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kitausu · 1 year
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Neil and Kevin on Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition where Kevin cringes every time he feels there is too much butter in a dish and keeps gettinf dinged for bland food. Meanwhile, Neil is so used to cutting things up into weirdly small bites because that's what Andrew likes that the chefs have to hover over him to stop him.
Also both of them being SUPREMELY competitive about it to the point that it is a running joke, but also there's no way Kevin is letting Neil win.
Also consider Neil and Kevin both making it to the semi finals for different teams and the show flying Andrew in for both Neil and Kevin as the person they want to impress with their cooking. It's the first time they've ever had something like that happen and all the foxes (and Andrew's fans) are delighted to see Andrew impassively eating elaborate dishes on very silly realty TV.
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*Hawkins Realty – Steve Harrington
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Warnings: public sex, protected sex, riding kink, language
After high school, I started working at my mom's realty office. It only took a few months for me to get my license. By then, I had already sold three houses. I quickly became one of my mom's best agents. I've watched her sell houses my entire life. It wasn't hard to duplicate what she did.
I was in the middle of showing the couple the kitchen moldings when the door opened.
"I'll be right with you," I called.
"Thank you, ma'am," he said, his voice dark. That would've been innocent to anyone who didn't know Steve Harrington. Not to me. To me, he wants something and it was clear what he wanted – me.
As I finished showing the couple the house, I felt Steve's eyes follow me around. Every time I looked at him, he had nothing but lust in his eyes. I could tell that all he wanted was to tear my clothes off. And I desperately wanted him to.
The second my client left and the door shut behind them, I dropped my planner and ran over to Steve. He laughed as he caught me. I pressed my lips to his, him instantly kissing me back. He wrapped my legs around his waist and he took a few steps backward until we got to the couch. I smirked against his lips as he sat down with me on his lap.
Our tongues fought for dominance as I rocked my hips against his. I moaned when he put his hands on my thighs, slowly pushing my skirt up my legs.
"You've been working so much," he moaned against my lips.
"I'm sorry," I moaned back. "But the market. . ."
"Forget the market and focus on me," he pouted, breaking the kiss. I smirked at him as I reached down and slowly started undoing his pants. He lifted his hips, allowing me to slide his jeans down. I made him moan as I sat up just to roughly bring my hips down to his.
"That's it," he swore under his breath. I pressed my lips back to his as we continued to grind down against each other.
"Steve," I moaned. "Baby, I have another showing in half an hour."
"That gives us half an hour."
I gasped when he ripped off my underwear and moved my hips so he could push into me. With his hands tightly gripping my waist, I rode him. We started breathing heavily as our movements became sharper and longer.
As our hips moved against each other, our moans got louder with each thrust. I broke the kiss and looked into his eyes. Without breaking eye contact, I continued riding him as I reached up and unbuttoned my shirt. Steve chewed on his lip as I slowly revealed that I was wearing his favorite bra. It was see-through lace and unhooked in the front.
I gasped, instantly laughing as he put his hands on my shoulder blades and brought my chest to his face. I took a shaky breath as he started biting the skin that was poking out behind my bra. He licked and bit, licked and bit. All the while, massaging my shoulder blades. As he chewed on me, I continued to ride him.
"Steve," I moaned as he found the clasp and started working at it with his teeth. "Shirtless," I gasped. "Get shirtless. Now."
"Yes, ma'am." He grunted as he finally pulled away from me. I continued to bounce on him as he tore off his shirt. He started to lay us down, but I stopped him.
"Na-ah," I teased. "We're staying right where we are, baby."
"Then keep going."
"Weren't you doing something?" I asked, innocently poking my chest out.
Steve smirked before putting his lips back on my chest. I breathed shakily as he struggled to unclasp my bra. I moaned when it finally popped open.
"There we go," I moaned.
The second it was open, Steve wrapped his lips around my breast. I put my hand on the back of his neck, pushing him more against my chest. For a brief second, I forgot that I was supposed to be pleasuring him. As I went back to it, he bit my breast.
"Oh baby," he moaned against my chest. "This feels so good, baby girl."
"I'm glad you like it," I said shakily. The more I rocked my hips, the shakier my legs got. Right as we were about to peak, I stood up.
"What are you doing?" He pouted, breathing heavily.
Steve smirked, excitement burning in his eyes as I leaned forward and grabbed the blanket that was draped across the back of the couch behind him. I ignored his pout as I climbed off his lap and wrapped the blanket around me.
"Grab our clothes," I smirked. "And then come find me."
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We let out loud moans as we reached our peaks. Steve rolled off of me, both of us struggling to catch our breaths.
"We should really break in the beds at your houses more often," he joked as he grabbed my hand and pulled me back into his chest.
"Are you kidding?" I scoffed. "If my Mom found out my boyfriend was sneaking over and we were having sex in the beds, she'd kill me."
"But you enjoyed it, right?" He teased as his hands got a little too low.
I held back my moan as he squeezed my ass. Steve laughed as he rolled us so I was on top of him. I rubbed my chest against his as he massaged my ass.
I put my hands by his head and slid my body down his. He moaned as I slipped him into me. The second I pushed him into me, he rolled us over. We laughed as we started what we just finished.
"Miss Y/L/N?"
"Shit," I giggled. "That's my four o'clock."
"Are you here?" The wife called out.
"I'll be right down!" I called back.
I stood up and quickly got out of bed. I grabbed my clothes and started getting dressed as fastly as I could. I looked over my shoulder and blushed when I saw Steve still in bed, the blanket barely covering him.
"You need to sneak out," I smirked. "They're gonna wanna see the master bedroom."
"Or you could tell them you already have a buyer," Steve said slowly as he got out of bed.
"What buyer?" I laughed as I finished getting dressed. "It barely went on the market and I've only shown it to the guy who looks more at me than at the house and a couple who is thinking about moving but probably won't."
I turned toward him, my breath getting caught in my throat. And not because he was only in his boxers. The look on his face was a soft smile.
"You do have a buyer," he whispered as he grabbed my hand and pulled me into his chest.
"Steve," I said, his name getting stuck in my throat.
"What if I bought the house," he said slowly, "for us?"
"Are you. . . Are you serious?" I stuttered.
"Of course," he smiled as he tightened his arms around my waist. "I love you, Y/N. This house would be perfect for us. For our life."
"I love you too, Steve," I said with happy tears streaming down my face. I leaned in and pressed my lips to his. I instantly felt his smile as he sweetly kissed me. Before we could get too lost in the kiss, the woman called out again.
"Hello?"
"So sorry, Mrs. Hendricks," I called back. "I'm finishing up with another couple. I'll be right down."
I looked up to see Steve nervously chewing his bottom lip as he waited for my response. "Get dressed," I whispered. "I have to show them around. Once they're gone, we'll fill out the paperwork."
"Or you can tell them you have a buyer and come back to our room," he chuckled, his voice darkening. "We could celebrate."
The way he said that gave me goosebumps. He started to lean in for another kiss, but I forced myself to stop him.
"Can you make our bed, babe?" I asked. "I still have to show our bedroom to my prospective client."
"But. . ." He started to say.
"I'll give them the "I have a date with my boyfriend and don't want to be late" tour," I said to reassure him, "then we can celebrate."
This time when Steve leaned in to kiss me, I didn't stop him. I kissed him back, wrapping my arms around him. He responded by wrapping his arms around my waist. Our lips started to move quicker and messily in sync as things started to speed up.
"We really need to stop," I whispered, breaking the kiss and breathing heavily.
"I know," Steve chuckled. "I'll clean up here. You go take care of your client."
He kissed me softly before turning around and finishing getting dressed. I straightened my clothes before heading downstairs. Steve jogged over and grabbed my hand. He spun me around and pulled me into his chest.
"I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you," he whispered. "Right here."
"Right here," I whispered back. "Forever?"
"Forever."
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desswright29 · 5 months
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New Fic Alert!
Welcome to Chicago! Here you’ll meet Y/n and Roman Clark, Riri Williams, and Shuri Udaku. A gritty tale of greed and manipulation. Take a look into Chicago’s night life and dance scene, as well as their corporate mogules in a fic collab with @desswright29 & @imjusthere2readbruv! Let us introduce our characters……..
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The Golden Boy, a title he wore too proudly and took way too seriously. It was something that wasn’t his own, but the facade of it being his entire existence is definitely an understatement when it came to all of the major components of his life. He had to have the best clothes, cars, house, and most of all, the most wanted woman in the elite world! All of these things he took for granted, but he couldn’t help it…Roman “Rome” Clark, the co-CEO of Clark Realty was in for a rude awakening when his wife, the infamous, most sought after, gorgeous, and mischievous, Y/N Clark, seeks a new source of happiness in plain sight. What will he become when he is stripped of his ego that is replaced in the space that he used to keep his trophy wife?
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A hell of a dancer, a total knockout,and everyone’s favorite Chicago native, RiRi Williams has a journey that no one else could ever claim as their own. She is an artist who loves her art and exudes greatness at every twist and turn that she can manage to bring to the dancefloor. As Shuri’s new addition to her life, and voice of reason, the web that holds Shuri captive becomes a part of her journey as well. Is she wise and graceful enough to get herself out of this one? One can only hope!
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Y/N Clark, Co-CEO and founder of Clark Realty. The definition of “got it out the mud”. Her dreams of being a performer had been crushed at a young age, when she was forced to take on the responsibility of her family. She learned to hustle and quickly became one of the most sought after individuals in the financial industry. She’s sexy, intelligent, and everything she touches turns to gold. It made since for her to marry the “GOLDEN BOY” of Chicago. But, is she truly happy? When faced with a magnetic temptation, and what she truly wants coming into question; will she be able to resist? 
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Shuri Udaku, Wakanda native, Super Genius and one of the best in the HipHop Dance world. Alluring was an understatement. New to Chicago and struggling financially, she knew that one day she would be a force to be reckoned with. It was that confidence and tenacity that placed her quickly on Chicago’s up and coming list, and allowed her to have any woman that she wanted at her disposal. But, there was only one that she’d recently set her sights on. Once connected with the most powerful woman in Chicago, will she get too caught up in her scandalous affair to come to terms with her reality? Will her persistency come back to bite her in the end? Can she win once up against one of the most powerful men in the city? 
We introduce to you
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Coming Soon! We hope you enjoy!!
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ecemece · 9 months
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Troy Dyer - Add it Up (Realty Bites 1994)
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*An update*
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We had a Thanksgiving 🦃 even though hubby initially didn't feel like it.
Thankful 🙏 to the food pantry at our local church and their generous donations for us to have a holiday meal.
Hubby was grateful later on that I chose to try to do things as normal as much as possible.
We went to counseling the day before. The therapist gave some coping skills regarding how to tell the brain it's safe and the floor isn't really moving.
He's experiencing a post trauma response of his brain trying to keep him safe from danger.
Next week, the therapist will be helping with the feelings of helplessness, as well as the hurt feelings from lack of support from family members.
See, I grew up with 7 siblings. Dad never believed in credit.
Dad would never buy anything unless he had the money for it first. He taught us to be self sufficient.
We were very poor. I recall the pink outhouse, the two wells for water.
We were taught it was up to ourselves to take care of ourselves and any situation we may be in.
So it's been difficult for me to swallow my pride and have a GoFundMe account.
Difficult for hubby as he feels it's his job to take care of us.
My siblings are of the mentality, this too shall pass, and haven't offered any monetary support or emotional support, which is the most hurtful.
The one thing I can say. My son and hubby's daughter have stepped up, and so very proud of them both. 💜💜
The accident has actually repaired a fractured father daughter relationship that hubby didn't think would ever happen, and I'm so very happy for them both! 🙏❤
Other coping skills are to be in the moment. I told the therapist, I try to find the joy, especially with my son, who is still recovering from a concussion from hitting his head on his metal couch frame.
He already had a brain trauma from 5 years ago, so it's something to be mindful of.
This time of year can be difficult after losing both my parents, a nephew, a niece, and then my son's father, just last year, all gone within 4 years.
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I returned the internet router and turned off our tv app. Hubby will just have to use over the air television for entertainment.
It really is a luxury, as there is no income to justify having it.
It just would have given him more options as a distraction from his mind ruminating over the deck collapse.
His pain is a reminder of the accident, so it's difficult for him to forget about the incident.
We haven't had too many bites on selling our things, but I did sell a tv series on ebay.
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Unfortunately, since I haven't sold anything on there, they are holding funds until December 9th.
I still had to ship the item and I had offered free shipping because it makes for an easier sale, so I had to use our money to do so.
Ebay is taking $15 out of the sale for listing an item.
I wish any further sales to go through facebook marketplace because there are no fees involved.
I am again actively searching for a part time job once again because the realty business has just about dried up. Not many sale of homes this time of year.
Funds have dwindled after buying propane gas to stay warm, (still waiting on our application for heating assistance) paying the vehicle repairs, doctor and physical therapy copays, 2 car payments because we received notice they would take action to repossess it (no time for the attorney to do anything to stop that at the moment), auto insurance and cell phone service, there's next to no money left.
Hubby only has 4 hours emergency sick leave left.
There are no other programs available through his employer the USPS.
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We are still very grateful 🙏 for those on our journey for their support, whether monetary or emotional support, to help us along during this difficult juncture in our life.
It sincerely helps propel us along and we will get through this one way or another.
Thank you all once again for your generous donations on our gofundme account!!!
We never expected to have received what we have so far! 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤💐💐
THANK YOU!!!
❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
💐💐💐💐💐💐
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beautifulpersonpeach · 10 months
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Hey BPP 💜
Army shooters have been really facing a lot of realties this year because a lot of BTS’ achievements are being slowly broken starting with New Jeans’ breaking Dynamite’s PAK last year up to 17&skz’s album preorders and maybe even FiftyFifty breaking Dynamite’s Hot 100 record of most weeks in the chart. they may even be nominated in Grammy! I am praying that this reality will urge these shooters to either live the fandom or shift priorities towards focusing more on music and the other goodies instead of baiting or being baited by other fandoms. I am also hoping that other Armys realize that this kind of thing is inevitable especially with kpop landscape and learn that clinging to those achievements isn’t doing the fandom any good. And it doesn’t change the fact that BTS is already Legendary and are trailblazers.
In short, i just want a collective peace in the fandom. Plus, im getting tired of blocking both armys and antis fighting over stupid stuff 😭😭😭😭😭
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You and me both, Anon.
The problem with shooters though, is that they rope in the rest of the fandom into their mess leaving us to clean it up. Many of them are solo stans and shippers too, and so it's not like a bite of reality sandwich will give them indigestion. They're already kinda twisted and in too deep. Shooters either become antis of BTS or they get more erratic and find ways to antagonize people more. They're a headache lol, so if you come across one I suggest you report and block on sight.
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princepurrlialcaslion · 5 months
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First impressions are everything they say, and I could not agree more. Below you will see most if not all the info you could want to know about the cat-zebra hybrid (yes, before you ask, he is a hybrid, not a tiger).
Prince Purrlial Caslion is a 25 year-old cat-zebra (his mother was a zebra while his father was a cat) who runs an impressively successful realty company. While he is the CEO, he is not against physical labor and will often be seen with his construction crews helping to build houses for the communities in the area when he isn’t behind his desk filling out paperwork. Outside of his job, however, he is very much a public playboy, often going to bars and clubs to hook up with people he fancies. Man, woman, non-binary, cis, or trans. None of it matters to him, just simply if you’re ready to go.
He adores snakes, sharks, and many other species as his favorite to toy with, though sometimes he often bites off more than he can chew.
Below are the kinks and scenarios you will find being displayed here. If it’s not your thing, I apologize. I try to have a little something for everyone! The list will also have his orientation on the matter.
•Hypnosis (Sub)
•Impregnation (Switch/Top Lean)
•Biting (Switch)
•Hate-Fucking (Dom)
•Vore of any kind (Sub)
•Size difference (Switch, depending the who is taller/heavier)
•Choking (Switch, Sub Lean)
•Constriction (Sub)
•Condom Removal (Switch, Dom Lean)
•NTR (Dom Lean)
•Cuckolding (Dom Lean, but it depends on my mood)
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dragon-kazansky · 2 years
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Masquerade at midnight
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[Masterlist]
[Previous Chapter] - [Next Chapter]
Word count: 2k
Notes: Nothing to note other than reader and Jeremy talking.
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Chapter Eleven - The wrong side
It happened so quickly. One moment you were out on the street watching Ben and Benedict fight, and then Jeremy had you and they were gone.
It was probably the shock that kept you so quiet when you first arrived at Jeremy's home. He let go of you so easily and walked to the other end of the room you were in. You remained quiet while you let your thoughts catch up to everything that had just happened.
You take a deep breath and turn slowly. Your eyes land on Jeremy who pours himself a drink. It's now you realise that you're in that sitting room he had brought you to through the pendant. The pendant which now hangs around his neck. Your eyes linger on it.
"Ah, you remember this?" He taps it with his finger when he sees you looking at it. You don't give him answer, but he isn't really looking for one. "It's nice to have you here in realty."
Jeremy walks over to the sofa he had sat on when you were here earlier. He smiles at you as his gaze lingers on your confused form. You stand there, arms cradling each other as you look around quietly. You do not meet his gaze.
"Sit down with me."
You want to disobey what he wants, but right now you're rather scared. You're unarmed and alone with him, and though he may be a weaker vampire, he was still a vampire.
"I won't bite.... yet."
You lift your gaze to stare at him with a pleading look. You don't even like his teasing.
"I want to go home," you say, quietly.
"I can't do that. Come, sit." Jeremy pats the seat next to him.
You don't feel like there are many options here. You move over to where he sits and perch down slowly. You keep a short distance between the pair of you, turning your head away from him so you don't have to look at him. He doesn't seem to mind that.
"That's better." He sips his drink.
It feels like you're waiting for something or someone, but you don't know who or what. Jeremy is relaxed, admiring the burning fire in his fireplace.
You look up at him.
"Why am I here?"
You see the way his lips curl into a smile. He turns his eyes away from the fire and over to you. He looks at you intensely.
"I'm going to keep you here while I pay your friends a visit-"
"NO!" You cut him off.
He grins.
"You're here. Your friend is being judged by his fellow vampires. Mads is angry. It will be easy to lure him out and get the upper hand. The dagger is back at the house and only you can use it as it should be used. I know for a fact they won't. Mads would rather tear me to shreds."
"You can't hurt them.... Just leave them alone!" You beg.
"I cannot."
Jeremy puts his drink down and stands up. He walks to stand a little closer to the fireplace, looking down into the flames. You keep your eyes on his back, watching him curiously.
"Mads is not a man to be trusted. He betrays, he harms, he thinks himself better than everyone."
"That's not true."
"No?" Jeremy looks at you over his shoulder. "He cast me out. Why does he get to sit all high and mighty in that big house, and I have to fend for myself? Because I'm a lower breed than he is?" Jeremy scoffs.
You shake your head.
"Who turned you?" You ask.
Jeremy grins. It's a big grin. He's glad you asked.
"Someone in that house."
"Mads?"
"No. Don't you know anything about how this works?" He gestures to himself. "I'm lower than a half-breed. If Mads had turned me, I'd have more social standing in our ranks."
"You make it sound like an army..."
"Is it not? Is that not what he's doing? He called upon all those he trusts and knows the moment he hears a whisper of what I want to do. Mads will not be prepared for what I have cooking. He will be outnumbered, out matched, and stranded. With Mr. Barnes now down for the count, Mikkelsen not even looking him in the eye, they will have their own distractions."
"You're tearing them apart from the inside..." You realise everything has been a play in a game you didn't even know was being played.
Jeremy smiles proudly.
"Clever, aren't you?"
"Don't patronise me."
"Oh, I'm not."
"So, why am I here? Why haven't you killed me?"
Jeremy steps closer and stands over you. You have to look right up at him. He's intimidating. A shiver runs down your spine, but you try not to let it show how uncomfortable you are. Though, going by the way he is looking at you, you think he may already know.
"I'm trying to decide what will break them more: killing you and presenting your body to them, or having your turned. There isn't a single one of them in that house that would ever do that to you, but to know I wouldn't be held back from doing so, well, that will hurt them to the core. They care about, did you know that? Perhaps even some of them love you. It's a little hard to tell."
You shake your head softly.
"Stop it."
Jeremy sighs and sits down again, this time he sits closer. You don't have any room to put space between you without getting up, but you don't think he'd let you move that far. You sit still.
"I think I'll just have you killed then. Not here though. No. I'll do it in front of them. That will really break Mads and his house full of broken soldiers."
You shake your head quickly, unable to utter a word. Jeremy stands up and makes his way over to the door. He looks over at you again.
"I'm not asking you to make a choice. If you won't stand with me- which I gave you the chance to do- and turn your back on them, then I have no other choice but to end you and get you out of the way permanently."
Jeremy exits the room and locks the door behind him. You run over to it as soon as it closes and try to pull it open, but it's all in vain. You pound your fists on the door and yell, but you get no answer. Jeremy is long gone by this point, ignoring you and leaving you behind.
Jeremy walks out of the house and is met with his army who wait patiently for him. His eyes cast over the crowd, taking them in. He holds his head up higher.
"Tonight we make our move. Their special weapon is here, and will remain with me. You have all done me so proud so far, so let us not slip up now. I have no doubt there is a break at the Mikkelsen estate. If they don't kill each other over this, then we will finish them off. I ask you to go on and prepare, for we bring the war to them today. Mads' head will fall and I shall take my place as the head of the house. I shall be Master. No other. End the traitor. End the king."
The crowd cheer and yell as loudly as they can. For months they have been preparing and gathering for war. A war that hey hoped would end Mads Mikkelsen and put them in a position of power.
Jeremy dismisses them and they break apart, heading to their needed destinations to prepare.
Jeremy turns to his right hand man, leaning in as he watches his army go.
"Bring them when we leave. Their fate will be decided by whatever choice Mads makes tonight. Do not feel the need to hesitate should it come down to it. Only you can either change them or kill them."
His right hand man nods his head and excuses himself back into the house.
Jeremy walks away, needing to make sure everything was good to go.
You have given up yelling and hitting the door. You had sunk down to the ground to let your tears fall as you realised just how trapped you were. Were they coming for you? Would they remain at the estate and wait for Jeremy to arrive? Did they know you were still alive? You couldn't help but wonder if they perhaps thought you were dead.
You wanted to scream again, but you didn't have the energy. You picked yourself up from the floor and wandered over to the sofa. Collapsing down onto it, you curled up and let the tears continue to fall. You were scared and alone. You had no one.
How was Ben? He must be kicking himself over this. You needed to see him. You needed to reassure him you're fine. There was so much you wanted to say, but couldn't.
You're not sure how much time has passed. There wasn't a working clock in this room. It felt like a long time had come and gone, but you couldn't be certain.
The door opens, but you dare not move. You hear the door close and footsteps move, but they don't come too close. You spend a few moments just listening, but when you hear no more noise, you look up. Standing there is someone you haven't seen before. You look him up and down. He's tall, well built, and looks strong. You swallow nervously.
"Who are you?"
He doesn't answer.
You don't ask again. Slowly, you sit up and just watch him cautiously. Something is going on out there and you don't know what. Your leg bounces with anxiety as you sit there.
The silence is heavy and deafening. The room feels far too warm, and not just because the fire is still roaring away. It's suffocating in here.
"Where is Jeremy?"
"He's busy."
"Can I see him?"
The man is silent. He seems to be contemplating something. You stare at him quietly. Within the next few seconds he leaves and locks the door behind him again. You furrow your brow. Was he really fetching Jeremy for you?
You stand up, looking at the door. You were about to make a foolish decision, but you didn't see what choice you had. There really wasn't anything you could do.
The door reopens and Jeremy enters the room. Alone. The door is closed behind him and you hear the sound of the lock again. Jeremy stands there with his head high, looking at you sternly.
"You called for me?"
"I- uh, yeah. I want you to make the offer again. Just once more."
Jeremy doesn't say anything right away. He just stands there and looks at you. You can see the gears turning in his head as he thinks it over. You wait patiently.
"The offer is this, you join me, leave all of them behind, and kill Mads for me. I will get you your dagger. You must kill him, for good. Cease his existence. You will have a place with me once I take over his estate. We will show him that I have the power to take control and lead the vampire nest unlike any other."
Both of you stand there looking at one another. You can see he is waiting for your answer.
"I will not make this offer again," he warns you. Jeremy holds a hand out to you. Shaking his hand makes the deal and there will be no turning back.
You step forward.
Deep breaths.
You stop.
Jeremy watches you with no expression on his face. His hand remains still.
You raise your hand and grasp his. His fingers curls around your hand and you give it a firm shake. He grins wickedly at you, his eyes lighting up with amusement.
"You've made the right choice."
You don't say anything. You just stare at your hand in his and feel dread take over.
You had not other choice, you tell yourself.
This is the only way.
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ask-de-writer · 1 year
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FIENDSHIP IS MAGIC  (Part 54 of ?)  18+ readers only  (sex scenes)
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FIENDSHIP IS MAGIC
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Making Fiends and Influencing Ponies
An Anthro *Tail* of the Mane Six
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Twilight actually nodded at the outrageous claim that her seal was needed to be sure that she got her tax cut.  “It does, in fact, assure that, true.  However, the primary reason is simpler.  I send my agents to the address to determine whether the siezure or eviction is properly justified.  If it is, besides getting my seal to go ahead, I try to see that the evicted ponies are taken care of.  I do not want to have homeless ponies in Ponyville.”
Ex judge Horsefry snorted, “What do you do if you think it ain't justified?  Leave some poor landlord stuck for mortgage payments or property repairs?”
“They already are, MISTER Horsefry.  That is required to be in EVERY lease or rental contract.  A condition required to collect any rent or payment is that the property be maintained in a condition suitable for the intended use.
“In the past, the Crown investigation has uncovered many instances of evictions of tenants for requesting that REQUIRED repairs or maintainence be made.  That is illegal and those evictions were stopped.”
Horsefry stompped angrily, “That fool bleeding heart way of handling trivial things has cost Sir Snobbin Realty thousands of gold bits!”
It was Princess Luna who smiled like a shark about to bite!  “I am so happy to hear that eviction is such a trivial matter!  Bailiff, would you please serve this formal notice of eviction and property seizure to mister Horsefry?  Princess Twilight's seal is not required as it has both Celestia's and Mine.”
“What!? You got no grounds for seizing my home!”
Princess Luna snorted, “425 reasons, actually.  According to this report, that is how many seizures or evictions you pulled this post dating stunt on.”  She paused to swig some coffee and take a bite from a chocolate croissant with strawberry filling before continuing, “Each one is a count of Criminal Judicial Misconduct.  Those each carry a fine of one hundred golden bits.  Add in your portion of the damages to the Carousel's property and restitution to the assorted dancing mares that you had a direct hand in robbing and you owe just over three fourths of a million golden bits.  Seven hundred sixty five thousand four hundred and forty six golden bits, to be precise.
“According to your tax records, your total value of all assets combined is only fifteen thousand two hundred and seventy four golden bits.  Of course, it is always possible that you lied on your taxes but even if you did, I doubt that you have the necessary funds to pay what you presently owe.  Your house, lands and accounts will be set against your debit.”
“Um, Princess, I had no hand in the destruction of the antiques.  Reverend Tightcollar ordered that.  Anything connected to them should be dropped.  As for the claim that the dancing mares are due any restitution, I deny that.  They got that money by acts of lewdness. Ponyville cannot allow such behavior to be rewarded.”
Twilight lifted a paper and glanced over it before she spoke up.  “I have witness statements that contradict what you have just said. Specifically, the statements of the subverted officers concerning the illegal raid on the Carousel.  They all unanimously agree that you personally told them to not only carry out the raid and arrests, you told them to smash the door pane and the cash register.”
“I was only relaying Reverend Tightcollar's orders.”
Twilight intervened, “I am sorry but we did make clear at the beginning that no such defense will be accepted.  You were a willing part of the chain of command unless you can show us otherwise.”  She returned to her chocolate and strawberry Bismark and warm coffee.
It was Princess Luna who pointed out, “Simply because you disapprove of how another makes their living gives you no right to take away their legally earned or acquired money or goods.  What the dancers do was and is legal.  The taking by force of their earnings under any pretext is theft.  THAT IS ILLEGAL.  The dancer's restitution order stands.”
Twilight's reaching hands found no more of her favorite treats and settled for a vanilla topped twist.  Before biting into it, she stated, “So far, we have been hearing from the big fish.  I want to hear from the bottom of this food chain.  What do the officers have to say for themselves?  They did the actual raids.  We can always get any of the dancers, Pinkie Pie, Rarity or Kin to fill out what they tell us.”
Celestia snorted into her coffee!  “We need to get Pinkie here anyway! Those butterscotch treats seem to have evaporated!”
Luna, putting away her Magic Net mirror, chuckled, “Taken care of, Sister!  She was at the Carousel with a friend helping out on the costumes.  She is now hard at work replacing all of our snacks!  I told her to bring Kin with her when she makes the delivery.”
Rarity, Kin and Minty were hard at work, getting the new costumes made. Pinkie put away her Magic Net mirror and bailed for the kitchen!
“Kin! They just called from the trials!  We need to make up more snacks! All three Royals and Judge Coldheart are out of favorite snacks and are reduced to drinking dime store tea bag brew!”
Kin yielded her place at the new sewing machine and joined Pinkie in the kitchen!  She snickered, “Dime store tea bag brew?  I did not realize that anyone hated the Princesses that much!  Are they trying to assassinate them all?”
Pinkie looked up from stirring up bowls of fillings and toppings to agree, “It sure sounds like it, doesn't it?”
Soon the whole Carousel was filled with the lovely smell of deep frying goodies!  As fast as Kin could get them cooked and drained, Pinkie was shooting them full of all sorts of sweet fillings!  Rarity, having temporarily abandoned the costumes, was dipping them in toppings and Minty was boxing them up, being sure to label them according to which Princess preferred what kinds.
As Pinkie and Kin loaded the delivery cart, including three huge urns, one of regular coffee, one of hot chocolate, and one of Rom black tea, Rarity and Minty looked each other in the eye, and nodded silent agreement.  They began to cook up more goodies for themselves!
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I posted 306 times in 2022
That's 85 more posts than 2021!
306 posts created (100%)
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I tagged 239 of my posts in 2022
Only 22% of my posts had no tags
#resident evil village - 40 posts
#platonic yandere - 39 posts
#the young lords - 22 posts
#batman - 22 posts
#daughter reader - 20 posts
#fnaf security breach - 17 posts
#male reader - 16 posts
#yandere dc - 16 posts
#alcina dimitrescu - 16 posts
#yandere - 13 posts
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#kaleb heisenberg x bellatrix brooks
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#5
Can I have Naruto parents beIN yanderes for a Reader who they found as a toddler and Naruto being a brother yandere
Kinda like the episode where Naruto was dreaming of his life with his family but it realty and they love her and the nine tails also care for her as his pup please
Broken Truth: I misread the ask. I made [Reader] Naruto's Twin Sister. I hope that is okay...
⦁ You are Naruto's Twin Sister, but with Kushina's Features: Crimson Hair, Emerald Eyes, and a killer right hook; Kushina said that when Minato was punched in the face and given a black eye when he was looking for you kicking.
⦁ The day you were born - the Hidden Leaf Village was on high alert and the twins were born without issue but it would seem that half of the Nine-Tails flowed into two halves into the twins meaning half of the Nine-Tails was in Kushina while a quarter of the Nine-Tails was within each of the twins.
⦁ Kushina noticed that Naruto - being the eldest twin- was very clingy with you. He would wrap his arms around you while you slept or scream if someone tried to come near you; that would signal Kushina to get very mad and get defensive.
⦁ Minato - being the Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village - ordered two personal guards to accompany Kushina with the twins at all times; if someone approached the twins or Kushina, that person would be thrown into jail without question.
⦁ Kushina would flatten anyone who tried to touch you or Naruto would bite the crap out of anyone that tried to disturb you.
⦁ As for the fox that lived inside of you, his fragment would keep you warm if you were cold or talk to you in your mindscape while you were sleeping if you couldn't dream; and if you could dream, he would be there in your dream in the shape of a small fox with nine fluffy tails.
⦁ As you grew, the overprotective nature of the family increased - Naruto became more protective, always holding your hand or growling at anyone who approached you.
⦁ Kushina would carry you all the time and coo at you as much as she could.
⦁ Minato made it law that no one was to approach the Daughter of the Hokage, anyone who did would be thrown in jail for one week and had to pay a fine.
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#4
Can I have Yandere resident evil Ethan tall vampire lady and mia x daughter reader
Like how they came to be and how they take care of her and how they rescue her when they get kidnapped.
[Ethan & Mia Winters]
How You Were Born: You are Rosemary's Elder Sister, born years before her and trained by Chris Redfield while Ethan was searching for Mia at the Baker Household. When Ethan left, you were 5 years old and Chris took care of you for 8 years, training you to be a powerful soldier, also - Chris Redfield is your godfather. After Ethan defeated Eveline and saved Mia, he relocated you to a new home with your family and tried to have you live a normal life.
How They Care For You: You were homeschooled, your parents didn't like the idea of having you out in public and homeschooled you throughout the years. They didn't let you go outside of the property lines and tried to have you stay indoors and play with Rosemary and them as a family. They ordered out if you said you were craving something - even if it was a joke. They bought you whatever you wanted over the phone - books, clothes, tech, whatever you wanted...but you were never allowed to leave the house. There was a gym built in the underground basement so you could continue your training but you weren't even allowed to go on a morning jog. That was your life for years; they wouldn't even let you get a job.
What They Would Do If You Were Kidnapped: The moment they realized that you weren't in the house anymore, they instantly called Chris and the tracker they placed in your arm was going off - pinpointing your location to Chris, Ethan and Mia. Once they found you, Ethan would beat the crap out of your kidnapper while Mia would coo over you and call you 'her little baby' before having Chris take you back to the gilded prison that you called home.
[Lady Alcina Dimitrescu]
How You Were Born: You were the corpse of a maid's baby that the daughters were going to eat but Alcina had other plans for you. Implanting a fragment of the Cadou within your body, you breathed again and was reborn as [Reader] Dimitrescu - The Fourth Daughter.
How She Cares For You: She treats you a little bit better than her daughters because you were still so small and growing like a normal baby, plus you didn't get harmed by the cold or turn into flies but you did have the ability to flicker to different locations in the house and the Cadou didn't seem to mutate you in any way. She would take you to meetings, refusing to let anyone touch you or see you, and she was even cautious of his own daughters touching you.
What She Would Do If You Were Kidnapped: Depending on the person: If one of her family took you, she would march to their domains and break a few things before taking you back. If a stranger took you, she was going on a warpath, slaughtering anyone who got in her way and before turning the person who took you into her next meal before taking you home and increasing security.
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#3
Can I request yandere batman Nightwing Red hood red Robin and older damin x clone baby daughter reader that clone with killer croc please. And how they raise her and how the family help
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When Batman busted the geneticist for making meta-humans and sending them into the city to commit crimes - he was not expecting the latest. A Small Child with the Paternal DNA Genetic Code of one Waylon Jones - better known to Batman and the Justice League as Killer Croc.
The File that Nightwing found started that the Geneticist hired one of the guards at Arkham Asylum to acquire a sample of Killer Croc's Blood for the better study of the condition that made him like that - a rare disease that resembled something known as Epidermolytic Hyperkeratosis; perhaps the spawn would have been used as a lab rat if the Batfamily hadn't come along.
Damian watched the crocodilian child swimming around the tank with their powerful tail, smiling like the carefree child they believed that they were; he saw from the name on the tank that their name was [Reader] Jones.
Red Hood questioned the Big Bat if he was gonna inform Croc that he was a father now but Bruce decided against it because it would make the reptilian man infuriated and break out of containment to take back what belongs to him. Batman reached into the tank and pulled out the swimming child - who looked at Batman with confused blinking eyes before sniffing him, nodding - as if the agreed with his scent, before nuzzling against Bruce like a baby would its father.
Batman collected all the information about [Reader] before deleting all the information, destroying all of the samples of DNA and leaving the criminal tied up in a tree in front of the destroyed lab.
While the Batfamily looked through all of the research on the new member of the family, [Reader] and Damian were swimming in a large tank at that Bruce picked up and filled with water for [Reader] to keep their scales moist. As fast as Damian was on land - he was second best to his new sibling in the water; the benefits of a powerful tail.
Jason went around to collect the equipment of making an underground room with a heating rock and massive pool for [Reader's] new room, but he made sure to leave a card stating that 'Big Brother Jason' was going to be [Reader's] Best Brother.
Dick went shopping to find the fabrics to make water-resistant clothes for [Reader] so that they could be dry after their swimming sessions and resting on the rock.
As [Reader] grew, they became closer and began undergoing training with all the members of the family - stealth, combat, pistol practice, and everything under the sun, moon, and stars. When they reached the age of 16, they began going on patrol missions to cover the waterfronts but one of the brothers was always with them; they said it was for in case something happened that would overwhelm [Reader].
But the truth was they didn't want [Reader] to run into Waylon and find out who they really were, in fear of losing the reptilian sibling of the Batfamily.
[End]
254 notes - Posted January 21, 2022
#2
Can I request yandere Batman vampire x reborn wife reader x batfamily
Where the reader died a long time ago cuz of some vampire hunter's and she was pregnant at the time and the boy have final found her and want to take her back to where she belongs but this Time she a vampire hunter and The boys have to fight her and trun her into what she hates.
Broken: A Reincarnated Vampire's Lover that's a Vampire Hunter? This is gonna be interesting. Now, let's find out what happens by letting the words weave together!
During the times of old, Vampire roamed the night and ruled over the citizens as if they were shepherds to the sheep that feared the power of the immortals. The most powerful of all the nightwalkers but also the most peaceful was the Family of Wayne - Sired by Count Bruce Wayne.
Lord Bruce was a rather different vampiric lord - he was all-knowing and powerful but he refused to feed off the blood of mortals and managed to make an elixir that substituted for human blood with the same effects. The same went for his sons: Young Lords Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson, and Tim Drake. As well as his daughters: Cassandra Cain & Barbara Gordon.
What made him stand out the most was that he took on a Human Lover - A Village Woman by the name of [Reader] [Surname]. She came to his castle looking for work and found it as a cook in his castle but unlike all the other workers, she did not show fear to the Vampire Lord or his spawn. In fact, she loved them as if they were her own children and they began seeing her for something they never had before - A Mother.
Lord Bruce began falling for the woman and they began to court one another before Bruce placed a ring on her finger and seed in her belly. All was going well until a Vampire Hunter Group burst down the doors of Castle Wayne and attempted to kill the Vampire Head & his spawn but the maiden of Bruce got in the way and took a stake to the heart - it killed her instantly...as well as her child.
Heartbroken and Angry, Bruce and his children killed the hunters before sending his lover to rest in the Wayne Family Catacombs - besides his mother and father. His child was nameless but never forgotten - that was the only time they ever killed but they swore to never let it happen again.
Centuries would tick along and the Wayne Family would still be in power before the rumors began - The Tales of a Female Hunter going around and killing the Vampiric Heads of Families and she was skilled to not waste a single stake. It was told that this woman came from a village that was turned into ashes and rubble by a vampire lord's coven and she was going to avenge them.
When the rumor that the woman was around the Village of Gotham, Bruce sent his sons to scout around the castle to make sure this woman did not get in but she did - however, it did not go unnoticed. Damian was hiding in the shadows before he saw the woman break into the castle through a window - silently breaking it to where they wouldn't have noticed she was in but Damian saw and attacked the woman.
Once he had her pinned, the familiar scent of his mother's blood hit his nose; he roared to his brothers and father as he ripped the woman's hood from her head and mask from her face. His eyes widened as he locked eyes with familiar [Eye Color] eyes that met his in a glare. His mother was under him.
He was suddenly kicked off and the woman pulled a stake out of her belt and charged after Damian but she was tackled to the wall by Dick and Tim while the Count of Castle Wayne walked down the hall, looking wide-eyed at the face of the woman he once loved.
The woman yelled at him - promising his death and the death of his spawn, of all Vampire until she found the one who burned down her village. Bruce just looked at her and tried to make her remember who she was before he was spat upon as the woman struggled against the two men she once called her sons.
Bruce's blue eyes turned crimson as he grabbed the woman's chin, turned her head to get a clear view of her neck, before sinking his fangs into her flesh to steal away her mortal life. Bruce lost [Reader] before - he was not going to lose her again. He will have back what he lost and no one was going to take her away from him again. He will make sure she remained in this castle with the family she once had.
[End]
347 notes - Posted January 11, 2022
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Can I request yandere Poseidon x half blood rebellion daughter Reader
[Reader] was born long before Poseidon met Amphitrite & mated with a village woman that loved to sit on the beach to watch the sunset and sunrise. When Poseidon met Amphitrite, he instantly told her about his daughter and the woman made it clear that she was not going to harm [Reader] and accept her if she ever come to live in the ocean palace, however, that didn't seem to be what was going to happen anytime soon. Poseidon watched his daughter through the eyes of the ocean creatures and he wasn't pleased with what he saw - his daughter loved and respected her mother but she knew that he was her father and she wasn't pleased with that.
"The Daughter of the God of the Seas? Mother, you should have never told me that I was his daughter, you know that I never forgave him for taking my father [Her Mother's Husband] away from me. I wish he never went on that trip and I shall never forgive The God of the Seas for denying them safe passage... even if I have the same blood as him." [Reader] would announce on the day her mother told her that the man who raised her all her life wasn't her father but the Lord of the Seas was.
This broke Poseidon's heart to hear that his daughter hated him for taking away the man that raised her but he had no choice - that man was taking his place in his daughter's heart and he wasn't going to let it go on any further than it already has. He hoped that his daughter would forgive him and begin to see him as her father, but that didn't happen as time waged on. She refused to use her powers of the sea, she didn't speak to the creatures that tried to tell her things about her father and stepmother, she refused to send prayers to him, and she never accepted the grifts that he sent to her.
When her mother died, Poseidon revealed himself to his daughter and took her to the underwater kingdom against her will, knowing that the girl would never forgive him but as long as she was with him and his wife, he didn't care if she forgave him, she was his daughter. His. Nothing was going to change that.
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( avan jogia, cis male, he/him ) i just saw bellamy sharpe walking down the cobbled roads of skopelos the other day playing sweet talk by saint motel out loud. aren’t they supposed to be in london ? rumor has it that the twenty-nine year old is + gregarious, but can also be - complacent — overall they’re the himbo. they remind me of a wall of past trophies, googling "define (super basic word)", winking at the mirror.
about. // pinterest. // playlist. // threads. // connections.
bellamy sharpe (bell or bs for short) - skopelos’ resident himbo. golden retriever personified. he’s what you would get if nick miller, joey tribbiani, and jason mendoza have a child together and raised him with a ton of sugar.
the sweetest boy you’ll ever meet but also the most annoying. every other thing that comes out of his mouth is a joke... and they’re bad. he thinks dad jokes and puns are the pinnacle of humor.
currently works as the coo of broadmoor realty. how did he get the job, you wonder? well, good ol’ nepostism, of course. officially, he’s in skopelos to learn more about the hotel business before the company finalizes their decision to expand into the industry. unofficially? he needs a break.
in college, he was one of those annoying people who partied way too much yet his grades were always on top. his secret, you ask? he studied. like, non-stop. between his vodka shots and when he was hangover. he didn’t like to advertise it because studying’s boring. he much rather focus on his more interesting parts - namely, his face.
speaking of his face - it’s pretty clear early on that bell is gifted with a pretty face... and he knows it very well. in fact, it’s probably the only thing he could be proud of himself. which is honestly kind of sad but we don’t talk about that
the epitome of head empty, no thoughts. him staring at a distance? that’s not him brooding, god no. that’s him thinking of how cool the trees are and humming a song in his head. you ever wonder what’s going on in his mind at any given moment? probably nothing, to be honest. he refuses to use his mind outside of working situations, thank you very much.
has a cat that he loves with all of his heart (and he brought her with him to skopelos too!) named angel, because to him, she’s an angel. in truth, she’s probably closer to the devil. her hobbies are: biting, hissing, staring at people like they’re her lifelong nemesis, and scratching anyone who dares to try to touch her. she’s cute, though.
likes to flirt, especially with women who looks like they could (and would) kick his ass. he has the tendency to go for women who’s out of his league and would crush him with the bottom of their shoe without hesitation. would LOVE to be a malewife. 
can’t be subtle to save his life. the worst liar ever. would genuinely cry if he ever has to punch someone. forgives easily and is a very optimistic person overall. he could be trapped in the middle of the ocean a la life of pi and he’d still smile at the pretty sunrise.
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The transition to remote and hybrid work will drive U.S. office vacancies 55 percent above pre-COVID levels and leave 1.1 billion square feet of office space unused by 2030, according to a new study by real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield.
About 330 million square feet will fall vacant because of the new work pattern. Another 740 million will sit empty because the buildings are aging, lack key amenities, or need “significant upgrades” to refurbish or repurpose them, the study said.
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About 25 percent of U.S. office space has become “undesirable,” while another 60 percent risks obsolescence without major investment, the firm warned.
Rising interest rates are making it much harder, and in many cases impossible, to finance upgrades that would make older buildings competitive with new ones as tenants seek the most alluring spaces at the cheapest rates.
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“Obsolescence is the word of the day right now,” Cushman president Andrew McDonald said in comments quoted by the Financial Times, adding that the U.S. office real estate market has reached “an inflection point.”
Only a third of office leases due to expire between 2020 and 2030 have run out. That means landlords likely will see a steady wave of tenants cutting back their space or leaving for more attractive buildings or better lease terms.
“The trend is downward, but the magnitude of the shift is still in flux,” Cushman’s chief economist Kevin Thorpe said in comments quoted by the FT.The sun rises over downtown Los Angeles.
One measure of the magnitude: “Friday [in the office] is dead forever” and “Monday is touch and go,” Steven Roth, president of the Vornado Realty Trust, said in an earnings call earlier this month.
Vornado’s plan to build several new office towers around Penn Station in Manhattan is now “almost impossible” to finance, Roth admitted.
While the U.S. is the chief victim of the office building bust so far, it is also underway in Asia and Europe, Cushman’s report noted.
TRENDPOST: We have long detailed the implosion of the office real estate industry in a series of reports, including:
● “Commercial Real Estate in a Tailspin” (20 Oct 2020)
● “Deloitte Abandons More London Office Space” (26 Apr 2022)
● “GM Softens Back-to-the-Office Requirement After Worker Backlash”(4 Oct 2022)
● “Business Office Bust Begins to Bite” (20 Dec 2022)
● “New York City’s Workforce Sharply Shrinking” (24 Jan 2023)
● “Office Occupancy Half of What It Used to Be” (7 Feb 2023)
TREND FORECAST: As we forecast in our Top Trend for 2023 (3 Jan 2023) this next phase in the office building bust, the office property crisis is accelerating as landlords face stiffer competition to get and keep tenants, wrangle with local governments to try to minimize their tax assessments, and see their margins shrink—many to the point of disappearing.
And for many with adjustable rate mortgages, the higher interest rates rise, the more they have to pay on their loans.
To survive, many landlords will let go of older buildings needing maintenance or repairs, either offering them at fire-sale prices or handing the keys back to lenders.
Property owners will consolidate, those having deep pockets or access to cash buying up others for cheap.
As property values are reassessed downward, cities will confront hard decisions about which workers and services to cut. 
And as for converting offices into residential apartments and/or condominiums, as we have noted in previous issues of The Trends Journal, thousands of office buildings, especially older ones, across the U.S., are not eligible for that kind of salvation for reasons we explained in “Plan to Turn New York’s Vacant Hotels To Housing Not Working” (5 Apr 2022) and “Wall Street, Dead Street. Office Buildings Going Condo” (28 Jun 2022).
OFFICE TOWER OWNER DEFAULTS ON $1.7 BILLION IN MORTGAGES
Columbia Property Trust, a division of private equity giant Pacific Investment Management, has defaulted on $1.7 billion worth of mortgages on seven office towers in Boston, Jersey City, New York, and San Francisco.
The mortgages carried adjustable interest rates, causing monthly payments to skyrocket through 2022 as the U.S. Federal Reserve steadily raised its benchmark interest rate.
The seven buildings were appraised at $2.27 billion in 2021. Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs made the original mortgage loans, totaling about $1.9 billion.
“We, like most office owners, are addressing the unique and unprecedented challenges currently facing our asset class and customer base,” Columbia spokesperson Justina Lombardo told Bloomberg. 
“We have engaged with our lenders on a restructuring…we look forward to a collaborative process yielding thoughtful solutions that reflect current market conditions,” she added.
Older office buildings that need to be refurbished to compete with newer digs with more amenities are in particular trouble, as current high interest rates make those investments impractical, as we reported in “Study: One Billion Square Feet of Office Space Will Be Empty by 2030” in this issue.
The value of those older, troubled properties has fallen an average of 20 percent since March 2020, real estate research firm Green Street noted.
TREND FORECAST: These defaults are another step along the office real estate industry’s downward path, following Brookfield Corp.’s default on $755 million worth of loans, which we detailed in “Top Private Equity Firm Defaults on Two Office Tower Loans” (21 Feb 2023).
As we wrote then, these defaults are harbingers of the mounting crisis facing landlords that we explained in our Top Trend 2023 (3 Jan 2023) forecast of this next phase in the office building bust: owners of older buildings needing maintenance and repairs will increasingly dump their properties for rock-bottom prices or simply default.
Owners lucky enough to hold newer, more desirable properties still will have to compete for tenants by offering free months’ rent, free redecoration, and other perks.
The office real estate business will recede to become a niche in real estate investing, not the cornerstone it has been for the last century.
CORNER BAKERY RESTAURANT CHAIN GOES BUST
The Corner Bakery, a chain of casual dining spots with 140 locations across 20 U.S. states, declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week after a lender threatened to foreclose.
The 31-year-old company blamed the office building bust, one of our Top Trends for 2023, for its failure. Its restaurants derived much of their revenue from commuters stopping in for breakfast and lunch, it said.
Sales crashed during the COVID War and never recovered after the work-from-home trend became permanent.
The chain also has been beset by higher wages to recruit and keep workers, rising costs for foods, and landlords who ran out of patience after COVID-era federal relief funds dried up, company founder Jignesh Pandya said in comments cited by The Wall Street Journal.
Corner Bakery was negotiating with lenders to restructure a $20-million loan when the lenders sold the loan to SSCP Restaurant Investors LLC, which then halted negotiations and began foreclosure proceedings.
TRENDPOST: We are noting this company’s demise to mark yet another casualty of the office building bust and as a harbinger that the worst is yet to come.
The transition to remote and hybrid work will drive U.S. office vacancies 55 percent above pre-COVID levels and leave 1.1 billion square feet of office space unused by 2030, according to a new study by real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield.
About 330 million square feet will fall vacant because of the new work pattern. Another 740 million will sit empty because the buildings are aging, lack key amenities, or need “significant upgrades” to refurbish or repurpose them, the study said.
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About 25 percent of U.S. office space has become “undesirable,” while another 60 percent risks obsolescence without major investment, the firm warned.
Rising interest rates are making it much harder, and in many cases impossible, to finance upgrades that would make older buildings competitive with new ones as tenants seek the most alluring spaces at the cheapest rates.
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“Obsolescence is the word of the day right now,” Cushman president Andrew McDonald said in comments quoted by the Financial Times, adding that the U.S. office real estate market has reached “an inflection point.”
Only a third of office leases due to expire between 2020 and 2030 have run out. That means landlords likely will see a steady wave of tenants cutting back their space or leaving for more attractive buildings or better lease terms.
“The trend is downward, but the magnitude of the shift is still in flux,” Cushman’s chief economist Kevin Thorpe said in comments quoted by the FT.The sun rises over downtown Los Angeles.
One measure of the magnitude: “Friday [in the office] is dead forever” and “Monday is touch and go,” Steven Roth, president of the Vornado Realty Trust, said in an earnings call earlier this month.
Vornado’s plan to build several new office towers around Penn Station in Manhattan is now “almost impossible” to finance, Roth admitted.
While the U.S. is the chief victim of the office building bust so far, it is also underway in Asia and Europe, Cushman’s report noted.
TRENDPOST: We have long detailed the implosion of the office real estate industry in a series of reports, including:
● “Commercial Real Estate in a Tailspin” (20 Oct 2020)
● “Deloitte Abandons More London Office Space” (26 Apr 2022)
● “GM Softens Back-to-the-Office Requirement After Worker Backlash”(4 Oct 2022)
● “Business Office Bust Begins to Bite” (20 Dec 2022)
● “New York City’s Workforce Sharply Shrinking” (24 Jan 2023)
● “Office Occupancy Half of What It Used to Be” (7 Feb 2023)
TREND FORECAST: As we forecast in our Top Trend for 2023 (3 Jan 2023) this next phase in the office building bust, the office property crisis is accelerating as landlords face stiffer competition to get and keep tenants, wrangle with local governments to try to minimize their tax assessments, and see their margins shrink—many to the point of disappearing.
And for many with adjustable rate mortgages, the higher interest rates rise, the more they have to pay on their loans.
To survive, many landlords will let go of older buildings needing maintenance or repairs, either offering them at fire-sale prices or handing the keys back to lenders.
Property owners will consolidate, those having deep pockets or access to cash buying up others for cheap.
As property values are reassessed downward, cities will confront hard decisions about which workers and services to cut. 
And as for converting offices into residential apartments and/or condominiums, as we have noted in previous issues of The Trends Journal, thousands of office buildings, especially older ones, across the U.S., are not eligible for that kind of salvation for reasons we explained in “Plan to Turn New York’s Vacant Hotels To Housing Not Working” (5 Apr 2022) and “Wall Street, Dead Street. Office Buildings Going Condo” (28 Jun 2022).
OFFICE TOWER OWNER DEFAULTS ON $1.7 BILLION IN MORTGAGES
Columbia Property Trust, a division of private equity giant Pacific Investment Management, has defaulted on $1.7 billion worth of mortgages on seven office towers in Boston, Jersey City, New York, and San Francisco.
The mortgages carried adjustable interest rates, causing monthly payments to skyrocket through 2022 as the U.S. Federal Reserve steadily raised its benchmark interest rate.
The seven buildings were appraised at $2.27 billion in 2021. Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs made the original mortgage loans, totaling about $1.9 billion.
“We, like most office owners, are addressing the unique and unprecedented challenges currently facing our asset class and customer base,” Columbia spokesperson Justina Lombardo told Bloomberg. 
“We have engaged with our lenders on a restructuring…we look forward to a collaborative process yielding thoughtful solutions that reflect current market conditions,” she added.
Older office buildings that need to be refurbished to compete with newer digs with more amenities are in particular trouble, as current high interest rates make those investments impractical, as we reported in “Study: One Billion Square Feet of Office Space Will Be Empty by 2030” in this issue.
The value of those older, troubled properties has fallen an average of 20 percent since March 2020, real estate research firm Green Street noted.
TREND FORECAST: These defaults are another step along the office real estate industry’s downward path, following Brookfield Corp.’s default on $755 million worth of loans, which we detailed in “Top Private Equity Firm Defaults on Two Office Tower Loans” (21 Feb 2023).
As we wrote then, these defaults are harbingers of the mounting crisis facing landlords that we explained in our Top Trend 2023 (3 Jan 2023) forecast of this next phase in the office building bust: owners of older buildings needing maintenance and repairs will increasingly dump their properties for rock-bottom prices or simply default.
Owners lucky enough to hold newer, more desirable properties still will have to compete for tenants by offering free months’ rent, free redecoration, and other perks.
The office real estate business will recede to become a niche in real estate investing, not the cornerstone it has been for the last century.
CORNER BAKERY RESTAURANT CHAIN GOES BUST
The Corner Bakery, a chain of casual dining spots with 140 locations across 20 U.S. states, declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week after a lender threatened to foreclose.
The 31-year-old company blamed the office building bust, one of our Top Trends for 2023, for its failure. Its restaurants derived much of their revenue from commuters stopping in for breakfast and lunch, it said.
Sales crashed during the COVID War and never recovered after the work-from-home trend became permanent.
The chain also has been beset by higher wages to recruit and keep workers, rising costs for foods, and landlords who ran out of patience after COVID-era federal relief funds dried up, company founder Jignesh Pandya said in comments cited by The Wall Street Journal.
Corner Bakery was negotiating with lenders to restructure a $20-million loan when the lenders sold the loan to SSCP Restaurant Investors LLC, which then halted negotiations and began foreclosure proceedings.
TRENDPOST: We are noting this company’s demise to mark yet another casualty of the office building bust and as a harbinger that the worst is yet to come.
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“So, you are all settled in then?” She bites her lip as she thinks how to answer him. He has rang her first thing the next morning. She doesn’t want to lie to him besides, she may need his help dealing with the bloody realty agency. She didn’t realize she thinking so long until he says, “ Claire Elizabeth, what is wrong?” Crap.
“Well there was a complication.” A good way to describe the tall Scottish man a room over from her, “it seems the flat was double rented.”
“What?”
“Yes, I arrived to find the flat already occupied. We are sharing it until Tuesday when the agency reopens. A grand thing it has two bedrooms.” The silence on the other end of the line scares her a bit.
“You are living with a stranger?”
She pulls her knees up as she sits on the bed. She knew he wouldn’t like that much and he doesn’t yet know that it is with a lad. Oh boy. “Yes, until Tuesday. We are hopeful that they can straighten it out.”
“They better! Of all the things to have happen. You know love that you can return here until it is sorted?”
“I know Uncle Lamb. But truly this is alright. I want to deal with this myself like a grownup.”
She hears him sigh. “It is hard to see you that way. I still see you as the red faced screaming infant I was handed twenty-two years ago. But you are right. I am sure that you and the lass can see to it.”
Now she can let him think that her unexpected roomie was a lass but, she doesn’t want her adult relationship with him to have lies in it. “Uncle Lamb, it is a lad.”
The silence lasts longer. “A lad?”
“Yes, Jamie Fraser. He is from a good Scottish family in the Highlands. A complete gentleman.”
More silence. “I am coming to get you.”
“No!” She takes a calming breath, “I love you Uncle Lamb and your concern but I am an adult. I am also fine, really. This is fine. It is three days. We will go to the agency Tues morning and see this sorted. Okay?”
She hears a shuttering breath from his end. “Christ alive Claire, I know you are right. But lass, this is bloody hard. I am quite used to seeing to you.”
“I know my darling. I can see to myself now. But, I know that you will always have my back.”
“Always and forever. Have I told you how proud I am of you?”
“Yes. Have I told you how much I love you and appreciate all you have done for me?”
“It has and continues to be an honor. Are you sure you don’t need me to come there and get you or, at the least, warn this Fraser that he best be on his behavior?”
She laughs. “I am sure. I will let you know what happens on Tuesday.”
“Yes but you will always check in daily.”
She knows it isn’t a suggestion. “Yes sir. Good bye Uncle Lamb.”
“Good bye my heart.”
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And also how dare u post that pic of Andrew with that lions mane and sexy ass beard and the casual tee like WHY DOES HE LOOK SO BOYFRIEND-Y I JUST WANNA TOUSEL HIS HAIR WITH MY FINGERS AND KISS HIS HEAD ALL DAY
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i love beard andrew he just SERVES i cant explain it
i was just thinkin today and forgive me if you dont know what this is but im into shifting- like realty shifting (ive had a few close attempts) and the first thing im doing when i shift to my fame dr is running my fingers through that mfs hair. AND biting his muscles. we date for like four years in my dr
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"Alright," Wesley grinned at Amayah as they stepped out of the building, "where are we going to celebrate putting my place on the market?" The man had promised they'd find a place together and he was dead set on keeping that promise. "I think we've got some time before we go look at the first place, right?" He looked down at his watch, gauging the time, "at least time for a bite to eat."
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