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I love me a pseudo-historical arranged marriage au but it always nudges my suspension of disbelief when the author has to dance around the implicit expectation that an arranged marriage should lead to children, which a cis gay couple can't provide.

I know for a lot of people that's irrelevant to what they want from an Arranged Marriage plot, but personally I like playing in the weird and uncomfortable implications.

So, I've been thinking about how you would justify an obviously barren marriage in That Kind of fantasy world, and I thought it'd be interesting if gay marriage in Ye Old Fantasy Land was a form of soft disinheritance/abdication.

Like, "Oh, God, I don't want to be in this position of power please just find me a boy to marry", or, "I know you should inherit after you father passes but as your stepmother/legal guardian I think it'd make more sense if my kids got everything, so maybe consider lesbianism?", or "Look, we both know neither of our families has enough money to support that many grandkids, so let's just pair some spares and save both our treasuries the trouble".

Obviously this brings in some very different dynamics that I know not everyone would be pinged by, but I just think it'd be neat.

#writing prompts #stealing this for RPs and AUs oh yessss #arranged marriage #but GAY

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The prompt theme for January 2024 is a January of Firsts!

If you use this list, please tag me here @thepromptfoundry, I’d love to see your writing and art!

Feel free to combine different days' prompts with each other, or combine them with other seasonal events! Use your OCs, your favorite characters from media, whatever tickles your fancy.

Respond to as many prompts as you want or as interest you, don’t worry about missing or skipping any. Remember, this is supposed to be fun!

Plain text list below the cut:

1) First impression 2) First step in a journey 3) First snow 4) First blood 5) First fitting 6) First gift 7) First take 8) First touch 9) First day at work or school 10) First chair 11) First love 12) First loss 13) First meeting 14) First star 15) First cut 16) First look into the unknown 17) First kiss 18) First point 19) First class 20) First time on their own 21) First choice 22) First in line 23) First word 24) First draft 25) First spark 26) First runner up 27) First base 28) First aid 29) First born 30) First taste 31) First night

#writing prompts

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And 25% of them would resort immediately to violence.

disaster

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When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

#star trek #nerrrrd

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They're listening to Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol.

Prompt #1241

As they laid together on the floor, music playing softly into the earbuds they shared, she asked, “What if the world ended right now?”

The other girl sunk into the calm lethargy of the late afternoon. “I wouldn’t mind,” she finally said. “Because I’m with you.”

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Red Flags In A Player

They fucking suck

#mood #rpg

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Man, this is such a complicated question.

My answer would be "Watch everything put out before the reboot movies, in the order in which it was released. Be aware that Voyager is actually pretty bad and Enterprise barely counts. Don't bother with the rest, except maybe Picard if you want a TNG Greatest Hits."

I have to add as an aside that Strange New Worlds makes me legit mad, in almost exactly the same way as the reboot movies. It's just all the... pandering. "Hey I heard you like Spock, so here is a bunch of him in almost exactly the same dynamic you love but with someone else! Hey I heard you like Kirks, so here's a brother! Hey I heard you like Uhura, so here she is, as a cadet, for some reason! Hey, you remember Nurse Chapel from TOS? Well guess what! She was doing the exact same job ten years earlier, but cooler!"

Ahem. Sorry.

But anyway, that suggestion really hinges on your tolerance for old media. Can you enjoy TV shows from the '60s, and how different they are in intention from today? Because TOS was very much The Kirk Show Also Starring Spock, McCoy, and Some Other People That Have Lines. Can you sit through some cheesy and occasionally boring movies? How about the cheesy drama of '90s longrunning shows where the writers and FX occasionally did not try hard enough?

I make Star Trek sound awful. I love it. But I don't know if a new viewer would love it the same way, and I cannot judge anything after Enterprise on its own merits as TV because I am so tied up in my opinions of the previous stuff.

Sooo

Today my brain went "I want to watch Star Trek"

An idea I quite liked

Which led me to want to ask Star Trek fans/people in the fandom in what order to watch the series and/or movies, or at least where to start?

And I thought this the best place to go and throw my question out into the wild

So far I've watched 2 episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, because that's what Google suggested, but another website showed me the chronological order.

Anywho, would anyone be so nice as to give me some pointers/starters for Star Trek? :)

Thank you in advance :))

#i have opinions #star trek

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my femme girlfriend: [hour and a half later] ok I’m ready to leave the house

me: [throwing on shorts and a tank top] okay baby i love you and you look so pretty

#heart emoji

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And lo, the savior is born. Now that all of the pieces are assembled, I call forth... EXODIA!

The angel said to the Virgin Mother, "Rejoice, for soon you shall give birth to the left leg of the Savior."

"Left leg?"

"His divine essence is far too powerful to be contained in its entirety within only one womb, so different parts of him have to gestate in several different wombs. There are seven other virgin mothers spread out across the land, and you must journey far and wide through the world to find them and assemble the Savior once his component parts are born."

­This kind of feels like an RPG idea that was accidentally submitted from a parallel universe where Christiantiy is a weird obscure religion and people are making weird appropriative RPG campaigns based on it.

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Writing Resources: Smut

Writing Resources Masterlist

Fictional Kisses

How to write a kiss

How to write a kiss scene

How to Write Better Smut

How to write romance

List of vocal sounds for smut

More smut words

Quick tips for writing sexual tension

Sexual sentences

Words and phrases to include in sex scenes

Writing sexual tension

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How to write a kiss

Rebloggable version, as requested by davrosbro. :)

Oooh!  Yes!  I love kisses.  Kisses are where it all starts ;).

Okay, first, remember that a kiss is much, much more than just lips.  It is lips, but also tongues, teeth, eyes, faces, hands, noses, bodies, heartbeats,  breath, voice- and most importantly, a kiss is emotions.  A kiss without emotion is just wet mushy lips stuck together.  Ew.  Gross.  The most important part of a kiss isn’t the how, but the who- because of the emotions between the two people.

Okay so:

lips- Lips can slide, glide over each other smoothly, or they can be chapped and rough and dry and get stuck on each other.  They can match, top-to-top and bottom-to-bottom, or they can overlap, with one person’s top or bottom lip captured between the other person’s lips (yummy).  If there is lipstick or chapstick there is lipstick or chapstick flavor, otherwise, lips don’t have a taste (can you taste yours?).  Lips also can smack- the sound of two of them coming together or pulling apart, because they’re wet and warm and soft.

tongue- Tongues are always wet, and always warm.  They’re very versatile.  They can trace over lips, teeth, or another tongue.  They can be smooth and graceful or teasing and flicking.  When tongues are involved, there is drool.  It’s only sexy when you like the person you’re kissing, or else it’s kinda gross. :P

teeth- teeth can clack together awkwardly, or teeth can bite down sensually.  A person biting their own lip is cute, a person biting another’s lips is sexy.  A person biting gently is sensual, a person biting roughly is sexual.

eyes- Eyes can be wide open with surprise, half-lidded with desire, fully closed with pleasure.  Eyes can gaze lovingly, lustfully, wistfully, hungrily, seductively- it all depends upon the emotions of your characters.  Have them do whatever you like, but don’t leave them out- give them at least a mention!

faces- Faces are what the lips are attached to.  Noses bump, cheeks flush, ears turn red, foreheads either wrinkle or relax.  Kisses can leave lips, quite easily, and become kisses on chins, cheeks, noses, foreheads, ears, necks, throats.  Kisses on noses or foreheads are cute and adorable, kisses on cheeks are sweet, kisses on chins, ears, and throats are very sexual.  And a kiss on the lips can be all of those! <3

hands- Hands are super-important.  In order to describe a kiss, usually you want to also describe the hands.  Where are they?  Does one character have their hand behind the other’s head or back, holding them close?  Are they on someone’s shoulders pulling them near, or pushing them away?  Fingers brushing someone’s cheek or palms grabbing someone’s ass convey two very different kinds of situations, even if the kiss itself is exactly the same.

noses- Noses are annoying.  They easily get in the way, especially for first kisses!  People have to tilt their head to one side or the other, and if they don’t, noses bump.  I’d only mention noses if a kiss is supposed to be awkward or uncertain or nervous.

bodies- bodies are either close together, or far away.  Someone can be surrounded comfortingly by someone’s arms, or terrifyingly trapped by them.  Bodies are warm or hot, they are calm or nervous, relaxed or tense.  Body language says a lot.  Is your character pulling away, or moving closer?

heartbeat- Hearts can beat fast or slow, and that’s about all they can do- but there are lots of reasons why they do!  A heart can beat fast with fear or excitement or nervousness; a heart can pound with lust or race with terror or sing with joy.  Hearts can glow, cower, or shatter.  When you really want to drive the emotions of a character home, mention the heart.

breath- To me, the most consuming part of a kiss is the breath.  The air that someone else has just breathed going deep into your lungs is very intimate.  Lips and tongues don’t have a taste, but breath does.  Each person’s breath tastes different, smells different, and surrounds a person differently than anyone else’s breath.  Breath can be warm and sweet, breath can be hot and sexy, breath can be hot and frightening.  It is something that is very present and should not be left out.  A lot of writers leave breath out.  And it’s so important; it’s the most intimate part of a kiss.  Someone else is breathing into your lungs, and it’s either heaven or it’s hell.

voice- Voice conveys much, even without words.  A voice can groan, whimper, gasp, moan, catch, whine, scream, sigh.  Voice can convey emotion powerfully, and while some kisses are silent, usually they’re not.

emotion-  Emotion is the most important- and the thing you try not to say.  You want to describe it, through all of the things above, so that it’s perfectly clear what your characters are feeling, without you ever using the “feelings words”.  If they’re in love, their bodies will lean close, their eyes will smile, their voices will giggle softly.  If they’re nervous, their palms will sweat, their noses will bump, their voices will shudder.  If they’re afraid, their muscles will be tense, their faces will grimace, their lips will not open.  Emotion is the color that you keep inside your mind as you write; it’s the base line that drives the description behind everything else you say.

Wow, that was a lot!  Gosh I hope it wasn’t too much!  Keep in mind not every kiss has all these things- this is just a list of things to consider when writing a kiss, and based on how long of a kiss you want to make.  Keep in mind that typing “they kissed for a long time”…that’s six words, it takes half a second to read, so that’s a short kiss!  If you want a long kiss, you need long sentences that make the reader linger.

So maybe to start off, pick three things on the list to describe in your first kiss.  Don’t try to do it all- that would be too much for even the most epic kiss.  Just pick what’s most important to this particular scene, to these particular characters, and describe those parts along with the lips, and you’ve got yourself an awesome, emotional kiss. <3

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Fear my magic hands!

For six seconds...

Wait, what do you mean I wasted my round already? Talking is a free action!

Dang it...

Trick or treat!

d100 (16) & d10 (10)

If you touch a stone or metal object in the next round it melts

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I’m loving Season 2 so far!

#loki #art

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off topic but I'm really getting annoyed right now because Harry Potter is really hard to write because he doesn't have a fucking personality just ffs give me literally anything to grab onto to write around besides "tries to do the right thing" and "can be pretty impulsive" because that is just the completely blank base model of shounen protagonist and I seriously feel like it's easier to write both Crabbe and Goyle than this cardboard main character ARGH

#harry potter #facts

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Happy Ace Week!!! 🖤🤍💜

#just asexual things #art

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Prompt #1216

The Blade of the Chosen should have burned them. It should have sliced right through their body more easily than a hot knife through butter. But in the hero’s hand, it hovered just an inch from their heart.

“What dark magic is this, Demon King?” the hero growled. “An illusion?”

The Demon King, on their knees, could not respond. Countless defensive enchantments had torn through their throat over the course of the battle. Even breathing brought the taste of blood to their tongue.

All they could do was stare at the blade that didn’t pierce their body.

The hero dropped the sword as if it burned him.

#writing prompts #antivillain anyone