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bumble66 · 6 months

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Chris Evans' potential boyfriends (allegedly based on blind item gossip!)

September 15th. 2023. Only a few days after Chris Evan's alleged wedding, a blind item appeared on CrazyDaysAndNights dot net.

It is about an A/A-list actor who is sometimes a super hero:

A lot of people in the comment section argued that this is about Jeremy Renner. I wondered why and so I did some research about him. On Datalounge dot com and on the forum called LipstickAlley, they argue that he is a gay man who faked the custody dispute with his "ex". It is alleged that she was his surrogate and both wanted to be in the news to get more fame (Shameful!).

However I do not believe that this blind item is about Jeremy because he isn't a "sometime superhero". But you know who is? Our lovely Chris. He was the "Human Torch" in the Fantasitc Four. 4 years later he was "Steve Rogers aka Captain America" and 3 years after that, he replaced Tim Allen as "Buzz Lightyear". So yeah. he is a "sometime superhero" but these days I'm not so sure about the A-list status anymore...

Anyway, I had that thought on why it could be Chris after one person in the comment section gave the following hints:

As this person points out, EntyLawyer who wrote this blind item above, has Hollywood insider knowledge. As a result Enty knew what we from #TeamPR have already concluded: Based on immigration law, a legal marriage was not possible. It is fake. So despite the fact that the blind item appeared days after Chris' alleged wedding, his (PR) girlfriend is after all just a "girlfriend" and not a wife. So this blind item could still apply to Chris.

Based on what the commenter Eenid in the screenshot above implies... Chris, which this blind item is allegedly about, has a "long-time boyfriend he also pays as an employee"...

Possible Boyfriend #1: Mark Kassen

Picture Source: https://archive.ph/e9EPA In this picture you can see that he looks very friendly, soft, fem and adorable. I bet that if he were the possible boyfriend, he'd treat Chris with care and kindness.

Picture Source: https://archive.ph/lpCTK

In 2017, Chris and Mark have both started the political online platform called "A Starting Point". So is he Chris' employee? In this cute picture of them, you can see that he already has way more chemistry with Mark than with his PR wife from "GO Portugal!"

Picture source: https://archive.ph/7yiGn

However, they have already known each other since 2011 when they both starred in the movie Puncture. It adds up with that the person said above. That "A Starting Point" was not their first "joint endeavour" ... ... ...

Picture Source: https://archive.ph/4cxrn

Chris and Mark don't just hang out when it comes to business related stuff. They also hang out privately. Here you can see them both with Chris' brother Scott who is also gay. This was confirmed by Chris when he outed him publicly:

See link: https://archive.is/rFnVI https://www.koimoi.com/hollywood-news/when-captain-america-chris-evans-outed-his-gay-brother-scott-publicly-when-he-was-19-received-a-lot-of-flak-from-his-friends-who-said-i-cant-believe-you-did-that/ My thoughts: On the pictures you can see that every time Mark is around Chris, he seems very happy. Even if it turns out that they are not a secret couple, I hope they will continue to have a lot of fun together... ... ... Possible Boyfriend #2: Joshua Martin Peck (No, not the guy from Drake & Josh)

Picture Source: https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Joshua_Peck According to the "Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki" he was Chris Evans' assistent in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", "Captain America: Civil War", "Avengers: Infinity War", "Avengers: Endgame", "The Iceman", "Snowpiercer" and "knives Out". See link: https://archive.ph/4BYQg Like the blind item from Enty Lawyer mentioned, he could also be the "long-time boyfriend" Chris also pays as an employee. I think that because on the Lipstick Alley Forum, there have been interesting revelations about the relationship Chris and he have:

A person on LSA said that when Chris had an interview in 2019, he said that Josh was basically his roommate and was living in the family home with Chris Evans' mother Lisa...

In the October 2023 GQ interview, Chris said that he loves to smoke weed. It explains why he needs botox these days. It was also the same interview that had several sentences about leaves, autumn, his beloved dog Dodger, while his PR wife was only mentioned twice. That he "had her for a while" (I think at this point his team still wasn't sure how the PR relationship timeline between those two should look like) and that she reads "energies". So based on that interview, his love for weed exceeds that of the love he (allegedly) has for his alleged wife. So that Josh is a professional weed smoker is therefore probably something Chris really likes. As the user above says... Chris' and Josh's situation could be similar to the one Leonardo Dicaprio and Lukas Haas have (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4864460/Leonardo-DiCaprio-giggles-chased-Lukas-Haas.html)

(BTW: It is public knowledge where he lives but I still didn't feel comfortable to just screenshot it so I removed the name of the town in case you wonder what the pink bars are) A user who is in contact with someone who lives in Chris' Town said that Josh walks Chris' dog Dodger when Chris is away for work in LA and no one ever saw his PR wife from Portugal. There are also other people on X who often claim that neighbours never saw a wedding and that the weather conditions were horrible on that day.

Dodger is Chris' love of his life:

When he was already allegedly dating the PR bride from Portugal, Chris said that Dodger was his long-term partner (No I won't name him as possible bf #3 EW). It demonstrates two things: 1. This PR crap ain't real and 2. That he trusts Josh to take care of Dodger is just heart-warming. I don't think every person is allowed to walk the dawg!

Josh is also not just the personal assistent of Chris when it comes to several of his movies (I wonder now what he is assisting him with...), he also took and probably still takes care of his instagram/social media (Chris has anxiety and therefore doesn't like reading mean comments).

Yes, Chris is very open about his anxiety to the point where he needed a back rub from Scarlet Johanson after a press conference. It is uplifting knowing that Josh shields him from people's opinions online. He is basically Chris' own personal Captain America x3

Source: https://twitter.com/miss_LulaMae/status/1465814040471646216 BONUS BOYFRIEND #3: Sebastian Stan I don't think the blind item refers to him because he isn't employed by Chris but he is still a notable mention. Remember my first post here? One of the info I quoted was from the datalounge thread called: "Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan, did they have a thing?" See link: https://archive.ph/gxXkr

In this thread a user implied that they knew Chris and that he is ashamed of being bi. Some people on datalounge argued that this is the reason why he publicly outed his brother Scott. Because a lot of people assume that if one brother is gay, the other can't be. I encountered this argument too when sharing my arguments regarding Chris' PR relationship with others online. They responded to me that Scott is the gay brother. They really thought that that means that no one else in the family can be gay anymore! Chris you cunning imp! Smart move.

Chris and Sebastian Stan were both marvel stars. Sebastian is the winter soldier... I think... Sorry I actually only like the A-lister gossip. Not the movies. I have barely watched any of them... but I like Guardians of the Galaxy with that gay racoon! Even the general public noticed that he never has great chemistry with his female co-stars:

But when it comes to Sebastian...

"best friends" When it comes to Sebastian and Chris, many people claim they had a thing because of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNHk1PDU1jQ

This youtube video has some interesting comments. I mean the comments which mention the following time stamps in this video:

9:23 5:51 3:37 SUMMARY: What I explained isn't too far off. A Hollywood insider named ShellyT20 said the following stuff she knows from friends that are in contact with A-list celebrities:

Also another gay/bi rumor I found about Chris Evans on LSA during his marvel days:

A lot of people will probably be angry at me for exposing Chris this way but first of all, I only summarize all his gay/bi rumors other people mention. It's not me who wrote all these comments in these gossip forums. Use the search bar of datalounge and LSA to find these specific comments and try to debunk them there yourselves. #DontShootTheMessenger. Also, if it weren't for Hollywood being so homophobic, demanding of bi and gay men to present themselves as stable, heterosexual family men + marriage + children, unless they want to lose their A-list career, I wouldn't have to point all of that stuff out.

Don't let yourself get fooled! How can the industry claim to be pro-lgbt, putting all these fictional lgbt characters in movies, while real life homosexuals are put in their place? And if they refuse, they will be denied A-list movie roles. As buzzfeed journalist Edwin Jusino claimed, Chris and his "wife" are PR. Most likely for Netflix because they debuted their relationship when the second season of her Warrior Nun Show started. Awkward btw but when there are so many gullible people who eat all this crap up without questioning it... how much can I actually blame Hollywood here? Source: https://archive.is/YZlQG

Also message to #TeamPR: Remember who also said for over a decade now that he wants marriage and kids? Toothy Tile. What has happened in regards to that? ZERO. I guess it is the same for Chris. Marvel told him to say this traditional stuff so that the general public thinks he is a regular guy who wants to be monogamous but that's just not how most A-listers act. I recommend watching the movie "Eyes Wide Shut". These parties are for real. Here on my blog, I provided evidence that you, #TeamPR, want to see him married with wife and kids. MAAAYBE your gender expectation, that you have for men, you hating the fact that they are bachelors and like to sleep around... Maybe that is the exact reason why these A-list guys have to go through this crap?

See it for yourselves. This is what some of you say:

(Sorry but that just sounds like sexist men who say they want to see women barefoot in the kitchen)

But then you say: - "Waaah Waaah I don't like this PR. Why does he have to pretend to be married??? waaah waaaah"

Well, and this is also a message to Hollywood and his team. Chris does not look well at all. I don't want to mock his looks but he looks like he aged a decade since this PR started. He looked like death during the ASP video two or three weeks ago. Even Kevin Costner looked better after his divorce! So can we finally stop with this outdated nonsense? Everything above and on my blog in general is alleged based on the screenshots and links provided. I merely comment on what people publicly claim about Chris Evans and his sexuality. You might think this is immoral but so are lavender marriages.

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sootberry · 1 year

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i need to put my met gala thoughts somewhere so im putting them here, sorry for the long post!

Teyana Taylor wearing Thom Browne - i love an optical illusion in fashion, love the mixing of suit and gown forms, the chunky and dangling stitching and the overall raw/unfinished vibe, the cutouts, the veil with the sunglasses? fav look this year

Erykah Badu wearing Badu and Francesco Risso - fantastical, magical, love the jewlery, only ? for me is the boots but i dont mind them too much. one of several rpg character designs on the carpet (positive)

Janelle Monae wearing Thom Browne - also fantasitcal rpg-esque, i love the geometric aspects and the exaggerated, ott shape, something about gives alice in wonderland to me, the shoes are amazing and the purse (cat), all together love it close to Teyana's look for me

okay short and quick for the rest:

Jordan Roth wearing Daniel Roseberry - reflections, material, bold shapes, evil vibes (positive), rpg char

Conan Gray wearing Balmain - catholocism, negative space shapes, materials, starry night sky, im gay

Anok Yai wearing Prabal Gurung - WOW, jaw dropping, best single garment there?

David Byrne wearing a custom tux brom a brooklyn tailor is all i could find - rode in on his bike which has a placard for the valet to identify it in the basket, based

Doja Cat wearing Oscar de la Renta - yknow like, nya?, love the facial prosthetics era, cat bias again showing

Kristen Stewart wearing Coco Chanel - im gay

#long post #met gala #fashion

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arofili · 2 years

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Could you please do Cirdan for character bingo?

they are soooo cool looking: BEARD!!! ELF WITH BEARD!!!!!!! OMG <3

if they were real i would marry them: he just seems like a really chill dude you could hang with.............qpr goals

they're deeper than they seem: LITERALLY he's been in middle-earth FOREVER.......idk if it's canon that he's unbegotten but he might as well be....and he stays!! even though he WANTS to go to aman he stays because he's needed and people want him here, not there, and ahhhhhh he's SO interesting i wish we knew more about him!!!

didn't get enough screen time: literally he shows up just a handful of times and i NEED MORE INFO JIRT

nothing i like about them is technically canon: a symptom of not being on the page enough!!!!! fanon and headcanons are fantasitc but my god i wish we know morerreerrr

why do they look like that: ok but WHY the beard though??? because he's old and ancient and wise???? because he's sexy??? WHY

they've never done anything wrong in their life <33: he's A GOOD DUDE <3

#cirdan #answers #softlypause #character bingo #ask games

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chelseafcwmemes · 2 years

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Wish you a fantasitc game. Hope you see xaptain P and wag Magda.

Thank you! I’ll be on the look out for wag magda

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wifeblade · 2 years

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i love this lady’s bowlcut more than her song

#sorry lith :(#eurovision #really is a fantasitc look shes got

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bridoesotherjunk · 2 years

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Welp fantasitc beasts just beat sonic again at the weekly box office :/ apparently people still can't let go of nostalgia even if said nostalgia is actively hurting other people, which was how the christopher robin movie brought back Tigger's original voice actor despite him being a pedophile 🤷

I thought the allegations against Jim Cummings were from his ex-wife saying that he abused her

I don't remember seeing child abuse charges anywhere

maybe i'm looking in the wrong spot, but all I see on him are the stuff from his ex-wife during their divorce and custody battle ((Feel free to message me with the other stuff, I just can't find it.))

Sonic's been out longer, now, though. It came out like a week before Fantastic Beasts and it's been over a month since it's release. That's just the course of movies being out for viewing. FB will die down more, as well.

It's certainly not making enough money to warrant a sequel, so we can take comfort in that.

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minijenn · 3 years

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Have you read Fading by Sanfire Kat on ff.net? It's literally one of my favorite kh fics of all time. It's SUPER filled with Sora angst. Like literally it's 300,000+ words of the boy suffering. It's fantasitc!

Oh! I HAVE read that! I didn't recognize the fic name at first but when I looked it up I was like "BRUH THIS IS IN MY FAVORITES LIST I REMEMBER THIS ONE" Its fucking great, one of the first KH fics I ever read when I was a new KH fan, I wouldn't be surprised if it unconsciously inspired Keys tbh XD

Here's a link for anyone who wants to check it out btw!

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tubeon · 4 years

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i keep looking at the benrey with the eye head you posted awhile back.. the pov is so good and the colour is fantasitc

Idk what ur referring to but thank u

#faed

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neptrabbit · 3 years

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So. Here are some of my personal thoughts on ith movie. since this post is LONG, most of the thoughts are leaning towards criticism & ofc it contains spoilers so imma put my bad takes under cut. they’re my personal, subjective opinion, so it’d be normal if you agree/disagree. anyways, you’ve been warned.

The opening song

stage performance & movies are two VERY different media, so unavoidably they had to make many changes to adapt the musical to big screen. One thing they were trying to adapt was the breaking the fourth wall narration in the opening song. they changed the setting of a lot of these lines to Usnavi telling a bunch of kids in an unknown future timeline abt Washington Heights. I personally am not a fan of this decision. the cut between the two different timelines in that 8 min release got me pretty confused & taken out & that feeling did not change much when i was watching the movie either. in the course of the movie, suddenly cutting to future timeline breaks the flow & consistency of the narrative for me, esp since the future scenes rlly aren’t that long. Ik it's for the reveal in the end. I still don't like it.

Choreography

the choreography & cinematography by themselves are hella fantasitc. there’re VERY pretty scenes and choreography, esp during songs. from top of my head i can name a few: the reflection of dancing in the opening song, the running scene in It Won’t Be Long Now, the pool scene (with Vanessa floating on a life saver in the middle) in 96000, THE FUCKING ENTIRETY OF PACIENCIA Y FE, the dancing in The Club, the horizontal dancing scene in When The Sun Goes Down, etc. But a lot of the scenes, esp those that involve group dancing, seems a bit out of place when they seem to take place in the real world rather than on stage. This is prolly another demonstration of the difference in the media of stage performance & movies. I had a hard time to suspend my disbelief, and the movie trying to place some of the dancing in the actual narrative rlly didn’t make it better for me.

(at first I thought for some reason the pool scene in 96000 was everyone’s imagination coming together & was looking forward to it. I did not expect it to actually take place in a pool in the movie & they even used a whole sequence of them going to the pool to show them going to the pool to set it up. So is the dancing in the intro. i did not expect an overhead shot to reveal that it actually happened. Moments like these gave me serious pauses & made me unable to rlly appreciate the fantastic cinematography & choreography.)

bc of the reason i stated & the fact the movie is so centered around these songs & the plot gets cut by the narration from the future, this movie kinda strikes me as a series of well-made music videos connected by loose plots & themes rather than an actual movie.

Plot change

as we all are aware, they made several choices regarding the plot.

changing nina’s reason to leave Stanford from unable to take care of school & jobs to provide for her living at the same time to experience of racism. i’m personally not a fan of this change - i am not implying that racism is not an issue that poc experience daily. It’s just, I expected a more nuanced discussion on racism & identity in a movie centered around a socially & financially marginalized minority group than a few lines of “my roommate lost her shit so her & RA searched me”, “the school board thought i was a waitress at diversity dinner”, “the waiters looked at me in the looks that question if i am with them”, and “i felt lonely and without a community there”. They are pretty superficial considering their impact in the story. tbh the line “when i was younger i’d imagined what would happen if my parents had stayed in Puerto Rico” did a much better job to capture the identity crisis that first gen immigrant children go thru and gave me more emotional impacts than all the horrible things stanford did to nina.

deleting Hundreds of Stories and putting Paciencia y Fe right before abuela’s death. i understand it’s a narrative choice bc they decided to reveal that abuela won the lottery later & make it that Usnavi had saved to move to DR in the beginning. in the changed lyrics of Paciencia y Fe we also had a peak of abuela’s struggle of deciding whether to leave or stay in Washington Heights. which is nice. but putting that song right before abuela dies rlly makes her conflicting feelings unimportant to the story... maybe the leave or stay refers to her dying, but she doesn’t rlly have much of a choice either way, does it. she’s just.. kinda like some characters in anime.. whose tragic backstory is narrated right before they die to get the readers emotional... but in a pretty song sequence... the choreography & lighting is very pretty tho. gotta give credit where it’s due.

Sonny’s subplot. i rewatched the movie and realized that there was some foreshadowing of his illegal status in the beginning when Daddy Sonny was talking to Usnavi, but tbh it was quite easy to miss.. so i was a bit surprised when they brought up Sonny’s subplot when there was only 45 min left of the movie. that was not enough time to fully develop this plot, esp given that time is used for other subplots too. we know Sonny is very aware of the politics & is sorta an activist, but him wanting to be like Nina & wanting to get into college wasn’t established earlier, so that part following the protest scene feels a bit flat.

Other things

I’ve seen the discussion of the film’s lack of rep of Afro-Latinos, but I am not the most qualified person to talk abt the experience of Afro-Latino community. I’m keeping my ears open and learning on this subject.

I liked that they made Daniela & Carla a couple and was excited when i heard the news. The movie itself was not rlly explicit on their relationship tho - there were scenes of Carla pulling Daniela outta bed in the beginning & their dancing. but tbh the fact that they added a third Salon lady, Cuca, who’s always hanging around, makes D&C relationship harder to notice. Im not gonna say blink and you’ll miss it, but it’s pretty easy to miss. obv their relationship has nothing to do w the main plot, but eh. wished it was more explicit.

Tl;dr: i think they have a lot of interesting ideas that they didn’t explore fully so the movie feels a bit all over the place. this goes for Vanessa’s hope to become a fashion designer, Nina’s experience of racism & identity crisis, Sonny’s illegal status. Loved Daniela and the songs tho. Piragua song’s funny as hell. A bit sad they didn’t paint abuela in the finale :(

i am familiar w the source material & liked it a TON but i don’t like it enough to feel nostalgia.. so i can’t go in there with a fresh mind & see it without comparing it to the original, and neither do i hold so much affection for it that i can happily ignore the defects. so honestly i’m probably in the group that has the worst experience watching it

also: pls lmm i beg u pls don’t make a live action adaption of hamilton, pls

#ith movie #ith spoilers #my bad takes

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ellohcee · 3 years

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HAHSHFYEGS THATS FANTASITC... honestly how David manages to keep in character is a SKILL, Jasper is just TRYIN to make him laugh and snort and smooch him back, WHILE ON THE JOB!!! and to combine the best of BOTH worlds... their muppet selves are them on the TV show... so it looks like they're in their own muppet world interacting with other characters, as if we're the viewers watching from the TV sorta experience, like Sesame Street or Mr. Roger's, or even the ACTUAL Muppet Show... and then when one of them accidentally BREAKS, or when the show ends, it cuts to their Behind The Scenes them, where they're normal people fucking around with their muPPETS

THIS IS THE NERDIEST TIMELINE I SWEAR. I bet when other crew are trying to talk to them they're the type of puppeteers to reply through their muppets id they have them and people are just like STOP IT

#ellotalks #another au i never knew i needed but i REALLY NEEDED

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compassionatedestiny · 3 years

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Marco was absolutely beaming with pride as he raced down the hall, knocking on Isabel's door. Bouncing in place until she answered the door, Marco then brightly grinned as he held up an alchemically created toy car. "Look, Isa! I made it! And, and- It has writing on the side! I'm getting better with writing n' stuff! Isn't it cool??" He beamed up at his big sister.

“Oh Marco, this is fantasitc!” Isabel beams as she kneels down to inspect the handy work and the writing. “I’m so proud of you, honey! Want to make a track to race this baby down?”

#mi mijo: 03 wrath #state alchemist!isabel #//this has blessed my morning~#picoshellhole

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biteypyrotiger · 4 years

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Egyptology professor stories I’m sharing because she’s awesome and they make me laugh:

Long ass rambling below the cut.

1.)

First thing I want to say is that this professor is not a particularly imposing. She was maybe 5′2″. But often affected a stern demeanor that legitimately would have scared the shit out of me if she ever seemed truly angry with me.

At the beginning of the semester she told us very sternly that she had several rules about going on field trips and the first one was that we absolutely must keep up with her. To practice this we were going to take our first field trip to the university’s rare books library. That day she stands in the front of the class and says, sternly, “Remember. You must keep up with me. Are you all ready?”

Class: “Yes Doctor.”

Prof: “Good”

And then she proceeds to speed walk right the fuck out the door.

Now there were maybe 25 of us, crammed tightly into this really small classroom and it became immediately apparent that getting out of there was not going to be a swift exercise. So we all have to basically do the whole getting off an airplane thing and it took a good five minutes.

We all finally get outside and she’s standing outside the door, impatiently tapping her foot her foot and frowning at everyone.

Prof: Is that everyone?

Class: Yes Doctor.

Prof: Good.

And she takes off walking fast enough that we had to literally run to keep up with her. She speeds down the steps and to keep up with her, about five of us literally jumped down an entire flight of steps. I was one of them, and even doing that she was well ahead of us.

As we head out into the campus courtyard and the blazing Egyptian sun, most of the class just gave up. Myself and maybe five others, the same ones wiling to jump down flights of stairs to not break rule #1, were running after her and then finally ridiculously speedwalking and giggling behind her. She never looked back, never broke stride and kept the most focused look on her face the whole time.

We reach the library and remember that there is no elevator available and the rare books room is on the third or fourth floor. Again, Professor flies up the stairs without breaking stride. I slowed a bit at this point as my knees really hate stairs, but pressed on as best we could.

The Professor and us six determined students arrived and the foyar. All of us, young and relatively fit were panting and sweating profusely and giggling. I happened to stand next to professor and very close up could see that she was also sweating and breathing hard, but doing a fantasitc job of looking completely together, and with this expression of stoic disappointment as she waited for the rest of the class to catch up.

This is not a funny story, but I like to tell it so when I say that she was stern, you understand what I mean, and not that she was hard hearted or cruel.

I believe it was her second rule that said that, when we went on fieldtrips, we must wear a head covering or we would not be allowed to attend. Because running around the Egyptian desert for hours will melt your brain without it.

So first fieldtrip, we’re with another class taught by another professor. As we get off the bus (I think this was at Saqqara) she lines us up and inspects our dress. Some people in my class forgot, or were unable to grab something. She helped one guy tie a winter scarf around his head like a turbin. Many kids in the other class didn’t have anything. She scolded all of us and said, very seriously, “For my class, I will excuse it for today, but if you do not bring a head covering for the next fieldtrip than I will fail you for the entire class. Understood?”

Class: Yes Doctor.

As we start walking into the archaeological park and Professor took the front, several students from the other class leaned into us.

“Your professor is such a bitch,” said more than one of the other students to the murmured agreement of others.

Every single person in my class who heard that glared at them. “No. She’s not,” we snapped at them. “She’s saying that because she cares about us and doesn’t want us hurt.”

On our first fieldtrip, there was an early portion where our path through the sand took us up and down sand dunes every few feet. As Professor went down the sand dunes, she would let gravity pull her down and naturally speed up. In attempting to follow rule number 1, we would jog a bit at those points to keep up.

After a few dunes she started side eyeing us. Noticing that we sped up and slowed down along with her. So she randomly started to jog. And we jogged with her. And then she abruptly slowed and we slowed with her. And she jogged again and again we followed and back and forth at random intervals until finally she stopped and we all stopped and she demanded laughing, “What are you doing?!”

Class: We’re keeping up with you!

She just laughed at us and went on.

One one trip, I think it was to the Great Pyramids, but maybe something else, she intended to take us to a valley temple that would have been connected to the main pyramids. The temples are fairly far from the Pyramids and generally off limits to the public, but someone like an active archaeologist with a class, had passes to go to them and were allowed.

As we come to the corner of one of the queen pyramids, the final cover before we trek across the sand to the temple, Professor motions for us to stop and peers around the corner at a couple of guards on camels. She turns and looks at us.

Professor: Alright. We are going to walk in that direction to the temple and, though I have a pass and a right to go down there, those guards are probably going to try to stop us. So if you hear them yelling at us or blowing whistles, you are to pretend you do not hear them and continue walking. Understand?

Class: Yes Doctor.

So we start walking and, sure enough, after a few yards, we start hearing whistles and we dutifully ignore them and keep walking. And then we hear the camels come up along side us and the guards start yelling at us. As we have been caught and they are on camels that could easily outrun us, we stop. Professor and the other professor wheel on them and start arguing back in Arabic, clearly telling them they have a right and permission to go down there, but the guards aren’t having it. After a few moments of this, Professor blinks and looks at us. “What are you doing? Go!”

So we all start walking again. It takes a few minute of just walking through the hot sun and sand and then, suddenly, the two professors come running up the side of us and pass us at a full sprint.

“What are you doing?!” Professor yells at us. “Run! Run!”

And so we all break into a run, convinced the mounted police are after us. And then when we had a moment to think, we look over our shoulders and see the guards leaving. We look at her confused and she just slows to a walk and starts laughing at us.

Saqqara is an archaeological park whose most prominent feature is the Stepped Pyramid, the tomb of the first Pharaoh of a united Upper and Lower Egypt named Djoser. Though the Stepped Pyramid is the focus, Saqqara is FILLED with other tombs spanning, I believe, centuries, as people tried to build close to the first Pharaoh. Some of them are smaller, today much more dilapidated, pyramids, most of them smaller tombs built more like a tomb. Areas of the park are also covered with broken pottery shards. Now, in a lot of places, ancient pottery shards would be things that historians and archaeologists would gobble up all of these, but in Egypt, there are so many artifacts that they’re not particularly considered worthwhile and, they’re so ugly compared to the many other beautiful artifacts that they’re not well desired.

However, being good little wannabe archaeologists raised in the West and taught to respect and be careful of every bit of ancient artwork we found, we were all terrified of stepping on them and going through a great effort of picking our way around the stand to not step on them. Which was difficult.

Professor eventually noticed us dancing around and asked “What are you doing?”

Us: We don’t want to step on the pottery, Doctor.

She looked at us like we were adorable, but relatively stupid. “Oh. You’re all very sweet, but just give it up. You’re not going to be able to get anywhere like that.”

6.)

In a similar way, she found out that some of us were having a lot of issues with vendors and cab drivers in the city that could get very aggressive in pushing for a price or trying to force you to buy their wares. And the women in the class were having issues with men being pushy in general (hate to say it but Cairo is known to have an extremely high rate of sexual harassment, and I can attest to that).

Part of the problem, that I will attest to, is we all felt like we were constantly required to be incredibly mean to people, often to just walk down the street and while we might be willing to do it sometimes, we all felt terrible about doing it constantly.

Professor looked at us all fondly. “You all are very nice and you can go home and tell your mothers that she taught you very good manners. However, if you want to get by here, you need to drop all of it. You do not speak to your cab drivers aside from agreeing to a price, you walk away and the two most important words in your vocabulary are now ‘la’a’ (no) and ‘imshee’ (in her words, ‘bugger off’).”

In general: She was stern in a kind way. She cracked us up constantly. She lightly teased us and let us lightly tease her, usually by way of her frustration with another Egyptologist which was an endless well of amusement. At the end of the semester we played a quiz game to review in class and she asked for team names. I gave my team, the first name of the Egyptologist that annoyed her as the team name. The utter irritation on her face every time she had to call on us was great.

She was also a legitimately world renowned Egyptologist. And she never acted like it or said anything. Another professor subbed for our class one time and made absolutely emphatically clear to us that we were lucky to have her as a teacher.

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It’s a Nice Day for a [Gay] Wedding

It’s a Nice Day for a White Gay Wedding | Supernatural Destiel AU ficlet | 1,925 Word Count | Read on Ao3

Happy Pride everyone! There’s actually another fic I’m currently working on for pride, but I was in the mood for some domestic gay marriage fluff, so I wrote up this quick little ficlet before the month of June is over, as I’m unsure when the other one will be finished/posted. Comment/Like/Reblog as you like, I’d appreciate some good vibes sent my way! (And yes, if you couldn’t tell from the title, this fic is inspired by the Billy Idol song White Wedding)

“I don’t think I can do this.”

Dean worried at the chapped skin on his bottom lip with his teeth, and when it split open, he swiped his tongue across it quickly, the metallic taste of blood filling his mouth, and sticking to the back of his front teeth.

When he looked at himself in the mirror, the image was distorted, the panic messy to pinpoint. His state of duress abetted in his current appearance, which less than satisfactory in his opinion. His suit suddenly felt very tight, his tie was definitely crooked, and someone must have turned up the heat—it had to be the only explanation as Dean was sweating profusely—just to name a few of the many things going absolutely wrong.

“I can’t go out there looking like this! People would think I look like a freaking homeless person.”

“People aren’t going to think that, Dean, because you look fine.” Sam rolled his eyes.

“Which hasn’t changed the last time I said it. Not that I haven’t been saying the exact same thing for an hour now, because I have.”

Dean’s little brother raised a brow, and Dean couldn’t help but feel slightly jealous at his cool head, the clear mind Sam seemed to always have, even when the potential for everything to go wrong was very high. And it was very high, because nothing was ever good for Dean.

The older Winchester had the worst of luck, so this? This was too good to be true. He could hear the elated chatter just outside the room he was being hosted in, which only served to make him more nervous. That many people bearing witness to the miracle, or the enormous disaster this could turn out to be, because why wouldn’t it for Dean?

Sam sighed, and stood behind his big brother, clapping both hands on the shoulders of Dean’s suit.

“Stop that.”

“Stop what? I didn’t say anything.”

“You didn’t have to, Dean. You’re my brother. You honestly don’t think I know you by now? You were making that face again.” Dean furrowed his brow, but let Sam continue.

“You know, that face that means you’re trying to pinpoint anything that could be slightly off so you have an excuse to not do something, because you think it’ll go horribly wrong. God forbid anything good happen to Dean Winchester.” Caught!

Dean’s answering silence was enough for Sam to confirm he was right, which he usually is, the bastard, but it also helps Dean have a sound voice of reason, which he’s reminded more often than not he needs just as much as oxygen and water, probably—since his own was apparently so fucked up and incredibly bias; worn down by years of emotional abuse and self loathing.

Sam sighed, this one laced with exasperation, and Dean feels guilty that he was the one who put it there.

“Dean, how many times do we all have to remind you that your an awesome guy? An amazing person who deserves everything good for once? Dad shouldn’t have been so hard on us, you shouldn’t have had to raise me...there’s a lot that I wish I could change, Dean. But you matter to me, to all those people out there who are here for you. You matter to Cas. And you deserve him, just as he deserves you.

“You’re a fantasitc brother, you stepped up and became a better dad, and I know more than anything, Dean, you’ll be just as great a husband. The past will always be there, but it doesn’t mean it has to dictate our futures. You taught me that. That we make our own choices. This one is meant to make you happy, and it’s okay to be nervous.”

“Yeah, Sam, I get that, but what if I go out there and Cas suddenly doesn’t want to marry me anymore? He realizes that he doesn’t want to be saddled down with a mess...with-with a loser, with me. That he remembers how perfect he is, and how perfect I’m not, and then cancels the wedding right then and there.” Dean clenched his eyes shut tightly, and his fists and jaw followed suit, his head angled down to the floor.

He couldn’t do this. It would hurt him more to get out there and see the disscontempt for him in Castiel’s beautiful, blue eyes than it would to just run now and escape the imminent catastrophe that would be this wedding. His suit didn’t fit, he was convinced his tie was definitely not straight—the joke there wasn’t as funny as it should have been, and Dean detested it—his hair was mussed from the many times he ran his hands through it, and Castiel would notice his disheveled state the moment he walked down the aisle, and use it as further proof why he was way out Dean’s league, and Dean could never live up to the title: husband.

As much as Dean wanted it, and god did he want it, marriage wasn’t for him, it couldn’t be; Cas could do so much better than him, deserved better than him.

“I would never do that.”

Dean eyes snapped open, and he let out a gasp, whipping himself around so quickly that he almost fell over and made a fool of himself in front of one of the most important, if not the most important, persons in his life.

His brother let out a breath of relief, and smiled at Cas gratefully.

“Cas what are you...what you doing here?”

“Reassuring my anxiety ridden fiancé that I love him more than anything in the whole world, and reminding him that even though his worries are valid, they’re foolish, and untrue. You’re gorgeous, Dean.” Cas smiled softly, stepping forward, and took Dean’s face in his hands.

Tears were both in their eyes, and the slight tremor in Cas’ hand lent Dean the knowledge he was probably really nervous as well, and wanted to see Dean to reassure himself. At that, he couldn’t help but grin down at his soon to be husband, his Cas, and Castiel mirrored the expression.

“You are the most amazing person I have ever met, Dean Winchester, so don’t you doubt that for a second.”

“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell him.” Sam huffed, sending one of his patented bitchfaces over to his big brother, the one said ‘I told you so’, in not as many words.

“I wouldn’t want to marry anybody else,” Cas added, nodding at Sam with another soft smile.

When he looked back at Dean, the depth in those ocean eyes almost took his breath away, and his lips parted in a silent gasp.

“I love you, and not even a slightly askew tie would change that.”

Dean chuckled, and wiped away his, albeit very manly, tears, quickly before they could stain his cheeks.

“See, Sammy, I told you. I knew something was off.”

“Yeah, only because you kept fiddling with it.” Sam rolled his eyes.

Castiel smoothed his hands down Dean’s lapels, and fixed his tie, the hands of his fiancé on him, soothing him more than he’d like to admit. He reached up and fixed Dean’s hair as well, his hand falling to his cheek when he was done.

Dean leaned into Cas’ hand, and closed his eyes, using the touch as a means to ground himself, every worry washing away; down and off his shoulders.

“I love you.”

Their foreheads met, words of endearment whispered between one another.

“I love you too, Cas.”

They kiss, and when Dean is ready, they pull away. He takes a deep breath, hands reaching out to take a hold of Cas’ hands, and gave them a squeeze. Cas squeezes back.

“As nice as this is,” Sam butted in, “how about you do this out there, and you know, get married?”

“I like that idea very much, actually.” Cas chuckled, and raised a questioning brow at Dean, who nods, and grins back at his query.

“Yeah, I...I think I’m ready to finally make you Castiel Winchester, Cas.”

“Finally.”

They all laugh at Sam’s insistence, and the music filters down the hallway and through the door, signaling the trio that ceremony has started.

Castiel squeezes Dean’s hands once more, stealing his attention away from the door. When green meets blue, he smiles, and Dean’s never been more sure of anything.

“Let’s walk down the aisle together, Dean. I couldn’t think of any giving away more fitting than that.”

“Hell yeah. Let’s do it.” The resulting beam from Castiel is enough to make Dean swoon, and fall in love all over again.

Sam grins, and opens the door to meet the rest of the wedding party down the hall.

Gabriel and Sam take each other’s arms, as do Charlie and Meg, and the grooms stop right at the entrance together, hand in hand, waiting for their best men and women to walk down to their own places at the alter. The guests stand for them, when it’s their turn, clapping and crying, and Dean couldn’t even believe he thought it would be anything less than perfect.

Because as he and Cas make their way down to the aisle, side by side as promised, as he and Cas take each other’s hands and recite their vows, as he and Cas seal their union with a kiss, and another, and another and...

As he and Cas are declared husbands by the officiator that’s exactly what it is. Perfect.

Dean chuckles to himself later, during their first dance as a couple, and Cas looks at him with a smile, blue eyes sparkling.

“What’s so funny?”

“Nothing really. Just that...I don’t think I’ve ever been gay a wedding before.”

Dean grins when Cas throws his head back in a beautiful burst of laughter.

“You’re ridiculous.”

“Yeah, but you love me. Husband.”

“I do. Husband.”

They’re silent for a moment before the both of them are reduced to giggles.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been to a gay wedding either.” Cas says through his fit.

“Well, that’s changed now, I suppose.”

“Yeah, guess so, huh Cas?”

They stare at each other for a moment, all fond looks and gooey smiles, before their lips meet, and Dean Winchester finds that he is finally ready to accept that good things can, and will, happen to him.

When they pull away, Dean looks over to his family, their family, and grins at their support.

Charlie gives him a thumbs up, and Gabriel winks suggestively at the both of them, to which Dean rolls his eyes at. Meg congratulates ‘Clarence’ when they leave the dance floor, and Sam immediately wraps his arms around his brother, and then follows it up with a hug for his brother-in-law. Bobby tries to hide the fact he was crying, which Ellen resolutely teases him for, and Jo make fun of Dean for no longer being a bachelor. Balthazar drunkenly whisks Cas away to the dance floor sometime during the night, and Jody and Donna stay by the buffet table, though not after giving the married couple their love.

All in all, it was an awesome night, just like everybody assured Dean it would be. (Especially with people as awesome as these guys by his side).

‘Hey little sister...’

‘What have you done...’

“Hey little sister...’

‘Who’s the only one...’

‘It’s a nice day to...’

‘Start again...’

‘It’s nice day for a...’

‘White Wedding...’

‘It’s a nice day to...’

‘Start again...’

Yeah, it was wasn’t it?

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fanartfunart · 5 years

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Hi there, this is the Anon who asked about the Story that wouldn’t develop past the “Grab the readers attention” I needed more space to put everything down, so I hope you don’t mind I’m submiting instead of doing another Anon, I don’t like spamming like 3 or 4 asks at once.

If you have any advice for me I’d love it, and take it gratefully!!! Thanks!– Ukaia

Thomas Sanders was a famous YouTuber. He sang, he did skits and he did live performances. He was famous, but not snooty or rude. And his fans loved him for it.

Thomas Sanders was a lonely man. He had one friend that he never got to see, even though they shared a home. He could only leave notes for and do little acts of kindness like setting up the coffee for the next day.

Thomas Sanders was a man on the run. Wanted for crimes he didn’t commit, hunted down every day of his life. He could only hope that one day he could escape.

Thomas Sanders was an every day man. Nobody knew his name, nobody recognized him in the street. He could blend in and vanish in a group of two, and that’s how he liked it.

Thomas Sanders is a man.. who does not exist.

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So that’s the idea that’s swimming around my head. Basically I saw a post on tumblr that kind of inspired it

Each Person is a different Side. Anxiety, uses Thomas as his persona for YouTube and such.

Morality Uses Thomas to hide from the law

Logic Uses Thomas to help with his crippling isolation ( I was thinking he’s a “first” on a mars base or something like that and despite not wanting human contact he needs it and it kind of develops, that was inspired by Thomas’s vid where he’d recorded a note to himself as patton to help his editing time))

And Creativity is a famous person who can’t go anywhere with out being mobbed, and he longs just for some down time, and thus comes up with Thomas the very day person who’s a nobody so he can just.. breath.

What do you think? Any good? Do you have any suggestions for me please? I’d love the help. Thanks!!!

Ohmygosh! Looks FanTASITC. I love the concept and I’m curious as to how they’re all doing that & if/how they meet (or at least discover the existence of each other)? Are they all gonna look the same/like Thomas? I wonder how they’d each react to being discovered, or how they go out of their way to avoid it. Or, when they decided to create their Thomas persona?!

And Looogaaan. I just wanna HUG him. I do hope he gets some genuine human contact soooooon. That’s like…. Necessary. Oh, Goodness! Pat!! What’s HAPPENED there?! I’m very curious to how he got into that situation.

Looks like a wonderful premise! I just suggest you ask yourself some questions about world-building (are they even in the same world/time/region? How do the stories connect-if they do at all beyond Thomas Sanders?), backstory, and maybe play with a few possible plot points and possible bumps in the road to how things work out! Good luck on your writing endeavors, I’d love to see how you develop it!!

#Logan Sanders #Roman Sanders #Virgil Sanders #Patton Sanders #Thomas Sanders (character)#writing tips #others fantastic ideas #isolation #submission #ukaia

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