#including migos

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #68: 2017

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It's easier more than ever to see the effects of streaming on the pop charts. As electropop and club music become a distant memory, the pop music of the late 2010's works better with individual listening. As mentioned before, streaming works better for album listening, much more than the iTunes era which encouraged the purchasing of individual songs (which was great for singles artists, but not necessarily for albums). Some artists were able to hack this system. For example, Drake's Views (featured on the previous poll) was notable for having 20 songs on its tracklist -- which is a lot for a pop release. Unlike the iTunes era or even the CD era before, longer albums with shorter songs flourish more in the streaming landscape.

Streaming also helped to continue blurring the line between genres and audiences. Without going too much into it (because this is a topic I could ramble on about endlessly), genres were not handed down to us from Mount Olympus or something. Genre is a tool of marketing, and the lines drawn between them can have a variety of cultural, racial, economic, gender, religious, and other variables between them. These lines were more prominent in previous years before streaming made it easier to access just about every kind of music at once. This is when we start to see the rise of a concept known as the "monogenre". In order to cater to as wide an audience as possible, everything starts to sound like everything. A little rock, a little indie, a little trap, a little tropical house, a little festival EDM. There were also those who criticized the streaming era in how it promotes a more "passive" listening style, since playlists and algorithms could continue playing ad infinitum without the listener needing to seek out new music themselves. While I certainly see the evidence of that on the charts, I don't think this tells the complete story.

As a less cynical counter-argument, streaming has made it easier for listeners to find music that otherwise wouldn't have been marketed to them. I believe that this could be one of the factors behind reggaeton finding a growing audience among English speakers. Obviously reggaeton did not originate this year. The roots of the genre can be traced back to the 1980's in Panama where it would later grow an even larger audience in Puerto Rico. The genre would grow in popularity in the States as well, especially in the early 2000's. But if you weren't paying attention to Spanish language music (and you didn't grow up in the Southwest), it was easy for mainstream audiences to miss it. Reggaeton includes influences from dancehall and hip-hop, so it makes sense that the genre would find a mainstream English-speaking audience when those two genres were also shaping pop music. Because Despacito wasn't just big for a reggaeton song. It wasn't even big for a Latin pop song. Despacito led to Daddy Yankee becoming the sixth most listened-to artist on Spotify in 2017, and led to an influx of Latin and reggaeton artists who were able to cross over without English language remixes. Billboard magazine has an article here about the "Despacito Effect".

#billboard poll #billboard music #tumblr poll #2010s #2010s music #2017 #ed sheeran #luis fonsi #daddy yankee #justin bieber #bruno mars #kendrick lamar #the chainsmokers #coldplay #migos #lil uzi vert #halsey #sam hunt #imagine dragons #post malone #quavo

[dielitttt]

Astro observations pt. 4 🕷

Am I the only Capricorn mercury who loses breath while reading or talking fast or in like a fast pace?? Like when I used to do music class in elementary and middle school I used to be put to sing but I would go out of breath rlly quickly and that’s y I hated it.

Why do Sagittarius placements or fire sign placements always forget things quickly somehow? (Including me😕)

People with strong Leo placements usually have issues w their eyes a lot of times

Some people with major pisces,cancer, air sign and Aries placements tend to have adhd sometimes (don’t self diagnose yourself w this pls)

Cancers with Gemini and pisces in personal planets tend to gaslight, manipulate, and bring up things that bother ppl

I’ve dated someone that’s a cancer with a mix of air signs in their chart, and they’ve dated someone else while hitting me up saying “I wanna break up with her but I don’t wanna hurt her feelings” because he wanted to date me again??? Makes no sense at all

Idk but Earth suns, earth moon and a mix of Sagittarius placements ppl are very private and barely date anyone even if they like them, if they let u date them your probably very lucky!

Sagittarius sometimes have issues with their stomachs, for example I know many Sagittarius risings with fast metabolisms and tend to be insecure about being skinny sometimes.

People with Uranus stelliums are always labeled as “weird” or “odd” from their own family members sometimes 😕

Aquarius chirons and Liliths need hugs like actually the way they’ve been treated by their own peers or family is sad

Aries rising are always seem to be very masculine and sometimes labeled as a homosexual because of their masculinity sometimes unless they have strong feminine placements tho

I barely have any water placements and I hide my emotions easily and can numb my emotions rlly randomly. But when I’m mad that shit shows so easily in my facial expressions.

It’s so weird how astrology is so accurate..

Mercury-Saturn or Pluto-saturn aspects tend to have a rlly controlling family towards their career sometimes especially their mother

Leo moons either hate or love eating a lot of sweets

Pisces in neverland people tend to sleep to escape from their real life problems they don’t wanna deal with or just sleep as an escape to things in general

If u look more identical to your parents and have a lot of their facial features sometimes u can have their rising sign

Water moon people HATE changing their music taste sometimes

Sagittarius’s and Aquarius’s tend to love different music taste and have a very random music taste with a bunch of genres in it especially leos too

Sagittarius’s suns with water moons and Sagittarius rising probably get their music taste from TikTok or would lie abt their music taste for someone they like ☠️☠️ (don’t take tjis to offense pls)

WHY ARE SCORPIO MOONS SO OBESSED WITY CATS BRO I SWEAR THEM MFS WILL LITERALLY FOLLOW EVERY CAT THEY SPOT DAWG😭😭

Scorpio Lilith people with Capricorn placements are so funny when they try to manipulate someone sometimes like I be watching them manipulate someoen so obviously and the person they manipulate be so clueless sometimes..

Gemini mars men are the type of people who fantasize having public sex ☠️

the way my mom has gemini Venus and my dad has gemini mars+ my bestfriend has gemini mars 2 is crazy bro 😭😭

The stereotype that Aries risings have big forheads is true and not and the same time

Aries placements probably have a fear of drowning because they’ve probably drowned once. Y’all Aries placements should be careful w water sometimes.

people be surprised that earth mercurys are funny bc they always have some dry ass humor sometimes I swear 😭😭

Ik this has nothing to do with astrology but why is migos always have the best verses on the songs he features in??

#spotify #art #astrology #mf doom #music #playlist #playboi carti #aries rising #rap #hiphop #katy perry #migos

[kizzyking]

I've been forcing myself to read a terrible book, with the help of a friend, because I spent to much on it not to read it. I've been reading it aloud to my friend and we've been discussing all of the things we hate about it, one of which is that the author named a group of people 'shamanfolk' and their magic users 'shaman' then made them violent extremist outsiders experiencing genocide. I need to share a conversation we just had about it. The conversation turned to Avatar the last Airbender because the book was advertised as "a fantasy book for people who like zuko/katara vibes, written in a brandonesque way"

Here is the Convo;

(me) I found good words for why the use of 'shaman' in this book upsets me, beyond the way it uses an existing word with cultural ties extremely inappropriately

(me) This part of a post is from Tumblr explains it; If you want to make a metaphor for racism, you have to remember that racism is literally based on nothing. Africans weren’t enslaved en masse because the Robo-Musa threatened to destroy the world, they were enslaved because it was economically rewarding and politically convenient. If at any point your allegory for racism includes “so <oppressed group> did this major catastrophe and” then you have not only missed the point but you are literally reinforcing the ideas that racism have let racism self-perpetuate (that e.g. black people are naturally dangerous and violent and must be contained or begrudgingly accepted by the Nice White People)

(Friend) But its not even used only as an insult Its literally the only word used for them

(me) I might have phrased poorly, I mean that I felt my issue with using shaman to label a group of people went beyond just the insensitivity of using a real word that isn't his and using it incorrectly. I've now realized that it made it hard for me to get distracted from the racist undertones through the book

(Friend) Ah yes I understand, Its the white "romanticism" of it

(me) Yeah exactly, leaning way to heavy on the perspective some people have of zuko being kataras oppressor

In my opinion

I don't think he has the skills to back up what he's planning, like having an engaging romance and working to improve the society

(Friend) Kataras "oppressors" is the entire watertribe as a whole. What do they mean its Zuko?

(me) Do you mean fire nation? And the men in their society in general perpetuating misogyny but the ones actually killing them are zukos people. But not zuko himself!(unlike migo) the main pushback I see against zutara online is from people of color who feel that katara would never fall for a fire kingdom prince of she respects herself and that anyone who thinks she would has drank too much white savior koolaid

(Friend) Did you forget how sexist Soka was in the beginning? He didn't think Katara could do anything or be a good bender because she was a girl. And did you forget how when they went to the Northern Watertribe, she was completely barred from learning fighting?

(me) You're right that there are many forms of oppression throughout the show, from all sides really. I just meant to clarify that 'opressor' is referring to the fire nation specifically within the specific complaints people make against zutara.

(me) Also I'd say personally, I believe that word refers to the ruling class subjugating a people, not every ism within intersectional bias

(Friend) I honestly don't have the energy to debate over a kids show

That's where the conversation ended but I am still very frustrated by it the next day and if anyone has an opinion I'd love to hear it. I felt like my friend riled me up and then cut it off when I didn't agree with them and left me with so many questions

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zutara #zuko x katara #media literacy

[r-rook-studio]

Return to the Bracknell Horror

Crossposted from R-Rook.studio.

I like to think of myself as someone who loves and writes scenarios that are inherently sandboxy. My ideal horror investigation scenarios—Goblin Archive's The Mall and Zzarchov Kowalski's Price of Evil—have a few hooks, a usefully detailed map, a well-thought-out escalation clock, and interesting, tersely described NPCs... but not much else. In adventure design, those are my ideals. Sometimes, at a one-shot are con, you need to make your frames slightly harder, but often when doing that, the goal is to preserve as much player agency and GM creativity as possible, especially when the scenario isn't only for demo or public play.

Over the past weekend, I had a writing breakthrough with "The Bracknell Horror," an adventure for the next Roseville Beach Book. This post isn't grand RPG theory; it's just a quick note that my two favorite parts of scenario design (setting and escalation clock) were ultimately what fixed the problem. It's odd that I've run this little adventure many times since I started working on Roseville Beach in 2019—it's fun and gives me room to bring in a lot of the PC's connections—but it was only last weekend that I was really happy with it how it all came together.

"The Bracknell Horror" has been my go-to con game or demo for Moonlight on Roseville Beach. Inspired by both a messy blend of the Migo and the Dreamlands with the actual Belvedere Guest House on Fire Island, I've been running it since 2019. Roseville Beach's Bracknell Lodge is a good place for a kidnapping mystery: the guest house is too expensive and exclusive for our PC sleuths to have been in before, even though it's local to the town where they do their monster-hunting. It also gives them the potential to deal with wealthy, WASPy, and mostly unsympathetic queer characters who are still being harmed by cishet magician Simon Mather and his cronies who've decided Roseville Beach is the perfect place to find some warm bodies for some nightmarish Dreamlands entities to possess.

Ultimately, I didn't put it into either the quickstart or the main book because we were out of space and because while it was always a sandbox when I got to the Bracknell, I was always too intimidated to create an escalating clock and always needed a scene structure and over-the-top clues to get them there.

In my original version, the PCs wake up Saturday morning to discover that during the night, people have gone missing. In some cases, they had missed connections with those folks and may have been looking for them before. I'd always excused that issue, rationalizing that missing a meet-up with friends in an era before cell phones often meant not reconnecting until everyone got back home the next day. But Roseville Beach isn't just a small town, it's a fairly tiny one, and the locals know each other well, so I was never happy with actively preventing the PCs from getting involved until the clock was farther advanced, but my brain was hyper-focused on that structure until I started preparing to run it for A Weekend with Good Friends hosted on Discord by The Good Friends of Jackson Elias. Finally, it occurred to me that the adventure really needed to begin the night the disappearances start instead of just including a few flashbacks the PCs remember the next day. In doing that, I had a chance to target not just the PC's connections and allies but also the PCs themselves, giving them a chance to interfere with Mather's plans as they were getting started or follow Macgregor and his cronies as they moved through the town finding people to target rather than waking up the next morning and converging on the Bracknell.

I'd been afraid that getting the PCs involved too soon might mean it moved from creepy horror scenario to a big fight in the middle of town, but it took PCs time to confirm what was happening and that the people who were running late or took longer than usual to use the bathroom, find a pay phone, or cash a check at the grocery were actually, really missing that the kidnappers always had a head start (a crow shifter spotted one of Mather's henchlings walking toward the Bracknell with one of the victims, but couldn't do much to interfere until he rendezvoused with everyone else). Once that happened, a PC who'd been invited back to the Bracknell by a stranger she was dancing with had a new motivation to accept the invitation. We still had a chance to explore all the less-known ways to get into the lodge—the gardener's entrance, sneaking in via the unused boathouse, climbing over the front gate (this time with the cover of night)—so I got to reference Dai's incredible map (that will also appear in the full version of Dim All the Lights).

This time, I'd also simplified Mather's plans so that they were way easier to plot out on a clock, and PCs interfering with them weren't filling pages of notes when they learned about them. Moving everything to the nighttime also meant that PCs' plans to get into the Lodge by subterfuge, stealth, and seduction felt more logical and logically likely to succeed.

#roseville beach #moonlight on roseville beach #dim all the lights #tabletop gaymes #tabletop game design #ttrpg design #scenario design

[fashionbooksmilano]

Ice cold. A Hip-Hop Jewelry History

Vikki Tobak 

Text by Slick Rick, ASAP Ferg, LL COOL J, Kevin”Coach K”Lee, Pierre “P” Thomas

Taschen, Cologne 2022 ,388 pages, Hardcover, English edition with German and French translation as download, 25 x 34 cm, ISBN  9783836584975

euro 80,00

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“Ice Cold: A Hip-Hop jewelry history" presents the bling culture of rappers and their jewelry. Using 40 years of iconic imagery and compelling stories, this visual history shines a light on the world of hip-hop, where mega stars from Run-DMC to Tupac and Jay-Z to Migos and Cardi B flash brilliant custom pieces to show status and personal style.  Ice Cold is a treasure trove of dazzling, inspirational style, featuring the work of leading photographers, including Wolfgang Tillmans, Janette Beckman, Jamel Shabazz, Timothy White, Gillian Laub, David LaChapelle, Danny Clinch, Chris Buck, Mike Miller, Phil Knott, Raven B. Varona, Al Pereira, Albert Watson and many more.

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[imoonblaze]

Characters and OCs that would appear in TheMelodyOfaStory AU

TheMelodyofaStory AU (CrossMelody-Storie) and OCs belong to @imoonblaze

Hello again everyone! again another post! I know it's not the best time but I wanted to show this list of the characters that will appear in my AU TheMelodyOfaStory.

At the moment it is only the current list of what I have but the number of different characters that will appear, including some of my OCs, may continue to increase. The most probable thing is that later and with time I will also publish the list of the ships that I have made, who will be the main protagonists of the Au, important characters and villains or antagonists

so….

Characters that would appear within the AU:

-Dodi and Dan (Olocoons) -Joris Jurge and, Adamai (Wakfu) -Francoeur (A monster in Paris) -Zatz (Maya and the three) -Ryu (dragon avatar only, his age changes in the au, Belle 2021) -Betrayus (Pmatga) -Spark (Spark: a Space Tail) -Squigly (Skullgirls) -Fluttershy (My Little Pony) -Kaos, Wolfgang, Cynder and Buckshot (Skylanders) -Rema (Running Man Animation) -King Kazma (Summer Wars) -Garzo (Friends: Mononoke Shima no naki) -King Trollex and Synth (Trollstopia) -Retsuko and shikabane (Agrettsuko) -Bloody Bunny and Dark Rabbit (Bloody Bunny) -Huggy Wuggy and Bunzo Bunny (Poppy PlayTime) -Balan (Balan Wonderworld) -GulusGammamon and Angoramon(Digimon Ghost Game) -Montomery Gator and Glamrock Freddy (Fnaf: Security Breach) -Bendy (Bendy and the ink machine) -Cuphead (Cuphead) -Aster. Bunnymund (Rise of the Guardians) -Alebrije (Las Leyendas) -Shoebill and Serval (Kemono Friends) -Cosmo (Sonic X) -Zozo and Ollie (Lost Ollie) -bumblebee -Eda, Lilith and Collector (The owl house) -Tohru and Kanna (Kobayashi-san Chi no maid dragon) -Migo (Smallfoot) -Glandale and Wammawink (Centauria) -Rodney Copperbotton (Robots 2005) -Ralph and Leo (Rottman) -flippy, fliqpy (Happy tree friends) -Kedamono (Popee the performer) -Barley Lightfoot (Onward) -Sun wukong and Macaque (Lego monkie kid) -Cherry Moth Slayer (Toram Online) -Hearts and Umasou (You are Umasou!) -Palontras and Itward (Fran Bow) -Chappie (Chappie) -Sohone and Mune (Mune the guardian of the moon) -Smurfette (the smurfs) -Ash (Sing!) -Diane Foxington (The Bad Guys) -Faputa and Nanachi (Made in Abyss) -Manolo (The book of life)

OCs within the AU:

-Livlia and Yukiko (Olocoons) -Nama-Nama (Keroro Gunso) -Plumerenti and Aimarouge (Wakfu/Dofus) -Maimara (Maya and the three) -Crystal (Spark: a Space tail) -Titania (Skylanders) -Yina (Running Man Animation) -Nictexa (The Book of Life) -Mei (Bloody Bunny) -Peachy Cuddly (Poppy Playtime) -Diance and Radian (Balan Wonderworld) -Gardiennemon (Digimon Ghost Game) -Xareni (Las Leyendas) -Rosalia (Sonic X) -Rini (Lost Ollie) -Maiko (Robots 2005) -Fanny (Happy Tree Friends) -Jashii (Gremlins) -Rini (Lost Ollie) -Loricor (Wakfu) -Saori (summer wars) -Edilaine (a monster in paris)

#TheMelodyOfaStoryAU #CrossMelody-StoriesAU #AU

[formaline-brk]

who the hell are you?

my name is mizuki tabris naito. i am a 16-yo gender-fluid, non-binary, gender-fluid, pansexual furry trans teen from california with autism and adhd. i love to play video games, watch films and tv, and listen to and make music! sometimes i do art too when i get the motivation lol

wait, you said you make music?

yes, i do hahaha! i go by formaline on all platforms, including apple music, spotify, youtube, whatever you use! as of writing this, my debut ep "world counting on me" has been out for a week, and all the links for it are available if you click the title. and i have even more music coming soon, so stay tuned!

well then, who are your favorite artists?

*sigh*

yhapojj

sophie (rip)

patricia taxxon (@patricia-taxxon)

the weeknd

playboi carti

taylor swift

prince

Bladee

travis scott

lil shine

Kankan

dua lipa

post malone

summrs

pi'erre bourne

yeat

Hikaru utada

nas

Kanye west

ecco2k

iayze

unotheactivist

lucki

destroy lonely

Kali uchis

lucy dacus

denzel curry

young thug

autumn!

goonie

Billie eilish

crystal castles

Ken car$on

Boygenius

pinkpantheress

kate bush

phoebe bridgers

migos

sebii

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #transgender #trans #nonbinary #genderfluid #pansexual #furry #autism #adhd #music #musician #yhapojj #sophie #patricia taxxon #the weeknd #playboi carti #taylor swift #prince #Bladee #travis scott #lil shine #Kankan #dua lipa #post malone #summrs #pi'erre bourne #yeat #Hikaru utada #nas

[teathattast]

Tea's Music Reviews #006

Artist: Metro Boomin

Album: Heroes & Villains (2022) [link]

Metro Boomin is arguably one of the most influential producers of this generation. For perspective, he has 3 producer tags to my knowledge, 1 of which was done by Future - Future being one of the most well known trap stars of this generation.

Known for his simplicity, Metro has a way with beats that many have tried to duplicate. Metro Boomin has a history of producing entire albums that have been staples in contemporary trap. Some notable mentions include Perfect Timing by NAV and Savage Mode I & II by 21 Savage.

In 2018, Metro Boomin released Not All Heroes Wear Capes (Deluxe). With big name features from legends like Gucci Mane, Travis Scott, Young Thug and Gunna, Metro set the stage for collaboration albums for the coming years.

Continuing the saga, Heroes & Villains carries a deeper significance. With the recent incarceration of YSL's Young Thug and Gunna along with the unfortunate passing of Migo's legend Takeoff (RIP), Heroes & Villains not only pays homage to the previously mentioned, but it gives them a voice during a time when they're unable to speak to us the way they'd like. I had my phone in my pocket while listening to this, so I lit up like a Christmas tree when I heard Thugga and Takeoff. Admittedly, Travis Scott has been a favorite of mine since Astroworld, so I especially enjoyed his presence too.

One thing you can count on with a Metro Boomin collaboration album is unique atmospheric collections of deep cuts that touch your Soul. Morgan Freeman's narration is the icing on the cake of this ethereal bag of ear candy. It's like listening to a movie in a way that's hard to put into words. I've not experienced anything like this before.

Opening with a John Legend feature is probably the most unexpected part of this album. From dissonant trap cuts to drug fueled euphoric tinctures, Heroes & Villains encapsulates the life and times of an artist in the modern age. It's experimental, yet cohesive. Each artist truly brings their own flavor to the banquet, both accentuated and complimentary.

The mixing leaves a little to be desired. In that sense, that's where I feel like I lose a bit of momentum when listening through. This is really just my personal preference. That doesn't take away from the overall quality of the album itself, but I do feel the mixing and mastering could've used a little more attention.

While I enjoy 21 Savage, Don Toliver and Future, I was hoping there would have been a few more artists sprinkled throughout this LP. Overall, this was an amazing album with some really unexpected, fantastic features. Metro Boomin has been one of my favorite producers for years, so I would argue Heroes & Villains is an experimental classic that will influence the music industry in both big and small ways.

Notable songs: Trance (with Travis Scott & Young Thug), I Can't Save You (with Future & Don Toliver), Creepin' (with The Weeknd & 21 Savage), Walk Em Down (Don't Kill Civilians) [with 21 Savage & Mustafa], Lock On Me (with Travis Scott & Future), Feel the Fiyaaaah (with A$AP Rocky & Takeoff)

Overall score: 9/10

#tea's music reviews #metro boomin #heroes & villains #music reviews #music #morgan freeman #john legend #future #21 savage #don toliver #the weeknd #travis scott #young thug #asap rocky #takeoff #gunna

[agentgrange]

Field Notes: Lemuria, Lloigor, & Ghatanothoa

Caution, long post but bare with me.

Trying to unify several different accounts of mythos prehistory and the lloigor even among Delta Green resources and trying to gauge people's over-under on the following all being the same entity:

Yaldabaoth, the first dragon, the blind creator god occasionally referenced in some mythos writing. Linked to the development of humanity's tie to material reality and Phillip K. Dick's Black Iron Cage. In many interpretations it is no longer one force but split into lesser "archons" that govern the Black Iron Cage. (Note: When I use the Demiurge in my work I don't mean to imply that gnosticism is canon or "real" but as an imagined Outer God that fits the archetype.)

Ghatanothoa, brought to earth by the Yuggoth from out of space and time as a weapon against the Elder Things. Becomes the god of the Lemurians, known for granting unnaturally long lifespans and teaching the Lemurians how to conjure hypergeometric constructs into the material world. Remained dormant several hundred million of years after the fall of the Lemurians until the alleged arrival of the Lloigor from Andromeda 2.5 million years ago. There's some conflicting information on if they were a major opponent against Lloigorian conquest or, in fact, the source from which all Lloigor split from.

Nug and Yeb, the twin blasphemies, also called. The Twin Dragons. Represented as a red and white dragon respectively. Worshipped by the Lemurian-decendant K'n-yan and said to have split from the Yuggothi god Cxaxukluth-- the creator-god counterpart and celestial pair to Azoth, the destroyer god.

Zhar and Lloigor, the twin obscenities. Also represented as dragon-like creatures. Bares very uncanny resemblances to Nug and Yeb, I'd go so far as to say they are cognates or aspects of the same gods worshipped by different cultures. Called "the star treaders" and often called the progenitors to the Lloigor "race".

Alright so heres the heady part I've been thinking of; how do we unify all this and reconcile it with all the alleged information that shows the Lloigor arrived from Andromeda 2.5 million years ago but Ghatanothoa was brought by the Yuggoth and led the Lemurians hundreds of millions of years before that? Here's my suggestion, in brief.

The Yuggoth detect the emerging sentience of the Elder Thing's humanoid servitors including what would become the Lemurians. (Reference my earlier Field Notes on The Cult of the Lam.) They arrive on earth completely ignorant of the Elder Things, resulting in a first-contact war. The Yuggoth attempt to win the war by creating a physical construct to hold a fragment (Ghatanothoa) of a larger creator entity. (Cxaxukluth to the Yuggoth, later mantled by the Gnostic concept of Yaldabaoth.)

Ghatanothoa cuts a path of destruction that destroys the Elder Things and Yuggoth on earth alike with the humanoid servitors fragmenting off as humanoids and Lemurians. Or maybe Lemurians are entirely different from us and just showed up from Agartha in the wrong place at the wrong time, it's impossible to tell. The Lemurians of Mu evolve faster through the worship of Ghatanothoa but are forced underground after the war with the Deep Ones. The Lemurians eventually become the K'n-yan, Vril-ya, and Nephilim of legend and remember the liberation war against the MiGo and Elder Things as the war against the Star People. The Yuggoth for their part promptly forget this forrey to Earth ever happened because of their horrible brain geometry and pisspoor understanding of causality while humanity sits on the back burner a few epochs until it's psychic awakening.

Things go silent for a while with Ghatanothoa still kicking around in some capacity in the ruins of Mu / Lemuria. Thing is, if it could be split from a larger chunk of the Yuggothi god then under the right conditions it can happen again, even spontaneously. The supernova in Andromeda, for reasons unknowable in our galaxy, bombards Mu with just the right type of "downhill" Boltzmann energy to spontaneously fragment the god into Zhar and Lloigor / Nug and Yeb who continuously consume eachother and fragment off into smaller and smaller archons-- inadvertantly birthing the Lloigorian race / Xin on earth like snakes bursting form the corpse of the Demiurge. The greater will of the Demiurge and Ghatanothoa still exist, but only as a cosmic echo in the material world desperately trying to rebuild itself by joining together scattered Lloigor plexus fields.

#delta green #call of cthulhu #deltagreen #field notes #lloigor #ghatanothoa #mythos #lovecraft mythos #cthulhu mythos

[freshthoughts2020]

BREAK UP THE BOYS CLUB OR INVITE NEW MEMBERS

BREAK UP THE BOYS CLUB OR INVITE NEW MEMBERS

August 10, 2023

I.KHALED’S NEW SINGLE

Khaled just announced a new single for his yet to be titled LP, titled “Supposed to Be Loved”. I like DJ Khaled and respect his legacy as a DJ and an artist. Each release is actually something I looked forward to. When the single was announced I looked at the lineup and lord behold it was the usual suspects; Lil Baby, Future, and Lil Uzi Vert. My honest initial reaction was just a big sigh.

This Khaled single was the straw that broke the camel back, I’m tired of seeing the same people work together man. I understand people are playing the game at a higher level at this point and Khaled releases are basically music blockbusters but can the art take a little more priority? I feel like Khaled can get more interesting albums if he tap into his actual skill of A&Ring and put together unexpected combinations that would sound fire.

Besides the commercial aspect, I understand he may be sticking with the same people because the relationships developed over the years makes getting verses/hooks extremely easier. Everybody know how its like pulling teeth getting verses back sometimes.

As I stated Khaled was the straw that broke the back but this annoyance really started with my guy Metro.

II.METRO’S SELECTED FEW

Now I love Metro, I told him he was the best producer in the game back in 2014! Real deal supporter. I also think his new album is incredible but the only downside was it was the same people on every song. I think Metro talent and star power is strong enough to collaborate with anyone in the world, I mean anyone! Now I understand each of his album were following specific themes and everyone was probably hand picked to fill a certain role but I done heard Metro with these people a billion times!

I like when he collabed with James Blake and even the Coi Leray linkup on the Spiderverse soundtrack. I want Metro to get deep into his producer bag and introduce us to some new voices or get with some active people we never seen him work with. But the Travis Scott, 21 vibes I think we done had enough for a min. I’m not including Future because him and Metro is an unbeatable combo and we are actually overdue for a new project from them + the superhero song was wayy too good, we need more of that ASAP!

All in all its like there is a boys club of 21, travis, future, thug, migos, drizzy, uzi,swae,nav,don, and weeknd. I want to see and hear some great suprises. I wanna see random stuff like DVSN and metro or like Monica on a Khaled song, or Wu tang on some Metro beats. You know just something unexpected. If Metro can get Morgan Freeman he can definitely expand his reach and if Khaled can consistently get HOV verses it ain’t no problem for him to get people either. Its time to dial back the priority of blockbuster music and increase the priority of great/groundbreaking collaborations!

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My heart is still broken by the loss of takeoff. It’s a tragedy when the lives of people so young are taken so soon .

Hug your love ones extra tight tonight

How Takeoff and the Migos Flow Changed Atlanta Rap

Quick-jabbing triplets had been a staple of rap, but the trio made the style sound fresh, thanks in large part to Takeoff, its master of syncopation. The rapper was shot and killed at 28 on Tuesday.

The Atlanta trio Migos’ 2013 breakout hit “Versace” represented a clear demarcation line between the city’s older generation of rappers and its new vanguard. The rapping — much of it delivered in triplets — was a glittery stomp. Tightly clustered syllables that landed like quick jabs.

“Versace” was such an immediate sensation that Drake, at the time the genre’s most important ascendant superstar, volunteered his services for a remix, mimicking the group’s peppery flow and, by extension, introducing it to the rest of the world.

By all accounts, Takeoff — who was shot and killed in Houston early Tuesday morning — was the primary engine of what came to be dubbed the Migos flow.

The rapper, who was 28, was one of three people who were shot around 2:30 a.m. after a private gathering at 810 Billiards & Bowling ended in an argument. (The other two victims are expected to survive. No arrests have been made, the authorities said.)

The triplet pattern that became a Migos signature wasn’t new to hip-hop: It was a fixture in Memphis rap for years, in the work of Three 6 Mafia and others, and it was part of the cadence-bending arsenal of the Cleveland sing-rap pioneers Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. But Migos made the style sound fresh, less performative and more glossy. It had a hurried urgency and also the briskness of rough-and-tumble triumph.

Such is the nature of hip-hop innovation — sometimes it’s about what is said, but just as often, it’s about how it’s said. And the triplet flow that Migos popularized in the mid-2010s became a standard-bearer for the genre, setting a generation of Atlanta rap afloat.

Atlanta was already the center of hip-hop innovation when Migos arrived, but the trio was primed for streaming-era success — pulsing with youthful energy, leaning heavily on catchy choruses, collaborating widely. After the viral success of its 2016 hit “Bad and Boujee,” Migos released a pair of albums, “Culture” and “Culture II,” that each debuted at the top of the Billboard albums chart and spawned several hits, including “MotorSport,” “Stir Fry” and “Walk It Talk It.”

The prior wave of Atlanta stars like Gucci Mane and Young Jeezy captured ears with imagistic storytelling and signature vocal texture. By comparison, Migos sounded addled, anxious, pugnacious. They were untethered from earlier rap conventions. As the rest of Atlanta rap leaned toward the psychedelic — beginning with Future, then pivoting to Young Thug, and eventually the more commercially minded Gunna and Lil Baby — Migos, and Takeoff especially, held fast to its mechanistic idiosyncrasies.

Takeoff was by far the most reserved figure in Migos, which also featured Quavo and Offset. But he was deeply technically gifted, a master of syncopation, with a deftness that could render even the toughest talk exuberantly.

That talent shone on the group’s earliest songs, catching the ear of Pierre Thomas, known to most as P, one of the founders of Quality Control Music, the dominant Atlanta rap label of the past decade. In 2017, Thomas recalled to Rap Radar how Gucci Mane had introduced him to Migos’ music, and how Takeoff stood out.

“Gucci sent me the song. He sent me the video. I was like, ‘Man, the dude with the long dreads’ — it was Takeoff — I was like, ‘That dude there is crazy.’ The way he was spitting it reminded me of Bone Thugs, like how they used to be rapping back in the day.”

“Versace” appeared on the third Migos mixtape, “Y.R.N.,” which was released in 2013 and remains one of the decade’s defining rap albums. Over the next couple of years, which would see the ascendance of Migos to hip-hop superstardom, the Migos flow expanded past triplets to a broader umbrella that emphasized the staccato.

Even as the group moved in a more melodic direction through the 2010s, Takeoff remained resolute in his commitment to innovative rhyme patterns. He set the tempo of “Fight Night,” one of the group’s signature early hits featuring perhaps its most pointedly rhythmic rapping. On “Cross the Country,” from 2014, he opened with a dizzying verse, switching patterns several times. And last year, on a punishing freestyle on the Los Angeles radio station Power 106, Takeoff delivered a verse that took the group’s classic triplet flow as a starting point and thickened it, demonstrating how on top of one novel idea, a whole mansion could be built.

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August {I} Salt Air

Pairing: Kim Taehyung x Reader

Genre: Fluff

Rating: PG13

Warnings: None

Word Count: 5.6K

Summary: Your family has gone to Lake Augusta every August since before you were born. 10 summers ago, the arrival of a new Kim family shook up your existence, and future.

Notes: Look, I love a summer romp starring Kim Taehyung. Sue me.

Listen: August, Taylor Swift; Long Hot Summer, Keith Urban; Slide, Calvin Harris feat. Frank Ocean & Migos; This Must Be the Place, Sure Sure (Talking Heads Cover); 

Tag List: @4ksj, @jagiya, @ot7nem, @knjkitten, @teamtardis-notdead​

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August, 10 Summers Ago

           There’s a stillness on Lake Augusta, before the hordes of people begin jet skiing, boating and tubing crash through it. It’s glassy smooth, deep blue and murky with seaweed and an invasive species of lake weeds. It expands for miles, the largest lake in the state, home to numerous resorts, personal and time-shared cabins, a coastline that stretches around almost all of the lake and home to a quaint, small town full of charm. Every year it waits for summer to breathe life back into it, to expand its holdings to be full of happiness, sunscreen and a few heartbreaks. It’s home away from home for many people. Not just a summer getaway, but a place to find oneself once again.

           The town stretches on for maybe five blocks, with little shops selling nearly identical goods flush to each other. Each is painted its own pastel or neon shade, bright and calling in the friendly customers and new faces. The dirt road seeps into your shoes no matter how hard you try to avoid the dust, making certain shoes impossible to wear anywhere but at the lake. Everyone shop owner knows every shop owner, and they call to each other as they open their stores each morning. Shops shift every summer, the few boutiques selling overpriced goods often go under before the following year, the summer town desolate in the fall and winter. The few snowbirds come through town but want nothing to do with summer fair, and thus shops change management and names but rarely change the goods they sell.

           It’s all cute and quaint, with the only relative drama coming from said shops switching management.

           That is, the adult world is hardly any drama.

           It’s the teenagers, and young adults that wreak havoc on the whole town, turning the peaceful pirate themed mini golf into the perfect place for clandestine meetings of exes, joint trading and conspicuous pictures being taken. They run town, and in turn their drama seeps into everyone’s summer jobs. The people running mini golf have always had suspiciously loose lips, trading secrets with the golf caddies at Gunner’s, who tell their girlfriends that work in Twix, Madras Plaid, and the sweet shop The Confectioners Corner. They then spread it to their friends who work at the resorts, Draven’s and Coral Mist (more on them later), who text and call and soon everyone, even the dockers who are only 13, know.

           It’s an incestuous gossip hole, where secrets are hard to keep, and secret relationships rarely remain that way by summers end.

           But it’s here, in August, that everything somehow coalesces and finds both you, and both Kim families, at the lake.

           You have come to this cottage since before you were born. A property your moms bought when they had just gotten married, they’ve fixed it up year after year until it was absolutely perfect, AC included. It’s winterized, though you rarely make the four-hour drive from your house to the cabin when there’s a threat of snow. But some Christmases, and New Year’s, have been spent inside the walls. It’s a modest, two and a half bedrooms, two bath single story cottage with a stretch of sand and a lengthy dock. All the swimming gear stays locked in the wooden shed just adjacent to the house, and the pontoon sits readily waiting for rides around the lake, to dinners at Arnie’s and Bar Harbor.

           This is your home, and so is the cottage next door, the home of the Kim’s.

           Seokjin and his twin Namjoon, and your best friend and coconspirator, Eun-Ji (everyone calls her EJ), their parents bought the cottage the same time as your moms and raised you almost in tandem. Seokjin and Namjoon, a few years older, have never once looked at you or your brother, except the one time they were told to babysit and naturally didn’t. They’ve always been lost in their own lives, even as kids, they have a bond that’s unbreakable largely due to their shared womb experience. But EJ, now EJ has done nothing but pay attention to you. A friendship forged over having brothers, you’ve spent every summer together. The worst is always June and July, when the Kim’s are up at the cabin and due to your moms’ jobs, are stuck in the city without EJ.

           This summer will be different. You both of scored summer jobs. Yours at The Confectioner’s Corner, EJ’s at Pirate’s Treasure Chest. You’ll both be working odd times, evenings and weekends, but somehow, you’re going to make this the best summer. You’re about to turn 15, ready to start high school…. This would be your summer. You’re sure of it.

           “If you don’t hurry up and take the cooler in, all the food will be spoiled,” your mom scolded from the porch of the cottage. She stood with her foot in the door and a hand on her him, watching with scrutinizing eyes as you and your brother struggled to carry the large cooler up the walkway.

           “We’re coming, it’s really heavy,” your brother, Alex, complained.

           “Yeah, did you put an entire pig in here?” You asked.

           “Stop complaining, you want to eat, don’t you?” She asked rolling her eyes.

           “Of course, we do,” your mama called from the car, sticker her head out to meet her wife’s gaze. “Stop giving them hell because you’re hungry. Eat a snack, Jackie.”

           Your mom rolled her eyes and took the few steps to come and help you and Alex.

           “Can I go –

           “YOU’RE HERE!” A voice bellows from somewhere between the trees. Thankfully your mom picked up the handle of the cooler because you dropped your side swiftly and took off running towards the voice.

           “I AM!” You screamed, arms wrapping around EJ.

           “I thought you were never going to get here!” EJ said, hugging you tight. “I’ve been stuck with my brothers for too long and I have needed you.”

           “You have a cellphone,” You reminded her.

           “You know my house is a total dead zone.”

           It was a well-known fact that the Kim’s cottage, ten times larger than your family’s, has the worst internet and wifi connection on the whole lake. Well maybe not the whole lake, but at least this stretch of beach. You’ve texted and called EJ only to have them bounce back or not go through at all. It’s a nightmare.

           “I know, but still. You don’t have to suffer any longer because I am here.”

           “Y/N,” your mama called. “Help unpack or you’re grounded for two days.”

           You stared at your mama in disbelief, two days? The beginning of August meant the small fair and carnival was happening, and with work not starting until Tuesday, you had all weekend and Monday to play, eat cotton candy and try to win cheap stuffed animals.

           “Mama!” You groaned and stomped over to the car to help unpack.

           “I’ll help too!” EJ declared as she took a bag of groceries from the trunk. The cooler was full, and being in the middle of nowhere, your moms had stocked up on the essential city items: almond milk, oat milk, gluten free waffles, bagels and bread, the good wine they loved, and Costco sized containers of meat. It wasn’t just that your parents and the Kim’s had become adults in tandem, it was that they raised you in tandem. Seokjin and Namjoon came over to eat at your house, talking to your mom and harassing Alex, almost every night. You too went to theirs. And thus, your moms had to buy Costco sized packages of meat to feed not one growing boy, but three.

           EJ stops dead in her steps as she enters the kitchen, because of course Seokjin has already beaten her to it.

           “Ugh, you,” she commented.

           “Ew, you,” Jin said back. He was busy unpacking groceries into the fridge, your mom filling the pantry and cabinets with fresh food.

           “Did you come in the back way?” EJ asked, snark in her tone.

           “I did, smarter huh?” Jin teased.

           “You’re the worst.”

           “No fighting,” Your mom said. “We’ve been here for twenty minutes and I’m not starting my vacation with the two Kim’s bickering. My own kids –

           “We are your kids too!” Namjoon said, poking his head in from the living room where he was setting up the router and powering up all the electronics.

           “My biological kids have already been fighting. I don’t need additional bickering. Got it?”

           “You need a drink,” Mama said coming in with the last of the carload. “Kids, go unpack.”

           “Okay!” You agreed happily and tugged EJ’s hand along to your bedroom, where someone (probably Seokjin) had already placed your suitcase. Your room at the cottage was desperately smaller than your room at home, a single bed instead of a double, it’s soft white walls welcomed you every time you stepped into it. EJ had no trouble plopping on your bed.

           “So, wanna hear the gossip?” She asked, eyebrows raising.

           “Yes! I’ve missed out on two months of it. What has been going on?”

           “Well, the big news is, the house two doors down from you,” EJ pointed, albeit in the wrong direction, to where the house was.

           “The one that got demoed and rebuilt?”

           It was hot gossip – who had torn down and built up a brand-new cottage? Who had threatened to change the landscape of the shore by creating a modern home? Who were these mysterious people?

           “Yeah, duh them. They move in this week and get this, they have a son that’s also going to be a freshman in high school and, the craziest part,” EJ paused, leaning closer to you. “Their last name is Kim!”

           “Whoa, another Asian family?” You sat down, staring shocked at her.

           It was enough that you and Alex, biracial and clearly brown, with your two moms, was more than enough diversity for the small town. Then of course, there was the Kim’s and their three, very Korean children. And now, another Asian family was moving in. Never had there been this many non-white people living here.

           “Isn’t it crazy?”

           “Yeah, we have to like, be friends with them, don’t we?” You asked.

           “Yes, because Jin and Joon are already annoyed someone else named Kim is moving in. They think everyone is going to be confused and think we’re related.”

           “Wouldn’t that make people think you’re related, more?”

           “That’s what my dad argued before he said that not wanting to be friends with them was anti-American, which sent Joon into a total spiral and mom sent him to his room.”

           Ah, yes. The three Kim children have their own rooms in the lake house.

           “It’s crazy that a Korean family is moving in, like that doesn’t happen. Not here.” You said, carefully taking the folded shirts out of your suitcase and placing them in their designated drawer, the second from the top.

           “No, but maybe more people are buying houses out here? My mom said things are changing.”

           “How would your mom know?” You asked.

           “She’s on the board of the town beautification project or whatever and working on dealing with the invasive species that are in the lake,” EJ said.

           “They’re not like, dangerous to humans, are they?”

           “Relax, if they were Seokjin would’ve turned into a red puss ball by now.”

           You laughed. “Can you imagine?”

           “I can, it happens when he eats too much garlic. It’s very funny and apparently can kill him.”

           “What’s the other gossip?” You wanted to keep the conversation moving. EJ, much like Namjoon, can get stuck on a subject and circle around it for hours.

           “According to sources I cannot confirm –

           That was lake code for “someone told me something they weren’t supposed to and now I’m telling you though I’m not supposed to”.

           “Uh-huh,” you said.

           “Maia is planning on losing her kissing virginity to Eric by end of summer.” EJ whispered, voice nearly rising loud enough to be heard outside your bedroom.

           “Whoa,” you said, sitting back and staring at her. “She likes him like that?”

           “I guess.”

           “I thought she was into Matty,” you said.

           “I did too, but then she came in this summer with boobs and straight hair, and I don’t know. They play mini golf at least once a week.”

           “Whoa.”

           EJ leaned in again, voice even quieter than before. “Apparently, Matty and Katherine have done under the shirt stuff too.”

           “Whoa!” You said, making sure your door was closed so your moms didn’t hear anything. You sat down next to her, legs crossed, staring. “You’re joking.”

           “Cross my heart on Fearless, I am not.”

           “Oh my god,” you said. That was a serious vow, EJ loved Taylor Swift.

           “Yeah. And apparently some of the older kids are throwing a rager next weekend when Roman’s parents are out of town. Like a real party, with beer.” She was so glad you were finally here to tell this information to because the bad reception and likelihood her parents would look at her texts meant that she couldn’t send you a message. But this was huge. Parents never go out of town, and kids who throw parties while they are away, always get caught. Always. There isn’t a parent in this section of shore that wouldn’t go over immediately and shut it down, or worse, call the sheriff with noise complaints.

           “How do you know that?” You asked.

           “I have my ways,” EJ said. Which was really a code for, I eavesdrop on my brothers.

           “How could I have missed so much?” You asked, laying back on your bed.

           “I don’t know, but once you start work, I’m sure you’ll hear so much gossip you’ll be filling me in.” She confided.

           “I hope so. I just hope –

           “None of it is about you, I know. Your deepest fear.”

           “Exactly.”

           “Are we going to the fair tomorrow?” EJ asked, standing to look through the new clothes you’d brought with you.

           “Yeah, but not until like two because we don’t want to seem, like, eager.”

           “We’re high school freshman,” EJ said, like it carried weight or magnitude in your current situation.

           “That means we’re at the bottom of the totem pole, again.” You reminded her.

           EJ scoffed. “We’re always going to be at the bottom with that attitude.”

           “At least while your brothers are around, we will be.”

           “So true, I can’t wait until they go to college.”

           “A few more years,” you said, resigned to experiencing the summer in the shadow of EJ’s hulking older brothers.

           Seokjin and Namjoon, fraternal twins born five minutes apart, are like night and day. Seokjin has always been the sun, willing to help, kind to everyone but introverted to a fault. He’s the favorite caddy of all the summer hires, requested by the high-profile club members, he’s kind and welcoming, always known for sharing an uproariously funny joke or two. But outside of Gunner’s, Jin stays to himself, doing his schoolwork, studying in the summer for his upcoming standardized tests, reading college required reading and making sure EJ stays in line. He might be the sun, but he carries no social clout and thus tries not to be outshone by Namjoon, something he fails at at the lake.

           Namjoon, student body president and assistant summer manager at Draven’s Resort, he works in mysterious ways. Clumsy and prone to accidents (he’s definitely broken a bone sitting on the dock), he knows what’s happening at every single business and clique of friends in town. How? No one really knows, but his penchant for being found both behind all the stores (the area they call the mall), and somehow never being seen anywhere but work and his parents’ house, has led the towns youth to create so many rumors about him he can’t keep straight what’s true and what isn’t. He isn’t above it all, in any sort of way. In fact, he’s always been a little lost in who he is when he’s up here. At home he’s totally fine, self-assured and aware of who he is and what he does. But here? He’s both Namjoon Kim, second son of the Kim’s, and Namjoon Kim, mysterious perpetually single yet dashing intellectual who is always injured. Neither identity feels true. If it was up to him, he’d be a bit more like Seokjin, who is the same at the lake as he is at home. Or EJ, who doesn’t ever seem to doubt who she is becoming.

           The Lake Augusta Country Fair comes through once a summer, in August always, and brings with it a host of outsiders and new job opportunities. The businesses around town hire extra teens, and you’re considered lucky if you don’t have to work the weekend of the big fair. Seokjin and Namjoon always work it, their personalities and penchant for big tips always makes the guests spend more money, so they only get to go in the evenings. EJ is too new to be kept on at Mini Golf for the weekend, and thus she and you are on your way with Alex in tow.

           The fair is like any state fair, carnivals rides, a Ferris wheel, elephant ears, are all a part of the excitement. No one in town sells shoestring fries quite like the carts available that weekend. And, the thrilling part of the entire fair, the water park. The water park is the best part of the fair. A small wave pool, five large water slides that all pour into the same pool, and a surf simulator are the most popular of the attractions. But the lazy river, which extends the entire perimeter of the water park is truly the best place to be. Not only do the non-working teenagers gossip there, it's where first dates are held, college students get drunk, and pre-teens get to experience freedom away from their parents.

           It’s there that you see him – soft eyes, one mono-lid, big and brown and staring at you. He smiles shyly, staring at you before looking away quickly.

           “Hey,” you said to EJ. “Who is that?”

           “Who?” she asked, looking to the spot where you were gesturing.

           “That guy, black hair, he looks about our age,” you said.

           “I don’t see him.”

           “Oh,” you shook your head, maybe you imagined it.

           “It’s our turn, come one,” EJ said and grabbed your hand, pulling you and your tube towards the entrance of the lazy river.

           Dinner at the fair is a cornucopia of fried foods and grease covered side dishes. Mac & Cheese balls, corn dogs, fries, topped off with ice cold coke and a root beer float, or fried ice cream with a fried Oreo on top, are the best of the options you and EJ can pick.

           It’s in picking up your root beer floats that you spot him again, honeyed skin, boxy grin, staring at what looks like his younger sister. He glanced up and you glanced away, unsure what the moment was, if anything. But you couldn’t forget the way your heart raced, how you wanted to talk to him, know him, wave and say hello to him. But you didn’t. You grabbed your treats and went back to EJ.

           “I saw that kid again.” You told her.

           “Really?” She asked. It was unusual to see the same person again, the fair brought in thousands of locals.

           “Yes really, I think he has a little sister.”

           “Okay, stalker much.”

           “I’m not stalking, I just happened to see him again.” You said.

           “Did you say something?” She asked.

           “No.”

           “Well how are you going to give him your kissing virginity if you don’t talk to him?”

           “Oh my god EJ!” You said hitting her arm. “I’m not doing that.”

           “And why not?” She asked.

           “I don’t even know him. He could live a town over and never come back after today, I’m not going to give my kissing virginity to someone I don’t even know.”

           “Whatever you say,” EJ teased.

           The thing is, what you didn’t realize and refused to acknowledge even now, is that EJ was completely right. And you absolutely would.

           The saccharine smell of sugar, homemade fudge and fresh waffle cones waft through the doorway of The Confectioners Corner, the towns only sweet shop. It’s painted sky blue with yellow, pink and white polka dots. The branding is very Dylan’s Candy Bar if Dylan’s went rural summer destination. It’s owned by Greg and Donna, two lifers who spend their fall and winters in the city running some clothing boutique, which apparently does well enough that they built a million-dollar lake getaway. They hire a group of teens every summer to run their candy store while they’re busy making the candy. Fresh fudge nearly every day, decadent malted milk balls and designer gummies from top notch suppliers fill the shelves. It’s heaven for kids, and the most coveted place to work outside of Pirate’s Treasure Chest Mini Golf.

           The only reason you’re working there that summer was because Alexis had to go home early to prepare for college, she’s going to UC San Diego and has to pack up her entire life to move. Which meant Greg and Donna had one single opening for the month of August, and with the recommendations from Seokjin and Namjoon, the spot was yours.

           Stepping into the shop on your first day, you maneuvered through the crowd of people buying gummy worms and cookies and cream fudge to the back where you’re meant to sign in. It’s busy, as to be expected for noon on a Tuesday when the temperature is over 80 degrees. In the back is Shannon, the manager, waiting patiently for you to show up.

           “There you are Y/N!” She said with a smile. “Finally, here’s your apron. Toss it on and wash your hands, then the three of us will get started.”

           “Three?” You asked, looking around for a third person to join in your training.

           “Three,” a voice said behind you, causing you to turn and stare.

           Of course, in the perfect rom-com moment that could only happen at Confectioners Corner, it was him. The boy from the fair. He was much taller when he was standing two feet from you, and his eyes somehow gentler than you realized when squinting in the hot sun. he was… cute. Too cute to be back here working in the ice cream section. He should be working on the golf course or at the resort being a lifeguard. Not relegated to the back section of the candy shop.

           “Y/N, this is Taehyung. He’s new, too,” Shannon said and tossed the blonde hair dripping down her back into a messy top knot.

           Shannon had worked summers at the candy shop every year of high school, and somehow came back the first two summers in college too. She was 20, lean from playing club volleyball and tan from sunning on the shore in her off hours. Two years ago, she nearly ruined her reputation over a relationship with the lead caddy over at Gunner’s. It had been the hottest gossip of the whole summer. Craig had been a year older, and after taking Shannon to prom his senior year, they started dating. That is until he broke up with her over a game of mini-golf and nearly ruined her life with the scandal. Craig’s family sold their property and bought a home on a lake twenty miles away, and no one’s heard from them since.  

           Shannon is beloved by Greg and Donna, who view her as their fourth child and entrust the business to her every summer without fail.

           “I saw you, at the fair,” you said, staring at Taehyung.

           “Yes, I saw you too.”

           “Taehyung, are you the new Kim family that moved into Pebble Beach Road?”

           “How’d you know that?” He asked.

           “I live next door, the little navy cottage.”

           “Next to that huge house with the loud boys, right?”

           “Yeah, next to them.”            

           “We haven’t been here long enough to know anyone, but I think I’ve seen you.”

           The idea that he had seen you before you saw him made you dizzy. Had he known when you locked eyes at the fair that you were neighbors? Did he already know you’d be working together for the rest of summer?

           “You should come over sometime, meet everyone,” you were unsure where this bravery came from.

           “Oh yeah?” He asked, surprised.

           “Yeah, you should. The guys are idiots, but EJ and I are fun, and my brother Alex is always looking for someone to go tubing or swimming with.”

           “I’ve got a sister and a brother, they’d probably like all that too.”

           “Cool,” you said.

           “Yeah, cool.”

           “Okay, now that you two know each other, let’s get started,” Shannon said.

           It turns out scooping ice cream is harder than it looks, particularly because The Confectioner’s Corner keeps the ice cream a little past freezing, making it almost rock solid. Taehyung already has natural muscles, some from dancing and whatever sports he plays during the school year. You on the other hand, are fairly strong from swim team and volleyball. But by weeks end you’re both exhausted, barely peddling home on your bikes.

           It’s routine, whenever you work together and are heading off at the same time, you ride together. Your moms and Taehyung’s parents are happy that each of you has a buddy, and it does make the often-sweltering ride so much nicer. Taehyung is sweet, and funny, and a little off kilter in a way that makes him exciting to be with.

           “You wanna come for a swim?” You asked at the end of your morning shifts. 8AM-12PM is a sweet time to work because you hardly get a rush but then get the rest of the afternoon to swim, play and be nearly 15 years old.

           “Oh, sure!”

           “EJ has the day off, so she’ll be around, and of course Alex too. I think one of EJ’s brother’s is off too… I hope it isn’t Seokjin.”

           “You don’t like him?” Taehyung asked as he hung his apron up.

           “Everyone likes Seokjin. Everyone.”

           “Not you?”

           “He’s so… obnoxious. He teases me all the time and just, he sucks. Namjoon is much more likable.”

           That was in no way true, in fact the crush you had on Seokjin was so buried deep within you that not even EJ knew. You didn’t really know, either, keeping it all locked up inside you… burying it because what would happen? Seokjin was seventeen! What did a seventeen-year-old want with a barely fifteen-year-old? And it wouldn’t be romantic like in The Princess Diaries, it would be weird and creepy because he’s almost an adult and you…. well, you hadn’t even started high school.

           “Oh, I get that.”

           “I’m gonna head home to eat lunch and then go out – wanna meet in an hour?”      

           “Uh, yeah, sure.”

           “Okay, you can just cross the beach to mine, I’ll be outside,” you smiled at him, excited for EJ to finally meet him.

           “Sounds perfect.”

           “I gotta stop by the store on my way home, otherwise I’d ride with you,” you told him. Taehyung nodded and took off through town and turned right at the stop light.

           You hadn’t given yourself enough time. The store was a ten-minute bike ride from work, and then a twenty-minute ride to your house from the store. And of course, it took longer at the store to get the tomatoes and lettuce and whatever alternative to mayo your mama wanted for BLTs that night, and then cobb salads the next day. By the time you were meant to be on the beach, you were barely getting into your swimsuit let alone eating. You ran out the door to the beach with your turkey sandwich in hand, and stood slightly breathlessly as EJ and Taehyung made their respective ways to you.

           “Why haven’t you eaten?” EJ demanded, staring at you with confusion in her eyes. “Weren’t you done like an hour ago?”

           “I had to stop at the store to get dinner stuff.”

           “Couldn’t your moms do that?” She asked.

           “Moms?” Taehyung repeated as he finally made his way to you.

           “I have two moms. They’re chill,” you explained.

           “Oh,” Taehyung said.

           “Taehyung, this is EJ.”

           “Hi, nice to me-

           “Aish! What are you doing?” Namjoon’s voice came booming from the dock across from yours. Wasn’t he supposed to be working today?

           “Ya, why are you touching our sister?” Came Seokjin’s voice from the porch of their house. He met Namjoon halfway and came walking together towards the trio you had formed.

           “Calm down jerks,” you said. “This is Taehyung, he lives next door, and we work together. I invited him, and his siblings to come and swim this afternoon. Chill,” you said.

           “No, we won’t chill,” Namjoon said as he laughed and elbowed his twin. “So, you’re Taehyung.”

           “Uh, yes?”

           “The newest Kims,” Seokjin said taking in the sight of Taehyung.

           “I guess? Are you guys’ Kim’s too?”

           “We are, the original Kim’s on Lake Augusta,” Namjoon answered.

           “Oh, well that’s super cool!” Taehyung said with a shy smile.

           “So where do you live?”

           “Yeah, you local?”

           “No, we came here because my mom used to as a kid, and she wanted us to experience it.”

           “Why weren’t you here all summer?” Jin wanted to know.

           “My mom saves her PTO and some sick days to take most of a month off and it’s always August,” Taehyung explained.

           “That’s fair,” Namjoon and Seokjin agreed.

           “What are your thoughts on Glee?” Jin asked.

           “Or P!nk?”

           “Why?” Taehyung asked.

           “Enough go away!” EJ declared pushing her brothers away. “You can do your weird protective spying from the dock. Leave us alone.”

           “Just one last question,” they said, stopping and maneuvering out of EJ’s weak grasp.

           “What?” You groaned.

           “What are your intentions with our sister and sister from another mister?” Namjoon asked. Seokjin laughed, high pitched and squeaky before EJ charged at them and they ran back to their posts on the dock.

           “Those are?” Taehyung started.

           “My older brothers. Sorry they’re incompetent jerks.”

           “Why were they asking about P!nk?”

           “We’re really obsessed with her.”

           “Oh,”

           “Did you siblings want to come and join us?” You asked Taehyung.

           “They’re eating and then they got in trouble, so they have chores to do. My parents are not happy.”

           “You don’t live around here, do you?” EJ asked him as she led you guys towards the dock. She sat dangling her feet off the edge while you finished your rushed sandwich.

           “No, we flew in and then drove.”

           “How old are your siblings?”

           “My sister is twelve and my brother is nine,” Taehyung said, then he did what he knew you and EJ weren’t expecting: he slid right off the dock and into the water, disappearing completely before his head came bobbing to the surface.

           “Oh my god!” EJ laughed. “You scared me!”

           You just stared at him, smiling, because somewhere you knew… this was going to be the first of many times Taehyung Kim surprised you.

           The rest of summer passed in a haze of swims in the lake, mini golf tournaments that Taehyung always won, and enough ice cream scooping to turn you and Taehyung into pros. It was a perfect summer, your very own The Summer I Turned Pretty which is all you and EJ had wished and prayed for.

           Your final evening, you sat out on your dock, the Adirondack chairs your moms bought perfectly placed on the edge just so your legs dangled barely above the water, Taehyung in the chair next to you. You'd spent a lot of days, and nights, sitting with bug repellent on and Taehyung by your side, EJ on the other Adirondack. But she’d gone home yesterday because her brothers had clubs and coursework to begin for their senior years, not to mention SATs to finish studying for and college applications to perfect. Your moms sat in the screened in, air-conditioned porch, watching your and Taehyung’s shadows as you gazed up at the stars, totally unaware of what you talked about.

           “I’m kind of scared,” you said, gazing up at the big dipper.

           “I am too.”

           “What if I can’t find my classes? Or am late?”

           “I think everyone has those concerns,” Taehyung said.

           “I hope so. Orientation is going to be so weird. But I’m kind of, excited?”

           “I am too. I don’t know if I’ll know anyone, though.” He said.

           “Really? Because you moved?” You asked.

           “Yeah, and whatever my friends were before we moved to Seoul and then back have probably all moved on and don’t care about me anymore.” Taehyung explained.

           “Can we promise something?” You hoped, eyes pulling from the stars to look at his profile.

           “Yeah,” Taehyung said, mimicking your posture.

           A crush was what he had on you, little and quiet, something brewing in his chest. You’d spent nearly every day working together at The Confectioners Corner, and afternoons and evenings together too. He’d become your second-best friend after EJ, and somehow… he’d started finding your company a little dizzying. His heart racing whenever you smiled at him, excitement when you started listening to a song he recommended. It was exciting, and he… he was going to miss you and EJ when you left for home.

           “Can we promise that on August 1st, next summer, we’ll meet here at 9PM?”

           “So specific,” Taehyung teased.

           “Well, I’m not getting a phone until my birthday, and neither are you, so it’s not like we can text. You’ll just have to promise.”

           “Pinky promise?” Taehyung said.

           “Yes,” you stuck your thumb towards him.

           “Okay, Y/N, I promise.”

Next: August {2}

#justasparkwritings #justasparkmaster #clubzerooclock #bangtanarmynet #networkbangtan #purplearmynet #kpopccc #Kim taehyung x reader #Kim taehyung x you #august #folklore #folklore saga #taehyung fluff #taehyung smut #taehyung angst #end of summer #lost in the memory

[pissfizz]

Okay while coming up with lore I decided to include Natsume but not as a magical boy.

Essentially, every human has natural magic. They are just not aware of it nor can they access it. Occasionally though, there are people that experience “leaks”— in other words, there are holes in the barrier that prevents humans from accessing magic, and they are able to utilize it. The barriers are weak in young kids and old people. Natsume is one of the people that can sense and use his magic. Had he not experienced the leaks, he would have been a top contender for becoming a magical boy. But since he can already harness his magic, Migo cannot grant him the ability to become a magical boy. Although, due to his capabilities, he could still provide assistance if he so wished, but rather in a behind the scenes type way. I cannot see him cooperating well with Migo though.

#enstars #enstars magical girl au

[gone2soon-rip]

TAKEOFF (aka Kirshnik Ball 1994-Died November 1st 2022,at 28.Murdered (Shooting) ). American rapper. He was best known as a member of the hip hop trio Migos along with his uncle Quavo and first cousin once removed Offset. The group scored multiple top ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100 including "MotorSport" featuring Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, "Stir Fry", "Walk It Talk It" featuring Drake, and "Bad and Boujee" featuring Lil Uzi Vert, the latter of which peaked at the top of the chart (although Takeoff was not present on the single) He also received two Grammy Award nominations. On November 1, 2022, Takeoff was shot and killed in Houston, Texas.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeoff_(rapper)

#Takeoff #American Rappers #American Musicians #MIGOS #Notable Deaths in 2022 #Notable Deaths in November 2022

[sheniq]

@Desiignerr Tearfully Reacts to Takeoff's Death, Says He's Done with Rap💔🕊️🙏🏾 Desiigner took to Instagram Live to react to the tragic news of #Migos rapper #Takeoff being reportedly shot and killed in Houston. Desiigner was close with the Migos camp and has collaborated with #Quavo on several projects, including the GOOD Music compilation "Champions" and Rich the Kid's "Going." While speaking to viewers, #Desiigner was crying, and he stated that he couldn't call Offset or Quavo to speak about the news. The "Timmy Turner" rapper then followed up by stating that he was "done" with the rap game, and he shared another post on his Stories that read, "I'm done rap." https://www.instagram.com/p/Cka--1AsWxt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#migos #takeoff #quavo #desiigner

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