#RoF

[clowns0up-felix]

Question what did the magical rocc taste like?? Did it taste like sugar crystals??

Rock sadly did not taste like sugar crystals 😔

That’s just roughly what I think they’d say, might change one day hahaha

I forgor to draw Zelda’s triforce symbol, whateverrr

Thanks for the ask!

[d1gnan]

"room on fire" by the strokes inspired custom bracelet

[avenging-fandoms]

I want to lay in bed with Pedro. Nothing funny, just soft touches, kisses, and full belly laughter.

An early morning rise where neither of you planned to wake up early but you did anyway. And since you both were up, you just decided to stay awake.

Pedro laid on your chest with your hand on his back. “I seriously need to remember I’m not 21 anymore when taking shots”

You laugh and Pedro smiles. “You took so many! You couldn’t handle it” you hum and Pedro sighs. “I like drunk Pedro, he’s silly”

“How silly?”

You two shared dumb drunk stories for about an hour, making each other laugh until your stomachs hurt. You two ended up on your backs staring at the little window in the ceiling and watching the nest of birds.

Pedro’s right hand rubbed over your stomach as he rolled on his side, kissing your jaw softly as he pushes it to the left.

He kissed behind your ear and you feel his smile against your skin. “I love that tattoo”

He kissed down your neck and you looked at him, kissing him desperately. “If I kiss anyone one of your tattoos, it’s gonna be your thigh” you hum into his mouth and his fingers brush over your chest.

“Be my guest, princesa”

[carnation-damnation]

[dilf-in-peril]

Who would do such a thing, just go out there and tell lies?

[dontaskchaosandco]

Drawing poll: danmei edition (part 2)

[mylnalbum]

~ Completed Suits ~

Realm of Foam: The Whale’s Light

[trekkerac-art]

[moralchampion]

Trick or Treat!!! :D

Have this thing that is above 100 words and definitely above 3 sentences so doesn't really qualify but anyways hope you enjoy :]

Asking Dani to marry him had been the best decision Jorge had ever made. Looking into his eyes, knowing that he was about to make this, make them forever was beautiful. Jorge knew it would be, but he couldn't have imagined just how perfect it would be. Even if Marc and Alex were stood behind them as their witnesses, definitely both smiling just as bright as they were, nothing could distract Jorge from his soon to be husband. He carefully lifted the others hands, placing a soft kiss on them before sliding the ring onto his right ring finger, looking into Dani's eyes and saying the magic words. Dani did the same, lifting his hands, kissing them and placing the ring on his finger. And when he said the words back, he was finally allowed to kiss his now husband. Jorge's hands immediately went to Dani's cheeks and he pulled him in for a soft kiss, ignoring Marc and Alex cheering in the background but he could feel Dani's soft smile at their friends' antics

[zacfoss1001]

Stearns is a bit of an over-powered mary sue, but i still love the series so much

Currently rereading Eric Flint's 1632 and reflecting on just how influential Flint was to me and my approach to both praxis and politics as a teenager. I found Flint when I was about thirteen or fourteen, around the time I found Pratchett I think, and he's left an equally wide thumbprint on my soul. Isn't that the most wonderful thing about stories, that people you've never met can help shape our adult selves? Mother of Demons I often recommend for its SFF worldbuilding--Flint built a species with at least four genders, only some of which are reproductive, and associated "normal" sexual orientations, and then proceeded to write in a textually intersex character and queer the hell out of it.

1632, though, is the one where a little West Virginia town in 2000 gets picked up and dropped in the middle of Thuringia, Germany in the eponymous year--right in the middle of the Thirty Years War. The local United Mine Workers of America chapter plays a major role, particularly its head.

As I write this I'm listening to the scene where the little town of Grantville, having admitted after a few days that they are probably not ever going home, is crowded into the high school gymnasium listening to the mayor lay that reality out and suggesting an interim council to help the town set out a sort of constitutional convention so they can work out what on earth they're going to do moving forward--especially since there's a bunch of displaced refugees collecting in the forests nearby. Sensible of them, really; the Americans murdered the shit out of the local soldiers that displaced them, on account of how the shaken mine workers that went out to figure out WTF happened not being super down with suddenly running into a bunch of fuckheads raping the locals and torturing people to find out where their valuables might be. After that, said Americans proceeded to retreat into the town boundaries and gibber quietly to themselves. I would go lurk in their woods, too.

Anyway, the mayor sets up this proposal, everyone agrees, and a CEO who was visiting for his son's wedding at the time steps forward and says: look. I know how to lead, and I'm probably the most qualified person here. I lead a major industry corporation effectively and I did that after my time as a Navy officer. I put myself forward because I'm qualified. Now, we're going to need to circle the wagons to get through the winter, tighten our belts, but we can get through this. We can't support all these refugees, though; we'll have to seal the border so they can't bring disease--they're a drain on our resources we can't afford--

and the UMWA guy, he gets really mad listening to this. There's this Sephardic refugee woman he's real taken with who got swept up in the town first thing, and she's sitting in and listening; he's thinking about throwing her out, thinking about how much she knows about the place they're found in, and he's furious. But he gets a good grip on his anger and he marches up and he says, look. This dude has been here two days and he's already talking about downsizing?! You're going to listen to this CEO talking about cuts, cuts, cuts? Nah. Trying to circle the wagons is probably impossible, it's stupid, and if you think my men and I are going to enforce that, you can fuck off. That proposal is inside out and bass ackwards. We've got about a six mile diameter of Grantville here; how much food do YOU think we're going to grow? How about the soldiers wandering around, do you think we're going to be able to fight armies off on our lonesome? Look at the few refugees we already have in the room, they'll tell you how those armies will treat you! We could do it for a while, the amount of gun nuts here, but so what? We don't have enough people to shoot them! Not if we're going to do anything else to keep us going! We have about six months of stockpiled coal to keep going, and without another source or getting the coal mines working, we're screwed. We have technical strength but we don't have the supplies or resources we would need to maintain it. Those refugees? They're resources. We need people to do the work we will need to keep ourselves. The hell with downsizing; let's grow outwards! Bring people in, give them safety, see what they can bring to the table once they've had a moment! He invokes: send us your tired, your poor!, and the CEO yells in frustration: this isn't America! so he yells back "it will be!"

And of course everyone cheers. I love Flint for many reasons but he is unapologetic about affection for the America of ideals--ideals, he freely admits, that are often honored in the breach rather than the observance, ideals that are messy and flawed, but nevertheless ideals that can work to inspire us to become the best version of ourselves. For Flint, history is as valuable as a source of stories to inspire ourselves as it is a repository of knowledge, and on this I tend to agree with him. We must learn from our moments of shame but equally we must learn from moments that show us how to be our best selves.

It's been twenty three years and the text is now an interesting historical document in its own right, hitting points and rhythms in beats that are sometimes out of place today. It's not perfect. But the novel contains a commitment to joy and to emphasizing the leaps of faith and understanding that regular, everyday people make every day to try and support each other that I routinely try to match in my writing.

Anyway, one of the strengths of the novel, I think, is its gender politics: it's a very ensemble kind of novel, lots of characters, and it's preoccupied with positive masculinity in a lot of ways. There's a lot of these hyper masculine characters--Mike Stearns perhaps more than anyone else--and--and...

... And Flint's characterization of Stearns, as he sketches out who the man is--his pivotal American leader, ex boxer, working class organizer, big man.... well, it lands equally on "he is delighted and astonished to find a local woman who quickly assesses how the cushion of air in tires works," and "he considers who to set up a Jewish refugee in the middle of Germany up with and he thinks to ask the Jewish family he grew up with to host her and her ill father because he thinks she'll be most comfortable there", and "he views people as potential assets rather than potential drains." A younger man asks him for advice on whether to pursue a professional sports career because of the boxing and he says no, you're in the worst place of not being quite good enough and you'll blow out your knees without accomplishing safety. He frames that interaction such that he allows his own experiences to make him vulnerable and invite the younger man to understand when a struggle have worth it.

It's actually a really deft portrayal of intense masculinity that also makes a virtue of a bunch of traits more usually associated with women: empathy, relational sensitivity, the ability to listen. As a blueprint for what a positive masculinity can look like, vs the toxic kind, it's very well done. I think sometimes when we look at gender roles in terms of virtues, and when masculinity is defined in terms of opposition to femininity, people get lost by arguing that virtues assigned to one gender are somehow antithetical to another gender. In fact that's never been the case: virtues are wholly neutral and can appear in any gender. What the gender does is inflect the ways we expect that virtue to appear in terms of individuals' actions within their society.

Gender isn't purely an individual trait, basically; it's a product of our collective associations. Two characters with different genders can display the same virtues and strengths, but we imagine them expressed in different ways according to our cultural expectations around gender. And I just think that's neat.

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[yourfavoritewitchbitch]

I love him, your honor!

Ring of Fire

a biker!Steve au

Part 1: I went down, and the flames went higher - 5k Part 2: More than words -4.3k Part3: tba

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Nightmare Steve

Summary: It's the mid-90's, and we get to see life through the eyes of biker Steve, in a parallel universe called Hawkeye. He’s a lover and a fighter and a sad boy at his core. He also works at Eddie's garage alongside biker Hopper and can be spotted on Saturday mornings at Patsy's Diner having breakfast with his ride or die Robin. When I first posted the teaser for this, I thought it would be the same world as I'm on Fire, but as I started writing, this Steve had a different story to tell, in a different place, with some new characters.

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18+ONLY, friends to strangers to lovers, there will be plenty of warnings for this series, as it is inspired by biker media I've enjoyed over the years, but Steve is a real softie, and it will also be an ode to my love of all things abandoned. Unprotected sex, violence, angst, some gore, weapons, mention of incarceration, sex work, fighting, illegal activity, cheating (not on reader) etc.

[mylnalbum]

~ Completed Suits ~

Realm of Foam: The Dragon Pearl