#Dangerous Liasions

[forgettablebrat]

Madonna 1990 MTV Music Awards «Vogue»

[theadorableapprentice]

If I Loved You Less

MC x Solomon Warnings: Fluff Word Count: 1,218

A/N: Wow! I finally got the will to write again! It's probably a bit OOC but whatever. I still think it's cute. I promise I have other stories planned that aren't just for Solomon. I will write about another character eventually.

You and Solomon had gotten yourselves into quite the situation, and you blame Satan. Well, not really, but it was you thinking of him that got you into this mess. 

You had seen a book while at a little store Solomon took you to. It looked old and probably cursed. Sounded perfect for Satan. He’d love it! The only problem was it was on the top shelf and you couldn’t find anyone to help you grab it down. So of course, like the smart person you are, you tried to climb the shelf. It looked like it was connected to the wall, so you thought it was stable enough. And it worked for a minute.

“MC, what are you doing up there?” Solomon had asked with a sly grin.

That was all it took to startle you and cause you to fall backwards, still holding the book. Solomon caught you, and then suddenly, you were no longer in the store, which brings you back up to speed.

“Solomon… Where the hell are we, because it isn’t the Devildom.” You stared at the sky through the trees, which was bright blue with the sun in the sky. 

Solomon was busy studying one of the trees you had appeared by. “Well, I can confirm this place is real, not an illusion.” 

“Well, we should go try to find our way out of here before night falls. Which direction should we go?” You asked, looking around. It was just trees every direction you looked. 

Solomon shrugged and started walking. “I have a feeling we should go this way.”

It didn’t take long before you came across a small cabin. “Should we knock and see if anyone’s home to help?” You asked. For some reason, you felt drawn to the cabin.

Without answering you, Solomon walked right up and knocked on the door, but it swung right open. “I take it nobody is home.” 

“Solomon, be careful. It might be a trap!” 

“Don’t worry MC. I don’t sense any magic in here. And this looks like our only chance at some sort of safety in this forest. It can’t be that bad.” With that, Solomon walked into the cabin. You stayed outside, nervous for him. “MC, come take a look at this,” Solomon called from inside the cabin.

You cautiously walked into the cabin and over to the kitchen counter that Solomon was standing by. There was a piece of paper on the counter. There were three quotes written on the paper, both of which you recognized.

The first read, “Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same...If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Strangely, this was exactly how you feel about Solomon.

The second read, “As I got to know you, I began to realise that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. I was drawn in by it. I didn’t understand what was happening to me. And it was only when I began to feel actual, physical pain every time you left the room that it finally dawned on me: I was in love, for the first time in my life.” Dangerous Liasions by Choderlos de Laclos. You didn’t know it, but this was exactly how Solomon felt about you.

The third read, “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” Emma by Jane Austen. 

After reading the three quotes, you turned to look at Solomon. He looked like he was studying the paper and the quotes intently. He had the paper in one hand, and with his other he was holding his chin. A soft smile crossed your face.

Solomon looked up at you. “I am guessing the book you were grabbing in the store was cursed and when I touched you while you were holding the book, it transported us here. This is a clue about how to get home, is my best guess. The book is clearly one that has love as a theme. Now we just need to figure out what it wants for us to go home.”

You guys spent days at that cabin trying to determine what should have been obvious to you both. But it was nice, this slice of domesticity with Solomon. 

There was only one bed in the cabin so you two had to share. You enjoyed waking up everyday to his sleeping face with his arm around your waist. He always looked so peaceful in his sleep. As if there wasn’t anything troubling him. But why would there be? He was sleeping next to the only person he truly trusts and he has them in his arms. 

You avoided Solomon cooking for you by asking him to work on figuring out the paper. But getting to cook things for Solomon was nice. And somehow, the cabin always had the ingredients for exactly what you wanted to cook. The two of you washing dishes next to each other was comforting in a way.

Slowly, over the week, you guys stopped paying as close attention to the meaning of the paper, enjoying just living in each other’s company and getting a break from the outside world. That was, until Solomon made a horrible joke.

“God, that was awful Solomon. You’re lucky I love you.” The words just came out without you thinking about them. 

“MC… Did you just-” Solomon cut himself off. “That’s it… That’s the third quote.” 

“What’s the third- oh… Oh.” 

You and Solomon look at each other. “The second quote, it’s how I-”

You cut Solomon off. “The first quote, it’s how I feel about you too.”

“I think the book wants us to stop dancing around our feelings and finally admit we love each other.” Solomon was looking at you. His gaze was intense but soft at the same time. You didn’t know how he could do that. 

“I think you’re right… So I’ll go first. Solomon, I am completely, unequivocally in love with you. Your turn.”

Solomon hesitated. “MC… Could you be happy here with me?” Solomon didn’t want to go home. He didn’t want all of your time to be taken up by the brothers and the royals again. He wanted a world where you were happy and with him.

“Yes, I could… But Solomon, we don’t belong here.”

“Could we just stay a little longer? I just want you to be happy with me for a little longer.” Solomon almost looked vulnerable. 

You gave him a small, soft smile. “Solomon, I could be happy with you anywhere. Let’s go home.”

Solomon nodded, a smile crossing his face. “MC, you have my whole heart. I love you too.”

There was a flash of light and you were back in the store, in Solomon’s arms and holding the book.

“Remind me to not just randomly touch cursed looking books next time. As great as that was, we’re lucky we didn’t end up inside out or something.” 

You laughed, looking up at him. He smiled and leaned his head down to kiss you. Yeah, you were gonna keep this book for yourself. 

[qdbs-writes]

May I have a slightly strange request?  Raiden and Fujin's reaction to their crush suddenly saying "God save Johnny Cage" (the reader and Cage are friends and this phrase just escaped by chance and was not even intended for anyone in particular)

nonny, i promise you this is like the least strange thing i've had in my inbox lately

Fujin and Raiden React To Their Crush Saying "God Save Johnny Cage"

It was like any other day in the Sky Temple, or, as normal as the Sky Temple could be. In the last few weeks, you'd been setting up your friendly neighbourhood Shinto deities with some more modern Earthrealm technology, the latest edition being a TV. It was nothing fancy, an old Goodmans 1408 that you had lying around. The real challange was hooking it up to modern channels. After some percussive maintenance, you tune the CRT TV to a talk show featuring Johnny Cage. The storm brothers gathered behind you, enchanted by the flickering screen you had brought to life for them. The interview itself was relatively dull, with Johnny being asked about his latest movie or suspected liasions with other Hollywood actors. It was until the interviewer mentioned one of Johnny's costars, an actor who'd been publicly outed as transgender, and asked if Johnny could ever work with the 'dirty, immoral liar' again. The three of you watch as Johnny begins to shout at the interviewer, screaming that they had no right to say that about his costar. The arguement continues until Johnny punches the interviewer across the jaw, before turning to the camera crew and live audience to speak about the importance of trans rights. But he could only get a few words in before the program cuts off, with a 'We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties' message. The storm Gods share a look while you nod your head proudly. "God save Johnny Cage." you mutter. You didn't have time to think about the nuances of what you had said in front of the two Gods, but decided that it was more amusing to let them come to their own conclusions.

Fujin

Recently Fujin had been building up the courage to reveal his feelings towards you. He was sure of how he felt but painfully unsure of how to go about it. He had asked his brother, Raiden, who was little help. He had even asked other Earthrealmers, although he did his best to hide your identity as the object of his affections.

Fujin knew one thing, that if he couldn't tell you, then he absolutely couldn't tell any of your friends, what if they stepped in? What if they said something to you that gave you a bad opinion of him? What if someone stole your heart first?

There were far too many ways it could all go terribly wrong. And now he was even more confused. "God save Johnny Cage", what did those words mean? Well he knew what they meant, but why would you say them?

Fujin was a god, did you want him to save Johnny? If that were the case, Johnny didn't seem to be in any danger. If you really cared that much about Johnny, maybe it's time Fujin confessed his feelings for you before it's too late.

When the two of you are alone, Fujin will drop to his knee dramatically, "I vow to protect Johnny Cage for you, because since the day we met, I have loved you, and I will do all in my power to make you happy, even if you love another."

Fujin emotionally braces, expecting rejection, but instead hears your delighted squeals as you wrap your arms around him, saying how you love him too, pressing soft kisses to his cheek.

Raiden

For the last few months, Raiden had been delicately calculating how to best start a relationship with you. Part of that was navigating how you felt about others, and if he had any competition to worry about.

From what he had seen, your relationship with Johnny Cage was platonic at best. But Johnny was also more experienced in courting techniques and had succeeded in gaining many partners over his short, mortal lifetime.

Raiden's heart sinks at the idea that perhaps Cage's charm had reached you through the television, ensnaring you enough to make you say "God save Johnny Cage".

He knew the meaning behind that saying, he wasn't a complete fool. To ask a god to save someone was a verbal decleration of your devotion to someone, your pride in them, how you wish their lives to be long and happy.

Weren't all those things the sum of love? Those were certainly all the things Raiden wished for you. For you to suddenly feel this way towards Cage... The only explaination was the TV, clearly a cursed device that you must be protected from.

Que Raiden launching the TV over the nearest balcony when you aren't looking, if you ask where it went, Raiden will feign ignorance and instead invite you for a walk in the gardens, offering his arm for you to take.

[beautifulsavagegarden]

'oh, i like it when you're scary.'

@infinitusvoces

Armand smiled and it was a transformative smile, the soft that brightened his expression in a very flattering way but the glint in his eyes spoke of something different; of hunger and desire and danger. Angel and devil in one. He slowly advanced on Daniel, fully intending to back him up against the wall. Daniel liked it when Armand was scary. It was by no means a surprise, certainly not a revelation. Armand could tell by Daniel's bodily reactions in their previous liasions and by the gentle thrum of Daniel's thoughts, the pleas and desires that begged to come to the surface. Armand liked Daniel begging, liked his lover on his knees and looking up at him with those deep, beseeching eyes. Love him, hurt him, wreck him and love him all over again.

"Is that right?" He asked, his voice quiet but carrying an almost lyrical quality to it, everything about his movements speaking of the hunt, the pursuit of a seduction. "In that case, I will gladly be terrifying." He stopped once he had backed Daniel to the wall, leaning in just enough that he could hiss in Daniel's ear without physically touching him in the places Armand's fingers wanted to touch.

"Run my beautiful boy, run."

It was not a request.

When I find you, you will beg me to break you.

The hunt was on.

[topcat77]

Rene Magritte

Dangerous Liasions, 1934.

[daisyjules1011]

Your smile took a dangerous step

Into unchartered territory

There's a thin line between vivaciousness and depravity

Am I willing to cross it?

Unhook my morality,

From the pegs of society

You are a vision in black and white

Must you always disappear when the day meets the night?

Come over, to the side beyond the lakes

Where nobody sees and nobody exists

To the far side of the ocean,

Even the sharks are fearful

What do the stars and waters and rainbows

know about love

They are, but, just a glimpse of it

I promise you, they aren't here to unsettle us

The kaleidoscope of your eyes

Betray your emotions

I thought I was the timid deer

I see, the lion has been tamed

And even the sheep laughs at his tail

If I unclasp your fingers and cut open your tressure trove chest,

Would I find my name or your dangerous liasions?

Would it be my lingering scent or your trepidation?

Forget the musings from the past

Missed calls are welcome in the land of forgotten bygones

As we feast on strong wine and achings of adoration,

I'll only call you 'dear' once and never again

A lover's name once said,

is forever intertwined in heart strings and future destinies

[wulfhalls]

Have you seen the 80s movie Dangerous Liasions? If so, any thoughts on it?

i watched cruel intentions and sarah michelle gellar and ryan phillippe not ending up together not even kissing made me über suicidal for a month straight. their scenes were SIZZLING. they can't even let the pseudo incest win 🙄

[widgenstain]

Re: top 5 ask game - What are your top five books?

I almost had completely melted into my train seat when I saw this, sorry for the delay! 😅

According to my special book shelf my fave books are

Marlen Haushofer, Wir töten Stella (We kill Stella) it's a collection of dark dark DARK novellas, utterly timeless and perfect.

Truman Capote, In Cold Blood. Do I really have to say more?

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eyes, God this is beautiful, touching and real!

Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liasions, I'm a SUCKER for people doing their evil little things that ruin everyone else.

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, see above, only this time it's from the pov of the people whose lives are ruined.

[nonpienary]

Just remembered The Magnus Protocol exists and have listened to the first 10 episodes.

Spoiler-adjacent thoughts under the cut (if you haven’t listened to The Magnus Archives especially)

Really loving the design of the office the characters work at as a tool for Beholding. Vibes are exquisite. What I really like is how it attracts 3 kinds of people:

- The ones who won’t last, who are thus expendable little fear batteries

- The ones who will dig too deep like Colin and Sam, making them prime targets for becoming Avatars or for big bursts of Beholding-flavored fear (when you know you’re in too deep but you can’t look away)

- The ones who will last a long time due to compartmentalization and a resistance to digging deeper, like Alice, who serve as catalysts to those like Sam by being the voice that reminds them they shouldn’t be digging, that it’s bad and dangerous (so when they do it anyway they feel that tension more)

I almost think Lena was conceptualizing Gwen as the third type, and her deciding to give her the External Liasion job was due to her realizing she might be closer to the second.

[weclassybouquetfun]

Taron and Edward Holcroft hung out again today.

I was hoping that when Holcroft's IMDB profile pic was updated it meant he would be coming out with a project soon. Doesn't appear that way.

He seems firmly in his Ben Barnes era of making music.

I'm not saying Alex Pettyfer is a worse actor than Edward Holcroft, but I am saying that Alex Pettyer's foot and mouth disease ran through him and left people hating him so much that when I AM NUMBER FOUR (in which he played Number Four) came out on DVD, all the ads were focused on Number Six played by Theresa Palmer. Even with this Alex has never stopped working. You may have never seen these projects, you may have never even *heard* of them, but he does work.

And he just wrapped working with Guy Ritchie, so...who is his agent and can they take Edward on?

-One Edward Holcroft coworker who is working is Ben Whishaw whose PASSAGES, a love-triangle drama directed by Ira Sachs, will open Toronto's Inside Out film festival.

Ben and costar Franz Rogowski

On Thursday BAFTA will be holding a livestreamed discussion between Whishaw and Will Sharpe.

Do I have to watch THE WHITE LOTUS, Will?

I get it, Sophia. I do.

Ben will also (eventually) be seen in BAD BEHAVIOUR written and directed by Alice Englert (Starz' DANGEROUS LIASIONS) and starring Englert, Whishaw and Jennifer Connelly.

[texasdreamer01]

WIP Wednesday!!

Idiot’s guide: 💡😄

Theorems: 💡, 🎭, 🤝

Idiot’s guide: 💡😄

💡 What gave you the idea for this one?

Radek pinwheeling at something sparking in front of him, and Carson also panicking about it, when he's off-world and John just asking him if it's his first time off-world. It really kind of gave me the impression that Rodney - maybe? - did that at first, but while he still gets all wound up with anxiety, he still realizes all the overhead dangers of doing his job during a mission and prioritizes accordingly.

I don't really see very many people from the science departments going outside Atlantis for anything, and really, what kind of training do they have? Who would train them? Probably Rodney, and probably whatever he thinks is most important to know, since he's not only on the flagship team but their CSO - John can't really do it other than advise on what skills he thinks someone on a gate team would need to know as a civilian, and Elizabeth has only second- and third-hand context about the realities of a gate team.

😄 What part are you most excited to write?

It's so far my only fully-outlined fic in SGA haha, so I'm excited to write all of it. But, without giving a good chunk of plot away, I'm really looking forward to Rodney playing hide-and-seek.

Theorems: 💡, 🎭, 🤝

💡 What gave you the idea for this one?

The Last Man, and wondering 1) how much detail John gave about being so far in the future - probably a fair amount, given everyone's reaction to Woolsey, and 2) what lessons Rodney believed he learned about that, with the assumption that Rodney would take every one of those alternate universe deaths personally because so far that tracks (see: Doranda, personal shield device, the siege, the ascension device, etc).

🎭 What do you hope readers of this fic are going to feel?

This is my main fic for figuring out Rodney as a character, so from my end it feels very clumsy, but I want to see Rodney without the canon writers' lens and how he actually fits in as a person to Atlantis. He works closely with Elizabeth, he's on the flagship gate team with the military commander and the expedition's XO/main cultural liasion (Teyla), he's responsible for everything technological about the city to literally keep it floating and institute safety protocols for anyone touching potentially hazardous technology (even if he ignored it for himself- also, why did he do that?), he's the boss of maybe(?) a third of the expedition before things get to Elizabeth.

What does all of that mean for how he's perceived? Dramatic yelling to people before Tao of Rodney aside, how does he interpret his own job? What does he think is needed of him, and how does that colour his interactions? Who is he, when you strip away all of those little societal obligations and nuances? What kind of person is he, after that, when you throw him into circumstances that tests his mortality? I want readers to think of those questions while reading this, and if we come to the same or similar conclusions.

🤝 Share a snippet that describes a physical sensation

The memories of McKay's voice in his ear when he had been delirious from fever haunted him, in the same way the touch of his parents' kisses upon his brow haunted him, or the press of a pen into his skin instilling new patterns. It was familiar, and soothing, and McKay had known exactly what to say.

[drmobiusvanch]

reading les liasions dangereuse via the dangerous liasions daily archive and pingponging between 'hngh rakes hot mean girls hot', 'god the dynamic between valmont and merteuil is EVERYTHING', and 'YOU BASTARD!!!!!' w every sentence

[17meltedcandles]

Ty for the tag!💗

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[dearly-dreaming]

The vibe for reader in my upcoming Dream of the Endlessly smut fic 🥁🥁🥁

Dangerous Liasions.

[such-a-fellow]

dangerous liasions daily has me on the edge of my seat skghkdfgh. i know the overall plot of dangerous liasions but i hadn’t gotten around to reading it before, this is SUCH an ideal format for it; i love waking up to emails from french nobles saying things like “i can’t believe you’re trying to fuck a churchy married woman that’ll be such boring sex she doesn’t even DRESS well” “of course she doesn’t dress well she looks best THE LESS CLOTHES SHE’S WEARING. CHECKMATE LOSER”. pinnacle of literature. peak trash

[emmysrandomthoughts]

Dangerous Liaisons- All or Nothing

The Founders Ball is here, the most important event in faction society. Though pleasant on the surface,all isn’t as it appears between the Dauntless and the Erudite.

Jade and Eric finally have the moment it’s taken over 30 chapters to reach :) 

long AF chapter ( over 13K) Light smut, profanity, the usual :) 

A03 - All or Nothing

FFN - All or nothing

Excerpt: 

Blood roars in my ears, thinking I must be hallucinating. Still at a loss for words, I try to form a coherent sentence. Our hearts once more pound in unison, with Eric the one to now wait for a reaction. Desperately trying to gather my wits about me, I take a deep breath.

“E-Eric …you don’t have to…I don’t expect…I…I…”  I truly don’t know what to say or do right now.

Determination sets in for him, as he cuts me off immediately. "No, Jade. Don't do that. Don't dismiss it. I said it, it's out, and this is a conversation we need to have, and should’ve had a long fucking time ago.”  

He holds my hair firmly, giving me no choice but to look at him, silently pleading to hear him out.

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