#“Kneel”

[denimbex1986]

'If you're the type of person to double tap edits of Josh O'Connor's glistening thighs in Challengers, or the kind of fan still favoriting clips of Andrew Scott's Hot Priest "kneel" command, you may have recently been led down another digital path: Celebrity-centric audio erotica.

A relatively new phenomenon pioneered by audio erotica apps like Dipsea and Quinn, actors have taken on the role of smut narrator, much to their fans' delight...Most recently, the Hot Priest himself recorded a three-episode story for Quinn portraying a queen's guard with unresolved feelings for a fiery rebel...

Caroline Spiegel, Quinn's founder, hopes the platform can use celebrities and horniness for celebrities to remove some of the shame around talking about sex. "Women and queer people have been trained that talking about their sexuality, talking about sex, talking about masturbation, is not good. Whether it's from a place of purity culture or homophobia or misogyny or slut shaming, it's in [the] way them having a happy relationship with sex," she explained to Mashable. "What's cool about [Quinn Originals] is it's really easy to talk about because you're not talking about sex, you're talking about Andrew Scott, you're not talking about masturbation, you're talking about Jesse Williams and Grey's Anatomy."

The comments on Quinn's social posts reflect those language habits, with fans flooding its pages with requests and comparisons to their other celeb or fictional faves. Following the release of Scott's first episode, Spiegel posted a TikTok video, captioned, "Pitch me on your Quinn celeb casting ​​👀🎧." Spiegel explained to Mashable that this is part of a strategy to find celebrities, and even influencers, who already have built-in "thirst fandoms."

Tyler McCall, the author behind Scott's "The Queen's Guard," explained the levels of fiction and fandom involved in writing a Quinn Original...

When commissioned for Scott's story, McCall said she perceived the writing process cinematically, almost like writing a movie script. And she pulled in a lot of pop culture inspiration, like Game of Thrones and the sixth installment of a '90s PC game called "King's Quest." "I was thinking a lot about Star Wars. There's always a 'Reylo' at the scene of the crime," she said...

Quinn aims to offer a less stigmatized way to explore sexuality for women. Spiegel sees fanfic — which Gesselman's observations backs up — and celebrity crushes as female experiences. "The female erotic mentality is very much around who the person is, and what's their backstory and what's happening. Female eroticism is sort of like a detective. You're trying to figure out: Who is this person? What's happening? Are they safe? Where are they? What's going on? Celebrity culture, the fanfic culture, reflects that," explained Spiegel. Quinn taps into those desires.

There's a sense of safety for listeners provided by discussing sexuality through celebrity. Not only is the fan listener familiar with Scott's voice and has a pre-existing relationship with his work, but the celebrity is consenting to the erotic content and Quinn co-signs it. It's not like the fan-for-fan erotic fanfiction that's produced and consumed on the depths of the internet. Instead, there are multiple faces for Quinn's content, both Spiegel on its TikTok and the celebrity partners.

"Quinn's whole thing is erotic content and historically it has been this very overly graphic, off-putting uncomfortable genre. Our bet is that it doesn't have to be that way, it can actually be something that's talked about over coffee with friends. That's a really mainstream, normalized, happy, healthy part of life," said Spiegel...

With the continued growth of celebrity obsession, technology is changing the availability of celeb fantasy materials to fans. In January, deepfake pornographic images of Taylor Swift went viral on X, spurring a debate about the ethics of AI tech, celebrity idolatry, and the government's role in stopping this harmful content...The rise of AI technology brings a celebrity's — and all of our — right to their likeness into sharper focus.

But if a celebrity can get ahead of this technology (and sometimes even their own fanbase), then maybe they can exert some control — or at least that's what Spiegel proposes. It may explain a celeb's unexpected collaboration with less explicit, non-visual platforms like Quinn. While the site's marketplace of creator-uploaded audios speak directly to the person masturbating, almost like phone sex McCall explains, celebrity-narrated Quinn Originals ask listeners to become a character themselves, distancing users from celebs even further.

"This is a way for celebrities who have this sort of thirst culture around them to say, 'Hey, this is gonna be on my terms. I want to feel empowered doing this,'" said Spiegel. "'I'm acting in this real, elevated piece of art that's also sexual.' Being sexual doesn't have to feel degrading. It's actually a very empowering, cool thing to deal with sexuality. What I think does feel degrading is this AI porn that people make against your consent, or putting words in your mouth, or asking you inappropriate questions."

Additionally, it's not just that the celebrity is consenting to a Quinn Original, but consent itself is a major theme of all Quinn audios. Spiegel aims to bridge the gap of a topic that she sees as underrepresented in erotica. "[Consent] is a really hot thing that feels in line with the story," she said...'

[word-count-bullet-count]

I've been seeing a lot of knight posts recently. pretty great

[ghosted-jazz]

I don't think Jackie would understand My Chemical Romance but Matthew and Kevin would try

(continuation of this post)

[scapegods]

guard dog

[my-little-black-heart]

[storyofmorewhoa]

Pygmalion and Galatea (1763) by Étienne Maurice Falconet Paul and Virginia (1844) by Alessandro Puttinati Worship of the Female Form (early 20th century) by Alméry Lobel-Riche Kneeling man embracing a standing woman (1908) by Gustav Vigeland In Paradise (1918) by Max Svabinsky Thief of the Moon (1924) by Norman Lindsay

[cymk8]

miss ma'ams..........

[pucksandpower]

Does it ever drive you crazy …

… just how fast the night changes?

[lotus-pear]

top 10 moments before disaster (dazai is about to step on his toes)

[supermolly333]

What would you do when I bend over for you?

[denimbex1986]

'Ever since Andrew Scott uttered the command, ‘kneel’ – as the hot priest in Fleabag, obvs – he’s had a subsection of the population fawning at his feet. And, if they’ve been praying for more of his sultry orders, this week they’ve got it with a bang. Shut your doors, grab your headphones: Andrew Scott is doing audio porn.

Well, more accurately, audio erotica. The Ripley and All of Us Strangers star has landed a role in audio erotica app Quinn’s new series, The Queen’s Guard. In it, Scott plays Robb the Protector, a personal guard to a tyrannical queen, whose job it is to stop the leader of a growing resistance, Mira, from getting anywhere near her. In a teaser for the series, Scott’s character reads in a breathy tone: “Look at you; look at how beautifully your body bears the marks of everything you’ve been through. I could worship every one of them.”

At the end of the clip, the actor himself says: “I know a lot of you out there love a bit of fantasy and historical fiction. I think you’re going to really fall in love with this story.”

Quinn revealed Scott as their latest star on Monday (May 13) after teasing it on social media for the last few weeks, but before dropping the first episode yesterday (May 16). In the full trailer for the series, Scott explains that Mira is played by the listeners and that she and Robb “have some history”.

“[Robb] has this conflict between his loyalty to the kingdom and his real sense of love and affection for Mira,” the actor continues, “And the plot thickens. Do we risk our sense of safety in order to have the explosive, exciting, beautiful feeling of falling in love again and risking your heart? It’s a scary thing to do, but love is worth the risk.”

Obviously everyone’s losing it – and especially the girlies on TikTok. “I tried listening to episode one in the car… yeah, I’m never doing that again,” reads one comment, which Quinn stitched with an audio of Scott reading, “Come on Mira, you’re just going to let me pin you up against the wall? We’re just getting started”. Another responded to the clip: “I was so glad I was not driving while listening. I would have driven off the road, over the river, and through the woods.”

Other particularly horny comments include: “Andrew Scott breathing heavily is my new religion”, “Launching this during my ovulation week is diabolical”, and “Gnawing at the bars of my enclosure”. Hot!

Some people (including the Cosmo team) can’t cope with the arrival of Andrew Scott’s dirty talking and Bridgerton on the same day. As Quinn’s social media editor put it: “First Bridgerton and now 38 minutes of Andrew Scott dirty talking???? It was nice knowing y’all.”

If you’re brave enough to binge both over the weekend, you can sign up to Quinn (subscriptions start from £3.15 per month) and listen to episode one of The Queen’s Guard now.'

[tubbytarchia]

Thank god for session 4 because session 3 is still hurting me

[archerinventive]

For so sworn good or evil, an oath may not be broken, and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end. -J. R. R. Tolkien

[myuminji]

candlelight

this certain dynamic abt millywood that goes beyond wolfwood simply yearning for milly—how he deems her as a mother, a lover, an enemy, a friend, a curse, a salvation—how milly becomes a symbol he can't put into a word, and it scares him and he wants to bury himself in it and beg for forgiveness all the same...

wolfwood knowing he has nothing to be forgiven of (that he's a sinful, sinful man) but THE YEARNING FOR ONE. the thought of how getting close to her feels like it'll melt away his 'impurities' (which is him entirely, he'll be GONE), but still clinging to her as both humanity and a heretic icon of worship......

[my-little-black-heart]

[tdk-original]