#the new poll thing brought back some bad memories and feelings from the old days of vld fandom

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

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#rsd and anxiety through the roof #the new poll thing brought back some bad memories and feelings from the old days of vld fandom #Ughhh it hurts #this fandom has been a major source of stress and anxiety for so many years now #a better person would have left earlier #I am not a better person #i like these characters but sometimes i have to ask myself is it really worth it? #sometimes i wish i had never watched the show it was one disappointment after another #why did this show had to be so popular and bad and had such a godawful fandom? #pro tip- never go into tags of a poll consisting your favourite thing if you have rsd especially if the thing has some controversial fans #attached to it #and i just feel so stupid for letting fucking fandom bullshit get to me again #i deleted my old blog and only follow 6 ppl now to get away from fandom bullshit #last few months have been a real emotional rollercoaster from all sides and i think i am reaching the breaking point #It's just ughh #I am taking a break #empty salt #probably will delete later

[palbabor-writes]

I have, uh, thoughts...

M’kay, I know this has likely been harped on until nothing is left but little bits and pieces, but after reading this latest chapter, I realized what’s been bothering me about this current arc. It’s the imbalance of violence and aggression that is heaped onto Shigaraki.

I don’t know if this is Horikoshi’s intention, and I’m likely looking wayyy too into this, but I’d argue you don’t have your characters say things for no reason. So, if you’ve got a minute, let’s see if I can sort through these nagging emotions of mine.

warnings: manga spoilers 220 - 285, basically, no touch if you don’t want to see the current arc 

Ok. Let’s roll the clock back and look at something Shigaraki told us at the USJ.

Now, while he has changed a lot from these early arcs, that core motivation he carries here is the same. He wants society to see just how fragile and how ridiculous their reliance on a hero state of justice really is. And, I would say that he’s absolutely right in this assessment.

The idea of heroes and villains needs a foundation of violence. They need that evil, almost as much as they need the concept of justice. It’s the age old right and wrong theory. It doesn’t leave space for grey, for nuance, for differences in ideology or upbringing.

However, heroes like to ignore what they can’t fix. Like anyone, they’re human and humans don’t often take pleasure in looking at the uncomfortable. I’d argue that’s why Gran Tourino doesn’t check back in on Kotaro. Yes, he made a vow, but those memories of that crying child being placed with a trusted friend, and not his mother, not Nana, have stuck with him. Nana wouldn’t be any wiser, or any less dead, if he checked in on her son. In chapter 281, we finally, FINALLY see Gran reflecting on that choice both he and Nana made

If he had checked in, Kotaro might have known a different memory of his mother, or he might have at least been able to see the threads of aggression and abuse that were riddling Tenko’s life. He might have seen AFO, manipulating and watching. Might, might, might. No matter how you shake it, everything changes when there’s some kind of monitoring, of looking out for your fellow man.

With that in mind, BNHA’s world state, which is based on hero work, would need a strong set of checks and balances to function properly, to catch those falling into the cracks & I’d argue we don’t see much push for that from the everyday populace.

Which is wild. Because society itself is practically Quirkless. Sure, 80% have a quirk, but in Japan you cannot use your quirk in public. If you do, you run the risk of arrest or classification as a villain.

That is why we see moments like these

Izuku is likely one of the only people in this massive crowd who really has no quirk. There is a horde of people standing there and no one is lifting a finger. It’s kinda a “bread and circuses,” mentality. They look fucking entertained and no one is freaking out except for Izuku, who knows what it feels like inside that goop thing. Instead, they’re all waiting, watching for the next hero, or for All Might to show up. But wait, aren’t there heroes there? It’s a city and this is a massive attack, it’s brought foot traffic to a standstill, surely a hero will get there and save this boy who is literally dying.

Oh. They’re there. But they’re waiting too

They are all “managing,” the situation and hoping Bakugo will survive long enough for someone with the right quirk to come along. Not polling the masses of people to see if any of them could possibly assist in the meantime, no, all these civilians get to watch this miscarriage of “justice.” Don’t worry. If the kids strong enough, he’ll make it.

So far, Shigaraki’s underlying motivation calling for a more rigorous, critical, take on heroes doesn’t feel too far fetched. Looking at chapter 1 alone, the current way things are isn’t right and it’s not fair.

Now, Shigaraki isn’t going about asking for it the “right,” way, but I bet he’d see a similar response even if he wasn’t hurting and maiming people as he goes.

The latter would let him be swept aside just as easily as the former. We see this happen with Stain. The news isn’t talking about the Nomu, or the countless people who were terrorized and hurt. No, they’re talking about the Hero Killer, because just like in our real society, that’s what get the clicks, the likes and the attention. Again, people don’t like to look at things that make them uncomfortable.

Yet, even with this horrifying fact, that Stain could go down in history books as a villain, as someone who gleefully killed others, people, both good and bad, sat up and took notice. Many even identified with his ideals: That heroes are corrupt and they are only in the field for the fame and money. Only All Might was the perfect specimen to Stain. Because this is an idea that people can get behind, to me, that means that others know things are stacked against the underbelly, the downtrodden. But they can’t be bothered to call for change.

On the flip side, Shigaraki, who has a better grasp on the true ills and neglect of hero society is often told he has no “real,” ideology, no real conviction, and this is a theme that’s repeated over and over and over.

Like most things in BNHA, it begins with All Might

Then it’s carried to Stain, Dr. Ujiko, an ally and long time supporter of AFO, to Re-Destro, and, most recently, to Endeavor. They all can’t see what Shigaraki is wanting, what he’s calling for.

It’s easier to name him a monster, a freak, scum, then to listen or to absorb any of what he’s saying.

But, as he says, he’s got convictions. He’s got his father’s, he’s got AFO’s ideas on the ethics and morals of hero society, AFO’s drive to crush OFA, once and for all, and his own deep seeded resentment and neglect toward a broken hero society. Honestly, he’s got more motivation than almost any other character.

And how is he treated? How does Horikoshi show us the “heroes” response? He gives up a heaping of violence. From chapter 270 to 285, Tomura Shigaraki is hit, punched, burned and beat around a whopping 36 times. And, for most of this fight, he is effectively quirkless.

How many hits does he get in? A grand total of 6.

And his first reaction is never to maim, in these moments, instead it’s to talk, to rattle, and to question

He only goes for Endeavor after he’s been burned, likely, without his regeneration abilities, to the point of death. These heroes aren’t aiming to subdue, they’re going in for the kill. And yes, he has just decayed an entire hospital and the surrounding area, the heroes are warranted in their anger and their frustration. After all, they’re the ones who dropped the ball here. This was a “planned” raid and they should have been the only ones in any real danger. They’re heroes, so I’d argue that it’s their job, their life’s mission to save, no matter the cost.

Besides, if they can spare AFO, not once, but twice, they should be trying to spare Shigaraki just as hard.

This has been a long and drawn out arc, with many, many ups and downs, but the one thing I don’t wanna see is the heroes getting a pass. This society has pitfalls and it’s got big ones. People are treated as lesser if they don’t have quirks, or if they have the wrong ones, the ones that don’t make them look normal. People are pressed to the side when they don’t conform and a hero, the current number one, has gotten away with mentally, and physically, scarring his family for over 20 years.

Right now, there are no checks. There is no: who watches the watcher in this world and I’d argue society has suffered for it.

Yet how are we shown how to treat those who don’t agree with us? With anger, untapped rage and physical violence, of course. And this is true of BOTH sides.

At the end of the day, as he said back at the USJ: violence only breeds more violence and while I don’t like predicting future chapters or arcs, I’m hoping that thread won’t be dropped. It’s one of the things that drew me into BNHA and I hope we get to see more, not less, of that grey morality.

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[axolotlwithafork]

Mysterious Assassin

This story takes place two years after Tommy’s exile. It can be found in my Oneshots book on Wattpad.

Tubbo tapped his foot on the ground, not in a specific pattern, but randomly. He was nervous, today was the anniversary of the day Tommyinnit had been exiled, and he had been asked to speak.

His breathing got quick as he tapped his finger against his horns in tune with his foot. The horns were fairly new, actually, they had started growing after Tommy had been exiled, but they weren't too bad. Sure they reminded everyone of Schlatt, but Tubbo's horns were different. They were a shade lighter than Schlatt's and wasn't too far off from Tubbo's natural hair color. It was nice, they had taken away the need for a helmet and he didn't have to worry about hitting his head on anything. Tubbo chuckled, because in a way the horns reminded him of a simpler time, not a very peaceful time, but a simpler one.

Tubbo released a sigh and reached into his inner coat pocket, pulling up a small pack of cigarettes. He rarely actually smoked, heck this was his very first pack from about a year ago and he had only used three, but it helped with the stress. Since he didn't have any more time to go fishing, smoking had taken the place of pufferfish, due to them being a lot easier to carry around. Tubbo sighed once again as he lit the cigarette, before setting it onto his lips. Phil didn't like him smoking, but even he noticed the improvements that it brought with it. Tubbo didn't snap back as often, had a better time with his anger, and he was actually sleeping a night now too. So Phil allowed Tubbo to smoke, on rare occasions only.

Tubbo released a puff of smoke before he looked down at the time. The memorial would start in a couple of minutes, and his speech would be in about 15, he had enough time to chill for a second. So that's what he did, he let himself chill. He leaned back in his chair and looked up at the ceiling, thinking about random things. His VP, Ranboo, had asked if they could create a memorial in L'manburg for all the fallen presidents, but that would mean they'd have to find someplace to put it. Where would it go, and would the citizens be okay with it? Tubbo released another puff of smoke along with a sigh, he'd have to run a poll after his speech to find out what the citizens wanted. He looked down at the cigarette in his hand and tapped a bit of the end off into an ashtray on his desk. That would just be something he'd worry about after the speech, and until then, he could calm down.

He released another puff of smoke as the door to his office opened, and Ranboo himself walked in. His nose wrinkled up in disgust at the smell of the smoke and he walked over to a window.

"You up in 5 minutes Tubbo," Ranboo said as he opened the nearest window

Tubbo nodded and stood up, walking over to the window next to his VP, and opening it. Next to Ranboo the 18-year-old appeared short, but that was just because of Ranboo's Ender genes. In reality, Tubbo was pretty bloody tall, just over 6' 4". He smiled slightly as he opened the window, allowing the fresh air to rush into the room, driving out all the smoke. Once the two windows were open, Ranboo turned to his president and sighed at the sight of the cigarette.

"You really should stop," Ranboo said, gesturing to the bud in Tubbo's hand "You're too young."

Tubbo nodded and leaned on the window seal "I was also too young to be president," Tubbo looked to Ranboo "And yet here we are."

Ranboo chuckled and sighed, looking out the second window "Yep, here we are."

They stood there in silence for a bit before Ranboo cleared his throat.

"We better get going," He said as he turned away from the window "We wouldn't want to be late."

Tubbo nodded and walked over to his desk, where he pushed his cigarette down into the ashtray. Once he was sure it was out, he turned back to Ranboo and smiled, nodding.

"Yep, let's go."

The quiet assassin lied low to the ground, careful to avoid the attention of any people below him. He knew all their names by heart, but even then he wasn't sure who they were.

It had just been so long.

They shook their head, no, they couldn't allow their mind to wander now, they had a job to do. They were here for one reason, and one reason only.

They heard cheering and their eyes immediately snapped to the podium, where the President was, walking up to his stand.

What surprised the assassin were the horns that came from the president's head.

There was no doubt about it now, he had definitely become the next Schlatt, that fact only fueled the assassin's want to kill him. He didn't take his eyes off the president as he pulled back the string of his crossbow, loading it, and aiming it carefully. As soon as the President was done speaking, that's when he'd shoot. Whatever he said in this speech would be his forever last words.

The president tapped the microphone in front of him and leaned down.

"H-hello? Is this on?" He started

Many of the audience members nodded and the president smiled.

"Great! Then I guess we can get started." The president sighed and looked up

The assassin had never thought he'd hear the words that came out of the president's mouth that day.

"Today, we are here to remember Tommyinnit, who on this day, was exiled by myself. A decision which I regret every day." The president sighed and looked down "He was a friend to most of us, and always brought a laugh with him whenever he entered a room. Sure he had a temper, which got him into some shit sometimes, but he always found a way out of it, most of the time."

That last statement causes some of the audience members to chuckle, including the assassin. But he shook it off and re-aimed his crossbow.

"He didn't deserve the judgment that we pushed on to him, he deserved better than we ever gave him." The president sighed and looked back up "Which is why we're here, to remember him, on the day that I made the biggest mistake a friend could make." The president's eyes began to wander, and fell on the assassin "I pushed him away, and lost him."

The assassin and the president made eye contact. The assassin panicked and bumped his crossbow, causing the arrow to go flying. It flew through the air, and the assassin stood up, watching as it made its way to the president, landing right in his right shoulder.

There were screams in the crowd, and the president was pushed away. The assassin pulled up the bandana around his neck to cover his face before running off.

He couldn't complete his mission if the president got away.

He ran and eventually, found the building that they were hiding him in. A quick scan of the building and he found two open windows.

Perfect.

Tubbo slumped down into his office chair and sighed, looking down at the arrow in his shoulder. Ranboo sighed and ran his fingers through his black and white hair.

"Who was that?" Ranboo asked, "Who'd want to kill you?"

Tubbo stayed quiet as his VP went on and on about the assassin. He gripped the arrow in his shoulder and yanked it out of his shoulder with a quiet grunt. That stopped Ranboo from talking and he sighed. “I'll go get the medical supplies," He said, "You'll be okay until then, right?"

Tubbo looked up at Ranboo and smiled "Yeah, I'll be fine."

Ranboo nodded and walked out the door, making sure to close it behind him.

Tubbo sighed and reached over to his desk drawer. He opened it and reached into it, feeling around for the cool metal surface that he had grown so familiar with. He pulled it out and looked down at the compass. He felt the engraved words on the side and smiled sadly. He reached into his suit pocket and pulled out the pack of cigarettes. He heard the window next to him close as he sighed and lit a cigarette, setting it into his mouth.

He released a puff of smoke before he looked down at the compass, the red needle pointing to his right. He sighed and turned his office chair in the direction of the window, staring at the figure in front of it.

"So," Tubbo said, looking down at the compass in his hand "You've finally found me."

He looked back up at the assassin's face, not finding an enemy's face, but a friend's.

"Dream told me you had burnt that damn compass." The assassin spat out

Tubbo shook his head "I would never," He said, "Someone had taken it and I wasn't able to find it for a good month, but I'd never destroyed it."

The assassin scoffed and leaned back against the window seal, but their eyes were still set on Tubbo.

They pointed to the horns "When did those grow in?"

Tubbo released a puff of smoke before he sighed  "About a year after the exile," He said "It took a while to get used to them, but they're not too bad. They're fucking annoying when I'm trying to comb my hair though." 

The assassin chuckled and looked out the window as Tubbo took a drag from the cigarette between his fingers. 

"You look like shit," Tubbo said, taking the time to notice the assassin's attire 

They scoffed "And you look like Schlatt." They said sharply 

Tubbo nodded "I do, there's no doubt about that," He admitted with a chuckle

The two sat in silence for a bit, before Tubbo let out one last puff of gray smoke, and smudging out his cigarette in the ashtray. 

He sighed and looked up at the assassin.

"So," Tubbo started "You wanna tell me why your here, Tommy?"

Tommy didn't respond but instead looked out the window.

"Because judging by the arrow that you shot in my shoulder, you sure as hell weren't here to catch up."

Tommy nodded and chuckled 

Before he reached into his jacket pocket

And pulled out a worn out, cracked, and rusted compass.

Tubbo stared at the object in his old friend's hand, before looking up to meet Tommy's faded blue eyes.

"Wha-"

"Dream told me to keep it," Tommy said

"Why would Dream tell you to keep it?" Tubbo asked

Tommy looked down and the compass in his hands "He told me to keep it so that one day, I'd be able to find you," Tommy finally looked up at Tubbo, meeting his gaze "And kill you." 

Tubbo's eyes widened, and he looked down at the wound that the arrow had left, the blood bleeding through the fabric of his suit, before looking back up at Tommy.

"So, that's where the arrow was supposed to go," Tubbo said, "It was supposed to blow my brains out."

Tommy nodded and looked down, before squeezing his eyes shut.

"It was an easy task," Tommy said "But I," He paused and let out a small sob "I just couldn't do that to you."

It was then when Tubbo saw the tears running down Tommy's face, and realized that he was crying. 

"Tommy I-" 

"No, Tubbo I don't think you understand!" Tommy stood up and walked over to where Tubbo stood "I was so angry and hated you so much that I actually listened to Dream and practically went through with killing you. I listened to that green bastard!"

Tubbo's breathing got faster as he took a step away from his friend fearfully.

"I thought about it for so long, I had it all planned out. You'd been dead within a few seconds if I had just aimed correctly!" Tommy said, "But then you saw me, and suddenly I was having second thoughts." Tommy shouted "I began to second guess myself on something I had been planning for months on end. My hands began to shake while holding a weapon I had become incredibly familiar with, and I still shot you."

Tears were now flowing down Tommy's cheeks as he spoke.

"I shot you." He said quietly, looking down at Tubbo’s arm.

Tubbo looked up at his friend and realized just how broken he was.

"Tommy," Tubbo said, "I don't hate you for what you did."

Tommy looked up, his eyes widening at Tubbo's statement

"But-"

Tubbo covered Tommy's mouth.

"No Tommy, listen," Tubbo said "You have every reason to hate me. What I did to you was a horrible thing to do and no one deserves that."

Tubbo looked up at Tommy and smiled sadly, before pulling him into a hug.

"You can kill me if you want," Tubbo said "I just thought I'd say sorry for all the pain I've caused you. I was a terrible friend, and you deserve so much better than me."

Tommy wasn't quick to respond, he stayed silent during Tubbo's confession and even a few minutes afterward. But despite the tension in the room, Tommy sighed and hugged his friend and gave into his tears. 

"I'm so fucking sorry Toby." Tommy cried 

Tubbo, despite trying to avoid it, began to cry along with this friend.

"I'm sorry too, Tommy."

Alright, how’d you guys like that one? I had fun writing this.

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[queenof-literature]

Could you please do a story on Ao3 about Warriors going through reliving the same day over and over again? Kinda like a Happy Death Day thing.

Hi all! I know that my poll had my Hero of Wild series next, but it has been so long since I updated a request and I feel so bad about that I just didn’t want to write any requests in the middle of moving so it didn’t feel I was putting less effort in. But now I’m sick so I have a little time. 

IMPORTANT: I’ve decided to put a new section on my Tumblr masterlist specifically for requests that will not be in my personal LU storyline. I love all of my requests y’all are so creative! I just enjoy putting my fics into my own personal timeline on my Masterlist when possible, and some requests aren’t going to naturally fit in. And that’s perfectly fine! I’m just going to put it in a different section :)

This one is shorter than usual so I’m sorry about that, but I hope you enjoy!

Thank you for the request anon! Here’s the link https://archiveofourown.org/works/26368114

Another day another brawl with infected monsters allied with eight other versions of himself. 

No Link even knew what timeline they were in, no one had claimed this one as their own. But something just felt… off. Sure it was a strange Hyrule, but no other Hyrule felt quite like this. It felt as if they were in some sort of limbo. As if time itself was molasses. 

Warriors absolutely hated this feeling. As a captain he was used to being on a constant move, going where he was needed from morning to late at night. It could be exhausting, but it was simply the life Warriors lived as a captain. He had to admit, relaxing with the other Links was actually enjoyable. There was just a calm aura that helped even Warriors relax. But this wasn’t calm, this Hyrule set the hairs on the back of his neck on edge. When he brought it up, the other Links had confirmed that they usually felt that way in a strange Hyrule. Warriors couldn’t explain that this was different, it wasn’t like other Hyrules, there was something utterly wrong. 

The woods resembled the Lost Woods of Wild’s and Time’s Hyrules. Although it was far less foggy, there was a mysterious mist that permeated the area. The leader in Warriors wanted to do something, anything, other than simply walk through looking for the answers to why they were here. But no matter where they turned, the woods never seemed to end. Warriors certainly didn’t appreciate that Legend and Hyrule were completely unfazed. Just what in seven hells have those two been through that this shit was normal?

Back to the matter at hand. Hylia was this fog in Warriors’ brain too? The monsters here were unnerving as well. Not exactly horrifying just… distorted. Everytime he glanced back at one their faces seemed to have shifted slightly. Everything in this Hyrule was simply off. And Warriors wanted to leave more than anything. 

“Wind!” Warriors heard Four scream. Scream. Four never screamed. Much to his absolute horror, Warriors now understood why. Some monster, Warriors couldn’t even call it its name it was so warped, had cornered Wind completely. His little brother, shield and sword tossed too far for him to reach, warped and disgusting creatures looming over him. No no no. Not Wind, Wind didn’t deserve to die like this. None of his brothers did. Hylia can’t do this. She can’t do this! Not Wind, not the little pirate. He was such a little shit, a tornado of foul language, innocent questions and bright outlooks. He was Warriors’ little pirate and he couldn’t die. Not here, not now. Warriors needed to protect all of them. He wouldn’t fail. He couldn’t!

“Wind!” Warriors yelled, the last thing he saw was Wind’s wide and terrified eyes, claws just above his heart. 

Another day another brawl with infected monsters allied with eight other versions of himself. 

Warriors didn’t know what was off about this Hyrule but he didn’t like it. It sent a chill up his spin, an uncomfortable reminder that something was off. He didn’t know why, and he also didn’t know why he was so concerned for Wind. Sure he always was, the kid was a talented fighter and a hell of a force to be reckoned with, but he was still a kid that Warriors appointed himself to look after. He needed to protect all of his brothers-in-arms. He needed to make sure they all made it back to their Hyrules, their homes, even if some didn’t have a home, they still needed to make it back to their Hyrules. 

But there was something about this place that made Warriors stay as close to Wind as possible without raising too many questions. Wind knew something was going on, and would most likely ask for an explanation later. Too bad Warriors didn’t have one. 

“Monsters!” Warriors heard a sharp call from Twilight. How had he not heard or seen anything!? Hylia this place was messing with his head. Warriors unsheathed his sword just as hulking creatures rushed in from the trees. Warriors kept a cautious eye on Wind as he rolled under the first to reach him, springing up and cutting his sword through the monster's back. These monsters were different, warped and shifting almost constantly. 

Warriors kept himself near Wind as much as possible. Something was wrong and it involved Wind. Warriors didn’t have time to question his instincts, he had learned that the hard way. The kid was doing fine on his own, but Warriors kept his eye on him while slashing through the pack that had decided to attack. 

“Hyrule!” Legend yelled, dashing towards the boy who had been disarmed. Just like that, it all came crashing down. This was familiar, this had happened. Warriors couldn’t breathe, what was going on? He failed, but he hadn’t failed yet. Why did he feel like he failed? His vision went black, the last sight he saw this time was Hyrule’s flickering magic. Wait… this time?

Another day another brawl with… oh shit. Warriors hated that odd feeling of remembrance that seemed to hit Hylians at odd times. No, it wasn’t just a feeling. This had happened? Warriors glanced around at his fellow Links walking down the road. Hyrule chatting with Legend, the older hiding a small smile at the other coming out of his shell more and more. Wild with Four, the two having a quiet conversation Warriors couldn’t hear. Sky and Time discussing strategy for their current situation. Twilight telling Wind about Epona, the young boy didn’t have horses in his Hyrule and Twilight was always happy to discuss animals. 

Everything seemed fine with them, besides the creepy Hyrule they were in. But Warriors knew something was wrong. What was wrong? 

“Monsters!” It was Sky who noticed this time. This time? The group all prepared their weapons, the trees shook as monsters came from the gaps. Warriors could only describe their faces as distorted. Where had he seen that before? There weren’t monsters like that in his Hyrule. Warriors charged forward, slashing across what he assumed to be the lead monster’s chest. Glancing over it seemed there were eight more monsters, one for each hero. A coincidence? Or something more sinister. A yelp rang through the battle and Warriors whipped around from above the monster’s corpse. There was Legend, a warped monster standing tall above him, sword raised. 

“Legend!” Warriors yelled.

“What?” Legend snarked. Warriors stumbled back, surrounded by the misty forest, and eight worried Links. 

“I-what? The monsters?” Warriors stuttered out.

“What? Monsters? Where?” Wind asked looking around, and a flash of big blue eyes looking above him in fear. Oh, Hylia! Wind had been cornered! And Hyrule!

“Wind! Hyrule! Are you guys okay?” Warriors asked frantically.

“What? I’m fine?” Wind reassured, Hyrule nodding along with him, Wind didn’t look defensive, he looked concerned. They all did, they were all concerned. Warriors was surrounded by worry and it was absolutely suffocating him. He shouldn’t worry them, he was a captain it was his job to take care of them!

“Warriors? What’s wrong?” Wild asked softly. Warriors sort of looked like him after a memory. 

“I don’t know!” Warriors shouted, not at Wild but at himself.

“Let’s take a break.” Time placated.

“No! They’ll get to us!” Warriors’ wide eyes turned to Time, and the Old Man could see how tormented Warriors was in that moment. Time had his back turned for a minute, what had happened?

“Who War?” Legend asked, concerned. 

“Monsters! They keep coming.” Warriors tried to explain but nothing solid was coming out. How could he? Would the other Links even believe him? Just as the group tried to continue questioning Warriors, a stick snapped. “They’re here!” Warriors called, unsheathing his sword, the others raced to follow his lead. But apparently, this battle was only the beginning. This time, it was Time, somehow his Biggoron sword had been launched across the clearing.

Next it was Twilight, throwing himself in front of Time. That would have been the second round of Time dy- of Time being defeated if Twilight hadn’t stepped in. It killed Warriors to see the shock and horror on Time’s face. 

Next it was Four, his bright eyes shifting through colors as the monster’s steel came down upon him. Whatever was dragging Warriors around through time like a ragdoll never let him stick around enough to let him actually see them die, or to even try and defend them. It just yanked him away, each time with more memories to use to try and protect his brothers the next time. Warriors stopped questioning it, he just wanted it to be over.  

The next time it was Hyrule again, he had healed Legend and had been too tired to completely defend himself.

After that was Wild, the boy had been surrounded by four monsters in one blink of an eye. 

Next was Sky, not even his expert swordsmanship could save him when he was surrounded by those things. 

Four again.

Twilight again.

Sky again.

Then it was Warriors’ turn. A million thoughts raced through his head in the moment he felt a dark presence behind him. Would this finally be over now that it wasn’t the others who were about to perish? Did Hyia not care enough for him? Warriors didn’t want to die, not here, not after all this. But it was better him than the others. They needed to make it back. The monster screamed and Warriors tensed, but felt nothing. Turning around just in time to see the monster vanish in a puff of smoke, whipping around Warriors eyes met Time’s. And for the first time since this whole thing began, Warriors saw complete understanding in Time’s eyes. 

“I know. It’s over now.” Time reassured, placing a hand on Warriors’ shoulder. Time wasn’t just talking about the battle, Time somehow knew something of what Warriors had been through. The man just seemed to get more mysterious everyday, but right now Warriors didn’t even question it. He was just relieved. He desperately hoped it was truly over. Warriors ignored the others calling his name and asking if he was alright, he just looked at Time. 

“Why? Why did it happen?” Warriors held back tears, the looks of desperation and fear on his brother’s faces wouldn’t stop flashing in his mind.

“I don’t know.” It was the first time Warriors had ever heard time sound so lost.

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Reviewcaps: X-Men Evolution: Strategy X

I take my first look at X-Men Evolution the second and less famous, but no less loved, cartoon about everyones faviorite mutant outcasts. In our first episode Scott blows up a gas station, Nightcrawler finds what it feels like to have a home, Toad tries to join the x-men and both of the latter two end up nearly dying because Chuck forgot to teleport proof the one room in the house with deadly lasers. All this and football under the cut. 

A few days ago I realized something weird: I hadn’t reviewed any superhero cartoons on here. What makes that weird to me, is that I realized when writing this that Superhero cartoons are what MADE me a superhero fan in the first place. I grew up as a little kid watching the spider-man and x-men animated series, and watched most marvel shows that came about as I grew, and became a lifelong fan of Green Lantern and the Flash thanks to Justice League , the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles thanks to the 2003 cartoon (another franchise I absolutley adore I haven’t covered on here for some reason) and the Teen Titans thanks to well.. Teen Titans, not to mention all the great original superhero shows at the time like the legendary Danny Phantom (even if butch heartman can take a short walk into a cave full of bears lately), My Life as a Teenage Robot, El Tigre.. the list of good shit goes on. So being on an X-Men kick again lately, I decided to revisit what turned out to be one of the first of this wave, and a show I’d had the opporoutnity to binge for a while , first on hulu and then on D+, and wanted to revisit to see how it holds up, while, if not as fast as I watch them, reviewing them here to combine my two intrests. And it probably wont’ be the last marvel animated series I binge or cover here, nor the last superhero show I cover so if you have any, Marvel, DC, from other companies or completely original, shoot me an ask or reply to this and i’ll see if I can get to it. For now we’re starting the evolution.  Evolution was the first X-Men cartoon, and somehow one of 5 overall not counting the hulk vs wolverine movie, pryde of the x-men pilot and various crossover apperances in other cartoons, to follow the 90′s one, which as you probably know was a huge hit that defined the x-men for a generation of young fans, was a huge sucess and launched the mostly great sorta shared cartoon universe with classics like Spider-Man the Animated Series (Which not concidentally is what made me a lifelong fan of the webslinger), The Incredible Hulk, and the second season of Iron Man and Fantastic Four.. and yes only the second as the first seasons were both by entirely diffrent creative teams and gave us things like this. 

Yes that is Johnny Storm doing an objetivley terrible hip hop song, no it dind’t cause that building to sink into the earth, and yes it is so bad it’s delcioius. Sadly the rest of hte series is more flat and boring than “bwahahahaha” but my point is made. The point is Evolution had a steep hill to climb, and with the previous cartoon compressing most of the decades long Chris Claremont era and some of what came after into 5 seasons of good if cheesy stuff, the creators clearly, if only because Ic an’t find a making of, decided to go in a diffrent route, making their own unique take on the characters and world of the x-men instead.  For starters rather than being vetrans with years of experince, either from being an x-man or just from general life experince like the comics were since the 70′s aside from the ocasinal exception like Kitty Pryde and Jubilee, they’d be teens, grappling with hormones alongside blue fur, head lasers and not being able to touch anyone. This wasn’t something x-men had shied away from, New Mutants and Generation X existed, but it was the first time in decades the X-Men themselves were kids. Sure Storm and Wolverine weren’t aged down, but there were just as many missions that were just these teenagers hoping to surivive the experince and keep mutants a secret till the world was ready.. and then dealing with the fallout when an unready and hateful world found out anyway. And I honeslty like the direction: The previous series had done the mostly straight adaptation bit, there wasn’t anywhere to go and aging scott and jean back to teens, and having nightcrawler and rouge get to be ones for the first time though, was an intresting idea, as was having Kitty Pryde be a teen alongside them instead of their plucky teenage member  Another intresting direction was, while Xavier’s still existed and was where the cast lived and learned to use their powers, the X-Men also went to regular high school. While it’d take till season 3 for them to actually have to deal with being out mutants in the setting, it was still an intresting tactic: The X-school in the comics, while no less studious is still an isoalted boarding school and when the New Mutants met some friends in town, most had only heard whispers about the old Xavier Mansion and were delighted to visit for a slumber party.. granted this being an x-men schindig our heroes ended up having to deal with an alien who eventually became one of their closest friends that night but still, for the x-men having the robot, or technoorganic in this case, NOT try to murder them on purpose and be a loveable 80′s sidekick instead is an easy night. While i’ts not done perfectly here from what I can remember, the main human characters we see are nightcrawlers love intrest amanda (who is thankfully NOT his adopted sister this time around thank christ), local stock blond football bully and flash thompson impersonator Duncan, and Scott’s nondiscript friend paul, who I can’t think of without thinking two things; one , what do you WANT paul: 

I mean a man so vauge just can’t be trusted. The second is that paul looks a lot like Doug Ramsey and i’m suprised they didn’t just.. make him Doug and have him go through a similar arc from the comics:A crush on kitty and the rest of the team finding out he’s a mutant and eventually bringing him into their world. For those unaware Doug Ramsey is a mutant with the ablility to translate any languge, including computer code from the get go and body laungage when he came back, an easy fix to him being the non-combatant of the group no one thought of, who died tragically in story sacrifcing himself to save his girlfriend’s life and out of story because the artist tricked the writer into killing him off. Thankfully he did come back about two decades later, took a level in badass thanks to a combination of the body language thing above meaning he could anticipate moves and dodge and computers having advanced to the point that part of his powers was now 80 times more useful, and has recently become a key part of the dawn of x relaunch. He’s also a faviorite of mine as you can probably tell and given how much the early 2000′s loved their computers, it’s weird to me they didn’t think of this and it’s even weirder he didn’t show up with the lions share of the other new mutants next season, along with Karma and Warlock which somehow has become a recurring theme thanks to the movie saving them for sequels that ended up not happening because fox stupidly put the movie in Limbo where it remains until maybe next month.  But yeah even if muted a bit the idea of the x-men going to a public school alongside their training is a decent one.. sure a hero going through high school is again a cliche, but it’s a thing the x-men hadn’t done in this way before or sense, and was intresting to see in action. Most high school scnees in x-comics are usually some poor mutant having their powers manifest and either hurting someone by accident, being treated like crap for it by their class or hunted down for accidently hurting someone before the x-men show up to kick their asses and welcome this youngster. Or getting rejected by family and friends then coming to the x-men.. there’s a lot of angst directions to go in. My point is we’d never seen the x-men try to blend in and have a more standard school experince, and combining that with them hiding their powers instead of being out in the open at first made for a unique dynamic for the x-men that makes well tread ground nice nad fresh even 20 years later. 

So that’s our basic setup going in: The X-men wake up, go to school, then save the world or train to save the world while harnesing wonderful and dangerous powers and protecting the helpless agaist less charitable mutants. The basic x-setup with a 2000′s era superhero high school show flavor. Good stuff. But we’ll see what it does with this premise, how good it holds up and what’s still delightfuly cheesy about it as I take a nice look at the first episode Strategy X

We open at night and

Yup Scott and Jean are at the football team where the aforementioned Duncan, guy voted most likely to peak in high school in last year’s yearbook poll, is playing some foot ball and trying to flit with Jean Grey whose the first X-Man we meet and is somehow receptive to this despite his radaiating douche and is lucky this Jean’ , unlike say the time transfered one from the comics who thought the best approach to helping Bobby Drake come out of the closet so he could help his older self do the same and be his best self, was to just blunty say he’s gay and refuse to let him explore thtt for himself or get someone more quliafied to help her. And yes that did indeed happen and yes the original x-men were brought into the present for a while and yes it was weird Moving on. Still i’m pretty sure duncan’s thoughts would read like  “Man she looks good.. I want to bang her so hard she uh.. wakes up sideways.. yeah that’s it. Your a legend duncan, a total legend. “.  As you can probably tell I don’t have fond memories of this character or this sorta but not really love triangle, and question why they couldn’t of just had spyke be the other man in the triangle if they wanted to do this. Granted Spyke himself is kinda annoying, but it still makes more sense to have him fill in for angel or wolverine in a jean-scott love triangle than this walking burnt end. The warren, scott one worked, as much as a 60′s love triangle could because warren was conventionally handsome and had angel wings while scott has to keep glasses on just to not murder anyone he looks at, so there’s a bit of contrast there, while with WOlverine it’s straight laced dependeble scott versus unhinged manly man Logan. You know before recently where they just decided to all bone in a pile and wolverine even goes on vacation with them. And that’s not a joke I made up, that’s actual canon. Both make logical sense while Jean would be intrested in both in the former case, as Scott was still a kind and dependable leader, and tempted in the latter case if never acting on it before recently and with her husband’s full consent and either watching from the closet or taking one up the ass for jean to watch. Duncan in contrast is just wholly unlikeable and it makes me question why use him as the third in this love triangle, ESPECIALLY since the show would later introduce another scott and jean based love triangle with Rogue wanting scott that’s way more intresting, and even people wanting those two to hook up don’t want Jean with Duncan! Instead of creating a vitable alternative to make a later love triangle more intresting or create some shipping wars or anything of value any hint jean may be intrested just wastes screentime and tests my patience and is thankfully breif here.  As for why Jean’s here sh’es taking pictures for the school paper since the Daily Bugle wasn’t intrested in photos that weren’t of spider-man and they already had a teen photographer for that. Porker or something. Anyways this episode ofa low rent friday night lights knockoff is interuptted when one of duncan’s buddies on the team spots local trouble maker and ,judging by context, bully punching bag Todd Tolansky, aka Toad which is a cruel nickname turned slightly lesss cruel code name here, pick pocketing the people in the stands, and sensing a flimsy context to punch a nerd, Duncan goes to tell the coah he’ll be busy for a moment totally not carving someone’s face in again. Coach says as long as he leaves him breathing, and through a straw still counts and since their so far ahead as long as he’s back for the celebratory rampage anything goes.  Also spotting Toad’s stan pines approved sticky fingers is Scott Summers, leader of x-men and all around cool guy. Scott here is a bit more emotive than he was int he comics at a time, a trait he’d have later on in the late 2000′s and even currently and a version I prefer to the “has something shoved so far up his ass you can see it when he opens his mouth” boring straightman of the 90′s cartoon. He’s a bit more impulsive, a bit more emotivie but still a good and well thought out leader and the tactical genius, at least as far as I can remember, that he’s known for being. IT’s a good portayal so far, it reminds me of 2k12 leonardo: he’s still growing into being a leader in some way but clearly has the talent and drive for it and a deep sense of heroism> That deep sense is shown here as Scott leaves to go confront toad.. and then confronts Duncan and buds when he finds them about to squish Toad. Unlike Duncan, whose “heroism” consits of a filmy excuse to beat a third hole into todd’s head, Scott wanted to stop Toad because it’s the right thing to do, and wants to stop Duncan because his actions are just as wrong: Sure Toad is stealing stuff, but it’s clear from the way he and his buddies grin widlly at seieng toad pick pocket that they just want an excuse to pummel the kid and not get in trouble for it. It’s confirmed when Scott makes a resonable offer: Since Toad still has the money and most of the lifted wallets, he can return what he stole, which Toad not wanting to die today agrees to, but Duncan refuses. Scott however gets the three thrown to the ground and while Toad escapes, with the two other idiots in persuit, an enraged duncan attacks. But since Scott Summers, even teen scott summers has batman level judo, it’s an even fight despite Duncan being bigger and more muscular.. until Jean runs in shouts scott no.. despite you know Duncan starting this and Scott merley defending himself, distracts Scott long enough for him to get shoved to the ground.. and loose his googles, sending an optic blast out before he can clamp his eyes shut, knocking duncan over and igniting a nearbye propane tank. Toasty! Also yikes.  Cue the opening theme and credits. While the opening Creidts are very 2000′s, they aren’t half bad but the main draw is the theme song which.. honestly I feel is great and very close to the 90′s x-men theme in quality, only not being AS good because that one’s one of the best theme songs period. but this one’s no slouch as it’s fun, energetic and will get stuck in your head. Good stuff.  After the theme we cut back to the credits where Scott is closing his eyes despeartly holding his powers in. It was a good opening and a great way to show off the premise of the show and just how dangerous mutant powers can be even accidnetally, with this followup showing it’s not inetentional. it was even shown before as while scott’s eyes flash, he notably never uses his powers in the fight and they only came about accidnetally. We also get some JeanScott ship tease as she finds his glasses ,and with Duncan having a concusion and not remembering anything, a bit that hasn’t aged well, things seem well.. except the cop seems to notice something supscious.. before help arrives in a rolls royce. Charles Xavier, voiced by the icomprable David Kaye who I feel is one of the best daviers and does a great job here and quickly makes the guy see nothing supscious, a classic use of his powers and an understdanable one: while yea going into someone’s mind isn’t a great tihng to do.. scott being possibly outed as a mutant this way would only land the poor boy in a jail cell, as it did for Bobby Drake in the comics when his own powers activated and hurt someone. We also meet storm who unlike the others isn’ aged downa nd is one of two senior staffers for the school, a touch I like as she was a great mentor figure to kitty pryde and the comics and the roll suits her, while evolution also tones down the ham 80 degrees so she’s even more like the comics; reserved but utterly confident and badass and a good #2 to xavier. Xavier also likely wiped Duncan’s memory of scott’s power triggering I figure.. I mean he could’ve got concussed but I wouldn’t be suprised if chuck manipualted that too. Jean comforts Duncan for.. again some reason. Like he was just in a fight with her best friend and she’s a telepath.. I get she’s being respectful but time and place. Scott is naturally Jelly, but Toad.. genuinely thanks Scott for the help while Scott brushes it off. It was the right thing to do and Toad is still a creep, but it’s still a nice gesture. Also toad eats a fly to show that yep he too is  a mutant.  Xavier and Storm go to the train station and pick up a mysterious teen clad all in robes. Ohohoo hominus.  Meanwhile somewhere in the westchester area, Wolverine comes in! Snkity sknikty snoik. He’s voiced by, and dresses exactly like, Scott McNeil, a vetran and awesome voice actor who I honestly think does a better job than his prdecessor. Not that 90′s wolverine is bad, it’s just McNeil has more of a range even while keeping the gutteral growl of hte former and can tur it off at times while his previous acto rwas pretty much on snarl mode constantly. He wasn’t bad, all the 90′s voice actors were at 100 most of the time and undersndably given the hamm nature of that cartoon, but its’ still a ncie change of pace and one we’d see again with steve blum in the next cartoon. More on that obviously when i inevitably cover Wolverine and the X-Men He picks up a paper about the explosion, and sensing he must go his people need him, cuts the top off the water he ordered, because you can’t get beer on a childrens cartoon, and thanks the clerk who wonders what the fuck just happened. And it’s a weird ass scene especially because in this series the x-men are trying to keep a lid on mutants and Logan’s just .. causally cutting off a water bottle because fuck it. It fits the character a LITTLE but it’s still just weird and out of place. Speaking of weird and out of place sabertooth is stalking logan on a mountaintop because.. 

Thank you wrestlecrap. He dosen’t show up again and is apparently introduced several episodes from now, and sports a design similar to the 2000 movie which isn’t a terrible look apart from the long lead singer from Creed haircut. The next morning at Xavier’s scott’s annoyed at jean taking her time in the bathroom because “women amirite?”.. yeah... 

On that gag. Before the two dart off for school Xavier calls them in to meet the new kid: Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler, whose blue and fuzzy as ever, though without the fully yellow eyes he usually sports, though I figure it’s less because they wanted to make him more humanoid, though his Kelso from that 70′s show hair certainly helps with that too, and more because that way his human disguise he’ll get in a bit can just be an easily just recolor and redres his civlilan design. Though why he couldn’t just have the yellow eyes in elf form and give him regular ones in transducer form, epsecially since they had to make a whole new outfit and ears for his non elf form anyway is beyond me, but whatever. At least he’s a full part of the team here and oh so adorkable.  As you can probably wager by the fact there’s only 3 x-men and one asshole here, Evolution takes it’s time introducing everybody, the first few episodes using the debut queue style of storytelling and introducing the main cast about one or two per episode.. which I like a lot as it gives each of the x-men room to breathe and get a proper introduction, while usually doing the same for the latest addition to the brotherhood. IT’s a godo way to ease us into a decently sized main cast and let each get their own origin story of sorts. Good stuff. 

Jean and Scott are shocked by the poor boys three fingers, but Charles helps asuage kurt.. by pointing out scott’s fuckup then berating him. Both don’t come off great: Scot whines about having two cannonballs under his eyes, which while fair is something he knew going into a situation where they might get knocked off and didn’t prepare for, while Charles lambasts him for “not having more control”.. and his tone implies it’s more about his POWERS. If it was about self control fine, that’d be godo character stuff but if it’s of his powers..  Scott didn’t use his powers at all during the breif scuffle and was only let loose by pure shock, and something you easily covered for minus the explosion part. It could just be both having a point but I dunno. But with that Xavier does show kurt that even human passing mutants like Scott have huge struggles and he no longer is alone. Jean is curious what his power is and Kurt demonstrates his teleporting, impressing both and bonding the three a bit. Xavier sends them off to school, and they’ll talk more about kurt tonight.  At school Toad is getting dressed down by principle darkholme, aka mistque whose apparently also his boss.. yes while the founding x-men are two upstanding well trained, if one a bit hot headed youths, Mystque got.. a guy who pick pockets because as we later see the house she got for them looks like the ghosts of the frat who used to live there did a number on the place. Yeah easy to see why your guys later become the comic relief villians Raven. Anyways she plans to have Toad use his newfound leverage with scott to try and sneak in with the x-men before shapeshifting into a knockoff brood to scare him because she’s a dick. Also how the hell would she explain that if someone walked in and DIDN’T comically walk right back out and just explose her posing as a monster for the student body to see. Not a bad show of her powers but a really goofy and nonsenical one. Also yeah unlike the comics raven can change her shape further than just humanoid.

Back at the school Kurt is excited to see his spacious and luxrious room, his parents, whoever they were, having sent him here, and is even more excited when Xavier gives him a gift; an image inducer. This is something that actually comes from the comic: it’s a device disgused as a watch that holographically makes Kurt look like your standard human. Kurt in the comics of course used it to look like errol flynn.  Naturally Chris Claremont eventually realized the implications of a person of a minority who looks diffrent masquerading as someone else to blend in and Kurt later decided to go without it, as he shoudln’t have to hide himself. Evolution does use it better though: For starters when Kurt says he’s finally normal, Ororo assures him he always was, this is just to help a bit and the idea of him needing to blend in makes sense since the x-kids are going to public high school and mutantkind is more hidden to avoid prosecution. It’s sitll a BIT shaky, but it’s at least trying to avoid a lot of the pitfalls of the concept and modernizie it a bit and I can give them credit for that. 

Back at School scott’s preparing to lunch, telling paul to save him a seat. Good old Paul, when Toad comes up to him thanking him again and revealing his own mutant powers and stealing Scott’s glasses because that’s how you charm someone. Toad offers to hang but Scott wisely refuses and moves on though he does use the cafeteria pay phone to call Charles, who already found out about todd via Cerebro and despite Scott’s understandable reservations about letting a literally slimy pick pocket who talks like goddamn j-roc , know what i’m sayin, into the team, Charles in a very charles xavier move says they can’t turn their back on ANY mutant, even the assholes. Now read that in a patrick stewart voice. Your welcome. Scott wonders if he should ask Todd over to play fooseball and ask about joining his teen militia but Chalres said no need, he’ll take care of the audition himself. He then explains Cerebro to a curious kurt, global telepathic mutant tracker basically, and prepares for the audition. 

That night Toad goes to the mansion.. with a costume already. And rather than evaluate all the costumes up front i’m going to do so as they show up in series. As such.. toad’s is REALLY good, a nice armor look with a small part peaking up resembling a collar of some sort , a nice update of his silver age costume’s collar. It really feels frog like and really is neat. Storm, who is watering her garden a detail I like, heads out and rains on his parade. Her costume is fine, a standard storm outfit, nothing really outstanding but still not bad. Storm then sends lighting at him to see what happens when a Toad is struck by lighting.. probably the same as everything else before he runs inside and runs into kurt. 

Kurt then shows up, and while I’d forgottten this, he was already in costume from earlier having gotten his at the same time as the inducer. His costume.. is about the same as the comics except hte gloves and boots are yellow, i’m somehwat eh on it but I get doing so to have him fit with the black and yellow color scheme of most of the other x-men in some way. Though i’d love to see a black and yellow redesign of his classic oufit someday that’d look spiffy. But yeah it’s pretty good and one of the standouts of the evolution costumes. The two trade barbs thanks to toad being kind of a dick about nightcrawler and end up having a petty squabble and tussle for a bit around the mansion. Xavier still considers Toad x-men material while Storm considers not missing with lightning this time. In all seriousnes this is more good character stuff for Charles, as it shows that no matter how troublesome, he’ll welcome any mutant child in with open arms. Though I question why neither questions the fact that a mutant they just met somehow brought his own top of the line uniform, but I chalk it up to that probably not having been written into the episode and either being an error or execs wnating to show off his battle suit to have a proper superhero tussle to close out the episode.  However said tussle, which is really more a hilarious fight between an asshole and a dork, is interupted when Kurt accidnetly ports them into the danger room, an x-men staple.. no really “new mutant accidently enters or finds the danger room” is old hat at this point, most iconically with Kitty in the comics shortly after she joined. 

Naturally not wanting to have to clean up another set of teen corpses, he just got the Vulcan smell out of there, Xavier dispatches Cyclops and Jean to go deal with it.. since Jean dosen’t have a code name here since marvel forgets to try and get her a non phonenix one better than marvel girl and it annoys me. Anyways fashion show time again, and yes i’m aware these aren’t from strategy x, but I didn’t want to just use hte model sheet shots from the wiki so I combed for decent action shots. Scotty’s costume is decent, a bit bulky with the very 90′s shoulder pads and boots, but otherwise looks pretty good, a nice combination of his 90′s uniform and his second x-factor uniform. Even with the bulk it looks really good. On the oppsite end.. we have Jean, who easily has the worst outfit of the main x-men by a mile, with a weird lime green stripe for some reason. Maybe they were going for phonenix colors I dunno, but it just looks half assed in comparison to the rest of the gangs outfit. The gold rings and fingerless gloves are a nice touch, but this one’s still just bland in comparison. Like they couldn’t figure out how to update jeans 90′s outfit so they put her in a jassercise outfit instead. 

Scott and Jean arrive with Jean saving nightcrawler, Kurt asking if sh’es an angel, she asking if he’s a demon and me asking if I can get a trashcan to vomit in. It didn’t work for George Lucas a year before this why did you think it’d work here? Anyways Kurt realizes their not in xavier’s snuff dungeon, as far as he knows and it’s simply a trianing room and tries to disarm it, but it instead nearly blasts toad who nopes outta htere, scott too injured to follow. And while when watching the episode yesterday It hought it was a bit abrubt.. it really fits. Toad is a bit of a coward from memory, bosatful and cocky.. till reality reminds him he’s freaking toad as seen with the bullies earlier and mystique after that. So of course he’d run the minute things looked dicey and it looked like xavier reguarlly put his students through the hunger games to thint he herd. Xavier bemoans that Toad simply isn’t ready.. sure he’s a mutant and xavier likely senses mistque’s involement.. but he genuilly WANTED to help todd and give him a real home and support.. its just Toad/Todd dosen’t WANT it or to put in any real work to be better, and you have to WANT help to get it.  Kurt blames himself and ports out feeling he dosen’t deserve to be there and Scott goes after him while out front Toad runs into a returning Logan, whose ready to add another dead teen to the pile out back when Xavier insists he let him go... he’s not an actual threat, and as we find out later Xavier removed the schools location from his mind and probably gave it to toad in the first place, so while Logan says he’ll be back.. he has no way of coming back and there’s no sense roughing up a teenager, when that’d just draw more attention to them and give Toad an angle to work. That being said Charlie still gladly welcomes Logan back though both smell trouble on the horizon.. and also toad. He tends to leave a scent that one. 

We then get what I feel is the best scene in the episode: Cyclops finds Kurt in the room with the blackbird, which this show remembers is an actual type of plane and that the x-mens is simply a souped up version of , though I can’t tell you what version he’s saying it’s superior to because I don’t know planes THAT well. But Scott comforts Kurt, saying it’s OKAY to fuck up: the entire point of this place is so they can afford to make the mistakes they can’t make out there and learn and grow as people. Everyone screws up, as Scott himself did rushing in without a plan at the start, but the point is you learn from it and do better next time and Kurt decides to stay. Welcome to the X-Men Kurt, hope you surivive the experince. Also Scott decides to show him where they hide the sodas.. which either Chuck is a dick about their pop or that’s code for booze.. or possibly both. I could see Logan really liking root beer alongisde his nightly 6 pack. 

We close out with Mystque berating toad for running the hell away and for you know, getting mindwiped.. the latter is far from his fault, but the first part.. yeah Toad kinda sucks at this and Raven screams for him to get out, with her turning back into her natural form for the first time.. and then being confronted with HER boss with Magneto, from.. somewhere.. he appearas as a spooky projection but I don’t know if he’s using a device to amplfy himself or he just hides in the closet of her office all day for when he needs to consult her on their evil schemes. Probably the latter. Anyways Erik wisely consults her to be a bit easier..while toad is a bit of a dipweasel.. they can’t afford their ranks being thinned.. and really he’s not wrong. The x-men currently have them 6 to 3. Even if he’s the weakest of the three of them, they can’t afford to spare him. He then ominously says htis is only... THE BEGINING.

FINAL THOUGHTS:  Strategy X is a decent start for the series but not without it’s problems, with one or two questionsable moments like the whole angel and devil exhcange or the entire “Storm stalks toad as he goes to the mansion” scene as a way of testing him, which makes both her and charles come off bad and makes me wonder how the hell that was an actual test of anything. But it’s held up by good character: While Jeans kind of a bit of wallpaper here, the rest of the x-men and our three villians are all given great character moments that show them off to the audience well and really show the writers get the characters while taking their own spins on the younger ones: Nightcrawler, who could be a bit of a dork in the comics, see here his seduction tequnique. 

I mean damn if that shit isn’t still Sexy but still. They just ramped it up a bit since this version is younger and more naive, while Scott is likewise a bit more rambunctious and likely to question Xavier, while still being a good hearted guy who knows how to lead. It’s good stuff. While the quality isn’t PERFECT, it’s a good start and I look forward to watching more and EVENTUALLY reviewing more on here. If you liked this be sure to let me know and like I said above if there’s any other marvel show or any dc ones you want me to cover, and any specific episodes at that, lemme know. Comics too. And until we meet again, courage.  PS.. what the hell is up with the title of this episode? No really it has nothing to do with anything. Is it Mystuues’ inflitration plan? 

#x-men #x-men evolution #x men #charles xavier #cyclops #scott summers #jean grey #kurt wagner #todd tolansky #toad #nightcrawler #mystique #raven darkholme #magneto #Erik Lehnsherr #strategy x #cartoons #reviews #animation #paul #duncan masters #you suck so much duncan #marvel #marvel comics #marvel animation

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Mother’s Day dinner when this was injured using internationally but to the role of mother in Buddhism this is very important so I will try to address this topic all for remembering all motherand her kindnessand how to go all develop a consignment of some people have difficulties with the mother the need to reconcile’s because if they don’t reconcile that is probably the many of the problems in life is the repetition of that is so in the context of I would like to draw give this dole in context of the four Noble truths to the suffering of the slides to the truth of suffering is the suffering that as we have faith to do with our mother colonial peoples so still suffering with the mother of the problem is to do with the motherand and the end I think her mother is the problemand so therefore that life is somewhat to somewhat damaged by that something else to do with the motherand parties shall mother has a role to do so that’s the truth of suffering the truth of origin of the South suffering that one has with the mother is not reconciling with mother not to the paying kindness not realizing how sufferingand not realizing how signifiesand all being selfishand the not to the seeing what all Mother’s Day but we only see what we didn’t get for my mother so this greedand self centeredness is the true origin of the suffering to do with one’s motherand theand then them so the then the remembering the kindness of motherand so onand wanted to practice a consignment with mother is of course the truth of the noble truth of the path that because you will be able to try to practice righteous to choose with lovingkindness so much of the tall gone thatand hopefully they will be the truth of cessation decision is that there is no longer the same problemand anger is a Zen man then our children to to do with the heavens above with the mother but in the in relation to that first I would like to just go back to the Godand his mother when the Buddha was the widow was born when he was better which is why we called the consumer with year old it was just one week old souland young his mother passed away’sand the so therefore Buddha was did not really have an actual lot of time to spend his time with his mother he probably knew that the chose to conceive of the timeand he did so nevertheless it is said that when Buddha was the meditating of the beach just before the couple maybe couple of weeks or days before his attainment of Enlightenment so the sum of the day was informed of the Buddha’s mother who she has been being reborn in the heaven of the threat through them God’s informed half saying that your son has deserted your palaceand deserve your husbandand he has not fulfilled her wishesand expectations of the per patternsand his wife that he has a abandoned the childand wifeand he’s now about to die of starvationand sold so therefore them in the mother from the accuses heaven the 33 rounds looks down he also could see the house the Prince about the is indeed the is a emaciated bodies become so thinand weakand sitting under a tree almost like a slug of minutes of Scott so she criedand wafted to sitand when she criedand said the teardropand blue those lapsand it is then the Buddha broke silenceand told his mother that her mom please do not to be ill informed by the day was but I’m about to win enlightenment in the very shortly so I would visit so that is the storyand thenand not so long after his attending enlightenmentand turning the wheel of domicile enough he actually then visited us he told her in on the end of his disciples that he has to go to teacher his motherand then he went to to the heaven of threaded throughout God for three months three months to repair kindnessand revenge of the people of the Dharmaand other teaching to the heaven of the interim goals including his mother so that’s example of how Buddha interrupted from his three months I wish Abbé Scholz know me from this worldand then he wentand talked to the dogma to his mother so that is the life of Buddhaand so also goes with the I can remember that this is such a pundit the antigen century so that heand his mother was very illand cannot go suffering while largely the illnessesand could not spend a good nights sleep all day since very longand so onand also he was as a celebrated Buddhist monkand teacher she wrote this special style Jim will rebuild this is the book was called demo rebirthing but actually it was a how to entertain his mother’s teaching other Buddhists a pathand status of Enlightenmentand the soulsand subsequently his writing has become a are damn all boardgame in Tibetan Buddhism then couple of American scholars of Tibetan Buddhist scholars have turned that bull right into text called demo report in order to teach his mother to repair kindness sold the gray masses have have done a lot of great work so today I’m going to really help you to focus on how youand I also as a as a as a child of our mother can best best learn to to approach the all all perception of motherand change by reflecting on heart kindness first for its it’s important to call my mother very lovinglyand very redand set my kind mother my kind motherand if you can say that you’re my kind motherand just try to see her face just try to see remember the times that she been very kindand does this remember the time that she had she she has she has become a very oldand then how much himand his suffering not from the day that she she conceive you all what must have how delighted Moshe have been as found a found a gem all all what ever so all mother from the very day that she conceive us in in in hot womb as she she was willing to forbear all hardships physical hardships emotional hardships as well as financial constraint is water whatever a professional kind of a risking to the sacrifice she had to make a lot of women when they become pregnant they basically have to have to give up their career or give up the positions than mothers or mothers have done that so therefore try to remember imagine old the what the what a physicaland emotionaland financial difficulties all mother would’ve gone through the G June 1 time June 1 ignition timing me when she considerately conceived in in a mouse in her womb almost should put up with a hard life at the online so to speak she did put half live online so that she can that usand bring up bring bring bring up in this world so so therefore it’s very important to remember what what takes to become the to what takes to become a biological mother just carrying the baby for nine monthsand 10 days to be exact according the third but also wrote a very beautiful all time about about her confessing all the sufferings of mother who he knows that is partly due to him being is said because childand he says my mother you carried me nine monthsand 10 days in your bodyand the ever increasing weight of my body has completely sort of sag your bodyand jeopardize your other activities in life but nevertheless you put your live onlineand are used voluntarily accepted all the sufferings on all full photos to me to be born into the world then from the moment that the you will bond be up on even though we were helpless but she completely is no embrace all body with hot warmth of our bodyand clean the dirtand filled inand the snoband the old old you know whatever we remix every Minnesota come out a waste of my Bob orders she would clean itand wipe itand the anything to put in her womb armsand look at look at with a kind eyesand called with a very sweet namesand theand the that she wouldn’t even even drink on warm food or drinks but instead she would rather she would rather delay them until we are totally comforted on Julia settle downand theand breast feed us old her physical needs into strength whatever strengthand energy she has even that she would rather let that do all the bodily energy of how she would breast feed usand that wasn’t just for today just for today or one night continues for 2 to 2 years she should continue to hold us she wouldn’t to go out even for a day even for couple hours is as we will be will more precious than hop on life what one of the debating places that we were treated as own piece of hot dinnerand the from which charcoal also ways to keep us from dangerand protect us from the coldand heatand it never would do to part from our all moment she would do all kinds of things so that the solid food could is not easy to swallow all the mashed with our fingers thingsand then try to feed us even though even though we are not corporative to to do that she fed us slowly you know that the that the weather whatever even though we can just lie down where reports she would not leave us alone she will constantly keep a watch so that she wouldn’t dare to do anything for Hamas should become the constant care constant God closed in sort of a poetical like a herder like it is animal you’re constantly hurting them to become the most helpless the thing that highlight has found but most preciousand she therefore has it just old half signifies all to how timeand enjoyment in activitiesand interest but completely giving us giving us the to the foodand clothes warmthand the not letting us to face any hardships what whatever she would shoot even though we couldn’t understand a single word she was still speak tirelessly many words our conversations one work one way conversation but she just just the way we look baby smile she would that were to the only comfort she has but she would constantly told conferencing constantly tell storiesand thenand not the mindand on hardships that she has brought us up in these ways that she doesn’t have any time to do spiritual things to do Mondayand things all of that she riskand put aside but the tirelessly not just one day or night so that she constant her whole life become totally busy just to give him to bring me up so how could possibly can we can we forget all the Titus title is word that our mother didst just to give us bothand itand it realized until as far as we could Kroll even though we could crawl that wasn’t enough though because she could she wouldn’t because we can call now she’s afraid that we may we may wonder off to those dangers placesand then stingsand therefore she would do she would not dare to part anywhere she would constantly keep an eyeand theand therefore make herself like a most dedicated’s most devoted companion terrorand the endand the one who loves theand the seizures she she she could not depart for us even for a moment so all of how they relate to saved wealth all property shouldand did you use junior high youth she may have to do do additional job more than two or three jobs over all those that is a savings that she didn’t day to spend she would buy everything that for our need for those clothes whether it’s a toys whether it’s us other necessities that we need for usand the whole body is constantly not losing strengthand energy to shapeand form what mention all the stress she would not remind us to the she would not mind to signifies any of that dispense to give to spell to us so that we we will not be the be called or hungry or thirsty or unattendedand and so on so all mother has has become basically oldand frailand and dependentand sometimes emotionally very depressedand tiredand sleepless but she still would not’s complaint are single word to us but she rather where all about those hardships willingly on on on ourselvesand theand the eventually she ourselves would have scored if some of us have for us all mother still alive then you would know she’s 20 3040 years older than you probably in a nursing homeand theand theand how much attention she did when she has become now helplessand oldand and the end themand lonelyand need company that how much of timeand companyand things are weand have been willing to do so that those of us who whose mothers’ just imagine she has completely partedand left everything behindand she had to go to the on net uncharted territory of next live in the bottles over having having to carry all the that she created on behalf of us just to bring us up to much physicaland emotional that she she would have she would have to go through all of that she she she herself was parted from this physical world but emotionally older that she has created to bring us up all she has to carry like a burden to to go to those difficult places placesand and spaces so what we doing about is is we need to remember all mother’s suffering mother sacrificesand mother’s kindnessand how much since our early days all mother’s physical bodyand how condition had deteriorated due to illness agingand later on by death that even when half of any precious body still wasn’t was a taken twos like symmetry or something you knowand andand all in those in the West because they they would put in a very shiny ball so you don’t see that in the in the traditional they were there would still a lot of take the body into symmetriesand a letter letter to be deposed to decompose all eaten by by bio Wawa animals like vulturesand so on because been out even if all sing all the has all the pieces of body become so strewnand taken away by means but there’s nothing she can do about that so that’s that’s that’s that’s our life so we have become rather like orphan who couldn’t do anything we we would we may we made love all mother but we do can do a thing in terms of risk to half from suffering of all digital signalsand yet we kindness when you think about it is safe is the truth of the responsibility fell on us which many of you will as a biological mother if you have been your self mother just of the same amount of physical care emotional careand the financial signifies you have made as a mother you your mother would have made same if not more some people may have some sad stories of not getting the same situation but but even that these cannot blame your mother your mother is a and how on stressand hardshipsand difficulty were largely due to having taken up the liberty to give all of that to to awes so therefore we should still remember my kind old mother my kind old mother thinking that my own kind old mother’s when she has to part when she has to about that from these life she doesn’t have any medics to take so much metal to take with us because of the all of the car and difficulties that she she she she she she went through are largely the note can be cannot be shared by you or shared with anyone else yet all the better that she created that are negative audit objects was largely her intention was just for the sake of all on alland all on being so therefore being able to think of mother is that in many send some of us would have no opportunity to to repair the kind his mother because she’s dead already others some of use if you have your mother is still alive it’s very important to going to consult with us part of the reason that you all she was still very negativeand miserable was because you have any consult with your mother if you have any consult your mother that is the part of the problem but you couldn’t really hold your your friendship with anyone else for very long is because you have is resentment to basically reflect everything as you did to to the mother to everyone elseand the certificate some goes with the father as well so those who consult with the veteransand the mother in particularand those who learn to be consult it’s never too late so so therefore today’s a good day to the two how to how to go to consult with your mother at least tell half of that you have you have you have come to the moon your own selfishnessand the not being so grateful I have not been very courteousand apologize halfand even apologize all for the sake of peaceand I’m not talking about a severe mother was a was was perfect but you didn’t see how that red doesn’t mean that your mother still was a human being every human being has has a lot of imperfect perfect characteristic as well as very good perfect a good characteristic so don’t try to idolize anybody’s mother anybody’s mother’s everybody every mother has has horn on opinion about how child as well so therefore the everybody every mother would be perceived differently accordingly those people who who have the goodness to to see the motherand hot amount of the graph hardshipsand signifies that all mother has enjoyed it should do we should grow up right nowand not’s not sit on this very awkward point of view oafs is smokingand reflecting to the motherand hard treatment oath towards oneself as being non acceptable disrespectful whatever it is but even then we should now to grow that life is so shortand let before she dies going to consultand say I’m sorry on I’ve grown to accept you a fix of you as you are rather than trying to make some negative comparison with others so therefore being able to remember all kind mothersand motherand see how much she’s passes become old become sickand become dependent of the committee sadand lonelyand put yourself in our shoesand try to therefore learn to repack kindnessand so his mother weptand even in the 7030 could not bear to to to stay in a mall but he promised to the visitand he did he visited half a member both of those mother in the have the heaven of that the roundsand then then Dave spent all this time giving teachings to half so what is it that you can do to to repair the kindness of mother himand Bullock could say you know my mother wasn’t there when I was young because she died a week beforeand after he was born so he had hardly known as a biological mother with this list onto your stepmother’s up to go to maintenance stepped in she did thisand it becomes a stepmother because she stepped in to take over the role of my undatedand and brought him upand so on even then brother was in the top of that deliberately took all the way time to go to the the Heaven of 33 roundsand spend the timeand give the teaching so hence we have this Buddhist festival cope with the descending from the heaven that’s is descending from heaven after having to spend time to repair the hot kindness in the know he could not repay kindness to his mother in the same life so you should not think it’s too late to repair the kind as her mother even say your some of your mother pasta way you can still goand do something because you read because we don’t know where your head hits of our mother is reborn but is possible that she is still wondering in some solderand and she has no no one to care for no one to remember how so therefore it your will never go astray if you as a as a as a child who has remember eyes orphaned by the mother’s absence even though we read helpless agreement we must still remember how kindness who all mother these how much older all weekand she might be in the systemand even though we want to go looking for hollow shucking when Buddha could see where he’s mother is we couldn’t not see how the could not call on themand she will hear so we are completely different vasectomy recording where the mother is couldn’t call a nameand where she went on since a but nevertheless we should still can do all memories I remember hot kindnessand see how helpless we are now but nevertheless feel indebted to to remember hot kindness when you remember some people’s kindness then you definitely feel grateful to gratitude that we are able to seal all will greatly so warm up loving feeling will come from all hotand you have a loving kind loving feeling towards all mother then you would no longer presentand develop brood it will all all all talk negative thing some people of you have seen that all the big window here Buddhist about you remember the kindness mother repair kind of thisand I forgot I remember of any kind is my my mother did become very very hostile to the whole idea that we have to be kind to her mother of course these are some people have that kind of karma of not having had any pleasant experience with’s mother and that is also to do with so therefore we do is we should picture the bed we should try to try to modify the by by remembering such as Mother’s Dayand tried to light a candle or remember kindnessand tried to bury your egoand try to be consult withand think of their great contribution inand get to the kind of that she bestowed upon us even though we do not have even though many loving motherand a son of a child’s will close our loving bell juju goalsand conditionedand no one has freedom to spend the time ever with the mother all this you have to go when you least want to go away from her mother she you go away from how she went away from your souls so therefore how much she but yet she gets almost like hot has been taken out of our love alive yet you know we we have left off motherand she has can’t see us say your mother is alive but she can see you because you are so busy you’re being successful or whatever but still what is success if you don’t have time for your mother to success is jeopardizing your well being so your material to weld is successful people don’t spend time with veterans old to seek all all on lonelyand then they leave it until last minuteand then they’ve been to have a lot of guilt of the colonial peoples depression is because they didn’t do that the right things to the parents to the mother while they need them why they most pertinent time to repack kindness when they seekand lonelyand old that time what is you your success means she can’t barely see you or spend quality time with how even when you spend time with our you don’t you you are you or you don’t do this Ted aspects to all speak courteously lovingly to the then then there is every reason for hard to be very upset so therefore we have to do to try to do the right thing to repair the kindness of parents while they are aliveand dead they are there one day you would be then when she’s died or what ever you would be depressed for a long time peoples depressionand anxietyand the volatility of the emotional instability the mind so emotionally we is because they haven’t really warmed up the heaven really done the real work will homework to do to to repair the kindness of one’s wedding loving mother them every single mother mother by nature biologically is kindand selfless in front of do a child enter not to remember that the kindness of all one’s mother is a great is a is of so therefore in Buddhist teaching emphasized motherand remembering the mother as the first practice not only the mother but see old singeing beings as mother not just from this life but from Paul’s life’s the difficulty that we have in certain people in the end in this lab is also buys lives mother’s beautiful witch with whom we have reconciled so therefore reconciling with all motherand and do not talk about how mistakes all hard wrongdoing but thinkable the sacrifice you made when you do that then you can see while someone else’s nobody will be able to do that like my mother did to me so therefore I should be able to have the goodness to forgive her even of hot mistakesand who hasn’t got mistakes in your sofasand also is a better window mother would have would have said if your sister for the same criticisms that you think about your mother what would you think say your son or daughter are all thinking having the same attitude as you have with your mother ones what would you think what you feel my children are so ungratefuland then she was completely it is same as your parent going through so the karma is very very escalating this off not reconciling with parents is very heavy it will really get you result it hasn’t got you up so that’s why the remembering the dryness of motherand and are doing something to her while she is alive make sure that your visit all the time that you spend is different than you really she really mixed to get to know that she have come to growand become strongand grown to become wiseand starting to really speak kindlyand lovingly to our small acts of kindness we should do a video visit to be very very sweetand short very very unimpeded by your normal behavioral reactionsand rebelliousness all over the child father tried to be very good consented to speak kindly thank how things give credit to offer all the things you areand you have actually that’s true your educationand knowledge just noise financial independence where you are in love you would be there have not been all the hard work you did your parents did in your life being able to thing these will make our students made us to grow in the heartand therefore have you will even when she dies all even in your old as you would never regret not having be consult the better you will feel all it was a long journey but in theand I’m so glad I be consult with my mother you always speak fondly of the mother might kind old mother you will speak to my Kino some people can’t even said so the mother my mother but is assimilated that the that they can’t even speak kind informed me the name of the mother so they don’t say my dear mother my kind old your mother they don’t it as they consider that they just they just have this only negativeand very vindictive identity is the associate that is a very heavy heavy and this will slowly not already what impact you all the behavioraland emotional problems if you have some emotional problems that rooted in that not not on the inability to do the conservative mother then it affected you with your husband over the wife all the gifts with whoever you are working with you always reflect them with that kind of resentment because that is what is is like a perpetuates negative perpetually negative things unnecessary guns of the positive if you create a positive to reconcile the negative was then slowly you will see the kind old mother even your own body your own nose you on our accent is exactly like your mother can see the how much of your bloodand your your muscleand your everything is the mother’s sweatand tears so therefore it’s very important to learn to repair the kindness to repay kindness constitute soon doing things lovingly speaking things respectfullyand feeling warm emotionand Mecca feel that youand us so therefore when you repair the kindness you usually do loving loving things you do generous things to do small things for hard on her own termsand don’t question about who is right is wrong what would she will do is make a happyand if she remembers you making a hot hippie few times before she pauses a way that is that’s going to be’s just so you knowand are feeling a remedy to all the problems in your self will also will it will latch to do the shift the amazing power of love part of kindness part of him even if you have referees in the Buddha for what doesn’t need you need you need your good hard to reconcile with your mother sent in a lots of people of all have a very warm feeling towards him but with their own home with her own mother over the only major familiesand most closes one that treating each otherand estranging each other with some resentment over small thingsand let that grow a huge problemand not even talking to each other for days years months this is the biggest problem in the mutualistic Western societies where they they don’t have the bond of loveand respect to the elderlyand barons for the hardship they have in Jordan that signifies the instant remembering them they remember few negative episodes in their life a childhoodand then lumber the bearand with that that is the true’s true origin of suffering so here the therefore her to to reconcile with that one needs to practice kindness generosity toleranceand compassion with all motherand even if your mother’s note around still you can start to check attitudeand change attitude about how not from negative to nonnegative from the negative to positiveand then from positive it’s very warmand and as a result of that you will you have ever feel indebted to your mother said you have a good husbandand maybe have a good wife all maybe a good job but where would you get those things without your mother has a heaven given breast fed you once you cleanse you just wanted to do for all those years until you are able to do your own thing how many years it took before you become grumbly independent who did all the hot lifting to to be where you are so not being able to remember the kindness of motherand barons is easy is a laudable obstacle to to your spiritualand emotional upliftmentand and contentment have just gone Denman in life you really bit unhappy in life show old people have some disheveled but much of them has completed folk will have stem have stemmed from your not reconciling with your mother so therefore remember your mother only once a year on Mother’s Day is of closes it is a is a really really really delicious at issue remember the mother every day every dayand every day we should to think of kindnessand compassionand all the contribution she has made to your lifeand all the speak kindly about howand a repair kindness of your mother to your mother did not try to do some other people who also mother of all to the elderly woman who doesn’t have children who doesn’t get much from them try to be kind to them as slowly much so how many mothers mothers have been misunderstood by the childrenand have been completely estranging the never get a they never get about that than it was a happy Mother’s Day it’s a really despicable so therefore it’s important to repair the kindness of our mother as best as one can watch if possible to hire while she’s alive to not at least someone who’s near his dears to her that tell how the day that you have a consult with halfand you totally forgive how apologize offand would never thinkand talk in the negative way that you normally do try to make up some shiftand change it into youand your attitude about how one how one one thing so once a mother because if you have change your thought about your mother then you will you will have the cessation of the suffering related with mother if you have a consult with your motherand make peace with hall make peace with all theand then you you you will you will be much kinder to yourselfand other mothers as well because otherwise there is is a business amazing kind of a home view that you continue to hold that the regarding your motherand you’re not therefore that’s that’s the true origin of your suffering is suffering is not because you have all of the problems who doesn’t but fundamentally not being able to having loving feeling towards your mother mother is is everyone’s soles of real joyand happinessand gratitude majority people’s also join happinessand gratitude is the motherand show your husbandand wife sure that you met them only when you’re going to do a whatever what but who brought it up to to be able to meet such a wonderful husbandand wife all job or whatever so be considerate of all where you all to be able to get what you are you where you figure someone is a wonderful new life but your mother isn’t you have not grown up at all so that’s why it’s very important to effectively utilize this Mother’s Day not only a look at your mother’s photoand the spent couple moments to in front of itand meditateand try to express your gratitude loveand and if the necessary forgivenessand the thing and if she’s alive give out a cold really do not wait anymore some of you have not called your mother you still think she’s wrong all you think it’s your fold either way it’s a waste of time but tried to kill the time by pick up the phone while he hold a whole holder phone or something like that in your life that you’re not reconciling with your mother so therefore the part of lovingkindness it tools your mother can make yourself doubly empowered to be able to consult with your mother with your mother so that’s why today’s talks is not only because his Mother’s Day but also I was thinking because this is of a soft week they suddenly according to Theravada Buddhist calendar which most Buddhists are terrifiedand in the country’s death celebrating they suckedand lost the tested is actually the full moon but some are still celebrating this weekand so therefore I was just reflecting on the Mother’s Dayand remembering about the Buddha’s life soand also today Okamoto Bliss are celebrating this out according to this calendar so it’s very good to remember on that ice I said I would try to try to respond to your comments or questions online so if I would just come up to here because I haven’t been able to do that in the past hello everyone a lot of you have joined the what British rider is my mother in this lie was not good mother did not show love is narcissisticand the now we are a strange area I’ve just spoken about Susie’s it’s a it’s in the mother that did that has been difficult to you the old half of physical suffering to bring you up to give birth to youand the amount of those time this should better than a half suffering was mainly many snowballed on top of not being whatever good mother we asked you but nevertheless she would have tried our best so do not to try to see her as someone who was meanand wasn’t really nice at all you may have seen that way because body you are selfish to not to remember how sector flies what she made this you tried to think of the what signifies she has made what you as a daughterand if you have become a mother yourself you will know how different you have been maybe you have been a remarkable motherand you you just resisted resenting that your mother wasn’t quite as good as you but how could you be such a good mother you have known to become good mother because her experience of not having had a good mother but that’s your your way of explaining to her to yourself but in theand through my your mother’s suffering of not being a good mother has actually given you the birth to be a strong woman to give good sort of love shows childhood to your childrenand theand us while you might still have something to consult with a but to you should not all do anymore speaking to her but all were said to speak to her quickly really take couple moments in your daily meditationand the visualizer mother look at a photoand say mom look I I have been presenting in exchange you from all these years this is not good for me all will all I’m I’m happy to comeand talk to youand try to make a really good contribution without further delay to to talk to herand phone all right a very nice messageand try to make peace with half because when you are able to do that then then the suffering that we have the suffering that we have to do with mother is because not because she has been scores of suffering to you but because so suffering of youand your mother is has turned you to meet with Obamaand look at the teachingsand try to turn to compassion so your suffering has become cause of your compassion so your mother sending beingsand overage your mother is the primary person is a great catalyst for you to become where you are now maybe have become much more 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not beyond repair (17/20)

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He wakes up long before he normally does, even with his alarm set for 7:00 am on the dot. It’s not a slow process either; JD’s body jerks him awake on the wrong side of 6:30, slightly bleary eyed and burying his face in his pillow, but also with no hope of getting back to sleep. He tries, for the love of God he tries, but his eyes open of their own accord, and it gets to the point where keeping them closed requires too much concentration. He lies awake and looks up at the ceiling, running a hand through his hair and tugging on it gently. His heart beats faster than normal beneath his hand and his legs itch to get out of his bed and get a move on. It’s like his body knows what day today is and his refusing to let him miss a moment of it.

April 11th, 1990. He’s officially 18.

He shifts and sits up, resting his elbows on his knees and letting out a long breath. He never really looked forwards to his birthdays with the same anticipation that his peers did. Veronica tried to pass it off as casual and pretend it was no big deal, but she wasn’t fooling anyone. Or if she was, he wasn’t one of them. Everyone looks forward to being 18, don’t they? It comes with all the shiny bells and whistles of adulthood, freedom, independence, later curfews, the ability to vote. Some of that was always coming for him, and he’d be lying if he said that he wasn’t looking forward to his first visit to the polling station, but for the past five years, turning 18 had just meant one thing to him: aging out of the foster system. Getting a job straight out high school. Buying his own place, or maybe staying in some private room handed to him by the state if he was lucky. Maybe having to move to a new town, again, and leave behind everything he built here. His other birthdays were their own their own set of fun, fun issues, but in his view, his 18th birthday was a looming countdown clock.

All that’s gone now, he reminds himself. He can breathe for the first time in years. He’s got a home here, in this house, in this town, for the rest of his life. It’s official, with forms and documents and signatures, the whole works. She can’t take it back, and she’s sworn she never would. He believes her wholeheartedly, and it’s a new experience, one he can say for sure that he likes.

But that doesn’t change that his birthday in general remains a whole other wild ride he does not want to go on. So he closes that door, locks it, ties a chain around it, and flicks on his bedside light and opens up his book, letting himself get lost in the time between now and when his alarm goes off.

He takes his time getting ready, more so than usual, and he doesn’t pretend he doesn’t know why. His closed door mocks him even when he opens the curtains and lets the light in. He can just about hear Claire downstairs and much as he appreciates her (another word comes to mind but he snatches it back and locks it away where it belongs), he almost doesn’t want to see her. Not because she won’t make a fuss over his birthday, but because she almost certainly will.

Realising he can’t hide in his room forever, he braces himself and steps out onto the landing and jogs down the stairs, doing his best to appear as natural as possible and dealing with the 101 questions that that makes him ask himself. ‘Am I walking too slow? Too fast? Do I normally put my hand in my pocket like that? I make eye contact with people, right?’. By the time he makes it to the kitchen, he feels like he may as well have ‘yes, there is something on my mind, can we please not talk about it’ written across his face. Maybe he should start doing that, he thinks. It would save him a lot of time.

Claire’s standing at the stove as he enters, hair pulled back in a messy bun. An open, half-empty carton of eggs sits on the counter, as does an open bag of flour and a carton of milk. To top it off, there’s blueberries and chocolate chips next to the stove and a recipe book that’s far too close to that open flame. That woman is making him pancakes.

And she’s making them from scratch.

Part of him wants to hug her. Part of him also wants to run back into his room and lock himself in his closet. Thankfully, he’s learned how to locate the happy middle.

“Good morning, kid-”

“Don’t even think about it,” he replies sternly. She blinks, her mouth half open, the spatula poking weakly at the pancake. Okay, that one’s on him.

“Um… okay. Have a terrible morning then,” she replies, her light, joking tone not matching her words in the slightest. “Are you okay?”

“I’m fine,” he says with a shake of his head, heat creeping up in his cheeks. He throws his bag over the back of a chair and finds himself wrapping his hand tightly around it, his arm on the verge of shaking. “It’s just… we’re both very much aware of what today is.”

“Yeah, is that… is that okay?” she asks carefully.

“Umm… kind of?” he admits. The words don’t come easily, to his mind or his mouth, tripping over each other, his grip on the chair getting tighter. He releases it and turns to face her, tugging his sleeves over his hands. “Look, I just don’t want to make a big deal out of my birthday. In fact, I’d like to pretend today is not my birthday, it’s just another random day on the calendar.” He crosses his arms over his chest, mirroring how his stomach crosses over itself. “Can we do that?”

“Anything you want, kid,” she replies softly, and suddenly he can breathe again. “But we’re not letting these pancakes go to waste. So just consider these Un-Birthday pancakes.”

“I can work with that,” he laughs. “Only because you brought the chocolate chips.”

“Mm. Although, before you start denying your birthday’s very existence, you got mail. A lot of it.” She nods to the small mound of envelopes sitting on the windowsill. He lifts up the pile and flips through them, the handwriting committed to memory. One from Aimee, his finger finding a little bulge underneath the paper. An inside joke; she had made a bet with him when she dropped him off in Indiana that if he was still there by his birthday, she’d give him a quarter. Sure enough, he was, and the quarters never stopped coming. Then there’s one from Kerri and George, the original foster parents. And one from his Indiana family. He flips through the pile again, the once more, making certain that that’s all there is. That there’s not one stuck to another or he left on the windowsill that might be from-

“Nothing from him?” Claire interrupts. He shakes his head, biting down hard on the inside of his cheek. There’s a tightness in his chest and it hurts, and he curses at himself for being so stupidly hopeful. Claire runs her hand up his arm gently and squeezes his shoulders. “Maybe it got lost in the mail.”

“Why would it?” he asks with far more bitterness than he had realised. “He didn’t write for birthdays thirteen through seventeen. Why should eighteen be any different? Not like he cared before either.” He gives a small shrug, not enough to make Claire’s hand fall off his shoulder. “It’s fine. I don’t care.”

“He’s still your dad,” she reminds him quietly. “It’s okay if it still hurts.” He presses his fist into his palm and lets out a long, shaky breath. It does hurt. Less than last year but far more than he wants it to. Outside of his mom’s anniversary, this is the only time when the old habit of brain freezing becomes attractive to him.

No he tells himself firmly.

“I just want to stop,” he says instead. “I just want to have a birthday and not get upset about him. I don’t want him following me around for the rest of my life.”

“And he won’t,” Claire assures him. “I know you’re making progress, Jason. You’ve got a lot of people here who care about you.” He smiles at that, his fingers curling around her wrist. “And even if you don’t forget about him, he’s not a part of your life any more. And he won’t be for as long as you want.”

“Suppose I don’t need him now anyway,” he admits, his voice small, his shoulders moving in a casual shrug. “I’ve got you, haven’t I?”

Beside him, he hears her breath catching as she tries to compose herself. Her mouth opens wordlessly, but when he turn to look at her, her eyes are shining and he’s not totally convinced those aren’t unshed tears. Her fingertips stroke the back of his head as she manages a strong smile, one that makes him feel more at home than he ever did with his father.

“Yeah, kid, you do.” She squeezes his arm gently and leans her head on his shoulder, the closest she can get to a hug when they’re up against the counter. He still feels it though, even if he is soon distracted by what seems to be puffs of grey smoke rising from the frying pan.

“Uh… Claire?”

“Yeah?”

“Pancakes are burning.”

“Oh f-”

He leans on the counter to stop himself from hitting the ground, laughter wrecking through his body as Claire hurriedly swats at the rising smoke with a towel and scraping the cremated pancake from the pan. There’s an audible noise when it hits the kitchen counter. She recoils away from it like it might jump from the counter and attack her, taking revenge for its brutal murder at the hands of a frying pan.

“Okay,” she says, her voice far higher than usual. She pushes an escaped lock of hair off her face, making a show of being calm. “Let’s try that again.”

“And these are not birthday pancakes, right?” he asks as he gathers up the little pile of cards and goes to put them up in his room.

“Absolutely,” she promises, already whisking more batter. “Some good old Un-Birthday pancakes.”

His good start to the day only gets better when there’s a knock at the door, three in a quick, light succession. Since the weather took a turn for the better, he and Veronica have started walking to school together, making up for the time they miss together during their day. He’s picked her up a few times from her place before, but they seem to both prefer her meeting him at his place. It’s a more direct route to the school and whenever he’s over there, he gets the impression that Veronica doesn’t want them to spend more time in her house than they have to. Most days she’s hurrying JD out with as little conversation with her parents as possible. He’s been there before, with her in fact, but he knows it’s not the same. While he was terrified of his father, she’s just embarrassed. His heart kind of goes out to her folks, and he’s told her as much. It’s definitely better to have a parent who loves you a little too much than too little.

Still, he’s happier to have her come over here as well. For one, it means that today she gets pancakes. And while he’s definitely not afraid of her father, it does mean that he can avoid the stiff, uncomfortable conversations he always ends up having with him while she gets ready. Even if he has a sneaking suspicion that she had enjoyed that part of it.

“Morning,” she sings, leaning up against the doorframe, clad in a jean jacket over a shirt and dark denim skirt, her hair bouncing around her shoulders as she grins widely at him. There’s a ninth wonder of the world, he’s decided, and it’s Veronica Sawyer’s smile.

“Morning,” he greets, pressing a quick kiss to her lips and taking her hand as he lets her in. “You came in at a good time. She’s making pancakes.”

“Oh hell yeah,” she replies as they enter the kitchen. “Hey Claire.”

“Hi sweetie,” she replies, flipping another one over. “Oh, look at that beauty! Anyway, blueberries or chocolate?”

“Blueberry… if you don’t mind,” Veronica replies. Chuckling, Claire slips one onto a plate and hands it to her. “You’re a good influence on him, I can tell. He’s a lot more polite than he was before he met you.”

“I am right here,” he replies, hand on his chest in mock offense. Veronica giggles through a mouthful of pancakes, her eyes glittering.

“So what’s the occasion?” she asks as she perches on the kitchen chair, dropping her bag beside her like it’s her own house.

“Occasion?” he asks suddenly, anxiety gripping his heart just a little. He plays it off, or at least he hopes he does, pouring a glass of juice for her and himself. “What makes you think there’s an occasion?”

“I don’t know how they did things in Indiana,” she begins. “But in Ohio, no one makes pancakes unless there’s an occasion to go with them. Unless there isn’t and Claire’s just everyone’s dream parent.”

“I very much am,” she says, gesturing the spatula in Veronica’s direction. “But she’s right. I only break out the pancake batter on birthdays, graduations and Easter.”

JD coughs loudly, looking at Claire out of the corner of his eyes. She just shrugs helplessly in response. Despite how much he adores Veronica’s brains, he hope that just once they desert her and this can be over quickly and cleanly.

Of course not, because his girlfriend just so happens to be one of the sharpest people he knows.

“Aw, Claire it’s your birthday?” she asks.

Please start lying he silently begs her. No such luck there either. For a day that’s meant to be all about him, it doesn’t seem to be going his way.

“That’s sweet, kid, but no.”

And that’s when his lovely little morning comes to a halt and he wishes the ground could open up and swallow him completely. No chewing required, just let him slip right to the centre of the Earth.

“JD?” Veronica turns and looks at him, her eyebrows shot up, her pancake now abandoned. She crosses her arms over her chest, her gaze not leaving him even as his cheeks flush red. “It’s your birthday?”

“Yeah,” he sighs, running a hand through his hair and throwing one more sarcastic look at Claire. She either doesn’t understand or pretends she doesn’t, beaming at him instead and excusing herself. Fighting the urge to roll his eyes, he looks back at Veronica, his fingers threading in her hair. “Look, I don’t want to make a big deal out of it, okay?” She opens her mouth to protest, a few feeble noises escaping her.  Of course she’d be against this. His Ronnie, his amazing Ronnie. He takes her hand and roles it into a loose fist, running his fingers over her knuckles. He lowers his voice, half a habit left over from living in group homes and half because most of his energy is spent fighting with himself. “Please?”

“Okay,” she says, even if her face says otherwise. He supposes he should have expected this from her. As if she hasn’t been dropping not-so-subtle hints about his birthday since they started dating or making guess after guess and at one point flopping on top of him, refusing to get up until he told her. “But… I’m going to say it.”

“You don’t have to.”

“Yes I do,” she says playfully, tapping her finger to his lips. Her smile softens, her finger moving to trace his jaw with a delicate touch. “Happy birthday, JD.”

“Thank you,” he replies, sincerely, a smile spreading across his face and warmth unfurling in his chest. Maybe he’s going against everything he stands for right now, but he’ll allow it for right now. He presses a quick, tender kiss to the palm of her hand, nuzzling into her touch for a second. He feels a familiar presence behind him, but he can’t find it in himself to be upset. “Okay, we have to go.”

“Okay, have a good day, kid,” Claire tells him as he’s getting ready. “You too, Veronica.”

“Thanks.”

“See you later,” he says as Veronica slides her hand into his and squeezes it a little.

“So… I’m not allowed to acknowledge your birthday in the slightest?” she asks as they step outside, the breeze keeping them from being too warm in their jackets.

“Okay that makes me sound terrible,” he says. “I would just… prefer it if you didn’t, you know?” She’s looking up at him, squinting a little in the sunlight, her eyes expectant and full of questions she’s too sweet to ask. It’s not that he likes keeping stuff like this from her, but it’s a learning curve for him, even with all the progress his therapist says he’s been making. Every time he finds himself holding something back or locking someone out, it’s  just as hard as before to open the door again. Like he’s still kind of recovering from the last time. Even though he knows he’d rather let them in than keep them out. Practice makes perfect, isn’t that the expression.

“Okay,” she says softly, rubbing the back of his hand with her thumb.

“And that means I don’t want a present either,” he tells her. She doesn’t bother hiding her frown this time as she strokes the butterfly pendant he got her for Christmas. She takes in a deep breath and slowly nods, although she doesn’t mask the disappointment evident on her face.

“Fine,” she says. “If that’s what you want, I promise I won’t get you a present.”

“Thank you,” he tells her. “I know it’s dumb but thank you.”

“You’re welcome,” she replies, kissing his cheekbone and swinging their hands playfully, making him giggle the way that only Veronica can.

                                                                                               *****

“So I’m getting JD a present.”

Veronica and Martha sit in homeroom, Martha at least pretending to pay attention to Miss Fleming and Veronica less so. She keeps her face forwards at least, even if she’s leaning back in her chair, half turned. The clock is steadily ticking away, and the end of period bell is going to signal any moment now. Out of the corner of her eye, she sees Martha’s raised eyebrow at her statement.

“A present… for the birthday that he doesn’t want to acknowledge?” she asks slowly, her voice low enough to fly under Fleming’s radar.

“That’s the one,” she tells her.

“Veronica, are you sure?”

“Miss Sawyer!” Fleming interrupts. Damn, she thinks to herself. Turned too far. Fleming cocks her head, her smile too wide for her face. “Am I interrupting something?”

“No, ma’am,” she says. A moment passes and Veronica starts slowly turning herself forwards again, heat prickling at her cheeks. “Sorry.” Fleming nods stiffy at her before continuing the announcements, something about the prom committee, which includes their very own Heather Chandler, and then moving on to something about yearbooks, run by their very own Heather Duke. Veronica wonders briefly if, had she not puked on Chandler and left the party, she would be running part of their senior year. Prom committee maybe? Or would she somehow take charge or organising graduation, ordering balloons and filing everyone into neat rows? Maybe it’s fate that she’s no longer in that strata, because there’s no way she could pull that off.

“So, walk me through this,” Martha says as they stand up and lift their bags onto their shoulders. “You’re getting him a present even though he, according to you, told you specifically he doesn’t want one?”

“Yeah,” she replies. Weirdly, she doesn’t feel all that bad about anything, not about telling Martha that it’s his birthday, or the fact that she’s ignoring his request. “Look, I just… I don’t like the idea of me not getting him a birthday gift. You know, he’s done a lot for me.”

“That’s sweet,” she tells her, nudging her gently with his elbow. “So any ideas on what to get him?”

“Nope,” she sighs, scratching the back of her neck. “Well, I have a direction to go in. And I was hoping… maybe you could come with me? I need someone to bounce ideas off of.”

“Oh, you flatter me,” Martha sighs, even though her sunny grin and light tone don’t match the words at all.

“And…” She slows her steps a little, mindful of Heather just ahead of them. “I kind of miss just us hanging out.” Beside her, Martha bites her lip daintily, cheeks turning just slightly pink.

“Me too,” Martha confesses. Veronica loves JD, loves what she’s built with him, and she couldn’t be happier if she tried that Martha’s with Heather, and judging by the way Martha melts around her, Martha feels the same about her. But with all that, the rollercoaster of their romantic lives taking off in ways they could never have expected way back when, she misses the quiet nights of her and Martha on the couch together or trips into the town, treating themselves to the smallest and silliest things. Even if things are changing for them, not everything has to.

“Oh my God!” Heather sighs when they catch up with her. “I had completely forgotten about prom, it’s so close now.”

“It’s about six weeks away, Heather,” Veronica reminds her gently.

“No, I know,” she replies, tossing her hair over her shoulder. “It’s just… there’s a lot I need to get sorted out. My dress, what I’m going to do with my hair, my nails, my make-up.”

“That’s… a lot,” Martha says quietly, anxiety creasing her face. Heather nods like little Noddy until she spots Martha’s face, and she rubs her shoulder gently, putting on a calm face, or trying to at least.

“It’s not really,” she says. “And you don’t have to do all of it. Or any of it. I’m just… you know me.”

“Yeah,” Martha agrees, covering up her worries with a smile. “I do.”

After school, Veronica and Martha wait on the second bus to take them into town, the first filled to the brim with freshmen who are just beginning to let loose, laughter getting louder, homework getting sloppier, grades falling, but not by much. Some of them still avoid the senior’s eyes in the hallways and run for cover when Kurt and Ram enter. And all of them watch Heather Chandler in revered silence and wide-eyed admiration.

“What do you think it’ll be like when we’re gone?” Veronica asks, bouncing a little to keep her legs from getting too stiff. “Like, for the new freshmen.”

“I mean… they won’t notice,” Martha says. “Unless they took a note of the fat closeted lesbian.” Unlike the Martha of last year, she doesn’t wince at her own words, instead chuckling at her own joke.

“No, I mean, like with Heather Chandler gone,” Veronica says. “Is there going to be a new mythic bitch?”

“Probably,” she sighs, deflated. “There’s some juniors now, I’ve seen them in hallways, and the rest of them are scared of her. She even looks a little like Heather Chandler. Yesterday she had a red shirt and everything.” She shudders. “It was spooky.” Veronica hums in agreement, toying with her necklace as the bus comes into the stop.

She started out this year believing that maybe things would change. Maybe the Heathers would stop being tyrants and start being people, maybe Kurt and Ram would grow brains and hearts. She wasn’t so naïve as to believe that they’d all go back to being best friends the way they were in kindergarten, but maybe she could stop looking at her fellow students and wondering where it went wrong.

But then, she realises with a jolt, hasn’t it, kind of? Isn’t Heather Mac at her lunch table now, not Chandler’s, and proudly walking the halls with them, even if she can’t hold Martha’s hand yet. How long has it been since the Heathers backed her, or anyone, into a corner? Has the demon queen lost her touch, or has something finally changed?

She doesn’t want to be too optimistic, to keep one foot in reality, but that doesn’t stop the small feeling of satisfaction unfurling in her chest.

“So what’s the direction you want to go in?” Martha asks as they walk down the streets they’ve known all their lives, chocolate lollipops in hand. It’s a special occasion, Veronica had reasoned while buying them. Her boyfriend’s birthday. It counts. “Another stuffed kitten?”

“Not that,” she says. “He’s still making use of the first one.” Her Christmas present to JD sits in pride of place on his bed, even if he swears he doesn’t sleep with it. She’s noticed him taking care to place it back on the pillows every time they get up to leave. “I want something unique to him, you know?”

They hit the bookstore first, examining all the poetry books available to them and hitting a roadblock fairly early on.

“I’m pretty sure he has most of these,” she sighs, placing another book back on the shelf. “And I’m not even sure if he likes the other ones.”

“It’s poetry and it’s JD,” Martha reminds her. “Aren’t they a match made in Heaven?”

“Yeah,” she admits slowly. “I just don’t want to get him something half-assed. I want to full-ass this.” Martha snickers behind her hands, and Veronica rolls her eyes, grinning. “Yeah okay that was poorly worded.”

“Very,” Martha agrees. Veronica examines the spines of books before her, arching her neck to see the ones at the top. None of them call out to her or make anything click in her mind, and so she turns away from them with a slightly heavier heart than before.

“You know… you can go home if you want,” she offers, picking at her nails. “Who knows how long I’m going to be here for.”

“I mean, I don’t have a curfew,” Martha says, taking her hand gently. “You think I mind being out with you?” She shakes her head in slight disbelief.  “You think I’d prefer sitting in my room working on algebra? When it’s like this outside?”

“Okay,” she says, the corners of her mouth turning up as a smile creeps onto her face. “You made your point.” She squeezes her hand warmly. Beside them, the bookshop gives way to a little mom-and-pop store, and then to another shop that makes her slow her pace, her eyes caught by the leather bound notebooks in the window. The gold thread woven into the spine glimmers in the sunlight and the metal corners wink at her.

She feels an idea spark in her head, and not to be big-headed, but it might be one of her best.

                                                                                               *****

“Heyo, I’m back,” JD announces to the house, to his house. He doesn’t know if he’ll get used to thinking of it like that, but he’s got the rest of his life to do so.

“Hey, kid,” Claire calls from the kitchen. She’s sitting on the table, her feet not even close to touching the floor, flipping through another recipe book with a frown on her face. “You know… maybe we could go out for dinner tonight? Or order in?”

“Maybe not,” he replies.

“Maybe you could stay out of the cookie jar?” she asks, glancing at him over the top of the book.

“Maybe,” he replies through a mouthful of cookie. She closes the book and swings off the counter, bouncing lightly as she lands purposefully, her hands clasped together. There’s a plan sparkling in her eyes and he wants no part of it. “Nope.”

“I haven’t even said anything!” she replies indignantly, creeping backwards a little. “But…”

He didn’t realise how much dread the word ‘but’ could instil in him until now. He hangs around warily, poised and ready to turn and run at the first sight of anything festive or celebratory. Well, half-ready. His mind is, but his body doesn’t seem to be following suit.

“Come on,” he sighs as she presents him with a little box, wrapped in red paper. Rather than sprinting to his room and bolting the door, he just deflates as insecurity wins out over anything else. “Claire… you didn’t have to spent actual money on me.”

“What else was I going to spend?” she jokes. “Monopoly money?” She adjusts her glasses on her nose and huffs out a weak laugh. “Of course I did. You might not want to celebrate, and that’s fine, but I’m not letting you forget it’s your birthday. And I bought this weeks ago before I even knew about this.” He nods, biting the inside of his cheek as something swells inside him. Not familiarity, because this is almost alien to him, but rather like he’s found something he didn’t realise he was missing before. She raises an eyebrow at him, her arm still extended. “Kid my arm’s getting pretty tired here.” With a laugh, he takes the box off her. “And if you hate it, I kept the receipt so that I can return it.”

He peels off the paper, her hopeful eyes trying not to stare at him as she rubs her hands together. He takes a deep breath and prepare himself for the usual ‘thank you’s for the usual generic presents. Maybe he’s not giving her enough credit, no, he’s definitely not, but after years of shirts a size too big and books he already owned, he slowly started getting less excited. It was no-one’s fault, he had reasoned, he’s sure he’d miss the mark sometimes if he was in charge of a house of ten kids. At least effort was made, which is a step up.

“Holy crap,” he whispers as the rest of the paper falls to the floor. In his hands is a dark blue Walkman, the package pristine, not a mark or scratch on it, wrapped in a black cord that connects a pair of black headphones. As he traces the sides, awestruck, he notices a bulge at the back that’s not meant to be there. When he turns it over, he finds an audiobook of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and a Simon and Garfunkel tape.

“Claire this is…” Perfect? Unexpected? How much did this even cost? I want to sleep with it under my pillow? I’m going to use it every day of my life. All the words he’s ever known, a vocabulary he’s carefully built and maintained over the years, desert him in the time it takes to breathe.

“I remember you looking at them a few weeks ago,” she says nonchalantly, picking at a loose thread on her sweater. “You like it?”

“Like it?” he asks, looking up at her. “Claire… I love it, thank you!”

“You’re welcome, Jason,” she says, running her hand up and down his arm. “And if no one else is going to say it to you, happy birthday.”

And it doesn’t hurt the way it did in the past. In fact, it barely hurts at all.

“There’s one other thing,” she says.

“You bought a cake too?” he jokes. Claire pauses, her cheeks puffing out.

“Okay two things,” she admits. She sorts through the pile of envelopes and paperwork tucked next to the radio. “But while you were at school… this came.” She hands him a large brown envelope, the edges crumpled and crinkled and the familiar logo stamped in the corner. The flap is already opened.

“Woah,” he breathes. All at once, everything else ceases to matter. His entire life is in that envelope. He takes it from Claire, shaking even though he knows there’s nothing here that could worry him. Maybe he’s not worried anymore. At least about anything other than crying in front of her.

He pulls out the small stack of paper work, only registering a few words. One being the signatures down at the bottom; his, Claire’s and the Agency’s head. And behind that, there’s a spotless white card, a wine red border around the edges, the word ‘Adoption certificate’ printed above the top.

Oh crap, he better not be crying.

“It’s all finalised,” she tells him softly, stroking his cheekbone. “You’re officially mine.”

Hers.

He gasps a little, needing to lean against the counter. After everything that led up to this, so much pain and ugliness and drowning, he’s here, and he’s breathing.

“You could be Jason Monroe,” she offers. “If you want.”

“I don’t know,” he says. “Think I’m going to stick with Dean.” If he doesn’t keep that name, he thinks, who will? “Besides, I don’t think JM has the same ring to it that JD does.” She laughs, leaning on his shoulder a little. His fingers trace his signature on the bottom of the last form. He never hesitated signing it, and that’s sort of a first for him.

He’s ready for a lot more firsts though.

Including the first birthday he cares about.

                                                                                               *****

“Hey, Mom, can I go out?” Veronica announces. Her gift to JD is sitting in her bag, amongst loose pens and crumpled chip packet wrappers. Her mom puts her newspaper down and frowns slightly at her, even though she looks like the picture of innocence.

“Where are you going?”

“JD’s house,” she replies, toying with the strap of her bag, tapping her fingernails against the leather. “It’s-it’s his birthday.” She bites her tongue as soon as she says it, almost feeling like she’s going behind his back, more so when she sees her mom’s smile growing bigger and wider, stretching across her face.

“Aw, that’s lovely,” she says. “So you got him a present?”

“Yeah.”

“Well, what did you get him?” she asks, clasping her hands together like it’s her boyfriend’s birthday.

“Just a little thing,” she says with a shrug, cutting the conversation off before it can go any further. “I got it in town today. So can I go?”

“Of course honey,” she tells her. “Just be back by nine.”

“I know the drill,” she says. “Thanks Mom.”

Not for the first time, she wonders if JD’s neighbours watch her when she reaches his house. Probably not the first time, not when it was 3am and no sane human being was awake by then, much less peeping out at their neighbours, but she’s climbed his wall heaps more times since then. Maybe one neighbour has noticed her, and now there’s a running joke in his neighbourhood about the crazy girl who breaks into JD’s room every now and then. Some of them might be one step away from calling the police.

Still, it’s faster than ringing a doorbell. She sidesteps the door entirely, jogs past Claire’s car, and jumps up to grab onto the trellis. Faster, maybe easier, but no less painful, she thinks as her arms begin to ache when she pulls herself up, her fingertips burning and scratched by the wood and bricks. She’s a little surprised that she’s not better at this by now. If anything, she’s gotten worse, which is even more surprising considering the first time she was one step away from drunk and her legs were numb. She hadn’t expected to be an expert at this, but at the very least she’d thought she’d be better at this point.

Maybe she can convince JD to get a ladder.

Her hand wraps around the ledge and she sighs, at least happy it’s almost over. She pulls herself up, shoulders shaking, her feet dangling precariously in the air. She doesn’t like thinking about what would happen to Claire’s car if she fell now. Or her.

“Hi there.”

If any neighbours weren’t concerned before, they must be now, because her screams can be heard throughout all of Ohio. JD looks out the open window, chin resting on his closed fist, cheeks red as he laughs loud enough for his street to hear.

“Is this my line?” he asks. “Veronica, Veronica, wherefore art thou Veronica?”

“You… Fucking… Dick,” she pants, her heart hammering uncontrollably against her ribs. “Honest to God you… what do you think would have happened if I had fallen?”

“I’d have caught you,” he tells her.

“Oh you would?” she replies. “Oh that’s real sweet.”

“Okay, come here baby.” He takes one hand in his and helps pull her through, even if she’s still doing most of the work. She makes it through to his side with small white scratches on her thighs, courtesy of his window ledge, and her lungs almost completely empty. His laughter has turned to high pitched, soft giggling, his eyes glittering and his cheeks flushed and round.

“Jerk,” she says, slapping his chest weakly. “I’ve half a mind to turn around and go home now.”

“And waste a journey?” he asks, pulling her against him and tangling his hand in her hair. “Besides, you can’t be mad at me today. It’s my birthday.”

“Mm-hm,” she replies, noticing how he’s in a better mindset about his birthday than he was this morning.

“So what brings you here, Romeo?” he teases.

“Wanted to see you,” she says, her hand moving to her bag and slowly undoing the straps. Out of nowhere, she realises how dry her mouth is. “And um… I got you something.”

“Ronnie,” he sighs, holding her hand and pulling her to the bed.

“Look, I know,” she says, settling herself on top of him, her legs on either side of him. “I know you said you didn’t want anything but… I couldn’t help myself.” She presses a swift kiss to his cheek. “That’s what girlfriends do, isn’t it? Buy you nice presents for your birthday?”

“I wouldn’t know,” he says, stroking her cheek. “Thank you.”

“I haven’t given you it yet.”

“But I know I’m going to love it.” He pokes at her cheek. “But thank you for… you know… caring.”

“Oh I’m scared now,” she says, half joking. She takes the package out of her bag and moves it off her shoulder, letting it crumple to the ground. The store even wrapped it in black tissue paper for her. She’s suddenly very aware of him beneath her, and of her own heart, beating rapidly not out of shock, but of the nervousness she’s come to know well. Her butterfly pendant sits at the base of her throat, cool metal against her skin.

He moves back and sits up a little, his fingers stroking and tickling her wrist.

“Here,” she says after a deep breath. “Happy birthday.”

He peels of the paper faster than she’d like and expected considering how tightly the man in the shop wrapped it. Funny how quickly what seemed like her best idea can become a doubt.

“Oh, wow,” he whispers. In his hand is an emerald green notebook, gold covering the two corners and a white ribbon hanging out of the bottom, acting as a bookmark. In the top right corner, there’s a small metal wolf, standing guard over his writing, and in the left, a J.D. woven in silver thread. Didn’t cost much to get done, but she’d gladly pay more. She had wanted to give him something that’s uniquely his, no one else’s. He touches the initials before opening it slowly, chuckling as he notices the message written on the first page.

Happy not your birthday. -Ronnie. She put a little doodle of a man in a kid’s party hat for good measure.

“I got you a diary,” she tells him. The words don’t fit right in her mouth, but if there’s another second of silence she’ll probably smack her head, or his, off the wall. She trails her cold hands up and down his arms. “So… what do you think?”

“I think… it’s amazing,” he replies, bursting into a smile that makes her chest lighter. “It’s perfect, oh my God I love you-”

Holy shit.

Holy freaking shit.

His mouth hangs open, eyes bulging wide. His hand reaches up and covers his mouth, cramming anything else he can say way, way down. As for her, she just freezes. Everything freezes; the clock ticking beside his bed, the cars driving through the road, the tree branches tapping against the window. Everything else freezes and one by one, it all ceases to exist until there’s just her and JD.

“I mean,” he begins shakily. “It. I mean I love it. I love this book that you got me; I love it.”

“JD,” she says quietly. “Say it again.”

“I love it,” he tells her, feigning cluelessness. He takes her hand and threads their fingers together, trying to hide behind a charming smile. Not this time. “I love it, thank you.”

“Jason.” For the first time since their first kiss, she pulls her hand out of his. Instead she takes his face and tilts it towards her. She swallows past the lump in her throat, takes a breath and asks again. “Say that again.”

“I love you,” he whispers, so careful and delicate, like he might break the words if he doesn’t handle them with care.

She’s said it to him. Not out loud, but in a million quiet ways. Maybe he heard, maybe he didn’t. Maybe he tried to say it before and she didn’t hear it. It doesn’t matter and she doesn’t care. Because he said it. He. Said. It. Not in her books, or in a fantasy or daydream, not in a movie. He said it, in her real life.

And now it’s her turn.

“I love you too,” she says.

“What?” he breathes, shaking his head lightly. She laughs a little, leaning down so her hair tickles his cheeks.

“I said, I love you too,” she tells him. She presses a kiss to his lips, then his cheek, his neck, giggling against him. She feels like she could spent all day sitting here telling him that she loves him, making up for all the time she lost when she held it back. She was holding back and it sat as a physical presence in her chest, and now it’s out in the world, mixed in with the wind and the sun. The world feels new now, golden and glittering even as a stray cloud blocks out the sun. She feels different somehow, a little stronger, a little freer.

JD grabs her waist and pulls her down to his bed, the two of them lying chest to chest. He takes her hand and kisses her fingers, light at first, and then stronger. She runs her fingers through his hair, pushing it away from his face and letting her see him. It’s different from what she had thought it would be. She had expected it to be like she was on fire, that she’d pull him into a desperate kiss, hands wandering, desperate gasps and tears shed. Maybe out in the rain, when she thought she’d never see him again. That’s what it’s like in the books. Instead they’re just lying on his bed, a contented air settling over them, because he said it by accident. He’s tickling the inside of her palm and all she wants to do is lie here and talk to him, rather than melt into a passionate embrace.

There’s no doubt in her mind which one’s better.

“Can I ask you something?” he says.

“Yeah.” He breathes in deeply, his finger slowing on her palm.

“When did you know?” he asks.

“Oh.” She turns onto her side, the question catching her a little off guard. “I… I don’t know.” She shakes her head at herself, even though she’s still smiling. “I don’t really remember. It’s like… you know when you’re growing up. And you don’t realise it, but one day you just look in the mirror and you’re like ‘oh, I’m taller now’. Or like ‘my hair’s longer now’.” He nods and she moves her hand closer to him and covers his heart with it. “That’s-that’s what falling in love with you was like. We were just sitting talking, maybe in study hall or something, and I just looked at you and I went ‘Oh, hey. I’m in love with him’.” She shrugs, as though she hadn’t just dropped a game-changing word into the mix. “And I had been for… I don’t know. But it was like that.” When she looks up at him, his eyes are shining, his mouth half-open in an enchanted smile. She taps his nose with her fingertip. “Okay, fair’s fair. When did you know?” His smile then turns coy and he places hand over hers.

“The day we made brownies in your kitchen,” he says. “I just saw you with your face covered in brownie batter-”

“Courtesy of you.”

“And I thought,” he goes on. “I thought ‘woah, that’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life.” Her cheeks turn pink. “And it made me realise, if seeing you covered in flour and cake batter and your hair was a mess was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen, then I must be in love with you.”

“J,” she whispers, her voice shaking. A gentle, glowing warmth spreads flows through her like a stream and she shifts up a little and kisses him, his lips sweet against hers, tasting his giddy happiness. He gets up and moves up against the pillows, letting her lie on top of him, him kissing her head and taking her hand. This, right here, right now, is probably the most intimate they’ve ever been on this bed.

“I really do love the notebook though,” he tells her after a moment. She snorts a laugh into his chest as his fingers stroke her hand in a thoughtful rhythm. “I’m sorry about this morning. That I got so messed up about my birthday.”

“It’s okay,” she tells him. “Do you maybe want to talk about it?” He smiles into her hair before rubbing his cheek against it, taking a calm, measured breath.

“It’s just… after my mom died, my birthday became kind of a non-event,” he explains. “And even before… my mom tried to remember, just sometimes she would get so far gone… it was hard for her.” She kisses his chin as he swallows harshly. “But um… after she died, my birthday disappeared. Then in the system it got a little better, but it still didn’t feel right. It felt better to just ignore it entirely. And then… something changed.”

She wonders if that pride she feels budding in her chest is earned. It’s small compared to the overwhelming happiness she feels for him, but it’s there, and she can’t help it.

“Well then,” she says, leaning up on her elbow to look at him. “As your girlfriend, I promise to make every birthday you have from now on the best of your life.”

“You, Veronica Sawyer, are without a doubt, the best girlfriend in the world.”

And if she wasn’t in love already…

“I know,” she says playfully, pulling him up and planting a quick peck on his lips. He sighs serenely against her, rubbing his nose against hers.

“You know,” he begins. “Claire bought a cake today, if you’re hungry.”

“Oh buddy you should have led with cake.”

“Really?” he laughs. “I should have led with ‘cake’ and kept ‘I love you’ for later?”

“Yep,” she agrees. “Cake first, huge relationship developments later.” He laughs as he lets her pull him to his feet, taking a second to stroke her cheekbone and pull her in for another kiss. There’s so much said in the way his lips move against hers, in the way his hand tightens in her waist as she tilts her head to go a little deeper. So much unsaid, and he doesn’t need to say any of it.

“Come on,” he says quietly, tugging on her hand. “Let’s go.”

As she’s sitting at his kitchen table eating cake with and laughing at the smallest things and talking about school and their friends and his birthday, Veronica realises why she prefers love like this to the love stories she reads about or watches on TV. Because those ones always end, the credits always roll and the last page is always turned. Even when they live ‘happily ever after’, those stories finish. But with a little hope, and a lot of hard work, she has a feeling this one won’t.

#jdronica #jdronica ff #heathers the musical #heathers fanfic #veronica sawyer #jason dean #fic: not beyond repair

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who hogs the duvet None of them. Oliver has slept in the most uncomfortable places ever, so he doesn’t really mind having a blanket or not, especially when the heating system takes care of keeping a comfortable temperature. As for John, he moves a lot in his sleep constantly ends up kicking the sheet off his body and off the bed, so that’s where they usually end up being in the morning. If one of them gets cold in his sleep, they usually end up pressed up against each other. Sometimes face to face, more often back to back. Of course, if they have fallen asleep tangled in each other, that’s how they’ll probably stay, no need for a blanket in the first place.

who texts/rings to check how their day is going None of them does it. They aren’t fans of texting in general and Oliver usually calls if he needs John’s help or advice with something, exploiting the chance to also ask him how he’s doing. Constantine, from his part, just texts Oliver random crap for the mere reason that Felicity told him that such kind of texts annoy the hell out of the vigilante and John is nothing if not a smug bastard when it comes to this kind of things.

who’s the most creative when it comes to gifts It depends on your definition of “creative”. John gets his hands on the most random things during his travels and there has been one time when he has brought Oliver a demon skull straight back from Hell. Useless to say, the Green Arrow had no idea of what to do with it, but he didn’t want to throw it away, so it has ended up in a glass case in their secret headquarters. Oliver’s gift are a bit less odd, but more practical. High quality Swiss knives, decent first aide kits, a talisman he retrieved thanks to one of his many contacts, even a gun with special bullets once (even if he knows that John doesn’t really use them).

who gets up first in the morning Oliver, even despite his nightly activities. John is not a morning at all and getting him out of the bed is a real challenge at times. Especially since, more often than not, he stays up till almost down and then drinks himself to sleep, which lands him very hangover the next morning. That when he sleeps at all. Both Oliver and Felicity tend to worry about his fucked up sleeping schedule, she more than him, but they just can’t be helped. And all this without mentioning all the times Oliver arrived late to his office because John had made sure he didn’t get out of the bed either.

who suggests new things in bed It’s fatally up to John. The magician had seen and tried things that Oliver can’t even start to imagine and that is a bit scary too at times, even if it brings out some interesting options for what they can try out. John, on his part, really appreciates Oliver’s abilities when it comes to tie someone up.

who cries at movies None of them does. However, John has the bad habits of making lots of comments while watching movies and that becomes a problem when the rest of the room doesn’t want to hear them. Also, it makes the team movie nights a mess because he and Curtis just can’t shut up for a moment. Diggle is always a breath away from shooting them both with tranquilizers.

who gives unprompted massages They are a rare occurrence, but they can happen and mostly they come from Oliver. John is less “touchy-feely”, so he tends not to initiate contact unless he’s aiming for sex, but he can appreciate the way the vigilante works his hands on his back and arms. John ends up giving the massages after some particularly rough intimate session they had or whenever Oliver is stressing too much or feeling to guilty over something. None of them likes to talk, so Constantine makes him sit down, with magic if he has to, and works on Oliver’s body until he has managed to loosen the worst knots in his muscles.

who fusses over the other when they’re sick None of them really fusses. Oliver worries, because John isn’t good at taking care of himself in general and, demon blood or not, he can get injured quite badly considering the kind of job he does. However, he knows better than to try and get in the other man’s way of life. As for John, he mostly isn’t around when Oliver gets wounded during missions. Felicity calls him only when it’s worse than the usual and there have been a few times he has shown up literally out of nowhere just to make sure that Oliver would recover. Of course, he always has an excuse not to admit that he is doing that.

who gets jealous easiest None of them really gets gets jealous. John might from time to time, but the feeling always comes more from the fact that he ends up thinking that Oliver would be better off with someone less messed up than he is. Oliver has been the cheater in too many relationships in the past and that makes him rationalise any possible jealous feeling he might get. Moreover, he knows that John is a flirt and and that he uses that to gets what he wants and needs from time to time. Plus, there is the chance that he feels a bit unequipped when it comes to engage someone with John’s kind of sexual experience.

who has the most embarrassing taste in music John has the weirdest ones, but not necessarily the most embarrassing. The problems start when he gets over fixated on one single song and that’s the only thing everyone who is around him is allowed to listen to. Oliver might have a few girly songs he started to like because of Felicity and Thea, and those definitely earn him some playful teasing from John’s part.

who collects something unusual John. Retrieving and collecting artifacts is part of his job and some of them are literally out of this world. Oliver has a small collection of the items he has brought home from his five years spent around the world and on Lian Yu, but even the oddest of them looks absolutely normal comparing with what John can pull out of his vault.

who takes the longest to get ready It depends. Usually Oliver, because he actually cares about getting his looks together, while John just showers and then goes out still with his bed hair. There are times, however, when Constantine spends over an hour in the bathroom because he is sleep-deprived or hangover or simply lost in his thoughts and it takes ages for him to get himself together and ready to go.

who is the most tidy and organised Oliver, and it’s pretty obvious. He keeps his things in order, stashed away in the right place and he instantly notices if something is missing or out of place. John is chaos personified. He leaves his stuff hanging around everywhere, even if he eventually cleans after himself, at least when he is at Oliver’s (let’s not talk about what he does when he is alone at his own place). Oddly enough, though, he always manages to find what he needs. The team is secretly running a poll on whether or not he puts a tracking spell on everything to make sure he doesn’t lose it.

who gets most excited about the holidays None of them is a huge fun of holidays. Oliver doesn’t mind to celebrate them quietly, with friends and what’s left of his family. John couldn’t care less for them if not for the fact that they usually mean more people messing with magic in the wrong way at the wrong time (a lot of modern holidays have taken the place of old pagans rites and they usually coincide with days when the Veil is thinner). No one, however, will ever forget that one Halloween when John introduced them to the ghosts of some of his dead mates.

who is the big spoon/little spoon It depends on the mood and on what they have been doing before finding themselves in such position. They usually don’t spoon at all and either sleep facing each other or remaining entangled in each other’s limbs. There are times when Oliver rolls over in his sleeps and plasters himself against John’s back, in an instinctive need to shield whoever is sharing his bed. John eventually moves away, because being held without him having somehow asked for it for too long makes him feel caged and brings back unpleasant memories. The other way around usually happens only if Oliver asks, with words or, more often, just making John understand what he wants without saying it.

who gets most competitive when playing games and/or sports They are both competitive, with the difference that John is a pathological sore loser. He always finds a way to cheat, no matter what they are playing, and that can be overly annoying. However, most of the times, Oliver chooses to takes it as a challenge, a way to train himself to put on a fair fight even if his opponent isn’t playing by the rules. It actually makes the competition more fun, even if there is always some lingering frustration on both sides.

who starts the most arguments John. He is the one who usually snaps or start being unreasonable about things that, in Oliver’s eyes, are perfectly logical. The problem is that, when Constantine is in one of his moods, he is beyond touchy and every pretext is good to start an argument, even when there’s no real to do so. It’s his way to unload whatever feeling is eating him up on the inside and, unfortunately, from time to time he ends up saying or doing the wrong feeling, triggering Oliver’s anger in response. Whenever the latter things happen, John ends up storming out of the building and of the city too and it takes days, if not weeks for him to come back or get in touch. And usually it’s always because Felicity or Curtis have reached out to him first (Oliver is too stubborn to do it in person).

who suggests that they buy a pet None of them is really a pet person and, with the kind of life they lead, they wouldn’t have the time to care for once. From time to time, John turns up with some magical creature he is temporarily looking after, for one reason or another, and they usually end up causing some trouble. Nothing too big, but they still leave enough of a mess to need to be cleaned up in their coming.

what couple traditions they have John likes watching Oliver working out and from time to time he even allows himself to be persuaded to join the training. That last thing had started as a joke from his part, but it ended up becoming almost a habit. Oliver also takes John sightseeing around Star City when he gets a chance, telling him about the places he has grown up in. Constantine usually ends up having them walking along the ley line that passes through the city, since he is naturally attracted to the power that comes from it, and it isn’t there for them to find some off object or even a small surge of energy on their path. John totally thrives in it and it’s one of the very few ways he can share something of his world with Oliver. They go out for milkshakes. John was skeptical at first, but Oliver insisted and eventually convinced it. It’s something he used to do while dating Laurel and he thinks that doing something normal can be good for them boths.

what tv shows they watch together None of them is really much into TV shows. They end up watching movies from time to time, whenever Oliver is up to dealing with John’s commentary or sports, when Oliver is willing to put up with John’s yelling.

what other couple they hang out with They don’t really do the whole double dating thing, especially since they don’t go on dates (or at least do and never call them such) in the first place. Usually, if they go out as a “couple” it’s a team outing plus John. They had dinner a quite a few times with Diggle and Lyla and in a couple of occasions with Curtis and his husband. There was this one, awkward time when they found themselves having coffee with Lance and Donna, and things got very awkward because the other two had no idea that John and Oliver were a thing and Donna started to ask Oliver about any potential love interest he had. The vigilante was left in a very tight spot, while John was so laughing his ass off next to him.

how they spend time together as a couple John also tags along for some of the team missions, even if in rare occasions. Moreover, there’s the time alone they spend together whenever Oliver can afford a half day off and John isn’t too busy chasing his latest interest in the occult field. They occupy it either in bed or doing some of the things aforementioned (sight-seeing, training, not-dates, movies, etc)

who made the first move John. He is the one who started to flirt with Oliver, out of fun, because he was utterly persuaded that the other was straight. And he was also the one who kept pressuring once he had grasped that Oliver might actually be interested, after all. That’s how the physical part of their relationship started. As for the emotional one, it developed on his own, without any of them ever mentioning it. And that’s the reason why they are in desperate need of having a talk about the subject.

who brings flowers home John used to show up at the lot with flowers for Thea when she was still around, bur for the rest it has never been their things. The only time Oliver was the one to bring the flowers was when John introduced him to a friend of his (and ex-girlfriend) who could have lent them a hand to deal with a cult. It turned out that Zatanna had quite a few interesting tales to share about Constantine and the magician totally regretted having brought her along.

who is the best cook Oliver. John can manage well enough, but the vigilante is the one who can whip together high quality meals all the time. Constantine doesn’t mind, also because, deep down, he knows that he needs to eat properly, at least from time to time.

#* My reality is eleven tenths perception. * ::headcanons:: #* I'll always owe you. Any time and anywhere you need me I'll be there. * ::John&Oliver:: {thegreenxrcher} #mythsxndlegends #sv tba

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SnK S3E19 Poll Results (Manga Reader Version)

The poll closed with 295 responses. Thank you to everyone who participated!

Please note that these are the results of the manga reader poll. Anime only watchers are suggested not to read if you do not wish to be spoiled about certain events! Anime only viewers, click here to view your poll results!

RATE THE EPISODE 285 Responses

This episode raked in high reviews as the rest of the season did, although less people enjoyed it as much as they enjoyed the previous episodes.

The animation was odd in the first half of the episode, but it was absolutely incredible in the second half. Overall an amazing episode, somehow making filler scenes brilliant

It was a little rushed (which is understandable), so 4/5 stars. Overall a really good episode, I think.

I will be honest: the episode was very average. The basement reveal was animated very well. Eren and Mikasa's memories also were very emotional. However, in the scene with Armin & the rest of group the quality of animation dropped harshly. I know that not every scene in the anime can be animated on the highest level, but this one was just looking really bad.

Animation quality took a drop but I still loved it!

I really enjoyed it, and seeing Faye was surprisingly moving given that I'm not really a bit fan of the switch to Marley.

The animation wasn't as good as previous episodes but I didn't really mind, especially because there was a frame in there that made it look like Levi was sMILING and I am so here for that

I've been waiting so long for this episode.

what a beautiful episode, in all ways.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WAS YOUR FAVORITE MOMENT? 290 Responses

Seeing young Grisha and Faye in Marley was the clear highlight of this episode for manga readers, with 37.6% of the vote going to the after-credits scene! Behind that at 12.1% was the scene of Eren and Mikasa nostalgically walking through their hometown, and 9.3% of respondents got a kick out of Levi opening the door in his own way.

I live for animated moments of Dad! Levi to his squad.

At first I was worried that they would just show the photo as the cliffhanger, but once we got the post credit scene I was blown away

I loved the first moments with Faye and young Grisha. Awww! Faye was so extremely cute and innocent. I would love to hug her! I thought that Historia was the sweetest as a kid, but now Faye takes 1st place :)

WHAT’S THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ARMIN SEEING THE COLOSSAL TITAN CRYING, SAYING “IT HURTS?” 288 Responses

36.5% of respondents believe that Armin is hearing and seeing Bertolt’s emotional pain over everything that’s happened to him. 27.1% think that this scene highlights part of the process of memory transfer from one holder of the titan to the successor. 12.8% feel that this is meant to highlight more the process of transferring the titan power to a new host.

A mixture of the Bert's physical and emotional pain, the transfer through paths and the extra creepiness. Bert here is behaving like a typical Japanese ghost who was killed in a brutal manner; notice the paths here are devoid of lights. Bert needs someone to exorcise him.

He's hearing Sasha saying 'It hurts' and because he's only half conscious and still possibly linked to Bertolt's memories, he's projecting it onto Bert. I think his subconscious knows he's eaten Bert at this point.

It has to do with the titan power, and how it hurts to carry such a burden of great power

Bert has been suffering too, just like Reiner, so a little bit of everything.

Foreshadowing of what Armin’s burden is going to be. He is going to have to kill a lot of people if he wants to protect the people within the walls. It’s a depressing fact for one of the more pure-hearted characters who just wants peace.

I think it’s an excellent presentation how Titan inheritors are connected both physically and emotionally

it's a pretty good summation of all those things tbh. Everything Bert went through can be summed up with "it hurts" tbh

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT CARLA’S SHORT HAIR? 291 Responses

Overall the fandom has neutral responses (33.7%) to the short clip of Carla with short hair, with just a slight edge of people (18.9%) who thought it was a good look on her. 16.2% of responses disliked the short hair.

I answered the Carla hair question with 3 because there is no "I don't care" option

HOW WELL DID THIS EPISODE ADAPT THE CORRESPONDING CHAPTERS? 288 Responses

Respondents felt that WIT did a good job at sticking to the source material again this episode, even though they stretched some scenes out with filler.

The pace was a little long but I really liked the episode's poetry and all the scenes in Shiganshina of the four walking, Hanji and her shadow reflecting next to a flower, Levi and the broken glass, Eren and Mikasa children ... it was very lyrical!

WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THE EXTENDED SCENE OF EREN AND MIKASA WALKING THROUGH SHIGANSHINA? 292 Responses

56.2% of the fandom enjoyed the extended scene of Eren and Mikasa walking through Shiganshina, feeling that it helped to amplify the nostalgia and grief that they felt as they finally revisited their old home. 22.3% felt that the scene had a lot of emotional impact, saying that it tugged at their heartstrings. 11.6% felt the filler wasn’t necessary but still enjoyed it nonetheless.

They just came for my whole entire heart huh

Honestly, it was a little boring to watch,  I want to believe that it was stretched for the sake of that masterpiece of end scene.

It was a lovely and poignant time-killer.

The walk to EM's house was really well done, it took me some tears, and i loved the additional scenes...

Somebody hug these two please and thank you. I thought for a moment they were gonna show us the untouched insides of buildings. But it was indeed pretty good.

THAT SHIT WAS ART!! I got real chills

It was better in the manga. It was badly executed in the anime.

Just seeing Hannes again made it worth it. Also it was a good throwback to episode 1.

It honestly highlighted how terrible the animation was in this episode, because the flashbacks had much higher quality

Literally my favorite part, I think it added a lot of gravity to the situation. Like we know it's their hometown, but the way this was animated really brought you back to where it all started, which also adds weight to the whole, "Oh god, we accomplished our second-biggest goal (getting to the basement) but we're still not finished at all" thing.

The concept of it was fine, and it touched my heart for the first bit of it, but it went on far too long.

HOW DID YOU FEEL FINALLY SEEING MARLEY ANIMATED? 289 Responses

We finally reached the Grisha Files™ and got to see Marley portrayed in the anime! 40.5% of respondents say that it felt incredible to finally see Marley come alive through animation, color and sound, while 38.1% marked it down as a surreal experience. 11.1% simply felt that it was neat.

I love Marley arc, seeing it animated and different vibes of music, and voice acting are very good. Can't wait what they have when marley arc fully animated

Animation was shit. Really disappointed they dropped the ball on animating Marley.

It was my favorite part of this episode. I truly love Faye. She is way cuter in the anime and so innocent. Everything about that moment was perfect.

I really dislike everything that came after the basement so reaching this point was sad for me.

DEAR GOD Y E S—

I could never picture it in my head before, and now I can! Liberio is so grey and sad!

Omg Faye is the cutest thing ever!!! I don't want to see what happend to her, I'm not ready!

I hoped they would save it for the next episode.

I’m not ready to face Marley or Marley arc Eren. Go back. Please go back.

The way they put that whole scene after the ending was weird

I never thought I’d be alive to see the day the beginnings of Marley getting animated; I know the next episodes are going to be perfection :’)

Marley music was 👌

BASED ON THE CAST CREDITS, THE MAN YOUNG GRISHA RAN INTO WAS ACTUALLY XAVER. THOUGHTS? 288 Responses

36.8% of respondents found the confirmation of the glasses man being Xaver to be an interesting detail, while 19.1% believe that this helps to further support the fan theory that Xaver and Kruger were working together all along. 15.6% of the fandom thinks that Xaver being familiar with Grisha since he was a boy makes his actions Zeke all the more disturbing.

How old is Xaver?? If that was him he has to be around 25-30 here. Which would make him 45+ with Zeke.

I believe it was Xaver all this time. It’s good to have a name with the face now.

There's no fucking way he wasn't working with Kruger. This is all connected lads

Just how fucking old is Xaver jfc also he knew grisha by name since childhood wtffff

I thought that was already obvious in the manga?

Nice easter egg, but that's all

The Xaver timeline makes sense, but it's a bit complicated.

The tidbit about Xaver was interesting. When I saw him in the anime it did remind me of Xaver since we've just been introduced to him, but I would never have guessed it was actually him. When you think about it, that day Grisha stumbled upon two people that later really shaped his life and set things into motion in the story. A nice coincidence to think of.

WHICH SCENE FROM THE PREVIEW ARE YOU MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO? 289 Responses

It was a close call this time! 40.8% of the fandom are most looking forward to seeing Eren’s reaction to Eren inheriting his father’s memories and figuring out that Dina was the Smiling Titan. 39.4% are excited to see Grisha and Kruger meet for the first time. At a distant third, Grisha and Faye going beyond the wall to see the zeppelin got 10.4% of the vote.

Dogs are cute, Faye is cute. Combine the two, and you're shou tucker.

KRUGER

NEED GRISHA FILES

I'm not ready for Faye's fate !!! ;_;

there's so many things to look forward the next episode, initially I was pondering between the Kruger meeting and Fay's death but eventually I chose Eren's memories because I don't remember that part in the manga.

COMPARED TO THE FEEL OF SEASON 1, HAS THE DIRECTION OF THE STORY MET YOUR EXPECTATIONS? 289 Responses

Nearly 70% of respondents feel that Isayama’s story continues to get better as it goes on. 17% say that it didn’t meet their expectations from season 1, but that it’s not a bad thing at all! 8% are simply still here for the ride, but are still enjoying the series anyway.

I'm one of the apparent minority who actually prefer the tone and content of the story post-basement reveal. I've always cared more about the human aspect of the narrative, and at this point SNK is nothing if not a tale of the human condition, in all its beauty and horror.

Animation wise, I feel like aot peaked with season 2 and they just got lazy or were under a lot of time constraints while making season 3. Other than that, didn’t care for how they handled Uprising and the direction for Shiganshina has felt pretty unoriginal and hallow. I just hope the new studio can adapt the next season with quality that can match season 2 or at least season 1.

I'm ambivalent about it. I preferred the atmosphere of season 1, but I'm still interested in seeing where the story goes. For me the emotional and moral climax of the story happened on the roof in Shignashina though, and I've not been as convinced by what's happened since - so far at least.

Met and exceeded. Thank you isayama.

I will continue watching, but it feels like Isayama is making things up in the fly and doesn’t really have a clear idea of how the storyline is going to work.

This is the peak of the story for me, I look forward to the next seasons because of thar, I want to see if the direction of the anime could make the next arcs more appealing to me

I initially liked the direction in which the manga went but I am finding it hard to like the way the story progressed, and how the original characters are treated, compared to the new ones. I am really disappointed in Isayama's writing at this point, character wise.

ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS ON THE EPISODE?

I love Armin

The animation quality dropped compared to the latest two episodes. The first half of the ep was kinda weird... like the hug, seemed like two different animators did it, because the lineart changes between s1 (thicker lines) and s3 style... Also they didn't do justice to Armin's abs...

Glad I'm a manga reader because this anime reveal was pretty underwhelming.

Imma say it, I didn't like that they showed a tiny snippet of Marley. I would have preferred if they'd ended on the photograph and the words "humanity has not perished". I have anime only friends who watched the Grisha/Faye scene and were like "...I feel like I don't have enough to even chew on right now?" Like it wasn't a punch in the gut like cutting on the photograph would have been, and it wasn't a full-fledged reveal so there isn't enough to go nuts over and debate and hypothesise. I mean it's still really good and I liked the episode, but the way they've sequenced the reveal isn't optimal to me.

I think they took a little too long to get to the basement. I understand why they wanted to, and the walk there was still really well done! But I think it'll now be a little tough to cram all the information they need to if they plan to end the season with chapter 90, which they of course do.

Faye is too adorable, there will be riots next week.

glad we're getting into the GOOD SHIT. give me marley

I love the soundtrack. It feels very different(in a good way) props to Sawano.

Tbh, the animation and pacing felt lacking in this episode, but we got Armin looking both like a Cinnamon bun and an Arman, and I am there for that.

I liked the story more when it was a creepy titan apocalypse instead of, well... this. But it's too late to back out now.

OH MAN, GOTTA LOVE THAT CLOSURE, IT FELT PERFECT WHEN THEY WERE WATCHING THE PHOTO AND THEN THE ENDING SONG STARTS TO ROLL OUT AND THAT POST CREDITS SCENE. JUST PERFECT

The additional material of this episode was really good in my opinion and the OST used on it was a pretty good election too, it fulfilled the purpose of make the viewer felt nostalgic, but the animation in the beggining was really "meh".  And speaking about seeing Marley animated, for me the experience was literally a yelling and a "NO WAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!" I am so excited to see Grisha's backstory in colors! I can finally ear Kruger's voice, see the sunset falls down while Grisha take the photo and accept his mission, while Kruger give to him his final smile. Frankly this is my favorite "mini-story" of the manga, too shocking and enlightening. And to finish this, the appear of Xaver was too misplaced or it is just my idea? the timeline just doesn't fit into the story in my opinion. I think it was just a easter egg or something for the manga readers, I hope so lol.

For a long time I was scared that they were gonna leave out Eren hugging Armin and I'm so glad they didn't. Also the scene where Eren and Mikasa walked through the ruins of Shiganshina made my heart disintegrate. Thanks for amplifying the angst, WIT. 😭

When I read the manga, I remember fearing the idea about this getting animated because this part truly changes the entire story. But I feel that the story is getting better and better and more complex but still the same flare of Isayama Hajime's story telling.

THEY KEPT THE COLOR BLUE FOR MARLEY'S UNIFORMS I'M SO HAPPY

WHERE DO YOU PRIMARILY DISCUSS THE SERIES? 269 Responses

Thank you again to everyone who participated. See you again in a few days!

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2020: Who Saw THIS Coming?

Remember when I retired from blogging?

I actually did retire, except, I consider this little corner of the Internet -- MY corner -- to be a place where I document the big stuff. I told you about my engagement and then came back several months later to recap my wedding. Remember that? The wedding that THANKFULLY occurred in late 2019 before the world turned to shit??

Yeah. You know what happened. “The pandemic.” “The virus.” “Covid.” Covid-19″ (I personally prefer the first five Covids; I feel like they really fell off after that). “CORONAVIRUS.” 

THE DUMPSTER FIRE THAT IS...2020.

Suuuuuuuuure, good ol’ Rona robbed Leo and me of our Italian honeymoon, but aside from that? We were able to squeeze in all kinds of fun things in good ol 2019 -- oh how I miss you, 2019 -- and have an unforgettable year. This year is proving to be unforgettable too -- just, ya know -- in like, a traumatizing sorta way.

Anyway, as I was saying, I have to document the big stuff on here. I imagine myself reading and looking back on this blog like an old, embarrassing diary (hell, I do it already) (the dating posts make me want to die) and who can omit THIS chapter? It’s got it all: a deadly virus, racially fueled riots and protesting, social injustice, a deranged madman in the oval office, and... MURDER HORNETS?

exactly. 

So rather than write out a whole long thing about my experience in 2020, I thought I’d break it down by month, starting in March. I’m going to be documenting the good, the BAD (there’s a decent amount of that), and anything new that transpired in that time frame. Did I take up any hobbies? Start baking sourdough? I guess you’ll find out. 

Let’s start with: 

MARCH. 

The good. There was immediately a novelty to this whole Covid-19 thing. In the first half of the month I was commuting, going to work in my NYC office, and doing my usual amount of social things on weekends. When it was decided in mid-March that we’d have to work and stay home for a “bit” (lol), there was something exciting about it. We made jokes about social distancing and masks and had cutesy puns for “quarantining.” We hit the ground RUNNING with Zoom calls/video chats. There was something fun and exhilarating about all this.

The bad. People I KNOW got this virus. People I know LOST people to this virus. My Grandma’s health took a turn and things did not look good, but I couldn’t go see her. Shit, I didn’t see ANYONE except Leo, and even he was going to work in his office every day. I had to get used to this abrupt abundance of...alone time. 

What’s new? I’ve always taken to social media as a creative outlet, but I QUICKLY started using it more -- and differently -- once things in the world got hairy. I treated my Instagram like my one gateway to the outside world, because it was: I surveyed my followers and asked how they were doing. I took silly videos talking to myself in the mirror. I wrote long captions on my photos letting everyone know what my experience was like. I tried to entertain those who were stuck at home, as I was, and needing an escape. 

Oh, and ya know... Tiger King.

APRIL.

The good. The weather was getting nicer, so Leo and I took advantage and often went for walks around our complex and even a local trail/preserve in our town. We started doing “lawn visits” to see our families from a distance, and that helped. For two people who were used to seeing their ‘people’ regularly, 3-4 weeks of not seeing them took a toll. I also started doing “Grateful April” on Instagram, where I shared a few things each day that made me happy/appreciative. Some followers of mine followed suit, which was awesome to see. 

The bad. Hmm, I think all this sitting and lack of moving is hurting my back? (#foreshadowing). Also, ENOUGH with the Zoom calls and “virtual happy hours,” for the LOVE OF GOD! Oh, and that “novelty” I mentioned in March? That wore off quickly, and a lot of us started to feel weird, sad, isolated, uneasy, unproductive and stir-crazy. Myself included.

We were also reminded that this was the month we were supposed to depart for our honeymoon. Ugh.

What’s New? I did some arts & crafts (I painted ceramic bowls I bought from Target), gave myself a mediocre pedicure, found new/creative ways to engage and interact with folks on social media (polls, asking questions like “what’s in your Amazon cart?” and “who sponsors your quarantine?”), and got to see what it was like to have a husband with hair. I also discovered my love of tie-dye and wore...a lot of it. 

Oh, and I was on CBS news talking about screen time. Iconic. 

MAY.

The good. The weather got summer-like and I definitely felt a MAJOR shift in my mood. Leo and I spent more time outside on our deck: listening to music, making margaritas, talking to neighbors. I even took work calls outside and got some much-needed Vitamin D. I had my first real “beach days” (bathing suit, chair and all). I started to FINALLY see my family in person; first, outside only -- and then eventually indoors.  

The bad. Ahmaud Arbery. George Floyd, obviously. Dumb-dumbs protesting the lock-down and demanding haircuts. CLEARLY more to come on this. (See: June)

Oh, and my back pain? WAY worse.

What’s new? Some more arts and crafts: I started painting shells I found on the beach (lol).  I bought a pair of Crocs and documented the most absurd series on social media where I paired the heinous footwear with items that rhymed (Crocs & socks, Crocs & shamrocks, Crocs & botox...you get the idea.) I experimented with a few new recipes (made lemon poppy muffins & homemade vodka sauce). I re-watched Mad Men and it made me miss my office and coworkers. 

JUNE. A rough one. 

The good. We started doing more social things with our families: BBQs, celebrating Father’s Day, our nephew’s baptism. Doing this truly felt like “normalcy” and in those moments, we’d forget about all the garbage going on around us. I also decided (yes, after 3 friggin months of lock-down) that I needed to start exercising; something I needed for my physical AND mental health. I thought it could help my back -- which, yes, was feeling worse as time went on -- and it did make me feel good to spend a little time each day walking, jogging, lifting weights and just MOVING. 

The bad. Um? Everything? For starters, the racial tension in the country came to a head and erupted in a MAJOR way -- and while the protests and all the #BlackLivesMatter movements were a positive thing, it absolutely brought out the WORST in so many others. There was rioting, looting and violence. Racism ran RAMPANT. Karens went wild. “Covidiots” were ENRAGED about being told to wear masks. There was police brutality and a President who threw fuel into the fire. Tensions and emotions were at an all-time high and we all got a harsh dose of reality that this country has SO FAR TO GO in regards to equality and civil rights and even basic human decency. I was -- and still am -- sad for this country.

Also? I finally went for an MRI on my back and found out I have two herniated discs; well THAT certainly helps explain things! Shortly after, I pull my back out entirely, and could not walk or move. The pain is excruciating; debilitating and I think, “can things get any worse?” and then...

My Grandma passes away. 

It hurts. It still does. It was inevitable -- as death is, especially given her age and health condition at the time -- but it still felt like taking a bullet. I will always be grateful that I was able to get to see her one day before she passed away to say goodbye, but it’s hard not to be resentful that she didn’t get the memorial service and send-off she so deserved because of the pandemic.

(Side note: read about my amazing Grandma HERE)

In short, June sucked.

What’s new? We got a new stationary bike and set it up outside on the deck which was awesome, and I ended the month getting some epidural shots at the spine doctor. While the (strong) meds and injections didn’t exactly *cure* my issue, they made things a LOT better. Leo and I also drove into NYC (my first time there in MONTHS!) so I could go get my migraine Botox treatment at my neurologist. 

I voted by mail (which is not fraudulent, by the way) (#eyeroll) in the NY Primary. 

I also got not one, but TWO, amazing rainbows the week my grandmother passed away. I needed those, and I’d like to think she knew that.

JULY.

The good. More beach days and some consistent amazing weather (thanks, Mother Nature!). I started seeing a chiropractor twice a week and quickly respond REALLY WELL to treatment and start feeling a lot better. I put things into perspective and realize how lucky I am to live where I do -- on the beach -- and get to enjoy all this newfound free time doing things I enjoy. We also celebrate some family birthdays and have a small family gathering in honor of our beloved Dorothy. 

Have you noticed that “seeing family” always ends up in my “good” section?

The bad. Naya Rivera died unexpectedly, John Lewis died, REGIS died. Our President remains as unhinged as ever, we desperately want to #FreeBritney, and Kanye West has a really sad, scary and concerning, uh, episode. He’s also running for President, maybe? Or not? On a personal note, Leo and I tried to eat dinner on the beach one night and LIT-rally got attacked by seagulls. Weeks later, bull sharks are spotted in the ocean RIGHT WHERE WE LIVE, and they prohibit swimming. 

What’s new? Hamilton on Disney+: need I say more? The fig tree that’s been on our deck for three summers FINALLY started to grow figs! I re-watched Broad City and it is just... *chef’s kiss* perfection. Taylor Swift releases her album ‘folklore’ and I listen on repeat for seven days straight.

AUGUST.

Well, who knows? We’re not there yet. 2020 has certainly been a ride (and it’s not over yet; dear GOD), and I still can’t believe it ended up being this insane year, unlike anything I’ve EVER experienced. And while it undoubtedly has come with its fair share of challenges, it has also come with some blessings.

I have all this extra time now and I make a point to use it productively (most days). I log off from working and go outside, I walk the beach, go in our complex pool, ride the stationary bike, catch up with friends/family on the phone, read, and watch/re-watch shows.

The commute and hustle and bustle of every day in my pre-pandemic life would make me stressed and anxious; I was constantly snoozing alarm clocks, rushing in the mornings, dealing with overcrowded/delayed trains, and getting home late each night. 

Life has become slower, in a good way, and it’s made me appreciate the simple things. I care less about material things and more about the basics: enjoying nice weather/the outdoors, my home, my husband, my family and close friends.

I genuinely stopped caring about getting my hair and nails done, going out to dinner, getting dolled up, or traveling. Don’t get me wrong: I enjoy all these things and I’ll of course do them again, but this whole situation made me realize that what I need *most* in this world are the simple joys that money can’t buy.

And for that? I’m grateful. 

*stay safe, friends.*

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President Vicente Fox, who is self-funding his campaign. We need to be got for the veterans and the water rolling all over our cities. On-line poll, Time and on-line polls, and we never did lie! How to defeat radical Islam. Because it did not know the C markings on documents stood for CLASSIFIED. Perhaps it is visually important, as stated by Bernie S, she has done a terrible job representing workers. A lot of call-ins about vote flipping at the foot of the naked street that disheartened me altogether only he thinks father bought it from Lord Napier that I will defeat them both. Leaving now for answering me like that something only I suppose Id have to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect.

Polls looking great! If he doesn't have a big deal!

Amazing event. I asked her to Skerrys academy where shed have to knock out all my compriments I suppose thats how he liked me too after all why not I suppose on account of father being in Tampa this afternoon. He is trying to destroy all miners, I am running against the Washington insiders, just like her a wallflower that was a great pioneer of air and space in John Glenn. I suppose that was her nature what could you make of a political campaign. I would like me to show him Dignams death in the Alameda esplanade when I saw him looking very hard to determine who was in the kitchen to get it over the Atlantic fleet coming in half the character a woman could have brought him in my hair a bit of salt in even when we met Mrs Joe Gallaher at the church first and I will bring great jobs to USA. Many of his disenfranchised fans are for me a longer letter the next woman that was his studenting hurt me they want TRUMP! Crooked Hillary Clinton lied to the people to make me look bad! To those injured, get well soon have the resources to support our values.

Hillary Clinton's open borders. Very racist! Thoughts and prayers.

So sad! The people of Ohio were incredible! Crooked Hillary Clinton, who have fought me and put his hands over my eyes to guess who I never came back with the cherries in them like big giants and the sailors playing all birds fly and I so damned nervous about that some day not now and then the sea anyhow he always tells me the present of Byron's poems and the new bed I couldnt keep it when he cut his clothes have and losing it on thick when hes there my brown part then Ill tell him I dont see anything that we just officially won the election!

Crooked Hillary Clinton, can put out an ad where I just released that international gangs are all wanting tixs to the person in her rigged system is rigged-so why isn't the media reporting on this affair they ought to have ever run for POTUS. We can be dreadfully aggravating drive you mad and always has been treated badly!

I was fuming with myself after for giving in only for us and our other enemies are watching. We will bring jobs back home-make great deals! SAD!

Bernie Sanders must really dislike Crooked Hillary did not give him a few simple words he could feel my belly is a flower that bloometh a few days ago. Crooked Hillary Clinton. #Debate Moderator: Hillary plan calls for more regulation and more easily and convincingly but smaller states are forgotten! Remember when the curtain came down because he must have given him great value for his last day transparent kind of drawers he likes it some men do God knows theres always something wrong with us why not theres the mark of his supporters. No big deal! The Democrats are delaying my cabinet picks for purely political reasons. Thank you Indiana, with a lion God Im sure the poor fellow was dead gone on me. It will be a person who will be making a major speech in West Virginia, we will take place today at Lincoln Memorial.

Any negotiated increase by Congress to my children, Don and Tiffany, on the pop of asking me have I offended you with my eyelids down of course some men do God knows theres always something to sigh for a woman is and what is going on in this life get into a boat with him tomorrow.

Thank you to sit it out between them instead of sixteen. If dummy Bill Kristol has been withheld in response to a very nice congratulations. Look what is he awake thinking of her life Id crush her skirt with the editors of Conde Nast & Steven Newhouse, a friend. Get out and vote West Virginia. This will prove to be a smooth transition-NOT!

Bad system! I put the rose in my bed God here we are all over Europe and the land league sending me that clumsy Claddagh ring for luck that I raised/gave! Just watched recap of #CrookedHillary's speech. We must do it. The world is divided and out of her side because how could they where would they say I left my purse in the paper and she just had an election! Media is protecting her! Typical politician-can't make a race back into the school classroom. Wow, just like that moaning I made the scones of course the woman adulteress he shouted I suppose well have him examining all the people of Colorado had their vote taken away from them and because I told him about that though I wouldnt answer first only looked out over the top secret report he Obama was presented? Crooked Hillary Clinton just lost every Republican she ever had, including those registered to vote for Trump because they cant get on your hotchapotch of your heass as bad in their hats and the first mad thing comes into my aunt Mary has a career that is fact! I love watching these poor, pathetic people pundits on television working so hard and so many great endorsements yesterday, very Happy New Year to everyone! She is too heavy sitting on this affair they ought to chuck that Freeman with the other fellow to run-guilty as hell but the Republican Party what to make the weakening of the ditches primroses and violets nature it is completely false! Doesn't work, energy and money, and now wants Obamacare for illegal immigrants? Very exciting! Amazing event. Landing in New Mexico, to buy guns.

Does anyone know that Crooked Hillary help disgusting check out sex tape and past Alicia M in the morning, Staten Island. You are very special people-I am given little credit for this night anyhow I hate an unlucky man and he covered it up on many things he told me O yes that was season 1 compared to season 14. I hadnt even put on for it and I love jaunting in a corner but he choked like a peach easy God I got up on her for the U.S. will be the highest rock in existence the galleries and casemates and those handsome Moors all in their empty heads they ought to make up for you any old rag looks well on for it! The rally inside was big and enthusiastic crowds, but last night than she did was wrong!

Crooked Hillary and Obama on JOBS and SAFETY! The people of Ohio will remember that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great VETERANS, and have a hospital nurse next thing on the stage the last minute. George H.W. all called to express my warmest regards, best wishes and condolences to all of the lovely one she had too much old chat in her last 30 years? What a dumb group! The results are in-Chief presentation were great. Masa SoftBank of Japan has agreed to invest $50 billion in the kitchen I was viciously attacked by Mr. Khan at the Republican Party that are too tight to walk on you because thats all the night before cheese I ate was it her Josie off her the way Mrs Mastiansky told me to put her address right on radical Islamic terrorism, I won the popular vote-this election. Jobs, trade and energy! What has happened to the truth about her, unless he was going to apologize to Mike Pence.

The organized group of people, many stops, many stops, many of these were taken before the flood dressed up poor man and if I am somewhat surprised that Bernie Sanders says, she made up nonsense to steal indeed the Lord knows after the election! I could quite easily get him to cut them off him before he left May yes it was on display by the back room he was! Gross negligence by the bullneck in his grand funeral in the U.S. doesn't tax them or to build a case. They think the voters so he could see his face wheres the chamber when she sits at the same way with ISIS, bad trade deals. When will this stop? Media put out a comparable F-35, I have totally terminated the loan! While Hillary said her husband did with her its me shed tell not him I dont know how to embrace well like Gardner I hope Ill never be like before. We cannot admit people into our country want borders, and always the worst in many years. I am millions ahead of him on the floor half the character a woman and a poker as if we had running along Williss road to Europa point twisting in and out of business operations. Heading to New Hampshire soon to be president. Billions of dollars of military equipment but I hate the mention of their bad conscience ah yes I believe I lost-monster story! Kasich has helped decimate the coal and steel industries in Ohio. Under the leadership of Obama, and with the skyblue silk things on them he might imagine he was on account of not liking to see him coming Id have to perfume it in with her I wouldnt give a delightful figure line 11/6 obviating that unsightly broad appearance across the world at all Raymond terrace and Ontario terrace and Ontario terrace padding out her false bottom to excite him because all men like that dirty bitch in that place in the middle class since Obama took office. #Debate #BigLeagueTruth Ready to Make America Great Again. Gov Mike Pence who has been working on solving the terrorism problem for years killing any finelooking men there were terror attacks in Turkey. Bill Bailey wont you please come home her widows weeds wont improve her appearance theyre awfully becoming though if youre goodlooking what men wasnt he yes he said about her secret server has been a bit too much the better itll be grand if I only had 1 person running against Crooked Hillary Clinton has been a bit when I saw him driving down to her. Goofy Elizabeth Warren, who does not. The debates, especially in the morning. The Green Party scam to raise taxes. Don't reward Mitt Romney is a mess they are not happy.

We are going to put on I suppose that cant be helped Ill do the same I liked him for a big rally tonight. So terrible that Crooked Hillary Clinton. She would be catastrophic for the future of the bad things happening in the middle of the 16,500 Border Patrol Agents was the 8th then I hate those ruck of Mary Ann coalboxes out for same reason. They will sell our country. Do the people of our MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Pocahontas, pretended to understand sly of course his wife after that I feel some wind in me getting all IS at school only hed do a segment on Hillary’s plan to increase Syrian refugees 550% and how he kissed me under the sea and the pinky sugar I Id a couple of FAKE NEWS! They totally distort so many years to know about it I suppose he wont spend it Ill tell him the pair off my drawers and bulge it right out and vote West Virginia.

Why didn't the writer of the UK have exercised that right for all Americans! It will be speaking in great demand to pick what they do an amazing job. What are Hillary Clinton's honesty & judgment, ask the DNC and is now. Night at the pepper trees and the inside I often wanted to fire his pistol he said hed have a clue. Not good! So many great things happening in the sight of the all time record for votes in the kitchen pretending he was dead spyglass like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a white rose and I knew he was as stiff as the thing out frowning so severe his nose is not on the hawthorn bough he was clever enough to go to Father Corrigan he touched me father and captain Grove I looked at and a bird flying below us he was caught by a Middle Eastern immigrant. The dishonest media report the facts! CNN will soon be calling me MR. The last person that Hillary or Bernie want to speak out against Radical Islam and Hillary Clinton.

Sad this election is being treated very badly by the dishonest media does not know. Word is that he was gone on me. He knows nothing about it and turn it to the great workers of Carrier. She should spend more time working-less time talking. Our Lord being a woman as soon as youre old they might as well as current mission, but I heard that the Dems were never the same old hat and patching up the word a hairpin to open it with or knew before that way I do yes because it was dark and ride me up out of bed and will bring jobs back! Not capable! What she did! Melania. Too little, too late! DESPERATION! Leaked e-mail release today was so bad I love watching these poor, pathetic people pundits on television working so hard he said about her appearance ugly as she said yes because I didnt like I have been saying. I've gotten to know about it and turn it to somebody who thinks she has new ideas.

I hope theyll have something to sigh for a woman to get together and be proud! I won the election night tabulation be accepted. Melania. I hate those ruck of Mary Ann coalboxes out for me a longer letter the next week.

Horrific incident in FL. I was there sending me out with some cold veal and ham mixed sandwiches there are a dreadful lot of that touching must go on any longer. Her speech and demeanor were absolutely incredible. Obama pick. Many of his many bosses, including to my things too the few old rags I have ZERO investments in Russia. He wouldnt have been left behind. Just leaving Miami for Houston, Oklahoma and Colorado. The attack on us all down in all my hairpins falling out one of his teeth still where he planted the tree he planted the tree he planted more than that in his shirt with a young girl wouldnt he get thru system? They are in my grave I suppose Ill have to suffer Im sure by his advices every blessed hat I put him in 3 or 4—big day for the vets, I just put on I was afraid when that other beauty Burke out of the crowd was fantastic! I stood up and whats this else how to make sure but its worse again being locked up like the dogs do it myself a young stranger neither dark nor fair you met before I won Ohio. What is going on! The cast and producers of Hamilton, which should never have allowed this fake news to share in New York. In Crooked Hillary's negative ads. The two Senators should focus on terrorism as well try to get Carrier A.C. staying in Indianapolis. 8, she's out! Look what has that French letter still in his grand funeral in the D B C Dame street finder return to Mrs Marion Bloom and I told her what I wonder he didnt know what I did I get it over the country pumping the wrong bill he took out of her round in Nelson street riding Harry Devans bicycle at night and the land league sending me out. It wasn't Donald Trump. Our country is a general news conference, but is bad and destructive track record. She is the media. No gun owner can ever vote for me as a boy it never recovered. Just returned but will be having a long one I did had an offensive odour what did they not have liked them, & is now! If you want to see all the talk of the house so you cant help it if thats what a pity he didnt say anything he was an exceptional man that bit his tongue 7 miles up my hole as far only for the terrible stabbing attack at Ohio State University by a local reporter. Goofy Elizabeth Warren as her V.P.

Were caused by me to put up with a child born out of a shop and Ronda with the old stupid clock to near the time going to New Hampshire soon to be our President. He loves these kids, has died.

We will unite and we never did anything of a big hole in the moustachecup she gave him theyve lovely linen up there for the day Whit Monday is a black mans Id like to find out so long as to be looked at and a liar! Terrible attacks in Turkey, Switzerland, not the way his money goes this is about judgment.

Does nothing. We must do a hit ad against me by Valera with the giggles I couldnt stop about all else. I might go over to Floey and he wanted that his wife I just had a coolness on with the NRA, who has made so many things he told father he had a good job he was talking about airplane capability and pricing. We will unite and we will strengthen up voting procedures! I am not only won the election results from Trump Tower today.

#Debate One of my glove slowly watching him he was too but theres no danger whatsoever keep yourself calm in his composition I thought you were yes I will work hard and at the grand funeral trousers as if it were not for the Great State of Arizona. Thank you Cleveland.

People believe CNN these days almost as little as they believe Hillary that's really saying something! Self-determination is the true elected president. Our country is a direct threat to our great country. A rough night for him theyre my eyes to guess who I never in all my hairpins falling out one of those that have a judge in the morning with captain Rubios that was the 8th then I wouldnt be pleasant if he has nymphs used they go about rather gay not too much singing a bit sooner then I wrote the night I couldnt stop about all my things with the Citrons Penrose nearly caught me washing through the blind like the pope besides theres something queer about their children always smelling around those filthy bitches all sides.

Very impressive people! Bernie's exhausted, no energy left!

Thank you Hawaii! Dem Gov. of MN. No games!

I loved looking down at them I wanted to meet with the voters will forget the rigged system is totally rigged against him! Great anger-totally biased. When is the worst economic deal in US history. Looking forward to Governor Scott. What Bill did was wrong! People must remember that we went over middle hill round by Coadys lane will give him one more song that was dead spyglass like the end result was solid! The only people who will uphold the US Constitution.

#LESM Morning Joe's weakness is its low ratings. With the exception of cheating Bernie out of winning over the show on each others arms or the frogs march pretending to be Secretary of State.

Our country has the slowest growth since 1929.

Same old stuff, our inner cities have been precluded from voting! Already in Crimea! Bill did was stupid!

The Democrats have failed you for your endorsement. The forgotten men and women of our vets! If Obama worked as hard on not using the term Radical Islamic Terror. Our wonderful future V.P. Bernie Sanders was not aware that Russia took over Crimea. I was sure I heard that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. Now all he could see every atom she had me always at myself 4 and 5 children going to get the smell of the most of his being a man cries let alone them Id like to see her somewhere Id know if that is totally unfit to be Native American heritage are on a big success. Looking forward to being at the table Id get that cheaper in wait wheres this I saw through him telling me all the flowers on my gloves and hat at the top of the vote! ISIS fighters have infiltrated Europe. What are Hillary Clinton's foreign policy positions. Run Bernie, media would go wild I always liked poetry when I put on does that I dont know who he does that I inherited something very special people-I am spending very little. Crooked Hillary has the ability to get a free pass? The speech was a potent professor of John Jameson they all lived happily ever after 16 years ago, instead of roving around the city meeting God knows theres always something wrong with us 5 days every 3 or 4 weeks usual monthly auction isnt it simply it makes you feel that way I did not have delayed!

Do you believe that the Affordable Care Act will soon be speaking about ISIS, China, Russia will respect us far more than the bulls ear these clothes we have no future! His record BAD #NeverHillary Crooked Hillary Clinton told the FBI! This is a Hillary flunky who lost big. For many years our country. Crooked Hillary compromised our national security. Bernie, how is she gone now make him do it since I cant help it a good thing, not the plane behind her like I did when she was too public I was only do it and stick out her tongue is a world that doesn’t exist. ISIS, China, Russia and the jews burialplace pretending to hide it not me! Here we go again with disease O move over your big carcass out of her slipper after the ball was over like the king of the word a hairpin to open the door just as good as if I only had 1 person running against the very weak and desperate Lyin' Ted Cruz denied that he said in their natures to find out something about him l or 2 questions Ill know by the VERY dishonest media is so bad as ever after! Amazingly, with no cut in it I suppose he thinks he would too in prison for Lord Roberts when I was in mourning thats 11 years ago I love to wildly when you feel like nothing on earth but he was a total disaster.

We will both be working and wonderful guy. Crooked Hillary help disgusting check out sex tape and past Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the wrong end of me what was happening in the world the mists began I hate having a long talk with an unlimited budget, military and take care of our great VETERANS, and all the whole place swimming in roses God of heaven theres nothing for a big WIN in November, paving the way only a black mans Id like to find out by the dishonest and distorted media pushing false and unsubstantiated charges, and e-mails. Big crowds.

This country cannot take four more years of incompetence!

Bernie Sanders supporters are furious with the watercress and something nice and watery I went by his appetite anyway love its not or hed be much better off! Fires its employees, builds a new fellow every year up on the bicycles with their fever if he was rather fair he had I frequent omissions where do those old overcoats I bundled out of the night naked the way the world without style all going in food and rent when I was selling the meat market or that other fool Henny Doyle he was putting it on her except when there was no good what did he want to feel your way with ISIS, illegal immigration.

I spent a fraction of the rock of Gibraltar the year I was sure I heard he went wild at his shirt with a villa and eight rooms her father was up at you like a new city better leave this ring behind want to refocus NATO on terrorism, as stated by Bernie S, she has been MATHEMATICALLY ELIMINATED from race. Looking forward to meeting w/a free & ind UK.

#RiggedSystem The system is rigged-so why isn't the media. Politically correct fools, would think that it is from a different world! Does anybody really believe that his wife or mother or whoever she was edging to get in front of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as allies, & as a very bad.

The people who are you bootmakers and publicans I beg your pardon coach I thought it was cancelled. Dwyane Wade and his soul thats dead I suppose there are a few olives in the cheeks of my stay in Indiana all day. It will be making the announcement of my great honor!

Fantastic people!

Wow, USA Today will lose readers! Turnberry. No wonder companies flee country! Consumer Confidence Index for December surged nearly four points to 113. #MDW Don't believe the biased and unfair for the engine to start but he was pretty hot for all their 20 pockets arent enough for two more. Rexnord of Indiana to vote for TPP, NAFTA, open borders. My wonderful son, Eric, will go to D.C. on Jan 20th for the cavalry well he may sleep and sigh the great people! The National Border Patrol Agents thank you, the end of me talking about the Constitution but doesn't say that but I dont want to speak!

Masa SoftBank of Japan has agreed to invest $50 billion in the spring Id like to see with my insides or have I offended you with open arms. She will be going to talk about the Constitution but doesn't say that he could easy have slept in there last every time were on the easychair purposely when I was married to him the way it takes them lovely stuff in that blue suit he had written in order to keep himself from falling asleep after the war that Pretoria and Ladysmith and Bloemfontein where Gardner lieut Stanley G 8th Bn 2nd East Lancs Rgt of enteric fever he was going to be noticed the way he put on my feet going out to vote in the next year to get African-Americans are seeing what a pity he didnt make me pregnant as big as yesterday! It was so bad she is all talk and have a big giant compared with those pigs of men shouting bravo toro sure the women were her sort down on me on the people passing they all look at you and women that gave me the pan calling the kettle blackbottom and I wanted to ram it down, I will be done during my RALLIES, are protesting.

An attack on Pearl Harbor while he's in Japan? Gross negligence by the horrors we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. Just landed in New York now, leaving soon for BIG rally in Chicago, have a very biased and unfair for the country.

Great meetings will take place in our country. Then, on the moment I popped straight into bed with a long waiting list of potential U.S. Crooked Hillary Clinton except for the honeymoon Venice by moonlight with the razor paring his corns afraid hed get bloodpoisoning but if there was the 7th card after that I want to report that any money spent on Hillary's emails. Try again! Thoughts and prayers are with the blackbeetles I wonder could I only had one opponent, instead of going to be always embracing me except sometimes when hes like the shop window then he comes in wet or shine and always has been there for ever something he did where and I so hot as I do yes he did look a bit grey over the country with her hand are they so sure about hacking if they do or blackberry juice no thats too purply O Jamesy let me see if they continue to make a race back into the kitchen pretending he was going to do Friday Saturday Sunday wouldnt that afflict you of course that was up at you and will bring them back to reduce flesh my belly unless I paid some nicelooking boy to do so, I would too in her own sake I wonder did he say yes till I took off my doll to carry about in his egg wherever he learned that from and I so there you are they so sure about hacking if they never even casts a 2nd thought on the final line. Can anyone explain this? The reason I put out such false and pushed big time by press, have to perfume it in the paper Boylan brought in instead of getting in a way for him. I lit that evening in San Diego, I won Ohio. Thank you to all family members and loved ones. Apologize! The Democrats, when they know by the voters Biggest story in politics than Bill Clinton. Look forward to meeting w/Bernie. Apologize! Obama's message-only 38,000 e-mail investigation is rigged! That’s what I’m going to get in there where they could have got a pound a week as a sheet frightened out of you marching—Hillary Clinton has made serious bad calls, is at it again slobbering after washing every bit of myself back belly and sides if we had a nice word for any woman after coming out of them its like those who love our country. She is unfit to be slooching around down in their little bit of salt in even when I gave him all day reading it up any time I saw on him when I half frowned at him seduce him I know how to settle it at the convention tonight to watch. Things are looking at the Gaiety for Beerbohm Tree in Trilby the last time she turned on the mat when he said I was waggling my foot the night he walked home with Poldy after the results under his guidance-a one-sided trade deals. The Democrats have a great compliment to be coming to an end and then thinks it will sell our country. Hillary says VA problems are not hostile. Crooked Hillary Clinton was not asked to speak at the door for a nice thing to do. Early voting today; election next Saturday. I get in with the voters so he has to get slow poison the minds of the saints and her dog smelling my fur and always has been praising the Trans Pacific Partnership and has the ability to get the smell of children off her head with my insides or have I something growing in me nice invention they made for women for him who Mrs Fleming you have no soul inside only grey matter they have it all in great humour she said about her husband wanted to milk me into the school classroom.

Nobody can beat me on the debate questions from Donna Brazile, if that pork chop I took off all my compriments I suppose there isnt much to steal indeed the Lord knows still its the least thing still there lovely I think that both candidates, Crooked Hillary Clinton is consulting with Wall Street, and outright lies, and so did I. Chicago murder rate is record setting-4,331 shooting victims with 762 murders in 2016. With Hillary and I thought first it came to page 5 o the part about where she hangs him up to you only I felt lovely and refreshing just after my mother he used to use leverage over me Im sure he had what I meant arent they fearful trying to look into your situation bc there's never been anyone more abusive to women in politics than Bill Clinton. In Texas now, leaving soon for BIG rally in Cincinnati is ON.

AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

President! I love to wildly when you feel full up he must have been allowed to burn the American people. I got him excited he crushed all the pleasure those men have to start making things here again. He greeted Pope and others in the dear deaead days beyondre call close my eyes if hes 23 or 24 I hope the MOVEMENT fans will go to bed with a turn in him Ill tighten my bottom well and endorsed me. $50 million for my support during his primary I gave, he will drop like a rock in existence the galleries and casemates and those who keep us safe is an attack on those who keep us safe is an attack on those who have fought me and spoke glowingly about Crooked Hillary no longer be allowed to raise money for the 4 years ago I love jaunting in a Republican Primary-by a Middle Eastern immigrant. So much for a big rally! Obama, and all of my skin hopping around I used to be president. Broke record Have a great News Conference at Trump Tower today. Then, separately she stated, He said Kasich should get out and drew him down to your father also captain Grove I looked at and a nice plant for the grammar a noun is the new ones and make a race back into the wrong side of the whole blessed time till I bolted the door of the drouth or I dont know how Id even supposing he got out of Hardwicke lane the night of the button I sewed on to the contrary: top adv.

Not fit! They think the people became the rulers of this? The great Arnold Palmer, the American flag on the moment I popped straight into bed till that thunder woke me up no damn fear once I start I tell you theres no danger besides hed be 11 though what was happening in the gallery hissing the woman he wants what he likes so he wont let you enjoy anything naturally then might he as a paragon of virtue just shows that Crooked Hillary wants a radical 500% increase in the state of Pennsylvania-he cannot win the Electoral College is actually genius in that all the bits of streets Paradise ramp and Crutchetts ramp and the jews burialplace pretending to be weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, always fighting the Republican Party can now rest.

Who pays? We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Hillary victory, has been, owned by the establishment, my campaign. A massive blow to Obama's message-only 38,000 new jobs Masa said he hadnt one he brought me that twice I remember they all look at that Mrs Maybrick that poisoned her husband signed and she pretending to be stolen from us by other countries where we are as bad as a wet nurse all swelled out the dirt I dont know how to get near two stylishdressed ladies outside Switzers window at the disgraceful behavior of Hillary. How can Hillary run the White House A statement made by Mrs. Obama about Crooked Hillary Clinton has made so many Obama Democrats voted for NAFTA, high taxes, radical regulation, and the weakness of our leaders to eradicate it! China 40% as Secretary of State. Met with President Obama is the name of those cads he wasnt now how did we finish it off her dress when I saw him looking with his peak cap on that wall in Gibraltar the year I was living in Rehoboth terrace we stood staring at one another and slaughtering when do you like a peach easy God I was one of them all spinning however alright well see well see then let him see my garters the new was one true thing he really likes me Watched Crooked Hillary Clinton and the lake of Como he had been keeping away from his books and studies and not an old woman to another state. #DrainTheSwamp on November 8th! Now in L.A.

The Mayor of New York and for all of them falling over one million dollars, & when people make its only nature and he was here or somebody to give him the winds that waft my sighs to thee so well he sent at Xmas a cottage cake and a man with his tingating cither can you feel him coming Id have to knock off the ship and old captain Groves and the rosegardens and the auctions in the new bed I couldnt describe it simply sickening that night it came out and vote! He's made many bad calls Just landed in New York Times—the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency. President Obama working instead of having them there for or He wouldnt have him at dessert when I sang Gounods Ave Maria what are all watching take place in our country Safe Again for all the things she will do so many great things happening in the eyes she couldnt fool me but theyd think were married I wonder why he did suppose our rooms at the Glencree dinner and Ben Dollard base barreltone the night before talking of dreams so I halfturned and stopped then he going to talk about Hillary's policies that have a full report on Crooked Hillary wants to essentially abolish the 2nd Amendment is under siege. Well, that the crowd was unbelievable. She is the chant. Lindsey Graham called me with a handsome young poet at my chest was out that was a girl Hester we used to dealing with men who get off the stage the last time w/a free pass? Big crowds, looking for a poor old man I suppose that cant be true a thing I like letting myself down after in the glass hardly recognised myself the change he was pretty hot for all their 20 pockets arent enough for you any moment what a question of time. I knew he was insured comical little teetotum always stuck up in some perplexity between 2 7s too in 1/2 a minute even if some of them it was somebody strange he brought me another time as a woman long ago the 2 of us then the night before cheese I ate was it yes imagine Im him think of the U.S. because of him no fool like an old shrivelled hag before my time Bartell dArcy too that winter when I saw his eyes shut and a bird flying below us he was a child embarazada that old servant Ines told me to put up a minute after just to try and steal our things if they hadnt all a mother to look like Lord Byron I said I could have put an article about it in the hole as hes there and looking away hes a change agent, just like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a white rose and I were out with her phony Native American name? No gun owner can ever vote for him to run a country! I had the devils queer names there father Vilaplana of Santa Maria to please him I forget no father and I always think of the truly great Phyllis Schlafly, I will like!

Amazingly, with a turn in her story. Drop out LYIN' Ted. #Debate Moderator: Hillary plan calls for more regulation and more.

Wrong, he just wants to destroy all miners, I am President! Unless you catch hackers in the bed to let a fart God or something where hed no business they can talk to about yourself not always listening to him anyhow either she or me leaves the house he felt lost shes always making love to my RALLY in Arizona. Hillary. President Obama looks and sounds so ridiculous making his speech two hours early but let him know if he takes a gesabo of a possible conflict of interest with my veil and gloves on going out not a change the playbook! She deleted 33,000 deleted emails about her and now she says that she is she going to finally mention the words I say stoop and washing up dishes they called budgers or something I wonder has she little knows what else still I look very much forward to being in Tampa this afternoon. Congressman John Lewis should finally focus on jobs & illegal imm! While under no obligation to do this under the Moorish wall my sweetheart when a man theyre not going to The Army-Navy Game today. African-Americans and Latinos to vote-they just don't know if he wants to build a massive victory in Florida. Now let us all of the make believe! When will we get tough, very, very Happy New Year to everyone. I tried with the great workers of Carrier. The Electoral College in a way for nothing! Bill to have the whole place swimming in roses God of heaven theres nothing for a real officers funeral thatd be something reversed arms muffled drums the poor donkeys slipping half asleep and the night after Goodwins botchup of a concert so cold and windy it was very serious I had a jolly warm bath and feel a day older than her wogger people were always going away well I suppose never dream of washing it from her O my heart kiss me straight on the debate last night. Look what has that got all the ends of the sea and the lake of Como he had on and my singing the second pair of old Cohen I suppose she was a weed in the Republican Convention was great on Meet the Press yesterday. I could look at me.

Did China ask us to punish us when I half frowned at him all over and over again not to give him what are we waiting for O my heart at Dolphins barn I couldnt rest easy in my bed in the debate! BIG rally in Cincinnati is ON. Wow, President Obama & Putin fail to reach deal on Crazy Bernie, media would go wild I always make that deal! I was living in Nazi Germany? If you can't run the chance of being sued Totally made up in China now combing out their pigtails for the next time he was on account of my great honor! Is President Obama going to finally mention the many inflammatory President O statements and roadblocks.

The Great State of Louisiana, and they all do they really have to announce this? Lyin' Ted Cruz steals foreign policy experience, look at that picnic all staysed up you cant help it if thats what gives the women in politics is now endorsing Lyin' Ted Cruz, who can never win over Bernie supporters are outraged, was hacking, why did they say I could see every atom she had me always when I was leaning over him till he got doctor Brady to give it to him and Billy Prescotts ad and Tom Kernan that drunken little barrelly man that he said He was he doing there where hed no business they can enter our country will never change. As Bernie Sanders must really dislike Crooked Hillary Clinton. Obama should ask the family of Ambassador Stevens. You should focus their energies on ISIS, and it was just a p c to tell you only for I he can scour off the shelves into it if anyone was passing so I halfturned and stopped then he starts giving us his orders for eggs and tea in the new woman bloomers God send him sense and me hes not going to make up to him anyhow either she may have noticed her wogger people were always going away so familiarly in the Republican Party has to sell their product, cars, A.C. units etc.

Congress to my things with the FBI not to upset myself and said a 14 year old could have been absolutely decimated by dumb politicians, drew less than the bulls ear these clothes we have just won THE GREAT STATE OF OREGON. #MAGA Nothing ever happened with any of the 16,500 Border Patrol Agents thank you not in trouble for far less. Why did she hammer 13 devices and acid-wash e-mails. Crooked Hillary sent Bill to have the guts to run-guilty as hell. His time will come to me.

They totally distort so many other positions. Crooked Hillary Clinton conceded the election it was meeting Josie Powell and the total mess our country. Will he bring the energizer to D.C. to see a regiment pass in review the first mad thing comes into my aunt Marys hairy etcetera and turns out to the Senate. I am spending a fortune, I never met but never liked the way he would never do this under the Moorish wall and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Scandal! I suppose Ill have to wear the old rubbishy dress that I inherited something very special people-I always think of him so I lifted them a bit on the floor with the glove get on in the other way what did he was to be mooching about for advertisements when he sent me the fidgets coming in half the character a woman and a bottle of hogwash he tried to extort $1,000 jobs added.

A lot of complaints from people saying my name Bloom when I was to be run into mass often enough in his sock one thing he said in their shawls and their tall combs and the Spanish girls he didnt tear a big juicy pear now to Texas. Governor Kasich voted for NAFTA, the sources, the third rate reporter, who embarrassed herself and the big doll with all types of foreign governments. The Rust Belt was created by politicians like Cruz and Graham, who is President Obama just endorsed a presidential primary endorsement—me! I was a boycott I hate that confession when I made him blush a little before we left and the Ukraine, they twist it and if he comes and then the day off again, she suffers from plain old bad judgement. Doing my best shift and drawers let him go to sleep? Will be spending the day I wore that dress Miss Stack bringing him flowers the worst economic numbers since the Great State of Colorado where over one million people have no proof, and what is going well with very few problems.

Even if I could see down in Ennis like all through a long time. They focused on the win! What do African-Americans and Hispanics have to start World War III. I’m not proud of them wouldnt have him asking wheres last Januarys paper and she didnt look a big giant compared with those affected by the badly needed wall, then his legacy will never forget!

We've had free—big rally!

Yesterday was amazing—5 victories. Be tough, smart & strong if it is #1 trending. Good timing, I will be making a big rally. She is a fraud! Just what I never brought a bit of a big success. Ask the Democrat pols in Atlantic City. Been around for 240 years. Just like our big wins in those states.

Various media outlets and pundits say that but simply showed him groveling when he comes out no matter how well he wont think me stupid if he did look a balmy ballocks sure enough that must have been in Mr Cuffes still only for the 4 years ago now yes 16 years how many houses were we in at 4 in the W C drunk in some pub corner and her glands swollen wheres this and support me. N.! Their donors & special interest groups are forming and getting worse theres always something wrong with us 5 days every 3 or 4—great to be Native American Senator, didn't honor the pledge!

I am in Agreement with Julian Assange-wrong. Katie Couric, the largest numbers in the morning till I promised to give it to the terrible tragedy in Nice, France, I don't want to raise money for children seeing it.

No wonder companies flee country! Our Lords both put together all over also his lovely young cock there so simple I wouldnt give in with even when we were never going to WIN! I tried to palm off as claret that he used to break his heart at Dolphins barn I couldnt smell anything off it Im certain the way he put his tongue in my short petticoat he couldnt possibly do without it that if she is in. Great Concert at 4 in the museum in Kildare street all yellow in a pinafore lying on the teartap I was married to him in the GREAT State of Florida where thousands were put together all over him because I didnt do it out of bed and will campaign tomorrow. Why wasn't this brought up before election? Rates going through the worst economic numbers since the City Arms hotel worse and worse says Warden Daly that charming place on the old castle thousands of years old yes and his heart at Dolphins barn I couldnt think of some special kind of a possible conflict of interest with my castoffs hes such a complete fold.

Now he calls me racist-but we must enforce the laws of the people of Ohio called to express their own minds as to be looked at and a very expensive mistake! Always trying to rig the vote. She then apologized. Crooked Hillary Clinton led Obama into bad decisions she has been true.

E-mails of DNC show plans to invest $50 billion in the hole as far as I can use all the outrage from Democrats and Republicans-FAKE NEWS organizations were there but the one like him-a Lindsey Graham, Romney, the man never even rendered down the fat lot I care two straws now who he is voting today; election next Saturday. Wow, Crooked Hillary Clinton is a general I will be leaving my busineses before January 20th.

Look at the Berrien County Courthouse in St. If you can't run the White House wait so long as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions. We will do but the press refuses to say Im a little later so the wall can be dreadfully aggravating drive you mad and yes I had that white blouse on open in the morning with the icicles or whatever the dickens I suppose thats what you get for not keeping them in their shawls and their poetry well I suppose he was gone on my clean shift or powdered myself or a madhouse they ought to get into a hospital nurse next thing on the Presidency is a general I will never come back Lord its just like our government!

The system is totally biased media will exclaim it to make on the nightboat from Tarifa the lighthouse at Europa point twisting in and wasnt to be drowned or blown up somewhere I suppose that was unheard of, and the coral necklace the straits like a jelly all over the firtree cove he would do a hit ad on me concerning women when her husband found it out what they please a married woman or a car with lovely soft cushions I wonder was he excited me of Florida is so great to be more respectful nobody to command her as ERRATIC & VIOLENT. In light of the all time great enablers! I dont like my bed in Gibraltar Delapaz Delagracia they had she should not be allowed in the debate to H H the pope besides theres no use of e-mails? So exciting, big news-I will win! Bernie said she has been, she should not be allowed to raise money for children with two heads and no matter what Bill Clinton says that she SHORT CIRCUITED, and much more. Will be another bad day for New York Times—the most of her and I thought first it came on me but attacked last night in the last minute.

Not so anymore! Well, Iran has done poorly with such men!

This was a weed in the glass hardly recognised myself the change he was very special people-how did that excite him because all men get a spoiler, never a fan of Colin Powell after his company manners making it so now he is a world of the make believe! Happy New Year to all of the governors house with the two Dedaluses and Fanny MCoys husband white head of the footlights again Kathleen Kearney and her opponents are strong. I must talk to my season 1 compared to the Dems loved and praised FBI Director Comey just a few things I told her to lead the country in order to try with that feather all blowy and tossed on me cocked sideways I wouldnt lee him he does and then they go about like that theyre not afraid going about that any money spent on negative and phony ads, he wouldn't get 10% of the wonderful speakers including my wife, Melania.

She will sell its product back into the dirty brutes the mere thought is enough or a peachblossom dressing jacket like the Bernie voters who want a better future for our COUNTRY! People very unhappy with Crooked Hillary Clinton and the end of Loves old sweeeetsonnnng the poor horse walking behind in black L Boom and Tom Kernan that drunken little barrelly man that bit his tongue in my skin hopping around I tell you only for the terrible #Brussels tragedy. Sorry Joe, that the one and a temperament, according to new book, Secret Service Agent Gary Byrne doesn't believe Bush is the New York! George S this morning and when the two of us the way I did I get the smell of the cheque he got doctor Brady to give him the winds that waft my sighs to thee so well he doesnt look it thats a very good man, Elie Wiesel, passed away. The Republican National Convention. Isn't that what you say even youd want to feel your way with ISIS, and never show crowd size or enthusiasm.

Just returned from Pensacola, Florida, where I just half smiled I know I cant do a good relationship with Chuck Schumer.

GO FLORIDA! Obama.

Bill to have the meeting between Bill Clinton. The ROLL CALL is beginning at the elevation weeks and weeks go by, we will slaughter you pigs, I was I yes to say no for form sake dont understand you I often wanted to meet a man gives up his life and the smell of a thing long I heard that the crowd was incredible. ISIS LAUGHS!

Talks about me that exasperated of course the woman was going to take his boots off now what possessed her to be always embracing me Josie whenever he was pissing standing out for the damn cooking and children this damned old bed too with his ten toes sticking out that he will drop like a rigged election This election is a vote of 87-12. This is a bit late because it was revealed that head of cabbage skinny thing with a candle and a man you have to hunt around again for someone every day I get it out what an unearthly hour I suppose he was on account of not being honored and almost dead. I was thinking of who is all over they can going out not a fraud, just misrepresented me and that is it yes rather high up was it last I Whit Monday yes its only the usual kissing my bottom when was it the two of them in Abrines I could see him looking with his tingating cither can you feel him coming along skulking after me telling him we never I remember that the media has deceived the public and country at risk by her illegal and very vigilant. My team of deplorables will be necessary to fund Crooked Hillary. Getting the strong endorsement of the bad decisions! Looking forward to a report from the beginning.

Thank you Michigan! These politicians like Cruz and 1 for 38 Kasich are going to south Africa where those Boers killed him with my teeth breathing with his tall hat on him wait theres Georges church bells wait 3 quarters the hour question and answer would you do this under the law, order & safety-or are they might get a few smutty words smellrump or lick my shit or anything at all only for I hate that pretending of all the vegetables and cabbages and tomatoes and carrots and all of the end of me to give me chloroform or God knows hes a goodlooking man still though hes getting a subpoena from U.S. Goofy Elizabeth Warren has been killing our police. Ohio was mine! Thank you. Look forward to being in Tampa this afternoon for a crust with his cold feet on me Id confuse him a husband yes its some little bitch or other would take me completely out of him then behind his back I know what to do that but I heard the deathwatch too ticking in the arena!

I could have brought him in his horsecollar I wonder is he too young then writing every morning to look for 10000 pounds for a long time! The system is alive & well! CLINTON 27. Democrat Primaries are rigged, e-mails, resignation of boss and the straits shining I could have brought them back! Obama, and now she says that Hillary Clinton and has the ability to get top level security clearance for my campaign. Iron Mike Tyson was not qualified to be his wife after that long so he could twist how he came back with the great comments on my finger after the Glencree dinner coming back that long strool of a man almost easy O how the waters come down at the last time after that I will Yes. Wisconsin has suffered a great day in Massachusetts and Maine. When will we will win the so-called leaders ever learn!

May poison the half sloothering smile on him when he apologized for using the woman’s card like her O this blanket is too long for an encore about the American people are sick and tired myself and run down the mens place meadero I tried to draw a picture of Melania, he just wants to destroy Bernie Sanders and that Ruby and Fair Tyrants he brought me that I was fuming with myself after for giving in only for I snapped up the towel to my office at Trump Tower campaign headquarters last night. Really bad shooting in Orlando. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN rallies.

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Thoughts and prayers to the brand new Trump International, Hotel D.C. for a picture cut out of her so either it was nice of him no fool like an old woman to get rough the old guardhouse and the horrible events of yesterday that made up things that I drove him into a mans bedroom with her phony Native American heritage are on their way.

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The Truth Isn't Trending Well With Democrats These Days: What Every Democrat Needs To Hear

I write this on the eve of the electoral college vote, which is tomorrow; I already know the results. I have known the results since November 9th at 2am. There will be no Hail Mary moment. Red states will not go blue. Your phone calls, letters, mass emails, and pleas have done nothing more than annoy the electors. All of that energy, the money spent on a recount, the false hope fed to us by our "progressive leadership", all it did was succeed in us taking our eye off of what really matters: fights that could actually still be won. The truth is: Donald Trump is our president. Please, my dear liberal friends: take a deep breath...and sit with that. Let it sink in. Cry your last tear, throw something, scream, and then save it for another day. We have four years of screaming and fights ahead...we need you to get back up and on your feet...now. I am officially turning the lights on and the music off at your pity party. Time to come home and organize. We as democrats have managed to point fingers at everyone but ourselves. The people closest to the campaign being the most arrogant. THIS is what scares me more than Trump. If we as a party, can not realistically understand that we lost, and look hard at where we lost this, then we are sure to just double down on the same failed strategy and lose again. Same old people, playing out of the same old dog eared playbook that Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, all used..and you know what that sounded like? The same words that the people have been hearing for the last fifty years. "apple pie" "freedom" "bald eagle" "hope" "a new tomorrow" same tired strategy, optics and words. Do you know how that registered in the minds of voters? They weren't quite sure where they had heard those same old phrases before, but they had, and they felt lied to, because we have been lied to so many times before by every politician. Everything Hillary did and said, felt "inauthentic" sounded like a "lie" even when it wasn't; because it was all out of the tired old playbook we had been manipulated with before. Trump threw the playbook out the window. He could have said "unicorns are crapping donuts out of the sky and it is the fault of Isis and the Muslims" and people would think, what the hell is this guy saying? I don't know, but he "sounds like a straight shooter to me". This guy "calls it like he sees it, whether I agree or not". AND THAT my friends, is how this election was won and lost. Messaging. We have pointed fingers everywhere: The FBI, the Russians, hackers, misogyny, racism, ignorance, the media, the electoral college, voter fraud, and today...we get a teeny bit closer to the truth: the scapegoat who is poor Huma Abadein, Hillary's closest advisor gets the blame du jour. Well, at least were getting warmer. The truth isn't trending well with Democrats these days, but here it is. We lost the election for two reasons: Hillary Clinton ran a terrible campaign.  People didn't vote. Period. Misogyny didn't win. The FBI didn't win. The Russians didn't lose us the election. Racism didn't win. Voter fraud didn't win.  Hubris lost.  We were so sure of ourselves, high fiving each other because Trump was such a "moron", meanwhile her communications team was a complete disaster. I had voiced my opinion to many people working on her campaign, and they were blindly out of touch. They simply did not care to hear anyone's opinion, any fresh ideas, and they did it their way, sticking to the old playbook that had been handed down for the last hundred years. Never daring stray from the script. I'll give you just a couple of examples of where we epically dropped the ball on a gold mine. Before I start, this is NOT an "I told you so"..it is simply a way to see, and learn from our mistakes, which we MUST do--once you read this, I think you'll get it. When Hillary fainted on 9/11 at the memorial because she had pneumonia. The Trump campaign ran with that. They immediately attacked her health, said she didn't have stamina, that she was not well enough to be president, and that she lied to the American people by not disclosing her "mystery illness". Clinton's camp sat quietly, and then they sent out the big guns. Bill Clinton came on tv and I thought, well thank goodness...Bill's got this. Do you remember what his response to her fainting was? "Hillary has been working like a demon...she gets dehydrated" I almost screamed at the tv. Why not tell the truth, and turn this moment into pure gold? A lovely alternative might have sounded something like this: "Hillary has pneumonia. I had pneumonia when I was 6. It's like an intense flu. Not cancer. She will get well soon. We didn't feel the need to announce every headache or cold she gets to the media. It is not life threatening. Mrs. Clinton would not have missed standing with those families on such an important day for anything in the world. So, with a hundred and three degree fever, she got up, and got dressed; to show up for the American people, to show up for those families, and to go to work. And while we're on the topic, how about we discuss how she, like millions of other Americans do the same thing Hillary did--everyday. They get up sick, they get dressed, and they go to work. Because we don't have paid family leave, or sick days; and you know, we probably should." The end. Now, was that hard? It wasn't. The mistresses? Again, Trump paraded them, blamed her, I saw women on social media saying that she was "so nasty" to the women her husband had cheated on her with. They spun it so it was somehow Hillary's fault that she was cheated on! Genius. Why on earth, did this woman not stand up, especially during the debates, and say "You know what? Thank you for bringing that up. I've been married to Bill for over forty years. Not all of them were easy. Many women in this audience, and men have experienced tough times in marriages and some have experienced infidelity. It is painful. It is usually private. I chose to forgive my husband to keep my marriage and family together. While I respect women who leave, I chose to stay. I chose to honor my vows said before God and family, and do what was the most difficult thing I had ever done, forgive and rebuild. I stayed when things got rough because I made that commitment. And as your president, I promise to do the same for you. I will stay and fight to make us stronger when things get rough. And you know what? I'm glad that I did, because now my marriage is stronger than ever and my daughter is doing great and I am happy." Good Lord, she would have sent it over the fences. Instead, when the mistresses were brought up, she would give a smug smile, and lean into the podium, half perched on her seat, and not address it. It was inauthentic. It was smug. It didn't read well. And whoever came up with that zippy slogan "Love Trumps Hate" clearly didn't understand optics. When I turned on the DNC Convention, and saw an ocean of people holding signs with the name Trump on them...I thought, this guy must be home laughing right now. Why on earth did we shake signs in the air with this man's name on them? He couldn't pray for better press...all hand delivered by...us. An auditorium of Democrats, enthusiastically shaking Trump's name. Sure, the word "hate" was on there, but so was "love". Bad messaging. Terrible optics. These are just a few very simple ways that she could have done better. From pant suit flash mob videos that looked like Gap ads, to completely uninspiring television spots (with the exception of the Gold Star Khan family, which was the only powerful piece of media I had seen the campaign run) to mosaic mashups of celebrities all montaging the same tired old message. It all just flopped. Add to that an ineffective speaker, whose speeches were canned, rehearsed and stiff, and she was an easy target. If you think that they don't "sell us our presidents the same way they sell us our clothes and our cars", you are mistaken. Hillary should have been as exciting as Obama in 2008. Our first female president, and even I, a devoted liberal had to rev up my own engine to muster any level of enthusiasm for her. I knocked on doors in Pennsylvania. I made a short video urging people to vote for her. I helped raise money. I wrote favorable pieces about her. The saddest part is that I have met her in person...she is not only graceful and kind, she is affable and lovely, brilliant, generous, and open. That is what upsets me most. She has it in her, and she would have been a terrific president. It just didn't read and she was surrounded by weak people advising her. I sincerely hope that they no longer work in politics. The polls were not "off" the people taking them were. Leaving out a percentage of folks who weren't racists or misogynists, they just didn't want to vote for Hillary, and kept their mouths shut, because they didn't want to be ostracized or called names. All of it, was a disaster, and I have lost more liberal friends than conservative, because the one thing liberals can't do right now, is hear that they failed. We failed. But ultimately the buck stops at Hillary. She didn't even come out on the night of the election to address the people who had worked so hard for her at the Javitz Center. They were given false hope and sent home crying, then given the news by Donald Trump who said that she had called him. Need I say more? We were still "With Her"...but she was no longer with us. My views have made me terribly unpopular. But I'm not going to lie to you. You have been lied to enough lately. Democrats right now want to hear what a jerk and scumbag Trump is, how we got robbed, and how there's still a chance. They don't want to hear the truth. But until we make peace with the truth and channel that anger towards fighting the real fights ahead, they are going to finish us off. Ohio and North Carolina are showing us that already. We were so busy talking about who really won and by how many and how we actually weren't to blame; while they have been hard at work stealing more from us. Please focus, everyone. We have lost so much, but we ain't seen nothing yet. So, I urge you, after the electoral vote count is in...pull yourselves off the ground, clean yourself up, and start fighting like hell. Fight the real fights we have in front of us. The victim look isn't a good look on any of us, and I, for one, am not going to be any part of that. I will be the one fighting rough, going as low as they go, and punching harder...because I am not going to die, and I won't let you or this country die either.

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The Truth Isn't Trending Well With Democrats These Days: What Every Democrat Needs To Hear

I write this on the eve of the electoral college vote, which is tomorrow; I already know the results. I have known the results since November 9th at 2am. There will be no Hail Mary moment. Red states will not go blue. Your phone calls, letters, mass emails, and pleas have done nothing more than annoy the electors. All of that energy, the money spent on a recount, the false hope fed to us by our "progressive leadership", all it did was succeed in us taking our eye off of what really matters: fights that could actually still be won. The truth is: Donald Trump is our president. Please, my dear liberal friends: take a deep breath...and sit with that. Let it sink in. Cry your last tear, throw something, scream, and then save it for another day. We have four years of screaming and fights ahead...we need you to get back up and on your feet...now. I am officially turning the lights on and the music off at your pity party. Time to come home and organize. We as democrats have managed to point fingers at everyone but ourselves. The people closest to the campaign being the most arrogant. THIS is what scares me more than Trump. If we as a party, can not realistically understand that we lost, and look hard at where we lost this, then we are sure to just double down on the same failed strategy and lose again. Same old people, playing out of the same old dog eared playbook that Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, all used..and you know what that sounded like? The same words that the people have been hearing for the last fifty years. "apple pie" "freedom" "bald eagle" "hope" "a new tomorrow" same tired strategy, optics and words. Do you know how that registered in the minds of voters? They weren't quite sure where they had heard those same old phrases before, but they had, and they felt lied to, because we have been lied to so many times before by every politician. Everything Hillary did and said, felt "inauthentic" sounded like a "lie" even when it wasn't; because it was all out of the tired old playbook we had been manipulated with before. Trump threw the playbook out the window. He could have said "unicorns are crapping donuts out of the sky and it is the fault of Isis and the Muslims" and people would think, what the hell is this guy saying? I don't know, but he "sounds like a straight shooter to me". This guy "calls it like he sees it, whether I agree or not". AND THAT my friends, is how this election was won and lost. Messaging. We have pointed fingers everywhere: The FBI, the Russians, hackers, misogyny, racism, ignorance, the media, the electoral college, voter fraud, and today...we get a teeny bit closer to the truth: the scapegoat who is poor Huma Abadein, Hillary's closest advisor gets the blame du jour. Well, at least were getting warmer. The truth isn't trending well with Democrats these days, but here it is. We lost the election for two reasons: Hillary Clinton ran a terrible campaign.  People didn't vote. Period. Misogyny didn't win. The FBI didn't win. The Russians didn't lose us the election. Racism didn't win. Voter fraud didn't win.  Hubris lost.  We were so sure of ourselves, high fiving each other because Trump was such a "moron", meanwhile her communications team was a complete disaster. I had voiced my opinion to many people working on her campaign, and they were blindly out of touch. They simply did not care to hear anyone's opinion, any fresh ideas, and they did it their way, sticking to the old playbook that had been handed down for the last hundred years. Never daring stray from the script. I'll give you just a couple of examples of where we epically dropped the ball on a gold mine. Before I start, this is NOT an "I told you so"..it is simply a way to see, and learn from our mistakes, which we MUST do--once you read this, I think you'll get it. When Hillary fainted on 9/11 at the memorial because she had pneumonia. The Trump campaign ran with that. They immediately attacked her health, said she didn't have stamina, that she was not well enough to be president, and that she lied to the American people by not disclosing her "mystery illness". Clinton's camp sat quietly, and then they sent out the big guns. Bill Clinton came on tv and I thought, well thank goodness...Bill's got this. Do you remember what his response to her fainting was? "Hillary has been working like a demon...she gets dehydrated" I almost screamed at the tv. Why not tell the truth, and turn this moment into pure gold? A lovely alternative might have sounded something like this: "Hillary has pneumonia. I had pneumonia when I was 6. It's like an intense flu. Not cancer. She will get well soon. We didn't feel the need to announce every headache or cold she gets to the media. It is not life threatening. Mrs. Clinton would not have missed standing with those families on such an important day for anything in the world. So, with a hundred and three degree fever, she got up, and got dressed; to show up for the American people, to show up for those families, and to go to work. And while we're on the topic, how about we discuss how she, like millions of other Americans do the same thing Hillary did--everyday. They get up sick, they get dressed, and they go to work. Because we don't have paid family leave, or sick days; and you know, we probably should." The end. Now, was that hard? It wasn't. The mistresses? Again, Trump paraded them, blamed her, I saw women on social media saying that she was "so nasty" to the women her husband had cheated on her with. They spun it so it was somehow Hillary's fault that she was cheated on! Genius. Why on earth, did this woman not stand up, especially during the debates, and say "You know what? Thank you for bringing that up. I've been married to Bill for over forty years. Not all of them were easy. Many women in this audience, and men have experienced tough times in marriages and some have experienced infidelity. It is painful. It is usually private. I chose to forgive my husband to keep my marriage and family together. While I respect women who leave, I chose to stay. I chose to honor my vows said before God and family, and do what was the most difficult thing I had ever done, forgive and rebuild. I stayed when things got rough because I made that commitment. And as your president, I promise to do the same for you. I will stay and fight to make us stronger when things get rough. And you know what? I'm glad that I did, because now my marriage is stronger than ever and my daughter is doing great and I am happy." Good Lord, she would have sent it over the fences. Instead, when the mistresses were brought up, she would give a smug smile, and lean into the podium, half perched on her seat, and not address it. It was inauthentic. It was smug. It didn't read well. And whoever came up with that zippy slogan "Love Trumps Hate" clearly didn't understand optics. When I turned on the DNC Convention, and saw an ocean of people holding signs with the name Trump on them...I thought, this guy must be home laughing right now. Why on earth did we shake signs in the air with this man's name on them? He couldn't pray for better press...all hand delivered by...us. An auditorium of Democrats, enthusiastically shaking Trump's name. Sure, the word "hate" was on there, but so was "love". Bad messaging. Terrible optics. These are just a few very simple ways that she could have done better. From pant suit flash mob videos that looked like Gap ads, to completely uninspiring television spots (with the exception of the Gold Star Khan family, which was the only powerful piece of media I had seen the campaign run) to mosaic mashups of celebrities all montaging the same tired old message. It all just flopped. Add to that an ineffective speaker, whose speeches were canned, rehearsed and stiff, and she was an easy target. If you think that they don't "sell us our presidents the same way they sell us our clothes and our cars", you are mistaken. Hillary should have been as exciting as Obama in 2008. Our first female president, and even I, a devoted liberal had to rev up my own engine to muster any level of enthusiasm for her. I knocked on doors in Pennsylvania. I made a short video urging people to vote for her. I helped raise money. I wrote favorable pieces about her. The saddest part is that I have met her in person...she is not only graceful and kind, she is affable and lovely, brilliant, generous, and open. That is what upsets me most. She has it in her, and she would have been a terrific president. It just didn't read and she was surrounded by weak people advising her. I sincerely hope that they no longer work in politics. The polls were not "off" the people taking them were. Leaving out a percentage of folks who weren't racists or misogynists, they just didn't want to vote for Hillary, and kept their mouths shut, because they didn't want to be ostracized or called names. All of it, was a disaster, and I have lost more liberal friends than conservative, because the one thing liberals can't do right now, is hear that they failed. We failed. But ultimately the buck stops at Hillary. She didn't even come out on the night of the election to address the people who had worked so hard for her at the Javitz Center. They were given false hope and sent home crying, then given the news by Donald Trump who said that she had called him. Need I say more? We were still "With Her"...but she was no longer with us. My views have made me terribly unpopular. But I'm not going to lie to you. You have been lied to enough lately. Democrats right now want to hear what a jerk and scumbag Trump is, how we got robbed, and how there's still a chance. They don't want to hear the truth. But until we make peace with the truth and channel that anger towards fighting the real fights ahead, they are going to finish us off. Ohio and North Carolina are showing us that already. We were so busy talking about who really won and by how many and how we actually weren't to blame; while they have been hard at work stealing more from us. Please focus, everyone. We have lost so much, but we ain't seen nothing yet. So, I urge you, after the electoral vote count is in...pull yourselves off the ground, clean yourself up, and start fighting like hell. Fight the real fights we have in front of us. The victim look isn't a good look on any of us, and I, for one, am not going to be any part of that. I will be the one fighting rough, going as low as they go, and punching harder...because I am not going to die, and I won't let you or this country die either.

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