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cookinguptales · 1 year
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So I’ve been enjoying the Disney vs. DeSantis memes as much as anyone, but like. I do feel like a lot of people who had normal childhoods are missing some context to all this.
I was raised in the Bible Belt in a fairly fundie environment. My parents were reasonably cool about some things, compared to the rest of my family, but they certainly had their issues. But they did let me watch Disney movies, which turned out to be a point of major contention between them and my other relatives.
See, I think some people think this weird fight between Disney and fundies is new. It is very not new. I know that Disney’s attempts at inclusion in their media have been the source of a lot of mockery, but what a lot of people don’t understand is that as far as actual company policy goes, Disney has actually been an industry leader for queer rights. They’ve had policies assuring equal healthcare and partner benefits for queer employees since the early 90s.
I’m not sure how many people reading this right now remember the early 90s, but that was very much not industry standard. It was a big deal when Disney announced that non-married queer partners would be getting the same benefits as the married heterosexual ones.
Like — it went further than just saying that any unmarried partners would be eligible for spousal benefits. It straight-up said that non-same-sex partners would still need to be married to receive spousal benefits, but because same-sex partners couldn’t do that, proof that they lived together as an established couple would be enough.
In other words, it put long-term same-sex partners on a higher level than opposite-sex partners who just weren’t married yet. It put them on the exact same level as heterosexual married partners.
They weren’t the first company ever to do this, but they were super early. And they were certainly the first mainstream “family-friendly” company to do it.
Conservatives lost their damn minds.
Protests, boycotts, sermons, the whole nine yards. I can’t tell you how many books about the evils of Disney my grandmother tried to get my parents to read when I was a kid.
When we later moved to Florida, I realized just how many queer people work at Disney — because historically speaking, it’s been a company that has guaranteed them safety, non-discrimination, and equal rights. That’s when I became aware of their unofficial “Gay Days” and how Christians would show up from all over the country to protest them every year. Apparently my grandmother had been upset about these days for years, but my parents had just kind of ignored her.
Out of curiosity, I ended up reading one of the books my grandmother kept leaving at our house. And friends — it’s amazing how similar that (terrible, poorly written) rhetoric was to what people are saying these days. Disney hires gay pedophiles who want to abuse your children. Disney is trying to normalize Satanism in our beautiful, Christian America. 
Just tons of conspiracy theories in there that ranged from “a few bad things happened that weren’t actually Disney’s fault, but they did happen” to “Pocahontas is an evil movie, not because it distorts history and misrepresents indigenous life, but because it might teach children respect for nature. Which, as we all know, would cause them all to become Wiccans who believe in climate change.”
Like — please, take it from someone who knows. This weird fight between fundies and Disney is not new. This is not Disney’s first (gay) rodeo. These people have always believed that Disney is full of evil gays who are trying to groom and sexually abuse children.
The main difference now is that these beliefs are becoming mainstream. It’s not just conservative pastors who are talking about this. It’s not just church groups showing up to boycott Gay Day. Disney is starting to (reluctantly) say the quiet part out loud, and so are the Republicans. Disney is publicly supporting queer rights and announcing company-supported queer events and the Republican Party is publicly calling them pedophiles and enacting politically driven revenge.
This is important, because while this fight has always been important in the history of queer rights, it is now being magnified. The precedent that a fight like this could set is staggering. For better or for worse, we live in a corporation-driven country. I don’t like it any more than you do, and I’m not about to defend most of Disney’s business practices. But we do live in a nation where rights are largely tied to corporate approval, and the fact that we might be entering an age where even the most powerful corporations in the country are being banned from speaking out in favor of rights for marginalized people… that’s genuinely scary.
Like… I’ll just ask you this. Where do you think we’d be now, in 2023, if Disney had been prevented from promising its employees equal benefits in 1994? That was almost thirty years ago, and look how far things have come. When I looked up news articles for this post from that era, even then journalists, activists, and fundie church leaders were all talking about how a company of Disney’s prominence throwing their weight behind this movement could lead to the normalization of equal protections in this country.
The idea of it scared and thrilled people in equal parts even then. It still scares and thrills them now.
I keep seeing people say “I need them both to lose!” and I get it, I do. Disney has for sure done a lot of shit over the years. But I am begging you as a queer exvangelical to understand that no. You need Disney to win. You need Disney to wipe the fucking floor with these people.
Right now, this isn’t just a fight between a giant corporation and Ron DeSantis. This is a fight about the right of corporations to support marginalized groups. It’s a fight that ensures that companies like Disney still can offer benefits that a discriminatory government does not provide. It ensures that businesses much smaller than Disney can support activism.
Hell, it ensures that you can support activism.
The fight between weird Christian conspiracy theorists and Disney is not new, because the fight to prevent any tiny victory for marginalized groups is not new. The fight against the normalization of othered groups is not new.
That’s what they’re most afraid of. That each incremental victory will start to make marginalized groups feel safer, that each incremental victory will start to turn the tide of public opinion, that each incremental victory will eventually lead to sweeping law reform.
They’re afraid that they won’t be able to legally discriminate against us anymore.
So guys! Please. This fight, while hilarious, is also so fucking important. I am begging you to understand how old this fight is. These people always play the long game. They did it with Roe and they’re doing it with Disney.
We have! To keep! Pushing back!
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epicsadman · 1 year
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In a church and OHHHHH LOORD THERE IS SO MUCH INTERNALIZED MISOGYNY
Like gurl you don't have to submit to your husband://///
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maladaptive-maniac · 1 year
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Those youth classes that kids go to during church should be called Bless-Ed
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philzasjuicyass · 3 months
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Ok, so. Heaven.
In the court in ep6, we see 5 different types of angels (on top of the Seraphim).
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In the middle there are moth/bug-looking ones (mix of antenna/no antenna). Then we've got the birdies (the ones at the top have extra Long Feathers) and the very demonic looking horned ones at the bottom. (And this one guy at the top with the eyed appendages)
On top of those are what I think are Ophanim; wheels with eyes on them at the top. We see them in the beginning narration of ep1,
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And it looks like two of the angels we saw creating Earth might also be Ophanim (the 2 lower ones)
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One of these angels was clearly Sera, a Seraph we later see accompanied by Emily. Sera is the "Head Seraph" and expresses that it's her job to take care of things since she's older.
People have theorized that Seniority is an important thing among angels because of that and how, in the ep1 narration, it's said the Elders of Heaven disapproved of Lucifer's ideas for creation.
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We are shown 6 angels here (7 including Lucifer), all of them with unique halos (and heads!) making them distinct from each other.
And in ep5, we see the same group of 6 with the exact same halos again
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Except this time they're even more distinct, with distinguishing silhouettes&markings added.
Seven angels, including Lucifer? Almost like... the Archangels?
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huariqueje · 2 years
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Beacon   -   Alf Christian Hvaring , 2020
Norwegian,b.1976-
Oil on canvas , 60 x 60 cm.
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cephalosaur · 1 month
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So this was fun.
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c0ckedgun · 6 months
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guardian angel
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godbirdart · 8 months
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realised that my misguided understanding of BC meaning Before Christ and AD meaning After Death implies that my brain just flatout accepted the idea that jesus was born, lived to be a grownass man, and then died betwen the years 1 BC and 1 AD
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kurakuradon · 9 months
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𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖚𝖘 𝕏 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕺𝖒𝖊𝖓.
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luvriablack · 9 months
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I can't resist you
(I can't resist u)
Pov: U and Patrick have an argument but it seems that u both love each other no matter what u two say...
Warnings: cursing? Mentions of killing. Enjoy 😉
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It was a day that I and Patrick were arguing. It was morning and we were in the kitchen. " U are a psycho nothing else! U don't even care about me. I am trying to be nice to you and all u do is humiliate me !" I say
Patrick looks at you with a cold expression.
"You dare to insult me?" He says, raising his voice. "Who is talking? The pathetic girl that does nothing except cook and clean for me?" He asks.
"You know what you are to me? Nothing more than a plaything, and the fact that you keep trying to be friends with me disgusts me. Stop trying so hard. I'm going to work." He says and he starts to walk out of the kitchen.
His words hurt me a lot " fuck u" I simply say and go to our room to pack my things
Patrick hears you and he stops. He has a hard time processing your words.
Did you really say that to him? He looks surprised. He then smiles "Oh, come on, my love. You said a bad word, but we can't just break up over that." He says.
"Look, I'm sorry for anything I said. I didn't mean it. It's just that...it's hard for me to be with one person for a long time." He says and he approaches you and takes you by the shoulders.
I freaked out. Was he cheating on me or something? Why would he say that? Maybe he was just angry at that moment I think "WHAT DO U MEAN BY THAT? IF U DONT WANT TO BE WITH ME JUST SAY IT" I yell at him
Patrick looks at you again, he's not smiling this time.
"Oh right, I guess I have to tell you." He says and he sighs. He takes your hands in his.
"Yeah, you're right. I can't be with one person forever. But what if I told you that I'm trying to change? I want to be a better man for you. I want to be someone you deserve." He says.
I glare at him" I saw a notebook of yours. U wrote " I wanna have sex with her and maybe I could just kill her with me inside her" " I say and continue glaring" Are u trying to kill me?"
He was disgusting. I can't believe I was in love with a killer
Patrick stares at you in a surprised way.
The notebook was never supposed to be found, it was supposed to be a hidden part of his deepest thoughts.
"No, my love. I'm not trying to kill you." He says.
"Oh, who am I kidding." He says and he shakes his head. "I don't know what to say, okay? Yes, I wrote it. Yes, those words are my deepest thoughts." He says and he puts his hand on his head. I glare at him" Thoughts or plans???" I ask
Patrick is silent for a few seconds and then he sighs.
"No, they aren't just thoughts." He says. "These thoughts are just a part of me."
He looks away for a moment and then he glances at you again.
"I...I can't help it...but sometimes I have fantasies...fantasies of killing the people I love." He says.
Patrick pauses, he strangely stares at you, he's smiling but there's something else in his eyes. "Do you understand, my love?" He asks." I am your girlfriend!!" I slap his face
Patrick doesn't respond to your slap, he just grabs you by the arm, he gently puts his hand on your face and he caresses your cheek.
"Yes, you're my girlfriend. And I would never want to hurt your precious face. I've been trying to push those thoughts of mine away for months, my love. But they're always there."
"I've always wanted to be the person you deserve...I've tried, my dear. But I just can't change." Patrick says, in a solemn way.
" U want to kill me!" I gasp while saying it
Patrick sighs. "In all honesty, I had thoughts about it. But they're just thoughts. Why would I want to kill the girl I love? You're everything to me, my dear."
He looks you in the eyes in a tender way.
"My love, I promise you that you're completely safe with me. I only had thoughts, like everyone does. I swear, my love. I'll never, ever hurt you. I can't hurt you. You're my world." He says, in a loving way.
Timeskip: You ended up calming down but at night u wouldn't want to sleep with him
"Let's stop talking about killing. I love you and I know you love me, my dear." He says and he caresses your face again. "Can we just forget this for tonight or the conversation we'll just end up fighting?" He asks.
Patrick says as he cames back from the bathroom that he was in before
" fine but...I won't sleep with u. I will be on the couch sleeping. So I can know that u won't hurt me" I say
Patrick chuckles.
"I love how innocent you are, my dear. Come on, my love. Don't you trust me enough to sleep in the same bed?" He asks.
"What if I promise to not hurt you? What if I promise to not even make a move on you tonight? Will you come to bed with me?" He asks, in a sweet way.
I can't resist him so I eventually agree
Patrick smiles.
"You're such a good girl, my love. Thank you for your trust." He takes your hand and he starts to walk towards his room.
"I'll make you breakfast tomorrow, okay?" He says, in a loving voice.
I sigh" okay but...don't touch me!" I take my hand away from his
Patrick's face shows a disappointed expression.
He takes a deep breath and he walks towards his bedroom. He opens the door and he walks inside.
You follow and you enter what seems to be a luxurious bedroom. A huge bed with silk covers, a huge dresser with suits, ties and cologne. A giant mirror in the back and two lamps on the tables. There are two windows that show a nice view of the city.
Patrick waits at the side of the bed. "Are you coming to bed, my love?" He asks.
Patrick takes off his suit and puts it in the huge dresser.
His body is completely muscular, there isn't an ounce of fat on his body. He's tall, and his six pack is perfectly sculpted due to his consistent exercise routine. He is the epitome of perfection.
He walks towards you, his feet making no sounds as he is only wearing his underwear.
He lays next to you in the bed. "Are you comfortable, my love?" He asks you.
I nod and turn my back on him as I close my eyes
Patrick stares at you for a few seconds.
From your back you look so delicate. He wants to touch you.
But, you told him not to. So he respects your wishes. However, he can't just stay there. So Patrick grabs your waist and he moves you a little towards him.His body is touching yours, and there's nothing you can do to prevent that.
I don't take his hand away. He is warm. I hold his hand and go closer to him
Patrick smiles and he caresses your hair.
"Don't worry, my love. I won't bite." He says, in a playful way.
He starts to kiss your neck. At first, it's sweet and tender, yet, he keeps going until he reaches your ear and he bites it with his teeth. He then lets go of your waist and with your hair in his hand, he kisses you softly. It's an entirely different feeling than before, this kiss felt real. It felt like Patrick loves you.
I close my eyes. Everything is going according to plan I say to myself and sleep
Do u want a part 2?
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ghostlyarchaeologist · 4 months
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"What you gonna do? Huh?" "I'm gonna break your kneecap, then I'm gonna snap your right wrist. Then I'm gonna take that knife away from you. and I'm gonna finish your boys off with it, and there ain't a damn thing you can do about it."
Almost Paradise S01E08 Lone Wolf.
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snoos-tattoos · 4 months
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"I was always insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."
[DPR IAN - LIMBO (Official Music Video)]
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sparkvamp · 2 years
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tatsumi. you agree.
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creativewaygrace · 15 days
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Bible Verses About Witchcraft
1 Chronicles 10:13- Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the Lord because he did not keep the Lord's word He even consulted a medium for guidance.
1 Samuel 15:23- For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and defiance is like wickedness and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as king.
1 Samuel 22:23- Stay with me. Don't be afraid, for the one who wants to take my life wants to take your life. You will be safe with me.
2 Chronicles 33:6- He passed his sons through the fire in Ben Hinnom Valley. He practiced witchcraft, divination, and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did a huge amount of evil in the Lord's sight, angering him.
Leviticus 19:31- Do not turn to mediums, or consult spiritists, or you will be defiled by them, I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 20:6- Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists and prostitutes' himself with them, I will turn against that person and cut him off from his people.
Leviticus 20:27- A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritists must be put to death. They are to be stoned; their death is their own fault.
Revelation 18:23- The light of a lamp will never shine in you again and the voice of a groom and bride will never be heard in you again. All this will happen because your merchants were the nobility of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.
Revelation 21:8- But the cowards, faithless, detestable, murderers, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.
Galatians 5:19-20- Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions.
Galatians 5:19-21- Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing and anything similar. I am warning you about these things, as I warned you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Micha 5:10-12- In that day, this is the Lord's declaration, I will remove your horses from you and wreck your chariots. I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your fortresses. I will remove sorceries from your hands, and you will not have any more fortune tellers.
Acts 19:17-20- When this became known to everyone who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks, they became afraid, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high esteem. And many who had become believers came confessing and disclosing their practices, while many of those who had practiced magic collected their books and burned them in front of everyone. So they calculated their value and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver, in this way the word of the Lord flourished and prevailed.
Isaiah 8:19-22- When they say to you, "Inquire of the mediums and the spiritists who chirp and mutter, shouldn't a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead, on behalf of the living? Go to God's instruction and testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them. They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and looking upward, will curse their king and their God. They will look toward the earth and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.
Isaiah 19: 1-4- A pronouncement concerning Egypt: Look, the Lord rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. Egypt's idols will tremble before him, and Egypt will loose heart. I will provoke Egyptians against Egyptians, each will fight against his brother and each against his friend, city against city, kingdom against kingdom. Egypt's spirit will be disturbed within it, and I will frustrate it's plans. Then they will inquire of idols, ghosts, and spiritists. I will hand over Egypt to harsh masters, and a strong king will rule it. This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.
Acts 8:9-13- A man named Simon had previously practiced sorcery in that city and amazed the Samaritan people, while calming to be somebody great. They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest and they said, "This man is called the Great Power of God". They were attentive to him because he had amazed them with his sorceries for a long time, but when they believed Philip, as he proclaimed
Deuteronomy 18:10-14- No one among you is to sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire, practice divination, tell fortunes, interpret omens, practice sorcery, cast spells, consult a medium or spiritists, or inquire of the dead. Everyone who does these acts is detestable to the Lord, and the Lord your God is driving out the nations before you because of these detestable acts. You must be blameless before the Lord your God. Though these nations you are about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do this.
Isaiah 47: 8-14- So now hear this, lover of luxury, who sits securely, who says to herself, I am, and there is no one else. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children. These two things will happen to you suddenly, in one day, loss of children and widowhood. They will happen to you in their entirety, in spite of your many sorceries and potency of your spells. You were secure in your wickedness, you said No one sees me. Your wisdom and knowledge led astray. You said it yourself, I am, and there is no one else. But disaster will happen to you, you will not know how to avert it. And it will fall on you, but you will be unable to ward it off . Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly. So take your stand with your spells and your many sorceries, which you have wearied yourself with from your youth. Perhaps you will be able to succeed, perhaps you will inspire terror! You are worn out with your many consultations. So let the astrologers stand and save you, those who observe the stars, those predict monthly what will happen to you. Look, they are like stubble, fire burns them. They cannot rescue themselves from the power of the flame. This is not a coal for warming themselves, or a fire to sit beside!
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madhatterbri · 6 months
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Conducting Business | C.C.
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Summary: Reader distracts Christian while he is conducting business. 18+.
"I'm home," you called out in the house after walking through the front door. You expected Christian to be waiting for you after being on the road with AEW. You walked towards his office.
The familiae voice of his boss, Tony, filled his office. You remained quiet and sat across from him. He sighed and muted himself. "Conducting business," he mouthed to you before rolling his blue eyes. He removed himself from mute and agreed with whatever his boss was droning on about.
Those words always ignited something in her. Something took control of you when those words fluttered off his lips. You slipped out of the chair and crawled towards him. Christian looked down in confusion. Your hands touched his knees and his legs jerked.
Slowly, your hands made their ways up his inner thighs and towards his groin. His breath hitched. He moved his hands to grab hers. His hands were about to push her away but his boss distracted him.
"Christian, are you even listening?" Tony asked. His voice sounded urgent like he was talking about the most important thing in the world. Christian immediately turned his attention away from you and to his boss.
Your hand went a little higher. His cock already hard from being on the road. Christian shifted in his seat uncomfortably. He tried to answer Tony normally while not giving away what was happening in his office.
"Are you feeling all right, Chris? You sound like your in pain," Tony pressed worried that one of his stars was injured. Christian's antics were getting a lot of hits on YouTube. He couldn't afford to lose him.
Christian cleared his throat as you unzipped his pants. His hard dick freed itself from his boxers. They had sex in here plenty of times but never while he was conducting business. If only they could see him now. Their champion rendered weak by his girlfriend.
"I'm fine, Tony," he gasped once your hand rubbed him up and down painfully slow. His hips bucked wanting her to pick up the speed. "Just sore from working out,"
You didn't hear Tony's response. He was at your mercy and you thrived in it. You picked up the speed as he groaned in his hand. Precum started to spill on her hand. Slowly, you licked up a line up his cock before taking the head in your mouth.
The hand over his mouth couldn't contain the noise that came out. He leaned back in his chair. His hips bucking once more towards you. He gripped the side of his desk. You scooted closer and took more of him inside your mouth.
"Do you need anything else, Tony?" He asked urgently. Heavy gasps were slipping out of him. He didn't even bother to hide it anymore. His legs spread wider as he leaned back in his chair. Your head was now between his legs and the desk.
"We can talk later. Get some rest and don't push yourself so hard at the gym," Tony bid him farewell.
The call barely ended before Christian pulled you up.
"Bend over, now," he ordered. He had a dark look in his eyes. You happily obliged while giggling. Bracing yourself against the desk, you felt his hands lower your shorts. They lowered to around your ankles.
"I was conducting business," He informed you while he rubbed your ass. One swift motion and he spanked you. A soft moan slipped past your lips. He spanked her a few more times. "What do you say?"
"I'm sorry, daddy," you whined.
He massaged your sore ass with one hand. His other hand rubbed to your outer thigh. His thumb rubbing up and down on your damp underwear.
"Do you want to know what I am going to do to you?" He asked dangerously. The question must have been rhetorical because he gave you no time to answer. Shortly after he slipped your underwear down.
His hand cupped your wet sex. Whines filled the room as his thumb circled your clit. You shook your hips to get away. He used his other hand to hold you down.
"What did you expect was going to happen after you misbehaved to daddy, huh?" He asked ignoring your pleas. Your body cried out wanting him to be inside you. "You thought I was going to let this go?"
Once he was satisfied that you weren't going to squirm anymore he slipped a finger inside of you. You found yourself unable to verbally answer. You whined and shook your head.
"This is what is going to happen, baby. I am going to eat you out and then fuck you until you learn your lesson, understood?" He asked.
You felt Christian get on his knees behind you. The brief moment giving you a chance to gasp for air. His breath was felt between her legs. Christian used his years of experience on you. Excellent combinations of tongue flicks and mouth suction threw you into pure bliss. His finger working you into a frenzy. You bit your lip feeling yourself chasing your orgasm. He pulled away before you could finished.
"No," you whined loudly in frustration. The lack of completion leaving you wanting more. Christian loved to do this as punishment. He could edge you for a while before he needed to bury himself in you.
"You are lucky I was gone for so long. I can't wait as long," he whispered in your ear as he hovered over you. His hand wrapped around your hair. Hot tears fell down your cheeks in frustration. You nodded like while stuck in a babbling mess.
Christian stood back up and entered you with a swift thrust. His hands gripped your hips. Each thrust moved the desk back and forth. You moved with him wanting him to fill you completely.
"Oh, fuck, your name," he groaned. His once detailed thrusts now became sloppy. His animal instincts kicked in.
"Ch-christian, please," you begged.
One final thrust was it. Your moans echoed in the office. Your juices flowed over him as he finished inside of you. He pulled out and smiled seeing the mess between your legs. He sat in his office chair admiring the view before him.
"Maybe you can interrupt while I'm conducting business," he smiled and placed you on his lap. He buried his face in your hair and kissed softly.
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aduckinpain · 6 months
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Let the Sky fall
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Tags: Lestappen, Max Verstappen centered, Max Verstappen Character Analysis, Hurt/Comfort, Jos Verstappen Slander, Happy Ending, Charles Leclerc's Sunset lap and Max Verstappen's Storm lap, The Brazil 2023 Effect hasn't left yet
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This work is also on AO3 under user roianamustang (me).
The sky darkens, the rain falls and the clouds drape. A storm is nearing. Maybe it’s already arrived. Or perhaps it was always there. Looming just beside his shoulder. Never whispering, always yelling, muttering under his breath.
The wind blows, shakes. The wind is moving and everpresent, especially in a state like the Netherlands. Especially in a household like the Verstappens.
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A storm is the natural phenomenon of a violent disturbance of the atmosphere with strong winds and usually rain, thunder, lightning, or snow.
The 2023 season felt like a good quali lap with 3 full purple sectors. His wins got familiar and his rare, but present, losses felt like the calm before the storm. And that was taken literally on the track of São Paulo, Brazil. 
This year was like a whirlwind that wasn’t stopping and it really swiveled itself that morning. The warm, humid air felt good on his skin. He lowered his visor, pressed the throttle, exited the pit lane.
 A short straight, followed by chicanes. Max’s eyes stood unblinking. 
Turn left. Turn right. 
Go faster. 
A straight. DRS. 
Go faster.
Sharp left. 
Purple. 
The force pushed him right and over the edge. 
He remembered.
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When he opened his eyes, Max saw the sky. Bright blue spanning across his vision. Along with some dark, blurry spots. 
He heard voices and felt hands touching him. Pulling him. 
He flinched. Or at least tried to, but he couldn’t tell what was happening.
Soon enough the noise started to filter in. Screams entering his ears and the sun warming his suit, reminded Max of where he was. Physically at least. 
Opening lap of his 2021 Silverstone Grand Prix. And he’d crashed.
The marshalls were checking if anything was wrong and he could feel himself shaking his head. He’d crashed.
He could walk, nothing was broken. He’d crashed.
He entered the garage, went to the infirmary and sat. The doctors checked him over. A concussion at most, they said. He’d crashed.
The word flying around estimated 51 G-forces. A miracle. He’d crashed.
Christian came over and stood with him. Daniel called immediately after the race. Asked him how he was.
It doesn’t matter.
He’d crashed.
The sun shined brighter. Redder.
Angry or worried. He didn’t know. He’d only felt one emotion as a constant in his life and he couldn’t look the sun in the eye. It was too bright.
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The sky is the region of the atmosphere and outer space seen from the earth.
Sector 2 has started. A push on the pedals, the speed increases.
He can feel his arm muscles tense, turn, gain control over the long turns. 
Turn 8. Chicanes. Right. Left. Right. Hit the apex. Keep the speed. 
Turn.
Purple.
The sky darkens.
And yet, he can still feel his sun’s heat on his back. Catching on. Keeping up. Feeding.
Like always.
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When he was a child, he remembers sitting with his sister under the blankets looking at picture books about space. A flashlight in his hand. Opening, closing, mimicking stars. Scattering it around to make constellations.
Stars. Bright and big. Almost like they had a presence. An aura. A purpose. 
He remembers his wonder when he found out the Sun was a star. Read about it incessantly. The brightness, along with its heat, being the main cause for life on Earth. It created great things, but as he found later on, with big risks. 
It felt godly.
It held the power in its hands to not just create, but also destroy.
Humanity has and will always be its own risk. Our actions making even the thing that keeps us alive, deadly.
The Sun wasn’t just warm, it was scalding. It was strong, it lashed out. 
It grew and it grew. It will continue to grow, to the point where it will swallow. It will grow and then it will shrink.
It will be quiet.
It will burst.
And Jos?
He bleeds human.
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His father felt like wind. It pushed and pulled and yelled. 
His father felt Aeolian. Loud. Intense. Angry.
Anger. 
An emotion he’s always known of. An emotion he’s allowed to have. The only one he was allowed to express.
When the checkered flag came into view and his kart crossed the finish line in third place, pride was what was felt. Sure, he hadn't won, but he was on the podium.
He was on the podium, dad!
He smiled and picked up his trophy. He took pictures and turned to show his accomplishment. 
He was on the podium, dad!
He froze. He shivered, flinched. He stayed quiet in the car and looked up when his door opened. He stepped outside, but his dad went inside again. 
What?
The window opened. He heard the words, tried replying to them even. But then, he looked at wind in the eye and felt cold.
As the car drove away, Max Verstappen left. 
He left there in the parking lot of the gas station, standing still. 
He doesn’t know if he ever returned. And if any effort was made to do so, it was quickly diminished when he found himself in the same place it started. Or more accurately, ended.
He was on the podium, dad.
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A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light cannot get out.
A sharp left turn. He hits the apex and speeds up again. The wind blows but he doesn’t feel it. 
He never lifts his foot off the pedal. 
He speeds up and up and up.
Purple.
Sector 3 done. 
Pole position.
For now.
Rain drops. The sun shines from behind, not above.
The session is finished.
On Sunday he starts on pole. And that afternoon he feeds his sun. Max doesn’t trap his light.
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A solar storm is a disturbance on the Sun, which can emanate outward across the heliosphere, affecting the entire Solar System.
He was leading. He was winning. That first place trophy was his. 
He was robbed. And now very wet.
Thrown in a puddle, as if all these years of experience were for nothing.
He turned to see who it was, who had dared. Turning his head, Max for a second was blinded by the glare of the Sun. 
The Sun was prettier than he should be, but it doesn't matter. He'd lost.
When he heard the word ‘Inchident’ come out of the Sun's mouth, the only thing pushing him away, in the opposite direction, was the wind.
But the heat never left.
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He follows the Sun, but maybe the Sun also follows him back.
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The supernova occurs when a star suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass.
Austria 2019. Mad Max.
After embracing the anger for so long, he succeeded.
He was anger. He was fear. He made people freeze. He was strong and he won. He fought back.
So why?
Why did the wind tire him out? Why did his Sun disappear? 
Why wasn’t it enough? When will it be enough?
What will it take, that he hasn't already given?
He was on the podium, dad.
He won, dad.
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Up until 2019, Max Verstappen made a name for himself. 
Whether that was with his reckless behavior or inability to allow drivers to overtake, that’s a story for another day. 
He was becoming someone. He had gained importance.
When he was small, his mom learned that he liked books about space. A woman ready to sacrifice everything and more for her children, caught unto that fact quickly. She gave him books, he learned and ranted to her eagerly.
She listened. She always did.
His sister looked up at him, trailed after his every word, ready to believe anything he said. Captured every thought of his and held it close to her little heart.
He loved them.
And yet, they still left him. 
He was alone.
He was alone in a house, with its windows wide open. No curtains drawn. The wind was bursting in its seams. It shook every space, every nook and cranny. It shook him.
He was alone, in a void.
No friends at school, no birthday parties to go to, no sister, no mom, no childhood.
Even when he succeeded, he didn’t feel like his dad felt proud.
It was almost like he didn’t have a dad in the first place. He only had a father.
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The Boötes Void, colloquially referred to as the Great Nothing, is an approximately spherical region of space found in the vicinity of the constellation Boötes, containing nearly no galaxies. We have yet to find the reason.
Sunday arrived. Assured and known, yet still exciting. It would never grow old. Not like galaxies and stars did. 
He wore his fireproof, put on his balaclava. Holding the helmet for a moment, he allowed himself to look upon its design. A design fit for a World Champion. The gold shined. The lion stared back.
He got the gloves and entered the RB19.
Breath in. Breath out. 
The cars lined up in their positions. The sun shined brightly right behind him, in second position. The sky was clear, no clouds, no wind.
He took the wheel in his hand. Felt his mind go blank.
The formation lap.
A short straight followed by a left turn into Turn 1.
He hears the wheels and then the distant thud. 
The sun isn't shining brightly. Not anymore.
It’s been dimming this year.
He won, but there was no rays there around him, warm and inviting like always. There was no wind but it still felt cold.
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Max Verstappen learned early in his life, career, that he had only one true constant in his life. And it wasn’t the wind, the storm or the sky. It was the Sun. It was his Sun. His Sun was a man, it was a star.
His Sun attracted so many planets, so many other stars across the universe. Orbited around him. They tried coming closer, but the heat was too much. For them at least.
This Sun, was just a star.
This Sun was a man in red.
This Sun hurt, loved, cared, fought.  
This Sun met him toe to toe, eye to eye, heart to heart.
This Sun never left, it rotated only to one thing.
It rotated to Max, just as Max rotated to him.
This Sun carried the weight of responsibility, of history on his shoulders. 
This Sun was Charles Leclerc.
This star was his binary.
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A binary star is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other.  X-ray binaries are made up of a normal star and a collapsed star. These pairs of stars produce X-rays. If the stars are close enough together that material is pulled off the normal star by the gravity of the dense, collapsed star. They feed on each other, until they collide.
It took years, but Max Verstappen isn’t scared of the wind anymore. He’s reunited with his mom and his sister. He has friends. He has wins, races and championships. 
He has confidence. He feels. He expresses. 
Anger is a second thought, not a solution.
And he has understood that, at the end of the day, all of his success was his hard work paying off. 
He has earned it. He has deserved it.
He has healed.
Mom. Victoria. I won.
Dad. I am a World Champion.
Charles. Let’s keep going.
Max. I am proud of you.
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The days may pass, time may go on, the universe may be in constant motion. But he is temporary. And it’s ok. He is a simple creature. He is a star.
The star in his arms, unwinding, glowing, asleep, will rotate for eternity. The Sun isn’t up in the sky, it’s in his house, on his couch. He’s warm and will never let the wind make Max cold again.
Nuzzling his nose on the head full of hair in his arms, feeling the pressure on his body, Max Verstappen calms. Closes his eyes. 
Dreams of red and blue.
In the future he dreams of purple.
He’s come to terms with his past.
In the present, he lives.
He is Max Verstappen, and the world echoes his name.
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Please note that no matter how much I am writing here, it is all artistic speculation of what Max himself has decided to show the world. Do not forget that these drivers are real people.
@anakin-tedua-skywalker I love you (fatherly tone)
A tiny analysis even if I feel like this one is pretty obvious:
Aeolian sound or Aeolian tone is sound that is produced by wind when it passes over or through objects.
Any phenomenon that isn't the Wind or The Sun, is Max himself.
The binary stars at the end is Lestappen.
I'm not so sure about this one but I did want to write it so I will still post it here and on my ao3.
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