#also why are both tweets on rounded down times

[lex-loudestwoman]

The Whole Story

Before we begin, a disclaimer: I believe that Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss are in a romantic relationship together. I've come to this conclusion carefully by reading all the signs Taylor has given us through her lyrics, media presence, clothing & jewelry choices, marketing, visuals, and interviews. This is all a theory of what I think has gone down between Karlie and Taylor since 2013.

2013 & Earlier - The Beginning

VS Fashion Show 2013: The first official meeting of Karlie & Taylor was at the 2013 VS Fashion Show.

This may not have been their true first encounter (s/o @sophietv for her amazing work about this, she outlines all the times Kaylor interacted prior to the fashion show in 2013!).

According to a Teen Vogue interview in 2014, Taylor and Karlie were introduced to each other at the same time that Taylor met Emma Stone by Andrew Bevan of Teen Vogue. That was in 2008 at the Young Hollywood Awards.

After that first meeting in 2008, Taylor attended a number of fashion shows that Karlie walked in: Tommy Hilfiger Spring Show (9/16/2009); Rodarte Spring 2012 show in NYC (9/13/2011); Jean-Paul Gauthier in Paris (9/30/2012), Elie Saab Spring/Summer 2013 Show (10/3/2012).

Karlie & Taylor also both attended Roberto Cavalli's 40th Anniversary Party (9/30/2010) and the Met Gala in 2011. Teen Vogue included a quote from Karlie about the Met: "Taylor Swift. I was introduced to her at the Met Gala, and we joked about having a baking date!"

January 17th, 2012: The iconic Twitter interaction between Kaylor finally happens! Taylor's cover story with Vogue includes a quote about Karlie: "I love Karlie Kloss, I want to bake cookies with her!" Karlie tweets at her the same day the cover releases.

2013 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

By the time the 2013 VS Show rolled around, I think they were already dating in some capacity, and the fashion show was a PR move. If Taylor & Karlie were going to become "close friends" in the public eye, they needed a high-profile, highly documented story about how they met to avoid questions about the nature of their close relationship.

Taylor performed I Knew You Were Trouble (Red) for the show, and she danced with Karlie on stage while 'snow' fell.

"So it goes, you two are dancing in a snow globe round and round." - You Are in Love, 1989

Karlie later revealed in an interview that she had gotten a dramatic haircut during a Vogue shoot just before the VS Fashion Show began. This haircut was a big deal- she changed her look completely without talking to anyone about it, and Vogue asked her to keep it a secret until the shoot dropped. So she showed the VS Fashion Show like "surprise! New hair!" which drew up quite a buzz. Taylor's hair was pretty blonde and long at the time, not fully bleached but certainly lightened up in comparison to her natural hair color.

"flashback when you met me, your buzz cut & my hair bleached" - Dress, reputation

Karlie posted a ton of pictures from this event (most of which were of her and Taylor) on her Instagram. She also starts posting really sappy Instagram posts about being in love.

I think that the November 14th, 2013 post about receiving your favorite flowers from the person you love is about Taylor Swift, but who's to say!

Then, on Friday, December 13th, 2013 (Taylor's 21st birthday, which I think she references in an interview sometime when she's talking about why she loves the number 13) Karlie posts two sugarplum fairy-related photos, capturing the scene in The Nutcracker where snow falls from the sky as delicate performers dressed in white dance along the stage. This is super Taylor-coded, giving YAIL, dancing in the damn snowglobe again.

Interesting caption there, Kar. "#flashbackfriday to the good old days as a sugarplum fairy myself (aka the day I peaked)"

On December 14th, Karlie posts a solo shot on instagram and tags Josh with photo credit (this is hilarious that we let them just tell us whoever took their picture with absolutely no questioning whether they might be lying???). For some reason, I get the feeling that Taylor took this photo for Karlie the morning after her birthday when they were still together from celebrating the night before.

2014 - You're My Best Friend

Taylor buys her massive Tribeca, NY Penthouse apartment in April 2014. The home was actually TWO penthouse apartments next door to each other, and then she bought a third townhouse unit next door in 2017, and in 2018 she bought an additional 3-bedroom unit in the same building. Go off NYC Real Estate Queen! Taylor moved into her iconic Cornelia Street apartment during a round of renovations at her Tribeca home in 2016.

Big Sur Trip

VS Fashion Show 2014

Vogue Cover

BEST Best Friends

1989 - October 27, 2014

"The inspiration that I found in that [New York] city is kind of hard to describe and hard to compare to any other force of inspiration I've ever experienced in my life." - Taylor Swift, discussing the importance of NYC in an interview with ABC News given on 10/20/2014 ahead of a 1989 promo single release for Welcome to New York (1989). That quote actually reminds me of a lyric from 1989: you understand now why they lost their minds & fought the wars, and why I've spent my whole life trying to put it into words (You Are in Love, 1989).

2015 - Hiding in Plain Sight

1989 era so many public appearances blah blah blah they were girlfriends in public kissgate gay whatever, everyone agrees that Karlie & Taylor were dating in 2015 during 1989 World Tour etc

2016 - Beards or Bust

Politics and Jared Kushner

The unfortunate reality of 2016 was that Donald Trump really did get elected president, and then he really did take office and become the President of the United States from January 2017 - January 2021. (Sadly, none of it was a nightmare or even a collective hallucination, all of this actually happened in the good old U.S. of A., yeehaw!!) The sociopolitical climate in the US is charged, fraught, uncertain, and divided. Even worse for Taylor & Karlie is their closeness to Jared Kushner, Josh's older brother who is married to Ivanka Trump. Jared served as a senior advisor to Donnie Boy for his entire term, and he did such a good job being Don's accomplice in negligent, ethnocentric, homophobic, misogynistic leadership from the White House that he was made the Director of the Office of American Innovation (this entire office was created by Trump in March 2017 and dissolved by Biden in January 2021).

I think (and this is JUST speculating, I have no real evidence compiled yet to back this up, but I'll look for it eventually) Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump are also in a queer-bearding relationship contract. I'm not going too far into it now, but there's stuff out there for both Jared and Ivanka, like former Trump staffer Noel Casler's allegations that Jared is gay and in an "arranged marriage" with Ivanka, who doesn't care about his sexuality due to her own sexual opportunism and likely queer identity.

If Jared and Ivanka really are queer and in a non-monogamous, mutually beneficial public relationship that allows them to co-parent their three children, then their involvement in the Trump administration makes things pretty damn unsafe if they ever were found out. So, I think that when Trump was elected, the entire Kushner family had to be super locked down to keep both Jared & Ivanka AND Josh & Karlie (and Mikey and Taylor) safe from any unwanted allegations.

Since the Kushner and Hess families hold international influence, wealth, and power, if all these billionaire men were suddenly outed as gay there could be serious economic and political consequences across the globe.

Not so coincidentally, Karlie and Taylor's last public event together was Lorde's birthday on Monday, November 7th, 2016. The 2016 Presidential Election took place on Tuesday, November 8th, 2016, which sealed the fate of the Kushner name to be attached to Donald Trump's Presidency. I believe that if Trump had not won (which no one expected him to do) Karlie & Taylor would not have started this Love Blackout.

This photo is the end of Kaylor's public friendship, and the start of their Love Blackout (shout out to @sophietv again for being the BEST!!)

Joe Alwyn - A Perfectly Palatable Person

I'm sure when the team realized Trump might actually win the election, they started looking for an acceptable beard. Joe really was a great choice for Taylor's life: he had features similar to Karlie's (light eyes, tall, blonde hair), he didn't have much going on with his own reputation, he had a sparkling clean dating history - because Taylor was his first ever girlfriend, he was a fellow artist and was already media trained, and he was gay, too!

Met at the Met - May 2016

red herring lyric (tied to VS 2013 show)

First Reports - May 16, 2017

The Sun broke the news of Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn dating on May 16, 2017. According to Tree Paine a source, they had been secretly dating for months. It's later assumed that they started dating a few months before January 1, 2017, (revealed in a Lover journal released in 2019). Some sleuthing swifties connect a lyrical swap in the acoustic cover of "September" by Earth, Wind, and Fire as performed by our girl Taylor (Friday, April 13, 2018) to the diary entry and determine their anniversary was probably September 28, 2016.

Supportive Boyfriend Award? - December 8, 2017

Joe does something of heroic power. He goes to a concert with his popstar girlfriend. He apparently attended Taylor's performance in the iHeartRadio JingleBall in NYC and "stayed for the whole show and they later left together as well." lmao wut, okay, lots of people stayed for the whole show, this is such a boring relationship roll out, especially for Miss Extra!! (lovingly)

Toe is Officially Official - May 8th, 2018

Joe finally takes his instagram off private mode and posts a picture of himself, alone, next to a big cactus. Taylor also posts a picture of herself, alone, near the same big cactus. Alright, I guess that *technically* counts as giving the public some confirmation that you two know each other, but I bet Tree was mad as hell when that was their "official instagram announcement."

Then, Joe joins Taylor at the opening night of the Reputation Stadium tour in Glendale, AZ. He wore a baseball cap low to cover his face and "stay incognito" (Joe, babe, no one knows who you are...but like okay i guess, be weird about your fame that you literally wanted and signed up for). But during the song Gorgeous apparently Taylor pointed at Joe in the VIP tent, while he proudly filmed her.

Taylor travels around the country for the Reputation Stadium Tour from May-November 2018. The Rep tour is SO, SO GAY, like Jesus Christ Lesbian Jesus save us from all the rainbow and bisexual flagging!! Check my twitter thread for a full analysis of how gay the Dress performance is.

Reputation Promo:

Taylor Swift socials

Karlie Kloss socials

Reputation, The Album

Reputation was released on November 10, 2017.I consider Reputation to be Taylor & Karlie's "I'm so in love that I might stop breathing" album. This is the honeymoon, this is the up all night, can't stop, won't stop, I need you more than air kind of love.

This album is all about the pining and desperately waiting, hiding their anticipation, hands shaking from holding back from touching each other where anyone might see them. Much like Taylor's own media presence & public interactions in the Reputation era, Kaylor had gone dark, nobody heard from them for months, but they're doing better than they ever were.

2018 - Desperate Measures

The honeymoon phase ends in 2018 as shit in America gets worse for queer folks. The sociopolitical climate is getting more dangerous now, and Trump's constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ rights & safety is making matters much worse. Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump are in the media a lot now, which means all eyes are on Josh, too.

Toe is Officially Official - May 8, 2018

Joe finally takes his instagram off private mode and posts a picture of himself, alone, next to a big cactus. Taylor also posts a picture of herself, alone, near the same big cactus. Alright, I guess that *technically* counts as giving the public some confirmation that you two know each other, but I bet Tree was mad as hell when that was their "official instagram announcement."

Then, Joe joins Taylor at the opening night of the Reputation Stadium tour in Glendale, AZ. He wore a baseball cap low to cover his face and "stay incognito" (Joe, babe, no one knows who you are...but like okay i guess, be weird about your fame that you literally wanted and signed up for). But during the song Gorgeous apparently Taylor pointed at Joe in the VIP tent, while he proudly filmed her.

Taylor travels around the country for the Reputation Stadium Tour from May-November 2018. The Rep tour is SO, SO GAY, like Jesus Christ Lesbian Jesus save us from all the rainbow and bisexual flagging!! Check my twitter thread for a full analysis of how gay the Dress performance is.

Instead of hosting her usual big 4th of July Party at the Holiday House in RI, Toe goes on vacation to Turks & Caicos to celebrate the holiday. They call Backgrid to take a few pictures of them "frolicking" at the beach together. I'm so convinced, they're in LOVE!! Can't get enough of each other!! They totally hold hands all the time, this feels so natural and not weird at all!

Karlie posts a few photos in a row about the 4th of July this year. First, she's in her Anti-Hero colored pajamas with her left eye closed in a wink, sitting on a few suitcases, captioned "Kissin Paris Goodbye. *kissy face emoji*"

Then, another post on the 4th itself is of a WMAG stylized photoshoot where Karlie is a cowboy, for the Wild West with Cowboy Karlie campaign. It's captioned "Going into the 4th like *cowboy emoji* @/wmag" EXCUSE ME. "You're a cowboy like me, perched in the dark, telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear like it could be love I could be the way forward only if they pay for it"

The implications of a Cowboy Like Me reference and this photo's timing has on their engagement story has me dead. I'll do a whole lyrical analysis and tie in of it soon.

And then she posts this pic of her swimming in an unidentifiable body of water. Could it be Turks & Caicos? Maybe!

Joshlie announces their engagement on July 24, 2018 while the two are on a vacation in XYZ? People Magazine reports that the proposal "took place a few weeks ago during a romantic weekend together in upstate New York." So they got engaged sometime in the beginning of July, right?

On July 10th, she posts a video of herself voguing down the runway with "This Kiki is Marvelous" playing in the background during Paris Fashion Week in September 2013. Her performance was considered one of the highlights of Paris Fashion Week. She captioned the video: Mood. @/jpgaultierofficial.

Quick question for Karlie, why do you feel the same way you felt before you went on stage for a make or break performance out of your comfort zone? You performed incredibly but it could have easily turned out very differently. Why would you be feeling like that right around the time of your engagement to Josh Kushner?

Karlie's instagram post on July 16, 2018 captioned "bestest of weekends with my bestest of friends" included group photos and a video of her & four girlfriends from her childhood.

So she got engaged and then spent a weekend with her friends, who then commented on instagram pictures from the weekend saying "remember, there's nothing better than old friends!" Why the heck are they talking about friends so much!? She literally just got engaged to Jo- ohhh.... Oh, right, he's gay, and she's gay. Old friends. Ahhhh.

Taylor responds to the engagement news breaking by having special guest, Haley Kiyoko aka Lesbian Jesus, join her for the Rep show at Gillette Stadium on July 27, 2018. Taylor specifically requests to sing Curious with Haley, which is a song about a lesbian woman singing to her ex-lover who is now dating a man, asking her ex if she lets him touch her the way she used to. So gay, so timely, Taylor is a petty bitch & I love her.

Do the girls back home touch you like I do? Delicate (Reputation)

The Wedding, October 18, 2018

Karlie wears her custom Dior gown and very amicably marries Joshua in someone's backyard, it looks like. Things seem perfectly pleasant, almost like watching a wedding scene featuring two actors with no sexual chemistry whatsoever.

2019 - Every Time I Don't, I Almost Do

Lover Promo is all very gay, very loud, very comingoutlor.

ME! out now! on Lesbian visibility day, April 26, 2019.

YNTCD music video out on June 16, 2019.

The Wedding, Part Two: Cowboy Karlie and Her Cowboy, Her Man

Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner celebrate their wedding again with a private group of friends from June 20-23rd, 2019 in Wyoming. It's cowboy themed, for whatever reason.

This wedding into a honeymoon in Africa would have been a wonderful strategy to keep the spotlight off of Karlie in Taylor Swift's immediately impending plan to come out on June 30th, 2019. Go read @sophietv's incredible post that details the failed coming out (fuck Scooter Braun).

<timeline jump>

2020: The Great War

January:

February: Karlie is in Paris, Taylor is advertising The Man MV (out February 27).

March: Quarantine begins March 16th & Taylor starts writing folklore almost immediately, which means that the events in folklore have already happened before COVID begins.

MORE ON THE WAY! I've got:

What happens when Karlie gets back to the US?

How does the Lover era go?

Lover social media & marketing presence

8.24.2019 - Blue

9.9.2019 - Lover in Paris performance

10.7.2019 - Sad Girl SNL

10.11.2019 - Sad Girl TinyDesk (& ring)

Continued sus social media from TSwift

Miss Americana

2020: The Great War (3.16.2020, Quarantine begins)

Lonely Millennial Woman Covered in Cat Hair

folklore

evermore

Karlie's Pregnancy

2022: Go Viral (Midnights, Red TV)

2023: Midnights, Eras, Speak Now TV, Broken Toe, 1989 TV, Kaylor Renaissance

My Predictions

#kaylor #lsk #taylor and karlie #gaylor #lgbetty #taylor swift #1989 taylor's version #reputation #lover #folklore #evermore #the eras tour #karlie kloss #Youtube

[heartofwritiing]

could you write wilbur soot confessing his love to a crush? 👉👈

something about how he's been pinning after this crush for so long, but the crush seems a bit avoidant or something

but that's because the crush also has a crush on him and is very very shy qpwimsmanssjslslek sorry im not good with requests

You and me need never be, lonely again.

Paring: cc!wilbur soot x fem!cc!reader

authors note: Thank you so much for requesting! I hope you don't mind the reader being a content creator and i’m sorry she’s not super shy because im not really sure how to write shy lol but i hope you like the request! I just thought it would add to the idea and I've wanted to do something similar to this for a while! This is a request back from august. I am so sorry this took me so long to get out. I've been going through some shit irl but I'm finally starting to come back to writing because I genuinely love it and posting on here since it is my safe space!

line from this prompt list

warnings: friends-lovers, reader lives in the US, brief description of anxiety, the reader sends mixed signals, swearing, kinda angsty, happy end, super unedited!

"No! That was such bullshit!"

The voice of Tommyinnit ran through the speakers of your computer causing you to let out a chuckle that you were the reason for his outburst.

You were playing Gang Beasts on stream with some of your closest friends, and you had grabbed Tommy's character and thrown him off the map by picking him up.

Laughter rang out amongst the group as the screen card popped up saying your username won. You cheered as everyone groaned but dispersed into 'ggs' then that's when everyone started to bid goodnight. You hadn't realized it had been four hours of streaming and playing games, showing the good time you were having with friends.

"Alright chat, that's gonna be it for me today! Please remember to click the follow button if you're new to stream that way you'll know when I go live! byeee!" You did your outro, quickly closed your stream down, and logged out of Twitch.

It was an uneventful stream session, thank god. You’ve noticed more and more how your chat gets when you even mention wilburs name.

“you logging off completely y/n/n?” Ranboos voices asks through your earbuds.

“No, I’ll play a few more rounds if you guys are down,” you respond.

“HELL YEAH!” Tommy boasted. “IM GONNA KICK YOUR ASS THIS TIME Y/N/N!”

“Oh, it’s on gremlin child!” you replied.

Wilbur listened to this conversation on his end, letting out a chuckle. He honestly doesn’t know why you make him laugh so easily. Anytime you threw a genius comment toward Tommy that was deemed insulting, or calling him a name Wilbur fell for you more and more. If only he had the guts to tell you.

You as well wouldn’t admit it but every time Wilbur laughed all you could feel was butterflies punching your stomach and a smile that made your cheeks hurt. You were also falling hard for him.

After about another fifteen minutes, Tommy and Ranboo had bid their goodbyes for the night and ended their calls. You were left in call with Wilbur, the silence could be cut with a knife.

Knowing him for two years was hard. Wilbur was everything to you. He was funny, smart, charming, and overall made you feel comfortable. Something you thought you’d never have with anyone. Having to only talk on call and video made things easier for you. On call you could hide your blushes and smiles from him, but not from your chat who caught every interaction between you and Wilbur when you streamed. The constant ’Wilbur x name confirmed?’ tweets and comments in your twitch chat were recently repetitive and you wondered when you became such a beacon of attention. It gave you such anxiety to have all eyes on you when you wanted to spend time with your best friend.

It was getting obnoxious to the point where you debated making a tweet to get the fans to stop shipping you both, even if you were dating it was no one’s business. Still you never dared to say anything out of fear of stans coming at you in anyway. You didn’t need to draw more unwanted attention to yourself.

“You logging off? it’s getting pretty late for you,” you spoke up.

“Yeah, we both should, by the way what times your flight tomorrow?”

Right, you were flying less than eight hours from now to finally meet your friends inperson. You all had planned this for months, booking hotels and flights, making a whole deal about it. Then you really wouldn’t be able to hide from him for a whole week.

“Around seven-thirty,” you reply.

He hums.

“I’ll let you get some rest, see you tomorrow night darling,” his voice purposely going lower on the ‘darling’ part that you almost didn’t catch it, making your knees go weak.

“N-night Will,” you stutter, end call and slump back into your desk chair trying to calm your racing heart. Meanwhile Wilbur all the way across the ocean in Brighton has a smile plastered across his lips.

About a plane ride, a train ride and car ride later, you are stood in the hotel lobby in Brighton waiting for a late Tommy and Wilbur to arrive. You were super nervous to meet them. Having only been friends for what was a short time, it felt like you knew them for years, so why was this so scary?

You debated in your mind about texting them to see if they were close by, but you didn’t want to come off as annoying and impatient. You wanted to make a good first impression, but again these were your friends. Why were you shaking with nerves?

You fiddled with your thumb’s absentmindedly until you felt a pair of hands on your shoulders, causing you to jump out of your skin. You spin around to be met with a cackling Tommy who is clucking his stomach from laughing so hard at your reaction.

“Fucking gremlin child,” you huffed under your breath, not realizing the evident blood rushing to your cheeks from being startled so easily.

“It’s nice to hear you say that in person,” a deep voice said from behind Tommy. You shifted your eyes to see a very tall Wilbur, who was wearing his round glasses pushed up his nose and curly hair fluffed to the side.

His dark sweater selves rolled up to revel his arms tucked into his side as he gazed at you with a soft smile. Finally after two years of being separated by seas, your best friend was standing right in front of you. It was surreal to say the least.

You laugh and jump forward to embrace him. The number of times you’d tease him over-call about his height made you regret your words. He towers over you as he bends down to your level to give you a long awaited hug. His arms are soft, yet firm as they wrap around your back and cage you into his embrace.

You both pull away, both grinning from ear to ear. He looks down at you with a hint of something behind his eyes, he seems to be genuinely happy to finally meet you in person. which makes you blush at the thought of him looking forward to this moment since you told him you wanted to come here. You're quickly brought out of your moment when Tommy speaks up behind you.

"So he gets a hug and I don't?!" his tone slightly offended.

"Yup, cause you're annoying," you bring a hand up to flick his forehead, causing him to let out a irritated noise. you had only just met him in person but something compelled you to do that. Maybe it was just a reason for you to break the ice and it was working because you all broke out into giggles.

“Im just kidding Tom,” you motion him into a hug.

Wilbur just stood observing the entire interaction between his two best friends. He was thrilled to finally have you here, he couldn't wait to show you all his favorite places, hang out, and get to know better in person. Finally.

The two boys had managed to drag you to the beach, and even though it was freezing Tommy insisted on going to the arcade to try and win another 'vlog gun'. After suffering through loosing a few games, Wilbur managed to win you a little stuffed cat that you promptly named Mr Whiskers.

It was endearing to watch him struggle at most of the games so he could get enough tickets. It was all worth it in his eyes to embarrass himself by losing ski-ball to you, twice, he saw the evident blush on your cheeks and the look you gave him. As if he hung the stars in the sky just for you. It made his chest hurt in a good way.

The rest of the night went smoothly for the most part. More and more, Wilbur had been getting more touchy with you. Though you didn’t mind it at all, maybe he didn’t realize how much he was putting his hand on you as you walked side by side as he led you through crowds. How he held doors open for you. It was sweet.

Maybe he was doing it just to be nice. That small voice in the back of your head telling you thats all it was. Because thats what friends do.

Eventually, the three of you met up with Ranboo and Charlie. They were just how they were online, which made meeting them a whole lot better. Walking around Brighton, making inside jokes and teasing each other. You hadn't been this happy in a while. You can remember the last time you genuinely enjoyed yourself, your friends were the product of that. You were fortunate to have found them when you did. Quarantine was hard on you, much like the rest of the world. So when you were invited to join a group game call, you couldn't pass up the opportunity. That night, something had clicked between you and Wilburt specifically. Then you started to join more calls with the gang and the rest was history.

Sometime in the night, you found yourself walking behind with Wilbur by your side chatting about nothing in particular. Until the comfortable silence filled the air between you, you took a moment to take in the nightlife of Brighton. The street lamps guide your way through the beachside and the pubs on the corner were starting to fill up. As if the city was somehow more alive at night.

"I'm really glad you came," Wilbur speaks, sincerely.

You stop your wide-eyed gaze to look at him and smile softly at him.

"I am too," You gush. "I'm honestly considering moving here,” Now he’s smiling.

Wilbur's brain starts to go a million miles a second. His heart leaped at the thought of you living closer to him. Seeing you in person everyday seemed like a dream come true. He begins to slow his step and a frown replaces your smile. Your own thoughts running rampant now, assuming you might've freaked him out by voicing that you wanted to move here so soon after meeting him in person. Maybe it made him uncomfortable. it was too soon to say something that bold. You had only just met him in person today.

"Listen, Y/N..."

You stopped and your brain got the best of you with his tone. You shouldn't have said anything like that to him. It was too soon.

“I don’t want to sound cheesy, but I need you to know how I feel.”

Oh... OH.

You knew what this was leading to. Realizing why he was acting the way he was all day.

"I like you, more than like you. You're funny, beautiful, smart, and everything I could've hoped for in a best friend. But I can't keep pretending I don't think of you when we aren't talking, or how when I look at you my chest hurts."

Wilbur liked you. Really liked you. You would jump for joy and shout to the rooftops about how much you reciprocate his feelings but something in the back of your mind told you not to. The doubt in your mind from yourself, both your fans online judging. It made you slowly start to panic. You felt as though you weren’t good enough for him.

You saw the aftermath of when his fans shipped him and Niki together. It almost ruined their friendship. You didn’t want that.

"Please say something?" he stops his rant to notice you are staring up at him with blank eyes.

"I-uh," you stutter. "can we maybe not do this now?"

His face falls and it instantly crushes you with regret. His disappointment shows as he gives you a forced smile and nods.

"Y-yeah, let's catch up with everyone, Tommy wants to do this big stream at his place." he gestures for you to move along with him, all while you feel horrible for doing this.

You wish you could take back what you said. You know you've hurt him, It's painfully obvious when he doesn't talk to you for the rest of the walk. You glance at him a few times but he keeps his eyes forward and stoic.

If only you didn’t let your anxiety get the best of you. You had to talk to him at some point, but for now you pushed it aside. The rest of the group didn’t seem to notice the sudden tension between the two of you, if they did nothing was remarked about it.

As you continued the journey to Tommys flat, you and Wilbur still walked silently side by side. With what little courage you had, you reached out your hand and held his in a moment of truce. Giving it a gentle squeeze with your fingers to seal the deal that you would talk later. You heard his soft inhale at the contact and he squeezes back. Your shoulders drop from the weight of tension being lifted off. Maybe, just maybe this ment this conversation wasn’t over.

Back at Tommy’s, the monitor in his cramped bedroom with everyone packed together like sardines; shows the twitch chat flashing by with viewers comments.

“WELCOME BACK TO THE STREAM EVERYONE!” Tommy shouted causing you to hold your ear in slight pain.

“God Tommy, could you be anymore loud?” you wince.

“Look who’s here chat!” he gestured to you with his hands, ignoring your complaints. You waved at the webcam as chat went crazy. He introduced everyone else as they all broke out into a chorus of conversation.

Wilbur was mostly quiet on your left, an occasional sarcastic comment made here and there. You could practically feel his eyes buring into the side of your head. Hopping chat wasn’t noticing how he was looking at you, your eyes shifting to your lap to fidget with your fingers.

Out of view, Wilbur reached over and took your hand picking at the skin around your nails. You had stopped your nervous tick and opted for squeezing his hand. Nobody seemed to notice the sudden shift in both your behavior.

Suddenly you felt tense, the feeling of having everyone’s eyes on you made your mind start to spiral.

Letting go of Wilburs hand, you quickly had excused yourself and walked out of Tommys room and into the kitchen.

Everyone had a mix of concerned and worried expressions as they watched you leave the room but didn’t say anything about it. Wilbur had followed you in pursuit. He found you in the kitchen hyperventilating Your panic had taken over and now your lungs were paying the price for the burning sensation from not breathing.

“it's okay,” he took your face into his hands and held you. “just follow my breaths.

he took a breath in, and you followed.

When you came to your senses, Wilbur had asked you what was wrong and you just began to cry. Everything came rushing down on you.

“Im sorry. I-Im sorry I shot you down earlier, Im sorry for h-hurting you. I-i,” you stuttered over yourself. Wilbur shakes his head at you. He probably thinks you’re such a mess.

“I don’t understand, I know you like me too, so I don’t understand why you rejected me after I poured my heart out to you. Then you go and hold my hand while we're walking.'

Wilbur was right. Playing with his feelings was selfish and cruel. He was completely in the right to question you. You were practically flirting with one another all day, and then you shut down his advances of trying to open your relationship.

“I do wanna be with you.” you sniff. “I'm just really scared.”

"Why darling? It's just me, your silly old Wil." he pokes at your sides causing you to let out a giggle. Your best friend, who looked at you with the prettiest chocolate eyes, who stayed on call with you all night when you couldn't sleep. The only person you told your deepest fears and dreams to.

You take a shaky inhale as you begin to explain. "I don't wanna ruin our friendship, we have something I've never experienced with anyone else in my life. I care about you too much to let me be a distraction in your life, and I am scared that the fans will-"

Wilbur interrupts you with a hand on your arm.

"The fans? darling who cares about that, I care way too much about you to even care about what strangers think. It's no one's business who I, or you for that matter have a relationship with." he clarified. "I love you and nothing or no one will ever change that."

Those three words made your heart leap in your throat.

"Y-you l-love me?" you stutter in disbelief.

"Yes, of course I do."

Tears roll down the apples of your cheeks as you lean forward to engulf Wilbur into another hug. His arms wrapped around your back reciprocating your embrace. your face buried in his neck as you inhale his cologne and your tears dampen his skin.

"I love you too Wil," you whisper.

He squeezes you closer to him in return and this time you don't hold yourself back...

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[swords-of-a-soilder]

Remove Problematic CCs

Section 2

"The Qsmp is problematic"

So fun fact twitter hates this fandom and everything it stands for, I'm not kidding when I say the amount of people I saw calling the fandom, toxic, racist, misgontic and ableist is interesting to say the least.

So of course when the SulhasSpace issue happened some people ran with it as proof that the fandom is the problem. Now I've show you guys an racist account before in the last account of interest (burnbook Qsmp) So I'm not here to pretend it's not a problem, it absolutely is.

So yes I get where these are coming from to some degree but Twitter doesn't forgive or forget, and there's of course the fact that not ever "fan" is actually a fan.

That being said they are two sides to Qsmp twitter right now,

1)Chill fun time, drawing your faves.

2)your faves are problematic and if you don't push for them to be kick out your a terrible person.

A common discussion I see on the twitter is often, "oh you're defending your faves, you call out any creator but your faves" completely ingoring the fact that most the stuff their holding said faves accountable for are ages old.

They call us parasocial but then make post after post advocating for members to be removed from the SMP, it's making rounds, so I want to clear any misinformation on Twitter and make it clear when creators apologize.

I bring you back to this tweet (please don't even interact with this person Thank you.)

You might remember them from the bonus section, this was posted jan 5 2024 with 1.3K likes (Jesus) so allow me to clear the air on some accusations.

In the reply of this they link a thread stating all problematic behaviors of creators, however MAJORITY of the this thread is just attacking the fan base I'm not even kidding.

Here's the thing, the bad apples aren't the fandom, it was this same behavior that had people attack dsmp fans.

Say what you want about Dream but you can acknowledge the dsmp fandom got so much hate for simply existing because a few of them were bad.

Because as someone who's been in both, and left both oddly who was previously a full on dream Stan and just sorta grew out of him. People hated us just for liking the dsmp.

They attacked minors in cosplay called us fatherless and cringe (and like yeah but still) overall make fun of Nurodiverst kids for having hyperfixations, and their justification was we're all terrible people.

Here's my thing, you don't actually care, you don't care about the alleged victims or the people who's lives are at risk; You want to make the fandom look bad.

You could have easily said "A person on twitter told another they hope the us gets bomb" and yeah I understand it was in the context of the Qsmp but people are not their interset, don't water people down to the things they like, then you're just making stereotypes.

How is it any different than saying, "a kpop stan did this, a furry did that,"

Also while I'm on this compersion of both I've noticed a constant conflict in regards to the Forever situation vs Dream situation with the parties on either side the other cc is guilty but theirs isn't.

I noticed this as soon as the accusations dropped actually a lot of people even here on Tumblr, where saying "this is what we deserved" and at "least dream didn't actually do it"

Tô be honest I noticed the fandom was at odds before that even, they were sudden talk here on Tumblr which means the topic likely came from Twitter of the dsmp compered to the Qsmp.

And I'll be honest dsmp was getting dragged, I read these thinking, 'why are we comparing them, they're clearly different with their own stories.' I still wonder that.

I don't want to fight with dream SMP fans, I use to be one of you , I had a freaking fan fic plan that was just c:! ranboo getting teleported into the Qsmp.

Why don't have to fight, but I guess with dream being unlikable, that makes things very hard.

Anyways I'm getting of track, when this person does have a important Calm it's often.. wrong

Ok no, to both of these.

1) she was not the only woman on the server, Jaiden joined the server at the very beginning, so unless I miss an noticed that Jaiden actually used macs pronounces that's a fuckin lie.

You can see Jaiden right there behind Foolish, on the very first day. This isn't hard to confirm, it doesn't even take a second.

I read the tweet and immediately went, nah that's not true I remember Jaiden, And what do you know Jaiden was in fact a member at that time.

(looking at this image gives me so much Nostalgia omg..)

2) she was not the only one being harassed, in fact they literally contradict their own statement with proof bad was receiving hate at the same time

Political lore, as in election season? I mean it must be I can't think of another political Qsmp event that bad was involved it huh crazy but If thats the case then Baghera wasn't the only one receiving hate thats... that's crazy, you're crazy.

Non of the tweets that screenshot are misogynistic, it's just people who believe the dream accusations criticing her attendance to his concert.

Also let me be clear real quick, I am AFAB in fact tmi I haven't even gotten on T, it's difficult to here and I'm afraid of getting hate crimed.

So I understand misgony, I live it, this is not what this is; Criticizing a woman isn't inherently misgony.

When you guys said "Qsmp had a misgony problem," is that what you guys meant, a woman gets hate and it's automatically misgony and not a section of the fandom being toxic..? Ok

#qsmp #qsmp investigation #qsmp discourse

[badass-queer-couples-battle]

Gay wrongs tournament, round 1 of the minor bracket

Propaganda:

For Lord Hater and Commander Peepers :

Lord Hater is the self-proclaimed "universe's awesomest evil-doer", an immature, attention-seeking manchild with electric powers and a short temper. He rules the Hater Empire with Commander Peepers as his second-in-command (technically third, after his beloved pet spider-xenomorph, but who's counting), however it soon becomes *very* clear that the cunning, remorseless, hardworking Peepers is the *real* brains behind the empire. Peepers might be frustrated at Hater's incompetence at times and isn't above manipulating him to reach an end goal, but he'd never dream of usurping him because, well, he's really gay and in love with him (as much as he can be in an early-10s Disney cartoon, anyways). Hater might take Peepers for granted a lot of times, but as his oldest friend and closest confidante he's the one who Hater is closest to. Whether it's invading other planets or kicking puppies for fun, these two are *delightfully* terrible jerks and the epitome of gay wrongs. 

Commander Peepers is both Lord Hater's right hand man in villainy AND his jilted stay-at-home-wife-guy (Also in villainy. Hater is really good at getting distracted from productive and efficient villaining.) Lord Hater was the greatest villain in the galaxy thanks to how well he and Commander Peepers worked as an evil team to run the Hater Empire!

Lord Hater conquers planets and is such an edgy bastard. Peepers is the actual brains behind the operation. Peepers is often pushed aside by Hater, they are besties and yet Peepers is always pining for this guy who will never notice. Peepers is so horribly gay for him if you watch the show he wants his stupid boss so bad. Peepers is so scared of him season 1 but then starts yelling BACK in season 2 and has to deal with him like a babysitter or something and yet STILL idolizes him and that’s just such a fun dynamic. His password is H8RNP33PRS43VR (Hater and Peepers forever). They are so evil and everyone fears them and they are villains and they are gay and the side of the fandom that draws them as a married couple that needs counseling is absolutely correct. The fanart of Hater openly liking him back is wonderful but I swear you don’t even need that. They are so gay and villain you have to love them they are

Villains that conquer planets and do evil stuff, my favourite characters, not really canon but they are the best :)

For Basil and Sunny :

OK SO. I want to share this because Sunny and Basil are the literal definition of "be gay do crimes but taken a bit extreme" but in order to do so I would have to share explicit material. So. WARNING(s): HUGEEE spoilers for the game OMORI,  mentions of manslaughter, staged s//cide, and PTSD. Sunny and Basil were friends, best friends in fact. While they were not canonically a couple nor did they have CANON feelings for each other it is very much homoerotic (LOTS of handholding, the creator also made a tweet that just said "omg basil x sunny already", etc.). But one day Sunny got into a huge fight with his older sister Mari and then accidentally pushed her down the stairs, accidentally killing her. He did not know what to do. He just killed his sister whom he loved very much and he doesn't know what to do. Then Basil somehow comes into the picture, and helps him cover the manslaughter by staging Mari's death as s//cide (they hanged her body with a skipping rope on a tree in Sunny's backyard). By the way I forgot to mention both of them were literally twelve years old at the time. I don't know WHY Basil decided to help him stage the murder like THAT but ok?? Anyway.. Basil tried comforting him, telling him "Everything is going to be okay...", and Basil just wanted to stay with Sunny, to go through all the trauma together, to push through. Both of them felt extreme guilt and stuff. But then, Sunny, instead of going through the trauma became a hikikomori (a person who's severely socially withdrawn) and decided to isolate himself for four years and create a fake dream world where everything is fine, Mari is alive and no one can die. This made Basil extremely traumatized even further because not only did he just commit a huge crime but also his best friend and probable crush just abandoned him and everyone else during these hard times. By the way I forgot to mention Basil has abandonment issues caused by his parents that are never there for him. Ok I definitely went off topic.... Uh basically to summarize: Mari's sister died, Basil and sunny covered the murder (together!!), And then sunny left basil. Definition of be gay do crimes. But they were twelve and traumatized :( (and kinda gay tbh)

hahahahahahshshshaha the never did anything wrong in heir life whatre u taking about everything is fine

#minor bracket round 1 #omori #wander over yonder #basil omori #omori sunny #lord hater #commander peepers

[mgnifiqueyoo]

21 : put the fire out, please?

— a/n: so surprising that i actually have a written part for this ep! hope u guys will enjoy reading it through <33 (i also thought of changing my format last minute lol, pls don't get confused) word count: 659

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The heels of your jet-black shoes tapped along the marbled tiles of the silent library, catching the librarian's attention as you looked down at the attendance record in front of you. Surprisingly, you had a vacant hour despite your schedule changing every once in a while because of the many clubs you joined… as if that wasn’t already obvious.

Writing the time, the date, and your name, you headed to an empty table, noticing that he wasn't still there.

Who? 

Beomgyu Choi, of course.

However, a more appropriate question would be “Who else?”

What's even more surprising than your vacant hour was the fact that he, your annoying ex who didn't want to see you unless you were failing at something, wanted to talk to you in person. It was obvious that there was no reason for it. — But, why?

Why in the world would he want to see you?

Taking a deep breath, you checked the time on your wristwatch, biting your bottom lip in nervousness as you felt the silence slowly take over your head. The thoughts of embarrassing yourself in public were rattling around as if they were the only things that made sounds in this quiet atmosphere. 

And you hated it.

But then, the door creaked open, which made you lift your head up from your hands, looking at the far right. There stood the boy you once loved before, signing in before his round, big eyes glanced at you. Quickly, he headed his way to the table you stayed at, taking a pause as he realized that he wasn't supposed to sit next to you anymore... like old times.

"Alright, what tweets do we need to talk about?" You started the conversation with a bitter tone, sharp and deep enough to make him feel shivers down his spine. Even if you loved him before, it was no doubt that all the love you felt was gone.

Butterflies turned to those bloodsucking mosquitos. The smell of roses turned to smoke. Water turned to gasoline. And the fire you both had became yours, burning you as if it was arson.

Everything between you and him just couldn't stay the same anymore.

"No, it's not about the tweets... It was never about the tweets."

Your heart raced as your mind circled around only one thought. It felt miserable to sit in a large room where it was just you, the librarian, and the boy who chose someone else over you. Tilting your head, you pretended not to have a single clue while you bounced your leg rapidly in fear. "It's about you... and me." Beomgyu's voice trembled as he looked away from your panicked gaze, equally nervous as you were.

As soon as you were about to ask him what it was, he suddenly took your hands into his soft, delicate palms. Memories wash over your sight as slowly and tender as the waves in the ocean would do. 

You were terrified.

So, so terrified.

"I don't want to hurt you anymore, Y/N." He added, gripping your hands tightly as you tried to pull them away from his grasp. However, Beomgyu chose not to care about the circumstances anymore, getting up from his seat as he leaned forward with closed eyes. — His lips brushed against yours without any hint of hesitation as the rest of your body froze; numb yet wide awake.

It all felt wrong.

But instead, you stood there and did absolutely nothing.

The door creaks open once more, causing him to pull away as your head immediately turns to the entrance of the library.

And god, Intak just had to be there, speechless at what he watched as you widened your eyes, regretful of what you've done. Memories with Beomgyu began to crumble down like the ash that fell whenever a piece of paper was lit up.

And so, he left.

And there was nothing you could do.

Not anymore.

───── ❝ summary ❞ ─────

for two years, you and beomgyu have been the best of friends and later lovers. however, things change after time had been taken away from the two of you ── he began to love someone else and soon turned into someone else.

and whether you like it or not, a not-so-familiar student in the same section finally made the first move...

a very unexpected first move.

. . . . .

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[louisisalarrie]

i don’t give a fuck about denials because it will happen whether we like it or not. what frustrates me is that many only see him as an extension of harry and larry and that fucking sucks. i’m not angry at the denial, or at him, i’m angry at the fact that he has so much to offer and yet these questions are the only thing people focus on

hello anon, yes this sucks, but also his team, and Louis, have both used this as a minor promo tool for his own career. so, let’s chat about it. welcome to the show.

yes, it’s beyond frustrating that Louis is seen as an extension of Harry, and more so because of Larry. It has hindered his career as a solo artist, and he’s never really been able to move away from it. he never will, though. However, he was doing a great job of it during LATAM. sad to see it go to waste.

Harry is the biggest popstar on the planet and if ANYONE mentions him, they get some kind of traction. Whether it be a potential fling/gf, or a past band member, or someone who’s interviewed him or bloody deuxmoi. No matter who it is, their ratings boost and media searches go up and he’s used, yet again, for his fame. But louis’ LATAM promo rounds were going great. He didn’t mention Harry the whole time, and was asked specifically about his music. In fact, we got that interviewer who was gonna ask about F, but it was shut down. So, why was that particular topic shut down, but then Harry is brought up and then the interview is released just as Louis leaves LATAM? Why, out of all the personal questions he could’ve been asked (bc GP and interviewers looooove having the goss on celebs personal lives and surely they’re curious about a gf) was larry brought up?

For the exact reason you stated, anon. He used Larry, and Harry, for promo. That question was planned, and he danced around it, and still couldn’t give a satisfying denial, BUT it was a cheap shot at a bit of press to finish off his promo tour. His team thought bringing back larry briefly would stir some more promo outside of the fandom too, and link their names in the media. He’s done denials before, right? What’s another one to the list?

This one, though, is very poorly timed, even though they thought it would be timed well.

There has been 0 mention of Harry and Louis tied together outside of the larries and general fandom of the two. There are no recent news articles about Larry, regardless of how much we talk about it, they haven’t followed each other on Insta, there has been 0 major developments that would get people talking about them again. So I understand that Louis is often seen as an extension of Harry and Larry, but… they haven’t been connected in the media for ages. There is no reason for a denial. So that has to make you question the timing. There was no urgency or relevancy to it.

Louis lifted the blacklist, did a denial, fucked off out of LATAM after a very otherwise wholesome and music focused promo tour, and his team hoped for organic media to link their names together for some extra clicks to keep his name in the press until he comes back to tour.

I say organic press, because it simply would’ve been far too obvious to plan press around this. Pre written articles from the Sun and Daily Mail wouldn’t have done anything. They wanted this to drive more than just those publications to write about it. They wanted it to seem organic.

But you know what is absolutely fucking hilarious?

There has been a total of 1 article released about this shit. Apart from Pop Buzz tweeting about it, 1 actual news article has been posted online that comes up when you search either of their names. And it’s not from a massive publication, either. So they screwed the pooch on that one.

So, it didn’t work to use his connection to Harry as promo. It just caused a fandom stir, alienated larries yet again, and made us roll our eyes. It was embarrassing. He chose to do this question and release it, it was pre recorded, after all. edit it out if you want this promo to be just about your music. Don’t use Larry, and Harry, for a cheap shot at some promo that you know won’t work.

#anon #answered #louisisalarrie chats #so be it 2k24

[ineffable-monster-romancer]

Glass Onion Things 3rd Rewatch

Blanc on the discord call: "The last thing I need is a vacation" Blanc to Miles when he offers him Jared Leto's Hard Kombucha: "Well I AM on vacation"

I'm sorry I know it's old news, but everyone falling about coughing and spluttering with the shot and Blanc's polite "ahem". I would say Whiskey is the most subdued next to Blanc?

"The question isn't why did he invite her, it's why did she show up?" Noooo, I really think the question is why was she sent an invite.

The joke "piceshite" about the docks I don't know if people picked up on it immediately and that was the joke that it went right over their heads but as a Scottish gal Piece eh shite had me absolutely in stitches

Also why would he assume it was a Banksy? Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Banksy famously very anti-capatalist? Like didn't he have one of his most famous paintings shredded immediately after auction or something?

Someone find that tweet that talks about how rich people are more likely to pursue the arts because they have the liberty of time because they're fuckin rich, and apply that to Miles knowing how to play guitar (or at least a bit of it).

WHY IS THE GUITAR THE ONLY MOMENT WE SEE THE BIRDIE FACADE TRULY DROP? Is it an acting choice? Is it a gag? Also when he drops the guitar that Paul wrote blackbird onto the sand (scratches, bumps, dings omfg) nobody says anything, but when Helen takes that fuck off mace to the piano the first comment is "that belonged to Liberace". Shows they don't care about the origins really, just who does what with it

Watching Claire be soooo uncomfortable with that Miles hug, watching Miles be soooo uncomfortable with that Duke hug, watching Duke be soooo uncomfortable with that Whiskey hug, watching Miles and Lionel both be uncomfortable in their strange 4 millisecond greeting.

Someone said in the tags of one of my other posts that Derol represents Covid and I'm just OBSESSED with that. BUT more obsessed with the thought that Derol is the epitome of lockdown. He's what normal, everyday fuckers like you n me went through. Drinking, smoking, "going through some stuff", being alone. Sometimes we would comment on what the elite were up to, but mostly we were in the background to their extravagant parties. But in the end, when the Glass Onion is exploding, Blanc sits and smokes with him, because they're just two dudes who went through hell in lockdown, watching something funny.

Miles walking away from the bags, shoves between Duke and Whiskey, putting his arm over Dukes shoulders (hilarious because the size difference) and an arm round Whiskey's waist, but Birdie then jumps between Miles and Whiskey and bumps her out of the way

Why when Whiskey is walking along the slats is she purposely walking on the gravel between the wood? Why does she give Duke into trouble for also standing on the wood? Why does Duke then correct his feet to stand on the gravel?

The Chakra that we can see are absolutely wild, like holy shit

Birdie - Sacral - Sexuality and creativity

Whiskey - Heart - Love and healing

Andi - Root - Basic Trust - Survival

Blanc's bumbling Southern gentleman fool act is AMAZING. They all KNOW he's the world's greatest detective. But while he's bumbling up and down "oh my word it's full of stars!" He's being his own Glass Onion! He's hiding directly in plain sight

"Simple Children's Puzzles" MILES FACE babe he's the world's greatest detective

PREDEFINITE DETECTIVE. Prerequisite maybe? But even that doesn't make sense? Prominent?

BIRDIE GIVING IT THE SEXIEST CATWALK OF THE WORLD YES GIRL HOLY SHIT

Lionel and Claire 😏 you know? The fact that he's leaning right over her to see the laptop, and her dressing gown is off her shoulder but as soon as Birdie shows up they're leaving six feet for god

Benoit Blanc's little bathing suit with his little matching ascot and his little moccasins and it HAS POCKETS shut up he's the new Poirot shut up he's the new Sherlock that's fuckin Fred Jones.

PANCAKED. He's the only one to say pancaked, it intentionally sticks in your brain

DONG.

Claire and Lionel are the only "intellects" in the friend group. Like Claire is a politician and Lionel is a scientist, a lot more hangs on their words than Model and Twitch Streamer

Duke leaving his shit in the pool, firing his gun, wearing his speedos and throwing his macho man facade about. It's so gross it's amazing.

You never know when shits gonna go down is such a red herring in dukes relationship to the gun. It immediately made me think DUKE is going to shoot someone, or DUKE is going to be shot. Didn't realise that what Duke really needed was an Epipen

Peg why do you have a switchblade

Whiskey yawning while they talk about Birdie's accomplishments

"SOCCER MOM IN BEIGE" just kill her it's kinder holy shit

It's dangerous to mistake speaking without thought to speaking the truth, don't you think? TATTOO THIS ON MY BODY PLEASE

I'm assuming that Peg has been around for a while, seeing as Claire knows to say hello to her and that this meet up is an annual thing and what not, so the fact that Miles doesn't remember her name is hilarious. Also, THE RED SOLO CUP. Man took one look at Peg and thought "Freshman, beer pong"

SOCCER MOM IN BEIGE DRINKS ROOM TEMP WHITE HOLY SHIT MILES JUST KILL HER ITS KINDER

Benoit has some fucking incredible hand eye coordination, him catching the Klear was some spiderman shit

Blanc is the perfect POV to have the first half of Glass Onion play through. He doesn't have a clue. He's along for the ride, what he sees, we have seen. He asks questions and points out things that we would also want to know, like yeah, what is Klear and do we win a prize and why is the car on the roof?

I fully believe when Blanc left the room with the magazine of Birdie way way back in that scene, THATS when he solved Miles murder mystery.

Also his friends kinda seem to be having a great time watching Benoit fucking decimating Miles good time 😂

"I hired Gillian Flynn to write the whole thing -" "OooOoh she's quite gooood"

THE COIN! HE GOT THE COIN OUT

#glass onion: a knives out mystery #glass onion spoilers #glass onion

[anormalweirdo]

Part two of my YouTuber!Itadori X reader. If you missed part one it's right here. I hope you all enjoy my new series and if you have anything you want me to write about feel free to ask 😄. I know there's most likely errors and mistakes and I'm sorry bout that. I was just rushing to put this out, especially considering it's been almost a week since the first post came out. Once again I hope you all enjoy my series💙.

You honestly still couldn't believe that you even got a response from the gaming YouTuber himself. You guys have finally contacted each other to plan out a couple of days where you're both free to meet up to record your videos for you separate channels. You two decided not to tell your fans about anything, if anything you chose to trick your fans into believing that he never responded to you. Considering that Itadori did get comments about you and the whole collab which eventually caused him to just turn his comments off completely. Many people were left confused to say the least when you posted a tweet saying "it's finally the day, stay tuned bad bitches‼️".

"Alright you ready to start this shit" you ask while adding your finishing touches to your gaming setup. "Of course I'm so ready to beat your ass" Yuji says while smirking. You press start on your live and watch as people start to join. "Sup bad bitches guess who I'm with today" you say as you grab Yuji's arm and put him more into the camera. "It's yujiiii" you yell. "The people in the comments already excited" yuji says while reading some of em." Yea they've been waiting for this for a lil minute". You sit down in your chair all ge way and put your headphones on while you see yuji staring at you through the camera. "What are you looking at" you say in curiosity. "You" "um why?" "I can't look at you?" He asked while laughing. "No don't be weird now that we finna play this game" "yea yea whatever just prepare to take yo L". "You never showed me how to play this game, so if I lose its your fault" you say annoyed. "You never asked me how to play. I would've been showed you." Itadori says while shrugging his shoulders. You roll your eyes and turn your attention to some of the people in your comments. "Itadori someone asked 'is this why you turned off your comments'". "Oh yea you guys where flooding my comments over her and this collab, so I had to turn em off so I don't get thousands of notifications a day". He joins you and do some comment reading of his own when his eyes glance at one particular comment, which seem to have his attention. He ignores the comment for now, thinking it'll be a good time to announce it while y'all are playing. If his cards is played right it could be used as a distraction. "Alrighty let's get this shit started for real" you say while grabbing your controller. "Ready to lose" Itadori ask with a smirk. "Hell no" you say while smirking back.

...

Fast forward a few minutes and a couple of losing rounds you finally had Itadori in a losing situation. Just as you were about to make Itadori get his first L of the night he asked you a question. "One of.the comments said that you had a major crush on me. Is that true?" It was like the whole screen of your gaming PC went blank as your eyes grow wide and you mouth open. Itadori celebrates as "WINNER" is flashed on his screen. You quickly snap back into reality as you look at the "LOSER" on your screen, still a bit in shock. "That's no fair, you cheated to get that win" "we never said that simply asking a question to each other was cheating, but you didn't answer my question babe" he says while turning his attention to you. You're in even more shock, not only did he win the game, but he also asked you a crazy question, and he called you babe. You look back at him and simply shrug your question, trying to seem uninterested. "Yeah but it wasn't nothing major" "uh huh sureeee" Itadori says while laughing as you roll you eyes. "To y'all people watching this don't think nothing of this, it was just something slight" you say as you huff. "I want yall to make all the edits of us after this collab". You look at the comment section which were mostly filled of a both of comments like "I definitely ship" "y'all are literally perfect" and "please get together". You laugh at some of the comments, especially the ones in all caps. "You guys can't expect us to do anything, especially when we literally barely know each other. Maybe in a couple of weeks." You say laughing "so you do like me" Yuji says while looking into the camera. "Omg not no more, now you're just annoying" you say while getting out of you chair to use the bathroom. "Excuse me" "you're excused" "don't start this childish shit, scoot overrr" you say. "Say please and I'll let you move babe" "oh my fucking god please move" you say irritated. Itadori finally moves out the way, as your walking in front of him he watches you walk away. His eyes look at your ass as.your hips sway. He looks back into the camera and smirks to himself. "Y'all if we ever get together she owes me $20".

Once the live was almost over you announce one more game as Itadori left to get y'all something to drink. "What the hell are y'all talking about" you say as you read the comments about the deal Itadori made without your knowledge. "He didn't even tell me about any deals or anything" "maybe we should make a deal, but what's it about?" You ask. The comments were quick to tell which made you laugh. "Bet we'll make that a deal, but ain't no backing out". Itadori soon comes back into the room and gives a look when he sees you sitting in his chair. "Can you get up?" He ask. "Say please and I'll let you move babe" you say mocking him. "Can you please get up L/N" "hmmmmm no" "alright bet". You don't think nothing of it until you see his back facing you. You quickly lose your breath as he sits on your lap. "Get yo ass off of me" you struggle to say. "Hmmmmm no" he mocks. The people are saying our positions should be switched". Itadori says while laying on you, getting relaxed. "Get off" "if I get off you gotta get in my lap" "absolutely not" you say. "Alrighty then" he says while relaxing on you even more. "Ok ok damn nigga I can't breathe" you say annoyed. Itadori smiles as he gets up and looks at you. "Yo ass stink" you say as you get up and stretch. "That's not true y'all, she was just begging to eat my ass before the Livestream started". "The fuck?! No I didn't stop lying". You bent over a little bit to see some of the comments, which were filled with "get in his lap" and "sit on his lap". You tried to act like you couldn't see the comments until you heard Yuji behind you. "C'mon L/N we gotta keep the fans satisfied" he says while sitting down, manspreading in his chair. You roll of eyes and sit down stiffly on his lap. "Let's make this quick" you say while laughing, which made him chuckle. "Oh by the way I have a question before we end the lifestream" you say. "Yes?" "Did you make a bet with me without my knowledge?" You asked while. Turning you head to look at him. "Oh yeah I said that if we end up together you owe me $20" he says truthfully. "Well let's shake hands on it" you say as you put your hand out. "We got ourselves a deal L/N".

Hours after the Livestream was over you did your nightly routine and went to your bedroom. Yuji went to his hotel a couple hours after the stream. You're laying in bed scrolling through your phone when you seen a notification. It was a text message from Itadori, a TikTok video. You click on the notification which took you to the message, then you clicked on the link which took you to TikTok. You look at the video which started off with a dark screen. The screen flashes and you finally see why he sent you the video. It was an edit of you in his lap and you talking to him from the stream. You look wide eyed as you watched the video again. It was already edits being made! Part of you understood why, especially considering the tension that was made between you two. But the other part of you just couldn't believe how fast it was before anything came out. You thought it would've been at least a day before anything happened. You snapped out of your thoughts when you received another notification. You heart beats even faster as you read the notification. 'That's definitely going into my favorites. If stuff like this happened today imagine how it's gonna be tomorrow. Goodnight L/N~'.

I hope y'all enjoyed part two of the Gamer!Yuji Itadori, I literally started it once I seen the answers from the polls. I'll work on part three as soon as I can especially because I want to be consistent with this series. If you missed part one it's right here and stay in tune. Bye~

#jjk fluff #jjk smut #jjk x poc!reader #jjk x reader #jjk #jjk yuuji #jjk yuji #jujutsu kaisen #jujutsu kaisen smut #jujutsu kaisen x you

[utilitycaster]

So. I haven't seen The Episode in Question (how y'all are able to keep up with 4 to 5 hour episodes weekly is serious dedication) and most of the information I have about it has been by reading you discuss it with your followers, but you've mentioned a few times that you think Matt should've 'called a time out' because there was an obvious lack of realization/picking up on hints from the players (Whether that's on the players or the DM in this case I cannot render an opinion).

Talking in a more general sense, as a budding DM (session 4 later tonight), doesn't that, pausing and telling the players what they're missing…I know this is going to sound a bit Adversarial DM vs Players...kinda rob the game of consequences a little bit? I know consequences in DnD, especially the kind of DnD Critical Role plays, can be final and harsh...but, like, I'm just thinking from a player perspective: unless I'm sitting there obviously frustrated and confused, I don't want the DM to hold my hand and tell me the answer, I just want a more obvious hint.

So this is completely fair and I should note: I have never, personally, called for a time out, and I don't think it's necessarily the only way this could have been handled. I bring it up here because the degree of miscommunication truly felt egregious to me.

If you want a summary, feel free to check CritRoleStats' live tweets which I think are pretty matter-of-fact and neutral, but in short:

The combat, which occurs by surprise (it's fair to say the party was aware of Otohan's existence; it's even fair to say that something Laudna did might have tipped Otohan off, but I think it is still not well telegraphed), after a pretty long day, is immediately shown to be extremely brutal. The party fairly quickly agrees to run, with some party members choosing to stay to allow others to run. The resolution ultimately is that Imogen needs to give into the storm within her; attempts to surrender or bargain do not work.

It is a six-round combat. Unless CRStats missed something or I missed something, the first explicit mention of a roiling storm calling within Imogen comes in round 5, after both Orym and Fearne have been killed. This is also definitely the first time she is asked to make a wisdom save. She explicitly states that she will not lose those party members only to give into Otohan and passes the first save, and then, in round six, after Laudna is knocked unconscious and knocked to two death saves, and she has explicitly surrendered herself, and that is still not enough, she fails a wisdom save. We end the episode with everything going red, then white, and Otohan exulting.

At this point we return to my opinion: if the way to end combat was that Imogen had to give into the storm:

It seems apparent to me, and perhaps this is subjective, that Imogen is still very much at this point in the story resisting the storm. She has only just begun to consider exploring it in her dreams, let alone in a real-world scenario. It feels out of character for her to give in voluntarily, and I think the point where Imogen outright says "I won't lose them only to give into you", which happens after two party members are dead, is a sign that this is an end goal that the character is going to resist.

Which brings me to the point of "why, if the goal is for Imogen to give into the storm, and if this only happens after she starts making wisdom saves, and the episode only ends - combat doesn't even necessarily stop, though Otohan seems somewhat appeased - after she fails one, was she not asked to make wisdom saves from round one."

Again: I really can't say if there was no other way out (other than killing Otohan, which would have been very difficult, and the party very early on decided to run). But Laudna's 22 persuasion check failed. Imogen repeatedly offering herself up failed. Midway through combat, Otohan stopped just taking people down but not going for attacks while they were unconscious into outright killing them.

Imogen is also a character with, I believe, a +2 to wisdom saves, and a 16 passed. I don't know the DC; I don't know if the DC was going to increase; but I find myself asking what would happen if she managed to keep passing her saves? What if Laura kept rolling crits? would Matt kill the entire party until Imogen did precisely what Otohan wanted? Is that fair to the party, who did not seem to have any ability to stop the fight, only to try to kill Otohan or run?

There's a line Brian Murphy of D20 and NADDPod says sometimes, of "sometimes you can just sense the DM sweating" with regards to certain strange decisions. I don't know if I'm right here, and I cannot make any final judgments until next episode when we see how it all resolves. But it feels like Matt was deeply caught off guard by the party, and especially Imogen's resposne. And perhaps I should probably give him the benefit of the doubt I've granted the cast, fog of combat and all that, but also, he is a very experienced DM, and the fundamental structure of what the enemy wanted from combat does not feel like something you can reasonably expect D&D players to understand without explicit statements.

It feels to me as though the consequences hit before it was even remotely clear what the DM wanted. The cast repeatedly says out of character that they don't know what Otohan wants; like, I don't know if they were frustrated, but I think it's fair to say they were obviously confused.

So anyway I don't think a time out is the only way to solve it, but I think that perhaps the in-game attempt to course correct actually made things worse and a time out would not have done so.

#answered #punkrockgenasiashton #critical role spoilers #cr discourse #(just in case)

[leggerefiore]

Cursed/funny thought, just an au where the brothers libido are swapped, Ingo being horny 24/7 but trying to act professional (it doesn’t take much to break him down) and Emmets being low but still kinky af (just gotta be at the right time and mood)

defeating horny Emmet, how cruel lol

▲Ingo▼

● He would admit it was a problem, certainly. He would admit that it was something he was working on. He would also admit a lot of the calls to his partner throughout the day would be for not wholesome reasons. From how loud Ingo was, the entire office knew what it meant when you showed up with his lunch. Loud moans were sure to follow until a sudden end, and you leave is a different state than you entered. Everyone pretends to be none the wiser, as Ingo is so much easier to work with after going a round with you. You didn't mind either, quite enjoying the sex.

● Emmet walked into the office once and watched as Ingo slowly wrote across paperwork, much unlike the speed he usually worked at. The younger twin scrunched his face up. “Ingo. Ew. I'm leaving. That's gross,” Emmet knew what was going on under that desk, “Tell them I said hi, though.” He walked out and proceeded to see if there were any challengers on trains not necessarily meant for battle. Ingo about screamed, pulling you away with a red flush. You rolled yours eyes and kept going. If he didn't finish now, then he would be too wound up when he got home.

● Ingo would admit he's fucked his partner on his subway line. Was he proud of it? No. Was he 100% thinking with his dick at the tike and didn't care about repercussions? Yes. It was all over social media afterwards, and Ingo banged his head against his desk while Emmet read tweets aloud to him. He was the professional twin. Why did he have such a high libido? He wanted children! Ingo wanted to scream. Emmet just laughed.

▽Emmet△

○ Emmet just didn't get horny unless everything was just perfect, almost, and when he did, he was a weirdly kinky guy. Hell, he'd even make sexual comments and jokes but feel absolutely no level of arousal. That's not to say his sex life wasn't fulfilling for either partner. You always complemented how thoroughly he got you, sweating and clinging to him afterwards. It's a moment of pride for him. A victory. With it being rarer, too, there's more pride to take in it.

○ It's rare he actually engages in public sex. The timing never feels right. His mind travels to some documents he needs to finish, and suddenly the mood is completely dead. Emmet shoves his partner away and apologises; they'll try later at home. He's got too much work to do. Since you did come to visit, however, he does smother you in soft, chaste affection. Kisses and hugs until you have to go. You two actually do what Ingo and his partner pretend to do.

○ Now, Emmet has actually banged on the subway at least once. It was just a spur of the moment thing rather than something he actually sought out. The increased blood flow and battling against his partner accidentally led to him popping a boner, and you both figured it wouldn't hurt to go a round on the subway. No one caught you. It's a shared secret between you and Emmet. Ingo doesn't even have a clue with Emmet mocks him for getting caught with his pants quite literally down.

#ingo.ima #emmet.ima #nastystuff

[bangtanagan]

mwahrch day 14: a kiss in the car

yoonkook + journalists au stuck in traffic & feelings talks; 1.4k fic tweet previous mwahrch entries

He wasn’t being stingy about it. He could admit Taehyung was right—it was the lead of a decade, and worth the trip. But Taehyung had also ditched them to spend the weekend with his boyfriend as soon as they wrapped things up, which left Yoongi alone with Jungkook for the four hour drive back to the office, and that was— Well, lead or no, Yoongi was thinking some ungrateful thoughts.

“You can sleep, hyung,” said Jungkook, tapping at the wheel. Holiday traffic stretched as far as the eye could see down both sides of the highway, a blaze of taillights and congestion. “I’ll let you know when I’m ready to swap.”

“That’s alright.” Yoongi had his laptop open in the hopes of distraction, but the signal was shit. Too many travelers clogging the bandwidth, or whatever. The GPS was one long block of red, and had stopped updating thirty minutes and ten kilometers ago.

“Okay.”

They inched forward. The camera and the rest of the gear was strapped down in the back, but everything still rattled each time they moved. The radio was playing tired top forty, turned way down, and the silence sat between them like another passenger. Start-stop went the traffic. Start-stop.

“Hyung,” said Jungkook. Yoongi closed his eyes. “Are we gonna talk about it?”

Yoongi didn’t want to talk about it. Yoongi wanted to have caught Taehyung before he left and sent him along with Jungkook on this endless, hellish road trip in his place. Yoongi wanted to turn back time so he could stop himself from ever kissing Jungkook at all—and especially not like that, more drunk than sober at Namjoon’s going away party after hours in the stale confines of their office. It had been a bad idea all around. Yoongi was usually smarter than that.

“Cause I’d like to talk about it. If that’s okay.”

Yoongi stared down at his laptop. A fragment of transcript glared up at him, cursor blinking. Yoongi cleared his throat.

“Yeah. That’s okay.”

They lurched forward and stopped again. Jungkook’s fingers tapped against the steering wheel.

“You kissed me.”

There was no point denying it. They had both been there. Regrettably.

“Yeah.”

Jungkook nodded to himself. Yoongi, coward that he was, watched him only out of the corner of his eye.

“Why?”

“Ah.” Expecting the question didn’t make it any easier. “Hyung was drunk. Sorry, Jungkook-ah.”

Outside the car it was a misty sort of grey, rain not quite pearling over the windows. It was supposed to snow, Yoongi recalled, or maybe sleet; something cold and wet and dreary. Three cars up, someone was trying to get over towards the exit, and a chorus of horns protested the attempt. Jungkook wet his lips.

“Just drunk?” he asked. The radio fuzzed to static. Bad reception. Without the music to keep it at bay, the silence yawned.

When Jungkook had joined the investigative journalism team, he had been a round-eyed, sweet-faced intern, fresh out of school and eager in every step. Yoongi had enjoyed his enthusiasm and his insight, and also his work ethic and his kindness and his dedication, until at some point enjoy had become the wrong word for what he felt when he looked at Jungkook. He was a self-assured young man now, handsome and quick and incisive and lovely and still sweet, and Yoongi was hopelessly in love with him altogether, which was unprofessional and tiresome and startlingly wonderful, even when it made his heart ache. He didn’t regret kissing him, only that he had done it so poorly, and that he now had to face whatever came after.

But he respected Jungkook as much as he loved him, and he couldn’t lie. He closed the laptop.

“No,” he said, barely more than a whisper. The taillights in front of them cast Jungkook in a deep and hazy amber. “Not just drunk.”

Side by side in the van, there was nowhere to hide from it. But Yoongi was tired of hiding.

Jungkook finally took his eyes off the road. They were just as round as they had been that first day, and his face was just as sweet, and Yoongi liked him a hundred times more, a thousand times more, than he could possibly speak.

“Sorry,” Yoongi told him. “Hyung’s doing this all wrong.”

“No,” said Jungkook. His hands had gone tight on the wheel. “No, hyung, you aren’t doing it wrong. I just thought— I thought maybe you regretted it.”

“I did.”

Jungkook’s face shuttered so fast it was a marvel it didn’t shatter, and Yoongi stumbled to correct his mistake.

“Not— I don’t mean— I didn’t regret doing it. I just regretted that I did it then, like that. I wanted— I mean I should have— I should have done it right. I want to do it right. If— I mean. If that’s what you want. Whatever you want. Aish.” He scowled at the car in front of them. Traffic rolled forward, and the radio kicked back in, music popping between spittly static.

“Hyung,” said Jungkook. Yoongi put his hands over his face. “That’s the most I’ve heard you stutter like, ever.”

Yoongi turned, peered at him through the slots of his fingers, and found him smiling. Happiness curled in the corners of his eyes and the scrunch of his nose.

“Aish,” said Yoongi again, quieter.

“I didn’t mind it, hyung. I mean, I don’t think you did it wrong. I was really happy, y’know, but then you kept avoiding me and didn’t talk about it, and I thought— I thought, ‘Ah, maybe he didn’t mean to, maybe he doesn’t like you like that.’ So I was— I just wasn’t sure.”

“I’m sorry, Jungkook-ah. I do like you like that.” It was a gross understatement. He set his hands down in his lap and stared at his picked-over nail beds. “I like you a lot.”

Jungkook turned to him, beaming. “I like you a lot too, hyung.”

“Okay. Well. Good.”

“Good,” echoed Jungkook. Yoongi had the distinct sense he was being laughed at, but he didn’t mind.

The car in front of them made it off at the exit. The rain picked up, rat-a-tatting against the windshield, smearing the taillights to abstraction. Yoongi turned the heat up a notch and thumbed off the radio, listening to the rain patter down.

“Will you make it up to me?” asked Jungkook. Yoongi turned to him.

“What?”

“Since you didn’t like the kiss—”

“Never said I didn’t like it,” Yoongi pointed out, and Jungkook grinned again, distinctly smug.

“Okay. But if you wish you hadn’t done it like that. Will you try again?”

“Now?”

“Yeah.” He looked at Yoongi. “I’d like you to.”

“Oh.”

“Please?”

Yoongi had always known it was a difficult thing to say no to Jungkook, but it was especially difficult now, when he was asking so politely for a kiss.

“Shouldn’t you be watching the road?” he asked, but he shifted in his seat and leaned over the gearshift. Jungkook watched him, wide-eyed and waiting, as Yoongi paused. “Are you sure?”

“Hyung,” he sighed, and he closed the gap himself. His lips were soft, and sweet, and it was a much gentler, surer thing than the kiss Yoongi had stolen half-drunk and aching in the dark of the company building.

A horn sounded behind them and Jungkook startled. Traffic had moved again and was waiting for them to catch up. Jungkook tapped on the gas and they lurched forward while Yoongi laughed, slumped back in his seat. The inside of his chest felt the way champagne tasted, sparkling and bright.

“Hyung,” complained Jungkook, but he was smiling too. His eyes kept turning to Yoongi, brief brushes of wonder, before they flicked back to the road. They wore the same smile, Yoongi thought, and he liked that they matched.

“Sorry,” he returned, not sorry at all. “Was that okay?”

“Yes. I really, really like you, hyung.”

Yoongi reached over and touched Jungkook’s hand where it clutched at the wheel, and Jungkook let go and opened his fingers so Yoongi could slot his own between them. It was an awkward stretch over the gearshift, but Yoongi didn’t mind. He squeezed Jungkook’s hand, and Jungkook squeezed back.

In his pocket, Yoongi’s phone buzzed.

Figure your shit out yet? read Taehyung’s text. Yoongi snorted and tucked his phone under his thigh and squeezed Jungkook’s hand again when he made a low, questioning noise.

Next time, Taehyung was definitely getting van duty. Alone.

#bts fic #bts au #yoonkook fic #yoongi fic #jungkook fic #my fic #mwahrch #au #yoonkook

[hb-reynolds]

This was my last article as a Staff Writer at the University Observer, and was also my first piece of data journalism. Unfortunately, the webpage where I found the lists of previous Student Union sabbatical officers has since been wiped due to a lack of sourcing (as has the University Observer wiki, which contained lists of all previous editors and the standout pieces from their tenure), but it was all accurate at time of reporting (April 2017). Since then, I'm happy to say that the year to year gender breakdown has gotten a bit less male dominated, and with more openly trans officers to boot.

This article, on a more personal note, is also one of my earliest memories of the UO office. Myself and Nathan Young (another Staff Writer at the time, who has gone on to be one of my longest collaborators and dearest friends) sat opposite each other at a tiny desk working on last minute articles for the opinion section, which was due for print in under five hours time. For better or for worse, this became a habit of ours until he left the UO in 2022.

The article can be read at the link above, or in the read below.

With just one female candidate elected to UCDSU this year, Heather Reynolds examines the struggle in getting women into politics. 

Student Union election season has ended, with only one of six female candidates elected to a sabbatical position. This, being no surprise to anyone, was not commented on besides a few unpopular tweets, expressing mild resignation.

UCD students, used to the all-male sabbatical team from the 17/18 session, see the lone elected female candidate as either a step in the right direction or a non-issue, which, on one level, it is. Going from a male dominated sabbatical team to a team which contains a singular woman is, on paper, an improvement. However, when compared to the year previous which had a team consisting of two women and three men, and the year before that, which had three women, it shows that overall, the election of women to sabbatical positions is on a downturn.

This downturn is not for lack of engagement, as there are women running. All but one seat in the sabbatical elections were contested by a female candidate, all of whom has relevant experience, interesting ideas, or both. In fact, almost half of the candidates who ran were women, all of whom were qualified and charismatic in their campaigns. So why did none of them win? The preferable answer is that the other candidates ran on better policies, or had more active campaign teams, however the campaign is only half the battle with elections. Personal experience with candidates, or internal bias, can change how a well fought campaign is perceived, and so misogyny is not something that can be easily discounted when discussing this issue.

It is worth examining why the first three eliminated candidates for the presidential race were all of the women who ran

If public engagement was the decider between candidates, how did Murphy beat McFadden in Richview, where only she and Aljohmani had canvassers for the entire voting period? If it was policy used to decide, how did O’Brien get more first round votes than McFadden or Aljohmani, when both were more confident in their manifesto points at hustings? While it may seem reductive to assume lack of votes for female candidates is down to sexism, it is worth examining why the first three eliminated candidates for the presidential race were all of the women who ran. The same can be said in the race for Education Officer, where the candidates ran on virtually identical campaigns, had uncannily similar experience, and yet Crosby won by almost 10% of the vote.

Since 1975, only forty-three women have held a sabbatical position within the union. That is one woman for every year the union has been in session. Considering that the union has never had less than four sabbatical officers, and that the percentage of female students at third level is typically slightly higher than male students, less than a quarter of those who have held a position being women speaks to a larger issue that has echoed across student unions in Ireland. This year, Trinity students' union had thirteen candidates for election, two of which were women, one of which was running for a position that was not actually part of the union, that of the University Times editor. Both female candidates won, however both were running virtually uncontested for the positions, as O’Mahony, now editor of the University Times, was running against a joke candidate who was also running for president. She won 58.5% of the vote. Aimee Connolly, TCSU’s incoming Education Officer, ran entirely unopposed.

Since 1975, only forty-three women have held a sabbatical position within the union. That is one woman for every year the union has been in session

The view on this may be that student politics is a nonsense aspect of student life that holds no bearing, and who cares who gets in because they never change anything anyway, they only sap funds from clubs and societies. This may or may not be true, however student politics provides a valuable role to those who wish to pursue politics in their later careers. Paschal Donohoe, current Minister for Finance & Public Expenditure and Reform, started out in the Trinity College branch of Young Fine Gael and was actively involved in student politics throughout his time in university. Without this background, he may never have gotten anywhere in national politics as it provided him with experience and contacts uninvolved students would never encounter.

It is notable that the number of women holding seats in the Dáil currently stands at 22%, less than a quarter of the seats available, in line with both Trinity and UCD’s most recent elections, where one out of five officers are women.

Student politics are a lot of people's first foray into politics as a whole. In UCD it provides a lot of students with their first experience voting down the ballot, engaging with election material, and making an informed decision regarding who they want in a democratically-elected position of authority. We are pushing women to get more involved with politics on a national level, yet male prevalence in student unions is going unexamined. Real world politics informs student politics, and student politics provides an introduction to real world politics, and so these pushes should be unified, as one cannot exist to the best of its potential without the other.

#article #ucd #university college dublin #university observer #gender #misogyny #politics #student politics #UCDSU #the writing on this one #not as good #not very proud of it #written on a crunch #hardly an excuse but still

[temporarymoods]

almost october

[seething]

i tried a quiche today, at a cafe clearly customer-ed by rich people. i couldn't quite place why the baristas were like, colder than normal, but after a couple minutes of surveying their patronage i was like oh.. yeah. :( this is not the scene i'm used to!

anyway, it's night now. and you won't believe the set-up in my room. little context first: my congestion has been crazier than normal, sinuses just all out of whack, nostrils closing and opening at will. the left nose hole was like, dry today or something, so the corresponding left back of my throat was sore this evening. idk the actual cause and effect here, but maybe someday soon i'll educate myself on the anatomy of it all. anyway, i have too many important things happening over the next couple of days and i can't get sick or have any pestulancies (made-up word)!! since i had already steam-bathed myself over a cup of tea post-homemade-fish-taco-dinner, and it was kind of nice, i had some empirical evidence supporting the idea that adding moisture to my air & sleeping in that for hours would make a kind of difference, so, time to bust out the humidifier! but then-- the air purifier. hmmm, you see i wake up and sneeze every morning because of fucking dust or something idk. mold?! so i've been living with my new baby as we know...but would it dry out my new air? has it been? all thoughts i've had in the last 20 minutes. anyway, i go to fill up my humidifier with water, bam, she's working right away. i put her next to my bed and turn to the air purifier at the foot of my bed, turn it on. WHY IS IT READING AT 100?! oh mygod she turned on and boom numbers start flying up. what?! its normally at like...1. maybe 002. but we flew past the 70s into the 90s and past 100?! (don't ask me what it's measuring, idk, but number bigger = badder) so i was shocked! i ran her last night, with really no need! steady low numbers, even with/after candle burning. then wasn't in my room all day! maybe left my door open for a moment this evening... so that's an unsolved mystery. but i think ugh maybe the humidifier is too close to my bed, i don't want to get wet dirty air. so the two machines are now both at the foot of my bed, sharing the rug <3 sisters <3 so cute <3 and i am well taken care of. thank you, machines! please keep me healthy! (lol just realized the mug of tea i made a while ago is also still quite warm because of my electronic mug hahaha. that's so chic)

that was a lot of dumbness. but it excites me. what else. i had a proper adventure today. so much was inspiring me and filling my bucket i just had to write it down at the beginning of my afternoon class. let's take a look at the notion, shall we?

here's the translation:

i saw a young child at thinking cup newbury. we vibed. tweeted about it. go check (there's a secret passageway on here)

self-explanatory, also, i was there for a rent check

self-explanatory, 2 toast and a sauce please

first quote me staring convo, second quote dude whose smile made my day saying bye; support UFCW !! they gave me a sticker & a pin :D

just checking in...doing my rounds................garnering intel....

same thing.......let a girl be......

wanted to remember this bc it felt like i was on a streak of kindness from strangers :)

self-explanatory, second point true asf

saw a rifle for the first time in a long time! turns out i can recognize that hint of white taped wood anywhere

so that's what i did. what was i thinking tho? good question. got a list for that too.

been watching a lot of movies recently. finished she's the man tonight, actually. weird as fuck, like straight up. if i did star ratings it would only get 2

coming soon :0

didn't yet (pay my credit card. lmao)

new wes anderson flick

also for my watchlist, thanks sapphic twitter

10 year pure heroine anniversary, was gonna tweet about it

coming soon :0

paper i want to read, taken from paper i read about south dakota native american abortion politics in 2006

god. when does she stop making lists...never.

silly

thinking i would

got too many eggs, want sweet treats, mad scientist therapy, etc.

secret (i want a way to store my homemade salad dressings)

pillies

so i've got a lot going on, internally and externally. big woo. have to get up so early tomorrow-- i shouldnt be up right now-- to go to a catholic training about protecting god's children, mandatory for before i begin tutoring writing once a week at an in-need private school. awkwarrddd for the church! (it's about child sexual assault prevention.) curious to see how they approach the subject. but its early as fuck and a 20 minutes drive away. watching pretty little liars right now though and the two cunty moms are discussing divorce and dating again, lmfao. this show cracks me up. i told the elevator pitch version of my parents' divorces story today, only to realize i hadn't really talked about it in a while. a long while. not something i think about, those couple of months. shit was kind of...idk. don't think i have the right word.

i should get goinggg now. i know!! such a shame. isn't it so fun to read all these details?! it's fun for me to write them. i want to remember somehow.

w/ love & sustained interest in life, talk soon, about teaching, and other things, Kate

p.s. i've been taking some pretty pictures, will share soon xo

#nice #sweet #lime #lists #wip #untilnexttime

[vreugd-madelon]

Scent of Fear Review

Scent of Fear by Tony Park is a 355 page Thriller Stand-Alone novel.

Afghanistan veteran Sean Bourke's world explodes when an IED detonates in South Africa's Sabi Sand Game Reserve. On a routine anti-poaching patrol, Sean and his tracker dog Benny watch in horror as over-eager rookie Tumi Mabasa is almost killed and her dog gravely injured in the explosion. Along with Tumi and best mate Craig Hoddy, Sean is determined to hunt down the elusive bombmaker who has introduced this destructive weapon to the war on poaching. But Sean is his own worst enemy. Haunted by nightmares of the war and racked with guilt from driving away his ex-wife, Christine, he soon discovers she and Craig are in the midst of an intense affair. And there's another enemy at play... As bombs target Sean's team, can he get himself back on track and win the fight for Africa's wildlife - and Christine - before it's too late?

I rate this book 4/5 stars.

I did like this book more than I was expecting in the beginning. I read this book in 1 day on the first day of the Magical Readathon - Spring Equinox 2023.

I really like the straight up style of writing, without too much flowery writing but with enough details to know what the surrounding area’s etc look like. It was however about halfway through the book where the author mentioned that Tumi has dark skin, and the just repainted my whole envisioning of her. But at the same time I was like, “yeah, should’ve known since it’s set in South Africa...” I love 3 moments in the book specifically; the prologue, the epilogue and the beginning of 1 other chapter. Why? Simple, because it’s written from Benny’s POV!!! Speaking of POV’s, I do like the amount of POV’s were getting. Both from the good guys like Sean, but also from the bomb maker and the poachers. It gives the entire story a more rounded feeling.

The only dislike that I have it that the author paints Tumi as incapable in the beginning. And one character in particular hints to the fact that it’s because she’s new, inexperienced and a woman and they shouldn’t be in their field. 

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[ledenews]

Barnesville Looking to Add Turf to Shamrock Stadium

Barnesville put together quite a memorable season in football in 2022, so, when the disappointment from a second-round loss to Wheelersburg subsides, that hurt will turn to pride and a sense of accomplishment. Naturally, it will take the players and coaching staff longer, but even they too will like back on this season and smile for there was a lot for the 11-1 and OVAC champion Shamrocks to be thankful. Now the administration, athletics department, and the school district are hoping to capitalize on that success and provide not only the football program, but the school, its students, and the community at large another reason to beam with pride. Last week the Barnesville Exempted Village School District sent out a Tweet with a flyer detailing the district's push to bring an artificial playing surface to Shamrock Stadium. The projected cost of the project, which will include needed updates to the lighting system, is approximated at $1.5 million. “We've been talking about this for a while but felt that it's time,” said Brad Hannahs, the Athletics Director at Barnesville High School. “A number of other schools have added turf fields and this would greatly benefit, not only the football program but the school and community.” A fundraising flyer for the field turf project in Barnesville. Raising the Funds In just a few short days since the announcement was made on social media, the project has received a large throng of interest both from the residential and business communities of Barnesville and beyond. Not all will come from donations as the school district has money set aside in its permanent improvement fund, which will help. But more will be needed. “We've gotten a good bit from the district as it set aside a permanent improvement fund, but it's not enough to cover everything,” Hannahs said. “Our goal, obviously, is to be ready for the 2023 football season. “We've gotten some pledges from businesses since we put it out on social media.” And it's not just in-town businesses. One of the team's coaches lives in St. Clairsville and talked with Muxie Distributing and it too made a pledge. Hannahs noted there is a school board meeting set for the following week on Thursday and he believes, with what's already raised and/or pledged to be donated, the project can be given the preliminary green light. Interest certainly is strong. “People saw the ad and they reached out, businesses too,” Hannahs said. Hannahs also noted the Goalliners, the program's booster club, is doing a lot for the turf project. The group was already instrumental in the new fieldhouse project. Why the Need and How Will It Help? The present playing surface itself is a major reason for the push for turf at Shamrock Stadium. The grass and, in particular, the humped middle portion of the field can cause drainage issues and it doesn't take much moisture for the grass surface to morph into a muddy mess. “If you look at the middle of the field there's a crown and that playing surface can get muddy and cause delays,” Hannahs said. “This year wasn't too bad, but if we get a hard rain, it can cause problems. “Plus you have the cost of maintaining a grass field, the mowing, the painting, and the costs keep going up and up.” Each year the pee wee team in Barnesville gets to play one of its home games on the big field at Shamrock Stadium. But the steady rains that came as a result of the remnants of Hurricane forced the team elsewhere this year, down the road on Route 800 to the Moose Field. “We had to move it down to a glorified baseball field at the Moose Field,” Hannahs said. “This field is supported by the Little Rocks too. “Each season, we have our five varsity home games, plus a scrimmage, four jayvee games, four each for the seventh and eighth-grade teams, plus the Little Rocks. That's a lot of use.” That's just football too. That doesn't account for the added benefits for the marching band, as well as the baseball and softball football teams, which no longer would be relegated to indoor practice should the skies open up—which they are want to do in the Ohio Valley during the spring. Design Aspects Given Barnesville's primary color is green, don't look for any off-the-wall coloring of the turf itself. But the district is eyeing a couple of options, one is the alternating shades of green you'll find at an increasing number of stadiums in the area. “There are a couple we are looking at,” Hannahs said. “Personally, we like the alternating panels a lot. River has it, Shadyside, I know we like the look of it. There are two renditions, but we haven't decided anything yet. It's still in process.” The turf, coupled with the lighting improvements, will only add to one of the most picturesque and interesting places to play in the Ohio Valley. From the walk to the stadium, to the overall vibe of the facility, the fact Shamrock Stadium is nestled up against a hillside, tucked into a residential neighborhood gives it an interesting feel. And that's before the leaves start turning and lighting up the backdrop. “The way our field is situated, it's so unique,” Hannahs said. “From the walk-in, the surrounding wooded area, in the fall with the leaves, we've had a number of (opposing) coaches tell us there is one of their favorite places to play.” Added Benefits The obvious boosts for the Shamrocks' football program, along with baseball, softball, and marching band are obvious. The same can be said for the middle school, plus Little Rocks football teams. But the addition of turf could make Shamrock Stadium a potential regional playoff destination. Take Friday's meeting between Caldwell and River, taking place at Red Devil Stadium in St. Clairsville. It would give the OHSAA another viable option in this case, as well as any other smaller division teams in the district needing a neutral site for a playoff game.“We don't have the seating capacity for say Big Red or teams of that size, but River and Caldwell, Division VII, VI, and V-size schools, we could certainly host those games.” Hannahs also noted that the addition of a flag football league could host its games at Shamrock Stadium, a recreational option that the town, at present, doesn't offer. With a readily available facility to play at, no matter the conditions, that could change. When field conditions don't have to be factored into the equation for every allowed use outside of varsity football, the possibilities expand greatly. That too, is a leading factor in the push for turf at Shamrock Stadium. For more information, or to help, visit the school district's web page found here. Read the full article

[legendsmagazine]

Local rock band UNDEAD has been a topic of conversation since their arrival back in 2021. While some have since become fans, most have continuously joked and/or criticized the group for their incredibly misogynistic and problematic lyrics and behavior. But… just how problematic are the UNDEAD boys? We’re here to break it down for you.

First, let’s start off with a quick introduction and some basic information. UNDEAD is an all-male rock band comprised of six members (listed from the youngest to the oldest): Axel “Parrish” Parrish (19), Dominic “Daddy Dom” Torres (20), Declan “D-West Coast” West (22), Sebastian “Sebby” Jones (22), Hendrix “Hen” Reynolds (24), and Preston “Vladimir” Barlowe (24). They signed on to RCA Records in early 2021 and proceeded to release their first full album, Swan Songs, only a few months later. Their sophomore album, Day of the Dead, was released earlier this year. 

Some quick notes: While we may be bringing up interesting correlations between our findings, this article will be mathematically based and will focus on their released music only. Outside behavior will not be taken into account. Our final rundown will be based purely on statistics alone but we encourage our readers to take the information from this article and factor it alongside any other information they may find or have in order to make their own decisions. There’s also a quick summary at the bottom of this if you’re short on time or want to get straight to the point.

Now, with those formalities out of the way, let’s get into it.

Line Distribution

 Line distribution usually means absolutely nothing to our non k-pop fans, but we figured it might be a worthy mention in this case. Why? Parrish himself confirmed in a previous tweet that members are responsible for writing their own lyrics for their solo portions of tracks. Our ability to see just how lines are distributed can possibly help us understand which voices and lines are being prioritized and approved within the group and who may be the most problematic of the bunch by comparing the amount of sketchy lyrics they’ve written versus their overall count (we’ll be doing all of these calculations this at the end).

As we can see above, Sebby holds the crown for most lines across both albums while D-West Coast has the least. This makes sense considering Sebby has been named the group’s lead vocalist while D-West Coast is technically only responsible for background and support. Vladimir and Parrish consistently battle between the two albums for second and third place while Hen and Daddy Dom fall into line at fourth and fifth place respectfully.

The Use of Slurs and Derogatory Terms

We’re not here to prove that UNDEAD has used slurs and other derogatory terms within their music. This is already a known fact. Rather, we’re here to determine just how often they’ve been used and by who. Since we could, surprisingly, only find slurs of the homophobic variety, we also took the initiative to track down the members’ favorite misogynistic terms to see just how many times they’ve used them.

As we can see above, homophobic slurs have been used seven times (editor’s note: seven times too many) while various forms of misogynistic terms have been used 42 times. That’s a grand total of 49 instances in which women and the LGBTQ+ community were insulted and demeaned across the band’s two albums. It’s interesting to note that only Daddy Dom, Parrish, and Vladimir participated in the use of the homophobic slurs: Daddy Dom and Vladimir tied with three usages each while Parrish rounded out the count with one. All members participated in the use of derogatory terms in general. This was expected, but what was less expected was Hen coming out on top with a grand total of 14 uses. Parrish trailed behind with 12 while Sebby only used one particular term twice. 

 The Promotion and Glorification of Violence and Other Acts

So, we know the UNDEAD members like to demean and insult others. Again, this was already a known fact… but what exactly do they like to promote with their lyrics? We listened to every track they’ve ever released and found the most common repeated elements. Not every theme will be represented below, but we did manage to pick out the more problematic ones. Just as before, we calculated how many times these themes were mentioned across their two albums and by who.

As we can see above, Parrish blows the rest of the members out of the water by promoting violence and other problematic acts around 45% of the time: that’s almost double of everyone else combined. Vladimir comes in second with his seven instances total, Hen comes in third with five, and the other three members trail behind with a combined total of four instances. 

Keep in mind that, while all these acts may be considered problematic in one way or another, not all of hold the same weight of severity. Many will agree that the glorification or promotion of violence against members of the LGBTQ+ community is a lot more concerning than the expected threats of violence against any “haters” they may have. Drunk driving and hard drug use aren’t great things to brag about, but they’re still less concerning than the promotion of dubious consent and sexual assault.

For example, Daddy Dom and Vladimir are the only members to promote violence against the LGBTQ+ community. Keeping in mind that only they (alongside Parrish) use homophobic slurs in their lyrics, this doesn’t bode too well for them. Meanwhile, Parrish, Hen, and Vladimir are the only members to glorify sexual assault and dubious consent in their lyrics. They are also the three members with the highest count of derogatory language used against women throughout their two albums. This can’t really be coincidental.

So… who is the most problematic UNDEAD member?

Here’s how we’re answering this question. We’re taking every instance of any problematic behavior (use of slurs, promotion of violence, etc) presented by that member and dividing it by the amount of lines they’ve had across their two released items. This gives us an approximate look of just “how problematic” that member is. Below you’ll find these breakdowns alongside some notable lines that stood out to us. 

  Notable Lyrics: 

- “so my dick is in my hand when I respond to f****** talking shit” ( Undead )

- “speaking of f**, already rapped with the drag; we killed him then stuffed his body in the Cadillac”  ( Undead )

- “I’ll keep breaking my back, and I ain’t’ gonna choke; show these f****** on top that I keep climbing the rope” ( Dark Places )

Notable Lyrics: 

- “you can tint them windows, pack another pistol ; this bitch was talking shit 'bout my Hollywood hits, so...”  ( Usual Suspects )

Notable Lyrics: 

- “bust caps at the crowd like I don’t give a fuck” ( Bottle and a Gun )

- “huffing on some paint, and I think that I’m half-black” ( Day of the Dead)

- “two drunk chicks on my dick, so let’s face it” ( Guzzle, Guzzle )

- “smoke signals coming from the indo” ( Guzzle, Guzzle )

  Notable Lyrics: 

- “you need to slit your wrists, get pissed, and go jump off a bridge” ( Undead )

- “I don’t give a fuck if you’re drunk or not”  ( Everywhere I Go )

- “you got a fake ID and you’re seventeen”  ( No.5 )

- “this fully loaded magnum, if you got questions, ask 'em; I turned into a madman like Dahmer mixed with Manson”  ( Usual Suspects )

- “let this dagger cut jaggedly while you’re gasping so rapidly; while you gag on this rag, I feed you while laughing so happily” ( Day of the Dead )

- literally every word of Everywhere I Go

  Notable Lyrics: 

- “and all that yapping, you know it gon’ get you smacked down”  ( Pimpin’ )

Notable Lyrics: 

- “Vladdy’s taking heads off all f****** who hate”  ( Undead )

- “dancing around like a bunch of f******” ( No.5 )

- “rolling on tens, getting buzzed, it’s ridiculous”  ( California )

- “you’re our victim forced into a sixsome and ain’t nobody leaving till all of our dicks cum”  ( How We Roll )

- “a little trigger happy so, come on, let’s dance”  ( Dark Places )

As we can see above, calculations show us that 8.8% of Hen’s lyrics are problematic. This puts him in the lead in front of all the other boys. D-West Coast falls second in line with 7.7% of his lyrics containing problematic material while Parrish takes third with 7.2%. Vladimir takes fourth place with 5.7%, Daddy Dom takes fifth with 4.2%, and (expectedly) Sebby falls into last place with only a 0.4%.

TLDR;

Based solely on our calculations, Hen is the most problematic member with D-West Coast and Parrish taking second and third place respectfully.

In our humble opinion, though? Vladimir and Parrish take the cake with Daddy Dom and Hen following not too far behind. It’s simply too difficult to overlook the slurs they’ve thrown around and the pure violence and hatred they’ve showcased in their lyrics so far. Sprinkle in their glorification of drunk driving, drug usage, and partying, it simply doesn’t compare to their fellow members’ more frequent use of random derogatory terms used for pure shock value.

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