#baffled. astounded. bewildered

[thousand-winters]

I'm bewildered. I'm astounded. I'm baffled. I'm-

Granted, it's been a While™️ since I last read TID but are you telling me Charles fucking Buford was conceived before Henry and Charlotte even cleared their misunderstanding???

This makes them even bigger dumbasses, oh, my god.

#i seriously do not remember where this is going but i think it's that which is. so fucking funny #IT'S ONE THING TO THINK YOUR SPOUSE IS USING YOUR MARRIAGE AS A COVER TO BE FREE TO DO THEIR DREAM JOB #BUT ARE YOU TELLING ME THEY WERE OUT THERE HAVING SEX AND JUST. NEVER QUESTIONED THAT??? #you guys literally didn't have to do that. there's no contract saying you had to do that #like okay i'll give it to them. that doesn't immediately means romantic love but they sure would assume attraction at least??? #dumbasses. idiots. oh my god #henry branwell #charlotte fairchild #the infernal devices #tid #the shadowhunter chronicles #tsc

[jaeclerc]

Sebastian had to blink twice to swallow down the scene before him. (Sebchal)

Sebastian had to blink twice to swallow down the scene before him.

He looked, nodded his head, and blinked a couple more times to note that yeah he was in fact watching his fiancé in a bright red leotard and white leggings perform acrobatic feats.

“And then we go into a roll-oh hey chéri!” Charles said to his thousands of fans that were watching his livestream, probably dutifully and with screen record on.

The camera couldn’t see him but he could see the comments rolling through rapidly, almost too fast to read as Charles smiled his “Seb smile” as all their friends called it. Seb smiled back, before mouthing

“What the fuck is this?” Charles snorted and he shook his head, saying “Do not worry!”

Sebastian wasn’t worried. If performing gymnastics in a high cut leotard would pay their bills, he would happily join in. Though, he wonders if maybe it’s Charles’ pretty face that paid the bills and not his frankly amazing feats.

He just watched, intrigued and very baffled by how much people paid to have Charles perform in front of them.

-

It was fine that Charles was an internet star but it stopped being so fine when they were doing some Christmas shopping, Charles’ nose an adorable Rudolph red, to which Sebastian was about to tease him about when someone stopped them in the street, gasping.

“Oh. My. God. are you clsedici?” they practically yelled (it was a slightly loud tone). Charles looked astounded before nodding with a huge smile, approaching them and chatting, leaving Sebastian behind with all the bags. He rolled his eyes and stopped beside Charles, setting a bag down to pull his beanie over his red ears when he caught the tail end of what the person was saying.

“-thought you were so cute! You so are, like…you’re so pretty.” Charles blushed but Seb raised an eyebrow and pulled the beanie down anyway, causing Charles to huff and pull it up where it was slightly over his eyes, turning to look at Sebastian half fond, half irritated.

“Can’t have The Prince of the internet getting cold.” He winked. Charles’ fan looked bewildered before they gasped again, startling Seb just a little more than he’d like to admit.

“Are you his mysterious fiancé?” They gushed and Seb smiled politely, not giving an answer. He was not too keen on being much of a public figure and while he supposed that one person knowing his face was fine, it was the fact that if one person knew than a whole lot more would follow.

“I don’t think so.” Sebastian replied and Charles smacked his arm lightly, rolling his eyes.

“Please do not mind him!” Charles said for him, turning back to his fan “Seb is a-how do you say-Uhm.” He thought for a second before it popped up “A crab! He lives in a house that is a shell…” Sebastian was endeared and also a little baffled that his own fiancé, the love of his life, would imply that he was a hermit.

“It’s okay! I understand, I don’t want his picture or anything, but maybe a picture with you?” They asked, a little bashful. Sebastian took the photo with him, the fan blushing and Charles looking absolutely delighted. The fan said goodbye, grinning from ear to ear and Charles came back to him, grabbing his hand again.

Seb just gave him a sideways glance before dramatically sighing as he said “I always knew you’d end up getting too famous for me! You’re going to be on the toktok app soon and you’ll really be too famous for your boring, hermit fiancé.”

“Hermit! That’s it.” Was all Charles said as he laced their fingers together, a smile on his face as he giggled to himself.

-

Charles wanted to make a vlog out of their wedding.

“Come on, babe. It’ll be a very nice video to remember our day by.” Charles was so lucky he was so fucking cute. Like extremely lucky. He was even luckier that Sebastian was absolutely taken by him.

“Charles…” He replied, his tone of disbelief and resignation enough for Charles to beam at him where he lay in bed, shirtless and wearing his very cute reading glasses. He put on the reading glasses. This was a serious matter of manipulation.

“I want to share these things with the people who support me!”

Sebastian just shook his head, but Charles had already gotten his way and he knew it, rolling on top of Sebastian as soon as he got into bed, kissing him on the lips and perching himself on his lap.

“I promise it’ll just be me and the wedding. No you.” Sebastian put his hands on his hips, more focused on the handprints he had left there the night prior.

“You’ve already gotten your way, sweetheart.” Seb sighed, kissing his collarbones. “Have mercy on an old man, please.”

“Plus don’t you want to remember this day! I know with your age, your memory is going bad. Don’t want you to forget the best day of your life.” Charles teased, and Sebastian groaned.

#charles leclerc #sebastian vettel #sebchal #jaeclerc asks #this is so stupid idk! #but it was fun #enjoy !!! #influencer charles au

[yellowfingcr]

IC question! Who’s your least favorite person in the world? Be honest!

"That's a hard question! Wish you'd asked who I hated the most instead, so I could have told you no, I don't think I hate anyone really, and then I would have had an easy answer! But least favourite isn't the same as hated!"

"Still, the answer orbits roughly in the same zone, likely, and it might- just might- count as cheating! My least favourite person is perhaps a specific type of Ashen One. I cannot, um. Favourite them. You must have seen them, surely. Just- moving forward and ever forward and relentlessly horribly forward, the way plague or time does. They do that, and leave exclusively death behind their footsteps, and then have the gall to come and tsk-tsk me- going like, gosh, Heysel! It's truly wretched that you're cutting tongues out of people who will anyway return to the bonfire whole and safe and with a tongue again! While they've just awakened, and know nothing of the land they walk, and all it took for them to unleash this bloodbath upon the world was a single Firekeeper, telling them that it was right thing to do!"

"It drives me so- it's so bizarre! It's so unnerving! The arrogance! I am astounded! I always laugh because it's just so bewildering! That someone would do this, freshly after opening their eyes, without requesting explanations, convinced that they are doing what they must for the good of everyone! Not a thought for what others might want!"

"I know. I know. Who am I to say anything. But it's so baffling!"

#infernalpursuit #heysel: sees a protagonist and starts frowning #thanks for the ask gio! where would we even BE without you

[welshoot]

Genshin Impact Traveler analysis/theory: What we know part 1 (Names)

I just started playing Genshin Impact and, you know me, I must analyze and theorize at least a tiny bit about this. I probably won’t write much for this game since there is already so much information out there that I am having to get caught up on. Anyway, I wanted to analyze and theorize a bit about our travelers, Lumine and Aether. I intend to look at them both in their positions as protagonist and member of the Abyss Order. I will try to stay unbiased since I rather like both characters in both positions and who is who is decided by each player individually.  Also, this is gonna be a series because doing this as one post was just too long. This will be under the cut for length and potential spoilers.

The traveler, unsurprisingly, has different names for each localization. Interestingly, these names typically reflect the same or at least a similar meaning. So for the Chinese version their names are, according to the Genshin Impact wiki,  Kōng ( 空) for the guy and Yíng (荧)  for the girl. I used Google translate, not the best translation so correct me if I am wrong on these meanings, to find out a vague name meaning. Kōng can apparently be a noun or an adjective. As a noun it means air, sky or leisure. As an adjective it means bare or in vain. Yíng can also be a noun or adjective but it has way more meanings. As a noun it means glimmering. As an adjective it can mean fluorescent, alluring, amazing, astounding, baffled, bewildered, confounded, confused, dazzling, glittering, or glittery. In the Japanese version the guy is named Sora (空) and the girl is named Hotaru (蛍). Sora mirrors the Chinese name meanings well since it means sky, emptiness, or void. I’m pretty sure sky is the more common meaning but I am not positive. Hotaru means firefly and I think the Japanese have some firefly symbolism but I genuinely have no idea what that may be. The other languages are simply a version of the English names so we have come down to Aether (the guy) and Lumine (the girl). Aether is sort of interesting, it has several basic meanings. In Greek Mythology Aether was the Primordial god of light and the bright, blue ether of the heavens . This god did have a sister/wife known as Hemera who was the primordial goddess of day which could me a Lumine connection but could also just be a coincidence. In chemistry aether was a medium that was once thought to fill all space and support the propagation of electromagnetic waves. In medical or archaic science aether was the material that filled the region of the universe above earth. Aether was also thought of as the fifth element used to explain several phenomena such as the traveling of light and gravity. Thus, Aether has a name meaning that ties in nicely to the siblings unexplained ability to travel the universe. Finally in the Japanese philosophy of Godai, aether is a fifth element which can loosely be described as void. It represents things beyond yet with our everyday comprehension. In fictional tales its name was invoked to connect to the quintessential creative energy of the world.  Lumine is a bit tougher. Lumine is an obsolete verb that means to illuminate. There is also the Latin word, “lūmine,” which means “the light.” So Aether, as I shall call him from now on, always has a name linking him to the sky and emptiness. Lumine always has a name linking her to light or illumination with firefly being a slight but adorable outlier that does still have light connotations. 

Just based on their names Aether seems like a good fit for the Abyss order sibling. I mean come on, emptiness and the void? Abysses are typically void-like and empty. Nonetheless, there is still a lot to look at. However, Lumine was difficult to analyze for this part. I really wish I could have found out firefly symbolism but I couldn’t so make of it what you will.

#Genshin impact #theory #analysis #names #chinese #japanese #English #chemistry #Aether #Lumine #Traveler #Greek mythology #part 1 of this series #mywritings #potential spoilers #Latin #Mihoyo

[celestialking]

Oh honestly if you will ever see one..you will have the most disbelief astonished,bewildered,flabbergasted,hornswaggled,stoned,startled,baffled,awed,dazed,perplexed,mystified,befuddled,dumbfounded,thrown,staggered,puzzled,shocked,stamped,rattled,stunned,dumbstruck,speechless,taken,aback,astounded,addled,muddled,misled,appalled,stupefied moment IN YOUR ENTIR LIFE AHHHHH I ENYV YOU

🧇

Should I be scared? T^T

#celestial:whispers #🧇●anon

[75-of-venus]

There is something about songs that bewilder me; brings me back, hurts me, twists my mind; there's a lot a melody can do. Not only do I cry my heart out, but I also am overjoyed.

"How does that work?"

I speak to myself.

Well, there's a lot of scientific explanation to it, I read them--all of them, and it really baffles me. So, someone can do wonders from instruments, from voice tones; colors, and it's astounding! Really. I wish I could do that but I honestly don't mind being merely an enjoyer instead of creator- I love to sit down in cafes, humming my favorite melody, drown in the nostalgic moments. How romantic is that!

Pic cr to iam_os on unsplash.

[daddys-littlewhitegirl]

I just finished a book

And I'm unwell

Pen Pal by J. T. Geissinger

It's a 18+ heart wreaking romance

I needed someone to talk abou this book with, or just sit in silence staring at the void

This book made me nervous, happy, giggly, anxious, mad, sad, sobbing and completely baffled with it's ending

I'm not the brighest mind in the world, but one of the things I assumed about the book turned out to be the true, it made me happy, until the knowledge snaped into place

This book is... amazing, astounding, bewildering and every other fancy word I can't think of right now

I hope that if someone who have read the book sees this, please forgive me for english is not my mother language, and also, I hope you understand what I mean in this not-so-short ramble of post reading catharsis

I just wanted to say thank you to that one pperson on tiktok with that one video about this book that made want to read it, it was heartbreaking-warmingly amazing

#J. T. Geissinger #Pen Pal #Pen Pal by J. T. Geissinger #yes I'll write it many times #no ones stoping me #booktok

[pengychan]

[Good Omens] Winging It - Jeremiah 17:9

Summary: Shockingly, attempting to destroy an angel without consulting God first comes with consequences. There is more than one way to fall, and a thousand more ways to inconvenience an angel and a demon who just wanted to be left in peace. Characters: Gabriel, Crowley, Aziraphale, Beelzebub, Michael, Uriel, Sandalphon Rating: T  

Prologue and all chapters are tagged as ‘winging it’ on my blog.

A/N: No vintage pornography was mistreated in the making of this chapter.

(A scene was partly based on and amazing comic by @hyunlou, because I loved it so much I could no longer picture the scene going any other way,and also @lunaescribe on my birthday with art - check the fic tag to see both!)

***

“... Is that what they asked you? If you had carnal desires? Were those their exact words?”

“Yes,” Gabriel said, and shifted a little when Łukasz let out a groan, rubbing his temples.

“Why do they speak like they came out of some shitty BBC period drama?” Fabrizio asked, only for Łukasz to entirely ignore him and look back at Gabriel.

“And you said no.”

“I said I don’t think I do-- I am not sure-- and then they left before I could suggest we go out for the evening, and I have no idea why. But they did take the mugs, so--”

“Jesus Christ, mate, they were making a pass at you!”

Gabriel blinked. “... They were making a what?”

Fabrizio cleared his throat before speaking in the fakest, poshest British accent imaginable. “I think what my esteemed colleague is trying to say is that this… what’s their name again?”

“Beel-- Bill.”

“Right. This Bill was trying to politely gauge whether or not you may, perchance, be entertaining the thought of shagging.”

“Shagging?” Gabriel repeated. He was familiar with the term, of course - working in warehouse near the docks had taught him a vast array of terms all generally referring to the same things - but he had no idea why Beelzebub would be asking if he entertained the thought of-- 

“Shagging them, specifically.”

Gabriel stared. He opened his mouth, gaped a little more, then blinked. “They-- were?” he asked, sounding every inch as bewildered as he felt. The notion was so alien to him, it was hard to wrap his mind around it… and yet, now that it had been clearly spelled out for him, Gabriel felt a sudden desire to reach back into the space-time continuum and smack himself in the back of the head. Unable to do that due to his current limitations as a mortal, he just blinked again. “But... why?”

Forehead firmly pressed on the table, Łukasz snickered. “That’s an excellent question,” he said. “I’m starting to suspect your friend is a rabid moronsexual.”

“A what?”

That caused Fabrizio to burst laughing so suddenly and violently that Gabriel was left with little doubt that he was supposed to feel insulted by the remark. However, he was too baffled to.

“That was never-- it never came up,” he protested.

“Hah! Well, it did now. They brought it up. So, are you?”

Gabriel opened his mouth. 

“... Before you go ‘am I what’, allow me to make myself clear. Are you interested in the offer?”

Ah. “I’m… not certain it was an offer, I ought not assume--”

“Let’s say it was. Are you?”

Gabriel hesitated, and this time they didn’t press him for an answer. Which was good, because he honestly did not have one yet; there had been something when he’d held the Prince of Hell in his arms, something that had made him wish he didn’t have to put them down… but the notion of carnal desires was so foreign to him, he had no idea what that would even feel like. 

In the end, he sighed. “... I’ll need to do research,” he finally said. 

If Łukasz and Fabrizio found it an odd response, which they probably did, they said nothing of it. 

“All right. But, my friend, let me tell you something. Whether you want to shag them or not, you’re so smitten it’s not even funny,” Fabrizio said. Gabriel didn’t even try to argue he was not.

Lying is, after all, a sin.

***

Indulging in carnal  pleasures was, quite obviously, not the immediate ticket to the lowest circles of Hell that many mortals seemed to believe it was.

It was in some cases, of course, whenever someone forced their own lust on somebody who was anything but a willing participant; those souls had a circle of their own, which was rather cramped as well as boasting a frankly astounding amount of Catholic priests. 

A good number of them may have been tempted by demons, though Beelzebub suspected it was a minority, but even in those cases all the forces of Hell had really done was put some rather non-specific lust in their heart; how they let it grow and then acted upon it was entirely their choice.

It was not a circle of Hell Beelzebub had ever had much to do with, as lust did not precisely fall under their expertise, and therefore they did not know the minute details of what was the exact line between simple carnal pleasure and sinful lust. However, they felt reasonably certain in the assumption that carnal relations with a Prince of Hell would, at the very least, be a prominent enough sin to tilt the balance of the scale towards Hell.

And I may be more successful in doing that than I was trying to convince him to push an old lady under the bus. 

Just maybe. There were demons who made seduction their weapon of choice when it came to gaining influence over mortals, but Beelzebub was not among them. Plus, when asked if he did have carnal desires, Gabriel had said he didn’t think he did.

But he hadn’t said no, either, which had been his immediate reply whenever they had tried to talk him into any kind of serious sin, and therefore Beelzebub concluded it would be foolish not to make at least an attempt. So they would - but first, they needed to do some research over what carnal relations precisely entailed other than just choosing one out of two models of genitalia and make them fit with the other’s. 

They would come across as rather stupid, after all, if Gabriel accepted and they had to reveal they didn’t know the first thing about what they’d just proposed.

*** 

The dancers should stand facing each other, keep their feet loose and relaxed, standing so that they are facing each other with about an arm's length of space in between them...

By the time he got to the second paragraph, Gabriel had begun to suspect that guide - Learn How To Shag In One Minute - was not precisely what he was looking for. With a frown, he went back to the search results and looked around a bit further. 

Ah, so apparently shag dancing was a thing. It looked rather awkward and had no relevance to his research, doubly so as angels did not dance and he certainly had not picked up the habit since becoming mortal, so in the end Gabriel sighed and just put his phone down.

All right, it seemed that the Internet was not a reliable source, regardless of the large amounts of porn that, he had been informed, could be found in it. He had absolutely no intention to come across as a fool if - when? - Beelzebub brought up the matter again, and therefore he needed better sources than dubious websites with excessive amounts of Xs in their name.

A book. Books are more reliable.

Of course Gabriel was not so gullible to think all books could be trusted - he had seen too many outlandish editions of the Bible not to know better - so he would need to be certain the book he got his hands on would be a reputable one.

And he just so happened to know an expert in the field.

***

“Lord Beelzeb--”

“Nothing!”

Dagon blinked, taken aback, when Lord Beelzebub let out a noise that was only slightly more dignified than a shriek and slammed their laptop shut. They had been sitting on their throne, staring at the screen with such keen interest they hadn’t heard her coming in - and now, for some reason, they were sitting on the laptop. 

… All right. Dagon would assume that whatever they were looking at was a private matter and not ask, then. She cleared her throat and somehow managed to keep a straight face despite the utter surprise; she had never seen the Lord of the Flies caught so off-guard. 

“What do you want!” Beelzebub barked, looking one step away from trying to turn her to ashes. Not that Hellfire could destroy a demon, of course, but it would hurt quite badly and Dagon liked it better when she was not hurt quite badly. 

“I, uh, am here concerning the meeting to review the performance of our demons this month,” she said. “If it suits you, we can move the time--”

“You can chair that stupid meeting,” the Prince of Hell snapped. “Now leave. I’m busy.”

“Oh. Is it anything I can help wi--”

“You can help by chairing the meeting in my stead.”

“Ah. Does that mean I am authorized to choose who to punish and what bonuses to award--”

“You’re authorized to do whatever the Heaven you want, as long as you leave me now!”

The flies around Lord Beelzebub’s head buzzed furiously as though to underline the unspoken threat, and Dagon was clever enough not to argue further: a quick bow, and she was out of the throne room as fast as her legs could carry her while still maintaining some composure. 

Once alone, Beelzebub let out a groan and rubbed their eyes. They stood, picked up the laptop from their throne, and opened it again. The screen was cracked, but then again the entire thing was so busted it was plainly not supposed to work in any capacity, and Beelzebub had yet to meet a piece of technology that would defy their order to work when they were supposed to. 

It sure worked now, as Beelzebub turned it back on and to look at their most recent searches. 

how to do courtship how to court human how to court idiot how to kiss human genitalia how penis work how vagina work how to have sex tutorial

The last one led to a rather educational video depicting a man and a woman on a large, round bed. If they squinted, the man even looked a little like Gabriel. 

Beelzebub supposed it would do for now, in case they decided to acquire female genitalia for the occasion, but they were still on the fence about that and would probably need to seek more varied videos. Just to make sure they had grasped the main idea, of course. 

“Unnecessarily complicated, is what all this is,” Beelzebub, Prince of Hell and Lord of the Flies, declared loudly. Then they leaned back on their throne, reached for one of the mugs Gabriel had bought them, and hit play again.

For research.

***

“Gabriel! It’s good to see you.”

“He doesn’t mean that,” Crowley muttered. 

“Come, sit. I’ll make some tea.”

“Feel free to decline, we won’t mind.”

“Tea would be much appreciated, thank you,” Gabriel said, to Crowley’s annoyance, and sat, to his further annoyance, while entirely ignoring his remarks, to his utter annoyance. He looked around the cottage, and if he dared say anything about the decor Crowley would chew his head off, especially after seeing what kind of minimalistic nightmare Heaven was.

“This is… cozy,” Gabriel finally said after a slight hesitation, leaving Crowley just a little miffed that he didn’t, after all, get a good excuse to chew off his head. Yet. 

“Oh, we’re still in the process of moving everything,” Aziraphale was saying, picking up the teapot he’d put on the stove only minutes before Gabriel had showed up at the bookstore. With the portal-door between the store and the cottage wide open, the sound of him knocking had carried over and Aziraphale had let him in before Crowley could stop it. 

“We will keep the door open between here and my bookstore, it is such a convenient place to store all my books and I am not ready to give it up just yet. Crowley still needs to move some paintings out of his flat, that garish throne and the decoration he stole from a church--”

“I didn’t steal it, the church was bombed.”

“I remember. It was an eventful evening,” Aziraphale said lightly, putting the teapot on the table. “I almost got discorporated, but Crowley came to help me out. He saved us all upstairs so much paperwork.”

“Ah,” Gabriel said, clearly not sure what to say to that. “I mean-- thank you.” 

Crowley gave him a long, unimpressed look, and he cleared his throat. “Anyway… where’s here, exactly?”

“That’s on a need-to-know basis and you don’t need to know,” Crowley said, crossing his arms. They both had agreed that neither Heaven nor Hell would ever know where their cottage was, and while Gabriel was technically part of neither, he still counted as a stuck-up archangel as far as Crowley was concerned. Now that he knew about the cottage, something would have to be done about the door connecting it to the bookstore. Maybe a seal, the kind that would keep out anyone who was not the two of them…

“It’s good to know you’re doing well,” Aziraphale was saying, clearly speaking for himself only, and poured tea in all three cups on the table despite the fact Crowley had elected not to sit yet, instead glaring at Gabriel in hopes he would feel uncomfortable enough to leave. “Now, what was that you mentioned about needing research books?” he asked, and brought the cup to his mouth. 

“I need pornography books,” Gabriel declared, and the excellent tea Aziraphale had just sipped was sprayed right back out on the table in a fine mist. From his corner, Crowley raised both eyebrows up to almost his hairline. 

Well. That was not what he’d expected to hear.

Aziraphale looked down at the mess on the table and on his own clothes before he gave Gabriel a very, very weary look. “You know, don’t you, that there really is no need for codes now?”

Gabriel shook his head. “No, no, it’s not a code. I do need some pornography books.”

Aziraphale stared.

“... For research. As I sa-- Aziraphale?”

No answer: Aziraphale stood, without a further word, and was out of the room within moments, hands up in the air. Whether to find someplace to scream in peace, stare at the wall for a few minutes while scrubbing the mental image out of his brain, or try to clean the tea off his clothes, Crowley was not sure. 

He would check on him in a minute. First, he had questions.

“Research, huh?” he said, leaning on the table across a rather bewildered Gabriel, who had somehow expected a different reaction to him asking to borrow pornography books. He grinned, wide enough to almost make his cheeks hurt. There was some amazing mocking material there, he could feel it. “And who is this about? A new friend? A coworker?”

Still stunned by Aziraphale’s reaction, Gabriel answered without pausing a moment to ponder whether he should answer that question. “Beelzebub,” he said, like he was answering a question on what kind of tea he preferred.

Ah.

For a few moments Crowley could only stare, the grin frozen on his lips. He was startled out of it by a sound like breaking glass that, he realized rather belatedly, came from inside his own brain. 

No. No no no no. Nope. Nope. Abort, abort. 

“Angel!” he called out, his voice a little strangled, and went to search for Aziraphale to make him share with him whatever bleach he was now using on his brain. Behind him, Gabriel spoke up.

“Uh, so can I borrow a book--” he tried to ask, but a slamming door was the only reply he got for a good while.

*** 

“Oh, this is never going to come out…” 

Aziraphale sighed, looking down at his waistcoat, whose front was currently drenched with tea. Of course he could miracle it away, with Gabriel no longer in the position of writing him strongly worded letters about frivolous miracles... but he could feel a headache build up just thinking about Gabriel and looking around for a clean napkin was a rather welcomed distraction.

Until Crowley stepped in, eyes wide. 

“Beelzebub,” he blurted out, causing Aziraphale to nearly jump out of his skin and frantically look around. God knew, the last thing he needed to deal with was the Lord of the Flies in his bookstore.

“What-- where??”

“No, I mean--” Crowley let out a pained noise, rubbing his eyes like he hoped to get an awful image off his retinas. “It’s about Beelzebub. Gabriel’s research. On pornography.”

Ah.

“Ah,” Aziraphale said. He needed a few moments for what he’d just heard to entirely sink into his brain. When it did, he barely repressed a shudder. “That is… not… what I was expecting.”

“The Archangel Fucking Gabriel and Beelzebub. It’s in my brain now. Can you miracle it away?”

“I’m afraid that goes beyond my abilities,” Aziraphale said, reaching up to put a hand on his own head to calm the building headache. “If your head also hurts something awful, though, I can help with that. If you can get the tea out of my waistco-- oh. Thank you.” He smiled as Crowley took care of that with a snap of his fingers, the other hand still firmly on his eyes. 

“You’re welcome. Now, can we throw him whatever book he wants and then throw him out?”

Aziraphale was very much opposed to throwing books, of course, but shoving a pornography book in Gabriel’s hands and firmly showing him the door seemed the best course of action.

***

“... I can explain.”

“No offence, but we’d really rather you do not.”

Gabriel shifted a little, a heavy leather-bound book in his arms. “Right. Well, er… thank you for the book. I’ll return it once I’ve--”

“Feel free to return it whenever. You’re very much welcome,” Aziraphale spoke quickly, and while he didn’t physically shove Gabriel through the door, he very much did get the message that he really wanted him to leave sooner rather than later. “Best of, er, luck. With your research,” he added quickly, and closed the door behind him.

Gabriel stood on the spot a few moments, blinking in slight confusion, but in the end he shrugged it off - maybe he had caught him in a busy moment - and opened the book to have a quick look.

… Huh. Could a mortal’s spine actually do that?

There was laughter, a couple of children running past him, and Gabriel immediately closed the book. Right, right - looking at pornography in public was frowned upon, so he ought to wait until he was back home. On the way back, he’d purchase a pen and notebook. 

In case he needed to write something down. 

*** 

Once their research was completed, Beelzebub was still not certain what it was about the act that so many humans found irresistible - but, they had to admit, their curiosity was piqued. Perhaps a carnal act with Gabriel would pave the way for his descent into Hell, perhaps it would not, but either way they would get to know what it precisely was about, so they would be getting something out of it. 

The only thing for them to find out was whether Gabriel would be a willing participant, which was a rather important point because they may be the Prince of Hell but they also had standards. And, all things considered, they got the answer to that rather quickly: they couldn’t be many other reasons for Gabriel to be sitting at his desk with an open book full of pornographic images and a notebook half-filled with notes.

At least, they hoped they were not. Beelzebub found that the idea Gabriel might harbor carnal desire for someone else left them distinctly annoyed. 

“I can explain,” Gabriel blurted out as soon as he recovered from the mini heart attack Beelzebub’s sudden appearance in flames and smoke had given in. Quick recovery, they had to give him that. “This is, uh-- this is-- research, for--”

“You’ve given my question some thought, I see.”

“Well--” he finally regained composure, and cleared his throat. “I have.”

“And…?”

“I’m not certain I do have those, uh, inclinations, but I’d be open to give it a try. If you’re so inclined,” he added quickly.

“I see,” Beelzebub said, their voice perfectly collected. Inwardly, however, they felt very much like a Jehovah's Witness who’d just been invited inside to talk after knocking: hadn’t really thought they would get that far and had already forgotten just about everything they had planned to do in the event. So they said nothing else, and stared. 

Gabriel said nothing else. And stared. 

Needless to say, that was not a promising start. 

“... Which one?” Beelzebub finally asked.

“Huh?”

“Which set of genitalia.”

“Oh. I have--”

“I know what you have, I have seen you showering. I’m asking which one I should get now.”

“Ah.” Gabriel glanced at the book as though hoping to find an answer there. “Er… either? We can throw a coin,” he muttered, and dug a coin out of his pocket and handed it to them. “Head for penis and--”

Beelzebub threw the coin, caught it, and looked down at it. “Tails.”

“Right. Well--”

“Do not presume for even a moment I will allow you to be above me.”

“I’m not presuming, I just-- what are those?”

“Notes,” Beelzebub muttered, more than slightly irritated at having forgotten their own script. They shuffled through the clue cards they had pulled out of their back pockets, rather wishing their handwriting did not look like a dying fly had dragged itself across the paper after being dunked in ink.

 “... Right. So we have come to the agreement we both consent. At this point, we’re supposed to--” they began, and trailed off when Gabriel did the unthinkable. 

He laughed.

“What are you-- hey! Stop laughing!” Beelzebub buzzed furiously, their face suddenly really, really hot. They crumpled notes in their fist and glaring up at Gabriel. “Cease this instant!” they ordered, and were a moment away from kicking him in the shin - how dare he laugh at the Lord of the Flies? - when Gabriel spoke, his laugh dying down to a snicker. 

“I-- heh. My apologies. I just--” he gestured to the papers crumpled in Beelzebub’s fist, and then at his own notebook on the desk. “One way or another, we end up with paperwork. I suspect humans are more spontaneous about it.”

Beelzebub huffed. “Well, I am not human,” they muttered, but the anger died down, and they crossed their arms. “If you don’t plan by the book, how do you know if you’re getting things right?”

“Well-- sometimes you don’t know. Humans take chances all the time.”

A scoff. “What a disgustingly human thing to say. Is that how your mind operates now?”

“... I do still find it somewhat frightening,” Gabriel said, quietly, and whatever mockery Beelzebub was about to utter next died in their throat. The look he was giving them was surprisingly open, and he looked painfully vulnerable.

In the end, when they spoke, their voice was just as quiet. 

“You have no reason to be frightened,” they said, and burned the note in their fist, letting the ashes fall on the floor. “I usually do punish failure, but I’m willing to make you an exception, I suppose.”

A chuckle, and Gabriel lifted a hand, holding it up almost close enough to Beelzebub’s face to touch the skin. “May I?”

“... You may,” they replied. The touch was warm, foreign and familiar at the same time - did he touch their face like that a long time ago, when they were still Ba’al? - and leaning into it, finding out where it all led, was so very tempting. Ironic, considering that they were supposed to be the one doing the tempting and… and…

No.

“Wait.” Beelzebub reached up to brace a hand against Gabriel’s chest, keeping him at a distance. He immediately stopped, and looked down at them in confusion, their faces only inches apart. “There is a chance this may count as a serious sin.”

Stupid, stupid, stupid. Shouldn’t have told him. He’ll call it off. 

Gabriel blinked, and the confused expression turned into a smile. “I figured,” he said, and tilted up their chin. “I think I’ll take the chance.”

… Well, they had given him a fair warning, so their conscience was clear. Would have been clear, if they had one. “You’re a fool,” the Prince of Hell informed him.

“I figured that too,” the fool replied.

What followed was a bit messier and significantly more complicated than expected, but given enough time and attempts, they did figure that out as well.

*** 

A good while after they had both caught their breath and Gabriel’s heart no longer felt like it was trying to burst out of his chest, Beelzebub had yet to say a word.

But they were still there, even if silent, accepting Gabriel’s arms around them and his quiet breathing against the nape of their neck, and he supposed that was a sure sign they had no complaints. In the end, he dared break the peaceful silence. 

“Can you stay for the night?” he asked, his voice low. 

“I am Prince of Hell. I can do as I wish.”

“... Do you wish to stay for the night?”

“I can’t see why not,” they conceded, causing Gabriel’s lips to curl into a smile. He said nothing, kissing the back of Beelzebub’s shoulder instead. Of course, they could tell he was smiling right away. “What are you smirking about?”

“Well, it was-- pleasant, was it not?”

Gabriel felt their light snort more than he heard it. “Bragging already, are you?” they muttered, and turned in his arms to face him. Their skin was pleasantly warm. “Do I have to remind you who was leading?”

Of course, there was no need. It wasn’t often that Gabriel found himself in the position of having to look up at the Lord of the Flies, and he hadn’t minded the change. He hadn’t minded at all. 

“Oh, I never tried to take credit.” Gabriel dropped a kiss on the bridge of Beelzebub’s nose, gaining himself a frown and a buzzing noise - but no attempt at all to shove him off them. He was dimly aware of the fact that there was a folder in Hell bearing his name which perhaps had just gained a sin in red ink, but he found he couldn’t even begin to feel concern. 

“Next time,” Beelzebub was saying, “I’ll try the other set of genitalia.”

“Heh. So there will be a next time?”

The Lord of the Flies did shove him at that, flat onto his back, before they rolled on top of him. They propped themselves up on their elbows, which rested on his chest. It wasn’t the most comfortable predicament, but Gabriel’s muscles still felt like cooked asparagus and he wouldn’t have bothered to protest for anything short of being raked over hot coals. 

“We both have researched a great deal more than what we have put in practice, and I don’t see why the time spent on it should go to waste,” they said, tilting their head. “Don’t you agree?”

A smile, and Gabriel dared tilt up his head to try and catch their lips again. He missed, and his mouth rested briefly on their throat instead before he pulled them down against his chest. 

“I do,” he murmured. “Wholeheartedly.”

***

“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”  --Jeremiah 17:9

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Stunning Producers

Principal Producers, such as bewildering competitors, don't occur by some karma. They are known to be incredibly whirled an amazing technique around the practices that will make the best outcomes. Their use of unequivocal practices, their advantage and their center is the thing that drives them from being standard to being stunning. Is it careful to say that you are set up to discover the stuff to be an amazing maker? Here are 11 things that all Great Producers share for all plans and reason:

1. Remarkable Producers don't find clients: they make them.

Moreover as there are appealing makers and terrible makers, there are good clients and unpleasant clients. The best makers have portrayed the credits and occurrences of good clients and need to work with those clients alone. They turn time around rehearses that will make extra pay. Dazzling clients cause issues and to gobble up epic time for everybody in the alliance. In the event that you have never done considering everything, plunk down and list 7 responses for the going with confirmation: MY IDEAL CLIENT IS:

2. Earth shattering Producers fish in gave lakes not colossal seas.

As stunning fishermen study to track down the best fishing openings and are reliably tracking down the best stuff or assets for track down a prize winning fish, Great Producers pick what they need, train themselves on the affiliations and affiliations they decide to work, and use the best contraptions to achieve their grumblings. Stunning makers seek after importance in their comprehension into a depicted field and can give the best data and relationship to their client base barb fedida . 

3. Astounding Producers lead a standard client needs assessment going prior to making thing examinations.

Again and again we see that makers base on what will get them the most pay and not really what is best for the client. Seeking after the cash alone is a rash improvement that will hurt your book of business in a brief timeframe. Heavenly entertainers present asks for and listen energetically to pick the character, needs and needs of the purchaser as opposed to making narcissistic, "plan" thought.

4. Central Producers train rather than "sell"- they outfit their clients with enough data to settle on instructed choices.

A Great Producer needs to talk on a level that the client can get a handle on. Nobody gets a kick out of the opportunity to be "sold" at any rate we generally speaking all around absolutely worth purchasing things and building relationship with individuals we like and feel wallowing with. Gigantic Producers find what persuades their purchaser and presents data in a manner the purchaser can appreciate. Happening to sorting everything out a fundamentals examination, noticeable entertainers need to change their program or relationship to that of the purchaser. In the event that it doesn't have the extent of the stores of being a solid match, they deliberately diminishing to seek after things until an unparalleled time for the two players.

5. Confusing Producers go past thing to furnish their clients with worth, authenticity and trust.

Apex entertainers don't expect seeing what is crucial for the purchaser. They need to ensure a substitute point of view by finding the necessities of the other first. None of us really whenever purchases anything from anybody we could coordinate without or trust. Colossal Producers care about their standing. I say that the TRUE DEFINITION of BRANDING is the thing that others say about you when you leave the room. Do you attempt to truly address your properties, and live with trustworthiness? Would your accessories say that you are an individual who makes confiding in related with others? In the event that the single time you talk with your client is during a case or re-endeavoring, or the specific time you put time in your record administrator is the place where you need something then you don't get a handle on this idea. The Best Producers offer more in advantage than they take in pay.

6. Stunning Producers are excitedly arranged inside the business and their zone.

Noteworthy makers are known as "connectors". They seek after relationship subject to a drive to help others in accomplishing their protests. Do you have the character to truly serve others without expecting anything as essentials be? Upgrades affiliation isn't associated with checking who's productive or understanding a return favor; it is associated with being the individual that cares to help address the issues of clients, decorations, accomplices, at last you will discover, sufficient new business references. Have the all out of the stores of being absurdly "satisfying" of a point of view? Consider the alternative...when was the last time you met somebody who clearly had a way to deal with oversee "get" something from you? Not a puzzling liking; like you were being utilized. Truly, your cerebrum was hollering, "GET ME OUT OF HERE!" "DO WHAT YOU CAN TO GET OUT OF THIS - QUICK, HURRY, HE'S LOOKING AWAY, RUN FOR THE EXIT!" Don't be that individual. There is a striking saying, "in the event that you assist great others with getting what they need, you will continually have what you need."

7. Great Producers work just with individuals who need to work with them.

Super entertainers encase themselves with in each practical sense, shady people who share information, understanding and worth in their affiliations. Design that since you are set up to sell doesn't mean the purchaser is set up to purchase. Help yourself and your relationship out: find rapidly whether you and the purchaser are a solid match. On the off chance that you have changed yourself to comprehend the necessities of the purchaser, introduced demands and listened tensely, you will know the fitting response with accreditation. Occasionally things are basically not wanted to be, and you shouldn't gobble up your responsibility in clients who may not actually prefer to or who aren't set up to work with you.

8. Incredible Producers make "rules of commitment"

A Great Producer regards the appraisal of their client's time what's more expects something from a general viewpoint vague from along these lines. Super entertainers store up standard trust and regard in the selling cycle. How does the purchaser pick? Is the purchaser related with a firm relationship with the tenant point master or subject virtuoso? Is it given up that you are certain that the purchaser will take off in different affinities with their present relationship and work with you considering everything? Do you have a thing that will genuinely get the best worth terms of colossal worth, thing and organization? Makers who can't set up the standards of responsibility have the most decreased hit degrees, starting with one side of the country then onto the going with, in any case.

9. Annihilating Producers can see a central chance versus one that is a maltreatment of assets.

Shocking Producers know their own capacities and cutoff focuses. They twirl around their optimal client base, find their attributes through the status to danger learning new things, and take a gander at drawing in conditions that will assist them with accomplishing their fights. Apex entertainers size up the condition, base on their evaluations and gain limit with the language to leave with clean and expectedness.

10. Staggering Producers have a high A.Q.

Paul Stoltz (The Adversity Quotient) says not our I.Q. besides, not our singing data, yet rather our capacity to see and beat inconvenience is the NUMBER ONE FACTOR FOR SUCCESS. Unequivocally when life gets crazy, Great Producers distinctly need to beat uncommon conditions, beating news and bargaining commitment by getting that "this in like way will pass" and don't let a person or thing baffle their fantasies. Tremendous Producers don't let society, "the economy" or the assessments of others sway their inspiration for importance.

11. Dazzling Producers have a built up specific vision. [Those plans can mix a VISION, a BUSINESS PLAN, a MARKETING PLAN and formal GOALS.]

Having a pulled specifically vision gives you importance and inspiration to your affinities. Truly, even top entertainers flounder and fall behind, yet the most connected with will get from their mistakes, change their frameworks and keep on pushing ahead. They are driven by an energy to live their vision and defeat inconvenience. Do YOU have a dream adequately hair-raising to call you through the torment of progress?

What number of these credits depict above reflect what you are as of now progressing astoundingly? Is it exact to say that you are ceaselessly endeavoring to accomplish importance or have you permitted conditions, commonness or outside impacts block your central goal for being a top entertainer?

Understanding what creates a Great Producer can be major, at any rate it doesn't amazingly transform you into a Great Producer. It isn't what we handle that is enormous, yet rather it is WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT WE KNOW that pulls out Good Producers from Great Producers.

Pay WORK: Pick a one area you handle you need to control and accomplish some captivating choice subject to what's basic for this current week. Risk to record what you need, and what you understand you need to do another way. By then set a BY WHEN for yourself of when it will be begun, and when you will be from an overall perspective extensively more sure about your awareness into the cutoff spots, attributes and practices we have shared for the current month. You can in addition email me for tips and basic courses to changing into a Great Producer.

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Words related to "surprised":

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Surprise & Confusion: etymology and nuances

From Old French ‘estoner’ (astounded/astonished; modern French ‘étonné(e)’)

stunned – paralyzed from shock [more physical than astonished/astounded]

(variations of same degree-equivalence)

astonished – stunned by some strong emotion (admiration, fear, surprise, wonder)

astounded – stunned by some strong emotion (admiration, fear, surprise, wonder)

From Old English ‘amasian’ (confounding, confusing)

amazed – filled with wonder [generally has a positive connotation]

Origin uncertain, perhaps from French: ‘bafouer’ (ridicule) or ‘beffer’ (deceive)

baffled – confused over what is not understood or certain

*in modern French: ‘bafouer’ is still in use, ‘beffer’ is not

Old English ‘be wilder’ (thoroughly led astray)

bewildered – confused as to direction or situation, feeling lost

Latin ‘perplexus’ (entangled; modern French ‘perplexe’)

perplexed – confused over what is not understood or certain [less emotional than ‘baffled’]

Origin uncertain, perhaps from Old French: poser (put, place, propose)

puzzled – confused over what is not understood

From Middle French ‘choc’ (violent attach; modern French: choquer)

shocked – surprised or upset over something unexpected and usually unpleasant

From Latin ‘stupere’ (to be struck senseless; modern French ‘stupéfait’)

stupefied – unable to think or feel properly, like stunned but stronger [not commonly used]

sources: lexico.com & The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia; a Work of Universal Reference in all Departments of Knowledge, With a new Atlas of the World

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This is my first time hearing about the Mulaney Kroll thing and honestly,... I’m baffled... astounded... bewildered...

Me and you both

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Week 2: Confused

Confused baffled bewildered

Unhinged perplex puzzled

Stunned Stupified Mystified

Astonished astounded befuddled

..... the list goes on

Like an ever changing dawn

One moment it’s red the next it’s pink

It makes ones mind hard to focus hard to think

You feel like you’re upon the brink..... of what?

Needless to say this class has my mind going in circles. The main reason why being that everything I read seems not to make complete sense. I see the words, I read them, I know what they mean individually but together... they make little sense. But that’s rather exciting isn’t it? To walk into the unknown. Humans have been doing that for ages haven’t they? Discovering the things that frighten them the most are nothing but rocks in the sky. How odd are we?

Doing this together, in a group, will be less scary I think. It’ll be a way to lean upon one another and feel our way through the world that has been created without our knowledge. So for that I was excited to be working with these three people. All very different and yet the same in goal.

I have started the long task of reading “The stranger” and I must say that I am rather enjoying the writing style. I can follow it but at times I have to reread something to get a proper picture in my head. One thing that throws me off is the use of the word ‘queer’. I know what it means now and I know what it meant then... I think. But still, reading it in the past concept throws my millennial mind for a loop. Also does anyone else think that the main character is a.... what’s the word, a person that doesn’t feel empathy for anyone? That’s what he remind me of. Unwilling to comment on trivial things that have nothing to do with him, more than willing to do whatever anyone suggests. He doesn’t seem to really love or care about anyone but himself. It is rather an odd read but enjoyable none the less.

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Best way to transform your organization's performance

The corporate sphere of Australia is a true example for businesses all over the world. The diversity of enterprises is bewildering, and yet every business is unique in its own eccentric way. While some businesses are earning skyrocketing ROIs, some enterprises are scrambling to cope with their organizational dynamics. Why? The results vary, but one typical cause is the generalization of practices.

Every organization has its own specific needs, and rather than transforming a company externally for the sake of the customers, the best place to start is from within. Intrinsic growth is essential to drive performance and encourage employee progress, and team coaching training in Australia is the best way to drive progress. If you wish your company to undergo stellar transformation with intrinsic growth, then here are some best practices. Dive in!

Goal Clarity

Hiring people to work for you won’t be beneficial unless they know what they have to achieve. Teams in your organization must share a common purpose that motivates them to innovate, improve and inspire. Goal setting followed by precise metrics is one of the best ways of achieving strategic growth because individuals know their ultimate motto.

Efficient leadership

Building a sustainable company culture is tough, and without the presence of a compelling direction and a persuasive leader, all efforts are in vain. Changes in mission and strategy are often difficult to map out. But a leader can coach individuals and teams for uncertainties in the enterprise architecture.

Team coaching

In the fluctuating pace of complex entrepreneurial forefront, teams often become baffled. Teams are the core pillars on which corporate giants and SMEs rely, and when the teams are hollow from the core, an organization can fall like an empire on its knees. This is why team coaching is essential to improve the productivity of the organization at a cellular level. Instead of spending a fortune on publicity or IT, companies can invest in developing high-functioning teams with team coaching.

Customer-oriented strategy

Organizational effectiveness will turn into a myth unless the needs and interests of the customers are considered. When you employ the coaching principles for your team, ensure that the outcomes don’t just enable your organizational progress; they also enable better customer experiences. Amidst the notwithstanding mergers and acquisitions, the capacity of a business to grow depends on the customers. And coaching can help you create a relationship and deeper understanding of human behavior and emotions.

Conclusion

Transforming your organization system into a high-performance matrix isn’t a one-day process. It can take days, weeks, and sometimes months. So, patience and perseverance are the keys. The transformation can be challenging and demanding. But when you make an organization’s performance seamless, the results can be astounding.

Do you want to simplify the transformation process or make it swifter? Then opting for team coaching training in Australia can be an excellent option. Go through the training yourself as an emerging leader or train your organization’s emerging team leaders or managers for streamlined collaboration, and you can achieve your business goals faster than ever.

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