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@microcest prompt: time loop | 992 words | tw: incest | ao3 | 🔞 「 🪦🕊️⚰️ 」 🔞

i grasped the flowers of a dream (as they scatter from my hands)

Summary: It should disgust him, but it does not. Notes: my first entry for the tumblr collection microcest :D starting light hearted this time!!

The faint scent of wisteria always brought him back. No matter how deep in sleep he was, the morning breeze that entered his guest bedroom in the Hyuga compound always stirred him awake. It would have been fine — had he not been in the wrong timeline. Had he not been stuck in a fucking time loop.

Boruto grunted, eyes flickering open as he winced at the morning light. He sat up on his futon, rubbing his face, willing the exhaustion away. The sunlight slanted through the window of his mother’s childhood home, carrying with it the distant echo of his grandfather's voice — or rather, the man who would one day be his grandfather. Hiashi Hyuga stood in the training grounds, overseeing the sparring match between Neji and his mother, Hinata.

This was the tenth loop. Or maybe the eleventh? He'd d stopped counting after the fifth, when everything blurred into monotony. He knew this day by heart now: the same breakfast, the same training session, the same dismissive wave from Hiashi as Hinata took Boruto to explore the village, oblivious to the truth — that the boy beside her was her son from a future she couldn't begin to imagine.

Despite the suffocating repetition, there was one thing that made it all bearable: Hinata.

He had tried to avoid her at first. The wrongness of it all sat heavy in his chest. His mother, so young, so innocent, pining for a boy who seldom noticed her. His father — Naruto, stupid, oblivious Naruto — wasting all his energy chasing after Sakura-san instead of seeing what was right in front of him. Gross. He never knew about this. No one in his timeline ever talked about it. Boruto had foolishly thought his parents had been together since always.

It was unbearable, watching his father break his mother’s heart over and over again. Knowing that, eventually, things would change, that love would grow between them, that they would build a family together didn't make any of that any easier to see her suffer in the here and now. There's the urge to console her, then, to try and heal the loneliness that mirrorwed his own.

He wasn’t supposed to interfere. He knew that. But that resolve dissolved, loop by loop.

It happened on one of the resets. He was walking past the Hyuga compound when he heard the muffled sound of crying. He hesitated. He should have kept walking, kept his distance. But how could he? That's his own fucking mother for crying out loud! He can't leave her like that, crying alone.

His feet moved on their own. He found her beneath a cherry blossom tree, face buried in her hands, shoulders trembling.

"Hinata-san?" he whispered.

"B-Boruto-kun?" she startled, head snapping up, embarrassed. 

As always, he approached slowly, his lips set in a thin line. He knew what had happened. Naruto had ignored her again. She had tried so hard to gain his attention, only to be overlooked by the dumbass that would be his father in the future.

Boruto had tried explaining before. That they were stuck in a loop. That he and Sasuke-san were from the future and had fought Urashiki, and he hadn’t been able to return to his own time. But she never believed him, and when he pushed too hard, she panicked, and the Hyuga guards ran him out of the village. Then he woke up, and the loop started over again.

So he didn’t say anything. He just knelt beside her, the scent of cherry blossoms thick in the air.

"Are you alright?"

"It’s nothing," she murmured, shaking her head.

But he knew better. He knew the weight of Naruto’s indifference, the way it ate at her self-worth. He wanted to tell her that she deserved more. That she was kind, beautiful, strong and that Naruto was lucky she even bothered looking his way. Or tell her that one day, Naruto would open his damn eyes and she would find happiness. That he was living proof of it.

But he couldn’t. 

He was just a ghost in her past, forbidden from changing anything. Instead, he pulled out a handkerchief. She hesitated before taking it, her fingers brushing against his and something jolted through him.

Oh, shit.

It was different this time. He didn’t know why, but it was. He stayed beside her, silent, offering only his presence. And maybe — just maybe — that was enough.

He wasn’t sure when things changed, but they did. Maybe it was because she reminded him of Hima, his sweet little sister, or maybe it was something deeper, some fucked up freudian slip that made him look at Hinata in a new light; her soft and delicate slightly parted lips as she sighed the tears away. He shouldn't be thinking about them, or how it would feel to lean in and kiss her, feel her warmth against him, beneath him, steal her first kiss and taste the sweetness of her breath. 

Something inexplicable yet impossible to ignore. 

Her small acts of kindness, her gentle voice, the way she looked at him with quiet curiosity, they all started twisting into something else in his heart. Something dangerous. He's caught his late (well, not late yet) uncle Neji looking at her from the distance in a similar manner before, with longing. With love.

The type of love neither boys should be feeling for Hinata, their own kin.

The thought alone tortures him. He swallows hard, fists clenched in his lap.

No.

He's her son, for fucks sake! This is so wrong, but he couldn't stop himself from looking, from wanting. He had to pull away before it consumed him whole, but her tear-filled gaze, blushing cheeks and rosy lips made him realize he was already lost.

It should disgust him, but it does not.

And when the loop resets again, the first thing he looked for wasn’t the scent of wisteria in the morning breeze. It was her.

Notes: title is from ikimono gakari's hanabi

[amonstrouslove]

"this character has 5 mins of screentime how can you like them" WRONG character has 4:30 MINUTES OF SCREENTIME PRECISELY and i LOVE THEM. BABY BRAWL

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I have decided to take part in the Microcest ao3 collection and so far i'm thinking which ships i will use for each prompt, heres the idea so far:

MICROCEST PROMPTS 2025 JANUARY

Time Loop: BoruHina (boruto)

Genetic Test Results: valya harkonnen x desmond hart (dune prophecy)

Genderswap: maybe NejiHina OR C/J, haven't decided yet

Incest chicken (like gay chicken but for incest): ???? i haven't got any idea how to fill up this one ngl

Can I ask you something?: tywin x genna (asoiaf)

FEBRUARY

I dare you: either TygxTy or GerionxGen

Candy Hearts: still dont know how to fill up this one either...

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Incest and the Medieval Imagination, by Elizabeth Archibald: Chapter 5: Siblings and Other Relatives: Siblings

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 Part 1 | Chapter 3 Part 2 | Chapter 3 Part 3 | Chapter 4 Part 1 | Chapter 4 Part 2 | Chapter 4 Part 3 | Chapter 5 Part 2 | Conclusion

Sibling incest in medieval literature is often portrayed as significantly less egregious sin than parent-child incest. It typically functions as a subplot rather than being the central narrative and frequently involves minor characters instead of protagonists. In hagiographies and exempla, it's usually 'secondary' to parent-child, and, in romances, it appears as detail within a larger narrative. Indeed, there was a tendency to interpolate sibling incest in larger legendary cycles, such as the Arthurian, Carolingian, and Völsunga sagas. This makes identifying consistent patterns and motifs in these stories more challenging than in parent-child incest narratives.

While Medieval writers often referenced the stories of Byblis and Canace, familiar to them through Ovid and the mythographers, few chose to retell these tales in detail, and even fewer created new narratives about brother-sister incest. Whether the intent was to titillate readers or to inspire moral reflection and confession, stories of sibling relationships were seemingly less shocking, and thus less impactful, than the parent-child incest narratives that captivated audiences in the later Middle Ages.

In sections referring to Arthurian Legends, I had to look for external information to fill in the gaps left by Archibald. I would like to thank @haljathefangirlcat, @fuckyeaharthuriana and @liminalpsych-in-teyvat for helping me with the search.

Siblings in Exempla

In the English edition of Gesta Romanorum there's a story in chapter LXXI that is absent from the Latin versions. This story is about a man who seduces his sister and then kills her after she gives birth to their son. He then marries a rich woman and comes to regret his earlier sins in his deathbed, when he finally confesses. Like many other exempla, this story focuses on the importance of confession and that God can forgive anyone as long as they repent.

The legend of Saint Gregorius (mentioned in Chapter 3) begins with brother-sister incest and in some versions, such as Hartmann, the narrative takes the time to showcase the sibling's devotion to one another and the love which grows between them. However, the romance between them is set aside once Gregorius is born and the main point of the story is the relationship between Gregorius and his mother, followed by his penance and sainthood. Most versions don't even bother going in depth about the sibling incest, just mentioning it in passing as the reason as to why Gregorius' mother choses to expose him.

In stories such as Albanus and Vergogna, which open with of father-daughter incest the offspring of this liaison is technically his mother's brother, but the emphasis is placed on the fact that they are mother and son, with their half-sibling status usually not even being mentioned.

Siblings in Romance

While the father's incestuous desire for his daughter is a frequent reason for her flight, there's only one case that a girl must escape her brother: Penta of the Chopped-off Hands by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 in the collection Pentamerone. The narrative follows closely the structure of the flight from the incestuous father, with the difference thar here it's Penta's brother who wants to marry her. Coincidently, the middle 17th Century is also the same time frame in which 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore, a play about sibling incest, was written and performed (the play premiered between 1629 and 1633).

Before the 17th Century, sibling incest is mostly found in sub-plots of romances such as a scene in Chrétien de Troyes' Conte du Graal (12th Century) in which the Gawain meets his mother and sister, but doesn't recognizes them, which almost leads to him almost marrying the sister. In a story found in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion (12th - 13 Century), two brothers, Gwydion and Gilfaethwy, are punished for rape by being turned into animals, one male and one female. This results in the brother's, in animal form, having offspring together. As such, they are pushed into as punishment for rape. In Méliador (14th Century) by Jean Froissart, the protagonist's sister is in love with him and marries another knight whom she mistakes for her brother.

The Questing Beast from Arthurian story Suite du Merlin (13th Century) was born from sibling incest: a woman desired her brother and so made a deal with the devil to make the brother love her. The devil manipulates the sister into accusing the brother of rape, which leads to him being sentenced to death. As the brother dies, he curses the sister to give birth to a monster. This monster becomes the Questing Beast, who appears to King Arthur the night after his unwitting sexual encounter with his half-sister Morgause. Since the Beast's origins was a later addition to the Arthurian Legend, one must wonder if it was meant to foreshadow the monstruous nature of Mordred, born of brother-sister incest.

Another Arthurian tale, Queste del Saint Graal (13th Century) deals with Galahad, Perceval, and Bors fighting against three brother who all fell in love with their sister, raped and killed her, before usurping the throne from their father. The incest is presented to further emphasise the evil nature of those three brothers, and has no relevance to the main plot.

Charlemagne and Arthur

While sibling incest wasn't a frequent motif of exempla or romances, it did appear in some famous medieval narratives, such as the legend of King Arthur and King Charlemagne, two of the most admired kings in medieval literature.

Starting in the 9th Century, there began to appear many stories of Charlemagne initially refusing to confess a particular sin, but eventually doing so and being forgiven. By the 12th Century, the story had evolved and the sin became the deliberate incest with his sister Gillen, which resulted in the birth of a son, Roland. The first account of such is found in Karlamagnús Saga (13th Century), which mentions Charlemagne sleeping with his sister and then hiding it from his priest, the secret eventually exposed by an angel and Charlemagne confesses and receives forgiveness. In here, the incest is witting and consensual, and no demonic influence is given as an excuse. In some versions, it is St. Gilles who is told of the incest by an angel and then persuades Charlemagne to confess. This is a stark contrast to St. Germanus, who has King Vortigern burned for sleeping with his daughter.

One must question why such a myth was created and popularized, when considering that Charlemagne is one of three Christian Worthies (with the other two being King Arthur and Godefroy de Bouillon). One possibility is that the story was meant to highlight further the tragedy of Roland's life. His death become even more significant for Charlemagne if Roland is not only his favourite knight, but also his son. The link then could be done that Roland's premature death was the price for Charlemagne's sin of incest.

Regarding King Arthur, the incest was similarly a late edition to the legend, seemingly arriving in the 13th Century, and perhaps wasn't as widespread as it is nowadays, given that neither Dante or Boccaccio mentions incest in relation to King Arthur. In the first biography of King Arthur, by Geoffrey of Monmouth in 1135, Arthur is said to have a sister called Anna, who is mother of both Gawain and Mordred. In later accounts, Morgan la Fée and Morgause, Queen of Orkney, are named as Arthur's half sister through their mother Ygraine. Morgause is the mother of Gawain, Mordred, Gareth, Gaheris, and Agravain.

The first recorded mention of Mordred as Arthur's son appears in five passages from Lancelot-Graal (also know was the Vulgate Cycle), written at the start of the 13th Century. In the section called the Agravain, Mordred meets a hermit who tells him that he is destined to kill his father, and be killed by him. When Mordred says that his father is dead, the hermit reveals that Mordred is not Lot's son, but Arthur's. In this part, it's not named the mother, but before the texts states that Mordred is the son of the Queen of Orkney, daughter of Ygraine and half-sister to Arthur, she is, however, not named. The others mentions appears in the final part of the Vulgate Cycle, the Mort Artu. The first is by Mordred himself, when he forges a letter from Arthur naming him as the heir, saying "Mordred whom I treat as a nephew—but he is not". The second is when Guinevere confesses that she knew that Arthur was the father of Mordred, but had kept the secret. The last mention comes from Arthur, when he learns that Mordred is plotting against him, he admits that Mordred is him son and vow to kill him.

In Estoire de Merlin, another section of the Vulgate Cycle that was written after the previous sections mentioned, Merlin tells Arthur that Arthur is the father of one of King Lot son's, with King Lot being the publicly acknowledged father of Mordred. In another part of Estorie, there's the full account of how Arthur slept with the Queen of Orkney. Arthur came to her one night while she was visiting Camelot, and she mistook him for her husband and welcomed him to her bed. At the time, neither of them knew they were related, as Arthur hadn't yet been acknowledged as Uther's son. The texts mentions that the Queen came to love Arthur more than she loved Lot. This is story is a parallel to Arthur's own birth, as Uther went to Ygraine disguised as her husband, Gorlois.

In a later text from the Post-Vulgate Cycle, the aforementioned Suite du Merlin, the incestuous union between Arthur and his half-sister takes a more preeminent role, with Arthur's death being explicitly linked with his incestuous affair. This version goes similar to the previous one, with the Queen of Orkney visiting the court of Camelot and laying with Arthur, who is already King, their kinship unknown to both. The next day, Merlin informs Arthur that the Queen was his half-sister and that the child of the union would bring disaster to England. Around the time that the child is to be born, Arthur orders that all new-borns be brought to him, however, the boat carrying Mordred is hits by a storm and wrecks. Mordred is presumed dead, but in actuality, he is rescued by a fisherman. Arthur sends all the children he collected away, saying they are a threat to the kingdom.

While Arthur didn't know it to be incest, he is knowingly guilty of adultery, which is another sin (and rape in the Vulgate version, since he tricked the Queen), therefore, it's his own lust that brings about his death, his desire for the married Queen results in the birth of the one who would be his downfall. There are some versions of the Suite, such as the Cambridge manuscript, in which the Queen has heard rumours that Arthur may be Ygraine's son and went to his court to find out the truth.

Arthur's kidnapping of the children calls to mind the actions of Herod, who similarly ordered to all children to his kingdom be brought to him for he feared the birth of Jesus, the true king. Another parallel can de drawn to the story of Oedipus, since there's a prophecy regarding the son killing the father, and to the story of Judas, who is prophesized to bring tragedy to the human race. The story of Mordred borrows some of the key elements of medieval incest stories, such as the exposure of the child from the incestuous unions.

The key difference is that while most stories focuses on the child and the life they grow up to lead (and their own incestuous sin later on), here the focus is on Arthur and his reaction to the birth of Mordred. There's no journey to discover his origens nor recognition scene for Mordred: Arthur is the hero of the narrative, not Mordred. While the other children of incestuous unions go on to repent, Mordred, much like Judas, can never find absolution and dies in sinful disgrace. Arthur, likewise, never does his penance for incest and adultery. And the consequences for him are secular ones, nor religious: there's no worry over one's soul or eternal damnation, the consequence of Arthur's actions is the destruction of the kingdom.

The scholar Helen Adolf has theorized that the incest was included "because incest is the worst kind of lust, and therefore symbolizes original sin", which made Arthur more relatable to the readers, showing he was as capable of sin as anyone else. Other possibility is that due to Arthur's secret parentage, it was only natural that he would eventually commit incest. The adultery committed by Uther is paralleled by Arthur's adultery with the Queen: Uther's deceit and lust results in the heroic Arthur, who leads Britain to greatness; while Arthur's lust (and sometimes deceit) results in the treacherous Mordred, who is the fall of Britain.

Volsunga Saga

In the Volsunga Saga, the incest is very deliberate and calculated. Signy, wanting vengeance on her husband, Siggeir, for the slaying of her father, tricks her brother, Sigmund, into sleeping with her and bearing Siegfried, who grows up to kill Siggeir, since only someone who is "King Volsung’s grandson on his father’s as well as his mother’s side" would be strong enough to kill Siggeir.

Signy is not moved by an incestuous lust, but rather by a desire to avenge her family. She kills herself right after revealing the truth about Siegfried's parentage, but she doesn't name incest as one of the reasons to kills herself, mainly doing it out of shame for betraying her husband and having killed her children by Siggeir.

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I don't trust anyone who hasn't acknowledged their capacity for evil.

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i have a few more unconstructive things to add to the conversation and then i'll leave

[amonstrouslove]

The “That’s immoral you shouldn’t write that, we need to get that taken down” discourse on tiktok right now is PISSING ME OFFF

Wdym you want censorship for a literal ARCHIVE are you fucking stupid

Ao3 was literally founded to preserve works that were largely getting taken down due to censorship

Censorship is the opposite of what Archive of Our Own stands for

The TAGS and WARNINGS are there for a REASON. Use them and stop complaining

The universal rule—don’t like, don’t read

It’s THAT simple

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Gripping a sword overview

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how do you get the outlines on sims? like, the way they go through hair, no comic effects ive tried on either reshade or gshade do that

WORKING COMIC PRESET!!!

HIII YEAH I THINK IK THE PROBLEM, ive noticed lots of players have a problem with the comic effect bcause their (luma) is messed up which is basically the thickness or contour line of the outline. without a working luma the outlines can get crunchy or not even show up

IF YOU ALL WOULD LIKE THESE ARE THE TWO SETING I USE FOR COMIC

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Ok but like. What the fuck is there to do on the internet anymore?

Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.

Now, it's just... Social media. That's it. Social media and news sites. And I'm tired of social media and I'm tired of the news.

Am I just like completely inept at finding new things or has the internet just fallen apart that much with the problems of SEO and web 3.0 turning everything into a same-site prison?

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Don't you sometimes get an absolutely extrodinary, mind blowing, such an awesome idea for a story, but you just don't have enough skill level to pull it off?

[amonstrouslove]

gestures between rivals who are forced to get close:

(feel free to use! @urfriendlywriter ! tag me when yall write, IMPORTANTLY THE 2nd, 4th, 5th and 7th,, they are OJDJANAJA)

living together because the situation requires so

and walking in while they're dressing up. but oh god are they gorgeous? they catch your eyes so you say something mean and make your way out.

"don't tell me you fell in love with my oh-so-awesome personality :)" "I'd rather fall, hit my head and die ~.~"

accidental touching!!!!

awfully messing up when they're close, so they gently take the work from you, a smile lighting up their face, "let me do this for you, honey."

a breathless "if i spend one more minute this close to you, i think I'll go insane"

walking in on you changing, so they help you with your dress, evidently blushing, "this is very professional of me to do so, got it?" and you giggle, "got it."

smallest of compliments goes a long way when they say it.

when they not know how to accept a compliment from you! they're either smiling gently or flustered as fuck °\\°

sharing food, important the first and the last bites.

when they notice small things, like the smudge in the corner of your lips, and wiping it themselves

getting hurt and you see their heart break in their eyes as they drop their head down to your shoulders to hug you

"goddamn, [name], you didn't have to get yourself hurt" "i don't feel okay with letting you get hurt either."

silent nights where you both work on your own things separately

^ and the silence is surprisingly comfortable ?

"HOLY FU- [NAME], YOUR FUCKING UNDERWEAR IS LYING ON MY BED??"

the annoying things they do start to seem a little adorable

"You're smiling." "what? so now i can't smile?" "ARE YOU IN LOVE WITH ME?"

"i don't think you're that bad.. you'd make a good roomie :)" "*judges so hard*"

looking out for the other comes naturally

being vulnerable after a mission, and feeling very exhausted, and they take an effort to help you get comfy

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A Qing!!!!!

I love my girl so much aaaahhh!! Look at her!! Look at how pretty she is!!!!