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'Twas the night before All Saints and all through the land, hot squirrels dressed as snowmen and reindeer danced. Sheep whisperers made gestures in vain with their hands as they dreamt of whale-watching from warm island sands. And at each trembling Target checkout clerk stand, Swifties exclaimed, "1989 (Taylor's Version) Out Now!" as they Stanned… Part 1/3.

Earthquake: 15:15:41 GMT+3 Jerusalem, Israel, 06:15:41 MDT Local Time (approximately 2 minutes, 41 seconds (161 seconds) after the "1989 Yay!" celebration post at 12:13:00 UTC)

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 409: Deuteronomy 15:15 Bear in mind that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I enjoin this commandment upon you today.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1921: 1 Chronicles 15:15 The Levites carried the Ark of God by means of poles on their shoulders, as Moses had commanded in accordance with the word of the Lord.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1048: Jeremiah 15:15 O Lord, you know--Remember me and take thought of me, Avenge me on those who persecute me; Do not yield to Your patience, Do not let me perish! Consider how I have borne insult On Your account.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 11: Genesis 6:13 God said to Noah, "I have decided to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with lawlessness because of them: I am about to destroy themn with the earth. Genesis 6:14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make it an ark with compartments, and cover it inside and out with pitch. Genesis 6:15 This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

12+13+1989=2014.

Strong's Concordance #2014 haphugah: From puwg; relaxation, intermission, benumbing, cessation Original Word: הֲפֻגָה

October 27, 2014 was the 300th day of the year. Taylor Swift - "Is It Over Now?" (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault) "Let's fast forward to 300 takeout coffees later I see your profile and your smile on unsuspecting waiters You dream of my mouth before it called you a lying traitor You search in every maiden's bed for something greater Let's fast forward to 300 awkward blind dates later If she's got blue eyes, I will surmise that you'll probably date her You dream of my mouth before it called you a lying traitor You search in every model's bed for something greater"

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 389: Deuteronomy 6:14 Do not follow other gods, any gods of the peoples about you-- Deuteronomy 6:15 for the Lord your God in your midst is an impassioned God--lest the anger of the Lord your God blaze forth against you and He wipe you off the face of the earth.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Pages 1847 and 1848: Ezra 6:15 The house was finished on the third of the month of Adar in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: Columbia, South Carolina: November 18th 2011: “Where would we be today, if I never drove that car away” - Darius Rucker, ‘Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It’ "Between the work and the hurt and the whiskey Don't think I don't wonder 'bout Could've been, should've been all worked out"

Taylor Swift - Speak Now World Tour: Columbia, South Carolina: November 18th 2011: Set Addition: "Alright" with Darius Rucker "When I lay down at night I thank the Lord above For giving me everything I ever could dream of"

Columbia: From Latin columbus (“a dove”) and "a land of": "Land of a Dove".

Mark 1:10 Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. Mark 1:11 And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 583: 1 Samuel 6:15 and the Levites took down the Ark of the Lord and the chest beside it containing the gold objects and placed them on the large stone. The the men of Beth-shemesh presented burnt offerings and other sacrifices to the Lord that day.

John 6:15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.

Strong's Concordance #161 Ohad: to be united; unity; an Israelite Original Word: אֹהַד

Acts 2:38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.” Acts 2:40 With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” Acts 2:41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

Earthquake: M 2.5 - 30 km (18.6 mi) ESE of Mapleton, Utah

2023-10-29 12:15:41 (UTC) 39.988°N 111.279°W 9.9 km depth

In Water Hollow near Indian Corn Spur/Route 761, Corral Canyon/Route 032, Sheep Creek, Sheep Creek Road/Route 051, Garner Canyon, Baker Canyon, Strawberry Ridge, Mine Hollow, Drunkard Hollow, and Willow Creek Ridge overlooking Spanish Fork Canyon, Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad tracks, and Highway 6/Grand Army of the Republic Highway.

Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Acts 2:2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. Acts 2:3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. Acts 2:4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Acts 2:5 Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. Acts 2:6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. Acts 2:7 Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? Acts 2:8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? Acts 2:11 (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” Acts 2:12 Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?” Acts 2:13 Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.” Acts 2:14 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. Acts 2:15 These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning!

Strong's Concordance #30 Abihu: From 'ab and huw'; father (i.e. Worshipper) of Him (i.e. God); "He is Father," a son of Aaron Original Word: אֲבִיהוּא

John 18:4 Jesus, knowing all that was going to happen to him, went out and asked them, “Who is it you want?” John 18:5 “Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “I am he,” Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.) John 18:6 When Jesus said, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

Acts 12:13 Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door. Acts 12:14 When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!” Acts 12:15 “You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.” Acts 12:16 But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished. Acts 12:17 Peter motioned with his hand for them to be quiet and described how the Lord had brought him out of prison. “Tell James and the other brothers and sisters about this,” he said, and then he left for another place.

1 Corinthians 15:41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

"And there's something to be learned from waiting all day for a train that's never coming. And there's something to be proud of about moving on and realizing that real love shines golden like starlight, and doesn't fade or spontaneously combust. Maybe I’ll write a whole album about that kind of love if I ever find it." - Taylor Swift (2012 Red album liner notes)

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 16: Genesis 9:9 I now establish My covenant with you and your offspring to come, Genesis 9:10 and with every living thing that is with you--birds, cattle, and every wild beast as well--all that have come out of the ark, every living thing on earth. Genesis 9:11 I will maintain My covenant with you: never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1826: Daniel 9:9 To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we rebelled against Him,

"Important lessons from today: 1) Sheep are impossible to reason with. 2) Sheep are rude," - Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift Just Revealed How the Betty-James Love Triangle Ends The singer tells all in Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions on Disney+. By Abby Gardner November 25, 2020 “So I've been kind of in my head calling the girl from ‘August’ either Augusta or Augustine. I've just been naming her that in my head," Swift explains in the film. “What happened in my head is that ‘Cardigan’ is Betty's perspective from like 20 to 30 years later looking back on this love that was this tumultuous thing. In my head, I think Betty and James ended up together, right? In my head, she ends up with him, but he really put her through it.” She continues, “But ‘August’ was obviously about the girl that James had this summer with, right? So she seems like she's a bad girl, but really she's not a bad girl. She's like really a sensitive person who fell for him and she was trying to seem cool and seem like she didn't care because that's what girls have to do. And she was trying to let him think that she didn't care, but she really did and she thought they had something very real. And then he goes back to Betty. So the idea that there's some bad villain girl in any type of situation that, like, takes your man is really a total myth because that's not usually the case at all. Everybody has feelings and wants to be seen and loved—and just, like, Augustine, that's all she really wanted too.” - Taylor Swift (Folklore: The Long Pond Sessions) https://www.glamour.com/story/taylor-swift-just-revealed-how-the-betty-james-love-triangle-ends

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: Chicago, Illinois: August 9th 2011: “And up in the air they would write your name there, but love would fall to pieces in the rain” - Patty Griffin, “Christina”

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: Chicago, Illinois: August 10th 2011: “If you wanna be somebody else, change your mind.” - Sister Hazel, “Change Your Mind”

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: Foxboro, Massachusetts: June 25th 2011: “She said I think I’ll go to Boston.” - Augustana, “Boston”

Last night we all danced together in the rain for THE ENTIRE 3.5 HOUR SHOW in foxy Foxborough MA!! We’ve had rain shows at Gillette Stadium before but this was a full on deluge that never let up, I just want to thank that iconic crowd!! Love you so much you have no idea 💕🥰 — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 21, 2023

Taylor Swift - Question…? (Eras Tour - Foxoboro, MA - May 20, 2023) "Does it feel like everything's just like Second best after that meteor strike?"

Taylor Swift - "august" (Eras Tour - Foxoboro, MA - May 20, 2023) "Back when we were still changin' for the better Wanting was enough For me, it was enough To live for the hope of it all"

Taylor Swift - "Invisible" (Eras Tour - Foxoboro, MA - May 20, 2023) "We could be a beautiful, miracle, unbelievable There's a fire inside of you That can't help but shine through"

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: August 6th 2011: “Cause I live and breathe this Philadelphia freedom” Elton John “Philadelphia Freedom”

Taylor Swift - Eras Tour - SoFi 8/8/2023: “What do I say to you after that?” Swift said in response to the applause, as captured in videos from the night. “That was so deeply abnormal and beautiful. I don’t know what to do or say.” “I think it’s safe to say that I, like all people, will experience a certain amount of emotional downward spirals throughout the course of the rest of my life and in those moments, you can rest assured I’m gonna think about what you just did,” she continued, getting slightly emotional. “And I’m gonna feel better. So thank you. That was insane. It was crazy.” “I’m going to spend several decades trying to figure out words for how that just made me feel,” Swift added after the night five standing “O.” “I’m trying to get it together. I’ve completely lost control over my brain, and that’s your fault. I’m just gonna float through the rest of the show, so thanks for that.” https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-standing-ovation-eras-tour-show-reaction-1235388168/

In some Christian numerology, Jesus Christ, The Redeemer = 888.

Taylor Swift - "seven" Please picture me In the trees I hit my peak at seven feet In the swing Over the creek I was too scared to jump in But I, I was high in the sky With Pennsylvania under me Are there still beautiful things? Sweet tea in the summer Cross your heart, won't tell no other And though I can't recall your face I still got love for you

Earth's Sun: I C 7 https://suntoday.lmsal.com/sdomedia/SunInTime/2023/08/08/l0193.jpg

Taylor Swift Era's Tour (Los Angeles, CA, 8-9-23) 1989 Announcement & "New Romantics" August 9, 2023 (221st day)

Hebrews 10:19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, Hebrews 10:20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, Hebrews 10:21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, Hebrews 10:25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, Hebrews 10:27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

Earth's Sun: 7 https://suntoday.lmsal.com/sdomedia/SunInTime/2023/08/09/l0193.jpg

Taylor Swift 1989 "Dare To Be Different" Summer's Farm, Frederick, Maryland

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: St. Paul, Minnesota: June 15th 2011: “A moment, a love, a dream, a laugh, a kiss, a cry, our rights, our wrongs.” - The Temper Trap, “Sweet Disposition”

Dr. Seuss' The Lorax - Taylor Swift Featurette (2012) "A model airplane, this time…"

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Published: February 16, 2012 (47th day) Duration: 2:12 (132 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vn15KLfmRg 6vn15KLfmRg (6, 15) vnKLfmRg fgklmnrv 6+7+10+20+30+40+80+700=893. 893+6+15=914. 914+132=1046. 1046+47=1093.

Strong's Concordance #1093 belo: tribute, excise (on articles consumed), to remove with surgical precision. Original Word: בְּלוֹ

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: Orlando, Florida: June 4th 2011: “I guess we’re all one phone call from our knees.” - Mat Kearney, “Closer to Love” "She got the call today, one out of the gray And when the smoke cleared, it took her breath away If every building falls, and all the stars fade We'll still be singin' this song, the one they can't take away Gonna get there soon, she's gonna be there too Cryin' in her room, prayin', "Lord come through" We're gonna get there soon Oh, it's your light, oh, it's your way Pull me out of the dark, just to shoulder the weight Cryin' out now, from so far away You pull me closer to love Closer to love"

A Hug From Taylor Swift - Challenge #2 Challenge #2 has been extended to the guys from A Hug From Taylor Swift: Use the number 13 in a creative way.

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Published: April 1, 2010 (91st day) Duration: 1:37 (97 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo6HuSCBZu4 Uo6HuSCBZu4 (6, 4) UoHuSCBZu bchosuuuz 2+3+8+50+90+200+200+200+500=1253. 1253+6+4=1263. 1263+97=1360. 1360+91=1451.

Strong's Concordance #1451 Gederi: a circumvallation -- wall, fence, enclosure, hedge, an inhabitant of Geder. Original Word: גְּדֵרי

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1053: Jeremiah 17:13 O Hope of Israel! O Lord! All who forsake You shall be put to shame, Those in the land who turn from You Shall be doomed men, For they have forsaken the Lord, The Fount of living waters.

Earthquake: 12:13:10 CDT 4/01/2010… A model airplane… Earthquake: M 1.2 - 5.5 km (3.4 mi) W of Cobb, California 2010-04-01 17:13:10 (UTC) 38.814°N 122.785°W 1.2 km depth At approximately 3360 feet near Airstrip Road overlooking Squaw Creek, Squaw Creek Road, Eagle Rock #11, Eagle Rock Road, and Bear Canyon.

On June 2, 2013, while on her third concert tour, Swift attended a pre-show meet-and-greet organized by KYGO radio before one of her concerts at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado. Numerous fans and station employees were present at the event, where guests were invited to meet with Swift before taking photos with her. At the event, Swift posed for a photo with David Mueller, a radio employee at the time, and his then-girlfriend Shannon Melcher, also an employee of the station. Swift alleged that during the photograph, Mueller reached under her skirt and grabbed her buttocks. Immediately following the incident, once Mueller and Melcher had exited the room, Swift reported it to her mother, tour manager, the photographer and members of her security team. Following the report, Swift's security team met with Mueller backstage and accused him of touching her inappropriately, which resulted in him being escorted from the concert. The incident was also reported to KYGO radio and Mueller was terminated shortly after they conducted their own investigation into the event. On August 9, 2017, Swift's mother, Andrea, took to the stand to detail her recollection of the incident. She described how she was sickened after being told of what had happened and when she saw the photo she could immediately tell her daughter was uncomfortable. The following day Swift herself took to the stand; her mother was unable to be present in court during her testimony. She testified for almost an hour describing how it was a "definite" and "very long" grab and spoke of her monotone response to Mueller and his girlfriend following the photo. During her testimony, Swift was questioned by Mueller's attorney about her feelings regarding Mueller losing his job; she reminded the attorney that his client's job loss was his own fault: "I didn’t have a reaction to a strange person I didn’t know losing his job… I’m not going to let you or your client make me feel in any way that this is my fault. Here we are years later, and I’m being blamed for the unfortunate events of his life that are the product of his decisions—not mine." On August 12, Martinez dismissed Mueller's $3 million case against Swift, citing insufficient evidence that Swift had gotten him fired. The trial concluded on August 14, 2017. Both legal teams gave their closing statements before the jury deliberated for hours. Ultimately the jury ruled that Mueller had assaulted Swift at the 2013 meet-and-greet, awarding her $1. The jury also decided that Andrea Swift and Frank Bell had no impact on Mueller's termination.

1 Corinthians 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Matthew 18:12 “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? Matthew 18:13 And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.

Earthquake: 13:13:05 CDT 4/1/2010… A model airplane and…a Willow… Earthquake: M 1.9 - 23.9 km (14.8 mi) ENE of Soledad, California 2010-04-01 18:13:05 (UTC) 36.498°N 121.076°W 3.1 km depth In Dry Lake Valley near Airline Highway/Route 25 and Willow Creek Road.

Taylor Swift - "willow" "You know that my train could take you home Anywhere else is hollow I'm begging for you to take my hand Wreck my plans That's my man Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind They count me out time and time again Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind But I come back stronger than a 90's trend"

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri - August 13, 2011: “I got a good heart, I just can’t catch a break.” – Ryan Adams, Two.

Taylor Swift - Speak Now World Tour: September 27, 2011 – Denver: Set Additions: "Ours," and "How to Save a Life" by the Fray

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: September 27th, 2011 - Denver, Colorado: “But it flew away from her reach so she ran away in her sleep and dreamed of paradise.” – Coldplay, "Paradise” "And so lying underneath those stormy skies She'd say, 'oh I know the sun must set to rise' This could be paradise"

Denver weather forecast includes scattered severe storms, large hail The best chance for severe storms will be east of a line from Limon to Grover By KIRK MITCHELL | [email protected] | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: August 15, 2017 at 6:27 a.m. | UPDATED: August 15, 2017 at 6:33 a.m. Winds up to 60 mph, up to 2 inches of rain and 2-inch-diameter hail are expected Tuesday afternoon mostly on the Eastern plains, according to forecasters. There’s a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mostly after 5 p.m., according to the National Weather Service in Boulder. It will be partly sunny, with a high near 84. “Scattered thunderstorms will develop over the mountains early this afternoon and then spread over the plains late afternoon and evening hours. A few storms may become severe with large hail, damaging winds and heavy rain,” the weather forecast says. https://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/15/denver-weather-forecast-storms-hail/

8/17/2017: Taylor Swift Followed up her Denver Trial with Generous Donation to Joyful Heart Foundation

Taylor Swift - All You Wanted (Michelle Branch Cover) - Speak Now World Tour: Glendale, Arizona: October 22, 2011 Arm Lyrics: “You know you’re doing better on your own, so don’t buy in” - Jimmy Eat World, “The Middle”

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October 22, 2011 (295th day) Duration: 2:55 (175 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpjV0AoIAWQ LpjV0AoIAWQ (8) LpjVAoIAWQ aaijlopqvw 1+1+9+600+20+50+60+70+700+900=2411. 2411+8=2419. 2419+175=2595. 2595+295=2890.

Strong's Concordance #2890 tahor: From taher; purity -- pureness. Original Word: טְהוֹר

Jimmy Eat World, “The Middle” "Hey, don't write yourself off yet It's only in your head, you feel left out Or looked down on Just try your best Try everything you can And don't you worry what they tell themselves When you're away It just takes some time Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride Everything, everything'll be just fine Everything, everything'll be alright, alright"

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: Cleveland, Ohio: July 30th 2011: “Don’t know why I’m still afraid. If you weren’t real I would make you up.” Joseph Arthur, “Honey and The Moon”

Taylor Swift - Style/Let It Go (with Idina Menzel) (Live on The 1989 World Tour)

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Tampa, FL - October 31, 2015 (304th day) Duration: 10:14 (614 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNVLV11QqXU bNVLV11QqXU (11) bNVLVQqXU blnqquvvx 2+20+40+70+70+200+700+700+300=2102. 2102+11=2113. 2113+614=2727. 2727+304=3031.

Strong's Concordance #3031 Yidbash: From the same as dbash; honey, honeyed; Jidbash, an Israelite -- Idbash. Original Word: יִדְבָּשׂ

In the Runaway Snowman, Happy, the talking snowman, wins a local contest and soon becomes quite a celebrity in town. A scheming con man, Freddy Fast Talk, convinces Robin, who built Happy the Snowman, that there is money to be made! Along the way Robin learns important lessons about friendship and caring. Give a little love each day. Just a little love each day. And in a little while, a happy little smile will spread across your face and stay. Give a little love each day. Give it in a special way. And anywhere your eyes can try to realize the sun is chasing clouds away.

“There was one solo; but it was a guy. It was this character called 'Freddy Fast Talk' and it was the bad guy. I didn't care, I was like I will dress up like a guy, I want to sing that song. And so I remembered we drew on eyebrows, and I had like a moustache, and we put all my hair up in this hat. So I dressed like a guy and sang the solo.” ― Taylor Swift

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Pages 116 and 117: Exodus 3:7 And the Lord continued, "I have marked well the plight of My people in Egypt and have heeded their outcry because of their taskmasters; yes I am mindful of their sufferings. Exodus 3:8 I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the regioin of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: Newark, New Jersey: July 19th 2011: “Belief builds from scratch, doesn’t need to relax, doesn’t need space.” - Gavin DeGraw, “Belief”

August 14, 2018: Reputation Stadium Tour: Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL: “This exact day a year ago, I was not playing a sold-out stadium in Tampa, I was in a courtroom in Denver, Colorado. And honestly, I was there for a sexual assault case. This day a year ago was the day that the jury sided in my favor and said that they believe me. “I guess I just think about all the people that weren’t believed, and the people who haven’t been believed, or the people who are afraid to speak up before they’re afraid they won’t be believed. I just wanted to say I’m sorry to anyone who ever wasn’t believed. Because I don’t know what turn my life would have taken if people didn’t believe me when I said that something had happened to me. And so I wanted to say we have so, so, so much further to go, and I'm so grateful to you guys being there for me during what was a really, really horrible part of my life…I'm so happy to see you, and to have you, and to know you through the ups and downs of my life, so thank you. A while ago I wrote a song about how I feel about just how I feel when you guys all come together and are so wonderfully supportive and incredible. So for me this song is always, always gonna be about you; ups and downs, win or lose; you guys have always been there for me, so thank you so much…”

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky - October 29, 2011: “Cause happiness throws a shower of sparks” – The Fray, Happiness.

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: Auckland, New Zealand: March 18, 2012: “You know wherever I am, I’ll come running to see you again” – James Taylor, You’ve Got A Friend.

Luke 17:26 “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. Luke 17:27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. Luke 17:30 “It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. Luke 17:33 Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it. Luke 17:36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

John 5:20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed.

The search for a fisherman lost at sea was called off. 2 days later, he was found alive and adrift in a life raft after spending 13 days at sea. Erin Snodgrass Fri, October 27, 2023 at 5:20 PM PDT/17:20 PDT One of two fishermen that went missing in mid-October was found alive and drifting in a life vessel off the coast of Washington on Thursday — two days after the Coast Guard suspended its search. Two men traveling on the 43-foot vessel left Westport in Grays Harbor County on October 12, according to local outlet King 5 News. The fishing boat and its two inhabitants were supposed to return three days later on October 15 but never did, the Coast Guard said in an update earlier this week. Ten days after the boat was supposed to return to shore, the Coast Guard announced it was calling off its search for the missing vessel, saying its crews searched over 14,000 square miles for more than eight hours. "Our sincerest condolences go out to the family of the missing people during this difficult time," the agency tweeted earlier this week. But on Thursday, October 26th, a group of "good Samaritans" spotted one of the missing men adrift in a life raft about 70 miles from Cape Flattery in the northwest corner of Washington, according to a Coast Guard update. "I saw what looked like a life raft in the distance and ran inside and put the binoculars on him and then he shot off a flare," Ryan Planes, one of the rescuers, told King 5. "We pulled him on board. He gave me a big hug and it was emotional," Planes' uncle, John, told the outlet. The rescuers said the missing fisherman told them he had been alone on the raft for 13 days and eventually ran out of food and water. He was able to survive, he told the men, by catching a salmon to eat. "We made him breakfast. He drank three bottles of water. He was pretty hungry, poor guy," John told King 5. https://news.yahoo.com/search-fisherman-lost-sea-called-002024067.html

Strong's Concordance #202 on: in the sense of effort, but successful; ability, power, (figuratively) wealth -- force, goods, might, vigor, strength, substance, potency. Original Word: אוֹן

Strong's Concordance #40 Abimelek: From 'ab and melek; Father of (the) king; "My Father is King," a Philistine name, also an Israelite name Original Word: אֲבִימֶלֶךְ

Strong's Concordance #67 Abel Mitsrayim: From 'abel and Mitsrayim; meadow of Egypt; a place East of the Jordan Original Word: אָבֵל מִצְרַיִם

And my Father is a pain to the Egyptians: אוֹ ןאֲ בִי מֶ לֶ ךְאָבֵ למִ צְרַיִם

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1927: 1 Chronicles 17:20 O Lord, there is none like You, and there is no other God but You, as we have always heard.

Luke 17:20 Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the Kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, Luke 17:21 nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the Kingdom of God is in your midst.”

Matthew 17:20 He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Taylor Swift - Clean (Taylor's Version) (Lyric Video)

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Strong's Concordance #2516 Chelqi: From cheleq: share, portion, tract, territory, distribution, inheritance, smoothness (of the tongue), flattery; descendant of Helek Original Word: חֶלְקִי

Taylor Swift - "Live for the Little Things" "Clear midnights and this spotlight Once thinking that your dad was ten feet tall A blue bonnet, a braid on it Quiet winters and leaves that always fall Your black boots, my red flower ring Live for the little things No fighting, black riding Wish upon a star and give the moon a smile Pretending, defending Take a risk and go along for the ride Strawberries and fairies with wings Live for the little things"

Taylor Swift March 01, 2009 74th Annual Florida Strawberry Festival Plant City, Florida, United States Song #1: "You Belong With Me" Song #13: "Change"

Strong's Concordance #74 Abner: from 'ab and niyr; Father of light (i.e. Enlightening); "My Father is a lamp," an Israelite name Original Word: אַבְנֵר

A Hug From Taylor Swift - The Final Challenge April 26, 2010 at 2:30 PM CDT "You Belong With Me"

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Strong's Concordance #2720 chareb: desolate, parched or ruined, dry, waste, sword. Original Word: חָרֵב

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss - The Lorax

Speak Now World Tour: Final Show: March 18, 2012: Auckland, New Zealand: Encore final song (#19): "You Belong With Me".

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: Auckland, New Zealand: March 18, 2012: “You know wherever I am, I’ll come running to see you again” – James Taylor, You’ve Got A Friend.

Taylor Swift - Change (Taylor's Version) (Lyric Video)

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Strong's Concordance #4341 makob: anguish or (figuratively) affliction -- grief, pain, sorrow. Original Word: מַכָאֹב

From Strawberry Festival to superstardom, Remembering when Taylor Swift came to Plant City

Published: March 12, 2023 (71st day) Duration: 2:06 (126 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4p7s8TpYyk D4p7s8TpYyk (4, 7, 8) DpsTpYyk dkppstyy 4+10+60+60+90+100+400+400=1070. 1070+4+7+8=1089. 1089+126=1215. 1215+71=1286.

Strong's Concordance #1286 Berith: a covenant, an alliance. Original Word: בְּרִית

Taylor Swift - The Eras Tour: Houston, TX: April 22, 2023 (112th day) - Today Was A Fairytale

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Strong's Concordance #2156 zemorah: branch, twig, shoot, vine. Original Word: זְמוֹרָה

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: Auckland, New Zealand: March 18, 2012: “You know wherever I am, I’ll come running to see you again” – James Taylor, You’ve Got A Friend.

Touch: "Pilot" (alternatively "Tales of the Red Thread") is the first episode of Touch. It originally aired in a special preview event held January 25, 2012, on FOX.

"Today we'll send over 300 billion e-mails 19 billion text messages. Yet we'll still feel alone. The average person will say 2,250 words to 7.4 other individuals. Will these words be used to hurt or to heal? The ratio is always the same. 1 to 1.618, over and over and over again. The patterns are hidden in plain sight. You just have to know where to look. Things most people see as chaos actually follow subtle laws of behavior. Galaxies, plants, seashells. The patterns never lie. But only some of us can see how the pieces fit together. 7,080,360,000 of us live on this tiny planet. This is the story of some of those people. There's an ancient Chinese myth about the Red Thread of Fate. It says the gods have tied a red thread around every one of our ankles and attached it to all the people whose lives we're destined to touch. This thread may stretch, or tangle, but it'll never break. It's all predetermined by mathematical probability, and it's my job to keep track of those numbers, to make the connections for those who need to find each other, the ones whose lives need to touch. I was born 4,161 days ago, on October 26, 2000. I've been alive for 11 years, 4 months, 21 days and 14 hours. And in all that time I've never said a single word." - Jake/Jacob/Israel Bohm

October 26, 2000: Strong's Concordance #4161 motsa: a place or act of going forth, issue, export, source, spring, growing place, a mine. Original Word: מוֹצָא

A Web search leads Jake's father, Martin, to the Teller Institute, a rundown home at 318 West Tesla Street. Arthur Teller explains that, on his own, Jake discovered the Fibonacci sequence, a mathematical ratio concerning patterns repeated in nature: a wave's curve, a shell's spiral, segments of a pineapple. Jake sees vast connections that amount to road maps, and it's Martin's job, his destiny, to follow them for Jake.

"Imagine the unspeakable beauty of the universe he sees! No wonder he doesn't talk." - Arthur Teller on Jacob/Israel Bohm

In the 2012 television series Touch, season 1, episode 9, "Music of the Spheres", Jacob "Jake" Bohm, a mute boy who mysteriously feels the suffering of those along his path and aims to positively adjust their fates, is revealed as possibly one of the "Lamed Vav Tzadikim" by a Hasidic man. In the second season of Touch, Jake and other people who have special gifts are referred to as members of the 36; throughout the episodes they are exploited for their capabilities and are hunted down by one who believes they hold too much power. The final episode features consideration of the Kabbalah and the mystical roots of the legend of the 36. Lamedvavnik (Yiddish: למד־װאָװניק), is the Yiddish term for one of the 36 humble righteous ones or Tzadikim mentioned in kabbalah or Jewish mysticism. According to this teaching, at any given time there are at least 36 holy persons in the world who are Tzadikim. These holy people are hidden; i.e., nobody knows who they are. According to some versions of the story, they themselves may not know who they are. For the sake of these 36 hidden saints, God preserves the world even if the rest of humanity has degenerated to the level of total barbarism. This is similar to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Hebrew Bible, where God told Abraham that he would spare the city of Sodom if there was a quorum of at least 10 righteous men. Since nobody knows who the Lamedvavniks are, not even themselves, every Jew should act as if he or she might be one of them; i.e., lead a holy and humble life and pray for the sake of fellow human beings. It is also said that one of these 36 could potentially be the Jewish Messiah if the world is ready for them to reveal themselves. Otherwise, they live and die as an ordinary person. Whether the person knows they are the potential Messiah is debated. (Wikipedia)

Touch - Season 1 Trailer

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TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Pages 870 and 871: Isaiah 11:1 But a shoot shall grow out of the stump of Jesse, A twig shall sprout from his stock. Isaiah 11:2 The spirit of the Lord shall alight upon him: A spirit of wisdom and insight, A spirit of counsel and valor, A spirit of devotion and reverence for the Lord. Isaiah 11:3 He shall sense the truth by his reverence for the Lord; He shall not judge by what his eyes behold, Nor decide by what his ears perceive. Isaiah 11:4 Thus he shall judge the poor with equity And decide with justice for the lowly of the land. He shall strike down a land with the rod of his mouth And slay the wicked with the breath of his lips. Isaiah 11:5 Justice shall be the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness the girdle of his waist. Isaiah 11:6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard lie down with the kid; the calf, the beast of prey, and the fatling together, With a little boy to herd them. Isaiah 11:7 The cow and the bear shall graze, Their young shall lie down together; And the lion, like the ox, shall eat straw. Isaiah 11:8 A babe shall play Over a viper's hole, And an infant shall pass his hand Over an adder's den. Isaiah 11:9 In all of My sacred mount Nothing evil or vile shall be done; For the land shall be filled with devotion to the Lord As water covers the sea. Isaiah 11:10 In that day, The stock of Jesse that has remained standing Shall become a standard to peoples--Nations shall seek his counsel And his abode shall be honored.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1459: Psalm 39:7 Man walks about as a mere shadow; mere futility is his hustle and bustle, amassing and not knowing who will gather in. Psalm 39:8 What, then, can I count on, O Lord? In You my hope lies.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1616: Proverbs 10:28 The righteous can look forward to joy, But the hope of the wicked is doomed. Proverbs 10:29 The way of the Lord is a stronghold for the blameless, But a ruin for evildoers.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1617: Proverbs 11:7 At death the hopes of a wicked man are doomed, And the ambition of evil men comes to nothing.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1620: Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred sickens the heart, But desire realized is a tree of life.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1678: Job 14:7 There is hope for a tree; If it is cut down it will renew itself; Its shoots will not cease.

“I believe with complete faith in the coming of Mashiach. Though he tarry, nonetheless I await him every day, that he will come.”.

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn

"The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey." - Sarah Fielding

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." - Robin Williams

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill." - Buddha

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau

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Strong's Concordance #39 Abimael: "My Father is El/the God of Israel," a son of Joktan. Original Word: אֲבִימָאֵל

Strong's Concordance #988 batal: to desist from labor -- cease. Original Word: בָּטֵל

My Father is forever: אֲבִ ימָ אֵלבָּטֵל

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Strong's Concordance #111 Adad: Hadad Original Word: אֲדַד

Strong's Concordance #279 Achiam: From 'ach and 'em; brother of the mother (i.e. Uncle); one of David's men Original Word: אֲחִיאָם

One day: אֲדַ דאֲחִ יאָם

My Father did not give up for a day: אֲבִ ימָ אֵל בָּטֵ ל אֲ דַדאֲחִ יאָם

Indian Corn Spur/Route 761 Strong's Concordance #761 Arammi: an inhabitant of Aram (Syria), Aramaic Original Word: אֲרַמִּי

Corral Canyon/Route 032 Strong's Concordance #32 Abihayil or Abichayil: from 'ab and chayil; Father (i.e. Possessor) of might; "My Father is might," an Israelite name Original Word: אֲבִיהַיִל

Taylor Swift Arm Lyrics - Speak Now World Tour: Tacoma, Washington: September 7th 2011: “You are the ever-living ghost of what once was” - Band of Horses, “No One’s Gonna Love You”

“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness!” ― Pablo Picasso

“I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.” ― Charles Bukowski, The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills

Sheep Creek Road/Route 051 Strong's Concordance #51 Abishur: From 'ab and shuwr; Father of (the) wall (i.e. Perhaps mason); "My Father is a wall," an Israelite; an announcement Original Word: אֲבִישׁוּר

O Lord of my love, I will give You good tidings: אֲ רַ מִּיאֲבִ יהיִלאֲ בִישׁוּר

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What's something you really want to talk about but haven't had an opportunity? Can be anything. A project, an achievement, a grievance. Hell, a weird dream you had!

It's gonna be a fandom thing because nothing else is sparking joy right now, so sorry anon if you wanted something relevant to real life or me personally or whatever.

Anyway.

I read a fic a while ago that was a gang bang for the magical sex magic that exists for plot reasons - because in this case there is canonical precedent. However, it was Richie getting banged, and he was a virgin, and it was to bring Stan back to life. I don't remember that many details about the actual fic I read, but the concept brain-wormed the hell out of me and now I have my own version that I like to revisit.

Basically, the Losers are sitting around in Mike's loft after everything is over (no serious injuries). Richie is bringing some levity to this shit, which is much easier and much less getting-beeped now that the shit is not on-going. Something something, considering the unprecedented intimacy they've undergone and the apparent fact that magic is real-ish, he's almost surprised they didn't have a big orgy.

Mike laughs and casually mentions that indeed sex magic is real-ish. In fact, he even has a book in here somewhere with sex magic in it. He dismissed it early on because it wasn't relevant to them, he says.

Everyone is curious, and they'd all rather talk about freaky ambiguously ancient hanky panky than about what they've just been through, the two different active crime scenes they're avoiding, the difficult decisions they're going to have to make when it comes time to return to real life. Reading the room, Mike explains briefly that it's a ritual that will allegedly bring a person back from the dead if they choose to come along.

"What the fuck," says whoever says it, probably Bill or Richie, "That's so relevant to us, what is it?"

And Mike says, deadpan, "A big orgy. And besides which," he adds, "it requires a virgin and we obviously don't have one of those. So."

So there's a big long pause wherein, five of them assume, they are all quietly grieving the fact that there could have been a way if only basically everything in their lives had gone a little differently.

Except actually, Richie is just working up the guts to ask Mikey to, "Define 'virgin'."

"What do you mean 'define virgin'," says whoever says it, probably Eddie or Bev.

"It's a social construct!" Richie points out, avoiding eye contact. "Oral counts, or doesn't. Anal doesn't count for girls, sometimes. It's not a real thing, so- What does it mean in this case?"

Everyone stares at him. He stares at Mike's dusty record shelf. His knee bounces.

Delicately, Mike asks, "Is that relevant?"

Richie laughs. "Depends on the definition."

So Mike gets up and he digs through his piles of discarded books and notes (he kept them all of course, you never really know what you might need, what you might be able to- finesse, if you make yourself believe in it, if you have no other choice). He finds the right account and skims it, translating in his head, and gives aloud an approximation of how the ambiguously dead culture defined 'virgin'. Richie nods, seemingly compulsively, for several long moments.

Then he gets up and crosses into Mike's kitchenette, opens and closes cabinet after cabinet until he finds the whiskey, takes a double directly from the bottle, and says, "So, hypothetically. If we did have one of those..."

So - delicately, delicately - Mike explains the entirety of the ritual.

They need a virgin, as there defined, who has a strong spiritual connection to Stan (Richie flexes his hand; the scar may be gone but the oath behind it remains).

They need as many other people willing to participate who also have a spiritual connection to Stan as possible (it's the P&P hand flex all around).

They need everyone to fuck the virgin, as there defined, one after the other, such that th- such that Richie is so overwhelmed with pleasure and love for Stan that his petit mort ends up just a little bit literal.

If it's working, Richie will basically astral project into the macroverse afterlife, where Stan's spirit will be waiting. If Stan wants to come back to life with Richie they will - basically - have tantric sex, drawing them both back into Richie's body.

Richie says, "Mikey, that's not an orgy. That's a gang bang." Everyone stares at him. "What? I'm just saying, those are different things."

They have to, uh, leave some organic material behind inside Richie for Stan to possess instead of Richie's body because then their spirits might get mixed up. I'm making it up so that they all fuck a bunch and make Richie cry, it only needs to make enough sense to satisfy me personally.

Bill laughs. "W-we have to kn-knn-knock you up, Richie!" Richie does not laugh. Richie blushes very, very deeply and looks like he could not speak if his literal life depended on it. "Oh," says Bill, pensively.

"That's disgusting," says Eddie. "I have to go first." This is a thin excuse to ensure that he'll be the first one to fuck Richie - ever! !! - made thinner by the fact that he insists he has to go before Bev too. The other Losers make resignedly amused looks at each other. Richie looks like he will spontaneously combust at literally any moment.

Uh. And then they gang bang Richie in Mike's loft while thinking about Stan (and in Eddie's case, dirty talking about Stan). And Eddie goes first. And Stan goes last.

And then they immediately realize they made a huge mistake because now they have to somehow get to Georgia without, uh, leaving anything behind so that Stan can go back into his own body lmfao.

And then probably Richie has a nervous breakdown about how to explain all this to Patty.

Yeah.

#jack facts #jack chats #i will never genuinely write this but i will talk about it any time for any reason #my fic #it #otplus #polylosers

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midnightswithdearkatytspb · 3 years

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VelvetCardiganBucky’s Recommendations 2021: Week 1 & 2 | January 1-9

Welcome to my first ever list of recommendations! In this week's list, you’ll find links to my favorite stories I've read in the past week. Eventually, I would like to also share some of my other favorite things on this site, but for now, it's just stories. If you would like your story featured in a future post just use #ktkvcbreadinglist

Be aware most of the stories and writers on this list are 18+ over writers and my blog is an 18+ blog.

Week 3 »

Chris Evans

Sealed with an Accident by @coolemmasulivan • Chris Evans x Reader — Fluffy and sweet, we need it after the week we just had.

Steve Rogers

Fill Me Up by @jtargaryen18 • Steve Rogers x Reader — Sweet, but hot.

Ransom Drysdale

The Highest Bidder by pagesoflauren • Ransom Drysdale x Reader – Graduate school is expensive, especially when you’ve moved out of state and going to school in Boston. Bills pile up, and soon your bank account is looking grim, with no choice left but to auction off what you deem your most valuable asset: your virginity. | Sequel: Money’s Worth

her cherry lips on his whiskey flavoured kiss by @cloudystevie • Love Drunk Ransom x Reader – Ransom was never a one for till he met you. (The smut in this is just beautiful.)

Andy Barber

Blackmail by @stargazingfangirl18 • Darkish!Andy Barber x Reader – Mob!Andy Barber? YES, please! I didn't know I was missing out till I was reading this. The writing is great and it leaves you wanting more. Kudos to the writer and thank you for the filthy smut.

Bucky Barnes

Golden by @rebeccccccaaa • King!Bucky x Knight!Reader – King Bucky loses his wife after she falls sick, his kingdom demands he remarries, preferably to a nearby kingdom to form an alliance. The problem is the isn't the one, but her knight, however, well she was a pleasant surprise for the King.

'Tis The Damn Season by @sweeterthanthis & @msmarvelwrites • Bucky Barnes x Reader – Angst/Smut/Man Whore Bucky and Taylor Swift what more could I ask for? There is now Taylor Swift in this, it’s just named after the song but it’s just as angsty as the song and perfect. *EDIT: Before I just had Lau as the writer, but Brontë was a co-writer on it and it makes me enjoy it even more!*

Rule Number Four by @buckyswinterbaby • softdom!Bucky Barnes x Reader – Can I just say this is just perfect? Like if I had to picture Bucky as a dom, this is how I would see him. Also, this one-shot isn't too graphic, so if you are looking for a little something but nothing too heavy this is the one for you.

Exile by @sweeterthanthis • Bucky Barnes x Reader – Get yourself some tissues, because I needed them, but again this last week had my hormones on haywire. But don’t say I didn’t warn you. Lau uses Grey's Anatomy quotes in this and of course, it’s based on Taylor Swift's song Exile so it’s got some Major Angst, this isn’t a happy one-shot but it does have smut. I love it so much. Thank you for blessing us with your creativity Lau!

Alcoholic Juice Box by @ayybtch • Bucky x Reader – Best Boyfriend ever meets adulting sucks significant other, but he’ll do whatever he can to make them happy.

Cold Body by @sergeant-bonky • Bucky x Reader – Pure Fluff and cuddles, everything I needed after last week.

Santa Baby by @shield-agent78 • Bucky x Darcy Lewis Friends/Bucky x Reader – Steve needs some super-soldier Advil to put up with Bucky but knows Darcy can help him! This is just so fluffy and perfect! I ship Bucky and Darcy but also seeing them as friends is great!

Cookie Monster by @bugsbucky • Dad!Bucky & Daughter – STRAIGHT UP FLUFF THAT FEEDS YOUR SOUL

Stucky

Secrets by @darkficsyouneveraskedfor • Dark!Bucky Barnes x Reader x Dark! King Steve Rogers – A buried family secret comes to light thrusting you to the forefront of an old alliance. (Sorry there is no Masterlist and I know Roo has 7 Chapters as of right now.)

The Concubine by cherinenymphe • DARK!Stucky x Concubine!Reader — Reader is favorite Concubine of the King Steve Rogers, and when he joins forces with King James Barnes, she soon finds herself the favorite of both kings. How long can reader satisfy the kings before jealousy arises risking both kingdoms alliances?

Not Red Riding Hood by @angrythingstarlight • A/B/O Dynamics Dark Stucky x Reader – Sometimes you just need to read about some wolfs chasing after you to claim and what do you know it’s good in a dark sort of way. *winks*

Misc.

This Mission by @quietmyfearswith • Captain Syverson x Stucky x Reader – Is it getting hot in here? Because I sure needed to be doused in a bucket of ice water after reading this! It’s got EVERYTHING!

treat you well | stackie by @sexyxseabassx • Stackie x Reader – SMUT/Threesome ~ I didn't know I needed Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, and Reader inserts in my life or anything of the sorts really till I read this, and I loved it. All I can say is that I hope Shreya brings us more. Thank you for blessing us with this one-shot.

Writers

@pagesoflauren – Let me tell you about my friend Lauren... Lauren is a fantastic writer, she is always blowing me away with her talents. I’m also in awe of how she always makes time to give us chapters even though she has a hectic life schedule. If you take the time to read Lauren’s writing I promise you won't be let down, it's some of the most amazing pieces I’ve ever read. She's constantly coming up with new stuff.

@sweeterthanthis – I binged Lau’s masterlist and let me just say, they are are a freaking amazing writer. Lau made me cry, laugh, and get angry with the reader inserts! Lau’s talents know no bounds. I look forward to see what 2021 has in store for Lau.

@literate-lamb – I binged their small yet so good masterlist as well. They are a really good writer of dark!fics and they have a way of pulling you in and making you feel as if you are in it.

@cherienymphe – Don’t know how I slept so long on her blog, but her writing is dark and beautiful. It sends chills down your spine and it also makes you weep for the characters. Truly beautiful! *chefs kiss*

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My besfren (as she’d like to call it), the one I converted into a jily stan came up with the idea in the middle of the night and asked me to write it... and ofc being the good best friend that I am, I wrote it.

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Sirius is the bane of her existence, really.

He can’t last a day without bringing trouble. To anyone.

And that’s how Lily finds herself in this bar. Two towns away. On a weeknight. Drinking. All because of him.

She swirls the shot of vodka she was handed over, by Sirius (of course), eyes drifting back to the table where she had noticed a blonde woman playing with the collar of a bespectacled man with very messy hair during her first shot. The man certainly looks uninterested if him shoving her hand off, gently, when she reaches to touch his hair is any indication. Lily snorts at that.

Their eyes meet and his hazel ones clearly screams ‘help me’. And Lily shouldn’t actually help him. He looks like trouble. But of course, how can Lily ever stay away from it?

And so, she walks over to the table, where he is sitting, muttering something to Sirius along the lines of ‘My feet are killing me’’.

As soon as Lily’s close enough- James, previously only half risen- reaches for Lily’s waist and pecks her lips.

Well, she wasn’t expecting that. But nevertheless, plays along. “Sirius is calling for you, something about making you doing that butt tattoo.”

“Can’t have Sirius waiting, then,” he replies, walking Lily backwards to the bar where she was sitting.

"Excuse me? Can’t you see, we’re having a conversation? Seriously, grow some brain cells!” The blonde calls over to their retreating forms. Lily just raises her eyebrows at that, amused.

“You're taking him away because of your fucking jealousy! Can't you see we are having a good time with each other?” she calls, again.

Lily can feel him tightening his grip on Lily’s waist and so, throws James a look that clearly screams ‘calm down’ and proceeds to remove his hand from her waist.

That’s when the blonde throws a punch at Lily which Lily easily evades by leaning onto James, it only seems to aggravate her more.

"Go get Sirius before this escalates,” Lily tells James, pushing him away from her assaulter.

“Fight me, bitch!”

“No.”

She gasped. “What do you mean, no? Are you seriously that incapable?” Lily can hear James stopping himself from making the ‘Sirius’ joke.

“Ugh.”

“I knew it. You're a weak bitch. You don't deserve James or his love.”

The redhead wants to do nothing but go home and snuggle with James in the bed, falling asleep in his arms. But, as life will never give anyone right exactly what they want, she has to deal with the woman in front of her, to achieve her goal.

Lily lets out a tired sigh.

The blonde woman throws a second punch directed towards Lily’s face, but she grabs the wrist and twists it behind her back. She grabs her other wrist and lifts her over her shoulder and pins the blonde to the ground.

“Incapable, you say? Tell me more.”

She moves away from the blonde and proceeds to finish James’s drink, and smirks.

As she captures the scene around her, her gaze falls on James. Her lips widen of their own account, just as it always does when she looks at him. The look on his face, feels all too familiar, the one mixed with love and admiration.

“Whiskey, I should've known.”

James walks over to the scene and rests his hand on Lily’s waist, hoisting her up on the table of the booth where he was previously sitting. Out of the corner of her eye, she can see the blonde get up and run away from them before anyone can say a word. At that, everyone resumes singing and dancing, as if a full on fight hadn’t commenced, just moments prior.

“Butt tattoo, really?” James questions and covers her lips with his, not waiting for her to answer.

“Well, that’s ‘cause you ditched us,” she says, when they pull apart.

“Marry me,”James says.

“Right now?”

“No, I’d love it if it weren’t in a bar that Sirius dragged us out to on a dare, surrounded by people we don’t know.”

“Good, ‘cause I’d much rather have a licensed officiant than Sirius.” And Lily kisses James, again.

“Hey, I have a license!” Sirius shouts, somewhere near them. But Lily doesn’t have eyes or ears for anyone other than James, at this moment. Unfortunately for her, James pulls away.

"What the heck just happened here?" Sirius demands.

James looks at him and chuckles.

"My fiance just kicked some arse, that’s all."

My besfren came up with the dialogues for the blonde

#jily #james potter #lily evans #sirius black #we all know sirius called them lames #jily fic #jily fanfic #james x lily #harry potter fanfiction #i was half asleep when I wrote this #Joy writes

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backwardscapsmh · 3 years

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because i decided to become obsessed with a boy band that doesn’t exist anymore over quarantine...here is smh and their one direction opinions!

again based on vibes and vibes alone! (with only the occasional reason)

jack: confirmed by ngozi that he doesn’t know who they are so jack is excluded (loser)

bitty: loves his girl pop so he prefers little mix but he’ll listen to what makes you beautiful or one thing

favorite: harry

shitty: casually enjoys their later music (four and made in the am) and will talk about the inherent misogyny that comes along with their popularity and marketing (don’t get him talking about simon cowell)

favorite: doesn’t pick one on principle (it’s niall)

lardo: i firmly believe that she had a one direction phase and ran a stan account for a while (no one will find it) i feel like her favorite song is home but i may be projecting

favorite: louis

adam: get’s hyped to drag me down on a daily basis

favorite: liam

ransom: a lot of their upbeat bangers on the kegster playlists but he doesn’t really listen to them regularly. he likes midnight memories tho!

favorite: zayn

nursey: doesn’t have strong opinions but he thinks zayn is hot (he will watch the story of my life music video for the zayn clips)

favorite: zayn but harry is a close second

dex: he has little sisters so he knows all about them. he doesn’t like to admit it but he loves the song 18 (all of four really). he’ll sometimes off handedly mention something very specific about them that he learned from his sisters and shocks everyone.

“yeah shitty’s hair is kind of like 2014-2015 harry styles length”

*confused silence from everyone else*

favorite: louis

chowder: dude lived in cali, of course he knows about 1d. he’s more of a 5sos guy tbh (a calum stan)

favorite: niall

tango: a balance between stan and casual listener. he knows a lot of their less popular stuff but definitely doesn’t know what ziam is

favorite: can’t pick one because he’s tango

whiskey: reluctantly heard tango listening to them and he liked the song so now he has a bunch of their songs on his playlist (a lot of made in the am)

favorite: zayn

ford: similar to tango but leans a little closer to the stan side of things. she lurks on stan twitter occasionally but doesn’t engage. she prefers their newer stuff but will listen to their older albums occasionally.

favorite: she’s a lesbian so louis

(y’all are welcome to add if u want!)

#i spent too long thinking abt this....#yes i am 17 yes i am a fan of a nonexistent boyband that was marketed to 12 year olds #i will not be tagging this because that side of tumblr scares me #i have so many opinions on smh and their music taste #it’s really a problem #smh #full haus #omgcp

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duskwoodraven · 4 years

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Hello! Can I ask what you think of all the main characters so far? Thank you!

Hello to you too and I’d love to! ☺️

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Thomas

Even in the beginning I never really suspected him of anything serious, more like a man who is not afraid to get in trouble to find Hannah.

He annoys me somewhat with how secretive and evasive he can be, and the fact that he lied to us in episode 6 about going to help his family still makes me mad.

But I also sympathize with him for feeling like the group is shutting him out because they find him suspicious or not trustworthy. When in reality he had been distancing himself from his friends. He just seems like a guy who cares about Hannah deeply and wants his friends approval and companionship.

If I where to rate him on how suspicious he is from 1 to 10, it would be a 4.

Dan

Oooooh I hated him at the start 😂

He seemed so rude and terrible to his friends, he reminded me of those guys who sit at home all day and act like they know everything and everyone else is wrong. (And if it turns out he was wrong he’d throw a tantrum.)

When he didn’t show up for his first shift at Aurora I just contributed it to him being a slacker and his interest in Jessy as flakey with little seriousness.

But to see him practically wallowing in self pity at the Black Swan with whiskey had honesty made me turn a 180 on my opinion of the guy and what he values most, and that’s Jessy and his friend, Thomas. Dan was willing to get himself into legal trouble to help his friend and even votes against Lilly (who he might have been hooking up with) to have the player stay in the group because MC listened to his woes when no one else did.

Also his memes are *chefs kiss* top notch.

Suspicion rate: 1 out of 10

Cleo

I think my opinion of Cleo has stayed consistent throughout the game so far, how she portrays herself and her values has remained constant through her actions.

She gives off the vibe of a book nerd who isn’t afraid of private property laws. In other words she is nosey and nothing will stop her from the truth, plus she is very blunt and straight to the point. A persons feelings isn’t very important to her if she is trying to get information.

Maybe future updates will change my opinion on her, especially since the last time we saw her she was breaking into Aurora, but right now she is a true neutral that we haven’t seen emotionally hurt like the others, even the kidnapper stalking her twice didn’t seem to faze her.

Suspicion rate: 3 out of 10

Jessy

I love her, but I am also concerned...

When she first appeared I thought we was going to be whiny or Thomas’s secret lover. Just because of the fact that she seemed uninterested in everything.

Turns out she is very friendly and probably the only person 100% on our side that isn’t Jake. She also seems to care about the player on a deeper level then just friendship 😏

But now her actions are becoming a little unnerving, especially after the vote. She seems less trustful and more prying over the player, asking questions about Jake that makes me feel uncomfortable. I still trust her, but now there is a seed of doubt in my mind that she is hiding something.

She also seems to believe that Jake is using or threatening the player in secret, which is understandable if she cares about MCs safety. As an outside party you would of course jump to the conclusion that the scary hackerman is threatening and planning to harm your online friend. I hope for everyone’s sake that Jessy is true and genuine, because I’d be heartbroken to lose her friendship.

Suspicion rate: 5 out of 10

Richy

If Jake hadn’t captured my heart Richy probably would have. 😂

At first I was disappointed that it took so long to talk to him one on one, I enjoy his laid back attitude and realistic thinking.

Now however, the charm has turned to suspicion... For many reasons I have stated before in other posts, I believe that Richy is the most likely person to have kidnapped Hannah and so now all chats with him are over analyzed for clues.

I still think he’s funny and charasmatic, smiling through all his challenges, and even if it was him this whole time, I probably won’t hate him. He seems like he would have a reason for why he (might have) kidnapped Hannah.

Suspicion rate: 10 out of 10

Jake

Mr. Hackerman~

Have I mentioned that I stan/simp for this boy? 😂

My adoration for this character could probably deserve its own post but to keep it short, at the beginning I thought Jake was going to be the stereotypical hacker character you see all the time in media. Mean, sarcastic, demoralizing and making fun of people who aren’t tech savvy, cold shouldered and straight up robotic.

But behold! He was none of those things 💛

I was shocked by how much personality this character actually has after we get to ask him about himself. Those moments of friendship and carding interactions without Hannah’s case getting in the way, has me hooked.

He is sweet, trustful, and capable to do what he believes is right. He cares about the player early on and their opinion of him, he is even willing to deny his feelings to keep himself and MC safe.

There is a lot of suspicion and unanswered questions rising up though. Especially at the end of the latest episode so It is getting a bit more angsty 😂

Suspicion rate: 2 out of 10

Lilly

I didn’t like her before and I don’t like her now...

She is way to shady to trust with anything right now and she knows more then she is letting on. I won’t move my opinion of her until we actually get to talk to her 1 on 1 and get the answers we need.

(Also it makes me so mad that she knew Jakes name, because Jake telling us his name was a sign of absolute trust and it felt like Lilly violated that trust by telling the whole group without Jakes permission. It was just a scummy thing to do!)

Suspicion rate: 8 out of 10

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and those are my thoughts 😅 I hope it makes some sense.

I apologize for not being as active as I used to be, life is just getting hectic again and this account has been put on the back burner for right now.

#duskwood #duskwood everbyte #duskwood game #everbyte #duskwood jake #duskwood player #jake #duskwood jake x player #duskwood richy #duskwood cleo #duskwood dan #duskwood jessy #duskwood lilly #duskwood thomas

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sallowhillshq · 3 years

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welcome to sallow hills. we hope you enjoy your stay

i see we have a new member to our town. welcome, welcome BUCKY BARNES. we truly hope you enjoy your stay. please feel free to head over to bevin & cecil’s until your settled. i know it might be difficult right now and you might be missing your home. Steve Rogers is already here though, so you won’t have to be alone.

i see we have a new member to our town. welcome, welcome DEAN WINCHESTER. we truly hope you enjoy your stay. please feel free to head over to bevin & cecil’s until your settled. i know it might be difficult right now and you might be missing your home. Castiel is already here though, so you won’t have to be alone.

tiff welcome to sallow hills hq! check the source for the welcome package & make sure to send us your account within 12 hours

i think i just saw BUCKY BARNES (he/him, cismale)! don’t you know them? they’re a canon character from MCU. have you heard that they remember everything from their previous life? apparently they appeared here in June 2021 just after being deprogrammed of the Winter Soldier’s trigger words. crazy, isn’t it? now they're 104 years old and working as a MECHANIC. still, they do have that worn out, where’s the fight, nerdy vibe about them. (sebastian stan. tiff, she/her, 21+, est)

i think i just saw DEAN WINCHESTER (he/him, cismale)! don’t you know them? they’re a canon character from supernatural. have you heard that they remember everything from their previous life? apparently they appeared here in November 2020 just after helping Jack become god and restoring the world. crazy, isn’t it? now they're 41 years old and working as a worker at Hills Hunting. still, they do have that whiskey-drinking, too much flannel, live fast die young vibe about them.

#sallow hills (accepted)#fandom rp #multifandom rp #marvel rp

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chaoticdean · 4 years

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I know when you go down all your darkest roads

Chapter 3 — I keep diggin' myself down deeper

Dean and Castiel go undercover as a couple going through couple therapy, in order to catch a monster that specifically targets couples dealing with issues, feeding on their distress, anger, and pain.

~ 2.6K

Things get ANGSTY (and I'm not even remotely sorry about it), but keep in mind... There's a 'angst with a happy ending' tag, so things will get better :)

(You're still allowed to yell at me in the comment section tho, I won't mind)

If anyone wants to be tagged in the next couple of updates for this, please let me know! Or you can subscribe through AO3 — further updates will be dropping every Monday(ish) until I’m done with this story!

— I know the SPNStayAtHome Challenge is over, but thanks to @bend-me-shape-me ; @helianthus21 and @pray4jensen for hosting and getting this story into motion! —

READ ON AO3 / FIRST PART HERE / SECOND PART HERE

“So how long have you two been married?”

They’ve been sitting at the same table for an hour already, and it’s at least the fifth time this question has come up so by now they’re used to the story they’re telling to the point Castiel finishes Dean’s sentences and the other way around.

“What’s it been, babe? Two years?” Dean asks the angel sitting very close to him, his hand grabbing at Cas’s fingers laying on the table, a smile on his face.

“Yeah, we’ll be into year 3 in a couple of weeks actually,” Castiel says, smiling back at the hunter.

Facing them was an older couple, Stan and Sally, who have been married 30 years and are actually there at the retreat for the 4th times in three decades, only because they enjoy getting therapy together. They argue a lot but in the loving, tender way that shows how much they still love each other after all this time.

Dean briefly wonders what it’d be like to have that before the little voice in his head slammed the thought away with a distinctive “you’ll never have that, Winchester, you’re too fucked up to have anyone, let alone Castiel. He deserves better than you.”

The worst thing about this little voice inside of him is, most of the time he agrees with it. This his how he thinks of himself, and how he thinks of Castiel. And most of the time, that little voice is a mix of his father’s and his, and it hurts just a little more to realize this.

Suddenly, all he can think of is the flask of whiskey he always has in the pocket of his jacket, and the distinctive burning feeling sliding down his throat, coupled with the delicious sensation of numbness that comes within the first couple of drinks.

But Dean doesn’t have that jacket — and that flask — with him right now because he’s undercover, with Cas.

Don’t fuck this up too, Winchester.

Collecting himself from the ashes of his own self-loathing, Dean returns to the conversation sporting a wide smile. He knows Castiel can see he’s struggling by the way he slightly tilts his head. Moving his hand away from the table to Dean’s thigh to offer support, he gets back into conversation mode easily, asking Stan and Sally questions about their previous stays.

Once again, Dean is astonished to see how easy this all seems to be for Cas. He’s always been the oddball at this kind of thing, following the brothers’ lead every time he had to head outside of his comfort zone. But there he is now, handling the casual questioning of two people at once while doing small talks and supporting Dean’s mental breakdown by offering his touch-starved partner some affection.

Who are you, and what have you done with Castiel, the love of my whole damn life, Angel of the goddamn Lord?

Dean knows he’s letting him down right now, letting him take the lead while he sinks in despair. Trying really hard to save face, he reaches for Castiel’s hand and squeezes it, stopping the angel mid-sentence.

He quickly turns his head to watch him, catching sight of Dean’s struggle.

“I’m sorry but I’m… I’m really not feeling good right now, I think it’s best if I go back to our room and call it a night” Dean tells to the lovely elderly couple, Castiel’s inquisitive gaze still on him.

“You’re okay, sweetheart? Do you need me to come with?” Cas asks while Dean stands up, patting his shoulder lightly.

“No, don’t worry babe. Enjoy the night, I’ll see you when you get back” Dean answers, lowering his head and dropping a quick kiss on Cas’s temple.

The angel suddenly reaches out, grabbing Dean’s chin with his finger, and kisses the hunter’s lip softly before he’s gone. Stan and Sally release a couple of “aww”, and Dean can’t help but melt into the kiss a little.

But he kind of hates himself for it too.

He knows it’s all fake, and he knows Castiel is doing this for the purpose of the case. He knows it’s wrong to enjoy this, to demand more, and he suddenly feels bad for marking Cas’s skin with his lips, for kissing Cas in the silence of their room just because he wanted to.

But he loves it. He loves it. He loves it.

And that’s the whole damn problem.

There’s no relevance in doing this for the case. He doesn’t need to. He does because he wants to. And right now, gulping down whiskey down his throat feels equally painful as the realization that he’s been living his fantasy without taking Castiel’s feeling into account.

He’s suddenly almost sure the angel loathes him for doing this, and he takes another sip of whiskey just to feel the burn.

It’s cathartic, almost soothing. The way the alcohol burns along the way until it reaches his stomach, filling the pit of despair and sorrow in his lower abdomen.

The hunter closes his eyes, his mind drifting off to Cas, how good it felt feeling his hand on him supporting him, how right it felt to feel his lips brushing against his, how fulfilling it was to press against his mouth —

You don’t deserve shit, Winchester. Especially not him.

Sitting on the edge of the bed, his flask in one hand, he almost doesn’t hear the door open.

And Castiel is suddenly standing before him, watching with worry first, and discontent after noticing the flask.

“What is wrong with you?” He asks, his voice coming off unexpectedly harsh.

It hurts Dean everywhere, including places Dean didn’t know could hurt.

“Dean... What the hell is wrong with you?” Cas asks one more time, coming closer to Dean, his voice sounding even harsher than before. “They were our best shot at having more answers and you just… you bailed out on me.”

“I can’t do this right now Cas” the hunter finally answers, rubbing his eyes with the back of his hand, making sure he doesn’t meet his eyes, drinking from the flask once more.

That’s when Cas loses it.

“Did you… Left me behind so that you could get drunk?”

“I can’t get drunk on 8oz of whiskey, babe” he answers with a depreciating smile, finally meeting Cas’s gaze.

“Don’t “babe” me, Dean. I’m not your babe. I’m your partner, we’re on a case, and you’re ditching me in the middle of an investigation so you can get back to your pity party and drink your night away! What the fuck is WRONG WITH YOU?!”

Oh, this hurts.

This hurts so bad.

Dean could almost laugh at the use of the air quotes that are still so Cas if he wasn’t too busy trying to collect the pieces of his heart lying before him.

Of course, he knew this was a bad idea from the get-go.

No one sane enough goes undercover as a couple with the very person they’ve been dreaming of being in a relationship with for a solid decade.

How stupid did you have to be to think it meant anything? It’s just a case, Winchester. You’re not living a fantasy, and Castiel doesn’t want you. He never has, he never will. Now get up and go fuck someone else’s life up, instead of wreaking havoc inside of Cas’s. Poor guy doesn’t need that.

So he does. He put his jacket on, keeping the silver flask he’s been carrying around for years inside his hand and reaches for the door without ever meeting the angel’s gaze.

Until there’s a firm hand on his chest, and an inquisitive finger pushing at him — the same finger that sports a very distinctive silver wedding band, Dean can’t help but notice — and Castiel stands between the hunter and the door.

“Dean where are you going?” Cas asks, his eyes glimmering with so many different feelings that Dean’s mind could easily start spinning again.

“I need some air. Please let me go.” He almost begs, his voice sounding so damn needy — and he hates himself even more for it.

“Not until you’ve talked to me. What’s the hell is going on?”

“I can’t talk right now Cas.”

“I can’t let you go.”

“Why?”

“Because you’re struggling with something and I can clearly see how much it hurts you, and I want to help because I — you’re my best friend, Dean.”

He doesn’t love you like that. He never will. He literally just asked you not to call him “babe”. He just called you his best friend. Get away from him before you hurt him again, Winchester.

“Let me go before I hurt you, Castiel.”

This time he pushes all his anger through his voice, and he picks up the glimmer of sadness inside the angel’s blues.

It hurts.

But it doesn’t hurt as much as knowing he’ll eventually wreck his life like he always does. Like he already did multiple times.

Castiel deserves better than a fucked up, alcoholic, beat up excuse of a man, let alone a hunter.

Dean just needs to get away from him for a little while, to try and collect what’s left of him, to try and find some distance.

Castiel finally strays away from him, watching as Dean opens the door and leave, making a beeline for the exit at the end of the doorway.

The cold air takes him by surprise, and it feels like a hammer hit him the face.

“Mr. Cartellone? What are you doing out here?”

Oh, the goddamn therapist.

As if Dean’s night could get even worse.

But after all, he is on a case, as Cas remembered him. Why not work it?

He puts on his fakest smile and joins here as she’s sitting on a bench, smoking a cigarette.

“I just needed some air. It happens.”

“You know I’m a psychologist, right? I can literally tell from the way you’re doing that thing with your hand, and the way you’re standing, that you just had a fight. I’m guessing with your husband. I’m guessing over some misunderstanding. And I’m guessing you made a beeline for the outside world instead of facing him and talking to him, just like he said in therapy today. How close am I?” She says with a weak smile, watching as Dean mask’s crumble.

“Yeah, you’re pretty good at that aren’t you?” He says with a laugh, rubbing his face before taking out the flask and getting a sip of whiskey.

He offers it out to her and takes another sip after she refuses his offer, watching as he drinks the last drops.

“So, do you want to talk about it?”

“God, why does everyone always want to talk?”

“That’s my job, you know. And that’s kind of why you came here, right?”

“My husband’s idea, actually. I’m not the most talkative person on Earth, especially when it’s about feelings” he answers after a while, watching as a few cars pass on the road.

“Oh, shocker” she mocks him a little, but Dean can see she really wants to do good “you know, you two look like a handful.”

“How so?”

“Well, it’s pretty clear from the get-go that both of you are high heels over each other” Dean chuckles lightly, thinking back at the way Castiel’s lips felt over his mouth, and how it felt so good holding his hand inside of his for everyone to see, “but you both act like you don’t want to acknowledge it. I see the way you look at your husband when he’s not paying attention, and he’s doing the same. And right now, you’re literally sweating pain. It’s written all over your face.”

Castiel doesn’t want me. Castiel doesn’t love me. I’m just his friend. I wish we could be more, but he deserves better, and he doesn’t want this with me. You’re wrong, I don’t care how many PhDs you’ve got, you’re wrong.

“Yeah, well. What else is new, uh?” He answers after a while, still stunned by how well Mrs. Pritchard was able to see all that from a 20 minutes appointment and 24 hours on the facility.

His eyes wander off to his hands, lying on his lap, and he can’t help but brush lightly against the silver wedding band he’s been wearing — the exact same as Castiel, obviously. When he and Cas figured out the monster was going after married couples and settled on going undercover as a couple together, Sam decided to go ring shopping behind their back while they were prepping and came back with these (“If you two are playing the married card, you need wedding rings, I don’t care if you think it’s stupid, Dean, you can’t pass for a married couple without these”). He even had them engraved, “just in case someone gets too nosy,” he said (but Dean suspected he just went soft like the big ol’ sap he’s always been), so there’s a distinct “Dean and Castiel — 20.07.2018” written on the inside band.

“So, yeah. Do you want to talk about it?” The therapist asks again, watching him carefully.

Dean rubs his face again, weighing the pros and cons. As Cas rightfully said, they’re on a case and Mrs. Pritchard is still a suspect. Plus, he could use the advice from a neutral party.

“I break everything I touch. I always have. And I probably always will. I couldn’t save my mom. I couldn’t save my Dad. I couldn’t take care of my little brother enough for him to have a normal life. I’ll eventually end up wrecking Castiel’s life. Look at us, almost three years married and we’re already going through therapy. And I just, I can’t… I can’t do this to Cas. He means too much to me” he finally blurts out, trying to make out what he means without lying too much, his eyes fixated on his wedding ring.

“Can I ask… How old were you when your mom died, Dean?” She says, her voice soft.

“4. Sammy was a few months old. I carried him out while the house burned.”

“And your dad?”

“27.”

“Dean… I know nothing about your family’s life, and quite frankly, I don’t have to, to know that A) you can’t save everyone and B) let alone while carrying your baby brother at age 4, or at 27.” She answers, watching carefully as Dean’s head drops on his hand

“Castiel deserves better than what I have to offer.”

“He loves you, you know.”

“I have doubts.”

“Well, I don’t. Maybe you should just pay attention to how he behaves around you. That way, you’ll see what I see.”

Dean thinks back at how good he looked in that navy shirt all day. How good it felt to fall back asleep inside his arms last night, finally feeling safe enough to let go. How good it was to kiss him for the first time.

You don’t deserve him, Winchester. And he doesn’t want you.

The sudden sound of a police siren coming in at full speed breaks them from their conversation, Dean jumping on his feet as soon as the car parked over, noticing how an ambulance appears in the distance.

Mrs. Pritchard stays by his side and grabs his arm as they’re making their way toward the entrance, noticing that people are gathering at one of the bedroom doors.

Glancing at the room from where they’re standing, Dean quickly assess the blood staining the carpet and sheets, and here on the bed, fully naked in the midst of what looks like a kinky sex game —

Stan and Sally.

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#spnstayathome #jus writes #destiel #destiel fanfic #deancas #deancas fanfic #destiel ficlet #writer of destiel #angst with a happy ending #angst #angst and feels #USE YOUR GODDAMN WORDS WINCHESTER #They do need therapy #undercover destiel #jus writes: I know when you go down all your darkest roads #update #Dean Winchester/Castiel #idiots in love

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punk-lucifer · 4 years

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I’m just going to do what I threatened in the tags, and just answer all the Mechanisms Asks without having these ones sent to me. You can see the list of questions here and my other answers here and here

High Noon Over Camelot - What’s your favourite Mechanisms song?

I am going to edit this question so it is: what’s your favourite mechanisms song of every album, because I have too many favourites.

OUAT(IS)- Pump Shanty. It’s just a bop.

UDAD- Underworld Blues. Beautiful storytelling and I dig the vibe.

HNOC- Gunfight at the Dolorous Guard. Everyone goes ham over Hellfire and Blood and Whiskey, but I love how fast this begins.

TBI- Ragnarok I: Runaway. I love FAST SONGS, electric guitars and body horror. I am very easy to please when it comes to the Bifrost Album.

TTBT I: It was Prometheus, but for the past two day’s I’ve had both Gassed Last Night and Tim Goes Crazy from Gunpowder Tim Vs. The Moon Kaiser so I have to put that in as my favourite.

TTBT II: Alice. I can’t believe they didn’t do this one like Frankenstein and make it an album on it’s own. Alice is fantastic.

The Bifrost Incident - How did you get into the Mechanisms?

I ran out of TMA content, and I’d heard about the Mechanisms from the fandom crossover, and I decided to seek it out. I couldn’t manage to listen to the albums in order on Spotify, and I couldn’t buy them on iTunes, and my house has internet issues so listening to them on youtube would burn all my data, so I made a Bandcamp account and bought the album bundle, worked out how to download them to my iPod and that I can now listen to them all on my phone 24/7 through the bandcamp app; listened to all the albums in two days and spiralled very quickly into an obsessed fan ravenous for content.

Tales to be Told I - Who’s your favourite in-album character?

I’m quite fond of Sigyn; the space revolutionary lesbian, and Ulysses; the tragic hero who just wants to lie in the dirt and fuck over the government.

Tales to be Told II- Who’s your favourite Mechanism?

Unfortunately, as a monster fucker who ran into Jessica Law’s voice in TMA, I have to stan the Toy Soldier.

Frankenstein - What’s your favourite Mechanisms short story?

Related to the Mechanisms? Archive Footage.

Related to the Albums? Orpheus and Narcissus go to the Seaside.

Warning; like most Mechanism’s content, these are both quite sad.

Jonny - Song or narration? (Come for the music or the story?)

At first, I was more interested in the narration, but now I’ve listened to the albums so many times I know the shape of the story, I’m in the song camp.

Ashes - Best role of a mech in a story? (Eg ‘Hades’, ‘Merlin’)

Not to reveal myself, but I do like active hindrance to the investigative process Marius Von Raum. Other than that, Jonny and the Toy Soldier in Gunpowder Tim Vs. The Moon Kaiser.

Ivy - Any Mechanisms Headcanons?

Yes, many, thank you for asking. Here are a few:

- Marius knits, and when they dock on a planet that they don’t plan to cause chaos on, he’ll place the knitted items into orphanages and shelters, and stock back up on wool. Despite spending a lot of time knitting, he doesn’t end up with bag-fulls upon bag-fulls because sometimes he struggles with the mobility of his mechanised hand and getting the wool stuck in there.

- Nastya, Ivy, Raphaella and Aurora do try to have girl’s nights, but the other’s will crash in with flimsy excuses as to why they’re there and why they should stay. It often involves building a pillowfort in the core of the Aurora, eating chocolate and drinking wine, and watching old films collected on their travels without really talking much to each other, but while touching a lot.

- Jonny nearly always dies first when they’re off doing violence. Brian and Raphaella are usually the last ones to die. One memorable time, Nastya died first, and this caused so much anger amongst the crew, they blew up the planet over it.

- Ashes is the one band member considered universally attractive. They are always able to pick up when they want to, and leave broken hearts behind them. (it’s the strap vibes)

- The Toy Soldier steals crew members clothes to build a nest for itself. It doesn’t need to sleep, and it can’t smell them for comfort, but it likes to pretend. Also sometimes it will put the clothes on and pretend to be a different crew member. Some find this funnier than others.

- Tim can no-longer remember what Bertie looked like, not because it’s been so many years, but because his mechanised eyes can see so many different colours and forms of light that he can’t accurately remember what it was like to have previous human senses.

#text #the mechanisms #headcanon #my headcanon #replies #about me #some of these headcanons hurted me and so i must share them with you all #everyone loves nastya she's the favourite #marius pure of heart dumb of arse von raum #we stan the toy soldier and the toy soldier only they are baby #ashes is too beautiful for their own good #sad tim is my favourite tim sorry #he's just a little sad boy with a sad backstory #the mechanisms can only be soft with each other if they don't talk about their feelings or acknowledge whats happening

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Prompt list 30 with bill? Maybe someone (richie or stan) said that abt his stutter in the middle of a fight sorta angst?

30. “Oh my gosh, you’re so annoying!”

Prompt List

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At the inn, 6 Losers were sitting around continuing on with their reunion. Eddie, Bev and Richie snuggled against each other on the couch while the others stood around.

Bill was talking to Mike on the many ways they could potentially kill IT. Ben was talking to Richie and Eddie and Beverly were complaining about their spouses.

Bang!

The sound of a door being thrown against a wall made all the Losers jump. Mike was ready to use an empty whiskey bottle as a weapon but in walked Stanley.

“Sorry I’m late. I was um, I didn’t want to come but I figured that I’d be killed if I didn’t.” Stan explained.

“Good to see you, Stan the Man,” piped Richie being the first to engulf the thin shaken man in a hug.

“You too Richie.” Stan whispered as he returned the comforting hug.

The group of friends caught up with Stan, telling him what they’ve been up to and them learning that Stan was happily married and that she was a teacher and he was an accountant.

All of his doubts and fears went away and was comforted by his old friends. Just like he was when they were kids.

Not once did any of them hammer him on not wanting to come. They knew what happened down in the sewers 27 years ago. If there was going to be one person that didn’t show up, it was Stan and everyone understood if he didn’t.

****

At the Neibolt house, the following day, Eddie and Stan tried to keep each other safe and siking themselves up. As much as they waned to believe that they could face the clown again, they didn’t want to die. Stan loved his wife and his job, he didn’t want to lose that.

Eddie on the other hand, wanted to file for divorce papers so he didn’t have to put up with Myra and tell Richie how he truly felts.

The two walked side by side into the house, Eddie took a shaky breath but continued forward. Stan on the other hand, stopped dead in his tracks.

He had not gone into this place voluntarily, the first time he went in was because Eddie, Richie and Bill were attacked. The second time he was forced in because of Bill wanting to kill the clown. Now he walked in voluntarily and his fear rose.

Everything came back.

****

As they dropped down into Pennywise’s lair, in the heart of the sewers. Eddie freaked out, which inevitably made Stan panic.

If Eddie can’t, then I can’t, Stan thought.

He watched as Richie stopped him, “You’re braver than you think, Eds.” Richie said.

“You too Stan. You both can do this.” Beverly said. Stan gave her a weak half smile and forced himself through the hole in the floor.

It was just as dark, cold and wet as he remembered. He held the flashlight up in front of him and slowly followed Ben and Mike into the lair. Squeezing through two rocks, he hauled himself with the help of Richie.

But the fear caught back up with him. “I’m sorry guys but I can’t do this.” Stan panicked.

“F-f-for gods s-s-s -” Bill paused. “For. Gods. Sake. Stan.”

“What Bill? Say what you have to say to me then I’m leaving!”

“Y-y-you l-leave, y-y-ou will d-die. I-It��s the w-ay that IT w-works.”

Stan refused to believe that. He refused to accept the fact that if he left Derry he’d be killed by IT ... somehow.

So he was still going to leave, he’ll just stay put in the shitty, asbestos ridden inn.

“Oh my gosh! You’re so annoying!” Stan yelled. Knowing that he’d gone too far but he didn’t care. He wasn’t hoing to put himself in harms way and for what? So a psychopathic clown could potentially kill him? No!

“Stan.” Richie warned.

“No Richard. I just shouldn’t have come. This was a fucking mistake. Hope you kill IT.”

With that Stan left Neibolt and stayed at the inn waiting for the Losers return but they never did. When he checked himself out a day later, he saw that their cars were gone, all except Eddie’s.

****

As they all watched Stan leave, Bill was almost in tears. His stutter was something that he was ashamed of and was insecure about. Stan knew that, yet he still said those 3 words.

“Bill, let’s kill this motherfucking clown.” Richie bellowed.

“We don’t need him Bill.” Mike said placing a hand on Bill’s shoulder.

“Ignore him Bill, he’s in fear and pissed off. He probably didn’t mean it. Forget about him. We’re here for you.” Beverly soothed.

Something in Bill’s mind snapped he took everything from Mike and set up the ritual like Mike had shown him. One by one, each club member placed their token into the can.

“Yippee Kayay motherfu-“ Richie said before falling into the deadlights.

“Hey dickwad!” Eddie yelled, drawing Pennywise’s attention towards him.

Bill didn’t like what he was watching and as soon as Richie was brought out and Eddie celebrating. He knew what was about to happen.

They helped him and he was going to return the favour. He ran towards the and just in time too before Pennywise’s claw penetrated Eddie.

“Holy shit, you save me.” Eddie breathed.

“Yeah, you saved me last time Rich, you too Eds.” Bill said. “Shit, sorry, Eddie.”

“Nah, I actually liked being called Eds. Myra called me Eddie or Eddiebear so Eds feels right.” Eddie explained. There was a look in Richie’s eyes that Bill had seen before and knew all too well.

Hope.

“You’re a fucking pussy!” Bill yelled at the clown.

“Nobody likes you.” Ben fired, not wanting to curse.

“You’re just a clown.” Beverly said to really finish the job and that’s when Bill reached into Pennywise’s chest and pulled out his heart.

The heart still pumped in the palm of his hand. With one final cackle from the deflated clown, Bill squished the heart.

****

They all ran out of the house as it started collapsing. Just as they watched it fall, the unknown weight and stale air that they all subconsciously had, lifted.

Even though they lost 22 years, they had each other now.

“Why don’t we all go and get our cars and meet at the Quarry?” Bill suggested.

“Yes!” Richie said pumping the air. “Actually once we get through town, Eds and I may be a little late. I wanna show him something.”

“You’re gonna show him that thing?” Bill asked, Richie nodded joyously.

The walk through town was calming and felt nostalgic. As they passed an old window front, they all stopped, just like they did 27 years ago.

Except this time Eddie didn’t have vomit on him, Bev didn’t have dried mud covering parts of her face and stan wasn’t in the picture.

The dead streets were once again filled with life. unlike a day ago when the streets were literally dead. This was what freedom felt like. Nothing holding them back, minds completely filled with childhood memories and the confidence to remove themselves from situations that they hated.

But the weight of losing a dear dear friend laid heavily on each Losers’ shoulder. Stan was Richie and Bill’s oldest friend, Stan was the first to know about Richie’s crush on Eddie and had helped Bill maintain his stutter to a couple a words a sentence.

Stan was everyone’s go to guy when they needed help. Any sane person would hate it but Stan loved it. It made him feel loved and wanted.

But when those words fell from his mouth, only moments ago, everyone stood behind Bill. If anyone picked on one of their friend’s insecurities, they’d stand by that person and shun the person that attacked them. It killed everyone to shun Stan but especially Bill.

****

Stan didn’t know whether or not Eddie survived until one day he was scrolling through Facebook and saw a post from Richie announcing his engagement to Eddie. As well as Eddie announcing that he and Richie had adopted a beautiful baby girl. Every Loser was there at the engagement party but Stan. All because he left them to face a killer clown with out him.

He knew he deserved it and all he said on both Facebook posts was congratulations Reddie.

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A/N: I meant for this to go down another road but I deeply apologise for a shitty Stanley.

#bill denbrough imagine #bill denbrough #stanley uris #stenborough #richie tozier #eddie kaspbrak #reddie #mike hanlon #ben hanscom #beverly marsh #benverly #it chapter 2 imagine #it chapter 2 #agnst #kaspbrak tozier reddie

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Two Men and a Baby Pt 9B-The Ending.

The Royal Romance/The Royal Heir

Part 9a was posted earlier this morning if you haven't read it yet.

Thank you everyone who took the time to read this. Your comments have been wonderful to read and kept me going when I got a case of writers block. I have other stories I plan to write so I hope you'll stick around for a while.

I am posting fun facts at the end of this story, if you'd like to read those too. - Brandy

@gardeningourmet @emceesynonymroll @dcbbw @sirbeepsalot @crookedslimecreatorpasta @moonlightgem7 @katedrakeohd @romanticatheart-posts @carabeth

The Real Last Final One 9B

Liam just finished his account of the predicament he found himself in earlier. Riley felt badly for her husband and the anger she felt over his "zip it" comment seemed a little more justified.

Drake stood from his chair and apologized for what he had done. He, too, had had a rough day, however, no one deserved to be clawed in the face, hauled off to a psych ward, beaten and nearly strip searched, especially the King.

"I know what will make you feel better, My King." Riley whispered.

"I can't imagine what." Liam pouted.

"Well....we are in a hospital, I don't think we've ever done it in one before." Riley looked at him like she wanted to devour him right there.

Liam raised an eyebrow, "I do like doing it in public places."

Riley grabbed his hand and led him off in search of an empty room.

"Watch your zipper Liam" Maxwell yelled.

Olivia huffed "Well, there goes my ride. Hey Walker, why don't you give me a lift back to the palace."

Drake didn't want to, the last thing he wanted was to end his night with Olivia, but, perhaps she'd be too tired to annoy him for the hour drive back.

2 hours later....

Bertrand had to have surgery to free him of the zipper. After a healthy dose of drugs and a little reconstructive surgery, he and his dick should make a full recovery. He will need to wear a diaper for a while, but, that's a small price to pay for ones manhood.

Savannah finally reunited with her son. She knew the whole time that Bartie could drink from a bottle, but, she had a secret breast fetish and seeing Bertrand with it on, drove her wild.

The boar was finally caught. It caused significant damage to the Beaumont Estate, but, in reality, it was nothing they hadn't seen following a Beaumont Bash. It was placed in the Valtoria menagerie, due to Zeke being unable to take him back.

Zeke and Penelope were arrested that night for operating an illegal animal ring. Truth is, Zeke was raking in profits off the illegal purchasing and trading of several wild animals. Penelope was the ringleader. She had made off like a bandit having acquired 100's of boxes of dog treats for her poodles.

Liam and Riley found an empty room and did what Liam and Riley always do when they're alone. When they finally finished, Riley noticed a white flash as she was dressing, but, it was probably nothing.

Maxwell and Drake finally sat down together and pondered their day. They were two men, who certainly had one hellish day, but, they both were able to stand tall knowing they made it through...well, Maxwell had the crutches.

Maxwell was not charged for his part in the disaster. Being a Beaumont has its perks, but, when you're able to forge letters from the King pardoning you, it's even better. He would hitch a ride home in a news van and sleep outside with his peacocks that night.

Liam was cornered in the hospital by the press as he tried to leave. He had to explain why hospital security caught him running out of a vandalized bathroom full of shit, that was now playing on loop from every news station. He also had to explain why he delivered a baby, was beaten, placed in a mental health ward and beaten again. Riley, however, announced she would throw a Royal Ball and go on a Royal Tour, in hopes of answering their questions and calming the masses. Liam, also decided to start wearing condoms again; he wasn't sure he could handle another delivery right now.

"You ready Liv", Drake shook a sleeping Olivia from her chair in the waiting room.

She gathered her things and followed Drake out to the parking lot. The ride to the Palace was fairly quiet, both too exhausted to say anything.

They walked up the grand stair case and Drake couldn't help but notice her ass swaying in her skirt. She annoyed the hell out of him, always had, but, damn if she wasn't sexy.

Once they reached the top, she looked at him like she hadn't before.

"Well Walker, for what it's worth, this day had been something I never expected. I've laughed more today that I have in a long time and its all thanks to you and Maxwell."

Drake slightly huffed," glad we could entertain you Duchess."

"Well, I'm going to bed, I can't keep my eyes open any longer", she smiled at him, winked and made her way to her guest room.

"Night Liv", he would say as he watched her walk away.

Drake went to Liam's study; he was tired, but, hadn't had a stiff drink all day. He sat on the couch, slumped down and drank his long awaited whiskey. One glass after another, until he started to feel much more relaxed and comfortable.

He stood up from the couch and that's when she walked in.

"I thought I heard someone in here" she said.

She walked over to the bar cart and poured her own drink.

She was beautiful in her white, silky robe that accentuated her breasts.

"Didn't mean to disturb you your highness."

"Drake, you can never disturb me" she said while taking a drink and lifting her bare leg to rest on the coffee table.

"Mrs.Rys, are you trying to seduce me?"

"Would that be so bad?" she asked while undoing her robe.

Drake pulled at his collar and licked his lips. He looked at Liam's desk and nodded. She smiled at him and stood in front of the desk. He told her to bend over and he couldn't help but stare at her round ass. He felt kind of guilty about what he was getting ready to do, but, alcohol and his throbbing dick took over. "What the hell" he whispered and went for it.

The next morning

He looked at her and uttered, "I'm sorry".

She replied with a soft smile, "I'm not".

Drake closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "but, what about Liam?"

"Drake, my husband never took the time to touch me like you did last night; trust me, I'm not worried about Liam finding out."

"Yeah, last night sure was crazy."

After doing it twice on Liam's desk, they moved back to his room for the night. She got up and put her clothes on. After she left, Drake picked up his phone to text Maxwell.

....Beaumont, you were right! She does have an apple pie tattoo on her ass.

Fun facts.....

1. This was never supposed to be more than one chapter. I had the idea, thought it would be cute to write a drabble of Bertrand breastfeeding with that fathers breastfeeder seen on Meet the Fockers.

2. After writing chapter 1, I wanted to explore the cliff hanger at the end....would Drake wear the breastfeeder. I had to go ahead and do another to ensure he did.

3.it wasn't until part 4 when my little story started to get noticed by others. I never expected anyone else to read it. I personally thought it was too bizaar, but, continued out of pure enjoyment. You all made it worth it and I loved every minute of writing this.

4. Chapter 7 was my personal favorite. I have to thank @emceesynonymroll for inspiring Maxwell's dialogue. It also was the quickest chapter I wrote.

5. I adore Drake and his character in TRR/TRH, but, as a Liam stan, I could never bring myself to have Riley in his bed at the end. However, I'm not opposed to exploring that for a future post.

6. I wanted to continue this series, but, there is only so much you can write about in a one day timeline. Also, I think everyone suffered enough in the story. I decided it was time to call it quits.

7. There will be new adventures ahead for the gang....I have big plans for them 😂

8.If you have any requests or suggestions, let me know. I'm interested in new ideas. I'm also not opposed to constructive criticism; message me and let me know where I can improve.

As always, thanks for reading!

#choices trr #the royal romance #trr #choices trh #trr drake #trr liam #trr fanfic #trh

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indigoire · 4 years

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It Read-through Chapter Three: “Six Phone Calls”

God. One hundred pages into IT and I only just got done with chapter three. This book can and will kill me.

Warning for racism, suicide, blood, gore, abuse, assault, misogyny, and Bill Denbrough’s shitty opinions.

Intro Chapters One and Two

Silly me thought, oh, twenty-four chapters, one thousand one hundred and thirty-eight pages, that’s about fifty pages per chapter, I can crank that out no problem. I was reading full novels over the course of a day when I was in school. Easy peasy.

Real whoppers like this chapter have me doubting myself. I’ll probably have days where I’ll break the chapter in half just so I’m not reading for three straight hours like I was tonight.

Anyways, on to the chapter itself. It’s really more like six chapters crammed into one, all introducing us to an individual Loser with the exception of Mike.

Let me sum up my reaction to these intros with my own tweet, having just finished Bev’s introduction:

And like, I’ve seen the movies, I’ve read the fanworks, I know a lot of the lore. I even read past chapter three as a kid, I remember Bill’s intro so clearly now. I feel like I have my own form of amnesia, but the shitty memories I’m uncovering are of reading this book. So believe me when I say I knew going in that the Losers would be an amalgamation of mommy and daddy issues or just plain issues, anti-Semitism, misogyny, repression, trauma, long-buried PTSD, abuse…like, there’s a reason they’re Losers.

But King feels like he needs to beat us over the head with this information.

For example, let’s start with Stanley. Good old Stanley. Hey, did you know Stan was Jewish??? A simple mention wouldn’t be enough though, let’s throw every anti-Semitic word at the wall, but it’s okay because it’s from the viewpoint of a Jewish character, his wife. The Jewish wife can call herself a kike all day long, why not, let’s just go ahead and do that.

Like. Come on Stephen. My notes say “at SOME point this just feels fuckin’ racist, dude.”

Stan himself is lovely. We get to see him from Patty’s point of view (and, point of order, I just realized that all of the Losers are introduced from the viewpoint of another character, with the exception of Richie and Eddie), and Stan is a level-headed, smart, steady man. He seems to be “preternaturally confident” about his life choices, whether that’s choosing where Patty should apply to for work or starting his own accounting firm, and he always seems to find success.

Stan also finds out about Bill and his books, but before the telephone call from Mike, before the Derry memories are supposed to rush in. Stan is reading Bill’s new book when he gets the call in fact.

He also makes an oblique reference to the Turtle around Patty, “the Turtle couldn’t help us”, and then seems to shake it off without going into it with her.

So. Either Stan remembered more than he let on, or something happened that made him aware. More aware than the rest of the Losers. Like, the Losers all seem to find wild success, supernatural success really, but to them it all seems to happen suddenly, at random. Not so with Stan. When Patty and Stan try to have children but can’t conceive, Stan says he knows the problem lies with him, he just doesn’t know why exactly. He then goes on to say that he’s in the eye of some storm, the calm between something terrible in his past and something terrible in his future.

Of course we soon learn what terrible something is lurking in Stan’s future. One evening he gets a call from Mike Hanlon, telling him to come back to Derry. Stan answers the call, responds to Mike’s questions, then tells Patty he’s going to take a bath. She ends up watching TV a little too long, then realizes something is Off. She finds him locked in the bathroom with slit wrists and the word IT written in his own blood on the wall.

The neighbors call the cops she screams so loud.

We then move from Stan to Richie, whose name I have never been more happy to see in my whole life. Finally, finally, one of my favorite characters. Richie answers Mike’s phone call with nary a hiccup. He puts on a Voice to answer, not something silly but a sort of adult “everything’s going to be okay” Voice. He then arranges things with his travel agent and somewhere along the way he has to go back to his normal voice. “Now he had to go back to being himself, and that was hard–it got harder to do that every year.” Richie is building walls around parts of himself with his Voices, avoiding the real him.

He does a couple of voices for the travel agent, she laughs hysterically, and he arranges his trip to Derry, and calls out of work. After it’s all taken care of, the memories start to rush back, the people, and he thinks of Georgie, with his arm ripped off, and then and only then does Richie vomit. He makes it to the toilet at least, but he empties himself entirely. He then removes his contacts.

A rather short intro, but to me a nice reprieve.

Ben’s intro is a lot better than I remember it being. I think I conflated it with his intro in the miniseries, where he brings home a girl and tells her about him being fat before they have sex. Here, not a whisper of that. There’s actually a bit where a woman asks Ben’s local bartender if Mister Hanscom is gay. “Mister Hanscom ain’t no sissy.” Cool. Thanks, Stephen.

Basically, Ben haunts this one tiny bar in Nebraska in this tiny podunk “town”, where he gets to know the bartender, a Ricky Lee, very well over the years. He comes every Friday and Saturday night, no matter where he is. When he’s working on the BBC Communications Tower in London he still flies back home every Saturday to get his drinks. He never takes anyone home from the bar and he consistently tips well. The bartender enjoys his company.

The night of the phone call, we see Ben head into the bar and there’s a terrible desolation hung over him. He tells Ricky there’s been bad news from home, and Ricky is sympathetic. He goes into some of the memories, of Bowers carving the H into his stomach, and shows Ricky the scar. He then orders a STEIN of whiskey, which Ricky, somewhat foolishly, gives to him, on the house.

Ben then, mentioning an anecdote about the natives in Peru, snorts straight lemon juice and then downs the whiskey like beer. He then gives Ricky Lee three pure silver dollars that his father gave to him before he died. He makes mention of a fourth one that he gave to Bill…and a mysterious reference that Bill or Bev somehow used that silver dollar to save his life at some point. Meanwhile, Ricky is horrified. He keeps thinking of a bar patron that once hung himself after coming to the bar, and how Ben has the same look about him. He’s suddenly struck that Ben is dead, a dead man walking.

But Ben walks out of the bar all the same, drives off, even while the waitress scolds Ricky for letting Ben drive, saying “he’ll kill himself”. And Ricky, who had thought the same thing not five minutes before says no he won’t.

It’s a common through-line, the Losers being dead men (and woman) walking, everyone comments how scared they seem to be, how overwhelmed by fear, with the exception of Richie, who has no one with him, but Richie notes that he’s a dead man walking all the same.

We move on to Eddie. In my notebook I wrote “EDDIE!!!” and immediately felt a renewed zeal to read.

Eddie is introduced not by physical description but by what we find in his medicine cabinet. I couldn’t tell you the purpose of half of the items listed, a lot of them no longer exist, and as much as I’ve been busting out google for this book I wasn’t keen on looking up an entire pharmacy. I did note that one, there’s a lot of products for, as the book puts it, “moving the mail” (I wrote down “get the feeling Eds gets constipated a lot, needs more fiber in his diet”), and then I noted that Eddie also has some serious painkillers, along with some uppers and serious downers. You know a book was written in the eighties when “Quaaludes” gets name-dropped.

I also wrote “Eddie is balding :C”, just so you know where my priorities lie.

Of course we wouldn’t be able to talk about Eddie without mentioning Myra. Right after Eddie basically empties his medicine cabinet into his bag, Myra comes thundering up the stairs. Oh yeah, chalk down some good ol’ fatphobia from King. Literally every shitty character is fat in this book.

Myra gets a bit of an interjection, though Eddie remains the central viewpoint for most of the chapter, and in her interjection she notes that she somewhat wants to trap Eddie (in the closet, jesus, very subtle) until “this madness had passed”.

Eddie presses Myra into taking over for him in his driving business, and she hasn’t driven in years so she’s terrified, all while half trapped in his memories. He remembers his mom laying into his gym teacher for making Eddie take Phys. Ed. with asthma, but the teacher notes there’s nothing physically wrong with him. All the same, Eddie goes for his aspirator, takes a deep puff of it.

He reflects that he knows how fucked up his marriage is, he knows he married his mother. Before he’d taken the plunge he’d placed a photo of Myra on the mantle next to his mother. He noted then that the two of them could be sisters. But he’d been weak and fallen into old habits. The jabs he could take, the jokes about Jack Sprat from his coworkers, but he really does seem ashamed of himself for taking the easier path, the one familiar to him.

He truly cares for Myra if nothing else. He doesn’t want to hurt her in any way. Even semi-harsh words make him feel guilty and remorseful. He contemplates telling her everything, but it would only make her anxiety and distress worse.

Also, two things of note: Eddie mentions that Myra “was really very sweet and had had even less experience with men than he’d had with women.” 👀 This and his pet-name for her, that makes her giggle to hear it, is “Marty.” I feel like this is far more telling of Eddie than the “marrying his mother” thing. He has affection for this woman, to be sure, but far more because she is safe, she doesn’t know much about men, she reminds him of familiar routines, she keeps him medicated and stable. He affectionately calls her a man’s name.

And she? She wants to lock him in a closet to keep him safe and docile to her.

As he leaves he briefly sees her transform (only for him, only mentally) into someone older, his mother back from the grave, “old and fat and crazy”, and a memory of his mother terrifying him in a shoe shop comes to mind. He shakes it off and asks her for a kiss, while saying to himself “if we were in water she’d drown us both.”

And then he flees to his taxi, on his way to the station and Derry.

The next introduction is terrible. It made me so mad to read, I remember it disgusting me when I was kid, but it just infuriates me now.

King’s only female protagonist, the only female in the Losers Club, Bev Marsh, is a walking punching bag.

This part is told from the viewpoint of Tom Rogan, Bev’s husband, and he talks about how he got her under his thumb, how he could sense her vulnerability. And one, it reads like how every man assumes female abuse victims work, secretly wanting the abuse and having the choice to leave at any time but unable to, and two, it is some highly toxic misogynistic shit. And obviously it’s told from the viewpoint of a highly misogynistic character, an abuser through and through (who, by the way, is also fat, so there’s that fatphobia popping up again).

But Tom knows that in times of extreme stress Bev is able to find her inner strength and push through. She becomes manic to do what she needs to do, and in those times Tom knows that his abuse wouldn’t be able to touch her.

I filled up a quarter of a page with the words “FUCK TOM >:C” just so you know where my head was at as I read about him “teaching Bev a lesson” and beating her until she “learned”. He even knows that when he beats her she regresses back to being a child. A *gag* sexy child at that. His disgusting words, not mine.

Of course Tom has parental issues of his own, of course! Match made in heaven. His mom beat him with a belt and he intends to do the same to Bev, put her in her place, give her a “whuppin’” as it’s phrased in the book. But Bev isn’t having any of that tonight. As Tom attempts to beat her for smoking and packing and daring to defy him, she fights back. She throws glass bottles at him and, as he gets more crazed, eventually tips the vanity on him. That isn’t even close to enough to keep him down though, so she snags the belt and whips him, first across the face, and then across the balls. Then and only then does he go down.

She flees, shoeless and penniless into the night, and laughs once she realizes she’s out and probably out for good. My notes read “Tom can and will rot in hell.”

Then my notes segue smoothly into “oh boy it’s Bill :|” and honestly, that could be the mood for the whole segment on Bill.

Bill…Bill is so obviously Stephen King. Any time there’s a writer in a Stephen King novel you can bet that the writer is a stand-in for Stephen King. This is why it was amusing to me to have his cameo in It: Chapter Two roast Bill, his self-insert. I also should note that in the last chapter Adrian is noted to have been working on a long-languishing novel, and being in Derry inspired him, and just reading that made me groan. Not because I have anything against writers, lord knows, but because I know King included that detail to tie Adrian to himself and to Bill. I know it will come up later. I know King has to make every character him before he can empathize with them.

Anyways, Bill gets the call from Mike all the way in England, where he’s staying in a cottage with his wife Audra. Beautiful, statuesque, red-haired Audra. “Why can’t you be the woman I want you to be” indeed. Not a line Bill says in the book by the way. At least not yet.

Audra wants to know why Bill is shaking and why he pours himself a stiff drink before breakfast, so Bill begins filling her in on the details. And as he does we’re treated to memories of Bill in college, in his creative writing class.

Now. Here is where I begin to lose patience with Bill and with King. King is clearly writing from experience. I know he had issues with his own college creative writing class.

Basically, the class is pretentious, concerned with inserting political opinions into everything they write, going on about how war is sold by sexist capitalists and so on and you can just TELL that King is projecting hard. Bill’s works, fun sci-fi stories and mysteries, are given fairly low scores by the professor.

Then one day in class, during a period when another student is talking about her work, filled to the brim with socio-political commentary, Bill stands up and basically says that he doesn’t get what they’re talking about and “can’t you guys just let a story be a story?”

Which like, dude, okay, I get it on some level, this shit sounds pretentious as hell. But it’s COLLEGE. If you can’t get a chance to be pretentious in college then when else can you be? Also, you know for a fact that King is twisting this story to make himself look favorable, because it is clearly a story from his own past. So obviously the students have to be talking about buzzwords that have no meaning, instead of, oh I don’t know, expressing their political beliefs? Everything has politics in it dude! Even your shitty ass story reflects the political landscape of America in the eighties for fuck’s sake!! It, the novel, would not be what it is if it weren’t mired in politics. It has a lot to say about race, gender, and class, and if the message is muddled and directionless it’s only because the author, Mister King, didn’t put any thought into what he was trying to say, but rather wrote a story that was meant to shock.

Anyways, Bill says the story thing, and it’s just the sort of malarky you would expect to see on the front page of r/braincels, with the top comment being “and then everyone clapped” because it is ridiculous. The teacher reprimands Bill, and Bill slinks out of class.

But OH BOY, Bill shows him! Because he writes his first horror story shortly after, and the story damn near pours out of him, and he brings it to class. The professor gives it an F and calls it pure pulp.

Bill sells it for two hundred bucks to a shitty magazine, drops the class, and with the drop out note, well. I’ll let King take over here:

“Bill Denbrough staples the drop card to the assistant fiction editor’s congratulatory note and tacks both to the bulletin board on the creative-writing instructor’s door. In the corner of the bulletin board he sees an anti-war cartoon. And suddenly, as if moving of its own accord, his fingers pluck his pen from his breast pocket and across the cartoon he writes this: If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable, I’m going to kill myself, because I won’t know what else to do. You see, politics always change. Stories never do.”

“Bill Denbrough,” my notes read, “kill yourself.”

The rest of the section continues with Bill falling into the lap of success with his stories, meeting Audra while working on a screen adaptation of his novel, the shoot going unnaturally well according to Audra, and his following years of success. He slowly fills Audra in on the blanks. His brother’s murder. His scars, from the Losers’ vow, which have suddenly reappeared on his hand after the phone call. How Stan was the one that cut their hands, before turning the glass on himself. How Stan at first mimes slashing his wrists, as a supposed goof, but Bill almost stops him all the same.

He then realizes he can’t tell Audra everything about what went down in Derry, but makes her promise not to come with him, to stay away from Derry. His stutter, which has slowly crept back in over the course of the conversation, scares her into promising

““And when do I see you again?” she asked softly. He put an arm around her and held her tightly, but he never answered her question.”

With that, thus ends chapter three.

This chapter took it out of me. It was all so familiar and yet all so new and horrible at the same time. I honestly can’t say I’m having a good time, but I’m certainly interested in what I’m reading. It’s like reading about a parasitic wasp, what it does to the host. It’s gruesome and disgusting, but you keep reading because you want to see the end result. But the fun’s only just beginning.

Catch you all tomorrow, bye for now.

#holy shit this was a long one #I spent three hours reading and two writing. So uh...yeah.#IT #Stephen King's IT #It (book)#It (novel)#Stephen King #IT Readthrough #Richie and Eddie are my only joys in reading this #I can't believe how much I hate Bill Denbrough

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