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aechii · 11 months

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₍⁠₍ OF LOVE AND FASHiON ₎⁠₎

A/N ?! last fic for the day booooo 😥 i dont know if i will be able to post any tmrrw, but i hope i can. anyways enjoy my lovelies

p.s. there's a little written part in this but it's abt 500-600 words

[y/n]'s heart's racing. every palpitation hammers against her chest with much force, so much so that her full-upon-entry water has decreased to less than half left in just 30 minutes. the heat still fused with the air, but as the sun begins to sleep, it loses its energy, leaving a cool undercurrent that presses into the skin of all the attendees. she's so glad about the cooler weather, finding it completely unfathomable how she would've coped if the heat joined tham at night as well.

but the man seated beside her crashes all of her composure, and her body begins to feel hot and strangled.

she hasn't seen such a visually blessed male specimen in all the years of her living, and the fact that his body was so close to hers because of the crammed seating made matters worse. she can't think, breathe or concentrate on the influx of dressed models that come and go non-stop.

"you look disgusted."

the voice comes from right beside her, and her head whips around, startled. the man that has enraptured her entire conscience smiles goofily at her, and her heart wavers.

"what? me?"

"yes," he chuckles softly, "you."

his eyes turn back to the show before them, yet he continues speaking before [y/n] can justify herself, "i don't blame you, though. some of the outfits are... questionable."

his facial expressions are priceless, and [y/n] falls into a bout of laughter, "you're sick!"

he looks on seriously, eyes flashing with extreme judgement, "i'm not lying! how does anyone find pairing a skirt and baggy trousers aesthetic?"

the combination, that [y/n] had, most likely, missed from being consumed by her thoughts, makes her grimace, "yeah, that wasn't a good look at all."

he turns back to face her and, god, he stares so intently that she has to look away.

"speaking of outfits, what brand you wearing? 'cause i know it's not lv for sure, i'm not seeing any," he thinks of the right words, "over exposure of the logo."

"that's one way to put it," [y/n] snickers, looking down at her outfit, "i made it all myself... apart from the shoes of course."

the boy is taken aback, mouth agape and eyes wide, "no way!"

she begins to feel flustered by his reaction and just smiles.

"that's so cool, honestly. i would take more pride in that than wearing a slutted out luxury brand."

"slutted out?" [y/n] can't believe her ears; he's going to kill her, she's sure.

"how the hell did you come up that?!"

the boy purses his lips, looking smug, "i'm just that amazing."

"you're delusional."

he pretends to think for a moment, "delusional enough to think i'd get your number?"

[y/n]'s eyebrows shot up, "you want... my number?"

he doesn't hesitate to nod, "i don't think i'll be leaving without it."

jobe, who had been painfully listening in on their conversation, decides to make himself apparent, "don't do it, you'll regret it."

she turns around, coming face to face with a younger boy who looks almost identical to the one she had been speaking with for the past 15 minutes.

"you two brothers?"

the older one responds, "yeah, he's a cockblock though, don't listen to him."

"cockblock? jude, i'm trying to save her life!"

ah, so that's his name.

"clear off, jobe," he rolls his eyes, turning back to the girl sitting beside him, "sorry about that- so, your number?"

"don't do it!"

and much to his dismay, she does.

y/n_l/n

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y/n_l/n paris photo dump !! met some cool ass people there lowkey

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judebellingham was lovely meeting you, such a vibe 😆

y/n_l/n you too!! <3

yfn__ best time of my life honestly

y/n_l/n paris at night is a sight to see

user1 you look GORGEOUS

user2 i really missed pfw just a day after i left france </3

user3 JUDE????

user4 I'M ACTUALLY SO SHOCKED

user5 😮

user6 WE FOUND HERRRRR

user7 and jude beat me to it already 😐

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y/n_l/n love the after party candid, send it to me plz xx + tell jobe i'm sorry but not sorry

judebellingham you look so pretty in it ofc + he'll see it anyways xx y/n_l/n @/judebellingham stop plz 😭🛑 jobebellingham @/y/n_l/n buy me croissaints and maybe i'll forgive you

jadonsancho freshh 🔥

user1 who's that girl in the last pic????

user2 someone who he met at the lv show, got her number and everthingggg 😭

user3 AND SHE KNOWS JOBE TOO? that's my chance stripped unrightfully away from me </3

user4 icel, she's gorgeous AAAAA

user5 this is my 13th reason

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katareyoudrilling · 2 months

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The Sweepstakes: Frankie Morales Epilogue (Porn Star AU)

Series: The Sweepstakes

Pairing: Frankie Morales x Porn star Female reader

Summary: You texted Frankie after your evening together, but what happened next?

Word count: ~600

Rating: Explicit (18+ only. NO MINORS)

Content Warnings: descriptions of sex acts

A/N: This follows the events of The Sweepstakes: Frankie Morales so be sure to read that first! I did the most minimal of research for this, so please forgive any inaccuracies. I have been overwhelmed (in the best way) by the response to Sweepstakes Frankie. I hope what I’ve imagine here does him justice. Enjoy!

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“Frankie! Come see this!” you exclaim from the bedroom.

“What is it?” Frankie comes in, running a towel through his shower-damp hair, wearing just his worn blue jeans. You take in the view of his soft tummy and bare feet, momentarily distracted from the news you called him in to share.

You just had him in your bed less than an hour ago, but you’d gladly have him back again. You shake your head to clear the distracting thoughts.

“Right. I was just uploading today’s video when I saw that we hit 1,000 subscribers!”

“What? Really? That sounds like a lot.” He sits down next to you on the bed, his weight causing the mattress to dip and bumping your knee against his side. His fresh, clean scent wafts over you and you have to resist the urge to snuggle into his warm skin.

“It is a lot,” you beam at him, and he returns your smile with a lopsided grin of his own. “We’ll be making real money soon.”

It had been after another fun and satisfying fuck with your favorite civilian that you had pitched Frankie the idea of starting an OnlyFans with you.

The way you saw it, there was an untapped market for soft, brown-eyed men, who gave amazing head. Your rapidly rising subscriber numbers are proving your hunch to be correct.

Frankie had thought it over, but he said it was ultimately a pretty easy decision. Why not try to earn a little extra money doing something he loved?

You called your channel “The Pussy Eating King”

Your signature videos were first person POVs of him eating you out. Sometimes he looked directly down the camera with those soulful eyes. Others, he closed them to get completely lost in the pleasure of your cunt. It was devastating… in the best way. And the viewership numbers agreed.

Second to those, were the videos you filmed from between Frankie’s legs, looking up at him while you stroked his gorgeous cock until he came. His disheveled curls and pink cheeks are the stuff dreams are made of.

Dirty dreams.

Dreams you wake up needy and desperate from.

It would be selfish to keep that view just for yourself.

“I think we should celebrate,” Frankie muses, pulling on his t-shirt and running his fingers through his messy curls. “Can I take you on a date?”

“A date?” Your pulse pounds in your ears. Sure, you have sex with Frankie on a regular basis. You have sex with a lot of people. Sure, you often wind up spending the day in bed with him just talking, but being with him in public? With clothes on?

Frankie senses your hesitation. “It doesn’t have to change anything. I just really like you and want to spend time with you.”

“I… ok,” you hear yourself answer.

“Great, I’ll pick you up at 8.” Frankie kisses the top of your head and makes his way out of your apartment, picking up his hat as he goes. Before he closes the door, he turns and winks.

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Later that night, Frankie takes your hand as you walk down the sidewalk. He twines his fingers with yours in a way that feels more intimate than anything you’ve done in the bedroom.

He said nothing would change, but things always change.

For the first time in a long time, you wonder if maybe that isn’t a bad thing.

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A/N: If these types of videos exist, please let me know…

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kazumiwrites-fanfiction · 7 months

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Everybody Wanna Take Her Heart Away

REQUEST: Hi hiii~ First off, a happy birthday to you! 🥳🎂 Wishing lots of happiness in life 💖 I've read some of your works and I really like your writing style! I saw your Mostro Lounge event and it took me a while to decide (because there's so many options that are sooo good; I'm indecisive haha) but I finally chose one! So I'm wondering if I could request F!Reader x Azul with the song "Steal My Girl" from the Azul to You playlist you made? I was thinking about a scenario where someone keeps pestering F!Reader to go out on a date with them (even if she already said no) and then Azul saves the day! Swooping in, holding you close by the waist, declaring "find another 'cause she belongs to me" (you get the reference 👀 haha) But I understand you already have a general idea for each so no worries~ Also, I'm sorry if this was long hahaha Again, happy birthday! Sending you cakes!! 🎂🎂🎂 Thank youuuu! ✨❤️ - @escha-evenstar

SUMMARY: Azul doesn't like how other people flirt with you. WORD COUNT: ~600

WARNINGS: Ace flirting(??) with you and making you uncomfortable, Ace does not get any hints, Azul is protective and a bit too jealous maybe?? Azul also maybe be a bit ooc. A/N: Okay so I'm not really comfortable with writing an explicitly female reader (it gives me gender dysphoria) so I did make this more neutral - however, I did try to make it as fem as I could, but I'm sorry if it's not specifically what you wanted! I love how I started writing this a month after your request, life's been hectic and I keep making rp blogs (to procrastinate on my homework). Someone needs to stop me. (I also started playing JP Twisted Wonderland too... I have a problem). I'm so sorry this is so late!! Thanks for the happy birthday wishes, I can't even believe I'm a year older now... Wow. For this event.

Azul didn't like this.

There you were, sitting all pretty and gorgeous. And he didn't mind that - he loved seeing you.

The problem in question was with Ace.

The first year had been coming up to you what seemed like every day, asking you to go on a date.

And sure, Azul knew that you wouldn't agree - you weren't the type of person to do something like that - but that didn't mean that he wasn't jealous.

He knew that he didn't make your relationship that public. Sometimes holding hands, walking you to class… That was mostly it. Most of the Octavinelle students, as well as some of the second years, knew, but other than that? Hardly anyone.

And anyways, he didn't want you to get more attention than was necessary.

Maybe Ace didn't know, and that was why he was doing this… But surely Grim had told him. Unless Grim had a problem with him too…

He gritted his teeth as Ace sidled up to you again, a casual arm slipping around your shoulders. Though, a small smile crossed his lips as he saw you shake his arm off.

"C'mon, kantokusei. One date?" Ace nudged you gently, a grin on his face. "C'mon, I know you like me~"

Azul sighed softly, feeling a small pang in his chest. Perhaps Ace wasn't entirely wrong, and that was why you hadn't given him a hard no? Yes, he saw you push Ace away multiple times, tell him to stop… But obviously it hadn't been harsh enough to drive off Ace.

Still, a nagging feeling in him told him that perhaps you weren't able to be assertive enough to get Ace to listen. Maybe he should jump in…

Over the past couple of weeks, you had gradually grown uncomfortable around Ace. You viewed him as a friend - just that, nothing more and nothing less.

But he seemed to view you as something more. And that definitely made you feel less than friendly toward the first year.

Even as he tried to touch your arm again, you whacked his hand away. "Stop it, Ace."

"But-"

The orange-haired male was cut off as Azul walked up to the two of you, a casual arm wrapping around your waist as he pulled you closer to him.

"What seems to be the matter?" Azul's voice, though polite, had a bit of an edge to it. His eyes were slightly narrowed, annoyance flashing in his gaze.

"Hey, I was just being friendly toward kantokusei, and teasing them a little bit-"

"That is definitely not the case, and both of us know it. Find another person because kantokusei-san belongs to me."

Azul's voice was cold - it was pretty clear that he was at his limit.

Ace seemed to back off after that, turning and walking away. You breathed a sigh of relief before you looked at Azul.

"Thank you for that," you said softly, moving to hug him tightly.

"Of course. It's my duty as your boyfriend." Azul was glad that you were happy - it seemed he had made the right call. He would have to make sure Jade and Floyd kept a closer eye on Ace… There was no telling how he could start harassing you again.

Still, as he held you close to him, he felt himself relax. Everything was fine - you were content, you were safe, and most of all? You were his.

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hyunsuks-beanie · 2 years

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Not a Man of Patience

Pairing: Yeonjun x afab! reader

Genre: Smut

Content Warnings: Smut; dirty talk; pussy eating; piv; unprotected sex; overstimulation

Word Count: 2k words

Mellow speaks: Okay so I'm asking y'all this. Why the fuck is it always this bitch? Why is it always Choi Yeonjun who leaves me this hot and this bothered? At first I thought I was gonna get stuck at a little over 600 words, and a few hours later, here we are at 2k lol.

Tagging: @sweethyuka @yedammi @enhacolor @axartia @hyunsuksmygod @duolingofanaccount @zurimochi

You had it coming, honestly. It was something you could tell the moment he had gazed at you in the crowd, his eyes lingering on you just a second longer than needed. Even then, when the concert had only barely started, those eyes still held a mischief that you could have seen from miles away. Yeah, it was coming, and you knew it.

Even when he had stepped of the stage at long last, body covered in a sheen of sweat and chest heaving proudly at a job done well, the smirk on his face was enough to tell you he had still got plenty of tricks up his sleeve, and when he had met you backstage, lips reaching down to catch your own in a kiss that had started gentle but turned heated right there, in public, you knew you were on the right track.

Choi Yeonjun had never been a man known for being one with much patience. Nope, he believed in living hard and living fast, there was no time for dilly-dallying. His motto? You want it, you take it. It was especially true when it came to things like the joys and pleasures of life. Pleasures, like the thrill he felt while performing, screaming his lungs out into that mic labeled 'YJ.' Pleasures, the kind he planned on seeking tonight, with you in his arms, pressed against him.

The car ride back home was.....difficult to say the least. Because how else would you describe it when you could feel wetness growing between your thighs at the way he kept stroking your leg, his hand occasionally dipping under the short hem of your skirt, inching dangerously close to where you needed him the most. The tension was thick, so thick you could cut it with a knife, and the stolen glances and conspicuous lip bites threatened to make you moan.

After what truly was an eternity, the familiar building of where your shared apartment resided came into view, and the moments leading up to your entry past the equally familiar front door and into your living room went by in nothing less than a blur. Yeonjun was quick with his moves and firm in his intentions, his fingers getting wrapped around your wrist the moment you were done taking your heels off, his touch hot against your skin as he slammed you against the wood of that very door.

And that brings you to now, your lips getting swollen by the second and your breathing becoming ragged just as fast as he kisses you like his life depends on it. Because tonight, it probably does. He seems.....different, and it's a different that leaves you begging for more. He's not nearly as playful as he usually is, and his teasing ways have been replaced by a more aggressive stance as he grips your chin with one hand, his other digging into your hips as he parts your lips expertly.

His tongue is quick to flick into your mouth, exploring every inch as his chest presses flat against yours, his heart beating next to your own as his knee forces your thighs apart, getting wedged between them. He barely gives you time to adjust, gasps and moans being the only sounds you can manage as his hands grope at every inch of skin they can find. And lucky for him, there's quite a few inches to find.

You can tell he's still reeling from the adrenaline rush, the cheers and the music still echoing in his ears, and it's up to you now to moan even louder than those sounds, and become the only thing he can hear. His fingers are nimble but assertive as they tear away at the fabric of your outfit, wanting to feel as close to you as he can. As close as you'll have him. Eyes blown out, hair disheveled, and lips smeared with the gloss that belongs to you, he's the hottest mess you've seen, and it takes everything in you to keep the wetness at bay.

Not for long, of course, because once again, Choi Yeonjun is not a patient man. Your skirt and that flimsy little top are nothing but a pathetic excuse at keeping you covered up, and he decides he wants to make things easy for you and take away your reason for keeping them on your body. "Such a tease, hoping I'd bang you inside the changing room, huh?," he growls in your ear, one hand inching towards the waistband of your panties while the other pulls your bra down, his lips getting wrapped around your bud as he begins sucking. Maybe it's his words or maybe it's the way he runs a stripe up your clothed heat. Whatever it is, it leaves you breathless, your back arching against the door as you silently plead for more.

And it makes him chuckle darkly, his teeth digging into your nipple before he's pulling away with a pop, a "So damn needy" escaping him as he pushes the fabric to the side, stroking your pussy softly to prep you up. But he doesn't have to do that for long, because with the way that tank top sticks to his figure, and the way his leather pants seem too tight all of a sudden already has you soaking and sopping, causing him to quirk an eyebrow.

He doesn't really say anything, choosing to simply smirk as he rolls his eyes at you, making it seem as if you're the needy one. Quick to drop to his knees, you get to know just how different he is tonight when he can't even seem to wait long enough for you to take your underwear off. No, he's much too eager to devour you, and it's evident from how quickly he tears the fabric off, leaving you exposed enough for his mouth to latch onto.

So that's what he does, his tongue pushing through your puffy lips as he makes out with your folds, arms wrapping around your hips and nails digging into the flesh of your butt. It's like he's afraid to let go, wanting to commit every single contour of your cunt to memory as he moans against you, feeling himself grow weak at how good you taste. He's eaten you out more times than he can count, but even now, he can't help being surprised at how sweet you are. Or maybe it's just that he's addicted, aware of the fact that you're the most sinful pleasure he's ever indulged in.

He's slow at first, but it doesn't really take him long to pick the pace up, his teeth grazing across your bundle of nerves and making you whimper in response. He knows every inch of you like the back of his hand, so it's really no surprise that within mere moments, all you're reduced to is a whining mess, legs shaking and eyes rolled to the back of your head as you yank at his silky hair.

You don't know how long he continues to indulge in his carnal desires. It could have been barely a minute of him ruining your pussy, or it could have been hours of slow, almost lazy teasing. Whatever it is, the end result is the same, with your knees buckling under you and and a scream emanating from inside your chest. White hot pleasure is all you can feel, your dam breaking as you spurt your juices right into his mouth, and he eats you up like a man starved, lapping up every drop before pulling away and wiping his lips, clearly drunk off you.

You're at your limit, all you mind is screaming at you to do is curl up against him and go to dreamland. But you know he has other things on his mind, and you'd be lying if you said your body isn't screaming even louder for him to put those things to practical use. Yeah, you want him to use you for letting his own nerves loose, you want to be of use to him.

And it seems like you're in luck, because as always, he somehow knows just want you want, just what you need. "You want me to fuck you stupid, huh?," he giggles, almost childishly, enjoying having the upper hand as he takes in the way you moan and tug at his hand. He doesn't even wait long enough to take his pants off, choosing to simply roll them down his thighs enough to make his cock spring out, and you can only thank the heavens he wasn't wearing a pair of boxers.

His tip slaps against the vest which now clings to him thanks to all the sweat, and it takes everything in you not to swoon at the sight. Though of course, the way you gulp doesn't go unnoticed by him, and the way he quirks his eyebrow again leaves you nervous for no more than ten seconds, because by the tenth second, he's got your leg wrapped around his waist, his tip teasing your folds as he digs his teeth into your neck, sucking on your skin. "Mine," he mumbles, and the next thing you know, he's pushing all the way into you, driving himself in to the hilt.

You hiss softly at the suddenness, but the transient pain soon gives way to a lasting throb of pleasure as he bottoms out. "So....tight," he grunts, rolling his hips against yours, rutting into you as he begins setting up a pace. His moves are urgent, his thrusts needy as he fills you up with himself, groaning and moaning in time with you. The adrenaline is what keeps him going, telling him to absolutely wreck that pretty little pussy and claim that pretty little body. Because it's his to play with anyway, right?

Your walls clench around his thickness, his girth being something you'll never quite get used to. Your nails claw into his arms, your moans carrying through the air as you whimper for him to move faster. And he complies, because who is he to deny you the pleasure you seek? His pumps grow more desperate his hickies pierce deeper, his needs getting the better of him as he keeps thrusting, wanting to see you crumble before his eyes.

He's so fast it almost feels like he's going to tear your insides apart, and all you can think of is to thank him for it. Actually, scratch that. Thanking him is the only thing you know, because you seem to have lost all ability to think otherwise. You cum all over his length, but you can't tell if it's your second climax of the night or your tenth. Maybe it's somewhere in between, but you can't be bothered enough to ask. All you can focus on is the addictive pleasure coursing through your veins and overwhelming your senses. Somewhere through the night, you're begging him to fill you up with his seed, to let you take every drop in before you almost collapse. He tries to resist, tries to last even longer, but in the end, you're far too warm to not shoot white ropes of his cum into.

It takes you a moment to realize he's finally reached his limit too, and it takes even longer for him to stop thrusting, that's how focused he's been on the task at hand. That's part of the reason you love him so much, because he gives it his all, even if all he's doing is fucking you senseless. It just makes him all the more hot, and you? All the more wet.

His chest heaving as he comes down from his high, he gives you one of the best kisses he ever has, telling you how much he loves you and thanking you for calming his bubbling energy down. But if you thought he was done, I'm sorry to say you're in for a ride. Because if Choi Yeonjun isn't known for being a man of patience, one thing he is known for being is never backing down from a challenge.

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cooliogirl101 · 6 months

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that little snippet with Sayuri and Shen Jiu makes me incredibly curious about that AU. How much interaction have they had up to that point (because I'm assuming it was the real Haitang at some point? Or did Sayuri wake up without powers so had to bide her time or something)? Also how differently would the plot go, because I can't imagine Sayuri would stand for Shen Jiu treating children poorly or the suspicions of Shen Jiu's martial siblings/old peak lords

Yeah I definitely viewed it as a transmigration thing, where Sayuri landed in Qiu Haitang's body shortly before the Qiu massacre. I guess in this verse, I saw her as more of a mixture of Lily and Sayuri-- more jaded than Lily, less hardened than Sayuri. Maybe a Sayuri who died early on, who didn't survive the fighting rings, who thought it was over and she could finally rest-- only to wake up in yet another unfamiliar body.

Playing the part of the innocent, naive, happy-go-lucky girl (at least until she gets her bearings) is one of the more challenging things she's done but if there's one thing she's learned from Sousuke, it's how to put on a convincing mask. She latches on to Shen Jiu because his wounds so remind her of her brother's-- that same ruthless drive to do anything in order to survive.

For the first few months of their acquaintance, Shen Jiu is in a constant state of bewilderment that the girl he'd always viewed as the epitome of innocence is, in actuality, kind of a bitch. He's never felt closer to her. Shortly after they come of age, Haitang suggests very calmly and reasonably that they get married after all. She times her proposal perfectly to the split second after Shen Jiu takes a sip of tea and pretends that his resultant sputtering and choking was not at all her intention.

("It's only practical, it's not exactly a secret that you and I spend the majority of our nights together. We might as well make the rumors official. Now I've always been partial to the idea of a fall wedding, what do you think? The leaves are always so lovely that time of year, all golden and red like-- yes, the exact shade your face is turning, thank you for demonstrating, A-Jiu.")

It's a purely platonic marriage, of course, but it does wonders for fixing Shen Jiu's reputation. It's an ongoing debate on Cang Qiong over who's scarier-- the Qing Jing Peak Lord or his wife, who was once rumored to make a Black Moon Rhinoceros-Python cower away with a single glare. Things go pretty well for a while.

And then Luo Binghe arrives.

(In one world, Luo Binghe goes to bed as the Emperor of the Combined Realms with an unmatched harem of over 600 renowned beauties. When he wakes up, he is 12 years old again, weak, powerless, and back at Qing Jing Peak-- the source of some of his worst memories, a place he'd once burned to ashes. Worse, he is back at the mercy of Shen Qingqiu, who is now...happily married to the woman who was instrumental to bringing him down?)

#hahaha i love the confusion lbh would be in #murder cat au

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haggishlyhagging · 6 months

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By the end of the second millennium, the religious thinkers of Mesopotamia saw the cosmos as controlled and regulated by male gods, with only Ishtar maintaining a position of power. When we see such a pattern of theological change, we must ask whether the religious imagery is leading society, or whether it is following socioeconomic development? Was the supplanting of goddesses in Sumerian religious texts an inner theological development that resulted purely from the tendency to view the world of the gods on the model of an imperial state in which women paid no real political role? Or does it follow in the wake of sociological change, of the development of what might be called "patriarchy"? And if the latter is true, is the change in the world of the gods contemporary to the changes in human society, or does it lag behind it by hundreds of years? To these questions we really have no answer. The general impression that we get from Sumerian texts is that at least some women had a more prominent role than was possible in the succeeding Babylonian and Assyrian periods of Mesopotamian history. But developments within the 600-year period covered by Sumerian literature are more difficult to detect. One slight clue might (very hesitantly) be furnished by a royal document called the Reforms of Uruinimgina." Uruinimgina (whose name is read Urukagina in earlier scholarly literature) was a king of Lagash around 2350 B.C.E. As a nondynastic successor to the throne, he had to justify his power, and wrote a "reform" text in which he related how bad matters were before he became king and described the new reforms that he instituted in order to pursue social justice. Among them we read, "the women of the former days used to take two husbands, but the women of today (if they attempt to do this) are stoned with the stones inscribed with their evil intent." Polyandry (if it ever really existed) has been supplanted by monogamy and occasional polygyny.

In early Sumer, royal women had considerable power. In early Lagash, the wives of the governors managed the large temple estates. The dynasty of Kish was founded by Enmebaragesi, a contemporary of Gilgamesh, who it now appears may have been a woman; later, another woman, Kubaba the tavern lady, became ruler of Kish and founded a dynasty that lasted a hundred years. We do not know how important politically the position of En priestess of Ur was, but it was a high position, occupied by royal women at least from the time of Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon (circa 2300 B.C.E.), and through the time of the sister of Warad-Sin and Rim-Sin of Larsa in the second millennium. The prominence of individual royal women continued throughout the third dynasty of Ur. By contrast, women have very little role to play in the latter half of the second millennium; and in first millennium texts, as in those of the Assyrian period, they are practically invisible.

We do not know all the reasons for this decline. It would be tempting to attribute it to the new ideas brought in by new people with the mass immigration of the West Semites into Mesopotamia at the start of the second millennium. However, this cannot be the true origin. The city of Mari on the Euphrates in Syria around 1800 B.C.E. was a site inhabited to a great extent by West Semites. In the documents from this site, women (again, royal women) played a role in religion and politics that was not less than that played by Sumerian women of the Ur IlI period (2111-1950 B.C.E.). The causes for the change in women's position is not ethnically based. The dramatic decline of women's visibility does not take place until well into the Old Babylonian period (circa 1600 B.C.E.), and may be function of the change from city-states to larger nation-states and the changes in the social and economic systems that this entailed.

The eclipse of the goddesses was undoubtedly part of the same process that witnessed a decline in the public role of women, with both reflective of fundamental changes in society that we cannot yet specify. The existence and power of a goddess, particularly of Ishtar, is no indication or guarantee of a high status for human women. In Assyria, where Ishtar was so prominent, women were not. The texts rarely mention any individual women, and, according to the Middle Assyrian laws, married women were to be veiled, had no rights to their husband's property (even to movable goods), and could be struck or mutilated by their husbands at will. Ishtar, the female with the fundamental attributes of manhood, does not enable women to transcend their femaleness. In her being and her cult (where she changes men into women and women into men), she provides an outlet for strong feelings about gender, but in the final analysis, she is the supporter and maintainer of the gender order. The world by the end of the second millennium was a male's world, above and below; and the ancient goddesses have all but disappeared.

-Tikva Frymer-Kensky, In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth

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It's not just the age difference. It's the complete and utter power imbalance. He's rich, famous, far more experienced (even when he was her age), male. She's some Danish kid who's fresh off the plane. And don't you think it's more likely that LTHQ flew her to LA specifically for this rather than she somehow got into a celebrity party before she'd even recovered from jet lag? And as if a young girl who had just come to LA and met famous folk wouldn't have posted on her insta. I do wonder how and when she was recruited.

okay well first of all she lives in LA and your whole "innocent girl imported from Denmark and doesn't even know what's going on" narrative is weird, but more to the point I think she's plenty old enough to make her own decisions around what she can handle by way of jetlag and other work choices, and that this is a weirdly condescending way to talk about an adult trying to make it in the entertainment industry. But more to the point- the power imbalance would be a potential issue IF THEY WERE DATING. But power imbalances between bosses and employees are not just normal, they are literally an integral part of that relationship. That's why it's gross and not okay for people in those positions to date! And if you're making an argument that it's also gross in work situations well listen, I'm an anti capitalist and I couldn't agree more, abolish wage labor and all of it, but a non famous non celeb person being an employee of a rich celeb is hardly a red flag in this society, and no more exploitative than most other jobs. The power imbalances around experience and status and wealth also exist between, like, Harry and his PA Luis for example, so why is this different and is she less able to make that call for herself? It seems to me that this is where you really see the parallels between how people view bearding and sex work- even people who say and think that they know it's fake still get all weird and puritanical about it and think it's just that little bit different from other jobs, that okay it's fake but like it's still kind of like it's real so dating rules apply! No: it's a job. It's not in a special category or personal or intimate: it's just a job. She's an influencer trying to make it and just got her big break (insta followers up 600% and counting in 12 hours!) and chose to take it, good for her. Do you think Louis and the other guys would thank you for denying them their big break as actual teens on the grounds that they were too young and inexperienced to handle it? With the experiences they had in the industry (and presumably would never perpetuate on someone else) and Louis' commitment to helping up and coming folks make it, to say nothing of his general caretaker tendencies and concern for young women he sees as his responsibility, I actually can't think of anyone I'd rather see someone in her position take a job like this with, she hit the fucking jackpot.

#not sure what this is about the party like... ofc she was taken there by louis? for work? what #this ask feels a little jumbled like you think its fake but are also talking like its real maybe?#idk #babe it's NOT #blah blah blah

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The US Justice Department is seeking 33 years in prison for Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in one of the most serious cases to emerge from the attack on the US Capitol, according to court documents.

The harsh sentence request came as it emerged that Christopher Worrell, another member of the extremist group, has disappeared, days before he was due to be sentenced on Friday.

The sentence for Tarrio, if imposed, would be by far the longest punishment that has been handed down in the massive prosecution of the riot on 6 January 2021. The Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy in a separate case, has received the longest sentence to date – 18 years.

Tarrio, who once served as national chairman of the far-right extremist group, and three lieutenants were convicted by a Washington jury in May of conspiring to block the transfer of presidential power in the hopes of keeping Donald Trump in the White House after the Republican President lost the 2020 election.

Tarrio, who was not at the Capitol riot itself, was a top target of what has become the largest Justice Department investigation in American history. He led the neo-fascist group – known for street fights with leftwing activists – when Trump infamously told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” during his first election debate with Democrat Joe Biden.

During the months-long trial, prosecutors argued that the Proud Boys viewed themselves as foot soldiers fighting for Trump as the Republican spread lies that Democrats stole the election from him, and were prepared to go to war to keep their preferred leader in power.

“They unleashed a force on the Capitol that was calculated to exert their political will on elected officials by force and to undo the results of a democratic election,” prosecutors wrote in their filing on Thursday. “The foot soldiers of the right aimed to keep their leader in power. They failed. They are not heroes; they are criminals.”

Meanwhile on Friday it emerged that the authorities are looking for Worrell, of Naples, Florida, who was “unaccounted for” ahead of his sentencing. He was convicted of using pepper-spray gel on police officers as part of the mob storming the Capitol in 2021.

Worrell had been under house arrest in Florida since his release from jail in Washington in November 2021, less than a month after a judge substantiated his civil-rights complaints about his treatment in the jail.

Prosecutors had asked a judge to sentence Worrell to 14 years. Court records show the sentencing was canceled on Tuesday and a warrant issued for his arrest, initially under seal.

More than three dozen people charged in the Capitol siege have been identified by federal authorities as leaders, members or associates of the Proud Boys, whose members describe it as a politically incorrect men’s club for “western chauvinists.”

As well as the long sentence for Tarrio, prosecutors are also asking for a 33-year-sentence for one of Tarrio’s co-defendants, Joseph Biggs of Ormond Beach, Florida, a self-described Proud Boys organizer.

They are asking the judge to impose a 30-year prison term for Zachary Rehl, who was president of the Proud Boys chapter in Philadelphia; 27 years in prison for Ethan Nordean of Auburn, Washington, who was a Proud Boys chapter president; and 20 years for Dominic Pezzola, a Proud Boys member from Rochester, New York.

A total of about 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the January 6 riot. More than 600 of them have pleaded guilty or been convicted after trials decided by a jury or judge.

Defense attorneys argued there was no conspiracy and no plan to attack the Capitol.

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Image Credits: ESA and the SPIRE & PACS consortia, Ph. André (CEA Saclay) for the Gould’s Belt Key Programme Consortia

W40 (also known as Sh2-64 and RCW 174) is a stellar nursery or some 25 light-years across, between 1,000 and 2,000 light years-away from Earth in the conquila (the Eagle) close to the border with Serpenss Cauda (Serpent’s Tail).

This dark cloud is one of the nearest massive star-forming (HII) regions, known and is part of Gould’s Belt, a giant ring of stars – tilted to the Milky Way by 20 degrees that circles the night sky because the Solar System just happens to lie near the center of the call.

The stellar nursery is so shrouded in dust that no infrared satellite before Herschel has been to able to see into it. Thanks to Herschel’s superior sensitivity at the longest wavelengths of infrared, I’m showing you the first picture of the interior of W40.

Altogether, about 600 newly forming stars are crowded into colorful these filaments of dust. It is estimated that about 150 of these are protostars, celestial objects in the final stages of formation. Each one just needs to ignite nuclear fusion in its core to become a true star. The other 450 objects are insufficiently developed to considered protostars, but theses too will will become stars.

The blue area is home to a young OB association with at least three young massive OB stars that are illuminating the ionized hydrogen gas, causing it to shine. (OBB associations usually contain 10–100 massive stars of spectral class O and B and, in addition, hundreds, or of low- and intermediate-mass stars).

The bright nebula is expanding into the medium, compressing the ambient gas on its way. This has created a second generation of young very protostars which are only seen at the far-infrared wavelengths accessible to Herschel.

At least 50 percent of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy formed in massive clusters of thousands of stars similar to W40. Evidence suggests that the Solar System developed in such a cluster almost 5 billion years ago.

W40 is difficult to view with optical telescopes because it lies less than 3 degrees from the main plane of the Milky Way, behind obscuring clouds of interstellar dust and gas.

This image was tasks on October 24, 2009 using two of Herschel’s instruments: the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) and the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE).

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Announcement for July!

Hey all my supers and 4*Townies! I’ve come to make an announcement and it involves my current plans for July.

[Twitter alternative] where I will post my nsfw art

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Due to Twitter’s recent updates before all the ruckus with Instagram becoming the new Twitter with their new app Threads, I am unfortunately going to reduce the number of tweets I create on there, including my nsfw tweets. Because of the limit to viewing no more than 600 tweets per day for unverified accounts, it reduces the chance of other people being able to view my content. In terms of using an alternative for nsfw art, those will be posted on Pixiv instead. I can still continue to post on Twitter but do expect me to spend less time posting anything on there.

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About my masterlist and my upcoming entries.

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As of me posting this, I am currently working on my new pfp for the summer which is based on Evelyn from Incredibles 2. After I work on both that and my BirdTown AU, I will take a small break from posting anything 4*Town related and do entries from other fandoms. It may some time, but I’ll still post some more stuff from 4*Town soon. In the meantime, feel free to ask me questions related to 4*Town or anything outside of that!

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#turning red #4town #4town robaire #4town manga #announcement #admin post #evelyn deavor #incredibles 2 #pixar

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So my basic idea so far is that my oc is a close to 1000 year old Chinese Belter who was alive during the first star league and Amaris' coup. She was genetically engineered to be the perfect mechwarrior by having augmented heat tollerance, and requiring less sleep than your average person. being close to 1000years old she ends up with a devil may care attitude and purposely pilots mechs with outragous loadouts like the 8 heavy medium laser nova or the 6ppcs swayback. her reasoning being that living on the edge is fun and if its her time to die then she will die, having lived for so long. Her name is Yue Liming and her Callsign is TieShan, which is chinese for Iron Mountain, in reference to her enhanced endurance and stamina. Some people also call refer to her as Princess both because of rumors of her being belter royality and also as a pun off of her call sign because her call sign also sounds liek the Chinese for Ironfan and princess ironfan is a notable character from Journey to the West. During the Amaris Coup she joined the star league defense force's siege of terra and was offered a place to leave with Kerensky, but she declined, and decided to stay in the inner sphere, where she works as a freelancer mech warrior, willing to work with most factions as long as the work fits her morals and the pay is good. Exepctions being she refuses to work for the Capallens, viewing them as a bunch of posers who brings a bad name to the culture she so dearly loves, and during the Jihad refuses to work for the Word of Blake, who she hates even more than the Capallens.

It sounds pretty good, save for the 1000 years old part. Not even the Belters have anyone that old, as far as we know. The Star League was only founded in 2570 while the BattleMech was only invented in 2439. The current year is the early 3150s. So 'Mech pilots have only been a thing for about 700 years, the Star League for around 600.

Also, the Belters would have more use for a genetically engineered AeroSpace Fighter pilot, since they live in space, and use of 'Mechs in space combat is extremely uncommon in universe. But a decent amount of AeroSpace Fighter adaptions would be useful to a 'Mech pilot regardless.

I would say that somewhere around 550 might be a good age for her. That lets her have been alive during the final era of the Star League all the way up to now.

Of course she may wish to not make that fact known. There are many who would kill to know the secrets of such a long life.

#battletech #mechwarrior

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A Sunflower and Their Encyclopedia // (Ezra x GN!Reader)

Word Count: idk like 500-600

Summary: Modern AU? idk but we're on Earth so you decide. Ezra tells you he loves you.. in some less than normal ways...

A/N: FOR MY WIFE @writer-darling WHOSE BIRTHDAY IT IS TODAY (it's short and shitty because I just typed it up after work but I couldn't not post something!) BUT HAPPY BIRTHDAY I LOVE YOU MOSTEST

oh and this is like not at all accurate because sunflowers use circadian rhythm to face and follow the sun but… we’re going to pretend we don’t know that and believe the social media myth

“You’re my sunflower,” Ezra's smooth voice brings you back to reality.

“What?” You ask, not sure you heard him right in your trance-like state.

“You are my sunflower,” he annunciates, “or Helianthus as it’s scientifically known” he adds as if that would clear everything for you.

If the two of you had been talking about flowers, it would make some sense, but you were simply enjoying each other's presence in silence.

“What?” you ask again, clearly confused.

“Well when it’s overcast and sunflowers are looking for the sun, they often face each other. Claiming each other as their own personal sun, sharing each other’s energy. You’re my sunflower, you’re who I turn to in dark times to keep me going.”

“That is… incredibly sweet,” tears brim your eyes, “Then you’re my sunflower too. What brought that up?”

A slow smile creeps its way onto his face, the corners of his mouth lifting with love and eyes warming.

“I was simply enjoying the view, of you. And how captivated and intoxicated I am from the sheer joy you exude. How my infatuation and devotion to you knows no bounds. You’re my life source, my light and my love.”

A cheesy smile is plastered on your face, “And so the obvious conclusion was sunflowers?”

“Perhaps sunflowers didn’t properly convey all that.”

“No it did I was ju-” but before you can finish he interrupts by continuing his thoughts.

“You’re the Acacia Tree to my ant colony,” he finishes with a proud smile.

You stare at him dumbfounded.

“Acacia trees, commonly found in South Africa and Australia, grow hollow roots, structures that allow ants to use as shelter and even feed from. In return, the ants defend the tree from herbivores. The ants larvae also feed off Beltian bodies, which are small pouches of important proteins and nutrients and in return the ants protect new acacia seedlings from being eaten by other small critters.”

“So… I’m a tree,”

“An acacia tree, yes”

“And you… are a colony of ants,”

“Mhm”

“That share a relationship,”

“A symbiotic relationship, yes”

“That share a symbiotic relationship. But why am I the tree and you the ants?”

“Easy. Because you’re a life-giving thing that is much greater than I. A beautiful great standing of Mother Nature.”

Then it dawns on you. Where Ezra is getting all this random nature information. Weeks ago while thrifting he came across a tattered nature encyclopedia, his nose was stuck in the book before he even purchased it. He returned it to the shelf claiming he did not need it but something tells you he went back…

“Did you get that encyclopedia?”

“Is it that obvious?”

You laugh, “I take it you're enjoying it”

“Thoroughly”

“And how many more métaphores do you have for us?”

Ezra looks up and cocks his head like he’s actually mentally counting them, “at least another hundred.”

You laugh again at his absurdity born of love.

“Although I don’t think I could even run out of ways to tell you I love you, my dear. And if I did then I’d learn more languages. And if I ran out of those, I’d create our own language that never runs out of ways to express my love for you.”

And you know that this man in front of you means every damn word he's just said. You can't help but wonder how you got so lucky, while he wonders the same.

Taglist: @spideysimpossiblegirl @littlemisspascal @writer-darling @avengetheunnatural @louderfortheback @currentobsessionrabbithole

#ezra x reader #ezra prospect #ezra x you #prospect 2018 #pedro pascal characters

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I’ve been thinking a lot about how sensitive tae / jk / tkkrs are. Like the thing you said about JK solos thinking the company and army are against him. Like if jimin had the fan base numbers and company support they had I would be thrilled and simply keep my mouth shut.

It’s especially interesting that they drag jimin so much when he poses no real threat (numbers wise) to them. Tae literally has 10 MILLION more followers than jimin on IG. And JK probably would too if he was still on IG.

What i keep coming back to is that can’t fathom jimin having the large amount of success than he has (even if it’s less than tae/jk) when he doesn’t have the traditional qualities that tae and jk have that make them the most biased. Like tae’s perfect face or JK’s boyish charm / masculinity / both of them being conventionally attractive overall, along with JK’s natural talent and Tae’s “confidence”. Jimin has all this success without those things. And I feel like that’s what bugs them and threatens them. Idk just thinking/rambling!

Here's the thing about Instagram followers... I've written about this before but I can't seem to find that post, so I guess I'll have to do another post (this one) about it.

Instagram followers are not a measure of talent or success. They never were, and never will be. I can only think of like Messi and Ronaldo who have 600 million followers as people who their instagram followers are *sort of* a reflection of how well known they are.

Armys live in a bubble; taekookers, Taehyung and JK stans live in an even smaller bubble, tho this could be true for every solo out there. They think BTS (or their particular bias) is the center of the universe, and they forget that there actually are other celebrities and musicians in the planet. They forget too that not everything that looks like success, is actually success.

Harry Styles doesn't get half the likes any BTS member gets. Harry has had several billboard 100 singles, many of them were #1 and As It Was is still charting. Yet he has even less followers than Jimin, I think. Harry has been touring non-stop for more than a year, now. You'd think he wouldn't have fans to attend his shows when you look at his posts with 1 - 2 million likes. He sold 500k albums the first week on the US. BTS sell ~200K. Beyonce gets less likes than any BTS member, too. Yet she's on a sold out stadium tour around the world right now. Coldplay has less than 20 million followers yet they've been active as a group since 1996, and they also are on a stadium tour right now. The same stadiums that BTS played in two or three times, Coldplay has had up to 8 sold out dates in those stadiums.

Now, for the final bosses. Taylor Swift gets around 7 millions likes on her posts. She's also on a stadium tour right now. Her albums that were released 15 years ago and she's re-releasing now, are still getting one million preorders in the first day, only in the USA. She gets 80 million streams on her spotify profile, DAILY. Everyday.

BTS right now has 73 million followers on their bts_bighit account, and it was a smaller number before but in 2021 they were already getting 100 million views for butter in the first 24 hours.

For Christmas 2020, Jimin released Christmas Love, unannounced. Literally they just posted a link, and the youtube audio got I think 10 million in the first day. Later that day, Taehyung went on weverse to announce he'd be releasing snow flower that night. It debuted with less views than Christmas Love, even if it had been announced. The members opened their instagram accounts on December 6th 2021 (I'm just going by memory here, so I might be slightly wrong on the date). Taehyung immediately was "on the lead" regarding followers, immediately gathered a few million more than any other member. Taehyung then released Christmas Tree in the end of December 2021. Debut streams: roughly 1.5 million. If even half of his followers had tuned in (on Spotify) for his song, you'd think he would've done better than 1.5 million streams. With you was released four months later and, despite having only half the tracking time and despite "unpopular" Jimin having less instagram followers than Taehyung, with you got a better first day streams. To this day, it still gains streams faster than Christmas Tree.

As a sidenote, I don't think it's a small detail that instagram followers and likes are way easier to fake and fraud than streams. In the end, Jimin is a musician and the only way he can "prove" anything about himself, or his popularity or success, it's through his music and his performances. I think it's clear he himself doesn't even care that much about his instagram profile.

The same goes for Jungkook's lives viewers, which was something I was thinking about the other day. He released music last year, and last year he was already getting 15, 20 million viewers (which his fans claim are unique viewers), but his songs debuted with not even half of that. And we know how streams work; one person could stream the same song 10, 20 times. So how come he doesn't get 40 million streams a day? Or at least one day in the year? If we were to assume that 20 million different people watch his lives, those 20 million could also play his song once or twice at least one day in the year. But that doesn't happen.

So that's why I could never be bothered about instagram followers and likes... it really never mattered to me. Records in general don't matter to me, and I've said it plenty of times. There are some Jimin "records" and numbers that I wasn't even aware of until FACE was released. I didn't know that with you was more streamed than stay alive or christmas tree, for example. There's some stuff I'm finding out only because other people post about it, not because I'm constantly checking up on Jimin's and other member's numbers.

I can only go with Taehyung's old releases numbers because he hasn't released anything in a while. Also, a random OST is not the same as a proper debut, so I am aware that nobody really knows how well he could do with his debut. But the truth is that -IN THE PAST- his streams and singles sales have always been lower than Jimin's; the only member who's on par with Jimin on that, is Jungkook. Maybe for his debut Taehyung will finally release a fun song that people actually want to listen to.

On the other hand, now that Jimin has "set records" with his debut album, when Taehyung and Jungkook's albums come out, they will try to out-do Jimin's numbers, and when the next Jimin album comes out, people will try to out-do taekook's numbers and so on and on. So unless it's a really extraordinary thing that could hardly be replicated (like Jimin's BB #1), other than that, records of numbers are a really fickle thing to hold on to. The only reason I talked about them in this post was to make a point that instagram followers really do not always correlate to how "successful" or loved, or supported someone is.

As for your last paragraph, firstly I'm really uncomfortable and tired of the backhanded "compliments" like Jimin is doing great, but not as great as Taehyung or Jungkook. Like what is the actual purpose? I know they will do well, but the undermining of Jimin's achievements is insane and so unnecessary. The day Jungkook's and Taehyung's albums were announced too, it was "the most successful kpop soloists in the world" when Jimin is literally right there, being exactly that right now. Why have most people in this fandom incorporated the backhanded compliments in their vocabulary? Being lowkey or even highkey shady towards Jimin is almost like an unconscious thing for most these days.

Talking specifically about the hate he gets from Taehyung's Jungkook's stans, what you mentioned is half of the reason why. The other half is, ships. The other half of the hate is because of taekook.

They have convinced themselves that Instagram followers and such, are a measure of success. They have convinced themselves that Jimin is not talented, that he can't sing, that he can't dance, that all these years he was pushed by the company as something he's not and that his whole personality is a lie. They fight so hard against the love he receives because they genuinely think he doesn't deserve it for all of those reasons they've invented themselves. Then some YouTuber shows up and reacts to a BTS live song and goes "oh this Jimin guy sounds the best" and they think he's been paid to say that. The idea they have of him has never correlated with the image the real world has of him, and that's what bothers them. If someone says I love this song, they just HAVE to be on his business and spam "this song is awful" because they think it's wrong to like him and want others to feel that way about him too.

That's never going to happen because the real world isn't chronically online, feeding themselves lies the way Taehyung and JK stans are.

It's also interesting, but not really, that according to them Jimin is a "flop" but Jimin is the only one they're always trying to surpass. So how exactly is he flopping if he's their biggest competition. All BTS members are competing with themselves as of right now, none of them stand a chance next to already stablished artists with proven global, stable success like Harry or Taylor. Didn't bad bunny get 1 billion streams on his album the FIRST day? That happened last year. And JK stans were so proud of Jungkook getting it in 409 days. I'd like to see Jungkook or Taehyung stans try and argue how successful they are compared to people like those I mentioned. All BTS members are competing with themselves, but none of them are actually stablished as solo acts, especially in the states. All of them are still confined to kpop so far. Jimin has probably started to crack the surface because Like Crazy was quite successful in the USA and even the UK, and there were a lot of things that gave it publicity, but even then that's just a crack and it takes time to settle as an undisputed successful solo artist. No BTS member has the time to do that.

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Under normal circumstances what would Jeyne Poole’s marriage prospects have been?

This is something I talked about a bit when I discussed whether Jeyne could have ever married Bran or Rickon. While Jeyne has some aristocratic credentials - the Pooles are a House with their own sigil, giving Jeyne enough cachet to act as Sansa's companion and close friend at Winterfell - the family is nevertheless not particularly high-ranking in the Westerosi aristocratic order (hence Sansa's dismissal of Jeyne's crush on Lord Dondarrion). On top of that, we don't have any sense of how old the Pooles are as a family, which might in turn determine how highly (or not) other small-time aristocratic families in the North would consider the Pooles when it comes to marriage (compare, say, the Freys, who while themselves "only" 600 years old might have scorned an offer of marriage from the far less credentialed Petyr Baelish) We also don't have a sense of whom the Pooles have historically married (though it would be nice to see some Pooles in the story that eventually won't be called "The She-Wolves of Winterfell"!), which likewise limits how much we can guess at how highly (or not) the Pooles have succeeded in any marital ambitions they may have ever had. On top of all of this, moreover, is our lack of insight into Vayon's ambitions for his daughter (much less Jeyne's own feelings, again beyond that childhood crush on Beric Dondarrion); we don't have any sense of how Vayon might have viewed the issue of Jeyne's marriage, or if he was considering who might be on a short-list, so to speak, for his daughter.

What might also inform this calculus is the nature of the Pooles as a family in the North generally and Winterfell specifically. There is virtually no proof of the Pooles serving as hereditary stewards of Winterfell, but that is a headcanon I nevertheless enjoy (in part because this explanation might fit with the blue plate on their arms, in part because the blue and white coloring of the Poole sigil reminds me of the Stewarts (later Stuarts) who became the High Stewards of Scotland, and in part because the close-knit, protective nature of the Starks' rulership might have encouraged such long-term family service at the heart of Winterfell). While Jeyne herself would not, presumably, have ever served as steward of Winterfell herself, Jeyne's eventual husband might have had an argument to succeed her father, so to speak, as Winterfell's steward (especially as Jeyne seems to have no brothers or indeed any other family around). For a minor northern noble, without hope of lands or a castle of his own, the position of steward of Wnterfell might have been an attractive proposition: management of the most important seat in the entire North, as well as incomparable access to the Starks (even perhaps representing them, should the need arise). That doesn't mean that Jeyne was going to marry, say, a Karstark or Manderly, but it does mean that a somewhat lower-ranking aristocrat (but still, perhaps, somewhat higher in birth than Jeyne) with eyes on intra-northern ambitions might have thought about marriage to Jeyne in order to be considered as a sort of natural successor to Vayon.

So, could I see Jeyne in another timeline marrying, say, Jory Cassel - the similarly aristocratic, similarly apparently landless, possibly similarly scion of hereditary officers of Winterfell? Maybe. (As I mentioned before, though, I would certainly hope in such a scenario that Jeyne would be both fully an adult and personally desirous of such a marriage, given the somewhat sizable age gap between her and Jory.) Could I see Jeyne in another timeline marrying, say, the similarly aged Beren Tallhart - the scion of a close but non-lordly vassal of the Starks, himself a second son from a junior branch with presumably little in the way of promised familial ambitions? Perhaps. These are just two concrete examples, of course, and any given fic writer might be able to come up with a different, equally plausible scenario for Jeyne's marriage in another timeline.

(It might be easier to speculate on this matter if we knew literally anything about Jeyne's own mother - but nope, neither Jeyne nor Vayon nor anyone else even hints at her existence, much less identity; Jeyne might as well be the the product of some patrilineal parthenogenesis so far as the story cares about the presumably late Lady Poole. Yet another symptom of GRRM's apparent reluctance to write female friendships and often limited attention to wives and mothers in comparison with their husbands. "Lady Poole, she died", I suppose.)

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