Tumgik
#she’s like... research colleague is hot? is funny? does not compute
juliandev0rak · 3 years
Text
Happy Vianan day! 
It’s been exactly a month since the first Vianan fic, Wine and Education was posted! In honor of Vianan’s one month anniversary I am here to offer an exclusive look into Beatrice’s diary.
Words: ~1630
Warnings: prepare for pining
Beatrice Viano belongs to me, Lysander Lonan belongs to @leila-of-ravens​
note: there are links to the various fics we’ve written spread throughout the entries so you can see where they fit into the timeline
Tumblr media
January 10th
Dear Diary,
I met Leila’s brother today! I suppose I met two of them, but one was a bit more memorable than the other. His name is Lysander, and I can see why Leila loves him so much. After knowing me for only a few minutes he offered to help sponsor the school, can you imagine that? In a few seconds all of my worries about the school were solved by this near stranger! We had such an interesting conversation, and I must admit it made the masquerade much more enjoyable.
Leila suggested I show him the library and I was more than happy to get away from the party. I only go to those events to make Nadia happy, if Leila and Ella hadn’t been there I wouldn’t have gone at all. As it was, I brought a novel with me, it’s really quite good- but I’ll leave my notes on the book for my reading journal instead.
We went to the library and I’ve never seen someone so excited to be surrounded by books before, it was a bit like looking into a mirror. I remember how excited I was to visit the Palace library for the first time. Lysander offered to help me research curriculum for the school as well, and we’ve decided to meet up tomorrow to begin work. He’s here on a diplomacy visit from Umbra, and I’m very glad Leila thought to introduce us.  
further reading: Wine & Education
————- ♡ ————-
January 13th
Dear Diary,
Lysander and I have been hard at work! I hardly take breaks anymore, and I have had little time to update this diary as of late. We have all of the subjects planned, and I’m quite excited by the progress we’ve made. I must admit I find myself a bit distracted by Lysander. 
I’ve never worked with anyone before, and surprisingly having someone else in the library with me isn’t as bothersome as I’d worried. I don’t know why I spend so much time watching him while he works though. He’s very quiet and It’s hard to tell what he’s thinking, I want to get to know him better. 
I hope I get the chance. Leila tells me so many stories about how wonderful he is, but aside from discussions of the school we haven’t interacted much. I think we could be great friends if he would only talk to me.
further reading: Principium
————- ♡ ————-
January 20th
Dear Diary,
I think I have a crush on Lysander. Ugh I know. I don’t want it to be true either, because if it is that means I have to deal with it.
I didn’t realize that was what this was at first, but I think it’s time I recognize what I’m feeling. It started so slowly, one moment I was just desperate to be his friend, the next I was thinking about holding his hand and wanting to go on long walks on the beach. I spend more time looking at him than at the books I’m supposed to be reading.
I hate feeling like this, I can barely form a coherent thought around him and I feel sick to my stomach when I think about him. Isn’t a crush supposed to be fun? The other night it really hit me how attractive I find him, and since that moment I can’t stop thinking about him.
He looks like one of those mythical heroes from a painting, all broody with his dark hair and eyes. And I’ve noticed little things about him now too, the way his nose is slightly crooked, the way his eyes have tiny flecks of other colors in them behind the dark. It’s driving me insane. I really don’t know what to do.
And, he’s Leila’s brother, which makes me feel guilty? Which doesn’t even make sense, I know she wouldn’t be upset if I told her how much my feelings for him have grown. I think she already knows I like him, and she’s trying to help. It’s very kind of her but it just makes me feel worse because I know he’ll never notice me.
further reading: Earl Grey
————- ♡ ————-
January 21st
Dear Diary,
Here’s a list of reasons why I shouldn’t have feelings for Lysander:
He’s sponsoring the school and we’re technically colleagues, it would be unprofessional
He’s a lord, and aside from the difference in our stations I know that my mother would be far too pleased at my interest in a lord, so for that alone I should stay away (I can hear the “I told you so” from beyond the grave...)
He lives in Umbra and plans to return at the end of the month
He would never have feelings for me in return, I’m far beneath his notice and it’s probably for the best
If he ever were to like me back and things went wrong I could jeopardize my friendship with Leila, and I would never want that to happen
further reading: Apron Strings
————- ♡ ————-
January 22nd
Dear Diary,
Here’s a list of reasons why I do have feelings for him, despite my previous list:
He’s so kind and more importantly, he does kind things on instinct. He lends me his coat when the library is drafty, compliments people without knowing he’s doing it, and treats everyone as an equal even though he’s a lord
He’s good, he’s fair and just and honest, and he always wants to do the right thing 
He’s so intelligent, and he sees the world as a problem to solve. He makes me believe that there’s really a way to solve it all, a way to make the world the way it should be
He makes me want to be better. He makes me want to be kinder, work harder, and focus on how I can help those around me, he makes me want to stop living inside my own head
He cares so deeply about the people he loves. I see how he acts around Leila, and it makes me so happy to see him so lighthearted and carefree, he’d do anything for her and it’s so endearing 
He’s incredibly attractive. Ok fine I had to say it, but look it’s all the way down here as reason number six! There were five perfectly noble and less vain reasons before this one. But really, his good looks are impossible to ignore at this point, try as I might 
I’d follow him to Umbra just to find more reasons to add to this list
Oh dear, it seems the pros outweigh the cons.
further reading: Three Dresses
————- ♡ ————-
January 30th
Dear Diary,
I think I’m in love with Lysander. 
I say “I think” because I’ve never really been in love before. I think I’m supposed to feel happy, but instead I just feel stressed, and I have no appetite or desire to do anything other than think of him. I don’t think he’ll ever notice me, and no amount of wishful thinking will change that.
Everywhere I go I find myself looking for him. Every time I close my eyes I see him, he’s even in my dreams now. I don’t think I even knew how deeply I felt for him until last night.
He’s going back to Umbra tomorrow, and last night was our last time working in the library together. He walked me back to my room as usual and when he turned to leave I nearly burst into tears. I know I’ll see him and Leila today, and tomorrow before he goes, but I can’t help but feel like I’ve lost my chance with him forever.
He hasn’t given any indication that he likes me as anything more than a research partner, or perhaps a friend if I’m lucky. It hurt to watch him walk away and to know that’s the last time he’ll ever walk me back to my door. It’s such a silly thing really, I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up, but I have,
He’s so much more comfortable around me now, he smiles, he laughs, he jokes with me, Every smile just gives me hope that I know I shouldn’t rely on. Leila’s still trying to help but honestly it’s no use. I think maybe I’ll just have to love him from afar, like I do fictional characters from my novels, or historical figures. (It’s not my fault that the hall of portraits in Vesuvia has some very attractive portraits...) 
————- ♡ ————-
February 1st
Dear Diary,
I’m in love with Lysander.
He’s gone back to Umbra and he’s taken my heart with him. Though he promised to write me letters, I know it won’t be the type of letters I hope for. Still, I want to have him in my life in any way possible. I lent him one of my favorite books. I hope he thinks of me when he reads it, even in passing, even just a little. 
I noticed as he was leaving that he had a spot of chalk on his sleeve, as he turned around to wave at me one final time. That’s the image of him that I’ll remember when I miss him, when I lie awake at night unable to think of anything but him- his face, his voice, the feel of his hands brushing against mine, the smell of the tea he always drinks, the way I imagine he would feel lying next to me.
I’m in love with Lysander, and though I know better than to assume he has any affection for me, I still send my love with him across the sea. I hope one day I can follow.
12 notes · View notes
queensdivas · 5 years
Text
Gaelhar (Brian May Fluff and Smut
Tumblr media
https://ohmybribri.tumblr.com/post/187487202410/johndeakys-bonus-hes-so-fuckn-cute-that-i
Before y’all even start reading. The amount of science I’ve put into this thing is not accurate! I never thought I’d have to say this but it ain’t accurate and I’m only going off what the internet tells me. (AKA NASA’s website.) But I tried my hardest and I hope y’all enjoy! 
Present Day Bri! 
Warnings: Some swearing, SMUTTY SMUT IN THE END!  and ya know. It’s a short so get some fluff up in here!
World Count: there’s a lot because I couldn’t stop writing. 
Request are open, if you’d like to be tagged in all the rest of my shitty writing let me know! I hope you all enjoy!
@mexifangorl @i-live-for-queen @leah-halliwell92 @its-funny-til-its-not @brianmydear @teathymewithben @hodgepodge-of-rog @rogahloveshiscar @bonafiderocketqueen 
~~~~~~~~
4:15 am...day two of being up for more than twenty four hours! Because if it’s the one thing I love to do is to put myself through hell for work! My body felt like putty at the moment and my eyes felt more dry than the stupid desert! God why do I do this to myself? Why? Because when you volunteer to pitch the entire project to all the head honchos of NASA you’ve gotta suffer a little bit. 
The new project is that one of the moons of Saturn actually turns out to be another Mars if the readings are correct. We all know that Mars was once a vast home billions of years ago. And it looks like one of the moons is either going through that same progress or is almost done. We call this moon S/2004 S 13...or Gaelhar is what I like to call it.  
My station of four computers were the only sort of light from the room since having these on and the regular lights were just to blinding for me. One was the entire moons structure, the second one had all the engineers layout of Rovers mechanics, the third being the layout of the ship that’s going to be delivering the rover, and the last one for music. Never thought all of Puccini’s opera would be so damn entertaining! 
“Sybil! What are you still doing here?” Ray asked as I looked up from the computer to see him and some other man in the doorway. Taking off my glasses to rub my eyes a little bit to give them a brief moment of rest. 
“Rewriting Brahes book on the galaxy because I have absolutely nothing else better to do with my life!” Realizing that my coffee cup was dry as a bone and finally got up from my office chair. Luckily my smart ass thought it would be a good idea to have a coffee machine right behind me. Coffee cup number 8..and should probably order some sort of food. 
“Dr. Bruch. This is Dr. Brian May from England. And this lovely ray of sunshine is Dr. Sybil Bruch. Basically what keeps NASA up on their toes most of the time.” I looked like a demon in front of this random scientist...but who looked extremely handsome and a comfort from staring at a screen for hours upon end. Adding a shit ton of French vanilla cream to the coffee as Ray kept buzzing around this Doctor. 
“She is working on the pitch for the new rover to land on one of the moons of Saturn.” Drinking a gulp of the coffee as Brian’s eyes widened with curiosity. 
“So we’re just skipping over Jupiter then?” He asked as I sat back down at my desk to put my glasses back on. 
“Not exactly.” Moving around in your chair to the first computer so he could start reading about Gaelhar. He was in complete focus and something about him reading this was comforting. Wait why is he even here in the first place? 
“May I ask why you’re here?” Asking him as he looked over to me with a soft genuine smile. 
“Heard about your little project from a fellow colleague of mine and..well..” Did he come to take over? Did this fucking colleague think I couldn’t handle all of this!? I don’t need some random doctor coming into my workspace to take over! WHo the bloody hell does this bimbo think he is!?
“Well I thought I’d come and take a look...not trying to take over your project or even step in. He just kept telling me how it was going..I’m sorry if I’m intruding on your..
“NO no you’re fine. Just you came out of the blue and wasn’t ready for someone else to take a look yet..” The awkwardly laughing at each other as I put my mug down then grabbing my stylist so I could show him the rover. 
“Haven’t gotten a name yet for the rover but here it is.” The 3D image of the rover appeared on the screen. He nodded as he looked closer at the Rover and smiled at it. 
“Ethos.” 
“What?” 
“Name him Ethos. I’ve always liked the name Ethos and its very unique for this little bugger to be going off to Saturn.” Ethos..definelty has a ring to it. Well if it doesn’t officially get called Ethos. I will call it Ethos, just like how I call it Gaelhar. 
“Ethos it is.” Nodding as I typed the name onto the top of the file. Ethos the Rover. 
“What’s going to power Ethos? Solar or wind?” Enlarging the picture of the wind turbine that was attached to the back of Ethos. It was a little smaller than him but would be able to power him for a few years. 
“The weird thing about Gaelhar is that it’s more windy than you’d imagine. Past satellite readings say it’s about 332 mph on average. And with that amount of power it can produce for Ethos...he could go on for a decade possibly.” He smiled at me as I looked into one of my filing cabinets for the file on Gaelhar. 
Would..would he want to read about Gaelhar? He seems genuinely interested in the whole project itself. Or it could be just the lack of sleep would be doing it. Both. Let’s go with both! 
“Were you wanting to read more on Gaelhar? On what we know at least?” Handing him the file on Gaelhar then setting up the rough draft of the powerpoint presentation of what I got so far. 
“So you say it was once like Earth?” He began the PowerPoint as I rested my hand on the desk then putting my cheek against it. Giving him a nod to his question as I slowly began closing my eyes. Maybe just five minutes of sleep and I would feel one million times better. 
*Brians May P.O.V.*
She was out like a light when I got done reading the rough draft of her presentation. With goosebumps running up and down her arms when I realized it was almost 5 am. For me I would be up and ready to go for the day. Taking off the coat I still had on then placing it on top of her shoulders so she could stay warm. Should I take off her glasses? My hands reaching slowly for her glasses to gradually take them off her face then laid them down next to her. 
It feels strange to be sitting next to someone whose work has done so much for the space community in the past few years. Reading her research papers, some of her books, and even online lectures when she would teach. Not to mention it’s shocking that she’s not going absolutely berserk since I’m.. well ya know. 
Going into the powerpoint to start editing her first slide to make sure the introduction would be very gripping. Not the first time I’ve had to stand in front of a crowd to do a presentation. Is it weird to admire someone and their work even though you’ve never gotten the chance to meet them. Till now. 
She blinked a few times as she was looking around to still see me working on her PowerPoint. Rubbing her tired eyes then reaching for her cup of coffee that was still a little hot. 
“I’m sorry. Didn’t mean to..” Trailing off as she noticed my coat was on her shoulders and formed a little smile in the corner of her lips. Going back to typing as she leaned over to see what I was working on. 
“They’re gonna ask you why they should invest in this instead of Mars.” She sighed as she got up from the chair to her phone. 
“Might as well pack it up because this won’t get any sort of funding.” She told me as I spun around in the chair with my arms crossed. Goodness! What kind of confidence is that!?
“Sybil! What sort of attitude is that to have for this project?” Her eyes widened a little as she took a sip of her coffee. 
“Well everything is about Mars now. Gaelhar would be more suitable for humans to go there than Mars and you have the evidence right here.” If it’s one thing I can’t stand in this world is when a bunch of power hungry councils decide to make stupid decisions. Like the damn council who decided Pluto not being a planet anymore was absolutely ridiculous! 
“Thank you for the confidence boost..just going up in front of them to pitch this idea is a lot harder than it sounds. Yes I did presentations in school all the time..but never had to basically tell them they need to fund this because this could be habitable for humans since we’re screwing up this world so badly..I’m sorry I don’t mean to vent..I think I if I just get back to work then I’ll feel a little better.” One last sip of coffee she took as she put her glasses back on to start reading through her notebooks. 
“Would you like some breakfast or something? I can make ray get you some delicious sort of fish breakfast or anything.” She looked up from her notebook to start flipping through her phone to find a breakfast place to deliver. 
“Anything really. Is the tires on Ethos going to last a few years on Gaelhar?” Asking her as she pulled up the material for Ethos. 
“It’s got natural rubber with steel chords wrapped around it. Not to mention we’re going to equip the little guy with spikes so if he needs to stop to collect data, the wind won’t move him away.” The image enlarged on the screen as she was pointing at its tires. 
She’s a beautiful..gorgeous genius! 
“Would..would you be willing to stay for a few days to give me a hand or so?” Asking me as I quickly nodded in agreement. 
*One Week Later. Sybil’s P.O.V.*
Okay. Okay. I can’t tell if I look okay! Checking myself out in the mirror for the hundredth time. It was a bright yellow dress that was flowing all around me till it reached the upper half of my body to fit like a glove. The neckline was tight and it allowed to show more of my back. What’s going to sell Ethos and Gaelhar? Sex. 
Slipping on my white heels as I heard the front doorbell ringing. Guess that’s Brian. He has been such an absolute doll and gentlemen with this project these last few days. Constantly staying beside me and helping to make sure this project is sellable to the board. Not to mention we spent last night going over the details and basically running through the presentation as many times as I could. 
Grabbing my clutch as I walked down the stairs of my house then fixing any last details before I expose my tired ugly self to him. Opening the door to him to see him in a dark purple and black velvet suit with a very exotic galaxy tie on. He looked..absolutely smashing! 
“Well Brian. I must say you clean up very well.” Smiling as his eyes widened at the brightness of my dress. 
“Probably should’ve worn something space related. C’mon in.” Moving out of the way for him to walk in and have a long look around my apartment. 
“I actually got you something if you don’t mind.” Closing the door behind him as he reached into his suit pocket to pull out a box. Opening it to reveal some sort of pendant. Holy shit is that real gold? 
“Brian please tell me you didn’t spend that much money on me?” It was a large circle gold pendant that had nine holes drilled out of them. He got the whole damn solar system including Pluto. (It’s a planet. Deal with it.)
“Think of it as a momento for this hectic week of constant working. Not that it hasn’t been absolutely fun because it’s been a while since I’ve worked hard like this.” It kept staring at me like some sort of apple. Do I take it? It’s gorgeous and I don’t want to seem like an absolute bitch for just taking it. But why did he spend that much money on me, and not to mention that how on earth did he get that much money!?
“Bri I..I can’t..” He was already taking it out of the box and motioned me to turn around so he could clip it on. When he clipped it together, turning back towards him as we were standing close to each other. Is it weird to be attracted to someone who you've only known for a week? I thought attraction moved slower than that..It felt so..so wonderful. My heart was bursting out of my chest, goosebumps traveling up and down my back, to finally the tip of my toes curling in my heels. 
“Thank you Brian. I really..I have no words.” My blushing face was an absolute mess as we didn’t move from our spot. Knowing that we had to go so we wouldn’t be late. 
But his kindness..his confidence..it’s so wonderfully refreshing. His lips were so lush with life..even his eyes were glowing with life. Is it bad that I want to kiss him? 
He must’ve felt the same as he reached his hands up to my cheeks to cup my face. His temple resting against mine as my hands wrapped around his wrist to feel the spark light. Till I felt something cold against my cheek to see a gold band around his left hand. Oh my god he’s married! He’s married and he’s holding my face like this!
“Oh my god I’m sorry.. I.. I had no idea you were even married. God I must look like some kind of whore to you.” Taking a step back as he turned his hand into his direction. I don’t cheat with married men.. well I don’t cheat in general mostly because I don’t have the time for it. 
“Yes we have to go.” Taking a step away from him to grab my clutch and house keys. We were carpooling but now that he’s married..I’d rather drive myself at this point. Locking the door behind us as the SUV was sitting on the curb, with the driver smoking a cigar. Might as well just get this over with...
The car ride was absolutely silent with the only radio playing to cover up the awkward silence. Glad to know I was about to kiss a married man..and that he gave me a massive galaxy pendent that’s weighing me down like a rock around my necklace! Please let us just get there faster so I can just go home and eat ice cream. My stupid ass thought he and I were about to hit off together..he’s older than me so why would I even think I would have a chance. 
We pulled up to the curb as I opened the door of my side to see Ray running up to me with his tablet. All excited and wearing his lucky peacock bow tie wrapped around his neck. 
“Sybil! Sybil! Thank every thing on the planet that you arrived. The board wanted to hear your presentation right now. Get your butt out of the car so we can start this and eat those delicious tiramisu they made!” Practically dragging me out of the car as Brian was already left behind. 
Standing on the side of the stage as I was preparing myself mentally for this presentation. Brian appeared behind me but I wasn’t turning around since the man is married! How could I even..my eyes peeked from the corner of my eye to see that..gorgeous man smiling right behind me. My fingers grabbing the pendent to turn around and give him a smile. 
“Thank you Brian. Wish me luck!” Just try to get rid of the sexual tension with just being absolutely nice. Should just go away within the speech. 
“Ladies and gentlemen! I present to you Dr. Sybil Bruch.” Oh my god everything is happening so damn fast! The heart is racing again and I think my eyes are going to roll in the back of skull! Brian put his hands on my shoulders then placed a soft kiss on the back of my head. 
“You can do this. You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think you could ever be.” Why the hell did that sound so damn familiar? Whatever it’s from it somehow helped. Walking out to the podium as I was giving the board a few soft smiles. Moving the mic a little as I looked upon the crowd. 
“Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I’m so excited that you’re here this evening to hear about this brand new project our department has been working on for many months now. Today I will be discussing one of the moons of Jupiter known as S/2004 S 13. What we call it now known as Gaelhar.” Stopping for a second as Ray pulled up the PowerPoint. My eyes drifted over to Brian as I gave him a warm smile with him sticking up his thumb. 
“Thanks to the glorious efforts of engineers, fellow astrophysicists, and even a very well known scientist by the name of Dr. Brian May. We have discovered that one of the moons of Jupiter was once just like Earth before us.” Stopping again to see Brian in complete awe to the side of the stage. My hand reaching up to the pendant to hold it for a second. 
The presentation went fantastically to the point I even got the board to clap even more than usual. Brian, Ray, and I were in a small circle talking amongst each other trying to keep myself from going in some sort in an anatomical state. Is that even the right word at this point? For once..I could give two shits if Brian were to kiss me now. He’s the only one who has been there for me during this past week and if it were to happen I wouldn’t fight it anymore. 
Ray noticed one of his friends for it to be just Brian and I downing on tiramisu which was provided for free by the board. We kept glancing back and forth..waiting for one of us to say at least something to each other. 
“I wanna apologize to you Sybil. It wasn’t right to me to try to make a move on you and being married. Wasn’t the right thing to do and..” My fingers moving up to his lips to stop him from speaking. Giving him a smile of approval as my fingers glided over to his cheek. 
“Thank you for everything you’ve done for this project this past week..I..I.
“Dr. Bruch. Have you got a moment?” Dr. Alexis Faulk came up to us as I slipped my hand down then handing him my plate of tiramisu. He’s the head of the board and if he’s coming to me this early we should be able to finally start! 
“Dr. Bruch. As much as we love this project you and your department has worked very hard. It’s just not something that’s worth our time or interest. We’ll definitely keep this on record so when the time does come for us to head out to Jupiter we now have a plan. Thank you for the lovely presentation and now you don’t have to worry about that. See ya at the office Monday morning.” He nodded to go back to the fellow board members. 
His words stung all over my body as if wasp were all stinging me at once just for the pleasure of it. My throat tightened to the point I couldn’t even breath. I refuse to cry because he’s kind of right in sense..why go out to Jupiter when Mars is right around the corner! Exactly! Now I want wine...and ice cream. God I sound so damn depressing. 
Brian placed the plates down as he came over to me. But I didn’t want to be coddled at the moment or even touched..just..I just wasted months of my life on this big project that won’t even be used in my life time! And not even in my child’s lifetime! Moving past him as I was leaving the gala to go home and get absolutely drunk! Walking out to the parking lot where the vast amount of SUVs were all over the place as I tried to find ours. 
“You okay Sybil?” Brian caught up as I found our car with the driver in smoking a cigar. 
“To my home please.” Ignoring his question to have the driver climbed into the car. Before I could even climb in Brian stood in front of the door. 
“They said no didn’t they..” Nodding to him as my eyes began to water as my throat was beginning to swell again. He reached out to me as he engulfed me in his warm embrace. It felt so damn comforting to feel his warmth but the tears were continuing to roll down my stained cheek. 
“Sybil..Sybil look at me.” Looking up as he held himself up in such confidence. 
“What you’ve done is remarkable. It is something no one else could’ve ever done in their life. Not even I could do such a thing and you’ve done the impossible. Yes it’s horrible that they said no. But you went up there against the world and you did it! Be..be..” Our lips crashing against each other as I wrapped my arms around his neck. Pulling me in closer to him for his hands to squeeze my waist. Stopping to catch my breath as I was shaking a little bit. 
“Let’s get you home.” 
Arriving back to the house as we climbed out of the car then giving the driver a great tip. Unlocking the door to the house as we walked in to throw my clutch on the ground in anger. 
“I’m sorry Brian..I shouldn’t be acting like such a child in front of you but I’m..” He was taking off his jacket as I leaned against the couch. The tension was basically to thick you couldn’t even cut it with a knife. 
“Brian..make me feel something..Please just make me yours for a night...make me feel like I’m so much better than what that ass hole board.” Attacking me like a lion. His lips were warm, soft, and tasted like beautiful rose wine. Our tongues entering each other’s mouth to swirl around each other. Moans coming from both of our mouths and our hands tracing up and down our bodies. 
My hands ripping the front of his shirt opened for my nails to dig into his chest. His beautiful lips moved from mine then onto the bottom of my ear. Nails digging into his chest as ecstasy poured over my vision. 
“You’re so damn beautiful..” I could feel his hands moving up to the back off my dress to the back of my neck, ripping the neck strap so my dress would basically pop down. 
“Mhmm...God..” His hands beginning to squeeze my breast as my legs began to wrap around him. My body was absolutely melting in his touch as his long fingers squeezing my breast, pinching my nipples. 
“I wanna..” Couldn’t even finish what I wanted to say. He was already on his knees pulling down the rest of my dress so I would be standing there in only my underwear. 
“You want me to taste you?” Asking with his eyes widened before me. Nodding as he moved my panties to the side, then lifting my leg over his shoulder. 
One little lick already made me gasp. How can such a man have that much power over me. Another little lick over my clit till he wrapped his mouth over my entrance. At first his tongue was flicking my clit with no means of stopping. Faster..faster..my hips began moving slowly as his grip around my thigh tightened. His eyes were primal as his tongue moved down to my entrance. Not entering but was acting like some damn lizard. In..out….waiting for a second. In...out.. 
“Brian..please don’t tease me..” I was begging as if my life was depending on It. His eyes glued shut as he was absolutely devouring me like a man thirsting after water in a desert. My moans were filling the house so loudly that my neighbors might be wondering what’s going on. 
“So delectable..” Whispering as I could feel it building up so quickly. 
“Fuck fuck fuck fuck..Brian..Brian so close..” The first time Ive came..fuck fuck fuck. He removed his mouth to slowly insert his middle finger inside of me to pump as fast as he could. He put his tongue back onto my clit so I would be sent over the edge as quickly as I could. 
“Just let go..let go..” He said between flicks as I inhaled a large breath. Yanking his hair by accident as it released as over his fingers and the tip of his tongue. My body shaking to the point I almost fell onto the couch itself. He popped up to keep me a little steady as I stood back up from the couch. 
“We’re going upstairs.” Dragging him by his ripped shirt up the stairs but stopping every few steps to keep kissing each other and for me to grab his humongous bulge on his pants. He kept moaning till we reached the top of the stairs..but I couldn’t even wait anymore for him. 
Kneeling down as I unbuckled his pants to yank them down and take him straight into my mouth. I’ve never craved anyone like this in my life. His cock was glorious to have and was something I’ve enjoyed in my mouth. My tongue swirling around his tip as I sunk the rest into my mouth as fast as I could. 
“God..take it easy..” He chuckled as he had to lean against the wall. His right hand grabbing a handful of hair to start giving it a gentle pull. Nothing like how I yanked his for when I came to quickly. I want to please him...God pleasing him would give me even more pleasure in my life. Gripping his balls with my free hand which caused him to let a moan out and chuckle. 
Taking his entire length in my mouth for him to gasp as I moved my hands from his balls to the top of his chest so my nails could scratch down his chest. But stopping me to hold my hand as I continued to deep throat him. 
“Fuck fuck fuck..stop.. you..have to..stop..” My head moving as deep as it could each time so he would cause his eyes to roll in the back of his skull. His precum was beginning to pour as I stopped sucking for my tongue trail from the base to the tip, licking up his precum. Hoisting me up onto my feet as our lips began dancing around with each other again. 
Walking backwards into the bedroom as I fell back onto the bed as he stood at the edge of the bed. My hands reaching out for him as he climbed back on top of me then aimed his member towards the entrance. Waiting no time as he slowly inserted himself inside of me. 
“FUCK!” Squealing as he was stretching my walls. My legs wrapping around him to push him in further. God it hurts but it feels so fucking good my god. He placed his head on my shoulder as he began thrusting himself at a slow pace so he could stretch every inch of me. 
“God yes..Brian..” Laughing for a second as his lips began kissing my neck again with his cock beginning to pick up the pace. He’s moving to slow! I wanna ride him! My hands grabbing his shoulder to push him over onto his back. 
“Let me ride you..I wanna ride you till you fill me..” Pointing his member up as I slid down onto him. His eyes rolling into the back of his head as I began bouncing hard on his cock. Not fast. But slamming myself onto his cock for him to get completely lost. 
“Does it feel good?” Smiling as he smacked my ass hard to make me laugh. Smacking again to treat him a little as I tightened myself somehow. His eyes rolling into the back of his head as I began bouncing faster. I want him inside of me..
“C’mon Brian..Take me..” He grabbed my arms to pull me down to him so he could kiss me. Desperate kisses as he began thrusting hard into me. It felt so damn good to be penetrated so damn hard and so damn fast. 
“Yeah you slut you like that?” Nodding as I wrapped my arms around his neck as I felt myself boiling up again. He was getting so close to I could feel it! Yes yes yes. 
“Yes I love it..yes Brian please!” Our lips against each other once again as I tried to taste every inch of his lips. So soft..so damn beautiful! 
“Go go go go go..oh my god Brian yes!” He was smiling as he was smacking my ass and digging his nails into it with his final amount of thrust.
“Yes Sybil! Cum with me...cum with me please..take me as I take you!” He shoved himself as far as he could inside of me as I felt his cum pouring inside of me! HOLY FUCK!
“Brian!” I screamed as he held me close to him as he emptied himself inside. It felt so damn glorious to be filled with such a mans cum! A genius to take me to bed...to fill me..thank god. 
Climbing off him as we laid next to each other, my head resting on his bicep as we tried to catch our breaths. My body is still adjusting to the feeling of cum inside of me..the orgasm still riding my body. Looking up to him as he looked down upon me. Looking at his left hand to slip the ring off he wore to place it on the nightstand. Moving myself back up to him to place my hand on his cheek.
“You sure..?” My thumb rubbing a small circle as he grabbed it then kissed my palm. 
“Yes.” Attacking his lips with mine again as he hoisted me back on top of him. A night of ecstasy is all I need..and with him..I wouldn’t have it any other way. 
64 notes · View notes
plug2game-blog · 5 years
Text
We keep in mind the Sega Dreamcast, 20 years on - CNET
Disney World thing, seeing the last gasps of 1990s interactive games, and there it was. That Sonic Experience demo with the whale chase-- incredible to enjoy and dreadful to play.I wouldn't spend any quality time with the Dreamcast up until at least a year later on, however seeing that display was impressive for the time. At that point I still simply had a Genesis, so even a short glance of Sonic looking halfway-decent in 3D was a discovery. And no, Sonic 3D Blast does not count. Though I never purchased one myself, a buddy did, and it ended up being the go-to console for sleepovers and lost Saturdays. The mix of Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Power
Stone, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 which dreadful Chao Garden function from Sonic Experience 2 was more than enough to keep us playing that Dreamcast until long after it had actually died and everyone else carried on. Plus, its huge controllers were still better than the dreadful DualShock 2 on the PlayStation 2. That's simply a fact. Now playing: See this: Remembering the Sega Dreamcast at 20 Scott Stein I had every Sega system that was ever made. Yes, even the 32X. I was a Sega kid-- the Master System with Superscope 3D glasses was
my present after getting appendicitis. While the Genesis was my preferred, the Dreamcast is a place of special memories I
was residing in
LA, working as a script reader and story editor, and playing amazing NFL 2K video games to get in touch with my inactive sensations about the New york city Jets. That NFL 2K game stunned me ... it was the first TV-real sports game I 'd ever seen. Crazy Taxi was my LA commuting treatment. I loved the weirdness of Chu Rocket. And much more, I was obsessed with Seafarer. My very first E3 I ever attended had the Dreamcast, and I saw the Leonard Nimoy-voiced fish-man in all its Lynchian scary. Seaman was so ahead of its time: It had a microphone I might talk to Seaman with. It resembled if Alexa were a depressed cannibal fish. In my dusty little Sherman Oaks house, Seamanwas my
mystic surrealist fish tank. In addition to the Museum of Jurassic Innovation in Culver City, it was part of my cabinet of curiosities that made me imagine how weird art might be. Area Channel 5, the remarkably real-feeling Shenmue, and yes, I owned Typing of the Dead. It was a great system of video gaming oddities.The Dreamcast was little and magnificently developed, had arcade-perfect games, and was my first real online gaming system.
May it rest in peace in my mom's basement.Rez Infinite is a modernized variation of the Dreamcast classic. Other than the graphics, very little else was changed. Dan Ackerman The Dreamcast was
the first console launch I ever covered as a beginner "video games journalist" at the long-forgotten (however pioneering!) games-and-culture site UGO.com. My colleagues and I all spent for launch day bundles, and Soul Calibur was everybody's instant favorite.We all wound up playing a great deal of meeting room Soul Calibur with UGO's most well-known staff member, previous kid star Gary Coleman. Gary was a total fiend for Soul Calibur, and frequently held court in our Park Opportunity office, taking on all challengers and giving unlimited foul-mouthed garbage talk. He was really pretty excellent, and probably had an 8 out of 10 win ratio.Other early Dreamcast highlights for me consisted of Power Stone, Shenmue, a Local Evil knockoff
called Blue Stinger( I bet I'm the just one considering that a shoutout), and bizarre fish simulator Seaman. When my now-wife utilized the Dreamcast microphone accessory to inform Seaman she was going to consume him, he replied," Or maybe I'm going to eat you." If that's not next-gen, I don't know what is.I've come back to the Dreamcast a couple of times because its 2001 discontinuation, discussing it on my old talking head video game web series Play Worth( circa 2006), and taking a deeper dive for the Dreamcast's 10th anniversary, which I blogged about here. Would I buy a brand-new
" Dreamcast Classic "micro console? Definitely. Would I plug it in more than as soon as or twice? Probably not.Tim Stevens My Dreamcast memories are a little different than the majority of. Like Scott I was a Sega kid and, like Scott, I too owned( and still own) every Sega system. But my memories of the Dreamcast weren't a lot about video gaming as they were about coding. Lots and lots and great deals of coding.I was in college studying computer science and
composing when the Dreamcast dropped, and my dream was to combine those passions and get a gig in the videogame market after graduation. It was time to select a senior thesis, therefore I blindly emailed some folks at Sega to see if there was any way I might get consent to write a simple game for their hot new console.Amazingly, I got an action. As it turns out I would not be allowed to
develop anything for the Dreamcast-- the advancement hardware alone cost thousands of dollars and I was lucky if I might manage pizza on Friday night-- but I was admitted to the Visual Memory Unit designer package. The VMU, you might keep in mind, was the small, Game Boy-looking thing that slotted into the controller. It had a small, gray and black LCD, a four-way D-pad and a number of buttons.Games for the VMU were written in assembler, an arcane language I 'd never ever been exposed to in my research studies. If that weren't daunting enough, the
only documentation for the VMU package remained in Japanese, another language I didn't speak. In spite of all that I figured it out over the list below few months, then labored and labored and toiled to compose what would be the first-- and to my understanding only-- multiplayer VMU video game. You could, you see, connect two of the mini handhelds together at the top thanks to a cunning, reversible connector. I composed a Pong-like video game played vertically, with the ball taking a trip from one screen to the next, back and forth. Establishing that game, plus another simple, Simon-like video game, consumed my senior year at school. The resulting code, when printed out for my final thesis discussion,
filled a binder as big as a phone book. Along the method I learned enough about the game development market to recognize it wasn't for me, however that project, just me and my text editor toiling for months, is still the programming task I look back upon a lot of fondly. The recently remastered version of Shenmue. Jeff Bakalar I was 17 when the Dreamcast released and was working for a dotcom start-up run by 3 21-year-olds. I remember the day it went on sale
, among the partners bought it for same-day shipment
from a service called UrbanFetch.It showed up and we didn't do any work for the rest of the day. It was just nonstop Ready 2 Rumble. I recall being instantly pleased with how crisp the visuals were. It was a level of fidelity I hadn't ever seen before. Whatever appeared so fast, so innovative
, so futuristic. The Dreamcast showed up in between the other console cycles, so it seemed like we were getting a really early glance into what the remainder of the competitors would quickly be providing. I didn't end up owning my own
Dreamcast till college, however I ultimately fell for Sonic Adventure, problems and all. I played many of the Burial place Raider and Local Evil video games on the Dreamcast too. The Dreamcast will always have a place in my heart for its ridiculous memory card adapters, its primarily horrible controller and the outrageous speed at which its disc reader would spin and change, like some type of dot-matrix printer that went off the rails.Jason Parker I never ever actually owned a Dreamcast, but for a duration in my life, I could not
get enough of one video game: Fighting Vipers 2. It was while I remained in college and among my good friends had a Dreamcast, so when we were not out in the evening or studying, we 'd invest hours fighting match after match.The funny thing is, it wasn't called Fighting Vipers 2 as far as I knew at that time.
My buddy had a
bootlegged copy on a disc and whatever composed on the sleeve remained in Japanese, as was all the on-screen text in the game. I even had to count on him to launch video games because I couldn't navigate the menus. At the time, he discussed the video game wasn't offered in the States, however it didn't officially pertained to Dreamcast till 2001 and never in the United States. Now playing: Enjoy this: Our most cherished video game memories. 8:00 Once he started a match, it was button-mashing paradise. I remember being blown away at the crisp 3D graphics and cool-looking fighters at that time. But the best mechanic of all, and most likely the greatest factor I loved the game, was that you might kick your challenger through the wall of the arena at the end of the match. Possibly that sounds ridiculous, but fighting games in between good friends can get tense. When you can send your pal through the wall at the end of a long fight it's an exclamation point like no other. We
'd get significant about it too, shouting" Boooooooom!" as we 'd blast the other person about 50 lawns beyond the cage. No, I didn't own a Dreamcast, due to the fact that I was a poor college student, however I still have
fond memories of stomping out my good friend in Great Buddy 2Battling" You're going through the wall! "Jet Set Radio on the PC, running at 2,560 x1,440 pixels with mostly the very same possessions as the original, still looks terrific. Sean Keane The Dreamcast was the most amazing console I never owned. Games like Homeowner Evil: Code Veronica,
Sonic Adventure and the mighty Shenmue, and functions like online video gaming and the VMU made me want one terribly, however I simply couldn't manage it as a 12-year-old. Code Veronica looked unbelievable
at the time of its release-- replacing fixed prerendered environments with completely 3D ones and bringing n't rather satisfied ... but it's fine. I'm fine.Sonic Experience appeared like an extraordinary growth of Sega's mascot into 3D, even if it's misery to play today. That whale chase looked fantastic
at the time and it seemed the obvious advance for Sonic after Mario's wonderful transition into 3D. Shenmue was the big one however-- a remarkable life simulator with an abundant open world that was extraordinary. Seeing Ryo Hazuki wandering around Yokosuka, Japan, as he tries to unravel the secret of his daddy's murder was remarkable, and something I just got to experience fully through the current remaster. Eric Franklin I bought the original Japanese Dreamcast from
" http://www.ncsx.com/" target =" _ blank" data-component=" externalLink" rel=" noopener" > NCSX back in November 1998 and got 2 video games: Pen Trilcelon and Virtua Fighter 3tb. While Pen Pen was and still is dreadful, VF3 was anything however! Why did I pay a premium to have this system imported? I was a Sega fanboy and the Dreamcast was where I might continue playing Sega video games beyond the defunct Sega Saturn. But as much as I enjoyed playing the Dreamcast, recalling now, it's clear to me what it truly represented for me: A last possibility at console success for Sega. I got a Sega Master System in 1987 and from then through the end of the Dreamcast's life I was not just bought playing Sega video games, however also extremely invested-- emotionally, to be sure-- in Sega's success as a console designer. It's most likely unusual for people to comprehend
that, however here's the way I saw it: The more effective Sega's consoles were, the more terrific Sega games the company would make. I not only wished to play those video games, however to likewise have other people discover how excellent they were. To see in them what I saw in them: Games with great graphics and simple gameplay that belied a depth you had to reveal. You could play Crazy Taxi like a normal individual,
sure. But if you didn't use the Crazy Dash and the Crazy Stop, which allowed you to go from 0 to 60 in less than a second and quickly stop, then you weren't playing it right. That desire and require for the Dreamcast to be successful was genuine.
Even at the time I knew that if the Dreamcast didn't offer a particular variety of systems, Sega would likely leave the hardware company, which the business eventually did. And the anticipation of each brand-new big release was addictive for me. It was less about how much
I would like Shenmue and more about whether it would push enough mainstream audience buttons to make people purchase a Dreamcast over a PS2. It's ridiculous to think of now, however that was me. I think I simply required something to distract me from my genuine life at the time. For a couple of strong years, it was the
Dreamcast. Presents for the player who has
everything: Please that hard-to-shop-for PC player in your life. CNET's Vacation Present Guide: The very best tech gifts for 2018.
0 notes
realselfblog · 6 years
Text
The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture
Investor, advisor, operator, podcaster, blogger, speaker, Board member, mentor, mother, wife, volunteer. Take inventory of the many hats of Lisa Suennen, aka the Venture Valkyrie, and you understand why I see her as the Renaissance Woman of Healthcare. Ron Popeil couldn’t incorporate this many features into a contraption – yes, she slices and dices healthcare and technology, places bets on the best of them, and she deploys a whole lot more tools in her Mary Poppins-rich toolbox.
Two months ago, Lisa announced she was leaving GE Ventures, where she was Senior Managing Director, to do something new. This week, she announced that she was putting on her “big boots,” under the umbrella of Manatt Health.
First, let’s talk about those many hats that Lisa wears. Lisa comes by her technology savvy through DNA, I believe: her father developed and held many patents and was a serial entrepreneur. Lisa was born not far from the homes of inventors Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, in Princeton, NJ. The family moved to California where Dad launched his invention of the first real-time ultrasound machine and  expanded his technology research and innovation work. So the apple didn’t fall too far from the paternal tree.
While she’s best-known for being a very visible woman in health-technology investing and building venture funds, Lisa is social media savvy well beyond the profiles of those in her tech-investing peer group. Lisa started the Venture Valkyrie blog in 2010. The Tech-Tonics podcast, co-hosted with David Shaywitz, was an early entrant into that medium, launching in 2015 (today, podcasts in healthcare are multiplying like rabbits). You would get smarter by mining the archive of TechTonics: so many hours of insightful (and funny!) conversations from which to learn. These co-hosts are pictured here, donning their jerseys of personal sports passion.
Lisa is a mentor, both out-and-proudly and quietly, too. Long understanding and experiencing life as a woman in tech in Silicon Valley, well before media covered stories and #MeToo emerged, Lisa co-founded CSweetener. The organization matches women healthcare leaders to mentors, a supportive clearinghouse to help grow and empower women in tech. CSweetener also curates a Speakers Bureau to help alleviate the ongoing challenge of “manels” (men on panels) at technology meetings.
Lisa’s also a frequent public speaker, in both the U.S. and globally. In the past few months, she’s traveled to Australia and Ireland, for example, to spread her knowledge about digital health and technology to healthcare providers, investors, and innovators. A few weeks ago, I met with the Dublin-based team of HealthXL, where Lisa sits on the Board. The group waxed lyrically about Lisa’s involvement and important voice and energy supporting their important efforts to bolster innovation in health, globally.
I spent time with Lisa on the phone this week, she from her home base of Silicon Valley and me at mine on the east coast. In full transparency, I was aware that Lisa had the option of selecting from a broad range of opportunities for this next professional step. I asked her, among this rich trove of possible futures, “Why Manatt?”
She synthesized the many reasons into one over-arching response: joining Manatt would afford her, she said, “the opportunity to combine the familiar with the new, and do it in a setting that provides many degrees of freedom.”
Manatt has offices around the U.S., and so gives Lisa the geographic bandwidth to explore and inform healthcare from coast-to-coast. Manatt has operations in Albany (NY), Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County (CA), Palo Alto, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. And now, Mill Valley, CA.
A recent article in the American Lawyer discussed Manatt’s evolving business model and portfolio of services, moving from a law firm to an integrated health advisory organization. Lisa will be part of this ongoing evolution of Manatt as a professional services firm across many industries from healthcare to financial services, music and media — with a venture fund in the mix, as well, an important aspect of Lisa’s job description in the firm.
In my own work forecasting healthcare, I do 1:3:5 year snapshots, with the 5 years more of a scenario planning exercise than a straight line projection given tech, social, political and wild card uncertainties across our health/care ecosystem.
For the many year’s I’ve known Lisa, one of my personal asks has been to help inform my own advisory work — especially, in forecasting the future of healthcare. Lisa’s eyes see business plans for health/care innovations that are often pre-minimum viable product stage. So I asked Lisa, given that I’ll be writing the 2019 Health Populi Trendcast in a matter of weeks. What does she see achieving serious growth on the health care and technology front over the next 3 to 5 years? Four key areas are in her radar:
Voice as user interface, as a tool to free doctors from computer screens, provide older people access to things they don’t have, and enable simple queries for parents. “Voice is a big democratizer,” Lisa believes. “Alexa et. al. can speak in multiple languages.”
IoT (Internet of Things), Lisa foresees, will feature sensors in “everything:” medical devices, products, medications, among them. We’ll also see more and more connected health data in the IoT ecosystem for different applications.
AI will have more health-evidence supporting its adoption, perhaps, she expects, the first AI-developed FDA approved drug, Lisa expects.
Another key development to watch: the massive vertical integration going on among the various stakeholders in healthcare across providers, payors, tech, medtech and pharma. (THINK: CVS + Aetna, Apple aligning with LabCorp and Quest, and Walmart potentially purchasing a health plan).
Finally, we discussed the next phase of her career — what’s most exciting?
“Reconnecting with my love of growing and building things,” Lisa confessed. “I haven’t been doing that for a while. While I’ve been helping other organizations build and grow from the sidelines. I can now enjoy being back to owning something. It’s energizing!”
For more on the Renaissance of the Renaissance Woman in health care, you can read Lisa’s personal announcement on her must-read Venture Valkyrie blog. Here’s also a terrific profile in STAT on Lisa, titled, “The gatekeeper: If you want to make it big in health care, it’ll help to get past Lisa Suennen first.”
Health Populi’s Hot Points: Kudos to Mannatt for recognizing that Lisa Suennen wears many hats in and beyond healthcare. She’s forged a role with the firm that incorporates and leverages so many of her skills, interests, and experiences. The company demonstrates a lot of savvy and prescience for doing so. And, if any one person can help make healthcare better, it’s the great Venture Valkyrie.
Yes, she’s my friend. But she’s a brilliant colleague and valued healthcare-whisperer, which is how I got to learn about and value, first-hand, her many professional gifts.
I am all health/care, all the time in my work and in daily living. ‘Tis the season of forecasts and wishes in my world. My forecast and wish for Lisa and the Manatt family: Be well, Prosper, and Keep Building Health. I believe you will.
The post The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.
The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture posted first on http://dentistfortworth.blogspot.com
0 notes
maxihealth · 6 years
Text
The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture
Investor, advisor, operator, podcaster, blogger, speaker, Board member, mentor, mother, wife, volunteer. Take inventory of the many hats of Lisa Suennen, aka the Venture Valkyrie, and you understand why I see her as the Renaissance Woman of Healthcare. Ron Popeil couldn’t incorporate this many features into a contraption – yes, she slices and dices healthcare and technology, places bets on the best of them, and she deploys a whole lot more tools in her Mary Poppins-rich toolbox.
Two months ago, Lisa announced she was leaving GE Ventures, where she was Senior Managing Director, to do something new. This week, she announced that she was putting on her “big boots,” under the umbrella of Manatt Health.
First, let’s talk about those many hats that Lisa wears. Lisa comes by her technology savvy through DNA, I believe: her father developed and held many patents and was a serial entrepreneur. Lisa was born not far from the homes of inventors Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, in Princeton, NJ. The family moved to California where Dad launched his invention of the first real-time ultrasound machine and  expanded his technology research and innovation work. So the apple didn’t fall too far from the paternal tree.
While she’s best-known for being a very visible woman in health-technology investing and building venture funds, Lisa is social media savvy well beyond the profiles of those in her tech-investing peer group. Lisa started the Venture Valkyrie blog in 2010. The Tech-Tonics podcast, co-hosted with David Shaywitz, was an early entrant into that medium, launching in 2015 (today, podcasts in healthcare are multiplying like rabbits). You would get smarter by mining the archive of TechTonics: so many hours of insightful (and funny!) conversations from which to learn. These co-hosts are pictured here, donning their jerseys of personal sports passion.
Lisa is a mentor, both out-and-proudly and quietly, too. Long understanding and experiencing life as a woman in tech in Silicon Valley, well before media covered stories and #MeToo emerged, Lisa co-founded CSweetener. The organization matches women healthcare leaders to mentors, a supportive clearinghouse to help grow and empower women in tech. CSweetener also curates a Speakers Bureau to help alleviate the ongoing challenge of “manels” (men on panels) at technology meetings.
Lisa’s also a frequent public speaker, in both the U.S. and globally. In the past few months, she’s traveled to Australia and Ireland, for example, to spread her knowledge about digital health and technology to healthcare providers, investors, and innovators. A few weeks ago, I met with the Dublin-based team of HealthXL, where Lisa sits on the Board. The group waxed lyrically about Lisa’s involvement and important voice and energy supporting their important efforts to bolster innovation in health, globally.
I spent time with Lisa on the phone this week, she from her home base of Silicon Valley and me at mine on the east coast. In full transparency, I was aware that Lisa had the option of selecting from a broad range of opportunities for this next professional step. I asked her, among this rich trove of possible futures, “Why Manatt?”
She synthesized the many reasons into one over-arching response: joining Manatt would afford her, she said, “the opportunity to combine the familiar with the new, and do it in a setting that provides many degrees of freedom.”
Manatt has offices around the U.S., and so gives Lisa the geographic bandwidth to explore and inform healthcare from coast-to-coast. Manatt has operations in Albany (NY), Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County (CA), Palo Alto, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. And now, Mill Valley, CA.
A recent article in the American Lawyer discussed Manatt’s evolving business model and portfolio of services, moving from a law firm to an integrated health advisory organization. Lisa will be part of this ongoing evolution of Manatt as a professional services firm across many industries from healthcare to financial services, music and media — with a venture fund in the mix, as well, an important aspect of Lisa’s job description in the firm.
In my own work forecasting healthcare, I do 1:3:5 year snapshots, with the 5 years more of a scenario planning exercise than a straight line projection given tech, social, political and wild card uncertainties across our health/care ecosystem.
For the many year’s I’ve known Lisa, one of my personal asks has been to help inform my own advisory work — especially, in forecasting the future of healthcare. Lisa’s eyes see business plans for health/care innovations that are often pre-minimum viable product stage. So I asked Lisa, given that I’ll be writing the 2019 Health Populi Trendcast in a matter of weeks. What does she see achieving serious growth on the health care and technology front over the next 3 to 5 years? Four key areas are in her radar:
Voice as user interface, as a tool to free doctors from computer screens, provide older people access to things they don’t have, and enable simple queries for parents. “Voice is a big democratizer,” Lisa believes. “Alexa et. al. can speak in multiple languages.”
IoT (Internet of Things), Lisa foresees, will feature sensors in “everything:” medical devices, products, medications, among them. We’ll also see more and more connected health data in the IoT ecosystem for different applications.
AI will have more health-evidence supporting its adoption, perhaps, she expects, the first AI-developed FDA approved drug, Lisa expects.
Another key development to watch: the massive vertical integration going on among the various stakeholders in healthcare across providers, payors, tech, medtech and pharma. (THINK: CVS + Aetna, Apple aligning with LabCorp and Quest, and Walmart potentially purchasing a health plan).
Finally, we discussed the next phase of her career — what’s most exciting?
“Reconnecting with my love of growing and building things,” Lisa confessed. “I haven’t been doing that for a while. While I’ve been helping other organizations build and grow from the sidelines. I can now enjoy being back to owning something. It’s energizing!”
For more on the Renaissance of the Renaissance Woman in health care, you can read Lisa’s personal announcement on her must-read Venture Valkyrie blog. Here’s also a terrific profile in STAT on Lisa, titled, “The gatekeeper: If you want to make it big in health care, it’ll help to get past Lisa Suennen first.”
Health Populi’s Hot Points: Kudos to Mannatt for recognizing that Lisa Suennen wears many hats in and beyond healthcare. She’s forged a role with the firm that incorporates and leverages so many of her skills, interests, and experiences. The company demonstrates a lot of savvy and prescience for doing so. And, if any one person can help make healthcare better, it’s the great Venture Valkyrie.
Yes, she’s my friend. But she’s a brilliant colleague and valued healthcare-whisperer, which is how I got to learn about and value, first-hand, her many professional gifts.
I am all health/care, all the time in my work and in daily living. ‘Tis the season of forecasts and wishes in my world. My forecast and wish for Lisa and the Manatt family: Be well, Prosper, and Keep Building Health. I believe you will.
The post The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.
The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture posted first on https://carilloncitydental.blogspot.com
0 notes
titheguerrero · 6 years
Text
The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture
Investor, advisor, operator, podcaster, blogger, speaker, Board member, mentor, mother, wife, volunteer. Take inventory of the many hats of Lisa Suennen, aka the Venture Valkyrie, and you understand why I see her as the Renaissance Woman of Healthcare. Ron Popeil couldn’t incorporate this many features into a contraption – yes, she slices and dices healthcare and technology, places bets on the best of them, and she deploys a whole lot more tools in her Mary Poppins-rich toolbox.
Two months ago, Lisa announced she was leaving GE Ventures, where she was Senior Managing Director, to do something new. This week, she announced that she was putting on her “big boots,” under the umbrella of Manatt Health.
First, let’s talk about those many hats that Lisa wears. Lisa comes by her technology savvy through DNA, I believe: her father developed and held many patents and was a serial entrepreneur. Lisa was born not far from the homes of inventors Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, in Princeton, NJ. The family moved to California where Dad launched his invention of the first real-time ultrasound machine and  expanded his technology research and innovation work. So the apple didn’t fall too far from the paternal tree.
While she’s best-known for being a very visible woman in health-technology investing and building venture funds, Lisa is social media savvy well beyond the profiles of those in her tech-investing peer group. Lisa started the Venture Valkyrie blog in 2010. The Tech-Tonics podcast, co-hosted with David Shaywitz, was an early entrant into that medium, launching in 2015 (today, podcasts in healthcare are multiplying like rabbits). You would get smarter by mining the archive of TechTonics: so many hours of insightful (and funny!) conversations from which to learn. These co-hosts are pictured here, donning their jerseys of personal sports passion.
Lisa is a mentor, both out-and-proudly and quietly, too. Long understanding and experiencing life as a woman in tech in Silicon Valley, well before media covered stories and #MeToo emerged, Lisa co-founded CSweetener. The organization matches women healthcare leaders to mentors, a supportive clearinghouse to help grow and empower women in tech. CSweetener also curates a Speakers Bureau to help alleviate the ongoing challenge of “manels” (men on panels) at technology meetings.
Lisa’s also a frequent public speaker, in both the U.S. and globally. In the past few months, she’s traveled to Australia and Ireland, for example, to spread her knowledge about digital health and technology to healthcare providers, investors, and innovators. A few weeks ago, I met with the Dublin-based team of HealthXL, where Lisa sits on the Board. The group waxed lyrically about Lisa’s involvement and important voice and energy supporting their important efforts to bolster innovation in health, globally.
I spent time with Lisa on the phone this week, she from her home base of Silicon Valley and me at mine on the east coast. In full transparency, I was aware that Lisa had the option of selecting from a broad range of opportunities for this next professional step. I asked her, among this rich trove of possible futures, “Why Manatt?”
She synthesized the many reasons into one over-arching response: joining Manatt would afford her, she said, “the opportunity to combine the familiar with the new, and do it in a setting that provides many degrees of freedom.”
Manatt has offices around the U.S., and so gives Lisa the geographic bandwidth to explore and inform healthcare from coast-to-coast. Manatt has operations in Albany (NY), Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County (CA), Palo Alto, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. And now, Mill Valley, CA.
A recent article in the American Lawyer discussed Manatt’s evolving business model and portfolio of services, moving from a law firm to an integrated health advisory organization. Lisa will be part of this ongoing evolution of Manatt as a professional services firm across many industries from healthcare to financial services, music and media — with a venture fund in the mix, as well, an important aspect of Lisa’s job description in the firm.
In my own work forecasting healthcare, I do 1:3:5 year snapshots, with the 5 years more of a scenario planning exercise than a straight line projection given tech, social, political and wild card uncertainties across our health/care ecosystem.
For the many year’s I’ve known Lisa, one of my personal asks has been to help inform my own advisory work — especially, in forecasting the future of healthcare. Lisa’s eyes see business plans for health/care innovations that are often pre-minimum viable product stage. So I asked Lisa, given that I’ll be writing the 2019 Health Populi Trendcast in a matter of weeks. What does she see achieving serious growth on the health care and technology front over the next 3 to 5 years? Four key areas are in her radar:
Voice as user interface, as a tool to free doctors from computer screens, provide older people access to things they don’t have, and enable simple queries for parents. “Voice is a big democratizer,” Lisa believes. “Alexa et. al. can speak in multiple languages.”
IoT (Internet of Things), Lisa foresees, will feature sensors in “everything:” medical devices, products, medications, among them. We’ll also see more and more connected health data in the IoT ecosystem for different applications.
AI will have more health-evidence supporting its adoption, perhaps, she expects, the first AI-developed FDA approved drug, Lisa expects.
Another key development to watch: the massive vertical integration going on among the various stakeholders in healthcare across providers, payors, tech, medtech and pharma. (THINK: CVS + Aetna, Apple aligning with LabCorp and Quest, and Walmart potentially purchasing a health plan).
Finally, we discussed the next phase of her career — what’s most exciting?
“Reconnecting with my love of growing and building things,” Lisa confessed. “I haven’t been doing that for a while. While I’ve been helping other organizations build and grow from the sidelines. I can now enjoy being back to owning something. It’s energizing!”
For more on the Renaissance of the Renaissance Woman in health care, you can read Lisa’s personal announcement on her must-read Venture Valkyrie blog. Here’s also a terrific profile in STAT on Lisa, titled, “The gatekeeper: If you want to make it big in health care, it’ll help to get past Lisa Suennen first.”
Health Populi’s Hot Points: Kudos to Mannatt for recognizing that Lisa Suennen wears many hats in and beyond healthcare. She’s forged a role with the firm that incorporates and leverages so many of her skills, interests, and experiences. The company demonstrates a lot of savvy and prescience for doing so. And, if any one person can help make healthcare better, it’s the great Venture Valkyrie.
Yes, she’s my friend. But she’s a brilliant colleague and valued healthcare-whisperer, which is how I got to learn about and value, first-hand, her many professional gifts.
I am all health/care, all the time in my work and in daily living. ‘Tis the season of forecasts and wishes in my world. My forecast and wish for Lisa and the Manatt family: Be well, Prosper, and Keep Building Health. I believe you will.
The post The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.
Article source:Health Populi
0 notes
realselfblog · 6 years
Text
The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture
Investor, advisor, operator, podcaster, blogger, speaker, Board member, mentor, mother, wife, volunteer. Take inventory of the many hats of Lisa Suennen, aka the Venture Valkyrie, and you understand why I see her as the Renaissance Woman of Healthcare. Ron Popeil couldn’t incorporate this many features into a contraption – yes, she slices and dices healthcare and technology, places bets on the best of them, and she deploys a whole lot more tools in her Mary Poppins-rich toolbox.
Two months ago, Lisa announced she was leaving GE Ventures, where she was Senior Managing Director, to do something new. This week, she announced that she was putting on her “big boots,” under the umbrella of Manatt Health.
First, let’s talk about those many hats that Lisa wears. Lisa comes by her technology savvy through DNA, I believe: her father developed and held many patents and was a serial entrepreneur. Lisa was born not far from the homes of inventors Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, in Princeton, NJ. The family moved to California where Dad launched his invention of the first real-time ultrasound machine and  expanded his technology research and innovation work. So the apple didn’t fall too far from the paternal tree.
While she’s best-known for being a very visible woman in health-technology investing and building venture funds, Lisa is social media savvy well beyond the profiles of those in her tech-investing peer group. Lisa started the Venture Valkyrie blog in 2010. The Tech-Tonics podcast, co-hosted with David Shaywitz, was an early entrant into that medium, launching in 2015 (today, podcasts in healthcare are multiplying like rabbits). You would get smarter by mining the archive of TechTonics: so many hours of insightful (and funny!) conversations from which to learn. These co-hosts are pictured here, donning their jerseys of personal sports passion.
Lisa is a mentor, both out-and-proudly and quietly, too. Long understanding and experiencing life as a woman in tech in Silicon Valley, well before media covered stories and #MeToo emerged, Lisa co-founded CSweetener. The organization matches women healthcare leaders to mentors, a supportive clearinghouse to help grow and empower women in tech. CSweetener also curates a Speakers Bureau to help alleviate the ongoing challenge of “manels” (men on panels) at technology meetings.
Lisa’s also a frequent public speaker, in both the U.S. and globally. In the past few months, she’s traveled to Australia and Ireland, for example, to spread her knowledge about digital health and technology to healthcare providers, investors, and innovators. A few weeks ago, I met with the Dublin-based team of HealthXL, where Lisa sits on the Board. The group waxed lyrically about Lisa’s involvement and important voice and energy supporting their important efforts to bolster innovation in health, globally.
I spent time with Lisa on the phone this week, she from her home base of Silicon Valley and me at mine on the east coast. In full transparency, I was aware that Lisa had the option of selecting from a broad range of opportunities for this next professional step. I asked her, among this rich trove of possible futures, “Why Manatt?”
She synthesized the many reasons into one over-arching response: joining Manatt would afford her, she said, “the opportunity to combine the familiar with the new, and do it in a setting that provides many degrees of freedom.”
Manatt has offices around the U.S., and so gives Lisa the geographic bandwidth to explore and inform healthcare from coast-to-coast. Manatt has operations in Albany (NY), Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County (CA), Palo Alto, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. And now, Mill Valley, CA.
A recent article in the American Lawyer discussed Manatt’s evolving business model and portfolio of services, moving from a law firm to an integrated health advisory organization. Lisa will be part of this ongoing evolution of Manatt as a professional services firm across many industries from healthcare to financial services, music and media — with a venture fund in the mix, as well, an important aspect of Lisa’s job description in the firm.
In my own work forecasting healthcare, I do 1:3:5 year snapshots, with the 5 years more of a scenario planning exercise than a straight line projection given tech, social, political and wild card uncertainties across our health/care ecosystem.
For the many year’s I’ve known Lisa, one of my personal asks has been to help inform my own advisory work — especially, in forecasting the future of healthcare. Lisa’s eyes see business plans for health/care innovations that are often pre-minimum viable product stage. So I asked Lisa, given that I’ll be writing the 2019 Health Populi Trendcast in a matter of weeks. What does she see achieving serious growth on the health care and technology front over the next 3 to 5 years? Four key areas are in her radar:
Voice as user interface, as a tool to free doctors from computer screens, provide older people access to things they don’t have, and enable simple queries for parents. “Voice is a big democratizer,” Lisa believes. “Alexa et. al. can speak in multiple languages.”
IoT (Internet of Things), Lisa foresees, will feature sensors in “everything:” medical devices, products, medications, among them. We’ll also see more and more connected health data in the IoT ecosystem for different applications.
AI will have more health-evidence supporting its adoption, perhaps, she expects, the first AI-developed FDA approved drug, Lisa expects.
Another key development to watch: the massive vertical integration going on among the various stakeholders in healthcare across providers, payors, tech, medtech and pharma. (THINK: CVS + Aetna, Apple aligning with LabCorp and Quest, and Walmart potentially purchasing a health plan).
Finally, we discussed the next phase of her career — what’s most exciting?
“Reconnecting with my love of growing and building things,” Lisa confessed. “I haven’t been doing that for a while. While I’ve been helping other organizations build and grow from the sidelines. I can now enjoy being back to owning something. It’s energizing!”
For more on the Renaissance of the Renaissance Woman in health care, you can read Lisa’s personal announcement on her must-read Venture Valkyrie blog. Here’s also a terrific profile in STAT on Lisa, titled, “The gatekeeper: If you want to make it big in health care, it’ll help to get past Lisa Suennen first.”
Health Populi’s Hot Points: Kudos to Mannatt for recognizing that Lisa Suennen wears many hats in and beyond healthcare. She’s forged a role with the firm that incorporates and leverages so many of her skills, interests, and experiences. The company demonstrates a lot of savvy and prescience for doing so. And, if any one person can help make healthcare better, it’s the great Venture Valkyrie.
Yes, she’s my friend. But she’s a brilliant colleague and valued healthcare-whisperer, which is how I got to learn about and value, first-hand, her many professional gifts.
I am all health/care, all the time in my work and in daily living. ‘Tis the season of forecasts and wishes in my world. My forecast and wish for Lisa and the Manatt family: Be well, Prosper, and Keep Building Health. I believe you will.
The post The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.
The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture posted first on http://dentistfortworth.blogspot.com
0 notes
realselfblog · 6 years
Text
The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture
Investor, advisor, operator, podcaster, blogger, speaker, Board member, mentor, mother, wife, volunteer. Take inventory of the many hats of Lisa Suennen, aka the Venture Valkyrie, and you understand why I see her as the Renaissance Woman of Healthcare. Ron Popeil couldn’t incorporate this many features into a contraption – yes, she slices and dices healthcare and technology, places bets on the best of them, and she deploys a whole lot more tools in her Mary Poppins-rich toolbox.
Two months ago, Lisa announced she was leaving GE Ventures, where she was Senior Managing Director, to do something new. This week, she announced that she was putting on her “big boots,” under the umbrella of Manatt Health.
First, let’s talk about those many hats that Lisa wears. Lisa comes by her technology savvy through DNA, I believe: her father developed and held many patents and was a serial entrepreneur. Lisa was born not far from the homes of inventors Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, in Princeton, NJ. The family moved to California where Dad launched his invention of the first real-time ultrasound machine and  expanded his technology research and innovation work. So the apple didn’t fall too far from the paternal tree.
While she’s best-known for being a very visible woman in health-technology investing and building venture funds, Lisa is social media savvy well beyond the profiles of those in her tech-investing peer group. Lisa started the Venture Valkyrie blog in 2010. The Tech-Tonics podcast, co-hosted with David Shaywitz, was an early entrant into that medium, launching in 2015 (today, podcasts in healthcare are multiplying like rabbits). You would get smarter by mining the archive of TechTonics: so many hours of insightful (and funny!) conversations from which to learn. These co-hosts are pictured here, donning their jerseys of personal sports passion.
Lisa is a mentor, both out-and-proudly and quietly, too. Long understanding and experiencing life as a woman in tech in Silicon Valley, well before media covered stories and #MeToo emerged, Lisa co-founded CSweetener. The organization matches women healthcare leaders to mentors, a supportive clearinghouse to help grow and empower women in tech. CSweetener also curates a Speakers Bureau to help alleviate the ongoing challenge of “manels” (men on panels) at technology meetings.
Lisa’s also a frequent public speaker, in both the U.S. and globally. In the past few months, she’s traveled to Australia and Ireland, for example, to spread her knowledge about digital health and technology to healthcare providers, investors, and innovators. A few weeks ago, I met with the Dublin-based team of HealthXL, where Lisa sits on the Board. The group waxed lyrically about Lisa’s involvement and important voice and energy supporting their important efforts to bolster innovation in health, globally.
I spent time with Lisa on the phone this week, she from her home base of Silicon Valley and me at mine on the east coast. In full transparency, I was aware that Lisa had the option of selecting from a broad range of opportunities for this next professional step. I asked her, among this rich trove of possible futures, “Why Manatt?”
She synthesized the many reasons into one over-arching response: joining Manatt would afford her, she said, “the opportunity to combine the familiar with the new, and do it in a setting that provides many degrees of freedom.”
Manatt has offices around the U.S., and so gives Lisa the geographic bandwidth to explore and inform healthcare from coast-to-coast. Manatt has operations in Albany (NY), Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County (CA), Palo Alto, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. And now, Mill Valley, CA.
A recent article in the American Lawyer discussed Manatt’s evolving business model and portfolio of services, moving from a law firm to an integrated health advisory organization. Lisa will be part of this ongoing evolution of Manatt as a professional services firm across many industries from healthcare to financial services, music and media — with a venture fund in the mix, as well, an important aspect of Lisa’s job description in the firm.
In my own work forecasting healthcare, I do 1:3:5 year snapshots, with the 5 years more of a scenario planning exercise than a straight line projection given tech, social, political and wild card uncertainties across our health/care ecosystem.
For the many year’s I’ve known Lisa, one of my personal asks has been to help inform my own advisory work — especially, in forecasting the future of healthcare. Lisa’s eyes see business plans for health/care innovations that are often pre-minimum viable product stage. So I asked Lisa, given that I’ll be writing the 2019 Health Populi Trendcast in a matter of weeks. What does she see achieving serious growth on the health care and technology front over the next 3 to 5 years? Four key areas are in her radar:
Voice as user interface, as a tool to free doctors from computer screens, provide older people access to things they don’t have, and enable simple queries for parents. “Voice is a big democratizer,” Lisa believes. “Alexa et. al. can speak in multiple languages.”
IoT (Internet of Things), Lisa foresees, will feature sensors in “everything:” medical devices, products, medications, among them. We’ll also see more and more connected health data in the IoT ecosystem for different applications.
AI will have more health-evidence supporting its adoption, perhaps, she expects, the first AI-developed FDA approved drug, Lisa expects.
Another key development to watch: the massive vertical integration going on among the various stakeholders in healthcare across providers, payors, tech, medtech and pharma. (THINK: CVS + Aetna, Apple aligning with LabCorp and Quest, and Walmart potentially purchasing a health plan).
Finally, we discussed the next phase of her career — what’s most exciting?
“Reconnecting with my love of growing and building things,” Lisa confessed. “I haven’t been doing that for a while. While I’ve been helping other organizations build and grow from the sidelines. I can now enjoy being back to owning something. It’s energizing!”
For more on the Renaissance of the Renaissance Woman in health care, you can read Lisa’s personal announcement on her must-read Venture Valkyrie blog. Here’s also a terrific profile in STAT on Lisa, titled, “The gatekeeper: If you want to make it big in health care, it’ll help to get past Lisa Suennen first.”
Health Populi’s Hot Points: Kudos to Mannatt for recognizing that Lisa Suennen wears many hats in and beyond healthcare. She’s forged a role with the firm that incorporates and leverages so many of her skills, interests, and experiences. The company demonstrates a lot of savvy and prescience for doing so. And, if any one person can help make healthcare better, it’s the great Venture Valkyrie.
Yes, she’s my friend. But she’s a brilliant colleague and valued healthcare-whisperer, which is how I got to learn about and value, first-hand, her many professional gifts.
I am all health/care, all the time in my work and in daily living. ‘Tis the season of forecasts and wishes in my world. My forecast and wish for Lisa and the Manatt family: Be well, Prosper, and Keep Building Health. I believe you will.
The post The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.
The Venture Valkyrie’s Next AdVenture posted first on http://dentistfortworth.blogspot.com
0 notes