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birdmenmanga · 3 months
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I think there's no greater indication that disco elysium is sympathetic towards communism when it literally says "communism is failure" and then the literal gameplay itself rewards trying and failing. The most obvious one being the Shivers check at the FELD mural, which is an Impossible 20 check BUT opens itself up again and again the longer you spend in the world doing things, but even just looking at sheer probabilities, for any given white check, rolling first and THEN putting a point into that skill upon failure is more likely to grant you success than putting a point first and then rolling, but that would require failing first.
Other things too: Precarious world saying you'll 100% fail red checks no matter what (not necessarily a bad thing, btw!! throwing the boule into the sea is a success but like. in some other ways one would want a perfect petanque throw instead. but people wouldn't typically assume that failure is desirable sometimes from the start) persuading you to accept that you'll fail some things that is irrevocable, for a world where everything is just a tiny bit easier.
The faux game over screen when you faint after reading Dora's letter— emulating a sense of failure on the scale of the entire game. When it rolls up most people go "What?? Game over?? No way, what did I do wrong!!" and waking up after that, with no huge or lasting impact on Harry's health or morale really tells the player, "Sometimes things will seem so bad that it all seems like it's coming to an end, but it's not the end, it's really not the end, go drink so water, you can still go on despite this failure"
I'm sure there are other things as well that are eluding me but like. The literal gameplay rewards failing and succeeding far more so than simply succeeding every single time, and I think you get a fuller experience of Elysium that way too
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licollisa · 10 months
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In which Swapfell Sans is your mom friend.
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marimbles · 6 months
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it’s both funny and embarrassing when I do a tumblr thing that is completely normal to me but my non-tumblr friends think I made it up myself and I’m some sort of comedic genius for it. Like yesterday I said “feeling philosophical in this Chili’s tonight” in the group text and they were like “omg I’m dying!! 😂” and one time I put ™️ after something and they thought it was hilarious. how would they react if I pulled a “getting a good grade in X, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve.” they’d probably think I’m the funniest person alive and it would all be a lie
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gold-rhine · 1 year
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sub!Diluc x Dom! gn! reader
Warnings: very much not safe for w, edging, overstimulation, praise kink, minors get out of here. But also, some unabashed fluff. Yes, it contains multitudes.
words: 3,2k.
A\n: repost since my previous blog got shadowbanned
Listen, i know everyone hcs Diluc as a dom. And he can be a very nice service dom, but I’m here to convince you that sub!Diluc is actually not OOC.
First of all, he’s more repressed than a catholic nun. Diluc is like on six levels of dissociation at any given moment. He sees his body as a flesh suit he’s piloting that requires an inconvenient maintenance like sleep, food and occasional sexual release. He’ll jerk off by himself like it’s a chore.
Diluc is so touch starved it’s ridiculous, and *he doesn’t even know it*, that’s how much he’s disconnected from his needs.
And like. Helping ppl like that discover what they actually want and watching them come undone in pleasure they didn’t know they desired is so delicious. If you know, you know, there’s nothing quite like it.
But you have to go slow with him
I mean first of all, you shouldn’t mess with Diluc at all if you’re not in for a long haul, this man doesn’t do casual.
Oh, he’ll agree to try if he’s already into you, he’s incredibly indulging to the people he values. But also because at first he’ll be incredibly defensive.
Not because he’s not into it. Just as a defense mechanism, as he thinks he’ll disappoint you and he’s preparing for a failure from the start.
Diluc can see any activity with his important people as a trial where his performance will be evaluated. He is one of these “I need to get a good grade in X which is both normal to want and possible to achieve” people.
Remember the coffeeshop event where he was like “When I was a small child, my father told me to mix my first drink using all of the ingredients in the tavern. In hindsight, it was probably to see how creative I am and I must’ve failed because I just made a fruit punch and my father didn’t say if I did well”?
Like, Diluc. Baby. Honey. Sweetie. Your dad probably just wanted you to have fun in an improvised “take your kid to work” event. He didn’t judge your punch because it was about spending quality time together and letting you play with colorful syrups. Who the fuck would evaluate a small child’s creativity on the first time they mix drinks. You think he expected you to invent Pina Colada?
So yeah, he will see even getting edged as a thing he’s not proficient in, so he’s most likely to fail and disappoint you. And that’s one of the worst things he can imagine.
Because being useful is Diluc’s love language. If you read his voicelines or talk to him in teapot, you can notice how he’s very focused on doing things for you, like he’ll invent a drink specifically for you and keeps repeating that you should tell him if you need anything, but at the same time, he “doesn’t do chit chat” and wants to leave if there’s nothing for him to do.
Because Diluc knows he’s not easygoing or fun to be around. He has his charming brother who makes it seem effortless to compare himself with. He knows he’s kind of awkward, intense, brooding and direct to the point of coming off as rude. So he needs to feel like he’s doing something useful for you to justify spending time with you.
So for his first time, don’t tease him verbally. He’s incredibly teasable, I know. But he’s already very anxious about disappointing you even if he tries to hide it and he was conditioned to clamp up at the first sign of perceived mockery by his troll brother. Show him first how good it can feel before you start playing with him.
also, he obviously has a praise kink that he’s not even aware of. like, it’s not even up for discussion, praise from other people and approval from his dad are literally described as his main motivations
“The praise he received from his comrades and citizens spurred him on. But the words of praise he valued most of all were: "Good job. Now, that's my son." His father's words fueled the fire inside his heart and served as his greatest motivation.“ and sure, after he lost his dad and emotionally closed off, he doesn’t allow himself to rely on approval of others. But it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want it.
You can tie his hands, but honestly I think it’s much more fun to just order him to keep his hands up. He’s so stubborn, it’ll be a matter of pride for him to keep his composure. And it will also make it that much more delicious to see it finally break.
When you tell him that he must ask for permission to finish, he just scoffs. He’s so sure he wouldn’t be reduced to that.
Don’t expect him to dissolve into stereotypical meowling and begging when you first start touching him. Again, he’s much too stubborn. He’s coming into this defensive and he wants to be in control of himself.
But hear me out - it actually makes it more fun to tease him. Diluc tries to keep himself still, but no amount of willpower will make him less sensitive and, again, touch starved to hell and back.
So at first, it’s the little things that betray him. How when you kiss his neck, his throat moves under your lips in a shaky intake of a breath, How the taut muscles of his scarred arms flex when you run your hands over his chest. How he draws in his stomach when you slide your fingers down it, slow, tantalizingly slow, making light patterns with just your fingertips. How he avoids your eyes because you haven’t even touched his cock yet and he’s already so obviously, painfully hard.
He has a beautiful cock, big and with a nice curve, and as for all pale redheads, it becomes brilliantly red when aroused. When you finally touch him, slowly stroking it up from the base to the tip, he draws in a breath through the clenched teeth and squeezes his eyes shut. You watch him struggle as you start pumping his dick faster and faster, his jaw clenching, his breath and heartbeat quickening, sweat beads forming on his forehead, his shoulders and hips flinching as he tries to keep himself from arching up and thrusting into your hand.
He’s fighting a losing battle and both of you know it by now. You could break him right here if you wanted. You squeeze and rub the sensitive tip of his cock, and see him open his mouth in a silent, chocked gasp for air. He manages to keep himself from clenching his fists, but his knuckles whiten when he desperately scraps his fingertips against the bedsheets.
But you don’t want him to feel like he lost a fight, it’s not about that, it was never about that. Even shame should feel good. You caress his high, sculpted cheekbones with your thumb, your other hand still on his cock. “‘Luc, look at me.”
He can’t disobey you, but he has to take a deep breath before he can open his eyes. He meets your gaze, anxious. What’s he going to see, mockery over how pathetically quick he’s breaking down? Disappointment for how bad and inexperienced he is at this? Just a cold, severe rejection?
“You look so beautiful, baby,” you tell him quietly and breath catches in his throat, his pupils widening, his cock twitching in your hand. You kiss the trail from his sharp jawline up to his ear, allowing him to turn away. “Do you enjoy this? Do you want me to keep going?" you smile warmly when he whips his head back to look at you and meet his dazed crimson eyes. “I just want you to feel good.”
This reframes the entire scene for him in a one fell swoop, turning it upside down, leaving him disoriented. It wasn’t a challenge that he was losing, or a trial that he was failing, him giving in to his desires was what you wanted all along? You enjoy seeing his pleasure, even if he’s not being useful to you in return? It seems impossible to him, yet when you look at him like this, when you touch him like this, like he’s precious and wanted, when he knows he’s broken and undeserving… it feels intoxicating and liberating at once, in a way he couldn’t imagine before. He realizes at this moment how badly he wants this, even if he still doesn’t understand how far he’s willing to go for it.
“I… ugh, I… like it,” Diluc swallows harshly, his mouth suddenly dry, and if you thought he was blushing before, now the pink dust on his cheeks turns into a brilliant scarlet glow, covering his face, neck and even top of his shoulders. He clearly wants to look away in embarrassment, but makes himself hold your gaze. “If you… enjoy this too and… want to go on…”
You rake your eyes over him, sprawled in front of you, and smile, meeting his gaze again. “Of course I enjoy it. You look so fucking hot like this.” his eyes widen and his lips part, you can feel his tip leaking in your hand, his entire body strung up like a bowstring. He doesn’t know what to answer and he couldn’t talk even if he did, so when you lower your head down to kiss him he answers eagerly, with passion and gratitude he can’t express in words. You start pumping his cock again, now faster and with a firmer grip, and drink in his abrupt gasp against your mouth, as he freezes for a second and then returns the kiss with twice the abandon. This time he doesn’t try to fight it, his body trembling under you, his hips bucking up to meet your hand, his hands closing into fists, toes curling.
He breaks the kiss when you twist your palm against his pulsing tip, and he cries out, low and strangled, his entire body arching up, but his unfocused eyes find yours immediately, his gaze frantic, almost feverish. He’s going far outside his comfort zone, he’s relinquishing control and he’s so unused to this, he trained himself for years to do the opposite of this, to see it as a failure, so he needs your repeated reassurance to soothe his anxiety, to prove he didn’t imagine your desire few moments ago.
You lean down to him without breaking eye contact. “You’re doing so good, baby. You’re being so good for me.”
It shoots through him, bypassing the brain entirely, through the entire nerve system and right down to the cock, like only discovering a kink you were entirely oblivious to before can. His body goes rigid and he comes, with a choked, shuddering groan.
You stroke him through it, until he limply falls back on the bed, spent and panting. He reaches for you and you let him pull you in, hold him while he’s coming back to his senses, run fingers through his soft hair. When he opens his eyes, he looks at you with a small, almost sheepish smile, and it’s impossible to resist kissing him.
“Are you okay?” you ask, stroking his cheek and he leans into your palm.
“Yes, I’m fine,” he answers immediately, then realizes how it sounds and tries to correct. “I mean, I’m better than fine. I’m... I feel good.”
You chuckle and his eyes flicker to watch your mouth, then throw you a glance from under half-lowered lids. It’s enjoyable seeing him open like this, but what you really want is seeing him come undone. He doesn’t look tired and you know he can go on for much longer, but today it’s more a question of mental state than stamina.
“You want to go for another round?” you ask softly him and he blushes lightly.
“Well, I did technically… um, break a promise to ask for permission in the end,” he says with the same small smile that grows even more sheepish as he tries to avoid admitting he desperately wants more. “So it’s only fair if I remedy that.”
“Oh, of course. Honorable as always. So noble of you, Master Diluc,” you run your fingers over his abs, spreading cum all over them, and his brilliant blush returns in full force. But he doesn’t stop smiling, trusting your good intentions, that you’re mocking the hierarchy of ranks and not him personally. You kiss the corner of his mouth to reassure him, and his smile grows wider.
“Well, you can’t be successful in the commercial trade if you’re not answering for your obligations,” he says, trying and failing to keep a straight face. He really does recover very quickly, you think, if he can already banter. “The Wine Guild would kick me out if they learned I’d backed down on a deal.”
“Well, at least I know I can complain to the Wine Guild if you misbehave then,” your voice is still light, but you catch his chin and lift it up firmly, and he tenses up immediately.
He looks up at you, eyes intense as always, but now glittering in anticipation and tracking your every move, bangs tousled and lips parted for you to claim. You kiss him, messily, greedily, slide your fingers to the back of his head and pull on his hair, forcing him to expose his throat for you. You leave the trail of sloppy kisses and scraped teeth down from his jaw to the collarbones before you let go of his hair and allow him to collapse.
When your hand finds his cock, it’s already half-hard, throbbing. red. This time, you don’t go slowly, you grab it and start pumping it fast. He shudders, still so sensitive after a recent orgasm, and instinctively tries to close his legs.
You don’t force them open, instead, you catch his chin and meet his eyes again. “No,” you say slowly. “Open up for me.”
The thing about Diluc is that he doesn’t do anything by halves if he sets his mind to it. Once he opens up, he burns for you with the same single-minded dedication as he does fighting enemies in the night. He might not know how to ask for help, pleasure or affection, but he sure knows how to give and to give everything he’s got. Do not ask to have him if you want anything less than the whole.
He grits his teeth, his eyes smoldering crimson, and forces himself to spread his legs again, against his basic reflexes. The touch to his overstimulated dick is painful and igniting at the same time, it feels equal parts wrecking and delightful.
You smile and praise him and pump him even harder and faster than before, and he trashes in front of you, muttering a litany of half-choked curses, throwing his head from side to side, hands clawing at the sheets, thighs shaking, but staying open.
You asked for him and you shall have him, no matter what.
It’s still not enough for you, though.
You sprawl on your side against him, circling one arm around his shoulders, still stroking him with the other. The fight goes out of him. He blindly leans into you, trembling, a small whine caught in his throat. When you kiss him, his mouth is soft and pliant, but his hands clutch at you desperately, like a drowning man trying to hold on to the solid ground.
It drives you crazy to watch him writhe under you, completely unravelled, glowing brightly from feverish desire, scarlet silk of his tangled hair sprawled on the sheets, his hips bucking frantically into your hand.
You whisper sweet, tender praises to him, caress his face, neck and shoulders like he’s the most precious and fragile thing in the world, at the same time as your other hand relentlessly winds him up, squeezes his overstimulated, pulsing cock harshly, twists the leaking tip. The pain punctuates desire, a delirious contrast of torturously sweet and deliciously cruel.
His fingers dig into you, holding you close. He presses his face into the crook of your neck, clings to you, seeking comfort and shelter from the same sweet, unbearable torture that is also inflicted by you. The pleasure melts him, but the pain splits him open, wrecks him to the core, he wants this to end, and he wants this to never stop. More than anything, he wants to be yours.
“Fuck, look at you. You’re perfect,” you tell him and you mean it.
He breathes in through his mouth, drawing in your scent. “Please,” he gasps so quietly, you could’ve missed it if not for his lips moving against your neck. “Please, let me…please…”
Next time, you might demand more. Next time, you might make him spell it out completely, what exactly he begs you for. But this is his first time and he was already so brave for you.
“Yes, baby. You’ve been so fucking good. Come for me.”
He comes immediately and so hard, his entire body is shaking, the strangled scream caught in his throat. You keep stroking him, letting him ride it out through increasingly frantic and desperate thrusts, squeeze every last drop out of him until he collapses, limp and shivering, but still clinging to you.
You hold him, stroke his hair and kiss his forehead, whisper to him softly until he stops trembling and his breath evens out. You realize that he’s too weak now to get to the bath, so you stand up to get something to help, but he reaches out, catches your wrist immediately.
“It’s okay, I’ll be back in a second,” you promise. After you clean him up with a wet cloth, he pulls you in and curls around you so possessively and needy, you can’t help but smile. He’s fighting a losing battle to stay awake, the endless sleepless nights finally catching up with him, now that he lowered his guard for a moment and let his body feel alive. But there’s one thing he needs to ask, suddenly apprehensive now that the rush of lust passed.
“Did you… Was I… Ugh, damn. Would you perhaps?..” he stumbles over his words, not knowing how to phrase his concern that he wasn’t good enough for you and you just indulged him. You stop him mercifully.
“I *did* enjoy it. You *were* incredible. And yes, I would very much love to do this again.”
“Oh,” he says, relaxing against you, the same precious small smile appearing on his face again, now more content than sheepish. You chuckle, stroking his face.
“Besides, you did break my order to keep your hands up. You’ll have to suffer the punishment, or the Wine Guild will need to hear about this.”
He snorts indignantly and blushes at the same time. For the first time in many, many nights he falls asleep with a light heart and a smile still tugging at his lips.
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rhine-gold-archive · 2 years
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sub!Diluc x Dom! gn! reader
Warnings: very much not safe for w, edging, overstimulation, praise kink, minors get out of here. But also, some unabashed fluff. Yes, it contains multitudes.
words: 3,2k.
A\n: This somehow turned into Diluc character study, but I promise I will get to the filth after the psychological profiling. also, I know I tend to write in an authoritative voice like I'm stating facts, but these are just my personal opinions and if you interpret characters differently, more power to you.
Listen, i know everyone hcs Diluc as a dom. And he can be a very nice service dom, but I’m here to convince you that sub!Diluc is actually not OOC.
First of all, he’s more repressed than a catholic nun. Diluc is like on six levels of dissociation at any given moment. He sees his body as a flesh suit he’s piloting that requires an inconvenient maintenance like sleep, food and occasional sexual release. He’ll jerk off by himself like it’s a chore. 
Diluc is so touch starved it’s ridiculous, and *he doesn’t even know it*, that’s how much he’s disconnected from his needs.
And like. Helping ppl like that discover what they actually want and watching them come undone in pleasure they didn’t know they desired is so delicious. If you know, you know, there’s nothing quite like it.
But you have to go slow with him
I mean first of all, you shouldn’t mess with Diluc at all if you’re not in for a long haul, this man doesn’t do casual.
Oh, he’ll agree to try if he’s already into you, he’s incredibly indulging to the people he values. But also because at first he’ll be incredibly defensive.
Not because he’s not into it. Just as a defense mechanism, as he thinks he’ll disappoint you and he’s preparing for a failure from the start.
Diluc can see any activity with his important people as a trial where his performance will be evaluated. He is one of these “I need to get a good grade in X which is both normal to want and possible to achieve” people.
Remember the coffeeshop event where he was like “When I was a small child, my father told me to mix my first drink using all of the ingredients in the tavern. In hindsight, it was probably to see how creative I am and I must’ve failed because I just made a fruit punch and my father didn’t say if I did well”?
Like, Diluc. Baby. Honey. Sweetie. Your dad probably just wanted you to have fun in an improvised “take your kid to work” event. He didn’t judge your punch because it was about spending quality time together and letting you play with colorful syrups. Who the fuck would evaluate a small child’s creativity on the first time they mix drinks. You think he expected you to invent Pina Colada?
So yeah, he will see even getting edged as a thing he’s not proficient in, so he’s most likely to fail and disappoint you. And that’s one of the worst things he can imagine.
Because being useful is Diluc’s love language. If you read his voicelines or talk to him in teapot, you can notice how he’s very focused on doing things for you, like he’ll invent a drink specifically for you and keeps repeating that you should tell him if you need anything, but at the same time, he “doesn’t do chit chat” and wants to leave if there’s nothing for him to do. 
Because Diluc knows he’s not easygoing or fun to be around. He has his charming brother who makes it seem effortless to compare himself with. He knows he’s kind of awkward, intense, brooding and direct to the point of coming off as rude. So he needs to feel like he’s doing something useful for you to justify spending time with you. 
So for his first time, don’t tease him verbally. He’s incredibly teasable, I know. But he’s already very anxious about disappointing you even if he tries to hide it and he was conditioned to clamp up at the first sign of perceived mockery by his troll brother. Show him first how good it can feel before you start playing with him.
also, he obviously has a praise kink that he’s not even aware of. like, it’s not even up for discussion, praise from other people and approval from his dad are literally described as his main motivations
“The praise he received from his comrades and citizens spurred him on. But the words of praise he valued most of all were: "Good job. Now, that's my son." His father's words fueled the fire inside his heart and served as his greatest motivation.“ and sure, after he lost his dad and emotionally closed off, he doesn’t allow himself to rely on approval of others. But it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want it. 
You can tie his hands, but honestly I think it’s much more fun to just order him to keep his hands up. He’s so stubborn, it’ll be a matter of pride for him to keep his composure. And it will also make it that much more delicious to see it finally break.
When you tell him that he must ask for permission to finish, he just scoffs. He’s so sure he wouldn’t be reduced to that.
Don’t expect him to dissolve into stereotypical meowling and begging when you first start touching him. Again, he’s much too stubborn. He’s coming into this defensive and he wants to be in control of himself. 
But hear me out - it actually makes it more fun to tease him. Diluc tries to keep himself still, but no amount of willpower will make him less sensitive and, again, touch starved to hell and back. 
So at first, it’s the little things that betray him. How when you kiss his neck, his throat moves under your lips in a shaky intake of a breath, How the taut muscles of his scarred arms flex when you run your hands over his chest. How he draws in his stomach when you slide your fingers down it, slow, tantalizingly slow, making light patterns with just your fingertips. How he avoids your eyes because you haven’t even touched his cock yet and he’s already so obviously, painfully hard.
He has a beautiful cock, big and with a nice curve, and as for all pale redheads, it becomes brilliantly red when aroused. When you finally touch him, slowly stroking it up from the base to the tip, he draws in a breath through the clenched teeth and squeezes his eyes shut. You watch him struggle as you start pumping his dick faster and faster, his jaw clenching, his breath and heartbeat quickening, sweat beads forming on his forehead, his shoulders and hips flinching as he tries to keep himself from arching up and thrusting into your hand. 
He’s fighting a losing battle and both of you know it by now. You could break him right here if you wanted. You squeeze and rub the sensitive tip of his cock, and see him open his mouth in a silent, chocked gasp for air. He manages to keep himself from clenching his fists, but his knuckles whiten when he desperately scraps his fingertips against the bedsheets. 
But you don’t want him to feel like he lost a fight, it’s not about that, it was never about that. Even shame should feel good. You caress his high, sculpted cheekbones with your thumb, your other hand still on his cock. “‘Luc, look at me.”
He can’t disobey you, but he has to take a deep breath before he can open his eyes. He meets your gaze, anxious. What’s he going to see, mockery over how pathetically quick he’s breaking down? Disappointment for how bad and inexperienced he is at this? Just a cold, severe rejection?
“You look so beautiful, baby,” you tell him quietly and breath catches in his throat, his pupils widening, his cock twitching in your hand. You kiss the trail from his sharp jawline up to his ear, allowing him to turn away. “Do you enjoy this? Do you want me to keep going?" you smile warmly when he whips his head back to look at you and meet his dazed crimson eyes. “I just want you to feel good.”
This reframes the entire scene for him in a one fell swoop, turning it upside down, leaving him disoriented. It wasn’t a challenge that he was losing, or a trial that he was failing, him giving in to his desires was what you wanted all along? You enjoy seeing his pleasure, even if he’s not being useful to you in return? It seems impossible to him, yet when you look at him like this, when you touch him like this, like he’s precious and wanted, when he knows he’s broken and undeserving… it feels intoxicating and liberating at once, in a way he couldn’t imagine before. He realizes at this moment how badly he wants this, even if he still doesn’t understand how far he’s willing to go for it.
“I… ugh, I… like it,” Diluc swallows harshly, his mouth suddenly dry, and if you thought he was blushing before, now the pink dust on his cheeks turns into a brilliant scarlet glow, covering his face, neck and even top of his shoulders. He clearly wants to look away in embarrassment, but makes himself hold your gaze. “If you… enjoy this too and… want to go on…”
You rake your eyes over him, sprawled in front of you, and smile, meeting his gaze again. “Of course I enjoy it. You look so fucking hot like this.” his eyes widen and his lips part, you can feel his tip leaking in your hand, his entire body strung up like a bowstring. He doesn’t know what to answer and he couldn’t talk even if he did, so when you lower your head down to kiss him he answers eagerly, with passion and gratitude he can’t express in words. You start pumping his cock again, now faster and with a firmer grip, and drink in his abrupt gasp against your mouth, as he freezes for a second and then returns the kiss with twice the abandon. This time he doesn’t try to fight it, his body trembling under you, his hips bucking up to meet your hand, his hands closing into fists, toes curling. 
He breaks the kiss when you twist your palm against his pulsing tip, and he cries out, low and strangled, his entire body arching up, but his unfocused eyes find yours immediately, his gaze frantic, almost feverish. He’s going far outside his comfort zone, he’s relinquishing control and he’s so unused to this, he trained himself for years to do the opposite of this, to see it as a failure, so he needs your repeated reassurance to soothe his anxiety, to prove he didn’t imagine your desire few moments ago.
You lean down to him without breaking eye contact. “You’re doing so good, baby. You’re being so good for me.”
It shoots through him, bypassing the brain entirely, through the entire nerve system and right down to the cock, like only discovering a kink you were entirely oblivious to before can. His body goes rigid and he comes, with a choked, shuddering groan. 
You stroke him through it, until he limply falls back on the bed, spent and panting. He reaches for you and you let him pull you in, hold him while he’s coming back to his senses, run fingers through his soft hair. When he opens his eyes, he looks at you with a small, almost sheepish smile, and it’s impossible to resist kissing him.
“Are you okay?” you ask, stroking his cheek and he leans into your palm.
“Yes, I’m fine,” he answers immediately, then realizes how it sounds and tries to correct. “I mean, I’m better than fine. I’m... I feel good.”
You chuckle and his eyes flicker to watch your mouth, then throw you a glance from under half-lowered lids. It’s enjoyable seeing him open like this, but what you really want is seeing him come undone. He doesn’t look tired and you know he can go on for much longer, but today it’s more a question of mental state than stamina. 
“You want to go for another round?” you ask softly him and he blushes lightly.
“Well, I did technically… um, break a promise to ask for permission in the end,” he says with the same small smile that grows even more sheepish as he tries to avoid admitting he desperately wants more. “So it’s only fair if I remedy that.”
“Oh, of course. Honorable as always. So noble of you, Master Diluc,” you run your fingers over his abs, spreading cum all over them, and his brilliant blush returns in full force. But he doesn’t stop smiling, trusting your good intentions, that you’re mocking the hierarchy of ranks and not him personally. You kiss the corner of his mouth to reassure him, and his smile grows wider.
“Well, you can’t be successful in the commercial trade if you’re not answering for your obligations,” he says, trying and failing to keep a straight face. He really does recover very quickly, you think, if he can already banter. “The Wine Guild would kick me out if they learned I’d backed down on a deal.”
“Well, at least I know I can complain to the Wine Guild if you misbehave then,” your voice is still light, but you catch his chin and lift it up firmly, and he tenses up immediately. 
He looks up at you, eyes intense as always, but now glittering in anticipation and tracking your every move, bangs tousled and lips parted for you to claim. You kiss him, messily, greedily, slide your fingers to the back of his head and pull on his hair, forcing him to expose his throat for you. You leave the trail of sloppy kisses and scraped teeth down from his jaw to the collarbones before you let go of his hair and allow him to collapse. 
When your hand finds his cock, it’s already half-hard, throbbing. red. This time, you don’t go slowly, you grab it and start pumping it fast. He shudders, still so sensitive after a recent orgasm, and instinctively tries to close his legs.
You don’t force them open, instead, you catch his chin and meet his eyes again. “No,” you say slowly. “Open up for me.” 
The thing about Diluc is that he doesn’t do anything by halves if he sets his mind to it. Once he opens up, he burns for you with the same single-minded dedication as he does fighting enemies in the night. He might not know how to ask for help, pleasure or affection, but he sure knows how to give and to give everything he’s got. Do not ask to have him if you want anything less than the whole.
He grits his teeth, his eyes smoldering crimson, and forces himself to spread his legs again, against his basic reflexes. The touch to his overstimulated dick is painful and igniting at the same time, it feels equal parts wrecking and delightful.
You smile and praise him and pump him even harder and faster than before, and he trashes in front of you, muttering a litany of half-choked curses, throwing his head from side to side, hands clawing at the sheets, thighs shaking, but staying open.
You asked for him and you shall have him, no matter what.
It’s still not enough for you, though.
You sprawl on your side against him, circling one arm around his shoulders, still stroking him with the other. The fight goes out of him. He blindly leans into you, trembling, a small whine caught in his throat. When you kiss him, his mouth is soft and pliant, but his hands clutch at you desperately, like a drowning man trying to hold on to the solid ground. 
It drives you crazy to watch him writhe under you, completely unravelled, glowing brightly from feverish desire, scarlet silk of his tangled hair sprawled on the sheets, his hips bucking frantically into your hand. 
You whisper sweet, tender praises to him, caress his face, neck and shoulders like he’s the most precious and fragile thing in the world, at the same time as your other hand relentlessly winds him up, squeezes his overstimulated, pulsing cock harshly, twists the leaking tip. The pain punctuates desire, a delirious contrast of torturously sweet and deliciously cruel.
His fingers dig into you, holding you close. He presses his face into the crook of your neck, clings to you, seeking comfort and shelter from the same sweet, unbearable torture that is also inflicted by you. The pleasure melts him, but the pain splits him open, wrecks him to the core, he wants this to end, and he wants this to never stop. More than anything, he wants to be yours.
“Fuck, look at you. You’re perfect,” you tell him and you mean it.
He breathes in through his mouth, drawing in your scent. “Please,” he gasps so quietly, you could’ve missed it if not for his lips moving against your neck. “Please, let me…please…”
Next time, you might demand more. Next time, you might make him spell it out completely, what exactly he begs you for. But this is his first time and he was already so brave for you.
“Yes, baby. You’ve been so fucking good. Come for me.”
He comes immediately and so hard, his entire body is shaking, the strangled scream caught in his throat. You keep stroking him, letting him ride it out through increasingly frantic and desperate thrusts, squeeze every last drop out of him until he collapses, limp and shivering, but still clinging to you.
You hold him, stroke his hair and kiss his forehead, whisper to him softly until he stops trembling and his breath evens out. You realize that he’s too weak now to get to the bath, so you stand up to get something to help, but he reaches out, catches your wrist immediately.
“It’s okay, I’ll be back in a second,” you promise. After you clean him up with a wet cloth, he pulls you in and curls around you so possessively and needy, you can’t help but smile. He’s fighting a losing battle to stay awake, the endless sleepless nights finally catching up with him, now that he lowered his guard for a moment and let his body feel alive. But there’s one thing he needs to ask, suddenly apprehensive now that the rush of lust passed.
“Did you… Was I… Ugh, damn. Would you perhaps?..” he stumbles over his words, not knowing how to phrase his concern that he wasn’t good enough for you and you just indulged him. You stop him mercifully.
“I *did* enjoy it. You *were* incredible. And yes, I would very much love to do this again.”
“Oh,” he says, relaxing against you, the same precious small smile appearing on his face again, now more content than sheepish. You chuckle, stroking his face. 
“Besides, you did break my order to keep your hands up. You’ll have to suffer the punishment, or the Wine Guild will need to hear about this.”
He snorts indignantly and blushes at the same time. For the first time in many, many nights he falls asleep with a light heart and a smile still tugging at his lips.
a\n: I had fun writing this, so I might make this into sub!character series. Not taking specific requests per se, but you can let me know which adult genshin characters you’d be interested to hear my take on, both male and female.
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fakeprowrestlingfacts · 11 months
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Fact #186
Kip Sabian subconsciously approaches alot of things with the "I'm getting a good grade in x, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve" mindset. Examples of "x" include antagonizing Orange Cassidy, impressing Orange Cassidy, kissing my wife, and being a cryptid.
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loregoddess · 2 years
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actually, okay I haven't caught up on Spy x Family in a hot second, but like, it just hit me but like, one of the story's tensions is "will they all find out each other's secret identities" bc on one hand, having the secrets spilled could tear the fake found family apart, but on the other hand...
imagine they all are just cool with all being....y'know, a spy, assassin, empath, and seer-dog living together pretending to be a family, but as a result they become way more self-conscious of the whole "are we doing the 'be a normal family thing' correctly? are we going to get a good grade in 'presenting as normal family' something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve?" thus leading to even more weird comedic hijinks, but this time they're all in the know so it ends up being funnier somehow
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kbandtrash · 1 year
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Rich Boy SF9 Bullet Point AU (Hwiyoung x Reader)
~Rachel~
Masterlist
Yeah I did it again. And Jaeyoon is technically in the works. Also it's wild to me that Hwi and I are both 99 liners that's weird
Content: strangers to lovers, fluff, kissing, pretending not to know him, not exactly office romance, cooking, some rich ajussis are mean to you
Word Count: 4k
The first time you met him
At a meeting between your businesses for some legal negotiations
He was cold and chic and only said what he needed to say
The second time you met him
At the press conference announcing the collaboration of your companies
He was still cold and chic, but he had a little more charisma
But the third time you met him
At a public weekend cooking class your friend had promised to take with you
(She bailed)
He was unrecognizably warm and charismatic
You were unsure that he would recognize you because of the large difference in positions at your respective companies
He being the heir to his
And you being the lead public relations specialist in yours
So you chose a table sort of behind and across from him so you could both observe him and watch the teachers at the same time
Now you know that boy was raised rich
And if you weren’t 100% sure that you recognized him and the luxury brand watch on his wrist
You would have thought that he had a doppelgänger
What was a guy like him doing in a public class like this?
Didn’t he have the money to pay for someone to do this kind of stuff for him?
But he watched the teachers so intently and he looked like he knew his way around this stuff a lot better than you did
This was the first time you had seen him genuinely engaged and looking like he wanted to be there
Like sure at work he had nice eyebrows and he was admittedly pretty handsome or whatever
But wow when he was in his element he was positively radiant
Even if you hadn’t known who he was beforehand you probably still would have been staring at him
Somehow you managed to make it through the class without burning the food or yourself
But then you got paired with him for taste testing and you wished you were the fire on your gas stove
That is to say
Gone. Put out
If he recognized you then what
Pretend to be someone else?
You weren’t sure why you didn’t want to talk to him
Much less have him try your food
Probably something along the lines of he was so much higher than you on the business chain and how on earth were you supposed to just interact like you were equals
Too late he introduced himself
“Hi I’m Hwiyoung”
Oh good
“Hi I’m (Y/N)”
Lots to unpack there
He didn’t recognize you but he introduced himself casually and so you felt like you should too but oh man you knew who he was and that was totally out of line
But he did not care so you were just going to pretend like you didn’t care too
“Can I try yours first?” he asked
“Oh yep sure go ahead”
You were still speaking casually since he was and boy did it feel wrong but you couldn’t stop it from coming out of your mouth
It was also weird watching his face while he took a bite like no this dude is so much higher up on the social scale than you could ever hope to be but oh boy you really hope he likes it
It’s like anime sparkles were in his eyes
“Oh yours is different than mine! I like how you did it”
Insert joke about getting a good grade, which is both normal to want and possible to achieve
“I have strong opinions about garlic,” you said
“I can tell,” he responded, taking another bite
He let out the tiniest “oh wow”
This was both extremely gratifying and embarrassing at the same time
At the beginning of the class you were very excited to tell your coworkers what you had seen but now you thought you might die if anyone else found out
“Ah sorry!” he interrupted your thoughts, setting the plate down “I forgot you need to try mine too”
Honestly you were a little scared by his reaction to yours
If he thought your cooking was that good then his must be…subpar to say the least
But no even though you felt immense pressure to react positively as he watched you expectantly
You didn’t have to fake your reaction at all
His version of the dish fit your taste perfectly
He read your reaction wrong though
You had frozen stiff in surprise and he thought it meant that it was bad
But no no no you had to reassure him that you just had a bad case of rbf and actually it was really good
The next time you saw him at a meeting he did not recognize you
You figured he must meet a lot of people and rely heavily on context in order to recognize them
Plus you didn’t know if the cooking class was a secret or not so you didn’t want to out him accidentally in a professional environment
Not to mention he was back to his cold and quiet demeanor so that was intimidating
So you let the meeting pass without trying to say anything potentially out of line
And when you met again in your cooking class on the weekend he waved you over to share a station with him
You tried to make small talk with him about who he was and what he did just to make sure he really was the person you knew that he was
But he kind of steered away from any specific answers and that in and of itself was sort of confirmation
“What do you do for work?”
“Oh I work at X Group”
“That’s pretty prestigious what do you do there?”
“Just some administrative stuff you know”
You did know
And then he asked you the same questions
“So how about you what do you do?”
And you realized that if you answered then you would end up giving him a lead on who you were and that actually you had met in other circumstances
But like what are you going to do lie???
“I work at K Company”
“Oh right we’re doing some stuff with them these days. Are you involved with that?”
“Um yeah just some pr stuff though I’m not actually on the collab team”
He nodded you know the way you do when you’re like okay nice that’s your life
And then he froze in the middle of stirring the pan
Face just melted in realization
“We already know each other don’t we”
Oh no
You didn’t want to make him feel bad because you didn’t have any hard feelings that he didn’t recognize you
But also you didn’t want to make him feel awkward or threatened because that was how you already felt and you had no intention of holding anything over him
And you didn’t want him to go into business mode either because that was boring
But more importantly this was clearly supposed to be a comfortable space for him and you didn’t want to be an intruder
“I should have said something earlier,” you apologized
What next
What were you supposed to say next huh???
“But you were cute, so…”
NOT THAT
YOU WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY THAT
His ears flushed red and his eyes went wide
Attention went right back to the pan
And yours went back to cutting up the garnishes
“You’re um…”
He cleared his throat
“You’re cute, too”
OH???
This was only week two of cooking class
If anything was supposed to happen here it should have been down the line
No no no none of that nothing was “supposed to happen here”
He was like your boss-in-law that wasn’t allowed
But it wasn’t like you had approached him on purpose knowing who he was
It was kind of him that made the first move right?
Also it wasn’t like you technically met at work or anything so I mean
Maybe if he meant it then you could accept the compliment at least
Looking up as you shredded a carrot, you noticed his ears glowing like traffic lights
He was laser focused on making sure the pan was cooking evenly
“Oh um…thanks”
“Plus I like the way you balance spices” he added
“Oh um…” you repeated, apparently out of things to say “thanks?”
He cleared his throat and let the awkward silence build
For the rest of the class
In fact even as you said goodbye he just gave you a shy wave in return
And you knew you had broken this for him
You debated not going the next week
Or ever again
But also you had the same right to be there as he did and like just because he was some rich ceo heir dude didn’t mean he had more of a claim to that space
If he really wanted he could just hire a personal tutor probably
But still though you felt bad
You saw him at another meeting between your two companies
Yeah he recognized you this time you could tell
You tried very hard to focus on the notes you were taking for the press release stuff
But that was hard when he was making it obvious that he was trying not to look at you
You were starting to think that maybe he wasn’t like actually cool and chic
Maybe he was just raised as a sort of loner type and he was bad at talking to people
And maybe you had sort of tricked him into opening up to you in the cooking class
Whatever he was a rich boy heir to a company why did he need your sympathy??
Also he started it so you didn’t trick him into anything
But did he know that
Perhaps not
When the end of the meeting came he decided to say goodbye to everyone who came personally
(Side note we have a word for say hello (greet) but not say goodbye and this makes me angry every time I remember it)
But yep said goodbye to everyone
Shook their hands and thanked them for coming with a professional smile
But when it came to you it was hard for him to keep up his act
So he shook your hand and made shy eye contact for just a second before he looked back down at your hands
“I’ll see you next time, Miss (L/N)”
You were the last one out and it didn’t seem that anyone from your group was waiting for you
So you felt you had time to reply
“At the next meeting? Or…”
“I was hoping on Saturday,” he responded
“Unless you would rather not”
Oh
So he was okay
Then you were allowed to be okay with it, too, right?
You didn’t have a problem with it unless he did
So you smiled too
“I would like to see you on Saturday, too, actually”
It was like looking through a tinted window, but you could see a bit of the version of him you saw in the kitchen classroom for a second
And you know what.
Yeah okay it was cute
When you told him he was cute the first time you just meant like. It was sweet like aww good for you buddy
But now when your brain told you cute it meant oh dear he’s attractive
That was not ideal
He’s just a dude he’s just a dude
But he’s a rich and handsome dude
Not that the rich and handsome should matter necessarily
Doesn’t hurt
But the cutest things about him were 
1) he was so excited about cooking like passions are super cute
And 2) it kinda looked like he might be interested too? Lol?
Mutual attraction law something something if he’s attracted to you first then like that’s the main thing that attracts you to him?
I believe in the power of that to some extent
Anyway that’s definitely what was going on here
May or may not have kept you up at night a bit
So when Saturday came and he wanted to share a station with you again
Keeping your composure and looking like a sane person that was totally okay with just being friends required 99% of your energy
Unfortunately the topic of the class was not something you could breeze through with the remaining 1%
So you were left either to be an incompetent mess of a student
Or an incompetent mess of a human being
Luckily that was not a conscious choice for you to make
Luckily being used in loosest of ways
And you ended up being both an incompetent mess of a student and a human being anyway so there went everything
Your supposed cooking prowess
Your potential as a friend found in an unlikely place
You were a shame to your ancestors, who had all clearly found love and reproduced if you were alive
How many hundreds of people had lived before you in order for you to be alive
And you couldn’t manage to do the same thing
Sike
He was a terrible mess as well
Both for the cooking and the human-ing aspects of the day
Partnered up at the same cooking station once again
Not even both of your combined efforts could make a successful dish
And the conversation the whole time?
Awkward and stilted enough to have been between two poorly built chatbots
Every time your eyes met it seemed like an accident
By the minute you thought he was handsomer and handsomer
And he kept turning redder than the cherry tomatoes you were supposed to be roasting
But by some miracle
He managed to work up enough conversation skills to ask you to dinner with him
“We didn’t manage to make anything edible today, so should we see how professionals do it?”
And like how can you say no
Turns out he had made a reservation for some super fancy place you’ve never heard of
And your brain is like okay let’s break that down
Fancy place very expensive way out of your budget
But he made the reservation so he planned on paying right?
He made a reservation wow
This was pre planned he wanted to take you to dinner anyway
Regardless of if what you made in the cooking class was edible
That was just an excuse
He wanted to spend more time with you and he had planned on it
Now you were a little scared of rich people shenanigans
So you were still wary of picking up this extremely obvious hint
Like normal boy? Yeah of course he’s into you
Rich boy? He might want something and this is a manipulation tactic
But in class he was a normal boy
He was so down to earth and awkward and cute
So you really wanted to take this at face value
Honestly at this point with any other boy you might have asked him out yourself already
But with rich people there’s a pride factor and you were kind of scared about it
Strangely though pride was not an issue here today
At least in terms of clothing
Neither of you were up to dress code at all for the restaurant because you were coming straight from the cooking class pretty much
But the staff recognized him apparently and they were cool with it?
When you looked at the menu and the prices you wanted to disappear immediately
The cheapest thing on the menu was daunting
But he pulled your menu down from your hands and put it on the table
He flipped a few pages and pointed to a dish
“I wanted to take you here because I thought you would like this one”
Okay yep you got that one loud and clear
This was a date and he wanted to spend time with you on purpose
He had been at a place like this and he had thought of you
Well then.
Guess it was time to let him know you thought of him the same way
You ended up ordering what he suggested for you and he was absolutely right
He also let you try a bite of what he ordered
And that was really good too
“But,” he said, “I don’t think it’s as good as how you might do it”
Challenge accepted
“If we buy the ingredients tonight then maybe we can try to make it tomorrow?”
His eyes lit up and his mouth stretched wide in a smile at your suggestion
And it was a plan
But then you were interrupted by some very well dressed older men
And unfortunately they recognized Hwiyoung
He didn’t seem terribly thrilled by this
But they made him talk to them anyway
They didn’t seem rude but they weren’t being terribly polite either
It felt weird to just sit there but you had no idea how to insert yourself into a rich people interaction
Plus by the way he glanced at you it seemed like he didn’t want to get you involved
But this guy is anti-smooth unfortunately so looking over at you inadvertently drew attention to you as well
And they started asking questions rather disdainfully
As he answered them honestly and with the most positive light he could, you were amazed at the lack of shame these men had in talking about you as if you weren’t there
Or as if you had no right or ability to contest the opinions they were forming about you
It seemed that Hwiyoung was more hurt by this than you were, somehow
When they finally left, he sat down with his business personality
“I think I’ve lost my appetite,” he admitted disappointedly
“I’m so sorry I couldn’t defend you properly, but if I tried, they would use more than their words to tear you down”
You shrugged
“They seem pretty wrapped up in their own importance”
His mouth twisted into a sad snicker
“It’s not a fun world to navigate”
You made a few more jokes at the expense of the rude rich dudes
And it kind of worked to bring him back to you
By this first experience with the upper class, you weren’t particularly fazed
But you wondered, if you stayed by his side, what the tenth encounter might do
The hundredth
The thousandth
You were so jumping the gun but they were valid thoughts to have it you were thinking about dating a guy that lived in this realm of wealth and self-importance
But as you wandered the supermarket aisles with him, picking out ingredients
You also wondered if he couldn’t do anything now because you were still testing the waters
He didn’t seem the type to let comments like that fly under the radar
So you wanted to give him another chance
He walked you back all the way to the front entrance of your apartment building
He could have driven
But, he bashfully admitted, he wanted to spend more time with you
It was hard not to invite him up, but it felt a bit improper
If you were the one storing the groceries, it would have only been natural
But since you would be cooking at his place the next day
And since he had more storage space anyway
He was taking everything with him
You felt sort of bad watching him walk away with like four bags of groceries
But it was also uh
Kind of hot
Plus like he volunteered himself for it he would be fine
The next day he greeted you at the front gate of his (ridiculous) house
With only the boyfriendiest of boyfriend vibes
It already felt like you were official honestly
It was such a weird and fast jump but it felt like you had always been together rather than this being like. Your second date
You spotted some hired workers trying to stay hidden as they spied on you
That was a little weird
But fumbling around and learning to cook this dish was far more captivating
And the boy? Far far far more captivating
It really didn’t feel right that you had only met a few weeks ago
That fact itself was more surprising than the moment you suddenly found yourself inches from him with his hand around your back and his other hand intertwined with yours
And you swayed back and forth to the music that was somehow exactly perfect for the moment
Yeah that just felt natural honestly
Last night you felt improper about letting him up to your apartment
Ha
Now here you were slow dancing in his kitchen
In matching aprons
Yeah you were done for
Head over heels he was your man now
Your free hand magically made its way up to his face and cupped his cheek
He was leaning in and your eyes fluttered closed and then
A timer going off startled you both into remembering what got you here in the first place
So you finished your dish and then sat down to taste test
And he was absolutely right
It was better when you made it together
The smile on his face told you everything you needed to know
The sparkle in his eyes when your eyes met was confirmation
It was so strange the next time your companies had a meeting
Employees on both sides were so confused
Since when did President Kim…….smile
Or speak in a voice that wasn’t monotone
Something changed……weird
By some miracle no one noticed the expressions you two exchanged
Neither of you were being subtle
But I guess if people don’t want to see it then they won’t
And your funny little secret totally flew under the radar
Also the next time you were caught by mean old chaebol men at a restaurant
He kinda let them have it when they tried to make disparaging remarks about you
He was so well-spoken too like you could tell he rehearsed it twelve hundred times in his mirror
They just kinda left with slightly humbled expressions
And he sat down with this disgruntled little huff and apologized to you again
His parents are like “well hmmm you’re not exactly who we hoped he would end up with…..”
You could see it in his eyes Hwiyoung was ready to go off on them
But then they were like “but. this is weird. we raised the boy and nothing but cooking ever makes him smile this much. welcome to the family”
Now he’s self conscious about how much he gets excited apparently because HE didn’t think he was that stonefaced
(You totally were babe. I almost didn’t recognize you the first time we met)
(It’s work!!!! Why do I have to be excited about business!!!!!!)
But he’s YOUR stonefaced ceo chef boyfriend so
He supposes it doesn’t matter that much as long as you like him that way
Anyway once again I shall leave you with your first kiss
It happened the same day as when you went over to his house to make that dish
After you had eaten you could tell he was a little nervous about something and you couldn’t figure out what it was
Were you accidentally being mean to him and you thought you were being flirty
You didn’t think so but now you were nervous about it
No turns out he was just thinking about how you totally would have kissed if that stupid timer had gone off even like five seconds later
And he was trying to find an entry point back into that mood because he was kind of scared to just like. kiss you
Anyway he ended up mumbling that when you asked him if he was okay and you barely caught any of it
But you managed to catch the message
So you asked him if he had a good view of the sky from anywhere in his house
Yes he did have a nice balcony with a perfect view of the sunset
So you let him take advantage of the slightly chilly spring evening and the golden hour
And he kissed you properly
Chani
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sorry to send you my ten millionth ask in the past week but your eryn/ralof posting makes me wish my ldb minnie and argis' dynamic was at all deeper than manic pixie dream girl x wife guy. your blorbos are three dimensional af
NEVER BE SORRY FOR SENDING ME ASKS WHEN I GET ASKS FROM YOU IM LIKE YES IM GOING TO GET A GOOD GRADE IN COOLER MUTUALS SOMETHING THAT IS BOTH NORMAL TO WANT AND POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE
thank you sm though ;w; I really want to make all the skyrim npcs I focus on feel real and especially my own ocs I want them to feel like real people who could exist yk?? I think it connects more w people that way
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livenudebigfoot · 1 year
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We joke a lot about wanting gold stars or a good grade in [X] (which is both normal to want and possible to achieve) as adults, but I feel like people aren’t actually giving themselves gold stars or whatever and they absolutely should. I highly recommend treating yourself like a classroom of rowdy first graders sometimes; it’s good.
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This is my marble jar; it lives on my desk at work. Every time I accomplish a work task, I put a marble in the jar. If I do a big task - something difficult or time-consuming or scary - I put in a big marble. When the jar is full, I am allowed to buy myself an article of clothing. My therapist says that this is harnessing the power of my dopamine-seeking ADHD brain to get my work done and get my shopping addiction under control. I say that it is fun when marble goes clink in jar. Either way, it seems to be working and it’s a fun, low-cost tool that makes me really happy. 
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The incredibly funny other half of “I’m going to get a good grade in x, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve” is fucking up for absolutely no one to see and freaking out like “oh man oh fuck I made an inconsequential typo and now the Duolingo algorithm is gonna think I’m a fucking idiot who can’t spell libro. this can NEVER happen again”
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fastbreakpoints · 1 year
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the x ray technician: tells me I did a good job at standing still for the x ray
me: this is Great. I'm going to get a good grade in wisdom teeth x rays, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve
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laughingpinecone · 1 year
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tagged by: @redwoodrroad! <3
last song: I went on a Roadhouse binge so Shadow by Chromatics. sometimes you gotta. also works like a charm with Disco Elysium brain so that's a plus.
last show: I'm watching Tales from the Loop as I knit. It is often slow in a way that doesn't work for me (cross my heart, I sat through three Lav Diaz films, I like slow. not sure what it is about this one that doesn't work for me, but also I'm not watching with full attention because I'm knitting) but I'm really enjoying the 'interconnected anthology' format (ideal) and the actual story every episode has been telling.
currently watching: I think the one before THAT was Sandman roughly as it came out so uh. Let's say currently playing, which is Sable! Of which I only have good things to say, very good things! What a delightful experience that feels tailor-made for me! From the concept to the aesthetics and music, down to certain very specific uncommon design decisions which I've been grumbling about for ages as an opinionated armchair game designer X°D this game gets me
currently reading: making room for a Luiga articles reread (but on laptop so I can take notes and liveblog to friends) to prepare for a PJÕL reread (ditto. Stopped after three chapters on my ebook reader because it was so inconvenient. gotta be annoying about it, sorry discord people) so I can finally maybe move onto something else which might just be The Master and Margarita. I finished Mieville's Kraken a few weeks ago which had its highs and lows.
current obsession: still trying to get a good grade in disco'ing that elysium, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve (sad trombone)
unrelated obsession: FIRMAMENT WHEN
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teaandinanity · 1 year
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It’s very surreal seeing people talking about Overdrive checkouts like they’re analogous to normal library checkouts because like.
Overdrive is Amazon. They are fucking your library every bit as hard as they fuck literally everyone else. Which isn’t to say you shouldn’t use your library’s digital services! We have them so people can use them!
But also, unlike dead tree format, which we can keep in circulation until they fall apart (or someone gives them a bath), Amazon goes ‘you can buy x number of checkouts. They will be consecutive rather than concurrent unless you buy additional licenses.’ After those checkouts? It removes access again until and unless we pay for another x checkouts. This is why sometimes something that shows in your library’s catalog is unavailable; they bought it, people checked it out, and then Amazon took it away. If it’s unavailable and people have asked for it, then probably they have it on a list of hostages to pay ransom for the next time they have funding available. The structure is deeply predatory and Amazon gets away with it because they have a monopoly.
We pay a LOT more for a digital checkout than we do for one in hard copy, and depending on how your library is funded, circulation numbers may not even count for much in funding - my library, for example, is funded based on local sales tax. We track circulation, of course. We want circs because they tell us we are doing a good job giving people what they want! We want to get a good grade in being a library, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve. Circs don’t necessarily mean more money, though, and in the case of Overdrive there’s uhhh. Absolutely no way that even a very generous per-circ funding system would so much as break even.
TLDR: Please use Overdrive if your library has it! Enjoy it! Just enjoy it responsibly, because unfortunately Amazon is run by soul-sucking vampires.
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cherryblossomshadow · 2 years
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I'M ON THE SUPERNATURAL WIKI?!?!?!?!
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THAT'S MY LOFI DESMOS SCREENCAP! AND A LINK TO MY SILLY TED TALK! AHHHHH! (x)
Somehow, I am getting a good grade in supernatural tumblr, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve 😇
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hieronymus-botch · 2 years
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Wait, "I'm getting to get a good grade in X, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve" was a pre-existing meme that Deltarune referenced? I thought all the people posting it were referencing that Berdly line in Deltarune.
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