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midnight-pluto · 5 months

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COFFEE: PG.14 — alleyway therapy sessions

COFFEE: tim drake x gn!reader

SYNOPSIS: Tim meets a barista that gives him what he needed most — a large coffee with way to many shots of espresso. Though what happens when just a single action changes the other's life, forever?

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15 2023 — 10:59 PM

IT HAD BEEN quite a bit of time since you started dating Tim. In all honesty, it was great — you’re dates were consistent, you got to spend time with his family, and hang outs outside of dates were enjoyable.

However, recently there has been a shift in your peaceful relationship. Tim had cancelled on you, again.

You understood the first time, he had rich kid socialite duties to attend to. The second time you were skeptical since it was back-to-back but he had given you a bouquet of your favorite flowers, so who were you to refuse? But this was the third time.

You both had planned on having a cute date at the park since it was a particularly good day to Gotham’s standards but as it turned out, he canceled on you.

Staring at Tim’s apology message, tears threatened to slip out of the corners of your eyes but you wouldn’t allow them. Taking a sharp inhale through your nose, you take your phone and leave.

Walking along the grim sidewalk of Gotham, you make a sharp turn through the alleyway for a shortcut to your apartment. Though doing that in Gotham wasn’t the best idea but you could handle a few thugs.

No one leave their house without a weapon in Gotham of course.

Halfway through the alleyway, a larger vine carrying two women emerge from the shadows in front of you — Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn.

“Ivy, I love you and all but are you sure this is a good idea? I mean like, I’m sure a lot of people out there deserve a good beating but not them! They look like they’ve had a rough night,” Harley told her girlfriend to which you sigh at.

“Of course the world isn’t done with torturing me,” you mumble.

“See!”

“Huh, I thought there would be a lot more shitty people that come down this route,” Ivy mutters.

“Are you alright sweetie? You look like you’ve had a bad day?”

“Wait Harles, you can’t be seriously starting a therapy session right now are you?”

“C’mon Ivy! This is the least we can do for them! I mean we inconvenienced them, potentially ruined their day by showing up — I mean like I would also be upset if a pair of heroes showed up for no reason — and! They look depressed! Look at their face!”

Wow. You didn’t know whether to be glad that someone noticed your sadness or offended at the fact that someone thought you looked depressed.

Probably a mixture of both.

Ivy raised a brow at her girlfriends notions and looked you over as you stared blankly into the abyss. Her eyes widen in realization of who you were, “Hey wait, aren’t you that viral employee of Café Remedies? Y/N, right?”

“That’s me,” you huff out, shoving your hands in your pockets.

“Holy shit I love that place! They make hella good macarons,” Harley interjects, “See! We gotta have a therapy session now.”

“Ugh, fine,” the redhead rolls her eyes, using her vines to create makeshift chairs for the three of you to sit on.

You stare at the sudden creation in shock but swiftly get over it once you see the couple sit down on them nonchalantly.

“So tell me, what’s going on currently?” the ex-psychiatrist begins, taking out a pen and notepad.

“Harles where on Earth did you get that?”

“It’s honestly nothing but like— he just keeps on canceling on me and I don’t know what to do, like is it me? Am I the problem—?”

“Slow down,” the blond interrupts with a calm voice, “Who are we talking about here?”

“My boyfriend.”

“Who’s the boyfriend?”

“Tim Drake.”

“Oh you gotta be shitting me! Him?” Ivy abruptly says, “He’s actually dating somebody?” She turns to look at her girlfriend to which she looks at her with the same expression.

“Apparently, I thought they were just rumors and speculation,” she shrugged her shoulders.

“We literally posted pictures of our first date— anyways,” you shake your head trying to get back on track, “He keeps on canceling our dates last minute and I’m starting to have doubts because what if he’s not into me anymore? Did he even like me in the first place — I was the one who suggested our first date so what if he just said yes out of obligation since I’m friends with Duke?”

“Wait Duke as in Duke Thomas?” the plant enthusiast questioned once more, to which you nod your head in response. “Holy shit you have connections.”

“But Duke isn’t even legally adopted by the Wayne’s,” Harley points out turning towards you, “Is he?”

“Well it doesn’t even matter since he literally attends the same events they do,” Ivy reminds.

“True I guess, but back on track. Tim keeps on canceling your guys’ dates?” the blond flips her notepad to a new page and clicks her pen once more.

“Yeah the first time he blamed it on his ‘rich kid duties,’” you quote.

“Why have money if you can’t even use it to bail out of something to spend time with you’re partner?” the redhead deadpans.

“And the second time?”

“He did the same thing but got me flowers as an apology and promised to show up the next time but uh,” you click your tongue, “He obviously didn’t show up.”

“Does he text or call you whenever he cancels on you?” Harley asked, putting black framed glasses on. Where she was pulling all of these things from alluded you but you didn’t question it.

“He texts me.”

She furrows her brows at that statement, “Can I see the text messages?”

Unlocking your phone, you press the messages app and show her your past conversations with your beloved. “We’ve called a few times during this time but that’s it.”

“Alright did you leave him on read?”

“Yeah, why?”

“Good he deserves it after answering your texts with the max of five words.”

SPECIAL NOTE: y’all might not hear from me next week since I got midterms but I will finish this smau before 2024 I swear!! also, I’m imagining Harley and Ivy are like they are in the Harley Quinn animated series — just an fyi

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barbasbodaciousbeard · 3 years

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Accidental Feminist Icon

Between my own headcanon Barba becomes a very niche viral celebrity for being a mix of feminist icon giving one liners on the news and handsome/well dressed and the DJ Khaled post, this happened.

“Counsellor, are you listening?” Olivia asked as Rafael Barba looked at his phone again. It had been months now since he started trying Manhattan SVU’s cases, and she hadn’t seen him this distracted before.

“I just- why do I have rapid fire Twitter notifications? Over one hundred and fifty?”

“You have Twitter?” He rolled his eyes, not proud of the admission. But he liked to follow politics and music and satire. His colleagues would have discourse on legal proceedings and theory. But when he opened his notifications, the sea of professional headshots making up the icons in his notifications window were replaced by cartoon avatars and selfies. Handles like @Bradley_GreedADA were replaced with @feministkilljxy.

What was happening?

Why were there GIFs of him now?

“Rafael?” He was snapped back to attention by Olivia’s hand passing over his phone screen, and he shook his head, holding the screen out to her. “What am I looking at?”

“Why have a couple hundred- are these all teenagers?”

“Are they following you? Or tagging you?”

“Both?” He scrolled through the mentions.

“Both.” A questioning look.

“Have I gone viral?” he asked herr, eyes wide and his tone disgusted. Twitter was where he posted law books, nice dinners out, homemade dinners in, and the nicer scotch he drank. Sometimes even pictures of himself; some of his friends enjoyed fashion as well, and their twitters all had a heavy thread of their suspenders and ties. Suddenly, he was having photos he’d posted to flaunt his ability to mix patterns retweeted in appreciation of something more than the color scheme.

“I think you have. What have you said now?”

“The girl whose tweet I keep getting tagged in mentioned Jocelyn Paley and the Adam Caine case.”

“That was seven months ago.”

“I’m very aware. I have to get to the office. I’ll get you that warrant.”

He continued to scroll as he walked, alarmed by the number of followers he was gaining and going to open a direct message from a friend to see a wall of messages from names he didn’t know. Once he was able to find Bradley’s message, he saw it was series of tweets with videos and GIFs of him on the courthouse steps. They were all from the same case, he assumed the Adam Caine case. He clicked the video of he and Rita Calhoun.

All I can say, today's Grand Jury indictment is the first step towards achieving justice for Jocelyn Paley.

The DA's office is desperately trying to distract from their recent scandal with a high-profile case.

Don't give me that--whether you're a john in the South Bronx or a $3-million-a-year talk show host, no means no.

He could remember the exchange now, and it had apparently been retweeted thousands of times. Cameras always made him determined to distract, determined to drive home a point. And now, he was seeing some group of teenagers had clung on to his words, and he wasn’t sure how he felt about becoming recognized enough by that demographic to warrant this rapidly increasing follower count.

“Carmen, can I ask you something?”

“Of course, Mr. Barba. Need coffee?”

“No,” he said plainly, shaking his head and showing her his feed. “Is this normal?”

“They found you?”

“Excuse me?”

“Haven’t you seen the posts?”

“I don’t branch out on Twitter often.”

“I see it mostly, like, on Instagram with captions and people post clips of you on vine.”

“What’s vine?”

“A six second video app. Teenagers and young women post you. Vine is normally comedy. But people are obsessed with you. Niche, but sizable number. I think it’s mostly New York girls who see you on the news. But that means the vines went viral a couple months ago.”

“So now they’re all following me on Twitter?”

“You’re viral for being attractive, dressing well, and prosecuting rapists. Embrace it.”

“I can’t post my clothes anymore.”

“Just continue like usual. Don’t respond to DMs.”

He spent a few weeks terrified of this new following, but after three days, things calmed down. The number of followers he gained was weird and confusing to him, and he decided to listen to Carmen ultimately, keeping the profile the same and pretending nothing had happened. She did stop him one day, showing him that there had been people making fake accounts, yet another thing that was insane to him. She primarily told him because these accounts were attempting to take advantage of the fact young girls were the ones following him. He awkwardly slid the handles to Olivia, and Carmen filled out an application for Twitter verification that left him mortified. Even worse, it was approved.

He was swept away in a case soon enough. Lindsay was assaulted by a whole fraternity at Hudson. They uncovered a previous victim in a hospital, a fraternity known for being a rape factory, and a dean helping create a culture that buried these attacks. It was becoming higher profile than he expected, and it wasn’t easy to try. He’d had to shut off his notifications on his phone during these cases. When Lindsay committed suicide, he accompanied Rollins when she went to arrest the dean. What he didn’t expect was for two of the women they saw to approach him, asking if they were here about Lindsay and thanking them when he said he couldn’t mention it. Then they asked for a selfie. Rafael was mortified but obliged.

“We recognize you from Twitter.”

Well, now he knew he needn’t accompany the squad out anymore.

When he got tweets from the kind of scum that supported the fraternity, it took a concerted effort not to respond. That could jeopardized the case. He’d already had to tell the two girls they couldn’t post about him being there. He tweeted a disclaimer for if people saw him out, feeling like an asshole. Twitter was now becoming a liability, but he could balance it and refused to give up the feed. Slowly, the GIFs and stills of him on the news were collected, and he only got embarrassed again when mami’s students had discovered him and realized he was the guy in their principal’s pictures. Now Mami had a Twitter, and she followed people who praised him joyfully, though he’d managed to convince her not to interact in private messages or respond to people insulting him.

The Jenna Miller case caused another leap in his follower count, and he had developed a little sense of pride instead of embarrassment when his followers jumped from people who mattered in New York to people who mattered elsewhere. A congresswoman from Ohio. Artists. Activists. He’d texted Olivia when Lady Gaga followed him. Plus that woman from True Blood. God, she was beautiful. Plus the hot boybander that had probably made him realize he was bisexual. It was weird, and he was unwilling to publicly acknowledge any of it. Unless they were on twitter, he certainly didn’t tell anyone he knew other than Olivia. Soon enough, someone had made a t-shirt on Etsy of the moment he’d turned on his heel. The media had called after Jenna, the olympian, and he’d told them no questions. Then the had the gall to bring up her sex work. He’d stopped on the steps, turning on his heel and announcing “Except for that one. Paid or not paid, no means no. Consent can be revoked at any time.” And now, Etsy users were profiting on it. This group was niche, but it ran deep. Luckily, he noticed the shop only had a few dozen sales.

Everything was fine until Rafael Barba lost his ability to maintain his composure. Up until now, he’d monitored his name, mentions, and a few hashtags people used with him. It was usually just the GIFs and stills and soundbites. He participated in some banter after the first couple of years, boundaries firm enough he felt he could. But he still didn’t bicker. Carmen said he got a following for being a good guy, and he thought it was gross openly condemning rape seemed to be all it took to be a good guy. But then through his lurking, Rafael Barba saw a tweet about DJ Khaled. He’d had to google who the hell that was, unsure who all of Twitter was piling onto, but he found the tweet objectionable enough to respond.

“Mr. Barba,” Carmen said, eyes sparkling with amusement as she came in to see her boss still scrolling through his phone. “You really decided this is the time to get involved on Twitter? You only ever respond to what people say to your stuff or your friends.”

He should’ve known she’d be on top of it. He’d given her access when notifications went through the roof the second time, and Carmen helped filter through DMs he didn’t want to see. But now, that meant her phone was vibrating like his in response to his first tweet in response to a stranger or someone who wasn’t in a thread under his own post.

“What? I’m supposed to endorse consent but not enjoyment?”

“You’re going to end up in a Buzzfeed article, sir.”

“If this is my legacy, so be it.”

“Your legacy? Taking it seriously now?”

“This is serious.”

Carmen’s phone buzzed in her hand, and she knew he’d sent another tweet. Her own account got notifications so she could monitor him. She sighed heavily, unlocking the phone and looking at it.

“Mr. Barba, does your mom know you’re bi?”

“No, why?”

“She follows you, idiot.”

“Shit. Well, I suppose it’s time.”

“If you tweet Smash Mouth, I’m quitting. These kids are already thirst tweeting you. They must have tweet notifications on for you.”

“Who’s Smash Mouth?”

“How the hell are you culturally relevant?”

“According to Liv, I’m a feminist icon.”

“Don’t get arrogant sir. I help run this twitter.”

“I’ll change the password. I do all the posting.”

“I won’t tell you if Evan Rachel Wood slides in your DMs.”

“Why would I care?”

“I know why you watched True Blood.”

“Touche.” He paused. “Do you think she will?”

“Give me the phone. I’ll bring it when Liv calls.”

“Why would she call?”

“She made a Twitter, sir. Followed you last week.”

“Shit,” he said, eyes wide. “I posted pictures of my food. She saw me acting like a Twitter guy.”

“You are a Twitter guy.”

He rolled his eyes, ending with a retweet of his new favorite addition to the conversation.

@mia-liz @chasingeverybreakingwave @thegirlwiththemaleficient-tattoo @teachingpanda

#rafael barba #rafael Barba x reader #rafael barba x oc

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lemon-boy-stan · 3 years

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bts reaction - you're on your period

SEOKJIN -

Jin has no idea what to do at first and will probably use dad jokes to make up for that (you're still unsure if he does this to make you or himself feel better) but over time he'll learn what to do (probably after asking Namjoon), although he'll be confused (and hurt, honestly) when you're screaming at him but suddenly giving him puppy dog eyes, saying, "Oppa, cuddles.",,, like, WHAT ARE MOOD SWINGS?!?!?

Seokjin also doesn't believe in medicine. Instead of getting you panadol when you have cramps he'll make you soup with all his love and the best ingredients and you'll verbally abuse him for it because HE TOOK HALF A FUCKING HOUR TO GET PANADOL THAT WASN'T EVEN PANADOL 😲

But he's great at being your personal pillow, tissue box, sexy teddy bear, chef, and pretty much anything else. Just, just don't go to him if you have cramps, okay?

NAMJOON -

When it comes to periods and frankly everything else but only in interviews, Kim Namjoon is the most mature of the seven. He actually listened in health class so he knows what to do. He knows to be serious when it comes to this stuff and he always carries extra pads with him.

He knows what brand of pads you like and doesn't even have to keep your cycle in his phone like the others because it's engraved in his brain, and would remember to make his emotions as erratic as yours even if he thinks you're being a bit ridiculous because he doesn't want to get yelled at like he did last time and then have to go comfort your crying self even though you made him feel worthless because he was a boy.

Oh, also, he'll never get uncomfortable checking if there's any blood, he knows you're super insecure about that stuff and your mind is always freaking out about it (who doesn't lol, no offense if you don't), a bonus is that the rest of the guys just think he's being his "pure" pervert self and checking out his jagi's ass.

Plus he's great for cuddles and when you're crying or cramping.

JIMIN -

This kid hates periods as much as you do. Why? Simple,,, no sex! This concludes with Jimin giving you a grumpy-faced, silent [however long your period is] number of days.

In his phone, he's got your period marked and whenever his alarm rings he's suddenly miserable even though you probably already told him you were on it.

He'll go all quiet and'll get even more grumpy when one of the others (mostly Seokjin) cracks an innuendo or a joke relating to a time someone walked in on the two of you. It'll just make him miserable.

He will cuddle you when you want and will be your slave like Seokjin but he won't be very good for anything else because he's busy stewing but he does keep pads on him at all times and will make sure nothing swimming related happens because then there'll be two grumpy people in the relationship and no one wants that.

You'll get so annoyed with him being silent you'll either say, "Oppa Chim Chim! Don't be grouchy! I can't help mother nature's ways, now, CUDDLES!" Or make you grumpy and say, "Oh, I'm sorry there's blood coming out of my vagina! What, you don't like me using that word? Phulease. You're fine with saying "pussy" when you're slapping it, oh, stop getting uncomfortable, you piece of shit, and come cuddle me,"

But will always resolve in him calling you a brat but doing what you want.

TAEHYUNG -

At first Taehyung will be a bit immature about it. When you first told him and you both were a lot younger he said, "oh, cool, Jagi, can I see the blood?" And because Hobi was filming a V-Live nearby there's now a clip of you chasing Taehyung out of the bathroom with a flying bloody pad on the internet that went so viral it made it to the Jimmy Fallon Show.

Non-ARMYS know him as "Japanese Kid From That Vine Who Doesn't Know What a Period Is".

Although now he's much better. He actually did research about periods by asking yours truly and actually put your cycle in his phone.

He'd remind himself to keep his toe behind the line and not to slide it over, not even a little bit, so he doesn't get abused. He'll be a bit confused but will always eventually give in to you and your emotions even if they don't make any sense.

YOONGI -

It doesn't matter if or not you're bleeding, Min Yoongi will always be the same - bit weird, bit cute, super horny, and super hot.

Even though you just used one of his emergency tampons/pads he had in his jeans pocket he'll still grab you by the waist and cover you in cheeky, biting kisses that make you squirm (and frankly, miserable because sex with Min Yoongi is incredible) but be grumpy and say, "Oppa, I'm on my period."

Yoongi will then sigh and nod, cuddling you instead and will let you watch whatever you want even if it's some silly girly drama.

JUNGKOOK -

I honestly agree that JK is the purest of the seven.

He's still unsure about periods but is the best for cuddles, make-you-feel-better comedy, etc.

He won't know a lot about periods but will know enough to crack jokes to make you laugh.

Jungkook loves you and is willing to do whatever you want without complaining and with a smile on his face and a kick in his leg.

HOBI -

Hoseok knows to stay the fuck away from you when you're on your period. The last time he was within your radius the two of you nearly broke up (it was your fault).

For both of your sakes the rest of the band knows your cycle. One of them will always volunteer to keep Hoseok occupied.

You've forgotten your period before and started verbally abusing the poor thing because he promised ARMY his Jagi would come to the V-Live tomorrow at the same time you'd planned to eat dried mango with Seokjin and force him to watch Strong Girl Bon-Soon.

bts masterlist - hope this made y'all satisfied! i'm currently on my period and there weren't any reactions i needed. requests are open. (also, credits to the GIF owners)

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kimberly-spirits13 · 4 years

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Random Characters with Creative/ Designer S/O HC:

Characters: Damian Wayne, Tim Drake, Bart Allen, Conner Kent (RSS), Jamie Reyes

Damian Wayne (Fashion Design):

· You’d started off your career when you were young

· Your father wasn’t super supportive of everything and said that you were too young to start a business or what have you

· So, with approval from your mother, you started one behind his back

· He didn’t know until one day you ended up treading and going viral with a dress you made for a very famous celebrity

· At that point he couldn’t stop you and was just impressed that you made it for months without him knowing

· As long as you were keeping up schooling, it would fly

· You ended up getting to travel the world and go to fashion week

· More specifically NYFW

· New York was the big one

· That’s where you and Damian met

· He was there for a business trip with Bruce and saw you at one of the shows the girls dragged him to

· He was immediately infatuated with you and wanted to meet you

· Thank the heavens he has sisters who wear your clothes to almost every gala

· They got to go back stage and talk to you which led to you two exchanging numbers and the rest is history

· When you started dating it was really hectic

· You had a few kidnapping scares which made him want to break it off especially after you found out about the entire Robin thing

· Heeeellllllllll no

· You didn’t let that happen at all

· Bruce actually commented and said that if you were that stubborn, Damian should probably keep you

· Fashion week becomes more tiring and you also hate not being able to see Damian as much

· He comes and visits though to make sure you don’t throw yourself out a window or something lol

· When it’s over, you guys always take a long vacation to Lake Tahoe in a house Bruce owns on the Nevada side

· He loves seeing your studio since it’s so organized and colorful

· You’ve got walls of mood boards and mannequins with unfinished garments everywhere along with a massive soft couch that one of you is always sprawled out on

· Sometimes he’ll send you pictures of pretty things he thinks you’d might like which ends up being incorporated into something

· You taught him how to drape and make his own suit so that Alfred can have a day off

· If anyone has a wardrobe malfunction and you’re around, you’ve got the needle and thread kit on hand at any given moment

· Some things in the kit come in handy for picking locks too

· He thinks it’s hilarious if you ever critique something or just call it straight ugly

· If you’re at a gala and do it it’s even funnier

· “Omg...”

· “What is it beloved?”

· “The drape and hem of that dress is the most preposterous thing I think I have ever seen. The fabric isn’t even the right material or fit for their shape. How rich are these people? And they can’t afford clothes that look decent on them?” You said giving them the famous inspecting side eye, “Also, who wears pearls with double sided sequins and fur?” “They can’t fix everything sweetie.”

· *intense snickering from Damian*

Tim Drake (Software/ Web Designer):

· It’s a match made in heaven

· The two of you meet at a tech conference

· He thought that you were such an interesting person to talk to and you had offers from places like MIT

· You got along so well and then he found that you liked coffee like he did

· Omg

· He asked you out in the nerdiest way by making you decipher code on your own computer

· You were kind of mad since you had been doing some other things for some major companies but after reading the message you determined you were fine with it

· I mean how could you say no

· Anyways the date when off great and eventually the media caught heavy wind of what was happening

· You already knew about the Red Robin thing pretty quickly into the relationship though

· Tim was a genius and you weren’t far behind

· It was scary how similar you two were

· From expressions and shared humor and meme taste, it was everything

· Staying up together was another thing you did

· Although, after some time one of you would pass out and the other would go to bed too

· It was like a competition in sorts of who could stay up the longest but at the same time you needed him to sleep

· The time he felt most betrayed by you was when you replaced his coffee with decaf

· You guys just sometimes hang out in his bed tangled up in the weirdest way watching vines or weird movies

· Totally the couple that would watch the worst rated movies just to laugh at them

· Damian commented on it once and got a tired middle finger from you once

· It wasn’t the classiest move however you couldn’t care less and Tim laughed his ass off

· After that Damian seemed to respect you more

· You guys probably have matching hoodies or something with really funny or obscure culture references

· Clingy couple but nothing too over dramatic

Bart Allen:

· Your designs in architecture went down in text books

· You were famous for some really amazing builds and constructions

· You started off by building these really insane LEGO sets or doll houses based off of designs in your notebook

· Your mother still has the models in the attic which is kind of embarrassing when he sees it but he thinks it’s really cool

· When he came to your time line he knew immediately who you were

· He also totally came to you and complimented your work plus some additional hinting at what was going to happen pretty soon

· Bart was there at the rise of your success

· He basically was your number one fan the entire time

· He’ll stay up with you as long as he can when you’re working

· It’s kind of funny seeing that when you’re designing the things you went down in history for you’ll be stuck on something and he’ll just tiredly recommend what he remembers learning

· You let him look through the designs sometimes but he understands if you don’t really feel comfortable with it

· He also knows that in order to do all of this, you’re wicked smart

· When the cave needed remodeling, you were the first person that they called in

· The League was very glad that you were there and they didn’t have to pull any strings to get anyone different in

· Plus, you knew what was needed since you were there all of the time

Kon Kent:

· You got your start writing

· It was the best thing that you did to relive stress

· Once your parents saw that you were such an imaginative child, they got you in a ton of art related classes but you liked writing the most

· Your writings had won awards before but then you wrote a book and it did amazing

· So now, that’s what you do

· Kon secretly actually really likes your books and met you at a book signing

· Nerd

· He got your number there and then you realized who he was

· It was kind of funny cause you were both in that moment of realization like

· Ohhhhh I know who you are.... kinda thing

· He finds it hilarious that sometimes you’re just all over the place

· When doing research your room isn’t terrible messy, it’s just piles and piles of notes and articles

· You also probably have an expansive collection of literature yourself ranging from all genres

· You don’t really like him to proof the book, however if you have an idea for something he’s all ears

· Coffee dates to strange hole in the wall joints

· Clark really likes you and finds your humor funny in the sense that it’s close to Bruce’s

· Both very sarcastic and dry

· Lex is just glad that his son found someone with an intellect

· You don’t really like Lex though

· That’s because you hear everything that Kon has to say about him

· Although, without giving the man too much credit, the charade that he plays on the daily in quite impressive

· You will never admit it however

· Ma and Pa love you

· So does Lois

· You get along because of the writing

· Sometimes Kon will just take you to some random part of the world if you need inspiration

· “Hey wanna fly to Morocco?”

· “Why not?”

· You make a day trip out of it but if it’s a long one you’ll stay longer

· Short distance he’ll fly you himself but overseas or something, he takes one of Lex’s jets

· He likes to tease you sometimes but will take it easy during the editing phase

· Those aren’t fun at alllll

· You get cranky sometimes during that and he just backs off lol

· He will make you sleep though

· He doesn’t want you turning into Tim or anything for an extended amount of time

· Nope

· Not doing it

Jamie Reyes:

· The team didn’t know anything about your job as an artist

· You were internationally revered

· No one knew of your job but for the boy wonder who saw the paint in your hair

· Once the team did know however, everyone was amazed

· You and Jamie were already dating by then though

· He was always impressed with what you did

· Laughed when you were covered in paint

· He lets you paint or draw on his hand

· You both have matching hoodies or jackets from your clothing line or merch that you painted

· If you have a YouTube channel, he’s in some of the videos

· Scarab notes that you have a more creative personality which Jamie responds to with a sarcastic remark

· Your clothes are partly covered in paint

· He’ll go to every show

· During the Reach thing you still stayed with him

I have more parts of the Damian Wayne x reader story coming and also requests but I’m just getting into school which is my priority so that’s why I’ve been a bit more inactive. Anyways I hope you liked this one and I can’t wait to put out more

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yanderepuck · 4 years

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The mansion in the 21st century

For the sake of our sanity we are going assume they are all still alive in the 21st century since we don't know when everyone was turned (just that Will was first)

We're also gonna pretend that Sebas is still around(I don't think he'd accept being a vampire???? But for the sake of this he's gonna be here)

Arthur is his full whore self and is with guys and gals. He put the bi in bitch

Leonardo is also bi(historically there's no record of him ever being with a woman)

Imagine the shit posts on social media

Arthur has an Instagram and he posts about everyone's life, even using their names, but no one takes it series

A few times a week Arthur does something called "where is Leonardo sleeping today?"

Vincent uses tiktok for art

Theo has been able to get in contact with more artists all over and be able to sell their art. It's made it a lot easier for him and even though it's a lot more work he enjoys it

Dazai is also a shit poster, only he asks weird things that keep you up at night

But Dazai also publishes short stories. Probs has a blog.

I could also see Dazai basically running an animal shelter in the back yard. He gives off Disney princess vibes. Only it's like ducks, a bunch of birds. A horse or two and some sheep.

Will has probably moved back into the mansion since everything he has done has been forgotten by society.

He finds it odd how kids in schools study is plays and have to analyze it. He's just like "everyone's gay and every other line is a dick joke???" But he still doesn't speak normal.

LEONARDO GOT BACK INTO PAINTING.

Leonardo and Vinc would both have a tik tok and Instagram to show off their work and their hella popular

Isaac wanted to keep a low profile, but since the internet isn't face to face with people, he's able to publish his findings without having to actually deal with society. He's just social awkward okay

Sebastian also has a blog. He calls everyone his roommates and he's like "you'll never guess what my roommate did today"

Arthur collects mugs.

During that Italian hand meme, everyone paid more attention to Leonardo to see how often he does it

He does it too often and he doesn’t realize it

At some point Dazai HAS yelled “DO IT FOR THE VINE”

He was probably yelling at Theo

Want to know whats really dangerous?

Shakespeare learning modern slang

No one in the mansion knows what he’s talking about in the first place. Then suddenly he goes “For never was a story of more woe. O bard Alexa, play us Despacito”(I will not take credit for that. I remember reading that phrase LONG ago)

Isaac says “Me” “Same” and “Mood” a lot

He sees garbage on the ground and goes “It’s me”

Dazai is into anime don’t @ me

Also. Napoleon is also bi as all hell

Drunk or not him and Sebas have made lip contact at least once

Imagine what Mozart could do with music now.

He still loves his piano. Nothing is better than physically playing an instrument

He probs went viral for a hot minute when Arthur posted a video of him playing piano

Comte is even more of a tired mom.

HE’D SO BE A PINTEREST PERSON

You know how people make board for their friends?

He does that with everyone in the mansion

I honestly know nothing about Jean and Napoleon. I’m sorry for their lack of content. Plz add things for them.

Imagine everyone playing Mario Kart

Not every week because they all have lives outside the mansion. But at least once a month they have a game night

None of them are really TV people. They’ll watch movies but that’s about it

They’d all watch documentaries on themselves, and point out everything that is wrong, and even be like “where the fuck did they get that from?”

Because I have watched documentaries on him. Often a Da Vinci documentary will mention was arrest with sleeping with another guy. The rest of the guys are waiting for him to call that bullshit and he’s just sitting there eating popcorn.

Meanwhile Will is in the back like “Eyy! Me too!”

“Did that really happen?”

“What? Me getting arrested? Yeah”

“No, well yes, but did you sleep with another guy?”

“Yeah”

“Was he worth it?”

“I don’t know which one their talking about”

Chaotic bisexuals everywhere

Arthur however has watched the BBC Sherlock series.

Arthur and Dazai would probs watch the most tv out of all of them.

I say this cause Dazai would be into anime and Arthur got hooked on NCIS

Arthur write quite a bit of short stories that he’s gotten published

Will would love that goddamn Leonardo DiCaprio version of Romeo and Juliet. I hate that movie with a passion

Also, I can’t imagine how many jokes they’ve managed to come up with about Leonardo DiCaprio to Leonardo.

If Arthur and Mozart can stay up for days with coffee, imagine what an energy drink would do to them

All of them in modern fashion???? HOT DAMN

Will likes the Titanic

I see Theo being the one that’s into MARVEL and DC movies

Imagine showing Vinc Bob Ross

Leonardo and Isaac are Tony Stark(Ironman) and Bruce Banner(Hulk)

Everyone in the mansion is into conspiracy theories .

Comte himself is a conspiracy theory

One night Napoleon is like “Guys. Look. Aliens” and they all watch conspiracy theory videos.

It’s the one thing they can all agree on that they have in common

Vinc and Leonardo also enjoy pinterest because of all the art/crafting/diy things they find.

Arthur 100% listens to ebooks

THE MANSION IS A POKEMON GO GYM. But they aren’t all on the same team so battling can get serious some days

They all still have pets

Honestly. At any point in time, not just modern. They made fun of each others accents.

Lets be real. Will would end up liking anime too

SNapchat filters on the guys?? The dog filter on Theo??? Flower crown on Vinc??? Face swapping everyone with everyone???

One of them is bound to have a candle obsession and I want to say its Comte. Only he buys them and doesn’t burn them. Sebas ends up slowly taking candles from the stash and burning them in a few rooms.

The music room smells like chocolate but Mozart can’t find the candle.

Leonardo's room is even more cluttered. He has too many hobbies.

Vinc making his own paint??? I’d love.

Theo and Arthur cried a little when their favorite bar shut down.

Masterlist

#this is a long one but i know its gonna have a second part #there's no way i'm done with the guys in modern day #too many possibilities #also sorry about no Napoleon and Jean #I don't know their personalities at all #I only interacted with NApoleon in isaacs route #and i've never interacted with Jean #ikemen vampire #ikevamp #cybrid #ikemen series #plz add your own hcs #i like to read them

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candychronicles · 4 years

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deal // d. kaminari

A/N: My part in the soulmate au bnharem server collab!

CHARACTER PAIRING: Kaminari Denki x Reader

WORD COUNT: 2,187

WARNINGS: nothing that i can think of? just dumb, sweet fluff

SYNOPSIS: in a world full of heros and quirks, finding someone you can love is very, very hard. it’s even harder when you have a soulmate and the words that are tattooed on you are a nightmare. but still, even in this strange world, love finds a way.

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in a world full of heros and quirks, finding someone you can love is very, very hard. everyone has the first words your soulmate will ever say to you tattooed on your body. there is not one size, placing or font. it just slowly develops into a full fledged sentence, like a birthmark, as you got older and were able to read more.

some people were absolutely desperate to find their soulmate. they would introduce themselves to as many people as possible, trying out different phrasings constantly. there was a whole app created that was dedicated to sharing your tattoo and trying to meet up with people that matched it. most people, however, believed that soulmates should and would come naturally.

when you were 7, your tattoo was finally developed, and you craned your neck in an attempt to see what was written down your spine. it took you quite a while to figure out the words due to your limited reading abilities and more so the fact that it was hard to read in the mirror. when you finally figured it out, you were absolutely dumbfounded.

“aah! stop! i could’ve dropped my croissant!”

what in the peanut butter fudge does that mean?

you decided that at 7 years old, it didn’t matter to you. it wasn’t until you were twelve that it was even brought back up again. a popular six second video platform went viral and, along with that, came the understanding of where your tattoo came from. suddenly, it was very, very scary, knowing how commonplace your tattoo phrase was.

your heart was broken one too many times by not finding your soulmate, despite hearing those very words over and over again from so many people. you had memorized vine after vine, trying out different ones each time, slowly giving up hope as you approached your 21st birthday. while the platform was dead, the creations made on the app were a forever reminder that you were still, in fact, alone.

on one particularly dark and gloomy afternoon, with heavy, overcast clouds, a thin drizzle of cold rain and a calming yet eerie fog settling onto the street, you walked into your secret, hidden to many, coffee shop, or at least it felt like that for you. you tended to see the same familiar faces, knew all the employees and always tried new things, wanting to support a local business.

you were lost in your own thought when a young man, most likely around your age, bumped into you, balancing precariously a plate with treats and a hot coffee.

“aah! stop! i could’ve dropped my croissant!” he screeched, moving his food and drink away from you, not wanting to spill any, especially on the pretty girl he just bumped into.

without missing a beat, you replied with your own vine reference in the most monotone voice you could muster: “you know what, i’m about to say it. i don’t care than you broke your elbow.”

you were so accustomed to replying to that reference, your brain working before you could even think, randomly grasping at the first memorization that came to mind. it came as a complete shock when the random stranger dropped his food and drink on the floor, mouth wide with a grin, eyes alight with excitement.

you cocked your head quizzically, still not understanding what was going on. at that point in your life, you had given up on finding your soulmate, but it became quite apparent to you that he did not believe the same things or feel the same way.

the strange guy with electric yellow hair and a black streak happily rolled up his shirt sleeve to show you that what you said to him was on his body and, in that moment, everything finally clicked. you had to grab the nearest wall just to wrap your head around the situation. this guy is your soulmate?

with shaky hands, you pulled him to the back game room, apologizing to the workers for the mess as you whisked past him. once you were in the room, you shut the door, breathed once, twice, three times, and then slowly lifted the back of your shirt up to show him the tattoo.

the strange man, without thinking about it, slowly reached his fingers up to the back of your spine, slowly tracing the letters of the words in mesmiration. you, on the other hand, were as still as could be, too entranced by the way his soft fingers felt dancing along your backside. goosebumps rose on your skin and you knew that there was no way to deny or argue the automatic attraction that you felt towards him.

it felt like lightning bolts were shooting out of his fingers, giving you just enough jolt to stay awake, your heart pounding from adrenaline. everything felt so surreal but you could feel that this was the start of something, something truly life changing.

slowly, you lowered your shirt, pulling your back away from his exploring fingers and turned around, looking him in the eye.

“what’s your name?” you whispered out, not trusting your voice to speak any louder at the moment.

“Kaminari Denki, but please, call me Denki,” he answered without skipping a beat, eyes brimming with excitement.

“and what’s yours doll?”

“(l/n) (y/n) but you can just call me (y/n). after all, we’re probably going to be spending quite a lot of time together.”

“while your here, why don’t you sit down with me and we can chat? i just met you but i’m so love struck already. i need to know more about you.”

the two of you ended up spending hours in the shop, stuffing your faces full of pastries and sweet drinks, playing board games, asking each other questions, shamelessly flirting all night. it came as no surprise to either of you that you two would like each other, but to be so content telling a practical stranger your whole life story was still a bit overwhelming for you. you two exchanged numbers and on you went with the rest of your night, then the next day, and then the whole week.

it was practically killing you inside knowing that Denki had not called you yet. he mentioned he was a pro hero, so you knew he must be busy, but the thought of never being able to talk to him again drove you mad. little did you know, Denki was thinking the same things, wondering if he was good enough for you, if you really liked him, if you even wanted to see him again.

after all the moping around you did by yourself, you finally gained the courage to call, leaving a polite message in the voicemail box asking for him to call and discuss some things, hoping you could get some answers out of what was going on.

it only took twenty minutes before Denki’s name was flashing across your phone. you tried to play it cool, allow it to ring a couple of times, but eventually caved and answered, trying to not appear too excited or frazzled.

the conversation ended up lasting hours, with plans to meet up later that week. you two both chuckled when realizing you both felt the same way, not wanting to call if the other wasn’t interested.

the week went by quickly, the first official date arriving much sooner than you expected. Denki had told you nothing except to wear comfortable tennis shoes and athletic clothes. you assumed maybe a hike but you were not prepared for what he actually signed up for: rock climbing.

while heights weren’t your biggest fear, they certainly weren’t something you enjoyed, but you were going to push through and have fun. Kaminari brought out the best in you, fueling your adrenaline side a lot more than expected.

the whole experience was going great, Kaminari going up with you a couple of times to show you the ropes, both literally and physically, when he suggested you try one on your own. it was an indoor facility with plenty of padding, safety ropes and trained staff if any issues arose, but still, it was more terrifying than you were expecting.

you set a slow but steady pace, finally reaching the top, Kaminari cheering you from below. you looked down to give him a smile and a wave, realizing that was a bad idea only when you saw how far you had to jump back down. Kaminari saw it in your face and internally panicked, not sure how to help you in the situation, until he came up with an idea.

“just jump! i’ll catch you. i promise!” he yelled, arms outstretched and ready for your descent.

all it took was a few deep breaths before you let go, jumping down the wall, slipping halfway and fearing you would get injured. Kaminari, however, stayed true to his promise, catching you steadily in his arms, a cheeky, self-satisfied grin on his face.

“i’m picking the date next time,” you declared with a cheeky smile of your own, shimmying out of his grasp.

true to your word, your second official date was picked by yourself, something that was still interesting and adrenaline inducing at times without the fear of dropping from big heights: horseback riding.

you had assumed after the first date he took you to that this would be a nice reprieve from his daily adventures, which was true. what you didn’t assume, however, was the fact that Kaminari was mildly terrified of the giant creatures with hooves.

“oh come on! what are you afraid of?”

“getting kicked, getting bitten, stepped on, bucked off, the list is endless…”

“i won’t let anything happen to you. you caught me last time so i’ll make sure to have your back this time.”

as the day went on, you soon realized that you didn’t need to keep an eye on him. he was riding his horse very well, becoming in tune with his posture and seating, overall making the horse happier. he didn’t even want to leave after your trail ride was all over, you having to drag him back to the car as he stared out the window with puppy dog eyes.

when you made it back to your apartment, you turned towards him, ready to thank him for yet another lovely day, when you felt a pair of warm, eager lips attach themselves onto your own. you were dumbfounded for a minute, not understanding what was going on and therefore not responding. Denki almost took it as a sign that he was going too fast, preparing to pull away when your brain and body finally caught back up.

your lips moved in sync with his, wet tongues and teeth clashing. it wasn’t the prettiest kiss you ever had, but it was filled with such passion and longing that you didn’t know how you were able to pull away.

“wow…” Denki said breathlessly, hands coming up to cup your face and lean in for one more kiss.

“there’s plenty more where that came from,” you squeaked, trying to sound confident but coming out overly excited and slightly embarrassed.

Denki’s face suddenly turned very serious and he shifted in his seat to get a better look at you, you doing the same.

“(y/n), i know we’ve only been going on dates for a couple weeks, and i know there’s still so much more that i want to know about you, but i cannot, in good conscience, let you leave this car without me asking if you want to be my girlfriend. so uh, what do you think?”

your body responded immediately this time, your head bobbing up and down in confirmation, composing yourself for a second before you responded.

“Denki, we’re soulmates. i know it’s fucking scary, i know it may seem even weird, but i have never felt this way about anyone or even anything. i want to be your girlfriend as badly as i want you to be my boyfriend. so yes, boyfriend, i would love to go steady with you.”

before he could respond, you raised one finger in silence, commenting, “but, from now on, we pick the dates together.”

“deal! and uh, i know we’re in your driveway already, but there’s this really good noodle place down the road, and i’m starving. would you want to come with me? i’ll pay,” he admitted, scratching the back of his neck in embarrassment, a light flush on his face.“oh, well, if you’re paying, i guess i have no reason to say no, huh?” you joked back, laughing and sticking your tongue out at him.

you both giggled at that, completely isolated from the outside world. at that moment, it was just you and him. while the relationship was still fresh and new, it felt like you guys knew each other for years and yet knew nothing about each other. it didn’t matter, though, because you two knew that things would only get better from there, and you were both prepared for whatever came your way.

#denki kaminari #kaminari denki #kaminari x reader #denki x reader #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #boku no hero x reader

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matildasbooks · 3 years

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hibernation months

Lockdown #3 feels interminable. Today, I explained to my mother the meaning of ‘pathetic fallacy’ as the rain drummed around us. Storm Christoph is on its way and the river is fit to burst its banks again, the waters so ice-cold the dogs won’t swim. In the bluebell woods which are only russet and bronze right now, no hint of cobalt yet, I slid like a silverfish over the water-logged ground, blinked fat raindrops from my eyes. The dog’s red coat frosted with rain freckles. I’ve read a lot as always, but have enjoyed it less than usual. I put novels down for a few days and forget where the story’s going. Non-fiction is gentler; I can read a chapter as a snapshot stand-alone essay.

A friend recommended ‘The Year of Living Danishly’ by Helen Russell to me years ago when I was in Edinburgh for the book festival and it’s only now I’ve got around to it. Reading a travel memoir might sound an odd choice when it’s unlikely anyone will be travelling for a while yet, but moving to a new place, as Russell does, can be extremely isolating. She and her partner, who works for Lego and is therefore referred to in the book as ‘Lego Man’, move to Denmark during the winter months. Spring, they are told, officially starts in March, but doesn’t normally appear before May. The streets are so deserted Russell proleptically wonders if there’s been some kind of viral outbreak (the book was written long before the word ‘corona’ - sadly not the beer - became a part of our daily lexicon). Denmark was meant to be an escape for Russell from the rat race back home and the constant questioning from strangers as to when she’d be having a baby; their arrival in the midst of winter appears, at first, to ensure the opposite. Russell feels trapped in a new town that greets her like an ice box. Through windows, she sees little movement, only glittering candlelight. A neighbour explains that the Danes “hibernate” over winter, staving off the darkling hours with glimmers of flame and hygge (Danes burn more candles per head than any other country in the world (Russell 2015, p. 10)). Although in the UK, hygge is a word most people will recognise, sold as a concept in self-care magazines and scrawled across the “perfect-Christmas-gift”-books such as ‘The Little Book of Hygge’, when I asked my French university students what it might mean, they had no idea. Apparently in the UK it’s a more attractive and marketable idea than in France, at least for now. In Russell’s book, however, it’s clear that hygge is not just a lifestyle one strives towards to achieve a better version of themselves or a fleeting fashion, its a means of survival. The Danes fight Seasonal Affective Disorder by, as one local puts it, ‘holing up for winter’ (p. 12).

Despite my reluctance to buy into (quite literally) the hype around hygge, reading Helen Russell’s witty account of a year in the “happiest nation in the world” has been comforting in these dark and dreary months. The only candlelight in my room is the blue glow of my computer screen as it whirrs like a plane taking off to keep up with the amount of work I’m using it for - it was on its last legs before lockdown #1. I haven’t changed much about my routine - I’m still halfway through the book - but perhaps there’s something to be said for some elements of hygge in this Covid world. I’ve rediscovered a childish joy in stickers (literary ones, of course) which I’m affixing to every notebook I own and I’m trying to journal - there’s a good video by @TheOxfordPsych on how to use journalling as a tool to improve your mental health, rather than just a performative exercise, which I found useful. I’m beating myself up less about getting through my growing pile of books and reading slowly, as if I’m a university student again, annotating my books with a pink pen.

My favourite read so far this month has to be ‘Field Notes’ by Anna Selby, published by Hazel Press and sold by The London Review of Books Bookshop. Written under water on transparent notebooks, her poems are electric. With an epigraph from Joan Didion - ‘what it is like to be a woman, the irreconcilable difference of it, the sense of living one’s deepest life underwater, that dark involvement with blood and birth and death’ - Selby dives deep into waters where she can become a creature apart from the murky subterranean existence of a woman, catcalled and pregnant and un-pregnant, something more like a fish that’s soldered its wounds with kintsugi, with the golden threads of a lit wick. Her blog (on her website http://annamariaselby.co.uk/) also serves as a wonderful introduction to her work as a poet, PhD student and naturalist, with descriptions of night gardens crowded with Japanese wisteria and moonflower vines.

For now, the hibernation months continue. I wonder how we’ll look back at these years, as we begin to reckon with the effects it has wrought on countries and individuals, but I may as well in the meantime take Selby’s advice, via Thomas Merton, to listen to the rain: ‘nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks, I am going to listen’.

More non-fiction perfect for lockdown in the vein of Russell’s The Year of Living Danishly;

Bleaker House by Nell Stevens

Names for the Sea by Sarah Moss

Fiction books I might read next:

A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen

#books #poetry #nonfiction #memoir #denmark #travel #joan didion #annaselby #helenrussell #theyearoflivingdanishly #fieldnotes #indiepublishers #reading #lockdownreading #bleakerhouse #nellstevens #namesforthesea #sarah moss

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sousice · 4 years

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˙✫*ﾟ PARK JIMIN , CIS MALE , HE/HIM : did you hear JOVI YUEN is joining the cast of exposed after their gossipy reddit threads about other celebrities was revealed ? the twenty four year old guitarist with 950k followers is trying to clear their name . they've become known as the resident philosoph here in the mansion , and it's clear that's spot on because they're quite - escapist & - heedless , but also + sentimental & + tenacious . you know they're heading to the confession booth if you hear don’t you ( forget about me ) by simple minds blasting , most likely talking about how they're more than painted on leather pants , smoke rings drifting in the air , beaten up paperbacks and hair dye for therapy .

heyo ! i’m deni , she / her pronouns & working plant mom in the gmt+9 timezone . here is my messy babe jovi , a hotshot wannabe . he has a tiny wanted connects tag , so please check ‘em out and we can vibe whatever i’m srsly down for any of that ! so hit like if you wanna plot this is short and sweet for sanity’s sake .

𝖻𝖺𝗌𝗂𝖼𝗌.

name: jaebeom “ jovi ” yuen

birthday: january 29th

hometown: manchester , u . k .

astro sign: aquarius

chinese zodiac: rat

sexual attraction: pansexual

romantic attraction: panromantic

occupations: guitarist & unofficial back-up vocals

viral for: skateboarding tricks , ripping his clothes onstage , crowdsurfing , #exposed for sleeping literally anywhere on instalive and tiktok , skintight leather pants , a new hair color every month , floral tattoos

𝖺𝖻𝗈𝗎𝗍.

parents are normal-ish . a little goodie-goodie , cookie-cutter in that way that drives all the suburban boys off the deep end . pent-up anger snowballed into a separation around jovi’s middle grade years , but they were never divorced — never called it what jovi and everyone else knew it was . walked around the like ghosts in a house everyone knew they couldn’t afford . but whatever . not like all that passive aggressive bullshit and refusal to acknowledge the truth had any lasting effect or anything . . . and fuck , everything in that upper class society just sucked . everyone clawing their way to the top and expectations sucking out all his dreams and ugh——

thrift store paperbacks . a guitar slung over his body . skate parks . sharpie-covered chucks and warped tour summers . jovi ditched the violin and medschool dreams to throw himself into the Vibe and who would’ve thought he’d get hyped all over VINE and insta ? managed to weasel his ass into several hundred thousand followers and millions of views all for an aesthetic . the board’s always been his thing — convenient and cool — and when he started a band with some of his best mates ? dude , his parents were livid but he was on cloud nine . a hot excuse to get the fuck outofthathouse and chase dreams around the country .

pretty face , cool tricks and wicked fingers on the stage . he didn’t want to admit it to his parents , but he kept up with the school . online classes on the bus , stage shows in the morning . yeah , he flunked out , but he’ll never forget the memories of taking final exams drugged out of his mind . one day he blinks awake and realizes like . dude . they’ve made it . failing at blood family , school , and any other career he’s got , this is the only life he knows to protect . he’s gonna ride this wave as long as he can . but how long’s it gonna last ? music might not be his first love , but all that attention is . jovi doesn’t know where he’d go if this all came tumbling down --- so guess he just has to keep pushing .

𝗉𝖾𝗋𝗌𝗈𝗇𝖺𝗅𝗂𝗍𝗒.

talented and idealistic . jovi sticks strongly to his beliefs and doesn’t intentionally set out to irritate anyone . he’s rather distant , “ dignified ” and thinks of himself as intelligent . likes shiny things and gadgets he can toy with , science fiction and philosophy books , modern artwork that looks weird as hell but is colorful enough to catch the eye . trustable with a lock and key for a mouth . clever , adaptable , but more of a backseat viewer than a driver . runs from emotional expression , temperamental in a way that makes him destructively impulsive , and #aloof ( NOT ) from drama . likes #DEEPTHOUGHTS conversations over beer and a smoke , easy listening and ‘80s music . brave as shit on the stage and the board . shy as shit everywhere else . eyes seeing everything and a mouth that’d run a mile a minute if given the chance . muses a lot about the Unknown and doesn’t give two thoughts of the actual ramifications of some of the shit that comes out his mouth ( whatdya mean people listen to him ??? )

#exposed.intro #i'm LATE

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thechanelmuse · 5 years

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This New Orleans Cosmetics Mogul Made $1 Million In 90 Minutes

Ms. Raynell Steward, better known as Wuzzam Supa or Supa_Cent on Instagram has helped us laugh with her comedy skits, throw down in the kitchen with her cooking videos, and level up with her inspirational posts about hustling smarter instead of harder.

This New Orleans native took the exposure from her viral Vine and Instagram videos but also her leap of faith and started her business in 2017: a cosmetics line inspired by school supplies. She is now known as the entrepreneur who sold $1 million worth of her products in 90 minutes on Cyber Monday 2018, sending her supporters into a frenzy and leaving her speculators confused, asking: Harpo, who is dis Supa woman?

Ironically enough, The Crayon Case is a line that is dedicated to amateur makeup artists, and if you are an avid follower of Supa, you won't be surprised to see her uploading various videos of her impromptu makeup tutorials filled with tips and suggestions.

As with most entrepreneurs, her road to this newfound success was not easy, unlike some who covered this year's Forbes list with a false "self-made" title (side eye). Nonetheless, Supa has made sure to share her obstacles and experiences along the way to help other women who are reluctant to start investing in their dreams and essentially, boss up. Supa shares: "Y'all be underestimating yourselves. If something is poppin' - it don't matter who made it, who created - if it's poppin', b*itch they gon' see it."

Supa was correct about her creativeness being noticed, as Crayola approached the CEO about her designs and how they closely resembled those of the branded crayons. Supa responded by immediately stopping production and changing her designs, even asking for the mega brand's approval of her revisions. To her surprise, shortly after Crayola debuted their own cosmetic line that bared a shocking resemblance to Supa's products. She explains:

"They have the right to tell me 'b*itch take that off, that's my sh*it' so we changed it with no problem, so I understand. I infringed their brand first, so why can I be mad at them for seeing some sh*t is poppin'… I'm not about to poke no bear. I'm not about to go [to] them and say, 'You stole my shit, I'm taking you to court,' b*tch no! Those people could have sued me...and they didn't. So why would I go sue those people for something they rightfully could do?"

Supa took her "L" like a champ, and learned as a lesson in how important it is to really invest in trademarking and researching thoroughly before debuting any new products. The incident was just a slight stumble on her road to success, as she was able to bring her story to the 2018 Essence Music Festival stage this past summer, solidifying her status as a hometown hero.

The quality of Supa's products precedes her larger than life social media personality and existence in the virtual beauty world, as she really spent a lot of time perfecting her products. Being a darker hue of brown, Supa kept high pigment and longevity of the products in mind, specifically The Crayon Case 'ishadow' palette.

Supa's products are fun, fresh, and affordable with the hit sold out Crayon Casepalette being priced at $30 and the 7-piece pencil shadow brush set to match at $18.

Supa is a 30-year-old CEO and mother of a young son, awaiting the arrival of her daughter with her supportive fiance, and has worked over 15 jobs in her hometown before quitting her job as a waitress and following her dreams. Some may call her an overnight success, however, supporters of Supa know the hard work and dedication she has put into this victory. In her own words, she shares:

"Don't hate on yourself. Along your journey, many people will tell you what you can't and what shouldn't do. Don't be that person to yourself."

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“Its only 10:13 and we already at 10k orders. Keep blessing me lord 🙌🏾🙌🏾🎒🎒“

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The moment she found out her brand made $1 million in just 90 minutes:

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Her family congratulates her with a cake and balloons while walking in to Lil Wayne’s “A Milli” lol:

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aahsoka · 4 years

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So having been on tiktok for a bit I wanna talk a little about it.

What I like

It’s actually rather entertaining to scroll through up to 30 second videos one after the other. Sometimes the humor falls flat or it’s not your taste, but the algorithim is quite good at recommending the kind of content you will like.

I joined right when there was a big trend going around about sharing your culture, and soon after a Blackout trend where non-Black creators stopped posting for a day & spread/supported videos by Black creators. So I ended up with a fairly diverse fyp or “for you page”. It also quickly gathered that I am bisexual, so I get plenty of lgbt+ content. There’s some art mixed in there, some cosplay, some historical costuming/seamstresses, lots of avatar jokes lately, musical theatre content, fashion, girls in bikinis on rollerskates (in outer space), commentary on political issues, body positivity, all the kinds of stuff I like. To get a feed that caters to your interests you just have to watch & like videos you’re interested in & eventually it gets a feel for what you’ll watch and what you won’t.

Theres a trend where people say which ‘side’ of tiktok they’re on and I get ‘science side of tumblr’ flashbacks but I’ve mostly avoided the “straight” and conservative sides of tiktok. I would be considered a part of “woke”, “alt” (as in alternative) and lgbt+ tiktok (there are separate ones for each letter of the acronym). Possibly also “theatre” and “cosplay” tiktok. These categories are nebulous and you’re usually part of multiple communities; its just as arbitray as ‘science side of tumblr’ was.

The format reminds me of snapchat a little, and I love to talk to myself on video & post dumb thirst traps for my friends (none of which I’m attracted to so idk what my goal is there) and make stupid jokes. So this app is kinda perfect for my attention seeking side & hyperactive tendencies. Its very easy to consume on a short attention span, though not as easy as vine was.

Being in quarantine, its a way for a lot of people to engage in hobbies that involve community. Cosplay is pretty popular, as its a fun way to show off a costume & dress up & have fun without having to attend a convention. I enjoy the way lip synced audios can be used to emulate the character someone is dressed as; that’s something you couldn’t really do unless you were really good at impressions. Its a nice succinct way to show the process of creating a cosplay as well.

Those who enjoy theatre, but cannot perform in shows at this time, are able to create mini-monologues & sketches as well as sing parts of their favorite songs. Its an avenue through which to perform without putting anyone at risk of the virus. It’s also an easy way to show off your talents without having to go through the audition process & actually get cast in a show as a prominent enough role that someone will notice it.

It’s a convenient format for discourse and educational videos. Nice, short, easily digestible tidbits that stay in your mind. This extremely catchy song, for example: “Black neighborhoods are overpoliced, so of course they have higher rates of crime, and white perpetrators are undercharged, so of course they have lower rates of crime. And all of those stupid stats you keep using are operating off a small sample size. So, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up”.

As well as other videos where people take the time to explain historical events, satirize racist arguments to demonstrate why they are wrong, talk about prevalent tropes in movies, teach a few signs in ASL, share facts about their culture, etc, etc. I have found there are quite a lot of people there from unique and fairly unknown cultures and backgrounds- and this is a place where they’re able to share their culture & existence with people all over the world. There are a thousand different viewpoints. Their videos are doing far more for diverse representation than any other platform, I’d argue, as everyone is extremely visible on the app. (‘Their’ as in the creators, not the app itself).

I also have enjoyed coming across new artists on the app. It’s really fun to watch the process they go through, as most art videos deal with the whole creation of a piece. It’s inspiring. I have also come across a painter who’s work I’m in love with, and a woman who makes and sells the CUTEST ceramic mugs, and I need to purchase some stuff from them both.

Now onto the bad:

Unfortunately, the app doesn’t have much in the way of a filtering or warning system. I talked about that tiktok of the kids coming across human remains? That was just on people’s fyp. Just popped up. No warning. No reason for it to still be up. Traumatizing.

You can click on a video and say ‘not interested’ (I do this to literally every video I get where some girl is thirsting after kylo ren 🤮..... like I want the star wars videos just not THOSE videos). However, it doesn’t seem to know exactly why you weren’t interested, because I still get those videos from time to time. There’s no content filter where I can blacklist the kylo ren or any other hashtag.

There��s some very shitty content. There are racist conservatives. Misogynistic teen white boys. Really weird thirst traps. Videos where people lip sync to something with a straight face and tag it with #acting. Harmful body image trends. I thankfully stay very clear of this, but this kind of content makes me worry for the minors on the app. The one’s who don’t have enough of a concept of self yet to realize they don’t need to be able to do the newest pointless beauty trend to be beautiful, to realize it’s ok for them to be gay, to realize how predatory some adults can be, etc etc.

It is extremely easy to come across minors on the app who don’t look like teens. One time I went to a girl’s page and it said she was FIFTEEN. I’m usually good at guessing ages but something about this app messes that up. I wish there was a way to separate people under 18 and adults. Where I don’t have minor’s thirst traps popping up on my fyp. Where pedophiles don’t get a chance to curate that fyp intentionally. If anyone reading this has kids, I highly recommend they make their tiktok private or only viewable to friends.

Just like any site, there are plenty of bigots. Lots of racist comments. Plenty of transphobia. Any hatred you’ve seen elsewhere, of course it exists on tiktok. I have actually zero clue if you can report people & if it works. Most people seem to send a video commentary to their haters or duet a video of a racist pointing out their racism. I’ve heard of creators blocking people, however. I remember a tiktok of a Black woman who’s video somehow went fairly viral in Poland and now she gets a lot of racist comments from this large group of random racisf Polish followers she has and its extremely time consuming to block them all, as there’s no mass block feature.

The rumors about what works with the algorithm and doesn’t abound. I’ve heard well lit videos get more views. Many people suspect they have been shadowbanned for speaking out about current events. TikTok will remove the audio from videos sometimes if they deem it controversial enough. Most of us know they were criticized recently for intentionally keeping Black creator’s videos from being seen (a catalyst for the Blackout, actually). Or you may also recall when it was criticized for widely removing lgbt+ content. Those creators are fighting to be seen the same amount as straight cis white creators are allowed to be seen with no effort.

The effects some trends could have on teen girls. So many of them are already so uncomfortable in their own skin simply because of societal standards, but the absolutely meaningless challenges people come up with on tiktok make it so much worse. One trend was based around whether your finger touched your lips when you put it in your nose. Or if you could get your clasped hands around the back of your legs and over your butt (if they get passed, you have a flat ass, if they get stuck, its big). These completely arbitrary signifiers of the things you need to have in order to be pretty, are far more ridiculous that anything I have seen yet in my life. I worry about little girls taking these ideas to heart. There is a very kind body positive community on the app & I hope more people can find that.

There’s also that thing where they steal your data. Like most apps. But apparently they got a lot more invasive than usual, so I would look into it before making an account; if you want to do that.

I think the apps users can be great & its a pretty intuitive set up. It certainly deserves its popularity solely as a creative form of social media. That being said, its owners are so so insidious & do the worst things. Just like all other social media, its controlled by the worst kind of people. Who can never figure out how to effectively get rid of nazis or keep kids safe from adult content.

These are my less serious gripes with the app:

1) Lip syncing

When people lip sync and don’t do any kind of skit, joke, etc, just look as if they’re saying what someone else said; I hate that. I have to go back and find the original tiktok so I can like it instead. You literally did nothing interesting by ripping off someones audio and moving your lips along to it. So many people on this app are creative and so many others lack any semblance of creativity.

Also people are too easily impressed by lip syncing to kinda-fast songs. I lip synced to like....10 seconds of the devil went down to georgia and two people praised my lip syncing abilities. Like, I can also sing and talk fast, out loud, isn’t that more impressive? more skillful? The fiddle playing in that song is impressive, not the fact I can lip sync ‘the devil went down to georgia, he was lookin for a soul to steal, he was in a bind, cause he was way behind.’ Have you ever seen someone play Johnny’s fiddle solo????? It’s insane!!!

Rather than see someone lip sync to the verse in Stressed Out 2x faster than normal (which is, extremely simple and the song was overplayed and ingrained into our collective consciousness) and go WOW what about someone.....doing the verse out loud. You can litterally just mouth random words and look like you’re saying the right ones. It’s driving me crazy lmao. I’m set to become a God of tiktok because I have a repertoire of fast songs and rap verses memorized. It’s not even an uncommon skill to speak or sing quickly, people literally make rap music for a living! Listen to it maybe.

2) “Acting”

I am begging you to stop making me sit through those horrible POVs. I cannot take another girl not quite fake crying towards the camera as she lip syncs the words from a song that apply to the random situation she decided she was in. I cannot take another boy who thinks its sexy to stare into a camera and smirk in every single situation he creates.

Back to lip syncing, making facial expressions along to words isn’t really acting. Try saying the words out loud perhaps? The inflection you use with your lines is a pretty big part of acting. Like you can lip sync all you want, just stop tagging it with #acting.

3) Comedic timing, or lack thereof

You don’t need the entire intro to sit there looking at the camera waiting until the first line starts and you can lip sync to the part that’s the joke. You could cut off at least 15 seconds. Brevity is the soul of wit.

When your joke involves both reading text on screen and listening to the song for the punchline, if it isn’t done prefectly, its so difficult to follow. I can’t read a paragraph in 5 seconds. Paraphrase.

4) self deprecating artist audio

the audio thats like ‘this wont get views’ ‘I suck’ ‘you probably won’t see this anyway’ LOVE YOURSELF

It sucks when people dont enagage with your art but it sucks worse when your value in yourself and you art is based solely on receiving that validation. Please find a healthy medium.

Also you’re asking for pity, and you don’t want that. You want people who genuinely love your art for what it is.

5) editing videos is really hard how do you make such cool & smooth transitions????

please help me I don’t understand

Finally

here’s my account if you’re interested

#this long ass opinion article no one asked for #tiktok #social media #jordan talks #long post /

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kerishaharris · 4 years

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Why the cool kids (and brands who hope to be perceived as such) are on TikTok

Being what I like to describe as a “tail-end millennial,” I’ve grown up both with and in the digital age. I still remember turning in school assignments completed on a typewriter as well as playing Oregon Trail in computer class on those box-shaped, neon green Macintosh screens (I’m still heartbroken that my wife died of dysentery, btw). I remember pleading with my mom to hang up the phone so I could log onto AOL, and how much thought I’d put into curating the perfect AIM away message. I joined Facebook my senior year of college when it was still “the Facebook” and for college kids only, and remember how big a deal it was to rearrange my MySpace top eight (funny how we were full-on coding and didn’t even realize it). But now, as a mom of three tweens, I can admit that despite digital and social media being both my personal experience and my chosen career, there are media formats out there that I know nothing about, and that my kids’ knowledge far trumps my own. None of these formats feel more foreign to me, yet obviously influential and equally important to the next generation, than TikTok.

What is TikTok and (dancing humanoid dogs aside) who uses it? TikTok is, by and large, the newer, cooler and way more sophisticated version of Vine (RIP to a real one). On its own website, TikTok says its mission is to “inspire creativity and bring joy.” Produced and manufactured by Beijing-based video-sharing service ByteDance, TikTok reportedly boasts 800 million users worldwide, and as of 2019, has surpassed one billion installs (Yeh, 2019). It creates and curates an experience driven by its powerful algorithm, turning all of its users into a connected network of mini-influencers through the use of trending hashtags, leveraging of popular music, and push for engagement with other users through duets and viral dance challenges, making for a meaningful, organized, and dare I say it, super fun experience for users of the app (Herrman, 2019).

In exploring the app, what I found especially interesting was the way TikTok employs a vertical feed experience prompting the user to swipe up, which sets it apart from similar apps like Instagram Stories or Snapchat. This “endless scroll” approach seems, in my opinion, very conducive to creating an almost addictive experience which can lock you in for hours and hours. TikTok appears to cleverly take advantage of the way users normally engage with our vertical screens, filling up the entire real estate of our phones with engaging video content coupled with popular music that’s perhaps a little too easy to get sucked into.

Who is TikTok really for?

As not only a mom of tweens, but also having worked in communications within the education space in various capacities since 2016, TikTok’s popularity among young people comes as no surprise to me. TikTok is primarily used by youth between the ages of 16 and 24 (Brucker, 2020). It is used by about 69 percent of young people in the U.S., and these users spend at least 80 minutes per day on the app (Perez, 2020). This is the same group that, if you ask them, considers Facebook to be that “cringey” old people app that your grandpa thinks is cool, and Twitter to be that thing where journalists and politicians bicker with other journalists and politicians. It’s unsurprising to me that young people would be attracted to TikTok, a space that can feel exclusively like their own.

For me, it is that young people's exclusivity that keeps me away from TikTok. Despite being what many consider to be a subject-matter expert on social media, I am admittedly intimidated by an app I don’t completely understand or feel welcomed on. I feel more comfortable with the apps I’ve come of age with and whose functionality is more native to my own digital experience, most notably Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. I worry I may look like I’m “trying too hard” by exploring TikTok, or worse, that my presence there as a 38-year-old mom will render it an uncool place to be. My own kids reacted with horror when they noticed I had TikTok installed on my work phone, it didn’t matter that my job was to manage my then-employer’s institutional presence on social media. “Mom, please don’t make Wesleyan University a TikTok” they begged (too late guys, already secured the username for posterity). It was clear that they viewed TikTok as their safe space, and that my presence, as well as my employer’s presence despite it being an elite, well-known university, was not welcome.

Are any grownups or brands doing TikTok “right?” Interestingly, several marketers have managed to get past this “eww, adults and brands” factor to effectively market to TikTok’s growing audience through clever advertising and engagement campaigns. Capitalizing on the popularity of hashtag challenges on TikTok, Universal Pictures turned to TikTok as a way to promote their 2018 film, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, through a #FindYourMagic campaign which prompted users to film themselves doing their own magic tricks. Leveraging the power of influence, Universal got a group of popular TikTok influencers to post their own DIY magic videos, which naturally prompted others to do the same. As a result of the campaign, Universal received 1.3 million likes on the influencer videos, generated 19,000 pieces of user-generated content, and gained 11,000 new followers (Brucker, 2020). Whether it prompted people to actually go see the film, I’m not really sure.

(Source: TikTok for Business) In my work as a higher education social media manager, I often came across other universities (typically, with bigger teams and even bigger budgets) doing great work on TikTok. From a marketing perspective, it makes sense why a university would want to invest in building an exceptional presence on TikTok. Each year, so much of your energy and efforts are dedicated to marketing to prospective students and their families, convincing them that your school is the school to attend. Based on user demographics alone, TikTok offers a captive audience for the exact age range higher ed marketers are working so hard to reach. I’m proud to say that my undergraduate alma mater, the University of Florida, was one of the first to leverage TikTok and is considered one of the best in the game. With nearly 97,000 followers and more than 1 million likes, it’s clear they’ve figured out what resonates with their audience. Most of their TikTok videos feature the beloved school colors (anyone who went to UF will tell you we bleed orange and blue), Al the Alligator (we obviously weren’t terribly creative on the mascot name), fave spots on campus and the like.

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(Source: University of Florida on YouTube)

Other major schools like Brigham Young University and Florida International University capitalize on TikTok’s penchant for dance trends and employ their mascots, Cosmo the Cougar and Roary the Panther respectively, to jump in on these trends.

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...this same video on BYU’s Cosmo the Cougar TikTok has a staggering 28 million plays, 4.8 million likes, and more than 24,000 comments.

Is TikTok here to stay?

As a perpetual student of digital and social media, I see TikTok as the wave of the future for digital and social communications and marketing. The question for me, however, is whether or not I’m going to ride that wave as a communications professional. While digital marketing is still somewhat new on TikTok, my constant fear is that the moment brands step in and try to inject themselves onto a platform, mimicking and profiting off of the way it is organically used, its core users become disinterested, abandon the platform, and look for the next big thing they can call their own. If I’m lucky, perhaps I’ll get the next big idea and launch that platform myself.

Funny but true story. As I was putting the finishing touches on this blog post, my 12-year-old daughter came up behind me chanting the following.

Her: Racism? Stop it. Bullying? Stop it. Homophobia? Stop it.

Me: Is that from a TikTok?

Her: Yeah.

Me: Figures.

SOURCES:

Brucker, N. (2020, January 6) Who is on TikTok and how can brands reach them? Forbes. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2020/01/06/who-is-on-tiktok-and-how-can-brands-reach-them/#1a2fe28343be.

Herrman, J. (2019, March 10) How TikTok is rewriting the world. New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/style/what-is-tik-tok.html.

Perez, S. (2020, June 4) Kids now spend nearly as much time watching TikTok as YouTube in the US, UK and Spain. Tech Crunch. Retrieved from https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/04/kids-now-spend-nearly-as-much-time-watching-tiktok-as-youtube-in-u-s-u-k-and-spain/.

Yeh, O. (2019, February 26). TikTok surpasses one billion installs on the App Store and Google Play. Sensor Tower. Retrieved from https://sensortower.com/blog/tiktok-downloads-one-billion.

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Danny and Criticism: An Essay/Rant?

Since I’m on desktop I can finally put this under a read more thank god and also jesus

it’s very long…and I didn’t edit it so some of it might not make any sense because I type too fast for my thoughts sometimes

I’ve been thinking about Danny, big surprise, and the way he executes criticism. Since I started watching Eddy, I’ve noticed that Danny rarely has an overt/expose criticism when he is talking about other creators, unlike Eddy and Drew.

Eddy and Drew usually criticize creators that are actively doing something ethically wrong. Their content is more essay-like and research-based than Danny’s; So, Eddy and Drew’s commentary is more satirical while Danny’s is more purely comedic.

The thing is, Danny has been overtly critical in past videos and, for a while, it bothered me that he has backed away from it. It still does kind of bother me, to be honest, because he’s an intelligent dude who has some hot takes on important topics. I think now more than ever he could execute harsher criticism and keep it entertaining; “Bag Tho” is an excellent example of that and so was his criticism on the pedophile theory for Yummy on his second channel.

But it doesn’t bother me as much as it used to because I realized something the last time I was focusing on this issue; I’ve learned more from Danny about criticism and comedy than I have from Eddy and Drew. He has influenced the way I approach a text in more ways than any other comedian has (except maybe Bo Burnham…they’re tied). This doesn’t mean that Eddy and Drew don’t have influence over my critical thinking skills, but, for me, their content is the result of practiced critique; I don’t learn how to approach a text, but I learn about the text; it’s like discussing a subject with my peers instead of learning it from a professor; in college, both of those practices helped me learn and exercise my critical thinking so, in no way do I think this makes any of them superior to the others.

Danny’s main goal is to make people laugh; he’s said it in his main videos; he’s said it on podcasts; and he’s said it on his second channel, too. In his interview with Anthony Padilla he said that he treats his videos like stand-up. (I’d fucking love to see his live stand up. I’d give every cent in my savings account to see that.) Danny is a comedian, first and foremost, and YouTube is his platform. You could tell from his vine career just how hard he was trying to pursue comedy as a career, to be noticed as a comedian. He comes by it honestly and has said some of his vines weren’t funny and were just attempts at going viral. The dude is worried about his brand to a fault, imo, but he’s got talent and confidence to back it up. So, of course his content is going to reflect that more than Eddy’s or Drew’s.

Eddy and Drew are also comedians who want to make people laugh but Eddy has said recently on the Gus & Eddy podcast that he wants his commentary to be about people who are actually doing something wrong instead of clowning on cringe content like Danny does. (Yes, he specifically listed Danny as an example. At first I was on the defense and felt like Eddy was kinda shaming Danny for not pursuing a more “noble” style of commentary. But, after calming down and listening to the episode again, I realized he was just saying that their content does different things which I totally agree with…still don’t agree that Danny “just clowns” on people but more on that later.) Eddy still wants his content to be funny, and still has commentary videos that don’t have an overt critical agenda, but you can tell that satirical comedy is a main motivator for him.

I feel like Drew is right in between Danny and Eddy on the criticism scale. He has his more comedic videos and he has his more serious ones. But, in my opinion, his serious videos are just a little bit better. It’s honestly hard to tell what the driving motivation behind his commentary is because he hasn’t fully spoken up about it, as far as I know, but I would say he leans more toward satirical comedy.

Since I started studying comedy in college I’ve had a sort of thesis building in my head: humor is a comfortable way to approach uncomfortable things; it’s a way to battle cognitive dissonance. Laughing at something wrong is an effective way to sneakily change someone’s mind; ridicule and shame are powerful tools; that’s why I love satire. (I will also add since humor is amoral it can also be used negatively, but that does not mean we should jump to the conclusion that all ridicule/satire is naturally wrong.)

So what does that have to do with Danny’s style of commentary? Sure, he’s a comedian trying to make people laugh and sure he avoids addressing more serious topics, but he does provide important criticism even if it’s not in the same area as Drew or Eddy. In that interview with Anthony Padilla, Danny said he wants to prove that content on YouTube can be as good as traditional media. His goal isn’t to expose people for doing bad things, though he is still doing that but not as critically as the other two, but to show his audience how to be critical of popular media; a main criticism in his videos overall is about low-effort and formulaic content because that’s something he very clearly cares about. His goal isn’t to call out people for being toxic; it’s to call out their content for not being as good or well-though-out as it could be. The problem with low-effort content, especially from bigger creators, is that it’s there to make money and nothing else; it’s content that has no substance; it’s manipulative. Even content that has a high-production value needs to have substance, creativity, and originality.

Danny pointed out in his “how i make a video” video that he doesn’t want to make fun people who are just inexperienced; he wants to make fun of people who know exactly what they’re doing and still don’t put in the effort to make their content good.

Another one of his critiques, usually with Badads, is about dishonesty; his badads videos are mostly goofy but they all have the same criticism about their manipulative nature. In fact, his whole experiment with badads was about pointing out the manipulative tactics and valuing honesty (even if his honest ad didn’t get a higher CTR.)

I think his critiques are capable of teaching people to be more critical of the media they consume without making them feel like they’re wrong for enjoying it.

Another thing I think Danny approaches well is misogyny. (Again, his badads videos are prime examples because so many ads sexualize women.) But the way he does it IS IMPORTANT and, in my opinion, a better method than other commentary channels. Returning to my theory about ridicule being an effective tool to sneakily change someone’s perspective, Danny isn’t overt about his criticisms toward misogyny. He doesn’t say shit like “sexism is bad and women are great and I worship women and blah blah blah” but he does ridicule misogyny often. His methods aren’t preachy or forceful but he does normalize the ridicule and shaming of misogynistic behavior. By laughing at the behavior and treating it like it’s outlandish and ridiculous he normalizes respect for women. This is why you will never see me saying some shit like “Danny drinks his respect women juice ohmygod he’s my heeerrrooo” because it’s not heroic behavior and he doesn’t fucking treat it that way. If we over-worship this stuff we set the bar hella low. It should not be seen as the highest possible standard for men; it should be seen as the normal standard for men. I definitely praise him for this approach, but not for just…acting like a dude should act.

All that being said

Do I think his general audience walks away from his content with these criticisms in mind? From my experience in the fandom, and from just scrolling through the comments in his videos, I don’t think it effects everyone like it effects me. This is mostly fine because I don’t think his full intent is to get people to learn how to think critically about the content they consume; I firmly believe him when he says he mostly wants to make people laugh. But I’m hopeful that they are more critical of things even if they aren’t conscious of it.

The biggest I problem I have with Danny is that he avoids confrontation with his fans. As I said before, he’s a little too worried about his brand. I don’t think he’s as bad about it as some of his contemporaries, who have co-dependent relationships with their fans (which I distrust because I find that manipulative and dishonest); I hate when he feels like he has to do damage control with his stans on twitter (the Reddit AMA thing) but I don’t think he panders either.

BUT what bothers me The Most is that he doesn’t make the point to call out fans who harass the creators he covers. He’s done it once or twice but I feel like all commentary YouTubers should make an effort to specify the difference between comedy/commentary/criticism and bullying/harassment. Most people swarm to commentary content because they want the drama, because they love to hate and, sadly, they think that harassment is justified even if a creator isn’t doing something horribly wrong. Hell, even if they’re doing something horribly wrong, they’re still getting undeserved attention and harassment. doesn’t. communicate. criticism.

This is a reason why I’d wish he’d be more overt with this criticism because it doesn’t always translate…especially for his younger fans.

What’s the point of all this? I guess I just wanted to get my inner-monologue about this out in the fresh air but I also wanted to point out that Danny’s content is still critical and it’s been effectively critical for me. He makes me appreciate comedy and criticism more but I still wish he’d be more overt about some things.

#moe's soap box #all #text #he has a young face

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starblindspellbreaker · 4 years

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The End, The Beginning

Ten Thousand Years ago, in the eternal city of Zin-Azshari....

Rumors spread like a viral disease: The Well of Eternity was unstable. Some chose to evacuate, others chose to question their beloved queen... But most had faith that all would be resolved presently. Not even dragons seen overhead could have shaken the proud Highborne's trust in their queen, not even the gossip telling of demons and slaughtered Lowborne could. It was only a matter of of time before they all were told, and things would resume presently. That was until a massive tremor shook the city to it's core, and another, and a third. Now was the time to panic.. for shortly after the offshore quakes were felt... It was seen. Elves of ever Creed were running in an adrenaline fueled fear, out of the city. Some made portals, others were too stunned to.. others still held their fates in the hands of the Queen. One such observer of said wave was a young thing, no more than eighty cycles of age. She stood outside her family home, a small cottage decorated with vines and flowers cultivated by the best Lowborne. Her eyes were trembling, staring at the deep blue wave towering over the city and moving closer. Fear and dread overtook her, it was unlike anything she had ever seen..!

The tremors rocked the city, once, twice, and that third final time, like the early morning chimes of a distant clock tower. Berisra cast her gaze skyward, watching as some of the greater pillars threatened to fall. An imposing crack spidered across the pristine surface high above and Berisra stood fast, eyes narrowing as she waited, watching. She heard the screams swelling in the distance, nearer the market. Her duty pulled her from the potential collapse, but she only made it around the corner. Her feet froze, anchored to the cobblestone. Berisra had never seen such devastation. And the pure, unrivaled power of her Queen. She felt a ball in her throat as she watched her Queen hold the barrier, the fearful cries of the people echoing off the stones. Berisra looked behind her in the direction of home. And then to her Queen. Berisra dropped her spear as her feet began to carry her. My daughter... She thought, "My baby..." She found herself panting aloud as she tore at the buckles of her pauldrons. Tears were welling in her eyes as she raced home, fueled by a fear she had never tasted before. She needed to get to her daughter. "Lysoria!" She began to scream as she grew close. The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end, as though drawn in the direction of the apocalyptic wave. "Lysoria!"

The collapse of the city was unavoidable, as it literally sank around the chaos of the Well. If they could see above them, they could see large chunks, Miles and miles upon Miles across being thrusted to the far flung corners of the world.. and here on the center was sinking. The wave itself, caused by a sudden decrease in elevation. It moved dreadfully, ominously slow, yet much too quick to see their city destroyed. Shockingly of all, the din of the screams weren't growing louder.. they were enclosing, growing more and more quiet. It was only a matter of of time.. Lysoria could not take her eyes from the wave, mere moments from hitting, until her ears twitched. Her legs stepped backwards slowly, and she spun around to see her mother. She ran as fast as her legs would take her, abandoning the home, abandoning her journals, her training glaives, her entire life to go to her mother as if her life depended on it. The sea winds carried her feet faster than she would normally have gone, resulting in her slamming into her mother, having not stopped running, or slowed down. "Minn'da!" She cried as loud as she could. "I'm.. I'm scared". It was obvious, but it was the only words that poured forth as she buried her head into her mother, holding on tightly, hands almost digging into her skin.

The force of the two colliding forced a grunt from Berisra, but she held fast to her daughter, holding a hand to the back of her head to keep her from looking. Berisra knew there was no running. Not unless their Queen could teleport an entire city on her own. "It is okay," It wasn't, "I am here with you. Always." She promised, as she had done many times over the years. There was none more precious to her than Lysoria. And she would not leave, no matter where the waves would bring them. She squeezed Lysoria, not daring to pull away and reveal that tears streamed freely down her face. She muttered a blessing, a prayer, something akin to a plea, begging Elune for Her guidance. And in the short time that the two had united, the wave rose up to meet them.

#lysoria #backstory #credit to grimwulf #roleplay #transcribed #wow #sirens

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you-did-well-moon · 5 years

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Monsta X 8th member Profile

Full name: Ceol Arslyn

Stage Name: Sino ( Abbreviation for Strength/sadness is not over) Basically means that although hardships are not over neither is her strength to overcome them.

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Hazel

Height: 5'8

Age: 24

Birthday: May 2nd 1995

Zodiac sign: Taurus

Position: Lead vocalist, Lead dancer, Producer

Nationality: Korean/Chinese

Languages: Chinese, Korean, English

Face claim: Guli Nazha

Voice claim: Zara Larsson

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Family

Mother: Ceol Sokagi. Age 39. (Deceased)

Father: Ceol Minbuso. Age 56. (incarcerated in China. Currently no contact)

Older Brother: Ceol Goyajin. Age 15. (Deceased)

Younger brother: Ceol Zenhyun. Age 19. (Location currently unknown)

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Fun Facts

-Arslyn is an orphan. She hasn’t had contact with her father in over ten years. She’s legal now, and she’s decided she doesn’t need him.

-Has scars on the palm of her hands

-She doesn’t like the dark, so the boys bought a peach colored lava lamp for her room.

-She has multiple ear piercings, and a tattoo of four birds on her chest near her heart.

-Her hands shake when she’s nervous.

-She usually sleeps on her stomach. She can also fall asleep anywhere if she’s tired enough.

-Really likes windy weather. Likes going on car rides, and rolling down the window really late at night.

-Monbebe fangirl/fanboy when she wears low cut shirts because they can see the mole at the top of her chest.

-Has migraines once or twice a month

-Can be bribed with ice cream, cookies, or chocolate covered almonds/pretzels

-wants a ferret, Guinea pig, or bird

-stomps away from Shownu everytime he says no

-She loves iced coffee.

-Has probably thrown a book at each member atleast once

-Has a strong sense of right and wrong, and is very connected to her beliefs.

-Has a very good balance with her childish side and her mature side

-She is usually very calm and collected but if pushed she will push back.

-She does VLives with the fans atleast once a week where they ask her questions, and she talks to them like they’re friends. Sometimes she talks about her opinion on many topics and various clips of hers have gone viral.

-People will attack her for that, but #ArslynProtectionSquad has gone trending many times.

-She really likes the peachy/rosy color.

-She also has a weird obsession with candles.

-Really likes piggy back rides

-Has a strange emotional connection to anything coconut

-A frequent guest on the variety show Knowing Brother (gets targeted by Heechul and Hodong a lot)

-Claims she only has a soft spot for Shownu and Wonho but really has a soft spot for all the boys (even people outside the group)

-Has actually acted in a few things which lead her to become best friends with Exo D.O

-Looks up to American musical artist Brendon Urie

-Actually friends with many idols and Korean celebrities

-Likes oversized darker colored clothes

-Usually has her hair at shoulder length but if she feels like growing it out she will. (hair is naturally wavy)

-was a short-time mentor for Stray kids. Probably the only ones who can convince her to do anything.

-She claims the only reason she talks to Baekhyun is for his dog (She’s always liked Corgis)

-Has appeared on many variety shows

-Probably wearing Converse

-Has a very warm large heart

-Really likes Greek mythology and fairy tales

-If she sees any of the boys feeling down she’s the type of person that will not leave their side. She’ll keep staring at them until they finally break, and if they don’t she’ll see if there’s anything she can do to make them happy again.

-Has danced and sung since she was little

-One day while hanging out with Jooheon in the studio when they were trainees she suggested something. It actually turned out to be a good suggestion, and from then on Jooheon tried his best to teach her.

-Was trainees with the boys for a long time

-She’ll go out to the store and see flowers she likes and take them to the dorms. She will leave them where ever she feels like.

-Will take request from fans about what songs they want her to cover.

-Once Changkyun showed her a video full of vines, and sometimes she’ll quote them out of nowhere

-Is very aware of the fandom’s memes

-Eats cereal out of the box

-Will go to hospitals and sing for the patients

-Overall has a clear mind with a strong heart.

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A/N: I got a lot of positive feedback so I figured why not just keep updating. There are reasons for some of the things on this list. If you have any questions about her feel free to ask!! I’m sorry it took me so long but I had to find a face claim that I felt was right. Anyways the next post will probably be about her relationship with the rest of the guys. Don’t be afraid to talk to me!!~Moon

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watchmegetobsessed · 5 years

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Crush // Shawn Mendes mini-series part 3

hope you are all well, here is part 3, enjoy! let me know what you think!

part 1 - part 2

masterlist

I’m nervous. I haven’t felt like this for a long time. It’s the good kind of nervous, where my stomach is doing flips and I find myself smiling for no reason. Okay, this is not true, I have a reason. I’m actually very excited to have this nostalgia afternoon with Shawn.

“Oh, you have plans for today?” Dad asks when I walk downstairs and I’m not wearing my usual sweats. I chose to wear a pair of light washed ripped jeans that I intend to pair with my black boots. I have a white knitted turtleneck on and I’ll put on my black camel coat.

I join him and Mom in the living room as I still have about ten minutes before Shawn gets here.

“Yeah, I’m taking a walk with Shawn, we are going back to our school.”

“How nostalgic! Is it a date?” Mom grins at me suspiciously.

“It is not,” I roll my eyes. I go back to the hallway and grab my boots. Walking to the armchair I plop down and start putting them on.

“And does he think the same?” she asks nosily. I look up at her with an arched eyebrow.

“Stop playing Cupid, Mom.”

I stand up with a moan as I straighten up. As I’m reaching for my coat the doorbell rings. I see Mom getting up from the couch from the corner of my eye and I immediately turn to her.

“Stay where you are, Mother,” I warn her, making Dad just laugh and shake his head at us.

“Evelyn, let her be. She is an adult,” he says rubbing her hand.

“Yeah, listen to Dad,” I chuckle before opening the door and revealing Shawn.

He looks better than what I was expecting. He is wearing a plushy, fluffy jacket with a black hoodie under it and a pair of black skinny jeans with boots. His hair is a bit messy and his rosy cheeks makes him look adorable.

“Hey,” he smiles at me pulling his hands out of his pockets. “Are you ready?” he asks.

“Yeah, let’s go,” I say throwing my coat on and stepping out I close the door behind me.

The streets are empty, and if someone is around they don’t really care about us. As we head to the school I think about when was the last time he could walk down a street like this. I really have no idea what his life is like as a pop sensation.

“Is it hard?” I ask out of the blue.

“What?” he chuckles.

“Doing what you do. Being a famous singer. I can’t even imagine what it must be like, I’m not interested in this culture that much, so I have some very extravagant ideas about it,” I admit peeking at him.

“It’s… challenging. But I like it.” A small smile appears on his lips before he continues. “It’s very hard, sometimes I feel like I don’t have privacy at all, sometimes I feel like I’m on the top of the world. I’m just trying to go day by day so I don’t lose control.”

“Do you sometimes wish you never went viral on Vine?”

He takes a couple of moments to think before he shakes his head.

“All together, no. Sometimes, when I’m feeling very down I do, but I know how incredible this journey is and that others are dreaming of it for a lifetime, while I have everything. It’s just hard to remember where you came from and to keep yourself grounded. I don’t want to end up like a burnt out douche.”

“You’ve been doing great so far,” I smile at him dumping my shoulder against his arm gently.

“I guess,” he chuckles.

My sixteen year-old self would look at me with the most confused frown if I told her this day I would be walking around with Shawn Mendes, talking about anything and everything. I never thought this time would ever come, but now that it came, I’m happy. He is great company, has amazing stories but also an excellent listener. I genuinely feel like he is interested in what I’m saying and even though my stories are nowhere near as crazy as his, he still makes it feel like they are.

“Wow, I suddenly feel extremely old,” he laughs when we finally reach the school. The parking lot is empty, the windows are dark, the building is silently waiting for the students to return after the holidays.

“Right? I once came back because I needed to get a paper signed and everyone was so… young.”

“High schoolers are so different now. I mean, we were so different from them.”

We walk up the stairs and stop at the entrance, peeking inside the window, but all we see is the empty hallway.

“I personally was a weird teenager,” I mumble under my breath.

“It’s a weird phase for everyone. I mean, I wore diamond earrings, how embarrassing!”

“Oh I remember those,” I chuckle thinking back at that time. Those earrings looked so off, but he wore them proudly.

“Horrible choice,” he scoffs.

“Wild,” I comment jokingly, he just rolls his eyes. “Do you remember how Dylan always stood right there at the stairs and just… judged everyone who walked past?” I ask pointing inside, towards the staircase.

“I hated standing there with him, but I wanted to do what he was doing.”

“It was such a douche thing. I regret talking shit about people I didn’t even know,” I admit sighing. I didn’t like it back then either, but I thought I didn’t have a choice. I did. I should have just lest Dylan.

“Yeah.”

We take a walk in the parking lot and soon leave the school to just walk around aimlessly. In the meanwhile, Shawn tells me about his first ever shows. It’s crazy to hear what he was doing when I was stuck here.

“No wonder why you stopped coming back to school to us, your life was so much more exciting!”

“I… I wanted to come back,” he admits making my eyebrows raise.

“But?”

“”But… It was… Never mind,” he shakes his head as if he is trying to get rid of a thought, but now I’m too interested.

“Tell me!” I plead tugging on his arm. A hesitant sigh leaves his lips.

“I stopped coming back because… I didn’t want to see you and Dylan. I used my career as an excuse.”

“Did you really hate me that much?” I sigh pouting.

“No, it’s the opposite.”

I stop in the middle of the pavement and for a moment I think I heard him wrong.

“What do you mean opposite?”

He sighs running his fingers through his hair anxiously. I can’t tell if his face is red from the cold or from blushing.

“I kinda had a crush on you, Charlie. I know, I was very mean and rude, but you were my best friend’s girlfriend and I couldn’t like you. I wasn’t supposed to. So I thought I would make you hate me and then it would just go away.”

“Oh my God,” I whisper in disbelief. Mom was right. “Why… Why didn’t you tell me?”

“How would I tell my best friend’s girlfriend that I have a crush on her?” he chuckles and now that he said it, it makes sense.

“But… You could have just… I don’t know…” I stutter as I put the picture together.

All those mean comments, rude jokes, the way how he acted when I was around, it was all because he was trying to push me away from him so he didn’t have to worry about his feelings.

“It was stupid, but fifteen year-old me thought this is the only way. I’m sorry.”

“Now it all make sense now,” I chuckle shaking my head. “Is it still how you deal with crushes?”

“No, I’m way better now,” he laughs looking up at the sky.

“Well… I’m sorry I tried so hard to be friends with you, I didn’t know I was hurting you. I just really wanted to be friends with Dylan’s friends.”

“It’s fine. I didn’t know.”

Shawn’s confession about his past feelings breaks the constant awkwardness that has been lingering around us. All pieces are in place and with this new information I can finally have peace. He didn’t hate me, after all. I guess this was what bothered me the most, I hated the thought that someone disliked me that much and tried my best to change it.

We reach a playground that was a popular spot for afternoon hangouts. We came here often, bought fast food and really just did nothing in particular before it was time to go home.

“I had my first kiss here,” I sigh sitting down to the end of the red slide as Shawn is kicking the dust next to me.

“Really? Was it Dylan?”

“Unfortunately, yes,” I roll my eyes. “It wasn’t even romantic, not like in a movies.”

“I don’t think anyone ever got a romantic first kiss, they are always so awkward.”

“True. Who was yours?”

I see a grimace on his face before he stops moving around in front of me, hiding his hands in his pockets. He places his weight on one of his legs as he stares down at me.

“It was Lauren.”

“Oh shit, I forgot about her!” I gasp laughing.

Shawn and Lauren dated for a while, they even went to prom together. I didn’t see much of him in those days, he was too occupied with Lauren.

“Yeah. I guess it’s not surprising to say that I only dated her so I didn’t think about you.”

“Did it work?”

“Um, for a while. But I guess it was because I didn’t really see you at that time.” He shrugs shaking his head to get a lock of hair out of his face. “But anyway, she was my first kiss. We were on a date and I was very nervous, but not because of her, but because I knew I had to kiss her. I was afraid that I would suck at it and maybe she would start laughing at me, which is just… ridiculous.”

“That’s cute!” I sigh dreamily. Standing up I climb up on the slide so now I’m looking down at him. “I wish kissing was all I had to worry about these days.”

“Would be easier, yeah.”

I start roaming around on the top of the slide, looking around I see farther from here, the Sun is about to disappear on the horizon, painting the sky a gentle pink at the bottom. The city is too far to outshine the stars that are coming out to shine through the night. I always liked living here, it was calm enough, but we also had everything in a reachable distance.

I turn away from the sky and see that Shawn has his phone in his hands, the camera is pointing at me and I immediately turn away.

“No, it got blurry!” he pouts at me.

“Why did you take a photo of me?” I ask going down on the slide.

“Because…” he turns the phone to me and shows me the photo.

You can’t really see me on the photo, just my silhouette, my side profile is pretty good. Behind me the pink sky is turning into dark blue with a few shiny stars, and honestly, this looks like a cool Tumbr photo people would definitely reblog.

“Can I post it? I won’t tag you, don’t worry,” he asks.

“Yeah, I like it,” I smile at him and watch him open the photo on his Instagram and caption in.

shawnmendes: Nostalgia walks are pretty awesome.

“Won’t you get in trouble for posting it?” I ask as he uploads it and closes the app immediately, not even bothering to look at the likes and comments.

“Trouble? Why would I get into trouble?” he chuckles.

“I don’t know, isn’t everything you post perfectly planned?”

“You are so delusional about my life,” he sighs grinning at me. “I can post what I want.”

“Sorry, I told you I know nothing about famous people’s life!” I say with an innocent look.

It’s almost seven when we head home. I’m actually disappointed we have to end this evening soon, I enjoyed his company and I’m already thinking of an excuse to see him again, but I have nothing rational in mind.

“Thanks for the walk, I loved it.”

We stop at our house and I turn to him before going inside.

“I liked it too.”

I smile up at him and I catch myself thinking about an excuse to see him again. I don’t even know how long he is staying in the city, if he is leaving soon or celebrating the new year here.

“Um, do you have any plans for New Year’s Eve?” he asks nervously scratching the back of his neck.

“Not really.”

“I’m having a little get together at my place, I thought you might want to come, or something. I’m inviting some old friends too, so you might see some familiar faces.”

“Your place?” I ask furrowing my eyebrows.

“Oh yeah. I have an apartment in the city. I only stay at my parents’ during Christmas, so I’m going back there tonight.”

“Oh, got it. Well, I would love to go, thanks,” I say trying not to sound too excited. He doesn’t have to know how happy I am I get to see him again.

“Great! I’ll… text you about the details later.”

“Okay, thanks,” I smile at him.

Saying his goodbye he leans closer and pulls me into a short half hug that I return gladly.

Arriving home I immediately go up to my room and call Maddi.

“Spill the tea, bitch,” she snorts into the phone making me laugh. “How was your little nostalgia date with the hot popstar?”

“It wasn’t a date,” I roll my eyes, but the smile on my face just wouldn’t go away.

“Yeah, whatever. So?”

“It was… amazing, Maddi. Really. He is so smart and nice and funny, I think… Maddi I think I’m falling for him.”

“I knew it!” She screams into the phone. “I knew you would fall for him! Good for you, now you gotta jump him the next time you see him.”

“Slow down,” I chuckle. “I’m spending New Year’s Eve at his place though.”

“Wow, okay a kiss at midnight, I stan this romantic shit.”

“Who said it will be any romantic?”

“Girl, I haven’t seen the two of you in the same room yet, but I’m pretty sure he is still into you.”

I open my mouth to say something, but then I start thinking. Talking about his past crush on me he said it kinda went away when we weren’t seeing each other. Does this mean he is totally over me now that we haven’t met for years?

“Um, I think he is over me,” I mumble under my breaths.

“That’s nonsense, but elaborate.”

A sad sigh slips through my lips as I run my hand through my hair.

“We talked about his crush on me, and he made sure it faded once we didn’t see each other for a longer time. Now, I think we can consider these past about three years a long time. No crush lasts that long.”

“Who is talking about crushes? Charlie, it’s not highschool anymore. It’s not about childish crushes, it’s about finding a partner, a guy you love and who loves you back. Don’t mistaken crush to love.”

“Then it’s even worse, no way he is in love with me.” “Not now, maybe, but he must be falling for you.”

I don’t believe her. I don’t want to be the naïve little girl who falls for the star just because he had some nice words to me. I know, my history with Shawn is longer, we go way back, but I won’t make myself believe he could be into me and then end up broken hearted when he leaves town and never contacts me again.

“I won’t fall this easily, Maddi. Oh shit, what if he’ll start flirting with a girl at the party and I’ll end up looking like a fool?”

“Okay, listen. I’m going back to Toronto the day before New Year’s Eve. If you want, I can go with you so you feel less awkward if something bad happens.”

“That would be amazing,” I exhale relieved. “Then ask him if I can come along and don’t stress about the rest, okay? I don’t want to find you like a total wreck when I return.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll be fine,” I chuckle shortly.

#shawn #mendes #shawn mendes #shawn mendes fanfic #shawn mendes fanfiction #shawn mendes fic #shawn mendes fanfics #shawn mendes fanfictions #shawn mendes imagines #Shawn Mendes Imagine #mendes army

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