no fear!

prince derek cygnet jr. asu sophomore. call me dj. i'm the number 1 student of the 'school of puffin,' aka a place where you learn to do all kinds of cool stuff that your parents tell you is a terrible idea.

[specerhastings]

JACOB ELORDI  in  2 HEARTS  ( 2020 ) .

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text 💬 oakj

Oakley: I'M NEVER CURIOUS ABOUT HELIUM! WHO DO YOU THINK I AM? ONE OF THE NERD KIDS?! And maybe! I don't know, it's going to take a while to get there, for all I know someone could beat me to it! Maybe Nova even! And copying people is just lame.

DJ: [read]

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TEXT 😊 DJON

Jonquil: Wow, good date idea. That's pretty romantic sounding, potential-foot-squashing aside. And who knows, maybe you'll actually learn from the lessons and mayhaps become a bit more graceful? It could come in handy for your first dance.

Jonquil: I'd be so upset if love potion struck me, you have no idea. I'd miss the whole drama of the day by being stuck all gooey-eyed on one person! Other than that though, it probably wouldn't be so bad? Maybe seeing me make a fool of myself would make people feel more comfortable airing their embarrassing stuff in front of me. And getting to actually act out on feelings, even if it was just from love potion, could be cathartic. But drama!

DJ: [read]

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text 💬 dipley

DJ: My night ended with me crying in a gutter, I hate you.

DJ: LITERALLY WHY DID YOU TELL ME THAT YOU FEEL THE NEED TO PROTECT LIKE EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD AS MUCH AS I WANT TO PROTECT POULTRY???

DJ: HOW DO YOU LIVE ALL THE TIME WITHOUT WANTING TO EXPLODE?

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text 💬 karj

DJ: He asked me if I wanted to blow his whistle and proceeded to pull out an actual whistle.

DJ: Which like, thank God, because I didn't say yes to his question, he just WENT FOR IT. But still.

DJ: Nights with you are more fun than brothers only nights at the fraternity, pass it on lol.

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text 💬 derquil

DJ: Overheard at ASU: "I’m a gentlemen, chivalry is what i do, i’ll open the door, pull out your chair, buy your drinks, i’ll even go down first, but when it comes to mario kart, i draw the line. I’m sorry but i just can’t let you beat me at mario kart"

DJ: And people think true romance is dead 😂

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text 💬 djojo

DJ: Come over. Bring weed. And my t shirt with the dolphin on it.

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text 💬 aj

DJ: I’ll be there in 5 min. If not, read this again.

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being king

Like even if there was anything about it that worried me, a good royal wouldn’t say that where the public he’s meant to rule could see.

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serving bird at your wedding

YEAH RIGHT. Hope you like fish or beef or tofu or literally anything else instead!

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aimee

5/5 stars, cool girl, my best friend and I don’t really want to share her. @aimeeblake

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how do you feel about banana hammocks?

Are those the comfy ones made out of material and not pokey ropes? Or... do you mean like, made out of actual bananas?

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aimee double-dating with you and karmen someday

Hopefully @aimeeblake ends up with a cool dude who doesn’t suck so bad I want to feed him to alligators, because... that would probably be a good idea? Her and @karmeninka probably like each other more than they like me anyway, a double date would give me someone to talk to.

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TEXT 😊 DJON

Jonquil: Ooooh, really? What do you have in mind for Valentine's Day? I guess the only way to avoid looking at anyone else would be to go through the whole day blindfolded together but that sounds difficult. Fun! But difficult.

Jonquil: Right? Too composed, it has to be a front. That would be a good one too! There's too many people around here pretending to be hard, taking off that mask would be amazing.

DJ: Well, I've been trying to alternate dates of stuff I like that I think she'd have fun with if she tried, and stuff that's important to her, but for Valentine's Day I figured I'd do a super date and combine both! So we're gonna shoot paint arrows at heart shaped targets, and then have ballroom dance lessons and like I'm just going to have to pray I don't step on her feet at all since I'm clumsy.

DJ: I kinda wanna see YOU too though, dude. Like, you know everyone else's business; even if it was caused by magic it would still be funny for you to have business to talk about, too.

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text 💬 oakj

Oakley: Just GENIESEARCH if there's a helium shortage in the world then, don't assume I'D know! I KNOW NOTHING! You should have dibs though. It was your idea and besides, if I marry Myrcella, she probably won't be down with it.

DJ: I was hoping you'd be more curious than me and GenieSearch it so I don't start getting weird InstaRoyal ads about helium! But I'm already texting about it so I bet I'm doomed either way. Maybe you could do it for your bachelor party instead then!

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text 💬 karj

Karmen: You know what, that's a fair point! I think in my mind the things our generation is better at aren't physical skills that can be best built over time like archery but rather emotional and mental capabilities that we form from having access to more resources and more variety of people than our parents did but that's neither here nor there! I don't think I'd be that good at waterside design, to be honest. It's kind of intimidating! Maybe I'd be good at editing an existing design to keep it as safe as possible though? Keeping it up to code? And yes, that guy! When he seems nice and like he fits Margo's criteria, I'd hate for her to get hurt again when the Hadie thing feels so fresh, so maybe it would behoove us to spy! I'll ask her permission and then we can plan our own covert mission.

Karmen: I'm not too artsy either, really. I'm very left brain oriented. If we both like the combination though, I'll mark it down in my wedding Pinterest board!

DJ: Huh, that makes a lot of sense, though. Like even the stuff people talked about and believed when I was a kid seems different now that I'm a sort of grown up. Like people realized they weren't being good enough and have tried to be more accepting and stuff. Do you think that started before the VKs got here, or after? I've never figured out if it was like, people got more accepting because of them, or they got to be here because people became more accepting. Maybe! You could like slowly crawl down the slide on a rope to make sure there aren't any parts that are raised from the rest of it that'll WRECK your butt going down - have you had that happen to you? I've had that happen to me and it hurts so bad, but it was on a playground slide and not a waterslide. Sweet! Not that I wanna steal your thing with your best friend, but like... a spy mission does sound fun. And if you think I'd be a liability you can always take Puffin with you in my place.

DJ: Sweet! Is there anything else on that Pinterest board I should know about? Like food? It's okay if we don't serve any bird-food, right?

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text 🍌 cali

Kam: Wouldn't you be stressed out if you knew you were going to be related to Chad too? Mmm, I did consider for like more than ten seconds that we should stop talking about this and said that very thing. It's pretty hard to refuse a third drink and slip it to someone else when there's only like two other people around. Party etiquette and girl's night etiquette? Totally different.

Kam: Wow, that was TOTALLY verbatim what I said, Deej. YOU MIGHT NOT BE A DOUCHE BUT YOU SURE ARE AN IDIOT. WE ARE NEVER GOING TO SEE EYE-TO-EYE ON THIS. I wouldn't be here today if arranged marriages worked out for my family and I'm always going to feel like you should lead with your heart and I'm sorry if that upsets you but that's how I live my life. It's not stupid, it's special and romantic and beautiful. Feeling like you're free falling but you can always count on someone else to catch you and keep you safe? I mean who DOESN'T WANT THAT? God, don't get me wrong like hooking up is fun but I'd trade it in a split second if there was someone who got me and could fucking make me fly like that. Or like, maybe it wouldn't be that for me and I'm just projecting because my parents are fucking perfect and I've always thought that's like peak romance. Maybe it'll be different, like someone who can ground me or someone who I can't see coming but I want that exploding heart feeling. It's necessary. That's true, Karmen would be happy reading pretty much anywhere.

DJ: No? I literally WAS going to be related to Chad, and it wasn't even my choice, and I dealt with it just fine. Okay, you only wanted to stop talking about it when YOU had the last word. It's MY marriage, Kam, and you know what? For the first time I'm actually kind of excited about it. Maybe you're just too drunk to notice, then, because Karmen's consistent about that no matter what.

DJ: And I wouldn't be here if my parent's marriage hadn't been arranged, but one of us is willing to admit that both ways could work and one of us is convinced that one way is right and one way is evil, so... maybe the person who's too stubborn to care about the other side is the one who should change their opinion and not me. If you want to feel like you're free falling, go jump out of a plane, or trip off a cliff or something.