#everyone bet on how long theyd last

[cemetery14]

its mayuzumis idea to marry akashi cause "the money will be good in the divorce"

#he'll definitely divorce him...... any day now #everyone bet on how long theyd last #theyve outlasted every bet #kuroko no basket #knb #kurokos basketball #akashi seijuro #mayuaka #mayuzumi chihiro

[trashfontcesttrash]

Blue with the fattest cock and balls. No matter what size pants he wears the bulge is still prominent and gets the attention of everyone he passes when walking. He can't dispell the magic away no matter what he tries, he's been knocked out and when he wakes up its still there, still large and attention grabbing.

It's so sensitive that every movement is a challenge, rubbing against the fabric he's wearing. And it throbs! Even when he's very much not aroused, it throbs, never letting him forget the heavy weight between his legs.

He can't stand how people look at him, either in fear of what he's going to do with that thing or complete lust. He'd much rather summon a pussy, but he can't, no matter how hard he tries. Jerking off doesnt help. Cumming hurts after not too long with how long his orgasms last. And its still there afterwards. He's just stuck with it, always semi hard, always on his mind, always tormented by his dick that's taking over his life.

Meanwhile, everyone who isn't afraid of being busted wide open by that thing is overcome with painful lust at the sight of the beautifully large he has. They want to spread his legs and touch it. Stroke it. Suck and fondle his fat, low hanging heavy balls until he cums all over them. Or even inside them, filling them all up to the brim. They bet he can cum buckets. They bet he can impregnate all of them easily, and theyd be happy to carry the proof of his potent virility. And Blue ls so shy about it when he shouldn't be. He should be proud of what he has and share with them.

[creacherkeeper]

How is the cowboi doing? :) I’d love to hear about some of their recent adventures.

OH WELL IT'S ME + ALSO MY DICE HATE(/love) ME SO YOU KNOW THEYRE GETTING WHUMPED CONSTANTLY LMAO

there have certainly been some Events Unfolding so those are under the cut, casey since youre in our campaign now NO PEEKING

fair warning this is .... long ..... you have asked me to talk about my dnd character and you simply CANNOT stop the floodwaters now. enter at your own risk

okay so basically the first arc of the campaign kind of kicked off with them getting a vision from their goddess (the grain goddess/goddess of agriculture) saying that she was trapped in a fey gate and that they needed to come rescue her

so erley immediately Rallied The Posse and set off to do that. they NUMEROUS times tried to pray to her, commune with her, basically just get ANY sort of communication or guidance from her, but the dice like to tell their story so i literally never got above an 11 (paladin with only +2 to religion my beloved) and they never heard from her, which was making them. pretty nervous. when it seemed like everyone else was able to talk to their gods just fine

well we eventually figured out that there was a huge gathering of fey in the woods (me: this might be too big for us to fight. what if its like 30 fey? / my dm, glancing at his notes where he has 2000 fey written down: (: ) and basically the fey like. had captured and were trying to kill what was left of the pantheon so they could bring back gaia as the One True God

we found all this out because it turned out several members of the party had been lying about how much they knew of the fey and had personal connections to the fey they'd kept hidden. and erley, who is ALSO HIDING A LOT from the party like. immediately went on the offense and was just generally very unhappy about this

there had been this fey merchant who kept popping up wherever we were trying to sell us magic weapons that seemed tied to us specifically. erley was always VERY suspicious of her and did everything in their power to stop the others from buying her weapons (which we literally had to buy with -5 to a skill point, not money, v sus) to mixed results. but basically when we got to the fey gathering (we called it gaiapalooza) erley rolled a 1 on their survival check to get through the magic field and like. got teleported to her. and they really wanted information from her so they basically were like LEORA I DONT KNOW WHO TO TRUST I THINK MY PARTY HAS BEEN LYING TO ME, CAN YOU TELL ME ANYTHING ABOUT THEM CAN YOU SEE US WHEN YOURE NOT THERE? and basically pretended to need a therapy session in order to milk her for information lmao. she also seemed like. REALLY interested in erley and i was also very nervous about that

and i was RIGHT to be suspicious of her because we found out she WAS ACTUALLY THE BIG BAD and we had to fight her in the arc finale. and several of our party members had rl stuff and were not there, and in game our druid was away casting an 8 hour long spell to try and stop the palooza ceremony, so our party was SUPER nerfed and also as soon as erley realized it WAS actually leora who was behind all of it and she WAS trying to hurt them with those weapons (the weapons were tethers to the gods to be able to kill them basically), they got .... a little angry

and my party found out after irl a year of playing these characters that erley's first level is barbarian :))

so erley raged and did frankly a staggering amount of damage in this fight, and also only stayed up because of rage because they took a LOT of hits. but also. they dont rage FOR A REASON so it sort of took them over and when leora dropped, one of the other pcs ran over to stabilize her as she was making death saves and erley :) maybe :) drove a spear through her heart and killed her :)

and her body immediately just like. overgrew with plants and vines and flowers and basically wrapped the spear in a bed of plants and it was very cinematic and cool

(we have since found out that leora was like. actually an aspect of gaia so. that is. interesting)

of course then erley popped out of rage and was like FUCK this is why i dont do this, i went too far, it always goes too far, THIS is why im ashamed of this, and just got very emo boi about it. so they used their last spell slot to cast restoration on the space they had fought in and reached out to their goddess, having just saved her and the rest of the pantheon like she had asked them to

and i rolled a nat 1!!!

(the dm was like "you have committed this violent act, you feel so low and so bad and in need of guidance, and reach out to your goddess. and the absolute lack of a response just makes you feel empty inside" and i was like :) oh :) okay cool :) you love to see that with your paladins huh)

at this point the druid came back in and, instead of erley like. examining any of their own shit immediately lashed out at her and was like "why did you lie to me about the fey, why did you lie about why you were here, why ARE you here because i realize now it wasnt to help me"

and at that point ONE OF THE FEY QUEENS WALKED IN and the druid was like "... mother ..." and we were all :O

so it turns out the fey queen is her birth mom but had like? kidnapped one of the children of her firbolg tribe and was holding her hostage and the druid was on a quest to find her and bring her back

so erley :) felt :) even more bad about that :) and very shamedly pledged their help to her, and basically was like "as long as youre on this noble quest i will follow you if you'll have me"

so we're on our second arc now, which is traveling across the country to go meet the fey queen and get this kid back. as we were traveling my dm had me roll religion and a luck check and i got a 21 ON RELIGION FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER and a 6 luck. and he was like "you dont usually dream, but you have a nightmare. you know this nightmare was given to you, it was divinely inspired, but you dont know who sent it" and it was just erley killing leora over and over and over again. so they were like. well fuck

(my dm also messaged me privately and we talked and he was like. yeah you can get rid of your oath of devotion and change it to oath of the ancients, i am not telling you or erley why the subclass has changed and you also might get nerfed later. also level up barbarian for the next fight)

so erley was. feeling PRETTY DANG BAD and very guilty and stressed and all that. they did also realize their barbarian side was getting stronger which, considering their backstory is all tragic barbarian shit they were NOT happy about. i was fully prepared to have them be more ostracized from the party and go into full angst mode, but then the druid actually like. pulled them aside and explained why she had hidden information from them, and had a very sweet conversation with them and held their hand and it was VERY touching (she also had the baller line "you think your goddess can hear you and she's not answering. but maybe you're talking in a whisper and she needs to hear you scream")

we had another fight (we're level 7 and my dm told us after it was a cr 32 fight like. dude??? what the fuck?????) and once again erley didnt go down only because of rage

THEY ALSO UNINTENTIONALLY CAST MISTY STEP (which is an ancients spell they didnt have before) and were like WELL NO TIME TO UNPACK WHAT THAT WAS RIGHT NOW, HAVE TO NOT DIE

after the battle was over i asked to roll a check to figure out why i had access to that spell and got :) yeah you guessed it :) another nat 1 :) so erley has literally no idea how they cast that or what it could mean. we just had a new pc introduced who is a sorcerer so erley is definitely going to talk to her and see if she knows anything. because they are FULLY IN THE DARK about their subclass change or what that means in game

we're also (because of the fucking cr 32 fight) going to be leveling up again soon, and babey you KNOW im leveling barbarian. after rage kept me up and then rolling another nat 1 religion check, and also me the player not knowing whats up with their goddess/magic, i simply cant level paladin rn. so im BETWEEN A FEW SUBCLASS OPTIONS and ive been thinking them over but i think it really depends how the next few games go

my FULL ANGST option was to make them level into zealot barbarian like their awful dad, but i thought that made the least sense in universe rn

secondary angst option is to level into berserker, which i think fits pretty closely with how i've been roleplaying the rage so far. trading off an extra attack for a level of exhaustion fits pretty closely. also whump central

the NICE option is to have them be a totem warrior barbarian, and have both their paladin steed and their totem be a bull :) (they are a cowboi after all) i think thats the closest i can marry their two classes and potentially have some healthy growth for them, let them see that the rage doesnt HAVE to be a bad thing, that being a barbarian isnt something they HAVE to be ashamed of. reskinning the bear totem would give them resistance to all damage but psychic while raging, and im planning on taking the tough feat, so theyd pretty much be ... an unstoppable tank. plus i can still divine smite while in rage so theyd be VERY powerful

and now youre all caught up on my very special boi :))))) bet you didnt expect quite that much of an infodump but. listen. listen im simply obsessed with dnd i cannot help it. any chance to talk about my characters i WILL TAKE IN A HEARTBEAT (thank u for prompting my ramble lmao)

#ERLEY RYZER THE COWBOI MY BELOVED <333 #god this is literally SO long im sorry lmaooo #i have several friends not even in our party who are like 'will you PLEASE be nice to erley stop whumping them' #and im like #no <3

[darkelite020]

Bad Batch thoughts & predictions Ep 12

Continuing these written reactions/predictions somewhere cause itd be fun I think to see what actually ends up happening and remembering what I thought at the time so im dumping it here, youre welcome. (Feel free to discuss if you want) if you want to keep up with it im gonna be tagging these as #jay rambles about bb

- So I sort of expected it by the end of last episode but it seems like last episode was a start of an episode arc about hera's family, which, for rebel's fans I'm sure it's cool and exciting and maybe answers some questions or will actually show things discussed in rebels maybe, but as someone who hasn't seen rebels yet, I really hope this episode and the next few have more bad batch screentime, cause we were a little robbed last episode lol (but in a way I do still enjoy this stuff too, because im sure when I DO watch rebels it'll make the experience better). -- I'm not disliking this arc or anything, but up to this point we've kind of had almost mandalorian style 'one episode one adventure' sorts of episodes, and personally I really hope we get more of that (which I think we will), because while this is all new content and everything, we all have to admit clone wars had some less interesting filler arcs here and there, and I just hope bb doesn't fall the same way (across all of its seasons, im not very concerned about it so far from what we've seen of season 1) because if there is filler, I'd rather sit through a couple of the one episode stories, rather than a 3-4 episode story that takes nearly a month to get through if im disliking it, mostly for the fact that even if we got those 1 ep fillers, its more stories and more likely I'd like at least one. ---kinda rambling about this unnecessarily atm cause while again right now I think bb is fine, I just want the future to be that way too. - fffff every time I see howzer on screen I think of that fucking audio thats "here comes the boy, hello boy~" and honestly can you blame me he is so precious like ugh I swear dave you better be nice to him -- YOU CAN TELL HE FEELS SO BAD AND GUILTY LIKE IT HURTS - hey admiral can you not be MEAN to howzer when he is trying to be fucking helpful -- ;-; BRO im saying it so much already but I feel so bad for howzer like dude someone help him --- imo it feels like its sort of setting up howzer for something more important in the show kinda, at least for his character. Like we can clearly tell he doesn't really agree with the empire and I think they're going to do something with that. He's probably undercover for someone against the empire but I get the bad feeling they're gonna pull a Fives and have him go against the empire and help everyone else somehow but then he will probably end up dead because we cant have nice things. - hello cross... bet you wont be saved this episode - Ok good, some more bad batch here already. -- ALSO GONKY BEING DEFECTIVE!!!! EVEN GONKY IS DEFECTIVE LIKE BB THATS SO CUTE! - uh, im not the only one getting the leia transmission vibes from hera, right? -- ok, again I haven't seen rebels so I dont know BUT if hera has the ability to talk to bb, couldn't she have done so in rebels? Yeah she's older and im sure better at fighting and defending herself and all that, but wouldn't it still be possible for her to have gotten in some kind of rough situation in Rebels to ask for bb's help again? I super doubt bb made any appearance of any kind in Rebels, so doesn't that imply that she lost communications with them? What happens to bad batch >> - bad batch not wanting to help but because omega really wants to you can see its making hunter soften up and I appreciate it - bruh what??? Taa is dead af, like theres no way the show is gonna pull some magic and be like 'oh yep here he is' thing??? Like this has to be a lie, but even then, what even is the plan here?? Saying "oh hes recovering" well he can't be recovering forever, how does that seem like a good plan to lie about that?? People are gonna find out?? - "Great just what we need" from Wrecker about crosshair MAKES ME ANGRY LIKE??? YES?? DONT BE MAD AT HIM ITS NOT HIS FAULT??? SAVE YOUR FUCKING BOY??? -- oooo then the rest of bb doesn't comment about it literally gsjrkgbdkfbg why do they not care about him???? Like it seems they legitimately dont care about crosshair, even though theyve been together for so long like even before the show came out they

had history together and were all really close. I know people argue "oh well its just difficult to save him and its unrealistic for them right now" but so what? Even if they aren't trying to save him they should at least CARE about him. --- Which is also like the thing with echo and fives!!!! Like Echo didn't seem to care much at all when Rex mentioned fives even a little! Or even about seeing Rex that much!! Dave I'm gonna need some answers my guy, cause you humanized these characters but then you dont make them act that way so like whats up. - Lucky hunters abilities came in handy - Back to crosshair for a second im predicting they 100% arent saving him this season. There was a poster released part way through the season and he's not even on it... makes me so sad. - "I'd do the same for you." ;-; that didnt need to get that deep - CROSSHAIR BETTER NOT START SHIT WITH HOWZER - Howzer helping Hera's parents or at least implying that is good but that also means im right so far and therefore worried >> -- HES GOING TO GET FUCKING CAUGHT I BET TALKING TO THEM LIKE THIS AT SOME POINT AND HOW MUCH DO YOU WANNA BET ITS GONNA BE CROSSHAIR THAT CATCHES HIM --- Cham stfu its literally so obvious that howzer is trying to be genuine, also if he's kind of undercover for him like what the fuck do you expect howzer to do if he has to play along with the empire to keep his cover?? "Won't make that mistake again" Fuck off like honestly. ---- #stopbeingmeantohowzer2021 - "A little help" and the gentle "Hey" ahh love it - I'm really enjoying this whole them fighting in the ships sequence - "Stay here and guard the capitol" SCARES ME -- Please for the love of god bad batch don't get howzer killed --- or plot B Bad batch maybe run into howzer but save him and take him with you at least temporarily ---- oh god.... bb is helping heras parents escape and that means howzers gonna get in trouble.../probably replaced by crosshair - Crosshair is smart but thats also badddd - The scene of howzer and crosshair looking at each other is killing meeeeeeeee - Ohhh is howzer gonna stop them before they go out the door? -- YES HE IS SEE WHAT A GOOD BOY HE IS - (please fucking listen to him I beg) - Aw dude I just had a thought that breaks my heart... howzer cares about his squad and "trying to get through to them" but what if his squad is clones as well and the chips... that hurts me so badly... -- Like we all know howzer is a sweet boy by now but ughhh like the thought that he doesnt want to leave them even though they are doing whats wrong shows just how much he cares and I really hope he doesn't get into trouble because of what he's saying to them, but you know he totally would do it because he seems to care about them so much and :( bad batch more like sad batch --- This is the kind of compassion I wanted from bb for crosshair hunter kind of looks back at howzer as they leave him and I doubt itll mean anything but I really hope that maybe seeing how much howzer cares will make hunter care a little too... - *sigh* howzer is getting left behind by them which we know why but yeah... now he's definitely going to be in trouble... I just hope they don't hurt him... - OH GOD HOWZER BABY DONT -- He's making a speech and I know he's trying to sway them but you know damn well this is gonna go so badly for him because of the chips and crosshair is watching so you know howzer is gonna get fucked here and I know what hes trying for but I really wish he didnt just do that because now its blatantly obvious he's gonna be against them ;-; - Wow ok im kinda shocked people are siding with him (I guess cause theyre not all clones right) but I feel so bad for themmmmm - Crosshair missed multiple shots? Uh what? I didnt think that was possible lol - bb please come back for howzer and the others at some point.... -- I guess maybe if hera's parents are going to organize rebels against the empire maybe they will help them but I somewhat doubt it... - Ok I know that crosshair requesting to hunt them was supposed to be this big moment and all but I

can't help but feel like its a little underwhelming (but dont get me wrong still cool vibes) because he's kind of already been doing that anyway?? Or has tried to several times?? So I don't get why its a big deal, however, I do have a possible prediction: We know that bb got their chips removed, (crosshair doesn't, I know that) and so that eliminates the idea that they will get caught and actually go bad like crosshair, but it does leave a possibility where maybe they get captured and then *pretend* to be bad? And that could lead to a better possibility of helping crosshair (they wont) or maybe howzer and the other rebels or something? Cause I also feel like its significant that they brought up how the war will eventually come to them and bb will be a part of it no matter what eventually, and it makes obvious sense theyd be on the rebels side of it, so maybe something like that goes on, idk.

#bad batch #bad batch spoilers episode 12 #I would still die for howzer honestly he just continues to prove he is the sweetest boy #tcw spoilers #jay rambles about bb #star wars #the clone wars #bad batch spoilers #the bad batch

[avengerscompound]

The Unicorn - Chapter 14

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Pairing:  Tony Stark x F!Reader x Pepper Potts

Warnings:  Sex talk.  Pregnancy

Synopsis:  The three of you go house shopping in New York to see if you can find something you’re all happy with.

Chapter 14

Over the next few weeks, things ramped up a lot.  There was another ultrasound to be had at 8 weeks and Tony and Pepper were determined to figure out where you should all live that gave the best options for school and work.

You seemed completely nonplussed on the issue.  You still went to Avengers training in the early morning and you continued going to your lab in the afternoon.  Just now before you left you seemed to struggle with the thought that you might throw up first.

By the time of the eight-week ultrasound, you weren't just thinking about it.  You had to factor in an extra ten minutes for throwing up before you made your way down for the dawn run.  It never stopped you though.  If you could go to training hungover a little bit of morning sickness wasn't going to stop you.

The strange thing was that Pepper seemed to be suffering with it too.  Initially, the three of you had put it on her just not handling vomit very well.  It wasn’t a totally uncommon thing that when someone threw up it might set someone else off.  Pepper had never been the weak stomached type but it was possible worries about the pregnancy was already making her slightly nauseated.

By the time of the ultrasound both Tony and you were teasing her about it being sympathy vomit.

The ultrasound went fine everyone was excited to see the twins again.  They still kind of just looked like a weird blurry picture of packaging peanuts.   Tony did still feel both relieved and excited when he heard the fast squish-squish sound of their heartbeats.

After the ultrasound, the three of you went to the first of the choices for the new home.  New York City.

When Tony had made the move to the compound he’d dissolved all his property.  Avengers Tower had become the Baxter Building.  It was probably the least practical course for them because it would mean reopening a branch of Stark Industry so that Pepper had an office and you had a lab, buying a home, and possibly opening a branch of the Avengers if you were set on remaining on the team after your maternity leave was up.

Tony had booked them the penthouse suite at the Gramercy Park while they looked at options.

“Dalton.  That’s the reason.”  Pepper said.  Her heels clicked loudly on the garish marble floors of the Upper East Side mansion they were inspecting.

The house was hideous.  The ‘American Renaissance’ period of architecture was a travesty.  The whole place, with its marble floors, chandeliers, ceiling murals featuring cherubs and gold scrollwork, looked more like a museum than a home.  It was dated, to say the least.  And dated to a period of opulence with no taste or subtlety.  All Tony could think was apart from the library which he’d keep for Pepper (the murals would have to go), the pool and the cinema, he’d gut the whole thing and start over.

“I don’t know, Pep.  It could have 100 Dalton’s but there’s no yard…”

“There’s a roof garden.”

“You want the twins playing on the roof?”  He said raising an eyebrow.

“Right, of course.”  She said heading into the kitchen.  “This is nice.”

“Yeah.  Very light and spacious.  I still think… I’d have to invest at least a cool billion to have us set up and even then it wouldn’t be right and it doesn’t feel like a home.”  He said running his hand over the floating kitchen island.

“What do you think?”  Pepper asked turning to you.

“I don’t love it.”  You said.  “I mean, doesn’t it scream masked orgy to you?  I bet naked asses have been all over everything.”

“Oh yeah.  I thought it looked familiar.”  Tony teased.

“God, you’re disgusting,”  Pepper said, whacking him.  Tony laughed and rubbed his arm.  “Well, we don’t have to get this one.  There were more options.”

“Yeah, but they’ll all be either Townhouses or Penthouses.  They won’t be where we can teach them to ride their bikes or run around with their dog.  We’ll have to take them to the park every time we want to do something like that.”  Tony said.  “Plus there’s the other investments involved.  S.I. is upstate now.  I’d have to reopen here.”

“The Avengers.”  You added.

“Yeah, I moved that because it was unsafe to have it just - in the middle of the city.”  Tony agreed.

Pepper pursed her lips.  She didn’t like that you wanted to stay with the Avengers the same way she didn’t like that Tony wouldn’t give up being Iron Man back in the day.  “We can consider it though right?  That’s what we’re doing here?  Looking at each option and picking the best?”

“Yeah, you're right.  Being here is better than in the compound.”  Tony conceded.  “I don't know how big the pull to Dalton is compared to just buying land near the compound and building exactly what we want though.”

“There aren't any schools around the compound though.”  Pepper complained.

“Start your own one, Elon Musk style.”  You said.

“We are not starting our own one like Elon.”  Pepper said sternly.

“I don't know… Maybe we should.  Give another incentive for people to stay on if it was more family friendly.”  Tony said with a shrug.

“Tony…”  Pepper sighed.  He knew that tone so he dropped it.

You went out to the balcony and looked out over the park.  Tony came up behind you and wrapped his arms around your waist.  “It is a cool city though.”  You said.

“I won't argue that.”  He agreed, kissing your neck.

“Can we get out of this house?  I feel like I'm in a museum and the temptation to just touch everything for no good reason is making my fingers itchy.”  You said.

Tony chuckled and his hands ran over your stomach.  It was still far too early to show.  Even so, he loved that he could touch you and know that his children were in there and it wouldn’t be too long until he got to hold them.  It helped put that nervous impatience he felt in check.  “I’d gut it if we bought it.”

“Oh, yeah?”  You said turning in his arms.  “Not the library.”

“No, but that mural for sure.  I’d make it more shelves.”

“Oh, tell me more.”

“All the ugly ass marble and gold would go.  I’d change the light fittings to something sleeker but still a feature.  I’d keep timber as a feature, but make it less ornate.  Sleek lines but the timber would make it feel more home than office like.  The art would be modern but not surreal.  Maybe some Warhol and Pollack.  Maybe include some impressionists to break it up.  I’d install FRIDAY obviously.  The kitchen would be a similar layout but modern.  White and black.  Granite tops not marble.  I'd make the first floor about entertaining and the top two for us.  Bedrooms.  Living room.  That would be our family space.  It would be warmer colors.  Colors that take mess more.  I'd put a lab for us in the basement.  Probably a garage too but I might keep my of my collection out here.  There would be an office for Pep.  A gym.  I'd keep the cinema and the pool.”

You grinned and pecked his lips.  “Your mind has been racing even though you don't want this place.”

“Well, I mostly just want my girls to be happy.  If buying this eyesore makes you happy, then I’m happy.”  He said.

“That’s sweet.  But it won’t.  I don’t even think Pepper is sold on it.”  You said pulling him back inside.  “God, that bathroom is going to be in my nightmares.  The green marble toilet.”

Tony laughed.  “Yeah, that would be first to go.”

They made their back inside and found Pepper coming down the stairs followed by the real estate agent.  “Okay.  Let's go.  I think I’ve seen enough.”

“Good.  Let’s get something to eat.”  Tony said.  “I’m feeling Gray’s Papaya.”

Pepper scrunched her nose.  “I think the smell would make me throw up.”   She said.  “If you want local let’s go to Katz’s.”

You looked her up and down.  “You’re gonna need to dial in this sympathy sickness thing or see a doctor because I feel like you’re stealing my thunder.”

She scowled.  “I’m not doing it on purpose.”

“So, go see a doctor.”  You pushed.

Tony followed you outside where Happy was waiting with the car.  The three of you slid into the back seat and Pepper huffed.  “I just… it’s only in the mornings or certain smells.  It’s got to just be some weird sympathy thing.”

“Maybe you’re actually pregnant,”  Tony said.  He’d meant it as a joke but as soon as the words were out of his mouth it was like something clicked into place.  Maybe she was pregnant.  He couldn’t remember when she last had her period, and they’d been tracking it regularly right up until they did the first IVF run with you.

“Ha-ha, very funny, Tony.”  Pepper snarked.

“But maybe you are pregnant, Pepper.”  You said.

“You do kind of look like you’re glowing.”  Happy added looking in the rearview mirror.

“No.  How could I be?  We did all that IVF.”  She stopped talking and seemed to try and count something off on her fingers.  “How could I be?”

“Hap, stop at a pharmacy and get some pregnancy tests would you?”  Tony said.

“You got it, boss.”  Happy replied and swerved the car around, double parking it outside a CVS on Lexington.  He jumped out and ran inside as horns sounded behind him and someone cursed them as they went around.

“But… we couldn’t.  It wasn’t working.”  Pepper said.

“I can’t explain it Pepper, but it’s possible, right?  It would explain this.”  Tony said.

“How come you get glowing and I get a breakout on my jaw?”  You snarked.

“The glow is oily skin.”  Pepper said absentmindedly.  “It depends on how dry your skin was to begin with.”

“God damn it.”  You cursed.

“What will we do?”  Pepper said looking at him.  “We already have twins.”

“Triplets?”  Tony said making an exaggerated shrug.  He was pretty far from actually being worried about this.  He was actually pretty excited at the thought of the possibility of a large instant family.

“Does it count as triplets if two different people are carrying them?”  You asked.

“I don’t know.  I mean, they’re genetically me and Pepper and they’ll be due roughly the same time.” He mused.  “What counts?”

“I’m pretty sure it’s housed in the same uterus.”  You said.

“Can we please argue about that when I’m not freaking out”  Pepper groaned.

Happy ran back out and jumped into the car passing the paper bag back to Tony.  “Hotel?”  He asked.

“Yes, please,”  Pepper said.

“And can you swing past Katz’s after.  Get us some Matzo Ball Soup, a garden salad, and a Reuben.”  Tony added.

“And Knish.”  You added.  “Potato ones.”

“Sure thing.”  Happy said pulling back into traffic.

He drove the three of you back to the Gramercy and Tony lead you and Pepper back up to the Penthouse.  Pepper was in full panic mode by the time they got upstairs and rushed straight into the main bathroom and locked the door.

“Are you okay in there, Pepper?”  You called, leaning on the door.

“Yes, leave me alone to pee in peace.”  She called back.

You snorted and moved to Tony.  “Well then,”  You said.  “I bet she is.”

“I’m not taking that bet.”  He said.

“Oh go on.  A billion dollars.  I’ll bet you a billion dollars.”

“What do you need a billion dollars for?”

You shrugged and flopped down on the couch.   The door opened and Pepper slumped out.  “Positive.  There wasn’t even a wait for lines to show.  It was right away.”

Tony rushed to her side and pulled her into a hug.  A second later you had slammed into their sides and hugged them both tightly.

“Oh my god, this is amazing,”  Tony said.

“We’re going to be pregnant at the same time.  How awesome is that?”  You added.

“I don’t - how - how do we do this?”  She said.  “How did this happen?”

Tony really didn’t know the answer to that.  All he knew for sure was he had the resources and he was excited.  He was going to be part of a big family and he’d make sure they didn’t have to worry about anything.

// NEXT

#tony stark #pepper potts #iron man #tony stark x reader #pepper potts x reader #tony stark x pepper potts #iron man fanfic #pepperony #pepperony x reader #tony stark x pepper potts x reader #fanfic #fanfiction #smut #fluff #angst #polyamory #the unicorn

[themysteryshack]

Heh, it’s been awhile since I talked about my mom.

I was pretty young when we lost her.  Marcus still remembers her, but Kevin doesn’t remember much, and Gus was just a baby.

Maybe it sounds cliche, but she was tall and strong, with big arms and a bigger heart.  We didn’t always get along, but I really looked up to her.  I still do.

My parents were a bit of an odd pair.  Both real tough cookies, sure, but where my dad is all clumsy and awkward, my mom was so graceful.  She never hit her head on the ceiling or knocked over every shelf in the house.  Sometimes they’d dance on the lawn, and Dad would walk on her toes every step, but she never even flinched.

Oh man, and she hated all the boy bands.  Like hated them.  But whenever Dad found a new favorite to latch onto, she’d take him to every concert that came to town.  And she’d come home afterward and gripe to me about how terrible it was, but she never stopped going with him.

Until ... y’know.

Sometimes I feel like I could’ve changed things.  Like if I’d just been better, or if I hadn’t needed her for so much, then maybe she’d still be around.  Like maybe I’d sapped up all her energy.  Like maybe it was my fault.

And sometimes I blamed my dad.  Even now, sometimes I can’t help but feel like he’s let her go too easily.  It’s so hard to watch him move on when I’ve struggled with it so much myself.

But then again, maybe I’m misjudging him too.

I don’t know why she’s gone, or why she never said anything.  I guess it just goes to show that you never really know what another person is dealing with.  Even the happiest faces might be hiding something sadder behind their smile.

Since then I’ve always tried to put my best foot forward with people.  It’s not always easy, but I like to greet strangers with a smile and a compliment, and I make sure my friends and family all know how much I love them.

You never know how long you’ve got with the people you care about, and I don’t want to live regretting what could’ve been anymore. 

So I’m done going halfway with people.  If you’ve got me, you’ve got me for life, homie!

For anyone else out there like my mom, I want to make a difference.  And maybe I can’t help everyone, but I sure as heck won’t let myself feel like I didn’t do enough.  So I suppose that’s why I’ve opened myself up to more and more new people over the last few years. 

I’ve lost some family, but I’ve found a lot more.

I bet that would make Mom happy.

+Wendy+

#gravity falls #disney #wendy corduroy #wendy #anonymous #mom #mother

[sponfawn]

MTH - Buttercup & Mitch, Floyd, Lloyd, and Harry

This one goes out to a certain anon~ So this is surprisingly one topic that I haven't thought about extensively regarding MTH, but it’s a really interesting dynamic to think about. I wasn’t sure if by pre-breakup interactions between BC and the guys, anon meant like pre-relationship as a whole, or post-relationship but pre-breakup. So I thought about both. Disclaimer: because we don’t really have much to go on in terms of pre-relationship interactions, this is gonna be a bunch of conjecture based on how the characters currently behave and interact. I also gotta be honest, Harry and the twins tend to kinda clump together in my mind. I know what they looked like at 5yo, but in terms of current characterization they’re similar enough that they exist as a group in my head. Tho Harry does end up as the butt of a lot of jokes, more so than the twins. I guess that’s to be expected when your name is Harry Pitt.

This may have been stated in MTH in one of the early chapters, in which case, nevermind. But I feel like Buttercup probly started hanging out with the guys more starting at around when the Girls were 7 or 8? Blossom began her dance lessons at around 6 or 7, and I think 7 is around the age where kids in school start solidifying more who they consistently hang out with, and start subtly drifting a bit from siblings of about the same age. And as they got older (like maybe around 11/12) is really when Buttercup more clearly diverged from her sisters’ friends. In middle school, Blossom and Bubbles were both in choir apparently, and Buttercup rejected that completely. I’m guessing around that age or a year or so older is when they started wanting to form a band together, and then freshman year they actually started to play together as No Neck Joe. I think the guys started liking her pretty early in their collective friendship. I can imagine them all kinda realizing that they all had a crush on her. It’s possible it caused some mild conflicts between them, but I can’t imagine it lasted long at all. Then they came to a mutual agreement to prioritize their respective friendships with her. Honestly when Mitch and she started dating, I feel like Harry and the twins saw it coming and resigned to it without fuss. I just can’t see those 3 getting all pissy over it. Awkward? Yeah. Disappointed? Yeah. But not angry.

From what we see in their interactions after Butch becomes their buffer, I think they used to interact as a group much like how they did in chapter 9 at the Boys’ apartment, and in the video clip. Lots of ball busting, ribbing, general goofing off, and comfortable banter. Tho obviously with one difference being the current distance between Mitch and Buttercup. At this point in the story, while Buttercup and Mitch are starting to relax slightly around each other, they still kinda skirt the edges of the group and avoid much direct interaction. In group settings, Mitch was probably in a similar position that Butch currently inhabits, at least in terms of his closeness to Buttercup. That’s not to say that Butch is just a Mitch replacement tho. More that Harry, Floyd, and Lloyd are both relatively close to, and distant from, Buttercup. They’re in her closest friend group, but were never the closest to her within said group. Mitch and BC were BEST FRIENDS before ever going out, and that is the most obvious shift in the group as a whole. In my mind, Mitch likely interacted with her in less rough ways compared to Butch, both in term of rough housing (knowing that even if he could dish it out he wouldn't be able to take it), and dirty jokes aimed at/about her. I mean the guys have probly liked her for many years, and since they all were trying to hide their crushes i doubt any of them made many jokes suggesting any kind of attraction towards her. After Mitch and Buttercup started going out, that inclination would have probably increased (at least for Floyd, Lloyd, and Harry). Tbh, from the video Mitch was so earnest and sincere that I doubt he ever made dirty jokes about them as a couple, anyway. I feel like he’d be shy/awkward about that, especially knowing that she’d be flustered about it.

Based on the scene in the mall where the guys ask Buttercup to hang out with them for anti-prom, it’s pretty clear that not only is she just as shitty at communicating with her friends as she is with everyone else, but Mitch is as well. (To refresh memories, they're like “We don’t know what we did to piss you off, but whatever it is we’re so sorry and please be our friend again”, and she’s internally like “oh shit, that’s right they didn’t actually do anything and it’s not their fault, it was Mitch who told me”). I can understand why Mitch wouldn’t wanna talk about their breakup and the fact that he spilled the beans on all of them. But I bet it’s been lonely for them. Aside from the jealousy they probly had over Mitch being the one she chose to go out with, it was probly like being 3rd, 4th, and 5th wheels around them at times, cuz they were best friends even before dating. And in this situation, it wasn’t just feeling like an awkward entourage, it was like they fully lost one friend and the other one refused to clue them in as to why. I think if given the opportunity to be emotionally supportive in some way, theyd be fucking dorks about it but they’d try their best. But they were never given that opportunity by Mitch or BC, despite being friends since kindergarten. I feel like that probly hurt them, to be treated like it had nothing to do with them, even tho they were all friends. They haven't really addressed it, partly out of not wanting to accidentally push Buttercup away again, and partly cuz they’re just so relieved that they’re all friends again. I doubt they’ll ever decide to bring it up. Tho i could see Harry having a sudden outburst about it if she ever tries to ghost on them again. Idk why exactly but I feel like he’s the one most likely to have the guts to be vulnerable like that (both in expressing discontent/anger about something like that, and in terms of possibly invoking BC’s wrath). He seems slightly more assertive in some ways than the twins, and I feel like the twins look to each other a lot to decide what to say and when to speak up about something, which makes both of them hesitant to be the first to bring something up. Whenever I imagine who first brought up the idea of them forming a band, it’s always either Mitch or Buttercup, and Harry and the twins jump on the bandwagon. I think all 3 of them are less inclined to take the lead, but when necessary, Harry nervously steps up to the plate. After all, he is “the most determined drowning man of them all”, who spoke up first and ended up actually inviting her to their mini anti-prom.

I’ve been in BC’s position before, unwittingly pulled into the crush zone by friends, and I know the heartbreak over finding out someone just hung out with you cuz they wanted to get in your pants. But I don’t think that's fully the case for Harry and the twins. I’m sure they fantasize about it, but I think they genuinely care about her and value her friendship. At one point, she’s thinking about how she thought the guys “saw her” as a person, but after finding out they all liked her she feels like they didn’t actually see or like her as a full person at all, just as a “girl”. And again, I fully understand that feeling. But I think it also speaks volumes about how she perceives crushes and guys who have them. She knows that guys objectify girls, and I think she’s really internalized how attractive women are portrayed in various media, as well as how her sisters are perceived by virtual strangers - girls/women are not attractive due to their athletic feats, their sense of humor, their thoughts, their personalities, or their strength. They are attractive due to physical looks and femininity, and she equates being seen as “attractive/desirable” with being seen in a 1 dimensional and objectified way. She’s surprisingly like Blossom in that way (I’m thinking specifically about the scene in the diner and how she reacts after the photoshoot where she was asked to pose on the cover of a men’s magazine - “I don’t have a problem with people thinking I’m pretty... But... I do all this other stuff”), altho the way it manifests in their behavior is different. With Mitch she was ok with him liking her, and I think that’s partly cuz she liked him back but also cuz of how close they were. As best friends, she felt he saw her more completely than anyone else - until she realized that he thought she was interested in the other guys as “backups” and didn't see how much she loved him. (Which is interesting to me, cuz while she didn’t voice her feelings much to him, even Butch “emotionally constipated” Jojo could see how much she loved him through the videos and pics. It’s normal to feel insecure or unsure about someone’s feelings if they don’t communicate them, but I wonder if Mitch ever looks at those pics and realizes in retrospect how much she loved him.)

It makes me happy that she’s at least marginally getting better about communicating, even if it’s just with Butch (I hope that ability grows to other ppl for her as well). But for me it just highlighted how Buttercup doesn’t really have a support system. With the guys, she never talked about the tough stuff. I mean they didn’t seem at all surprised that she wasn't telling them why she was upset with them. She is very adverse to showing any sign of what she perceives as weakness, and since even Mitch had a hard time understanding her feelings, I’m sure it hasn’t been easier for the other guys by any means. They have fun together and share common interests, which is great, but she really keeps them at arm’s length. This is another aspect that's similar with Blossom, even tho Buttercup goes out with friends more often. They’re both quite emotionally isolated, tho Buttercup is now sharing more with Butch and Blossom is quite close with Bubbles. Of course, this isn’t due to a shortage of ppl around them who want to be close to them, but their own issues with showing vulnerability. I hope we get to see them open up a bit to more people. Now I’m honestly really interested in seeing how Harry, Floyd, and/or Lloyd would respond if Buttercup had like a serious conversation with one or all of them.

#sbj more than human #sbj more than human amv #meta #i guess? #for anon

[chockfullofsecrets]

Class 1-A vs. Tickle Might: Part 1

<< Prologue (in case you’re wondering what’s going on) :: Part 2 >>

(A/N: Thank you so much to everyone who offered their kind feedback, especially @gigglingknight ! 2.7k words and 4 kids - Mineta’s not getting back up again - down, 16 to go! Hope you enjoy, and please let me know what you think - favorite scene, constructive criticism - your feedback will keep me awake at night to write part 2!)

The forty combined eyes of class 1-A were locked on All Might as he leapt gracefully from the wall of the training grounds, passing overhead and descending in a lazy arc into the mock city before them.

“He moves like a missile,” Momo said thoughtfully. “You would think such a big person would be less aerodynamic.”

Other students were less calm. “He’s gonna kill us all!” Mineta yelled. “I won’t get to enjoy my summer break at all!”

Hagakure clung to Ojiro’s arm. “Guys, I bet Aizawa-sensei sent him to beat us up before training camp. He probably thinks we won’t cause as much trouble if we’re all in full-body casts!”

Ojiro laughed, but he too was looking at the cluster of buildings in obvious dismay. “All Might’s the number one hero, he wouldn’t just indiscriminately fight us. I think.”

Even Aoyama’s sparkle was a little dimmed, his eyes wide in alarm behind his visor. “Mon dieu, didn’t you see what he did to Bakugou and Midoriya? His smile was as twinkling as ever, but… it was scary!”

“And he’s at full strength this time,” Satou added, his big lips pursed.

Those of them who were afraid edged closer to one other, clutching at armor and fabric and hands as if hoping they would fuse together into a single pro capable of taking on the Number One Hero. A select few, though, prepared to rally.

“It’ll be all right, guys!” Deku was smiling. Of course he was. “There’s a lot of us, and we have more experience using team attacks now! I’m sure we can impress All Might and Aizawa-sensei!”

Iida frowned. “Won’t it be easier for him to find us if we all stay in a group?”

“Maybe, but I feel safer with you guys!” Sero said.

“Yeah!”

“Let’s come up with a plan!”

A familiar snarl filled the air. “You extras can plan all you want!” Bakugou announced. ���I’m going to face him head on! The only thing that would make me surrender is having to listen to you idiots for another minute!” He spun on his heel and stalked off, quickly disappearing behind the piles of concrete.

Kirishima grinned. “Guess I know what I’m doing, then.”

Mineta howled. “Just let him die! He’s really annoying! And if you get caught in the crossfire between him and All Might there’s no way you’ll survive.”

He shrugged. “Maybe, but I can’t just let him go in alone! And besides, what could be a manlier last sight on Earth than those two going at it?”

“I’ll come too,” Mina said, bouncing up and down on her toes. “I want to watch! And maybe I can get some surprise attacks in with my acid!”

The two of them headed off together after Bakugou, cheerily waving a goodbye to the rest of the group. Kaminari waved back at them like it was the last he would ever see of his two friends. Jirou scoffed and turned to look at the two planners left in their group. “Let’s call them the distraction, then… Momo, Midoriya, do you guys have any ideas?”

Bakugou’s arms throbbed inside his gauntlets.

The wounds from his finals match had been healed by Recovery Girl  - the old hag had been surprised that he’d been hurt so bad, even though Deku was in the next bed over with a shitty bruised spine, as if he wasn’t just as dedicated to winning even if it means shattering every bone in his damn arm – but the memory of just how much it hurt was still in there.

He almost wished Kirishima was here to guard his back. Shitty Hair could take a punch, at least. Maybe even one of All Might’s. But he didn’t need him to win. All he needed was the chance to get in one good blow of his own this time –

A sound behind him. He whirled around, one sweat-filled hand slinging behind him with even more force. As soon as he could see his target, he would –

Something closed around his wrist. A sudden jerking sensation as his arm was pulled upwards, and the explosion seared harmlessly into the air.

All Might was holding him suspended by one hand. Like a freaking ragdoll. “Ah, young hero! I might have expected you to come face me head-on.”

Instead of replying, he tried to blast the man with his other hand. It joined the other above his head just as quickly, held in that same massive grip. “What are you doing? DON’T RESTRAIN ME, YOU SHITTY – let me fight, old man!”

All Might propped his free hand on his hip. “A brave face, huh? You must really want a rematch. I think your sleeveless uniform’s really going to put you at a disadvantage in this round…”

He cocked his hand, fingers spread stiffly for a grab or chop, and Bakugou wasn’t afraid, he wasn’t, but that didn’t keep his body from flinching, a fruitless attempt to protect himself from the painful blow.

His captor paused. “Young Bakugou, are you – are you frightened of me?”

“No.”

He lowered his arm enough for Bakugou to get his feet on the ground – still up on his toes, but at least he wasn’t hanging there like a sack of meat. “My boy, I must say that I’m very sorry about the end of our last battle. I wouldn’t have stopped you so forcefully if I didn’t think you were about to seriously injure yourself.”

“I’m not fucking afraid, okay? Just hit me already so I can hit back.”

All Might looked unconvinced. “Ah, that’s… good, young hero! Such an indomitable spirit!” His smile grew impossibly wider. “Besides, you won’t come to any harm today!”

“Oh yeah? Then what the fuck are we here to do, talk each other into submission? And what do you mean, I’m at a disadvantage because my uniform doesn’t have sleeves?”

“Ah, yes.” All Might cocked his hand again. His fingers were wiggling this time, and somehow this spiked Bakugou’s apprehension in an entirely different way. “Allow me to demonstrate.”

He’d never put much thought into a costume redesign, but as All Might’s evil hands came in contact with his bare armpits he decided that he needed more armor. Immediately. “W-whahaHAT! THE HEHEHELL?!” His palms were sparking uselessly into the sky, face bent into a helpless grin, and shit he was glad that none of the others in his class were here right now.

It was a relief, almost, not to be thrust into another bloody fight with his hero, but that didn’t stop him from kicking and screaming bloody murder, still on his tiptoes as he strained for some leverage to protect himself. All Might was chuckling. “I think this is the first time I’ve seen you smile, young Bakugou! A very good imitation of my trademark, but perhaps we can do better!”

“NOHO – nowecan’t – AHAHA!” His entire torso was helpless under the attack, and his face hurt from smiling so hard. It wasn’t long before he couldn’t take it anymore. “OKAY nonONO not thaHAT just fucking STOP I GIVE I GIVE!”

All Might let him down gently, giving one last triumphant laugh as he patted Bakugou on the back. “An admirable effort, my boy.”

“I didn’t even do anything,” he mumbled into the ground. Was he still grinning? He was, like an idiot. He was an idiot. This was terrible.

Footsteps skidded into the street. “Bakubro, we heard you screaming – laughing? – oh shit, he’s here-”

Bakugou forced his head up. Kirishima and Mina. They’d probably followed him in.

He snorted. “You’re next, morons. Better run if you’re ticklish.”

They’d worked three-quarters of the way through a plan involving Sero’s tape (just. So much tape), Tsuyu’s mucus secretion, and a titanium bondage set from Momo when an explosion roared through the air.

“Kacchan,” Deku gasped. His theory was confirmed when the explosion died down only to be replaced with cursing at only a slightly reduced volume. And then there was the screaming.

“Such darkness,” Tokoyami intoned. “It will swallow us all.”

The screams continued, Bakugou sounding truly desperate. “OKAY nonONO not thaHAT just fucking STOP I GIVE I GIVE!”

Mineta fainted.

The racket tapered off at last, All Might’s laugh echoing tinnily in their ears as they all shivered. “Do you think he’s still alive?” Uraraka whispered. “Man, this is scary.”

Deku’s mind raced. The other students were thinking frantically too, but he had two pieces of information that no one else knew.

The first: In all the videos he’d seen of All Might, he’d never heard of him making a villain beg for mercy. All Might preferred to harm the villains he captured as little as possible, making it easier to the police to detain them without having to provide medical treatment and having the added effect of minimizing property damage.

The second: He’d grown up with Kacchan, who had never been in the habit of screaming in anything other than rage. The only thing that had ever made him howl like that had happened when they were little, and it was – it was –

Oh.

“Midoriya’s about to faint,” Todoroki said.

“Deku?” Uraraka shook him. “What’s going on?”

He swallowed. “We need to split up and hide. Now.”

The class looked at each other in alarm. If even he couldn’t maintain his determination…

They were all going to die.

“We’re not going to die!” Mina gushed. “This is so fun! This is fantastic!”

She and Kirishima were sprinting away from All Might as fast as they could, taking corners at random in hopes that they would lose him. “Yeah, if we can make it back to the others, they’ll definitely be less scared!”

“Are you certain of that, young hero?”

They both skidded to a stop, but Kirishima still crashed into All Might’s massive chest and rebounded onto the ground. Mina shot past them both with a shriek. “All Might!”

The man crouched over him. “I was surprised not to find you with your friends, young Kirishima.”

“We were trying to find Bakugou,” he admitted, rubbing the back of his head. “Mina and I are really bad with directions though, so we got lost until we heard him screaming.”

“It seems you arrived at the perfect time to become my next victim,” the hero intoned, and wow that smile was the most ominous thing he’d ever seen now.

“I – haha –“ Kirishima spluttered, before remembering that he had a quirk. “Ha!” he exclaimed, activating his quirk and feeling immensely relieved as his skin hardened to a rock-like texture. “There’s no way you can tickle me now!”

“It will be more difficult,” All Might mused. Suddenly, he yanked one of Kirishima’s boots off. “I wonder, do your palms and soles harden as well?”

Kirishima, who’d had his quirk for all of twelve years, suddenly couldn’t remember. He glanced frantically at one of his hands and mentally cheered. “Ah, they do.”

All Might frowned, as much as he could frown. “If all your skin hardens, it’s pretty surprising that you can move at all…” Taking Kirishima’s foot gently in his hand, he rotated it right and left. “If this works, then…”

Kirishima felt something brush against his ankle, and without thinking, snickered at the ticklish sensation.

All Might’s grin came back in full force. Hesitantly, Kirishima offered him a weak smile. “Uh… maybe I just have a really cool quirk… and tickling definitely won’t work on me?”

Turned out, his ankles were traitors. A few scratches from All Might and he was already giggling frantically, his other foot drumming against the ground as he tried to roll over and crawl away. Even worse, as he lost focus his quirk began to waver, and despite his effort of squeezing his eyes shut and trying to will the laughter away he could feel his protective shell softening around him.

“Not so tough now, young hero,” All Might teased, and Kirishima groaned internally at the joke as his torture became a thousand times worse. The soles of his feet, the soft skin behind his knees – even squeezing his calf produced a new wave of laughter from him.

He couldn’t take it. No wonder Bakugou had been collapsed on the ground. “Mihihina…. MINA, HELP!”

A pair of pink arms wound themselves around All Might’s neck – Mina, jumping on his back. “Hi! All Might-sensei, can I go next?”

The tickling eased up a little as All Might turned his head to smile at her. “You know, my girl, this is technically a test.”

She pouted. “I know, but… tickling! I already failed my practical anyway, so I’m sure I’ll have to take the remedial classes. I might as well relax and have some fun while I can instead of running! Right, Kirishima?”

Panting, he considered this situation. This was definitely more fun than a fight, and it was really nice after the nightmare of preparing for finals. “Heh… yeah, I guess you’re right.”

“I can hardly refuse such a polite request,” All Might proclaimed grandly, “but first, I need to hear a surrender from young Kirishima here!” He reached a hand up to scratch at Kirishima’s ribcage, the boy squeaking as he tried to bat it away.

“I could help,” Mina offered slyly.

“No, yOU CAHAN’T!” Two pairs of hands hovered over him, Mina reaching over All Might’s shoulder with her evilest grin. “Wait, wait, I give!”

All Might roared with laughter, offering Kirishima a hearty embrace as he wobbled to his feet. “A smart decision! She’s very determined!”

He glared half-heartedly at Mina, shaking his head with a rueful grin. “I’m going to get you for this.” He turned to All Might. “Do we get to watch the others?”

“You do have to leave the training ground. However, your Aizawa-sensei’s in the evaluation room. If he permits you to enter, then you can watch with him!”

“Cool! I’ll see you there, Ashido.” He looked around. “Which way is the exit again?”

As he left, Mina prepared to jump off All Might and take off – she felt like running at least a little bit, after seeing how wrecked Kirishima looked. But before she could so much as loosen her grip, All Might spoke in a decidedly villainous voice. “Well, young Ashido, this means it’s your turn now.”

He grabbed her uniform and yanked, and the next thing she knew she had tumbled over his shoulder and straight into his arms with a surprised shout. He dropped to the ground, cross legged, and released her unceremoniously into his lap. “Wow, you move… really fast, sensei!”

All Might chuckled. Evilly. “You said you wanted to relax, young hero? Perhaps you’d like a massage?” His fingers dug into the muscle at the back of her shoulders, and she found herself squealing with laughter as they hunched up instinctively. “Hm… you don’t look very relaxed. Maybe a different technique?” Said technique was a light massaging of her ribcage that had her curled into a shaking ball, giggling her head off. “This seems a bit harsh… are you really having fun, young Ashido?”

“Yehehes!” she giggled, burying her head in his shoulder. “Lohots of fun!”

His breath stirred her hair as he huffed with laughter. “All right, then.” He continued happily, paying special attention to her neck when he discovered that tickling her there produced actual cackles. She lasted for nearly three minutes before slapping at his hands and gasping breathlessly for mercy.

All Might waited until she caught her breath to move, standing them up together. She jumped onto him once more, offering him a hug from the front this time. He returned it slowly, a little surprised but pleased nonetheless. “You’ve had your fun, young Ashido! I hope you’ll apply as much dedication to attaining mastery of your studies!”

“I will”, she promised, climbing to his shoulder and somersaulting off to the ground. “Thanks a lot, All Might-sensei! It’s really nice of you and Aizawa-sensei to do this for us!”

He had to point her in the direction of the exit as well. She left with a cheerful smile, and he smiled in return as he cracked his knuckles.

Time to find his next target.

#bnha #my fic #class 1a vs tickle might #tickling #chocfic

[inawickedlittletown]

Walking The Wire (106/?)

Summary: Tony Stark always knew about Peter Parker. He didn’t know that Peter was going to get superpowers and become Spider-Man, but he always knew about Peter because Peter was his son.

This will span from pre-Iron Man up through the rest of the MCU (eventually including Infinity War) and will be for the most part canon compliant except where I’ve taken some liberties and interpreted canon a certain way.

Pairings: Pepper/Tony, Tony/Steve (endgame), Tony/Mary (past)

A/N: If you want me to tag you when I post new chapters let me know. This fic is also on AO3

I used Collider’s MCU timeline to stay canon and the title of this fic is an Imagine Dragons song that is just so fitting for Peter and Tony

@findmeinthestarss

Masterpost

Chapter One Hundred Five

It turned out that having Michelle know he was Spider-Man and acknowledging that she did was a good thing. Michelle was just all that much better about covering for Peter. Just the other day when they’d gone on a small class trip and Peter had spotted a mugging happening, it was Michelle that had distracted everyone long enough for Peter to get away unnoticed and then again when he rejoined them.

The only thing about Michelle was that unlike Ned, she actually seemed concerned about what Peter got up to. She worried. It was weird especially when she pretended that she didn’t in person and then sent him long rambling texts about how he wasn’t being careful and how close he came to getting injured or hurting others.

It was all on par with how much coverage Spider-Man had started to get from the media which Peter didn’t particularly like. At first it had seemed cool to be mentioned on the news all the time and to have articles about Spider-Man popping up everywhere. His favorite were the YouTube videos since those were usually fun to watch mostly because they weren’t all made by anyone truly professional. But after a while, even those got old. It got annoying. Tony definitely disliked it.

“I just don’t like how interested everyone seems to be in finding out your identity,” his dad said while they were tinkering in the workshop. “It’s none of their business.”

Peter liked listening to him rant. It was kind of hilarious especially when one considered Tony’s own media presence basically his entirely life.

“And it’s not like we’ve announced that you’re an Avenger or anything but some reason they just seem to associate you with us.”

That’s when Steve spoke up. “That’s because they see you out and about with him all the time as Iron Man and Iron Man is an Avenger.”

“That isn’t the point,” Tony said.

“And also, Peter’s the only hero that’s popped up that has a hidden identity. Gives everyone a mystery to want to solve.”

Tony muttered some more and Peter tried not to laugh. He could tell that Steve was amused too.

Since all that stuff with The Vulture, Tony still did tend to show up when Peter needed help. He was better about letting Peter be involved in things especially when they didn’t involve alien tech. They had stopped some weird guy with what seemed to be some sort of power -- Tony said he was probably an inhuman -- just the other day from destroying a big portion of Greenwich Village. The guy hadn’t been doing it on purpose it turned out it. It was just that his powers were so unstable. Peter had been glad to have Tony there because he didn’t a single person could have handled everything that instance entailed. Even Vision had made an appearance for that. In the end they had subdued the guy and Tony had handed him over to a the new Shield.

“But also, it’s not just the identity thing,” Tony kept on, “it’s that there’s varying degrees of coverage. He’s good for the city. He’s a vigilante. He’s an Avenger. He’s not. It’s ridiculous. At least no one seems to have put together that I built your suit. Or at least no one’s written an article about it yet. And can you imagine if anyone found out I had a son? Because then they would definitely start questioning whether you were the one under the mask and then my parenting would come into question.”

It was no surprise to Peter that Ned loved it. He had a whole collection on articles written about him and he would send Peter the more outrageous ones and Peter would pass those on to Steve because Steve loved reading them too. May seemed to agree with Tony on the whole matter. But then, May also tended to try and get Peter to quit being Spider-Man altogether whenever she saw him and it wasn’t something that was ever likely to stop. She liked to bring up questions about school and girlfriends and college and how Spider-Man wouldn’t be an ideal addition to any of those as her way of asking him to stop.

As he stepped out of Midtown one afternoon, Peter was surprised when he spotted Tony complete with a baseball cap, sunglasses, a grin, and a thermal cup that probably contained coffee, leaning against a sleek black car that at least proved to be his least flashy. Still, no matter how hard he was trying, he looked out of place and people were noticing him.

Michelle who had walked out with him spotted Tony with no problem and when Peter glanced at her he could practically see her thinking. Her left eyebrow rose and she stared him down.

“Is Tony Stark actually picking you up right now?”

Peter shook his head. “Nope. It’s all in your imagination. You’re hallucinating.”

Michelle laughed -- cackled more like and Peter grinned back at her as she nudged him and rolled her eyes. Ned appeared then, busy with his backpack as he walked, and only managing to not run into anyone because anyone in his path dodged him.

“Hey, what’s going on?”

“Your boy here is being picked up by Tony Stark. Fancy that. I bet Flash will be jealous.”

“Which is why I’m going to go before anyone else notices,” Peter said and rushed away. When he looked back Michelle waved and Ned grinned at him and gave him thumbs up.

“Hey,” Peter said when he was close enough.

“Hi, kiddo,” his dad said, “I was in the area so I figured I’d come by and get you. I was also sort of craving this apple crostini this one restaurant has so we’re going to have to make a stop for that. Up for it?”

Peter rolled his eyes but nodded. “Sure.”

They got into the car and when Peter looked out the window he realized that a few people were watching them. Someone must have caught onto Tony being there. Not that it really mattered since everyone knew that Peter had a Stark Internship. Of course, no intern could have ever expected for Tony Stark himself to show up to pick them up from school. He was definitely going to hear about it.

The restaurant Tony took them to was a hole in the wall that no one would have ever noticed and yet it was busy. A well known secret. Nevertheless, they were seated at a discrete table towards the back without much wait which told Peter that Tony had called ahead.

“Why are we really here?” Peter asked.

“I told you -- apple crostini. Also, remind me to order one to go because Steve would kill us if we don’t bring him one back. We used to come here sometimes back in the day.”

“Oh,” Peter said.

His dad never really talked about how he and Steve had come to be and Peter didn’t really have any questions or want to know details, but he loved when Tony slipped in something that hinted at a past memory. It made him realize how normal it all was in some ways. Sometimes, it was still shocking to think about Iron Man and Captain America in a romantic relationship or to consider that they were getting married until he thought about them as Tony and Steve -- his dad and his dad’s fiance.

“Truth is, I wanted to catch up with you,” Tony said. “Things have been a bit crazy lately. Haven’t really spent much time with you on our own. Steve or someone else is usually around.”

Peter hadn’t -- no, he’d noticed, it was just that he hadn’t minded. He’d never expected to have Tony to himself all the time and had felt lucky when he did even if then it had been broken up to a few hours here and there and now he was living in the tower and had access to Tony all the time and it didn’t really matter that there were other people around.   

“We can start with, who was the girl?”

Peter rolled his eyes. “Who, Michelle? I’ve told you about her. She’s the one that figured out I’m Spider-Man all on her own.”

“MJ. You said someone named MJ did.”

“Michelle Jones. She likes to be called MJ. Anyway, that was her.”

Tony nodded. The waitress approached then and Tony ordered the apple crostinis and remembered to order the one to go as well without Peter needing to remind him.

“So she’s super smart and observant,” Tony said.

“Yup. Definitely knew it was you waiting for me. Actually, I think a few people figured it out.”

Tony shrugged with a grin. “And they can all wonder about what your internship entails once more.”

Tony started asking about how things were going in school next and Peter filled him in even though he was sure he’d mentioned some of it to him in passing over the last few weeks.

The apple crostini turned out to be amazing. He was in the middle of telling Tony about what they’d started working on in physics when it arrived and after one bite of the crunchy and flaky crust with the warm apple filling and the ice cream and Peter was in heaven.

“I told you so,” Tony said.

“This is the best thing ever,” Peter said.

It was nice to have some time on his own with Tony. Tony told him all about how the board members were driving him and Pepper crazy because they didn’t like that Tony’s concern wasn’t all about profit when it came to the prosthetic division even when it came to custom projects.

“It’s like they don’t understand how good the PR is although that obviously isn’t why we’re doing it.”

“But it’s your company,” Peter said.

“Pepper and I own more than half of the shares of the company, sure, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have to deal with the board of directors. It’s the side of business that I don’t particularly like. Pepper is awesome at it. It’s all stuff you’ll have to learn about if you want to take over the company one day--”

“Um, what?” Peter said and almost choked on a piece of apple.

Tony chuckled. “Won’t be for a while and it’s up to you if you want it. It’s not an obligation, you know. You could find your own Pepper Potts and have someone else run it if you prefer. I rather you do what you want than what you think I want you to do so--”

Peter had sort of forgotten about how Tony had broken the news to him what felt like ages ago even though it hadn’t even been a full year yet. He’d forgotten how Tony told him that he would inherit everything as if that had been the right way to let him know that Tony was his father. Since then, Peter hadn’t really thought about it or the reality of what it actually meant which meant that it was overwhelming information to take in.

“I -- that’s--”

“What, did you forget that I’m Tony Stark? You’re my heir, kid, to this whole crazy company and whatever else I’ve accumulated.”

“But what if -- what if you and Steve have kids?” Peter asked.

It wasn’t something he’d considered before that moment, but wasn’t that what people did after they got married? They went and had kids. Peter was aware that Tony and Steve were both men but there were ways around that -- surrogacy or adoption or other weirder things. It was possible. Peter didn’t know if -- well, he didn’t know if he’d be thrilled about it if they did have kids. He felt weird even just thinking about it.

“Not really something we’ve discussed,” Tony said and he seemed to notice that Peter seemed uncomfortable. “And even if we did decide to have kids it wouldn’t be for a long while, Pete.”

“Oh,” Peter said. But they could still have some even if Peter was fully grown when they did--

Tony grabbed his hand. Tony’s hand was warm and familiar and Peter allowed himself to calm down. “Peter, you’re my kid. I -- I love you, kid. Not something that will ever change. I’ll always be here for you no matter what. Even if Steve and I adopt a hundred kids. You’re still always going to be my son and you’re the most important person in my life.”

Peter hadn’t expected Tony to say that. Those three words. Tony had said them before, he was sure, but Peter couldn’t actually remember. He certainly hadn’t expected them in the moment.

“I don’t think even Steve will want to adopt that many kids,” Peter said.

“If he even wants to,” Tony said with a shrug. “I’m not saying I wouldn’t be opposed to another kid -- it’s just I’d be fine with just you.”

“Oh,” Peter said. “But you didn’t get to raise me. Not really. Don’t you want that -- the whole baby thing?” Peter didn’t really understand why people were so keen on babies. He knew they were cute but they also cried and made messes and couldn’t really do anything and he actually -- he couldn’t see Tony or even Steve dealing with a baby well.

“That doesn’t matter. Clearly, it doesn’t. You’re still my kid, Peter, and as has been established you clearly need me a lot too no matter what your age is.”

Peter nodded. “I kind of do,” Peter said and then because he couldn’t say anything else, “I, um, I love you too, dad.”

He thought that Tony’s eyes got a bit misty at that and Peter realized that he’d never actually said it out loud before. But it was true. It had been true for a while. Peter loved Tony. He loved his dad and everything that he was and did for Peter. He was one of the best people he knew and Peter would forever be glad that he knew who his father was and that it was someone as amazing as Tony Stark.

Chapter One Hundred Seven

#peter and tony #peter and tony fic #mcuwriting #mcu fic #iron dad #iron dad and spider son #stony #stony fic #marvel

[animentality]

Deadpool is the antithesis of Disney's marvel

It's the stress ball where all the people who want to swear and show titties and talk about cocks and asses but can't on other marvel productions go to relieve themselves all over the audience's face.

You can argue that civil war and all that junk is gritty and serious but it's gritty the way teen Titans was grittier.

It's gritty for like the children-teenager audience.

For adults it's a very tame action sci fi fantasy hero whatever thing.

You'll feel surface emotions but it's not evocative the way Deadpool is.

Deadpool beats a guy with a brick and blood splatters all over the sidewalk but they actually removed the blood splatter from the PG trailers that play before pg-13 movies.

It's just dirty where everything else marvel feels too clean.

I appreciate it, goddamnit, I really want more super anti hero movies that are just nasty.

I enjoyed iron Man, I enjoyed civil war, I enjoyed black panther, I enjoyed these movies, don't get me wrong, it's just that im manic depressive, prone to flash floods of emotion, highs and extreme lows, and high octane action isn't a fight scene with perfect fight choreography and two attractive men lightly bruising each other and giving each other a slight bloody lip and arguing about the ethics of saving people.

I just need Deadpool cutting someone's head off and shooting someone's brains out and making jokes about anal.

In a way it's a lot more human than anything else the marvel infinity universe has ever put out.

There are gay people, for one thing, Deadpool himself has anal sex with a woman, and by that I mean the pegging scene, which is not how men typically (are perceived to) have anal sex with women, and he's pansexual as shit, negasonic teenage warhead's actress is gay, shatterstar, aaaaaargh.

And remember when everyone shipped stucky so hard they jammed Sharon Carter into Civil War?

You can't tell me she was some integral character whose role was so strong and necessay that they couldn't have had black widow or some other random shield agent do it for her.

They got freaked out by the idea of a bisexual captain America and thought they mightve gone too far with Bucky being the perfect match for steve, being someone he's known for a long time from the same era as him AND someone who despite torture and brainwashing still recognized him after seventy whatever years.

I don't even ship stucky or care that much about captain America as a character. These observations are just from someone who's not completely blind.

Deadpool is like the other marvel or some shit.

It's more like Fox's x men, like the rough and tumble Logan, than Spider Man homecoming or Guardians of the Galaxy.

I can't stress this enough.

Infinity war will be whatever, it'll be a lot of fighting and some contrived "iron Man makes up with cap" drama.

I'm sure it'll be a good movie, but I'll forget about it in a few months just like civil war.

The most I can see them doing is some deep and meaningful scene where tony is like..."Heroes have to accept their limits!"

And captain America is like..."No. Anyone can be a hero, and if we let them take away our freedom, we are no better than Thanos" or some nonsense like that.

I'm not sure, I honestly think the whole "should super heroes be registered" thing is a contrived plot anyway.

Like.

whatever, Tony, whatever, Steve, if either of you were people of color, theyd call you a terrorist.

But because you're white guys, we get to have this discussion at all.

But you gotta wonder what other ending they could possibly have.

I mean we know they're not going to let Thanos destroy the planet.

The most they could do with infinity war is have some big character moment. Someone dies.

But would that shock anyone?

Everyone knows this is like the last one. All bets are off. You can kill anyone In the final installment.

You get to see everyone working together, I guess, but how well can they pull it off? It's going to be enormously bloated just trying to get everyone their screen time.

I wonder if it's going to be like x men films which try to have too many characters at once.

And then I think wow...nostalgia trip.

X men films used to be a thing but they drained so much of the grit from most of them that we don't even remember them.

Marvel.

Disney.

God.

Maybe it's just my mentally ill ass and inability to feel things, but where's some of that real human shit?

That shit that keeps you up at night?

That mud scraping shit licking dragging your knuckles through glass human condition type fecal matter that just burns as it goes down your gullet and leaves a burning trail?

I'm sure infinity war will be nice and quirky and action packed and full of character interactions EVERYONE NEEDED TO SEE.

But damn.

Maybe I'm suffering from avengers fatigue, but I really need more content reflective of these wild, wild times.

It's not 2012 anymore, marvel.

The curtains been lifted and the times are a changing.

#infinity war #avengers #marvel #deadpool 2 #deadpool

[bubblegumdicc]

sup sup sup, rp between me and @seravek ! general summery is tony and puppet officially meeting with sal and oscar.

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Earlier that week, Tony had been informed  that Seravek had wanted to have a dinner party when he had arrived for work. Tony was no stranger to parties, so he had accepted graciously, wondering to himself that maybe he'd bring along Puppet just to get them out of the house. On the day of the dinner party, Tony had dressed them both up, taking Puppet by the hand to the car to drive them towards Apollo's house. They'd gotten there pretty early, so Tony decided they'd take a walk around the block, hoping maybe it would ease the shorter monsters nerves.

Puppet wasn't in the greatest place in their head that day, feeling like a useless burden on Tony, something not quite 'person' enough, but not quite pet either.  They stayed quiet the whole time, trying not to hold tightly to tonys hand, it was best they not cling to him and be more of a burden. they idly ran their fingers over the nice clothes they were put in, trailing slowly after tony.  Oscar had weaseled his way into getting him and sal invited over at the request of sal, though oscar would gladly attend anyways just to kiss on sev and press apollos buttons.   They spotted the two walking around and Sal nudged oscar to point them out, whispering something before oscar waved to catch tonys attention and walking closer "sup buddy, figured youd be here."

Tony had tried everything to help them, but it didn't seem like Puppet was getting any better- he couldn't help but worry about them in the back of his mind each day he had to get up to go to work. A voice pushes his thoughts aside and he looks up to see Oscar waving to them. He grins, holding a hand up. "Heey, how are ya? Sev invited you guys too eh?" He glances down behind himself at Puppet and gives their hand a squeeze. "Dunno if you met 'em before, but this here is Puppet. They're uh... a little shy. Don't get out much, heh."

Oscar comes over to shake tonys hand in greeting, a hug being more his style, but he attempted to respect peoples space sometimes. Sal greeted Tony as well before offering a greeting and hand to Puppet, the only response a stare to their hand before looking away, pets dont shake hands, they thought.  Sal frowned, trying to start small talk with them. Puppet seemed to have quite a few telltale signs of being trafficked monster, something theyd learned about in their therapy classes. "is Puppet a nickname, or one your parents picked out?"   Puppets face scrunched slightly in thought, used to having no filter since they were rarely taken in public before, "master vee gave me it.."  Oscar had given a short greeting to puppet before focusing on Tony again, joking with him  while sal attempted to talk to puppet "so, lemme in on the secret, how ya get boss ta like you so much? cakes sure as fuck dont seem ta work, which is rare considerin my skill at it." he puts a hand to his chest cockily to emphasize that.

He didn't let it show, but Tony had eyed Sal when they began to ask one too many questions in his opinion- usually no one seemed to bother. He gave Puppets hand a squeeze, to settle his own mind at least before he laughed. "When ya have been around the boss man as long as I have, ya start ta grow on him- whether he likes it or not, heh. Been hangin around 'im since we was kids." He replies with a grin.

Oscar raises a brow "last time I hung around a lot, he jus seemed pissy. Oh well, at least sev likes me. Plus he fits in my lap easier than boss would anyways." He shrugged and grinned back "whatcha doin out here by the way, ain't the party in there, or is there some special side action I'm missin out on?"  Sal was getting more certain this wasn't a just a 'pet play' thing, and from what they knew so far, tony was just another master treating them like a pet, if the collar was anything to go by. "Who's master vee?"  Puppet looked up at them then, feeling confused. They hadn't been asked that before. Or well, no one ever asked who gave them their name either. They weren't sure how to answer it, starting to frown "um.. They had soft fur and a big pretty eye.. And um.. The house was blue.." They started mumbling, trailing off in confused thought as they they tried to think about it. How were you supposed to explain who someone was other than by name? Sal kept a neutral face, listening to their mumbled explanation, giving a small glance at tony as they considered what type of person he might be beneath his public exterior. sure Oscar wasn't technically a 'good' person, nor was sal, but at least neither of them would keep a person as a pet.

"Nah, that's just his default mood. Belive me, I would know. Ah, that reminds me- ya hear sevvy found out he had a little bro? " Tony grinned ear to ear- if he had ears at leas, he would of been. "Real adorable fella." He added, petting puppet on the top of the head. "Nah we got here kinda early, decided we'd take a walk. Fresh air is good Fer the lungs. That's what I heard at least, I ain't got any lungs though." And it was time they hightailed it inside anyways, seemed to be one too many questions for Tony's liking. "C'mon sweetheart, let's all go inside yeah?" He then added, turning to look down at Puppet with a smile.

Oscar wasn't excatly keen on trying to be buddy buddy with someone if that was their all-the-time mood. he raised a brow "little bro huh? bet he's as cute as sev. he here tonight? or with his parents?" oscar wasnt sure how little the little bro was, for all he knew, it could be a kid. sal gave a friendly smile, not wanting to possibly piss off tony "lungs or not, walking and fresh air is good for the soul too." puppet looked up at tony, getting pulled from their thoughts, looking confused, but followed him anyways, the other two close behind.

Tony snorted at the mention of parents, grin still apparent on his face. "They're only a few years apart. Don't tell Sev, because he might even be cuter. Course i'm bein' biased."  He seemed to lead the way, then again, he was here often enough it was like a second home to him.  "Yo Paulie, your favorite guy just arrived! I'll give ya a hint, its me!" Tony calls out. Apollo emerged from the kitchen- or rather shooed from the kitchen by Seravek for 'sampling the wares' as he liked to call it. Lucky for Oscar, he seemed to be in a particularly good mood, though that could of been from the wine he had earlier. "Hey Sev, Tony's here. Oscar too." He called back into the kitchen before made is way over. "Come on in, take a load off will ya?"

Oscar smiled a little at the friendlier than usual attitude boss was sporting, "if he's the first, then I'm your second favorite, right boss-man?"  He decided not to push for a hug, or go to Sev to hug on, to attempt keeping him in a good mood. At least for now anyways, he couldn't resist getting hugs from people who were glad to give them away like sev.  Sal put a hand out in greeting to boss "hello, we havnt officially met, I'm salpicar. You have a beautiful home!" Puppet had backed up, frowning, somewhat behind tony, since they weren't exactly fond of boss anymore, and they were easy to hold grudges. Well, at least against anyone who wasn't their master.

"Maybe if you're on yer best behaviour." Apollo snorted before turning his attention to Sal who held their hand out. He grins, giving them a firm handshake. "Grazie, s'nice ta meet'cha. Call me Apollo if ya like, Sev's just about done in the kitchen, he's been excited about this for the past few days, heh."  "C'mon, c'mon, i'm starvin over here, I skipped lunch for this an' everything. Where's Jester at?" Tony is cut off as he hears his name from the kitchen. "Antonio!!!" Jester gasped excitedly, then came running out from the kitchen where he all but practically leaped at Tony in a hug who laughed and happily returned it. "Hello!! You're here!!" He grinned happily then noticed their guests, to which he stuck out his hand. "Oh! Hello!! My name's Jester- Ah, I am Seravek's brother! It's nice to meet you!" He offered a smile at both Oscar and Sal.

Oscar puffed out his chest a little "Well of course sevs excited, who wouldn't be when they know I'm commin?"  Sal shakes jesters hand "Im Salpicar, lovely to meet you too!"  Oscar takes jesters hand right after sal lets go to greet him as well, glancing at tony "you werent kiddin, he is cute. hey cupcake, names Oscar, but you can call me daddy~" he winks at them, leaning down to give a kiss to their hand. Sal was used to his flirting with almost every person he met, so they easily ignored it, choosing to comment to boss on how nice the house smelled. Puppet slunk away from the commotion and loud voices, choosing to crawl under a coffee table.

Jester only smiled wider (if that was even possible) he seemed really excited to see new faces. His cheeks immediately flush red, "Ah-- pleased to meet you Mister Oscar." He tries his best to be polite as Oscar kisses his hand, but he can't help a quiet laugh that slips out. Tony looked as smug as ever, til he noticed Puppet was no longer at his side anymore. "Hey, Jessy sweetheart, how about ya show the others to the dining room? I'm sure dinner's almost done." He speaks up, seeming to glance around before he had slinked off into the living room. "Puppet? Where are ya darlin? Come on out." Tony looks around the room before bending down to peer under the coffee table when he sees a tail flicking from underneath. He chuckles to himself and kneels down. "There ya are, aren't you hungry?"  "Well, you heard him. Better head to the dining room, I'm sure yer all plenty hungry and all." The larger monster moved from the hallway, shooing everyone along into the dining room where Seravek had been busy setting the table with all kinds of delicious looking foods. He looks up, beaming proudly. "I'm so glad you all came!!! Sorry I did not have the chance to greet you first off--" Seravek pauses mid-sentence to smack Apollo's hand away from the table. "Seeing as how SOMEONE is too impatient to wait, that is." Apollo merely rubbed the back of his skull sheepishly.

Sal laughed lightly at the display between the two "well the food looks amazing, you must have worked hard on it!" Oscar agreed, but deciding he'd waited long enough for a hug, moved to Sev and wrapping his arms around him "sup cutie, notice ya gotta new twin, huh? whats daddy gotta do to get ya both in my lap?" at that point, sal sighed audibly "sir, please.."  puppet tensed as they heard footsteps near, watching silently as he called for them, like an asshole cat. of course, their stupid tail gave them away. they put their face to the floor hide it from him "no.."

"Oh yes! We spent all day on it!" Jester perked up. Seravek gladly accepted the hug before his cheeks change color and he sputters in embarrassment. "Goodness!" He huffed slightly, a smile on his face as he shoved his arm playfully. "Perhaps if I see you enjoy the food I worked so hard on!" He said, then turned to Jester. "Where's Tony? Didn't I hear him a while ago?" A look of concern was written on his face, his younger brother picked up on this of course and opted to go and check on him.  "Well, lets not just stand around here. Siediti e mangia! Sit down and eat!" Apollo says while pulling out his chair. "Oh, yes of course!! please everyone enjoy!" Seravek piped up and began to take his seat.  Meanwhile Jester had made his way into the livingroom where he found Tony kneeling down on the floor, crouching to look under the coffee table. "Antonio! Everyone is waiting- ah....did you lose something?" Jester quirked a brow at him. "Nah, more like someone. Heh heh...this is who I was tellin' ya about..." Seeming to be confused, Jester knelt down as well and peered under the table. "Oh!!" He sounded surprised. "You must be Puppet! It's nice to meet you! You're even cuter than I imagined! Ah....why are you hiding under the table, isn't it a bit cramped? Though I suppose seeing so many faces at once can be overwhelming..but mister Antonio is here with you!"

Oscar chuckled, allowing himself to get pushed, he picked a chair at random to sit in, not caring who he ended up by. Sal followed suit, glancing around for puppet as well since they were their ulterior motive for being here, but it was best to pretend they werent too interested in puppet, so they went on to ask about the food they had made, curious to how they made it since they themself couldn't even cook toast right.  Puppet scooched back further, not exactly helping since now their butt was sticking out from the other side. Earlier when they'd seen jester, they'd assumed it was Sev, but upon closer inspection, it was indeed a different skeleton. It didn't look as if Tony would leave them be this time, so they decided to give up on hiding. They weren't exactly interested in any of the new faces tonight, especially the talky one from earlier who asked confusing things, but considering their state of mind, they were trying to go back to just being a pet. Hence the staying on the floor, ect. So they should act like one and if hiding wasn't an option, maybe they could piss tony off and he'd start treating them the way they were always treated before. Puppet scooched forward quickly to lick jesters face as if they were a dog greeting them.

Jester had let out a squeak in surprise, "Goodness-- do they always erm...greet others this way?" Tony smiled sheepishly, thinking perhaps it wasn't the best time to bring Puppet around others. Especially considering there were so many different people, but he had just wanted them to get out of the house for their own benefit. "Sorry, ah..heh, not really? I mean, it's somethin' they've been doin' lately." He replies before trying to coax the smaller monster out further. Jester offered a patient smile, "Would you like to come and eat with us? We made such yummy food for you and everyone else! It'd be a shame if you didn't get to try some." he says quietly and held out his hand towards them, hoping that maybe they would take it so they could lead them back to the dining room. "If its too much for you though, we can eat here in the livingroom! I can keep you company if Mister Tony would like to join the rest."

Puppet stares at their hand a moment before looking at their face and then at Tonys, as if calculating how to piss him off. They honestly weren't sure if they could, but they were kind of bored of hiding all the time anyways, might as well do something. They take the offered hand and crawl out, before straight up sniffing jesters crotch. they look back up, not really surprised, but they'd found out who Tony kept smelling like now "oh, you're the one master has been fucking. You smell nice."

Okay, not even Tony was expecting that one. His poor boyfriend's face turned a bright red as he let out a yelp, stumbling a few steps back in shock- Tony had to try not to laugh because in all honesty...it was kind of funny. "Oye....Puppet- ya....ya just can't go around doin' that to people- you know that--" He snorted, looking back to his boyfriend who took a minute to straighten up again. "Ah....gosh- you...erm.. you are very bold! Hah...Hahehah-- at least I smell nice I suppose? Are you...Would you still like to eat something at least?" Jester was only just realizing now, how much Tony really did have his hands full- it made him want to help all the more.

puppet watched their reactions curiously, it was hard not to feel a little flutter that they made Tony smile. they glanced around the room, trying to think of what they could do next, but nothing came to mind. they didnt feel like eating though "I dont want fucking food, I want-..."they rubbed their face in frustration, no idea what they wanted. to be be a pet again? get beaten and hurt and locked in a room for days with no contact or even water? they start to tear up and reach out to grab tonys hand, looking for some form of comfort.

Tony of course, knew they were trying to get some sort of reaction out of them. But he couldn't bring it upon  himself  to punish Puppet in ways they were probably used to. He gave Jester an apologetic look as he takes Puppets hand and gives it a squeeze. "Alright darlin' its okay, I know you're feelin' a lotta things right now." Turning his attention to Jester he speaks again, "Tell Paulie i'm going ta borrow his office for a bit, yeah?" He says, then turns to lead Puppet down out of the room. "C'mon, lets go somewhere nice and quiet- i'm sorry I brought ya- I know ya didn't want ta come." His smile was forced as he lead Puppet into the office for some quiet.  Jester had returned to the dining room once more, feeling as though he hadn't been much help.  "Brother! There you are! Where have you been?" Seravek took notice of the troubled look on his younger brothers face as the other sat down quietly before looking to Apollo. "Erm... Antonio said he was going to borrow your office for a bit, Mister Apollo. I believe Puppet is feeling a bit overwhelmed." Apollo quirked a brow at him, then looked to Seravek before nodding. "Yeah thats fine."

Puppet sniffled, trying not to cry, they rubbed at their eye sockets. once in the office, they quieted further and sat on the floor, tail curled around themself and started to sob "im sorry mas- T-tony." Sal listened quietly to the exchange, writing mental notes of all the behaviors. they werent sure how to go about this situation, but more than just being interested in it, they wanted to help others, so why not start with this short skeleton? "oh dear, I hope theyre ok.." oscar didnt really know the shortie, so he didnt have any strong feelings for them other than thinking they were cute, so he just nodded in agreement.

Tony really felt for the other monster. He couldn't imagine going all his life being forced to act one way and to then suddenly have that turned around. He knelt down beside them, bringing them to his chest. "Shhh, I know sweetheart, its not your fault. " He says quietly, kissing the top of their skull.  Jester felt a little bad, Tony not being here to enjoy the fun-- he frowned a little to himself. "I hope so too.." He murmured. The party went on though, Apollo started to break out the booze for everyone and both Jester and Sev were happy to see everyone enjoying the food-- all except Tony and Puppet.

Puppet had gripped tonys shirt while they cried, practically climbing into his lap. Theyd missed being close to him, but they felt bad about it. They were just a burden on him, taking enjoyment out of everything, just like whatever dinner thing they had come to tonight. They calmed down after a while and pulled back a little, avoiding looking at him. They decided they should try to make him happy still, even if they weren't. Hed done so much for them, it wasn't fair for them to ruin everything. They tried to talk with a steady voice "c-can we eat?"

Tony only smiled softly as Puppet began to calm down. "There's my sugarskull" he murmured as he kisses their cheeks. Tony gently wipes the tears from their eyes then takes one of their smaller hands in his and pecks little kisses on their fingers. "Of course sweetpea, did ya want to wait here while I grabbed somethin for us both?"

Puppet shook their head, grabbing and  pulling his hand to lead towards the door "I want you to be with.. you're family?"

"Sweetheart...." Tony's smile faltered a bit as he bends down to pick them up. "You're my family. But I'll tell ya what, let's go get some food, and if ya start at feel overwhelmed again you just let me know and we'll come right back here again. How's that sound? You can sit in my lap at the table if ya like."

Their face contorted for a moment in confusion "I'm- family?" They weren't sure what to do. Family was.. for people. Normal people. Not some fucked up half person-pet thing like them. They were lost in thought for a moment before realizing they needed to respond. "O-ok" they stuttered slightly, wrapping their arms around tony and pressing their face to his neck as he held them, they'd missed being close to him. But they couldn't get rid of the thought that they shouldn't be here. Those other people were his family. Not them.

Tony gave them a tight squeeze, kissing their skull as he held them in his arms. He runs their back in a comforting motion, before exiting the office once more with Puppet nestled against his chest. "Sorry were late" Tony spoke up with a half smile, returning to the dining room. "There ya are. Sit your ass down and eat will ya?" Apollo rumbled, motioning to a spot at the table. Tony takes his seat between Jester and Sal, allowing puppet to settle in his lap. "Damn, looks good huh?" He grinned down at them. "Yanno I guess since it is a special occasion, I spose I could let ya have a glass or two of wine. Best there is, well, that's what Paulie says anyways. Here, have a taste."  Jester seemed to be happy enough that they both finally decided to join everyone and reached out to pour them both a glass.

Puppet had closed their eyes at the petting momentarily before opening them to the sight of a room of people. they werent too bothered, their old master used to bring over small groups of people, though this event wouldnt be the same, theyd learned that much by now. they hunched in Tonys lap a little, not liking the stares. it was odd, theyd never noticed stares before the last few months. then again, they werent exactly the same, were they? They were easily distracted by the glass of liquid though, grabbing it when jester was done and sniffing it before tilting the glass back and drinking the whole thing, some dripping down their chin. Sal watched a little in shock at first, taking note of their eagerness to drink alcohal, while oscar raised a brow and snorted with a smile "damn, they sure like their fruit, huh?"

Tony couldn't help but chuckle to himself, taking a napkin to wipe their face. "Yeah, this one here likes the booze. Gotta lock it up from em" he snorted, taking a sip from his own glass before he began to pile his plate with food, he did skip lunch for a reason after all, Seraveks cooking was heaven. "Ah, did ya wanna try some chocolate cake? Sev makes the best." He then adds, glancing down to puppet.

Puppet watched tony fill the plate, they still werent feeling very hungry, but they wanted to make tony happy, so they nodded to his question. though cake was certainly going to be easy to eat, even if they werent hungry, it still tasted good.

"There ya go, just Fer you." Tony sets a plate down with a slice of cake on the table in front of them that jester had cut out for them before he began to dig into his own food. "Yo Sev, you sure ya didn't just buy all of this? It's too good to be homemade." He began to speak up, enjoying how he could easily fluster Seravek over compliments. "You have been around here often enough to see me cooking! But I suppose I did have a little help...my brother and Apollo are quite the cooks as well!" Seravek replies trying to pretend that he wasn't tickled pink, as they say, over how everyone seemed to like his food. "Ah, Jess you had a hand in this too huh? No wonder it tastes so good. Almost as tasty as you." He raises his brows at his boyfriend who immediately flushed a bright red before hissing at him to behave.

puppet used their hands to pick up the cake, trying to hold it in a non messy way at least, taking a bite out of it and trying to eat it quickly so tony would be happy they ate something. at the comment he made about jester, they tilted their head, "it tastes like him?" they leaned forward to sniff tonys food and frown "it doesnt smell like his pussy." oscar choked a little and started laughing, looking over at jester "really? hey, can i get a sniff? id like to judge it for myself." meaning jesters crotch.

Jester nearly fucking choked on his drink, ending up in a coughing fit as his face burned red. "Honestly! Both of you, we're at the table! Take your lewdness elsewhere!" Seravek huffed at both Tony and Oscar while handing his poor embarrassed brother and napkin to wipe his jaw. Apollo seemed to chuckle to himself at the outburst before nudging Seravek, "C'mon, lighten up Sevvy."  This was turning out to be and rather eventful night. Jester was finding out very quickly that Oscar was just as...perverted as Tony. And puppet had no filter whatsoever.  "I didn't mean it literally tasted like him darlin" Tony laughs, "I just meant...it tasted good."

Puppet jumped a little at the coughing fit, glancing around the table wondering what exactly it was that they said that was inappropriate. they werent sure, but it must be since it was related to crotch. they found out that was apparently taboo everywhere, and they werent really sure why, being they werent raised with 'manners'. sal was doing their best to keep a straight face during all of this.  oscar was still laughing, big sharp toothed grin on his face "aw come on, that wasnt lewd. if ya want lewd, i can show ya lewd, baby."  he winked at jester jokingly before going back to eating. puppet tilted their head back to look up at tony behind them, curious after the further explanantion  "whats he taste like? cake? ice cream?" those were both good tasting after all.

Perhaps the table wasn't the best place to talk about how his boyfriend tasted- especially not with the pleading look Jester was giving him as if to ask not to embarrass him further. "Maybe you'll get a taste someday." Tony chuckles, petting puppet on the head.  Dinner went on...well enough to say, Seravek and Jester cleared the table and did the dishes together while Apollo lead them all into the den. Tony fixated on Sal as Seravek and Jester returned into the living room. "So...Sal was it? What is it ya do?" He wasn't going to pretend he didn't notice the cautious glances from them all throughout dinner.

Sal was fairly certain on puppets situation considering what theyd seen and heard so far. especially where they had gotten their name. but that still wasnt complete confirmation and sal was a bit of a perfectionist. still, they had to push past that now, this might be their only oppuntunity since tony seemed wary of them. Sal paused for a moment in quick thought, deciding to tell him and see his response. "I'm a mental health counselor. Im interning right now at a psychiatric hospital over in hudsen. well, other then being oscars personal accountant that is."

Shit. Just what he needed around, someone who would easily pick up on Puppets signs-- if they figured out any more about them- Tony might just be in some deep shit. "I see.." He thought out loud. He'd have to nip this in the bud right now. "You uh, mind if we have a little one on one chat? I'm sure Paulie won't mind if I borrow his office again." He said, not really waiting for a reply before turning to Puppet. "I'll be right back darlin, do you think you can stay with Jester and Seravek here for a little?"

Puppet gave an ok of agreement, not really paying attention. theyd decided to lay on the floor near the couch, playing idly with a coin theyd found under it. Sals brows went down slightly, their typical friendly smile dropping into one of slight concern. Not that they were particually scared of Tony, but they had a nervous disposition over people in general, and the fact tony was in some kind of illegal work made them even more wary. like oscar, sal was a master with knives, but they didnt have a gun on them. and they certainly didnt trust that any of these people didnt either. "oh- uh, im not so sure about that, sir. im quite comfortable staying near my boss.." sals tone caught oscars attention, and he glanced over at them from where he was probably annoying sev or something.

"Ah, I actually...wanted to talk to ya about- y'know." His eyes made a motion over to Puppet so he didn't have to mention their name- he probably came off as kind of creepy. "Its uh, important and all."He says while clearing his throat and standing up.

Sal warily looked at him for a moment before glancing over at Oscar who was looking over now. they knew Oscar would keep an 'ear' out for them. hopefully this guy wasnt planning on murder after such a lovely dinner. Sal tugged a little on their tie, a nervous habit "well, I suppose just for a moment.." they slowly followed him, keeping what they determined to be a safe distance from him.

"C'mon, ain't like i'm going ta whack ya or nothin'" Tony snorted, already on the way to the office where he let himself inside, shutting the door behind him once Sal stepped inside. "Look, I realize this is....a bit weird, considerin' we don't really know each other. But after ya said you were a mental health counciler and all- I figured, well, you'd notice more than anyone about Puppet. I saw how ya were askin' em questions and the looks you were givin' em believe me. And like I said......considerin' we don't know each other well, you can see why i'm a little on edge, I guess? Heh. Ya see, I do a lot of back alley work for Apollo. I can't afford havin' somethin' happenin' ta Puppet."

Sal gave a nervous laugh at the joke, they were all too aware how people could deceive and lie easily. though through the talking, they relaxed a little. tony didnt seem to be pulling any threats on them, so far anyways. "youre right, i have been interested in puppets demeanor. if we're being frank, i get the feeling theyre a victim of monster traficking, am i wrong? or um, the 'pet' trade?"

"Look, you can see why i'm worried now yeah?" Tony rubbed the back of his skull sheepishly. "Look i've done everything I can, its just not enough and I don't know what else i'm supposed ta do- if someone were to take 'em away from me or somethin....they'd lose all the trust i've managed ta build with 'em. They've come a long ways ya know? But its still not good enough. And I can't go to any kinda therapist- haha god, I wish I could but- not with my line of work. I know you work for Oscar, and I ain't dumb enough to think everything he does is....legal either."

Sal gave comforting smile, at least it sounded like he actually cared about the small monster, this was a great outcome. they nodded slightly "Oscar certainly isnt completly... lawfully inclined. I can understand your worry, and it's so releiving to hear you care about Puppets wellbeing. and well, im a fairly new therapist, very new, but Ive passed all my tests with flying colors, and um, if youre open to suggestions, considering your.. aversion to law based facilities, perhaps i could offer my help? under the table, so to speak? I know it might be odd since i dont know puppet, but the point of my job is to help people, and they, and you, appear to be in a tough situation."

Tony let out a sigh of relief-- a massive weight felt like it had been lifted off his shoulders. "God- would you? I mean- I appreciate it- I'm kinda at the end of my wits here. I can't have 'em taken away from me yanno? They've been doin' so much better since....since they've been with me. But I can tell they're confused and conflicted and shit, I thought bringing them along tonight would help a little, get em outta the house and all. But they don't look ta be improving- I know they're actin out- tryin' ta get me to be upset with em because thats what they're used to but, I guess I'm kind of a big ol softie and I thought I could help give em a better life. I know I didn't go about it the best way but it was the only thing I could do. Man, if ya would help us out i'd be real grateful."

Sals smile widened, this had worked out perfectly so far, much better than they had expected! "i would be glad to help, they certainly seem to be struggling with something." Sure, sal was only recently degreed, but they were still working with and interning at the hospital, so they had sources to help if they ran into something they werent certain about. they could always ask a coworker a 'hypothectical' question if they needed help. Sal pulled a small notepad from their pocket, tearing a page out neatly with their number on it "this is my number, i can text you my address and we can set up a time for you to bring them over for a session."

"Yeah?" Tony looks down at the piece of paper and takes it, folding it up and putting it into  his pocket. He went back to his usual self, grinning widely. "Hey, thanks. I really appreciate it yanno? Yer doin' us a big help." He extends his hand out to shake Sal's

Sal happily took his hand to shake it "You're very welcome! im excited to help." they glanced down sheepishly "I'm sorry if I acted odd, youre much nicer than I expected. Er- not that i expected you to not be nice! Just um, well you never know with people in.. these types of work- or well, not that everyone doing the work you do is bad, thats not what i meant-" they cringed inwardly, hoping they hadnt offended him.

Tony couldn't help but laugh out loud at that. "Nah, its- its fine. Heh- I have that effect on people. No harm done. Anyways, before people start gettin suspicious, I guess we should head back?" he headed towards the office door once again, hoping Puppet had behaved for at least a few minutes without him, though he was sure Jester and Seravek could handle them for a little while.

Sal nodded, trying to relax and followed tony back out. Oscar was waiting sitting on the couch and prob trying to snuggle with one of the twinks, or both,  though he wasnt too concerned for sal, he didnt think tony would try anything, even if he didnt know him very well, he knew sev enough to know he seemed oblivious of certain things, and apollo and tony probably wouldnt cause a scene with sev there. as he spotted sal, he loudly proclaimed "hey,finally  back from your quickie?" sals face blushed and they shook their head at him "oscar, i swear-"  of course, tony and sal arrived just in time to see puppet pulling their dick out to piss on the carpet.

"Aw damn, don't point it out like that man." Tony replied, obviously he was going to play along. Seravek had finally given in to Oscar's sweet talk and allowed the other monster to cuddle him. And then Seravek had somehow managed to coax his brother into cuddling as well. Tony stopped in his tracks and his eyes darted to Puppet- oh god, please no. "Puppet don't--" He scrambled from his spot, hauling ass towards them- Apollo would have his NECK if he knew about this.

Sal covered their mouth in surprise "oh dear-"  puppet looked up, hearing fast steps and seeing tony rushing for them surprised and spooked them. they stumbled, falling back on their ass in a painful way on their tail, ending up losing their bladder and pissing themself, they started tearing up as they seen all the eyes on them now, they started crying, covering their face and curling in on themself "i-im sorry master-  i forgot where th-the bathroom was-" 

"Oh shit- shit shit-- ya should've asked someone--" Tony couldn't help but feel his heart melt a little at the display- "H-Here.. come here, its alright-" He kneels down to scoop them up- not caring if they were wet. "Don't cry, its alright- let me clean you up- ah--" Tony stares down at the puddle on the floor and panicked for a moment before Jester had leaped up and hushed him, "It's okay! I'll clean it, you go on. Don't worry!" Bless his sweet boyfriend-- he'd better get to a bathroom quick, he could feel Apollo's gaze burning holes through him.

Puppet presses their face to tonys shoulder, clinging to him, still crying from the sudden surprise and not liking the foreign feeling of embarrassment from all the people staring. Sal almost followed, worried and wanting to help, they were used to caring for others or 'babying' them when they were upset, but they turned instead and offered to help clean up the mess. oscar waited till tony had left to try cheering the mood with a dumb joke "technically its your fault, boss-man. your wine went right through 'em." he gave a cheesy smile, feeling bad for the little guy that pissed and hoping to help the situation.

Tony had taken them to the nearest bathroom, wanting to get them out of their wet clothes as soon as possible. "Shh, its okay, I know it was an accident. I should of been there, i'm sorry sugar skull." He murmured to them as he set them down. "Here, its get ya undressed out of those wet clothes. How about a bath? That'll make you feel better." He offered them a smile as he pulled their wet clothing off and set it aside.

 Apollo was clearly upset, who the hell just pissed on a carpet like that? Just how full did Tony really have his hands with Puppet. "That carpet is expensive." He hissed out, clearly sulking about it. Seravek quickly hushed him, knowing full well he'd get over it in a little while, he just had to brood over it. "I'm so sorry Mister Apollo." Jester apologized- even though he didn't do anything wrong. Though he did appreciate the help as he got the cleaning supplies and began to scrub at the carpet.

Puppet tried to stop crying, letting tony undress them. they rubbed at their eyesockets, all their emotions getting wound up again, whining out "w-hy are you so nice to me, im b-bad-"  Oscar patted apollo on the shoulder "hey, ya can always get a new carpet. id be glad to let the little guy piss on my carpet, theyre cute." though he was also the type to throw his money away and spend recklessly. he decided he probably wasnt helping either way, but he was a dork whos go-to 'help' was humor "would a kiss make ya feel better?"

"You're not bad sweetheart." Tony simply says as he turns to run the water for the bath. "You're-- confused, I know you're having a hard time adjusting. I know you don't know why I treat you differently than you're used to and I know its scary but i'm just trying to do whats best for you. We're going to get us both some help though, alright?" He hushes them, wiping their face gently as the bath begins to fill up.  "Here we go, climb on in." Apollo only grumbled in response. "Cute don't cut it. Still don't change the fact my nice carpet got pissed on." He crosses his arms and Seravek hushed him, pushing a glass of whisky into his hands. Drinking always seemed to calm him down. "Don't be so grumpy Apollo! We have guests still! You can grumble about all of that later."

Puppet did as tony said, getting in the tub how they usually did, arms and face first.  they didnt know what help he was talking about, but the water was warm and they sniffled once more before shoving their face in the water as it filled up. they liked being underwater, it felt nice, and everything sounded calm under there.  oscar didnt hear a no to his joking ask, so he gave apollo a kiss on the cheek "its just a lil fluid, yer carpet'll live, big guy." sal spoke up a little then "sir, not everyone likes things soaked in piss like you do." oscar snorted, mock frowning "i resent that."

Tony didn't think he'd ever get tired of that. Perhaps someday they'd get in the tub like a normal person, but until then he'd just watch in amusement. Tony really did try his best to keep them happy though. He had even dedicated one of the spare rooms in his house as a little 'playroom' for Puppet, somewhere they could go and be surrounded in things they liked, sort of like a sensory room for them. He knelt down by the side of the tub and grabbed a little body wash, waiting for the smaller monster to resurface so he could wash them.  Apollo gave a huff, probably to mask the way his mouth tried to turn up into a smile. "Hey look, i'm all up for kinky shit but just not on my furniture and carpets." He finally says after downing the glass of whiskey.

Puppet finally had to come up for air, taking a large breath once theyd lifted their head. they ran their hand over the surface of the water in thought. puppet had loved the playroom, and they still did, but theyd been avoiding everything they liked. they didnt deserve it. they didnt deserve any of this stuff or niceness.  they looked up at tony, their soul hurting at the thought. they stayed quiet, letting tony take care of them, not that they had any idea what to say other than apologizing again.  Oscar lounged on their couch, "what? ya put plastic wrap down everywhere ya fuck? thats not very sexy." he paused in thought "or are ya sayin you only fuck in the bedroom? wheres your sense of adventure, man? the kitchen is the best place to get it on, the counters the perfect height!" Sal tried to ignore him at this point, no amount of shushing would ever make oscar stop being openly lewd.

He could never imagine what they had gone through to be made to think like they did, all he could do was treat them right, and he had. Tony simply smiles, wetting a washcloth and poured some body wash onto it before he began to wash them carefully, humming a tune to himself.  "I ain't sayin' I don't fuck in different places. I'm sayin' I ain't havin' anyone pissing on my furniture. Or the stuff that can't easily be cleaned that is." Apollo snorted in response, causing Seravek to blush once again- geez, tonight seemed to be all about who could make him or his brother the most embarrassed.

Puppet closed their eyes to the gentle touching and humming. after being washed, they climbed out of the tub right then and there to get in tonys arms and snuggle. things were confusing and awful but they couldnt help how much they enjoyed his presence and warmth, and the way he'd smile and laugh, even if he made jokes they didnt always understand.  Oscar shrugged "ive had ta replace my couch twice since monty moved in, id blame him, but im pretty sure most of the mess is mine." sal made an exasperated noise, considering they were the one that had cleaned up several of those 'messes' "i think its safe to say it was mostly you." they had a slight blush at such a conversation, but oscar had a way of roping them into things. Oscar smiled "hey dont give me that look, i paid you extra for that. life is messy, and so am i."

  Welp. Guess there wasn't much he could do now. He'd of offered them a towel if he knew they wanted to get out-- still, he smiled and let the water out of the bath, reaching for a towel to wrap them up in snuggly and kissed their face.  "Lets see if we can get you some dry clothes-" Right as he said that, there was a knock on the door and Jester entered the bathroom with fresh clothing for Puppet that appeared to be some of Pine's (who had stayed far away from parties, usually cooped up in their room playing videogames) God, he had such a great boyfriend. "Its almost as if you can read my mind." He grinned as the clothes were set down on the countertop nearby. "Thanks doll." He gave his boyfriend a smooch, still holding puppet before the other left again to give them some privacy. "Alright lets get you into some dry clothes huh?"  "Do ya always get roped into this?" Apollo sneered, gaze fixating on Sal who he seemed to read the look on their face rather easily. Seravek was long gone out of this conversation, choosing to stay silent on the matter as his brother returned into the livingroom again- he smiled happily as jester settled himself next to Seravek on the couch and cuddled into him.

Puppet dressed themself, sniffing the clothes as they put them on, they could tell whos they were, but it brought back the memory of a little wave of disappointment when theyd been told pine wasnt a pet like them- or well, apparently they werent a pet either. they frowned at the clothes in thought "were they- um, the pine, were they a pet like me and arent now?" maybe thats what tony and boss did. take pets and make them.. not pets.

Sal blushed harder, looking at the floor and tugging on their tie "well, er, yes, i suppose.." Oscar laid his head in sev and jesters lap, in what would be an innocent notion if he hadnt followed so by saying "is sniffing your crotch still an option on the table, or heh, couch?"

Ah....that was a touchy subject-- since Puppet was never a pet in the first place, but they still believed they were supposed to be, hence this whole situation in the first place. "Tony tried to smile as he picked them up, "I know ya don't want ta believe me when I say ya weren't supposed to be a pet in the first place. And...I know it hard to think about, but no, Pine's not a pet, neither are you. But I told ya we're going ta get help, both of us! Ta help us both learn." He replies to them quietly.  "Heh. I figured, sorry ya gotta put up with...that." He motioned to Oscar who currently had his head in both brothers laps. "M-Mister Oscar! Goodness!" Jester seemed to turn even redder as he whined to his brother who only laughed and pet Oscars head. "Pay no mind brother, you will get used to it. He is very misbehaved!"  He explains as if he were scolding a child.

Puppet made a sort of pouty face as they frowned. tony was right, they really didnt understand at all. they were starting to get a headache again from all this contemplation and thinking stuff. they rubbed their face and held onto tony again. it felt better to just not think about it, so instead they blanked their thoughts, only thinking about the feeling of the fabric of tonys shirt collar as they rubbed it between their fingers.  Sal smiled a little, "thank you, but aside from his.. openness, he's pretty much just a giant puppy." they paused and covered their face with a hand "that wants to sniff crotch.." Oscar snickered at jester, enjoying the head pets, he also overheard sal, continuing on with it "woof woof baby, c'mon, its how i greet people." he stuck his tongue out and made a panting noise, having fun with this.

When they were completely dressed, Tony happily pecked their face as he lifted them up into his arms once more. "I'm probably going ta need a bath or shower when we get home." He chuckled and rubbed his hand down their back.  "He would make a cute puppy!" Seravek grinned wider, happy to oblige in Oscar's little game by giving him a scratch under the chin. "Yeah, just tie him on in the corner." Apollo retorted smugly.

Puppet sulked a little at that "im sorry, i didnt mean to get you dirty.."  Oscar grinned wide at the nice attention, chuckling at apollos reply "funny ya mention tying, im great with a knot, i could show ya guys. " he looked up at sev and jester with a mischievous grin and wink, clearly not talking about a leash or rope." sal covered their face entirely now "my dear lord.."

"Don't worry about it darlin " Tony replies before he looked to notice the time, it seemed to be pretty late in the evening. "Howzabout we both head on home? I think we both had a rather...eventful day." He chuckles. He'd have to let Apollo and Seravek know they were headed out.  Both Seravek and Jester seemed oblivious to Oscars hint, making Apollo snort at their clulessness. "I don't think they get it, bub."

Puppet nodded, being quiet again, though at this point it might be because they were getting tired after all the 'events'. they pressed their face to his neck again, content to fall asleep in his arms.  Oscar pouted a little before smiling again  "well i could just show 'em what knot ‘m talkin bout." he patted his crotch in emphasis while sal turned to boss "i know hes known you longer than I have, but i still feel the need to apologize for him." 

Tony smiles to himself, exiting the bathroom with them bundled up in his arms. Returning to the living room, grinning at the sight of Oscar sprawled out on the sofa resting in the brothers laps. "Hey uh, we're going to head on home Paulie. Thanks for dinner, heh heh, sorry we couldn't stick around. And uh, for gettin' piss of your carpet." He says sheepishly.  "Thats comin' outta yer pay check." Apollo grumbled as Tony apologizes again and quickly says goodbye to everyone before Apollo had changed his mind and decided to kick his ass. ------end of rp

#puppetrp

[peakyblinders1919]

Las Vegas

She hoped the city only looked grimy and dirty from inside the car. The car sputtering down the road caused people in rags with dirt on their faces out of the way. The houses hung low and were dark, depressing colors, a vast contrast to the colors rising back in Las Vegas, which she called home.  

“Tell me why I was forced to come here again?” She muttered to herself in the back seat, digging out her compact mirror from her bag and reapplying her pink lipstick. She meant for it to me a rhetorical question, or not really a question at all, but her driver thought otherwise.

“Your father was worried about your safety Miss.”

She scoffed, taking one last look at herself and flicking it shut, stuffing it back in her purse. “This city looks anything but safe.” She noted, watching a whore pleasure a man on the side of the road accompanied by barely audible yet distinct gunshots in the distance. Finally the car halted to a stop. Her driver got out and raced to open her door, helping her out of the car.

She stood out like a sore thumb, dressed in clothes that would have paid to feed five families. She spun around, trying to get a look at everything the place had to offer, and she could conclude that that wasn’t much. Just by the looks of it she could probably contract a disease from the populated, hazy air. “And what do they call this place?” She asked with an upturned nose.

“Birmingham Miss.”

“Right, sound’s like it looks, awful.” After a moment her driver laughed, now standing with her luggage on the side of the road uncomfortably. “Chauncey, I’ll give you 100 pounds to take me anywhere but here.” She pleaded with him.

“No can do Miss. Your fathers orders. Come on, you might find you’ll actually like it here.”

“Over my dead body.” She rolled her eyes while lighting a cigarette. She shuffled back as a kids was running down the street and a some kind of shop keeper followed them, sorting profanities. “Which might actually be the case.”

“So, is there anything fun to do around here?” She asked as she sat at the table blowing on her cup of tea to cool. She’d been in Birmingham for almost a week now and she hadn’t done anything. She was thankful for her mystery Aunt who lived there though, and her new discovered cousin. She wasn’t as bad as she thought she’d be. She didn’t give a lot of rules, just one flicker of advice; Don’t get involved with the Shelby’s.

“Why not?” She had inquired.

“They’re just like the same people you left.”

“Well I didn’t want to leave, I was forced.”

“Right, and if you dad finds out you didn’t stay away from danger, the next place he’d send you is the convent probably, so I’m just trying to help.”

So she had taken her Aunt’s advice, but she could only stay away for so long. She was starting to get bored, very bored, of the house and the two same old shops she knew of. She wanted to experience something new.

“We could go out tonight?” Her cousin suggested.

“Oh yes, yes please. I’d go anywhere.”

“There’s a pub-“

“If they have drinks, I’m there.”

“You might not like it, it’s kinda…dirty.”

“I don’t care, just get me out of here.”

A few minutes later and she was standing at the bar with a drink in hand and her cousin next to her. She slammed her freshly finished drink on the counter, calling loudly for another round. The men around her cheered and wouldn’t stop eyeing her, surely they’d never seen such a beautiful women drink like a man. She smiled in their view, finally satisfied to be at a party and the center of attention again, regardless of exactly what kind of attention it was she was receiving.

She giggled into her cousins shoulder drunkenly. “Right, my bladder’s going to explode, I’m going to the bathroom.” She said, unknowingly walking towards the private room of the Garrison. Applying pressure to the door with her shoulder she threw it open, the music from the bar filing into the quiet, smokey room. In it were three boys looking somewhat dumbstruck to see this random, beautiful girl stood in the doorway. They looked at her, waiting to hear her explanation as to why she was interrupting their night. The one of the left with cold eyes brought a cigarette to his lips and smoked it while examining her, flicking his eyes away rather quickly when he decided he didn’t want her. The boy next to him with chocolate skin smiled at her, but she didn’t smile back at him. She was looking at the one on the end with strawberry blonde hair in an interesting cut.

“Oh, uh, sorry, I was just looking for the bathroom.” She managed to finally say, making to close the door and leave but she couldn’t. Just as soon as they were out of her sight she threw the door back open. “Hi, sorry, are you guys playing poker?” She asked, unable to take her eyes off the cards on the table.

“Yeah, you know how to play?” The one in the middle asked as the one still smoking look uninterested and the other was just too shy to say anything.

“I do.”

“You any good?”

“Why don’t you find out yourself?”

He ran his tongue over his lip while looking her. “Alright, take a seat.” She squealed with excitement closing the door.

“Uh, it was Finn’s turn to deal but-“

“Oh, sure, I can.” She said with a grin, taking the cards from him. She tried doing a fancy shuffle at first, the cards going everywhere thanks to her shaky hands. The two boys tried to suppress their laughs but the quiet one watched her intently. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and tried again. This time it was effortless. She shuffled the cards and dealt them so quick the boys could barely keep up with her.

“Right so Texas Holdem, you get two cards now and then three, highest hand is a royal flush, all the same suit. Are we playing with money?” She rambled, flashing them a smile each. Their jaws were basically to the floor, never having seen a girl know so much about poker.

“Eh, we was just playing for fun.”

“So the quiet one finally speaks.” She said with a laugh, finishing dealing her own cards. “It’s not fun without money on the line though. I don’t have much, how about…” she fiddled with her purse, putting some money down, “100 pounds to play.”

“Woah, what’s a girl doing with 100 pounds around here?” The one on the left asked, finally interested.

“I’m new around here.”

“We could tell. I’m Isaiah by the way, and that’s Finn and this here’s Michael.”

“Nice to meet you boys. I’m Y/N, and stop chatting, we got a game let’s go.” She dealt out the round of cards, reading everyone’s expressions. Isaiah folded first followed by Michael when Y/N raised the bet to 200 pounds. They were egging Finn on but he didn’t have a chance.

“This is it. Never lost a game in my life.” She said confidently while flipping over the last card. “Straight flush.” There was an unanimous round of sighs then. “That means you loose if you have anything but a royal flush.”

“Well, around here my family’s kind of royalty.” Finn said, flipping his cards over to reveal he had the best hand possible. Y/N’s mouth fell as she realized she’d finally been beat at her own game. Isaiah and Michael cheered and patted him on the back as he collected the money.

“Nice one.” She finally said, extending a hand.

“You too. That was really good, you know you’re stuff.”

“Yeah well, where I’m from my family’s kinda royal too.”

“Oh yeah? What’s your name?”

“You wouldn’t know it.” She said as she found herself with Finn as the other two went to grab more drinks. “I’m not exactly from around here.”

“Right, and where’d you say you’re from?”

“I didn’t.” He just looked at her then, waiting. “I’m from Las Vegas.”

“What’re you doing all the way over here?” He asked confused.

“My dad’s starting a lot of illegal gambling dens, I guess he thought it was a bad place for me.”

“So he sent you to Birmingham?”

“Stupid, right? He wanted me to get away from violence and gangs so he sent me to the Shelby’s town.” She huffed, blowing smoke from her new cigarette. “I haven’t even seen any of them yet, just heard of them. They can’t be that bad.”

“We’re not.” Finn squeaked, causing her to look at him.

“What’d you say your last name was?”

“I didn’t. But it’s Shelby.”

“Well my dad would hate this.” She chuckled, throwing her head back. “Well, I heard right then, the Shelby’s are good looking.”

“You think I’m good looking?”

“Don’t flatter yourself just because you won one lousy poker game.”

“I bet I could beat you again.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, let’s go.”

“All or nothing?” She asked, collecting the cards from the table and starting to shuffle them again, getting closer to Finn’s face.

“I have a better idea. How about if I win you go on a date with me.”

“And if I win?” She asked with an eyebrow raised.

“Then you could have whatever you want.”

“I want your money.”

The game lasted till the early morning when the Garrison was emptied. Finn closed up quickly, having told Y/N it was his family’s pub. She tried not to look too impressed either when she found out. She waited at the door with her hand extended. Finn counted out the money, handing it over.

“You’re right, you’re very good.”

“I know.” She said laughing. “Tough loss too.” She said, putting the money away.

“Yeah, maybe we could still go out?”

“Maybe…” She said, leaning to give him a playfully kiss on the lips, just enough for him to want more as he watched her walk into the night.

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[dailydoppidoppio-blog]

Would you be willing to share your gem head-canons? 0:

dklsalkffkld putting under a readmore cause its embarrassin////also got dailyabbs permission to post cause they’re in the chat too lmao

mostly about charoite, purple pearl/obsidian, and my pink diamond diavolo

Sailorbeefcake-05/10/2017Hm What sort of personality do you think they’d have?Futes-05/10/2017i feel like they’d be a smug bitch tbh “since we’re so dedicated to our diamond, obvs we’re the best and most loyal ”Sailorbeefcake-05/12/2017Man tho, other than being a jerk makes me wonder what their personality is like!I bet that they’re, hmTERRIFYINGLY goal-focused Probably also rather smug, tooFutes-05/12/2017yessssssssssswould deff be super super focused on their goalwould also aim to getting perfect marks on their missions too if they ever got any like a higher up asking them to get then a drink and they come back ten secs later with onehigher ups probs wouldnt really care about how fast they got it for them but theyd be smug about iti can also see them super beating themselves over any mistake they do no matter how smallSailorbeefcake-05/12/2017Eeee, nice! And yeah goddamnPoor thing would probably unfuse whenever they messed upFutes-05/12/2017>accidentally places the fork on the wrong side WELP TIME TO DIE defusesSailorbeefcake-05/12/2017FUCKFutes-05/12/2017lmao thohow tf would dopp and abba even meet if theyre under different diamonda????Sailorbeefcake-05/12/2017Diamonds interact a lot!They seem more like a family than likeRulers of different kingomsKingdomsFutes-05/12/2017OHHH DO THEY???Sailorbeefcake-05/12/2017But yeah, the diamonds seem to be very closeFutes - 05/12/2017AAWWWW QWQokay then yeah it would be be possible that those two have met before lmaoi can see diavolo being a lazy diamond and making pearl dopp go to everything for himSailorbeefcake - 05/12/2017Ye!Or less lazy and more paranoidMaybe he escaped an attack on his life or something?Futes - 05/12/2017and with that power thing you gave abba, wouldnt that make him more valuable/higher up?ppffttt poor dia, even in a gem au where hes a diamond and loved hes still paranoid

Futes-Last Saturday at 7:17 PMkicks down ur door with more gem au stuffso I W A S THINGKIHNwell idk how the pink diamond/diavolo is in this au but assuming he still has the same personality, bitch is still paranoid af rightand with how abba/obsidian specializes in looking back into the past and shit would be something diavolo would be very intrested in, probs would want/request abba to look into whatever thing hes currently paranoid like he thinks someone went into his, do diamonds have rooms/places they mainly stay at?????, well w/e but would probs think someone tampered with his stuff or thinks other gems are trying to conspire against him and would want abba to see if its true or notidk how abba is to other diamonds, or how other diamonds feel about having their gems used by other people but

Futes - Last Saturday at 8:00 PMjust diavolo sending doppio to go bother abba for this shit constantly and sometimes forcefully dragging abba away since dopp would only care about making his diamond happy, fuck everyone elseand them getting fused a lot becuase charoites a fucking slut that wants to please every higher up as long as its a diamond praising them and making them feel like their better than other gems because they got direct praise for the diamondsk thats all ive been thinking about these past two days tyim trying to work on that pic but i cant get that ass spanking shit out of me head and i want to hit youSailorbeefcake - Last Saturday at 10:17 PMFuckOmg that all sounds awesome! Except for hitting me about the spanking shit lmaoBut yeah, I could see it!Diamonds often make use of gems belonging to other diamonds.Futes - Last Saturday at 10:19 PM///////////////////////////////// its ahrd to come up with shit cause idk how the diamond/hoomeworld i think it was called? idk how they work n shitSailorbeefcake - Last Saturday at 10:21 PMYeah, it’s pretty mysterious in general! Most of the gems we see much of are criminals who defected.But yeh, I could see Obsidians being passed around a lotFuccFutes - Last Saturday at 10:21 PMhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhSailorbeefcake - Last Saturday at 10:21 PMJust thinking of Diavolo like, grabbing AbbaSailorbeefcake - Last Saturday at 10:21 PM‘You. Fuse now’Futes - Last Saturday at 10:22 PMBUT YESAND LIKE if i rememebrwhen lapis and jasper fused, did whatever gem that was keep the water powers?Sailorbeefcake - Last Saturday at 10:25 PMYep!Malachite was incredibly powerfulAnd another gem who has the power of seeing the future appears to keep the future-vision in her fused stateFutes - Last Saturday at 10:26 PMokay so charoite would also def still have the ability to look into the past so diavolo would def be making dopp and abba fuse cause charoite would be easly to order around than abba>diavolo throwing doppio like a football at abba YEETFUSE DAMN ITSailorbeefcake - Last Saturday at 10:30 PMFUCKPoor fucking babies, my godFutes - Last Saturday at 10:32 PMdoppio has probs stopped caring lmaowould deff be used to being diavolos little bitch anywaysSailorbeefcake - Last Saturday at 10:32 PMFugI could see Abba being kinda upset about it'I am Buccellati’s gem’Futes - Last Saturday at 10:33 PMi feel like diavolo would deff be worse personality wise as a diamond tbh since everyone would know who he is and isnt really going into hiding/cantreally snappyprobs sensory overloaded all the timeSailorbeefcake - Last Saturday at 10:35 PMYeah fuckSpecially scary since Diamonds are fucking hugeFutes - Last Saturday at 10:35 PMFUCK LMAO I FORGOT ABOUTNOW PICTURING HUGE DIAVOLO THROWING TINY DOPP AT ABBA OR DROPING HIM ON HIM(edited)LMAO RIPSailorbeefcake - Last Saturday at 10:36 PMFuck, hahahaFutes-Last Saturday at 10:37 PMhhmm now i wonderhow do diamonds feel about destroying their gems? cause i can deff see diavolo getting rid of some if he really felt like they’re traitors but idk how thats handled in show or if its even brought upSailorbeefcake-Last Saturday at 10:43 PMYeah, Blue Diamond threatens to shatter a Ruby for fucking upAnd I think Yellow holds the same viewsShe talks about shattering an entire caste of gems because of the actions of oneFutes-Last Saturday at 10:43 PMOOHHHHHHHHi see nice nicethen yeah diavolo would deff be using abba/charoite to weed out 'traitors’if they’re really traitors or not is probs a mystery since this is diavolo we’re talking aboutSailorbeefcake-Last Saturday at 10:45 PMFugPoor bastards :Wonder if Abba would end up taking a stand against it and getting shattered himselfOr at least threatened with itFutes-Last Saturday at 10:46 PMpearl dopp keeps a blank face/outlook on it all probs cause hes seen some/ALL shitoooooohhhhhhhhhnooooooooo abba ;w;rip babyif abbas ability isnt all that rare then diavolo would probs break him rip. tbh at this rate i might end up desinging a pink diamond dia since i forgot that there’s already a canon pink dia that someone else owns oppsSailorbeefcake-Last Saturday at 10:48 PMI’d say it’d be relatively rare!But not like, unique just to himHmItFutes-Last Saturday at 10:50 PMhmhmmhmhmh then abba would probs either just get hurt or something since his ability would deff be too important for diavolo to get rid of just like that if its hard to findSailorbeefcake-Last Saturday at 10:50 PMIt’d probably be in his best interests to keep Abba tho, since he’s already somewhat familiar with himFutes-Last Saturday at 10:50 PMyaSailorbeefcake-Last Saturday at 10:50 PMAnother Obsidian could be even more troubleFutes-Last Saturday at 10:51 PMya and a new dopp fusion with another obsidian would probs not be as obedient as charoite>tfw you want to kill this obsidian because it keeps talking back about how you run things>but the fusion game? ridiculousSailorbeefcake-Last Saturday at 10:53 PMFugMan thoI worry about Abba and DopThey could start to lose their sense of self if they were made to be fused too often and for too longFutes-Last Saturday at 10:55 PMi can deff see that start to happen tbh, like the gem au has the whole homeworld/gems that went to earth war shit going on ya?Sailorbeefcake-Last Saturday at 10:55 PMYeMan :Dop could feel betrayed if Abba ended up siding with Buccellati’s gang, who’d def be the traitorsFutes-Last Saturday at 11:02 PMhhhhhhhhhhhi honest to god have no idea how hed even react other than a silent shut down?like idk if gems start to get attached to other gems they fuse with a lot but i can see doppio not understanding how someone could just betray their diamonds just like that, esps someone he’s worked with a lot and probs one of the few other gems hes really fused with and wouldnt know what to do other than to do nothingSailorbeefcake-Last Saturday at 11:08 PMPoor Doppio, goddamn :It’d probably be pretty lonely, his jobFutes-Last Saturday at 11:08 PMyeahhhhhhhhhhhh lmao probs would be?cause on one hand you have diavolo probs getting rid of gems left and right, and on the other traitorsand heres dopp stuck in the middlehe’d probs only end up staying with diavolo cause its all he has leftSailorbeefcake-Last Saturday at 11:10 PMYeahPoor baby, goddamnFutes-Last Saturday at 11:15 PMfug thowhite diamonds kinda hotSailorbeefcake-Last Saturday at 11:22 PMYeHa ha Abba’s diamond is better than Dops!!!Futes-Last Saturday at 11:22 PMfuqNO BULLYPINK DIAMOND MAY BE A SHIT BUT DOPPIO STILL LOVES HIM maybe????????????whatisloveSailorbeefcake-Last Saturday at 11:24 PMFuckPoor DopFutes-Last Saturday at 11:25 PMthe only relationship i can see diavolo having with dopp is probs a lowkey abusive one?like if dopp wasnt uncaring and if charoite was a top fusion, probs would have shattered him by nowi can see diavolo going through pearls like they’re nothingSailorbeefcake-Last Saturday at 11:32 PMSighI’m imagining it nowHe could just smash them to blow off steamFutes-Last Saturday at 11:35 PMprobs deff during an sensory overload episode and he’s v stressed out and double paranoid, like one slight thing someone does wrong or gives diavolo the wrong idea S M A S Hhow loud diavolos area is that day are probs days you avoid himSailorbeefcake-Last Saturday at 11:36 PMYeah, fuckFutes-Last Saturday at 11:38 PM>makes all these ideas for an au i know shit about 8’)how did we get to this bifihow did we go from me doodling to all thisSailorbeefcake-Last Saturday at 11:39 PMFuckYou tell me lmaoIt’s cool tho!Poor Doppio though, god damnFutes-Last Saturday at 11:40 PMdopp went from a blank face gem cause i thought it looked good on him to a blank face WITH REASONSabba some how got looped in all this au talk too ripSailorbeefcake-Last Saturday at 11:42 PMFuck, poor guy :At least his and Dop’s fusion is still damn cool!Ooh manCould be interesting if they wound up fusing AFTER Abba defectedFutes-Last Saturday at 11:42 PMFf u u uuuu uuckckckckgodddddddddddthat would fuck abba up more if anythingsince charoite is more for diamonds only??? like idk how hed be if he got ordered around by say bruno, probs an intresting reaction would probs feel funny about it but not really in a bad way but still would be pissed that someone as low as him is trying to order him around. but i can deff see charoite not really sure what to do, since hes fused with someone thats now a traitor but wants to go back to serving diavolo tho he know he would most likely get killed on site.

fusion song chat got cut cause it wasnt really important but we both agreed on a song for themhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk5M_q9eID0

#this has so much shit and cut chats lmao #becuase we got side tracked a lot

[bigbrotherorre]

episode one: “TODAY WE LEARNED UNLESS BRYCE FEELS LIKE THE PRETTIEST GIRL AT THE DANCE EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY, YOU'RE NOT DOING ENOUGH” - AUTUMN hoh: BRYCE evicted: ROXY - 13 to 3

Okay WOOOO. So hey, I'm here doing a DR pre-season, because? I am cracked, a mess and SOOO EXCITED. Also, I looked up fun words, to find something to use as my confessional codeword, and "brouhaha" means "a noisy and overexcited reaction or response to something" WHICH IS SO APPROPRIATE. So woo, enjoy the brouhaha that is my excitement for this season. I just wanna say a couple of things: 1) Nicholas and Julia posting those clock gifs is gonna make my head fall off, thats so scary. If it means past season twists like someone said in the VL, I'm NERVY. RoseGold POVs are my biggest fear, and I know there was a season where prejury was all about them so YIKES. Calling it now, I'm gonna get sent home by a rosegold PoV. 2) Emily and Lukas was such an iconic F2, no matter whomst the F2 is in Orre, we will never match them 3) I wanna make some pre-season picks of who I expect to see cast, that way if they win, I can take total credit. I'm feeling like Raffy, Sammy and Aren might be in the cast, based on literally nothing khajsdfla. Raffy as a player terrifies me (I was also the person who brought him into this community so whew), but he gets CRACKED so whew! Aren is a scorpio so we stan. ANYWHO. I'm so excited for this season, its gonna be a HOOOOOT.

Wooh so ready for the season to start!!!

Hola, did you miss me? This is going to be me reflecting back on my Johto experience and trying to point out the mistakes I made, and how this game will be different. (this is before cast reveal) The first mistake I did in Johto was go against the premade. I was wary of Connor and Ari, and I thought painting the target on the returnee wouldnt only be easy but would be successful. And then I found out that I couldn't, and then Connor made friends with everybody on my team and fucked me over in the long run. The second mistake I did in Johto was being messy. A prime example was making pseudo "alliance" chats in order to sway the vote for people to keep me. This proved to be unsuccessful. I also had a mental breakdown like every night, so that just buried me more. The third mistake I did in Johto was throw the veto the week I was nominated. I felt like I couldve won it but I decided to study for my test. I didnt compete in the pov that i  shouldve won. SO now its time to do what I need to do for my redemption is quite simple. The last 3 ORGs ive played for BB i have made 2nd, 4th, and 3rd. And I learned quite a lot To negate my first mistake I'm not going to publicly target anbody. I will join the mob mentality to ensure my safety in early weeks. To negate my second mistake I am going to keep all my alliances as 1on1s. No alliances bigger than 3 people, and make sure to keep whatever information I have to myself. I will not snake out any information. To negate my third mistake is to try in all competitions. I will not throw anything I will not submit for anything unless I really cant. If I give it my all and still leave I can't beat myself up that bad. I'm nervous, but I'm ready. These freaks aren't gonna know what hit them.

Okay one hour to premiere! The fact that I've made two DRs pre-season? thats wild. I am gonna give a go at predicting the cast, based on... borderline nothing, beyond paranoia: Veronica Constance Raffy Autumn Olivia Eddie Elmo Hals Sammy Aren Those are guesses I'm confident in, so I'm gonna stick to that! Lets see if I get anyone right ajlkdsfas

Okay this isn't as bad as i thought except i'm a hot ass mess and messaged a picture into the house chat and i'm about to DIE

wut in the FUCK is happening who the hell are these people theyre mental all of them. nice to see sammy and ali though i fucking love them but i am terrified of playing with ali i literally said to my host chat 3 hrs before the game started "please say its all newbies so im not playing with zeezo" AND SHES HERE WTF

omg this FREAKING CAST IS WILD and i'm not gonna lie i'm a little worried that i might fight over half of them before the second week is finished...

not gonna lie seeing ashvika and roxy made me wanna kill myself but also i'm totally dying at the sight of ZEEZO AND BRYCE <3 also THIS COMP FREAKING SUCKS i need to find a group of friends asap so i don't flop. i'm gonna try to bring together bryce, zeezo, sammy, kat, and maybe ricky.... either gonna be lit or bite me in the ass

Hi!!! Y'all casted way too many people but it's ok cause I really like everyone so far whew. Also I really will do my intro video I swear... first thing tomorrow lmao 

THIS SHIT IS OVERWHELMING AF! SOOOO MANY FREAKIN PPL IM TALKIN TOO! I LIKE MOST OF THEM but som im like k. then like the call i do not want to join bc shit they cracked af! hopefully its not my undoing but i feel like my social is pretty strong atm.  #BBgameEVER

i'm just happy that ashvika is willing to put our unnecessarily tragic rivalry behind us and play this game right this time around. hopefully we'll be able to keep up the "we hate each other" look in the house chat and such so we can actually WORK TOGETHER this time. obvi i love her, and i just want the backstabbing madness to stop. hopefully she really has put out past behind her bc i'm ready to move on. like we're both pretty, we need to stick together. also shook that i talked to blake the longest today in pms???? like???? okay??? bryce and i look like we're in this for the long haul, hopefully we aren't first and second boot!! bc i have a weird feeling imma be pre-jury for some reason dsgdf

Night 1 Thots: Short term goal? to be as pathetic as possible. Probaly shouldn't have told alivia so soon that I was johnchen from bbtc world as after watching her intro vid. the could come back to bite me. Ryan seems like someone who I can ride on his coat tails for a while to get my foot in this game. So short term I need to be as pathetic as possible and hope this julia/bryce/sammy thing from house of shade starts to erupt.

me at alivia

Really regretting making my code word tractor.. Not a fan.  But um me and alivia talked for like 4 hours and we're both legends. We have a cute google sheet bet ur all jealous. Her and ashvika are gonna pretend that they hate each other but they dont actually!! How fun. Hope i dont slip and blow their covers JKDFHKSJD. Everyone seems to know everyone which is scary. When i first saw Jela and Julia were cast I was scared that theyd target me b/c we had a rough introduction, but honestly theyre legends. Idk why i told jela i was missing a left toe.. but i did and now idk what to do about that whole thing. Maybe ill say i got drunk and dont remember saying that but it isnt true.. IDK WHAT TO DO. But um yaa happy to see zeezo here too but scared ppl will think we're a duo but honestly I dont think ppl will. Um I should do a cast first impression thing wooh! Ricky: Played my first tumblr game with him but dont really know him. Seemed nice but not much there Randy: seems like a legend. Poc king. Um talked to him and he wanted to know more about me but wouldnt talk about himself so!! Idk hope we talk more seems fun. Julia: Um called me out. Called me fat. Fun tho!! Seems untrustworthy but no bad blood. Roxy: Talked a bit, um shes fun?? Dont think she likes me Ashvika: how can one girl be so pretty??? Shes smart too. Like i want to hate how perfect she is. The type of girl to throw my game away for tho so I need to make sure I dont!! Alivia: how can one girl be so pretty??? Shes smart too. Like i want to hate how perfect she is. The type of girl to throw my game away for tho so I need to make sure I dont!!  Honestly want to go to the end with her tho so I just am gonna have to make sure I outplay her so we can be f2. Bryce: ugly cast pic. Is he even a poc??? Zeezo: THE LOML I LOVE HER SO MUCH. we both seem to be working together so im happy. Hope to work with her and have her carry me in comps. She will beat lachies record. #menareover Kat: wish she was jade ;(. JK!! Love her so much already. She is so nice and fun and like just seems like a great person. Honestly shes gonna mist me too. Jose: Epicmafia king. We never work together and always betray each other so... first chance for everything??? He seems fun tho love him hope he slays (less than me tho) Sammy: I literally love him hes so nice but i never pm him so thats awk KDSJFHDKSj hope that this game changes that!! Lynn: Legend. Loves hufflepuff, hates middle school. Like I think we click but i know her and blake are like super close so idk if shed ever be closer with me but i hope so b/c shes just like.. amazing!! Saxon: Talks a lot. About himself. Maybe itll change when i talk to him more. Likes super hero movies so wooh i guess. Jela: Thought she hated me but maybe now she doesnt. Shes really funny actually so hopefully we can be allies. Blake: know that hes super smart and good at the game but like he got rekt by queen tara so maybe ill do that to him. We talked but it was bland but guess ill push through it Dennis: So his name is annoying to spell so had to change that quick. Kind of hate him??? But hes fun!!! Didnt know carly rae jepsen made music still so like the stan in me wanted to hang up the call on him. BUT then he msged me asking for carly songs to listen to so like.. love him now. Cant believe he knew all the social game hed need with me was just pretending to like my queen Autumn: We talked about her past games and it was basically me fangirlling about her ENDING eddie LOL. think we can work together because we both like intersectional feminism John: Tried talking to him but didnt go anywhere. But im gonna make it work!! Ive decided we'll be close so wooh Olivia: took 2 hours to respond to me. like musicals tho. kept ignoring me tho. Alivia outsold. Ali: PURE KING. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. NO ONE IS BETTER. I COULD NEVER TURN AGAINST HIM. SO IM GONNA NEED OTHERS TO DO IT FOR ME. Love his dog even tho i misgendered her but it wont happen again. Think we'll be close. reptiles stick together!!

WHEWIE. Okay I tried filming a video confessional, but my thoughts are such a mess, so I've decided writing it out will be considerably more coherent. YIKES SO. This season is already so wild, like this cast.... is gonna be a lot. I already can tell this season is going to have lots of fights and I don't know... how ready I am for that eeeek. But otherwise, my illiteracy means I don't understand the lottery twist so I love that. The returnee twist is fun though, like I feel like at the start of games, I go into panic mode, so having returnees I can go to about that, might make them feel like I'm an easy number and that they want to work with me? The people I knew before this season (like I'd actually spoken to): Bryce, Julia, Ashvika, Autumn & Olivia (I loosely knew Ricky, Blake & Sammy too) Within the game itself, the people I've had the best conversations with are Jose, Kat, Olivia, Ashvika & John. Olivia is like one of my favourite people in the community, and also a super good player so I'd love to work with her. I also think the fact that we are friends is something nobody in the cast should know (I think) so thats fun. Jose was such a big threat/player last season, and the vibe I get from him this time is he wants to tone that down? I'm not good at working with super cracked people, so him being slightly in the middle between UTR and cracked, will make him a super good person to work with I think. He is also the only person I've like...talked game with, even though its super limited, just that I wanna work with him. I'm a weirdo and watched all the Alola cast assessment stuff, and it sounds like Kat was playing really well, but got stuck in a funky position and couldn't recover, so I think she is gonna be a major threat this time and I'd love to work with her too woooo. Ashvika is a queen. Just plain and simple. She is so wholesome and nice, and already seems loosely on the same page as me, so thats iconic. John scares me ajkhsdfaslf. i think he is a total newbie, and I also think he is gonna get super cracked, and thats.... scary asdkjflas Dennis I just started talking to properly, he is in my timezone-ish, so that will be good for my sleeping pattern if he ever wins HoH or anything, but I worry he may struggle to make connections, so I'm not sure how much he can help me as an ally? The others I'm gonna try and do more rapid fire, since this confessional is already massive hjkasdflsaf: Alivia: Really really nice! We haven't spoken all that much, but she seems super friendly and she was really loyal in Unova, which makes me feel good about maybe working with her? Also Ali in the name? we love legends Ricky: Ricky is.... an interesting one ljaksdfla. He is a fun personality to have around, so I hope he sticks around. I'm not sure how invested he will be in any of these games, but I hope he gives it a good go woo Randy: Randy is gonna be such a threat already I can tell sahkjfdla Also he lowkey scares me, because whenever I would start pm'ing people on call yesterday, he would run to my pms asking why I wasnt pm'ing him which freaked me out sjkadflas. He seems fun though, and Dom stans him so we stan Julia (The Witch): An icon. A legend. An inspiration. Also terrifying skjahdfla. She mentioned all stars on call yesterday and my heart stopped, because I hated how I was in that game and dont want it talked about. I think she is gonna fight people and I don't especially want to get on her bad side! Roxy: Havent spoken to her much, it might be tricky talking to her, since we are both in weird timezones, we will see Bryce: A SWEETHEART. I love Bryce soo much. We worked together in a mini once, and it was super fun, so I'd love to work with him more. Zeezo: She seems super nice! I don't really know her, beyond that she is POVzo and probably a comp threat, but I think she will be fun. I know her and Bryce are friends so we will see where that goes jahdfka Sammy: Super nice! I loosely know him, but he seems like he will be good fun. I havent spoken to him much, so I hope he is gonna be active rip Lynn: I know of her from Moheli, and I know her and Blake were ride or dies which I am wary off.... Otherwise, she has been super quiet and I could see her.... potentially going early rip a queen Saxon: FUDGE. I havent spoken to him at all which is scary, since I feel like he probably already knows a lot of this cast, so if he wins RIP me I guess. Otherwise, he seems like a fun personality so wooo Jelaminah: Ummm. She is wild. Like really wild. I think I stan her, but I also am like.... concious that she is a lot, and its sometimes too much for me. I'm a bit annoyed by her tbh, but its just because she was like laughing at people's sexualities, as if she didnt believe them, and thats super ugly, but I couldn't exactly say anything to her. I think she is gonna be a super dominant personality, but whew we will see. Blake: I know he was a big player in Moheli, but I think he also rubbed people the wrong way.... We will see how he does, he seems iconic Autumn: A QUEEN. She is the most inactive so far which is worrying. I don't want her to go early. I could really see her going up this week, but maybe us two havent talked much, since she is just comfortable in our relationship? AND WHEW. Thats everything, if anyone read this, I love you for that. Otherwise, wooo I'm super nervous, I love my DR guests Owen and Emily and eek. We will see!

ahhh okay so, I’m super excited about meeting new people....BUT...this cast is so huge and I’m so nervous. I like everyone for the most part and I’ve been trying to like talk to some people I’ve played with in the past to maybe smoothe over some bad relationships? The only person I’m still like nervous about is Julia because she kills the straight men and she hates Gemini’s. AND WHAT AM I? A STRAIGHT MALE GEMINI. I don’t think she’s very good at comps tho and I know she would go for Bryce before me. Anyway I seriously love Kat because she is so genuine and I just want to work with her. Also I want to work with alivia, roxy, zeezo, Olivia, randy, Jela, ricky, and autumn! There’s a few others as well but I’ll prob do like a video DR and talk about how I feel about everyone...who knows.

Jose is officially my showmance and we stan asjdkfaslf. He is so nice and my favourite new person I've met in the cast anyway, and he won lots of comps last season so I'm ready for him to drag me to the end dlakjfasfa.

bryce better not fucking put me up or i'm gonna SHOOT 

wow so happy bryce is HoH!!!! perfect week one :$

I am actually really happy that bryce won this HOH bc that means my ass hole is safe! PRaise BE. MY showmance that was made by ALIVIA has saved my ass and partly to me sorta already knowing him through tara! BITHCH TARA LOLOVE UR ASSSS. ANd shoot idk what these gays are lookin at but ppl be sayin they think im cute. maybe its like when i look at a potato or like  a waffle fry??  who knows ahaha but like some of these boys be good lookin like damn. hit me and my crocs up boys ;P

I am not a bottom. ya dumb bitch

Bryce is nomming me for not playing in the hoh. Gurl gurl im not a newb who would buy up that excuse

Just say we arent alligned and im good with the other players and id belive you why would i buy that you, a player whose played a few games by now, would nom someone for abstainimg

Okay SO. I filmed a video confessional earlier, but its already super out of date so its time for an update! I have spoken to lots of people that I hadn't talked to since premiere night which is good, Alivia & Kat are so nice! Jose is, as always a king, and I think (other than Olivia) he is my closest ally rn, so woo we stan. Otherwise, I spoke to Bryce, and it seems like (praise be), I'm not getting nominated, WOO! He says he is nominating Roxy/Autumn, with Julia getting the future shock thingie. Like I told him, the future shock is kind of like a curse and we know Julia loves a good curse, so its a good matchup aljdfkas. Otherwise, these nominations make sense. I LOVE Autumn, but she has been the quietest person in the cast, so I assume she is gonna go first rip. Roxy I have spoken to a fair bit, but I know she is in a funky timezone, which probably throws off her ability to be active. Bryce seemed like he was being pretty open with me, so I hope I'm not the backup plan if somebody comes off. I feel like my social game is pretty strong so I wouldnt have thought people in the house would push for me as a renom and eI'd be suprised if I get nominated! Last but not least, the unfortunate thing is how MENINIST these nominations are akjsdfla, we are really putting the orre in discriminatorrey.

First DR of the game. I'm not going to do first impressions because I'm not that dry. The game started when I was put in this bitch, so I'm here to go at full force. I'm going to play a strong balance of a great 1 on 1 social game while still being a great personality people love. As of right now I'm being constantly dragged and roasted, and I wouldn't want it any other way. (But this is before HOH so the claws are bound to come over) So my game has been very social as of right now. Before HoH I focused on making genuine connections. I'm good with all the returnees at this point. None of them have beef with me, and I made it clear that I want to work with all of them (while this is farther from the truth). I'm just being diplomatic because there's some tension between the returnees that will have to be released soon. With the returnees I connected automatically with Zeezo. Me and her didnt even small talk its was just game talk from moment one. Thats a great relationship to have, and I'm definitely maintaining it. Jose and Alivia have been talking to me more. Jose has been more open with working with me than Alivia so : \\. All the returnees from Kanto-Sinnoh are here because theyre entertaining, the bitches from Unova-Alola would be casted for redemption but don't meet the criteria. I made an alliance with Jelaminah and Ricky. This is mostly because I need to be on Jelaminah's good side because I know the bitch knows how to play. So i would rather be scheming with her than against her. Ricky is just a number. On housecalls I saw that Jela was talking to Julia a lot. So I started talking to Julia a lot more. I surprisingly trust her a lot more than I thought I would. So me and her aren't beefing, but her and Bryce are. HOS20 affects this game because Julia and Saxon are aligned in this game and they're against Bryce and Sammy as of right now. I know Julia can drop a vendetta, but Saxon is just horrible about it. And I hate Saxon so much. He just gives me second hand embarassment and i dont know why. Like I'm so happy I've trained myself to hold my tongue because the shit he wears on housecalls actually make me laugh. He posted a picture of him shirtless and it was literally looking at rotten spam meat. Its not cute, and he is just so prude in pms because he obviously doesnt want to talk to me. I can make a separate DR about Saxon because he brings out all the hate and all the angst I had when I was in Johto. But going back to the topic Julia fought Sammy and Bryce ig and Saxon thinks Julia is right because he's a kissass and is a savvy feminist. I love Julia so her having beef isnt good. I talked to her and she said she didnt have good relations with Olivia, Bryce, Sammy, and Autumn. And i was shocked that this game is so against her, but this is great information because its something I can utilize. But those are her problems, and they dont affect me. If she wants to play with me she's gonna have to fix amends or take them out 1 by 1First DR of the game. I'm not going to do first impressions because I'm not that dry. The game started when I was put in this bitch, so I'm here to go at full force. I'm going to play a strong balance of a great 1 on 1 social game while still being a great personality people love. As of right now I'm being constantly dragged and roasted, and I wouldn't want it any other way. (But this is before HOH so the claws are bound to come over) So my game has been very social as of right now. Before HoH I focused on making genuine connections. I'm good with all the returnees at this point. None of them have beef with me, and I made it clear that I want to work with all of them (while this is farther from the truth). I'm just being diplomatic because there's some tension between the returnees that will have to be released soon. With the returnees I connected automatically with Zeezo. Me and her didnt even small talk its was just game talk from moment one. Thats a great relationship to have, and I'm definitely maintaining it. Jose and Alivia have been talking to me more. Jose has been more open with working with me than Alivia so : \\. All the returnees from Kanto-Sinnoh are here because theyre entertaining, the bitches from Unova-Alola would be casted for redemption but don't meet the criteria. I made an alliance with Jelaminah and Ricky. This is mostly because I need to be on Jelaminah's good side because I know the bitch knows how to play. So i would rather be scheming with her than against her. Ricky is just a number. On housecalls I saw that Jela was talking to Julia a lot. So I started talking to Julia a lot more. I surprisingly trust her a lot more than I thought I would. So me and her aren't beefing, but her and Bryce are. HOS20 affects this game because Julia and Saxon are aligned in this game and they're against Bryce and Sammy as of right now. I know Julia can drop a vendetta, but Saxon is just horrible about it. And I hate Saxon so much. He just gives me second hand embarassment and i dont know why. Like I'm so happy I've trained myself to hold my tongue because the shit he wears on housecalls actually make me laugh. He posted a picture of him shirtless and it was literally like  looking at rotten spam meat. Its not cute, and he is just so prude in pms because he obviously doesnt want to talk to me. I can make a separate DR about Saxon because he brings out all the hate and all the angst I had when I was in Johto. But going back to the topic Julia fought Sammy and Bryce ig and Saxon thinks Julia is right because he's a kissass and is a savvy feminist. I love Julia so her having beef isnt good. I talked to her and she said she didnt have good relations with Olivia, Bryce, Sammy, and Autumn. And i was shocked that this game is so against her, but this is great information because its something I can utilize. But those are her problems, and they dont affect me. If she wants to play with me she's gonna have to fix amends or take them out 1 by 1. Until then I'm going to spend my time with investments that are bound to pay off. Which are with the newbies. I've been spending a lot of time on Blake because Blake lives 20 minutes away from me. I'm trying to hold this down as secret as possible. He likes me, and I want to work with him so I'm just going to continue our friendship and ensure that we're a duo. He doesn't talk a lot in the housechat which is concerning to me, but he does hold very strong one on one relations with most of the house. Lynn is also a south carolina native, and she is just so infectious. She is very intimidated by the large cast meaning that she hasnt bonded that well with a lot of people. So i put two and two together and made a South Carolina alliance. I know Blake is genuine about it. But the main purpose of this alliance is to keep Lynn under my sphere of influence. I can't have no newbies on my side. No ma'am Another newbie who stands out for me is John. John is just really active, and such a social threat. Meaning that his word has saying. So far my relationship with him has been "hey let literally help you with anything and expect nothing in return". With him im trying to show myself as a puppet, or somebody who is very very useful with him. And I actually showed that this week when Bryce won HOH. Won't lie I didnt want but also wanted HOH at the same time. When Bryce won it I was very wary of what was going to happen. Then John comes up to me saying that Bryce is thinking of nominating him. And since I had a decent bond with Bryce I know that I had to save John. So when Bryce talked to me he was dead set as Roxy as the initial nom and target, and Julia for safety this week.  Then he mentioned that he was on the fence because he didnt know if he wanted Autumn or John nominated. So I told him the truth that it would be silly to nominate somebody as active as John. And so John wasn't nominated. I stuck my neck out for John and was one of the reasons he isn't nominated this week. And these game things build genuine trust since I'm not just talking to talk. I'm walking to walk and this game isn't ready for Randyy.

Hello ladies and gentlemen you're looking at the first nominee of the season waysup

Imma get to the bottom of this so ain't even worried. I just feel bad y'all didn't even get one happy confessional from me. We just jumped straight into poppin off. That's ok though! Nice for what am i rite

Bryce is full of shit and I'm embarrassed for him. Like who makes an enemy out of me on Day fucking 3? Really my guy? That's the first thing you thought of when you had 19 people to pick from? Apparently I'm getting nominated because the other 18 people in the cast talked to Bryce yesterday and I didn't. Not only do I not buy that, but we just not gonna acknowledge the fact that I talked to him on 2 of the 3 days the game has been going on so far? K cool. Today we learned unless Bryce feels like the prettiest girl at the dance every minute of every day, you're not doing enough Also can we talk about how the "I'm so happy to play with you I always root for you" energy that Bryce was selling to me on day one didn't even last a round? Hiigghkey I feel like the people who know me in the cast are secretly happy cause they know I'm petty enough to take Bryce out and I'll have no problem taking the fall for it. Ali, Ashvika, Sammy, Julia, Olivia- they know I don't play that shit. Can you imagine being first HOH, using it on me, and then thinking I'm not mad at you because I "understand" that nominating me was "the easiest thing to do"?

SHIT YOUR BOI JUST DID THAT TONIGHT! IF U KNOW YOU KNOW. 😜😂

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woo I'm on call with Autumn, Sammy, Jela & Dennis. THEY ARE SO FUN. I am back on the Jela stan train, she is actually super nice! I think I want Autumn to stay this week (and I think she could too)! Roxy is super sweet, but Autumn is a queen and the queen stays queen! Oh, I'm not using the veto too, its way too early to make a move and I don't know who would go up instead. I'm still SHRIEKING that I won that veto somehow kjlasdfa

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[5/9/18, 2:45:32 PM] Blake Sanders: do you want money?? [5/9/18, 2:45:41 PM] Blake Sanders: BC THE MONEY WANTS YOU! [5/9/18, 2:45:43 PM] alivia: do you wanna be rich??? [5/9/18, 2:45:53 PM] Blake Sanders: ^^^^^^ RICH [5/9/18, 2:45:58 PM] Blake Sanders: not just driving nice car rich [5/9/18, 2:46:07 PM] Blake Sanders: I mean using cheeta fur as toilet paper rich! [5/9/18, 2:46:15 PM] alivia: 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 [5/9/18, 2:48:20 PM] alivia: YOUVE BEEN HAND SELECTED [5/9/18, 2:48:31 PM] alivia: BECAUSE WE THINK YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES [5/9/18, 3:07:19 PM] rixxy 🦄: Hi I just got off work [5/9/18, 3:07:23 PM] rixxy 🦄: what the FUCK is this? [5/9/18, 3:07:33 PM] alivia: DO YOU WANT MONEY??? [5/9/18, 3:07:52 PM] rixxy 🦄: i'm scared but absolutely [5/9/18, 3:07:58 PM] Blake Sanders: FUCK YA! [5/9/18, 3:07:58 PM] alivia: WE WANT YOUR HELP SCAMMING THIS HOUSE! [5/9/18, 3:08:09 PM] alivia: it’s good to be a little scared [5/9/18, 3:08:12 PM] rixxy 🦄: I definitely don't like where this is going. [5/9/18, 3:08:12 PM] Blake Sanders: MONEY WERE GOIN TO RULE THIS AND MAKE MONEY [5/9/18, 3:08:26 PM] Blake Sanders: BUT U WILL RIXXY [5/9/18, 3:08:31 PM] rixxy 🦄: god [5/9/18, 3:08:34 PM] Blake Sanders: <3 [5/9/18, 3:09:00 PM] lynnt: yes [5/9/18, 3:09:53 PM] alivia: you’re gonna be rich so you gotta live rich [5/9/18, 3:11:57 PM] Blake Sanders: There’s like a joining fee [5/9/18, 3:12:01 PM] alivia: yep [5/9/18, 3:12:09 PM] alivia: like scientology [5/9/18, 3:12:21 PM] alivia: but like this is real [5/9/18, 3:12:56 PM] rixxy 🦄: i'm not paying for this [5/9/18, 3:13:01 PM] rixxy 🦄: is this like a legit game thing? [5/9/18, 3:13:03 PM] rixxy 🦄: bc [5/9/18, 3:13:07 PM] lynnt: then imma opt out b/c this rich bitch is cheap and that’s why i’m rich [5/9/18, 3:13:55 PM] Blake Sanders: I mean we legit love u guys [5/9/18, 3:14:07 PM] rixxy 🦄: is this an alliance [5/9/18, 3:14:12 PM] rixxy 🦄: bc i'm uncomfortable and confused [5/9/18, 3:14:35 PM] alivia: woah woah woah [5/9/18, 3:14:41 PM] alivia: everyone calm down [5/9/18, 3:15:09 PM] alivia: don’t worry about the money. you can pay the joining fee AFTER we’re rich [5/9/18, 3:15:15 PM] alivia: don’t worry [5/9/18, 3:15:16 PM] rixxy 🦄: like i'm actually having an anxiety attack can you RATMEME.PNG literally..... WHAT???? blake and i were talking and started joking about being scammers bc sdfkal and then i was like "we should start a scammer alliance" and that's how it all started. we thought it would be SO funny if we just added them to a chat and started trolling them about scamming houseguests out of their money dljgdkfjg and i thought MAYBE lynn and ricky would be confused at first but ricky literally lost his mind like ooops my bad WE THOUGHT WE WERE FUNNY BUT I GAS NOT. [5/9/18, 3:16:08 PM] alivia: it’s a joke but kind of an alliance [5/9/18, 3:16:21 PM] alivia: but mostly a joke [5/9/18, 3:16:44 PM] rixxy 🦄: i literally thought i got dragged into some kind of game twist and i wouldn't play my own game god [5/9/18, 3:17:08 PM] alivia: omg WHAT [5/9/18, 3:17:19 PM] alivia: LITERALLY THE BIGGEST JOKE NOT SERIOUS [5/9/18, 3:17:25 PM] alivia: IMSORFY [5/9/18, 3:17:28 PM] rixxy 🦄: like i thought it was some saboteur/team america bullshit [5/9/18, 3:17:35 PM] alivia: omg noooo [5/9/18, 3:17:42 PM] rixxy 🦄: all i want to do is play the game and i literally thought that was snatched from me [5/9/18, 3:17:50 PM] alivia: HOW??? [5/9/18, 3:18:17 PM] rixxy 🦄: idk i thought y'all were a twist sdksksksksks sdfjsdl wow fuck me i gas??? my social game is really off to a great start!!! gotta get ricky outta here asap now

Right now i am on CAll with SAMMY SAM bc im bad at talking to multiple people at a time! SOOOOOO SAMMY is like wanting to be ym ally but like do i trust his ass??

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okayyyyy so this is definitely something different like bb is hard tbh. there's too many people to talk to and i just really don't care about continuing to keep up a convo with some of them but you have to or bye bye. i have definitely not been as social as most and that is def scary but the people that i have talked to and made connections are super nice. so that's why i was so glad when the people that won HOH and POV are people i talked to. uuhHHuh i have no fucking clue who i want to evict tonight so that's fun! ya know autumn is super nice and chill but she did go dark for a while and roxy is super fun and i still haven't heard ANY singing and i want to and she is campaigning really hard so she really wants to stay BUT since she's campaigning so hard to stay and kinda saying anything to EVERYONE who knows what she'll do to stay in the game later on. idk is it too early to be thinking about later in the game?? idkkk thanks for coming to my rambling ted talk. find out next time on if i've decided.

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OK SOOOO the eviction is coming up tonight and its either going to be Autumn or Roxy! NOw autumn is a super sweet queen but i feel like she will kill me if need be! but i still lvoe her! now roxy she is fighting for her life like she is making me promises i think she will not be able to keep. bc ive heard form other hosue guests she is making the same promises to them. NOW i love talkin to her about food and cooking but i feel awful that im most likely going to evict her! but o well it has to be done im glad its not me

i feel like i should give like a summary of like where i am with everyone and how i feel about them all before the first eviction! ALI: Well i first knew him because he reached out to me about a game he is gonna host. He like doesn't talk to me much which makes me nervous... I like him a lot but looks like we are just acquaintances atm. ALIVIA: OK I FREAKIN LOVE HER! SHE IS HILARIOUS! WE STARTED A ALLIANCE CHAT CALLED SCAMMERS R' US AND RICKY LEGIT FREAKED THE FUCK OUT AND WE WERE ALL LIKE WTF JUST HAPPENED HE IS INSANE! i hope i get to work with her a lot during this game and talk about ice cream! But i do see her stabbing me in the back later on so ill prob strike first. LOVE YA ASHVIKA: now this girl is a goddess she is beauty and she is grace! we talk like avg and stuff we have small chats nothing about gamewise. I see her as not being a threat as in targeting people or winning HOH i see her as a social threat. I think she will go far but not win she will def be jury. I think she is amazing tho and shes a model soo like i want to be her. AUTUMN: Now Autumn is a delight to be around so sweet and seems so pure but she will kill me i just know it. She's the beautiful flower in the garden that turns into a man eating plant <3 she is temptation and i may fall for it BLAKE: ive been told i was a certified good boy BRYCE: Now i knew him b4 this game bc of my friend TARA LOVE YOU BITCH <3 ! i think he will keep me around but idk if our bond is tight enough. i dont think he will choose to evict me yet. but other thsn that i want to work on having a closer bond with him for sure! DENNIS: I like dennis he just iidk theres not alot to say? me adn him talk about video games and stuff but whenever i talk to him i like forget like why im talkin to him lol! but he is super chill! JELAMINAH: THIS WOMAN <3 IS AMAZINGLY FUNNYY! SHE IS ONE PERSONALITY I WANT TO GET ON MY SIDE~! she is hilarious amd an amazing person i want to work with her sooo bad! i talk to her in oms sometimes but she is more of a on call person i believe or she just doesn't wanna talk to me ahah . O AND JELA I TAKE BACK TO WHO I THINK THE CUTEST BOY HERE IS ! JOHN : I love john! me and him talk trash about  random things and it is hilarious! i hope he feels as close to me as i am to him! i feel like we can work together in the long run. JOSE: Ive only talked to Jose just a little bit so im worried if he ever wins HOH bc i may be nominated! so i better get my ass into high gear and talk to him more. other than that i remebr him as the guy who someone hit his fence with a car. JULIA: NOW i have heard things about this girl! like that she is ana amzing player and i better watch out for her! IM SO SORRY JULIA BUT U R ON MY HITLIST! AND SADLY U NEVER U LEFT ME ON READ IN MY PMS RUDE~! KAT:I WAS SO WORRIED ABOUT KAT BUT WE JUST STARTED TALKING TODAY AND WE HELPED names each others plants! she is a precious person and i love her! she is so funny! i want to work with her for this game! LYNN: YALL THIS IS MY BITCH ! I LOVE YOU LYNN WE PLAYED IN MOHELI TOGETHER AND AFTER THAT IT WAS HISTORY WE BECAME BEST FRIENDS VISITING EACH OTHER AND STUFF! SHE ONLY LIED 2 HOURS FROM ME WHEN I WENT TO SCHOOL I SAW HER ALL THE TIME! I AM MOST DEF WORKING WITH HER! SHE IS MY BESTFRIEND! <3 LOVE U OLIVIA: OK WELL IDK MUCH bout her. ummmm i talked to her a little im ttrying to become her ally but its not really workign she wont talk to meee!! RANDY: omg i have not heard good things about him.... i shouldve been told these things sooner omg! i feel like he hates me he might! we live in the same city and live like 15 mins away! omg rip rip rip . he goes to my old highdchool! thats crazy af! im working wiht him rn but i i think im going to nom him in the middle of the game or try to get him out around then. sorry randy! also hes been giving me the cold shoulder and not talkin to me which is rude. adnwe r in an alliance chat bro. come on really... RICKY: TBh u annoy me. everything i like u say its dumb or u don't like it. i say goodmorning/afternoon to u adn u say its morning its not even close to afternoon whatre u doing. AND IM LIKE WTF HAV U NEVER HEARD OF TIMEZONES! LIKE HELLLLLO! damn just we are not compatible people and well if i ever win HOH ill prob nom him. ROXY: DAMN BITCH I CAUGHT U IN A LIE AND U DONT KNOW ABOUT IT! THIS IS THE REAOSN IM VOTIN TO EVICT U IM SORRY OMG IM GOIN TO MISS TALKIN TO U ABOUT FOOD! ur sooo sweet omg and u hav a lovely voice! SAMMY: I have been told not to trust him bc he is a snake. But shit he is one of my closest allies now! like we talked for hours on call and watched survivor it was such a cute little date! GOD i hope he doesnt betray me ill cry so much! i mean he might but like i dont wanna back stab him.... yet <3 SAXON: who r u?? talked like never. ur probably nice?? ZEEZO: Girl u be freakin lynn out with eveyrhting u saying to and about her! soo idk like aht to do wiht u ahahah prob get u nominated?? SORRY IM A LOSER AND DIDNT MAKE A VID I LOOK LIKE A THUMB ATM <3

what bitch Randy, 3:05 PM hola 3:05 PM you never sent me a pm Randy, 3:05 PM ur coll bc you aint never talk about interesting shit 3:05 PM uh huh Randy, 3:05 PM tf am i supposed to reply to "yea" 3:06 PM sorry I'm not your source of entertainment you twink I was busy with my life Randy, 3:06 PM wow this is something we can TALK ABOUT Randy, 3:06 PM what did you do I kinda snapped sorry Randy

Are u gonnaget ur tattoo coloured? :0 or will it be lines? Rn im hungry waiting for ma burger heh 9:21 PM It’s just lines henny 👑, 9:23 PM Sweet! What inspires the one u chose? 👑, 6:35 AM Hey saxon! I wanted to wait to speak to you in person but im tired and sorta not feeling well so i cant stay up. I wouls love it id you vote me to stay!! I really enjoy this game and im a p loyal ally! Im active and have jackbox too xd. Ill try be up at least 2 hours bfr eviction if you wanna chat about the vote! 👑, 3:03 PM Morning 3:03 PM Hiya 👑, 3:03 PM Hows it going? 3:04 PM fine busy 👑, 3:04 PM Ripp with what m? 3:05 PM a 5 page paper 👑, 3:06 PM Ew Wtf 3:06 PM ye 👑, 3:06 PM Just quit school. Death sound sbetter than that Hshsbs 3:10 PM i omg 👑, 3:11 PM Lmfao Man now my eviction worries seem meaningless 3:14 PM Why is that? 👑, 3:15 PM :o cause your   5 page thing is gross :o have you started on it or still got a ways to go? 3:20 PM I still got a ways to go 👑, 3:20 PM yikes 👑, 3:20 PM how are you feeling about this week? like hame wise Roxy I think you're a lovely person but holy fuck can you just please shut up sometimes when you know someone is busy

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Venture debt has been much in the news lately. Earlier this month, for example, we learned that ModCloth, an online company that sells vintage womens apparel, is being acquired by Jet.com for less than investors poured into the company largely because ModCloth was tripped up by unsecured bank debt.More recently,we learned that after failing to land an investor or buyer, themusic streaming service SoundCloud decided to raise a $70 million debt round.

Are desperate times beginning to call for desperate measures? That might be an overstatement. At the same time, theventure debt firm Western Technology Investmenthas seen plenty of cycles and amassed plenty of dataover its 37 years in the business, and CEO Maurice Werdegarsays the firm just finished its busiest quarter ever.

We talked with him late last week in a chat thats been edited for length.

TC: It seems like venture debt is popping up in more deals. True or not true?

MW: Thelong trend is definitely that venture debt continues to play a moderately increasing role. The role its intendedto play is to complement a companysequity strategy to help extend [funding] from one round to the next, adding time and giving companies and their teamsthe optionality of having more data and reaching certain inflection points beforeheading into that next round.

TC: And youve traditionally focused on early-stage companies as a result. You provided debt to Jet.com as part of itsmassive Series A round, for example. But it seems like later-stage companies are using more debt, too.

MW: Weve been very busy in late-stage rounds, too. I think people raise a little too little capital; they underestimatehow long it will take to raise their next round, so debt has become an interesting supplement to that.

TC: Are you seeing an uptick in the number of older companies knocking on your door?

MW: We cant get all the deals coming to us [there are so many]. Of course, theres always the adverse selection question that goes hand-in-hand with that demand: Are you getting the call becausethings arent going well or are these companies that are trying to be more thoughtful and strategic and proactive about their fundraising?

TC: Can you name names or sectors?

MW: Its just a giant pool of companies. If you think of the 30 most important companies over the last 15 years, we visited with more than 20 percent of them. Its a core part of the way that companies think about optionality.

TC: What do you make of this SoundCloud deal?

MW: The lenders in that [deal] arecounting on SoundClouds enterprise value being enough to cover its debt [as collateral].That wouldnt be a bet that Id necessarily be as comfortable with. Things can go wrong and collateral can be worth less than you think. When things fail, they fail badly. Companiesjust go out of business.They can definitely go to zero in this industry. Ive never met withSoundCloud and Im not saying anything about thecompany specifically, butthe idea of being the last-resort stop is dangerous.

TC:Yourindustry is known for taking money back when it gets nervous. Do you think founders fully understand how covenants work?

MW: We dont take covenants, actually. Other approaches [from other debt lenders] are to take more risk but to be able to get their cash back if they are nervous. So they monitor companies performance and if theyre nervous, they can either force VCs to put in more money or get their money back. Its a little likethe insurance policy that doesnt work when youre in anaccident.

[Silicon Valley Bank]s debt is very inexpensive, for example, but it comes with covenants. Were on the more expensive side, but its more like equity.Were pretty open about the fact that wevelost money more than 100 times, and by the way, we always see the trouble coming.

TC: Is more trouble coming now, broadly speaking?

MW: Everyone needs to grow into their valuations, and thats not easy to do if you raised in 2015, which was the high-water mark in a lot of rounds. So Id say instead that a lot of insiders are looking at debt as complementary, to make each roundlast longer. You can only do so many inside rounds before insiders get tired.

TC: So it does sound like youre seeing more older startups.

MW: Were having the most active quarter in our 37 year history period.Is there an uptick in older companies? Yes, but they feel like healthy companies that are nearing profitability [and theyre coming to us for a variety of reasons]. Their investors might be tired. They might not like the valuation theyd get if they were to head out right now. They might want to wait on a strategic [investor or acquirer] to get a better price. They might be wanting to make an acquisition and to use venture debt for that.

They might also be looking to refinance other venture debt. In some cases, lenders wont renegotiate, so companies are looking for other ways to [stretch out their funding]. Its not unlike refinancing your home to get a lower payment.

TC: How can founders be sure theyre striking the best deal when it comes to venture debt?

MW: Different lenders take different approaches, some with hidden covenants and clauses, but Id say its their law firms job to advise them. Theyve seen every lender 50 times so should be able to advise on what these different deals mean.

TC: How big is this market right now?

MW: There are around18 venture debt players; its avery robust market. We represent about 10 percent of the venture market, if you were to market size it. So if you read that startups raised $20 billion last year, then that probably includes about $2 billion of venture debt.

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Uber is smart, simple and seductive. But should we still be using it?

After court cases and footage of its angry boss, the minicab app is losing its shine

Over recent months Ive developed a conflicted relationship with my Uber app. On the one hand, Ive watched with growing unease as the company has been plagued by revelation after revelation, raising questions about how it does business. Theres the fundamental question about Ubers relationship with its drivers: are they self-employed, as it claims, or is Uber taking advantage of people who should be employees?

And in the last month, it has faced serious allegations about sexual harassment, as early-stage investors have lambasted its destructive culture. Then theres the footage of the CEO shouting at a driver who questioned him about cuts to what Uber pays its drivers. When I request an Uber, what exactly am I complicit in?

My finger has hovered over the delete button on more than one occasion. So far, I havent pressed it. Yes, theres the price it usually costs much less than taking a black cab. I dont think it makes sense to pay more for a cab driver who has spent hours swotting up on the knowledge in a world where a satnav can plan a route more effectively using real-time traffic data. But its more than that: when we increasingly manage our lives using on-demand apps, Ubers seamless interface is seductively convenient.

Uber would have me believe that when I request a ride, Im not buying a service from the worlds largest minicab firm. Instead, Im buying access to a piece of sophisticated tech that matches me with an individual offering a service. But Uber is surely more than an app: its a company that provides real people with a livelihood. Most people would probably think that makes Uber an employer. But that is something which Uber aggressively contests.

By classifying its drivers as self-employed, Uber not only saves on its tax bill, it shifts a huge amount of risk on to them. They have to buy their own cars and petrol, cope with periods of low demand, and finance their pensions and time off for sickness and holidays. But, according to Uber, everyone is a winner. Consumers get the convenience and low prices; drivers have the flexibility to work when they want. It points out that 87% of drivers surveyed say theyd recommend driving with Uber to others.

There are Uber drivers who would beg to differ, including the 80 who submitted testimonies to Frank Field MP. Many argued that the fee they take home amounts to less than the minimum wage after deducting costs, and that once theyve shelled out for a new car using a loan purchase agreement, theyre effectively trapped into driving for Uber, even if it unilaterally drops the prices it pays them.

The extent to which drivers are satisfied in the here and now is irrelevant to whether they are employees or self-employed in the eyes of the law, and the rights to which that entitles them. In a scathing ruling last year, an employment tribunal ruled that Uber drivers are, in fact, employees, because Uber exerts a degree of control over them including dictating the price they can charge consumers that should not exist between a company and its self-employed contractors.

Uber is appealing but, if it loses, it will probably have to change its contracts to reflect that drivers are employees. I hope that happens. Prices would undoubtedly go up, but it would settle some of my qualms about using the app.

But they wouldnt go away altogether. My love-hate relationship with Uber is an inherent feature of its disruptor status. Its cutting-edge innovation brings benefits: a more convenient, customer-focused service than any minicab firm Ive ever used. But it also has downsides. It emerged last week that Uber had been using geolocation data, credit card details and social media accounts to identify law enforcement officials in US cities running sting operations against it, and ensuring they dont get picked up by its cars. Using software to avoid regulation and law enforcement is both incredibly smart and incredibly dodgy.

As a consumer, its hard to know what Ubers endgame is. Despite a rapid growth in its users, its reported losses have been eye-watering. Some speculate that Uber is effectively subsidising its customers rides to drive all other cab operators out of the market. According to this logic, the fares will eventually go up. If thats the bet investors are making, it seems risky to me: theres only so much consumers will be willing to pay, and it doesnt seem inconceivable that a rival platform could enter the market.

But there are hints of a more ambitious gameplan. Uber has been investing heavily in driverless technology in the hope that, one day, it might not need to use human drivers at all. While its suffered setbacks, Uber has a huge competitive advantage in the market: it owns reams of smart data on traffic flows that will be critical to developing the technology. It is also making the data freely available to urban planners, presumably influence planning, which could give it an even bigger advantage.

For me, Uber illustrates just how more complicated it is becoming to exercise informed consumer choice. I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesnt feel very satisfying. Sure, Id feel better about using it if its drivers were employees. But Id still be wondering about the long-term consequences of requesting an Uber.

Am I committing myself to a world where an Uber driverless car might be the only option for getting a cab? I suspect my uneasy relationship with Uber is set to continue for a while yet.

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