#quin lore

[quinloki]

goddamn it quin!! you seem to have had the craziest and coolest life—defo how I see myself in 20yrs :’)

xD I don't know that it was the coolest life, but it was certainly crazy.

I had a lot of dates, I had a lot of partners. I wasn't entertaining a new guest in my bed every night, granted, but I was not often in a cold bed either.

I only had one one-night-stand, but sometimes you learn Very Important Details about someone the morning after ^^; (this is not to imply that there's anything bad about one-night-stands, I just mean I tended to hookup with my hookups more than once).

Chapter 12 of Quicksand, the reader goes on to list some of the bad dates they've had. Aside from the restaurant catching on fire, all those dates are dates I, personally, had:

"All things considered," you admit after letting the dessert just melt in your mouth. "This is the best date I've ever been on." "I find that statement concerns me, more than comforts me, Miss (y/n)." Crocodile admits. You smile, and there's maybe an edge to it. "Well, I wasn't bitten, the restaurant didn't catch on fire, there wasn't a rat trying to crawl up my leg, and you didn't spend the entire day talking about exceptionally detailed trivia concerning customized computer cooling systems, including, but not limited to, ones that utilized liquid nitrogen, with such fervor as to wonder why I had gone mute after two hours." You're finding an odd delight at the strained look on Crocodile's face. He's trying to remain neutral, but you can see something cracking at the edges of his expression. "... What bit you?" He asks after a moment's pause. "My date." You answer evenly. "I had to get stitches. It wasn't even the worst date I've had."

Despite the rat and being bit, the Computer Guy sticks in my head the most, even like 20 years later. He did not stop talking. We went to a decent place for dinner and saw Jet Li in the The One if I remember right. He did stop talking during the movie.

I think it sticks in my mind cause it was a rare date where I let someone pick me up and drive me around. Usually I was the only one with a car, but more than that I realized that having a way to LEAVE was just as important as the safety of it, honestly.

Fun Quin Fact: I have been randomly and unexpectedly bitten by Four Different People, and two of the bites required medical attention.

Something something four nickels, but still. 😩

[quinloki]

mischief!!! tell me a good mischievous quin story

A good Mischievious story...

Alright, we'll keep it clean for starters:

When I worked security, I lifted the 5lb key ring of the maintenance guy while talking to him. We were having a full on conversation and he just... didn't notice I lifted the keys.

Left without them too.

I remember showing my boss the ring of keys and he had to call out to the maintenance guy. Like, you forgot something dude.

He came back to get his keys, and I took his access badge.

But that time I followed after him myself and gave that back. He was a good sport. Never stood too close to me for a few weeks after that XD

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[quinloki]

I also would like to hear a Quin story, but I leave it up to you if it's good, mischievous or audacious. ( ＾ω＾ )

Oh then I'll tell the story I was thinking about while I was answering the last ask.

So >.> One time (in band camp) - ahem.

I was working night security, and there was always two of us on schedule for it, so I come back from rounds just in time to hear my work partner go "What the fuck?"

"What's up?"

"This lady and cop got into the elevator, but then the doors opened and they stayed in and -- oh."

I love over just in time to watch this office worker lady get on her knees in the elevator.

Now, I have to point out that inside the elevator there is a sign that says "This car is monitored by security." And I have to also point out that people know we're there at night, because we do rounds.

So, coworker and I just kind of stood there, in shock, and watched this lady make this cop's eyes just roll back. And you couldn't really see anything, BUT YOU COULD SEE ENOUGH.

His hands in her hair. The look on his face. Like.

And it wasn't a new thing - I mean, THAT was a new thing, but part of second and third shift security is a lot of "You can't pee on the building." And "please stop having sex, we have cameras there." So we were both pretty just desensitized to it as an action.

But in the elevator. With the sign Right There.

Anyway, it ended up in the report, and the boss had to take that to building management, and they had a chat with the local PD, and the local PD was a bunch of bitches about it and started harassing the security people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It almost turned into a lawsuit.

But this was YEARS ago. Given the ages of the people involved I imagine I'm the only one not retired yet. I miss working with that partner though - our humor aligned and we got each other through what was, 98% of the time, a really boring shift.

I mean, there was a fire the one time, but that wasn't nearly as exciting as the elevator blowjob.

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[quinloki]

Okay but Springsteens song “I’m on Fire” gives Thatch vibes idk why

Also it’s his best most underrated song hands down

Tossing youtube links for these, cause I use Tidal and I know some folks use other platforms, because these are all great

I'm on Fire is a FANTASTIC Song, it's definitely got solid vibes for Thatch. Personally, I Really REALLY love Chromeo's Old 45's for Thatch, just because it's got a happier kind of old timey romance vibe to it.

Since you've unlocked Quin Loves Bruce Springsteen, I have to share that the best Springsteen song for the WBP pirates - the commanders at least, maybe pre-Ace joining - is Pink Cadillac

I have never

EVER

in my LIFE

heard someone say "Pink" so

Dirty

Paaaaaaank Cadillac

Anyway, every time I hear it I can just picture a lot of the boys piled up in a big old 1954 pink caddy with the top off/down/whatever.

I Wanna Be With You is my favorite song of his hands down, though I love so many ^_^

If anyone has come this far to read all this, I'll let you in on some Quin Lore™ - way back in the 00's, '05 or '06, I was post a terrible divorce and absolutely shitty ex, and just barely getting back onto my own two feet. I lived in an illegal apartment (it was against fire code), and pretty much worked, got online and worked more. During that time I met some folks from the UK on Neopets.

I won't get more detailed than that, but it was one of those folks who really got me into Bruce Springsteen. Sure, I'd heard him before, my dad enjoyed his music, but he wasn't really front and center. This, well, crush, from way across the pond, was a huge fan.

And I became a huge fan too.

Sadly, as things from ones past often are, I screwed it all up and we ended up going our separate ways, but the shared love of The Boss stayed, and here we are.

So whenever I listen to Bruce Springsteen - which is a lot - I think of those days, of those friends, of that one beautiful green-eyed man I was too insecure to stick with, and I hope they're all doing well.

Glory Days, indeed.

Ah, but as much as the "What might have been" may be, I am very happy I ended up where I did. I love my favorite human, my job's actually pretty spiffy, and I don't know who I would've been if I'd have gone down that other road anyway.

I may never have gotten in One Piece XD

[quinloki]

Every time you answer a storytime ask it sounds so much like something my friends group would have done I have to pause and squint at my phone.

XD

Well, I hope you and yours had twice as much fun, half as much vomit and even less than that in drama by the end of it =D

[quinloki]

I’d love to hear any story you want to share

-💧

Hmm.... Any story I want to share...

there was a space of time from 17-19 where I did a lot of wild things. I'm going to give a quick summary of some that come to mind:

~ Demonstrated a blowjob on my then boyfriend's fingers in front of the rest of the people who were play truth and dare that evening. One guy said he'd been dating the wrong people, and another said he would've given me his number except.

~ Found out I was allergic to beer after slamming my very first beer like a champ. Nearly died in my friend's bathroom, but considering I'm here now >.> Anyway, that was a lesson learned. Nothing but hard alcohol \o/

~ Played strip poker a Lot. Not enough to be decided on what actually constitutes winning or losing, mind you. Since these things tended to end in group sex a lot too. So like >.>

~ Had my first one night stand after getting a guy's number on the back of a Taco Bell receipt. I was hungover and still looked good I guess? XD I don't know what was going through his mind, but whew he was tight. It probably wouldn't have been a one-night stand, but there were details that came to light after the fact that made it thus.

~ Beat a bunch of guys at a drinking game. turns out when you're not allergic to what you're drinking you can drink a LOT more of it. Winning that was no fun though, cause then everyone else was passed out and heading off to bed from drinking too much 🤣

~ Experienced a variant of Coyote Ugly - and I still feel bad about it, because he was really sweet and he was a professional chef and I was really into the whole thing. but we met up the next day and there was just /nothing/ there. I was so drunk his voice even sounded different the next day. (Ah, this was at age 23 - I'd gotten divorced and my cousin had invited me over to drink my cares away. Before that I'd gone to a bdsm club with another friend to help me get through the whole thing).

That's it for off the top of my head. I did DD a lot during that time too, so there's things like, The Pizza Incident on the Expressway, and having my back door on my car welded shut being the only reason my friend didn't die. But yeah.

It was a wild couple of years.

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[quinloki]

Could we have another mischief story please

Another mischief story \o/

This one was a bit outside my control - but boy oh boy was it an experience.

CW: animal death - i won't be graphic, but if you have a hard time with the topic, don't read more.

So, I was working security (I did security a lot of different locations over the years, even a bit of bank and bodyguard work), and this time I was working at an apartment complex that spanned two towers right next to each other. We're only talking like 11 or so floors a piece.

Anyway.

Security was only 9-5 - through the night (so 9pm start time), and I come into work and there's cop cars EVERYWHERE.

Not the way you want to start your shift.

Anyway, I go talk to the police and turns out there was someone walking up and down the halls in full camo gear with a biker helmet on with a gun.

Ah. I know who we're talking about, actually.

So I take them to the correct apartment, and sure enough, our resident... we'll say, problem child, has decked himself out in his paintball gear (and airsoft paintball gun) and was just tromping up and down the halls at like 8:30 at night.

He was just in a foul mood, but obviously, this scared the shit out of the other residents and they called the cops.

So we get him into his apartment and everyone's having a chat and there is just this smell.

I don't get to forget this smell, but I'm not going to describe it to you.

One of the officers pipes up. "What the hell is that stench?" Well, problem child isn't any use, so they start trying to find it. (It was such a god awful scent.)

Finally, they're pulling towels and shirts that have been jammed into a door frame free and the smell gets worse. Now the problem kid's in cuffs - to be clear, he's a full grown ass adult.

They get the door open, unfortunately, and then start picking through this room and it's - I don't even want to describe it really, it's bad. It's a mess and it smells so bad.

A little digging unearths a long-dead 6 foot long boa.

Problem child doesn't have a legal right to own an exotic animal, so when it died (I have no idea from what), he panicked. I guess the smell was getting to him and irritating him and after about a week it had him stomping up and down the halls like that.

Anyway, that was probably the 3rd worst thing that happened while I worked at those apartments, and the only positive interaction I ever had with the police. (a different interaction when I was, again, security was >.> tense. Tense is a good word for it.)

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