congrats on 2k! <3 can i request johnny lawrence w/ the song prompt "girl you really got a hold on me. so this isn’t just puppy love" for your 2k celly?
you were sick of this. of bandaging up your boyfriend because he couldn’t keep his head cool. because he just had to keep getting into fights, both in and out of the dojo.
“i swear this is the last time i’m doing this,” you gruff as you apply your third set of bandaids to his knuckles in the last two weeks.
“you say that every time,” he says. and you can see the way his lips quirk up, every so slightly, as if he knows you’d slap it off of him if he let his smirk win over.
“i mean it this time, johnny,” you say as you slam your first aid kit shut.
“i mean it this time, johnny,” you say as you slam your first aid kit shut.
“i mean it this time, johnny,” you say as you slam your first aid kit shut.
“it’s not my fault larusso is so punchable,” he says. he leans back against the toilet from where he’s perched on the closed lid. you’re knelt in front of him, knees knocking against the cold tile.
“you know, i’m getting real tired of you beating up that poor kid. for what? because he kissed your ex-girlfriend?” you scoff. “it’s pathetic.”
“don’t call me pathetic,” his hand finds your wrist, but there’s no strength in his grip. you could easily break free of him if you tried hard enough. “i don’t keep fighting larusso because of ali and you know it.”
“yeah? because i’m starting to think that’s all it is.”
“you don’t know anything—”
“i know enough—”
“yeah, we’ll why don’t you go and run off with him like he wants, huh? the way i think you’re secretly wanting to, the way ali did,” he nearly growls. his chest heaves as he drops his hand to his knee, leaving you to stand in the space between his thighs.
“johnny,” you say softly.
“that’s what you want, isn’t it? that’s what everyone wants. to leave me in the dust,” he says.
“johnny, no,” you say again, bringing your own hands down to rest on his shoulders. “look at me please.”
he does. he’d burn the world down if you asked him to.
“i want you,” you say. “i want you.”
“i want you, too,” he rasps. “more than anything.”
join my celly!
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You recommended a bio about Gerald Ford and I'm curious because he seems like a pretty boring guy, why is it so good?
Yes, I thought Richard Norton Smith's An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) was one of the very best books released in 2023. A big reason for that is because Richard Norton Smith is a legendary Presidential historian (he's also been the director of the Hoover, Eisenhower, Reagan, Ford, and Lincoln Presidential Libraries) and a great writer, so the book is not just expertly-researched but also entertaining.
But I also think Gerald Ford is an underrated President. It's not that he had the list of accomplishments that Lincoln or FDR or LBJ had, but he took over in a very dangerous time and was able to restore confidence in the government because people trusted him. And, as I read An Ordinary Man, I learned a lot of fascinating parts about his life that I didn't previously know about. Honestly, as I was reading about his early life and the places that his hard work and good luck took him, I kept thinking about Forrest Gump. He was a college football hero who just kept ending up in remarkable places and with interesting people that you don't necessarily connect with Jerry Ford. The chapter on his service aboard the USS Monterey during World War II was riveting, and he's not one of the Presidents that we normally think of when it comes to war heroes, but his Naval service was pretty heroic, especially during the massive typhoon that struck the U.S. Pacific Fleet in December 1944.
It's a great book, and I think Ford is a hugely underrated figure of the 20th Century. He's certainly not on the level of Churchill or Eisenhower, of course, but he's worth learning more about.
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