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teenagedirtstache · 6 months
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cinder-no · 10 months
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Blackout, of the Lilin - Pony Town
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blackroseberry22 · 1 year
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Actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II & Girlfriend
stylist Jan-Michael Quammie @ Thom Browne NYFW
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newyorkthegoldenage · 1 month
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Lower Manhattan looked rather creepy during a 20-minute test blackout, March 25, 1942. The area covered by the blackout extended five square miles, from the Battery north to 14th Street. The lights at the bottom are boats in the East River and reflections in Brooklyn. The lights at the left are from the New Jersey shore, which didn't take part in the blackout.
Photo: Tom Fitzsimmons for the AP
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c10v3r · 1 year
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why r they like everything to me . whayt
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paulinedorchester · 4 months
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So my main takeaway from ACGAS s4e1 is that they're completely ignoring blackout regulations. Have you seen blackout curtains anywhere in Skeldale House? I haven't. In the scene where James and Helen are getting ready for bed, the curtains, which are transparent, are open and there's a lit lamp in the window.
PUT THAT LIGHT OUT!
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elektricangel · 6 months
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London Blitz blackout posters
National Archives: INF 3/290
Imperial War Museum: Art.IWM PST 15290
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oflgtfol · 2 years
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me and the 12 other people on last.fm who are still listening to the original 2012 release of this album prior to it being rebranded
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ryansbedroom · 2 years
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Profile Blackout for at least a month.
Our world is now in grieving as our majesty, Queen Elizabeth II has just passed away at the age of 96. So my blog will now be ‘blacked out’ for at least a month. Please pay your respects to our longest-running monarch.
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cinder-no · 9 months
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Blackout my beloved?!
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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years
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“Blackout Tips' Held Confusing,” Montreal Star. March 18, 1942. Page 10. --- Red Lights Dimmer Than Blue, Engineer Tells Convention --- EXAMPLES ARE GIVEN --- The myriads of suggestions from all sides as to what to do in regard to blackout procedure, have confused not only the public but the illuminating engineers, according to R. M. Robinson, of the Canadian General Electric Company, Limited, who this afternoon addressed the Second Canadian Regional Conference of the Illuminating Engineering Society at the Mount Royal Hotel.
Throughout his paper Mr. Robinson made frequent reference to colored lights, and he asserted that blue lights should not be used, even though many thought to the contrary and hundreds of thousands of blue lights had been sold in the last two months. Mr. Robinson said that a dimly lighted red area was normally detected by an observer only when his line of sight happened to pass within a degree or two. On the other hand, a dimly lighted blue area was seen over a very wide angle from the line of light. Furthermore, he pointed out, objects and luminous patterns on the street at distance of 20 feet or more could be brought into sharp focus by most observers with red illumination but not with blue. But even red illumination did not find favor so much as dim white light, and Mr. Robinson pointed out that in Britain dim auxiliary street lighting had been installed with very small 10-watt lamps.
COST NOT JUSTIFIED For Canada, however, he did not think the enormous cost of such auxiliary street lighting systems in the shape of materials, labor, power and electricity was not justified now, and complete extinction of street lights in a blackout was preferable to any scheme for dim light if raids were likely to be infrequent and only last for a short time.
Pointing out that blackouts did not bring immunity from bombing, Mr. Robinson said that they did conceal the pattern of streets and centres of activity and helped to prevent identification of particular areas, while they also would prevent haphazard bombardment, and every city or town within reach of enemy bombing planes must be able to enforce blackout measures not only for its own protection, but because lights might be indicative of other important areas. The speaker said that the disadvantages of extinguishing all power circuits by pulling general switches had proved, by experience to far outweigh the advantages of keeping them all energized.
DEPRESSING EFFECT He deprecated the permanent blacking out of windows in industrial plants as having a depressing effect and necessitating the use of considerable artificial illumination, and suggested other means of hoods and shields which would prevent light being seen from above, or the provision of wooden or material window covers in case of raids.
Mr. Robinson quoted what was being done in Vancouver and Halifax, and said that for motorists the number of lights allowed was limited, and these must be completely blacked out with the exceptional of a horizontal slit three inches in length and one quarter of an inch in width, the slit to be so located that he top of it shall be one inch below the centre of the headlight lens. Tail-lights must be completely blacked out with the exception of a circle one half inch in diameter which shall project light rays on as near a horizontal plane as possible.
IMPORTANCE STRESSED The great importance of good sight, to a nation at war, was emphasized this morning by Leo Roy, in a paper read to the technical session. "Men, money and material are three necessary factors in the pursuit of victory," Mr. Roy said, "but of the three, men are most important.
"There are three attributes that go together in making an efficient employe in any industry, namely his hands, mind and eyes. The control of two of these, the hands and mind, are within the control of the employe himself, but his eyes are largely the employer's responsibility.
LIGHTING IN HOME Also stressing the need of adequate lighting in the home, Mr. Roy pointed out that the worker comes home after work to relax and ease the strain of high tension working conditions. One of the relaxations is reading. Its purpose is defeated if the process demands an excess of nervous and muscular energy due to poor lighting conditions.
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blackroseberry22 · 2 years
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II & stylist/Girlfriend Jan-Michael Quammie 💕
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Cops attach a sign on their squad car to warn residents about a planned blackout, March 25, 1942. Five square miles of lower Manhattan, including the congested East Side, the financial district, Greenwich Village, and three East River bridges, went dark between 9 and 9:20 p.m.
Photo: Murray Becker for the AP via Shutterstock
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#OnlyOnOneNETnews: Central and Western Visayas facing both Yellow and Red Alerts including NORECOs I and II
(Prepared by Kimi Sparkle / Radyo Bandera Patrol #2 news reporter of OneNETnews)
DUMAGUETE, NEGROS ORIENTAL -- Around last Thursday night (April 27th, 2023 -- Dumaguete local time), a widespread power outage occurred in Central and Western Visayas, affecting thousands of homes and businesses. Outages lasting several hours were caused by power distribution problems, specifically between the red and yellow warning alerts.
One of the affected distribution utilities was the Negros Oriental Electric Cooperatives 1 & 2 (NORECO I & II), which was first posted on social media that it experienced multiple trippings and power interruptions due to the high demand for electricity during the excess searing summer heat. Other distribution utilities, such as Panay Electric Company (PECO) and Guimaras Electric Cooperative (GUIMELCO) have also reported various power outages in their service areas. Some areas experienced complete blackouts, while others had a partial power loss.
Social media users expressed their annoyance and concern about the prolonged blackout, which made the situation worse. Many other people in the Visayas region forcing to dissatisfaction with lack of communication from its authorities, and the slow critical response in all of electrical power companies.
Local media reports and newspaper outlets that the power outages was caused by the national grid's inability to handle a higher demand for electricity in every cooperative franchises. The Department of Energy (DOE) claims that the constrained power supply was also caused by power plants in the area producing shortages than projected. Despite the government's efforts to conserve and save electricity, certain parts of it remain grappling with power outages. Photos and videos that have gone viral online show businesses and residential homes with no power, and residents resorting to use candles and flashlights.
Many netizens have criticized the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) and other government agencies, saying they were not prepared for the blackout despite the DOE's warning.
Both regions have urged the Philippine government to act fast to address the problem and preventing it from happening all over again. In response, the NGCP released a statement highlighting that they have been working to address the aforesaid power outage and ensuring that the electrical companies can fully restore power to the affected areas. In addition, companies also assured the public that they are doing everything they can to prevent future blackouts, regardless of comparable weather conditions in the past seasons.
Alvin Elchico, who is a veteran journalist and weekend news anchor of TV Patrol; and Rose Marie Chris Dalaguit, who's also a former radio reporter of DYAB-TV's Teleradyo: Cebu that has criticized the government and power distributors for not doing more to prevent the said power outage. The extremist situation was a "brazen landslide flop" and urged Philippine President named Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr. to revoke all electrical franchises if the blackouts persists in the Visayas region continues.
As of this exclusive writing, there have been no official announcements from the government regarding both journalists' call to action. The DOE has yet to release an official report detailing the cause of the power outage and its impact on their affected areas.
In conclusion, the power outages and blackouts occurred in Central and Western Visayas, as part both the Red and Yellow alert levels caused significant inconvenience and discomfort to many residents, establishments and businesses in the region.
The incident highlights the importance of having a robust and reliable electricity network capable of meeting the demands of daily modern life, especially during periods of searing summer weather conditions for this season. It also underscores the need for greater transparency and accountability from the Philippine government and electricity distributors in addressing such crises.
STOCK PHOTO COURTESY: Google Maps & IStockPhoto BACKGROUND PROVIDED BY: Tegna
SOURCE: *https://www.facebook.com/308962935225/posts/10168022142525226 [Referenced FB Advisory Post via Visayan Electric Company] *https://www.facebook.com/100069147744919/posts/544162214565365 [Referenced FB Post #1 via NORECO I] *https://www.facebook.com/100069147744919/posts/544183294563257 [Referenced FB Post #2f via NORECO I] *https://www.facebook.com/100057610622491/posts/671685381428477 [Referenced FB Post #1 via NORECO II] *https://www.facebook.com/100057610622491/posts/671742418089440 [Referenced FB Post #2 via NORECO II] *https://www.facebook.com/100057610622491/posts/672309408032741 [Referenced FB Post #3 via NORECO II] *https://www.facebook.com/100057610622491/posts/672351298028552 [Referenced FB Post #4f via NORECO II] *https://www.facebook.com/105021682887684/posts/6316868231702967 [Referenced FB Post #1 via NGCP] *https://www.facebook.com/105021682887684/posts/6317170928339364 [Referenced FB Post #2 via NGCP] *https://www.facebook.com/105021682887684/posts/6317938054929318 [Referenced FB Post #3 via NGCP] *https://www.facebook.com/105021682887684/posts/6320197561370034 [Referenced FB Post #4 via NGCP] *https://www.facebook.com/105021682887684/posts/6320254894697634 [Referenced FB Post #5 via NGCP] *https://www.facebook.com/105021682887684/posts/6321200807936376 [Referenced FB Post #6 via NGCP] *https://www.facebook.com/105021682887684/posts/6322395121150278 [Referenced FB Post #7 via NGCP] *https://www.facebook.com/105021682887684/posts/6322694887786968 [Referenced FB Post #8 via NGCP] *https://www.facebook.com/105021682887684/posts/6324013477655109 [Referenced FB Post #9f via NGCP] *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXN2WMCIoes [Referenced YT Video via Catholic Media Network News] *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8czVFZAaeLY&t=2422 [Referenced Newscast Item via ABS-CBN News for Headline Pilipinas] *https://twitter.com/alvinelchico/status/1652175180930904064 [Referenced Twitter Captioned Photo via Alvin Elchico] *https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/341943/faces-of-cebu-rc-dalaguit-de-vela-radio-anchor-reporter [Referenced Biography via Cebu Daily News of Philippine Daily Inquirer] *https://visayandailystar.com/blackout-hits-negros-panay-guimaras/ [Referenced News Article via Visayan Daily Star] *https://mb.com.ph/2023/4/27/blackout-hits-western-visayas-amid-searing-heat [Referenced News Article via Manila Bulletin] *https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1959771 [Referenced News Article via SunStar Iloilo] *https://powerphilippines.com/bantay-sarado-doe-review-franchise-compliance-electric-cooperatives/ [Referenced News Article from Power Philippines] and *https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2001/ra_9136_2001.html
-- OneNETnews Team
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eisunoh · 2 years
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Thanks to another bout of The Great #Kolombong #Blackout 😡, tonight we are staying at the most #historic #boutique #hotel 🏨 in #KotaKinabalu | #Jesselton , where, among other #global luminaries, His #Holiness #Pope #Saint #JohnPaulII ✝️, #MuhammadAli 🥊 & Lady Edwina #Mountbatten once put up.
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theoldsports · 5 months
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Married | Part II
LINK TO PART ONE
Coriolanus Snow x Reader | 5.1K words
FILTHY SMUT 18+ ONLY. oral (m and f receiving), dubcon, alcohol makes consent messy, brutal sex, blackout drunk, bad media coverage, lingerie, exhibitionism (a little), they’re both terrible for each other in the best way possible, possessiveness <3 this one gets a bit dark.
Married, back by popular demand. hope it’s okay. i worked hard, i’m a bit nervous. let me know what you thought. requests always open.
“Not a villain,” Coriolanus scoffed. “A star.”
He inhaled and set his sights towards his next objective. Already leaning in, Coriolanus pulled [Y/N]’s earlobe between his lips tantalizingly. “Now, I seem to recall being promised a blowjob, my Darling.”
[Y/N] sighed. “I had hoped you’d forgotten.”
Coriolanus smirked, inches from her face. “I never forget a promise.” He muttered.
The driver pulled up in front of them with his car and Coriolanus pulled [Y/N] inside. [Y/N] put her head on Coriolanus’ shoulder instead of putting on her seatbelt for the short drive home. She was drunk enough not to care if she was touching him, or if he was touching her. Coriolanus was touching her. He was touching her too much already at her thighs and hips. The pair of them had already broken the touch barrier that evening, but her brain was too loopy to try to push any kind of new/old boundary.
[Y/N] blinked heavily. She was able to tell that Coriolanus was already becoming frustrated with the bulk of tulle that was her black gown. It was funny for an engagement party when she thought about it, since it stood in stark contrast to her crisp white wedding gown. Coriolanus couldn’t seem to figure out how to touch her right under all the fabric as he had then they were standing earlier.
“Is your wedding dress going to be easier to handle?” Coriolanus said into the back of her ear. “This one is starting to get on my nerves.”
“I can’t tell you that. You’re not ‘pposed to see it til you see it at the alter.” She giggled sadly.
Coriolanus frowned. “Ancient superstition,” he said. “I’m not seeing it anyway. You’d be telling me about it. It’s different.”
“Nice try.”
Coriolanus’ frown deepened as he rolled his icy blue ice. “May I ask you something else, then?”
“It depends.” [Y/N] said clearly. Too clearly, really. That was the problem with drunk people, they knew they were drunk, but they tried to prove to everyone around them that they weren’t.
Coriolanus laughed at her expense. She was behaving like a child. He found it equal parts charming and frustrating. “Have you ever given a blowjob before?” He asked too loudly for [Y/N]’s liking.
“Coriolanus!” She gasped, smacking his arm.
“I’m just asking! You don’t have to strike me. Haven’t we had enough of that for one night?”
[Y/N] hated Coriolanus. He made her blood boil. “What does it matter?” She growled.
“I was curious if you had offered because it was a matter of superior ability, or because that was the only thing you had to offer.”
“You’re calling me desperate!”
“I wasn’t specifically, but since we both agree that it’s true…”
“All this was shaping up to be halfway tolerable, and you open your big mouth again. Fuck you!”
“Yeah, I know. You fucking me is what I was aiming for. Yes or no on the blowjob thing? I was assuming you had, if it makes any difference.”
[Y/N] paused. She had given a blowjob. Quite a few, actually. They were very convenient for getting out of a bad situation fast. She didn’t answer. [Y/N] still didn’t have the courage to say that in front of the driver.
“You can say yes. I know you’re not a virgin.” Coriolanus said bluntly.
Coriolanus would know that. Prior to their engagement, it was true that [Y/N] had pulled Coriolanus in for a quick fuck at a University party. She was shocked that he implied he even remembered that for as drunk as she recalled him being. [Y/N] wondered if the two of them would only ever be able to love each other under the influence.
“Can this conversation wait a few moments, we’re almost home.” [Y/N] replied.
“You didn’t have much of a problem back at the party in front of damn near everyone that’s ever known you. Is one driver going to make a difference?”
“FINE!” [Y/N] snapped. “Fine. I have, I give a decent blowie. Happy?”
Coriolanus smiled an uncharacteristically wide grin. The driver coughed slightly and loosened his tie. [Y/N] would have been incredibly embarrassed if she had any dignity left. Coriolanus grinned even wider at his driver’s behavior. His new favorite pass time was seeing how far he was capable of pushing [Y/N] to do whatever he wanted. So far, so good. Her initial resistance before her moment of breaking and behaving even worse than himself is what made this all the more fun.
The driver pulled up in front of the steps to their city apartment. Coriolanus gathered [Y/N]’s long forgotten shoes from the car’s floor. The driver got out to open the door for [Y/N]. Ever the gentleman publicly, Coriolanus ran around the side of the car to get it faster. He helped his fiancée out of the car. A Herculean task when you consider the alcohol in her system and the weight of all the fabric in her ballgown. “Come on, Darling,” he said, yanking her somehow elegantly towards the stairs, “we have business to attend to.”
Coriolanus helped her up the stairs and into their apartment. It was easier than it had been on the way out in those deathtrap heels he had purchased her.
Faintly, [Y/N] heard the door snap shut behind her and the deadbolt click resolutely. She leaned up against the wall. Coriolanus left her field of vision for a moment. When he re-entered her sights, [Y/N] blinked up at him. “Hi.” She said.
Coriolanus smirked at her curiously. “Hello.” He replied.
“Don’t take this the wrong way,” [Y/N] started. She took a clumsy step towards Coriolanus and grabbed the lapels of his coat for support once she could reach him. “You’re quite pretty,” she said. Coriolanus began a laugh. “No! Don’t. Don’t do that. I mean, you’re a very attractive man. You are. Too bad that you’re—“
“Don’t finish that sentence,” Coriolanus cut in with a scoff. “Here, let me help you,” he pulled her in closer. His hands moved nimbly down her back to pop open one button after the other on her dress while still allowing her to support herself against his front. For the first time, Coriolanus didn’t care that much if she wrinkled his clothes. When the majority of the buttons were undone, her dress slid down her body and landed in a large heap at her feet. What was left under the dress was [Y/N] in no bra (which Coriolanus had not expected, even under the strapless gown) and alarmingly red lace panties, stockings and garters (also unexpected). “I… Wow,” He said cooly. His eyes raked hungrily down her body. Coriolanus had never seen so much of it at once before. “Is there a bra that goes with this?”
“Mhmm,” [Y/N] nodded shyly.
“Hm, I think I would like to see it sometime. This isn’t half bad, though,” He said. He could Coriolanus’ large hands his hands slid down her chest. His hands held her breasts firmly. His eyes widen watching her nipples pebble under the touch of his thumbs. “Why’d you wear this?”
The lingerie wasn’t the most stunning set he had ever seen—it seemed more practical than anything else— though, he could fix that. Coriolanus felt the crotch of his pants tighten at the prospect, knowing that she was already into wearing such things. He was going to call for a lingerie catalog in the morning and buy all of it.
“It’s most of what I wear. I—I like it.”
“I’ll remember,” Coriolanus nodded. She was confident he would remember. She probably wouldn’t remember saying it, though.
Coriolanus stared down at their hardwood floors. He hated hardwood. It creaked too much and only looked good with an abundance of maintenance. Coriolanus wanted [Y/N] to suck him off as soon as possible and figured that she would probably be appreciative of getting it over with faster, but his mind was racing thinking about the unsightly bruises the hardwood entryway would leave on her knees.
Then the bedroom had the issue of the rug and the rugburn that would give. Further, which bedroom would they go to? Coriolanus hated that [Y/N] insisted on staying in her own room. He would have to fix that. She was clearly just as exciting as he had recalled from childhood, it had merely taken them both a moment to get to that level of vulnerability with each other. Coriolanus decided to lead [Y/N] to his bedroom. He also decided he would insist she kneel on a pillow. He hated the look of bruised knees. It reminded him of the war.
While he pulled her along, he glanced down at her. “The tears at the party, were those real?”
[Y/N] laughed in surprise at the question. “No! Well, maybe twenty percent, if that? Because once I get started, it’s hard to stop.”
“Really?” He replied, leaning her against his open doorway. “You’re sick. I’m rather impressed. That takes a lot of… What’s the word?”
“You said ruthless earlier.”
“Yes, that too, but… It’s brilliant that you can do that at the drop of a hat. Very valuable to you. Scary for me, I’m sure.”
“… Thanks. I’ve been doing it since I was little.” [Y/N] replied dryly. She had never seen Coriolanus’ bedroom before. He had seen hers. Coriolanus thought he could barge in whenever he desired. His own room was previously off limits. [Y/N] figured it wouldn’t have been off limits had she wanted to have sex with him before now.
The room was clean, neat and lacking personal items almost entirely. There was a red rug, a vase of white roses on the nightstand and a small desk for when he took his work to bed with him. The bed, specifically, was enormous. It was piled high with pillow after pillow and the softest white sheets she could imagine. It made the bed she had spent all these weeks in look like a joke.
“Yes, as I recall, you were the fucking… crybaby in school until we were fourteen. And you mean to tell me it was fake?” Coriolanus threw his least favorite pillow on the floor for [Y/N]’s knees with a hushed thump.
“I mean, yes.”
“Why?”
“I like the attention.” [Y/N] said plainly. They both knew she wouldn’t have been so open about it without the alcohol, but boy, did Coriolanus desire this version of her. He saw her in that moment, standing mostly nude in his bedroom. He saw her for the first time for what she was. She was real. [Y/N] was a real person made up of a mess of contradictions. She was a very calculating person. Coriolanus saw that ruthlessness and that icy deadness to her. That was exactly the thing he thought he could love the most about her.
“Freak. What else can you do?”
“I dunno. I just… Do what gets me ahead. Don’t we all, Coriolanus? And, uh, when I see someone I don’t like, instead of saying ‘good to see you’ when they say ‘good to see you,’ I say, ‘yes! To see you!’ And I kind of mumble so it’s not obvious that I’m incapable of saying ‘oh yeah, nice to see you.’ You know I hate pleasantries.”
“Freak,” Coriolanus repeated with a smile. “No pleasantries then, get on your knees.”
[Y/N] walked the few steps towards towards the pillow he had thrown down and sank to her knees on it. She was clumsy when she was drinking, Coriolanus thought. More often than not, she was violently ungraceful more often than not. Coriolanus had rarely seen her be graceful at all. He liked that. He thought he’d moments of clumsiness and carelessness were alluring. [Y/N] looked helpless to him sometimes and he admired that. He wanted to be the thing that held together her broken and unsure nature. He thought of all the things he might have to help her accomplish in their future shared life together.
Coriolanus could see himself reaching easily for things she could not reach in the kitchen. He could see her being unable to lace up her winter boots due to the tightness of her dress, so he would get on his knees and do it for her. If she tripped on the sidewalk, he would pull her to her feet. If [Y/N] was too drunk to get up the stairs, he would carry her. When some strange man dared to look at her the wrong way, Coriolanus would kill him. She seemed so fragile and needy to him. Coriolanus loved that.
He needed her to need him. He wanted to be the only thing she ever need.
She was to be his.
“Stop looking at me,” She said. “Let’s get this over with.”
“Wow, that kind of talk really gets me hard.” Coriolanus walked towards her, undoing his black leather belt and tossing his coat on the floor. She thought about the amount of excess he would afford her if he cared so little for his own possessions to leave them on the floor. [Y/N] thought about her own position on his floor briefly.
“We agreed no pleasantries.”
“Come on, you’re going to be mine for the rest of our lives. At least let me look at you.”
[Y/N] tipped her head down with a frustrated sigh. He stared wolfishly at her as she knelt half-bare on his floor. She couldn’t help but blush at how exposed she felt. [Y/N] felt more on display and exposed in front of one man, the man she was to marry, than she did in front of every guest at the party earlier in the night.
“Don’t look away from me,” Coriolanus said firmly. “Those eyes are too beautiful to look at the ground like that.”
She looked back up at him begrudgingly, her eyes wide with fear, or lust. She had no choice but to watch Coriolanus popped open the button of his trousers open. [Y/N] could see the imprint of his dick against his thigh. He rubbed himself through his pants for a moment. [Y/N] swallowed nervously. Coriolanus was a broad, imposing man. The size of his cock shouldn’t have been surprising, but her eyes bulged all the same.
Coriolanus pulled his cock free of his pants. Logistically, [Y/N] was officially concerned about offering the blowjob. His long cock was what her the rest of her life looked like. She would surely have to get used to it eventually.
Without hesitation, [Y/N]’s mouth fell open as he approached. Her hands instinctually gripped the back of his thighs. Coriolanus, after loosening his tie, buried his hands in her once elegantly styled hair and forced himself down her throat.
Coriolanus moaned through gritted teeth in sync with [Y/N]’s gag when she took him in. There was little chance of taking all of him down her throat at once. Unsurprisingly, Coriolanus fucked hard and fast. Brutally so. [Y/N] hardly had a chance to breathe through her nose. Fortunately, at least, Coriolanus did all the work by maneuvering her face up and down on his length. He regulated the tempo and the pressure. All [Y/N] could do was try to swallow and hollow her cheeks out as best she could. Don’t think, just follow. I’ve got you, echoed in her mind.
Tears ran down her cheeks. Real ones.
“Fuck, that’s good,” Coriolanus grunted after several moments. [Y/N] raised her tongue slightly against him. Through wet eyes, she saw Coriolanus’ eyebrows lift and his forehead crease when she did. That was effective. “[Y/N]!”
The only sounds in the room after that were gagging and heavy breathing. Coriolanus’ breathing, not [Y/N]’s. She couldn’t remember the last time she was able to breathe, it felt like. She was really blowing for her life here, she could barely catch an inhale through her nose. [Y/N] felt herself get more and more lightheaded and she did all she could to keep her eyes open.
Quickly, she tapped the back of Coriolanus’ left thigh. It was universal symbol for this isn’t great for me. Coriolanus understood this signal loud and clear. He thought he would keep going, but almost immediately decided he would rather have a wife in one piece instead of a perfect blowjob and slowed his pace significantly. Like a good husband.
He got gratification from slowing down too, because he could see the relieved and grateful gleam in [Y/N]’s expression. Coriolanus had gifted her that relief. He was getting close.
“Swallow.” He choked out. [Y/N] turned her eyes up at him again to confirm his request. Coriolanus’ eyes were tightly shut. [Y/N] had no idea if this had been minutes or near an hour. Her jaw ached. She felt his cock twitch against her tongue as she sucked.
That was the last clear memory [Y/N] had that night. The build up of the alcohol that had been genetically modified to be strong enough to get one drunk faster, the stress, the sweat, the tears, the blowjob, the lightheadedness, the dancing, the fear and the anger all happening on one night culminated into a good old fashion liquor blackout.
She had brief flickers of memory instead of a picture of the night. She was unsure if Coriolanus had finished or not. [Y/N] vaguely remembered Coriolanus unhooking her garters and taking off her stockings. She could feel the clean sheet and duvet over her exhausted body. She swore she could recall Coriolanus’ arm over her her waist and his lips against her ear whispering something. If only she could remember what he said.
The next morning, [Y/N] woke up to the birds and the traffic noise. All of it sounded world-shatteringly loud. She felt sick to her stomach. What was that dreadful taste in her mouth? Her head pounded. Too much posca at her engagement party. Desperately, she wanted a cup of coffee. [Y/N] groped at the covers to drag them over her face to block out the morning light that filtered through the window.
Hold on.
As she pulled the covers over her head, [Y/N] realized these covers did not smell like her. They smelled of roses. That, and something else more metallic that lingered under the palatable rose smell. Coriolanus smelled like that. Coriolanus’ bed.
Buried in the comfortable duvet, she couldn’t bear to crawl out from under it. She was filled with panic. How had she ended up here? She could feel that Coriolanus wasn’t beside her, so where had he ended up? Had they slept together?
Had they slept together?
The phrase and all of its meanings bounced around in her head. Her hand slid down her body. She had no top on. That was a bad sign. Her hand continued further down her body and landed on lace underwear. She exhaled and let her hand flop back down on the bed. From another room, probably the living room, [Y/N] heard the phone ring. She wished it would stop. [Y/N] rose from bed with some difficulty.
It was clear upon standing up that the only thing that would make her feel better was vomiting. She dashed madly for Coriolanus’ en suite bathroom and knelt in front of the toilet, empty the contents of her stomach for a good couple of minutes. The pressure of her headache decreased afterwards, but the terrible taste in her mouth grew. [Y/N] flushed the toilet and stood in front of the mirror. She had never looked this bad in her life.
Dark ringed eyes, leaking leftover makeup and smeared lipstick, a bold hickey on her neck like a seventeen year old. What had she done?
[Y/N] grabbed Coriolanus’ burgundy robe off the back of his bathroom door and cinched it around her waist. She walked back through his bedroom. Her knees burned a bit with each step. Maybe from the heels she had worn the night before. Her eyes landed on the flat pillow on the floor right next to Coriolanus’ belt. This seemed like a bad omen.
Suspiciously, [Y/N] walked into the too bright hallway light. [Y/N] stumbled to her own bathroom and frantically brushed her teeth before facing Coriolanus. It hurt to hold her jaw open to brush her molars, but anything to rid herself of the salty, stale taste that had taken up residence. Finally then, she moved into the living room.
There was Coriolanus smiling on the couch like he was most mornings after some sort of party. His hair lacked product and lay rich and curly against his forehead. Boxer shorts and an open dress shirt with the sleeves pushed up left little up to the imagination about his body. He was so pale that he practically reflected the sunlight from the open window back at her like a mirror. Coriolanus was perfect, even first thing. How annoying.
“What time is it?” [Y/N] croaked hoarsely. Coriolanus nearly knocked his mug of bitter coffee off the end table in surprise as he reached for the remote. He abruptly clicked off the television.
“Eleven. There about,” Coriolanus replied, vocally calmer than his body would betray. He rose from the mauve couch and moved to [Y/N]. He ran his hand down the sleeve of his robe that she wore. “Is this mine?” He asked softly.
“Yes, sorry. It was all I could find. I’ll go swap it for—“
“Please. What is mine, is yours,” Coriolanus interrupted. “It suits you,” he said with a hand running across his own gold CSB monogram on the breast pocket of the robe she wore. “How did you sleep?”
“Fine, I suppose,” but what she really wanted to say was ‘what did we do last night?’ “And you?”
Coriolanus chanced an animalistic smile. “Last night, you said no more pleasantries.”
[Y/N] scanned her brain for a memory of saying that. She did not remember that phrase specifically, but she did catch a lot more glimpses of her night in her mind’s eye. [Y/N]’s strongest images were her mother’s shocked eyes, the empty glasses of posca, Coriolanus with a red handprint on his cheek, and his hard cock at her eye level.
“Coriolanus, what did I do?” [Y/N] asked, realizing exactly what she had done.
“Which part?” Coriolanus asked cautiously, sliding his hands around her waist and pulling her close. Coriolanus wanted her to feel held and ravished for a moment since he knew she would go ballistic at what was on the TV, in the newspaper, and on the lips of everyone in town. She felt like a still from an old moving picture; being held like that.
“How bad?”
“Hm? Oh, your mouth was lovely—“ he tried to expertly redirect with an innuendo.
That assumption of what they had done had been correct. Damn. “No, shut up, stop. The… The TV, the news, the—“
“Do you want to know?”
[Y/N] felt like deflating. It must have been bad. She thought back to how he had turned off the television so fast when she walked in. “I… Will I like what I see?”
“How about we sit down, Darling?”
Coriolanus sat [Y/N] down gently on the middle cushion of the couch and folded his lanky legs into the seat to her right. She looked worried. Coriolanus hated watching other people worry, it was distracting for him and often created too many new problems. He swallowed down the urge to snap at her for pouting like that. He hated pouting too considering how unproductive it was. The blonde man reached his right hand out and used a pointer finger and thumb to tip [Y/N]’s chin up so she was forced to look him in the eye. “Hey,” he said calmly. “Any press is good press.” Coriolanus repeated their mantra from the night prior.
[Y/N] inhaled through her nose. “Any press is good press.” She agreed. Coriolanus nodded and pressed a dutiful kiss to her temple to praise her for that answer. [Y/N] stared at the dark and glassy TV screen. Coriolanus clicked it on.
A fuchsia haired newswoman sat behind a desk with the regular Capitol News studio set up for an morning gossip show. The headline was plastered on a chiron in the lower third of the screen: ‘SNOW HEIR’S GIRL OUT OF CONTROL.’ In the top right hand corner of the frame was a photo of [Y/N] sobbing on her knees in front of Coriolanus’ who wiped her tears. [Y/N] wasn’t able to listen to the grating anchorwoman who was speculating about whether or not Coriolanus should send [Y/N] to rehab.
Coriolanus watched [Y/N] watch herself on TV. He grew uncomfortable when he couldn’t automatically read her expression. He had prepared himself for some tears and a temper tantrum, but neither came.
“What are you thinking about?” Coriolanus asked her. [Y/N] was too still. She didn’t respond quickly. “[Y/N]?” Coriolanus nudged her with his elbow. “What are you thinking about?”
“The headline.” She finally replied.
Coriolanus bit his bottom lip. He kept his voice as level as she had. “Okay. What about the headline?” He asked.
“Well, it isn’t very good, is it?”
“What?”
“It’s too plain.”
Coriolanus narrowed his eyes. “It’s too plain?”
[Y/N] nodded slowly. She finally ripped her eyes away from the television set and looked up at him. “It’s informative, but it’s not eye catching beyond being alarmist,” She replied. [Y/N] pointed at the TV, smiling. “That’s my picture. That’s us up there, Coryo, and that’s the best headline they could come up with? It’s weak.”
Coriolanus couldn’t recall her calling him Coryo before, even when [Y/N] had heard it from friends, family and classmates. She was saying something. He should have been paying better attention, but [Y/N] looked lovely wearing his robe. “Coryo, are you listening to me?”
He wasn’t. Too bad. Coryo. “I got distracted, I’m sorry, Darling. You were saying?”
“I said, please get me a piece of paper and a pencil. I want to work on something better and call in a suggestion for a correction since obviously—Mmph!“
[Y/N] sentence was never finished. Coriolanus leaned in towards her face and slammed his lips against hers hungrily. Habitually, [Y/N] grabbed his biceps as they toppled flat back onto the couch. Coriolanus wasted little time pressing the tip of his tongue against her lips aggressively. He knew he gave into an open-mouthed makeout too easily, but it was so much fun.
Both pulled back after some time for a breath. “Coriolanus…” [Y/N] panted.
“Coryo, please. Nobody calls me that anymore.” He said, staring down at her.
“Coryo, I want a pencil and a piece of paper.”
“You’re crazy. You want to call in a correction on a story about yourself because you want to make it worse. You’re beautiful. I don’t tell you that enough.”
“Then tell me some more after you get me—“
“Not yet,” Coriolanus said. His hands untied her robe like she was a gift box. The best present to come out of this engagement party, certainly. “[Y/N], do you know what you did last night?”
“A few things, at least.”
“Very funny. I mean…” Coriolanus sighed. His hormones raced. He could barely make eye contact with her since his eyes were drawn elsewhere. “I mean, you bulldozed your whole life. You Thirteen’d your life off the map.” he said. She nodded. She shivered at the reality of his statement. [Y/N] had nothing left but ashes. She had burned almost every bridge she had.
Except him.
“Not the part with you,” [Y/N] said. She smiled. She said it to please Coriolanus and it seemed to work. He was much easier to play than she thought he was. “You’re all I’ve got left, Coryo.” That was absolutely true. For better or worse, Coriolanus was inevitable.
“Let me take care of you,” Coriolanus said. “You’re about to be my wife. There’s no one else you need. You’re mine. I’m not going to let you fall through the cracks.” He said.
“Promise you won’t?”
“Wouldn’t dream of it,” Coriolanus said honestly, but he didn’t feel strongly enough to really promise. “Do you like these panties?”
“Yes.”
“Shame. I’ll buy you a new set.” There was a horrible tearing sound and after that, Coriolanus’ mouth was on [Y/N]’s pussy. He licked and sucked for all he was worth.
[Y/N] did not expect Coriolanus to be good at this. All this time, she had disallowed him from touching her because she thought he would be a selfish lover. There was still potential that he was, but fuck, Coriolanus sure was good for this. His long thin nose bumped her clit as he pressed his tongue deeper into her folds and she moaned. Her hands sank into his curls.
“Don’t touch my hair.” Coriolanus said into her cunt.
“No,” She said, pulling on his hair. Coriolanus was irked, but let her do it anyway. He had never felt pleasure from someone tugging his hair like that before. [Y/N] wrapped her legs around his shoulders. Coriolanus used his strong, callused hands to hold her thighs open. He was going to make her cum with only his greedy mouth, like she had for him last night.
Quid pro quo. That was the nature of their whole operation, Coriolanus realized. It was fine by him.
It was still early and Coriolanus had the day off. He was ready to make up for lost time. He was going to make her cum in every room of their home. Coriolanus was addicted to her taste. He was addicted to her mind. All of this felt cloaked in danger; it was too personal for Coriolanus. Oh well.
By day’s end, [Y/N] wouldn’t be able to climb out of bed for a couple of days on her own. Coriolanus’ constant tongue-fucking pulling orgasms from her had turned her brain to mush, but not before she was able to force Coriolanus off and jot down a few headlines of her own while he marked up her neck.
‘GAMEMAKER’S FIANCÉE: FREAK OR FOOL?’
‘CAPITOL’S GOLDEN BOY FALLS FOR BAD GIRL.’
‘ALLEGED CHEATING SCANDAL SHAKES CAPITOL YOUTH.’
‘GAMEMAKER WALKS OUT THE VICTOR AFTER PARTY DISASTER.’
‘’WEDDING IS OFF’ SPECULATES PLINTH FAMILY.’
‘GAMEMAKER’S FIANCÉE LIES, CHEATS AND STEALS THE NIGHT.’
‘SNOW’S FALLING (STANDARDS).’
Half of her ideas dripped as moans while Coriolanus worked on her pussy. She was weak enough to do little more than pull his hair and try to clench around whatever he pushed into her. [Y/N]’s orgasm-addled mind finally comprehended that Coriolanus made her better. He made her more creative, bolder, and free from every burden except him. Finally, willingly, [Y/N] gave Coriolanus the last thing she had to give: Herself.
It felt fucking incredible
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