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[honeybearbi]

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[morteisshipping]

Development of Sung Hyunjae-ssi

From this:

"I treasure you quite a lot, Han Yoojin-gun, but." Along with the words slowly spilling out, Sung Hyunjae's grip closed around my neck. Then he lightly pulled me to his side. [...] Without Fear Resistance, the gaze boring into me as if to pierce inside would undoubtedly have given me chills. No, I might've been struck by terror even more than that and avoided it. But I could face him head on without a tremble. It wasn't normal, but that was why it was a relief. "It's not to the point of giving up part of my body." "Do you really think that way? When it isn't your life, but only an arm and an eye? Sung Hyunjae-ssi, there are still many things I'm hiding." My lips curved in a smile. "So it'll be more fun from now on."

chapter 101: Cursed Contract

To this:

A large figure holding on to me, whose face I couldn't see in detail. If I didn't have Fear Resistance, I'd be scared stiff. "Your eyes." Sung Hyunjae's hand came close as if to touch my eyes. "Is this because of me?" "Technically speaking, it is. I'll recover as I did before, you don't need to worry." "I don't think you can see at all." I don't like having a debt like this, Sung Hyunjae murmured. Still, it was better than Chief Song-nim giving his life. "Take my right eye." "Excuse me?" "Since I've already staked it once." [...] "I'll leave the left eye to the young master." "I mean, why is our Yoohyun-ie even come up here?" "Because if I kept you all for myself, he'd undoubtedly be angry. The young master will be happy to do for you." That... um, I thought he actually would, so I was even more freaked out. I pushed Sung Hyunjae, sitting upright. [...] "There's no need. I'm started to be able to detect light, and even if I can't see forever, other's eyes... uh, I won't need them. I'll just get a monster to be my eyes and raise them." Even now, using the Teacher's skill wasn't that inconvenient. "Besides, if you lose one of your eyes, won't your combat ability diminished? Why would you take such a loss because of me?" "If I had to choose, I'd choose you, Han Yoojin-gun."

chapter 314: It's a Holiday

From unwilling and threatening, that he didn't like Yoojin that much to stake an arm and an eye, to very willingly offering his eyes to a currently blind Yoojin, and this happens on a bed. On. A. Bed.

[eldritch-ace]

Commissions for Palestine 🇵🇸

Hello all, in trying to do my part and help those in Palestine and Rafah I'm opening up commissions.

Send me proof of donation or purchase of esims and I will make you a commission!

I will accept proof from day of or day before actually dming me. Donations of 3 USD and equivalent currency are good for sketches. 5 USD for a colored sketch, 10 USD for an image with lineart and color, and 15+ USD for anything more detailed or with a background. If you're unsure what I'll do for your donation/esim payment, just ask and we can figure it out together!

If you're curious where to donate @northgazaupdates has lots of links, as well as many other blogs signal boosting people who need help. There are many many vetted families that need help through operation olive branch and pass the hat that other creators have been sharing too. If you have any other good resources please let me know!

If you have any questions at all, please feel free to reach out!

[occult-cupcakes]

Hey all,

I don’t usually post much personally and I usually prefer to keep it that way, but a dear friend of mine is in a vulnerable position due to a number of screwups by his employer and some pretty nasty medical debt from dental surgery. I really hope that anyone that’s willing to and is in a comfortable position enough to give is able to help him out. I know he’d appreciate it and I would be grateful to see him in a less risky position.

I am going to be sharing this fairly regularly and I appreciate any time you took to the read this.

Thank you

[scorchrend]

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Bashar Inshasi from Gaza has held a dream of pursuing medicine since childhood. The occupation making greater need for doctors and medical professionals in Gaza only compounds this. Bashar is a scholar of medicine, even ranking second in the country. However, the occupation destroyed their homes, universities, and even dreams along with them. It caused more injuries and disabilities in the population, creating an even greater need for treatment.

Unable to continue in the path of medicine, or even life itself, Bashar greatly needs financial help in order to evacuate Gaza.

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[just-your-average-tangerine]

Was forced to watch a truly incredible (derogatory) thing recently.

A young person on twitter, adamant that transandrophobia doesn't exist on the grounds that 'no one is killing/raping/assaulting trans men'.

Several people responded, including some linking articles about murders and assaults on trans men and a couple op-ed style pieces of trans men talking about their own experiences.

Said young person responded with "I'm not reading those its triggering and I'm a minor"

So let me see if I've got this correct, you are knowingly refuse to acknowledge reality because it's upsetting to you and then you're going to turn around and deny that very reality because you refuse to acknowledge it because it's upsetting?

[oc-center]

What are your ideas to grow this blog?

We have a decent following by now, but the growth has stagnated and tragically of all our followers, only a small portion actually interacts with the posts we share - so those OCs don't get the amount of attention I wish they did!

With more people supporting the blog we could get more submissions, more notes for original works, and overall a nicer experience sharing our characters on this platform... but how?

Please share your ideas in comments or tags while reblogging this post! There is no bad idea and any thoughts and support is welcome. Thank you all ♡

[laurasimonsdaughter]

How do you feel about the idea of vampires using blood bags and donor blood to sate their bloodthirst rather than drinking directly from living people? Cause its seen in a lot of more recent vampire stories as a “ethical/safer” alternative to feeding on people directly to make the vampire characters seem more sympathetic cause their “not hurting someone directly”. Personally i see it as horrid idea, a “road to hell pathed in good intentions” kinda thing. Bringing up awhole lotta ethical dilemmas around how this blood is acquired and used. Cheifly in that this blood could be used to save human lives rather then sate vampires hunger. Among several other ethical and logistical issues which could probably make interesting stories of their own.

I think that depends completely on the kind of world the vampire operates in.

Is this a world in which it is possible for the vampire to explain to an open-minded human what the situation is and obtain their informed consent to be bitten and fed on? And is it possible to do so safely and without (permanently) harming them? In that case doing that would probably be the most ethical solution to the need for blood.

But if its a world in which a vampire’s two options are “steal blood that has been collected from humans” or “attack and overpower a human to feed on them (even non-fatally)” then I honestly cannot fathom how the latter would ever be seen as the more ethical choice. How could taking (even stealing) something freely donated to be given to those in need of blood ever be worse than the violent assault of another person?

Of course, the traditional idea of a vampire is that they are monsters, parasites, their entire existence and need for blood is meant to be unnatural and, I guess, unethical. But stories that introduce the “drink bottled blood” solution are usually showing vampires trying not to harm people. The logistics and ethics of that solution are usually also a subject of debate. From the questionable: in Only Lovers Left Alive the vampires bribe a blood bank employee who is clearly making a lot of money off of them. To the horrific: in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines the blood bank is run by the ghoul of a powerful vampire and it turns out he tops up the supply by kidnapping people off the street.

But if we think of a normal blood bank ran by normal medical professionals, who have dedicated their time and effort to helping people. Why would they not want to help someone with a permanent dependence on blood? I do not think for a moment they wouldn't notice if blood suddenly went missing without explanation. Of course they’d notice. And they probably wouldn’t be pleased. But I also think they would infinitely prefer their blood supply being stolen, to having to use it in emergency transfusions on a slew of traumatised, terrified people bleeding profusely from the neck after being dragged into a dark alley by an unseen assailant.

Now, if you ask me what would be the most ethical thing to do? Strike a deal with a blood bank or hospital to get the blood they are going to have to dispose of. In general the medical world is always eager for more blood donors, not because there is never enough, but because blood does not store well. Sadly, a lot of it goes off before it can be used. So why not make sure it fulfills its intended purpose to help and heal anyway?

But even if none of that was possible, if vampires had to remain in the shadows, and the blood bags had to be stolen. I would personally prefer to donate my blood and have it stolen, than be dragged into the dark.

[embersofhope-if]

hiii guys. i really didn't want to post anything until i had the rewritten demo done and ready for you to play, but ive kinda had a pet emergency with my cat Whiskey🙁. He disappeared for a day and a half and came back home with some broken teeth, and the vet said that he has to go into surgery to have at least one of them extracted. Please dont feel pressured to donate if you can't!! i appreciate any and all support. Whether it's just a like and reblog or a donation, it all means the world to me<3

[hwangyeddeongie]

shaming people for donating THEIR ADULT MONEY to ao3 (an ad-free, censorship-free site with over 14 MILLION works) so you can feel better about yourself is not the flex you think it is. much less if the "charities" you want people to support instead are unverified Gaza gofundme scams

[hello-sweetheart]

No matter the outcome of tonight, you will be okay. Look to your friend, your family, your online community, we will make sure you’re okay

[grimesapologist]

hey, Valerie here, black trans woman, writer, sound, image, and video artist, I'm super broke and need to live. if you want to help me out or support my work،, thank you. this is a last ditch effort, I'm really tired of things going wrong but also really desperate so I'm gonna have to do this again with all the links I can think of, please try all of them if you can, I am really really grateful for all the people who have tried to help me out so far, if you see this and your attempt failed, it would be extremely kind of you to try again <3

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[akindofmagictoo]

"what do you want to know about Iphigenia" EVERYTHING. I just love hearing about other people's dnd ocs.

I'm particularly interested in the nature of her warlock pact and her relationship with he brother. Because I know her father killed her?? tried to kill her??? but she clearly misses/cares about her brother. Is he dead? still with their father?

(hilariously the other iphigenia dnd PC I know of also had complicated brother things going on...)

But also warlock stuff because I really love warlocks. They're one of my favorite classes, and I think they just have SO much potential for storytelling built into the class itself. Coming up with patron dynamics and how involved (or uninvolved) they are in the warlock's life is always SO much fun. I have 3 warlock characters (two of which haven't truly gotten played but are very developed) and all three of them have DRASTICALLY different relationships with their patrons. (One was forced into it, one is buddies with their patron, and one of them doesn't even know they're a warlock, actually.)

It's after 4am here, so I really need to go to bed (thank FUCK I don't have classes tomorrow... I would be dead if I did), but I will be VERY excited to read what you reply in the morning!!! 💖💖💖

(hi, if you hadn't guessed, this is @memento-morri-writes.)

well hello there! yes, i did gather it was you :))

warlock pact, her brother, and her father...? yeah, so this is basically a rundown of Iphigenia's Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day. praise the Lord for the read more function, or i'd have to apologise to a lot of followers.

(Waterdeep: Dragon Heist spoilers abound)

(also, my standard set of trigger warnings for this backstory: murder, family violence (very literal), cult activity, human sacrifice, and mentions of mutilation.)

Iphigenia is an aasimar, adopted shortly after birth by a very high-up noble family - the Cassalanters. she is now 19. the family by now have three other children: Osvaldo, who is eleven months older than Iphigenia; and Terenzio and Elzerina, who are twins and about to turn nine.

well. Osvaldo is... complicated. he disappeared three years ago. don't worry about that. but he and Iphigenia were so close; Iphigenia has never trusted anyone so deeply and instinctively as she trusted him. she was always the slightly better politician (Osvaldo's bad with consequences, ie he very rarely experiences them), and he was the more reckless of the two, but he would NEVER let any of his siblings come to harm. i love him, your honour.

we'll get to him.

the day before the campaign, Iphigenia was woken in the middle of the night by her father. he said he needed her help with something; she went with him, a bit confused, but trusting him. that's her dad. it's so cool that he needs her help with something! of course it won't be bad.

still, she was a bit uncertain, so she asked what was up. he cast Charm Person on her. everything's fine and cool. off they go, further into the house, down into what used to be the family crypt (it had supposedly been buried some years before). she sees that she's standing in a rune circle. he wants her to help with some magic? awesome! she's not exactly a wizard or anything, but she is a nerd, so she's happy to help. (the charm person has nothing to do with this, obviously)

but the charm does break when she looks over and realised he has carved a sigil into her wrist. (oh, and the rune circle bursts into flames for the aesthetic)

naturally, she starts freaking out. he casts Hold Person on her. and he keeps working. obviously Iphigenia is not freaking out any less, but she can't move now. it's... fun.

finally, finally, the Hold Person wears off. her arms are pretty much useless now, both forearms covered in sigils. but she can run, so she tries to. she hesitates at the edge of the fire, just for a second. his arms go around her from behind - and that's her dad, he's giving her a hug, how nice!

until she feels cold metal catch at her throat, and hot blood gushing down her chest.

he holds her while she bleeds out, begging him to save her even as her words are drowned by the blood she's choking on. she begs in Common and Celestial, unknown to her. she's dying. she's really not thinking.

and then she does die. like properly dead.

so this next bit isn't anything she properly remembers, but her father's summoning circle rerouted; instead of dialing a devil, it summoned a celestial. Iphigenia's mother (one of her birth mothers. they're lesbians. Iphigenia has a comically large number of mothers), Irissa Rynmore. who has not realised she has a daughter? i think? or at very least hasn't been able to find her properly. either way, Irissa is very quickly irate about said daughter being dead.

Iphigenia remembers flashes of this - a bright light, a warmth in her chest, and not much else.

the next morning, Iphigenia wakes up back in her own bed. just like she was when her father woke her. well, that was a horrible horrible dream, wasn't it, she thinks... and then she looks in the mirror, and the scars aren't gone. that wasn't a dream. that was real.

this was the morning the campaign began; that evening, she arrived in a tavern looking for the party fighter, as the only person she could think of who could maybe help her fix this. (after Iphigenia's brother disappeared, the fighter made sure she got out of the house and didn't get super depressed.) Iphigenia, having No Idea How To Deal With This, fled the house and didn't look back.

(fun fact: I wrote this up novel-style. a couple excerpts can be found here. the document could be known as "Iphigenia fails an improbable number of consecutive wisdom saves", but is actually titled "Iphigenia donates blood")

SO. then the campaign happened, and that's been two years of play, so i'm not gonna summarise the whole thing, but some highlights.

Iphigenia, via consensual kidnapping (long story), was returned to her house, and a scene ensued which i like to call The Talk But It's "Your Parents Are Cultists". Iphigenia's parents have a deal with Asmodeus; part of the cost was Osvaldo, and the twins are about to be taken as well. Osvaldo's body is in Lady Cassalanter’s attic, transmuted into a devil and hidden behind powerful protective magic. the twins are fine... for about a week more.

the Cassalanters want to protect the twins (wow, so kind of you to care about the children YOU TRADED AWAY), and there is one possible loophole in an Asmodeus contract. what they told Iphigenia is that they need 1 million gp; they have about half, and the other half can be obtained via the Stone of Golorr, the MacGuffin of the module that leads to a bunch of embezzled treasure hidden in the city.

unrelated, the Cassalanters are hosting a ball, as they do every year, and have opened up 99 places via raffle to the whole city, not just the nobles! wow! cool!

Iphigenia did her own research, and it turns out alongside 1 million gold pieces (well, one million minus one), they also need to sacrifice one hundred minus one souls. sound familiar? yeah. i was fully sobbing OOC, Iphigenia was dead certain she was going to lose all her siblings, because she can't let that happen.

her parents asked her to help obtain the Stone, which she did, and now they want her to help get the three 'keys' needed for the Stone. she's playing along, and definitely terrified that she won't be able to stop them at the last minute, per her plan. but she's a politician at heart (she learned from them); it's the best way she knows how to get information out of them, and also the safest place for her to be until she decides to make her move. we're pretty sure we'll have to confront them at the ball and stop them. we may also forge one of the keys. it's a really really delicate and utterly terrifying game to play. Iphigenia is fighting for her life not to get gaslit (actually i fully got gaslit OOC, that wasn't fun).

the Cassalanter house currently has wards that prevent celestials (Irissa) from getting in. very rude and lowkey racist against the half-celestial Iphigenia, lol. working on fixing that too.

so currently our options for saving the twins are to 1) kill the Cassalanters, 2) kill Asmodeus (lol no), or 3) ask Sarenrae nicely for help. she can shield the twins from Asmodeus's influence.

to save Osvaldo, we can 1) make our own deal with Asmodeus (the fighter correctly pointed out that Osvaldo wouldn't want Iphigenia to, and she's RIGHT), 2) ask Sarenrae for help. there is a cleric multiclass in my future, but that'll probably be after the campaign.

Iphigenia wants to fix this! she wants her parents to be the parents she idolised as a child. she wants them to stop this and repent and come back. i doubt this will work, but if anyone can help me do this, it's the goddess of redemption herself. failing that, i guess we get to do a murder? (the rest of the party has been sharpening weapons to kill these guys since the start of the campaign. weirdly, Iphigenia's goodwill holds a lot of power over them. i'm looking forward to informing them of this fact.)

on pacts: Irissa is an absolute delight. she's very scatterbrained, but so so kind. she regularly shows up to dreamscape tea parties holding books titled stuff like "Parenting Your Adult Child". she's trying so so hard to be a good mum to Iphigenia. to clarify, her wife Selene died in childbirth, which is why Iphigenia was adopted. i haven't had the chance to ask, but i really want to ask Irissa, "do i look like her?"

Irissa is also very ready to smite the Cassalanters. the only reason she didn't kill Lord Cassalanter on the spot was that she was busy healing Iphigenia. would have solved a lot of our campaign problems, but also would have broken the module.

Iphigenia finds her a little overwhelming at times, she's very talkative and kind of a lot, but she's precious and really trying. and honestly, Iphigenia needs one parent who loves her. without Irissa and the party, Iphigenia would have been got by her parents' gaslighting long ago.

right. i think i've outdone you on length of post. enjoy!! i'll see if i can come up with more Rook questions for you 👀 feel free to hit me up with more Iphigenia questions if you want, i have SO many thoughts about my best girl

(1.5k words. could be worse.)

[jaggededges123]

jaggededges fandom trumps hate auction

hello! this year i set up an auction with fandom trumps hate (click here for their about us and here for their faq). if you would like to bid on me or one of the other 1.2k creatives offering varying types of fanworks, you can browse using a variety of tags here. some fandom tags that might be of interest to my followers are star wars, mdzs/cql, the locked tomb, and the any tag! bidding opens on the 25th and ends on the 1st at 8pm EST.

my auction is here, and here are a few of the details from it:

Organizations this auction benefits: Bidder's choice of any of the listed groups (See full list.)

Type of fanwork: Written fanwork Subtype(s): fan fiction (new) Fandom(s): Star Wars: Original Trilogy, Prequel Trilogy, The Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi; MXTX (works): Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed Highest rating: E Minimum Bid: $5 Audience: 18+ only Length/scope: Less than 5k words Special interests (what is this?): Genderswap/genderbending, Poly ships, Rarepairs

Characters/pairings of interest: For Star Wars, my favorite pairings are Anakin/Obi-Wan (also Obi-Wan/Vader) and Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon. I'm willing to take a crack at a variety of other pairings (including throuples with Anakin and Obi-Wan), but I'll be a little less sure-footed with them. For MDZS/CQL, I specialize in Nie Huaisang/Nie Mingjue, but I am also very fond of Lan Xichen/Nie Huaisang, Lan Xichen/Nie Huaisang/Nie Mingjue, Lan Xichen/Lan Wangji, Jiang Cheng/Jin Ling, Wen Chao/Wen Xu, and Jiang Yanli/Yu Ziyuan. I'll happily do platonic for the Nie brothers as well.

Subjects/theme/tropes of interest: I'm particularly good at canon divergence or other primarily canonverse AUs, hurt/comfort, and pwp. I'm happy to do other things though as well! I'm a big fan of omegaverse and especially uncommon pairing types in omegaverse (like a/a, o/o, anything involving betas, or presentation changes). I really enjoy focusing on the taboo and the intersection between guilt and desire in my works, but also making things tender despite the rough edges. You can check out my works linked above to get an idea about the wide variety of kinks I enjoy writing. I'm very flexible though, so if something isn't in my list of things I won't do, I am always willing to give it a try!

Unwilling to address: Any MDZS/CQL ships not listed in my offer, underage under the age of 16, major character death, hurt no comfort, infidelity, scat, vore or cannibalism, emetophilia (vomiting during sickfic is okay), BDSM, piv sex, pregnancy, sex injuries, finger and toe trauma, genderbends that make a couple cishet, bestiality, reductions in canonical age gaps

Other notes: I'll guarantee at least 2k of fic for this offer, but I can be very verbose so the odds of the fic being longer are good. I'd be happy to take your favorite kink or trope and inflict it upon the blorbos, or you can give me a couple sentences or lyrics or whatever you'd like detailing the vibe/AU details/etc of the fic you want. Very specific plot lines would probably be too much detail for the amount of fic I'm offering, though. I'd be more than willing to share wip snips as I'm working on it if that's something you would want, or I can just keep it a surprise until it's ready to post. Small adjustments after the initial prompt (for example, if you'd prefer something to be slightly different in a snippet I sent) are more than welcome!

[cookinguptales]

Okay! Happy 4th of July, for... what it’s worth...

I will be spending this holiday weekend raising money for ten organizations that I think are doing their best to make this country something that’s actually worth celebrating.

To that end, I’m gonna be a jack of all trades (master of none) for the next few days. Some of my talents are more well-known to my followers, like reading tarot cards and writing fiction. But I’m also an award-winning nonfiction writer! And I cross-stitch! And I write meta that’s occasionally extremely divisive! lmao

People who’ve followed me for quite a while might have picked up on other hobbies/skills of mine, and if you’re interested in any of them, lmk!

If you’re interested in making a donation in exchange for me Doing A Thing For You, contact me first. DM, email, IG, whatever. Tell me what you’d like and see if I’m willing/able to do it. (I reserve the right to refuse any request I’m uncomfortable with.) If I okay your request, choose an organization from this list and make a donation of $15+. Show me proof of donation and then I’ll get started. 🫡

The way I see it… The 4th of July is deeply depressing these days. I feel no loyalty towards a country that has gone downhill at a frankly frightening rate over the past decade. Like. It’s always been a dicey relationship, but I did always believe that things were at least getting incrementally better.

But I realize now that incremental progress only happens when we fight for it. I’ve been feeling pretty helpless the past few months, but there are organizations that aren’t feeling helpless at all. They’re doing the work and I want to help them do it as best I can. I may not be a lawyer or a doctor or a billionaire playboy philanthropist, but I do have a lot of feelings and a tumblr feed to inflict them on.

So let’s do our best this 4th to fight for the nation we wish we had, huh?