Louis liked and commented on Andrew Cushin’s post announcing his debut album.
Andrew Cushin has opened concerts for FITFWT in North America and Europe, and Louis is supporting the release of his album from Peter Doherty’s Strap Originals label.
Started this yesterday, finished today. WIP with no end in sight.
Different take on Shen Yuan‘s self worth issues.
9/10, highly recommend if you can handle the angst.
Chapters: 68/?
Fandom: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Luò Bīnghé/Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū, Shěn Jiǔ | Original Shěn Qīngqiū & Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū, Mù Qīngfāng & Shěn Jiǔ | Original Shěn Qīngqiū, Shàng Qīnghuá & Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū, Mòběi-jūn/Shàng Qīnghuá, Liǔ Qīnggē/Shěn Jiǔ | Original Shěn Qīngqiū, Shěn Jiǔ | Original Shěn Qīngqiū/Yuè Qīngyuán
Characters: Shěn Jiǔ | Original Shěn Qīngqiū, Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū, Yuè Qīngyuán, Mù Qīngfāng, Níng Yīngyīng, Míng Fān (Scum Villain), Luò Bīnghé, Liǔ Qīnggē, Shàng Qīnghuá, Qīng Jìng Peak Disciples, Qí Qīngqī, peak lord OCs - Character, Mòběi-jūn
Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied Childhood Sexual Abuse, Adoption, Slow Burn, Getting to Know Each Other, Oblivious Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū, Chronic Illness, Unreliable Narrator, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Shen Yuan's Terrible Self-Esteem, Eating Disorders, Slavery, Parental Shěn Jiǔ | Original Shěn Qīngqiū, Panic Attacks, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Child Abuse, Hurt/Comfort, The canon is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules, Family Feels, Everyone is going to learn self care if it kills them, Bodyswap, Implied/Referenced Torture, Coma, Abandonment Issues, Second-Hand Embarrassment, Misunderstandings, Awkward Romance, System Reveal (Scum Villain)
Summary:
Shen Yuan has been dealt a rough hand at the beginning of his life. Then he gets sort of adopted by Shen Qingqiu, who desperately needs someone to help smooth out his interpersonal relationships. Thankfully, Shen Yuan is awesome at understanding people and what they want!
Shen Qingqiu can't decide if he regrets claiming this chaos gremlin as his own or not, but now that Shen Yuan is here, he's never letting him go. He'll have to be pried out of Shen Qingqiu's cold, dead fingers first.
Meanwhile, Luo Binghe is just caught up in the wake of both of them and trying not to be dragged under.
(Or, a drama of errors with comedic moments, exploring the growing relationship between an unforgiving misanthrope with serious issues and a traumatized kid that just wants to teach him what family means (and maybe learn it, himself))
Gurudev Paramahansa Yogananda says that beholding the third eye doesn’t come easily. He says that the third eye is the spiritual portal. He says that it lies somewhere in between the eyebrows. He says that to behold it, one has to steady one’s gaze.
I haven’t come that far in my practice. I am blessed enough to experience Peace every time I meditate. However, Peace hasn’t undone all traces of restlessness behind closed eyes. That’s why in addition to the blessing of Peace, I have been blessed with the meditational phenomenon of perceiving sounds.
Meditational sounds are vibrationless. These aren’t real sounds. These are certain selected brain cells that provide a real perception of sound during deep meditation. Collected life energies in the brain during meditation find their way to sound related brain cells. During last night’s meditation, the phenomenon began late.
It must have been more than 50 minutes later into the session that I perceived percussion sounds. I have been ‘hearing’ clicks, clacks, ticks and flicks since June. Last night, I wondered if the purely perceived sounds were disturbing the only other person in the room! It was that real and felt that close.
After the session, I knew that it had been yet another session in a long streak of no-growth sessions. No evidence of a new depth of mind in yet another session in a row. Sigh. The temptation of blaming it on the immediate external environment was strong. However, I know that my immediate environment doesn’t come in the way of me experiencing Peace.
Right before I sat down to write this blog update, I felt differently. It is likely that I am supposed to build on my meditational durations in this phase of my practice. Maybe I am not supposed to add many short meditations through any given day but add many minutes of Peace through each session, even if it is just one long bedtime session daily.
Greater Peace is probably a requirement to steady the gaze behind shut eyes. May I have the patience to undo all residual restlessness with the help of Peace. May I have the strength to persevere through such a spiritual goal.
I haven’t read that much Apollo/Percy fics or Icarus fics to know if the twist is common, but this is what I’d like to see more in Greek mythology based fiction. Give some new, deeper meaning for the choises people make.
10/10. Read it and weep.
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Apollo/Percy Jackson, Apollo/Icarus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Characters: Percy Jackson, Apollo (Percy Jackson), Daedalus (Percy Jackson), Icarus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Poseidon (Percy Jackson), Luke Castellan, Artemis (Percy Jackson), Thalia Grace, Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), Sally Jackson (Percy Jackson), Dionysus (Percy Jackson), Ariadne (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Chiron (Percy Jackson), Pasiphae (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Jason Grace, reincarnation - Character
Additional Tags: Reincarnation, References to Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Inspired by The Fall of Icarus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Percy Jackson Needs a Hug, Slow Burn, Time Skips, Annabeth Chase & Percy Jackson Friendship, Protective Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), Poseidon (Percy Jackson) is a Good Parent, gods being gods, Angst, Title from a The Amazing Devil Song, Non-Linear Narrative, Ambiguous/Open Ending
Series: Part 9 of Percy + Apollo
Summary:
"I'm looking for books about Greek mythology," Percy told the librarian. "About a boy who fell out of the sky."
"That would be Icarus, dear," she said. "He accidentally flew too close to the sun and paid the ultimate price. It's a fascinating myth, if sad. He fell into the sea and drowned."
Percy bit his tongue to stop himself from crying out. He could remember someone calling him by that name, long ago. Someone who had loved him beyond measure. He could hear the roaring of a monster and furious shouting, could see a young woman with sad eyes and a hero holding a ball of twine in one hand and a sword in the other. He saw the golden man again. His eyes bore into Percy's very soul, tearing him apart and leaving him bare.
Icarus hadn't accidentally flown too close to the sun, Percy suddenly knew. He'd wanted to burn, wanted to fly. He'd wanted to fall.
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Or, in another life, Percy was Icarus, the boy who flew too close to the sun. Apollo is still the same.
Lol, asi jsem rozklíčovala, proč je na mě onen kolega tak moc nasranej. Pravidlo č.1: Všichni homofobové jsou gay as shit. Občas má různý teplý vtípky a narážky. Ok, dejme tomu. Když na mě mluvil, dával mi ruku na rameno. To vlastně dělá spousta lidí, jinak moc nevnímám. Dobrý, některý lidi jsou krapet kontaktnější, ale někdy za mnou přišel zezadu a chytil mě za bok nebo pohladil na břiše. Podotýkám, že v práci jedu boymode, takže wtf? To je teplý ne? Já nevim, jsem bi/fin, tak mám ty hranice trochu rozmazaný, ale nikdy jsem chlapa zezadu nepohladila po břiše. Navíc mi to taky nebylo úplně příjemný, ale bylo mi blbý se ozvat. Břicho a boky jsou prostě no-no... u kohokoliv.