ILL BE HONEST every time u mention vowsverse I genuinely do add a few extra words into the doc and its like one scene away from being done (it has been this way for years. I am writing this one scene very hecking slowly)
Me when my nefarious scheme of praise and encouragement works >:3c
Highly recommend Sae's work for anyone that's a REN fan btw. (so what am I defending now?) is *the* quintessential NR-focused REN fic for me that I come back to again and again to sate the void left by that final two-year timeskip and help recenter myself on the trioβs dynamics and characterization.
Beautiful, concise writing containing multitudes, and the recentering of what constitutes Norman's everything with how integral family is to the trio's characters.
Though his desperation is so palpably raw and frantic in the beginning, so vicious and vengeful in his metaphors with how much he must concede in order to fulfill their goal.
And that slipping in of his more arrogant and selfish side that he camouflages in how ends justify means and the toll he unwittingly places on his family in the present.
The nods to how Ray takes after Isabella in the way he frets over and looks after his family, how he's able to do so openly now and how that mends his soul (to say nothing of giving him deep violet eyes that I am always a sucker for.)
That anguished questioning Norman mistakes as pity out of self-loathing and shame but is born out of a deep love and empathy for one of the two people Ray had been willing to sacrifice everything for.
The power in knowing they could close the physical gap between them here but are so secure in not doing so, so sure of themselves and what's between them.
And the amount of times I reference that relief line kfjhsd fucking g o d; love how you can feel that settle deep in Ray's bones after the ache of carrying so much on his shoulders alone for years and believing that after it all, he would never be worthy of that love and that it was foolish to hope for it.
Same with the final line here and how it always, always came back to Emma and Ray for Norman, before he could even consciously articulate the profundity of that connection in its entirety and the solace it blessed him with, but that he intrinsically understood.
It's the always that always get me. π₯Ίπ€§π And again, the importance of family for the trio and all the other relationships they have that enrich their lives and make the one between them more fulfilling as a result.
And omfg the ending, the ending that expands upon the dream sequence that Shirai went back and added to the volume release of the chapter.
So central to their characters for me that I cite it all the time.
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OH LOPPIOPIO IS SO CUTE it's like bunny.... Bounce bounce! :3
ahh thank you!! it's something that rolled off the tongue when i was trying to come up with something that'd make my name being "loppio" feel more intuitive, i'm glad you find it cute :0
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Also, there is so much hand-wringing over the ethics of BDSM and while obviously it is worth taking care about ...sensation seeking is a thing. Many, many people enjoy eating habanero peppers and/or watching movies that make them cry. The conceptual leap from there to the idea that it's possible for sex to hurt good is a very short one, and sometimes it REALLY is as simple as that.
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pjo show said βwe will perfectly execute the only good enemies to lovers between a girl and a boy everβ¦ also theyβre like 12 and their third wheel is so stressed the entire time.β and itβs beautiful
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"this feels rash I literally just thought of it" "I think we should run with it full speed" kristen and fig being adhd besties is not something I expected from this season but whooo boy...
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utterly obsessed with meows morales
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wow first cure to be a pubby
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Like it's not especially mysterious or hard to fathom why (aside from run-of-the-mill puritanism) folks have Really Big Feelings about kink as a concept. We live in a (sexist racist homophobic transphobic etc) society. Quite a lot of people have had their sexual boundaries poked at and/or transgressed by someone (and "someone" is sometimes not even some specific individual but "society at large") claiming that [Sex Act XYZ] is normal/reasonable/no big deal, and therefore (explicitly or implicitly) obligatory. And when you have repeatedly received the message that your body does not fully belong to you, that your yes and no are valid only insofar as they align with others' reasonable expectations - well then it becomes EXTREMELY important to police the borders of what can be considered a reasonable expectation. Spoken or unspoken, the fear that people are giving voice to when they get pearl-clutchy about kink is often "You're saying all of this is normal - and therefore that I have to accommodate it if and when someone asks me for it."
That's not an unsympathetic fear! We live in a society that is not great with the concept of consent! If you're hearing "don't kinkshame" as "your no is invalid" (or if you've encountered someone who framed it that way, because those people do exist), then of course you're going to be anxious and angry about it!
Unfortunately you are also doing that very human thing of getting so deep in your feelings that you're arguing at cross-purposes. Because the ethic of safe sane & consensual kink is not "everything is normal" - it's that normal is a completely irrelevant metric. You want to get tied up? Cool, make sure everyone involved knows how to do restraints safely. You want to have sex without penetration, ever? Also cool. You like playing around with X sensation but not Y sensation? Cool. You get pantsfeelings (or for that matter completely nonsexual satisfaction feelings) out of shining someone's shoes? Cool. You enjoyed XYZ yesterday but you're not feeling it today? Cool. You get to choose. Your body belongs to you.
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Blackened Salmon with JalapeΓ±o Mango Salsa over Cilantro Lime Rice
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Miles and Gwen Dance Latin by AlexTuckr on Twitter (https://twitter.com/AlexTuckr), commission requested by me
When they get together by or after Beyond the Spider-Verse, they will absolutely go to dance classes together, and perhaps even compete in dance competitions if they have the time to practice. I think they would specialize in Latin dances, like cha-cha, salsa, bachata, or jive not only because of Miles' Latin roots, but also because these dances are fun as hell.
In my opinion, there's not nearly enough fics or fanart of them dancing together haha.
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