#who knew!

[ellaenchanting]

Hypnovember Day 11: Attitude Adjustment/IQ Reduced

It was like she couldn't get the words out fast enough. "And I have 6 discharges tomorrow with no follow up scheduled yet and I haven't even been able to contact some of the families and..."

"Is there anything you can do about any of that tonight?" he asked her, gently stopping the torrent of her work recap.

"No. But! I still need to eat dinner. And wash some clothes for tomorrow. And make sure the kids are ok...."

"Shh," he said comfortingly. "I've already washed and folded the clothes. And I told the kids mommy was working late so they're already asleep. You're done for the day."

She sighed deeply.

He put his hand on her cheek, gently moving her head so she was looking directly into his eyes. "Relaaaax," he said, stretching the word out meaningfully. His tone shifted too, to something deep and steady. "You're home. You're safe. Just relax, now."

It had been a while since she heard him speak like this. She missed it.

Too bad it wouldn't work. She was way too stressed. She almost felt herself get caught in his gaze for a moment but- then her anxiety rushed back in, like a wave crashing over a too-short wall.

His hand moved around to rub the back of her neck.

"I'm sorry," she said. "I'm just so stressed I can't THINK it's like I try and it's just STATIC in my head. I sat in the parking lot for 5 minutes before I could even make myself drive home."

"Mmmmm," he murmured, still rubbing her neck. "Breathe, honey."

He breathed in and out slowly to demonstrate. She found herself following along, taking a few deep breaths before even thinking about it. Between the breathing and his light neck massage, she was beginning to feel better.

He made sure he had her gaze before offering- "If you want, I could make things simpler for you for a bit. Would you like that?"

A shiver ran through her at the sound of her old trigger- "simpler". It had been some time since they had done this but they both understood what he was offering. Would it still work?

She nodded her head but didn't want to disappoint him or herself- not after so long.

"I want to? But I honestly don't know how I'll respond," she said, "I can barely concentrate right now."

But even as she was protesting, she found herself automatically following his hand as it floated just above her forehead. Another of their old signals, this one nonverbal: "Pay attention".

She did.

His fingers came closer and closer to her forehead before finally touching, rubbing a small spiral right in the middle.

"Shhhhh...." his voice soothed.

Something inside her shifted.

It wasn't a quick, profound drop like she had experienced in the past but- she found herself instinctively closing her eyes anyway. When she did, the noise in her head seemed to quiet down automatically.

"Good," he said. "That's perfect. You remember just how to do this, don't you? I know you do. It's like riding a bicycle - part of you never forgets."

"I know you talked about having static in your head- but maybe we can use that to help you let go a bit more. Static doesn't have to be harsh, you know. Maybe your static is like- a white noise generator, blocking anything unnecessary out. Quiet and soothing. Like the one you listen to when you go to sleep. Just- think of that gentle static playing while you sleep. Helping you rest. You can notice it- and then you can let it all fade into the background. It just makes everything quieter, doesn't it? Simpler. "

She nodded her head, easily caught in his instructions. The shudder that went through her at the trigger felt more profound this time.

Simpler.

She remembered the old imagery they had worked on- the wheels of the clockwork of her thoughts slowing. Slowing. Grinding to a halt.

As she pictured those slowing gears, she could feel her inner monologue growing distant and dreamlike. Her awareness moved from her lumbering thoughts to her body- almost like her mind itself had moved from her head to somewhere in her chest. Her senses began heightening and she was drawn more and more to what the room smelled like, how the carpet felt, the gentle sound of the ceiling fan. She found herself getting lost in a world of sensation.

"That's good, honey," he encouraged. "You don't need to think right now. I've got all your bigger thoughts for safekeeping. You remember how to be simpler for me, don't you? No big words, no big thoughts. Just how you feel in this moment. OK?"

She nodded. It was the easiest way to communicate now. She still had some words but- it was easier not to use them when she was simpler. She trusted him to understand what she needed without bothering to speak.

"Good. Can you open your eyes for me?"

She did.

"How does your body feel right now?" he asked.

She checked- mentally scanning herself from head to toe.

"Tired," she replied eventually. "Hungry."

She looked up at him.

"Do you want some food?"

It took her a few moments to contemplate the thought before she eventually replied with a simple: "Yes".

He smiled at her in a way that might have struck her as patronizing at a different time.

His smile caused an unexpected spike in another sensation- one that had been hiding underneath all of her stress all along.

Until now.

"I'm going to warm dinner up- we'll have it here," he was saying. "I'll be right back."

"Wait!" she cried, suddenly.

He stopped and turned back, curiously.

Now she needed to find words again.

Her brows crossed as she tuned into her body in that slow, deep way that came with this state. There was a heat between her legs that spread upwards as she noticed it more thoroughly. She began to notice the feeling of the air on her arms and the slight way her bra rubbed against her breasts when she breathed. "Horny?" she said, finally finding the right word for how she was feeling.

He laughed. "Good girl. Yeah- that old conditioning is still working for you, huh? I bet you feel horny right now. Does it feel good?"

She nodded, that response coming much more quickly than most.

It DID feel good.

Without really thinking about it, her hands moved to her right breast, squeezing it.

THAT felt even better.

"Mmmm- I guess that's my answer then, huh?" he asked. "Tell you what- you need to eat before we do anything else. So- I'm going to go get the food. But while I'm doing that? You can touch yourself as much as you want. Do whatever feels good to your body, ok?"

She nodded again, barely paying attention to his words. Her hands moved all over her flesh as she caressed her newly sensitive skin rapturously. She wanted to touch everywhere.

"My only rule is that you don't come, ok? I want to save that for later."

She nodded absently, focused on a wonderful spot she had found on the side of her stomach. Part of her brain was receiving his instructions but- she didn't have to think about that part. She just had to focus on touching.

He leaned over and kissed her on the forehead. "And stay nice and quiet while you touch, yeah? We don't want to wake anyone else up."

She nodded, biting back a moan as her hand finally slid to her pussy.

He looked on for a moment, seeming almost hypnotized himself by his writhing, almost animalistic wife.

Food first, he reminded himself.

Then sex.

Then putting a note in his phone to call the babysitter for her weekend availability. It had been FAR too long since they had played like this and next time?

He wanted her to be LOUD.

Tagging @mentat101posts @thekinkycocktailclub @jam-and-stuff

#hypnovember #hypnovember 2023 #my stories #a straight couple! #who knew! #doing what I can to subliminally push the message that good housecare and childcare leads to good sex

[frostedpuffs]

it turns out that when you buy yourself a little treat every day, you do indeed spend a lot of money

#text post #who knew! #its me. i knew. #I JUST LIKE BUYING THINGS!!!! #this is abt me this month ive just like...been SPENDING

[front-facing-pokemon]

#larvesta #i guess this thing has “larva” in its name but it doesn't look like one to me #it looks like a fuzzy little creature. maybe i don't know what a larva looks like which!!! is fair. that is a thing that is true. that i #don't know what a larva looks like. i think i will live in ignorant bliss believing that all larvæ have cool fire powers and look like this #and they all evolve into volcarona. thank you #ugh. EVOLVE. i just finished writing a research paper about pokémon so i can't get the “evolve” puns out of my head #it was awful. you don't wanna read it #doing research was also not easy mostly just because no one wants to talk about pokémon in an academic sense #who knew!

[kiran-wears-science-blues]

you can be my open skies; i can be your wildflower

guess who got an ipad and is trying out procreate for the first time

#lapidot #steven universe #lapis lazuli su #peridot su #personal log #kiran draws #apparently using airbrush on everything makes a marker like effect #who knew!

[veliseraptor]

I feel like presently there is a lot of focus in fandom, one way or another, on the question of whether or not a characters' actions were "justified" or not, and I have begun to find it increasingly exhausting, not just because it tends to end with really bad takes about characters I like and/or what strike me as shallow misreadings of the text, but because at its base I don't think it is either a productive or interesting line of conversation.

The question "is this character justified in doing [x]?" is inherently one that is going to have a yes or no answer. I suppose one could make an argument for there also being a "maybe" in there. From there, someone can dig into the evidence as to why they chose their yes or no answer, why they believe their answer is correct and somebody else's alternative response is wrong.

There might be an endless proliferation of arguments that could hypothetically be made, but typically I find that they end up boiling down to maybe three or four "themes" that then repeat and iterate across a fandom. Sometimes fandom laws of gravity will also cause one influential fan's strained reading of canon to become so ingrained in broader understanding of a text in a way that makes people start to play a game of telephone that then relates increasingly less to the source text than it does to the fandom conversation. Whatever happens, though, however people choose to argue their point, the fact remains that the conversation is set up so that there is a right/wrong claim being made. Furthermore, because "justification" most often rests on a question of ethical or moral standards, that claim is going to have a moral dimension, which leads very rapidly to people both (a) tying their own morality or their opponent's morality to their position on the question ("you must be a bad person because you think [x character] was justified!") and consequently (b) making the argument itself no longer about the character's justification but also a form of self justification.

All of this results in a lot of very acrimonious back and forth with no real results and which doesn't generate interesting new conversation, and the point I'm trying to make here is that, while "people yelling at each other on the internet" is of course an integral part of fandom that will always be present, I think this line of argument in particular generates a lot of circular arguments that just end with people convinced of their righteousness and their opponents' moral degeneracy.

Contrast this with other potential questions or considerations about fictional characters and the role they play in the story - "why did they do [x]? what drove this decision?" for instance, or "what are the influences that shaped this character the most?" or even, if one must consider the question of justification, what about "why did this character think they were justified, or, if they didn't believe they were in the right, why did they make the choices they did anyway?" These kinds of questions refuse a binary axis of yes/no, right/wrong, and therefore open up conversations that can both dig more deeply into a character and don't position people on two opposing sides, while also stepping back from an analytic practice that is built on trying to unearth the morals of a text.

I know that one text post by me, a relatively insignificant villain blogger on tumblr.com, isn't going to change the tenor of fandom arguments. There might not be a point in me writing this up at all. But I just think it might be worth considering, when engaging with fandom, thinking about other ways to interrogate a text than questions of whether or not x character was "justified."

#lise has opinions #who knew! #just was thinking about this after my post...was it yesterday? sometime recently #important text posts #anyway returning to writing fucked up fic where everybody suffers

[anchoeritic]

slamming my hand on the counter

jake sully calling us ‘lil mama’ while coming home after hunting for the clan and seeing you all busy preparing food and his tail wraps around your slutty waist !!

he’s the type to sneak up behind you and just snake his tail around your waist to catch you off guard. “missed you, mama.” you always showed disgust whenever he called you that name but it gradually grew on you overtime, now you’ve just began to appreciate it more. don’t tell him, though. that’s the way he greets you after each clan meeting. an exhausted jake only wants to see his lover by the end of the night. even better when you’re cookin’ something up for him, but he’d rather devour his dessert first. 🫣

#dessert being #this juicy mf pussy gawdamn #who knew! #જ⁀➴ mail: received #jake sully smut #jake sully

[waitmyturtles]

This is why I love the OGMMTVC, I am always learning new things: it’s Nanon’s dad who plays Tian’s transplant doctor in ATOTS!

#a tale of thousand stars #atots #atots/ep3 #co khunakorn kirdpan #who knew! #atots ogmmtvc rewatch

[dead-rabbit-comics]

long story short i got a new apartment. this is a 1:10 model i made of it to really get it into my brain that while i COULD technically put the loom in it i maybe shouldn't. well. i am not convinced.

bonus:

#making models is very addictive #turns out #i love it #who knew! #dihei

[jackxo]

Guys, I almost fell out of my chair when I saw my exam grade… I guess I got the extra credit question right.

(The exam was in person, with no notes, one hour, a four-part exam with six essay questions at the end, and we had the hardest professor in the department. The mean for the exam was 84 and the low was 47… ) I feel like an academic weapon.

Funny note: when I finished my exam, I was one of the three students left in the room. I had memorized so much information that my essay questions became papers themselves, lol. So I walked up to the professor and handed him my exam, and I said, “Sorry, I think I wrote you a book.” He looked really confused, then saw my answers spamming pages and stared laughing. I honestly can’t believe I could recall all of that information.

#academia #chaotic academia #dark academia #classic academia #literature #uni #aesthetic #college #english literature #lit #exams #exam season #exam stress #exampreparation #final exams #grade #grades #gpa #academic weapon #I’m smart? #who knew! #study #studyblr #study motivation #study blog #study notes #study aesthetic #exam grade #uni exams #university

[c-nstellati-ns]

this is more of a really short drabble that a thirst tbh and i wrote it in 5 mins so it's kinda choppy- anyway JOSEFUUUUUUUUU

“so i'm the ‘submissive’ one, right, jojo?” you asked, grabbing a fistful of his dark chestnut locks and giving it a light tug. jojo let out a startled whimper and shook his head in response, knowing that if he were to speak, his voice would come out as broken as he was. unsatisfied with joseph's answer, your grip on his hair tightened, eliciting a whine from the larger man. “words, joseph.”

it was almost humorous how joseph would always run his mouth, telling his friends that he's the dominant one during sex—only to get on his knees and beg for your cock once they leave. maybe he was trying to save what little pride he had left by telling those lies, but it's pretty useless to hold onto the smallest shred of pride when it would fly away once his audience leaves and the curtains fall. no one knew what happened behind closed doors, and he intended to keep it that way.

“no– you're not..” he sputtered out.

...

"I should just leave you here like this. Teach you a lesson about honesty." You mutter softly, running a gentle hand through his hair now, one that makes him lean into your touch with a low whimper. Joseph knows how pathetic he looks right now, but the very thought of being humiliated like this... it got him more excited than he would like to admit. "Or maybe I could call up all your little friends and show them how much of a real 'dom daddy' you are."

He couldn't say a word, but the tears welling up in his eyes told you something indeed.

"Don't start crying now, Jojo. You got yourself into this and you knew the consequences." You sighed, voice soft but words harsh. It took everything in him to not press his face into your crotch and beg for forgiveness but even he knew this was a bad idea right now. He could only sit there and take whatever you were going to give him.

You brought him close, lips brushing against Joseph's for a brief moment before leaning in close to his ear and murmuring, "Behave for me this once and maybe I'll forgive you." You were considering it, but first he needed to show that he wanted to be forgiven. Shaky hands felt up your sides and back, clinging onto you close and not letting go. His body was hot and skin flushed, you couldn't help but teasingly pass a hand over his bulge for a very brief second.

Joseph bucked his hips up into your touch and whined into your ear, a sound so sweet that it brought warmth throughout your body. You wanted him carnally, needed him at this point. But you had to wait for him to relent first.

"I-I'll do anything... anything at all. Just for you, j-just, please... touch me. I-I'm begging you." He eventually whispered, through broken sobs and tearful whimpers.

"There's my good boy. That wasn't so hard, was it?"

#submission #achilles' thirsts ⭐ #⭐🌱 — king !! #my god !! surprise slutfactory/c-nstellati-ns collab??? #who knew! #top male reader #dom male reader #seme male reader #dom reader #male reader #x male reader #sub character #sub joseph joestar #sub jjba #jjba smut #joseph joestar

[kc5rings]

A newer one since her release and op files but Ines and Ascalon for the kink rating?

8-9/10

The concept of stealth kink/risky sex taken to an absurd extreme

This is not a romantic pair, sex is a contest. A contest to see who loses composure first or who can get the drop on the other, their combination of arts and abilities makes for some very intense possibilities and their personalities make for an intense back and forth

One day it’s Ines walking down down a hall at Rhodes seemingly just absent casually practicing a cats cradle with her threads as she does, but Ascalon is being dragged behind her in her shadow that Ines has made too sense to move in, Ascalon’s body wrapped in ropes of twined red threads that move and tighten as Ines’ fingers dance

Another day it’s Ines sitting in a room, maybe even talking to someone, the person turns away for a moment and suddenly Ines is gone, vanished without a trace. The confused operator chalks it up to the rumors about Ines and leaves, while in the corner of the room there’s a particularly dense patch of shadow with an inexplicable mystery puddle slowly spreading beneath it

That’s without even getting into the Extremely Charged “interrogation resistance training”

#Rhodes island kink Index #NSFT #this one was really fun to do some research on #I learned that multiple people at Rhodes can shadow step #who knew! #I wanna know more about Ascalon so bad #W joking called Ascalon Ines’s ‘Shadow Puppet’ one time and ended up yanked through a shadow on the wall #and got spat out at a blacksite somewhere bound and gagged for a few days #Ascalon isn’t a fan of W’s humor

[thewalkingbucky]

(More Gifs by me!)

#jesper fahey #shadow and bone #kit young #grishaverse #six of crows #mine: shadow and bone #mine: shadow and bone s2 #mine: jesper fahey #mine: kit young #my stuff #apparently tumblr's gif size limit is 10mb now? #who knew! #i thought i wasn't going to be able to upload these #but here we are :) #mine: jesper fahey s2

[dufrau]

IT'S BANANA DRINK THURSDAY (I am drinking a drink called "banana land")

Also I am pleased to announce that my hair has grown out enough that I can go back to using a product with some shine in it without looking like a 90s gel bro.

#ASK me about my HAIR PRODUCTS #lol #i don't know man #also I'm wearing my cowboy boots for the first time in a little while and i forgot how much i love them #leaving the house! #who knew! #personal

[eyes-of-nine]

-silver and gold-

#am i making fanart for a show that ended 5 years ago and basically no one I've talked to has even heard of it??? #yes #yes i am #also hey look at that i am can paint actual people #who knew! #yeah anyways i also wish i could be normal but here we are #fanart #black sails #silverflint #john silver #james flint #my art🌸