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@thegirlwhohatesmondays

My name is Amanda, it doesn't rhythm with banana, but that's okay with me. I like kola's they look cute and cuddly! My name is Amanda, it does rhythm with panda, but pandas are scary! they think their bears,but I think they're part Yeti!
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I don’t trust Maroon 5

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why

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Well first of all there’s 7 band members, not 5. That’s not why I don’t trust them, I just think it’s weird.

Now getting to the point, do you know how many top 100 hits Maroon 5 has had? A lot. They’re even on billboards top 100 artists of all time (ALL TIME). And it’s understandable, because pretty much every song they put out is fucking awesome. Sugar, Don’t Wanna Know, Moves Like Jagger, Payphone, This Love, She Will Be Loved, Cold, Animals, Maps, Misery, Harder to Breathe, Never Gonna Leave This Bed… to name a FEW.

These shitheads have been popping out jams since I was a little kid. Well over a decade worth of killer music. Every other song I hear on the radio is Maroon 5. It’s always Maroon 5. And I fucking love it. I love all their songs. Everyone does, they’re awesome.

But here’s the thing. They’re never the top selling artists. On the top 100 list, they’re only in the 40s. They very rarely have a number 1 hit. They’re considered good, I suppose….. but not great. Not the best.

How many people have you heard say Maroon 5 is their favorite band? For me it’s zero. For many of you, it’s zero. If you’re thinking to yourself “what? No I love them, they’re my fave!” Are you sure? Are you really sure? They’re your absolute complete FAVORITE band ever??? I doubt it. You’re just saying that because the band is on your mind now. If I asked you your fave band any other time you’d come up with another answer. Everyone always does.

But they SHOULD be everyone favorites. Look at all of those songs. They’ve got so many top hits. Everyone loves their music. Everyone sings along and knows the songs. They should be my favorite band, I think I like more of their songs than of my actual favorite artist. But they are not my favorite. They are no ones favorite.

I think they made a deal with someone. Satan? God? A dude down an alleyway? Who knows. But I believe they made a deal to ensure everyone would love their music. And we do. It’s great music.

But the twist is that they’ll never truly be recognized as one of the best. Sure, their songs will play on the radio and everyone will sing along. They’ll have sold out concerts. Plenty of fans. But not enough. They’ll be just good. Never great. Never the best. Even if they should be our favorite, they never will be. They’ll never sell enough albums or have their songs reach as high on the billboards as they should. Everyone loves their music, per the agreement. But no one loves them.

I hope Adam Levine knows I’m on to him. I know what he did.

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IT IS BACK

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Insert any pairing you want :)

Clicking on the keyboard caught his attention. Glancing over he noticed how she was chewing on her thumbnail. He walked over an peered at her computer from behind her. “You’re booking a session for professional cuddling?” he asked with raised eyebrows and a smirk. Startled, she closed her browser and whipped around in her desk chair. “When did you get here?” her eyes were wide, and he could tell she was embarrassed. “Just in time, apparently” He laughed.

“I was just looking, okay? Its a real type of therapy.”  She defended, feeling uncomfortable with him standing over her.

“Oh I’m sure it is, but if you’re going to laying in bed with someone, there are other things you could be paying for that are a lot more fun.” She was getting flustered at his words and it amused him.

“Shut up! It’s proven to help with anxiety and stress and I-I really don't care what you think. I think it's worth a try.” She turned back around in her chair to face her computer. Her face was red with a mixture of embarrassment and anger.

“I’m sorry I’ll lay off it.” he threw his hands up in a mock surrender. As he started to walk away he voiced another thought

“Don't you think that would be weird with a stranger?”

“What do you mean?” turning her head to look at him

“Cuddling in the middle of the day, with a timer running, and laying in the arms of someone you don't know… sound pretty awkward to me.. not really therapeutic”

“I mean… I don't know… Yeah I guess that sounds weird” She sighed “back to the drawing board I guess”

“I have an Idea, come over to my place tonight around 10, cool?” he raised a brow with the question.

“Okay” she said questioning him with her stare.

He clapped pointed at her with a smile “See ya tonight” he walked away with a spring in his step.

She turned back to her computer and shook her head, wondering what she had got herself into.

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She tapped on his apartment door unsure about the choice she had made. She took a deep breath to try to shake the nervous feeling she had.

He opened the door. The normally well dressed man was in a t-shirt and flannel pajama pants.

“Welcome” he stepped aside to let her in.

She took off her coat and hung it on the rack by the door. Sitting on the couch she started taking in her surroundings, she noticed how masculine the apartment was. He walked into the kitchen.

“I got pepperoni pizza, ice cream and beer, I figured we could just watch a movie” he called coming back in the room with his arms filled food napkins and spoons. Setting everything on the coffee table, he grabbed one of the beers, opened it and handed it to her.

“What movie did you have in mind?”  she took a sip from the beer and grabed a slice of pizza. She setteld in to the side of the couch as he sat down on the other.

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After not being able to decide on a movie, they had chose to watch a few episodes of the Office. He turned the lights off at some point during the flim and now they sat in darkness with the tv ilimuinating the room. She had slowly inched closer from the end of the couch to the middle, but she still wasnt quite next to him.

“Come here” he said pulling her from the middle of the couch into his side.

She stayed stiff and asked “what exactly are you doing?”

“If your going to awkwardly cuddle with someone, I figured you would get more out of it if it was with a friend. I know I was making fun ealier, but anixety is serious.”

“oh… Well thank you.. it means a lot that you understand” she settled in to his side and took a calming breath.

“Plus I only charge half of what the place was only to charge you” He laughed. She fake hit him, but laughed too.

“You ruined the moment”

“I made it better”

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Spiritual Makeup

“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18. What is the preaching/message of the cross? The preaching of the cross is the message of salvation, and how we are to live daily. We need to keep focused on the fact that Christ died for us, the debt of sin was paid and we no longer owe anything. It’s a…

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Such a Time As This

I just finished watching The 100, season 5. I have to say, it was really good. I was in a rush to finish it, before school started again. Being someone who has binge watched the office half a dozen times, it wasn’t hard. Something about the series got me thinking though (those who haven’t seen it I’ll try not to give away too many details).
The 100, is a show about survival, plain and simple.…

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Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is blind.

You did see the problems. They were staring you in the face, but you choose to look away, pretend they weren’t there. As much as I loved you, they were something that I couldn’t ignore. I prayed and I prayed for you. I prayed so that my fears would vanish, and that you would somehow turn out to be the one. I wept and I cried for you. I prayed that my tears would turn things around. From the…

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Ridiculous Sentence Prompts

  • "Who wouldn’t be angry you ate all of my cereal and faked your death for three years!"
  • "I’m going to need you to put on some underwear before you say anything else." 
  • "Quick catch that cat it stole my wallet!"
  • "Fuck I feel like I got hit by a car… Wait I did? And it was your car?"
  • "The skirt is short on purpose."
  • "I can’t believe I’m sitting in space jail with you of all people."
  • "So why did I have to punch that guy?"
  • "I may have accidentally sort of adopted five cats."
  • "I hope you know that my name is actually ________."
  • "Please stop petting the test subjects. "
  • "That is the tenth demon summoning this week holy shit."
  • "Please put me down it’s just a sprained ankle" 
  • "So what if I broke my arm I’m still doing it."
  • "Why exactly do you need chloroform at 2AM?"
  • "I’m like 75% this won’t explode on us."
  • "You need to stop leaving dead bodies in my kitchen."
  • "I understand the whole sleep talking thing but what I don’t understand is the princess dragon dream and why I’m in it."
  • "I’m sorry that I got way too into playing house and accidentally kissed you passionately."
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Please remember that my (current) dislike of Ray/Felicity comes from not liking several key writing decisions regarding Ray and not from not wanting to see Felicity with someone other than Oliver.

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rosietwiggs asked:

Listen. You literally have hundreds of women telling you why they find Ray's behavior problematic and threatening. Dismissing that as silly fans just being angry about their ship, alienates an entire group of smart, capable viewers in the most insultingly patronizing way possible. It is not about a ship. If you just cared enough to actually open up discourse and LISTEN to us, then maybe you could understand too, instead of telling us how we're SUPPOSED to feel about Ray.

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Okay.  That’s fair.  What did he do that was problematic and/or threatening?

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Honestly, I’m sick of this conversation. I am. I’d make better use of my time by yelling at a brick wall. But here we are. Again.

Here’s one super long post about Why Ray Creeps People Out.

Here’s another.

Please also note that Felicity herself has called his behavior ‘stalkerish’ at one point: “Frankly, you are the creepiest form of stalker that I have ever had to deal with, and believe me when I’m telling you that that is saying a lot.”

And here’s my own personal commentary on this post:

Some things stalkers do:

  • Follow you and show up wherever you are.
  • Send unwanted gifts, letters, cards, or e-mails.
  • Damage your home, car, or other property.
  • Monitor your phone calls or computer use.
  • Use technology, like hidden cameras or global positioning systems (GPS), to track where you go.
  • Drive by or hang out at your home, school, or work.
  • Threaten to hurt you, your family, friends, or pets.
  • Find out about you by using public records or online search services, hiring investigators, going through your garbage, or contacting friends, family, neighbors, or co-workers.
  • Posting information or spreading rumors about you on the Internet, in a public place, or by word of mouth.
  • Other actions that control, track, or frighten you.
Is Ray—in the context of the show—harmless to Felicity? Yeah. Probably. But the fact that he’s done so many of these things and is supposed to be a good guy is really really alarming. It doesn’t matter that Felicity’s okay with it; it matters that the show keeps reassuring us that it’s okay and normal and even cute.
It is none of these things.
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Bless. Equally exhausted by constantly having this frankly alarming conversation, I’m going to copypaste my response on a liveblog post from last week about what the problem with Ray Palmer is (because it in fact includes rebuttal to the frequent minimizing dismissal that those of us who don’t like Ray feel that way only because he poses a romantic threat to Olicity):

I like how you tried to add that “Olicity fans” bullshit onto my post as if that had fuckall to do with Ray Palmer being a creepy fucking stalker and manipulative, condescending, smug asshole.
It’s like you’ve never heard of a multishipper before, or you just want so hard to pretend that everyone’s dislike of Ray is predicated on his being “in the way” of Oliver and Felicity that you’re just going to assume for the sake of your hypothesis that we don’t exist.
(Or that anyone could possibly be motivated to any emotions or reasoning beyond shipping, as Marc Guggenheim so loves to disgustingly encourage.)
But here’s a newsflash for you: I was excited about Ray Palmer. I was very much excited about the prospect of a non-Oliver love interest for Felicity this season. I wanted there to be a guy who was part of her story, who showed her the love and respect and adoration she deserves. I wanted to see the interesting story of her playing off a new character happening on my screen, giving us new opportunities to see her character and storyline develop.
But lo and behold, from his introduction he lied to her, used and manipulated her, stalked her, turned out to be a smarmy jackhole, and instead of being her love interest, the story has played it out more that she’s his.
Ray is a creep. He has no understanding or regard for boundaries, no respect for the word no; he’s so in love with his own intelligence he has to put down Felicity’s when she outstrips him; he’s a jealous, paternalistic asshat who, upon learning she had her own secrets to keep that she wasn’t reading him in on in their very new relationship, and that she had (at some point, possibly still) feelings for another man, that she was suddenly untrustworthy and a terrible judge of character, and that her womanly emotions must be clouding her judgement. And rather than talk that out with her and let her speak for herself, he’d rather listen to another man on the subject.
Note how fucking none of the above has jackall to do with whether or not Oliver and Felicity should get together and be a thing.
Because the problem with Ray Palmer isn’t that he stands in the way of Olicity.
The problem with Ray Palmer is Ray Palmer.

But I’d like to add a further addendum:

Whether you ship Olicity or not, “I don’t personally have a problem with Ray’s behavior!” is absolutely not a valid sweeping defeat of the criticism against his characterization and portrayal.

It’s fine that some people are enjoying Ray and even don’t personally take issue with his behavior (though it is alarming). That in no way at all trumps the thousands of people who have raised their voices to say that there is obviously a clear reading of Ray Palmer that is creepy, that is stalkerish, that is manipulative and domineering. Especially when so many of the people (largely women) speaking out about the worrying characterization of Ray Palmer on Arrow have been on the real life, frightening receiving end of such incredibly problematic behavior and are recognizing it from experience.

Dear Marc, if you did not intend for Ray to come off like this, and are hurt so many have this problem, well, that sucks for you I’m sure, but defensive isn’t what you should be getting out of this.

What you should be hearing and understanding is that somewhere along the way you dropped the ball and your intended characterization came across so badly that a large demographic of people are incredibly creeped out by a man you consistently, even mulishly portray as charming, harmless, and romantic. 

This is a signal to listen, to reflect, and to course correct, not to stubbornly double down and publicly demean and dismiss your criticizers so as to make them easier to dismiss.

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Arrow spoilers: Could Quentin and Donna hook up?
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Has the next favourite Arrow ship been discovered? If you missed it, Felicity’s Mum Donna is returning in episode 18 after she went down such a storm with

You all know my vision for is more story for Quentin in Season 4 (with people I actually like, thank you) and definitely more story for Donna Smoak and reasons to have her back/on/added to Arrow.  Quentin & Donna would be awesome.  He deserves a romance. 

He’s so serious and dark and hurt and Donna is such bubble and light and fun.  He’s a sort of lost soul to her free spirit. Her spontaneity and noise and bounce would drive him nuts when all he wants is to wallow in that darkness and solitude.  Yet they’d both be similar as they’re always that “outside looking in” type people that others just don’t quite understand.  They both see things/people different and that uniqueness is something they’d see echoed in the other. 

The two of them would catch on like fire.  Not only do I suspect Paul Blackthorne and Charlotte Ross would have chemistry off the damned charts, but Donna would pull Quentin into her bubbly light, you know what I mean?  He’d find himself swept up into her energy and fun and she’d start to learn to look before she leaped.

Now add in that her ex should be a serious villain for season four (come on, thecwarrow & marcguggenheim, don’t let me down here!) then you  have Quentin (the cop) with Donna and her bad guy ex on the other side.  Oh the conflict and the drama!  Plus it might get me some Quentin/Felicity scenes, which you all know I freaking adore.

And now seems as good a time as any. I’ve been sitting on this sideblog forever now — wishing, hoping…. — so might as well kick it up there: The SmoaknLance Blog: the Bombshell and the Badge.  It’s mostly just for fun right now for obvious reasons but with that bait being dangled out there to gauge interest, I had to.  I’m interested!

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I know I don’t look fat

but I feel fat

and I see fat

So it doesn’t matter if I don’t look fat to you

it’s how I feel

Please fucking understand this because if I hear “but you’re skinny” come out of someone’s mouth when I say I don’t like my body I’m going to lose my shit

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