa : so bitch listen. here’s the thing abt melissa…… i found her while browsing jonsa fic back when i cared abt GOT, and she brought me back to what i loved so much abt romance when i first started, way back in junior high, what’s up. i bad a fascination w historial romantic epics for a loooooong time — those formative yrs, amirite ladies??? — but girl i could never write it so well as melissa. immediately she struck this balance between the drama you expect from historicals and the levity of a good romance, and i was just like, “hand to god this woman must be published already, surely???”

(she’s not, but that’s ridiculous so we’re gonna skip that)

(also she’s busy?? we’ve been friends for like six years and i will never know how many kids she actually has, but the point is she’s a goddamn superhero and i’m obsessed w her, MOVING ON)

i just Had to be her friend for two reasons: 1) she’s too talented, and b) i have said that abt 2 ppl my entire life and she was the first, so i was like, “AH YES MY HOLY GRAIL”

so ofc i slid into her DMs just as effectively as that one guy i had a crush on when i was sixteen and he’s still shooting me texts every valentine’s day bc of the societal pressures i guess (it is Far Less Effective these days, he’s my age and therefore too young for me, gross, but i digress), except me and melissa go way stronger.

she reminded me of why, half a lifetime ago, i started writing romance — bc it’s fun, bc i want to. bc i can do absolutely anything i want, bc who else is gonna read it but me and whoever i share it with? it was all up to me what i wanted to do with it, and i could do anything. nothing really mattered but what i wanted, and i hadn’t felt that way abt anything in such a long time — let alone abt something i used to love so much.

melissa’s writing is so beautiful, it’s everything i wanted to achieve when i was fifteen and never got around to perfecting. and i’m totally okay w that now, bc what do i need to do myself that she’s not already doing/wants to do in the future? when i found melissa’s writing i found a missing part of me — a part i’d maybe lost, maybe i gave it up, idk, but it was totally gone until i found her fics and they fucking clicked. i had to reach out bc there was a part of me that was a part of her, and she helped me find that again w/o even knowing it.

so i found melissa via GOT, and from the start she’d been trying to get me to write some bethyl. years and years, she dropped not-so-subtle hints — and by “hints,” i mean legit directives that i watch just enough TWD to write her some beth/daryl fic. real crafty, she is.

eventually the stars aligned: i was bored w the same dynamics i’d been writing for years, i wanted smthn new, i was restless, i was line editing a bethyl fic she’d written, and — again — this shit clicked. her fic made me want to explore this dynamic i’d never done before, so i watched the prerequisite episodes (no more than that tho, i super hate the show and i’m begging y’all to not @ me abt it anymore). i found smthn that i’d been missing, smthn that challenged and excited me and brought me back around to why i love romance and, more importantly, why i want to write it myself.

so as i was starting to write bethyl, i was poking around the ao3 tag to get a feel for what had been done, what hadn’t, anything i might be missing. and goddamn BAM —

@ gus : this is where u enter dramatically thru a red velvet curtain that i don’t wanna touch (Metaphorically bc you do romance better than me and i’m cool w that bc your talent simply Cannot be touched, and Literally bc i hate velvet) — i was like, “please for the love of god let her want to write contemporary romance, i need some good fckin food”

i happened upon “doo wah diddy diddy” first. ofc the summary hooked me, forget my usual hard no against pregnancy fics (i have issues w pregnancy and that’s all anybody Needs to know, back off), but This Bitch !!!!!!! has a way with words and i wanted to be friends w her straightaway. lmao too bad for her, now she’s stuck w me

gus’s fics gave me what i wanted without having to write it myself. her style is so distinctive, she hits the notes between porn and Actual Affection that is missing from uhhhh, every romance i’ve tried?? (why is everyone so intent on the sex part?? fckin chill. at best it’s unrelatable and at worst u sound like u’d rather wear someone than fuck them, check urself)

she writes w such care, she wants you to know what she’s doing here, and what she’s doing here is combining the physical and emotional needs of both characters w/o infringing on anyone’s comfortability. you root for these characters bc they simply want to be together, no strings (and if there are strings, damn, they talk abt it).

gus makes you believe in love in the modern age. like, not to sound like one of those ppl who post fckin “no one in this generation knows how to love!!!1!!11!!” memes on facebook, those are dumb, but gus’s writing made me think “yeah man, love ain’t dead, it’s just abt how we approach it.”

(if y’all haven’t guessed yet, i have some hang-ups abt relationships. i’ve goddamn earned those. but melissa and gus both brought me back to where i needed to be — in this place where, yeah, we’ve got some shit to deal with, but we all still deserve the things we want, and those things are achievable. i could not have gotten here without them, so jot that down.)

gus is Real, she’s funny, she’s unapologetic in the way she writes. ofc she has her personal hurdles, but who doesn’t?? and tbh nobody writes a sex scene like gus does. physical, realistic, but balanced w the emotional depth that makes you root for these characters bc you can Feel how much they want each other — not just sexually, but in the less-erotic aftermath of that passion. it continues to blow my mind, bc i’ve never seen anyone do what she does. i can’t even pinpoint the specifics, bc she just… Does It. and you’re reading it like “yeah bitch that’s it,” and That’s It.

it’s fckin wild.

these two — my best friends, the lights of my life, both of whom always make me crave chicken tenders at THE most inconvenient hours bc somehow we always talk abt chicken or ice cream or ultimately DQ, but they're both so hot idec — have something special.

i really, really want them both to know that: it’s not just in how they’ve treated me as a friend, but who they are as people, in their creative pursuits. i’ve never known support the way they’ve shown me; i’ve never known this much enthusiasm or investment or belief that i can do what i want with my talent. i want them to know that i feel the same way abt them and their works.

sometimes, when i look back at their writing that completely kicked my ass, i still can’t believe that they’ve become two of my best friends. it’s totally bonkers. they’re This Talented, and they wanna be friends w my spastic ass? GIRL. i’m out.

i’m not always the best at being present, at giving people what they need when they need it. but with everything that melissa and gus have given me in the past few years, i need them to know this — honey!!! i need all y’all to know this, bc i know fandom shit is hard, but you should know some of these friendships are so, so worth all that bullshit, so —

they have so much to give, so much to say, so much to offer. i could not have kept going without them. i couldn’t believe in myself without the faith they’ve given to me. i hope that i can always give that same faith right back.

and that, babes, is what real soulmates are all about.

#i just love them whoops my hand slipped #the majnificent adventures #gus tag #@ melissa wtf is our tag we had like five #how do i not remember five things #anyway i got into my feelings tnt don’t @ me

[housetohalf]

Escape to Margaritaville actually kind of slaps?

It’s not about anything but idec? Also Jimmy Buffett came on at the end (which I knew was going to happen) for a encore of Margaritaville and the crowd went WILD.

Listen it’s not high art but it keeps stage managers employed 🤷🏻‍♀️

#personal

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Cloud brokers emerge to sort out the chaos of cloud services

At Biogen Idec Inc., time is of the quintessence as researchers close in on remedies for such nerve-degenerative sicknesses as different sclerosis, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. For both philanthropic and business reasons, time to market has made William Hayes an inner evangelist for cloud administrations.

 "To be imaginative and light-footed, we can hardly wait a long time to months to get servers to attempt new innovation," said Hayes, chief of choice help for the Cambridge, Mass., biotechnology organization.

 Hayes, whose activity is "to get new innovation and start utilizing it," has been utilizing Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, for an improvement venture, however "it's trying to convey that [company-wide]," he said. Officials at the biotech organization are normally worried about the open cloud's dangers, for example, security and interoperability of remaining tasks at hand.

 Hayes found an answer in a "cloud facilitate" that scrambles the information on-premises and gives a protected passage to Amazon.com Inc's. or Terremark Worldwide Inc's. cloud foundations. The product, from CloudSwitch Inc. in Burlington, Mass., is sold as a downloadable programming apparatus with virtual framework necessities.

 Cloud agents are developing in the same number of models as there are cloud arrangements: from the CloudSwitch apparatus to Software as a Service (SaaS) suppliers, to online businesses for unused assets, to frameworks integrators and specialists.

 Cloud Broker bind together tumultuous administrations

 "This is the year wherein associations of all sizes will attempt to deal with the a tumult of wild, specially appointed, spontaneous reception [of cloud services]," said Jeffrey Kaplan, the originator and overseeing chief of ThinkStrategies Inc., a consultancy in Wellesley, Mass. "A developing grouping of arrangements is coming to showcase that can bring more noteworthy administration control and permeability."

 In January, for instance, San Francisco startup Okta Inc. propelled its character the board SaaS that gives undertakings personality the executives, single sign-on approval and validation over an index of several cloud administrations. Clients still, pay their SaaS suppliers straightforwardly, yet in addition contract with Okta for single-sign-on accommodation.

 In February IBM and Jamcracker Inc., an aggregator of on-request administrations situated in Santa Clara, Calif., exhibited a consolidated stage that empowers IT shops and cloud broker to bring together the conveyance of cloud administrations including interior Infrastructure-as-Service mists with IaaS, SaaS and Platform-as-a-Service contributions from outsider suppliers.

 As usual, victors and washouts

 Despite the fact that Kaplan accepts the channel will assume a more prominent job in the following period of the market, "a few thoughts regarding the intermediary job might be broken," he said. "I've worked with organizations attempting to build up online commercial centers in a seller autonomous design. It's an extreme battle," he included. "The financial aspects of this business are tight to the point that there's insufficient cash to go around."

 In any case, SpotCloud (from Toronto-based Enomaly Inc.) arrived before the actual arranged time March as an online business for unused server farm space in endeavors far and wide, professing to offer the limit of 10,000 servers. A large portion of the dealers on the financier are not distributed computing foundation sellers with arrangements prepared to go, in any case, yet littler facilitating organizations with overabundance assets. It stays to be seen whether dealers on the financier will have the option to coast a value that entices purchasers, specialists state.

 Expert cloud administrations

 Cloud expediting likewise is accessible from expert administrations associations, which can help IT offices weave through the legitimate mess and execute a crossover cloud. "Consultancies have consistently had a toolbox of favored arrangements that they like to work with, much the same as affiliates and frameworks integrators," Kaplan said. "Bluewolf [Inc.], for instance, has done a great deal of work in Vendasta.com."

 In like manner, Appirio Inc., a frameworks integrator in San Mateo, Calif., is incorporating Salesforce.com with Google, Facebook and Amazon.com, Kaplan said. Appirio's CloudWorks application brings together character, security, information, setting and business object definitions crosswise over cloud applications.

 Other huge consultancies, including Accenture PLC, Computer Sciences Corp. also, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, will hop in with the general mish-mash, predicts Frank Gens, senior VP and boss expert at IDC in Framingham, Mass.

 Usability governs the day

 The product machine model, without breaking a sweat of utilization, suits Hayes fine and dandy at Biogen Idec.

 "I can go to CloudSwitch and snap to arrangement a server in minutes. For one of our designers to get a virtual case on their machine [through conventional provisioning channels], it could take weeks or months." Hayes said.

 Besides, the security angles are an "agreeable story for IT," Hayes said. "It's the greatest panic whenever you talk about distributed computing. With CloudSwitch, everything is scrambled down to the square level plate stockpiling."

#cloud broker #what is a cloud broker #b2b industries