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study-diaries · 10 days
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💌 Send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome. 💌 ✨🌹✨
Heyy :)
Thank you, really appreciated! Right back at you <3
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dreamgrlarchive · 1 year
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what’s the impoartance of branding and how did you find your brand
Branding Yourself ❤︎︎
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why do you buy lingerie from victoria’s secret and not target? why do you go to starbucks instead of looking for a local coffee shop? it’s the way these entities have displayed their aesthetic, values, and more than anything: THEIR AURA. they’re displaying a feeling that you can only get if you indulge in their goods and services.
when you carry yourself in whatever fashion that happens to be, imagine a logo plastered all over yourself. who’s attention do you want to grab with that logo? you’re showing potential employers, friends, love interests, what they’ll be getting when in collaboration with you. so this. this is what’s important about branding.
My Brand 🎀
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i wanted to feel not only feminine in energy, but hyperfeminine in appearance… but with a cloak of sex appeal, maturity and exclusivity
i recently found and accepted that i am not “cute” aesthetically. i’m far more often seen as “pretty” or “sexy” and unknowingly working against my natural beauty archetype was hurting me badly
my color palette of midtone pink, black, white, gray, and nude/brown convey a feminine look while being grounded in minimalism from the neutral colors
sex kitten, video vixen, and victoria’s secret angel are archetypes/aesthetics i identify and get associated with often
i leaned into my result from vindicta’s feminine archetype quiz (the aphrodite + the diva)
i compiled a list of words i identify with and channeled them in my self expression and how i carry myself
studying my birth chart and infusing my natural traits into my essence with intent
all these things i’ve compiled over time and lots of trial and error to reach what i call #theprissygirlagenda (i can make a detailed post about this in the future)
things my followers said they associate with me, ie. “prissy girl core”:
louis vuitton bags, french tips, fur details, cheetah print, rhinestones, silk presses, fuzzy pens, rap and r&b, sexy over cute, hoop earrings
How to Build Yours 🎀
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how do you wanna feel
how do you wanna be seen
what do you want out of life
these three questions will help you be able to reach a conclusion in conjunction with the resources below 🎀💕💗
What Even Is… #ThePrissyGirlAgenda?
My Guide to Making a Beauty Binder
Discovering Your “Vibe” 1 & 2 by @FILLEFATALE on twitter
She Is So Bougie Checklist by @babyphat05
Quizzes that Helped Me Develop My Brand
Vindicta Feminine Archetype Quiz + System
13 Feminine Seduction Archetypes Quiz
Tips to Enhance Your Natural Features
BabyPhat05’s Bougie Guide 101
Reinvention by @thevirgodoll
Walking in High Heels by @prettyvixenavenue
Pretty Privilege by @2pretty
How to Build Your Personal Brand and Self Concept by @femmefatalevibe
Tips for Self-Discovery by @femmefatalevibe
Understanding Archetypes by @femmefatalevibe
Knowing Yourself by @femmefatalevibe
Your Dream Girl Archetype by @femmefatalevibe
-xoxo!
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draxumain · 5 months
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I AM IN CONTROL AFFIRMATION TAPE REVIEW
Heyy!!
It's officially been a week since I've used @adambja self-concept affirmation tape, and oh boy, do I have some news!!
I made a list of all the things I was going to manifest beforehand, you know, to tick them all off.
I followed her instructions, and listened to it everyday for 1 hour. I listened whilst I ate, studied, on the way to my courses and whilst I was chilling. I didn't want to stress and strain myself by finding time and forcing myself to listen to them so I instead mixed it into my busy schedule rather than separating it, because why not?
And oh boy, the results were glorious!
Here's the list of what I wanted to manifest, I wanted them to come In at a comfortable need to want type pace rather than instantly like I did before biggest kisses to shadow work for helping me slow tf down and prioritise both my wants and needs in a healthy manner 🫶🏾
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RESULTS:
: Soooo I met this cute girl at school, she ticks so many of my boxes!! She's the talker, physically affection, cute nicknames I love it!! Currently just talking and flirting but I'm excited go see where this goes, ticks off my wlw relationship! I wanted something slow and meaningful, she's a little fast but meaningful I think it's the talking stage exciting jitters we'll see how it goes once she takes a breather. But I'm enjoying our time together.
: Dreams have been a lot more vivid! Dream recall sucks ass cause my sleep schedule and daily nutritional intakes are fucked give me a minute to fix those and lucid dreaming will natural for me I swear you guys 😭 I had such a realistic dream today I mixed it up with real life, everything felt so real it was insanely bizarre
: I feel a lot more direct and open to shifting now in comparison to last week, my mindset towards it has gone from "I need to do x then x otherwise it won't work I need to do everything properly or else I'll fail" to "Fuck it what I say goes"
I no longer pay great attention to the 3D but I still have a healthy view point to this reality which is something I always struggled with, detachment lead to dissociation which lead to hard core depression. We're feeling good right now though!
Something I tried to manifest before hand finally came up, simple thing but I wanted to wake up with my eyes closed, remain still and instantly remember shifting. This is so I could shift through my most preferred shifting state which required for me to wake up eyes closed and bam! Shift.
But I always woke up with my eyes open, it was a struggle. Not anymore folks!!
: My YouTube video views are increasing, I had a slow recent video that was barely moving its now getting 1k views per day and I'm a few subscribers away to my next milestone goal 30k which I wasn't close to last week
: I made a money review riggght here! It's for her money affirmation tape however the I am in control tape played a role too! Powerful duo 101% recommend using both <3
: My eyelashes are looking a lot fuller and my eyes are alot more sharper and more outlined, hope that makes sense. You, can actually tell the shape of if it's nice and sharp. Nose is also a little more narrow, I didn't want it to narrow gotta love what my ancestors gave me <3 that's on black beauty
: Hair is in twists I can see my roots getting longer which means there's growth that happend after the twists! There wasn't that much growth before hand, so waist length hair here I come!!
OK, that's all now, ily tysm adambja!! <3
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dizzymoods · 5 months
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When i started youtube i did a survey of video essays to make sure like what i wanted to do wasn’t already being done.
And i looked at a bunch of black and queer video essayists in particular to see the field.
i did watch james somerton’s knock off Celluloid Closet video and i clocked it immediately like girl that’s everybody’s first intro to queer cinema. the doc was put up in 10 min chunks on youtube since 2006. they put the whole thing up on youtube the same year it lifted the 10min limit back in 2010. you not slick!
but every other queer film person on youtube does it too. they’d be nothing without Vito Russo. And they take from b ruby rich’s new queer cinema reader. that’s the scope of their understanding of queer film. And in the NQC reader there’s an essay on Queer Third Cinema which is just queer cinema of the Third World….which is a complete misunderstanding of Third Cinema. the NQC reader had its share of critics at the time of its publication. but they don’t know that.
And the black film people are hopelessly trying to reinvent Donald Bogle. every black video essayist has their own proprietary trope that is a manifestation of a tom, coon, mulatto, mammy, etc. There’s a reason bogle was, in a sense, generic because how these tropes continue to live change with the times but the core remains the same.
I’ve seen videos about the LA Rebellion as a movement from UCLA. I can’t remember if she said it in spirits of the rebellion or w/e but Julie has a line that goes something like “we weren’t a movement just a bunch of black kids at the same film school” and everybody hated UCLA. The LA Rebellion happened in spite of UCLA. Elyseo Taylor, who headed the program that we attribute to the LA rebellion —the ethnocommunications program— was fired after a year and the program shut down at the same time because the white failsons of producers weren’t getting the special funds the “blacks” were. And the LA Rebellion existed outside of UCLA too. The major actors of the movement studied or worked at The Performing Arts Society of LA (PASLA); Larry Clark taught cinematography there as well.
i know the hbomberguy video is about plagiarism but the other major issue with the youtube video essay industrial complex is that it’s giving “hey guys i’m taking media studies 101 and i just learned something that’s gonna blow your mind! It’s called the male gaze”
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sixofcrowdaydreams · 3 months
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Crows Fanfic AU Idea...
With all the Crows college fics that exist, we've been sleeping on the Crows Community AU. Hear me out...
Summary:
Six very different students share one very common goal: passing a stupid language class at the local community college. They form a study group, new unlikely friendships -- new romances -- and maybe, just maybe, figure out how to pass their class.
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Nina speaks six languages already and the 101 class is so easy for her, why would she bother to switch for something harder? The others find out she’s fluent and beg for help. (Lol, not Kaz though. He doesn’t beg, nor need help. He just shows up to the study group because his class partner comes to the study group and he claims he wants Jesper to actually work so that they can both pass.)
Jesper needs help focusing, Wylan needs help reading and writing in a new language, Matthais struggles with pronunciation and speaking. Inej wants to make sure she's learning correctly. Kaz just uses the the time studying to complete his work.
Class partnerships are: Nina and Inej, Kaz and Jesper, and Wylan and Matthias. Their crappy community college may be a joke, but their motivations to succeed are very real.
Character/Plot:
Kaz: business major, needs the degree to keep his club legal and legally reputable. (It is most definitely not, and he uses it to help the other Crows.) Unofficial leader of the study group despite only speaking one language while everyone else is multilingual. Doesn’t actually need help studying, could do it himself, but there is a lot of group work in the class and he’ll never admit it, but he is entertained by the others and enjoys their company. Especially Inej because she's the only other sane member of the study group.
Inej: social work major, wants to fight for others rights and help the most vulnerable. Like most of the Crows, speaks another language, but it’s not the one being studied in class. Honest and sweet, she (and Jesper) are the emotional core of the group, given her ability to care about the Crows' well being more than studying. 
Jesper: agricultural major, hates his major – is pretty sure he’s going to drop out because he doesn’t care about school, a bit of a slacker. Still incredibly smart when he applies himself. The Crows convince him to switch to a trade which is much better for him, now he just needs to tell his dad. (Yikes.) Immediately sleeps with Wylan and they both get awkward about it because they both thought the other wanted something casual, but they definitely don’t. Lets Wylan move in with him. 
Nina: nursing major, is only going through the motions to get a degree because the one she already has doesn’t count because it didn’t transfer correctly when she emigrated, which is total bullshit in her very strong opinion. Speaks 6 languages and the group comes to her with help studying – actually in charge of the studying part of the study group. Shamelessly flirts with everyone and is driven crazy taking a relationship at Matthias’s pace. 
Wylan: music major, homeless and stealthily living on campus because he technically doesn’t qualify for financial assistance (given his family’s wealth even though he has zero access to it). His father enrolled him in a community college instead of his family’s alma mater in order to embarrass him and expects him to flunk out. Wylan is determined to succeed. Works in the cafeteria, can speak class language very well, needs help with the reading/writing elements. Kaz forges some documents to get Wylan financial assistance and into campus housing. The Crows help him (and Jesper) get academic accommodations. Learns how to get help without being embarrassed.
Matthias: criminal justice major, arrested and released from jail, innocent and falsely accused, but having a difficult time getting back on his feet. He has a difficult time letting go of what happened to him and that it effects/limits his career opportunities. Hates how much he needs Nina’s help to pass the class, but he enjoys the one-on-one tutoring with her more than he wants to admit. He would rather slow down a relationship to court. Nina convinces him to let go of his anger and switch to a lit major, which makes him happier. 
I want to read it so badly ... wait, what do you mean that I have to write it first?
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journalofanoldsoul · 1 year
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Numerology 101
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Numerology is the study of the symbolism and significance of numbers, and how they relate to our lives. It is based on the idea that everything in the universe has a vibration, including numbers. By understanding the energy of numbers, we can gain insight into ourselves and the world around us.
In numerology, each number has its own unique energy and meaning. For example, the number 1 is associated with independence, leadership, and innovation. The number 2 is associated with balance, harmony, and diplomacy. The number 3 is associated with creativity, self-expression, and communication.
Through the study of numerology, we can gain insight into our personality traits, life path, and destiny. By understanding the energy of the numbers associated with our name and birthdate, we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and our purpose in life.
Numerology can also be used to gain insight into relationships, career choices, and major life decisions. By understanding the energy of the numbers associated with these areas of our lives, we can make more informed choices and find greater fulfillment.
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Here's a brief explanation of each concept in numerology:
Life Path Number: The life path number is a core number in numerology that is calculated based on a person's birthdate. It represents the path or journey a person will take in life and is considered the most important number in a person's numerology chart.
To calculate the life path number, you need to add up the digits in a person's birthdate (month, day, and year) and reduce it to a single digit or a master number (11, 22, or 33). For example, if someone was born on September 25, 1985, the calculation would be: 9 (September) + 2 + 5 (day) + 1 + 9 + 8 + 5 (year) = 39, and 3 + 9 = 12. Since 12 is not a master number, we reduce it to a single digit: 1 + 2 = 3. Therefore, the life path number for this person is 3.
Expression Number: The expression number is also known as the destiny number and is calculated based on a person's full name. It represents a person's natural abilities, talents, and potential in life.
To calculate the expression number or destiny number, you need to assign a numerical value to each letter in a person's full name (including middle and last names) and add them up. Then, reduce the number to a single digit or a master number (11, 22, 33, or 44). For example, if someone's name is John Smith, the calculation would be: J (1) + O (6) + H (8) + N (5) + S (1) + M (4) + I (9) + T (2) + H (8) = 44. Since 44 is a master number, we don't reduce it further. Therefore, the expression number or destiny number for this person is 44.
Soul Urge Number: The soul urge number is calculated based on the vowels in a person's full name and represents their innermost desires and motivations in life.
To calculate the soul urge number, you need to assign a numerical value to the vowels in a person's name (excluding the letter "y") and add them up. Then, reduce the number to a single digit or a master number. For example, using the name John Smith again, the calculation would be: O (6) + I (9) = 15, and 1 + 5 = 6. Therefore, the soul urge number for this person is 6.
Personal Year Number: The personal year number is calculated based on a person's birthdate and the current year. It represents the energy and opportunities that will be present in a person's life during a specific year.
To calculate the personal year number, you need to add the digits in a person's birthdate (month and day) to the digits in the current year. Then, reduce the number to a single digit or a master number (11, 22, or 33). For example, if someone was born on July 7th and it's currently the year 2023, the calculation would be: 7 (July) + 7 (day) + 2 + 0 + 2 + 3 (year) = 19, and 1 + 9 = 10. Since 10 is not a master number, we reduce it to a single digit: 1 + 0 = 1. Therefore, the personal year number for this person in 2023 is 1.
Stay tune for more numerology posts.
xoxo
J.
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sorcerous-caress · 6 months
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I had two thoughts that I can't stop thinking
First was like the obvious like girl dad male drow and Minthara. Cute, Intense TM couple and their warrior daughters. But the second thought was like would it get angsty if Minthara had a son?
Dude i literally had this exact same thought when i answered the ask.
Minthara in-depth Character study + Media literacy 101 below cut.
[Tw: themes of abuse discussed]
First of all
Characters are tools.
All characters are not real, Minthara is not a real person. She is pixels, Minthara can't abuse or be abused because she isn't real.
What she can do, is be a tool or a puppet to tell a story about abuse.
Second of all
Evil characters are not bad characters. Morally wrong characters are not bad writing.
A character doesn't have to be good, moral or have a redemption arc. A character only needs to be compelling, interesting and dynamic.
Third of all
The writers aren't horrible people or freaks for putting a character through trauma or shitty events. Their job is to make an interesting story and not a life guidance manual for newborns.
These shitty events happen to real-life people. Go direct your energy to helping them instead of fictional characters depictions that allow safe exploration of dark themes where no real people are getting harmed.
I'm so proud of you for understanding this. Here is your complimentary media literacy degree. 🎊
Minthara was written to be a typical drow, she was never meant to be the good drow that stands out or rejects the brutality of drow culture.
The drow twins in sharess caress are the unique good drows that completely opted out of drow culture.
Minthara was never meant to be that, no matter how much you twist her or try to look for a deeper meaning. At her core, even after abandoning Lolth, she still abids by drow culture rules for her own personal life.
She is aware of how cruel it is, she accepts and likes it.
Sure, some aspects she hates, she isn't really a huge enthusiastic fan of it. But she likes it enough to still apply it even when she is outside of the underdark, it shows in how she treats Gale or the other people who aren't companions.
Now a final thing to keep in mind.
Minthara adores us the most, as in us the player, not Tav, not Durge, not anyone. Doesn't matter who you end up picking or if you even pick an origin character, as long as you follow her questline, she admits to you being the person she admires the most.
That child is ours too, the player.
Because of that, we can never truly see Minthara as she really is. All of our view of her are wrapped and biased Because she is literally being her nicest self around us. We can only get glimpses of how cruel she is to strangers in stray conversations or throw away lines. Even if you have low approval with her, she still admires you the most.
She is a lawful evil character.
As in evil evil and not Astarion grey evil.
Astarion approves of bullying a child, Minthara approves of killing a child.
And that to me makes her a very compelling and interesting character, I love her dynamic and personality. Much like how I think Cazador is an amazing character because of how good he is at being a tool in a story about cycles of abuse. He more than fulfilled his role which makes him a great addition that shouldn't be changed, redeemed or watered down.
So about the child.
In Minthara's datamined lines, it is clear that she plans to enforce drow culture rules on her child no matter what.
They are abusive by nature, yes.
While some might think a son would have a much worse time than a daughter, I disagree.
While Minthara would resent having a son for how useless she deems males, at the end of the day he will meet her expectations of being a complete waste of space and pregnancy. Kept there for breeding for the bloodline.
But if a daughter doesn't meet her expectations? Do you realise the implications of that. Minthara a previous Baerne princess birthing a weakling of a female drow that can't even yell at someone without crying? Minthara would rain hellfire upon her.
It's more than a shame, a complete disgrace.
Her daughter is supposed to grow to be strong enough to kill her and take her place, that is the cycle of life.
Also about the child itself, you would still be the other parent.
The relationship with Minthara in the game can be controlling and possessive at times. And to remind you, that is the toned down version of her flaws because again, she adores us.
But i don't think it's far fetched for her to do most of the work when it comes to actually raising the kid, she likes to be in control.
Also side note, i have been only talking about her evil side and flaws so far and I wanted to remind you that she isn't just that. Her personality has so much more and there is depth and genuine love in her, it's something that we are also her first ever romantic love. And let's not forget on how she even encourages Gale in act 3 to leave Mystra. Minthara isn't a black or white character, she is a fully flushed out and filled with many complex concept tool.
She doesn't want to break the cycle of abuse, that's her major flaw. It's not something she seeks or even attempts to do. It's not even a debate to her, she simply acknowledges it and lets it be.
Her good ending is starting a new noble drow house with durge for fucks sake.
She cherry picks which areas she "breaks" from. Lolth worshipping for example, and she only extends respect and love to her companions. While the rest of the world gets the same treatment from her that they'd get from a typical drow Matron.
Okay note over, so proud of you for still reading btw, you're an excellent student. Have this imaginary star sticker on your brain.
I have so much to say about her that this post barely even scrapes the surface of what I think about her.
As long as you, the player, intervene and show her that parenting is both of your responsibilities, then I think you can really smooth down a lot of her sharp edges.
I mean the same argument could be said for Laeze, isn't training a child to fight at 12 also a form of abuse?
Not a single one of the companions is equipped to be a parent, not at their current states. Maybe Halsin tho, he has the best potential to be a parent stand in. Tho he has a major flaw of not realising that having too many kids means your attention will be spreadthin and that is a form of neglect abuse. Goodmeaning or not, he won't be a very good parent because he underestimates his capabilities in favour for naive optimism.
I've side tracked a lot ngl.
But yeah that's the jest of it, Minthara would be a shitty mom. Like it or hate it, it doesn't matter because she isn't real and she isn't a mom. She is a tool to tell a story about a shitty mom and she is succeeding at it.
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respectthepetty · 11 months
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Reading the (Visual) Rainbow 101
Lesson 2 - Colors
Because I get so many asks about colors, I decided the best way to celebrate Pride is to educate anyone who is interested in how to better Read the (Visual) Rainbow and simultaneously allow myself to appreciate queer media.
Ready to go on a colorful adventure?
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There are two groups of knowledge regarding colors: Color Theory and Color Psychology.
Color Theory <- I don't do this
Color Theory is a core element of art. It has three fundamental components: the Color Wheel, color harmony, and color use. The basic purpose of Color Theory is to determine which colors are best for which visual situation based on color mixing and color combination.
The Basics
There are twelve colors on the Color Wheel
There are three Primary Colors - Red, Yellow, Blue
Every color is a mix of these three colors
The three Secondary Colors are created from the three Primary Colors: Orange (Yellow + Red), Green (Yellow + Blue), Purple (Red +Blue)
The six Tertiary Colors are a mix of a Primary Color and a Secondary Color. They have various names, but these are the basic names: Orange-Red, Yellow-Orange, , Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Blue-Purple, Red-Purple.
Warm Colors are Red, Orange, Yellow. These are also known as Advancing Colors.
Cool Colors are Blue, Green, Purple. These are also known as Receding Colors.
This is a basic Color Wheel.
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The Next Level
Each color has four hues on the Color Wheel
The first hue is the main color we saw above.
The next hue is a Tint. This is the main color mixed with white.
The third hue is a Tone. This is the main color mixed with grey.
The final hue is a Shade. This is the main color mixed with black.
This is an advanced Color Wheel.
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What about Black and White?
In Color Theory, Black is the absence of color, and White is all the colors.
Color Psychology <- I kind of do this
Color Psychology is the study of colors in connection to human's emotions and behaviors. Carl Jung, the most prominent psychologist to develop modern-day color research, believed that people's personalities were connected to four colors: blue, red, yellow, green. Those colors were the basis for everyone's personality, but some people were more of one color depending on the situation. He also believed there were negatives and positives to each color.
These are the basic color personalities.
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Over the years, Color Psychology has expanded on Jung's work to include other colors. These colors do NOT relate to personalities in the way Jung created his four, but they do show what characteristics people tend to associate with each color. Black and white are included in this wheel.
These are the expansive color personalities.
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Color Symbolism <- I do this
Color Symbolism is the use of colors as symbols in literature, media, art, and other mediums. This combines Color Theory with Color Psychology in order to make associations between colors and their meanings within that medium. In Color Symbolism, colors are visuals we can see that stand-in for an abstract idea that we cannot see.
Application
The Basics
We have to use our knowledge of the color wheel and color personalities to interpret the colors we see. Think about your favorite color. Does it state something about your personality? Do you feel it represents you somehow? My favorite color is yellow, so what can you assume about my personality?
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If you did the activities, you were asked what color you associated with SCIENCE. If you picked green, you probably were thinking of biology or another science that deals with life and Earth.
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If you thought SCIENCE was blue, you might have been thinking of space or a data-driven/number-driven science.
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Because trees are green and space and computer prompts are blue, we associate those colors with science even though those are general colors for trees, space, and code.
So what color did you think was associated with LOVE. Hopefully, you picked red (or pink), but why?
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Because we associate hearts with love, and since hearts are red, we think of red being the color of love.
What color did you pick for HATE? Probably red again. But why?
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We think of people's faces becoming red when they get upset because of the rush of blood to their cheeks. Therefore, when we think of hate, we think of red.
If you picked another color, that's okay, but think about why? It's because you associate that color with a tangible item, and that's why the color is symbolic of that abstract idea.
LOVE/HATE shows us the positive and negative of red, so when we see it in a show, we have to interpret if it's positive or negative.
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But red just doesn't mean LOVE/HATE. According to Color Psychology, it could mean freedom, desire, or serve as a warning.
Another question asked what were the colors of the country's flag. In case you didn't know, the colors of flags have meaning. If we raise a white flag on a ship, it means we surrender. If someone is a green flag, they are a good person. If someone is a red flag, they are bad. If you are American, the red means hardiness and valor.
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So in a black and white world, what does it mean if red emerges? How do we interpret that? Does it mean valor and hardiness? Does it mean hate? Does it mean love? Does it mean life like the red means on the Pride flag?
If you watched any of the videos from the previous lesson, Sam Smith & Kim Petras' "Unholy," Jessie Ware's "Free Yourself," or Troye Sivan's "My, My, My," the first color to emerge in their black and white worlds was red.
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All the songs dealt with desire and freedom of sexual expression. Desire, sex, and freedom are all associated with red, so red would be the natural color to use to visually demonstrate this transition from a repressed world (black and white) to one with color. In the videos, once the initial red pops up, the red starts to seep into the world, tainting everything within reach.
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This makes sense even in at its most basic structure. If red represents love and hate, in a black and white world (a world lacking color, therefore lacking emotions), the first color to emerge would be one that captures the strongest emotions = love and hate.
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The Next Level
We must interpret what the basic colors mean, but remember that there are layers to Color Theory, and the next level is where Color Theory and Color Psychology get really exciting!
Primary Colors
When Primary Colors (red, yellow, blue) appear, they could mean one person is passionate, one is loyal, and one is happy, AS WELL AS they are the foundation to everything we are about to experience.
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Warm Colors versus Cool Colors
Colors include lighting, so when we see warm lighting and colors, we can assume that situation or person is loving, kind, and warm. When we see cool lighting and colors, we can assume that situation or person is cold, isolated, and lonely.
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And if we see a transition between them, we can assume that situation or person is evolving.
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Color Mixing and Combining
Once again, color includes lighting, so when we see two colors merge like red + blue = purple, we can conclude the personalities, or the love they share is also merging.
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Color Hues
What happens when we start mixing the main color with black, grey, and white to get different shades, tones, and tints? In Color Psychology, if black is negative, white is positive, and grey is neutral, then those hues would reflect those meanings. Let's see it in practice!
We must start with the main hue.
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If we see this TONE (base color blended with grey), we can assume changes in emotions are happening, BUT the characters are unsure of those emotions (grey is in between black and white = neutral).
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If we see this TINT (base color blended with white), we can assume something positive is happening with the character's life or emotions.
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But if we see this SHADE (base color blended with black), we can assume something negative is happening with the character's life or emotions.
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I could write twenty more posts about this, but we have to move on to the next lesson.
Activity 1 - Next Lesson
Watch both of the following videos. Try to apply the colors lesson to the first video, but focus on all the items you see in both videos: clothing, posters, environment, and additional items.
George Michael - "Freedom" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diYAc7gB-0A
Hayley Kiyoko - "She" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anIqZSfxOQU
See you for lesson 3 on Tuesday - Other Visuals
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crystallinejellyfish · 8 months
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What I think Darkley's Boarding School for Bad Boys would teach. PT 1: CORE CLASSES
pt 2: here
First, DBB is a school of villainy. They want to bump out good villains (sorry Lloyd) that are actually SMART and KNOW what they're doing.
So! I think these would be the Core Classes they would teach. (Grade 9-12)
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MATH:
9- Algebra 1 & 2 | Algebra is the base of many classes, and like I said, most villains have brains.
10- Statistics & Probability | Honestly, Statistics & Probability is really useful in your day-to-day life. For villains, they would need this for basically everything.
11- Pre-Calculus & Calculus | Pre-Cal & Cal is the base of a lot of advanced classes, and in this list, there are a lot of them.
12- Engineering | Villain would USUALLY build their own things. Even then, engineering is a good skill for a villain.
ENGLISH:
9- Lit/Comp | Decoding different types of literature. OR puzzles and such.
10- Humanities | Learning the rise and falls of Empires, ancient languages, and such.
11- Rhetoric | Learning how to think critically and write efficiently to persuade. For a Villain, this is a key factor.
12- Debate | Using what you learned last year to communicate your point of view to others. In a villainy context, knowing how to win arguments is important.
SOCIAL STUDIES:
9- Government | Learning that your government is fucked up. Learning the origins, development, and structure of a government. In the context of Ninjago, whatever its government is they will learn (as well as other types of governments).
10- Sociology | Studying social, political, economic, diversity, religion, crime, etc. Basically studying society in every good and bad way.
11- Economics | Learning about the economy and policies. For A villain, this would be pretty damn important.
12- Psychology | Learning about the human mind. Manipulation 101.
SCIENCE:
9- Biology | Studying life processes and how organisms live in their environment. The only reason I put this one down is because it's a base class of other things that would be useful for a villain.
10- Chemistry | Studying atom, molecules, and their interactions. For a regular villain, this isn't really needed. But it's background information for classes.
11- Physics | Studying everything in physical existence. This Class is needed for engineering and other thing.
12- Forensic Science | Crime scene investigation and reconstruction. Learning what went wrong and how to prevent it.
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All these classes are really advanced, but you have to think about the teachers in Darkley's. (Literal Skeletons) and their dumb dumbs. This could be used as an AU of some sort but honestly, I just got hooked on the idea of Darkley's Boarding School being an efficient school with actual classes that kids can learn to be villains.
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Study reveals violent material ejection process of a dying massive star
A research team led by Dr. Zhang Jujia from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. Wang Xiaofeng from Tsinghua University has revealed the stellar mass violently ejected from a progenitor at the end of its life by observing the once-in-a-decade supernova SN 2023ixf. Such mass loss processes can provide essential information for understanding the final evolution of a massive star.
The study was published in Science Bulletin on Sept. 14.
Type II supernovae (SNe II) are the most common stellar explosions in the universe, for which the final stage of evolution of their hydrogen-rich massive progenitors towards core-collapse explosion is elusive. The final stage evolution and the resultant circumstellar environments have led to a rich diversity of such explosions.
To establish a link between the explosion of SNe II and the late-time evolution of massive stars, it is necessary to capture the first-light signals of the SN explosions, i.e., the flashed spectra, due to the ionization of the circumstellar material (CSM)/stellar wind by ultraviolet/high energy photons from shock breakout cooling.
The recent explosion of SN 2023ixf in a very nearby galaxy, Messier 101, provides a rare opportunity to address this long-standing issue. Timely, high-cadence flash spectra taken within one to five days of the explosion allow researchers to place stringent constraints on the properties of the surrounding circumstellar material surrounding this supernova.
It is estimated that the progenitor of SN 2023ixf lost material at a mass-loss rate of 6 × 10-4 M⊙ yr-1 during the last two to three years before the explosion. The nearby material, moving at a velocity of 55 km s-1, accumulated a compact CSM shell within a radius of less than 7 × 1014 cm from the progenitor.
Considering the high mass-loss rate and relatively high wind velocity, together with the pre-explosion observations made about two decades ago, the progenitor of SN 2023ixf could be a short-lived yellow hypergiant that evolved from a red supergiant shortly before the explosion.
"The observation and investigation of SN 2023ixf is ongoing. A series of works on this SN will make it a milestone in the history of SNe II and will then help to reveal the fate of massive stars in the mass range from 10 to 20 M⊙," said Dr. Zhang.
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study-core-101 · 1 month
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Popular Study Methods I dont like
(By Jay)
A list of study techniques that dont work for me at all. But study methods can work amazing for one person and then just complicate studying more for another. If they work for you, awesome, i'm happy about that. These are my personal experience with them, a lot of people wont relate and thats fine, people are different. But if you relate why these common/popular methods dont work for me, know you arent the only one and that there are more options. People might tell you "this method is amazing, you should do this" and there for you is shit.
Memorazing
Avoid this. When you memorize you dont learn. You cannot conect concepts because you dont understand. One thing is memorazing formulas, which is nessesary, but memorazing everything doesnt work. Understandment is way better. Yes, we need to remember and storage the information in our memory, but memorazing is different. Knowing the theory ord by word is shit if you cannot explain it in different words, conect it wit other concepts or put in practise.
Flashcards
Yep, studyblr favourite study method. Bear with me.
For me, it is a really passive way. When i make the Q&As of the flashcards, i remember the answers. I dont think. I associate the words. And then, when the test has the questions phrased different, my mind goes blank. It seem liked i learned because i remember but i wasnt actually learning.
Now you are probably thinking "use it for vocabulary". That doesnt help me either. Maybe it helps for knowing the meaning in a reading, but writing? I cant remember the spelling. For learning to spell a word i need to write it down. Use it in a sentence. Reading it over and over doesnt do anything.
All-nighters
Oh god, there is nothing worse than an all-nighter. One all-nighter will ruin your sleep schedule for weeks and tired=learn less. Plus, too much all-nighters lead to burn out.
With better time management, all-nighters wouldnt probably exist, or at least, be reduced by a lot
Also, as someone with chronic migraines, an all-nighter'd only give me a week straight with only terrible pain and i prefer failing a subject than that (i'd had to learn the hard way that lesson. always prioritaze your health)
Pomodoro
It's a little bit hypocrital of me to put it here, as I usually reccomend it to others. But personally? It just de-motivaties and stresses me. (disclaimer: it is a good technique, thats why i recomend it even if it doesnt work for me).
I'll explain why. The only way i can do a lot of productive stuff together (or just a long assignment) is to "get in the mood" or have like a "streak". I usually have to power through the first 5-10 minutes of studying and then i get super motivated and do a lot until my brain asks for a break. When the timer rings, it breaks it and i have to repeat the rutine again. It wouldnt be so bad if it wasnt that i work 3 or 4 times faster when i motivated than when i am powering through.
Also, having the self-impose deadline of a pomodoro (i know it isnt technically a deadline, but for some unknown reason, my brain processes it as one) makes me nervous and gives me anxiety. Just knowing the timer is going to go off anytime un-focus me. It's unnesesary stress.
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A long, long time ago I wrote a skeletal curriculum for FPPP's school of kink and hypnosis.
It's popped up again in conversation so I decided to share a couple of entries from the course bulletin:
Our core introductory curriculum is mandatory for all students in the department, regardless of intended program.
HYP-101 - Introduction to Hypnokink
In the first semester, all students will take HYP-101, a survey lecture series giving an overview of hypnokink practices and varieties.
This course will also include optional lessons led by guest lecturers from throughout the department on more niche or specialised topics. Students are encouraged to attend as many of these lectures as interest them, but are required to attend at least three over the course of the semester.
Finally, the course is split into smaller discussion sections in which students will, depending on the week, engage in guided discussion or activity.
HYP-101 is a 5 credit hour course.
HYP-111 - Exploring the Self
Typically taken concurrently with HYP-101, HYP-111 is a studio course with a minimal lecture component. Most weeks will feature exercises and discussions meant to help students develop a necessary foundation both in communication and consent skills and to help students identify and articulate their own aspirations in the study of hypnokink.
This course culminates in a final presentation in a format of the student's choosing in which they will present their discoveries to their classmates. Final presentations are held over several days: past students have taught their own sections, led skills tutorials, given formal lectures, and put on a dizzying variety of artistic displays and other performances.
HYP - 111 is a 4 credit hour course
(Why yes I am structuring around a 12-hour standard courseload and this is room for exactly 1 elective at the normal load kind of you to notice.)
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lifeasahistorymajor · 2 months
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I've done it!
When I was a senior in high school, I wanted to major in history.
But as my plot would have it, my parents would not support it (and they are the ones paying :') I was told to study business, so I went from undecided to a pre-business major over the summer before freshman year.
Business is important to learn, but business classes made me miserable when I stepped foot in Introduction to Business 101. All my peers had great reasons and inspirations to study business, while all I could ever say with shame was "My parents told me to..." I tried. I genuinely did. But with every class, I became unhappier, the only good term I had was when I took only core-ed classes and no business classes. I have excelled at all my classes except business, those classes keep dragging my poor GPA down. And now I've had enough as I take my second accounting class. I can no longer do this. Leaving accounting early, walking towards the cemetery with phone on hand, I called my father to *inform him* that I was switching out of business, going into a double major in history and medieval studies absolutely terrified yet... relieved at the same time.
It is scary to take this leap of fate, as it is easier to get a job straight out of college with a business degree, but law school was always on the horizon no matter the major. So with this, I start my journey as a sophomore switching from business to history to my heart's content and my parents' disappointment.
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centrally-unplanned · 8 months
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Gonna cap off the Japan book haul posts with some odds and ends picked up at random bookstores throughout Tokyo, as opposed to one big stash of Jimbocho or Comiket goods . First off - behold, the complete collection of officially published books about FLCL:
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I already owned several of these - of course the FLCLickNoise (bottom-right) interview book was the start of this mini-project. Bottom-center is the FLCL Archives - which was actually printed in English *extremely* briefly, but it goes for way too much, so I imported the Japanese version. That book is the "supplemental 101", with settei/character design sheets, concept art, production documents, and even those original scripts and project proposals which I have blogged about in the past. Top-center is FLCLism, which is more like a conceptual art book - a grab-bag of promotional art, production art, random photographs, and interviews with some of the team. I will do write-ups of those interviews someday!
And rounding out the collection from Mandarake Akihabara, we have in the top-right the Groundwork of FLCL. This is much more of "live" production book - lots and lots of genga/key frames, sketches with timing sheets, e-conte/storyboards, etc. These books are always a little funny, because its not like the median person will study these or anything, and they don't work as an artbook, at least not cleanly. But as a preservation of the process they have a beauty no artbook can have - something you own for the total package as opposed to any specific page.
The bonus book on the left is The Art of Tadashi Hiramatsu, a longtime GAINAX animator, and Animation Director for episodes 1, 3, & 6 of FLCL. So not technically part of the collection but certainly deserving of some extra credit. He was a pretty core part of the team for the show - Tsurumaki names him frequently in FLClickNoise when discussing an approach to a scene (Though I rank him below people like Yoji Enokido or Imaishi). He also loves Mamimi like me and this book has some great Mamimi art - as well as a ton of Kare Kano art, where he was the character designer and Chief Animation Director.
As always, if anyone wants any deeper dives into some of the books let me know, but that is probably long enough for now. Lets see what else I can gather up...
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tiannasfanfic · 2 years
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Naughty Girls Need Love Too
Adrian Chase/Vigilante x Reader (Angst)
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Summary: ARGUS finally makes Adrian Chase an official member of the team, which gives him security clearance to read everyone's files. The only one he really wants to read is yours since you couldn't tell him about most of your past until now. Adrian soon finds out a few things about you that shake him to his core. (Crossposted to AO3)
Rating: Teen and Up
Author Note: No pronouns (f, m or gn) used, Reader not described. Inspired by a prompt from the "101 ways to break your characters' (and readers') hearts" Prompt List on Tumblr. The prompt was. 36) "You don't look at me like you used to..." It's full angst, all hurt and no comfort. I can already see how to do a part 2 with a happier ending if people want me to write it.
CW: Talking about canon-typical Adrian Chase behavior, criminal behavior (murder, theft, extortion), mentions of sex work but not specifics, breaking up, Adrian being an idiot, Adrian being a hypocrite, Adrian being angry and yelling at Reader.
Word Count: 2,320
“You don't look at me like you used to.”
Your words made Adrian stop in his tracks, halting halfway between your car and his. You had deliberately parked close to the door of Fennel Fields than him so he would have to walk past you on the way to the Sebring. You had waited for him on the hood of your car but didn’t say anything until it was clear he was just going to walk by in silence.
He had been avoiding you for three days. Ever since he saw your file, more or less. Your real file, that is, not the cover story he had known as the gospel truth for the last eighteen months.
He had been avoiding you for three days. Ever since he saw your file, more or less. Your real file, that is, not the cover story he had known as the gospel truth for the last eighteen months.
And you were ready to get this over with.
“Why should I?” he finally asked, his voice unusually quiet.
You studied Adrian where he stood, your heart racing. His back was to you still, hands clenched into fists, shoulders raised and held stiffly. This obviously wasn’t a conversation he wanted to have, but neither did you. It needed to happen though. For both of you.
Four days ago, the paperwork to officially bring Adrian into ARGUS as a full member of the team finally went through. It was a miracle it ever did considering the requisition to open your position was put in after that one and was approved much sooner. After a year, Harcourt had finally given up on hiring Adrian and just kept billing him as an “Outside Consultant” as she had been doing to make sure he got paid.
Once all his paperwork was signed and Harcourt made sure all of his access worked, the first thing Adrian wanted to do was look at your file and his file. Especially your file though. While you had been dating for almost ten months now, he knew there were things you hadn’t been able to discuss with him yet due to his lack of a security clearance.
But, before you handed it over to him, you had given him a warning.
“There’s a lot in there I wasn’t able to tell you, yes,” you told him. “You…might think differently of me once you read it. Give me the chance to explain myself after you’re done, okay?”
Adrian had promised nothing he read in there could change his mind about you. He said you two would talk about everything. He reminded you he was not afraid to ask questions and planned to ask you a lot. He also stated he knew everyone that worked for ARGUS did shitty things. He said he had known and accepted that when he got with you.
You knew it was all bullshit, but he didn’t know what he was in store for yet. You couldn’t blame him for being optimistic.
The first thing Adrian discovered was that you weren’t technically an ARGUS agent. You worked for them, yes, and you played the part so well no one ever questioned it. You tended to come off as a goody two shoes agent that took her job way too seriously. Most of the time, you did things by the book and ONLY by the book unless there was no other option but to go off book. You were even a bigger hard ass when you first arrived than Harcourt was, which she even made comments about. Because of this, Adrian had made it his mission day one of your arrival to get you to loosen up and have more fun.
The reason you were so uptight had nothing to do with having a stick up your ass, or whatever it was he thought. You were still technically in prison and had to be on your best behavior when it came to work. The bomb in your head made any designated area your prison cell, just like Chris. In your case though, the ability to live freely was a privilege due to your good behavior and willingness to follow orders. It was a reward for all of your service and “loyalty” you’d shown to Waller. But it could also be revoked at any time, for any reason, and you would be right back in your old cell if that ever happened.
Prior to ARGUS, you had been a trustee for many years at Belle Reve Penitentiary. Prior to Belle Reve, you ran a small crew in Gotham. Not big enough to get a hero’s attention or anything, but big enough you didn’t get absorbed by a larger crew. You eventually got caught by Gotham PD, got some life sentences, and made a deal with Waller to start working the years off. You were on Squads for a few years, keeping your head down and doing as you were told, just like in prison. Your reasoning was, why make life harder on yourself? You knew there wasn’t any way to escape, so might as well do the best work you could and hopefully get something good out of it.
A couple of years of this saw you promoted to Commanding Officers of your own Squad. A couple more years later, after turning yourself into a Yes Man (within reason), you were trusted with jobs like this. You were sent out from the prison by yourself fairly often now, usually getting deployed out to help with technical and coordination issues with struggling Task Force teams, like the one in Evergreen. But you were under constant surveillance via the bomb. You were always limited to a certain area and the tracker was monitored 24/7 to ensure compliance. With each successful mission, not only were years taken off your sentence, but you were also granted a larger area to move around in. As long as you kept being good, your boundaries would continue to be extended.
With your transfer to Evergreen to help Harcourt after her injury, you had been granted your largest perimeter of freedom to date. Not only did it cover the entire city of Evergreen, but it also included a safety net of fifty miles beyond that, just in case, and had a twenty-mile Warning Zone beyond that. You were also allowed to leave those areas so long as you phoned it in first to let them know for what, why and for how long. It was a huge sign of trust from Waller as well as a warning.
Don’t let those idiots fuck up again. Look at all this freedom you have now. You don’t want to lose it, do you?
And you did have a lot of freedom. Waller didn’t care what you did in your off time as long as you did your job and did it flawlessly when it came down to it. This allowed you to have a decent life. You had your own tiny apartment, a cheap car, coworkers that were also your friends and a social life. You could drink, smoke weed and really just do whatever the hell you wanted so long as you didn’t cause trouble for Waller or ARGUS.
And, as of this mission, that freedom also included finding someone you loved that also loved the hell out of you.
Unfortunately, the person you fell in love with was pretty anti-crime for most reasons. You knew there was no way Adrian would be able to read your file and NOT look at you differently. While he made justifications for what he did, your crimes fell outside of what he typically made excuses for. You hoped for the best but expected the worst.
When Adrian turned around to face you finally, your stomach sank. Now that it was just the two of you, he wasn’t masking his feelings like he had around the others. While he wasn’t looking at you with hatred, what you actually saw on his face was worse.
Pain. Betrayal. Disappointment.
You wanted to cry.
You hurt him. You hadn’t meant to, or wanted to, but you did. All because of those stupid agreements you had to sign. All because you were so impatient that you allowed him to pursue you before you could tell him everything he should know.
You wanted to tell him you were sorry, that you regretted your choices in life, that if you could go back in time to change those things that you would. But you were done with lying to him. You didn’t regret anything you had done. Plus, those choices are what led you here to be with him, so how could you?
“Because you said you’d let me explain,” you were finally able to say, hoping you sounded more confident than you felt. “I’m sorry for hurting you.”
Adrian stared at you.
“Why?” he asked.
“Why what?”
“Why did you do…” he trailed off and made a gesture, like he didn’t want to say it. “Any – All of it?”
You thought it over. He gave you time to. Adrian could be extremely patient when he wanted to be.
“It wasn’t malicious,” you said after a bit. “And it wasn’t about the money. At least, not at first.”
“What was it about then?”
Adrian’s voice had a flat, emotionless tone. Each time he spoke, it made your stomach twist.
“Looking out for each other,” you explained. “We had a lot of problems in the neighborhood. Once we had those problems resolved, we realized we could actually make some money doing what we were already doing and that we could help each other out in that way, too. It went well for a while, but some people always feel like they deserve more than they do. Once greed popped in for a visit, that’s when poor decisions started getting made and things went downhill. I tried to fix it, but one thing to lead to another, and here I am.”
Adrian openly scoffed and then looked at you with an angry expression.
“One thing led to another…” he repeated and shook his head. “That’s one hell of a way to say you are a thief and murderer. Plus, it leaves out the prostitution and extortion you were involved with, too.”
You felt yourself bristle and allowed it to happen this time. He just went after the one accomplishment you were most proud of.
“All of that was done with the safety of those in the neighborhood in mind,” you said, a firm tone to your voice. “There were a lot of people in our neighborhood that worked the streets in one way or another. My job, my specific position was to look after the sex workers. My people never had any problems with customers after a few examples had to be made. That was why I did that. If they had to work the streets, I wanted them to be able to do it safely. Remember, the prostitution and extortion were just tacked on at the end to give me extra years. They aren’t the main things that I went down for.”
“You openly admit to being a thief and murderer then?” Adrian asked.
“Absolutely,” you stated without hesitation.
You both stared at each other. Adrian’s eyes were cold, and you had trouble meeting his gaze. You managed to hold it though and, after a little awhile, he looked at the ground.
“Why?” he asked again, quieter this time.
“I told you wh-“
“Not that,” Adrian snapped, finally looking up at you again. Anger filled his eyes, betrayal all over his face. He made no attempt to hide it. “Why did you go out with me? Why did you let me get close to you? Why did you let me start feeling for you? Why did you let me start loving you?”
Your heart was in your throat. You felt sick.
“Because I really liked you,” you said quietly.
Adrian stared at you.
“And, what? Because you liked me that made it okay to put me in the position where I would discover the woman I love is just as bad of a person as the people I kill every night? If not worse, in some cases?”
You didn’t know what to say.
“I kill people like you every night,” Adrian repeated. “Every. Fucking. Night. Actually, why shouldn’t I put a bullet in your head right now? I should, you know. I would with anyone else.”
You shrugged, feeling exhausted all of a sudden. “So why don’t you then?”
Adrian’s gaze snapped back up to yours, his face turning red as he stared at you.
After a few minutes of silence, of staring into each other’s eyes, you realized your conversation was over.
You slid off the hood of your car and went to the driver’s side to leave. As you opened the door, you looked back at Adrian. He was still watching you with that same expression, only now his eyes had a sheen to them.
“Just…do me a favor,” you said with a sigh. “Try to keep in mind that…you and I may not have the same reasons for doing the things we’ve done, but there’s not much difference between us.”
“You and I are NOTHING alike,” Adrian spat out, his voice filled with venom.
“According to you,” you objected. “But in the eyes of the law, you and I are no different. We’re both murders, no matter what our reasons are. Chris, too.”
“You leave Peacemaker the fuck out of this!” he suddenly shouted at you, eyes flashing. “Chris has nothing to do with your fucking shit either!”
It was no use.
Adrian was perfectly willing to make justifications for himself and his best friend, but not the person he loved.
“Okay,” you said, sighing. “I’m sorry. I’ll leave you alone now.”
Adrian didn’t reply, just nodded curtly to you. He was holding his frame even more stiffly when the conversation first started. A slight tremble was going through his frame.
Without knowing what else to do, you got in your car and drove away.
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