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Maximum the Hormone - What's Up, People?! 2007
Maximum the Hormone is a Japanese heavy metal/hardcore punk band from Hachiōji, Tokyo, formed in March 1997. Their line-up has consisted of vocalist Daisuke-han, drummer Nao, guitarist Maximum the Ryo-kun, and bassist Ue-chang since 1999. Each member alternates singing lead vocals, often within the same song, with the exception of Ue-chang, who provides backup vocals almost exclusively.
The group is best known for their unconventional and experimental style of alternative metal music. Over their career, they have found success incorporating elements of heavy metal, hardcore punk, hip hop, pop, funk, and ska into their sound. Stylistically, their music runs the gamut from being dark and serious, to ironic or humorous, often with drastic shifts in tempo and mood over the course of a song. The band's eclectic nature frequently draws comparisons to System of a Down.
Bu-ikikaesu is their third studio album. It was the band's first album to chart on the Oricon charts, debuting at number five and selling 70,000 copies in its first week, after which it remained on the charts for seventy-eight weeks. The RIAJ certified the album Gold, selling more than 100,000 copies in Japan and 250,000 worldwide.
Three tracks from the album went on for use in two anime series. "What's Up, People?!" and "Zetsubō Billy" were used as the opening and ending for episodes 20–37 of Death Note, while the song "Akagi" was used for the anime of the same name. I've decided to add the Death Note intro to this post as well, for The Experience™. :)
"What's Up, People?!" received a total of 55,1% yes votes!
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Pairing- Hongjoong x Named Reader
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Includes- Dom Hongjoong, oral, pussy eating, blow job, deep throating, cum eating, desk sex, missionary (sort of), cock riding, audio recording, dirty talk, multiple orgasms, fluff
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Hongjoong POV
"You know I'm not only here for your entertainment", my best friend says, rolling her eyes
"Yeah I know Jo", I say, rolling my eyes back, "I'm just stressed right now and I need your help"
"Sure you do", she snorts
I scoff, "Stop acting like you're not getting anything by helping me when you are"
She scowls knowing I'm right
"Fine"
"Good, get on the desk"
She walks over to my desk in my studio and sits on it
I wave my hand, motioning for her to move back more
She does, putting her legs on the desk
Rolling my chair forward, I push her skirt up and open her legs
"You're wet already", I snort, "Why are you fucking arguing with me?"
"Because I'm not at your beck and call Hongjoong"
I just roll my eyes, grabbing her panties and pulling them to the side
Lowering my face, I bury my tongue in her sweet cunt
"Fuck", she murmurs, her pussy already pouring delicious juice in my mouth
"Mmm baby", I groan, licking up and down, my tongue spreading her pussy lips open, making her wetter
"Feel better?", she asks, her breathing labored as flick her clit with my tongue
"Mmm a little", I answer, holding her panties so tightly in my hand, sucking her clit into my mouth and biting softly, her loud moans so pretty
I like to eat cunt when I'm stressed
Figured that out when I had a girlfriend and ate her out for hours during an album drop
The guys, I love them but they're fucking chaotic and drive me insane
It's hard being a leader to basically seven children
Any girlfriend I had knew I liked to go down on them and knew I needed it when things were stressful
Unfortunately I haven't had a girlfriend in over two years and I was desperate a few months ago
Joanne was here in the studio with me, hanging out while I worked and I snapped, asking her if I could eat her out
After her initial shock, I explained everything and told her she'd really be helping me out
It took some convincing but she agreed and now she lets me do it all the time
"Joongie", she whispers, squirming, her thighs shaking around my head as I slurp on her clit
Her clit is the best, always swollen, pulsing and so good to suck on
Anytime I can have her clit in my mouth I'll jump at the chance
Letting go of her throbbing clit, I lick up her cunt a few times, tasting her then reattaching my lips to her clit, tugging hard and fast
"Oh god, yes Joongie"
"Mmm gonna cum for me?", I ask, excited, "Gonna give me that pussy cream I love?"
"Yes! Yes!", she cries, leaning back on her hands, "Hongjoong, oh Hongjoong!"
She cums hard but I don't let go of her pretty clit, sucking her through it
Only when she finishes do I let go and drag my tongue down to her hole
"Fuck, so good", I groan, greedily licking up her cream
I was so surprised at how good her pussy tastes the first time I ate her out
From her juice to her sweet cum, she's the best cunt I've ever tasted
I'm kinda addicted to her pussy but I'll never tell her that
Circling her hole with the tip of my tongue, I lick her cream up then slowly push my tongue inside her
Her pussy clenches my tongue sending shivers of pleasure down to my hard cock
Of course I get hard while eating her out but I can ignore it until I get home and jerk off
It's a working system that I don't want to mess up
Pulling my tongue out, she whines as I lick up her cunt again
"What do you want jagi?", I tease
"Joongie", she protests
"Uh uh baby. Use your words", I laugh, "Tell me what you want"
She hurrumphs but says, "Want you to tongue fuck my hole"
"See, that wasn't so hard", I murmur, shoving my tongue up her cunt again
"Oh god", she pants
I start driving my tongue in and out of her hole, her hand sliding in my hair and holding on tightly
"Mmm, such a good little hole", I praise her, "Squeezing my tongue so hard"
"Mmm hmmm", she moans, her hips moving
"Yeah baby. You know I like when you fuck my face"
God, I live for that
Live for feeling her legs around my head, for her pussy getting pushed more in my mouth, for her pulling my hair
It's the best
Moving my hand not holding her panties, I start playing with her clit, rubbing it in circles as I fucked her cunt
"Hongjoong, oh fuck"
I chuckle into her pussy, "Look at you. Arguing with me before but all it takes is a little clit sucking and tongue fucking and you're ready to cream all over my face again"
Shoving my tongue in, I flick her clit at the same time and she screams, her pussy throbbing around my tongue as she cums in my mouth
I eagerly swallow all of her cream, reveling in her taste as I listen to her scream my name over and over
When she finishes, I run my tongue over her pussy, not intending on stopping yet
"Want another?", I ask
"Yes Joongie!", she shouts, her fingers twisting in my hair hard, sending tingles down my spine
"And here you were complaining before when you know I'm the best at eating your cunt", I tell her between licks
"Mmm hmmm... One of the best"
I pause at that
One of the best?
There's someone else who eats her cunt better than me?
Not possible
"Who else's is on par with me?", I growl
"Seonghwa", she whines
It takes a second before what she said sinks in
Seonghwa?
Did she really say fucking Seonghwa?
How?
When?
I pull out from under her skirt, staring at her in disbelief
"You let Seonghwa eat you out?", I exclaim incredulously, white hot jealousy firing in my veins
"Uh yeah. Once"
Once?
When?
Where the fuck was I?
"And he was better than me?"
"I...I didn't say that", she says
Well she didn't deny it either
"Is he better than me?", I ask, so fucking jealous
"No Joong. He's not", she answers, quietly, "He's good but not as good as you"
"What else did you do with him?", I growl
"We uh....we fucked"
I look at her in shock, trying not to blow up
I haven't even fucked her and Seonghwa did?
Where the hell does he get off touching my best friend?
Eating out my best friend, fucking my best friend?
Why can't he get his own girl, why is he trying to take mine?
"You fucked Seonghwa?", I exclaim
"Uh....yes", she says meekly
"Why?"
She blinks, "I...I don't know, it just happened"
"It just happened?", I screech, "How did it just happen? You fell on his dick?"
Her eyes widen, looking at me in pure confusion, "I...no. It happened the normal way. He kissed me and it went from there"
It went from there
He kissed her and they decided to take clothes off
I haven't even kissed her
"Did you blow him?"
Her cheeks turn red, "Yes"
"Fuck", I shout, closing my eyes and pinching the bridge of my nose
She hasn't blown me
Hasn't asked to and I never asked either
But she did all those things with my group member
Fuck
"Joong...I don't...I don't get what the big deal is"
I open my eyes, glaring, "The big deal is I haven't fucked you. You haven't blown me. But you did those things with Seonghwa. Who is not me!"
She's looking at me like I'm crazy and I can kinda get it
I know I'm blowing up at something I probably shouldn't be
But I can't help how angry and utterly jealous I am that Seonghwa was with her
It's unexplainable but right now I don't care
"You never asked to do those things", she points out
Yeah well I didn't know I wanted to do those things with her until right now
And I'm going to fix that
Grabbing her skirt, I start pulling it down
"Joong-"
"Wanna fuck you", I tell her, just wanting her out of her clothes, "Unless you don't want to and want Seonghwa instead?"
She shakes her head, "I want to Joongie, I just....I don't want you to do it because you want to compete with Seonghwa. I want you to want to"
"Oh I want to, don't worry about that", I growl, "Now let me get you out of your clothes"
She just nods and I pull her skirt off
Next off is her shirt and her bra, her big tits on display for me
Jesus, I had no idea these things were that big or they'd turn me on so much
Squeezing them once, I drag my hands down her body, tearing at her panties, ripping them off her and throwing the pieces behind me
Standing back, I gaze at my best friend, naked on my desk and I just realized how utterly gorgeous she is
And how hard I am
She reaches out for me and I move closer, letting her slide my T-shirt up and off my body
She bites her lip as her eyes move down my body, her hands following her gaze's wake
Her hands are so small and feel so good, sending zaps of fire through every cell she touches and I'm shocked I'm feeling this
Getting to my sweatpants, she pushes them and my boxers down as much as she can then I take over and get out of them
"Fuck Joongie", she says, her eyes widening at my dick, "So big"
I smirk as her hand wraps around my cock, giving me soft strokes
"So fat", she murmurs
"Want it inside you?"
Her eyes meet mine as she nods
Good
Pushing her hand off me, I move closer to her, wrapping my arms around her thighs and pulling her closer to me, to the edge of the desk
Guiding my cock to her hole, I shove in, bottoming out in one stroke
"Oh fuck! Joongie", she cries as I moan at how fucking tight she is, how hard her cunt is clenching around my cock already
"God, fuck", I groan, reveling in how warm, tight and wet she is, "You feel fucking good"
"Yyy...you too", she whimpers, "So big"
"Yeah?", I smirk, "Fills you up good?"
She nods, "So good"
Good
Holding her legs wide open, I pull my cock back, feeling how desperately her cunt clenches around me to keep me inside
Smirking, I shove my cock back in and start moving fast, fucking her tiny pussy open
"Hongjoong, oh my god", she cries, her hands gripping the edge of my desk so hard, her knuckles are white
"How's my cock doing baby? Fucking you good?", I ask, making sure my head hits her spot each time, her squeezing sending pleasure all over my body, "Splitting you open just how you like it?"
"Yes!", she cries, one of her hands gripping my wrist, her fingers digging into my skin, "Yes Joongie. More. Harder"
My god, I had no idea I would love her begging for me this much
Crave it this much
Plunging in deeply, my skin hits her hard as I fuck her, the sound so fucking erotic to listen to
And all she's doing is taking my cock and crying for more
"Gonna break this cunt", I growl, tossing my head back to fling the sweaty hair out of my face, then I look right in her eyes, "Break it and mold it so it fits perfectly around my cock and my cock only"
She whimpers, her eyes huge and wet, pleasure all over her face
I break eye contact, looking down at her pretty hole taking my cock, at her pretty swollen pussy lips petaling open for me like a flower
Watching her cream cover my cock
"Fuck, did you know your pussy creams cock like this?"
She nods, whimpering
"You knew?", I ask, the sight making me more horny
"Mmm hmmm"
"Who told you?"
"Seonghwa", she murmurs
Jealousy strikes me right in the chest and I get so fucking angry
Moving her legs around my waist, I pull her hips closer, her back laying more against the desk
I fuck her harder, wrecking her and destroying her spot on my head, her moans and cries of my name so loud
So beautiful
I need to record this
Grabbing my phone from the desk next to her, I quickly turn on the recording app and press record, leaving the phone right next to us
"I'm recording this and sending it to you", I growl, pounding into her little cunt mercilessly, sweaty pouring down my body, "You're going to keep it on your phone and anytime you think you want to fuck someone else, you're going to listen to it and hear how you moan for me. Hear how you want me"
"Yes Joongie", she moans, her hands gripping my arms hard, her legs tightening around my waist
"You'll fucking remember that if you want to be fucked, you get on my cock, understand?"
"Yes Hongjoong", she cries, pleasure all over her face, her body so pretty in the sheen of sweat
"You remember how you're creaming my cock like a waterfall, how your pussy is gorging itself on my cock, how you cum on my cock"
She nods, her eyes so fucked out and teary as she pants hard, looking at me through her sweaty hair
And it hits me right now, how utterly beautiful my best friend is
"The only cock you let inside you is mine", I demand, "If you want to cum on a cock, you use mine. If you want your pussy eaten, you use my tongue. If you want cum up your cunt like the slut I know you are, I'll give you mine and fill you up. Understand?"
She moans softly, nodding
"Look at me", I demand, grabbing her chin and holding her in place
Her wet eyes lock on mine and I lean down, "This is my pussy"
She nods, whispering, "Yours"
"You are mine"
"Yeah Joongie"
"I don't share what's mine. Ever"
"Ok Joongie"
"Good"
With that, I lean down more crashing my lips into hers in a searing, mind altering kiss that I was so not expecting
Her arms immediately move around my neck, her body pressing against mine as her tongue plays with mine
And I know, she's mine
She was always mine, I just didn't see it until now
Until I got jealous
I'm so fucking angry it took jealousy to get me to open my eyes but I'll make it up to her
Gripping her hips, I increase my speed, fucking her tight little cunt wide open, the squelching sounds of her pussy mixing with the sound of our skin slapping
I'm so fucking glad I got this on tape
I know I'm gonna be a perv and listen to it while I jerk off later
I don't care
Tangling my hand in her hair, I pull her head back, breaking the kiss, the sound of her whine such a turn on
"Uh uh jagi", I murmur, pressing a kiss to her neck, "I want you to hear how loud your pussy is for me. How utterly wet you are for my cock. Do you hear it?"
She nods, whimpering as the sound of her cunt taking my cock gets louder
"I'm recording this so you never forget how much your cunt loves my cock"
"Yes Joongie"
"Good girl. Now, you have to cum for me", I demand, thrusting in and out, slamming into her spot with my head, "Cum for me"
"Hongjoong", she screams, the next stroke sending her right into an orgasm
"Oh my fucking god", I choke out as her cunt completely crushes around my cock, cream pouring from her pussy as I fuck her through it, the pleasure so fucking intense
Her body shakes under me, her moans and screams of my name so fucking beautiful
I watch the utterly ethereal sight of her coming and I swear, I've never seen something so fucking gorgeous before
"Hongjoong, Hongjoong, Hongjoong", she repeats over and over, as she completely creams my cock
My name has never sounded so fucking good
Her body twitches as she finishes and I'm amazed that I got so much bliss from her orgasm
It just makes me want to feel that over and over
Her eyes open, looking at me with a look I can't place, her fingers running softly on my cheek
Her lips move against mine, kissing me as her arms tighten around my neck
She kisses me deeply for a minute, then slowly pulling away and I just follow her lips not wanting the kiss to end
"Joongie", she murmurs, now pressing a kiss to my neck
"Yeah jagi?"
"Wanna suck your dick"
Oh god, yes please
Definitely
"Yeah baby?", I ask teasingly
"Mmm hmm", she murmurs against my skin, "Wanna show you how good I can suck that big cock"
I smirk widely, "Ok baby. Show me"
She gently pushes me back and I pull out of her, immediately missing the warmth and tightness of her pussy
She moves off the desk, dropping to her knees and my head spins at the sight
I never thought I'd ever have my best friend in this position
But I can't deny I like it
Her hands slide up my thighs as she moves forward, her tongue licking along my cock
My mind explodes seeing that, pleasure shooting up my spine as she licks me over and over
Her tongue presses against my slit, licking up the leaking cum, a strangled moan escaping my throat
"So good Joongie", she murmurs, "Tastes yummy"
Oh my fucking god
I watch her mouth wrap around my head, soft sucks causing the pleasure to increase
"Oh jagi", I groan, sliding my hand in her hair, holding tightly on the soft strands
He hand wraps around my base, stroking me as she takes my cock deeper in her mouth
She moans on my dick, the vibrations running up and down my spine, making my brain malfunction
With each suck she takes me in, inch by inch, my cock sliding slowly in her throat
She chokes and gags for a second, her throat spasming around my dick so blissfully
Breathing in through her nose, she continues her descent down my cock, sucking like her life depends on it, her eyes watering and spit all over the place
"Mmm baby, you look so good slurping on my cock like that", I praise her through the fucking amazing pleasure, "So messy, just how I like it"
She nods, bottoming my cock out and I'm amazed that she's actually deep throating me
Not many girls could do that
She starts bobbing up and down my dick, her throat so tight around my length, the bliss intense
I can't stop the moans coming from me, my eyes on her, on my cock disappearing and reappearing in her mouth over and over
I could watch this all fucking day
Listen to the sounds her throat is making
I swear I have never been turned on like this before
I have never wanted someone as much as I want her
And as good as she is at blowing me, I need her to stop
I don't want to cum in her mouth
I want to cum in her pussy
Make her really mine
"Jagi", I murmur, running my fingers in her hair, those gorgeous brown eyes looking up at me, "Come ride me"
She nods, pulling off my cock
I help her stand, then take her hand and bring her to the couch in the corner of the studio
I lay down, my head against the armrest
She climbs in my lap, looking down at me, smiling softly
She leans down, her lips against mine, kissing me deeply, passionately
I kiss her back the same way, never feeling this way from a kiss before
And strangely, never wanting to feel this way with anyone else
When the kiss ends, she sits back up, her hand holding my dick to her entrance
She sinks down on my dick and instead of watching her hole open for me like I feel her doing, I watch her
Watch the pleasure on her face, watch her brow furrow in it, watch her bite her bottom lip, hear her soft moans as she gets me inside her
"Mmm", she whimpers, as she bottoms me out, sounding as if she's happy I'm inside her
Her hips move in a circle, grinding on me as she opens her throbbing cunt up more
"Joongie", she murmurs, starting to bounce softly on my cock
Pleasure crashes into me as I revel in the way her cunt pulses around me, the way her pussy fits perfectly around me
She leans her hands on my stomach, her palms igniting a fire against my sink where she's touching me
She rocks and grinds against my cock every time she slips back down, crying out in pleasure when my head rubs her spot
Her eyes are so wet, sobbing as she rides me harder and harder with every bounce
And I can't tear my eyes off of her, now wanting this all the time
"God, I love seeing you cry on my cock", I murmur, watching her tears fall down her face from the sheer pleasure, "Think I'm gonna need you to sob for my cock all the time now"
"Yes Joongie", she shouts, her pussy leaving a beautiful mess all over my cock
"You're so fucking beautiful jagi", I tell her, running my hands on her thighs, feeling her skin tremble against my touch
She cries my name louder and louder with each bounce, her pussy strangling my cock in a vice grip and I find myself excited for her orgasm
"Please baby", my turn to beg her now, "Please cum for me. Please, fall apart on my cock"
Her body shudders as she screams my name, dropping on my cock to the hilt, coming all over me
Ecstasy slams in my body and I can't hold it back
Holding her on my cock, I yell her name, coming deep in her orgasming pussy, feeling the utter pleasure of her milking my length
"Yes Joanne, fuck, fuck. So good baby", I whimper
"Joongie", she sobs, "Fuck, fill my pussy so good"
"Mmm hmmm", I groan, emptying everything I have, "Like it jagi?"
"Love it", she whines, "Love feeling full of you"
When we finish, I gently pull her down to me, kissing her softly, shivers running up and down my back
Keeping my arms around her, she lays down on me, her head on my chest right where my heart is, eyes closed
I run my fingers in her hair as I hold her and listen to her breathing going back to normal
She moves her hand to my chest too, and I take it in mine, bringing it to my lips, kissing her palm
"You were always mine", I say softly
Her eyes open and look up at me, emotions I haven't seen from her before in them
"I just didn't see it", I say
Now I do
Now I see that I had everything I ever needed in a girl right in front of me, in her
Now I see that she always wanted me
I saw it in her eyes, in her expressions
And I'm kicking myself for being so blind, so stupid
"Yeah", she answers quietly
"I see now jagi", I tell her, "And I want you to know, I'm yours. Just yours. If that's what you want"
She looks surprised but nods, "It is what I want Joongie"
I can't hold back a smile, "So it's settled. You're my girl"
"And you're my guy?", she asks
"Definitely"
"Ok", she smiles, it taking my breath away
"Ok baby", I smile back
She lifts her head and I tuck her hair behind her ear, then kiss her
I don't think I'm going to ever stop kissing her
It just feels so good having her lips, her tongue against mine
I fall into her kiss, my arms around her, holding her against me, knowing I'm right where I'm supposed to be
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Dolores del Río (Flying Down to Rio, Flor silvestre)—to begin with, dolores is so RADIANTLY BEAUTIFUL, even more so in action then in images, its like she emits a literal glow. marlene dietrich (a close friend and rumored lover) considered her "the most beautiful woman who ever set foot in hollywood". she was the first mexican actress to become a major success in hollywood, rising to fame in the silent era and becoming an influential icon of beauty and glamor in the art deco age, though she was not thrilled with the exoticizing parts often pushed on her. in the mid 1940s having tired of the controlling hollywood studio system she returned to mexico, saying "I wish to choose my own stories, my own director and cameraman. I can accomplish this better in mexico", and proceeded to become a pivotal figure in the golden age of mexican cinema, making a string of masterpieces with directir emilio fernández and cinematographer gabriel figueroa. i love this anecdote about the insane art deco mansion she and her then-husband cedric gibbons lived in in the 30s, as related by david niven: "Dolores had a large sunny room on the first floor containing a huge and inviting bed. Gibbons lived in comparative squalor in a small room immediately below. The only connection between these rooms was by way of a stepladder, which could be lowered only when a trapdoor in the floor of Dolores room had been raised. There was a long stick with which, we conjectured, he signaled his intention or hopes by rapping out signals on the floor of his wife’s bedchamber." heres a pinterest album with a billion hot pictures of her
Fay Wray (King Kong)— the original scream queen!! she started acting in silent comedies as a teenager and got her first big break when erich von stroheim cast her as the lead in the wedding march. her career started to take off starring in silent movies at paramount, and she survived the transition to sound smoothly - josef von sternberg’s weird proto-noir thunderbolt was one of her first sound films. she began to make horror movies in the early 1930s, such as doctor x and mystery of the wax museum, both filmed in beautiful two-strip technicolor (which looked like this if you're curious. i just think it's neat!), as well as the vampire bat, the most dangerous game, and of course the boy himself, king kong. a little on how she worked with her most famous costar: “Although Kong appeared huge, the full figure was a model covered with rabbit hair, standing only 18 inches tall, that was filmed one frame at a time by stop-motion photography artist Willis O'Brien and his crew. The 5ft 3in Wray only knew one part of the ape's body when she was grasped in an articulated 8ft long hand. Hence the title of her 1989 autobiography, On The Other Hand. ‘I would stand on the floor,’ she recalled, ‘and they would bring this arm down and cinch it around my waist, then pull me up in the air. Every time I moved, one of the fingers would loosen, so it would look like I was trying to get away. Actually, I was trying not to slip through his hand.’” (link)
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Dolores del Rio:
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There's so much! She started in Silent films and successfully transitioned to sound, She is the first woman to wear a two piece swimsuit on screen & popularized the bikini!, She transitioned back to Mexican Cinema in the late 1940s and was a leading lady of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema including staring in Maria Candelaria--the first Mexican film to win the palm d'Or at Cannes. She was literally studied for her beauty & was considered a beauty ideal in both the USA & Mexico--there's a whole section on her Wikipedia page about how beautiful everyone thinks she was. She never actually had a feud with any of the female stars she was rumored to feud with despite the fact that press & Hollywood culture attempted to pain them in competition... She remained a leader in Mexican theater & Cinema through her own production company. Mexican painter Diego Rivera: "The most beautiful, the most gorgeous of the west, east, north and south. I'm in love with her as 40 million Mexicans and 120 million Americans who can't be wrong" (quote source: Wikipedia)
*fan self* Leading actress in silents and early Hollywood. Lover of Orson Welles until she got fed up with him, friend of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo. When she got tired of Hollywood executives typecasting her as a stereotypical spitfire (and trying to force her to feud with Lupe Velez as a publicity stunt), she ditched Hollywood and became a major star of Mexican cinema, where she got to play rounded characters
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Had a career in American cinema in the 20s and 30s and considered one of the most important figures in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema (30s to 50s).
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Marlene Dietrich said Dolores was the most beautiful woman to set foot in Hollywood
Joan Crawford: "Dolores became, and remains, as one of the most beautiful stars in the world."
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One of the few Latin American women working in the Hollywood industry to make it big not just in hre home country but internationally. In 1931, Photoplay magazine declared that Mexican film actress Dolores del Rio had the "best figure in Hollywood." (which I know not necessarily a good barometer) but! it shows that many people looked at her for her beauty and sought to emulate her. Famous for her years-long love affair with actor and director Orson Welles, who was 10 years her junior if that's anything.
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We need more hispanic representation in this!! Del Río is one of the most important actresses of her time as she was one of the first Mexican movie stars to break through to Hollywood! She’s unbelievably sexy and an absolute icon. Thank you :)
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Fay Wray:
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Actress prominently known for starring in horror, she was one of cinema's original "scream queens". She knocks it out of the park whenever she's with the horror genre, bringing a depth and likability to characters that would other be flat and boring characters.
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An early scream queen, name me another woman who could look so beautiful while so disheveled and scared for her life
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She was name-dropped not once but TWICE in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. She's arguably the original Scream Queen.
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Not The Same As It Was
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Summary : Harry feels like his life with his family has not been the same as it was. Would he leave his wife and child for the woman who has him craving for more?
Warnings : Angst
Word count: 5.9k
A/n: We're back with another oneshot 🥳This is our late entry to @harry-on-broadway 's fic challenge. Enjoy ❤️
Xoxo,
G and M
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"So, where are we going?" Harry asked as he climbed onto the passenger seat of the car.
"Calm down, Styles, we ain't gonna kill you", one of the people inside the car laughed, "It's high time you had some actual fun, family life has changed you", another said.
"Hey… that's not true ", he complained as they started driving but that comment had planted a seed of doubt inside his brain.
"Well then, tell me, it's been a month since you came back from tour; how many times have you hung out with us, huh?", Neil, his friend asked. Harry stayed silent. After coming back home, he had spent all his time with his family. And now, he was back in the studio to work on the new album. He had been holed up there all day.
"Yup, that's exactly what I'm talking about, so shut up and have some fun with us tonight, everyone's gonna be there. Just let the old Harry out for this once. You can go back to your boring self tomorrow."
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"Why are you late?Where were you, Harry?"
His head snapped up as he looked at Y/N, his wife. He was sitting on the couch, drinking a glass of water.
"Out", he murmured, placing the glass on the table. "You could've called or texted me, or at least picked up when I called you", she was annoyed.
"Well, I forgot. What's the big deal?" He stood up, placing the glass onto the coffee table with a loud thud and tried to walk towards the bedroom.
"You forgot? We were worried, you know? Beryl went to sleep asking for you. Where were you, Harry? You reek of alcohol." She was getting angrier by the minute.
"What are you on about, Y/N? Can't I just have one night away from all the responsibilities? Can I just enjoy myself for once? Ugh. They were right, family life sure does drag you down", he chuckled meanly.
“What?” she mumbled in disbelief. She loved their little family; her, Harry and their little girl, Beryl. She was so happy to have the most adorable baby on the planet and the best husband. She loved her family with her whole heart and believed he did too, until those poisonous words slipped from his mouth just now. They had talked, even before they had kids, about how important it was for the mental and overall well being of children to have their parents with them. Harry had treated his family as his first priority, until now. Did he really think that? That his family was dragging him down? She could feel bile rising in her throat.
“What? You know I’m right”, he shrugged.
“Don’t say things you don’t mean Harry, you’re clearly drunk. And don’t bring Beryl into this, you knew what you were signing up for when we knew we were pregnant. And you seemed so happy then.” tears pooled in her eyes.
He sighed,
“You know how happy I am to have a family, I just meant that I deserve a break from all this burden, you know.”
“Yup, got your message loud and clear, Styles.”, she said, walking towards their bedroom.
“Shit, Y/N I didn't mean it like that. I just…”
“Save it, Harry. I'll make sure that you won't have to carry our burden.” she said and walked into their bedroom.
He seemed to realize the weight of his words fast enough as the alcohol slowly left his system. He entered the bedroom and saw her coming out of the shower in her pajamas, her eyes were red and puffy. She did not even bother to look at him as he sat on the edge of the bed, fingers fumbling nervously.
“Y/N, baby… just listen to me, I-”
She did not even spare a glance at him and left the room. His eyes started welling up with tears as he heard the sound of Beryl’s room slam shut. He sat against the headboard, as he realized what he had done. Why did he say those words to her, he loved his family dearly, right? Right?
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Y/n could not sleep that night. Were they a burden to him? Was he just tolerating their presence? A mere repayment for having loved her once? She held her daughter tight as she let her tears flow down her face and wet the pillow. Somewhere in the middle of doubting herself and trying to remember if she ever had tied him down, she fell asleep.
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Harry couldn't sleep as well. He was not used to sleeping without her. He knew he had said some hurtful things, but didn't know how to make it better. He woke up early and went for a run to clear his head. He'll just buy her something to make up for it. She was his wife, she wouldn't leave him, would she?
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He had come after the time Y/N and Beryl had left for work and school. He was supposed to take Beryl to school but he purposely avoided coming home early. He knew it would be difficult for him to face Y/N after last night's incidents and he figured that she would take their kid to school. And he was right. Both of them had left.
He placed the necklace he bought for her on the table and wrapped it up, placing a little bow on top. A perfect apology gift. She would surely forgive him after seeing that he had bought her an expensive necklace, right? Well, that's what he thought.
He took the gift to their bedroom and set it down on her dressing table for her to find after she comes home from work and went down to the kitchen, only to see that she had made him breakfast before she left. Guilt tugged at his heart. It would have been so hard for her today, having to get Beryl ready for school, cooking for everyone and then getting to her own workplace, all on her own. He should have been there, helping her with the chores. Y/N was a fashion designer. She had a boutique that sold wedding dresses. Since she had to stay late at work than usual, she had told Harry when he came home from tour that they should hire a nanny for Beryl to stay till she comes home. But Harry was quick to discard that suggestion and said that he'd be there and there was no need to hire anyone.
Harry would apologize to her tonight, he'll pick up Beryl from school, take her to get ice cream. Then he'll come home and make Beryl dinner and get her to sleep by the time Y/N comes home. She had to stay late at work, as her sales were going crazy. Then, when Y/N comes home, he'll set up a nice bubble bath and let her relax. He'll set up a nice romantic dinner and apologize to her. He'll give her the gift he bought her and tell her how much he loves her. If she lets him, he'll show her how much she means to him.
Harry had it all planned. He quickly took a shower, had breakfast and drove over to the studio.
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Harry had a productive day at work. He was able to get a lot of work done. He could feel the rush of ideas running through his mind.
During the lunch break, he had sent Y/N a text saying that he'll pick up Beryl from school in the evening. She responded in half an hour.
Y/N/N❤️: It's okay, Harry, I'll pick her up. I leave work early today.
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"Mate, are you coming or not? ", Jeremy asked impatiently.
"No, man, I've gotta get home early today, you guys go on without me", with that, he was off.
Harry had planned on getting home before Y/N but he didn't know when she would be home. Yes, she had informed him that she'd leave early, but he didn't know the exact time.
He saw her car as he drove into the driveway and realized that his plans had failed. The fresh aroma of food hit his nose as he opened the door and walked in. Y/N was cooking. Beryl was sat on the barstool near the kitchen counter, doing her homework and asking Y/N for help whenever she was met with difficult questions.
Taking off his shoes, Harry carefully walked over to them, a little nervous.
"Daddy, I missed you", Beryl pouted, seeing him. Y/N turned around at the mention of him and their eyes met for a millisecond before she turned away, an expression on her face he couldn't decipher. A wave of disquiet went through him, it was like being doused with ice cold water.
"I missed you too baby", he said, leaning down and placing kisses on her forehead, making her giggle.
"Where were you last night, daddy? I wanted to show you the picture I drew." She frowned.
"Daddy was late, kiddo." He said softly, looking over at Y/N who made no effort to turn around.
"You know what? You could show me the picture now." He said, making her smile.
"Okay daddy, can you put me down?" She asked, holding her arms out. Harry moved closer, picked her up and put her down. She ran off to her room in excitement. Harry walked over to where his wife was chopping tomatoes. He sat on the counter and gently called her name.
“Hey. Look at me.”, he said softly.
She hesitantly looked up.
"I am so sorry, love. I shouldn't have said that. I was drunk and not in my right mind. Will you forgive me?"
"I know, Harry. It's okay, I forgive you", she said in a small voice.
Well, that was easy, he thought. He didn't know why she didn't even put up a fight and stand up for herself because he was clearly in the wrong here.
"Really? I know I was a dick, baby, it won't happen again."
"It's fine, Harry. Don't worry about it" , she gave him a small smile. He knew she was still hurt by the way her smile did not reach her eyes. But he decided not to ask about that. She would be happy after getting that gift. He was about to tell her about it when they were interrupted by the pitter patter of two small feet. Beryl was running over to him with a picture in her hand.
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After dinner, when Y/N took Beryl to her room to put her to bed, Harry took a quick shower. He did not see her in their room when he got out of the shower.
Was she going to sleep in Beryl's room?
Harry walked over to her room, only to see Beryl sleeping, clutching her reindeer plushie that Harry bought her when he came back from tour last month. It had become her favourite one. Harry smiled to himself and closed the door, walking downstairs, looking for his wife.
There she was, wiping down the kitchen counter and cleaning up. He gently slipped behind her, hugging her from behind and placing a kiss onto her cheek. He sensed her body suddenly stiffening but decided not to comment on it.
Swallowing down his hurt, he gently whispered in her ear,
"Come to bed, baby"
"I'll be there in a few minutes, Harry. You can go to bed if you want to, I'll finish this up and be there", she sounded nervous, he noticed.
"No, I don't want to sleep without you, besides, I have something to give you. I'll wait. "
He helped her clean and led her to their bedroom, handing her the neatly wrapped gift.
"What is it, Harry?" ,she asked .
She had never used a pet name after that encounter. He hated it when she used to call him by his name. She was still hurt, he realised.
"Um, it is a… peace offering. I'm so sorry for what I said, I didn't mean it. So I bought you a necklace as an apology. " He said, suddenly getting nervous.
Sighing, she said,
"You didn't have to, Harry."
"I know, but I wanted to."
"Thank you." She said, without even opening it.
"Can I kiss you? ", he asked apprehensively.
She nodded.
He leaned in, pressing his lips onto hers. It was soft and tender. He held onto her waist and pulled her closer. Both of them did not want to pull away. It was when his hands started wandering over her hips and waist that she pulled back. He looked at her with a small frown.
"I… uh… not today, Harry", she stuttered.
"Um… yeah, sure", he said.
When they went to sleep that night, he hugged her closer to him.
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It's been a week since that incident. They were getting back to normal but Harry couldn't help but notice a few changes in his wife's behaviour. She would do all the household chores without asking him for any help, she would cook, and clean, leaving Harry with nothing to do. On one hand, it was good because he could devote his time to the task at hand: the new album. But on the other hand, he found it weird that his usually feisty wife had turned into a housewife. She didn't complain about anything, balancing her housework and kid along with her equally demanding job. She took Beryl to school in the morning and picked her up in the evening.
Their schedules had changed as well. Y/N would wake up early, cook them breakfast and get herself and Beryl ready for work. Harry wouldn't even be awake till they're gone. After waking up, Harry would freshen up and go to the studio. In the evening, Y/N and Beryl would be back, she'd cook them dinner, feed Beryl and get her to bed. Harry would be home late. There were days where they wouldn't even see each other. Y/N had changed her schedule in such a way that she was able to leave in time to get Beryl from school. Harry and Y/N did not really get any alone time. They hadn't even really talked to each other in a week.
The next week seemed so hectic though. Y/N had been busier than ever with her sales going up. She couldn't leave early from work. So, Harry had to take Beryl to school and pick her up.
It was a Friday when they completed and recorded the first song for the new album.
"We'll go celebrate,'' he heard his friends say. He felt like it was only fair for him to go with them as he had been bailing on them for a little while.
Will you pick up Beryl from her dance class today? I don't think I can make it, Harry hastily typed up and sent the message to his wife and without even waiting for a reply, walked towards the car that was waiting for him outside the studio.
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They had gone to this new bar near the studio.
It felt liberating for him to be away from work or family for a little while. The drinks had loosened him up. He found the whole having - fun thing refreshing.
It's been a while since he has had some fun, not caring about anything, just living in the present. The alcohol seemed to make him forget about everything. He let himself free, dancing with random strangers and drinking as much as he wanted.
"Hey, Harry, I want you to meet someone," Neil called out over the loud music as Harry was downing another shot of tequila.
With him stood a brunette, tall and gorgeous. She had beautiful hazel eyes which reminded him of Belgian chocolate. She had curves in all the right places. She was wearing a silver bodycon dress which hugged her figure and left little to the imagination.
"Hi, I am Kara", she held her hand out.
"Kara?" He asked, his accent becoming thicker due to him being drunk.
"No, Kara, K-A-R-A" she said.
"That's what I said. I'm English, I have an accent, lord…", he laughed, making her giggle.
He shook her outstretched hand,
"I'm Harry."
"I know", she giggled again.
"So, Harry, this is Kara, my friend from uni, she's a choreographer. She is here for some work related thing, she'll be here for a few months."
"It's nice to meet you ", he said.
"Likewise," she replied with a smile.
They spent the rest of the night talking. Harry found that she had a really nice personality. They talked about many things and he noticed that she had strong opinions about everything, a bold woman, she was.
When it was time for her to leave, she said her goodbyes to everyone in their friend group. Finally, she walked over to Harry,
"It's been great finally meeting you. I've heard so much about you and now I know what they say is true, you're really a gentleman. I'm going to go now, see you around." She leaned in for a hug. He returned the hug, blushing at her praise. She smelled good, like wild berries.
"Bye, see you around", he smiled at her.
He felt that he had taken the right decision to go out, it proved to be a good relaxation technique. He needed to do this often.
It was past midnight when he came home. Beryl was asleep, so was Y/N. He went straight into the kitchen to drink some water and saw a note on the fridge. Dinner is in the fridge, it said, with a hand-drawn red heart on it - Beryl drew it, he realised. He smiled to himself and sauntered over to his room. Y/N was fast asleep. He stripped down to his boxers and climbed under the covers.
For once, Harry Styles felt like he was leading a routine life. A boring one.
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Days passed. Harry had started going out with his friends every now and then. He wasn't even home on weekends. They went to pubs and parties every week. Kara and Harry had become closer than ever. She always tagged along with Neil and gradually, she became an unavoidable member of their friend group. She used to visit his studio whenever she was free.
"Do you want to grab a bite? There's this new bakery I wanted to try", Kara asked one day, when she came to the studio. No one else was there. Harry had to finish up a lyric, and was working on it when Kara called and informed him that she was coming over.
"Yeah, sure, I'd like that"
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"Wow, these are delicious", Harry said, as he took another bite from a macaron.
"Well, If you want any advice on anything, you know who to call", Kara laughed, lightly patting his arm.
Both of them had become really touchy with each other. Harry wondered if she was into him. He had felt a spark between them, an invisible pull guiding him towards her. She gave him new ideas and put in her suggestions whenever he was working on something when she went over to the studio. When was the last time Y/N did that? She was always busy with work. When was the last time they had sex? Hell, when was the last time they really talked to each other?
Kara brought out something in him, something fresh, vibrant and lively. He felt like he had become his younger self again. The mood was always playful and silly when she was around.
"Of course", he laughed.
"Can I ask you something, Kara?" , he suddenly asked.
"Why the formalities, H? You know you can ask me anything -"
His phone rang, cutting her off. Huffing, he looked at the screen to check who it was. Y/N. Way to ruin a moment.
"Hello? I'm busy, I'll call you back, okay?", He turned the phone off and turned towards Kara,
"Who was it?"
"Nobody, you were saying?"
"Actually you were about to ask me something. What was it?"
"Yeah, right. So um… I just wanted to erm… know if you were interested in choreographing a dance sequence for my new music video."
"Oh my God… really? I would love that, H", she squealed excitedly.
"So that's settled then, can we go over to the studio and discuss the details with the rest of the team?"
"Sure, let's go"
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What Harry did not know was that his wife was actually outside the cafeteria he was in. She had gone to run a few errands when she saw him there. She called him to let him know that she was there. She was heartbroken after seeing him walk out with a woman, happy and laughing. Might be a friend, don't jump into conclusions, Y/N, she reminded herself.
The next day, deuxmoi had posted that they had sighted Harry outside the studio with a woman. Harry was worried that Y/N would be mad at him, but she didn't say anything. So, Harry was pretty sure that she didn't see it and was so relieved, to say the least.
But she did. She saw every single one of those articles that revealed to her Harry's location when he himself didn't. She heard about Kara doing the choreography from the tabloids, not him. She had seen the way he looked at her and she blamed herself for it.
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"And cut…" the director shouted and the room erupted into loud noises.
"It was great, Harry. Kara, you did an amazing job, this is going to break the internet, I can feel it in my kneecaps", he laughed.
The music video for Harry's new single, Medicine, was choreographed by none other than Kara herself. More importantly, she was the one who performed it with him.
The video showed Harry sitting at a bar, just like how they met for the first time, Kara walking towards him and talking to him. Then suddenly, everyone in the bar disappears, leaving a spotlight on Kara and Harry. They stand up and walk towards the middle of the room, performing a seductive, sensual dance sequence. The video ends when they lean in for a kiss and the screen fades to black.
They had excellent chemistry on screen, everyone said.
It wasn't just on screen, Harry wasn't faking it. He enjoyed touching her, the way she would turn putty in his arms. He wanted to know if she felt it too. Harry swore he heard a small whimper when he leaned towards her in the last scene. It caught him off guard. When the director yelled 'cut' , they pulled away from each other. They might not have kissed, but the closeness made him feel something.
People were leaving after the shooting. After thanking everyone, Harry turned towards the door, only to see his wife standing there, talking to a crew member. He didn't expect she'd come to the shooting. Yes, he had told her over dinner that they would be shooting the video the next day but he never thought she would come. To be honest, he felt like they were drifting apart, they didn't have what they had once, they were falling out of love.
His eyes widened when he saw her there. How long has she been there? Did she saw the way he was touching Kara? Did she understand how he felt? He could feel his palms sweating.
Putting on his fakest smile, he walked over to her and slipped a hand around her waist,
"Hey Y/N/N, when did you get here?"
"I got here while you were filming, your mom took Beryl for the night. You did fantastic, H. I'm so proud of you", she smiled.
"Thanks baby. Shall we head out? "
"Um… yeah, sure"
"You go wait in the car, I'll be there, gotta get my phone and wallet from the other room", he said.
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It was the day before the premier. Harry had arranged a celebratory dinner for the crew. Y/N was also there.
After the dinner, they were about to leave. Y/N had gone to the washroom and was coming out into the hallway when she heard Kara call out to her husband.
"H, wait up…"
Harry turned around to see Kara running towards him.
"Were you leaving?"
"I… yeah, I was. My wife had gone to the washroom, I was waiting for her", he said. She should know that he was married; she should know what she was getting into, if she was interested in him. But of course, she would know, he was The Harry Styles.
"Um, yeah… I just wanted to let you know something. "
"Yeah? What is it?" , he asked frowning slightly.
"It's just that I'm going back to L.A the day after tomorrow."
"Oh" , he wasn't expecting that. His face fell.
"I'm going to come right out and say it Harry, I really like you and I feel like you like me too. Uh…would you come to my apartment, if I invite you? We could spend one night together before I go back."
Harry couldn't believe it, she liked him!
Without wasting another moment, he stuttered out,
"I … yeah, I'll come. We'll go after the premier".
Y/N couldn't believe what she heard. Her husband was in love with someone else. He was going to cheat on her. Her heart dropped to her stomach. She just wanted the earth to split in two and swallow her whole into the abyss. She walked downstairs, shoulders slumped in defeat. She walked away and waited by the car, expecting his arrival. She heard his footsteps not long after. Wiping off her tears, she tried to act normal.
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The day of the premier. Harry had woken up before everyone and was getting ready. The stylist had done his hair and makeup. He just had to change into his tux.
"Y/N, are you ready yet, baby?" He called out.
When there was no reply, he walked towards the bedroom and saw her in her PJs, eyes puffy and nose red.
"Baby, are you alright? What happened? Aren't you coming with me to the premier?" He asked.
"Um, no, I'm not. I don't feel good. I think I'm going to be sick. Can you go on without me today?" ,She lied, her voice hoarse.
Harry didn't think twice before agreeing. He was already nervous about how he was going to go to Kara's house with Y/N around. Now that she wasn't coming, it was easier for him to go to her place, but when he was about to leave for the venue, she felt bad about leaving Y/N in such a state. Was it fair to her, what he was doing? It's just a night, and Kara will be off to god- knows- where after that. It was his last chance. Harry walked towards the car with confident strides.
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After Harry slammed the front door shut, Y/N broke down. She couldn't take it anymore. Harry won't be home tonight. He'd be going to her house and he'd realise that all he wanted was Kara and leave them. Y/N decided that she would leave before he'd have to break the news to her - she didn't want to hear that from him, she didn't want what they had to end, but what choice did she have? He doesn't feel the same way anymore. What was the point of staying there? After tonight, he would never be hers. He was going to give Kara something that belonged only to them. After tonight, Y/N is nothing to him. With a heavy heart and tearful eyes, she started packing all her stuff.
By afternoon, she was able to pack everything. She told Beryl that they were going on a little trip. They had to leave before he came home. She didn't know where to go. She took out her phone and called the only person who came to her mind - her best friend Alice. She called an uber in the evening and loaded all their belongings into it. With sorrowful eyes, she looked over at their house one more time ; the house they bought together, the house she thought they'd grow old together in, the house they had built so many memories in. With trembling hands, she opened the door to the car, let Beryl and herself in.
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The event went well. Kara was not wasting any time, touching Harry any way she could. He didn't object or in any way try to get away from it. But he gradually started finding it a little uncomfortable.
The premier was over by 7o' clock in the evening. Everyone was going about their seperate ways and as the time passed, Harry became more and more fidgety and skittish. He saw Kara approaching and gave her a nervous smile.
"Um, I think we should go seperately you know, to not give the press anything to talk about." She said.
"Yeah, right. So erm… you will go now and I'll come to your place later?"
"Exactly. Plus…it will give me time to prepare ", she smirked, walking away.
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Harry's heart was racing. He stepped out of the car and walked towards the house. The yard was illuminated with lamps on either sides of the pavement. With each step, he was getting more and more anxious.
"This is it", he muttered to himself. The chilly air of the night made him shiver. He involuntarily put his hand inside his pants pocket. There was something there. He took it out, it was a folded piece of paper, sides crumpled. Curious, he gently opened it, inside it was a hand drawn picture. He realized that Beryl must have sneaked in that picture the day before. Three stick figures stood in front of a rose bush. The words "all the best, Daddy" was written in purple colour. He smiled at the memory - when he and Y/N took Beryl to the rose garden while they were visiting France. Beryl was so happy to see the butterflies she saw there. She had even made a new friend there. They explored the city and Beryl was so tired by the time they went back to the hotel room, which gave Harry some much needed intimate time with his wife.
He thought back to the time when Beryl was born. He was out of town for a meeting when Anne called him, saying that his wife had been admitted to the hospital. She was out with Anne and Gemma at the time. He got to the hospital as fast as he could. There she was, smiling like the angel she was, holding a small bundle of blankets in her hand. He rushed over to her and looked inside the bundle to see their little baby girl.
"Our little girl", he said, tearing up.
"Our little girl", she repeated. He leaned over and kissed her forehead. "Thank you for giving me the best gift in the world, I promise to love you both till the day I die."
Harry teared up at the memory. He had everything. Y/N gave him everything. What had gone wrong between them? Was she not enough for him? No, she was always more than enough, it was his own stupidity that led him to where he was now. Then realisation dawned upon him - he was searching for Y/N in Kara. The way she made him feel, the way she soothed him; but the truth was that he could never find it in Kara.
It was never Kara, it was Y/N , it was always her and it was high time he let her know that; he had been taking her for granted. Harry turned around and started walking towards his car with confident strides.
Wiping off his tears, he focused on the road. Kara had been blowing up his phone. He felt disgusted at himself for even considering cheating on his wife. And the worst part was that he had left her all alone, sick, to care for herself when he was so eager to have another woman under him. He felt pathetic.
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He parked his car and ran towards the front door. The house was covered in darkness. Why didn't Y/N turn the lights on? Was she that sick? At that moment, Harry hated himself for leaving her in the bed.
He turned on the lights and called for Y/N. No reply. He walked towards the bedroom, only to find nothing but a pile of sheets. He checked every nook and corner of the house for them, but to no avail. Harry started panicking. What happened to his wife and child? Where were they? He checked his phone again. No calls or messages from her. He called her back, but all the calls went straight to voicemail. Walking back to his bedroom, he found something he didn't see when he first came in... her wedding ring? On top of a wrapped box? He realised that it was the very same gift he gave her to make up for their fight - it hadn't even been opened. On top of it was a letter.
He was confused. He gently opened the letter,
Dear Harry,
By the time you see this, we would be out of your hair. I know I have not been the best wife, and trust me I've been trying.
After you told me that we were a burden to you, I had been trying so hard not to be a burden; I used to stay late in the boutique, do everything for you so that you won't leave me; leave us. I had realised that you had fallen out of love with me, but I didn't want to be separated from you, I thought it wasn't fair to Beryl. I thought I could handle it. But I couldn't. I hated it when I saw you with Kara. I hate that you don't love me anymore and I hate myself for it. I had seen you that day at the cafe and had called you to let you know that I was there. But I didn't know that you were with someone else. I didn't say anything even after you came home, because I didn't want you to leave us. I selfishly held on to the hope that if I stopped bothering you for everything, maybe you'd stay with us. But that hope was shattered when I accidentally overheard you and Kara at the dinner. I couldn't stay here after that. I am taking Beryl with me. I know I don't have a place in your life anymore. It hurts like hell and I know that I would never be able to move on from you because I loved you; I still love you. I didn't want you to tell me that you don't want us here, so I left with Beryl this afternoon. Don't worry, we won't be a burden to you anymore. I don't want your money or fame or anything, I just have a request to you - even if you regret me, please don't regret Beryl, she would be heartbroken.
I would tell Beryl that you have gone back for tour; she'd be sad at first, but she'd get over it eventually.
We won't meet again, Harry. I'll stay out of your life for good. I really hope this was worth it.
Goodbye,
Y/N
Harry stood there with the letter in his hand, shocked. And when reality sunk in, he collapsed onto the floor, tears streaming down his face.
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University AU where Hob is one of those people that writes notes to himself all over his arms and hands. Digital reminders are too easy to dismiss and sure he's tried notebooks but they get left on a desk or in his dorm or in the grocery store produce aisle that one time, so it's not really a sustainable system. He has the bandwidth to remember his phone, his keys/wallet, and his laptop, and everything else is chance. He really is one of those types of people who would lose his head if it wasn't attached to his neck, at least his arms are more than likely going to stick with him.
Hob has a colorful pile of pens that write well on his hairy skin and the hard won ability to write semi-legibly with both hands to double his writing space. His assignments, grocery lists, personal to-dos, that one song a friend mentioned all get written on his skin so he doesn't have to remember to remember them.
It's all nicely contained until the day he is talking to one of his classmates about books and grabs their arm to write down his recommendation. Hob notices that Dream doesn't really object to the touching or the writing, and from that point on the floodgates open.
At first he just writes ideas and such for Dream on the other's skin but when Dream keeps coming up with reasons for Hob to write on him it quickly evolves into Hob writing himself reminders on Dream just to have the excuse later to grab his wrist and “check” the reminders by running a finger over them. Dream starts to regularly sport t-shirts under his jacket and arms covered in colorful scrawls in contrast to his otherwise monochromatic pallet.
When they start dating, Hob starts writing love notes on Dream’s skin. Little things like “remember: Hob loves you.” “date tonight 6pm” or “looking gorgeous” alongside the doodles and more day to day reminders. Dream might have a phone album full of snapshots of the notes.
When Dream proposes, he steals one of Hob's pens and takes the other man's hand to write “say yes to marriage proposal” on the back of it under the current to-do list. Hob doesn't even let the ink dry before he is trying to kiss the breath out of Dream while simultaneously saying yes.
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This is the cutest thing ever, actually.
Dream is perfect for writing on (although he complains about it, just to keep up his unapproachable goth vibes). He's smooth and paper white, and honestly Hob could save so much money on notebooks and just write on Dream instead. Truthfully, most of what Hob writes is cute sappy stuff, or little inside jokes, or occasionally "drink some fucking water, you are just a houseplant with emotions".
On of Hob’s wedding presents to Dream is a lil trip to a tattoo studio, where Hob gets his marriage proposal permanently inked onto his skin (he didn't wash his hand for a week to preserve the message, and Dream is both disgusted and impressed). In return Hob writes a special "hob loves you" message for Dream to get tattooed as well. Its very schmoopy and Dream is secretly soooo pleased with it.
Yes, Hob also draws a lot of dicks on Dream, by the way. Sometimes the dicks have lil smiley faces. Sometimes they are semi accurate representations of Hob’s dick. This is all fine and good until Dream goes for his first fancy job interview after uni... with a massive, only slightly faded, cartoon penis on his hand. He still gets the job, but Hob has a lot of grovelling to do when he gets home...
He lets Dream draw all over him in bed, that night, to make up for it. And when Dream writes "MINE" is a few specific places on his body, Hob discovers a very specific kink. There may be a few more tattoos coming down the line... if he's a good boy and earns Dream’s writing on his skin <3
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My Favourite Workout {s.c.}
©February 2023 by lalal-99
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Changbin x afab!reader | trope: established relationship, shower sex | smut | wordcount: 6.2k
Synopsis: Your boyfriend has been working his butt off the past few weeks. It's only fair of you to offer some of your time up so you can spend it together, doing something you love. Or he does anyways. You're not really a fan of gyms in general, but the private gym at his workplace sure has its perks.
Warnings: explicit content | dni if your under 18
smut tags: dom-ish!changbin | oral (fem. receiving) | unprotected vaginal sex (don't do at home) | gym sex | multiple orgasms | shower sex | multiple positions | implied edging | lots of aftercare | let me know if I missed anything
Note: This sat in my drafts for over a year, but it turned out pretty good in the end. Gym-Changbin got a strong grip on me...
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This was so not what you had expected from a gym. Crowds of bulked-up people, sweaty seats, and overpriced protein shakes – that’s what you were used to. You hadn’t been to that many gyms, but you had seen a fair share of them in your lifetime. And this was so far from anything you had witnessed before.
Instead of bad music and half-naked people you wanted to know nothing about, there was silence. And him.
The man sitting a few metres ahead – toned upper body clad in a tight muscle shirt, thick thighs in a pair of loose hanging shorts – was a feast for the eyes. With every pull he did on the exercising machine, dragging the black metal bar lower before bringing the weights to the ground again, his arms flexed. Every contraction of his muscles below his thin shirt was palpable, so deliciously inviting you to bury your teeth in them.
Had you known before, it was gonna be just the two of you in this one-roomed, private gym, you probably wouldn’t have gone. You barely moved anyway as the cross-trainer you had previously used rested quietly below you, your eyes focused on the beautiful man in front of you. How could you have done anything with him right in your eyesight, distracting you from what you usually did in a gym? An hour-long basic workout before swearing never to do one again.
It took Changbin a minute to notice your glances, but when he did, he casually got up, a smirk plastered on his face as he made his way towards you. He took one of his earphones out, his eyes meeting yours as she placed his muscular arms on the handles of your cross-trainer.
“You know this won’t move by itself, right?” Changbin asked, pointing at the machine below you. You rolled your eyes at his comment, stepping down from the trainer.
“I know, but this is so boring,” you told him honestly as you dried the non-existent sweat from your forehead with the towel you had brought. “I only came here with you today, anyways, because we haven’t spent an hour of quality time in two weeks.”
With your boyfriend working overtime at the studio so close to the release of their newest album, you had barely seen him, let alone spent time with him. For the past two weeks, he had left for work before you got up and only came home after his daily workout when you were already half-asleep on the couch.
Obviously, you didn’t blame Changbin. He loved his work, and being one of the producers for his very own band, he usually had to walk the extra mile. You knew and had always known it wouldn’t be easy. Your relationship needed constant work so you wouldn’t forget about each other in the haste of each day.
This was the exact reason why you had decided to join your boyfriend in the gym tonight. It was your way of showing him you weren’t just complaining but doing something to make it work. And you knew he appreciated your extra effort whenever he couldn’t give a hundred percent.
“We’re spending time right now, aren’t we?”
“I wouldn’t call us working out in different corners of this room ‘spending time together’,” you replied with a huff.
Changbin had been listening to music since you had stepped into JYPE’s private gym just a few floors below his studio. You knew he replayed whatever song they had produced that day while working out afterwards. It was Changbin’s way of clearing his head while also thinking of changes they needed to make in the melody or rhythm.
Still, you wouldn’t have complained about him talking to you or at least not ignoring you, caught up in his daily routine. Your relationship shouldn’t be routine anyways.
“I’m sorry, babe,” Changbin finally agreed as he took the second earplug out. With a swift motion, he put them into the little container, storing them in his pocket. “How about we finish the rest of the workout with no distractions, alright?”
“The rest of the workout?” you questioned in disbelief. “You mean you’re not finished?”
After an hour in the gym, you were convinced Changbin must have been as tired of it as you were. Even if you hadn’t done much actual working out, you could still tell you’d feel the effect of it tomorrow.
“Just another 30 minutes. Tops,” Changbin promised with a smile as he pointed at one machine behind him. “You wanna try something less boring?”
“Fine,” you gave in as you followed him to the device. You would already be sore the next day, so why not give yourself an extra push. “How does this work?”
“You sit on here,” your boyfriend guided you to the seat of the training equipment, “and you place your legs on either side of these pads.”
You followed his instructions one by one, placing your legs outside of two cushions attached to metal bars, eventually leading to the main body of the machine.
“And now what?” you questioned as you looked up at Changbin.
“Well, you’re gonna press your thighs together. But first, you put weight onto them. How much do you want? Like 5 kilos?” The teasing smile on his lips earned him an eye roll as it told you 5 kilos weren’t much.
“Funny.” The sarcasm was evident in your voice as you looked back at the weights variety the machine offered. It went from 5 to 90 kilos in steps of five. You were aware you shouldn’t start with the highest setting, though you didn’t want to start with the lowest either. “Give me like 20.”
“I don’t know, babe. You think you can handle that?”
Honestly, you didn’t believe that to be a lot of weight. 20 kilos? That’s like a dog or a five-year-old child. Although Changbin’s expression told you differently, you were sure you could take that much.
“I know you think I’m just your weak girlfriend. But I’m very capable of making those sorts of decisions for myself.” You didn’t intend it to come out as harsh as it did, seeing your boyfriend was merely trying to help you. Still, you didn’t appreciate him suggesting, you weren’t strong enough.
“Fine, don’t listen to me. But don’t you complain about your legs tomorrow. I won’t carry you around the house just because you didn’t believe me,” Changbin eventually agreed, setting the weight to your wishes. “Is this good?”
As you pressed your knees towards each other, effectively lifting the weight you had chosen, you realised you had messed up. You hadn’t known 20 kilos to put that much pressure onto your untrained legs when you could easily carry them with your arms. One of your nephews weighed about that much, and he was no difficulty for you.
Obviously, you couldn’t let Changbin know he had been right. After the scene you had just caused, you couldn’t acknowledge you were wrong, and actually weren’t capable of making those decisions for yourself.
“Yup.” You forced a smile onto your lips as you felt your abdominal muscles clench at the pain. It was almost impossible to control your facial expressions when you wanted to scream and curl into a ball instead. “Get back to your workout, babe. I’m fine, really.”
With a shake of his head, and a chuckle leaving his lips, Changbin turned around to head back to his previous workout. The second you were out of his sight, you stopped moving, feeling the burn in your every fibre already. Your legs were shaking as you silently breathed through the sting, picking the movement back up the second Changbin sat down. Unfortunately, he was facing you, so you couldn’t have merely pretended to be doing the exercise.
Your boyfriend picked up his previous routine, his arms finding the metal bar above his head as he started pulling it towards himself. You didn’t know exactly how much weight he had put onto his machine, but you guessed it was about 60 kilos. It was around three times what you were currently pressing between your legs, and still, he looked almost calm doing it. Obviously, you knew your boyfriend was fit – you saw him naked every day – but this was impressive, nevertheless.
You tried your best to concentrate on anything but your thighs, your eyes finding him after a few more squeezes. Changbin threw you a sweet smile as your teeth caught your lower lip. Looking at his buff arms only distracted you for so long, and you already felt you wouldn’t last much longer. Still, you didn’t think about giving up.
As you kept pushing yourself through the pain, you silently counted every press your legs did. Reaching ten presses after a minute, you decided it to be good enough for your first round. The second your legs stopped squeezing, an unintentional sigh left your lips as you felt your muscles relax. So far, so good.
With your head thrown back and your eyes pressed shut, you tried regaining your composure. You were so occupied with catching a grip on reality you didn’t even recognise Changbin was staring at you. You looked up at him only when you heard his weights hit the ground. He had barely gotten to 15 pulls, and you knew for a fact that this couldn’t be it. He must have had a lot more in him than just that.
“What’s wrong?” you questioned your boyfriend in confusion. Your hands came from the handles at your sides to your face as you dragged them across your skin. That you were already sweating after just a minute of actual working out couldn’t have been a good sign.
“You have got to be kidding me.” As Changbin shook his head in disbelief, your eyes wandered down his body to his hand positioned in his lap. You were trying to find the reason for his sudden reaction, and it took you a few seconds to realise how his hand wasn’t simply resting in his crotch. It pressed against it, trying to control the growing bulge under the thin fabric.
“Do you…” Your voice trailed off as a smile appeared on your face. With your hand covering your mouth, you tried hiding it, though you weren’t doing a good job. “Do you have a boner?”
“It’s not my fault,” Changbin reasoned as his eyes slid over your exposed legs towards your face. “It’s you!”
“What did I do? I’m just sitting here,” you explained as-a-matter-of-factly. You hadn’t done anything to turn him on, at least not intentionally.
“Yeah. Legs spread, making your sex noises.”
Your mouth opened at his accusation, your legs swinging over the cushions so you could close them. They were still quivering from the previous weighted movement, so you ran your hands over them, massaging the muscle.
“I’m not making sex noises,” you exclaimed, somewhat offended. No way in hell were the sounds you had made while pressing 20 kilos with your legs were the same ones you made when the two of you were together.
“You sure are. You’ve been moaning the whole time. And now you’re touching yourself, which isn’t any better,” Changbin pointed out, his eyes pinned on your hand running over your thigh. His words made you stop as you tried to terminate anything that might have caused his discomfort. It made you proud how it hadn’t taken much work to get him aroused, though you wouldn’t have disclosed that to him under any circumstance. “Also, we haven’t had sex in about three weeks.”
“And that’s my fault? How, exactly?”
With Changbin in the studio and you working all day, there had only been a few chances for the two of you to get some sexy time. And when such rare opportunities occurred, either you had been too tired, or he had been too sore. If he really wanted to blame you for the lack of intimacy, he couldn’t take himself out of the equation.
“It’s not.” A sigh left Changbin’s lips as she took the towel from beside him to put it over his crotch. “Let’s just get back to the workout, okay? I’m sure it will be gone in a few minutes.”
As your boyfriend stretched his arms to get a hold on the handles of the exercising machine above him, his tight shirt rid up his body a bit. It revealed his stomach below it for only a second, but you caught it anyway. Once he dragged the bar down the first time, your eyes immediately came to his bulky arms.
When you had met Changbin a few years earlier, he hadn’t yet achieved those as he hadn’t started working out as much.
You hadn’t fallen for him because of the way he could pick you up or spin you around as though you were a mannequin rather than a human being. You had fallen for Changbin because of his character, the way he could make you smile or laugh with only a few words. That he had gotten so muscular over the past two years was merely an extra which you didn’t mind. Frankly, you would have loved him with or without the few kilos of extra beef.
Still, you couldn’t help yourself wanting to touch him, lick him, or anything really. Nothing was off the table with the two of you, and even though your boyfriend was sweaty at the moment, you couldn’t help wanting to be closer to him. It became apparent at that moment that he wasn’t the only one riled up by the lack of sexual activity over the past few weeks.
“You know, there are quicker ways to get rid of an erection than waiting.” The words had left your mouth before you could think again about offering to help him out.
Changbin swiftly set the weights down again, his hands resting on his thick thighs as he looked at you with a smirk. Obviously, he understood what you were trying to say immediately.
“Are you serious? Here? A public place?”
Frankly, you hadn’t done many spicy things outside your own four walls, but there were first times for everything. Also, you weren’t sure you could wait to get home, wanting to pull those clothes off your boyfriend asap.
It was late anyway, and when you had come to pick him up from the studio, the whole building was pretty much empty. Right now, you thanked the lord that Chan had a dinner scheduled with his girlfriend. It gave you the perfect opportunity for some one-on-one time with your boyfriend.
“Sure. I mean, who’s gonna catch us? JYP?”
When Changbin realised you were right, that no one was there to catch you, he instantly lifted himself up. With a hurried sweep, he grabbed his towel and water bottle before making his way to you, his hand casually catching yours.
“Why are we still here then? Let’s go!”
A giggle left your lips at your boyfriend’s eagerness, the kiss he planted on your lips in excitement lasting only a second or two.
“Wait, my water bottle!” It still sat by the cross-trainer, long forgotten. There would have been plenty time to get it, but apparently, Changbin had other plans.
“I’ll buy you a new one.”
As Changbin dragged you from the gym to the changing rooms just a few doors down, you checked the halls one last time, making sure no one was around. When you realised everything was quiet, you bit your lip in anticipation.
The second you had reached the room, Changbin opened the door impatiently, pulling you inside. He closed the door behind you with a loud thud, and you found yourself pressed against the cold material instantly.
“This is so exciting,” your boyfriend pointed out before his lips met yours in an eager kiss. You could taste the sweat on his upper lip, though you couldn’t have cared less. Changbin’s strong hands instantly came to your waist, keeping you in place as his hip pressed into yours hungrily. “Let’s take this off, shall we?” A second later, your shirt was off you as Changbin’s hands came up to cup your breasts over the fabric of your sports bra.
“Do you like it? I bought it last week,” you questioned as Changbin eyed the white material.
“I do. I’d like it more if you took it off, though.”
“Sure. You first.”
With a smirk still plastered on his face, your boyfriend’s hands came to the hem of his shirt as he pulled it over his head. You bit your lip at the view, your mouth watering at the sight of his delicious peck muscles. Apart from his arms, they were probably your favourite extra.
“Your turn!” Changbin said before you could even think about touching him. You could get to that later, anyway. “And take off the shoes.”
Without as much as a hint of hesitation, you slipped out of your new clothing item and your sneakers, leaving you in only your pants and panties. Changbin followed suit, kicking his shoes and socks away as he came closer to you again.
His hands found yours as he pressed them against the door beside your head so you couldn’t move them. His body flushed against you was enough to declare you officially trapped.
When Changbin’s lips found yours again, his tongue instantly connecting with yours, he ground his hips into you, effectively making you sigh into him. You could feel him grinning against your mouth.
“I might have been wrong before. Your sex noises are way better than your workout noises,” Changbin pointed out. “They’re like music to my ears.”
“Maybe you should make a song out of them. This way, you can listen to me while working out.”
“Tempting- but I’d rather not get a boner while working out with Chan. This-” Rutting his hips into yours, you felt his erection more prominent than before. “This is for you and for you only.”
“Good.”
Your boyfriend’s lips met yours again, this time slightly rougher as he evidently attempted to move things along. Soon enough, his tongue met your neck as he sucked on the skin, causing another whimper to leave you. After years of being together, he clearly knew all your buttons by heart.
As Changbin reached your breast, your moaning turned into groaning, the frustration reaching a new high. His mouth engulfed your nipple, lightly grazing it with his teeth before he let his tongue run over it. The arching of your back was the only indication he needed to know his advances caused the wanted impact on you.
When his hands ran down your arms and to your waist, you felt goosebumps rise all over your body as a rush of blood went to your core. You had always loved how your boyfriend could turn you to mush at his hands, especially now that you had seen him work out. All the strength in his arms didn’t change how carefully he handled you; as though you’d break under too much pressure.
Your hands came to Changbin’s hair as he kissed all over your chest, entangling with the bundle as you closed your eyes and threw your head back at the pleasure. Only when he went further down, eventually landing on his knees – like you weren’t turned on enough already, making your heart skip a few beats – did you look down at him.
A smile spread on your lips as you knew what was coming.
“These,” Changbin’s hands came around your thighs as she slapped one of them hungrily, “make me go crazy. I couldn’t stop thinking about burying my head between them when you were doing that exercise earlier. And I do think we should get one of those exercise machines for our house. Just so we can misuse it. Every. Single. Day.”
With those words, Changbin started dragging your shorts down your legs, effectively taking your panties off with them. You quickly swiped them away with your foot so they wouldn’t get in the way of things.
“I think there are machines for that exact use. Why don’t we get one of those?” You couldn’t deny the thought exciting you. Smaller toys had been part of your love life since the beginning, but never something as massive as this.
“And I think I absolutely fucking love you.”
Without another second of hesitation, Changbin buried his head between your thighs, his tongue licking a rough strip up your folds. It made your legs quiver as you pulled at his hair. You were still pretty beat from your previous workout so that your legs were almost giving out beneath you was no surprise. Especially when your boyfriend made you feel so good on top of everything.
One of his arms kept you spread for him as his other came around your thigh, lifting it up and over his shoulder. It gave him much better access so his second hand could wander around your body, keeping you in place at your spine.
Changbin’s tongue ran along your entrance a couple times, dipping in only slightly before precisely meeting your nub. It sent shock waves down your back as he knew exactly how you liked it. He soon tilted his head, eyes closing as he seemed to enjoy this as much as you did. Perhaps even more.
The way he ate you out, fast – almost maliciously so – you knew you wouldn’t last for too long. That, paired with the excitement about someone possibly walking in on you at any given time, took you straight to cloud nine. Sure, you hadn’t noticed anyone before, but that didn’t mean no one was actually around.
When Changbin’s teeth came into play, lightly running over your nub every few licks, a loud cry escaped your throat. You bucked your hips into him involuntarily, the knee currently not resting on his shoulder quivering heavily. Had he not held you by your leg, you would have fallen to your knees at the pleasure running through your system. Changbin seemed to notice how difficult it was for you to concentrate on anything but the pain in your leg, quickly deciding to help you out.
You were used to having one of your legs positioned over your boyfriend’s shoulder, opening up possibilities for him to reach deeper – better. So, when Changbin pulled your second leg up, pulling it over his other shoulder, you were more than just stunned. In the new position, one you had never tried before – you fully sitting on his shoulders – a whole different set of possibilities opened up.
That Changbin could even carry you like this, all your weight pressing onto him, was a miracle. Sure, he benched more than your weight and probably pulled just as much, but this was still different. You weren’t dead weight like the metal sitting only rooms away; you’re a human. It was you and every kilo you brought to the table.
Your surprise and fear for your boyfriend’s well-being were swiftly overshadowed when you noticed just how much he enjoyed this new position. It gave him total control over your body, where to put you and how to bend you. And that control, he used to both your advantages.
As your back was pressed against the cold metal of the door, your hands automatically came to Changbin’s hair, pulling on it as he dove in deeper. His hands by your spine pushed you closer against him as you feared he might suffocate. He couldn’t have possibly gotten the necessary oxygen in this seemingly uncomfortable position. And, still, it didn’t impact his action as much as you had anticipated. It might have even spurred him on further.
His humming vibrated through your whole body, sending shock waves to every fibre of your being. You couldn’t help but whimper at the feeling, noticing the smirk against your core once he heard. One of his hands left your spine to slap your butt as he started massaging it, only encouraging you to be less cautious of the noise leaving your body.
Changbin’s second hand snuck around your body, running up your stomach and towards your breast, stroking it roughly as his fingers ran over your nipple. This, paired with his second hand on your butt and his mouth on your core, made you shiver and twitch against him. His tongue lapping at your juices, so precisely meeting every tiny spot between your legs, brought you close as fast as barely before.
“Fuck,” you sobbed once the tip of his muscle ran down to your hole, fucking inside hastily. It certainly wasn’t long enough to reach every spot within you, but it felt great, nonetheless. So much so that you could have stayed like this forever.
For all you cared, Changbin could have eaten you out like this the whole night. Though you doubted it would be enough to finish either of you.
So, when Changbin slowly and ever-so-carefully set your legs back onto the ground, his mouth leaving your heat, you weren’t mad. As your legs quivered on either side of him, he came up from the floor, standing right in front of you as he leaned in for a long, somewhat innocent kiss.
“We’re so gonna do that more often,” Changbin breathed against your lips as a smirk spread on his. “I’ll get undressed. Meet you in the shower?”
All you could muster was a nod as you shakily started making your way towards the shower cubicles. Finding your ass in a slap as you moved, you jerked forward in unexpectedness.
“Sorry, my hand slipped.” The smirk on his face told you otherwise, though you naturally ignored the comment as you continued your path further back.
The moment you found yourself under the warm water, the liquid running through your hair and down your body, you felt yourself relax. The jets softly massaged your back and the muscles which had gotten so tense from leaning against the metal door for too long, causing a few moans to slip out of your mouth.
It wasn’t until you felt a presence behind you that you came back from your trance, the thick fingers around your waist causing a smile to spread on your face.
“I hope the shower isn’t making you feel better than I do...” Voice trailing off, Changbin’s lips came to your neck, running along the vein at the side. You moaned at the feeling, even more relaxing than the shower itself, a smile spreading on his lips. “I take that as a ‘no’.”
With his hands running up your body, fingering over your perked nipples, you arched your back against his front. His arousal became unmistakably clear to you when you felt him poke one of your ass cheeks. You bit your lip at the sensation, proud of your effect on his body.
His tongue ran over your neck, down your left shoulder and over to your right as his hands softly massaged your breast. The shower jets only added to the sensation, your head soon thrown to the side to give Changbin better access to your earlobe. He twirled it between his teeth, growling in your ear as you continuously pushed your ass against him.
“Fuck, you’re so hot like this.” Smiling at your words, you tried turning around to kiss him, though his strong arms prevented any unapproved movement. “Stay like this. Perfectly still for me to touch and do as I please. You like that, don’t you?”
Humming in answer, Changbin ran one hand down your spine, thumb pressing into your muscles on either side. When he reached your butt, he grabbed one of your cheeks, pulling it to the side before letting it slap back against the other. He did the same thing to the other, his hand reaching even deeper, running two fingers through your folds to test your wetness. It made you moan loudly, the sound echoing from the tiled walls. To neither of your surprise, you were drenched.
“Ready, baby?”
You merely nodded, forming words impossible at this point. Not with how much need was radiating from your every pore.
Putting your hands against the wall in front of you, you leaned forward to give him better access. With one of his hands pressing against your lower back, the other guiding him towards your entrance, it took him less than 5 seconds to enter you, bottoming inside you.
“Mhm…”
“Feel good, baby?” Changbin pulled you back against his chest, slipping out just a tad at the movement. You agreed with a nod, hands reaching back to touch his hips.
“Move- please.”
Chuckling at your attempt to talk, Changbin tilted your head to the side with two fingers, kissing the corner of your mouth before slowly pulling out and plunging himself back in. “I fucking love you. Did I tell you that?”
His length dragged deliciously against your swollen walls in this position, meeting that spot inside you every time. It took him a few seconds to find a rhythm before his hips settled at snapping against yours in perfect timing with your breathing. At first, at least.
A few minutes into it, Changbin sped up, your hands coming from your side – holding onto his at your waist – to the wall in front of you. You needed to stabilise yourself in some way, his forceful thrusts sending you straight to heaven. He took a step forward to keep reaching deep inside, your back arching for comfort. It also helped you focus on not coming already.
“Fuck, if you keep clenching like this...”
Changbin didn’t end his sentence, but you understood him perfectly anyway. Knowing he wasn’t doing any better than you calmed you down, your walls relaxing slightly. It sent you closer quicker, but you knew he wasn’t far behind, so it was alright.
Soon enough, one of his hands reached around your body again, twisting your nipples once before travelling down your front. How he even had a head for helping you out when he was so close himself was beyond you. Your head started spinning when two of his fingers met your nub, roughly circling the flesh.
Letting your head hang slack in front of you, you squeezed your eyes shut at the sensation, the water running down your back only adding to it. You started twitching against him, your body leaving your control at his skilled technique. All you could do was hold onto the wall, trying to relieve some tension by dragging your fingers against the tiles. Your knuckles soon turned white, your head dizzy, and your sight blurry once Changbin angled his hips to reach your spot.
“Fuck-”
Your body started shaking at the approach of your inevitable release, Changbin pulling you flash against him. His arm wrapped around your front, keeping you stable against him as your hands reached back to grab him. With his head back at the side of your head, kissing your skin and attempting to give some momentum to the moment, you grabbed his hair, pulling lightly as the high came crashing over you.
Spasming against him, loud moans escaping your mouth like a waterfall, Changbin held you as close as possible, guiding you through it. He slowed down his thrusts for a few seconds, fingers circling your nub at a less demanding pace. His touch never stopped, simply helping you through the high but not letting you calm down just yet.
“That was so hot, baby,” Changbin whispered in your ear before picking up the pace of his hips and fingers. It sent you right back to the white-gazed, world-spinning high you hadn’t had the chance to come down from. “You think you can do it again?”
“I don’t-” your words were cut off when he sped up, going even harder and faster than he did earlier. The overstimulation set in soon enough, your mouth hanging slack as whimpers tumbled over your tongue. “Fuck, fuck, fuck-”
“Just like that, baby. Come for me again!”
How you did it, you wouldn’t have been able to tell with a gun to your head. You had never come a second time this quick after your first time. Until now, that was.
Maybe it was how well Changbin knew your body, being able to coax orgasm after orgasm out of you at a speed that could have been world record worthy. Maybe, it was the whole ‘people might walk in on you any second’-situation. You didn’t have the head to care as you kept spasming against his front, feeling him release with a groan in your ear.
You rode out both your highs in about a minute, his movement never stopping but calming down with every second until he finally stopped. Changbin didn’t withdraw just yet, though he took the opportunity of complete calmness to press a soft kiss against your cheek.
Still catching your breath after two back-to-back orgasms, you merely smiled at his sweet action, hands holding onto him behind you.
“That-” Changbin cut himself off, also trying to get his breathing under control. It took him a few moments, but then he pulled out of you, spinning you around on wobbly legs. Kissing you for the first time in what felt like hours, you felt yourself reaching earth again after being sent to heaven twice in a matter of seconds. “The single, most hottest thing you ever did.”
“‘t wasn’t me. All you.”
That you still couldn’t speak properly further proved just how high up he had brought you. Changbin chuckled at your attempt to talk, forehead pressing against yours as you started feeling his release dribble down your leg. Good thing you were already in the shower, or else it would have made a complete mess.
“Let’s settle on team effort.” You giggled at his words, feeling your eyes and legs giving out on you. Had it not been for Changbin’s hands at your sides, you would have collapsed already. “You tired, baby?”
You didn’t need to answer that question as your boyfriend slowly guided you to the floor, helping you settle against the wall. The water was still running over your body as he disappeared for a few seconds. When he came back, he had shower gel, shampoo, and your sports bra with you, so you wouldn’t have to sit on the cold floor and risk catching a UTI. After that workout, you wouldn’t be needing it tonight anyway.
Turning your back to him, Changbin squeezed some of the shampoo onto his fingers before bringing them to your hair, softly spreading it over your scalp. The touch felt like magic, pumping energy back into your body. Same with the shower gel, which Changbin massaged into your back once he was done with your hair. You moaned at the feeling, your muscles relaxing at his perfectly calm touch.
Changbin always found ways to take ‘aftercare’ to a whole nother level.
“You good to walk? Or do you want me to carry you?”
“I can walk,” you told him, getting off the floor. Your legs were still pretty unstable, shaking under your weight. As though you hadn’t learned to walk yet.
“Okay, Bambi. Let me help you.” Swept off your feet, Changbin carried you out of the shower stalls and back into the changing area. You giggled in his arms, time and time again surprised by his strength. He almost made it look like you weighed nothing.
Wrapping you in a towel, Changbin left you for maybe a minute to clean himself. It gave you time to calm down further, your head and body almost completely back to normal once he came back into the room. As he dried himself off, you couldn’t help your wandering eyes running over his body. A real sight for the Gods, your boyfriend was.
“I’m sorry,” you apologised, much to Changbin’s surprise. His eyebrows drew together, confusion taking over his face as he came closer, the towel hanging dangerously loose around his waist.
“What for?”
“You couldn’t finish your workout because of me.”
In your head, you knew he didn’t mind. Still, you felt bad you hadn’t let him finish off his routine because of your arousal. And, frankly, your unwillingness to work out even a minute longer.
“You’re a little stupid-head, you know that?” Changbin asked in amusement, playfully shoving your head as he seated himself next to you. “I’d do you over a workout anytime.” He kissed you lightly, tongue brushing against your lower lip for only a second before he pulled away. “Now, turn around, so I can get changed.”
You laughed at his demand, putting your hands over your eyes, fingers spread apart as far as possible.
“Eyes are closed. Go ahead!”
Changbin laughed at your action, a few emotions written on his face simultaneously. Though, it didn’t take much of you to recognise the main one. “Fuck, I don’t think I can love you more than right now.”
And he meant it.
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stusbunker · 6 months
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Spotless: Intro
Chapter One
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Featuring: Dean Winchester/Reader
Word Count: 1375
Warnings, etc: Mutual pining, assumed unrequited feelings, mild drug use, unbeta'd
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You woke up overthinking. Like continuing a conversation with yourself from your dreams, the thoughts steamrolled you into consciousness. The band was in the studio for at least another week and you had to make sure the anticipation continued to build. You had a call scheduled at nine with the record label, Bobby and some other folks who you knew by name but not by face or voice.
It was going to be a long day.
It had already been a long year and the comeback after the last tour’s fallout had felt like your sole duty. They were still solid, still ready to rock-n-roll, you just had to make sure the press and the fans knew it. You grabbed your phone off your bedside table and got to work without actually getting vertical. You checked your email, the usual rotation of social media and then finally your text messages.
Sam had sent you a link to the podcast he had been talking about the last time you’d been over to his and Dean’s place for movies, which was probably two weeks too late to still be relevant, but you added it to your library anyway. Charlie had gone on a rant about a failed side quest on her latest D&D campaign and then started planning a fantasy getaway for after the tour that wasn’t even completely scheduled yet. You didn’t reply, because you needed more caffeine in your system to keep up with her.
Then there were some random complaints about Ash and Kevin from Dean. Amongst all that there was his usual checking in and an obnoxious picture showcasing the absurd size of Ash’s bong. You groaned because Dean’s eyes in the picture were glassy and amused, but also so, so distracting. His little stoned smile always did things to you.
At least he was having fun while he was laying down tracks.
You looked your fill and then went on to the next notification on your phone. Dean and his band, Phantom Traveler, might be your employers, but they were still your friends and fawning all over the man that a good chunk of the Western world did wasn’t going to get you anywhere.
Not in this lifetime.
Your alarm buzzed, breaking the quiet of your bedroom and the illusion of a lack of responsibility. You groaned and threw off your covers. Now or never, you told yourself, and got up to start your day.
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“And with the losses from last time, we need something more than just your word that we are going to make up the difference,” Crowley tacked on at the end of his spiel.
Bobby, who apparently was stuck on the 405, looked like he was going to cuss him out at any moment and you couldn’t blame him. The Zoom call had gone about as well as you had anticipated and it wasn’t over. You had enough experience to keep your face neutral, however Bobby had neither the fucks to give or the interest in maintaining civility.
“How about three platinum albums over the past twelve years?!”
Every corporate stooge winced at Bobby’s indignation, except Crowley who seemed to be delighted about it somehow. 
“We understand that Mr. Singer—- we just want our ducks in a row. Now if we can get Dean on board with some more one-on-one interviews and positive exposure. We think we can hit our pre-sale targets to ensure a longer touring schedule,” Zachariah Adler smarmed on.
“And what would that prove?” Bobby asked, protective of his boys as always.
“That you have your dog on a leash,” Crowley butt in.
“More like workhorse the way you folks are talking about him,” Bobby muttered, though you still heard him over the sound of traffic.
You had to say something. “If— we get Dean to agree, and you get your extended tour. We want more flexibility on the next album. It’s the final one in the contract and if you want Phantom Traveler to remain the face of Crossroads it would be mutually beneficial to give them some room to work.”
“That’s not really your stipulation to make Ms. Y/L/N,” Dick Roman pointed out.
Your face burned with the reprimand, but you held your chin high.
“Like hell it ain't. Anything Y/N says, I say too,” Bobby barked.
Crowley looked bored at that point. And you really didn’t want to butt in or add to your embarrassment. But no one was saying anything.
“Does that work for everyone then?” You looked at these corporate stooges in the digital eye and fought for the band, for Dean. Despite having very little in the idea of the how of it all.
Zachariah spoke first, because of course he did. “If Mr. Winchester were to agree and we see an improvement in image by the end of the year— I think that could definitely be arranged.”
Bobby huffed, but remained silent. 
You watched Crowley’s eyes dance between the other record company execs and the intensity of his mischievousness grew. “I’d love to see how you handle that— get back to me when you have something solid and we’ll be in touch.”
“That works for us,” you replied firmly, not giving into his apparent doubts on your abilities. You were a nepo-hire, everyone there knew it. But it didn’t mean you weren’t very good at your job.
“Alright— I’ve got a recording session to get to. If that’s everything—” Bobby trailed off and watched as the trio from the label became even more affronted.
“I’d like a solid date for follow up,” Dick tossed out, in a clear final challenge, but everyone knew the meeting was over.
“Recording is underway, but I’d say we’d be able to touch base by the middle of December,” you added, pretending to check the calendar.
“Stellar, you see to that,” Dick replied.
“Thank you, thank you all,” you added.
“Good talk.” Dick closed his window. You waited in the open meeting as Crowley and Zachariah said their goodbyes, watching Bobby as he looked at the ceiling of his car and ended the call for good.
“Alright then,” you muttered as you closed Zoom and tried to come to grips with what you had just promised. What you had asked for, completely unprompted.
You looked at your laptop and decided you needed to step away and clear your head. You grabbed your phone off your desk and your earbuds, heading to the corner of your office and your stationary bike. Because if anything screamed escaping to a mountain trail ride, it was this moment and the month ahead of you.
You set your usual course and tapped onto one of your workout playlists, letting the music wash over you as you pedaled toward the warm up hills. Dean wasn’t going to go along with this easily, everyone knew that. But he had come so far over the last year and you hoped that included an openness to what was best for the band, even if it meant swallowing some of his pride.
Despite what he said on the call, you knew you had to get Bobby on board. You just had to have something to sell him, a hook. Something he wouldn’t think of as a threat to Dean or the band as a whole. Something he wouldn’t want to poke too hard, just because he could.
Bobby was a naturally curious old codger, but one thing that was always guaranteed to make him wash his hands of a situation was anybody’s love life. He had no fucks to give about who was fucking who. Not all of Lee and Pam’s ongoing drama, not Sam’s summer-long tryst with the little brunette from the Yellow Eyes label, not even when Cas hooked up with the reporter for Rolling Stone mid-interview. 
Okay. That you could work with.
Somebody who could increase public opinion and be down to be Dean’s arm candy. And suddenly an evil idea crossed your mind, something so wrong and so right that you lost your footing and the bike safety locked on you as you said a very dejected ‘fuck’ out loud to your empty apartment.
You had your answer, now you just had to make it happen.
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so, I know TONS of artists do these documentaries or whatever and some of them include intimate and personal moments of their lives. I'm just saying! if rockstar!joel had a little documentary made, I feel like there'd be moments/personal and intimate clips of him and actress!reader together, ones that play out while he talks about her during an interview clip or something and it's just SO 🥹🥹🥹 like he'd be so precious and sweet. i love them so much!!!
Okay wait I know I’ve doing little drabbles recently but this is deserving of its own fic 😭😭 thank you for the beautiful idea!
Pairing: rockstar!joel miller x actress!reader
Author's note: wait i really love how this turned out
Summary: The Millers: A Year in the Life [2.3k]
Warnings: discussions of the foster care system, marital bliss, emotions, I think that’s it?? This is literally just fluff
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You didn't know what to expect when you agreed to have a documentary crew follow you around while Joel was working on his next album. You worried it would burst the little private bubble you've spent your career trying to maintain or bring unwanted attention to your family. It didn't do either of those things. If anything, it helped show the world how strong you are as a family unit. You just didn't realize how much they caught until you and your family attended the premiere to watch it in full for the first time. 
The documentary opens with clips of Joel touring, playing loud music, and showing off his rockstar attitude for the cameras but quickly cuts to a quiet, sunny morning in your house. Joel is up and making coffee in the deserted kitchen, his hair a mess and his eyes bleary as he looks at the camera. "'S this the kinda excitin' thing you guys wanted?" He asks in a gravelly voice before laughing at his own joke. The camera follows him up the stairs and to the primary bedroom, where you're still sleeping. He carefully puts the coffee on your bedside table and sits on the edge of the bed, smoothing your hair out of your face. You groan and curl into his body subconsciously, and he smiles. "We're gonna have to leave soon, but I made you some coffee, and I'm gonna get the kids up so you can rest a little longer, alright?" He asks, and you nod, peeking your head up from under the covers to see the cameras. You have to laugh when you spot your own messy hair on screen.
"Oh, hello." You say to the cameraman before turning back to Joel. "Give me five minutes." 
"You can have ten." 
"I love you." You say as he leans down to kiss you. 
"Love you, too." He says, lingering for a moment or two before getting up and padding down the hallway. They follow him until he asks them to wait in the hallway, not wanting to freak out the kids, and they oblige. His microphone picks up his gentle voice, rousing your teenagers awake. 
"Honey, it's time to get up. We've gotta get ready for Sam's game." He says, and a grumpy shuffling can be heard.
"Can we get donuts?" Violet asks, barely audible, and Joel chuckles. 
"Yeah, baby, we can get donuts. I just need ya to get movin' for me, alright?" 
"Okay." She says. He repeats the process twice before it cuts to Joel wearing a baseball hat at the game, cheering Sam on despite the obvious fatigue in his eyes. There are little clips here and there of the game itself, but nothing super significant. It cuts again to Joel in his studio, getting mic'ed up for a solo interview, and there's a big smile on his face.
"D'you guys already talk to my wife?" He asks, and everyone in the room laughs. "I'm sure she had a lot to say." The way he says it isn't malicious. It's fond. Like he knows you so well, he doesn't even need confirmation that you talked a lot about him. Then, you're on screen in your office with all your awards and pictures of the kids on display behind you, half-directing the production team on the best way to use the space. You don't introduce yourself until everything is settled. 
"I'm an actress, director, producer, mother, and Joel's wife." You say, smiling. 
"What can you tell us about your relationship with Joel?" A producer asks, and you laugh.
"God, how much time do you have?" You ask. It cuts again to Joel, who laughs at the same question and starts spinning his wedding band on his finger. 
"Should I start at the beginning'?" He asks.
"If that's what you want." As soon as the words are spoken, early pictures and videos of you and Joel start playing over the interview answers.
"We met through mutual friends a few years after I'd moved to LA, but we didn't start actually dating until about two months after we met." You say. It's not entirely wrong. 
"I remember thinkin' she was beautiful, intelligent, and caring. I just wanted to be with her all the time." He says.
"We were both so busy and in the public eye that I almost didn't think it was gonna work out because we were always traveling for work or getting stuck in the studio or on set. The first test was when he went home to Texas with his daughters for about a month, and we had to find ways to keep in touch," you remember. "That's also the first time I realized I really, really liked him." 
"Just like?" The producer asks, and you laugh.
"It wasn't love yet. Joel will be the first to tell you he fell first."
"Oh, yeah, it was stupid how in love with her I was," Joel's interview cuts in, and you each laugh at the editing. "I was ready to marry her after our third date."
"He said that?" You ask the producer and laugh when she nods. 
"When did you know you wanted to marry him?" 
"Oh, after I met Sarah and Ellie and saw how good of a dad he was. I mean, are you kidding? What’s not to love about that?"
"I don't wanna say too much 'cause it's not only my story to tell, but we were really young when we had Sarah," Joel's voice jumps back in with pictures of him with a baby Sarah. "I didn't know what our lives were gonna look like with just the two of us, and I was so scared that I was gonna fuck her up. She was so perfect and little and I... I wasn't. I was pretty much on my own until my brother got back from Desert Storm, and he moved in with us. Then, it felt like we were raisin' her and each other," he says. "Ellie was, somehow, a bigger surprise than Sarah was. She was in Sarah's school and havin' a hard time. She'd just gotten kicked out of another foster home, and I thought, 'Why doesn't she come stay with us?' I think I thought it would be a temporary thing, but she became a part of my heart. We always say she's not our daughter by blood but by soul, and then there was no way I could live without both my girls. So, we filled out the adoption paperwork and she became ours when she was twelve and Sarah was fourteen. So yeah, I was a single dad for a long time before I met my wife." 
"I want to make it abundantly clear I wasn't scared of the girls. I was scared of ruining their lives by dating their father." You say, laughing at how crazy it sounds now. "I hadn't ever dated someone with kids before, so it was all new! But the girls were so kind and so wonderful. And I don't even know when it happened, but suddenly, I wasn't calling them Joel's girls. I was calling them the girls or our girls. The love was so organic it didn't phase anyone when I started claiming them, too. Granted, that wasn't until we'd been together for quite a while, but still."
"We met her… I wanna say it was a few months after they'd started dating," Sarah says, suddenly appearing on the screen. "She was really cool, and I remember telling Dad how much I liked her. She would come over and help with homework, and we'd do movie nights with all four of us. It felt like we were a family long before they got married."
"Oh, yeah. I mean, it's hard not to like her, y'know?" Ellie says. "Coming from foster care and everything, I remember being hesitant when she came into our lives just because I've had mother figures come in and out for a majority of my life, so I was kinda bracing myself for that. But she didn't do that. She stayed and made our lives better for it." 
"She was never just some person our dad was dating or a stepmom. She was always Mom to us." Sarah says. 
"Yeah, I don't think I've ever called her my stepmom," Ellie laughs. "There was a period of time before they got married where we called her by her name, and then by the time Sam came around, we were both calling her Mom because that's what she is. She's our mom."
"When we were gettin' married, we had friends in the industry tell us, 'y'know marriage is hard, but being married while all this is goin' on is so much harder.' And that was really scary. I'd been through a divorce before, and I didn't want to put either of us through that. Leading up to the wedding, we talked about everything. What we wanted, what we expected from each other, what we wanted our lives to look like, and she was so fuckin' patient with me. She always is. And the day of, y'know, five million things are going through my head, and I'm freakin' out, but when I saw her," Joel gets choked up and has to take a deep breath before he can continue. "That all went away. All I cared about was her."
"We got married in his parent's backyard with like thirty other people there. We didn't want a big wedding and all the drama that came with that. Literally, nobody knew about our wedding except the people who were invited and the photographer, and it was perfect. I would do it all over again if he asked me to."
"That's it? That's all the detail we get?" The producer asks playfully, obviously on the edge of her seat for more, and you nod. 
"Yep." You smile. You go on to talk about the births of Sam and the twins and how that changed everything in your lives before the documentary returns to your day-to-day. 
The documentary catches a bunch of special moments you would've never caught otherwise like Joel calling you down to the studio to play you a riff because he's so vulnerable when he first writes a song. You're the only one he trusts with that vulnerability. "What d'you think?" He asks, looking up from the frets with worry lining his face. "I think it's great. What were you thinking for drums?" You ask because you know he's already thinking ten steps ahead. He shifts through his papers to find what he wrote down. When he finishes explaining it to you, you step closer to him, rub away the line between his eyebrows, and kiss the crown of his head, his hands coming around to hold your waist. "Sounds like you've got a hit on your hands."
Or the kids all joining in on a jam sesh when they're all home at the same time. With Sam's baseball schedule and the older girls' families, friends, and lives, it's hard to find time for all seven of you to get together. But by some miracle, all the Millers find a way home at the same time, and the cameras catch them all in the studio, playing song after song just because they can. They play for so long that the camera crew had to ask you how long you thought they'd go. "Oh, they'll go all night if you let them." You say with a huge smile on your face. Your family was all under one roof. How could you not be ecstatic?
Or when Joel visited you on set with flowers when you were having a rough day. He found you sitting in your trailer with your head in your hands, tears rolling down your cheeks, and he quickly asked the camera crew to stay outside. His mic stayed on and picked up everything. "I don't think I can do this." You cried into his shirt. You were still relatively new to directing and had hit a wall. It felt like things kept stacking up against you, and you were so tired. 
"What's goin' on? Talk to me." He said, and you quickly dove into exactly what was wrong, fighting tears the whole time. When you finished crying, he kissed all over your face and whispered affirmations to you. "You can do this, okay? These are just little hiccups. If anyone can handle them, it's you. Just take a second to breathe and tell me what I can do to help you." 
"I don't know. I don't know." Your voice got thick with emotion again, and he shushed you gently. 
"Why don't we get you somethin' to eat, and then we can talk bout it? How's that sound?" He asked, and you hummed. 
The screen fades to black during your crying session in the trailer, and suddenly, you hear Ryan's shaky, loving voice announcing your name at the Oscars for Best Director. It cuts to you sitting there, stunned into silence, as everyone around you claps. Seeing those two clips so close together made you tear up and reach for Joel's hand in the theatre. The rest of the documentary goes through his recording process until the Grammy's, where he won three for the album being documented. In the last few minutes, it returns to Joel in his studio, picking at his nails.
"It is hard. I'm not gonna sit up here and pretend like just cause I've been in it for a while, I'm better at managing it all. I'm not. There are a million things I'm sure I'm doin' wrong, or I've fucked up. But my family, they love me despite everything," he says. "Every day, I wake up, and I choose them. Without them…" he trails off, tears welling in his eyes. "Without them, I'm nothin'. Most of the time, I don't feel half good enough to deserve them, but I'm tryin' to be better. I think that's all I can do. It's all I wanna do." With those wise words from the man you love so much, the credits start rolling on The Millers: A Year in the Life, and everyone in the theatre stands and claps. You turn to Joel and kiss him, with tears falling from both of you and smile against him.
When you agreed to have a documentary crew follow you around, you were sure what to expect. You didn't think your day-to-day lives were anything spectacular, but seeing them edited together like that, you see how wrong you were. You forgot how special it is to share your life with him and find sweet moments between all the chaos. For as private as you try to be, you're glad that, in a hundred years or so— when you and Joel are long gone, and your kids are old— people will be able to watch this and see how much you loved each other. How you chose each other time and time again. How you celebrated each other's wins and mourned the losses together. 
A wise man once told you that the best decision he'd ever made was marrying his wife one hot Texas day many moons ago. Now, more than twenty years later, you'd be inclined to agree with him. It's hard and not always the best of times, but if you could go back in time, you wouldn't change a single thing. You'd sign the contract, go on the fake dates, fall in love, move to Ireland, and rekindle your relationship all over again if it meant you'd have a sliver of the happiness you have now. 
Best decision ever.
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souperbloom · 3 months
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you know i had to do it to em. i know we were all thinking it. ur welcome.
Ashton’s been hard at work on his upcoming album, and you want to let him know you’re still his biggest fan.
a/n: this was lowkey so rushed but idc i needed to get it out of my system.
CONTENT WARNINGS: smut!, pet names, dirty talk, unprotected sex (yeehaw), biting (???).
WORDCOUNT: 3.1k
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"Ash, food! Come and get it!"
It had been days since you last saw your boyfriend.
Okay, maybe not days. But it had definitely been more than a few hours since the last time since he had actually spoken to you.
Despite time passing, all of your days had been meshing into one; since they all started and ended the same.
Ashton wakes up; eons earlier than you have ever dreamed to. He kisses you on the forehead, stirring you slightly awake from your REM sleep. He then goes downstairs to make himself a coffee, washes the single mug he dirtied and after all’s said and done; he’s off to the home studio for the unforeseeable future.
You would love if he had, just once, let you do all of the things you still adore doing for him. Like making him breakfast, or playing music from your joint Spotify playlist while you tend to the houseplants and he jots lyrics down in his tattered up notebook.
But things have changed since the beginning stages of the album-making process. There were no more laid back days; no more idea bouncing sessions with his mates or trips to Mars on your outdoor patio after sharing a joint or two. It was all just work, work, work.
If you were more honest with yourself, you’d tell him it annoyed you.
But you loved him too damn much to care.
"Ashton! Dinner!"
You try your luck again at shouting to him, but eventually realize that the sound barrier between the kitchen upstairs and the studio downstairs was far too widespread for him to hear you.
With a disgruntled huff, you grab his dinner plate, and trot your way down the stairs into the abyss, as you so lovingly nicknamed it.
"Ash, dinner’s ready," You start your sentence before you round the corner and hop down the last few steps, making sure not to drop the plate of piping hot food. But when you enter the studio, you don’t see your sweet boyfriend hunched over the soundboard with a guitar pick in his mouth as you typically would.
Instead, he was lounging on the couch. The little leather loveseat that the two of you had picked up off the side of the road and got sent out to be cleaned. You figured it’d be a great addition to his workspace, while he was a bit apprehensive at first.
But after a month or two, he started to love his little leather loveseat. He’d use it to take breaks; or, in those rare moments where he’d share the music he’s been working on, it would be your place to sit.
On the couch, Ashton’s body was strewn. With his heather green guitar lazily rested on his hip, he mindlessly plucked a work-in-progress bass line. You swallowed at the sight of him, stopping in your tracks.
"You know, we have a perfectly good couch upstairs for you to be hammering out bass lines on."
Ashton’s eyes lock into yours, his steely face of concentration lifting upon seeing you. Yet, his fingers still slid up and down on the fretboard, as if not to lose his train of thought.
"This is my thinking couch. Can’t get shit done up there with all those windows. Makes me feel like a bat when I’ve been down here all day."
"I think you’re more like a vampire," you chuckle, setting down his food on the table beside him, "But still, it’s fucking lame."
"I admire your eloquence, baby… Lame how?" His eyes had reverted to the neck of his guitar.
"Lame, as in, you’re down here all fucking day and I miss my boyfriend. Sue me for being selfish but, I think my feelings are justified."
Ashton’s lips tug to the side, while his eyes remain glued to his musical progress, "Really? I thought having me down here was a nice little break from all the bangin’ on pots and pans we used to do. I’m workin’ on the real shit now."
"Screw the real shit. I miss you. It’s dumb that you have to be down here all the time."
You toss your hands in the air in faux frustration before planting them on your hips. But his gaze doesn’t waver. He knows you’re standing in front of him yet can’t seem to divert his attention away from whatever he’d been working on.
"Hellooooo…?"
He acknowledges you slightly, like a dog whose ears perk up when you call out its’ name.
"Mhmmm?"
A wry chuckle falls past your lips, "This is ridiculous. Y’know what—"
Out of pure frustration, and with lack of sense to do anything else, you take off your shirt. You weren’t sure of what possessed you to, but it seemed to be the right thing. Ashton’s mossy eyes popped up almost immediately.
You toss your borrowed t-shirt, stolen right from his closet, onto the ground.
"Well, glad I could get your attention," you gaff.
"You’ve always had my attention, baby. Just didn’t wanna lose my place."
A small smirk sprawls across your cheeks as Ashton fully sets down his guitar. It’s now lying horizontally across his lap.
"Don’t you ever get bored down here?" You ask, subconsciously crossing your arms as you remember that you’re now shirtless.
"I won’t lie, I do. And sometimes when I do, eventually, get bored, my mind likes to wander."
His reply is proceeded with a chuckle, one that’s laced with something you couldn’t quite put your finger on. But his eyes continued a trail down your body, stopping at the waistline of your sweatpants, then back up to you.
"Oh, really? Where does it wander off to? God only knows what you think about when you’re locked away in the abyss."
"If I was a liar, I’d sit here and tell you that I’m only thinking about the shit that’s in front of me. But baby, I’m an honest man; you know exactly what I think about."
"Hm," you hum, challengingly, "Can’t say I do."
Ashton’s arm moves slowly as he leans back and rests his head on his palm. The star tattoo on his bicep flexes beneath the ambient lighting of the studio, and you can’t help but just stare.
"She’s standing right in front of me."
Your face tinges pink at his words, rubbing your arm bashfully as if he was some sort of pickup artist and you were being swept off your feet. It didn’t matter how long it had been since the day you two met, his charm never faltered.
"She’s in here? Right now? Wow, I’m starstruck." You try your hand at jabbing, to ignore the warm buzzing feeling in your stomach.
"Don’t play stupid, baby. You know you’re the only one capable of grabbing my attention like this."
Ashton shifts in his position comfortably. His legs spread a tad bit wider, and the hand not holding his head was now drumming rhythmically against his thigh.
He was taking in the sight of you as if he had never seen you before.
"Really?" You ask a question, already knowing the answer.
"Yup."
"Interesting…"
As your sentence trails, a thought bounces around in your mind for a moment:
Would it be the worst thing in the world to ‘put on a show’ for your boyfriend, who had spent the last six months of his life devoting his time, energy, and soul into an album for the world?
Would it be wrong for you to think about how much you knew he’d enjoy it? How much you’d enjoy it?
As the thought plagues you, rendering you momentarily useless as your stare darts around his dreamy frame, Ashton reads your mind.
"Strip."
"What?" Your mouth hangs slightly at your boyfriend’s bluntness.
"You heard me, baby. I said, strip."
That slack jaw of yours morphs into a wicked smile, wordlessly obliging to his command.
Ashton’s relaxed body sprawled out on the couch guffaws at you, as you hook your thumbs onto the waistband of your sweatpants.
You slowly start to sway your hips, matching up with the rhythm of some imaginary song. The band of your underwear peeks out over the top and once you notice that he had gotten a good look, you swiftly pull your pants back up.
It was called a strip tease for a reason.
Repeating the motions from before, you eventually shimmy out of those sweatpants, and are left solely in a frilly bralette and boy-shorts.
"Pardon the underwear selection," you giggle, "didn’t realize I’d be putting on a show today.
Ashton’s body language had changed slightly; you noticed the bead of sweat that had formed and began rolling down his forehead, merely at the sight of you. He swallows harshly before he replies.
"You could’ve walked out here in a paper bag. Wouldn’t matter a damn’ thing."
Your bottom lip gets caught between your teeth at his compliment. He never fails to make you nervous, even after all this time. His eyes alone were one of the most intimidating things about him. You could feel them searing into you as your gaze drops down to your feet, momentarily stopping your motions.
"Finish your show, baby," his words snap you out of your trance, "you wanted my attention, right?…I’m all yours."
As his legs spread wider and his head dips back comfortably to rest onto his palm, the confidence within you fronts again. With a cheeky smile, you reach behind your back, twisting around to show him your hands fiddling with the clasp of your bralette.
You hear rustling from behind you as you eventually free yourself from the fabric, wiggling out of it and letting the strap hang on the tip of your finger. You shoot a glance at him, over your shoulder.
"How’s that?"
He sighs, "Perfect."
With a flick of your hair, you turn back around, fully topless. To raise the stakes, you take it upon yourself to run your hands down the front of your chest and over your breasts. He groans lowly at that motion, grabbing his guitar by the neck and gently resting it at his side.
Now, at the most intimidating part of your show, your hands linger above the band of your underwear. Ashton gazes at you hungrily, slickly moving his hand towards the crotch of his jeans.
It takes everything inside of you not to whine as you notice his hand slowly starting to palm his bulge, held captive by fabric. It catches you off guard, and you freeze yet again.
"Nobody told you to stop."
Almost as if his demands were a form of hypnosis, you resume what you’d started. The band of your underwear hooks effortlessly around your thumbs as you gently tug them down, slightly showing off your bikini line.
His eyes draw in like a magnet, seemingly becoming less and less in control of his senses as you move.
Your underwear pools at your ankles; body completely stripped bare in front of your still, fully clothed, boyfriend. Something about his sultry looks almost felt humiliating, although that wasn’t something you were necessarily upset with.
It still drove you the same amount of crazy.
"Fuck," Ashton mutters, breaking the tense silence that had been lingering over your heads, "you’re a sight to behold, baby."
His hand was still squeezing at the hard-on in his jeans, the notch in his forehead growing increasingly more prominent as he fought to hold back his urges.
Without another word, you traipse over to him slowly; attempting to enchant him with the sway of your hips and the glittering of your skin beneath the studio lights.
"’Been missing you a lot." Your voice holds a certain innocence to it, acting as though you had no clue of the absolute turmoil your actions were subjecting him to.
"I miss you too," Ashton coos, "I bet my girl gets so lonely upstairs without me, doesn’t she?"
A chill runs down your spine as he slowly sits up from his slouched position, and anchors his hands on your waist. He guides your naked body gently onto his lap, letting you straddle him comfortably.
"Mmh, ‘does get lonely without you. Can’t think straight, sometimes."
"Oh, you poor thing… I’m sorry, my sweet girl."
The back of his hand reaches up to caress your cheek, words dripping with tender loving care, before he’s straining his neck to wrap you into a kiss.
The kiss starts off slow; gently nipping at one another and feeling the motions of your lips entwined. But as your hips subconsciously start to grind down into the hardened length in his jeans, something primal washes over you.
Your tongue slips into his mouth without any regard for savoring this moment, heating up the kiss instantly. The grip he has on your waist gets tighter, as his fingers dig into the soft flesh near your hips.
Nipping at your bottom lip with his teeth, Ashton groans, "Can’t wait much longer, baby… Been— been wantin’ to fuck you since you walked down here."
A smirk plays on your face as his neediness overpowers any other emotion present in the room. His mouth wanders down to your neck while he struggles to blindly undo his jeans.
While enjoying the trail of wet kisses inching down to your collarbone, you aim to help him free himself from his pants, fumbling with his fingers and the buttons with a soft giggle.
"Slow down, baby—" your words ring barely above a whisper, "I’m not going anywhere."
Ashton’s head pops up from your clavicle once he finally gets down his zipper, "Better not be."
To your surprise, Ashton was going about this a lot more unhurried than you had anticipated. His words read as frantic, yet his actions felt as though he was savoring each and every feeling of you. You didn’t want to disrupt the already perfect rhythm he had been keeping; so you let him continue on as he wished.
He scoops up your idle hand that had been resting towards the waistline of his jeans and moves it to the pocket of his briefs. Your eyes find his briefly, and a knowing glance is shared.
"Gonna start slow, yea? You okay with that? Wanna savor it… Haven’t been inside you in a while. Missed my girl…"
Swallowing back the excited lump in your throat, you nod, "That’s fine, baby. No— no rush."
Your eyes widen as he guides your hand, freeing his throbbing cock from his underwear. A sigh of bliss tumbles past his lips the moment you wrap your hand around him.
"Lean back, baby… ‘Wanna see—"
Following is command, you lean back, resting your hands just above his knees. You lift up your hips while gazing at him through hooded eyes, waiting for him to adjust.
It’s not long before he’s swiping his tip against your clit, bringing the both of you into a collective, melodic sigh.
Ashton was right; he hadn’t been inside of you in a while. The two of you had been so preoccupied with life that you had barely made enough time for each other. You’d almost forgotten what it felt like until he was guiding himself inside of you.
Expletives and moans immediately begin filling the room as you lower yourself down onto his length fully. His breath hitches, eyes glued down to where your bodies met.
"Fuck, baby… Missed watching this… Missed watchin’ that pretty pussy swallow me whole… Fuckin’— missed you."
With a slack jaw, you start your rhythm of slowly bouncing up and down, the feeling of him filling you up made you complete in more ways than you could fathom. Your walls tightened with each stroke, one more rough than the next.
Each time you lower yourself down to meet his pelvis, he bottoms out, snapping his hips up to meet yours and making you cry out in pleasure. His eyes can’t seem to decide whether or not to watch your face, or his cock disappearing inside of you.
"Ashton, please— Need more… More, please…"
He grunts at your gentle tone, still keeping that slow pace. He had mentioned wanting to savor this moment, but the look in his eyes said otherwise.
"C’mere," he pants, motioning with his head for you to lean forward. You, of course, oblige, wrapping your arms around his neck with a sigh.
Rather than you doing the work, Ashton had resorted to restarting that pace by snapping his hips up to meet yours. Your name rattles off of his tongue in grumbled mutters as his hold on you tightens, the sounds of skin slapping together engulfing his words and making them inaudible.
You allow him to fuck into you without any complaints, letting your eyes roll back into your head with each upward slam. It was obvious how difficult it was for him to keep his composure.
"Christ, baby," he growls lowly, "drivin’ me fuckin’ crazy."
Another loud moan is released from the back of your throat as Ashton abruptly stops his rambling by sinking his teeth into your shoulder. You yelp on impact, yet slowly ease into the sharp pain as he continues to bottom out inside of you.
"Ash, oh my god," you whine, overwhelmed with the sensation of your impending orgasm meshing with the pleasure of the pain.
He grunts beneath you, each thrust rougher than the last— you could tell he was close by the sloppiness of his strokes and his grip on your waist loosening.
His jaw clenches on your shoulder before letting go as he looks your disheveled face in the eye.
"Gonna cum… Gonna’ cum real’ soon… Please, baby… Let me fill you up— gonna’ make you feel so good…"
You nod without a second thought, your bouts of praise turning into incoherent mumbling as your orgasm creeps towards its peak.
"Cum inside me Ash, please… Let me feel you baby— fuck!"
Your body betrays your senses as your orgasm rumbles through you, Ashton following suit shortly after as he releases inside of you with one last buck of his hips. Your bodies collapse onto one another, the sweat and heat igniting a spark between you.
With a gentle comb through your hair, Ashton’s hand traipses down to the back of your neck. You could faintly hear his heart beating through his chest as he holds you, the two of you simultaneously collecting your breathing.
"Thanks for the show, baby," Ashton chuckles, petting your back as you regulate your vitals; his cock still buried deep inside of you.
You can’t help but hum, satisfied with the thought of letting your dirty fantasies dictate your actions.
"If this didn’t prove how much I’ve been missing you," You pop your head up to place a gentle kiss on the tip of his nose, "I’m not sure anything will."
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Good Enough ✨ moodboard.
"I think "Good Enough" is the best representation of the new me and it was the last song written for the album, written at the very, very end of the writing process. Actually, we were already in the studio recording and we thought we had all the songs and then that song came out of me. I guess by then, I'd gotten so much out of my system, that I needed to sing, that I needed to write about. I actually had made real changes in my life to separate myself from the negative things that were holding me down. After all the fighting and all the struggle and all the stuff, it was like this calm after the storm and I felt really, really good, better than I felt since maybe my childhood."
- Amy about Good Enough (x)
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System of a Down - B.Y.O.B. 2005
Mezmerize is the fourth studio album by the Armenian-American heavy metal band System of a Down. The album sold over 450,000 copies in its first week, and immediately topped the Billboard 200.
The band went on hiatus in 2006 and reunited in 2010. Other than two new songs in 2020 in response to the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War ("Protect the Land" and "Genocidal Humanoidz"), System of a Down has not released a full-length record since the Mezmerize and Hypnotize albums in 2005.
"B.Y.O.B." ("Bring Your Own Bombs") was released as the lead single from Mezmerize. It was written in protest against the Iraq War, and questions the integrity of military recruiting in America. The song reached number 27 on the US Billboard Hot 100, the band's highest peak to date on the chart.
"B.Y.O.B." won a Grammy Award in 2006 for Best Hard Rock Performance.
"B.Y.O.B." received a total of 66,3% yes votes!
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drivelikeiido · 1 year
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sleeping on the job
you fall asleep on george in the late hours in the studio
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george daniel x reader word count: 936
warnings: none? just the author struggling to write george i'm afraid and my typical romantic fluff
notes: "for george fluff... gf falls asleep on him at the mixing desk while he's producing and he just sits there with her on his lap and continues working occasionally kissing her head 😭😭 and maybe matty is just watching it happen like "this is the cutest thing i have ever seen but my god you're down bad"”
tysm for the idea anon! i really really loved it and definitely didn't do it justice i'm sorry but here it is anyways lmao. this is my first time writing for george and i feel like it's so wrong even though there's not much dialogue, anyways i tried and only ever will improve so here we are !
Synthetic beats boom lowly from the headphones that rest on George’s head. He’s multitasking; with one ear covered and listening intently to the music he and Matty had been working on all afternoon, the other exposed, allowing him to stay in tune with the quiet breaths that rise from your sleeping form. 
You had originally arrived that afternoon to keep Matty and George company while they work on post-production in the studio, none of you having the intention to stay this late but all of you agreeing that what the boys were working on was too good to leave, George’s phone now reading “01:58” as it lights up on the desk next to him. Matty had disappeared for a “cig and a coffee” as he put it, around ten minutes ago, leaving you and your boyfriend to sit alone and cosy in the creative air that seemed to burst from the studio.
You had began the afternoon by sitting on the chair next to George while he worked, occasionally leaning your head to rest on his muscled shoulder but as he began to notice your tired state as the hours went by he encouraged you to lie across him, assuring you it would actually be beneficial to his work if you rested your head on his lap as you snoozed, whether you believed this claim or not you quickly obliged, not wanting to have to leave him.
That’s how you came to be napping quietly below his working fingers, allowing you your precious sleep where George can keep a watchful eye on you. Before Matty had left the room and before George’s offer of sleep became too good of an opportunity to miss, Matty had promised you a cup of coffee, but it soon paled in comparison to the warm comfort George’s body provides, therefore your motivation to stay awake is forgotten as you opt to give into the perfect sleep your boyfriend’s lap promised, despite the awkward makeshift position. 
The drummer was fully absorbed in his work, wanting to get the production on this album perfect as he carefully listens and mixes the tracks on the monitor, the signature sound and the potential of the upcoming album swimming around his ears. His eyes tear away from the mixing desk long enough to notice your eyelids begin to flutter as you stir in your sleep below him. The last thing he wants to see is you disturbed so he, albeit awkwardly, leans down and drops a kiss to your head, mumbling in that mesmerizingly deep voice of his, “‘s alright darlin’, go back to sleep”. This loving encouragement seems to work like magic, you mumbling something resembling a “mhmm” before returning to your state of dreaming. Seeing how quick you comply to him has him cracking a tired smile. He leans back in his chair and closes his eyes, a dangerous game considering the late hour and the current lack of caffeine and nicotine in his system, the urge to join you in your sleep becoming a growing temptation. His fingers absentmindedly find their way to your head and leave a whisper of touch radiating through your entire body as he ever so gently runs his large hands through your hair, working as a grounding force for him while he contemplates the music booming in his ears.
From the doorway Matty silently appreciates this sight in front of him, not wanting to disturb the cute couple just yet. Seeing his friend so satisfied with his work and with his lover and knowing how at peace he finally is brings a smile to the singer’s face. However his silence and the bubble of tranquillity that currently shelters you and your boyfriend is cut short as the coffee mugs in Matty’s hand begin to burn, “Christ man, take one of these from me, they’re hot as fuck”. 
Although annoyed at his friend’s loud obtrusion, George reluctantly obliges and reaches out his hand for a mug swimming with the studio’s rather awful instant coffee, although despite its taste it always did its job. Once, apparently all lethal mugs, are set down on the desk he leans his head down to check on your somehow undisturbed sleeping state, breathing out a tiny sigh of relief to see you still snuggled up against him. His dark affectionate eyes run over your form quickly, the sight doing more to warm him than any coffee ever could. 
“Wake her up man, I made that coffee don’t let it go to waste” Matty teases, with no real intentions to actually disturb you, or your boyfriend for that matter. George’s response is a simple whispered “Piss off” which works to make the frontman giggle but ultimately quit his pursuit to wake you. The sight of his best friend being so caring and vulnerable makes him feel incredibly proud of how far they've all come, he doesn't choose to voice this however, instead breathing out a humorous “You’re down bad man”, to which George too laughs out “I know”, his tired eyes twinkling with contentment and not bothering to even look at his friend, instead choosing to stare down at you a little longer, although all the time in the world would not be enough to fully appreciate you - this he has told you many times before as you’ve been tangled in bedsheets in the soft glow of the mornings. The songs and the upcoming album in front of him are momentarily forgotten as his mind now whirls with thoughts of you and wondering how he got to be so lucky. “But it’s worth it”.
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Glenda Farrell (We're in the Money, The Mystery of the Wax Museum, I've Got Your Number)— Susan Slept Here is a terrible no good very bad movie but somehow she gets even hotter as she ages
Dolores del Rio (Flying Down to Rio, Flor silvestre)—to begin with, dolores is so RADIANTLY BEAUTIFUL, even more so in action then in images, its like she emits a literal glow. marlene dietrich (a close friend and rumored lover) considered her "the most beautiful woman who ever set foot in hollywood". she was the first mexican actress to become a major success in hollywood, rising to fame in the silent era and becoming an influential icon of beauty and glamor in the art deco age, though she was not thrilled with the exoticizing parts often pushed on her. in the mid 1940s having tired of the controlling hollywood studio system she returned to mexico, saying "I wish to choose my own stories, my own director and cameraman. I can accomplish this better in mexico", and proceeded to become a pivotal figure in the golden age of mexican cinema, making a string of masterpieces with directir emilio fernández and cinematographer gabriel figueroa. i love this anecdote about the insane art deco mansion she and her then-husband cedric gibbons lived in in the 30s, as related by david niven: "Dolores had a large sunny room on the first floor containing a huge and inviting bed. Gibbons lived in comparative squalor in a small room immediately below. The only connection between these rooms was by way of a stepladder, which could be lowered only when a trapdoor in the floor of Dolores room had been raised. There was a long stick with which, we conjectured, he signaled his intention or hopes by rapping out signals on the floor of his wife’s bedchamber." heres a pinterest album with a billion hot pictures of her
This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.
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Dolores del Rio:
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There's so much! She started in Silent films and successfully transitioned to sound, She is the first woman to wear a two piece swimsuit on screen & popularized the bikini!, She transitioned back to Mexican Cinema in the late 1940s and was a leading lady of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema including staring in Maria Candelaria--the first Mexican film to win the palm d'Or at Cannes. She was literally studied for her beauty & was considered a beauty ideal in both the USA & Mexico--there's a whole section on her Wikipedia page about how beautiful everyone thinks she was. She never actually had a feud with any of the female stars she was rumored to feud with despite the fact that press & Hollywood culture attempted to pain them in competition... She remained a leader in Mexican theater & Cinema through her own production company. Mexican painter Diego Rivera: "The most beautiful, the most gorgeous of the west, east, north and south. I'm in love with her as 40 million Mexicans and 120 million Americans who can't be wrong" (quote source: Wikipedia)
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*fan self* Leading actress in silents and early Hollywood. Lover of Orson Welles until she got fed up with him, friend of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo. When she got tired of Hollywood executives typecasting her as a stereotypical spitfire (and trying to force her to feud with Lupe Velez as a publicity stunt), she ditched Hollywood and became a major star of Mexican cinema, where she got to play rounded characters
Had a career in American cinema in the 20s and 30s and considered one of the most important figures in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema (30s to 50s).
Marlene Dietrich said Dolores was the most beautiful woman to set foot in Hollywood
Joan Crawford: "Dolores became, and remains, as one of the most beautiful stars in the world."
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One of the few Latin American women working in the Hollywood industry to make it big not just in hre home country but internationally. In 1931, Photoplay magazine declared that Mexican film actress Dolores del Rio had the "best figure in Hollywood." (which I know not necessarily a good barometer) but! it shows that many people looked at her for her beauty and sought to emulate her. Famous for her years-long love affair with actor and director Orson Welles, who was 10 years her junior if that's anything.
We need more hispanic representation in this!! Del Río is one of the most important actresses of her time as she was one of the first Mexican movie stars to break through to Hollywood! She’s unbelievably sexy and an absolute icon. Thank you :)
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Wilt (Epilogue)
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Word count: 3.0k
Pairing: Jake Kiszka x Female Reader
Thank you for waiting for the final piece of Wilt. I hope you will enjoy their ending as much as I did writing it.
The light catches the perfect oval sparkling on your finger as you turn the wheel of your car. You found yourself entranced in the colors as it sparkled a million tiny rainbows onto the ceiling of the car. Even after all these years it still ‘shone the brightest’, as Jake would always say and had your heart full, practically spilling over with love at every glance. 
The bags in the backseat slid across the car as you pulled over the crack in the pavement and into the long driveway situated at the side of your home. Your big beautiful home, full of love, support, and affection. You both knew as soon as you saw this house that it was the one. Much like falling in love. The minute Jake laid eyes on it you knew you would have to drag him out of the showing appointment and you weren’t wrong. A few short weeks later he closed on it, and it became yours, together.  You filled it with your things and it slowly became a perfect representation of the two of you, as one. 
Though Jake was gone more frequently now, you had reminders of him everywhere. Surrounding you day and night, but none more prominent than the gold band wrapped around your finger and his. Jake was persistent. He probably asked you ten times before you said yes and meant it. That beautiful day in Portofino, wine drunk and sunkissed, everything felt right. You had known since the day you met that he would always be in your life, and he continued to prove to you daily how badly he needed you in his. So as you walked hand in hand through the green leaves of the vineyard and he asked you to marry him you finally said yes and meant it. 
The wedding was simple, only immediate friends and family were in attendance. A small gathering at his home in Michigan. His favorite linen suit, and a modest white dress. Handpicked flowers from the field next door, and a celebration of two people hopelessly in love with each other.
Three years passed by in a flash. You got to witness a new album release, see the world on a seemingly endless tour, and got to see the inner workings of his mind as they worked on their next album. You knew that you wanted to do something special for the twins for their birthday since they have spent the last four years working the day of, never getting to celebrate how they wanted to. You worked tirelessly over the last week in preparation for the party tomorrow. Everything was ready but there was one more thing you needed to do. 
You grabbed the bags from your backseat, rushing inside to wrap the gift before Jake got home from the studio. You wrapped the small box in brown paper and a black satin ribbon, placing it on the dresser just in time to see his Jeep pulling into the driveway. You watched him through the large window as he walked up the steps of your front porch, and you felt your heart flutter at the sight of him. 
The beeping of the alarm system indicates the front door has opened, followed quickly by your name falling melodically from his lips. As he turns the corner into your bedroom, his hand rests on the door frame as he looks you up and down. “Whatcha got there…” he asks, seeing the box on the dresser.
“Oh just a little something for the birthday boy.” you say playfully.
“You didn’t have to get me anything baby.” he says.
You smile and shrug your shoulders, as he walks into the room, grabbing your hips and pulling you into him. 
“I think you’re gonna love it. Actually, I know you will.” you say, pressing a soft kiss to his lips.
He groans as he kisses you back before pulling away. “I don’t think I will ever get tired of that.” he says with a smirk.
“Probably a good thing since you’re stuck with me.” you say with a wink. 
You step out of his arms and make your way to the kitchen. There are a few things you need to prep tonight before tomorrow, and time spent with Jake home seems to slip away quickly. As you pull the mixing bowls from the cabinet you hear him put a record on, the blues tunes filling the tall ceilings of your perfect home. Your perfect life with your perfect man. How did I get so lucky?
Your morning was spent rushing around hanging decorations, setting up food and drinks and texting people directions. People would be arriving any minute and your nerves were pulsing through your body like a bullet train. You wanted everything to be perfect for them. For him. 
Setting the two cakes on the long wooden table you took a step back admiring your handiwork. The doorbell rings and you hear Jake call out that he would get it. Walking to meet him at the door you see the other guest of honor, Josh, who promptly takes you into the biggest hug you’ve gotten from him yet. Maybe even bigger than your wedding day. He releases you and takes a look at you. A flicker in his eyes catches your attention and he bites his lips to stop himself from revealing his thoughts.
Jake steps into the living room to turn on music as Josh pulls you to the side. “Thanks for doing this. It means alot to him. Both of us really. I can’t remember the last time we had a proper birthday party.” he smiles.
“Of course. I would do anything for you guys. I think today will be really special.” you smile back.
People slowly began to filter in, until the house was teaming with familiar smiling faces. You were surrounded by love as everyone gushed over your decorations and food. People mingled, filling the house with laughter for hours. When it was time to do the cakes you called everyone to the kitchen, placing Jake and Josh behind their respective cakes. They may be twins but they had very different tastes. One chocolate, one vanilla just as they requested. 
After a round of ‘Happy Birthday’ the guys blew out their candles, cheeks tinted pink with a hint of embarrassment. You cut the cakes and passed out pieces to all the guests. As you leaned against the kitchen counter, watching the party go on, Jake approached you. 
“No cake? You love cake.” he asks, offering you a bite. 
“I do love cake, I just don’t want any right now.” you lie. Truth being that the thought of the sugar was making your stomach turn.
“Who are you and what have you done with my wife?” he laughs, placing a kiss on your cheek. “Now, when do I get to open my present?” he whispers in your ear.
“Well…I guess you can have it now. Only if you want…” you smirk.
“I want.” he nods.
You grab his hand weaving through the crowd of people, and pull him into your bedroom. 
You retrieve the small box from the dresser, hand it to him and sit on the edge of your bed anxious for him to open it. 
You can feel your heart pounding in your chest as he pulls the black satin ribbon. His eyes flick to yours in excitement and you nod your head for him to continue. Ripping the brown paper he sees the box and furrows his brow. You swallow nervously as he pulls the lid off of the small yellow box, revealing a pair of small brown boots, an exact replica of his own. 
He looks to you confused, “I love them but I don’t think they are gonna fit, baby…” he laughs.
“You had the last part right.” you smile up to him. 
His eyes widen as he drops to his knees in front of you. Placing the tiny boots on the bed his hands press to your stomach, “You aren’t…” he breathes out.
“I am. Twelve weeks.”  you smile at him, running your fingers through his hair.
“Are you sure? Is everything….” he questions nervously.
“Everything is perfect Jakey. It’s perfect.” you say, eyes filling with tears. 
He stands pulling you up from the bed and into his arms, burying his face into your neck as you feel a drip of wetness against your skin. 
“Every single day.” he breathes out. “Every single day whether I’m here, or gone, or even just in another room, every day I wished for this. For us. For something physical that I could hold in my hands that shows how much I love you. A piece of you, and a piece of me woven together forever.” 
He grabs your face and presses his lips to yours in a kiss that renders you weak at the knees. “You are the love of my life. This one and the next. Always.” he whispers.
He drops back to his knees and places his hands on your tiny, barely noticeable bump, “But you. You are the light of my life. This one and the next.” placing a soft kiss on your rounding skin.
Grabbing his hands pulling him back to stand with you, you tell him, “You you want to tell your brothers?” you smile.
“Do you want to tell them?” he asks.
“Are you going to be able to keep it from them?” you say playfully.
“No, you’re right. Josh will know as soon as he sees me.” he laughs.
“Go get them. Tell them I have a surprise for them.” you say.
He scurries out of the room, as you nervously pace the floor. Minutes later they all come bounding in, drinks in hand full of smiles.
Jake walks over to stand next to you and their gaze all turns from confusion to intrigue. 
“You’re scaring me…” Sam says, looking between the two of you.
Jake puts his arm around you as he begins to talk, “I know we have been busy lately, we worked our asses off on this last tour and now it’s time to relax. We have earned it. We need to recover, and rest. Rest as much as we can actually. Because in a few short months you’ll all be uncles, and none of us will ever get to sleep again.” he smiles.
Josh immediately sprints over to you, grabbing you in his arms, lifting you and spinning you around in a circle.  “I knew it! I just knew it! You were glowing and I swear you have never looked more gorgeous than you have recently! I knew it!” he exclaims.
“Alright, alright, hands off, careful with my girl.” Jake says, prying him off of you as he sets your feet back on the floor. 
Sam and Daniel rush you next, asking you a thousand questions and smiling ear to ear. They each take turns touching your belly, even though the bump is hardly there. You know they just want to feel close to you, so you let them. You could still hardly believe it yourself. It was real and it was finally happening. 
The nursery was painted his favorite shade of blue, a deep and moody teal that he couldn't wait to cover the walls with. The clothes were hung, and the drawers filled with all the necessities, awaiting their first use. It could be any day now, and you both anxiously awaited the arrival of your baby. Jake spent every waking second caring for you in these last days, waiting on you hand and foot, bending to your every whim. At night he would disappear off to the nursery, rocking in the chair in the dim lamp light as he read his books to pass the hours. Each night he would fall asleep in the chair, book spread open on his chest, lost in the dream world of pirates and ocean exploration. You would take off his glasses, and cover him with the quilt that hung on the rail of the crib. A beautiful vintage style ocean motif, he hand picked himself. Your nights wouldn't be like this for much longer, so you let him sleep, remembering back to the day you met him when everything changed.
In total, labor lasted about 15 hours. Jake never left your side. He kept you laughing most of the time, him and Josh of course, who had become a permanent fixture by your side the last few days. Said he had a ‘feeling’, and in typical Josh fashion, he was right. When they administered the epidural, Jake turned white as a ghost but held strong for you as the pain slowly started to fade away with each passing second. Hours later and after 20 minutes of active pushing, at 10:53pm, you heard the beautiful cries of a small pink baby. Looking over to Jake, you saw a tear spring from his eye as he watched them place the small perfect thing on your chest. 
“It’s a girl…” he said tearfully, his beautiful smile plastered across his face. 
As she opened her eyes and looked at you for the first time, all you saw was him. 
“We have to decide on a name darlin’ they are coming for the paperwork…” Jake laughs.
You had been going back and forth on names for days. Deciding to not find out the gender until birth, you kept your options open as far as names. You always said, “I will know when I see the baby…” meanwhile Jake had a list a mile long of names he liked.
After a final few hours of deliberation you had decided and the name couldn’t have fit her more perfectly. Jake had thought of the perfect middle name. You actually cried when he suggested it. Like it was always meant to be hers. Maybe it was the hormones, you weren’t totally sure, but you knew you would never love anyone more than you loved this man.
As you filled out the paperwork and sent it away with the nurse, you watched as Jake held his daughter, his eyes never leaving her. You knew she stole a piece of his heart for her own, and you’d never been more glad to give up what was once yours.
A knock at the door interrupted their moment as he spoke to her, “Are you ready to meet your uncles? They are ready to meet you…” he cooed.
Slowly and quietly they entered the room one by one, with flowers and cards. They all gave you hugs and ‘congratulations’ before nervously making their way over to Jake.
They sat cautiously on the couch as Jake turned to them. His eyes flicked to each one of them as he introduced her, “Boys, this is my daughter, Margot Carter Kiszka.”
In unison they all cooed her name, “Margot…”
Jake gently handed her to Josh, who instantly had tears running down his face. “Just as beautiful as your mama.”
Josh handed her to Sam, as she squirmed in her swaddle. A look of panic crossed his face as she did it, causing Jake to laugh, “You’re okay, just keep her swaddled.” You felt your heart grow three sizes as you watched him effortlessly glide into the new role of dad.
“I love her name, it fits her so well. You look like a Margot don’t you? Oh, Rose is gonna love you” he tells her. “Carter though…where did that come from.” he asks Jake.
“Well, that was my idea.” he says, sweeping the hair from your neck. “That’s actually where we met.” he smiles down at you.
“Oh, Carter Vintage? The guitar place?” Danny says with realization. 
“Exactly it.” Jake replies.
Sam passes Margot to Danny and he holds her in his arms like she's his own. Looking at her with the same adoration that you’ve seen on all of their faces. You know right then that this baby will have the best life surrounded by people who truly love her.
The first days at home were hard. Karen had come down from Michigan to help those first few weeks. You were thankful for the help of someone who had raised four children. You loved her endlessly, and made sure she knew it every chance you got. Something about becoming a mother had made you immensely grateful for the ones in your life.
You had slowly worked your way into a routine. The days were getting easier. Margot was a great eater, and a great sleeper. You and Jake constantly reminded yourselves how lucky you were to have such an ‘easy baby’. Jake had fallen into the dad role so easily, like he was always destined to care for someone in this way and being a mom was something you were learning and adapting too. You were so glad you had each other to lean on when things got rough in the middle of the night, but both of you knew you couldn’t imagine life any other way now. As long as you had each other, nothing else mattered.
Rolling over in bed you found Jake's spot had grown cold. The clock read midnight and you knew it would only be a matter of time before Margot would wake up ready to feed. Padding quietly up the stairs you saw the light already on in the nursery, and knew that's where Jake must be. As you peeked through the crack in the door you saw her asleep on his chest, his arms holding her against him as his snores filled the air and his book sat open on his leg. You knew he hadn’t left her side in hours and likely wouldn't for the rest of her life. You removed his glasses and closed his book, setting them on the dresser. You gently removed her from his arms and placed her safely in her crib. You covered him with his favorite quilt and turned off the lamp, leaving him to his dreams.
You knew at that moment that you would have as many babies as this house could hold. Fill it to the brim with tiny versions of him that had his eyes and your smile. You wanted to watch as he taught them how to read, or told them about the many wonders of the ocean. He would show them pictures of when he traveled around the world with you by his side and tell stories of the band he made with his brothers. He would support their dreams just like his parents did his. He would be at every dance recital, every soccer game and every talent show, cheering them on, and then when they were ready, he would buy them their very first guitar from Carter Vintage, and tell the story of how he met you there and his life changed forever.
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Can you write about how Jongho or Hongjoong of Ateez would react to their s/o being depressed and hopeless about their future? I am in college and really struggling with trying to figure out what I want to do as a career and how to plan accordingly while still in school. Just really anxious and depressed and never see imagines about this stuff lol
hey, darlin’. i just what you to know you’re doing amazing! college is super scary and stressful and trying to join the workforce after can be pretty daunting. i want you to know as someone who graduated with a degree i am absolutely not using now, it’s ok for life to take its course and it feels like you’re out of control but when it feels things are falling apart, sometimes they’re falling into place. i hope these help you feel better 🤍
warnings: mentions of stress and school shit, mentions of severe depression and isolation (please reach out to others if you need help!)
notes: hongjoong’s definitely isn’t from personal experience or anything 🙃
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hongjoong- it was official, you went to the worst school in history. for weeks you had heard whisperings from other students about how the school was going under and they were cutting back on departments, you didn’t know which ones but honestly you just wrote the whole thing off as idle gossip. that was, until one of your closest friends heard it from a professor. then, d-day. it was madness. you kept hearing about some of your most favorite professors being laid off and that’s when the worst happened. you were asked to meet with your academic advisor and told that your entire department would be removed and worked into another department. after the best semester of your life, you finally feeling you had found your purpose and calling, it was all crumbling down around you. hongjoong was in the studio super late when he got the tearful phone call. it worked out that hongjoong didn’t have any other promotions and was at a place with the album where he could pass it off to maddox and leedz to finish. he got on the first plane he could and soon enough you were crying in his arms. “joong, i don’t know what to do. i was just starting to feel like this was what i was meant to do… now it’s all over.” you sobbed. hongjoong held you tight against his chest, pressing kisses to the top of your head. he let out a sigh before speaking, “i’m so sorry, baby.” he just let you cry, releasing all the pain and confusion into his strong embrace. when you finally felt like it was out of your system, he lifted your chin to look at him. “i know it’s all confusing right now and that it seems like everything is over, but i wanna tell you that it’s not. you have so many options. there are times in life when you feel like you’re on the right path and things are really good then something happens. that doesn’t mean you weren’t on the right path or maybe you were just on the wrong way of getting there. this school may not be for you anymore and maybe you can try seoul!” he lightened his tone, making you laugh through the tears. “but things in life aren’t meant to stay the same. things happen and change. it’s scary but i know you’re brave enough to get through all of it and figure out what’s best for you. but when you find your purpose and it feels right, keep chasing that feeling, wherever it takes you.” hongjoong finished with a sympathetic smile and kiss to both of your cheeks. he always knew what to say to make you feel better. even though things seemed bleak right now, you knew that you could always manage them… especially with hongjoong cheering you on.
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jongho- starting senior year was something you looked forward to pretty much since exams of freshman year. you wondered how you could take four more years of this but somehow you managed to make it all the way to the end… almost. the final year of classes was brutal to say the least. all of your hardest classes were, of course, pushed off to the very end and you were being tested in the field you would hopefully be working in some day. it was a lot of pressure. adding to the stress was the impending doom of actually finding a job in the career you’d chosen. you would no longer be under the safety blanket of studying the field but rather on the tightrope of actually managing to work in the real world. it was all too much for you and in the weeks before your final final exams, you shut down. you couldn’t eat, you couldn’t sleep, all you could do was lay in your bed and worry. jongho was used to you not texting as much, especially when exams were coming up, but when his messages were going unread and his calls unanswered, he started to worry. then when your family was calling him asking about you, he knew he had to check on you. when he spoke to hongjoong and the rest of the boys and management about it, they agreed to let him go. the whole plane ride, he was anxious to see what awaited him, preparing for the worst… but nothing could have prepared him for the state you were in. opening the door to your dorm room nearly broke his heart. he found you wrapped in your comforter, eyes hollow and sunken, staring off into the distance. “baby…” he spoke softly to get your attention. “jongho? what are you doing here?” you finally snapped out of your stupor and sat up in your bed, still wrapped in your blanket. he didn’t answer your question, it wasn’t important to him, and if you were honest, you knew the answer. jongho quietly kicked off his shoes and crawled into the bed with you, pulling you tightly into his arms, rocking you back and forth as you finally broke down. he didn’t say a word as you sobbed, letting all the pressure that had built up finally release. “i’m just so scared, jjong. what if i can’t do it? what if i fail? i can’t do this, i can’t be out in the real world!” you rambled out all your fears, and he just let you. it was so comforting to just say all of this out loud and not feel judged or like your fears were anything but valid. jongho was really good at that. you could say anything and he was completely solid. he was your rock through some of your hardest times and you were so glad he came because you didn’t even realize just how much you needed him. jongho didn’t say anything right away, he pressed soft kisses to your face and head as quiet reassurances. after a few beats of silence he finally spoke up. “i’m so proud of you.” he said softly. “what?” you looked up at him confused, but he was completely sure. “i’m proud of you. you’ve made it through college and you’ve done the very best you could. you worked hard and got both good grades and some not good grades but you made it and gave it your all. the fact that you’re so upset right now just shows how much this all means to you.” he paused to kiss your lips softly. “i know you’ll succeed in whatever you do. whether you get a job in what you’ve been studying these last four years or something completely different. if you graduate and everything changes, that’s ok too. you’re going to do so well in this life and i’m happy to be next to you while you do it.” jongho finished and smiled warmly at you. you buried your face in his chest again as his arms wrapped around you tighter. for the rest of the evening he took care of you which put you in the best place to finish the term out strong.
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The Monkees, 1965.
“‘I was the dummy’ on the show, laughs Tork […]. [When he left The Monkees] he felt burned by his experience, with the show and chose, for a decade, to leave the past behind. Now Tork has a more charitable outlook on the series that catapulted him and his three cohorts to instant fame. His bitterness stemmed from ‘how much I took to heart the kinds of criticism leveled against The Monkees. There’s no school for rock stars. Nobody tells you what to take to heart. When criticisms comes from all sides, you think it’s coming from a monolith source,’ said Tork […]. ‘For a long time I felt unworthy of the success. But then I said I had been picked out of a crowd of 400 — there must have been a reason.’ […] Although Tork ‘loved’ doing the show, he says the price was a loss of privacy. […] So what kind of dreams does a man who finds relative anonymity a ‘welcome relief’ have for his new band? ‘Not much. Just adulation from millions, untold wealth and cookouts on weekends with my family,’ he deadpanned. ‘Are you getting all this down?’” - article by Jocelyn McClurg, Hartford Courant, February 26, 1982
“When he was nine years old, Peter Tork’s parents bought him a piano for $15. He taught himself to play and to read music. But then his parents delivered an ultimatum: either take piano lessons or don’t touch the piano again. Fourteen years later, Tork’s musical skills landed him quite a job. For three years, Tork was a member of the Monkees, one of the most popular bands of the ‘60s. […] In a telephone interview this week, Tork explained why he left the group in 1968, three years after it was formed. ‘Musicians were being auditioned in an effort to create the Monkees, and the purpose was to reap money,’ he said. ‘But for our first two albums, studio musicians were hired to do the instrumentals and we just did the lead singing. I didn’t want that.’ Tork convinced the other three members, Davy Jones, [Micky] Dolenz and Mike Nesmith, to do the third album themselves. ‘But I couldn’t get the guys to go for that again, so the fourth album was half and half,’ he said. Critics had frowned on the Monkees for this. ‘Every single malcontent felt he had the right to tell me what was wrong with the situation. I took the critics to heart,’ Tork said. ‘When I talked to the guys about it, they told me if I want more I should get my own act.’ Tork describes his current relationship with Jones, Dolenz and Nesmith as ‘cordial.’ ‘I learned to put all my bitterness behind me,’ he said. ‘I hear about them through the grapevine, but we have no real call to talk to each other, although, I had a brief lunch with Davy Jones in Japan recently.’ When Tork joined the Monkees in October 1965, he was 23 years old and inexperienced in handling fame and fortune. ‘There’s a lot of things involved with money and recognition, and the price was much higher than I expected,’ he said. ‘There’s an isolating pressure that goes along with success. I couldn’t handle it.’ After he left the Monkees, Tork did some solo work for a while and taught at secondary schools in Los Angeles [Read more about Peter's time teaching here.]. ‘I developed a better reality system as a teacher,’ he said. ‘I discovered that there were the same kind of power-hungry personalities in education as in entertainment. I thought I was getting out of all that but I realized that I can’t escape from reality.’ Tork laughed in the easy, carefree way which seems to be so characteristic. ‘It’s amazing how thrilling life has gotten now that I’ve learned how to live it,’ he said. ‘There are two kinds of pain — the pain from growing up and the pain from refusing to grow at all.’ Tork now does his living and growing in Venice, Calif., with his wife, niece, 12-year-old daughter, 6-year-old son and ‘terminally epileptic’ dog. ‘I really love to entertain,’ he said. ‘Not a day goes by when I don’t think about music. I’ll never leave the industry again.’
 Then he laughed. ‘But you never can tell,’ he said. ‘Maybe some day I’ll become a serious and adept politician.’ Doesn’t seem likely, though.” - article by Lisa Stenza, Connecticut Daily Campus, February 26, 1982
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