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request: some labru?

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“Are you okay?” Laios asks, and Kabru looks down at him, keeping his thighs spread wider apart as he looks down at the other man, takes him in, commits him to memory. Laios is different like this than usual, his lips parted, his eyes wider than usual, his pupils dilated, sweat on his skin.

“Yeah,” Kabru says, and a part of him is frustrated with it, the fact that Laios is watching him back, the fact that Laios is looking at him eagerly, questioningly, when Kabru is trying to study him, trying to think about him.

“Do you you, um, still want to…?”

“Shut up,” Kabru orders him, and Laios groans as Kabru pushes himself up on his knees and grinds the tip of his prick against the bulge of Laios’ cock in his underwear, feels it hot underneath him. “Yeah,” he says. “I want you to— to use me.”

“Use you?” Laios repeats, and he tilts his head slightly as he looks up at Kabru’s face, questioning. “I don’t…”

“I want you to fuck me,” Kabru says firmly, resting his hands on the naked flesh of Laios’ pecs – they’ve not died in the dungeon in a while, and he’s put on a little weight, has more flesh to his chest and belly than he had. Kabru’s gained back a little of the weight he’d had before, too, is no longer just muscle over bone. “I want you to… to use me, you know. Like a— Laios.”

“Kabru,” says Laios seriously, and fuck, but he’s so eager sometimes, so agonisingly earnest as he meets Kabru’s gaze, as he does as Kabru says.

“Do you touch yourself?”

“Of course,” Laios says immediately, and Kabru looks down at him flatly, his lips pressed together.

“Your dick, Laios,” Kabru says. “Do you touch it? Get yourself off?”

“Oh,” says Laios, and his cheeks tinge slightly pink. “Um. Y— Are you going to ask me what to?”

Kabru narrows his eyes, taking that in for a second, and he wants to ask, wants to interrogate that as deeply as he can, but he just makes a mental note to come back to it later.

“I want you to use me, like you’re trying to get yourself off,” says Kabru experimentally, studying Laios’ face as he says it, looking for eagerness in his expression, but what he sees is a guardedness, an uncertainty, as Laios bites one of his lips. “Touch me to satisfy yourself,” he says, because he wants to know. Wants to know how Laios will touch him this first time, without Kabru’s hands guiding him, without Kabru telling him what to do, without him thinking about what Kabru wants. “Fuck me. Use me.”

“I don’t…” Laios starts to protest, and Kabru settles one hand flat on his chest, leaning in closer, brushing their lips together. Laios likes kissing, Kabru’s already discovered, and he eagerly leans up for more until Kabru holds him fast, doesn’t let Laios kiss him more. “Kabru—”

“Fuck me,” Kabru orders him, as crisply as he can. “I want you to. I want you to focus on your own pleasure.”

“I don’t do that,” Laios says uncertainly.

“I want you to,” Kabru murmurs, his voice as soft and solicitous as he can make it, and Laios sits up and pushes Kabru back. They’d stripped naked already, Laios so that Kabru could look at him, focus on him, and Laios had undressed Kabru whilst he’d been distracted, eased off his armour. “Laios—”

Kabru lets out a noise of surprise as Laios wrestles him over his lap and shoves Kabru’s thighs apart, and then dives in mouth first – and really, why should Kabru be surprised? Kabru lets out a sharp whine as Laios closes the top of his mouth around his cock at the same time as his tongue shoves into Kabru’s wet cunt, swipes around the open centre of it before he dips lower and tongues at Kabru’s ass instead. Kabru’s thighs are spread wide over Laios’ shoulders, Laios gripping at his knees.

“Which hole?” Laios asks, and Kabru opens his mouth, closes it.

“I’m not supposed to be the one choosing,” Kabru says, and Laios hums, then returns to tonguing at him, and Kabru can’t help the moan that escapes him as he considers this, Laios’ natural instinct of course being to dive in tongue first, to taste, to eat him out, as much as his instinct with anything he likes, loves, anything he’s fascinated with, anything he studies, is to consume it, devour it.

Kabru’s cock is twitching at the thought of it, his back arching as he spreads back over Laios’ chest, feeling the plumpness of his healthier belly underneath him, the heat of his body.

Laios sucks Kabru’s cock into his mouth, and Kabru groans, digging his fingers into Laios’ thighs to try to steady himself as Laios keeps on sucking at him, goes between tonguing at him, suckling at the side of his lips before he pulls back and stands to his feet. Kabru lets out a noise at the indignity of it as Laios keeps his arm banded around Kabru’s belly and holds him the right way up, not upside down this time, and shoves down his underwear.

As they fall down to Laios’ ankles, Kabru stares down between his own legs and now between Laios’ too, feels the heat of Laios’ long, fat cock standing up straight, prodding against Kabru’s own little prick. Kabru’s cunt is open and slick, all but dripping down against Laios’ cock, and he whimpers as Laios readies his cock and holds Kabru up straight, prodding his slick cockhead not up against Kabru’s pussy, open and wet, but up against the tighter furl of his arse.

“Laios,” he says in a warning tone. “Laios, don’t you fucking dare—”

“You told me I was supposed to choose,” Laios says in that blunt and simple tone he uses sometimes and then drops Kabru down, and Kabru howls as Laios’ cock sinks into his cunt after all, sinks in all at once and spreads him roughly wide, his thighs quivering, his whole body writhing and struggling helplessly in Laios’ grip as Laios lowers him down and fucks him as deeply as he can.

He’s breathing heavily as Laios says seriously, “I’m going to fuck you now,” with his hands going to Kabru’s hips, and Kabru is gloriously helpless as Laios begins to fuck him mercilessly from behind.

#musings #laios touden #labru #kabru of utaya #dungeon meshi #fanfic

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Pirate Media Recommendations

Along with Ryann Fletcher, Kate Heartfield, Juliet Kemp, and F.D. Lee, I'm going to be on the Queer Pirates panel at 3pm this Friday at EasterCon 2023!

Our Flag Means Death and other pirates: a panel discussion including fandom and canon of Our Flag Means Death and other series such as Black Sails. This item will start around 15 minutes after advertised start time to minimise clash with the Opening Ceremony.

You can still sign up for virtual membership of EasterCon here if you'd like to attend online, as there are going to be a great many panels and discussions throughout the con, which are gonna be great.

Coming up to the panel, I thought I'd make a list of some of my favourite pirate and nautical media to point people to, as I'm probably going to mention a bunch of it on the panel and this is a particularly fierce interest of mine!

So for Our Flag Means Death, we know that it's an interpretation of the historical relationship between Edward Teach and Stede Bonnet as a romance - two other famously queer pirates were of course Anne Bonny and Mary/Mark Read. I'm personally super excited to see if these figures will feature in Our Flag Means Death S2.

Podcast Episodes & Videos:

Ching Shih: The Pirate Queen, from Puppet History

The True Story of a Pirate Queen, from Ruining History

A History of Gay Pirates with Rebecca Simon, on the PRIDE Podcast -

Sailing Through Queer Pirate History with Rebecca Simon, on the PRIDE Podcast

Pirate Queens with Rebecca Simon, on the PRIDE Podcast

Were Some Pirates Poofters?, from the History is Gay Podcast - Going through Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Calico Jack, and Pierre Bouspet.

Queerness in the Golden Age of Piracy, from Queer as Fact

Books & Essays:

FICTION: The Aubrey-Maturin Series, by Patrick O'Brian - The Aubreyad is not about pirates, but is a nautical-historical series of 20 books set in the 1800s. I love these books a lot, they're ridiculous and very homoerotic with a lot of background gay dynamics - you can absolutely infer a romance between Captain Jack Aubrey, a hot slab of beef, and his doctor, Stephen Maturin. They're funny and they're rich with nautical descriptions, really immersing you into the language and feel of the period and the sensation of being on these vessels. While I'm not holding these books up as a bastion of queerness compared to other texts, Maturin is a fervent abolitionist and despite being a member of Aubrey's crew is actually vehemently anti-colonialist in his views, and those discussions do play out on paper again and again. Because of their realism these books do kind of poke a hole in the naval officers being held up as inherently noble or honourable, and particularly regularly criticises the actions and ideas of the state.

FICTION: J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan - I love Peter Pan, and obviously I talk and blog about it a lot. What's particularly dear to my heart is the relationship between Hook and Smee, which is such an intimate marriage even though it's not explicitly described as such, and it makes me very emotional. This book was written at the beginning of the 20th century, and I do want to warn anyone before going in about the racism inherent - the text treats the existence of the Natives to Neverland as part of an "adventure", and there's also anti-Black racism toward many of Hook's crew, as well as the description of Hook himself as "swarthy" despite being a white Etonian. Peter Pan is a story about working class white children in London whose parents has dreams of them ascending to middle class, and the children's fears of growing up are heavily influenced by economic anxiety, but also they desire a return to a time when as young white kids "adventure" would have been more accessible to them, as is typical in the classic adventure novel.

FICTION: Peter Darling, by Austin Chant - The Lost Boys say that Peter Pan went back to England because of Wendy Darling, but Wendy is just an old life he left behind. Neverland is his real home. So when Peter returns to it after ten years in the real world, he’s surprised to find a Neverland that no longer seems to need him. The only person who truly missed Peter is Captain James Hook, who is delighted to have his old rival back. The oft-recommended trans man!Peter Pan/Hook romance novel. Please don't talk to me about this one as I haven't and can't read it for some personal trigger readings, but it's recommended all over and is well-loved for a reason!

FICTION: Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island - Treasure Island is of course, one of the archetypal adventure novels. What a lot of people might not know is that the TV series Black Sails is a prequel to Treasure Island! If you enjoyed Our Flag Means Death, you might be delighted to realise that the real life pirate Israel Hands features in Treasure Island, and fights with Jim Hawkins, the protagonist.

NON-FICTION: Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, by B.R. Burg - In Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition, historian B. R. Burg investigates the social and sexual world of these sea rovers, a tightly bound brotherhood of men engaged in almost constant warfare. What, he asks, did these men, often on the high seas for years at a time, do for sexual fulfillment? Buccaneer sexuality differed widely from that of other all- male institutions such as prisons, for it existed not within a regimented structure of rule, regulations, and oppressive supervision, but instead operated in a society in which widespread toleration of homosexuality was the norm and conditions encouraged its practice.

ESSAY: Our Flag Means Death and Queer Utopias at Sea, an essay by Seth LeJacq

TV Series:

Our Flag Means Death - Of course, duh! Our Flag Means Death, a queer romcom interpreting the historical relationship between Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate, and Edward Teach, Blackbeard, as a romance.

Black Sails - A "gritty" and brutal prequel to RL Stevenson's Treasure Island, exploring the tales of Long John Silver and how he came to be what he ultimately is in Treasure Island. There is a lot of gay shit in this and it's extremely anti-imperial in its outlook - with that said, I'm personally not a great fan of Black Sails to watch, for me personally it's either too upsetting or too dull to stick with, oscillating between the two extremes. If you haven't tried it and do want to, I do recommend sticking through at least the first season and seeing if you get into it! With that said, it's got particularly brutal onscreen treatment of its WOC, especially Max, a Black woman who is violently raped onscreen (as well as onscreen abuses of other women), and I would recommend treading with caution if this is something that will be difficult to watch.

Neverland - This miniseries is near and dear to my heart - it's not huge on the pirates, but it actually has Bob Hoskins reprising his 1991 role as Smee, and I find it to be an interesting and quite different exploration of the Peter Pan prequel that really explores class some. More importantly, it actually has Natives playing Natives, and features Q'orianka Kilcher as Aaya!

Movies:

Love, Death, & Robots: Bad Travelling (2022) - This is a short film that's part of the LD&R series, and it's really good nautical horror. That's all there is to it.

Master and Commander (2003) - Taika Waititi said this movie is his favourite romance movie, and he's so fucking right. Anyway, this movie is based off the first five of Patrick O'Brian's Aubreyad, and it's so loving and so gay.

Treasure Planet (2002) - There are so many adaptations of Treasure Island, but this is my favourite every single time, it's just so well-done, it's so full of care, it really captures the wonder and excitement of sailing and the sense of freedom, and honestly? Jim Hawkins is sooooo transmasculine, he even has an ugly shitty mullet haircut and a little gold earring, he is the blueprint, he is perfect. If piracy in space tickles your fancy, I also might recommend Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013).

Pirates of the Carribean: The Black Pearl (2003), Dead Man's Chest (2006), and At World's End (2007) - Listen. Are there technically other POTC movies? Yes. Should you watch them? Oh, fuck no. I have seen On Stranger Tides and Dead Men Tell No Tales/Salazar's Revenge and let me tell you: you do not have to, you do not need to, and you do not want to. On Stranger Tides tried to tell me that Hector Barbossa fell in love with a woman. My man. Hector Barbossa. A woman!? Please! Anyway, I grew up on these movies and unfortunately they are overwhelmingly and unrealistically white - there are some really cool characters of colour and I especially love Tia Dalma. Remember not to watch these movies legally, by the way - watch them on an old cheap DVD or do some piracy yourself. Fuck Johnny Depp.

The Pirates of Penzance (1983) - This is an adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and it is so over the top, so ridiculous, so much fucking fun. Kevin Kline has some of the sexiest fits in this movie and so much thick, thatched chest hair, and the music is good, many of the jokes still land, and it's just fun.

Peter Pan (2003) - Don't watch the Disney Peter Pan. Never watch it, it's garbage, it's ugly, it invented a bunch of anti-Native racism that isn't in the already racist original text, and you know, fuck Disney. Is the 2003 Peter Pan perfect? No. But is it better? Yes. Jason Isaacs is so hot as Hook, and while I am not the biggest fan of PJ Hogan's take on the book that's all about Wendy wanting to fuck her own dad on top of cutting the Hook/Smee dynamic back significantly, the Neverland aesthetics and the silly piratical ones are a lot of fun.

Hook (1991) - Spielberg's sequel to Peter Pan is glorious for one reason and one reason only: Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins were like, "hey, these two dudes are married. They're old queens in love!" and they played it like that, and they were so fucking right. Hoffman's Hook is so queer and so effete and so incredibly mentally ill and he is the biggest mood throughout, as is Smee trying to keep them both alive. I adore this movie to death, I really do.

Down Periscope (1996) - Okay. So. This movie is a little bit different. It's not set in the Golden Age of Piracy or even just after it - it's set in the 1990s, and is about a Yank Naval Captain doing wargames with other members of the navy. With that said, it's got a lot of pirate hijinks and a lot of found family dynamics with a lot of freaks and neurodivergents packing the crew - note that there's some misogynistic harassment in this for the only female crew member, but she's one of my favourite characters and she's so much fun, much like the rest of the crew. Listen. The captain has a tattoo on his dick. They all dress up as pirates while making one of their crew members walk the plank. Their ending credits feature the cast dancing and singing along with the Village People, to the iconic gay anthem, In The Navy. It's good, I swear.

And I've tried a bunch of pirate videogames, but none of them has measured up to Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. Unfortunately, this game is an Assassin's Creed game and all the AC plot stuff sucks, because that's what AC games are for.

When it's not doing their terrible meta plot in the "real world", though, this game has such excellent gameplay, it's great fun, and the soundtrack is tremendous. Even if you don't play the game, absolutely consider giving the sound track a listen, because it's just great!

An old album I would recommend is also the Robert Shaw Chorale Sea Shanties one! It's from 1960, and they do some really fun arrangements of different sea shanties - their Drunken Sailor is one of my absolute favourites!

If you'd like to see a different take on the sea shanties and would still love some more space piracy, I would also recommend Once Upon A Time (in Space), by the Mechanisms!

My Stuff

And separate to the general rec list above, here's some of my work that's relevant to my takes on queer pirates, and why I'm on the panel:

Communicating Want, by me, DictionaryWrites - 75k, rated E, Frenchie/Izzy. Izzy's just so buttoned-up, how is Lucius supposed to resist the urge to seduce him? It doesn't go well. Just a silly thing exploring sexual trauma and stuff with Izzy Hands! Love that bitch.

Our Flag Means Death S01 E01: Close Textual Analysis — Examining OFMD E1: Pilot in close detail and liveblogging/analysing the text. On Medium / / On Patreon.

Gerald Poole and the Pirates - A distinctly queer adventure full of internal conflict ensues when a gentleman and a sailor are captured by pirates. Read on Medium: Part I / / Part II / / Part III / / Part IV / / Buy as an eBook on SmashWords, $2.99 / Buy as an eBook from Amazon.

The Coffin at Sea — 400w. A vessel picks up a coffin afloat at sea. On Medium / / On Patreon.

The Pirate Accountant — 4.5k, rated M, MB. A quartermaster works up the nerve to finally mount a seduction on their accountant. Dark humour and biting banter throughout, between an exceedingly cautious and paranoid accountant and the quartermaster who’s finally worked up the courage to ask him out. On Medium / / On Patreon.

Saint Jude’s Kitchen — 20k, Rated M, MB. After an injury stops him working, a failing deckhand gets a new lease on life. Themes around cooking and nurturing, identity and sense of self, and complex family dynamics. Adapted from a TweetFic. On Medium / / On Patreon.

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