#A. C. W. Duncan

[kiwichapstickss]

“Maybe. But you neither think nor talk like the man I could bind myself to. As soon as your fear was over—and it was not fear for what threatened me, but for what might happen to you—when the whole thing was past, as far as you were concerned it was exactly as if nothing at all had happened. Exactly as before, I was your little skylark, your doll, which you would in future treat with doubly gentle care, because it was so brittle and fragile. [Getting up.] Torvald—it was then it dawned upon me that for eight years I had been living here with a strange man, and had borne him three children—. Oh, I can’t bear to think of it! I could tear myself into little bits!

- A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen

[ladystoneboobs]

Lark the Sisterman laughed. "Small Paul, thick as a castle wall," he mocked. -Prologue (Chett), aSoS Pyp always teased Grenn about being thick as a castle wall, so Sam explained patiently. -Samwell II, aSoS [Jaime, to Brienne:] "Are you as thick as a castle wall? That was an apology. I am tired of fighting with you. What say we make a truce?" -Jaime V, aSoS

in storm, published after the first dunk and egg tale, suddenly a new phrase is being thrown around to insult people. and hmmm, all three characters mocked with these word are all v good-sized BIG and TALL types, not unlike ser duncan the tall, who introduced the phrase. and hmmm, the third of these characters, brienne of tarth, is later further linked to dunk in her own pov, when she recalls finding an old shield in her father's castle described just like dunk's uniquely picturesque coat-of-arms. and hmmm, the fuller version of the insult dunk repeats in his head is "Dunk the lunk, thick as a castle wall and slow as an aurochs." who else is insulted as an aurochs? that's right, the second mocked character above, grenn. so what i'm saying is i think bri and grenn are distant cousins of some sort, and if anyone's keeping track of things catelyn stark and jon snow have in common (besides disliking theon and finding jaime hot) then you should add earning the loyalty of a descendant of the noble line of ser duncan the tall aka dunk the lunk.

[agaypanic]

smutty blurbs w eric forman?? 😱

Eric Forman Smutty Headcanons

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A/N: couldn’t really think of blurbs so i decided to do some headcanons, also i dont have too much in depth knowledge about star wars. Eric might be a bit ooc but idc lol

C/W: smutty content (duh), roleplay, mentions of bondage, i feel like thats it

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Loves roleplaying lmao

Remember that episode where Donna dressed up as Leia for him and he had the stormtrooper helmet??

Yeah yall do that

Sometimes, it’s hard to stay serious because he’s having too much fun with it

“Tell me what you know about the Rebel Alliance’s plans, prisoner.” You could tell that Eric was lowering his voice underneath the bulky Stormtrooper helmet. You had to keep yourself from giggling so you didn’t break the illusion of being a Stormtrooper’s prisoner.

“I’ll never tell you.” You responded defiantly, glaring at your boyfriend’s hidden face. 

Eric took a step closer, bringing a hand out from behind his back to reveal a Stormtrooper gun, which you remember getting him for his most recent birthday.

“Be obedient, and you might be rewarded.” Eric pointed the fake gun towards you, his bulky white helmet tilting to the side slightly. “Resist, and you’ll regret it.”

“Don’t point that blaster at me.” You backed up as much as possible, trying to appear scared, but it wasn’t long before your back hit Eric’s headboard.

“Actually,” Eric said, lifting his helmet off his head and looking at the gun, “It’s an E-Eleven Blaster Rifle, Y/n. We’ve been through this.”

“Oh, so sorry.” You rolled your eyes before laughing at Eric’s seriousness. Pushing off the headboard, you crawled over to the end of the bed and kneeled on the mattress in front of Eric. His eyes followed your body, his own stiffening at your seductive stare. “Is that another blaster in your pocket, Mr. Trooper? Or are you just happy to see me?”

“Storm-trooper,” he corrected, his voice quiet as he slowly let the helmet slip back down. You sighed but quickly brushed it off.

“Mr. Stormtrooper.”

Good at foreplay

His nickname’s “foreplay” for a reason lmao

Well, it’s supposed to be an embarrassing nickname

But once he starts dating you, he becomes a bit proud of the nickname

“Eric.” You whined, squirming around on the bed. “Please, do something!”

“Shush.” Eric’s hands lightly trailed up and down your sides underneath your shirt, the contact making you shiver. “Be good, Y/n.” He lifted your shirt over your head, and you helped pull it off, throwing it somewhere in Eric’s room. 

Soon, you were almost naked, your underwear being the only thing covering you. Yet Eric completely avoided the place that ached for him most, no matter how much you begged.

“You’re such a tease.” You pouted.

“Oh, it’ll be worth it, baby,” Eric smirked as he lowered himself to the end of the bed, pushing your legs apart. “Just you wait.”

Back to roleplay real quick

Makes a lot of references to movies or comics

Either during sex or the reference leads to sex

Days where you and Eric had the house to yourselves were rare. With Red being retired, Hyde living in the basement, and the Forman’s house being the hangout spot for your friend group, it was hard to find alone time unless you wanted to be at your house or go somewhere in Eric’s car.

But on the rare days when no one was home, the two of you took full advantage of it.

“Spider-Man’s so cool,” Eric mumbled as he read through a comic book, holding it with one hand so his other arm could be wrapped around your shoulders while you watched TV.

Taking full advantage usually meant sitting in the living room instead of hiding in Eric’s room or the basement.

“I wanna be one of Charlie’s Angels so bad.” You responded as you watched Jill Munroe, Kelly Garrett, and Sabrina Duncan kick some ass. Eric looked up at the screen and smirked before looking at you.

“I’d let you interrogate me in a bikini.” You jokingly slapped his chest, making your boyfriend laugh before returning to his comic. “God, having web shooters would be so awesome. Swinging from building to building, fighting crime.”

“Yeah, and you can tie people up.” 

It was an offhand remark, as you were only half listening to Eric while watching TV. But then you felt Eric’s intense gaze on you, and when you made eye contact, you realized how he took what you said. His eyebrows raised suggestively, and soon, you were turning off the television, throwing the comic book onto the couch, and racing up to Eric’s room.

[librapacks]

♡﹒﹒ medieval period names !

FREE CONTENT : MASTERLIST ⸻ here is a list of 52 family tree names from the 300s — 1500s! for anyone needing names from those generations for fantasy or historical type roleplays.

masculine

A — alderic , aubri

B — bjorn

C — charles , chlodwig

D — duncan

E — ealdred , eberhard

G — gainfroy , godfried , gospatric

H — hemerich , hugues

I — ingram

J — jocelin

L — lambert

M — marcomir

N — niall

R — richard , robert

T — théodomir

V — vanbertus

W — walter , waltheof , waudbert , william

feminine

A — adela , alesia , aline , amalberga , argitta

B — bertswinda

C — christiana

D — derdera

E — eadgifu , eithne , eulalia

F — fraya

G — gerberge

H — helen

I — idonea , ingrid , industria

L — lucilla

M — mechtild

O — oda

R — reine

S — sabilla , syagria

T — theodelinde , thurid

U — urraca

[theantonian]

The Antonian Reading List

Mark Antony: A Life by Patricia Southern (Highly recommended!)

Mark Antony: A Biography by Eleanor Goltz Huzar (Highly recommended!)

The Life and Times of Marc Antony by Arthur Weigall (Recommended)

Marc Antony: His Life and Times by Allan Roberts (Recommended)

Marc Antony by Mary Kittredge

Antony & Cleopatra by Patricia Southern

Antony & Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy (By far the most negative book on Antony by a modern historian, the Cleopatra portion is better)

Mark Antony: A Plain Blunt Man by Paolo de Ruggiero (Recommended)

Mark Antony and Popular Culture: Masculinity and the Construction of an Icon by Rachael Kelly

Mark Antony's Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor by Stephen Dando-Collins

A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War and the Collapse of the Roman Republic by W. Jeffrey Tatum (Highly recommend!)

Mark Antony & Cleopatra: Cleopatra's Proxy War to Conquer Rome & Restore the Empire of the Greeks by Martin Armstrong

Actium and Augustus: The Politics and Emotions of Civil War by Robert Alan Gurval

The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme (Recommended)

Octavian, Antony and Cleopatra by W. W. Tarn

Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic by Celia E. Schultz

Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley (Highly Recommended!)

Cleopatra by Michael Grant (Highly Recommanded!)

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff (Highly Recommended!)

Cleopatra - A Biography by D. Roller

Cleopatra and Antony by Diana Preston

Cleopatra by Alberto Angela (Recommended)

Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott

Cleopatra the Great by Joann Fletcher

Cleopatra and Egypt by Sally-Ann Ashton

Cleopatra and Rome by Diana E. E. Kleiner

Cleopatra Her History Her Myth by Francine Prose

Cleopatra Histories, Dreams, and Distortions by Lucy Hughes Hallett (Recommended)

Cleopatra’s Daughter Egyptian Princess by Jane Draycott

The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Good for beginners)

The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar by Peter Stothard

Robicon by Tom Holland

Alesia 52 BC: The final struggle for Gaul (Campaign) by Nic Fields

Actium 31 BC: Downfall of Antony and Cleopatra (Campaign) by Si Sheppard

Pharsalus 48 BC: Caesar and Pompey – Clash of the Titans (Campaign) by Si Sheppard

Philippi 42 BC: The death of the Roman Republic (Campaign) by Si Sheppard

Mutina 43 BC: Mark Antony's struggle for survival (Campaign) by Nic Fields

The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss

The Battle of Actium 31 BC: War for the World by Lee Fratantuono

Rome and Parthia: Empires at War: Ventidius, Antony and the Second Romano-Parthian War, 40–20 BC by Gareth C Sampson

Rivalling Rome: Parthian Coins and Culture by Vesta Curtis

Classical sources:

Plutarch’s Lives

Cicero: Philippics, Ad Brutum, Ad Familiares

Appian, The Civil Wars

Dio Cassius, The Roman History

Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War

Livy, The Early History of Rome

Tacitus, Annals and Histories

Friction:

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra by Willian Shakespeare

All For Love or The World Well Lost by John Dryden

The Siren and the Roman – A Tragedy by Lucyl

Caesar and Cleopatra by George Berbard Shaw

Cleopatra (play) by Sardou

Antony by Allan Massie

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

I, Cleopatra by William Bostock

Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard

Cleopatra by Georg Ebers

Kleopatra (Vol I & II) by Karen Essex

Last Days with Cleopatra by Jack Lindsay

The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George

When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer

The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough

Caesar's Soldier: Mark Antony Book I by Alex Gough (Ongoing series)

The Antonius Trilogy by Brook Allen

The Last Pharaoh series by Jay Penner

Throne of Isis by Juith Tarr

Hand of Isis by Jo Graham

Woman of Egypt by Kevin Methews

The Ides of Blood 01-06 (Comics)

Terror - Antonius En Cleopatra (Erotic yet pure love, Dutch comics)

Cleopatra - Geschiedenisstrip (Dutch comics)

Les Grands Personnages de l Histoire en Bandes Dessinees – Marc Antonie (French comics)

Les Grands Personnages de l Histoire en Bandes Dessinees – Cleopatre (French comics)

Les Grands Personnages de l Histoire en Bandes Dessinees – Julius Caesar (French comics)

Cléopâtre (French Manga)

 Ils Ont Fait L'histoire - Cléopâtre (French Graphic Novel)

[sasheneskywalker]

books and articles about about comics, superheroes, dc and batman

books Ahrens, J., & Meteling, A. (Eds.). (2010). Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence. A&C Black.

Bongco, M. (2014). Reading comics: Language, culture, and the concept of the superhero in comic books. Routledge.

Brode, D. (Ed.). (2022). The DC Comics Universe: Critical Essays. McFarland.

Brooker, W. (2013). Batman unmasked: Analyzing a cultural icon. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

Burke, L., Gordon, I., & Ndalianis, A. (Eds.). (2020). The superhero symbol: media, culture, and politics. Rutgers University Press.

Dittmer, J., & Bos, D. (2019). Popular culture, geopolitics, and identity. Rowman & Littlefield.

DiPaolo, M. (2014). War, politics and superheroes: Ethics and propaganda in comics and film. McFarland.

Dyer, B. (Ed.). (2009). Supervillains and Philosophy: sometimes, evil is its own reward (Vol. 42). Open Court Publishing.

Geaman, K. L. (Ed.). (2015). Dick Grayson, boy wonder: Scholars and creators on 75 years of Robin, Nightwing and Batman. McFarland.

Giddens, T. (Ed.). (2015). Graphic justice: Intersections of comics and law. Routledge.

Heer, J., & Worcester, K. (Eds.). (2009). A comics studies reader. Univ. Press of Mississippi.

Irwin, W. (2009). Batman and philosophy: The dark knight of the soul. John Wiley & Sons.

Langley, T. (2022). Batman and psychology: A dark and stormy knight. Turner Publishing Company.

McKittrick, C. (2015). Fan phenomena: Batman, edited by Liam Burke.

Ndalianis, A. (Ed.). (2009). The contemporary comic book superhero (Vol. 19). Routledge.

O'Connor, L. R. (2021). Robin and the Making of American Adolescence. Rutgers University Press.

O'Neil, D., & Wilson, L. (Eds.). (2008). Batman Unauthorized: Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City. BenBella Books.

Packer, S., & Fredrick, D. R. (Eds.). (2020). Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry and the Gotham City Institution. McFarland.

Pearson, R., & Uricchio, W. (Eds.). (2023). The many lives of the Batman: Critical approaches to a superhero and his media. Taylor & Francis.

Pearson, R., Uricchio, W., & Brooker, W. (Eds.). (2017). Many more lives of The Batman. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Picariello, D. K. (Ed.). (2019). Politics in Gotham: the Batman universe and political thought. Springer.

Pustz, M. (Ed.). (2012). Comic books and American cultural history: An anthology. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

Romagnoli, A. S., & Pagnucci, G. S. (2013). Enter the superheroes: American values, culture, and the canon of superhero literature. Scarecrow Press.

Smith, M. J., & Duncan, R. (Eds.). (2012). Critical approaches to comics: Theories and methods. Routledge.

Smith, M. J., Brown, M., & Duncan, R. (Eds.). (2019). More critical approaches to comics: theories and methods. Routledge.

Weiner, R. G. (Ed.). (2009). Captain America and the struggle of the superhero: Critical essays. McFarland.

Weldon, G. (2017). The caped crusade: Batman and the rise of nerd culture. Simon and Schuster.

White, M. D. (2019). Batman and ethics. John Wiley & Sons.

Worcester, K., Heer, J., & Hatfield, C. (Eds.). (2013). The Superhero Reader. University Press of Mississippi.

articles Authers, B. (2012). What Had Been Many Became One: Continuity, the Common Law, and Crisis on Infinite Earths. Law Text Culture, 16, i.

Austin, S. (2015). Batman's female foes: the gender war in Gotham City. Journal of Popular Culture (Boston), 48(2), 285-295.

Avery, C. (2023). Paternalism, performative masculinity and the post-9/11 cowboy in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 12(1), 65-81.

Bainbridge, J. (2007). “This is the Authority. This Planet is Under Our Protection”—An Exegesis of Superheroes' Interrogations of Law. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 3(3), 455-476.

Best, M. (2005). Domesticity, homosociality, and male power in superhero comics of the 1950s. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 6(1).

Brienza, C. (2010). Producing comics culture: a sociological approach to the study of comics. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 1(2), 105-119.

Camp, L. D. (2017). ‘Time to ride the monster train’: multiplicity, the Midnighter and the threat to hegemonic superhero masculinity. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 8(5), 464-479.

Camp, L. D. (2018). "Be of Knightly Countenance": Masculine Violence and Managing Affect in Late Medieval Alliterative Poetry and Batman: Under The Red Hood (Doctoral dissertation, University of South Carolina).

Cocca, C. (2014). Negotiating the third wave of feminism in Wonder Woman. PS: Political Science & Politics, 47(1), 98-103.

Coogan, P. (2018). Wonder Woman: superheroine, not superhero. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 9(6), 566-580.

Cohn, N., Hacımusaoğlu, I., & Klomberg, B. (2023). The framing of subjectivity: Point-of-view in a cross-cultural analysis of comics. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 14(3), 336-350.

Costello, M. J., & Worcester, K. (2014). The politics of the superhero: Introduction. PS: Political Science & Politics, 47(1), 85-89.

Crutcher, P. A. (2011). Complexity in the comic and graphic novel medium: Inquiry through bestselling Batman stories. The Journal of Popular Culture, 44(1), 53-72.

Curtis, N. (2013). Superheroes and the contradiction of sovereignty. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 4(2), 209-222.

Fennell, J. (2012). The aesthetics of supervillainy. Law Text Culture, 16, i.

Giddens, T. (2015). Natural law and vengeance: Jurisprudence on the streets of Gotham. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law-Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 28(4), 765-785.

Guynes, S. (2019). Worlds Will Live, Worlds Will Die: Crisis on Infinite Earths and the Anxieties and Calamities of the Comic-Book Event. Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, 3(2), 171-190.

Hall, K. J., & Lucal, B. (1999). Tapping into parallel universes: Using superhero comic books in sociology courses. Teaching sociology, 27(1), 60-66.

Hatchell, R. (2023). ‘We prefer protégé’: The temporal function of sidekicks in Young Justice and Titans. The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 12(1), 83-97.

Jeong, S. H. (2020). Sovereign Agents of Mythical and (Pseudo-) Divine Violence. Walter Benjamin and Global Biopolitical Cinema. The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence, 4(2), 81-98.

Jimenez, P. (2021). Wonder Woman, Feminist Icon? Queer Icon? No, Love Icon. In Wonder Woman (pp. 23-36). Routledge.

Lang, R. (1990). Batman and Robin: A family romance. American imago, 47(3/4), 293-319.

Petrovic, P. (2016). Queer resistance, gender performance, and ‘coming out’of the panel borders in Greg Rucka and JH Williams III’s Batwoman: Elegy. In Superheroes and Identities (pp. 221-230). Routledge.

Philips, M. (2022). Violence in the American imaginary: Gender, race, and the politics of superheroes. American Political Science Review, 116(2), 470-483.

Pitkethly, C. (2016). The pursuit of identity in the face of paradox: indeterminacy, structure and repetition in Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. In Superheroes and Identities (pp. 87-94). Routledge.

Powell, T. (2023). ‘You’re a refugee, are you not?’‘Extraordinary bodies’, monstrous outsiders and US refugee policies in superhero comics. The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 12(1), 9-20.

Romero, L. G., & Dahlman, I. (2012). Justice framed: Law in comics and graphic novels. Law Text Culture, 16, vii.

Schott, G. (2010). From fan appropriation to industry re-appropriation: the sexual identity of comic superheroes. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 1(1), 17-29.

Sereni, E. (2020). "When I'm Bad, I'm Better": from early Villainesses to contemporary antiheroines in superhero comics.

Sharp, C. (2012). 'Riddle me this…? 'would the world need superheroes if the law could actually deliver justice'?. Law Text Culture, 16, 353-378.

Shyminsky, N. (2011). ‘‘Gay’’ Sidekicks: Queer Anxiety and the Narrative Straightening of the Superhero. Men and Masculinities, 14(3), 288-308.

Valentine, G. (2021). Empire of a wicked woman: Catwoman, royalty, and the making of a comics icon. In Wonder Woman (pp. 93-112). Routledge.

Weston, G. (2013). Superheroes and comic-book vigilantes versus real-life vigilantes: an anthropological answer to the Kick-Ass paradox. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 4(2), 223-234.

Whaley, D. E. (2011). Black cat got your tongue?: Catwoman, blackness, and the alchemy of postracialism. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2(1), 3-23.

Wolf-Meyer, M. J. (2006). Batman and Robin in the nude, or class and its exceptions. Extrapolation (pre-2012), 47(2), 187.

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[mystra-midnight]

— FOLIE À DEUX | chapter i

pairing: feyd-rautha harkonnen x atreides ! ofc (leiana)

tags: mentions of rape. mentions of torture. brief suicide attempt. arranged marriage. mentioned canon character death.

w/c: 2.5k.

a/n: so recently i started writing on a dune roleplaying site, and honestly, I'm in love with everyone; they're all so insanly creative, and i love reading their threads. admittedly, i'm not sure when this idea spawned, but i'm really enjoying writing it. its not often i feel comfortable writing stories with original characters, so any feedback you have is wildly appreciated!

Thick lashes fluttered beneath the waning sleep spell; hers, his, was impossible to know. The room was warm, sweat pooling on silken sheets beneath them, making their bodies feel heavier as their limbs moved restlessly. Sleep slipped away like water through cracks in the sand. The floor was rough, the textured concrete catching at her skin, his skin, impossible to know.

One moment, there was darkness; the next, light, blinding, shining in her eyes, his eyes—a blackened sun, Giedi Prime. She knew because he knew. He knew because she knew. And then pain, all-consuming, starting from nowhere and spreading everywhere. Their vocal cords vibrated in a scream, the kind that welled up from the pit of their stomachs and stole the air from their lungs. It seemed to fill the room, echoing the sound of fear, pain, and death.

Her eyes, his eyes, flashed open, and the visions were gone.

Memories of the future danced behind the blur of tears in her eyes as her chest heaved with a shuddering sob—the sting of wounds not yet suffered induced a hysteria that threatened to consume her. The screams, hers, his, continued to echo around the prison chamber, mingling with those of the handmaidens who served House Atreides.

In the low light of the prison cell, memories of what had happened upon Arrakis came rushing back to her—betrayal. That was the only word for it. Political intrigue had led to the Atredes bloodline being eradicated, all except for her. And now she was a prisoner to House Harkonnen, the last Lady of Castle Caladan.

Leiana scrunched her eyes tightly shut, desperately willing herself back to sleep as the screams became crescendos. But she could not; instead, she settled for pacing the small cell to pass the time. That was until she saw him exit the room opposite her cell—her captor—and her emotions overwhelmed her as the handmaidens' screams turned to broken sobs.

She could smell their tears in the air and the coppery scent of blood and other bodily fluids.

"Stop this! Please!" She yelled, her fingers tightening around the bars as she glared at Glossu Rabban. Hot tears streaked down her face, leaving lines in the dirt decorating her olive-hued skin. The Beast, and indeed he was one, smiled in a sick way as he approached. He was not dressed in the traditional Harkonnen armour, the one she had seen him wearing that night, but rather in much less.

Leiana watched as he adjusted himself, tucking his flaccid cock into his trousers, making a show of it. She wanted to be sick.

"Why?" he asked, tilting his head to the side in an innocent gesture that belied his brutality. She wanted to scream. Why. Why? Because he was hurting them, taking possession of their bodies, and subjecting them to horrors none of those beneath Atreides rule had ever known. Duke Leto was kind; he did not believe in revenge. He governed in much the same way. Their people knew love and prosperity.

He was so close, standing on the other side of the bars; if she had a knife, she could end their torment. Duncan had shown her how, Gurney, too. Aim for the throat, slash, don't stab, make it deep.

His hand snaked between the bars before she could retreat, thick fingers curling around her shoulder. His thumb pressed painfully into her collarbone as he pulled her against the bars, leaving her face pressed against the rusted metal.

"Life is cruel," he said, leaning closer so his bulk pressed against the bars. She clawed at his wrist, manicured nails tearing into his pale skin, blood welling up to fill the shallow scratches. Leiana managed to suck in a breath of air, the only thing that kept her focused enough as her face pressed painfully into the bars, threatening to bruise her skin.

"Why should their deaths be anything less?"

"You're hurting me."

Glossu Rabban would not kill her; this she knew—he could not afford to. Through her, The Baron would regain his rightful and legitimate control of Arrakis, gain control of Caladen, and unite the ancient and noble houses of Atreides and Harkonnen. So no, Rabban would not kill her, but then again, a quick death had never been the Harkonnen way.

He would rape her. He would beat her. He would breed her. And that would be what killed her: the loss of freedom, forced to submit to a man so terrible and cruel. Leiana would be a caged bird, pregnant and swollen with his seed time and again until she lost the will to live, choosing instead to allow the desert to claim her.

Rabban reached through the bars with his free hand, pushing the hair from her face in an almost caring gesture. "You will be my wife." He spoke plainly, his words holding a promise that filled her with dread, turning her blood to ice until hell froze over. Leiana tried to fight him, attempting to knock his hand away, only for him to seize her wrist, his strength threatening to bend and break her bones.

"You should watch," Rabban continued, his tone soft, a sweet whisper as he traced one finger along the elegant line of her jaw, tilting her face to meet his heated gaze. "Watch as they take my cock, my Lady, as they birth my bastard children. You will learn how to be a good broodmare."

He felt the muscles of her neck shift beneath his fingers only a moment before a globule of spit hit his face, just below his left eye. For a moment, the world stood still, time and space falling away until there was only them: herself and the Beast she thought to provoke.

There was a choice to be made, his, hers. Leiana refused to be subservient; she would bear him no children. She would force his hand, let him kill her as he had killed Duncan.

Glossu Rabban would not claim her—his temper was too great to control, or so she assumed. She would ensure he could not control it. Leiana would question his every decision and speak against him during political affairs; she would betray him and kill him if the opportunity arose. He would have no choice but to discipline her or appear weak in front of his peers. 

Leiana was strong, and though she could survive whatever torment he delivered, she would not fight to live. She would choose death before him. 

The Beast swore in the language of House Harkonnen. The vowels were heavy and rough, the meaning lost to her. His fingers closed around her throat, the capillaries beneath her skin bursting, letting the blood rush to bruise in the shape of his fingers. She imagined her end would have been worse if the bars had not been between them. Bloody and violent, her body beaten and bruised and broken, but it would be the end nonetheless.

Darkness blanketed her vision, a cone funnelling it so that his face would be the last thing she saw as she struggled to gasp around the constriction of his fingers. She was crying, trying to, soundless sobs shaking her lithe frame. But she was smiling, and he hated her for that.

"My Lord."

She hardly heard the voice as her limbs started to fall limp, fingers and nails falling from his skin as a heaviness set in. She could see stars, or rather, she thought that she could. Something bright in the darkness as her lids drooped.

"What is it?" Rabban answered, pinning the servant with a hard stare. He had not yet released her. She did not hear the servant address him that way, the lack of formal title, but it seemed neither did Rabban.

"The Baron requests her presence, my Lord."

There was a moment, a single heartbeat of time when she saw her consciousness slip from her body. She saw them as though floating above them, but the rope was still there, holding her to her body and refusing to relinquish her. Rabban’s control was far greater than she'd anticipated. This would not be the day.

Leiana fell to the ground when he released her, spluttering, sobbing, and retching as dusty air filled her lungs and breathed life back into her body.

Leiana had been permitted to bathe in preparation for dinner with Vladimir Harkonnen, a small kindness given the current circumstances. The water had been scolding, leaving her skin tender as she dressed; the pain was a sting, but it soothed her all the same. During this time, she learned that her things had not been burned. This came as a surprise, as did the summons. It had been. . .

Two weeks, her mind whispered the words. She had been held in the dungeons beneath Arrakeen for fourteen days, trapped while the corpses of her family rotted and burned. A sob welled up in her chest, threatening to break her resolve.

She could see Duncan and her father in their final moments if she closed her eyes. She had not seen her mother or Paul but knew both had perished in the city's sacking. Such was the gift and curse of the Bene Gesserit, taught to the Atreides children by Lady Jessica—to know things impossible to know.

But she would not cry for them, not this night. Leiana had to put herself first now, for dinner with Baron Harkonnen would be no easy feat to survive. His brilliance and patience in political affairs were well-known. She had to keep her wits about her.

Swathed in ivory-white fabric that hugged her hips and did nothing to hide the bruises on her skin, she entered the room. Leiana intended to wear them with honour and defiance. The Baron was seated at the far end of a long table decorated with wines and meats.

"My Lord," Leiana greeted with a deep curtsey, her dress fanning around her. It was a trained mannerism, not one of affection or respect. The Baron, aware of their complicated history, acknowledged her with a nod.

"Lady Atreides," his gruff voice echoed lowly. He did not look up from his meal but instead motioned for her to take the seat at the opposite end of the table. Leiana slipped into it, observing him in quiet contemplation: he was a grotesque man, so large that he could not walk beneath the weight of his own girth, instead needing to be carried by suspensors. She imagined that, in his youth, he would have been quite handsome, as many Harkonnen had been. But in his old age, he had grown fat and treacherous, more dangerous than ever.

She waited until he resumed his meal, the sound of his cutlery scrapping the porcelain plate grating on her nerves before she, too, ate something. Her stomach knotted in protest, not because the meal had been tampered with or poisoned but because she had eaten only gruel for fourteen days. The texture of it had been like sand on her tongue, but she'd forced herself to swallow mouthful after mouthful.

This meal was a heaven-send in comparison. They ate silently for a time, the tension in the air palpable before his voice broke it.

"You know the reason I have summoned you, yes?" The Baron asked, still not taking his eyes off his plate. He ate like his appearance: with greed and excess, his portions were enough to feed a small family. Leiana chewed at the inside of her cheek, carefully considering her words.

"I must confess that I do not, my Lord."

At long last, his eyes rose to meet hers, spider-like, twinkling with shadows beneath the lights. The muscles in her jaw flexed as she clenched her teeth, stealing herself beneath his stare.

"Your marriage."

"I am not married."

"You are to wed my nephew—the Na-Baron."

At that moment, the air was knocked from her lungs. Naturally, the dinner was a trap, which she was prepared for. Still, she felt much like a fly desperately trying to escape the clutches of a spider. Her resolve was absolute, however—she would not marry him. "No," Leiana spoke plainly, her voice painted broadly with defiance and the faintest trace of disgust.

"No?" He echoed.

"No."

"You seem to have the impression that you have a choice in this matter." His expression was stern as he spoke, and he watched her with beady eyes, regarding her with genuine curiosity and a distinct disdain. The Baron was renowned for playing cat and mouse games, but who was the cat, and who was the mouse?

Leiana placed her utensils on either side of her plate, her fingertips lingering on the knife's handle, and she stared at him. The gears of her mind spun rapidly, thoughts flying from one to the next. "There is always a choice to be made, Lord Harkonnen."

He watched her, his cherubic jowls twitching with amusement when he saw how she tapped her index finger upon the knife. The action gave away her intentions before she knew what they were.

"You think to kill me? You know you could not."

On the one hand, he was correct; she could not kill him and hoped to survive. But on the other, he was so terribly mistaken. Leiana did not move; she only stared at him with fierce defiance. "No, not you. There can hardly be a wedding, let alone a marriage, without a bride."

"Ah, I see," he mused with a soft hum. "You would act cowardly, Lady Atreides, and prematurely end your family bloodline?"

"Yes." Her answer was firm, brokering no room for negotiation. "I will make this abundantly clear to you, my Lord. I will choose death, time and again before I wed your nephew. That is my choice. I will not marry Glossu Rabban." She saw how his mouth twitched, the dangerous gleam in his eyes; panic seized her.

The Baron appeared unfazed by her defiance, utterly unconcerned by her refusal. He was calm, sipping on a glass filled to the brim with blood-red wine. Alarm bells rang in her mind like sirens, and at that moment, she felt a noose tighten around her neck. She had played into his hand. 

Leiana did not hear the doors swing open; only the Baron's spider-like eyes briefly flicking away, taking in the presence of another alerted her. Her heart slammed against her breastbone with such force that she feared it would break. Rabban had come to claim her, rape her, and breed her.

She moved on instinct, standing quickly, her chair threatening to topple, fingers scooping up the knife and raising it to her throat. The serrated edge kissed at her skin, tore at it. Aim for the throat, slash, don't stab, make it deep.

Her wrist was seized before she could complete the act, the blade ripped from her grasp and thrown somewhere across the room, leaving globules of claret thickly down her skin. And then she had known the truth. 

"My Lady." The closeness of his words was startling. Once more, the tension in the air was palpable, the room as still as the morning air as his gaze lowered to her lips, broken only by the Baron's smug chortle.

She could feel his warmth as he walled her against his chest, and now, practically touching, she could smell him, too.

Feyd-Rautha.

"My nephew, Lady Atreides. The Na-Baron.”

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[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 33, 2024

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An edge-simplicity bias in the visual input to young infants. Anderson, E. M., Candy, T. R., Gold, J. M., & Smith, L. B. (2024). Science Advances, 10(19).

Running together influences where you look. Brenner, E., Janssen, M., de Wit, N., Smeets, J. B. J., Mann, D. L., & Ghiani, A. (2024). Perception, 53(5–6), 397–400.

Dopamine D2 Receptor Modulates Exercise Related Effect on Cortical Excitation/Inhibition and Motor Skill Acquisition. Curtin, D., Taylor, E. M., Bellgrove, M. A., Chong, T. T.-J., & Coxon, J. P. (2024). Journal of Neuroscience, 44(19), e2028232024.

Control of working memory by phase–amplitude coupling of human hippocampal neurons. Daume, J., Kamiński, J., Schjetnan, A. G. P., Salimpour, Y., Khan, U., Kyzar, M., … Rutishauser, U. (2024). Nature, 629(8011), 393–401.

Drift of neural ensembles driven by slow fluctuations of intrinsic excitability. Delamare, G., Zaki, Y., Cai, D. J., & Clopath, C. (2024). eLife, 12, e88053.3.

A stochastic world model on gravity for stability inference. Huang, T., & Liu, J. (2024). eLife, 12, e88953.3.

Specific exercise patterns generate an epigenetic molecular memory window that drives long-term memory formation and identifies ACVR1C as a bidirectional regulator of memory in mice. Keiser, A. A., Dong, T. N., Kramár, E. A., Butler, C. W., Chen, S., Matheos, D. P., … Wood, M. A. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 3836.

Cholecystokinin facilitates motor skill learning by modulating neuroplasticity in the motor cortex. Li, H., Feng, J., Chen, M., Xin, M., Chen, X., Liu, W., … He, J. (2024). eLife, 13, e83897.

Wagers for work: Decomposing the costs of cognitive effort. Master, S. L., Curtis, C. E., & Dayan, P. (2024). PLOS Computational Biology, 20(4), e1012060.

Recurrent neural networks that learn multi-step visual routines with reinforcement learning. Mollard, S., Wacongne, C., Bohte, S. M., & Roelfsema, P. R. (2024). PLOS Computational Biology, 20(4), e1012030.

Human mutations in high-confidence Tourette disorder genes affect sensorimotor behavior, reward learning, and striatal dopamine in mice. Nasello, C., Poppi, L. A., Wu, J., Kowalski, T. F., Thackray, J. K., Wang, R., … Tischfield, M. A. (2024). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(19), e2307156121.

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Abnormal multisensory temporal discrimination in Parkinson’s disease. Rostami, Z., Salari, M., Mahdavi, S., & Etemadifar, M. (2024). Brain Research, 1834, 148901.

Motivated with joy or anxiety: Does approach-avoidance goal framing elicit differential reward-network activation in the brain? Sakaki, M., Murayama, K., Izuma, K., Aoki, R., Yomogita, Y., Sugiura, A., … Matsumoto, K. (2024). Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 24(3), 469–490.

A non-image-forming visual circuit mediates the innate fear of heights in male mice. Shang, W., Xie, S., Feng, W., Li, Z., Jia, J., Cao, X., … Yuan, X.-B. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 3746.

A dynamic neural resource model bridges sensory and working memory. Tomić, I., & Bays, P. M. (2024). eLife, 12, e91034.3.

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[balu8]

Hellboy: The Midnight Circus

by Mike Mignola (W.), Duncan Fegredo (A.) and Dave Stewart (C.)

Dark Horse

[angelicsatin]

blog intro 𓆩♡𓆪

a hot mess of a person ♡ 18+ blog he/she/they + xenos ♡ eng/esp aspd + bpd + npd + ptsd + psychosis

I'm angel and this is my main blog where I reblog anything I feel the need to, relating to my interests or just random. I’m 22 years old, queer and a degenerate ! my mental health is something I am working through and being open abt it on my own blog helps me with that + meeting others who are similar to me !

Gotta warn everypony that I am unstable, my taste in men is abysmal and highly shows in my list of f/o's

DIRECTORY

please follow my side blogs and interact with them ! truthfully my naruto/jjk blog and hazbin/helluva are my most active <3

Instagram (Most Active Social !!) -> @ ang3licsatin

Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad Blog -> @salamancasgirl

Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss Blog -> @angelicadamposting

Rick & Morty Blog -> @plumbusposting

Baldur's Gate 3 Blog -> @bhaalposting

Naruto/Jujutsu Kaisen Blog -> @orochiposting

animation is my special interest along with media criticism !! i am extremely opinionated on all of my favorite media pieces + overanalyze them to death, frame by frame. not sure if I'll post those rambles n shots here. I love a lot of different cartoons, games, anime, etc, and will likely post about them.

I'm a selfshipper/yumejoshi but also have OC's that are NOT self inserts, just depends !!

LIST OF F/O'S

(will be updated overtime ofc) ☁ = Current Fixation <3 ❥ = Non-Sharing <3 ⬙ = Selective Sharing (mainly moots) ✶ = Main <3 ✽ = Has a Self Insert Ship W Me ◆ = Has an OC Ship

Better Call Saul -> Lalo Salamanca✶❥✽ Breaking Bad -> Jesse Pinkman Hazbin Hotel -> Adam☁✶❥✽ + Vox◆ + Alastor◆ (platonic/romantic only) Rick & Morty -> obviously Rick C-137☁✶❥✽ Baldur's Gate 3 -> Astarion◆✶✽ + Ketheric☁✶❥✽ + Gortash◆ + Gale◆ My Hero Academia -> Shigaraki✶❥✽ + Dabi✽⬙ Naruto -> Orochimaru☁✶❥◆ + Kisame Hoshigaki◆ + Hidan◆ Jujutsu Kaisen -> Choso Kamo☁✶❥◆ + Satoru Gojo☁✶✽⬙ + Suguru Geto☁✶❥✽ Danganronpa -> Kazuichi Souda✶❥✽ + Byakuya Togami◆ Clone High -> JFK Total Drama -> Duncan Disventure Camp -> Alec FX's Archer -> Sterling Archer❥ Honkai Star Rail -> Jingyuan✶❥◆ + Aventurine✶◆⬙ + Sampo Genshin Impact -> Kaeya◆ The Boys -> Homelander☁❥✶◆ FNAF -> William Afton / Springtrap☁❥✶◆ Despicable Me -> Dru

[salantami]

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” ― W. Somerset Maugham

Painting by by A. C. W. Duncan

[celestialcrowley]

✨ The URL Song Game ✨

The object is to name a song for each letter of your URL and tag your moots.

I was tagged by @ineffabildaddy — wahoo, thank you! I love these. 💚

C — Could’ve Been Me by The Struts

E — Everywhere I Go by Hollywood Undead

L — Light Up The Sky by Duncan

E — Enter Sandman by Metallica

S — Súbelo (Turn It Up) by Angel y Khriz

T — There She Goes by The La’s

I — In The End by Linkin Park

A — Anna Sun by Walk The Moon

L — Lose Yourself by Eminem

C — Chocolate by The 1975

R — Rewrite The Stars by Zac Efron and Zendays

O — Out Of My League by Fitz and The Tantrums

W — We Own The Night by The Wanted

L — Like A River Runs by The Bleachers

E — Empty Walls by Serj Tankian

Y — Yellow by Coldplay

I made it colorful. So, these songs were all pulled from my organized disaster Spotify playlist. Some may have been used on the last one, but I tried to change things up a bit. It’s not easy when one has 59 hours of music in said playlist.

Anyway, technically I’m supposed to tag as many people as there are letters in my URL, but I think I’m going to bend the rules a tad.

No obligation tags: @sad-chaos-goblin @frog-person @jackinistafflower @scarecrowcloud @tragic-cosmic-magic @bildads-shoes @skinnyscottishbloke @shadesofdeviant @phoen1xr0se @peachworthy @ritz-writes @rainbowpopeworld @spot-o-bodysnatchin @captainspectrumreportingforduty @shadesofecclescakes

[dum1s-writings]

~~~~Intro thingy I guess~~~~

Greetings from @thedum1 (⁠◔⁠‿⁠◔⁠)

I have once again decided to start a new sideblog. I just wanna try tossing my hat into the xMasc!Reader ring. I'll have main fandoms and on occasion fandoms, which will be allowed once in a while.

~Main fandoms are subject to change.~

The main fandoms will be marked with 💕

Favorite characters will be marked with 💋

Obey Me! Shall We Date? 💕

Lucifer

Mammon

Leviathan 💋

Satan

Asmodeus 💋

Beelzebub

Belphegor

Diavolo

Barbatos

Solomon

Simeon 💋

Luke

Twisted Wonderland

All students and staff*

*Riddle, Epel, Idia, Neige and Rollo are my weaknesses

Miraculous Ladybug and Cat Noir 💕

Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir 💋

Nathaniel Kurtzberg/Caprikid 💋

Marc Anciel/Rooster Bold

Nino Lahiffe/Carapace

Luka Couffaine/Viperion

Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug

Alya Césaire/Rena Rouge

Kagami Tsurugi/Ryuko

Gabriel Agreste/Hawkmoth

Nathalie Sancoeur/Mayura 💋

Mystic Messenger

Yoosung Kim

Zen/Hyun Ryu

Jaehee Kang 💋

Jumin Han

707/Luciel/Saeyoung Choi 💋

Animal Crossing 💕

Apollo 💋

Cherry

Julien 💋

Raymond 💋

Marshall

Tangy

Colton

Whitney

Punchy 💋

Stitches

Muffy 💋

Diana

Zell

Lucky

Ankha

Chrissy

Francine

Judy

Kyle

Fang

Willow

Merengue 💋

Mott

Bud

Kicks 💋

Isabelle

Tom Nook

Death Note

L Lawliet

Light Yagami

Touta Matsuda 💋

Teru Mikami

Misa Amane

Naomi Misora

Kiyomi Takada

Mihael Keehl/Mello 💋

Mail Jeevas/Matt 💋

Nate River/Near

Total Drama Island/Action/World Tour

Trent

Gwen

Cody 💋

Noah 💋

Justin

Lindsay 💋

Sadie

Katie

Sierra

Leshawna 💋

DJ

Beth

Heather

Duncan

Courtney

Alejandro

6teen

Caitlin Cooke

Nikki Wong 💋

Jude Lizowski

Wyatt Williams 💋

Jen Masterson

Jonsey Garcia

Teen Titans (2003 cartoon version)

Robin 💋

Starfire

Raven 💋

Beast Boy

Cyborg

Jinx

Terra

Red-X 💋

Aqualad

Speedy

Bumblebee 💋

The occasional slasher

Michael Myers

Cory Cunningham

Billy Lenz

Brahms Heelshire 💋

Others to be added...maybe.

The general rules:

Fandoms will have their own rules in their own separate posts

He/Him and They/Them pronouns only

I have problems with menstruation so none of that allowed as I HATE thinking of my own

Polyamorous relationships are accepted and loved here but NO cheating 😤

No non-platonic/familial child/teen x adult

No incest of any kind

No angst without a happy ending

VERY EXTREMELY RARE sexual nsft 👀

Piggybacking off the last rule I prefer a Top/Not Penetrated reader

No matchups 😐

No OCs as main character/reader

Piggybacking again I will allow OCs as side characters

You may see mentions of my OCs as I love them

Some characters will be OOC and I have no shame about that 🤷🏾

All fanfics will have swears except for Miraculous

I'm bad at coming up with bad guys/villains so fandoms with baddies will take place during down time/right after a fight

I am slow and easily distracted so things will come out when I remember

My target audience is me first so if I don't like how a thing is turning out it won't be published

Again....this a masculine pronoun only blog. And before I get shit on by children and the feminine pronoun users........Fuck. Off. I'm here for the gays and theys. I've been on the internet for years and there's PLENTY of shit for y'all.

[anniciox2]

OMG FIRST TICKLE FIC IM SO EXCITED I've never written any kind of fanfiction what so ever so please go easy on me!!

The fic is about Courtney x Duncan so yeah I hope you enjoy! (Sadly I can't think of a title and English isn't my first language)

It's a warm summer afternoon,All the campers are cooling off in the lake.After a long day of challenges, this is MUCH needed. Everyone showed up except for one camper. This said camper is none other than: Courtney. And judging by her facial expressions she's not doing well, I wonder what could've happened?

As she walks towards her Cabin,she hear's rustling coming from a bush. As curious as she is she decides to ignore it,afterall, she's too upset to care. As she sits down on the stairs of the cabin porch she hears that rustling sound again,now she's getting a little spooked but she's still too scared to look. Its dead quiet, As she tries to calm down...she hears it: "CourtneeEeey" Her heart stops. "CourtnEeeEeey" the voice cries out once again

"w-who's there...?" She asked...no answer "c-cmon this isn't funny!" Once again,no answer. Again it was silent,the only thing that could be heard were the voices of the other campers in the distance "atleast THEY'RE having fun..." she thought to herself,but then her thoughts were interrupted,by footsteps. Just as she was to look behind herself..."BOO" Roared a familliar voice "AAGH!" Yelled Courtney.She couldn't see who stood behind her,she tried to block out the sun with her hand, Standing behind her was none other than Duncan. "What do YOU want?" She scoffed "Hanging out at the lake wasn't as much fun without you,princess" He said as he sat down next to her "Hey, why weren't you at the lake anyway?" No answer "Uh, hello? Earth to Courtney?" He said as he waved his hand infront of her face,grabbing her attention "Oh! Uh,well...none of your business!" She said "None of my business,huh?" We'll see about THAT" He said as he teasingly quickly tazed her side.

"AH! haha!" She giggled

"Hey...You're ticklish!"

"I most certainly am NOT" She declared

"Oh really...?" Before she could even notice,he quickly squeezed her side a few times in a row

"AH! Hahaha! Cut it ouhouhouhout!" She laughed

"No...way!"

Before she could even notice he placed his hands on her sides

" wha- DUNCAN, what do you think you're doing?" She said with panic

"Oh...just testing something" He said with the biggest smirk on face

Just as Courtney was about to say something, Duncan glided his fingers down her sides

"AH! Nohohahahahaaa~!"

"This is gonna be the start of something beautiful" He thought to himself while looking up

As he looked back down at her he started tickling her sides

"WAHAIT NO, AHAHAHAAAHAHA!"

He never thought he'd see her like this,it was actually kinda nice

Just as Courtney thought it could get any worse,Duncan switched over to her armpits

"STOHOHOP *snort* HAHAAHAHAHAA!" She begged

"AND you snort? Hah! Weirdo..." He said,even tho he thought it was kinda cute

"PLEAHEASE *snort* , ILL DO ANYTHIHIHING!!" She pleaded

"Is that so? Tell me why you didn't show up at the lake then!" He demanded as he continued to tickle her

"NO WAHAHAHAY!" She screamed

"Suit yourself! Tickle tickle ticklee~"

"NAHAHAHA *snort* HAAHAHA"

Duncan stopped tickling her armpits and tickled her sides again,as this was happening Courtney lost her balance and fell with her head on Duncan's lap

It made him blush a little,but he wasn't gonna let her off THAT easy

"Mind telling me...NOW?" He roared as he tickled her some more

"N-NEVEHEHER HAHAAAHAHA" She laughs as she curls up into a ball.

As Courtney's laughter fills the air, Duncan can't help but laugh with her

He then stops tickling her sides and puts his hand into the crook of her neck

"AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA *snort* NOT THERE!"

"What's the matter,princess,ticklish?"He teased

"HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHA *snort* STOHOP, PLEAHEAHEASE, HAHAHAA!"

Duncan wished this would never end,but unfortunately he HAD to let her live

"Alright,but only because I'm a decent person" He said

As he stopped tickling her he also took a break,his hands were pretty sore from all that tickling. As he looked back down he noticed she'd been staring

"You're mean...!" Courtney said as she got up and wiped her tears

"What can i say? I don't go easy on poeple"

"Okay but now you ACTUALLY have to tell me what happened, or else..." He said as he wiggled his fingers in the air

"Well uh, I feel like no one really appreciates what i do for my team and that everyone's apart of some inside joke that I don't get. I just KNOW that poeple think of me as "annoying", I didn't tell you cause i thought you'd laugh at me.."

"Yeah,you can be PRETTY annoying" Duncan said without hesitating

"Not.Helping." she said angrily

"What? I'm being honest"

Courtney looked down at the ground with tears in her eyes

"But!"He said "Nothing sucks more than thinking YOU'RE annoying. As long as you think that your good at what you do, then it's all good"

Courtney looked up at him

"You can be weird sometimes, but you always have so much energy for anything, I think that's pretty tough"

"You think..?" She asked

"I know" He responded

"..thanks,Duncan" She sighed in relief

"Anytime" He said calmly

"Anything else you wanne get of your chest?"

"Well,yeah there's few more things.." she said

"Well?"

"I'm.not.telling you!" She said confidently

"Back for more,huh?"

Hi! Thank you so much for reading ❤️ tips are welcome, Byee!!

[lonelynpc]

I’m a first aider and we’re told TQs are the best for big bleeds and don’t hurt. Do some research.

deleted my og post by mistake lmao but here you go, a brand new one on tourniquet pain:

i know there are a lot of tourniquet advocates out there but you need to understand that, if a tourniquet is properly applied, it really really fucking hurts.

tourniquets function by cutting off blood flow to a limb and are tied extremely tightly until you can no longer palpate a pulse in that limb. it is largely considered one of the most painful procedures in medicine.

best practice, where available, is to administer pain relief before and after application.

ever wonder why the windlass is locked in place under that hard bit of plastic and then covered with two a velcro straps?

it’s because people rip tourniquets off due to the pain. you’re not just compressing the vessels but everything in the limb. the tissue and nerves are being deprived of oxygen which is agonising. patients still feel pain even when there is a regional anaesthetic block in place.

you also need to think that the patient is already in pain due to the cause of a bleed so severe that it requires a tourniquet so adding something that is compressing the limb to that isn’t fun.

tourniquets can also cause permanent damage.

source: i am a doctor, below i will put some medical journals

here’s some quotes from medical journals about tourniquet pain:

“Many techniques like application of EMLA cream, infiltration with local anesthetics, use of wider cuff with lower inflation pressure, addition of opioids, clonidine, epinephrine along with local anesthetics in spinal block have been tried in order to decrease the incidence or severity of this pain but none has attained complete success in pain relief.” — Kumar, K., Railton, C., & Tawfic, Q. (2016). Tourniquet application during anesthesia: “What we need to know?” Journal of Anaesthesiology-Clinical Pharmacology/Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, 32(4), 424. https://doi.org/10.4103/0970-9185.168174

“After 30–60 min, inflation of a tourniquet is frequently followed by the development of a dull aching pain, despite adequate regional anaesthesia.” — Masri, B. A., Eisen, A., Duncan, C. P., & McEwen, J. A. (2020). Tourniquet-induced nerve compression injuries are caused by high pressure levels and gradients – a review of the evidence to guide safe surgical, pre-hospital and blood flow restriction usage. BMC Biomedical Engineering, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42490-020-00041-5

“A properly applied tourniquet is painful and this has experientially led to inadequate tightening or inappropriate pre‐hospital removal. The patient will require strong analgesia (for example, opiate or ketamine intravenously) after stabilisation of vital signs.” — Lee, C., Porter, K. M., & Hodgetts, T. J. (2007). Tourniquet use in the civilian prehospital setting. Emergency Medicine Journal, 24(8), 584–587. https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2007.046359

patients still feel the pain of a tourniquet while anaesthetised or under a regional block.

i would strongly recommend doing research on this. it is painful.

[kyledefoor]

KIA August 6, 2011

SGT Alexander J. Bennett

SPC Spencer Duncan

CWO Bryan J. Nichols

CWO David R. Carter

SSG Patrick D. Hamburger

TSgt John W. Brown

SSgt Andrew W. Harvell

TSgt Daniel L. Zerbe

PO1 (SEAL) Darrik C. Benson

CPO (SEAL) Brian R. Bill

PO1 (SEAL) Christopher G. Campbell

PO1 Jared W. Day

PO1 John Douangdara & Navy SEAL Dog “Bart”

CPO (SEAL) John W. Faas

CPO (SEAL) Kevin A. Houston

Lt. Cmdr. (SEAL) Jonas B. Kelsall

MCPO (SEAL) Louis J. Langlais

CPO (SEAL) Matthew D. Mason

CPO (SEAL) Stephen M. Mills

CPO Nicholas H. Null

PO1 (SEAL) Jesse D. Pittman

SCPO (SEAL) Thomas A. Ratzlaff

CPO (SEAL) Robert J. Reeves

CPO (SEAL) Heath M. Robinson

PO2 (SEAL) Nicholas P. Spehar

PO1 Michael J. Strange

PO1 (SEAL) Jon T. Tumilson

PO1 (SEAL) Aaron C. Vaughn

SCPO Kraig M. Vickers

PO1 (SEAL) Jason R. Workman