#ok there was a precipitating incident

[undercat-overdog]

There is more to Tolkien's work than his Catholicism.

I think there's a general tendency in many areas of fandom - fandom broadly, I'm also think academic work and reddit; this post isn't aimed at tumblr fandom specifically. in fact probably a bit more aimed at reddit but there was no precipitating incident that's leading me to write this. Anyways, a general tendency to over-weight the influence of Christianity in his work? Especially when it comes to finding allegories (Andreth talking about her people's beliefs in the Athrabeth is the only thing I think that is one, and Tolkien in his notes talked about how it was too Christian and wanted to change it), but more generally too. And sometimes I think Catholicism is brought into the text in ways that really aren't there. Idk.

Also... I think there is a way that him himself as a creator is. Hmm. I don't want to say under-discussed because it's not. But his work is more than the sum of his influences?

#ok there was a precipitating incident #and that was me being reminded of arguing on reddit a while back with some guy who #thought the story of turin was inspired by the book of job #and dismissed the influence of the kalevala #it remains one of the most baffling internet encounters i've ever had and i've been on the internet since i was a pre-teen in the 90s #so i guess i'm vague-posting about some weird guy on reddit #meta

[anachronistic-falsehood]

HELLO!??!!?!? I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR THE FUN FACT ABT THE RADIATION MAN.

HI HELLO. HIIIII :3 I’M GONNA TALK ABOUT THE 1999 TOKAIMURA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT <3

ok so it’s been a hot minute since i’ve delved into this so don’t take everything as fact I HAVE FORGOTTEN A LOT OF THINGS. but basically a nuclear plant in Tokai-mura, Japan went critical because of unsafe work practices, there were so soooo many safety issues. like this company didn’t give a FUCK about its workers. BASICALLY the 3 technicians working at the time had to pour nuclear material BY HAND in stainless-steel buckets into a precipitation tank. which triggered a critical mass level incident. THEY MIXED CHEMICALS IN STAINLESS STEEL BUCKETS FOR EFFIFIENCY’S SAKE.

The technicians working on it were Hisashi Ouchi, Masato Shinohara, and Yutaka Yokokawa. Yokokawa i think was standing further away from the tank while Shinohara stood on a platform to help Ouchi pour it in. so like. Hisashi was DIRECTLY over the tank while pouring chemicals into it and he got the biggest blast of radiation. Yokokawa survived as far as i’m aware but the other two died unfortunately. Hisashi’s condition was. fucking brutal. not saying that Shinohara had it easy at all in his last few months but like. dude Hisashi went through some SHIT

i’m gonna put this under a cut because this gets GROSS

Hisashi seemed like. totally fine for the first few days. his family had hope that he would be fine and the doctors were optimistic too!! he had the best doctors in Japan helping him but shit went downhill QUICK. His white blood cell count dropped to almost nothing which left him with no functioning immune system. They transplanted white blood cells from his sister which kind of helped briefly?? but it just kept getting worse bc the leukocytes produced by the transplanted tissue got mutated by the residual radiation, which made his immune system basically start attacking itself and his body in general and his white blood cell counts began to decrease AGAIN. but transplanting new cells helped a little just to keep him alive so they kept doing it but they did have to put him in a secluded sector so he wouldn’t get sick and die from a common cold

in any case his body was trying to attack the radiation but the radiation was EVERYWHERE so it began to eat at tissues, including his intestines, digestive system, and his skin. he had huge weeping sores all over and his skin began to peel off when nurses went in to clean him. Also everything he ate just went right through him so they eventually had to put a feeding tube in him just to keep things constantly going through, which means he could no longer speak to his family when they visited

His heart stopped i think about a month into his treatment?? they only managed to revive him because a doctor was passing by his room and saw the flatline, but by that point they didn’t know how long his heart had been stopped so they didn’t know how much brain damage there had been. he stopped responding to stimuli after that. so best case scenario, he couldn’t feel much pain for the rest of his time in the hospital.

his left arm (which received the most radiation) was absolutely awful to look at or even be near because of the smell, his body was rapidly decaying around him and it was TERRIBLE. surprisingly though, his right arm and most of the right side of his body was pretty okay!! not GREAT obvi but minimal damage in comparison, but the residual radiation was spreading and it probably would have gotten there eventually. His heart was constantly going at above 110bpm, and he couldn’t even breathe without it hurting like a bitch because of the fluid building up in his lungs so they had to hook him up to a machine that would force him to breathe

he was in there for 83 DAYS!! it’s insane that the doctors were able to keep him alive for that long n they all wanted him to miraculously pull through and there were moments where they had hope

ALSO every article out there likes to villainize his family by saying “they kept Hisashi alive against his will and wouldn’t let him die :(“ but like. imagine how his wife and kids must have felt. they didn’t push the doctors to do anything!! in fact, when the doctors showed them all the damage that had been done and finally said there was no way they could save him, they understood!! they decided not to revive him the next time his heart stopped. they kept making little paper cranes and leaving them in his room and in the hospital and they basically lived inside that waiting room for those 83 days. he died on Dec 21, 1999 and i think there are still paper cranes from them in that hospital waiting room to this day

Shinohara went through some similar things like skin grafts and organ failure, but he managed to pull through for SEVEN MONTHS!!! His radiation wasn’t as bad as Hisashi’s but man he still went through it. Yokokawa was released with mild radiation poisoning and faced negligience charges afterward

#whiskey yelling into the void #friend tag :3 #whiskeys word soup #AND THAT IS THE WORLD’S MOST RADIATED MAN!!!! #i love radiation i love talking about nuclear disasters and accidents :3 #i could research for hours about shit like this #i could talk about the elephant’s foot who wants to hear about the elephant’s foot #OH there was another nuclear accident i’m thinking of that was especially gruesome but i can’t think of where it was or when #but it was BAD lemme tell u #anyway. there u go <3

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[kyrenasfics]

Our Family | Chapter 7

Pairing : Idol!Jaehyun x makeup artist!Reader

Genre : angst

Warnings : mention of cheating

Wordcount : 1.5k

taglist : @thejeongjaehyun @mooneaj @xxxx-23nct

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Jaehyun is busy with their new comeback promotion. He barely comes home or either comes home late, like 3 in the morning, then he will be out again at 6.

You always text him asking what time he is coming back home but you always get either “no still practicing” or “I’ll be home late, you can sleep first” and he always replies at around 11pm and you are mostly already asleep because of your pregnancy. You feel fatigue.

After your “almost miscarriage incident”, Jaehyun barely touched you or should say as he doesn’t have any time to touch you. SM just told you at they are having a mega project in 4 months and need you to be in their makeup department. He almost lived in SM. You know Taeyong is strict about their dance, their angle and their tidiness. So you do not blame Jaehyun for not coming home, it’s his career just like how much you like being a makeup artist.

But a few days ago when you were doing the laundry, you saw a lipstick mark on Jaehyun’s tshirt. You know you shouldn’t doubt Jaehyun, but who else wouldn’t doubt when they saw a lipstick mark. Maybe some staff left it by accident? Yes it must be like that, it’s an accident.

Today you saw the lipstick mark on Jaehyun’s tshirt once again when you were doing laundry.

You try to convince yourself that it’s just an accident, then continue your chores. You still thrust Jaehyun, if you precipitate to question him, maybe your marriage might break down.

Tonight he came home.

You woke up with the door cracking sound.

“You are home?” You ask sleepily

“Yeah.” He just answered and went into the bathroom.

He finishes showering then comes back to bed. When you feel him lying down, you move closer to him. Your hand travels to his crotch but what you get is only him saying this.

“(Y/N) I’m very tired. I still have to be up at 6.” He said impatiently.

“It’s okay you don’t have to do anything, i’ll do everything.” You said, reached into his pants but he held your wrist.

“(Y/N) I said I’m very tired, it’s not about what you do or I do it, it’s that I’m really very tired please let me rest ok.” He said then turn his back facing you.

You felt so heart breaking so he, rather touch others, but not you? You are already not attractive enough for him? You turn your back facing him as well and sink into your sleep.

You wake up once again without Jaehyun being at your side, you are already used to it. You had scheduled for Red Velvet today, so you quickly washed up, then went out. After they finished shooting, they asked if you want to have a drink together. You are very close with Red Velvet because you are always assigned to their group so you and Red Velvet become more intimate.

“Hey (Y/N) did something happen between you and Jaehyun? He stayed up late practicing a lot recently. One day I saw him still practicing at 12 midnight.” Joy said.

“Yeah I know, they are having their comeback promotion now and SM just informed me weeks ago they are having a mega project. They assigned their makeup department to me, maybe that’s why he’s being so late.” You said and smiled.

They know you are Jaehyun’s wife and you tell them you are pregnant after your first checkup. You always update them about your pregnancy also.

“But I saw he was with a girl th-“ Joy said but Wendy stopped her and looked up at me nervously.

“W-what? Is Jaehyun with a girl?” You ask

“He’s with a girl but maybe she is their choreographer. They are practicing with her?” Wendy said trying to calm you down.

“No… there’s a lipstick mark on his tshirt…” You say with watery eyes.

They are all stunned and don’t know what they should say.

“Hey, you think too much, don’t listen to Joy. Jaehyun will never cheat on you, okay?” Wendy tried to calm you down.

“Did he… find me not attractive anymore…” You said sadly

“Am I getting fatter? Am I out of shape?” You frowned.

“Never think of yourself like that (Y/N), you are as pretty as always.” Irene said, holding your hand.

“Let’s go watch a movie alright, (Y/N) stop thinking about it ok?” Yeri said.

“Ya Let’s go, let’s go.” Wendy trying to cheer you up.

After the talk, you go watch a movie with Red Velvet and also the 6 of you shop around the mall, you bought some maternity clothes. You're about to go into a lingerie store to buy some new underwear because you need new underwear since your breast got bigger too, the one doesn’t fit anymore but when you see a figure that looks a lot like Jaehyun, you quickly tap on Wendy’s shoulder.

“Is that Jaehyun?” You asked

Wendy looked over at the girl and boy, then shook her head.

“That’s impossible, he’s practicing in SM rite now. You thought too much (Y/N).” Wendy said then pulled you into fitting room with her.

Maybe you are thinking too much or maybe Jaehyun is really cheating on you. You wanted to call Jaehyun but Wendy stopped you.

“Trust me, he will never cheat on you, now enjoy shopping ok?” Wendy said.

You nodded and continue your shopping with them.

~

It’s February 14th today. Yes, Valentine’s Day and Jaehyun’s birthday.

You [9:41am] : don’t be home too late tonight, it’s your birthday ❤️

Jaehyun [13:18pm] : Sorry I’ll be home late I’m busy practicing

Jaehyun [13:18pm] : You should sleep first

You [13:20pm] : It’s okay I can wait for you ❤️

You did not get a respond from Jaehyun after your last message although you already expected.

You feel so empty being alone in this house, so you went to a nearby cafe to have something to drink.

“One latte please.” You order at the counter

“Sure.” The waiter says

You found an empty window seat, you sat down and start scrolling on your phone.

“Hi, is there anyone sitting here?” The man asked.

“Oh, no, there’s no one here.” You smiled

He sat down in front of you.

He notices that you are looking at some cake recipe on your phone.

“Sorry but no offense, are you looking for a cake recipe?” He asked.

“Ya yes.” You smiled

“Actually, I own a bakery shop.” He smiled.

“Oh really? Can you teach me how to bake a cake?” You asked excitedly.

“Ya sure, when are you free?” He asked

“Em, actually I need the cake today… are you free today?” You asked

“Ya I have nothing to do today.” He smiled

“Oh thank god, my house is just near by.” You said.

He nodded and you both went home together.

On the way back to your home, you both talked quite a lot.

“I still haven’t got to know your name.” He smiled

“My name is (Y/N)” You chuckled.

“Such a beautiful name, I’m Hwiyoung, nice to meet you.” He chuckled and held out his hand. You shake your hand with his.

“Just asking, are you single?” Hwiyoung asked.

“Haha I’m married.” You laughed

“Oh wow, as expected, beauties are always taken.” Hwiyoung chuckled.

“If I met you earlier, then maybe I'd have a chance.” Hwiyoung chuckled.

“Maybe.” You laughed and shrugged your shoulders.

~

“Wow, your house is big,” Hwiyoung said, mouth open wide.

“Is that so? But it’s always me at home alone.” You smile

“Your husband is not home?” Hwiyoung asked.

“He’s busy.” You smiled

Hwiyoung tells you the tips for baking cakes and more about baking cakes, then you both start baking.

“Wow you bake so well.” You clapped when Hwiyoung took the cake out of the oven.

“Of course, I have been baking for years.” He laughed.

You decorate the cake and put it into the refrigerator, wait for Jaehyun to come home.

“Thank you for teaching me how to bake. You are my love saver.” You smiled

“You’re welcome, hope you and your husband enjoy.” He said and left your house.

~

It’s already 7 at night, you change into your sexy lingerie you bought weeks ago and wait for Jaehyun. You watch some movies while waiting for Jaehyun, you don’t know what time it is but you accidentally fall asleep without noticing. You woke up the other day without Jaehyun’s figure at your side, and his bedside is still the same as last night. Or you should say he never came.

Your heart broke into pieces. It’s Valentine’s Day, his birthday as well. A very important day for the two of you, but he chooses to practice or maybe he’s celebrating with another girl rather than celebrating it with you.

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[chalkrevelations]

Moving on to Episode 4 of Word of Honor, and y’all.

Wait, first: If you’re new or just visiting, this is a re-watch, so there are SPOILERS not just for this ep but for the ENTIRE SHOW. Maybe a lot of them. Scroll away and come back later if you haven’t seen all 36.5 eps and want to watch it unspoiled. (They’re all gonna be tagged “word of honor episode reax”)

A couple of big things, first:

So, right up front, I don’t know for sure that this is the first time we’ve heard the word, but it’s the first time I’ve twigged to it in this re-watch. As Zhou Zishu and Chengling are leaving the inn in the morning, at the very beginning of the ep, Wen Kexing asks why ZZS continues to call him gongzi and wants to know if he’s still too much of an outsider for a less formal form of address. He uses the word 外人 (wairen) (at 2:30) for “outsider,” which is how the subs translate it here. Anybody who’s been around for these flailing reactions since the first time I watched the show might remember that I made a deal about this somewhere around in the late 20s of the episodes, based on a post from someone that I scrolled quickly past while avoiding spoilers and that I have NEVER FOUND AGAIN and am STILL LOOKING FOR, that alerted me to the use of this word and its nuances in ep 25. There’s a conversation there about WKX possibly taking over some of Chengling’s training at Siji Manor, and WKX demurs, calling himself “外人.” Youku translated it there as “someone else,” as in having “someone else” train your disciple, and ZZS responds with “And you’re 外人?” again translated as “someone else.” This actually seems to mean “stranger,” or “outsider,” as they do actually translate it here in Ep 4 - presumably someone who’s from outside your sect, at least in the Ep 25 instance, in which WKX is labeling himself that while he’s in the midst of his upcoming crisis, trying to keep his emotional distance from ZZS and Siji Manor. It’s used again in Ep 26, when ZZS finds WKX giving training advice to Chengling, and it’s one of the ways they have WKX and A-Xiang reflect each other, when she uses it in Ep 29, and rejects it as a description of herself, in order to claim a place in Cao Weining’s sect/family (which, now, knowing … GOD. My HEART). Anyway, I found it super-interesting that WKX is using this word here in Ep 4 to push against ZZS’s boundaries, in contrast to the way he’ll use it later, to try to fortify his own walls against ZZS and Siji Manor. I begin to suspect that he doesn’t want to tell ZZS who he actually is because, maybe, just a little bit, he wants ZZS to figure it out, to recognize him, to truly know him (zhiji) without him having to spell it out. We kind of travel back around to this idea near the end of the ep, when WKX is questioning ZZS about the Baiyi sword, and ZZS tells him that their relationship is like the fish that ZZS unsuccessfully tried to cook and threw on the ground – raw (i.e., unacquainted) – to explain why he keeps shutting out and shutting down WKX. Only we know now that isn’t entirely true, and WKX certainly suspects it isn’t entirely true. (Also, just an observation, ZZS says in that later scene that he’s not interested in who WKX is. DON’T TELL HIM THAT, my dude, now it’s going to be 3,246 episodes before he’ll give you any personal info.)

Also, just a note – I think we make the switch from Zhou-xiong to A-Xu in this ep. (ETA: No! I have been reliably informed by @janedrewfinally that this switch happened back at the end of Ep 3 (at 41:18), and it seems to be part of what precipitates the Completely Reasonable, Not At All Flirtatious, Utterly Heterosexual No Really, Like Bros way that ZZS takes WKX's wine jar. You know the incident we mean.)

The second thing that I really started turning over in my head here is the developing relationship between WKX and Chengling, and this is one of the things that took me so long on this one, because I wanted to go back and look at those two, specifically, in the previous eps again, and revisit their interactions both with and without the mediating factor of ZZS. The first time WXK sees Chengling is in the marketplace at the end of Ep 1 when Chengling ends up giving his token to ZZS. But I think the first time WKX sees Chengling is maybe when WKX’s sitting in the cutout window with his drinkie during the massacre of Mirror Lake and ZZS draws the Baiyi sword to protect Boatman Li and Chengling, just before they make it to the boat and float away back to the mainland. I don’t know how much of the beginning of the fight in the abandoned temple WKX then sees before A-Xiang makes her entrance, but there’s a lot of Chengling flinging himself in front of Boatman Li and ZZS in a way that’s not entirely dissimilar to the way Zhen Yan will fling himself at his parents’ bodies in flashback in a later episode, and then WKX definitely sees dying Boatman Li charge ZZS with Chengling’s care, then make Chengling bow, in a parallel to the scene we’ll get later when Qin Huaizhang accepts Zhen Yan as a Siji Manor shidi. In Ep 3, there’s a lot of weird sympathetic looks from WKX as A-Xiang berates Chengling over dinner (she doesn’t quite have this jiejie thing down yet, and she’s probably never had someone younger than her to take care of) for not taking care of himself so he can be strong and get his revenge for his family’s deaths. This time out, Ep 4, we start with the beggar gangs coming after Chengling, which has some resonance with the former Ghost Valley Master and his Ten Devils standing around the bodies of Zhen Yan’s parents and debating what they’re going to do with this kid before they steal him away. You can see WKX’s eyes start to narrow as the lead beggar dude talks, and he eventually even asks them, “What are you going to do if he doesn’t want to go, take him away by force?” We get a LOT of cutting to WKX in this conversation, even though he ostensibly has nothing to do with this, it’s really a convo between Beggar Guy, ZZS and Chengling. WKX pulls focus, and he eventually provokes that fight, and sure, he wants to see ZZS fighting and hopefully get a look at the Baiyi sword, and he even may think that’s the extent of his ulterior motives, but I’m not sure that actually is the full extent of his motives, there. This episode is also when we really see WKX start to encourage Chengling to continue to press at ZZS about taking him as a disciple, including the first use of the infamous “Tough women can’t resist clingy men” saying. Chengling comments that he was just supposed to be Son #3 who stayed home and took care of the old people, and WKX comes back with the Extremely Significant Comment that “When the children want to fulfill their filial piety, the parents have died,” which is not only Extremely Significant, but also sounds like it may be a quote from a poem or other literature? Anyway, a lot of this is just to say, KINDLY AU ANON WHO WAS THINKING ABOUT WRITING THE STORY IN WHICH WKX GETS CUSTODY OF CHENGLING BECAUSE ZZS IS NOT AT MIRROR LAKE, ARE YOU STILL OUT THERE? Hopefully you are hard at work, writing, because I have been having thoughts about this relationship.

What else? Kind of chronologically:

First of all, it continues to physically pain me to have to look at that horrifying facial hair, ZZS. I cannot WAIT to hit Ep 6.

We open this ep on WKX rolling walnuts in his hand in a way that is reminiscent of SOMEONE who we’ve seen do that before – multiple times, given they put that shot of Ghost Valley Master in the opening credits. Nevertheless, I didn’t catch this right away on my first time through. It took me a few episodes, and then I FINALLY noticed the opening credits shot right in front of my face. Point to you, show. Once you know, this ep practically shoves it in your face, recreating not only the walnut rolling, but a dude getting held up in the air and choked out (which we’ve seen before, in Ep 1 (and will see again)) before being slammed down on the ground with WKX crouched over him (which we’ve seen before, in Ep 1). Later, WKX is concerned about his manicure (which we’ve seen before, in Ep 1). It’s actually a little bit funny that both he and ZZS - a master assassin and a guy who literally skinned another dude (and maybe ate him?) to take his throne – are both so prissy about actual, literal blood. Anyway, is it significant or a coincidence that WKX waits until ZZS and Chengling are out of sight before actually going wild-eyed? You know the look I mean.

OH MY GOD, it’s Lovelace. I had blocked this dude from my mind. Eurgh. Nevertheless, there are a number of things I love about his scene, and all of them are related to A-Xiang, my feral beloved - from the way she clomps into the room, completely unworried about stepping the least bit gracefully while making her presence known and stomping (lit. and fig.) all over his dramatic little bit, to the way she berates him, threatens him with “Aunt Luo,” bares her teeth at him, and makes the eye-gouging motion at him. She is the best, and I adore her. I also love how she literally laughs in WKX’s face at his comment that maybe he just wants to be friends with ZZS, OK, is that alright?

The fight with the beggar gangs in this ep may be the first time we see something similar to the cage of spears maneuver in Prince Jin’s throne room all the way up in Ep … what? 30? … although it won’t be the last time we see it, and each time we see ZZS is perfectly capable of avoiding it or escaping it, making me suspect that Tian Chuang only “trapped” him in it because he let them, just like he only got taken back to Prince Jin in chains, in the first place, because he let it happen. We see it at 5:30 with the beggar gang’s staffs, when ZZS breaks it up by literally flinging another dude into the middle of it. We see it at 5:41, when he kicks his way out of the formation. And we see it at 8:15, when the sheaths have come off the swords, and he feints under them to break his way out. Just noticing.

When WKX is talking about the Baiyi sword as they all sit around ZZS’ sad little raw fish in the dirt by the lakeside, he mentions that Rong Changqing created three master works – the White Cloth sword, the Dragonback, and the “Great Wild Land,” per Youku’s translation. ZZS has the Baiyi sword, I assume the Dragonback is Ye Baiyi’s sword. Is the Great Wild Land actually the Ghost Valley? Given what we learn from Ye Baiyi in the back nine about Rong Changqing and his plans for Ghost Valley? Anyway, then we get some magic pipa playing, and ZZS (trying to, apparently) play WKX’s xiao in musical self-defense, and even though he leaves his opponent bleeding, WKX takes the opportunity to make suggestive comments about teaching him how to blow properly, just in case WKX’s been slacking on his act as a cheesy pick-up artist and anyone’s beginning to see through him. ZZS yells at Chengling for his lack of martial skill, then yells at him for crying, because that always works, particularly with traumatized teenagers who have had their entire family and sect massacred like, two nights ago. As a shifu, I’m not sure how you manage to inspire such devotion, my dude. WKX plays the indulgent parent, but also reassures Chengling that ZZS has good reasons for yelling at a traumatized, newly orphaned kid. I suppose he is getting him ready for all the yelling that’s going to go down once they get to Five Lakes Alliance and Chengling has to deal with Gao Chong and Shenshen. Chengling’s response, with WKX’s encouragement, is to ask to be ZZS’s disciple again. Was Han Ying (who I guess we’ve yet to actually meet at this point (EDIT TO ADD: NO WAIT, he was in Ep 1)) this much of a little dumbass to 24-year-old ZZS when Han Ying was 14? (EDIT 2 TO ADD: And who is writing this story, omg.) Although, ugh, that makes me realize that part of ZZS’s bad mood is that Chengling asking to be a disciple must be bringing up a shit-ton of bad stuff for ZZS about how he got all the other Siji Manor disciples killed. (Wen Kexing sees himself in Chengling, making his bow to Qin Huaizhang, one of the few good things that ever happened in his life, while ZZS sees all those red flowers on the mural back in his rooms in Prince Jin’s palace.) A final lakeside observation – A-Xiang pokes at ZZS’s uselessness as a cook here, and WKX will later ask him why he’s so utilitarian about food and drink, when they’re the greatest pleasures of life. (Really, WKX? THE greatest pleasures? Although that’s certainly an interesting comment given where we end up, in the end.) And it makes me begin to wonder – is ZZS so bad at cooking, and does he continue to avoid it, at least partially because he’s already losing his senses enough so that it interferes with preparing a tasty meal?

Also, we meet the Four Scorpion Assassins, and Pretty Arhat and Evil Bodhisattva have some pretty bold names, but now I’m back on my thing about the women in this show, and wondering what kind of enlightenment or release these two feel like they’ve had, and how it may or may not resemble the mindset of the women of the Department of the Unfaithful in Ghost Valley. I’m not well-versed in Buddhism, though, and am maybe not the person to take on how that religious symbolism is or is not used as a metaphor for female freedom in this show.

This is getting kind of long, so one last observation for now, and I think I may have mentioned this before: WKX has color-coded ZZS and Chengling as a unit in the robes he bought for them when he also rented out the entire inn. He’s not in the same color, but he is in a complementary shade and tone, which I find interesting. Also, his sash is sort of salmon, not the red of his Ghost Valley getup, but not completely divorced from it, either.

#wen kexing #zhou zishu #zhang chengling #gu xiang #word of honor #word of honor episode reax

[theduskysky]

Ok so my head canon is thus:

So Daisy is really Omega!Eggsy's baby. He hadn't known he was pregnant when Dean was put away for not quite a year for pretty crimes. He had her at home. But Eggsy and Michelle knew Dean wouldn't let Eggsy and his baby stay in the apartment once he knew, so they put Michelle as the mother on the birth certificate when they registered her birth. There's some people in the neighbourhood that knew but they all hated Dean so no one ever said anything to him. When Dean got out, the baby looked and smelled enough like Michelle that he didn't question it and he was even delighted to have his own kid for 5 minutes until she started to cry. But it worked out great that Eggsy had the magic touch and could keep his "sister" quiet so that became his job in Dean's eyes.

Dean and gang still push Eggsy too far, thus precipitating the Rotti's Car Incident and the meeting of one alpha, Harry Hart, who turns out to be Eggsy's tardy soul mate. And mayhem and hijinks follow.

😃

#kingsman #eggsy unwin #harry hart #daisy unwin #the way it REALLY happens #fanfics #fanfic #fic prompts

[corporationsarepeople]

These demonstrations were sparked by specific instances of police violence, but they also take place in a context of widespread health and economic devastation that’s been disproportionately born by people of color, especially those who are poor. “Sociologists have studied collective behavior, urban unrest for decades, and I think it’s safe to say that the consensus view is that it’s never just about a precipitating incident that resulted in the unrest,” Darnell Hunt, dean of social sciences at U.C.L.A., told me. “It’s always a collection of factors that make the situation ripe for collective behavior, unrest and mobilization.”

Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s progressive attorney general, told me that lately, when he goes out walking or running in Minneapolis, he feels a “coiled sort of anxiousness ready to spring.” Many people, he said, “have been cooped up for two months, and so now they’re in a different space and a different place. They’re restless. Some of them have been unemployed, some of them don’t have rent money, and they’re angry, they’re frustrated.”

That frustration is likely to build, because the economic ruin from the pandemic is just beginning. In some states, moratoriums on evictions have ended or will soon. The expanded unemployment benefits passed by Congress as part of the CARES Act run out at the end of July. State budgets have been ravaged, and Republicans in Washington have so far refused to come to states’ aid, meaning we’ll likely soon see painful cutbacks in public jobs and services.

“Where people are broke, and there doesn’t appear to be any assistance, there’s no leadership, there’s no clarity about what is going to happen, this creates the conditions for anger, rage, desperation and hopelessness, which can be a very volatile combination,” said Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an assistant professor of African-American studies at Princeton. “I would not at all be surprised to see this kind of reaction elsewhere over the course of the next several months.”

But if America feels like a tinderbox at the moment, it’s not just because of pressure coming from the dispossessed. On Wednesday, the journalists Robert Evans and Jason Wilson published a fascinating and disturbing look at the “boogaloo” movement — “an extremely online update of the militia movement” — on the investigative website Bellingcat. “The ‘boogaloo Bois’ expect, even hope, that the warmer weather will bring armed confrontations with law enforcement, and will build momentum towards a new civil war in the United States,” Evans and Wilson write. They add, “In a divided, destabilized post-coronavirus landscape, they could well contribute to widespread violence in the streets of American cities.”

The boogaloo movement’s surreal iconography includes Hawaiian shirts — often mixed with combat gear — and igloos. (The idea is that “luau” and “igloo” sound like “boogaloo.”) People associated with the subculture had a significant presence at the lockdown protests, but some, motivated by hatred of the police and a love of bedlam, took part in the Minneapolis demonstrations as well. (According to Evans and Wilson, while much of boogaloo culture is steeped in white supremacy, there’s a “very active struggle within some parts of this movement as to whether or not their dreamed-of uprising will be based in bigotry.”) Ellison told me he saw boogaloo bois holding a flag with an igloo on it at the Wednesday night protest in Minneapolis.

Most American presidents, faced with such domestic instability, would seek de-escalation. This is one reason civil unrest, for all the damage it can cause to communities where it breaks out, has often led to reform. Change has come, said Thompson, when activists have “created a situation where the people in power actually had to act in order to bring back some meaningful public peace.”

Now, however, we have a president who doesn’t much care about warding off chaos. “In every other time when protest has reached a fever pitch because injustices very much needed to be remedied, the country ultimately tried to find a new equilibrium, tried to address it enough to reach some sort of peace,” said Thompson. “We now have a leadership that’s been crystal clear that it’s perfectly OK if we descend into utter civil war.”

[hobiheavenly]

AFTER THE SUNRISE

☼ Pairing: Jung Hoseok x Reader

☼ Summary: you decided to play a prank on Hoseok since he called you undesirable, but were his claims actually true or is there something else hiding under the dancing man’s fascade?

☼ Word count: 4.6K

☼ Warning: fingering, cunnilingus (male receiving), slight dirty talk, penetration, cream pie, Hoseok’s huge dick and dancing hips

☼ A/N: ITS FINALLY HERE! I’m sorry to have kept all you waiting but finally I got this out of me. i swear I had the most horrible writers block but I hope this turns out for the better! Please let me know what you think! And as always I haven’t edited anything lol what else is new?

The sun was shining in Hoseok’s face. Normally he was usually a morning person but never after a party. He stretched out of the covers but then suddenly felt he wasn’t alone. He reared his head and his face lost all color. Oh no… he had really done it this time. I mean out of all the silly things he could have done, he truly fucked up this time. There you were lying in his bed. Looking under the blankets he confirmed his biggest fear….he was naked. And judging by the looks of the environment, a trail of clothes from the door to the bed, you both had sex. Hoseok went full panic mode as you slept peacefully naked underneath the covers. What even happened last night?

“Think Hoseok, think!!” he thought to himself. What DID he even do last night? All he remembered was going to Seokjin’s party and getting wasted after the dance battle he had with you and dancing with many girls, but in no moment had he gotten close to you….did he?

He remembered seeing you in that cute black ensemble and dancing with that pretty boy who had his hands all over you. That only made him just want to grab you and mess you up till you forgot all about that other guy. Sure he didn’t well like you but he couldn’t deny himself being attracted to you. But even if that were the case….at what point did he even get together with you?

You rolled over to put a hand on his chest, starting to hug him and pull closer to him. As you sighed in bliss, Hoseok looked at you as if you were an alien of another planet. SINCE WHEN DO YOU HUG HIM? WHY ARE YOU NAKED? There were a million questions in his mind he was bound to short circuit. In his jumbled mess of thoughts he knew one thing was certain. It would have seemed that you both had made love all night long. But it also seemed Jung Hoseok didn't have any memory of the incident whatsoever.

Now he had to face the consequences.

Slowly you opened your eyes and smiled as you kissed his cheek.

“Good morning” you said, smile so soft and warm. it was such a contrast to your regular serious face you greeted him with the exception of the occasional small smile popping in his direction.

“Uh, good morning Y/N”

“Y/N? why so formal? What happened with calling me “babygirl”? I mean that’s what you’ve been calling me all night” you stretched a little like a kitten waking up from a nap, a little bit of the sheet slipping down revealing your cleavage.

Whoa, were your tits always this good looking?

“Y/N… I mean Baby, what happened last night?”

“You mean you don't remember? I mean after doing it four times I thought for sure you wouldn't forget”, you give a flirty wink.

Hoseok was in total shock. FOUR TIMES! He knew he was a good lover, but for heaven's sake that was too much on a drunken night.

“All I remember is going to a party with Seokjin and drinking a couple of drinks, and then everything goes blank.”

You smiled and blushed. It was as if you both shared a secret but unfortunately he wasn’t able to recall at all “Oh that was some party last night. Especially the one you and I had here. I mean for a man who claims he doesn’t desire me you couldn’t keep your hands off of me” you looked down and traced circles in his chest while the hue of your cheeks went a little more red “Even when it's my first time without a condom it still was incredible!”

HOLY SHIT! He had fucked you without a wrapper. If he was feeling bad before for doing this the fact that you had entrusted him to fuck you without a condom made him feel even crappier. Jung Hoseok was many things in this life but he was a gentleman first and foremost and he would never fuck without a condom, especially on the first go. But how do you tell a girl who is over the moon about your sexual prowess that you remembered nothing?

“Y/N, I'm sorry but last night was a mistake.”

Bad start. He knew better than to start with the M word just as you were happy about this. You started forming the cutest pout with a splash of sadness coming from your eyes. It would be a lie to say he didn’t crave to kiss your lips and take away that sad expression. But no, this is time to focus.

“What do you mean a mistake? You were the one who actually begged me to do it. I was saying no, but you kept insisting.”

Hoseok sat up and took his hair off his face. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. This must be wrong, he would never beg a girl to have sex with him. "Ok calm down Hoseok I'm sure you must be dreaming. Y/N isn't here and you are just dreaming. Yeah, you are just having an erotic dream about Y/N"

He rubbed his eyes and even pinched himself, but it was useless, you were still there. Then panic struck him like a hammer. What if he got you pregnant? Damn, he was a goner if Krystal knew what he had done since she hated his guts more than anyone.

“Are you ok, Hobi? You don't look so good”

HOBI? A cute ass nickname? Really? Just how far did all this go?

“I….don't remember anything last night” He said nervously “I am so sorry”

A pained expression covered your face as you clutch to the bed sheets, “But you said you loved me. that you would treat me right. Are you saying you lied to me?”

“Technically it’s not a lie since I don’t remember” he tried to joke it off but that only made things worse because your face was just even more sad. Hoseok grabbed your shoulders, “Again, I’m so sorry, Y/N. I normally dont sleep around so easily. I’m always more focused on my dancing that I never think of girls.

“But what about those other girls you dated? Momo and the other girl?” you asked surprised.

Hoseok sighed and sat up straight. this had been thrown in his face so many times before it was necessary to set the record straight, “Ok so let me clear that once and for all, Momo is my dance partner and nothing else. She and I never dated and it was all a dumb rumor that grew way out of proportion. Besides she’s in a happy relationship with Jeongyeon, the other girl in the picture”

You blink for a second, disbelieving the statement the naked man in front of you had just said. It couldn’t be wrong. All the indications said otherwise, there was no way this could be true.

“But I saw the pictures...And the kiss emoji...you two were so close. And then the tons of girls that you go after.”

“Nope, Momo is completely utterly in lesbians with her girlfriend. Funny you mention that because Jeongyeon believed that same rumor and for the longest time hated my guts thinking I was going to snatch her girlfriend. But that time we went to dinner all together we bonded and she doesn’t hate me as much” He chuckled lightly reminiscing the many colorful threats and hard, cold stares Jeongyeon would throw at him from time to time, “and the other girls are just fans of my dancing and nothing more. I draw a fine line between my fans and myself and I have a rule of never dating a fan. Too troublesome.”

Unbelievable! You think you know a guy and it turns out he’s actually good?? Unreal!

“So you’re not a player?” You ask still blinking in confusion.

“Of course not. I barely go out with friends. Sure girls ask me out and stuff but I mostly just dance, go home, eat, and play videogames. My sex life is pretty dry to be honest. Which is why I’m very surprised I even slept with you”

This was the first of you hearing this. After all this time, you just thought he was always going out and sleeping with different girls, which made hating him easier for you. This entire scene was based on the misconception of this, but it turns out he was just a simple guy who could only think of dancing and if his body was any indication, he truly did it a lot. His abs glimmering in the morning light. You were starting to regret doing this.

You shifted in bed trying to get up scurrying yourself away from him. You needed out of this whole convoluted situation. “Listen Hoseok, I think it’s best if we just put this all behind us. Like you said it’s a mistake and we can just never speak of this again”

“But, you said we fucked without a condom?” Hoseok asked.

“Yeah, fucked me raw all night. But what does that matter now?”

He saw the precipitation in your eyes. There’s something here more than meets the eye and he wanted you to spill the beans. There was only one way he could get a woman to tell him what he wanted and you were right there ready to do what he pleases.

“I have to take responsibility over this Babe.” the brunet haired Adonis said as his face grew a sneaky smile. “I will have to get you to go out with me and form a relationship….probably even marry you if it turns out you get pregnant”

“Well, you don't have to do that. I mean, this was just something that...happened” You said nervously as Hoseok got closer to you. Each inch making you difficult to breathe, “I can just take the day after pill or something…”

“Oh, but I want to. And I wouldn't mind making you my wife” he said with a very sexy smile. He’s got you cornered just like he wanted you.

“Really?” you said surprised “cause I don't mind that we did it without a condom. I mean we wouldn’t be the first couple to do so... I..I…”

You were interrupted abruptly by a very passionate kiss that Hoseok layed on your lips. It was incredible how easily you felt weak and trembled in his arms as he possessed your lips. You felt the room spin in circles as both of you submerged into kissing each other.

It would be a lie say that you had never imagined yourself kissing Hoseok. Deep down, as much as you grew yourself to hate him you couldn’t really do so. The attractive style, his grace as he walked, the way he seemed to own everything but was never smug about it always pulled you in to him like a magnet. You didn’t hate Hoseok so much as you hated yourself for being attracted to him.

He pulled you close as he deepened the contact you both made instinctively your hands went to his chest and neck. You brain screamed to stop, your heart yelled go, and your body seemed on fire all from just one kiss.

When you both pulled away you were both breathless, lips numb and eyes dark from the passion that formulated within both of you. You had to slap yourself mentally to regain consciousness of reality. This can’t be true! Hoseok would never have feelings for you...right?

“I’m confused, I thought you said...that you didn’t like me” you closed your eyes. The room seemed to spin in its own axis threatening to make you dizzy.

“We said a lot of things online but most of them were fueled by anger I felt. If I’m being honest I didn’t hate our first date. Yes, I will admit I didn’t help make a good impression coming in all sweaty and in my dancing clothes. But overall I had fun and I thought you were cute, peculiar, but cute nonetheless.”

“That’s why the tweets hurt so much for me. I thought we had something but then you went off to complain and then proceeded to date another guy, of course I’d be mad”

Oh my god, your day out with Jungkook! That wasn’t really even a date for you. You felt bad about this whole situation, it was necessary to apologize and tell him the truth of what went on but Hoseok continued talking.

“I was angry at you and then at him but then I became more angry at myself. I was the one who blew it so it’s only natural. I just wanted one more chance to try to mend things but you and I would get into arguments and I must admit I love confrontation with you, it really turns me on”

Your mouth went agape with Hoseok’s confession. This was totally unexpected. You just wanted to prove the point that you were desirable to him but this goes beyond what you expected to get out of him. He took advantage of this moment to continue kissing you his hands spread on your back as he continues to press against you.

Hoseok’s lips spread on your skin beginning with your neck and going down to your breasts. You parted your lips the moment his tongue started getting closer to your bosom but instead of a plea to stop what escaped your lips was a soft moan. Oh how you cursed your body for betraying you.

Hoseok’s eyes looked at you, darkened by the lust he felt as he continued licking and using his teeth on your now hardened nipple. “I’ve wanted to touch you and taste you for the longest time. And from here on out you are going to be mine, no more pretty boy for you”

The sexual haze was drowning you to the point of forgetting everything that was going on around you. You needed a moment to think. you needed….

“Hold it right there!”

Hoseok turned to the door and saw Kim Seokjin and Jung Krystal, your personal friends, standing there looking at the couple. Your lover grew angry. “Seokjin this better be good! What do you want?” he said irritated.

“I can't let you take away Y/N’s innocence.”

“What are you going on about Hyung? Innocence? This a private matter between me and Y/N”

Right behind Seokjin, Krystal came out and pushed the rich heir out of the way making her presence be center stage, like the queen she usually was. “Actually no. You and Y/N have never made love to each other” Krystal interjected.

“But last night….”

“You passed out after a couple of drinks. I told you drinking scotch was a bit too hard for you” said Seokjin shrugging his broad shoulders and shaking his head.

The confusion on Hoseok’s face became the most evident. It would explain his lack of memory of any event occurred last night. But was this all really just a ruse? Had all the emotions you displayed right now been a lie?

“And the three of us had a perfect way to prank you” she replied with delight, “well better yet, Seokjin and I made a bet to Y/N that she could pretend to have made love to you. Fortunately for us, she was already buzzed and was looking for a thrill”

You could see Hoseok’s expression changed in that moment. Gone was the smile and the playful smirk and was now being replaced by a stern face. You instantly felt the pang of regret in your chest. If only you had known before about his feelings. Why had you been so blind?!

“I got to say, she is a good actress” said the older hyung, rubbing more salt to the wound.

So it was a prank? He hadn't made love to you? He felt a bit relieved but the other part of him felt angry. Hoseok had revealed his emotions to you so easily. He felt like a fool for trusting you so quickly seeing as how you had previously expressed anger and disgust. That couldn’t have been taken away a in one night and he should have known that.

“How could you do this?” Hoseok said with a somber and serious voice.

“Well at first i did it because Seokjin was going to pay me. When I thought this more I convinced myself that this was payback for all the snarky remarks you did about me being undesirable and i thought what better way to get back at you than to scare you” as you relayed this you could see his face harden with each word until you finished with,

“But then I realized that in reality this was a really great way to get closer to you.”

Hoseok blinked in confusion, “If you wanted to get closer to me then why did you have to make up all this?”

“You think you would have taken time to even get to know me, or even listen to me for more than three seconds without you fighting with me? I wanted to be with you as something more than just the silly girl who you always make fun of.”

Hoseok looked at you tenderly. Even through the competitive nature you both had and the disdain you had always shown him you were a sweet girl. An impulsive one, but sweet nonetheless. He looked at Seokjin and gave him an evil glare.

“Get out now!”

The elder shook nervously behind his tall girlfriend, “Look Hobi-ah we are sorry but please take it easy. We were only having fun.”

“Get. Out. Now!”

Hoseok pulled Seokjin and Krystal out of his bedroom and out of his apartment.

“Wait, what about Y/N? Don't tell me that you are going to punish her?” said Krystal.

“As a matter a fact, I am. My soon to be girlfriend has a thing or two she needs to learn about the consequences of trouble making” Hoseok slamming the door in their faces and directly went back to look at you lying in his bed. His eyes redshot in rage and a stern line on his lips. He walked slowly, like a lion hunting his prey.

“I….I’m sorry” you held the sheets in a tight grip, nervous as Hoseok walked up to you, “I can make this up to you somehow, I didn’t know you liked me and I…”

The moment Hoseok shook right next to your bed, he swiftly pulled you close to him and possessed your lips in one stealthy move. His lips were demanding, pressing you so close to him it gave you no space to breathe or think.

“You wanna make it up to me? How about making that fake scene come true? How about I take your body and mark it mine again and again till you have nothing in your mind other than me?”

His words sent chills up your spine and started a fire in your core. You looked at his eyes, studied his expression as you touched his cheek, then gracing his neck and his chest. Normally your instinct would yell to run and leave, but your body felt numb to instinct craving the attention and the touch of Hoseok’s hands all over you.

“Then make me yours, hot shot. You should know well by now that I never back down from a challenge”

With just a growl as a response, Hoseok pulled away the bed sheets and pushed you down on the bed. He observed your body spread on his bed, waiting for him to fuck you hard and make good on that threat he made. He was determined to enjoy that delicious body of yours slowly till he drove you mad.

Hoseok lowers himself kissing you passionately as his fingers explore your skin, the touch sparking fire on your body, every inch he touched burning. He looked at your nipples for a second as he pinched softly on one of them, the sensation sure to ignite more heat.

But that was just one bump in the road, there’s was much more to explore and have fun with. The moment his fingers reached your core he swiftly entered his digit inside the hot entrance, your pussy already hot and wet from his previous foreplay.

“All hot and wet for me babygirl? You’re feeling rather tight though” with just one finger he started to pump inside “do you think your pussy can take me?”

The challenge, he knew how to get you fired up. You responded to his touch with a soft moan as you grabbed yourself to his shoulders and arched your back. You took advantage of the distraction he had with your breast as he dipped his head to succor your tit to grab a hold of his erect penis, pumping him slowly. The unexpected movement causing him to react to your touch. If he wanted a challenge he’s gonna get one.

“You let me worry about my pussy… unless you think this big fat cock’s not enough?”

Fuck taking this slow, he wanted you right then and there. But just like with dancing he wanted to take this sensual tango for two and make it as long as necessary. He pumped, you pumped, he put another finger inside you while his thumb traced circles to your clit while you tightened the grip on his dick tracing circles on the hot red head. It was all a give and take as you both kept kissing each other almost devouring each other with each kiss.

“Hoseok….i feel like I’m gonna cum soon” you felt the flashes of pleasure come in like a tidal wave and wipe you out in the most delicious way.

You didn’t need to be a psychic to know he had his smug smile come through his face as you descended from your high. Round one went to Hoseok, but the battle wasn’t over yet. “Aww...cumming so soon? And my dick hasn’t even gone inside you yet” he faked a pout.

Your breath hitched for a bit as you closed your eyes on him. Swiftly you push Hoseok on the bed and slithered your way down to his dick, waiting erect and hot for your touch. “Then I guess I better step up my game”

His dick twitched with excitement which brought a smirk to your lips. Your lips sucked the head, the taste salty from his precum. One thing was true, his cock was way too big for you to take. At least with your mouth for sure. You had to use both of your hands to pump while your mouth sucked him in and out at an increasingly slow tempo. Hoseok had slept with many girls in his lifetime but seeing you between his legs bobbing your head and struggling to be able to take his full length inside your mouth was both adorable and erotic. That mouth that once spat vicious things to him was now sucking him off as if life depended on it. He could see you touching your clit trying to get some fun out of this yourself but you opted to just stick to pleasuring him. Your high would come soon after.

But your technique was too good on him in the long run, his orgasm threatening to come any second. You let go of Hoseok’s cock in one pop and it took him all of his inner strength to not come in your face as he saw you; hair messy, lips red from the friction and your eyes darkened in lust.

“Are you not gonna cum for me?” Your catty smile grew wickedly on your face. Seems like you’re both at a tie.

“I’d rather cum inside you” he shifted his weight on his forearms as you lifted yourself back up and kissed him once more. His taste lingered in your mouth triggering a beastly growl from Hoseok as he grabbed your legs to put you in the correct position, grabbing his dick to probe around your hot entrance that was already twitching to be fucked.

The moment his dick entered your core, time seemed to stop. There was no twitter war, no other people, no feuds of any sort. It was just Hoseok and you in a strangely perfect link of body and soul.

For Hoseok, pussy was madness; pleasure feeling so heavenly, the heat feeling like something made from hell. He felt bliss and sin all in one sweet movement of his dick.

You closed your eyes feeling his entire length slowly enter you, the head of his dick gracing the cervix making you see stars so quickly. But Hoseok snapped you back to reality, by literally slapping your ass, eyes fixed on you.

“Look at me while I fuck you, look at me and only me”

“You truly do love an audience when you dance” you said breath shaking with the warning of an impending second orgasm.

“This is my best dance yet, babygirl” he winked, moving his hips slowly and little by little increasing his tempo. Hoseok’s dancing abilities truly shined the moments he fucked you. His hips knew the right force to which to drive you crazy. Soft, soft, hard. Your hips swayed along not wanting to fall back

Your legs locked behind his back as you bounced on his dick. Every second his dick was out, your pussy pulled him right back in. You craved it you needed it like a drug and Hoseok didn’t fall behind. It was crazy just how right you both felt. The crook of his hips gave perfect access for your legs, your beautiful tits bouncing on top of his in the most synchronized way.

“I can’t…I’m gonna cum again...fuck you’re so big inside me”

“Same...your pussy is so good it’s devouring me whole...I can’t wait anymore”

Even while on the verge of an impending orgasm, Hoseok’s mind was knocked into reality. He didn’t have a condom on and cumming inside you would be inconsiderate. And as if you could read his concerns you put your lips close to his ear and whispered: “it’s okay I can take the pill, do good on that promise and mark me as yours Hobi”

“Ffffuuuuckkk!!!” He bellowed as he came on top of you, his hot cum splattering on your insides. Hoseok tumbled down next to you, both of you out of breath and completely dazed after the most amazing orgasm both of you had ever felt.

“This... is way better than a twitter war” you spouted happily as you kissed your brand new boyfriend in his lips.

“Had I known sex would be this great we could have avoided so much shit had we just fucked the first date” Hoseok smirked toyingly.

“Good sir, but I am still a lady!” You feigned indignation, “I never sleep on the first date!”

“Well then, good thing the first one was already over. How about I take you to many more to make up for the one I screwed up?”

“Challenge accepted” you laughed as you continued to lazily kiss each other.

For the rest of the day the two of you decided to just stay in his room where you dedicated the entire day talking about how you felt, about every single misconception between the both of you and of course there was the "obedience lessons".

#jung hoseok #hoseok smut #hoseok fluff #hoseok angst #hoseok x reader #bts #bts imagines #bts fanfiction #bts scenarios #bts fake social media #bts fake convos #hoseok imagine #kim namjoon #kim seokjin #min yoongi #park jimin #kim taehyung #jeon jungkook #bts rm #bts jin #bts suga #bts jhope #jhope fluff #jhope smut #bts jimin #bts v #bts jungkook #j hope x reader #j hope smut #j hope scenarios

[jeneelestrange]

Ok but the whole Crowley = Raphael headcanon

HAVE NONE OF YOU BITCHES READ THE BOOK OF TOBIT

Nobody’s addressing that then therefore Raphael had to basically help some kid kick Asmodeus’s ass because Asmodeus fell in love with a human girl and that shit got taken too far like

So you’re telling me THAT’s been stewing in his brain this whole time???? He had to kick Asmodeus’s ass for daring to fall in love with a human girl and is just like “.............i’m....fine..........(⊙ᗜ⊙ )” until it VERY CLEARLY ISN’T

And like THAT. THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE PRECIPITATING INCIDENT. HIM HAVING TO FUCK UP A DEMON FOR INTERSPECIES EMOTIONS AND BEING LIKE “NOPE, ACTUALLY I DIDN’T LIKE THAT ONE BIT”

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

#good omens #the book of tobit #crowley #aziraphale #WHY IS NO ONE ELSE TALKING ABOUT THIS

[planforcamping-blog]

Purchasing GUIDE - MUST HAVE FEATURES TO CONSIDER BEFORE BUYING AN INSTANT TENT

When you going to purchase the best moment tent, you need to think of some as must-have include. In this area, we endeavor to feature this element. By this, you will realize how to pick a tent. Expectation it will assist you with finding the best one.

*PITCHING TIME

OK, so we take it that the principle reason you are considering getting a moment tent is that you would prefer not to invest a ton of energy setting up your tent.

For this situation, you have to discover exactly how quick the item you are keen on can be set up.

Typically this data can be found in the item depiction by the produces or merchants yet we additionally suggest perusing a couple of clients audits for genuine encounters.

*SEASONALITY

On the off chance that the possibility that all tents can be utilized throughout the entire year, at that point, lamentably, that isn't valid.

You can get 3-season tents and 4-season tents. Think about which time you like to go outdoors before you select the tent.

3 season tents are most prominent in light of the fact that they can be utilized amid spring, summer, and fall. In the event that your 3 season tent is made actually well, at that point it can withstand outrageous warmth, substantial downpour and even a touch of snow.

A 4 season tent anyway is most appropriate for extremely cold and breezy climate as it were.

*DURABILITY

As much as we might want to trust that every moment tent are made with a great deal of consideration and high-grade materials, it is anything but difficult to fall for inexpensively made models that presumably won't keep going for more than one season.

To guarantee that the tent you pick will last more and keep on serving you through seasons after seasons you have to look at how unbending the development is and what quality material was utilized really taking shape..

*CAPACITY

Perhaps we ought to have referenced this point before everything else in light of the fact that it is such a significant interesting point while picking a tent.

The tent you pick ought to have the capacity to oblige every one of the general population you wish to put inside the tent. Do recall that every individual will have their own possessions so remember that while choosing the size as well.

Finding the correct size shouldn't be quite a bit of an issue since all tents accompany the limit referenced in their portrayals so we unequivocally exhort that you look at that before making the buy.

*PORTABILITY

You will likely have heaps of different things to incorporate when you pack for your trek and downplaying the weight down is something everybody goes for.

You should consider the heaviness of the tent so you can make sure on the off chance that it is something you will be sufficiently agreeable to bear as you go climbing or hiking.

For somebody heading out to their outdoors goal in a vehicle might not need to stress over the heaviness of the tent as it can simply be tossed in the storage compartment however on the off chance that it should be conveyed by hand or in a rucksack at that point picking something light weight is significant.

*WEATHER RESISTANT

Alongside being waterproof, your moment tent ought to likewise have the capacity to shield you from other unforgiving climate conditions, for example, destructive UV beams, solid breezes, and coincidental flame, chilly climate. For chilly climate, you may utilize chilly climate tents.

*RAINFLY

We emphatically propose a rainfly for tents since it keeps the tent and you inside shielded from downpour and overwhelming breeze.

You can pick between a rooftop just and a full-inclusion rainfly relying upon your inclination. Both have their very own advantages which may engage singular campers and outdoors circumstances.

With a rooftop rainfly, your tent's top is secured and defended against downpour while likewise enabling air to go from every single opposite side. This is extraordinary for light easygoing precipitation.

*INBUILT STORAGE AND VESTIBULES

Numerous moment tents likewise accompany huge vestibules that furnish you with a decent measure of capacity territory to keep your things.

On the off chance that there are things, for example, boots, sacks or different basics which you have to avoid downpour or daylight however not really inside the tent then the vestibule proves to be useful.

For things you have to verify inside the tent, you will require some inbuilt pockets and circles that go about as capacity compartments.

*PROTECTION FROM BUGS

You are fortunate if your moment tent is screened on the grounds that you will be visited by undesirable visitors out in nature.

Mosquitoes and other irritating bugs are constantly present in the outside and on the off chance that you wish to have the capacity to rest calmly and securely during the evening or notwithstanding amid the day then you will require a type of insurance.

Typically this assurance can come as nets which you likewise buy independently yet on the off chance that your tent is screened, at that point that is far superior.

WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN IF YOU DON'T CONSIDER THE MUST-HAVE FEATURES BEFORE BUYING AN INSTANT TENT?

Give us a chance to state that you run over a moment tent which you think looks extraordinary and absolutely fall inside your financial limit and you consider avoiding all or a portion of the focuses we referenced over that should be considered before purchasing.

What could turn out badly?

All things considered, a great deal really.

Suppose you end up with a moment tent that really sets aside a great deal of effort to pitch? What an exercise in futility, would it say it isn't?

Or on the other hand you buy a tent that does not accompany the correct form to withstand the atmosphere of the ebb and flow season you are enjoying nature 

We are very certain that nobody would volunteer to remain outside of the tent when an abrupt deluge or solid breeze occurs.

As referenced previously, a tent ought to have the capacity to give you will all the security you need from a wide range of climate and atmosphere changes. So on the off chance that your picked tent isn't produced using waterproof materials, at that point you will be in danger of getting yourself and every one of your possessions wet regardless of whether you keep running for spread inside the tent when it begins to rain.

Mishaps can happen whenever and lamentably the most widely recognized incident at campgrounds is the beginning of an inadvertent flame which could cause genuine wounds and absolutely ruin your entire excursion.

Last VERDICT

We have arrived at the finish of our post today yet before we close this theme we would prescribe our perusers to by and by think about the rundown of the best Instant Tents. Since we have sifted them through of endless other moment tent models to present to you the best 10.

As we have incorporated the upsides and downsides of every item you will most likely pick the one that you feel suits your requirements best without being coordinated to one specific model as it were.If You want to know more or details information you can visit here: https://idealcamper.com/best-instant-tent-reviews/

[weatherzupdate]

World Weather Radar – Current Doppler Radar and Weather Conditions

Moon: 33.3%

Waning Crescent

Country:United States

Long Name:United States of America

Abbreviations:US, USA

Capital:

Washington DC

Time Zones:

6 (Main Country)

Total Time Zones:

11 (with dependencies)

Dial Code:

+1

↑ Sunrise and ↓ Sunset in United States (78 Locations)

Adak (AK)

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Santa Fe (NM)

↑ 06:38↓ 17:55

Carson City (NV)

↑ 06:37↓ 17:47

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↑ 06:26↓ 17:46

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↑ 06:57↓ 17:48

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Columbia (MO)

↑ 06:47↓ 17:57

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Tallahassee (FL)

↑ 07:07↓ 18:33

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↑ 07:13↓ 18:17

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↑ 06:30↓ 17:56

Unalaska (AK)

↑ 09:02↓ 19:36

Fairbanks (AK)

↑ 08:13↓ 17:55

New York (NY)

↑ 06:35↓ 17:42

Washington DC (DC)

↑ 06:46↓ 17:56

Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.[1] On Earth, most weather phenomena occur in the lowest layer of the planet's atmosphere, the troposphere,[2][3] just below the stratosphere. Weather refers to day-to-day temperature, precipitation, and other atmospheric conditions, whereas climate is the term for the averaging of atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time.[4] When used without qualification, "weather" is generally understood to mean the weather of Earth.

Weather is driven by air pressure, temperature, and moisture differences between one place and another. These differences can occur due to the Sun's angle at any particular spot, which varies with latitude. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the largest scale atmospheric circulations: the Hadley cell, the Ferrel cell, the polar cell, and the jet stream. Weather systems in the middle latitudes, such as extratropical cyclones, are caused by instabilities of the jet streamflow. Because Earth's axis is tilted relative to its orbital plane (called the ecliptic), sunlight is incident at different angles at different times of the year. On Earth's surface, temperatures usually range ±40 °C (−40 °F to 104 °F) annually. Over thousands of years, changes in Earth's orbit can affect the amount and distribution of solar energy received by Earth, thus influencing long-term climate and global climate change.

Surface temperature differences in turn cause pressure differences. Higher altitudes are cooler than lower altitudes, as most atmospheric heating is due to contact with the Earth's surface while radiative losses to space are mostly constant. Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a future time and a given location. Earth's weather system is a chaotic system; as a result, small changes to one part of the system can grow to have large effects on the system as a whole. Human attempts to control the weather have occurred throughout history, and there is evidence that human activities such as agriculture and industry have modified weather patterns

Studying how the weather works on other planets has been helpful in understanding how weather works on Earth. A famous landmark in the Solar System, Jupiter's Great Red Spot, is an anticyclonic storm known to have existed for at least 300 years. However, the weather is not limited to planetary bodies. A star's corona is constantly being lost to space, creating what is essentially a very thin atmosphere throughout the Solar System. The movement of mass ejected from the Sun is known as the solar wind.

#weather #weather today #weather forecast #weather tomorrow

[weatherupdate]

World Weather Radar – Current Doppler Radar and Weather Conditions

Moon: 33.3%

Waning Crescent

Country:United States

Long Name:United States of America

Abbreviations:US, USA

Capital:

Washington DC

Time Zones:

6 (Main Country)

Total Time Zones:

11 (with dependencies)

Dial Code:

+1

↑ Sunrise and ↓ Sunset in United States (78 Locations)

Adak (AK)

↑ 08:39↓ 19:19

Frankfort (KY)

↑ 07:16↓ 18:28

Oklahoma City (OK)

↑ 07:04↓ 18:21

Albany (NY)

↑ 06:36↓ 17:39

Harrisburg (PA)

↑ 06:46↓ 17:54

Olympia (WA)

↑ 06:58↓ 17:51

Albuquerque (NM)

↑ 06:40↓ 17:58

Hartford (CT)

↑ 06:31↓ 17:36

Philadelphia (PA)

↑ 06:39↓ 17:48

Ames (IA)

↑ 06:55↓ 17:59

Helena (MT)

↑ 07:14↓ 18:08

Phoenix (AZ)

↑ 07:01↓ 18:21

Anchorage (AK)

↑ 08:11↓ 18:14

Honolulu (HI)

↑ 06:54↓ 18:34

Pierre (SD)

↑ 07:25↓ 18:24

Annapolis (MD)

↑ 06:44↓ 17:54

Houston (TX)

↑ 06:51↓ 18:17

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↑ 06:43↓ 17:54

Baltimore (MD)

↑ 06:44↓ 17:54

Juneau (AK)

↑ 07:03↓ 17:19

Salem (OR)

↑ 06:56↓ 17:54

Baton Rouge (LA)

↑ 06:35↓ 18:00

Kansas City (MO)

↑ 06:56↓ 18:06

Salt Lake City (UT)

↑ 07:07↓ 18:14

Billings (MT)

↑ 06:59↓ 17:55

Lansing (MI)

↑ 07:20↓ 18:22

San Diego (CA)

↑ 06:20↓ 17:42

Bismarck (ND)

↑ 07:29↓ 18:23

Las Vegas (NV)

↑ 06:15↓ 17:31

San Francisco (CA)

↑ 06:46↓ 17:59

Boise (ID)

↑ 07:27↓ 18:28

Lincoln (NE)

↑ 07:06↓ 18:13

San Jose (CA)

↑ 06:43↓ 17:57

Boston (MA)

↑ 06:25↓ 17:29

Little Rock (AR)

↑ 06:43↓ 18:01

Santa Fe (NM)

↑ 06:38↓ 17:55

Carson City (NV)

↑ 06:37↓ 17:47

Los Angeles (CA)

↑ 06:26↓ 17:46

Seattle (WA)

↑ 06:57↓ 17:48

Charleston (WV)

↑ 07:03↓ 18:15

Louisville (KY)

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Sioux Falls (SD)

↑ 07:09↓ 18:10

Chicago (IL)

↑ 06:31↓ 17:36

Madison (WI)

↑ 06:39↓ 17:41

Springfield (IL)

↑ 06:37↓ 17:46

Columbia (SC)

↑ 06:57↓ 18:17

Miami (FL)

↑ 06:47↓ 18:20

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↑ 06:58↓ 18:07

Columbia (MO)

↑ 06:47↓ 17:57

Milwaukee (WI)

↑ 06:34↓ 17:35

St. Louis (MO)

↑ 06:38↓ 17:49

Concord (NH)

↑ 06:28↓ 17:30

Minneapolis (MN)

↑ 06:57↓ 17:55

St. Paul (MN)

↑ 06:57↓ 17:54

Dallas (TX)

↑ 06:59↓ 18:21

Montgomery (AL)

↑ 06:17↓ 17:39

Tallahassee (FL)

↑ 07:07↓ 18:33

Denver (CO)

↑ 06:38↓ 17:47

Montpelier (VT)

↑ 06:34↓ 17:33

Topeka (KS)

↑ 07:00↓ 18:11

Des Moines (IA)

↑ 06:55↓ 18:00

Nashville (TN)

↑ 06:22↓ 17:38

Trenton (NJ)

↑ 06:38↓ 17:46

Detroit (MI)

↑ 07:13↓ 18:17

New Orleans (LA)

↑ 06:30↓ 17:56

Unalaska (AK)

↑ 09:02↓ 19:36

Fairbanks (AK)

↑ 08:13↓ 17:55

New York (NY)

↑ 06:35↓ 17:42

Washington DC (DC)

↑ 06:46↓ 17:56

Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.[1] On Earth, most weather phenomena occur in the lowest layer of the planet's atmosphere, the troposphere,[2][3] just below the stratosphere. Weather refers to day-to-day temperature, precipitation, and other atmospheric conditions, whereas climate is the term for the averaging of atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time.[4] When used without qualification, "weather" is generally understood to mean the weather of Earth.

Weather is driven by air pressure, temperature, and moisture differences between one place and another. These differences can occur due to the Sun's angle at any particular spot, which varies with latitude. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the largest scale atmospheric circulations: the Hadley cell, the Ferrel cell, the polar cell, and the jet stream. Weather systems in the middle latitudes, such as extratropical cyclones, are caused by instabilities of the jet streamflow. Because Earth's axis is tilted relative to its orbital plane (called the ecliptic), sunlight is incident at different angles at different times of the year. On Earth's surface, temperatures usually range ±40 °C (−40 °F to 104 °F) annually. Over thousands of years, changes in Earth's orbit can affect the amount and distribution of solar energy received by Earth, thus influencing long-term climate and global climate change.

Surface temperature differences in turn cause pressure differences. Higher altitudes are cooler than lower altitudes, as most atmospheric heating is due to contact with the Earth's surface while radiative losses to space are mostly constant. Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a future time and a given location. Earth's weather system is a chaotic system; as a result, small changes to one part of the system can grow to have large effects on the system as a whole. Human attempts to control the weather have occurred throughout history, and there is evidence that human activities such as agriculture and industry have modified weather patterns

Studying how the weather works on other planets has been helpful in understanding how weather works on Earth. A famous landmark in the Solar System, Jupiter's Great Red Spot, is an anticyclonic storm known to have existed for at least 300 years. However, the weather is not limited to planetary bodies. A star's corona is constantly being lost to space, creating what is essentially a very thin atmosphere throughout the Solar System. The movement of mass ejected from the Sun is known as the solar wind.

[shamelesslymkp]

postcards from camp, 2018

still alive, still having fun!

having too much fun at times, actually - I had a mini-meltdown yesterday, complete with semi-verbalness, sensory overload, and crying in public, but people here are so great about stuff like that - they got me back to my tent, got me water, tea, whatever, and let me be while still letting me know where they were in case I needed something else.

the weird part was there being no real precipitating factor - I had a really bad experience on Wednesday night, but I was completely recovered by the next morning. I guess it was just the culmination of a week jam-packed with both events and socializing?? I've been crazy social this week, like, at least 3 times as social as in my last 3 camps. People who remembered me from past years have even remarked on it.

Haven't had a single panic attack all week - or maybe I had one on Wednesday night, it's hard to tell in retrospect - and I've been a lot less anxious overall, which is in part because of being at camo, but is hopefully also a sign that upping my prozac is helping with the anxiety.

Wednesday night was unfortunately upsetting - there was a miscommunication and a few people armed with nerf guns came into the cabin shooting (under the impression that the person in charge of the cabin had signed off on it) and both I and another person safeworded. I don't like nerf guns to start with, but having them so abruptly appear and start firing, plus the sudden loud noise of everyone yelping/screaming/etc. freaked me the fuck out, I was curled up around my stuffed animals, arms up to protect my head, and crying as I tried to say red loud enough for people to hear.

this is the great thing about camp (and the local community overall, for the most part), tho --

the second the attacking people heard us safewording, the attack stopped. the nerf guns were removed from the cabin entirely, and the woman who'd been in charge sat down near me and talked very calmly and reassuringly to me until I was calm again. (I found out later she was so upset about scaring/hurting us that she was in tears when she found our cabin leader to tell him what happened, but she did not let it show one bit at the time, keeping the focus entirely on me and the other person who'd safeworded.)

I kept apologizing for making a fuss and saying I was ok, that everything was ok, and she absolutely refused to let me minimize it, repeating to me again and again that it wasn't ok, and how glad she was that I had safeworded.

I was fine after 20 minutes or so, just exhausted. People checked on me before I went to bed and again through out the next day, which was a little embarrassing but sweet and greatly appreciated.

the woman in charge of the attack sent each of us who'd safeworded a small apology present and card, which was so so sweet. our cabin leader invited her over for s'mores (after checking with us) and she was so adamant about making sure we'd both be comfortable with her there, and she's really just so nice and I have always felt safe around her, and I feel even moreso now, after the way she handled the incident and its aftermath.

she sent me a new stuffed animal friend to make my rest of camp safer, and he's the cutest thing and soft as a cloud, oh my gosh.

(photo and official introduction to follow after camp; no photography allowed on premises except by designated photographers)

I felt a little guilty for accepting such a nice present, especially when I'd already forgiven her, but I thought about how I'd feel in her shoes, so full of self-recrimination and guilt and feeling utterly useless, and what I might do, and I decided that accepting/keeping the apology animal was one of the most concrete ways I could show her that I'd accepted her apology itself and that there were no hard feelings. 

(also, he's so cute and cheerful and SOFT and selfishly I wanted to keep him so much.)

I'm pretty sure I guessed right; everytime she sees me hugging or carrying around my new friend she smiles this really happy smile. I also wrote her a long note thanking her for the present and explicitly telling her that sometimes things go bad, it happens, and that the way she'd responded in the aftermath, both immediate and longer-term, was more important to my impression of / feelings about her, and that I do still feel safe around her and would love it if she joined us for s'mores.

my cabin leader told me she told him about the note and how much it meant to her, and I'm really glad.

obviously, it would've been better for no one to need to safeword, but my silver lining is that (almost paradoxically) I feel even safer in camp than I did before.

accepting accountability and attempting atonement are, I think, the two really key parts of responding appropriately to having hurt someone.

and she did both. 

#postcards from camp #camp crucible 2018 #non-kinky use of safewords

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Sideman quits Radio 1Xtra over BBC’s use of racial slur

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BBC 1Xtra DJ Sideman has quit the sphere over the exercise of a racial slur in a BBC Records file.

Sideman, real name David Whitely, said in a press originate the “action and the defence of the action feels love a slap in the face of our community”.

The N-discover become worn in corpulent in a file about a racially aggravated assault in Bristol, broadcast by Points West and the BBC Records Channel.

The BBC has defended the exercise of the slur however accredited it precipitated offence.

Bigger than 18,600 complaints were made to the BBC over the broadcast. As properly as, broadcast regulator Ofcom said it acquired 384 complaints.

In a video on Instagram, captioned “I’m capable of not appreciate the opposite contrivance”, Sideman said: “I’ve thought long and not easy about what I’m about to claim and what it contrivance.

“And on this event I very finest don’t contemplate that I’m capable of appreciate the opposite contrivance.”

A spokesperson for BBC 1Xtra said: “Sideman is an extremely talented DJ. Clearly we’re dissatisfied that he has taken this selection.

“We fully desire him properly for the future. The door is continuously originate for future initiatives.”

‘Error of judgement’

Within the video posted on Saturday afternoon, the DJ said he believes alternate can occur, adding: “I perceive it be not something that goes to occur in a single day, that there’ll must be a entire lot of finding out and tearing down of bound building blocks of our society that took a in point of fact long time to manufacture up.

“So I’m OK with process. I’m OK with waiting, within motive, evidently things to alternate.

“However the BBC sanctioning the N-discover being said on national tv by a white particular person is something I’m capable of not rock with.

“That is an error of judgement the assign I’m capable of not very finest smile with you by the process and act love all the pieces is OK.”

Sideman said he become quitting his demonstrate with instantaneous carry out.

He said he made no apology for the option, adding: “I very finest don’t feel satisfied being aligned with the organisation.”

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Media captionDJ Sideman: “On this event I very finest don’t contemplate that I’m capable of appreciate the opposite contrivance”

His option become applauded on social media by others in the entertainment industry together with light 1Xtra DJ Dotty and Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJ MistaJam.

DJ Charlie Sloth said: “I love and appreciate you David! Smartly performed for standing up for what you focus on is factual! You are a King!! This world wants folks love you!”

In a tweet, BBC Radio London presenter Eddie Nestor described Sideman as a “king”, adding that he become writing a letter to publicly send to his BBC bosses on the anguish.

Likelihood become ‘not taken lightly’

The BBC file, which aired on Wednesday 29 July, described an assault on a 21-yr-worn NHS worker and musician identified as K or K-Dogg.

He had been hit by a car on 22 July whereas strolling to a bus quit from his office, Southmead Sanatorium in Bristol. He suffered serious accidents together with a broken leg, nostril and cheekbone.

Police said the incident is being handled as racially aggravated on account of the racist language worn by the occupants of the auto. A fourth man become arrested on suspicion of attempted abolish on Tuesday.

In response to Sideman’s resignation, a BBC spokesperson said the option to make exercise of the discover in the file “become not taken lightly and without substantial detailed thought: we were mindful that it could presumably presumably set aside off offence”.

“The BBC set aside out the context of the news file concerning the dazzling assault on an NHS worker in Bristol. As we now dangle said, the discover is extremely offensive and we utterly accept and perceive why folks were upset by its exercise.

“But, on this explicit context we felt the must present, and file, not very finest the accidents however, given their alleged crude nature, the phrases supposed to were worn – a location which, as we now dangle said, become supported by the family and the victim.”

In an earlier assertion per complaints concerning the exercise of the discover, the BBC said: “The victim’s family were anxious the incident must be considered and understood by the wider public.

“Or not it’s for this motive they asked us particularly to demonstrate the shots of this man’s accidents and were also sure that we may maybe presumably presumably also restful file the racist language, in corpulent, supposed to were spoken by the occupants of the auto.”

The BBC said the option become taken independently of the victim’s family’s needs, and become made “by a team of oldsters together with a bunch of senior editorial figures”.

In its fortnightly bulletin, the BBC said it had acquired 18,656 complaints concerning the incident by Sunday 2 August.

That makes it the 2nd-most complained about incident for the reason that BBC began the utilization of its fresh system in 2017. Most captivating Newsnight’s opening monologue about Dominic Cummings in May perhaps maybe presumably maybe acquired more, with 23,674.

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8 Surprising Ways Stress Affects Men’s Health

According to the American Psychological Association, two of the foremost common sources of stress include “work” and “money.”

The more studies that are undertaken on the consequences of stress, the more we learn that stress is more serious than previously believed.

Before you sweep off stress as a traditional a part of life, here are the surprising and dangerous ways stress affects men’s health and wellbeing.

Insomnia

Stress causes hyperarousal, a state where those affected don’t feel tired and may have problems falling or staying asleep.

Although stressful events often cause short periods of sleeplessness, men who are exposed to long-term chronic stress are vulnerable to insomnia and sleep disorders.

Hair Loss

Although reports are still inconclusive, stress is additionally thought to trigger hair loss and therefore the condition referred to as alopecia.

Anxiety and stress also contribute to the disorder called trichotillomania, where those affected feel an irresistible urge to tug out their hair.

Increased Belly Fat

In addition to poor dieting choices, stress can make men placed on more pounds along their midsection due to cortisol, the strain hormone.

Stress causes the suppression of hormones and an increase within the level of insulin, which are major causes of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

Stress also can cause muscle mass loss since it blocks protein intake by muscle tissue.

Memory Loss

Stress precipitates the discharge of the fight-or-flight hormone which gets the body ready for action and is instrumental in protecting individuals from danger. When faced with a dangerous situation, the hypothalamus within the brain sends triggers to the adrenals through the nerves. The adrenals, in turn, release hormones like cortisol and adrenaline which, among other things, raise your blood glucose and vital sign levels.

Although the discharge of cortisol is ok if you would like to outrun an armed attacker, the unnecessary release of cortisol (caused by stress) are often harmful if it continues over an extended period. Such increased levels of cortisol within the body will interfere with one’s ability to make new memories and inhibit the effective functioning of neurotransmitters, making it hard to retrieve memories or think straight.

Heart Disease

Studies by the U.S Department of Agriculture found that men with high-stress jobs usually eat quite those in low-stress occupations. this is often because they delay regular meals and find yourself eating quite necessary thanks to the long gap in between meals.

Aside from skipping meals, stress also makes men eat unhealthy foods and obtain less sleep, all of which contribute to increased vital signs, making them susceptible to infections, strokes, and heart attacks.

Stress studies were undertaken by the American Journal of Cardiology also pointed to worry together of the factors which will increase the danger of coronary heart condition in men. Stress increases inflammation which causes cholesterol particles to connect themselves to the walls of the blood vessels.

Poor Decisions

Making clear decisions supported evidence or prior knowledge is vital for both career and private success. Stress, however, impacts the power of men to form judgment calls.

Men who are browsing tough times, having a private or domestic crisis, or overworking themselves are more likely to form poor decisions and have reduced psychological state. they’ll engage in behaviors like excess consumption of alcohol, use of illicit drugs, or dangerous sexual entanglements to alleviate the symptoms of stress.

Low Sperm Count

If you’re trying to possess a baby, stress is often an enormous problem. Studies have shown that those men who are experiencing extreme stress can have a markedly lower sperm count than those that are more relaxed.

Even if you’re ready to procreate, your children could also be suffering from your stress levels. Stress has been shown to mutate genes that may then be passed along to your offspring. These mutated genes may result in your children’s reduced ability to affect stress and may also contribute to the event of neuropsychiatric diseases.

Early Death

Analysis of over 20 million people that lost their jobs showed that major life events (which precipitate stress) are often deadly. Men who are within the early or middle stages of their careers were more likely to die as a result of stress-induced ailments from job loss than women or men within the later a part of their careers.

Other major life events like the death of a beloved, personal illness, natural disasters, and marital separation have serious mental and physical consequences and may increase the incidence of a heart condition in affected people.

These stressors also cause major depression and anxiety, which successively results in behaviors like physical inactivity and drug abuse that exacerbates the matter. Stress also can place affected men in danger of suicidal thoughts.

Whether you’re experiencing it at work, at home, or both — stress may be a big deal. once you realize all the negative effects of stress on your physical and psychological state, you ought to be convinced that treating your stress now’s beneficial for you and people you’re kee

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Failure

2019 is gone and it’s not coming back. That’s a small mercy because 2019 was a pretty bad year for me. As I reflect on the year that was, I’m particularly drawn to a certain incident that was its low point - but it would be disingenuous to pretend it was an isolated anomaly.

I am 35 and I am a failure. I am a failure because I have failed to become a person, and the circumstances necessary to my -somehow!- becoming a human being no longer exist.

I spent my childhood and teenage years terrified of others, and of the harm I was causing to my mother simply by existing. I chose self-loathing and self-sabotage as the outlook and the method, respectively, I’d adopt to make something out of this guilt. I never acquired social skills, and never really wanted to. I hid, and got good at it. I sublimated the disgust my mother felt toward me into a fear and loathing of women in general. I gorged on all the cynicism I could find and I felt in some small way that I knew something the rest of the world didn’t. At age 12, I felt like some Gnostic scholar for believing that all human matters were all connected in a great chain of sadism.

I wasn’t happy, and I was OK with that so long as my beliefs were not challenged by what I saw and heard around me. I resented the obligatory love subplots in books and movies, but I knew these were fiction and would be heinous, shrieking frauds if they were real.

But sometimes, for my sins, I would perceive things around me that I could not reconcile with my beliefs. It might have been a teenage couple kissing, or a kid at school who didn’t self-sabotage when I would have, but more than anything, it was seeing groups of friends that triggered me. Self-loathing and self-sabotage aren’t terribly nice things, but they offer a sense of agency and that is something I never had in any other way as a child and teenager. Being confronted with external inputs that challenge the underlying validity of these sent me right the fuck back to square one, to being six or seven and not fucking understanding why my mother didn’t want to see or touch me but would much rather scrub and scrub her hands for literal hours.

In a very real sense, I am a failure because as a child, I made my continued mental and emotional survival contingent on the preservation of a self-destructive outlook and the continuation of its practice.

This isn’t a particularly new observation. I was all too aware of the vital necessity of preserving these self-beliefs when I was 15, and even before that. How could I not be, when I could count on being blue-shelled right back to this primitive place of infantile despair at least every other day?

Even then, I realised that I couldn’t do this forever. I’ve known for a long time that a day would come when I could no longer keep going on the momentum of these core self-beliefs. I’ve been kicking that can down the road for decades.

Shortly after I turned twenty, I lived through a period of great doubt. I thought about my future and saw no path that would let me carry on. I saw with terrifying clarity that once I settled into adulthood, my self-loathing and my endless acts of self-sabotage and self-harm would start to collapse as I had fewer interactions with others and less to fear of them. I foresaw a terrible Robert Pirsig-style breakdown and it agitated me greatly.

This, much more than any other reason, is why I emigrated to Ireland when I was 22. I couldn’t face that complete collapse of this childish, maladaptive, avoidant self and staying in France would surely have precipitated that. So I chose to be a self-loathing emigrant instead.

The self-loathing part is absolutely essential to understanding why and how I did this. In what I would describe with no small amount of pride as a self-sabotage power move, I decided to use all the xenophobic resentment of migrants I’d heard growing up, and create circumstances that would facilitate the conversion of my father’s xenophobia into self-aggression. Brilliant stuff.

I approached this funny business of being a migrant with the perverse desire of eliciting xenophobic resentment, because that is what I knew I needed to keep going.

And I did find some of it, particularly at the start.

And it did keep me going.

But only so far. I’m not the same person-shaped failure I was 13 years ago. In my twenties, I tortured myself by trying to be social, motivated in part by the secret desire to get a boost of xenophobia that would keep me going a while longer. Eventually, I stopped having any kind of human interaction outside of work. At the same time, I have moved up the value chain at work. I am more useful to my employer now than I was in 2006, and this shapes the interactions I have in the workplace.

A bit over two years ago, I started a new job in a very small, very niche kind of company. It’s not in the tech industry, it’s roughly at gender parity (as far as I can tell people’s genders) and it’s culturally a very caring kind of place. Not performatively woke, but I think genuinely concerned with people being safe and getting help when they need it.

That’s lovely, but it’s also a very difficult place for me to exist the way I must exist. I like the company, and I like the work, but maintaining my self-beliefs in that environment has been very difficult. For a while, I subconsciously expressed that in terms of physical discomfort, feeling intensely cold when no one else around was. I believe I chose to quit eating lunch as a way to punish myself and distract myself from having to process this caring, and therefore challenging, environment. Likewise, I chose to work longer hours than anyone else to somehow pretend to myself that I was in an exploitative environment. But that didn’t really cut it.

At some point in mid-2018, I crossed a line. I semi-consciously chose to believe that the people I worked with were blaming me, personally, for imagined failings. And it didn’t take too long for me to start verbalising that. I know that this caused some distress to my coworkers and I was eventually referred to a psych eval in November of that year.

I started therapy in early ‘19 and discontinued around August. It was CBT and ultimately a waste of time and energy. “Just don’t do that thing your entire survival depends on doing” isn’t very actionable and my shrink wasn’t too interested in whys and wherefores.

The second half of last year is when all of this, everything I’ve written since the first paragraph, came crashing down. I was struggling mightily to maintain my sense of self, in an environment that wasn’t harsh enough. I had taken to spending time online looking for alt-rightish xenophobia I could convince myself was as good as real-life. And I did find it, it’s out there, but believing that what I’d read on reddit or in the comment section of popular websites applied to me personally was putting some added strain on my sense of self.

But what really made 2019 such a difficult time was simply hearing colleagues merrily chatting and laughing the day away, and just having a great time together. That sent me right back to what I called a “primitive place of infantile despair” earlier, but with the added bonus of being reminded that I’m too old, too far down that path and just too developmentally stunted to do anything about it. 2019 felt like getting my head pushed under the water over and over again.

This grew to be something of a personal crisis. I tried to bottle it for as long as I could, and then one day I just couldn’t keep it in anymore. I had a head like an egg full of plasma and so I crossed a second line, and took projection to the next fucking level. I chose to unload all that strain, all the challenges to my continued self-loathing identity on a genuinely lovely woman I work with.

By unload, I mean that I accused her of the behaviour I wished she’d have displayed, using her good-natured socialising as a weasely entry-point: “You can get away with being pleasantly social in the workplace because you’re a privileged, xenophobic person (of the kind I desperately need to despise me so I can avoid a complete breakdown)”.

That hurt her feelings, as I knew it would. The hurt, the cruelty wasn’t the point, I was disgusted by it before, during and after, and yet I did it regardless out of sheer despair. This was the low point of last year, and easily in my all-time bottom three.

There were consequences, of course. I was sent for another psych eval and I have been advised to seek an ASD diagnosis. I was directed to a new therapist who does the old-school Freudian psychoanalysis thing. I find that more productive than CBT - in many ways I see it as an extension of what I’m trying to do here.

The real consequence, though, is that this bell cannot be un-rung, and that woman un-hurt. I have to live with that, and she has to see me five days a week. I didn’t even apologise to her, I just spoke at her about how wretched a failure I am.

I’ve thought about that every day since, and I still think that however awful that was I would do it again if I found myself in the same amount of pain. I don’t want it to come to that, but I fear these moments will be more frequent and more damaging. While it’s kind of fun, I don’t think psychotherapy is really going to defuse that bomb.

I’m a failure, and I’ve run out road. There are basically three paths now. I can try and pull another big life change to buy some more years of continued self-orthodoxy. I can go for a running jump in Howth and end it all. Or I can face the music and have my mental breakdown.

#self-sabotage #self-loathing #projection #neckbeard #workplace #migration #ireland