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Chapter 35 -When Will kisses Mike the little proletariat. "Crimson and Clover" by Joan Jett -When Will has a nice time with Mike. "More Than This" by Roxy Music

Chapter 34 -When Will convinces John to lead his own rebellion. "It's My Life" by No Doubt -When the gang is grooving on the beach. "Slow Jamz" by Twista/Kanye/Jamie Foxx

My favorite Claire fancast is Reese Witherspoon. She just perfectly encapsulates the look/feel I've always saw with Claire. Basically, "The Prom Queen all grown up." I had a previous Jack fancast with Ian Somerhalder, but I think I prefer James Marsden instead. Colton Haynes has aged out as my John Hobart fancast, so I'm open with that one. My current Marie fancast is an actress named Hannah Nordberg. (She reminds me a little of Taissa Farmiga, who was a previous Marie fancast but Taissa has also aged out of that.)

I resurrected this thread because Mark just ripped on what will be a popular trend in about 8 years forward in CAP time...the undercut aka the Macklemore cut: I still think it's a look but I get why Mark would rip on it. I wonder how he's going to feel about when Robbie the Second gets to college and guys are doing this:

Ooh, I like this dude for the underage model that blackmailed Patrick Christian. https://www.instagram.com/p/CUqX-96L-h4/?hl=en

I'm curious to know what Mark feels about hot young college-aged guys wearing mullets now. That's a trend I really did not see making a comeback. LOL

I'm pretty sure the haircut you described Bongo as having was extremely popular from about 2011 to 2016-ish, called the undercut. Dude is just ahead of his time. I wanted the Macklemore haircut badly but my hair texture wouldn't allow it. It really only worked on straight hair.

Right, although the point remains that he always feels like a little boy doing his impression of what he thinks a grown up is, especially how he dresses and acts. It's very social climber of him and I imagine Marie Crampton wouldn't have approved at her nephew being so gauche. Lol I did think he had better character growth in Black Widow but again, we aren't privy to JJ's thoughts and feelings because he's not a POV character in this story. You're giving the boy some much needed rest on the sidelines.

I thought JJ had a lot of character growth during Black Widow, but I do agree it kind of seems like he back slid. Then again, we're not privy to JJ's thoughts or feelings in this particular story. I do think it's kind of weird that JJ wants to be part of a classy New York brahmin crowd yet he's trying to be funny with his impression of a gauche character that was a satire of the nouveau riche. Since he doesn't really have the pedigree or the education to back him up, you think he'd avoid inviting comparisons to the nouveau riche.

You know, the guy who's playing Young President Snow in the Hunger Games prequel wouldn't be a bad Colleged Aged Mark Arbour in On the Mark. He's actually really close to how I pictured Young Mark, especially the face shape, skin tone, auburn hair, and the generally tall lankiness. We just need to see him act stoned to be sure. Lol 😂

Chapter 31 -When Will convinces Brad to talk it out with Jake, and they walk down the hall together. "Have A Little Faith in Me" by Mandy Moore

It was really hard to look at him the same way after the nastiness with Will during the emancipation.

Chapter 29 -When Will finds Brad at rock bottom. "Vienna" by Ultravox Chapter 30 -When Brad and Jake go over the stuff leading to their break-up. "Fallen" by Sarah McLachlan God, I've been waiting for this one. I don't think I've ever found a place for this one until now. Of course, this song wasn't out until the fall of 2003 so I had to wait a while to use it anyway. LOL

I think the one way I could see it happening is a situation like Yelp, where they located their company to Arizona because their employees couldn't afford San Francisco. Like if Will owns an app or something and he realizes his employees can't afford to live in the Silicon Valley so he moves them to a more affordable area.

Will is a tried and true California boy. I'm not sure I could see him being happy living anywhere else except possibly Australia or Hawaii. School's a different deal, though. You need to experience living away from the culture you grew up in at least once. The culture shock I got from my two years of living in Western PA after growing up in the Delaware River Valley was something I'm never going to forget, and I'm glad I experienced. I'd kind of love to see Will make friends with a total tried and true New England brahmin, though. It'd be cute. I've tried and failed to see Will hopping on the "Californians are moving to Texas or Arizona" train that's so big right now in the 2020's. (Or Idaho. I sure as hell can't picture Will ever living in a place like Idaho.) The only way he'd do it is if Stefan, JP, and Brad decided to move the family company to like Austin or something. He'd really miss being coastal, though. I'm not even really a beach person let alone a surfer guy but there was something weird about living in-land when for the mass bulk of my life I've never lived more than 90 minutes from a beach/coast. Like, seagulls are a totally normal thing but when I lived around Pittsburgh I was taken aback when I realized I never saw any around.

I just realized that Manu Rios from Elite is close to how I pictured the Mexican teenager that the family took in during If It Fits which was set in 1995. He would be Matt and Wade's age in the story now and I'm totally blanking on his name.

JJ not having access to his principal makes sense- he's bought stuff but not anywhere in the kind of league that Will has. JJ has, for the most part, lived a pretty tightly controlled existence and I can see the family being worried about him going off the rails and being stupid with money because he doesn't really seem to have any business sense.. If this is Bridgerton, JJ is Benedict, the guy who kind of just lolls around because he's got money and doesn't really have to think about where it comes from or how to maintain it/add on to it. I kind of wish JJ had Benedict's sense of fun and whimsy, though- JJ's more uptight like Anthony Bridgerton. He does makes me think of the line from Mad Men where Megan's mother says something along the lines of her daughter having an artist's temperament but not the actual talent. Ouch. (I mean, JJ's artistic talent WAS figure skating, but you can't paint with them. Supposedly JJ is also supposed to have a decent singing voice, although nothing that could get him onto Broadway, I don't think.)

Chapter 28 -When Will and Patrick have a nice little moment before Will goes back to California. 'There She Goes" by the La's -When JJ decides to cosplay as an AbFab character. "The Absolutely Fabulous" theme song. Duh. -When Will goes over his decision to invest in Facebook with Stefan. "Baby, You're A Rich Man" by the Beatles

Mark, can we have Jacob Elordi look like someone? Mainly because I get a kick out of how he's such an adorable, gentle giant puppy dog in real life while he's so good at playing a cold psychotic bastard. LOL I still cannot get over how many good-looking men Australia has produced for the world to enjoy. It's between them and Dallas, Texas. LOL

Chapter 27 -Will's jailbait anthem moment. "Seventeen" by Winger God, I am so glad we're at the point in the story timeline where 80's music was cool again. I love the 80's, deep down in my soul.

SoHo it is then. By 2004 it was pretty much just elite snobbery, right? I think all the actual, real artists were chased out by then.

True. I imagine he's going to hang out in Hell's Kitchen a lot. That seems to be where the artist community is/was in Manhattan. I can't see him with the stock exchange crowd in any way, shape, or form.

If he were willing, he could probably just buy an entire building in Brooklyn. But then, he'd be in Brooklyn. Then again, Brooklyn is becoming very hip, so maybe.

I get it. We're pretty close in age (I'm 36 and I think you're about 33, right?) and it's really hard to get back into the mindset of a 20-year old. 25, I could do it. But 20? Especially a 20-year old like Becker who is so deathly afraid about appearances and what people think about him? Honestly, he reads more like a 16-year old at times. LOL

Honestly, I like this as an ending, because I feel like the revelation about what was essentially Kevin's mentor being stuck on death row after he lost all his hope feels like the final piece of understanding who and what Kevin is at 22 years old. This is essentially what the story was, right? It feels complete to me.