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albatmobile · 1 year

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Head empty just Roy and jason being submissive while high with reader ehueheuhe

(Ignore this if you want)

definitely more of this prompt to come in the next chapter!

romance and return policies

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𓅪 Rated: M | TW: weed | 1.7k includes: alternate universe no powers, modern au, eventual polyamory, eventual relationships, eventual smut, gamestop au

𓅪 established roy harper x koriand'r eventual: jason todd x reader, Roy Harper x reader, koriand'r x reader endgame: Jason Todd x reader x Roy Harper x koriand'r

It's not your fault you always want the latest games, exclusives and merch for the fandoms you're in.

In your old town, certain GameStop’s had even banned you from trading due to how much you were in there, something you’d never understand. Other stores sneered at you for always buying up the good shit before the employees even had the chance to stake their claim on it.

Since moving nearly across the country, the new GameStop you’ve started going to definitely seems to be the most chill of the bunch.

It's a small, podunk town in Arizona, which means you never have to beat the lines like you had to in the hustle and bustle of the East Coast cities. The town's big enough to stay somewhat anonymous but small enough that if you visit a place once a week, by week three, everyone will know your social security number.

Needless to say, the GameStop workers know your car by now, as evidenced by the way Roy sees you pull in and attempts to snuff out whatever he’s been smoking.

You don't normally use their back parking lot, but the DMV next door is extra packed today and spilled over into the shared lot. You figure he’s been smoking a cigarette until you step out of your car and smell it.

“I’m telling,” Is all you say. He flips you off easily.

Roy had always been overly welcoming and easy to joke with right off the bat, something you appreciated since you knew no one here.

“At this point, you may as well fucking work here. Your word would mean more than mine,” You laugh and make gimmie hands, which he goes to oblige easily, then stops. He regards you silently for a moment before looking around, then up at the security camera that he was just out of view of before finally holding out the joint to you. Fucking paranoid stoners, you can barely contain your eye roll. “Didn’t take you for the smoking type, darlin’.”

“Considering you don’t know me, that seems about right,” He laughs easily at your prickly humor as you sidle up to him in the blindspot of the camera, blushing slightly when your fingers accidentally brush in the hand-off. “My ex was a huge stoner kinda formed a habit that I can’t even maintain.”

“Money?” He winces only after the question comes out, seeming only then to realize it’s a bit of an invasive question for the circumstances.

You’ve been coming to this GameStop at least twice a week, though almost always more, for the past few months since you moved to AZ. Whether it be to browse or trade- Roy, a redhead named Star and some brooding dick with a grey streak always seemed to be there (you’ve never seen him wear a name tag, but he seems to be the manager). Regardless, your relationship hardly seemed to go past customer service ever. That is, until now.

Roy doesn’t seem like the type to have a filter, so you know he means no offense. You can’t lie, though; seeing him all flustered is doing certain things to you.

You snap yourself from your thoughts.

Roy has always been extra touchy-feely with the beautiful red-headed employee who always offers you kind smiles and excited opinions on your choices. However, she has a special affinity for plushies and always seems to push more on you. At this point, you could run a shelter for plushies with the way their cute dead eyes watched you from the growing pile on your bed.

Who are you to tell this seven-foot-tall goddess no?

“No,” You chuckle lightly as you inhale. “I never learned how to roll.”

It's a lie.

A total, complete lie, but you know one thing: men love to think they're teaching you something. Plus, if it means someone will roll you free weed, who are you to turn it down?

“Oh, babe. I’ve got you,” Roy’s silky voice stirs arousal within you as he pulls out the decrepit remains of a smartphone. Android or Apple, it’s too far gone to tell, but the screen still brightens when he bangs on the home button, so it couldn’t technically be considered completely trashed…

“Won’t your girlfriend be mad?” You ask, looking hesitantly at the sharded screen he was pushing your way.

“Kori?” Roy gestures to the store behind the two of you before waving off your concern. “Nah, she’s chill.”

Kori, huh? She always wears a name tag that says Star, but you should’ve known it's just a nickname.

With all the basement creeps that come in and try to hit on you while you're here, you can’t imagine Kori’s position. Hell, you didn’t want to wear your name tag at the diner half the time if it wasn’t for Pam forcing you to ‘play nice.’

You raise a dubious brow, “I think you misunderstand my question: is Kori single?”

He snorts easily, eyes crinkling around the scattered freckles on his face. “Fucking figures that I’d finally get your number and you’re more concerned with the redhead inside.”

“Finally get it?” The deep voice startles you as the ‘Employee Only’ door whips open to reveal skunkhead.

“Get what?” You ask with a tiny tilt of your head.

Name-tagless dude gestures down to Roy’s cracked screen, “We had a bet going on.”

“Yeah, man. I got the number, but she wants the other babe,” Sexy brooding skunk, fuck- you have to learn his actual name, laughs. “Also, stop spying on me during my break, fucking weirdo.”

“I’m your boss,” He grabs the joint from your fingers and takes a long drag. Your eyes remain wide while his close into green slits, taking you in with the smoke, closing his eyes with the exhale. “How else would I know you’re corrupting our best customer?”

“Corrupting!” Roy exclaims, gesturing to you as his eyes rip open. You immediately hold your hands up in surrender. “She came up to me! You know how the ladies get with this hair, Jay.”

Your face wrinkles in obvious disgust, “Is it too late to delete my contact?”

Roy huffs and yanks the blunt from ‘Jay’ and shoos him, “Jay, you’re ruining my shot, man.”

“Yeah, me,” Jay rolls his eyes and motions you in before retreating back inside. “What do you want?”

This time, you don’t contain your eye roll as you attempt to catch up to his quick pace. “What happened to the monotonous ‘Welcome to GameStop’ I used to get?”

“You’ve got half of my employees stockpiling the good shit for you. That’s what happened,” He glances at you over his shoulder, his usual emotionless eyes glinting with the slightest bit of amusement.

You don’t bother with a response as you follow him out of the elusive break room you’d seen them disappear to in the past.

“Not my fault you only have like four employees,” You shrug with a faux-innocence he sees right through. You’re cute, though, so he’ll let it slide.

“I have three employees and all of them would probably return this overdue shit for you without question,” He gives you an unimpressed look as he underlines the ‘return by’ date on your receipt and flips it around for you to see. “Two days, a bit irresponsible, no?” He exhales dramatically as he clicks obnoxiously around on the computer on the counter before shaking his head. “Don’t know if we can help even a loyal customer such as yourself in an incident like this.”

You don’t know Jay well enough to know if he’s joking or not, but before you can even respond, the bell chimes and welcomes in one of the other usual customers.

“You always come in on Tuesdays,” The man winks at you and starts toward the counter, but Jason shakes his head and points toward the door. “What? I didn’t do anything this time!”

“Buddy, we’ve already talked about you scaring off my customers.”

“Three strikes doesn’t apply?” He disappears off between the shelves before coming toward the counter again with a box in hand. Once he’s back in sight, your eyes drop to the counter in front of you, wishing he would just leave you alone.

“Pretty sure you’re at your limit and,” He cuts off the man before he can interrupt. “I’m not going to argue with you about my own strike system, so kindly fuck off.” There’s nothing kind about the dark timber of Jay’s voice. The other man seems to think better of questioning the manager who makes the GameStop uniform look like a stripper outfit through his muscles alone.

“Just came here to get this, man,” He drops the box on the counter and you recognize it as the new, limited edition final season statue worth over $400.

Jason seems to realize this, too and looks to you with a silent apology before quickly checking the man out and personally escorting him to the door after.

“Just because you’re a big spender doesn’t mean you won’t be banned if you don’t start treating her, let alone any other woman, with some fucking respect,” The look he gives the man is enough to send him scurrying out without so much as a glance back at you.

“Thanks,” You say quietly in the wake of silence that follows the door’s bell. The tinkling noise echoes around in your ears.

“Don’t thank me for shit like that,” His tone leaves no room for negotiation. You say nothing else as he processes the late return without question.

As soon as he hands you your receipt, Jay walks you out to your car, holding the door open for you, all while making sure the man hasn’t lingered in the parking lot or anything. Luckily, it seems like Jay’s warning has sufficiently warded the creep off. He makes sure you’re completely in your car before shutting your door, then watches you peel out of the lot until your car is a mere fleck in his vision.

A/N: this was a spur of the moment fic i really had a craving for a gamestop au after i was forced to go in there to return some shit and was like o... i know what i need to do now, hence ^

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octuscle · 1 year

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Hey man. We just got a new boss at work and a new coworker as well. The coworker is super dope, really laid back and chill, a sexy stoner dude vibe ya know? We’re all taking quite a liking to him, but the new boss is super power hungry and uptight. Any chance you could make him like our lax dude coworker??

Glad you're getting along well with your new colleague. And we should be able to work things out with your new boss… I'm going to read his biography a bit. Grew up in the Midwest. No more East Coast youth. That should just about do it in most cases. But I'll add his first bong on his 16th birthday.

Okay, that was almost a little too much…. Amazing that he made it to your boss. But really, he's much more relaxed now. Smoking pot at work? Totally okay. Sharing a beer after work? Sure thing!

And if you need help laying your new parquet on the weekend, your boss is there as a matter of course. The main thing is that you provide something to smoke and drink.

#male tf #muscle tf #inked man #chronivac #reality change

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wub-fur-radio · 1 year

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Woke Mind Virus Music

Wub-Fur presents another of our trademark eclectic mixes of punk gunk, garage rock, psych, and other wild shit genetically engineered to get inside your head and make you hipper, happier, and — dare we say it? — more woke. Seventeen songs specially formulated and leaked from our secret underground rock music lab to help transform the earth into a planet of liberty, equality, fraternity, freedom, peace, plenty, justice, and joy for all peoples. Featuring the viral garage-rocking talents of Jon Spencer & the HITmakers, Bass Drum of Death, Wild Billy Childish & CTMF, Crocodiles, Mudhoney, and a dozen more bands of brave and bold culture warriors.

Dedicated, without apology, to all the woke dudes who used to be in Pere Ubu.

▶︎🎶 Play on Mixcloud (or scroll down to use an embedded player below)

Running Time: 59 minutes, 57 seconds

Tracklist

Junk Man (2:19) — Jon Spencer & the HITmakers | New York, NY †

Swerving (2:37) — Bass Drum of Death | Mississippi

Magic Trash (3:14) — Crocodiles | San Diego, CA

Bob Dylan's Got a Lot to Answer For (3:29) — Wild Billy Childish & CTMF | Medway, UK

Pink Cadillac (3:03) — Calvin Johnson | Olympia, WA

Springtime on Stanwoods (4:53) — The Golden Grass | New York, NY

I Want You (3:43) — Strange Magic | New Mexico

The Ballad of Satan’s Bride (4:30) — The Bad Ends | Athens, GA

Tom Herman’s Hermits (2:52) — Mudhoney | Seattle, WA

Close to Hell (3:56) — Ceremony east coast | New York, NY

This is Actually Happening Right Now (2:07) — Dirty Cosmos | Brooklyn, NY †

Altered States/Halted Beasts (1:59) — King “2 Scoops” Khan & His Nips | Berlin, Germany

Still Life (3:09) — EggS | France †

Surfin' the Concrete (2:02) — Stoner Bud's | Bordeaux, France

Strange Loop (4:53) — SIZ | Bordeaux, France

Wrecking Ball (3:28) — Timmy’s Organism | Detroit, MI

Drag On Girard (7:43) — Purling Hiss | Philadelphia, PA

All tracks released in 2023 except those marked † which were released in 2022.

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#garage rock #psychedelic rock #indie rock #garage psych #garage punk #punk gunk #mixes

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dg-outlaw · 5 months

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All About River City

This post is for anyone interested in knowing more about River City and/or why I chose it as the setting for my latest and last story in my "A Few Sparks Before The Fire" JaySteph fanfic series. *Spoiler Free*

Why River City?

I wanted this story, and Jason and Steph’s case, to be outside of Gotham so I could isolate them and build on their romance away from the rest of the Batfam. I also wanted to find a city without a lot of canon content so I could play a bit with worldbuilding as I’d like to write a non-fanfic story someday. When looking up various cities in the DC universe I came across River City and noticed it fit my criteria for a somewhat blank canvas. Outside it being the home base for a minor character from back in the day, Odd Man, and a one-time random meeting spot for a Jimmy Olsen storyline, it seemed like a great sandbox to play in. It also has connections to Gotham as an older version of Odd Man and his daughter, Debbie Stoner, are involved in the Mother Panic comic.

Where is River City?

Based on the connections mentioned above I assumed it was close to Gotham, relatively speaking, but in the Jimmy Olsen comic he mentions it taking him all day to get there. In this regard I decided to go with headcanon and say it’s somewhere between Gotham and Metropolis (and if it took Jimmy all day, then maybe he took the bus and the bus broke down somewhere along the way or his flight had lots of connections and delays). Trenton, New Jersey is the approximate distance marker I’ve used in the story, since it’s near the Delaware River (a “river city”) and would be somewhere between Gotham and Metropolis if we’re saying Gotham is in southern New Jersey and Metropolis is near NYC (though I know it’s previously been in Delaware).

So is River City a fictional Trenton, NJ?

No. River City is not a substitute for Trenton as that’s just one reference I’ve used. I’ve also referenced bits and pieces of other nearby cities like Philadelphia and New Brunswick, NJ. Most of my references are for climate, architecture, and imagery for my own creative musing as well as the promo postcard image for the story along with a few other things. Basically, River City is its own fictional place and that’s why I picked it as it can be whatever I make it while still having a general base as a small city on the east coast.

Who are the characters in River City?

For the sake of the mystery I’ve created a bunch of OCs, though there are a few easter eggs for known DC characters connected to River City. Anyone else not from canon is completely made up. Maybe they’re suspects, friends, allies, enemies, all or none of the above. Again, this is me stretching my creative and worldbuilding legs. Also, any names, likenesses, etc. not associated with DC comics are completely made up and not in reference to anyone living or dead. So my apologies if a name pops up and it’s your name or someone you know. They’re random and I tried to come up with unique names and names that immediately don’t pop-up as someone famous or well-known in a Google search.

What’s River City like? Is it more like Gotham, Metropolis, or someplace else?

You’ll just have to read and see. What I will say is that I wanted it to feel a bit cozy. It’s not as big as Gotham or Metropolis, thus no real superheroes in town, but I wanted it to feel big enough to be spread out. One reference that is often in my brain is Central City from the CW series ‘The Flash’. Minus whatever opinions of the show one might have, I really liked the cozy feel of what was created on that show, especially Joe West’s house and later Barry and Iris’s apartment in the city. So yeah, that’s the vibe. Also, I know a lot of that show was filmed in Vancouver (on the other side of North America), but hey… vibes.

Will there be more fics set in River City?

At this point, I don’t know. I don’t have any real plans for revisiting River City, except for one, but that’s a bit of a spoiler for a future series. As mentioned above, River City is me having fun doing some worldbuilding and playing around with Jason and Steph in a new place for the holidays.

Any other questions I missed or that you have on your mind?

Just drop me an ‘Ask’ I’ll see what I can and can’t answer… either because it’s a spoiler or I really don’t know.

#jaysteph #my fanfiction #worldbuilding #river city

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mindtrix · 10 months

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night & day smoke seshes

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theycallme--j · 5 months

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SHMVCKED Cannabis Dispensary

dec 15th 2023

new york city

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bostonbakedbean90 · 2 years

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🥔🧈Baked Potato shatter🧈🥔

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 1 year

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Helped to find a way out of the FFWPU/Unification Church

From All God’s Children by Jo Anne Parke and Carol Stoner  (pages 232 - 241)

▲ Daphne Greene

Daphne Greene, a formidable and sensitive counter-cult activist on the West Coast, … has helped and encouraged many young people to leave the Moon church by spending countless hours talking to them and their parents. She says she will talk to anyone who willingly comes to listen.

Hundreds of young people have been convinced to leave religious cults during thoughtful discussions with concerned individuals such as Mrs Greene, Rabbi Davis and others. These re-evaluations of the cultist’s religious experience were not carried out under lock and key, but voluntarily. A parent who seeks to remove a son or daughter from the clutches of a cult must consider whether or not that young person would willingly hear the other side of the issue. Whatever alternative a parent decides to choose, it should be clearly defined and thought through before it begins….

Father Kent Burtner, the Oregon chaplain who offers cult members’ families a way to analyze their situation, has for years observed the rapid growth and expansion of the cult phenomenon and makes no effort to hide the strength of his convictions. “I am sick unto death that those kids are being used and exploited,” he says. For nearly a decade, Father Kent has been watching the followers of the Reverend Moon work to increase his flock. “The ways the Moonies recruit followers are deceitful,” he says. “And, the ends to which the energies of Moon’s disciples are aimed are just as indefensible as the ways their minds are captured.”

Before his charge in Oregon, Father Kent was a graduate student at Berkeley’s renowned Graduate Theological Union. In those days, the priest watched the changing political and religious scene and saw the Moon movement burst into bloom just as the flower children began to fade in the garden of the counter-culture.

Unification Church theology disturbs Father Kent. The message that Christ failed as a savior, along with the intricate plan whereby the Reverend Moon will unite and save the world, is offensive and upsetting to this Catholic priest. But a stronger reason for his counter-cult work is his fervent belief that the rights of individuals are being usurped by religious cults.

Any belief system that so polarizes the forces of good and evil, is mere negativism, is inhuman and intellectually dishonest,” he says. “The idea of the Manichaean split between good and evil denies the value of the human person. Moonies are asked to hold their objections and to drop them behind them. Pretty soon, if they ever turned around, there would be a huge pile of questions sitting there unanswered.” The priest points out also that cult members are not only discouraged from examining their questions, they are never even left alone for long enough to contemplate at all.

Father Kent in the West, and Rabbi Davis on the East Coast, are two of a very small number of clergymen who speak out against religious cults and who could be called counter-cult activists. Both of these men of the cloth are cautious about getting involved in activities that could be interpreted as illegal. But each will speak to any young cult member who is willing to listen.

When Father Kent was called to deprogram the young daughter of a Lutheran family, he agreed to help the family and the young woman with a re-evaluation of her life. She was not physically constrained or imprisoned in any way. Father Kent explains that he invoked her own intellectual integrity to make her listen to the sometimes “uncomfortable” facts about Sun Myung Moon and his Unification Church. The young woman is Karin Hegstrom, a college graduate from an Ohio farm family. Karin’s parents and her closest friend from childhood were all involved in the re-evaluation.

One Sunday morning just as he was about to celebrate Sunday Mass in the campus chapel, Father Kent received a frantic phone call from Karin’s father. Mr. Hegstrom asked the priest’s help in deprogramming his daughter. Several weeks earlier she had disappeared into the Unification Church and was now at the group’s New Ideal City Ranch in Boonville, California, 200 miles north of San Francisco.

In order to reach her, Karin’s father was considering swearing out a warrant for his daughter’s arrest, since she had taken some of the family’s possessions, including a car, into the church with her. Mr. Hegstrom was aware that this move might mean getting involved in a potentially irreversible legal action: his daughter could end up in jail. But arrest seemed to be the only way he could be sure she would leave the ranch. She had refused to come home and she had hung up on all her parents’ phone calls.

First Father Kent cautioned the Hegstroms not to do anything they might regret and advised them to wait until they could all get together to make some plans. “Yes,” he promised, “I will help as much as I can.” The Hegstroms had to understand that the priest would not break any laws, but he would do everything in his power to help. In the meantime, he would serve Mass and be free in an hour.

After the service, they spoke again and discussed Karin’s situation. She had broken off several conversations with her parents. She would not tell them much about her new life. In fact, she was very secretive. The Hegstroms were anxious and concerned about their daughter, and on the basis of the phone calls, had driven across the country with Karin’s close friend, Louise. They didn’t know how they were going to “rescue” their daughter, they only knew they were going to try.

The plan was made. The Hegstroms would visit their daughter at Boonville and convince her to come with them to visit an aunt and uncle who live in a small town nearby. They had already tried to phone Karin, but were unable to reach her. The parents felt they had been given a run-around, so Father Kent gave them the phone number of Martin (Noah) Ross, director of the Boonville ranch and an ardent follower of the Reverend Moon. Mr. Hegstrom told the young man that he and his wife would, under whatever circumstances necessary, see their daughter. The ranch director agreed that Karin would meet her parents at the ranch gate.

▲ The Boonville gate

Karin came out of the padlocked gate, which is located miles from the ranch’s lodgings and main buildings, and met with her father. After much talking, Mr. Hegstrom convinced Karin that the only way she could demonstrate her sincerity about the Unification Church was to come with them for an overnight visit and explain her feelings. “We need to talk. And, if you feel you must, we’ll let you come back,” he told her.

The two drove off to the home of Karin’s aunt and uncle where her mother and her friend, Louise, were waiting. There was an emotional reunion, especially between the friends, as Karin told Louise she wanted her to experience the joy of being a member of the Unification Church. “I want to convert you as my first spiritual child,” she said.

Father Kent was also waiting and Karin abruptly questioned his presence at the reunion. “He’s here for me, isn’t he?”

That evening, Karin tried every ruse she could think of to avoid talking to the priest. First she and Louise went for a long walk. Then she said she wanted to spend some private time with her parents, then her aunt and uncle, all to avoid the confrontation she knew, by now, was inevitable. Although the young woman was trying to avoid having her belief tested in a discussion with the priest, she was not held against her will, doors and windows were not locked and bolted, but she made no attempt to leave. Karin Hegstrom had promised to spend the night with her family and she seemed determined to live up to her bargain.

Ultimately, Karin sat down with Father Kent, Louise and her parents. They asked questions about her new life, cautiously and without hostility, and she attempted to answer them, saying only, “It is so wonderful. You will have to visit and see for yourselves. You might not like it,” she grudgingly advised Father Kent, “since you are a priest.”

After several hours of questions, to which Karin responded only with bits and pieces of vague information, everyone was frustrated.

Then Father Kent asked a question that was calculated to arouse emotion. “Why have you accepted Moon and his wife as your true parents, and not your mother and father here?”

Later the family said they feared the entire neighborhood heard Karin’s screamed response. “You always drank, and made us work on that farm. And you hit us all the time,” she yelled at her father.

And to her mother she screamed, “You were so helpless. You wouldn’t lift a finger to help.”

Karin then turned on the priest. “The church was so hypocritical. And no one cared about anyone else or about living any kind of decent lives.”

Pain that was for so long denied and camouflaged in this family had finally surfaced. Karin stopped screaming and ran into the kitchen, tears streaming down her face. Her parents wept too. Karin’s father followed her into the kitchen and everyone present heard what he told his daughter. “Maybe we did make some mistakes. But it’s not too late. Honest, honey, we’ll try to make it up to you. Please listen to what we have to say. I never knew how you felt.”

They returned to the living room and Karin asked Louise to come with her to talk. They excused themselves for a few minutes and when they returned they told of a bargain they had made. Karin would listen, but she would not respond. She would stay at the house, but only if no one questioned her. She would listen to anything they wanted to tell her and that’s all.

In exchange for Karin’s attention, Louise promised to visit one of the Unification Church’s Creative Community Project houses in San Francisco, where Karin had been recruited by the Moonies.

Father Kent says he “quavered inside,” when he thought of how often a young person attempts to rescue a friend or sister or brother and ends up being converted to the church themselves. “We might,” he worried, “end up having to rescue both young women.” But it was too late to worry. The bargain had been made.

They spent a few more hours talking to Karin about Unification Church theology and practice, then everyone went to bed. Father Burtner, who was bunking on the living room sofa, went over his copy of the Unification Church’s 120-day training program, making notes of salient points to refer to the next day. Just as the sun rose over the horizon, the priest decided he’d crammed all his tired brain could absorb, and dropped off to sleep for a few hours.

That morning he sat with Karin and Louise around the kitchen table and continued the one-sided discussion. The priest had decided not to violate Karin’s bargain, but to encourage her to explain views she had never really clarified for herself. He set his copy of the 120-day program nearby, but took pains not to refer to it. Instead he talked about Unification Church theology, explaining how the belief system differs from Christianity. Finally, to clarify a point she wanted to make, Karin reached for the 120-day training manual.

“Ah-haaa,” the priest said to himself. “This is the beginning.”

Studying the manual, Karin began to feel that the verbal interpretations of church philosophy she had been given were not always based on fact. By the end of the second day of re-evaluation Karin was feeing betrayed, confused and angry. She jumped up, caught Louise by the arm and pulled her outside. “I won’t stay a minute longer,” she told her friend. They walked together until Karin spotted a pay telephone. The priest was following them, at a distance, but he was close enough to hear what they were saying.

“You’re running away from the one person who can help you out of this mess, who can help you understand what to do with your life,” Louise was shouting. “And you won’t even give him a chance to talk to you. You’re turning your back on the one person who can help you. You may never have another chance …”

Then, just as the two young women came to the phone booth, Karin threw her purse down and began to cry. “Okay,” she sobbed, “I’ll listen. But I am going back tomorrow.”

Father Kent drew Karin aside and tried to comfort her by telling her how he once questioned his faith when he was a seminarian. “I felt like the loneliest soul in the world,” he said, “and I know you do too. But please listen to us. I want you to believe that we want to help you. You are mixed up in something that is much bigger than you know.” She picked up her handbag and they walked back to the house. After more discussion, the priest and Louise conferred privately. “All of Karin’s doubts,” Louise told him, “seem to hinge on who and what the Reverend Moon is, charlatan or savior?” Karin knew little about her adopted religious leader. She had not even learned of his existence until weeks after she joined his church.

“I know someone who knows a lot about the Reverend Moon,” Father Kent told Louise.

And so they planned a visit to Daphne Greene, who lives nearby in Ross, California. Mrs. Greene, mother of two children who have been involved in the church, one a former Moonie and the other still a member, is also a former president of the board of trustees of Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union, a highly respected coalition of theology schools. This wife of a prominent Bay Area attorney is deeply religious and politically attuned. She has been watching the Unification Church, with a wary eye, since before her own children became involved.

“Bring the girls and come on over,” she said. “I’ll make sure Ford” (her son who left the church on his own) “is around, they can all spend some time together.” The next day the threesome went to the Greene’s hilltop home, and after a meeting, the three young people set out for a day at the beach.

▲ Ford Greene in 2005

That day, Ford Greene and later his mother told Karin facts about the Reverend Moon, his origins in Korea, his questionable political and financial goals, and how his brand of religion is not always compatible with Christianity.

By the end of the day, Karin had decided not to return to the Unification Church. “How could a girl like me get involved in something like that?” she wondered.

Father Kent knew that Karin and her parents still had some unfinished business to discuss so when they returned to the relatives’ home they all sat down with her mother and father and discussed the indictments Karin had screamed at her parents a few days earlier. Her parents wondered, “Could we have made Karin’s growing up less difficult somehow? Has life been so tough for our kids?” They didn’t have answers, but they decided they would make an attempt, however belated, to improve their lives. Karin’s father promised to join Alcoholics Anonymous and he has. Karin’s mother began to understand why she was chronically depressed, how she had lost control of her own life. The family promised to seek regular counseling.

Karin and the priest discussed her personal problems. Karin had had what in the Unification Church are called “chapter two,” or sexual problems. Karin is a big girl, not fat, but far from petite. She said she felt unattractive and inadequate with men and couldn’t always trust her own feelings. They agreed that it is not easy to learn to deal with members of the opposite sex. But Father Kent encouraged Karin to deal with doubts by facing rather than avoiding them.

No one in the Hegstrom family solved their problems that day. But it may have been the first time the family recognized them and promised to seek counseling. And they decided that they do care for each other and that each member would try to be kinder and more considerate. And, Karin was no longer a Moonie.

With planning rather than haste a re-evaluation, such as that done by Father Kent, or a deprogramming can be arranged for optimum success. …

The debriefer or deprogrammer needs to be made aware of sore spots in the family relationships and should learn as much as possible about the background, personality and life of the potential subject. Not all family problems are as easily unearthed as those of the Hegstroms, and neither are most families as willing to face difficulties with honesty and openness. …

Ideally, a re-evaluation of a cult member’s life and beliefs should be the result of a parent-child bargain. “If you intend to spend the rest of your life in that group, you owe us a week (or two weeks) of your time,” is one approach. Rabbi Davis has, himself, conducted well over one hundred “rescues” that came about this way. The young people Rabbi Davis has talked out of religious cults were probably no happier about a confrontation with him than Karin Hegstrom was about hers with Father Kent. But each came and sat in the rabbi’s unlocked study, across the desk from him, or sharing a sofa with him, and talked and listened. And each ultimately left a cult. He reports few “failures.”

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Moonwebs by Josh Freed (the book was made into a movie)

Ford Greene – the former Moonie became an attorney

Life Among the Moonies [in Oakland] by Deanna Durham

Barbara Underwood and the Oakland Moonies

Scared of Leaving the Moon church? My advice on leaving the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon An Open Letter to the Moon church from a former 2nd Gen. Raising Hell: Growing up 2nd gen in the Moon church by Julia McKenna

As I was leaving the church, there was a growing amount of emphasis on kingship.

#Ford Greene #Rabbi Davis #Unification Church #Boonville

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#prose #nosex #not acknowledged #conspiracy #circus

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– Mystic Falls High – Parking Lot of Pouting –

Bonnie Bennet: My boyfriend is spending all of his time with his dead girlfriends!

Caroline Forbes: My vampire werewolf hybrid boyfriend is Klaus’ bitch!

Elena Gilbert: Today’s my one-year anniversary with my boyfriend, who went on a six month long murder spree, leaving a trail of bodies up and down the East Coast, got compelled into switching off his humanity, and is staying in town for the sole purpose of keeping me alive so that an even more evil vampire can use me as a walking blood bank when he wants to make more unstoppable murder machines.

Caroline Forbes: …You win.

– Castle Salvatore –

Damon Salvatore: Hi Stefan! You got sorority sister all over my good carpets!

Stefan Salvatore: Wait till you see what I did to your sheets!

Rebekah: Hi boys! Klaus ditched me so I’m staying here now! Don’t worry, I’ll find my own room!

Damon Salvatore: …This whole “intruding on other people’s lives and making them miserable” is a lot more fun when I’m doing it.

– Mystic Falls High – Lockers of Loneliness –

Jeremy Gilbert: Hi Bonnie! You’re avoiding me!

Bonnie Bennet: Hi Jeremy! Maybe we can hang out again when you aren’t sexing your dead girlfriends!

– Mystic Falls High –

Vicki Donovan: Hi Matt! Would you like to help me do some black magic?

Matt Donovan: I remember when my life was normal.

Tyler Lockwood: You talk to yourself! You’re funny!

– Mikael’s Mausoleum –

Damon Salvatore (on the phone): Hi Katherine! I need you to hurry up and revive Mikael so he can kill Klaus so I can fix Stefan so my carpets won’t get ruined!

Katherine Pierce (on the phone): You’re in luck! A hapless victim just wandered by!

– Mystic Falls High – Hallway of Hopelessness

Damon Salvatore (on the phone): Hi Elena! My brilliant plan of running straight at Klaus without a plan has had an unforeseen consequence! I have a Babriepire living with me!

Elena Gilbert: What about Stefan? Is he doing anything interesting?

Damon Salvatore (on the phone): Hey was that the bell? Don’t wanna be late for class!

Caroline Forbes: Hi Elena! I know what will cheer you up! A school spirit bonfire! Which is in no way endorsed by the school, despite the flyers I’m hanging up all over the place, and which will feature plenty of illegal boozing!

Tyler Lockwood: That sounds great! Almost as great as the fact that I’m an unkillable death dervish that’s dating a hot blond and getting the blood hookup from another hot blond!

Caroline Forbes: Is not amused.

Stefan Salvatore: Hi Elena! Remember how we met in this very spot one year ago today? Things sure have changed!

Alaric Saltzman: Hi Stefan! I think you should GTFO of here!

The Lady of the Manor: Um, Alaric? He’s a vampire, and you’re a drunk.

Stefan Salvatore: She’s right! Wallshove!

Alaric Saltzman: Pout.

– Mystic Falls High – History Class of Histrionics –

Elena Gilbert: Hi Alaric! I’m going to tell you some stuff you should already know, in case anyone was confused by the last episode!

Alaric Saltzman: I’m going to pretend to be a responsible adult with a grown-up job!

Stefan Salvatore: I watched the last history teacher die!

Rebekah: I slept through the last eighty years! I hope you can help me catch up on current events!

– Mystic Falls High – Stoner Stoop –

Matt Donovan: Hi Vicki! I’m unclear on this whole “helping you come back from the dead” thing!

Vicki Donovan: It’s real simple! You just have to help me commit a bunch of murders!

Jeremy Gilbert: Hi Matt! Hi Matt’s sister, who I totally don’t see!

– Mystic Falls High – Bathroom of Bad Omens

Jeremy Gilbert: So yeah, Matt can see Vicki now.

Anna: I sure hope she isn’t planning something unspeakably evil!

– Mystic Falls High – Football Field of Fear –

Rebekah: Hi Caroline! I’m going to slowly dismantle your life!

The Coach: Hi guys! I’m going to run you into the ground!

Tyler Lockwood: Loook into my eeeyes</dracula>

The Coach: See you later guys! Have fun getting drunk at the bonfire!

Rebekah: I can do endless handsprings whee!

Stefan Salvatore: Hi Elena! I’ve been assigned to protect you! I watched a bunch of Lifetime movies about abusive boyfriends to prepare for my role!

The Lady of the Manor: Rebekah is surprisingly limber after spending eighty years in a box.

– Mikael’s Mausoleum –

Katherine Pierce: Hi Mikael! I brought you a snack!

Mikael: I shall not sully these lips with the blood of a human being!

Katherine Pierce: …Everyone I know is lame.

– Saltzman Slums – Gilbert Gymnasium –

Damon Salvatore: Hi Buffy!

Elena Gilbert: I lift weights now!

Damon Salvatore: I can show you the way to a vampire’s heart!

Elena Gilbert: I need a cold shower!

Team Delena: Agrees.

lmfao!! omg, this was the best part...

Damon Salvatore: …This whole “intruding on other people’s lives and making them miserable” is a lot more fun when I’m doing it.

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love how nell saw how caroline+theo ended up messed up from their shitty relationships with rich stuck up east coast intellectual type men and decided to go for a random californian stoner. she would've broken the cycle.

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Hits for 4/20 and afterwards

Lotsa people are smoking weed today. Lots.

So in honor of those who love to smoke weed, we decided to join the most predictable tradition on the internet and give you a list of stoner songs.

From Snoop Dogg to Devin The Dude, there are artists whose legacies have become synonymous with making inspired weeded-out classics. Obviously, there's more to guys like Devin and Snoop than marijuana anthems, but they proudly tout their love of the sticky, as do fellow emcees like Redman, B-Real and Curren$y. But there are some classic rap weed songs that come from unexpected places (KRS-One?! Jay-Z?!!) you might not have really ever noticed are definitely weed songs. So yeah, we included a few of those, too.

And sorry—you won't be seeing "Because I Got High" because nobody really smokes to that song, bud...

#26

"BROWN SUGAR" (UMMAH REMIX) - D'ANGELO [BONUS SONG]

Our BONUS SONG pick is a celebrated classic guest spot! Or in THIS case, a dopeass remix from J. Dilla, Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed that sounds even more weeded than the original.

#25

"MARY JANE" - THA ALKAHOLIKS

"I can't hold it in/I gotta let it all out." Those words are so appropriate and "Tha Liks" celebrate their favorite girl. Yes, weed-as-a-beautiful-woman is an overused metaphor (you'll see it again on this list) but it's popular because it works.

#24

"AMERICA'S MOST BLUNTED" - MADVILLAIN

MF DOOM and Madlib deliver a weed anthem that could only come from Madvillain. Their 2004 album is a classic and one of the best tracks is this off-kilter ode to burning.

#23

"BLUEBERRY YUM YUM" - LUDACRIS

It's almost an underrated weed classic, but Luda perfectly captures the joy of smoking the finest weed. Needing snacks from the store, bemoaning how your homies are smoking trash—this is life.

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"FEELIN' IT" - JAY-Z

The Jigga Man has never really been known for stoned-out rap, and even has stated that he isn't really a smoker; but this standout from REASONABLE DOUBT is a pretty convincing ode to getting high. He acknowledges his conflict ("...look I know I contradicted myself...") in the song itself.

#21

"SMOKE SOME WEED" - ICE CUBE

One of the best tracks on 2006s woefully underrated LAUGH NOW, CRY LATER, Cube gets his smoke on, advocating for that good green while name-dropping famous smokers from George to Bill Clinton.

#20

"DRO IN THE WIND" - TRICK DADDY FEAT. BIG BOI AND CEE-LO

It's the perfect anthem for not givin' a fuck. This Jazze Pha-produced southern smoke classic captures the vibe of burning one on a warm day, cruising with your homeboys.

#19

"STILL SMOKIN'" - MYSTIKAL

Who can't relate? Mystikal has always been an underrated storyteller, and here, the Louisiana legend sits you down for a stoned tale about getting stoned.

#18

"MARY" - CURRENSY

Like Snoop, like Reggie, and like Devin, Currensy has become one of Hip-Hop's most famous advocates for the green. The NOLA emcee is also one of the most prolific on the subject—single-handedly debunking the myth that weed makes you lazy.

#17

"PACK THE PIPE" - THE PHARCYDE

The Pharcyde have always been some of the coolest oddball stoners. And on this epic from their first album, they contrarily advocate for dumping papers altogether in an era where blunts rule.

#16

"BUDDAH LOVERZ" - BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY

The Cleveland collective got to wade heavily into the "N-Harmony" part of their moniker on this standout from E.1999: ETERNAL. How stoned where they when they recorded this? Very.

#15

"SMOKE BUDDAH" - REDMAN

OK, so full disclosure: we had the psychedelic funk of "Rockafella" on this list, but--c'mon, yo. This is a Redman weed anthem of the highest order (get it?!) He's one of the most famous and loudest advocates for herbage in Hip-Hop. Nobody does weed rap (especially of the East Coast variety) better than Reggie Noble.

#14

"BITCH, DON'T KILL MY VIBE" - KENDRICK LAMAR

Kendrick's lush and melodic ode to not letting anyone fuck up your chill. The song is about being in a good space, and substances are definitely mentioned, even though it may not be a "weed song" in the truest sense. It certainly feels like it.

#13

"WE GET HIGH" - DEVIN THE DUDE AND COUGHEE BROTHAZ

Devin has given us so much. When it comes to weed anthems, there's nobody quite like the Texas legend. And this comedic classic with Coughee Brothaz (from 2010's Suite 420—released on April 20 of that year.)

#12

"MAD-IZM" - CHANNEL LIVE FEAT. KRS-ONE

Every "Teacha" you know smokes at least a lil bit. KRS links up with New Jersey duo Channel Live over a hypnotizing loop as the emcees spit lyrics about smoking the finest tree.

#11

"ROLL IT UP, LIGHT IT UP, SMOKE IT UP" - CYPRESS HILL

The legends from East L.A. show up on the soundtrack for the most beloved stoner movie of the 1990s. Of course, Cypress Hill laced Smokey with this weed anthem. OF COURSE.

#10

"MARY JANE" - SCARFACE

Featured on his 1997 album, The UNTOUCHABLE, “Mary Jane” is also one of the best (if not underappreciated) beats in rap. Produced by Face and Mike Dean, Face’s spaced out lyrics about his love for Mary is a weed classic.

"HANDS ON THE WHEEL" - SCHOOLBOY Q FEAT. A$AP ROCKY

Q and Rocky team up for this Kid Cudi-referencing ode to getting blazed. It just sounds like a hazy night; this right here is bleary-eyed brilliance.

"XXPLOSIVE" - DR. DRE FEAT. HITTMAN, KURUPT, NATE DOGG AND SIX-TWO

The album was technically the sequel to THE CHRONIC, y'all. The Good Doctor resumed his weed-friendly antics on 1999s 2001 and although "The Next Episode" was a BIG hit, this is the song that makes you want to take a hit.

"GOOD TIMES (I GET HIGH)" - STYLES P

The LOX rhymer got to kick off his solo career with this classic. One of the 2000s most popular odes to toking up, Styles doesn't give you a laid-back groove, instead he gives you a triumphant weed theme song.

"DOOBIE ASHTRAY" - DEVIN THE DUDE

What Snoop is out West; what Redman is in the East, Devin The Dude is that for the South. Meaning: he's the go-to guy for stoner rap. Devin is a character unto himself and DJ Premier tapped into his Texas roots for this classic.

"HITS FROM THE BONG" - CYPRESS HILL

Over a sample of Dusty Springfield's "Son Of A Preacher Man," B-Real and Sen Dog take smoke straight into tha chest. One of the best stoner tracks ever made.

"WHATEVA MAN" - REDMAN

Redman makes another appearance, on one of his most popular singles. MUDDY WATERS is a very weed-friendly album from start-to-finish, but this single embodies the spirit of the whole album.

"GIN & JUICE" - SNOOP DOGGY DOGG

Given its title, you'd be forgiven if you labeled this DOGGY STYLE classic a drinking song. But it's NOT, really. At least not totally. Remember, the hook is smoking weed AND getting drunk. Pay attention, people.

"CRUMBLIN' ERB" - OUTKAST

"...only so much time left in this crazy world..." They were barely out of high school when they recorded their debut album, but 'Kast already sounded world-weary. Or maybe they were just really, really stoned.

"I GOT 5 ON IT" - THE LUNIZ

In 1995, there was no more popular song to roll one up to; the smoking anthem from The Luniz made them stars and became a staple of cloudy dorm rooms everywhere. Salute this classic and it's just-as-classic remix.

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