Suicide Kings
Suicide Kings – Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
#75: Mirror
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I could’ve been gay and gone with that Taylor Swift song. I’m sure you know the one. But I don’t listen to Taylor Swift. (She is an sf_d meme, which is how I know of it). Instead, I went with a song about a guy who seduces an innocent, small-town girl with his greaser lifestyle and disregard for what society (and her mother) thinks of him.
That part near the beginning, about the difference between beauty and sex appeal? Totally happened to me.
Team Fortress Newb
So I’m playing Team Fortress 2 now. I’m not very good though. Obviously, the smart thing to do would be to friend me via Steam, join me when I’m playing, then earn achievements off me.
It’s the only way I’ll learn.
Edith Makes Ice Cream
This is Edith. She’s 23, lives in Peru with her parents, and makes and sells homemade ice cream to help her family. Through Kiva yesterday, I loaned her $25 USD to help her buy more ingredients. Today, she’s raised all the money she needs. (I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream?)
Kiva allows one to make loans to people in third-world countries to help them improve their businesses. The loans are interest free and the repayment statics are pretty good. Excepting issues where the value of the U.S dollar changes and causes discrepancies with the exchange rate, you could conceivably loan money to many people with the same $25 (or whatever you loaned in the first place).
I like organizations like this because they help people help themselves.
Pietro Trouillefou
If you were a concentrikid back in the day, you might remember Pietro Trouillefou from License to Swear in which he and Astrid kidnap a young boy to use as a bargaining chip in a deal with the Salvatores, only to find that they’ve got the wrong kid and must get him back into his house before anyone finds out. I’m not sure if I said he was a con artist in that story or not. Astrid has certainly been repurposed since that story was published, what, four or five years ago? I wrote that story for high school creative writing class, so ‘04 it’d have to been.
Anyway, this took a long time to write, especially considering that I rather like this story and had the general idea of how it was going to play out, which isn’t the case for a lot of these. I don’t know, I started it on June 20th and only just now got it done. Maybe because I’m not as familiar with Pietro as I am with Artie? Her story only took two days to do.
Pietro is an Italian name, which is funny because I thought it was French. The last name comes from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, my favorite Disney movie. My favorite character is Clopin Trouillefou.
Oh, also, I’ve always thought the Pendragons was a little too regal for a gang name, but in retrospect, it is much cooler than, say, the Tunnel Snakes or something. Comparatively, Pendragons rule.
