#e rank blogging

[hakunonon]

just saw someone accuse fate of not having any buff men which like. i accept that there’s a lot of valid criticisms or even just elements that make the franchise personally unappealing for a lot of people, but that is just a straight-up “tell me you know nothing about the series without saying you know nothing about the series” take. this person has seen one genshin fan too many calling their anaemic pretty boys ‘bara’, then maybe they saw one picture of karna or twinkgamesh and assumed that fate was exactly the same.

this person has never seen a berserker in their life.

super orion has more muscle mass than every playable genshin character combined.

#listen there's a lot of shit you can say about fate but saying it has no buff men?? you know nothing. #e rank blogging

[yeoldenews]

A Guide to Historically Accurate Regency-Era Names

I recently received a message from a historical romance writer asking if I knew any good resources for finding historically accurate Regency-era names for their characters.

Not knowing any off the top of my head, I dug around online a bit and found there really isn’t much out there. The vast majority of search results were Buzzfeed-style listicles which range from accurate-adjacent to really, really, really bad.

I did find a few blog posts with fairly decent name lists, but noticed that even these have very little indication as to each name’s relative popularity as those statistical breakdowns really don't exist.

I began writing up a response with this information, but then I (being a research addict who was currently snowed in after a blizzard) thought hey - if there aren’t any good resources out there why not make one myself?

As I lacked any compiled data to work from, I had to do my own data wrangling on this project. Due to this fact, I limited the scope to what I thought would be the most useful for writers who focus on this era, namely - people of a marriageable age living in the wealthiest areas of London.

So with this in mind - I went through period records and compiled the names of 25,000 couples who were married in the City of Westminster (which includes Mayfair, St. James and Hyde Park) between 1804 to 1821.

So let’s see what all that data tells us…

To begin - I think it’s hard for us in the modern world with our wide and varied abundance of first names to conceive of just how POPULAR popular names of the past were.

If you were to take a modern sample of 25-year-old (born in 1998) American women, the most common name would be Emily with 1.35% of the total population. If you were to add the next four most popular names (Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley) these top five names would bring you to 5.5% of the total population. (source: Social Security Administration)

If you were to do the same survey in Regency London - the most common name would be Mary with 19.2% of the population. Add the next four most popular names (Elizabeth, Ann, Sarah and Jane) and with just 5 names you would have covered 62% of all women.

To hit 62% of the population in the modern survey it would take the top 400 names.

The top five Regency men’s names (John, William, Thomas, James and George) have nearly identical statistics as the women’s names.

I struggled for the better part of a week with how to present my findings, as a big list in alphabetical order really fails to get across the popularity factor and also isn’t the most tumblr-compatible format. And then my YouTube homepage recommended a random video of someone ranking all the books they’d read last year - and so I present…

The Regency Name Popularity Tier List

The Tiers

S+ - 10% of the population or greater. There is no modern equivalent to this level of popularity. 52% of the population had one of these 7 names.

S - 2-10%. There is still no modern equivalent to this level of popularity. Names in this percentage range in the past have included Mary and William in the 1880s and Jennifer in the late 1970s (topped out at 4%).

A - 1-2%. The top five modern names usually fall in this range. Kids with these names would probably include their last initial in class to avoid confusion. (1998 examples: Emily, Sarah, Ashley, Michael, Christopher, Brandon.)

B - .3-1%. Very common names. Would fall in the top 50 modern names. You would most likely know at least 1 person with these names. (1998 examples: Jessica, Megan, Allison, Justin, Ryan, Eric)

C - .17-.3%. Common names. Would fall in the modern top 100. You would probably know someone with these names, or at least know of them. (1998 examples: Chloe, Grace, Vanessa, Sean, Spencer, Seth)

D - .06-.17%. Less common names. In the modern top 250. You may not personally know someone with these names, but you’re aware of them. (1998 examples: Faith, Cassidy, Summer, Griffin, Dustin, Colby)

E - .02-.06%. Uncommon names. You’re aware these are names, but they are not common. Unusual enough they may be remarked upon. (1998 examples: Calista, Skye, Precious, Fabian, Justice, Lorenzo)

F - .01-.02%. Rare names. You may have heard of these names, but you probably don’t know anyone with one. Extremely unusual, and would likely be remarked upon. (1998 examples: Emerald, Lourdes, Serenity, Dario, Tavian, Adonis)

G - Very rare names. There are only a handful of people with these names in the entire country. You’ve never met anyone with this name.

H - Virtually non-existent. Names that theoretically could have existed in the Regency period (their original source pre-dates the early 19th century) but I found fewer than five (and often no) period examples of them being used in Regency England. (Example names taken from romance novels and online Regency name lists.)

Just to once again reinforce how POPULAR popular names were before we get to the tier lists - statistically, in a ballroom of 100 people in Regency London: 80 would have names from tiers S+/S. An additional 15 people would have names from tiers A/B and C. 4 of the remaining 5 would have names from D/E. Only one would have a name from below tier E.

Women's Names

S+ Mary, Elizabeth, Ann, Sarah      

S - Jane, Mary Ann+, Hannah, Susannah, Margaret, Catherine, Martha, Charlotte, Maria

A - Frances, Harriet, Sophia, Eleanor, Rebecca

B - Alice, Amelia, Bridget~, Caroline, Eliza, Esther, Isabella, Louisa, Lucy, Lydia, Phoebe, Rachel, Susan

C - Ellen, Fanny*, Grace, Henrietta, Hester, Jemima, Matilda, Priscilla

D - Abigail, Agnes, Amy, Augusta, Barbara, Betsy*, Betty*, Cecilia, Christiana, Clarissa, Deborah, Diana, Dinah, Dorothy, Emily, Emma, Georgiana, Helen, Janet^, Joanna, Johanna, Judith, Julia, Kezia, Kitty*, Letitia, Nancy*, Ruth, Winifred>

E - Arabella, Celia, Charity, Clara, Cordelia, Dorcas, Eve, Georgina, Honor, Honora, Jennet^, Jessie*^, Joan, Joyce, Juliana, Juliet, Lavinia, Leah, Margery, Marian, Marianne, Marie, Mercy, Miriam, Naomi, Patience, Penelope, Philadelphia, Phillis, Prudence, Rhoda, Rosanna, Rose, Rosetta, Rosina, Sabina, Selina, Sylvia, Theodosia, Theresa

F - (selected) Alicia, Bethia, Euphemia, Frederica, Helena, Leonora, Mariana, Millicent, Mirah, Olivia, Philippa, Rosamund, Sybella, Tabitha, Temperance, Theophila, Thomasin, Tryphena, Ursula, Virtue, Wilhelmina

G - (selected) Adelaide, Alethia, Angelina, Cassandra, Cherry, Constance, Delilah, Dorinda, Drusilla, Eva, Happy, Jessica, Josephine, Laura, Minerva, Octavia, Parthenia, Theodora, Violet, Zipporah

H - Alberta, Alexandra, Amber, Ashley, Calliope, Calpurnia, Chloe, Cressida, Cynthia, Daisy, Daphne, Elaine, Eloise, Estella, Lilian, Lilias, Francesca, Gabriella, Genevieve, Gwendoline, Hermione, Hyacinth, Inez, Iris, Kathleen, Madeline, Maude, Melody, Portia, Seabright, Seraphina, Sienna, Verity

Men's Names

S+ John, William, Thomas

S - James, George, Joseph, Richard, Robert, Charles, Henry, Edward, Samuel

A - Benjamin, (Mother’s/Grandmother’s maiden name used as first name)#

B - Alexander^, Andrew, Daniel, David>, Edmund, Francis, Frederick, Isaac, Matthew, Michael, Patrick~, Peter, Philip, Stephen, Timothy

C - Abraham, Anthony, Christopher, Hugh>, Jeremiah, Jonathan, Nathaniel, Walter

D - Adam, Arthur, Bartholomew, Cornelius, Dennis, Evan>, Jacob, Job, Josiah, Joshua, Lawrence, Lewis, Luke, Mark, Martin, Moses, Nicholas, Owen>, Paul, Ralph, Simon

E - Aaron, Alfred, Allen, Ambrose, Amos, Archibald, Augustin, Augustus, Barnard, Barney, Bernard, Bryan, Caleb, Christian, Clement, Colin, Duncan^, Ebenezer, Edwin, Emanuel, Felix, Gabriel, Gerard, Gilbert, Giles, Griffith, Harry*, Herbert, Humphrey, Israel, Jabez, Jesse, Joel, Jonas, Lancelot, Matthias, Maurice, Miles, Oliver, Rees, Reuben, Roger, Rowland, Solomon, Theophilus, Valentine, Zachariah

F - (selected) Abel, Barnabus, Benedict, Connor, Elijah, Ernest, Gideon, Godfrey, Gregory, Hector, Horace, Horatio, Isaiah, Jasper, Levi, Marmaduke, Noah, Percival, Shadrach, Vincent

G - (selected) Albion, Darius, Christmas, Cleophas, Enoch, Ethelbert, Gavin, Griffin, Hercules, Hugo, Innocent, Justin, Maximilian, Methuselah, Peregrine, Phineas, Roland, Sebastian, Sylvester, Theodore, Titus, Zephaniah

H - Albinus, Americus, Cassian, Dominic, Eric, Milo, Rollo, Trevor, Tristan, Waldo, Xavier

# Men were sometimes given a family surname (most often their mother's or grandmother's maiden name) as their first name - the most famous example of this being Fitzwilliam Darcy. If you were to combine all surname-based first names as a single 'name' this is where the practice would rank.

*Rank as a given name, not a nickname

+If you count Mary Ann as a separate name from Mary - Mary would remain in S+ even without the Mary Anns included

~Primarily used by people of Irish descent

^Primarily used by people of Scottish descent

>Primarily used by people of Welsh descent

I was going to continue on and write about why Regency-era first names were so uniform, discuss historically accurate surnames, nicknames, and include a little guide to finding 'unique' names that are still historically accurate - but this post is already very, very long, so that will have to wait for a later date.

If anyone has any questions/comments/clarifications in the meantime feel free to message me.

Methodology notes: All data is from marriage records covering six parishes in the City of Westminster between 1804 and 1821. The total sample size was 50,950 individuals.

I chose marriage records rather than births/baptisms as I wanted to focus on individuals who were adults during the Regency era rather than newborns. I think many people make the mistake when researching historical names by using baby name data for the year their story takes place rather than 20 to 30 years prior, and I wanted to avoid that. If you are writing a story that takes place in 1930 you don’t want to research the top names for 1930, you need to be looking at 1910 or earlier if you are naming adult characters.

I combined (for my own sanity) names that are pronounced identically but have minor spelling differences: i.e. the data for Catherine also includes Catharines and Katherines, Susannah includes Susannas, Phoebe includes Phebes, etc.

The compound 'Mother's/Grandmother's maiden name used as first name' designation is an educated guesstimate based on what I recognized as known surnames, as I do not hate myself enough to go through 25,000+ individuals and confirm their mother's maiden names. So if the tally includes any individuals who just happened to be named Fitzroy/Hastings/Townsend/etc. because their parents liked the sound of it and not due to any familial relations - my bad.

I did a small comparative survey of 5,000 individuals in several rural communities in Rutland and Staffordshire (chosen because they had the cleanest data I could find and I was lazy) to see if there were any significant differences between urban and rural naming practices and found the results to be very similar. The most noticeable difference I observed was that the S+ tier names were even MORE popular in rural areas than in London. In Rutland between 1810 and 1820 Elizabeths comprised 21.4% of all brides vs. 15.3% in the London survey. All other S+ names also saw increases of between 1% and 6%. I also observed that the rural communities I surveyed saw a small, but noticeable and fairly consistent, increase in the use of names with Biblical origins.

Sources of the records I used for my survey: 

Ancestry.com. England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1988 [database on-line].

Ancestry.com. Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935 [database on-line].

#history #regency #1800s #1810s #names #london #writing resources #regency romance #jane austen #bridgerton #bridgerton would be an exponentially better show if daphne's name was dorcas #behold - the reason i haven't posted in three weeks

[beneaththetangles]

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[agentmarvel]

nsfw alphabet - john price

afab!reader

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divider credit: @/cafekitsune

♡ a = aftercare (what they’re like after sex)

- Price is BIG on cuddling after sex. Physical touch is his love language, and despite literally just being inside you, nothing feels as intimate as holding you close in that post-coital bliss, carding his fingers through your hair and peppering kisses against your hairline while you both try to catch your breath.

♡ b = body part (their favorite body part of theirs and also their partner’s)

- This man is O B S E S S E D with your hips. He LOVES the way the skin indents beneath his grip when he digs his fingers in. Loves to think about his chubby little babies sitting on those hips. That appreciation isn't inherently sexual, either. The shape of your hips is unique to you, and nothing you wear disguises that. It's not a feature he found himself going crazy over until he met you.

He really takes a lot of pride in his hands. They are capable of a vast many things, most of which are only visible in intangible aftermath. But when he looks around the house he shares with you, sees all the furniture he's built, the walls he's painted; it all reminds him that his hands have made this home.

♡ c = cum (anything to do with cum, basically)

- breeding kink. breeding kink. BREEDING KINK. John Price has the biggest breeding kink and will refuse to cum anywhere other than inside you. Birth control? Doesn't matter. He's gonna try his damnedest to test that precaution to its limits. If you end up becoming part of that failure statistic, he's perfectly fine with it.

♡ d = dirty secret (pretty self-explanatory, a dirty secret of theirs)

- John refuses to rinse his mustache after eating you out. If you go to kiss him and comment on it, he'll straight up gaslight you. Something about the scent lingering drives him crazy. He'll spend half his day adjusting himself to hide the reading hard-on from it.

♡ e = experience (how experienced are they? do they know what they’re doing?) 

- His experience is in the act itself, not the volume of partners. He prefers the idea of intimacy over the act of sex, but his drive is high, so he's had plenty of practice.

♡ f = favorite position

- Missionary or cowgirl! He needs to be able to see your face. Watching your eyes roll back every time you take him to the hilt is a borderline spiritual experience for him.

♡ g = goofy (are they more serious in the moment? are they humorous? etc.)

- John tends to be a little more serious because he's focused on making you feel good. Doesn't mean he's 100% serious at all times; he'll laugh or joke when it's appropriate. But he doesn't go out of his way to create those openings.

♡ h = hair (how well-groomed are they? does the carpet match the drapes? etc.) 

- Wild man status with this one. He's a hairy dude, and he sees no issues with being natural. Time in the field doesn't allow for regular maintenance, and he doesn't want to waste a second of his time at home worrying about it. You've never complained, so he sees no need to change.

♡ i = intimacy (how are they during the moment? the romantic aspect)

- Intimacy is so important to Price. He doesn't light candles and sprinkle rose petals every time you have sex, but he's very attuned to what you need in the moment. He's always looking for signs of discomfort or any inkling that you may not match his fervor, and he adjusts accordingly.

♡ j = jack off (masturbation headcanon)

- John masturbates multiple times a day when he's away from home. He can't help it. He's used to cumming a frankly obscene number of times before falling asleep, and it almost feels like he's going through withdrawals if he doesn't maintain it.

♡ k = kink (one or more of their kinks)

- We've already touched on the breeding kink, but Price also has a raging daddy/authority kink. He almost exclusively wants to be called Daddy or Sir in bed, and if you call him by his rank? Don't expect to be able to walk the next morning.

♡ l = location (favorite places to do the do)

- He'll do it anywhere you let him, but he generally prefers your bed. Call him boring, but the comfort is important to him.

♡ m = motivation (what turns them on, gets them going)

- tbh, you just ✨️existing✨️ does it for him, but nothing gets him hard faster than imagining you pregnant. The thought of your souls being inextricably entwined forever through a child - a perfect mixture of the two of you - sets his soul ablaze.

♡ n = no (something they wouldn’t do, turn offs)

- While John is inherently the caretaker type, ageplay is a hard no. He's also not into heavy degradation. Nothing that will leave permanent marks because he feels awful even finding little bruises here and there.

♡ o = oral (preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc.)

- Man's a certified M U N C H. We're talking level 12 pussy monster. Price could find a fuck to give if it's reciprocated; he goes down on you for his own pleasure. He's so 🤤🤤🤤 at even the thought of eating you out. The technique is impeccable, and he can bring you to a convulsive orgasm in a small handful of minutes. He's not stopping until you're pushing his head away and begging him for a break.

♡ p = pace (are they fast and rough? slow and sensual? etc.) 

- It depends heavily on what suits the moment. John is very go-with-the-flow. He's more than proficient at making love and fucking. The way you're kissing him tells him what you want. He's definitely biased towards the slow, gentle, delicate nights, but sometimes you both need the more primal nature, and he loves it all the same.

♡ q = quickie (their opinions on quickies, how often, etc.)

- Quickies are a must. He's always ready to go, and it's not always the most opportune. Shower quickie before you leave for work? He's ready. Quick and dirty in the car before deployment? He's in. Bar bathroom because you absolutely cannot wait until you get home? Need only ask. They're not frequent, but he'll never say no.

♡ r = risk (are they game to experiment? do they take risks? etc.)

- Always down to try something new and always trying to push the limits. Price isn't the type to shy away from a challenge. He competes with himself to see if he can get you more wound up than he did the last date night, see if he can get you barking for the check earlier than last week. No risk, no reward.

♡ s = stamina (how many rounds can they go for? how long do they last?)

- Despite the fact that he looks, acts, and fucks like a god, John Price is still just a man. He lasts around 15-20 minutes and has a refractory period of maybe 30, but he'll spend that half an hour between your thighs if you'll let him. He usually goes two rounds before he needs a little rest, even if he's taking up a third.

♡ t = toys (do they own toys? do they use them? on a partner or themselves?)

- John doesn't own any himself, but he's 100% into using your own on you - or rather, against you. He'll buy you one of the remote or app-controlled vibrators and ask you to wear it in public. Or he'll surprise you with something he saw you eyeing online, only it won't be like a present. It's, to put it most accurately, a surprise. You won't know he bought it until he's using it.

♡ u = unfair (how much they like to tease)

- Ohhhhh, Price is a pussy tease for sure. 11/10. There's nothing he loves more than spending hours winding you up just to see you snap. It's more fun for him when he gets you to react as strongly as he constantly feels.

♡ v = volume (how loud they are, what sounds they make, etc.)

- He's a happy medium, I think. Grunts and sprinkled praise, but he isn't too loud or talkative on average. John wants you to know exactly how much he's enjoying you without it seeming forced or fake. Unless he's had a little to much to drink. Then, he won't shut up.

♡ w = wild card (a random headcanon for the character)

- Price has a second phone for deployments that he keeps on his person at all times. It has two layers of authentication to even reach the lock screen, which also has an obnoxiously efficient method of bypass. Hidden beneath all that security is a photo album disguised as a standard app - the calculator. An oddly specific equation has to be entered as a password. Only then will it bring up the hundreds of homemade porn files. Photos, videos, audio clips, all from his stays at home. There's a specific video that he defaults to if he needs to cum quickly; one with his cock in your mouth, somehow still noticeably smiling as he fucks your throat. Your eyes are watery but focused up on him. The sounds you make get him every time. It's almost like you're enjoying it more than he is.

♡ x = x-ray (let’s see what’s going on under those clothes)

- First, the obvious. John's a big guy - broad-shouldered and barrel-chested, tree trunk thighs, hairy af. He's built like a brick shithouse with a healthy layer of fat on his abdomen. A well-fed work horse, as he likes to boast.

6.5", slight upward curve, cut, thickkkkkkkkk like a Coke can

♡ y = yearning (how high is their sex drive?)

- HIGH. SO HIGH. I've mentioned it under other letters, but this man is SO HORNY. All the time. Like, this man is fucking insatiable. He'd go at it a baker's dozen times a day if you'd let him.

♡ z = zzz (how quickly they fall asleep)

- Give him 10 minutes (post clean up and cuddles) and he's out cold. Once he's settled back in bed with you in his arms, everything is right with the world, and he has no reason not to relax entirely.

#john price headcanons #john price x reader #john price x you #cod x reader #cod x you #jj writes

[cypionate60mg]

Hi! I love your work. It's really thrilling to find art at the intersection of philosophy, gender, and the erotic. You seem to be really thoughtful and intentional about your presentation of these pieces, so I'm curious about why you tag everything with "autoandrophilia" which IME is a pretty loaded word with a complex etymology. Would love to understand more!

Thanks, and good question. My answer is very long.

Before we go any futher, Blanchard's typology is transmisogynist bullshit. It's oversimplified, misinformed, and unimaginative. He actually abandoned the term 'autoandrophile' and has since switched to 'autohomoerotic'. More controversial online circles of trans people half-ironically identify with Blanchardian typology. For some, it's like MBTI, and for others, it's their self-diagnosis. Depends on the person.

When contemporary Western psychology began to take shape in the Wednesday Psychological Society's weekly meetings, one of the 'defects' they discussed was homosexuality. According to E. James Lieberman's biography of Otto Rank, he said in an informal setting that homosexuality is "love for one's self as seen in the persona of another like oneself whom one admires...strongly built up on narcissism. It is an ego symptom and not a sex symptom." Sound familiar? I don't think Blanchard's typology is all that different from that of early European psychoanalysis.

We see this same critique levied against trans people. That we're confusing attraction for identity, our self-love is fetishistic, and we're narcissistic neurotic perverts. But we can't just dismiss and ignore it, because we do indeed see trans people say things like "I can't tell if I want to be him or fuck him" or "become the person you'd want to date." 'Autoandrophile' starts to sound a lot like 'gender envy'. So what is actually happening here?

To even approach answering that, let's ask more questions. What does it mean to love people who look like you? If you are estranged from your own body, or if your body changes over time, is it morally objectionable to love a specific version of youself? Even a future one? It it also morally objectionable for that self-love to have a sexual dimension?

Trans people are expected to have the clarity of mind to separate who they are from who they're attracted to. (It's one of the demands society makes to ensure you are 'of sound mind' while still being suitably pathological to deserve hormonal/surgical treatment.) But if you don't necessarily identify with your body, then you already exist outside of that distinction. Like an open window, the barrier between inside (self) and outside (everything else) becomes troublesome.

Do you see now why I like the mirror metaphor so much? When you look in a reflection, that's not technically you. But it only exists because you are there to cast an image. The room's mirror image, too, is not necessarily real, but you gain insight into the room, maybe even see it in a new way, precisely because it's reflected back inaccurately. Your conception of yourself is filled out with detail when you cross-reference it with another version of yourself, one that doesn't exist in the same way you currently do.

It's some ontological quantum gender shit. And it's not unique to trans people. Cis people can experience it too, but they rely on the assumption that it's natural to have an oppositional 'counterpart', a 'complementary' partner. Somebody who completes them. Why, then, can't I complete myself?

We find ourselves back at your question. If Blanchard isn't going to use 'autoandrophile', then I will. One man's trash is another man's treasure. I'll use it to:

disrupt its definition.

challenge trans assimilationists.

discomfort cis men with my desire to be like them, or worse—to encourage them to define their masculinity.

provoke people into thoughtful discussions.

make people feel less alone.

But mostly, I use it so that when people look for the term, this blog will come up, and they'll see my porn. Or art. Or whatever they'll want to call it. And they'll start asking themselves the distinctions between any of these things.

There's so much more I could say about all this. Autoandrophilia's relationship to beauty standards, its usefulness (or lack thereof) as a coping mechanism for the limitation of transition, etcetera. But I'll stop here for now.

Much love, CYP60MG

#ask cyp60mg #director's commentary #behind the scenes

[sleepingdeath-hellaverse]

dominant male s/o smut headcanons ; 18+

requested by : anonymous [14/03/24]

original request : ‘There is clearly a lack of x male reader in the Hazbin Hotel fandom, so maybe I could request Lucifer and Adam with a soft dom male reader. (Im not sure If I can request more that one character tho)’

pairing : submissive!adam x dominant!male!reader insert

content : dom/sub dynamic between characters, brat!adam, public sex acts, praise kink, body worship, oral sex (adam receiving)

warnings : sexually explicit content

masterlists : sfw nsfw

minors and ageless blogs will be blocked

adam, being the first man in existence, has developed something of a complex over the many millennia of his existence that makes it incredibly difficult (nigh on impossible, even) for him to be convinced to let a partner dominate him in any sense of the word — after all, he’s the first fucking man, the original dick, the patriarch of mankind, so to him the only ‘natural’ role to take on was the dominant in all of his sexual encounters

… and then you came around and he started to (quietly, internally, and whilst outwardly denying it with his whole chest) consider letting you dominate him for a change

it takes a lot of time, and a hell of a lot of patience on your end, for adam to become openly receptive to even discussing shifting the dynamic between the two of you — and from there it takes even longer and a whole lot of bailed attempts before he’s finally comfortable enough to completely hand over control to you in the bedroom — but once you reach that point of trust and openness with him you’ll find the end result to be more than worth it

of course he’s still not going to make it easy on you and will make you earn his submission pretty much whenever you’re intimate (unless he’s especially needy for whatever reason) — it’s not always a case of him being a brat outright, sometimes it’s just a standard fight for dominance that he’ll occasionally win, but most of the time it’s because he’s bratting out for whatever reason and really needs to be (lovingly) put in his place

despite all of his bravado, adam absolutely thrives under your attention and praise and can get extremely needy and desperate if you deny or tease him for long enough — bonus points if you call him ‘my good boy’ or ‘handsome’ or ‘good’ because, though he’ll brush it off outwardly, it’s clear as day just how much that praise effects him by the reddening of his cheeks, the wavering of his voice, and the throbbing of his cock in your hand

his most common bratty behaviours include: huffing and rolling his eyes when you scold him, insulting you when you deny him or try to get him to behave (usually combined with him flaunting/bragging about his rank in heaven as ‘the first fucking man’ to try and earn your respect), cussing you out when you slow down or deny him what he really wants in order to make him play nice or use his words, and being extremely physical and extremely flirty with you whenever you’re too busy/distracted to give him the attention he craves

(he’s not above groping/fondling you in public or straight up talking about all the things he wants to do to you when you get home — he has literally zero shame — and the only people that can get him to behave are you, as his partner and dom, and sera, as his direct superior)

typically a stern look and a low and authoratative ‘adam.’ is enough to get him to shut up and start behaving himself in front of others, but when you’re in the bedroom you’ll usually have to resort to some more elaborate methods of brat taming — like a mixture of edging and overstimulation, using very strict rules to get him back in good habits (e.g. not using bondage gear but instructing him not to touch you when you’re jerking him off — stopping and tutting at him whenever he fails to follow your rules), and using a mixture of punishment and positive reinforcement to try and keep him on the straight and narrow (so to speak)

some examples of positive reinforcement that work with adam are: body worship (especially if you show particular attention to the parts of himself that have changed since his time in eden, like his softer stomach and bushier hair), praise (let him know that his good behaviour is seen and appreciated, reaffirm how attractive you find him, assure him that you love him and you’re not going anywhere anytime soon, promise that he can trust you and that you’ll always take care of him), and oral sex (he loves seeing you knelt between his thighs, or kneeling before him, as you eagerly, messily, and expertly take his cock between your lips and as far into your throat as you can manage — bonus points if you comment on how ‘big’ and ‘thick’ his dick is, and if you insist on swallowing his cum afterwards because both are things that he finds extremely fucking hot)

he loves it when you’re gentle and slow with him (it’s a nice change to be so loved by a partner after everything his exes put him through), but he also has like zero patience and will inevitably start bratting out and alternating between goading and begging you to go faster and let him cum already — he can take some roughness and overstimulation, after all, and has on many occasions insisted that you stop treating him like he’s fragile when you’re having sex (again, he does appreciate the gentleness and soft dominance that you bring, but sometimes he just wants to have his brains fucked out so he can stop thinking about everything for a while)

#sleepingdeath #ageless blogs dni #ageless blogs will be blocked #minors will be blocked #minors dni #hazbin hotel x reader #hazbin hotel smut #hazbin hotel adam x reader #hazbin hotel adam smut #male reader #smut #smut hcs #smut headcanons #male reader smut

[aziraphales-library]

Hi there! First off, thank you so much for doing what you do, this blog is amazing!

When browsing on AO3, I tend to filter out M and E rated fics cause I’m sex repulsed. As a result, I fear that I’m missing out on some great fics. So I was wondering if you had any recommendations for M/E rated fics that don’t contain sexual content? Could be show or book inspired

Hello! Here are some M-rated fics with no smut. Some may skirt the line, with talk of or allusion to sex, so be cautious if you need to...

Checkmate by UnproblematicMe (M)

On the one hand Crowley really loved the post-apocalyptic – more relaxed – version of his angel. But since Aziraphale felt more comfortable in the demon’s presence now, the arrogant bastard he deep down was showed more often than in the past. He had acquired a liking for teasing his old friend and while Crowley of all people had no business being annoyed about friendly bickering, this time he really was miffed.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by soft_october (M)

"When the ship puts in at port, Aziraphale is hustled away by the captain to the purser's office: rescuing the third son of an established lord will merit him a fat prize indeed. Aziraphale’s face is a pale oval caught between a pair of long blue coats as Crowley, who isn’t anything to anyone - except he thought he was, he thought - watches him go, peeking through the slats in the ship's railing. Those blue eyes - too innocent, too kind for what this world expects of him - keep lock with his until the last. Aziraphale is fussed over, put under the command of the captain who rescued him, gets a letter from his father that he carefully keeps in the cover of his bible, continues his slow rise through the ranks of His Majesty’s Navy. Crowley, he later learns, takes up piracy." Golden Age of Piracy AU.

Trust by GayDemonicDisaster (M)

Heaven has taken a demon prisoner. Aziraphale doesn't think it's right. I added an illustration of Trueform Crawly in this universe.

O That I On Wings Could Rise by wyrmy (M)

"It had been one month since the apocalypse, and Aziraphale was blissfully happy. Crowley was everything- and more- that he could wish for in a boyfriend. Their relationship was an unending source of joy." Why then does Aziraphale feel a lingering unease, an emotional tension that he doesn't quite know how to release?

Getting Lucky by Supergeek21 (M)

As much as Aziraphale has a soft spot for romance, he has never given much thought to sex, that is until an over-zealous acquaintance insinuates he should be having it with Crowley... tonight! Crowley is thrilled to finally be openly dating Aziraphale. He'd do just about anything to make his angel happy, even things he never imagined his love would be interested in. What happens when two supernatural beings love each other very much, but are still very bad a communication?

Velvet darkness, burning bright by hapax (M)

Anthony Crowley is an ancient vampire who is so Done: with immortality, with his human prey, with his fellow vampires, with himself. Then one evening he encounters a gorgeous, mysterious man who finally renews his interest in living. Too bad this same man seems likely to kill him.

- Mod D

#good omens #ineffable husbands #mod d

[journeytothewestresearch]

Is the White Dragon Horse Buddhist?

I was recently contacted by a reader on my main external blog. Part of their question asked:

I heard on the Fifth Monkey [@jttwaudiodrama] production notes for Part 8 that the White Dragon Horse wasn’t really converted to Buddhism and thus never “left his family” and obligations. Would this make him eligible for marriage...?

My answer:

There is some inconsistency in the White Dragon Horse’s story. I can’t recall him officially taking vows during the journey, but the Buddha states in chapter 100 that he had (at some point):

Then he [the Buddha] said to the white horse, “You were originally the prince of Dragon King Guangjin of the Western Ocean. Because you disobeyed your father’s command and committed the crime of unfiliality, you were to be executed. Fortunately you made submission to the Law and accepted our vows ... (Wu & Yu, 2012, vol. 4, p. 382). 又叫那白馬：「汝本是西洋大海廣晉龍王之子，因汝違逆父命，犯了不孝之罪。幸得皈身皈法，皈我沙門 ...

He is then elevated in rank to become an Aṣṭasenā, a group of eight celestial beings said to be "in attendance when the Buddha speaks the Mahayana sutras" (Buswell & Lopez, 2014, p. 74). The Buddha continues:

... Because you carried the sage monk daily on your back during his journey to the West and because you also took the holy scriptures back to the East, you too have made merit. I hereby grant you promotion and appoint you one of the dragon[ horses] belonging to the Eight Classes of Supernatural Beings (Wu & Yu, 2012, vol. 4, p. 382). ... 每日家虧你馱負聖僧來西，又虧你馱負聖經去東，亦有功者，加陞汝職正果，為八部天龍馬。」

After transforming back into a dragon, he takes his place atop a Huabiao pillar in paradise:

The elder, his three disciples, and the horse all kowtowed to thank the Buddha, who ordered some of the guardians to take the horse to the Dragon-Transforming Pool at the back of the Spirit Mountain. After being pushed into the pool, the horse stretched himself, and in a little while he shed his coat, horns began to grow on his head, golden scales appeared all over his body, and silver whiskers emerged on his cheeks. His whole body shrouded in auspicious air and his four paws wrapped in hallowed clouds, he soared out of the pool and circled inside the monastery gate, on top of one of the Pillars that Support Heaven (Wu & Yu, 2012, vol. 4, p. 382). 長老四眾，俱各叩頭謝恩。馬亦謝恩訖。仍命揭諦引了馬，下靈山後崖化龍池邊，將馬推入池中。須臾間，那馬打個展身，即退了毛皮，換了頭角，渾身上長起金鱗，腮頷下生出銀鬚，一身瑞氣，四爪祥雲，飛出化龍池，盤繞在山門裡擎天華表柱上。

A huabiao pillar in Xinghai Square, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China. Via Wikipedia.

A detail of the huabiao dragon finial. Via Wikipedia.

And lastly, JTTW refers to him as a bodhisattva:

I submit to the Bodhisattva of Vast Strength, the Heavenly Dragon of Eight Divisions of Supernatural Beings (Wu & Yu, 2012, vol. 4, p. 385). 南無八部天龍廣力菩薩。

So given this info, I don’t think he would be involved in a relationship.

Sources:

Buswell, R. E. , & Lopez, D. S. (2014). The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton University Press.

Wu, C., & Yu, A. C. (2012). The Journey to the West (Vols. 1-4) (Rev. ed.). Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.

#White Dragon Horse #bailongma #bailong ma #bai long ma #journey to the west #jttw #xiyouji #lego monkie kid #LMK #Chinese literature #Buddhism

[y8ves]

⠀⠀TYSM FOR 100 FOLLOWERS ! THIS MEANS SO MUCH TO ME !!

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#the text limit wont allow me to add anymore blogs

[witch-and-her-witcher]

nessian | E | marriage of convenience, first hybern war AU, angst, whump, emotional slow burn

War brings them together, a bond binds them - but is that enough for two broken people to find love with each other?

Thank you @popjunkie42-blog and @wilde-knight for your beta reading and handholding. <3

For my darling @asnowfern!

Ao3 | Chapter 21/30

~*~

Flying is one of the singularly worst experiences — second only to winnowing. 

The lack of control. The utter reliance on another being for safety. The stomach-churning heights. 

It’s a physical representation of the last several years of her life. 

Nesta hates it, loathes it, resents it as the main mode of travel in Illyria and for dredging up the similarities in her mind. 

Regrettable as it is, at least clinging to Cassian for dear life as he takes off into the vast blue sky doesn’t set Nesta apart from the other females in the camp. Doesn’t set her apart anymore as the fragile, incompetent human. 

There are only two more females joining their contingent to the neutral ground for their meeting, one is Devlon’s wife, and the other is another high-ranking male’s wife. They’re much older, experienced, and look at her like a liability — which is almost worse than animosity. One of them had muttered something about the smell of her fear being bad luck before a flight.

The only leg up Nesta seems to have is her lack of wings while being carried in flight. The Illyrian females have to take extra care to keep their wings tightly tucked against their backs while in the air or risk catching a draft that sends them or their partner careening in a potentially lethal free fall.

Not that she should be thinking about lethal free falls right now.

At least the fear thrumming through her is a reprieve from the storm clouds of thought her head has been stuck in.

The last few weeks have been … difficult. Not that she has expressed this particular source of dark, roiling thoughts, but they’ve plagued her all the same.

The downward spiraling thoughts began with Tita Noonya and Ined’s lessons leading up to this retribution ceremony.

Nesta had forgotten how long ago it truly has been since she’d needed to remember etiquette, let alone fae etiquette. All of her mother’s hard worn lessons, her red knuckles from her grandmother’s cane … 

Replaced, somewhere along the lines. Repressed?

Gone, nonetheless.

Nesta had stared at the Illyrians like a dumb ass, struggling to unfreeze her mind, unlock her body against a mild panic. 

Even sweet, heart-faced Tita Ined had grown frustrated with Nesta’s fumbling. As if, once she couldn’t remember how to set tea for a fae lord, the alterations for Illyrians became impossible to absorb. Not only the alterations to customs, but even simple phrases Nesta should have had a grasp on by now. 

Emerie had tried to be helpful, tried to step up in her defense, but when she snapped at the titas “Some words just aren’t possible for her human tongue, find a different one” it somehow hurt worse.

Nesta, the human they’re all burdened to coddle.

It had been all she could do to battle her mother’s voice, even her grandmother’s. Nesta was exhausted by the end of every lesson, feeling like a failure and hearing the words on repeat ringing off of her skull throbbing with a headache as she skulked off to the barn to tend to chores.

A failure of a Lady, a failure of an Illyrian’s wife.

It sent her deep into that place she thought she had healed from. Stupid, for Nesta to think that just ignoring a problem and focusing on the new path she wants to take would somehow magically fix everything.

She’d eventually muddled through it and learned what she needed to, but it was painful for all involved.

Thank the Cauldron for Cassian at the dinner table, in her bed. 

She refused to talk to him about what was troubling her under the surface, although from the sidelong looks he gave her, he could likely feel some of it down the bond. But he didn’t push, would just chat with her until somehow, impossibly, sleep found her wrapped in his essence every night.

Cassian, brushing off her moodiness, making sure she remains fed, rested, cared for despite his own massively busy schedule.

Burdenburde—

No.

There’s too much riding on today to let her self-sabotaging ways get the best of her though.

This is the only taste of vindication she’ll get, as well as an opportunity to do well and make up for the public humiliations she’s delivered to Cassian.

Nesta will do well.

She isn’t giving herself an option.

She will not be the deadweight of a mortal hanging around Cassian’s neck. She will be the human woman that put two War Lord’s sons on their asses — as temporarily as it had been, she’d still bought herself that time for Jun to arrive on her own merit. The woman who charged into battle against Hybern and came back out.

Maybe not whole, but she came back.

The gaping maw, icy and dark, inside her beckons, but Nesta grounds herself in the moment. Not today, not today, she will master herself. 

Tomorrow, when they’re back in Windhaven, she can collapse inward.

She buries her face further into Cassian’s neck, clenching her teeth hard enough to crack. She lets the bond’s singing brightness close up that chasm in her soul, her heart.

“Relax,” Cassian laughs, big arms encircled around her like a bear. The caressing notes of his laughter lift away on the wind, not able to reach through to Nesta’s core and ease any of her anxiety.

There’s a faint, crimson shield shimmering around Nesta as a wind block. A luxury many passengers aren’t afforded in Illyrian arms, but with seven siphons, Cassian has the energy to burn to not only maintain the shield for the extended time period, but also to shape it to keep from losing the currents he needs to stay aloft. Nesta had insisted the thick scarf Elain had wrapped her up in before departure was enough, he didn’t need to go through the trouble — it felt like an inconvenience fueled by her fragility as a human.

But Cassian had admitted to needing the outlet. Devlon had ordered it, even, that Cassian find a way to burn off some of his powers during the flight. 

No one wanted the young captain arriving to the retribution ceremony with too much pent-up energy.

That thought had Nesta’s toes curling up in her boots, at the might her mate carried within those seven stones he wore, and so she endured the indignity of the shield.

“Easy for you to say, bat,” Nesta grates out. She’s keeping her eyes firmly closed, but she can practically feel the humor in his hazel eyes, more brown than gold or green at times like these when he’s giving her shit.

“Lady Archeron, unafraid to face down wyverns or fae — but squeamish over heights?”

“Laugh it up. One day you’ll face something worth pissing your pants over and I’ll never let you live it down.”

“Have you met your mate? He’s pretty fucking courageous, so that’s highly unlikely.”

“There’s little difference between courage and stupidity, you know.”

“Ouch,” he returns, laughing off her callousness again.

Gods, this male gives and gives.

For a countless time, it hits Nesta that she doesn’t deserve Cassian’s devotion. She can’t even tell him that she loves him, can’t even fully broach the subject in her own private thoughts.

One day.

One day, thanks to his endless patience with her, she’ll be able to work up the nerve.

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#CYLMWIHM #nessian #nesta x cassian #nesta #cassian #acotar #acotar fanfic #my writing

[hakunonon]

jalter what the fuck are these supposed to be

#jalter's jandals #e rank blogging

[archiveikemen]

'Secret In Your Heart' Collection Event: Alfons

I do not own any of the Ikemen Series content being uploaded on this blog, everything belongs to CYBIRD. Please support them by playing their games and buying stories. Not 100% accurate, expect mistakes.

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Alfons and I were at a ball for a mission.

Alfons: Gathering information in social gatherings is my forte, that’s because I’m a nobleman.

At the exact moment he said that, some people claiming to be “Alfons’ friends” approached us in a friendly way.

— However, they didn't seem to be real friends.

They seemed to have approached Alfons seeking thrill and pleasure.

Therefore, Alfons being Alfons, he was smiling at the woman whispering into his ear, and ignoring his supposed partner for tonight — me.

Alfons: Yes, that’s fine with me. Shall we have some fun tonight?

Alfons: Oh, do forgive me, it seems that I have neglected my partner. Fufu, are you upset?

Kate: No. But it appears that you're quite the playboy…

Alfons: Oh wow, you are very insightful.

(He didn’t deny it…)

Alfons: Don’t we all desire a convenient playmate?

Alfons: For times when we’re… hurting, feeling lonely, distressed, or fed up with everything.

Kate: Are you referring to the people who just approached you?

Alfons: I, too, have always been under the impression that nobles lived worry-free lives…

Alfons: Unexpectedly, that is not the case.

Something felt off about the way he said that.

Kate: You're making it sound as if you’re not a nobleman yourself.

Alfons: Pardon me, that was impolite of me and caused a misunderstanding. I’m a true nobleman, you know? Of course I am.

His smile was clearly fake, and all it did was raise the levels of suspicion in my heart.

(I wonder if he’s telling the truth…)

(The people around us are treating him as a nobleman, though. Or are they just playing along with him?)

(Right…)

Kate: Out of curiosity, what kind of fun do you have with your friends?

Alfons: That’s… a secret.

Alfons: All I can tell you is that it’s something inappropriate to say in a place like this.

…

(In the world of the nobles, scandals involving love affairs are prohibited.)

(That’s why I think that what he meant by “have fun” was not as simple as card games.)

Kate: I wonder if Alfons really is a nobleman…

At breakfast the next day, Liam heard me mumbling to myself.

Liam: How I wish I could say “I can tell you!”, but…

Liam: Even I don’t know whether Alfons has a court ranking, or if he owns any territory.

Liam: Moreover, his birthday and place of birth is different every time I hear about them, sorry.

Kate: You shouldn't apologise, Liam. Looks like even the members don't know.

(This is getting weirder…)

(I mean, doesn't this practically mean that he’s a self-proclaimed nobleman with an unknown identity?)

Alfons: You want to know my s-e-c-r-e-t that badly?

Kate: WAHH!?

When I looked behind me, I saw Alfons looking down at me with a suspicious-looking smile.

(... He is enjoying this.)

It felt like everything was going exactly as he wanted to, and it made me so frustrated.

Kate: Alfons, let me ask you one more time… are you really a nobleman?

Alfons: … No?

Kate: Huh…!?

Alfons: Did that answer satisfy you?

Kate: Wha…

Alfons: Ahaha! I like the look on your face right now.

Alfons: If I knew how to draw, I’d illustrate it vividly and frame it up to hang on the wall in my room.

Kate: … Now everything you say feels like a lie.

Alfons: Glad you finally understand me.

(He has a comeback for every remark I make… the more I get involved with him, the more he’ll toy with me.)

(But…)

If I put myself in the shoes of this man who watches everything in amusement from the sidelines like a charade, I thought that I could get to know what kind of person he truly was, and what goes on in his head.

Kate: Fine, you don't have to respond. I will ascertain it with my own eyes.

Alfons: Your persistent defiance is very wonderful. Please go ahead and strip me naked*.

*I’m sure he means this metaphorically… or at least I HOPE so.

Alfons: Ah… or would you prefer for me to undress right here and now?

Kate: No need for that…!

— We were still way too far away from the day that can happen.

#ikemen villains #ikemen series #cybird ikemen #cybird otome #otome #ikevil collection event #alfons sylvatica #niki translates

[mariejordans]

Do you know any good Limoreau fanfic recommendations?

omg yes i do! i made this post a couple of weeks ago and i regularly try to rb any fics i see in the gen v/limoreau tags (i usually tag them gen v fics if you want to go find some!), but since it’s been a while, i can do another ao3 recs list (not ranked in any particular order!)

1. Alone Together by RedheadAndProud713 (@redhead-and-proud)

Rating: M

the author has three fics out currently on ao3 and i’ve pretty much loved all of them, but this one-shot is my personal favorite. it’s a post-episode 6 canon divergent fic, in which neither marie nor jordan want to be alone after being in cate’s head, so they go back to marie’s dorm together and i’ll let you fill in the rest. it’s super cute, with a touch of angst and some smut, but overall a VERY good read!

2. girls just wanna have fun by Talariajetstream

Rating: M

this is THE what-happened-at-the-party fic to me. it’s definitely limoreau heavy, but i wouldn’t call it limoreau-centric, as it has a pov section for each of the main characters that attended the party. if the show never expands on what happened that night, as far as i’m concerned, this one-shot is canon to me 😭

3. Good Enough by misomadness

Rating: E

this is an ongoing, multi-chapter, what-if fic that starts off pretty canon but diverges pretty quickly. this fic is basically “what if marie had more control and agency over her powers” and overall is a total BADASS in this. instead of taking credit from jordan, her and jordan fight golden boy together and, together, become the guardians of godolkin.

4. Hyacinth by ImInHiraeth (@iminhiraeth)

Rating: T

another ongoing, multi-chapter fic that only has one chapter out, but just that one has me on the edge of my seat waiting for more! the premise is SUPER interesting as well, being an au in which marie has been kept in the woods since the death of her parents and i’m not joking when i say i’m dying to know what happens next.

5. Bad Luck by ButteredChips

Rating: T

ongoing, multi-chaptered fic with only one chapter out as well, but i’m SOOOO excited by this premise that i cannot wait for more! it’s a modern magical realism au in which godolkin is a university for magical beings. jordan is a shapeshifter who gets cursed and they enlist marie, a potion-making cursebreaker who happens to despise jordan, to help lift the curse.

6. Lilac Wine by notreallystraight (@notreallystraight)

Rating: E

last, but CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, one of my favorite ongoing limoreau fics at the moment. if you’ve been following this blog for a while, you might know how obsessed with this fic i am, but if not, i am telling you right now: GO READ. it’s a soft limoreau-centric rewrite of gen v and i really don’t know what else to say other than go read. right now.

AND THATS IT THATS THE LIST (pt. 2)

honestly, there are so many good limoreau fics to choose from that it was SO SO SO hard to narrow down (i barely got it down to six 😭) so PLEASE go read and show some love to not only these authors and fics listed above, but to all limoreau/gen v writers, they certainly deserve it!!

#limoreau/gen v writers i love and appreciate you sm #gen v #gen v fics #limoreau #marie moreau #jordan li #gen v asks

[yoificfinder]

Hello, Just want to say you're doing wonderful work here and you're amazing for keeping this up! So I remember reading this fic years back. I'm 90% sure I got this rec from here but the 10% is there cause I can't find it. Viktor put his number in Yuuri's phone after the banquet but Yuuri doesn't believe it's really him so he theorizes it's another Russian skater on Viktor's team. I hope it's enough to find it sorry if it's vague. Please help me out here tysm you're literally the best! 🥺❤️

Thanks for the kind words, nonnie. This really sounds familiar but I can't remember the title of the fic. I hope my lovely followers can help!

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ETA: These are the suggestions, nonnie

all the wrong turns by azurewaxwings [E, 49K]

Poodle

Yuuuuri did you know you're ranked second on “Top Ten Butts in Men’s Figure Skating” ???

The blog had ranked Victor third, below Yuuri, which is laughable. “This is an opportunity,” Phichit says, when he finds Yuuri in the kitchen, staring at the text while his pot of instant noodles boils over on the stove. “To find out if it’s Victor, I mean.”

Katsuki Yuuri

the rankings are clearly wrong

particularly the top three

But either Poodle isn’t Victor, or he isn’t interested in defending the honour of his butt: of course it’s wrong! your butt is clearly superior to that Canadian, his ass is flatter than blinchiki.

(After his disastrous Grand Prix Final, Katsuki Yuuri decides to try to be the first skater to land a quad axel in competition. It’s a secret from everyone, except the mysterious text correspondent who appeared in his phone contacts as “Poodle” following the Sochi GPF.)

You Took Your Time by flarechaser [T, 19K]

Victor gets Yuuri's number at the fateful Banquet. Yuuri doesn't know who's texting him.

I hope the fic you're looking for is one of these two and you can update us, nonnie!

#yoi #yuri on ice #yoi fanfic #victuuri #yoi fic search

[usnatarchives]

WWII 6888th Central Postal Battalion vet Romay Davis, 102, Jay Reeves/AP.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at Dedication Ceremony Honoring Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, 7/13/2022 (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post).

Black Women ROCK (US history)! By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs

Two BIG story updates: Mary McLeod Bethune Returns to the Hill (7/13/2022) (Figuratively) topples Confederate Statue! 1st Black American in Statuary Hall! See related NARA Tumblr post. Dr. Bethune joined Old Boys Club on Capitol Hill (90 of the 100 statues there are of men) as an impressive 3 ton, 11 foot statue in the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall.

80 years late, WWII vet Romay Davis is recognized (7/25/2022) Davis was part of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only all-Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe in WWII, led by Major Charity Adams, the highest-ranking Black woman in the Army during WWII. See: Black Female WWII Unit Gets (Congressional) GOLD!

More amazing facts about Dr. Bethune:

1st Black woman to lead a federal agency.

1st Black women with a university founded in her name.

Founder of the National Council of Negro Women

More amazing facts about Ms. Davis:

She earned a martial arts black belt while in her late 70s!

She went back to work at grocery store in Montgomery, AL, and retired only last year, at age 101!

The 6888th by the #s:

855 - # of Black women in the 6888th

3 - # of months it took them to clear a 6-month backlog of mail.

3 separate 8-hour shifts, 7 days a week - work hours.

65,000 - # of pieces of mail processed per shift

17 million - # of pieces of mail processed by the conflict’s end.

77 years - # of years wait for these women to be honored by Congress

Connection between the two? Mary McLeod Bethune worked with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to establish the Women’s Army Corps, and advocated for the inclusion of Black women who wanted to contribute to the war effort.

“Somewhere in England, Maj. Charity E. Adams,…and Capt. Abbie N. Campbell, …inspect the first contingent of Negro members of the Women’s Army Corps assigned to overseas service.” 2/15/1945. NARA ID 16214.

Much more online:

We honor WW2’s #InvisibleWarriors! Black Women in WWII

BLACK (military) NURSES ROCK!

Pictorial History of Black Women in the US Navy during World War II and Beyond, by Dr. Tina Ligon, Rediscovering Black History.

Before Kamala: Black Women in Presidential Administrations, Rediscovering Black History

Official Personnel Folder for Mary McLeod Bethune, NARA ID 158329664.

Mary Bethune: Adviser to Presidents, Hoover Heads blog

Providing a New Deal for Young Black Women: Mary McLeod Bethune and the Negro Affairs Division of the National Youth Association, Rediscovering Black History.

Featured NARA public program: Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

The Closed Door of Justice: African American Nurses and the Fight for Naval Service, by Alicia Henneberry, The Text Message.

Their War Too: US Women in the Military During WWII, The Text Message

African Americans and the War Industry by Alexis Hill, The Unwritten Record blog

I too, am Rosie by Dr. Tina Ligon, Rediscovering Black History

Women’s History Month and African American History National Archives News special topics pages.

#black history #black women #blm #ww2 #civil rights #black lives matter #blackwomendidthat #blackwomenrock #world war ii #women in the military #african american history #blackexcellence #blackwomen #mary mcleod bethune #romaydavis #nancy pelosi

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Luxiem & A Trace Of Wonder

WARNING: Please remember that I am writing about Luxiem based on their characters online and not of the people behind their vtuber avatars, thank you!

EXTRA NOTES: wuwuywuwywuw did i finally start writing again??? yes . do i have a new fixation on a bl novel???also yes so now im mashing these two interests of mine together... just like how i started this blog

GENERAL

a luxiem au based on 해의 흔적 (a trace of wonder)

for the sake of this au, they are from the same jp guild - Luxiem (the guild from the original is an sk guild, so since anycolor is jp, luxiem will fall under jp.... plus en is a very broad area... bear with me LMAO)

Luxiem are considered the top JP Guild and one of the top guilds worldwide

the source material IS from a BL novel, but there will be no mentions of romance for this post

i went a little chuuni to name the abilities ok i dont think the novel had that - im just cringe like that

dear god i did not proofread this but something definitely possessed me in order to write this out instead of whatever college essay i got due soon

BRIEF ATOW UNIVERSE EXPLANATION

ok so think of it as like a modern era rpg game - the awakened class of people refers to those with supernatural abilities and dungeons are areas in the world where treasure and strong monsters spawn (sometimes these dungeons are based on parts of history as well)

the awakened class makes up about 10% of the population

those who are awakened have access to these dungeons in order to beat them within a certain time frame with Class S dungeons being the most deadly

those who are awakened also form guilds in order to enter such dungeons and have jurisdiction over ones that spawned with the guild's country - no other country is allowed to interfere with another

those who are awakened have two abilities - one main and one hidden ; the hidden ability also comes with a penalty and should be used with caution as the power may interfere with every day life outside of combat/cause hindrance when dungeon crawling

for the powerscalling in the universe, it is from Class E (lowest) to Class S (highest) ; this works for both the classification of awakened people and dungeon ranking

the main abilities that are at least mentioned here are restorers, hunters, mages and healers ; 2/4 classes are combative while the others are non-combative, but still useful when dungeon crawling

i hope my shitty explanation gets you to read the novel/manwha so that you can understand it better LMAO

MORE UNDER THE CUT

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IKE EVELAND

CLASSIFICATION: Class A Healer

MAIN ABILITY: Priest's Waterfall

ike has the ability to heal using his staff without using too much mana. however, he is restricted to water - by using other elements, he runs the risk of depleting too much mana before entering the boss' room in a dungeon.

his staff has the appearance of a large quill. no one knows the reasoning behind it as most staffs on the guild markets are stick-like

HIDDEN ABILITY: Darkness of the Deep

ike has the hidden ability to summon a powerful tentacle-like creature of nightmares. with this, ike switches classes - from non-combative to combative. however, the tentacle-like creature is sentient and moves on its own, ike has no control over what it hits. the creature is also considered to be a glass canon ; while it is powerful, it can only withstand attacks for so long and is on a time limit.

ike can only use his hidden ability when threatened ; he and mysta are the only non-combative members of the guild and this is his only way of protecting them both if no one else could not help.

PENALTY: everything he touches becomes an inky water

without mysta around, most solid objects around ike become an inky liquid that is as viscous as water if he touches it - it's strange, but definitely an inconvenience to his everyday life.

fortunately, his penalty does not harm humans

his strength lies in his durability and mana. he is also quite knowledgable of different types of potions and strengthening spells that help out with dungeon crawling

in fact, ike naturally houses the most mana within the guild followed by shu, mysta, vox and luca.

he originally came from a swedish guild overseas before his meeting with vox, who recruited ike with the promise of hatsune miku figures if he joined Luxiem (this is my attempt at humor)

ike is usually the one who gathers intel on their next dungeon - thanks to his quick reading speed and familiarity with mythos, ike predicts what would the location and boss of the dungeon with 99.99% accuracy

LUCA KANESHIRO

CLASSIFICATION: Class A Hunter

MAIN ABILITY: Heightened Strength

despite not wielding any kind of weapon, luca is proud of his brute strength - just one tap from him could reduce skyscrapers into dust clouds.

HIDDEN ABILITY: Shapeshifting

luca's hidden ability can only be activated if he has ingested a specific kind of gemstone - however with his hidden ability, he can only turn into a lion that possesses supernatural qualities for a short period of time

the lion is big btw ... just letting you know haha

PENALTY: Lion's Mane

with the penalty in place, luca essentially walks around with a huge lion's mane. he complains about how heavy it is and how the hair gets everywhere

unlike the other members, luca does not possess any magical strength - arguably he could just be a regular civilian who happens to possess superhuman strength; most of luxiem thought he was a civilian until they found out about his penalty

he also is proficient with long range weapons such as guns and arrows, but he is mainly the brawler of the group

while luca was originally scouted by vox to join, luca is actually the one who has the leadership role - the demon said that he prefers a more 'in the shadows' kind of role anyways and handed the position to luca; the guild members aren't sure if luca is actually aware of that, but they all appreciate the work and effort he gives towards the guild.

the guild luca was in has a partnership with luxiem and is currently being led by his older brother

MYSTA RIAS

CLASSIFICATION: Class A(?) Restorer

MAIN ABILITY: Restoration

after seeing a structure, mysta has the ability to 'restore' it to it's original state - for instance, if ike had turned a wardrobe into ink, mysta has the ability to restore the wardrobe's appearance and functionality before it was turned into ink.

mysta's true abilities is unknown - if anything, he has enough magical strength to bring life back

however, there are some ethical issues involving the restoration of life and is considered taboo for a restorer to interfere with the death of a living thing.

generally, mysta has the strength to restore even stadiums after an earthquake to its original form and functionality - it is possible that he may be a Class S, but no further assessment has been made yet

HIDDEN ABILITY: Medusa's Petrification.

this is the only ability mysta has that is allowed to be used on living creatures - he essentially turns things into stone rather than restoring them to its original state

the only way this ability is activated is when mysta experiences a very strong emotion such as fear or despair

he only has to look at the object or creature in front of him in order for it to turn into stone - fortunately, even with the hidden ability activated, he could still undo the process if he accidentally petrifies a guild member

PENALTY: Floating

for some odd reason, mysta's penalty is that he has no control over gravity - his body becomes weightless and therefore starts to float. he essentially becomes a balloon and many of the guild members just walk him around with a string attached to his belt so he doesn't fly off to who knows where before his penalty wanes off.

mysta was actually not part of a guild when he was scouted - in fact, he was working as an odd-jobs repair man who did small gigs in order to get by.

mysta also has the least amount of dungeon experience as he is of a non-combative class ; surprisingly enough, not many guilds seek restorers to join.

despite that, mysta is a highly sought out restorer due to his efficiency - buildings turned into rubble could be restored within a matter of seconds

he is also the only one in the guild who is responsible for the loot they earned and items each member brings into the dungeons

SHU YAMINO

CLASSIFICATION: Class S Mage

MAIN ABILITY: Summoner

as his main ability states, shu is a summoner who could gather up to Class A monsters to listen to him.

he also has the ability to call upon 'yokai'-classed monsters through the usage of shikigami ; this aspect of his ability is dependent on the amount of shikigamis he brings with him into dungeons.

HIDDEN ABILITY: God's Messenger

when activated, shu has the ability to call down one of japan's seven lucky gods to battle. this is randomized and he doesn't have the ability to choose which one will come help.

luckily for him, he doesn't have to worry about the gods not responding to him; no matter the call, they will answer.

depending on who is summoned, shu takes on the form of one of the seven lucky gods and uses their abilities in combat.

essentially, shu becomes possessed by the god he has summoned but does run the risk of being permanently possessed by them even though his combat ability is on a timer

the only problem with this ability is that this can only be activated if he senses that the danger is too high ; ideally in Class S dungeons where the survival rate is essentially 0%.

PENALTY: Inability to feel pain

this penalty could be proven fatal to shu as he would be numb to all kinds of pain - from the tiniest scratch to getting his heart ripped out ; it would be too late for shu to notice if anything bad happens to him.

this penalty is activated the minute he uses his hidden ability, thus putting his own life at an even higher risk of possession and even death

similarly to mysta, shu was not a part of a guild when he was scouted, in fact, he had been staying at his family's temple as one of the priests who carried out sacred rituals to protect his town from dungeons spawning nearby.

tragically, shu is one of the few guild members to experience loss through the dungeons.

when vox found him, he was surround by the rubble of what was originally his home town - the Class A dungeon wiped the town off the map. with no where else to go, shu decided to follow vox and the rest of luxiem.

shu often helps ike with intelligence and is often in charge of dungeons that originate in japanese mythos

he was the last member to be recruited - words of a powerful sorcerer had reached vox's ears, but he didn't expect to find him in that state.

despite the tragedy, shu is thankful for having met the boys of luxiem - he's glad to call them home

VOX AKUMA

CLASSIFICATION: Class S Hunter

MAIN ABILITY: Shadow Swordsman

vox is quite proficient with the sword, combined with the demon-like energy that festers within the shadows, he becomes an unstoppable killing machine

not only can he infuse the dark energy into whatever blade he is holding, he also has the ability to create a clone who wields the sword the same way he does

HIDDEN ABILITY: Divine Judgement

he has the ability to strike a mighty light into his opponents - it is a devastating ability that clashes with his already dark main ability

it can strike through the thickest material and destroy what is wicked ; often destroying the dungeon completely and automatically clearing it in order to avoid any more casualties.

it is another ability that can only be activated during dire situations, similarly to shu's hidden ability.

PENALTY: Temporary Blindness

as the light he summons is from the almighty, it does temporarily blind vox for a little while as punishment for using god's ability for his quest to find out what causes dungeons to spawn

the first and last time vox had his penalty in place, shu was the one who helps guide him around with the usage of his shikigami - on the other hand, luca was the one to pull pranks on vox while he's blind (vox can tell it's luca because of his laugh)

vox has the most dungeon crawling experience out of all the members of luxiem and is the one who recruited all of them to join his guild - he's happy to find such like minded people he could call home.

while his physical or magical strength doesn't exceed all members of luxiem, he is the most proficient and stable in terms of combat ; he has used his hidden ability only once in his entire career as a hunter

luxiem's leader in the shadows, while he doesn't take a direct leadership role, vox usually is the one who approves of or disapproves of luca's wild antics.

ok a lot of the times, vox does approve of luca's antics because "he's just being silly your honour" - only when the situation is that dire will he take matters into his own hands.

he's usually the one calling strategy meetings before going into dungeons

#yuwrote #holy shit yuwu content is real and its just a bl novel brainrot LMAO #do you guys want ship content because i could do that too if requested lol #i need to go through my inbox... ill get to you guys soon TT #nijisanji en luxiem #luxiem imagine #luxiem drabble #luxiem x reader #luxiem #shu yamino #ike eveland #ike eveland x reader #luca kaneshiro #mysta rias #shu yamino x reader #vox akuma x reader #vox akuma #mysta rias x reader #luca kaneshiro x reader