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whaleofatjme1920 · 2 years

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hi!! these match up things seemed really sweet and fun and if its all good id love to submit a thing!! with creepypasta if that alright! no nsfw please, just the romance stuff! :]

my name is Kris and im a Capricorn, my birthday is actually next month- ill be 19 then! :O I use they/them pronouns and im bisexual!

I'm an freelance illustrator and im in a local community college working for a degree in fine art and business. I'm a huge fan of body modification though !! I love tattoos and plan on splitting my tounge, stretching my ears, and if the procedure was safer I would love to tattoo my eyes.

I'm extremely empathic, while its great for understanding others struggles, its difficult for me to stay calm and rational. because of that I often avoid talking to people and get overwhelmed very quickly, which I know can upset the people I interact with. however I very much enjoy quiet quality time! I often find myself doing a lot of the planning for events, while its stressful i like having control and knowing what's going to happen. I'm not a huge fan of surprises! im a loyal person, its failed me in the past, especially forgiving when I shouldn't have, but if there's someone I love im going to stick by until the bitter end. my love language is definitely words of affirmation or physical touch !! really depends on how im doing, sometimes I cant stand touch :[. I'm also very proud of my hair, I enjoy cutting and dying it very much!! ive had every colour in my hair, and currently its short and black. not exactly on purpose- I accidentally slipped with a razor and buzzed a line down the middle of my head ... I'm also 5'4! I wish I was taller though, so I usually wear small platformed boots and clothes that elongate me a bit! ive got some sick dark green and black cargo pants I like to sew fun patches on :]

I love dusk and stargazing, and purple is my favourite colour! and i seriously love sitting down and watching movies, regardless of how good or bad they are. my favourite animal is a bear, I own a jade bear necklace that was gifted to me on my birthday a few years ago- I wear it everyday. I also collect anything related to bears! especially teddy bears. I currently have a soft pullover with bears on it, its my favourite pullover rn!! I also love graphic novels, I own a small collection of them along with some cool rocks and skulls ive found.

sorry if this wasn't in-depth enough !! im a little nervous, i haven't been able to engage in a lot of the old things im interested in! people are very judgey :[[ I hope you're having a wonderful day/night!!

Your matchup is... Puppeteer!

[Disclaimer, if you're coming from the tags, this is part of a special event I am holding from November 17th to the 21st where I am accepting matchups from all fandoms I currently write for. Feel free to check out my 1K celebration masterlist here for rules during the window this event is open! If it's past the 21st midnight USA central time, do NOT send me a matchup. I will have to politely turn you down. Sorry </3]

In General

I actually wanted to answer this last night but it took me a few to actually place you? I wanted you with Toby, or with maybe even BEN but I actually really like you and Jonathan together and well, I'm going to explain that now.

Things He Likes About You

SO, right to the most obvious thing that made me want to pair the two of you together was the art. Jonathan is an artist through and through, mostly through physical crafts and poetry. He loves that you're into body mods and will absolutely compliment the new things you do, such as piercings, tattoos (he'd love to design one if you'd let him-), and thinks splitting your tongue is SO COOL. If the procedure was safer, he'd joke about you getting your eyes done gold to match his lmfao. Finds you being empathetic oh so sweet. Your loving, sweet nature makes him naturally drawn to you that he has to actively remind himself that you are off the table from people he normally siphons from - he would never hurt you. Jonathan loves the dusk and evening an stargazing. I'll come back to this though. Thinks that you loving bears is adorable. BUT that leads me to the next section.

You Two as a Couple

This man, after finding out about your love of bears, is going to get you one of those giant CVS bears lmfao. He'll also pick up graphic novels for you from time to time, and little pieces of jewelry he thinks you might like for your piercings depending on your style and what not. I would say Jonathan's love languages are words of affirmation an quality time - but, like hey, I think he's pretty good at physical touch. He will call you so many sweet things, how much he loves you, little compliments, like he writes poetry for you he's such a sofite. The two of you have little art dates, teach him about certain things and he'll teach you other things as an exchange. It's really sweet. Soft evenings, drinking good things. He loves your hair, finds the story kind of silly but he likes it. Jonathan is into stargazing because he got bored over a summer and learned the constellations. Found a deep love for the night, and looks at the stars like golden threads. He'll spend those times with you by pointing out the stars, their names, their stories. Jonathan knows that you're a loyal person, and he will never betray that. Jonathan can absolutely stay in rational thought and is mostly logical, but like, if you're ever overwhelmed he will handle it. He wants you to be in a sound state of mind, y'know? Jonathan will also help you plan things, really anything to ease your mind. He's really perceptive to other people and their feelings, so I feel he can read you really, really well. I feel Jonathan would also want to dye your hair at least once because he has a really good eye for colors. I don't actually see any clashing here because Jonathan kinda likes handling things?? He's not really controlling or anything, knows when to give you your space, and generally meshes with you pretty well. He's also kinda tall, so he appreciates that you wear the platforms to he can give you smooches, like on your cheeks, lips, but mostly the crown of your head! New otp ngl.

Closing Thoughts/Other Things

Hi love bug, what a pleasure it was doing a matchup for you! You wrote me a lovely amount, and I'm so sorry people are rude/judgey. I love that your whole thing is bears, they're such fantastic creatures. ALSO, the eye tattoos are so cool, but the risks make me :( I digress, lots of love to you and I hope you enjoyed <3

#creepypasta x reader #creepypasta #creepypasta matchup #puppeteer headcanon #puppeteer x reader #creepypasta puppeteer

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jooyeone · 2 years

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How is it your birthday but your message made ME cry? 😭😭

You're also one of the best things about this fandom, and I'm so happy we managed to cross paths 🥺🥺 I love you (and your essays), my same age chingu! 💜💜💜

my love language is saying thank you in 1K essay-length tags, i don't know what to tell you 🥺 thank you sooo much kris, both for your wishes but once again for the loveliest bday gift, it made me incredibly happy!! love you 💓💕💗

#answered #jimmeo-kookliet #bday 25

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profoundnet · 4 years

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The masterpost is open for all creations by ProfoundBond members which are posted in their entirety during that month.

MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS FOR JUNE 2020!

Featuring works by @blueraven06, @castielslostwings, @delo0821, galium, @goldenraeofsun, @imbiowaresbitch, @jemariel, @masterofevilmonkeyness, @multifandom-fanatic, ravens_tell_stories, @saywhatjessie, @shadowkat-83, shikaro, @spnsmile, tiamatv, @thefandomsinhalor, @vulfmert, and @wookieefucker under the cut.

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Free Hugs (E, 2.6k)

Castiel is moving into his dorm for his first year when his older brother Gabriel trips him into the arms of a half-naked hunk holding a sign reading FREE HUGS. Then Cas meets his roommate...

Tags: No Archive Warnings apply, meet-cute, explicit, roommate AU

The Fall of Castiel (E, 5.8k)

Another fight, Castiel's blue eyes flashing as he pinned Dean to a wall for his stubborn refusal to accept his role. A desperate attempt to convince the angel to join Team Free Will. Dean could never have anticipated how well it would work.

Tags: no archive warnings, explicit, canon-adjacent, wing king, grace powered orgasms, claiming, confessions

“Yes, Sir.” (E, 3.8k)

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Tags: no archive warnings apply, bdsm, explicit, safe sane consensual, safewords, top cas/bottom dean

Pizza Man (E, 3.4k)

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Tags: no archive warnings apply, roommates au, explicit, PWP

Grow For Me (E, 20k)

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Tags: no archive warnings apply, omegaverse, POV Dean, explicit, Roommate AU, Complete, Happy Ending, mating cycles/in heat

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Adventures in Demon Summoning (E, 10k)

When Dean's friends get high and decide to summon a demon, it seems like a monumentally bad idea. Of course, even Dean couldn't have guessed that the whole thing would land him with a grumpy, sarcastic angel who seems dead-set on following him around.

Tags: Alternate Universe - College/University, First Time, Meet-Cute, Soft Boys

JessJesstheBest - @saywhatjessie - JessJesstheBest

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Tags: Human AU, Fluff, Parenthood, foster parent au, Established Relationship, 5+1 Things

castielslostwings - @castielslostwings - Castielslostwings

Fire and Ice (E, 165k)

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Tags: Firefighter Dean, Paramedic Castiel, Dom Castiel, Sub Dean, Friends to lovers, mutual pining, angst with a happy ending, BDSM, all the sex.

multifandom-fanatic - @multifandom-fanatic - multifandom_fanatic

We Can’t Keep This Undercover (T, 5k)

Cas and Dean have been dating for a month, but Sam is clueless, despite the fact that they haven't been hiding that they're together. Or so they thought. After reflecting on Sam's obliviousness, Dean deviously suggests he and Cas try to be as obvious as possible to see how long it’ll take for Sam to realize. Cue Dean and Cas' escalating attempts to prove they're together, and Sam mistaking every scenario until Dean just can't take it anymore.

Tags: Oblivious Sam Winchester, Clueless Sam Winchester, Fluff, Feels, Teasing, Idiots in Love, Sneaky, Flirting, Domestic Fluff, Plotting

Put a Ring on It (T, 3.2k)

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Tags: Marriage Proposal, Proposal, Engagement, Castiel Proposes Marriage to Dean Winchester, Inspired by Beyoncé, Crack, Song: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), Romantic Fluff, Love, Fluff

galium - galium

scents & sensibility (M, 5.7k)

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Tags: AU, A/B/O

ravens_tell_stories - ravens_tell_stories

i’d rather drown (E, 3.7k)

Was there anything weird that you noticed?” “Weird? Other than the fact that I could see you while you were several states away?” “Yes, Dean,” Cas sounds impatient now, which is never a good sign. “Weirder than normal.” Dean tilts his head, weighing his options, then sighs and scrubs a hand over his face. “Yeah, I, uh… I could see your wings.” ~~ wing!kink destiel oneshot.

Tags: No archive warnings apply, smut and a little fluff, pwp, handjobs, set season 8

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Cas is a Tummy Sleeper (T, <1k)

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Tags: Cuddles, bedsharing, human!Cas, fluff

MasterOfEvilMonkeyness - @masterofevilmonkeyness

“Ah yes. Me. My brother. And his Angel who sneaks in his bed when they think I’m asleep” (SFW)

Art created for Meme about Sam, Dean and Cas.

Vulfmert - @vulfmert

Ghost Road (SFW)

Art created for the fic Ghost Road by Kris-Kenobi in the Bottom Dean Big Bang and it’s lovely.

Tags: Michigan, Canon Compliant, Human!Cas, Only One Bed, Case Fic, Post Series. Collaboration with fic by Kris-Kenobi.

spnsmile - @spnsmile - spnsmile

Undercover in the Bunker (M, 3.5k)

Castiel invites an angel to the Bunker to 'observe' the Winchesters in order to change Heaven's view about his charge, only to end up making Dean just a little miserable and himself a little jealous.

Tags: Domestics, Castiel in the Bunker

Devastatingly Yours (G, 3.9k)

When almost everyone—demons included— all but told Dean that his angel is the hottest, most devastatingly handsome angel in the face of the seven seas, he not only believed them, he’s secretly and most exclusively Cas’ number one fan. So when the angel is recruited as a model in the middle of a case, what is Dean to do?

Tags: Established relationships, domestic, fluff

Saved by a Stranger (E, 43k)

Rule One: Never change the deal. Rule Two: No names. Rule Three: Never look in the package. Ex-Special Forces operator, Alpha Castiel Novak adheres three strict sets of rules, which he never breaks as a mercenary "transporter" who moves goods—human or otherwise— from one place to another. No questions asked. Until his new delivery contains a deal-breaker pretty face hot-headed Omega—who turns out to be his true mate— Castiel knows rules have to be changed especially with a dangerous group intent to get their hands on his Omega. Castiel wants to see them try. Destiel x The Transporter AU

Tags: Non-con, Graphic Depiction of violence

The Room Service (E, 39k)

‘Hands off, Pants on!’

Dean Winchester has groomed himself to be a professional room service staff providing hotel guests with all the necessities they need while catering to all mundane whims and complaints except one: keep hands off the staff. Until a mysterious blue-eyed guy enters the 7th heaven floor and shakes Dean’s steamy dreams. And after saving Dean from one dangerous stalker, it seems like the restriction is practically flying off the window for his grumpy blue-eyed hero.

Hotel x Destiel AU

Tags: Romance, Fluff, First meeting, Jealousy,

Baby Plushie (G, 1.1k)

A Baby. Who says Dean doesn't need it?

Tags: Romance, Fluff. Inspired by art by @gabester-sketch.

Shadowkat83 - @shadowkat-83 - Shadowkat83

Better Than I Know Myself (T, 1.1k)

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Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Songfic, Fluff, Love, Confessions, Mutual Pining, Ambiguous/Open Ending

Shikaro - shikaro

Mr. Tall, Dark and Handsome (E, 1.5k)

the one where Dean comes untouched for the first time

or the one where they meet at a bar

Tags: PWP

blueraven06 - @blueraven06 - blueraven06

College days (G, 1.2k)

It's Castiel's first day of college and he is already late.

Tags: Alternate Universe - College/University

goldenraeofsun - @goldenraeofsun - goldenraeofsun

Magic Quarantine Ride (M, 1k)

“Cas,” Dean growls as he stalks past the hospital's general information desk. “What the hell are you doing here, you psycho? Go home - where it’s safe!” Cas whirls around. “You forgot this,” he says hurriedly as he rushes forward with the necklace he made for Dean. “I told you, it will provide protection.” He waves it in the air like a crazy person trying to ward off demons. “You are insane,” Dean says flatly.

Tags: They were quarantined, witch!cas, college nurse!dean, fluff and angst, mentions of COVID-19, mutual pining, emotional hurt/comfort, discussions of PTSD

thefandomsinhalor - @thefandomsinhalor - thefandomsinhalor

A Driver Worth His Salt (E, 68k)

Twenty-year-old Dean Winchester hates fixing up stolen cars on the side for Gordon Walker. But with his grandfather’s dry-cleaning business slowly dying, medical bills piling up, and his younger brother Sam abandoning the prospect of attending college because of their grim situation, Dean convinces himself that it isn’t as reckless as it seems.

When everything goes belly up, leaving him in a troubling position with the wrong people, a representative of the Garrisons, the city’s most powerful and notorious family, offers Dean to help him with his situation in exchange for his employment.

The job is simple: drive the passenger a few times a week to yet-undisclosed locations and return with said passenger without fail. Don’t ask questions. Be on time. Be discreet.

And never interact with each other outside of work.

Shady, but simple.

So, he accepts.

But once he meets the passenger in question—the sharply dressed and rough-looking Castiel Novak—Dean finds that abiding those rules may be more complicated than he had anticipated.

Tags: Graphic Depiction of Violence, Alternate Universe - Modern Settings, Crimes & Crimes & Criminals, BAMF Castiel, Slow Burn, Hurt Sam Winchester, Trauma

wookieefucker - @wookieefucker - wookieefucker

The Eye of the Storm (T, 8.5k)

“Only fifteen miles to the highway,” Dean said cheerfully, reading from a sign on the side of the path. Bobby groaned loudly. “Shoulda known I’d get my body back only to put it through its paces right away.” Amara left with Chuck, promising that she was going to give Dean what he needed. Maybe what he needed was different than her first impulse.

Tags: eventual Castiel/Dean Winchester, season 12 AU, canon AU, canon-typical violence

tiamatv - tiamatv

Spicier Ginger (G, 4k)

Kevin held out a flat piece of dough and spooned in a teaspoon of pork mixture. “You can’t put too much in them or leave any air bubbles inside," he explained, folding up the dumpling. "‘Cause they’ll explode.” “So kind of like packing shotgun shells,” Dean joked. “Uh, yeah. Sure, Dean,” Kevin agreed, very dubiously. “Sure.”

Tags: Cooking, Domesticity, Kevin Tran Lives!, Winchester Family Fluff

To Sleep, Perchance (T, 3.4k)

Dean wasn’t used to good dreams. But he was used to taking what he could get—so when he dreamed of a lean, compact body pressed against his back, an arm heavy over his waist, he settled into it, hazy and comfortable.

Tags: Canon Temporary Character Death, Canon Compliant, Dreams vs Reality, Mark of Cain

Ephelis (E, 1.8k)

“I think someone has sent me a picture of their genitals.” Castiel looked down at his phone. “Erect.”

Tags: AU-Canon Divergence, Dick Pics, Plot What Plot, Fluff and Crack, Season/Series 09

Phaleonopsis (E, 4.8k)

“Here, let me.” Cas’s long fingers plucked away a dead leaf from a calathea, and Dean watched helplessly as Cas rubbed the bare spot where the leaf had come away with a fingertip. “See? Isn’t it nice to let someone touch you now and again?” “Goddammit, Cas ain’t the creep, I’m the creep,” Dean muttered, and put his head down on the desk.

Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Gardening, Roommates, Fluff And Smut, Alpha Castiel/Omega Dean

(Atypical) Love Story (E, 13.k)

“Are you… scenting me?” the man in an oversized beige trench coat asked, suspiciously, in a deep gravel voice that ran down Dean’s spine. "Why? I really don't smell like much." Dean’s mouth sagged open. “Dude,” he answered, honestly, “You smell amazing.” He’d never seen anyone look so shocked at a compliment before. “O-oh.”

Tags: Non-Traditional A/B/O Dynamics; Scenting; Top/Bottom Versatile Dean/Castiel; Alpha Dean/Omega Castiel; Enthusiastic Consent

Pigment (G, 1.6k)

Dean wasn’t ashamed of what he was doing or anything. He didn’t think he had any reason to be, hell. So what if he liked to spend a little of his downtime just putting little blobs of paint inside neat little lines?

Tags: Canon Compliant, Hobbies, Painting, Fluff

#Profoundnet Monthly Masterpost #june masterpost #dean winchester #castiel #destiel #member fic #member art

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thefootballlife · 3 years

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What do Croatia do differently?

On Tuesday evening, I came across a popular tweet by a Scottish football journalist known for regularly changing his Twitter bio asking a question about Croatia and Scotland in the wake of the former knocking the latter out of Euro 2020 in 2021. It was a simple one I’ve seen lots of times in the past:

“What do they do that we don’t”

It’s something I’ve done Twitter threads on before, it’s something I started to try to reply to Mr Spence about but then I thought no, let’s do this one properly for once. After knocking us out of the Euros, what the hell do Croatia do that Scotland doesn’t.

The initial answers to the tweet in question were the sort of thing you expect - more sport in education, hangover infrastructure from the Yugoslav era, forged in war, being independent, weather (Croatia has a 6+ week winter break), funding etc.

Great answers which all lie bare probably many prejudices held in the west about the Balkans - that war made a society somehow better, that independence is an incontrovertible positive. All of which neatly ignores the fact that Scotland beat one of their neighbours to reach the Euros and that the other ex-Yugoslav states bordering them didn’t get there. It takes Croatia’s success purely in isolation as opposed to working it into the threads of everything around it.

If nothing else, many of the reasons given (specifically the war one) don’t apply to a side who qualified for the last 8 of the U21 Euros with players born well after the Dayton Peace Accords. It particularly doesn’t apply to a side where we’re multiple playing generations in to Croatia being a respected national team - the factors we often attribute to Croatia as to why they’re so successful are short-term events that don’t satisfy an explanation of consistent excellence. This is particularly stark when you consider that those same factors apply in neighbouring countries (all independent former Yugoslav nations stuffed money into sport on independence, all went through some sort of trauma) yet only Croatia has executed it so well.

We have to look for other reasons because age limit football actually contradicts the Croatian success story - in the 2010s, Scotland went to the U17 Euros more than Croatia did (and one of those Croatia only got to as hosts!)

Ultimately, there is a key period of time where Croatia jumps in standard over Scotland and it is from that 16-22 bracket. Arguably, it is ahead of pretty much every other small nation in this particular regard and it’s well worth explaining why in full.

If we go to Scotland, a 17yo at Celtic who needs some development will do what? There’s no colts side, they might make a bench or two, they probably won’t go on loan because there’s others who need it more. They play youth football. But they need to be playing senior football. Maybe when they hit 19, they go on loan if they’re lucky - Celtic didn’t send out a single player under that age on loan this season. Nor did Rangers.

Dinamo Zagreb did. And those that didn’t went into the seconds side playing in the second tier. Or in the youth side if they’re not ready for that. Same for Hajduk. Same for Osijek.

The point is simple - when Scottish players are stagnating, Croatian players are playing. For those who like the phrasing - they’re playing proper football against proper men. While Karamoko Dembele, a guy who had masses of hype in the Celtic youth system, has only 8 senior appearances at 18 for a total of 112 minutes, Roko Simic, a less heralded Lokomotiva prospect, picked up 25 appearances this season for 1465 minutes (who, in the midst of me writing this, has been linked with a multi-million move to RB Salzburg).

Obviously, that’s cherry picking examples - there are plenty of examples of teenagers getting game time at smaller clubs - but it illustrates my point. The way players get better is by playing proper games - the physicality is a notch up, the pace is a notch up and, most importantly, the pressure and mental stress is several notches up. From a transfer perspective, who is more valuable - a 22 year old with 25 senior appearances or one with 150? Any manager or scout would deviate towards the latter because their ability to settle and to manage a game is going to be that much more developed - they’ll take more effective positions, they’ll read the game better, they’ll be less of a risk.

But, as I said earlier, what makes Croatia excel when, say, Serbia flops? To get to that, we have to examine the levels of each nation’s system and why the Croatian system, a system that is scaled down from larger nations, works so damned well.

We often describe player development as like a ladder. In Croatia, it’s an elevator. If you try to get off a ladder before the top, you tend to fall off completely and we’ve seen plenty of young Scots reach a point and stagnate or drop off the scene entirely should they not “make it”. Elevators are designed to let people off at many stops without being at danger of the whims of gravity.

The ground floor is, of course, youth football. Those leagues are competitive but they are, let’s be honest, broadly similar to what you get elsewhere save that Croatian youth sides will generally be exposed to more foreign opposition than Scottish ones. That’s just kind of a Balkan thing.

The first floor, then, is our next step up - 2 HNL. At the moment, this incorporates two seconds sides - Dinamo and Osijek (Hajduk recently mothballed their seconds for cost reasons but that’s a Hajduk reason as opposed to an indictment of the system).

Seconds have been in the league for a few years and it’s important to note that they have produced - you don’t have to go far to find national team players who have 2 HNL experience. Arguably the HNL’s most effective player, Kristijan Lovric, began his rise to the national team by dropping down to Kustosija in that league. This summer already, Marko Dabro, Fran Brodic and Mateo Monjac (the three exceptional attacking players in the division last term) are stepping up - Dabro and Brodic went abroad early and came back to get game time, Monjac pootled around Slovenian second tier clubs before coming of age at Orijent. Differing backgrounds but all found their level and all grew into players who will be playing at a higher level next term.

Add to that the experience first teamers at Dinamo and more picked up in seconds and it’s clear the 2 HNL offers not just a very good development environment but also a very good jumping off point for players who develop more slowly or players who simply never will reach 1 HNL. Crucially, those players in seconds or those loaned to the 2 HNL are playing at a good standard. While, when you drop to the Treca HNL (regional leagues), the standard of opposition is naturally more varied (as are the physiques!), the 2 HNL doesn’t offer the sort of cannon fodder teams you get in other nations.

I, for one, scoffed at the concept of Celtic and Rangers playing Colts sides in the Lowland league next season - not because I take offence at the mere concept of Colts sides (as many do), but because the concept that elite young talents will pick up that much when playing against (bluntly) plumbers is utterly laughable - you can’t jump from fifth tier to first tier as part of a gradual development. Aside from that, the Scottish part time system below the Championship (where players often opt to be part time because part time wage plus wage from a trade often exceeds a full time wage from many clubs and where, as a result, the best part time sides are regularly better than the worst full time sides) probably inhibits development - I won’t argue that Rory McAllister would lead the line for Scotland if he was on full time terms but I will certainly argue that he or Danny Denholm or any other of Scotland’s high profile part time cohort would surely have benefitted in terms of the standard of player they became from additional time in full time training. If that’s not the case, then that is surely an indictment of coaching in our full time clubs.

In part, that may well be an economic difference that Scotland benefits from, but it is a footballing disadvantage. Kristijan Lovric in Croatia is an international, a player on the verge of a multi-million move and a big deal because the path of dropping down to 2 HNL was open, competitive and actively kickstarted his development. Kris McLovric would have dropped down to play in League One and we’d never have seen him rise up again because he’d be a plumber.

(I realise at this point it may seem like I have something against plumbers. Honestly, I don’t - I’m just picking a trade you get decent pay from! If you can get £40k p/a from a trade and play part time, why would you look to go full time when most clubs outside of Celtic, Hearts, Hibs, Aberdeen and Rangers are only able to pay under £1k a week)

Colt sides have one more element - they are expensive. Hajduk, as mentioned earlier, have mothballed their second team for cost reasons (as indicated earlier, this is more a Hajduk issue than a issue with seconds), Rijeka maintained one for a couple of years before doing similar in 2016 leaving only Dinamo and Osijek (who set theirs up later and have substantial financial backing) to keep theirs going on into next season. Slovenia also tried seconds and, similarly, that didn’t last long with only Maribor trying to persevere with it before finding the economics of the thing didn’t work when they got stuck in the third tier. Second teams in Scotland would only work for Celtic and Rangers - a lot of talk from the SPFL clubs that want Colts to happen has centred around how other clubs outside of those two would love to do it but the experience of other nations would suggest they would actually be financially ruinous.

Once you rise past 2 HNL, one would expect you go to 1 HNL but, oh no, instead you go into loans. Croatian clubs use the loan system well and use it in two levels - the first is somewhere like Slovenia, Bosnia or Kosovo, the other is domestically (which is the next step up in itself). This range of foreign loans we can call 1.5 HNL.

The benefit from this 1.5 HNL group isn’t just “playing football”, it’s “playing different football”. Slovenia is a slower pace, more technical, more concentration on possession and working through the middle, Bosnia is more about width and physicality, Kosovo/Albania about countering and working from deep. It’s not simply a case of loaning players to clubs who play the same as you but a bit worse (as pretty much any move from Scotland within the UK would be), it’s to clubs who play differently, who think differently, who approach things differently. Bluntly, players are going places to either improve their strengths or bring up their weaknesses. One good example of this is, of course, Luka Modric - he was sent to Zrinjski to simply harden him up. Within the club, the loan was seen as the last chance saloon for a player too small and frail. A loan sent to challenge him saw him adapt, pick up the bits of the game he needed to and send him on a journey to, well… I think we all know the answer to what happened next. Modric is obviously an outlier, but we can look at a recent example of FIlip Uremovic or Roko Baturina - both Dinamo players sent to Slovenia who swiftly got themselves big moves because of what they picked up there.

Do Scottish clubs utilise that option? Most certainly not. Even Rangers, who more or less had someone on loan at every lower league club, had barely any players outside of Scotland. Details on play styles across leagues are readily available and should help inform loan decisions as opposed to “let’s just send them to Falkirk”.

Falkirk or Finland, the objective is to ensure that the player in question reaches their ceiling. Even if they’re not a player suited to Scotland, that doesn’t mean they should be precluded the chance to play abroad and develop rather than be thrown on a scrap heap for being too small or too slow or too whatever. The crime isn’t on the player for not making a grade, the crime is on those looking after them for ensuring they can find the grade that suits them - if that’s leaving football, then so be it, but if their ceiling is a good Championship player, then they should be given the tools to reach that. If a player has a hole in their game, utilising foreign loans can open players to experiences they wouldn’t get in Scotland and that would improve areas of their game that may forever be imperfect otherwise.

Why this works as part of the Croatian elevator is because you are giving players two different options - it can be used as a stepping stone to a higher level or, failing that, it can be used as an in in that particular nation. A great example of a player doing that is Matthias Fanimo - released by West Ham into non-league in England, he ended up taking a chance in the second tier in Slovenia then, two seasons later, was winning silverware in Sarajevo and is on the brink of a move to Turkey. For him, that was him as a person taking a massive gamble but the example is obvious - if you can’t get what you want/need where you are, other paths are available which will help you excel. I could easily have pointed at Ryan Gauld as well - exposure to other ways of talking and playing football is going to offer more valuable development opportunities than going from Rangers to Raith and creating a more well rounded player.

The next step on the elevator is probably one familiar to everyone - a loan in the same league. But although familiar, it is also different enough because of the qualities already built into the Croatian system. I’ve mentioned a few times on social media my firmly held belief that a match between the bottom of the Croatian top tier and the bottom of the Scottish would result in a one-sided blowout with the Croats winning handily. The depth of the Croatian league is formidable - far more so than Scotland. At the top, of course, there are a big four sides battling it out compared to two Glasgow ones in Scotland, but below that the standard is far higher than in Scotland and this is the area where the Croatian elevator really takes hold because it’s rare that, barring exceptional club grown talents like Simic at Lokomotiva or Zvonarek at Slaven, a player would simply be chucked in at this point without senior experience. In essence, everyone at this level is a senior pro - be they imported or coming up this elevator system - and all of them have had a good level of experience at a decent standard of league be that domestic or, as we see more now, imported from Germany, Italy or other ex-Yugoslav nations. That’s more than you get in Scotland.

There is a step between this and the elite - Lokomotiva. Croatia has the oddity of a club in the top flight who are unofficially the feeder club for Dinamo. The list of players who’ve come through Lokomotiva is frankly ridiculous (Kramaric, Majer, Ivanusec, Grbic, etc) for a club that’s only really been a thing for a decade and has helped to provide a finishing school at times for Dinamo. While I’m not openly going to recommend that Celtic or Rangers become best buddies with the Buddies and make them a feeder club, having that final extra step for elite players (and also having a club serve as somewhere a lot of released youth players go to get their second chance).

Then, of course, there is the elite. Dinamo, Rijeka, Hajduk, Osijek (and Gorica have plans to get there). These teams are playing regularly in Europe and, with the advent of the Conference League, will likely be playing group football regularly. Dinamo’s Europa/Champions league pedigree shows how effective that has been in terms of making clubs competitive and opening up new revenue streams. After 21/22, the domestic TV deal will also see a big rise with the imminent prospect of better international coverage.

Ultimately, players can jump out of the elevator at any of the floors on it and the result is that, because they have plenty of senior football under their belt, they are more capable at the levle they find themselves. Players find their ceiling and, in turn, that levels clubs at the lower ends of the foodchain also - an elite pathway that ultimately just increases the elite of the elite without providing depth is simply not sustainable. You can’t improve Celtic and Rangers without at the same time improving Ayr and Morton and expect sustainability.

For Scotland, that elevator system only stops at youths/Colts, Loan locally, elite clubs. Except you rarely see even that basic system actually come to fruition at the elite clubs in Scotland. It generally looks more like Youths, *shrugs and waves hands about*, elite. Between 16 and 22, there are stages in Croatia that don’t exist in Scotland nor, for that matter, is there the political will to bend football into a system that would actually put that in place.

This is an issue that larger nations don’t experience because they have the strength in depth and variety of club destinations so that the floors that are built into the Croatian elevator exist already. Scotland, as a nation with only around twenty full time clubs, does not and the issues with the drop off in the part time tiers make efforts to introduce Colt sides into a level where they would actually be broadly beneficial to those playing in them (ie The Championship) are contentious at best. For smaller nations, it is likely that one can retain tradition or one can be successful and that the two elements are actually mutually exclusive.

In a nation like Scotland where we not only treasure our tradition, we use it as a marketing tool, this is a difficult circle to square but, ultimately, that’s the question posed. Other nations around Croatia have begun to copy them - Serbia sees Crvena Zvezda’s farm club Graficar in the second tier with Partizan’s Teleoptik in the third (albeit Serbia has other structural domestic issues to sort out first), BiH has seen clubs adapt their models into becoming finishing schools for those dropping out of Sarajevo or returning from abroad (Mladost Doboj Kakanj are a good example there) - but no-one has yet managed to match how well Croatia does it.

When you go back a few years, there have always been ideas about how Scotland should do what larger nations do - when Marc Wotte was around, much of what was en vogue was to copy the Germans or the Dutch. That wasn’t wrong-headed, but it didn’t take into appreciation Scotland itself. The point of this piece isn’t to say that Scotland should be transposing the Croatian system wholly into what Scotland does, merely to point out what Croatia does and why they experience more success. Scotland has good players but has what is, on whole, a very weak league system that both has issues with producing young talent through it (with many going to England early) and with actually getting good value for that talent (something Croatia has become very good at over the past few years).

A final note, then - If you’re reading this then the likelihood is you follow me on social media and know what I cover. Come the conclusion of the season, I decided to tot up around how many games I actually watched bits of which came to seeing at least five minutes of every 1 HNL, 2 HNL, Serbian Superliga, Serbian Prva Liga, Slovenian Prva Liga, BiH PL, Ipko Superliga e Koseves, Kategoria Superiore and then Scottish stuff for keeping familiar and for pleasure (not that watching Celtic has been that much pleasure in 2021!). Many have had double weeks so this generally means I’ve been watching somewhere in the region of 90-100 games a week (10 hours, give or take) before I do any ad hoc scouting or just plain old sit and watch a live European game or live domestic game (or, for that matter, create clips of bits happening that promote those leagues). This, obviously, doesn’t leave loads of time for other endeavours such as writing on here and, of course, writing scripts for my podcast (The History of Yugoslav Football, go check it out).

None of that’s meant to be a humblebrag or some sort of nerdy notation of why I can write about this sort of stuff with confidence, more just why me actually writing proper pieces has shrunk to near nothing while me tweeting and talking has risen. It also explains a lot of why I talk about Scottish football less - ultimately what’s out there is, to me, more engaging than what we see domestically. The football you see in the former Yugoslavia is of a different genre - it’s slower, it’s more technical, it’s on the ground more and there’s a tempo to it that is different to what you get in the UK. Unlike in Scotland, it fits comfortably into a global ecosystem with cogs that keep it running while also appreciating that it, in itself, is a cog that keeps others running. I would genuinely recommend to readers of this piece to just go and watch highlights of a couple of Croatian games or a couple of Slovenian games (these are easiest to find) to see what I mean re play style. Chaos does occur at times - of course it does, it’s football - but while a Celtic fan may not be overly surprised by the standard of a Dinamo or Osijek, I expect a Dundee United or Killie fan would be surprised by the standard of an Istra (traditionally Croatia’s relegation skirters) or Slaven Belupo (professionally 7th).

There are plenty of reasons why Croatia beat Scotland and being able to enact a gameplan based around comfort in possession as opposed to “Hit it to the big Australian lad and hope he knocks it on well” was perhaps the key difference and that sort of gameplan is hardwired into all levels of Croatian football. The pitches aren’t necessarily better (yes, they have plastic pitches in places too), the weather isn’t better (Glasgow is warmer than Zagreb in the winter and cooler in the summer) so it’s not right to give off about environmental factors.

The reality is that Scotland appears to get it right up to the mid-teens and then it all goes spectacularly wrong. We can point to physical factors (coaches do still take physical development into account too much) as to why some players don’t progress the way they should, we can point to funding, we can point to plenty of things but the fact is that where Croatia has a finely tuned machine delivering prospects from youth football to senior football with stops along the way for players who hit their heads against a developmental ceiling, Scotland has a developmental path that is full of pitfalls and spits far too many players out of football altogether. If a 16 year old fails to reach their expected potential and they’ve not got other issues going on (injuries, etc), then that is a failure of the system whether their potential is to play for Alloa or Aberdeen.

Until Scotland sorts that pathway out, then the likes of Croatia will always punish us on the elite stage.

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I wish you would write fic where canon diverges during or after the Utgard arc and the armored and colossal Titan reveal goes down differently. (there is SO MUCH canon divergence potential there? I and have only found ONE fic for it (aside from basic Ymir stay' fix-its)

You’re right and you should say it.

Got a bit off-track and ended up with 1K of sad Ymir. . . You choose the ending (I personally prefer the gays live but)

AO3

She couldn’t stay.

She knew she couldn’t stay.

But god (and wasn’t that a laugh), she wished she could.

The inside of the Titan was hot, and wet, and suffocating like nothing she’d ever felt before. The fleshy prison she was buried in scorched her skin through the rough fabric of her clothes, pulsing and throbbing like something alive with every beat of its shrivelled sandy heart. Like being buried in concrete, except the concrete was boiling and red and tugging her deeper and deeper like something desperate to devour.

Quicksand, then.

Shouting. All she could hear was shouting. Jean, Mikasa, Sasha, the bald one, Kris—Historia. Like horns blaring in the tiniest room of a baby’s dollhouse, words that rang and echoed and overlapped each other and set her teeth on edge. She clenched her fists and her claws dug deeper into Reiner’s shoulder.

Her cheeks burnt like it was being pierced with a hundred white-hot needles, and every movement, every breath, every shift so small Shadis wouldn’t have been able to pick it up the thing made pressed them in further, clawing past the boundaries of flesh and digging deeper, deeper into her. The skin around her eyes was a mess of charred black flakes and raw pink meat, and her eyes watered with the steam that came from more than just the healing. The salt was good for the burns, at least.

She wondered if Eren felt this way.

She wondered if the others did, too.

Historia was still clinging to her hair—clinging to her, her, not the others—and she held onto that like a lifeline, like it was the fraying rope that was the only thing between her and a death drop into a bottomless chasm that opened up to oblivion (because it was more than that, it was so much more).

Historia.

God, Historia.

It was a pretty name, Historia. Fit for a princess.

It suited her.

Bertolt was screaming. She said screaming. Crying, more like. Not sobbing, not quite. Just crying.

He was always crying. Always sweating, always shaking, bottom lip always wobbling like he was a kid who’d just found his goldfish floating belly-up in its bowl.

She listened. She didn’t want to, but she did.

That’s the problem with being at the top, see. There’s never anything to miss.

She listened and—

She remembered.

She remembered empty bellies and scraped knees and little feet caked with dirt and shit. She remembered broken glass and splintered wood and stones that bit like bug, or tiny bullets. She remembered wild dogs that might as well have been men, and men that might as well have been wild dogs. She remembered rumours, and whispers, and watching limp, broken bodies leaving trails of red in the streets that took weeks to wash away. She remembered children holding guns like they were dolls, and wearing armour like they were pretty dresses, and showing off the pointed star like it was a shiny new bracelet. Explosions that rocked the streets from miles away, and screaming that they had all pretended not to hear under the crackling of the flames. Pain, and fear, and burning yellow lightning seventy years ago, seven years ago, a night ago, five minutes ago.

Empty eyes and ragged blond hair like piss-stained straw.

Okay, then.

She let go.

She heard Historia (and maybe a few others, and maybe herself) scream, and felt a weight vanish off her shoulders. She didn’t bother to check whether she’d survived, didn’t check whether the Scouts had come after her (the Scouts, not the others—she wasn’t stupid enough to think she was one of them anymore. Not that she’d ever been, in the first place).

If the giant haggish rat she was stuck in was good for one thing, it was jumping.

The plating on Reiner’s nape split beneath her claws and the creature roared, throwing its head back. The Scouts scattered like little green flies as she clambered over him, biting here, scratching there, tearing out chunks of flesh and armour like moldy toenails when she got the chance.

It was what she was made for, after all.

There was a lot she could have done. She was spoiled for choice, really. She could have turned tail and ran, gone back. She could have kept going until the Armoured Titan was a steaming pile of ash and Reiner Braun was a red spot in the grass. She could have crawled out of her Titan’s nape and put her fists on her hips and laughed like they’d just shared a great joke. She could have stayed still and been crushed under a massive, plated foot. The possibilities were endless.

She didn’t do any of that.

Two screaming little things hung from Reiner’s chest, bouncing up and down as he flailed his arm, grabbing at her, like the world’s dumbest nipple clamps. One in blue, and one in green and still without fingers.

The angry one with the stupid hair went flying over her shoulder. She’d just hope Mikasa would catch him.

The tall one went in her mouth, and she went as fast as she could.

She could hear him roaring behind her, screaming after her in a language only he could speak, but everyone understood. Her tongue was wet with blood and the roof of her mouth was hot with steam, and the skinny one was thrashing around like a speared fish, an analogy helped all the more by the needle-like fangs speared through his shoulder, chest, and legs.

She felt the earth rumbling behind her. He was coming after him. Just like she knew (alright, guessed) he would.

The things worth corporal punishment for, eh?

She was faster, but she was also smaller, and his was stronger by far. He’d catch her, either eventually or soon. All depended on the man bleeding out in her mouth, she supposed.

It hadn’t been the dumbest plan in the world. She bet her right leg (again) the Survey Corps had tried worse. It was probably on the list for contenders of the worst executed, though.

Ha. Executed.

Maybe she’d fail. Maybe she’d already failed. Who knew. Maybe they were busy scraping the Titan-hating dunderhead off the ground and, somewhere, there was a kid being born who wasn’t going to live past puberty. Maybe Reiner would take the time to tear her apart limb by limb, then turn around and pick up right where he’d left off.

Maybe when she opened her eyes again, she’d be standing in that ashy desert, and she would kiss her under the light of a million lives.

Bertolt let out a scream like a wounded animal, and a shadow like a raging mountain fell over her.

She should risk life and limb more often, she thought. She didn’t remember the last time she’d managed to be this poetic.

#isayama said bury the gays and bury everyone else too while you're at it #ask #fanfiction #writing #attack on titan #aot #shingeki no kyojin #snk #ymir #historia reiss #yumikuri #reiner braun #bertolt hoover #imagine if i were this productive all the time #keep the asks coming i'm on a roll

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dingdonghun · 5 years

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Hello~ I'm looking for new friends and followers because my dash needs more variety! Also I am 8/10ths of the way to 1k followers which is, absolutely unfathomable 😖👌

So I will list a few things about myself and what I'm interested in!~ 🌻

My name is Marie! I'm 25, I'm a Gemini and a puppy (Chinese zodiac).

I am a soft stan, my ult groups are Monsta X, BigBang, EXO, NCT, BTS and Stray Kids! But I listen to other groups too~

I love big tall stupid bois. For example,

Kris Wu 🐲

Kim Namjoon 🐨

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My ultimate biases are Do Kyungsoo, Kim Namjoon, Son Hyunwoo and Lee Jooheon

But all of my biases and wreckers are listed here!~

What I'm looking for is people who post about

Girl groups

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I love listening to people talk about their favorite groups or artists and I love learning and discovering new music 💞

I am also a very open person, so if anyone just needs a shoulder to lean on, or someone to give advice or comfort, or just spend time with and do activities with, please, please feel free to message me or send me an anon ask. Nobody needs to be alone, if you need someone to be there, I am more than willing.

Thank you if you made it through this post, I love you 🌻💛

#mutuals pls share this! i want to make friendd and help people 💛🌻

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transeliot · 5 years

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hey got a question for fancasts, can we ask you to cast a certain cast in another movie? like for example the borhap cast in good omens? Because if so, can you do it? :3

Hi yes hello love! I had not considered it but oh god I had so many ideas once I thought about this and couldn’t possibly say no. Please excuse the garbage quality of the pics I used.

Joe as Crowley or Archangel fuckin Gabriel

Ben as Aziraphale or Pollution

Gwilym as Newton Pulsifer

Rami as Famine

Allen as Young Shadwell

Lucy as Anathema

#this was a lot #pls dont come for me #lmao #salemsvirgo #kris does fan casts #kris made it to 1k #follower celebration #good omens #good omens fan cast #borhap #borhap boys

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scarletpparker-blog · 5 years

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Shower of Fate. Tom Holland x Fem!Reader One Shot!!

Warnings; mentions of smut (Kind of? Not really but Idk what to call it)

This is my first one shot and writing publically on Tumblr. I’d love some feedback and 100% open if anyone would like to request a specific ask or plot line! Thanks! - Scarletpparker

Words - 1k

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It wasn't long after the filming wrap of Homecoming that you and the other stars of the movies were on a press tour around the world. A tiring process really. Going from hotel to hotel, week on end, being asked the exact same questions every single interview. You couldn't find but to be grateful to be close to the end. One more week in Hollywood, followed by the Premier, and then you can finally go home and relax with your boyfriend.

Tom Holland, fellow co-star and the current Hollywood heartthrob since his debut as Spiderman. But the issue for you guys is that other than some fellow cast members and close family and friends, no one knew. So every fangirl on the planet wanted to make Tom their own. You always laughed all the comments off and joked around, some fans even shipping you and Tom without realising - little do they know.

You missed being able to see him every day and not be worried about being a character with him. Tom Holland was god sent to you, always caring about you and making sure you were okay. However, you missed getting to wake up in his apartment, chuck on a shirt and just make breakfast with him. But on set, you were lucky to see each other during filming or sometimes on secret trips to each other's trailers.

"Babe you look amazing!" You smile as you bump into Tom in the hallway, each of you about to walk out with Jacob and Zendaya for a press interview round. Tom smiled and gave you a kiss on the cheek, "Not as good as you darling, really. Let's be glad I don't dress myself, or I'd be out there in slacks". Laughing you two walk to the room designated for the interviews. Stealing a quick kiss before you face the press, you both walk in to meet your co-stars waiting for the both of you. Sharing greeting's and sitting, it wasn't long before you were with the first interviewer.

As known, it's frequent that during the press tours it is always the same questions and dry content. But that's part of the job, as tiring as it was, you secretly loved it because it allowed you to spend time as yourself with your co-stars rather than you all being in character. However, this interviewer, who introduced herself as Kris, said she had a different plan.

"Standard question to start with. What was the call like to know you were going to be working on the newest remake of the Spiderman movies" Kris laughed as Tom groaned. "What happened to different Kris?!". All of you laughing as Tom repeated the story of his discovery through Instagram, followed by Jacob (who to you, looked ecstatic he was receiving equal questions) and then followed by Zendaya. Zen (as you liked to frequently call her based on her very chill personality) laughed when it came to your turn because they all know the full story.

"And Y/N, what was that call like?" Kris smiled as she looked to you. Tom lightly laughed as Jacob just smirked, knowing exactly what it was like.

"Well, I was mid-shower when I got the call. So it was brilliant news, but yeah it was at a bad time. I had been waiting for weeks to hear back and the one moment they call me, I was in the shower" You laugh as you recall what was happening when you picked up the phone.

Kris just laughed, "that certainly isn't the best moment to pick up the phone! I've actually got a surprise that goes with this. I've just had an interview with the directors and another cast member and they've kindly shared the phone calls when you were offered the role".

Laughter broke throughout the room as you and Tom looked at one another. Jacob clapped as he hysterically laughed. "Well now is better than ever I suppose" Tom chuckled and turned to Kris, "Your interview is going to go viral Kris, you'll love this". Her confusion was evident she hadn't seen it yet. You gave her a smile and just laugh as you knew it was going to pop up eventually.

As the voice clip began you could hear your voice through the speakers. Taking you back to the day you got that call.

"Hello, Y/f/n y/l/n 's phone may I ask who's calling?" You called into the phone as the shower echoed in the back and a certain individuals voice is singing in the shower.

"Oh hi Y/n, we just wanted to call and offer you the role of Gwen in Spiderman Homecoming?" Sarah Finn, the casting director's voice came through the speaker. You squealed into the speaker, a lot of noise followed. Including the evident sound of Tom's voice, "Y/n darling, is everything okay? Who's on the phone?" His concern was clear. You were squealing on the phone as Sarah laughed and called out. "I assume that's a yes y/n?!"

At the time you were wordless, finally, you've made a big break, bigger than small roles on films. You remember Tom stopping the shower and grabbing the phone. "Hello Sarah, it's Tom. Y/n is just a bit in shock but she would love the role!" he laughed as he kissed you. Tom was so proud of you, you both managed to break big together, playing on screen together.

The clip didn't last too much longer as it was mostly Tom talking to Sarah but you were all busy laughing with one another, Tom now holding your hand and Kris looking very surprised yet very happy. You just shrugged, "Well I was in the shower, just another person was too", Tom kissing your cheek. "Sorry to my fans, I'm unavailable and a very lucky guy to have this one"

Kris will definitely be getting a good response on this interview.

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kaiults · 7 years

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red lights [m]

pairing: kris wu x reader word count: 1k genre: mafia!au, smut

authors note: this is my first attempt at smut, so if you wish to read some very poorly written smut/steamy moments you may continue on.

She knew, she knew from the moment she entered the club and saw him sitting in the back of the club that she would end up regretting this night. Yet here she was, in the back of his car, breathless and sweating as she begged for more, as her fingers tangled in his hair pulling him closer to her. “Kris…Please…” She could barely get the words out, her eyes on his head in between her legs, a gasp escaping as she felt his fingers press harder against her hips. It was a silent command for her to not say anything more as he had his way with her. Her eyes closed in pure bliss, mind travelling to the events earlier within the night that led to this very moment.

Dear god, she knew their type all too well, sitting at the back of the club in their suits and ties, an array of women surrounding them as drinks flowed. They were never pleased with the just women around them and their eyes constantly moved along the crowd, searching, almost hunting for their flavour of the night. These men were nothing but lonely bastards who needed their ego boosts with a good fuck to put it simply.

Her face scrunched up as she turned her eyes away from them, and focused back onto the conversation she was having with her friends, taking a sip of her drink every now and then. But listening to her friend’s conversation perhaps they weren’t much different, talking about boys and their latest fuck also. A small scoff leaving her lips, realising she was being a slight hypocrite, but she knew her friends didn’t sleep around every single night.

Too caught up in comparing her own friends to the men in the fancy suits, she didn’t hear one of her friends calling her name, not that she would have heard either way with the music blasting through the club. Finally, a jab to her side made her turn and be met with her friends smirking face, “blondie at the back there is checking you out sweetheart.” Another scoff leaving her lips, showing she didn’t care but her eyes showed otherwise as they searched out this ‘blondie’.

And there he was, younger by several years compared to the other men that sat at the back of the club. His blonde hair slicked back, and a smirk across his lips as their eyes met, raising his glass in a way of greeting. Something in her heated at the look he sent her way, but she quickly dismissed it all with a scowl on her lips, “I need to get more drunk.” Standing up from her booth and making way to the bar, keeping her eyes locked straight just in case they decided to wander back to the blonde male.

“Kris…I can’t.” The pleasure from his tongue was starting to be too much, her release slowly building its way up. Her back arching, as his name rolled off her tongue ready for the high only to have it denied as she watched his head pull back, away from her. “Damn it…” All Kris offered in reply was a smirk and kisses up and down her thighs, his tongue flicking over her clit quickly whenever he switched between thighs.

At the bar, she sat, sipping her gin, there was a part of her that wanted to look back at the blonde male that seemed to have his eyes on her, but she was too proud. No way in hell did she want to be like one of those other girls, like her friends, throwing herself at some handsome guy. It was almost like an inner battle of what she should do until she felt a presence around her, and an arm wrapping around her waist. “It’s cute you know.” A voice right by her ear, sending a shiver down her spine, his chest pushing closer against her back.

“No, I don’t know.” She had scoffed before at how try-hard these men where, looking for their next fuck, yet here she was, finding herself intrigued by him and possibly wanting more.

“The fact that you’re so set on ignoring me. I know your type though sweetheart.” His fingers moving to her waist, “hell bent on ignoring us, yet turning into a mess as soon we’re near...It’s a little amusing also.” She felt his chuckle rumble through his chest, a breath leaving her as he nibbled on her ear lobe before she felt him move his hands. In fact, she no longer felt his presence behind her, turning her body slightly she noticed him walking away through the club and to the front exit.

Some sensible part of her brain was yelling at her to stop, yet here she was following him, her eyes locked onto his back not wanting to let him go. Stepping out of the club, she locked his eyes with him right away, a smirk plastered across his face as he held the back-car door open, inviting her in. “It’s completely your choice sweetheart.”

“Do I even get a name?”

He chuckled in amusement, he knew very well that there was a small part of her that still was yelling and cursing against this whole meeting. “Kris, call me Kris.”

“Ah, what’s the special words sweetheart.” She had hardly heard a word Kris said, his face back between her thighs and his tongue just where she needed him.

“Please daddy…”

All Kris did in response was move one of his hands to rub at her clit, willing her over the edge. Her moans filling the small back seat space of the car, one of her hands clawing at his shoulder, the other at the leather of his seats. Kris finally pulling back and taking in the rise and fall of her chest, her breasts tinted a slight red from his kisses, lips swollen and eyes closed. It was always his favourite view whenever he was done with someone for the night, seeing them completely undone all thanks to him.

“Such a beautiful baby girl.” His hands travelling up her body, as his lips followed suit, taking her left breast in his mouth before moving onto the right. Her eyes opening from the feeling of his lips on her body once again, “Kris.”

Pulling away from her breast, he locked eyes with her a hand holding onto her chin and he leaned forward, his lips brushing over hers. “We’ve only just started sweetheart.”

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The Senate Votes To Approve The Controversial Spending Caps, Debt Ceiling Bill. The Final Passage Vote Was 67-28. This Bill Now Goes To President Trump to sign.

The Senate votes to approve the controversial spending caps, debt ceiling bill. The final passage vote was 67-28. This bill now goes to President Trump to sign.

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INDIVIDUALS/COMMENTS/POSTS:

Steven Jones yep! Torrok 01 is a paid Leftist TROLL! Everyone just iggy it. Bye Troll! no one cares anymore about you internet morons.

Ya'akov benAwake Citizenship question on census please .

Phil Mueller Vote Trump to protect America from socialism

caro sato 1000 dollars for everyone is a Ponzi scheme

Destiny Menzies Yeah because y'all are lining your pockets with it rather then spending the money on what it was meant for!!! Gggggrrrrr wake up people!!!

Uganda Knuckles Christ ANTIFA = terrorisme

greywolfe TRUMP 2020👍

Rod Bender the census aids gerimandering

HK Artemis Fow Thank you i was confused 😸

Drill Bit torrok 01, Yea, That*s why he gives his Salary to Charity.

Star Dust What did you do with those taxes before Trump became President ? Talk to Obama about high drug prices.. He did that

Merlin Krisp Where’s my royals Roy’s 😂😂 JK

andrew richardson Balance the G da..mn budget, get your sh..t together CROOKS

John Ortiz War famine diseases natural disasters and civil war is coming soon to America. Christians prepare

text kite CREEPER, AW MAN

Joey Big Things Poppin The kids shouting for Trump is because their parents are part of the 1%. while these children never worked a day in their life ,college paid for lmfao..

Havefunplayguitar Baltimore? Send money I need to pay my beach house mortgage

Why are you so Angry? Thats what we pay you clowns to do! Do your jobs, or fear, fear our LIBERTY!

torrok 01 If you make $50k a year Trump tax cut gave you $570. If you make $1m it gave you $70k. Is that fair? I would rather $1k a month

Annika_green @Joey that’s a broad generalization .

awildbill rightous HK ,, may the force be with you!👀👌

Happy Voice tax cuts for the rich lead to higher deficits and diminishing returns for the country

Travis Jackson Our President Trump is making Me proud.

GDPops Government shouldn't spend money they don't have. TRY DOING THAT AT HOME

Fuzz Man 1 state 1 vote

Rebecca Brown Trump 2020!

Nothing Vote for democrats if you want your cities filled with 💩💩💩 and 💉💉💉

Edward Wallace Government bad answer to all problems. Marianne Williamson 2020

Mo Hamhead If it was up to me there would be zero free stuff for lazy unambitious parasites

nighttr I have an idea lets give the super wealthy a tax break,

Danny Hemphill the people that make a lot of money pay a lot of taxes idiot

Ramiro Garcia RINO'S & DEM'S SUCK.

David Hensley shut down the government good do it

Merlin Krisp True Danny 👍

richardcvlr5 there's creepy joe he's moving kinda slow in the men's room.

IR_Dankenstein Will there still be gummy bears? If not, it's on like Donkey Kong!

Drill Bit 46% of people, don*t pay taxes.

Why are you so Angry? Many take pride in the fact that their children are made to work in honorable situations, with the word of god in their hearts, integrity in their minds, and a knowing of behavior. Who made you stupid

torrok 01 $1000 a month to everyone stimulates growth better than giving money to the rich

Havefunplayguitar I was blocked

abc def Joey why u watch fox,no tin foil hats here

Friendly Tourist I ❤ Cop Splash 💦🐖🐖

Niobokupletskite i say having it in your hand now is better then going out and find it

Uganda Knuckles Christ trump 2020 Landslide

HoarderCatG Nicole junkermann

Rod Bender people that make 12k a year and afford 1k per year taxes dumbocrats

awildbill rightous Master Jedi Trump leading the Jedi now! 2020 The lightside will defeat the darkside!🤜

Amy Tyler 🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬

Bob A Richard he’s in there with booker

Rebecca Brown We The People demand Term Limits for congress and grandfather the limits.

Annika_green If there’s a crash & the bankers and corps get bailout, I will be upset!!! I think a check one time to WE THE PEOPLE IS FINE

Fuzz Man all the money all the billionaires in the world has would not pay for dems dreams

Dan Williams if there is more of something, does it increase in value?

Edward Wallace So don't spend pay the dog gone debt. Marianne Williamson 2020

Last Days What a fool. OH BUT THEY want to give everybody free S___! to put that debt on the backs of his grands

origine online Free education Free medical 5 weeks vacation bigger salary thx , try to be more like my friends in europe

Joey Big Things Poppin Never watched fox ever.. Alphabet

Happy Voice Raise taxes to reduce the deficit and fulfill budget shortfalls, it's not rocket science. Can't tighten the belt much more.

Stephen Rothwell maybe the good senators can donate his salary and half his net worth if he loves the kids so much

L Yachty TRUMP 2020

MsMyxlplyx

CUT SPENDING....START WITH CONGRESS PORKERS Welcome to live chat! Remember to guard your privacy and abide by our community guidelines. LEARN MORE

Leandro Garcia leave here , and go to the CSPAN live stream if you like

window789456123 trump 2020

Mo Hamhead There's too much parasite and not enough host now

Steven Jones do not buy the 1% LIE! That is all it is. LIES! Taxes went to everyone almost. THIS IS A LIE!

Why are you so Angry? Get a job, vote the Nanny government OUT of OUR lives! Figure it out, grow up. Most of us do, with or without the perpetually pubescent.

Danny Hemphill oh yes. free this free that equals loss of freedom

Blue Wizard 🏆TRUMP 2020🏆

nighttr Trump supporters sure could use the free education

Drill Bit The rich make their money just like you do. Have you ever been hired by poor person???

torrok 01 Google Andrew Yang and check out his policies

Merlin Krisp Shut up 🤐

KritterKracker It's called stealing from Peter to pay Paul

De Dowd this guy is a Phoney Windbag! All talk and no action as long as his palm is greased with cash. Just watched a press conference in Baltimor and the Feds are cracking down on the drug dealers. Finally!

andrew richardson torrok 01, you sir, are an idiot, don;t breed

GDPops $22,022,376,894,711.12 National Debt

Kirrsty Locklear this dude is full of it our money is being stolen and not spent on the issues and foreign countries ain't paying their bills

Havefunplayguitar Why am I being censored?

Uganda Knuckles Christ Eat bacon our leave USA🥓

Amy Tyler This is so interesting! NOT!

Nothing no such thing as free you will have uneducated taxpayers paying for top earner college graduate degrees

Niobokupletskite tax break for the rich is a disinfection for the rip of businesses that surround us

Adrana West VOTE THE RIGHT WAY FOR AMERICA: TRUMP 2020

john doe ugh...

ascii Has anyone mentioned Israel yet?

AA14/MoshDuck Amy Tyler: Then why are you here?

Friendly Tourist 🌚 PAGAN 🌛

IR_Dankenstein Word of the day is: Entitlement

Rod Bender "healthcare" should not be confused with "health insurance" DUMBOCRATS

Edward Wallace No one should be taxed by Government. Marianne Williamson 2020

grabitz slow mode

Bill Bush n

Star Dust why did you let Bush and Obama have all that money ?

Annika_green Stop taking too many meds and eat healthy. Again, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

No Regrets vote Trump 2020 President Trump 20/20 all the way

Happy Voice It's fiscally responsible to raise taxes on everyone, not just the rich, but middle class as well, before we even talk about changing healthcare or education.

Greig Ballantine oh my omar

BayouSef1 I don't know what he is talking about. It didn't cost me that much for a 12 year old.

Drill Bit Mushroom Williamson, Throw back from Woodstock

Steve Landy Trump 2020 ok

torrok 01 Trump has done nothing for you. Google Andrew Yang

AnabelleLee100 CAPS ARE ONLY WAY TO FIX HEALTHCARE COSTS

Joey Big Things Poppin Talk deficit yet their spending more than they can print

andrew richardson National debt goes up 100 million per hour 24/7

GDPops DISGUSTING DEMOCRATS - BOHICA

Spiny Norman taxation is theft, crime does not pay

DRUNKEN RAMBLE We're all gonna get a Skyscraper on 5th Ave one day. It's gonna be Huge!!!!......lololol

David Hensley so who is this guy lobbying for big pharma?

Uganda Knuckles Christ Omar antifa leader?

Dawn Gray Joe Biden SAID it last night. GOV'T has failed us 40yrs. Joe has BEEN THERE 49 THERE LIES THE PROBLEM. #TermLimits #ForthepeopleBythePeople

Danny Hemphill torrok01. your delusional. never gonna happen. IT'S called communism

DFG Corey Booker is the whitest person running for president

junior Andrew Yang 2020

KritterKracker The Superiority of the Republics freedom TRUMPS the inferiority of Congress

Keonte Andrew Yang 2020

awildbill rightous We clearly need Master Jedi Trump another 4 years ,💯

HK Torrok 01 come on man don't be Rude

abc def soros antifa and dem leader,fact

Mo Hamhead How come the Democrats aren't talking about Mueller any more? It's like he never existed

360Nomad I AM THE SENATE

Ganesh Jayatpal 🚩🚩🚩

American Patriot 1776 Andrew Yang 2020 I agree Keonte

Happy Voice Taxes are used to support a government that provides necessary public services, such as a police force, public education, and public infrastructure, "taxation is theft" is simply idiotic.

Roger Clinton F Dems

Drill Bit Spiny Norman It pays for these people. They all rich.

SAND BLAST DEMOCRATS WERE IS MULLER ?

Jenny Ward I I bet Nancy Pelosi cart and baby roaches and lice flee from her arse.

Jim Brauer YANG 2020 / FREEDOM DIVIDEND / M4A / Humanity First / Abundance Mindset / $1,000 per mo per adult / Solution to POVERTY = CASH in the hands of Parents and Teachers !!! YANG = YES !!! TRICKLE UP

Annika_green @American Patriot 1776?Yang?! You want the taxation called VALUE ADDED TAX???

no halo President Trump should read that deal again because democrats and republicans agree to it,there has to be a catch,and you can't trust crooked career politicians!

Why are you so Angry? No more alms.

L Yachty Majority vote TRUMP obviously

OurSavageGaming MAGA 2020 🦅🦅🦅

JESUS CHRIST OLD FOLKS WANTING MORE CONTROL PRETTY SOON WE WILL BE WALKING LIKE SOLDIERS

Alan Johnson All of them are thieves! If they are talking they are Lying! Drain the swamp!

AnabelleLee100 Universal Health Exploitation does not fix Costs. Caps on Medical Charges ONLY Way to Fix Healthcare.

Joey Big Things Poppin So Taxation on the American people is a crime

Nothing democrats hate all human rights. they are anti free speech, privacy, self defence, due process. I cant think of 1 human right democrats support

Danny Hemphill yang is a con man commie

Borng Jak ខ្ញុំ

KritterKracker Freedom from Congress' Bad Debt

Dawn Gray MY Indep VOTE goes to TRUMP2020 #IndependentsForTrump

David Hensley and the police force is a arm of corporate America that listens to those who make the laws they are the arm that inforces them

Fake News DEBT CEILING MATTERS. PASSING IT IS A GOOD THING

abc def deport the whole yang family,enemies of the state

Kodiak suddenly Durbin cares about the troops.

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OPINION: Great, great news to hear. The Senate is doing an outstanding job.

Lets give them applaus👏

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