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kimmiessimmies · 5 days
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Bestseller (21/26)
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Before the end of April, the story was done. Even though Morgan felt she could have written two hundred pages more, she had agreed to write a short story for The Rainbow Alliance first. However, before she shared her work with Lindy, the first person who got to read it was, of course, Joshua.
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Joshua quietly read the pages Morgan had given him.
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She tried to give him all the time he needed to read as she kept tidying up around the house.
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Eventually, Joshua lowered the pages and stared at Morgan through teary eyes. "This... this is me..," he said softly.
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newestcool · 16 days
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Maison Margiela s/s 2008 rtw ''Wild Horses Strapless Dress'' Creative Director Martin Margiela Photographer Marcio Madeira Newest Cool
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Sweet old Barney, sitting with the daffodils at the park. He’s been posing with flowers every spring for 15 years now! This one is the earliest I could find - from May 2008 :) 
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kil9 · 1 year
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not taemin giving our parasocial relationship backstory and lore 💀💀💀
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chicinsilk · 1 year
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Marc Bohan for Christian Dior Spring/Summer 1963 Haute Couture Collection. On February 8 in the Dior salons, Muriel paraded in the Rosine evening dress. Getty / Images.
Marc Bohan pour Christian Dior Collection Haute Couture Printemps / Été 1963. Le 08 février dans les salons de la maison Dior, Muriel défile dans le robe du soir Rosine. Getty/Images.
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This came to me in the shower, you're welcome.
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euphonyanimescreens · 2 years
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Spy x Family - 2022
スパイファミリ
- Episode 08
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Pokémon A Day - Marill (#183)
I finally drew Marill. The Pokémon Vacation animated short disproportionately affected my opinion on it, haha. 
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purplealmonds · 8 months
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My entry for the banner art contest for the Technoblade Discord server, inspired by a parenting story Technodad shared on Reddit.
More ramblings about process below the cut!
I didn't have time to document much of my process, so I'll be dropping bits of trivia as they come to me.
The contest announcement dropped 08/08, and for a few days I thought I was gonna skip out on it because I couldn't think of a decent idea. But then inspiration struck when I rewatched Tonko House's The Dam Keeper short. I also recalled Technodad's sweet parenting story, so I decided to mash the two ideas together for my entry.
Most of the time spent on this piece was on the 3D modeling in SketchUp! I started modeling on 08/11, and had several false starts before settling on the final build on 08/18. Technodad mentioned in his story that his family lived in a condo in San Francisco, so I referenced the more iconic architecture of the location's residential areas. He probably lives in more modern housing, but I'm a sucker for the old-fashioned aesthetic. Artistic-liberty!
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The theme of the banner art contest was "autumn", so I roughly blocked in the location of two trees which I would paint in autumnal colors. The street lamps were recycled from another banner contest I entered around 2020 for the CrankGameplays server themed after "spring" - I think it's fitting that it's reused in another seasonal-themed contest. Everything else was modeled from scratch!
I wish I documented more of my painting process, but all of the painting was done in a span of 1.5 days while I was recovering from a bug. Normally I'd take at least a week to finesse things, but I was in a rush. I needed to submit my entry before the deadline so there was ample time for upvotes, and I also had a commission I needed to wrap up before next month. I get restless when I have more than one project on my plate, especially when both are time-sensitive!
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kimmiessimmies · 16 days
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Wistfulness (34/34)
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“No, it’s okay,” James said, “I appreciate the intention…” He sighed, “I would love to hang out some more, but I need to get back before people start looking for me. It was good to meet you. And thank you for being such great company for my grandmother.”
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“Oh, the pleasure was all mine. And it was good to meet you, too. I’m going to stay here a little longer if you don’t mind.”
“No, please do,” James said. “Bye, Dante.”
“Bye, James.”
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- I really miss you, my girl…
*delete*
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chrancecriber · 1 year
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Anthony Mea - Yesterday (Original Mix)
I can't believe the year has passed Seems like yesterday was that day
I can't believe the year has passed Seems like yesterday was that day
I can't believe the year has passed Seems like yesterday was that day
I can't believe the year has passed Seems like yesterday was that day
I can't believe the year has passed Seems like yesterday was that day
I can't believe the year has passed Seems like yesterday was that day
I can't believe the year has passed Seems like yesterday was that day
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An Epic antitrust loss for Google
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A jury just found Google guilty on all counts of antitrust violations stemming from its dispute with Epic, maker of Fortnite, which brought a variety of claims related to how Google runs its app marketplace. This is huge:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/technology/epic-games-google-antitrust-ruling.html
The mobile app store world is a duopoly run by Google and Apple. Both use a variety of tactics to prevent their customers from installing third party app stores, which funnels all app makers into their own app stores. Those app stores cream an eye-popping 30% off every purchase made in an app.
This is a shocking amount to charge for payment processing. The payments sector is incredibly monopolized and notorious for its price-gouging – and its standard (wildly inflated) rate is 2-5%:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/04/owning-the-libs/#swiper-no-swiping
Now, in theory, Epic doesn't have to sell in Google Play, the official Android app store. Unlike Apple's iOS, Android permit both sideloading (installing an app directly without using an app store) and configuring your device to use a different app store. In practice, Google uses a variety of anticompetitive tricks to prevent these app stores from springing up and to dissuade Android users from sideloading. Proving that Google's actions – like paying Activision $360m as part of "Project Hug" (no, really!) – were intended to prevent new app storesfrom springing up was a big lift for Epic. But they managed it, in large part thanks to Google's own internal communications, wherein executives admitted that this was exactly why Project Hug existed. This is part of a pattern with Big Tech antitrust: many of the charges are theoretically very hard to make stick, but because the companies put their evil plans in writing (think of the fraudulent crypto exchange FTX, whose top execs all conferred in a groupchat called "Wirefraud"), Big Tech keeps losing in court:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/03/big-tech-cant-stop-telling-on-itself/
Now, I do like to dunk on Big Tech for this kind of thing, because it's objectively funny and because the companies make so many unforced errors. But in an important sense, this kind of written record is impossible to avoid. Any large institution can only make and enact policy through administrative systems, and those systems leave behind a paper-trail: memos, meeting minutes, etc. Yes, we all know that quote from The Wire: "Is you taking notes on a fucking criminal conspiracy?" But inevitably, any ambitious conspiracy can only exist if someone is taking notes.
What's more, any large conspiracy involving lots of parties will inevitably produce leaks. Think of this as the corollary to the idea that the moon landing can't be a hoax, because there's no way 400,000 co-conspirators could keep the secret. Big Tech's conspiracies required hundreds or even thousands of collaborators to keep their mouths shut, and eventually someone blabs:
https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-moon-landing-you-d-need-400000-conspirators
This is part of a wave of antitrust cases being brought against the tech giants. As Matt Stoller writes, the guilty-on-all-counts jury verdict will leak into current and future actions. Remember, Google spent much of this year in court fighting the DoJ, who argued that the company bribed Apple not to make a competing search engine, paying tens of billions every year to keep a competitor from emerging. Now that a jury has convinced Google of doing that to prevent alternative app stores from emerging, claims that it used these pay-for-delay tactics in other sectros get a lot more credible:
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-google-loses-antitrust-case
On that note: what about Apple? Epic brought a very similar case against Apple and lost. Both Apple and Epic are appealing that case to the Supreme Court, and now that Google has been convicted in a similar case, it might prompt the Supremes to weigh in and resolve the seeming inconsistencies in the interpretation of federal law.
This is a key moment in the long project to wrest antitrust away from the pro-monopoly side, who spent decades "training" judges to produce verdicts that run counter to the plain language of America's antitrust law:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/post-bork-era/#manne-down
There's 40 years' worth of bad precedent to overturn. The good news is that we've got the law on our side. Literally, the wording of the laws and the records of the Congressional debate leading to their passage, all militate towards the (incredibly obvious) conclusion that the purpose of anti-monopoly law is to fight monopoly, not defend it:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/14/aiming-at-dollars/#not-men
It's amazing to realize that we got into this monopoly quagmire because judges just literally refused to enforce the law. That's what makes one part of the jury verdict against Google so exciting: the jury found that Google's insistence that Play Store sellers use its payment processor was an act of illegal tying. Today, "tying" is an obscure legal theory, but few doctrines would be more useful in disenshittifying the internet. A company is guilty of illegal tying when it forces you to use unrelated products or services as a condition of using the product you actually want. The abandonment of tying led to a host of horribles, from printer companies forcing you to buy ink at $10,000/gallon to Livenation forcing venues to sell tickets through its Ticketmaster subsidiary.
The next phase of this comes when the judge decides on the penalty. Epic doesn't want cash damages – it wants the judge to order Google to fulfill its promise of "an open, competitive Android ecosystem for all users and industry participants." They've asked the judge to order Google to facilitate third-party app stores, and to separate app stores from payment processors. As Stoller puts it, they want to "crush Google’s control over Android":
https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/epic-v-google-trial-verdict-a-win-for-all-developers
Google has sworn to appeal, surprising no one. The Times's expert says that they will have a tough time winning, given how clear the verdict was. Whatever this means for Google and Android, it means a lot for a future free from monopolies.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/12/im-feeling-lucky/#hugger-mugger
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enkvyu · 10 months
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two-faced — jjk smau
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in which gojo pisses off a famous streamer (you 🫵) for funsies and unleashes a legion of loyal fans who want him dragged, doxxed, or dead. fortunately for him, you have your own secrets that you’ll take to the grave, perfect for him to take advantage of. when the two of you meet, an unlikely love story for the ages blossoms aka a lighthearted smau abt gojo n the gang!!
pairings: gojo x f!reader
genres: social media au (smau), crack, fluff, strangers to enemies (?) to lovers
warnings: profanities, dark humour, sexual jokes, mentions of death and suicide, very stupid jokes don’t take anything too seriously!! ignore timestamps. will contain jokes / references from the manga !! you will be warned of spoilers on the posts that have them 🤍
this is my first smau so if it’s not funny i Apologise 😨 just for the shits n giggles !! upload schedule will probably be based on how well this is received 🤍 note all characters are in uni (ages 18-20)
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01: hit tweet this, hit tweet that, why don’t you hit the gym?
02: hot girls pay the government 2 b a citizen
03: nanami’s right titty tingle
04: What Ever Major Loser
05: let him in, LET HIM IN
06: it’s “save the turtles” until i drink boba with my hands
07: silence of the lambs
08: god giving me my greatest obstacle and it’s a man
09: would u still love me if i was a chip floating around in ur stomach?
10: deny that instead
11: twitching eyes and clenched fists
12: getou’s bang grease
13: spring loaded penis bomb
14: first date options and gojo picks spit boba (it works?!)
15: lactose intolerance, biggest killer since cancer
16: unknown mysterious reason unravelled
17: i wish i could have at least (1)
18: beautiful princess disorder
19: GOGOGOJO GONE !
20: tba
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wishmemel · 2 months
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cherry blossom springs, ft. fushiguro megumi
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synopsis: megumi's oblivious to a lot of things. he's just never seen or lived. not really, not like you do. the sky is blue, the grass is green, and you’re sunshine. but what is he supposed to do with that and when did he get so lucky to be able to call you his? tags: megumi x f! reader, non-curse au, megumi’s pov, established relationship, fluff, characters are in uni (2nd year?) but have known each other since high school, sanrio lover! reader as always, reader is a spring baby cw: i don't think there's any! wc. almost 1.2k posted: 08/03/24 a/n: i've had this in my drafts forever, just felt iffy posting it since the word count is so low and it doesn't exactly come off as a story :(( but then i thought it was too poetic not to and it'd be a shame if no one else saw megumi the way i do so enjoy!!
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Your pinky is interlaced with Megumi’s and even though you’re here—at your class, where you’re supposed to be—he’s reluctant to let go.
He’s only just found you, how is he supposed to let go so soon?
The two of you pause outside the door, locking eyes with each other shyly.
Megumi’s gaze softens, his tone hesitant and cautious, as if he’s still afraid that you’ll turn tail and reject him. “You’re… you’re my girlfriend, right?”
You blink at him, then giggle a little in response at his insecure question. “Duh, of course. What, you want a kiss to make sure?”
He’s already protesting, eyes wide, ears red, but you plant a quick kiss on his cheek before he can say anything, and he just watches, dumbstruck, as you wave goodbye at him, still giggling to yourself, before heading inside the classroom.
He blinks, dazed, and wipes his cheek, staring at the pink lipstick smeared on his fingers with a stupid smile.
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You chatter off about your classes and he nods, pretending to listen while he’s captivated by the sight of your lit eyes and your bright smile. The high pitch of your excited voice is music to his ears and he's convinced he must’ve been unable to hear before he met you.
It’s like seeing love take form in a person. He can’t help but be drawn to you, and, more than that, he’s still dazed, head spinning from trying to wrap itself around the mere idea that you were his and he was yours.
He can call you his girlfriend now. He can talk about you all he wants without feeling guilty or self-conscious about the idea. He can hold your hand like this in public, your thumb softly stroking against the back of his hand in ways that make his heart race. He can stare at you like this for hours, enchanted by what you’re saying and not have you question him because you’re his girlfriend and he can look and no one’s going to stop him.
Is this what love is?
He can never tear his eyes off of you—things that should be embarrassing, he finds endearing. He has the urge to stare at you all the time and he’s always resisting the urge to reach out and touch you, even in small ways, even a little, like brushing the hair out of your eyes or making you pause so he can wipe away a stray eyelash. You have this way of keeping his face constantly hot and red—he’s always blushing and it’s so humiliating, but it feels like love.
He swears he can see little hearts floating next to your head when you speak to him, and it’s like all your words come out as music, lyrics that wrap around his head and go through his ears like some kind of alluring song he can never get enough of.
He sees Hello Kitty themed things and immediately thinks of you, wondering if you’d like a keychain that he spots on a student’s bag or some large sunglasses on another—all so ridiculous and shameless and so utterly you.
He finds it senseless how you don’t care about anyone else’s opinion, how you flaunt your style and your likes. He finds it ridiculous that he’s stopped caring the longer he’s with you too. But why look at anyone else, why think of anyone else, when you’re right there?
You’re his sun, the centre of his universe—life without you would go back to being dark and gloomy and unbearable.
You tap his shoulder. He flinches.
“Megumi,” you giggle enchantingly. “You’re not paying attention to me.”
Has he ever stopped?
“Come on, we’re going to miss our next class!”
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Spring brings with it cherry blossoms and it seems like you can’t get enough of the beautiful pink flowers that decorate every corner of campus.
You love spring for more reasons than one—it’s your favourite season and you love to see the blossoming flowers, always stopping in awe to point out each new bud to him with buzzing excitement. He finds it contagious, he can’t help the smile that twitches at the corners of his mouth.
When the two of you are apart and he’s missing you, he sends you pictures of the pink petals fluttering to the ground to remind you that he’s always thinking of you. You send him selfies of half your face in class, barely concealing the wide smile that you bear.
Before your dates, he plucks flowers from the courtyard of your university, late at night so he won’t be caught, and brings them home to colour coordinate into blooming bouquets tied with white ribbons. But when he shows up he never tells you where he brings the bouquets from and you never ask, though you must have noticed the coincidences.
Instead, you have on your brightest smile, this tender look in your eyes that says, for me? you did this for me? every time and it makes it so worth it that he forgets the bleeding palms and the thorn scratches and the hours he spent coming up with arrangements until his eyes started mixing up colours.
Spring brings with it your birthday and you haven’t said a word about it.
He’s sure you think nothing of the event—he wonders how you’ve spent it in earlier years—but he’s determined to make it everything you want, gaudy heart balloons, tacky surprise party, and all. Even if he hates such events. There’s nothing that isn’t worth sacrificing for you.
You're always giving—you insist on paying for his meals when the two of you go out together (though he never lets you), you're the one to initiate any physical contact between you and him, and it's because of you that the two of you are able to talk through your problems (because lord knows Megumi is the type to remain silent and ruminate over such things.) For once, he wants to take the first step, he wants to give you something that'll light up your face. More than just "seeing him smile" like you claim. Something satisfying and worthy. He's sure he'll come up with something in time for your special day.
Spring brings with it rain and it means, more often than not, that you two forget your umbrellas at home and have to run to classes on the other side of campus. Still, you’re always laughing beside him as he uses his jacket as a cover, and he finds his head whipping at the sight, trying to take you in as much as he can.
You see him staring. You laugh harder. You tell him to look ahead before he trips and falls.
He thinks it’s too late, but he’s afraid to say that out loud.
Spring brings with it blossoming, blooming love like the flowers you adore and the growing smile he can’t wipe off his face.
Under the cherry blossoms, Megumi thinks he could love you like this forever. This is his third spring loving you, but it can’t be his last. He wants to make sure this love continues forevermore.
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neteyamsyawntu · 4 months
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Kinkmas Day 08
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T a i l P l a y
Eetu x Na’vi!Reader
Warnings: 🔞MINORS DNI🔞, tail pulling, p in v, slight exhibition, teacher x student relationship ‼️Potential spoilers for Avatar:Frontiers of Pandora‼️
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Laughter and giggles sound through the Aranahe hometree as Eetu chases you up the winding roots. You had stolen his hunting bow just before one of your hunting lessons and playful as he was, Eetu of course decided to make it into a game. Whenever he’d get close enough to grab his bow back, he’d instead give your tail an assertive yank, taking pride in watching you jump at the action with a small yelp before fleeing again. 
You had no sense of direction, only going wherever your feet carried you, that was until you had cornered yourself in the Kinglor nest inside hometree, mentally thanking Eywa that Etuwa was away on a raid. Taking panting breaths as you gazed around for an exit, a familiar deep laughter sounds behind you, “Is this anyway to treat your karyu, ma’numeyu?” He says with a wide smirk on his face, throwing his arms up in a show of dramatics, “And I thought I taught you better than to let yourself be cornered when in a chase.”. 
You reciprocate his smirk, turning around to face him with an intentional sway of your hips and a playful flick of your tail, “Then perhaps my karyu is not very good at his job.” You tease taking intentional steps as you walk closer to him, watching as his eyes follow your form with a pristine eye. A boastful laugh bursts from Eetu as he closes the distance between you, now sharing the same breath as he looks down at you, grabbing his hunting bow from you and dropping it to the side. Your eyes don’t leave his for a single moment and nor does the cocky smile fade from either of your lips, refusing to back down to either one’s attempt at intimidation. 
“Is that so? Should I teach ma’numeyu a lesson on respect?” With a low rumbling in his chest, Eetu turns you around forcefully, his hand quickly latching to your tail and pulling your backside into his front. You bite your lip, glancing at him over his shoulder as Eetu allows his free hand to gently caress at your thigh, his fingers dancing over the soft skin enticingly, “although you are a stubborn learner… it may take you a few lessons to truly understand.” He chuckles, pressing his lips against your ear as his hand wanders back up your thigh and up your waist, pulling you closer into him. 
At the feel of his loosening grip, your tail instinctively wraps around his thigh, emitting your body’s desire to be close to him, “And then there’s this pesky thing..” he coos a hot breath against your ear, shifting the leg your tail had claimed and pushing his thigh between your legs to spread them, his hand roaming up your back to coax you forward, pushing you face first into the soft incline of the elevated moss covered root before you. “Always such a tease… acting like a little brat just to get your way.”, “You act like you hate it.” You retort cheekily, eyeing him heatedly from over your shoulder. 
“I do… it gets me so frustrated to the point where I lose myself.” Eetu groans, replacing his thigh with his pelvis, grinding his hardened cock against the wet patch on your tewng. The pressure he was putting on your clothed folds makes your knees weak, your fingers fisting at the moss beneath you, releasing a straine mewl as you push back into him, “Then maybe you should hurry and get out your frustrations before Etuwa returns.”. A rough chuckle rumbles in Eetu’s throat as he wastes no time shoving your loincloth to the side before quickly moving to loosen the strings of his own. His fidgeting fingers fumbling over themselves to the point where his irritation boils over and he instead prompts to push the garment forcibly down his hips until it rests just above his knees, allowing his cock to spring free, slapping against your ass cheek.
The sensation of his wet tongue gliding up your shoulder blade has your sends a shiver down your spine, and then your jaw descends as you feel the bulk of his cockhead pushing past the resistance of your folds, the palm of his hand pressing against your mouth, muffling your gasp as he thrusts in, his lips latching onto the nape of your neck, allowing his canines to gently prod at your skin. Your tail tightens around his thigh as your body begins to buck with each of his thrusts, shamelessly moaning into his hand. “You’ll need to be quiet now, numeyu… we wouldn’t want anyone to interrupt us now would we?” He coos, making long and hard drags of his cock through your walls.  You can only nod helplessly into his hand as you melt at the feeling of being fucked dumb on his cock absorbs every coherent thought in your mind. “Good girl… now show your karyu just how much you love his cock.”.
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