#comsopolitan

[blorbocedes]

am I a galex writer now. am I someone who writes galex for fun now. what is this. this came to me fully formed, much like Athena's birth after Zeus. inspired by conversations with @boxboxlewis

Alex smells good. Alex always smells so good. It's like, floral and sweet, like jasmine scented and then as George kisses the side of his jaw, the crook of his neck, the musk of skin and salt that's just Alex underneath it all.

They'd sat down on the couch to watch Netflix because George pays for the subscription to watch The Crown, and he had googled multiple times that he knew what that entailed. It was very date night of them, not that they did date night.

His other hand drops to Alex’s crotch, over his jeans. He's not hard yet, but George can fix that in a matter of minutes.

Alex shifts, taking the ministrations George was putting on his neck patiently before gingerly pushing him off.

“Let’s just watch something, yeah?” Alex asks, pointing at the telly that wasn't even on.

Oh. Of course. George had gotten overly excited. They're supposed to wait until the Netflix movie meanders off into mediocrity and boredom before they can start getting hot and heavy. There's rituals to this, the articles had varied on when to start the chilling part of Netflix and chill, some stating the movie was not necessary at all but clearly George has found the grave error of his ways. He turns on the first movie that's recommended, it is completely cliched and played over; but Alex seems enraptured.

They end up finishing the whole movie.

They don't have sex.

Alex sees other people. George is strictly monogamous, not that Alex is aware. They've never talked about not seeing other people. It works for them, if George accepts it, and he’ll accept Alex in whatever form he comes. If George doesn't think about it, it honestly doesn't even bother him that much. George just has to be better than everyone else so that once Alex has had his fill of the world, he’ll come back to George. It's a doable goal.

Alex and George grab dinner outside, after work. It's a cozy sort of restaurant, dimly lit warm lighting with greasy food and free flowing alcohol.

Well, it's actually a pub.

But they serve a mean spaghetti carbonara. They talk about the work day, down a few pints, Alex touches his shoulder twice while laughing and it makes George feel warm inside – like he scored a point on an imaginary scoresheet he keeps track of.

Their knees are touching, in the uncomfortable stools by the counter but it is also dark enough and hidden in the shadows that George feels emboldened enough to put a hand of Alex’s thigh, over the thin polyester material. He spreads his fingers, trying to take as much space as his spidery hands allow, lay a claim he doesn't have.

“D’you wanna head back to my place?” George tries to ask casually, but can't keep the heat out of his voice. Or the hope.

Alex looks at him, considering, and for a second George thinks he’ll say yes. “It's just – I've had a long day.” Alex grimaces, scratching his neck he does when he's uncomfortable.

George removes his hand to hold his empty pint glass, trying to outtalk the sting of rejection, casually and smoothly.

“No worries, mate, honestly. I get it. Long. Long days. And also work. Yeah. Everyone hates work. Ugh, what a bummer, right? That ol’ nine to fiver.”

George has this part memorized. Alex’s grip on his hair gets a little too tight, his voice hitches, sometimes if he's very lucky there's a quiet ‘Georgie’, but his hips jerk, hits George in the back of his throat – who has a gag reflex but forces himself to hold down as Alex finishes inside his mouth. It's like solid, tangible proof that he's doing it right. George swallows dutifully, as recommended by Comsopolitan’s 69 Sex Tips On How To Keep Your Man. #57 If you spit, you might as well quit.

George keeps a water bottle beside because Alex doesn't like kissing the taste of himself. He gets it, it's gross in theory. He doesn't actually get it, he likes the taste of Alex in his mouth, but he can understand theoretically why someone could be opposed. He gargles the taste, it's not very sexy but it is efficient and allows him to catch his breath.

Alex, completely spent, lies down on his back and George can see the swell of his chest up and down. The small tattoo on his hip of a flower, that George covers with his hand every time. The warmth of his skin, how pale and undeserving George’s pasty hands look in stark comparison. Alex is like his dream boy. George climbs on top of him and kisses the corner of his mouth. Alex groans, still overstimulated.

“Shh. You don't have to do anything. Can I just — can I look at you?” George asks hoarsely, he's been hard since before he's had Alex in his mouth, it's like a Pavlovian response at this point.

Alex nods in a ‘have at it’ sort of way, and George jerks off just staring at Alex under him, who has his eyes closed. Just him. Just his.

Alex doesn't reach out to help, but George is so strung up he barely needs it, before he's spilling over his own hand. Before he can wipe it against his shirt, a drop or two land on Alex’s chest, over the smooth expanse of his sternum, and in one swift movement George instead of wiping it away, licks it away clean.

“Sorry.” No goodnight kisses then.

“S’ fine. Close the door on your way out.” Alex mumbles sleepily.

Alex is kissing him, Alex is kissing him and this is all George wants. His skin feels like it's on fire where he's being touched, where Alex’s hand is on his neck, and it is embarassing to sport a semi from just a few minutes of kissing but he is, he is hard. His eyes are closed but he's imagining Alex is looking at him with dark eyes, like he's worth something.

“Eager, isn't he?” A distinctly female voice asks, breaking George’s immersion that it's just them.

“Yeah. Always.” George can hear the laugh in Alex’s voice. And the illusion shatters completely.

All the fond gazes and little inside jokes and the fact that Alex doesn't even touch George unless his girlfriend is down for a threesome, that when confronted with Lily being right there George can't pretend that Alex is his, that this is anything more than a pity fuck. George stares at the paused Netflix movie screen and he feels so, so far away, wedged between Alex and Lily while he's the only one shirtless, disheveled, always wanting too much.

Alex smells like jasmine because of Lily’s perfume. He imagines Alex going down on her and it's too much, and kissing her afterwards. It hurts in the way things he can't have hurts; the emptiness of longing.

“I’m – I’m sorry. I can't do this.” George shakes, getting out of Alex’s wonderful wonderful hands and collecting his shirt from the ground.

With his dignity and rapid shrinking half hard dick, George leaves, and unsuccessfully tries to hail a taxi – which doesn't stop -- thinking him to be some sort of pervert.

#galex #f1 rpf #my fics #exquisite george suffering #lie back and think of England baby #please tell me if you like it 🥺👉👈 #I'm not a galexer so everything is stolen from better writers #what if George was actually Tom from succession #the flower tattoo... is of a lily

[encyclopika]

Animal Crossing Fish - Explained #200

Brought to you by a marine biologist and...holy hell, 200?!!

CLICK HERE FOR THE AC FISH EXPLAINED MASTERPOST!

Well, I’d like to commemorate this momentous occasion by covering a really interesting creature that was featured in AC Pocket Camp and that is the Opah. I’m a little biased here because I just love weird fish, especially deep sea species we don’t really know a lot about. It’s about the mystery. So, I’ll do my best to cover this amazing thing. If you want to know why we don’t have a lot of information into deep sea fish, check out my coverage of ACNH’s museum tour of the deep sea tank.

The Opah appeared in AC Pocket Camp for Fishing Tourney 40, which occurred in July 2021. Like I mentioned in the last entry, it appears that ACPC is less concerned with the actual temperature range or habitat of the fish it chooses for what events. The Opah is considered a deep-sea species, or at least an open ocean species that just doesn’t come close to land. It often lives at depths where the water temperature is around 4º C (about 39º F), which is, ya know, not a balmy summer temperature. Although Opahs as a group have a cosmopolitan distribution (aka they are found all around the world, including tropical areas) they tend to stay deep where the water is cool and sunlight can’t reach.

Anyway, the Opah is a pretty unique fish. It belongs to the Order Lampriformes, a small group of fish that include mostly deep-sea and pelagic species. The Order’s name comes from the Opah’s round shape and brilliantly-colored fins and skin, though most Lamprids are more long and slender, with most fish in the Order belonging to the “ribbonfish” clade, for which the infamous Oarfish is a part. That being said, Opahs exist apart from their cousins in the Lampridae family, which only houses one Genus, Lampris. For much of the time we’ve known that Opahs existed, we accepted that there were two species within this Genus. However, in recent years, Lampris guttatus, the comsopolitan species, has been broken up so that there are now six species with more limited ranges. As I’m sure AC Pocket Camp wouldn’t recognize this, not to mention the study occurred in 2018 after ACPC was released, I’m pretty confident this is simply Lampris guttatus, or the (original) Opah. 

Ralph Pace (NOAA Fisheries), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

So, despite the fact they look a bit goofy and fat, these fish are actually really fast and exhibit endothermy, or warm-bloodedness. In fact, the Opah is the only fish we’ve discovered so far that has whole-body endothermy, in which all of its internal organs and muscles are kept at temperatures higher than the surrounding water. (Please note, this is still unlike birds and mammals that keep their warmth at a constant temperature - the Opah’s body temp still fluctuates.)  On top of that, Opah also exhibit regional endothermy, or the act of keeping some parts of the body warmer than others. This type of endothermy is more akin to billfish, tuna, and lamnid sharks (like the great white, porbeagle, salmon, and makos). This type of endothermy usually keeps the eyes, brain, and swimming muscles at an elevated temperature which helps these fish remain active hunters in colder waters. So, unlike most deep-sea fish, the Opah doesn’t just float around in the dark waiting for prey to come to it - it has the power and energy to seek out and chase down its food, which often includes squid and smaller fish.

And there you have it. Fascinating stuff, no?

#opah #deep sea #marine biology #animal crossing #animal crossing pocket camp #acpc #science in video games #animal crossing fish explained

[kristenstays]

Stray Kids Felix/Lee Felix/Lee Yongbok wallpaper (created by me)

Photos are from Stay in Stay in Jeju, Comsopolitan Korea and Noblesse - January 2023

Now, I also post on my Pinterest, you can visit it here: https://www.pinterest.ph/kristenstays/

#stray kids #stray kids wallpaper #stray kids wallpapers #stray kids moodboard #stray kids lockscreen #stray kids lockscreens #stray kids felix #stray kids lee felix #stray kids lee yongbok #skz #skz stray kids #skz wallpapers #skz wallpaper #skz lockscreen #skz lockscreens #skz felix #skz lee felix #skz lee yongbok #black aesthetic #white aesthetic #green aesthetic #felix moodboard #felix freckles #kristenstays_edit_felix #kristenstays_edit_leefelix #kristenstays_edit_leeyongbok

[hellofanidea]

oh PLEASE tell me teddy an leyendecker is baout teddy being a model for him PLEASE the implications of that

but pls hit me with the inception AU Please

sorry for the typos i am 2 comsopolitans in and very drunk i went thru this 5 times to amke sure it make ssense

Sam I love you, have fun, stay safe!

And I WISH 'Teddy and Leyendecker' was about the actual guy but I'm afraid I was simply thinking about him when I needed to name this doc. It's more about Teddy being compared to a Leyendecker. It's also about him being a nerd and reciting Whitman at Arthur and Natalie when they go to visit. I'll put an excerpt and the Inception AU under a readmore.

“I too many and many a time cross’d the river of old,” Teddy sighed with a smile. “Whitman?” Arthur turned to Natalie. “It’s usually Whitman.” Teddy clicked his tongue in disapproval. “You absolutely ought to know that by now. Did I teach you nothing?” He chided. Now picking up an eyebrow pencil, he cleared his throat and started to recite again, in earnest: “I too had receiv’d identity by my body, That I was I knew was of my body, and what I should be I knew I should be of my body.” “Yeah, yeah, real clever,” Arthur conceded.

THE INCEPTION AU(s). Oh boy. I have two versions of this with two different casts (in the same draft file because I'm messy like that). There is, of course, the Webgott AU we discussed, with Joe spiraling out of control as Shade!Web infiltrates his dreamscape. The slightly less dramatic and slightly more procedural fic that is focused on a crew doing multiple unrelated jobs is the one with our OCs in it. Since it's you (...and its the one I have the most written for), that's the one I'll share a bit of.

"What were you even playing with?" Arthur asked, curiosity briefly winning out over suffering. "Longevity?" "Intensity," Toye admitted, becoming slightly more animated as he talked about his work. "One of our biggest problems is a target realizing they're in a dream. I figure there has to be a way to adjust the drug to make it more vivid, or at least keep their minds too busy to make the connection." Well. That would explain- No. Compartmentalization. That was how this worked. "Huh," Arthur said, letting himself sound impressed. "Certainly make my job easier." Something flickered on Toye's stony face, a barely perceptible twitch up at the corner of his mouth. Just in that fraction of a second he almost looked like Arthur's Joe, and the memory of his smile hit him like a haymaker. Then it was gone, and Toye was straightening up, looking concernedly over Arthur's shoulder before stepping away. Arthur turned, and saw what chased him off. Natalie looked like she was one wrong word from blowing a gasket. He opened his mouth, then quickly snapped it shut. "What the hell are you playing at?" She hissed. It seemed like a rhetorical question, so Arthur fought to keep quiet. "Are you tryin' to get us thrown off this crew?" That was less rhetorical, and Arthur made an indignant noise. "Hey, it's not-" "Do not turn up hungover again," Natalie snapped. When Arthur opened his mouth again, she leaned in real close. "From booze or the machine." That was enough to shut Arthur up properly, and he watched her storm over to Winters with a building sense of guilt and dread.

#i love you drink plenty of water mwah #band of brothers oc #ask game

[miestilobydan]

Body/head/appliers

Maitreya body mesh lara

Catwa catya bento head + HD lips add on 

Egozy Sandara Skin applier in golden for catwa

Egozy Oasis eyes palette  for catwa using shade #5 - Unik event 

Enamor Chand fatpack lipsticksappliers for catwa and genus 

Clothing / accessories

Seniha Originals Samantha dress fatpack texture hud - Cosmopolitan 

Slackgirl N19 mesh nails + texture hud - Designer circle

Beo Jewelry Lionela fatpack necklace with texture hud 

Enchante’ Averil shoes fatpack texture hud - Anthem 

#secondlife #sl #slfashion #seniha originals #slackgirl #beo jewelry #slackgirl sl #seniha sl #egozy #egozy skin #egozy sl #egozy store #enamor sl #enamor #enchante' #enchante shoes #shoes #unik event #comsopolitan event sl #anthem event #designer circle

[b-lack-p-ink]

[Breaking News] Jennie is now the first kpop artist to cover all than once TOP 6 women fashion magazines in South Korea (W Korea, Elle Korea, Vogue Korea, Haper's Bazaar Korea, Marie Clarie, Comsopolitan)

#blackpink #jennie #Elle Korea #w korea #Marie Clarie #cosmopolitan korea #Haper's bazaar korea #vogue korea #Breaking news

[wjsndaily]

[OFFICIAL] 170317 ChengXiao for Compolitan

#wjsn #cosmic girls #cheng xiao #p: official #p: magazine #era: jtmw #170317 #comsopolitan ap cx

[cocktailswithmario]

🍸I finally got the privilege to work at this stunning hotel @stpancrasren in London. Making the classic Martinis and Cosmopolitans 🍸🍸 #martini #comsopolitan #exquisitecocktails #events #travelboy🚗 https://www.instagram.com/p/BoZfEiKh5r5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=i1n3c2s4ybpa

#martini #comsopolitan #exquisitecocktails #events #travelboy🚗

[tatahbelline]

[NYNE] @Comsopolitan✔FashionNatic @Tres Chic✔Phedora @Equal0✔LW Bento Poses @Tres Chic por Tatah Kharis Via Flickr: Credits

#@TresChicEvent #::LW:BENTOPoses #Equal0 #PHEDORA #FashionNatic #Comsopolitan #[NYNE] #ilustração #Maitreyabody #Landscapes #Vitualphotograhy #Lindenlabs #Virtualworld #Virtuallife #Snapshot #Photography #Slphotography #spam #spammer #retrato #Secondlifeblog #SecondLife #secondlifefashion #Picture #Photo #People #Portrait #Bloggin #Bloggers #Blogging

[paperbackstories]

Flamenco is a Spanish performance art combining music and dance that seeks to elevate traditional folkloric dancing to the level of fine art, and it succeeds beautifully. The melody is sung and played on classical guitar, but the rhythm is clapped, played on castanets, and through the staccato tap of the dancers feet. #flamenco #oldtown #sandiego #comsopolitan (at Cosmopolitan Hotel and Restaurant)

#oldtown #flamenco #sandiego #comsopolitan

[tooslowxlouder]

#ariana grande #comsopolitan

[momandfreebies]

#mailboxfreebie Allure & Comsopolitan Magazine #magazinefreebies #freebie https://www.instagram.com/p/CULOJOnr7mb/?utm_medium=tumblr

#mailboxfreebie #magazinefreebies #freebie

[zionqt]

Suzy for Comsopolitan ♥

#Suzy #Bae Sue Ji #Bae Suji #bedits

[fyfanbingbing]

Fan BingBing for COMSOPOLITAN China March 2017 Issue

#Fan BingBing #Fan Bing Bing #范冰冰

[legasovas]

I canceled my subscription to Comsopolitan and instead bought a Wine of the Month Subscription.

#kasaundra's life #yes I did #comsopolitan has been going down his lately #so it's about time

[leafchick]

#RobertPattinson photo now in HQ featured in Comsopolitan Magazine 🔥🔥😍 📸: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/es/famosos/noticias-famosos/amp21759071/robert-pattinson-canta-damsel/?__twitter_impression=true . . #robpattinson #damsel #redcarpet

#robpattinson #redcarpet #robertpattinson #damsel