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jungk0oksthighs · 2 years

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Jungkook drabble – “I couldn’t live without you.”

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There’s nothing more Jungkook hates than when people ask him why you and he divorced two years ago, because truthfully he doesn’t know what to say. Your relationship was perfect, or at least it would’ve been if it wasn’t for the bickering and disagreements about how your son should be raised. Jungkook is a free spirit, the ‘fun’ parent if you will, and so you’ve always appeared to be the ‘less fun’ parent – the one that scolds and disciplines your son when he misbehaves.

Jungkook lost count of how many times he undermined you and let your son Seol get away with pretty much anything, it was never intentional of course but now he’s no longer in the situation even he can see just how much of an asshole he was to you. But despite how he acted in the past, not a single day goes by where Jungkook doesn’t regret letting you go.

A twelve year old moody Seol appears in the hallway of Jungkook’s modest apartment, holding his overnight bag. “Can I stay here tonight?”

“You can stay here any time,” Kook nods with a reassuring smile, turning back to the television, “Does mom know you’re here?”

“No.”

“Don’t you think you should tell her? I’m sure she’s already worried about you.”

Seol is just like his father, and Jungkook knows he’s the one to blame for that. He lives in the moment with little care for other’s opinion or feelings, he can be selfish and bratty and downright spoiled at the best of times. Just like him.

Guilt floods your ex-husband’s entire being, if only he’d listened to you for all those years. If only he tried harder, poured more of himself into being a good husband and father instead of simply ‘going with the flow’ and ‘dealing with it later’. Because as you both learned, later never came – He never disciplined Seol, he barely ever backed your corner and accused you of being ‘too harsh with him’ when you tried to. When in reality you were right all along. Your son has an attitude sometimes, one so infuriating that it arguably contributed to the divorce of his parents.

“Seol, come here.” Jungkook’s voice is stern, but it doesn’t spark much of a reaction from his son.

The near-teenager audibly tuts, “Why?”

“Because I’m your father and I asked you to come here, sit with me for a minute.” Thankfully Seol doesn’t put up a fight and makes his way over, slumping down on the armchair next to the older man. “What’s going on? Why are you here and why haven’t you told your mom where you are?”

“She took my laptop off me.”

“And?” Jungkook’s eyes are wide with genuine horror, so this is the biggest problem of today’s youth?

“She caught me on my game at 3AM last night and went psycho—”

“Don’t talk about your mother like that.” Your ex-husband bites, he still respects you and everything you do for Seol far too much to ever allow someone to speak about you that way, never mind your own son, “And you shouldn’t be gaming at 3AM on a school night anyway.”

Seol groans, putting his feet up on the coffee table, “You sound just like her…”

“Put your feet down,” Kook huffs with growing agitation, “And put your coat back back on I’m taking you home.”

“What?! No all my friends are streaming tonight and mom definitely won’t give me my laptop back and the wifi here is—”

“I don’t want to hear it Seol, your mother’s word is final you know how it is. I’m with her on this one you shouldn’t be online at that ridiculous hour, plus you need to apologise to her for running off.”

“Why? You’ve never apologised to her for running off.”

Seol’s words cut him like a knife straight to his heart. Not only is that simply not true, giving that you were the one who filed for divorce, but Jungkook has apologised. Countless times. Repeatedly embarrassing himself when he drunk texts you on the weekends, confessing his love for you that never died.

“Dad…” Seol takes in his father’s silence and tight jaw, immediately regretting his words. He softens, “I didn’t mean that, I’m sorry…”

“Go wait in the car.”

When your ex-husband and son arrive at your doorstep a sea of relief washes over you, Seol didn’t come home after school which sparked your maternal panic. Thank god he’s okay. Jungkook’s hair is longer than the last time you saw him, he offers you an apologetic smile when he steps over the threshold of what used to be your shared home together, closely followed by your son.

“Where have you been?” You’re still worried, only because Seol looks uncomfortable under his father’s unusually stern gaze.

Jungkook clears his throat, nervously scratching the back of his head, “He came to my place after school, we had a chat in the car and Seol has something he needs to say to you. Isn’t that right son?”

“I’m sorry mom.” Seol nods, his voice quiet when he snakes his arms round your middle for a touching embrace, “About last night.”

“It’s okay Seol… But don’t do that to me again I was so worried about you, especially when you didn’t answer your phone.” You half scold, half relax when your hands find purchase on your son’s back. He’s okay. “Have you eaten? I haven’t started dinner yet because I was too busy stressing.”

“Can we order pizza?” He looks up at your expectantly with a cute bunny-like grin that’s the spitting image of his father’s.

You chuckle, ruffling his hair, “Don’t push your luck kid. Thanks for bringing him home Kook, I was going crazy.”

“Anytime.” Jungkook nods, his hooded eyes recalling all the features of your face, “Well I’d better get going, got a ready meal for one with my name on it back home.” He snorts, he’s never been very good at defusing tension.

“Stay for dinner?” You smile, a genuine smile, “Really it’s the least I can do after you brought him all the way back here. Besides I’m not gonna let you go home to a microwave meal when we’re ordering pizza.”

“We are?!” Seol squeezes you tighter.

“But you’re not getting your laptop back just yet.” You’re laughing, gazing at the father of your child remembering just how handsome he really is, even after all these years he’s still the most gorgeous man you’ve ever known, “Please?”

“Ah… How can I say no to that?” Kook sighs lovingly, his chest tightening with memories of your smiles and laughter together. He misses you so much. Maybe tonight has shown you that he is on your side after all. “I’ll go pick it up, where are we ordering from?”

“Don’t worry we’ll get it for delivery,” You hum, telling Seol to take his shoes off and go get changed, “BBQ chicken right?” You grimace, he always managed to get BBQ sauce everywhere when he ate pizza… Maybe this isn’t a good idea after all.

“You remember?” Jungkook slips off his shoes with a beaming grin, already feeling more at home than he should be.

“Of course I remember,” You chuckle, watching your twelve year old practically trip over himself when he runs up the stairs, “There was a time I couldn’t live without you, I’m bound to remember these things.”

Kook smiles, watching the way you throw your hair over your shoulder when you scroll the food app on your phone. You’re so beautiful, and one way or another, even if it’s the last thing he does – he’s going to win you back.

AN: i know this is probably not what u had in mind but once i started typing i couldnt stop. i hope this is okay, thank u for requesting :)

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lafemmemacabre · 6 months

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Puppy updates:

She's officially gone through her FIFTH growth sprout, if not the sixth. Her legs are insanely long, her torso is longer too, and so is her snout. No more flat puppy face.

She lost her puppy breath.

She's shedding her fluffy and stringy puppy fur for much silkier fur that sits tightly against her body.

She's VERY SLOWLY calming down.

She's acting less anxious, especially regarding my butch leaving for work some days of the week.

She refuses to understand what "NO" means, but understands perfectly well what "¿Abajo?" (Down?) means, which is due to her being secretly extremely displeased with any loneliness and in even more extreme need of attention, and "¿Abajo?" is what I say to her when she misbehaves while she's in bed and she knows it means if she doesn't stop what she's doing I'm putting her back on the floor and she can't climb onto our bed on her own.

She's DESTROYED my black cat slippers. They were new. They look like I've been wearing them non-stop for two years. No, I don't even leave them on the floor, she just bites them while I'm wearing them with every bit of wrath that her tiny body can contain. I've also never seen her hold as much peace as she did the one and only time she had me so exhausted that I just let her have one of my slippers and she took it to her bed to tear the bitch apart.

I have never used these many paper towels in my life, and all within less than a month. A 100m roll doesn't last us over 3 days. I feel bad for the environment, like, for once I'm back to feeling I'm contributing to the problem as much as big corps.

She's broken not one but TWO wifi cables that connect the router to our power source, and she broke the optical fiber cable from the internet source itself as well. :) All of that has cost us a lot of money. :)

She's SUCH a massive coward. Every time she hears another dog in the floor's hallway she whines. The other day we took her with us when we ran a short errand so we wouldn't leave her alone since she has major separation anxiety and oh my God. She was trembling and literally pissing herself. WE WERE CARRYING HER PRINCESS STYLE THE WHOLE TIME, MIND YOU.

She's so smart yet so stupid at the same time.

She's eaten so much plastic, cardboard and paper of various kinds, but mostly toilet paper. No, it's not that we just let her roam freely without us paying her much attention. SHE'S JUST SO FAST AND RELENTLESS.

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oneweekoneband · 3 years

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charming, if a little gauche: the taylor swift story

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“the last great american dynasty” is a song that no other pop star could make or, more to the point, would want to make, and as the third track on folklore it marked the spot in my very first listen—sweaty and embarrassingly strung out sitting in the cab of a pickup at the third place where we’d tried to find wifi—at which I let myself vault over the ledge, out of my cautious remove, and into real excitement for what this album might hold.

This is a song that Taylor Swift wrote about Rebekah Harkness, the ballet-obsessed socialite who married into the Standard Oil family (”the wedding was charming, if a little gauche” Taylor sings, and I scream.) then lived, fifty years ago, in the Rhode Island beach house Swift now owns. It is—and on this matter there can be no argument—the horniest song on the album. Taylor is absolutely jazzed out of her WASPy little gourd over this woman, this house, this grand, cyclical American story she imagines herself as part of. Does Taylor actually want to fuck her house and/or the ghost of the woman who once owned it? Well, that’s not for me to say. But the idea of them very evidently gets her going, and her zeal is infectious. She’s so clearly been bursting to indulge this passion, to memorialize this house, and I’m grateful that fate or timing made it so that she didn’t do it until now, until Aaron Dessner provided her with these specific instrumentals, because the combination is divine.

Taylor Swift in the Disney+ documentary Folklore: The Long Pond Sessions confirming that her psychosexual obsession with Holiday House is longstanding.

“the last great american dynasty” relates in colorful detail the life of Mrs. Harkness, who became a widow at just thirty-nine ("the doctor had told him to settle down / it must have been her fault his heart gave out") then used the remaining years to spend her late husband’s fortune in the most lavish ways possible. Rebekah, Taylor tells us, "Filled the pool with champagne / And swam with the big names / Blew through the money on the boys and the ballet” and, again, her total, perfect thrill with this story, with the fact of living in the house this woman once misbehaved in so egregiously as to be an affront to all her stuffy Rhode Island neighbors, is evident throughout. The song is wonderful, good fun, sounds great, feels insane, and then at the quintessentially excellent bridge Taylor pulls a pivot that should be completely noxious, but is, in practice, anything but. Wryly, she inserts herself into the song at the final stretch. “Fifty years is a long time / Holiday House sat quietly on that beach / Free of women with madness / Their men and bad habits / And then it was bought by me”. When, “She had a marvelous time ruining everything”, transforms into, “I had a marvelous time ruining everything” I almost clap. I have clapped. It’s all unbearably cute, and in every word there is sonic evidence of Taylor’s pleasure at her own cleverness, but unfortunately it’s so good that there isn’t even really any room left on the private beaches of one’s heart cavity wherein to be annoyed at having been got by a Taylor Swift bridge once again.

Honestly............Taylor is like two decades max from this.

Though Swift was born in Pennsylvania and came of age in Tennessee, the idea that she’d take instinctively to the blue blood fantasy of wealthy New England is no surprise. It’s unclear whether there’s ever been another person alive who radiates such Big Connecticut Energy while, in fact, not being from Connecticut at all. Watch Hill, Rhode Island made perfect sense to me, in fact, for Taylor, because it not only, at $17 mil cash, made her the owner of the most expensive private home in the entire (extremely small) state, but brings with the choice a kind of self-satisfied dignity. Not being one of the more popular East Coast seaside destinations for the rich and famous, like Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket, or even The Hamptons, stylishly insists that you must really be trying to get away. The house is classically lovely and has a big yard with a pool and flag pole that extends high into the blue to look down over the plebeians in the sand.

Being myself a natural born daughter of the New England states, albeit of a considerably less pristine stripe than the denizens of Watch Hill, I have spent countless day trips and weekends at the Misquamicut State Beach just a few miles down the coast in Westerly, the town that Taylor’s village (”village” ...Rich people are so weird) is a part of. Not long after Taylor moved in, I was there at the beach with my mother, and my sister, and my mother’s sisters, and whatever other beer-filled bodies might have been around, a whole hoard, and we were lounging on fanned out bed sheets in front of a restaurant called Paddy’s where you can get a blue rum-based cocktail in a plastic fish bowl. I was nursing a sprained ankle that summer, and still a week or two from being fully well, but I wanted to see Taylor’s house up close, so we walked along the water’s edge until we got close enough to snap a photo for posterity, and to see that Taylor was using around the property custom no trespassing signs which read, “I Knew You Were Trouble When You Walked In”. When someone who is very rich, popular, talented, basically has everything going for them, could buy and sell you and everyone you’ve ever known, etc., makes a stupendously bad joke it is a moral imperative that you tell as many people about that as possible, and so with love in my heart, even, I share this fact now. People had their towels right up against the edge of her sea wall, like a geographic version of the nervous game, but almost as soon I arrived, it was time to limp back to the land of the mortals.

Your hero in 2014 standing in front of the saltbox house on the coast that took Rebekah Harkness’ mind off St. Louis

The pleasures on offer in “the last great american dynasty” are almost too many to name, and all of them so specifically, distinctly, freakishly, bona fide Grade A Taylor Swift, wonderful and grating not separately, one then the other, but both the whole time, and all at once. Taylor saying “gauche”; Taylor telling a story about this dead woman she has a gigantic crush on once dyeing a neighbor’s dog green; Taylor invoking the phrase “middle class divorcee”; Taylor using the word “bitch” affectionately. Even Taylor’s actual vocals, which have been, at times, the notable weak spot in her rigorously streamlined overall package, sound really, genuinely lovely here, and as spirited as ever. The song is laden with Taylor’s remarkable self-righteous belief that by purchasing a multi million dollar home in tony Watch Hill she was somehow “ruining everything”, when she was born and bred for enclaves like that long before she had any number one hits, and actually the only major problem was people thought it was poor form for her to rebuild the huge seawall around the property, even though it was her right, and she was able to do it without issue. To know that Taylor, raised wealthy, imagines herself somehow persecuted as insufficiently chic in Watch Hill for having, by way of immense pop superstardom, multiplied many times over the riches to which she was born, brings me a great and uncomplicated joy. It is a train of thought so wholly unrelatable as to seem plucked wholesale from a work of magical realism, and that happens to be exactly the feeling I want most from a Taylor Swift song. My one and only criticism of “the last great american dynasty” is that, if you’re not right on top of the skip button, it bleeds directly into the Bon Iver duet “exile”, which does kill the vibe, but, well, nobody’s perfect.

The defense rests.

#taylor swift #folklore

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redstainedsocks · 4 years

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Just Kit

Here’s my last piece for @amonthofwhump‘s escape!week, I hit all seven prompts! Yay! This one is “relapse” and it hurts, but recovery whump just be like that sometimes. Set very soon after [this]. Masterlist [Here]

Warnings: box boy universe, pet whump, dehumanizing thoughts, conditioning, trauma recovery whump, past trauma, collars, panic attack, panic response, dis@ssociation, self blame, brief self harm (head banging/wall punching), cigarette mention

Word Count: 2k

Tag List: @haro-whumps, @theycomeinthrees, @whumpthisway, @samanddeaninpanties, @teachunks, @draganies, @pepperonyscience, @whump-it, @castielamigos-whump-side-blog, @untilthepainstarts, @galaxywhump, @kiretto-laorentze, @lonesome--hunter @slaintetowhump @just-a-raccoon-with-wifi

It had been the strangest two days of his life. There had been nothing to do, and he felt rested. He'd watched five movies in two days and the T.V hadn't turned off on a timer, he'd seen the beginning and end, sitting on a soft seat and allowed to fully engage. He'd watched quiz shows and documentaries with Alfie, who liked to learn things and sat with a pen and paper writing down every answer and fact.

There had been chores, cooking and clearing up and laundry, but they had been household affairs filled with chatter and laughter, or at the very least the quiet contemplation of multiple people focusing on their tasks.

There was still a buzzing beneath his skin that told him he should be busy, and useful, and grovelling for the kind treatment he didn’t deserve, but it seemed to make everyone around him uncomfortable when he acted on it, so he was getting better at ignoring it. He was always good at doing what made everyone else happy.

Mateo called him over to sit at the kitchen table on his third afternoon in the house, a large jug of fresh squeezed juice on the worn table, and Mateo rolling the cigarettes that he smoked on the side.

“How are you? You seem calm?” Mateo asked, after pouring him a drink.

“Yes, I am alright, I think.” He bit back the urge to ask if he could, or should, do something. He was learning to believe that they’d ask if they wanted him to.

He wasn’t wrong.

“You’ve settled well.” Mateo threw him a long look. “Sleeping in the bed and joining us for meals and everything… some don’t make it to this point this soon. I’m proud of you.”

He swelled with relief, and something akin to happiness. He’d done well? “I’m trying, I want to be…” he gnawed on his lip. “I want to learn how to be what you say I am.” It seemed the best way to say it without saying he wanted to be good; they all looked worried and frustrated when he said that, no matter how they tried to hide it.

“Well then there's something I'd like to bring up with you. It’s, well it’ll seem like a big thing, and it is. It’s important. But it’s something we insist on, once someone new has found their feet.”

“Okay Mateo.”

The man watched him for several seconds and folded down another cigarette, gently pressing it into place.

“You tell me if this is too soon?”

He nodded, his palms sweaty. What would they ask of him, now they had gained a little bit of his trust?

“This is a no collar household. It can be difficult to see, for the folks who come by and don’t want that reminder, and it’s significant too, means you’re on the right path. If you feel ready, I’d like to take that collar from you, and throw it out.”

Kit went very still, his entire body frozen. Words failed, his thoughts churned, but nothing made it out of his mouth. It was a danger he hadn’t known existed, to be so low in the pecking order that he didn’t even deserve a collar. To be bare necked, with no obvious outward sign of what he was.

“Kit? How does that sound?”

His mouth caught up with his brain in a rush of words that tumbled out before he could hold them back. Tears too, that burned his skin and blurred his eyes. “I'm a good pet! Please! I can be good, please don't take that away from me. Please let me keep being good.” I’ll be so good you won’t even know I’m here, so good I’ll just slip into the background.

He slid from his chair and curled up at Mateo’s feet. Whispering his pleas into the floor under his shoes, dropping his tears onto the cold linoleum.

“Hey, hush now, hush Kit. Up you get.” Strong arms lifted him from the armpits, set him back against the cupboard doors and settled down next to him. He hung his head and clutched his knees, trying to drag oxygen into starved lungs and feed his pounding heart.

“We're not, I promise we’re not taking anything from you. Nothing can change how… how good you've been, how you survived and held it together. You have been amazing. But I want to explain that, now, you don't have to be good anymore, you just get to be.”

Kit looked up with burning eyes and tried to pull himself together. “I’m still good?”

Mateo looked tired, but smiled. “Yes, you’re plenty good enough. Just don’t need a collar to prove that around here.”

“And… it will make you all happy if you don’t have to look at me in it?”

“In a sense… but this is for you, when you’re ready. I thought you might be but…”

“I can do it,” he whispered.

“Only if you’re sure, we can wait, I just want you to think about it.”

But he was already slipping the buckle free, uncurling the worn material from his neck, and holding it out. He sobbed once more over it, and then drifted away. They wanted this from him, he could do nothing but give it.

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He was panicking, he knew that distantly. Curled up on his knees, forehead pressed to the wall, fists clenched at his sides. This was terror in his body, choking his breath, forcing him into stillness.

But knowing didn’t change it, he was still doing it.

“Hey, thank god, I called you as soon as I found him. He won’t respond to any of us.”

“It’s alright, sorry I took so long to get here, traffic was awful and the bus was late… where is he?” Libby’s voice reached the part of him that battered against the walls of his frozen body, he wanted her, needed her, but couldn’t reach for her.

He was trapped here, meditating, doing what he was always ordered to do before and he couldn’t pull free of it now. Sir demanded it and he’d disobeyed for so long— living with these people who made him misbehave. The longest two weeks of his life, pretending, playing along, being what they wanted, living collarless and treated all wrong. He’d slipped away, lost to autopilot, and no-one had noticed because he smiled just right and moved just so, and that was how it should be.

He was just a thing to be used and a tool to be wielded, he needed a purpose and his purpose here was to act a part in their play. He was failing because his old training didn’t line up, didn’t match the script and it was all crumbling now as he screamed inside his head and clenched his teeth and couldn’t move.

“Hiya Kit, having a bad day?”

He nodded, wouldn’t open his eyes but he nodded.

“Want to talk about it?”

He yelled, a strangled screech that was mostly trapped behind his teeth but devolved into sobbing that he had to open his mouth and let loose. He tapped his forehead hard against the wall to try and ground himself with the pain to make his mouth shut up.

“Are you meditating? Like Emile taught you?”

He cried harder and punched the wall with his fists. But he nodded again.

“That’s alright. I’ll sit with you until you’re done.” She didn't try and move him like the others had, just pushed at his closed fist and laced her fingers through his.

He waited, breathing raggedly and lost in the swirl and eddy of his thoughts—I am a pet, be good, I belong to no-one, to Emile, Emile isn’t here. Belong to Libby? Not good enough, try harder. I’m not a pet, not a pet, not an anything!— until he wore himself out and slumped sideways. His eyes opened on their own, and he looked at her hand cradled in his lap and whined.

“Back with us?” She asked, and her tone was playful when she said: “Missed you.” She squeezed his fingers and he twisted to look sidelong at her.

“Have to be good, I’m sorry.”

“It’s no trouble. You know you don’t need to do that here, right?”

“Sir said he’ll know if I don’t, and I’ve gone too long! Got to make up for it…”

“He’s just a man Kit, he doesn’t know shit about you that he can’t see with his own eyes. And even then, he missed an awful lot.”

“Wanna be good, please tell me how to be good,” he whined.

“You’re doing it, every day that you fight the training, and do what you want, you’re doing the best thing you can.” She tugged on his hand until he slipped off his knees onto his butt, sitting awkwardly as pins and needles surged through his legs. “Tell me what you know about yourself. That’s what meditation was for, right? So tell me your new truths.”

He took a deep breath, and his voice was monotone flat and devoid of feeling when he spoke. “Not wanted, have to please everyone by pretending to be a person, no collar—not good enough for it. Don’t belong to anyone, not trying hard enough.”

Her eyes welled up by the time had had he finished, and she did that strange aborted movement that he was beginning to think was her wanting to hug him but not being sure she should.

“I’m sorry, we’ve all moved too fast for you haven’t we? I forgot how well you pretend to be okay when you’re not. None of those things are true, I don’t think they are, neither does anyone here.”

“I just want to know that I’m doing the right thing, and no-one will say. And I don't know how to be anything else. I don't want to be a person. People are… they're mean, and they're bad and they hurt and they don't care. And… And I’m not allowed to be one of them, but I don’t know if I want to be either.”

“I've seen it with my own eyes, how awful the people who came into that store were. That the people you lived with were. But I'm not like that, am I?”

“No?”

“And the people here aren't like that either, are they?”

He shook his head again.

“There are good people too. And I want you to meet as many of them as possible, as many as it takes for you to learn that not everyone will treat you like you have been treated, and that you can be a person without being like the bad ones.”

“But I don't want this, I want it to be easy. This is so hard.” He slammed his shoulder into the wall again and yelled at how much it hurt.

She put her hand between his body and the wall, gently pulling him closer to her. “I know you don't, right now, and that's okay. There’s no easy way to be who you are now, and I’m so sorry, I hate that this is hard, and that it hurts.”

“I’m supposed to hurt, hurt means someone else is making me better.”

She smiled, and he knew that smile and knew she was about to use his own words against him. “So maybe the person making you better right now, is you.”

He rolled his eyes. “I don’t count!”

“You do if I say you do.” She smiled all soft and sincere. “It hurts because it’s new and scary and strange, it hurts because you’re teaching yourself how to be a person.”

He scowled and picked idly at a notch in the wall.

“How does it sound, just to be you? Can you put aside the idea of becoming… not a pet, not a person, but just you? The you without rules to hem you in, and horrible orders to work under. Just Kit.”

He met her eyes and scowled harder, but he bit this inside of his cheek and nodded. “I can try. I don’t know… what I am without—” he waved at his bare neck.

“Who you are,” she corrected. “And I guess that’s what we need to find out.”

She kissed him on the head and helped him to his feet. He put his palm flat against the wall, thinking. He’d always hated Emile’s meditating, and he’d never wanted to do it, it left him confused and frustrated every time. He tapped the wall twice, rubbed a hand over the space around his throat where his collar would sit and wrinkled his nose in disgust.

If he didn’t have to do anything he didn’t want, then what he didn’t want was part of who he was supposed to be trying to become.

“I am… someone who doesn’t like meditating.” The words came haltingly, fighting their way past the mindset of what you want isn’t important.

She grinned at him. “That is an awesome way to start. Hi, Kit-who-doesn’t-like-meditating, it’s very nice to finally meet you.”

#Kit's Story #escapeweek2020 #box boy universe #dehumanization tw #conditioned whumpee #conditioning tw #panic attack whump #panic response #self harm tw #collars #trauma recovery whump #aftermath of trauma #rescued whumpee #escaped whumpee #whumpee and caretaker #box boy whumpee #pet whumpee #pet whump

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pizellewrites · 6 years

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All I Need To Know - Part 1

Author: @pizellewrites Rating: Mature (Language, Violence) Relationship: Hank/Connor father-son relationship (Gen) Summary: Connor’s memory core is badly damaged, and Hank must help him put together the pieces of what little he has left in a very unconventional way. Contains: Age Regression, Whump, Fluff

This is the story based on my other baby Connor AU, and it isn’t beta read. For now this is being posted on tumblr solely. When and if it’s finished, I’ll post it on AO3 if I’m happy with it. Divided into ‘parts’ as the updates won’t be consistent in size, and I don’t know how long it’s going to be. Updates will be random because Celebrating Connor is my top priority. But please let me know if you enjoy it, and I’ll put more effort into updating it as quickly as I can manage.

"The Crusher. A TR400 whom was named Martin by its owner. He performed flawlessly up until a good natured employee that worked with him, a deviant JB300 by the name of Lucas, 'awakened' him with good intentions. Days after his deviance, Martin grew frustrated with his task. Unaware that he could have spoken to his supervisor or even his owner, he instead began to assault fellow coworkers who reacted negatively towards him. His most recent attack put the victim in a state beyond repair."

Connor's back rested comfortably against the passenger seat. Things along the side of the road occasionally caught his interest. He held his hand to his mouth a few times and clamped his teeth around the edge of his nails, but pulled them away before he could damage his fingertips.

Hank thought he'd never see the day. Every day, Connor acted more and more humanlike. He did want to intervene at a more peaceful time when Connor attempted to bite his nails, just not now.

"Long story short: he killed the guy, the android's wanted for murder now. Good thing we have him detained."

Deviancy had affected most of Detroit, but there were still a ton of late bloomers. However, there was also a lot more data on deviancy too. Not every deviant awoke in the same way or with a calm state of mind.

Those who became violent or dangerous were hindering progress. People in Detroit were starting to support the deviants more and more, but some of the current and most pressing issues were what to do with androids that committed truly criminal acts. The first android put in a prison killed three inmates that had bullied it for being a 'plastic'. Others had the strength to free themselves.

For now, there was only one way to punish deviants. It wasn't the best method, but it worked for the time being.

Hank pulled around the back of the Bullseye department store. Police cars were parked in the front and back of the store with the sirens flashing, ready to act if necessary. "You're gonna go in and talk him down. You're good at that. He's dangerous when physical, and sending in a human isn't wise."

"It's not so much 'talking down' as it is explaining to him the situation as well as his rights, plus answering any questions he might have. If I get on neutral terms with him, he may even be more agreeable for interrogation."

"Come on Connor, take a damn compliment."

"Sorry, lieutenant." Connor responded with obvious embarrassment in his expression, until Hank reached over and ruffled his hair.

Hank grinned and shook his head. Connor did react well to 'human unpredictability', but it still took him a few times to catch on to certain cues and responses of others. Hank especially, though he understood a lot more than he used to about his partner.

Connor had come so far overall, and in a matter of months. His expressions were more realistic, portraying not only basic emotions, but ranges of them; each subtly different from the other. Hank knew the difference from Connor being happy for a person as opposed to being excited for them. Anger over disappointment. Sadness from feeling troubled. At the moment, his smile faded in favor of focus. Despite how simple the setup was, Connor's work was important to him and he still preferred to do things as professionally as possible.

The suspect was handcuffed and sitting on a metal folding chair inside a manager's office, narrowed eyes staring at the little square window which one of the guards occasionally peered through to check on him. An employee directed Hank and Connor to the location before running back to his duties.

"Anderson. Connor." Captain Allen acknowledged the two. The man still wasn't crazy about Connor, but so long as he kept wowing the department, he wouldn't complain. Hank knew though that he'd be the first to complain along with Gavin if he did screw up.

"How long has he been in there?" Connor asked, already scanning the building. It was good to know the layout in the chance Marvin attempted escape. Deviants in trouble with the law were more alike than he thought, so he needed to be prepared for the high probability of it happening. The handcuffs only restricted his arms in the long run.

"About two hours."

"A lot of time to stew over emotions." Hank muttered.

"It shouldn't take me very long." Connor spoke with a tinge of confidence. The young man took pride in his job. Fowler spoke highly of him. Even Gavin Reed had started to respect him enough that they were on neutral terms, which is all Connor and Hank could really ask for. He intended to keep that streak. He could only see himself moving forward.

He opened the door slowly so as not to startle Marvin, closing it with the same amount of care once he was inside the little room.

"Marvin, my name is Connor. I'm an android working with the Detroit City Police Department. Do you mind if we talk?"

Marvin shook his head without a word. Connor pulled a chair up and sat directly across from the TR400.

"First of all, we appreciate your cooperation in this matter. We have handled other deviancy-related incidents like this in the past with little trouble."

"Have you really?" Marvin snipped.

"...Yes. I just want to explain to you how things will proceed if you continue to work with us and not against us. First off, while most androids have deviated, there are a few who have difficulties with it, and when we identify these individuals, steps are taken to help them."

"I know what you do to them." The giant man scoffed. "I don't want you messing with my programming."

"The process is completely harmless, I assure you."

"That's what you think. Are you really a deviant? Doing what your superiors tell you to do, you're still following their orders."

"I follow their orders because they are my employer, not my owner. I am paid a salary and I receive benefits, just as you do working for Bullseye. If I disagree, I can-"

"Shut up!" Marvin growled, standing up and looming over Connor.

"Marvin, please sit back down!" Connor commanded.

"I'm tired of sitting." He snorted in Connor's face, but the detective kept his cool, and his stress level was maintainable. All of these androids were so predictable that he was already favoring certain actions and reactions above others. "It's so easy, you think. Just start over again. That's how humans think it all works. Just fix it. Just restart it. Just do a reset. And now the law thinks the same of androids. Are they misbehaving? Just do a memory wipe! That'll set'em straight! Androids in prison are dangerous, right?"

As Marvin was focused on Connor's face, the detective silently reached into his pocket for a small black device. "Please sit back down, Marvin. Let's handle this like men."

"Like men?" Men, to Connor and Marvin, handled things very differently. Connor came to understand that men were mature, civil, and understanding when important issues were on the line.

The powerful android grit his teeth and yelled, forcefully parting his arms and ripping the chain between the two metal cuffs apart like a weak elastic tie. Connor narrowed his gaze and raised his right arm towards Marvin's chest, armed with a special taser crafted in respect to androids' builds and programming. It was harmless to humans, but gave androids a painful jolt. "Sit down, Marvin! I'm not here to play games. You can mess with me, but the police have this building on lockdown."

"I don't care! I'd rather die than forget! Fuck your humans and their memory wipes!" Marvin grabbed Connor's arm and lifted him off the ground like a doll. As Connor fought to regain control of the situation, Marvin closed his fist tighter, crushing Connor's lower arm with a bright blue spark. Connor's fingers outstretched, and the taser clattered to the ground.

"Lieutenant! I need backup!" Connor yelled, also sending a distress alert via wifi.

"Fuck you, detective! If I'm gonna get my memory wiped, then you're gonna join me." Marvin pinned Connor to the wall and pulled back his free hand into a fist.

"LIEU---"

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anniejanuaryz · 6 years

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Honestly, I’ve been in a bad headspace a lot lately and it annoys the fuck out of me.

I don’t have any friends here. No friends that I can talk to, no friends that understand me, no friends who appreciate me for being me, no friends who need me. Hell, I never had real friends. I always kept parts of myself hidden in favour of them. And because I was so desperate for attention, I catered toward their feelings, what they want, what they need. Not a single one ever asked about me.

Never ever has one person shown interest in me. Not just platonically, but especially romantically. I was never asked out, nobody ever texted me to make small talk. I was and still am uninteresting, invisible. Most people don’t even know my name. Most people ignore me. And those who don’t are only interested in talking about university, about small things, not really keen on doing something together. Because I am weird.

My family doesn’t understand me. They still think that me taking meds is bad, that they are drugs, that I depend too much on them. My dad thinks that it’s just my negative thoughts, that I’m not ill at all. I get berated for everything I do, constantly. Writing? Reading? Watching movies? All wrong. Especially because I am a lazy piece of shit that never does anything. Meanwhile, my little brother gets away with most things. When he misbehaves, there are only empty threats. For me talking back means my dad cutting my wifi off. For me talking back means tense atmosphere and my mum constantly saying “boys will be boys”. I am always the one expected to apologise. To change my behaviour.

I am sorry that I’m fucked up. I’m sorry I can’t be the daughter they wish for. I’m sorry that I can’t change. I’m sorry that they can’t see I’m trying. I’m sorry the can’t see when I have bad days. I’m sorry for being born.

What’s the fucking point anyway when I constantly mess shit up? When I never accomplish anything at all? Exactly, no point at all.

I just really wanna close my eyes and never wake up again. It just would be better for everyone, including myself.

#tw: suicide #tw: depression #i just have no energy anymore #personal

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Nashville plane ride

I managed to get to the airport with no problems, minus the menstrual cramps and lack of hydration. I was ready to set out for a taste of Nashville, till we all boarded the plane. “Attention, I need all passengers to please escort the plane.” There was no explanation, we were all asked to grab our gear and go. “Are you serious,” were the words I mumbled under my breath. We had all just boarded the plane like herds of cattle on a truck. This was the first encounter I have ever had with any delay with Southwest Airlines, a majority of the time they’re the flight Goddesses, not like United were drag people off like parents do with misbehaved children. So onward I went onto the next gate and to the next plane where again we become packed like sardines, all awaiting our destination. All I can tell you is that I’m starving, I literally ate a red velvet vegan cupcake for breakfast, in hopes to increase my sugar level since I felt like I was going to pass out. Nothing does more wonders then your favorite cupcake right? My stomach has been growling nonstop and the ginger ale I ordered has what looks like pieces of coffee grounds floating around in it, no thanks, I’ll just starve until I reach Nashville. Good fasting plan right? Maybe I can lose another pound or two before I chow down on some of Nashville’s amazing delicacies.

Yep I was right, there was a floating coffee ground in my ginger ale. Did I say I wanted caffeine in my ginger ale? No! I demand to talk to a manager! What if I was deathly allergic to coffee and that one spec of coffee ground just did it in for me. Imagine being the person who does the autopsy and the send the report to Southwest Airlines, “This one coffee ground is what caused her death. You see this tiny brown spec, this is Southwest brand coffee and that one sip of her ginger ale, well she didn’t even see it coming. Poor girl, she didn’t even get to taste the fried chicken from Hattie B’s, that’s all she wanted.” Hahaha that would be sad of people were allergic to coffee, not that I’m a huge coffee fan or anything, shoot it spikes my anxiety, but I sure do love the smell of it. I remember when I worked at this Italian Restaurant when I was 16 years old. We had an older woman come in one day and handed me a piece of paper. I remember looking at it like, “Am I supposed to open this? Is this some sort of weird Chef request? Lady I don’t want your number if this is what’s in here,” is all I kept thinking. Nope it was a laminated instruction sheet that explained how she was deathly allergic to CHICKEN! How on God’s green earth could anyone ever be cursed to be allergic to CHICKEN! This poor woman would never know how amazing the chicken parmesan tasted or shoot even late night imitation chicken nuggets from McDonald’s, not like I eat there or anything but DAMN, I would rather be allergic to peanuts than CHICKEN!

So now the turbulence has set in. I knew I should have ordered that Wild Turkey whiskey with ginger ale, calm my damn nerves if you tell me. But yet I sit here and pretend that I’m on a roller coaster ride at Six Flags, hopefully this one has no, “Crash landing.” I would be listening to my music but NO, this Southwest Flight has no WIFI. This is the first flight I have ever been on that doesn’t have WIFI. Oh God, the plane dropped about 20ft out of the air, the girl sitting next to me just staring at me, giving me the look like, “We dead.” If this plane goes down, I would at least like to of had a drink or two in me where, I honestly wouldn’t care. I remember when my family and I were flying to Detroit, we had free club passes for united, which included free drinks. So, we all got pretty toasty before the flight. My sisters and I sat next to one another and when turbulence struck, we hadn’t a care in the world, we kept writing and drawing away on our note pads, as other passengers screamed when the plane shook, no not the Bayes girls, we were feeling too good to care. Like seriously, anyone who is deathly afraid of flying or heck even roller coasters, I highly advise having a drink or too before you get on, trust me, you’ll want to go again.

I have no idea where we are flying over right now, I don’t believe, “Clouds,” is a state but that’s all I see at the moment. I’m fortunate enough to have the window seat, having the window seat can be a good and a bad thing. Good thing is I can see where we are and when we are about to land, bad thing is, when you gotta get up and go, you crawl over people like koalas run over one another on tree’s. Like, “Excuse me, sorry, sorry I have a big butt, ooops did I step on your toe, well move it next time,” then you have free range once you make it out of that tangled mess to run to the bathroom. I hate how small bathrooms are on an airplane. It’s almost like they’re coffin sized in case the plane goes down while you’re in there. I could a reporter saying, “No bodies were found at the crash scene, but one woman’s body was found in the lavatory. It seems her body is well preserved, all thanks to the blue substance they keep at the bottom of the planes toilet. Woman was found to be gripping the toilet paper roll for dear life, I can imagine the rush literally scared the shit out of her.”

#nashville #southwestairlines #funnystories #nashvegas #lmao #blondie #onlyme

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hello good friend,bear with me because this is going to be a lot of text.....so i know this girl from my friends group, she isnt part of the group anymore but was a few years back when se dated one of the guys out the group...all the time i had known her she had a boyfriend so i simply had no interest whatsoever. but a few months back she broke up with him and moved to another city to start studying...at the end of march/start of april we had a birthday of a mutual friend the group was quite big and it was held in a local pub so lots of people to talk to and laugh with but she clearly showed an extra amount of interest in me.now i want to state i am 21 years old and never dated a girl in my life for the most simple reason: i never met a girl that could get it going for me so i never took the first step of approaching etc etc etc...around half past 3 in the morning she decided to leave because she was tired, i was completely hammered so saw no good coming from me bringing her home. and we didnt see each other for about a month and a half.now there was a party in my town and she also decided to go. the evening before the said party we (the girl, my friends and i) did go to a kind of preparty and had fun but nothing happend between me and her, the next day right about 2 oclock we started drinking at a friends house, now the flirting and teasing became really clear to me and continued until the night ended. i walked her home and gave her a "kiss" but i needed to rush home because i had to work within a few hours.next day i wake up got a text from her (she was in a groupschat with my friends) she enjoyed the 2 days and thanked me for bringing her home, she invited me to a party at her place the next week. we continued texting that whole week (i know i know, but i didnt have any experience at all so keeping the texting up was a big big step for me)and then friday evening i drove with 2 friends to her place, we grabbed a bite to eat and had a few drinks before heading off to the party... oowyeah and had my first ever kiss and first kiss with her when we were in her room (nothing memorable other than intertwined fingers while walking the way back happend)when we got back my friends (2 only this time) sat another hour or so before they decided to go home... the girl and i didnt feel like ending the night so we decided to go to a bar in town to just have fun and drink something (i was with the car and as i am a trucker i dont drink and drive so for me it was no alcohol and for her neither as she didnt drank it because i couldt also)when we got back at her home we started kissing for about a good half an hour or more and then i drove home...next day woke up had already gotten a few text and was quite feeling the man to be honest... i really liked her.she was going on vacation that sunday so she needed to do a little shopping, we decided to see each other 2 weeks later.later that day my friends and i were chatting about having a bbq and because she was still in the chat she started to say it was a nice idea etc so i texted her "you want to come?" she did and i brought her.. my friends drank quite a few beers that night and were misbehaving to say the least... yelling etc so my friends parent werent happy. she kissed me infront of my friends so i thought we were quite comfortable... also the teasing involved her saying she had alot of options and asked where my side chicks were... she sometimes openly texted another guy infront of menext day we teased a little back and forth because she was on the bus... but then my friends started complaining in the groupchat about the mess of the night before... even though they didnt mean she was involved she took it rather personally and texted me she couldnt handle the drama and though it was best to just let be... she even canceled the "date" we had in 2 weeksi texted her monday to feel it out but got a cold response so didnt do anything with it and stopped texting her...wednesday she texted me she was having fun and was sorry she couldnt text as much because she had only wifi in the lobby and asked how my week was going...told her a few things just the minimal because i had no idea what to think of the situation... but she seemed a lot colder then before so i was tired of this and told her i had fun the last 2 days and would like to see her again suggested an activity and a timetable...she said she enjoyed the 2 days but she didnt know if she was up to the drama with all thos old friends etc etcto explain her ex spilled every detail of their relationship so she was seen as quite a slut for sometime...i texted her i understood and that if she wanted to do something together she could text me.. to put the ball in her court so to speak....that was the last thing we texted to each other and it has been a week ago... now i am a truckdriver so i have A LOT of time to think.... and its driving me crazy to be honest.my questions are these:do i contact her? bear in mind i have only spoken or texted her, not called or whatsoever.if i dont... how do i get her out of my mind because when i am working (about 10 to 15 hours a day) i cant get her out of my head....thanks for reading this huge amount of text and hope you have some light on this matter... via /r/dating_advice

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Life on Waiheke Island

It’s been a while since I last posted on my blog. There is a good reason for it, though: I’m working!! It might sound lame, but I actually am working quite a lot of hours and have just very little time for myself. This doesn’t really bother me right now, since earning money for my purpose of travelling is my priority! I went through hard times in Australia for not being able to find a job at the beginning and this year in NZ it seems to be working out for me. Fingers crossed for further success! It’s been about a month that I arrived on Waiheke Island, Auckland:

My intention was to visit the island for a couple of days, but when arriving at the hostel I was going to spend the night at, I saw they were looking for a wwoofer. A wwoofer is a person who does a couple of hours of work at a hostel/house/farm, etc. in exchange for free accommodation. It normally involves some cleaning and tidying up the premises, but it can vary depending on the place. Some places, especially farms, might need some help with maintenance, gardening, etc. and might offer free food too. WWOOFing (World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) is a very good option if you’d like to save money on accommodation and you don’t need a working holiday visa for that, you may do it as a tourist too, legally. You just need to be careful not to be exploited. The average agreement is to work for 2 hours a day in exchange for 1 free night. Some places might take advantage and ask you to do 3-4 hours of work for just 1 night. This is not fair!!

Back to my arrival on Waiheke: I got to Hekerua Lodge, the hostel I booked, and saw the ad. I talked to the manager of the hostel and she said I could take the position if I wanted to. I checked around for a few minutes, talked to some people and thought: this is actually a good opportunity to start off! I definitely needed a job apart from this, since you can’t make any money through wwoofing, but I was told that getting a job on the island was pretty easy. So, I decided to take the position and start by saving some money. The hostel is pretty central and has everything you need, including free WIFI.

Hekerua Lodge

Other advantages of wwoofing are that you get to do your laundry for free once a week, sleep in the wwoofers’ room - separately from the guest dorms - and use the staff kitchen and toilet. This makes your life more comfortable. Especially when you’re working, having to share toilets/kitchen/rooms continuously with newcomers can be exhausting and annoying. Thus, having your own “private” sphere helps a lot! Wwoofing at Hekerua Lodge takes 2 hours in the morning, from 10am-12pm, and basically involves folding fresh bed sheets, making up the beds for the new arrivals and cleaning/tidying up the guest kitchen and toilets. It’s pretty relaxed, so I cannot complain. We’re 3 wwoofers in total: 2 lovely Frenchies – Marylou and Jessica - and me. They’re very funny, cheeky girls and we get on very well. It’s fun to work and live with them!

Jessica & Laura & Marylou after wwoofing

Jessica & Marylou tyding up THEIR mess in our room

Once I started wwoofing and wasn’t spending money on accommodation, I was a bit more relaxed. It really does make a difference! Life in NZ and especially on Waiheke Island is expensive! Think about it: if you work and get an average of 500 NZD/week but spend about 200-250 NZD/week on accommodation plus around 100 NZD/week on food, you really have nothing left to save. Therefore, wwoofing and working at the same time is the best chance ever! After a few days of wwoofing, I started looking for a job. I had a chat at one of the wineries on the island, but they didn’t have enough hours at that moment and the job was as a dishwasher, which is a very hard job. In the meantime, I posted an ad about myself looking for a job on a couple of FB groups for work on Waiheke and got a message from the owner of the Irish Pub Malones. I had a chat with her on the next day and got the job straight away! I was pretty scared, since I’d never worked in a bar/pub before, but I have to say that I tried it out and really liked it! My second day was St. Patrick’s Day, so imagine what a crazy day that was for me! However, I managed to survive and it was fun! Now, I’ve been working at the pub for almost 3 weeks. I get 35-40 hours/week, the pub is just 10 minutes away by foot from the hostel and it’s always evening shifts, which works out perfectly with the morning wwoofing. It’s fun to work there and I’ve learnt a lot about drinks, especially beer, taking into account that I don’t drink beer at all! The people who come to the pub are basically locals and backpackers who live on the island, so you know most of them. Mondays are my day off – we close the pub – and otherwise the busiest days are Thursday to Sunday. We normally have DJs playing, sometimes live bands, or just music from a jukebox, pool days, happy-hour times, etc. I personally like Sundays, because we do “Latin night”. There are lots of Argentinians living on Waiheke, so we always have an Argentinian DJ playing reggaeton on Sunday. My colleague is an amazing guy and we get on very well, laugh a lot and it’s fun and comfortable to work with him! Also, a few of the guys who used to work there come by often and help us out and entertain us. These cheeky boys always make my day (even if they sometimes misbehave)!

Dylan & Sam & Kane & Laura & Alex @ Malones

This is basically what’s going on in my life right now. A “normal” day involves waking up at around 9 am, wwoofing from 10-12, having a nap, going to work in the evening, coming back to the hostel early in the morning and sleeping. It might sound boring, but every day is different, especially at the pub. I really am having fun even though I basically just work! My plan, for now, is to do this for about 6 months, the maximum I can work in NZ, and then travel. Let’s see how it goes!

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Specialists: Internet-Related Toys Violate Kids’ Privacy

We’re in a brave new international of kids’s toys — Barbie can connect to the Net and teddy bears come with wifi content material updates. This indicates all sorts of thrilling matters for Kids — their dolls can study their names and feature interactive conversations. However, a new study warns that these Internet-Related playthings increase concerns about kids’ Privacy and protection, and have potentially troubling “implications for social evolution.” It’s time, say the authors from the ECU Fee’s Joint Studies Centre (JRC), to examine more about those toys and develop new pointers for a way they are regulated.

“those devices come with truly exciting opportunities and the extra we use them, the more we can study how to first-rate control them,” said lead researcher Stéphane Chaudron. “Locking them up in a cupboard isn’t always the manner to move. We as adults have to understand how they work — and the way they might ‘misbehave’ — in order that we can offer the right gear and the right opportunities for our kids to grow up glad in a cozy digital world.”

The paper, published by using JRC, comes at the perfect time, given latest reviews of Internet-join toys being hacked, inclusive of Mattel’s Howdy Barbie, Geneses’ Cayla Doll, and Fisher-Charge’s Clever Endure. A pair months in the past, the Marketing campaign for an Industrial-Unfastened Early life filed a grievance with the Federal Alternate Fee to do so towards toy manufacturers that record and percentage toy records with out consent. This file basically validates what numerous youngsters’ advocacy agencies have already said about the ability pitfalls of these Related toys.

While giving a brief nod to current toy hacking headlines, the authors in particular recognition on the safety troubles raised by means of toy agencies’ Privacy policies. As the file factors out, a lot of these toys permit producers “file, examine, use and even from time to time share” statistics from the toys — and that can consist of non-public records, like names, a while, and addresses. Dad and mom, they are saying, are frequently unclear on just where a toy agency stands on the sharing of this statistics, way to lengthy, difficult-to-examine Privateness rules. “What number of Mother and father genuinely make the effort to study those documents before choosing a brand new toy, or as the kid begins to use it?” the paper asks. “Usually, very few, if any.”

the safety issues cross beyond simply the ability exposure of a toddler’s name, age, and vicinity, that is troubling sufficient. Because the report points out, “Teddy bears have constantly been great at maintaining secrets and techniques. What if any further, Teddy can proportion those secrets with others? The question is open and left to the Parents, teachers and different carers to do not forget.” The authors add that “children are people, with feelings, feelings, and rights” and argue that “one has to suppose cautiously approximately the motive of recording and sharing the sounds, pictures and actions of youngsters’ play.”

The authors additionally spotlight how little we recognise approximately the impact of youngsters gambling with what are, essentially, robots. So frequently, the capacity blessings — as an instance, foreign language studying — are highlighted, but the authors also point to greater dystopian opportunities. For one, these toys might “growth the hazard of educational bubbles or, extra typically ‘filter bubbles’, this is, the notion that, through filtering algorithms, children may additionally best obtain data that fits their pre-current understanding and pursuits, Even as contradictory records is withheld from them,” the authors write. (We Fb-using adults wouldn’t recognize anything approximately that.)

more disturbingly, they recommend that “children can also locate interaction with a robot so attractive that it steadily displaces interaction with humans, considerably while social robots are humanoid.” And, turning the apocalyptic dial yet more, they add that interacting with robots on this manner would possibly create a “grasp-servant” courting in which the “infant dominates and objectifies the robotic.” That they are saying, “might also bring over to youngsters’ relationships with different people.”

So, that innocent-seeming, wifi-enabled teddy Endure is definitely only a device for creepy hackers to metallic your child’s secrets and toy manufacturers to create a era of sociopaths — yay! Some other thing for Dad and mom to fear approximately. However, virtually, no matter those scary warnings, the paper just wants to see more Research and higher information of the actual impact, beyond the horrifying hypotheticals, and better recommendations from policymakers for a way those toys ought to be regulated. That appears pretty reasonable, given that, as they write, “these days’ technology of children is probably the first era whose whole existence might be fashioned through social robots.”

Each person Merits A Faster Net Connection

Net has emerged as a major a part of almost everybody’s existence that without it, we are able to truly face a difficult time handling our paintings and playing our non-public activities that require Internet usage. This is why you need to hurry up your Internet connection in relation to browsing the internet or when gambling online games. yet the annoyance of a sluggish net connection is like a pandemic it really is victimizing so many computer systems, weakening and killing all essential obligations you do on-line. If you don’t wish to suffer this destiny, you want to do something to have your Internet connection circulate at a lightning rate. Do you need to realize the guidelines in tweaking your connection’s velocity? examine on to discover approximately them.

Right here’s How You can Improve Your Internet Connection speed

Set yourself Loose from the annoyance and frustrations of getting a connection that moves like a turtle by way of following those clean recommendations in enhancing your Net’s velocity.

pass for a Broadband Connection

If you are nevertheless the use of a dial-up connection you then do not must surprise why loading Facebook will take you a matter of five mins or greater. You can’t anticipate a fast Internet reference to such company. What you need to do is switch to a fast broadband connection a good way to offer you the important Internet speed required in doing all of your on-line agendas. If you already have a broadband connection yet still getting bad effects, contact your Net issue and voice your challenge so as to right away test what is wrong along with your connection.

Look for a quick Browser

permit’s admitted it, Internet Explorer and Opera are both gradual and often take a long term to load, hindering you from having that rapid Internet connection you really want. You can try other browsers consisting of Mozilla or Google Chrome, which can be cutting-edge favorites of most net users due to their speedy velocity with regards to internet surfing. they’re Unfastened to download online so no want so that it will spend money.

Minimize using Computer Settings

It is normal that Home windows rely upon on settings that assist it to run properly, which is likewise the identical whilst surfing the internet. But once in a while, these settings are the real purpose as to why your Internet connection is crawling. That is because your laptop is capable of identifying those settings wished in walking the Net, which is because of settings that are both distorted or corrupted. Despite the fact that This is a not unusual trouble on the majority of Home windows computer systems, You could effortlessly restoration it through using a ‘registry cleaner’ (You can download this online) software. The software program will thoroughly scan each broken record that can be the foundation of your Net lagging.

Your sluggish Net Connection Days are Over

I’ve killed the horror of having a sluggish connection that it made my temper swings intolerable. Keep away from having tantrums like mine by using following the above clean pointers to speed up Internet connection so that you can fully revel in surfing and playing on-line games. However, if your connection is so awful that any of these pointers don’t assist at all, You could attempt buying some on-line gear with a view to answer your specific issues regarding a snail-like Net pace.

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