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i read all your house fics over the past few days and i love your style of writing. the dialogue fits the characters and show so well, idk what it is about it but it just clicks in my head and i can hear their voices while i read it. and all of their internal monologues are just perfect. i love the grasp you have on the ducklings' backstories and motivations its seriously inspired :))

now im trying to work on the oneshot idea ive been stewing over for an entire year, about chase being house's only fellow pre-canon, which seems like a weird and absurd situation to me. the idea is that something must have happened for him to basically be secured as house's fellow, but he also has to realize himself that he passed house's mysterious criteria. any specific tips for writing him? especially younger him?

Oh wow that’s so flattering! And SUCH a good idea for a fanfic, I’m also lowkey obsessed with the mysterious year (!) Chase spent with House pre-series lmao. Like I think we all agree, there’s no way House would have kept him just because his dad called, right? I actually can’t think of a way to get someone fired faster than telling House he has to employ this kid.

I have no idea for tips, because I feel like I still kind of am like ??? when it comes to Chase. But I’m also always happy to yell about god’s least favorite princess:

Chase is kinda passive-aggressive! He will do his best to avoid and freeze out his problems. When everyone is trying to talk to him about his dad, he ignores, refuses to engage, literally walks away. When House confronts him about the nun in S1, Chase doesn’t actually confirm that he’s Catholic, even: he just changes the subject to “I bet the nun’s boss knows about her.” By implication, he confirms House is right, but he never says shit. He’s private as hell. Likewise, he gets touchy when people “pry.” We also see it in his relationship with Cameron, to an extent: it bothers him for a long while that she never makes him feel welcome at her apartment, but he doesn’t say anything, just lowkey makes sure they’re always at his.

He also tends to be conflict avoidant. When Cameron and Foreman are fighting over the “stolen” article, they both try to get him on their side, and he tells them both what they want to hear. He doesn’t defend himself against House’s bullying, Foreman tells him to his face a couple of times that he doesn’t like him and Chase says nothing. However, this doesn’t mean he’s that easy going. We see with his dad he will hold a fucking grudge forever — even in S5 he’s talking about how much he hated him, and in S8 and how he talks about his mother, we see he hasn’t stopped hating her, either. Also he calls out Foreman a couple of times, either by just being a little bitch (telling a patient “Foreman doesn’t like me either” while Foreman is right there) or by just laying things out for him (S7′s “oh, you think you’re better than me?” stairway rant). It also doesn’t mean Chase is totally spineless and has no boundaries. With Cameron, he actually dumps her when she tries to avoid him over the engagement, and has no problem calling off the wedding over sperm-gate. When things matter to him, he’ll stand up for himself; he just prefers to freeze out or avoid conflict. He also has no problem in confronting House when he feels like it. He’s not very scared of House, House just doesn’t bother him.

He also gains more… let’s call it confidence… as time goes on. Chase always seems to be pretty secure in his self-worth and idea of himself (and NEVER willingly opens up to other people), but over time he definitely becomes a little punchier. In S1-3 he’s willing to just sort of roll his eyes and take it when things happen, but by S4-5 he’s happy to call House or Foreman out and argue instead of just letting things go (passive-aggressively). He never gets any better at emotional honesty (his “punch House instead of talking about his divorce” thing is straight out of his S1 daddy issues playbook), but he does grow something of a spine. I imagine before the show started, he was even less prone to fighting back beyond snarky comments.

He genuinely finds House funny. He almost always laughs at House’s stupidest jokes, and as much as he’s accused of being an asskisser, he. Really just does think House is funny. Foreman and Cameron hardly ever react to House’s little comments, Chase is always grinning along. This is important. Chase’s sense of humor sucks! He is an idiot! He likes House. In S1 he says he likes how direct House is, there’s the way he always laughs at House’s jokes, he is absolutely a huge suck up also but he also likes House. I think pre-canon this was absolutely still the case. House comes in all prepared to make this little nepo-baby cry and instead Chase not just imprints on him but thinks he’s so funny and admires how mean he is and how smart he is. Chase really likes his job. He says it a lot, but I don’t know if it gets focused on all that much. He ratted to Vogler because he wanted to keep his job, he makes comments many times about how he won’t risk his job. He likes working for House, he wants to keep doing it, he will ass-kiss and work hard and throw people under the bus to keep it: with the Vogler situation, he was pretty willing to fight Cameron for it, and he and Cameron usually get along!

He’s very observant when he wants to be. He gets House; from his little monologue to Wilson in Private Lives we see he basically can analyze “House is looking at a book” and figure out it’s a fake book and that House is really invested in it. In S3, he’s able to pick apart House and Foreman’s resignation drama over like. Two sentences. In ‘Nobody’s Fault’ in S8, Chase is pissed with House (for really the first time ever), but also sees through his excuses to do differentials in the OR as excuses for House to check in, he knows House is worried: in S5, Chase realizes House is broken up about his father’s death without even seeing him. This is also something House appreciates about Chase, a lot. He says in S3 it’s why he hired him; House also tends to “reward” Chase by being pretty honest with him. When Chase asks him something, House usually answers him honestly. (with Foreman’s resignation, as soon as Chase calls him out, House admits it and they have an honest conversation on what House should do next; in S5, House wants a surgery done for personal reasons and admits it and why when Chase asks.)

I think part of this is because Chase actually very rarely does ask House anything, and he never makes demands on House or his feelings. He accepts at face value that House is “fine” during Detox, he doesn’t try and fix or change him, in “Half Wit” when the others are scheming to get House tested or make amends with him, Chase tries (and fails) to act normal, and then just wants a hug. Compare like. Cameron, who keeps trying to change or push House into acting how she wants him to act (blackmailing him into a date, for example). I’m not saying House doesn’t care about her, just. House is more open with Chase than he is with a lot of people who aren’t Wilson. Also, Chase does not return the favor. He literally ran up the stairs rather than tell House about his daddy issues, lmao. It’s kind of crazy that House is arguably more open and honest with Chase than vice-versa.

Finally, despite all his secret seething passive-aggression and daddy issues, and the fact that honestly Chase could really benefit from therapy and anti-depressants? He is not a sad uwu baby. This is sort of a general rant, but. You see it all the tiiime in fanfic. And yes, he’s super fucked up. But he’s cheerful most of the time! He likes doing crazy things, he is often pretty sarcastic and makes bad jokes! He’s a flirt, even before his S7 manwhore days — in early seasons we see him check out girls in the hallways, flirt at parties, with residents and nurses. He has hobbies (he’s fairly sporty, if Cameron’s “your apartment was decorated by a drunk rugby player” comment is anything to go on), he likes to read and do crossword puzzles and surfs and skis. He tells bad jokes. He tends to be fairly self confident — he doesn’t just take it when he’s accused of making mistakes, he has no problems with social situations or interactions, he hilariously thinks women are attracted to his personality and not his looks, like, he thinks he has a winning personality, that’s incredibly funny. He’s not arrogant in that he doesn’t really have much of a need to prove himself (he’s pretty fucking unambitious, actually), but he definitely has the Good Looking Rich Kid mentality where he thinks he belongs in any given situation and that people like him. He also has the social skills to back it up. Because he represses and avoids and seethes instead of expressing emotions, he comes off as generally cheerful and laid back, you know? Why be sad when you can just repress everything and flirt with nurses instead!

Finally finally: he's a huge fucking crybaby. Have you seen how red his eyes get. He might try to be stoic and repress but he tears up at the drop of a hat. First time House bullied him he probably started to cry.

#robert chase #generally speaking i think men should be ok with showing emotions and crying etc #but i also want to throw chase across a room and shred him into pieces so when he cries it’s just funny

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beardedmrbean · 2 years

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I'm seeing Judao-captelism being use to described Jewish people who voted Republican or dont fully agree with progressive socialist ideology. It's being used by black identitarians and marxists, so hopefully it says that way.

At its core, Judaism is about unity: the unity of the one G‑d, the universe and the unity of all people created in the image of G‑d. And yet, Judaism also gives the ordinary man an irrevocable right to his own property—as we see in the Torah’s division of the Land of Israel to tribes and families, as well as in the command to celebrate the Jubilee year (where all property is returned to its original owners every 50 years). The idea of land ownership by definition creates separation and division within society, contradicting the ideal of unity. How is it possible for us to live with these opposing ideals in our philosophy and practice? ____________________

Goes on with how the 'every 7 years fields are fallowed and whatever grows there is free game' evens thing out.

It's a good read, and I've got no doubt there's 47 Rabbi's with 63 different takes on the matter but it seems to be a reasonable conclusion to me.

I'd love to hear a Jewish perspective from some members of the Jewish community on all this since I'm just a gentile out here trying to do my best to help which lands me in the 'sticking with safer answers' area when complicated situations come up. _______________

As for socialism, I could pull up Marx's take on "The Jewish Question" but it's just easier to paraphrase.

Marx's take was 'I don't mind Jewish people I just wish they weren't so Jewish' basic idea worked out to cultural genocide, everyone has to have the same celebrations, traditions and all that good stuff regardless of the history of that particular group since the group is getting absorbed into the collective.

Hopefully this here will give you the start of some tools to respond if need be, but honestly the thinking I'm having with this is the current mode is Rothschild conspiracies without the Rothschild's.

Jewish people just like everyone else are also individuals and each one will make up their own mind about whatever subjects they want, so you're gonna get these guys.

And folks in the community that actively hate the guy.

People trying to use phrases like Judeo-capitalism just show that they're willing to take a page out of the nazi playbook if it serves their purpose, much like the ones that try to claim the Jewish people today aren't the same as the one's from Jesus's time.

Genetics has proven that one wrong.

#anonymous

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mariacallous · 3 months

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The Biden administration sometimes refers to the need to build a “bridge” to NATO membership for Ukraine. It’s an apt metaphor—just not in the way its proponents might think.

One might think of a bridge as a mere symbol of hope. But, invoked in a military context, a bridge is best understood in its role as wartime infrastructure. And that metaphor works precisely because building a bridge in wartime is an incredibly difficult and complex operation—one that military planners call a “wet gap crossing.” Conducting a contested wet gap crossing is perilous—see Ukraine’s evisceration of a Russian battalion attempting to cross the Siverskyi Donets River in May 2022—but the possible strategic rewards are high. In 1944, George S. Patton’s Third Army crossed the Moselle River at Nancy, turning the German defensive line and opening a strategic position for the Battle of the Bulge.

Much like a wet gap crossing, bringing Ukraine into NATO would be risky and costly, but it could lead to strategic success. If NATO nations are truly serious about bringing Ukraine into NATO, then creating a bridge to NATO cannot just be a clever diplomatic metaphor, and it should not be attempted merely in order to get to the other side, like the Russians at Siverskyi Donets. It has to be approached like the difficult, sophisticated, multifaceted operation that it is, and it must be part of a broader strategy for postwar Euro-Atlantic security, as was the Moselle crossing in World War II.

Diplomats and politicians planning for Ukraine’s future role in NATO at July’s NATO summit in Washington would do well to understand the U.S. military’s own approach to wet gap crossings. The lessons are instructive—and sobering.

Step 1: Try to go around

Because wet gap crossings are so difficult, the preferred option, if possible, is to avoid them altogether. Some would say we should not bring Ukraine into NATO because it is too risky. But that ignores the fact that there are no good options short of NATO membership for Ukraine, and the risks of not bringing Ukraine into NATO are greater in the long run. As in military operations, crossing a river often is the fastest, most effective way to an objective.

Despite the known risks and difficulties inherent in combat bridging, militaries still maintain this capability because they know that sometimes the strategic opportunity afforded by a successful wet gap crossing is worth the risks and difficulties. They also know that sometimes, going around is not an option. Russia has invaded its neighbors and rattled its nuclear saber, but one thing it has not done is attack NATO directly. That is because NATO’s Article 5 remains an effective deterrent. Nothing else has worked.

Those arguing against Ukrainian membership in NATO assert that perhaps we should choose an “Israel model” of continued materiel support to Ukraine or that a combination of countries, such as the G-7 nations, providing long-term economic support to Ukraine, would convince Russia that it cannot win. The Israel model will not work because Israel has nuclear weapons and Ukraine does not. In fact, that’s the whole point. Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994 when Russia, among other nations, agreed to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Similarly, Sweden’s and Finland’s decisions to join NATO despite already being members of the European Union demonstrate that bringing Ukraine into the EU and affording it the EU’s Article 42.7 mutual assistance clause would be insufficient to deter Russian aggression.

Step 2: Plan and rehearse

Once a decision has been made to conduct a deliberate wet gap crossing, planning is crucial. Simply moving your forces up to the edge of the water and trying to figure out a way across when you reach it would guarantee disaster. You must reconnoiter potential crossing sites, assess which will likely be successful given the terrain as well as your and your enemy’s strengths and weaknesses, and prepare multiple crossing sites.

There are several options for bridging Ukraine into NATO, all of which should be considered but not all of which seem promising. The first—declaring Ukraine a NATO member while hostilities are ongoing—is theoretically possible but likely politically untenable given the need for unanimity among the 32 allies to bring in a new member. The fact that it took a year to bring the geographically blessed and militarily advanced Sweden into the alliance belies this harsh fact. If, somehow, this became politically tenable, then NATO would have to quickly deploy forces into Ukraine to make the Article 5 guarantee more than just lip service.

The second option would be to bring Ukraine into NATO as part of a guarantee during negotiations over a cease-fire or cessation of hostilities—i.e., as soon as a cessation is in place, Ukraine will accede to NATO. This likely would not work because Russia would continue fighting rather than agree to a cessation of hostilities that triggered Ukrainian membership in NATO.

The third option would be for a critical mass of NATO nations to guarantee Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity following a cease-fire by deploying forces on Ukrainian territory. This has the benefit of offering concrete security guarantees to Ukraine while allowing time to bring onside skeptical NATO nations.

While the future shape of Ukraine is unknowable, and the timeline for Ukrainian admission to NATO is unknown, the alliance should start working now to achieve unanimity of political support among NATO nations for Ukrainian accession and also to determine how, where, and when forces from NATO nations will be used to guarantee the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. Both measures will be unavoidable, regardless of which option is deemed most credible.

Step 3: Prepare the battlespace

In combat bridging, you don’t just line up all your vehicles in a convoy and drive directly to the location where you want to build your bridge and then start putting things in the water. That would be suicide. You plan, rehearse, prepare your forces, and conduct a preparatory campaign to establish favorable conditions. Similarly, simply declaring a Ukrainian bridge to NATO without doing any planning or preparation would just leave Ukraine in the same strategic limbo it faced following the 2008 Bucharest declaration and similarly would motivate Moscow to redouble its efforts to undermine Ukrainian sovereignty before it is able to join NATO.

For NATO, this means that members need to begin whipping together votes in favor of Ukrainian NATO accession now. Diplomats need to understand who in the alliance already is on board with bringing Ukraine into NATO and under what conditions. For those whose position is “never” or “not until the war is over,” more creative solutions must be proposed, discussed, and solidified—in private. This cannot be a one-off discussion; it must be a constant campaign to prepare the battlespace for eventual Ukrainian accession.

Regardless of whether the war ends with Ukraine in control of its 1991 borders or Kyiv settles for something short of that, troops from NATO nations will need to be stationed on Ukrainian soil to provide the time, space, and security necessary to complete the bridge into NATO. These forces should include a coalition of key allies—ideally including NATO’s three nuclear states (Britain, France, and the United States) to signal that despite a lack of Article 5 security guarantees, NATO’s nuclear nations are committed to upholding the agreed-on borders—just as NATO troops were stationed in West Germany to deter Soviet forces in East Germany in the years between the end of World War II and West Germany’s accession to NATO.

Moving these forces into Ukraine in a short timeframe following an armistice or cease-fire would be extremely difficult both logistically and politically. Therefore, NATO nations should begin to set the theater now for those moves by declaring that NATO’s air defenses surrounding Ukraine will begin to shoot down Russian missiles and one-way attack drones that are on a trajectory to hit NATO territory; sending small numbers of NATO military personnel into Ukraine to provide training to Ukrainians; and negotiating with Turkey on allowing NATO naval capabilities into the Black Sea to protect civilian shipping.

Step 4: Commit

A wet gap crossing is a massive operation. It is viewed as a corps-level effort in the U.S. Army and is assumed that the Air Force, Space Force, and cyber assets also will provide critical support. It is difficult, risky, and costly, but if done properly, it can lead to strategic breakthrough.

Precisely because it is so risky, the commander of the operation must assess the risks involved, mitigate as much risk as possible without jeopardizing the mission, and accept that it is impossible to mitigate every risk. This is a critical step because once a combat wet gap crossing has begun, a commander must fully commit to the plan and leverage all forces available to make it a success. Half-measures in this type of operation lead to failure.

If NATO is serious about bringing Ukraine in as a member—and it should be—then it must be clear-eyed about the risks. It must develop a concrete plan, not just a political laundry list. This plan must be in support of a broader strategy. And most importantly, it must commit itself to success. Anything less is likely to lead to failure.

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Thanksgiving Reruns 2023--Day 3: Black Friday (1/3)

It is crazy to me that it’s already time for this, but the holidays have officially arrived! I would like to wish all my followers who celebrate it a very happy Thanksgiving. As a thank you to you (as well as my followers who DON’T celebrate), I present you with 3 Thanksgiving related stories I’ve written in the past. Enjoy!

Title: Black Friday—Chapter 1 of 3

Rating: G

Words: 1442

Summary: CS as single parents AU. As the holidays approach, Emma’s son Henry and Killian’s daughter Alice ask for a specific storybook which will ONLY be available for purchase on Black Friday.

Other Chapters: 1 2 4 5

Black Friday—Chapter 1

One week before Thanksgiving

“Do you really think it’ll work?” she asked, leaning forward, eyes bright and delighted.

“It’s perfect!” he answered. “Trust me! Our plan will work like a charm. Just make sure you give him Miss French’s flier and make him see how much you want it. I’ll do the same with her. By Christmas, we’ll be celebrating our success.”

She grinned. “Oh, I hope you’re right! Can you imagine? If we pull this off, everything will change forever!”

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The morning after Thanksgiving

The alarm clock roared to life as a way, way too enthusiastic version of Jingle Bell Rock blared from the speakers of her clock radio. Emma groaned, reaching blindly over to slam the button on the top of the alarm and make the noise stop.

3 am. It was entirely too early for any sane person to be awake. Even the early birds were still peacefully snoozing in their nests. It was only the crazy humans, intent on getting the best deals on the best Christmas gifts who would submit themselves to this kind of torture.

She hoped the payout was worth it.

Her bed was so warm, so comfortable, that for a split second, Emma considered just forgetting about the whole thing and going back to sleep, but then she thought about Henry.

It had been a difficult year for him, for both of them really. They’d had a great life in New York. Her bail bonds gig had paid well enough that they could afford a wonderful apartment. Henry had lots of friends at school. She’d had a guy she loved, a guy she really thought was the one. He’d seemed great with Henry, and Henry had really liked him.

Walsh had proposed a week before Halloween, and Emma had really considered saying yes. Granted, she didn’t feel the epic, sweeping, melt-into-a-pile-of-goo passion you see in movies, but she did love Walsh, and he could be a wonderful addition to the little family circle she and Henry had put together.

At least that’s what she thought.

Emma had made up her mind to accept the proposal when it all went south. Turns out Walsh wasn’t at all who he said he was. He’d been playing a long con on her, doing his level best to steal her money and assets right from under her nose, and she felt like a fool for buying into it his b.s. She was smarter than this! She ran the honey trap on bail jumpers; she knew the playbook. How did she fall for it?

She’d just so badly wanted that perfect, white-picket-fence life for herself, and especially for her ten-year-old son, that’s how.

After everything had so epically crashed and burned with Walsh, Emma had just wanted to get away. She’d wanted--needed--a new start, and so when her brother David had mentioned the opening for a deputy in the tiny town of Storybrooke, Maine, where he lived with his wife Mary Margaret, Emma had jumped at the opportunity.

Within a week, she’d uprooted her whole life--and her son’s whole life--and moved to Storybrooke. For the moment, she and Henry were crashing with David and Mary Margaret in their tiny loft apartment until Emma could find them their own place.

The move had been the most difficult on Henry. All he’d ever known was back in New York--friends, school, entire lifestyle. Small town Storybrooke was like a totally different world than the booming metropolis he was used to. Her normally happy, vivacious kid had been quiet, almost withdrawn since they’d arrived in Storybrooke.

Emma knew kids were resilient, that Henry would bounce back, but she felt so damn guilty for causing him stress.

And so, naturally when Henry had come home a week ago, excitement bumped up to a level ten, talking a mile a minute and waving a flier in her face, Emma had taken notice. Turns out the school librarian Belle French--who was also the owner and proprietor of “A Tale as Old as Time”, Storybrooke’s best (and only) bookstore--was holding a special Black Friday sale on a very special storybook, entitled Once Upon a Time. She had one copy, and one copy only, and the rare book would normally sell for an exorbitant price--somewhere between an arm and a leg. On Black Friday, however, she was offering the book for dirt cheap, but there was a catch. The price was only good during the special, Black Friday early bird sale. Doors opened at 4 am. First person to touch the book had the opportunity to purchase it.

Henry had always loved stories, and he’d been particularly fascinated with fairy tales. Naturally, a book chalk full of them would be right up Henry’s alley. Faced with the prospect of getting Henry the perfect gift, the gift that would finally bring him some joy after the difficult last few weeks, it was a no brainer.

Waking up a few hours before the crack of dawn was a small price to pay for her kid’s happiness.

Emma pushed aside the covers and got up, throwing on the first pair of clean clothes she could find, twisting her hair into a messy bun, and then downing the strong coffee her sister-in-law had set to brew for her. By the end of her second cup, she was feeling almost human, and she was ready to brave the hordes of Black Friday shoppers to attain her prize.

It was a quick, five minute walk to the center of town where “A Tale as Old as Time” was located, and Emma made it just as the cheerful brunette proprietor was unlocking the doors and letting her first customers in. Emma knew just where her target was. She’d scoped out the bookstore over the weekend, getting the lay of the land and mapping out her plan of attack. She knew just where to go, and within sixty seconds of the store opening, she’d reached her target. It was right there, in sight.

Emma reached for the book, her hand made contact--just as another hand did as well.

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Killian Jones had lived a difficult life. He’d seen more heartache and tragedy in his thirty-five years of existence than most people did in a lifetime. Aye, it had been an incredibly difficult life, but it did have one bright, shining spot.

His daughter Alice.

His one-night-stand with Alice’s mom, Eloise, had been a mistake of epic proportions, but Killian would never regret it, because it gave him the greatest blessing of his life, his precious little starfish.

Nine months after their dalliance, Eloise had suddenly showed up on his doorstep, placed their newborn daughter in his arms, and then walked out of their lives forever. For himself, Killian couldn’t have cared less. He felt nothing but revulsion for the woman who’d gotten him blind drunk and then taken advantage of him that night nine months ago. In the bright morning light, he’d been disgusted with her, with himself, and with the entire sordid affair. He’d have been more than happy if he never saw her noisome face again.

No, he didn’t care if she walked away from him, but his heart had broken at the fact that his tiny, perfect daughter had been abandoned by her mother. Killian knew from first hand the agony of being abandoned by a parent, and it tore him up inside that his beloved daughter had to deal with it as well.

Though having a child was the farthest thing from his mind at the time, there’d never been any doubt what he would do. Alice was his daughter, his precious child, and he would do right by her no matter what.

Ten years later, he thanked his lucky stars every single day that he’d made the choice to raise her. Alice was the most important person in the world to him, and there was nothing he wouldn’t do for her.

So naturally, when she came home from school all excited about the book Miss French was selling, Killian knew exactly how he would be spending his very early Black Friday morning.

He’d arrived at “Tale as Old as Time” just as Miss French opened the doors. He rushed to the back of the store, his prize in sight.

He grabbed the book just as a gorgeous blonde made contact.

“Um excuse me,” she said with a frown. “This book is mine.”

It appeared this shopping expedition was going to be more difficult--although possibly more intriguing--the blonde truly was breathtaking--than he’d expected.

Killian grinned. He’d never backed down from a challenge, and he didn’t intend to begin now.

Next Chapter-->

#cs ff #captain swan fanfiction #cs thanksgiving fanfiction #thanksgiving reruns 2023 #black friday ff

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 1 year

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G. Allen Johnson

July 26, 2023 Updated: July 27, 2023, 10:44 am

The snarky and slim Netflix documentary series “How to Become a Cult Leader” should have been titled “Cult Leaders for Dummies.”

Narrated by actor Peter Dinklage, its six half-hour episodes offer thumbnail sketches of six wacko cult leaders, none beyond the depth of your average Wikipedia page, but packages them in a unique way: It assumes you, the viewer, want to be a cult leader, so this series serves as your “playbook” with helpful strategies, and, with the examples given, some pitfalls to avoid.

The cult leaders profiled are Charles Manson, Jim Jones — both of whom used San Francisco as a part-time base for attracting followers — Buddhafield founder Jaime Gomez, Heaven’s Gate founder Marshall Applewhite, Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara and Unification Church founder the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Anyone familiar, even in a sketchy sense, with history since 1970 likely will be familiar with all of these cult leaders and what they did; those who are somehow not aware of these figures might find the series frustratingly shallow.

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Experts — former cult member and podcaster Lola Blanc, ex-FBI agent Asha Rangappa among them — weigh in but explain things in a basic way, without much specific detail. “If you’re feeling vulnerable or insecure, cult leaders can exploit that.” Duh.

The overall sarcastic nature of the series seems at odds with the horrors these men unleashed. Somehow, providing helpful “tactics” via bite-size tips — “tend your flock,” “get your dogma down,” “expand your territory” — just seems weird.

“How to Become a Cult Leader” instead becomes a playbook of an unintended sort: how not to make a docuseries.

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Mayumi Komatsu, 22, was raped and murdered while fundraising for the UC in California on April 5, 1985 Reader Advisory: This is a horrific story ––> LINK

“Any belief system that so polarizes the forces of good and evil… is inhuman and intellectually dishonest”

Moon’s ultimate truth is … absolute obedience – Allen Tate Wood

Moon instructed: “Whenever the Blessed couples have children, as soon as the child become 100 days old, they will put him in the nursery school.”

“Children … taken from the parents and placed in nurseries for three years,” Margie Laflin.

United States Congressional investigation of Moon’s organization

#unification church #sun myung moon #moonies #hak ja han #family federation for world peace and unification

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vernorsgingerale · 2 years

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Books I read in 2022

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (reread)

The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (reread)

The Moors by Jen Silverman

Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties by Jen Silverman

Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang

Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition by Paul Watson

Winter Love by Han Suyin

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin, translated by Sophie R. Lewis

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

An Incomplete List of Names by Michael Torres

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff

Orphic Paris by Henri Cole

The Roommate by Jen Silverman

The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston (reread)

Live Oak, with Moss by Walt Whitman (reread)

The Seaplane on Final Approach by Rebecca Rukeyser

Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas by Harley Rustad

Calamity in Kent by John Rowland

Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

H of H Playbook by Anne Carson

Personal Attention Roleplay by H. Felix Chau Bradley

Em by Kim Thúy

The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt

Fen, Bog & Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx

Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan

Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe’s Ancient Mystery by Miranda Aldhouse-Green

Found Audio by N.J. Campbell

#books

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How Netflix Reinvented HR

Believe in people, not rules. Reward honesty. And discard the conventional playbook. Through Patty McCord

One of the most significant documents to ever come out of Silicon Valley, according to Sheryl Sandberg. On the internet, it has received more than 5 million views. However, when Reed Hastings and I (along with a few other colleagues) developed a PowerPoint presentation outlining how we influenced the culture and encouraged performance at Netflix, where Hastings served as CEO and I served as chief talent officer from 1998 to 2012, we had no clue it would become so popular. We came to the realization that several of the talent management concepts we had pioneered, including the idea that employees should be permitted to take as much vacation time as they saw necessary, had been viewed as a little odd (at least until other companies started adopting them). However, we were somewhat aback by how influential a simple set of 127 slides would become with no music or animation.

There are a few reasons why people find Netflix's approach to talent and culture fascinating. The first is that Netflix has been incredibly successful: In just 2013, its stock more than quadrupled, it won three Emmy awards, and its U.S. subscriber base increased to close to 29 million. With that said, the strategy is convincing since it is based on common sense. I'll go beyond the bullet points in this essay to discuss five concepts that have shaped how Netflix finds, keeps, and manages talent. I'll first describe two talks I had with early workers that both contributed to the development of our overarching concept.

The initial one happened in late 2001. Netflix had been expanding swiftly; we had a staff of around 120 people and were preparing for an IPO. However, with the 9/11 attacks and the collapse of the dot-com boom, circumstances changed. It soon became apparent that we needed to cancel the IPO and let go of a third of our workforce. It was harsh. Then, quite unexpectedly, DVD players started to dominate the Christmas gift market. Our DVD-by-mail subscription business was exploding by the beginning of 2002. Suddenly, we had 30% fewer people and far more work to complete.

I was having a conversation with John, one of our top engineers, one day. He had overseen three engineers before the layoffs, but he was now a one-man team working extremely long hours. I informed John that I was hoping to get him some help shortly. I was astonished by his answer. I'm happier now, so there's no urgency, he replied. It turns out that the engineers we had fired weren't particularly outstanding; rather, they were just adequate. John acknowledged that he had wasted too much time correcting their errors and rode roughshod over them. I've found that working by myself is preferable to working with inferior workers, he stated. Whenever I discuss the most fundamental aspect of Netflix's talent strategy, his words ring in my ears: Hiring only "A" players to work alongside them is the nicest thing you can do for your staff—a benefit superior to foosball or free sushi. Excellent coworkers come first above all else.

A few months following our IPO in 2002, we had our second conversation. Our bookkeeper, Laura, was intelligent, diligent, and imaginative. She had created a system for precisely tracking movie rentals so that we could pay the right royalties, and this had been crucial to our early development. But now that we were a public firm, we required CPAs and other accounting experts with complete credentials and extensive experience, and Laura just had an associate's degree from a community college. Despite her dedication to her career, her success, and the fact that we all admired her, her abilities had deteriorated. Out of fairness to such people—and, frankly, to help us overcome our discomfort with discharging them—we learned to offer rich severance packages. Some of us considered creating a new role for her by accident, but we thought that wouldn't be appropriate.

I then got down with Laura and explained the situation, assuring her that we would provide her with an exceptional severance payout in recognition of her outstanding work.

Laura responded nicely; she was sad to be leaving but understood that the generous severance would allow her to recoup, retrain, and find a new career path. I had braced myself for tears or histrionics.

Our talent management philosophy's second essential component—and one that was inspired by this incident—was born. If we wanted only "A" players on our team, we had to be prepared to let go of individuals whose talents no longer matched, regardless of how beneficial their prior contributions had been. We shaped our approach to talent utilizing the five tenets listed below, keeping these two broad themes in mind.

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Only fully formed adults should be hired, rewarded, and tolerated.

Over the years, we discovered that most of the time, we would obtain better results and pay less if we asked employees to rely on reason and common sense rather than on formal policies. 97% of your employees will act honorably if you take care to choose people who will put the company's interests first and who comprehend and support the need for a high-performance workplace. To address issues that the other 97% might bring about, the majority of businesses spend a lot of time and money creating and enforcing HR regulations. Instead, we made a concerted effort to avoid hiring them, If we had done so, we let them go.

Talking freely about problems with your supervisor, your coworkers, and your subordinates is an example of adultlike behavior. It entails accepting the fact that, even in organizations with reams of HR laws, these regulations are regularly broken as managers and their reports choose what makes sense in each particular situation.

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Do you know any hidden gem game from the last couple of years that you think deserve more attention?

You didn't really think I was going to pick just one, did you?

(Courtesy cut, because this post’s a big one.)

On the tabletop RPG side:

Minerva McJanda's Voidheart Symphony is very unapologetically an Apocalypse Engine hack of Persona 5, right down to assigning each of your character's relationships its own tarot-themed mechanical playbook with ranked special abilities and such. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it does a better job of following Persona 5's thematic through-line to its logical conclusion than the actual Persona 5 does. Technically not "from the last couple of years", because it's been in early access since 2018, but it just went 1.0 in March of last year, so I'm counting it.

Caro Asercion's cyberpunk science-fantasy game Dwindle is really more of a proof of concept than a full-featured game engine, but it's got a fascinating core mechanic, one that I was inspired to lift for one of my own projects. (With full credit, of course!) You'll need to do some hacking to get a full campaign out of it; as written, it's a perfectly serviceable rules-light oneshot.

Heather Flowers' Extreme Meatpunks Forever, based on the independently published episodic video game of the same name, isn't actually out yet due to pandemic-related delays, but is slated to hit the shelves this summer. Short version: found family meets extreme body horror in a game about gay mecha pilots punching Nazis. Both the pilots and the mecha are made of meat. (Presumably the Nazis are made of meat, too, but one can never be sure!) Full disclosure: I backed this one on Kickstarter, so this is definitely not a disinterested recommendation.

Keeping the body horror theme going, Elizabeth Chaipraditkul and Steffie de Vaan’s City of Flesh is a particularly grisly example of an old-school sword and sorcery dungeon crawler, set within the womb of a colossal, dying beast. It’s a zine-format game that self-describes with terms like “splatterpunk” and ”femmecore”, and if you know what both of those words mean you’re almost certainly part of this one’s target audience. This is the second game on this list with tarot-based mechanics, though in a different way from Voidheart Symphony.

Its title notwithstanding, Erika Chappell’s Flying Circus has nothing to do with Monty Python. Like the Extreme Meatpunks Forever, this one is about beating up Fascists, this time in a vaguely fantastical pastiche of post-WWI Germany. You play as a private company of ace pilots taking on a combination of charity missions and mercenary work for the highest bidder, with extensive downtime mechanics and a strong focus on community-building. As you might have suspected from that pitch, it takes a lot of cues from Blades in the Dark, right down the mechanics enforcing the fact that player characters are extraordinarily dysfunctional people, so be prepared for that. It’s also got one of the most intense non-map-based tactical combat systems I’ve ever seen, so maybe not the best choice if keeping track of G forces and engine RPM isn’t your idea of a fun time. If it is your idea of a fun time, though, highly recommended.

(If you’d prefer something a little more lightweight, the same author’s Dirty Pair inspired Double or Nothing is also great fun. It’s juuuuust slightly outside the two-year window, being a December 2019 release, but my post, my rules.)

Shifting gears to something a little less intense than those previous few entries, The Quiet Life – whose author is not credited in the text, but elsewhere goes by Duck – is a semi-competitive tabletop dating sim about gay nuns at a pastoral convent. Its framework resembles that of a board game as much as a tabletop RPG, so it's a good one to play if you're looking for something highly structured and don't want to do a lot of faffing about to figure out a scenario.

Rose Bailey’s Bright and Terrible is an older game, but a second edition (linked) came out just last year. The players are cast as wandering exiles of lost Atlantis, each wielding a terrible power and bearing the guilt of an equally terrible crime. It’s basically one of those “everybody is [insert media character here]” games where [insert media character here] is Moorcock’s Elric of Melnibone and his various imitators, so if playing as an angsty, mostly-unsympathetic loser with far more power than is good for you (or anyone in your general vicinity) sounds like your cup of tea, maybe give this one a look. Note: a big part of this rec is because Rose Bailey shares my love of big stupid random tables, and this title’s got them in spades.

P H Lee and Aura Belle’s Four Ways to Die in the Future is in a similar boat as the preceding entry, being an anthology collection of older games that squeaks into the appropriate time window because the anthology itself is only recently published. As the title suggests, it’s a set of four sci-fi games revolving around death and mortality: Amid Endless Quiet, Island in a Sea of Solitude, Alone on Silver Wings, and The Tragedy of GJ 237b, being for three or more, two, one, and zero players, respectively. (If you’re dying – ha! – to know what a game for zero players is, well, the whole collection is only six bucks, so I invite you to find out.)

Finally, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Dr. Jenna Moran’s Glitch. This one might not seem like a “hidden” gem to many of this blog’s readers, but remember that Dr. Moran’ work is virtually unheard-of outside of a very particular circle, so I’m counting it here. Elevator pitch: diceless post-modern god game where you play as a pack of dysfunctional weirdoes for whom divinity is a terminal illness. This one also has a found family focus, except this time you’re playing as the bad guys. Well, the nominal bad guys; by default, the player characters are assumed to be drawn from the ranks of those who’ve realised that being an all-consuming eidolon of the Outer Void leading a crusade to destroy reality itself is bullshit, actually, even if you do get to wear a cool crown. Like Flying Circus, above, the learning curve and mechanical overhead are considerable, albeit for different reasons.

On the video game side:

(Note: the entries in the previous section are selected with no particular criteria beyond my own gut feel; nearly all independently published tabletop RPGs are underexposed, so it’s not like I have to be terribly rigorous! For video games, I’m adopting a somewhat arbitrary cutoff of “has fewer than 200 user reviews on Steam at the time of this posting”.)

Aeon Drive is a cyberpunk-themed pixel-art precision puzzle platformer with a strong focus on speedrunning and the obligatory cute red-haired girl protagonist. Basically, any time I say the phrase “precision puzzle platformer”, just assume I’m talking about a game that you’ll love if you enjoyed Celeste and won’t be able to stand otherwise. Beyond that, I’m not going to belabour the point – you know what you’re getting here!

The original Kathy Rain is both too widely reviewed and too old – being a 2016 release – to make this list, but the late 2021 remake seems to have flown a bit under the radar. It’s a pixel-art point and click puzzler about a jouranlism student investigating her grandfather’s mysterious death. Apart from improved graphics and audio, the remake features extra puzzles, an extended story, and an ending that actually makes some damn sense; the lack of the last one is something the original was rightly criticised for.

Open Sorcery: Sea++ is the sequel to Abigail Corfman’s 2017 Open Sorcery, and expands on it in nearly every way. It’s a piece of hypertext interactive fiction where you play as an amnesiac seer who’s been forced out of her body and cast into the Deep Web; the game takes place in a magical-realist universe where the Internet and humanity’s collective unconscious are the same thing, so that preceding sentence has several implications. As is typical for games of the type, you definitely won’t get the golden ending without either a guide or several careful playthroughs. Content warnings for some very frank discussions of disability and ableism, particularly with respect to forms of abuse experienced by physically disabled folks; much of it’s handled in a fairly lighthearted fashion – like the protagonist’s efforts to fight through a fairy court’s incomprehensible bureaucracy in order to get them to install a ramp for her wheelchair – but much of it is not.

Red Ronin is part of a highly specialised genre known as the “ice-physics puzzler”, which means that your character can only move in straight lines and can’t stop until they hit an obstacle. This one casts the player as a disgraced samurai on a mission of revenge, with the ice-physics movement representing the impossibly fast run-by attacks that samurai media is known for. Features an interesting dynamic difficult mechanic where the puzzles adapt to whether or not you’ve carried over resources from previous puzzles, which creates some fascinating routing challenges if you’re trying to speedrun it.

Star Apprentice: Magical Murder Mystery is literally Touhou meets Phoenix Wright, and I mean that not just in terms of its gameplay, but also in terms of its obvious inspirations. Kinda janky in most game-mechanical respects, but it’s a free student project, so it’s not like you’re going to feel ripped off for the price. If you’re a fan of either of the two franchises it takes its cues from, there’s a good chance you’ll love it anyway.

Sunblaze is, well, just copy-and-paste the description of Aeon Drive, above. This one differs in that where Aeon Drive is mostly about routing across large levels, this one focuses on single-screen execution challenges. It’s one of the few examples of the type that manages to strike the same balance of difficulty versus well-paced introduction of new gimmicks that Celeste does; perhaps not quite as expertly, but then, what game does?

Sunshine Heavy Industries is about building spaceships. You have all the usual concerns about fuel versus thrust ratio versus heat generation versus energy demands and so forth, but rather than being a hardcore engineering sim like most games of the type, this is essentially a complicated jigsaw puzzle, challenging the player to slap puzzle-piece components together in a way that satisfies all of each project’s engineering requirements while remaining under budget. The story is surprisingly good, though not even slightly serious. The game kind of falls off a cliff once you run out of storyline missions, since the randomly generated postgame tasks currently aren’t able to make use of any of the really interesting mechanics, but the developer is reportedly working on that.

Transiruby is a goofy casual metroidvania about a robot girl who can turn into a motorcycle. You can probably shoot through it in 4–6 hours unless you’re a completionist, and the difficulty curve isn’t too high. Free demo available. (Note: according to the publisher, the title is a reference to the fact that the protagonist transforms, and has nothing to do with gender. However, I have also been informed by certain mutuals that she’s definitely transition goals, so take it as you will!)

Treasures of the Aegean is a pseudohistorical adventure game that isn’t really a metroidvania, in spite of being tagged that way on Steam, as the ability upgrades are very few and don’t really affect your ability to move about the world – in fact, 100% of the game world is accessible right from the start. It’s a time-loop 2D puzzle-platformer where the world will be destroyed in 15 real-time minutes, and you have to explore a mysterious island to figure out how to stop it. The plot heavily involves the Minoan civilisation of Crete, though the historical particulars range from speculative to outright fabricated.

Like Voidheart Symphony from the tabletop game section, Viola: The Heroine’s Melody is a an entry that squeaks into the correct time frame by virtue of being a long-in-early-access title that got a 1.0 release during 2021. It’ a cute, music themed platformer RPG with rhythm-based combat. I’m going to put a disclaimer on this one: there are a number of conspicuous user interface bugs that may never get patched because the dev experienced a serious health crisis more or less immediately after the game’s 1.0 release, so you’ll need a fair tolerance for UI jank to get through this one.

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #video games #tabletop rpg recommendations #video game recommendations #body horror #violence mention #death mention #nazi mention #ableism mention #swearing

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Thanksgiving Reruns--Day 3: Black Friday Chapter 1 of 3

I would like to wish a very happy Thanksgiving to all my followers who celebrate it, and as a thank you, here are a few of my past Thanksgiving stories. Enjoy!

Title: Black Friday—Chapter 1 of 3

Rating: G

Words: 1442

Summary: CS as single parents AU. As the holidays approach, Emma’s son Henry and Killian’s daughter Alice ask for a specific storybook which will ONLY be available for purchase on Black Friday.

Tagging a few people who may be interested (Let me know if you want to be added or taken off the list): @sailormew4 @annaamell @flslp87 @emmateo26@bethacaciakay @ultraluckycatnd @ineffablecolors, @ilovemesomekillianjones @kat2609 @brooke-to-broch @missgymgirl @galadriel26 @the-lady-of-misthaven @charmingturkeysandwich @jennjenn615 @laschatzi @kimmy46 @snowbellewells @iamanneenigma @daxx04 @nickillian @a-rose-for-a-savior @in-spirational @gillie @britishguyslover @ginnyjinxedandhanshotritafirst @kmomof4 @linda8084 @golfgirld @captain-swan-coffee @searchingwardrobes @hollyethecurious @laughswaytoomuch @allyourdarlingswans @winterbaby89 @facesiousbutton82 @therooksshiningknight, @lfh1226-linda @tiganasummertree

Other Chapters: 1 2 4 5

Black Friday—Chapter 1

One week before Thanksgiving

“Do you really think it’ll work?” she asked, leaning forward, eyes bright and delighted.

She grinned. “Oh, I hope you’re right! Can you imagine? If we pull this off, everything will change forever!”

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The morning after Thanksgiving

She hoped the payout was worth it.

Her bed was so warm, so comfortable, that for a split second, Emma considered just forgetting about the whole thing and going back to sleep, but then she thought about Henry.

At least that’s what she thought.

She’d just so badly wanted that perfect, white-picket-fence life for herself, and especially for her ten-year-old son, that’s how.

Emma knew kids were resilient, that Henry would bounce back, but she felt so damn guilty for causing him stress.

Waking up a few hours before the crack of dawn was a small price to pay for her kid’s happiness.

Emma reached for the book, her hand made contact--just as another hand did as well.

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His daughter Alice.

So naturally, when she came home from school all excited about the book Miss French was selling, Killian knew exactly how he would be spending his very early Black Friday morning.

He’d arrived at “Tale as Old as Time” just as Miss French opened the doors. He rushed to the back of the store, his prize in sight.

He grabbed the book just as a gorgeous blonde made contact.

“Um excuse me,” she said with a frown. “This book is mine.”

It appeared this shopping expedition was going to be more difficult--although possibly more intriguing--the blonde truly was breathtaking--than he’d expected.

Killian grinned. He’d never backed down from a challenge, and he didn’t intend to begin now.

#cs ff #cs fluff #cs au ff #thanksgiving reruns 2022 #Black Friday

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angelsndragons · 3 years

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something something but damn this group is super interesting mechanically speaking. my favorite part about low level parties is that, invariably, they're almost always new parties. the most dangerous levels of the game are 3-5. i don't think people recognize that part of that deadliness comes from the players and characters being unfamiliar with one another and out of sync.

we're watching in real time as the players decide what tactics will define them for the rest of the game. to me, right now, the group is teetering between the three playbooks and travis' character will tip the scales one way or another. our kiddos look super fragile right now, and they are, but everyone's fragile at low levels. however, they have done a relatively good job thus far at handling and overcoming their enemies (case in point, while we did have three kids go down tonight, there was never a moment where the fight felt out of their control).

this group has pieces so many wonderful pieces, but no defined puzzle yet. let's run through this:

imogen: glass cannon dps with control on the side, she's early game caleb if early game caleb was more game to support his friends (he got there by level 5, fyi). depending on how laura builds her going forward, she could slide into veth's roll of ranged dps with 'in a pinch' control/utility spells.

laudna: ranged dps with control and cockroach on the side (bane and dash wasting enemy moves is amazing). she's not nearly the glass cannon that imogen is with her temp hp pool and shield. if she can keep herself up (which she's doing decently at thus far), if marisha continues leaning into control spells, she's going to be a force to be reckoned with and that's without counting her eldritch blasts.

fearne: dps with healing thus far, wild shape mostly gives her out of combat utility and helps her outlast her opponents. fearne attends the jester school of 'you don't need healing if your enemies are dead' and i respect that, especially given the group has a primary dedicated healer this go-round. honestly, if she turns her attention to mid-range guarding between imogen, laudna, fcg, and the enemies, she'll probably find a great sweet spot. this, by the by, was jester and fjord's roles last campaign - guard the squishies/caduceus, switch to melee tank or control/burst if needed.

orym: tank utility. orym and ashton are giving the party huge amounts of flexibility right now when it comes to group tactics. they're good (about to be great, 90% sure liam's taking sentinel at 4th level) at locking down melee combats and keeping enemies focused on them rather than the squishy party members. orym's leaning more beau than grog but he's giving the group the option of running the vm playbook.

ashton: dps control with tanking on the side. enjoy that damage output while it lasts, ashton, at some point, it's gonna stop scaling up and orym will catch up with your damage output XD. in all seriousness, ashton's control options are way more important to the group's survival than their damage output. it's amazing, don't get me wrong, but that 15 foot range of disadvantage to enemies attacking anyone who isn't them is going to be clutch.

fcg: healer/support. hashtag thank your clerics, people. especially your clerics who can stay far out of the line of fire and reduce incoming damage on a friend of their choosing. give them a few more spell slots and a mid-range guard to intercept incoming enemies and fcg is only going to get better.

dorian: switch role. have to include my boy even tho he's probably temporary. dorian does whatever needs doing in a fight but regularly panics when fearne or orym (particularly orym) wind up in a tight spot. i've noticed since joining c3, dorian has been actively conserving his spell slots to serve as backup healer. good on you and your situational awareness, boyo. dorian's versatility has been a stress saver since that first fight.

so as we can see, we have a lot of utility and control running through the group. what will make or break the party playstyle is what travis brings to a combat and whether robbie stays long term. without dorian, the party's down a thus far much needed support/healer role and if travis doesn't fill that role at least partially, we're probably looking at a control party. if he can or if dorian is a long term party member, we will probably see a second cockroach party, albeit one focused more on the vm 'step back and let the tanks tank' playbook than the nein's 'fuck you, we don't care' playbook.

i, for one, can't wait for all these pieces to snap into place.

#cr spoilers #cr campaign 3 #critical role meta #campaign 3 meta #d&d mechanics #cr campaign 3 spoilers #my meta #long post #i dont want to say this group could be an 'enhanced' version of vm #bc that's disrespectful to both groups #but is it weird i can kind of see that this style #would be how they would build vm now #now that they have all their exp under their belts

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pa-tr0-clus · 4 years

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LGBTQ+ book recc master-list:

(Cause the last time I did this was in 2018 and a LOT of great queer books have been published since then)

Lesbian:

1) The lies we tell ourselves by Robin Talley

2) Girl <3 Girl by Lucy Sutcliffe

3) As I descended by Robin Talley

4) Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson

5) Our own private universe by Robin Talley

6) Paper Girls by Brian K Vaughan

7) Giant days by Allison, Sarin, Fleming, and Cogar

8) Princess Princess by Katie O’Neill

9) Goldie Vance by Hope Larson

10) CREMA by Johnnie Christmas

11) High class homos by Momozerii

12) You should see me in a crown by Leah Johnson

14) Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me by Mariko Tamaki

15) Love Frankie by Jacqueline Wilson

16) Girl from the sea by Molly Ostertag

17) Hani and Ishu’s guide to fake dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

18) The good girls by Claire Eliza Bartlett

19) The love curse of Melody McIntyre

20) Always human by Ari North

21) Afterlove by Tanya Byrne

22) I think I love you by Audriane Desombre

23) Tell me again how a crush should feel by Sara Farizan

24) Who I was with her by Nita Tyndall

25) She drives me crazy by Kelly Quindlen

26) Some girls do by Jennifer Dugan

27) Trouble girls by Julia Lynn Rubin

28) Royals duology by Rachel Hawkins

29) Patience and Esther by Sarah Winifred Searle

30) Margot & me by Juno Dawson

31) The henna wars by Adiba Jaigirdar

Gay:

1) Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

2) Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

3) Simon VS the homosapiens agenda by Becky Allbertalli

4) Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan and John Green

5) I’ll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson

6) Hold me closer by David Levithan

7) Two boys kissing by David Levithan

8) Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe (+ unreleased sequel) by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

9) Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan

10) The raven king by Maggie Stiefvater

11) Blood bank by Silb

12) Heartstopper series by Alice Oseman

13) Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman

14) Openly Straight by Bill Konisberg

15) Honestly Ben by Bill Konisberg

16) The perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

17) Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

18) Any way the wind blows by Rainbow Rowell

19) Date me, Bryson Keller by Kevin van Whye

20) Sonnet by Emily Cheeseman

21) Castle Swimmer by Wendy Lian Martin

22) Tripping over you by Owen White

23) Starfighter by Hamlet Machine

24) Long Exposure by Kam Heyward

25) Obliviously in love by Jiaoski

26) I’ll be home for Christmas by Mason Denver

27) Liebestrasse by Greg Lockard

28) Check, Please! By Ngozi Ukazu

29) Always raining here by Bell

30) I was born for this by Alice Oseman

31) Red white and royal blue by Casey McQuiston

32) The gravity of us by Phil Stamper

33) They both die at the end by Adam Silvera

34) Dreamer trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater

35) If this gets out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich

36) Fifteen hundred miles from the sun by Jonny Garza Villa

37) You spin me right round by David Valdes

38) As far as you’ll take me by Phil Stamper

39) Darius the great is not okay (+ sequel) by Adib Khorram

Bi:

1) Leah on the offbeat by Becky Albertalli

2) Odd one out by Nic Stone

3) We are young by Cat Clarke

4) Brightsiders by Jen Wilde

5) Everyday by David Levithan

6) Paris Syndrome by Lisa Walker

7) Beneath the citadel by Destiny Soria

8) Ship it by Britta Lundin

9) Home and away by Candice Montgomery

10) Ink Mistress by Audrey Coulthurst

11) Reign of the fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh

12) The Gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue by Mackenzi Lee

13) The gentleman’s guide to getting lucky by Mackenzi Lee

14) The doctors are out by Blauerozen

15) Fence by C. S. Pacat

16) Be more chill by Joe Tracz

Trans:

1) George by Alex Gino

2) The art of being normal by Lisa Williamson

3) The Magnus Chase series by Rick Riordan

4) What we left behind by Robin Talley

5) Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

6) If I was your girl by Meredith Russo

7) Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart

8) I am J by Cris Beam

9) Symtoms of being human by Jeff Garvin

10) A + E 4ever by I. Merey

11) All I am by Chaaistheanswer

12) The weight of them by Noelle Stevenson

13) Dream Daddy vol 2 by Lee C.A.

14) Fluidum by Layla E.

15) Magical boy by The Kao

16) The passing playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons

17) Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky

18) The deep and dark blue by Niki Smith

19) Cemetary boys by Aiden Thomas

20) All boys arent blue by George M. Johnson

21) Detransition, baby by Torrey Peters

22) Felix ever after by Kacen Callender

Other/ambiguous:

1) Dear Evan Hansen the novel by Val Emmich (Connor describes his sexuality as something fluid)

2) The lady’s guide to petticoats and piracy by Mackenzi Lee (Felicity is implied aro/ace) (sequel to the gentleman’s guide but I’m not sure it can be read as a stand-alone)

3) The Magnus Chase series by Rick Riordan

4) The Trials Of Apollo series by Rick Riordan

5) How they met and other stories by David Levithan

6) Deadpool comics (pansexual)

7) Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

8) Final Draft by Riley Redgate (pansexual)

9) Lets talk about love by Claire Kahn (ace/biromantic)

10) Lost on plant earth by Magdalene Visaggio

11) Youth by Curt Pires

12) The backstagers by James Tynion IV

13) Loveless by Alice Oseman (aro/ace)

14) Six of crows (+sequel) by Leigh Bardugo

15) Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

16) How they met and other stories by David Levithan

17) Rock and riot by Chelsey Furedi

18) Kiss number 8 by Colleen A.F. Venable

19) This is how you lose the time war

20) Upright women wanted by Sarah Gailey

21) The wicker king by K. Ancrum

#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbt books #books #book reccs #book recommendations #lgbt book recommendations #lgbtqia #lgbtq books #queer #queer book reccs #queer books #literature #feel free to add on #long post

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anxious-brat-circe · 3 years

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Could you do kuroo x reader with bondage, marking, light sadism? Maybe like he uses you during a study session to relieve tension?

Thank You so much for this brainrot. !meandom Kuroo lives in my head rent free. Feel free to send in requests for other thirsts or fluffs guys, because need “Motivation” to write or do stuff. I do Kuroko, Haikyuu, BNHA, AOT, and many other animes so please send in more inspiration for me. Kuroo and the character are 18 in this story as third years.

T/W: bd/sm, noncon, dubcon, sex toys, rough sex, humiliation, degradation, marking, creampie, and slight sadism.

Summary: Kuroo tutors y/n in a very devious way, but at least it is effective?

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You sighed while looking at your most recent grades, if these F’s and D’s keep up then you would not be able to continue playing basketball. When the teacher called you to her desk and recommended you ask Kuroo for help on the upcoming project you were furious. No way in hell were you going to ask that Rooster of a Volleyball captain for help, but It was increasingly clear that you needed help though, or else you were not going to be able to play nationals this year. He glances over after practice before walking up the bleachers towards you once the last of the team leaves. “Oya oya oya, what is this? If it isn’t little miss basketball? Well, why have you decided to grace us with your presence? Finally decided to come watch the best sport?”. Kuroo knew exactly why you were here and by his smirk he was going to enjoy watching you beg and squirm. “I need your help with my final project.” you stumble out with a bare whisper. “I don’t think I can hear you. What did you need?” Kuroos smirk widened and he looked radiant at your situation. “I NEED YOUR HELP DAMN IT!” you yelled out to the empty gym and cringed at the echos. Kuroo looked unaffected as he got closer to your face, “And why should I help you, especially after you were so rude to me? ” You stayed silent. He sighed before walking towards the locker room to change and leave himself. “Meet me tomorrow at my apartment at 5 and if you want my help you will do things my way. A dress is mandatory to enter my house.”

You huffed while holding your dress down. It was short and you had to keep chanting nationals in your head as you knocked on Kuroo’s door. He opened the door and was wearing a pair of grey sweatpants and a black skin tight tank top. “Oi chibi-chan it’s 5:03, you’re late.” You growl at him and choose to bite your tongue as you walk into his house. You remember hearing he lives alone, so you expected it to be gross, but the room was actually tidy and homely. You follow him into his room, the thought of being along with him striking you. “Get your work out and start doing it, after you are halfway through, I will come and check your work.” Kuroo started to read his own book after setting a 20 minute timer on his watch. You also lived alone, and you looked around his room noticing the stark differences in your homes. You decided you liked his better, and quickly moved thoughts. You stared at your book, but could not read or write a word. You slowly get your basketball playbook out and start going over your plays. The timer went off and startled you and Kuroo now had your book on his lap and your basketball plays on his head.

“I see why you are failing now. How pathetic are you that you can’t even read your book properly.” He handed your basketball book back to you and kept your book. Turning to the page you need for your exam, he laid it on the desk in front of you and got up. You were upset and embarrassed. “Hey chibi, bend over the desk and look at your book.” Your cheeks inflamed a bright red. “EXCUSE M-” there was no time to finish your sentence before Kuroo had two fingers in your mouth. “I made it clear we do thi my way, so leave or bend over the desk and look at your book.” Kuroo was behind you and all you could do was think about his finger in- no nationals. You were doing this for nationals and not because those damn middle blocker fingers. Your hands were suddenly pulled from underneath you and you lost balance and was plush against the desk, the book was propped up by Kuroo so you could see it well.

You could feel rope holding your hands together and something that felt like cuffs on your ankles. “What are you doing you stupid rooster?” You couldn’t help the breathlessness of your voice as you stared at your book. “You will be punished for every wrong answer you give me and for any bad manners since apparently you need a lesson on that as well.” He replied with a smirk. “Now solve for x you dumb little girl.” You could make out how hard he was even from this angle. “You perv let me g-” Suddenly a strike had landed on your ass. It wasn’t too bad, but seemed to be a warning. Your legs moved trying to shut or escape but the spreader bar was holding them wide open, you could not resist him even if you wanted. “There is a time limit so I would hurry dumb girl.” You tried to focus and finally gave him an answer. ‘’X-x i s7.3?” suddenly two fingers had entered your cunt without warning. The squelch they gave only mortified you since Kuroo now also knew how wet you were from all this. “Look at you all wet from being nothing but a dumb whore. X was 9.7. Correct it in time or my fingers will move faster.” His fingers moved painfully slow inside you as you let out whimpers of want. You corrected the problem just in time and he took his fingers out and put them in your mouth. The taste of your own wetness should disgust you but you found yourself sucking on his fingers. “Now continue whore”.

After 2 hours, you had finally finished every problem in the chapter for the exam, and you were dripping wet from the constant teasing. “Seems you can go now. Considering you don’t like me I am sure you are in a hurry to get out of that door.” Kuroo knew just how desperate he had made you, so why were you guys still playing these games? “Kuroo please-” You looked truly pathetic. Marked with small bruises from his spanking and dripping wet and still begging him for more. He looked at you, “beg for it then.” You arched your ass back hoping for any friction against your empty cunt before giving in, “Please Kuroo, I want you to fuck me.” Kuroo seemed pleased enough by that and grabbed your ass and started entering you while you were still on the desk. “You don’t even deserve the bed. You would just make it filthy like you dumb whore.” He entered you and you leaned back into his touch as his fingers expertly toyed with your nipples erecting them just enough before he reached into his draws and brought out clamps. Clamping then and bringing them back to pull with your hair as he fucked you.

His cock had been hitting straight up into your spot and teasing your cervix, and you could not do anything but be used. He was simply using you like a cocksleeve and you liked it. He was slamming into you with so much stamina while spanking your bare cunt, ass and tits to his liking and you were cumming from it. “Tsk tsk. Did I say that you could do that?” Before you could even reply he yanked on the clamps and came into your cunt. You thought that was it, but he attached a small bullet vibrator to your clit and left the room. “You wanna cum so bad without permission, then cum slut.”

It was the week before nationals and the teacher was passing scores around the room. You were praying you got above a 40. As the teacher handed you your grade, you gasped at the 98% written on top. A note from the teacher saying that they knew Kuroo would be a good tutor attached. As the vibrator in your ass and pussy turned on suddenly, you couldn’t help but agree while holding back moans. He would definitely be tutoring you awhile longer since you finally found some motivation to do your work. The motivation? Not basketball…. But a certain threat of a middle blockers fingers.

#hq smut #hq headcanons #hq kuroo #kuroo testuro #kuroo x you #haikyuu-smut #haikyuu!!-smut #haikyuu smut #haikyu x reader #kuroo x reader #kuroo smut #haikyuu headcannons

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