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Cowboy like me

Pieck Finger has been a sugar baby for the better part of a decade. After breaking up with her last rich boyfriend, her friend Jean Kirstein offers her the opportunity to meet and seduce one of the richest men in the world during a weekend celebration at a country club. There, however, she meets Porco Galliard, a sugar baby much like herself with plans for his own life. After they meet, however, their plans might be disrupted.

Ao3

“I heard from a little bird you got dumped,”

Pieck rolled her eyes at the sound of that voice, which had become utterly familiar after years working side by side. To be fair, he was not mistaken. The lack of the diamond bracelet gave it away; the one present she’d wanted to keep from was the one he’d taken away. Furthermore, the world of modeling was surprisingly small, and she guessed it wasn’t just the lack of diamond bracelet that had told Jean she’d been dumped by Leonard Walton.

Pieck turned to look at him, forcing herself to smile. She had to keep appearances; not for Jean -heavens knew she cared not for what he thought of her love life– she didn’t want the other models to see her distressed. They already hated her for being much smaller than the rest of them, some had gone as far as to complain to several brand managers. She did not want them to think she’d lost all pride just because of one rich bachelor.

“Mister Walton and I had different ideas of boundaries, Jeanbo, and decided to part ways,” she said, smiling at the girl that came with her shoes. Pieck tapped them against the floor, just in case one of the other models had not decided to tamper with the heels like the last time, in hopes of making her break an ankle mid-runway. She’d gotten fired from the brand the last time, and finding jobs was difficult enough with her height. “How about you? Did you manage to find your lady love in the crowd?”

Jean parted the back curtain only a millimeter, which was enough to get a glimpse of the front row of seats. It wasn’t hard for them to find her; the widowed Ackerman, gorgeous, young, dressed all in a red that accentuated the black of her hair, adorned in simple yet exquisite jewelry. “There she is.”

“Pretty as a flower, as per usual,” Pieck said. Gorgeous, and unattainable. Pieck would know, from that one party in which she’d tried to flirt with the widow. “When are you–”

“We’re not talking about her,” Jean closed the curtain, not before letting out a longing sigh. He was a romantic, and a fool, for allowing the object of his desire to be the most unattainable woman in the entire west end. “We’re talking about you and your plan to be a trophy wife.”

“Don’t talk that loud!” Pieck shoved him away. “Besides, I don’t want to be just a billionaire’s wife. I’d like to fall in love in the process and get my brand off the ground and onto magazines, thank you.”

“Ah, so you are heartbroken,” he teased.

“I’m heartbroken because Walton was my ticket to the MET this year,” Pieck sighed, folding her arms over her chest while she looked at the A listers walk down the runway; the skinny, statuesque women dominated high fashion without any difficulties. “All I wanted was that ticket to the MET. I had the perfect design in my head, as his plus one I could’ve gotten seen the way I want to.”

“Also you wanted that fancy car.” Jean pointed out.

“And the car, yes.” Pieck agreed reluctantly. It had been a pretty car, another unkept promise. If he’d only let her keep the damn bracelet, she could have sold it for a pretty profit, a profit that would’ve allowed her to live comfortably for a year or two.

“Did he at least introduce you to Anna?” Jean asked.

“He was going to, at the MET.” Pieck closed her eyes and suppressed a whimper, certain her make up was not waterproof. Eight months of putting up with constant chatter about stocks and horses wasted in Jonathan Walton. If anything was more painful than losing the bracelet that was losing Jonathan himself before the MET. “The long road will be, but I don’t know how long that will last me.”

“Huh?”

“You’ve heard our workmates,” Pieck scanned the room, feeling a shiver of unease travel her back. “They don’t think it’s fair I’m up here walking with them. It’s only a matter of time before designers get the same idea. I don’t know how long I’ll last.”

“It’s not like modeling is your main source of income,” Jean replied. Pieck knew she ought to have been offended. Mind you, she was no prostitute –not that she thought there was anything wrong with prostitution. She simply had her standards when it came to dating, and the size of people’s wallets was what mattered the most.

It was not her fault these men wanted to give her jewelry and presents, it was not her fault she agreed every time they asked her to come to Paris with them. They thought her pretty and her wit was an added bonus, and she liked their bank accounts.

She’d been reaping the fruits of her looks since the tender age of twenty, but at twenty (and twenty one, twenty two, twenty three and so on) one was not as careful with money as one should be. And so, Pieck had enjoyed the shopping and the pretty things, thinking that by the time she turned twenty-five, she would have made enough as a fashion designer to not rely on her looks and youth.

Alas, she was twenty seven now, and success was now staying on a diet for most of the year. But she wasn’t a supermodel, the type that enters the A list and stays there for good. No, she’d never been a natura. And despite that she had managed to squeeze some luxuries off some of the men she had dated, none of them had put her atop the pyramid.

Because the top of the pyramid is where you wanted to be. It was at the top of the pyramid where you no longer thought if things were a luxury or a necessity before you bought them, the people at the top of the pyramid never had to watch their fathers remain at the bottom of a wait list for a life-saving treatment, the people at the top of the pyramid never withered away and died from strange diseases.

“I’m getting too old for this,” Pieck muttered. “Walton was my last shot at the life I wanted…I don’t think I can take another man talk about the stock market.”

“What does that mean?” Jean asked.

“It means I might just move back home,” Pieck said with a disappointed sigh. “I have a friend that owns a boxing club. I might ask her to let me be a greeting lady, or maybe I’ll report the weather somewhere–”

“No, no, you’ve been working your ass off to get to where you are now,” Jean said, shaking her by the shoulder with the carelessness any good friend could have. “You can’t give up now.”

“I was supposed to be rich at twenty six; I’m middle-class at best. Do you have a rich guy with the right connections?” Pieck asked. “Or do you happen to be close friends with Anna, will you tell her that I make beautiful clothes and convince her to hire me, so I don’t have to starve myself to get a job?”

“I know where to find the guy,” Jean said, wiggling his eyebrows. “Why do you think I came looking for you the moment I heard you and Walton broke up? He’s single just now. A bit older and divorced, but–”

Pieck burrowed her frow. “Didn’t I tell you I’m tired of hearing about the stock market?”

“This guy is old money,” Jean went on. The word gave Pieck a pause. Old money, now that was a phrase she’d heard plenty. Like most everyone in their circles, Anna Darcy liked old money; she was drawn to it like bees to honey. Because old money meant connections that led to the highest spheres of society, blood as pure as water from a spring…people impossible to reach.

“Why would old money pay me any mind?” Pieck asked.

“He saw you in the Vogue issue this spring,” Jean said, putting both hands on his hips. “If I’m remembering correctly, he said you looked like an orchid, cute and delicate and all pink.”

“Wise man,” Pieck said, taking a breath as she looked back at the crowd, at the gorgeous woman sitting at the front row. “Did your lady love tell you what he said?”

“She’s not my lady love,” Jean replied, clearing his throat. “We’ve been friends for a while, and she enjoys my conversations. I-I knew her husband, Pieck, I don’t think she could ever see me as–”

“I don’t care, Jean,” Pieck would apologize for being rude later. For now, she didn’t want to hear about his love for Mikasa Ackerman, symbol of Hizuran beauty, widowed at twenty years old, now twenty five and still single. If he hadn’t made his move, that was his problem. She had bigger interests at hand. “Who’s the guy? Where is this magical, old money man that thinks I’m a water lily?”

“Orchid–”

“Whatever. Where is he?” Pieck insisted.

“His name is Willy Tybur,” Jean said. Pieck scanned her memories, realizing she’d heard the name before. The Tybur family was much more than old money; they were ancient money. Carved from the creations of king Midas’ hands, the Tybur family stood above the pyramid itself. Jean and his family stood below them, Mikasa Ackerman and the Azumabito clan stood perhaps a couple of steps below them, even Ana Darcy remained below them.

Pieck widened her eyes. “Jean, I can’t–”

“You can try,” Jean said with a shrug. “I mean, he did say you were lovely. You’re not losing anything by trying.”

“Where do I find him?” Pieck asked. “Where do you find a guy like that?”

Jean cleared his throat. “There might be a place, but it’s out of the city. And you have one shot during the weekend.”

“Speak, Kirstein, I’m listening.”

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“This is a lovely shade of pink, don’t you think, darling? It would go perfect with my new hair, and those eyeshadows I brought,” the woman loved to hear herself talk. She was a newly divorcée, thirty-two; tall, red-haired and gorgeous, with freckles coating the bridge of her nose and chest…freckles she seemed to hate. Although, to be fair, she seemed to hate a thousand little details about herself. Hence the constant trips to her surgeon and dermatologist.

Porco didn’t think there was anything wrong with her. She’d been gorgeous before the divorce, she was gorgeous now. But her ex husband had drained all of her self confidence, or something like that. In truth, Porco cared little. Her insecurities gave him more room to work on.

“What do you think, Pete?” she asked, turning to look at him. “Pink? Blue?”

Shut up already.

“Both,” Porco replied, forcing himself to smile. Why had he gotten into this again?

The money, dumbass, the money. Money made people act stupidly, and he was the living proof of that. But money was also good to buy yourself a ticket out of mandatory military service, the military service that killed brothers without a care. Despite it being a peaceful time, money was good to keep yourself out of that green uniform.

“Both?” she asked.

“Gorgeous with both,” Porco walked to stand behind her, thinking Marcel would have run out of breath from laughing when he took the scarves and put them over each og her shoulders. Are you a fashion advisor? he would have asked, in between snorts. “Your gorgeous face looks perfect in both,”

The woman blushed and tilted her head, placing a kiss on his cheek. “Why don’t we go for that customized watch? The gold watch with the encrusted diamonds.”

Porco smiled. Money also bought nice things, that part he would not deny. All he had to do? Stand pretty, assure whatever woman he was dating that she was the most gorgeous woman in the room, make her ego grow by knowing she had gotten him for herself. He’d been doing it since the tender age of eighteen; almost ten years, and he was a master at it.

Of course, doing something for so long meant he had a reputation, but Porco did not care. Some of these rich ladies seemed to love the thrill of the chase; they loved knowing they’d been caught in the claws of their blond casanova.

Porco contained the urge to cringe; he didn’t plan to do this forever. He just wanted to have enough money to retire, to buy his brother’s body back from the military and bury him in a peaceful meadow, not leave him in the middle of a military burial site. He was almost at five million; once he had that, he would be able to leave the high society circles for good.

“Martha warned me about your reputation, you know,” she said as they walked back to the vehicle, clinging to his arm as if he would run away at any moment. “She said you could bite…but nobody told me you’d be this sweet.”

“Being sweet is easy around you,” Porco lied, kissing the woman’s cheek before opening the car door for her. He ran to the driver’s seat; this car was what he’d been longing for. Once she gave it to him, Porco would enjoy it and their relationship for a few more months and then he would find her with her other lover (whom he’d had knowledge of since the beginning). Once he sold the car and the watches, he would reach his five million.

“Where to?” he asked.

“Home for a little alone time,” she said, squeezing his thigh. Porco smiled back; he enjoyed this part of his relationships. Every rich lady was so eager to prove they were the best at what they did, he always ended up having the most fun. “And then, we go to the tennis tournament.”

“Tennis tournament?” Porco said, scrunching up his face. “Is that what your friends are doing to start autumn?”

“It was the Azumabito woman’s idea,” she said, shaking her head. “I swear, that poor old woman does everything she can to keep that musty husband off her niece’s head. She knows she likes sports, so she decides to open the season with a tennis tournament. Fucking ridiculous.”

“Isn’t the husband dead?” Porco asked, driving up the road to her seaside mansion.

“It’s been five years, darling,” she replied, leaning against her seat and closing her eyes. “The one good thing about this season is that mister Tybur is going to be there.”

Porco raised both eyebrows. “Willy Tybur?”

“In the flesh,” she laughed. “Single and ready to turn any woman into royalty.”

Porco didn’t like the dreamy tone of her voice. He’d spent too many months dating her to be exchanged for old money. Not now, not when he was close to those five million…but rich people smelled fear, he knew that from trial and error. So, Porco leaned back against his seat and reached out to graze her thigh. “Do you reckon the Tybur sisters are gonna be there?”

“What?” she said, turning to look at him. Porco smiled; he still had her.

“Should we ask one of them to join us?” he said, smirking at her. “You know them, don’t you? You said a while ago you wanted a threesome.”

“With another man!” she laughed, grabbing his hand to kiss it. She shook her head and pouted, a gesture so utterly childish Porco almost let out an annoyed sigh. But that would not get him his car. “I’m not letting anyone take my plaything away from me.”

“I’m sure you won’t,” Porco replied. “But don’t let your plaything out of sight.”

“I won’t,” she said, kissing his hand some more. He didn’t need to be anything more than a plaything; she was the means to an end, and vice versa. Nothing more, nothing less. And Porco didn’t care; things had been like this since the first woman who had bought his ticket out of the military. He just wanted those five millions. That’s all he wanted.

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“Nicholas is a very smart young man, isn’t he?” Jean said, staring at the painting in front of him with wide eyes. The tennis tournament had been ruined by a stray cloud and while the country club’s staff put up the tent-like thing above the courts, all the rich had gathered in the art gallery. The Azumabito had a back up plan for every back up plan, it seemed, and this one involved selling the youngest’s artwork.

“My brother has always been very artistic,” Mikasa Ackerman replied. Like every occasion, she was the epitome of beauty, a sad doll carved out of marble and dressed in pale pink. “I think your sculptures are better, though.”

“Mine?” Jean cleared his throat, cheeks turning pink when he turned to look at the widow. The suave, charming man that was almost two meters tall and turned women into jelly turned into the most stupid, bumbling fool Pieck had ever seen whenever he was around his longtime friend. It was like a circus display. “I-I do some work but nothing as good as Nicholas.”

“You’re being humble on purpose,” Mikasa pointed out.

Pieck covered her mouth and snorted, drawing Jean’s attention. “What’s so funny?”

“Nothing,” Pieck said, shaking her head when she noticed Mikasa’s gaze on her. The Ackerman were pretty far up in the social pyramid, and she didn’t want her to think she was a lunatic. She’d been the one to tell Jean about what Tybur had said about her, after all. “I think I must’ve swallowed this champagne without care.”

“You need to be more careful,” Jean said, frowning.

“I know,”

“Would you like me to escort you to the bar?” Ackerman asked.

“Oh, please, no, lady, I’m enjoying the art conversation plenty,” Pieck lied. Jean had told her to remain near in case Tybur appeared; he’d brought her as his plus one, and Pieck recognized a couple of the models that hated her in the crowd. Jean was her shield, her viaduct to Ackerman, who was her transport to Tybur.

“Perhaps you should go get something to wash out the burning of your throat,” Mikasa insisted, playing with the silver bracelet around her wrist. Pieck opened her mouth to utter another excuse, but Mikasa stepped forward, standing between her and Jean. “It’ll be good for you, miss Pieck. If some of that champagne goes to your lungs, you could die.”

“Well, water won’t do much if it’s on its way to my lung, will it?” Pieck said, hoping her dark humor would bring a smile from Ackerman. But the widow was as awkward as they came, and she merely blinked, switching her focus between her and Jean until something beyond Pieck’s shoulders caught her eyes.

“Ah, William is here,” she said, letting out a sigh. Pieck turned around right away, recognizing a blond mane at the back of the room, surrounded by a crowd of assistants, bodyguards and his own entourage, which consisted of plenty of beautiful people. Willy Tybur was tall and pale; clearly older, but handsome for his years, his clothes and demeanor shouted old money.

“Mika,” Jean said. The widow turned around, a light shade of pink on her cheeks. “Can you do us the favor? You said—“

“He has a meeting with the close family friends first,” Mikasa said, stepping closer to Pieck to point discreetly at a door in the far back, showing her the layout of the club as an older sister would. “They have their drinks and talk, but not just anyone goes in. I’ll go say hi to him and mention you’re here. I’m sure he’ll want to meet you. He spoke wonders of your looks, miss Pieck”

“Thank you, lady Ackerman,” Pieck said; for all the time she’d been friends with Jean, she had never thought she would do a favor for her. It was a shame the Ackerman widow didn’t seem to have interest in women, Pieck thought, or anyone else. “Should I—“

“You must come with me,” she said, nodding.

“Should I come?” Jean asked. “Just to make sure he doesn’t annoy either of you?”

Pieck rolled her eyes. Ackerman was one of the most important single women in the west end, famous for not taking any man for five years already; no matter what Tybur did, he would not steal her away from Jean.

“Please, do so, my friend, but stay at a distance,” Mikasa said, taking a hold of Pieck to lead her towards the larger doors. They cut through the crowd without issues, with Jean at a wise distance. It was one of the perks of being under Ackerman's protective shadow. Mikasa stood before the doors, flattened the nonexistent wrinkles of her dress, and the door opened for her the moment she knocked.

“Mikasa!” a bearded man said from inside. “I didn’t think I’d get to see you. Rumor says you’ve been spending an awful lot of time in this year’s runway events. Trying to make peace with Ana at last?”

“Ana’s idea of me bothers me not,” Mikasa replied calmly. “Can I come in a moment?”

Ackerman disappeared behind the doors, giving her a reassuring door before crossing the threshold. From the look on Jean’s face, Pieck guessed he would have his ear glued to the door. Kirstein was rich, but not half as rich as Mikasa and the people of her circle. No matter how much he wanted to join her in her chat with Tybur, he would not be allowed to.

Minutes stretched endlessly while Pieck waited by the door. A couple of men passed by and greeted her; all good prospects, but none as connected as Jonathan Walton had been. However, Jonathan himself was nowhere near as well positioned as the godlike Willy Tybur; he was her ticket into her dream life, the ticket to a quiet lie of designing clothes in her studio, leaving home only to attend the events of her brand and fancy dinners.

Tybur wasn’t even bad looking. No, even from afar, Pieck had seen the angles of his face, his blond, soft hair. Older than her, he might be, but not at all bad looking. A recently divorced rich man was a prey for most, however, and Pieck did not want to appear too obvious, not with the A-list models glancing her way. She couldn’t be too obvious while waiting by the door; Ackerman’s favor would only take her so far, it would not protect her from sabotage.

So, Pieck walked towards a window, under the pretense of being distracted by the club’s staff working on covering the tennis court; sometimes, it was better to pretend to be dumb than to show your full potential.

Pieck faced away from the rest of the room, in hopes no one would approach her. The Azumabito had produced a string quartet, and Pieck she her face against the window frame when they began playing a familiar song, closing her eyes momentarily while humming the lyrics.

“A music lover, huh?” someone said next to her. Ah, so Ackerman had sent him her way. It was flattering to know such an important figure had gone through the trouble of seeking for her in a crowd. Pieck only hoped not many eyes were on them.

“My father used to play violin,” she said, eyes closed still.

“My older brother too,” he said. Pieck frowned. She’d studied the magazines well. Willy Tybur had older sisters, but no older brothers; it was part of his appeal, albeit not the eldest child, he was the eldest son of one of the richest families in the world. Was he trying to gauge how much she’d looked into his family?

“Music joins us together, it seems, mister–” her words dried in her throat when she opened her eyes. Although the man in front of her was handsome, with sharp lines on his face and a perky nose, golden hair and eyes the color of honey, he was no Willy Tybur. “I’m sorry…do I know you?”

“You do not,” he said, half sitting on the window sill to look at the court. He eyed the double gates with apprehension. “They’re gonna be a while, you know.”

“I’m just looking outside,” Pieck replied with a polite smile. “I’m not–”

“A…special friend of mine has a friend inside,” he started, sipping on his glass of wine, eyes glued to the door. “She knows by fact they’ll be in there for an hour.”

“Who is this trustworthy friend?” Pieck asked, doing her best to not let her polite smile disappear; she knew people would go to great lengths to get in Tybur’s graces. Pieck was using Mikasa to get near, another one might be using the pretty blond man in front of her as a decoy, to clear the way to Tybur.

“Robin Silverstone,” he said, taking a sip from his glass. Pieck dropped her arms at her sides, eyes wide and lips parted opened. Maybe she was not an A-list model, but Pieck was well aware of the gossip in the upper circles of the west end. Robin had won half of Silverstone’s assets in the divorce, and that included her ex-husband's antique vehicle collections, which she had insisted on taking just to spite him.

But the gossip was that she was dating a former military member, a young man with charm and reputation to spare. She eyed him from head to toe, recognizing the boyish charm in his expression, a face that spoke of a fire lurking underneath a still surface. But she’d dealt with enough men to know she would unnecessarily inflate his ego if she gave away that he was, in fact, rather handsome.

Just a pair of pretty, honeyed eyes, she told herself.

“I heard Mrs. Silverstone had gotten an interesting boy to spend her time with,” Pieck chose her words carefully. In the end, he was just another person of the same bunch, a hustler, a sugar baby, armcandy. She didn’t want to offend him, but she did not want him to think she thought him better in any way. “I can see she must be amused with you.”

“Not as much as she’d have you believe,” he said, letting out a soft chuckle.

“Where is your lovely lady?” Pieck asked in an effort to ignore the shiver his laughter had sent down her back.

“She is…with another interesting guy that does not arouse any suspicion in me, or that’s what she thinks,” he took another sip of his wine, and Pieck had to bite her lower lip to not giggle.

She had been there before, bidding for a rich man’s attention while competing with another young, pretty thing. It wasn’t good for your pride, and it was terrible for the purse. Sharing your boyfriend’s bank account with others was bothersome, to say the least, and she could see the annoyance in this man’s golden eyes.

“I’m glad to know I amuse you,” he said, making her blush in embarrassment. “Where is your date, by the way?”

“I came on my own,” Pieck said, smiling. He’d seen the amusement in her face and he’d gone for the comment that he thought would pinch her pride. Even worse, he’d figured out they belonged in the same group of people. How did Pieck know? Instinct, because she could see the recognition in his face, because it took one to know one and this man wasn’t dumb. Clever men could be so annoying. “Mister Tybur had a special interest in me.”

“You’ll be waiting for a while,” he rested the back of his head against the window frame, looking at the tennis court outside. But Pieck didn’t look alongside him; no, she focused her gaze on his jaw, so perfectly defined. “What’s your name, by the way?”

“Pieck Finger,” she said without qualms. There was no point in hiding her name, not when Mikasa Ackerman herself would pave the way for her to become Pieck Tybur in the near future. “You?”

“You can call me Galliard,” he said.

Pieck snorted. “That’s a last name. I told you my first name and last name.”

“I don’t think–”

“Is your first name weird?” Pieck asked with honest curiosity. Or perhaps her words did carry cheeky intent. She didn’t like clever, overly confident men. Willy Tybur would surely be like that –but Tybur was swimming in a couple of billions, this kid was a bandit just like her. “Is it something like Richard, Dick? Chad? Egsbert? Porco?”

Galliard narrowed his eyes, and this time Pieck couldn’t keep herself from giggling. “I hit the jackpot, it seems, mister Porco.”

She thought that blow to his ego would be enough to cast him away, to send him away to look for his girlfriend and allow her to breathe. She didn’t like it when men made her heart race, and this one in particular would be best to keep at a distance.

“You’re very clever, Pieck,” he said. Blood rushed to her cheeks upon hearing her name said so casually, but she held his gaze. A little blush was nothing to be embarrassed about; if anything, it made her look kinder, more approachable.

“I know, it’s one of my best assets.” she said with a tiny smile.

“Do you wanna dance?” he asked right away, setting his now empty glass on the window sill. His finger traced the edges of the glass once, the movement almost hypnotizing. Pieck forced herself to look away from his fingers dancing over the glass surface. Just a pair of pretty eyes, she repeated to herself. “We’ve got plenty of time to kill.”

“Dancing is dangerous, for people like you and I,” Pieck expected him to understand the meaning of her words. People like them weren’t free to roam and flirt with each other; their stability depended on being available to the right people. And they were not the right people for each other.

“We could dance away from everyone,” Porco suggested, focusing solely on her face. “It’ll take him an hour at least. It’s not like Tybur will come out at any moment.”

“It’s not like your lady love will be done anytime soon, huh?” Pieck asked, tilting her head sideways; his mouth curved upwards, revealing the hint of a dimple on the right side of his cheek, but his eyes remained skeptical. She was amusing to him, a way to kill time, a momentary interlude in whatever plans he had for his life.

Pieck’s smile widened before she could stop herself, which made his own smile become more sincere. He didn’t lose the skepticism in his eyes, though. No; she guessed that had been there for a long time, it was a shield that protected his true intentions, it was what added to his boyish charm.

“What do you say?” he asked, ever insistent. “We gotta kill time somehow.”

So, this was gonna be one of those things. Momentary snapshots of carelessness were dangerous for someone with a dating strategy as organized as hers, but unavoidable even if she recognized them from afar. She hadn’t had many, and rich men did take too long in their stupid meetings. Besides, she didn’t want her competition to see her waiting for Tybur alone; she didn’t want Tybur to think she was the type that was never approached by anyone at parties. And those golden eyes were the ripest honey, and Pieck perhaps was the weakest of bees.

“I’m doing this to kill time,” Pieck assured him. “It’s not going to be ‘a thing’ this weekend, alright? I’ve got my plans, and I’m sure you do too.”

“Same here,” Porco said with a shrug, offering her his hand. When Pieck took it, a shock of electricity traveled her arm.

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kurokoros · 4 years ago

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aot character names

@present-mel received an ask (sort of) about the origins of many SNK/AOT character names, and I got curious and decided to actually look into some of the character names and their meanings and origins. These are just characters from the 104th Trainee Squad, but let me know if you’d like me to do more characters!

Eren (Turkish) – Saint, Holy Man | Jaeger/Yeager (Germanic) – Hunter

Mikasa (Japanese) – Three Bamboo Hats | Ackerman (Germanic) – Fieldman

* possibly named after the unique pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which served as a flagship during the Russo-Japanese War

Armin (Germanic) – Hero | Arlert (???) – may come from the Norman French name Arlet, meaning ‘eagle’

Reiner (Germanic) – from ragin ‘counsel’ + hari, heri ‘army’ | Braun (Germanic) – Brown

Bertoldt (Germanic) – Bright Ruler, from beraht ‘bright’ + wald ‘rule’ | Hoover (Germanic - Anglicized) – from Huber ‘a large measure of land’

Annie (English) – Grace | Leonhart (French) – Lion Hearted, from Leonard ‘lion-bold’

Jean (French) – God is Gracious | Kirstein/Kirschtein (Ashkenazi Jewish | Germanic) – from kirsch ‘cherry’ + stein ‘stone’

Marco (Italian) – Warlike, from the Roman god Mars | Bott (Germanic - Frisian) – Messenger, from boto ‘to announce’

Sasha (Slavic, from Greek) – Defender, ‘helper of mankind’ | Braus (Germanic) – occupational name for a worker at a brewery

Connie (Latin) –from Constance ‘constant’ | Springer (Germanic) – from springen ‘to jump/leap’

Krista (Swedish) – Follower of Christ | Lenz (Ashkenazi Jewish | Germanic) – Spring

*Historia (Greek) – History, Tale | Reiss (Ashkenazi Jewish | Germanic) – occupational name for a dealer in rice, or from reis ‘branch’

Ymir (Norse) – in Nordic mythology Ymir is the ancestor of all jötunn, ambiguously defined creatures often associated with giants.

#aot #snk #attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin

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quierorodarnojodan · 4 years ago

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Estábamos bromeando con un amigo @mcdonneeli sobre que tenemos muchos ships similares si no casi todos, pero que irónicamente ambos nos peleamos por el mismo pj a usar y por eso jamás podemos rolear las ships xDD entonces me puse hacer la lista a ver que dice mi compatriota desalmado.

Anime/Manga

Axis Power Hetalia

Alemania x Norte De Italia

Austria x Hungría [♥]

Dinamarca x Noruega

España x Sur De Italia

Prussia x Hungría

Prussia x Austria [♥]

Bleach

Ichigo Kurosaki x Uryuu Ishida [♥]

Ikkaku Madarame x Yumichika Ayasegawa

Kyouraku Shunsui x Ukitake Jyuushirou [♥]

Carole & Tuesday

Carole Stanley x Tuesday Simmons

Cyborg 009

Jet Link (002) x Albert Heinrich (004)

Digimon

Ishida Yamato x Yagami Taichi [♥]

Dragon Ball

Goku x Vegeta

Durarara!!

Celty Sturluson x Kishitani Shinra

Kadota Kyohei x Izaya Orihara

Fairy Tails

Levy McGarden x Gajeel Redfox

FullMetal Alchemist

Maes Hughes x Roy Mustang [♥]

Get Backers

Kakei Juubei & Fuuchouin Kazuki

Haikyuu!!

Ooikawa Tooru x Iwaizumi Hajime

Haru wo Daiteita

Kato Youji x Iwaki Kyosuke [♥]

Hunter x Hunter

Hisoka x Illumi Zoldyck

Leorio Paladiknight x Kurapika [♥]

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Joseph Joestar x Caesar Zeppeli

Jotaro Kujo x Noriaki Kakyoin [♥]

Mohammed Abdul x Jean Pierre Polnareff

Kuroko no Basket

Atsushi Murasakibara x Tatsuya Himuro

Kiyoshi Teppei x Makoto Hanamiya [♥]

Midorima Shintaro x Takao Kazunari [♥]

Naruto

Uzumaki Naruto x Uchiha Sasuke

Hatake Kakashi x Umino Iruka [♥]

Haruno Sakura x Yamanaka Ino

One Piece

Eustass Kid x Trafalgar D. Law

Roronoa Zoro x Vinsmoke Sanji

Saint Seiya

Manigoldo x Albafika [♥]

Hyoga x Shun

Sailor Moon

Kunzite x Zoisite

Michiru Kaiō x Haruka Tenou

Sakura Card Captor

Touya Kinomoto x Yukito Tsukishiro [♥]

Shingeki no Kyojin

Erwin Smith x Levi Rivaille

Marco Bott X Jean Kirstein

The Prince of Tennis

Inui Sadaharu x Kaidou Kaoru [♥]

Tiger & Bunny

Kotetsu Kaburagi x Barnaby Brooks Jr.

Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru

Hotsuma Renjou x Shusei Usui [♥♥♥]

Cartoons

Adventure Time

Marceline Abadeer x Princess Bubblegum

Marshall Lee x Prince Gumball

Avatar: the Last Airbender

Jet x Zuko [♥]

Ed, Edd n Eddy

Kevin x Edd (Doble D)

Generador Rex

Rex Salazar x Noah Nixon [♥]

Happy Tree Friends

Lumpy x Russell

Shifty x Lifty

Splendid x Flippy

Scooby-Doo

Daphne Blake x Velma Dinkley

The Dragon Prince

Rey Harrow x Viren

The Legend of Korra

Korra x Asami Sato

Iroh II x Bolin

Voltron

Takashi "Shiro" Shirogane x Adam [♥]

Xiaolin Showdown

Chase Young x Jack Spicer

Series

9-1-1

Edmundo "Eddie" Diaz x Evan "Buck" Buckley [♥]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Angel (Angelus) x Spike (William) [♥]

Willow Rosenberg x Tara Maclay

Carmilla

Carmilla Karnstein x Laura Hollis

Class

Matteusz Andrzejewski x Charlie Smith

Common Law

Travis Marks x Wes Mitchell [♥]

Cobra Kai

Daniel LaRusso x Johnny Lawrence

Deadwind (Karppi)

Sofia Karppi x Sakari Nurmi

Downton Abbey

Tom Branson x Thomas Barrow

Richard Ellis x Thomas Barrow

Eyewitness

Lukas Waldenbeck x Philip Shea

Grey's Anatomy

Mark Sloan x Derek Shepherd

Hannibal

Hannibal Lecter x Will Graham

Hawaii Five-0

Danny Williams x Steve McGarret [♥]

Hemlock Grove

Peter Rumancek x Roman Godfrey [♥]

How to Get Away with Murder

Oliver Hampton x Connor Walsh

Iron Fist

Danny Rand x Ward Meachum [♥♥]

Julie and the Phantoms

Alex x Willie

Las chicas del cable

Francisco Gómez x Carlos Cifuentes [♥]

LazyTown

Sportacus x Robbie Rotten

London Spy

Alex x Danny

Merlin

Arhur Pendragone x Merlin

Once Upon a Time

Regina Mills x Emma Swan

Regina Mills x Robin Hood

Shadow and Bone

Aleksander / The Darkling x Kaz Brekker

Jasper Fahey x Kaz Brekker

Star Trek

James T. Kirk x Spock

Leonard MCCoy x Spock

Malcolm Reed x Charles "Trip" Tucker III

Stranger Things

Billy Hargrove x Steve Harrington

Teen Wolf

Derek Hale x Stiles Stilinski

The Alienist

Laszlo Kreizler x John Moore

The Boys

Billy Butcher x Homelander (John)

The Irregulars

Billy x Leopold

Sherlock Holmes x John Watson

The Order

Hamish Duke x Randall Carpio

The Umbrella Academy

Diego Hargreeves x Klaus Hargreeves

The Walking Dead

Daryl Dixon x Rick Grimes

The Witcher

Geralt de Rivia x Jaskier

Torchwood

Jack Harkness x Ianto Jones [♥]

Travelers

Trevor Holden x Philip Pearson

Vampire Diaries

Alaric Saltzman x Damon Salvatore

Warehouse 13

Helena G. Wells x Myka Bering

Películas

Cloud Atlas

Rufus Sixsmith x Robert Frobisher

Sonmi-451 x Hae-Joo Chang

Inception

Eames x Robert Fischer

Dom Cobb x Robert Fischer

Richie Tozier x Eddie Kaspbrak

James Bond

James Bond x Q [♥]

Rise of the Guardians

Sandman x Pitch Black

Star Wars

Baze Malbus x Chirrut Îmwe

Poe Dameron x Armitage Hux [♥]

The Old Guard

'Joe' Yusuf Al-Kaysani x 'Nicky' Nicolo di Genova

The Road to El Dorado

Tulio x Miguel

U.N.C.L.E.

Napoleon Solo x Illya Kuryakin

Libros

Harry Potter

Albus Dumbledore x Gellert Grindelwald [♥]

Harry Potter x Draco Malfoy

Blaise Zabini x Theodore Nott [♥]

Pansy Parkinson x Daphne Greengrass [♥]

James Potter x Severus Snape [♥]

Sirius Black x Remus Lupin

Shadowhunters

Magnus Bane x Alexander G. Lightwood

The Raven Cycle

Ronan Lynch x Adam Parrish

Richard Gansey III x Blue Sargent

Comics

DC Comics

Apollo x Midnighter

Clark Kent x Bruce Wayne [♥]

Diana Prince x Steve Trevor

Garfield Logan x Rachel Roth

Hal Jordan x Barry Allen

Pamela Isley x Harleen Quinzel

Jason Todd x Dick Grayson [♥]

Maggie Sawyer x Kate Kane

Roy Harper x Dick Grayson

Cassandra Cain x Stephanie Brown

Hernan Guerra x Kirk Langstrom

Michael Jon Carter x Ted Kord

Marvel

America Chavez x Kate Bishop

Azazel x Janos Quested

Gambit x Rogue

Erik Lehnsherr & Charles Xavier

Logan x Scott Summers [♥]

Natasha Romanoff x Bruce Banner

Shatterstar x Julio Richter (Rictor) [♥]

Steve Rogers x James B. Barnes [♥]

Theodore Altman x William Kaplan

Tony Stark x Loki Laufeyson [♥]

Vision x Wanda Maximoff

Wade Wilson x Peter Parker

Videojuegos

Assassin's Creed

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad x Malik Al-Sayf [♥]

Ezio Auditore da Firenze x Leonardo Da Vinci

Bayonetta

Bayonetta x Jeanne

Detroit: Become Human

Captain Allen x Gavin Reed

Connor, RK800 x Gavin Reed [♥]

Elijah Kamski x Gavin Reed

Elijah Kamski x Leo Manfred [♥]

Kara, AX400 x Luther, TR400 [♥]

Markus, RK200 x Simon, PL600 [♥]

Nines, RK900 x Gavin Reed

North, WR400 x Chloe, ST200

Ralph, WR600 x Jerry, EM400

Simon, PL600 x Gavin Reed

Devil May Cry

Dante x Vergil [♥]

Nero x V

Final Fantasy VII

Cid Highwind x Vincent Valentine

Final Fantasy XII

Basch fon Ronsenburg x Balthier [♥♥♥]

Kingdom Hearts

Saïx x Axel

Metal Gear

Solidus Snake x Raiden

Overwatch

Gabriel Reyes x Jack Morrison

Resident Evil

Chris Redfield x Leon S. Kennedy [♥♥♥]

Claire Redfield x Moira Burton

Jake Muller x Leon S. Kennedy

Jill Valentine x Chris Redfield

Jill Valentine x Carlos Oliveira [♥♥]

Jill Valentine x Claire Redfield

Rebecca Chambers x Billy Coen

The Evil Within

Sebastian Castellano x Joseph Oda

Podcast

Welcome to Night Vale

Carlos x Cecil Palmer

Crossovers

Samurai Jack/Johnny Bravo

Johnny Bravo x Samurai Jack

Canon x Oc

Deadwind (Karppi)

OMC x Sakari Nurmi

Downton Abbey

OMC x Thomas Barrow

Locke & Key

Tyler Locke x OMC

OMC x Duncan Locke

Lost in Space

OMC x Don West

Pokemon

OMC x x James

The Dragon Prince

Soren x OMC

The Irregulars

OMC x John Watson

The Lord of the Rings

OMC x Legolas

Political Animals

OMC x Thomas James "T.J." Hammond

Resident Evil

Jake Muller x OMC

Star Trek

OMC x Julian Bashir

Warehouse 13

OMC x Steve Jinks

Wizards: Tales of Arcadia

OMC x Hisirdoux "Douxie" Casperan

Duplas de Actores

Aaron Paul x Hugh Dancy

Bradley James x Colin Morgan

Chris Evans x Sebastian Stan

Daniel Craig x Ben Whishaw

Daniel Sunjata x Aaron Tveit

Dominic Purcell x Wentworth Miller

Edward Holcroft x Ben Whishaw

Gabriella Pession x Richard Flood

Gabriel Macht x Patrick J. Adams

Hanno Koffler x Max Riemelt

Jamie Dornan x Cillian Murphy

Jensen Ackles x Jared Padalecki

Landon Liboiron x Bill Skarsgård

Mads Mikkelsen x Hugh Dancy

Matt Davis x Ian Somerhalder

Michael Fassbender x James McAvoy

Rami Malek x Martin Wallström

Scott Caan x Alex O'Loughlin

Shemar Moore x Matthew Gray Gubler

Tom Hardy x Cillian Murphy

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centrumlumina · 5 years ago

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After a year away, I can now present the 2019 AO3 Ship Stats Top 100!

This list shows the 100 pairing tags with the most fanfics posted on Archive Of Our Own as of July 24 2019. There are 69 M/M pairings, 19 F/M, 3 F/F, 5 Gen and 4 Other. (Please note that on AO3, ‘Name & Name’ indicates platonic or familial ‘Gen’ relationships, while ‘Name/Name’ is used for romantic and sexual pairings.)

Of the 200 names on the list, 25 belong to women and 4 to characters of indeterminate gender, compared to 28 and 3 respectively in the 2017 list. There are 46 POC and 8 racially ambiguous characters, compared with 41 and 10 last year.

For more information on this project, please see the FAQ post. You might also want to check out the Top 100 pairings of 2017-2019 or the Top 100 Femslash Pairings. This stats series is also available on AO3.

A text-only version of the list is given below the cut.

Rank Change Pairing Fandom Works Type Race 1 0 Castiel/Dean Winchester Supernatural 79650 M/M White 2 0 Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Sherlock (TV) 59436 M/M White 3 0 Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski Teen Wolf (TV) 56021 M/M White 4 1 James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers Captain America (Movies) 43515 M/M White 5 2 Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling 33110 M/M White 6 -2 Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson One Direction (Band) 32449 M/M White 7 1 Steve Rogers/Tony Stark The Avengers (Marvel Movies) 30700 M/M White 8 9 Keith/Lance (Voltron) Voltron: Legendary Defender 27848 M/M Amb/POC 9 -3 Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester Supernatural 26287 M/M White 10 2 Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) 22515 M/M Whi/POC 11 11 Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood Shadowhunters (TV) 21224 M/M Whi/POC 12 -3 Merlin/Arthur Pendragon Merlin (TV) 21068 M/M White 13 33 Jeon Jungkook/Kim Taehyung | V Bangtan Boys | BTS 18118 M/M POC 14 27 Min Yoongi | Suga/Park Jimin Bangtan Boys | BTS 16849 M/M POC 15 -5 Sherlock Holmes & John Watson Sherlock (TV) 16630 Gen White 16 5 Dan Howell/Phil Lester Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (YouTube RPF) 15554 M/M White 17 -6 Blaine Anderson/Kurt Hummel Glee 15245 M/M Whi/POC 18 -3 Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter Hannibal (TV) 15214 M/M White 19 0 Sirius Black/Remus Lupin Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling 14755 M/M White 20 35 Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug Miraculous Ladybug 14477 F/M Whi/POC 21 18 Pepper Potts/Tony Stark The Avengers (Marvel Movies) 13847 F/M White 22 -9 Levi/Eren Yeager Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan 13567 M/M White 23 41 Kim Namjoon | RM/Kim Seokjin | Jin Bangtan Boys | BTS 13558 M/M POC 24 -10 Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies) 13418 M/M White 25 40 Jeon Jungkook/Park Jimin Bangtan Boys | BTS 13306 M/M POC 26 -6 Gabriel/Sam Winchester Supernatural 12661 M/M White 27 -11 Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalecki Supernatural RPF 12647 M/M White 28 9 Armitage Hux/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren Star Wars Sequel Trilogy 12275 M/M White 29 N Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren Star Wars Sequel Trilogy 12260 F/M White 30 N Keith/Shiro (Voltron) Voltron: Legendary Defender 12182 M/M Amb/POC 31 16 Loki/Thor Thor (Movies) 11533 M/M White 32 -7 Oliver Queen/Felicity Smoak Arrow (TV 2012) 11497 F/M White 33 0 Bellamy Blake/Clarke Griffin The 100 (TV) 11448 F/M Whi/POC 34 -16 Rodney McKay/John Sheppard Stargate Atlantis 11406 M/M White 35 -8 Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Emma Swan Once Upon a Time (TV) 11388 F/F Whi/POC 36 -5 Steve McGarrett/Danny "Danno" Williams Hawaii Five-0 (2010) 10901 M/M White 37 -11 James T. Kirk/Spock Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) 10895 M/M White 38 -6 Clarke Griffin/Lexa The 100 (TV) 10839 F/F White 39 -15 Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov The Avengers (Marvel Movies) 10810 F/M White 40 N Peter Parker & Tony Stark Marvel Cinematic Universe 10639 Gen White 41 -13 Harry Potter/Severus Snape Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling 10513 M/M White 42 53 Jung Hoseok | J-Hope/Min Yoongi | Suga Bangtan Boys | BTS 10433 M/M POC 43 -20 Clint Barton/Phil Coulson The Avengers (Marvel Movies) 10413 M/M White 44 -15 Ian Gallagher/Mickey Milkovich Shameless (US) 10131 M/M White 45 -15 Enjolras/Grantaire (Les Misérables) Les Misérables - All Media Types 9960 M/M White 46 N Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia 9855 M/M POC 47 -11 Captain Hook | Killian Jones/Emma Swan Once Upon a Time (TV) 9763 F/M White 48 2 Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling 9574 F/M Whi/Amb 49 -7 Mycroft Holmes/Lestrade Sherlock (TV) 9561 M/M White 50 48 Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor Supergirl (TV 2015) 9458 F/F White 51 -16 Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield The Hobbit - All Media Types 9374 M/M White 52 N Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia 9309 M/M POC 53 N Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia 9116 M/M POC 54 7 Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler Doctor Who (2005) 9081 F/M White 55 -17 Frank Iero/Gerard Way My Chemical Romance 9000 M/M White 56 -22 Zayn Malik/Liam Payne One Direction (Band) 8906 M/M Whi/POC 57 -13 Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru Haikyuu!! 8902 M/M POC 58 -18 Jack Harkness/Ianto Jones Torchwood 8779 M/M White 59 N Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens) Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett 8737 M/M White 60 -3 Loki/Tony Stark The Avengers (Marvel Movies) 8520 M/M White 61 -9 Castiel & Dean Winchester Supernatural 8339 Gen White 62 -13 Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper Sherlock (TV) 8301 F/M White 63 -20 Belle/Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold Once Upon a Time (TV) 8280 F/M White 64 2 James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers Captain America (Movies) 8088 Gen White 65 5 James Potter/Lily Evans Potter Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling 8029 F/M White 66 -12 Hinata Shouyou/Kageyama Tobio Haikyuu!! 7891 M/M POC 67 -14 Inquisitor/Cullen Rutherford Dragon Age: Inquisition 7694 Other Whi/Amb 68 17 Fox Mulder/Dana Scully The X-Files 7604 F/M White 69 4 Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling 7596 F/M Whi/Amb 70 18 Dean Winchester/You Supernatural 7457 Other Whi/Amb 71 N Jeon Jungkook/Min Yoongi | Suga Bangtan Boys | BTS 7452 M/M POC 72 -5 Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling 7441 F/M White 73 N Kim Taehyung | V/Park Jimin Bangtan Boys | BTS 7401 M/M POC 74 -29 Allison Argent/Scott McCall Teen Wolf (TV) 7393 F/M Whi/POC 75 -27 James T. Kirk/Leonard "Bones" McCoy Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) 7334 M/M White 76 -13 Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester Supernatural 7305 Gen White 77 -26 Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg The Sentinel (TV) 7152 M/M White 78 -20 Josh Dun/Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots 7085 M/M Whi/POC 79 -23 Arthur/Eames (Inception) Inception (2010) 7002 M/M White 80 16 Otabek Altin/Yuri Plisetsky Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) 6351 M/M Whi/POC 81 -19 James Bond/Q James Bond (Craig movies) 6307 M/M White 82 -13 Leo Fitz/Jemma Simmons Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV) 6234 F/M White 83 N James "Bucky" Barnes/Reader Marvel Cinematic Universe 6201 Other Whi/Amb 84 16 Peter Parker/Wade Wilson Spider-Man - All Media Types 6170 M/M White 85 7 Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski Teen Wolf (TV) 6110 M/M White 86 4 Uchiha Sasuke/Uzumaki Naruto Naruto 6104 M/M POC 87 -28 Marco Bott/Jean Kirstein Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan 6024 M/M White 88 -28 Clark Kent/Lex Luthor Smallville 6015 M/M White 89 N James "Bucky" Barnes/Tony Stark Marvel Cinematic Universe 5947 M/M White 90 -12 Alexander Hamilton/John Laurens Hamilton – Miranda 5889 M/M POC 91 N Jesse McCree/Hanzo Shimada Overwatch (Video Game) 5831 M/M Whi/POC 92 -20 Patrick Stump/Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy 5750 M/M Whi/POC 93 N Jon Snow/Sansa Stark Game of Thrones (TV) 5736 F/M White 94 N Brian Kinney/Justin Taylor (Queer as Folk) Queer as Folk (US) 5638 M/M White 95 N Kim Taehyung | V/Min Yoongi | Suga Bangtan Boys | BTS 5546 M/M POC 96 N Aaron Dingle/Robert Sugden Emmerdale 5471 M/M White 97 -29 Mary Morstan/John Watson Sherlock (TV) 5470 F/M White 98 -5 Poe Dameron/Finn Star Wars Sequel Trilogy 5436 M/M POC 99 -22 Inquisitor/Solas (Dragon Age) Dragon Age: Inquisition 5428 Other Whi/Amb 100 -13 America/England (Hetalia) Hetalia: Axis Powers 5301 M/M White

#ao3 #archive of our own #fandom stats #fandom statistics #racism in fandom #sexism in fandom #slash fandom #ao3 ship stats #things i made

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certified-soft-si-content · 5 years ago

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F/O List!!!

Thought I'd finally make one aha x

I am absolutely fine with you following me if we share an f/o, be that romantic or platonic!

Romantic F/Os (mains/currently focused ones are coloured):

Connor and Chloe - Detroit: Become Human (ship name: SamConChlo | Hearts of Red and Blue)

Peter Parker aka Spider-Man - Marvel (ship name: Sensed Souls)

Thirteen - Doctor Who (ship name: My Lucky Unlucky Number)

Max Caulfield - Life is Strange (ship name: Power of Love)

Lance Serrano and Takashi Shirogane - Voltron: Legendary Defender (ship name: Sky, Sea and Stars)

Blake Belladonna and Weiss Schnee - RWBY (ship name: Shades of Blue)

Steven Grant Rogers aka Captain America and Sam Wilson aka Falcon - Marvel (ship name: Stamwich | I'll Carry You)

Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins - Lord of the Rings (ship name: Tol and Smols)

Double Trouble - She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (ship name: Partners in Crime)

Adora aka She-Ra - She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (ship name: Princess Jock and Prince Nerd)

Soren - The Dragon Prince (ship name: My Stars Shine For You)

James T Kirk (Star Trek AOS) (ship name: Space Gays)

Eleanor Shellstrop - The Good Place (ship name: We Can Grow Together)

Jaskier - The Witcher (Netflix) (ship name: Song of Our Hearts)

Elsa of Arendelle - Frozen (ship name: Melt My Heart)

Lunafreya Nox Fleuret - Final Fantasy XV (ship name: Moon Dance)

Harleen Quinzel aka Harley Quinn - DC (ship name: Red, Black and Blue)

Christine Daaé - Phantom of the Opera (ship name: Say You'll Love Me Every Waking Moment)

Nyx - The Dragon Prince (ship name: Flying Together)

George Weasley - Harry Potter (ship name: Seorge)

Platonic F/Os:

Steve Harrington - Stranger Things (pairing name: Manly Backslaps)

Robin Buckley - Stranger Things (pairing name: Solidarity)

Will Byers - Stranger Things (platonic/found familial) (pairing name: You Don't Need To Be Fixed)

Joyce Byers - Stranger Things (pairing name: I Wish You Were My Mom)

Dustin Henderson - Stranger Things (platonic/found familial) (pairing name: Hair Ruffles)

Hank Anderson - Detroit: Become Human (platonic/found familial) (pairing name: You Are My Daaaad)

RK900|Nines - Detroit: Become Human (pairing name: Not My Type)

Gavin Reed - Detroit: Become Human (pairing name: Wonderland)

Simon - Detroit: Become Human (pairing name: Two Blond Twinks)

Markus - Detroit: Become Human (pairing name: I'll Fight For You)

Kara - Detroit: Become Human (pairing name: Give Yourself Credit)

Luther - Detroit: Become Human (pairing name: A Simple Thank You)

Chris Miller, Ben Collins, Officer Person, Officer Wilson, Tina Chen - Detroit: Become Human ('squad' name: More Than Rumours)

Merry Brandybuck - Lord of the Rings (pairing name: You Perplex Me)

Pippin Took - Lord of the Rings (pairing name: How Did You Eat Four)

Legolas - Lord of the Rings (pairing name: Reluctant Older Brother)

Scorpia - She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (pairing name: you need a better friend)

Bow - She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (pairing name: Not Princesses)

Princess Shuri of Wakanda - Marvel (pairing name: Always In Awe)

Janet - The Good Place (pairing name: Not Girls)

Chidi Anagonye - The Good Place (pairing name: Our Joint Decision)

Tahani Al Jamil - The Good Place (pairing name: Your Accent Is Worse Than My Accent)

Michael - The Good Place (pairing name: If Anything Happens To Her I'll Find A Way To End Your Afterlife)

Jason Mendoza - The Good Place (pairing name: You Okay There Buddy?)

Sean Diaz - Life is Strange 2 (pairing name: Someone To Watch Over You)

Daniel Diaz - Life is Strange 2 (pairing name: Not Quite Brothers)

Luna Lovegood - Harry Potter (pairing name: Pretty Odd)

Tenya Iida - Boku No Hero Academia (pairing name: Under Control)

Prompto Argentum - Final Fantasy XV (pairing name: Take A Shot)

Ignis Scientia - Final Fantasy XV (pairing name: Mother Birds)

Leonard "Bones" McCoy - Star Trek AOS (pairing name: Stressed Men in Blue Shirts)

Lie Ren - RWBY (pairing name: Comfortable Silence)

Jaune Arc - RWBY (pairing name: Shields)

Penny Polendina - RWBY (pairing name: Place In My Heart)

Jean Kirstein - Attack on Titan|Shingeki no Kyojin (pairing name: Platonic Jam)

#self insert community #self ship #self insert #self shipping #self shipping community #my f/o list #my f/os #f/o list #long post

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johnjpuccio · 5 years ago

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Review of “Copland: Billy the Kid,” complete ballet. Leonard Slatkin, Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Naxos 8.559862

Was there ever another composer who so captured the American spirit as Aaron Copland (1900-1990)? His fellow composers referred to him as "the Dean of American composers," his having written such classics as Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, The Red Pony, Fanfare for the Common Man, Of Mice and Men, Our Town, and Billy the Kid. And what conductor has done more to advance the cause of musical Americana than Leonard Slatkin? Leonard Bernstein perhaps? Michael Tilson Thomas, Eugene Ormandy, Erich Kunzel? I dunno. In any case, before this recording with his Detroit Symphony, Slatkin had already recorded Billy the Kid at least twice, the previous releases being with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC Music) and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (EMI, Musical Heritage Society, and Warner Classics). This time, however, he does the work complete.

Copland wrote Billy the Kid in 1938 on commission from Lincoln Kirstein, a noted New York impresario and cofounder of the New York City Ballet. The music became an instant success, incorporating as it does several well-known folk and Western tunes and telling an episodic story more about the Wild West in general than specifically about the notorious outlaw William H. Bonney (born Henry McCartney).

To read the full review, click here:

https://classicalcandor.blogspot.com/2019/08/copland-billy-kid-complete-ballet-cd.html

John J. Puccio, Classical Candor

#Classical Music #Classical Music Reviews #Classical Music Albums #Classical Music Album Reviews #Music #Music Reviews #Music Albums #Music Album Reviews #Ballet #Copland #Slatkin #Detroit Symphony

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lady-bertrams-pug · 8 years ago

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10 faves

I got tagged by @attack-on-stalking, @zaevran (and I think ages ago by @mongoose-bite) to name 10 faves from 10 fandoms, and tag 10 people.

1. Shingeki no Kyojin: Jean Kirstein. Grows from troubled teen to troubled leader. Do I need to mention I love to mess with him?

2. Voltron Legendary Defender: Hunk. My painfully underestimated little brother.

3. Harry Potter: Luna Lovegood. Underneath that quirky surface there are levels and levels of kindness and brains and courage and badassery... I don’t know if I want her as best friend or wife. Ideally, both.

4. Discworld Novels: Tiffany Aching. Will take no shit and will drag you around by your balls.

5. In These Words: Keiji Shinohara. Wall-to-wall charisma, looks that could kill... abuser, kidnapper, serial killer - or isn’t he?

6. Star Trek TOS: Dr. Leonard McCoy. Legendary sassmaster. 12/10 Done With Your Shit.

7. Star Wars: Leia Organa (or Princess Leia or Senator Organa or whatever you wanna title her)

8. 19 Days: He Tian. Just look at this asshole. What’s not to love?

9. Lord of the Rings: Tom Bombadil. Still mad they left him out of the movies.

10. DC Comics: Wonder Woman. What girl doesn’t dream of flying around, beating up scumbags and putting Superman in his place?

I tag @captain-levi-ackerman @pinkheichou @kiokushitaka @chromehoplite @z-ayauitl @erwin-smith @sugarplum-senpai @overmyfreckledbody and @pretty-eyes-jaeger (all of you, only if you want to!)

#tagged #attack-on-stalking #zaevran #10 faves #10 favorite characters

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Video Friday: Human-Drone Interaction, Soft Robotics, and Basketball Robot

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Photo: Asahi Shimbun via YouTube

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!):

US National Robotics Week – April 7-17, 2018 – United States

Xconomy Robo Madness – April 12, 2018 – Bedford, Mass., USA

NASA Swarmathon – April 17-19, 2018 – Kennedy Space Center, Fla., USA

RoboSoft 2018 – April 24-28, 2018 – Livorno, Italy

ICARSC 2018 – April 25-27, 2018 – Torres Vedras, Portugal

NASA Robotic Mining Competition – May 14-18, 2018 – Kennedy Space Center, Fla., USA

ICRA 2018 – May 21-25, 2018 – Brisbane, Australia

RSS 2018 – June 26-30, 2018 – Pittsburgh, Pa., USA

Ubiquitous Robots 2018 – June 27-30, 2018 – Honolulu, Hawaii

MARSS 2018 – July 4-8, 2018 – Nagoya, Japan

Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today’s videos.

We were at the 2018 Human Robot Interaction conference all this week, and on Wednesday, there was a special video session. The audience, who was provided with popcorn, voted by applause, and here are the top three videos.

“Social Interaction With Drones Using Human Emotion Recognition,” by Eirini Malliaraki, Imperial College, London.

The proposed demonstration suggests a mapping function for human interpretable drone motions corresponding to the five human emotional states (i.e anger, happiness, sadness, surprise, and fear), using the personal drone’s movements (i.e, changing speed or rotations) instead of anthropomorphizing it.

“Perceptions of a Sof Robotic Tentacle in Interaction,” by Jonas Jørgensen, IT University of Copenhagen Denmark.

Soft robotics technology has been proposed for a number of applications that involve human-robot interaction. This video documents a platform created to explore human perceptions of soft robots in interaction. The video presents select footage from an interaction experiment conducted with the platform and the initial findings obtained.

And the winner:

“Social Relationship Development Between Human and Robot Through Real-Time Face Identification and Emotional Interaction,” by WonHyong Lee and Jong-Hwan Kim from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

We developed an interactive humanoid robotic platform with a real-time face learning algorithm for user identification and an emotional episodic memory to combine emotional experiences with users so that the robot can differentiate its reactions to users according to the emotional history. In this video, it is demonstrated how a robot can develop a social relationship with humans through the face identification and emotional interaction.

[ HRI 2018 ]

I don’t play basketball, so I tend to assume that shooting free throws is a cinch. This robot proves me right, I think.

The robot was made by 17 volunteers from Toyota Technology Association, a sort of hobby club. It’s not directly affiliated with Toyota the company, as far as I can tell, but the robot is intended to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the company. Apparently, it’s modeled on “an inspiring character named Hanamichi Sakuragi (桜木花道) in a very famous Japanese anime called Slam Dunk.”

[ Asahi ]

ANYmal carries an onboard microphone with which music can be perceived. The beat of the music is analyzed and a suitable sequence of dance motions is choreographed. The desired and real motion trajectories are compared such that the delay between music and motion can be minimized.

[ ANYmal ]

At some point, robots that can quickly solve Rubik’s Cubes kinda stop being relevant. Like, the solving part is totally incidental to the impressive thing, which is fast manipulation, but there are way more impressive things that you can do with fast manipulators than just spinning the sides of a cube around.

Having said that, the engineering is really quite interesting, and worth a look at the link below.

[ Blogspot ]

This “corporate video” from Suitable Technologies is worth watching for approximately 5 seconds worth of what appear to be Beam prototypes, including one with what looks like a front-mounted leaf blower (?)

[ Suitable ]

If you’re at SXSW next week, you can “engage in Jedi Battle with 2 UR5 cobots equipped with Robotiq 3-Finger Adaptive Robot Gripper and FT 300 Force Torque Sensor.” Here’s a preview:

[ Robotiq ]

You’ll have to crank the volume way up to hear the commentary, but it’s worth it to listen to the researchers giggling while trying to use their squishy robot fingers to mildly molest bizarre deep sea creatures.

[ Harvard Wyss Institute ]

Very nice to see Uber doing the sensible thing with its self-driving freight trucks: let the autonomous systems handle the dull but well defined highway driving, and then let humans take over for the last few miles of driving, which require the greatest amount of skill.

[ Uber ATG ]

It doesn’t get much more gratuitous than drones vs. airsoft, especially when the drones are launching explosives.

[ Team BlackSheep ]

Far above the Earth, Canada’s space robotics helped assemble the International Space Station, an orbiting outpost that pushes the boundaries of science and human knowledge. Canadian expertise in the design and development of robotic systems like Canadarm2 has found new applications inside the operating room. In partnership with MDA, Synaptive Medical developed Drive, a robotic imaging system that increases surgical efficiency and shortens patient recovery time.

[ CSA ]

In the FIRST LEGO League tournament, middle school teams mentored by Penn Engineering students worked to design and build robots related to the theme of water.

[ GRASP Lab ]

A compliation of PAL Robotics’ TIAGo manipulating stuff. Loving the red.

[ PAL Robotics ]

Virtually explore a Mars simulation facility used by engineers to practice operating NASA’s InSight lander, slated to launch in May 2018. Hear from engineer Marleen Martinez Sundgaard as you explore the In-Situ Instrument Lab at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and see how the spacecraft will deploy its seismometer.

[ Mars Insight ]

Students in CMU’s Introduction to Robotics course build LEGO robots for urban search and rescue. Gotta save those minifigs!

[ CMU ]

The MIT Intelligence Quest will advance the science and engineering of both human and machine intelligence. Launched on February 1, 2018, this effort seeks to discover the foundations of human intelligence and drive the development of technological tools that can positively influence virtually every aspect of society.

[ MIT ]

We’ve written about Aaron Parness and the innovative gripping systems he builds for robots at JPL. Aaron gave a talk about his work at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, and brought along a few robots to demo. And there were some adorable geckos, too!

[ Aaron Parness ]

This week’s CMU RI Seminar comes from Naomi Ehrich Leonard at Princeton University, on “Bio-inspired dynamics for multi-agent decision-making.”

I will present distributed decision-making dynamics for multi-agent systems, motivated by studies of animal groups, such as house-hunting honeybees, and their extraordinary ability to make collective decisions that are both robust to disturbance and adaptable to change. The dynamics derive from principles of symmetry, consensus, and bifurcation in networked systems, exploiting instability as a means to flexibly transition from one stable solution to another. Feedback dynamics are derived for the bifurcation control, a variable representing social effort, such that flexible transition is made a controlled adaptive response.

[ CMU RI ]

In this week’s episode of Robots in Depth, Per interviews Franziska Kirstein, a human-robot interaction researcher at Blue Ocean Robotics.

Franziska Kirstein talks about her experience as a linguist and in Human computer interaction. We get to hear about what works and what doesn’t when non-engineer users are tasked with teaching robots different movements. Franziska also describes some of the challenges with kinestetic guidance and alternative methods that can be used. She then talks about some of the projects she is involved in, including one in robot assisted health care and one involving social robots.

[ Robots in Depth ]

Video Friday: Human-Drone Interaction, Soft Robotics, and Basketball Robot syndicated from https://jiohowweb.blogspot.com

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