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thatfeelinwhenyou · 11 months

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HANDS ON YOU — lee heeseung

IN WHICH; I-LAND 2 happened and you debuted first place as the leader of LUMIÈRE. Having been told that your group is involved in a lore crossover with ENHYPEN, you navigate work, friendship, and love while trying to make it in an industry filled with animosity and condemnation. When life throws you lemons, you gotta make lemonades chuck it right back!

PAIRING: idol!heeseung x idol!fem!reader

GENRE: smau, strangers to lovers, celebrity x celebrity, forbidden love, fluff, don’t let the first part of the smau fool you i swear it’s full on angst towards the end, slowest of the slow burns…

WARNINGS: contains profanities, horrible humour, kys/kms jokes, sexual innuendos, spelling errors, incorrect timestamps, probably some cringe-worthy moments, cyberbullying, racist and misogynistic comments made about reader, death threats, mentions/depictions of overworking, insomnia, eating disorders, not proofread etc. (I am not in anyway romanticising, encouraging or condoning the usage of these topics. They are purely for the plot and development of the story.)

STATUS: completed! (04/06/2023 – 08/08/2023)

AUTHOR'S NOTE: please read! literally my first attempt at a smau so please don't flame me 💀 i must warn y’all that the timestamps are really all over the place, so DO NOT pay attention to them until stated. the content and depiction of the characters in this smau do not in anyway represent them in real life. chapters with ‘(hw)’ next to them indicates that they are half-written, in case y’all accidentally skip over it! last but not least, if you do end up enjoying it please like, comment (absolutely love reading comments!), and reblog! without further ado, enjoy!!

TAGS: #tfwy handsonyou

prologue - introducing LUMIÈRE part 1 | part 2

profile. one | two

chapter 1 - number 1 hater

chapter 2 - infant

chapter 3 - #prayersformarklee ✊🤞

chapter 4 - dog-eater…? (hw)

chapter 5 - breaking records(?)

chapter 6 - still employed!

chapter 7 - bad publicity is still publicity

chapter 8 - to hee or not to hee

chapter 9 - the heist

chapter 10 - trigger warning

chapter 11 - soompitydimpity

chapter 12 - chronic insomnia

chapter 13 - to hee after all

chapter 14 - wild pokémon heeseungie

chapter 15 - artists

chapter 16 - that should be me

chapter 17 - bills

chapter 18 - the elephant in the room (hw)

chapter 19 - if you let me

chapter 20 - trouble? travel! (hw)

chapter 21 - caught in a lie

chapter 22 - always on your side

chapter 23 - princess syndrome

chapter 24 - you (hw)

chapter 25 - golden thread

chapter 26 - way back home (hw)

chapter 27 - uh oh…

chapter 28 - fight or flight

chapter 29 - close friends

chapter 30 - paradoxx invasion

chapter 31 - ramen

chapter 32 - 080923 (hw)

chapter 33 - driver

chapter 34 - demure and honest

chapter 35 - p-platonic?!?

chapter 36 - friends don’t look at friends that way

chapter 37 - bungeoppang

chapter 38 - back to the way things were..?

chapter 39 - wheel of fortune

chapter 40 - i miss holding your hand (hw)

chapter 41 - sooha (real)

chapter 42 - rizzseung

chapter 43 - project luminescence

chapter 44 - i will go to you like the first snow (hw)

chapter 45 - it’s awfully quiet…

chapter 46 - jake pick me era?

chapter 47 - my life without you is a misery

chapter 48 - your honour, i’m innocent

chapter 49 - breaking my silence

chapter 50 - he’s being exploited!

chapter 51 (finale) - number 1 fan (hw)

epilogue - forever ruined by you

bonus chapter!

the exes talk

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axeoverblade · 9 months

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Morales Twin Au x fem! reader

Morales twins x fem! reader

Synopsis! It was fairly obvious you had crush on your long term best friend, Miles Morales. It was also obvious that his twin brother Milo, was a pain in your ass.

PT 1 > PT 2 (current)

MASTERLIST

Genre: Fluff, slight angst if you squint, slight suggestion if you squint

Warnings: strong language I think that’s it

Word count: 3.3k

Authors comments: if you were in the taglist but not @ it’s because someone deleted it! sorry for my long break guys but I’m back, Been a lil stressed but hopefully this makes up for it <3

MORE ABOUT MORALES TWIN AU IN NAVIGATION

E! 1610 Miles > Miles

E! 42 Miles > Milo

Miles was irritated to say the least.

Everytime you would come over to see him, somehow his counterpart always got involved. It had gotten to the point that when you left, he would find himself angry with Milo.

Sure he knew it wasn’t Milo’s fault he was mad. Truthfully there wasn’t anything wrong with you interacting with Milo.

But this wasn’t how you two normally interacted.

Miles saw the way Milo’s eyes lingered when you would walk away, a little too long for his liking. Or how you would just somehow always find yourself play-fighting with Milo. And not the usual MMA brawls you two used to have-, no. Just somehow, it would always end with Milo holding you waist and you two laughing, screaming at him to let go of you.

Miles didn’t know why this made him so annoyed. I mean, he knew it was different to see you and Milo being kind to each other, but it shouldn’t have made him mad.

For the longest, Miles knew he was the only twin you enjoyed being around.

He knew how much you hated Milo. You would talk about how much you wanted to stick Milo’s hand in a dish disposal.

But now? You looked at his hands carefully to see the designs of his rings, sometimes even trying them on.

He should be happy if anything, all he’s ever wanted was for you three to be able to hang out peacefully.

But this was too damn peaceful.

Every weekend you found yourself at the Morales home, this weekend being no different.

And just like usual, you were arguing with Milo. “You talk too much” he mumbled as he rolled his eyes, grabbing a cup from the cabinet. You glared at him as you leaned on the counter next to him, scowling. “Boy you know good and well I will not hesitate to pop you in your throat.” You scoffed, taking a sip from your water.

He chuckled, “stay mad I beat you. Not my fault you trash.” He shrugged as he filled his cup with juice, looking at you amused as he put the lid back on.

“You won barely.” You held your thumb and pointer finger up together in close proximity to further your point. “And you got in my way, I would’ve won if you didn’t wave yo’ hand in my face.” You smacked your lips, looking away from him with an eye roll.

“All I’m hearin’ is excuses ma. Just admit I’m better than you will ever be.”

“Shut yo daddy long leg ass up”, you rolled your eyes looking at his figure up and down. The gray sweats and black wife beater combo he was wearing clearly showed how lanky (yet oddly muscular) he was. He smirked at you, “you just wanted n’ excuse to call me daddy”.

A small ‘tuh’ left your lips, “if I wanted to call you daddy I would’ve said so”. He turned to fully face you, walking slightly closer so he was right in front of you.

He grabbed your chin, forcing eye contact with you as he licked his lips. “We both know you want to”.

You stared at him wide eyed, ignoring the feeling of heat slightly raising to your cheeks.

Milo burst out cackling, almost spilling his juice on you. “Your face! You look like a lemur.” He held his stomach, closing his eyes, thinking what he said was so funny.

Furrowing your eyebrows at his odd (and somewhat disturbing) comparison, you rolled your eyes and walked past him. “You doin too much. And hurry up Miles is waiting for us-, annoyin’ ass”

“Wait for me King Julian!”

“Milo swear I won’t kill you”

Another weekend at the Miles Morales home.

This time Rio was cooking dinner. She had assigned you and Milo to go to the small store on the corner and fetch some more cilantro and lime.

Usually, Miles and you would be the ones assigned store duties, but Rio decided today was the day she would teach Miles to not burn the house down with his cooking.

…

“Ew look at that rat” you pointed disgusted, seeing the large half bald rat scurrying around quickly a few feet away. Milo turned his head away from the creature “why would you point that out.” He scowled, walking a little quicker. “Aye don’t leave me with that!” You caught up to him, turning back a few times to make sure it wasn’t getting any closer.

The trip to the store was quick. It didn’t take longer than a few minutes, plus you had picked out a few snacks for the twins and you to share.

As you were walking home with Milo, you saw a small cardboard box with the word free written across it.

With a quick glance at Milo, you realized he hadn’t noticed. Before he even saw that you were walking away from him, you were already crouching in front of the box.

Milo halted realizing you weren’t next to him anymore. Mildly concerned, he looked around quickly.

He spotted you a few feet back with your hand in a random box.

Quickly walking over to you, the furrow in his eyebrows never left. “Y/n ‘the hell you doin?”

When he got closer, he saw the black kitten in the box. He also noticed how the kitten had taken a liking to you.

“No.”

You turned to him offended, “Milo, we can’t just leave it here.”

“That’s exactly what we’re going to do. Now get up and cmon’” he lightly tugged your free hand. “Milo what if it dies out here?” He sighed, “The next person will get it. Ain’t our concern.”

You frowned, looking into his eyes. “Milo I can’t leave it. It has no one.”

“Ma, neither one of our homes has room or the time for a kitten. They pee everywhere and they stink. Plus they mean as hell. No.”

…

The wide smile on your face could’ve been spotted from a mile away. It didn’t take much after to convince Milo to take the cat with you two; it now in your coat pocket as you walked home.

He was annoyed at first, but after you forced him to interact with the kitten, he was quick to mumble out “maybe we can sneak 'em around”.

Milo wasn’t going to tell you the real reason the cat could tag along was because he simply couldn’t refuse with the way you were looking at him. Your face painted with big doe eyes and a slight pout made it almost impossible for him to ever say no.

And the wide happy smile that followed after he said yes?

Folded him like a damn chair.

…

You figured out she was a girl, and both decided on the name ‘Mila’.

Though Milo would never admit it, he loved the name. He loved even more the reasoning behind it.

“What should we name her?” You said, staring at her as you held her like simba in the opening scene of lion king.

“Ion know, it’s your cat.” He shrugged, lightly pulling you and kept walking so you could get back to the house.

“It’s our cat, we found her together. We’re her parents now.” You said mindlessly tucking her into your pocket, lightly rubbing her head as it stuck out.

Milo glanced at you. He knew you didn’t mean the way it came out but his brain immediately ran with the implication of having a kid with you. And even if it was just a cat, it brought an unexpected swelling to his heart.

“Mila.” He said softly, looking at you.

You smiled at her, not noticing Milo was gazing at you, “awe, that’s yo name from yo daddy, girl. It’s probably the only contribution he will ever make but at least it’s something” you said jokingly, petting her head.

He smiled at you, lightly licking his lips with a small head shake before looking away.

“Welcome to the family Mila.”

Another weekend at the Morales household and you found yourself in the kitchen.

Tonight was movie night for the three of you, which meant endless snacks and drinks were going to be shoved down your throat until you were stuffed to the brim. Was it healthy? Absolutely not. But does it taste good? 100%

But there was a predicament. Your “assigned” cup was on the highest shelf, and happened to be right out of your reach. You would’ve climbed on the counter to get it, but last time you tried to Jeff damn near killed you for “putting your nasty feet on his fresh cooking counters”, so that was off the table.

Usually Miles would be the one to get your cup because of the location. But when you called out for him to come in and help there was no response.

That was until Milo walked in, a slight hunch in shoulders as he walked lazily into the room. He smacked his lips, “He’s setting up the movie, whatchu want?” His tone, though somewhat annoyed, was oddly soft.

With a quick roll of the eyes you pointed to the cup in question. “Can you grab that f’me?”

He looked at you blankly for a second before nodding. “You know you don’t always gotta use that cup right?” He said amused, seeing the other cup selections that you could reach.

“Yea but that’s my cup.” You said matter of factly, facing your back to the counter so you could lean against it. He shrugged, walking closer towards you. “Whatever helps you sleep at night ma.”

He reached over you grabbing the cup.

His cologne was strong in your nostrils, such a gentle yet masculine scent wafted through your senses. It was intoxicating, yet not enough to be overwhelming.

You noticed the slight freckles that rested through Milo’s neck ran up his jaw. He had a very small amount of soft beard hair he had started to grow, barely visible had you not been looking so hard.

“Starings rude ma.” Milo said as held the cup, breaking you out of your trance.

You looked into his eyes, “Don’t flatter yourself sir.”.

Milo was oddly close, but it didn’t feel uncomfortable by any means.

If anything it felt natural, as if this is how close he should be at all times. “You seem to be flattering me ‘nough for the both of us.” He teased, his voice stringing deeper and huskier than usual.

You didn’t miss the small glance he held at your lips, his eyes lingering for a second before meeting your gaze again.

The air became thicker. It didn’t feel nauseating or suffocating though. It felt like a blanket had been placed over your body, effectively making you feel hot inside.

It was a feeling you had only ever felt at the thought of Miles.

Milo licked his lips as his eyes trailed up and down your features. There was an unrecognizable look in his eye. And even though unfamiliar, the way he was gazing at you sent a rupture of butterflies through your stomach all the way to your heart.

“Guys I got the movie on.” Miles walked into the kitchen, his attention placed on the phone in his hand.

Milo swiftly placed the cup on the counter next to you and moved back to the opposite counter. “You guys ready?” Milo asked as he looked up, a large smile playing at his face.

Milo looked at you once more before answering “yea.”

The Morales household was quieter than usual. Jeff and Rio had left for the night on a ‘one night parent only’ vacation, trusting you and the twins to be civil for their night out.

The soft moonlight shined through the window of Miles' room, caressing his floor.

As you were laying in his bed, he was sprawled out on top of you holding you close; something that would happen often at your sleepovers.

Miles had fallen asleep on you over thirty minutes ago; leaving you staring at the ceiling as he cuddled you.

Saying you were bored was an understatement. But you knew he often didn’t get to sleep well, so waking him wasn’t an option.

Letting your state of uninterest in sleep win, you attempted to wiggle his limbs off of you to make leeway to leave.

He mumbled gently under his breath, telling you to ‘stay still’. You stopped for a second, contemplating listening to his drowsy pleas.

Had you not been bright eyes and bushy tailed you most likely would’ve, but laying in a dark room with nothing to do but stay still absentmindedly was beyond even your infatuation for the boy. Sighing out a quick apology and a promise to return soon, you snuck out of his grasp.

Making a split second decision, you decided on heading to the kitchen for a snack.

The home was calm, an unoften serene that only happened in the dead night. It was just you and the JBL that stayed in the kitchen together.

Connecting your phone to the speaker, you turned on your soft Spanish playlist. You decided to take the initiative to clean the dishes that you three had piled up over the night. Even though you created the least amount of the mess.

…

The late night snack you had originally planned on getting had been tossed out the window.

The Music aided dearly in making the cleaning process quicker, swaying your hips to the soft sounds of guitar and humming along to whomever was singing as the songs ran on. Even if you could only pick out bits and pieces of the words they spoke as the dishes clinking was sometimes louder than the music, you mumbled what you could make out.

You were truly at peace.

You were unaware that Milo was still awake in his room playing on his console.

Hearing the soft Melodie’s coming from the kitchen, he hopped off the game to see what was happening. After sneakily making his way to the kitchen, he saw your dancing figure cleaning.

Leaning against the entrance to the kitchen, he watched you attentively; eyes following every movement you made.

Milo knew the way he felt in his chest was beyond infatuation for you at this point. He truly wasn’t sure to be relieved at the fact that you were unaware of his feelings, or want to crumple up into a ball. But as long asn you still liked his brother, it was for the best you didn’t know.

As the song came to an end the humming from your lips continued. Finishing up washing the dishes and setting them aside, Milo crept up behind you.

Placing his hands lightly on your hips, you jolted, startled by the presence behind you. You quickly turned around breaking the grasp he had on your hips, looking to see who had broken your serene. Of course.

Lightly punching his chest, you glared at him annoyed, “what the hell Milo! I damn near had a heart attack.”, you carefully whisper-shouted, in hopes to not wake Miles.

You turned back around to rinse out the sink, expecting him to move away from you, but he stayed behind you.

The soft sound of Natalia Lafourcade's voice filled the room, gentle music of “Soledad y el Mar” playing over the speaker.

Still feeling Milo’s presence behind you, you tilted your head over your shoulder.

“Do you need somethin-”

“Dance with me.”

He cut you off, his hands gently making their way back to your waist. You stared at him bemused, “I-what? No. I’m cleaning-” “dance with me.” He reiterated, “One song, this song and I’ll leave you alone.” You narrowed your eyes at him. You sighed, wiping your hands with the towel next to the sink. “You’ll leave me alone?” He nodded lightly, “For now. Damn just baila conmigo mujer.” Rolling your eyes, you nodded.

A lazy grin made its way to his face as he grabbed your hand gently turning you around, pulling you into his chest.

…

Oddly enough, you two quickly fell in sync. It was almost- nice.

He placed his hands around your waist again as you hummed lightly to rythm, swaying your hips against his.

He nestled his head into your shoulder.

A soft sigh escaped both your lips at the same time. You were surprised as he hummed with you to the cadence of her voice, “You know this song?” You whispered lightly, but loud enough that he could understand you. “Mi mamá plays music like this all the time when she cooks. It’s usually Ismael Rivera, but she has a few different people.” His mumble fell gently into the cusp of your neck. You hummed, nodding understandingly; recalling all the times you would hear Rio play her music as she cooked when you would hang out with Miles.

What he failed to tell you was that his dad would do just as he did when he saw his mother humming to the soft sounds of Spanish serenades in the kitchen. Jeff would whisk her away and dance with her; sweet affirmations of his love falling into her neck. Milo would catch them all the time when he and Miles were in their rooms, usually coming out for a moment to get water but instead ending up watching them silently from the hallway.

As the song neared its end he held you close, the rhythm you two had built slowly turning into a soft rock.

The feeling was oddly domestic, too domestic. It made you wonder- more of a realization than piqued curiosity- if you wouldn’t mind doing this again.

If you wouldn’t mind seeing Milo’s face when you went to bed or woke up in the morning.

If-, that you wouldn’t mind having a future with Milo.

Unbeknownst to the two of you, Miles woke up noticing the warmth from your embrace was gone indicating you weren’t in his room anymore.

He decided to get up, thinking you were in the kitchen getting a snack. As he walked out his room quietly, he heard the sound of two voices, your and his twin.

He stood silently in the hallway watching the sight in the kitchen. His face contorted from tired to a very displeased look, jealousy enveloping his body as he watched what was happening.

You would only do things like this with him, only share such loving embraces with him, not his counterpart.

When did you two become so close?

As his eyebrows furrowed, he went back to his room; choosing against ruining happiness that radiated from the two of you,

choosing to return to his bed cold and alone.

BONUS:

As the song ended, Laura Fygis rendition of “sabor a mi” replaced the tune. Milo gently let go of you with a small sigh, turning to leave you alone after one song as promised.

With a quick bite of your lip and a moment’s contemplation, you gently grabbed his bicep stopping him from leaving.

He turned his head over his shoulder to look at you, “you and I both know it’s criminal to not dance to this song.” You raised a brow, avoidantly asking him to dance with you again.

A smirk reached his lips, his eyes glistening, “Just say you can’t get enough a’me ma.” His hands swiftly lead right back to waist, smoothly joining your footing in sync once more.

“Don’t ruin the moment morales”

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hd-fan-fair · 5 months

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H/D CAREER FAIR 2023 MASTERLIST & REVEALS!

What an amazing fair we had this year. But this much awesomeness doesn't occur on it's own. The mods would like to take this opportunity to thank some people:

♥ To the authors and artists. We're so so thrilled you participated for the 2023 fair. Your talents and amazing works truly made the Fair what it is! There would have been no fair without you all.

♥ To our readers and viewers. Thanks for taking time to view, read, kudo and comment. We truly appreciate your efforts and love every single comment that was left.

♥ To everyone who participated in our Fair Cup. You guys were incredible! You put in so much effort to read and comment and hustle for your team. We hope you had much fun!

♥ To those of you who spent the time reccing stories and artworks you loved – thank you!

♥ And finally, to everyone who helped beta and cheer for our participants – you're all amazing!

So give yourselves a round of applause! Without further ado, this is the reveals!

Much Love, phoenixacid & sassy_cissa (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) ART 1. chachisoo drew "H.J. Potter", (2019) oil on canvas, Draco Malfoy (Digital Comic, General) 2. P_pato_roldnart drew Close Observation (Digital Art, General) 3. Itsphantasmagoria drew Holes (Digital Art, Explicit) 4. LordAzazel23 drew Under the Dementor's Watch (Digital Art, General) 5. porcelainheart3 drew One Foot In The Grave (Digital Art, Teen) 6. PinkElephant42 drew In Life & Death (Digital Art, General) 7. Dustmouth drew Harry Potter Gets a Job (Traditional Art/Comic, Mature)

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fcble · 5 months

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THE PROBLEM WITH FABLE is a video essay uploaded to YouTube on November 19, 2023. Despite being the channel’s only video, it was quickly picked up by the recommendation algorithm and gained nearly half a million views in its first week. The half-hour video examines and critiques Fable’s concept. Sentiments in the comment section were almost evenly split between agreeing with the video’s premise, and 2000-word essays about how it's wrong. Three days after the video was uploaded, the comment section was disabled.

CHAPTERS AND SELECTED EXCERPTS

THESIS STATEMENT [00:37 - 1:04] … The problem with Fable has always existed. It’s built into their concept—the very foundation of any group. A single concept doesn’t have to be a bad thing, if a group can properly execute and then push the boundaries and truly explore their concept. Fable does none of that. They get on stage in their hanboks only to perform pop song 8265734—now with gayageum.

THE ONLY GOOD PARTS (WHEN THE QUALITY IS BAD?) [03:42 - 6:29] … Before we get further into the bad, there are two—and only two—parts of their Korean concept that make sense. First, Korea has become such a large part of their image that all of their endorsements and brand deals are with South Korean companies. Hell will freeze over before a single Fable member represents a Western brand or product. Second, their dedication to Korean song titles is unmatched. In a surprising power move, Zenith Entertainment usually refuses to provide English translations.

PROBLEM #1 [6:30 - 15:44] … The greatest problem with Fable's concept is their inconsistency. It's been five years and they can't make up their minds about what they want to represent. They cherry pick what they want to represent. An instrument here or an outfit there. Slap a traditionally significant symbol—tiger, magpie, persimmon—on the album cover and call it a day.

For Fable, Korea exists in a bubble, which is obviously not the case, eschewing centuries of cultural mingling throughout East Asia. Their album titles are sajaseongeo—four character idioms—with roots in Chinese chengyu and similar to Japanese yojijukugo. Far from unique. For another example, Confucianism plays a major role not in their music, but in their variety shows and other content. As the state religion and governing philosophy throughout the Joseon dynasty, it was obviously highly influential on traditional Korean culture and eventually Fable. But in their promotion of the ideology, they miss out on swaths of history. While Confucianism’s five constant relationships permeated every social class, philosophy and learning were restricted to the upper class yangban. Which of course, Fable loves to represent themselves as. They’re always kings and noblemen and scholars—without a single mention of the common people.

Aside from ignoring social class, they also ignore half the population—women. It was, for lack of a better word, shitty to be a woman in Confucian society, and it continues to be shitty to be a woman in a society still strongly influenced by Confucian values. And yet Fable glorifies this past, where women were subservient to fathers and husbands and sons and not much more than property. To make matters worse, they do this all in front of an audience of teenage girls and young women. It’s doubtful that the people in charge of Fable’s creative direction and marketing have ever felt the touch of a woman.

PROBLEM #2 [15:45 - 22:39] … While Fable hasn’t figured out what they’re representing, they’ve certainly figured out who’s doing the representing. The treatment of their two diaspora members—gyopo, dongpo, whatever term you want to use—stands out from the treatment of the rest of the group. Andrew has expressed his frustration with not being able to participate in the group’s music as much as he wants to. And then there’s Mingeun. It’s impossible to talk about Fable without talking about Mingeun’s scandal at the peak of their career, when it was revealed that he had pretended to be a South Korean national for two years. That supposed secret alone should make it obvious that when it comes to the two of them, something is different. It speaks volumes about their goals as a group—fully Korean, for Korea, to the point where even diasporan Koreans don’t belong.

In an ironic twist, their refusal to entertain anyone other than “pure” Koreans becomes even more representative of contemporary Korean society. As the nation’s economy becomes increasingly more globalized, its social attitudes still remain firmly in the past. In Fable’s single-minded focus on Korean history, they continue to perpetrate such ideas. While one kpop group is not going to solve racism in South Korea—an issue deeply entrenched in their hermit kingdom past and the years under Japanese occupation—it becomes hypocritical for them to work so hard to export their culture while being intolerant of others.

CULTURAL REPRESENTATIVES [22:40 - 27:03] … No exploration of Fable’s concept and marketing would be complete without a mention of their nickname. In 2021, they became known as the “cultural representatives of kpop” by netizens. They've seemingly embraced the nickname since, if the way they've never switched up their concept is any indication. Which begs the question: why are they so intent on this direction? Kpop—with its idol culture inspired by Japan’s idol industry and the very industry inspired by the American one—is distinctly un-Korean. Kpop is instead a hybridization of cultures, with musical genres invented by Black Americans and its commodification of art invented by American capitalists. If Fable is really so intent on representing traditional Korean culture, then where’s the pansori song or sijo lyrics? Being the nugu face of the tourism industry—next to much bigger groups like BTS and Blackpink—is not enough. They need to do something other than appear in a Korean Air commercial and gush about how nice Jeju Island is at this time of the year.

SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON [27:04 - 29:12] … The inconsistency and hypocrisy of Fable’s concept does more harm than good. They promote a glorified version of history completely inaccurate to the actual past to impressionable young people and kpop stans incapable of thinking for themselves.

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Taylor & Travis Timeline

November 2023 - part 2

November 15 - New Heights Ep 64 airs Travis and Jason Kelce chat about their bye week and discuss what Travis got up to in Argentina, south of the equator (x 42:20). Our bestie Jason draws out what we are all wondering about...

"Sounds like a labyrinth of issues" says Jason.

Oh Travis, she is falling in love with you, and Jason saw the Argentina Night 1 acoustic performance of Labyrinth too.

Referencing the lyric change in Karma;

"How does it feel to officially be 'The guy on the Chiefs'?" Jason teased Travis on the podcast. With a laugh, Travis said that he had "no clue" Taylor planned to mention him during her show. "Well, I might have had a little bit of a clue," he then admitted. "But definitely when I heard it come out of her mouth, [it] still shocked me." "Yeah, you could tell in the video," Jason responded. "I was like, 'Oh shh! She really said that,'" Travis marveled.

When Jason notes that Scott Swift is wearing a Chiefs lanyard at the Eras Tour Night 3 he asks...

"What are we doing, Scott? You're gonna let this man's devilish good looks and relationship with your daughter sway you from a lifetime of fandom, Scott? Ridiculous." Travis further explained, "I might have persuaded him at dinner the night before. When I met him."

Travis commenting on the first Eras Tour he has attended as Taylor's boyfriend..

"The show was even more electric knowing that I had a little bit more to enjoy," he said of watching her perform in Argentina. "Taylor absolutely ripped it. She killed it and it looked like she was having some fun up there."

We love to see the support Travis is showing to our little Indie artist.

We are to expect to see Taylor and Travis spending time together during the Eras tour break according to ET sources (x)

"Taylor has a two-month break in her tour, taking December and January off, and the couple is planning to spend more time together" during that time.

ET reports (x)

Donna and Ed Kelce, and Andrea and Scott Swift are expected to meet for the first time on Monday as the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs face off for Monday Night Football.

We can expect to see Taylor at the November 20 game too.

November 16 - Chiefs post to twitter and New Heights repost (x) welcoming Scott Swift to the Chiefs Kingdom after being wooed by Travis to change allegiance from the Eagles. Scott is pictured with Travis wearing a Chiefs lanyard at the Eras Tour in Argentina

November 17 - The Eras Tour, Estadio Nilton Santos, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Stay Beautiful (guitar) & Suburban Legends (piano)

November 18 - The Eras Tour, Estadio Nilton Santos, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Show postponed due to extreme hot weather conditions and after the tragic loss of a fan Ana last night.

November 19- The Eras Tour, Estadio Nilton Santos, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Rain show

Dancing With Our Hands Tied (guitar) & Bigger Than The Whole Sky (piano) - likely a tribute to Ana (& Ally who died from cancer and was a recipient of a 22 hat)

Taylor is awarded 10 BBMA’s tying with Drake as the most awarded artist.

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November 20 - The Eras Tour, Estadio Nilton Santos, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - rescheduled show see Nov 18.

Me! (guitar) & So It Goes (piano)

Chiefs v Eagles, Arrowhead Stadium. Travis and Jason Kelce go head to head. Eagles defeat Chiefs 21 - 17.

WSJ article: Travis Kelce Opens Up About Taylor Swift and His Life After the NFL; Travis Kelce for the Wall Street Journal (x)

At the moment, of course, the only thing millions of people want to know about Kelce’s future is whether or not it will include Taylor Swift. And the second thing they’re dying to know is how he and she got together in the first place.

... People have even speculated that Kelce somehow spoke his desire into the universe and just—manifested Swift?

He laughs. “I don’t know if I want to get into all of it,” he says, and then he gets into it, because fountain.

It all started when he tried to meet Swift at her Arrowhead concert in July and got blocked, presumably by security. He then recounted the experience in a charming way on the podcast he does with Jason. Soon after, he says, he received an unbidden assist from inside Team Swift.

“There were definitely people she knew that knew who I was, in her corner [who said]: Yo! Did you know he was coming? I had somebody playing Cupid.” He wasn’t aware at the time, however; the revelation only came later, after he looked down at his phone and got the shock of a lifetime. “She told me exactly what was going on and how I got lucky enough to get her to reach out.”

He lets slip that some of his early helpers were part of the Swift family tree. “She’ll probably hate me for saying this, but…when she came to Arrowhead, they gave her the big locker room as a dressing room, and her little cousins were taking pictures…in front of my locker.”

Understandably, he’s not handing out details about the first date, though he will say that he managed to not be nervous. “When I met her in New York, we had already kind of been talking, so I knew we could have a nice dinner and, like, a conversation, and what goes from there will go from there.”

If anyone was nervous, he adds, it was his core group. “Everybody around me telling me: Don’t f— this up! And me sitting here saying: Yeah—got it.”

As those first heady days unfolded, as news bulletins and cutaways showed Swift cheering Kelce on from his suite, Kelce was uncharacteristically guarded with the media. “That was the biggest thing to me: make sure I don’t say anything that would push Taylor away.”

Likewise, his mother. Donna Kelce still berates herself for how she handled a question about Taylor on the Today show. Trying not to sound too enthusiastic, she came off underwhelmed. Kelce, not wanting his mom to feel bad, immediately phoned her and assured her that she did a super job—adding that her green eyeglasses looked great.

These days, however, with the relationship progressing, Donna feels more at liberty. “I can tell you this,” she says, beaming. “He’s happier than I’ve seen him in a long time…. God bless him, he shot for the stars!”

Kelce seems freer, too. He doesn’t need to be asked about Taylor; he mentions her unreservedly, lavishes praise on her, calls her “hilarious,” “a genius,” notes that they share compatible worldviews, especially when it comes to family and work. “Everybody knows I’m a family guy,” he says. “Her team is her family. Her family does a lot of stuff in terms of the tour, the marketing, being around, so I think she has a lot of those values as well, which is right up my alley.”

One of Kelce’s friends describes a sweet, magical moment, a late-night gathering around Kelce’s firepit. Kelce and Swift looked like two “peas in a pod,” the friend says, and at one point they even burst into a memorable duet of—“Teenage Dirtbag”?

This must be fake

My lips start to shake

How does she know who I am?

Kelce squints into the distance: He’s not sure they were singing…Wheatus. But he allows that his memory might be compromised.

“There was some wine involved, for sure.”

LONG BEFORE MEETING SWIFT, Kelce was just another Swiftie. In some ways he still is. He explains the concept of her concert—“She does it in eras”—as if you live in a yurt in Outer Mongolia. Then he eagerly informs you that the night he attended, he was counting the minutes until she got to 1989. (Both he and Swift were born in 1989.) “ ‘Blank Space’ was one I wanted to hear live for sure. I could make a bad guy good for the weekend. That’s a helluva line!”

More often than not, he says, it was a Swiftian beat, a melody that captivated him. (“She writes catchy jingles.”) But lately he’s all about those lyrics; he’s scrutinized the breakup stuff. What a miracle, he says, the way Swift can turn life into poetry. “I’ve never been a man of words. Being around her, seeing how smart Taylor is, has been f—ing mind-blowing. I’m learning every day.”

Something he might need to learn from Swift: how to handle the attention. Kelce lives in a quiet neighborhood north of downtown—leafy trees, trim lawns, no gates. There’s now a clutch of desperate-looking dudes with cameras stationed on his sidewalk 24/7. He’s followed everywhere, drones buzzing overhead—it’s stressful, more than he lets on, according to one confidante.

“Obviously I’ve never dated anyone with that kind of aura about them…. I’ve never dealt with it,” Kelce says. “But at the same time, I’m not running away from any of it…. The scrutiny she gets, how much she has a magnifying glass on her, every single day, paparazzi outside her house, outside every restaurant she goes to, after every flight she gets off, and she’s just living, enjoying life. When she acts like that I better not be the one acting all strange.”

Asked if he has anything to teach Swift, he looks shy. He can’t think of anything offhand.

Football?

Sure, he says, sounding unsure.

Of course, the thing she probably wants to learn about most is him. While talking to Kelce you realize all at once that the most avid participant in the national scavenger hunt for clues about his character is likely Swift herself.

...

Indeed, Kelce has warned Swift that she’s going to have to reckon with this part of his personality. Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell—they will all be a part of the relationship. “I told Taylor that I have that world, I’ve got to introduce it to her. I let her know: This is my jam right here.”

...

Minutes later, he’s steering past a small airport, where Swift’s plane is often prominently parked these days. Is it there now, gleaming in the moonlight? The Kelce eras tour is coming to a close. Left unsaid, but palpable: She’s at the house, waiting.

November 22 - New Heights Ep. 65 airs. (x)

(5:30) Jason acknowledges the power of Taylor’s fan base in seeing the Christmas charity single “Fairytale of Philadelphia” to No. 1 on iTunes.

“We owe a big thanks to one group in particular, besides the 92 percenters,” said Jason, referencing New Heights listeners. “And that’s the Swifties, because the Swifties came out.”

“One thousand percent,” agreed Travis.

“I got like 85 tweets from Swifties across the world saying, ‘Oh, you think eight’s good? We’re taking this to No. 1,” said Jason, laughing. “It’s a powerful group of people.”

“Thanks, Taylor, appreciate you,” added Travis. “And thank you to the Swifties. Thank you.”

Travis is trolled for his old tweets and plans for Thanks giving are discussed. Travis reveals he has no one to share the holiday with (Taylor is in Brazil).

November 24 - The Eras Tour, Allianz Parque, São Paulo, Brazil

Now That We Don’t Talk (guitar) & Innocent (piano)

Travis is seen in Kansas City at KFC as discussed on his podcast for Thanks Giving

November 25,26 - The Eras Tour, Allianz Parque, São Paulo, Brazil

Safe & Sound (guitar) & Untouchable (piano)

Travis arrives in Las Vegas ahead of Chiefs v Raiders game tomorrow

November 26 - Chiefs v Raiders, Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas. Chiefs defeat Raiders 31 - 17

The Chiefs recognise Travis Kelce for yet another record and Taylor shows her support - check out Taylor's like on the post (x)

The Eras Tour N3, Allianz Parque, São Paulo, Brazil

Say Don’t Go (guitar) & It’s Time To Go (piano)

Taylor announces that acoustic songs will be reset for 2024. That's a wrap for The Eras Tour 2023.

November 27 - Taylor arrives in Kansas City to see Travis

People publish article (x)

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's romance isn't for show — his friends believe it's the "real deal," a source tells PEOPLE.

"Travis' friends think this is the real deal for him,” the insider close to the Kansas City Chiefs star says exclusively. “They're still a little shocked by all of it — that he's dating the Taylor Swift, but they've seen how down to earth she is with his friends and family.”

The source adds that the relationship is “growing” because the NFL tight end, 34, and the music superstar, 33, both have found success in their own worlds — and they continue to appreciate one another's accomplishments.

“They're both really hard workers, and he acknowledges her art is hers, and he has what's his,” the source tells PEOPLE. “He understands the territory their relationship comes with and like he said, isn't letting any of the hoopla impact how they're growing together.”

The source adds, “Their relationship is about the two of them, and he sees Taylor for who she is and vice versa."

November 29 - Taylor flies to London, England.

Taylor is named Spotify's Top Global Artist.

Taylor releases "You're losing Me" on streaming services - this song was previously only available on CD and exclusively sold at The Eras Tour venues.

Um ok this is unreal?? I just wanted to say to anyone who listened to my music this year, anywhere in the world, thank you. Getting named Spotify’s Global Top Artist in 2023 is truly the best birthday/holiday gift you could’ve given me. We’ve seriously had THE MOST fun this year out there on tour and now this. Are you serious. So I was trying to think of a way to thank you, and a lot of you have been asking me to put “You’re Losing Me (From The Vault)” on streaming… so here you go! You can finally listen EVERYWHERE now 💋

Jack Antonoff shares a photo to IG stories revealing the date of when "You're Losing Me" was written - Dec 5, 2021. This is so much earlier than most fans expected.

Taylor walks the red carpet for Beyonce's Renaissance Tour Movie Premiere in London, England. She looks STUNNING!!!!

Taylor "likes" an old Paul McCartney post about his relationship with his wife Linda (now deceased) leading fans to believe "Sweet Nothing" has more to do with Paul McCartney's story than Taylor and Joe's.

November 30 - Tree Paine blasts Deuxmoi on X for their slander (x)

Taylor returns to Kansas City to be with Travis.

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AO3 Wrapped for Writers 2023

no one tagged me, i just wanted to do this so i found a format and added to it a little bit. anybody who wants to do this is welcome to say i tagged them <3<3<3 or don't just do it bc its fun and silly <3<3<3

EDIT: i saw like yesterday (days after i drafted this) that @lilac-hecox did this first so MAJOR credit to lilac for doing it first!!

Works Published: 12

Word Count: 144,428

Bookmarks: 111

Most Popular by Kudos: right where you left me (damien/shayne, rated teen and up, 24k words, 141 kudos)

Most Hits: the right side of my neck (still smells like you) (spencer/tommy, rated teen and up, 3k words, 1k hits)

Longest: if we keep score (spencer/tommy soccer au, rated mature, 52k words)

Shortest: he said baby (that's what he called me) (spencer/tommy, rated general audiences, 2k words)

Most Comments: right where you left me with 42 comments

Most Memorable Comment: honestly every comment i got was insanely sweet and everything to me but. i have to give it to my fave fic analyst, @wallpaper-inside-my-heart for every comment she has ever left, but especially the one about the hands. i won't post it all here but here's a snippet:

so… how long does it take katie to mention hands in each of her fics? Well, let’s get right into it 1.) the moon and the stars: first mention roughly 1k words in, handholding ensues (relatively mild stuff) total hand count : 12 2.) the right side of my neck hand mention right in the description, we are starting of strong! and only 571 words until the first hand grab! total hand count: 20, 5 of those include hand to hand contact with eachother 3.) baby, you’re a haunted house ah, I forgot that I also contributed to the hand agenda aka mentioned directly in the prompt 33 words until hand mention in the fic!! your personal record, I believe <3 in total 19 hand mentions, 8 of which directly related to hand holding 😹💕 4.) baby, that’s what he called me 927 words until the first hand mention, I would say you are holding back again; but it does include tommy soothing spencer so only 8 hand mentions?? however most of them include skin contact and comfort so… my point still stands 5.) they lost their minds 442 words until first hand mention, we are getting lower again! 16 hand mentions, half of which include skin contact 🫶 6.) i could be the reason 824 words until amengela get their first hand mention! 15 hand mentions, 6 of which include contact! definitely much less hand focused than your prior fics, but it’s still there! 7.) ‘til our fingers decompose, keep my hand in yours I mean… it’s literally in the title this time 😹 it does take almost 2222 words until the first actual hand mention; however, it is once again the initiation of hand-holding! said handholding makes up 80% of the hand mentions in this fic, with the remaining two including skin contact as well 8.) rwylm I open this fic, search for “hand” and then just stare at that 58 for a little while 😹😹💕 now it does take 914 words until the first one is mentioned and upon further inspection, the lack of physical contact in those hand mention reflects the loneliness Shayne feels in this fic so well! tho I love that a couple of them are ppl reaching out to Shayne as comfort! 🥹 and then the 9 hand touches initiated by Damien + the single one by Shayne!! → feeling slightly insane about this rn 💜 9.) sunflower 384 words until hands make their first appearance! 26 hand mentions; out of those only 5 of those include direct contact between our heroes, which feels very fitting for a secret identity fic! <3 10.) domo katie… idk how to tell you this… but there are 70 hand mentions in this (53, excluding verbs that contain the word, etc.) and you know full well that the first one makes an appearance in the second sentence of this (absolutely amazing) fanfic now how many of those mentions are spencer just thinking about tommy’s hands, you may ask? 30 mentions or rather 57% of the total count! → the last mention is literally even more HEARTBREAKING in this context!!, I feel the need to underline that again!

Fic that made me cry: oh.... right where you left me AND dancing on my own (spencer/tommy, rated teen and up, 21k words)

Fic that made me smile: sunflower (spencer/tommy spiderman au, rated teen and up, 12k words) got some good chuckles outta me!

Main character I wrote: spencer agnew (9 works) followed by tommy bowe (8 works) and shayne topp (6 works)

Top tropes: first kiss (6 works), established relationship (4 works), and pining (4 works)

Gifts: blue christmas for nat and we can leave the christmas lights up 'til january for stella (technically baby, you're a haunted house was Also for stella though i didn't know it at the time xoxo)

Collaborations: none this year..... maybe 2024? haha jk.............. unless?

Events: also none this year. maybe ill organize an event in 2024. once again haha jk...................................... unless?

thank you for coming along on my fic renaissance!! see you next year,,,, ive got BIG things planned <3<3<3

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John 20:19 (NIV). “On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”

“What does John 20:19 mean?” By BibleRef.com:

“Verse Commentary: When Jesus was arrested, all the disciples ran away (Matthew 26:56). John and Peter followed the arresting mob at a distance (John 18:15), and John was at the foot of the cross when Jesus was executed (John 19:25–27). Other than that, Jesus' closest followers have apparently been in hiding since His capture. John again uses the term "the Jews" in reference to the religious leaders of Jerusalem and their loyal adherents. It would be reasonable for the disciples to assume that if Jesus' enemies could have Him killed, they might well be looking to get rid of His students, as well.

That Jesus appears in a locked room means that His resurrected body is not blocked by physical barriers. John and Peter saw empty grave clothes in the tomb (John 20:6), but the stone was moved aside (John 20:1). That open tomb, it seems, was a sign for Jesus' followers, not a means for His escape. It allowed them to see what had happened but wasn't done "so that" Jesus could come out.

Jesus' comment here echoes what He said during the Last Supper (John 14:27). It's also the sort of thing a person might say in polite greeting. There's a good chance it was also meant to reduce any sense of fear. When these men had seen Jesus walking on water, they were terrified (John 6:19). They were probably startled to see Him appear, alive and well, in a secured room.

Not long before this moment, Mary Magdalene and other women had come to tell the disciples that they had seen Jesus alive (John 20:18; Luke 24:10–11) and were apparently ignored. One can only imagine the vindication she would have felt when learning that they, too, had encountered Him.

Verse Context: John 20:19–23 is the first time Jesus appears to His disciples after being raised from death. They are hiding behind a locked door in fear when Jesus appears to speak with them. Jesus shows physical evidence of His crucifixion, then gives the men a partial measure of the Holy Spirit. This validates the earlier testimony of Mary Magdalene. Thomas is the only disciple not present, and the next passage shows his resistance to believe what has happened.

Chapter Summary: Peter and John get a report from Mary Magdalene that Jesus' body is gone. They arrive to find an open grave, and empty grave clothes, along with a folded face cloth. When the two men leave, Mary remains and suddenly encounters a resurrected Jesus. Though she tells the others, they resist believing until they see Jesus in person. Thomas is especially stubborn, and Jesus remarks on how blessed they are to have been given so much proof. John points out that his writing is meant to prove that Jesus is the Messiah, arranged to encourage those who read to come to faith.

Chapter Context: Most of Jesus' disciples scattered and hid when He was arrested (Matthew 26:56). Only John and some women were present to see His death and burial (John 19:26–30, 41–42; Matthew 27:60–61). When Jesus' tomb is seen empty, there is further confusion. Jesus appears to His followers, proving that He is alive, and remarking that they are blessed to have so much proof. John will complete his account in the next chapter with another encounter and more reminders about the nature of his writing.

Book Summary: The gospel of John was written by the disciple John, decades later than the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. The author assumes that a reader is already familiar with the content of these other works. So, John presents a different perspective, with a greater emphasis on meaning. John uses seven miracles—which he calls “signs”—in order to prove that Jesus is, in fact, God incarnate. Some of the most well-known verses in all of the Bible are found here. None is more famous than the one-sentence summary of the gospel found in John 3:16.”

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Review of some anti-Tony comments I saw on Ao3. Part 2

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52704154/chapters/133310575

I'm back with a new episode. Hope you are excited. I am. "Pepper told Tony to save universe". Ok, this time we are going to travel a little bit in the future from Civil War – what are we going to see in Avengers Endgame? The dialogue starts at 0:41:50. Tony just invented a controlled time travel and put his daughter to bed. But we should probably take a closer look at why he invented it, and then we’ll return to Pepper. Tony lost Peter, who was like a son to him, and we will return to that later, cause we have some statements about Peter here. He felt guilt because of that. In Spider Man Homecoming he said to him “… if you died… I feel like that’s on me” (1:21:20). Let’s get back even further, to Age of Ultron and look at what Tony sees when Wanda plays with his mind – his greatest fear – Thanos’ army conquered Earth, Avengers are dead, he couldn’t save them (0:10:20). He carries this fear through the Infinity Saga, like a prophecy. Peter’s life is added to that after he met him. And in Infinity War the prophecy partially comes true, half of the universe and Peter are dead. Peter knew Tony will feel guilt, and said “I’m sorry” while dissipating into dust (2:15:30). So, what do we have here: Tony’s greatest fear came true, he is devastated. He feels like it’s all on him. He has a nervous breakdown once back to Earth, and then we will see him only 5 years later. But we do know what he was doing those years – he was studying time travel. He was a physicist, but not an expert in that specific field before. We see him confidently talking about the topic with Scott, Steve and Nat in the Endgame (0:34:20). Then the same day he sees Peter’s photo (0:39:25) and tries to do tests again. Test time travel models. Why again? Because he already has everything ready for it: knowledge, instruments and a lot of failed tests, which we can infer from the scene (0:39:35) and from what he said to others at 0:34:20. At 0:39:35 he said “I’ve got a mild inspiration. I’d like to see if it checks out”. Means he wasn’t truly honest with the team – he thought about time travel before and tried to invent/discover it. He is not starting from scratch in that scene. Memories of Peter gave him an idea, and he succeeded this time. Conclusion: Tony didn’t need others saying him to save the dusted. Like he always did before, he tried to solve the problem on his own. Let’s finally move forward to Pepper, who “said him to save the world”. You are stating that “Tony was trying to refuse saving the dusted”. As we already discovered he did want to return them. He tried to do so. Now he has the solution. He looks at his daughter and wife, and understands that there is a chance that he will lost them, or die. He goes to Pepper not for permission to stay, but for permission to go. We are back at 0:41:50 and what Tony is doing here – he is trying to convince himself not to do it “Something tells me I should put it in a lockbox and drop it to the bottom of the lake and go to bed” (0:42:57), but Pepper knows him, that he will not stop and will not be able to live with it. She says “But would you be able to rest?”. He needed her permission. Basically to risk them, and to die. Let’s go to the last scene of this review – 0:46:20. Here again Tony shows his expertise in time travel physics saying what is going on with Banner’s time travel attempt. Then he is saying “I just want peace. Turns out resentment is corrosive, and I hate it.” He is not saying “Pepper sent me to save the world”. It’s him. He brought himself because it is who he is. And he just can’t do any other way.

#tony stark #iron man #avengers endgame #spider man homecoming #avengers age of ultron #pepper potts #avengers infinity war #peter parker #marvel #mcu

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Once upon a time, @evandiaz wrote “Love in the Time of TikTok”, and I told her right away that I was gonna podfic it one day because it brought me that much joy. It’s been a while, but the time has finally come! 💃

This podfic is an utterly chaotic mess, but enjoy? 😂

Length: 42 minutes 34 seconds Format: Streaming & MP3 Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV) Relationship: Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz (Buddie) Ao3 Link: Here

Summary: "It seems kind of dystopian to let millions of people know he’s in love with his best friend before telling said best friend first, doesn’t it?

Whatever. Fuck it.

It’s not like anyone he knows in real life watches his Tik Toks anyway, so he can be a little freer with the truth even if doesn’t tell his followers everything. He already keeps a tight cinch around his emotions when he’s at work, he can let his guard down a little on here, right?"

Wrong.

There was a lot of debate over how to make a podfic of this fic work, but finally, after tossing around some ideas with a few people, I came up with a plan. However, I was gonna need some help, so without further ado -

Guest Starring as random TikTok commenters (in order of appearance):

@theyarnmaidstale (passing the phone & first comment)

@burnthatbridge

Benoinin [Ao3]

@sadieyuki

@some-little-infamy

@catdadeddie

@prettyboyandthekid

@thatnerdemryn

@kimannebb (reappears as the final comment)

@brassm

@tulipintulle

@mayonnaisetoffees

Some of them volunteered. Some readily agreed when asked. Some, I had to make the 🥺 face at in DM. You can decide who is who. 😂

But I’m grateful to them all! Ty, darlings! This podfic wouldn’t be what it is without you! 🥰

#evan buckley #eddie diaz #buddie #911 #podfic #mists podfics #evandiaz #love in the time of tiktok #jack bby! <3 #i had way too much fun with this tbh #it's so chaotic #help #😂😂😂😂😂

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crinkled-emotions · 9 months

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TGM Masterlist (July/ August 2023)

Hi team!

Welcome to my masterlist for my Top Gun: Maverick Fics.

I’ve separated the fics into sections; the sickfics, the Fixin’ to Break Verse (aka Deester’s story) and then G Stretches her Fingers (the tumblr ficlets I post when I remember I can write) and finally, miscellaneous fics that don’t fit into either of the previous categories.

All of these links are to the fics on my AO3; CallMeG. If you read them please drop a comment, it validates me :).

Thank you so much for taking the time to check this out, I hope you find what you were looking for!!

** = multi-chapter fics

^ = emeto warning

The Sickfics

(Swimming) In the Floods

Warnings: ^

Description: Rooster was fine for the first twenty-four hours after he got home. He had a hot shower, he hugged Maverick, Phoenix told him he was the biggest dumbass and then kissed his forehead.

Then things... things got a little dark.

... Baby One More Time

Warnings: ^

Description: Phoenix’s sixth sense is knowing when something’s wrong with someone in her team. Or, Rooster goes down with a stomach bug and the rest of the team try to work with it, around it, and, when it all gets too hard, they call in back up.

The Ache

Warnings: ^

Description: Rooster hits his head on a jet whilst out at the hangar with Maverick and the crew. A headache isn’t the only thing that comes of it.

Top Chicago (or other relevant title)

Description: Rooster is in a car accident in Chicago. The team at Chicago Med and Chicago PD try to solve the case. The Daggers rally, and Maverick tries to cope.

(And I Can’t) Breathe

Description: The Daggers continue their usual chaotic ways, including insulting Hangman. When Rooster goes down with a cold, they take the piss out of him too. It proves to be more serious than they thought.

Assholes (and all things doctors aren’t supposed to be)

Description: When Rooster admits defeat and goes to the doctor to seek treatment, he is humiliated and eventually turns away. It only gets worse from there.

Red Desert (heal our blues)

Warnings: ^

Description: Bob gets sick at the Hard Deck. Hangman steps up.

Itching and Imposters

Description: Hangman has to show his vulnerable side when he gets the chicken pox and makes a late night phone call to Maverick.

Ground Tied

Description: Rooster is honorably discharged from the Navy after an accident that leaves him with a broken back. The rest of the Daggers surround him, but he’s not ready yet.

I cried in your dark brown eyes (for the thousandth time)

Description: The Daggers love watching Criminal Minds despite the horrors they’ve seen in combat; Rooster has a chest infection.

So I drown it out (like I always do)

Description: Bob has the stomach flu. Rooster steps up to help.

Fixin’ To Break Verse

Two people fall together, fall apart, and make their way back home.

(Are We) Fixin’ to Break

Description: After reuniting with Maverick on the Dagger mission, Rooster struggles to come home. His wife makes sure he does.

2006

Description: We cut back to 2006. Dee kicks Bradley off the piano after he belts Great Balls of Fire. They find common ground.

2007

Description: Dee continues to try and get through Bradley’s walls; Bradley receives information about a man he once considered family. Between all of this, there’s a birthday party and a decision.

2008

Description: Bradley Bradshaw becomes Rooster, Dee makes headway in her career and with her family. The couple make a trip to Chicago.

G Stretches her Fingers (The Tumblr Ficlet Collection)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37

38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47

Miscellaneous Fics

Daderick

Description: Amelia gets into trouble at school. To avoid further punishment at home, she calls Rooster. Unfortunately for her, he was an only child.

Truth or Dare

Description: In an attempt to get to know each other better, the Daggers play a game of truth or dare. Secrets from a decade ago unravel.

The Prequel

Description: After a night on the town, Rooster and Phoenix end up in bed together. This is the aftermath.

Daggers (in firefighter uniforms)

Description: still coming to terms with the events of the uranium mission, Maverick sees that his team isn’t coping and reaches out to an old friend for a change of scenery. Robert “Bobby” Nash is more than happy to oblige.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

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kris-creations · 9 months

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Here’s Season 2 of my analysis for Fruits Basket Cuts and Changes

I apologize for the delay, been really busy and had Furuba burnout while working on this.

Here’s part 1

Left Out/changed entirely:

-Kyo noticing and feeling relieved Tohru’s scratch from True Form healed with no scars.

-Hiro ran to Kazuma’s dojo after stealing Tohru’s notebook.

Season 2 Ep 1, Chapter 42

Left out: Minegawa not wanting to elect a new Yuki Club President and the discussion of hiding the fact she broke a Yuki Club rule.

Season 2 Ep 2, Chapter 46

Left out: Kyo noticed a glimpse of Tohru’s anxiety for the future.

Season 2 Ep 3, Chapters 36, 47

Changed: They awkwardly combined both of Yuki’s important conversations with Ayame.

Season 2 Ep 5, Chapter 50

Changed: Kureno actually bumped into Arisa as well at the convenient store, further adding the similarities to Arisa’s first meeting with Tohru.

Season 2 Ep 5, Chapter 53

Left out: Tohru’s window broke and Kyo saw her holding the hat.

Part 2: https://www.tumblr.com/kris-creations/724948386244067328/xgirl109

Part 3: https://www.tumblr.com/kris-creations/724949438171316224/xgirl109

#fruits basket #furuba #fruits basket 2019 #fruits basket season 2 #tohru honda #kyo sohma #yuki sohma #fruits basket analysis #Cuts and Changes

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kariachi · 1 year

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Okay let’s look at figuring out some dragon size ratios!

Carenath at nearly a year is almost Cricket’s height in the shoulder

Cricket’s estimated shoulder height is 16 hands

All the Weyrs of Pern puts Ramoth and Mnementh at three times the size of Faranth and Carenath

Carenath is smaller than Ruth

Ruth is half a head bigger than ‘any runner beast’, ‘half the size of his fellows’, ‘full head higher in the shoulder than runner beasts’, as per The White Dragon

9th Pass dragon lengths

Green- 20-25 ft

Blue- 25-30 ft

Brown- 30-35 ft

Bronze- 35-38 ft

Gold- 38-42 ft

Ramoth full length 45 ft

DLG describes Ruth as 20 feet long, but since we’re working off foot measurements here and this doesn’t align with his being ‘half’ the size of other dragons as stated in the books (more like 1/3) I think we can safely set it aside for now

Considering these notes, before anything else we should be working out the shoulder heights for Carenath and Ruth. We don’t know for certain Carenath’s full shoulder height, but given no further physical growth is mentioned in DragonsDawn we can safely make the assumption that he was pretty much at full growth there. We don’t get a specific or even approximate measurement for how much shorter in the shoulder Carenath is compared to Cricket, but Sean feels it’d be easy to transfer directly from one to the other, so the difference can’t be too great. We’ll say just over 15 hands mayhaps? Enough to be notable, especially when later compared to Ruth, but not so much hopping from one onto the other would be a bad idea.

So, our shoulder height estimate for Carenath is then at 5′2″.

For Ruth it’s a littler harder as don’t know what size horses they’re talking about and apparently can’t quite decide how much larger he is than them. We know from the DLG that the Pernese started off with Shires for their draft horses, among which stallions average about 17.2 hands, so we’re going to assume he’s a hand passed that at 18.2 hands, to fit with the ‘half head larger than any runner beast’ comment. The average horse is 15 hands, so this would be about a foot taller in the shoulder than them, so might be a bit iffy for the ‘full head higher’ comment, but we work with what we’ve got.

Making the estimate for Ruth’s shoulder height 6 ft.

Now, Ruth is stated to be half the size of his fellow dragons, which doesn’t really tell you too much given the range of sizes there, but you do what you can. We know he’s in proportion to other dragons, if nothing else. Now, given a full 50% of dragons are greens and they’re the ones things like ‘a dragonlength’ is determined by, I think we can safely go with him being compared to greens here.

So, if we assume Ruth is compared to greens in size, and the average length of a green is 22.5 ft, we can assume that Ruth is about 11′4″ long.

Which means that our estimated height:length ratio for Ruth, and since he’s in proportion all dragons, is 1:1.87.

This, actually lines up pretty well with the ratio given in the DLG, which was 1:1.9. And actually looking at it the First Pass dragon measurements listed there fit damn near perfectly with our estimates for Ruth here. In fact if anything our Ruth measurements are more square. And using this ratio Carenath would be 9′7″ long.

Seems a bit small given All the Weyrs of Pern.

So we’ve already run into what might be a problem. Not for me because I’m just trying to work out something vaguely in line with canon by way of numbers and otherwise give no shits, but for consistency in canon.

Though we’re Pern fans so, who’s really looking for consistency?

So, we’ll back up, take another angle. We can do a few of these, it’s fun. This time we’ll look into that ‘third the size of Ramoth and Mnementh’ thing.

So, in The White Dragon Mnementh is estimated by Robinton to be the largest of the bronze dragons and to my knowledge we don’t have a canon length for him, so we have to assume it’s about 38 ft- the maximum listed for bronzes. We could go larger, but given we’re not given anything besides ‘bigger than other bronzes and smaller than Ramoth’, certainly not- to my memory- anything to say he’s challenging golds for size like Canth does bronzes, I’d rather stick with our given limits there.

So, if Carenath is a third Mnementh’s size, we can assume his length is 12′7″. Using the estimate height above, that would make the height:length ratio of dragons 1:2.4

Using that ratio, again assuming Ruth is half the size of a green, Ruth would be 4′8″ at the shoulder, or about 14 hands. So, probably smaller than Carenath. Certainly not bigger than a horse.

So okay, let’s bump the Ruth size up a bit then, give it a test. He’s certainly not meant to be half the size of a brown or some such, because that’d only be about 25% smaller than a small green and so not likely to be worth quite as much hand wringing as apparently happened. So we’ll bump him up a rank. Half the size of your average blue, 27.5 ft, leaving him at 13′9″ long. Using the above ratio that would put his shoulder height at 5′8″, or about 17.1 hands.

See that fits much better with what’s described in the stories. Still seems a bit low, for something described as larger than any horse, though.

So, if we use this to assume a 1:2.4 height:length ratio for dragons, what do we get as our average for the various ranks in the Ninth Pass?

Greens: Height- 9.3 ft ; Length- 22.5 ft

Blues: Height- 11.4 ft ; Length- 27.5 ft

Browns: Height- 13.5 ft ; Length- 32.5 ft

Bronzes: Height- 15.2 ft ; Length- 36.5 ft

Golds: Height- 16.6 ft ; Length- 40 ft

But the real test of accuracy here is to check the estimated Carenath height vs an estimated Mnementh height, so let’s go.

Mnementh estimated height- 15.8 ft

Third Mnementh estimated height- 5.2 ft

Carenath estimated height- 5.16 ft

So it works at least, more or less. Close enough to government work.

Of course this is based off an estimate that assumed Carenath was done growing. The DLG described the grown first clutch as being 16 and 18 hands at the shoulder, and given the closeness of our first estimate I’d be remiss to just skip over that in this post.Given the first clutch consisted of browns, bronzes, and golds, it’s probably safe to assume that going by these number Carenath probably would’ve ended up somewhere around 17 hands (note: underneath our initial Ruth estimate but about even with our third). This would leave us with a ratio of about 1:2.25.

With this ratio our ‘half-a-green’ Ruth would be 5 ft at the shoulder- again rather small- and our ‘half-a-blue’ Ruth would be 6.1 ft at the shoulder. In this case ‘half-a-green’ Ruth is a the only one smaller than Carenath, while the other is just a bit bigger, about 9%.

But then this same page of the DLG describes the first clutch of dragons as being 10-12 feet long, while, again, the ‘Carenath is 1/3 a Mnementh’ gives us a dragon nearly 14 ft long. So we would have to toss out one or the other.

But, let’s look at the dragon sizes for the ratio before we go poking further.

Greens: Height- 10 ft ; Length- 22.5 ft

Blues: Height- 12.2 ft ; Length- 27.5 ft

Browns: Height- 14.4 ft ; Length- 32.5 ft

Bronzes: Height- 16.2 ft ; Length- 36.5 ft

Golds: Height- 17.7 ft ; Length- 40 ft

And of course our bronze ratio-

Mnementh estimated height- 16.8 ft

Third Mnementh estimated height- 5.6 ft

Carenath estimated height- 5.6 ft

Huh, perfect fit, nice. The numbers at their source still don’t line up with what we’re getting here, but again, this is Pern. When does anything line up in Pern? Have you read Dragon’s Kin? You stop hoping for consistency after that.

So, if you make Ruth one rank bigger than generally assumed, and base your numbers off a combination of All the Weyrs of Pern and the DLG, then you can make the numbers line up.

What you can’t do is explain why, when greens are running around carrying groups of people and supplies around like it’s nothing, people would be fretting over whether something that’s closer to 2/3-3/4 of the size of one can carry one teenager. But then you can’t explain that for any Ruth, because he’s just logically big enough, given what other dragons are capable of, to fly with Jaxom even if they assumed he would only be half as capable because he’s half the size. Even if he was estimated to only be a quarter as capable for being half the size.

But. We’re backing off it. The woman had people asking if fucking newborn dragons could be ridden at 10-days-old in DragonsDawn, clearly nobody is allowed basic sense.

Instead I’m gonna do quick math, using all three of the height:length ratios in this post and the rank ratios from older posts to, with the assumption that Carenath is of average size, give us a list of size averages for each one for the First Pass.

1:1.87

Greens: Height- 3 ft ; Length- 5.7 ft

Blues: Height- 3.8 ft ; Length- 7.1 ft

Browns: Height- 4.5 ft ; Length- 8.5 ft

Bronzes: Height- 5.16 ft ; Length- 9.6 ft

Golds: Height- 5.6 ft ; Length- 10.5 ft

1:2.4

Greens: Height- 3.1 ft ; Length- 7.6 ft

Blues: Height- 3.9 ft ; Length- 9.4 ft

Browns: Height- 4.6 ft ; Length- 11.2 ft

Bronzes: Height- 5.16 ft ; Length- 12.6 ft

Golds: Height- 5.75 ft ; Length- 13.8 ft

1:2.25

Greens: Height- 3.3 ft ; Length- 7.6 ft

Blues: Height- 4.1 ft ; Length- 9.4 ft

Browns: Height- 4.9 ft ; Length- 11.2 ft

Bronzes: Height- 5.6 ft ; Length- 12.6 ft

Golds: Height- 6.1 ft ; Length- 13.8 ft

For those wondering, anything under 4.8 ft in height is pony sized, and anything under 3.1 ft in height is miniature horse sized. So presumably somewhere either numbers have gone horribly wrong, or the dragons all started out around the same size and just, fuckers got proportionally smaller over time for some reason? Kitti could figure out how to make them all riding sized but not not how to keep them mostly even? Or maybe that’s why the DLG says it took the whole damn Pass for them to fill Fort with dragons, half of them were just too damn small to take up space or count among the fighting ranks.

Or maybe Anne just didn’t think ahead on these things. It’s entirely possible.

#pern analysis #thinky-thoughts #i think this counts

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lajulie24 · 8 months

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1, 19, 42 (for 19 - I don’t remember the title, but the spooky fic where Anakin/Vader possessed the doll, please 🙏🏻 )

1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)

Ooh, this is a tough question! I think if this person had read nothing of my work (and I didn’t know how they felt about the sequel trilogy era, but they’re interested enough to try a Han/Leia fic), I would probably pick something set between Star Wars original recipe and ESB, with a bit of romantic tension but also more of the missions, Han and Leia working together, that sort of thing. For that, I’d likely go with A Betting Woman or Tear Down the Walls because they give you a sense of Han and Leia’s growing friendship and attraction, see that blooming into romance, and some of the essentials of why they work together, in my opinion.

19. If you wrote a spin-off of All the ghouls come out to play (the spooky fic where Anakin/Vader possessed the doll), what would it involve?

Ha, ha, this was fun to think about. I think there’s a few different options for spin-offs that could be fun. One would be to follow the doll after it ends up at the Alderaanian Museum, in case there are further shenanigans with it, or to see Leia attempt to come up with a reason why she decided to donate it. Another one would be if somehow after the incident Leia is comfortable enough to hang out with Force Ghost Obi-Wan (who was a big help getting Anakin out of the doll) from time to time, and somehow even though Han doesn’t have the Force like Leia does, he can see Obi-Wan too, and eventually Force Ghost Obi-Wan even gets to meet Han and Leia’s baby, so Anakin is even MORE jealous because Obi-Wan gets to hang out with Anakin’s family and Anakin is definitely not invited. (It even takes a while after the doll incident before Luke will talk with Anakin again — Luke’s one of those people whom it takes a lot to make mad, but once he’s angry he tends to stay that way for a bit. And he’s very protective of his sister.)

42. Have you ever received a comment that particularly stood out to you for whatever reason?

Oh, yes, definitely, many that stand out for me. Many generous commenters out there! A couple I will mention: I had someone write me a long beautiful comment thanking me for writing Epic Love and giving Han and Leia the characterization and relationship they felt was missing in TFA. But I think one that especially stands out was a comment where someone told me I nailed Leia’s voice and characterization, that they could hear Carrie saying those lines when they read my fic. Which made my little heart very happy for quite some time. Still does, really.

Thank you so much for the ask!

Questions for fic writers

#ask lajulie #questions for fic writers #starter fic for new readers #spin-offs #comments #and lovely commenters #a betting woman #tear down the walls #all the ghouls come out to play #epic love #charming-tothelast #thank you for the ask!

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beyond-the-seals · 1 year

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FILE UNLOCK

VOTES: [ RECORDING: THE ROLE OF ARBITORATOR ] [1] [ RECORDING: THE PAST AUGUR THE FUTURE ] [0] [ DOCUMENT: MUSIC ANALYSIS OF THE ARBITORATOR AND DENIZENS OF THE ARIA ] [3] [ PROGRESS REPORT: TO CREATE PERFECTION ] [4] [ DOCUMENT: THE NATURE OF THE ARIA ] [2] [ PROGRESS REPORT: THE NECESSITY OF SOUND ] [1]

[ PROGRESS REPORT: TO CREATE PERFECTION ]

[PROGRESS REPORT 0-35-E]

[DAY 0]: Cadet [REDACTED] has consented to conditioning. Current track to be documented within progress report 0-35-E, followed by Cadet [REDACTED]'s progress within that track and updates to the formulation. Track devised by Commander [REDACTED]. Progress report 0-35-E is maintained by Dr. Fahilix.

[TRACK 0-35-E]:

Process 1:

-Priority 5 amnestics used on subject.

-Subject to be placed under extreme duress of pain, then asked to concede.

-If subject does not concede, subject is to be placed under extreme duress of the mind, then asked to concede.

-If subject does not concede, subject is to be placed under extreme duress of helplessness, then asked to concede.

-If subject does not concede, subject may proceed to Process 2.

-If subject concedes at any point, whether verbally or physically, priority 2 amnestics and priority 2 hallucinogenics are to be used on the subject until vigor is regained and behavior reset.

Process 2:

-Subject is to be martially trained while under the effect of priority 5 hallucinogenics.

-If subject does not concede, subject may proceed back to Process 1.

-If subjects concedes, whether verbally or physically, or requests pause at any time, priority 2 amnestics and priority 2 hallucinogenics are to be used on the subject until vigor is regained and behavior reset.

Notes:

-Priority of amnestics and hallucinogenics used during initial phase of both Processes are to be steadily increased as the subject progresses.

Begin progress report 0-35-E.

[DAY 1]: The Cadet is certainly firm in her assertion that she wants to be here. Has she not been informed of the Commander's proposed track? It's my job to document, not to comment. But I could not fathom why...

[DAY 6]: She has yet to concede.

[DAY 14]: Subject has made significant progress in only two weeks. I am tempted to ask her how long she believes she has been here, but I believe I might receive reprimand. I cannot believe the Commander's track is working.

[DAY 19]: Every minute of observation feels like an hour. This is her burden, not mine. But I can feel it leaving me, too.

[DAY 20]: I have been reprimanded for referring to this as her "burden". I forgot.

[DAY 23]: Subject has encountered, for the first time, total collapse. She's entirely unresponsive. Commanders [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] are worried the track has failed entirely. I will not give up on her.

[DAY 25]: Subject has awoken, seemingly with no memory at all. Now I'm worried she has lost the core memory so carefully preserved... by my efforts, no less. If this is true... what do we do? Start over with a new core memory? Create one just for the track? Unheard of. Not that anything else we've been doing is particularly "heard of".

[DAY 30]: I have been trying to reawaken the core memory--or any memory at all, at this point--but I've had no luck. I don't know why I'm still trying. Maybe it's because she tried?

[DAY 33]: SUCCESS! A single symbol has reawakened the core memory. I only had to find the right one. With this, maybe I can keep her grounded. I mean... I'll need to. Commander [REDACTED] already wants to start the track back up again. I want to propose a change to him, but I don't even know where to begin.

[DAY 34]: Subject is already back on the track. She's entirely unwavering now, even further than she was before. It's almost unnerving. Results are results, I suppose.

[DAY 42]: Subject has seriously injured her martial instructor. She was tranquilized in an attempt to prevent her from strangling them, but thanks to her constantly being subjected to increasingly heightening priorities of drugs, it didn't slow her down at all. This is rather worrying.

[DAY 45]: We have created perfection. Coincidentally, we have also created something impossible to control.

[DAY 50]: If you ask Commander [REDACTED], he says Cadet [REDACTED] is ready. If you ask me, I say Cadet [REDACTED] is gone.

[End of Progress Report 0-35-E.]

#SYSTEMVOTE #CHAPTER ONE

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