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bopinion · 10 months

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2023 / 27

Aperçu of the Week:

"We are leaving a trail of devastation through the earth with our daily lives."

(Robert Habeck, German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection and Vice Chancellor of the Green Party)

Bad News of the Week:

Last week, the planet endured its hottest week since weather records began. Which stupidly means not only ice cream in the outdoor pool, but stress for the planet with all its creatures living on it. Which includes humans. Already last year there were more than 60,000 heat-related deaths in Europe. Only in humans, fauna and flora not included. All creatures suffer the same, they just don't have a lobby that presses sad numbers into the news.

And what do we learn from this? Apparently nothing. Because also last week there were various other news that show the unwillingness of mankind or their (mostly) elected representatives to respect creation. First, there is the continuing loss of rainforest. According to the World Resources Institute, 4.1 million hectares of tropical rainforest were destroyed in 2022. That's the size of Switzerland. Or more graphically: every single minute, tree cover equivalent to eleven soccer fields was lost, mainly in the Congo and Brazil.

Then a decision was made in Brussels that could call into question the entire "Green Deal" of the European Union. Because the Environment Committee surprisingly rejected the renaturation law (EU law for the restoration of nature). The background: the conservative EPP group sees the interests of commercial agriculture threatened, as it was when the pesticide ban was prevented. Now the group leader Manfred Weber (from Bavaria, I am a little ashamed) has pushed through a total blockade. Whether the EU Parliament will still pull the emergency brake here in its session tomorrow, the last before the summer break, is unfortunately unlikely.

Finally, a deadline for regulating deep-sea mining passed on Sunday. Norway has already announced its intention to release large areas off its own coast. Now this is open to international waters as well, theoretically as of now. One example: in the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii, many so-called manganese nodules lie at depths of thousands of meters. These are mineral aggregates that are particularly rich in valuable metals such as copper, nickel and cobalt. The responsible authority - International Seabed Authority / ISA - will hardly immediately throw permits around and is supposed to regulate the mining also under environmental aspects. But that man will now also intervene in the last, previously untouched ecosystems, fills me with chills.

Good News of the Week:

A coalition of several parties is always an alliance of convenience. They come together because that's what the election results want. A basic minimum consensus is then laid down in a coalition agreement. This agreement should then be adhered to. This also applies to the current German governing coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals. But that doesn't mean that this agreement is complete. After all, it's hard to foresee the day-to-day political issues for a legislative period of four years. Or a Russian war of aggression, which has led to fundamental upheavals in almost every policy area. Chancellor Olaf Scholz calls this a "turn of the times."

This turning point includes various financial burdens that could not have been foreseen. From special funds for the modernization of the military to cushioning increased energy costs to support for Ukraine. And all this at a time when people, economy and state were still trying to recover from the Corona pandemic and its distortions. So the so-called "debt brake" was suspended in order to regain sufficient liquidity. Now, Finance Minister Christian Lindner is insisting on achieving a balanced budget again as quickly as possible, without incurring new debt (yes, dear USA: that's possible). And he is calling for savings across all departments.

Of course, there is now a lot of whining. Because - hardly surprisingly - no minister sees corresponding savings potential in his area of responsibility. But it doesn't help. And of course the "negotiations" are not taking place in a confidential meeting behind closed doors, but in and via the media. Take the example of the Ministry of Family Affairs. One proposal from Lisa Paus, the Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, was to eliminate parental allowance for high-income families with annual incomes of 150,000 euros or more. New parents who stop working after the birth in favor of the child are reimbursed for their lost earnings for 12 to 14 months, up to a maximum of 1,800 euros per month, as a transfer benefit. It is doubtful whether this family would be impoverished by losing a maximum of 25,200 euros. After all, there is still child benefit, etc.

As an alternative (after all, this proposal went unpopular "against families") then, among other things, the deletion of the spousal splitting was discussed. This joint tax assessment of married couples (even without children) deprives the state of 20 billion euros a year. And it is primarily top earners whose partner now works little or not at all who benefit. This is an outdated role model from the time when the man went to work, the woman stayed at home and single parents did not exist. Exactly: it was introduced in 1958. I find that refreshing. A public discussion about the distribution of wealth. In which even seemingly self-evident things are put to the test to see whether they are still in keeping with the times. And fair. Supporting families and children? Yes, no question. Rewarding marriage without a family? Why, actually. Our society has changed fundamentally in the last 65 years. It's time to rethink.

Personal happy moment of the week:

I actually have a certain selection in the last week. On Monday, I had a pleasant reunion with colleagues from another location in the beer garden. On Tuesday, I went to the cinema with my son - overdue since Christmas - and we even managed to agree on a movie, "Spider-Man across the Spider-verse". On Thursday I was with my daughter at a double event of her university student body. And yesterday with my wife and friends at a concert: Italy's superstar Zucchero open air directly at Lake Constance. As part of a weekend trip (which is why this blog is late) on the hottest weekend of the summer so far. Hard to decide...

I couldn't care less...

...about so much nonsense I had to perceive in the last days. Example "hot dog eating contest": the perennial winner of the last years Joey Chestnut ate 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes in New York City. Reading this news and commenting briefly here cost me ten minutes of valuable life time. Too bad.

As I write this...

...we have been chasing a fly for hours. The annoying critter buzzes around everywhere and hides as quiet as a mouse as soon as you approach with the fly swatter. It's probably a gang of flies following a precise plan. This could become an exciting night.

Post Scriptum

I don't like some songs that are always in the rotation of radio stations. Probably that's why I listen to the radio at most randomly and only while driving. It's especially bad in the run-up to Christmas, when the same seasonal all time favorites are played every year. Which are not favorites with me at any time. Especially "Last Christmas" by Wham! is a reason for me to change the frequency. Until now. Because in the Netflix documentary about the British pop duo of the 80s, which my wife insisted on watching, I learned an interesting detail.

George Michael was sure he would have scored a #1 hit with it by the end of 1984. And then suspected, when he took part in Bob Geldof's "Band Aid" project and their single "Do they know it's Christmas time?" in the same pre-Christmas period, that it probably wouldn't. And what did he do? No, he didn't sulk, but donated all his earnings from the first year to the project, which was dedicated to fighting hunger in Eritrea. Fine, I think that's good. But now that this "earworm for the ages" is already annoying me in its 39th year, I will continue to switch off. Because I care much less about Michael's heirs than about the starving children of Eritrea.

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kinsurou · 4 years

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After Class

Pairings: Takami Keigo x Reader

Warnings: Smut (18+), No Quirks! AU, Sex in a classroom, Reader is a virgin.

Here's my very first piece of smut, please fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the show!

It takes all of your willpower to hold back the pent-up rage growing inside you like a fire doused in gasoline, everyone in the classroom can see the poker face you're trying to maintain is dangerously close to break and let out a horrifying monster called your temper.

Everyone except for the teacher can see you're nearly at your limit, there's an enormous urge to punch someone in the face that keeps growing, and that someone just happens to be the same woman giving you an earful in front of the whole class.

"You should be paying more attention during class instead of being on your phone!" She turns back towards the rest of her students. "Let this be an example to all of you! Don't be like your classmate here!"

She slams her bottle of water in your desk, for dramatic purpose, and finally, she walks back to her own desk, feeling satisfied with her actions. How in the world did someone like her become a college teacher in the first place is a question you'll never get a proper answer to.

There's actually a reason why she's been treating you like this for the past two weeks. A reason that just happens to walk inside the classroom a few minutes after the bell rings, he's carrying a stack of papers in hand, accompanied by a lazy grin stretched all over his face, but that expression quickly shifts to confusion and concern once he feels the tension inside the classroom.

"Sheesh, what's with the long faces guys?"

The teacher's mood flips in an instant. She starts greeting him with a big smile, and there's a not so subtle glint in her eyes that makes many, if not all of her students, cringe in repulse.

"Hi there Takami! Now this is a surprise, is Tanaka not coming today?"

"Good morning to you too Ms. Ito." He replies. "No, professor Tanaka called in sick, but he asked me to watch over the kids for today and hand out their exams. Though judging by everyone's mood, I'm guessing something happened?"

Ito just waves off his question nonchalantly. "I was just talking to everyone not to follow their classmate's example," She throws a dirty look at you from the corner of her eye. "Can you believe the nerve of this girl? Being on her phone in the middle of my lecture? Some people are just completely ungrateful when it comes to their education!"

In the meantime, you're biting down on your lower lip with such force, it's almost a surprise there's not a sight of blood, you're trying so very hard to ignore her snide remarks, all in favor of taking notes from the whiteboard in front of the classroom.

The only thing you were to blame for was forgetting to put your phone on Silent, otherwise she wouldn't have batted an eye when the device rang with a text from your mother. And yet all this woman wanted was an excuse to make you look bad in front of everyone, she just happened to find one at the right moment.

"He's so looking your way right now˜. "Your best friend whispers from your right, with that teasing tone you know all too well.

"Shut.up." You hiss, not really in the mood for another earful after the little stunt with the teacher.

You don't bother paying attention while the blond's gaze lingers on you, disregarding the woman's attempt to get the spotlight with ease, leaving her desperate to make another futile attempt until she finally realizes her class is over. All she can do to keep the remains of her dignity is walk out of the classroom with a huff and a sour attitude.

You feel pity for the students in her next class, they haven't even started the lesson yet and are going to have to deal with the human equivalent of a Tasmanian devil. You could almost listen to her yelling from across the campus already.

Takami Keigo, also nicknamed "Hawks" by his friends, is a teacher's assistant at your college. Older than the majority of your class only by two years, and yet he behaves in such a professional manner with everyone that is hard to believe he's actually a student as well.

It's hard not to like him when he's so chill with everyone, for even in cases like this, when he's asked to take over after a teacher's unavailable, Hawk's only assignment is to stay with the class during the whole period. This time however, he comes carrying a stack of papers.

"Alright kids," He starts, just to be interrupted by one of your classmates.

"Seriously Hawks? You're not that older than us!" They're obviously joking around with him, it's hard to be serious when this guy is around.

"Respect your elders kid!" Laughter fills the whole classroom, dissipating the tension in the air like it's nothing but mist.

Everyone but you is laughing their hearts out, until Hawks points out the contents of the papers.

"As I was saying, Your teacher had to attend some personal business, but he asked me to hand out your test results, and let me tell you guys one thing..." The following silence leaves everyone on edge. "All of you did an amazing job! I don't think I've ever seen so many good notes in a single classroom!"

Everyone starts yelling at him comically. All of you know just how much he enjoys teasing people, but somehow you can't ever get used to his teasing, and he knows it, it's why he's always abusing of his little tendency.

Anybody could agree he's the total opposite of Miss Ito. A 27-years old teacher who's always arguing with her own students for something as insignificant as yawning. Someone who apparently forgot the rule where it says it's strictly forbidden for a teacher to date a student.

That doesn't seem to stop her from throwing hints at a small group of guys, each from a different classroom, and it most certainly doesn't stop her from trying to flirt with the new teacher's assistant.

Hawks starts walking through each row of desks, handing out the papers one by one, each time he gives somebody their sheet of paper you can hear him telling everyone they did a good job.

Once he hands out your own test, his fingers brush against your own with subtleness, sending a small shiver all the way down your arms.

"Good job kid, You had one of the best grades out of the whole class. Your teacher said the same thing too, y'know." The way he says those words with such a reassuring energy makes all the anger inside you leave, no longer the urges to smack somebody tempts you to go looking for Miss Ito and shove your papers up her nose.

All you can muster is a small smile at the guy standing in front of you.

He smiles in return and walks to the next row of seats, ready to hand out the rest of the results.

It's only after he leaves your sight that you see it. A small post it note at the corner of your exam, and judging by the neat handwriting, it's a note from Hawks.

"Meet me after class, there's something I'd like to discuss with you."

Just when in the world did he write this? You didn't even notice when he put the tiny piece of paper in your test.

...Were you in trouble for something?

"Look Y/N! I've never had such a high grade before!" Your friend's voice snaps you out of the small paranoic fit. Turning towards him, your eyes widen in shock after seeing the results, and even you are surprised by how well he did on his exam.

"What the hell F/N? You got a perfect score!" You can't help the smile of pride that comes out, proud at F/N for getting such a good grade. He wasn't the worst student, but he wasn't the best either, so seeing the perfect score in his paper was something worth celebrating for.

The rest of the class goes by pretty quickly. Most of the time is spent reviewing the results of your exams with each other, and organizing future study sessions for the subjects you happened to have the most trouble with.

The loud ringing of the bell indicates the end of the last period. And with that everyone can finally leave for the day.

Except for you...

"We have to celebrate this! What do you say we go to that pizza place we love?" F/N stands from his chair to stretch his whole body, you wince at the loud "POP!" coming from his back.

"Maybe tomorrow? There's something I need to do first..." Your eyes wander back to the little pocket in your bag, where the little neon yellow note is carefully tucked away.

"Alright, I'll call you tonight then! See you on Saturday!" With that he walks out of the room along with the rest of your classmates. You're slowly putting all your stuff inside your bag, and it's until the last book is neatly stored alongside the rest of the notebooks and pens that you look up from your seat.

And he's sitting on top of the teacher's desk, Hawks keeps staring at you with something unknown deep inside those amber eyes of his, something lingers in that look and it makes you feel weird on the inside.

But you managed to keep calm before he starts talking.

"That was quite the ruckus back there, uh?" He chuckles, eyes closed as he leans back on the wooden surface.

All you can do is sigh in annoyance at the reminder of your teacher's words.

"Do you want me to remind you why she's being a bitch to me in the first place?" Your mind is faster than your brain, a hand shots up to cover it in shame once you realize what you just called her in front of an unofficial staff member.

But his laughter only becomes louder at your words. Hawks is literally shaking in place, small tears prickling his eyes and head tilted back.

"Easy there, I'm fully aware of it and I take the full blame for it."

He knows it's his fault Miss Ito hates you right now, all because the blond haired male was being friendly with you the other day. The same guy she had laid her eyes on. If there's something you all know is that when Miss Ito gets her eyes on someone single, approaching them is like a death sentence.

Sadly you became one of her targets by pure accident. And now you have to suffer the consequences of something unnecessary.

"But look at the bright side," He goes on. "She can't really lower your grades for no reason, count the fact you have one of the highest grades in her class and it'll look suspicious if you ask me. So for now, just keep up the good work."

You take another look at his features while getting up from your chair. His eyes hold nothing but sincerity, the easy going mood as he stands up from his seat is still evident.

But once he starts getting closer everything changes in the blink of an eye.

He's standing right in front of you, his arms caging your body between his own and your desk. The smell of his cologne quickly invading your nostrils. A subtle combination between citrus and musk that seems to fit Hawks perfectly, it's an alluring and addictive smell that makes you want to lean forward and breath said scent deeply.

That snaps you back to reality, and causes you to look up at him in the eye. A hue of crimson crawling its way up from your neck to your whole face. The whole room's beginning to spin all around you from the nerves struggling to take control.

"W-What are you doing?" The feigned confidence makes him rise an eyebrow in amusement, the glint in his eyes still present as he takes another look at you. His gaze pierces its way into your soul with such ease that it makes it hard to keep eye contact with the man trapping you between his arms.

"I think I should have been more direct from the very beginning..." He leans closer, warm breath hitting your face, making another course of goosebumps run down through your body in big waves.

There's a small and not so foreign feeling between your thighs, making the situation ten times worse.

You know what that feeling is, you just haven't felt anything like it before...

"I don't think I've ever met someone like you. Someone as hard working," His cheek nudges your own as he leans further and inhales your own scent, your bodies are pressed against each other with such an overwhelming amount of strength for someone as lean as Hawks.

"Someone as strong..."One of his hands caress your hip, making you gasp at the sensation of his hands brushing against your skin despite the layer of clothing covering your body.

"Someone as attractive." He's enamoured by the way your face turns away from him, eyes closed tightly from something as simple as his touch.

"If I'm being honest with you..." That same hand caressing your hip goes up, trapping your chin in between his fingers before turning it back to face him, his thumb skims over the outline of your lower lip with such a tender touch, it's enough to make you open your eyes to look at him.

That glint on his eyes is still in there, but this time, with everything happening right now, it all makes sense. This time you can tell just what that glint really means.

"I want you."

It meant lust.

His lips come crashing down on yours filled with never ending passion and lust. Hawks leans in closer, wrapping his arms around your hips as he ravishes your mouth. The warmth of his body makes you feel dizzy, like an intense fever that could make you hallucinate at any moment.

Never in your life has somebody kissed you like this before, with an intensity that makes all of your senses malfunction.

The kiss becomes more desperate as he pulls your body even closer. His touches makes your body give up as your legs begin trembling from dizziness, making him groan in satisfaction at the way you react to his strokes, and before your legs can actually give up on you and make you fall on the floor like an idiot, your own hands grip tightly on his arms for support.

When your limbs makes contact with his biceps, you realize just how fit Hawks actually is. The muscles under your palms feel hard and strong, you can almost feel every single movement as he flexes.

He pulls away soon after, smirking in satisfaction at the dizzy look on your face. You're panting heavily, eyes closing again and face flushing into a deeper shade of crimson than before, and that was only from his kisses.

The mere sight is enough for the growing tent in his pants to become harder, making your own eyes go wide at the realization of what the hard feeling against your leg actually is.

"H-Hawks...Wait...!" You can barely make a proper sentence, still high from everything going on. "I, We can't, you're..."

"I am...?" His teasing doesn't seem to stop. he too, is panting hard before kissing your cheek tenderly and slowly, slowly starts to kiss all the way down from the skin on your face all the way down to the jaw, eventually he reaches the junction between your neck and shoulder, where he starts nibbling softly.

Oh god, please don't leave a mark.

It takes all of your strength to push him away just a few inches. He's not even upset by the gesture, half lidded eyes staring at you intensely.

You finally catch your breath after a few minutes. Glaring at him with more embarrassment than anything else.

"You, are the teacher's assistant. Is it really okay for you to be doing this with a student?!"

All he does is give you a nonchalant look, followed by a smirk that leaves you frozen in place.

Is this guy really the same one that helped you out the other day? The same one that's always helping out everyone around campus with a smile on his face?

He touches your face affectionately once again, before answering your question.

"Yes, you're right, I am a teacher's assistant. But there's something you should know about it..." His eyes don't move from your swollen and bruised lips, with traces of sweet lip gloss slightly smeared on the side.

"Considering I don't have any power over the student's grades, there's really no problem for me to date one y'know?" Hawk's once again making direct eye contact with you, this time the lust in his eyes is more intense than before.

"Besides, be honest with me. You hate Miss Ito, and to be honest so do I."

You can't help blinking twice at his remark, nothing but silence fills the room.

"She may be a bright teacher, but the way she treats her students is unacceptable. That, and there's the fact she won't stop bothering me during free periods." He steps back slightly, pulling you by the wrists in the direction of the teacher's desk, right on the spot where he was sitting before.

"Wouldn't you like to get a bit of revenge on her? Just imagine, being fucked in the very same spot where she grades your exams..."

His words leave you thinking deeply, and you're so deep in thought about it you don't even realize what's going on for a second until you feel his strong arms lifting your body with ease.

You never thought you'd be doing something like this, but here you are, sitting over the desk where your teachers give their lessons, all while one of the hottest men in campus is about to do such depraved things to your body.

"So...What's it gonna be?" His hands are caressing your knees, rubbing circles on the tender skin as he anticipates an answer. If looks could kill his would have burned you a long time ago from the fiery passion behind it.

Your own hands grab on the sides of his face, pulling him closer into a sloppy but swift kiss before you look him in the eye once again.

"Just be gentle, alright...?" The look in your eyes tells him everything he needs to know. Hawk's eyes once again have a mischievous glint deep inside.

"I promise you, by the time we're done here," He kisses your jaw softly. "You'll never want someone to be 'gentle' with you again."

He leans forward for another kiss, and this time, you eagerly kiss him back, the hands resting on your knees pry them apart slowly, giving him enough space to stand in between them.

The heat of his body, along with that intoxicating cologne of his makes the experience even more satisfying, small moans escape your mouth as his hands go under your shirt to caress the skin underneath, his touch feels so...delightful on your skin, almost good enough to make you forget about all of your troubles and dive into an euphoria induced dream.

His hands stop at the clasp of your bra, meticulously unclasping the lingerie, you can feel the fabric becoming loose at the front, but he makes no movement to fully take off your top.

Instead his hands just leave their place at your back to pull both the top and the piece of lingerie until it's all ruffled over your neck, he pulls away from the kiss to look down, and it leaves you flustered when he won't stop staring at your bust with intensity.

"...What?" You ask with embarassment, and he can't help laughing at your reaction.

"Am I not allowed to enjoy the view?"

"Stop it Hawks!" He gives you a look full of authority, it makes your body tremble in arousal, the dampness between your legs is proof enough of the effect this guy has on your body.

"Stop calling me that, and start calling me Keigo."

"But I-"

"Would you prefer to call me 'Daddy' instead?"

You give him an incredulous look, face once again flushed by his words.

"Keigo you son of aaaahhhh-" The words die in your throat, replaced by a sharp intake of breath instantly after he engulfs one nipple with his mouth, causing another wave of shivers to shake your whole body to the core.

You try to fight them back, but the whimpers come out victorious and escape through your lips in a rush. It makes Hawks...No, Keigo, smirk victorious, but it's hard to take him serious when he has one of your boobs in his mouth.

He releases the wet bud with a small "pop!", and caress the tip with his index finger, the friction makes another whimper come out, once again making his smirk confidently.

"Look at you. We're just getting to the good part, and you're already a moaning, trembling mess." He looks down in between you legs with a hungry, predatory stare that could make anyone shrink before him.

"It's a good thing you choose to wear a skirt today."

A hand dips down under said piece of clothing, rubbing a damp spot underneath with their middle finger, right where your still clothed and damp slit throbs, craving more of the deliciously immoral graze.

Fuck...

You can't hold back anymore, and you don't want to either.

You're about to have sex in a classroom.

YOUR CLASSROOM.

"What is it princess?" Keigo growls in satisfaction, enjoying how you're finally starting to let those sweet moans out without a care in the world. "Something you'd like to say? Can't say I'm not enjoying seeing you fight back all those sweet moans."

Someone could walk in any minute now, Miss Ito could be walking in any moment as well, but nothing matters anymore.

All you want is for him to take your body however he pleases.

You pull on the collar of his shirt, pulling him into another sloppy and fervent kiss. He really like this new side of you. Always be wary of the quiet ones they say.

His hands sneaks inside the panties, two fingers going deep inside your velvet walls with a slow pace. The friction is so addicting, and you can't help it when your hips move against your will, craving for more.

"Keigo..." You're panting, eyes clouded with desire. "Please take me, I can't wait any longer!"

That's all he needed to hear. But just to make sure you'll enjoy every single moment...

"As much as I'd love to be inside you already." His fingers start picking up speed, you yelp in surprise at the sudden increase of his movements. "I want you enjoy every single part of this. After all, it's your first time, isn't it?"

Between the nerves of being caught and his ministrations you can barely think straight, but your brain still manages to process his words, and it leaves you surprised.

"How?" This time he gives you a tender smile before kissing your temples.

"The way you kept trembling when I got closer? How you kept hesitating? It was pretty obvious, princess." Your walls clench around his fingers, he could tell you're pretty close, so he pulls back his fingers, leaving you hot, bothered and whining at the sudden lack of friction. "But don't you worry a pretty little hair, I'll take good care of you."

His arms hook themselves under your thighs, pulling them forward until his clothed and still throbbing girth brushes against your soaked pussy. The friction feels so fucking good. You can barely wait to feel the rest of it.

"Oh! right!" His hand goes inside his back pocket, and pulls out a small, blue package.

"...Do you always carry one of those around with you?" You squint at him in suspiciousness, and he gives you a sheepish grin in response.

"Nah, the nurse gave me a handful of them as a joke." Keigo quickly unbuckles his jeans, and lowers them along with his boxers just enough for his hard cock to spring out, it's average in length, but it makes up for it with thickness. Its head is also a prominent, reddish shade, throbbing and dribbling with precum.

You couldn't take you eyes off from it, and Keigo couldn't say he didn't like the attention.

He decides to put on a show, putting on the condom at such a slow pace to tease you for a bit. Seeing you squirm due the lack of body contact almost makes him come right on the spot.

Good thing the little piece of latex already comes with lube, not that he'd need much judging by the mess you're making below.

"Are you ready?" He asks, pulling aside your panties and resting his member over your sweet core. As desperately as he wants to pound you into the wooden surface, he'd rather double check, make sure you're completely comfortable with everything about to happen.

And make the experience so good, that you'll eventually come back to him crawling, begging for more of his sinful courtesy. So he can gladly give everything you ask for.

You pull him closer again, wrapping your arms around him with shaky hands. It's not that you're scared, but the nerves are hard to get rid of when it comes to having your first time with someone you've been crushing on for months.

"Please, I want you." You throw those words back at him.

He nods in response, kissing your face with a softness that could make anyone melt, and slowly, so very slowly starts pushing himself inside you. Keigo can hear you whimpering, not used to such a foreign feeling just yet.

It's not painful, but it makes you feel so unusually full once he's completely buried inside you. He also starts growling, savoring the feeling of your walls stretching, creating the perfect spot that fits his throbbing cock in such a delicious ways, it's almost impossible to describe how good you feel.

But one thing's certain, he can't get enough of it.

"God, you're so fucking tight." His voice is so low and hoarse, it nearly makes him sound feral, like a predator about to devour his prey.

And you, were the prey.

"Ahhh...So good, it feels so good being inside my princess."

Your arms grab onto the back of his shirt, bodies plastered against each other so nicely, fitting together just like a puzzle.

Like you were meant for each other from the very beginning.

Keigo pecks you on the lips tenderly. Hips pulling back carefully until nothing but the head is left inside, and then he gives a deep thrust that nearly knocks your whole breath away. Neither of you are capable of holding back the noises, and you don't want to either.

For the first time since you started college, you're glad to be in one of the classrooms in the fourth floor, as far away from prying ears as possible.

"Keigo, oh my god." Your body finally begins to relax, and Keigo can feel it too. He's grateful your insides are finally getting used to having him inside you, otherwise he probably would have come already from the tight clutch of your sweet and slippery cunt.

The moment he feels you completely relaxed it's where the real action begins. He pulls your arms away from him and lays you down over the whole surface.

The palm of his hand plants itself besides your head, acting as a support, otherwise he probably would have fallen over you, too lost over the pleasure your body provides him. The other hand is busy holding on to your hips for dear life, digging his nails on the skin and leaving a painful yet addicting feeling behind, as well as a couple of marks on the bruised skin.

"Remember when I said you'd never want something 'gentle' after this?" He smirks, looking down at you with such dominance, you can't even process any type of thought that's not related to him anymore. "Well, I always keep my promises. Princess."

In the blink of an eye he starts thrusting so hard and fast that you can't help it when the moans start getting louder. Keigo moves with a pace so strong, so fast, and so passionate that rattles the whole desk. It makes your thoughts wander in place, imagining the loud slam that could probably be heard across a room should he be fucking you in bed.

"Hey..." A snap of his fingers brings you back to the present, and to a frowning blond. "Eyes on me princess, or is this too boring for you?"

He stops moving altogether, even despite your desperate whines at the sudden halt of his thrust, but Keigo's a persistent man, and a teasing little shit who adores making you squirm underneath him.

"Keigoooo!" You hips move on their own, trying to get some more of that delicious feeling of his cock against your velvet walls. It doesn't last for long though, as both of his hands have a unshakable hold on your sides, completely preventing you from grinding against him any longer.

"If you really want more..." His hands travels all the way down to your aching sex, rubbing a single digit against your clit and drawing out a high pitched moan. "Then beg for it...Tell me, just how much you really want it."

"I..." You can't even form a proper sentence, an endless stuttering from his finger rubbing harder against the small bud, preventing you from doing so.

You can't talk, you can barely think, but you need him.

"I want you...to fuck me harder. P-Please Keigo, I really, really need your c-cock!" That's all you can say, and that's all he needs to hear. Keigo begins moving again, this time at such a brutal pace that makes everything go white. The sound of his balls slapping against your ass echoes loudly all around the classroom, and the smell of sex engulfs the whole room.

"That's much better!" He growls, satisfied with the way your head falls back when he hits a certain spot. Keigo gives another harsh thrust, making you scream from how good it feels to have him ravish your body like this.

You're so caught up in the moment, drowning in ectasy from every push. Then you feel it, the way your insides twist from the upcoming orgasm as he begins rutting mercilessly, kissing your womb over and over again.

"Keigo!" There's something about the way you scream his name, that makes his length twitch as it slips back and forth inside your cunt. And his pace begins to waver once he feels his own climax approaching. "I'm coming...!"

"You're coming princess? You want to cum all over my cock?" He gives another sharp thrust, drawing out another moan from you. By this point he could guess your throat is more likely sore from how loud you're getting. And he adores it.

"Do it then," He gasps, head burying itself on your shoulder and biting down on the soft flesh, that is definitely going to leave a mark. "Come for me, make a mess all over this desk, so every time you're in class you'll never forget what happened here behind everyone's back!"

He knows the effect his words have on you, that grin on his face says it all as he watches your body convulsing, trembling as your very first orgasm shakes your senses. He follows after you almost immediately, utterly overwhelmed after the had clenching of your walls around him.

You're both feeling exhausted, attempting to calm your heavy breathing. During that brief period of time, you keep wondering if what happened would be just a one time thing. And once the both of you walked out of the room, Keigo would tell you to pretend nothing happened.

In a way, it makes a small aching dig it's way inside your heart.

"Hey princess, what's with the long face?" Keigo's face leaves its place on your shoulder, worried you might be regretting everything that happened just a minute ago. "I told you there would be no problem in getting involved with me."

"I know," Slowly your hands release their hold on his shirt, leaving behind a couple of wrinkled spots. "But this changes everything. Was this just a one time thing?"

"Oh, that's what you're worried about?" His questions comes out so casually it almost gives you whiplash from how fast you turn to look at him, brows raised high in confusion.

Once again he grabs your chin between his fingers. This time with a softer look in his eyes than when he first proposed this debauchery.

"I meant what I said before, I've never met someone like you before." He gives a soft peck to your jaw, lips lingering in place momentarily. His eyes are closed, deep in thought as he thinks carefully about his next words.

"The question is. Do you, want this to be a one time thing?" He's making eye contact with you again. "Or do you want this to go further?"

"I, want to get to know you better, Keigo." The answer is barely audible, but he manages to hear it, judging by the soft look he gives you.

"That's all I need to hear. Now, what do you say we get out of here? The janitor should be arriving any moment now, and honestly." He pulls out his already soft member, making you whimper slightly at the sudden emptiness. "I'd rather be the only one seeing you like this."

Quickly you both try fixing yourselves as much as you can. Thankfully you always carry a small package of napkins, and quickly clean up the dripping mess between your legs before fixing up your clothes.

As well as the dirty predicament on the desk, the janitor's not to blame for the consequences of Ito's attitude after all.

You both walk out of the classroom carefully. Thankfully Keigo didn't have anything pending, so nobody came looking for him during your little "chat". But if any of your friends happened to see this, you'd never hear the end of it from them.

..........

Just like Keigo predicts, the next time you walk inside the classroom everything that happened last Friday comes back. And when Miss Ito's lesson finally starts, you have to fight back the urge to give her that same mocking smile she gave you last time.

If that's not satisfying enough, then the moment the whole school witnesses her outrage after she makes another move on Hawks, just for the teacher's assistant to mention he's already seeing someone definitely is a sight nobody will ever forget. Particularly after she's finally called into the principal's office for her lack of professionalism.

The whole school ends up celebrating the event. And you definitely will celebrate once again after class, judging by the subtle looks Keigo sends your way after the ordeal.

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“And then, all music silences itself into duration, measures duration; like duration, it is irreversible succession. Thus the music, whatever else it may be, is concretized time; it is audible time. This precious vehicle permits one to grasp inaccessible time.” Rene Daumal, “On Indian Music,” 1931. Translated by Louise Landes-Levi in Rasa or Knowledge of the Self (New Directions, 1982)

Unlike most of the immigrant musicians we present, many of whose lives can hardly be constructed into the bare frame of a biography even, in the best cases, with the participation of their descendants, there is a wealth of information on Archbishop Samuel David available because of his role for three decades as an eminence of the Orthodox Christian church in the U.S.

He was born John David Husson on August 26, 1893 to David and Gazaly Haddad in a mountain village now called Aita el Foukhar, Lebanon (then Aitha, Greater Syria). The youngest of 6 children, he completed secondary school and was sent to seminary at Balamand Monestary, 5 miles south of Tripoli, Lebanon.

Supplemental to his theological training, he was taught ecclesiastic Byzantine hymnody by the singer and composer Mitri el Murr (b. Tripoli 1880; d. 1969). El Murr taught music to at least a dozen bishops, sang for and was decorated by the Romanov family in Russia, and recorded for the Baidaphon company in Beirut in the 1920s.

Having ascended several levels through the church hierarchy and having survived the destruction and famine that killed about half of the population of Lebanon during the First World War, by the age of 27 John David had been given the name Samuel and was ordained to the Holy Priesthood in 1920. In 1921 he was sent by the church to Toledo, Ohio as a senior celibate priest, an archimandrite. His music teacher visited in 1930, and three of his brothers immigrated to Ohio and Massachusetts. In 1936, Fr. Samuel David ascended to the role of bishop of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdioceses of Toledo and Dependencies, a territory that extended from Canada to Mexico, but under controversial circumstances riddled with problems inside the patriarchy of the church as a result of the Russian Revolution and the death of the former U.S. archbishop.

Suffice it to say that there was a split in the leaders of the church patriarchy regarding who would be in charge of North America. One faction, those closest aligned with the Russian Orthodox church and New York City sided with Antony (Bashir). The other, closest aligned with Zahle, Lebanon and Antioch went with Samuel (David). Samuel David, meanwhile, traveled and gave communion through Boston, Ottawa, Cedar Rapids, and Lexington in 1936, but in August 1938, was excommunicated in a manifesto by Alexander III, who instructed the laity not to celebrate communion with him. Samuel David immediately responded that the excommunication had no standing, not having been issued by the Holy Synod (the church’s governing body) and without hearings. Two years later the decision was reversed, so that by November 1940 Samuel David was given full and official recognition of his status as Archbishop of the Syrian Orthodox Antiochian Church of the Toledo Diocese and its Dependencies by decree of Patriarch Alexander of Damascus, Syria, spiritual head of the church after action taken by the Holy Synod of Antioch. The schism between the New York City and Toledo factions remained unresolved until the mid-1970s, when they were finally united. A much more detailed account given by Prof. Richard Breaux, a historian specializing in the Syrian / Lebanese diaspora of the midwestern U.S., can be read at syrianlebanesediasporasound.blogspot.com/2018/11/metropolitan-samuel-david-metropolitan.html .

1940-41, Archbishop Samuel David began once again to visit various parishes: Ironwood, Michigan; Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; Ottawa, Ontario; Austin, Texas; Mexico City; Cedar Rapids, Iowa, etc. Between 1945 and 1953, he published at least seven prayer books, made available for free to any Arabic-speaking congregation in North America, and it was likely during that period that he privately published two albums of a total of eight 78rpm discs of his singing, made available to church members with proceeds in benefit of the church.

It’s clear that the sixteen sides he recorded were made at at least two separate sessions. Harvard’s archivists have made a data point of the recordings having been cut at Gennett studios in Richmond, Indiana. While this may be true (although their dating of the recordings to the 1930s certainly is not), I cannot say for sure. The red vinyl discs themselves have, to me, the feel of a post-WWII RCA production, but this is admittedly reckless speculation on my part. Among the repertoire he performed are hymns and doxologies on the subjects of the Day of Judgement (track 1), the angel Gabriel (track 2), the crucifixion (track 3), Epiphany (track 8), and Christ’s miracle at the wedding at Cana (tracks 9-10). I would be grateful to learn the composers; Mitri el Murr would appear to be among them. Similarly, the accompanists are unclear. The quanun throughout has been speculated to have been by played by Samuel David himself. We do not at present know who the drone-singing accompanists on the first session (tracks 1-8) or the violinist on the second session, recorded through a spring reverb (a novel invention in the 40s) in emulation of a large space, (tracks 9-18) are.

In 1955 Samuel David was elevated to the status of one of the Orthodox Church’s fifteen metropolitans. He was found dead at his home on 523 Bush St. in Toledo from an apparent heart attack on August 12, 1958 at the age of 63. Newspapers reported that he was discovered “slumped in a chair, holding an open Bible.” His open casket funeral was attended by high-ranking church officials from Ottawa, Brooklyn, Cambridge MA, Charleston WV, Wichita, Omaha, Grand Rapids, Glens Falls, Louisville, Phoenix, Buffalo, Lowell, and Chicago as well a full house and as many as five hundred others who were forced to listen outside on loudspeakers to the rites performed in Arabic, Albanian, and English.

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Will the Rocky IV Director’s Cut Kill its Charm?

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Rocky IV remains a prototypical example of 1980s American franchise filmmaking, having conveyed a patriotic Cold-War-evocative ethos through the aesthetically shiny lens of scrappy superhuman pugilists pummeling each other over revenge and world peace, all to Vince DiCola’s absurd synthesizer-strewn score. Oh, and lest we forget, it had a robot! While those attributes entitled the 1985 film to the smug dismissal and earnest appreciation of posterity, star/writer/director Sylvester Stallone’s upcoming director’s cut risks erasing its allure.

Stallone, who announced his plan for a new Rocky IV cut last year, has completed his redux of the famous franchise‘s four-quel. However, unlike that other director’s cut dominating current conversations, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Sly’s upcoming Rocky IV Director’s Cut is an update of a film that was properly released by its director. Having premiered back on Nov. 27, 1985, Rocky IV was a box-office-topping hit that proved profoundly profitable for studio MGM, with a worldwide gross of $300 million ($733.3 million adjusted for inflation,) against a budget of $28 million. Moreover, despite its oft-focused foibles, the film retained enough interest 33 years later to be directly followed up in Creed II. However, to borrow his parlance from 2006’s Rocky Balboa, Stallone seemed to have “stuff in the basement,” to unleash for the fourth film.

“We’ve just been working on punches and sounds because it’s never complete,” explains Stallone of his director’s cut approach in an Instagram update. “I’ve said this before, you can go back and see a movie that you’ve done 50 years ago and go, ‘I’ve got to re-edit that.’ And every director feels the same way. It’s not about making a movie, it’s about remaking. Unfortunately, you run out of time, you run out of money. They basically throw you out of the room. So, therefore, you don’t get a chance, but on this one, I finally got a chance, so I’m feeling great about this.”

While the full extent of the changes Stallone made to Rocky IV obviously won’t be known until he premieres his new cut, some tidbits have made the rounds. One of the earliest-known changes is the elimination of one of its most campy, pseudo-sci-fi elements, the aforementioned robot. Specifically, the Jetsons-esque talking robot—a real-life invention called SICO, created by International Robotics Inc.—that well-to-do champ Rocky gives as a birthday present to his leachy live-in brother-in-law, Paulie (Burt Young) in the film’s first act. However, the robot—complete with a fancy-for-1985 cordless phone system installed—became a punchline, even for within film, during which it was implied that Paulie eventually altered its settings to sound and act like an alluring female maid that worships him while fetching his beers. Thus, the elimination of the robot not only deletes the amusing automaton, but it also necessitates an essence-altering recut of Paulie’s birthday party scenes. Yet, Stallone’s response to a fan’s posted desire to give SICO a reprieve was met with Ivan Drago-like coldness, stating, “I don’t like the robot anymore.”

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And that brings us to the film’s Siberian Bull big bad himself, Dolph Lundgren’s Ivan Drago, whose claim-to-fame fight in which he beat Carl Weathers’s Apollo Creed to death will apparently be extended in a yet-unknown manner in Stallone’s new cut. The role positioned newcomer Lundgren for stardom in what was only his second onscreen appearance, having previously appeared six months earlier in 1985 Bond movie A View to a Kill as a thug named Venz; a role he acquired due to his real-life romantic relationship with co-star Grace Jones. Besides being an imposing spectacle of a human being (which he remains to this day), Lundgren’s outing as Drago was meant to depict him as the ultimate villain, a soulless Soviet slayer shaped by communism, steroids and all-around godlessness. However, while that façade was shattered by the end of the film (and even more so in Creed II), it remains to be seen if extended Drago scenes—specifically in the Apollo fight—ends up weighing the film down unnecessarily.

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Rocky IV Director’s Cut Will Ditch Robot

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Could Rocky Balboa Really Have Gone the Distance?

By Tony Sokol

If there’s one thing that critics can’t take away from Rocky IV, it would have to be Stallone’s artfully economic approach as a director. The film manifests as a slim, trim 91-minute affair that saves money by being deliberately diluted with lengthy montages—FOUR of them in total. In fact, even if we generously discount his blatant reuse of Rocky and Apollo’s Rocky III-closing sparring session for the opening scene, two of said montages fully consist of recycled footage from the previous three films. Indeed, the movie kicks off by playing “Eye of the Tiger” during the franchise-obligatory recap of the previous film’s final fight, and Rocky’s contemplative car ride after Apollo’s death is riddled with flashback scenes, during which a soundtrack song, Robert Tepper’s “No Easy Way Out,” plays out in full! You certainly have to hand it to Sly, the man knows how to get a big bang for his production buck. Yet, as with other intrinsically-Rocky IV aspects, one must wonder if Stallone has soured on his in-retrospect-amiable montage method of movie-making as much as the Robot.

On another note, Rocky IV is also known to be riddled with major movie mistakes, and I do mean A LOT of them; proverbial warts that have also come to define the film. For example, a major continuity mistake occurs before the Apollo/Drago fight when Apollo is in the ring trash-talking Drago, shouting, “I want you! I want you!” while his bare hand mockingly points at the Russian. Of course, just minutes earlier, we saw Apollo getting his hands taped up in his dressing room, and he was clearly gloved up when he came down to the ring in a James Brown-accompanied spectacle entrance. Additionally, a similarly bizarre mistake occurs during Rocky’s mid-movie vision of Drago in the aforementioned “No Easy Way Out” montage, which shows the Russian in the red trunks that he would later wear in the film’s final fight. Yet, most egregiously, Drago is clearly sporting the actual cut under his left eye that Rocky would deliver to him in the second round! While I could see Stallone wanting to fix mistakes like this, it would still be a shame to lose them.

However, a director’s cut of Rocky IV could yield benefits. After all, it could correct Apollo’s funeral scene, in which an odd focus error occurs on the right side of the frame that blurs out a few attendees, leading viewers to think it was censored. Moreover, it could prospectively integrate legendary lost elements. For example, Drago’s iconic evil line—delivered after he just killed Apollo—declaring “If he dies, he dies” was originally complemented by another would-be famous line that wasn’t even delivered in the film, but could finally get its onscreen due. Rocky IV’s teaser trailer featured an ominous introductory monologue from the villain that, contemporaneously, was just associated with the character as the movie line. Delivered in Lundrgen’s labored Russian accent, lines such as “My name is Drago” and “Soon, the whole world will know my name” were prominent pieces of the film’s early ephemera. In fact, the latter line was famously sampled at the end of New Wave act Sigue Sigue Sputnik’s 1986 hit (famously used in Ferris Beuller’s Day Off), “Love Missle F1-11,” in which the trailer clip—along with imitated lines from Scarface and The Terminator—was included to exemplify the song’s commentary on American cinematic ultraviolence.

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Regardless of how it turns out, fans of the campy four-quel will be anxious to see what surprises Stallone has in store for the Rocky IV Director’s Cut. However, he has yet to reveal release date.

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The Report Card – Fantasy High Sophomore Year Ep 2

Boggy the Froggy!

Welcome back, ya’ll! We jump back in with our Bad Kids (or 4/6 of them anyway) the very next day. Fabian sends Gilear out on a coffee run on the threat of bodily harm. His mom–who, if you remember is low-key a total badass–tells Fabian that if Gilear doesn’t come back from the quest alive, she’s going to duel him to the death on top of the house. Yikes. At Chez Thistlespring, Gorgug’s parents give him another very detailed sex talk and then remind him that he lives in a world where magic is very real so any and all dreams he remembers should be treated as omens.

At the haunted house, Adaine wakes up having had portentous dreams like everyone else which is doubly concerning I have to imagine considering (1) she is the eleven oracle and (2) as a full elf she’s supposed to trance, not sleep and dream. Luckily for her nerves, she cast Find Familiar the night before and summoned an emotional support familiar which she gave the amazing name Bogariel Frogariel aka: Boggy the Froggy.

Meanwhile (and I needed to switch paragraphs because Kristen is doing the D&D equivalent of playing Twister while everyone else is playing Checkers as she is wont to do) Kristen is talking to Tracker about changing Yes? again because she is filled with doubt about her god of doubt but the one thing she clearly doesn’t have doubt about is her relationship with Tracker because it’s been less than a year and she already sees wedding bells in their future. Wild. She also invites Tracker on the quest, rectifying what I thought was a wild oversight last week.

Everyone meets up and they realize Fig and Riz are missing. They (specifically Fabian) can’t get Riz on the phone (which has never happened before) and all of Fig’s stuff is missing. They head over to Riz’s office to see if they can find him but, before that, Tracker cancels the church of Yes? because, sure.

There are signs of a struggle at Riz’s office, but no blood. They find a picture of Riz’s super-spy dad (Pok) with his arm around someone who appears invisible to them (though the spot is circled in red). They also find claw marks going up to a mirror. Adaine stops Gorgug from touching the mirror which would have driven him insane and had him attack the group. She sees a twisted version of Riz in the mirror which no one else can see until she describes it (suspicious). Then, she dispels magic and the Riz appears in the room…and attacks them (roll for initiative baybee)!

Fabian is flipped the F out. Kristen decides to chill out and drink Riz’s coffee–much to the incredulousness of everyone else (she’s on those chill existential dread vibes). Adaine and Gorgug are stricken by fear but they’re able to snap out of it quickly. Once they’re sure it’s not Riz (the doppelganger is going full creepy horror movie monster with the head twisting and biting and junk), they start going full throttle but Kristen gets a clutch roll and lands a banishment on Nightmare Riz (who was invisible at the time). Also, Adaine finds a gun but no one is down with her packing heat without proper firearms training so she reluctantly puts it back. They confer with Sandra-Lynn and they find out Fig has, for some reason, gone to Bastion City (the capital) and Gorthalax is missing. Also, because Emily is Emily whether she’s present or not, they find out that Fig has decided to multiclass and she is now a bard/warlock with her demon dad as her patron. Those might be connected because, as her patron, Gorthalax can now find Fig at all times.

Sklonda, in the meantime, has been investigating a robbery at the mall. They end up there too because Gilear (who is back from his coffee run) said he saw Fig’s bus in the area. They tell Ragh to meet them there and then head over (Gorgug in the old family car which he buys from them for 30 gold (the cost of a pony)–the amount Adaine suggests after the Thistlesprings reject his insane offer of 1000 gold). Also, Kristen leaves her brothers some gold secretly which is sad and also I think not the best way to handle that, but the intention is good. The robbery was of a gem–non-magical I believe–called the Devil’s Heart. [Edit: And apparently Fig’s doing.] Fabian shows up, tries to be helpful, and then eats glass. Normal stuff.

The group tries to figure out what’s going on with Fig by calling the hotel she’s at and basically doing a straight improv comedy routine, each passing the phone around with a bad story until Adaine just hangs the phone up. Then, they find out from Sklonda that Pok’s partner is a tabaxi (cat person) named Kalina and she is in the empty space in the photo. Sklonda and Sandra-Lynn can see it even though the Bad Kids can’t.

With that information gathered, the group leaves Elmville for the first time on the way to the Hotel Cavalier in Bastion City and, hopefully, Fig.

Detention

Fabian for Intern Abuse

Poor Gilear. Fabian solicits increasingly complicated coffee orders from his friends to make Gilear’s job harder and tries to get them to threaten Gilear on their behalf. Even Sandra-Lynn was like, bro. Lay off the guy. Bad form, sir. (Hilarious, but bad).

Honor Roll

Adaine for Rocking Her Portent Rolls

Adaine had a 19 and a 4 for her portent rolls this session and she used them very judiciously. The first was her 19 which she gave to Gorgug who was about to fail his saving throw and touch the mirror which would have led to him attacking everyone (she has a vision of his beheading her in a rage–sidenote love that Brennan makes her portent rolls actual visions instead of just having the mechanical effect of changing the roll happen). The second was a 4 which she gave to Brennan who was rolling for concentration on Nightmare Riz’s fear spell. What a power move to stare your DM in the face and say, “You roll a 4.” Amazing. Portent rolls are so good you guys. Also, bonus points for coming up with the name Bogariel Frogariel.

Random Thoughts

Fabian’s response to his mom’s ultimatum that she will fight him if Gilear doesn’t return alive? “Damn, guess I have to fight my mom.”

“MAGIC IS REAL AND SO IS MY FROG.”

Brennan describes Boggy as just the most archetypal looking, round, squishy frog and I want a plush of his yesterday. Or a stress ball! It would go with his whole emotional support thing in game. I love that Siobhan picked not the potentially “useful” or “cool” animal. She went full Marie Kondo and was like, “What’s gonna spark some joy?” Boggy also can give her the help action, which is great!

The episode was great even 2 cast members down, but they were missed. On more than one occasion, I was like, “This is more quiet than usual. I wonder why–ah Emily.” We better get her reaction to Boggy as soon as she’s back.

Kristen brings up the concept of patenting a god which is wild. We also get an answer to the question I had last week about Tracker’s cleric status–she still is a cleric of the moon goddess. The moon goddess is just chill with her followers not being exclusive.

Fabian sans Riz is a hilarious mess. For anyone who likes them together as friends and/or romantically there was a lot of Content. Fabian being like, “Idk about Fig but something is def wrong with the Ball because he always answers on the first ring when I call him.” Him canonically forgetting that he has a name other than The Ball (that’s the name in his phone, obv). And, the coup de grace, him investigating RIz’s office, but only for signs of his name. Him trying to Investigate like Riz, rolling a nat 1, and literally eating glass (“I thought I could taste fingerprints!”).

“Coffee’s ordered, is the Ball dead?”

Adaine as everyone is clowning on Fabian for possibly making out with the Hangman: The Hangman is much more human than my bitch sister.

Nightmare Riz, who they still think is actual Riz at this point, pops out of the mirror and Fabian and Adaine’s reactions respectively are, “You can’t do these things!” and, “It’s like 60% of our grade.”

The idea of Gorgug going from a terrified scream into a barbarian rage scream is very funny. Where are the animatics people?

Oh, speaking of people, Fantasy High was trending on tumblr the morning after this stream. Nice job, guys!

The talk that Gorgug’s parents give him about all dreams being significant is something I always say in movies/books/shows like this. You have protagonists who *know* they live in a magic world and they have weird dreams and it’s not until 2/3rds of the way into the story that they’re like, “Wait. My dreams…mean something?” Bitch, what?

Gorgug’s initial coffee order is Hot Chocolate with a shot of decaf.

Everyone is very chill with Tracker coming onto the quest. Adaine just has one rule: No sex in the tent while they’re also in the tent. Kristen asks like she’s offended Adaine would feel the need to say that but like…come on.

At first, I thought the invisibility in the photo was similar to the non-Adaine bad kids not being able to see Nightmare Riz until she described him but they still couldn’t see the woman in the photo after Sklonda described her so not sure what was going on with the mirror.

I went back to the episode where Riz finds the photo of his dad (First Kisses and Last Words at around 1 hour, 27 mins in) and in that photo it’s of his dad and his mom. So either (1) it’s a different photo, (2) Brennan forgot/retconned something, or (3) something seriously screwy is going on. I will also note two observations here. Sklonda mentioned that Kalina doesn’t drink but was holding up her hand in a toast like she was drinking in the photo. That seems too specific a detail to not mean anything. And the second thing is, last ep, we did learn about a servant of the Nightmare King called the Shadow Cat and Kalina (if that is her real name) is a tabaxi so that’s something to think about.

With all the complicated coffee orders flying around, Adaine just changes hers to a black coffee to try and make Gilear’s life a little easier (her original order was a Peppermint Mocha–sans the threat of violence to Gilear Fabian was offering). I do really love that Adaine seems genuinely concerned about the guy. SOMEONE should be. And it’s consistent with her characterization of just being generally well mannered and empathetic.

Kristen getting the banishment on Nightmare Riz is something she did after Ally asked for it and Brennan was like, “lol, sure on a 19 or 20.” Boom. Rolled a 19. Just like in the prom fight. So the lesson here folks is don’t give your players a conditional yes and then expect the dice to bail you out.

Kristen’s existential crisis is so crazy to me because she’s having, like, a prototypical Crisis of Faith™ (and pretty realistically) except, unlike in real life, she has certain knowledge about the existence of gods, life after death, and the means to communicate with those deities in the present day like…I feel like you’re crisis-ing wrong, girl. She’s crisis-ing like she just deconverted from Christianity when I feel like what actually happened is closer to, like, quitting a sorority or realizing you hate your major or changing political parties.

the nature of humanity is just that every so often someone accidentally invents homestuck helioism again

Ragh had a dream matching up with Gorgug’s (but he didn’t realize it was Gorgug in his dream) which means something and I’m sure we’ll figure out what soon enough.

The Fabian eating glass scene is another one where you truly need to see it to understand how great it is. Lou is equally game to have Fabian be the coolest person who ever lived or a huge baby and Fabian running away crying because he has glass shards in his tongue is incredible. Hilariously, he runs into Ragh in the food court who has also eaten glass in the past (“Glass is literally invisible.”) and they bro bond over it so hard (“That’s my boy!”) that Tracker and Kristen are like…are they a thing?

The other crazy scene is the gang passing around the phone trying to convince the hotel receptionist to give them info about Fig. Kristen comes up with the name Teddy Guyger (and Zac and I at the same time are like, “Did you get the name Teddy because you have a teddy bear in your inventory rn?”). Fabian tries to drop his dad’s name. Their first move for some reason isn’t to give the phone to Gorgug who is also a part of the band. Adaine just hangs up the phone like Peppa Pig. Exquisite comic timing.

“I cast bane on Gilear.”

I love the running joke of Adaine having visions throughout the day of her friends in the process of doing dumb BS.

Nightmare Riz going after Fabian’s good eye was big gross. Thanks Brennan, I hate it.

I wonder if what’s going on with Fig is completely different than what’s going on with Riz. Just because they’re gone for the same reason irl, doesn’t mean they’re gone for the same reason in game. Nightmare Fig could be a fun fight though.

As someone whose fave thing in D&D is not combat, I thought the fight in this episode was great. Interesting concept, good chance for in-character reactions, not too long .

Ragh upon meeting Tracker: Check it out: I’m gay. (Tracker: Tight.)

Fabian, who has known Cathilda his entire life: Do maids dream?

In this ep, Kristen and Adaine rolled 2 nat 20s each (Kristen rolled one for initiative also but it was lowered by her modifier), and Gorgug and Fabian each rolled 1. Fabian also rolled a nat 1 (which, again, led to him Eating Glass).

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Cincinnati Accepts Rock ‘n’ Roll Very Slowly, And Despite Much Tut-tutting

You can make a strong argument that Rock ‘n’ Roll was born right here in Cincinnati, Ohio. In fact, Jon Hartley Fox, author of “King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records,” insists there is no argument:

“Did Wynonie Harris record the first rock and roll record in 1948 with ‘Good Rockin’ Tonight’? That is, of course, a highly subjective question and impossible to answer, but, yes, he did.”

Harris recorded his version of Roy Brown’s song on 27 December 1947 at the King Records studio in Cincinnati. As might be expected, Cincinnati paid no attention to this monumental event, even when Harris’ platter soared to the top of the rhythm and blues charts and stayed there for most of 1948.

It appears no one really thought rock ‘n’ roll was a thing in 1948. Cincinnati newspapers reported with some regularity on King Records, but every article identified only two types of records sold by Sid Nathan’s hometown label – hillbilly and “sepia”. The latter term referred to rhythm and blues or, less politely, “race” music.

Likewise, Cincinnati media largely ignored Elvis Presley’s 1954 cover of “Good Rockin’ Tonight”. It wasn’t until the early part of 1955 that rock ‘n’ roll began seeping into the consciousness of the Queen City. As you can imagine, the Queen was not amused. A columnist in the Cincinnati Enquirer [20 March 1955] summed the quandary:

“Sad but true: Recent blasts at the leering lyrics in the rock-n’-roll discs have boosted their sales.”

The Cincinnati newspapers repeatedly announced the death of the rock ‘n’ roll fad. Here is the Cincinnati Post [31 May 1955]:

“Well, it was fun while it lasted, but rhythm and blues – or call it rock ‘n’ roll – has gone from a national mania down to a cult. The rock ‘n’ roll craze – involving blues music with a heavy beat and words that didn’t necessarily make sense – sold millions of records and put struggling independent companies into the black. But it also gave the industry a black eye, temporarily at least.”

A year later, the Enquirer editorialized [18 July 1956] that rock ‘n’ roll was an “Audible Drug”:

“The effect of ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ is to whip its addicts into a frenzy of mob violence, police have found. The results of its mass hysteria, noted on police blotters, include bottle-throwing, beatings and stabbings, besides the wanton smashing of dance halls.”

Magee Adams, the Enquirer’s radio critic, followed up a few days later [22 July 1956] with a grateful eulogy on the death of rock ‘n’ roll:

“Teen-ager riots have demonstrated that, when administered en masse, ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ acts like a drug, as potent in its way as chemical compounds. This is the effect that was ignored when the craze started. To their credit, many stations, including some of the locals, long had banned the more objectionable forms of the craze.”

To be more accurate, Cincinnati’s radio stations seem not to have actually banned rock ‘n’ roll, but they tried to ignore it. Cincinnati teenagers must have found their rock ‘n’ roll music via word of mouth, record stores, or juke boxes at the neighborhood malt shop, because it wasn’t until the spring of 1956 that WKRC scheduled one lonely hour of rock ‘n’ roll at 9:00 p.m. on Saturday night. Competing stations added a “Teen-agers” show on WCPO and “Juke Box” on WSAI, making a grand total of four hours of rock ‘n’ roll amid the standard programming of classical music, show tunes, farm reports and baseball.

Rock ‘n’ roll finally landed like an atom bomb in Cincinnati on 9 May 1956. The epicenter of the explosion was Cincinnati Gardens and the detonators included most of the big names of rock ‘n’ roll: Bill Haley and His Comets, Bo Diddley, The Platters, Clyde McPhatter, The Drifters, Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers and The Flamingos. Cincinnati Post reviewer Jim Johnson [10 May 1956] expressed shock at the behavior of the audience:

“By the third quarter of the show, they were in the aisles, all over the floor and unaware of anything but the music. Even performers were dancing back behind the band stand. Those who have gone through a rock ‘n’ roll frenzy say it’s something they can’t help. It’s caused by over-exposure to the beat.”

The Enquirer sent a serious music critic, E.B. Radcliffe, to a repeat show that autumn, apparently under the impression that rock ‘n’ roll was a new direction in jazz. Radcliffe [25 October 1956] opined:

“The program also proved that Rock ‘N Roll is opening up new avenues for jazz. Some of them do not have to be followed very much farther to lead right back to the tall trees where the cats move about on all fours and hang by their tails, and swing is always a means of locomotion rather than a musical term. Wherever it is heading (and the monotonous quality of some of it indicates oblivion is a close and likely terminal point) Rock ‘N Roll gives plenty of exhilarating pleasure to its fans.”

Notably, photos from the Cincinnati Gardens shows reveal that they were fully integrated. And it is apparent that the audience was composed almost entirely of high school students. When the Enquirer surveyed readers [27 October 1956] about rock ‘n’ roll, all of the respondents were high school students, typified by a young lady named Ivadean Gadberry of St. Bernard High School:

“Rock ‘n’ roll has a good beat to it for dancing and is terrific for jitterbugging and I just love to do that. Waltzing, etc., is just too slow for me, although slow dances are good for older people.”

Speaking of “older people,” rock ‘n’ roll did not dent the college crowd until the 1960s were well underway. Jazz concerts and folk hootenannies provided a level of sophistication at area universities, where rock ‘n’ roll was definitely considered “kid’s stuff.” A crack in the intellectual façade opened at the University of Cincinnati when The Grill at the Student Union began offering rock ‘n’ roll sessions on Friday. A reporter for UC’s student newspaper [2 November 1961] described the scene as if she was an anthropologist:

“Inhibitions are cast aside as the true beat of the music is reproduced in weird and amazing bodily contortions. The stomp, the continental, and especially the twist – done as you’ve probably never seen before . . . and perhaps never hope to see again.”

We’ll allow Cincinnati icon Al Schottelkotte to have the final word. Not yet a TV anchor, Schottelkotte was a Cincinnati Post columnist on 5 July 1956, when some exotic sounds assaulted his ear:

“Something for the town to talk about: The rock ‘n’ roll recording blasting forth from a speaker in front of the Albee Theater to split the late evening calm around Fountain Square. Ugh!”

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How Vegeta was taught how to fly and lose his hair bangs

(King) Vegeta: Fly! -throws kid Vegeta off a cliff-

(Young Prince) Vegeta: But how father?! -falls and hits his head-

It hurts! -climbs back up to repeat the process until he flies-

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Vegeta first meeting (Saiyan) Tifa

(cc) Vegeta: As your Prince, my first decree is that you surpass Kakarot’s brat Gohan, I will even train you myself.

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(cc) Vegeta: My second decree is to always ignore baldy!

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@debcroft13 said // Jun 19, 2020 · 10 months ago

Goku was dead, it hit her more days then not, her best friend was gone. He'd giving his life against cell, he didn't want to come back either. ' The bad guys come because of me, maybe the world will be at peace of I weren't around.' It went some like that right? Yet the death hadn't just hit her hard it had hit Vegeta too. His rival gone he seemed so lost, she carried Trunks as she tried to spy on him, her what were they? " Vegeta?"

“What do you want, woman?” Vegeta asked her as he walked past, a towel around his neck after finishing another intense gravity training session. Yes, Kakarot was dead and will be staying dead too. Maybe he was training so hard and alone lately because he was still trying to come to terms with that, his rival, the goal of one day surpassing him, it was meaningless now he was dead.

“How’s the boy?” he added casually as he looked at Trunks. Maybe that would be his next goal, to train his son to become the best like himself. Naturally, that will come after his own goal to attain the transformation that Gohan showed during the Cell Games, if anger was the trigger, then Vegeta had a lot of that to use.

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Kotonari IV - Future, Complete Chapter

AN: I’ve literally been working on this for like 8 hours. Hopefully it’s worth reading. I’m gonna go eat some pizza and pass out now.

Kotonari IV – Future

The Boy walked next to the King, who was still in just his nightrobe, as they walked through the castle. This place, too, was different in his time. The thrones on the dais were the first difference The Boy had noticed – this King Vegeta’s throne was black marble, 90 degree angles, sharp and uncomfortable looking. You looked at the King, you looked at the throne, and you realized that you needed to speak quickly, clearly, concisely for it was apparent that the King didn’t intend to spend all that much time on his throne.

The gilded, plush, jewel inlaid throne next to it, The Boy assumed it belonged to his grandmother Queen, gave you just the opposite problem. You looked upon that throne and realized that the comfortable Queen would take all day, had all the time in the world, to patiently wait for you to run out of words, out of excuses, out of your mind before she passed judgement upon whatever issue you’d brought to her.

The two thrones were entirely missing from The Boy’s world. His father took no audiences, and so had no need of a place to sit and make proclamations. The dais was still there, and on the rare occasions that he addressed his soldiers or his son, he stood upon it and screamed down. The room itself was bare of everything in that future, totally bereft of the painted royals whose portraits hung on the walls now. Dark King Vegeta took no guidance from his ancestors, nor indeed from anyone at all.

The King raised a hand in greeting to the same guard who had admitted The Boy. “Cress. You wisely admitted this child. A threat against the crown is made. Send word for the entire Crown’s Battalion to awaken, make ready for a highly dangerous opponent to attack the castle. One third of the battalion should go directly to the Prince’s estate and guard the Queen and Princess who are currently sequestered there.”

Cress stood immediately to attention. “At once, sire!”

“And wake Nappa up. Send him to the estate. I need his counsel.”

“N…appa’s, sire?” Cress paused a moment. Nobody had ever – ever – wanted Nappa’s counsel in Cress and Nappa’s entire life. They were cousins, playmates, sparring partners and friends… but he wouldn’t ask Nappa for counsel on anything other than spirits, and even that advice could be taken as dubious. The only other royal to ever send for Nappa directly was Vegeta, who liked the old fool for reasons that weren’t ever apparent. They had gone off world together many times, Nappa and the Prince. Perhaps that was connected to this, Cress thought.

“Did I misspeak, soldier? Nappa. Now. Crown’s Battalion, also now. Move!” King Vegeta ordered the younger Saiyan, who immediately saluted before running down the hall at the highest speed he was capable of, past the paintings, the plush couches, over the thick ruby red carpets, down the hall and around the corner and out of The Boy’s sight.

In the future, the castle was a dark, echoing place. None of this – the carpets, the paintings, the crystal, the gilded banisters, the guards and service people – none of it was there in the castle that The Boy had grown up in. There were no servants, no housekeepers, no cooks, no cleaners, no guards… only himself and his father for the last eight years, and the dry bones of his beloved twin sister rattling in the howling wind against the iron gate.

The Boy had imagined that he spoke to her spirit often, imagined that she grew up with him, that he had hidden her away instead of letting her confront their father. Just ten, just ten – and ten she would always be, and just four feet tall, and just dry bones to haunt him – always. The Boy tried to clear the image from his mind as he and the King passed through that same, but different, gate.

This path he knew well, the winding and beaten path through the castle garden and down into a gully and up over this hill to the Prince’s estate. The Boy would come here often, whenever he could, whenever his father wasn’t beating him unconscious in their “training,” whenever his father wasn’t sending him to fly over cities and encampments to tell him how many “traitors” still lived on “his planet,” whenever he could get a free second to himself.

The Boy and the King crested that same, but different, hill now and The Boy gasped in shock. He had never seen the estate like this – the lawn trimmed, the hedge fence even and brambleless, the roof solid, the door intact. It looked like a real mansion, not a haunted husk – not the corpse that it became. Best of all and most different to The Boy, there were lights and warmth within and he could see someone moving against one of the kitchen windows. He knew that silhouette’s head of long hair, the lithe frame, the short stature - could it be? The Boy broke into a run.

He burst through the side door that lead directly into the kitchen and cried out, “BERI!” banging the door against the wall hard enough to crack the glass inlaid. The woman in the kitchen jumped in surprise at the sudden violence and dropped a tray of biscuits right onto the floor. The Boy burned his hand on the open oven door as he brushed past it to throw his arms around Beri’s aproned waist, falling to his knees and burying his head in her apron, crying again.

“Uh, I, uh, sire?” Beri turned her confused eyes to the King who stood in the doorway.

“I can’t believe you’re alive! Beri!” The Boy laughed and cried and stood and straightened himself up, rubbing the back of his head in that same way Daiku did after he’d done something foolish.

Speak of the Saiyan, Daiku had felt her confusion and was now thumping down the hallway to see what the hell was going on. He rounded the corner to see a strange young man holding his Beri’s hands, laughing and crying and babbling some kind of nonsense. He also noticed a full batch of his favorite biscuits rolling around on the floor, and he scooped two of them up as he strode into the room.

“What in -omf- ninety eight hells is going -omf- here?” Daiku shoved the bread in his mouth between words. He wanted to know what was going on, yeah, but he also wanted his first meal in 27 hours. As his attention left the bread, he saw the King in the doorway. “Uh… sire,” he added.

The Boy dropped Beri’s hands as soon as Daiku spoke, and was transfixed to the spot, staring at Daiku like he’d seen a ghost. In one way, he was seeing a ghost, but the man who stood before him had not been killed yet. The Boy jumped clean over top of Beri and threw his arms around Daiku’s massive shoulders. “SENSEI! YOU’RE ALIVE, TOO!”

“Uh… yep?” He cocked an eyebrow and opened his hands in confusion, gesturing toward the King and mouthing, What is going on?

“First things first,” the King began, “How is the Queen, how is the Princess, did you find the doctor, what is his progress, and where is my son?” the King ticked off his questions, one through five, on his fingertips.

Beri answered the first two, “My lord, your wife is strong. She is helping Bulma recover a memory right now, but based on her previous meditative sessions, she should be awake within perhaps 15 minutes. The Princess Bulma’s body is healed; the damage to her womb was significant, but her near death was caused by blood on the brain. The Queen has secured two of the five tethers on Bulma’s soul already.”

Daiku dislodged The Boy’s death grip from his shoulders, shoving a biscuit from the floor into the kid’s interrupting mouth. “You next.” He turned his attention to the King. “My lord, I found the doctor on the north road out of Caarte and brought him here directly to heal the Princess and relieve some of the strain on the Queen. Prince Vegeta chose a different route to look for the doctor, and we were separated about 14 hours ago. I do not know where he is.” The King stroked his beard thoughtfully. “I see. How was he when you parted?”

“Distracted, my lord, frantic, at the edge of rage. I would be the same way in his position. After I have eaten, I intend to go find him.”

“Belay that for the moment. Boy, tell them what you told me, answer whatever questions they have, eat something. I need to see the Queen.” The King strode forth, hem of his tunic flapping. “He has on absolutely no pants.” Daiku noted aloud. “Huh.” He sat down at the kitchen table, laden with a hearty stew, biscuits, rice, potatoes, four roasted shanks of some animal, fruits on ice and vegetables piled high and steaming. Daiku pulled several plates and began ladling food on each. Beri brought another tray of Daiku’s favorite biscuits and several baskets of berries and began serving herself as well. The Boy stared. How long had it been since he’d seen a table laid with so much? All The Boy could cook was rice because it was the only food stuff that was ever delivered to the castle. Rice and rice and rice for … was it really ten years since Beri and Daiku had been killed?

“Eat.” Daiku shoved an empty plate at The Boy. “Some sorrows are smaller on a full stomach.”

“You told me that once.” The Boy nodded and the trace of a smile began to emerge.

“Did I? Feel like I’d remember that.”

“About eight years from now, you’ll find me crying for my mother, who I never knew. I was here, exploring, and I found her journals and her jewelry. I gave the jewelry to my sister and I kept the journals for myself. I would come here and read her notes, try to imagine her voice, try to imagine my father the way she described him. He used to sing to us, when we were in our mother’s belly.”

Daiku ate, scraping his first plate and lading it again with another helping of meat and stew. “Eight years from now, but you speak of it as if it happened long ago.”

Beri looked at The Boy, eyes widening. “How can it be?” Tears pricked her eyes and Daiku felt her joy and sadness both pass through the Keiyaku. “How can it be? How can it be?” Beri jumped up from her seat, abandoning her dinner and hugging The Boy tightly. “Daiku, this is the little prince!”

“You’re insane.”

“Daiku, look at him! Look at his eyes, look at his ha-“ Beri started to exclaim.

“Not you,” he waved the woman off. “What, am I blind? Am I dumber than Nappa? Look at his face, feel his ki. Of course this is Vegeta’s whelp.” He gestured toward The Boy with the knife he’d been using to butter a biscuit. “No, I meant you. You’re nuts if you think Vegeta ever sang to anyone in his life.”

The Boy exploded into laughter. That’s just what Daiku said the first time he’d read the passage from his mother’s journal and asked Daiku what his father’s singing voice had been like. “I can’t believe you’re still here. Beri, the first memory I have of anyone other than my sister is of you, you know?”

Beri sat back down in her place at the table. “How can this be? Your little body is sleeping sound upstairs! The King told me to take you home when I leave here in the morning, though I may not leave here for a few days. But either way! You’re just a baby, and yet you’re – you look old enough to be nearly independent!”

The Boy straightened up in is chair a little. “I’ll have you know I am of the age of independence.” He smiled sheepishly. “Just yesterday.”

“Tell us how you came to be here.” Daiku spoke around a mouthful of meat.

So The Boy repeated his story, much of the sorrow already gone out of him like a tide withdrawing from the edge of the sea, forced away by the bright power of the moon. Daiku and Beri, like parents to him and his sister, were the moon to him. He told them of his father’s descent into darkness, of the war that wiped them out. Of the rips and rifts in time, hanging open like windows or doorways in the air there to walk through.

“I flew right through one once, without realizing it, you know? It was just air opening into air. And I must’ve been in the decades in the past… there were lizard creatures everywhere and Saiyans in chains. It looked like something from out of the Saiyan histories you used to bop me over the head with. Icejin bastards everywhere, but I thought about freeing them – the Saiyans, I mean. I thought maybe I could get them through the window, back to my time.” “Reinforcements. Not a foolish idea.” Daiku agreed.

“But it was. Look at me. I don’t look Saiyan. And anyway I was spotted by Frieza’s men within minutes. I’m fast, though, really fast, I mean – even my sister and you couldn’t keep up with me, Beri.”

Beri made a little impressed noise, mouth full as she chewed “Mmm!” Beri’s speed was somewhat legendary among Saiyans, as she was lithe and small of stature instead of tall and thickly muscled like most Saiyans. Anytime someone would make fun of her diminutive stature, she’d say she was –

“Built for speed! Like you always say,” The Boy exclaimed. “Anyhow, I just took the hell off out of there, you know? It took me weeks to find the door in the air, though. I spent… a lot of time on the run, then. Frieza’s men weren’t that tough though.”

“Not that tough?!” Frieza’s forces were notoriously strong. No way had this scrawny kid held his own, much less brushed them off.

The Boy shrugged, though. “I mean, I don’t know. Maybe they put the weak ones here on Vegetasei to keep guard or something.”

Daiku frowned deeply. “That’s not – anyway. How’d you get home?”

“I found the window, eventually. My own time, it smells different. The air does, I mean. Even when Frieza’s men were on the planet, it still had some greenery and some nature. My time… doesn’t. It’s all just blasted down to the dirt. The land has been razed entirely – burnt, stripped, ki blasted into oblivion. Most of Vegetasei is just dead and desert dry. The Allewater river is poisoned, the Namekian’s grudge in it’s waters make it deadly for any Saiyan to touch, let alone drink. That’s,” the faraway look stole back into The Boy’s eyes, “that really where it all went wrong, I think. So many people were poisoned by the water, and that started a panic. The Dark King, he took advantage of that panic to stir the whole country into civil war.”

The Boy tightened his fist around his fork. “We just… Saiyans just… kept dying. You know? Just dying. And my father… seemed happy about it.”

Daiku knit his brows together. That wasn’t right – Vegeta loved Saiyans, he was proud of being a Saiyan, he wasn’t a complete madman… this couldn’t be true, could it? “How many dead?” “All of the women. Maybe 200 men remain. We’re effectively extinct.” The Boy told him.

“Hundreds of thousands dead?”

“At a minimum.”

“My Beri?”

The Boy cast his eyes down. “I was small, only eight. You both died in battle against offworld mercenaries hired by my father to put down the rebel fighters in Asket. They conscripted your house. The worst, the worst men in the galaxy. One grabbed Beri, you went for his throat with your teeth – it was a brawl in seconds.” The Boy began to tremble. “I snatched my sister up by the hand and we just ran and ran. We hid here, in the dilapidated remains of our birthhome for a day, maybe more. When we returned, you were both gone. I’m… sorry.”

Daiku reached under the table and put his hand on Beri’s knee. Yes, he would die for her in an instant, and he would kill anyone who intended to touch her without her permission in half that. Beri gave her husband’s hand a squeeze. “What are you sorry for? You were eight, little prince. I’m sorry I failed to protect you.”

“As am I,” Daiku spoke. “You called me ‘sensei,’ but I must not have been a very good one.”

“Sensei, no. You taught us how to survive. Both of you did. You kept us alive when we were babies, my father would never have cared enough to keep us alive – Beri, you were like a mother to me and my sister. We loved you – love you – very much. Both of you, sensei.”

“Where is your sister?” Beri asked, a little excited to see if she was correct about the little princess growing up into a beauty. “Did she come through the rift with you?”

“No, I… she – I…” tears welled in The Boy’s eyes and he angrily dashed them away. “How long ago?” Daiku asked simply. No details needed. Clinical. Spare the boy any more pain. His eyes were already red and swollen with crying when he arrived, he was barely picking at his food – the child was on the edge of shaking apart, dissolving into the kind of melancholy from which there was no return.

“Eight years.”

“How?” “My,” he choked, cleared his throat, scrubbed at his eyes again. “My father.”

“Was it –“

“Murder, it was murder plain and simple – he just, he just, he just…” cracks in his voice so far away, he looked suddenly so small, a little boy of just ten, and tears poured out of him then. Beri jumped up and threw her arms around him, gathering him to her like a mother hen, kissing the top of his head. “Shh now, shh. It’s not going to happen like that this time, I promise you that, child. Not this time. Shhh, your sister is upstairs and when she wakes you’ll see her and hold her. Shhh.” And she stroked his hair with such mother-kindness and such fierce love, he felt even more like a little boy again.

“And that brings us to the heart of it,” Daiku said at length. “How do we stop it, and what happens when we do? Do you just go -poof- and cease to exist?”

“I don’t know what happens to me, really. When I go through the windows, it seems like everything is just… off. Off on an angle, like the whole world was knocked out of kilter by the wrongness here. And maybe when the thing is prevented, everything will just settle back into the place it always should have been.”

“Hm. Maybe. But how do we stop it, stop him? I don’t suppose I need to tell you that he could kick my ass into space with the difference in our power.”

The Boy snorted sardonically, “No shit.”

“Watch your mouth,” Beri admonished, popping him softly upside the head.

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“And so, my love, that’s how it is.” The King finished his explanation.

“He must’ve picked up the poison of that asteroid, Vegeta.” Queen Pea, said furiously. “We never should have used it, we should have destroyed it! Look what it’s done to our son.”

Mallumo Asteroid was a dark body, massive, hurtling through space. So large it had its own atmosphere, Mallumo was filled with an evil miasma. The Saiyan King thought if their covert forces could seal some of that miasma in grenade like deployment spheres, they’d be able to use them as an excellent, effective disruption device when defending themselves from the plots of other worlds. He had been wrong – six of the eight Saiyans in the squad sent to Mallumo killed each other on that rock. Only Vegeta and Nappa had left alive, and they didn’t remember anything about how they got off the asteroid.

There was every likelihood that the Malluma miasma was somehow… sentient, and perhaps it allowed Vegeta to live, living itself in his own ruthless heart these last two years, until the stress of recent events gave it the cracks it needed to escape.

Evil is its own self-fulfilling prophecy that way – a little evil makes it easier to do a little more, then that taint on your heart makes it easier to do even worse. Vegeta had always been somewhat ruthless in his dealings with anyone other than the Saiyans, but it was his love for his people that always balanced out the dark things he did to safeguard them.

Now, that darkness had taken over him, manipulated his mind into thinking there was nothing left but the viciousness, the cruelty and the anger in him that sustained the Mallumo miasma in the first place. Without Bulma, he’d forgotten love entirely.

The Queen was right, and this was the most likely explanation for her son’s soon coming betrayal. Now, how to stop it? “Did you send for Nappa?” the Queen demanded.

“Yes, he’s to meet us here. I’ve assembled the Crown’s Battalion, as well. Nappa and Daiku, and even The Boy, will be here and I intend to fight him. Capture him. Fix him.” “See that you do, Vegeta,” her voice still harsh. She reached for his hand with her free one – the right still holding Bulma’s hand, still pouring her power into Bulma, still trying to keep hope alive. “Vegeta…” she whispered. “Do not make me choose.”

She couldn’t imagine having to choose between Bulma, who had become a precious daughter to her and had given her two beautiful grandchildren, and her own dear heart, her King, her Vegeta. She couldn’t imagine the pain of having to let one die to save the other. Even thinking of having to make such a choice stung her eyes with tears like fire.

“No,” King Vegeta reached up and brushed a tear from her cheek. “That will not happen, Pea. It will not.”

“Good,” she sniffed. “Then go get dressed, fool. Running around in your nightrobe.”

“Don’t like the view?” he said, standing and flexing his legs and arms impressively.

“Idiot.” The Queen blushed crimson under the golden glow of her super Saiyan ki. “It’s not… unappreciated.” The King bent double and kissed her head, her face, her lips. “Never fear, my love. Nightrobe or finest armor, I will always come back to you.”

The Queen tipped her chin up to kiss him again, but a little knock at the door disturbed them. “Sorry – it’s Dende. I really need to check on the Princes –“ he said, poking his head into the room. “-ess. Uh, I can come back, she’s probably fine.” Dende flushed plum purple under his cheeks, having caught the King in a state of undress, looming over the queen with her hair in one hand and her chin in the other, both flushed like teenaged Saiyans left unattended.

“Enter. The King is leaving. To dress properly.” The Queen giggled.

The King opened the door to leave, Dende standing aside sheepishly to let the large man come through the doorway before he entered it. “Oh, Vegeta?” the Queen called out, “Send my grandson in here.”

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After their talk, Daiku and Beri walked into the bedroom where the Princess was sleeping, with The Boy following close behind. He had never seen his mother’s face – no pictures, no portraits or paintings of her had survived his father’s rage. Daiku tapped twice on the door, and The Boy heard the Queen say “enter” in a lovely mellifluous honey warm voice.

He walked in and was rooted to the spot, instantly. His “grandmother” was sitting in a chair alongside the bed, holding another woman’s hand, and she shone with a radiance like sunlight, blonde haired and blue eyed. The most beautiful woman he’d ever seen in his life laid sleeping in the bed – long blue hair flowing down around her shoulders, her skin the same creamy pale color as his sister’s had been.

“Are her eyes like mine?” The Boy asked.

“No,” the Queen told him. “They’re sky blue, crystal blue, blue like the clearest water.”

“Did she ever tell you what she was going to name us?” The Boy asked, wonder and joy in his voice.

“No, my dear, she didn’t. What do people call you?” the Queen asked.

“Boy. Or The Boy. My sister was girl.” The Boy lost only a little of his enthusiasm. There she was! His mother! She’s alive! He was in time. He sat down at the edge of the bed, near the queen’s chair. “Can I touch her?”

“Certainly. It will not harm her. Dende has repaired her body, I’ve just been coaxing her soul back into this vessel.” The Queen gestured to the little green doctor, sitting on the couch across the large room.

“Thank you both, for what you’re doing for my mother.” The Boy took Bulma’s free hand, stroking the top of it with his thumb gently. “Mother. I hope you can hear me. I hope you wake up soon. I’ve always, always wanted to hear your voice. I’ve always wanted to meet you, you know? I’ve always wanted to see you.” He took a deep breath and sighed. “I read your journals… no one can believe that dad really sang. When you wake up, can you teach me the melody? Better yet, can you smack some sense into my father? He’s… he’s lost without you.”

Beri walked into the room from the adjacent nursery, holding the tiny newborn Princess in her arms. “She woke up all on her own, just laying there and listening, the second you began to speak.” One tiny hand poked out of her wrappings, the little princess flexed her fingers, almost in an attempt to grab at something. Beri placed the precious little bundle in The Boy’s lap. “Here is your sister.”

The babe wrapped her little hand around The Boy’s finger immediately. He looked down into his lap and for the fourth time today, and the fourth time in eight years, he wept – tears splashing down on the baby, a baptism of protection and a baptism of sorrow all at once. The little princess sneezed.

“That’s right, my little one.” The Queen placed her free hand on The Boy’s head. “No need to cry, big brother, you’ve come to set things right and we will help you. The King will win his fight. You’ll see.” The Queen’s sweet voice was gentle and reassuring in his ear. “I need to meditate and try to contact your mother’s soul.” “Right.” Trunks swiped a hand across his eyes, “Okay, I’m going to go. I’ll see if I can help the King.”

“Oh, no, no. Sit down, you’re coming with me,” the Queen pressed. “With your power as one of the Saiyan Gemini, you should be able to easily attain the necessary power level and focus.”

“The Saiyan what?” The Boy looked at his young grandmother in pure confusion.

“You don’t even know what you are.” The Queen clicked her teeth. “I will explain in greater length what you are and who you are, but for now, suffice it to say that you, in your unascended state are very nearly as strong as I am at this level.”

“What?”

“You are. But that strength requires awareness. You have to know, have to believe, have to have unshakable conviction in your own physical superiority to your opponent. Of course, you’ve been so badly treated, all your life, it’s no wonder you aren’t in tune with that ability yet.” The Queen patted his head. “Daiku, please go find Nappa and get to the King. He must survive whatever is coming – on pain of death, you will return my husband to me.”

“Yes, your highness.” Daiku stole a kiss from Beri on his way out the door, and was gone.

“Beri, please take the babies and Dende and settle them in to sleep. I assume you’ll be staying here, as well, but please sleep soon yourself.”

Beri scooped the little princess up from her brother’s lap. “Yes, highness. Come Dende.”

The little green man was rubbing his eyes and acquiesced instantly. Namekians were definitely not nocturnal. Beri laid the baby down in the nursery, then left the room entirely, Dende in tow.

“Now then,” the Queen began, “Just try to match your ki to mine – the same strength, the same flow.” The Boy studied her form and let his ki flow outward as hers did, a peaceful stream, a pool of water undisturbed. “Yes, that’s just so. Now, focus on my breathing, and I will focus on your mother’s breathing, and we’ll go through together.” The Boy closed his eyes and felt a sleepy pull, a floating feeling, come over him.

“Don’t fight that,” the Queen’s voice rang out in his mind. “It’s only us. Come along.”

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Bulma stood in the kitchen, about four months pregnant. The antefasting battle was a memory fading into the fabric of their lives, and two months had passed in relative ease. The pregnancy made Bulma prone to fatigue, so Vegeta forbade her from training. He tried to prevent her from even doing yoga, but she insisted that was good for the babies, for the birth, so he let it go.

He let most things go, when it came to Bulma. Most everyone did – it was the effect of the pregnancy, she thought. Vegeta knew it wasn’t. It was her own charm, her own irresistible pull. Meeting her meant befriending her almost instantly, even though she could be abrasive, vulgar, rude and spoiled. She had some power over people. It made her irresistible.

She rummaged through the fridge and Vegeta watched her. The bump of her belly poking out from under a shirt that didn’t really fit anymore, she was piling food on top of it and holding the stack in place with her chin. “Woman, what are you doing?” he asked, one brow raised.

“Look, hee hee,” she giggled, sticking her arms out to the side and holding the sandwiches, fruits and vegetables in place with her chin and her bump alone. She stumbled and tottered, nearly losing her balance, and losing several of her snacks in the process.

“Don’t play around like that!” He jumped up, picking her up, food and all, in his arms. “What if you fall?”

“Oh, Vegeta, really, how much of a clutz do you think I am?”

He just stared at her, his silence the only answer to that question.

“Put me down, husband!” she demanded, pointing her nose in the air and using her most regal tone of voice. Vegeta’s knees almost buckled, but he tightened his grasp on her instead. “Woman, don’t do that,” he said, referring to her ability to turn her words into irresistible commands. Damn flaw of the species, he thought. “What room are you going to?”

Bulma laughed against his chest. “Upstairs sitting room. I’m going to write in my journal a little.” “Mm.” Vegeta mumbled a vaguely affirmative acknowledgement and carried her up the steps to the second floor sitting room she preferred to his own study on this floor. Vegeta walked up the steps, thinking that he’d ask a few attendants to come over and swap the furniture in the two rooms. Maybe then Bulma would stay on the first floor, where she couldn’t fall down any steps.

Deep down, Vegeta knew he was being overprotective. It wasn’t like Bulma went keening down steps every other day, she was actually quite graceful in her own way. But, he thought, kissing the top of her head and depositing her in her favorite chair, he wasn’t taking any chances.

“Call for me when you want to come down, I’ll come get you.”

“Vegeta, I don’t need you to walk me up and down the steps! You’re being weird.”

“It’s this, or I tear the whole second floor off the estate,” he threatened.

“You wouldn’t.” she narrowed her eyes.

“Try me.” He kissed her lips. “I would destroy stars to keep you safe – a house is nothing to me.”

“Vegeta.” She smiled at him warmly and something in his chest tumbled over.

“Call for me when you want to come down.” He pinched her under the chin and went back downstairs.

About an hour passed in peace and quiet. Vegeta was buried in paperwork in his own study – preparations, requests, suggestions and plans were being made for his 30th birthday and since it was a celebration for the entire kingdom, it would take an unholy number of supplies. 100,000 barrels of beer, 200,000 barrels of wine, 75,000 barrels of spirits. The livestock required to feed an entire race a banquet – they’d have to trade for some. The Namekians would provide some of the entertainment, they could use their ki to create illusions and fantastic effects.

He was trying to do some meat-math when he heard an all-encompassing rumbling, the sound of thunder over top of him, a soft body making repeated painful impact and his own wife’s scream - and he ran from his study, papers scattering in a flurry. “BULMA!”

She was lying at the bottom of the steps, body curled tightly around her belly, crying her eyes out. “I told you to call for me, I told you I would come get you!” He scooped her off the floor, “What did you hit, where are you hurt?”

“I fell on the babies!” she wailed, burying her face in his chest. “I hit everything!” she cried and cried. He put her up on the high counter in the kitchen so that he was face to face with her bump.

“Shh, shh a minute,” he put a finger physically on her lips, ear to her belly. Strong heartbeat, one. He moved his head to the other side of her bump. Strong heartbeat, two. Vegeta let out a breath he didn’t know he’d been holding. “The babies are fine.” “Then why does it huuuuuuuuuuuurt,” she caterwauled.

“Because you fell down the stairs, you little fool,” he ruffled her hair to annoy her. “They’re upset because you’re upset.”

She pouted and cried. “My babies haaaate me!”

Pregnant women are terrifying, Vegeta thought to himself. Moods worse than an Oozaru. Of course, he said nothing, smoothing her hair down and getting something cold for her elbow, which was beginning to bruise deeply. Handing her the cold compress, he placed his hands on either side of her bump as she sat on the counter.

“Little warriors, come out and see your people.

Little royals, come out and see the land.

Little prince and little princess

Your Kingdom is at hand.”

Vegeta sang the old nursery rhyme he remembered his mother singing to him and his brother when they were being stubborn about one thing or another. His voice was deep and smooth, and so sweet. Bulma felt the pain in her belly subside and she would have sworn that the babies were listening, straining at the walls of their warm little world to hear what only they and their mother had ever heard – their father, singing.

And so the third tether was made, and The Boy learned the melody to the song he read in his mother’s journal as a little boy, and he saw the man his father could truly be.

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The King stood atop the battlement, looking up into the black of night at something darker still. He had sent lookouts 50 miles in every direction and when he saw the ki blast signal come from the watcher to the southeast, he knew Vegeta would be arriving soon. He hoped the lookout got away, and since he saw no further blasts of ki light up the night, there was a chance he did.

Now, the Dark Prince Vegeta loomed above his father’s head by 30 feet in the air, and was perhaps 40 feet away. Close enough for ki combat, not close enough for the physical restraints the King hoped to clap on his son until he could be relieved of this madness.

The Queen had been right – this was the work of the Mallumo miasma. His son’s entire body, even the whites of his eyes were covered in an inky blackness, no hint of his caramel skin remained, and his black Saiyan eyes were overthrown by an evil bloody red. Teeth far too white were displayed in a rictus grin drawn tight across his face.

“Father.” The Prince’s voice spoke.

“You are not my son.”

“But aren’t I? Aren’t I the one you sent to cause the death of millions, while you sat here comfortable and safe on your throne, with your Queeeeeen,” the Prince’s voice mocked and stretched the words out unnaturally. “Aren’t I the one you used to do all your dirty work, aren’t I the one this entire race used to carry out evils untold in the name of protecting someone they love?”

“Vegeta! Fight this!”

“Vegeetaaa, fight thisss.” The shadow mocked. “Vegeta has fled, coward that he is. I am the Dark Prince, here for my crown, here to show this worthless race what it is to create a Dark King!”

Dark Vegeta charged the King then, closing the gap between them in less than an instant, landing on the battlement just long enough to use its solidity as a launching point as flung himself, screaming his rage, at his father. They clashed brutally – elbows flying, teeth gnashing, feet and fists making shattering impact with their targets. The King locked his hands in the Dark Prince’s hair and delivered a crushing headbutt and the younger man staggered back, shaking stars from his head. He snapped his arms back, and deadly light filled his hands. He thrust them forward with a tortured scream in many voices, “GALLICK GUN!”

Light filled the corridor of the battlement, but King Vegeta fired his own ki wave back. Now it was down to who was the stronger man. They screamed. They felt the ki tear like electricity through their bodies, burning its way out of their hands in unstoppable waves.

Suddenly, the Dark Prince was tackled from behind and went hard to his knees. A crushing blow upon his head. A stab like fire through his middle. Heavy boots to his back, and a man cried, “NOW! THE RESTRAINTS, NOW!” It was Nappa’s voice, and Daiku was still pummeling him senseless. The King flew across the battlement, iron chains in his hands.

The Dark Prince reached up, grabbing Daiku’s hair and smashed his face into the rough stone of the battlement. Nappa was behind him in a flash. The Dark Prince drove an elbow into his ribs – snap, snap, snap went the bone. The King looped a chain around him. The Dark Prince spun and escaped its loop. He snatched the chain from the King’s grasping hands. The Dark Prince wound the iron chain around the King’s neck and with an almighty snarl, pulled the chain taut.

The King’s world went black.

He could smell the iron of the chain.

Taste the iron of his blood.

The Dark Prince hauled the King’s limp body to the edge of the battlement and kicked it off. The King plummeted to the ground, landing with a sickening crunch of bone.

The Dark Prince faced Nappa and Daiku. “All hail the King.”

#kotonari #vegebul au #fic #I'm tired af now #gonna eat some pizza and pass tf out #please reblog and comment to validate the fact that I spent 8 hours on this

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#27: Season 2, Episode 1 - “Starstruck”

Ruby desperately wants to win a radio contest to sit in on boyband BBMak’s recording session. Meanwhile, Louis finds an incredibly lucky penny and milks it for all it’s worth.

Wow, guys! Season 2 opens with the BBMak/Lucky Penny/Louis gets a makeover and looks smokin’ hot and Ruby develops a crush on him and I'm like "girl, same" episode!!! Let’s do this.

Alright, so within the first minute of this episode we learn that Ruby is absolutely obsessed with BBMak (a boyband that actually existed and is now unfortunately so irrelevant that some younger viewers of today assume they're a fictional band) and she’s trying to win a contest to go to their recording session when they come to Sacramento. She’s been listening to the radio on her pink, cheetah print walkman for hours on end trying to make sure she’s the lucky caller. Ren is concerned that her intense devotion may not be healthy.. but, Ruby insists she’s not obsessed with them. Her bedroom and behavior says otherwise:

At school the next day, Louis ends up finding a lucky penny which leads him to experience the best few days in a row ever. It kicks off with him narrowly escaping death and his big history test being canceled due to their teacher’s monkey having babies. The usual. If you binge watch the show, like I’ve done more times than I care to admit, the first few seconds of this scene are shocking because Louis' voice is obviously deeper and he looks obviously older. Yet according to Disney logic we're supposed to believe he's still in 7th grade, lol nah. Maybe at least the second half of 7th grade... We've gone over this before.

Louis seconds away from potentially dying over a penny.

Like I've mentioned, Disney is notoriously bad at airing episodes out of order. So here, we get an episode featuring Ren’s old friend Nelson. The only issue is that this aired 6 episodes before Thin Ice, which is Nelson’s formal introduction. The only explanation I can think of for this is that the Disney execs thought the BBMak thing would make a stronger season opener and switched up the airing order after they were already shot sequentially. I guess they assumed, or hoped, no one would notice or care that there's a new character we've never seen before just chilling with the gang like BFFs lol. According to Wiki at least, Season 2 was aired horrifically out of order when you compare the production code to the number it aired in the season. Like, WOW. For example, this episode was shot as Episode 13. I think that says it all.

No wonder Louis seems so jarringly older in this episode. He’s totally younger in the episodes that were supposed to air during the front half of S2.

Anyway, both Ren and Nelson are concerned about Ruby’s wellbeing now. She has practically turned into a fanatic zombie. They approach her and she says “I haven’t slept. I haven’t eaten. Do you really think I wanna chat?” completely zoned out of her mind. Yeah, I’d be worried too. We also see that she’s not doing her schoolwork either. Her entire binder is full of BBMak, including this rather disturbing pop-up:

Continuing his string of good luck, Louis gets to eat Principal Wexler’s extravagant birthday lunch for whatever reason and ends up winning a free fashion makeover courtesy of "Fruity Fruit Cocktail." ....ok. Tawny starts to get freaked out and Twitty simply says "I'm starting not to like you" which is understandable, because Louis is quickly slipping into another arrogant phase due to all of the luck he's been having.

Ren and Nelson give Ruby an intervention to stop her ridiculous obsession with BBMak and wanting to marry one of them. Why is this something that never goes out of relevancy? This is still happening today. It’s perhaps more relevant than ever with the rise of internet fandoms and socials like Tumblr. Teens are literally spiraling into genuine insanity over bands like never before. As long as there are teen idols, there will be teen idol fanatics. Can’t really go wrong with a plot-line like this. Ren tells her "You deserve a real life person who's gonna be perfect for you" - Ruby agrees and decides to turn over a new leaf.

The new and improved made-over Louis comes waltzing in, and just like that Ruby replaces her BBMak obsession with a Louis obsession. She’s just blown away by his beauty. Same, tbh. Y’all already know that I HAD THE BIGGEST CRUSH AND THIS EPISODE KILLED ME!!!! Now that I think about it, this very well might've been the episode that solidified my everlasting fondness for Shia LaBeouf.

This isn’t even overdramatic. Ruby is so me.

Even Ren and Nelson tell Louis that he looks stunning! Well, “stunning” was Louis’ word, not theirs. They just agreed with his conceitedness, lol. Suddenly a bird comes flying into the house and lands on Louis’ shoulder. Of course, it happens to be Pecky -- a missing bird with a $50 reward. OF COURSE!

The next day, Ruby happily tells Ren that she has officially moved on from BBMak. There’s a new guy in her life! Ren is so excited until Ruby reveals the new object of her affection to her:

Um, is this my room circa 2001 or Ruby’s? I honestly can’t tell. Also I would so buy that big’ol poster of Shia on her closet door. That thing has made a few appearances throughout the series. It’s kind of iconic looking, don’t you think? Maybe that’s just me...

Just thought I’d mention: Ren asks her “How did you get these pictures?!” and Ruby explains “I downloaded them from the internet. Louis has a very interesting website.” Do I even want to know? Aside from the implied potentially disturbing content, part of me wishes Disney had some sort of interactive fake louisstevens.com website or something like Nickelodeon did with amandaplease.com!

Tawny insists that Louis' lucky streak is nothing but “admittedly weird coincidences,” until Louis calls in to win the huge BBMak contest and......... wins. I love how he acts so blasé about it. The DJ is so excited and Louis is all "Eh.. What can I say? This whole charmed life thing is getting kinda old." Also, the DJ in this scene, who appears two more times in the series, was one of the many actors recycled for That’s So Raven. He played a news reporter on that show. Similar field. Huh.

Ren believes that Ruby is simply rebounding with Louis and decides to show her his nasty bedroom to make her realize she doesn't actually like him. Ren also tells Ruby that he’s rotten and selfish, which... Is kinda true sometimes, oops. But at the same time, that scene always makes me a little sad inside. Louis is a good guy at heart, Ren!!

Just then, Louis appears in the doorway asking "What are you doing in my room?" and we get this incredible exchange:

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Louis then proceeds to very unselfishly invite Ruby to the BBMak recording session which only reinforces her crush on him.

Okay. We finally make it to this darn recording session! Thank god. Louis might as well’ve brought his entire extended family because he brought four freaking people along with him like it’s some free for all. You usually don’t push your luck when you’re gifted something like that... but, oh yeah. Lucky penny. I freaking love this bit where Ren whispers to Ruby “Woo! He’s gorgeous...” referring to Christian from BBMak, and Ruby says “I know.......” in reference to Louis! LOL.

Ren is so disgusted and once again Ruby is me.

Shia has been gorgeous in my eyes for nearly my entire life!!!!!!!!! Apparently I'm weird because I've seen so many memes about him that say things like "He was that ugly, weird kid on Even Stevens and then he magically became good looking" I'm just sitting here like??? Y'all are about 14 years late to the party.

Louis and Twitty get distracted by a table with free cheese on it, which honestly is the best part of any and every function or gathering. Not even gonna lie. While hanging around the cheese table, Twitty decides to seize the opportunity and give BBMak an Alan Twitty Project demo tape of “Sacramento Girl.” (YESSSSS!) They lie and say they’ll check it out — but immediately stuff it under a block of cheese. As a musician, I can confirm that this is too real. It’s impossible to get successful/established artists to take you seriously. I met Fall Out Boy at a local radio junket once and slipped Pete Wentz a demo. I never heard anything, sooo... It stings to know that he most likely hid it under some cheese the second I left.

BBMak are looking for a ‘Sacramento sound’ (whatever that is) and encourage Louis to play some tambourine on their track! They tell him “If this works out, you could come on tour with us!” If only it was that easy to land a national gig in real life. Ruby mentions in passing that she needs to tell Louis how she feels, and TAWNY IS NOT HAVIN’ IT! Omg. She kinda gets jealous of Ruby’s crush and they start a small argument over him. Ren cannot believe what she's witnessing and I love it. Also, Christy looks fantastic here? Whoever did her hair and makeup: Good job!! wow!

Unfortunately, Ruby’s attraction to him is short-lived and comes to a screeching halt the second Louis loses his penny during his tambo solo, jumping around like a lunatic with no rhythm. (Again, HOW does he become a drummer later on? It’s a mystery.) It’s very subtle, but you can tell once Ruby starts finding Louis "odd and annoying," that Tawny is secretly happy about it and still obviously likes him unconditionally even though he's literally insane. Same, Tawny.

So, yeah. Louis loses his penny and his luck runs out. BBMak basically kick him out of the studio. I love how Louis asks them “What about the record and the touring?! What about BBMak-Stevens?!” as if the conversation ever went that far. It’s great. I might’ve spoke too soon about Shia being gorgeous because the faces he makes when he realizes the penny is missing from his pocket are the furthest thing from the adjective:

It is hysterical, however. And that outweighs everything else here, so.

This episode ends on an AMAZING note: A super cringy music video for “Sacramento Girl”! What more could you ask for?!?! We get some Twitty-Stevens Connection action here and it’s something to behold. 😂 Be on the lookout for Shia doing his classic “shirt-over-the-head” thing he does, HAHA. You can tell some of the vocals were done by middle-aged men (probably Jim Wise) which makes it even more hilarious. My favorite lyric has got to be the Grammy award worthy: “Before I met the girl I had it made... Now she scores higher than the whole arcade. YEAH!” And of course, the episodes’ immortal last words "TAKE THAT, BBMAK!!!!" will go down in history.

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That’s it! I honestly don’t even know why I’m ranking this one “lower.” It’s probably one of my personal favorites but.. Idk man. There are simply other episodes that I like more, lol. This is a totally solid episode though! Super memorable, pretty strong humor (including music-related humor... which you know I love!), and two awesome plot-lines that blend really well! But, even with all of that.. something felt slightly flat about it when re-watching. It could possibly just be from me watching these episodes waaay too much, tbh. It also probably has something to do with it being a “special” episode with guest stars and whatnot. Episodes like that tend to feel like totally separate things to me.

At this point, we’ve officially reached the REALLY REALLY GOOD part of the list, though. So I don’t feel too bad about placing it here. There are no “bad” episodes from here on out. Well, there are no bad episodes of Even Stevens in general really. But.. you guys know what I mean.

I’m probably gonna regret and rethink this entire list once I finish it anyway so, lol.

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for the dnd character ask thing, it's kind of awkward because i can probably guess/know most of miri's and patrin's either haven't been revealed or would be ~~spoilers~~ and you're kinda keeping him close to the chest atm. but i'll ask some anyways i guess! for patrin: 4, 24, 26; for miri: 14, 15; for both: 12, 13, 17, 25, 27, 28. you don't have to answer all of them if you don't want of course.

Haha jokes on you I love to talk about myself and my characters are an extension of myself. (Cut because this is, admittedly, very long.)

Patrin Lvl3 (I think. We didn’t hit 4 yet, did we???) Eldritch Knight

4. Are they formally trained or have they gone through a more organic learning experience for their skillset?Hah. Organic. Very.

24. Do they have any interesting skills?Well I think the fact that he can fucking mjolnir summon his weapon is pretty fucking interesting, but like, characterwise… he’s a leatherworker?? Idk he’s not a super interesting dude.

26. Expansion of civilization or the preservation of nature?That’s a hard one. I wanna say expansion of civilization? Because his main thing is Protecting People, and that lawful good shit would probably see civilization as the best way to do that.

12. What’s their favorite beverage?Probably a nice hearty ale. He’s a boring ass middle aged man like that.

13. If they can use magic, what’s their favorite spell?Patrin… has spells. That is a thing that he has. He has yet, in the… two? sessions we’ve had, used them. He’s not a fan of magic. Unless you count summoning his weapon. Because that shit is boss.

17. What’s their favorite food?Something nice and simple and homey. Some traditional dragonborn dish that reminds him of home and family and easier times.

25. Favorite animal?Horses? Cows? Some other practical animal? Patrin is a simple dude. No wait, I take it back. He has a soft spot for songbirds for Reasons I will not reveal due to my fellow players probably reading this. (Also this gives him a tie to Miri, which I totally did not intend, but I love regardless.)

27. They’re at a tavern. They bump into a big burly angry drunk with a combative attitude. What happens?He would probably try to talk the person down, fail, and then beat the shit out of them as soon as they threw a punch. But nicely! Unless they threatened someone he cared about.

28. What do they do between quests?Grieve. That’s all I can really say without giving away backstory things. Patrin is consumed and driven by his grief. It is in every action he takes.

Miri Lvl7 Bard

14. Most heroic thing they have ever done?Oh shit, that’s a good question for Miri. I guess that fight where we shoved the dwarves in the bags of holding and fuckin ran to avoid a tpk? Which doesn’t sound heroic when explained like that, but Miri isn’t generally one to risk her life for other people, but she did, for her friends.

15. Most despicable thing they have ever done? Probably sending that poor dude to his death. (Which wasn’t entirely her fault! All he was supposed to do was lie to his boss!) But basically she unceremoniously pierced his ear then shoved him away to lie to the big bad he had been working for. (And she did feel a bit bad about it when he got killed, not that she’d ever admit it.)

12. What’s their favorite beverage?Depends on her mood. She does enjoy a good hard liquor like whiskey, especially in bad times, but she’s a sucker for a nice sweet wine too.

13. If they can use magic, what’s their favorite spell?DIMENSION DOOR. I’ve only had it for like, the last two sessions and Miri has already used it like 3 times? Miri is squishy af and she knows it, so being able to bamf out when necessary is fuckin great. Not to mention she is still very invested in saving her own skin, so.

17. What’s their favorite food?Meat. Miri is very much a meat and potatoes person like me. She loves red meat and salty, fatty foods. It’s a byproduct of being technically homeless for most of her life. She’s drawn to filling foods.

25. Favorite animal?Rats, obviously. In addition to her baby Ilmater endearing her to rats, she still sees herself as sort of a street rat of society. An unwanted pest that they allow to exist, as long as she doesn’t make too much trouble, because it would take more effort to get rid of than is worth it.

27. They’re at a tavern. They bump into a big burly angry drunk with a combative attitude. What happens?DISTRACTION! Miri would probably give ‘em the old razzle dazzle (in whatever way necessary, up to and including turning that anger on a random passerby) until they forgot that they were pissed at her, and failing that, she would call in Ovak to be her muscle

28. What do they do between quests?Currently? There hasn’t been a time between quests long enough for Miri to really DO anything, but if there was, she would take that time to freak the fuck out. There are so many gods, and they’re expected to kill a couple of them, and her family is apparently a part of a long line of very evil people?? yet there is a litERAL GOD CHOOSING HER AS HIS CHAMPION WHAT THE FUCK. It’s a lot to take in. Miri is overwhelmed.

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Dow up 11%, gold surging

All eyes are on Congress to pass a much-needed stimulus bill to rescue the economy from the coronavirus damage. The stock market is staging a turnaround with the Dow rebounding from its 2016 low. Here’s what’s happening:

4:01 pm: Down ends the session up 11%, posts best day since 1933

Stocks closed on their session highs on Tuesday as investors grew optimistic about a sweeping fiscal stimulus deal to prop up the economy hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. The Dow soared 2,100 points, or 11.2%, to post its best day since March 1933. It’s also the largest point gain for the 30-stock benchmark ever. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq jumped 9.3% and 8.1%, respectively. — Li

3:42 pm: Stocks jump to session highs

With just 20 minutes of trading left, stocks accelerated gains with the Dow jumping 1,940 points, or 10.44%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are up 8.8% and 7.6%, respectively. – Stevens

3:20 pm: Homebuilders ETF (ITB) on pace for best day since 2008

The iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF (ITB) jumped more than 14%, putting it on track for its best day since 2008. New home sales came in at 765,000 for February, which topped analysts expectations of 743,000, according to estimates from FactSet. The January number was also revised to 800,000 from 764,000. Stocks leading the ETF higher included KB Home and Toll Brothers, each of which gained 32%. – Stevens

2:58 pm: Final hour of trading: Stocks rally on hopes of fiscal stimulus

With roughly one hour left in the trading session, the Dow was up 1,700 points, or 9.1%, as investors cheered the apparent progress made in Washington over potential fiscal stimulus amid the coronavirus outbreak. Those gains lifted the Dow off of its lowest levels since late 2016. —Imbert

2:52 pm: Retail investors sell equities at record pace

Amid the coronavirus-induced market sell-off, retail investors have sold stocks at a record pace, according to Saut Strategy founder Jeffrey Saut. He said that Monday was the single largest day of selling in his data’s history, and that it was the eighth straight day of retail investors offloading equities. Over that stretch, investors sold a total of $5.5 billion worth of stocks, which is roughly $700 million per day. “For context, in the Q418 sell-off they [retail investors] sold for 24 straight days, for a total of $8.5bn,” he said. Many experts say retail investors should try to resist the urge to time the market, which is difficult even for professional investors. Selling at the wrong time can not only lock in losses, but also puts investors at risk of missing the market’s best days, which typically follow the worst, according to analysis from Bank of America. Additionally, Goldman Sachs found that “households,” which they define as retail investors as well as some professionals such as hedge funds, are the only subset of shareholders that have “sold equities during each bear market since 1950.” – Stevens, Imbert

2:34 pm: Trump, Pence held call on economy with investors including Paul Tudor Jones

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence held a call with top money managers to discuss the coronavirus impact on the economy, according to sources. Investors on the call included Third Point’s Dan Loeb, Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman, Vista Equity’s Robert Smith, Intercontinental Exchange’s Jeffrey Sprecher and Paul Tudor Jones, hedge fund manager and co-founder of JUST Capital. The call with some of Wall Street’s top investors and hedge fund leaders was focused on how they are viewing markets and the U.S. economy, less about potential actions the administration could take to mitigate the impact of the outbreak. the people familiar with the matter said. — Franck

2:06 pm: Coca-Cola CEO says supply chain is ‘creaking around the world’ due to coronavirus

Coca-Cola is feeling the strain of the coronavirus pandemic on its supply chain. “The supply chain is creaking around the world. There are flash points when it’s getting a little harder to get ingredients through, whether it’s delays at the borders, the big changes in channel mix,” CEO James Quincey said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” In the United States, the beverage giant is seeing heightened demand from grocery stores and e-commerce channels for its drinks as consumers stockpile food and beverages in preparation for spending more time at home. As a result, the company is focusing on producing the products most important to its business, such as water, soda and sports drinks. —Amelia Lucas

1:56 pm: Trump says he wants to ‘reopen’ the economy by Easter

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’d like to “reopen” the U.S. economy by Easter despite the rapid coronavirus contagion that’s forced many states to shutter their businesses. Trump’s remarks came in a Fox News “virtual town hall” event at the White House. Easter is April 12, less than three weeks away. “We’re opening up this incredible country. Because we have to do that. I would love to have it open by Easter,” Trump said. “I would love to have that. It’s such an important day for other reasons, but I’d love to make it an important day for this. I would love to have the country opened up, and rarin’ to go by Easter.” — Franck

1:49 pm: Italy coronavirus deaths rise by 743 in a day, lifting death toll to 6,820

The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has grown by 743 to 6,820 in the last 24 hours, the head of the Civil Protection Agency said on Tuesday, reversing a decline in fatalities seen over the last two days. On Monday 602 people died. That followed 650 deaths on Sunday and 793 on Saturday — the highest daily figure since the contagion came to light on Feb. 21. The total number of confirmed cases in Italy rose to 69,176 from a previous 63,927, an increase of 8.2%, in line with Monday’s growth rate, the Civil Protection Agency said. Traders are watching Italy coronavirus numbers to get an idea of a timeline when U.S. cases may peak. —Reuters

1:28 pm: Lawmakers edge toward deal on $25 billion in cash coronavirus aid for airlines

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill were close to a deal that would include $25 billion in grants for airlines struggling from the impact of the coronavirus, a person briefed on the discussions said Tuesday. The aid would be a resounding victory for airlines, their lobbyists and the labor unions that argued loans alone would not be enough to preserve jobs. Airline shares surged on news that lawmakers were nearing a deal. In early-afternoon trading, American was up 33%, United rose 23% and Delta was nearly 20% higher. — Josephs

1:22 pm: Jobless claims will be north of 3 million for last week, Morgan Stanley says

Morgan Stanley predicts 3.4 million people filed for unemployment last week, the firm’s chief U.S. economist, Ellen Zentner, said on “The Exchange.” “That’s a one-week number … That’s incredible,” she said. “What we’re now focused on is what the shape of growth will look like on the other side of that as the social distancing measures start to recede.” – Stankiewicz

12:42 pm: Stocks extend gains, Dow now on track for best day since 2008

The market comeback accelerated in early afternoon trading with the Dow jumping more than 1,800 points, or 9.7%, on pace for its best day since 2008. Chevron rallied more than 19%, the biggest winner in the 30-stock benchmark. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite soared 8.5% and 7.3%, respectively. — Li

12:00 pm: VIX falls

The Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) — Wall Street’s preferred fear gauge — dropped more than 3 points, or 6.4%, to 57.63. The VIX eclipsed its financial crisis high last week, closing at 82.69. To be sure, the index is still high relative to other periods in history and still suggests sharp moves may be in store for stocks. —Imbert

11:55 am: Markets at midday: Stimulus deal hopes send Dow up 8%

Around midday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up more than 8%, or roughly 1,500 as investors cheered increasing prospects of U.S. lawmakers moving forward with a coronavirus economic stimulus bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told CNBC’s Jim Cramer there is “real optimism” in Congress over a stimulus deal being reached. —Imbert

11:15 am: Cruise stocks soar

Shares of Royal Caribbean, Carnival, and Norwegian Cruise Line each jumped 27%, 21% and 32% respectively. Investors in cruise stocks were hopeful that a U.S. stimulus package, which Congress hopes to agree to on Tuesday, will include bailouts for the industry that has been hit hard by the coronavirus crisis. – Sheetz

11:07 am: Analyst calls of the day

Analysts upgraded a bunch of stocks as markets look for a rebound, including Nvidia, Tesla, Zillow & more

Needham upgraded Nvidia to buy from hold.

Morgan Stanley upgraded Virgin Galactic to overweight from equal weight.

DA Davidson upgraded Zillow to buy from neutral.

Wedbush upgraded Deckers to outperform from neutral.

UBS upgraded Tesla to neutral from sell.

UBS downgraded Ford to neutral from buy.

Raymond James upgraded Cigna to strong buy from outperform.

Goldman Sachs upgraded Intel to neutral from sell.

Telsey upgraded Dollar Tree to outperform from market perform.

Argus downgraded Tesla to hold from buy.

Bernstein upgraded Spotify to market perform from underperform.

CNBC Pro subscribers can read more here. — Bloom

10:52 am: Goldman says buy gold now: ‘Time to buy the currency of last resort’

Gold prices jumped more than 6% on Tuesday, putting the precious metal on track for its best day in 11 years, and Goldman Sachs believes the Federal Reserve’s latest stimulus package will prompt investors to seek out the safe-haven asset and drive prices even higher. “Time to buy the currency of last resort,” Jeffrey Currie, Goldman Sachs’ global head of commodities research, succinctly summed up in a note to clients Monday night.The firm is “increasingly confident” about its 12-month target of $1,800 per ounce, which is roughly 8% higher than where gold futures currently trade. —Stevens

10:28 am: Stock market ‘will be crushed’ if relief deal stalls, Cramer says

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said after his interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on “Squawk on the Street” that it was urgent that the Democrats and Republicans reach a deal on economic relief on Tuesday. “Obviously, if they don’t come together in the next 24 hours it’s a different world for all of us,” Cramer said. Cramer took issue with some of the items Pelosi says she wants included in the bill but said he expected an agreement to be reached. “Anything that advances the ball is something with neutral language. That said, the Speaker is a complete pro at getting things done and knows that the country will feel very let down, and obviously the markets will be crushed. If I were a betting person, and felt like it was okay to go in when the S&P was up 5.85%, you better believe there’s going to be a deal today.” — Pound

10:26 am: Rally accelerates on stimulus deal hopes, Dow now up 1,400 points

The market comeback gained steam in morning trading with the Dow jumping more than 1,400 points. The S&P 500 popped 6.6% and the Nasdaq rose 6.2%. Optimism is rising that Congress can reach an agreement on a coronavirus stimulus plan in the next few hours. — Li

10:21 am: Airline stocks surge on hope of a stimulus bill

Shares of United, Delta, American and Southwest each rose at least 10% in early trading as investors heard optimism from Congress on a coronavirus stimulus deal being reached on Tuesday. The stocks of the four big U.S. airlines have been decimated in recent weeks by the slowdown in travel. — Sheetz

10:09 am: The S&P 500 could be back to 2,800 soon and all-time highs by year-end, Fundstrat’s Tom Lee says

While the stock market feels “broken” in recent weeks amid the coronavirus sell-off, equity strategist Tom Lee of Fundstrat sees a V-shape recovery ahead, with the S&P 500 recovering half of its losses as soon as next month and potentially all of its losses later this year. If a market bottom occurs this week, the S&P 500 could trek back to the 2,800 level as soon as April, said Lee. This would mean the index rallies about 25% in the next few weeks. This is still well off the S&P 500′s all time high of 3,393.52 on Feb. 19.

Fundstrat looked at 10 stock market drawdowns of about 30% since 1920 and found that the time needed to recover half of the losses during those pullbacks, was half the duration of the decline, the firm said. The median ratio for recovery is 0.5x, the most recent example being in 2002 and during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. “In 2020, this means, a six week decline would require 3 weeks to recover 50% back,” said Lee, landing the S&P 500 at 2,800 as soon as April. A 100% recovery take on average three to four months, meaning a 3,400 around summertime. – Fitzgerald

9:47 am: Speaker Nancy Pelosi tells CNBC there is ‘real optimism’ on virus deal

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told CNBC’s Jim Cramer that there’s “real optimism” that Congress can reach a stimulus deal to combat the impact of COVID-19 within the next few hours. The California Democrat has critiqued versions of the GOP’s developing legislation for what she says is too little support for workers and too much support for corporations. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are leading the effort on Capitol Hill to finalize the stimulus bill. — Franck

9:45 am: South Korea stocks surge

The iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (EWY) popped 11.8% on Tuesday, on pace for its best day since Nov 21, 2008 when the EWY gained 18.79%. The ETF consists of 110 large and mid-sized companies in South Korea. — Francolla, Li

9:42 am: G7 finance ministers, central bankers pledge to do ‘whatever is necessary’

The key financial leaders from G7 nations said in a statement Tuesday that they will do “whatever is necessary to restore confidence and economic growth and to protect jobs, businesses, and the resilience of the financial system.”In addition to major efforts by the Federal Reserve, other central banks around the world have also announced major programs to help support economies during the pandemic, including the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.The central banks “pledge to maintain expansionary policies for as long as needed and stand ready to take further action, using the full range of instruments consistent with our mandates,” the statement said. — Pound

9:31 am: Dow jumps 1,100 points at the open

Major stock averages opened Tuesday’s session in the green on hopes for a massive fiscal stimulus deal. The Dow climbed 1,100 points after hitting its lowest closing level since November 2016 on Monday. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 5.1% and 4.8%, respectively. — Li

9:09 am: Gold futures pop 6% amid extraordinary central bank actions

Futures contracts tied to gold popped more than 6.5%. Gold prices are now up 12% this week alone after the Fed pledged unlimited asset purchases to support the markets, the latest in extraordinary central bank actions across the globe to fight off a coronavirus-induced recession. Investors are betting the central bank actions will lead to broad currency debasement and possible inflation, leaving gold as the best alternative.— Melloy

8:12 am: Chevron CEO says the dividend is the company’s No. 1 priority and is ‘very secure’

Energy companies are coming under pressure as oil prices sink, but Chevron CEO Michael Wirth said the company has no plans to slash its dividend. “Our dividend is our number one priority and it’s very secure,” he said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “We’re taking actions to preserve cash. It will have some impact on production in the near term, but we’ve stayed with our financial priorities, which include protecting the dividend.”

On Tuesday the oil giant said it will cut its capital spending plans for 2020 by 20% and suspend its buyback program in an effort to reduce costs. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude prices have been nearly cut in half over the last month as oil gets hit on both the demand and supply side. “This is the fourth time in my career I’ve seen prices drop by more than 50% in a very short period of time. We’ve been here before, we know what to do, we’re taking action,” Wirth said. — Stevens

8:03 am: Analyst Dick Bove sees ‘major’ rally, these banks to benefit

Stimulus from the Federal Reserve and Congress will lead to a “major market rally [that] is likely to occur immediately” and will benefit bank stocks, Odeon Capital banking analyst Dick Bove says. Specifically, Bove said he likes JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America among the big banks and M&T Bank and SVB Financial among the regionals. Also, he lists preferred shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Finally, he upgraded Wells Fargo and Comerica from sell to hold. Bove last week estimated that banks as a sector could see an earnings drop of 90% this year, and he said in his Tuesday note that he has not changed that outlook though the current situation presents a trading opportunity. – Cox

7:48 am: Rising hopes for a massive stimulus deal

Senate leaders and the Trump administration are moving closer to reaching an agreement on a $2 trillion stimulus deal to blunt the negative economic impact from the coronavirus pandemic. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said he expects an agreement on Tuesday. “We expect to have an agreement tomorrow morning,” Schumer told reporters Monday night. “There are still a few little differences. Neither of us think they are in any way going to get in the way of a final agreement.” Negotiations on the bill were set to continue Tuesday morning. Democrats have twice blocked the Senate Republican rescue plan.— Li

7:45 am: Morgan Stanley says to buy Virgin Galactic’s stock

The firm upgraded Virgin Galactic back to overweight from equal-weight, with the stock below $13 after topping $40 last month. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas said that “the world has changed … however, the story and the balance sheet remains intact.” He added that Virgin Galactic has “a healthy cash position�� of about $500 million and an estimated $16 million per month cash burn, so the space tourism company has over 2 1/2 years of runway. —Sheetz

7:30 am: Travel, airline stocks surge

Some of the stocks worst hit in the coronavirus sell-off have gained steam in pre-market trading Tuesday. With potential relief for the aerospace industry getting closer, Delta Airlines rose 9.6% pre-market, while United climbed 8.9%. Boeing gained 9.8%. Gambling stocks Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts jumped 7.5% and 9.3%, respectively. Royal Caribbean‘s stock surged 8.6%, while shares of hotel company Hilton rose 7.4%. Darden Restaurants, down about 60% for the year, gained nearly 8%. — Pound

7:22 am: Coronavirus global cases top 387,000

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world has surpassed 387,000 with deaths breaking above 16,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. In the U.S. alone, cases have shot up to more than 46,000 while deaths total nearly 600. Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee issued a stay-at-home order on Monday to curb the virus outbreak. In the UK, residents are now in lockdown. — Imbert

7:20 am: Trump says US businesses will reopen ‘fairly soon’

President Donald Trump is eager to get U.S. businesses operating again even as his administration battles the coronavirus and health officials are encouraging Americans to stay home. During a news briefing Monday, Trump vowed, “At some point we’re going to open up our country, and it will be fairly soon.” Asked whether that would be weeks or months, he said, “I’m not looking at months.” The U.S. has seen 46,450 coronavirus cases so far and nearly 600 deaths. – Cox

7:15 am: Stock futures hit ‘limit up’

Stocks are set to rally as optimism rose that a fiscal stimulus deal could be reached as soon as Tuesday. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 930 points, or 5%, hitting the so-called “limit up” levels, the upper trading curb mandated by the exchange to tame volatility. Contracts on the S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 were also up 5% and “limit up.” The S&P 500 SPDR ETF was up 5.3% in premarket trading.

The premarket moves followed another painful day for stocks with the Dow hitting its lowest closing level since November 2016 and wiping out its Trump-era gains briefly. — Li

With reporting from CNBC’s Thomas Franck, Jeff Cox, Maggie Fitzgerald, Michael Bloom, John Melloy, Gina Francolla, Pippa Stevens and Michael Sheetz.

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via Today Bharat nbsp; The coronavirus outbreak has been reported in over 80 countries, with the death toll pegged at 3,280 and 95,400 people infected. Of these, China has reported 3,012 deaths and 80,409 positive cases. Coronavirus outbreak: An employee puts stripes on protective face masks at Destra Brasil factory in Sao Paulo, Brazil.The coronavirus outbreak has been reported in over 80 countries, with the death toll pegged at 3,280 and 95,400 people infected. Of these, China has reported 3,012 deaths and 80,409 positive cases. The World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday said the mortality rate of the virus was 3.4 per cent. In comparison, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) killed about 10 per cent of patients infected, while the seasonal flursquo;s death rate is 0.1 per cent. After China, South Korea accounts for the most number of cases at 5,766, with 35 deaths. In Italy, meanwhile, over 100 deaths have been reported and more than 3,000 people infected by the virus. Iran has also announced that the death toll as on Thursday is 107. Iran and Italy have the worldrsquo;s highest death tolls outside of China. Coronavirus and the global economyThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected a lower growth rate for 2020, below the 2.9 per cent expansion achieved in 2019. In January, it had estimated a 3.3 per cent growth as US-China trade tensions eased. Addressing the press, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the spread of the virus would take global output gains to their slowest pace since the 2008 financial crisis. The Fund also announced a $50 billion package to help poor and middle-income countries with weak health systems respond to the epidemic. Asian shares rallied for the fourth consecutive session Thursday, tracking US markets. Dow surged 4.5 per cent, while the Samp;P 500 gained 4.22 per cent and the Nasdaq 3.85 per cent. Japanrsquo;s Nikkei rose 0.9 per cent; Australian shares traded 1.1 per cent higher and Shanghai blue chips put on 1.3 per cent. In India, the Sensex jumped nearly 300 points in early trade, while the broader Nifty rose nearly 50 points. A worker wearing protective gear sprays disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus outbreak, in the departure terminal at the Rafik Hariri International Airport, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, March 5, 2020. The novel coronavirus has infected more than 80,000 people globally, causing around 2,700 deaths, mainly in China. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Iran announces 15 more deaths, total toll rises to 107Iran Thursday announced 15 more deaths, raising the total number of casualties due to coronavirus to 107. It has also said that at least 3513 cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed so far. Tehranrsquo;s health minister has also said that schools and universities will be closed until early April because of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, as reported by AFP. ldquo;People should not consider this as an opportunity to go travelling. They should stay home and take our warnings seriously,rdquo; Saeed Namaki said at a televised press conference. The country announced that it will be setting up checkpoints to limit travel between major cities and urged citizens to reduce their use of paper money to fight a spreading outbreak of the new coronavirus. CHINArsquo;S BELT AND ROAD PLANChinarsquo;s Belt and Road Plan is getting lashed by coronavirusThe deadly coronavirus outbreak is prompting delays and disruptions to Chinarsquo;s construction and investment plans overseas, risking years of planning and hundreds of billions of dollars in economic diplomacy. Japan to quarantine all passengers arriving from China, South KoreaJapan will quarantine all passengers arriving from China and South Korea, the countryrsquo;s prime minister said Thursday, as the government ramps up measures to contain an outbreak of the new coronavirus. ldquo;We will strengthen immigration quarantines on people from the two countries,rdquo; Shinzo Abe told a cabinet-level task force meeting on the virus. We will ask them to stay in designated areas for two weeks and not to use public transport,rdquo; Abe added, saying the measures would come into force from March 9. Countries around the world are evacuating citizens, diplomatic staffHere are some countriesrsquo; evacuation plans, and how they aim to manage the health risk from those who are returning. * Hong Kong arranged four flights to bring back 533 of its residents from the Chinese province of Hubei. The flights are set to return by March 5 and those coming back face a 14-day quarantine upon arrival.* Over 200 Hong Kong residents on the Diamond Princess cruise in Japan had been flown back by Feb. 23 and are spending two weeks in quarantine. Authorities said 70 of the 364 Hong Kong residents on the ship were infected and will remain in Japan along with other citizens who were in close contact with them.* Dependants and some staff were evacuated from the British embassy in Tehran as of March 1 but essential staff will remain.* Some 30 British passengers arrived back home on Feb. 22 from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan. There were more than 70 British passengers on the cruise liner when cases of Covid-19 started to emerge.* Britainrsquo;s final evacuation flight from Wuhan, carrying more than 200 people, landed in Britain on Feb. 9. A plane carrying 83 British and 27 European Union nationals from Wuhan landed at the end of January.* Taiwan flew back 19 passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship on Feb. 21. It evacuated 247 of the estimated 500 Taiwanese stranded in Wuhan on Feb. 3. (https://bit.ly/2HOfYtg)* A flight carrying 129 Canadians evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship landed on Feb. 21. All repatriated passengers on the chartered flight had tested negative. There were 256 Canadians on board the ship, of which 47 have tested positive.* Canada, after evacuating 215 people earlier, flew back 185 citizens from Wuhan on Feb. 11. All evacuees were quarantined for two weeks.* More than 150 Australians arrived home on Feb. 20 to begin two weeks of quarantine after finally leaving the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Japan. There are two types of coronavirus, say researchersScientists in China believe there are two types of coronavirus that are causing infections. A preliminary study conducted by researchers from Peking University showed an aggressive type associated with the outbreak in Wuhan, which accounted for about 70 per cent of analysed strains, while 30 per cent was linked to a less aggressive type, reported Reuters. ldquo;These findings strongly support an urgent need for further immediate, comprehensive studies that combine genomic data, epidemiological data and chart records of the clinical symptoms of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19),rdquo; they wrote. Coronavirus detected in 80 countries as global toll rises to 3,280 Coronavirus outbreak: The Grand Princess cruise ship passes the Golden Gate Bridge as it arrives from Hawaii in San Francisco. Californiarsquo;s first coronavirus fatality is an elderly patient who apparently contracted the illness on a cruise. (Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)Coronavirus outbreak in the US: Toll rises to 11A resident of California succumbed to the coronavirus on Thursday, taking the toll due in the country to 11. This was the first fatality outside Washington state. The victim was an elderly person and had returned in February from a San Francisco-Mexico cruise, raising fears that more people could have contracted the infection on board. The ship, which is currently docked off Mexico, has been recalled to San Francisco. According to a report in The Associated Press, passengers on board The Grand Princess have been asked to isolate themselves in their cabins and contact a doctor if they develop any symptoms of the virus. According to NYT, at least 11 passengers and 10 crew members were showing symptoms of the virus. It quoted California Governor Gavin Newsom as saying at least 2,500 people had been aboard the ship. Japan keen to host Olympics despite coronavirus outbreakJapan has said it is committed to hosting the Olympics in July, despite COVID-19 spreading to new parts of the country mdash; one case has been reported in the Shiga prefecture. Japanrsquo;s Olympics minister told Parliament Thursday: ldquo;Based on the fact that the IOC never mentioned about cancelling or postponing the Tokyo Games at its meeting yesterday, I donrsquo;t expect a cancellation notice or anything of that sort.rdquo; Japan has confirmed 1,036 cases of coronavirus. Not just the Olympics, the sporting world has taken a big hit due to coronavirus. In Italy, for instance, all major events will be played without fans for one month. This includes top-flight Serie A soccer games. DOES HEAT KILL CORONAVIRUS?As summer approaches, scientists are watching whether the novel coronavirus will be affected by temperature. Temperature did affect the spread of the SARS-CoV infection, which also spreads by droplets like COVID-19. On the other hand, the MERS coronavirus spread in Saudi Arabia in the month of August. So, it's too early to say whether heat will kill the coronavirus. In drastic step, Italy bishops cancel weekday MassesIn a step believed to be unprecedented, Italyrsquo;s bishops Thursday ordered that Masses not be held during the week in churches in areas of the north of the country affected by coronavirus. Itrsquo;s widely believed to be the first such step taken in the country, the worst hit in Europe. Masses were not even cancelled when the plague struck Milan in the 17th century. A statement from the bishopsrsquo; conference said Masses would not be held from Monday to Saturday in churches in the Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna region as well as in the provinces of Savona in the Liguria region and Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region. Virus could cost airlines USD 113 bn revenue in 2020According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the airline industry could lose up to USD 113 billion in revenue this year due to the impact of the new coronavirus, an industry body warned Thursday, as the epidemic spreads rapidly worldwide. It estimated that revenue losses to airlinesrsquo; passenger business of between USD 63 billion and USD 113 billion mdash; with the higher figure for a scenario where the virus spreads more widely. Other global news on the coronavirus outbreak* The outbreak of the disease has led to Saudi Arabia banning pilgrims from visiting the holy city of Mecca. Iran has also cancelled Fridayrsquo;s Islamic prayers in all major cities. * Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britainrsquo;s economy was very robust and the government would give businesses the support they need to get through the coronavirus outbreak. * The James Bond film lsquo;No Time To Diersquo; has been delayed, and will now be released only on November 25. Donrsquo;t miss our story on how coronavirus is affecting Hollywood. Coronavirus detected in 80 countries as global toll rises to 3,280 Coronavirus outbreak: Tourists outside the Louvre in Paris, France. (Reuters Photo; Benoit Tessier)* The Louvre in Paris has reopened after a three-day closure. Employees have been briefed and measures have been taken mdash; such as distributing disinfectant gels and giving staff time to wash their hands mdash; in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Now, staff will only have to stand at the entrance to the room where Leonardo da Vincirsquo;s lsquo;Mona Lisarsquo; is kept, rather than inside. The museum will also no longer accept cash. * In Israel, the countryrsquo;s chief rabbi urged observant Jews to refrain from kissing the mezuza, the small box containing a prayer scroll that is posted by Jews on their doorposts. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also urged people to adopt the Indian greeting of ldquo;namasterdquo;, with hands together, rather than a handshake. * In Daegu, the South Korean city at the centre of that countryrsquo;s outbreak, a shortage of hospital space meant about 2,300 patients were being cared for in other facilities while they awaited a hospital bed. Prime Minister Chung Se-Kyun sought to assure people in the southeastern city, saying, ldquo;We will win the war against COVID-19.rdquo; * British artist Eric Drass has released what he says is the lsquo;sound of COVID-19rsquo;. He has based his track on the DNA sequence of the coronavirus after the genome sequence was released by The National Center for Biotechnology Information of the NIH. He then converted the sequence into musical notes. Coronavirus outbreak in India: Toll 30; Govt in touch with IranThe number of people infected by the coronavirus in India rose to 30 on Thursday, including 16 Italian tourists and their driver, three people in Kerala (who have recovered), one in Hyderabad, two in New Delhi, one in Ghaziabad, and six in Agra. The government has ramped up efforts to screen passengers arriving from other countries. The latest was from Ghaziabad, where a local tested positive for coronavirus. ldquo;A Ghaziabad local has been confirmed positive of Coronavirus. The patient had travelled to Tehran earlier. The administration tracked him down three days ago following which he was sent to Delhi and is currently receiving treatment. The patientrsquo;s wife and child are being kept in observation at home. Another sample of a local has been sent who had also travelled to an infected region. That result is awaited. A health advisory will be issued soon,rdquo; Ajay Shankar Pandey, DM Ghaziabad, said. Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan gave a statement in Parliament today on how India is tacking the virus. He claimed measures have been taken since January 17 this year. ldquo;I am reviewing the situation daily. A Group of Ministers is also monitoring the situation,rdquo; he told members. With an estimated 1,200 Indians stranded in Iran, Vardhan also said the government was in touch with the West Asian nation regarding evacuation of its nationals. Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar later said a medical team would reach Iran today, and a screening clinic would be set up at Qom by this evening. ldquo;Screening process will start immediately thereafter. Working on logistics of return with Iranian authorities,rdquo; he tweeted.

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janehopperra · 4 years

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So in order to take back some of the order on my blog, I’m gonna keep the tally for today’s stuff on one post, then when I’m done watching tomorrow, I’ll put that tally on here as well.

This is also to save the dashes of whoever likes to keep them clean. I apologize for the mass ooc. I just finally felt like I could safely let my saltiness over s3 run rampant.

Bad: The makeout scene Good: Will taking care of everyone in the party making sure everyone has snacks for the theatre Bad 2: Mike being a whiny brat right off the bat Good 2: Steve immediately flicking the switch on and off to spite Robin Good 3: Jane playing pranks with the party with her telekinesis. Bad 3: The Karen and Billy Thing Good 4: IT IS CONSTANT… CONSTANT. Bad 4: ‘Curfew at 4:00pm’ Bad 5: The apparent focus of Will’s character only being that he’s jealous of Mike and Jane and also that he can sense the mindflayer. literally nothing else. Bad 6: Karen and Billy Again Bad 7: Joyce eating tv dinner alone while thinking about bob :( Bad 8: Makeout scene 2.0 Good 5: Hopper yeeting himself to another plane of existence in the next room Bad 9: Mike whispering to Jane right in front of Hop ( As if I didn’t find this creepy enough ) Bad 10: I gotta admit Hop lying about Mike’s grandma is bad Good 6: Hop being an actual dad and placing boundaries between Mike and El makes up for that though. Like that needed to happen. Bad 11: Dustin being left alone at the radio tower. Bad 12: Karen??? what the fuck are you doing??? Good 7: Karen coming to her senses. Bad 13: Billy.. jfc

First episode - 7-13

Good 8: Boundary establishing actually working. Bad 14: Mike lying through his teeth, keeping the lie up even after Karen caught him in it. Bad 15: “You lie?” “What? No! Friends don’t lie!” Good 9: Hop scream singing his song in the Blazer. Bad 16: Nancy’s boss being an absolute??? Jerkwad??? They were that way in the 80′s to women yeah but yikes. Good 10: Dustin and Steve’s handshake Good 11: ‘Mike’s a piece of shit!’ Snaps fingers hell yeah he is Bad 17: ‘You don’t understand lucas! He’s lost his mind!’ How about stop??? Blaming other people??? For how you acted Mike??? You had a choice not to lie dumbass. Bad 18: The boys acting like this is some sort of battlefield where you need combat strategies when in reality you need to speak the truth. Bad 19: Them constantly leaving Will hanging, poor boy just wants to play dnd :( Bad 20: More Karen and Billy like tf Thank god Billy told her to stay away Good 12: The girls going out and having fun!!! To hell with the boys!!!! Bad 21: Joyce forgetting about Hop to solve the magnet issue ( wasn’t her fault but yeah ) Good 13: The Material Girl skit!!! The photographer session! High heels! Jane pranking the binch that rejected Dustin at the snow ball. There’s more to life than stupid boys! Bad 22: “Can we play DND now???” “NO!!!!” Bad 23: Mike trying to change the subject and recoiling when he’s caught at the mall, like he thought he would get away with the lie??? Good 14: I dump your ass. Bad 24: The face Mike makes when Jane walks away, like you’d think if he’s so??? in love he’d be at least a little more devastated??? He looks like a brat. ( No offense to the actor he’s great, the character’s a brat ) Good 15: IT’S CUTTING EDGE STUFF MAN!!! Bad 25: Hop being left at Enzo’s :((( He was so excited man Good 16: The scoops troop solving stuff. Bad 26: Hop taking the whole bottle of alcohol and leaving, kind of shit faced, DRIVES HOME SHITFACED. You’re a cop, Hop! For fuck’s sake.

Episode 2 mark - 16-26

Good 17: Jane and Max acting like best friends Bad 27: “I don’t understand what I did to deserve this why is she treating me this way I’m the victim” I honestly can’t. Bad 28: ‘We’re trying to solve the great mystery of the female species’ oh yikes. Bad 29: Hop arriving home drunk and barging into Jane’s room thinking Mike was with El and the door was closed. Bad 30: Hop.. acting like a bit of a creep and then cracking open the bottle of wine for more drinking!!! In the presence of El. After what he just did. Good 18: Honestly I think it’s kind of cool that Max and Jane have made a game utilizing Jane’s powers instead of shoving them away. Bad 31: The boys mocking Will for taking the chance to play DND. Will honey its okay Bad 32: Hopper being a weird disgusting bear, and also being kind of spiteful towards Joyce. I get she hung you up but like come on man, you know she wouldn’t do that without good reason. Bad 33: “You stand me up, no phone call no apology because you had to go to Scott Clark’s house” NOW IT’S TIME FOR HOP TO GET BASHED. Bad 34: Hop pretending to understand how Joyce thinks the magnetism loss thing was the lab then going back to being spiteful and a smartass. Bad 35: Max in denial about the Billy situation Good 19: Scoops troop being funny little shits. They’re the only pure group in this nonsense of a season. Bad 36: The boys still mocking Will during DND. Guys just humor him for fucks sake, he’s been dealing with yalls shit all summer. Bad 37: Mike recoiling when Will finally has enough of their shit and leaves. Bad 38: “You guys are never in the mood anymore! You’re destroying everything and for what, so you can swap spit with some stupid girl” “It’s not my fault you don’t like girls!” Honestly, low blow on both ends. Yikes. Good 20: Honestly the horror in this season is good so it gets it’s own good point for that. Good 21: Hop actually going to the lab with Joyce to soothe her worries about the magnetism loss. ( Also poor joyce remembering Bob’s death ) Good 22: The scoops troop again being on the case, only to then find out the guy they’re chasing is a yoga instructor. Good 23: Hop trying to make sure everyone feels safe and at home. Good 24: Hop opening up just a tiny bit about what he did after Sarah died, trying to relate to Joyce. Bad 39: The fact that Will felt so alone and outcasted to the point that he felt the need to tear the castle down after looking around at all the memories in it and bursting into tears. My poor lad. I’ve been in the same boat, fuck the boys honestly. Good 25: The scoops troop at it again, actually being productive in their side of the story. Bad 40: Something I just don’t get at all is the fact that Jane just.. introduces herself as El, giving herself away almost immediately. Hun, you have another name, you’re not still a number. Idk that thing just irks me. Bad 41: And again, Will just being used for the ‘woe is me/enemy locator’ trope.

Episode 3 mark - 25-41

Good 26: Max introducing the wonder woman comics to Jane after listening to her. Bad 42: Max still being in denial about Billy and Heather. Good 27: Joyce taking care of Hop, SOMEHOW dragging his ass back to the cabin. Bad 43: ThIs iS a CoDe ReD ( I don’t blame Max for turning the radio off I’d throw it across the room after all that’s happened ) Bad 44: Again. Will’s only purpose being that he senses the mindflayer– like what the fuck he could be used for so much more. Bad 45: This is just a thing– I honestly hate that we only get one scene with the hoppers and also the byers acting like a family. All that build up in season 2??? wasted. All that potential wasted. Bad 46: The mayor taking a jab at Hopper and his ‘dead daughter sob story’. Damn right you deserved that fucking punch. Good 28: Joyce pulling the phone line when the receptionist tried to call the police. Good 29: The scoops troop and their hilarity. Bad 47: Max continuing to be in complete denial over Billy’s role with the mindflayer. Good 30: “Don’t you love your country” “You can’t spell America without Erica” I love Erica so much Good 31: “I want you to forget about sales and come work for me at hawkins pd.” “And have to look at your face every day? I don’t think so.” I have to admit that was cute Good 32: Karen actually being a mom for a change and listening to and supporting Nancy. Good 33: “He made me lie, I mean–” “What if he’s right?” “No no no he’s just a crazy old man” “No, if I only see you and I’m a different species, maybe I should be with my own species more.” Bad 47: “Wait you spied on me? That’s totally against the rules!!!” Mike she’s a telekinetic who can locate people and also implode your brain. There are no rules. Good 34: “I make my own rules.” Except hers. Good 35: “If you die, I die” “Okay” Dustin’s such a ride or die bitch I love it. Bad 48: How many times has Will been used for mindflayer location? 4-5 times? Bad 49: Jane relenting when protecting herself and her friends. I’m sorry but if someone’s had a hand to her throat or face or anything she’s thrown whoever did that through a wall, caught off guard and not. Good 36: She eventually did throw Billy through a wall but still the point remains

Episode 4 mark - 36-49

Bad 50: Joyce’s bad throwing skills. Hun you’re throwing a gun not a baseball. ( jk ilu mom ) Bad 51: This terminator guy gets a bad point. I don’t think they explained him at all? Even if they did.. eh. Good 37: “Why wouldn’t he be safe? Nancy?” For once someone’s worried about the welfare of these kids. Good 38: Hop’s big butt sprawled over the Blazer gets a point. Bad 52: Hop calling Alexei Smirnoff gets an… eh point for me. Idk why it turns me off a bit. It’s a funny name and all but eh. Bad 53: The beloved Blazer exploding gets a bad point. Shame on you for killing it, st writers. Good 39: “Ill-annoy” cute. Bad 54: “ThEy’Re CoNsPiRiNg AgAiNsT mE” Not everything’s about you, Mike. Good 40: “She was making bad screams” “What’s a good scream” Max: “Doesn’t matter–” Bad 55: Hop making the joke that every man Joyce talks to must be another version of Clark. Yikes man, she burned you that bad? Good 41: “He’s a dangerous child murderer” As Alexei smiles whilst sipping his cherry icee.

#OUTOFEGGOS #so far this whole season has been yikes from start to fucking finish #Moira watches s3 #now I must go and delete the mass amounts of ooc

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