#kinsey fuck shit up locke

[rocks-in-my-vodka]

I just wanna talk about Kinsey for a bit like-

I literally love this dumbass so much, she tried to murder her fear, told everyone she knew about the magical keys her family owns, made a whole horror film using them, she only draws bicycles and is dating the literal villain of the show even tho she doesn’t know that, honestly nobody’s doing it like her

#I want more dumbass female characters #kinsey fuck shit up locke #kinsey locke #locke and key s2 #locke and key netflix #bode locke #tyler locke #mine own

[ivoryratdoggerythethird]

i just finished the first and half the second season of locke & key the other day and holy shit someone explain why the show writers just absolutely hate eden????

like. spoiler alert ig for those who havent seen it???? but.

(i go on a bit of a rant here i'm sorry i just have Thoughts)

first sis gets rejected and left halfway with tyler which yes ok good, he had every right and she's not a victim here, BUT. hotshot here tells his "friends" they slept together; the guys who are, put lightly, clearly not very respectful to her. but ok. ok, whatever, writers love putting in annoying drama exactly like this when dealing with teens, tyler isn't iin a great place, he ditches them later, we can move past.

BUT THEN. she gets publicly humiliated and goes viral in retaliation for some petty words. obviously what she said wasn't cool! i get it! but spitting some stereotypical bully lines doesn't warrant getting yanked around like a puppet (and from kinsey of all people- girl acting like she's never said nor will say anything remotely mean to scot ever) and "deserving" aspect aside, think of how horrifying it was from her perspective! like holy hell she had no idea how she was moving like that.

and then one fine morning she's minding her own business, in her room, when kinsey's stellar choices pop up to scare the living hell out of her- this girl is on the ground shrieking, she's not okay.

and when she goes off the assumption that the freaky monster lady thing that looks suspiciously like a strange new girl she doesn't know and hangs with the group she doesn't exactly have love for and has given reasons to hate, is, in fact, that very same girl, who she knows is also working on a no-budget movie set that would probably have things like, say, cheap horror aesthetic makeup and fake claws-

well, obviously she confronts kinsey at school. and then goes on to be ALMOST MAULED BY THE CREATURE. for what, provoking it? yelling too loud? hitting kinsey? no. because kinsey was intimidated by her. who knows what would have happened if she was alone at the time?

and what does she do? eden never calls out tyler despite jackie certainly having told her about his lie (it'd be out of character for jackie if she didn't) and she never berates him for saying no (ahem, kinsey, ahem). eden salvages her reputation twice after kinsey and gabe's little prank, playing off her terrifying and confusing experience as a joke like a pro, first after the face flop and then even after that video. eden, with gashes in her cheek and near-death experience just past, accepts kinsey's apology and explanation with ease and admirable level-headedness. eden, despite having no obligation nor reason, helps them with dodge's body and the black door down in the caves everyone in her town is scared of.

and what does she get? well. forget getting anything- she loses herself instead. and for an entire summer- nobody fucking notices.

#we even see the demon caging the thing #because it wouldnt leave her alone! #now WE know its a demon but kinesey doesnt #so what would eden just have been hunted by that thing all summer?? #seriously the locke siblings screwed over eden more than they ever even hurt sam lesser #even the demon in her gets abused by gabe/dodge/lucas like dear god #CAN SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE EDEN FRIENDS #I WANT MOMENTS WITH JACKIE OR TYLER OR LOGAN #OR IDFK ZADIE???? ANYONE PLEASE #shes mean but i feel like we crossed the line #after the cafeteria music box incident #locke & key #tyler locke #kinsey locke #bode locke #locke and key dodge #locke and key #eden hawkins #sorry for the rant #jackie veda #my post

[namimikan]

all the locke kids are so fucking stupid it makes me so angry

like. i really hate how kinsey is just “oh, my bf is so selfish bc he won’t let me inside of his head literally” and “i’ll just break into eden’s mind while she’s blackout drunk and see what she’s really up to”

yes, i know that both dodge!gabe and demon!eden are the bad guys, but this violation of trust is just. awful. tbh. she does not have the moral superiority here, tbh.

both gabe and eden do terrible things, i’m not arguing that, but like. they’re the most interesting characters because they actually do stuff, but at least the shady stuff they do is shown to be shady, whereas am i supposed to agree with kinsey in being yeah! i won’t respect your privacy! i can do what i want because i’m a main character! am i???

cause i don’t like that, and it’s one of the reasons i dislike antiheroes as main characters, bc it ticks me off how it’s often shown as okay that the main heroes can just treat other people like shit, and have no repercussions for that.

#onion sprouting text #i have complicated thoughts on kinsey and all the locke kids but this is just. awful?

[yikesharringrove]

so... i’m back because i have too many of these and you asked for more so here we are so this is like a kind of modern au, am also thinking no monsters but i could go either way, i’m thinking like 2012-2015, Hawkins is a small town and because of that it’s views are still pretty conservative, its gotten better over the years but kids still get picked on for their race, sexuality, anything that makes them abnormal, in general it’s just less accepting (pt.1)

(pt.2) So Steve and Tommy are hanging around one day and Steve mentions he thinks he’s bi, Tommy just gets grossed out goes as far as to call steve some slurs and go home, and steve is crushed and terrified, by the time he shows up to school on monday the entire school knows and there are notes in his lockers telling him to kill himself and get out of the school and Nancy, one of the few people who supports him, tries to help, along with Johnathan who explains that they still love him...     

(pt.3) and he even goes as far as to introduce Steve to his brother, with a quick explain that he thinks he’s gay, and that he wants a good role model for him and steve defiantly cries, that’s how he ends up meeting the nerds, when Billy comes into town he almost immediately realizes his dad wanted to come here because it will be hard for billy to be openly gay without him knowing in minutes, on his first day people keep telling him to stay away from Harrington, no one will say why tho...            

(pt.4?) So a few days pass and Billy has yet to meet this harrington kid, but he’s heard stories, used to be too dog but something happened and now he’s labeled a freak. The first time they meet is when Billy comes to practice for the first time, they don’t talk Billy just watches the kid, can’t help but think he’s hot as fuck, but know saying anything about that will probably get him hate crimed, so after practice they all head to the showers...             

(pt.5) Steve seems like he’s trying to get out of there fast, keeps looking anywhere but at the other guys, when tommy comes in he seems to get even more stressed, immediately tommy starts mocking him, talking about how he doesn’t wanna be stuck naked next to steve, some of the other guys join in and billy finally gets it, when he starts listing again tommy has gotten straight up vulgar, asking gross shit and everyone is laughing  and steve looks like he wants to die...             

Okay, so I think I’m gonna write something longer for this because I love this idea, and I’ve had some ideas similar to this. And I may even revisit this for a full fic 🤔

(My ballet fic which will start being posted on Tuesday goes into this, that Steve was picked on for doing ballet and being queer and being femme.)

So, when Steve was like, thirteen, we logged onto the family computer and typed in “how to know if you’re gay” because all he knew was that Indiana Jones made him feel the exact same way Rihanna does, so he did what all us baby queers did, and asked google.

Google tells him that maybe, but there’s also something called the Kinsey Scale, and maybe he’s not gay, but bisexual, or pansexual, or just plain old queer. And all Steve knows is he likes the men on the cover of Sports Illustrated just as much as he likes the women.

When Steve and Tommy are freshly sixteen, and drinking stolen booze, and sitting on Steve’s brand new BMW, staring at the stars over the quarry, Steve tells Tommy that he kinda wants to kiss boys as much as he wants to kiss girls. That he wants to be touched by other boys, to touch other boys. Maybe his drunk tongue slips and says he watched some gay porn and maybe the idea of getting fucked sounds kinda good, kinda hot.

Tommy flips on a fucking dime. He sits there and calls Steve names, tells him he’s disgusting says shit like is that why you’re friends with me? You want me to fuck you? and won’t get back in the car with Steve who cries while he drives home.

And come Monday, there’s the f-slur written on his locker I feel really weird about saying it or writing it out and everyone is pushing him around, and he gets accused of trying to make moves on other guys, and none of the girls will talk to him anymore, and he sits by himself at lunch, until Jonathan Byers, resident weird kid, slaps his lunch down across from Steve and just sits down and starts talking like they’re old friends. Like Steve hasn’t ever pushed him into a wall of lockers. And Steve is having too much fun laughing at this kid’s jokes to actually feel like he’s hit rock bottom.

So he becomes friends with Jonathan. They start hanging out after school, at the Byers’ place, and he meets Will, and he can practically smell the queer on the kid when he gives Steve a once over, goes bright red, and stutters out something about having homework to do.

Mrs’ Byers is kind, and invites him to stay for dinner, and sure, they heard that the Harrington kid’s a f-- but they don’t care, because he’s a sweet kid who helps Joyce with the dishes and plays catch with Will when Lonnie blows him off, and maybe Will blurts out that he has a crush on his friend Mike, and Steve just hugs the kid and wishes to god that it’s easier in Hawkins for this kid than it was for him.

And he and Jonathan get high one day, and Jonathan says he has a thing for Nancy, and Nancy’s been pretty sweet to Steve since he was forced outta the closet, so he helps him out, gets him a date, and they’re happy, and Steve has friends who care about him, who will go to college parties in the city with him, will make sure he keeps his location on his phone shared as he flirts with anyone he likes, has sex with anyone he likes. He has friends that sit with him when he cries in the library after he finds another note in his locker that says something along the lines of kill yourself f--.

And they’re in the parking lot, hanging out before school when Billy gets there, and Billy’s hot and Steve is in love when Billy looks at him across Tina’s Halloween party, smirking and winking. But Tommy's there, yammering in his ear that Harrington was top dog around here, but now, stay away from him. He’s a fucking freak.

And Billy wants to know more, because Harrington is hot, and has a cute kind of deer caught in headlights look about him, but all of his social media is private, and no one will tell Billy anything about him, and he learns to stop asking when Tommy says why do you care so much? You queer for him? because he’s in Hawkins now, and he’s not allowed to be gay in Hawkins. No one is.

And after basketball, Steve stays out of the showers as long as he can, but coach sends him out of the gym, says the school doors’ll be locked past six, so Steve tries to be stealthy, tries to take the shower in the corner, but then Tommy starts running his mouth about not wanting to get too close to Harrington, who is pointedly not looking at anyone, just staring at the drain by his own foot, but then Tommy starts going off about how, maybe he should give it to Harrington, bend him over and take him real good, just the way he’s always wanted, you know, he told me he wanted me to fuck him when we were sixteen and Billy finally gets it.

And Steve looks miserable, so Billy waits after practice, waits til all the other guys are gone, til it’s just him and Harrington in the locker room, and he turns and point-blank asks Steve if he’d want to go out sometime, makes it clear he means on a date. And Steve doesn’t know what to do, thinks this is some joke or something, so he doesn’t say anything until Billy corners him by his car, the same BMW Tommy once said was probably covered in Steve’s AIDs and tells him everything.

Tells him his dad caught him hookin’ up with a guy, that his dad brought him here, to a small conservative town with small conservative people, with the promise that if he acts on his impulses, the people will take care of it before I have to, Billy. He tells Steve that he thinks he’s cute that he wants to take him out on a date.

Steve is so excited he invites Nancy and Jonathan over to help him pick out what to wear, and Billy picks him up, and they go to dinner and a movie in the city, and it’s so nice and fun and Billy kisses him sweetly on the doorstep, and in two weeks, Billy is his boyfriend and they double with Nancy and Jonathan, and go on dates in the city almost every weekend, and they talk to Will about boys, tell him that liking boys is okay that it’s not gross or bad or wrong.

And maybe everything isn’t perfect, Billy’s dad is still a piece of trash, and people still are assholes to Steve, but they have each other, and they love each other, and so things are pretty okay.

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#harringrove #harringrove prompt fic #harrringrove ficlet #steve harrington x billy hargrove #steve harrington #billy hargrove x steve harrington #billy hargrove #yikes writes

[stirfryedshana]

I finished Netflix’s Locke and Key yesterday. I’ve never read the graphic novel so I can’t judge it in that ground but I really loved the show.

Here’s my mostly spoiler-free thoughts.

Cons:

There were some parts where the dialogue was a little cringey and they probably should’ve tried harder to get people to like Kinsey lol. Nina was kind of useless, but to be fair in the story itself she’s very unaware of everything and feeling helpless so it fits.

There was one infuriatingly stupid line (‘hello darkness......my old friend’) and one whole part where I kept having to pause because I was legitametly getting mad at the show. I’ll discuss it towards the end of the post, marked with a spoiler warning.

Pros:

The storyline is awesome. I think it managed to balance being a teenager with a supernatural plot line pretty well. There’s a lot of twists and spooky shit, but there’s a great balance with reality and magic.

I love Scot. Seriously, Scot is the best character (besides Bode). Can Scott, Bode, and Rufus team up next season?

For me I feel like the show is really good at building up suspense. Episode 7 is CRAZY. I had to pause it a few times because I was getting so caught up in it I was getting anxious. They do dramatic and fast-moving scenes very well.

OVERALL: Absolutely would recommend. I loved it and I think I’m going to re-watch it later this week! I really hope they get a season 2 cuz that was a huge cliff-hanger!

— SPOILER BELOW DONT READ IF YOU HAVENT COMPLETED THE SEASON —

The part that really passed me off and was just horrendously lazy of the writers was the part with the Omega Key/ Black Door.

They already knew what would happen when they opened the door - it would shoot out fucking demons that could take over your body. So all they had to do was have Dodge’s body prepared to be shoved in and open the door as little as possible. What did they do instead? OPEN THE DOOR THE ENTIRE WAY AND THEN ALL CROWDED AROUND AND STARED AT IT.

I kept having to pause Netflix. I was so fucking pissed at that part lmao. They could’ve definitely written it better and still had the same result.

#locke and key

[sublimegentlemanalpaca]

Finished watching Locke and Key. Thoughts.

(Spoilers) We finally got an inkling of what the villain actually wants the keys for. The Dad and friends (Keepers of the Keys? Get out of here with that nonsense) are frickin idiots for using a Key with the fucking omega symbol on it given it’s general connotations. Still wondering if destroying the damn things was an option. Like...did you even try? You could at the very least have destroyed the one that opens up some door to a demon realm or whatever. I wouldn’t be so annoyed if they just had at least a passing mention... Grew to really dislike Ellie. Was suspicious already but man.... Favorite characters are Bode, Rufus, and Scott. Did like Tyler and Kinsey....but man did some things annoy me. Agreed with what most others have said that the majority of the characters are really...really...undeniably stupid. Like...there was no attempt at any point to do some research on the keys? Look through your library that is ‘full of weird shit’ or ask Ghost Grandpa? He’d probably knows something? But we don’t have them visit him save Bode’s first meeting with him. Bode I’ll give some slack since he’s like...11? But the others ? Nope. Try and figure stuff out? Like...oh I don’t know. Where the hell do these keys come from? No? Okay. All in all a good show with some frustrating elements. The very good being the main three characters (for all their stupidity) were quite believable. The stuff regarding grief and trauma(if that’s the right word) seemed to be handled quite well. That was good. It also wasn’t boring and caught my attention. Would I recommend it? Eh? Maybe? I’m not certain. Give it a look and if the premise intrigued you ...go for it? Make of this what you will. Al, the Chronographing Cottager and Prince of Naming

#Locke and Key #Al watches stuff #Netflix

[thotdiaries]

everyone on tumblr talking about how the locke kids are so stupid are absolutely wrong. they were normal kids thrusted into a world they knew nothing about.

people complaining about tyler’s night with dodge, he didn’t know what she looked like, he was escaping his own trauma and acting out. like a lot of people do. it’s not stupid, it’s a means of escape.

people talking about how kinsey killed her own fear. if you were trapped inside a cage of anxiety that kept you from talking, interacting, being happier, you would do what it takes to get out of it too.

people talking about how they didn’t check for the crown or think anything was up when dodge was just laying on the floor honestly make me mad. they were under threat, no one warned them about magical keys, there was no kind of survival guide, these kids don’t watch fucking supernatural or some shit that give them insight on what to do, they just wanted it to be over, wanted them to be safe. ellie not fucking speaking up at the end was a dumb bitch move on her part “tyler...” bitch why the fuck are you saying his name instead of saying you’re not dodge god fucking damn it.

moral of the story is, these kids are just fucking kids.

[summerseachild]

Summersea’s GoT Season 4 Rewatch 2019

Otherwise known as: “The Long Slow Slide to D and D Running Out of Material from the Books”

4x01: 

1. The visuals of Ice getting melted down are SO PRETTY (while RoC plays on the background 😎 living my best Lannister Life over here.)

2. Jaime getting the sword and trying NOT to be Lord of Casterly Rock and HOLY SHIT TELLING TYWIN NO and getting away with it.

3. Tyrion is trying so hard to greet the Dornish politely... poor guy.

4. It’s pride month so I’m just pointing out that Oberyn is soooo biiiii and This Bi Girl loves him. And him playing with the flame and Ellaria trying to stop him from killing the Lannister who insulted him... I just love their dynamic.

5. Drogon is just a big happy dragon-Cat and in Dany’s first appearance of this season. He PURRS.

6. I love Jaime and Cersei’s scene with Jaime’s new hand. They snipe at each other, but it is SO how they interact.

7. Jon and Sansa reacting to Robb’s death :(

8. GUESS WHO DID NOT MISS JANOS SLYNT OR ALLISER THORNE AT ALL THATS RIGHT MEEEE. Also Alliser is Peter Knox in a Discovery of Witches so I just HATE HIS FACE.

9. TREAT THAT BOOK MORE CAREFULLY JOFFREY YOU LITTLE SHIT and treat your uncle more nicely too. Jaime looks a little taken aback at what a little turd his oldest has become, but handles it well I think.

10. Jaime and Brienne trying to sort out how to keep his vow to Catelyn 🤣

11. YES ARYA GET NEEDLE BACK. Also Sandor being like NO CHILD COME BACK HERE DO NOT RUSH INTO DANGER WITHOUT ME is precious.

12. Sandor Clegane saying FUCK THE KING gives me such satisfaction

13. I should not be so happy about Arya re-enacting the time when Polliver

14. But I am happy that Sandor got his chickens

4x02

1. So I had forgotten that the girls who were in the scene where Theon gets cut are Myranda and the girl Ramsay is hunting later. I remembered how much I hate the Myranda thing real quick, though.

2. I love Tyrion being understanding of Jaime’s disability because HE WOULD BE. Also Tyrion pouring wine on the table to be like “look spilling is no big deal” is PRECIOUS.

3. Bronn knocking Jaime around while sparring is a great source of joy to me.

4. Theon finds out that Robb is dead when he’s got a RAZOR TO RAMSAY’S THROAT I can’t with Alfie’s face.

5. Every time I see Joffrey chop that book in half I want the purple wedding to be right now.

6. Tyrion trying to make Shae leave :...(

7. KEEP AWAY FROM SHIREEN, RED WOMAN, said Davos probably a lot

8. Question: why don’t the direwolves being food BACK to the hungry humans? Especially when Bran can warg into them?

9. So I want to go through every frame of that vision Bran has with the weirwood because the one we haven’t seen before is a Dragons over King’s Landing. Those ARE THE ROOFS YOU SEE IN THE NEXT SHOT FOR THE WEDDING.

10. Haha oh right this IS the purple wedding ep ooops I’d almost forgot. Not sorry for wishing death on Joffrey but sorry for Cersei’s sake and everyone else it fucks over.

11. Loras having eye sex with Oberyn cracks me up I mean they both have eyes and good gaydar... (bi-dar? queer-dar?)

12. Is Margaery... flirting with Brienne? Or is that just Margaery’s personality?

13. JAIME’S FACE when he sees Brienne and Cersei talking is SO FUNNY he’s like shit shit shit DANGER

14. What did Qyburn DO for Cersei that she is recommending to other women? She told him symptoms were gone in a previous ep in a weird mysterious way... did he help her end a pregnancy?? How long has it BEEN since Blackwater? This never comes back again but I’m super curious. 

15. Oberyn has zero chill around Tywin and I love it.

16. Margaery looking like she is is going to murder someone during the war of the five Kings show is A Mood. (I mean... there IS about to be a murder.)

17. I don’t think the Tyrells planned it but Joffrey being a shit and making Tyrion touch his wine goblet and SANSA TOUCHING IT TOO played right into their hands.

4x03: oh brother here comes altar sex

1. I want very much for Hector Barbossa to be waiting at the top of that ladder for Sansa after approaching the ship and the creepy fog. But no it’s Petyr Baelish. Ew.

2. Hello new Tommen! Good to see you again after Karstark killed your identical cousin! Also Tywin being like GOOD KINGS ARE SMART AND LISTEN TO THEIR SMART ADVISORS. (That moment when a sitting US president needs to listen to Tywin. Scary?)

3. Altar sex has not aged well for me. I’m not a J/C shipper who thinks they’ve got a healthy relationship that’s all sunshine and kitties. I know the two of them have a messed up dynamic, but this scene misses the mark in so many ways and I hate it. I wish they would have left it out rather than done it wrong. (Also I think it was a tryout for me for “can you get a valonqar scene right?” And the answer was a resounding NO.)

4. Speaking of healthy relationships though Sam and Gilly are cute and sweet and awkward and everything that is good and pure in this world.

5. And so is Davos telling Shireen about his smuggling adventures.

6. Oberyn sat his beautiful self right in the middle of the Kinsey scale and said THE VIEW IS GREAT HERE. What an icon. Also offering Tywin fricking Lannister a seat on the bed where you were just having sex with like FOUR DIFFERENT PEOPLE was A Move.

7. Tywin TELLS OBERYN ABOUT DANY and Oberyn looks like this is the first he’s heard of it.

8. Tyrion saying goodbye to Pod gave me a decent sized lump in my throat.

9. Daario taking down the Champion Of Meereen with one thrown dagger and one slash of a sword is sexy as fuck and I don’t care who knows I think so.

4x04

1. Missandei teaching Grey Worm and just hanging out with him is so important to me this time around.

2. Jaime and Bronn are weird friends and I kind of love it.

3. The Kingslayer Brothers: coming soon to a stage near you. I’d buy that band’s shirt.

4. Olenna Tyrell is a STONE COLD LADY and I love that about her. She protected her granddaughter and I respect that.

5. That is A LOT OF WINE IN THAT GLASS Cersei my love. Also Jaime TRYING to convince her Tyrion didn’t do it hurts me. He loves them both so much, but they all hurt each other.

6. Ser Pounce is a big fluff like my Freya!

7. OATHKEEPER AND THE WHITE BOOK AND THE ARMOR. Brienne’s face is so pure when he gives it to her.

8. I had near forgotten all of this stuff at the wall with Olly and Jon and the cannibals and the mutineers at Craster’s and waiting for Mance’s army. (We know where my heart is though, don’t we...)

9. SIT DOWN LOCKE. I forgot that human shitstain showed up at the wall looking for Bran.

10. We didn’t need the mutineer plot. What did it add? What did we learn about the world or its people? Nothing we didn’t already know. What. Was. The. Point. We’d already seen the walkers and knew about the babies, we knew the world was violent and classist. WE KNEW.

11. I love when Summer is like HELLO BROTHER GHOST OH NO A TRAP

12. The white walker riding across the frozen lake... what a gorgeous image, and the ice henge...

13. WHAT DO THE BLUE EYED ICE BABIES GROW UP TO BEEEEE DO WE EVEN KNOW

4x05

1. I’d say long live King Tommen, but I’d cry.

2. Cersei is beauty she is grace she wants to punch Margaery in the face. (But actually is acting like she might need Margaery to help Tommen? That scene was hard to read.)

3. Meereen has a lot of cool geometrical carvings.

4. Dany thinking about what kind of ruler she wants to be and what responsibilities she has to the people she freed? THAT IS WHO SHE IS, D AND D YOU DICKS.

5. Sansa’s like “greeeeeaaaaat another creepy little kid” when she meets Robin.

6. And Lysa lets it ALL OUT about what Petyr has had her do... wow.

7. Cersei is going along with the Tyrell marriages way too easily what is her game.

8. Tywin is... almost treating his daughter like someone he can trust and have a conversation with? What is this?

9. And then there’s the stupidity about the mines running out. Wtf.

10. Arya is a little drama queen with saying the Hound’s name last while HE WAS LISTENING.

11. Lysa is SO DAMAGED. Poor Sansa.

12. Aw Brienne you don’t know what a loyal kid you’ve got in Podrick give him a chance.

13. Arya practicing water dancing is so cool.

14. Cersei and Oberyn talking is actually really interesting. And they talk about Myrcella :....( and Oberyn is TELLING THE TRUTH about her being happy.

15. Cersei got her A BOAT for her birthday because she LIKES THE OPEN WATER I had forgotten that and I am freaking out for fic reasons because of fics I haven’t written yet that involve Myrcella being good at boats.

16. Geez Pod I don’t know how to skin a rabbit but I know you need to before you cook it. And... does Brienne actually need help with that armor, or does she realize Pod needs to feel useful? I’m going with the second.

17. I had forgotten how creepy Jojen’s visions were.

18. Bran warging into Hodor and killing Locke is... problematic, but Bran had every reason to think Locke was going to kill him. Good fucking riddance.

19. Jon being happy to see Ghost XD

20. So... there’s just a troop of Crasters daughters out there still? Idek.

4x06 the laws of gods and men (and by men we mean Tywin)

1. Braavos is so pretty! I love her. I love her canals, I love the Titan, I love the domes, I just love her.

2. I remember when people lost their shit over Mark Gattis being in this episode. He is quite good here, and Davos is quite clever.

3. Salador’s joke about the red shirt is FUNNY and I’m not afraid to say so.

4. No one wants to see Ramsay having sex.

5. EVERYONE wants to see Yara giving a great speech.

6. She... ran from some dogs when she was burying her axe in dudes’ GUTS five seconds earlier? LAAAAAAME. Yes yes she also saw how fucked up in the head Theon was (more awards Alfie deserved and didn’t get), and she did want to lose any more people when he wasn’t willing to come but the way this was cut it reads like she was all OH NO DOGS which is the stupidest thing ever. 

7. NOOOO POOR GOATS. I get that dragons have to eat though...

8. I cannot believe Dany didn’t take the time to FIND OUT WHICH MEEREENESE WERE LESS TERRIBLE. They would have been fucking allies. BUT NO LET’S JUST CRUCIFY PEOPLE WITH NO IDEA OF THE NUANCES OF THE LOCAL SITUATION. What stupidity.

9. At least she’s trying to learn??? She’s so small on that throne in a huge room. What a great shot.

10. Oberyn is a bisexual who CANNOT SIT IN A CHAIR NORMALLY. I am not complaining.

11. I cannot see the scene of Jaime and Tyrion walking down into the courtroom for the trial without giggling at the memory of the outtake where they dance like dorks into the room and down the aisle.

12. Jaime looking at Tyrion like YOU ARE NOT HELPING YOURSELF is a mood.

13. How did they get the poison necklace? Didn’t Littlefinger throw it in the Blackwater FAR off shore? A bit AFTER he killed Dontos? How does Pycelle have it here? Maybe they washed up together? Maybe D and D forgot Petyr tossed it in the bay? WHO KNOWS???

14. Jaime trying to convince Tywin one last time and offering to leave the kingsguard in exchange for Tyrion HOLY SHIT I FORGOT HE DID THAT. Cersei never would have spoken to him again if he’d left her and married and gone back to the Rock and given Tywin what he wanted. Jaime KNEW he was screwing over a relationship that means SO MUCH TO HIM but it’s TYRION’S LIFE we’re talking about here. That’s how much he loves his little brother. 

15. Tywin is like DONE so fast Jaime barely gets the offer out lol

16. And it all would have worked if Shae hadn’t walked through those doors.

17. Do we know WHY Shae agreed to testify to this? What did Tywin offer her or threaten her with?

18. WHAT ARE YOU DOING LITTLE BRO WHY ARE YOU SAYING THIS?! is Jaime’s face all the time this scene.

19. Tyrion’s “confession”is such a piece of acting wow Peter enjoy your Emmys.

4x07

1. Jeez Tyrion didn’t know Jaime COULDN’T save him. He had no idea that losing his hand had affected his abilities that badly. That... hurts.

2. Arya, Sandor, and the dying farmer is such a great scene... And Arya only killing that asshole only after Sandor learns his name for her so she knows the name of the man she’s killing.... A++ would watch again.

3. Everyone LISTEN TO JON he has seen things none of you have.

4. Tyrion finding out Bronn has been bought is so very upsetting but I love this scene.

5. But really though once Tywin named The Mountain champion, anyone who Tyrion asks to be his champion at this point he’s basically asking to die.

6. Dany’s like “well I guess fucking Daario isn’t going to cause a political disaster at least.”

7. I had forgotten how fascinating Selyse and Melisandre’s interactions are.

8. IS THAT SETTING UP BURNING SHIREEN FUCK THAT.

9. Dany is capable of nuanced thought when it comes to innocence and guilt of whole groups of people and WE JUST SAW IT with how Jorah changes her mind and I’m JUST SO ANGRY.

10. That is the only time we get the story of Sandor and the fire from his own mouth and I did not mean to be this moved.

11. Hot Pie talking about food (oh yeah and Arya) is so precious. And now I want steak and kidney pie. With gravy.

12. “Using honest feelings to do dishonest work is one of her greatest talents.” The truest thing Tyrion has ever said about Cersei.

13. What a great snow castle. Too bad Joffrey part 2 knocked it down.

14. Ew ew ew Petyr kissing Sansa is so skeevy and gross.

15. “A great deal might change between now and never” is a great line though.

16. I hate Petyr but it’s good he pushed Lysa out the Moon Door before she killed Sansa.

4x08

1. Jon and Co all reminding Sam that Gilly is a survivor is so great. Brotherhood at its best.

2. Missandei and Grey Worm are young people with old souls and their relationship is precious to me.

3. Alfie is SO GOOD at showing how deeply Ramsay has him under his control even when he’s alone with the Ironborn.

4. Petyr is part Braavosi? Fascinating.

5. Sansa TOLD the Lords of Vale who she was??? Her testimony is such a good bit of acting on Sansa’s part. It’s a lie hidden in a lot of truth, and she was QUICK to think it through and come up with it.

6. Jorah telling Dany about the pardon is a scene that breaks my heart. 💔 She is HARSH here but I love the full blown Targaryen on display.

7. Roose being like TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE like the Lion King cracks me up so hard.

8. I will never give Ramsay the Bolton name in anything I write as long as I am a fan of this show out of pure hatred. He is Ramsay Snow forever and always.

9. I remember I was so worried that they were going to have Petyr try to sexually assault Sansa. OH I WAS A SWEET SUMMER CHILD.

10. Arya laughing at the news of Lady Arryn’s Death is an immensely human reaction and I love that she just CANNOT STOP.

11. I know people hated that scene with Jaime and Tyrion talking about beetles but I have two takeaways: first, a septon tried to touch Jaime once???? Headcanon: Little Jaime looked that septon dead in the eye and said “my father wouldn’t like that” and it never happened again. The septon was summarily replaced. Second: Jaime has never thought about ANYTHING in his whole life as deeply as baby Tyrion thought about beetles.

12. Oberyn is so fun to watch fight and Jaime agrees with me.

13. You don’t need him to confess Oberyn really you don’t you GOT HIM my beautiful prince.

14. How did the Gods make their will known if BOTH champions killed each other dead, huh Tywin? (The Mountain is... less Dead?)

4x09

1. Sam mulling over the legalistic interpretation of their vows and Jon trying to explain what sex and love are like are both SO CUTE.

2. I love that everyone around that fire has heard the “Tormund fucked a bear” story and I’m kind of sorry Ygritte didn’t let him finish.

3. Maester Aemon revealing his Targaryen identity was lovely. Also Sam Cussing to get Gilly in the gate= AMAZING

4. Alliser Thorne ADMITTING HE WAS WRONG? I am dead of shock.

5. Sam and Pyp talking about fear and bravery is... so darling.

6. They have A GIANT RIDING A MAMMOTH and I will forgive a small amount of nonsense for giving me that image.

7. See Alliser looking at the horn blower like REALLY? IN THE FUCKING MIDDLE OF MY SPEECH? Before they realize it’s the horn at Castle Black is PRICELESS.

8. Speaking of which I may not like Alliser but he gives a good “let’s not die” speech.

9. Bless Grenn for getting Janos Slynt off the wall.

10. Pyp dying in Sam’s arms was not something I was ready for.

11. You’ve heard of horsepower... now get ready for MAMMOTH POWER (wildling used mammoth salesmen probably)

12. Sam remembering that being NICE to Olly when asking to go up the wall rather than just screaming at him is... telling.

13. Grenn is THE BEST KID AND I LOVE HIM

14. Ghost is going to EAT SOME WILDLINGS

15. Ygritte :...(

16. How is Tormund even ALIVE??? He’s like a frickin PIN CUSHION.

17. “They held the gate” is a line that will make me cry now. Grenn and co. Didn’t let that giant through :...(

3x10: back when D and D remembered the Children existed that one time

Also back when Jaime had a plan that didn’t end with ANY OF HIS FAMILY KILLING EACH OTHER BUT TYWIN ENDS UP DEAD ANYWAY WHY ARE WE LIKE THIS.

1. Jon deciding single-handedly that he’s going to KILL Mance Rayder. Boss move.

2. Oh FFS. Pull the stick out of your ass Stannis and let Mance be.

3. Qyburn is like “out of my way bitch I’m doing necromancy”

4. Cersei telling Tywin the truth to get out of Marrying Loras is... still... making my jaw drop and I KNEW SHE WAS GOING TO DO IT. And there’s ACTUAL EMOTION on Tywin’s face and EVERYTHING SHE SAYS ABOUT PAYING SOME REAL FUCKING ATTENTION TO HIS FAMILY IS TRUE

5. Ah yes “Jaime writes his family’s dialogue” part one. I CHOOSE YOU OMG AND SEX IN THE LORD COMMANDER’S OFFICE I CANNOT BELIEVE WE GOT THAT. Even if I’m still on the fence about whether Jaime would be ok with doing it THERE I’m mostly on board because she JUST TOLD DAD THE TRUTH AND TOLD HIM HE WAS THE ONE SHE WANTED AND I DON’T KNOW WHO LET THE SHIPPERS WRITE THIS SCENE BUT YAY.

6. Dany is still learning all kinds of nuance... I feel like the year contract thing was an attempt to balance her need to be a liberator and the reality on the ground?

7. You are telling me that the Dany who was that upset at Drogon eating ONE child let him burn a WHOLE CITY? I call bullshit.

8. Also this is a CLASSIC example of “one sibling does something wrong and the other two get punished for it” poor Viserion and Rhaegal.

9. Maester Aemon knows how to give a mass eulogy.

10. MEANWHILE NORTH OF THE NORTH HI BRAN meet the hugest weirwood in Westeros AND SOME ICE ZOMBIES

11. POOR MEERA I FORGOT SHE HAD TO HELP JOJEN DIE

12. If the children can do that WHERE ARE THEY LATER

13. holy shit bloodraven is creepy

14. Arya and Brienne meeting :) so cute

15. And Sandor being like YOU ARE TOO NAIVE TO PROTECT HER is cute in its own way.

16. Wow Brienne and Sandor really knock the shit out of each other how are they still alive.

17. Sandor saying awful things to Arya to make it easier for her to kill him was tragic and you can see the desperation in his eyes even as he says the worst of it.

18. JAIME LANNISTER MAKES DECISIONS HE WILL REGRET LATER LIKE NOT GOING ALL OF THE WAY TO THE BOAT WITH TYRION

19. I Had forgotten how rough that last conversation between Tywin and Tyrion was and how devastating those performances are.

20. Varys being like oh fuck those bells I’m going too... prescient.

21. Love the music with Arya on the ship to Braavos!

#summersea has feels about got #summersea got rewatch 2019

[el-gilliath]

Texas Rounder 4

So then @bialiencowboy, here we are for round 4 with Noah Bracken. Still NSFW, we got two more rounds to go.

“Oh you can have it any way you want big boy. Just tell me and I can damn well guarantee that I’m in” the guy whispers in Noah’s ear and he just wants to curl in on this guy and do everything. Noah isn’t someone that usually goes for guys, he’s pretty much a 1 one the old Kinsey scale but this guy. This confident cowboy in the middle of a bar in Texas makes him just want things. Noah doesn’t quite know why he of all people caught this guy’s eye, but he’s not going to say no when someone like this comes on to him. 1 on the Kinsey scale is still a 1 even if he can count on the guys he’s slept with on one finger. Well, about to be two.

So he drags him into the backroom of the bar (doesn’t hurt to know the owner) and locks the door before he kisses him, earning a noise of surprise from Mr. Cowboy. But damn is he doesn’t get with the program quickly and kisses him back with a level of skill that makes Noah a little bit weak in the knees. He wrestles with Mr. Cowboy’s belt buckle and unzips his fly just to get a hand on his dick. And as he does, he decides that he needs to get fucked by it. Noah is not afraid of a little butt action, he’s too comfortable in himself for that. And the one encounter he had with another guy in college he got fucked. And Noah Bracken is not a liar so he has no problem admitting that he liked it.

“Tell me what you need” Mr. Cowboy whispers into Noah’s ear after breaking one sinful kiss as he opens his dress pants and shows them down his legs.

“You got a condom and lube?” Noah whispers back, and Mr. Cowboy just grins at him before removing said artifacts from the pocket of his jeans. So Noah just kisses him hard one more time before he turns around and braces his hands against the wall. Mr. Cowboy’s breath hitches on a strangled whimper, but he gets with the program quickly enough and shoves Noah’s underwear down his legs.

“Jesus fucking Christ you’re hot dude” Mr. Cowboy says behind him and Noah only chuckles before he breathes in sharply as lubed fingers finds his entrance easily, rubbing around and massaging for a bit before breaching slightly with what is obviously practiced skill. And Noah is very happy he picked this guy for his second foray into gay sex, because he takes his time opening him slowly and surely while kissing the back of his neck and tugging lightly on his dick with his other hand.

It feels like forever that he’s being slowly fingered, stretched and prepared for the main event of this backroom Texas rounder, but it’s not that long. Noah had done this before and knows how to relax, Mr. Cowboy equally skilled on the other side of it.

“Come on, I’m good” he moans out after what feels like forever and two fingers ago to a slight, deep chuckle from Mr. Cowboy, who sounds just as turned on as Noah feels. He moans out his loss as Mr. Cowboy removes his fingers, but the crinkle of the condom wrapper excites him again. And only a few seconds later he feels the head of a dick at his entrance.

“You tell me if it hurts at any time big boy and I’ll stop” he gets growled into his ear.

“I’ve done this before, you’re good. Now come on” he replies, Mr. Cowboy taking a deep breath before he starts to push in. Just a little at a time, building the pressure and making sure there is enough lube before he goes any farther. Noah just hangs on tight, and moans as he gets more and more of this guy’s fantastic inside of him. It still feels like it takes too long for him to get all the way inside, but honestly Noah is kind of glad he is being as careful as he is. And when he does bottom out, it’s fucking fantastic.

What follows is maybe the best sexual experience Noah has ever had. Mr. Cowboy takes his time, fucking him slowly and calmly, taking extra care to watch out for any signs of discomfort as he pushes in and out in a controlled manner to get Noah accustomed to the feeling. But he speeds up little by little, taking care to angle himself so he stimulates his prostate on every in-push. And it feels so good Noah wants to fall apart. Mr. Cowboy takes him steadily and gracefully, putting more speed and power as Noah obviously turns more comfortable, moaning his way to kingdom come. The pleasure and pressure builds steadily, like a roaring lion ready to release it’s roar, so when Mr. Cowboy puts his hand on his dick and strokes it just right moaning “Come for me” hotly into his ear, he does with a great big roar of pleasure, Mr. Cowboys hips stuttering slightly as he too moans out his release in Noah’s ear. And holy shit. Round Two for gay sex might have pushed him up one more point on the Kinsey Scale.

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4 years later when he meets Mr. Cowboy again, Michael, as his beloved Isobel’s brother he can’t help but wonder if he can get him to teach Isobel a few tips on pegging.

#no-good texas rounder #my fic #noah bracken #michael guerin #edin my love #you give me life #noah and his kinsey scale

[delcat177]

Tag!

Rules! Tag (numbers) people you want to get to know!

I was tagged by @heliodora97 while between PCs, made a note not to forget that shit, promptly forgot that shit, and just remembered that shit 8,D

This got long (of course)

Name: Del Terance-Theodore Scott

Gender: Trans guy

Star Sign: Scorpio

Height: 4′10″, 147.32cm, a smol, just a real smol boy

Sexuality: 5.9 on the Kinsey scale.  Like, maybe one woman in three hundred piques my interest, and that’s usually because they’re coded masculine.  The entire nonbinary spectrum is a case-by-case deal, although again, I’m more inclined toward masc coding.  Basically, I’m panromantic but with the BIGGEST FUCKING BIAS toward gay and 99.8% gay sexually, and since I’m in a monogamous relationship, identifying as gay is really just easier and more gender euphoric.

Also I wanna fuck the fish

What image do you have as your lock screen: 

This has been my lock screen, header, and PC background for two years now and I do not anticipate it changing, thank you @nooneandeveryone

Have you ever had a crush on a teacher: Two or three notable teachers in college and a little schoolboy crush on my high school teacher because he liked and understood me better than 90% of the kids in Crazy Fundie School (he liked MST3K!!!)

Where do you hope to see yourself in 10 years: Holding a big folder of fanfiction marked “DONE” with a big red rubber stamp

If you could go anywhere else right now where would it be?: France, my fiance is probably on their second cup of morning coffee by now

What was your coolest Halloween costume?: Since Halloween is my birthday and Mom was INCREDIBLY patient and skilled, I had some real bangers.  A few that stand out are Queen of the Butterflies and The Most Extra Grizabella the Glamour Cat Cosplay Ever because I am very very gay, plus a not-too-shabby DIY Pyramid Head costume for my last year ever going out.  I think I’m proudest of the year I decided I wasn’t too old for trick-or-treating at the VERY last second, though--I found a huge picture frame and Mom pinned some fabric to the top as a backdrop and bam, I was a portrait.  I taped a “plaque” made out of a post-it reading “(NAME), AUTHOR, AGE 9″ on the bottom because I had Aspirations.  My arms were killing me from carrying it by the end of the night but folks loved it.

What was your favorite 90’s TV show?: 

First fandom and one of the greatest.

Just don’t talk to me about the remake.  Don’t fukken do it.

Last kiss?: Last August, at the airport...I wanna go drink coffee wah

Favorite book?: 

BUT TO NAME A FEW

My love of Discworld and The Phantom Tollbooth should be very apparent, I adore short horror fiction, but one of my favorite unsung heroes is Bruce Coville.  He was one of my greatest influences growing up, both through his books and through his stubbornness in getting anthologies aimed at kids with REAL stories published.  Seriously, the Bruce Coville’s Book Of... series has To Serve Man, Zero Hour, It’s a Good Life, all these sci-fi classics that were in Real Adult Anthologies and the most fucking surreal shit I have ever read and I am counting my adult experiences.  I read Joe R. Lansdale’s The Fat Man at 9 because Bruce Coville thought I should have that right and bless him, I have never been the same.

When I was 10, Mom found out that Bruce was doing school presentations in Michigan and made some calls (I was still homeschooled at the time) and got me in not just to see the presentation, but meet him in person beforehand and talk to him one-on-one.  It was one of the greatest experiences of my life, but I spent a long time wondering if he’d still accept me if I met him as a trans gay adult, because part of being trans is having your fantasies cut short with “shit what if he misgendered me”.

So I wrote him a long letter about it and it turns out he’s progressive as fuck and totally accepts me and now we’re honest-to-God comment-on-each-other’s-posts Facebook friends.

No seriously.  Sometimes your idols actually turn out to be heroes.  Every time I see him lambast Trump my kokoro doki dokis and boy howdy that’s a lot of dokis.

Have you ever been stood up?: I dated all of two people before falling in love with Crow, so I didn’t really get the chance, which is probably a good thing?

Have you ever been to Las Vegas?: I lost two life’s savings on Neopets in one day when the slot machines came out, I spent everything I had and then sold one of my most expensive items and spent all of the proceeds from that, so I’m just gonna play the occasional quiet game of Poker Night 2 ok

Favorite pair of shoes: I have Achilles’ tendonitis so I can really only wear specific sneakers, but before we knew that, I used to beg Mom to let me buy boots at the Army Surplus store and I would wear them until the sides gave out (yes, the sides, my ankles are fucked up and weird).  Gender euphoria to the NINES.  I miss it augh.

Favorite fruit?: A L L OF T H E M

ok actually I’m not too much into citrus except for pomelos and kiwis are too sour and these things can fuck right off but buddy I avoid putting on stoner weight because I will just sit there slowly eating individual blueberries like a lizard for four hours, or crack open a can of jackfruit, or make myself positively ill on cherries, FRUIT IS AMAZING

I think if I absolutely HAD to choose, it’d be cherries.  Cherries are Michigan’s Thing and we used to pick them ourselves from tourist farms and oh God I am forever spoiled on cherry flavor because that shit does NOT compare.  It’s so good.  It’s so so good.

Casul is a fruit bat for a reason ok

Stupidest thing you have ever done?: 

Boy howdy that’s a long dark road to potentially go down so let’s have three lesser stupids instead of my sincere regrets:

--I got a virus when I was 15 and someone hacked my comp saying that if I didn’t give him my Neopets password he’d delete all my shit and I didn’t disconnect but instead made fun of him in whatever janky chat thing he installed because I didn’t think he could do it (he could) (funny in retrospect except I’m still pissed over losing all of my progress on the RM2K game I was making at the time) --When I was but an amateur stoner I didn’t realize my body would lie to me about how much it could actually eat and I ingested so, so many cashews and then staggered into the bathroom and de-ingested them violently while my dumbass brain went “haha whoops” --In Hawaii I fell on the sidewalk, completely erased the skin on my knee, terrified a family of Asian tourists by trying to patch up my profuse bleeding while the wind blew my hastily-bought medkit down the road, and spent two months nursing the two-inch-square wound it left behind.  I have related this before.  I have not related that the entire reason I tripped was I noticed a small dog on the other side of the street and got so excited I forgot how to walk.

I tag uhhhhh @thegrinningcrow, @qglas, @sugarburger, @machi-tobaye, @melancthe, @squid-ichorous, @panur, @i-like-too-many-boys, and @clumsyshark, but I would happily read responses from absolutely anyone, just tag me back please!

#getting to know you #tag meme #personality meme #about me #weed cw #food tag #vomit mention #very soft implied but still #sorry this is super late #and thank you for tagging me i like you a lot aaaaa #long post #longpost #scrolling #del in a nutshell

[rocks-in-my-vodka]

absolutely love gabe’s reaction to kinsey flying off like-

he’s just like “omfg are you shitting me?! there’s another key?!?!” honestly babe, same. like for generations the Lockes have just straight up dj khaled’d the whole key situation like even after what seems to be the 20th key they were like “àñöthēr øńę”

#I can’t with this crazy af show #the show makers are prolly high all the time #everything from the spider episode to the entire Eden situation is just chef’s kiss perfect #Eden is such a powerful character I love her and the whole *fuck shit up* thing she has going on #killing ppl off left and right #you go Eden #most importantly the *screw yourself josh* scene #aaahhhh #love this show #demon Eden #GABE #dodge #oh and also Ellie’s back yayyyy #locke and key netflix s2 #kinsey locke #tyler locke #bode locke #rendell locke #benjamin locke #miranda locke #the lockes #locke and key

[bforbookslut]

Angst and Sexy Take Centre Stage in Rachel van Dyken’s Infraction

I have given Infraction by Rachel van Dyken a ☆☆☆ rating. It is Book 2 of the Players Game series. It is New Adult Contemporary Romance. Skyscape publishes it. It will be published January 9, 2018.

The blurb reads:

Pro footballer Miller Quinton would do anything for his best friend and teammate—including “fake dating” his friend’s sister. What no one knows is that seven months ago in Vegas, Miller and Kinsey did a whole lot more than just kiss. Miller knows that this cheerleader is off-limits to him and any guy on the team. Still, he can’t stop himself.

Kinsey’s whole world is on the verge of crumbling. Her dad has cancer. Her overprotective brother is falling apart. Dating Miller may be a fake-out, but he’s the one guy who can make her forget about everything—including all the reasons she stayed away from football players. With each heated moment, Miller feels more like a safe place…even though he’s not safe at all.

Now temptation is testing every rule in the game of love. But how long can they go on playing when winning is a harder goal than either of them imagined?

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Merry Christmas guys and a Happy New Year! How was your Christmas? It’s always been a quiet affair for me, some time with family and just lazing at home. Keep an eye out for my 2017 wrap-up tomorrow because a new year means a new post! As always, my reviews may contain spoilers. I say may because what’s a spoiler to you may not be a spoiler for me.

I was disappointed with Infraction.

I absolutely adored the first book in this series, Fraternize. It made me laugh, cry and my heart ached with how much it made me feel.

Don’t get me wrong. Rachel van Dyken cannot do any wrong and Infraction was a good read. But, Infraction, felt like it was trying too hard. More often than not, it felt a little extreme, outlandish and lacking a realness. I didn’t devour it like Fraternize and in fact, I will guiltily admit that I was not interested in finishing it.

From the get-go, we know that Kinsey and Miller are going to be together. That’s obvious enough. Because of this, the entire book felt like one messy rollercoaster ride of “can you just fucking work your shit out and get together already???”. On the brighter side, we also learn a great deal about Kinsey and Jax’s background and their sibling relationship (which was turned up to eleven here) and we get to see Miller’s soft side. And, of course, we get more of Rachel van Dyken’s signature hilarious yet charming banter!

For a fake dating story, I expected a lot more unresolved sexual tension but since the sex was already over and done with in Vegas, Infraction was a hell lot more romantic. Once you’re past the sex, it’s all about falling in love and taking off the rose-coloured glasses.

Infraction follows Miller and Kinsey’s journey of being forced together and learning about each other. In the process, they also learn about themselves and naturally, fall in love. Is there a plot? I’d say the most generic one around. Boy meets girl, they fall in love, big drama happens to break them up, there are some tears and heart-to-hearts and then, the happily ever after.

It got a little boring at the halfway mark because Infraction does nothing new. I didn’t care for Jax’s overprotectiveness with Kinsey but if you’re looking for an answer, Infraction gives it to you.

But, finally, the book rounds a beautiful corner! The ending was gorgeous though and it brought tears to my eyes. Hint: it involves family which is such an important thing to both Kinsey and Miller.

We do get a lot less sports in Infraction, despite Jax being team captain and a minor focus of the book. Instead, it looks at domestic and sexual violence and cancer. I think Rachel van Dyken dealt wonderfully with both these topics without turning the romance into a sob story or a medical drama. I do wish Kinsey had more justice when it came to Anderson, her abusive ex, because she deserved it.

Speaking off, naturally, the focus of Infraction is on Kinsey and Miller with some sideshow of Jax. Although, I felt Jax played far too big of a role and took the focus away from Kinsey and Miller with his presence constantly looking over them.

I adored Kinsey’s strength and her feistiness in the first book, but she is reduced to a whiny, tantrum-throwing adult. With every turn of the page, someone had to reassure her of her feelings and “save her”. But after spending an entire life with Jax constantly breathing down her neck and making sure she’s fine, it’s not a surprise.

But the real gem is Miller. He was respectful all the time, even if he constantly wanted to rip Kinsey’s clothes off. He’s such a sweetheart and so caring. While I don’t have a maternal bone in my body so seeing guys do well with kids doesn’t really get me going, but Miller reassuring a dying child just pulled at my heart strings.

What really ticked me off about Infraction was Jax. His overprotectiveness and obsessiveness of Kinsey is unrealistic and I’d say borderline abusive. And the more I learnt of their relationship, the faster the stars dropped. He locked her in on prom night. Yet, no one seems to find that weird or called the cops on him. He has good intentions and he never intended to hurt her; clearly, he isn’t a predator of some sort. But Kinsey’s only reaction is to run away, cry, scream etc instead of confronting him like an independent adult.

I’m glad that in the end, Jax learnt to let go. And Miller had the best line to go with it:

“This is what love looks like, man, it protects, not by keeping everything hidden but by being honest.”

But it still bothers me.

I felt that Jax deserved his own book, if only to work out the mechanics of his relationship with Harley and his God-complex which I felt kept being brushed off and excused. I also felt that Harley deserved a lot more credit and spotlight. She felt unfairly robbed.

Rachel van Dyken is a goddess when it comes to banter. The writing is sexy and charming and laugh-out-loud funny. The push and pull and flirting (unintentional and not) between Miller and Kinsey is adorable. Especially calling each other Chicken and Waffles. Like, hello, guys? That’s something couples do so you’re not fooling anyone.

But, the sex just seemed blah to me. And even the tension just didn’t make my lady bits tingle at all.

Overall, Infraction didn’t leave much of an impression on me. I still loved it because Rachel van Dyken is a goddess but it didn’t live up to my expectations and perhaps, that’s my fault. I loved the previous installment far too much. I do hope there are more installments in this series (please give me the entire team!) because Rachel writes phenomenally and there’s something fresh and light about her writing.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. This review edition may differ from the final edition.

#book review #infraction #rachel van dyken #new adult #contemporary romance #sports romance #threestars #2018 publications #arc review

[namimikan]

the ashmoore twin is the only good thing about locke and key, istg.

- yes, i like gabe/kinsey, but that’s more the trope than the actual characters bonding and potentially falling in love with each other.

- kinsey&tyler sibling heart to hearts are the best, and i love these interactions

- tyler is probably the best sibling, tbh. he fucks up, but he cares. tyler/jackie is cute tho.

- gabe/dodge is interesting bc he’s the only one who really causes shit to happen, but ngl, i love gabe’s actor a ton bc he’s fun to watch be sweet and cute, then cute and deadly

- kinda hate bode. i do think he’s cute, but he can be annoying sometimes. but the locke mother is awful, just in general, i really feel like she’s miscast.

#onion sprouting text

[anonymouscomrade]

i got tagged for this thing by @demonoflight so let’s do this

Rules: answer the 20 questions, and tag 20 amazing followers that you’d like to get to know better.

Name: anonymousComrade is the best you’re getting unless i know you pretty well, though i guess i can tell you my real name starts with a J

Nicknames: aC i guess? my Final Fantasy XIV character tends to get called Arc a lot but i’m not giving out his real name either (well, not yet anyway)

Zodiac sign: Scorpio

Height: 6 ft 2.5 inches, like exactly (just a bit over 189 cm for you metric folks)

Orientation: like super het, every time i’ve taken the test i’ve landed a big fat 0 on the Kinsey scale

Ethnicity: ...white? my mom was huge into genealogy when i was growing up and she found out her side of the family is directly descended from some German count so i guess there’s some Deutschland in me but i’ve never felt a particularly strong connection to any group ethnicity-wise

Favourite Fruit: blueberries! my god they’re so good, especially dried, holy shit. also it’s technically not really the fruit but i could drink nothing but orange juice for the rest of my life and never get tired of it

Favourite Season: winter, we didn’t even fucking GET one this year BUT HURRRRRR IT SNOWED SOMEWHERE SO GLOBAL WARMING DON’T REAL AMIRITE

Favourite Book Series: do you have any idea how many times i read through the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy back in high school. like, of my own volition, even. and high school for me was 1999-2003 so this was mostly before the movies

Favorite Flower: tiger lillies! they lined the driveway in the first house i lived in

Favorite Scent: garlic, some people don’t like it but goddamn i love the smell of garlic. fresh bread or oranges are great too

Favorite Colour: navy blue, but silver and black are up there too

Favorite Animal: how pedestrian, a guy on the internet loves cats, but i’ve always had a soft spot for them

Coffee, Tea, or Hot Cocoa: can i go half tea, half lemonade? because i love that shit

Average Sleep Hours: i spent most of my life being nocturnal, but that was before i got a job where i had to be awake at eight in the morning. three years ago i would have said about 7 AM to noon-ish, now it’s more like midnight to 7:30

Favorite Fictional Characters: Karkat and Terezi from Homestuck (to the surprise of absolutely nobody), Viral from Gurren Lagann, Guile and Sakura from Street Fighter, Locke and Terra from Final Fantasy 6, Tali from Mass Effect, probably a bunch of others i’m forgetting

Number of Blankets You Sleep With: just the one

Dream Trip: ...man, i’ve never really thought about travelling all that much. so i guess i don’t really have a dream trip

Blog Created: uhhhhhhhh fuck i forget, sometime in 2011 though i’m sure, it was when i hung around HSG a lot

Number of Followers: constantly fluctuating around 590 lately, depending on the ratio of recent/deactivated pornbots

Tagging: man if you see this and wanna do it too then just fucking go for it my dudes

[anxietyandtrees]

I’m just going to be real here, right now, this is the real Kinsey speaking...not talking about fandom bullshit or anything, but the shit going through my head. 

I swear, depression eats away at your head, eats away at your motivation and rationality. It switches up moods and kills anything positive within seconds.

Now here comes the real honesty here. The shit I would never post on my other personal page that is pretty much saving face for me. I think about killing myself everyday. Yes every fucking day. It might be a shock to some on here or you might be in the same boat as me. You might not even have thought about it in your life and I’m happy for you, truly I feel like that must be bliss. 

though I do not act on it, I hope and pray to the universe that by some chance something would fall from the sky and just end me already. Now for the remaining rational thoughts I have left, I am fully aware that it’s my depression making me want to end myself. The days I am mentally balance I think about it maybe one, almost in a reminiscent sort of way where I think “remember how yesterday you were in the bathroom putting mascara on you thought I want to die, but that would be more expensive than living?” sort of thing.

It hurts

It stops be in my tracks and makes me stay in doors.

It makes me keep a shitting retail job for 5 years when people constantly tell me I am more qualified for a better paying job, but guess what I don’t think I am. I may have B.S. in Sociology and a minor in English, but I don’t feel qualified to even have a relationship at this point. What I’m saying it’s hard to move forward with depression, anxiety also has a ways of grabbing onto you ankles and keeping you lock into place. It’s hard.

People don’t understand and it’s not up to them to understand. I get that, but that is what makes it frustrating...they don’t understand therefore  a negative outlook paints itself over mental illness and you’re left looking like a “Loser” or a  “lazy” person...with no way of backing yourself. Whatever you tell them they won't get and it’s exhausting trying to tell them. 

this lacks structure and I apologize for that, but my head lacks structures and doesn’t process information like it used to. 

I just wish I could be normal. I wish I was dating. Wish I didn’t have to worry about finding a job with health insurance and already had one that gave it. I wish I could have my life back, start over at 6 and things be different.