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top 3 laurent is 3 seconds away from turning damianos into bottomianos scenes from the books?

HELLO DEAR ANON!!! 💖💖💖 I normally don’t have the poster’s temperament but this is a topic I hold dear to my heart and have decided I am willing to investigate.

What I have discovered is that it all starts with the fact that Laurent has two eyes…

NUMBER THREE: POST-ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT MEETING

Laurent has escaped a high adrenaline situation and is now seated slouched on the throne, a powerful aphrodisiac in his system, gazing at Damen so intensely that Damen starts wondering if Laurent is checking him out: 

I do believe Damen’s slut senses were warning him that Laurent wanted to take him right there on the floor. The circumstantial evidence is pretty damning that Damen barely escaped Laurent’s clutches in this scene with his First Night intact. 

NUMBER TWO: RAVENEL

Laurent at last has his mortal enemy exactly where he wants him, in a four-poster bed with soft-lit candles romantically arranged around them. He sets up the ideal conditions to ravish Damen asking him to hold still and goes wild: 

We all know how matters progress. It is fair to say that I believe when a man climbs on top of another man and starts humping him into the sheets his thoughts have taken him in a certain direction… 

By this point in the story Laurent also reveals his true romantic predilections. He wanted to hold Damen’s hands and call it making love. 

NUMBER ONE: MELLOS

It couldn’t be any other moment but their last night together in Mellos. 

I can't add much to this one because it's self-evident how much they want each other. Laurent thinks he's going to die. He spends their night together trying to have as much as he can with Damen. It really is the ultimate almost moment for them which brings me to…

BONUS: TOP ONE MOMENT BOTTOMIANOS WAS DOOMED

Laurent was twenty years old, madly in love and preparing to die for the love of his life. He lasted two seconds after Damen said that to him. RIP.

#actually hollering at slut senses #this is the meta we needed!! #funniest girl of all time

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What sort of world do we live in when we’re told to be grateful that the IOF has ‘only’ murdered 30,000+ civilians, ‘only’ injured over 80,000, ‘only’ starved 2.3 million people, ‘only’ destroyed 70%+ of infrastructure, ‘only’ destroyed the lives and dreams of 2.4 million Palestinians. A world where traumatising over a million children is justified.

A world where those that claim to value ‘human rights’ will tell this father, and thousands of other Palestinian parents, that the lives of their children is a price that needs to be paid for ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’. The irony. It’s a society that does not value life. "pasted from linkedin profile"

#free palestine

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damen & jokaste : a doomed love story

“national anthem” monologue, lana del rey | “cocoon”, björk | sue zhao | “rabbit heart”, florence + the machine

#oh 😔 #so poignant #poor Jo #captive prince

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i'm so confused about all this discourse about damen being an evil character. not a single thought along those lines has ever crossed my mind. he's flawed, sure (as all good characters are btw), but he's inherently good, empathetic, warm-hearted and therefore a great leader to his people, and all of those characteristics are the reason laurent falls in love with him, soooo what's going on lol

#agreed! #he really is so good #damen of akielos #captive prince

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for the ask game: 30?

unfortunately i don’t have any current wip 🥲 so i’ll go with an old wip of mine aka the unhinged laurent au!

“Hey,” the guy says, voice smooth as silk and yet husky in the most masculine way. Laurent subtly crosses his legs to hide the fact they started shaking slightly. “I’m Damen.”

Damen, Laurent thinks venomously. Damendamendamen. You will be my first kiss, first fuck, first boyfriend, first and only husband.

Laurent isn’t a religious person by all means but at that moment, he sends a prayer to any higher being for blessing him with a poker face. “Hey.” he replies casually, the amount of slutty “y”s he uses at the end of the word only visible to his ears.

Or not. When he painfully draws his gaze away from Damen to avoid combusting, he locks eyes with Auguste, whose eyebrows slightly went upwards.

Well. Mama didn’t raise no coward, so Laurent just lifts his chin and stares back at his brother. After a moment Auguste shakes his head, like chasing away a delusion, and gestures to the empty spot next to him. “Come, sit with us. Nicaise wasn’t very polite so I need you to prove at least one of my brothers is decent!”

Oh, Laurent would be better than decent for Damen. He would be the goodest boy, the best boy, the most obedient boy for Damen.

#unhinged Laurent is the best Laurent!! #not first fuck 😭 #Idil why are you so funny and talented #this is canon to me!!

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These murderers are admitting they lied only after the damage has been done and is STILL ongoing, and I am beyond pissed.

#free palestine

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VIA Palestinian Youth Movement

Walid Daqqah left the world today due to medical neglect by Occupation Forces in Israeli prison 7/4/2024

#palestine #walid daqqah

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Thank you @niniblack for speaking the drunken truth in 2017 🙏

The ultimate unpopular opinion about CP, that I'd like to get your opinion on but understand if you don't want to open the can of worms. The series isn't some profound meditation on the evil of slavery. CS Pacat set out to write a kinky slave fic, and the series shows its kinky slave fic origins right to the end and through the short stories.

Oh, I’ll open that can, Nonnie. I’ve had three glasses of apple cider sangria and I dyed my hair yesterday and got a new job so I am feeling invincible on this fine October evening.

I think it’s pretty clear that the series started as master/slave kink fic. I’m always surprised by the people who try to say otherwise. BUT THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. That’s the real key, I think, and why this is a “can of worms” in the first place. Why do some people hate the kinky bits so much? Why do they try and make them more profound than they are? Erasmus is basically the embodiment of the uke!slave trope and y’know what, that’s okay. He can be that and still be interesting and have an interesting back story. It can be kinky and still have plot, and interesting nuance. You don’t have to dismiss or disregard or explain away the kinky parts in order to justify the series’ as being worth something.

There seem to be two camps to the fandom, those that are okay with the series’ kinky origins (and, honestly, it’s leanings even through the end, of which The Summer Palace is a good example) and those that reject it entirely. Now, I understand the reasons people have for rejecting the kinky master/slave premise of the series. There is a LOT more to it than just that, and the series really did grow into something much larger than I think even Pacat expected when she started writing it. (I strongly suspect she was writing Lymond fanfic at the start, but that’s a different discussion and there are people better informed in both series than me to have it with.) And, given what it grew to and what some of the themes regarding recovery from abuse represent to people, I totally understand that one might latch on to that and reject the more unsavory parts of the series in favor of highlighting the good parts. Especially when there are always antis in the tag attacking CP purely on the basis of the slave fic aspects that ignore everything else about it. If you’re trying to defend the series against those types of people, then of course you’d downplay the kinky slave parts and emphasize the things the series does right.

But I don’t know, I’ve never felt the need to downplay the kinky slave parts of the series. Maybe I’ve just been in fandom too long, and seen it all or something, but I don’t see anything wrong with a bit of kinky slave fic, and there’s no reason that CP can’t be both kinky slave fic and a great love story and a story about overcoming abuse. It can be all those things. I also don’t feel the need to defend it to the antis and try to convince them otherwise. They can continue living their sad little lives not knowing about much Laurent and Damen love each other and united a kingdom to be together and that is their loss, no skin off my back. Let them think what they want. I know that CP is awesome. Who cares what they think?

What I’m saying here is that I’m halfway through my fourth glass of sangria, and we should all love each other, and love CP, and love it for what it is. Also Damen and Laurent love each other and united two kingdoms and their love is beautiful and will live on long after they’re gone and they definitely sometimes roleplay as master/slave because they are both secretly kinky bastards. I love them so much. *sobs*

Bring it in guys. Let’s hug it out.

#captive prince #and it really is 100% Lymond fan fiction

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you’re not a real fan and you don’t actually like damen if you don’t admit he:

-doesn’t stop nicaise from trying to drink wine = promotes underage drinking

-grew up in a slave nation = invented the concept of slavery

-thinks laurent is rude and spoiled = internalized homophobia and toxic masculinity

-once said guion had an “indoor figure” = fatphobic

-has premarital sex = sinner

-touched laurents butt in the baths while washing him = rapist

-tried to kill the regent = abuses the elderly

-didn’t like veretian wine = xenophobic

-breathes air = supports environmental pollution

-wears veretian clothes in vere = invented cultural appropriation

-likes the color red = reinforces gender stereotypes

-has a sword = advocates for violence and weapon proliferation

-walks on two legs = promotes ableism against quadrupeds

-speaks more than one language = colonialist mindset

-enjoys songs and ballads = endorses noise pollution

#user zumrruds is the funniest girl #as always!! #she’s never wrong

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#captive prince #Lamen #they’re so lovely 🥺

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screaming because every post about damen where people go “sorry unpopular opinion but damen is worse than laurent actually! he participated in WAR and had slaves in a fictional setting where that was a culturally consensual kink!” is like saying jon snow is worse than joffrey baratheon because jon killed more people than joffrey actually

#exactly exactly

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#damen of akielos #captive prince

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Homecoming

#sigh #beautiful #captive prince #look at that Damen

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#free palestine

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Gaza is a feminist issue, children's rights & human rights issue

#free palestine #i stand with palestine

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Don't forget about the Palestinians.

Don't forget about them now.

Don't forget about them tomorrow.

Don't forget about them in a week from now.

Don't forget about them in a month.

Don't forget them next year.

Don't forget them in 5 years.

When the history books start to update, don't let them put lies in there.

When documentaries come out, boycott the ones who call this a victory for Israel.

When books release talking about soldier's personal experiences with Palestine, remember the victims. Remember the truth.

Don't forget about what we've seen.

Don't forget about what we've heard.

Don't let them tell lies about Palestine.

Don't forget about the Palestinians when the world tries to make this go away.

#free palestine

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bells for him

damen love fest 2023 | day 5: relationships | 3/3

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“Do you feel some sort of misguided gratitude for me?” he questions. “Is that why you feel like you need to marry me?”

“Gratitude,” Laurent repeats. A short, jarring laugh bursts from his lips. “You think I’m fucking my brother’s killer out of gratitude? ”

This time, Damen can’t control his movements well enough to hide his flinch. 

But it hardly matters now. The ugliness between them has already spread through the whole room. There is no coming back from this.

“You tell me,” he responds quietly. “You clearly don’t respect me as a king or as a lover. So I’m a bit lost.”

read the whole chapter on ao3

#captive prince #idil writes #my poor Lamen babies #she likes to make us suffer!!