#for your reading pleasure

[serenasoutherlyns]

currently writing top!Alex Cabot

#for your reading pleasure #sficx #alex cabot #svu #lesbian #svu fanfic

[bluberimufim]

hey! this is chance & here’s week 3’s prompt. share an excerpt that you’re very proud of from any of your wips.

Heyyyyyy sorry for taking, like, an eternity to answer. I was super indecisive about what I should answer with but I got struck by a Vibe today and I remembered a snippet I absolutely LOVE. Be warned that it is Big, tho

This is from chapter 5 of "Black and White", from the perspective of Diedrich when he was 18 and meeting the Man in Black and White for the first time:

(Trigger warnings: thoughts of death, slight horror)

It would be an interesting way to die, he thought. Crushed by the stars. Devoured by the night sky. At that moment, he didn't mind. A lot of things would stay the same if he disappeared under that blanket of darkness. He noticed there was no moon. How strange. He could have sworn it was almost full when he left the house. After some time, his tired muscles forced him to look down. It wasn't easy to walk with one's head turned to the sky. He didn't recognize any of the things around him. The houses hung above him, their windows dark in their stony faces. [...] He knew the scenery tended to change whenever snow fell, but even so, his eyes couldn't seem to tell where he was. He saw a man under a lamppost's pool of light. Maybe he would have company on this walk. Maybe he should go up to him and strike up a conversation. It would certainly be a way to brighten up this icy scene. With determined steps, he made his way towards the stranger. The closer he got to him, the greater that fear within him grew. He felt an unfamiliar terror that increased with each step he took. He thought he heard voices. Lots of them. It was a distant sound, hard to understand. Were they speaking a foreign language? Were they simply too far away to discern words? No, he realized. It wasn't that. What he was hearing were screams. Somewhere, there were voices screaming at the tops of their lungs. Desperately begging for something. He stopped. The man in front of him was huge. His body was too long, too disproportionate next to that lamppost. And his eyes were trained on him, or at least he thought they were eyes, as the only thing he could see were two large holes in the mask that covered his face. One half white, the other black. He looked like an actor from some bizarre theatre.

I hope you enjoyed it! Because I certainly did!

This is making me want to post more snippets..... maybe I will........

#i really am sorry for the trigger warnings #but this is a semi-horror story #i loooove describing the Man in Black and White #he's always so creepy #and no one ever knows what he wants or what he's doing #he just kinda stands there and people freak out #i'll post some other encounters with him eventually #for your reading pleasure #tw thoughts of death #tw horror #listen some of these sentences sound way better in the original #but translation is the way that it is #some moments were Great and others were Not #writing #writeblr #my wips #black & wip #asks #snippets

[abybweisse]

"Haunted Graveyard"

So, thanks to @delicate-transformation, I have a fan translation (from mangaowls.com) of the last comic from Anthology (the first one), and it was done by Yana-san, just like she did "With Father" at the end of the second anthology.

Like "With Father", "Haunted Graveyard" makes references to the other comics in the book. This time, it's about a bunch of characters who weren't included (Anthology 2 was missing Diedrich until "With Father", which is something mentioned in "With Father").

So, here ya go:

It's interesting that we now usually associate Undertaker with reanimating corpses, but in this case Yana-san makes un-included characters act like zombies, and Undertaker wants to send them away. 😆

#black butler #kuroshitsuji #undertaker #anthology #haunted graveyard #yana toboso #fan translation #for your reading pleasure #jun 3 2022

[paulinedorchester]

Here's something I haven't done in a while: a highly personal, idiosyncratic news roundup!

If anyone wonders why Chicago has a short but not unimportant street that's named after a high-ranking Italian fascist military officer, here's the reason:

Here's why the Kasia & Tomasz storyline in World on Fire s1, although heartwarming in its way, was unrealistic (as was Zofia Wichlacz' statement afterwards that she thinks that Kasia, on the verge of being rescued, would want to remain in Poland and "help the Jews there"):

And finally, this link constitutes a wholehearted endorsement (and I might add that we need this as well in television, fiction, and other media):

#for your reading pleasure

[theygender]

The more I learn about judaism the more I wonder where tf christianity got all its bad shit. Why is divorce a sin in christianity when judaism has recognized the right to divorce for nearly a millennia and has codified religious laws for it. Why does christianity consider sex to be dirty (to the point where puritans considered it a sin to enjoy having sex with your own spouse) when in judaism it's considered holy and it's a literal mitzvah to have sex with your spouse on the sabbath. Why does christianity consider it a sign that you're faithless if you question your religion when in judaism that's considered an essential part to developing your faith. I'm probably stating the obvious here but I still can't get over the fact that there's no historical basis to any of this shit before christianity started, it's like christians just said "hey guys what if we took the torah and built a new religion around it but this time it was actively hostile to human life"

#rambling #disclaimer this isnt about individual christians im speaking about the religious trauma i experienced in my own life etc etc #these are just a few examples that I've noticed but they're definitely something #the part about sex in particular shocked me bc sex is pretty much viewed as actively evil in a lot of christian denominations #like you should only do it to create children and if you take pleasure in it (even if its with your own spouse) youre a dirty sinner #there arent as many examples like this nowadays but if you read puritan laws about sex it's like #you're allowed to have sex with your wife basically 10 times a year but you have to be fully clothed with the lights off #and you cant have sex on a holiday or a sunday and you cant touch each other and you have to try as hard as possible to hate it #literally WHERE did that mindset come from?? like for real #in judaism having sex with your spouse is basically considered a celebration of everything holy #and if you have sex on the sabbath (the holiest day in the jewish calendar—above every holiday) #its considered TWICE as holy #make it make sense #this is one of the things people mean when they say that lumping judaism in with christianity as 'abrahamic' religions is meaningless #theyre literally nothing alike #the only similarity is the torah but thats only half of the christian bible and one third of the jewish one #AND christianity interprets most of it completely differently from how judaism does #im tired #greatest hits #hall of fame

[ash-and-starlight]

and i’ll do anything you say (if you say it with your hands) chapter 10

“You came looking for me,” Sokka says. Zuko’s already soft eyes melt further.

“Of course I came looking for you,” he says. Like it’s obvious. Like it doesn’t knock the earth off its axis.

For a second, Sokka forgets about the pain, past and present. All he feels is a treacherous bubble of hope – inside his chest, under his skin, stuck in his throat.

or read it from the beginning if you haven’t

#id in alt text #HAPPY AIDAYS UPDATE EVERYONE #thIS IS NOT A DRILL #Alexxxx i don’t even have words thank you for the honor the pleasure the privilege of making art for your fic #THEE fic of all time even #ty for trusting me with your baby and WITH THIS SCENE IN PARTICULAR #ALREADY GOING CRAZAYYYY INSANE #ik i will die after reading the new ch so enjoy this last art b4 i go six feet under #sokka #zuko #zukka #fic rec #my art

[raplinenthusiasts]

boyfriend <3

for @outroindigo

#I’m just in love with him #kim namjoon #namjoon gifs #bts #btsgif #dailybts #dailybangtan #userbangtan #cyphernet #annietrack #trackofthesoul #usersky #heyryen #useryoonqiful #*mine #knj #the fact that you regularly show up in my notifications because you’re reblogging from me always makes me smile #ofc reading your tags is another pleasure of mine and that’s why I feel like I know you a little bit #your support and compilation of words from boys during their absence are absolutely vital to my tumblr experience now #hope you like this little thing

[misskaboom]

When he reads a story to me…

#adult reading #relax #just us two #use me for your pleasure #bdsmkink #stay still #shhhh #shygirl #spank me sir #readme #tell me a story

[thepoisonroom]

'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.

I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.

About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'

-Casey Plett, Consciousness

#this quote always moves me almost to tears when i remember it #i'm not a trans woman and i don't share the author's specific experiences with transition #but it really moves me that she frame transition as joyfully giving yourself permission to approach your body #not as something that has to be disciplined and deprived and made small in all these various ways #but as a means for experiencing pleasure and joy and delight and for insisting that our feelings and desires are worth #valuing and exploring and treasuring #i always used to think of prioritizing those things for myself as selfish and irresponsible #but who does it harm to want to experience pleasure in your own body? #it's such a beautifully simple and powerful switch to have flip in your head #and equally why are we forced to deny our own pleasure in transition and anything else related to our bodies in the name of moral rectitude #this is why i get so confused and pissed off when other trans people are fatphobic for example #like why are you so invested in politics of shame and disgust that never had any purpose other than #violently disciplining people as if they've violated moral codes by existing in a body #to say nothing of white people being racist in gay and trans communities #like again this system of violence is foundational to homophobia and transphobia #so why are you acting like it has nothing to do with you #even if you are unmoved by the urgency of other people's suffering which btw you should be moved by #what do you hope to gain by acting a collaborator and handmaiden to those systems #Casey Plett #she really is one of my favorite authors i wish more non-canadians read her #this quote is from a series of columns she did ont transition and every single one is a banger #i love when she talks about the people-pleasing elements of dysphoria and transition denial #she's so sharp about noting how many of us deny our own dysphoria on the grounds that others like and validate our bodies #that's how i always felt during my cis conventionally feminine era #it pleased other people so much and also that reception felt so hollow and joyless to me because i hated it #i get less of that positive feedback but that feels so unimportant next to the joy and pleasure i get to experience #said with the understanding that i'm very privileged in being able to prioritize those things without fear. but it was a switch flip #personal nonsense

[mayhemspreadingguy]

Commission for @arialerendeair and their dreamling figure skating fic. I highly recommend checking it out it's amazing, beautiful, sweet, and... and I ADORE it!

#baby's first commission! #i'm very happy how it turned out. i loved designing the outfits and figuring out the whole thing was a blast. I'm obsessed with this au now #aria you did it again! i'm yet again absolutely smitten by your writing #and it was a pleasure to work on this with you. thank you so much <3 #guys you really need to read this fic. and if you already did - do it AGAIN :DDD #arialerendeair #dreamling #dream of the endless #hob gadling #dreamling figure skating au #commission #art commissions #mayhem art

[theflyindutchwoman]

As much as it hurts right now, there's one aspect in this scenario that I'm really looking forward : their individual journey to getting better. Right now, Tim is at his lowest low, struggling with his self-worth and identity, stuck in this loop where he thinks he's undeserving of love and therefore, feels the need to punish himself… and unfortunately, that comes at the expense of Lucy. But it's not like she's doing any better. She just took hit after hit in the past few weeks. Her self-confidence has been rocked, she's spiraling, her anxiety is through the roof, she's feeling isolated, she's probably still reeling from the shooting… and now this. So the truth is, she's not in a position to help Tim. Not without discarding (at least in part) her own emotional state first, which wouldn't be fair to her either. They're both running on empty right now. It's a bit like the oxygen mask theory : you got to secure your oxygen mask first before helping others. And they both need to focus on themselves right now. To decide for themselves who they are and who they want to be without being influenced. To rebuild themselves on more solid ground. And I really hope we get to see these journeys, for the both of them.

#*still processing* #not sure it makes sense - pretty sure my brain is broken at the moment #I will say this : reading some of your perspectives is truly a pleasure #the rookie #chenford #lucy chen #tim bradford #6.06

[jamdoughnutmagician]

Doctor!Steve Harrington x Waitress!Reader 🥧completed)

All you wanted to do was bake your pies in peace, but life has other plans for you when you find yourself pregnant with your no-good husband, Billy's, baby. Enter Doctor Steve Harrington to come in and turn things on their head. *based on the 2007 film, Waitress.

Peaches in Paradise Pie (Part 1)

Midnight Mulberry Pie (Part 2)

Cherry Dream Pie (Part 3)

Banana Baby Pie (Part 4)

Zany Zinger Lime Pie (Part 5)

Hidden Lovers Pink Rhubarb Pie (Part 6)

Coconut Clouds Pie (Part 7)

#Posting this now that it's all completely finished #here with all the links to every chapter for your reading pleasure! #Steve Harrington x reader #Steve Harrington x female reader #Steve Harrington x reader masterlist

[uncanny-tranny]

Honestly, the best thing I have done is to stop seeing the things that make me happy as "guilty pleasures" or "things I like ironically."

I don't know - I suppose I have gotten so used to the idea that everything that makes me happy can only be acceptable if it was ironic or something to be guilty about that it feels like a breath of fresh air to rid myself of it. I felt the need to assure myself and assure others that I wasn't like that - I know everything I like is awful, that I have no discernment and, hell, the things that make me happy is to be laughable!

I'm slowly purging that from my system and nothing has ever been better for me.

#positivity #hate the phrase 'guilty pleasure.' bro just fucking... have pleasures. live a little. who fucking cares!!!!!!!! #i know that not everybody says it as negative but when i read it it can come across like... dismissive or shameful #a guilty pleasure is like... something you Know isn't ~acceptable~ so you couch your language with that term #it just seems needlessly shameful is what im saying. who cares if you watch that shitty soap opera. it doesn't mean it's a 'guilty' pleasur #mostly posting this because i have found it helpful to my sense of self and losing shame about anything I Have Touched Or Remotely Liked

[ride-a-dromedary]

Astarion and Shadowheart: *collars undone, thoroughly debauched* Sorry we're late! We were doing stuff. Halsin: *a step and a half behind them* I am stuff.

#these elves are poly (for each other) GOOD for them #BG3 Musing #i don't have a ship name for them so i'll just tag #bloody heart and a bear #i am an astarion/shadowheart/halsin truther with sometimes karlach thrown in there if she's comfy because they all love her too #thinking about how shadowheart in EA was willing to join in with astarion's romance when he was ready #how halsin flirts with the two of them and accept their teasing good naturedly #and how the two of them are the only ones fully on board with bringing halsin into the fray (i know people read star's agreement as being #not into it but let's not take his right to consent to things and be believed away from him and devoid him of agency okay) #like how can you hear 'nature used all of its powers when it sculpted you astarion' and 'to watch a woman flush with pleasure #is one of nature's sweetest gifts...though perhaps you will prove even sweeter shadowheart' and not swoon and go WELL OKAY #halsin: i can make them better :3 astarion/shadowheart: we can make him worse! >:3 #this is an unserious post but one about a throuple i am serious about - i have a serious post about them earlier on my blog somewhere #i am so sorry minty this could also be you but larian playing #when your half elf girlfriend is the only one of you who has to sleep so you both let her sleep on you preferably at the same time

[paulinedorchester]

Today's round-up:

(I've arranged for the New York Times to lower the paywall on these links. No need to thank me. 😊)

From the classical music world, good news ...

... and bad:

And for Anglophile joy:

#for your reading pleasure

[puppyeared]

ive made myself more wet and pathetic

#new icon because im SUFFERING. im in HELL #its so bad. i had to sign out of discord so now im both lonely and stressed #because i KNOW im still gonna get dstracted. i just did making this URGH #how good are brains at working around things. i once set a 7AM alarm on my phone with snooze cause i was so sure my brain would #be too lazy and keep snoozing instead of actually turning it off. but nay it either kept sleeping through the alarms and snoozing #or actually managed to turn off the alarm half awake that i barely remembered it and then waking up late #i actually have a track record of climbing out of bed and turning my alarm off without remembering. which is impressive bc i have a loftbed #the other thing is setting fake deadlines so make myself panic into doing things ahead of time. but unfortunately that doesnt work either #because if theres one thing my brain will put all its energy into remembering its self assurance. meaning i WILL be able to remember #the real deadline even if i try to trick myself. cant ask someone to give me a fake deadline either #the only things keeping me going rn is that i have deadlines due at least 1 day between each other and excitement being able to talk with #crow after break. but you can see how well thats going <- ignores long term rewards in favor of short term pleasure #BTW CROW IF YOURE READING THIS IM SO SORRY TURNING OFF MY DISCORD WITH BARELY ANY EXPLANATION #im a huge fucking dumbass and i had barely enough impulse control not to block everyone in my dms because i realized that would send a real #really bad msg. youre not distracting me im distracting myself and i promise youre not annoying me i just really like talking to you and #thats why im just barely stopping myself from signing in. I WANT TO TALK TO U LOTS BUT AT THE SAME TIME IM KICKING MYSELF FOR DOING IT #you can be a little mad at me btw cause i definitely could have done that better but i was all over the place abt how to do it without #making u think im ignoring you. IF THAT MAKES SENSE. SORRY #yapping #doodles #puppysona #edit but last week i tried to schedule and give myself work periods and break periods using my class schedule #and reminders on my phone to tell me when to start and stop. can you guess what happened