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pirate-kwazii · 3 years

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Watching Ring Of Fire now so here’s more of my thoughts

Is that a fence in the water

Is everyone groaning about the sea urchin and crab or yawning? I can’t tell

Okay I’ve had the Vegimals song stuck in my head for awhile now

Kwazii’s alarm clock shoots tennis balls at him- same

And Dashi starts the day with yoga

Tweaks fell asleep playing video games mood

Shellington what the fUCK

Tf is that- is that lava?!?

Oh ring of fire like the volcanoes- I feel stupid now

They’re doing their role call out of order

What the fuck Kwazii why did you eat 17 kelp cakes

Is the only thing you eat is seaweed

VIDEO TRAINING VIDEO TRAINING

*terrible accordion playing* *everyone winces*

How many cousins do you have peso?!?!

Kwazii: I’m going out and FAST!!!!

Captain: *eyebrow raise*

Kwazii: I mean I’m checking the engine

MORE GUPS?!?!

“Don’t push the Z button” Kwazii is definitely going to press it I bet all 3 of my dollars

Wait why did Peso and Barnacles need a Gup if they were taking the octopod?!

How much time does Tweak have to keep making all these gups?!

Aw Kwazii loves that Gup so much

WHAT IS BARNACLES WEARING WHAT THE HELL NO

Kwazii’s copying it omg-

Shellington and Dashi are such nerd friends it’s actually adorable

Tremors those are probably important

Ring-shape? Like the ring of fire-

Oh no comms are down

A TSUNAMI?!?!

Mateys you should’ve stayed at the Octopod

Kwazii saved Tweak’s life and now it’s flooding

Why don’t they know about the Ring of Fire if they LIVE in the ocean

Oh no the comms are down they can’t reach them!!!!

Damn at least no one is alone...

Of course the Chinstrap Penguins live on a volcano

Well at least Shellington and Dashi are alright and above water so there’s a lower chance of drowning

“How does he know I’m an octonaut?” Maybe it’s because you’re wearing the octonauts colors and the logo all over it

Wow itd be faster to push the stupid thing

Last time you guys followed the screaming sound there was a tsunami

Well at least you found the whales you wanted to find

“I’ve always wanted to see a whale but not like this!” I’d sure hope so Shellington

Of course the volcano erupts

Tweak Kwazii are ya okay?!

THEY DONT HAVE AIR TANKS ON THEM OH NO

TWEAK!!!

Now is not the time to copy Barnacles- holy shit it worked

She just noticed that?!

Shit you guys are stuck

Kwazii beggars can’t be choosers

Why is that the only way to get across Tweak

No Tweak pay attention

ITS ON FIRE

I really hope you guys can hold your breath

She’s pulling a Ladybug and the things she looks at glow now

Improvised fire extinguisher

WHY IS EVERYTHING ON FIRE ARENT YOU UNDERWATER

Eww they landed in seaweed and a banana peel

Why does everyone end in the garbage disposal- sorry compost

Oh he almost fell in-

*opens door and floods room* Guess we’re swimming after all

Tunip leave him it’s natural selection

Grouber just sits and eats during a panic- same

“Lesson Nine- dealing with disasters” what

Why is the background of those videos so bad

I mean it’s rad but also bad

Tunip: *hands the Vegimals a bunch of shovels* good luck

Mateys how did that dirt pile work-

*quickly unplants all the seaweed*

*vacuums the animals*

LEAVE THE SEAWEED YOU HAVE ENOUGH

“You gotta save us!” Why didn’t you get their attention sooner?

Why do none of them notice the volcanoes that they live on/near

We’ve seen the rafts it won’t work

How the hell did you think of that

Is that even possible

They only leave Inkling in charge when legit no one else is there

Kwazii and Tweak: *mimic pirates, rabbits and Barnacles*

Peso and Barnacles: *mimic penguins*

How was the lava that aLMOST COOKED YOUR EGGS NOT A WARNING SIGN

Wow Inkling is not good at this I see why he’s never in charge

Even Kwazii and the Vegimals have managed the octopod better than that

Why is there is Disco Ball

Why does it always switch to the training videos

“Dashi’s so good at this” yeah it’s almost like it’s her JOB

There was a BUTTON FOR THAT EXACT REASON AND YOU DIDNT THINK TO PRESS IT FIRST?!?!?!

Took you long enough jeez

What is they fall off of the “slide”

“Mothers and babies first” anyone else can perish

Well that egg is dead

Oh never mind he got it

WHY DIDNT YOU TWO GET ON THE SIDE TOO TWEAK WOULD UNDERSTAND

I mean she and Kwazii are trying not to be set on fire so I’m sure she’d get it

“I just hope everyone else is okay” well shellington and Dashi are stuck on a volcano that’s exploding trying to get a beached whale out on a very slow Gup, the Vegimals are trying to evacuate the garden, and Tweak and Kwazii are trying to get out of the burning and flooding repair area so no I don’t think anyone else is okay

“This isn’t working” no really Dashi

Oh the crabs know Kwazii that explains so much

Another Training Video?!

The crew all look so nervous when they appear in a training videos

Oh now Dashi and Shellington are mimicking Tweak

Poor Shellington he’s clumsy

“I have to say I.. really like that plan” yea cuz it’s the one that doesn’t involve you burning in the lava

Shellingtons getting a workout in oof

He’s about to fall into the lava

Now the crabs about to fall into the water

Oh god he’s screwed

Crab jump on the whale- now he’s flying

Shellington get out of the lava!!!

Alright some people are safe

Oh never mind the other volcanoes are erupting too

That water level is dangerously high are they gonna be okay

Kwazii don’t phrase it like that it sounds like you’ll die

KWAZII!!!!!

Oh god oh no his tail

Mimicking Barnacles saved the day

TWEAK!!! KWAZII!!!

Oh they are alright thank god

They’re gonna be traumatized from this- *angst time*

“And how will we get up there” Kwazii making good points again

Kwazii with a grappling hook is a terrifying idea please get one

And now they find out the comms are down

Kwazii trying to be helpful

WHY DOES SHE HAVE AN EMERGENCY CARROT STASH

KWAZII GOT ONE TOO

Another video but this ones useless-

TWEAK YOU TURNED OFF THE POWER

They sounded the octo alert together!!!

Babies

EVERYONES OKAY!!!!

OF COURSE THERES ANOTHER ONE

Kwazii and Tweak: ya we’re good

Also them: *trying to not to drown or burn*

They are all gonna connect to each other like Voltron aren’t they

KWAZII DID PRESS IT IM NOT LOSING MY $3 TODAY!!!

Tweak: I got a plan

*crashes through the hatch*

Kwazii: *excited cat sounds*

Yeah they’re going together naturally

“Mega Gup Z” epic naming skills Tweak

“Seat swap” “wait a minute- WHOA”

“It’s completely covered in sea creatures” there’s no way you get all of them

Oh good some are swimming away

“Sit tight” they can’t really do anything else Captain

Do we know where they go after being S U C C E D into the mega Gup z?

And now rocks are everywhere

Kwazii’s excited cat noises are giving me life

Couldn’t the crabs walk away?

Oh no they’re getting stuck in the volcano-

Oh they’re good thank Neptune

Dashi: yea it’s bout to erupt we gotta go

Peso: I saw something inside there we gotta go look

Does Peso want them to die

Of course the animals sound snobby

“Why ever would we do that” CUZ ITS ERUPTING i swear all the creatures have the IQ of a walnut

“I didn’t even make a button for it” bruh

Yeah just like Voltron

Kwazii: *even more excited cat noises cuz he gets to destroy things*

Why do you all name the moves with the word “mantis” in front of them?

They all share one braincell and Barnacles and Peso have it 90% of the time

Tweak gets the other 10%

Everyone else runs on pure chaotic energy

“Tweak Status Report!” Tweak: WE ARE FUCKED

Let Tweak say “Fuck” 2k21

Kwazii: *e x c i t e d c a t n o i s e s*

*throws sea creatures at whale*

*blows up into five gups in massive explosion in front of erupting volcano*

Is all that sea urchin thinks about is food

“You know what I’d like? Dinner” “you know what pal, that sounds great”

“Have the eruptions stopped” “yea but that’s not what I called about”

Is Inkling trying to be more than that guy who sits in his library all day?

Yea it’s not hatching because of the bandage all around it

Please say the egg doesn’t die

Oh it’s alive good

Octonauts: remember that island that got destroyed by a volcano? Would you like to live on an island that volcano created?

Penguins: not really

Octonauts: too bad

Vegitoa? Wow

ITS THAT STUPID SONG AGAIN LAST TIME IT WAS IT MY HEAD FOR TWO WEEKS

“It still felt like we were working as a team” maybe cuz you were all copying each other the whole time

“You really, really need to update those training videos” yeah fair enough

Of course the Vegimals still remember the dance

I see what the hype was about that was a fantastic movie mateys... though everyone’s probably gonna have some problems after that

#octonauts #kwazii #shellington #peso #captain barnacles #dashi #tweak #professor inkling #the vegimals #Tunip #ring of fire #octonauts ring of fire #kwazii rambles #long post

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depizan · 3 years

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The End of One Life

The crew of the Wayfarer’s Luck is a small one: just Deell Solarin, his daughter Jezari, and sometimes his good friend Cal Verrat. A spice run leaves the crew significantly smaller.

(This is, unfortunately, ficverse canon. And also very sad.)

19.5.4 BTC, evening, ship’s time

Jezari brought the Luck into the station’s landing bay with textbook precision, setting it down precisely in the middle of the designated landing pad. Her pilot’s credentials were legit, if you ignored the birthdate, but they were still new enough that she looked to her father for approval.

“I think you’re getting better at this than me, Jezzy.” Deell grinned. “Careful about being too good, though. They might think we’re legit.”

“Yeah, lots of legit shipping here.” She waved a hand at the ships scattered across the other landing pads. Several looked like they’d been stolen from scrap yards, and all, like the Luck, were more heavily armed than any law abiding freighter, except in the worst parts of the Outer Rim.

He laughed, then sobered as she unhooked her harness and stood up. “Look, you better stay in here this time. Leave this to me and Cal.”

Something in his voice kept her from arguing. “Is something wrong?”

“Naw.” He shook his head. “It’s nothing. Just a feeling I have.” He paused in the cockpit doorway. “But leave her warm, just in case.”

“Dad…”

“Sit tight. We’ll be back before you know it.”

She slumped back into the pilot’s seat—the left seat, the pilot in command’s seat. In the official, boring part of space, she’d still be in the right seat, where a certified but relatively inexperienced pilot belonged, at least for the first few years. Out here, half the pilots weren’t even properly licensed.

She didn’t care, exactly, and she didn’t want to spend the rest of her life doing the same cargo run over and over like they did in the core. But there were times… Maybe it was just that she’d caught that sense of unease from her father.

There were risks, and then there were risks. Whenever Uncle Cal was around, it always seemed to be the latter. Something about the cargos he found, the people he worked with. It was always a little off, like everything was on a knife edge. Her mom had never liked him, but when she was a kid, she’d thought he was exciting. Now, she wasn’t so sure. But he and Deell went way back.

She pushed herself up and peered out of the left side of the cockpit, looking down and back to where they were unloading the crates of spice. Drugs. “Never try it, Jezzy.” Her dad had told her years ago. “We haul it, we don’t do it. None of it.” He’d sounded almost like the dads in the holoserials then.

She snorted at the memory. Like she’d try anything that might mess up her brain. You had to be sharp to be a pilot—a good one, anyway. Glitterstim would fry you right quick, and even ryll would get you eventually, leave you too shaky and strung out to fly.

The buyers were clustered around the crates, talking to Deell and Cal. She pressed her face against the transparisteel, trying to get a better look. Something was wrong. Maybe it was her father’s body language, maybe it was some sixth sense.

“Come on,” she muttered. “Just forget about it. Get in here.”

Deell backed away. She could tell he was shouting, though she couldn’t hear him. Yelling something at Cal.

“Dad…”

He turned and ran for the ship.

Cal’s blaster was out so fast Jezari didn’t even see him draw. He fired at Deell.

“No!” Jezari groped blindly for the turret override, unable to look away.

Cal’s first shot missed, but the second hit Deell in the back. He stumbled, got up, kept running. Cal fired again.

The Luck’s lower turret swung into position. Jezari couldn’t see her father any more, but she knew he had to be at the ramp. She fired as the turret swept toward the buyers, crates, and Cal. The cutouts protecting the ramp and cargo hatch area wouldn’t let her shoot them, but they didn’t know that. The buyers and Cal dove for cover.

Jezari heard the hatch cycle. “Dad!”

“Go! Lift off!” She barely recognized his voice.

Someone was shouting over the pilot’s headset. She didn’t bother to put it on, or strap in. She dropped into the seat, fired up the engines and lifted off.

The Luck slewed around, one landing skid sending the crates of spice tumbling across the landing pad. There were no blast doors on the station, only a forcefield between them and space. Jezari hit the thrusters, not caring what was behind the ship, and they blazed through the screen and into open space.

The station fired on them, bright blasts slamming the Luck’s shield and rocking the ship. She was still alone in the cockpit. No one to bring up the navicomputer and punch up a hyperspace jump. Jezari reached over, keying in a quick microjump. Something to get them out of firing range. Even if it was just straight ahead.

It beeped, and she pulled back the lever. The stars streaked into the whirling chaos of hyperspace and reverted again.

“Dad!”

There was no answer. She leaned over, punched in another jump with shaking fingers. Something to get them further away. Toward the nearest hyperlane.

“Dad!” She wiped away a blur of tears and pulled the hyperdrive lever again.

She was on her feet before the jump finished, running for the cargo hatch.

Deell had almost made it to the lounge. He lay in the corridor just outside, face down, one hand reaching out as if to crawl. The smell of burnt flesh hung in the air. She dropped to her knees beside him. No!

She rolled him onto his side, felt for a pulse. His eyes flickered open. He tried to speak, but no sound came out.

“No, please…” She could grab the medkit, fix him up. Even as she thought it, she knew it wasn’t true. One of Cal’s shots had burned clear through him and the other was almost as bad. If the ship had a kolto tank, maybe...

Deell’s lips moved again. “..ari…” His eyes went dull.

“No… no.” She pulled his limp weight into her arms. “No.” It was more a sob than a word. She buried her face in his shoulder and wailed.

Tags: whumptober 2021, no. 5, betrayal, swtor, fic, parental death, I write, Jezari Solarin, tragedy

#whumptober2021 #no.5 #betrayal #swtor #fic #parental death #I write #Jezari Solarin #tragedy

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writemywaytoyourheart · 5 years

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59 + jimin + angsty fluff :D

59. "This isn't your fault okay? I promise."

I took a waaaay different turn with this one. I hope you like it!

World War ll AU :

Your hands are clamped down over your ears as another bomb goes off and shakes the tiny shelter you and your fiance are hiding in. You feel warm hands trying to find yours; finally settling over your tense hands that are still covering your ears while your whole body is shaking involuntarily.

"...-er now, Y/N."

You keep your eyes squeezed shut and shake your head, letting him know you can't hear him and don't want to uncover your ears or open your eyes yet. After a minute there's another explosion that shakes the tiny bunker harder than the last one and you feel Jimin's hands clasp your knees that are folded up to your chest. He mutters something but you can't hear it, you're too busy pushing your hands into your ears so hard that if the explosions don't deafen you, you might break your eardrums anyway.

Another two explosions go off, one after the other. The small bunker is shaking so hard you're convinced it will shatter and you'll both die and Taehyung is probably dead already and it's all your fault.

It's probably a good five minutes later when Jimin is finally able to pry your hands off your ears and wrap his arms around you, "shh, shh Y/N, it's okay. You're okay baby. We're okay. Shhhh." You're shaking like a leaf in his arms and your stomach is all twisted in knots.

"Ji-Jimi-....Jimin, I can't-" your breathing is erratic and you can feel the panic setting in threatening to choke you out by cutting off your air supply. Jimin takes your face in his hands and kisses you on the forehead again and again until you finally open up your eyes. His face is covered in dirt and you can see tear streaks down both his cheeks.

That's right. You caused his best friend's death.

Jimin shifts awkwardly in the small space and you can see his uniform is torn in a few places. Then he smiles brightly at you and you just stare at him blankly.

"Hey now baby, breathe ok?" You nod numbly and look over to the hatch leading outside. Your voice croaks out in a pained whisper, "what about Tae? Is he okay? W-What do I do. It's all my fault. Jimin, oh Jimin it's all my fault!!" Your fiance wraps his arms around you and rocks you back and forth in a calming rhythm, "this isn't your fault okay? I promise." You start to cry and use your dirty skirt to wipe at your face in a futile attempt at cleaning yourself up. You try to stand, "I need to go find him. Jimin we need to find him." Jimin gently pulls you back to a sitting position; "I'm gonna go find him love. You, are going to stay here. Listen to me please." You're about to argue but then the image of Tae trying to yank you out of the house to the shelter as the first bombs hit over an hour ago and you resisting him flashes in your mind and you remember what happened the last time you didn't listen to someone who knows more than you about this. You have no idea where he is.

You had told him you wouldn't leave without Jimin so he promised to go find him for you if you just went with him to the shelter. He finally dragged you there and ran off. He never came back but Jimin did, saying he hadn't seen Tae.

You plop back down and cover your face with your hands then nod at Jimin to go ahead. He kisses your forehead, "I love you," then crawls to the door and looks out carefully. After a few seconds he slips out and shuts the door. It's quite dark, save for a tiny little oil lamp flickering in the corner.

It's too quiet.

The small hatch starts to rattle and you jump, then think to yourself; well if it isn't Jimin or Tae. If it's the enemy, they have me now so it doesn't matter anymore. You close your eyes until you hear the door open and Jimin calling you to come on out. You look over quickly and see him smiling brightly. Hurrying out and bonking your head on the top of the little door, you start to cry when you see Tae standing there amidst a wreck of used-to-be houses, grinning while holding a little toddler girl sucking her thumb.

"Sorry I gave you such a fright Y/N, I heard you were worried about me. I found this little sweetie crying in the streets so I grabbed her and took cover right when the worst of the bombs hit."

Of course he did.

You embrace him and pat the little one's head before throwing yourself into Jimin's arms. He laughs and kisses your head, "it's over for now love, but we need to go. We're being moved somewhere else." You nod and he pulls your chin up to look in his eyes, then he kisses you on the lips briefly. You grab his cheeks and pull him in for another lingering kiss and hear Tae fake gagging and protesting. You turn to him and see him covering the girl's eyes and glaring at you two.

"Maybe I shoulda just let the bombs take me, so I wouldn't have to deal with you two love birds anymore. Come on, let's go little one." He shakes his head and walks away with the toddler, ranting to her about what he goes through.

Jimin laughs and takes your hand, running his thumb over the back of it.

"Come on Y/N, let's go baby."

I legit love this one. Idk why I love the time period so much. And Jiminie is perfect for it. What do y'all think?

-chip

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puckmanhq · 5 years

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SOMEBODY ELSE // ( nobias )

WHO: noah puckerman & toby berry ( @berrytobias )

WHAT: an unexpected moment

WHERE: puckersquad penthouse

WHEN: july 23, 2019 @ 8:42pm

WHY: because at some point these two were gonna have to converse about some shit except did they?

Usually, Puck would have gone on acting like Toby was some 'other' in his weird little family tree. The brother of his baby mama, his daughter's uncle, his kid sister's best friend. Always there off to the side, blurred and close but never the focus, bever directly in his line of sight. Not until a couple weeks ago anyway, when he'd woken up hungover as fuck, naked and covered by an equally undressed Toby. Was it any wonder he'd assumed they'd had sex. Suddently this consistant background presence was front and center, and there that tall lanky man remained, even now. With the end credits of Fast Five scrolling along the TV screen, Puck had barely even paid attention and that was genuinely surprising. I mean Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson made his entrance to the franchise in this movie and all Puck could think about was the last time he and Toby were on acouch together. "We'd be more fucked up than last time if we actually drank everytime a one liner was said in that fucking movie. But you've gotta try the apple pie moonshine, shit tastes legit, I promise."

Toby slouched back against the couch with a silent sigh. The space between them felt a lot more than it actually was, a lot deeper than the shadows hiding inside the cushion crevices. It felt awkward. He had really hoped the movie invitation would put him and Puck back at zero. He wanted to rewind them back before the glitter hug at the parade and before the naked version of off-key karaoke. But life wasn’t a stupid VHS tape. Toby lolled his head to the side, looking at puck with his signature lop-sided smile. "Either that, or every time they shifted gears.” Toby tapped his temple with a wink. “See, you fucked up, Puck. You can’t mention apple pie to me and not have me want to taste. I love dessert. I mean, I love food in general, but sweet stuff?” He wiggled. “Ooh, baby.” He then collapsed his fingers in a grabbing motion at his handsome host. “Gimme.”

"Dude you wanna get fucked up with gear shifts you gotta watch the second and third movie. Your skinny ass would definitely need a stomach pump trying to keep up with that shit." Already pouring a shot for his apparent drinking buddy, although he was taking it slow. Didn't want a repeat of last time, if anything was gonna happen he wanted his wits about him. A drunk him trying to make something more happen is, as his sister would put it, not it. Handing the full shot glass to Toby, he smiled a the grabby hands and that shouldn't have been as endearing to Puck as it was. Maybe he had drank more then he thought. Feeling his fingers ghost over Toby's as he tried to make sure Toby had a decent gasp on the glass he felt his body desperate to react and thank fuck he wasn't seventeen anymore and he had more control over his body. Without even realizing his body had moved even closer to Toby's on the couch, effectively closing the gap between them. "It's fucking good right?There's not even a bite to it. Shit is dangerous." Honestly, he was way too focused on memorizing everything about Toby's face as he spoke to even realize he'd said anything.

“You say that like I’ve never played this game with Ali. We’re pros, my dude.” Which was, only partly true. Semi-pros was probably more accurate. Their drinking games mainly revolved around obscure references and how many on-screen deaths there were. Toby didn’t flinch at the bump of their fingers or the warmth that radiated off them. Toby’s personal bubble was excruciatingly small. He had no issue with closeness, much to the annoyance of certain people. He scooted forward to properly take the shot, gently knocking Puck’s knee with his own. He lifted the glass. “Down the hatch.” His usual grimace faded as quickly as the drink fell past his throat. “Ooh shit.” He looked over at puck with exuberant child-like wonder. “Bro,” he drew loudly, “that was tasty as hell.” He licked his lips. “You’re gonna have to hit me with another one. It’s--” He rolled his eyes at Puck’s warning. “Oh, come the fuck on. There’s nothing wrong with things being dangerous.” He handed over his glass forcefully. He was getting another shot goddammit. “That’s what makes life interesting, Puck. Live a little with me.” He thought for a moment. You know, kinda like last time. But not like last time, because you have AC,” he clarified. Toby cleared his throat. “Should we... Um.” He scratched the back of his neck with anxious fingers. “Should we talk about that night by the way? I know we didn’t do anything, but…”

Fuck, he’d been drinking water when Toby had the fucking nerve to say something as ludicrous as down the hatch, so naturally the next thing out of Puck’s mouth was water. Putting his glass down, he lifted his shirt up to wipe the water from his chin, running it down to his chest as well, before idly taking the empty glass from Toby. “Dude you’re already saying shit like down the hatch, I don’t think you need anymore.” Despite his words his actions said he was totally down with a two shots of moonshine in Tobias Berry, seeing as he was pouring him another as he fucking spoke. “Pretty sure I wrote the book on living a little. Chapter one, Knock up your best friend. Chapter two, get sent to juvie. Chapter three, drop out of high school. Shit, maybe if I’d finished junior year I could write a damn book.” Honestly, he was going to just act like Toby hadn’t brought up the thing Puck had spent weeks trying to forget even happened. Wasn’t that like the unspoken thing? What happens on tequila is forgotten forever and whatever you do remember you pretend you fucking forgot. Did no one tell the kid the rules of Añejo? Handing him his shot and taking one himself, he wiped his bottom lip before clearing his throat. Looking intently at him, Puck tried to read him, figure out if he wanted to say something without actually having to say anything, but he didn’t know the younger man well enough to do all that. Throwing his arm around the back of the couch around Toby’s shoulders, still looking at him. It was like Puck didn’t have that much control over his fucking body and he wasn’t 100% sure where the fuck it was going to take him next and maybe that was his way of living a little. “Sorry can’t remember, what was it that didn’t happen again?” He asked with a slight smirk, looking between Toby’s mouth and his eyes, Puck suddenly knew exactly where his body want to take this.

Toby tossed back his shot before answering, hoping the liquid courage would coat his throat and make everything he wanted to say smoother, sweeter, and more like the taste that was already fading from his tongue “I know you can’t remember, Puck. That was the whole point of talk--” Toby blanched. Was… Was Puck putting the moves on him? It was all there. The smirk. The arm move. Toby’s pupils dilated. Was Puck looking at his mouth? “Oh God,” he spoke absentmindedly. “I mean, um…” His heart doubled its speed as he forced his gaze away. Why did he suddenly feel like he was 15 again? He didn’t still have a crush on his sister’s baby daddy. That was idiotic. “Aliyah said we…” Toby swallowed and regained his composure. “She said that we were being drunk jackasses and we sang karaoke and shit. Got naked at some point?” Cuddled. “Then we, um. Then we passed out. Nothing happened. But I wanted to make sure you weren’t weird about it, I guess?” Toby laughed nervously. “You know what? It’s fine. Water under the bridge or whatever.” Toby patted Puck’s thigh. “That cool? We good?” He didn’t move his hand.

As the other spoke, Puck looked at him intently, holding back a smile as he recounted their tale all those weeks ago. Once them getting naked was mentioned he could feel the slight pressure from him biting his bottom lip. Honestly it made him think it was kind of a shame they hadn’t made out, would have taken care of some of their current tension, but then that would be so much less fun. A flustered Toby was, kinda hot. Barely even registering what the younger man said before he finally stopped talking, Puck just looked down at the hand resting on his thigh and nodded. There were a couple of way he could probably lead this moment, and he was definitely going to be the leader, which should surprise exactly no one. Option one was to just say, yeah man we’re good, and laugh that shit off and let everything just settle into something normal and expected. Option two though, “Kinda a shame, right? That we didn’t make out, at least. That would’ve made the morning after hangover so much more worth it.” fuel the tension and see where it goes. Clearly, the dude was attracted to him, I mean who wasn’t? and Puck.... Puck would label it healthy human curiosity, after all he just wanted to know what it would be like to make out with Toby, nothing to dwell on there. So he leaned in, maintaining eye contact to see how close the other would allow him to get. When he was so close he could the other man’s warmth, he stopped looking at his lips before looking back up to his eyes, searching for permission.

Toby’s heart continued to thunder in his chest. He thought he had grown out of this feeling years ago. Again, he reminded himself he wasn’t a goddamn teenager with a crush. Puck wasn’t ruffling his hair as he walked past him to get to Lucky. Puck wasn’t playfully punching him in the shoulder. Puck wasn’t doing that nod of appreciation for babysitting on such late notice.. No, this was different. Very different. Puck was looking into Toby’s eyes, into Toby’s fucking soul. “A shame?” he repeated. “I mean, we could have for all we know. I think Aliyah caught the tail-end of our whole drunk singing thing. Maybe we did kiss before she showed up. And we just forgot. Like everything else.” Tobias Berry was on fire. “I don’t know about making a hangover worth it, Puck.” His headache for the entirety of the Pride Parade came to mind. “Though,” Toby laughed to himself. “I’ve actually been told I’m a really good kisser.” He licked his lips unconsciously. “Five star reviews.” Oh God. Was he doing this? Was he actually doing this? “We can make it worth it now,” he spoke quietly. “If you want to.” Eyes closed, Toby neared Puck’s lips with his own.

Up until two years ago, Toby was Lucky’s kid brother, then he was Lucky’s kid brother and Jo’s uncle. Then he was Lucky’s kid brother, Jo’s uncle, Aliyah’s roommate and Stevie’s best friend. To Puck, Toby had always been someone somebody else knew, he was always in his peripheral vision, a familiar but out of focus figure in his mind. Then the night before the IHQ Pride Games happened and suddenly he could see the younger man so clearly it was almost blinding. Had his hair always been that curly? Had his smile always been that endearing? Had he always talked this much? Had his voice always sounded like that? At first he thought maybe he was just doing this because he could, you know, like he always did. Saw someone attractive, charmed his way into their favor and did what came natural because he needed a release but that wasn’t what was happening. Not really, I mean, if it were he’d have shut Toby up at ’A shame?’ or been too focused on his mouth to hear anything he was actually saying, but he could’ve recited him word for word right now. Then, as if in slow motion, Toby assumed the, ‘kiss me’ position and Puck felt his instincts kick in and he had a hand on his face, the pad of his thumb tracing his jawline and he was so close and then those four words rung in his head; ‘If you want to.’ and he realized he really fucking did and that was kinda fucking him up, because Toby wasn’t just some dude, he was ingrained in the fabric of Puck’s life and somehow he was just now piecing that together. Resting his forehead against Toby’s, he knew he shouldn’t but he couldn’t think of a single reason why as he closed the gap between them. It was slow and something else that Puck would later find was... meaningful. Fuck.

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EPISODE FIVE: “YOU HEAR THAT NOISE? ITS THE SOUND OF AN UPRISING” - Chris

BARRY MANILOW IS DISGUSTED WITH THIS CHOICE OF CHALLENGE @nicole @owen @monty @andrew

Kage has just been voted out and I have a lot of thoughts in my head when LO AND BEHOLD Ned messages me saying how Jake talked about Armonia sticking together, also wanting Olivia safe, and Andreas/Dennis/me picked off. I dunno if it is true or not but I have to laugh. Malik and Ned were supposedly on the bottom of the tribe, but I suspect now these two wanna flip and such. Now this is further complicated by me not knowing where Sarah, Matt, Nicklas, and Lukas stand and I fear that if/when we merge, there is intention on getting a person like me out. Nevertheless, I need to do as much talking as I can with people

Ned just came to me telling me, that at Ancient Thera Jake told him, they bamboozled my og tribe and want to stick together and stay "OG Armonia strong" and want Ned to save Olivia... Oh boy. I feel really really good about Ned telling me this, I guess that means that Olivia so far is the person to go, IF we lose the challenge and I somehow need to find out a way to warn the others, even though that could blow up my game come merge aswell. But first off, thank you ned <3

You hear the noise? It's the sound of an uprising! I am so about to start chanting some Les Misérables up in here. Like I can be a pretty calm person but when it comes to adversity, I don't whine and cry about it, I act about it to bring a change for myself and right now I feel I need a change or else I am screwed. So alas, it's time to rally the troops

how did last round even happen LMFAO... so skrt skrt lets rewind ladies! we lose the challenge because certain judges don’t have TASTE. and it was a mess cus we were all sure we would win so we didn’t talk for 3 days LMFAO. i was nervous cus my old tribe was in the minority, but i am close with Nicklas. I kept telling him and the others that i don’t really trust Trent and would gladly vote him out, however Nicklas told me before that there was some mistrust with Kage. So I pushed that to him, saying i would feel better with Kage going now, and that i’d vote trent the next time we lose. He said he would consider it but was very weary. ...then a couple hours later sarah decides she wants Kage out? I was confused, and Sharifa was freaking tf out. Oh also Sharifa told me she has the idol, fun FACT. But near tribal Sarah made a chat of me her nicklas matt sharifa and kurt to discuss a vote. We agreed on Kage, and somehow... he went home LOL. So, I guess I’m feeling a bit more secure. But in terms of the overall game, i am worried because apparently the other tribe thinks i’m inactive (um i give the energy i receive and matt and kage sucked ass at talking to me so i wasn’t going to bother having a dry conversation) so i wonder if people won’t take me seriously in this game ! boo. whatever. anyways i’m at the ancient thera and i better get an idol period

I’m just a fat little bitch who loves berries

DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING? SINGING A SONGS OF ANGRY MEN? IT IS THE MUSIC OF THE PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT BE SLAVES AGAIN. WITH THE BEATING OF YOUR HEART ECHOES THE BEATING OF THE DRUMS, THERE IS A LIFE ABOUT TO START WHEN TOMORROW COMES!

im so glad we won immunity, i need a damn BREAK. but now i’m nervous that Ned is going to get voted out because he’s basically inactive lmao. but i hope he survives. sarah approached me last night and asked if i found my “Dani” in the game (aka my loyal ride or die) and i said no and she said good because she wants to work with me. she then asks if i’m good with sharifa and kurt and i say yes and she says that she “adores” them. hm idk what to think! i asked who she was close w on her old tribe, and of course she says “i like them all equally :)” -.- if we happen to lose again, i think i would want matt or lukas out the most because i don’t know how much i actually trust them, but i think we might be stuck voting trent if they really want us to pay them back for the kage vote. i just need another tribe swap!!!!!!!!

Too much pressure

Chris found the idol!!!!!! I am so happy for him, and for the trio of me/dennis/chris. I now know where half the idols in this game are ....... this is INCREDIBLE!! Olivia continues to not speak game with me at all, and Keegan isn't much better. Given the new tea that Ned spilled about Olivia and Jake, we are for sure targeting Olivia. The vote should be 3-2-2 right now, with Dennis, Malik, and Ned voting Olivia. Then Chris and I are voting Keegan, with Olivia and Keegan throwing their votes on either Chris or I. With the idol, even if we have any funny business at tribal like votes, etc - then we should be good..... i pray haha

We lost the challenge which is unfortunate but not surprisingly. This tribe is just full of challenge flops. Scrambling for tribal has been... minimal to say the least. DENNIS is saying he’ll vote for anyone as long as he survives the round. CHRIS is saying he hopes tribal lines aren’t still in play but is willing to do what he has to survive. And ANDREAS is just kind of floating there not scrambling too hard. The TINKY CLAN is currently deciding who to vote between ANDREAS and CHRIS since we want DENNIS around for challenges. Ultimately it doesn’t really matter which of the three get votes off as long as they don’t have idols and we manage to make it through unscathed. The McBITCHES still need to reunite. On that note, major props to the OG AMMONIA tribe for getting KAGE voted out.

OLIVIA and I are hatching a plan to maybe have MALIK idoled out of the game. As it turns out, OLIVIA and NED are both getting annoyed with how MALIK is playing the game and don’t really want to continue working with him. And that’s fair. I think MALIK is a great person but as a player. Yikes. He sure is messy. Right now we’re deciding whether we want to tell DENNIS straight up to vote for MALIK, hoping he passes the word to CHRIS and ANDREAS, or if we should hang back and just not really let them in on the current plan to vote out ANDREAS. We could just straight up vote out MALIK but that seems like a bad option at the moment. Might lead to a 3-3 tie next tribal and possibly rocks, which would be terrible.

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I am BEYOND tired of Olivia slandering me, talking down on me, and trying to come for me not once but TWICE this game. I knew the Matt thing had to have been true because Chris told me and Chris isn’t a liar, he never lies to me. I didn’t know about Matt, but Olivia apparently confirmed it TO ANDREAS. Seriously, what is this girls issue with me? She’s been at me, saying all this shit about me but acting so nice and cool to me to my face. I felt like I’ve legit done nothing to her, and I’ve even apologized more than once just in case I did anything. But now you wanna come for me. Hopefully tonight this bullshit will end, with it in my favor of you going home, because I am so sick of her and her antics. I’m using this to vent so I don’t blast off at her whether I or her leave this tribal. Gotta be careful sis.

I really hope the core group of five actually have my back. I definitely feel they do, but I’m just so paranoid after the news recently about it. I really am so nervous because no vote has gone the exact way it’s supposed to so far, but I hope that is five are good and we all stay. If an idol takes me out I’ll be so sad. I love those guys! Ned, Dennis, Andreas and Chris! ❤️🔥 Teen Titans!

Today has pretty much been INSANE. I owned having the idol to Andreas/Dennis and hopefully they believe me when I say I just found it, Olivia/Keegan finally lived for Matt and Sarah's warning that they wanted Malik out, and so now, this is hopefully going to be a 3-2-2 vote of all Armonia, which will probably cause confusion with the other tribepeeps hopefully! Meanwhile, Ned/Malik want to work with us, Malik trusts me even more, and tbh I feel so good. It all is beginning to feel like it is coming all together!

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For the Fun, but Specific OC question meme (with any OC, you pick!): 2, 7, 8, 10, 17, 19 & 20! ^^

Since @xerohn-alighieri is missing both Xero and Nessiah, I’m gonna do them! This one is for you, my dear ;3

2. Say your OC made a playlist on Spotify. What bands would be on that playlist? Any specific genres?

Xero would probably just have instrumentals and mainly classic music! Lots of piano and orchestra and that sorta thing!

Nessiah would probably have lots of alt-rock and some pop rock as well? Think Imagine Dragons, probably some Thirty Seconds to Mars, and even Maroon 5 and such. I kinda see Nessiah just kinda liking random songs instead of entire bands.

7. What kind of animals would they like as a pet? What names would they give their pets if they got any? If they already have pet's what are their names?

OKAY SO IT’S 100% CANON THAT Xero gets a pet dragon!! In Pandimoria (the place he’s from) they have these small little dragons roughly the size of a medium dog? So he has one of those! He hatched it from an egg himself, so it imprinted on him and likes to curl in his lap like a cat.

Nessiah has an entire aviary! I know for a fact he keeps parakeets, love birds, and even has a toucan. He would also probably have some song birds and parrots as well. Just... lots of birbs. So many birbs.

I haven’t figured out names for all their pets, though :(

8. How does your OC keep track of time? Do they have a planner? A calendar?

Honestly, Xero keeps track of time via his daily routine. If he breaks from said routine, he’d keep an itinerary down to the very hour of what he is supposed to be doing to keep up the feeling of routine and stop himself from panicking.

Nessiah doesn’t give a fuck about planning or anything and doesn’t really bother keeping track of time besides checking his phone every once in a while. He mainly just goes along with Xero.

10. What's their favorite time of day?

Xero likes noon as that’s when it’s bright out and he has an entire day in front of him.

Nessiah likes night as it’s dark, quiet, and he can sleep.

17. If your OC was a musical artist, what genres would they do?

Both Nessiah and Xero can play instruments!

Xero can play the piano and sticks to classic music only.

Nessiah can play the piano and the bass, but usually sticks to bass and plays both classic pieces for practice, but also plays pop culture songs, sound tracks from movies and such, and things like that.

19. Does your OC like to collect things? What kind of things do they collect?

Xero collects floral tea sets!

Nessiah doesn’t really collect anything.

20. Was your OC inspired by anything? Another character? A person?

Tbh The Power of One kinda started as an AU a really long time ago, but was legit an AU for about an hour before me and Angel decided we liked it as an original story instead.

So like... honestly the story now is literally NOTHING like the original AU (which was based off like... the princess protection program or something like that lol)

However, I don’t really know what Xero and Nessiah are based off? I mean their original incarnations are so totally different than who they are now, it’s like they are completely different characters.

So... I can’t really say they are based off anyone/anything. They just kinda evolved into who they are over time.

#The Power of One #Xero #Nessiah #ask meme #RJ City #ocs #my ocs #authorrjcity #lbanswers

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Baby Jon Is Still Hot

Welcome Brodie to my first GoT recap. This adventure began way back on Feb 5 when you replied to my IG story about starting the GoT rewatch. Back then, Jon was a hot baby teenager, Dany was just a baby but she was naked a lot because this was before HBO toned down the OTT nudity, and poor old Ned Stark was still alive. Feels like a decade ago... oh wait...

Jon Snow was a pouty little baby back then. He was the bastard of Winterfell and even though Robb and Bran and Arya and Rickon and Ned (RIP) all loved him, he was never actually equal. Catelyn made sure he remembered that he was a bastard. Jon really wants to join the Nights Watch cos as a Ranger like his uncle Benjen, he can shed the bastard name and stigma. Little does he know he’s about to become the sexiest man alive (and King in the North but whatever. Remember when he was naked? Yeah me too.

Side note - I noticed that when King Robert arrived at Winterfell, and all the Starks were standing in line to greet him, Jon was in the back row behind them. Legit excluding him cos he’s (not actually) a bastard. OR was Ned trying to hide him from Robert because he’s worried Robert will recognise Lyanna’s features in Jon’s face?! Interesting...

Speaking of King Robert - I can’t see him without seeing Roland from A Nights Tale. That was a good movie. RIP Heath Ledger.

Joffrey is a right little git. A dinkhead from day one. Best scene of season 1? When Tyrion slaps him a lot. THE BEST. Also, Tyrion. He’s a good guy from day one I’m discovering. Could HE sit on the Iron throne in the end? I’d support that.

Teeny Tiny Baby Arya. Stick him with the pointy end. The hug/farewell with Jon. Adorable. We don’t see her soft like that for a while. Poor thing. But also badass in the making, there’s a reason I named my dog after her!

Sansa is a whingy little brat. Stop pining after Joffrey. He legit gets horny when people are being tortured. HE. IS. NOT. THE. GUY. FOR. YOU. GIRLFRIEND.

Eddard Stark, Warden of the North. We should have known he was gonna die from day one. Sean Bean always dies. FORESHADOWING EXAMPLE ONE?!

Now, let’s discuss our #Queen Dany. Early days, her wig is terrible, her brother keeps telling her he’s going to let horses rape her (wtf?) and she’s naked a lot. Did Emilia use a body double? Just curious, cos I’d be like nah mate you can’t write in any more nudity till you cast a body double who’s way fitter than me please and thank you. I want the world to think I have abs please.

I enjoyed watching her gain confidence with Drogo. And them falling in love. SWOON. My Sun and Stars. Moon of my Life. STOP IT. If my future husband doesn’t use these pet names with me I’m getting a divorce.

Also super satisfying when Drogo pours molten gold onto Dany’s bro’s head. YASSSS! Drogo is also a baby. Is season one just babies? Who knows. I just know that now Drogo is Aquaman and he’s rugged AF.

More nudity when Dany walks into the fire and then the next morning is like SUPRISE I hatched the dead dragon eggs! Also, everyone was asleep around the fire, and she was just sitting in the ash. I would have thrown a rock at someone to wake them up so I could do my big naked dragon reveal. She probably had to wait ages for everyone to wake up.

We see our first Incest Sex Scene! Yay! I’m being very sarcastic! Can you tell?! Jaime, did you really need to push Bran out the window cos he saw you going at it with your twin sister?

Side Note - I think the incest is even creepier cos they’re twins. Like, you legit started out as the same egg/sperm. forking gross.

Can you believe that in 7 seasons time, Dany and Jon will be having sex but then also find out they’re related, and Arya will have slashed Littlefinger’s throat (more on that in another post) and Sansa will have been tortured by Joffrey and Ramsay and as a result will be a badass boss bench? I almost can’t when watching Season 1. It’s all so... minor? The issues at hand aren’t massive in comparison to the challenges in Season 7. The king is dead and his son is actually the bastard son born of incest from his mother and uncle? Damn. Drama. It’s no where near as troublesome as the army of White Walkers marching on Westeros that will literally kill everyone. (Sarcasm again if it wasn’t obvious).

Season 1 peeps need to sort their shirt out. Winter is Coming.

x Jords

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Uncovering A San Diego Porn Scheme: Deception, Humiliation Follow Online Ads

A San Diego based company is accused of making millions of dollars by coercing young women into having sex on camera.

For many of the women, including some who spoke to NBC 7 Investigates, their experience ended with thoughts of suicide, humiliation, and isolation from family and friends.

Nearly two dozen women say what started with a response to a modeling ad on Craigslist ended with videos of them having sex posted to some of the most popular porn websites in the world, according to a lawsuit filed against the company.

They say the three owners of the website Girls Do Porn set up an elaborate scheme using fake names, reference girls paid to lie and promises that the videos would be sold to private collectors in Australia and New Zealand, according to the lawsuit.

In January, a State Court Judge issued a tentative ruling, stating the women’s allegations had shown that the men had likely “engaged in malice, fraud or oppression.”

An attorney for the company rejected the allegations, telling NBC 7 Investigates the women knew what they were signing up for ahead of time.

Attorneys for the women, however, say the scheme was hatched by owner Michael Pratt, co-owner and videographer Matthew Wolfe, and actor Ruben “Andre” Garcia to lure them into the world of amateur pornography.

NBC 7 Investigates spoke to six women who are not plaintiffs in the case, all shared identical stories to what was laid out in the lawsuit. All six women agreed to speak with NBC 7 Investigates anonymously. None were part of the lawsuit, fearing it would cause more damage to their reputation or because they were past the statute of limitations.

How The Scheme Worked

According to court filings, the company posted modeling ads on Craigslist pages throughout the United States and Canada, linking back to one of three modeling websites: BeginModeling, ModelingGigs, and ModelingWork [dot] com.

The ads were posted on Craigslist pages throughout North America in places such as Gainesville, Florida; Waco, Texas; Orange County, California; in Calgary, Canada as well as in San Diego. The ads called for women, ages 18-to-22, to pose as swimsuit models.

“I had just turned 17 when I clicked on the ad,” said a Colorado woman, 23, speaking with NBC 7 Investigates. “It was definitely to broaden my shooting experience as I was trying to establish myself as a model.”

According to court documents, she was not the only girl that answered the ad before turning 18. A plaintiff in the case alleges she also communicated with the men while she was a minor, filming one day after her 18th birthday.

“[Pratt, Garcia, and Wolfe] recruited her to fly across country for a sex video when she was a minor,” the lawsuit states.

After the women clicked on the ad, they say they were asked to submit pictures as well as their contact information. Not long after a man, who according to court documents and former employees was Andre Garcia, contacted the women with new details about the nature of the shoot.

Garcia told the women that the modeling job had changed. It was no longer a bikini shoot but was an offer to make up to $6,000 if the women agreed to be filmed having sex on camera. The women say the man assured them that the videos would be sold to private collectors and would not be published online.

“They told me multiple times. What are the odds someone you know is going to walk into that one DVD store in Australia and choose that one DVD that you're on,” said one Southern California woman we interviewed.

It was then that Garcia put them in touch with a “reference girl” who was willing to verify everything.

The Reference Girls

“She told me it's going to be OK,” said one woman.

“[The Reference Girl] said, ‘They're nice. It's only going to be on DVDs in New Zealand and Australia and it's not allowed in America. And it's not that big of a deal. Just be a tough girl and it'll be over before you know it.’”

In regards to the reference girl, the woman from Colorado added, “The reference girl basically said that everything was legit, that it wasn't sex trafficking. It wasn't anything that I should be afraid of and that they made a lot of money doing that.”

All 22 women in the lawsuit shared similar stories. Their attorney, Brian Holm, told NBC 7 Investigates that he spoke to more than 120 women who said they were featured in Girls Do Porn videos.

A major part in convincing the women, says Holm, was the use of “reference girls.”

But according to court documents, the reference girls were hired to do anything necessary to get the women to agree. In a court declaration, one such reference girl Amber Clark said she and others were paid to lie to the young women.

“Garcia coached me on how to correspond with the prospective women, to gain their trust, even if that included telling lies and hiding information,” Clark stated in an August 2018 declaration. “Garcia instructed me to tell women the videos they filmed would never be released in the United State or on the internet.”

The reference women, according to Clark’s declaration and other court documents, were paid $25 to $200 for each girl they convinced to be featured in a video. The court filings said the amount of money that was paid to each reference girl depended on how attractive the women they convinced were.

“I don't think I would have followed through with it if she did not talk to me and text me and reassure me of her experience almost every other day,” said the Southern California woman.

In response to NBC 7 Investigates’ questions regarding the company’s use of reference girls, including the court declarations made by former employees, the company’s attorney, Aaron Sadock said, “How one former-employee interprets the motivation of the company or its attorneys should not be taken as the gospel.”

The Contracts and Videos

The women say when they agreed to the company’s conditions over the phone, they were then offered up to $6,000 for what the company said would be a 30-minute video shoot.

The men bought the women an airline ticket and booked rooms at four-star hotels throughout San Diego County including the Hotel del Coronado, the Kimpton Hotel, the Hard Rock Hotel, the Hilton Bayfront, and the La Valencia Hotel in La Jolla (NBC 7 Investigates reached out to the hotels listed in the lawsuit but the hotels did not respond, offered no comment or said they don't permit these kinds of activities.)

Upon arriving in San Diego, according to the women who spoke to NBC 7 Investigates and court documents, the women were picked up by employees for the company. Those employees were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) forbidding them from making any mention of the Girls Do Porn website or the video’s distribution online.

According to her deposition, Val Moser worked as an Administrative Assistant for Girls Do Porn for more than three years. She said she was ”told specifically not to answer where the footage would end up,” even though she was aware the videos would be published online.

In response to NBC 7’s questions, Sadock said non-disclosure agreements are used, “in all types of businesses.”

When they arrived at the hotel, the women say they were given drugs and alcohol.

“We smoked and we drank from the second we got to the [location] until after we stopped shooting,” one of the women told NBC7 Investigates.

Before the video shoot started, the women said they were given a contract to sign with only minutes to review it ahead of time.

“The contract was the size of a good book and they rushed me through it,” said one woman in an interview. “They did not let me look at it for more than five minutes because they kept rushing me saying we're out of time we're out of time.”

According to the company’s attorney and court filings, the contract proves the women knew what they were getting into.

The women said the contract made no mention of the Girls Do Porn website.

“The models...all signed contracts agreeing to shoot pornographic videos and made statements on video agreeing the phonographic videos could be used in any manner the producer wished to use them,” Sadock told NBC 7 Investigates.

Once filming began, the women said the shoots lasted up to six or seven hours. The sex, they said, was painful and if they tried to stop, the men would tell them they wouldn’t be paid.

“I was in a room with two men and they both kind of teamed up on me and I didn't feel safe and like, I could leave on my own will,” a Southern California woman told NBC 7.

When the shoots ended, many said the men did not pay them the full amount they were promised.

Former employee Moser testified that 50-percent of the women complained to her that they did not receive the agreed upon amount.

“It was a devastating feeling,” said one woman. “I felt like I was lied to. I felt like I was definitely taken advantage of. I felt stupid even though I know it wasn't my fault for falling for something that was so well put together.”

“I felt humiliated exhausted drained and I just sold my soul. It was the lowest point I've ever had,” the Southern California woman said.

The Aftermath

The women said a month or so after the shoots, the videos were posted on the Girls Do Porn website, as well as popular adult websites such as PornHub, the fourth most-visited website behind Wikipedia, Netflix, and Microsoft.

Holm said his research found all of the videos uploaded to PornHub have “over one-billion views.”

Women who spoke with NBC 7 said as soon as the videos were posted online, their family, classmates, high school friends, church members, and college deans received text messages and spam emails with links to their videos and gifs of them having sex.

According to the lawsuit, personal information about women, including addresses, their parent’s names and addresses, as well as employers were posted on online forums.

“I was getting text messages from people saying, ‘Make her go viral,’” the Southern California woman told NBC 7. “I was just being completely harassed on every social media site and text messages from random numbers harassing me. People were sending me gifs of myself and me just kind of went into hiding.”

She said she immediately deleted all of her social media profiles and at one point, someone tried to blackmail her.

“They sent links to my videos to everybody I know on Facebook. I had to make sure that my place of work wasn't anywhere on the internet where anyone could ever find me because I was fearful that some crazy person would try and find me.”

Attorney Holm said he spoke to one woman who had a screenshot of her having sex taped to her dad’s front door.

When the women tried to call the owners of Girls Do Porn, the company’s owners would, “block their numbers, threaten them, or have Panakos Law, APC, and Aaron Sadock use the legal process to threaten them,” according to the lawsuit.

Sadock would not respond to NBC 7 Investigates’ questions about this specific allegation and denied his clients’ involvement in sending out links to the videos.

The women said after their videos were posted online, some dropped out of college, lost their jobs or were kicked out of their home.

One woman NBC 7 spoke with said her parents stopped talking to her for a year after the video featuring her went online.

“I don't want to see another young girl fall victim into any of this,” she said. “It's horrible, it's something I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy.”

In June 2016 four women filed their lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court. In less than a year, 18 additional women came forward.

The trial was set for March 8, 2018, but on the day the judge issued a tentative ruling finding merit to the claims that the men engaged in “malice, fraud or oppression,” Pratt filed for bankruptcy. The case has since been put on hold.

In the bankruptcy filing, however, more information emerged on the 36-year-old Pratt’s finances.

In subsequent filings, Pratt estimated his salary to be over $60,000 a month. Pratt also declared more than $134,000 in back taxes.

In a statement to NBC 7, Sadock reaffirmed the company’s position that all of the women signed a contract.

“The models...signed contracts agreeing to shoot pornographic videos and made statements on video agreeing the pornographic videos could be used in any manner the producer wished to use them,” wrote Sadock. “Some models regret the choice they made. But those models were free to decide whether to star in a pornographic video or not. Nobody forced them.”

To read Sadock’s full statement, click here.

Dr. Shira Tarrant is a professor of Women’s Studies and Sexuality at Cal State Long Beach and has written books on the economics of pornography. Tarrant told NBC 7 Investigates she found several issues with the company’s practices as described in court filings.

“This is different from the legal adult industry, where legitimate contracts are entered into and full consent is given. There’s also the issue of drugs or alcohol. If someone is drunk or high they are legally unable to consent to sex or to sign contracts. These are serious problems.”

The woman from Colorado told NBC 7 she hopes no other young women make the same mistake she made.

“It definitely creates a lot of psychological issues when you go through something like this. And I just want to make sure that this doesn't happen to anybody else.”

NBC 7 Investigates spent the past year reviewing court documents, interviewing women featured in Girls Do Porn videos and attorneys, as well as reviewing other public records for this story.

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Warning: Contains "Shonikado Does Tabletop: Episode 10"

Once again we're following the barbarian, the monk, and the flan

BUT BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER I want to establish something I forgot about last time - the time paladin deal. If you remember, during the session before the last one, the barbarian snuck into the time paladin's room with some Awakening Ale and made it into a mist that would theoretically interrupt the paladin's long rest and prevent him from regaining his time stop spell. While there the barbarian saw the paladin had two female elf courtesans with him, nbd

this was reported to the flan, who got suspicious because, during the various egregious privacy invasions performed to figure out how to get a leg up against his time paladin rival, he came across the well-kept fact that the time paladin's sex life has, at least so far, exclusively involved men. So the flan was a bit suspicious, especially since it already seemed out of character for the paladin to stay in the flan's hotel given their rivalry, but things got much more so when, in the middle of the night, the supposed time paladin - having been presumably waken up by the mist but having thought it was just general sleeplessness - came up to the flan's penthouse freaking the fuck out about the fact that one of the courtesans seems to be unconscious, and asking the flan for help in helping her in a manner that keeps things quiet. Which, y'know, if you aren't trying to hide something you could just contact the orchestra, they've got plenty of clerics

so at this point the flan is pretty sure he's dealing with a doppleganger of some sort, likely hired to throw off sabotage attempts. He does go ahead and help with legit healers on staff, but also has some spies set up to follow the doppleganger, thinking they'll likely meet up with the real time paladin at some point and a proper sabotage can be done.

at any rate, the flan let the monk and barbarian know about these developments during the last session. The courtesan was still unconscious at this point in the timeline, and the healers dealing with here weren't sure what was going on, with it almost seeming like she's not unconscious so much as completely blank.

Further developments occurred during the session and I'll weave them in as they appear in the timeline

ANYWAY. ON TO STUFF THAT HAPPENED /THIS/ TIME.

when we last left off the flan had ejected from his mech screaming "I'LL BE BAAAACK", which was convenient because the flan's player was not present for most of the night anyway. He spent most of his time inside his secret lair, which was also where the courtesan was moved so that she wouldn't be found when the orchestra peeps inevitably went to his hotel to search the premises, since that could complicate things

meanwhile, the barbarian was back in the stands with her wounded displacer beast, who had been thankfully stabilized by a gnome in a pink robe. Also the dragonborn paladin, still armless and shieldless, made her way through the audience to heal the beast and glared at the barbarian in the process

meanwhile the monk was still standing in the middle of the arena with the flan's un-piloted mech, and stubbornly refused to get out of the arena until the orchestra figured out how to move it. Which they did, and he went back to his seat while the barbarian took her displacer beast and went back to the flan's hotel to mope about how her pet almost died and the giant is still very much alive. When she got there she found the orchestra swarming the place looking for the flan, since the giant had ordered his arrest but he seemed to be doing a good job of evading so far

anyway the fight happened - the dwarf and two orcs that the monk had tried poisoning through poison and vomit went up against five halflings stacked on top of each other strapped together with a leather harness. Which is a pretty embarrassing thing to lose to - and lose they did, because the orcs immediately were overcome with sickness the moment they started exerting themselves, leaving the dwarf alone to get bowled over before the orcs were quickly felled in their less-than-stellar state. The audience was like "well yeah that's what happens when you go drinking the day before your fight" and no one was the wiser

except after the fight, the dwarf and orcs - all with 1 hp and the orcs still sick - went up to the monk and were like "you drunk asshole, you made us sick" and clearly thought it was an accident, but, you know, still bad. And the monk was all calmly like "ive never met you" and the dwarf took out his axe and the monk immediately wrecked their shit, breaking the dwarf's axe arm in the process with a stomp. To which the dragonborn paladin, who was still in the seats, was like "mOTHER FUCKER" and ran over to heal them back to consciousness while the monk skedaddled

anyway, the barbarian went back to the contestant seating zone while the monk put on a cloak and hid in the audience, and they watched the goblin gel-cube mech wobble and sputter while the necromancer just made a bunch of skeletons, had them yank the hatch open, and quickly ended the fight. And everyone was like "well that's goblin tech for you" and were a bit sad about how anticlimactic, but understandable, the fights had been so far

shortly before the next fight, the barbarian was told that the fighters about to go up have a blink dog, and since displacer beasts and blink dogs are mortal enemies, she'd need to either leave her pet somewhere or not be in the audience. Opting to stay with her pet, she went outside, climbed up the arena walls and watched from the window. The fight was between a ragtag group of adventurers and they fought against the undertakers - except they weren't the undertakers, they were the actors the flan had hired, and they certainly gave the audience a show before going down. But they did, and at this point the flan had won the bets for all the fights they thought they'd properly sabotaged

between that fight and the next fight, down in the flan's secret lair, the deal with the "unconscious" courtesan got more complicated as her polymorphing magic wore off, revealing that she's actually a tiefling. Although that's not odd, tieflings are just another race, BUT specifically she's the tiefling who runs the brothel in the first place and has no known history of doing anything but managing. While that did make the situation more confusing, the flan was too busy converting his secret time-paladin-murder mech project into a soon-to-be-public giant-murder mech to be able to devote much attention to that matter. (This is one of the few plotlines I have not let the flan player in on and I'm not spoiling it for you either, I don't even know how it's going to resolve)

at this point, as the barbarian was heading back in to the stands, she ran into a one of the teams about to head in - three purple rock people, and their goliath coach. The barbarian recognizes the rockpeeps as probably the same race as the evil axe she fought a while back. Also they're freaking out because the goblin who sells potions isn't there and they were planning to buy potions before their fight, and only have enough money for the goblin's, not for the expensive legit potions inside. So they ask the barbarian if she'd be cool with buying for them, and they'd pay her back later when they got the money. In the process, the barbarian learned that these purple rockpeeps are called the warforged, and that turning into weapons is their whole deal, and that many warforged were chained - like the axe - after some sort of rebellion. Which explained the evil axe's deal - being sealed in weapon form for so long ended up fueling a massive murder-grudge, and also meant it was incredibly out of practice in terms of taking on humanoid form (because it was basically just a sorta people-ish blob).

ANYWAY. So the goliath was like "do your best!" to his team and the barbarian went and bought the potions and that was fine, went back to the audience, and it was made pretty clear that the time paladin didn't look tired at all - though they couldn't discern any physical differences between him and the one they tried sabotaging. At any rate, the fight started, and the three warforged threw their hands up and surrendered. Which was a weird sort of not-disappointment, because everyone was expecting the time paladin to just instantly win, which he did, but it was in a different way than usual, as he doesn't normally give people time to surrender. So that was kind of half-disappointing and half-fun

oh right, the ads! Because the grass in the arena gets planted with flowers to make ads. We saw four this time since four fights were witnessed The ad for the dwarf-and-orcs vs. halflings: expert leatherworkers, advertising harnesses specifically. Probably where the halflings got theirs For the gel cube/necromancer fight: not an ad, just the following: "Dear Dad, Fuck You. Sincerely, N.B." ragtag adventurers vs. undercover actors: jelly scalehearts, mentioning that half their proceeds will go towards the heroic dragonborn paladin (mentioned by name, but the party doesn't know her name, so they have no idea) warforged trio vs. time paladin: originally I'd said there was no ad (time paladin fights are short, and most people don't go to them since they're boring) but the flan's player said they'd probably offer it at a discount and SOMEONE would take it, so he proposed "liquid barspeed - cleans your weathered countertops even quicker than this fight!" and so there we go

anyway after the fights, the barbarian and the monk met up outside the arena, where they saw some orchestra members giving the warforged a bag (which turned out to be gold - they went up to the barbarian and paid her back, plus 15gp for her troubles) and talking to the goliath who seemed very irate, but then seemed to suddenly calm down and then got escorted away by orchestra members. Also present was a triton - who was definitely some sort of orchestra member, but with a special shoulder-cape that made it seem like she's probably important - and also the dwarf who had been doing the "giants are our allies, giants are our friends" chant. The triton went up to the duo and was like "hey so. im sure ur good peeps, but this is a fucking mess and we're trying to fix it, please dont make it worse" and was also nonchalantly waving her hand at the goliath the entire time which wasn't suspicious or anything. Anyway, she went to follow them and then the dwarf came up and was like "your hearts are in the right place im sure and i approve of doin whats good but stuffs bad! but hey monk, totally look into the giant hunters guild, if you survive tonight theyll totally want you" and also it was mentioned that he's like the second in command in the city

also the monk gets two orchestra guards to ensure he doesn't try to flee like the flan did

also the flan's spies report that the fake time paladin (who at this point has reverted back to her actual form, an orchestra wizard) and the real time paladin met up, discussed what the fuck was going on, and decided that the best course would be to go talk to the orchestra and get them involved, partially to investigate sabotage and partially to get better healers to help the courtesan

anyway, at this point the pair was approached by the hotel-manager-guy who is basically the flan's second in command, who is the only one able to contact the flan down in his secret lair. And the flan has decided that the halfling stack should be the winners of the next round for reasons the monk and barbarian don't know yet, but the flan does - his spies caught wind that the necromancer is going to be using the gel cube mech during his next fight (though the reasons why aren't super clear yet, will maybe come up next session) and the whole reason the gel cube mech was sabotaged in the first place was because the flan is upset other people are using mechs, so. The duo were tasked to go find the halflings and offer them to come to the flan's penthouse, where a more official offer would be made. So they went to track them down

in the middle of the tracking, we hit 2PM - I had created a thing I call "pedestrian watch" where I'd quickly go over what the state of the city is like, at each hour interval starting after the fights ended. Which I decided would be my way of handling something I didn't want to be boiled down to "make a perception roll", which maybe you'll catch onto. But anyway, at this point there were a lot of orchestra members patrolling about looking for the flan, also a gnome couple consulting a map, and a human with a pink flail holstered, but most importantly there was an elf bard with a lyre being guarded by an orchestra member. And at this point I fired up the link I'd prepared earlier https://onlinesequencer.net/405224 and let that play once while describing the scene, and how there was a full song attached but the party at least caught the chorus - and the moment the song looped I sang along to the first twelve seconds: "Giants are our allies / Giants are our friends / At eight tonight, we'll start the fight / Where [NAME OF THE FLAN] Ends" and it is unfortunate that I have a policy of censoring player character names, so,

anyway, the party ends up finding the halflings over at the Golden Fissure, which was the same bar they went to before but I only named it recently but that's a secret, shhh, but anyway they found them still in their colorful outfits but not in a stack (they left the harness outside because they wouldn't fit through the door and getting their drinks would be hard) who were busy drinking non-alcoholic beverages to celebrate because it'd be a bad idea to repeat the mistake everyone thought their opponents made. Anyway, it turns out that they're all super huge fans of the flan (their outfits are actually styled a bit after his) so they're super stoked to get invited to the penthouse. Also, they toast to the monk, who has been slowly accumulating the nickname "giant-blinder" throughout this session, given that he punched both of the giant's eyes last time

and then when at the penthouse the hotel-manager-guy reveals that the flan is offering to let them pilot some of his old mechs in their next fight. Which they're just. Floored by. So that's gonna happen, necromancer piloting gel cube mech (barbarian/monk still don't know) vs. five halflings in mechs. Hopefully they won't try to stack the mechs. Alternatively: hopefully they -do- stack the mechs.

AND THAT'S WHERE THAT SESSION ENDED. I've established a policy of keeping track of what happens to the party since right now it's VERY important to me that I don't let them get away with resetting between sessions - I have shit planned. At least two shits, one of which is the giant fight, obviously, and the other is Something Else Entirely

~DING~ SO WHAT WENT WRONG, WAIT, HOLD ON YOU SEEM TO WANT TO SAY SOMETHING REALLY QUICK

why do I always say “quick”

I've come to terms with the fact that brothels exist in my setting and want to talk a bit about that

see originally my stance was to stay as far away from everything related to sex as I could, with the exception of the mechanics of passing down traits, largely because I thought it'd be interesting if "human" meant "an indistinct mixture of all races" instead of their own thing, and also dragonborn can pass down elemental stuff, but like as far as actual sex-related stuff, I'm still very uncomfortable on dealing with that so I just wanted to leave it out.

but when talking about where the three supposed-undertakers were (who turned out to be the tieflings), the flan player mentioned three locations - a drughouse, a hotel, and a brothel. And my stance is to try my best to NEVER undo something a player says unless it contradicts something that I already knew to exist in my world. And that felt like a weird thing to veto, so, there we go.

But then on top of that there were elf courtesans with the time paladin and that irked me a little because it meant one of my characters, who I'd largely been just putting in the "not interested in sex" category along with everyone else, suddenly appeared to be straight as far as player-viewed canon was concerned. But I didn't want to say "no"

at this point I was already toying with the idea that the time paladin they sabotaged was a fake because I have plans for how to resolve the time paladin that I didn't want to have to abandon, and it seemed sensible he'd be paranoid about sabotage, and seemed not-sensible that he'd stay in the hotel of a rival, so that all fit together nicely. So, saying the flan knows the actual time paladin is gay seemed like a good way to tip off the fake paladin stuff (meaning I don't just bury a player contribution, and instead build on it) and also to quickly make the statement that, hey, my world is accepting of all kinds of sexual orientations. I'd rather the first char with a canon sexuality be gay to set a standard, there'll be plenty of straight characters later I'm sure

on top of that, the polymorphed wizard was a woman, which means she's at LEAST canonically gay. (dunno if I'll ever get the opportunity to show her as being bi, which I'm fine with. I don't like the idea of forcing this sort of thing at my players - for instance, the dragonborn paladin they fought is female, but I didn't correct players who thought she was male. I just made sure to make opportunities to use the correct pronoun and hoped they'd catch on. I forget if they did, but again, I don't mind. I did the same thing when talking about the polymorphing wizard - I structured the sentence talking about her to ensure I dropped at least one pronoun, and the flan's player noticed and made the connection on his own. This kind of thing isn't a stance limited to sexuality - I avoid mentioning character names unnecessarily or character descriptions, despite having them, but if I find a way to seed them in without detracting from the actual game, I go for it.)

doing a lot of self-explaining stuff right now again, this feels a lot like the thing I posted recently

back onto the thing this section is SUPPOSED to be for, reflecting on how things went!

I think this session was a shitton of cutscenes, which I'm unsure about regarding how I feel, because it seemed like there was a lot of fun had? Maybe I made things interactive enough - and on top of that, just generally social - that it worked out. I'm unsure. This one's hard to gauge because there's no glaring mistakes I can point at, like boring stealth segments or anticlimactic fights.

I do think that the over-designed nature of this particular campaign arc is going to cause problems down the line - like, I have a pretty extensive timeline covering what goes on during the day (split into "stuff that'll happen unless another big city-shaping event takes place", and "events that can come up at any point during the day I'll make attempts to feed into things naturally") with plenty of little branches for divergent content. Like, I now have this minor subplot involving a hobgoblin mercenary group called the Silent Legion that will ONLY come up if the players happen to notice one particular questline early and do it and leave open a gap to be filled. (I established the rules for pedestrian watch and intend to stick to them - and my goal is that no aspect of it should be a waste of time. Establish world details, provide an interesting roleplaying opportunity, hint at a quest, etc., but NOT "just a random thing that happens". I do think it's silly to try and make everything connected but I don't want anything disconnected either. Like, the worst thing I did was the gnomish couple - that was mostly a very tiny roleplaying instance and did a minor bit of worldbuilding/clarifying, if the players had interacted with them. In hindsight, I should have figured out where the couple was from so I could possibly have set up more world info...)

I'm rambling at this point, what's left to say?

I dunno

I'm feeling less confident sharing campaign info though. I feel like explaining my thought processes opens me up to kinds of criticism and negative feedback I normally work very hard to avoid. Like, I try to be careful and inclusive enough to avoid being called problematic, but to also be low-key about it to avoid people thinking I'm trying to push an agenda. I want to make an effort to do what makes me feel comfortable, in a way that doesn't bother anyone else

the big differences between doing the actual campaign and posting about it here is that I know my audience there, don't know it here. I am pretty aware of the kinds of standards expected at my table and feel I'm more than able to meet them, and can meet some of my own standards as well, but I dunno what the standards of everybody following me is and that's partially what triggers all of this self-explaining

I'm just gonna stop writing and post now and if anyone says something I can just deal with it then, it's getting exhausting to worry about it preemptively and I already wrote a much more focused post about it

D&D went great, I had a lot of fun, my players said they had a lot of fun, and it is probably my favorite thing in life right now even if it is consuming said life to a certain degree

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