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eloreenmoon · 29 days

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Impurrfections (Friends of Gaynor Beach Animal Rescue Book #2) by Kaje Harper #LGBTQ+ #DuoReview #MMRomance

Erryn reviews ‘Impurrfections (Friends of Gaynor Beach Animal Rescue Book #2)’ by Kaje Harper. The book was self-published on April 2, 2024 and is 286 pages. Why Erryn read: I’m invested in this new series. Shane A cat is a man’s best friend, because they can’t be bought or threatened. If they don’t like you, they walk away, showing you their butthole. If they stick around, it’s because they…

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#Contemporary #Duo Review #Friends of Gaynor Beach Animal Rescue #gay romance #hurt / comfort #Kaje Harper #LGBT #m/m romance #new releases

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arbitersart · 5 months

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THIS IS THE FUNNIEST TOP 3 WE COULD'VE HOPED FOR

#desert duo #goodtimeswithscar #grian #grianmc #hermitcraft #secret life #hatsune miku #year in review #mcyt #put miku in the life series

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itspyon · 2 months

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if you remove all the default skins, technoblade and dream are the first and third most popular mc skins of all time 💗💚

per namemc.com

#my rivals my rivals #maintagging for year review #rivals duo #technoblade #dreamwastaken

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ecargmura · 2 months

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The Apothecary Diaries Episode 5 Review - Color-Changing Fire

Oh, this is the first time an issue is a two-parter. The mystery behind the color-changing fire and the weird rashes haven’t been solved in this episode as it seems to be linked to the garden party for the culprit is definitely a woman with the man who discovered this finding a torn dress at night.

I do like that the people in the Jade Pavilion are loving Maomao a lot. She eats mushrooms with the quack doctor, gets tasked to sew pockets for hot stones in their under robes for the garden party, and gets the other maids to put makeup on her by force. I can tell that while she’s a bit cold, she’s someone you cannot hate. She’s a bit of a cynic, but she’s very kind as she does these things because she wants to (and the fact that she doesn’t want to be executed as well) and also has a hard time saying no. She’s a bit of a tsundere.

Honestly, seeing Jinshi shirtless was not on my bingo card. It’s a weird feeling as well. He’s always seen with his clothes on and he has a beautiful face, so the fact that he’s jacked underneath is really hard to imagine, but it makes sense in a way? Like this guy moves around all over the palace, so it makes sense he’s athletic as the palace is gigantic; one needs titanium legs to get around daily. It’s also sort of nice to see him whipped as heck for Maomao. Seeing Jinshi as a pathetic wet rag of a man around her is hilarious, but I actually don’t ship them. However, he does seem to feel bad about Maomao having to put on fake freckles just so she wouldn’t be assaulted. The commoner life is a harsh world compared to the rich and extravagant.

The reveal of Maomao having fake freckles was a bit surprising, but it makes sense why she was dancing without them in the opening now. Freckles and other ‘imperfections’ may be seen as a good thing these days, but back then, especially the ancient days, they were seen as undesirable qualities, especially for women. Maomao seeing freckles as an unsightly quality reminds me of my upper arms. I have freckles on my upper arms. When I was younger, my mom thought I had a weird condition on my arms and would often ask healthcare professionals if I had any sickness or such. Some of my friends had pointed out how weird my upper arms look at the time, so I did have a bit of a complex about them growing up. I had a habit of wearing jackets and hoodies in my teen years because of how much my upper arms have been pointed out. However, the discomfort disappeared as I got older. It wasn’t until I was around 17 that I learned that limbs could have freckles too.

I do feel like the culprit behind the color-changing fire will be revealed in the next episode. I’m pretty bad with guessing, so I’m not going to do so this time. However, it is interesting to learn that fire can change colors if substances are sprinkled onto it.

I also like learning that there are two more consorts in addition to Gyokuyou and Lihua. One is Ah Duo, a graceful looking lady with long purple hair and looks almost like a female version of Jinshi. The other is Lishu who looks way too young to get married. Like, I guess the Emperor just wanted her to be a consort for the heck of it? Like, doesn’t he like busty women given how stacked some of the consorts are?

Overall, this episode feels more of a buildup to the garden party and to see how Maomao is doing in the palace after helping out Lihua. I honestly can’t wait to see who the culprit is and what is going to happen. What are your thoughts on this episode?

#The Apothecary Diaries #kusuriya no hitorigoto #maomao #jinshi #ah duo #li shu #review #anime #anime review #arum journal #ecargmura

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redrobin-detective · 11 months

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Cloudmates

Zuko had felt alone most of his life.

He didn’t have many friends growing up in the palace, mostly leeching off the ones Azula brought home from school. Azula was a nightmare to talk to, you never knew what she was thinking and every word was a potential weapon in her arsenal. Father certainly didn’t make him feel like he belonged. Even Uncle, for all his patience and kindness, sometimes seemed to look past Zuko, to the man he could be rather than the scared kid he was. Mother had been the only one who seemed to truly see Zuko. The best parts of his childhood were spent describing whatever interest of the moment he had while his mother combed his hair and encouraged him to continue. He’d never felt more comfortable, happy and free as he had in those small, simple moments. Once she left, there really wasn't anyone Zuko felt comfortable being himself with.

Even when his father made him the most recognizable person in the world, Zuko had never felt more invisible. He dug into the hurt of his wounds, both physical and emotional, and put up the front everyone was expecting of the banished prince on an impossible mission. He felt like an actor in a play, playing a part he hadn’t rehearsed and wasn’t prepared for. The more he tried to mold himself into the kind of prince his father wanted of him, the more he wanted to claw out of his own skin.

Leaving the Fire Nation and joining the Avatar wasn’t supposed to change anything. He felt more settled, more sure that he was finally on the right path but he still felt like a puppet in someone else’s story. Zuko was prepared to do his duty to the world by training the Avatar before retreating back to solitude. He wasn’t prepared for Sokka.

It started with swords. Sokka had been incredibly unsubtle in his admiration of them from the moment Zuko had joined the group. He’d probably thought the blades had just been for show and thought it would be funny to see an ashmaker clumsily try to use them. Zuko will admit to a bit of cruel satisfaction when he thoroughly trounced Sokka in their spar. The feeling didn’t last, it made him feel too much like Azula. Luckily, Sokka didn’t take the loss badly. In fact, he looked downright ecstatic.

From that point on, it wasn’t unusual to see Sokka eagerly bouncing on the sidelines as he waited for Aang’s firebending lessons to conclude. Zuko thought he would be annoyed at the intrusion on his time but instead he found himself almost looking forward to it. And if he ended Aang’s training early a few times, well, he doubted the young monk was bothered by it.

Working together and almost dying at the Boiling Rock was what really cemented their relationship. Now it wasn’t just swords, Sokka seemed to come to him for everything. They talked constantly, about anything and everything. Zuko thinks he spoke more over a few days in that temple than he ever did in his weeks back at the palace. Just when he’d thought he’d run out of words or opinions, Sokka would ask another question and more would pour out.

The water tribe boy was creative and filled with ideas from the bombastic to the mundane. Zuko was a living furnace, stubborn and was pretty decent at physics and calculations. It didn’t take long for them to start supplementing their discussions with tools and inventions. He’d always done things for grand purposes, the idea of just fiddling with pieces of junk while talking seemed an insane waste of time. Zuko loved it.

When he was with Sokka, Zuko felt both smarter and more stupid than he’d ever been. The best part was he didn’t even care which was which.

“We’re - I’m so, so sorry,” Zuko apologized, shaking and fully prepared to beg for mercy on his hands and knees. Sokka was still partially stuck to the wall as Aang and Toph tried to free him, leaving Zuko the unenviable task of preventing Katara from killing them. Katara had gotten more lenient of him since he’d first joined but he didn’t want to test his luck. She was frowning, her lips pressed tightly together as she tried using her bending to pull at the sticky tangle of goop he and Sokka had made out of her hair. To be honest, in the later half of the experiment, he’d plain forgotten what it had been for in the first place.

“You-” she snapped before taking a deep breath and calming herself. “It’s fine,” she said through gritted teeth that said nothing about the situation was fine. “I know this is mostly Sokka’s handiwork. I’ve had to deal with his nonsense my whole life, you’re just helping make the explosions bigger.”

Zuko winced as Katara turned herself away from him. “You know, Sokka has been the oldest boy in our tribe for years since our men went to war. Plus Sokka has always been a bit, well, you know how he is. Until we left the South Pole, he’d never really had any other guys his age to do his weird things with.”

“What about Aang?” Zuko blinked, confused by the non sequitur. Was he going to be made into an ice kabob or not? He needed to ask Sokka what they’d been making before he could die.

“Oh Sokka loves Aang but Aang isn’t going to help him use my best cooking pot to make some sort of spirit blasted nightmare goo,” Katara sighed roughly. “You're off the hook today, just keep my idiot brother safe and please try to tone down, whatever it is you two are always getting up to.”

Zuko didn’t understand the interaction. He asked Sokka about it who also didn’t seem to understand it. They talked at length, again, about crazy prodigy younger sisters. Then Sokka started questioning where they went wrong with their concoction. They sat and worked through the problem until Angi’s blessing could be seen cresting over the horizon.

All too soon, the comet was upon them and the war was over. Zuko knows it was incredibly, horribly selfish of him to say that he wished it could have gone on just a little bit longer. For the first time he had friends; he felt safe and seen in their company. There had never been someone like Sokka in his life - not since his mother - but he wouldn’t dream of talking to mom about some of the things he’d told Sokka.

Zuko had whispered to the other boy his deepest fears, his regrets, the sources of his shame and pain. He’d told stories he’d never spoken aloud and it was like purging his body of poison, painful but necessary. Zuko had presented all of his weaknesses on a platter for Sokka to abuse and instead got understanding, some very angry tears on his behalf and trust to hold Sokka’s own secrets. It felt so freeing to place so much of himself in another person’s hands and to have it be protected instead of broken.

The first week after the comet was filled with joy and anxiety as they celebrated a world without war while also struggling to actually end the war. He worked tirelessly during the day, sending out letters and pulling back troops and letting Katara heal him at night. Throughout everything, his friends were always close at hand. It was the most peace Zuko had ever felt in his entire life. He could have lived in those small moments forever. If he’d known it could be like this, he’d have defected the first moment he’d landed at the South Pole.

Of course, nothing good ever stayed for long with Zuko. Aang had Avatar duties, Toph was obligated to see her parents and the Water Tribe siblings needed to get back to their slowly rebuilding tribe. Zuko’s heart ached at the thought of seeing them leave, of being alone again. He loved them all in their own way but Zuko could admit that he would miss Sokka most of all. Besides Uncle, he was probably Zuko’s most treasured person.

On the morning they were planning to leave, Zuko was walking down the long hallways of his empty palace. He was bracing himself for the pain and loneliness that was to come. He should have known better than to get attached but he had always been a slow learner. His main goal was to avoid crying until after they were airborne.

“Hey Fire Lord Jerkbender,” Sokka grinned, flinging an arm around Zuko’s shoulder. He still wasn’t all that used to friendly touch but Sokka always seemed to be the exception. He leaned into it, savoring it before the long goodbye he didn’t know when he’d see the end to. “I hope you’re ready for some tears because Aang is absolutely gonna start crying which will set Katara off and they’ll just become a big puddle. Toph will get punchy and Suki will make the whole thing way more intense than it needs to be. It’s gonna take forever, might even be pushed back to lunch and we’ll have to do it all over again.”

“And what about you?” Zuko asked casually, like he didn’t care. Not at all.

“I want to say I’ll be big and tough and act like it doesn’t affect me,” Sokka shrugged with the arm wrapped around Zuko’s shoulder. “But Katara and I have never been separated for more than a few days since we were born and Aang and Toph have basically become my younger siblings who I would literally die to protect and I know Suki is coming back but-”

“Sokka, what are you talking about?” Zuko asked, shooting him a look. “You’re going with.”

“Oh uh no, I was actually planning on staying with you, here in the Fire Nation.” Zuko gaped at him and Sokka scratched at his hair sheepishly. “The others know which is why this is gonna drag out and I’m only now realizing I forgot to talk to you about it so uh, hey, can I crash at your stupidly big palace for a while? If, uh, that’s okay with you?”

Zuko ought to scream for joy, sequester Sokka deep in the palace before he could change his mind. If he wasn’t already in the process of returning all the lands his family had conquered, he’d offer them to Sokka right now just to keep him here.

“Don’t you want to go home? See your family?” He asked instead because more than anything, he just wanted his friend to be happy.

“I mean yeah and I will but Zuko, I can’t leave you here to run a country all by yourself. You’re a fancy dancy firebender but you missed out on the fine art of politics-bending,” Sokka said with a little smirk. “I miss things about home but it seems, I don’t know, kinda small now after all I’ve seen. I can’t just go back to making ice forts and penguin sledding like none of this ever happened. Besides, it would feel wrong being there without my sword bending partner, inventing buddy, human heat pack and best friend?”

“I’m your best friend?” Zuko asked quietly.

“Well yeah,” Sokka blushed. “Like the world leader stuff is cool and important but I’m really just staying for you. Don’t tell Toph this but you’re kind of my favorite member of Team Avatar.”

Zuko’s goal is thoroughly on fire. He didn’t even get to the goodbyes before he started crying.

They celebrate the one year anniversary of Ozai’s defeat in Ba Sing Se. It had been hard to make arrangements for everyone to be here but it had been worth it. In the back of the Jasmine Dragon was a small, well maintained garden for outdoor seating on nice days. They’ve moved all the tables aside and were sprawled on the grass, sitting around a fire pit. Just like the good old days, only better.

Sokka had been telling an overly exaggerated story about Fire Sage Reijiro’s reaction to catching Sokka trying to steal scrolls from the Dragon Bone Catacombs. He was lounging in Zuko’s lap; he expertly dodged Sokka’s flailing hands as he told his story, coaxing bigger laughs out of his audience.

“I still have no idea how you smooth talked your way out of that,” Zuko sighed at the end. “I thought I was gonna have to send you back to the South Pole extra crispy.” Everyone laughed at that. Sokka had taught him how to tell jokes now, one of the many things he’d learned over the past year.

“You know, Zuko,” Aang said with a thoughtful smile, “I think you and Sokka are cloudmates.”

“Huh?” Zuko and Sokka asked at the same time. He gently brushed aside some loose strands of hair from Sokka’s face so it didn’t get in his eye.

“Is this a romance thing because I know I’m rather impressive but I don’t know if I have what it takes to make an honest man of the Fire Lord,” Sokka said with an eye roll. Zuko flicked his ear.

“I mean it can be,” Aang said, leaning back to look at the pink clouds floating above them. “It’s… How do I explain? Sometimes when you look up at the clouds, you can’t tell one from the other. They become so blended that it eventually becomes just one big cloud. Cloudmates are people who are made of the same stuff, who get along so easily, so naturally it’s like one person in two bodies.” The rest of them blinked and also started looking at the heap of clouds.

“I’m intrigued,” Sokka nodded, stroking at his chin. “State your evidence for the court, Avatar.”

“I don’t know if you can have evidence for this sort of thing, you just feel it,” Aang shrugged. “I guess I first thought you guys might be as far back as the Western Air Temple. I mean, you did kinda try and steal away my firebending teacher, Sokka. After all this time, seeing you two more, I think I’m certain now. You’re your own person, with unique ideas and experiences but you’re also something else, something better, together. You’re not just Sokka or Zuko but you’re also Zuko&Sokka.” Aang continued.

“I mean we all are made up of the same bits, bone and blood and squishy organs,” Sokka frowned thoughtfully, his eyes flicking up to Zuko’s. “What do you think, Your Royal Fieriness? Is my cloud all mixed up with your cloud?”

Zuko wasn’t sure he was a cloud. He’d been a victim, a prince, a traitor, a teacher and the biggest idiot the world had ever seen. He’d felt like he’d been so many things in so little time, too much of him and his shame piling up to fit into one person. But to think he was something like Sokka, by far one of the cleverest, bravest, kindest people he’d known, maybe there was hope for him yet.

“I suppose,” Zuko said flippantly, “that your cloud and my cloud may intermingle but only if you promise when you get back to the South Pole that you will prepare a room for me. As Fire Lord, I need to see for myself that diplomatic matters with my fellow nations are being handled correctly.” He grinned down at his friend. “I will need to speak to someone important about reparations and moving forward. Know someone who can work with me?”

“Oh, I think I know a guy,” Sokka laughed back. Overhead, the pink dusted clouds gently moved past in a big pile, separate but intrinsically linked.

#my writing #oof welcome back to atla writing brain its been 5 years #dumb ficlet that dropped into my head at work and I could NOT get rid of #I have Aangs search circling my head like water down the drain #I had to write it #It can be romantic or platonic Zukka #I just think they are such a great duo and are actually quite similiar underneath it all #a cloudmate is a mix of like a soulmate and bestie #just someone who is your other half in everything #not sure how good this is #dont feel like reviewing any more tonight #I'll look at it again in a few days see if it worth AO3

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ricekrispyjoints · 5 months

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moved aside spotify wrapped,

bonus tag the main language(s) you're learning

#duolingo #langblr #duo year in review #duo stats #duo streak #tumblr polls #language polls

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shikai-the-storyteller · 7 months

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I think it is EXTREMELY cute that Pac hides whenever he's embarrassed. If he's embarrassed he'll either hide his face in his hands and completely disappears off camera or his character will run to a completely different room and he'll hide his face in his hands.

#I talk #qsmp talk #I'm reviewing some clips and transcribing and I've noticed this habit #it's VERY cute and charming #wait ''hides'' oh ffs #It's a hideduo thing #both of them always try very hard to hide their emotions HECK #I always thought they were named that for the hide and seek thing but you know what #this duo name has rights it's fitting

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twiggnickel-cos · 8 months

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crancher duo is like perpendicular lines, they meet once then travel away from each other forever.

#sorry dudes i am doing geometry review and ough #angsty thoughts #rancher duo #team rancher.#jimmy solidarity #tangotek #life series #trafficblr #trafficshipping #mcyt

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eloreenmoon · 1 year

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Demetrius (Single Dads of Gaynor Beach Book #7) by Sienna Sway and Zaria Knight #LGBTQ+ #DuoReview #MMRomance

Dana and Erryn review ‘Demetrius (Single Dads of Gaynor Beach Book #7)’ by Sienna Sway and Zaria Knight. The book was self-published on October 11, 2022 and is 217 pages. Why Dana read: I am enjoying Gaynor Beach and it’s residents. Why Erryn read: I’m invested in this new series. Hotshot architect Demetrius Johnson is too young to be starting over after divorcing his childhood sweetheart. But…

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#Contemporary #Duo Review #gay romance #LGBT #m/m romance #Sienna Sway #Single Dads of Gaynor Beach Series #Zaira Knight

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xxswagcorexx · 1 year

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swagdoons/scamduo fan content that revolves around clean seas or s3 is like "woah.....cool guys in suits.... business partners loyal to the end despite not trusting the other......they finish conversations in between the cigarette smoke they blow towards each other on skyscraper balconies" but i think if left to their own devices they'd probs do the shittest blunt rotation with the worst weed both of them ever got their hands on before stumbling to the nearest corner stop, overcharging both of their credit cards, and passing out in the back with all of th trash . these arent mutually exclusive Btw

#sorry . my demons #mcyt #lifesteal smp #ashswag #reddoons #scam duo #scamduo #swagdoons #<- only tagging that because scam duo is another duo name #anyways .#tw smoking #media.warning.smoking #tw drugs #media.warning.drugs #ask to tag #idk what this is either but i went through 2 peer reviews so #tw swearing #media.warning.swearing

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cydanite · 1 year

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So cat lizzie tried to eat fish Jimmy that’s gonna be awkward when she finds out he’s one of the two gods of fish and amphibians that her empire animalia revered

Okay but- Jimmy is very big. He's a very big fish! Surely he wouldn't mind... one bite, right? Surely of all the delicious fish in the world, the god of fish must be the most delicious of them all. And the respect she would command, the cat brave enough to have tasted the King of all Cod! Not to mention, could taking a bite out of a god grant her a portion of his godhood? (She takes a mental note to remember to try biting Joel next she sees him, for research's sake.) All of this seems to be a net positive for her empire, she sees no possible downsides.

This all leads to various scams of Lizzie trying to... eat a piece of the Codfather. She tells him that an offering of one's own flesh is a customary greeting of Animalia, and refusing to do so is an insult of the highest caliber. She creates several Rube Goldberg machines. She disguises herself as a doctor and claims that "Oh no, you are so very very sick! So sick, that I don't even know what's wrong with you! But with my totally real medical degree I know that, if you let me take just a little tissue sample, I can come up with a cure! Trust me!" Of course none of these work, they all fail with slapstick-style punchlines. I think Jimmy being a fish-out-of-water doesn't even realize he's being scammed half the time, and the failure is all on Lizzie's end.

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pallases · 4 months

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tagged by @permanentreverie ty lindsay! <3

three non-romantic duos: wes and nora from the girls i’ve been, cinder and thorne from the lunar chronicles, nik and ella from the illuminae files

a ship that might surprise others: uh. kerejean magbe i don’t think ive posted abt them on here but i like the idea of them (after some heavy distance btwn kevin and jean post nest extraction for them both to grow)

last song: undertale dogsong music box

last film: barbie island princess,,

currently reading: the lost world by michael crichton

currently watching: not really anything rn but teen wolf was the last show i watched. also pjo but im behind

currently consuming: peanut butter and jelly

currently craving: apple w more peanut butter

tagging: @deadpoets @comeangelsofunknown @worthyking @delilahsbard @exy101 @sunsetcurveauto

#tag #additional shoutouts for non romantic duos: blue/noah simon/clary frances/aled and athena/odysseus <3 #decided to put lesser known ones in the actual tag #OH AND STEVE/ROBIN they are waaaay up there #i was only reviewing books in my head but film and tv definitely have some solid contenders #hiccup and toothless… nell and luke from hill house… i will stop

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