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yunietunie · 8 months

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Silent Treatment

(nsfw)

a/n: i had a lot of fun writing this one. It was one of my older ones.

The days are long, the days are hard. A softer side from Simon switched to a rougher one when silent treatment was given.

f!reader, smut, MDNI, 18+, boyfriend!simon, pnv, unprotected!sex, established relationship.

Simon. The man was too enveloped in his work. It concerned you, yes, but it was his job after all. Sure you two were in the same unit but because of him and his work, it left you hardly any time together. If there was time, it’d be talking about something that frustrated either of you because of work.

“Si, you said you had the day off today.” You said to him sternly as he arrived home late once again. His eyes shifted to the clock on the wall in your shared apartment living room.

“It’s 2 am, why are you still awake? Don't you have an early shift?” Simon would ask as he tossed his bag to the floor before beginning to take off his boots. You rolled your eyes as he avoided your comment. You were sat down on the couch with the TV playing one of your shows. You turned your gaze towards it, avoiding his question in return, a slight huff.

An audible groan was given from him as he got up from the foot bench and headed towards the couch where you sat comfortably in your pout.

“Look, I'm sorry. I was asked to come in and you know how old man is.” The Brit said as he sat down next to you, attempting to grab your attention. You weren’t giving it to him. You remained drained of any conversation as you sat there, angrily.

“Silent treatment, huh?” Simon would say as he raised an eyebrow after taking off his infamous mask. He’d prefer it off around you, separating your time with him and work, the way he liked it. The way you liked it. He Kept staring at you from across the couch as your irises were still on the screen, ignoring him.

His jaw tensed. He hated the silent treatment, he hated that more than anything, especially after a long day of work. He moved over next to you on the couch, his hand resting on your upper thigh as his gaze still refused to look away from you. He was giving you a warning to speak up, to say something, however you decided your tantrum needed to sizzle out. Nothing but the TV making noise throughout the room.

“Fine.” He grunted and his hand lifted from your thigh. He then turned off the TV which made your head whip over to him. Finally he had himself in your attention. In one swoop, he picked you up bridal style from the couch, turned off the living room lights and headed towards your shared bedroom.

An expression of bewilderment falling on your drowsy face before he placed you on the bed then put himself next to you. Hugging your body, making sure to keep you in place.

“I'm sorry. We can have tomorrow off.” He grumbled as he took in the scent of your hair, burrowing his nose into the back of your neck. You heaved an exhausted sigh to his sweet gesture. That was new.

“I have work tomorrow.” You reluctantly replied back to him. His arms wrapped around your waist as he spooned you from behind. He gave a huff to that comment, furrowing his brows.

“Tell them you’re sick.” He replied as his mouth found its way to your neck where he gave hot kisses.

“Si, I can’t just call out.” You replied once more, attempting to fight his kisses and touches.

“I'm your superior. And if Price has a problem with it, then oh well.” Simon purred in between kisses as his arms tightened around you, holding you as closely as possible. He was frustrated with the silent treatment in the beginning, now your resistance was adding more to it. He let it go, for now at least. Then, that’s when you felt it.

“Si, you’re poking me.” You said as you tried to turn your body towards him, but he refused to let you turn around. He didn’t stop placing small kisses on your neck, occasionally giving you some hickies to parade around. Simon’s hands slipped under your pajama shirt, gliding just over your chest. Making your body jolt instantly and the breath in your throat hitch. A pressure building in your lower stomach.

“Shhhhh.” He said in your ear before giving it a light nibble then moved back down to your neck. He was being touchy all of a sudden. Was it because of work? Something must’ve frustrated him. His hands roaming under your shirt, his hot lips on your sensitive neck and his cock poking you from behind.

His fingers found themselves on top of your already hard nipples. He pinched them just enough for your body to jolt again. Something he always loved, how all of his touches make your body have a reaction.

“Such good tits.” He said in an airy whisper in your ear again, making the knot in your lower stomach turn into a throbbing sensation. His hands leave them and brush the skin down to your waist, then your hips, and land on the outside of your thighs. He rubs the material of your shorts slightly. Building tension, being gentle, taking his time to touch and feel you with his textured hands.

“I’ve missed you. God, I missed touching you.” He added with a weary sigh. It was true, because of work you two had no time to do anything together. It was very nice. At least that's what the throbbing mess of a cunt you had would say. Every touch brings you closer to what you want to ask him to do to you. But before you could, Simon already had ideas.

“Can I?” Simon asked softly while already sliding off your shorts. Surprised to see that you were not wearing panties at all. A small smirk left on his lips, one of his hands leaving your thigh and cupping your ass.. You gave a small nod in response to his question. That was enough for him to unzip his jeans and take his member out.

He placed it between your inner thighs that were together, just right against your slick and needy folds. He was happy to see you already a mess without him doing much. He rocked his hips back and forth between your thighs and pussy, enjoying the moment.

This was a perfect stress reliever for him. Some sighs and groans would escape his throat, but he mostly kept his lips on your neck, slightly biting down on the supple flesh, leaving marks. A hand rested on your waist, another playing with your tit, his finger brushing against your hardened nipple as you two continued to lay on your sides.

“Mmm…” A hum from his throat as he continued to use your thighs for himself. He moves his hand from your waist down to your thigh where he squeezed gently.

Now faster, he moved his hips behind you, his breath picked up and became more rugged. But he didn’t know how much he could hold back any longer just fucking your thighs. Simon wanted you, more than anything, but if he were to have you, he wouldn’t be sure if he could stop. His warm lips never stopped leaving marks over your neck, branding you as his.

A few soft yet fast thrusts, he came on top of the bed sheets, his hips slowing down as he rode his orgasm out. Without warning, he flipped you onto your stomach, positioning himself on his knees behind you, between your now messy thighs.

“Please. Please let me feel you.” Simon would plead. The switch off in attitude was certainly something. He didn’t care about much of anything right now. You moved your head to the side from the pillow and your irises gave him permission. If they didn’t, your pussy certainly did. He put his weight on your back, a hand on your throat and an arm wrapped just below your breasts so that your lower torso was lifted a little, then he pushed himself inside you. Your ass makes contact with his hips, earning him a small mewl from your mouth.

He relished in the feeling of your walls getting used to his cock again, so he would stay with you in that moment for just a little bit. Simon wasn’t sure if he could be gentle with you, at least not right now. He needed it. He’s been away from your body for a while due to work, now he had you, and he was going to have you.

His hips began slapping against you, his thrusts at a fast pace, making your body shudder. Small pants would leave Simon’s mouth as he continued to use your body. However, he did make sure while he was fucking you, to keep you in mind. He’d probe his cock against your cervix while teasing your breast with the hand under them.

“Such a good girl, not so silent are we?” Simon teased in your ear as his thrusts pounded deeper into your body, penetrating you. You swear he was trying to split you open. You couldn’t think of what words to say as you were preoccupied with releasing whines, whimpers and moans to each of his movements.

Your back instinctively arches, your hips raised a little higher for him to bruise you more. He did just that, making sure to pump you full of his cock as he abused your body from the inside with it. This is what he missed. He missed you of course, but fucking your cunt was the top of his list if he had to admit it.

The pressure from his hand that was wrapped around your throat began to grow slightly, making your eye prickle with wetness as he slammed into you sensely. He was ravaging you right now, taking in your body. He could feel your walls tightening around him as you started getting closer. He stopped, leaving you dumbfounded.

“No no no. You don’t get to cum until I tell you to. Understand, lovie?” Simon would whisper in your ear with a smirk in his breath. Since you used silent treatment on him earlier, he decided you needed some punishment. At least for making him a little frustrated.

“Think you can wait for me?” He added with a heavy yet shallow breath. You wanted to cum at that moment. To release. But he wouldn’t let you. Was he really edging you right now? You nodded then he started up once more. His breaths, ragged. His grunts became louder as he felt his tip hitting you from the inside.

He moved the hand from your hip and placed it just right above your lower stomach. Simon wanted to feel himself fucking into you. Simon loved the bulge he created when he was balls deep. He loved stuffing you full of his cock. Your moans grow louder while your body writhes under him. You could even feel your eyes beginning to roll to the back of your head.

Your legs wanted to give out, they were trembling. Simon would take note of this and decided that he needed to pick up the pace. And so he did, he wasn't going to let you give out so easily.

It wasn’t long before you could feel your body begging for its release.

“Si, please.” You pleaded desperately.

“Please what?.” Simon would whisper in a teasing tone to get you to use your words.

“Please–I can’t…Jesus. Si, I don't know how much longer I can take it. Please” You begged to finish, your walls tightening around his cock again. Your eyes threaten to take away the water within them. Speeding up his thrusts into you, he puts pressure on your throat, tightening little by little.

“So good, begging for it.” Simon said between soft grunts next to your ear as he was more focused on his hips and breathing.

“Cum with me, lovie. Give it to me.” Simon would say to you, almost sounding like a command more than asking for it. You felt yourself being driven over the edge as your insides squeezed him, giving him what he wanted. You came around his cock, juices coated it, giving it a slick advantage. It wasn’t long before one last hard thrust, he spilled his hot seed into you. Breeding you.

Simon would stay in that moment, making sure to give a few more thrusts to fuck his cum deeper into you, he wanted you to be painted white from the inside. He would soon let go of your throat and lift himself off of you and your hips. He slid his sensitive cock out of your bruised pussy, watching himself spill out of you with satisfaction.

“We’ll get you cleaned up. I’ll run a bath.” Simon would say as he got up from the bed and walked towards your shared bathroom where the water began to run. He would peek his head from the side of the doorframe.

“You’re not going in tomorrow.”

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st4rstudent · 2 months

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what a does thou toon look like (in game,)

My main toon is orb giblets! They have the small toon effect right now so theyre crazy tiny but they look like this!

However my other (EVIL) orbs are as follows:

..haha ignore the reference in the first two haha. anyways also Ignore the fact they're not all matching. As soon as elphabat comes back I'm getting them all the spy outfit. as for now I've been focusing them on GREED AND POWER rather than cosmetics

#clemask #as of writing this orb giblets is 114 laff orbsystem is 64 and the other two are 50 #theyre also all apart of the same group so if you see someone with the name orb and theyre in the hogs theres a 98% chance thats me #i also didnt have a theme for evil orb i just wanted a fourth toon. ok.#i originally was just using orbsystem for trap training and then i became overcome with power within the span of like. 3 days after making #him and made everyone else. im trying to get them to equal laff so hes stuck on the vp task for a while #guy whos playing a multiplayer game: im scared of public groups #I NEED THAT BAT TO COME FAST I NEED TO GET THEM MATCHING OUTFITS NOWWWW #anyways yeah if you see any of them you can attack them on sight. theyre invasive

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kedreeva · 1 year

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I finally started working on a paper that is due next week that I've been putting off for ages

GOOD JOB, starting is half the battle honestly.

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“I don’t know,” Rhiley said, returning to his task. “A couple days at most.”

“That’s not so bad,” she said, upbeat. “We’d only have to hide you for a couple days, then. I’m sure we can keep you from murdering anyone until it’s over.”

Rhiley’s hand slipped at the casual insinuation, his blade sinking into the pad of his thumb. He jolted and cursed, dropping the knife with a clatter that drew a few nearby stares. Without hesitation, Thomas overturned his glass of water soundless, covering the situation while Rhiley clapped a palm over the injury to stop the bleeding.

#the final pack #100 task challenge #asks #114 to go

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radiance1 · 6 months

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Inspired by this post.

So, we have Danny, who outlived his friends and family (none of them became ghosts.) is the prince of the Infinite Realms.

As soon as he didn't have any ties to the living world anymore, at the young age of 114 was Danny scooped up and taken to the ghost zone for royal tutelage.

Things like balance training, how to carry himself prim and proper, how to invoke power with his voice (not literally, mostly how to sound commanding at stuff), what he should wear, knowledge about the ghost zone etc, etc.

Although, History beyond a certain point had to be taught exclusively by Clockwork, since the only other person who could teach him about the Infinite Realms' full History would be Pariah Dark, who was the first ghost ever to have been conceived by the Realms, and no one really wanted to wake up him.

Of course, that would mean there would be a void where Clockwork can't teach, but that knowledge is.... not necessary for the young prince to learn.

[It was really just about Pariah acquiring the ring and crown, the rest is uh, cough the lovey-dovey arc of Pariah Dark and Clockwork that will stay lost to time if Clockwork has anything to say about. Look, they were babies then compared to now, no one needs to know what happened back then alright?]

So, after all this I imagine him wearing something like this, staff and all.

However, Danny has an arch-nemesis.

Dark Danny.

Who somehow managed to escape from his imprisonment and causes havoc and chaos wherever he goes. His thing to do was to escape to the living world to make it befall the same fate he caused to his own.

He, however, probably did not expect for Danny to be more experienced, and his skills more honed than 100 years ago. Not that Dark Danny knew such time had passed, as he went through the trouble of trying to locate Danny's parents, sister, and best friends to make try and set him on the path to become him.

He failed, obviously, as they were already long gone.

His next thing to do? Locate Vlad and consume his ghost half. However, Danny made it just in time before he could do so.

However, Dark Danny's sheer, raw power, still eclipsed his own. However, while his raw power may be superior, he had something that would let him reliably go head-to-head in a fight with his alternate self and not win due to being underestimated and the sudden appearance of the ghost wail.

A staff, one naturally formed when he was crowned as Prince. An artifact that granted him a boost in power, and furthered his strengths regarding magic, giving him a roughly equal playing field when he confronts Dan.

It by itself may have only been equal to that of the Ring of Rage or Crown of Fire individually, but the fact it could compare to either one when not paired together spoke well of its power.

Dark Danny was, obviously, not expecting him to be as well-equipped and powerful as he was now. So, he underestimated him yet again, and almost led to his defeat and subsequent containment. However, Danny didn't expect for him to escape as he did, and run into another dimension.

Danny, both as himself and Prince of the Ghost Zone, has the responsibility to go after his evil self. So, he entered the portal, with some equipment made by Vlad as both a thanks and silent 'Find him as quickly as possible', which was a device meant to track Dark Danny's energy whenever he uses a good amount of it.

He... didn't expect, to land in a dimension of Superheroes and Villains.

However, he could let such things distract him from the task at hand, Dark Danny was surprisingly laying low for some reason. Probably to recuperate the damage Danny managed to do to him, so that left him a while to get familiar enough with this dimension.

He got a few odd looks here and there, mostly due to how he was dressed. He was worried about it for a while, before overhearing others calling him a cosplayer and him, suddenly remembering that those do indeed exist, decides to use that as a cover for how he dresses.

A month later, still with no sign of his alternate self, and making Danny worry about if he wasn't in this dimension at all. The device finally picked up Dark Danny's signature, and he hurried to said location, when he arrived, the place was not in the best of shape.

Upturned cars, broken buildings, rubble on the street, fire here and there. Not the best welcome party.

There were multiple other villains than just his future self there, but he didn't put them in mind. He was here for one, and one alone.

A few members of what he believes to be Young Justice took to fighting his alternate self, while other members of their team and the Justice League fight the other villains. He saw what could only be the start of a ghost wail, and hurried over.

In front of them, he slammed the butt of his staff on the ground and conjured a shield, which took the entirety of the attack with a few cracks.

"Still as strong as ever, I see." Danny said, lowering the shield as his twin rings run up and down his body respectively, hair turning a white glow and eyes as green as toxic waste. He raised his staff, pointing it at his future self, who looked none too pleased to see him at all. "Now then, shall we continue our fight you so rudely left unfinished?"

Of course, Danny no longer had the card of underestimation, but he could do well without it. Unfortunately, after quite the battle, Dark Danny managed to escape once again, due to some kind of teleport spell of another magic user.

Danny didn't escape unscathed from the fight, but nothing that couldn't be healed in time.

Of course, then he had to interact with both the Justice League, and Young Justice after his sudden introduction.

#dc x dp #dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc #dcxdp #dc x dp crossover #ghost prince danny #Right #Dark Danny is neither Ghost King nor Prince #Just thought I would include that #Just another difference between the two teehee.

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boozenboze · 1 year

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an I request male reader with the 141 task force who has nightmares like every night? Its angsty and kinda long, feel free to ignore if you're not comfortable writing it!

The plot is that reader suffers from nightmares, horrific ones, about his past and avoids sleeping as he doesn't want to have one again. The 141 notices and tries to help him, but he's stubborn and runs on caffeine 24/7 so he doesn't fall asleep.

One day though, as they're sitting in the social room, doing stuff, he dozed off on the couch. His teammates were at first happy that he did, as he has been awake for way too long, until he curled up and started crying uncontrollably, saying something inaudible and shaking.

One of the 141 got closer and touched his shoulder, which caused reader to wake up and absolutely lose it, because his sleep fogged brain only saw a dark silhouette leaning over him.

You can end it with the 114 comforting him and him opening up for the first time ever about what happened to him and caused him to lash out like that on them.

Like I said, you don't have to write it, you have the full right to ignore it or smth.

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This was requested by:Anonymous

Sweet Dreams

Tf 141 x Male reader

Females She/Her and She/They

Sleep paralysis and nightmares are hard to deal with.A lack of sleep can make you see and hear things that aren’t there as well.M/n has been dealing with this for as long as he could remember.They weren’t bad at first but have progressively gotten worse throughout time.His past traumas hadn’t made anything better either.Most nights he would waks up in a cold sweat and would be shakened for the rest of the night.His nightmares would get more realistic every time he slept so he came up with the idea to not sleep.He began drinking more stuff with caffeine,energy drinks and coffee became his go too drinks.

One morning M/n had been staring at his ceiling the whole night.He had stayed on his phone,read books,had some Monsters and Red bull ,everything he did to stay awake during the night.After a while he felt his eyelids get heavy and started drifting off before hearing fsint footsteps.His brain was foggy at the moment and his eyes shifted to the side and he saw a dark figure creeping up into his bed.He suddenly couldn’t move,scream,nothing.Tears pooled in his eyes before he suddenly jolted up.

He hadn’t realized he’d fallen asleep.He wiped his eyes and looked down at his floor and saw the cans of energy drinks he had been consuming.He shakily rose from his bed before msking his esy out of his room,before making his way to the kitchen.He started to make some coffe,dark roast since that usually made him stay awake.He was going to to go to a pharmacy and get some pills that would keep him awake.The scent of coffee could be smelled throughout the kitchen,and M/n hadn’t noticed his lieutenant walked into the room.

“Why are you awake seargent?”The taller male spoke as M/n flinched at the males voice.He turned around to face the male before turning away and pouring himself a cup of coffee.

“Can’t sleep.”M/n responded,keeping his answer short.Ghost approached the male snd cupped his cheek,turning his face so he could examine the male.The h/c haired male had big eyebags and his eyes were red.Ghosts eyes softened at the sight.He already noticed that the e/c haired male looked tired but he just didn’t mention it.

“Go back to bed seargent.”Ghost said firmly as he took the cup from M/n’s hands.

“But I-“M/n tried to speak up but was interrupted.

“Go to your room seargent,thats an order.”Ghost said as he lifted his mask to taste the coffee M/n was drinking.M/n sighed as he went to his room,already knowing he wasn’t going to sleep.

A few hours had gon by and M/n snuck out the base to get the pills.He came back when some other soilders were getting some cardio in.M/n snuck back to his room without being noticed before dumping the contents on his mattress.Along with the pills he restoked on his energy drinks and cracked ond open and taking large gulps.He took one of the pills and he immediately felt energized.He felt strange though,considering he hadn’t slept in days.He took a hot shower before changing into his uniform.

Gaz was in the kitchen eating his breakfast and looked up when he heard footsteps.He quickly chewed his food when he saw it was M/n.

“G’morning M/n-”Gaz spoke out as he watched M/n pour himslef some coffee.He hadn’t failed to notice the males hand shaking as he pured the coffee.Some of it spilling onto the counter as he finally sat it down.

“Hey...you alright you seem jumpy?”Gaz asked out in concern as M/n looked him in the eye.Like Ghost, Gaz saw the eyebags under rhe males eyes.

“Did ya sleep any?”The Brit asked as he watched M/n eat a protein bar.

“Just peachy Gaz.”M/n said walking away leaving Gaz in the kitchen alone.The brown skinned male could only wonder if the male was really okay.

M/n went through his day like normal.He spared with Soap who seemed to be going easier on him for some reason.Soap noticed the males movements were slower and he just looked exhausted.Soap thought it was unfair considering he had several advantages.Again the male seemed exhausted and sluggish so Soap just called their spar a tie.

“M/n you doing ok?You seem off.”Soap pointed out as M/n chuckled in response.

“Im fine Soap just a little tired y’know?”M/n said casually as he wiped his head from the sweat on his forebead.The male waved Soap off as he exited to room leaving Soap with his concerned thoughts.

The day went by pretty quickly and M/n had taken his shower.Soap made the idea to have a movie night with 141 and they agreed.Ghost decided to join since he finished what he had to do.M/n came into the room with more comfortable attire and took a seat next to Price.The older man had discarded his cigar and was holding a book as Gaz and Soap fought over what movie they should watch.M/n felt more at peace,surrounded by the people he considered family made him feel safe.After a few minutes they finally put on a movie that they could enjoy.Halfway into the program M/n had fallen asleep.Nobody would have noticed if the sound of M/n’s body shifting hadn’t caught their attention.Price saw the male curled into a ball on the end of the couch and a small smile made it upon his face.He stood up and grabbed a pillow,gently laying it beneath his the males head.M/n gripped the pillow and huffed when he picked up the heavy scent of Prices cigar.

“Well won’t you look at that.Mans finally succumbed to sleep.”Soap spoke out as he watched the male let out peaceful breaths.They never saw the male so at peace before so this was something they’d have to be grateful for.Price had walked in M/n’s room before and saw all the empty cans that were pooling out of his trash bag.He had been worried for him in the beginning,but didn’t know that the male had been struggling with sleep.Now what they didn’t notice was that the male was half asleep.

M/n had woken up from Price changing his position.He felt drunk, barely being aware of what was happening around him.Then it happened again.A figure began approaching him but it had more details than usual.It began approaching him and he began to shake slightly,eyes beginning to water.Then he realized,he could move.His finger was twitching slightly and right when the figure was in range he sprang up and punched it.Unlike his usual occurrences, the figure made a noise.

"Yo M/n calm down mate!"Gaz yelled out, wrapping his arms around the male in attempts to get him off of Soap, who was currently blocking M/n's punches.The h/c haired male was breathing heavily,tears pouring out of his e/c eyes as his punches got weaker by the second.M/n slumped in Gaz's hold, now processing the situation he was currently in.Ghost helped Soap stand up as he felt his cheek that was beginning to bruise.M/n was shaking as Gaz held him close and started whispering reassurances into his ears as he himself tried to process what happend.Price had gotten Soap an icepack before pulling M/n up.The male had been mumbling several “im sorry’s” as Price pulled him into a hug.

It didn’t take long for the male to begin sobbing.Price held him as close as he could as the male cried into his shoulder.

“It’s ok muppet, tis just us.”Price said gently as the male hiccuped into his shoulder.A few moments went by until M/n’s breathing pattern was steady again.Price pulled the male out of his hold and M/n looked down in guilt.

“I-I’m sorry I didn’t mean t-to hurt you Soap.”M/n stuttered as Soap smiled at him reassuringly.

“Ah..it’s alright mate, ya probably didn’t mean it.”Soap responded sheepishly as M/n smiled awkwardly.The man began rubbing his eyes so it was clear that the male was still sleepy.

“Muppet I know you haven’t been sleeping,I saw all the drinks in your.That stuff isn’t good for you handsome.”Price said cupping the males cheek and caress the male with his thumb.“Tis there something your not telling us?”Price asked as M/n looked away ashamed.

“I’ve...been having nightmares, t-they’ve been getting worse.I-I was scared to go to sleep so I started drinking more caffeine.I also bought these.”M/n said as he took the bottle out of his hoodie pocket.

“Well lets stop using these.”Ghost spoke,taking the bottle from the male and put them somewhere where he couldn’t see them.

“And stop drinking this shit.”Gaz said as he wandered off into M/n’s room,taking all the full and empty cans of Monster and Redbull.Soap guided the male back to his room and made him lay down.

When the others came to M/n’s room Soap had the male in his lap as M/n’s legs were wrapped around his waist.The h/c haired male had his face nuzzled in the Scottish mans neck as he rubbed circles into his back.

“He’s sleeping again.”Soap whispered so he wouldn’t wake the sleepless male.He gently layed M/n down and secured the blankets around him.Ghost took his boots off and sat next to the sleeping male on the bed.

“I’m gonna watch him y’all can go.”Ghost spoke roughly as Soap furrowed his brows.

“Are you sure L.T-I mean what if he-.”

“I’ll be fine Johnny.”Ghost cut the male off as he heard a whimper come from M/n.Ghost moved rubbed M/n’s arm and the male stopped making noise.Price hummed as he left the room with gaz and Soap nodded towards Ghost before leaving the room.

Believe or not this would be one of the many future nights that you have

Sweet Dreams

#gay #lgbtq #male reader #mw2 x male reader #cod x male reader #male y/n #gaz x male reader #ghost x male reader #captain price x male reader #soap x male reader #:)

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last-ofthe-starks · 2 years

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HOTD episode 5 Easter eggs and thoughts:

Some slight but important changes to the timeline and order of events worth noting:

In Fire and Blood, Rhaenyra and Laenor’s wedding actually took place over the course of seven days, it did not end on the first night and require a shotgun wedding from the recollection in the book.

At one of the competitions, Criston beat Harwin Strong who was the strongest man in the realm, but we do not see them face off this episode.

Then, Criston faces Joffrey and beats him within an inch of his life with his favorite weapon, Morningstar. In the book, Joffrey suffers a brain injury and died six days later whereas there is NO denying he is dead on the show.

In the book Rhaenyra and 17 and Laenor is 20 at the time of the wedding in 114, while in the show Rhaenyra is at least 18 according to the last episode.

By the time this wedding takes place in the show, Criston Cole was already Lord Commander of the Kingsguard in the books.

We open the episode with Rhea Royce, who –in the brief moments we saw her – came across as a woman who would certainly give Daemon a run for his money and see right through his shit. And while there is a small part of me heartbroken that my boo Daemon did kill his wife (although we never see it on camera), this whole show is an excellent character study on Daemon as a character. His trip to the Vale was due to Viserys’ banishment sure, but when we see him and Rhea meet on the road it doesn’t actually look like he planned to murder her. The way it was shot makes it clear she drew a weapon first and her horse was spooked, but it did not appear that Daemon actually did anything. It was only when he end he walked away and she said something to him that he was prompted to pick up the rock and finish the job. Clearly that wasn’t a planned way to rid her but like most Daemon plans, he wings it. When Daemon dances with Rhaenyra, he sort of confirms he planned to rid himself of Rhea by telling her that he no longer has a wife and could put a stop to the whole wedding for her. He clearly wished to accomplish this task prior to her wedding day.

I like how they’ve addressed the unraveling of Rhaenyra and Criston on the show. It is believable that Criston would be so hurt by Rhaenyra’s response to his offer. The man broke and oath and his entire life as he currently knows it is due to her kindness and position. For her to have favored him, chose him as her protector, confide in him, and then later have him break an oath with her, it’s little wonder he thought she loved him just as much back. The way Criston asks her to escape with her and be free of her position and responsibility was a great way to weave together the rumors from Fire and Blood and also flesh out those rumors into a believable conversation with a heartbreaking end for Sir Criston.

Emily Carey (Alicent) was so great in this episode. It was the first time we actually see Alicent grow up and take the rose colored glasses off. We as viewers can see that she’s only seeing and being given bits and pieces of information, and surmising her decisions based on those bits. We get our first real debut of Master of Whispers, Larys Strong, and see his role in essentially starting the war. As viewers we can see she is getting parts of the truth but in the case of Criston Cole, some of her assumptions are incorrect. This long game of telephone is a great way of explaining how each chip fell to create what will be a giant, convoluted mess.

Speaking of Alicent and Criston, I really was surprised that Criston immediately fessed up to sleeping with Rhaenyra to Alicent. I thought for her in his anger he would have accused Rhaenyra of sleeping with Daemon to get back at her but no, he fessed up to it. This will add such an added layer to their dynamic as now Alicent has a very significant piece of information to hold over Criston’s head.

The king ain’t doing too hot, and wow, his arm was disgusting. Viserys in this episode is fighting so many things; his health being number one. We can see that it is rapidly declining and they are really at a loss for what to do for him. On top of that, his wife is beginning to use her own brain and fight back in the wake of her fathers dismissal, and the girl who was once so innocent and agreeable is about to become an enormous problem for him. Partner that with trying to repair a fractured relationship with Corlys, the return of his brother who he knows probably just murdered his own wife, and the image of Daemon taking Rhaenyra’s face in his hands at her own wedding celebrations as though they meant to kiss. THEN the poor dude has to have a shotgun wedding and cancel all of the fun, he truly can’t win.

Alicent walking into the hall in her green dress…shots fired. Then she hit us with the double whammy when she called Rhaenyra “Step-Daughter” in front of everyone. You can tell Rhaenyra knows she is onto something and her white lie didn’t hold up too well. I highly doubt she realizes that Criston Cole has thrown her under the bus for the first of many times.

I hate the Larys the club foot, so that means they are doing a great job with him.

Daemon waltzing into the hall unannounced and uninvited…a man after my own heart. Paddy’s acting in this scene was incredible, he portrays sooo much with just a look. And honestly, so does Matt Smith. Every scene we get between those two has been perfect.

The Vearyon’s are so hot. So hot. We get our first glimpse of Laena and Daemon together and you can tell they have great banter and she is GORGEOUS so naturally Daemon is attracted but I don’t think at this point it is a love at first sight sort of thing with them. Rhaenyra and Daemon never had a chance to finish their conversation before she was whisked away and married, so I’ll be curious how they explain Daemon and Laena next episode.

Sir Joffrey instigating Criston was excellent, he was perfectly dickish and you can see Criston slowly unraveling all episode but to see just how far he’s fallen was crazy. In the books Joffrey’s death was depicted differently. There actually were seven days of tournament and meals, one of which saw Criston Cole beating the crap out of everyone he faced including Harwin “Breakbones” Strong and killing Joffrey, the Knight of Kisses.” Using Joffrey as the straw that broke the camels back makes the most logical sense for this storyline and I thought they did a great job. The half of his scull missing on camera I could have done without but I know that is par for this beautiful corse.

The end of this episode broke my heart how Claire (the director) made the decision to have a voice over of Laenor saying his vows overtop of the shots of Rhaenyra. You can see both of their hearts breaking and it was so well done. It also helped so that Rhaenyra truly cares for him and despite their arranged marriage, she has his best interest at heart. His whole life just ended in a sudden blow and Rhaenyra clearly feels so strongly for Laenor. It is that mutual respect that Milly was able to capture so perfectly. He feels all alone and now Rhaenyra doesn’t have Criston or Daemon, so to see them both on that altar broken hearted was truly so sad and well done.

Speaking of Daemon, where did he go when all hell broke loose? Why is Harwin swooping in and not Daemon? The man is a mess.

I like that the director left it unclear if Daemon and Rhaenyra ever kissed but I’m sure someone in that room would have seen if it they did. To hear Rhaenyra question Daemon’s intentions again and ask him for such a huge ultimatum (to cut down the Kingsguard and whisk me away from here) was so great. But then Daemon never truly gets an opportunity to answer her or do those things either way. The fight breaking out disrupts their conversation and before the night is over she’s a married woman. When we see an aged up Rhaenyra next week I hope we get some insight into Daemon’s headspace and recalibrate Rhaenyra and Daemon’s relationship with one another.

Next episode we will have a lot of new characters (lots of kids) and a significant time jump but I want to shout out how amazing Milly and Emily both were as young Rhaenyra and Alicent. I will truly miss them both, especially Milly. It’s been some time since I saw a show have a younger and older version of the characters and it’s not an easy thing to pull off, but I’m optimistic and just hope next episode doesn’t feel like filler to establish the new players in this show.

#house of the dragon #hotdedit #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targaryen #gotedit #hotd #game of thrones #hotd spoilers #asoiaf #daemon x rhaenyra #hotd 1x05

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OnS Chapter 136 Analysis - Love vs The Past

Well, a new chapter dropped. I must say that I liked it. We really are heading towards the end of the story and two sides now are on stage.

One fighting for love; the other one fighting to bring back something that is long lost.

Love can often be misunderstood in the manga story; to the point it distorts a lot, but in reality, it takes so many shapes, so many forms along giving birth to ideals.

Each character within the story is moved to do something for "love". But in this role too; the "love" for the "past" exists.

The past is a momentum that will always live in our memories; it is something that will forever be frozen; something that will not change. It's something that is part of us without defining us.

As we've seen today; the chapter starts with Yuu trying to reach the First; but given that the Progenitors want to avoid the destruction of the world much further; they were preventing Yuu from making contact with the First.

Of course, we see how Mika couldn't withstand the raw power of Urd Geales; we saw Shinya and Kureto alive and kicking once again; and finally, the main spot; the reunion between Shikama and Yuu.

Shikama is aware that Yuu has all his memories back ever since he detected an anomaly along the interaction with the corpse of Mikaela. Of course, whenever Shikama knows the soul of his son is alive and kicking, it's up to interpretation. Though, it is clear he knows it exists.

Eventually we see how Shikama is going to bestow Yuu his knowledge and power

But before he could give away his power to Yuu; Shinoa interferred with the possibility.

Leading to our possible future battle between Shinoa and Yuu.

Two ideals being carried away within the story. And yet, at the same time they connect through the main theme. "Love."

And no, it's not "romantic love ". The "love" or 愛 which is not the same as other interpretations of love itself. Just "ai". A love that takes so many shapes.

Let's begin with the real analysis here.

Yuu isn't exactly fighting for humanity nor his friends, nor his family. Given that the "regression" process he made to recall his whole life; he saw how his life originated alongside being the son of the First.

Given that, he is actually aiming for the task of "saving" but given that "love" is playing its role as well. It is the love he has deep down for his father that he is doing everything to bring back what his father cherished in the past. Which is something reflected as well when he was the angel Mikaela. Taking his life so divine punishment wouldn't fall upon his father.

Shikama did love his angels, his followers and he did blame himself for the punishment that fell upon them. But given God's nature; it was normal that the punishment fell upon those angels given that they no longer praised for God.

Though; one thing Shikama and Yuu have in common, is the attachment to the past. It is the very fact that the past for them is something that should have prevailed instead of changing. What do I mean?

To Shikama, the Progenitors he chose, despite being reincarnations of those angels that followed him once; are not his angels.

And this is highly visible once Ashera asks Shikama what he should do back in chapter 117.

To his eyes, Shikama's sired progenitors were just tools given that to him; they are shadows of who they were once, but to those progenitors; even if they have acknowledged that they are reincarnations; they made a choice.

They chose to follow up their own path. And as they've stated back in chapter 114; their last and final task is to protect the world they live in. Meaning avoiding the resurrection of the angel Mikaela.

But now, why do I say Shikama and Yuu have one thing in common?

Yuu is a character that despite living endlessly; along having a constant memory reset until now that he gathered all his memories; he's done one thing to no end. And that is living in the past.

True, there are scars that take its time to heal from the past; some are very difficult nonetheless; he chose to live in such past. When he had a chance to make a choice; that choice was no longer centered in the present; it began to lead further astray to the past.

But then, what's the point of those promises?

Given how everything has turned. Those promises are something that can't be fulfilled. What do I mean?

In order to revive the angels from long ago; sacrifices must be made. But here's another thing that it is being dismissed. What could it be?

The absolute lack of appreciation to life.

Yuu might state he aims to save everyone; even to Ashera who at the end understood that there are limits to life. He loved and embraced he managed to get his sister back; but the cost for that was making her suffer for eternity; nevertheless, the lives both had, those kind of experiences they managed to live had their moments of bliss; bringing back entities that perished long ago, is discarting the moments experienced, the moments lived along the emotions that were carried through a lifetime.

But now, there is an opposite force here. And that force is no other than. "Love."

Many might consider that Shinoa's love is "obssession, madness like Mahiru's love" but no. This is actually wrong.

Back when she stated she would kill Mikaela; there was a massive misconception of this which chapter 133 explained a lot.

Shinoa thought Yuu was being possessed by Mikaela at that time hence her retoric; but given that she saw first hand that Yuu had fooled them; she understood that Yuu was doing everything on his own will. And let's not forget that Yuu might be dumb, but not clueless or ignorant.

Shinoa's form of "love" is not something that came out of nothing; it's something that began taking shape by her own; it began from curiosity, turning into uncertainty, then transforming into caring, along developing feelings for a special someone. Such feelings for her were seen as something hideous or bad; but at the end, she understood they weren't bad, nevertheless, she never admitted them until or rather never accepted them truthfully until chapter 133.

Chapter 133 was a very reflexive chapter given that it gave Shinoa resolution; a resolution as to why it is the reason she was standing still in the very end of the world.

Shinoa's love is not centered to one person, but rather; it is centered to the very core family she gained through her journey which lead to this.

Her battle and her resolution is directed to the very family that has stood with her and has followed her through the long journey she has taken so far. Hence why; she is standing along her squad just like how the vampires did; how they are going to live. Not by a decree of an entity, not by a decree of her sister and Guren nor the vampires; but rather, taking their own path until the very end.

Hence why Shikama states that her love is self centered, which is no different from him. He centered his love to his angels; Shinoa is centering her love to those who exist in the present. Along letting them return to their normality before the world ended; given that the end of the world, the events that took place before they were born, were all spiderwebs made by the First.

This is the first time they are fighting for their own.

What do you think it'll happen next?

Let me know!

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As one of their first moves in the House majority—after their little struggle to even elect a speaker, that is—Republicans have a bill to roll back more than $70 billion in IRS funding included in the Inflation Reduction Act. In fact, fresh off his contentious election as speaker, Kevin McCarthy bragged about this plan, saying, “I know the night is late, but when we come back our very first bill will repeal the funding for 87,000 new IRS agents.” (That 87,000 number is a lie, by the way.)

Funny story, though: The Congressional Budget Office is out with its estimate of the fiscal impact of this bill cutting more than $70 billion … and it would decrease federal revenue by $186 billion between 2023 and 2032. In other words, the bill would cost more than $114

The claim here is that it’s going to help the little people—they’re even calling the bill the “Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act”—because that sounds a lot better than admitting that the Inflation Reduction Act’s IRS funding is about making sure the very wealthiest pay the taxes they owe. Yes, it means hiring new auditors, but ones specifically tasked with pursuing wealthy tax evaders, not small businesses or families making less than hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

In fact, households with earnings of less than $400,000 a year “will likely see the chance of an audit decline,” according to the Treasury Department. That’s because right now, the lowest-income households are audited at far higher rates than the highest-income ones. The money that Republicans want to repeal is intended to change that.

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Transcript of the voice message Jay's grandma left in the stronghold (114) and thoughts

"The plan is smooth sailing. Tasks with this Black Sea, are going well. Praise the Solar Mother, she sent me a messenger to warn it was coming. Us being prepared, construction of a headquarters on All-Port was swift, once the calamity clause of the neutral grounds treaty was broken. The day word spreads is coming and we'll be ready. Our machine is stable, my son is stable. The new black-ops have replaced the lives of their targets, soon the world will be at the mercy of my justice."

I'm going to give my thoughts line by line.

"The plan is smooth sailing" - Faye Ferin opens her plan for possible world domination with a pun. Everyone is doomed.

"Tasks with this Black Sea, are going well." - Not much to say here but it does imply that the navy has more then one project going on in the Black Sea besides what they found at the stronghold, so it probably won't be the last time they run into navy stuff there.

"Praise the Solar Mother, she sent me a messenger to warn it was coming." - Okay so this is two things. One, Faye is religious to some extent or has aligned herself with Aster in some way, we don't know what D&D class she is, but if she is a caster she could get her powers from Aster like how Gillion gets his from Lunadieyis . Two, who is the "messenger" she's referencing, it would have to be someone who has a direct line of communication to Aster or the goddess in general (or someone who was directly involved in making the Hole in the Sea occur, omg it might be Niklaus). We know that there's "not really" other chosen ones so who else besides Gilion has access to talk to the gods.

. "Us being prepared, construction of a headquarters on All-Port was swift, once the calamity clause of the neutral grounds treaty was broken." - Okay so we don't know much about the politics of Mana, besides the Navy being a large faction and different islands fluctuating between having monarchies or democracies as local governments. So what I'm wondering is who else where the signers of the Neutral Grounds Treaty (I'm assuming the big leaders of each sea like Edison Kingdom but we don't know much about what group it would be in the West and North seas). Also how long ago was it signed and how did the Navy work out the treaty so the cards landed in their favor. I think this how message indicates that Faye, while not directly involved in causing the Black Sea, jumped on the opportunity to profit and grow the Navy because of it.

"The day word spreads is coming and we'll be ready" - Okay, I'm not sure what this is in reference to. At first I thought it was about the spread of the Black Sea itself but from the way she talks it looks like the Black Sea has already been around for at least a little bit. So she's referencing some type of information leak, is it the death of the levhtians, the "discovery" of the Tritons and Undersea (Pre-Hole in the Sea I don't think much of the overworld was aware of Tritons). Whatever it is I have it feeling it's certainly Undersea related.

"Our machine is stable, my son is stable." - I mentioned in a previous post that I think this might imply that Jayson was also experimented on use the cloning machine that gave us dopplegilly. Someone in the notes of that post also mentioned it could be referencing that Faye knows Drey survived the Black Sea and is in stable condition. Which is also a possibility. Also we don't know if by 'machine' she means the artificial levhitan or the cloning chair.

"The new black-ops have replaced the lives of their targets, soon the world will be at the mercy of my justice." - Okay, so this is absolutely about the cloning machine, the interesting part is how many targets the navy had/wanted to replace. And from this point how long they've been replaced. Are there clones out there that have been living lives of their originals for nearly a decade after the Hole in the Sea. I think the replacements are maybe mostly tritons (given that's who we saw in all those torture rooms) but I'm certain theirs some oversea people that Faye would want cloned. Probably political and religious leaders seeing there's a pattern of the Navy taking over islands where the majority of people dislike the Navy's presence there (ex. Candela's Revolution).

Recap: 100% supervillain monologue certified.

#jrwi spoilers #jrwi show #jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #jrwi gillion #just roll with it gillion #jay ferin #jay ferin jrwi #jrwi chip #faye ferin #jayson ferin #drey ferin #just roll with it #jrwiblr

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"NASA's Crew Transport Vehicle, or CTV, pulls up to the Space Shuttle Discovery to offload the crew after a successful landing August 9, 2005 at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The landing marked the end of the STS-114 mission. Space Shuttle Discovery landed safely at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California at 5:11:22 a.m. PDT this morning, following the very successful 14-day STS-114 return to flight mission. During their two weeks in space, Commander Eileen Collins and her six crewmates tested out new safety procedures and delivered supplies and equipment the International Space Station. Discovery spent two weeks in space, where the crew demonstrated new methods to inspect and repair the Shuttle in orbit. The crew also delivered supplies, outfitted and performed maintenance on the International Space Station. A number of these tasks were conducted during three spacewalks. In an unprecedented event, spacewalkers were called upon to remove protruding gap fillers from the heat shield on Discovery's underbelly. In other spacewalk activities, astronauts installed an external platform onto the Station's Quest Airlock and replaced one of the orbital outpost's Control Moment Gyroscopes. Inside the Station, the STS-114 crew conducted joint operations with the Expedition 11 crew. They unloaded fresh supplies from the Shuttle and the Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module. Before Discovery undocked, the crews filled Raffeallo with unneeded items and returned to Shuttle payload bay. Discovery launched on July 26 and spent almost 14 days on orbit."

Date: August 9, 2005

NASA ID: ED05-0166-05

#STS-114 #Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Discovery #Discovery #OV-103 #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #August #2005 #landing #my post

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Guardian Angel Neil AU- page 2

Neil Josten died at the hands of his father a few months before canon begins. After his death, he was made into a guardian angel. He’s tasked with keeping Andrew Minyard safe at all costs. When they meet on the roof for the first time, Andrew thinks he’s imagined Neil. And he worries both about his mental health and his love life because this boy is perfect. But he’s not real.

Fanart for this au can be found: here, here, and here! <3

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Part 95, Part 96, Part 97, Part 98, Part 99, Part 100, Part 101, Part 102, Part 103, Part 104, Part 105, Part 106, Part 107, Part 108, Part 109, Part 110, Part 111, Part 112, Part 113, Part 114, Part 115, Part 116, Part 117, Part 118, Part 119, Part 120, Part 121, Part 122, Part 123, Part 124, Part 125, Part 126, Part 127, Part 128, Part 129, Part 130, Part 131, Part 132, Part 133, Part 134, Part 135, Part 136, Part 137, Part 138, Part 139, Part 140, Part 141, Part 142, Part 143, Part 144, Part 145, Part 146, Part 147, Part 148, Part 149, Part 150, Part 151, Part 152, Part 153, Part 154, Part 155, Part 156, Part 157, Part 158, Part 159, Part 160, Part 161

list updated on 4/16/24

#andreil #aerie's AUs #Guardian Angel Neil AU #aerie's masterposts

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All summer token dailies: total of 114 tokens

3 tasks from the taskboard (3 tokens each = 9 tokens)

4 lost horses (4 tokens each = 20 tokens)

5 renegade chests (5 tokens each = 25 tokens)

gold to token exchange (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 tokens = 15 tokens)

4 lost animals from mary (3 each = 12 tokens)

3 Minka's races (3 each = 9 tokens)

8 western games races board (3 each = 24 tokens)

(correct me if I'm missing some)

#I'm pretty sure this is all but please let me know if I'm missing some #ssoblr #starstable #starstable online #sso camp western

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Friday, January 26, 2024

It's the weekend, and my two best friends are staying the night tonight! We have our cookie booth early in the morning, so we all agreed that it would be easier to stay at my house since it's closest to the store we're selling at. One of my friends, we'll call her H, is in ballet with me, same level, so she'll come home with me from that. Then my other friend, we'll call her E, her mom is going to drop her off at my house around 9pm since that's about when H and I will get back from ballet. Senior sleepover! I can't wait!

H and I have known each other since we were in first grade and were Daisies together, and E joined us for Brownies in second grade, so we've been friends for forever it feels like. I don't know what I would do without them honestly. We've been through everything together.

Tasks Completed:

Geometry - Reviewed finding sides in similar polygons + learned about perimeters and areas of similar polygons + practice

Lit and Comp II - Reviewed units 7-9 vocabulary + sent biography assignment to my mom for grading (100/100) + read the news

Spanish 2 - Reviewed vocabulary + read my sentences in Spanish out loud to my dad (30/30)

Bible I - Read Deuteronomy 17-18

World History - Watched 38 minutes of Hidden Killers season 1 episode 1 + worked on a chart showing the issues with invention risks in Victorian homes

Biology with Lab - Read over ecology key terms + read over project guidelines + chose my endangered animal project (saola because they're nicknamed Asian unicorns and are unbelievably cute but hardly ever seen in the wild, so hopefully I'll find enough information)

PE/Health I - Read a health article about synthetic biology and its use in treating disease and super powering cells

Foundations - Read more on obedience + wrote down all the different pictures I saw in a line image within one minute (helps with creativity) + finished up my speech and editing

Piano - Practiced for two hours in one hour split sessions

Khan Academy - None today (It was already assigned)

CLEP - Watched Module 7.0-7.3 lecture videos + completed Module 7 reading "Europe: A.D. 1800-1901" sections 4.33.1-4.33.1.2.5

Duolingo - Completed at least one lesson each in Spanish, French, and Chinese

Reading - Read pages 81-114 of They’re Watching You by Chelsea Ichaso

Chores - Dusted my bedroom, my bathroom, and the study + laundered my bedding

Activities of the Day:

Ballet

Pointe

Journal/Mindfulness

What I’m Grateful for Today:

I am grateful that I did not live during the Victorian age because all of the risks leading to so many injuries and deaths were unbelievable!

Quote of the Day:

We can’t begin to learn until we admit how much we don’t know.

-A Thousand Pieces of You, Claudia Gray

🎧Impromptu pour piano, op. 49 - Louise Farrenc

#study community #study blog #study inspiration #study motivation #studyblr #studyblr community #study-with-aura

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Book Review #114 of 2023--

System Collapse by Martha Wells. Rating: 4 stars.

Read from September 6th to 8th.

Before I get into the review, a quick thank you to both NetGalley and the publishers over at Tor giving me access to one of my most anticipated releases of the year in exchange for an honest review. If you've been here for any length of time then you already know about the Murderbot Diaries, but let me give you a quick series synopsis. In the series, we follow a Security Unit (SecUnit) who has hacked their governor module and all it wants now is to do its job while watching its shows. But SecUnit finds itself getting attached to humans as it travels the universe which inevitably leads to more danger and drama and dealing with more Corporation Rim companies than it would like. In this one, we follow SecUnit and its 'friend' ART who must protect their humans and some how prevent a company from seizing a colony of humans for their own selfish reasons. If only SecUnit wasn't starting to malfunction. This is the seventh in the series and it comes out on November 14th. Available for preorder now.

Discussing Murderbot with people who haven't read the series is hard, especially now that we're on number seven in the series. But we all know the basic premise, right? A SecUnit has gone rogue because it wants to not be controlled by a system that can kill it for disobeying. Oh, and so it can watch its shows. I will always enjoy getting back into this world. I think the author does such a great job with both the human characters and the constructs that always draws me in. This one actually made me like Ratthi way more than I did before which came as a huge surprise and showed me just how good of an author Martha Wells really is. At times I hated that something was wrong with Murderbot and that they weren't on top of their game the way they usually are. But we also got to see how trauma has impacted them and what happens when trauma just keeps getting compounded without any sort of treatment. The thing that I LOVED about this one was that we got both Murderbot and ART while also getting all of their humans. I love that the teams were mixed together based on task and ability instead of who came from where. And I loved that by the end Murderbot found itself attached to all the humans not just the ones it knew before meeting ART.

There were a few moments that felt unclear in the action. There is usually a decent amount of fight sequences/action scenes in this series and usually I can follow them pretty well, but in this one it felt more muddled. I think it might actually be me and not the book. I have a lot of real life stress going on at the moment so I feel like my focus has been pretty split. I'm willing to say it might not be the book's fault here. Just my attention span at the moment. I also wasn't 100% sure where this fit timeline wise for the series. It seems like it would fit after Network Effect and not the latest novella which is Fugitive Telemetry. Please correct me if I'm wrong here.

Overall, it's Murderbot and you cannot go wrong with reading some Murderbot. I will always sing this series' praises. Probably not my favorite but up there for sure.

#netgalley #tor #The Murderbot Diaries #Murderbot Diaries #book review #book reviews #booklr #bookblr #bookstagram #books read in 2023 #2023 reading challenge #goodreads challenge #goodreads #bookish #books

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