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sun-stricken · 5 months

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More protective dragon slayers please? 🙏

Gray watching the slayers hang out and go on jobs together: :(

Gray after being ‘adopted’: :| (secretly loving it)

Sting considering putting a gps chip on Gray only to find Juvia’s one already there and getting mad.

Sting: How dare she!

Gray: how dare you!

Wendy being the most protective.

Slayers getting jealous of Gray hanging out with Lyon. (Just wait until Natsu tells them about Galuna island).

Rogue uses Frosch to trick Gray into therapy

Someone comments on Gray’s nudity/makes suggestive comments and Wendy gets mad. Wendy: He’s too young!

My personal headcannon is that memento mori made Gray more demon so he’s got a bit of a taste for blood. He was going to keep it secret but after defeating Avatar one of the members were like ‘they’ll never accept you. You’re a monster!’.

Also that Avatar messed Gray up. He just casually mentions his initiation (ie torture) or Briar and Jerome being a bit too friendly, or not being able to get out a blood stain. And everyone is just wtf?

Sorry for the ramble! It’s just nice to get these ideas out

don’t apologize! i love seeing other peoples hcs!

i refer to the dragon slayers dragon as it or they bc i classify it as kind of a separate entity? same with grays demon

More dragon slayers beinng protective of gray for the soul! (these are more just them and gray hcs i have, but the protectiveness is implied)

TW IMPLIED SEXUAL HARRASSMENT

its a lot so vv

Gray gets sick a lot, and its never just a simple cold or small fever, its always smth vaguely serious

and the dragons absolutely despise it, they also despise that its not something they can just destroy

Every time Gray gets sick all their inner dragons are immediately running in circles with the need to make him feel better

He sniffles once or gets a tiny scrape and theres a multitude of crashes and yelling to find blankets, med kits, and trying to find the best spot for him to sit down at

Wendy is extra feral and protective during these times

(which is saying a lot bc her dragon is definitely the most protective normally, whether bc its young or bc theyre a healer so thats their job to protect doesnt matter, it just is)

she has bitten people for getting too close (ie. within 40 ft) to them, even if theyre in a public place

Shes also forgotten shes a healer multiple times bc her dragon was so hellbent on the good old fashioned hands on approach

During one of the times he was bedridden at home, they found an book with Isvan style recipes in it, then proceeded to try and make something from it

they failed, they are complicated recipes and they probably wouldve failed home ec

but its the thought that counts and count it did bc Gray practically threw himself at them in a hug when they told him what they tried to do

GOING OFF THE HC OF DEVIL SLAYERS SLEEPING A LOT THING LIKE CATS (ty @bluneko91 for the idea) i think Gray in general has always been the type to sleep anywhere and everywhere

but now he can actually easily get to those hard to reach places and nap, and hes a menace with it

a weekly occurrence at the Fairy Tail guild is half the dragon slayers frantically searching for their demon slayer, looking in his past usual haunts (at the bar, on a table, under a table, makarovs office, on the stairs somewhere, the more random the more likely)

only for him to be found on the rafters 100 ft off the ground

when they find him they have about a good 7 seconds of peace before they verge yet another cardiac event bc holy shit oh god hes gonna fall!!

another common scene is Gray sleeping (in less dangerous places) and having various token dragon slayer clothes covering him

The dragons asking Gray if he wants to go on a job with them, only for him to (reluctantly) decline bc Lyon is in town and they have plans

then proceeding to sulk the whole job

Natsu was sulking the most, and spilt what happened on Galuna

and suddenly Lyon and Gray had 5 fuming dragons following them

(and if Lyon got graphic threats if he ever fucked up again he never said anything)

Gray is a hit of a wanderer, not in a ‘getting lost/bad at directions’ way, but in a ‘likes to see the scenery/has a feeling and doesnt voice it, just goes with it’ kinda way

Hes done this enough times and is quiet enough about it the others dont realize till hes gone

On one of the jobs he took with Rogue & Sting they half jokingly and half seriously threaten him with a tracker

and Gray says that Juvia probably already has one of him

Rogue and Sting not having a whole lot of context on that asks what he means, and then gets a disturbing account of some of the things shes done

Lets just say the feelings they harbor for her and for the people who let it continue are neither kind nor pretty

they probably ripped the other slayers a new one when they got back

Contrary to popular belief, ice mages can get cold, it takes a hell of a lot more than an average person but it does happen.

Gray probs mentioned this once and now when it rains or snows-

Laxus throws his coat at Gray, Natsu offers to share his scarf and using his fire to warm him up, Rogue drapes his cloak around him

its a very soft image and i needed to share it

Gray starting to push the other slayers away bc hes struggling with his demon instincts and because hes scared hes going to become a monster and hurt them

them not taking any of that shit

reassuring him that he would never become something cruel and evil

hes becoming a demon, hes not a monster, not a murderer

Ppl are frequently gross about Grays stripping habit

its one of the only things that made him genuinely try to stop

People tend to think since hes so obviously confident in his body that its okay to touch him whenever and however they want

the dragon slayers are inclined to disagree

Gajeel breaking some guys arm after he wouldnt keep his hands to himself

Laxus spilling water on someone whose personal dictionary didnt include ‘No’ then repeatedly shocked them until they werent in reach

Wendy having to be (reluctantly, they just dont want her to get in trouble tbh) held back when someone keeps making comments on his body after he told them to fuck off

that did not stop her from giving them the worst insults and threats anybody has ever heard

[if she went back to find them again nobody would know, i mean, and they were perfectly intact! not a scratch on them! and who was gonna believe that a sweet girl like her would harm anybody?:)]

Gray has been threatened with being wrapped in bubble wrap after being injured so many times, which is crazy considering its Natsu of all people who says it

They have gotten really comfortable with eachother

and i mentioned once smth abt the slayers having little private hang outs (jobs or normal get together or ‘meeting’ type things at guilds)

during one of these he casually mentioned what he had to endure to be accepted into Avatar

“yeah, they locked me in a kiln like room for hours every couple days”

jaw drops galore

“i beg your fucking pardon.”

“oh yeah, dw tho, it usually overlapped with the deprivations days so i wasnt fully aware of what was going on, didnt even hurt”

“THE FUCKING WHAT”

*increasing volume of worried and angry sounds*

I think Natsu is also a total cat magnet, so when Gray is having an off day he’ll go in search for a cat

when they approach him, he picks them up and drops them in Grays lap and waits

it always helps him feel better

im trying to imagine Gray getting a date and them all trying to discreetly spy on it

“Gaj, the pole doesnt exactly hide y—“

“SSHH THEYLL HEAR YOU—!”

OH MY GOD IMAGINE THE SHOVEL TALKS

sorry this took a minute!! i have a lot to say but not enough words

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tinyletterz · 10 months

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YOU SHOULD GIVE ME UR VISUAL NOVEL RECS GRABBY HANDS

OKAY OKAY OKAY thank you for indulging me i love them sm some of these descriptions might sound like theyre missing stuff i just dont wanna spoil anything. all these games are free, online, and can be found on itch.io but i also linked them here too

this also got really long because i explain too much but i wanted to make sure i added enough detail w/out spoiling but also w/out leaving basic synopsis stuff out??? the mc is customizable so your not playing as a base set person which is so nice of the writers thank you guys sm:

a tale of crowns by @/ataleofcrowns

a story that follows the mc (you) as the new crown. there are 4 love interest (all male, all female, or a mix). this one depends on romance based meaning there aren't any aromantic options (i just wanted to put that out there since you are aroace ^^) i love the lore behind it and its geared towards poc which is nice <3 this is also the very first IF i stumbled upon. this is ongoing and chapter ten was just released and theres good/bad endings of chapter ten

superstition (pc versions: s1, s2, s3) (iphone friendly versions: s1, s2, s3) by @/13leaguestories

fantasy and a few other things that follows your journey through the new world of supernaturals you found after helping a woman on the streets. its rated 18+ because of sexual references but you can avoid it 100% at the beginning in the settings, though you might not be able to romance some of the characters. there's 6 love interest in total (3 male, 3 female) but depending on the setting there might be less. you also don't have to have a romance with any of them ! s3 is still in the works

when twilight strikes by @/evertidings

modern fantasy where you work for the ioas (international organization of supernaturals) as a bounty hunter. things get complicated after failing to catch a bounty the second time but i think thats for the best. i love this game soooo much it reminds me of shadowhunters and i love shadowhunters (just the books not the show but thats a different discussion omg). there are 5 romance options (1 is male, the others you can set to female/male/nonbinary or randomize like i did) ive played through this about three times; twice for the same character and once for another but i love the character dynamics

wayfarer by @/idrellegames

i will not lie the reason why i started playing this was because it reminded me of tolkien and i love tolkien. this story has you being a wayfayer: a person incapable of magic. you go on quest, forge pacts, and try your best to survive in a world thats not so kind to you. i think theres 7 romance options but i think you can not romance anyone too?? if you want more information about them you should check out the blog for the game since we haven't met all of them yet. ive played this game 4 times because i was unsatisfied with what i did those other three times and im gonna do it again :D there's options for sexually intimacy but also asexual routes though that means no relationships with some character. two chapters are currently out !!

mirror mine by @/if-mirrormine

okayaya so you were out shopping for your sibling's birthday right and when you finally get home, you won't believe it...you've been gone for 10 years?!?! everyone's so confused, your confused, your cat's just glad to have you back honestly. so an investigation has been reopened about your disappearance on why it felt like no time passed for you but ten years for everyone else. i love mystery sci-fi genre its still releasing chapters!! i think theres 4 romance options (1 male, 2 women, 1 you can pick) nd im not sure about aromantic options yet but its amazing

speaker by @/speakergame

theres a curse on your family that the first child has the ability to see visions of the future. you and your sister are twins with her as the oldest, meaning she is the Seer. you are a Speaker which means you can understand a limited amount of her visions. i love the writing there's also a demon dog which makes everything better!! theres 5 romance options i think ?? (2 you can pick, then theres 1 nonbinary, 1 male nd 1 female) ITS SO GOOD its a fantasy mystery IF and ive played through it twice so far

scout by @/anya-dev

its an apocalyptic story about humanity surviving in small communities. one morning (i think it was the morning) you meet other people not from your community which id odd because people can't survive on their own without support. this causes a whole list of issues but without these issues there wouldnt be a story so im very happy :D there are 4 romance options (2 male, 1 female, 1 you pick) but im not sure if this will get anymore updates. the author said their life was pretty hectic so i do hope things are alright on their end. even if it doesn't get updated i think the story is still amazing and will be seated with my favorites <3

ANYWAYS THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME RANT ABOUT THESE GAMES they hold a special place in my heart i hope you play some of them and find them interesting like i do !!!!

#♡—[auburn]#i have no idea if any of this makes sense #i did a massive word vomit

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azure-seadragon · 2 years

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@unluckyblackcat asked:

The slightly warmer weather of late had resulted in sleet rather than snow falling over the city and while it would mean horrendously treacherous footing when it froze on the ground, it also meant that the feline wasn't just cold that eve, but wet.

Absolutely sodden and looking incredibly sorry for himself with little protection against the abysmal weather, it was on his way back to his shelter that he saw her enter the bar and he paused, watching as she ushered a guy in ahead of her.

He stood in the sleet with his fur, hair and clothes weighed down with freezing water and watched as she was bathed in the warm glow from the bar's interior before he finally shook himself out of it and turned away to continue on into the Brume.

It’d never been a secret that Solana was a huge flirt, nor that she’d made a habit of having a fair few bed mates over the years.. She’d never tried to act otherwise, and in fact often used such things to cover up for her very soft and loyal heart- which meant that once any degree of REAL interest started taking root in her mind and heart, she’d stop everything save from friendly flirtatious banter when it came to anyone other then the object of her affections.. even if she’d refused to tell them thats what they were on some level...

She’d made a friend that night- some random Elezen who seemed to enjoy friendly flirtations and offered to buy her a drink.. and how could she say no to a free drink~?

Spending maybe an hour or less in his company, Solana was sat next to him- elbow leaned on the counter to support her chin with her hand as she grinned lazily and listened to whatever story the man was telling. It did become apparent however that the man was interested in taking this night a little further has his hand slid onto her thigh... “You know, it is QUITE cold this eve... if you wish, you are more then welcome to join me back home..”

It sort of unsettles and surprises her how quickly the answer comes, with a swat of her tail lightly given to the mans wandering hand. “Kind of y’ t’ offer, cutie, bu’ no thanks~ i’ve got plenty o’ ways t’ keep warm..”

Her smile stays until her gaze flits to a window. it WAS rather harsh and cold tonight, and frankly the fact she hadn’t seen Soren so far... worried her. Shouldn’t he have come in from the cold by now-? ...or maybe he’d found another bed to cozy up in... a thought which brought her a degree of discomfort, though she pointedly ignored it.

“..Speakin’ of, theres a stray cat tha’ usually comes in’t my room and outta th’ cold tha’ i should go look for... stubborn bastard’s whiskers ‘re gonna freeze.” She stands, offering the man a wink and thanking him for the drinks before she darts off to her room to grab an extra coat- slinging it over her shoulder before heading out to the streets.

#ask #unluckyblackcat #solana valerian #(The look of mischief in your eyes.. I'm addicted to you. Like a powerful drug i can't get enough of; Soren/Solana)#(A Scoundrel- A Street cat; Soren)#suggestive tw #ask to tag #long post

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weishenkun · 3 years

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Ppl were saying fendi only invited ten and they stuck lc there but what about yy? Iirc he was there too so they put him there on purpose as well or they won’t mention him because he’s not the one in trouble here? I’m not trying to give an attitude but if it sounds of it I’m really sorry. Idk there’s so much back and forth and ngl to that hardcore cbar fan and revealing all that info, if you saying he was such an a-hole throughout his entire career you didn’t bother leaving his fandom earlier and saying nothing? Idk that really irks me that this only came out because of what has been happening. Idk if you agree with me but I want to rant and I have so much to rant about but idk who to turn. Everything is being picked about from the littlest thing he has done or said and ppl are saying those interviews the 3 groups he in esp wayv ones have done were they praise him all must be fake. We don’t know his side of the story and in honest truth we will never know because how these things are handled through the west and Asian entertainment is so different. But I have I guess I have some reservations about what one of the victims said because of apparently who she is and it has made me think about some things. I still believe he was wrong for some of the things he has done because he needs to understand cheating and manipulation isn’t good. Idk idk idk my heart is heavy and people using this as a lololol ahahah moment to his fan community hurts too like going on and on how all along he was a douche and they always knew and we didn’t. And honestly I feel like there has been so much bandwagon hopping on the hate train because before this most ppl apart from the wayv fandom didn’t give a two cent shit about wayv. They never cared when sm mistreated them or that they got scrapings and were not treated like how 127 or dream were treated. But suddenly everyone who has never cared is up and arms about him in the group because when wayv is going to do their next projects I want to see if all these ppl are going to be cheering them on as loud about you cheering on about what’s going on currently. like I can guarantee you won’t watch an interview or stream their music. And there has been this post going around about what was revealed yesterday and it was about that cat and someone said to the girl well he didn’t give you the cat cause you ain’t his fav and she’s like go ask him on bubble cause that wasn’t what he told me yesterday and idk what it even means because everyone is jumping on it and going lololol he’s still in contact after the apology. Idk she had said it sarcastically and Idk if she’s being truthful or not but everyone is adamant he is still doing all this regardless. And honestly IF he did do that and you let him contact you like that i feel like it’s on her esp since everything has been going on for days. He was dumb for all of this and rn his entire career isn’t surviving so I can’t even tell if she is serious or not and given how this is going on I can’t imagine his devices not being taken away from him cause that’s dumb or someone watching him like a fucking hawk cause I would. Cause on top of everything ppl are saying he mistreats the animals/pets and it’s like wtf is going on?! Oh And with the surfing coach confirming they didn’t flirt but were just friendly, you could have said something earlier but did nothing for hours until you were asked directly because everyone was saying she’s number 5 but apparently in reality she wasn’t but you let it go on. Everything is plaguing me rn and I have so much more to talk about but I’m just so frustrated.

okay this is a long ask so let me just go through each point

1. i saw the fendi story and yeah, yangyang was there too but people are more 'forgiving' towards him cause hes not badmouthing other members like allegedly lucas is. also, labelv was basically trying to get more members into the thing than the organizer originally wanted to, so yangyang, since hes less popular, is pretty logical but lucas? really? he had his own shit almost always so what was the point

2. about that hardcore cbar fan, true, they did only come out with the rant after the stories came out but like they said - they were a hardcore fan. probably theres some money involved or even it was just ignoring stuff cause youre a fan. we did know about most of the things they mentioned, it was just over a long period of time so there were big gaps between each of the incidents and people forgot? idk

3. i agree, there's been a lot of analysis of every little thing he did, but like i said earlier - it was happening over a long period of time and people were blaming it on idk, the culture or the lack of knowledge of some language. now, when theres a chance it could be something more, because of the alleged badmouthing, people will bring that stuff up 🤷‍♀️

4. he had a chance to say something in the apology letter. he said literally nothing instead :D

5. there has been a lot of bandwagon hopping on the hate but theres also been a lot of just straight up ignoring everything. i saw a fan acc on twitter share a list of translators so the fans could block those, cause they've been spreading false news 🤡 like, he was trending for days so people will get interested in whats going on and they will have opinions, thats how world works. and yeah no one will give a single fuck about future wayv project for example but i just hope it will be because they wont care and not because there wont be any future wayv projects :DDDD cause wayv was never big lol, lets be realistic, and this scandal isnt helping them at all and also the fact its happening right when there's that social media/fans campaign going on, i think its even worse :D

6. the bubble thing... labelv isnt the brightest so idk if its that unrealistic. and i think theres the other girl who also said he was calling them non stop when they released their story so idk idk lol

7. wheres the cat :/ we all saw the pic of him getting it, i think i reblogged it with something like 'omg omg ot11 soon' lmao and we havent seen it ever since. it is weird, just like in general. i want to know wheres the cat

8. the coach 🤡🤡🤡 idk idk her story was weird but i think it made another person release their story so thanks i guess :DDD even if he didnt flirt with her, wow, omg, hes so brave for this, wow, bare minimum :)

okay i think i went through everything, thanks for letting me write a whole essay back to you, i will call it an english practice in my brain 😍

#ask #i had to copy this ask to notepad and make parts from it to answer it lmao #thank god i love writing my hot opinions here #not beta'd

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spamtonsbigshot · 4 years

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So I’ve got a possible Vento Aureo AU that i started thinking about a lot last night and i just kinda wanna post it here to have it all in one place.

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Gionro - Vampire (for obvious reasons)

Fugo - Werewolf cuz i love him

Abbacchio - Probably a fallen angel, similar to how he was thrown out of the police force he was thrown out of heaven

Bruno - Probably human too, just a man in the cryptid woods who fell in love with an angel

Narancia - im tempted to just say catboy cuz im out of ideas

Mista - Satyr. Hairy.

Trish - cross between demon and human, has some demon features but otherwise can pass human

Diavolo - probably a demon

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Background: Pannacotta Fugo

one of fugo’s grandparents (grandma) are definitely a werewolf that married into a wealthy family at some point therefore making Fugo a decendant. the werewolf genes skipped his parents’ generation and of his siblings, only Fugo got the werewolf genes. Fugos grandmother is the og werewolf i bet. Which is why Panni loves her so much and feels he can confide in her cuz he keeps his werewolfness to himself otherwise. idk how it managed to avoid his parents as he was young so lets say the genes kick in around like puberty age or something, as in he cant fully transform till later. so following VA lore he goes to college n shit right? and following phf lore he gets mad at his professor waving away his grandmas recent passing as she was the only one he was close to and goes feral in a literal sense. he calms himself down before anyone can come in and be like “wtf” so when hes found back in human appearance, holding a big school book, thats what people think happened and blamed it on that. After that, Fugo runs away into the woods and later would find Bruno in his cabin in the woods. Bruno’s a social outcast who used to be a fisher but after his dads passing he moved into the more wooded areas and settled there. Became a farmer maybe cuz he has to make money somehow. Because brunos lived in the woods for a few years he's befriended many supernatural creatures that live there in part just to get buy, he even has a sign that says "supernatural friendly" or something. So With fugo having run out into the woods, Bruno finds Fugo while on a walk probably and takes Fugo in after Fugo explains he has nowhere else to go. So Fugo becomes a farmhand basically and Bruno has some werewolf acquaintances explain sorta how being a werewolf works cuz fugo's only werewolf relative he knows of is dead.

Background: Leone Abbacchio

Leone WAS a guardia angel for a man of which goes unnamed. At one point, Leone took a bribe of sorts from a demon. The bribe was to keep the demon business in the area unnoticed by Angels. Later, said same demon and Leone’s human get involved on some way, and it ends up in the death of Leone’s human. Because of Leone’s neglectfulness and possible corruptness, he is cast out from above and thrown down below to earth. Abba probably breaks a tree nearby on impact when being struck down from the literal sky. Bruno goes to investigate and finds abbacchio in what looks like a meteor crash sight of his own making, theres also probably the imprint of angel wings its like a really cinematic shot probably. So bruno takes him back to his cabin and nurses him back to health. Abba was probably someones guardian angel and took a bribe from a demon that eventually got his human killed. Bruno, being all wise with supernatural shit, feels bad for him as Abba has nowhere to go. He teaches Abbacchio how to be a human and function in society that way theyre both earning something. Though, abbacchio is still an angel by blood and being and does not require stuff like food or water and therefore doesnt take up too much valuable supplies.

Background: Narancia and Mista

Narancia probably likes to absentmindedly stroll through the woods and sometimes isnt seen for a few days as he is a cat and can hunt for himself. Nara was probably abandoned and became an ally cat at some point and was bullied for being a catboy, people called him a freak and for him to go eat out of the trash and stuff like that. Fugo found him in an alley when in town, and when he looked at the cat in the dumpster, he saw intelegent purple eyes instead of feral cat eyes and new that this malnourished, injured cat was probably supernatural in some way and took him with him to bruno's cabin, later, nara just kinda becomes a housecat thats also a helpful energetic boy And on one of nara's long day long strolls, he encounters Mista, who is a satyr therefore he's pantsless (furry goat legs) and shirtless (cuz why not) narancia kinda keeps his distance for a while and comes across Mista a few times over the course of maybe a few weeks to a month, but eventually Mista gets into trouble and uses a pan flute to use some epic firest magic to kill off some harmful spirits. After witnessing that, narancia, now catboy and not cat, jumps out of the bush he was watching from to exclaim how "totally sick!" That was. They kinda talk and become friends after a while, narancia becoming less and less afraid to approach him and talk to him. They later become really good bros and nara invites Mista over to play games but since Mista has no clue wtf those are as he's a satyr that lives shirtless in the woods, Narancia teaches him how to play and thats when mista realizes he's catching feelings :) Also as a lil hc of mine im bringing in the possum i draw narancia with called Tutti Frutti Juul Pod (aka Tutti/Tutti Frutti) and theyre Nara’s friend basically and occasionally he brings Tutti home but Tutti remains wild for the most part 👀

Background: Giorno

Giorno grew up in the city with his shitty mom and step dad. No gangster saving this time. Eventually, lets say, Giorno's parents decide they dont wanna deal with him anymore and put him in an orphanage and so giorno just kinda lives a sad life for a while. Eventually, he gets adopted by Jonathan and Erina, (his ov dad still being dio but hes dead because its my au and i said so) so Jonerina adopt Giorno and stuff starts getting a lot better for him. After vampire puberty or whatever, giorno isnt going to be killed by the sun or anything it just kinda stings his skin and he'll get burned bad if he stays exposed to the sun longer than an hour or so. So he starts taking night walks. Eventually, on a night of the full moon while giorno's out on his walks (cuz hes gotta do something it gets boring in the house at night after a while) and giorno comes across fugo like, as he's transforming into a full on wolf. Fugo's kinda embarassed by the fact giorno caught him and upon seeing giorno watch him transform, he sprints away. Giorno thought fugo and his big ol white fur coat were really pretty and doesnt chase after him, but thinks about it. A month later, the next full moon and he sees him again, transforming. Giorno just kinda ponders who this pretty stranger is and this time stays more hidded and approaches him slowly. Fugo growls at him at first, but giorno's opener is "Hello, your fur is very pretty. I'm Giorno, Giorno Giovanna" and fugo gets all flustered at being called "pretty" so he decides to approach him, carefully circlin him and gathering his scent to familiarize himself with it. He decides giorno is not a threat, and decides to shift back to his more human complexion, though his wolf ears and tail are still very present, as well as sharp claws and teeth. Fugo gets all nervous and eventually introduces himself and they kinda continue walking at night. Gionro also explains hes a vampire and prefers to thrive at night. Fugo asks to meet up another night and giorno agrees. They continue like that for a few weeks till fugo eventually gives giorno his number, that way they domt have to just walk and talk at night, and their relationship grows from there.

Its such a long Post omg 💀 but thats what i have!

#vento aureo #jjba #jojo’s bizarre adventure #jojo's bizarre adventure #Vento Aureo AU #AU #writing #long post #my au #jojo #anime #ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 #golden wind #golden wind au

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happyhealthycats · 5 years

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Simcoe and Citra

These girls have been making their rounds on tumblr for a while. Mostly Citra for her endearing honk-meow. I figured it’s time to put in an update!

I will say that their origin gets a little sad. While I don’t normally cling to the “all shelter animals have a sad life” (Heimdall didn’t. Sif didn’t.) These girls absolutely had a rough start in this world. But I promise there’s a happy ending.

My husband and I bought a house and had a wonderful roommate who lived with us. She brought her cat, who got along with our cats wonderfully. When she moved out, we felt a bit of a hole in our hearts where our previous roommate cat had been. We contemplated adopting another cat. We were no longer in our apartment, and our local laws didn’t have any stipulation on the amount of cats you could keep inside (outside of serious instances where Animal Control is required, but 3 was hardly near that limit). So we thought about it.

As always, we went to get some food for Heimdall and Sif, and in the window were these two beautiful orange girls who were snuggling together as closely as possible.

We were told they were Clementine and Savannah, and they were in the store because they had almost no human interaction at 5 months old. They were found outside at 10 weeks, and their foster home kept them in a cage. Their foster had trouble handling them at all, so they just left them in the cage with their food and didn’t touch them or interact with them at all. They were only touched to get ringworm medicine (which they had a rather nasty case of), and other upper respiratory medication. So their only human interaction was stressful on them. Putting them in the store was the last ditch effort to get them used to people so they could realistically be pets and not just terrified of everyone.

In the cage, Savannah allowed us to pet her when she ate. Clementine would not approach us at all. We asked to see Savannah in their meeting room.

She hid and hissed at us the entire time. Hair on end, ears flat, completely terrified. But I saw something in her while she was in that cage where she had spent so much time. Savannah had the ability to warm up, she just needed the time and patience to help her.

We couldn’t decide if we wanted to adopt her though. It would take a lot of work, and they would probably NEVER be comfortable with people. My husband and I knew that if we took them home, we would be the ones to feed them and give them places to hide and exist as comfortably as possible. Take them to the vet and care for them. They would never be as friendly as Heimdall or Sif.

But the Pet Valu manager told us that they were getting out of their cute kitten phase where folks were willing to look past their issues because they were so young. They were already hard to home, but in a few weeks, they’d go back to their foster home permanently. Kept in a cage and kept away from people like feral cats.

So we asked if the girls were a bonded pair. The manager said “Well, Savannah would be okay since you have cats at home. But Clementine would probably decline.”

So without skipping a beat, my husband chimed in with, “Then we’ll take them both.”

They normally didn’t do this, but our friend let us take them home on a foster to adopt 2 week window.

At first, Clementine ran under the bed and stayed there. We made sure food, water, and a litter box was close by for them and just left them alone. Savannah stayed in the carrier, too terrified to even run out and join her sister. But eventually I moved the carrier closer, and Savannah darted under the bed and sat with her sister for HOURS.

But, they would eat and drink after a few hours. We heard them use the litter box in the night. We left them alone and just spent a lot of time in the room with them. We didn’t reach for them, or try and grab them or pet them. Everything was on their terms. As long as they were eating, drinking, and going to the bathroom, they were okay.

In less than a week, something amazing happened. These two kittens who were so scared of people began to come out of their shells. We couldn’t hold them, but they climbed into the cat tree and made noises in order to get our attention. Savannah did it first. Clementine tried to imitate her sister, but never quite got the hang of it, (and Citra has her wonderful little honk from that).

We thought of names. We just couldn’t think of anything that fit them. But then my husband, an avid beer drinker, suggested “Citra and Simcoe”, after hop variants. Cute names for little orange girls, and it kept the “C” and “S” names from Clementine and Savannah.

With that, they were named. And obviously, they were home with us.

They had a lot of growing to do. After a trip to the vet, we found out that both girls had FHV. Citra was able to eventually shake it after an ear infection, but Simcoe remains symptomatic on and off to this day. We work with our vet to keep her symptoms in check. Sometimes it’s just her being a little sniffly. Sometimes she sneezes. Sometimes she has discharge from her eyes or nose. She’s on some vitamins to help her immune system, and we keep a humidifier for her running all the time.

So how are they now?

I’m honestly still emotional over the huge turn around these amazing girls did. I’ll give you the run down one at a time.

Citra:

Our funny little Citra bear has gotten so much better at looking for human attention. At first, she didn’t want ANY. But now, she approaches our friends for pets, even if she’s not quite sure how to do it. Since she missed that ideal socialization window, she’s a little unsure about how to seek affection. She’ll often lean her head forward in that typical “head-butt” way, but while doing that she’ll walk away. She’s still skittish when it comes to people, but she will stand on the table and honk at you until you reach your hand out and let her try and pet herself on your hand.

However, she absolutely ADORES the other cats in the house. When we finally introduced them (slowly, slowly OH so slowly) to the other cats, she immediately gravitated towards Heimdall and Sif. She became fast friends with Heimdall, while remaining absolute best friends with her sister. They sleep, play, and groom together so well. As I type this Citra is laying with both Heimdall AND Seymour on the bed.

Citra also has an A+ blep, along with just being incredibly silly. She’s an absolute joy.

Simcoe:

Our shy little girl has become a huge snuggle bug. She sleeps with us every single night and she absolutely loves being touched and pet. She’s very shy around people who aren’t my husband or I. But I tell people who visit if they want to see Simcoe, just come into the bedroom, close the door, and sit down on the floor. Sooner or later, she’ll come over and rub up against you. She requires a gentle voice and a gentle touch, but she was so starved for affection I feel like she’s making up for it now that she knows she’s safe.

I mentioned her health, and because she’s so sick, sometimes she gets too nauseated to eat from being congested. And, as I said before, we’ve worked very hard with our vet to get Simcoe to the best weight she can be and keeping her as healthy as possible. One of her triggers for FHV is stress, and with such a skittish cat, it’s very difficult. However, living in a cage would have been infinitely worse for this wonderful girl.

Simcoe has the sweetest expressive eyes. Sometimes I just sit down and pet her for so long because I remember how happy she was when she finally let us touch her. She was so starved for attention and when she finally got it, she didn’t want it to stop (it never will).

Citra and Simcoe are still each other’s best friends. They sleep together, play together, groom each other, share their food (they have separate bowls but they will just switch back and forth).

I’m always so proud to see how far these amazing little cats have come. Simcoe used to hiss at me when I put her food down. Citra never made noise before coming to live with us. It was worth every single long hour waiting for them to get comfortable enough to eat with me in the same room. Or being willing to walk down the hallway and go into the kitchen. Or finally rolling over and showing us their bellies.

These girls are the ones that inspired me to get my certification.

We took a chance on them, and they were their own beautiful reward.

#happy healthy cats #cat behaviorist #feline behaviorist #cat story #cat stories #cat #feline #simcoe #citra #simcoe and citra #citra and simcoe #orange and white cat #orange cat #semi feral cats #fhv

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circuslollipop · 6 years

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I suddenly want to learn even more about your Despicable Me monsters

!!!! I’m so glad!

okay this is not really organized in any way but here’s a bunch of ideas i had:

as a werewolf, Lucy only transforms on the night of the full moon. she appears human to most outsiders, though the close observer might take note of her heightened strength, agility, and senses of hearing and smell

Gru and Dru were born into a bloodline of vampires, and stopped aging at the current age they are in canon. they can both turn into bats

Scarlet and Herb are both immortal. this is very convenient for them both

many demons, including Scarlet, view ghosts as “fools who try to escape from their true fate”. demons are also one of the few creatures who can see ghosts. ghosts, in turn, fear demons greatly

so do many other creatures, in fact

most supernatural creatures stay out of humanity’s way. the ones that don’t are usually villains

there are humans with supernatural abilities–these are either mediums (which can see and talk to ghosts/spirits) and witches/warlocks (who can use magic). people who are both mediums and magic users are extremely uncommon, but not unheard of

the fae are divided into the Seelie/Unseelie courts (light and dark respectively, but both can be exceptionally dangerous to humans). Herb, as a hybrid of these courts, is considered an outcast, and hangs out in the mortal realm disguised as a human

most fae consider humans beneath them and prefer to stay in their own realm. Herb thinks humanity’s pretty groovy–they do cool science things

since glamour magic 24/7 to appear human-sized is extremely taxing to fairies, Herb invented his ultimate weapon to make himself bigger without having to waste energy on magic. the effect lasts about 24 hours so he has to recharge every day

the machine is extremely unstable on creatures larger than fairies, which are approx. two inches tall

Herb still uses glamour magic to hide his wings and make his features more humanlike, but it takes much less energy

literally any Mothman sighting in this world is just a glimpse of a human-sized Herb who didnt bother hiding his wings

Scarlet also uses glamours to appear human

demons have three options: stay in Hell, haunt the mortal realm as a spirit, and physically live in the mortal realm. most choose the first, some choose the second, and out of the few that choose the third, Scarlet is easily the most powerful and high-ranking. VERY few cross her, as most supernatural creatures can sense each other’s presence

clues your friendly neighborhood 60′s femme fatale might be a demon in disguise: unusual strength, and extremely high charisma

one thing demons and fae have in common is their ability to Charm people, ie magically influence people with their words. Scarlet and Herb would never even dream of doing it to each other

on that note, Scarlet can possess people, she just doesn’t often find the need and prefers to do things herself

another thing demons and fae have in common is the concept of true names. if you know the true name, you have the ability to affect the creature magically, ie have power over them. in the ultimate act of trust, Scarlet and Herb gave each other their true names

cat people like Edith can shapeshift into cats. to any outsiders Margo is adamant to insist that Edith is her sister, not her familiar

one plot idea i had: in 1968, Gru somehow managed to banish the Overkills into their respective realms. fifty years later, Margo wanted to talk to the fairies and learn their magic. only problem? the fairy she summons is Herb Overkill, who tricks her into summoning Scarlet as well, and both of them are looking for revenge (after a very tearful reunion in the Gru family’s living room)

demons purr when theyre content and their tails move like cat tails

there is absolutely an equivalent of Buzzfeed Unsolved in this universe (like i like to believe there’s an equivalent of BFU in the canon DM universe) and they did an episode on Bratt’s mysterious death and the studio he haunts

“GRU THERES SOMEONE AT THE DOOR GRU THERES SOMEONE AT THE DOOR GRU THERES SOMEONE AT THE DOOR” - Lucy, all the time

one time some villain made the mistake of attacking De Gorls on the night of a full moon

as a demon, Scarlet can control fire

as a fairy, Herb cannot lie, but he can twist his words and be tricky af. his inventions are imbued with fae magic (and the stuff he makes for Scarlet all have protection spells to keep her from coming to any harm. not that a high ranking demon needs it too much, but she appreciates the gesture (and a couple of times the spells do come in handy))

another plot idea: instead of being banished to the fairy realm in 1968, Herb finds himself banished from both realms and goes to Hell with Scarlet. now she’s right at home, but the underworld is no place for a fairy so she has to hide and protect him from the other demons the whole time

there is. absolutely more but i forgot about it so i’ll add to this when i remember stuff!

#spiderlondon #dm supernatural au #despicable me #despicable me 2 #despicable me 3 #minions movie #dm2 #dm3 #i am absolutely not tagging everyone #but ye!

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Veil Episode 2 Pt 3

After a long break that is surely to inadvertently be followed by another long break, our group reunites to help protect the Virtual Idol A.I. Crescent Moon, only this time! It’s at night!

As the group begins to settle inside of Crescent Moon’s hotelish room, they get a call from Waning Touch, Crescent Moon’s manager, she says that she’s heard some people being rowdy around the room and is scared to go home by herself, so Will offers to go pick her up. Synch has something to do and Fortuna has a wife to go home to, so Senza and Ariel will be more than capable of keeping Crescent safe, right?

Before anyone heads off though, Will wants to talk to Synch after speaking to Crescent Moon. She tells the Virtual Idol, while being flirted at, that she wants Ariel to learn more about humanity and fit in and be more friendly, but its pretty apparent that they don’t like her that much. To that end, Will asks Crescent to speak to her for her, Crescent agrees, greatly implying that she would do much more for Will, who she think is extremely cool.

Meanwhile, Fortuna checks her e-mails in an attempt to figure out what Buster Wolf was talking about before with regards to having to go to work. Ultimately, what Fortuna gets is that just as she has shunted all of the work to her T.A.’s, they have began to shunt onto each other and others, a wild web that is, a mess, but works well enough. Or rather, has worked well enough, as with all of them taking some time off for Crescent Moon’s concert, there is a risk of all of this going to hell and Fortuna’s classes imploding on themselves. Her plan to deal with this, is to convince Crescent Moon to give her Signed Tat, that she can use to bribe her students into doing what she wants instead. The cost is of course, that Crescent Moon is going to want to go see the university. The one full of CM fans.

Senza tries to see if there’s any events at the school, but instead finds some conflicting reports, getting the idea that theres some recruiting event but not if she wanted to go to it or not. Fortuna’s calendar proves unhelpful, only highlighting that the event will have free food.

Will meanwhile, catches Synch before they slip away and asks about Burning, saying that they saw him earlier, and that it would be good to have some help given the seriousness of the events all of the sudden. Synch lies and says they don’t know him which is fair because Will is lying to Synch and just wants to talk to Burning to get him to leave Quid because Will is Kind Of A Cop. (Only Kind Of).

As everyone else departs, Ariel changes into their military depot getup and with paranoia, checks the room Crescent Moon is in. The idol tries to calm them down and asks about the rest of the group, especially Will, friendship, and that kind of thing. Ariel responds with disgust for the organisation that Will is a part of, something that makes Crescent uncomfortable, as she sees Will as more of a Knight than a cop. Crescent just wants everyone to get along, to be able to trust people and have people trust her, and for Ariel to also be able to do the same. Ariel discovers that Crescent has some sort of hidden agenda that requires knowing if the group is trustworthy or not. Crescent asks Ariel if she can trust them, to which they say yes. Ariel follows that up with asking about how she can trust humans when they’ve seen them at their lowest, to which Crescent talks about seeing A.I. at their lowest as well, and also adds that there are A.I. who have not been created by humans. Ariel asks Crescent if she trusts them, she says yes, and the conversation ends with Ariel finally unlocking all of her emotions.

Will finally in RedBlack Duel Park, where Crescent Moon is going to have her concert, a park of Red leaves and Black bark. She quickly finds the fence that is covered by a tarp to better and secretly prepare for the concert, though the fence’s door has been forced open. Will goes in and realises that some people, likely Old Media Hipsters related to the Old Neo Underground, are messing with things, and as it isn’t anything too dangerous or permanent, opts to go retrieve Waning Touch instead. On the way, she runs into an old friend, the Burgundy Themed Cobra Assailant. He makes a show of how sneaky he is and generally says some cryptic shit after reinforcing his desire to kidnap Crescent Moon. He threatens and succeeds in intimidating Will after she fails to probe him, claiming that he will spare her if she promises to bring the idol to him, but she nevertheless overcomes that fear in order to use her Seat of Judge’s mask to instil a peacefulness to the masked man who then jumps away, though not without leaving a USB behind. Will gets Waning Touch without much more incident and makes her promise to hire more security and also to not stay in the park alone.

Synch and Burning meet at some odd and seedy sort of bar that the Eyes have occupied. Melting is grooving out to Crescent Moon music obnoxiously, with a shirt that has the lyrics play as his cat ear headphones play them. Burning also introduces Synch to Asking for the truth, a new member of the eyes, who is just kind of a little shit. Synch says that they need privacy, so Burning makes Melting take Asking to the other room, with difficulty. Synch warns Burning about Will’s investigation although not without naming names, saying that things are also dangerous for other reasons and that they need to leave town. Burning reveals that what actually happened was that the SVS scientist, Professor Vas Nicola-Lelulelo, was actually started the fire and planned to make Burning disappear in it, but he managed to escape and run away. He thought it would have all blown over after seven years, but clearly it hasn’t. Burning tells Synch some interesting information as well, giving them the name of Ariel’s creators, who they thought had something to do with their psychic powers, the Angelic Threads. Floating and Thundering are both investigating a lead with them, and Burning asks if, worse comes to worse, if Synch would help rescue them. Synch responds with his obligation to the team, to which Burning responds that they would like their help as well, especially Ariel. If they need him, Synch promises to be there. After committing to telling Ariel about the Angelic Threads, Synch and Burning go on a nice date.

Fortuna is driving home to dinner with her wife when a person tries to get her attention, Fortuna slows her car and opens her window, which just BLASTS OUT Crescent Moon nightcore, something that Bicker Boulder, interviewer for the Investigative Bureau, a collection of journalists and other similar professions, ignores so that she can try to leverage an interview out of Fortuna. She wrangles out some sort of verbal contract out of Fortuna to be interviewed after calling out her lifestyle of never being accessible to anyone. Bicker writes a note to Fortuna that has normal writing from the interviewer on the front, and a threatening You Should Do Your Job and Stop These Excursions” printed on the back.

Back to the room, Crescent Moon is playing with her veil altering abilities when Senza, egged on by LACUNA, finally starts to approach the Virtual Idol. Ariel is also in the room, just reading about whatever she wants. Senza gets to the point and asks Crescent about the company that made her and if it has any relationship to SVS, something she isn’t aware of. Senza talks about how it isn’t necessarily about something between the two, it could be some secret branch of the company headed by a weird or power hungry CEO. Whatever it is, Crescent doesn’t know it, because she talks about how her company, NMT, didn’t want to spotlight themselves with Crescent Moon too much, as it would bring them attention that they would be too small to deal with properly, something that becomes relevant as Crescent tells Senza, through tears and hesitation, about her mother, Heartful Vale, and how she’s vanished. Crescent asks Senza what her relationship with her mother is like, and Senza replies that she has some disagreements, but they still love and understand each other. When Senza probes Crescent Moon about this whole situation, she seizes up, causing Ariel to misinterpret things and ask Senza what her problem is.

The two argue, with Senza more or less correctly saying that while this is hard, they needed to know about this information from Crescent Moon, as it has clearly led to this danger and her possible kidnapping! Crescent Moon agrees and sobbingly apologies, as it is so hard to talk about these kind of things. Senza opts to de-escalate, giving Ariel space and moving away from Crescent Moon, giving Ariel a blanket to comfort Crescent with so that she can call Will and talk about the whole Missing Mother/Creator thing. Crescent needs some time alone, leading Ariel to talk to the only person they can, 2Beta, who is currently in a cardboard robot model kit play thing. He answers the phone on a cardboard house and asks about Ariel, who asks if he knows anything about Crescent’s mom or if the creators have anything to do with it. 2Beta doesn’t know, but also doesn’t think that this specifically, directly, has to do with their part of whatever plans the creators have. Ariel overreacts a bit to 2Beta’s uncertainty, as Heartful Vale being an A.I. scientist who made a super cool and powerful A.I. must have painted a target on her. They then apologise and ask if 2Beta is ok. He’s lonely, working on trying to become Joyful, and asks Ariel to apologise to Senza for him. Ariel promises to visit soon, and do so.

Senza and Will speak, with Will not wanting to take the USB back to the hotel in case it has a tracker, to which Senza agrees, as it will make speaking about things easier. As she gets ready to leave, Ariel apologises to her for before. Senza explains that it isn’t that she’s being patronising, or at least she’s not trying to, it’s that as an adult who works at a university she feels the need to make sure that the young folk are doing ok and are taken care of. Ariel feels that they can take care of themselves but thats not quite what she means. Ariel also apologises for 2Beta, and asks why Senza got into her field. She goes on for a bit about why it is due to the differences in the same kind of robots, and how she was just kind of a weird kid who got really interested in her maid robot. People wanted personable machines but they didn’t quite realize that they would just make machine people.

Finally, Senza and Will meet up, and after the 2Beta incident, Senza has a sort of sandbox environment for LACUNA, which she tests the USB in. The two most important files are of course, a README that says “if lost return to crescent moon” and a png labeled “To Crescent Moon.” The image shows a middle aged lady, tied up against her will. Senza, recognising what this is says “this is what we need to talk about,” as it is obviously a picture of Heartful Vale, and this is a picture meant to taunt or incite Crescent Moon.

Next time is... some amount of things as I need to try to get things closer to some sort of conclusion!!!

#quidama dre #concert at quid central

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kpurereactions · 6 years

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She Boss | Part 1

Summery: She's her own boss and theres nothing that can't stop her from ruling the world. Except for the soft heart she sprouts from the young, handsome Korean Leader. Pairing: Kwon Jiyong x Reader Rating: Drama, Angst, Smut, Fluff WARNINGS: Language, light|heavy Violence, light|heavy Smut

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The surprise to your family when your father left his empire to you instead of your brothers was enough to raise concern with the heads of three families that followed your name. There was something about following a young woman in a world of violence and theft that rose concern, but your father knew exactly what he was doing.

You weren't like most girls, that's for sure. Hell, you could hear someone behind you make a comment and reach around to shoot them square in the heart before anyone, including yourself, could fully turn around. You were tough and knew exactly how to use your looks to your benefit. This meant you were smart. You knew how to sniff out a shipment gone bad before it was even loaded, which instantly made you gain respect from anyone who ever laid eyes on you; that is if they were lucky enough to do so.

The mafia world wasn't a place for women, you were smart enough to know that so all your business calls were ran through a voice modifier and if anyone insisted on meeting you they would either meet with your eldest brother, Carlo who would have you in his ear the entire time or they'd be shot as soon as you got what you wanted. The Italian Mafia wasn't something that messed around and you were a proud head sitting at the top of the food chain.

It was late one night and you were standing over your impressively detailed oak desk trying to decipher the very vague message that was sent you you by one of the sub heads that supported you when Carlo and your second eldest brother Vince walked in and sat in the two chairs that were meant for guests.

"We got a phone call tonight, Val." Vince said and you looked up momentarily to see Carlo nodding along with him.

"Congratulations." You said looking back down and pulling the next seventh letter to create a full message.

"From Korea." Vince added causing you to chuckle slightly.

"Would you like me to shoot up the phone company so you don't have to pay your international call?" You joked picking out the next 7th letter.

"Smart ass." Carlo huffed watching you sit down back into what a was once your fathers favorite Chair.

"It was an invitation." Vince started, only continuing when you raised a perfectly sculpted eyebrow at a him. "They are having their annual meeting in Seoul next week and their dying to finally meet the notorious Cappucio family and their fearless, faceless leader. They've invited you for the past four years, Val. Their getting restless and we can't have them thinking that there really is no leader here."

"We'll send them a case of wine and express my deepest gratitude but I'm busy." You sighed, looking back to the letter.

"Doing what, exactly? Spending two hours on a letter that'll tell you 'it's done, he's taken care of'?" Vince said with a hint of stubbornness. You frowned down the the letters you had scribbled into a piece of paper, reading exactly what Vince had said.

"Plus, Val, they aren't taking no for an answer this time. They offered a plane to start flying our way as we speak. Respectfully I told them we'll take our own but they are really desperate." He said making you look up again. A sly smile touched your cheeks as you remembered something.

"Isn't one of their heads like ridiculously hot?" You said making your brothers shift awkwardly.

"You're the bravest person we know and we will be there with you." Carlo said. "You have to do this."

"Fine." You said lighting the letter on fire and using the flame to lite the long white cigarette that you had removed from its pearl and gold incrusted case.

You were a lot less worried than you thought you would be as your privet jet landed safely into Seoul. You looked up to your brothers and tucked your dads gun into your holster before slipping on your heels and coat. The boys grabbed your suit case and filed into a cage around you as you exited the plane, your favorite guard and closest friend since you were young, Immanuel, holding your hand as you stepped down the stairs of the plane.

You had been set up in an incredible pent house apartment with a room for all six of your men to stay in. You, of course, went straight for the double doors that sat along one of the long walls and opened them up dramatically before walking into the room stripping articles of your clothing, smirking as your brother huffed before walking up and slamming the doors behind you.

You were a proud person, and part of the fun of reveling yourself to strangers was the initial shock of your fierce beauty. Thick eyebrows, long dark hair and perfect plump lips that always seemed to accent the beauty mark that kissed the corner of your right eye. You hated to admit it, but it was fun how easy the men were to bend and shape how ever you wanted them to just by showing a little calf.

Knowing this, as you got out of the shower Immanuel was already hanging up the array of tight bandage dresses you have brought to choose from.

"Really?" He laughed holding up a baby pink cage skirt that tucked right underneath the hook of your knees. You laughed at shrugged as he stuck his hand through one of the many large holes that was placed over the built in underwear.

Ule was the only person to ever see you smile genuinely other than your brothers. To others your smile meant death as it was usually the last thing you did before aiming right through their eye socket, but to Ule your smile was a joke, even in those serious times. You sent a bullet whizzing past his ear once when he tried to cover his snort with a desperate cough and though it worked he couldn't help but laugh with you afterwards.

Before a conversation was able to start between the two of you Vince walked in tailed by two terrified looking women. When they walked fully in you noticed it was because all of the men were flanking them.

"Heel boys." You said giving the two girls a friendly smile. "Sorry about them, they're a little... protective." You said walking slowly up the the two girls, pausing to intimidate them a little more, just for the hell of it.

"My hair will go in lose curls down my back, nothing special. As for make up bold. No eyeshadow just a black cat eye with bold red lips. I'll do my own eyebrows." You said walking back till you hit the large lit mirror and sat down.

The girls rushed to you, one of them sitting against the vanity that was in front of you while the other one took no time in beginning on your hair. They were both extremely sweet which almost made you feel bad for being intimidating. You tried to make conversation with them, asking them how they got into cosmetics and what they like in their free time, but you could tell the six men standing along the opposite wall were making them very uncomfortable.

"Yous. Out." You said sternly looking at the line of men, making the girl who started dabbing your foundation on your cheeks jump slightly. "Sorry." You whispered to her taking her smile as an apology accepted as the men filed out of the room.

"They can be a little intimidating at times." You say as sweet as you can get, which wasn't something you were used to.

"A little?" The one standing behind you said with an amused smile as she fluffed your now dry hair. You chucked at her response. "Jooyoung." She said smiling to you in the mirror

"Mina." The other said.

"So, if you don't mind me asking, what do you do that you need six body guards to watch you get hair and makeup?" Mina said dipping the beauty blender into the foundation that sat on the top of her hand.

"Let's just say I'm a very important person. I don't want to bore you with the details." You said smirking at yourself. She nodded and smiled moving on to a powder.

The small talk was sweet, you didn't have too many girl friends so being able to have some non work related conversations with some girls who weren't whores was something you appreciated. They did everything you asked them to perfectly and you even allowed Mina to talk you into a nude shadow that worked a lot better than you expected it too. They stayed in the room with you, the conversation to fun for them to leave just yet as you walked into the closet.

"So this is a business dinner. Do I go with the red or the black?" You said holding up an skin tight red dress that had long mesh sleeves and and a low back in one hand and a completely mesh black knee length dress that had thick black lines that made squares across the material. The two girls looked at one another before back to you.

"Black." They both said. You smiled and rose a sharp eyebrow at them before turning back into the closet and slipping into a very skimpy black thong and pulling the dress over your head, adjusting the material so all the lines were straight to cover your nipples.

"Black or red?" You said exiting the closet once again holding two pairs of very high stilettos.

"Red." They both said again with excitement in their eyes as they watched you slipped the red heels on.

"I hope you don't mind but I saw these and..." Jooyoung said standing up and reaching into a bag that sat on the vanity and pulled two thin long gold earrings out. You smiled and walked over to her before putting them in your ears and then reached for your mafias signet ring and placed it on your pinky finger.

"What ever business deal your doing is going to go your way just by the way you look." Mina said biting on her thumb as she watched you twirl.

"Then I think it's time to give these boys a piece of my mind." You said with a wink and walking out of the room, now with your long fur coat.

The boys escorted the girls out and with a quick wave back to them you let your smile drop as you entered business mode. You reached your solid gold gun that was actually doubled as lighter to place in the garter around your thigh, slipped your cigarette case in your jacket pocket and then turned back to the boys who now stood in front of you in all black suits.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" You said waiting to be lead out of the room.

You pulled up to the fancy restaurant and set your game face on and despite it growing dark outside you still slipped your black cat eye sunglasses on before taking Ule's hand so you could brace against him as you exited the sleek black car. They walked behind you in rows of two as you strutted, the curls that fell down you back bouncing with every step you took. You were ushered into the direction of the privet room you would be meeting them in and continued to strut that way, giving the bell boy a dangerous smile as you slipped off your sunglasses.

Vince opened the door and before he could even look at you, you had passed by him and let your coat fall off your shoulders for Ule to catch. You made your way to the end of the table where seven chairs remained empty and you placed your hands on top of the chair in the middle, finally turning to see the twenty other men staring at you in awe.

"Hello, boys." You said with that same dangerous smile you'd given the bell boy.

The men surrounding you looked at one another stunned, and not wanting to be the first to ask if you were the mysterious boss they'd been working with. The only one to make a noise was a man to your right. He chuckled lightly as he lent back in his chair, staring at you as he swirled the contents of his short glass around. You winked at him. And couldn't help but notice the very light blush that touched his cheeks as he lent forward to reposition himself in his seat.

That must be the handsome young leader you've heard about. You made a mental note that he was everything you expected him to be. Lean, with a sharp jaw and eyes to match. There was a child like look deep behind his gaze that peaked through as he gave you a toothy smile and brought his glass up to his lips.

Ule came behind you and pulled out the seat, which you used to lift your leg and slip the gold gun out and placing it on the table.

"Oh calm down gentlemen." You started sitting down and reaching for your cigarette case, noticing the uncomfortable look they all held.

You pointed it at one of the older men and pulled the trigger before laughing at all the scared expressions that softened when all that came out was a soft flame. You brought it up to your lips and lit the cigarette, smirking as the handsome one lent over his very stern faced friend to ask you to light his.

"Well. Stall we get started?" One of the older men asked, finally shifting all eyes off of you. You pouted took a long drag but listened carefully to what was being said. The waiter brought you your martini, and you sipped it slowly.

Every time a new topic was brought up you rolled you eyes, they weren't saying anything new and you were getting annoyed as the three groups seemed to skip around and around the same topics.

"Ms. Cappucio, you haven't said much." One of the older men said.

You put your drink down and lent back, watching as the men squirmed to not look at the amount of breast you were exposing to the room.

"That's cause I'm bored." You said causing the men to look at one another, the handsome one just chuckled again.

"Excuse me ma'am, but these are important matters." He said, almost looking worried as to what you would do if he was in any way rude to you.

"Sure." You said placing your drink on the table. "But tell me, what part of these situations have I," you pause to emphasize the word. "Not already delt with. Your dock? No ones touching that. You're warehouses? No ones searching those. And your... everything? Well... I've already handled that haven't I?" You said making sure to look at the handsome man last who now just nodded at you.

"And we appreciate you're help, we really do, you're a powerful and great ally for us. But we have to acknowledge that it's happened once. Why won't it happen again?"

"Do you not trust me?" You said calmly.

"Honestly ma'am, not really. Up until a few minutes ago we had no idea who you were. It was like... like a..."

"Guardian angel." The Handsome one said, looking straight at you. You nodded, hiding all facial expressions to hide the fact his words made your stomach flip. "I think we all put our faith in Ms. Cappucio for a reason. I'd be insulted if the group of men whos asses I just saved were doubting me." He said, the two of you now looking to the rest of the men who all bowed their head slightly.

"Well, is there any other business we need to discuss?" You said lighting another cigarette.

"One last thing." The old man said. "We, as grateful as we are for your help, want to create a closer bond with you. To help you as much as you've helped us. We've requested you to move here. Temporarily, of course, so we can really express our gratitude. And I promise it will be worth it." He said with serious eyes.

"So, what your asking me to do is up and leave all my men and their families who put their trust, faith, and love in me to vacation in Seoul and live under your order?" You said, growing a little offended.

"We've all pitched in on a small community. Any family's who feel uncomfortable with you being gone can have their own house. Think of it was a small Italian community right here in the city you've been so kind towards."

"So now you expect me to up and leave to live in an area all of you know where to find me at? I'm guessing you'll be controlling the gates?"

"Actually, Val," Carlo started. You glared at him for using your pet name in front of these men. "Valentina, we've already done all that. It was going to be a birthday present, you know another vacation home. They don't know where it is, or anything about it. They all just pitched in their gratitude."

"And I wasn't informed about this, why?" You said getting angry, your brother held up his hands in attempt to calm you down, he knew once you got mad there is little you wouldn't do. "Like I said, it was a surprise." You placed the gold gun on the table and looked around the room, the handsome one was the only one with anything more than a worried look on their face. He was amused with you.

"Sweetheart, were all just trying show our gratitude."

You groaned aggravated, and slammed the butt of the gun on the table and aimed it at the waiter who walked into the room and shot him, the loud bang of the gun that the men all thought was a lighter startled them out of their seat as Ule and another one of your boys, Dino, stood to hook their arms under the poor boys shoulders to drag him out.

"Listen here." You said hitting the butt of the gun again and making everyone jump before lighting your third cigarette of the night. "I'm not your sweetheart, or doll or princess. Technically I own you I'm just polite enough to not make you think I do. If there one thing you want to know about me, since you feel like you know nothing; it's don't fuck with me." You said placing the cigarette in your mouth for a long draw before exhaling and sitting back down in your chair.

"Thank you for the house. I'll consider your offer." You said waving your perfectly manicured hands at them.

They all stood and bowed low before exiting the room, fear still heavy in their eyes. The only person who didn't leave was the handsome one, who instead came around to place himself on the table in front of you. You lent back to see him better.

"You're feisty." He said leaning to look at you eye to eye. You smirked, lifting your legs to cross your ankles on the table next to him. He took that as an okay to talk to you.

"Kwon Jiyong." He said holding out his hand. You gave him yours and instead of shaking it he took the opportunity to kiss your ring, never breaking eye contact.

"Well, Mr. Kwon, it's important to have a little surprise to you." He chuckled at this.

"You walked in this room not as the big fat Italian man we expected basically naked in red high heels and killed someone because someone else called you sweetheart." He chuckled, his eyes full of excitement.

"Almost killed him. I just broke his clavicle. He'll have full use of it in a month." You winked causing his smile to grow even more. You smiled and looked over to see your brothers laughing with two of his men and sighed.

"I like you Jiyong. You're smart, almost as smart as me," you started leaning in and making him smile again. "I think we're going to be good friends."

"Good enough for you to be my plus one to an upcoming event I'm hosting?" He said smirking.

"Are you asking me on a date?" You said raising an eyebrow.

"Yes. A date."

"What a power couple." You joked making his cheeks tingle again.

#bigbang #bigbang mafia #bigbang mafia au #Kwon Jiyong #Jiyong mafia #jiyong mafia au #gdragon #gdragon mafia #gdragon mafia au

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bisexual-shut-in-witch · 5 years

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Hhnmmgggg so yesterday I found a kitten in a kitty condo that I leave on the front porch for the stray cats to take shelter in. The poor thing was in the second tier crawling about. It's probably about a week or 2 old. So I put out a pet Taxi with a towel in it for softness and place the kitten in there.

The Mama cat doesn't mind me cause I often leave food and water out and she seems to like the new shelter for her kitten. None the less she's still a wild cat.

In my neighborhood theres a ton of stray animals roaming. Anything from dogs, cats, bunnies, roasters and even a peacock. Not uncommon to wake up and find some critter in your backyard or front porch just chillen.

Now I have this neighbor who lives about 3 house down from me that lets her kids run in my yard and they enjoy kicking down the kitty condos, spilling what food and water that's out there and chasing the feral cats.

My brother has talked to them about it and they just brushed it off. Well, yesterday after I put the kitten in the pet taxi those kids come up to the porch and try to grab at the kitten. I see this through the camera and as I'm rushing out the door to stop them I see the little boy running away screaming and crying.

I'm guessing the mama cat may have attacked them. His mother sees me and immediately apologizes from a few houses down. I tried to tell her there's a baby in the pet taxi and to be careful cause I'm not sure if the mother may attack. I'm not sure if she understood cause she just kept apologizing.

I check on them both to see if they're ok. Seem fine so I leave them. About 20 minutes later a big pit bull dog comes onto the porch and tries to sniff at the mama cat in the taxi. So again I had to rush outside and chase the dog off who just seems to want attention.

He doesn't leave just starts eating the food and water, mark his territory, seems friendly enough but at this point I decided to bring in the mama cat and her kitten. Funny thing is he tries to trample over the pet taxi to get inside with me so I had to push him away.

Looks like I'm stuck with 2 new roommates for now. My father is gonna throw a fit though once he realizes there's another cat in the house 😓

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ramblingshit · 5 years

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The Woman in Black - 1989 - 3/10

looks like the 1980s but with somewhat older-style outfits; exposition mutherfuckerrrrrr;

very slow, fluffy script; oh got the cut is just forward and back as they speak, now we’re close flipping forward and back when its their turn to speak i’m dying. exposition, telling other characters what the audience has already heard; each of these scenes are far too long with so much fluff, Jesus Christ the cuts just throw us into a completely different place with no transition its so abrupt and the jump cuts are infinitely worse fuck half of these are like .5 seconds long, they’re so basic its crazy. some j cuts all of the sudden and some decent direction all of the sudden on this indoors scene wtf lol. then back to awful cuts, apparently just outside and between scenes.

i can’t even focus on the story because there’s so much nonsense filming, writing and acting and jfc.

the 2012 version is only 5 minutes less but this one reaaaaally feels like its length while the 2012 one does not.

the house is just a grey house in a simple marsh, unassuming, boring to look at, the birds chirp, there’s a half-sunken cemetery nearby, the woman in blacks just standing there in broad daylight with a lil hat on her head, her skin like yellow tinted with red around her eyes kinda lookin like the wicked witch of the west, just staring casually at him they giving her a mid-shot and a close-shot and all, got some crooked shaped eyebrows, i think she’s angry? I’d be angry too with that ugly ass velvet donut on my head; she slowly sorta makes her way a few steps toward him, he sprints off and locks the door then turns on all the electrical lights in the house and seems alright; the rooms are tiny and clean cause she only just died (woman in black’s sister) - it’s really not scary - all white and beige with floral designs, boring frames with dark protraits; reminds me of the rooms at the thornton’s house and other old bedrooms i stayed in as a kid; fuck he’s really turning every single light on. he’s drinking again. we’re half an hour in and he’s messing around with some sort of recorder whistling into it and shit - omfg i thought that was leading up to a scare but no. telling the clues of the mystery in these weird cylinder recordings instead of the 2012 letters? he’s drinking again. WHOA hey we got an establishing shot and its a red-bricked house three stories tall with a big ass entrance way and pointed roofs and lots of windows am i missing something wait what happened to the grey house. there’s no scary music, its all light, there’s no suspense its like well here we are, now we’re here, now the marsh is water, there’s fog and horses and he’s nervous and there’s horses and women and children screaming yikesss ol mate looks mildly nervous, they must have hired him for his scared running and dramatic turns, NOW THE HOUSE HAS GREEN VINES ALL OVER IT. i mean he seems passionate about his role he’s tryin his hardest thats for sure. half of its filmed like a stage show - where’d the dog go. continuity needs to like actually be a thing. why do these candles have hats they’re on beautiful candelabras and now there’s more alcohol. for epople who have a butler and a maid on stand-by their tablecloth looks like a crumpled sheet and the lampshades look like they were picked up from the tip and they’re fkn crooked for godssake. we’re 46 minutes in and theres been maybe 25 minutes of actual story. he ran because he was afraid and that sits wrong with him so he wants to go back - now he’s ‘brave but not brave enough’. stubborn muthafucker. his rational friend is like lol you’re a moron, take my dog as companion he’s called spider for some reason. jesus fuck the cuts they get me everytime they’re scarier than anything else i’ve seen. unsurprised i could see the shadow of the camera. oh okay the grey house is the generator room out back that makes more sense. locked doors, ring of many keys but no key will turn. completely wasted mirror angles that were making me actually kinda anxious waiting to see something in them like damn son wasted opportunity. thrilling to watch this guy go through wads of paper not really looking at anything just pushing them around the great lawyer he is conveniently only finding and looking at plot-relevant things. kid crying mummy mummy while the lady just screams horribly - OMG NOW HES telling the recording exactly what we just heard and saw fuck sakee i love this movie its so dumb spoon feeding everyone - naw spider in his beeeeddd 10/10 best actor. nothing scary has actually happened other than weird lady staring constipatedly at him. he out here gon break his shoulder - sprint sprint sprint PACE PACE PACE – THE DOOR IS OPENNNNN ooohhwuuuhohhh and now he has an axe. he’s a fuck load more of a scardey cat than my main man harry potter and its the nursery - A BALLLLLLLL fell from the SKYYYYY and he doesn’t seem too fazed lmao. spiders just chillin on a chair like yep you’re in trouble. creepy old dolls. a kid just said 'hello’ and laughed, like friendly. 'hello?’ and put a toy in his hand. this is actually interesting. whoops the lights have gone out - PROBS CAUSE HE TURNS THEM ALL ON. nothing even scary happened, the kid said hi and clearly wanted to play then he sprinted away and now is panicking trying to find a torch where is he going its not even that dark back at the generator. cause god forbid- - OMG HE:S LITERALLY GO TTHE WHOLE HOUSE LIT UP mate why do you think it all went out omg im crying he’s freaking out about spider running off oh nah nevermind he’s fine lololol he was freakingggg outttt and then just chills immediately and goes back inside. i love this guy he’s trying so hard. the 70s lampshades are swinging from the roof. would be more eerie if it were actually dark and nah gonna just move over that back to him telling the recording exactly what we just saw. every fucking light. every FUCKING LIGHT. he’s lucky he doesn’t have to pay for electricity. this is the third time we’ve heard this crash and the kid and the lady screaming and he’s going angry about it cause its very noisy and he’s lost his mate’s dog whoops. lol whoops his mate found his own dog half drowned in the marsh and is just chill with it. wait this has all happened in a day?? this fuckin guy. ol mates got him rugged up and getting him outta there cause he collapsed in fright from finding the nursery trashed. that’s it. like yeah its spooky but come on man. is this the climax of the movie??? we an 1hr12min in. think they’re only breifly and vaguely mentioning that to see her means a kid will die and has died - how the fuck are you supposed to make her fearsome if you declaw her and take away that which threatens people: the fact she’s out there causing kids to die. floral bed covers. are they seriously not even going to show the dead kid. they’re just chatting. and again wa– holy fuck these people shes like neeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrhhh with a hogwarts cloak on and short curly hair with that yellow face and crooked brows, and he’s got his arms over his face, eyes shut just lying on his bed screaming - fuckin close ass shots i can see up their noses. now he’s taken ill poor mate. also he’s in a different bed?? and now he’s awake and talking some whack shit. has anyone called his wife yet lol. an awesome shot of just him sleeping. and another one. who’s this lady? oh its his wife. what’s she doing here i guess they did call her ahahaha. everything is so bright and blue and white where is the deeeeeath how is any of this scary its just so much chilling out and chatting and lol bye hope you get better have fun talking men. what. the house burned down? what. ol mate seems suss. HE’S SUSS. ol mate definitely burned that shit to the ground. who knows why he didn’t really seem sold on the whole thing but ya know. now they’re wearing like any old clothes they can find. and there’s a soldier too. and they’re training off into the sunset. that woman is not old enough to be this guy’s mother. what. we have cake time. pointless pointless scenes. ooooooooooooooooooooooo he got the ptsd from the horse clackity clack. no woman with hair that perfect sleeps without it in rolls or covered, not back then lol. where’s the deatttttthhh. oooohweeerrroooooo. whats in the box in the box whats in the box todayyy. acting is always 10/10 with this guy, especially the angst and strong emotions. he really doesn’t care for actually investigating these many papers he’s got in these boxes. um. he was in his office. and then the next scene was him entering his office and hanging up his jacket in his office????? wot. THE PAPERS AREN’T IN THE FIREPLACE MATE THEY’RE OUTSIDE OF IT. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OH MY GOD HES MAD HES SETTING THE OFFICE ON FIRE HOLY FUCKKKKKKKKK MATE. dude you are so fired. fireman is like yeah i found this jerry can of parrafin you wouldn’t happen to know anything about that would you. omg omg he’s attacking his boss this is so exciting. i think he’s fired lol. can’t believe he’s not been arrested. what do you tell your wife lmao. how do you get references for another job in this career. her hair is so perfect. she wants to talk, he silences her with a kiss, conversation moves on, he silences her with another kiss - typical. now they’re boating. there’s 3 minutes left. are they gonna drown. omg the jumpcuts. SHES STANDING ON WATER. SHES JESUS. ahahhahahahahAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA DEATH BY TREEEEEEEEEE and i think they did drown omg ahahah my guy, wife kid and baby. that’s fuckin dark. last literally 1 minute of the movie just kill everyone off. what a shit fest i love it.

#the woman in black #1989 #review #commentary #movie #movies #ramble #shit #rambling shit #adrian rawlins

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luziflor · 7 years

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Update (long post)

So I wouldnt say I was astral projecting today. Much more of lighly travelling up there and getting to some sort of inbetween spot between here and there, maybe?

Background: Years ago in my coven my mentor had us do a meditation exercise. We would visualize roots growing from where we stood, and tree branches growing up from us. It would lead you into a starry space, and she taught us to put up a ward and shield there. You would then travel into the tree to get to something that was supposed to be a personal temple, to meet with your deities and such. Not really the same as astral home. So im gonna like.... push it up there. Or something. Point is, I have a home thing already its just not really in the right location yet, but is close-ish maybe. Another problem i have with this though is that I used to be into thoughtforms. I had a few, and they had pet dragons. We had a lovely home with lots of wooded areas and a sea and everything. I could tell that one was strictly in my head at the time though, as I used to get severe headaches and even feel the energy in my brain severely shift. Thats a different story, but causes me to again question if im actually doing anything or just creating more thats only my brain (then again, ive heard of egregores being able to see egregores of others or travel to their homes.... ). Clearly, I have some things to work through.

About the home/temple that was already there - literally was created by 16 year old me after seeing an aesthetic pic on tumblr. Maybe I can find it again but I really doubt it. Anyways, the inside is light and dark blue marble. It has gold accents, and greek styled columns. The whole thing is really an old greek looking place. I recall I had a waterfall or something in there that would cause severe damage to a real house but I liked the look so it didnt bother me. There is a white greek statue of a woman in there but I could not tell you who it is. To the left there is an altar. The original was above a stone fireplace.

How its been updated: Same color scheme, theme, and random statue. The water feature was changed though, now its a small pond outside my house with a mini rock waterfall. Like for turtles. My altar is now a weird wooden desk bookshelf hybrid, that doesnt fit the theme at all. But its pretty. And I added a pet altar, it came to me as a wooden slab on metal legs or something, and it has wings that fold upward on it. Very cheesy but its a lovely piece, so I let it be. It has constant offerings of meat, water, and leaves or veggies to my passed away pets. I´ve also made it so they have a space where they can come and go as they please. I was also interacting with my deities and like uh hey guys u can make your own rooms if you want, just follow normal human rules. And I dont think any of them except Hecate did, and she did it immediately hahahah. But its not something I expected from her, though I am new to her as well. She made one that is kind of like a cave? And it had glowing amber light from the inside, and a gold metal accent piece at the top. She placed it very close to my altar but not rudely close. Apparently theres also a kitchen in there but its much more modern looking, and I got blocked from going in there (see below). I added new shields and wards, and a symbol appeared to me but its not related to any deity or anything. It came as I was setting up the shield and looking for sigils too. Its at a weird angle, a bunch of buildings mostly sky scrapers on a flat street. Below it are one line going down, and two lines attached to it with arrows or something going out. I would also like to point out that I huge painted ball python wrapped itself around my house, but it only came in images and energy I cant actually see it on the house.

Experience this time: Went in, established my being there. Looked around, was mostly the same as when I left it though some features such as my altar and water had been changed. Basically anything that worked with elements had disappeared really, or left behind a mild energy and base to build off of again.

Welcomed in my deities to talk to them. Had a great meeting with Zeus, Poseidon, Lilith, and for the first time, Hecate (though I have interacted with her already).

Hecate was the first I greeted. She had her hair in a nice smooth updo, and looked like an oil painting. Im still working on visualization, she didnt move much but I heard her speaking and felt the energy. She also had a golden bird metal band in her hair, which surprised me as well. Shes very nice so far, though i find it funny that she, mother of witches, had to put her room right next to my altar (which only has one side available). I thanked her for her work with me so far, especially as my oldest dog passed just recently, and I have another one whos young and sick now (he is much better today!).

Then was Lilith. When i first saw her, she was old and cranky but none the less friendly to me. Just kinda like a grandma with a temper. That had been in winter. Now as it is summer here (or spring? guate is weird), she came to me as a woman who had to be 19-early 20s. She had light olive skin, and swamp green eyes with slit pupils. She had brown loose curled hair that was every so slightly frizzy and very full. She was full human, but this time her body was super limber and a bit long like a snake. She was in a plain white dress, but it was like you could feel that her abdomen had a very specific shape that was like a snake. She was lovely, very kind, and patient with me as always. She is sweet but definitely has a jokester and teasing energy about her. After I left her, a huge californian king snake wrapped itself up around my shoulders just to chill, and I felt his scales moving across my shoulder. I havent held a snake in years, and I know for a fact my old cal king has died.

Next was Zeus. He is so much like a father figure to me, and he was very cheerful. Unfortunately because I havent really met up with him in a very long time, he looked to me like the animated Neptune from Little Mermaid. Yeeaah, sorry man. But he was fine none the less. We have a good relationship, he was glad to see me reaching out to them again. Even though I could not see him as he is for me, I could feel his energy. For me he is very hearty, and big. Its like santa clause with an attitude problem. (sorry pops)

Finally, Neptune/Poseidon. This one has been confusing for me as he presents himself to me as both. First it was more of Neptune, but now more of Poseidon. While Zeus is more like a father to me, Poseidon is the one that has all of my interests or is coincidentally related to weird things that happen to me. While Zeus has always been like a father, Zeus and I were more detached to begin with. But Poseidon was always the sweet uncle who related to what I liked and taught me valuable lessons. Today I saw him and felt him at the time, but once I was recording it in my journal I forgot almost everything about the experience other than it was super nice.

There was some point where I had looked down, and noticed I had on partial armor in the color of gold on my legs and on my lower arms. Then I saw light dusty blue fabric draped over my arm, and more detail came from there. I was somehow wearing a stereotypical greek dress, but also bits of gold armor. I looked into a mirror and also saw that I had on a golden crown which felt a bit much in my tastes, but it was lovely so I kept it anyways!

I saw my old dog Molly in there, though we didnt interact. Muffin, my recently passed, was there too. And I met up with her, and while I cant for sure say it was her it was good to have a few moments where I felt like I was playing with her again and hearing her weird snorts she makes when shes happy. My physical body had started crying after that. I could feel her bones again, if it was her shes happy but needs some serious vetting, which is probably the case anyways. Hopefully the offerings and me getting more experienced will help as time goes on.

In my pet altar, I opened the drawer and found pictures. The only one I could really make out was one of my passed kitten, Possum. Possum had been a soul mate of a cat for me, ive never felt a connection like that before. And when he was passing away in the middle of the night across my whole house, I woke up for no reason not feeling tired at all. Then something told me to go outside because I had to go get him. He died a few hours after that, and im broken hearted to this day.

At the beginning of this whole thing, I created an athame. Its based off of the ones they sell here but I have yet to actually get my hands on. Its made of metal and stone, and the tip of the handle has a tigers head. This one is a regular athame but I was immediately moved to make it into something to defend me from malicious spirits as well. I immediately slipped it into a knife holder that happened to be around my waist.

I was going to the kitchen, as my deities had left, there were no pets running around in there (maybe Muffin, but I had been interuppted in the physical world so our session broke off), so I was lonely and wanted to explore. I immediately felt blocked from going in there, and a black figure flew out at me. I felt just about nothing from this experience so I dont think that part was real (and I will go into more detail about this in a second). I grabbed my knife, stabbed it in the head, and the spirit was passed out or whatever for a second. I took it outside and realized I could removed the black around it, it was just cloth. It was what appeared to be some sort of white teenager, but the look of him really made me feel like he was not modern times. I dont know. Ive never seen him before either, and again, I didnt feel any panic from this at all. Only when i got blocked from the kitchen.

When I had egregores, I had a nice home for them. But in the upstairs I would hate going to because a black figure would come up to me. I would feel panic and even feel this in the physical realm sometimes. It is not around me anymore I dont think, or if it is, its only kept in my mind so its something personal I would assume. He was banished long ago, I changed their house, and didnt see him ever again. I questioned that experience at the time but it felt more real than the one I had earlier today. I dont know.

Long story short- met up with the deities, Hecate had to put her room next to my altar, new guards up, snake things happened, might have killed a spirit but maybe nah, maybe hung out with my deceased dog for just a few seconds.

#long post #p #astral home #spirits

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fearofaherobrine · 7 years

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Roleplay Server Log #178

“Slender’s Tantrum, Digital Markus”

[Vulpix] Is looking for Hope and finds her in Mort's lap. She decides to jump into his lap as well-

[Mort] Is startled out of his reverie- Umm, hello. What are you? Apart from friendly, apparently?

[Vulpix] - Vul! Vulpix!

[Mort] Vulpix? Isn't that close to the Latin for fox or something?

[Hope] Mews at Vulpix and licks it a little-

[Vulpix] Makes happy noises-

[Deer] Wakes up as she feels an opening occurring near them. She nudges Doc urgently- Love? Wake up...

[Doc] Blinks and feels the firewall opening without admin permission. Xe shoves back angrilly against the intrustion with a secondary protocal that looks like a chickenwire fence of jumbled code.

[Splender] - Hey! It's me!

[Doc] Oh! Shit! Sorry! - Xe waves it away- I was half asleep, and with the baby and all....

[Splender] - Understandable... Umm... Brother would like to speak with you...

[Doc] Crap.... Do I have to come out there? Can't we just... Skype or something?

[Splender] - I've convinced him to only speak through the portal...

[Doc] Better then nothing I guess... The server should be able to handle it. - Doc lifts up Yaunfen and sets hir between Deerheart's paws. There's really nothing to say. Xe kisses Deerheart and stands bettween Splender and hir mate.

[Slender] Comes into sight as Splender steps aside. He's obviously very angry- Hello Doctor

[Doc] Xe's a bit less nervous in this shape- Slender...

[Slender] - Care to explain to me why ANOTHER member of my household has returned altered?

[Doc] He picked a fight with BEN. And BEN is one of the two carrying the Insanity removing virus. I had no intention of doing anything to him, if only because of the circumstances of his visit.

[Slender] - Fights between household members are normal, perhaps you should have accounted for this

[Doc] I only missed preventing them from contacting physcially by a fraction of a second. They're both quite fast.

[Slender] - Of course they are! They are hunters!

[Doc] And BEN had every reason to be angry, so I wouldn't get too mad at him either. Ej was being quite awful. We've all been very patient with him, trying to make him comfortable and feel welcome. I expect no graitude obviously, just saying.

[Slender] - And just what could BEN have done?

[Deer] Shudders a little behind Doc, the waves Slender gives off are very unnerving-

[Doc] Hold his temper? But I think we know that won't happen. Ah! Here, - xe holds out a roll of fabric to Splender- Ej's tools. I made him a soft case so they wouldn't get scratched.

[Splender] Extends a tendril and takes the roll- I meant what could BEN have done or said to make EJ act in that manner, it's not normal for him

[Doc] Frankly Ej threatened to eat one of BENs family members.

[Slender] - Which member of the household did he threaten to eat?

[Doc] Knows it's useless to lie and sits up straight and proud on hir haunches. - It was his unborn child.

[Slender] - A child?

[Doc] BEN has a son, he was born less then a week ago.

[Slender] - I see... How interesting...- Slender is already considering how this can be brought into the household and how to tell the others

[Doc] He has not told you because he intends to raise the child here. The mother cannot leave the game, she's a type of digital ghost who's existence is dependant on her best friend remaining by her side.

[Slender] - Curious...

[Splender] - Brother, I shouldn't leave this open much longer...

[Doc] At Deerheart- Are we holding steady?

[Deer] - Yeah, it's wavering a little at the edges of the opening, but otherwise it's fine

[Yaunfen] Makes it's first growl towards Slender, but it's barely audible-

[Doc] Hears the tiny growl and swells with pride in hir little family. Xe muses- At least Ej's dietary issue won't be as much of a hassle anymore...

[Slender] - So I've been told... It will take a bit of rearrangement in the kitchen however...

[Doc] One of our Steve's made him a cookbook with quite a few recipies containing animal organs. I think he's overdue for some cooking lessons anyway.

[Slender] - We shall see...

[Doc] Makes a slightly pained face- I gave him quite a few of mine as well.

[Offender] Hey what's going on over here!

[Trender] - GET BACK HERE AND PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!

[Doc] Laughs despite hirself-

[Slender] Sighs- I think we'll have to end this discussion for now- He turns away before glancing at Splender- Be careful brother

[Splender] - I always am!- He steps through the opening and closes it before slumping

[Pinwheel] Pokes head out of Splender's jacket-

[Doc] Oh Splender... I'm betting you had to eat a lot of crow for that... I'm sorry. I'd hug you but I don't want to get bit again.

[Splender] - It's okay... Just need for the children to wake up...

[Doc] Maybe I can still help- Xe picks up Yaunfen and gives them a kiss- So brave - Xe snuggles them warmly and then includes Deerheart in the hug- You too. So proud of you both. I love you so much.

[Splender] Eagerly feasts on the emotions- I spent so much energy keeping brother calm...

[Doc] I've got mad love for you too Splender, your help is priceless. I'm so glad you stay around here with us- Xe focuses the full force of hir emotions thinking of everyone xe cares about.

[Splender] Perks up- Thank you!

[Doc] Smiles broadly - You're welcome. And now you can focus on Pinwheel without worrying about Sally or Ej getting bit too.

[Splender] - Mmhm!

[Splender] Yawns- I think I'll head home now...

[Doc] Be safe my friend.

[Splender] - I will! You be safe too!

[Doc] Looks to Deerheart, hir eyes full of love and trust. - I will.

[Deer] Smiles and nuzzles Doc in response-

[Mort] Goes out early and greets the barn cats. The horses are wanting their feed and the hay bales are easy to find. The skeleton horses give him pause but they seem friendly enough.

[Lie] Wakes up alone in her bed since CP is sitting with Notch. She looks outside and see's Mort and decides to join him. She gives CP a quick kiss as she passes him and steps outside- Morning

[Mort] Ah, hello Lie. I thought you might be a bit tired and decided to help out. You've got quite a collection of critters. But I didn't hear a rooster this morning. Do you not have one?

[Lie] - The animals here are androgynous

[Mort] Interesting! I picked up some eggs when I fed them, I guess they just hatch anyway?

[Lie] - If you throw them, yes

[Mort] Throw them?!

[Lie] - Yes, there's a chance that when you throw an egg it will hatch a chick. However normally to get a baby animal you just feed two of them and they create a baby

[Mort] ah... Sorry, if it seems like I'm being stupid. I'm not much of a gamer. Mom would never let me have this kind of thing.

[Lie] - That's okay, it's understandable. Here, hold these seeds

[Mort] Takes them - Oh, do you want them sprouted?

[Lie] Watches as the chickens swarm the gate into the coop- Or you could try feeding them

[Mort] Okay? - He scatters some seeds in among the flock-

-Hearts erupt everywhere and baby chicks appear, one glitching through the gate-

[Mort] WHOAH. Well... I feel loved... insta chickens

[Lie] - That's how breeding any animal here works

[Mort] even the undeads? - Thumbs at the skeleton horses

[Lie] - No, the undead do not. So what haven't you fed yet?

[Mort] Umm, sheep, and dogs.

[Lie] - Well then let's take care of them- Heads for the sheep pen

[Mort] Follows behind her - There's a bit of growth where he steps since he's been meditating and he's leaving some rather tall grass in his wake.

[Lie] Smiles as a small pink sheep runs up to the fence- Morning Rosebud

[Mort] Awww, pink sheepie. You have so many cute pets Lie. The little fox thing and the kitten hung out with me all night.

[Lie] - Hope and my Vulpix? Yeah, they love finding spots to snuggle together. This little pink sheep and the Vulpix were both gifts from my husband

[Mort] wiggles his eyeridges like brows- I guess theres a little tenderness under that grumpy exterior huh?

[Lie] - He's trying and that's what's important. He was told for so long that softer emotions were bad that he has much difficulty expressing them- She clicks on the grass blocks with bone meal to create more grass for the sheep to eat

[Mort] Oh yes, everything is a process. Dawn's very adamant about that kind of thing, but then, we have nothing but time to kill. We can take it slow. Here, let me help you - He slips off his sandles and wiggles his toe bones in the grass, letting himself relax. - There's a bit of a ripple and the ground erupts in tuffs of grass and normal flower types.

[Rosebud] Bleats at Lie before sniffing and chewing on a little grass. Another baby sheep suddenly becomes an adult-

[Mort] Chuckles- There you go. Eat your grass, it's good for you.

[Lie] - Come on, the pigs and wolves still need their food. Although you may wanna stand back from the wolves, they will go out of their way to attack skeletons sometimes

[Mort] Then I'm glad I didn't try to feed them before you got up... There were still some wandering monsters the first time I tried to go out too. Somehow I didn't think I'd be given a pass for being undead.

[Lie] - That's alright - Lie grabs a bunch of steaks from a chest outside of the dog pen and throws them into the dog pen. The wolves quickly set themselves upon them although a few growl at Mort only to be admonished by Lie

[Mort] I'm more of a cat person anyway...

[Lie] Laughs a little and heads for the pig barn- Carrots are in the chest over there, if there are none there should be a bunch ready to pick in the garden

[Mort] I'm on it. Never had pigs myself, but it seems like everything is simpler here.

[Lie] - It really is

[Mort] Tossing carrots - I'm used to farm work, but it was more focused on growing crops then tending animals. Any chance you need stuff harvested? - Grins- I'm wicked with a scythe.

[Lie] - I haven't checked on the garden for a few days, so everything should need harvesting

[Mort] I left mine at home, do you have one?

[Lie] - No, TLOT's the only one who I know of who lives here with one. But you don't need it, you literally just punch the crops

[Mort] Then I can show you a trick, since you've kindly shown me some of your magick. Lead on.

[Lie] Leads him through the arch which marks the entrance to her garden-

[Mort] Okay, watch this- With a smile he rolls up his right sleeve and pulls out a very hairy belt, it looks like brindled wolfskin. With practiced ease he begins lacing it around his arm, even between the bones.

[Mort] He closes his eyes and the bones curve over the black hollows in his eyesockets, the pinprick lights vanishing underneath as he concentrates. There's a bit of light from inside his sleeve and a bright green fire flows out from inside his chest and enrobes his arm, bulking it out into a much larger shape.

[Lie] Watches curiously-

[Mort] Flexes the translucent werewolf arm that's much larger and covered with the humps of muscles and fur. He swings the long clawed fingers outward in a gentle sweep and the plants for several blocks around him pop up and into the individual floating items. - Good enough?

[Lie] Smiles and gathers the items before replanting them- Very much so

[Mort] Walks down the rows making almost lazy sweeps and soon the garden is shorn of it's crops and ready for more. - If you want I can accelerate it growing back up and knock it all down again. Are you short for food?

[Lie] - No, this garden is enough to feed several people, so I don't have to harvest it often

[Mort] Takes a small polite bow. He wiggles the giant fingers as if cracking the knuckles-

[Lie] Continues to replant, keeping some wheat on her to make some fresh bread. Once finished, she smiles- So, shall we head inside?

[Mort] Has quenched his fire and is unwinding the belt to put it away. - after you.

[Lie] Leads them back inside and looks at CP- Hey, has there been any change?

[CP] - Not really, he keeps ringing your flower though

[Dawn] Wakes with a small yawn.

[Vulpix] Is still on the bed and cocks it's head at Dawn-

[Daw] Just stares at it. - Lie? You own a kitsune?

[Lie] - No... Are you referring to my Vulpix?

[Dawn] Yes, the multi-tailed fox. Is it supernatural like Cp?

[Lie] - Kinda? It's a pokemon, a creature from another game

[Mort] That little cutie sat with me all night.

[Dawn] Oh! Okay. I'm not into it, but I have heard of it. I've had people try to sell me the merch before but I do not consider it antique enough for my business. Heh.

[Vulpix] Rubs against Dawn-

[Lie] - Do you guys want any breakfast?

[CP] Curses as Notch manages to startle him by dropping the bell flower on the floor-

[Lie] Sighs- I'll be right back, I need to check on them

[Notch] Makes a noise of pain and and reaches desperately for the flower.

[CP] Curses some more under his breath before picking up the flower and tossing it onto Notch's chest-

[Lie] - CP? Is everything okay?

[Notch] Grasps at the flower like a lifeline and gives it a vigourous shake-

[CP] - He just dropped that damn annoying flower...

[Lie] Notices a stack of papers hastily shoved under Notch's bed- More paper work?

[CP] - I've got nothing better to do...

[Lie] Approaches the bed- Notch? Can you hear me?

[Notch] I can...

[Lie] - How are you feeling?

[Notch] In a lot of pain... but this is helping .

[Lie] - Good. Do you think you can handle any food?

[Notch] No... My bar keeps disappearing... I think... I may drop straight into creative....

[Lie] - Don't worry, we'll be here if you need any help. Stevie should be back soon to take over for CP

[CP] Grumbles-

[Notch] Thank you Lie... - murmurs- my family...

[Lie] - We always will be, even more so now that you have our blood

[Notch] Love... you....

[Lie] - We love you too

[CP] Makes gagging motions behind Lie-

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so at the start of february we got an exit date from the house we’re currently living in (aka we were given an eviction notice). we don’t really know why. theres possibly various reasons. doesn’t really matter in the long run

this has been causing huge amounts of stress but we pretty quickly found a nice place to live. then we proceeded to have literally weeks of trouble getting the place confirmed. money is an issue, money’s always an issue, i’d rather not talk about that in detail but tl;dr we had to borrow huge amounts of money in order to move house and it’s still not actually been enough

but we’re managing. in the process of all this we’ve decided to rehome my cat, which is unfortunate. the long and short of it is that in the two years since we got the dog, we’ve tried to give him the best quality of life possible, but the dog has a pretty high play/prey drive and always wants to jump on the cat when he comes downstairs. it’s not fair on the cat, but the dog more or less functions as my support animal, and i wouldn’t know what to do without him. the cat will be happier in a new home.

we’re not sure if it’s possible, but we are looking into rescuing a dog to become my dog’s companion. he’s very friendly and desperately loves attention. whilst he’s fine as only dog i think he would benefit from the company. it’s all very weirdly timed. i don’t want anyone to think we’re replacing the cat with another dog. it’s just the way the chips are falling. a lot of dogs, including mine, just can’t live with cats.

and i mentioned this in another post but i consider myself to no longer be in contact with my dad. i called her in a panic a few days ago because it looked like we would lose the new house and we needed someone to act as a guarantor. whilst i understand anyone’s reservations about being a guarantor (this basically means that if you fail to pay your rent, the guarantor will pay it), she very flat out said no. when i started to panic further she hung up on me. i texted her and told her i was going through one of the worst times of my life. she responded “i’m at work”. i told her that she did not have to hang up on me and she knew that (she’s very good at saying “stop crying and listen to me please”), and she did not respond to my text.

so we’re done. i’ve stuck up for my dad a lot over the years. i’ve been the only person who has. i was very determined that my mom’s belief that i had a shit father was because she was very badly hurt (emotionally) by my dad’s actions preceding and following their divorce, but... no. i just have a really awful parent. she only ever asks to see me when she wants someone to do dogsitting, someone to look after the house. i won’t be in contact with her again. i’ve got no good reason.

we managed to find another guarantor by my mom literally calling around her friends and begging them to help, which was embarrassing for her. but everything has been confirmed and we’re moving in next week. everything is super hectic and stressful and busy and i am so, so, so tired... but i’m excited to be living somewhere nice. it’s a really nice house.

i’ve been keeping all this between me + one other person for almost a month now. i didn’t want the sympathy or to talk about it. but yeah. lots of changes at the moment. really tired

#🍑#it feels good to get it all out like a real blogger #like if u read #mostly bc its a fucking long post and im interested to see if anoyne reads it

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How should young women react as #MeToo moves into dating? Female writers discuss | Anne Perkins, Iman Amrani, Marie Le Conte, Rachel Shabi and Ash Sarkar

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How should young women react as #MeToo moves into dating? Female writers discuss | Anne Perkins, Iman Amrani, Marie Le Conte, Rachel Shabi and Ash Sarkar

Five female commentators share their views on how Aziz Ansari and Cat Person are taking the #MeToo debate into todays dating scene, showing gender disparity and raising consent issues

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How should young women react as #MeToo moves into dating? Female writers discuss

Aziz Ansari and Cat Person are taking the #MeToo debate into todays dating scene, showing gender disparity and raising consent issues

Anne Perkins, Iman Amrani, Marie Le Conte, Rachel Shabi and Ash Sarkar

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I recognise that by blaming Graces response, I am also saying that on one level Ansaris behaviour is OK. Photograph: Cassie Wright/WireImage

Anne Perkins: Being young is the time when you should be utopian in your views

Part of me wants to give Grace a really good shake. What did she expect, dating Aziz Ansari, a man 10 years older than herself and famous enough to have an overdeveloped sense of entitlement, whatever his public reputation as a thoughtful and considerate person fully signed up to #MeToo. The message of his haste to leave the restaurant, the food barely finished, the wine untasted, and race her back to his apartment is so blatant it might have been written up in one of those neon bubbles.

Her failure to tell him where to go once things went pear-shaped when she was there is even more worrying. Sure, she indicated that it was not what she wanted. A genuinely thoughtful man of course would have responded appropriately. He didnt. She should have left. That is level one in elementary social skills.

But I recognise that by blaming Graces response, I am also saying that on one level Ansaris behaviour is OK. Thats what men do. Its down to women to handle it. Get used to it.

And the point of telling stories like this is to say to other women, and men, its not you, its him. To say, check your ideas about consent. Consent is not the absence of rejection. It is not a tense silence. It is not passive. It should not be capable of being misread.

Utopian, perhaps. But whats the point of being 23 if you dont refuse to get used to stuff thats wrong?

Anne Perkins is a Guardian columnist

Iman Amrani: Bad experiences should not be lumped with serious assaults

There are three main things in my experience that can expose young women to exploitative or uncomfortable situations. First, money. Whether its keeping a job or a roof over your head, the need for it can push some women into circumstances that they wouldnt freely choose. Second, ambition. Drive can lead to women feeling forced to put up with things that they know are unacceptable, in order to achieve a greater objective.

Both of these factors expose women to abuses of power as we have seen in many of the cases of workplace harassment, from Hollywood to Westminster to all the women contributing to the #MeToo movement. Its this power struggle that adds weight to the stories about hands being placed on womens knees or unwanted advances, and its important this movement continues.

The third trap is the desire to be liked. There is a societal pressure on women to be attractive, friendly, and grateful, felt most acutely in young women. Aziz Ansaris accuser, Grace, and the narrator of Cat Person fall into this one. The latter might be fictional, but both accounts resonated widely with many young women. Both feature women in their early 20s, who found themselves in circumstances they didnt want, but felt unable to fully vocalise that they had reached their comfort limits.

Part of dating and sex as a young person is finding our boundaries, learning to protect them and develop the confidence to tell people who overstep, in no uncertain terms, where they can go. Not many people are born with this confidence, and it isnt something you can learn in a two-hour workshop on consent, but through making mistakes. Some of the situations that contribute to our experience may be unpleasant or regretful, but that doesnt necessarily mean that they should be grouped with assault, harassment or rape.

There has to be room for both men and women to make mistakes, to create a space where real dialogue can happen and where people can learn what is and isnt OK. Lumping all these grey-area stories in the wider #MeToo debate about rape, assault and the abuse of power only serves to drown out the voices of women whose stories should be focusing on this week, such as Simone Biles, and the countless other women who are bravely speaking out.

Iman Amrani is a Guardian multimedia journalist

Marie Le Conte: Men can no longer be seen as guided by their sweaty crotches

I had a conversation with an older feminist recently and she asked why women of my generation seem to hate men. We never stop criticising them, find endless examples of objectionable behaviour, and will gleefully turn on any man deemed not good enough by our precious standards.

She wasnt entirely wrong our expectations are undeniably higher than they used to be but my response was that it was, at least from my viewpoint, the exact opposite.

We expect more from men because we want to have more faith in them.

I refuse to see them as foolish animals, clumsy and to be pitied because life isnt easy when one simply cannot understand the complex and confusing women around them, choosing instead to be guided by their sweaty crotches.

This is why some of the responses to the claims about Aziz Ansari felt puzzling sure, we could have an argument about why the woman didnt leave, but why not talk about why he felt the need to keep trying it on?

Why can so many men feel so comfortable trying to sleep with women who dont want to sleep with them? Why do so many men think they can plunge their tongue down a womans throat before making sure its wanted?

Incidents which to some feel too small to be scandalous actually reveal the way men see women, and if they have no trouble crossing womens boundaries once or twice, where will they stop?

Weve been raised to see men as the superior intellectual gender, so spare me the idea that they just dont know what theyre doing.

If women can go through life without lunging at men, groping them, and treating their bodies as property, then surely we can expect men to do the same in return.

Marie Le Conte is a French freelance journalist living in London

Rachel Shabi: Older women wondering why millennials dont walk away have forgotten dark times

These stories have forced light into another area where it is sorely lacking: the stark lack of parity over sexual agency, expectation and desire. Its there in harsh, excruciating detail: the distorting and damaging ways in which heterosexual men and women are socialised about sex.

This isnt about a generational divide, despite some of the responses to such stories. Doubtless this terrain is thornier for younger women who, on top of the usual biases, are also navigating complications imposed by a certain kind of porn culture, and the image- and confidence-twisting burdens of social media.

But maybe the older women wondering why millennials dont just walk away from horrible sexual encounters have forgotten the times when they also stayed, rather than dealing with the awkwardness, risk his angry response, or navigating the paralysing weight of confusing expectation. Because women are socialised to be polite and accommodating, and are under constant pressure to be passive pleasers in every way, to the extent that our own desires and ambitions are routinely subjugated.

Such is the pervasive social messaging around gender and sexuality, such are the ever-present biases, that a woman asserting her own will or expressing a preference risks being labelled as unpleasant, unattractive or aggressive as it is in the boardroom, so it is in the bedroom. And thats before we even get to the men in the equation, with all their socially conditioned expectations, damaging biases and toxic assumptions.

Its messy and awkward and all tangled up, but if this #Metoo discussion is bringing us on to the question of what genuine equality in sex and relationships might look like, then good. In that spirit as with all parts of this debate we could do with less judgment and a lot more listening.

Rachel Shabi is a freelance writer and commentator

Ash Sarkar: A divergence in perception between men and women must be addressed

Theres a truth to the Aziz Ansari story which extends beyond whether or not he behaved in the manner alleged; that all too many of us have had sexual encounters in which one persons comfort is subordinated to the urgency of anothers desire.

Traditional feminist discourse from Susan Brownmillers Against Our Will to more recent discussions prompted by the Harvey Weinstein revelations has focused on a figure of the rapist as monstrous and malevolent. However, nearly one in three women have experienced sexual violence at the hands of an intimate partner the archetypical perpetrator looks less like a grotesque outsider, and more like a familiar neighbour. We hold him in affection and esteem. We trust him. We might even desire him.

Whatever we wear, wherever we go yes means yes, and no means no! The old Reclaim the Night slogan misled a generation of feminists into understanding consent as binary, and violation as self-evident. Were supposed to announce our consent (or lack thereof) like were entering a plea at trial.

But yes, in a context of mutual respect, might be a joyful wordlessness; no might come in the guise of not now, maybe later, or even well, OK then. In a society where sex is often seen as something to be extracted from partners like a mineral or an ore, a soft no is just so much social sediment to be worn away.

A rigidly legalistic model for understanding consent doesnt encourage men to shift the parameters of how they understand sex. The Ansari allegations show us that the task isnt to get men to see themselves as rapists, but to see their partners pace of desire as being of equal primacy to their own. There is no god-given right to orgasm: even a one-night stand requires patience, empathy and a capacity to interpret more complex cues than what is accepted in a court of law.

For what its worth, I believe Grace in her account of events. I also believe Ansari when he says: It was true that everything did seem OK to me, so when I heard that it was not the case for her, I was surprised and concerned. Its precisely this divergence of perception which men need to address. That starts with viewing consent as the beginning of a social process not a verdict at the end of a long process of litigation.

Ash Sarkar is a senior editor at Novara Media, and lectures in political theory at Anglia Ruskin and the Sandberg Instituut

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