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cower-before-power · 3 years

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Slippery When Wet: Part 2

Summary: An untimely accident in the shower leaves you injured and in need of rescue. Lucky for you, the object of your affections is more than willing to help.

Pairing: Gojo Satoru x F!Reader

TW: swearing, nudity, implied sexual content, description of injury (nothing graphic), unintentional voyeurism? (idk i mean like voyeurism in the name of helping i’m not sure how to say it ha), lots of dick talk, prolly really bad sex jokes

Link to A03 here

PART 1 HERE

A/N: First of all, THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO READ, LIKED, REBLOGGED AND COMMENTED ON PART 1. You are all amazing, I am so glad you are enjoying this silly little venture Gojo has dragged me on. Again, thank you so much to @ghost-party for her beta skills, you da best! I hope Part 2 makes you all happy :) please enjoy, sweet potatoes!

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You shouldn’t look. Not because you don’t want to, but if you do you’ll know what is absolutely not warming your bed at night and then you’ll probably just feel worse. But, you were overwhelmingly curious. Just a quick look couldn’t hurt.

Right?

You peek through your fingers, just at his upper half. The sight makes you curse softly under your breath. Of course he’s absolutely beautiful out of clothes, did you really expect anything less?

“If you’re uncomfortable, I’ll get dressed,” he says, “just thought this would help you out.”

Help you out? Good grief this is going to be the star of your late night fantasies for months. Because instead of dreaming it up, you now have the real thing to recall.

“No,” you take a deep breath and drop your hands. “I’m fine.”

Are you though? He’s built to perfection, checking off all the boxes on your “Things I find physically attractive” checklist. You marvel at this long column of his throat, sweeping down into a set of collarbones that would make models die of envy. His chest is hairless (did he wax or was it just naturally that way?), miles of smooth skin and muscle that your fingers were just itching to trace.

Your eyes trail down past his stomach, briefly cataloging the very nice set of abs, before settling on what you were the most curious about.

The snort of laughter escapes your lips before you can stop it.

“Excuse me, did you just look at my dick and laugh?” He asks accusingly, crossing his arms.

“I’m sorry,” you giggle at the disgruntled expression on his face. “It’s just, I’ve always wondered if the carpet matched the drapes since I assumed you dye your hair. Guess I was wrong.”

For the first time since you’ve known him, Gojo Satoru visibly deflates.

“That’s what you’ve thought about?” His voice is full of frustrated disbelief. “My pubic hair?”

You can’t stop giggling. “You can’t blame a girl for being curious! Are you sure you shouldn’t get rid of it though? Doesn’t the white make people think they’re boning an old man?”

“The utter disrespect,” he gasps, shaking his head. “I can assure you that is the last thing on their minds when I’m working my magic.”

You wonder why you aren’t feeling more flustered. The fun and teasing atmosphere feels almost refreshing after the intense back and forth that was just occurring.

“What, you casting spells for dry weather?”

“Oh, you are evil!” He moans, then looks down at himself. “Don’t listen to her, big guy. You know what you can do.”

“For fuck’s sake, don’t talk to it,” you roll your eyes, trying not to grin. “And don’t oversell the merchandise. It’s average, at best.”

(It isn’t. It’s probably the nicest looking one you’ve ever seen. But him and his astronomical ego do not need to know that)

Gojo grabs his chest as if you’ve physically wounded him. “Ouch! Shots fired, target annihilated!”

“You’re such a drama queen,” you sigh. You wonder if he notices the quiet fondness in your voice.

He opens his mouth as if to retaliate, but then suddenly shuts it. A look comes over his face as if he’s just remembered something very interesting and important.

“Hey,” he says, and you watch his mouth spread into a smile. “You said you’d wondered if the carpet matched the drapes. That means you definitely imagined me naked at least once.”

And your blush is back.

“What of it?” You huff, cross your arms and looking away. “It’s only natural. I’ve thought of lots of people naked.”

“Do you ever imagine sleeping with me?”

The question causes you to choke on your breath.

“What-why would you ask that?”

“Inquiring minds want to know.”

You take a look at him, standing naked and unashamed in front of you. His smile is different; there’s a sultry edge to it you’ve never seen before.

“Maybe inquiring minds should stuff it,” you stick out your tongue. Immature, but he’s got you feeling all funny now.

“Well, I’ve thought about it,” he says. “I’ve thought about it quite a lot, actually.”

Your heart misses a beat in your chest.

“You have?” Your voice squeaks as you force the words out.

“Why do you sound so surprised?” He asks, tilting his head like a curious puppy.

You consider the question. You’ve got insecurities, but you know you are a decent looking person. And despite his flightiness about many things, Gojo has actually never given you the impression that he’s shallow in that way.

“I don’t know,” you say truthfully. “I guess I just never considered the possibility that you were interested in me in that way.”

He sighs. “Pumpkin, I’m not blind. You are stupidly attractive. Every time we’re out in Tokyo you’ve got a million guys and gals staring at you.”

“I just always assumed they were staring at your and your stupid blindfold,” you scrub at your cheeks with your palms, trying to rid yourself of some of the perplexing confusion you feel swirling inside you. “How come you’ve never made a move?”

“Would you have wanted me to?”

You want to shout at him, to say of course yes a thousand times yes, but you pause. You realize you’ve never given him any signals, any hint that he was more than just your often annoying friend. Sure, you blushed at his silly flirting, but so did lots of people.

You shift back through your interactions, all the missions, the late night hang outs, the strolls through the city. Nowhere can you find any instant where your ever expanding feelings might have risen to the surface. But still, would your seeming indifference deter him? He was a very self assured man, after all.

“You have confidence coming out your ass, it’s hard to believe you wouldn’t make a move anyways, just to see,” you say instead.

His whole demeanor softens. “I didn’t want to fuck anything up.”

Oh.

OH.

And you know exactly what he means. It’s why you’ve never said anything, why you forced your desires deep down into the pit of your being when in his presence.

It seems even the strongest shaman could be afraid of something.

“It’s not just about fucking, is it?” You ask, feeling your whole body start to tremble.

“It was never just about fucking,” he replies, and it’s like the universe explodes before your very eyes. “Why do you think I spend all my free time with you?”

“To annoy me?” You croak feebly. “To eat all my snacks? To enjoy torturing me by spoiling the end to every movie we watch?”

He chuckles. “Just side bonuses. Being with you is the real prize, pumpkin.”

“Oh,” you whisper, and your brain whirs like an overworked laptop. You’re having trouble processing that this is actually happening, that the man you’ve been pining after for what feels like forever is really standing there, confessing his own feelings.

Buck ass naked.

“You’ve got two options right now,” Gojo takes a step closer to you, and you shiver at the dominant aura that suddenly swirls around him. “Either I get dressed and we put today behind us, or I come over there and kiss you until you can’t remember your own name. Make your choice.”

Was there even a choice? There was only one option. A slow, warm feeling blooms in the middle of your chest and spreads outwards, dousing your whole shaking body in molten yearning. It’s not a new feeling, but the sensations are different. Because now you can give in to it.

“Kiss me,” you blurt out, breathless and giddy. “Get the fuck over here and kiss me.”

He doesn’t have to be told twice.

A flash of a savage grin, the soft thump of footsteps and then you are numb to everything but him.

He tastes like sugary coffee and chapstick, lips hard and hot against yours as he kisses you like he’ll die if he stops. He’s everywhere at once, in all your senses, drowning you in his onslaught of desirous fervour. It’s not a timid kiss of new sweethearts; it’s a passionate embrace of long overdue lovers.

Your hands run over every inch of him they can reach, mapping the ridges and valleys of his exposed skin. His own slip beneath your shirt to spread across your back, crushing you to him with a grip of iron. It’s not enough; you want them everywhere, you want him everywhere, until he’s branded onto your body. Until you no longer know where you end and he begins. Until he’s sunken himself into your very bones.

You need to breathe- you pull away with a gasp, one gossamer thread of saliva lazily trailing after you.

“Why didn’t we do that sooner?” You pant, digging your nails into his arms. He’s unwilling to keep his mouth off you, now pressing scalding kisses along your jaw.

“Blame it on mutual stupidity,” he sighs into your skin, teeth slightly grazing the spot just below your ear. “Let’s make up for lost time, eh?”

“I’m game,” you say, a soft whine leaving your lips as he works steadily on what is sure to become a bruise.

“Good,” he murmurs, swiping his tongue across the blossoming mark before leaning back to smirk at you. “Have to make you take back all your snarky comments about me and my game.”

You giggle. “Oh, so you’re saying it won’t be as dry as a desert ‘round here?”

“Well let me just check tonight’s weather report,” he laughs, grinning cheekily as he slips a hand down between your legs, brushing gently over the front of your underwear. You bite your lip, grip on his biceps tightening.

“Ladies and gentleman, we’re in for a wet night,” he says in what you assume is his best weatherman voice. “Expect a great deal of precipitation, more so than what’s already accumulated. Perhaps we’ll even see some flooding. We’re talking possibly record setting levels here.”

You snort with laughter, pushing at him slightly. “You are such an idiot. Just shut up and put your money where your mouth is.”

“Oh, I intend to put my mouth in a lot of different places,” he removes his hand, snapping the elastic band of your underwear against your hip as he goes. “I know I just got you into these, but shall I undress you now?”

“Yes please,” you nod eagerly, already wiggling out of your shirt. He quickly helps remove the offending garment, but in all the lust and excitement you’ve forgotten about your shoulder, and you moan in pain when you jostle it.

“Owwwwwwie, stupid shoulder!”

“Shhh, pumpkin,” Gojo coos gently, leaning down to pepper the area with kisses. “It’s okay, I’m here. I’m going to take such good care of you.”

You feel yourself melt at the sudden tender display, and you can’t help but run your fingers through his luscious hair as he continues to smother your bruised shoulder in affection. “You already are, Satoru.”

The first name slips out unexpectedly, but you like the way it rolls off your tongue. He seems to as well, judging by the pleased noise that rumbles from his chest.

“Well, allow me to continue then,” he purrs, and his lips leave your shoulder to capture yours in another toe curling kiss. You press yourself to him, the feel of his bare skin against yours sending a thrill shooting down your spine.

An idea suddenly pops into your head.

“I never got to finish my shower,” you break your kiss to speak, looking up at him under your lashes.

He catches on immediately, his smile once again turning primal. It makes your knees weak and your gut clench in anticipation.

“Maybe you should help me, since I’m injured and all,” you push yourself even closer to him, shivering at the feeling of his not-so-average excitement pressing against your belly.

“Hmmmm, I could do that,” he’s already got his fingers hooked in your underwear, slowly starting to push them down your hips. “But what if you slip again?”

“Well, you’ll just have to catch me then,” you wink at him. “With your dick.”

He roars with laughter, and your heart has never been more full.

“Oh, I’ll do more than just catch you, pumpkin,” he growls playfully, and before you can blink he’s rid you of your bottoms and swept you up into his arms. “I’m going to absolutely wreck you.”

You reach up to kiss him as he pounds towards the bathroom, your blood on fire and only one thought in your head.

Bless that stupid, slippery, wonderful bar of soap.

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bardic-inspo · 3 years

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Ooh... Untitled Family Time Fluff and Behind the Mirror are intriguing!

Thank you!! :D

Untitled Family Time Fluff

Some shorter ficlets I have planned in the post Duncan Arrival phase of the OT3 relationship for Deacon, MacCready, and Natasha. I mostly want to make them all cry happy tears. And I want the various permutations to watch their other partner with Duncan and get super proud and emotional. Nothing really concrete is in mind, but I have some loose ideas: the three of them building Duncan a treehouse, Nat teaching him Russian, Deacon and Nat being called Papa/Mamochka for the first time. Reading together. Maybe some Dress Up with Dee’s disguises. Mac showing him around the settlement or taking day trips together.

My initial plans for Duncan’s arrival involved Deacon and Nat leaving to give Mac and Duncan some space, and then returning one at a time to be introduced to Duncan slowly. I’ve since revised that idea. I think it would be good for Duncan to see Deacon and Nat are a part of their shared home, too, and that the relationship between Deacon, Mac, and Nat is normal and affectionate and okay. So, at first, Nat and Deacon are sort of roommates that kiss Duncan’s dad sometimes. There’s no pressure for Duncan to treat them as parental figures, but bonding happens slowly and they spend more and more time with each other and eventually Duncan sees them as parents on his own.

Behind the Mirror (Bookverse)

This is my ongoing but not really going anywhere fantasy setting that I’ve built slowly, at a snail’s pace, over like eight or so years now. The setting has a lot of magic in it, but all magic comes from either a living or dead god. Living gods gift and revoke powers at will. Dead gods generally give weaker powers, and people born in proximity to their bodies will, at random, be born able to use those powers. The elves are experimenting with “linguistic” magic that seems to come from no god at all. It’s incredibly powerful and also very difficult to wield, and it’s still being discovered. Others feel its use is blasphemous, that it’s the language of creation that should only be wielded by the gods themselves. Lots of people fight about it.

At one point, I envisioned a sweeping epic adventure, world-ending sort of story that involved multiple character POVs told out of order. One of the main characters is actually the main villain, and we see her origin story in one POV, while her identity is not revealed until midway through in the other POV timeline.

Main villain character (Myriah) is a witch who reignites a war between two countries by orchestrating a magical disaster. She uses linguistic magic to instantly petrify miles and miles of this sacred forest where a god died, and what’s more, the spell’s effect seems to be slowly growing/spreading. The nation that controls the forest blames their enemies, this sort of dwarven but not dwarven race I made up called Galadrin. They are, for lack of better terminology, “calcium people”. They got exoskeletons and look like little golems and carve these single-use runes into their bodies. But yeah, the humans think the golems did it, basically. The golems didn’t do it and are ready to fight back about it. The witch gets away.

The other main character is based off the concept of “the unsuspecting bystander” who happened to witness this fuckery and is now implicated whether he wants to be or not. In fact, he’s charged with treason and conspiracy based on his proximity to the event. He’s sprung out of prison by people who believe his story about what actually happened, and now he has to help them hunt down the witch actually responsible.

Part of what stalled me out on it is worldbuilding. The other part was, I realized this is basically the start of DA: Inquisition with different trappings. I do still want to write in this setting eventually, but I will probably forgo the epic-level plot in favor of smaller, shorter stories set within the same universe. I like the idea of doing detective or murder/mystery type of stories that have a smaller focus.

[Ask me about my WIPs]

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kalimagik · 4 years

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Chaos at the Burrow - Chapter 4 Journey to Hogwarts

A/N: CHAPTER FOUR IS HERE! I wrote this chapter with the help and fantastic support of @obsessedwithrandomthings, @iliveiloveiwrite, @heloisedaphnebrightmore, and @firewhisky-kisses! This has been such an amazing experience and so much fun! This chapter has some teasing, drinking, angst, and LOTS OF FEELINGS! I hope you all enjoy.

Warnings: Drinking, intoxication

Series Masterlist

McGonagall obviously wanted to push the girls to their maximum abilities during their weeks at Hogwarts. She had the professors teaching the girls as much as possible during their crash course, especially since the Ministry had sent no word about potentially returning the five girls to their own world. However, the crash course was coming to an end and McGonagall decided that exams would be similar to the O.W.L.s for the fifth years. Fortunately, the girls all read the books, so they knew how rigorous the exams were and how much they would need to study.

Having so many Hogwarts graduates around actually came in handy for Ana. Ginny would let her practice spells on her and give her tips for her casting. Harry turned out to be a huge help with Defense Against the Dark Arts, even though it was one of her best subjects. Fred and George were more of distractions than helpers, but it gave her a good break. Ron would also stay up late with her and go through the hundreds of flashcards she had made. At one point, Fred even commented that she should have been in Ravenclaw, but she just brushed him off.

When she wasn’t studying at the Weasleys house, all of the girls held themselves in the library. Ellie and Ana did their best to keep everyone on topic all the time, but various discussions often made their way to the table.

“Which plant can be used to heal most wounds?” Ellie asked, reading from a notecard.

“That’s easy,” Kiara waved her hand, leaning on her other one. “Dittany. Give me something a little harder.”

“You only know the herbology questions because you get special attention from Professor Longbottom,” Des rolled her eyes, trying to focus on the potions book in front of her.

Ana giggled before speaking. “Des, that’s just an easy one in general. I think we’ve all written about its effects in our fics at one point or another. Ask me one, El.”

“Alright, how about this DADA one. Impedimenta is an example of what kind of spell?”

“A jinx!” Ana beamed, “Ginny let me try that one out on her. She is the queen of jinxes and hexes after all!”

“Oh common!” Mel snorted. “You’re only so good at this because you have a whole house full of people fighting for your attention to help you study.”

“I’m surprised you can even focus in that house,” Kiara wiggled her eyebrows, teasing Ana as the girl’s face turned as red as the Weasleys' hair.

“She did tell me that Charlie was visiting the other day,” Ellie grinned, actually joining in on the distracting conversation. “Something about him forgetting she was there and walking around shirtless?”

“Stuff it, you guys,” Ana blushed, looking back down at her note cards.

“Yeah you guys, we know that she only has eyes for RONNNN,” Kiara sang. “Has he made any moves yet, babes? Or is he being a slowpoke like he was with Hermione? Did they ever actually date or was that just for the book?”

Ana shrugged her shoulders. “I’m not sure. No one has really mentioned Hermione in the house. Now that I think about it, we haven’t even met her yet. Have any of you?”

All the other girls nodded their heads. “I’m rather surprised,” Ellie spoke up. “I was kind of hoping to meet her.”

“I’m sure we will eventually,” Des waved off the oddness of the subject, even though Hermione had been such a large part of the original story.

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More days passed and soon the girls were staying in the library late into the evening. Sometimes even Blaise or Neville would join them. Even though the two Professors were staying lowkey with Ellie and Kiara, the three other girls knew exactly what was going on there.

Blaise gave Ellie a LOT of one on one time and focused most of his attention on her, helping the other girls when they asked. Neville was still playing hard to get, not wanting to break Headmistress McGonagall’s rules. Kiara, however, had different ideas. She was still just as forward with him as she had been and as exams grew closer, everyone could tell that she was wearing him down.

The night before exams was the worst. Ana was definitely prepared for an all-nighter. The girls said goodbye to each other at Hogwarts around 11:30, well after the normal curfew time, but Ana didn’t feel like she was as ready as she should be. Luckily, everyone in the Weasley household were quite the night owls.

“Let’s try it one more time, Ana,” Harry instructed, watching Ana and Ginny practice. “If I could teach this to Neville during fifth year, I’m sure I can teach it to you now. It’s just the stunning spell.”

Ana contorted her face, thinking back to the fifth year she had read about, “OH! You mean during Dumbledore’s Army. Alright, I think I got it.” Before Harry could ask how she knew about the DA, Ana had already taken her stance, pointing her wand at Ginny. “Stupefy!”

A bright flash emerged from Ana’s maple wand. Ginny went flying before she could throw up a protection shield. “Brilliant, Ana!” Ginny cheered as she stood up off the ground.” I think you have defense against the dark arts down!”

“Excellent, maybe we could do potions now?”

“I think Fred and George would be your best bet for that, but they’re at the shop tonight,” Ginny apologized. “I really wasn’t that great at the subject and neither was Harry.”

“I could help you study,” Ron spoke up from the entryway that connected the kitchen and living room. “I may not be fantastic at it, but I picked up a thing or two about studying over the years.” Ana knew he was referring to studying with Hermione, but chose not to say anything.

Not having to do a practical for potions was nice, but memorizing ingredients without actually using them was more difficult than it seemed. Ana and Ron set up camp at the kitchen table. When 2 am rolled around, Harry and Ginny finally went to bed, leaving the two by themselves.

Even though she was beginning to feel tired, Ana wasn’t ready for bed just yet.

“What is a possible side effect of Pepperup Potion?” Ron asked for probably the third time in the past hour.

“Why can’t I ever get this one?” Ana whined, burying her face in her hands.

“Hey, hey, it’s okay,” Ron consoled her. In efforts to do so, he pulled one of her hands away from her face, taking it in his own. He sympathetically rubbed his thumb in circles on her hand while speaking to her. “You’ve got a lot of information going on in that brain of yours. It’s okay to forget some things.”

Ana looked into his blue eyes, happy that he was there with her and she wasn’t studying by herself. Then she remembered that she didn’t actually know his relationship status and pulled her hand away from his, even though she didn’t want to. She swallowed loud enough that Ron turned towards her again.

“I’m sorry,” he apologized. “I know you are just here to learn the basics, not to get caught up in anything.”

“Well no, it’s not that,” Ana shook her head. “You’ve been really great, Ron, but I don’t know, umm, I don’t know how to say this…What about Hermione?” She spit it out. She was too curious not to. Normally, she would have held her tongue, but she couldn’t tonight. Maybe it was the fact that it was after 2 AM or maybe it was the amount of time she had been spending with Ron. Whatever it was, she just had to know.

“H-How do you know about her?” Ron looked taken aback. He leaned back in his chair, putting more space between him and Ana. “Are you a seer or something?”

Ana chuckled at his theory. That could be one way to explain everything she and her friends knew. Ana would have to keep that in the back of her mind. “That’s a long story, but no. I just heard about her at school a little bit, that’s all.”

Ron sighed, playing with the flashcards in his hands. “I figured someone would tell you about her. We were together, but her career pulled us in different directions. Somewhere over the last few years, we just fell out of love. We grew apart. She still comes around for Ginny and Harry, but there hasn’t been anything between us for the last year or so.”

“Oh, I’m sorry.” Ana may have apologized, but she felt her heart swell in her chest. Maybe she had a chance at a great love with the redhead that she had only read about y/n having in fanfiction pieces.

“It’s no big deal, I’m moving on.” Ron’s eyes met Ana’s piercing green ones. The smile on his face said all she needed to know. “You’ve got exams tomorrow,” Ron changed the subject. “Let’s go over these one more time and then get you to bed?” Ana nodded in agreement, taking in as much information as she could next to the fantasies that were playing in her head with the boy sitting beside her.

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Exam week was just as strenuous as they all imagined. Honestly, it was worse than exam week at muggle university. Des repeated multiple times that her brain might explode from the amount of information that they had all crammed in their brains. Mel had to get some pepperup potion from Madame Pomphrey after Draco, being a healer and all, told her that she couldn’t keep up the studying schedule she had been. He seemed to notice a lot of things about her.

Finally, Friday came around. After six exams in five days, Ana didn’t think she could take anymore. They only had History of Magic that morning and would find out after lunch what their marks were, based on the O.W.L. grading scale.

“Mel, what did you get for the last question on that exam?” Kiara asked, serving some potatoes and chicken onto her plate.

“That was the Gringotts question?” Kiara nodded. “I think it was 1474!”

“Damnit! I wrote 1476. Maybe Binns will take it?” Kiara shrugged, forgetting about the test altogether when Neville walked into the Great Hall, papers in hand.

“Are those our exams?” Ellie asked excitedly.

“I have all 5 right here,” Neville grinned, holding the papers up.

“Brilliant!” Ellie took her paper first, Neville handing out the rest until Kiara got hers.

“So, Professor Longbottom, I guess this means you won’t be my professor anymore, huh?” Kiara winked, pulling Neville to sit next to her and not even looking at her report card yet.

“How’d everyone do?” Des asked, looking up from her grades. “My best was Defense, but I passed everything else, so no retaking.”

“Dang, defense against the dark arts was my worst one. It looks like I barely passed. It was the stupid practical!” Ellie complained.

Mel leaned over the girl’s shoulder, peeking at her grades. “You got 3 outstandings and 2 exceeds expectations! That’s amazing, El!”

“True, how’d you do?”

“O in history of magic, obviously,” Mel chuckled. “Then 3 E’s and 2 A’s. I’m happy about it.”

Ana was still looking at her report card, the excitement bubbling up in her, but she had someone she wanted to tell. “Ki, what about you?” she asked before someone could ask her about her grades.

“O in defense against the dark arts, an E in potions, and then the rest A’s. WAIT! I got an A in herbology? What is this, Neville?” Kiara’s gaze turned to Neville, who shot his hands up defensively.

“I didn’t grade the exams,” he explained.

The other four girls just began laughing. “I bet if you were as interested in the subject as the professor, you would have done better,” Ellie teased her, earning a playful slap on the hand from Kiara across the table.

“Mrs. Weasley said we could all go back to the Burrow to celebrate if you guys want to,” Ana offered. “Neville, Blaise, and Draco can come too, I’m sure,” she added, looking down at their now former herbology professor.

“That would be great!” Mel exclaimed, everyone else nodding in agreement.

“She also said that her and Mr. Weasley were going to visit Bill and Fleur, so we’ll have the house. Ginny, Ron, and Harry are getting drinks after work!”

“It sounds brilliant!” Des beamed. “We can teach them some drinking games from our world!”

“Ooooo, getting Neville drunk again, huh?” Kiara spoke out loud with a devilish grin.

“If you’d like!” Ana laughed. “We can all take the floo network over whenever we’re ready!”

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Still not used to the smoke and soot, Ana coughed as she stepped out of the fireplace, the last one to arrive from Hogwarts. Everyone was gathered in the living room and the group was larger than Ana expected, but with the number of people that already lived in the house, adding 7 more didn’t seem like that many at the time.

Ana scanned the room for a specific redhead who was already making his way towards her.

“How’d you do?” he asked, holding his hands out in anticipation.

“O’s and one E!” Ana beamed. She could barely smile before Ron wrapped his arms around her waist and lifted her up in celebration.

“Bloody hell! You’re a genius!” Ron grinned widely. The rest of the noise in the house stopped as Ana’s friends watched the interaction. They were all smiling knowingly.

Ana was still in her own world when someone coughed. Hermione was standing next to Ginny. Even though she hadn’t introduced herself, all the girls knew exactly who she was, hair still slightly bushy despite being in her twenties.

“Uh, everyone, this is Hermione,” Harry introduced, his arm around Ginny’s waist now. “I sort of invited her tonight, I hope you don’t mind. I know it’s your celebration, but I have told her so much about all of you.”

Mel broke the silence. “Hello, I’m Melanie Hunter.” She shook the witch's hand and the rest followed her. “Hi, I’m Anastasia, but you can call me Ana,” the last girl introduced herself, Hermione only taking her hand for a brief moment. “Pleasure.” Ana’s smile faltered slightly, but she held her ground anyway. Hermione was always one of her favorite characters and this introduction did not go the way she had expected it to.

“Now that we’re all acquainted, why don’t we get started?” Blaise asked, moving closer to Ellie.

“Most definitely,” Mel grinned, looking at Des for direction.

“Right, we are going to play some muggle drinking games tonight. Two to get us all to the appropriate level of drunk and one for us to be a little stupid and get to know each other a little better. Now, everyone, sit in a circle, drink in hand.” Des explained, plopping on the ground.

Kiara explained the first game, bus driver. They used a deck of muggle cards that Fred and George kept for rigged card tricks and everyone eventually got the game down. Everyone’s adrenaline was already pumping, hoping not to be the one who had to go through the pyramid. After a few rounds, the game switched to stack cup.

Draco enchanted the glass cups to keep from breaking and Ginny found a ping pong ball. Ellie turned out to be ridiculously good at the game and continuously lapping Blaise, forcing him to drink a new cup every other round. However, Kiara wound up drinking the bitch cup. The mixture of fire whiskey, butterbeer, and some other liquors lying around was enough for her to twist her face up while drinking.

“Alright, I think we’re all good and buzzed,” Harry laughed, pulling Ginny into his lap, “What’s the third game?” Everyone else gathered back up in the living room. Des chuckled to herself as she saw Draco and Mel sit next to each other, but so stiff. They looked like they wanted to lean into each other, but were nervous.

Ellie let the silence continue for a bit to build anticipation, but then ultimately spoke the name. “Truth or Dare. Except, in this version, if someone catches you lying when you choose truth, you have to finish your drink and if you don’t do your dare, you have to finish your drink. And seeing as how everyone is at wonderful levels right now, it is an incentive to do whatever you are told too.”

“Yeah, wouldn’t want to chuck everywhere,” Kiara laughed, sitting extremely close to Neville. Everyone looked wearily around, the twins already looking devious. They couldn’t wait for their turn to dare people.

After going for a while, George had to turn his hair green, courtesy of Fred. Neville had to explain how and when he fell for Kiara. Ellie had to explain the 27 inches reference to Blaise - she was mortified. Ginny had to run a naked lap - all of her brothers clenched their eyes shut while Harry tried to block the view from the other boys. Hermione opted to drink when she was dared to give Fred a lap dance. And Mel had to painfully recite a Draco smut story that she had read back at home. The girl was beet red and stumbling through the entire summary, Draco laughing next to her. They did seem to be leaning into each other now, so it turned sweet.

“Des, you’re turn. Truth or Dare?” Ana asked the girl across the circle.

“Pshhh, dare. Duh,” Des crossed her arms, waiting to hear what she would have to do.

Her confident air was convincing until Kiara told her what she had to do. “I dare you to write a smutty love letter to Sirius.” The grin she wore on her face was pure evil. Harry on the other hand looked taken aback.

“A love letter to my godfather?”

“Oh yeah! Des is IN LOVE with him!” Mel was laughing so hard that tears started to form in the corners of her eyes.

“Keep your trap shut!” Des rose from her chair, tackling Mel. “They don’t need to know about that!”

“But this is a game about getting to know each other and they won’t know you if they don’t know that,” Ellie laughed, the sound just as loud as Mel’s.

“So are you going to do it?” Ana asked, eyes wide, the grin on her face huge.

“Get me a paper and quill,” Des rolled her eyes, getting off of Mel and leaning on the side table to write. “This will take a while, so go on to the next person.”

“I think it’s Ron’s turn!” Ginny pointed out, resting her head on Harry’s shoulder.

“Brilliant! Ronnikins, truth or dare?” Fred asked. He already had a mischievous look in his eye.

“Truth,” Ron said confidently.

“Fine, if you could date one girl in this circle who would it be?” Fred asked immediately. Ron’s ears began to turn red as he tensed up. His eyes flickered from Ana on his right to Hermione who was diagonal on the left.

“Wait, no! I meant dare!”

Fred huffed at his younger brother, pretending to decide whether he would allow the change or not. “Fine, Ronald,” Fred emphasized his name. “I dare you to kiss the person whose hand you’ve been brushing all night.” Ana and Ron turned bright red simultaneously. She definitely didn’t think that anyone had noticed how Ron’s fingers gently ran across hers behind their backs.

All of her friends ‘oooo’d as they looked directly at her. Ana’s eyes nervously ran around the circle, spotting Hermione taking a sip of her drink, looking annoyed. “You already switched once, no switching again,” Fred warned, smugly drinking his own cup of fire whiskey.

Ron turned to face Ana, a shy, side smile sitting on his face. “I can drink if you want.”

Ana’s mind was running a million miles a minute. Of course she wanted to kiss him! But his ex-girlfriend was sitting right there! She bit her lip, a nervous habit she’d picked up. “Kiss him, kiss him!” Kiara began to chant, knowing Ana would need a slight push.

“Guess we have to give the people what they want,” Ron smirked, leaning in. Ana couldn’t keep herself from smiling when she met his lips for a few moments. She was trying her hardest to contain her smile when they pulled apart, fidgeting slightly as she held her hands in her lap.

Everyone was still chattering and laughing when Hermione scoffed and stood up. She briskly walked out of the room, mumbling that she needed air. Ana met Ginny’s eyes almost instantly. She felt bad. She didn’t mean to step on any toes. When Ginny also left the room, Des looked at Ana with a confused face. “What’s that about?”

“Uhhhh,” Ana didn’t really know what to say. It wasn’t her place to explain Hermione’s feelings - and frankly, she didn’t know what Hermione was saying. “I’m going to get a sip of water,” Ana excused herself instead. As she left the room, she heard everyone as they bagered Ron. She heard him explain how they had broken up. Not particularly wanting to listen, Ana walked out the front door. The cool air felt good after being in the house with so many people.

She breathed in deeply, enjoying the nighttime sounds, that was until the crickets were overpowered by hushed, angry whispers. Ana flattened herself against the Burrow. She didn’t intend to spy, but she didn’t really want the owners of the voices to know she was out there.

“Why did Harry think this would be a good idea?”

“Just think about it, ‘Mione. They’re going to be here for who knows how long and they don’t know anyone else. They’ve all fit in with everyone well so far.” Ginny tried to bargain.

“What do we even know about them? It’s obvious that they’re all smitten with someone.”

“Common, you knew he would move on at some point. It isn’t Ana’s fault. Did you see how bad she felt when you left?”

“It hasn’t been that long, Ginny. I thought we agreed to only separate for a while. I want to get my career on the tracks. Besides, the ministry is still looking into how to send them home. He’s just going to get his heart broken, they all are.”

“‘Mione, it's been almost a year since you split. And I don’t know. It’s been pretty great having them all around. You have to admit that it’s been boring around here since graduating. Just give them all a chance. Give Ana a chance. She is living here.” Ginny continued to explain.

“I’m just not sure. What if their story isn’t true? They could be misleading the entire ministry!”

“Come off it, Hermione. What is this actually about?” Ana inched closer to the corner of the house, peeking around to see Hermione’s back.

“I think I’m still in love with him, Gin. I think I made a mistake.” Ana’s breath hitched upon hearing Hermione’s confession. She slipped back inside, face solemn, trying to decide what her next move should be. Hermione and Ron’s love had literally been written in a book. Did the book really dictate anything that happened in this world?

“George! Give it back!” Des’ voice shook Ana out of her own head.

“There you are,” Ron whispered, coming next to her and slipping an arm around her waist.

“We need to determine if you completed your dare! It’s the only way,” Fred chuckled, taking the letter from George. “Dear Sirius!” Hermione and Ginny also stepped back inside, Hermione’s presence causing Ana to move a few steps away from Ron, earning a quizzical look from Ellie.

“I’m not kidding. Give it back!” Des yelled again. “I will hex you! I’ve passed the crash course now!”

“Ohhh, Freddie, this is some good stuff!” George laughed, letter in his hand again.

“You had to of known that this would happen, Des. It’s your own damn fault for leaving it on the table,” Kiara laughed, leaning against the counter.

“I was using the loo!” Des threw her arms up in the air, frustrated.

“You alright?” Ron whispered in Ana’s ear so no one else could hear. She just nodded slightly, lips pressed together tightly. She couldn’t see Ron looking helplessly at Harry, unsure what to do.

“Fred, I’m serious! Give it here.” Des huffed.

“I’m not Fred, I’m George.” the redhead argued devilishly.

“YOU ARE FRED! YOU HAVE BOTH EARS!” Des was stuck in an unwinnable game of keep away. She looked at Mel, begging for help with her eyes.

“This is madness. Just give the letter back, Fred,” Hermione spoke up. Each of the girls was honestly surprised that she spoke in favor of them, well at least one of them. Fred huffed and handed a folded piece of paper to Des, who gratefully shoved it in her pants pocket.

“Now, where were we?” Neville asked. He was glad that the twins’ game was over. Everyone else shrugged. Mel shook her head and leaned into Draco a bit, Ana sent her a questioning look. A comfortable silence hung in the air as everyone began to feel a bit tired. The quiet was broken by a knock on the door.

“Am I interrupting something?” Sirius smirked, leaning against the doorway.

“Ahh, Sirius,” Fred grinned widely, clapping Sirius on the shoulder before walking to his brother, snickering along the way. Des sent him a nasty look before turning back to Sirius.

“Remus was getting antsy with Kiara and Desiree not being home yet, so I offered to pick them up.” Kiara groaned, rolling her eyes as she pushed herself off the counter. “Looks like we’ll be going now,” she grumbled, pressing a quick kiss to Neville’s cheek, leaving him stunned.

“We should probably get going too,” Ellie spoke, looking at Mel and Draco. Everyone said their goodbyes and Ana hugged each girl before they left. The twins, Ginny, Harry, and Hermione followed everyone to the fireplace, but Ron beckoned for Ana to hang back.

“What’s going on?” He tried to look in her eyes, but Ana avoided his. “Why are you pulling away all of a sudden?”

“You don’t know me, Ron. Okay? Maybe you should just stay with Hermione. I understand if you haven’t moved on,” Ana blurted before covering her mouth with her hand. She really didn’t want to get in the middle of whatever this was.

“But, I am. Ana, look at me.” Ron pulled her chin up so that she had to look in his eyes. “Hermione and I are over. We just weren’t meant to be. It was probably just a lot for her to see me with someone else, but she will get used to it. I don’t know how long you’re here for, but I want to spend as much time with you as I can.”

Ana nodded, her chin still in his hand. “Don’t let her get to you,” Ron said. “I’ll try,” she whispered, Hermione’s words still placing doubt in her mind. Satisfied that Ana understood, Ron led her to the living room, saying goodbye to everyone who didn’t live in the Burrow one more time. When the house was finally quiet and the rest of the Weasleys, Harry, and Hermione - who was staying with Ginny - went to bed, Ana slouched on the couch; wishing she could be in a house with one of her friends at that moment; knowing as much as she loved being in the Wizarding World, she sort of missed her simple life back home.

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State of Chaos

For WIP Wednesday, I thought I’d try something different! So instead of sharing an excerpt from a work in progress, here is a list of the WIPs I’m working on in my too many fandoms at the moment, both published and not; as well as some blathering about other *ideas* I have that I (probably) (maybe) plan (hope) to write at some point. Feel free to ask for more details or ‘vote’ on what I should focus on if you want, I can’t promise anything but I am highly impressionable, and when people get me excited about something there’s a good chance I’ll work on it 😂

(it’s a long post so I’m just putting it all under a cut! There’s mention of kink fics & ships, but I don’t go into any detail about them)

Assassin’s Creed

Diletto (working title) Ezio/Caterina and Ezio/Caterina/Leo, where Caterina wants to be the one to do the fucking, Ezio is more than amenable to this idea, and Leonardo da Vinci makes the world’s first strap-on. First chapter rough draft is written, as well as a few little chunks of chapter 2! Writing F/M fic is always a bit out there for me, but I am very excited about how this one is coming along.

The skills of Assassins The Ezio/Mario sexy training one! Three chapters published and while I’ve got several ideas for other chapters, I haven’t started actually writing them yet 🙈 I’m at that point where I need to balance I want more porn with not just getting repetitive…

Plans I really want to write some Ezio/Leo smut, got this idea for playful ‘how much can I distract you’ while Leonardo is deciphering one of Ezio’s codex pages (he always bends over the worktable to do it and I just. I can’t not). I also have Thoughts about a couple more kink fics, including a Shaun POV sequel to Not here 😏 And I just, I have to write something with silver fox Revelation’s Ezio. No idea what yet, but god damn he’s sexy.

The Dresden Files

Nothing really in progress, exactly, though I’ve been kicking around a Dresden/Marcone idea where Marcone hires a Harry look-alike to play out his fantasies of Domming the fuck out of that fucking wizard. (Honestly, there’s so many pairings in TDF that I love the thought of, but just never quite manage to come up with something to write for them… Perhaps I’ll continue my read-through of the series in a search for inspiration.)

The Expanse

Also nothing actively in progress; I have a couple fic ideas that I still really like the thought of (including a ‘proto-Miller getting freaky with the mind games and double-teaming Holden’ threesome), but I’m not sure if/when I’ll get around to writing any of them. If a new book or season comes out, that might kickstart the interest again.

Midsomer Murders

A short holiday (working title) Just a standalone PWP / Porn with Feelings for my OG OT3. John, Sarah, and Ben spending a long weekend together in a nicely remote cottage with a hot tub and a fireplace, and having a whole lot of sexy sex and cuddles. Probably featuring needy bottom!John and Sarah demanding some good old-fashioned DP from the two of them. I’ve got some of the start written and I pick at it every now and then when I’m feeling sappy.

Behind the scenes The companion fic to Falls into place. I still have ideas that I wanted to do, but ever since MM got taken off Netflix, it’s made it harder to write for the show at all and for this little ficlets collection in particular 😭

Midsomer x Wallace and Gromit crossover This is a semi-secret project I’ve been working at slowly for over a year now, and a rare non-smutty work 😱 I really like it and do plan to finish it.. someday, but given that it’s an actual fucking story, with no sexy times or shipping, it’s very very out of my comfort zone. So… slow going, to say the least 😅

Plans I really do want to write a werewolf!Jones fic for Bobbit, I just need to figure out what it is exactly that I want to do with it… I also I had a few more ideas for Just Relax (the John dealing with / helping / being there for stress-bunny Ben series), but I have no clue if I’ll ever get around to actually writing them out or not.

Star Wars

(Come) Ride With Me Got some sexy stuff written out for Chapter 3 (I actually wrote it before even finishing BLJ, it’s what got me writing the damn sequel / companion fic in the first place), but I’m having trouble getting the chapter set-up started. It’ll happen eventually!

Orgy fic That self-indulgent fuckfest I’ve been working at with Jewell for ages, ft. Formbi/Ronan, Ar’alani/Faro, Thrawn/Eli/Nightswan, and Thrass/Everybody. It’s maybe a solid half-done? But damn it’s a lot of POVs to get right and a lot of… bodies and activities to keep track of 😆 (it’s frikken hot though, if I do say so myself)

Sequel to Pinned and Control I did write out a little tiny chunk for that, and Rev and I have Ideas(TM) for it. I’m still tentatively hopeful they’ll come to fruition someday 😂 experienced young sexpot Eli and older flustered inexperienced Thrawn is just too good to leave dormant forever.

Plans Still got a couple more Thrawn/Thrass oneshots I wanna write for the Stripped series. But I know it’s going to make me sad as well as horny if you’ve read Outbound Flight you know why so I haven’t been in just the right mood to actually write them yet. I also really want to write a crack-adjacent Thranto gloryhole fic, a deliciously sacrilegious modern Earth AU with Eli essentially dirty-talking priest!Thrawn in the confessional, a Thrawn/Eli/Thrass ‘he had to marry both brothers’ AU of some kind, a NightThrawn ice to fire sequel, and a part 2 for Consequences. And maybe some Thrawn/Fenn porny oneshots set in the Peace Bearer universe I mean what 😇

The Witcher

Flagrant Indecency Chapter 4 is partially written, and I have basic plans for chapter 5! This is a tough one just cause… yeah. More panic / embarrassment than what I usually write for omo, but I am happy with how it’s coming along. I signed up for Wolfie’s finish your fic fest with this one, so I plan to have ch 4 up in a couple weeks and the fic finish by (…whatever the event deadline is, september I think?) at the latest!

No title yet I got ambushed the other day by a Geraskier fic idea involving an incubus hunt gone wrong, juiced-up demanding bottom!Geralt, and inappropriate (but consensual) use of Axii. It’s coming along very nicely 😏 chances are good it’ll be the next thing I publish but honestly, I can never be totally sure what the Brain will decide to do.

Plans There’s a few things I want to get done at some point, including: Geralt discovers Jaskier’s glove kink by accident and they have a lot of fun with that; a sequel to Undignified with more omo thirst trap Jaskier; Geralt’s first time getting fucked / being with a man at all because he walked in on Jaskier and now he’s curious and Jaskier is more than happy to oblige; and possibly one or two sequels to Intoxicating as well because I love my problematic dynamics too much to leave it there. Oh! And maybe a sequel to Tight Fit as well, Jaskier is nothing if not determined 😏

#assassin's creed #midsomer murders #dresden files #the expanse #the witcher #star wars #multifandom #chaos babbles #wip wednesday #state of chaos #too much smut too little time #writing

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FICTIONAL CHARACTERS I WISH WERE TRUE SO THAT I COULD DATE THEM or stare at them from afar

HIWow! It was hard choosing a first topic to talk about. I felt like I needed to talk about something big and glamorous to blow the brains out of… of someone. But alas, this is my best, for now..

So, I chose the first one that I had listed on the top of my head ever since I first started reading.

BOOK BOYFRIENDS!

This is a list of MEN or BOYS who tickle the romantic bone just right! (I had dreamed that there was such an organ in the human body, just near the stomach)

I selected these FICTIONAL BOYFRIENDS as potential members of my harem If I ever defy normal Filipino conceptions of marriage and take up polyandry.

The criteria I used is simple.

Choose the fictional partners that I can imagine existing in real life (not too much of an alpha and rich or good looking that borders on unbelievable). The type of characters that I can imagine talking to, who I find fascinating and can be a potential long-time partner, casual hook up or best friend.

I originally wanted to stick to 10. But as I wrote, a lot of names popped up and I can’t not put them in the list but still, I am sure after I have this article published (Char! Haha) there will be a lot of “Shoot! Why did I not put him on the list???” exclamations. So, maybe I will eventually make another continuation list???

This list is based on the BOOKS I READ so if you have a bet that I didn’t list, please don’t hesitate to give a recom. A new book to swoon over is always welcome.

Most Importantly: READ THE BOOKS WHERE THESE AMAZING CHARACTERS CAME FROM. I liked them because of their wit, their personality, how they interacted with other people, their dreams and how their love for their other half made them better people or vice versa. MEANING: THE BOOK WAS WICKED AWESOME AND THE AUTHOR WAS A GOOD STORYTELLER.

(I must apologize for the lack of female to female romantic partner mentions given my current lack of FF Romance reads, which is something I will rectify soon. But if you have recommendations, feel free to comment below and maybe add some MM ones too!)

Anyway, meet…

1. Clayton Danvers and Lucas Cortez

Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Underworld Series

Genre: Horror fiction, Paranormal romance, Urban fantasy

This series is adapted on screen called ‘Bitten’ which is available on Netflix.

Clayton Danvers is the strong, silent, and smart type. He is a professor in a university where he met Elena(his student) and a werewolf! His devotion to Elena was sweet, passionate and faithful to the point that bordered on obsessive but not off putting. The best thing about him was how un-Alpha he was. Although he was strong , his relationship with Elena was a partnership.

This is what romance needs today guys! A PARTNER not a rich and condescending daddy!

Lucas Cortez, on the other hand, is a lawyer/sorcerer, young master of a Cabal Group, who informally separates from his family's company to pursue a life as a lawyer protecting the rights of other magical beings against abusive Cabals(including his family's). Unlike Clayton, he was slender with brown eyes behind glasses. So basically, a cute, smart nerd who is the 'good' black sheep of the family.

(they are in separate books with different female romantic partners)

2. Quinn Sullivan

Penny Reid’s Neanderthal Meets Human

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Quin…*sighs*... So awesome! He was quiet, mysterious,unsmiling, rich and had an almost perfect handsome face. I love that the author imagined small flaws like almost unnoticeable crooked bottom front teeth and differing sizes of his ears with one prominent feature -his hawk-like stare. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, he took Janie's quirkiness in stride. Asking questions, debating, protecting, annoying, kissing…. You know the drill..😉

3. Beau Winston

Penny Reid’s Beard in Mind

Genre: Contemporary Romance

On first read, Beau was a good looking, charming good boy who is looking for his path after his twin, Duane left to pursue his own.

What I loved about him was how he dealt with Shelley's(Quinn's Sister) clinically diagnosed mental illness(OCD). He researched about it and made efforts to make it easier for her and was just overall supportive.

It was awesome how much the author has put an effort in researching OCD facts to make details perfectly accurate and how it was NOT at all a hastily placed plot device to get the story going.

4.Ted Beaudine

Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Call Me Irresistible

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Hello to my favorite romance book of all time!

I think I have read this many times already and have to put off re-reading it again for next year(2021) to give my brain some time to forget some of the plot. We need to keep the mystery going! amiright??

Anyway, Ted was the perfect genius, good boy and people pleasing guy. He is perfectly polite, straight laced and has basically carried the whole town in his muscled shoulders for years. (Did I tell you he was the Mayor?)

Meg's carefree life and struggles basically tickled his good boy bone the wrong way.

Read this novel to witness how a perfect boy and wastrel girl turned out in the end. Seriously Please Read!

5. Patrick Jason 'Pick' Ryan

Linda Kage' Be My Hero

Genre: Contemporary Romance

He was the tattoed, orphan softie on the wrong side of town who thankfully did not grow up a thug because of a vision he got when he was young from a moled witch.

One day, his tinkerbell, the star of his visions, enters the bar he works at, but PREGNANT!

Gosh! I loved this so much. This was part of the Forbidden Men Series but can read as a stand alone. Although, I advise you to read the other books also, they were all awesome!

6. Colin Bridgerton

Julia Quin’s Bridgerton Series

Genre: Historical Fiction/ Romance

Charming, green eyed and younger son, Colin was considered a catch of the ton.

He had a case of wanderlust and couldn't stay at one place without getting an itch. I can't say more without giving a major spoiler, but I loved that the author made him major insecurities.

Because secretly,too perfect is boring, right??

7. Sean Cassidy

Penny Reid and L.H Cosway's The Player and the Pixie

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Wewowewowewo. *sexy flames*

Imagine a gorgeous jerk of a jock with sexual inexperience and a rainbow haired goody goody shoes girl (whose brother is his ultimate enemy) who is willing to be the TEACHER!

But it was more than that, I liked how the authors highlighted the perils of kleptomania, the privilege of the rich and how gorgeous jerks are set straight by their women who would not suffer in a relationship with a class A insensitive jerk just because he was good looking and rich.

This was a ride! I lost count how many times I re-read this book.

8. Elend Venture

Branson Sanderson’s Mistborn Trilogy

Genre: High Fantasy

Elend was the angsty boy part of the elite class who is disgusted by his privilege and looks for ways to make the government better by reading outlawed books that spark rebellious and forward ideas. In short, he was a closet revolutionary.

Throughout the series there were some major changes in his life from a closet reader to a person who pursues ideas he just once read in books?

How do they say it? Walk the talk or in his case, Walk the read? (talking about it would mean death)

9.Archer Devereux

April White’s The Immortal Descendants Series

Genre: Time Travel Romance/ Historical Fantasy

Dumdumdumdum. Imagine a conservative college boy from the past your future self time traveled in, spends time with you, helps you in your quest, likes you secretly and is shy about it and becomes a vampire stuck in immortality waiting to meet the 'present' you.

Talk about love lasting through time! This was a great book if you love time travel stories with historically accurate and interesting facts injected heavily into the story!

10. Rupert Carsington

Loretta Chase’ Mr. Impossible

Genre: Historical Fiction/Romance

A hellion younger son of an earl who loves an adventurous carefree life who is without inhibition, just goes along the ride and has a set of surprisingly caring and dependable muscled shoulders.

Meets a beautiful tempered scholar who needs his help finding his kidnapped brother in the sands of Egypt.

This is perfect for those who love adventure romances, and topics on the papyrus, mummies and the french and British looting conflict in the African colonies.

11. Sebastian Ballister

Loretta Chase’ Lord of Scoundrels

Genre: Historical Fiction/Romance

My favorite Historical Romance book ever!! Like Ted Beaudine's book, I try to read this at least once or twice a year to forget some of the plot and keep the mystery going.

He was called the Marquess of Dain and has been raising hell since childhood and in the present day France where he meets the blue stocking Jessica. The author throughout the book continually refers to them as the Beauty and the Beast.

What makes this book SPECIAL is how intelligent, witty and funny most of their conversations were. It's funny how many books are under many sexy, funny and witty lists on goodreads but only some of those on the list are actually true! THIS BOOK IS ONE OF THEM!

Jess was not annoying or shy or too much of a fighter and Dain was not too obnoxious. It was perfect.

And if you have not read this book or others from this author or genre, I command you to start reading after you finish this article.Break some cherries!

12. Hardy Cates

Liza Kleypas’ Blue Eyed Devil

Genre: Contemporary Romance

A blue neck Town boy chasing dreams outside of town to leave the shithole of a living. He has white knight complexes but leaves the damsel in distress after the case is solved. Also, muscular and has the blunt and bluest eyes on Texas

This book I have also reread many times because it talks about dealing with domestic abuse and moving on after an abusive relationship, dealing with people who have narcissistic disorder and the life of the privileged.

13. Connor ‘Mad’ Rogan

Illona Andrews’ Hidden Legacy Series

Genre: Paranormal Romance (PNR)

Wootwootwoot. Imagine a former military but now head of the House 'Mad' Rogan successfully publicly kidnapping you in broad daylight using only wads of cloth. Talk about a powerful telekinetic!

I loved that he was once again, A partner in the relationship and not an overprotective ape despite him being awfully more powerful than Nevada.

14.Phil Tucker

Jennifer Crusie Welcome to Temptation

Genre: Contemporary Romance

This is written by an author whose ALL BOOKS WRITTEN i have read and loved.

Phil is part of a long line of male Mayors in the family and meets almost fugitive-like Sophie.

Read as they deal with each other, try to take down a production of town porn video, deal with an enemy, try to dirty Phil down to win the next election and spend time reading a romance classic.

15. Ansel Guillaume

Christina Lauren’s Sweet Filthy Boy

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Known for the many explicit sexy times that can be read throughout the book. So, if you want to stay green in the ears, skip this one till you're legal.

Ansel is a sweet, full of life French Lawyer celebrating with friends in LA and Mia with her friends also, celebrating their newly graduated from college selves.

Ansel is soft, a daydreamer, magnificent bringer of orgasms and game with all things Mia is willing to do.

They married through Elvis and decided to not divorce yet to explore the beautiful France and a possibility of a good relationship.

AND DONE!

I actually have a lot more but these are for now.

CONSIDER THIS LIST AS A BOOK RECOMMENDATION FOR AWESOME ROMANCES WITH WELL WRITTEN AND SWOON WORTHY CHARACTERS

Topic for my next blog entry:

How to Find the Next Good Book to Read:

A Guide to Good Sources of Book Recommendations

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Hello, I know you're a really good loremaster, one of the best, so what's the most fitting class if I wanted to roleplay a character as a Chantry Priest? I wanted to import my character from another RPG where they were a healer priest of a monastery but can't make them a Mage in DA because it seems like the nature of metaphysics of the universe conflicts with their character So is a templar-spec nomad in light robed gear or a Rogue like Leliana/Seb more fitting for a Priest? Which is closer? ty!

Hi Nonnie, awsh thanku, that’s v kind of you to say. :) here’s some thoughts for your consideration. cut for length.

in terms of the frames of how classes and class-tropes are in some other similar (fantasy, sword n sorcery, etc) settings, spirit healer mages in DA remind me of classical clerics and the white mage archtype. here’s (spoilers for Tevinter Nights and Blue Wraith at link) a recent post about what we know about how healing magic works in the DA setting, just in case it’s of any interest/use to you.

in terms of mundane healing and non-magical medicine references in the DA settings, the lore has references to “healers”, “surgeons”, “medics”, and “physicians”. there are also midwives, apothecaries, herbalists and alchemists, although it’s unclear if one has to be a mage to brew a straight-up potion-potion. here’s what the DA wiki has to say about medicine/healing arts in Thedas, both magical and mundane. you might be particularly interested in the following:

the only access to any sort of proper care that common people would have is through the Chantry, or one of the Circles of Magi. The visitation of a Circle-approved mage practitioner must be arranged through a Templar. The local chantry provides care for the sick, and members of the clergy may travel to troubled areas in order to provide free relief in the name of charity.

as it pertains to having Chantry clergypeople healing and providing medical care to the sick.

the templars strike me as paladin-esque. what they really do as an Order isn’t really the same, but the basal archtype is there. they are essentially this’s setting’s holy warriors, the crusaders. bear in mind that if you make your character a templar or someone who has the abilities of a templar, they are essentially taking on an addiction to the substance lyrium, which becomes a serious problem for people in the latter stages/grips of the addiction. lyrium withdrawal is unpleasant and comes with significant cravings. over time, users lose their memories and their minds, become paranoid and obsessive, exhibiting dementia-like symptoms, etc. templars in the Order are sworn to protect the world from the dangers of magic, but their primary duties on average usually boil down to acting as jailers to the mages kept in Circles, hunting down escapees, and ‘bringing in’ mages who came into their power outside of the Circle, although there are ofc other duties like guarding Chantries or being the bodyguards of the Divine. mentioning this stuff because it would naturally have an impact on how you play your character. perhaps not the Templar Order stuff if you make someone with templar abilities who isn’t in the Order (see below), but the lyrium stuff definitely. note it is possible to wean off and stop taking lyrium, Cullen can do this according to PC choices in DAI.

there are examples of non-heavy templar armor in the games, like Templar Armor - Light Issue (a medium chestpiece). DAI presents us with red templar enemies who are archers/marksmen. from what I remember they still wear heavy, or at least medium/heavy-looking, armor. they’re deformed by red lyrium so it’s not really a helpful thing to note, but the red templar enemy faction in DAI’s stealth units, Shadows, still look like they’re wearing heavy or heavy-looking armor.

Light Armor tends to be for mages, but not exclusively. when we meet Leliana in DAO, she’s in Chantry robes, which iirc DAO defines as clothing technically (DAO has both LA and clothing as item categories). she wears these when she assists the Warden with the skirmish with soldiers in the Lothering Tavern. (I doubt she didn’t switch to other, more protective gear for the duration of the Fifth Blight though, regardless of player choice here). in the Magi Origin, there’s Lily, a Chanty initiate. she’s a temporary companion/party member and does some fighting. she’s also wearing the robes and the game classes her as a rogue. incidentally she can be equipped with a dagger and a mace.

the actual priesthood of the Chantry is made up entirely of women. men are only allowed to become true priests in the Imperial Chantry, which is the Chantry of Tevinter. in the southern Chantry, the only rank men are allowed to have is Brother. the best example of a Chantry Brother we’ve had as you say is Sebastian. Brother Burkel also springs to mind as a non-companion example. (he doesn’t fight but if you YouTube him you can see how he sounds and what he talks like when he’s speaking to the PC) men are allowed to occupy associated/adjacent roles like chanters and scholars. of particular note here is how the Chantry’s male acolytes, basically an ‘invisible army’, tend to tend to the less spiritual side of things; they keep the Chantry in good repair, fed and see to the physical well-being of their Andrastian charges (tying to the above excerpt about local Chantries and so on caring for the sick, although do note I can easily see female Chantrypeople doing that role too even if they are ‘priestesses’). the exception to this outside of Tevinter would be in post-DAI worldstates where Leliana was made Divine; she opens the priesthood to all genders and races. sth to bear in mind if your imported character is a male and you’re set on the whole priest aspect as opposed to a lower-ranked Brother.

on balance if you wanted to RP as a Chantry clergyperson (bear in mind “Chantry clergyperson” is my phrasing for the ease of this answer and not necessarily a label from the lore) I think the Rogue class angle would be more fitting. there are examples of Chantry clergypeople who are Rogues and fought as such in the lore (Leliana, Sebastian), and I can’t recall examples of templars in light armor or robed gear. A Chantry clergyperson more closely matches the role of a healer priest in a monastery; we can see from the lore there are mundane healing skills/professions and there’s a definite precedent for Chantry clergypeople to be caring for and tending to the sick. You could play the most skilled mundane healer Chantry clergyperson from a particular Chantry - perhaps even a formally trained physician who gave themselves to a life of service in the Chantry - and/or to capture the travelling angle, your character could be one of those clergypeople who travels to troubled areas in order to provide free healing and relief. if you wanted I think you could have them don a more protective form of equipment or a more protective version of Chantry robes for safety when travelling, or if they’re particularly combat-inclined, like Leliana in her mission in DA2, or Leliana’s Sacred Ashes trailer armor, or Lily’s Heroes of Dragon Age appearance.

I feel like if you went for the templar angle it sounds like you’d be leaning away from the heart of your character, which seems to be a healer monk/travelling priest/traveling healer-type deal. templars are sth different. you would also have to explain how a nomad person gained the powers and abilities of a templar, since that’s usually the purview of templars only, and usually requires templar training from the Order, and always the imbibing of lyrium. Alistair was a trainee who left before starting lyrium. him teaching the abilities to Warrior PCs or Warrior PCs reading how to be a templar in a book in DAO, Templar Hawke and Cassandra’s spec being the Templar spec in DAI are more like story/gameplay segregation. Cass is a Seeker of Truth, in truth, for instance, not a templar. it’s a bit more realistic and less handwaved in DAI for the PC at least - Way of the Templar is the sidequest through which the DAI PC gains the spec, and specifies that if you construct a lyrium philter (for the imbibing of lyrium) and “study the methods of the templars” (which = doing a lot of related reading) you can learn the secrets of the spec from someone who knows it or knows about it. on the subject of not being part of the Order, the character Ser is interesting because he knows the physical aspects of being a templar but makes it clear he’s not part of the Order. the abilities of a templar might not necessarily be what you’re looking for either - they’re about dispelling and nullifying magic, inhibiting spellcasting, not healing. usually these abilities are employed to fell demons, abominations and be turned against mages. also bear in mind the templar spec has so far been the purview of the Warrior class. imo a rogue like Leliana or Seb would be closer to what you’re describing, out of the 2 options in your ask.

hope this helps you decide or at least gives you some food for thought :)

@simonjadis has some great input below in the notes: if you’re open to making your character a Tevinter citizen, note that men (if applicable) have access to all levels of rank in the Imperial Chantry, and mages can be part of the clergy (if you decided that in the end being a mage was acceptable in this setting for your char). following on from the mage angle, although not a priest or part of the clergy, you could make a loyalist, faithful Andrastian spirit healer mage. Wynne in DAO is our best example of someone in this position so far.

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Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man (2014-2015) - Not with a Bang, but a whimper

Post Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #19, Miles Morales’ written career as Spider-Man has not been great. After fridging one of the only central supporting female characters in his cast – Rio Morales, his mother – the state of the narrative became preoccupied with manpain, and framing the grief of a teenage boy as, in the words of Miles Morales, someone who “didn’t understand what it meant to be Spider-Man” (Ultimate Cataclysm: Spider-Man #1), which required his entire supporting cast to shame and emotionally manipulate him back into the job.

If there was any good that came out of the last five issues of UCSM, it was probably the introduction of Ultimate Cloak and Dagger and Ultimate Taskmaster.

Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man, unfortunately, offers very little in the way content improvement outside of one side story and its art direction. Otherwise, it doubles back in circles on subjects and issues that should’ve been laid to rest and ends on an inconclusive whimper.

Ultimate Spider-Man #200 + #Issues #1-7

Death in comic books means nothing, and holds no weight unless you’re a wildly unpopular (or non-white) character that any given publication is looking to get rid of in order to appease their narrow minded (and white) audience. When the Ultimate Marvel universe was created, one of the creeds it presumably lived by was that “death mattered”. When a character died, it would mean something, it would impact the narrative, and every character that died would remain dead.

It’s a shame, then, when they chose to stick their guns, they let Jeph Loeb decimate almost half of the Ultimate Universe’s roster in one of the uglier displays of wanton violence, sexism, and just plain shit writing, with the 2011 “Blockbuster Event” Ultimatum. Ultimatum more or less ensured, despite maintaining the promise that no one would return from the dead, none of the deaths mattered – a lot of it was just Loeb masturbating to his own cruelty if we’re being honest.

With the “Death of Spider-Man”, Brian Michael Bendis added salt to an otherwise unhealed wound that was Ultimatum, which wasn’t even a year old at that point. To his credit, he made Peter Parker’s death matter – book ending it with the first villain that more or less was responsible for the creation of Spider-Man (Norman Osborn) – with reverberating consequences throughout most surviving series in the UM. Yet, following the introduction of Miles Morales – the new and Black Spider-Man (reportedly meant to honor Bendis’ Black children, whom I pity) – you could tell, in the years preceding the removal of Peter Parker as the protagonist of the Spider-Man title, Bendis was regretting his decision.

After a 160 issue run (where Peter made actual appearances and was the protagonist until his death), the questionably numbered Ultimate Spider-Man #200, once again sees Bendis fantasizing about what he might’ve done had he not killed Peter Parker and replaced him with Miles Morales. Most of the original cast of characters that were central to Peter Parker’s story – plus Miles and Ganke – gather together at the Parker House at the behest of May Parker and Gwen Stacy (who appears to be a creep perving on underage teen boys no matter what), to commemorate the life of the late Peter Parker. Considering the previous three iterations of “Memorializing Peter Parker” in the UM, Ultimate Spider-Man #200 brings nothing new to the table, but should’ve been a red flag to anyone paying attention to the declining quality of Miles’ title.

Miles’ final title in the Ultimate Universe, Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man, begins with the reintroduction of a supposed-to-be-dead Norman Osborn – in the custody of S.H.I.E.L.D. – and two generic Spider-Man copycats robbing banks. There’s nothing really of note to say about the first seven issues of this thirteen issue title. Bendis decides, with the Ultimate Marvel universe doing the death rattle, to undo the death of both Osborn and Peter Parker – with Peter getting a half-assed excuse for his being brought back from the dead (to sum it up: “because reasons”).

I don’t think a Spider-Man comic has made me quite as angry as this series has. In the moment I read the issue wherein Peter Parker tells Miles, “It’s time for the Original Spider-Man to get back into the game”, I could’ve torn the book into shreds and smote its ruins if I thought it was going to hurt Marvel’s sales and not be an even greater waste of my spent $3.99.

“I can’t believe we’re beating this dead horse again” was what I was thinking and I just stopped buying the book altogether. I think that the first step to mine ceasing to see Miles Morales as a legitimate character, but wasted potential in the hands of non-Black creatives. I only ended up reading the trades for the sake of reference and fact checking and it’s only this year, three-four years after the fact that I bothered to do that. The only thing worth noting about the first seven issues of this title is that it sets up the last four, which are even worse.

Cataclysm: Ultimate Spider-Man #1-3 + Issues #8-9

Cataclysm: Ultimate Spider-Man is one of seven miniseries titles part of the “Blockbuster Event” known as Cataclysm, which sees Ultimate Galactus (or 616 Galactus, I’m not sure which tbh. There’s very little difference between the two when you get to the nitty-gritty) attempting to destroy the 1610 universe and devour it all. You get the distinct feeling that, before someone came up with Secret Wars, Cataclysm was meant to be the true end of the Ultimate Universe – but someone upstairs changed their mind and rendered it to a mere false start. Long story short: The grand majority – if not all of – the Ultimates (the Avengers of the 1610 universe) are killed or sent into the void with Galactus by Ultimate Shadowcat – who is later hailed savior of the world. The All-New Ultimates are formed.

Das it.

But, within Miles’ slice of the Cataclysm story, Bendis finally decides to focus on the elephant in the room: Jefferson Davis and his open and his fantasy xenophobia toward superhumans and how it has literally silenced his own son from admitting to his double life as Spider-Man. Moreso since the death of his mother, Rio Morales, at the hands of Ultimate Venom. I’ll be perfectly honest – I don’t think Jefferson Davis is a great guy – I actually ended up liking his no-account brother (Aaron Davis, gone too soon) far more because he was upfront about his ideals and his mission statement. He never pretended or tried to be a better person. He was just rotten and enjoyed it.

For that one piece of sage advice Jefferson offered Miles in the earliest tenure of his first title, Jefferson is the perfect example of a man who expects his son to “do as he says, and as I do”, but expects no consequences visited upon him whenever he dehumanizes people. He’s a walking metaphor for the heterosexual Black father who spews homophobic slurs in casual conversation around their gay daughter or son and I’m sure as hell that was intentional despite the incompatibility of the allegory.

Cataclysm: Ultimate Spider-Man doesn’t do much to repair his character, if anything it makes him thrice times worse. When Galactus starts wrecking all of New York City and Brooklyn, Miles, Bombshell (Lana Baumgartner) and Cloak and Dagger, struggle to save the people caught in the monster’s wake – all while recounting where they were when the Ultimatum event occurred.

In Miles’ flashback, we see Jefferson lose his head over the knowledge that the title wave was caused by a mutant (Magneto), all while loudly proclaiming everyone stuck in traffic was going to die. The most important nugget of information taken away from Miles’ flashback is the knowledge that his father more or less promised that he would abandon or disown Miles if he ever found out his son (then, probably only 11 or 12 years old at the time) was a superhuman.

I never had much sympathy for Davis (I tolerated him because of Rio), but the moment Miles tries to convince his father to come with him out of the city to safety, and Jefferson decides to blame a now fourteen year old Miles for the death of Rio and Aaron, I just outright hated him. Cataclysm: Ultimate Spider-Man is not a bad read all things considered. It tells its story concisely and never loses focus of its characters in relation to the catastrophe. The downside is that you have to read the rest of the Cataclysm series to know what was going on. I’d probably recommend you read it, especially since it ties into two issues of The Ultimate Spider-Man.

The conflict between Miles and Jefferson is left hanging until issues #8 and #9 of Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man – also known as “The Only Redeeming Thing About This Comic Book Title”. The eighth and ninth issues of MMTUSM sees Jefferson Davis finally owning up to his past and basically just spilling the beans about his life as a criminal with Aaron and how he became involved with S.H.I.E.L.D. during the 80s – when Miami Vice, Jerri Curls, House Party Flattops, and ill-fitting suits with shoulder pads were all the rage – and how he met a young, already-at-it, Nick Fury.

The complete tonal and visual shift in the issues are a welcome respite from the Peter Parker nonsense of the previous seven. The story arc, “Miles Morales: An Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.?”, carries with it the kind’ve of visual flair I see a Tim Sale illustrated graphic novel (like Spider-Man: Blue or The Long Halloween), but it’s still David Marquez illustrating the story from beginning to end.

It’s got the look and feel of a pulp novel, or one of those old newspaper comic strips where the spots of the print were obvious through the inking and character sketches. The narrative, which sees Jefferson and Aaron working for smalltime criminals to Jefferson’s eventual graduation to protecting the Kingpin (with a minor explanation as to why he loathes mutants), is, in my opinion, the highlight of a story that could’ve worked as a full-fledged miniseries about the Jefferson brothers.

My only quibble with the framing of the narrative is that the early inclusion of S.H.I.E.L.D makes Jefferson look more like the unwilling participant of crime he was manipulated into thinking he had to do for “the greater good”, as opposed to some young blood who didn’t give much thought to right or wrong (which is how the early issues framed it) before he had an epiphany. I always assumed the crime came first, then S.H.I.E.L.D, then Rio. Honestly, if you’re at all interested in this storyline, just look for the single issues and don’t buy the trade. You’ll be doing yourself a favor.

#Issues 10-13

Marvel and its twisted, present-day romantic relationship with Neo-Nazism is a fairly ironic one, given most of its early artists were white Jewish dudes with alternate names designed to explicitly hide their Jewishness on account of antisemitism. But, I suppose the publications preoccupation with Nazism to begin with (even if it was denouncing it) would’ve inevitably steered its future publishers to romanticize it in the end. I mean, that’s what happened after all.

You know shit it bad when Marvel wants you to pity [white] characters like Grant Ward of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D for joining a Neo-Nazi group, despite the repeated and angry affirmations of protagonist Daisy Johnson, who flat-out reminds the audience, “You are a Nazi if you join Hydra”, who is undermined anyway by the narrative that continues to bleat, “pity the Neo-Nazi.”

Brian Michael Bendis, in all his infinite lack of wisdom, decides – the biggest way to differ Miles Morales’ love life from Peter Parker’s, is make an underdeveloped character, his girlfriend, Ultimate Kate Bishop, a member of Hydra. Miles’ white girlfriend rides on the agenda of the Aryan Ideal and white supremacy. Brilliant.

The Ultimate Spider-Man issues, #1-#4 and #7 prelude the last four issues with Miles deliberating whether or not he should tell Katie Bishop about his double life as Spider-Man. Instead of being supportive, everyone from Ganke to Cloak and Dagger warns Miles against telling her, thinking it would be a bad idea. He does it anyway, Katie panics and runs away.

The aforementioned issues give the reader a glimpse into Kate’s life with the Bishops, with one conversation with her older sister casually mentioning that “they” would have to kill Miles and the seventh issue concludes with her uttering the phrase, “Hail Hydra.”

If The Ultimate Spider-Man had something to say about the issue of Nazism, especially in relation to Miles’ life as a Black teen – or the cautionary tale of “you never know someone until…”, then I could maybe understand the decision to make Kate Bishop (a wildly popular Avenger in the 616 universe, be she an adult or a teenager) a Nazi.

But, it doesn’t, it basically does exactly the same thing Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D does with the Daisy Johnson/Grant Ward dynamic. The narrative depicts a “Sympathetic Nazi” (Katie) trying to explain their position, and a furious significant other (Miles) outright declaring their relationship is over. Only, where AOS more or less dragged that subplot out to its natural conclusion (“Sympathetic Nazi” isn’t really sympathetic and dies),

The Ultimate Spider-Man did nothing to that extent. Readers barely have gotten to known Katie Bishop since her introduction in issue #23 of UCSM. She was given no time actually to be anything other than “Miles Morales’ girlfriend”. And when it comes right down to it, the Hydra subplot was nothing but an excuse to bring Dr. Doom into the narrative at the last moment. So, the “My Girlfriend is a Nazi” storyline just falls flat.

On a smaller note, the way the last couple issues decide to use Judge – the minor character from Ultimate Comics Spider-Man – is sigh inducing. It’s like Bendis realized his book was coming to an end and figured the best way to a handle a character that barely had any face time since the first twelve issues of the UCSM, is to just plop him in the middle of the story with his already knowing Miles is Spider-Man.

But, he does it in a way that, if you removed him from the story, nothing would change. It’s a superfluous addition and kind’ve discourteous, especially since Bendis doesn’t do anything with Judge later on in Miles’ new 616 title, the unfortunately named Spider-Man.

Outside of issues #8 and #9, Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man is a sad conclusion to Miles Ultimate Universe solo-title career. It reminded me why I stopped reading his title four years ago, and knowing that none of his recent stuff isn’t any good either kinda makes me glad I made the decision so early on.

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Facebook Insomnia 7.25.2021 1. I am still sad to conceptualize life in terms of fiction and the condition of fiction rather than Christianity undivided. Today I had a lot of images of Japan in my mind. I heard the phrase 'Japanese Breakfast' which is the rock-star name of the author of 'Crying at H-Mart' a famous book. I remembered someone who once dated someone who became my enemy. This person I respected I now realize and I am happy that I didn't say anything excessively stupid that would have implied I look down on her, saw her as easy, saw her as 'material to work on,' someone to have a plan for etc. I asked her once for help getting someone to interview at Deloitte for consulting only this person was in Accounting. I never really saw this person as in my league or anything to me except as a 'Curriculum Developer' I guess I outranked her and so wasn't shy of talking to / with her in official functions. Later we drank together and I said a few random things like that I stress- / binge-eat apples, like 5 apples a night. My friend once did a funny imitation of her that in retrospect sounded a little like my Taiwanese ex-girlfriend's imitation of Kaori Mochida from Every Little Thing; the funny thing I now realize is that he too had lingering affection for her despite everything. I feel he became anti-Korean racist and I don't know where he is now but in retrospect he definitely never crossed a line with her that I know of except for asking questions I would never ask. He called her by her Asian name which was something I never did in those days feeling it pretentious. 'The mysterious maiden of the Moon...' - It's a line from Yi Kwangsu's 'The Soil' in which a married man is comparing his wife with someone else like his former student. In good Korean custom since his former student once had a puppy-crush on him and gave him some corn, when her husband finds out, he kicks her to death in her pregnant stomach and this is why I oppose many things in principle such as tribalism, marriage, and for all intent and purposes the nuclear family. Yi Kwangsu is a problematic figure and as a Christian or aspiring Christian / 'Christianist' I don't recommend it. It has incredibly exquisite descriptions of women that could make you brain-dead. Yi Kwangsu also supposed Japan's occupation of Korea so that to this day talking about Yi Kwangsu can get you crucified. I also seem to recall something like '_ _-ya, you got run over by a train you one-legged prostitute; now you have to love your husband even more.' But I don't remember the context. Ironically or not 'The Soil' is the title of a Knut Hamsun novel the author of which supported Hitler; I do not. I wonder where she is now. This person got shot at a lot and I regret adding to her burdens with my sin-eater-type confessions or just shooting my mouth off when stuff happened. I had a crush on someone else and started saying I was sad I lost my virginity in college; IDK why I said anything. This person also had high alcohol-tolerance - extremely high for a female Asian - and although I could also drink a lot I always did bad self-destructive things. In the Middle Ages one form of 'trial by ordeal' was to reach your hand in to boiling water to pull out a pearl and if the boiled skin healed well you were exonerated or sth. She must be 'somebody's everything; my impossible girl.' IDK why she talked to me and I made fun of her and all my fictionalized versions of her and theories of her were derogations. Like me she played the piano. She once said '_ _ is popular' which was a burn I appreciate since I'm anti-popularity and anti-personality-cults. She went to a school part of which is Victoria College where a literary critic I admire(d) taught for many years. I am stuck in America, hounded by Satan through the personages of my Maoist biological family and 'family tree' of America torn between past and future, un-death and life; due in large part to my excessive tendency to defend myself, to lash out, to wash my hands on the outside without cleaning my 'interior mentality' to paraphrase the 'Da Xue,' or to blaspheme the Spirit in some respects, I feel. I regret talking about her and at the same time why would I talk about lesser maidens? IDK what her favorite piano-piece was as I never endeavored to enage her in discourse about art or aesthetics given she is not a 'kisaeng' or 'geisha' and I am not a museum-curator or whatever. Other people would be like 'Oh! You lke the Grande Valse Brilliante; I know you spent the summer of 2003 teaching yourself repeat-notes.' Everyone wants to drag everyone in to their mud or graves these days. Am reminded of Endo Shusaku's 'Silence' about why Jesuits would apostasize in medieval Japan. His conclusion was that the 'swamp of Japan' was too full of sensualism, the Portuguese Jesuit wanted a Japanese mistress or wife. I once yelled 'swamp f-ggot' at someone due to their tendency to emotionalize and 'contextualize' everything which was an underhanded way of trying to make me change my sex as well. In an effort to mitigate some of the tempting evil pornographic things I said about KR over the years I said a few more but this is a person, whose name means 'Pearl' as in 'the pearl of great price for which oe sold everything else.' It is said that AAPI Twitter, America, house-slave Am-Kor own-goal Korean self-exploitation honor-killing squadsters, etc. want to these people in the trash. I found my Gideon Kor-Eng NT Psalms with the 'victory song' that sounds like Mandarin in its Revelation, that I had worried I'd lost. That might be the 'most grateful' thing that 'happened.' I also remembered what my Mandarin name used to be though I had many in different classes I took. I was going to say many things, but in the end: the mystery of Charity.

I never considered the full implications of socialism or mental socialism till today. I assumed that it was valid mitigation. Some are born rich, some are born poor, it's wrong to let the latter starve on principle alone. I don't even know how to say this. I remember during the Iraq War being struck by how much the government - like my mom - was asking outsiders for advice about how to fight. Dick Cheney got in trouble. Years later I was skeptical of the F-35 because a lot of idiots with no skin in the game wanted to build it here or there. Wisconsin wanted to build the 'Littoral Combat Ship' which who cares. It made people worse and worse. The only thing is, the CCP - who ultimately serve I dare not even say whom, but clearly not the ghosts of Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin or perhaps even Mao Zedong - figured out awesome killer ways to troll Republicans like Scott Walker w/ their 'FoxConn Fallujah hokey-pokey' whereby they got an avowed capitalist to promise socialists something that actually came from-post-hyper-anti-socialist hyper-capitalists with a plan to kill all white people or something. My father used to talk about the University of Chicago School of Economics all the time and it made me sulkily ask myself why 'Poor Dad' is talking so much about stuff that supposedly makes people billionaires while Jacob's English major dad is Bloomberg's 'chief of staff.' I say again it's just like Biden saying all the right stuff, 'knee on the neck of the American soul, bone of our bone, winter of peril, hey dumbfuck, articulate, they're killing people.' Writing grant-proposals to the government to fund private research in to brain-injury that is itself applied by the government to veterans sent to get brain-damaged by a government that said good things and did retarded things based on their readings of the good things they said a bit like Karenin in 'Anna Karenina.' I remember when George W. Bush said 'I'm the decider.' I once told my dad to get out of my face so he got really sloshed up and vapored, 'I'm in your face!' I'm not even saying that to defame someone but welcome to reality. Every so often every male seems to try to man up then they defend themselves like, 'No that is not the way in which I meant that I was manning up.' You could call this 'self-draft-dodging.' It's ancient history but if I had been wiser I would have tried to predict the future for myself rather than visualize it as an abstract spectatorial notion. At day's end mental socialists can literally not understand why it is wrong to steal. Stealing is compulsory under socialism - I again come back to 'Pearl' since her ex-suitor and I used to reflect on how Korean collectivism drove people into themselves. Similarly mental socialists cannot but hoard 'capabilities' so that in the end they'll falsify anything, steal anything; the only limit I guess is living with themselves.

I keep giving myself to fantasy and coping of all kinds like a 'mental Changrae Lee novel, mental David Guterson novel,' or ultimately Vergil (Virgil). There has to be a new music, a new dream, something, a new city, though it is odd to think about pre-Christian times and a legend of what came before Rome in a Christian moment amid realignment in 'late Roman history.' My favorite YAL book still perhaps is 'The Giver' since it deals with the uses of history, with abortion, and with escape or exile. I was going to say a while back something about 'Light in August' which relates to escape - as well to complacence - and to interracial relationships, pregnancy, the right to live. I was in Minneapolis but mind was on Japan, on all these swords, not the Olympics but histories of swords and strange armor, halberds. There was a huge sword called a 'field sword' in translation. I don't even want to see these people again; I sincerely pray the Japanese Prime Minister, the men and women of their armed forces, Tokyo's apparently amazing counter-terrorism and response capabilities for NBC / WMD / etc. attacks since the Aum Shinrikyo Sarin subway attacks and maybe their counter-nuclear or ability to respond after a nuclear blast will be enough. People in America are trying to live by a little of the old, a little of the new, but it seems utterly impossible. When people abuse me I get really dreamy. I read Virgil in high school; I was thinking of 'post-Covid YAL' or so in which people are just on the run, harrowing themselves, not even nostalgic for Babylon or anything in it. It is almost like 'the meaning of the soul.' I realized that in addition to new churches and new government laws Covid will engender new birth-defects and there will have to be new medicine. Japan is a country that I said bad things about especially when in Korea but she never did anything bad to me - I remember playing 'Final Fantasy' and thinking someone out there loves me; they made an investment in children worldwide. The only thing is I'm too old for such adventures and I fall apart quickly. All these birds in Japan, colors of red - people get obsessed with the Otherness of Japan and want to abnegate Belial-like (a demon or fallen angel of sensualism, to my understanding).

I took so many notes and voice-notes yesterday that I devoutly hope my visions will pass to someone. The future is going to be so beautiful for somebody but I have lost so much faith in my ability to mitigate or restrain evil. Those who I had thought were simply stupid but were diabolically opposed to my existence - whom I did not wish to understand and whom I had 'fancied' I could placate or appease through offerings - turned out to be radically evil, unconditionally evil. I feel that my father (biological) would steal my soul if he could; would eat it in a way. My mom is always sitting on the porch and gives a look of hope like I could change her mind but it'll never happen. I want to kill myself; I think things worldwide will get worse before they get better; I don't trust Biden or anyone who says the right things without showing exactly what they are doing. Christians seem so petty sometimes like melanin, hairy legs, in Japan this therefore that, Native American Indian manhood rituals. I just want to know which pastor has the 'batting average' I can believe in but it has to be John MacArthur doesn't it?

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Notes on Laplanche

Here are some notes ‘n’ quotes of an essay I read earlier in the year in Buenos Aires. It is called “The Unfinished Copernican Revolution,” from Essays on otherness. Reading it in Argentina, whose bookshelves are lined with Laplanche books, felt rather special.

Copernicus: the decentering of the human being. The word “revolution” only got its current meaning from Amyot’s translations of Plutarch - nb the impact translators have on language - as something predestined, but sudden. “Let us remember that a revolution is never as revolutionary as it thinks - it has its forerunners in the past, and what it offers as a new opening also carries with it possibilities for potential relapses”.

The Copernican revolution = the first narcissistic blow to humanity dealt by science. The problem of astronomy is: there is circular motion, but what goes around what?

Ptolemy vs Copernicus. The former (2nd century AD) = geocentric (everything revolves around the earth), the latter = heliocentric (around the sun) - not that Copernicus was the first to propose this (the 3rd c astronomer Aristarchus was).

The obvious problem with geocentrism is that the stars and heavenly bodies that spin around the earth don’t seem to do so consistently.

Astronomy became ever more complicated, trying to fill in gaps in the theory - just as psychoanalysis did. “A system in which each unexplained detail, far from bringing the whole into question, was made the object of a supplementary ad hoc hypothesis”. Different persuasions have introduced so many new concepts to the freudian model - don’t we have to question whether psychoanalysis (or certain versions thereof) can still stand?

The Copernican revolution at first simply seems to challenge where the centre is - but actually challenges the idea of centring. Previous theories of how bodies move in relation to each other fall down, leading to the conclusion that the universe is so massive, such relations become almost meaningless.

“If the ‘centre’ of the world can be everywhere, it follows correlatively that ‘its circumference is nowhere’” - i.e. it is infinite.

Knowledge is therefore also decentred - there can be no completeness of knowledge, for there is nothing (nothing in man, certainly) to measure such a completeness against. Kant’s empirical subject is Copernican, his transcendental subject Ptolemaic.

“If Freud is his own Copernicus, he is also his own Ptolemy. The revolution in astronomy lasted nearly two millennia, with some intuitions of the truth almost from the start, but also with an initial going-astray. In psychoanalysis, everything essentially is created by a single man - simultaneously, the discovery, affirmed at a very early stage, and which is conjointly that of the unconscious and that of seduction - and the going-astray, the wrong path taken each time there was a return to a theory of self-centering.”

Freud switched between the two views - the Ptolemaic and the Copernican - perhaps as any revolutionary would. “There are some major reaffirmations of other-centredness, the most powerful of which is without doubt the adoption of Groddeck’s id as an agency which lives us more than we live it”. But then, this id becomes the centre - the “natural”/“driven” aspect we are all born with (quote unquote). Which of Freud’s discoveries is Ptolemaic? which copernican?

The Other - cf Laplanche / Leclaire’s essay “The Unconscious, a psychoanalytic study”. Something other, alien, in us.

- You cannot divine the unconscious, poke around until you find it, hidden under some mossy rock. “The method is one of association and cross-referencing, a deconstruction … there is no point-for-point correspondence, no analogy or similitude between the behavioural or conscious discursive sequence from which the associations start and the fragment of an unconscious sequence”.

- and therefore, just as the conscious thought is not analogous to any unconscious content, neither is the symptom. Indeed, the symptom is a compromise or a mingling between reality and unconscious.

- And the unconscious obeys its own laws, which are those of the primary process. See Studies on Hysteria.

- We have two ideas throughout Freud’s thought: an unconscious which is the result of repression - and an unconscious which is primordial. “One could say that from a certain point in Freud’s thought the unconscious will arise from the drive, then the drive from the somatic, but that before 1897 it is the drive which arises from the unconscious”.

- And finally, the unconscious contains scenes of some kind - memories or fantasies - which are essentially sexual. And “sexuality opens directly onto the question of the other … the adult other in his or her alien-ness”.

“‘Internal foreign body’; ‘reminiscences’; the unconscious as an alien inside me, and even one put inside me by an alien. At his most prophetic, Freud does not hesitate over formulations which go back to the idea of possession … But on the other side of these Copernican advances … the dominant tendency is always to relativise the discovery and to re-assimilate and reintegrate the alien.”

This battle between decentredness and centredness comes out in the text “A difficulty in the path of psychoanalysis”:

- “Man feels himself to be supreme within his own mind” vs “the ego is not master in its own house”. Freud seeks, via psychoanalysis, to re-assimilate the alien: “Psychoanalysis sets out to explain these uncanny disorders … until at length it can speak thus to the ego: ‘Nothing has entered into you from without; a part of the activity of your own mind has been withdrawn from your own knowledge and from the command of your will.’”

- Deny the alienness and try to reduce it, seems to be the method or intention here - or in other words, try to know yourself.

- There’s clearly a paradox here - will the unconscious be revealed as something deep within yourself, or something inexorably other (a la Groddeck)? The former is clearly “a return to centring : there is something in me which I’ve split off from, denied, but which I must re-assimilate. The ego is not master of its own house, but it is, after all, at home there nonetheless”. “The domestication of the unconscious”

Primary process:

“We unfailingly think of the primary as being there before the secondary, both in time - the 2o comes to exist after the 1o - and also in priority, the structure of the 2o presupposing the 1o as its foundation”. But what about the idea that higher / more organised forms will come apart or dissolve into the more anarchic forms which preceded them? E.g. in dreams - the recent, organised material (thoughts from the previous day) dissolve to reveal “what was there before”

Cf Chapter 7 of Traumdeutung - but also ‘Formulations on two principles of mental functioning’ (a “going astray”). At first, there is as free a motion and discharge of energy as is possible - a primary process, governed by the pleasure principle. But then follows a process of regulation, organising into pathways, “allowing accumulation, reserve, inhibition and adaptive behaviour”. But of course, this is not the case biologically speaking

“What must be affirmed is the following: if the primary is the unconscious, and the unconscious is the repressed, then this ‘primary’ has become ‘primary’ … it is neither prior nor primitive, but a sort of ‘reduced state’ caused by something else.”

Also: if the unconscious comprises that which has been repressed, how can it be infinite, “capable of endlessly slipping away from our grasp”? Firstly, because repression does not simply mean the one-off shoving under the carpet of memories - it also entails the (endless?) creation of fantasies.

And a suggestion that the reminiscences from which hysterics suffer are not simply memories, but something which returns from the other…

“The essence of the Copernican revolution begun by Freud: the decentering, in reality, is double: the other thing (das Andere) that is the unconscious is only maintained in its radical alterity by the other person (der Andere): in brief, by seduction”.

Though this doesn’t just mean that the other person implants the unconscious in me, “for in between the primary intervention of the other and the creation of the other thing in me, there occurs a process called repression”.

“How can the problem of ‘the existence of the other person’ not be completely overturned as soon as that person is considered as primary in my own constitution - a primacy not only postulated in theory but implicated and experienced in the transference?”

Simply - the other = the adult who seduces the child. So is that other just the child’s perception (the other being generated from within)? Or was the other really there, and if we ask enough questions, could we find him or her? Both of these arguments (which Freud makes) seem thin. And “both … share the same supposition: that the other never manifests himself except in the subjective representation of brute reality”.

What maintains the alien-ness of the other? Language? (or, so as to include the non-linguistic experience of the baby, the message? - i.e. the message which partly gets its meaning from the fact it is sent by the sender to the receiver)

NB: “the child’s cries, according to Freud, are not a call for help. They are simple indices, in Peirce’s sense. They only become messages, calls for help, through the subjective interpretation of the mother.”

Sexuality: “a sign offered to the infant by the adult, delimited by the adult in the situation before the infant itself finishes the process of sampling … It is the adult who brings the breast, and not the milk, into the foreground - and does so due to her own desire, conscious and above all unconscious. For the breast is not only an organ for feeding children, but also a sexual organ, something which is utterly overlooked by Freud and has been since Freud. Not a single text, not even a single remark of Freud’s takes account of the fact that the female breast is excitable, not only in feeding, but simply in the woman’s sexual life”.

Analogous with the primal scene:

“whenever primal scenes are observed or discussed, two worlds without communication divide, so to speak: on one side, parental behaviour, the experience and content of which are by definition beyond the subject’s grasp; and on the other, the side of the child, a traumatic spectacle, more often glimpsed and guessed than seen, suggested by a mere allusion (e.g. animal coitus) which the child must then fill out, interpret, symbolise. My point is that between these two worlds, something is missing: the supposition that sexual intercourse is never simply an objective fact, and that even the letting-see on the part of the parents is always in a sense a making-see, an exhibition. But Freud is never to suspect this idea - that the primal scene only has its impact because it bears a message, a giving-to-see or a giving-to-hear on the part of the parents.”

What’s missing from Freud’s account? Any concept of the address, the message, the sign, something which signifies, the signifier - this is what Lacan brings to the table.

Cf this problem: how could you send a message across space to another species, a message which says “I want to communicate with you”? In 1972, Pioneer 2 sent a message which “aimed to communicate certain data on the spatio-temporal origins of the builders of the spaceship, and their nature”. But put yourself in the place of the receiver: you might find the “indices” of intelligent life in the spaceship and its message, but how could you find a signifier which communicated a desire to communicate? (assuming there is no possibility of a shared code?)

This is the problem that the child faces: he gets messages which “are not transparent to themselves,” in that they contain the adult’s relation to his or her unconscious, AND he does not yet share the interpretative system of the adults.

Can the psychoanalytic Copernican revolution be finished? (i.e. can Freud’s errors be corrected, can his theory be completed) “The Copernican revolution of Copernican astronomy miscarried, as we have glimpsed, in what [N.Y.] Marr attempted: we cannot reform our language, and with it our perception and inner sense, to the extent of giving everyday expression in a ‘Copernican’ language to the movement of sun, moon and stars …… the moment of narcissistic closure - the constitution of the ego as an agency - corresponds in the sequence of primary repression to the constitution of the internal other, the UCS”

#jean laplanche #unfinished copernican revolution #psychoanalysis #Sigmund Freud #unconscious #copernicus #ptolemy

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10 + 11 questions tag

Great thanks and acknowledgments to @letsflytoasiarenata and @belladonna2017 for sending me questions! So, here goes:

A. Always post the rules. Answer the questions then write (10 or 11?) new ones.

B. Tag 11 people and link them to the post. Tell the person who tagged you that you’ve answered their questions.

My questions:

Favorite villain or antagonist.

Favorite character trope/archetype.

Least favorite character trope/archetype.

Least favorite drama trope.

Name a character that you initially disliked but came to love.

Favorite multi-season drama?

Favorite example of trope dissection/dispellation.

Favorite time travel drama.

Choose a period drama, sageuk, or wuxia that you would like to time travel to.

Historical event/time period/historical figure(s) that you want to see a show explore.

Name a show with the best (most intensive yet reasonable/plausible) plot twists.

Favourite historical period in sageuks/wuxia?

This question made me ponder for a bit, since because the center stage of most wuxias is jianghu, or the pugilistic world, largely defined as “a sub-society isolated from mainstream or governmental law”, henceforth most wuxias largely feel timeless, with no specific historical dynasty or time period adhered to the story. Granted, there are some fusions centered around court politics that acknowledge the pugilistic world and combine certain wuxia elements – Nirvana in Fire (fictionalized Northern and Southern Dynasties) rather heavily features wuxia elements, and The Glory of Tang Dynasty (Tang Dynasty) more minimally, but also somewhat.

I suppose it’s a moot point, since upcoming xianxia wuxia Martial Universe is set in the “culturally vibrant Spring & Autumn Era”, but essentially – generally I actually don’t care about what time period a wuxia is set in.

Now, if we’re talking about a historical period in general, I’ve noticed that dramas I’ve enjoyed have tended to take place in the Qing Dynasty (not to mention Manchurian blood runs throughout my veins) – it feels like an appropriate mix of various different ethnic influences, from Mongolian and Manchurian to Han to even some Western influence. (In theory, I would imagine myself enjoying non-spy Republican dramas, but I actually have not.)

As for sageuks, I have only seen one thus far – set in Goryeo. I didn’t enjoy that drama, but the costuming was pretty.

Which story/book/show you would like to see adapted in South Korea/China/Japan?

I tend to stray away from remakes, and I tend to not read source novels until after a drama release, largely to avoid disappointment and comparisons (e.g., even reading The Rankings of Lang Ya Hall in preparation for Nirvana in Fire made the latter slightly disappointing).

But personally, I want a faithful adaptation The Concubine’s Daughter is Poisonous, featuring full-on leg-decapitation, time travel/reincarnation, and bloody revenge. (So, no, The Princess Weiyoung did not do.)

Drama that you watched for your fave and he/she owes you after what you’ve endured for her/him? :D

Swordsman, the Yumama-fication of Jin Young’s The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. But even with Wallace Huo and Joe Chen’s sizzling chemistry, I simply was unable to complete the show.

More strictly, I somehow completed (or, more like FF-ed in frustration) The Imperial Doctress and The Journey of Flower despite the character-butchering, torture, and sheer WTF-ery of said shows. Thanks, Wallace Huo. :D

I would also complain about Love Me If You Dare, since I think I hung on more for its popularity more than anything, and IMO it sort of went haywire, but it wasn’t *as bad* for me as the ones mentioned above. I have similar sentiments about Perfect Couple.

Drama that still haunts you?

Do you not see me still suffering from Glory of Tang Dynasty withdrawal? (To be fair, ~ 2 weeks isn’t particularly long, so who knows?)

The Journey of Flower left a rather brutal impression. The Legend of Zhen Huan, Nirvana in Fire, and Bu Bu Jing Xin are definitely shows that will stick with me for a very long time.

Most stylish drama character in your opinion?

(I have a tendency to think of dramas that I’m currently perusing or obsessing over, so a lot of my answers will definitely feel very GOTD-centric. Just a warning.)

It turns out a lot of my files got cleared out these days, including a bunch of precious caps. But here’s a very nice video on Bilibili featuring Li Chu’s (42, apparently) outfits.

Drama that you didn’t expect you will enjoy?

Medical Examiner Dr. Qin, since I rarely ever watch crime procedurals, but I honestly adore the show so much.

Boss And Me, since it seemed to be your typical chaebol-ordinary girl set-up (and it is, but the way they explore and develop ShanTeng feels very heart-warming and much more realistic than expected. <3)

Favourite drama OST’s lyrics?

I’m a fickle, undecisive person, so I actually don’t know which drama OST is my favorite. Here are the lyrics for: Three Inches of Heaven (Bu Bu Jing Xin) and White-Haired Lament (Sound of the Desert). Recently, though, I’ve been drowning myself in 霍尊’s 素颜 (The Glory of Tang Dynasty). Here are my awkwardly translated lyrics:

你是春的使节让残雪融解

You are the ambassador of spring, thawing the last residues of snow

染成青黛的天等着细雨停歇

Bleeding into the indigo skies, waiting for the drizzle to cease

你素颜裹着云烟

You, bare-faced, swath the misty clounds

诗意了远方湿润了心间

[Made] afar poetic; softened the heart

闭上眼姹紫嫣红都不觉甜

Closed eyes; even the most spectacular colors lack indulgence

只为你的容颜

Only for your appearance

豁然间春光如恋

At sudden enlightenment, the spring scenery exudes amour

渲染了你的出现

Romanticizing your emergence

最留恋不是云巅

The [things] most reluctant to part are not the clouds atop the summit

是千万里朝颜和暮雪

But the flowers and twilight snow thousands of miles apart

梦回间春光流泻

Revisiting in dreams, the spring scenery spills out

归去在落花时节

Returning to the season of falling petals

待离别青空绵绵

Until parting; the clarity remains unbroken

你会成山水间那一点如烟

You will become that point between the water and the mountains; as mist

The most memorable quote from a drama?

为何你还要贬我来抬他？

Why would you still belittle me to elevate him?

[One of the many things I love, love about The Glory of Tang Dynasty is the occasional bits of meta they incorporate into the show, sometimes even to dispel certain tropes – especially when comparing characters, most commonly male leads who always seem to be presented as foils of each other, this is always something to keep in mind.]

One thing that you appreciate the most in dramas?

Events occurring at totally coincidentally (un)-perfect timing.

Slow burn or love at first sight OTP dynamic?

It actually depends. Both are acceptable if executed properly. The childhood trope disguised as “love at first sight” tends to annoy me.

Favourite remake/adaptation?

Lotus Lantern (2005), adapted from traditional Chinese folklore.

If you could change one thing about one drama, what would it be?

I just … somehow, fix Jingyao’s arc in Glory of Tang Dynasty. (I don’t know exactly how – since they actually did explore some interesting things and consequences with her character rarely ever shown in period C-dramas ever, I slightly feel inclined to forgive the show for … *coughs*. But for starters, she should really learn to say no to drugging people.)

Who is a popular actor that you can’t seem to get into?

Li Yifeng. (Not that I’ve ever made an active effort to like him or anything – Chusen simply did not particularly work for me.)

What’s a popular drama that you didn’t like/dropped?

Prince of Lan Ling, The Princess Weiyoung, General And I, Ice Fantasy, The Imperial Doctress, The Journey of Flower, Legend of MiYue, The Legend of Chusen, Empress of China, The Four

Underrated favourite drama?

The Glory Of Tang Dynasty! ‘Tis the sad life when no English subs exist.

An actor/actress you wish would do dramas more often?

Zhou Xun and Chen Kun!

A guilty pleasure drama?

Love O2O. Cute fluffiness + pretty people + strong OTP + RPG = very enjoyable escapism.

What drama would you say has the best ending?

Nirvana in Fire.

Wu Xin: The Monster Killer – a lot of people were unsatisfied with its melancholy conclusion (re: there’s a Season 2, guys!), but personally it actually worked for me, appropriately concluding the entirety as if it were simply a 20-episode show. Since Season 2 does take place in a rather different setting, with, Wu Xin aside, a different set of characters, I thought it nicely ended the Season 1 arc.

If you could crossover two (or more) dramas, what would they be?

This! This is actually a very creative question – kudos to whoever came up with this. Earlier @yansanniang and I were discussing a GOTD x Legend of Zhen Huan cross-over – sort of, where An Qingxu, his medicinal abilities, and his emotional instability decided to go shake things up at Yongzheng’s court. The other day I was thinking about how things might go down if Empress Zhang decided to invite a certain 麒麟才子 with a penchant for ruining birthday parties to her own birthday party, hoping to gain his help to aid her with her own ambitions…

Who is a female character that the fandom hated, but you loved?

Hua Qian Gu. I agree, there were times where she felt overly childish and overbearing (I believe it was equal parts frustration and even hatred at her AND BZH), and I find it difficult to watch someone who literally refused to change, but ultimately she still won me over.

What’s your favourite fictional found family?

Dr. Qin Medical Examiner’s Qin Ming, Da Bao, and Lin Tao. In my mind they’re a family. :))

Tagging: @swordsandparasols @yansanniang @itsjustveryludicrous @alakoba @renewedmotionforjudgment @loquatly @cdramaddict @whimsyfulwanderings @seventh-fantasy @dangermousie @thedazzlingdarkness

#okay but some of the stuff in the lyrics weren't even in the dictionary T_T #and as an ABC with no 文化...*cringes*#there's a reason #lack of time aside #i don't sub things

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angrycollectordaze-me-blog · 5 years

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Assignment代写：The difference and combination of humanities and natural sciences

下面为大家整理一篇优秀的assignment代写范文- The difference and combination of humanities and natural sciences，供大家参考学习，这篇论文讨论了人文科学与自然科学的差异与结合。自然科学是普遍性科学，自然科学的规律对世界各国都适用，不同的人们在自然科学问题上容易取得一致意见和交流。而人文科学的原理和观点在不同国家、有明显的差异，较难交流和取得一致看法。另外，人文科学与自然科学的知识是联系和相通的，这种相通一是表现于这两类学科都是人类知识链条上的环节，有的学科是兼有自然科学和人文科学的双重特点的。

In the early days of the germination of human culture, that is, in the ancient times when there was language, writing, myth and art, there was no distinction between human culture and scientific culture. In ancient philosophy, also often contain both natural knowledge, and with the cognition to the social phenomenon, for example, it is hard to believe Aristotle is on behalf of the humanities culture scholars, or is on behalf of the scientific and cultural scholars, are difficult to affirm the idea of "nature and humanity" in ancient China is belong to the science and culture, or it belongs to the humanities culture. Scientific spirit and humanistic spirit did not differentiate or coexist in ancient times, and were reflected in early religious consciousness. Theocracy in ancient times is not only against the scientific spirit, but also against the humanistic spirit. It is the coexistence of non-scientism and non-humanism, or the "negative coexistence" of scientific culture and humanistic culture.

Most scholars in the modern Renaissance advocated both humanism and scientism. From the early Renaissance to the 18th century, despite important advances in astronomy and mechanics, humanistic consciousness prevailed in social culture. Da Vinci, Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Michelangelo, bacon, Descartes, Rousseau, voltaire, diderot, etc., were the more influential scholars at that time, as well as the pioneers and founders of the world's humanistic culture.

By the 19th century, things had changed significantly. Because of the cloud, saying, the law of conservation of energy, atomic theory, periodic trends, electromagnetic theory, the evolution and the establishment of scientific achievements, such as cell theory the formation of the natural science system, especially due to the development of the industrial revolution, science and technology culture has been perfect and show strength, rapidly in the social and cultural impact than the humanities culture gradually.

Since the 20th century, due to the establishment of relativity and quantum mechanics, natural science has made revolutionary progress. With the rise and wide application of electric power technology and internal combustion engine technology, scientific and technological culture has greatly promoted the development of social economy and the improvement of people's living standards. Meanwhile, scientific and technological strength also showed great power in wars. In this century, in the field of natural science, quickly separated each technology science, engineering science, institute of education, especially the engineering education have an unprecedented development, in the social life, scientists, engineers and writers have a clear division of labor, in universities, the original engineering differentiation for mining and metallurgy, materials, machinery, electricity, communications, civil engineering, and many other departments, set up a group of predominantly in science and engineering universities or colleges. The popularization of the knowledge of natural science and the training of technical ability are of great significance in social life, and are related to people's future and destiny. In this case, there is an imbalance between science and technology culture and humanistic culture, and humanistic culture and humanistic education fall from the original peak step by step, or even to the lowest point. In our country, in order to catch up with the development of science and technology in the world and realize modernization as soon as possible, there has been the practice of liberal arts and science in secondary schools.

The separation of the two cultures has had profound social consequences, as described by C.P. snow, the British government's scientific adviser, in "the two cultures". Snow had appeared for many days, working with scientists, and there are some colleagues on literature, in his view, the scientists and astronomers have similar intelligence, experience, same social origin and no obvious difference, income, but they are almost completely, no longer on the intellectual, moral and psychological qualities, they have in common is so little. He believes that in real life, there are two opposing cultures, one is humanistic culture, the other is scientific culture, and there is a gap between the two cultures that they do not understand each other, and sometimes there is hostility and antipathy. They had a preposterously distorted impression of each other.

The separation of the two cultures can also be seen in some criticism. Contemporary trends of thought, such as Frankfurt school and postmodernism, criticize modern civilization for paying too much attention to reason, efficiency, material, utility and obedience, and lack of emotion, ideal, spirit and critical attitude. It advocates criticizing and sublating scientific and technological culture and returning to humanistic culture, and advocates replacing or enriching scientific spirit with humanistic spirit.

The separation of humanistic culture and scientific culture has its historical origin and internal basis, which is the difference between humanistic science and natural science in many aspects, and they have their own characteristics in objects, contents, methods and rules.

Any science is the subject of the object of cognition, but natural science, especially astronomy, geoscience, physics, chemistry and biology of the research object is "non-human" nature, in a sense, natural science is mainly "object science". To a large extent, human science is "subjective science" or "participatory science". Its object is the activity and result that people with conscious consciousness and purpose participate in, and it is people who study what is created and constituted by their own will.

Any science has the unity of materials and views, but natural science is mainly "empirical science", in the works and articles of natural science, there will be about 70% of the facts and data, and 30% of the analysis. The humanities are mainly "explanatory sciences". In the works and articles of the humanities, there are often less than 30% of the actual data, and more than 70% of the analysis, argumentation or explanation.

Any science looks back to the past and explores the future, but the natural sciences are mainly "innovative sciences", which are more concerned with the latest progress, the latest achievements, rather than the historical things or even the documents and opinions of ten years ago. To a large extent, the humanities are "historical sciences". The history of economic history, economic ideology history, political history, political theory history, legal history, philosophy history, ethics history, literature history, art history and so on are of special significance to the study of liberal arts.

In addition to astronomy and earth science, natural science is mainly "experimental science", which needs to make the object expose its true colors and know the object in the process of artificially changing the object. Although the research of humanities science also has the typical experiment component, but it is mainly "the observation science", needs the day to see the result and the day to see the people's mind;

Any science has both qualitative and quantitative research, but it can be said that natural science is "precise science". At least at present, except economics, the quantitative level of the humanities is still very low, can be said to be basically "fuzzy science";

Any science has both inductive and rational deduction, as well as elements of conjecture, intuition and fantasy. However, natural science has more rigorous mathematical derivation, which is strong argumentation or even does not allow for logical leap. Natural science is "mathematical science" or "logical science". In the research of the humanities, there are more elements of induction, speculation, assumption and experience. It can be said that the humanities are "intuitive science" or "inspiration science" to a considerable extent.

Science needs experts and cannot be separated from the public, but the research and discussion of various natural science issues are mainly the affairs of experts, and the general public is difficult and seldom concerned about and interrupt, natural science is "professional science". The problem of the humanities concern to people is not only, and is the public can explore and speaking, we can hardly see jurist say concerning the matter of high energy physics, but easier to see high-energy physicists ideas about how to perfect the law, even everyone to pose as an expert in social problems, in a sense said the humanities is a "secular science";

Natural science is a "universal science". The laws of natural science are applicable to all countries, regions and classes in the world. The principles and views of the humanities vary markedly from country to country, nation to nation, and region to region. Different people often have different opinions on the humanities, and it is difficult to communicate and reach a consensus. The humanities are "special sciences" or "national sciences".

Any science is knowledge system or systematic knowledge, but relatively speaking, natural science is a "strong source of science", from the perspective of teaching, theoretical mechanics must be taken before structural mechanics, physiology and pathology must be taken before pathology, science college students in the first year of course learning is not good in the third year of course learning. Although the humanities are different from "parallel science" or "library science", it is not necessary to study philosophy before studying ethics or economics before studying law, but it needs to be accumulated in many aspects or multiple channels.

Science is not only a system of knowledge and cognitive activities, but also a social institution. However, natural science is a "strongly institutionalized science". For example, the science administered by the ministry of science and technology or the commission of science and technology of the state, provinces and cities is basically a natural science. The humanities, on the other hand, basically have no state or government system and are "liberal sciences".

The above ten points are mainly the differences between the humanities and natural sciences in "form", more importantly, they also have functions, missions or tasks. It is because of these differences that they need to be combined, that they can be combined, and that they have the problems and difficulties of combining.

It is necessary to recognize the differences between the humanities and natural sciences, but emphasizing or even exaggerating the differences may go to the other extreme, belittling or even denying the humanities. For example, it holds that only natural sciences are "law sciences", while humanities and social sciences are "rule sciences". Natural science is a theory of "science", is "empirical science" social science, even think that only science, natural science is the concept of the humanities and social science is just a misunderstanding, such as George soros metaphor would be a mistake to think the term social science, social science is a kind of alchemy, not science, social science because of had the ambition to imitate the natural science, so is the idea of against itself.

The difference between the humanities and natural sciences is based on the fact that the similarities and combinations of humanities and natural sciences can be further discussed because of their differences, and it is helpful to strengthen the combination to analyze the characteristics of each other. Above, we're going to focus on the differences on the premise that they're identical, and here we're going to focus on the similarities and combinations on the premise that they're different.

In some speeches and articles that emphasize the combination of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit, it may be implied that the scientific spirit is "non-humanistic", so the humanistic spirit is "non-scientific". In fact, the division of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit is relative, and the division of natural science and humanistic science is also relative. First of all, there is rational identity between them. The humanities and social sciences are both sciences.

Here said the "identity" of reason is generalized: one refers to the natural sciences and the humanities are not perceptual experience and common sense, is a concept, principle, theories of system, such as politics, unlike manifesto, demology, unlike fertility status, ethics is different from the public morality, aesthetics is different from painting image; 2 refers to the natural sciences and the humanities to find objective laws as own duty, and are likely to reveal the regularity, regularity, so-called simple said is repeatable inevitability, for example, "the social material civilization is the foundation of spiritual civilization", "social productivity in general is rising", "productivity level decides the nature of the production relations", "commodity price fluctuates around value" has repeatability, objectivity and inevitability, such as are regular things, cannot be ascribed to the established and the rules of rational construction; Three refers to the natural sciences and the humanities are not limited to state the fact and necessity, but also to the objective necessity, the causal explanation of the theory of, in addition to reflect the real situation and relationship, in addition to reveal the law, law, and analysis the reason, construction theory, such as labor value theory, surplus value theory, knowledge value theory, the theory of goodness and evil theory, demand hierarchy theory.

The division of the humanities and natural science is relative, their knowledge is contact and interlinked, the same is a performance in these two subjects are human knowledge chain link, just as the Planck said, "actually exists from physics to chemistry, biology and anthropology to the continuous chain of the society, it is a chain of any one can't be interrupted."

The similarities between the knowledge of humanities and natural sciences are also reflected in the dual characteristics of natural sciences and human sciences in some disciplines. For example, psychology and geography may be both natural sciences and human sciences, while ergonomics and environmental economics may be both human sciences and natural sciences.

The intercommunication between the knowledge of humanities and natural sciences is also reflected in the intersection and integration of these two disciplines. Medical ethics, environmental sociology, science and technology aesthetics, science and technology law are such subjects.

The humanities have their own special research methods, but its focus on observation, characterization, experience and interpretation is not unlimited. To make the works of humanities more reliable and convincing, it is necessary to learn from the methods of natural sciences and try to increase their substantiality, quantification and logicality. At the same time, natural science into technology and practical function, and it is worth the humanities "learning", humanities and social science cannot be confined to the world, and to have the influence on the world, although not any humanities is productivity, or can be converted into technology and produce economic benefits, but the humanities research and results should try to influence social policy is needed, in a sense, the humanities and social science won't be able to industrialization, but the humanities and social science to strive for "policy" may be appropriate, only in this way, The humanities are likely to be more institutionalised than just "freelance".

The natural sciences' emphasis on experimentation, quantification and mathematical derivation has its limitations. In fact, major scientific discoveries and innovations are not all the products of rigorous mathematical derivation. In the research process of natural science, imagination, guess, inspiration, fantasy and intuition also play an important role. In the study of modern natural science, especially relativity, quantum mechanics and complexity, there needs to be subjectivity, explanation and visualization. It can be said that the key of engineering technology planning and proposal, especially the formation of innovative technological invention, lies in imagination.

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