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@askolivar
"You gave permission." Tackles
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💪🏽 Sir Tan Lee (Certainly Elite)
🎃 Pumpkin Repeat 🔂
TAN SAND PROMISE HEALTHY COMMONS
TAN SAND HEALTHY PROMISE LANDS
Healthy Tan, Sand, and Land
Gock at feet 🦶🏽
Talk at taco 🌮
Car Park 🚗 🚙 at toys r us breakroom pendulum (Pen Jew Lum)
🐸⚙️ Leapfrog toy at
Barbie Desk Babble 👱🏼♀️⌨️🐝 💾🗃️🗄️
Homeless Camps ⛺️ War Revamps 🧛🏼♂️🧛🏼♂️🧛🏼♂️
Slander Camps ⛺️ slander campaigns
Death ☠️ Rollercoaster 🎢 Psy Show, Sideshow Circus 🎪 Clown 🤡 Hospital 🏥
X O X O XOXO death hugs 🐻 🧸 🤑
BEAR NEEDLES 💉🐻🍯🤑
BARB BAR CODE KNUCKLES 💉🐻🍯🤑
Storm ⛈️ Run Hurricane 🌀 Rod Slave Ron, “Micro Wave Work Arrons”
“Baby Bid Bib Babs Babble Bunny 🐰 bibs”
Corky Wine 🍷 Raffle Ticket 🎟️ Dollar 💵 Bills Nut Number Money 💰 Euro 💶 Rope Velvet Vatican’s Popes by the throats.
Make them think of an “old billy goat 🐐”
Make them think of an “old ham bone 🦴”
Make them think of an “old dolly lama” 🐪🦙
Make them think of an “oak mill momma” 🐄
Make them all a “PIE OAK TEA” hebrew basket
🧠🧺🪺🦠🍗💩👁️🥧🦢🏭
Paper Islands 🏝️ 🤑💲💸
Goose Factorties RE SET 🦢 “Micro Foe Bets”
"pringle chips" 🍪 🤖 ☠️🦮👩🦯👩🦯👩🦯👩🦯🙈
"celery sticks" 🍾🥒 green pizza 🤑🧩🪲🍕
“work over stage actor down codes”
🤡🧢 pringle chips 🍪
🤡🧢 celery sticks 🥒
towels 🧼 🚿 🧖🏻♀️🧖🏽♂️🧖🏽🧖🏽🧖🏻♀️🧖🏽♂️
towels are for heads
TOWELS AND VOWS
not
“tow truck pow sights”
👘🥻👳🏽♀️👳🏽👳🏽♂️👳🏽👳🏽♀️👳🏽👳🏽
🤍🤎
Vows dont "total" 🙏🏽
Vow’s Life Vows
ALWAYS TWO types of vows.
✌🏽🙏🏽💞🙏🏽 ✌🏽
not for talcum powder ❌🥤❄️🍧
not for baking soda ❌🥤❄️🍧
"Tow Cum Powder" 👩🏾🍳👩🏾🍳👩🏾🍳👩🏾🍳
"Bake Soda" 🧑🏿🍳🧑🏿🍳🧑🏿🍳🧑🏿🍳
Tow Truck "VOW TOTAL" tricks
🛻🛻🛻🛻🛻🛻🛻
🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛🚛
🚚🚚🚚🚚🚚🚚🚚
🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
Office BreakRoom Rubber Slipper Water Cooler
🥿 🩴🛼👟👡 💧🚰
Chit Chat 💬 📍📌🧷🦀🦆🤏🏼
Office Water Coolers. 🥸🚾🚰
Seals 🦭🌪️🪵
Sharks 🦈 🌪️🪵
Dolphins 🐬 🌪️ 🪵
Statue of Liberty, swimming pool 🏊♀️ 🍕🌭🗽
🍌🏦 Bloods Bank Brooklyn New York 🅱️📚
Brooklyn Baby Chair Sitter New York 👼🏽💺
“Sitting The Statue Of Liberty In A Chair”
🎢😵💫🎬💇🏼♀️💀☠️💈💺🪑🦼🦽💈☠️💀🏴☠️
asian sushi Yorky husky minx cash spa sinks
YORKY DOG 🐕
HUSKY DOG 🐕
POODLE DOG 🐩
“The Three Horsemen”
Hay Bell 🍴🛎️
Hate Bell 👺🛎️
Meet Bell 🥩🛎️
Burger Bell 🍔🛎️
Excel Axe Cell Gang Desk Crew
😵💫👩🏼🚒👨🏿🚒🧑🏼🚒👨🏿🚒🪓🛎️
“Except, Axe Ace Front Desk Holding”
🪓♠️♥️♣️♦️🃏📇🪪💳🪓🛎️
Hotel 🏨 Holding Desk Tricks
“Hotel Management Teams”
“Creating Multiple Paper Front Clone Companies”
“Hotel Super Mall Complex Spreaders”
Corruption sources
“Tow Truck Fruit Markets”
“Hotel Micro Mega Management Malls”
Truck 🛻 Farm 🚜 Stolen Life Resources
Through Corrupt Business Front Line SILVER DISH LINES
Service on “a silver platter” dome head
🐟📐👨🏻🦳🪙🍽️
👴🏻🧓🏼💉💸🤑🦠🧬🦠🦢🐀🐭🐹
“cell retarding TAR RAT GLUE GOOSEBUMPS”
white blue yellow, cell a fella
TAR, RAT, devert blame to Japan 🇯🇵 and Jamaica 🇯🇲 PAY RIOT PARROTS 🦜
To blame PIE RATES… PIE RATS
🥧 🐀 💩
Blame SEA RAFT, DRAFT
WINDY SAILS Cash Boats 🛥️ 🚤 🛶
Blame a black “rat shit axe ratchet hatchet”
HAT 👒 HAT 🎩 NAT NAT NIT NIT BLANKET BIT “black hats” “black HAIR ASS”
“black harassment”
“envy in voice”
“invoice receipt PIE 🥧 recEIPt 🧾”
Paper Puppet Office Pets
💃🏽👫🧍🏽♂️🪡🧾 PEN DAY HOSTS
PEN DAY HOPES
PEN DAY HOES
PEN DAY ROPES
Velvet Ropes Wet Newpaper 🅾️🅱️🅾️🩸📰🗞️
white covers
“bioluminescence ectoplasm”
“episode napkin fanny pack raffle ticket eater”
Reviving Health Ethics
🦜 Parrot Veterans (NON Pirate slanders)
🦜 Parrot Truth Speakers
🦜 Parrot Boy Scouts, not “COT” abuse
Reviving “Pet Parrots”
of “PAY RIOTS”
or of “Pay Rabbits”
Parrot 🦜
Rabbit 🐇
Additionally Inclusive RABBI, 👁️ 🐰 👂🏽👂🏽
Rabbi Healthy Prayers 🙏🏽
Dj Rabbit 🐰 With Armor Headphones 🎧
🎶🎶🎧🐰🎧🎶🎶
Emerald Teal Green
Ruby Roxy Red
🍀 ☘️
Clover Irish Welsh Celtic
Distinguish RED health, separately than “WHITE” X parties
Such as DENOUNCE racists “white only”
“america germany england”
“blue white yellow”
🔵♿️🧢
⚪️🦴🥼
🟡🍋🧅
Sarcastic Sar Cast Stick 🐟 ironic ion RON tick
Promote TV 📺 SILVER REMOTE
“WHITE NOISE” “Stereotype foam”
White Micro Management Genocide Systems
“Micro Management”
“Micro Mysteria Hysteria”
“Micro MICE Hysteria”
“Micro NICE MICE” 🐁 Head lice Snow Globe
“Micro His Stare ER area”
“Micro Management STARE ER”
“MY CODE, Micro”
“MY CODE MIKE”
“MY CODE MIKE SKULL”
“NYC CODE TIME TRICK”
“MY COOL CODE”
“MY COM MODE”
“MY TOLIET COMODE”
“MY CO MODE”
“Micro Code STARE ER AREA”
“Hysteria Mysteria”
Stare at hostile hospital victims with “sub”
“subtle” “sub til” knowledge…
“Micro My Code Mike’s Skull”
“america germany england”
🇺🇸🇩🇪🏴
1 hop, and two skips, down blaming “jumbled bumbled history inaccuracies, cover ups”
jumble bumbled
belongs to, “open the jungle book”
not “blackjack casino front backdoors”
change “blackjack market” into
“white backdoor trip wires”
and then you open “black ectoplasm”
“play puss at them”
“murders and cats fighting old women”
“black EVE”
“black ECHO STOW”
“black echo STOVE”
“black echo X COVE”
“black TOW TRUCK”
“black etch-a-Sketch shuffle soundboard”
that should help, the “black lions roar”
“getting past WHITE ONLY CELL LAB doors”
dont do CHEAT TESTS CHEAT TAS 🐆
Yellow Cat is white money sick cat…
dont so PAN THORE 〰️⚫️
pants 👖 naked black ass
Pan cat is white money sick bed cats
Beds and FOG THORN firsts…
Just do JAMAICA RAINBOW PARROT 🦜
and work over criminal activity that relates to
“rats, hamsters, gerbils, and GOOSE GEESE.”
and “bears, polar bears grizzle frizzle bears”
Reject “rats, hamsters, gerbils, geese goose, and bears.”
and theres no longer white proceedings if we ALL keep healthy ProLife99.
And reject the “false white elitism biological public genocide narratives.”
#allah#god#spanish#blm#hispanic#spain#puru#Africa#Jamaica#Japan#Chinese#Japanese#africanAmerican#indian#india#asia#asian
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Let’s all go to the movies
Jaune wanted to go and watch a movie, deciding it would be best to see it on a day where you can get it cheap via a two for one pass, he invited someone from Beacon. Here’s what happens from who he chooses
Ruby: Gets Jaune to watch a cartoon film she wanted to see while buying her candy that Yang doesn’t approves for her to eat.
Weiss: Tells Jaune to go see an Arthouse film while also renting out a private theatre while also having authentic food served instead of popcorn.
Blake: Has Jaune read an entire book before seeing an adaptation of the same book and talk about it later.
Yang: Takes Jaune to see a R-rated horror film only to be clinging onto him as she didn’t imagine it would be that horrific.
Pyrrha: Asks Jaune to watch a romance movie, only for him to fall asleep during the third act, giving her the chance to rest her head on his shoulder.
Ren and Nora: The two would go together with Jaune considering Ren wants to make sure Nora doesn’t destroy anything and Nora wants to spend time with her boys. They would either watch a action film (Nora’s choice) or a documentary (Ren’s choice).
Sun: Takes Jaune to see a R-rated comedy while ordering the largest popcorn as he would laugh the loudest out of the crowd as Jaune doesn’t get most of the jokes.
Neptune: Mislead by Jaune as the blonde took him to see a shark movie, the blue hair boy ran straight out of the theatre so quick one online reviewer said the movie was “So bad it make people want to avoid going into the ocean.”
Velvet: Asks him to watch a movie with her about cartoon rabbits finding a new home, only to end up crying and traumatize from what the film shown instead. He held her when she couldn’t find the strength to go through it.
Glynda: Joins him to try to get why Ozpin still allows him at the academy, only to have a fun time with the boy as they watched an older film while having a nice casual time.
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I picture your hands on me.
“First, I want you to drive us somewhere nice and quiet." "Then I want you to come back here and fuck my brains out.”
Pairing: Emma Swan/Killian Jones
Rating: E
WC: 3.8K
Here’s some Captain Swan car sex for your troubles.
Also available on AO3
Emma Swan doesn’t get drunk. That’s what she tells herself, all the while giggling and stumbling from the toilet stall into the arms of an equally intoxicated and equally giddy Mary Margaret. In fairness, she hadn’t had the opportunity to get drunk in a while. Nights these days were, more often than not, filled with street patrols and paperwork. Being a cop had many perks but the night shifts were not one of them.
She couldn’t wear this dress or these boots out on the job anyway. The black faux leather was tight, barely reaching her mid-thigh and the stiletto boots cut off just above the knee. Definitely not regulation uniform.
Perps would most likely hand themselves over to her if she did wear this on patrol, though. That’s one way to boost her numbers.
When David had initially asked if she wanted to take his wife out for a drink, she thought he’d been joking… evidently not. He had to buckle down on one of his larger cases and it just happened to line up with Emma’s night off. He’d offered to pay her back in bear claws from Granny’s when they were next on duty together and that had sold her. Calories don’t count if someone else buys them for you, right? David had, however, forgotten to mention his wife’s wild side that rears it’s boisterous head whenever liquor is involved.
Tequila is her drink of choice. No chaser. No salt and lime. Just straight up tequila. Emma hadn’t even downed her second by the time the petite brunette was polishing off her fifth with a belch that would’ve had Leeroy blushing. It all went downhill from there.
Mary Margaret yanks her out of the restroom, getting a little handsy in the process, and drags them to the less crowded hallway. Emma didn’t even get the chance to wash her hands. She’s chattering on about something or other but Emma can’t focus. Her skin is softly buzzing, the whole world around her a pleasant hum.
Emma Swan doesn’t get drunk, but when she does, it feels fantastic.
Did she have hand sanitizer in her clutch? It seems like a pretty important thing that everyone should carry in case of emergency, right? Especially on those days when your partner’s wife drags you away from the restroom before you’ve been able to take care of your own personal hygiene. It’s not like she’d peed all over her hands or anything. It’s just better to be safe than sorry. A quick rifle through her purse proved fruitless but at least it helped her regain focus… right at the end of her friend’s story. If they weren’t friends before tonight, they definitely were now.
“-and that’s how David got the scar but if you tell him I told you he’ll be so mad, Emma! Soooo so mad!”
“About what?” It escapes before she can stop it and Mary Margaret just laughs at her.
“Exactly!” She squeals, wiping away tears of laughter Emma hadn’t noticed before throwing an arm around her friend’s waist and leaning into her side, guiding them to the bar. “You know nothing, Jon Snow.”
The bartender didn’t even ask what they were having. Simply winking in their direction before setting down two shots and a couple of fingers of rum. Mary Margaret pays with a flourish of David’s credit card, index finger pressed to her lips in a shhh gesture.
Before she can even think of all the ways David is going to kill her, Emma’s phone chimes. She tries to fight back the smile that comes along with Killian’s name flashing up on her screen, but she lost that battle long ago. They’ve been dating for over a year and he still manages to make her heart involuntarily flutter with every text. No one else makes her heart soften as he does. It had taken time, patience and a whole lot of nudging from David and Ruby for them to even get together in the first place and yet, Emma, with her seemingly endless walls, and Killian, with a metric shitload of his own baggage, managed to make it work.
She loves him. Wholly. It had taken her forever to admit it but, between his soft kisses and even gentler touches, she’d whispered it against his skin. More a sigh than a declaration, but a promise nonetheless.
Killian: running late, my love
Killian: nodded off marking… again
Killian: be there in 5, does MM need a lift?
He’s so good to her. To all of them. He’d agreed to pick her up at midnight, making a joke about pumpkins as he’d kissed her goodbye earlier. It’s almost half-past now but she can’t bring herself to be mad. She loves him. Like really, really loves him. It’s scary and exciting and if it had been anyone else she’d have run away by now but it’s him and that makes it all okay. All the tension she didn’t know she was holding evaporates away upon reading his texts. She throws back her drink in one gulp and starts typing.
Emma: i love u. i will ass
Emma: ask
Emma: fuck
Emma: love u
Killian: haha had one too many, swan?
Killian: i’ll bring you some water x
She didn’t always understand the x’s he sometimes added to the end of his texts. He’d explained it to her once but the patterns his fingers had been tracing across the soft skin of her belly had been a far more pressing focus at the time.
“It’s meant to be a kiss, love. It’s a common courtesy back home.” He’d said, placing a kiss of his own to the furrow in her brow. The furrow only deepened, which made him smile.
“But… why?” She snuggled closer to his chest, the coarse hair there ticking at her bare skin. Post-coital conversations about British text etiquette were just one of the many reasons she’d agreed to move in with him.
Regardless of her level of understanding, the addition brings a warm flush to her cheeks.
Mary Margaret is still at the bar, no longer drinking (thank god) but, if the way her index finger is pressed menacingly against the chest of a man almost twice her size is anything to go by, Emma’s willing to bet she was about to get herself in even more trouble.
Behind her, there’s a familiar exasperated sigh.
“I think it’s quittin’ time for us, Ems.” David yawned, patting her shoulder as he did. He was still in his uniform which must have scared the shit out of the bouncers on his way in. She didn’t mean to laugh but the thought had her chuckling. His case mustn’t have gone very well. His smile is soft and small, not blinding like it usually is. She’s about to ask him about it when a scream rips out ahead of them.
“DAVID!”
The thump as Mary Margaret collides with her husband’s chest knocks the air straight out of him in a dull oof. Without thinking, Emma snaps a picture and hits send.
Emma: mm has a ride
Emma: i’ll take one if u r offering tho ;)
They’re both still laughing, breathless, in each other’s arms before Emma gets pulled into the mix. David thanks her for keeping an eye on his wife with a strong hug while Mary Margaret attaches to her side like a barnacle and thanks her with slurred speech for celebrating her promotion together.
Emma hadn’t even known they’d been celebrating. That’s tequila for you.
“I better get this one home. Thanks again, Ems.” David smiles her way before looking down to his tiny and drunken spouse who had the widest grin she’d ever seen, pure adoration in her eyes. She happily grips the hand David offers her, still beaming as they walk.
Emma knows that look. She’s had that look before.
Love drunk (and maybe a bit of real drunk).
“I’ll follow you out.” She adds, falling into step with their rhythm. “My ride will be here soon anyway.”
“I love Killian, Emma. He’s so sweet! And he bakes! David doesn’t bake.” The outburst is followed by a hiccup and a giggle and a scoff from her husband.
“Gee, why don’t you marry him then?” There’s no malice in David’s comment at all, how could there be? These two have been together since the dawn of time, by Storybrooke standards, at least. Mary Margaret barks out a laugh, using the arm that isn’t intertwined with David’s to punch him softly in the ribs.
“I married you, Stupid. You can’t marry two people. You’re dumb.”
The rest of the walk to the exit is in relative silence, only the occasional chirp from their drunkest disciple on the way down the stairs of The Rabbit Hole. The crisp autumn air that meets them outside knocks Emma back a little, she hadn’t expected it to be so cold and, in a lapse of better judgement, had not brought a jacket. It doesn’t matter though. She’d already seen the familiar black jeep before her phone buzzed in her hand.
Killian: i see you x
Bidding goodbye to her two companions, Emma finds herself skipping over to Killian’s truck. She can’t help herself. The thought of him sat there waiting for her in all his black leather jacket-y goodness spurs her forward. Maybe she can convince him out of it… maybe– Fuck. She’s drunk but she wants him. Needs him.
Climbing into the jeep and immediately going in for the kill, in hindsight, probably wasn’t one of her finest ideas. Especially considering the accidental punch to the boob it earnt her. The bottle of water he’d promised, falling to the centre console between them. Clearly he’d not anticipated the haste of her advance.
It’s a good job he’s cute.
“I’m sorry, love!” He laughs, eyes crinkling at the corners and lips pulling into a toothy smile. “I didn’t expect you to come at me with such unbridled force.”
“Hello to you too.” Grumbling, she tries to massage some of the pain in her chest away but the ache is already there. Not the ache she wanted either. Killian’s hand finds her jaw and, despite her initial attempt at stubborn reluctance, his fingertips have her melting into his kiss. He’s overly gentle, just a chaste press of his lips against hers in apology.
“I’ll kiss it better once we’re home, Swan. Don’t you worry about that.”
Feeling them against her lips, his words light a fire deep in her. The slow burn she’s been tending since she left their apartment earlier now seems an all-consuming need. She kisses him again, harder and deeper, a calculated move on her part, knowing he’ll take the bait and follow suit.
The growl it pulls from him is borderline feral and Emma can feel it shoot straight to her core. Fuck, he’s such a good kisser. Every slant of his mouth over hers, every slip of his tongue, has her breathless and needy, wanting to only ever be further consumed. He always knows exactly how she needs it with very little prompting, reading her body language better than she herself could, sliding his free hand up her bare thigh until it slipped beneath the hem of her dress.
She can’t wait, she wants him now.
“Fuck going home.” She sighs, letting him pull away only slightly so they can lean their foreheads together, his hand still continuing its path beneath her skirt.
“What do you mean, love?” He knows exactly what she means. He always does. The smirk in his voice coats his words like syrup, sickly sweet and so wonderful.
Pushing him away is torture, but worth it to hear his reaction as Emma crawls into the backseat. Arse in the air as she squeezes between the front seats and into the back. The firm smack to her behind has her fumbling through the gap, catching her moan as she tries to get her bearings. She’s not ashamed of it. It’s well-known that she loves a good spanking. Red palm prints all over her ass and thighs the next day are the best kind of trophies. Ones she’s proud to wear for him and him only. She’s not even ashamed at how almost uncomfortably wet she is just from thinking about it, thinking about him thick and heavy inside her, encouragement coming in the form of firm slaps.
If he wants a tease, she’ll give him a tease.
Turning to face him, she slips into the middle seat. Shimmying her dark panties she’d chosen earlier that evening down her legs with minimal effort. Killian’s eyes follow the path they take and, when they come to settle at her ankles, she offers him the scrap of fabric with the heel of her boot.
He groans when his fingers come to contact with damp lace, the faint squish as he rolls the fabric between his thumb and index finger is almost too much. The way he reaches for her is pure instinct, she can tell how her actions are affecting him by the way his eyes are half-lidded and all traces of smiles and smirks from earlier are gone. She presses her boot to his shoulder, forcing him to keep his distance and trusting him to do so before removing it. The sharp point of her stiletto catches on his collarbone on its descent, causing him to hiss.
“First, I want you to drive us somewhere nice and quiet.” Settling down further, her legs part, faux leather peeling back from her thighs as they do, until it’s plainly visible how much she wants this. Her unfathomable confidence is definitely dutch in its origin but she can’t help herself, warm flames of arousal threatening to take over. It’s delicious and agony all at once. “Then I want you to come back here and fuck my brains out.”
Seeing his eyes slip closed at her words sends a heady wave of something straight through her. Car Sex: 1, Killian: 0
“As you wish, Swan.” His voice is deep and raspy, so very clearly fucked and Emma loves it. She loves him. Every part of him. From the way his hair always looks like he’s just woken up, no matter what time of day it is or the way his shoulders tense as he turns away from her now to focus on the road ahead, pulling off from the street with white knuckles clutching the steering wheel. Most of all, she loves knowing that he’ll give her what she wants, over and over again, rough and hard.
To everyone else, Killian is well mannered and reserved. The mix of ex-naval captain, local history teacher and baked goods connoisseur tending to subconsciously command the respect of those in his presence.
To Emma, he is so much more. He’s soft in ways she’d never had a partner to be before, so open and forthcoming with his adoration of her while still allowing her space to grow into the person she’s always wanted to be. He’s sarcastic to a fault but, then again, so is she. He’s so unapologetically passionate about the things he loves, which usually results in them binging TV shows together until the early hours of the morning on a school night and falling asleep tangled together on the couch.
He’s everything she never knew she needed and he’s changed her for good.
Oh, and he’s also an incredibly good shag. His word, not hers. When he says it, it sounds filthy, whispered against her body in a way that brings her out in goosebumps every time. When she says it, it sounds… not like that.
She can’t wait much longer, heat throbbing between her legs at the thought of him. She hadn’t even realised until the slow drag of her fingers through slick folds and across her clit caused a moan to erupt from her throat, that she’d been touching herself this whole time.
Glancing up to the rearview mirror, she caught lust darkened eyes staring back.
Fuck.
Without thinking, she brings the fingers to her mouth. Salt and lust thick on her tongue. It’s a sharp sweet taste and Killian always waxes poetic about it; telling her how damn edible her cunt is, how he loves the taste she leaves on his tongue, how he loves making her taste herself from his lips. He’s always been able to make her fall to pieces.
Daring to maintain eye contact, she sucks them between her lips.
He fucking moans at that. Deep. Guttural. Emma can feel it in her chest and, before she can even comprehend what’s going on, he pulls the jeep up to a halt. They’re parked somewhere she doesn’t recognise, tucked between two buildings shrouded in the dark, and she has no time to worry about anything else because Killian is out of the driver’s seat and crawling into the back through the passenger door.
He had been wearing his leather jacket before and she absentmindedly wonders where it’s gone before her brain short circuits with the smash of his lips against hers. It’s wild and rushed and the weight of him crushing her into the seat below has whines slipping out between their kisses.
“That was dangerous.” He purrs, moving his mouth across her cheek, down to her jaw, her neck. Nipping where his teeth graze and sucking soft marks into her flesh. Looks like it’s high necked sweaters for the rest of the week. “What did I do to earn that delicious torture?”
Emma hums at his ministrations, warm buzz settling through her at his touch. Better, more electric than the subtle tingle of intoxication from earlier. This woke up every nerve in her body, slowly, bringing them alive and with wisps of an earth-shattering orgasm building deep down already. “The tit punch wasn’t totally appreciated if we’re being candid.”
“Candid’s not the word, love.” His lips leave her neck, leaning up to view his masterpiece and very clearly satisfied with the mess he’s made and his smirk pushes her over the edge. She reaches for his hips, fumbling around for the zipper on his jeans. He joins in, working together to free the erection she’d been hoping for. Killian was never one to disappoint her in that department. “This is downright indecent.”
“Just shut up and fuck me.”
She throws one booted leg around his hip pulls him closer until he nudges against her centre.
There’s no preamble. No disclaimer. Sex for them is like coming home, a practised rhythm they’ve had down for what seems like aeons. As if they’d been destined for each other before they ever met. It’s perfect. Always is. He’s as thick and full as she’d been hoping, stretching her in the most delectable way and it drives her mad when he drags out slowly, angling himself in a way that has the head of his cock catching on that rough spot he usually finds only with his fingers. Clawing at his biceps as he fucks torturously slowly into her seems like the only option at this point.
“Killia– fuck! Harder.” Is the only thing she can say. All other thoughts being variations of Fuck, Yes and Please.
He burrows his face into the crook of her neck, inhaling her scent and she can feel the smirk on his lips searing into her skin. The whimper has barely left her lips before it’s cut off with a moan as he hammers into her. While one hand holds himself up, the other shoves her dress up higher around her waist before snaking down across her stomach, through the smattering of hair at the apex of her thighs and further, finally coming to a halt just shy of her clit.
She’s grateful Killian had been able to find somewhere secluded for them to undertake their activity because, had they been in the centre of Storybrooke, people in a three-block radius would definitely have been able to hear the scream that rips out of her with his touch, back arching off the seat as he teases her clit with his fingers.
“First, you’re going to come.” His voice is way calmer than it should be. Deep and ragged but calm all the same. Emma doubts she could even string a sentence together with the barrage of pleasure he’s putting her through. Not that she’s complaining. The look on his face as she flutters around him more than makes up for the fact that he’s still got full use of his speech, even if he is using it to spew filth. “Then, I want to fill you up– fuck, I’ve been thinking about this dress all night, Emma. Do you know what you do to me?”
How can she even respond to that? He continues to fuck her deeper, laving kisses across her collar bones. Adjusting the angle, the pressure, the speed to keep her always on her toes. Bringing her almost to the edge and then dragging her back. She wants to be mad about it but she can’t bring herself to feel anything other than pleasure coiling low in her belly. Killian knows her too well. He knows what she likes, how she wants to be fucked and how to take care of her after. He knows she hates being teased but he also knows that she comes so much harder when she’s had to work for it.
As she said, he knows her too well.
“I’m close.” She sobs, arms thrown around his neck. Her call spurs him on, fucking into her faster and deeper while he strokes relentlessly at her clit with his thumb. It’s only a few seconds before a tsunami of an orgasm washes over her in full force, wave after wave of pleasure settling over as she’s fucked through it. Gentler now than before. She can’t hear anything over the rush of blood in her ears but she doesn’t miss the telltale grunts of her name as Killian follows shortly after with a few staccato pumps of his hips. True to his word, he comes deep inside her. The feeling of being so full warming her from the inside out.
He collapses against her chest with a huff and she laughs, not able to resist running her hands through his hair. She loves him. From his grunty sex noises to the way he can’t seem to hold himself up once he’s spent. She loves all of him.
“Brainless yet, love?” He mumbles against his gifts from earlier. There’s a dull throb as he kisses one of the hickeys and Emma hums, wrapping him in her embrace. She doesn’t want to move, despite how awkwardly they’re tangled together and Killian growing soft inside her. If David catches them on his patrol in the morning, they’re screwed. Well, she is. He’d hold that over her for eternity.
Pulling him tighter, she sighs.
“Completely.”
She’d have to ask Mary Margaret about that scar story again, for blackmail purposes.
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Here’s how I would do ‘So This Is Basically RWBY’
“The show R.W.B.Y. is about Ruby-(yeah real shocker)-and her enterouge of wacky color characters that the writing loves to fuck.
Ruby Rose is wide eyed optimistic (Goku) child prodigy (Midroaya) wielding an impossibly cool scythe (Maka Alburn) that somehow manages to be one of the central driving focuses of the plot as well as the one the fanbases cares about the least.
Along the way, she rounds up three fellows who include Weiss; the smug, rascist abuse victim as well as the one assigned the ‘no boobs’ tag. Blake, the beauty with beastly characteristic who becomes the focus of a racism subplot that barely fits in with the main plot. And Yang, the buxom sister of Ruby whose violent temper, surprise, actually gets her into trouble!...sometimes. ... Oh wait, I’ve also been informed Ruby gets eye lazers...Anyway!
Watch as they sit around a school for two seasons with the plot hiding off just off screen while the show telegraphs absolute misery incoming while no one pays attention.
Alongside Team Red we have Team Blue as they versus each other for screentime because did I mention this show was made by two drunk interns and a guy who thought Blazblue was the shit?
But hey, you won’t even notice the two teams having wildly varying levels of importance when you have The Monkey King!...and Furry Hitler...and R-rated Good Witch...and Rabbit Sex Joke in Waiting...and Soldier Fashonista...and Neptune the Handsome and Awesome...And Stock Bully...And Irondaddy...And Ragdrunk the Birdedge...And The Wizard Of Oncler...Hey, who were the protagonists again?
Watch as they fight the creatures of Grimm, a fearsome force of terrifying monsters that are more like Mooks than the actual Bad Guys. Speaking of, We have Roman Torchwick, the suave cool guy from Episode 1 who should have died but survived only to die again, Neo the pint sized sadist everyone loves to lewd, Mercury, a trained assassin using shotgun boots, Emerald an illusionary thief whose greatest illusion is that she has anyone who loves her. All lead by Salem, an immortal witch who caused this whole situation because her dumbass father locked her ina tower with no books, preferably ones that said ‘DON’T FUCK WITH GODS.’
.... Oh yeah, and this lady named Cinder. She’s basically shitty DIO...with magic! ... That happens!
Explore this vast world that the creators have no time to explore because these guys wouldn’t know the term ‘work within your limits’ if it hit them. Watch in awe as a man renowned for creating inventive and beautiful animation somehow make a show with mouth flaps from Speed Racer and animation on par with a remedial animation student. But hey, at least the fight scenes are cool! That’s all that matters! Not like relying on one guy for your entire show is a bad idea, what’s the worst that could happen?
RIP Monty Oum
Oh...
... Welp, not like we just got a brand new concept thrown at us out of the blue right?
*the world ‘MAIDENS’ crashes through’
... SSSHIII-
The show’s biggest flaw isn’t the fact that the creator just threw whatever he thought was cool in and the other two had to clean up the resulting mess, or the fact that the creator hired two guys who had never written anything in their lives, or the fact that the company still doesn’t know how to do things in a quick clean matter. Nah, it’s the fact this show became a sensation out of fucking nowhere and now the entire company’s forced to adapt on the fly with the creator dead as well as the one guy who made things work!
But hey, everything will be just fine as long as they have their loving-
*offscreen*: The newer Volumes are shit, not like the older Volumes with no plot shit animation and minimal characters!
-supportive-
*offscreen*: What? They changed the setting? THEY’RE RUINING MONTY’S VISION.
-caring-
*Offscreen*: If you don’t take my verbal abuse filled with lies and slander, you hate all critics!
-rational-
*offscreen*: You killed Adam? LEFTIST, PANDERING SJWS! GET WOKE GO BROKE!
*Offscreen*: Why is the show STILL being written by white straight males?!
-understanding-
*Offscreen*: Let’s torch RT to the ground!
YEAH!
-fans...*holds a revolver to his head* Am I right?
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The Weekend Warrior 8/13/21 - CODA, FREE GUY, DON’T BREATHE 2, RESPECT, THE LOST LEONARDO, WHAT IF, and More!
Well, that was kind of a disappointing last weekend as James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad pretty much tanked at the box office, making less than Birds of Prey did back in February 2020 with all sorts of backseat analysis explaining why it didn’t do well as anyone, other than a scant, few thought. I mean, I’m still kind of stunned, even though COVID and the Delta variant seem to be losing steam as far as being news. It certainly didn’t help that HBO Max decided to release the movie concurrently on HBO Max on Thursday at 7pm.
The nice thing about this week is that we have three new movies, none of which are on streaming or On Demand at the exact same time, so if you want to see any of them, you’ll have to put on your N96 masks and get yourself to theaters. Two of the three movies are originals, while the third is a sequel to quite an original horror movie from about five years back. All of them are pretty good, actually. We’ll get to them soon...
But first, let’s start with this week’s “The Chosen One” and it’s gotta be Siân Heder’s CODA i.e. “Child of Deaf Adults,” which will play in select theaters and on Apple TV+ starting Friday. If you hadn’t heard, it was the belle of the ball at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, winning the Jury Prize and Audience Award alike. Heder previously directed Tallulah and is the showrunner on Apple’s Little America, but this really is a very special film that I’ve enjoyed on repeat viewings now.
It stars Emilia Jones as Ruby Rossi, the sole hearing person in her family of Gloucester fishermen, who are out every day on the sea making the latest catch in their nets. Ruby has other aspirations, and when she joins the school choir, the teacher, Mr. Villalobos (Eugene Derbez) sees talent in Ruby that he thinks might get her into the Berklee College of Music. Ruby has to weigh that with her family’s need to have her as an interpreter while dealing with the other fishermen of the town.
I didn’t know what to expect when I saw this at Sundance back in January, and it still surprised me when I rewatched it again, because it’s a movie that involves a lot of elements that shouldn’t necessarily work, between the fishing and the singing and all the ASL between the amazing ingenue, Ms. Jones, and the deaf actors playing her family, including the one and only Oscar-winning Marlee Matlin. If not for these disparate elements, Coda might be a fairly standard indie family drama, but Heder finds just the right balance of showing how these disparities in Ruby’s life make it hard for her to pursue her dreams.
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo from Sing Street plays the classmate who Ruby is set up with to perform a duet at their high school recital, and of course, he also becomes an unwitting love interest. Unfortunately that’s the aspect of the film that’s the weakest, because Jones’ scenes with Matlin and the other actors, including Derbez, as well as Troy Kotsur and Daniel Durant, as Ruby’s father and brother, are just so powerful and moving even if they’re all in ASL with no dialogue or even incidental score.
Coda is Heder’s second film after Talllulah, a movie starring Elliot Page that never really connected with me, but Coda is such a strong and exceedingly crowd-pleasing film that I have to imagine that this would connect with everybody. I’m not sure if Apple’s gonna be able to get this movie all the way to Oscar night, but I do like its chances for Adapted (?) Screenplay, and maybe Matlin and Kotsur Supporting? I don’t know, because it’s so early and hard to tell, but hopefully the decision to wait so long after the virtual Sundance won’t hurt this movie as it hurt other Sundance award-winning films. Coda is just a joy that I’m sure will be many people’s favorite movie.
You can read my interview with Ms. Heder over at Below the Line.
Incidentally, in last week’s column, I talked about the 20th New York Asian Film Festival, but I didn’t realize that it was only running at Film at Lincoln Center for a week before going down to the SVA Theater on 23rd Street, and you can check out the schedule of movies playing there at the official site. And of course, there’s still the Virtual Festival that’s running through August 22. Also, Fantasia is still going on in Montreal, and I still haven’t had time to watch very much. What can I say? I suck.
Let’s get to some wide releases, shall we?
First up and probably the most likely to win the weekend is Ryan Reynolds’ new action-comedy, FREE GUY (20th Century Studios), directed by Shawn Levy and co-starring Jodie Comer from Killing Eve. The high-concept comedy has Reynolds playing Guy, a bank teller, who actually is a non-player character in a video game called “Free City” that’s kind of a cross between Grand Theft Auto and Fortnite. When he meets Comer’s character in the game, he falls mady in love and decides to do whatever it takes to get on her level. (Get it?) In doing so, Guy ends up becoming a hero for Free City, as well as a viral sensation across the globe as gamers thrill to Guy’s adventures.
Free Guy is Ryan Reynolds’ first live-action starring role theatrical release since…. Oh…. the action-comedy sequel The Hitman’s Bodyguard’s Wife a little under two months ago. Considering that barely made half of what its predecessor did, and that’s with Reynolds sharing the screen with Samuel L. Jackson and Salma Hayek, one wonders if his draw as an A-lister can be maintained during a pandemic. Before that, you’d have to go all the way back to 2018’s Deadpool 2 for a fully live Reynolds movie, because he wasn’t seen as himself for most of his role in and as Detective Pikachu. Of course, Reynolds’ unmistakable voice was back in DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods: A New Age, the sequel to the 2013 blockbuster that made the ballsy move to be one of the first movies to open during the pandemic. It grossed $58.6 million in theaters, which was slightly more than Christopher Nolan’s Tenet and even more than the Warner Bros. sequel, Wonder Woman 1984.
This is also a big movie for Jodie Comer, who won an Emmy and was nominated for two Golden Globes for Killing Eve, but hasn’t really been in too many movies, other than playing Rey’s Mum in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Later this year, she’ll star in Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel and may possibly be back in the awards game again, we’ll see. The movie also stars Lil Rel Howery, who seems to be everywhere and in everything these days, as well as Taika Waititi who is super-hot right now due to 2019’s Jojo Rabbit, and his various television projects, as well as having a small role in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad last week.
In some ways, Free Guy is gonna be a test for a lot of things, the first one being whether Reynolds is a big enough draw when not playing Deadpool to get people into theaters, just as people are starting to get skittish again about going into movie theaters. More importantly, it will show whether not having a movie on streaming or VOD means that people who want to see it will put aside their fears and return to theaters… like they did with F9 and Black Widow and Godzilla vs. Kong. Is an original non-franchise movie like Free Guy enough to get people interested in getting their butts off the couch and into a far more comfortable movie theater seat? (I’m being facetious, if you didn’t guess.)
After The Suicide Squad last week, I’m really not sure whether I can trust my own instincts, but I also don’t want to lower my prediction to something ridiculous out of fear that the pandemic really is destroying any chance of the box office fully recovering. One thing working in Free Guy’s favor, besides its PG-13 rating is that it’s not available on streaming and VOD. Anyone who has been intrigued by the film’s great reviews will HAVE to go out to a movie theater to see it or else, they’ll have to wait 45 days.
Maybe if this opened last month, I could see it open in the $30 million to $40 million range, but with things being the way they are, I’d probably go with high $20 million, so close to $30 million but not quite.
You can read my review over at Below the Line, and I’ll have an interview with the film’s Production Designer, Ethan Tobman, fairly soon.
Also opening Friday is the horror sequel DON’T BREATHE 2 (Sony/Screen Gems), starring Stephen Lang as the blind former Navy Seal who terrorized a bunch of kids who broke into his house in 2016’s Don’t Breathe.
The original movie, which starred Jane Levy, reuniting with director Fede Alvarez after the two remade Evil Dead for producer Sam Raimi, opened in late August, on the fourth weekend of the original Suicide Squad, in fact, and it knocked the movie out of the #1 spot. Its $26 million opening in 3,000 theaters was impressive for the time, partially because late August has never been great. It stayed #1 for a second weekend, over Labor Day, and it ended up grossing $89.2 million in North America, which is great for an R-rated horror film.
Levy isn’t around for the sequel and Alvarez has moved into a co-writer/producer role for his creative partner, Rodo Sagayes, to take over the directing reins, but honestly, I’m not sure how many people will know or care, because Lang’s character and the film’s violence and chills are it’s real selling point. Like many horror movies, there isn’t much in terms of star power other than Lang, but that has never really hindered the success of a horror movie in the past.
As with every movie I cover in this column, there’s the pandemic in the room and whether that might hold people back from going to theaters. I wish there was a way to calculate the effect that’s had on moviegoing, because it seems to affect movies differently. For instance, the recent The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It was able to open with $24.1 million just two months ago, although that was down from the $40 million of the previous two chapters. So that’s about a 40% drop-off in a similar five-year gap between movies. (Actually, it’s kind of strange that 2021 is replicating 2021 with three sequels to movies from five years earlier.) There’s no denying that the number of Covid cases are way up since June and movie theaters are still being painted as the “enemy” even though no significant cases have been traced back to the movies.
We also have to look at Sony’s last horror sequel, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, which I quite enjoyed, but it ended up opening with about $10 million less than the original movie a few years back. We can probably expect Don’t Breathe 2 to have a similar pandemic drop-off even if it’s another movie that won’t be on streaming or VOD this weekend.
I think Don’t Breathe 2 should be good for around $15 million this weekend since it’s catering towards a young audience that’s a bit more devil-may-care about going out to theaters. It will also probably appeal more to older single guys than something like Free Guy, which seems different enough to pull in a different audience.
My review will be posted over at Below the Line later on Thursday, plus I have a bunch of interviews coming, including this one with Rodo Sayagues and Fede Alvarez.
Next up is RESPECT (MGM), the long-awaited Aretha Franklin biopic (for those that didn’t see Genius, like me, I guess), starring Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson as the Queen of Soul. The movie directed by Liesl Tommmy was supposed to be released in January to take part in last year’s Oscars race, but I guess MGM wanted to make sure it got a proper theatrical release, which wasn’t possible since NYC and L.A. movie theaters didn’t reopen until March after the cut-off. But MGM had already decided to push the movie back to the summer in hopes of having more theaters able to play the movie, which is kind of true now?
It’s been a while since we’ve seen JHud in a high-profile theatrical release, and unfortunately, the last one was 2019’s Cats, a movie in which she probably was the best thing, although it still only grossed $27 million domestically, a flat-out bomb. Before that, she provided her voice for the animated blockbuster Sing in 2016, and then a bunch of smaller movies before that. She’s joined in the movie by the likes of Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Titus Burgess, Mary J. Blige, Marc Maron, and Audra MacDonald, quite an impressive array of talent that shows how many wanted to be involved with this project. Director Liesl Tommy is making her feature directorial debut after directing a ton of theater and TV shows like The Walking Dead and Jessica Jones.
Even so, it’s obviously that the ongoing popularity of Aretha Franklin, especially since her death in 2018, is going to go a long way into getting people into theaters, which includes a lot of older black women who really haven’t had much to get them out into theaters in recent months. Will this be enough?
Before Respect was delayed from its original January release, many thought that Hudson would receive another Oscar nomination for her performances. Having not seen the movie at the time of this writing, I can’t confirm or deny those chances. If that’s still the case, then releasing the movie towards the end of the summer (similar to The Help, successfully, and The Butler, not so much) is an odd decision rather than just holding the movie for festival season by holding until next month.
Either way, I think the love Aretha’s fans have for the Queen of Soul as well as Hudson’s fans, Respect should be good for between $8 and 10 million this weekend -- hard to pinpoint exactly without knowing how many theaters MGM is getting for it against the stronger summer movies.
Mini-Review: I wasn’t really sure what to expect from Respect, even after seeing the trailer a couple dozen times in front of other movies, but it’s a respectable biopic that cover 20 years in the life of the Queen of Soul from singing at a young age in her father’s church to returning to church for the gospel records as captured in the recently-released doc, Amazing Grace.
But first, we go back to 1952 where Aretha is a young girl (played by Skye Dakota Turner) is uncertain of her future as she’s being ordered about by her preacher father (Forrest Whitaker) and trying to find direction. The movie casually sets up the fact that young Aretha was sexually abused by a family friend, and maybe she got pregnant, too? It’s hard to tell and maybe a little odd since she would only have been 10 at the time, but it’s something that will be brought up (just as subtly) over the course of the film.
Jennifer Hudson takes over as Aretha as she turns 19 and goes to New York City to start recording, meets Marlon Wayans’ Ted White, makes him her manager and marries her, which basically has her going from one abusive man in her father to another one. It feels like the movie spends a long than normal time on the ‘60s, which is when Franklin’s career really took off with “Respect” and then a series of hits that took her all around the world. That whole time, she’s dealing with Ted’s abuses and jealousy while trying to write and record those hits, before her dark demons return and she starts drinking heavily.
As you might imagine, you go to see Respect to see how well Jennifer Hudson pulls off the Queen of Soul, and she’s an incredibly complex character that needs a nuanced performance, which Hudson tries to pull off by bringing different aspects of her life into different scenes.
There are some scenes that don’t work as well as others, and it feels like there’s a bit of time-crunching or futzing around so that at a certain point, her father seems to be de-aging, although I was just as impressed (possibly even moreso) with Forrest Whitaker, whose performance as Aretha’s father is more than just a full-on villain despite his violent treatment of his daughter. Wayans is also good and almost unrecognizable at first, and there are a few other nice performances in there as well, including Marc Maron as record label head Jerry Wexler.
But the performances Hudson gives as Franklin are goosebump-inducing, leading up to the recording of her record-selling gospel record as depicted in the aforementioned doc.
A fairly decent representation of Franklin’s little-known life leading up to her fame, Respect probably succeeds the most when Jennifer Hudson is performing as the Queen of Soul, but she’s also created a fairly moving portrait with strong dramatic moments that far outweigh any of the film’s issues. Rating: 8/10
With that in mind, this is how I see the weekend looking with two of the new movies bumping Suicide Squad down to third place where it will be facing off against Respect.
1. Free Guy (20th Century/Disney) - $28.5 million N/A
2. Don’t Breathe 2 (Sony/Screen Gems) - $15 million N/A
3. The Suicide Squad (Warner Bros.) - $10 million -62%
4. Respect (MGM) - $9.6 million N/A
5. Jungle Cruise (Walt Disney Pictures) - $8.7 million -55%
6. Old (Universal) - $2.5 million -36%
7. Black Widow (Marvel/Disney) - $2.4 million -39%
8. Stillwater (Focus) - $2 million -39%
9. Space Jam: A New Legacy (Warner Bros.) - $1.3 million -43%
10. The Green Knight (A24) - $1.1 million -56%
Donnie Yen stars in Bennie Chang’s RAGING FIRE (WELL GO USA), which premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival on Monday and at Fantasia in Montreal on Tuesday, and I’m not going to review this, because honestly, it’s such a cookie-cutter Hong Kong police action-thriller that I’m not sure I really have much to say about it, so I won’t.
On the other hand, I do have more to say about Andreas Koefoed’s documentary, THE LOST LEONARDO (Sony Pictures Classics), the Leonardo being Da Vinci, the master artist behind the Mona Lisa and many other works. Since I don’t really follow the world of art, I really didn’t know about the Salvator Mundi painting found about 10-12 years ago that was thought to be an original Da Vinci worth in the hundreds of millions, often dubbed “The Male Mona Lisa.” But it’s also a painting that was surrounded by controversy due to the 5-year restoring job that may have left very little of the original painting.
As the film began, I was groaning a little about sitting through another movie of art experts and historians talking about how important a find this is and why it’s either great or horrible, depending on who is being interviewed. Eventually, the film gets more interesting as it starts getting into the idea of selling it. After being sold to a wealthy Russian oligarch by an unscrupulous Swiss art dealer who made a nice profit on it, the painting ends up being auctioned by Christie’s, and the story just keeps getting more and more interesting as it goes along.
While I’m not one to go ga-ga over any painting by Da Vinci or otherwise, I do like a good mystery or suspense-thriller, so good on Koefoed for realizing about halfway through this movie that the talking heads will never be as interesting as actual footage. And that’s what happens here, too. I actually feel a little ignorant that I wasn’t aware this was going on as it was, maybe because I don’t really follow the art world in that respect. Maybe I just missed it, so it’s good that Sony Classics (who loves making movies about art) is giving this a fairly high-profile release following its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival a few months back. In that sense, The Lost Leonardo is quite a gem.
Heinz Brinkman’s USEDOM: A CLEAR VIEW OF THE SEA (Big World Pictures) is a somewhat intriguing doc about the Baltic island of Usedom, the location of a number of imperial German health resorts, beaches and such, and how the Jews were kicked out by the Nazis before Usedom was split into a German and Polish half after WWII. I wish I could get into this more, but I just have a limited mental capacity for a lot of German talking heads.
Which brings us to Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein’s THE MEANING OF HITLER (IFC Films), the new doc from the team behind Gunner Palace, which looks at the cultural fascination with Hitler and Nazism and the recent rise in white supremacy, antisemitism and the “weaponization of history itself.” I don’t know what that last part means, because I got so swamped this week that I didn’t get to watch this, and like another recent doc on the subject of Naziism and the Holocaust, I just couldn’t get into the right head space to hit play on this doc. Maybe I’ll watch it sometime down the road.
Similarly, I didn’t get around to watching Dutch filmmaker Jim Taihuttu’s THE EAST (Magnet Releasing), which I may like as a fan of Paul Verhoeven’s Dutch WWII films, and I probably should give this a look, but I just ran out of time this week. It’s about a young Dutch soldier who joins an elite unit led by a mysterious captain called “The Turk,” and it takes place in the Indonesian War of Independence after World War II.
As far as TV goes, Wednesday sees the debut of Marvel Studios’ WHAT IF...? on Disney+. I’ve seen the first three episodes, and I was a pretty big fan of the comics in the ‘70s (sadly, part of the giant collection that I sold a few years back), and I guess this is okay. The first episode is the one with Haley Atwell voicing “Captain Carter” i.e. Peggy Carter gets the Super Soldier Serum, which is one of the more obvious What Ifs that could possibly done, so that we can get another “women are as good as men, and they need to be heard” storyline that’s in 90% of the Marvel movies already. On the other hand, the first episode does include the voices of Sebastian Stan and others, so it’s quite a coup in that sense, but whoever wrote it, clearly doesn’t understand that people spoke differently in the ‘40s. I liked the 2nd episode, a mash-up of Black Panther and Guardians of the Galaxy, which is a fun idea that brings together a lot of great characters -- including Chadwick Boseman’s last voice performance -- but again, hearing the voices just isn’t the same when the writing isn’t as good as the movie. I feel like the animation for the show is okay, maybe not quite on par with some of the great Batman or Superman cartoons we’ve gotten over the years. On the other hand, the entire series features the great voice of Jeffrey Wright as The Watcher, acting kind of like the Rod Serling for the series, much like the Watcher does in the comics. I also dug the music by Emmy winner Laura Karpman (Lovecraft Country), and I’ll watch the rest of the series as it debuts, but I’m not sure it’s as much a rush to see each episode to avoid spoilers as with Loki or WandaVision.
Hitting Netflix this week is the limited series, BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR (Netflix), starring Rosa Salazar, Eric Lange, and Catherine Keener. The tagline is: “Lisa Nova (Rosa Salazar) comes to LA dead set on directing her first movie. But when she trusts the wrong person and gets stabbed in the back, everything goes sideways and a dream project turns into a nightmare. This particular nightmare has zombies, hit men, supernatural kittens, and a mysterious tattoo artist who likes to put curses on people. And Lisa’s going to have to figure out some secrets from her own past in order to get out alive.”
Also, TITANS Season 3 debuts on HBO Max, but since I haven’t watched seasons 1 or 2 yet, it might be some time before I get to it.
Next week looks like it could be a bit of a dog with four or five new wide releases but nothing that really jumps out, plus I’ll be in Atlantic City all next weekend, so who knows how much I’ll be able to watch or write about?
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Azumarill (Pokémon) From Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia. For Pokémon GO information on this species, see the game's section. ← Marill #183: Marill Pokémon #185: Sudowoodo Sudowoodo → Azumarill Aqua Rabbit Pokémon マリルリ Marilli #184 Azumarill Images on the Bulbagarden Archives Type Water Fairy Abilities Thick Fat or Huge Power Sap Sipper Hidden Ability Gender ratio 50% male, 50% female Catch rate 75 (9.8%) Breeding Egg Groups Water 1 and Fairy Hatch time 2570 - 2826 steps Height 2'07" 0.8 m Weight 62.8 lbs. 28.5 kg Regional numbers Pokédex #133 Johto #057 Hoenn #126 Sinnoh #032 Unova Central #043 Kalos Browser R-020/N-124 Oblivia Base experience yield 153 Gen. II-IV 189 V+ Leveling rate Fast EV yield Total: 3 3 HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed Body style Body06.png Footprint F184.png Pokédex color Blue Base friendship 70 External Links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII On Eevee's Pokédex Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives Azumarill (Japanese: マリルリ Marilli) is a dual-type Water/Fairy Pokémon introduced in Generation II. Prior to Generation VI, it was a pure Water-type Pokémon. It evolves from Marill starting at level 18. It is the final form of Azurill. Contents 1 Biology 2 In the anime 2.1 Major appearances 2.2 Minor appearances 2.3 Pokédex entries 3 In the manga 3.1 In the Magical Pokémon Journey manga 3.2 In the Pokémon Adventures manga 4 In the TCG 5 Game data 5.1 NPC appearances 5.2 Pokédex entries 5.3 Game locations 5.3.1 In side games 5.4 Stats 5.4.1 Base stats 5.4.1.1 Generation II-V 5.4.1.2 Generation VI onward 5.4.2 Pokéathlon stats 5.5 Type effectiveness 5.6 Learnset 5.6.1 By leveling up 5.6.2 By TM/HM 5.6.3 By breeding 5.6.4 By tutoring 5.6.5 By a prior evolution 5.7 Side game data 5.8 Evolution 5.9 Sprites 6 Trivia 6.1 Origin 6.1.1 Name origin 7 In other languages 8 Related articles 9 External links Biology Azumarill is a blue, bipedal Pokémon that has an ovoid body. The lower half of its body is white with a white, bubble-like pattern above it, which helps to camouflage it in water. It has elongated, rabbit-like ears with red insides and circular eyes. When in the water, it rolls up its ears to prevent the insides from becoming wet. Its arms and feet are short with rounded ends and no discernible digits. It has a black zigzagging tail with a blue, bubble-like tip. Azumarill has highly developed hearing that allows it to hear distances, even when it is underwater. By keeping still and listening closely, it can identity prey even in wild, fast-moving rivers. If Azumarill spots a drowning Pokémon, it will make a balloon out of air. It lives in rivers and lakes, and can live in the water all day long. In the anime Azumarill in the anime Major appearances Azumarill debuted in Love, Totodile Style, under the ownership of Trixie. A female one was used in a circus, and Ash's Totodile developed a crush on her. However, the Azumarill already had a boyfriend of sorts: a Golduck. An Azumarill is one of the friends of the Pichu Brothers. It appeared in Trouble in Big Town, Of Meowth and Pokémon (Part 1), Big Meowth, Little Dreams, and Pichu Bros. in Party Panic. It also made a cameo appearance in Giratina and the Sky Warrior. An Azumarill appeared in Tie One On!, where Jackson used it against Ash in the Silver Conference. Paul used an Azumarill in his battle at the Oreburgh Gym in Shapes of Things to Come to Roark's Geodude. However, it lost and Paul gave it away to a passing Trainer. An Azumarill appeared in PK13, in which it was about to perform a song in the Summer Festival before a wild Skarmory kidnapped it. An Azumarill appeared in The Pirates of Decolore!. It was a powerful and eager member of Croconaw's pirate gang, who had no problems with stealing food from humans. It battled Ash's Snivy and Pignite alongside Croconaw but was defeated. However, it did assist in the rescue of the Darumaka before happily joining Officer Jenny. Minor appearances An Azumarill was one of the Pokémon living at Temacu's father's lab in The Heartbreak of Brock. An Azumarill appeared in The Big Balloon Blow-Up, where it competed alongside its Trainer in the Pokémon Balloon Race. An Azumarill appeared in Dueling Heroes. An Azumarill was seen at a Pokémon Center in The Legend of Thunder!. An Azumarill appeared in Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias, where it was used by a competitor in the Tour de Alto Mare. A star Azumarill was brought to sing to all the Pokémon at Pikachu's Summer Festival. An Azumarill appeared in A Ruin with a View. A Trainer's Azumarill appeared in Off the Unbeaten Path, where it was participating in the Pokémon Orienteering. An Azumarill along with an Azurill and a Marill made a cameo in the beginning of Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea under the control of Solana's Capture Styler where they put out a fire in a forest. An Azumarill appeared in The Rise of Darkrai, along with a Marill and Azurill. An Azumarill appeared in One Team, Two Team, Red Team, Blue Team!, where it was used by a student of Pokémon Summer Academy in the second leg of the Pokémon Triathlon. An Azumarill appeared in To Thine Own Pokémon Be True!. An Azumarill made a brief appearance in An Old Family Blend!, under the ownership of a Trainer competing in the Lily of the Valley Conference. An Azumarill appeared alongside an Azurill and Marill in Zoroark: Master of Illusions. An Azumarill appeared in Mewtwo — Prologue to Awakening. Two Azumarill appeared in Kalos, Where Dreams and Adventures Begin!. An Azumarill appeared in Lumiose City Pursuit!. A Trainer's Azumarill appeared in Mega Evolution Special III. An Azumarill appeared in A Fashionable Battle!, under the ownership of a Furisode Girl. An Azumarill appeared in Hoopa — The Mischief Pokémon. Three Azumarill appeared in Pikachu and the Pokémon Music Squad. A Trainer's Azumarill appeared in A Performance Pop Quiz!. An Azumarill appeared in Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel. Pokédex entries Episode Pokémon Source Entry EP153 Azumarill Ash's Pokédex Azumarill, the Aqua Rabbit Pokémon. The evolved form of Marill. This Pokémon uses its large, highly developed ears to hear great distances, even underwater. This concludes the entries from the original series. Episode Pokémon Source Entry DP015 Azumarill Dawn's Pokédex Azumarill, the Aqua Rabbit Pokémon. Azumarill lives in rivers and lakes, and while in water its body color and pattern confuses its enemies. This concludes the entries from the Diamond & Pearl series. In the manga Azumarill in Pokémon Adventures In the Magical Pokémon Journey manga Main article: Madam Azumarill Madam Azumarill is a ninja master and Apricot and Marimaru's teacher in the ninja arts. She is also Marimaru's mother. In the Pokémon Adventures manga Azumarill debuts in Forretress of Solitude where it was used to battle Red in his aptitude test to be the Gym Leader of Viridian City. Azumarill appears in Absolutely Azumarill, being chased by Crystal's mother, Mirei. In Fortunately for Feraligatr, Mirei was seen with an Azumarill in her possession, though whether it is the same individual as the one she chased after previously is unknown. Matt uses an Azumarill in VS. Azumarill I and VS. Azumarill II in an attempt to drown both Sapphire and Flannery in the cable car of Mt. Chimney. An Azumarill appeared in a fantasy in Pinsir Me, I Must Be Dreaming. In Weavile Wobbles But It Won't Fall Down, a Trainer at the Safari Zone owns one. An Azumarill appears with its Trainer at the Mini-game Corner in the X & Y chapter. In the TCG Main article: Azumarill (TCG) Game data NPC appearances Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity: Azumarill is the Pokémon in charge of the Request Counter, where job requests can be accepted and canceled. Pokédex entries This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation II. Generation II Gold By keeping still and listening intently, it can tell what is in even wild, fast-moving rivers. Silver When it plays in water, it rolls up its elongated ears to prevent their insides from getting wet. Crystal The bubble-like pattern on its stomach helps it camouflage itself when it's in the water. Stadium 2 By keeping still and listening intently, it can tell what is in even wild, fast-moving rivers. Generation III Ruby Azumarill's long ears are indispensable sensors. By focusing its hearing, this Pokémon can identify what kinds of prey are around, even in rough and fast-running rivers. Sapphire Azumarill can make balloons out of air. It makes these air balloons if it spots a drowning Pokémon. The air balloons enable the Pokémon in trouble to breathe. Emerald It lives in water virtually all day long. Its body color and pattern act as camouflage that makes it tough for enemies to spot in water. FireRed When it plays in water, it rolls up its elongated ears to prevent their insides from getting wet. LeafGreen By keeping still and listening intently, it can even tell what is in wild, fast-moving rivers. Generation IV Diamond It lives in rivers and lakes. In water, its coloring and patterns trick the vision of foes. Pearl Its long ears are superb sensors. It can distinguish the movements of living things on riverbeds. Platinum It can spend all day in water, since it can inhale and store a large volume of air. HeartGold By keeping still and listening intently, it can tell what is in even wild, fast-moving rivers. SoulSilver When it plays in water, it rolls up its elongated ears to prevent their insides from getting wet. Generation V Black It can spend all day in water, since it can inhale and store a large volume of air. White Black 2 Its long ears are superb sensors. It can distinguish the movements of things in water and tell what they are. White 2 Generation VI X Its long ears are superb sensors. It can distinguish the movements of living things on riverbeds. Y The bubble-like pattern on its stomach helps it camouflage itself when it's in the water. Omega Ruby Azumarill's long ears are indispensable sensors. By focusing its hearing, this Pokémon can identify what kinds of prey are around, even in rough and fast-running rivers. Alpha Sapphire Azumarill can make balloons out of air. It makes these air balloons if it spots a drowning Pokémon. The air balloons enable the Pokémon in trouble to breathe. Game locations This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation II. Generation II Gold Silver Evolve Marill Crystal Evolve Marill Generation III Ruby Sapphire Evolve Marill Emerald Evolve Marill FireRed Trade LeafGreen Evolve Marill Colosseum Trade XD Trade Generation IV Diamond Pearl Evolve Marill Platinum Victory Road HeartGold SoulSilver Evolve Marill Pal Park Pond Generation V Black Trade White Evolve Marill Black 2 White 2 Routes 6, 11, 20, and 22, Village Bridge, Abundant Shrine, Floccesy Ranch, Pinwheel Forest, Victory Road*, Relic Passage (Surfing in rippling water) Routes 6, 11, and 22, Village Bridge, Abundant Shrine (Rustling grass) Generation VI X Y Route 22, Friend Safari (Water) Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire Routes 102, 111, 114, 117, 120, and 123, Petalburg City (Surfing) Generation VII Sun Moon Evolve Marill In side games This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation II. Generation II This Pokémon is unavailable in Generation II side games. Generation III Channel Cobalt CoastMorning, Camp StarlightFr Pinball: R&S Evolve Marill Trozei! Secret Storage 12, Mr. Who's Den MD Red MD Blue Evolve Marill Generation IV MD Time MD Darkness Blizzard Island (1F-20F), Crevice Cave (B1-B10, Lower Crevice Cave B1-B4), Mt. Avalanche (B1-B19) MD Sky Blizzard Island (1F-20F), Crevice Cave (B1-B10, Lower Crevice Cave B1-B4), Mt. Avalanche (B1-B19) MD Stormy Evolve Marill Ranger: GS Silver Falls Generation V Rumble Blast Lake: Sun-Dappled Bank MD GTI Silent Tundra (B1-B26), Dreamy Island (1F-25F), Moonlit Forest (Golden Chamber), Cape at the Edge (B1-B29), Magnagate dungeons Rumble U Aquatic Hill: The Colorful Park Generation VI Battle Trozei Safari Jungle: Stage 3Sa Shuffle Sweet Strasse: Stage 76 Rumble World Ruby Volcano: Lake of Tranquility (Center Boss, Back) Super MD Serene Village Café Connection Stats Base stats Generation II-V Stat Range At Lv. 50 At Lv. 100 HP: 100 160 - 207 310 - 404 Attack: 50 49 - 112 94 - 218 Defense: 80 76 - 145 148 - 284 Sp.Atk: 50 49 - 112 94 - 218 Sp.Def: 80 76 - 145 148 - 284 Speed: 50 49 - 112 94 - 218 Total: 410 Other Pokémon with this total Minimum stats are calculated with 0 EVs, IVs of 0, and a hindering nature, if applicable. Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, IVs of 31, and a helpful nature, if applicable. Generation VI onward Stat Range At Lv. 50 At Lv. 100 HP: 100 160 - 207 310 - 404 Attack: 50 49 - 112 94 - 218 Defense: 80 76 - 145 148 - 284 Sp.Atk: 60 58 - 123 112 - 240 Sp.Def: 80 76 - 145 148 - 284 Speed: 50 49 - 112 94 - 218 Total: 420 Other Pokémon with this total Minimum stats are calculated with 0 EVs, IVs of 0, and a hindering nature, if applicable. Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, IVs of 31, and a helpful nature, if applicable. Pokéathlon stats Speed 2/3 ★★☆ Power 5/5 ★★★★★ Skill 3/3 ★★★ Stamina 3/4 ★★★☆ Jump 2/2 ★★ Total 15/17 ★★★ Type effectiveness Under normal battle conditions in Generation VII, this Pokémon is: Damaged normally by: Normal 1× Flying 1× Ground 1× Rock 1× Ghost 1× Steel 1× Psychic 1× Fairy 1× Weak to: Poison 2× Grass 2× Electric 2× Immune to: Dragon 0× Resistant to: Fighting ½× Bug ½× Fire ½× Water ½× Ice ½× Dark ½× Notes: If this Pokémon is given a Ring Target, the effectiveness of Dragon-type moves is 1×. If this Pokémon has Thick Fat, the effectiveness of Fire-type moves is ¼× and the effectiveness of Ice-type moves is ¼×. If this Pokémon has Sap Sipper, the effectiveness of Grass-type moves is 0×. Due to the conversion to Fairy-type , the effectiveness of Steel-type moves was ½×, and Dragon-type , Dark-type , Fighting-type , Bug-type and Poison-type moves were 1×. prior to Generation VI. Learnset By leveling up Generation VII Other generations: II - III - IV - V - VI Level Move Type Cat. Pwr. Acc. PP 1 Tackle Normal Physical 40 100% 35 1 Tail Whip Normal Status — 100% 30 1 Water Gun Water Special 40 100% 25 1 Water Sport Water Status — —% 15 2 Tail Whip Normal Status — 100% 30 5 Water Sport Water Status — —% 15 7 Bubble Water Special 40 100% 30 10 Defense Curl Normal Status — —% 40 10 Rollout Rock Physical 30 90% 20 13 Bubble Beam Water Special 65 100% 20 16 Helping Hand Normal Status — —% 20 21 Aqua Tail Water Physical 90 90% 10 25 Play Rough Fairy Physical 90 90% 10 31 Aqua Ring Water Status — —% 20 35 Rain Dance Water Status — —% 5 42 Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100% 15 46 Superpower Fighting Physical 120 100% 5 55 Hydro Pump Water Special 110 80% 5 Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Azumarill Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Azumarill Click on the generation numbers at the top to see level-up moves from other generations By TM/HM Generation VII Other generations: II - III - IV - V - VI TM Move Type Cat. Pwr. Acc. PP Bag TM Normal VI Sprite.png TM01 Work Up Normal Status — —% 30 Bag TM Poison VI Sprite.png TM06 Toxic Poison Status — 90% 10 Bag TM Ice VI Sprite.png TM07 Hail Ice Status — —% 10 Bag TM Normal VI Sprite.png TM10 Hidden Power Normal Special 60 100% 15 Bag TM Ice VI Sprite.png TM13 Ice Beam Ice Special 90 100% 10 Bag TM Ice VI Sprite.png TM14 Blizzard Ice Special 110 70% 5 Bag TM Normal VI Sprite.png TM15 Hyper Beam Normal Special 150 90% 5 Bag TM Psychic VI Sprite.png TM16 Light Screen Psychic Status — —% 30 Bag TM Normal VI Sprite.png TM17 Protect Normal Status — —% 10 Bag TM Water VI Sprite.png TM18 Rain Dance Water Status — —% 5 Bag TM Normal VI Sprite.png TM21 Frustration Normal Physical — 100% 20 Bag TM Normal VI Sprite.png TM27 Return Normal Physical — 100% 20 Bag TM Fighting VI Sprite.png TM31 Brick Break Fighting Physical 75 100% 15 Bag TM Normal VI Sprite.png TM32 Double Team Normal Status — —% 15 Bag TM Normal VI Sprite.png TM42 Facade Normal Physical 70 100% 20 Bag TM Psychic VI Sprite.png TM44 Rest Psychic Status — —% 10 Bag TM Normal VI Sprite.png TM45 Attract Normal Status — 100% 15 Bag TM Normal VI Sprite.png TM48 Round Normal Special 60 100% 15 Bag TM Fighting VI Sprite.png TM52 Focus Blast Fighting Special 120 70% 5 Bag TM Water VI Sprite.png TM55 Scald Water Special 80 100% 15 Bag TM Dark VI Sprite.png TM56 Fling Dark Physical — 100% 10 Bag TM Normal VI Sprite.png TM68 Giga Impact Normal Physical 150 90% 5 Bag TM Ground VI Sprite.png TM78 Bulldoze Ground Physical 60 100% 20 Bag TM Grass VI Sprite.png TM86 Grass Knot Grass Special — 100% 20 Bag TM Normal VI Sprite.png TM87 Swagger Normal Status — 85% 15 Bag TM Normal VI Sprite.png TM88 Sleep Talk Normal Status — —% 10 Bag TM Normal VI Sprite.png TM90 Substitute Normal Status — —% 10 Bag TM Water VI Sprite.png TM94 Surf Water Special 90 100% 15 Bag TM Water VI Sprite.png TM98 Waterfall Water Physical 80 100% 15 Bag TM Normal VI Sprite.png TM100 Confide Normal Status — —% 20 Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Azumarill Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Azumarill Click on the generation numbers at the top to see TM moves from other generations By breeding Generation VII Other generations: II - III - IV - V - VI Parent Move Type Cat. Pwr. Acc. PP PsyduckGolduckSlowpokeSlowbroWooperQuagsire GorebyssBidoofBibarel Amnesia Psychic Status — —% 20 GolduckSeelDewgongKabutoKabutopsSurskit EmpoleonBibarelBuizelFloatzelTirtougaCarracosta AlomomolaClauncherClawitzerPopplioBrionnePrimarina Aqua Jet Water Physical 40 100% 20 Poliwhirl Belly Drum Normal Status — —% 10 ClefairyJigglypuffPoliwagPoliwhirlLaprasSpheal SealeoWalreinShellosGastrodon Body Slam Normal Physical 85 100% 15 StunfiskSkrelpDragalge Camouflage Normal Status — —% 20 SkittyPlusleMinun Copycat† Normal Status — —% 20 ClefairySeelDewgongTogeticPlusleMinun SphealSealeoWalrein Encore† Normal Status — 100% 5 MawilePlusleMinunSwirlixSlurpuff Fake Tears† Dark Status — 100% 20 PsyduckSlowpokeLaprasTogeticDelibirdCastform Future Sight* Psychic Special 120 100% 10 WooperQuagsireMarshtompSwampertShellosGastrodon TympolePalpitoadSeismitoadStunfiskClauncherClawitzer Muddy Water Water Special 90 85% 10 LaprasPolitoed Perish Song Normal Status — —% 5 Delibird Present Normal Physical — 90% 15 CorsolaMiloticAudino Refresh Normal Status — —% 20 ClefairyClefableJigglypuffWigglytuffLaprasSkitty DelcattyPopplioBrionnePrimarina Sing† Normal Status — 55% 15 PikachuDratiniDragonairDragoniteMarillWooper Quagsire Slam† Normal Physical 80 75% 20 PsyduckGolduckRemoraidOctilleryPelipperAlomomola Soak† Water Status — 100% 20 TotodileCroconawFeraligatrMarillAzumarillBidoof BibarelInkayMalamar Superpower Fighting Physical 120 100% 5 MantineWingullPelipperTympolePalpitoadSeismitoad Supersonic Normal Status — 55% 20 OmanyteOmastar Tickle† Normal Status — 100% 20 PsyduckGolduckPoliwagPoliwhirlSeelMarill AzumarillLombrePelipperSurskitMasquerainMilotic GorebyssPiplupPrinplupBuizelFloatzelDucklett SwannaAlomomolaClauncherClawitzerDewpiderPyukumuku Water Sport Water Status — —% 15 Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must be chain bred onto Azumarill in Generation VII Moves marked with a dagger (†) can only be bred onto Azumarill if it hatches as an Azurill, and cannot be obtained otherwise. Moves marked with a double dagger (‡) can only be bred from a Pokémon who learned the move in an earlier generation. Moves marked with a superscript game abbreviation can only be bred onto Azumarill in that game. Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Azumarill Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Azumarill Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Egg moves from other generations By tutoring Generation VII Other generations: II - III - IV - V - VI Game Move Type Cat. Pwr. Acc. PP S M US UM Aqua Tail Water Physical 90 90% 10 S M US UM Bounce Flying Physical 85 85% 5 S M US UM Covet Normal Physical 60 100% 25 S M US UM Focus Punch Fighting Physical 150 100% 20 S M US UM Helping Hand Normal Status — —% 20 S M US UM Hyper Voice Normal Special 90 100% 10 S M US UM Ice Punch Ice Physical 75 100% 15 S M US UM Icy Wind Ice Special 55 95% 15 S M US UM Iron Tail Steel Physical 100 75% 15 S M US UM Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100% 20 S M US UM Liquidation Water Physical 85 100% 10 S M US UM Snore Normal Special 50 100% 15 S M US UM Superpower Fighting Physical 120 100% 5 S M US UM Water Pulse Water Special 60 100% 20 A black or white abbreviation in a colored box indicates that Azumarill can be tutored the move in that game A colored abbreviation in a white box indicates that Azumarill cannot be tutored the move in that game Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Azumarill Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Azumarill Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Move Tutor moves from other generations By a prior evolution Generation VII Other generations: II - III - IV - V - VI Stage Move Type Cat. Pwr. Acc. PP 298 Splash Normal Status — —% 40 298 Charm Fairy Status — 100% 20 298 Slam Normal Physical 80 75% 20 298 BounceSM Flying Physical 85 85% 5 Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Azumarill Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an evolution of Azumarill Click on the generation numbers at the top to see moves from other generations Side game data Pokémon Pinball RS PinRS184.png Acquisition: Evolve Pokémon Trozei! Trozeiani184.png Rarity: Rare Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team MDP184.png Body size: 1 Recruit rate: Evolve Friend Area: Turtleshell Pond Phrases 51%-100% HP My ears can pick up the sound of a pin dropping far away! 26%-50% HP Why is my health down to half already? 1%-25% HP I'm falling... My ears are failing me... Level up Yep! There's my level! I'll pick up the pace! Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness, and Explorers of Sky MDP184.png Body size: 1 Recruit rate: 0.5% IQ group: D Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs Group: Water Poké Assist: (present) Water Assist.png Water Field move: (present) Soak 2 field move.png (Soak ×2) Poké Assist: (past) Water Assist.png Water Field move: (past) Soak 1 field move.png (Soak ×1) Browser entry It attacks by spitting bubbles that make Pokémon Slowed. Pokémon Rumble Blast Attack ● Defense ●●● Speed ●●● Pokémon Battle Trozei Fairy Attack Power: ★★★★★ BT184.png Pokémon Shuffle None.png Fairy None.png Attack Power: 60 - 120 Raise Max Level.png 10 #060 Shuffle184.png Opportunist Rarely, attacks can deal greater damage than usual. Skill Swapper: Risk-Taker Pokémon GO GO184.png Base Stamina: 200 Base Attack: 112 Base Defense: 152 Egg Distance: N/A Buddy Distance: 3 km Evolution Requirement: N/A Fast Attacks: Rock Smash, Bubble Special Attacks: Play Rough, Hydro Pump, Ice Beam Evolution 298Azurill.png Baby form Azurill Normal Fairy Sea Incense Breed holding Sea Incense ← Soothe Bell Friendship → 183Marill.png First evolution Marill Water Fairy Rare Candy Level 18 → 184Azumarill.png Second evolution Azumarill Water Fairy Sprites This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation II. Generation II Gold Silver Crystal Spr 2g 184.png Spr b 2g 184.png Spr 2s 184.png Spr b 2g 184.png Spr 2c 184.png Spr b 2g 184.png Spr 2g 184 s.png Spr b 2g 184 s.png Spr 2s 184 s.png Spr b 2g 184 s.png Spr 2c 184 s.png Spr b 2g 184 s.png Front Back Front Back Front Back Generation III Ruby Sapphire Emerald FireRed LeafGreen Spr 3r 184.png Spr b 3r 184.png Spr 3e 184.png Spr b 3r 184.png Spr 3r 184.png Spr b 3r 184.png Spr 3r 184 s.png Spr b 3r 184 s.png Spr 3e 184 s.png Spr b 3r 184 s.png Spr 3r 184 s.png Spr b 3r 184 s.png Front Back Front Back Front Back Generation IV Diamond Pearl Platinum HeartGold SoulSilver Spr 4d 184.png Spr b 4d 184.png Spr 4p 184.png Spr b 4p 184.png Spr 4h 184.png Spr b 4h 184.png Spr 4d 184 s.png Spr b 4d 184 s.png Spr 4p 184 s.png Spr b 4p 184 s.png Spr 4h 184 s.png Spr b 4p 184 s.png Front Back Front Back Front Back Generation V Black White Black 2 White 2 Spr 5b 184.png Spr b 5b 184.png Spr 5b 184.png Spr b 5b 184.png Spr 5b 184 s.png Spr b 5b 184 s.png Spr 5b 184 s.png Spr b 5b 184 s.png Front Back Front Back Generation VI X Y Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire Spr 6x 184.png Spr b 6x 184.png Spr 6x 184.png Spr b 6x 184.png Spr 6x 184 s.png Spr b 6x 184 s.png Spr 6x 184 s.png Spr b 6x 184 s.png Front Back Front Back Generation VII Sun Moon Ultra Sun Ultra Moon Spr 7s 184.png Spr b 7s 184.png Spr 7s 184.png Spr b 7s 184.png Spr 7s 184 s.png Spr b 7s 184 s.png Spr 7s 184 s.png Spr b 7s 184 s.png Front Back Front Back 184MS.png For other sprites and images, please see Azumarill images on the Bulbagarden Archives. Trivia In Generation V, Azumarill and Marill are the only Pokémon that can have the Electric type as their sole weakness. This is because of their Hidden Ability Sap Sipper. Azumarill is the only member of its evolutionary line that was not publicly revealed prior to the generation it debuted in. Origin It may be based on a combination of a rabbit and a beach ball or possibly a personal flotation device or lifebuoy. It could be also possibly based on the swamp rabbits, which have a strong preference for wet areas (such as cypress swamps, marshland, floodplain, and river tributaries) and that will take to the water and swim. Azumarill's water-like splash pattern may reflect from the camouflage of Countershading of aquatic animals such as sharks and penguins, being that they have a dark coloration on top to match the dark water underneath and a white coloration on their under to match the sunlight from above. Name origin Azumarill is a combination of azure (a shade of blue) or azul (Spanish and Portuguese for blue), Marill, and possibly rill (a small river or brook) Marilli may be a combination of 丸い marui (round or circular) or 鞠 mari (ball) and 瑠璃 ruri (lapis lazuli). In other languages Language Title Meaning Japan Flag.png Japanese マリルリ Marilli From 丸い marui (round or circular), 鞠 mari (ball) and 瑠璃 ruri (lapis lazuli) France Flag.png French Azumarill Same as English name Spain Flag.png Spanish Azumarill Same as English name Germany Flag.png German Azumarill Same as English name Italy Flag.png Italian Azumarill Same as English name South Korea Flag.png Korean 마릴리 Marilly Transliteration of its Japanese name Hong Kong Flag.png Cantonese Chinese 馬利露麗 Máhleihlouhlaih Mandarin-based transliteration of its Japanese name. Also contains 露 louh China and Taiwan Flags.png Mandarin Chinese 瑪力露麗 / 玛力露丽 Mǎlìlùlì Transliteration of its Japanese name. Also contains 露 lù More languages India Flag.png Hindi अजुमेरिल Azumarill Transcription of English name Russia Flag.png Russian Азумарилл Azumarill Transcription of English name Related articles Madam Azumarill Azumarill (Gates to Infinity) External links ← Marill #183: Marill Pokémon #185: Sudowoodo Sudowoodo → Project Pokédex logo.png This Pokémon article is part of Project Pokédex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon as a species. Pokémon news from Bulbanews Dec 7 Generation III Pokémon, weather coming to Pokémon GO: To be available this week... Dec 7 Ryan Reynolds cast as title role in Detective Pikachu: To provide voice, motion ... Nov 28 Johto x Alola Competition announced: First Online Competition for Ultra Sun, Ult... Nov 28 Ho-Oh available in Pokémon GO until Dec. 12: To celebrate completion of Global C... Nov 26 Farfetch'd available worldwide in Pokémon GO for 48 hours: Kangaskhan available ... 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Strong, beefcake of a woman in front of him. So hard to contain himself, his tail could create a draft with how hard it was wagging.
"So....rumor has it, you're quite the feisty one. Bet you need someone that can handle being slammed down big style, and bounce back to take it again. I can feel the sparks in the air....never tested my voltage limit, but I'm always up for something new, if you catch my drift."
Even though nothing was happening, his body was reacting just to the potent energy of the tenrec, preemptively regenerating. "There's other rumors that I'm curious if they're true."
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Hi r/startups! This is a 1,600 word blog post I wrote on my experience finding a technical co-founder, going full time on my startup, and pivoting. I've formatted it for Reddit below, but there's a much better reading experience available on Medium.On the hunt for a technical co-founderIt had been two months since our October launch and Dovetail had 200 users, of which 20% were active each week running real studies. This felt like good traction at the time but I still had 99 problems. I needed to restart the app every 6 hours due to a memory leak and the scheduling system was unreliable during restarts since it wasn’t idempotent.The MVP was built by a Polish agency, so I hired them once again before a holiday to the US. I couldn’t get the original developers and ended up with another developer who quit the agency one week into my project (unrelated to me!). The whole project dragged on as the client manager tried to find someone else to complete the work. Meanwhile, I was debugging a memory leak in code I could hardly read without the people who wrote it around to help. I spent parts of my holiday debugging and I eventually figured it out. The leak had a simple fix after a lot of investigation: the library that inlined CSS for emails was caching the entire application’s CSS. The fix was splitting the email CSS into a separate stylesheet.I got back to Sydney and decided this would be the last time I outsourced development. Outsourcing might work to build a simple MVP to validate your idea and the market demand, but to move forward I needed someone who could architect the code, do the bulk of the development, and stick around to help when things got hairy. I needed a technical co-founder, and I made that my main goal heading into the new year.By this point I had been pestering Brad for several months. Thankfully my refined pitch, the traction Dovetail had from launch, and the positive customer reception was enough to convince him to join as a co-founder. We had a lot of discussions about how we would work together. If I were to summarise the ‘ideal co-founder relationship’ in bullet points, I’d say:Complimentary skills. Development is just one aspect of a startup. Someone has to design the product, run marketing, customer support, keep track of expenses, apply for grants, talk with investors, do customer research, etc. Complimentary skills enable Brad and I to run fast.High trust and respect. One of us will be the ‘expert’ and the other person just has to trust the expert. I need to trust Brad with technical decisions, likewise, he has to trust me with design decisions. Of course we have sparring and discuss things in detail, but because we move quickly we don’t spend too long on trivial decisions. The relevant person makes the call and we move on.Similar experience levels. One person feeling like they are the ‘noob’ all the time isn’t healthy. Brad and I are the same age and we’ve been in the workforce for a similar amount of time. We’ve both got 8 years of Atlassian experience between us on a variety of teams.Compatible personalities. You will be spending an insane amount of time with each other, so you must get along. At the moment I spend more time with Brad than I do with Lucy.Going full timeBrad and I were still working full time and coding Dovetail in the evenings and on weekends. As I talked with more customers, I became more confident and excited about the opportunity for better software in the research space, but it was clear we needed to give Dovetail our fullest attention to have a chance at success.After four years of putting in 110%, I was burned out from Atlassian. At the end of (Australian) summer I took two months off work. I needed a break, but I also wanted to see whether I would go crazy working at home. I didn’t. In fact it was pretty awesome. At the end of this mini sabbatical it was clear my passion had shifted to Dovetail and the decision to leave Atlassian was tough. I was certain I wanted to try and ‘bootstrap’ instead of taking investment, so obviously a lot of considerations were financial.We did a lot of due diligence before making the final decision to leave our paying jobs. We see Dovetail as a financial investment but also an investment in ourselves. We’re both ready for different challenges and we’re in a stage of our lives where we can take risks. Brad and I looked at our expenses, talked about ‘salary’ expectations, and ran some exercises to check we were on the same page. In one exercise we each described Dovetail in three years and compared. For me, it was critical we both had the same expectations — the last thing you want is one founder imagining a ‘lifestyle business’ and the other dreaming of a billion-dollar IPO.A successful startup is the result of making informed decisions, not counting on luck. We had just launched pricing, so I forecasted how many customers we would need to break even. This information plus our growth rate gave me the numbers I needed to model our runway based off an initial investment Brad and I put in. I had worked on Dovetail myself for a few months before Brad joined, so I looked at how much time I had invested and multiplied that by the market rate for a senior designer in Sydney. Brad would invest the same ‘seed’ as me plus extra to make up for that time spent. We each own 50% of Dovetail.Once thing we’ve learned is that researchers do not run diary studies very frequently. Customers sign up to a paid plan for the duration of their study, then cancel once it finishes. Brad and I decided to go back to the drawing board and start working on features that encouraged repeat use. We needed to expand beyond the diary studies MVP I created with the outsourcing agency, and into a product that solves more common researcher problems.Reality checkI dislike the word pivot. It often has negative connotations (“oh, you didn’t get it right the first time around?”), and the reality is that startups are always pivoting anyway. You never get it right the first time. One huge benefit of a startup is that you are extremely agile and can pivot all the time if you haven’t found product-market fit. Also, its definition is unclear—you can ‘pivot’ the core feature set or marketing message dozens of times while continuing to target the same problem space. Is that a pivot?In saying all of this, I had gone down the diary studies rabbit hole and lost sight of our mission statement. Brad, with somewhat of a fresh perspective, convinced me we needed to evolve into something that researchers could use more than a few times a year. Ideally every day. We scheduled a bunch of customer interviews to help us figure out what that looks like, and for the past few weeks I’ve been sharing sketches and designs with our customers to see what they think.It’s possible we could double down on diary studies and eventually become profitable. I don’t think we would be very profitable, and that journey would be tough. So we’re pivoting the feature set while still going after the same general problem space of qualitative research.Moving to a new stackAs part of this new work, we’re taking the opportunity to incrementally rewrite the original outsourced code. Ruby on Rails was great at getting us where we are, but the new features we’re building demand a more modern stack, particularly on the frontend. Real time collaboration and a single page app with no page refreshes are two features people take for granted.The temptation to rewrite everything is strong, but stupid. We’d spend our whole runway rewriting code and not moving forward. We won’t move off Rails completely any time soon. Instead we’re slowly replacing components and services with React, Node, and GraphQL. It’s exciting, I’m personally learning a lot, and our frontend is much happier with the modularity and reusability that React brings to the table.We’re working to get a usable alpha of our new stuff out the door as quickly as possible, while making technical decisions that help us speed up development and build experiences people will love. We hope to launch our new version of Dovetail over the next couple of months. Stay tuned because I think you’re going to love it.Original post on Medium
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😰Turuiemon and your bunny
(hopefully I'm interpreting this correctly)
Ruby definitely gave it a moment of silent watching, just enjoying the view before speaking up. "I hope you're thinking about someone as cute as I am while going at it like that~"
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"Someone is horny"
"I'm always horny, but I've got a particular desire right now."
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Ruby could smell the scent of musk in the air, someone was going at it. Wagging his tail, he searched around until he happened upon Oli. "Need help?"
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Stud spotted.
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"Hey look, it's a pervert."
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