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queernerdywitch · 4 years

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I'm a SAHM to a 13 month old, pondering how I'm ever going to finish my to do list. I want to hack the to do list.

Time is like money. To do debt is like financial debt- it's when you have a master to-do list that you are always far from completing. Time and money both get budgeted- time gets budgeted for the day, and money gets budgeted either for the month or until you get your next paycheck, depending on your situation. Every day, time gets budgeted first for core essentials. Then after core essentials are done, then I can see if I have time left to work on other things. Each month, money gets budgeted for core essentials- bills. After I budget out bills, I see how much I have for other things. The difference is, I can budget my money and plan how much is left for other things before spending. With time, the same tasks take different time every day, and I have to budget as I go.

To dos and financial debt have tiers too, based on priority:

Financial:

- immediate bills (the same ones due every month)

- gas/groceries/etc (also repeats regularly)

- debt: credit card

- debt: people I owed money to

- debt: car loan

- debt: student loan

Time:

- immediate/ daily grind routine: (taking care of baby, my most basic food and hygeine needs)

- nursery checklist (diapers restocked, trash emptied, pump stuff sterilized, laundry caught up)

- immediate to do list: the most important and urgent tasks; the short term list

- less urgent tasks (like cleaning)

- the master list (one-and-done tasks)

*Out of these 5 categories ranked by priority, the first 4 are repeat tasks, and the last one is for one-and-done tasks.

When your whole paycheck goes to your bills, how do you work on your debts? Similarly, when your whole day goes to repeat tasks, how do you ever get ahead? We have to deal with the things that constantly repeat before getting to the one and done tasks that will actually put me ahead. Before I can get to the one and done tasks, I have to cycle through the repeat tasks, and when they're done... I have to do them all over again.

Whenever I Google "how to complete the to do list", I always see advice geared towards people in work. Advice like "clear your schedule" is just impossible and totally unrealistic for the SAHM. I see advice for procrastinators, which is not me. I see advice to follow the 80/20 rule. I'm figuring that one out. I see advice to follow the pomodoro method. That relies on the assumption that I can work without interruption, which simply isn't happening. The likelihood that I can actually give my undivided, focused attention for a whole 20 minutes is non-existent. They say, you do have time, you're just prioritizing other things. Yes, I do think that taking care of my daughter is more important than working on to dos. I just wish I had time for both.

I read about the four time quadrants in "7 Habits of Highly Effective People". Everything you do fits into four quadrants, based on urgency and importance. Things that are urgent and important are in quadrant 1. These are things like getting to work on time and dealing with your house fire. Things that are important but not urgent are in quadrant 2. This is for things like exercise, spending time with your loved ones, investing, personal development, and home preparedness. Things that are urgent but not important are in quadrant 3. This is for things like when there's a sale that ends tonight, but there's nothing you need to buy. Lastly, things that are not important or urgent are in quadrant 4, like playing games and scrolling through social media. They say that quadrant 2 is the best one to focus on because that's where a lot of people have their goals, and it's because usually when people die, their regrets are often in not spending enough time in quadrant 2- not spending enough time with loved ones.

When it comes to how I spend my time, I spend a lot of time in quadrant 1. A lot of my to-dos are in quadrant 2. So how do I spend more time in quadrant 2 when I'm constantly battling fires in quadrant 1?

Other advice that I see about productivity states that we should avoid multitasking. I think there's effective multitasking, and then there's ineffective multitasking. Ineffective multitasking is what they mean when they advise against multitasking. If you're working on something difficult that requires all your attention, then multitasking while doing that would be a bad idea. However, I have days where I have a few different tasks on my front burner and I'm more productive for it. These are easy tasks- for example, I'll have laundry in the washer, dinner in the Crock-Pot, my pump stuff microwaving in the steam sterilizer, and I'll have a couple other small tasks in my mind that I'm motivated to do. This is what I mean by effective vs. ineffective multitasking.

I see advice to delegate your tasks out to other people. I have delegated as much as I can.

I see advice to lower your expectations when you have a baby or a young toddler. This was true during the newborn stage when we were in survival mode. However, she is 13 months now, and I just don't want to see my life go by and still have the same things left undone for much longer. I'm losing patience because we only live once, and I was never able to keep up with the to-do list before having a kid. This is why I really want to hack the to-do list, once and for all.

None of the online solutions discuss how you get ahead when you spend all day on repeat tasks. The best solution I have is to have balance in all things. I could balance repeat cleaning with one and done tasks. However, at the moment, I'm particularly behind on cleaning because the last month has been so busy for our family. Maybe now that things aren't so hectic, I can catch up on cleaning and then I can balance repeat cleaning tasks with one-and-dones. Maintaining momentum for tasks also seems to help, to try and leave nothing half done. Keeping a few simple tasks on my front burner at once typically motivates me to try and get as much done as possible. If anyone has any better ideas, please share them!

#sahm #sahmomlife #sahmlife #time management #too much to do around here to keep up #toddlers #to do #to do list #7 habits of highly effective people #80/20 rule #delegate #momlife #motherhood

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lynchgirl90 · 6 years

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#TwinPeaks "David was really specific with me about how he wanted Cooper to move and look in those last few beats." @Kyle_MacLachlan looks back on @SHO_TwinPeaks

Toast of 2017: Kyle MacLachlan shares the secrets of 'Twin Peaks: The Return'

Twenty-five years after its alternately brilliant and befuddling series finale, David Lynch and Mark Frost’s singular creation, Twin Peaks, returned to television for a summertime encore that, appropriately enough, wound up raising more questions than it answered. What’s the significance of the atomic bomb imagery? What happened to Audrey? Is Carrie Page really Laura Palmer? And then there’s the most important question of all: is Twin Peaks: The Return a TV series or a movie? Although it aired weekly on Showtime in 18 hour-long installments, two prestigious film magazines — Sight & Sound and Cahiers du Cinéma — ranked the series among their best movies of 2017, setting off a firestorm of debate on Twitter. True to form, Lynch has deliberately avoided engaging in this heated discussion, although he did fan the flames early on, telling Rolling Stone prior to the show’s launch in May that that he approached The Return as an “18-hour film.”

As it turns out, Lynch’s leading man, Kyle MacLachlan, mostly agrees with his longtime collaborator on The Return‘s designation in the TV vs. film debate. “It’s tricky, because it’s a hybrid,” the actor tells Yahoo Entertainment. “David wrote it and directed it as if it were an 18-hour film, and was very specific in saying, ‘Don’t call them episodes; just call them hours.’ And at the end of an hour’s worth of viewing, he would just segue into something else, usually a performance at the Roadhouse, as a way to give it the feel of an ending. So I think the idea was that it would be viewed as one long film. But the debate is interesting! We’ll have to come up with a new category.”

While we’re in the process of inventing new categories for Twin Peaks, let’s not neglect finding fresh ways to honor MacLachlan’s performance. Besides reprising his iconic role as the coffee-and-cherry-pie-loving FBI agent Dale Cooper, the actor creates two (and maybe more) versions of his alter ego, including the Cooper who’s trapped in the otherworldly Red Room, as well as his evil doppelgänger, who has been loose in the real world for the past quarter-century. And then there’s Doug Jones — Dougie to his friends — a Las Vegas insurance agent whose face and form is borrowed by Cooper after he exits the Red Room but before he regains full consciousness. In MacLachlan’s hands, each of these characters emerges as a distinct individual with strikingly different physicalities and personality traits. He recently received a Golden Globe nomination for his multifaceted work, but perhaps he deserves three nods, or, failing that, an entirely new statue. In a lively chat for our year-end Toast of 2017 series, he shared his theory about what the final shot of The Return, means and the strange art of playing a newborn in an adult body.

Yahoo TV: I’d like to start at the very end of Twin Peaks: The Return — specifically that haunting final scene before the credits where Cooper brings Carrie Page, the woman he thinks is Laura Palmer, back home to Twin Peaks. What went through your mind when you first read that sequence on the page?

Kyle MacLachlan: I was really moved by it. I had the same reaction to that as I had when I read the end of the original pilot. I don’t know if you recall but the very first time Twin Peaks was on air, there was a gloved hand that reaches into the frame and picks up a gold necklace, and you hear Grace [Zabriskie, who plays Laura Palmer’s mother, Sarah] screaming in the background, and there’s a quick cut. It’s very disturbing, and lifts you out of your seat. I had exactly the same thought here. We shot that scene very early on in shooting The Return; it was while we were up in Seattle, which was during the first five or six weeks of filming. We hadn’t gotten to everything else, and it’s always a bit discombobulating to play something early in the filming that’s going to be placed at the end.

David was really specific with me about how he wanted Cooper to move and look in those last few beats. And it was quite easy to react with shock when Sheryl Lee [who plays Laura and Carrie] is screaming in the middle of the night in a Seattle suburb! It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Also, having the owner of the house there at the door. That’s part of David’s brilliance; he enlists people that he feels have the right kind of energy. As I was playing it, I felt this slow draining of confidence. Confidence is such a part of Cooper’s DNA — it was seeping out from his pores. But one of the things about that particular Cooper is that he’s slightly different than the Dale that wakes up in the hospital; he’s another tick on the character dial away from the original Cooper. So there was a loss of control and I felt very helpless. All of those thoughts and feelings were playing in that scene, but how it was going to fit into the whole of Twin Peaks I didn’t know yet. I didn’t know what the impact was going to be, and it turned out to be very powerful.

So much of the series rests on the delayed gratification of seeing the return of the original Cooper. Were you similarly impatient to play him again?

Yeah, I did want to get back to him. During filming, I would occasionally think, “We’re really going to test the patience of our fanbase!” But I also admired the kind of commitment that David has to his vision. We never spoke about getting back to the real Cooper more quickly, but he obviously felt it was important to maintain that tension about whether he’ll come back or not. It also allowed the character of Dougie Jones to also really take hold, and I think people really began to fall in love with him. Then it became, “We love Dale Cooper, but we also love Dougie Jones. Only one or the other is probably going to survive here, and we don’t know which!” It was one of those tricky things that, in hindsight, was actually pretty great. And David was able to put a little cherry on top when Dougie returns home as a slightly more capable version of the original.

Just within our office, we had a bet going about when Cooper was going to return. At one point, I said that we weren’t going to see him until the last episode. I do feel like Episode 16 — when Cooper arrives and everything is kind of resolved, to a point — is the end of one long beat. And then with Episode 17 and 18, you transition into something else — almost a new story and new direction. It’s a new quest, I guess, that’s sort of separate from what we’ve been watching before.

How much freedom did Lynch give you to create your different identities as Dougie, Bad Cooper, Red Room Cooper, and so on?

We found them together. Bad Cooper took a little bit of time, because David and I were approaching that character as organically as possible. There’s always the temptation to immediately say, “Oh, he’s this kind of guy, he wears this kind of stuff and he looks this kind of way,” just establish him quickly so you don’t feel the discomfort of not knowing. But every time we work together, we let the character find his way. With Bad Coop, we started with, “What is he like inside and how is that gonna be reflected in the way he moves and looks?” There were times where we wondered whether he was going to be put together and impeccably dressed, but then we let the character find his way — to the point of having dirt on his face and hands and not caring about it. There were also discussions about jewelry and other types of minutia — things that are incredibly boring to anybody not involved in creating this character but very important when you’re trying to make a character come to life from the page.

It was the same with Dougie. David knows I have a certain facility with physical comedy, and he wanted that to be magnified. So you take Cooper, and you distill him down into a new being. What is it like to be put in a body in a world where you don’t know anything? It’s almost like taking a newborn and putting it into an adult body. We had a lot of fun with the challenge of that. You have to have a lot of patience and a lot of confidence as an actor that what you’re doing is going to hold up, because there were a lot of moments where there didn’t seem to be a whole lot going on with Dougie. You just have to trust that it’s going to work; there was a big commitment to that character having that stillness.

How much freedom did Lynch give you to create your different identities as Dougie, Bad Cooper, Red Room Cooper, and so on? We found them together. Bad Cooper took a little bit of time, because David and I were approaching that character as organically as possible. There’s always the temptation to immediately say, “Oh, he’s this kind of guy, he wears this kind of stuff and he looks this kind of way,” just establish him quickly so you don’t feel the discomfort of not knowing. But every time we work together, we let the character find his way. With Bad Coop, we started with, “What is he like inside and how is that gonna be reflected in the way he moves and looks?” There were times where we wondered whether he was going to be put together and impeccably dressed, but then we let the character find his way — to the point of having dirt on his face and hands and not caring about it. There were also discussions about jewelry and other types of minutia — things that are incredibly boring to anybody not involved in creating this character but very important when you’re trying to make a character come to life from the page.

Even though you’re a much-respected character actor, it feels like The Return has been a reintroduction of sorts. Audiences seem to have come away from the series with a new appreciation for your range as a performer.

I was very excited to be able to do a different thing as an actor. That’s one of the things I pursue, and the opportunity to play not one, but three or maybe four very different characters was challenging and exciting. David knows that I’m the guy for Cooper — he can’t go and find somebody else! But if he’s going to write something where I’m going to have to do other things that he’s not necessarily seen me do before, but in his heart believes that I can do, that’s a humbling thing. I don’t know if I would have been capable of doing this 10 years ago or even 25 years ago when we first did the show. As an actor, you like to think that you’re evolving and getting better and getting better at your craft. So I feel like this was an opportunity for me to do some interesting work, and if I’m going to have to do things that I’ve not done before, there’s nobody better to do it with than David because he knows me the best and I could completely trust his eye.

You mentioned the physical comedy aspect to playing Dougie Jones earlier, and many of those scenes did remind me of silent film comedians like Charlie Chaplin. Thank you, that’s great. I’m a big fan of Chaplin, and Harold Lloyd as well. If you go back and look at the movie The Hidden — which, geez, was in the late ’80s, I guess! — I got to do a similar kind of thing. There’s an alien that’s inhabiting a human body for the very first time in that movie. But it takes the eyes of David Lynch to give the courage to just let something run. There were a lot of times in Twin Peaks where we just rolled camera, and I did what felt right to me. Then, with the encouragement of David, I’d go even further thinking, “I’m going to trust that he’s got my back on this.” And we came up with some great stuff.

Having worked with him so long, what’s the thing about David Lynch that would surprise people the most? That he’s got a wonderful sense of humor, terrific patience, and joy in the creative process. He’s very welcoming of an actor’s input, but at the same time very specific about what he’s looking for and what he’s not looking for. And he’s so rooted in reality and in the moment; it’s important to him that he absolutely believes that the actor is that character in that situation. There are just so many things about who he is — I could go on and on. When I look back over the years, I started with David Lynch in Dune, and then I also did my second movie with David Lynch, Blue Velvet. Being young, naïve and callow, I think I felt, “That was good, but now I’m gonna go work with these guys over here.” That depth of appreciation [for David] that didn’t necessarily exist when I was in my early 20s has come up and out, and I love the man so much. To have worked with him as many times as I have and to have done some of my best work with him has been a big part of the journey for me as an actor.

Looking ahead to what’s after Twin Peaks, what have you taken away from the show that you hope to apply to your next role? My process hasn’t changed much. I want to do interesting things with interesting filmmakers, and something that makes sense to me as an actor in the moment. In some ways, these performances have given me more confidence in what I’m able to do, a stronger belief in myself. And it has nothing to do with the reviews or anything like that; if I see it in my own performance, I’m comfortable with it. And I did see it in my performance in Twin Peaks. I was like, “You’ve grown, Kyle. There are things that you can do that I didn’t even know you could do.”

Twin Peaks: The Return is streaming on Showtime Anytime and on Hulu with a Showtime subscription.

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impendingexodus · 7 years

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Leave Your Number on a Candy Wrapper

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Here’s my gift for @j-ranked as part of the @vldexchange! It’s trick-or-treating shenanigans packed with fluff and so. many. puns. I hope you like it!!

Read it on Ao3 here!

Thunder growled in menace over the darkened streets, prompting a varied crowd of demons, superheroes, and fairytale princesses to look up anxiously. The night had been going well for Shiro, at least in terms of his haul, so he wasn’t as upset as he might have been at the threat of rain. Thanks to his and Matt’s dorm backing up against a wealthy neighborhood, they’d been some of the first ones to make the rounds and had gotten all the best candy.

That had lasted until Matt had somehow succeeded in making himself scarce. The streets around here were lit only intermittently by flickering streetlights decked out in fake spiderwebs and skeletons. It added to the spooky atmosphere but made visibility a slight problem.

Shiro reached up and flipped his eyepatch to the top of his head so he could see better. At least his pirate costume was easy to move in -– no more complicated than a white shirt, red sash, the eyepatch, and a stuffed parrot safety pinned to his shoulder. Not the most original, maybe, but it was simple and easily affordable by a college student whose sole motivation was to put himself in a sugar coma for the rest of the night.

Which made it all the more aggravating that Matt had disappeared, since Shiro was ready to head home now. He had been walking the twilit streets for a while, going against the flow in search of a crappy homemade ghost. Seriously, what was Matt thinking? If he went to the same houses again, someone was sure to recognize him. There weren’t many ghosts out on the streets tonight, and the few that were certainly weren’t wearing ill-fitting sheets that lacked proper eye holes.

Therefore it came as something of a relief and something of an annoyance when Shiro came around the corner of a house and saw a lost-looking sheeted figure standing by the porch. From the look of it, he’d had a good haul, his pillowcase sagging heavily, and it was time to go home.

“I’m beat,” Shiro said, coming close enough to tug on a cloth-covered shoulder. “Plus a storm’s coming.”

The ghost shrugged away from his hand and muttered something rebellious, but another clap of thunder muted his words. Shiro shifted his grip down to close around a wrist.

“C’mon.”

The ghost reached up with his free hand to pull at the sheet, trying in vain to align the holes so he could see out.

“I won’t lead you into traffic or anything. Let’s go.”

A squad of Avengers came around the corner, football players in logoed t-shirts and masks, and muscled their way past. Keeping a firm grip on the ghost’s wrist, Shiro made the most of his broad shoulders and pushed his way through the crowd.

Behind him, the ghost trailed like a lost comet. At some point he’d wriggled his wrist free of Shiro’s grasp and now they were holding hands with no sign of letting go even after the crowd had passed. It wasn’t like Matt to be this clingy but Shiro found that he didn’t really mind; at least this way it was easier to keep track of him.

Lightning arced overhead, throwing vivid shadows across the landscape just long enough to create spots in Shiro’s vision. Thunder followed, making people pause in the streets and glance upward before scurrying for cover.

Slowing down, the ghost tugged at his hand and said something, quiet enough to be drowned out by the ambience of late night college parties. Shiro frowned at the delay and pulled him along. No way he was going to let Matt talk him into something stupid at this hour. All he wanted was to get back to their dorm, safe and sound and dry.

They were just crossing the parking lot to the dorm when the skies opened. Sheets of rain fell, nearly blinding them, plastering Shiro’s dark bangs to his forehead. The ghost stumbled along and let Shiro guide him as his sheet became heavy and clung to his legs, making walking difficult.

Shivering from the sleety rain, they finally made it into the building. The ghost stayed close to Shiro, cold fingers almost frozen in his grasp, as they left a trail of puddles on the way down the hall.

It wasn’t until they were back in their shared bedroom, the door shut against the storm and Shiro grimacing as he peeled off his soaked sneakers and socks, that the ghost’s behavior struck him as a little off.

“Hey,” Shiro said, coming closer to where the ghost, shivering and dripping, had stopped just inside the door. “You maybe wanna get out of that sheet?”

The ghost pulled the cloth off over his head and dropped it in a wet, heavy heap on the floor. “I’m... sorry.” He ran a hand through damp black hair and looked ashamedly up through his bangs at Shiro. “I kept trying to tell you you’d got the wrong guy, but...”

The boy was wearing a thin t-shirt, testament to how warm the evening had started out, but it was now completely soaked and sticking to him, showing off his lean frame. Crossing his arms over his chest, he tried to disguise how much he was trembling.

“It’s my fault,” Shiro said. He took a step back and hoped it wasn’t obvious that he was staring. “I’m sorry. I was in such a hurry to get back. But I can offer you a shower and a change of clothes if you want?”

“Sure. My dorm’s all the way on the other side of campus.”

“Freshman?” That would make sense. Shiro would have noticed such a pretty face immediately if he’d ever shared a class with this boy.

“Yeah. My name’s Keith, by the way.” He held out a hand.

“Shiro. Nice to meet you.”

They shook hands and Keith glanced down selfconsciously at the puddle pooling at his feet. “I think I’m gonna take you up on that shower.” He sneezed, and Shiro was aware of just how chilled the rain was. His own clothes clung like an arctic embrace, and the boy was looking miserable.

“Good idea,” Shiro said. “I’ll have some clean clothes laid out when you’re done.”

-–

While Keith was showering, Shiro grabbed a towel and rubbed at his hair, drying it off as best he could. He changed into a clean shirt and sweatpants, and although he was still a bit cold, he wasn’t in any danger from pneumonia (he hoped). His own shower would have to wait until later.

Shiro’s cell rang and he picked it up, grumpily noting that it was from Matt.

“Got lost?”

“Got invited to a sleepover. Just wanted to let you know I won’t be back till morning.”

“Have fun.” Shiro snorted. “I’m making new friends too.”

“Good for you!” There were other voices in the background and Matt sounded distracted.

“Go have your fun. See you in class tomorrow.”

Shiro hung up just as Keith stepped out of the bathroom, dressed in a NASA shirt that was slipping off one shoulder, and a pair of sweats that was barely clinging to his hips and threatening to ride down at every step.

“Sorry about the clothes. I figured I’d lend you my stuff instead of digging through the dark recesses of my roommate’s closet.”

“Ah, it’s fine,” Keith said, sitting down crosslegged with his back against Matt’s bed. He looked much better now that he wasn’t shivering and color had returned to his cheeks. Glancing out at where rain was still pelting the window, he frowned. “Guess I’m not getting home any time soon.”

Shiro opened his mouth, about to apologize again for dragging Keith into this, but the younger boy smiled. “Can’t say I’m too upset about it though,” Keith commented. He nodded toward the candy-filled pillowcases dumped on the foot of Shiro’s bed. “Want to sort through and trade for the good stuff?”

“Depends on your definition of good,” Shiro said. He grabbed a large bowl and set it on the ground as he took a seat opposite from Keith. “Let’s see what we’ve got.”

Their combined hauls were predominantly chocolate. Keith immediately claimed any and all candy corn, and he sat there munching on that as Shiro organized the candy bars into categories based on his own personal opinions.

“There’s no way Snickers are better than Kit Kats,” Keith argued. He reached out and rearranged the messy piles.

“Says who?”

“I mean, peanuts and chocolate? That’s just gross.”

Shiro knocked his hand out of the way. “My dorm, my rules.”

With an exaggerated groan, Keith back off, sneaking a pack of cherry gumdrops. Shiro finally had the candy sorted out to his liking, and gestured to it like a king showing off his treasury. “Half is yours.”

“That’s awfully generous of you,” Keith replied around a mouthful. “I’m surprised you’re not charging me ten pieces just for use of your shower and clean clothes.”

“Just what kind of person do you think I am?”

Keith chuckled and started to reply, then paused and gave Shiro a calculating glance. “You’re a pirate,” he proclaimed at last. “You’re only after my booty.”

“No!” Shiro’s response was automatic. “No, I --” Then it registered on him that Keith was grinning, teeth candy-corn-orange, and a chuckle rumbled in Shiro’s throat. “That was terrible!”

“Arrr,” Keith replied, flinging a Milky Way at the other man’s face.

Shiro caught it effortlessly but set it aside instead of tearing into the wrapper. “So then if you’re a ghost, that means you’re boo-tiful.”

This time it was Keith’s turn to blush and stammer openmouthed. “Okay, enough,” he mumbled. “Go eat candy to stop that big mouth of yours.”

“A lollipop, maybe?” Shiro raised an eyebrow as Keith facepalmed.

“Why are you doing this to me?”

“Because you’re one of the nicest ghosts I’ve ever met. No, honestly -– I... kinda like you.”

Keith drew his knees up to his chin and wrapped his arms around himself. “What exactly am I to make of that? You thought I was your roommate up until twenty minutes ago.”

Sighing, Shiro gave a small shrug. “I’m not really sure myself. I mean, you’re welcome to leave whenever, I’m just thinking that I’d like to get to know you. It’s still raining and we’ve got plenty of candy in here; there are a bunch of monster movies on my computer if you’re into scary stuff.”

“Movies and a sleepover on the first date? Isn’t that kinda desperate?”

“It’s not every day that a cute boy shows up on my doorstep dressed in a sheet and little else. I can’t help it that I’m...um...”

“Interested?” Keith scooted closer on hands and knees. “Attracted? Because I think I might have something for dollar-store pirate costumes.”

Suddenly Shiro was very much aware that he was no longer the instigator of this situation. Keith’s lost expression and passivity had given the initial impression of naiveté, but it was becoming clear that he knew what he was doing. First, cheesy pickup lines that Shiro would never have dreamed of using. Then, Keith had kept goading him on, teasing him with the possibility of something, and now... Now the ex-ghost was six inches from Shiro’s face, an impish smile on his lips, his gaze warm and clear as he leaned closer.

“So, Captain, do you have room on your crew for one more?”

Shiro licked his lips. He couldn’t help the way he glanced down at Keith’s mouth, or the way his own mouth turned up in a grin. “I am in need of a first mate.”

Keith stared at him for a beat before he cracked completely. Throwing his head back in laughter, he all but collapsed into Shiro’s lap, arms shaking too hard to hold himself up. Shiro put an arm around Keith’s chest for support, but the touch quickly morphed into greedily pulling the smaller boy closer to him.

Keith ended up in Shiro’s lap, hands braced on his shoulders and surprised faces so close they were almost touching. Lowering his head, Keith leaned in until they bumped noses.

“Is this okay?”

Shiro nudged him back. “More than okay.”

Keith pressed even closer, one hand slipping up to cradle the back of Shiro’s head, as he touched their lips together. Shiro couldn’t help the way he was still half-smiling and he nibbled along Keith’s lower lip, tasting sugar and artificial cherry.

The smaller boy pressed into the kiss eagerly, chasing Shiro’s mouth when he tried to draw away.

“Don’t you think this is going a little fast?” Shiro managed to say at last. Keith’s mouth frowned where it was pressed against his cheek and he draw back far enough to make eye contact.

“No?” Keith tilted his head in confusion. “We both like each other, right? I’m not... Oh. I’m not suggesting anything more than what we’re doing now. I didn’t mean to lead you on, but I’m not interested in...” His nose wrinkled and his whole body got tense before he could finish the thought.

“No booty. Gotcha.” Shiro gave him a wink that had them both laughing again, and it felt good to have Keith’s body relax in his arms.

“And here my friends were warning me away from upperclassmen,” Keith mumbled. His breath was warm against Shiro’s collarbone.

“There’s no reason that pirates can’t be gentlemen too.” Shiro shifted so Keith’s weight was propped mainly on one shoulder, freeing his other arm to grab the laptop off of his bed. “Now, any preference of what to watch?”

“Wolfman is pretty good. The original, not the remakes.” Shifting around to see the screen better, Keith wrapped his arms around Shiro’s middle and rested his head on the bigger man’s shoulder. “I used to watch it every Halloween.”

“One wolfman, coming right up.” Shiro slung an arm around Keith’s back, as much for warmth as for friendly touch, and tapped on the keyboard.

They snuggled into each other as the storm continued outside and the room got darker and colder. Shiro dragged the blanket down off his bed and wrapped it around them. Keith yawned and lay down, head in Shiro’s lap, blinking tired eyes at the screen. By the time the movie was half over, both of them were asleep, side by side as monster music played quietly from the flickering black and white screen.

-–

In the morning, Shiro woke to the shrill buzzing of his alarm clock. It was disorienting to wake up on the floor, but he wasn’t sore thanks to a pillow wedged under his head and the blanket pulled up to his chin. He sat up in a bit of a panic, but there was no sign of Keith.

“Too good to be true,” Shiro muttered, leaving the warm cocoon of the blanket and forcing himself to his feet.

His laptop was closed on his desk, with a folded piece of paper propped up on top of it.

Had to get to class early and didn’t want to disturb you. Want to catch dinner? I’ll be in front of the library at 6.

P.S. Thanks for everything! You’re really cute when you’re asleep btw.

Shiro smiled to himself, good mood already returning. That lasted until he turned around and caught sight of the candy bowl from last night, from which significantly more than half was missing. Narrowing his eyes at it, he groaned. No way he was letting all that hard work vanish. Luckily he knew exactly where to be, and when, to get all the sweetness he needed.

And maybe a boyfriend to boot.

#Voltron legendary defender #voltron #keith #shiro #sheith #my writing #fanfic #this was so much fun to write #they need to be dorks more often

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Leading Question and Answer website in the world – Thinkle

Heyy! I got you. Looking for question and answer website that will really answer that burning and killer question or perhaps questions that you have in that head? Cool... I will walk you through the world’s top question and answer website ranging among the first 3 in the world in terms of accessibility and features. By the time you finish reading this article, you’ll see how beneficial this question and answer website is to you.

Let's dive right in..

Okay, let’s say you're searching for question and answer website because you are looking for a platform or community where you can seek for answers to your questions or maybe you’re simply looking for the right place to share your knowledge by answering other people’s questions, whichever way; be glad you found this piece of article. Because everything and anything you're looking for, will be right there waiting for you.

First thing, I want to congratulate you, simply for the fact that you took your time to search for question and answer website, a place where you can seek answers or share your knowledge that alone indicates you're up to something, either to "learn" "discover" "share" or "grow" perhaps even make good money along-the-way, on Thinkle people like you are known as either Seekers or Creators, because according to their Thinkler page; it states as follows.. "Ready 2 Roar? You’re in good company. Where miracle happens; the Thinkle community was created with you in mind."

Similar saying goes to their Thinklor page; which states as follows.. "Welcome to Thinkle, where people download their knowledge and decide to use it for money or not. People who answer questions are those shaping the future. Here, they’re known and called creators."

BRIEF ON THINKLE:

This is just a tip of an iceberg to let you know that if you searched for "question and answer website" then Thinkle will be your new home henceforth. By the way, who are Thinkle?

According to their about page statement, here is what is states ”Thinkle is a crowdsourced knowledge sharing and thoughts networking platform, established to connect those who have knowledge with those who seek it.”

At THINKLE? You’ll come across thousands of un-imaginary questions, but still from human beings like you. At some point at their Thinkler page where they mentioned “you’re is good company. Where miracle happens” It’s a fact. Best part? You even get paid for answering questions on Thinkle, as they believe knowledge is human’s biggest assets.

So if you happen to be a type who loves exchanging knowledge for money. Then Thinkle will blow your bank account. But it’s not like you just get in and start making money. LOL.. the good thing is you have to walk your way through that achievement by acquiring your Thinkle Explainer Badge. From the explainer badge, you can start monetizing your knowledge by simply charging certain fees to the platform members to answer a specific question. Isn’t that an awesome and easy means for making a ton of money simply by answering questions you’re expert in? Literally like answering a friend question, on Thinkle you do same and you get paid.

Thus for you who is looking for a question and answer website, where you’ll get paid for answering questions. You should know knowledge is the power that rules the Thinkle community, if not the world itself. Therefore you should be knowledgeable enough on your topic of interest, because your knowledge capacity in not measured or determine by the platform administrators but the community members, that means only the audience will vote up your knowledge according to your answers contributed in questions so far.. Consequently, the more valuable answers you provide the more rank you achieve, the more money you make.

For certain when you achieve the explainer badge on Thinkle platform, your money starts to flow non-stop. How? Because an answer is NEVER deleted on the Thinkle platform; except you delete it yourself. This therefore means once you drop a valuable answers; it will keep on having up votes upon up votes. Means more TRP = more USD.

Umm.. That’s how tricky your mind is, that’s how powerful your mind is, that’s how rich and wealthy your mind is, that’s how mind-free, stress-less, and happy your life should be. To simply do the things you love doing as a lifestyle and get paid for it.

A SHORT CASE IN POINT:

Examples of this people are Musicians, Visual Artists, Writers, and just to name a few, this category of people don’t actually work, they simply play while working, which is a form of joy to them when they do it. All this summarized in single word is called “PASSION”. And until you discover what your passion is, believe me, you will tour and tour but you won’t find happiness. Offcourse I now happiness is defined individually according to one’s perspectives. But if you happen to be the type whom happiness is defined by money, then perhaps you might never find it if you focus your whole mind on MONEY. In case you never knew, money is a byproduct of knowledge. This means, money is derived from knowledge. In other words, you can’t have money if you don’t have knowledge.

You might be reading this right now and thinking like, wtf is he even talking about? Ofcourse I love money too, perhaps even more than you do. But the honest truth is; you will NEVER have money if you don’t have knowledge. Even if you win a lottery, the money will finish, because you don’t have the knowledge to manage that money. I know you might be thinking, umm I will hire a manager. But rest assured no manager on planet earth will ever manage a third-party entity as if it was theirs. That’s just human nature, you can’t change it. That being said; at the end of the day, no matter how you might want to argue with me on this, you will still agree with me that; its necessary to have one thing that you can stand anywhere and brag of, be proud of, and will even feel more happier if asked to do it. That thing is what Thinkle call “PASSION” and that passion automatically transform itself to being your “PROFESSION” (do they even sound alike?.. just check it out)

So now when you miraculously turn your PASSION to PROFESSION, what do you think will follow after profession? Guess…. This $ or € perhaps this £ ? I don’t know, you choose.

Something more out of the box for you. Want to ask a question or answer a question without wanting your name to be displayed publicly? Thinkle has an additional freedom for you. Thinkle is one of the best website to ask questions anonymously without displaying your name publicly. This power gives you the invisible mode in the community as you can literally ask or answer any question (as in anything) using the Thinkle anonymous mode, since no one will be able to identify you in the community.

Hence in case you might be looking online for website to ask questions anonymously then count 100% on Thinkle anonymous mode to hide your pretty face when asking or answering that ugly question. Did I just got you? Ohh yea, I hope. That’s why they’re called THINKLE, they thinkle along with you.

HOW DOES IT WORK:

You might be wondering how it works? It’s just as simple as any other normal website. Below I have display a screenshot for both the Seekers and the Creators as shown on their website.

Seekers;

Below is a screenshot of how to get started as a Thinkle seeker.

Creators;

Below is a screenshot of how to get started as a Thinkle creator.

So if you're looking for a complete full package as follows;

1. A question and answer website

2. To get paid for answering questions

3. Or a website to ask questions anonymously

Then Thinkle will be your forever home, unlike on social media where you waste the only valuable thing you have on earth [TIME] to do nothing valuable to your life, a place where you even get more depression than happiness, because you see a friend post a nice car, house, outfit, and other expensive stuffs. Immediate you feel depress because you think he’s living a better and happier life than you do.

Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying social media is a bad thing according to me. I'm simply saying rather than waste 3 to 4 hours a day doing nothing on social media, why not instead value that time on Thinkle?

Why? Because on Thinkle, your every single second is valuable both financially and knowledgeably. The same time you spend typing a comment on social media, will be the same time you'll spend typing an answer on Thinkle, and your reward points start accumulating as you drop an answer or sharing your thoughts, experiences and knowledge with others. For you who ask questions, you’ll gain curated knowledge from people who have been there before you. By simply sharing their life experiences to answer your current life curiosity, situation or question. That thing that's pushing you to look for question and answer websites.

All the features and benefits you are looking for in a question and answer website, Thinkle has it all. Just like I said at the beginning, you will never regret reading this article as you join the most amazing and passionate social question and answer website today. Where you literally undo and reprogrammed your mind just the way you seek it.

Here Thinkle categorizes the three most essential assets in one's life to be TIME, KNOWLEDGE, and MONEY. Which it says, without the middle you can't acquire either.

So what are you waiting for? Jump right in here and start making things happen. “The miraculous way”.

“Expand your knowledge” “Expand your bank account”

That’s a wisdom quote from Thinkle founder, Takido Michael.

Ohh did I forget to say THINKLE also offers an unparalleled social activities…? Yes it does. On Thinkle you can follow anyone whom you think, you both think alike. Enabling you to build a network and connect one-on-one with people whom knowledge matters most to you.

Perhaps you’ve always wanted to be rich like Bill Gates, the richest man in the world. Connect with him on Thinkle and tap directly into his knowledgeable and informative mind. You love money? Then think along with the world billionaires on Thinkle as they answer any question you ask them as per their fee.

Thinkle is the only worldwide online portal that connects the poor directly with the rich through a social form of questions and answers, with the vision to enable you stream the information you value the most, directly from human brains. As creators upload their knowledge on Thinkle, while seekers download fresh knowledge from Thinkle.

Whichever category you fall in. Thinkle is still 100% beneficial to you in either ways, be it Knowledge or Money, either of them you seek as a valuable asset. The choice is yours, you own you.

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