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Steve kind of strikes me as the guy who turns music on before having sex
Hes in the middle of making out with Billy, when he's like "oh no the music", and he leaves a confused and angry Billy on his bed.
The blond doesn't relax until Steve returns with his favorite CD.
"Are... are you fucking kidding me Harrington?"
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y'know what you're valid as hell for that, i can definitely see it 😂😂 back when he was sleeping around a lot he probably had a couple tapes specifically for when he had girls over. nothing too romantic, he didn't want them to get the wrong idea, but it was still nice to have something to set the mood.
but then with nancy he just liked putting on whatever bands she was into. he just wanted her to enjoy herself, he liked just being around her when she was happy, knowing he helped make her that way.
(she found the background music kind of distracting, to be honest, but it was cute when steve would pause to lip sync the chorus of songs he knew just to make her laugh)
when he starts to fall for billy he lets him fiddle with the radio when they hang out. listens to him complain about how few stations there are. tries to remember all the bands billy talks about.
sometimes one of the songs he used to fuck girls to will be on the radio, and he'll spend three to five minutes hyper-aware of every measured breath he takes as he struggles to act normal about it.
but for all the time they spend listening to music together, the goddamn radio is off when billy finally makes a move. which makes for an incredibly terrifying couple minutes after they've gotten hot and heavy and steve suddenly jumps up and out of the room.
when he comes back he's got a couple tapes in his hand and a furrow between his brows, and billy looks like he's about to panic but steve is too preoccupied to notice.
"i don't have any of your favourites."
"what?"
steve blinks at him, the waver in billy's voice catching his attention. he plops back down on the bed, dumps the cassettes between them and reaches for billy's hand instead, lacing their fingers together almost absentmindedly. "i wanted to put on something you'd like."
there's a pause. "...what."
"y'know, to set the mood! but all i've got is..." he gestures helplessly at the pile on his duvet.
"you...harrington, you fucking nutcase, you could put on cyndi lauper for all i care, just fucking touch me for christ's sake—"
he's not entirely sure what he does put on, but it's not cyndi lauper. whichever cassette was on the top of the pile gets shoved into his deck before he launches himself back into billy's lap and stops caring much about anything that isn't the boy under him.
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Re: the post I reblogged earlier, a series of Reid Wiseman's cool orbital photos taken on the ISS? Specifically, the first picture that has a bit of a mystery in it? This one:
I think I know what that is, and I am going to tell you how I figured it out (pre-emptive apologies to any South-East Asians who feel the urge to headdesk while reading this post.)
First off, all that green glow? It's on water. Check out a map of the area:
So why are there lights in the sea at night? Well, squid fishing happens at night, and the ships use bright lights to imitate the moon to attract the squid.
Here's a big squid-fishing ship, filmed by a drone off the Argentinian east coast in the Atlantic Ocean. It's got a bit of green going on.
Here's another one, photographed in the Pacific. Also some green here.
Both of those are, however, severely outdone in greenness by this small Thai squid-fishing ship.
Unlike the previous examples, it is in the right place and is, in fact, All Green. Boy, is it green. Look at how green it is. It is So Green.
Before you say that puny ships like that cannot possibly be visible all the way up to the ISS, consider: a) that there might be a bajillion of them, and b) the big ships are also out there in even bigger fleets, and they are bloody bright.
According to the Sea Shepherd organisation, who tracked a 300-strong squid-fishing fleet west of the Galapagos Islands in 2018, "the total luminosity of these vessels is said to rival European soccer stadiums". They waxed a bit poetic about them:
"Suddenly out of the darkness a towering intense white light showed on the horizon. Soon it was followed by others all around us, mostly white but some an iridescent green and others with dimmer yellow light. Looking out from the wheelhouse we seemed no longer to be on the open ocean but in the edge of some great coastal metropolis."
Here's part of a fleet of some 150 ships near Argentine.
And here's that same fleet again, managing to be a magnificent eyesore even at a considerable distance.
Sure, Argentine is pretty far away from Bangkok (though those ships might also be Chinese). But South-East Asia definitely has some of its own night-light activity going on. You can find a handy map at globalfishingwatch.org (go play with it, it's fun). It didn't have night-light satellite data from 2014, but here's a snapshot from August 2022 for comparison.
The map also shows national fishing zones. If I'm interpreting Wiseman's photo correctly, those green lights in it are in the Vietnamese, Malesian and Indonesian waters. So those are likely Vietnamese, Malesian and Indonesian squid-fishings ships (and maybe some other nationalities that maybe aren't supposed to be there; here's that Sea Shepherd page again and an article about the Global Fishing Watch project talking about that kind of thing).
What I sadly couldn't figure out is what kind of squid they're fishing over there. I was hoping it might be the Japanese flying squid, because then I would have a reason to put them in this post. Unfortunately, Japanese flying squids apparently don't live that far down South.
But I'm going to put them on this post anyway, because I just found out about them, and I mean, look at these guys:
Just Look.
They're like if a squid decided it wanted to be a flying fish and instead of making a deal with the sea witch, it went "I can do it! I can! I can!" They're sleek, attention-grabbing and ridonculous. They can fly over 30 metres in 3 seconds. And they're not being caught by the glow-in-the-dark squid-fishing fleet off the Gulf of Thailand because they don't live there, and therefore have nothing whatsoever to do with the rest of this post.
But they're cool.
Finally, a confession: I didn't figure out the lights because I know something about South-East Asian fishing practices (I know nothing, feel free to laugh and correct me), or because did some kind of a systematic elimination chain to eventually arrive at the answer (ahahahaha no). It's because I've watched the Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World nature documentary no less than three times in less than two weeks, and there's footage in it of this massive unnerving squid-fishing fleet, which you'll definitely remember if you've seen it once, let alone three times.
Why have I seen it three times, then? Obviously for very normal reasons. Not at all because the series is narrated by Pedro Pascal. I mean, who would opt to listen to Pedro Pascal talking very seriously about (occasionally horny) wildlife for 4+ hours while endearingly lisping his Fs and THs here and there? Not me, no. I am very normal about him and not at all soothed by his dulcet tones in my time of stress. Don't look at me.
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