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rachaelswrites · 3 years

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Spill or Fill Your Guts

Jake Gyllenhaal x daughter!reader

Word Count: 684

Requested By: Anonymous

Hiya, I was wondering if I could request a Jake gyllenhaal x daughter!reader. She’s 16 and it’s a spill your guts or fill your guts and Jake finds out she is dating someone(Finn? Was it? I don’t remember the pairings)

You were sitting next to your dad in front of a spinning table filled with the most disgusting foods you’ve ever seen. You barely even considered it food. James Corden was sitting in a chair across from you, explaining how the game would work. You have seen plenty of episodes of the show and knew what was coming. Your dad seemed more excited to play this game than you. You made the decision to answer all questions, no matter the answer, so you didn’t have to eat anything. You didn’t want to throw up on live television.

“Alright, are you two ready?” James asked you. Jake nodded and turned to you. Both men saw the apprehensive look on your face, “You good there?”

“Yeah yeah I’m fine. Let’s just hope I don’t puke,” you said. The audience laughed, thinking you were joking. You weren’t.

After a few rounds of questions, it was your turn to ask James a question. You spun the table and it landed on fish eggs. You gagged to yourself, making the audience laugh again, “Glad that’s not for me,” you said.

“Yeah, lucky you,” James said, his voice laced with sarcasm. The questions you’ve had weren't hard to answer and the food that you landed on wasn’t awful. You’ve only eaten one thing, grasshoppers. Your question was about your least favorite co-star. You refused to answer so you had to down the insects.

“Your question is, who has been your favorite person to interview?”

James smiled nervously and looked between you, your dad, and the audience. You leaned forward, resting your elbows on the table and placing your chin in your hand.

“Are you going to answer it?” you asked in a mocking tone.

Your dad copied your movements, “Are ya?”

James laughed quietly and looked at the plate in front of him. He shook his head and picked up a fork, “I can’t can I?”

“Not unless it’s me,” your dad joked.

“Or me,” you said.

James swirled his fork around the food on the plate before scooping some up. He brought the utensil to his mouth and took a bite. You could hear the squish and almost threw up just from that, you couldn’t imagine how James felt.

He managed to down the eggs without needing a trash can. He got a sip of water before turning his attention to you and your dad, “Jake, it’s your turn to ask Y/n a question.”

Jake spun the table and it landed on bird salvia. You were definitely not drinking that. You would answer whatever the question was. He grabbed a piece of paper and read the question to himself and chuckled to himself.

“Well don’t be shy. Read it,” you said. You just wanted to get this over with.

“Your question is, are you single?” he wiggled his eyebrows at you, expecting you to answer yes. You knew the blush that immediately creeped onto your face had given the answer away already, Jake was just too blind to see it.

James leaned forward on the table, copying your motions from before, “Are you gonna answer?”

You chewed on your lip nervously, glancing over at your dad. He seemed concerned that you were taking a while to answer, “Uh I guess not,” you stuttered.

“You guess not? What does that mean?” your dad asked.

“I mean, I would’ve told you sooner,” you said.

James and the audience were definitely enjoying the scene unfolding in front of them, “Who is it?” James questioned.

“Um, Noah.”

“Ha! I knew it!” James exclaimed.

You raised your eyebrows at him, “How?”

“I just did,” he said in between laughs. He was looking at your dad now, who was just staring at you like a deer in headlights, “Jake are you okay?”

He stayed frozen for a few seconds before snapping out of it and standing up, looking around the room and stage, “Where is this kid? If he’s dating my daughter I need to have a word with him.”

You buried your face in your hands, shaking your head, “Lord help me now.”

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onepiecepodcast · 3 years

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Episode 684, "Mr. K of the B-Team"

Episode 684, “Mr. K of the B-Team”

On this week’s episode of The One Piece Podcast we have hosts Ed & Alex taking the helm, and are joined by our very special guests Stephen Paul (Translator for One Piece in Shonen Jump and Manga Plus) Anime Recap host Sam Leach, and newcomer Brian (Battle & Brew). This episode features a Manga Recap for Chapter 1022 “The Stars Take The Stage,” Episode 988, “Reinforcements Arrive! The Commander of…

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blackkudos · 6 years

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John McWhorter

John Hamilton McWhorter V (born October 6, 1965) is an American academic and linguist who is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he teaches linguistics, English, American studies, comparative literature, philosophy, and music history. He is the author of a number of books on language and on race relations. His research specializes on how creole languages form, and how language grammars change as the result of sociohistorical phenomena.

A popular writer, McWhorter has written for Time, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Politico, Forbes, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Daily News, City Journal, The New Yorker, among others; he also hosts Slate's Lexicon Valley podcast.

Early life

McWhorter was born and raised in Philadelphia. He attended Friends Select School in Philadelphia, and after tenth grade was accepted to Simon's Rock College, where he earned an A.A. degree. Later, he attended Rutgers University and received a B.A. in French in 1985. He received a master's degree in American Studies from New York University and a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1993 from Stanford University.

Career

Since 2008, he has taught linguistics, American Studies, and in the Core Curriculum program at Columbia University and is currently an Associate Professor in the English and Comparative Literature department there. After graduation McWhorter was an associate professor of linguistics at Cornell University from 1993 to 1995 before taking up a position as associate professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1995 until 2003. He left that position to become a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. He was Contributing Editor at The New Republic from 2001 to 2014. From 2006 to 2008 he was a columnist for the New York Sun and he has written columns regularly for The Root, The New York Daily News, The Daily Beast and Time Ideas.

McWhorter has published a number of books on linguistics and on race relations, of which the better known are Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English, Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why You Should, Like, Care, and Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. He makes regular public radio and television appearances on related subjects. He is interviewed frequently on National Public Radio and is a frequent contributor on Bloggingheads.tv. He has appeared twice on Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, once in the profanity episode in his capacity as a linguistics professor, and again in the slavery reparations episode for his political views and knowledge of race relations. He has spoken at TED (2013), has appeared on The Colbert Report and Real Time with Bill Maher, and appeared regularly on MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes.

McWhorter is the author of the courses entitled "The Story of Human Language, "Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language," "Myths, Lies and Half-Truths About English Usage," and "Language From A to Z" for The Teaching Company.

Linguistics

Much of McWhorter's academic work has concerned creoles and their relationship to other languages, often focusing on the Surinam creole language Saramaccan. His work has expanded to a general investigation of the effect of second-language acquisition on a language. He argues that languages naturally tend towards complexity and irregularity, and that this tendency is only reversed by adults acquiring the language, of which creole formation is simply an extreme example. As examples, he cites English, Mandarin Chinese, Persian, the modern colloquial varieties of Arabic, Swahili, and Indonesian. He has outlined these ideas in academic format in Language Interrupted and Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity, and for the general public in What Language Is and Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue. Some other linguists suggest that his notions of simplicity and complexity are impressionistic and grounded on comparisons with European languages, and point to exceptions to the correlation he proposes.

McWhorter is a vocal critic of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. In The Language Hoax, he outlines his opposition to the notion that "language channels thought."

McWhorter has also been a proponent of a theory that various languages on the island of Flores underwent transformation due to aggressive migrations from the nearby island of Sulawesi, and has joined scholars who document that English was profoundly influenced by the Celtic languages spoken by peoples encountered by Germanic invaders of Britain (see Brittonicisms in English). He has also written various pieces for the media arguing that colloquial constructions such as the modern uses of "like" and "totally," and nonstandard speech in general, be considered alternative renditions of English rather than degraded ones.

In January of 2017, McWhorter was one of the speakers in the Linguistic Society of America's inaugural Public Lectures on Language series.

Social and political views

McWhorter characterizes himself as "a cranky liberal Democrat". In support of this description, he states that while he "disagree[s] sustainedly with many of the tenets of the Civil Rights orthodoxy," he also "supports Barack Obama, reviles the War on Drugs, supports gay marriage, never voted for George Bush and writes of Black English as coherent speech". McWhorter additionally notes that the conservative Manhattan Institute, for which he worked, "has always been hospitable to Democrats". McWhorter has criticized left-wing and activist educators in particular, such as Paulo Freire and Jonathan Kozol. He believes that affirmative action should be based on class rather than race. One author identifies McWhorter as a radical centrist thinker.

In April 2015, McWhorter appeared on NPR and claimed that the use of the word "thug" was becoming code for "the N-word" or "black people ruining things" when used by whites in reference to criminal activity. He added that recent use by President Obama and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (for which she later apologized) could not be interpreted in the same way, given that the black community's use of "thug" may positively connote admiration for black self-direction and survival. McWhorter clarified his views in an article in the Washington Post.

Bibliography

1997: Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis ISBN 0-820-43312-8

1998: Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a "Pure" Standard English ISBN 0-738-20446-3

2000: Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America ISBN 0-325-00198-7

2000: The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages ISBN 0-520-21999-6

2000: Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America ISBN 0-684-83669-6

2001: The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ISBN 0-06-052085-X

2003: Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority ISBN 1-592-40001-9

2003: Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care ISBN 1-592-40016-7

2005: Defining Creole ISBN 0-195-16669-8

2005: Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America ISBN 1-592-40188-0

2007: Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars ISBN 0-195-30980-4

2008: All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America ISBN 1-592-40374-3

2008: Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English ISBN 1-592-40395-6

2011: Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress? ISBN 978-1-934-07837-2

2011: What Language Is: (And What It Isn't and What It Could Be) ISBN 978-1-592-40625-8

2014: The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language ISBN 978-0-199-36158-8

2016: Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally) ISBN 978-1-627-79471-8

2017: Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths about America's Lingua Franca ISBN 978-1-942-65820-7

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sstwins · 7 years

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Inside the Spindle Room - Faybelle & Briar

!!!!!!!!! HERE WE GO, HERE IS THE ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY COMPANION PIECE TO MY LAST STORY!!!!!!!! THIS SCENE WAS SO GOOD, EPIC WINTER REALLY REJUVENATED MY HEART HERE AAAAAAAA

~ Read something from Briar’s POV here! ~

Brief Summary: The intoxicating lure of the spindle makes people do things that they can’t control.

You can watch Epic Winter Episode 3, 16:40 for scene context if desired! (Low Qual Version Here!)

Word Count: 684

Fic requests are open!!

From the moment she walked through the door, Faybelle was intoxicated.

What a small thing the spindle was, but powerful beyond belief. It really put it all into perspective. The spindle was small, and its needle was smaller. But touching that tiny, almost invisible point of the pin was enough to send anyone into a hundred year snooze. It was one of the most powerful magical objects in the kingdom… and it was Faybelle’s to control. It was a thrilling thought that made a gleeful shiver run uncontrollably down Faybelle’s spine. Then, she felt Briar leave her side. When she glanced to the girl, she could see that Briar was walking forwards.

Oh, yeah. It was the spindle after all. Faybelle had heard stories from her mom about how the Beauty’s just couldn’t help themselves around it. And she had seen firsthand how Briar acted around needles. It was, admittedly, somewhat alarming to see Briar have to run away to keep her shaking hands from stabbing herself during sewing class, but what could you do, right? Destiny was just something that everyone had to live with, like it or not.

Flapping her wings, Faybelle zipped over to the wheel, landing and watching Briar’s slow, trance-like stumble. Faybelle, too, felt like she was possessed by the spinning wheel which seemed almost to be glowing and pulsating in front of her. She felt so much more… powerful. Like she could do whatever she wanted, and no one could stop her. It was what she’d always dreamed of.

As Briar walked closer, Faybelle started to smile, filled with intoxicating glee. “Double dare you to touch the spindle, Briar!” she taunted, almost starting to laugh as Briar came closer… and closer…

When Briar’s fingers were just an inch away from the needle, everything seemed to snap back into focus, and Faybelle realized what was really happening. If Briar touched that, she would be gone. Not just for a light nap, for a hundred years. Gasping, Faybelle tried to knock Briar’s hand away, but someone had already beat her to it, Crystal Winter, who was dragging Briar back by her shoulders. Briar’s eyes dilated, returning to their normal state. She looked terrified. Everyone else was glaring at Faybelle with so much disdain that even standing behind the spindle, Faybelle felt small.

“I was only kidding,” she mumbled as a half-apology, not even sure of what to say. Had she been kidding? She teased Briar like that a lot, but never like this. This time, she’d felt different. For a moment there, she’d been eager, excited, to see Briar come to pain, fall to her destiny. Faybelle might like to tease the girl, but when it came down to it, she didn’t want to actually hurt her. But she almost had, and she would have, if she hadn’t looked into Briar’s eyes just as the girl reached for the needle. They were so blank and unresponsive. Briar couldn’t help herself if she tried. And it had stirred something in Faybelle, something that had snapped her back to normality and made her try to knock Briar’s hand away.

Wanting to forget what had just happened, the cruelty and the power, Faybelle tried to watch Crystal and listen to what she was saying. Something about yarn, the rose being hidden. But instinctively, Faybelle glanced up and locked eyes with Briar, who was standing with her arms wrapped protectively around herself. Briar channeled so much into that one glance, all at once checking to see if Faybelle was okay and if she was herself again and if Faybelle still wanted her to get hurt. The needle was still so close to both of them, luring their gaze with its transfixing power, and Faybelle hovered her hand near it, ready to knock Briar’s hand out of the way if she needed to. Then, miraculously, as soon as it had arrived, some of the pain in Briar’s eyes changed to a grateful, gentle light. And Faybelle suddenly had the realization that maybe Briar of all people was the one person who could make her kind.

#ever after high #epic winter #faybelle thorn #briar beauty #bribelle #!!!!!!!#sstwins' writing #I JUST LOVE THE THOUGHT #THAT BOTH BRIAR AND FAYBELLE ARE VICTIMS TO THE SPINDLE #AND THEY BOTH HAVE TO OVERCOME THEIR DESTINY AND SUPPORT EACH OTHER!!!#AAAAAAA!!!!#GOSH #EPIC WINTER REALLY #WOW #I WAS SO EXCITED FOR THAT SCENE LIKE U DON'T EVEN KNOW #AND IT WAS SO REVEALING #!!!!!#best

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