#Does it work?

[skulandcrossbones]

I know, I'm sorry. Oh I am joking.

TED LASSO S03E07: THE STRINGS THAT BIND US

[grouptale-bits]

Is there a lore reason for why Minnette and Aiden are so damn cute🤔?

So monsters don’t hit them as hard!

[arthurselopement]

purely theoretically

Would anyone be interested in reading tntduo fic AU in which they're living in an actual post-communist country and it's all with the aesthetic of brutalism, poverty, bureaucracy, power imbalance between social ranks, religious trauma, never-smiling.

Tntduo Dostoyevsky AU

[lilllybones]

I'm back in the fucking building again!

[artificialalienn]

Sick of the cute parental au with paultryck raising Tord as healthy attentive parents

Gimmie godfather Paul whos thrown the responsibility of some kid while hes tackling college. Neither are coming out alive

[aivilo93]

[ellaenchanting]

Hypnovember Day 20 : Transformation

The word didn't fit her.

She had once auditioned to play a dominatrix in her university production of the Vagina Monologues- stomping and strutting around the stage with all the sexual power of an 18 year old Southern Baptist/virgin.

She didn't get cast.

Probably for the best.

There was a classmate who spoke about topping men as if it were a feminist revolution but- honestly, her revolution was not having men involved at all. She fantasized about relationships of equals, without the power exchanges that came preloaded in heterosexuality. Most of her sexual experiences were the kind where "topping" as a concept would barely even made sense- a bad translation.

Dominatrixes knew different things. They could tie and spank and whip and torture. They hadn't read through a small town library's psychology section. They didn't spend time memorizing and writing inductions like they were magic spells. They didn't blush and make something up when their friends discussed their fantasies which were full of inoffensive imagery like sensually kneading bread with a partner.

(Except, she eventually found out, they did. At least some of them.)

"Hypnotist" worked because it was a clear thing she knew - something she had known for decades and had PROVEN she knew long before ever involving kink. Not something hurtful, but something playful. Something powerful. Something she wanted to push the limits of- see what was possible.

Something she would like HELP pushing the limits of, of course,

except no person in their right mind would volunteer to be pushed in that way.

So she thought.

She didn't have the framework to understand a power exchange yet- how scenarios could be set up and discussed. How there could be procedures and precedences to give everything structure- rules and boundaries and endzones.

She didn't know that something could be both campy playacting and extremely real at the same time-

the feelings, the bonding, the lingering effects-

all of it.

She didn't know that she could take a kinky label and still be entirely herself (even if a sometimes-exaggerated version of it). She wouldn't have to match her preconceived stereotypes.

She didn't know.

But she would.

(And eventually? She even learned that the thigh high black boots were pretty fun too.)

Thanks to @dommestic and @soundshypnotic and a bunch of folks who aren't around as much anymore and are unlikely to see tags.

Tagging @mentat101posts @thekinkycocktailclub and @jam-and-stuff who are following my Hypnovember still! It's a bit weird this year tbh- thank you for hanging in!

[oh-hell-help-me]

Day 22: Mistake

Trouble started exactly a week after the Incident.

Luigi still hasn’t stepped foot outside the castle, nor socialized as much as he did before, but even he knew that something seemed… off.

Maybe it was the way visitors seemed to increase, or the uptick of reports about trespassing that had been setting him off?

A part of him felt like it was leftover paranoia from… then, but after? When his feelings of being followed and watched proved to be actually happening?

It’s not paranoia when someone is really out to get you, after all…

Regardless, he thinks it has been a good week of practice being… whatever he is in the castle.

Unknown to him, that week of practice also meant a week of ‘ghost stories’.

Soldiers getting weirded out by moving shadows? Luigi realizing that he could literally merge into those shadows -and spending an hour stuck in them before plopping out.

Sudden strong feelings coming in unnatural pulses? Luigi being emotionally overwhelmed as he reads a death scene in a good book, or cuddling with Bowser.

Suddenly seeing ‘creepy’ glowing eyes watching castle-goers from impossible heights? Luigi using the castle walls to sightsee the people and landmarks in a new, interesting way that doesn’t require him to go outside!

Alas, he doesn’t know.

Bowser wasn’t particularly alarmed by the chatter going on… at first.

He knew some of those instances were definitely because of Luigi, if only because he’s on ground zero whenever Luigi does his Happy Beats.

It’s a big ego stroke, sure, but even Bowser had been alarmed the first time it happened.

He couldn’t easily forget the last time he felt that ‘pulse’.

He can imagine that his soldiers weren’t as lucky to know, or as quickly mollified by the fact that it came from Luigi.

In other words: a concern that needed an official meeting, especially if Luigi was going to stay.

(Thinking back on it, he should have immediately taken the time to tell them of these developments- or at least of what Luigi is…)

...

"My king, an audience has been requested with you."

It felt like any other time that he attended an audience.

"'Course." He wished he has seen the hints of Luigi's shadowy shenanigans, or at least caught his eyes- even if they ended up behind him.

"You may come in!" He wished that he looked at the way his soldier seemed on edge, at least so that he could take a hint on what was going to happen.

The ShyGuy pair that came in looked scholarly, wearing lab equipment and hauling in something under a thick sheet. They didn't show any visible alarm (not that it said much with them), so he didn't think much of the way they seemed to be closer to the throne than usual- in an angle that tends to kill the neck of whoever deigned to talk to him.

"State your buisness." He said it as was the custom, but it was enough to have the one wearing a lab coat address him.

"Your Majesty, it has come to our attention that you are plagued by the paranormal."

"...What?" He hasn't seen any Boos lately, and never in his castle without prep work for the Red Menace. "Last time I checked, there aren't any ghosts permitted here." Not without permission, after the Frozen Lava Incident.

The scientists exchanged unreadable looks. The assistant seemed to be reaching under the tarp and something about that did set off some alarm bells-

"Surely, you won't deny that there has been a haunting happening within your halls?"

"There's nothing to deny!" Bowser feels the back of his neck prickle as the scientists froze- just for a moment-

"I'm sorry, your Majesty."

There was a flash of white-

-paiNPAINPAINAGONYNO-

[mr-orion]

Ahhhh yes mutual you are smart and make big comedy joke about your very intellectual interest. I pretend I understand and give you a like so you think I am also cool and groovy with your interests

[wisyhana]

I'll say it.

Sure, the Universe is giving me all this work, so I don't have time to sit and work on comics because they know you'll be on the floor, begging me to stop all the feelings and emotions my art would give you. The rollercoaster of emotions you'd be stuck on...

The universe is trying to save you from me, so you're welcome, I guess.

[the-cooler-sidestep]

i slipped and bought sims 4: city living oops

[beeqisch]

im so awkward when making friends eughhh i either barely talk and sound rlly dry or cant stop yapping no in between

[crustaceansingles]

Juiceposting on CrustaceanSingles didn't start last week. Here's the first one I did back in 2019, revised for Remake Monday. (This first one is also closest to its two influences, memes from around 2016: "bone hurting juice" and "powder that makes you say yes". They're worth looking up if this kind of humor does it for you.)

[pourablecat]

L'il Vimes!

L'il Rosie!

[sophieswundergarten]

AU Where Nicholas runs away instead to that the Glenns will adopt Nathaniel