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Crusaders Sighting Jerusalem by Edwin Austin Abbey

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1959 England

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Gold Standard

Standard x afab!Reader • Rating: 18+ pals Masterlist• ao3• want to be tagged? | request info • Kinktober 2024 Masterlist • Day 15: Slow and Soft

Summary: A night with Standard.

A/N: Thank you so much @thexsanctuaryx for beating and saving me as always!

Warnings: kissing, pet names, swearing, p in v sex, multiple orgasms, cream pie, please let me know if I have missed a warning!

Word Count: 512

Standard’s hips move lazily, but his grip on the headboard and your hip is firm. His fingers pale under the pressure as he forces himself to keep pace, to not speed up from those long, drawn-out thrusts. 

You gasp, moaning and holding onto his shoulders and back for dear life. His name falls from your lips after every breath, your mind numb to everything but the feel of his body against yours. 

He groans in your ear, sweat beading on his skin. “Baby… fuck,” he bites his lip, trying to focus and not to lose himself to how you pulse and squeeze and flutter around his cock. 

It’s too good, all too good. The pleasure tightening and twisting at the base of his spine. You’d come twice already, once on his mouth and once on his cock and Standard was determined to the point of madness to make you come just one more time. 

“Please,” you whimper, your voice weak, your thighs burning from the repeated movements of matching his thrusts. Everything is so warm, and sweet. Syrupy and thick, and you can’t tell where he starts and you end. 

Every deep grind has you seeing stars and your back arching. He pulls out, the sound of your slick obscene, until he is barely inside and then pushes back in before you can even lament the loss. He rolls his hips up as he sheaths himself completely, rocking against your clit and moaning when you cry out. 

He’s so close he can taste it, pleasure burning on the edge of his vision, threatening to pull him down and obliterate him at any moment. 

“You got one more in you, baby?” He purrs, his voice thick with the strain of holding back. “I know you do.”

You swallow, whining softly as he keeps moving.

“Please?” His tone is so soft, pleading and it makes you weak. 

Your thighs tense, shaking as you sob at the building pressure. The pleasure sinking into your muscles and pulling you further and further down. 

He moans heavily, his hips faltering for just a moment before he quickly rediscovers his rhythm. “That it, baby, that’s it… you can do it,” he gasps, his mouth open as he screws up his eyes, “taking me so well, letting me fuck you for hours, you gonna let me come inside? Hmm? Gonna let you fill you right up?” 

Your cry is music to his ears as you come, pleasure flooding your blood with endorphins as you tense and buck mindlessly, riding out your orgasm. 

Standard swears, sinking in deep and shuddering as you writhe. His breathing catches in his throat on his own moan, pleasure rushes up to tackle him as he drowns in bliss. He comes hard, keeping himself as close to you as possible as he spurts, and fills you to the brim. 

“You okay?” You ask, your voice sleepy but happy as you stroke his back. 

He nods, kisses your neck and cheek. He gives you a cheeky look, “give me a second, and we can go again.”

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Plant of the Day

Friday 20 September 2024

This specimen of Cotinus 'Grace' (smoke tree) has been grown on a single stem. This vigorous deciduous shrub has purple leaves which turn reddish colour in autumn, and has feathery pink plumes of flowers that resemble smoke especially when backlit.

Jill Raggett

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People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

Friedrich Nietzche

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Standard Super 10

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Standard Vanguard 1949. - source Classic and Modern Show Cars AU.

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My Favorite Cards of 2024: Bloomburrow

The year is pretty close to over, so let’s go back over the sets released this year (with new cards at least), and go through a few of my favorite cards from that release. I’ll group together stuff released together, in this case it’ll be the main Bloomburrow set, and the commander precons. Extra reprints as courageous critters or special guests might also get a mention. I’ll probably go through one set a day for the next week, though I might skip some days for personal reasons.

I'll start with a bunch of talents that I like, a stellar second outing of the Class type in this set, outshining even their first appearance in D&D. In constructed, limited and commander, they impress and have a range of different designs, and I like them very much.

Offspring was also a very neat ability, and it's always nice when we get something to extend new abilities in a more open fashion, to older cards and sets. Of course, Zinnia goes infinite with Palinchron, but so does a worn down half-tire. Maybe someday I'll even build a deck around Zinnia, but we'll see, I tend to come back to sets a year or two down the line.

I love creative clones, and Mockingbird delivers! And a one-mana clone that can scale definitely hits the mark, a clone you never overpay for is a really good concept, and this was a good way to execute on it without shirking color.

Staying with birds for a bit, Scrap Trawler is a fun design that unfortunately breaks in half with a look. Adding colored mana certainly helps Jackdaw Savior lot, and restricting to flying creatures also narrows down what can enable it significantly. The dream of combining this with a Broodmoth or Valkyrie's Call to create oodles of value out of dying creatures is also a neat addition.

A new Wood Elves always deserves a mention, and one that can grab nonbasics definitely solidifies its role. Clifftop Lookout will stick around in commander decks of mine for years to come, at least until they print much better cards. Plus, it has sneaky reach, gotta respect the sneaky reach that will save my life at some point.

Still on frogs, Dour Port-Mage is here to exemplify the "leave the battlefield without dying" ability that was granted to frogs and was an excellent way to make an ability that's both narrow and a bit open-ended. There is some play in how to achieve that, yet it's pretty unique, and happens to play well in the colors with bouncing, which ties it well with Frogs, but also blinking, exile removal, tucking, and more. Overall, it allowed them to mostly do regular creature things, having ETBs and all, yet still feel like they belonged to the Frogs' synergies.

Gift is a fun ability that works well in both 1v1 and takes a new political dimension in multiplayer (mostly commander). Cruelclaw's Heist is a nice version of the two mana hand attack spell with upside, allowing it to be hand attack that isn't dead when the opponent is empty-handed, lowering the downside of its gift, and gift becomes even more fun in multiplayer when you can gift a separate opponent you're targeting.

Sunspine Lynx is costed fairly, punishes greedy manabases, and looks incredible in foil. Price of Progress can be a bit too brutal, but stapling half of one on the back of a creature that has a solid rate makes for a fun card in commander and constructed both. I've domed a Domain player for 13 damage with this in Standard, and I can tell you that felt very good and would have earned this cat a spot on this list by itself.

I've already said a few times in the past week that I love to have options, and Fountainport as a pseudo-trading post on a land gives me just that. For sure, I love selling my Offsprings for knowledge, my life for fish or my mana for mana. A lot more tokens around these days for this to incidentally draw cards from, and generally a useful card to spawn surprise blockers.

Catch-up cards that are good enough to be played are generally pretty neat, and Beza being a mythic legend version of that effect delivers on it. Stabilizing with life and bodies against aggressive decks, but not a dead card in grindy games, Beza does stellar work and left me trying to see if a commander deck could be viable with more opponents to compare to to make it more likely to get the full suite of effects.

Between the snazzy art and the flashy effect, Cruelclaw makes the list alongside his heist. Look at this guy/weasel! He casts spells for free! My main nitpick about the card is that given his story and flavor, I expected him to be casting those spells for free from the opponents' library, not my own. But I can forgive that, it makes the card stronger, even if slightly less fun imo.

Scavenging Ooze is an excellent design, and Keen-Eyed Curator being a variation on it plays great as well. It was neat to get it right before a delirium set, and the slight differences don't detract from its power much. It was a bit hurt by actual Scavenging Ooze being in Foundations only a couple months later, but it still manages to split the deck time with Scooze in some archetypes in Standard, and that's exactly where it should be.

That Jeskai precon was good enough to get BOTH its commanders on my list. Temporary creatures to get their etbs or other effects early is my jam, as well as attacking for value, and Arthur does both in a nice package. We were missing on neat Jeskai commanders, but with its half dozen of Jeskai precons, the year definitely delivered!

Similar to Cruelclaw's Heist, Long River's Pull makes use of the Gift mechanic. This allows a rate well above what we see in standard, a clean Counterspell, while being an interesting political tool in Commander where actual Counterspell is legal. Giving cards to people can buy an ally very quickly in commander, or make sure a player missing land drops is in the game, and this actually makes me consider this card over the classic counterspell in more than one deck.

The Calamity Beasts have a good hit rate of unique and powerful designs. The Viper has spawned a few decks around it in standard and beyond, and that's impressive considering it's a punisher effect that warps your own deckbuilding to enable. As it turns out, a 6/6 that basically wins the game if you untap with it is pretty good if you can get it for two or three mana, even if it's not on turn 2 and it dies to removal.

Making bats relevant in standard and being a pseudo-sun titan for half the cost, Zoraline handily makes it into my list. When she's around and not asleep, she's a card with a very good rate by herself that does something I like. And then she also enables the main mechanic of bats in the set enough to be one of the best card in their deck too.

Prosperous Bandit is the kind of unusual ramp I like. Creating that many treasures whenever it deals damage on a three drop captures my attention. Getting through for damage on a 3 mana 2/2 sure ain't easy, but buffing it isn't that difficult and the payoff is definitely there.

Finally, the art corner, Bloomburrow had some incredible art that struck home for me. Which isn't to say other sets in the year didn't, but these marked me a bit more, particularly as a new setting for Magic that felt richer than the other stuff we got. With art and story, Bloomburrow felt both rich and yet a small part of something bigger that could easily be expanded later on. Plus, there is a bonus category that'll be in a reblog in a few minutes, I'm running out of image slots on tumblr.

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Vintage Pulp - Startling Stories (July1941)

Art by Rudolph Belarski

Standard Publications

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Time to make myself cum and go to sleep

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