#10 years of dan: 2017
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2017- Abu Dhabi- Vladimir Rys
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hey guys how long have dan and phil been together does anyone know
#hope you all know dans gonna start saying 15 in like a month#'10 years' started in like 2017 he's gonna milk 15 just as long
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Weekly Fic Recs 52
Fun fact! When I moved to the Philadelphia area in 2017, they won the Superbowl! Then, when I moved to the Kansas City area in 2023, they won (coincidently, they also played against the Eagles, the Philly team)! I'm not saying I'm lucky, but if any city with an NFL team wants me to move to their city, I have reasonable rates :)
Anyway, if you don't watch sports, here are some fics you can read instead! :)
Flatline by dragonpyre - Batfam, complete. While out on patrol, Jason gets dosed with a paralytic drug that also makes his heartbeat almost unnoticeable. The batfam finds him and FEELS ensue.
The Same Coin by SorryIWasAsleep - Superbat, wip. SOULMATES AU MY BELOVED. Identity porn and miscommunication for EXTRA FLAVOR.
Is This Real Life? by shanahane - Batfam, complete. Stories where Bruce takes his kids to get their wisdom teeth out. Shenanigans (and feels) ensue.
La clarté dans la confusion by thebatandtherobe - Superbat (with a side of Bruceman), wip. More Superbat and Bruceman shenanigans!
The Antithesis Of Magic by Ghxst_Bird - Batfam, wip. Jason adopts a 10 year old Bruce from an other dimension. Shenanigans ensue.
Luminosis, Tenebrarum by Chirobattery - Batcat, complete. WING FIC WING FIC WING FIC!!!!!!! Selina grooms Bruce's wings. Much feels ensue.
Banana Muffin by Mawiiish - Superbat, complete. A reread for me :D Bruce gets poisoned at a gala and calls for Superman for help. For some reason, this (handsome) guy named Clark helps him out.
echoes in the dark by inkstainedwretch - Batcat, complete. Featuring Battinson! Mostly PWP, but with many feels. MY FAVORITE :)
Uncharitable Trust by bitochondria - Superbat, complete. Identity Shenanigans! Clark doesn't trust that Bruce Wayne guy and thinks he's Batman. The Daily Planet team go to a Bruce Wayne gala and Shenanigans ensue (along with sexy shenanigans!). Both Clark and Bruce are gremlins, it's perfect :)
make a mercy out of me by InkDropMemories - Batfam, complete. BATMAN CAGE FIGHT?!?!?! TO PROTECT NIGHTWING AND FLASH?!?!? A MUST READ!!!!!!!!!!! (do it, pls)
Take Me Where I Cannot Stand by RenkonNairu - Superbat (both large and medium), wip. I love this concept! The fic did an Uno Reverse card on the doomed planets: Earth is destroyed by climate change, and the batfam (Bruce, Dick, Tim, and Damian) are on a ship to find a new home. They find Krypton. Many feels ensue, especially since Bruce didn't want to go, he want Alfred to be with the boys instead while he stayed on Earth :( SO GOOD!
Patchwork Pod by Ktkat9 - Superbat, wip. More of the mer Bruce fic!! Much drama happens when Tim's parents show up!
Champagne Problems by SalParadiseLost - Superbat and Batfam, wip. More of Himbo omega Bruce who is bad at math. The three kids who he adopted (kinda) are introduced!
Happy Reading!
#weekly fic recs#fic recs#fanfic recs#fic rec list#fanfiction recommendation#fanfic rec list#superbat#batman#bruce wayne#batfam#superman#clark kent#fic rec
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Dan and Phil Appreciation Week
Day Seven: What do Dan and Phil mean to you?
They mean.....everything to me. I've been a fan for over half my life,,,,seriously I started watching Phil when I was 10 and I'm 25 now. They have given me so much joy over the years, so many laughs where my friends and I are gasping for air. They've given me friendship - both in real life and online which I'm eternally grateful for. Dan and Phil got me into university,,,,seriously I handed in phanart as a portfolio.
I feel like I've grown up with them despite the obvious age differences. I've had the pleasure of meeting them several times which teenage me never ever dreamed of. They've given me so much confidence in my art due to their encouragement.
I've attached photos under the cut.
2016: I was freshly 18 at this time and we're all sporting horrible emo fringes
2017: did not expect them to come to this tiny shitty youtube event!
2018: unintentionally recreating our first photo together except with better hair and we're all,,,,happier
2018: SOLO PHOTOS!
2018: was I crazy to do the entire australian interactive introverts tour? yup! did i see them II five times? YUP
2023: it was,,,,an incredible experience to see Dan at his solo tour, where I coincidentally sat in the exact same seat for TATINOF 8 years earlier
#daniel howell#dan howell#amazingphil#phil lester#phanart#dnpAW#dan and phil#m does art#my art#my face
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no its crazy that dan confirmed his relationship with phil in his coming out video and people still question it or leave it up to interpretation that they may have broken up since then and they're really just friends because they have never jointly addressed it in present tense. he speaks about them forming their "romantic" (direct quote) relationship in past tense because the ENTIRE video is past tense. the whole thing. he came out, he addressed it, and they don't talk about it in any real way or address it directly because they are the smartest couple of all time and they want to maintain their privacy, they literally wrote the BOOK on letting us into their dynamic and their life (enough to make enough people obsessed with them as a duo that they sold out more than one world tour) while also being extremely private and safeguarding the things that actually mean something to them. and btw when i say people being obsessed with them as a duo we all know i mean obsessed with them as a couple, or at the time obsessed with theorizing and mapping out their history as A COUPLE not just a COUPLE OF JOKESTERS. anyway if you think that dan and phil are exes who then built a house together after 10 years of living together you're delusional luv<3 to the point of homophobia. its clear as day, he said it, and they never addressed it in a serious way again bc they want you to leave them alone.....leave dan and phil alone!!!! i actually think they are living their best lives and no one could do it like them ever again in history unless they were taking a page out of the dan and phil book period!!! apologies i thought i was out and then they brought dapg back and i was helpless to the way it pulled me right back in like the ocean under the moon (a la grammy award winning 1999 hit smooth by santana featuring rob thomas of matchbox twenty) also i stopped taking my vyvanse for months because it had no effect and now i think i need a lower dose and also so sorry to be a phannie on main but statistically it WILL happen again!!! dissertations should actually be written and i would love to discuss cause its actually crazy and im not talking about you 2014 phannies im talking about you 2017->coming out phannies because we know.....it may not be the golden age everyone talks about when they watched dan and phil but it WAS the golden age and i think one day it will be written about extensively in sociology texts....perhaps by me even though i have a never-once-used IT degree and instead run a restaurant...yay.
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Dianne Feinstein, the oldest member of the U.S. Senate and the longest-serving senator from California, has died at age 90, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News on Friday.
The Democrat’s passing marks the end of a boundary-pushing political career that spanned more than half a century, studded with major legislative achievements on issues including gun control and the environment.
Feinstein had planned to retire at the end of her current term in 2024.
Feinstein’s death leaves vacant her powerful Senate seat, requiring Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint a temporary successor.
A San Francisco native, Feinstein cleared a path for women in politics as she rose the ranks of leadership. After two failed bids for mayor, she was elected president of San Francisco’s board of supervisors in 1978, becoming the first woman to hold the title.
Feinstein was made acting mayor of the city later that year, after then-Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, her colleague on the board of supervisors, were assassinated by Dan White, a former member of the same board.
In later interviews, Feinstein recalled finding Milk’s body and searching for a pulse by putting her finger in a bullet hole.
Feinstein was the first to announce the murders to the press. She was appointed mayor a week later, again becoming the first woman elevated to the office.
The tragedy had the side effect of jumpstarting Feinstein’s political career, but the trauma of the day stuck with her even decades later.
“I never really talk about this,” Feinstein said with a sigh when asked about the murders in a CNN interview in 2017.
Her streak of firsts continued at the national level. Feinstein lost a gubernatorial bid in 1990, but two years later won a special election to the U.S. Senate, becoming California’s first female senator.
Weeks later, the state’s second female senator, Barbara Boxer, was sworn into office, making California the first state in the U.S. to be represented in the Senate by two women.
Their 1992 elections helped define the “Year of the Woman,” in which four Democratic women were newly elected to the Senate — more than doubling the chamber’s female representation.
In the Senate, Feinstein clinched some of her biggest legislative achievements. She wrote and championed the 1994 assault weapons ban, both a landmark bill and a continuation of a career-long effort to enact stricter gun controls.
The legislation passed Congress and was signed by then-President Bill Clinton, albeit with major compromises including a 10-year sunset provision. The ban expired in 2004 during the administration of George W. Bush.
She also sponsored bills that protect millions of acres of California’s desert, worked to create a nationwide AMBER alert network, helped reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act and fought for the release of a lengthy report detailing the CIA’s torture practices, among other accomplishments.
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i've been trying to formulate how i feel about wad and this era of phandom since i finally got the chance to watch wad all the way through with my girlfriend last night and after sobbing violently following the smash mouth credits i think i have some semblance of a train of thought. long ramble incoming after the read more hehe
for context, i've been watching dnp for about 10 years, which for some of you is an extremely long time and for others is piddly. regardless, a decade of my life has been spent in varying amounts watching dan and phil and interacting with the phandom. and part of what i was trying to express to my gf after watching the show was that it really is a sense of pride to see the sad clown poster child for being, well, sad, to open up about his mental health struggles, to coming out, to making we're all doomed. i think this is a very similar reaction to the pride a lot of us feel for dan.
for me too, though, it's been the phandom (hi guys lol). I was really active in the phandom from like 2014ish-2017 (at which point i still watched videos as they were posted but i also just wasn't on tumblr as much and i had ~college~ to focus on), but that time was very formative teenage years for me during which i was going through similar mental health struggles, struggling with sexuality, regular ol' teenage demons, etc. and this sort of phandom revival has been making me feel this ridiculous nostalgia for those teenage years (even tho i was fighting for my life the whole time lol). i can sooo distinctly remember where i was when certain videos were uploaded, the feeling of being curled up in my bed at midnight in the summer with my iphone 5c catching up on the previous years' videos, making subpar edits on my phannie instagram while i was on a plane for my family's summer vacation.
having both the boys and the phandom (more) active again gives me that nostalgic feeling but with the feeling that everything feels So Much Better Now. i get the same excitement and rush watching new videos, sharing around edits and gifs, being insane with you all, but with the knowledge that i am older and i am better now. in a lot of personal ways i'm literally living the life i so desperately wanted when i was a teen and now i get to live it but with the same things that brought me joy when i was a sad 15 year old. despite the nostalgia, i dont think i would choose to go back to that time, but getting to look back on it now, and watch videos where dan and phil are unapologetically gay and happy and soulmate-y, see dan living his theatre kid dreams and is so so proud of his work, and to have this community of you all where we're all old(er) and queer and so proud of our dads (sorry). it's indescribable despite my best efforts to describe it. and yes i know i don't actually talk to a lot of you that's cause im awkward and bad at replying but if you've made it this far this is your open invite to start a convo with me in dms/ask box. anyways. i love you all. i love our boys. im grateful to be here with all of you.
#okay to rb / add your own thoughts if you’d like!#dan and phil#phandom#dnp#daniel howell#we’re all doomed#phil lester#amazingphil#mine#phan
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Dan and Phil have never been the type to actually speak on stuff more than once and it fucking sucks.
Anytime something awful or evil happens in the world, Dan will tweet about it once maybe twice and then never speak on it again. Phil will never speak on it, only retweet Dan. And there’s proof of it. Look back on any catastrophic worldwide event, they only talk about it happening a few times and then back to lala land. It’s super irritating. I’d love my faves to do better but what’s doing better when they never did better to begin with?! The only time they actually raised money for charity after a tragic event was when the whole thing in Manchester happened in 2017. Please correct me if I am wrong tho! I’d love to be proven wrong with this!
So I don’t expect them to speak out about free Palestine anytime soon. Also fuck their management for letting them even agree to an audible sponsor at a time like this. It’s not just on d&p for that. It’s def the management getting these sponsors in for them too.
Tl dr, your faves are problematic and I’m just so annoyed. Love, a strong phannie who’s been here for 10 years and has noticed a pattern with their bull shit.
so true, bestie. and that's a pill we have to swallow.
and it's even harder when the catastrophic event hits too close to home. swallowed this with the invasion of Ukraine and Dan's attempt of satire in 2022/2023. go on girl, rewrite the script, i'm actually excited to see it, because he can do better. he doesn't need to be relatable with certain events, he just needs to speak about them.
and oh, god. fuck their managers. it's 100% them finding sponsorships and negotiating terms. like, dnp could say no, obviously, and not doing it is on them. but whose brilliant idea was to suggest Amazon in the 1st place? hey, dnp, can i speak to your manager? i was so sure Dan would never say yes to companies like Amazon. and now i'm like, what's next? who bought the rights to wad? i'm genuinely scared.
Phil's instagram post about BLM. it's not even an attempt to correct you, it's just something i remembered. not only retweets, but majorly, yes.
#managers aka one of them. max 2. dnpg manager and MAYBE Phil's manager#since only ap and dnpg are getting sponsorships#answered#inter talent#and i'm gonna tell you why I'm scared for wad. UTA fucking appeared on the banners. aka an American company.#should i start praying to bbc and channel 4? is it too late?
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I need to vent; another tangent
I'm watching a video that is making me cry.
So there's a video I just found that was made after Dan Howell came out - back in 2019 or whenever it was - and there's a lot of videos online of Dan answering fan questions on live videos between 2013 and 2017 or whatever where people were constantly like "are you gay?". He used to get those a lot. There's also one video from a live where he is talking about how much he didn't like himself - if you know you know. His story when he came out really hit home for me - still does - but my mind completely forgot about the "I hate everything about myself, ask anyone who knows me" thing until I watched this video. Just, thinking back on a lot of that stuff, a lot of shit Dan has said has really hit home for me.
And I would like to say that Dan is a very aesthetically pleasing person to look at. Like he is a very gorgeous human being. And I'm not sure why but it's just really hitting home and just full on punching me in the face that Dan hated himself so much for so long and a lot of it was because of this thing that he had no control over. And through his childhood, he was told that this thing is a bad thing. As a person who has gone through the fear of questioning one's self, I'm thankful that I never dealt with that. I had people who supported me for who I was and never told me that I couldn't be this thing because it was bad. And to see this guy come out of nowhere - just sort of rise out of the ashes - and be like, "I'm here." But still hate himself so much and try to supress a part of himself and yet have all these people just hounding him and pointing out this thing he hates about himself.
As a part of the phandom, I was never one of those people. I will say that with confidence. I just kind of kept to the shadows, as I do today. I didn't care if he was gay, straight, an alien, a worm - my point is it never mattered to me. And it still doesn't matter to me someone's sexuality. But it just hit me tonight, hard, that the incredible Daniel Howell hated himself for so long over something he couldn't control. And people were constantly hounding him about this thing he was trying to hide about himself... and now he's happy. I mean, happy enough to be who he really is. He's been dealing with depression for a long time, I know, but he's able to be here and be queer.
The recent gaming channel videos have been getting me. Dan has been laughing - genuinely laughing. And just being himself. And it brings me a lot of joy. I just really fucking love Dan.
If I ever get a chance to meet @danielhowell I just wanna tell him how proud of him I am. I've been watching Dan and Phil for, god, 10 years now and I remember a lot of these moments that Dan has had on his livestreams. I was there. And it's only now just hitting me. It's been 4, almost 5, years since Dan came out. And as a fan of his: I'm proud.
I'm so very proud of him and his journey to self acceptance. I love Dan so much, and maybe it's because I've related to him a lot in my life, but I absolutely love Dan - and I will say this as many times as I need to. He's an inspiration. And I wish I could tell him.
#dan howell#daniel howell#danisnotonfire#mine#im proud of dan#dan and phil#danisnotinteresting#Dan Howell is an inspiration#i love dan howell#phandom#phan
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Mark Cho [FNAF AR, Renegade AU]
https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/Mark-Cho-FNAF-AR-Renegade-AU-1029925413
Published: Mar 10 2024
CK animatronic maintenance and R&D Robotics contract with Faz Ent has ended, but their stories are far from over.
Whilst Mark is one of the best programmers of his time, his dyslexia made it difficult for him to code as a job because nobody would give him the time of day to take it at a pace where he could get the spelling of everything right, so instead, he applied for the role of a cleaner at CK animatronic maintenance back in 2017 when Anna was first setting up shop. Anna saw his hidden talents and hired him on the spot, figuring that one day, she may be able to help him achieve his dreams. Whilst he does spend most of his time making sure that the animatronics stored and maintained at CK animatronic maintenance are in top cleanliness condition, sometimes emergencies happen.
Emergencies that required all hands on deck.
When dealing with the first wave of Adelaide and William's virus that had swept through the systems in late 2019/early 2020, anyone who could code was on network duty, and anyone who could weld, drill, or otherwise manage the physical bots were on restrain and repair duty. Mark found himself working with Steve, Luis, and Ness to try and figure out what was going on with the virus in the network, whilst Anna, Dan, and Raha dealt with the bots and thier faulty circuits.
Feeling as if he finally found some people who were OK with how he coded, he asked Anna if he could do more coding things after the emergencies passed, and she said OK!
He'd take some programming tasks to help out Luis and Steve, and she'd take on any cleaning tasks regarding any rooms or robots that give Mark the creeps.
And whilst the events surrounding the Adelaide incident did traumatise him, he had a group of people to help him grow around what happened, and he does feel better knowing that he's not the only one with those pinprick scars from Adelaide's masks on thier face.
Now several years later, the deal still holds, and Mark enjoys being able to use his talents more, and has even been able to develop some things of his own in his downtime now he has the confidence.
#2024#art#artwork#fnaf#fnaf au#renegade au#fnaf renegade au#fnaf ar#fnaf ar emails#fnaf ar special delivery#fnaf ar sd#five nights at freddys#fnaf fanart#fivenightsatfreddysfanart#fnaf ar mark cho#fnaf ar mark#fnaf mark cho#mark cho fnaf#mark cho fnaf ar#mark cho
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oh hey i wanna talk abt smth thats been on my mind both lately and on and off for a while in general. sorry this ended up being a hella long post lol. but i have a lot to say
so...for context, ive been in the phandom for 10 years--since 2014--though it has admittedly been on and off in terms of engagement from me. in 2017 i got into dragon ball and all but dropped danny phantom completely with a few small drawings here and there. it was only like..within the past week that i actually got back into the phandom legitimately again, actively making art and posts about it and engaging with the source material and etc
anyway, i was obsessed with dp from 2014-late 2017 (until i got into dbz). i made lots and lots of fanart, played the gba games like all the damn time (i got to where i could speedrun tue lol), rewatched the show regularly...i was even one of those fans that bought obscure merch and learned useless trivia that ive since forgotten. in 2015 a lot of you may remember that i made @doppelgangercomic, a comic about an au i had where dan got a redemption arc (albeit a bumpy one) and future vlad was there and stuff happened (go read the comic LOL). it got a LOT of love and traction! it made me really happy to see all the positivity around my work like that :) i actually got a lot of positive responses towards my work in general. i had a really great time in the phandom back then
then i changed fandoms and kinda fell out of the phandom space. after being on a hiatus from the phandom until literally a week ago, i honestly have to say ive felt like i kind of...faded into obscurity in the phandom's eyes? basically i feel like old news. people dont generally know what doppelganger is now. they may have seen my art in passing here and there but they dont know who i am anymore. i think the only place people actively still find my old danny phantom art from when i was heavily active is...deviantart lol. i get notifications from favorites literally every day there. but uh anyway--im not saying this to garner pity or tell a sob story or anything! im just expressing some thoughts and feelings ive had for a long time lol.
the reason i bring this ^ up though, is because like...i know its not true? logically, i know that i DID make an impact in the fandom i loved/love so so much. i left my mark on both the fandom in an artistic sense, and also the people in the fandom, and sometimes i forget that because i get significantly less engagement on my posts than i used to. but i know that doesnt mean that people dont like my stuff anymore, or that ive been forgotten.
i actually got a message from someone today--a friend i made kinda recently who approached me bc they liked doppelganger actually. they told me that basically its surreal to them that theyre talking to me as a friend because they remember reading doppelganger when they were younger and looking up to me because of it. and it really reminded me of what i said previously--ive not been forgotten, and people still do appreciate and love what ive put out into the world (specifically about danny phantom in this case). ive made an impact on people's lives even when i dont realize it or see it physically. the message and sentiment made me feel really really good and nice and happy and honestly relieved, because the phandom and danny phantom as a media has been an extremely important and impactful part of my life ever since i got into it ten years ago. i literally changed my name to dan because of it lol. it was the reason i found stephen silver's work and went down that path of my art journey. its the reason i found so many amazing people and friends and artists and continue to do that even now. i owe a lot to danny phantom and the phandom as a whole, and i try to give back in the only ways i know how--mainly thru showing my passion through my art and posts.
anyway erm. yeah. all of this to say i wanted to thank yall--the phandom--for supporting me all this time, whether youve been with me from the beginning or if youre just joining me recently. youve been an absolute delight in my life and i know youll continue to be for a long time. :)
#this post sounds like im leaving the phandom i promise thats not what this is LOL#im just bein a little sentimental is all..wah
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2017- Brazil- Playing with Max
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what are your best f1 fic recs
okay okay, I've done a bunch of fic recs before so I deff recommend looking at them first
BUT here's basically my like 10 fav fics of all time that ive reread or litteraly obsessed about. the ones in red are the ones that I like, see as my personal canon yk.
okay I just finished putting them all in n it might b a few more then 10 but still. yk, okay.
some things you choose by trailsofpaper
(sewis, 5+1 things, mutual pining, angst with a happy ending)
pleaser by alltimecharlo
(martian, sugar daddy au, porn with plot, college student seb)
You Don't Remember Me by FormulaFerrari
(webbonso, amnesia au, angst)
all the while you were stood here waiting by likelylarks
(maxiel, mutual pining, getting together, oranges)
it's lights out and away we go by lewisshamilton
(lando/charles, stripper au, angst, slow burn)
can't stand the heat by toastandvegemite
(dewis, omegaverse, just good, very good dynamic)
License to pretend by Sonnenscheintraum
(nicky/mick, spy au, mutual pining, fake/pretend relationship)
the alps by grandprix
(yukierre, pining, hurt/comfort, getting together)
seasons (waiting on you) by empireoffclouds
(sewis, friends to lovers, slow burn, pining, 2008 til 2017)
It's Friday I'm In IKEA by carocoffee
(dantteri, friends to lovers, basically dan has a realization in an ikea)
yeehaw! by hungerpunch
(dantteri, trans dan!, first time, cowboy dan/biker val, porn without plot)
good to you by TheNorthRemembers
(maxiel, friends to lovers, sike kink, miscommunication, messy)
Hard Year / Good Time / Socks Up / Foot Down by bestliars
(sewis, amnesia au, established relationship, angst n comfort)
hoping for you to come make my world new again by misonikomi
(sebchal, soulmates, mutual pining, miscommunication)
The Cloud That Settles by antimonyandthyme
(sewis, friends to lovers, idiots in love, getting together, the monaco fic)
The mountains, the lake and the mist by Jean____Ralphio
(alex/mick, arranged marriage, royal au, moto gp/f1 paddock, slowburn)
lend me your hand and we'll conquer them all by Quagswagging
(mixed ships, regency era, family, courting)
summer sun after the rain by gentleau (iwanna_seeyou_undoit)
(maxiel, kidfic, found family, fluff, retired drivers)
Oh fuck you, darling by individualist (and the whole series)
(toto/christian, married, 4 + 1, secrecy)
Saltwater and Gasoline by Kaytheologie
(charles/bono, porn with feelings, slow burn, praise kink)
how good it feels to be needed by hibivrooms (hibiscuswings)
(carlando, personal chef carlos, friends to lovers, slow burn)
pointless by stuckonspidey
(schulott, exes to lovers, angst, theyre both dumb)
a secret language (i can't speak with anyone else) by Anonymous
(schulott, friends to lovers, hurt/comfort, callum learns german)
Misalignment by Azzy
(sewis, jealousy, lewis comes out n sebs confused abt it personally)
it doesn't come that easy anyway by greeneyeddisaster
(sebson, college au, slown burn, pining)
#this is me being VERY cirital of the ones I choose btw like these are fics that are like perfect imo that were completely satisfying#these are like the best out of my 140 bookmarks#kyle.answers#fic recs#I genuinly ran through all 141 of my bookmarks to make this yall better appreciate it it took me like 30 fucking minutes#rpf#fic.stuff
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Steve E Jones, Arizona inmate 341978, born 1997, incarceration intake in 2020, at age 23, scheduled for release 08/19/2024
Manslaughter, Aggravated Assault
Northern Arizona University gunman and former student Steven Jones was sentenced to six years in prison in 2020.
Jones, who acknowledged firing the shots that killed 20-year-old Colin Brough and injured three others Oct. 9, 2015, is required to serve a minimum of 85% of the sentence based on a plea agreement that was reached prior to the sentencing. Jones formally accepted a plea deal shortly after an agreement was reached by the defendant and prosecutors.
Jones was sentenced to six years on one count of manslaughter and also received five years each on three counts of aggravated assault. Jones was allowed to serve the sentences concurrently, which amounted to six total years in prison based on his longest sentence. Jones has 212 days of credit based on previous time served.
“As to count one, manslaughter, charge involving Colin Brough, you are hereby sentenced to six years,” Judge Dan Slayton said.
Both the plea deal and sentencing followed a mistrial in 2017.
The prosecution began with a five-minute body cam video of one of the victims, Nick Piring, on the night of the incident. In the footage, Piring is shown being treated for gunshot wounds while he pleads for police to save his roommate, Colin Brough.
“Save him, save him. Colin. He’s the one that was shot in the chest,” Piring said in the video.
Victim Kyle Zientek described the shooting from his perspective. Jones approached from a parking lot equipped with a handgun, mounted with a flashlight. Zientek said he and his friends first thought it was a police officer. Then, Jones began to fire in rapid succession.
Zientek was shot twice in the back. His friends, Piring and Nick Prato, were also shot. Piring sustained injuries to his shoulder and hip and Prato sustained an injury to his neck.
Prato was not present. Prosecution attorney Lou Diesel read a letter on his behalf. Prato did not want to be involved or in the presence of Jones, the letter stated. Colin Brough, who was shot in the chest, died at the scene.
Colin Brough’s injuries included a perforated lung, vena cava and aorta. Both shots struck his front side, and a medical examiner’s report indicates that he was leaning forward at the time of being shot.
“I wanted to speak to you today because I felt like I owed it to Colin,” Zientek said while addressing Judge Dan Slayton.
Diesel also read a letter from Colin Brough’s brothers, Douglas and Ashton. Colin Brough’s father, Doug Brough, spoke about his son, the incident and paid respect to Nick Acevedo, a victim who committed suicide following the 2017 mistrial.
“There has been no remorse from the shooter or his family,” Doug said.
Colin Brough’s mother, Claudia Brough, was the last to speak for the prosecution. She spoke about her pain following her son’s death, which included “two nervous breakdowns in two different mental facilities.”
“My brain won’t ever work right again. It’s broken,” Claudia Brough said.
Colin Brough’s family expressed their love for him and their immense pain following his death. All victims, including family members who spoke on Colin Brough’s behalf, requested Jones be sentenced the maximum of 10 years.
Following two hours of statements from the prosecution, the defense began by paying respects to the Colin Brough family. One of Jones’ attorneys, Christopher DuPont, talked about Jones’ life before the 2015 incident and cited praise from his peers.
Audio from a 911 call from the night of the incident played, followed by a demand for justice from the defense.
“We’re never going to get from here back to where we started. The best we can do at this point is justice,” DuPont said.
DuPont expressed his grief over the case, particularly in regard to Claudia Brough. He noted time spent in therapy and other personal experiences during the defense’s opening statement.
A presentation from the defense detailed the “convergence of circumstances that led Steven to be involved in this criminal conduct.” DuPont said Jones had never been in a physical altercation before Oct. 9, 2015.
DuPont detailed the events leading up to the incident and relevant circumstances. The defense claimed Delta Chi, the fraternity of which the victims were involved, was a hub for criminal activity.
The attorney contended that fraternity members’ attack on Jones was an “unprovoked assault.” DuPont presented possible circumstances that led to the assault, including a ding dong ditch, alcohol and drug use, exclusion from a fraternity party and emotional convergence.
Environment, stress, drugs, alcohol and youth were among other factors listed by DuPont.
DuPont played a recording from Nick Pletke, member of Delta Chi who witnessed the shooting, describing the violence that can occur within fraternities. Pletke assaulted Jones, putting him in a “rear choke naked choke hold,” according to the defense.
Fraternities create a pattern of “coordinated thoughts and behaviors of relationship partners,” DuPont said. A video from Aug. 30, 2015 of a fight occuring at an NAU Delta Chi fraternity was played. In the video, yelling and bottles breaking can be heard in the background as a fight ensued. DuPont said he “would not be surprised” if the Aug. 30 altercation looked similar to the Oct. 9 incident that led up to the shooting.
DuPont noted the positive actions that NAU fraternities take, but also said that fraternities exist as a way to circumvent state and university drinking policy.
The defense claimed Jones was “sucker punched,” during the Oct. 9, 2015 incident, knocking out his dental bridges and filling his mouth with blood.
“There’s nothing like tasting your own blood to get you excited,” DuPont said. “Fear.”
The defense primarily relied on police interviews from the night of the incident, which included testimonies not heard in court during the 2017 trial.
According to a witness testimony presented by Jones’ defense, a man in a white shirt, believed by DuPont to be Colin Brough, was running at Jones as Jones shouted, “Please stop. I don’t want to do this,” Witness testimonies presented by the Jones’ defense also placed the man in the white shirt, who was supposedly Colin Brough, 13 feet from Jones just prior to running at Jones. The defense also claims Nick Piring moved toward Jones prior to any shots being fired.
The Jones’ defense conflicted with the prosecution’s accounts that Piring was shot after trying to aid the wounded Brough.
“While the prosecution may try to make it seem like the victims were standing around, trying to help, the truth is that they were all involved,” DuPont said.
DuPont also referenced a medical examination that confirmed that Zientek was shot in the back. The prosecution has often questioned the Jones defense for their claim of self defense based on this examination. DuPont said, that while Jones is legally responsible for Zientek’s assault, Jones was firing from his back on the ground.
“He’s been beaten, he’s been concussed, his teeth are knocked out; it is during these brief moments that Steven made the reckless decision,” said DuPont. “He was undoubtedly impaired.”
DuPont argued that given the number of victims, along with their size and strength, and the danger perceived by Jones, his actions were justified. Jones’ injuries at the time of his initial arrest, which included harm to his head, back and chest, as well as a split lip, supplemented DuPont’s claims.
Mitigating circumstances cited were the conduct of the victims, substantial duress, impairment, cooperation during investigation, good character, young age and remorse. Jones lowered his head and began to cry as a portion of his police interview from the night of the event played before the courtroom.
The defense affirmed mitigation outweighs aggravation, in this case.
Just before the sentencing was announced, Jones was given the opportunity to speak on his own behalf.
“I would in a heartbeat, right now, trade places with Colin Brough. If he could be home with his family and I could be dead ... If I could take his place, I would. That’s all I have to say,” Jones said.
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It Ain't Me — VoicePlay music video
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The VoicePlay guys are fans of the Book of Mormon. So when an opportunity arose to collaborate with a singer who was about to join the national tour, they were pretty excited. They chose a brand new song, and created an arrangement that shifts the tone from the melancholy regret of the original to unapologetic liberation.
Details:
title: It Ain't Me (feat. John Pinto)
original performers: Kygo & Selena Gomez
written by: Kyrre "Kygo" Gørvell-Dahll, Brian Lee, Ali Tamposi, Selena Gomez, & Andrew Watt
arranged by: Layne Stein & Hannah Juliano
release date: 12 April 2017
My favorite bits:
that beautiful three-part harmony from John, Earl, and Eli with their coordinated breathy offsets
the resonant woodblock-y pops in Layne's percussion line
Geoff's little descending triplet at the end of the first verse
dropping out everything but John's melody and Geoff's bass line to create a feeling of emptiness
the driving rhythm of the choruses
the harmonized tone jump on ♫ "slee-EE-eep" ♫ in the second chorus
Geoff's long notes and slides contrasting against Layne's stacatto percussion in the breakdown section
the ♫ "no no no" ♫ bell chord and the descending run that follows
building the layers from the bottom up
John's soaring, nimble riffs
You don't need extra drums, silly!
ending on pure octaves
all the rehearsal footage and behind the scenes shenanigans
Trivia:
Bringing in John and his lovely countertenor gave the group a trial run at moving Eli into the vacant baritone spot and making a higher voice their permanent fifth member, which was an option they were considering.
This video was filmed at a new location for VoicePlay, Starke Lake Studios in Ocoee.
The YouTube description includes a parody verse: "I had a dream / you were eating something sweet / won't you please share that with me / 'cause I like ice cream. / Lieutenant Dan! Ice Cream!!!"
While John was in town, he made sure to stop by Disney World and take a dip in the Atlantic.
The guys met up again a few months later when the Book of Mormon tour spent three weeks in Salt Lake City, UT, and a week of shows took VoicePlay to nearby Park City.
After two years on the Book of Mormon tour, John joined the Broadway cast in 2019, where he has remained thus far.
John has returned to sing with VoicePlay twice to date, for the "Just Sing" mega-collaboration in 2020, and a gorgeous rendition of "Unchained Melody" the following year.
VoicePlay had included "Hello!" from The Book of Mormon in their "Aca Top 10 – Broadway" countdown, which they also performed in live shows, starting with the 2015 Sing-Off tour.
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Quick Facts: Streets of St. Petersburg
Round 1 of the NTT INDYCAR Series Championship.
Event Name: Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
Location: St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Event Dates: Friday March 3 - Sunday March 5, 2023
Event Site: GPStPete.com
Track Type: Street Course
Turns: 14 (5L, 9R)
Track Length: 1.8 miles/2.9 km
Race Laps and Distance: 100 Laps for 180 miles/289.7 km
Year of First Race: 2003
Race Lap Record: 0:59.3466 (Will Power, 2022, Dallara Chevrolet)
Defending Winner: Scott McLaughlin
Past Winners: Paul Tracy (2003), Dan Wheldon (2005), Helio Castroneves (2006, 2007, 2012), Graham Rahal (2008), Ryan Briscoe (2009), Will Power (2010, 2014), Dario Franchitti (2011), James Hinchcliffe (2013), Juan Pablo Montoya (2015, 2016), Sebastien Bourdais (2017, 2018), Josef Newgarden (2019, 2020), Colton Herta (2021), Scott McLaughlin (2022)
Winningest Driver: Helio Castroneves (3 wins)
Winningest Team: Team Penske (11 wins)
Winningest Manufacturer: Honda (9 wins)
Weekend Schedule:
Practice 1: Friday @ 3:00 pm EST (8:00 pm UTC)
Practice 2: Saturday @ 10:00 am EST (3:00 pm UTC)
Qualifying: Saturday @ 2:15 pm EST (7:15 pm UTC)
Warmup: Sunday @ 9:00 am EST (2:00 pm UTC)
Race: Sunday @ 12:00 pm EST (5:00 pm UTC)
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