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surveysonfleek · 3 years

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What’s the latest youtube channel you’ve discovered and binge-watched? hmm during work i found this girl who does true crime style videos. it’s like a visual podcast. so i listened to a couple of those in the bg

What’s one thing that makes your shoulders hurt? getting a massage and they apply too much pressure but my introvert ass is too shy to say anything lol

Does it snow where you live? no. it snows about 2 hours away but tbh there wasnt much news about it this year

Do you think your hair looks better long or short? long

Do you look best with or without bangs? i kinda prefer no bangs but side bangs are ok too

What stereotype would you say you fit the most? none

Do you enjoy editing photos on your phone? haha i cant say i enjoy it but sometimes its needed

What’s your favorite thing to do on your phone? insta, tiktok, fb. social media i guess

Which season do you wish would last longer? autumn! love autumn, perfect weather all around

Do you like the name Eliana? its cute

Do you know anyone named Claire? Veronica? Cescily? Marcella? Miranda? i have a cousin named veronica

Haw many outdoor birthday parties have you had? i dont remember having an outdoor bday ever!

How much taller or shorter are you than your mom? taller by a few inches

Who is your favorite sibling? i only have one sibling, so her!

Do you have neat handwriting? its not neat but its def not messy

Do you enjoy journaling? haha no. i havent journaled since 2017 maybe

What is your most recent new favorite food you’ve discovered? not super new but i do love poke bowls now

Do you like sushi? yes! love it

Have you ever tried seaweed? yup :)

How often do you wash your hair? around three times a week

Do you have an actual pig-shaped piggy bank? nope

Would you rather hike a mountain or dive into the sea? omg none. dive into the sea if i really had to but only to snorkel Would you rather grow wings or a tail? lmao wings i guess

Which Barbie doll was your favorite? i had a lot as a kid and its so sad i dont remember any in particular!

Do you prefer cheetah or zebra print? chevron or polka dots? paisleys or plaid? stripes or stars? cheetah, polka dots, paisleys and stripes

Do you like your natural hair color? yeah its fine

What is your natural hair color? dark brown

Did you dream of becoming famous as a kid? yes. that was like my life goal. howeverrrr, i had no creative talent. i couldnt sing, act, dance etc lmao. but i always wanted to be famous. this was way before social media was introduced though

What show did you want to be on? the saddle club lol

Have you ever been to a gynecologist? no but technically my doctor is one. they’re a gp but certified gyno if that makes sense

Do you use the Bitmoji app on your phone? i used to

Do you get on facebook every day? yeah but nowhere near as often as i used to

What is your Instagram screenname? totally not sharing that here lol

Do you remember the very first episode of Spongebob when it first came out? nope

Did you watch the Kids Choice Awards when you were a kid? no because i didnt have cable tv lol

What was your favorite girl group when you were growing up? spice girls, duh!

Would you ever consider naming a child after a family member? nah, im starting fresh

List three names that sound similar to your name. no List three spelling of your name that you are glad you don’t have. lol haha no

What were you almost named? erica, so weird

Do you like your name? yes :)

What are your top three favorite girl’s names? boy names? i dont know. i feel like this question comes up alot but i can never think of an answer. i need to start a note of it on my phone lol

What is something you always wanted to do that your parents never let you? get me a tickle me elmo

Do you have any symptoms of COVID-19 right now? nah, double vaxxed baby!

Have you made your own mask to help prevent the spread of the virus? no but i wear them anyways

Do you know anyone who has the virus? not personally. actually i had a friend that got it but he lives in cali

What was the last grocery store you shopped at? coles

What does your name mean? goddess of something

What countries have you visited? plenty. just too lazy to list them

Do you have any regrets? i do but i dont dwell on it

Do you ever wish you had someone to hug? haha no, i can hug my fiance whenever

Do you ever sleep on your bedroom floor? no

#survey #surveys #quiz #bored #questions

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juleswolverton-hyde · 4 years

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Down the Rabbit Hole Revised Snippet & Deleting the Series

Dear reader,

As has been hinted at multiple times, Down the Rabbit Hole is currently in the process of being made into a proper novel. The final chapter will still be made available online on this blog for a short time to close the series off. However, the same can likely not be said for the final interlude (those parts of the series where the POV switches to another character).

Another unfortunate fluke of prepping the fanfic into being made fit for actual publishing is a change of style. The poetics are still there for they are still my strong point and personal preference, but the personal philosophy of never using an explicit first person point of view or use possessive pronouns has to be put aside in order to lower the formality of the text. In other words, I am copy-editing the novel and making some minor yet grand changes as you will see in the snippet.

Lastly, I want to note that the entire series will only be available online for a little longer since it will turn into an actual book at some point in time. It will be deleted on all platforms in the future.

When exactly? I do not know, but fairly soon.

That is all I have to say for now regarding the series and the changes it is going through.

Until we speak again.

Yours,

Jules Wolverton-Hyde

The jazz tunes filter in through the ears as hazily as the image of the café filled with old furniture in various warm shades of wood, moss green velvet and royal red. Tall bookshelves fashioned from dark wood and filled to the brim with an array of colourful titles covering all sorts of genres surround the interior, masking every wall painted a tone of pure chocolate aside from the one behind the counter, which consists of bare red brick. Vintage chandeliers illuminate the space dimly, giving it a cosy atmosphere perfect for bookworms to rejoice in with their book of preference.

''Syl, are you alright?'' A nudge against the shoulder almost causes a waste of good coffee, a hand lightly tanned by the countryside sun in earlier days grabbing the shoulder to steady the still half-asleep body. ''Careful. You were busy writing again, weren't you? I'm sure Cheshire can wait just fine and wants you to watch after your health. As do I.''

Mentally wishing to be left in peace or somewhere that is possible, my gaze flicks upward, hoping eyes contain the threatening glint of morning grogginess and irritation thoughts create the image of when not thinking of a berating comment. Nobody gets away with spilling even the smallest amount of precious liquid black gold, a splash of it now decorating the clay tiles regardless. However, there is no point in arguing and certainly not over something like this. Not this early in the morning at least.

And so with a heavy sigh, gazes lock with the colleague's cat-like narrow eyes. However, not even the mention of the dear reader and their supportive nature does anything to better the current state of mind. ''Jay, it's fine. I slept for three hours and breakfast will keep me going at least till lunch. I'll just slip in a few shots of espresso during the day.''

''Three hours is way too short, you know that, mister Sleep-is-for-the-weak. Take it easy today, alright? I don't want to drag you to the hospital due to exhaustion and an overdose of caffeine.'' Lips pull into a stern line when I don't immediately respond, eyebrows raising and drawing together while leaning in after shuffling a little closer. Considering the lowered voice, Jaemin, or Jay to make it easier for other people, the matter is quite serious. ''Promise me, Sylvester.''

''Yes, okay, fine. I promise.'' Despite sounding sharp, I look away to take a big bite out of the freshly prepared multigrain omelette bagel, making it clear the discussion is over. Funnily enough, it is once more proven that food is the best cure for annoyance since the agitated feelings fade as the stomach is filled with fuel for the day.

The satisfied sliver a smile on the friend's round yet sculpted face, part of the forehead obscured by a few locks of hair as black as the starless winter sky, brightens the foul mood as well. The mere comrade's presence is enough to erase all negativity caused by the negligence of well-being in favour of the art of words. ''Let me just upload the new chapter of Scarred and then open the place.''

Whilst Jay retrieves the keys hanging in the lockbox in the back office, I finish the habitual breakfast, the last sip of Americano containing three shots of espresso washing away the final bite of the meal. Afterwards, fingers deftly fish the phone sitting snug in the pocket of dark trousers to quickly open the publishing platform's app and press the publication button at the end of the draft.

Thanks to the hasty morning ritual - throwing on the first ivory work shirt and proper trousers to be found before splashing some water into my face before rapidly doing the acne-prone skincare routine and a quick brush of the teeth - and afterwards rushing to get here, the upload schedule of Scarred has been interrupted. Notwithstanding, it is fortunately only delayed by an hour. Nevertheless, it would be a lie to say it isn't irksome because it feels like a responsibility toward the audience to make sure new chapters are uploaded on time.

I hope it makes your morning better than mine, Cheshire. Sorry for the wait.

''It's online?'' The fairly low voice suddenly sounding directly on the right makes every muscle stiffen in alarm, head jerking away from where warm breath brushes the side of the neck. The wariness vanishes a split second later once it's registered that it belongs to the other barista, who is chuckling at the reaction to the sudden appearance and points at the device held in calloused hands to indicate still expecting an answer to the question.

''Yup, out there for the world to see.''

''For Cheshire to see, you mean. You still haven't chatted with them?'' The answer to that is plain to read in the absent rubbing of the upper arms after putting the phone away, crumpling ever so slightly under the older man's scrutiny. A breathless self-deprecating laugh strengthens the confirmation whilst also unintentionally stirring up a feeling of wrongdoing, failing at something that should have been attempted already a long time ago. ''You have to give it a shot. They obviously care for you, otherwise they wouldn't comment on every single thing you post. Moreover, they've been with you ever since you became The White Rabbit. Somebody that doesn't like you would have left long ago.''

There is a point, a very clear one, in Jay's response and it would be delusional to call it ungrounded. Contact with this long-time reader should have been made by now yet the courage to do so is far from present, the fear of radio silence turning eternal too great. All it takes is one mistake and this scared personified bunny is not willing to take the risk of making it, thus preventing it by avoiding the conversation altogether.

Avoiding eye contact with burning cheeks, focus averted to the feet stuck in simple worn grey sneakers, I try to think of the right words to push from the dry throat as teeth bite down on the bottom lip. Eventually, I find them although speech makes them grow soft with insecurity, barely audible as they come out on a stammer. ''I- It would just be a bother to them. I h- have nothing to offer.''

Two slender palms place themselves on the shoulders and give them a firm shake. ''You'll never know if you don't try, so don't say such crap. And it's clear they like you, as I said. If you don't start the chat, I will.''

#fiction #original fiction #writing #original story #OC #Male OC #Down the Rabbit Hole

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theliteraryarchitect · 5 years

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Hi, do you have any advice in dealing with procrastination while writing? I've had ideas and the plot planned out but whenever I want to write them, I end up not writing at all and just surfing through the net. Thank you so much. This blog really helped me a lot :)

Thanks for writing! I’m glad my blog has been helpful to you. Hopefully this will help, too :)

Dealing with Procrastination

First impression: You need to block yourself out of the damn internet.

Listen, I’ve been writing for years. I’ve completed stories, I’ve published, I did an MFA. I’m 100% clear that I love writing, that I want to do it forever, and that it gives my life meaning that nothing else can.

But even I get distracted by the fucking internet. It’s a drug, and not just metaphorically. The science increasingly shows that devices hijack our brains and emotions, making us more anxious, depressed, and lonely. Which, of course, only makes us want to use them more in order to distract ourselves from the crappy emotions that they created in the first place.

So. Here’s what I’ll suggest:

Step #1: Power OFF your phone

Don’t just put it on silent. Completely shut the fucker down. Then go HIDE it. Put it in a closet at the other end of the house, put it in the trunk of your car, put it in the attic in a box of old clothes. Get it out of your sight.

Step #2: Block the internet on your computer

Yup, the whole damn internet. You might have to pay for an app. It’s worth it. Last I checked selective blockers like Social Control are free, but if you want to block access to the entire internet you’ll need an app like Freedom or Cold Turkey, which cost money. At least a few of them have a free trial, though. And you might find something else with a little research.

If you write with GoogleDocs, find another way. If you want remote access to your work, you can always use Word on your desktop, then upload it to GoogleDocs when you’re done with your writing session.

Step #3: Don’t be put off by the intense feelings of anxiety, loneliness, and boredom that ensue from completing steps #1 and #2

That’s the good stuff. Writing can cure it; the internet will only exacerbate it. You might need to start with small, manageable chunks of time and work your way up. Power off your phone and block the internet for 15 or 30 minutes and write. Next time, try 45 minutes. And so on.

Step #4: Write

I mean, really, what else are you going to do now? For me, once the quick entertainment of the internet and my phone is gone, writing is the next most interesting thing to do with my time.

Step #5: Make note of how you feel after writing

Better? Don’t just observe how you feel immediately after your writing session. Notice how you feel that night, the next morning, the next day. Take actual notes. Do you feel like you’ve accomplished something? Do you feel lighter? More creative? More excited about life? Intrigued? You might also have some ambivalent or negative feelings. That’s fine–make note of those, too.

This part is really important. What you’re trying to do, over time, is to accumulate good memories and associations related to writing. That way, the next time you feel the urge to procrastinate (and that little voice in your head is saying–But INTERNET!) you have some experience to draw on. You can say, Wait a minute. Last time I turned off the internet and wrote I felt really good.

I’d actually suggest doing the same thing with your internet use. You’ll probably find that the more you turn it off, the more you are aware of how it affects you when you do use it (and how you feel afterwards–that one’s big). Get real with yourself about what it’s actually doing to your emotions and thought process. Not just the highs, but the lows, too.

Step #6: Repeat

Also, write me! I want to hear how it goes :)

Hope this helps!

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The Literary Architect is a writing advice blog run by me, Bucket Siler. For more writing help, check out my Free Resource Library, peruse my Tumblr Post Guide, or get The Complete Guide to Self-Editing for Fiction Writers. xoxo

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savnofilter · 4 years

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!! She said - I didnt want to say anything more about the drama cause I am honestly extremely over it, but you are completely right. This is exactly what she is doing. And she KNOWS that.

thats her message directed to my friend twice.

heres the screenshots of her coming back again to say the same thing again.

not to mention based on the diction from the original ask, i know its bob. because its the same diction used on the anonymous hate i received not too long back. and the same diction i was communicating with.

just because you have screenshots doesnt show the whole narrative. you took bits and pieces of the times i was present in conversation, and any person would be confused to what the fuck is going on. i dont know if youre upset that i actually own up to my mistakes, but im not some heartless "discord gremlin" like you people want to believe.

im not playing a victim, and someone making a HATE post about me does make me one ah... 😂 you got stuff mixed up man....

i dont get how im using it for clout? thought itd be the other way around. because what would i need it for? i never @ed you a single time, and im not even active on ao3 lol. and it just shows yall are stalking my blog. just like on my server, waiting for me to fuck up. like on my blog ready for me to slip up. its strange that youd be on my posts like

that. because you even implied that my shit is trash LOL so theres not reason why you should even responding to a post...? on my blog?? girl what... if i was such a "manipulator", why didnt i make the callout post first? if i wanted to absolutely fool my followers (yup because you think that theyre that dumb) i wouldve @ed you and everything!! not.

i write because i want to make stories and share it with people. im nice to people because theyre nice to me. i like letting people know their important. idk if you think its fake because i am no longer nice to you, but im friends with almost everyone i meet so take that with what you will...

you dont accuse people or use strong definitions to describe someone because they have beef with your friend. you pretend like i cant be upset and i have every right because all you guys are doing are twisting my words because you guys dont like me and feel everyone else shouldnt either.its always, "what did sav say" "its not what you said its how you say it" but no one gives a fuck how they come to me. no one gives a fuck "how they say it" to me. if i feel defensive of course im going to get cold.

EDIT: its called watching porn and reading,, doujins. unless you do those off incog then youre a real troop. on any day you will see the incognito tab guy at the top of my screen LMAO. and my friend sent that and i had to protect her privacy ahah. also im sure you cant copy and paste? id know because when i first got tumblr, id try copy and pasting blog names but itd never works so i had to get the app.😔 plus im not tryna have some person in my actual life got pulled into bullshit. im not hearing anything until someone tells me dude. and i cant go on my inbox either? and those screenshots were from when you sent them if you checked the timestamp lol.

you say that we're children but you attack us. 🤔😂 vent is supposed to be where you share whats troubling you and when people attack you instead of course someone is going to get defensive. arguing with people in vent is so inappropriate, and im really speechless. if you were trying to really "open" her eyes, you had to send it twice? if youre easily angered by someone saying they dont like people celebrate early than thats your prerogative.

dont try to claim harassment when you made a post about me first, sent your minions after me. you know whats harassment? coming into my server the sole purpose to basically get me annoyed and fuck up, make posts and reply to hateful messages like "yes yes hate sav the cunt child!" this is me defending myself. if you were truly done youd stop. bbs.

stop trying to push this weird narrative that i dont give a fuck that i hurt peoples feelings. ive explained it all dude. its up to you if you dont want to believe but im just going to ask kindly that you stop dude. you dont create this demonizing post, delete my replies and everything ive said, block me and say, iM oVeR iT, and proceed to talk shit about me behind a block? stop acting like that post wasnt an act of just pure hate. like you got what you wanted, i just ask that you stop.

i said i was going to drop it and you responded so... im done because you and your people want to believe that im terrible person, its fine. at the end of the day i know me and the people who know me will stick with me. i just ask that you stop and i'll delete my stuff if you delete yours. best of wishes dude. 💃🏽

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zizeschmizes · 5 years

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helping hand. | solo

WHO: lauren zizes (& antonio zizes)

WHAT: help comes in the form of a call from home.

WHEN: 10/15; late afternoon

WHERE: outside of A Latte Fun Coffee

Lauren pushed out of the coffee shop, walking a few paces away from where patrons passed through into the busy campus spot and paused to put in her earbuds. Finding a job on campus and around town was proving to be a major pain in the ass. Everything from work study assignments to in town gigs had been snatched up long before she'd started looking.

It was her own damn fault, really. Adjusting to the new reality of sophomore year was taking a lot longer than it did in her previous semesters. Then, she'd been lucky enough to snag a choice spot in the library. Working the front desk usually meant long stretches of time spent watching movies and doing her homework in between stacking books to be reshelved and answering the occasional question from a lost student.

Now she was left scrambling. Her softball scholarship covered her tuition and the basics of housing (on campus) and meal plans, but the rest (like living) was up to her. Refusing to touch her savings meant budgeting herself to only the essentials but even those were starting to feel beyond her bank account. New camera lens, an extra external drive to house her pictures, a new fall coat...the dollar signs were giving her a headache.

Lauren sighed. A Latte Fun was her last resort. She'd tried the barista thing back in New Orleans, slinging coffee the spring and summer before her freshman year and it wasn't terrible, just not ideal. Still, a job was a job, and the coffee shop would prove helpful. Not to mention workable with her schedule. She just didn't know when she'd actually sleep. Of course this was all pending, she wouldn't know about the job until later, but the interview had gone well. Still...she needed a backup, just in case.

There was a sharp pressure building at the back of her neck, a sure sign of stress and Lauren absently rubbed at the spot as she made her way back to campus, where a long night of editing was in her future. She'd picked up a side gig, snapping pictures of Homecoming Weekend for Ginsburg's Alumni Association and needed to get the files for last weekend's big game to the webmaster by morning.

The sound of her phone ringing paused the music that played softly from her earbuds and Lauren was prepared to ignore the FaceTime request until she saw the name. She hit 'Accept' and the familiar sight of her eldest brother's face coming into view made brought forth the first genuine smile she'd had all afternoon.

"Hey, Nono."

"Hey! You busy?"

Lauren shook her head and took a break from her walk to sit on a nearby bench. "Leaving the coffee shop. What's up? Where are you?"

Antonio flipped the camera, giving Lauren a brief glimpse of the gym in the background, decked out in LSU purple and gold before turning it front facing. “Just finished up, bout to meet Gabe for food. Haven’t heard from you in a minute.”

“Yeah, I know” she replied, ignoring the tiny pinprick of guilt that followed. “Still tryin’ to get settled with school and stuff.”

Brown eyes, much like her own, held a sympathetic gaze and Antonio shook his head in the camera’s view. “Figured you were busy that’s why I reached out. It’ll be your turn to hit me up next time. Everything okay?”

“Yup!” Lauren nodded, backing up her strained response with a smile that wasn’t as bright as her first one, looking as tired as she felt, and she was seriously regretting a video call. Because she knew her brother and knew he’d pick up on her weird mood right away.

“Something’s wrong. What happened?”

There it was. The worry that she didn’t want to hear. She was fine to handle the problem (that wasn’t even a problem) on her own. As the first of the bunch, Antonio had the responsibility of wrangling the others and keeping them in line. He was their parents’ pride and joy, the dutiful eldest son who’d followed in his father’s footsteps.

Star footballer, exceptional student, LSU’s twice elected homecoming king leaving college a legend, with a degree in hand and a top pick in the NFL draft. He was the blueprint the others were expected to follow and it drove Lauren crazy that on top of everything, her successful, saintly, stupidly handsome brother was also a total sweetheart.

He was good for a deep talk, looking out for his siblings in a way that Lauren always appreciated...but not now. She didn’t want to hear about how ‘things would work out’. She just wanted to hide under her covers for a little while, just enough time to suck it up and stop feeling sorry for herself.

“It’s nothing. Got a lot of work to do, and I’m still lookin’ for a job. But it’s fine, really.” This smile was better than the last, going for subtle as she continued, easing back into a drawl that matched his own. “Congrats on the game, by the way. Y’all ate Florida up.”

Whether or not Antonio bought it, his face gave nothing away. Instead, his lips twisted into a grin that bordered on cocky and for some reason made Lauren miss home more than anything...if only to throw a pillow at his head and wipe it off his face. “Yeah, we did alright.”

“Y’all are number one in the division, it’s more than ‘alright’. How’s Gabe?”

He shrugged. “Still a jackass. You gotta come home sometime, get your brother together.”

Lauren laughed. “He doesn’t listen to anybody.”

“Yeah? Sound familiar?” He grinned at the ‘shut up!’ that followed and the laughter that came after.

“I know he was on best manners with the parents there, though.”

“Oh you know that. We missed you at Homecoming.”

She shrugged. “It’s Homecoming here, now. Our game was Saturday too. We won, by the way.”

“‘We’?”

“Showing my school spirit. I had to take pictures of the events for the alumni association so I went to the game. And I gotta do a few other appearances. For softball stuff. Whatever.” It wouldn’t do to point out that her parents had yet to attend a homecoming at Ginsburg, despite never missing one, or any home game for her brothers at LSU. That ship had long sailed and Lauren had no intention of bringing up old shit.

For his part, Antonio skirted past the topic, recognizing Lauren’s dismissiveness. Still, he couldn’t help but ask his next question. “You sure you’re okay? You don’t need anything?”

“I’m fine. Just tired. Long weekend. Long week ahead.”

“Okay. Well good luck with the job stuff. When’re you hearin’ back from them?”

“I don’t know. Sometime this week.” The ‘hopefully’ was silent, but her tone said enough and Lauren shook her head at her brother’s look of concern. “I’ll be fine.”

The angle of the phone changed slightly, Antonio’s face tilted upwards and he hummed an absent ‘Mhm’ at his little sister before the connection blurred and went on pause.

“Antonio? What…” It was only a minute or two before he returned, now in the driver’s seat of his truck and grinning at a perplexed Lauren. “Where did you go?”

“Check your phone,” he told her, ignoring the question altogether while setting his phone in the holder on the dash. “Should be getting an alert now.”

Sure enough, the muted tone beeped in her ears and Lauren paused the video feed to check the text notification from her bank’s app, and the alert that $300 had been added to her account. The culmination of the rough day, and her brother’s kindness brought a lump to her throat and she swallowed it down, taking a deep breath before resuming the video.

“You didn’t have to do that, Nono.”

Antonio rolled his eyes as if Lauren’s stubbornness was a mild inconvenience and not the Zizes trademark. “Yeah, I did. You need it, I got it, and I know you ain’t askin’ anybody. Especially not Ma or Dad. I got you.”

“Thank you. I’ll pay you--”

“Nope. That’s yours. It’s fine. Just get somebody hot to play me in the movie you write about us, all I ask.”

That made Lauren laugh out loud, drawing a few looks from people ambling on the sidewalks but she paid them no attention. “Issa deal.”

“Good. I gotta get Gabe but I’ll tell him you said hey, okay? Love you, Lozinha!”

The call disconnected and Lauren paused her music. Antonio’s generosity wouldn’t completely solve her problems, but it made things feel a little less chaotic. She would still pursue a job, whether it was at the coffee shop or somewhere else because she wouldn’t rely on that kind of bailout, no matter how much Antonio insisted it was what he was there for.

With a sigh, Lauren pushed off the bench and slinging her bag over her shoulder, began the trek back to her dorm and the mountain of work that waited.

#para.all #para.solo #para001

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carmenlire · 6 years

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Higher than the Big Trees Ch. 16

Edit credit: @kindaresilient <3

Two chapters in two days? Don’t get used to this lmao

read chapter one

read on ao3

Alec stands in front of Magnus’s door and takes a breath before reaching out to knock.

He’s not nervous. Even though it’s the first time that he’s going to be visiting Magnus at his place, there’s no butterflies or lead in his stomach.

Remarkably, he feels relaxed. He’s hung out with Magnus before and it didn’t end in disaster.

Hopefully, he can keep up that streak.

Plus, it’s not as if this is a date. They’re friends, nothing more.

As Alec knocks, he takes in the corridor. Magnus lived in Brooklyn, on the top floor of one of the many buildings that had been renovated a few years ago. There’s exposed brickwork and intermittent light fixtures and it all seems to fit Magnus’s style, perfectly. It’s elegant but with character.

Magnus opens the door just a few seconds later, smiling.

“Good evening, Alexander.”

“Magnus, hi.”

Alec smiles back as he gives him a onceover. Magnus had apparently changed when he’d gotten home because he’s the most dressed down Alec’s ever seen him. He’s wearing a pair of yoga pants with a plain black singlet. His feet are bare, toes painted a dark emerald and adorned with a silver ring.

What the fuck.

Alec swallows as he sees Magnus’s arms. How were clothes able to hide so much?

He clears his throat and meets Magnus’s eyes for a beat before Magnus steps back and swings the door open wider, beckoning Alec in.

“Welcome. Did you have any trouble finding it?”

Alec steps over the threshold, immediately toeing off his Nikes.

“No,” he says distractedly. “Google Maps has yet to let me down.”

His gaze roves over what he can see of Magnus’s apartment. He sees more exposed brick, rich tapestries and colorful furniture. It’s a weird hybrid of old and new-- modern and ancient-- and Alec loves it.

From behind him, he hears, “Well, that makes one of us, darling. Once I was in Estonia trying to find this historically significant cathedral and the app just kept leading me in circles. A twenty minute stroll turned into a two hour fiasco. It was a mess.”

Alec turns around. “Maybe it was operator error,” he teases.

Magnus huffs, rolling his eyes. “Believe whatever you like. I’m usually an expert explorer, I have a sixth sense, but during that trip I got lost too many times to count. I was just running in circles. Plus, the Estonian language isn’t for the faint of heart-- I didn’t have a clue of what anything meant.”

“At least you have a story to tell now.”

“Like I need more of those,” Magnus says ruefully.

“Let’s move things out of my foyer.” He nods towards the living room and Alec follows him as he heads to the couch. There’s an infinitesimal pause, Alec only notices it because he’s neurotic, but Magnus chooses one end of the couch, the one closest to the french doors.

Alec has a minute to panic-- couch or chair or other chair-- but in the end his brain short circuits and he goes with the closest option.

The other end of the couch.

There’s an entire cushion between them and Magnus doesn’t look like he’s judging him too hard, so Alec relaxes against the surprisingly comfortable couch. It looks like it’s supposed to be a statement piece not to actually sit on, but as Alec leans against the back, it’s nice as hell.

Magnus looks smug. “Not as hard as it looks, huh?”

“I thought I was going to have to pretend like I wasn’t extremely uncomfortable for the entire night but this couch is actually a dream.”

Magnus nods a little as he settles against his armrest, bringing one leg up to tuck under the other. “I know exactly what you mean. When I first went furniture shopping, I wanted something comfortable but not shabby, you know? I walked by this couch a dozen times because it looked like something rich people have-- useless and purely decorative. But, I hadn’t found anything yet and it was in my budget so on a whim I sat down and almost melted into it. I bought it on the spot. I’ve had it eight years and it looks the same as the day I bought it-- definitely one of the best purchases I ever made.”

Alec mirrors Magnus’s position, runs a hand through his hair. “I know exactly what you mean. I bought the couch I have now when I moved out on my own. I won’t lie, it looks like shit, but it’s comfortable as hell and I know that I won’t ever get rid of it. It was the first big purchase I bought when the money came in from my first single. I’m emotionally attached to it.”

Magnus hums, looks at Alec with narrowed eyes. “I wouldn’t have expected that. You keep surprising me.”

Alec blinks. “Good surprises, I hope?”

“Very good,” Magnus says softly.

There’s a moment as the two of them just look at each other. It’s not uncomfortable, just a pause in the conversation, but it strikes Alec.

He can’t remember the last person he could share the quiet with.

He clears his throat, raises one of his eyebrows. “What are these surprises?”

Magnus grins, reaching out one of his legs to gently poke at Alec’s. “You’re a superstar, darling. I’m sure you could buy a thousand couches and it wouldn’t dent your credit card. But, you keep the first couch you had for sentimental reasons. You tip lavishly-- don’t think I didn’t notice how much you left Anna and Marv a few weeks ago. You’re not an asshole,” Magnus concludes bluntly.

Barking out a laugh, Alec says, “That’s good to know. I try not to be an asshole. I’ve been doing this since I was sixteen. I’ve seen a lot of people come and go and I just try to be good. Not the best, but it doesn’t take a lot to say please or thank you or not to trash a hotel room.”

He breaks off, stares into nothing for a minute. When he looks back up at Magnus, he finds him already staring at him, eyes intense.

“I have an image. I actively cultivate that reputation as a playboy and rockstar. I don’t hide the fact that I like to have a good time. But, I also work my ass off. Some of my peers get into the industry and they see the signing bonuses and the easy hookups and they think that’s it. They don’t see the hundred of hours that go into producing an album or how important it is to network professionally or that the life isn’t for everyone.

“So, yeah, I tip because it means nothing to me but a lot to them. That couch is comfy as hell and I’m sentimental. I’m glad you see beyond the surface, Magnus.

“I’m glad you care enough to want to,” he says, voice low.

Magnus studies Alec for a moment, eyes flitting across his face. Voice just above a whisper, he says, “Of course I do.”

He straightens and leans forward imperceptibly. Alec catches himself swaying towards, just a little.

The air is tense with the promise of something and Alec's close enough to see Magnus's eyes dilate.

Magnus jerks a little and leans back against the armrest.

Alec lets out a breath.

“So,” Magnus starts. “I have all four movies and a drawer full of take out menus. Are you hungry?”

“Starving.”

Magnus laughs. “Okay, that’s good. What are you in the mood for? I’m hungry, too.”

Alec thinks for a minute. “Is there a local place that’s your go-to? I’m not too familiar with Brooklyn but I’m sure there something you’re in the mood for?”

Alec can’t be sure, but he thinks Magnus’s eyes might drop down to his mouth for a millisecond. He shakes himself. As if.

“Twilight is a bit of a comfort watch for me-- the movies really are shit and I usually just order a pizza from this place down the block. It’s a family owned place and they know what they’re doing.”

Alec’s nodding before Magnus even finishes. “That sounds amazing. My brother dragged me to the gym for hours today. I really am starving.”

“Say no more, darling-- oh, is there anything you don’t like on your pizza?”

Alec shakes his head and Magnus stands up and heads to what Alec presumes is his bedroom. He comes back a minute later, phone to his ear. He doesn’t go back to the couch. Instead, he wanders around the living room aimlessly while he talks to whoever is on the line.

“Good evening Tony, it’s Magnus. . . Oh, I’m fine. How’s your family?. . . They do grow up so fast. . . I’m still teaching, summer classes right now. . . Yup, the usual but let’s double the bread and the brownies. Thanks man, I’ll see Mikey soon.”

He hangs up, looks over at Alec with an amused expression. “Tony likes to talk. You can’t just order pizza-- you have to observe the pleasantries. He and his wife have been making pizza for thirty years and it’s a local joint. They pretty much know everyone.”

He comes around the couch, settling back into his spot. He relaxes, sprawls out a little more.

“I usually get an extra large supreme with an order of cheesy bread and brownies for dessert. How does that sound?”

Alec’s stomach growls and Magnus laughs.

“I’ll take that as approval. Now, let me put the first movie in and we can pause it when the food is delivered?”

“Sounds great.”

A few minutes later, the starting credits start to play.

Alec usually likes to watch movies silently, especially the first time. He hates when people talk during movies, distracting him, detracting from the experience.

But-- it’s so bad.

They’re only about halfway through the first one, but Alec's already looking forward to the rest of them. Edward looks like he’d literally rather die than look at Bella, Jacob is a little pathetic, and Bella herself looks like Alec feels-- there are really no good options, here.

Magnus and him make fun of the movie until there are tears in their eyes.

They’ve just gotten past the part where Edward scrabbles up a tree, shining like a disco ball, and Alec’s absolutely losing his shit.

“Oh my God,” he gasps. “What the fuck. What is wrong with him?”

Magnus’s mouth is open to reply when there’s a knock on the door. He stands up, chuckling. Over his shoulder, he calls out, “Why do you think they live in the Pacific Northwest, darling? The sun makes them sparkle and it just wouldn’t do for people to see that.”

Magnus opens the door, taking the boxes and sliding cash to the delivery boy.

“Thanks, Mikey.”

“No problem, Magnus. Enjoy your food--” he leans to the side, sees Alec half reclining on the couch. “And your date.”

The teenager leaves, chortling, pocketing the bills.

Magnus turns around, arms full and Alec rushes up to help him, grabbing the smaller boxes.

Magnus rolls his eyes. “Youths. They’re so precocious and they think they're so funny.” He sets the food down on the kitchen bar.

“I want to say that I was never such an asshat, but tragically, I know that I was probably worse.”

Alec nods and opens the pizza box, mouth watering at the smell of garlic and cheese and sauce.

“Oh, I know I was a bit of a nightmare. I was either really quiet and surly or over the top. I was a mess. Holy fuck, Magnus, this pizza looks amazing.”

Magnus grabs plates, handing one to Alec while he opens the box of cheesy bread.

“It really does. Tony’s outdone himself tonight.”

They two plate up and head back to the living room, collapsing against cushions and resuming the movie.

They both go back for seconds and pop in the second movie, polishing off the brownies during it.

As the credits start to roll, Alec slouches in his seat a little. Their plates are on the coffee table in front of them and they’re angled towards each other, knees barely touching.

Magnus climbs to his feet and stretches.

“Ready for number three?”

Alec groans. “I’m so full that all I’m ready for is a nap. I haven’t eaten that much in ages.”

Magnus disappears somewhere but Alec can still hear his voice.

“That’s what movie nights are for, Alexander. Eating too much unhealthy food and watching questionable movies.”

He comes back a moment later carrying a huge ass blanket.

“I was getting a little chilly, but I’d rather be cold with a blanket than fine without one, so.”

He sits down on the edge of the couch and looks over at Alec, he waves his blanket a little. “Want to share? I don’t know how you’re feeling but this blanket is definitely big enough for the two of us.”

Alec debates for a second before he’s scooching over to the middle cushion. “Whoever says no to additional coziness?”

Magnus grins and sits down next to Alec, they’re sides touching.

Alec is overtly aware of exactly where they’re touching.

Magnus settles the blanket over them both, smoothing it down.

He looks at Alec expectantly and Alec gives him a droll look. “Yes, you’re right, this is the best blanket I’ve ever had the good fortune to use.”

Magnus beams. “Told you so, darling.”

What Alec doesn't say is that the blanket smells like Magnus, sandalwood a subtle scent. It's nice.

Beyond nice.

Magnus starts Eclipse and minute by minute, Alec can feel himself getting sleepier. He’s stuffed with amazing food, Magnus is a long line of warmth beside him, and the couch combined with the damned blanket is making him drowsy.

Magnus shuffles a little, moving imperceptibly closer, leaning into Alec a little more.

Alec turns away, muffling a yawn, and slides down the couch a little, leg settling more firmly against Magnus.

He closes his eyes, just for a minute, and the next thing he’s aware of is someone on top of him.

He moves, just a little, and discovers that he’s laying down. Opening his eyes, he immediately squints as sunlight comes pouring in through the french doors, hitting him right in the face.

He closes his eyes again and just takes a few minutes to breathe and get his bearings.

His eyes fly open as he remembers where he is. Who he’s with.

He looks down and gets a face full of hair, Magnus settled against his chest.

Alec has a brief thought of oh shit, but he can’t deny that this feels good.

Honestly, it’s been awhile since he woke up next to a guy and didn’t immediately look for the exit.

He moves, just a little, and Magnus hums, squeezing him from where he’s wrapped an arm around his middle.

Alec feels Magnus waking up and has a moment to panic-- will Magnus think this is too forward? Friends fall asleep together, right? This won’t turn into an awkward morning after-- forgetting that nothing even happened?

Magnus noses along his tshirt before he freezes. He looks up and meets Alec’s eyes.

There’s a moment of silence as they just look at each other. Magnus looks a little ridiculous, makeup smudged all to hell and back, his hair rumpled and Alec knows he doesn’t look any better.

“Well.” Magnus’s lips quirk up. “We didn’t get to the fourth movie.”

Alec laughs, surprised.

“No,” he agrees. “Your blanket was too comfortable. It lulled me right to sleep.”

Magnus sighs. “It is magic.”

He looks back up at Alec, solemnly. “Your hair’s a mess, Alexander.”

Alec snorts. “You should see your face, Magnus.”

Magnus jolts upright, eyes widening in horror. “I fell asleep with my makeup on! Oh, I bet I look like a raccoon that lost a fight with Sephora.”

In the next moment, he’s shrugging, nonchalantly. “It happens. It’s better that you see me like this now so that I know if this friendship can continue or if messy makeup is too much for you.”

Laughing, Alec sits up, pulls the blanket into his lap from where it was pooling on the floor.

“It’ll take more than smeared makeup to scare me off, don’t worry.”

Magnus smiles and there’s a few minutes of silence as they relax on the couch.

It’s weird, but Alec doesn’t feel need to make a mad dash to the door. He’s not feeling like a clock’s ticking menacingly. He doesn’t feel judged for not immediately making an excuse for why he needs to leave.

There’s no pressure here and it feels damned good.

His thoughts break off as Magnus starts talking.

“I don’t know what you have planned today-- we had really just discussed last night-- but I know this place that serves a mean belgian waffle. Feel like breakfast?”

Alec takes stock, grimaces. “I’d love to but I’d also really love to not look like I just rolled out of bed if we go out.”

Magnus shrugs. “I have two bathrooms with extra supplies. Feel free to get ready here, if you’re interested.”

Grinning, Alec says, “Alright, sounds like a plan. When do you want to leave?”

Magnus looks at the clock above the television. “How about forty five minutes?”

Alec nods and stands, cracking his back. “Meet you back here then.”

He starts walking but pauses, turning back. “Where’s your bathroom?”

Magnus laughs and points to the left of the entryway. “Down that corridor, there’s a bathroom that’s the second door on the right. You should have everything you need but let me know if you don’t see something.”

Alec nods and turns back. He finds the bathroom without a problem. It’s elegant, if eccentric. It’s done in shades of burgundy and there’s an elephant toothbrush holder on the sink.

He finds toothpaste, towels, and a spare toothbrush. He takes a shower-- the water pressure is amazing-- and gets out, wrapping a towel around his waist. He brushes his teeth and finger combs his hair as best he can.

He doesn’t have any other clothes, so he has to wear yesterday’s. There’s a bedroom right next to the bathroom and Alec gathers his clothes-- it’s a bitch to get dressed in a steamy bathroom.

He opens the door and almost walks into Magnus.

They both step back and Alec immediately remembers that he’s half naked, the flimsy towel wrapped around his waist the only thing keeping him decent.

Magnus seems a little dazed, staring at Alec’s chest with a sort of mesmerized intensity.

“Magnus?”

Magnus jolts, turns up to smile at Alec.

“Alexander! I was just seeing if you needed anything.”

Magnus’s gaze keeps dropping to below Alec’s face and Alec feels heat climb up his neck. While it was gratifying to be checked out, especially by Magnus, he was probably reading what he wanted into things.

Alec shakes his head a little, clearing it and realizing that he hasn’t answered Magnus yet.

“I’m fine-- I was just going to get dressed in the guest room.”

Magnus nods a little too enthusiastically. “Okay then, help yourself. I’ll leave you to it. See you in a few.”

He turns on his heel and heads to the other side of the loft.

Alec watches him leave for a few seconds before going across the hall to the guest room. It only takes him a minute and then he’s opening the door and heading to the living room.

He debates what to do. Seeing that he has twenty minutes until they’re set to leave, he walks over to the end table, picks up his phone.

Finding that it's had died sometime in the night he turns instead to the bookshelf on the wall. It looks to be a mix of knickknacks and books and Alec’s eyes snag on European Conquerors.

Alec still has his copy at home-- he’s been making slow but steady progress, saving Magnus’s chapter for last.

He stands by the wall and opens the book, easily finding his place. He gets absorbed and is startled when he hears a cough.

He looks over his shoulder and sees Magnus looking at him, brows raised.

Alec brings the book up, showing him the cover.

“I saw this on your shelf and thought I’d read while I waited for you.”

Magnus looks unguarded. “You’re actually reading that?”

Alec shakes his head, confused. “Yeah? I told you I would and I checked it out of the library. Plus, you wrote it. There’s no way that I’m not going to.”

Magnus’s face is the picture of surprise before his expression melts into one of fondness.

He clears his throat.

“Well. What do you think of it so far?”

Alec shrugs, looks down at the book.

“It’s dense but really interesting. I liked Gregor’s account of the Dutch East Indies-- I learned a lot. But I didn’t care too much about Lorsch’s chapter on Britain's economic theory. I comprehended it but I couldn’t help but think that he supported colonialism in the end. He didn’t really write as a historian.”

Magnus rolls his eyes. “That’s because the old windbag devoutly believes in British superiority and thinks that the fact that they invaded half the world is a testament to its strength and vivacity. He mourns the loss of the Great British Empire like a baby mourns stolen candy.”

He walks over to the foyer, sliding his keys into his pocket.

He looks over his shoulder. “Have you read my chapter, yet?”

Alec shakes his head, tucking the book back into its place before snagging his phone from the table.

“No.” He grins. “I figured that I would save the best for last.”

Magnus rolls his eyes but Alec can tell that he’s pleased.

“Well, then, you’ll just have to keep me updated.”

Alec smiles. “I guess I will.”

The head out the door into a warm June morning.

The sun is shining and people are milling about.

Alec and Magnus head out to breakfast and enjoy crisp, fluffy Belgian waffles, Alec insisting on paying since Magnus picked up the takeout last night.

Neither can remember smiling so much during a mundane breakfast.

Both are already looking forward to the next time they can see each other.

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Until 2 years ago, I used to be a PC person. I had a giant tower desktop computer with fans with flashing lights. I replaced that with a maxed-out MacBook Pro so that I could start traveling and work from anywhere. The problem is, since then I’ve missed PC gaming. All that startup stuff gets so incredibly boring after awhile, and we need to destress. Why even leave your computer screen to destress when you can do it ON YOUR COMPUTER? YES! YES! FREEDOM OF REALITY!

So let’s browse the games in Apple’s App Store, well, they’re not so great. It’s kind of the iOS type stuff but then for OSX. Pretty very very shit.

But that’s stupid, because the MacBook Pro 15″ has two graphic cards, and they’re actually pretty powerful. And the MacBook Pro 13″ and MacBook Air have on-board graphic cards, but they’re fine to play PC games from a few years ago (like Skyrim). So it’s a bit of a shame, we can’t play games on it. And well, destress.

How about GTA V? It’s come out for PC a few months ago, so I wanted to see if I could get it working on my MacBook Pro. I was pretty sure I couldn’t, but I still wanted to try. I mean I’ve been wanting to play this for years, but never had a device for it. I mean, YOU NEED TO PLAY THIS, RIGHT?

I know you can run Windows on Mac with Parallels. But it’s a virtualization app, so it’d never run it with any high performance as the graphics drivers are virtual (software emulated) and not native (hardware). Try it with any game, it’ll probably crash even before playing it, or it’ll be extremely slow.

But then there’s Boot Camp, which lets you run Windows natively (without virtualization) and with high performance on your Mac. After it’s installed you’ll have to reboot to switch to Windows, but that only takes half a minute each time.

**Since Apple doesn’t like Windows, it makes it REALLY EXTRA SUPER hard to get Boot Camp to work. Obviously cause they hate Windows and never want you to use it. I get it. But that means it’s full of stupid bugs that you have to figure out yourself how to fix. It took me 10 days. Yes. 10 days of tears. Maybe that’s why I don’t know anybody using Boot Camp. So to save you all the PAIN and time, here is my tutorial with all the tricks to get it working. **

What you’ll need

16GB USB stick (not an SD card!), I tried a 8GB one as Apple recommends it, but it wasn’t big enough, yup WHATEVER!

Windows 8 ISO file, in a perfect world you’d buy this from Microsoft, but they make it really hard and want to ship you a physical CD (what the fuck, it’s 2015, let me buy an ISO), so just find an ISO file of Windows somewhere (okay fine, Microsoft, I guess you don’t WANT my money)

Steam account to buy GTA V PC (it’s about $50 I think, worth it because you can play it online if you buy it legally)

Prepare Boot Camp

First search for Boot Camp Assistant on your Mac. Click Continue and you’ll see this:

If this is your first time, select ALL boxes. The first one makes your USB stick loaded with Windows and OSX’s boot camp loader, the second one is the Boot Camp drivers it adds, the third one sounds weird but means it’ll partition your drive to set up Windows.

So now click Continue:

Select your Windows ISO file and continue.

It’ll take some time to copy the Windows ISO to your USB stick, and then download the drivers from Apple that are compatible to your Windows version.

When it finishes, you’ll see this partition window. This means it’ll divide your hard drive up in two pieces, one drive for Windows, one for Mac’s OSX. Here it gets really dodgy, because it actually doesn’t work properly EVER.

You need to choose how big your Windows drive should be. To calculate the size: Windows needs about 20 GB to function, then you need some space for your game. GTA V takes 65 GB, so that is 65+20=85 GB. To make it performant I rounded it up to 100 GB. But it depends on how big your games are etc. Skyrim e.g. is less than 10 GB. So you’d need only 30 to 40 GB probably.

But then it doesn’t work

The reason I said this is dodgy is because it’ll probably fail. You’ll see this amazingly descript error probably like me and my friends did:

It took me days to figure out how to fix it. But it comes down to this: (1) free up space on your drive and (2) if it has disk errors or not. Aim to get about 50% free space. For me that was insane because I have a 1TB drive, with 100 GB free, so I had to free up another 400 GB. It helps to just put stuff on an external hard drive while you’re setting up Boot Camp, you can put it back after.

The non-blue stuff on Macintosh HD is my free space, not enough obviously. Make sure you get about 50% free space on your drive. So if you have 256 GB drive, get 125 GB free. At 500 GB, 250 GB free. At 1 TB, 500 GB free. You get it.

Now fix those errors

Even after clearing all that space, Boot Camp will probably still whine and fail again, like it did for me.

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That’s because it’ll run into some weird errors on your drive. Those weird errors are because off, well, I have no fucking clue. But they’re there. How to fix this? Well you open Disk Utility.

Click “Verify Disk” and it’ll check your disk. This might take awhile. I got this crazy scary error. If you didn’t get that and it’s verified, then just skip this part.

I was like “wait WHAT? NO!”. My SSD drive was broken? Why did nobody tell me! I rebooted into Recovery Mode (reboot and hold CMD+R). There I opened Disk Utility in there to verify my disk. If your disk is encrypted like mine, you need to unlock it first by right-clicking the disk, selecting Unlock and entering your password.

Then I verified it again, repaired everything and it worked fine. There were no errors. Odd right? Who cares! Because after this it worked. I rebooted into normal OSX mode and started Boot Camp Assistant again. This time I only selected the last checkbox:

Let’s try again

There we go, partition it:

After partitioning, Boot Camp Assistant automatically restarts. And then BAM!

Now Windows doesn’t like our partitions

Yay! It’s Windows! On a Mac! Don’t celebrate too early, because this is where hell starts.

See what that says? “Windows cannot be installed to Disk 0 Partition 3”. Wait WHAT? WHY! Boot Camp was supposed to fix this shit, right? I was supposed to not do anything and Boot Camp would put all the files in the right place, to make it work on Mac, right?

NOPE!

Then you press Format on that partition. And it seems to work but no it doesn’t because it says:

“The selected disk of the GPT partition style”

COME ON!

What does it take for a (wo)man to get a Windows around here?

Well, a lot. After hours of Googling, I figured it out.

You need to reboot back into OSX. Exit the installation. Then hold ALT/OPTION and select Macintosh HD to boot to. Then go back to Disk Utility:

Select your BOOTCAMP partition and go to the Erase tab, then under Format select ExFAT and click Erase. Make sure you’re erasing the correct partition (BOOTCAMP not Macintosh HD).

After that reboot your MacBook into Windows by rebooting and holding the ALT/OPTION key and selecting your USB stick (I think it’s called EFI). It’ll load the Windows install again.

Try selecting the BOOTCAMP partition in the Windows installation again, you can recognize it by the size you made it. For me that was 100 GB (it showed as I think 86 GB). If it still gives an error, go last resort. Remove the BOOTCAMP partition within the Windows installation by clicking Delete.

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Then add a new partition by clicking New:

Try installing it on that partition. If that still doesn’t work, you’re out of luck, cause I have no idea either.

And then…it works

You’ll see this.

The problem is that there’s a good chance the Boot Camp drivers for Windows to understand your MacBook (e.g. use WiFi, sound, etc.) aren’t installed. Luckily they’re on your USB stick. In the Start Screen go to search and type File Explorer. Then try to fin your USB stick. Open the Boot Camp folder and find an Install app, open it and let it run. It’ll probably reboot.

Now with all your drivers installed, most of the stuff on your MacBook will work on Windows now. My friend has some problems with the Bluetooth keyboard, but that was an unofficial keyboard. My Apple one worked perfectly. As did my Logitech wireless mouse.

Now let’s make Windows suck less

Okay, so Windows 8 is obviously the worst interface any person has come across. Like Windows 8 itself actually feels pretty solid, if you get out of that insane box square maze mayhem they call the Start Menu now. It’s insane. Who runs this company? So incredibly stupid to do this. My dad just switched to OSX because he couldn’t understand this Start Screen. Biggest fail of the century.

We have no choice though. We want to play games! So to get your start menu (from old times) back, install Classic Shell.

Then set this image as the start button in preferences:

Yay! Now to disable that stupid Start Screen, right-click on the Task Bar, then click Properties, then click the Navigation tab, then check “When I sign in or close all apps on a screen, go to the desktop instead of Start”, uncheck “When I point to the upper-right corner, show the charms”.

Now install Steam

I’ll let you do this as it’s pretty easy. Go to Steam and the top right click Install Steam.

Then search for GTA V. Click Download.

Here’s the problem, GTA V is 65 GB and that will take awhile. You obviously don’t want to be stuck for hours in Windows. The trick here is to install Parallels in OSX (if you haven’t already). Reboot to OSX (hold ALT/OPTION and select Macintosh HD) and set Parallels up so it uses the Boot Camp partition. Open Parallels, select Boot Camp on the right and follow the instructions:

After installing, try playing GTA V. Customize the graphic settings a bit. You can’t play it on super high settings, but you can go pretty far on a MacBook Pro 15″. Like I said, it has an actually really powerful graphics card, so it can run GTA V fine.

Yay!

Now you can use your Boot Camp partition within OSX with Parallels to download games/software and continue working. Then when it’s finished, reboot to Windows and play your PC games.

It took me awhile to get back into playing games when I did all of this. I mean, it’s like it has to compete with reality, which is already insane for me, and so GTA V felt somewhat “fake” to me for days, until I accepted it was a game, and nothing I did in there would be an actual accomplishment. See, that’s what startup life psychology does to you. And on a serious note, that’s why we should all play more games. Because it helps you get out of your filter bubble.

Going outside to walk your dog? Naaaaaah, why would you! There’s GTA V!

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GTA V Mac OS X – Minimum System Requirements

CPU:Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 / AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core Processor

CPU Speed:2.4 GHz

RAM:4 GB

OS:Mac OS 10.9

Video Card:NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 1GB / AMD Radeon HD 4870 1GB

Free Disk Space50 GB

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motionhunter131 · 2 years

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Well to me it sounds like GTA V does not support Mac OS. But in any case for support for this you should contact Epic Games. From what I can tell this is the supported OS for GTA V from the epic launcher.

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So let’s browse the games in Apple’s App Store, well, they’re not so great. It’s kind of the iOS type stuff but then for OSX. Pretty very very shit.

What you’ll need

16GB USB stick (not an SD card!), I tried a 8GB one as Apple recommends it, but it wasn’t big enough, yup WHATEVER!

Steam account to buy GTA V PC (it’s about $50 I think, worth it because you can play it online if you buy it legally)

Prepare Boot Camp

First search for Boot Camp Assistant on your Mac. Click Continue and you’ll see this:

So now click Continue:

Select your Windows ISO file and continue.

It’ll take some time to copy the Windows ISO to your USB stick, and then download the drivers from Apple that are compatible to your Windows version.

But then it doesn’t work

The reason I said this is dodgy is because it’ll probably fail. You’ll see this amazingly descript error probably like me and my friends did:

Now fix those errors

Even after clearing all that space, Boot Camp will probably still whine and fail again, like it did for me.

That’s because it’ll run into some weird errors on your drive. Those weird errors are because off, well, I have no fucking clue. But they’re there. How to fix this? Well you open Disk Utility.

Click “Verify Disk” and it’ll check your disk. This might take awhile. I got this crazy scary error. If you didn’t get that and it’s verified, then just skip this part.

Let’s try again

There we go, partition it:

After partitioning, Boot Camp Assistant automatically restarts. And then BAM!

Now Windows doesn’t like our partitions

Yay! It’s Windows! On a Mac! Don’t celebrate too early, because this is where hell starts.

NOPE!

Then you press Format on that partition. And it seems to work but no it doesn’t because it says:

“The selected disk of the GPT partition style”

COME ON!

What does it take for a (wo)man to get a Windows around here?

Well, a lot. After hours of Googling, I figured it out.

You need to reboot back into OSX. Exit the installation. Then hold ALT/OPTION and select Macintosh HD to boot to. Then go back to Disk Utility:

Select your BOOTCAMP partition and go to the Erase tab, then under Format select ExFAT and click Erase. Make sure you’re erasing the correct partition (BOOTCAMP not Macintosh HD).

After that reboot your MacBook into Windows by rebooting and holding the ALT/OPTION key and selecting your USB stick (I think it’s called EFI). It’ll load the Windows install again.

Then add a new partition by clicking New:

Try installing it on that partition. If that still doesn’t work, you’re out of luck, cause I have no idea either.

And then…it works

You’ll see this.

Now let’s make Windows suck less

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We have no choice though. We want to play games! So to get your start menu (from old times) back, install Classic Shell.

Then set this image as the start button in preferences:

Now install Steam

I’ll let you do this as it’s pretty easy. Go to Steam and the top right click Install Steam.

Then search for GTA V. Click Download.

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cloudhunter25 · 3 years

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So let’s browse the games in Apple’s App Store, well, they’re not so great. It’s kind of the iOS type stuff but then for OSX. Pretty very very shit.

What you’ll need

16GB USB stick (not an SD card!), I tried a 8GB one as Apple recommends it, but it wasn’t big enough, yup WHATEVER!

Steam account to buy GTA V PC (it’s about $50 I think, worth it because you can play it online if you buy it legally)

Prepare Boot Camp

First search for Boot Camp Assistant on your Mac. Click Continue and you’ll see this:

So now click Continue:

Select your Windows ISO file and continue.

It’ll take some time to copy the Windows ISO to your USB stick, and then download the drivers from Apple that are compatible to your Windows version.

But then it doesn’t work

The reason I said this is dodgy is because it’ll probably fail. You’ll see this amazingly descript error probably like me and my friends did:

Now fix those errors

Even after clearing all that space, Boot Camp will probably still whine and fail again, like it did for me.

That’s because it’ll run into some weird errors on your drive. Those weird errors are because off, well, I have no fucking clue. But they’re there. How to fix this? Well you open Disk Utility.

Click “Verify Disk” and it’ll check your disk. This might take awhile. I got this crazy scary error. If you didn’t get that and it’s verified, then just skip this part.

Let’s try again

There we go, partition it:

After partitioning, Boot Camp Assistant automatically restarts. And then BAM!

Now Windows doesn’t like our partitions

Yay! It’s Windows! On a Mac! Don’t celebrate too early, because this is where hell starts.

NOPE!

Then you press Format on that partition. And it seems to work but no it doesn’t because it says:

“The selected disk of the GPT partition style”

COME ON!

What does it take for a (wo)man to get a Windows around here?

Well, a lot. After hours of Googling, I figured it out.

You need to reboot back into OSX. Exit the installation. Then hold ALT/OPTION and select Macintosh HD to boot to. Then go back to Disk Utility:

Select your BOOTCAMP partition and go to the Erase tab, then under Format select ExFAT and click Erase. Make sure you’re erasing the correct partition (BOOTCAMP not Macintosh HD).

After that reboot your MacBook into Windows by rebooting and holding the ALT/OPTION key and selecting your USB stick (I think it’s called EFI). It’ll load the Windows install again.

Then add a new partition by clicking New:

Try installing it on that partition. If that still doesn’t work, you’re out of luck, cause I have no idea either.

And then…it works

You’ll see this.

Now let’s make Windows suck less

We have no choice though. We want to play games! So to get your start menu (from old times) back, install Classic Shell.

Then set this image as the start button in preferences:

Now install Steam

I’ll let you do this as it’s pretty easy. Go to Steam and the top right click Install Steam.

Then search for GTA V. Click Download.

Yay!

Now you can use your Boot Camp partition within OSX with Parallels to download games/software and continue working. Then when it’s finished, reboot to Windows and play your PC games.

Going outside to walk your dog? Naaaaaah, why would you! There’s GTA V!

Furthermore, the version of the game that is put up for free is the GTA 5’s Premium Edition – this includes the full storyline from the game plus Grand Theft Auto Online in addition to all currently existing in-game upgrades and bonus content. To top it all, users would also get the “Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack” that comes with even more content as well as 1,000,000 $ bonus in-game money for online play.

All you need in order to grab the GTA V for free is a working PC or Mac (of course, one that could run this rather resource-intensive game), an Epic Games Launcher, and an Epic Games account. However, one thing we must note here is that users would have to have enabled two-factor authentication on their accounts in order to be permitted to get the game for free.

Can you run GTA V on Mac?

The short answer is yes. If you have already set up you Mac to play PC games then just go ahead and take advantage of the Full free Version of GTA V. If not, you will need to install Boot Camp, create a virtual Machine and afterwards install the game.

How to play gta v on mac without bootcamp?

Performance wise it would be unpractical using other methods. The performance decrease would make the game unplayable. However if you are using one of the latest high performance macs on the market you can give Wineskin a shot. Setting up a Virtual machine would make much sense either.

Install GTA 5 on Mac with bootcamp

Before attempting to install boot camp we recommend checking your macs specifications and cross referencing them with those recommend to run GTA 5. Next, you will need a program called Boot Camp. With Boot Camp, you can install a version of Windows 10 which is compatible with GTA 5. Here are the steps for installing Windows 10 on a Mac using Boot Camp:

Download Windows 10 ISO onto your mac

Configure Boot Camp Assistant

Go to Finder > Applications > Utilities > Boot Camp Assistant

Open the program and click continue

Select the Windows 10 ISO

Choose somewhere around 100GB of space

Install the Windows 10 ISO and configure Windows

Install recommended drivers after booting up the Windows partition

If you are running Mac OS Cataline 10.15 we recommend watching this YouTube video to make sure you are not missing out on any of the steps.

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Although ac computers aren’t specifically designed as gaming machines, it is still possible to play games in them. However, if you want to run GTA V on a Mac, you will first need to install Windows 7 or higher. We highly recommend installing windows 10 on your Mac even with the latest version of Mac OS 10.15.5 via something called Windows Boot Camp (official instructions from Apple on how to set this up) using the instructions above. Also, note that, in order to run the game on your Mac, you will also need at least 65 GB of free space and your machine would have to meet/exceed the minimum system requirements for the game.

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At the moment, the game persists in gaming charts, and, hence, bringing it to more playing platforms is financially meaningful for all interested parties.

Grand Theft Auto 5 also gives fans a lot of content and the players in Stadia would surely enjoy the well-regarded title in their gaming collection. It remains to be seen if this game would contribute to improving Stadia’s revenue, although this depends a lot on the continuing success and popularity of GTA 5.

Grand Theft Auto 5 can currently be played on PCs, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, with PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X scheduled to be launched in late 2021.

Running GTA on Apple silicon

For the time being m1 chips cannot run windows with Boot Camp. The fundamental reason is that the two operating systems now run on totally different architecture. Where as intel chips on Mac were capable of running Windows 10 this would be nearly impossible to achieve with all new Macs with apple silicon

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wildhoneyb · 6 years

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170504 Baekhyun’s birthday party, full translation (in progress)

* Last updated 171203 4pm KST. I’ve attempted to translate all of Baekhyun’s dialogue during the party, as much as can be gathered from various voice files.

* If you take any part of this anywhere else, please be sure to cite me by this link, or by my twitter handle (@wildhoney_b) at least. Since I’m continuously editing and adding, I would appreciate it if you would link directly to this post instead of just copypasting or screencapping =)

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(Enter Baekhyun)

Hi!

Long time no see. Do you guys know what day it is today? It’s the day we do the Kyoong-day party, right?

I just got back from a flight, and I also did some exercising just to look good in front of you guys—leading that busy life. But I’ve missed you guys, so again, just like last year, I decided to have a Kyoong-day party.

I notice we had a lot of people come. Next time, we need to do this in the Gymnastics Hall or something [big Korean concert venue]! But still, isn’t it nicer to see each other up closer, like this? I heard that the competition was super high for tickets among you fans. I had some acquaintances of mine ask me if they could attend the Kyoong-day party too, but hey, it shouldn’t be that way, right? (Fans: Yes!) So I turned them all down.

So, should we really get started on the Kyoong-day party?

It’s my birthday today but no surprises for me here. Cake, please appear!

Cake, please appear. Hello?

(Hums wedding march.) No this isn’t it, this isn’t it! Wait wait, we’re not getting married, right? Let’s redo this. One, two! (Fans sing birthday song.)

Now I’ll make a wish…

Should I do the cutting? It looks like it’s a tough cake to cut… oh wait, it cuts just fine. I’ll just cut it this far and leave it. Sideways [eossut], you know.

Should I put on this crown? (Fans: Yes!) Since you guys are my masters today, I’ll do just as you say.

Isn’t this [crown] too small? This is way too small, I look like a jellyfish up here! I think I’ll look prettier with it off. (Fans: Awww!) No? Wait a minute. I should have put it on earlier in the waiting room. (Adjusts crown.) Is this looking…better?

Anyway you guys, today we have Bingo, and we’ve got a lot of other stuff prepared. Let’s make some sweet memories together.

Now then, please pass around the cake! Put it to one side, like this…

I’m going to sit down too now, and talk more with you guys. Folks on the second floor, can you see well? (Fans: Loud cheer.) You guys must be seeing TOO well over there. Anyway, we’re going to start the special corners we’ve prepared, one by one. We’ve worked to prepare a lot of stuff that will make you guys smile ear to ear.

The first corner is! (Clears throat.) I think a lot of you guys will want this. Q&A session! We gathered some questions in advance, and I’m going to take these sticky notes one by one and answer each question. You know how it works, right? Let’s begin.

There’s a lot of questions. Wow, hmm. The first ones are really hard. Give me a second.

First one. “How you felt when the Jamsil concert was sold out.”

First of all, it felt much like how I felt today when I was arriving for the party. I was making my way here just now, and I thought, wow, why are so many people here? That’s how I felt. And when I heard that the Jamsil concert had sold out… You know, the venue at Jamsil is pretty huge. I’d been worried whether or not we could fill the whole thing. But lo and behold, our pride, the Eris, did it, to make us feel happy… When we do concerts at large venues, we know you guys might actually be more uncomfortable, since the seats are so far from the stage. Let’s be honest, people, back when we did Gocheok Dome [another venue], you guys complained! That EXO looked the size of ants from afar! That you guys hadn’t come there to look at little ants! Right? But doing Jamsil, even if the venue doesn’t give great close-up views, it’s still a momentous event in the history of EXO and Eris, so I hope you don’t dislike it too much. We will try to make the stage as big as possible, and move around as much as we can to reach all around. (Coughs.) This must be the way merchants feel when they advertise.

Next, next question. “Hey, do you still sleep in the living room?”

Well, you know, when I did the V app live recently? That was in the living room of our dorm. But my little nook is no longer the living room, and I got a room of my own—you guys know this, right? I recently did some cleaning up, and now my room is very spacious. So I’ve been sleeping in comfort. Yup, that’s how it is.

“In ‘For You’, whose part is the humming [da da da ~]?”

You guys can’t tell? Who do you think it is? Jongdae? On the documentation, it says it’s actually me. But what happened was… I listened to the recordings myself, and I thought, how is this me? I totally heard Chen’s voice but the documents said it’s me. So the deal with that is—all three of us in CBX all recorded that part equally. But since Jongdae’s voice is a bit sharper, you might be hearing his voice more…is what I think. Maybe that’s just me… Should we move on? Anyway, according to the parts division sheet, it’s me. Okay?

Hmm. These questions are really difficult.

“Were you in the humanities or the sciences [in the Korean high school division]?”

Are you guys curious? Which do you think I was? (Fans: Humanities!) Correct. Let’s move on. I’m actually really bad at math. Yeah. I stopped at multiplication.

“What do you always do before going to sleep?”

I brush my teeth. I brush my teeth and turn on YouTube…and watch game videos, and singing videos, and also look at videos of my own self from way back until now. On nights when I can’t sleep. I’m just telling you this.

“Did you ever cry while watching ‘Moon Lovers’?”

Episode 16! I didn’t cry while watching it, since it was me doing it. But when I was practicing the script at home, I felt tears coming. But I thought, what if I cry now and I don’t have tears left for when I film? So I quickly wiped my face and thought about something else. When I was saying those lines, you know—“I can’t leave that child behind alone…”—when I was doing that, I teared up a lot. I practiced that part a lot at home alone. I hadn’t been taught anything… There was no time for acting lessons or anything, the only thing I could do was read the script, and think it through carefully on my own. But when I really got into the act, I could feel the sadness. So, on the set, all of us actually cried.

“Do you have any plans of dressing up as a girl again?”

What do you guys think? Do you want me to do it for you? Any against? No one’s against it? (Fans give varied responses.) For the time being, I don’t have plans of doing it.

So, what else are you guys curious about? Hmm.

“When you go to a café, what do you usually drink?”

These days I drink iced americano… You know, at first it’s really bitter. Some of you probably still don’t drink it, saying—why drink this stuff? But what I do is—I don’t drink it as it’s usually made, I ask them to make it really light, no matter what, to make it almost like—water that smells like coffee. That’s how I drink it. It’s better than just water, and good for you if it’s just one cup, good for fixing face bloat, so I drink it light.

So that’s that. You guys look a little tired, should we stop? (Fans: No!)

“When you feel glad you are in EXO.”

First of all, at end-of-year awards ceremonies. And…more than anything, my parents are really proud of me. The big difference between before and after debut is that when I go home, it feels…kind of different. The air is different. There’s a bit of the “oh, our son!” vibe going on… My parents were always very loving, but somehow they seem more…caring and careful, like I might break or something, that kind of atmosphere. But I always tell my parents, you guys don’t need to worry, your son is healthy and well just as he is. I reassure them like that whenever I visit.

Anyway, didn’t we get a lot of these questions done? No? I knew you guys would say that, so I’m going to do one more.

“When you go to overseas schedules, what do you do on the plane?”

Well, as for myself, whenever I get on a thing, I sleep. I always sleep in cars…And there was this one time, when was it, I think when we were going to Busan…we took the KTX [express train]. Was that Busan? (Fans: Yes.) Right? You guys all know my schedule better than me… I slept then. And I sleep on the plane. But when I was coming back from the US recently, the first thing I did was a face mask pack. Because my skin had honestly gotten really bad, because of the time difference and lack of sleep. So I did this mask pack, and decided that I’d never do that again. Because you know, on the plane, you can unfasten your seatbelt after a while and move around, right? And when people start moving around, they go to the bathroom, and on their way back, since I’m in the first row, they can see me on their way back and they all go like…[surprised face]. So, you know you’re supposed to do a pack for fifteen, maybe even twenty minutes at least, right? But on the plane, after about five minutes, I took off the mask as if I didn’t care, going “ah~”, like this, took it off and just went to sleep. I decided never to do face packs on the plane again. That happened.

“How many points do you get on bowling?”

I only recently started playing bowling. To be honest, I didn’t use to have any real hobbies. I was always staying at home, and so I began to feel like I needed to go out and do some stuff, because when I always stayed home and played computer games, I felt so much…like a little kid. I’d say to my manager hyungs, Hyung what’s up? I want to eat, I want to eat jokbal [steamed pork feet]! And so I get jokbal, and after eating I go back to my computer to play games, and then I look at the time and go “ah, I need to sleep”—that kind of life. It makes your lifestyle a bit loose. So I decided I need to go out and walk around a bit, do some sports—but as you guys know, I can’t even run well—the one thing I’m confident in is speed-walking. But these days the Idol Olympics don’t do speed-walking anymore! So I have nothing to do, so I don’t go. For archery and all that, I have no strength in my arms. Those sports feel different from just working out.

So I was looking for something, you know, more settled down, just a peaceful sport. And it was right when Chanyeol was doing some bowling. (Mimicking Chanyeol’s voice:) “Hey Baekhyun, let’s go bowling!” “Isn’t it difficult?” “Nah, come on, I’ll teach you.” So I followed Chanyeol to the bowling alley, and there was this whole club—Chanyeol is like a pro player already. He’s got a club membership in every bowling alley, it’s pretty crazy. Anyway, when I got there, I played with a ‘house ball’—you know, the alley-owned ball instead of my own ball—and at first my fingers really hurt. So I asked, what do I need to do to play better? And Chanyeol said, you need to get your own ball. So I was like “Really?” because I wanted to play well…and also, everyone had these nice balls, and it was me alone playing with this little pink thing…and it was kinda embarrassing. I mean, I’m in a team together with Chanyeol, and he’s got all these palm protectors, and uses that weird chalkdust, and brings out his own ball and goes ‘thunk’! And my balls all just fall into the side gutters… So I bought a “my ball”, and also some protectors. I bought all this and all that. But it’s still super difficult. I’m actually more confident with pool… (Fans: “Hmm…” and laugh.) Back when I was filming that thing, that wasn’t really pool! I’m usually really good, but I must have been nervous then or something. Anyway, my bowling score is different every time, but on average I get around…70 points. Ha ha ha, yeah. My waist hurts, my arm hurts… But it’s fun.

So if any of you have, like, no hobbies, if you just come home and wash up and sit at the computer and check what Baekhyun’s been doing…what EXO’s been up to… (Fans laugh.) …then say, “Mom, I want dinner!” and keep looking at your computer…and show your mom your screen… When your mom comes up and asks, “Ooh, who is this?” “Mom this is Baekhyun, this is EXO’s D.O., isn’t he so good looking? doesn’t he sing so well?” And your moms might say, “Sigh, if you have time for that, use it to do some more homework!” Isn’t this how it goes for you? So, in that time… Play bowling. If you make a small hobby of your own, it feels good, it relieves stress.

Last winter, I went—with Chanyeol again—to go snowboarding. If you hang out with Chanyeol there’s just so much to do. So I learned bowling, and also snowboarding. I think I actually look pretty spiffy when I’m snowboarding. Nobody recognizes me, you know. And even though I’m frankly not really good, I get all the gear… You know they have a name for it, “gear-bugs”! (Fans laugh.) Anyway, that’s how it was.

Have you guys gone bowling? Who knows how to do it? (A fan says yes.) What? So you were way ahead of me! Isn’t bowling fun? (Fans: Yes!) I feel like even those of you who’ve never played are saying yes… (Fans laugh.)

So one last one, for real. Hmm, so what are you guys curious about? Are you curious about Overwatch? (Fans: Yes/No.) No? Sounds like no… Some of you are saying yes and getting looks from people next to you! Or “I only know Diva [an Overwatch character]…”

“Do you prefer light-colored hair or darker hair?” Is this one okay? (Fans: Yes!) Which do YOU guys prefer? (Fans: Awww…and shouts out various things) Blonde? Both? (Fans: Yes!) Y’all are liars… I heard you first say “Darker!” and then “…Both!” (Fans laugh, Baekhyun chuckles.) See, I do monitor my own performances, and when I see myself on stage, I do feel like darker hair makes me look more sharp, and allows me to express a wider range of things. Right? (Fans: Yes.) Someone just said yes in a super pouty voice, like “Yuuus…” Should I comeback in darker hair, or lighter hair? Show of hands for darker hair!

Okay then, let’s wrap up the Q&A now… (Fans boo.) But honestly, we really got through a lot of these! Because look, among these… These other questions are like…

“What do you think when you look in the mirror?” (Fans giggle.) What do YOU guys think of when looking in the mirror? I mean…

“Do you still make puppy sounds when you sleep?” That kind of thing never changes, guys. When I’m super tired, I still wake myself up because of that sound I make. (Fans: Awww.) That wasn’t the reaction I was going for, but hey.

“Your #1 recommended foodie place.” You guys curious? Do any of you guys know chogyeguksu [noodles in cold vinegar chicken broth]? You know it? There’s this really, really delicious place…I don’t know if I’m supposed to say this! There’s this place in Jayang-dong, Misari… What, you guys already know which restaurant I’m talking about? Mil… I don’t remember the full name, but it’s Misari something, Mil…Milbit? I don’t know but it’s something like that, and their chogyeguksu and their ongyejin kalguksu [thick noodles in warm chicken broth] is amazing. (Fans are quiet.) Not sure if you guys were really curious about this one… (Fans laugh and cheer.) Too late!

Okay, last question for real this time. All right. “Baekhyunee’s 2017 goals.”

Uh, all the world’s people coming together as one in peace…haha, just kidding.

Hmm, so EXO is going to comeback soon, right. When that happens, I want to show you guys something more…perfect. Something that isn’t out of joint, but something that really sticks together, something that’s cool, sophisticated… And I always say this, but I wish I had more occasions like this, with you Eris. We do have some schedules, even when you don’t see us, since we’re always preparing something. So in a way there really isn’t much time. But as for me, I really do want to make more time [to meet]. The motivation behind this year’s Kyoong-day party, once again, is… Not because a birthday should be something huge. It’s not. It’s not like I want to have a birthday party to feel congratulated. What’s important is using this name of a birthday party to get to have this chance, to chat with you guys, to tell you guys more about myself. And that’s what I wanted to do. (Fans applaud.)

Don’t I sound like some kind of lecturer today? Anyway, that’s how it is for me.

Shall we move on to the next session corner? The next corner is…there’s something written on my prompt here… I haven’t chatted with a mic in hand for a really long time, so I was actually super nervous coming up here. What if I can’t talk well enough, what if I end up showing you guys a really awkward side of me? But now that I’ve got the mic, it actually feels fine. (Fans laugh.)

So the next corner is: “Let’s get to know Baekhyun.”

[This is up to the first 30 minutes. To be continued!]

#baekhyun #kyoongdayparty #translation #170504

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Fangirlish Takes on NaNoWriMo: Keeping the Motivation

We have passed the half way mark in the 2017 National Novel Writing Month, which is an achievement in itself! For those who dont know, NaNoWriMo is an annual writing challenge, encouraging writers to pen 50,000 words during the 30 days of November. It is no easy task, with even veteran writers struggling to keep up the consistency.

I have participated in Nano for the last 3 years, and thankfully, have a pretty good success rate. This year, I have already completed my 50,000 words (finished November 14), but still have a long way to go in my project, so am working to keep up with the springs, schedule, and prompts along with my Nano team!

A trend I have noticed among other Wattpad writers in my Nano group, is the struggle with motivation. We all love to write. We love our story ideas. We love seeing the worlds in our minds come to life. But sometimes, getting the words onto the page with steady consistency is harder than bathing a cat. Which I’ve tried to do. Trust me. It sucks, and both may leave you a little scarred.

So, as promised, Fangirlish is going to try to help you through your writing woes with tips and tricks on things we have noticed in our own nano-ing. This time, it is all about keeping the motivation alive!

Make a REALISTIC Schedule

This was a tip in our first Nano article in how to best prepare for Nano success, and it is probably one of the biggest tips for any writer. Especially those faced with a deadline of any sort, whether it be agent edits, publisher deadlines, or November 30th. But it isnt just about making a schedule, and having it loom in front of you like a beacon of all the words you arent writing. There is a knack to making a positive, supportive schedule during nano, and it is pretty simple once you learn the trick.

It is all about small, attainable goals. No, you dont have to write 10,000 words a day. You dont even have to write 5,000 words a day. The best way to keep yourself motivated, is small goals. For instance, break it down by scene:

Scene: Character goes into store, and meets boy.

Target word count: 1,000.

Time limit: 3 hours.

See. Simple. You’ve given yourself more than enough time you would realistically need to write 1,000 words. And chances are, this scene will be much longer than your target word count, which in turn adds more words to your daily tally. If the daily, weekly, or monthly counts are too much to focus on, break it down by scene, with small goals. It wont be so scary, and you’re more likely to achieve success.

Get Rid of Distraction

Twitter is the devil to any writer on a deadline. Trust me, I’m scrolling through it on my phone while I write this article. But distractions can mean doom for a writer facing Nano, so do your best to eliminate things you know will throw you off course. Leave your phone in another room. Turn off the ringer. Tell the family you need 1 hour alone, no interruptions. Yes, easier said than done, but minimizing these distractions will improve your chances of getting words on the page.

Get a Support Group

Again, this is another tip from our first Nano article, but its another necessity to success. You need support, and there is no better source than others going through the same trials as you are. So join a Nano group, and cheer each other on. They are also great platforms for plot holes, plot bunnies, and all plot related issues. You can commiserate when your word count is 0, and cheer when you hit 10,000. They are your backup and cheering squad to find the best one you can!

Keep Yourself Organized

This is another pitfall of all writers. You have a great idea while driving, at work, or somewhere else that doesnt allow you to hop on your computer and let it all play out. By the time you get home, all that brilliance is lost. But it doesnt have to be! Get a notebook, and keep it on you at all times. When inspiration strikes, jot down notes that will remind you of it later when you are in front of your computer and ready to write. This also helps with plot holes, dialogue, or general story ideas. I have 3 notebooks at my bedside, and one in my car. Yup, I’m a little crazy. Dont want to carry notebooks? Thats fine. Use the voicenote app on your phone and dictate to yourself. Yes, we all hate how we sound on our phones, but trust me, you will be glad you make these reminders and kept yourself organized.

Other ways? Post it notes for scenes broken down by chapter. Awesome Wattpad writers like Rebecca Sky and LD Crichton both use this method, their tables covered in colorful notes to break down their scenes and chapters. Some people use mood boards, aesthetics and more to keep themselves inspired and get into the world they are building. There is no wrong way to keep organized, so long as it works for you!

We will be posting a final NaNoWriMo update at the end of the month to check in with all the progress and final tips for what to do now that its all over! So check back soon!

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Introduction To Hacking A 3DS For The Complete Noob

How To Hack When You Have No Idea Wtf You’re Doing

Before We Start:

Hi guys, some of you might have known me before as fireemblemhax and read some of my old tutorials but I’m here with a new blog now.

I realized a bunch of my previous tutorials were honestly a bit too “advanced” for someone who’s completely new to 3DS hacking so this time around, I’m gonna try to cater my tutorials for complete newbies in mind. I’ll try to make hacking as accessible and unscary for you guys as I can.

With that said, some of the most frequently asked questions I’d get on hacking a 3DS were: Is it safe to do this? Can I break my 3DS by trying to hack it?

And to those questions, the short answer to both is: Depends

Now lemme explain why.

Is it safe to hack your 3DS? Depends on what method you choose to use.

Can you accidentally brick your 3DS through this? Yup but once more, depends on what methods you use. In this tutorial, I’ll be teaching you the safest, virtually-impossible-to-screw-up way I know of.

Still, always try to read all possible information you can on hacking AND as a disclaimer, remember that I am not responsible if you happen to somehow brick your 3DS. It’s extremely unlikely this will happen as it’d honestly require almost willfully screwing things up but if it does somehow happen, I am not responsible for it.

I can still try to help you if you think you broke it though, cus sometimes something MIGHT look scary and broken but it’s in fact actually completely ok and unbroken (this happened to me when I first started hacking, I was 99% sure I’d broken my 3DS only to find out a few days later that everything was fine lol).

Also, always remember: Do NOT automatically upgrade your 3DS if you plan on hacking it! This guide was written with firmware 11.3 in mind, anything that might come after this might render all of the hacking methods described here completely useless. Always remember to check first online if it’s ok to upgrade your firmware before doing so.

OK, with all of the above out of the way, let’s get on with the guide. Everything under the cut:

So You Wanna Hack Your 3DS But Have No Idea Where To Start:

That’s ok, I gotcha. I was once a total noob too and though hacking your 3DS might seem scary at first, I promise you it’s not that hard. Just a kinda long and sometimes tedious process but otherwise, anyone can do it with just the right info and tools.

This tutorial might get long but I’ll try to cover as much info as I can for you to be able to fearlessly begin your hacking journey.

What Does Hacking Your 3DS Mean And Why Would You Want To Do It?

Hacking your 3DS basically means modding your 3DS and 3DS games by using various tools and exploits. Think of it as a Powersave but completely integrated into your 3DS.

You can get everything you’d get from a Powersave for free on almost any game by hacking your 3DS but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. A hacked 3DS can give you access to even cooler stuff when used alongside the right tools. This is where it goes way beyond what a Powersave could provide for you.

Like for example, let’s say you’re annoyed that games like Fire Emblem Awakening and Fire Emblem Fates have mostly nothing but Hetero romance options for your characters. With a hacked 3DS, you can easily fix this by using UV’s famous Same-Sex Marriage Hack for instance, which would then give you a ton of support options with no gender restrictions as well as a bunch of new, custom support conversation.

Or maybe you’re playing Animal Crossing but are having a frustrating time getting your Dreamies to move into your town or hate having to wait around for villagers to suggest Public Works? In that case, you can just get yourself ACNL’s Save Editor and get to editing any part of the game you want to make building your dream town a less tedious process.

Maybe you play pokemon and would love to edit your pokemon’s models and textures to look cuter/cooler/prettier/whatever? Then getting Ohana3DS would help you.

So I think you can see the various reasons one might want to get to hacking their 3DS and 3DS games.

Getting Started: A Brief Summary Of Homebrew.

In order to get started though, you need to understand a few things first.

To be able to mod your games and get access to hacks, you need to get Homebrew.

What is Homebrew? Homebrew is unofficial software made by amateur developers for closed systems such as the 3DS and PSVita. Homebrew is the software necessary for practically all sort of hacking to work so you need to be able to run it on your 3DS.

To be able to access homebrew on your console, you need what is known as an entrypoint. An entrypoint is a modded game or app that will act as a “door” between your 3DS and Homebrew. Some examples are:

Pressing A on a modded Ocarina of Time save will take you directly to the Homebrew Channel.

Putting a certain modded sound file in your 3DS’s SD card gives you access to Homebrew through the 3DS’s stock sound application.

Putting a modded file in your your 3DS’s SD card gives you access to Homebrew through the game Freakyforms Deluxe.

A bunch of other entrypoints are listed on the official 3DS Homebrew Launcher website

Before You Choose An Entrypoint:

Before trying to get Homebrew, you need to know three very important things: whether you have an Old or New 3DS, your region and what firmware your system is currently on. These 3 things will determine which Homebrew entrypoints you can use as not all of them work on all system versions.

To check whether your 3DS is Old or New: Easy enough, just compare your 3DS to the ones on this pic and you should know whether yours is Old or New.

Note that 2DS’s are automatically placed in the “Old” category.

To check your firmware version and region: You can see which version of the system software you have by accessing the System Settings and looking on the bottom right of the top screen. The number is your version with the letter at the end of it is your region.

Letter E means: Europe and other PAL regions aka Australia, New Zealand and any other countries with PAL software. Letter J means: Japanese region, also known as NTSC J. Letter U means: Region used in USA, Canada, Central America and South America.

Letter K means: Korean region.

Now that you know which 3DS you have and what firmware version you’re on, you can check which entrypoints are available to you here. Compare the “Supported firmwares” section of each entrypoint/exploit to see if it could work on your own system.

BUT I’m assuming you are a complete noob to this, which means you’re very probably on firmware 11.3 and you would rather go for the easiest to use entrypoint that’d work on the latest firmware.

Nothing to worry about, I gotchu.

Launching Homebrew Through Soundhax:

SO, the easiest and safest method that I know of for the current firmware (11.3) is Soundhax.

Soundhax is an entrypoint that uses the stock Sound application that comes with every 3DS ever so it honestly doesn’t get any easier and cheaper than this.

To get started, follow the steps listed below (links to everything you need included):

Turn off your 3DS. Now take your 3DS’s SD card out and plug it into your computer. If you have a New 3DS, you’ll probably have to take off your console’s back cover and use a usb plug for microSD cards. Follow the instructions Nintendo gives on this page.

Once your SD or microSD card is plugged to your computer, download the Homebrew Starter Kit from here. The download link is in the “Preparing your SD card” section of the page. When it says “Extract it at the root of your SD card”, this just means “Don’t put it inside any folders inside the SD card”. Just put the files and folders you just downloaded directly in the “open” space of your SD card and ignore any other folders you might find already in it.

Next up, download the right sound file over at nedwill’s soundhax website. Choose the region that matches your 3DS’s and then just choose between Old and New. Then click on “Download MP4” and you should now have a MP4 file downloaded to your computer. Now, just drag this file on to the root of your SD card.

Now go back to Homebrew’s website and scroll down to the “Otherapp/ropbin payloads” section. Here, you need to download the right “otherapp” file for your console by choosing wheter you have an Old or New 3DS, choosing the exact firmware numbers you see when you go into system settings and then choose your region’s letter. Just go back to system settings, check the bottom right of the top screen and input the numbers and letter in exactly as they are on your 3DS (zeros and all). After you do this, click on “Download otherapp”.

Drag the file you just downloaded to the root of your SD card. It has a super long name that you’ll want to change so rename the file to “otherapp”. Note: Normally, just renaming the file to otherapp should work but there’s been people who reported this sometimes doesn’t work. If when you try to launch homebrew nothing happens, try renaming this file “otherapp.bin” instead.

Eject your SD card from your computer and put it in your 3DS now. Turn on your 3DS now.

Now go to the Nintendo 3DS Sound application. This one:

Once inside the app, use your stylus and choose your SD card folder and you will then see a sound file named “<3 nedwill” aka probably the only file you’ll see. Play this file and ta da!

You should get a scary black screen with random words and numbers that will then flash colors but don’t worry, this means everything worked and you can now access homebrew!

If nothing happens or your screen freezes for a long time, don’t panic cus this is normal (soundhax sometimes glitches out), just reboot your 3DS and try opening the sound file again.

After the black screen and flashing colors, your 3DS screens should now look like this:

Congratulations, you now have access to Homebrew!

Ok, I Have Hombrew But Now What?

Now you can use any hacks you want for any game you want :) I happen to only know hacks for 3DS Fire Emblem games and ACNL but you can always go on gbatemp and search for other hacks for other games.

To hack Fire Emblem, I recommend for you to watch this video. It’s pretty outdate but most of the steps in it still work.

To hack ACNL, I recommend you go watch this video. Very up to date.

Have fun and if you have questions or comments, just shoot me an ask.

#3ds hack #tutorial #hacking tutorial #fire emblem fates #fire emblem awakening #ACNL #animal crosing new leaf #my tutorials #hacks #soundhax #homebrew #fire emblem hacking #acnl hacking #fe14 #gay hack #3ds hacking

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[John Ross] Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice.

Last month, federal auditors revealed the DEA had secretly spied on Americans who bought money counters. With a reach so expansive it alarmed even the FBI, this sweeping surveillance program helped the DEA seize over $50 million in cash and real estate. Yet auditors found "the vast majority" of those under surveillance "were never shown to be connected to illicit drug-related activities." Over at Forbes.com, IJ's Nick Sibilla has more.

While presiding over the Department of Justice's military prosecution of the alleged mastermind of the U.S.S. Cole bombing, this Air Force Colonel was simultaneously gunning for a job as an immigration judge with . . . the Department of Justice. An improper appearance of bias? D.C. Circuit: Indubitably. All 460 of his written orders in the case are vacated. Be more careful next time.

Eight voting citizens of Greensboro, N.C. successfully challenged a 2015 law that redrew their City Council district and got an injunction prohibiting the County Board from enforcing the law. Can they recover their attorney's fees from the Board? District Court: The Board didn't write the law, it declined to defend the law, and it stipulated to a bunch of facts to streamline the litigation; special circumstances justify denial of fees. Fourth Circuit (over a dissent): Fee awards are about compensating the attorneys, not punishing bad actors. Pay up.

Hattiesburg, Miss. doctor might be overprescribing opioids. So the medical board gets an administrative warrant and allegedly sends nine agents to his office to search through medical records. They allegedly detain him for hours, often at gunpoint. One delivers the charming line "[i]f you don't sit down I will put you down." Fifth Circuit: That's unreasonable for an administrative search. And now that we've settled that—qualified immunity!

Abilene, Tex. prison guards seek to extract from his cell a prisoner who prefers to stay. Guards contend they used the minimum force necessary, which involved spraying a chemical into the cell and restraining the prisoner's arms and legs. The prisoner contends it was much worse—after guards handcuffed him on the floor, they punched him, squeezed and twisted his genitals, and stuck a finger in his anus. Video fails to allay confusion. Fifth Circuit: Could be excessive force. Need a trial to figure that out.

El Paso, Tex. police respond to 911 call at dusk, discover unarmed man in the process of hanging himself from basketball hoop. Police demand he show his hands. When he fails to comply, they tase him, and he immediately goes limp. They remove him from the hoop and begin CPR, but he dies at the hospital. District court: No qualified immunity. Fifth Circuit: If the officer wanted us to address the question of whether he had qualified immunity, he should have briefed it. He didn't (he addressed other issues in his brief instead), so the case can go on.

Hunt County, Tex. sheriff's dept.: Welcome to our Facebook page; please say only nice things about us or we will ban you. Fifth Circuit: Well, that's called viewpoint discrimination, and it's generally frowned upon.

In June 2016, Omar Mateen pledged his allegiance to ISIS, entered the Pulse Night Club in Orlando, Fla. and opened fire, killing 49 people and injuring another 53. Can the victims and their family members bring suit under the Anti-Terrorism Act against Twitter, Facebook, and Google for providing the platforms through which Mateen became self-radicalized? Sixth Circuit: "We sympathize with Plaintiffs—they suffered through one of the worst terrorist attacks in American history. 'But not everything is redressable in a court.'"

It's nearly impossible for out-of-staters to get a concealed-carry permit in Illinois. Only residents of Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia can do it because those are the only states that do the kind of criminal and mental health reporting that Illinois is comfortable with. Is that constitutional? Seventh Circuit (2016, over a dissent): Yup. Gun rights are limited. Seventh Circuit (just now, in the same case, over the same dissent): Still true.

Immigrant from Iraq is detained for a year and a half while an immigration judge decides whether to send him back to the Middle East. The man sues to get out of custody. District judge: He's locked up under a statute that operates only for the time reasonably necessary to get a decision. A year and a half is too long. Let him out. Eighth Circuit: Those words are not in the statute. But the district court should address the man's constitutional claims. [Ed. note: If there's time. Because—well—there's a preliminary order to send him back to Iraq.]

A trio of California laws meant to protect immigrants from the feds go into effect, says the Ninth Circuit. No preliminary injunction to stop law that requires employers to notify employees before federal immigration inspections. No preliminary injunction (for the most part) for state-imposed inspection requirements on facilities that house certain federal detainees. And no preliminary injunction for law that limits state and local law enforcement from cooperating with the feds, even though it "may well frustrate the federal government's immigration enforcement efforts."

Jury rules for defendants. Judge 1 throws out verdict, grants judgment as a matter of law for the plaintiff. Defendants move to change the verdict back. Judge 1 says no. Defendants move to change the verdict back again. Judge 1 retires, and Judge 2 goes back to ruling for the defendants. Tenth Circuit: We're going with Judge 1 on this. Plaintiff wins.

Opa-Locka, Fla. 911 caller reports man trying to get through window of a neighbor's house. Officers respond, see man matching the caller's description, point guns at him, handcuff him, pat him down, reach into his pocket, and find a single bullet. Eleventh Circuit (2018): The police were allowed to pat the man down to find a weapon, but they crossed the constitutional line when they reached into his pocket to get the bullet. Eleventh Circuit (en banc, by a 7–5 vote): No, no. His conviction for being a felon in possession of ammunition (and pistols discovered nearby) is affirmed. Judge Jordan, dissenting: The majority fails to adequately grapple with the man's originalist arguments. (More on that from Josh Blackman.)

Friends, this week IJ's Center for Judicial Engagement released Episode 5 of the Bound By Oath podcast, which dives tolerably deeply into the history and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. This episode: the Equal Protection Clause, featuring African-style hair braiders, Georgetown law prof and IJ alum Evan Bernick, and also space aliens in invisible and undetectable craft. Available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud, Google Podcasts, Google Play, TuneIn, and other fine podcasting apps.

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02-02-19 - Work?

Here I am again at my desk with half an hour to waste. I actually would rather use that time writing these diaries than playing an app game. I feel like that can be a waste of time… although I do now crave a go on some.

Eurgh, what can I really write here anyway? I’m at a standstill here. I need to write something creatively. Actually, maybe I could look at doing a competition for writing a short story online. That might be fun. Gosh, I long for my University days. Back when I had some real work to worry about. Not this drivel of mine. Blergh anyway I’m being too depressing. What to do, what to do. This only wasted five mins. I think I will play a couple of apps. It’ll only take ten minutes, I think.

I need to set up my whiteboard too. I’ll take a walk today too. “Take” that always sounded funny to me. How does one take a walk? Certainly not lying down. Okay that was barely even a joke. Sorry. I’m taking the piss as it were.

5 seconds into SeaPort and there’s an ad to double rewards. I wanna watch it for the stuff. Frick though, it’s glitched. I don’t want to watch a three minute ad. Why can’t they sort this out properly before implementing the change? I don’t (well I do really) have the time for this. Gosh I love typing random nonsense. Thank god a thirty-second ad has now loaded this time.

Talking of implementing things, Apple seem to have implemented a thing or stricter grammatical help in Pages. Maybe they’ve seen the ads for that Grammarly thing on YouTube that’s always on. You know the one with the really stilted actors who are probably reading some random stupid idiot’s review from the internet. “I like grammarly” “It’s really good” “My dog has worms” etc…

Thinking of how to get back on Twitter. I make everything so complicated. I want to do a few Gifs that tell a kind of story. Like the terminator regaining its mind or something. I also like the crawling one but that was kind of me during my hospital time. Just crawling on, regardless.

I watched Billy Connolly 1994 this morning. It was good. It kind of gives me nostalgia from my childhood perhaps. Like it’s kind of sunny out too. It’s a bit… almost a bit like the six weeks holiday. I must work though. I don’t know if this counts as work but it feels right at least. At least perhaps. I’m never sure of anything really. It’s quite sad in all aspects… OH SHUTTUP ANDREW WE BOTH KNOW THAT’S BULLSHIT! Just get on with it all. Dumbo. I want some AirPods badly. I know I’d use them all the time. Maybe even when out walking too. They’re quite concealable you see or hard to notice I mean. Good keyboard. It’s not so bad typing on this keyboard once one gets used to it. It feels a little small for me though. I’d like to try out an old laptop I have though. Just to see if it’s any more comfortable. [Edit 13-02-19: This is because of a book I was reading about writing called: “How to Write Your First Novel” by Sophie King. The book mentioned trying different tools, as it were, to write with. Keyboards, pens, etc… Funnily enough, I usually write my blogs out by hand before typing them up. A keyboard is faster, however, as the writer goes on to also say herself.]

[Edit 18-02-19: I’ll put in a quote here from the book… oooh, this is like university again. King (2014: 10-11) writes:

“Writing Tools Personally speaking, I write best on my laptop. In fact, I can’t write very well on paper any more. But that’s because I’ve been using my keyboard for years now thanks to my original training as a journalist. I find it faster - my fingers fly across the letters in a way they couldn’t if I wrote on paper and that means my pace is more immediate and I can get my ideas out without forgetting them.

The golden rule about writing on a keyboard is to always, always, back up. This means saving your work somewhere else apart from your computer in case it breaks or is stolen. One tip is to email yourself with your novel file. You should then be able to access this from another computer if something happens to yours. I do this - and I also email it to my daughter with the words DO NOT READ! Alternatively, you could save it to a memory stick, although you need to make sure you don’t lose it.

However, I have friends at the top of the Bestseller lists who can only write on paper. They then type up afterwards. Some people pay others to do that for them, although obviously this is going to cost. However - and forgive me if this sounds basic - an agent and publisher won’t consider a piece if it isn’t typed.”

That was a long bloody quote but I believe most of it was relevant. It’s 19-02-19 now… no joke. It was already late anyway.]

This is almost a Tumblr a day speed. JUST WRITE PEOPLE! WHATEVER IT MAY BE ABOUT IT DOESN’T MATTER! I want this to be inspirational in a kind of way. Not just dreary drivel but like I’m slowly getting somewhere. Somewhere maybe out of my comfort zone but safe. If you know what I mean. Like a steady income job kind of way… hint hint. Getting paid for diary entries. How luzurious. Ha Lazurious. I meant Luxurious.

I think also the barrier may be that I think it won’t go anywhere. As a dream it stays perfect and the “what if” can be a good outcome. Reality has a way of sucking life out of you sometimes. In any case let’s move on. To what I don’t know.

YouTube has automatically gone onto Pogo music. It’s really good music and the edits are amazing. I’ve linked them before on Twitter but I could put a few at the end here too. Yup (this makes me happy), another Tumblr here has just formed by luck and happenstance. I don’t even need to release this yet. I can stack them. I definitely want to hand write one at some point too though. For this Wednesday. That’s 6th February 2019 dependent on when you’re reading this. I love all this because it feels somewhat productive. Don’t judge me too harshly please. This is what I spend my time doing I just never feel confident in publishing any of it. I have like six-thousand notes on my phone too. Most of which are jumping off points (harhar) and ideas for short stories. I should work through all that too. This IS my work now. I love it and you. NOW SHUSH MUSHY.

Anyway, wow, from The Terminator (which I must watch again) to all this mushyness. AHEM. now I’m stuck on what to write. Stream of consciousness this is. Oh that’s a point, I want to be doing Waldowsky Readses. So that will include maybe Jane Eyre for starters I believe and my Tumblrs when I get around to it all. I’d like to read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland too. Talking of Pogo that’s what they use in their vids sometimes. I love when Alice says: “That explains the troubles that I’m always in.” For me it’s heartbreaking. A realisation of one’s predicament in life or just existing I mean. That explains it and she tears up. It’s like (MGS REFERENCE INCOMING) when Otacon says: “It’s no use.” Like fighting as hard as one can and then grinding to a slow halt. Although it’s like settling. Like a night of struggling and then the sun rises. You just pip the post. That’s what it takes. All until you cannot fight anymore and settle in. Acceptance of one’s position in the world. In any case, shuttup now thats just over one thousand words. BIG HUG! See you sometime soon on here. On the line.

My name’s Waldowski/y and thank you for reading this, whoever you may be.

I may explain the Waldowsky thing later on. For the time being let my reasoning be that I just think it looks better that way. It suits me that way. You can pronounce it how you like by the way but it simply can be exactly the same. Or with an emphasis on the SKY. That sounds nice, wall-doe-sky. It sounds a little silly which is fine and suits me perfectly too. Silly is good. Weird Al oh yeah Grumps had him on that I haven’t watched okay thats’s the end I’ve gotta go now… not really but shush. Join in the charade. DARE TO BE STOOPID!

Bibliography (oooh, spangly):

King, S. (2014) How to Write Your First Novel, Robinson.

Links:

POGO - Bloom

POGO - Carpet Ride

POGO & JEESH - The Trouble

POGO - Grow Fonder

POGO - redruM

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