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konigsblog · 1 year

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How about yandere König, soap, and ghost (if that’s too many it’s fine!) when someone other than them hurts their darling

yandere könig, soap and ghost when someone other than them hurts their darling (gn!reader)

warnings: yandere behaviour, description of murder, blood, reader is scared of yan (sometimes) slight angst, making out, protective behaviour, obsessive behaviour

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simon ghost riley

-he saw it whilst you were making dinner, just as you flipped whatever, he saw the bruises on your arm you sustained from a few nights ago whilst out.

"[name], what is that??" he asked very bluntly, you nervously laughed it off, trying to explain it was just a bruise but he could tell through your eyes that were slightly glossy, you were lying.

simon sighed deeply, disappointed. "don't you lie to me now." he warned you, his eyes never leaving yours as he held the wrist in his hands. "when we were out a couple nights ago, a very drunk friend ran into me, grabbed my wrist and squeezed it hard and he also kicked my shin.." you revealed your lower knee to him, a large bruise forming.

anger took over his mind, groaning, "what was his name?" he just kept questioning you. "simon it's really n-!" he cut you off, "tell me the truth. " si demanded, you could nearly see steam coming out his ears

-once you told him his name, he stormed off. he came back holding a gun, covered head to toe in blood, and holding a black bin bag, that seemed like it was carrying something heavy..

a body?

john soap mactavish

-you two were making out, he grabbed your thigh trying to pull your legs over his shoulder, you winced in pain.

he stared daggers into your eyes, "darling, what's this?" he pulled down your trousers, seeing a large bruise covering the whole of your upper thigh. "uhm, we-" you attempted to lie. trying to save your friend from a punishment.

"what is it?!" he grabbed your thigh, pushing down on the pain. "i won't stop until you tell me." you cried out, your leg feeling numb. "okay-okay!! it was [best friends name] they didn't mean -" abruptly, he rose to his feet and left the door. slamming it shut.

-a few hours past, you were stressed. nail hitting stressed. hard footsteps banged against concrete, the door opened with a click and a creak.

he stood their, gun in hand. his hair had splatters of a scarlet liquid dripping down to his neck and onto his white shirt. "i would do anything for you, love."

but what you heard was, "only i can hurt you." as you glanced to the bruise, it wasn't your friend. it was him.

könig

-just as you two were getting ready for a bath, you discarded of all your clothes before stepping into the foamy, bubbly hot water. "maus?" his voice cracked, assuming he did it.

"kö, it's just a bruise..!" you tried playing it off and switching the subject, but nothing would make him budge. he kneeled next to the bath. grabbing your wet leg. "please maus..." he begged, you couldn't say no.

"okay... it was a friend of yours, when we were over and you were asleep he wanted to do something - he was drunk though - i pushed him off of me and and he pushed and kicked my leg." you mumbled. it wasn't a lie, the man was drunk.

"thank you, baby." he cut the conversation there. it was quiet, awkwardly quiet. everytime you said something it was either; shut down, ignored or just a one word answer.

he wrapped a towel around your wet naked body, carrying you bridal style to your bed. he placed you down, cuddling into you - a nightly routine you had grown used to over the course while living with könig.

he traced around the bruise, making sure not to hurt you further. he was delicate. "schatzi, im not gonna be here tonight i have paperwork to do." he lied, you knew that.

anytime someone had disagreed with you, or hurt you, or anything of a sort. their screams filled the basements eerie silence. gunshots could've been heard, he stuck to a knife usually.

he came back up, drenched in blood. he got onto his knees and held his arms out in a hugging manner, you hugged him.

he loved you after all.

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centuriespast · 3 months

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HMS 'Indefatigable' Accompanied by HMS 'Amazon' Attacking the French Ship 'Droits de l'Homme' William John Huggins (1781–1845) Bitton House

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ltwilliammowett · 4 months

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The Opening of St. Katherine's Dock, 25th October 1828, by William John Huggins (1781 –1845)

#naval art #dressed ladies #dock #ships #1828 #age of sail

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mrmaybank · 1 year

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Masterlist

Request are open. I write for male and GN reader and for all the fandoms below more will be added!

OBX

JJ Maybanks

𝓞𝓹𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓼 𝓐𝓽𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽 (M!READER)

John B Routledge

Kiara Carrera

Rafe Cameron

𝓦𝓪𝓼 𝓘𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓼𝓽 𝓨𝓸𝓾’𝓿𝓮 𝓔𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓚𝓷𝓸𝔀𝓷 (M!READER)

Sarah Cameron

Topper Thornton

Pope Heyward

Marauders Era

Regulus Black

James Potter

Sirius Black

Remus Lupin

Lilly Evans (Potter)

Peter Pettigrew

Barty Crouch Jr

Evan Roiser

Marlene Mckinnon

Dorcas Meadows

Pandora lovegood

PJO/HOO

Nico Di Angelo

Percy Jackson

𝓑𝓪𝓭 𝓐𝓽 𝓖𝓸𝓸𝓭𝓫𝔂𝓮𝓼 (M!READER)

Annabeth Chase

Frank Zhang

Luke Castellan

Jason Grace

Piper Mclean

Will Solace

Connor Stoll

Travis Stoll

Platonic

TMR

Newt

Minho

𝓙𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓐𝓷𝓭 𝓜𝓮 (M!READER)

Gally

Thomas

Ben

Aris

platonic

Cedric Diggory

Harry Potter

Hermione Granger

Ron Weasley

Draco Malfoy

Blaise Zabini

Fred Weasley

George Weasley

Oliver Wood

platonic

TBP

Finney Blake

Vance Hopper

𝓐 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓱 𝓟𝓸𝓲𝓼𝓸𝓷 𝓔𝓪𝓬𝓱 𝓦𝓮𝓮𝓴 (GN!READER)

𝓙𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓜𝓾𝓬𝓱? (M!READER)

Bruce Yamada

Robin Arellano

Griffin Stagg

Billy Showalter

Buzz

Matty

Matt

platonic

Jason Todd

𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓒𝓪𝓷’𝓽 𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓹 𝓓𝓝𝓐 (M!READER)

𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓼 𝓜𝔂 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 (M!READER)

Harley Quinn

Dick Grayson

Damian Wayne

Tim Drake

Bruce Wayne

Duke Thomas

platonic

Marvel

Tony Stark

Thor

Loki

Steve Rogers

Sam Wilson

Bucky

Peter Parker

Platonic

(i’ll do chap one and two)

Richie Tozier

Bill Denbrough

𝓘𝓽 𝓦𝓪𝓼 𝓢𝓸 𝓡𝓮𝓪𝓵 (M!READER)

Beverly Marsh

Ben Hanscom

Eddie Kaspbrak

Stanley Uris

Mike Hanlon

Henry Bowers

𝓢𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓱𝓸 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓼 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓦𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭𝓷’𝓽 𝓓𝓸 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓼 (M!READER)

Patrick Hockstetter

Victor Criss

Belch Huggins

Platonic

Stranger things

Eddie Munson

Nancy Wheeler

Billy Hargrove

Steve Harrington

Mike Wheeler

Will Byers

Jonathan Byers

Lucas Sinclair

Max Mayfield

Dustin Henderson

Eleven “Jane” Hopper

Eden Bingham

Platonic

Scream

(I’ve only watched the first one i’m gonna try to watch the rest throughout the week)

Stu Matcher

Billy Loomis

Randy Meeks

Dewey Riley

Platonic

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js-a-writer · 10 months

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Requests

People I Write For :

Stranger Things

El Hopper (fem, gn, male)

Max Mayfield (fem, gn, male)

Dustin Henderson (fem, gn)

Will Byers (gn, male)

Lucas Sinclaire (fem, gn, male)

Mike Wheeler (fem, gn, male)

Steve Harrington (fem, gn, male)

Nancy Wheeler (fem, gn, male)

Eddie Munson (fem, gn, male)

Robin Buckley (fem, gn)

Billy Hargrove (fem, gn)

Scream

Sidney Prescott (fem, gn, male)

Randy Meeks (fem, gn)

Tatem Riley (fem, gn male)

Stu Macher (fem, gn)

Billy Loomis (fem, gn)

Derek Feldman (fem, gn)

Mark Kincaid (fem, gn)

Kirby Reed (fem, gn, male)

Marnie Cooper (fem, gn, male)

Amber Freeman (fem, gn, male)

Chad Meeks-Martin (fem, gn)

Mindy Meeks-Martin (fem, gn)

Wes Hicks (fem, gn)

Tara Carpenter (fem, gn, male)

Sam Carpenter *Loomis* (fem, gn, male)

Liv McKenzie (fem, gn, male)

Anika Kayoko (fem, gn)

Danny Brackett (fem, gn)

Ethan Landry (fem, gn)

Outer Banks

Rafe Cameron (fem, gn)

JJ Maybank (fem, gn)

Pope (fem, gn)

Kiara (fem, gn, male)

Cleo (fem, gn, male)

Shameless

Carl Gallagher (fem, gn)

Ian Gallagher (fem, gn, male)

Fiona Gallagher (fem, gn, male)

Debbie Gallagher (fem, gn, male)

Liam Gallagher *aged up* (fem, gn)

NCIS

Tim McGee (fem, gn)

Tony DiNozzo (fem, gn)

Gibbs (fem, gn)

Jimmy Palmer (fem, gn)

Abby Scuito (fem, gn, male)

Ziva David (fem, gn, male)

Caitlin Todd (fem, gn, male)

Greenhouse Academy

Haley Woods (fem, gn, male)

Leo Cruz (fem, gn)

Alex Woods (fem, gn)

Brooke Osmand (fem, gn, male)

Max Miller (fem, gn)

Sophia Cardona (fem, gn, male)

Daniel Hayward (fem, gn)

Parker Grant (fem, gn)

Jackie Sanders (fem, gn, male)

Ryan Woods *young* (fem, gn, male)

Fuller House

Stephanie Tanner (fem, gn, male)

Jesse Katsopolis *young and old* (fem, gn)

Ramona Gibbler (fem, gn, male)

Max Fuller *aged up* (fem, gn)

Steve Hale *young and old* (fem, gn)

Jackson Fuller (fem, gn)

Jimmy Gibbler (fem, gn)

Matt Harmon (fem, gn)

Ethan (fem, gn)

Ginny and Georgia

Ginny Miller (fem, gn, male)

Abby (fem, gn, male)

Marcus Baker (fem, gn)

Georgia Miller *young and old*(fem, gn, male)

Maxine Baker (fem, gn)

Zion Miller *young and old* (fem, gn)

Paul Randolph (fem, gn)

Brodie (fem, gn, male)

Norah (gn, male)

Padma (gn, male)

Matt Press (fem, gn)

Joe (fem, gn)

Jordan (fem, gn)

Heartstopper

Charlie Spring (gn, male)

Nick Nelson (fem, gn, male)

Elle Argent (fem, gn, male)

Darcy Olsson (fem, gn)

Tara Jones (fem, gn)

Tao Xu (fem, gn)

Imogen Heaney (gn, male)

Isaac Henderson (fem, gn, male)

Anne with an E

Gilbert Blythe (fem, gn)

Anne Shirley-Cuthbert (fem, gn, male)

Diana Barry (gn, male)

Jerry Baynard (fem, gn)

Cole Mackenzie (fem, gn, male)

Sebastian Lacroix (fem, gn)

Billy Andrews (fem, gn)

Charlie Sloane (fem, gn)

Nate (fem, gn)

Prissy Andrews (fem, gn, male)

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

John Ambrose (fem, gn)

Josh (fem, gn)

Peter Kavinsky (fem, gn)

Lucas (gn, male)

Gen (fem, gn, male)

Chris *Christine* (fem, gn, male)

Julie and the Phantoms

Julie (fem, gn, male)

Luke Patterson (fem, gn)

Alex (gn, male)

Reggie (fem, gn)

Nick (fem, gn)

Flynn (fem, gn, male)

Willie (gn, male)

IT (Chapter 1 + 2)

Stanley Uris (fem, gn, male)

Richie Tozier (fem, gn, male)

Eddie Kaspbrak (fem, gn, male)

Beverly Marsh (fem, gn, male)

Ben Hanscom (fem, gn)

Mike Hanlon (fem, gn)

Bill Denbrough (fem, gn, male)

Henry Bowers (fem, gn)

Belch Huggins *Reggie* (fem, gn)

Patrick Hockstetter (fem, gn)

Victor Criss (fem, gn)

I Am Not Okay With This

Sydney Novak (fem, gn, male)

Stanley Barber (fem, gn, male)

Enola Holmes

Enola Holmes (fem, gn, male)

Tewksbury (fem, gn)

Sherlock Holmes (fem, gn)

The Kissing Booth

Noah Flynn (fem, gn)

Lee Flynn (fem, gn)

Marco Peña (fem, gn)

The Imperfects

Tilda Webber (fem, gn, male)

Abbi Singh (fem, gn, male)

Juan Ruiz (fem, gn)

Sydney Burke (fem, gn, male)

P.J. (fem, gn)

Malibu Rescue

Tyler (fem, gn)

Dylan (fem, gn, male)

Lizzy (fem, gn, male)

Gina (fem, gn, male)

Eric (fem, gn)

The Package

Sean Floyd (fem, gn, male)

Sarah (fem, gn, male)

Becky Abelar (fem, gn, male)

Purple Hearts

Cassie Salazar (fem, gn, male)

Luke Morrow (fem, gn)

Frankie (fem, gn)

Armando (fem, gn)

Riley (fem, gn, male)

Wednesday

Wednesday Adams (fem, gn, male)

Xavier Thorpe (fem, gn)

Enid Sinclair (fem, gn, male)

Tyler Galpin (fem, gn)

Rowan Laslow (fem, gn, male)

Lucas Walker (fem, gn)

Ajax Petropolus (fem, gn)

Heartbreak High

Spencer White *Spider* (fem, gn)

Anthony Vaughn *Ant* (fem, gn, male)

Darren Rivers (gn, male)

Amerie Wadia (gn, male)

Quinn Gallagher-Jones *Quinni* (fem, gn)

Dustin Reid *Dusty* (fem, gn)

Harper McLean (fem, gn, male)

Douglas Piggott *Ca$h* (fem, gn, male)

Malakai Mitchell (fem, gn, male)

Hype House (All time)

Vinnie Hacker (fem, gn)

Taylor Holder (fem, gn)

Jack Wright (fem, gn, male)

Jett (fem, gn, male)

Barron Sho (fem, gn)

Ryland (fem, gn)

Harry Potter

Hermione Granger (fem, gn, male)

Harry Potter (fem, gn)

Ron Weasley (fem, gn)

George Weasley (fem, gn)

Fred Weasley (fem, gn)

Bill Weasley (fem, gn)

Charlie Weasley (fem, gn)

Percy Weasley (fem, gn)

Ginny Weasley (fem, gn, male)

Mattheo Riddle (fem, gn)

Theodore Nott (fem, gn)

Dean Thomas (fem, gn)

Lee Jordan ( fem, gn, male)

Seamas Finnigan (fem, gn, male)

Pansy Parkinson (fem, gn, male)

Lorenzo Berkshire (fem, gn)

Tom Riddle *not Voldemort* (fem, gn)

Blaise Zabini (fem, gn)

Luna Lovegood (fem, gn, male)

Regulus Black *young* (fem, gn, male)

Sirius Black *young* (fem, gn, male)

Remus Lupin *young* (fem, gn, male)

James Potter *young* (fem, gn, male)

Lily Potter *young* (fem, gn, male)

Nymphadora Tonks (fem, gn, male)

Narcissa Malfoy *young and old* (fem, gn, male)

Fantastic Beasts

Newt Scammander (fem, gn)

Queenie Goldstein (fem, gn, male)

Credence Barebone (fem, gn, male)

Theseus Scammander (fem, gn)

The Black Phone

Vance Hopper (fem, gn)

Finney Blake (fem, gn)

Gwenny Blake *aged up* (fem, gn, male)

Robin Arellano (fem, gn)

Bruce Yamada (fem, gn)

Billy Showalter (fem, gn)

10 Things I Hate About You

Kat Stratford (fem, gn, male)

Cameron James (fem, gn)

Bianca Stratford (fem, gn, male)

Patrick Verona (fem, gn)

Michael (fem, gn, male)

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Jacob Portman (fem, gn, male)

Emma Bloom (fem, gn, male)

Alma Peregrine (fem, gn, male)

Enoch O'Connor (fem, gn)

Victor Bruntley *alive* (fem, gn)

Olive Abroholos Elephanta (fem, gn, male)

Millard Nullings (fem, gn, male)

Horace (fem, gn male)

Fiona *aged up* (fem, gn, male)

Bronwyn Bruntley *aged up* (fem, gn, male)

Hugh (fem, gn, male)

Sturniolo Triplets

Matt Sturniolo (fem, gn)

Chris Sturniolo (fem, gn)

Nick Sturniolo (gn, male)

Titanic

Rose Dewitt Bukater (fem, gn, male)

Jack Dawson (fem, gn, male)

A Quiet Place

Marcus (fem, gn, male)

Evelyn (fem, gn, male)

Regan (fem, gn, male)

Lee (fem, gn)

The Office

Jim Halpert (fem, gn)

Dwight Shrute (fem, gn, male)

Pam Beesley (fem, gn, male)

Five Feet Apart

Stella (fem, gn, male)

Poe Ramirez (gn, male)

Will (fem, gn)

Celebs/Influencers

That I don't already have as characters (cuz I write for the haracter and the actor)

Nils Kuesel (fem, gn, male)

Jack Harlow (fem, gn)

Dua Lipa (fem, gn, male)

Olivia Rodrigo (fem, gn, male)

Jenna Ortega (fem, gn, male)

Dove Cameron (fem, gn, male)

Benjamin Wadsworth (fem, gn)

Girl Meets World

Farkle Minkus (fem, gn, male)

Riley Matthews (fem, gn, male)

Maya Hart (fem, gn, male)

Lucas Friar (fem, gn)

Isaiah Babineaux (fem, gn)

Isadora Smackle (fem, gn, male)

Auggie Matthews *aged up* (fem, gn)

Josh Matthews (fem, gn)

Boy Meets World

Shawn Hunter (fem, gn)

Eric Matthews (fem, gn, male)

Cory Matthews (fem, gn)

Topanga Lawrance (fem, gn, male)

Jack (fem, gn, male)

The Notebook

The Breakfast Club

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artparks-sculpture · 1 year

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A sculpture titled 'Harmony (Lifesize Bronze Nude Girl Sitting statue)' by sculptor John Huggins. In a medium of Bronze.

#artist #sculpture #sculptor #art #fineart #John Huggins #Bronze #metal #limited edition

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even-in-arcadia · 11 months

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Chapter 56, Some Less Erroneous and Also Some True Pictures of Whales

Now that we're all on board with what whales don't look like, it's time to learn about what they DO look like and who hasn't failed at showing us! I will once again put most of the art under the cut; but I think one of the most interesting things that these two chapters show us are

how bad 19th century artists and scientists were at depicting whales - and in compiling this post I saw so many terrible whale drawings Ishmael didn't even call out. Ishmael was right you guys, the whale art scene was absolute chaos back then

most of the art ishmael calls out as "monstrous" is of whales themselves, depicted in either a mythic or scientific perspective. however *all* of the depictions he deems "less erroneous" are actually not of whales of but of whaling which feels like a crucial distinction. Part of it is because none of these whales are depicted in whole, which gets back to Ishmael's contention that it is not actually possible to accurately portray them on paper. Only individual pieces can be correct, but by viewing them together you get an idea of the whole. But it's also that he says flat out that the only reliable source is in fact a whaler; and so necessarily the accurate depictions are of whales already dead or engaged with whaling ships.

Anyway! Just some prefacing thoughts for you. Now on to some less erroneous whales:

William John Huggins

2. Thomas Beale, The Natural History of the Sperm Whale (BEST)

3. William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions

Personally I think that calling this an accurate depiction is as hilarious as the empty boat flipped upside down in the air but I'm no whaler, what do I know

4. French Engravings (Peche du Cachalot) by Frederic Martens after Garneray

5. J H Durand-Brager, Balienier Francaise en Peche - The best versions of this I could find were in a German pdf (linked); I think these are what Ishmael was referring to.

Now if you're looking at these going "I don't see any whales???". . . . well, here they are. I feel like they're mostly less erroneous by virtue of being tiny.

Also it's important to me that you know that in my quest to find high quality versions of these, I found a site which claimed the painting on the left was called "Bringing In The Whale Whilst Others Look On Enviously" and while I don't know if that's correct (I don't think it is) it's a bitchin title and I will hold it as accurate in my heart.

And there you have it! Now we know what Whales Actually Look Like

#whale weekly #moby-dick #sure ishmael i guess

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beentobeetle · 9 months

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Thinkin abt Arthur dying and reuniting with Hosea, Sean, and Lenny in the afterlife… thinkin abt him seeing Isaac and Eliza… all of them bear hugging each other and laughing and crying and and and… thinkin abt Arthur watching John kill his old friends, him and everyone else welcoming them back… thinkin abt Micah showing up and they all throw him down to hell… thinkin of Charles dying somehow and him and Arthur kissin and smoochin… thinkin abt how Arthur would call John a dumbass for getting killed but basically suffocating him with a hug… Dutch and Hosea crying and huggin and kissin eachother… Javier being so scared to see all his old friends he went against but all of them being so happy to see him… John and Javier talking shit out and being together again… Thinkin abt Red Dead afterlife AU…

#Beento Talks #red dead head canons #afterlife au #rdr2 #rdr1 #just…. auygghauabauyagsuauaha

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amphibious-thing · 2 years

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In the 18th century the roles in anal intercourse were known as “pathic” or “patient” (bottom) and “agent” (top). We often assume that men on the receiving end of anal intercourse were always more stigmatised than their partners, however Rictor Norton suggests this wasn’t necessarily true in 18th century England. Looking at the records of the Old Bailey Norton observes that “the one who is stigmatised and hence given an identity is the one who expresses a homosexual desire, regardless of the sexual role or specific act,” while “the one who submits to the sexual request, even if it involves ‘passive’ sex, does not feel implicated in the desire, hence escapes the stigmatisation and the identity.” (Recovering Gay History from the Old Bailey, p20)

The language used by the Old Bailey is that of one man (the agent) “assaulting” another (the pathic), even in explicitly consensual cases.

For example Samuel Taylor was found guilty of “assaulting John Berry, and committing with him the horrid and detestable Crime of Buggery.” But John Berry was found guilty of “wickedly consenting with Taylor the said unnatural Crime”. Taylor was found with Berry “sitting in his Lap” with “both their Breeches being down”. (Trial of Samuel Taylor & John Berry, 22 February 1738)

William Hollywell was found guilty of “an Assault, with an Intent to commit the detestable Crime of Buggery” on William Huggins, who was found guilty “for consenting and submitting to the same.” A witness discovered them in the “upper part of the Cathedral of St. Paul's” and “surpriz'd them in the following Posture; Huggins's Breeches were down, he stooping very low, so that he could not see his Head, his Shirt was turn'd up on his Back, and his Back-side was bare; Hollywell was standing close by, with his fore Parts to the other's Posteriors, and his Body in Motion”. (Trial of William Hollywell & William Huggins, 4 December 1730)

Sodomy was often presented as an awful thing to do to another man, the agent doesn’t escape stigmatisation for acting the traditionally masculine role as he is seen as “assaulting” the pathic; even in consensual cases.

However we see push back against this view of sodomy as innately an “assault” in Jeremy Bentham’s defence of sodomy Offences Against One's Self. Bentham states plainly that “it is evident that it produces no pain in anyone. On the contrary it produces pleasure”. He clarifies “If either of them be unwilling, the act is not that which we have here in view: it is an offence totally different in its nature of effects: it is a personal injury; it is a kind of rape.”

In fact Bentham argues “it is not the pain that angers them but the pleasure.” He explains; “according to the notions of these moralists and these religionists, that is, of the bulk of moralists and religionists who write, pleasures that are allowed of, are never allowed of for their own sake”.

While Bentham’s defence of sodomy is quite academic and logical Thomas Cannon’s is somewhat more cheeky. Hal Gladfelder describes it as “veering in style from erotic rhapsody, to scholarly essay, to dirty joke.” (In Search of Lost Texts, p30)

Cannon acknowledges the homophobic preconception that people “commonly conceive the P-th-c’s (meaning Pathic’s) Part disagreeable” but counters that the pathic can share “in the accurst Rapture” and enjoy the “Lewdness.” (Hal Gladfelder, The Indictment of John Purser, p45)

Cannon portrays anal intercourse as pleasurable for both agent and pathic in the story of Amorio and Hyacinth. In this tale a “young and blooming Amorio” meets a Lady at a Masquerade, but when he gets her to bed he finds "a Body past Imagination delicate; but of Gender masculine.” Amorio is surprised but not deterred:

Penetrating Love takes the Meaning; and the most lib-d-nous (meaning libidinous) Fire ever felt by our wondring Glower, seizes his panting Frame. He is quickly piloted into a Streight whose potent Cling draws all the Man in cl-mmy (meaning clammy) streams away. Recovering, he perceives the deeper absorpt P-th-c (again meaning Pathic) quite motionless, and thus exclaims; then do you leave me? do you leave your passionate Lover? O ever beautiful Boy, did I taste the Joys, thou only cou’dst give, to know the Bitterness of their Eternal Absence?

Now he endeavours with a gluing Kiss to infuse his own Spirit into the strongly o’er powered Hyacinth; then renews the recalling Plaint; return, fairer Hephestion to the fonder Alexander. Open to Love’s Warmth, thou folded Rose; O let me no longer endure the Horror of existing without you. Hyacinth revives, ardently uttering himself; bounteous Deity, in what a Gulph of Pleasure have I been plung’d; They vie in Raptures, and after more and more Am-ro-s (meaning amorous) Embraces; drop asleep in one another’s Arms.

After they awake in the morning they “love away an Hour or two; then rise and recruit with a long Breakfast.” (Hal Gladfelder, The Indictment of John Purser, p47-50

It’s perhaps worth noting that John Cleland once called Cannon a "white-faced, rotten catamite” and referred to him as “Molly Cannon” so perhaps Cannon is speaking from experience when he mentions the pathic “sharing in the accurst Rapture” and “over and over enj-y’d (meaning enjoyed) urges on the detestable Lewdness.” Although Cleland also accused Cannon of poisoning him “five times with common arsenic” so who knows what went on between Cleland and Cannon. (Hal Gladfelder, In Search of Lost Texts, p25)

While John Cleland didn’t publish a defence of sodomy per se he did include a male-male sex scene in his erotic novel Fanny Hill Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. In the book Fanny finds a peep-hole between her room and that next to it. Looking through she observes two “young sparks” having sex. Fanny at first doesn't believe anal sex is even possible based on “the disproportion of parts” but she is soon cured of this disbelief.

First, then, moistening well with spittle his instrument, obviously to make it glib, he pointed, he introduced it, as I could plainly discern, not only from its direction and my losing sight of it, but by the writhing, twisting and soft murmured complaints of the young sufferer; but at length, the first straits of entrance being pretty well go through, every thing seemed to move and go pretty currently on, as on a carpet road, without much rub or resistance; and now, passing one hand round his minions’ hips, he got hold of his red-topped ivory toy, that stood perfectly stiff, and shewed, that if he was like his mother behind, he was like his father before; this he diverted himself with, whilst, with the other he wantoned with his hair, and leaning forward over his back, drew his face, from which the boy shook the loose curls that fell over it, in the posture he stood him in, and brought him towards his, so as to receive a long breathed kiss; after which, renewing his driving, and thus continuing to harass his rear, the height of the fist came on with its usual symptoms, and dismissed the action.

Throughout the scene Fanny represents the perspective of the general public, at first disbelieving the possibility of it, then assuming the pathic to be a “sufferer”, but she soon observes that “every thing seemed to move and go pretty currently on, as on a carpet road, without much rub or resistance;” and that indeed while the pathic was “like his mother behind,” he “was like his father before” (i.e. he had an erection).

Of course the fact that the pathic could enjoy sodomy did not stop bigots from being bigots. Bentham hit the nail on the head when he wrote “it is not the pain that angers them but the pleasure.” William Pulteney in A Proper Reply to a Late Scurrilous Libel; Intitled, Sedition and Defamation Display’d, argues that the pathic and agent are “equally guilty” in cases where the pathic finds sodomy enjoyable:

but you seem, pretty Sir, to take the Word Corruption in a limited Sense and confine it to the Corrupter – Give me Leave to illustrate This by a parallel Case – There is a certain, unnatural, reigning Vice (indecent and almost shocking to mention) which hath of late, been severely punish'd in a neighbouring Nation. It is well known that there must be two Parties in this Crime; the Pathick and the Agent; both equally guilty. I need not explain These any farther. The Proof of the Crime hath been generally made by the Pathick; but I believe that Evidence will not be obtained quite so easily in the case of Corruption when a Man enjoys every Moment and Fruits of his Guilt.

Montesquieu argued that sodomy “ought to be proscribed were it only for its communicating to one sex the weaknesses of the other”. (The Spirit of Laws, b12, ch6) Bentham critics Montesquieu, pointing out that sodomy has a no greater “enervating” effect than that of “the regular way of gratifying the venereal appetite”. He argues that to justify sodomy laws for this reason there must be evidence that this is the case:

If the affirmative can be shewn it must be either by arguments a priori drawn from considerations of the nature of the human frame or from experience. Are there any such arguments from physiology? I have never heard of any: I can think of none.

However Montesquieu isn’t arguing that sodomy weakens both men equally but that it weakens the pathic specifically. “This distinction does not seem very satisfactory in any point of view” argues Bentham;

Is there any reason for supposing it to be a fixed one? Between persons of the same age actuated by the same incomprehensible desires would not the parts they took in the business be convertible? Would not the patient be the agent in his turn? If it were not so, the person on whom he supposes these effects to be the greatest is precisely the person with regard to whom it is most difficult to conceive whence those consequences should result. In the one case there is exhaustion which when carried to excess may be followed by debility: in the other case there is no such thing.

(Jeremy Bentham, Offences Against One's Self)

The parts were indeed as Bentham puts it “convertible”. In spite of the legal language of one man ‘assaulting’ another, in reality of molly sex had less strict roles. While one man may very well have had a preference for one role over the other, there were certainly men who enjoyed both roles. For example after meeting at the molly house Muff’s House in White-Chappel Isaac Milton and Jonathan Parrey went to the Three-Nuns where they “lay together”. Milton “would have had him [Parrey] committed Sodomy with him, but he refused it;” then Milton “offered to act the same Crime of Sodomy with him, but he would not suffer him.” (Trial of Isaac Milton, 16 October 1728)

Its also important to remember that anal sex was not the only kind of sex enjoyed by mollies. There are numerous references to fondling; William Brown took Thomas Newton “by the Hand, and (I shewing no dislike) he guides it to his Breeches, and puts his Privities into it.” (Trail of William Brown, 11 July 1726) Richard Challoner and John Branch Harris “put their Hands into each other's Breeches, after which they went out of the House into an Arbour in the Garden”. (Trial of Richard Challoner, 16 October 1728) Richard Manning and John Davis were caught “sitting facing one another with their knees jammed in together,” “kissing one another” with “Manning's hand in Davis's breeches” and “then Davis had his hand in Manning's breeches”, they “kissed one another for some time”. (Trial of Richard Manning and John Davis, 16 January 1745) Of course all of this could be precursory to anal sex but thats not necessarily the case.

There is one reference to fingering precursory to anal sex from the late 17th century. Preparing to “F—” William Minton, Capt Edward Rigby “pulled down Mintons Breeches, turn'd away his shirt, put his Finger to Mintons Fundament” (An Account of the Proceedings against Capt Edward Rigby, 1698)

Norton notes that “all of the available evidence, however, suggest that oral intercourse, fellatio, was rarely practised by the mollies.” However rarely is not never. In 1704 John Norton took hold of John Coyney’s privates “putting them into his mouth and sucking them” (Norton, Mother Clap’s Molly House, p107) In 1735 John Holloway testified that Henry Wolf “pull'd down his own Breeches and mine, and - in his Mouth”. (Trial of Henry Wolf, 22 May 1735)

In reviewing the proceedings of the Old Bailey Norton found “ample evidence that so-called ‘sodomites’ enjoyed an extended range of activities, including kissing, cuddling, love talk, fondling, sexual display, masturbation, oral intercourse, and reciprocal anal intercourse.” (Recovering Gay History from the Old Bailey, p15)

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