#and that there exist ''white marriages'' bc of this

[bakasara]

urologist who is getting paid real money to tell women stuff like this: I see you have endometriosis. are you sure the reason you recently need to pee so badly and so frequently you can't get out of the house isn't that you're having a psychosomatic reaction set off by the fact that you haven't accepted that you have endometriosis?

me: no i'm pretty sure you just made that whole crock of shit up

(4 days later the lab results come back and they find a particularly dastardly and uncommon type of bacteria in my bladder that causes severe UTIs)

[literaphobe]

i feel like. when it comes to stories and various media adaptations. some people are so obtuse and their reluctance to accept multiple interpretations of fiction especially those that are ambiguous by design. feels so childish and stupid

im just saying like. anyone who goes ‘jo x laurie shippers are so stupid for liking them didnt you know the writer didnt want them to be together?’ only to say ‘jo and freidrich are soooo cute!!!!’ are deluded in a way no one can ever save

[etfrin]

⤷❝The Study | Coriolanus Snow❞ˎˊ-

⇢☾Warning: NSFW | riding, toxic relationship, arranged marriage, mentions of cheating (no actual cheating occurs), riding, dom sub undertones, degradation (he calls you a slut once), hair pulling, edging if you squint, crying, pinv sex, unprotected sex (wrap it dumbfucks), creampie, dry humping, clothed sex (you were still wearing a dress) | lmk if I forgot anything!

⇢☾Pairing: young president! Coriolanus Snow x fem! Reader

⇢☾Summary: A video of you flirting with an elitist goes viral and Snow calls you to his study to confront you about it and it ends up in sexy times ;)

⇢☾A/N: btw for those who doesn't get why Snow asked reader to mark him, it's to show the Capitol that despite rumors, they are actually very close. And uhmm I hope you guys like this!

< masterlist > < bc: @cafekitsune >

< tags: @roryzzz @stelleduarte @strengthandstay @skywalker1dream >

The marriage was a facade, a show for the Capitol that the president didn't stand alone. The people in the manor were the only people who knew how fake the marriage was. Some of the elite of the Capitol could also tell. People can fake everything but not love, never love.

You learned early on Snow wasn't capable of love. A lover wouldn't do half of the atrocities Snow committed as he got to power but he had never done anything to you. You didn't exist for him in the manor and he was always respectful when you were by his side.

It was manageable, the life you had, nobody could mistreat you, not as the First Lady of Panem. However mistreatment and flirting are very different things, and the people of Capitol aren't a stranger to wandering hands and lustful eyes.

You didn't think Coriolanus would mind that you sometimes let the hands linger. That you would bask in the attention you were so deprived of from your husband. You were proven wrong as a video of you and an elitist was going viral all over the Capitol.

You didn't cheat on Snow, but you were too close to the stranger. His hand on your waist and your smile too wide. Cheating or not, it wasn't any less inappropriate.

A remainder by your servant made you walk to the study in which Snow spent most of his time. You were wearing a knee-length white dress, something that clings to your curves. It was a desperate, pathetic attempt to distract Snow. A part of you knew it wouldn't work and would make your mistake more obvious but it was an attempt better than none.

You knocked at the door and you could hear him say come in. So you did. Your hands are behind your back, and your eyes look at the floor like it's the most interesting thing in the world.

“Do you know what you have done?” He asked, you still couldn't look up to meet his gaze. Your fingers fumble behind your back as you bite your inner cheek. You give him a nod.

“And what have you done?” He questioned, his voice like the calm before the storm. “I created unnecessary gossip that isn't good for your reputation,” you mummer.

“What else?” He said, his tone suspicious and waiting for the confirmation. That's when you look up at the most beautiful demon you have ever seen. He looked all glorious with his suit and hair slicked back. “I didn't cheat,” you said, firmly, your eyes fierce and reflecting the truth of your words.

When Snow didn't reply, you insisted again, “I. Didn't. Cheat. It's a line I will never cross, Coriolanus.” Again, he didn't say anything, instead, his gaze went up and down your body, his expression unreadable. You flushed from his stare, not sure if wearing this dress was the right move after all. The man had always surrounded himself with those stupid white roses and this was the symbol that you had noticed.

“Come and sit.” You begin to walk towards the chair only to be interrupted by his words, “No, not there, in my lap.” You freeze from his words, but your brain tells you to obey his every word.

You make your way to him, your heels clicking against the marble floor. Your hands are sweaty and your heart is in your throat. You reach him before you straddle him without a word being uttered. Your dress hitching up to your thighs. Your hands around his shoulders as you wait for further instructions from your husband.

“What do you think we should do to make the rumors go away?” He asked, his voice deep and so seductive. You weren't even sure he realized the effect his voice had on you. You let out a small gasp when his hands held your hips, cementing your place in his lap.

His hands were warm and perhaps maybe it was biased but you thought they would be ice cold. Instead, his palm laminated heat against the thin fiber of your dress making your skin warm. Your former flush turns into a deeper shade of red.

“We could…” you couldn't focus, how could you when he was touching you like this? When he was so close. He was never this close to you before. Ever. His touch reminded you of the fact that despite everything he is a man and your husband at that. A demon in human flesh.

“We could do more PR,” you mumbled. He raised an eyebrow at the suggestion. “I mean if we do it right, I am sure it will work,” you fumbled. He gives you a nod.

“Take off my shirt,” he demanded. Your eyes widen and you hesitate. “Do it or I’ll make you.” he threatened and you know not to take his words lightly. With shaky fingers, you unbutton his shirt. The process was slow, meticulously slow. His toned physique comes into complete view, making your breath hitch. Fuck, he was a Greek God of tragedy and sin.

“Mark me up,” he said, his tone emotionless. “What?” you questioned, surprised. “You think you’re acting innocent?” he sneered, “You heard what I said, my wife. It's because of your suggestion. Mark. Me. Up.”

You swallow down your nervousness and bring your lips forward to his cheek. You pressed a soft kiss there and felt him tense underneath you. You drag your lips to his jaw and nip the skin, the tip of your tongue soothing the small teeth mark as he lets out a grunt. It was music to you. A masterpiece of symphony and you needed more, so much more. Snow had you deprived for months and it's time to take.

Your lips continue to nip at his jaw, placing sloppy wet kisses as his breaths get heavy. You moved down to his neck, a moan leaving your lips as you attacked his skin with your teeth. Sucking onto his pulse point and moaning when the salty taste of his skin hits your taste buds. Your hand goes to his neck, tilting his head to give you more access. All the while he lets out quite controlled sounds. You licked his Adam's apple before wrapping your mouth around it to suck a purple bruise. Marking him up just as he wanted.

His hand on your waist gave you a firm squeeze which made you bite harder and made him hiss. You lean back panting, as you admire your artwork of teeth marks and red love bites. You pressed down into him and moaned as his hard bulge pressed right against your clothed cunt. Your panties were soaked by now. “Snow,” you whimper.

“Corio, call me Corio” he whispered. His eyes briefly turned to a white bouquet of roses before he met your gaze. You didn't think much of it and whispered, “Corio.”

“Corio,” you tried the name again on your tongue and watched his eyes darken. You leaned in, your lips brushing against his. “Let me kiss you. Let me make you my husband, please,” you whispered.

You waited for a verbal answer but all you got was another squeeze on your waist. You were desperate enough to take what you could get. You started by grinding against his bulge. The juices that made your panties soaked are now ruining his pants.

You let out a breathless moan as you gained delicious friction against your pussy but it wasn't enough. There's no hell and heaven for which this would be enough. You crashed your lips to his. The kiss was all carnage and desire. Uncoordinated, something so unlike Snow Corio that it made you moan into his mouth. Your hands are in his hair, pulling him closer. Your lips glide against each other perfectly. His tongue took over your mouth, not leaving any place unexplored, untouched by him.

You break the kiss with a gasp. Your hand going towards his pants to unzip. The motion stopped as Corio held your wrist and you looked up at him. “You’re my wife, you're my right,” he said, “but do you deserve it?”

It was more than a question, it was a promise waiting to be made, a bond waiting to be sealed. “I…” you begin to speak, you meet his eyes, sea blue you wanted to drown in, “Never again, Sn- Corio. Never again.” “Please,” you added for extra measure. You had his taste already, no one else could ever compare. He had to know that too because he gave you a sharp nod.

You get up from his lap, taking off your panties first, not bothering with the dress. You knew he liked it now, more than you thought so he would. You find your rightful place in his lap again, his pants and boxers past his knees.

His cock was hard and twitching, the length had an angry tip with its slit profusely leaking pre-cum. It looked painful and it was because of you. You. You wondered if you had power over him now for a brief second but you shake your head clear of these thoughts.

Instead, you catch his lips again, the kiss slower this time. You raise yourself a bit so his cock can align itself to your entrance. Your dress is raised to help you. Even if his cock was on the girthy side with veins on the underside of his cock. You knew your pussy would stretch around him, that your walls would be a splendid fit around his length. You were too impatient for any sort of foreplay, you wanted the stretch, you wanted him to make you dizzy with his cock splitting you apart.

You let out a whimper as you began to sink onto his cock, your eyes flicked to him and his eyes were zeroed down to the place you both were connected now. His hands are on either side of your hip, guiding you down on his length. It was after his cock was fully stuffed in you, that his self-control allowed him to let out a groan.

“I respected you like a lady but sluts don't deserve respect,” he said, his lips parted as he let out a heavy pant. You let out a whimper, your mind hazy as your cunt tries to get used to his length. “I.. am sorry,” you whine, how many times do you need to repeat? When will he be satisfied with your apology?

“Prove it,” he said with a smirk, “Prove that you deserve to be my wife and the First Lady of Panem.”

You follow Corios’ command. Your hands are on his shoulders to support yourself. Your fingers fist his shirt as you begin to ride him. Raising yourself a few inches before slamming down on his cock with a loud moan escaping your lips. He reached the deepest spot inside of you like this. His cockhead grazing your spongy spot as you fucking yourself on his cock. Your arousal and his pre-cum being smeared all over your thighs.

The sight made his breath hitch, something you didn't notice as you were too busy with your eyes closed and taking his cock like a good wife. You looked completely debauched like this, your hair wild, your lips red and swollen, your hands digging into his shoulder. Your nipples are hard and obvious through the white dress.

He wasn't supposed to lose control, this was happening for a reason. No matter how many deem him God or devil in the end he was a man. And no man is perfect. He pulled you closer to him. One of his hands is on your back, pressing you to him. Another of his hands in your hair, tugging the strands without a care about how rough he is being. It makes you moan, your head on his chest now. His hips raise upwards to fuck you as he now lets out more vocal sounds of enjoyment.

His pace was slower than yours. Each thrust of his was made for his indulgence in your velvet walls. The drag of his cock was perfect, his speed however was making you feel insane. You needed him, faster, harder. Used would be a much more correct term. You wanted to be used by your husband. And right now, you were but it wasn't enough.

You let out mewls and whines to make him break his languid pace but Corio gives you no mind. His fingers interlanged in your locks, his hand still pressing you in and his strength made it so you couldn't take control. He was drunk in the pleasure your pussy gave, his head resting on his headrest, his lips parted to let out a grunt with every thrust.

You weren't a person for him, not right now, a fleshlight perhaps. It didn't matter what you felt, it mattered what Snow felt. Snow felt amazing, he felt stupid for denying himself this for months on end. He would never make the same mistake again.

Time passes and you don't know how long Corio has you like this, your nerves raw as your pussy impossibly sensitive. Tears were falling from your eyes and staining his shirt but moans slipped your lips every time he pushed in again.

“Corio, please,” you try to plead, raising your head to look at him. “Please, please can't anymore.” He turns his head to you, his fingers that you seemed to have forgotten were in your hair tugging your strands roughly.

That was it. You gasp out as the pain becomes a trigger to make you cum on his cock, your pussy tightening around his cock like a vice as the orgasm washes over your body. It was intense and you had snapped. “Sorry! Sorry!” You begin to sob, “I won't ever look at a man that's not you! Sn- Corio please!”

His languid thrust had sped up, his arms caging you to his chest. The last thing you heard before he spilled his seed inside of you was, “Snow lands on top.”

[artistsfuneral]

Some unedited Court Jester Jaskier/King Warlord Geralt thoughts

Okay so. Jaskier is one of many children, not the oldest, not the youngest, not fit for a more religious position (they've tried, Jaskier was sent back within days) he's smart, and talented when it comes to the arts, but also a troublemaker of the worst kind, so not particularly made for marriage either. What does one do with a child like that? Send him to King Henselt as a personal gift. A court jester. Jaskier is probably around 15/16 at the time. Very much an "adult" and ready for the task that's actually so much more complicated than it sounds. Yes, a court jester mainly exists for the king's amusement, but there's also so much more. He's a 24/7 available companion, shadowing the king at all times. He's there in the throne room, sitting by the king's feet, whispering jokes and his opinions/advice into Henselt's ear. He makes fun of the nobles that he knows are up to no good, ridicules them in front of the court and blatantly talks about secret information like it's kitchen gossip. He's valuable. He always knows what's going on. He's there in the throne room, he's there at the grand balls, he's there in the far back corner of the war room, he's there in the servants passageways and he's there, he's there, he's there......

Jaskier is also there, in the throne room, at Henselt's feet, when the witcher arrives. He sits there on a little stool in a colorful doublet like a little pet. He's juggling for Henselt's amusement, his king is easily bored by day to day politics and Jaskier needs to keep him happy if he wants to keep listening. The witcher distracts the king enough for Jaskier to be able to fade into the background, to stop juggling and listen. Tensions are high at the moment, Cintra is about to be swarmed by nilfgaardian soldiers and Redania is desperately looking for allies in the neighboring countries. Henselt prefers to sit on his fat ass and watch the upcoming war with a goblet of wine in hand. Jaskier though, Jaskier is invested. So when a witcher enters the throne room of Kaedwen Jaskier sits up like a dog who's about to be given its favorite treat.

Geralt of Rivia is his name. His accent is off though and he speaks of politics and monsters as if they were the very same. With the upcoming war witchers are retreating back into the mountains and they want their home and the surrounding lands to be owned by them (so legally not make them part of Kaedwen anymore) so they can remain neutral in the war. In return they are willing to provide their services for free to Henselt (which is really valuable atm bc there's a looot of monsters hidden in the forests and mountains) and Jaskier knows this, but Henselt... Henselt couldn't care less. Too arrogant and prejudiced of a man to give witchers what is essentially their own kingdom. So Henselt turns into a giant ass, belittling and cussing out the witcher who stands there in the throne room with his head held high, showing more dignity than any king and Jaskier suddenly understands that he has to sneak away.

He does so without anyone noticing, slipping through secret passageways and ends up waiting in a shadowy corner of the courtyard. He doesn't have to wait too long to spot the infamous white haired witcher and, hoping that the rumors about their hearing are true, quickly warns the witcher about the trap set out for him a bit down the road. The witcher stops dead in his tracks and Jaskier quickly asks him (he's still hidden away, Geralt can't see him) to do something like checking his pack so it doesn't look so suspicious and Geralt does so. Then Jaskier proceeds to very.... lightly suggest the witchers could just overthrow the king and take the castle, making all of Kaedwen their land. Henselt's army is currently stationed along the borders (thx to Jask) so there's really not many soldiers around.....

And the witchers do. Not like anyone is there to stop them.

And then the witchers take over the castle and they're keeping the servants alive and many decide to flee but some remain and work for the witchers now and Jaskier of course stays as well because who else would entertain the children that are too young to help with wotk but are also too scared of the many witchers suddenly living in their home to play like they normally would. And Geralt whos basically now the Warlord is drowning in work and then he looks outside and he sees the silly little court jester imitating some of the witchers in the courtyard, singing funny songs, making the scared huddle of children laugh and smile and-

[strnger1985]

Some bridgerton book fans are so pathetic they are like

“the show is gonna flop now bc they changed the gender of a toxic manipulative man into a woman😡”

like y’all said the same thing when the show was announced and they casted a black man to play simon, when kate was casted and it wasn’t a white woman, said the same thing when polin was the main couple instead of benophie (yet it got over a billion streams within the first week) can they pls just shut up now

“why can’t they follow the books” first off they never have in kanthonys book edwina and anthony don’t even have that whole wedding shit like they do in the show… none of the seasons are like their books

secondly THANK FUCK THEY AREN’T!! the show wouldn’t have existed if they kept it exactly like the books

the men in the books are vile

anthony is physically abusive towards kate and edwina

colin is emotionally abusive towards pen

benedict is just plain vile towards sophie

michael said to fran ( a woman who struggles with fertility) that he wants to keep her tied to a bed till she is with child… guilt trips her into marriage bc they had sex while fran just feels used…

THANK GOD THEY ARE NOTHING LIKE THE BOOKS

[fallenhunnyapple]

@ilikelookingatthings left a very long and question filled essay about Angel!Lu AU in the replies so now its time to delve into More Info about the AU! @fallenguitarhero is my Adam so I got his input for all the Adam-related parts of this. Under a cut because.... this is Very Long LOL (bonus art at the end)

I'm going to just Copy-Paste the answers I got when we discussed it

I do think that Adam actually subconsciously shifts blame to Lilith because he's very black and white in his views. He hates devil Luci but he thinks he can prevent angel Lu from going down that path if he just keeps them apart. Lute also believes this and ngl her view of Lilith is like...really awful internalized misogyny type shit. Both of them think its better the two never meet and Lute outright threatens Lilith to stay away. Adam is too possessive to try and shift Lu to someone else but he does like... try to push Lu back into friendship type feels. Adam is a dumbass about sexuality so he thinks if he brings Lu to do Masculine and Straight things it will fix this. Instead he ends up just spending even more time with him and making it worse. As for his trauma... yeah Adam tries to hide it. Mostly by changing the subject and acting like an asshole tbh. I've thought abt Lu finding out about Cain and Abel p much by mistake (maybe saw artwork of it, all the hell related stuff is hidden but they wouldnt think to hide art of Adam holding Abel's body or Cain's exile) and it breaking his little baby heart. Adam def has moments where like... his mind is busy w something else like a bad day or a nightmare and for a second he sees the devil instead of his angel. Adam always like... 'shit, sorry, i thought you were someone else- fuck, don't look at me like that, c'mon.' There are other issues he just... doesn't realize he needs to hide. They're right about Adam being cynical and like... telling himself Lu doesn't really love him. Even once they date, he's still insecure. At that point i think he'd tell Lu about Lilith leaving him for a friend of his (whose name he never gives) and his marriage with Eve ending badly. He avoids details. He prob talks way more about his kids and prob even introduces Lu to them... Lu being around might encourage him to work on his relationship with them. Adam's body dysmorphia is such a contrast from the Adam Lu knew before... i do think that with him hiding so much from Lu, he tries to make it up to him by making sure his life is perfect. He goes out of his way to keep his angel happy and his attitude spreads to his exorcists who accept Lu into their flock. tbh Adam's dynamic with them prob becomes way healthier over time due to Lu's influence. i think Adam does tell the truth about some things but leaves out the details. Like he says evil found earth and destroyed Eden but says it hurts too much to talk about it (not a lie) and tells Lu that it's why the exorcists exist, they protect heaven and the dead humans from it. Which is what the official story is anyway! i think Lu prob has the same info the average low ranking Heavenborne and winners do. If Lu pushed him too much Adam might admit there are things he can't tell him but frame it as a military thing - there are things only Michael, Adam and the high ranking exorcists can know. He feels a lot of guilt about lying. it weighs on him a lot. that and the stress of protecting Lu from his brothers honestly makes Adam act more subdued and tired than canon Adam. His eyebags are awful. It prob becomes obvious as time goes on that Adam is Not Well. He keeps his mask on for a looong time after the first time bc it helps him hide his feelings and self-regulate but when he finally takes it off it's obvious to Lu from how he looks that Adam is struggling mentally. Comparing him to how he looked in Eden makes it so clear.

For Lu's part of things. Of course he'd ask about Lilith. Especially after finding out that so long has passed and Adam is here, so Lilith is probably here too, right? I feel like because he missed... So much, the concept of Death to him still doesn't really sink in. Like even with the Sins, it's basically like he just Knows he can't See them again. So with Lilith its like Adam has to just lie the same as with Anyone else from Hell. And Lu is definitely heartbroken about Lilith being Gone.

And like, at the time, Adam isn't lying so he doesn't feel Guilty about it, he just feels bad seeing Lu so upset. The timeline of this is kinda indeterminate but it definitely is Earlier than the 7 years of Lilith being in Heaven. So when he first Appears, she hasn't left Hell yet. Who knows, Charlie may not have even been born yet at that point. There's no Solid point in Time for Lu to have appeared in Heaven, it's just... Earlier. He doesn't think to Look for her because he knows that if she's Not Already There, then she's Inaccessible. Otherwise Adam would have told him, he's sure of it. (Adam has no obligation to tell Lu when Lilith does get there and for the reasons stated above + the fact that the Elder Angels probably would try and deter any interaction between the two. he's left in the Dark about her arriving in Heaven. He doesn't know Adam has even made a Deal with anyone) He still misses her because Adam is Truly the only friend from When he's from left.

And tbh the mixed signals are what keeps Hope Alive for Lu. As much as he tries to be okay with friendship, he still wants more because he's In Love and Adam is the only thing that makes him feel Normal when his entire life and everything he knew was entirely up-ended. It's why he's so passive about it. He doesn't want to make Adam feel bad, but he sees Adam being so Conscious of him now and it makes him happy. He doesn't wanna Push it, but he still likes seeing that Adam is Aware of him like that now. Especially because it's not in a way where Adam is trying to push him away, Adam is actively spending more time with him!

The longer time passes, the more discontent Lu grows. Knowing he's being lied to/that things are being hidden, even by Adam, he is Curious and he wants to learn more. But he also isn't going to be reckless about Learning More. The thing is also he Doesn't Know what questions he should be asking. He could ask Winners things and get answers, its not like anyone would stop him from Talking to Winners, its part of his Job. But like... How would he even start to figure out what's Missing in his knowledge?

Also Lu is definitely Aware of how different Adam is from his Eden self. Like just Visually, it's so easy to separate them because Adam wears his mask. But when its just the two of them and Adam is maskless, Lu may be more susceptible to treating him like that. But he's also very aware of the fact that actually their Knowledge Base is completely flipped. Lu hardly knows anything and Adam knows Everything.

And like.... Lu Knows that being kept in the dark is probably 'for his own good' but as stated, the person who fell is Still him. So now instead of resenting/being upset that Humans were kept in the dark, now it's himself. There's no Fruit That Will Fix Things for him though. He's just left frustrated at his lack of agency in this. And honestly, what keeps in line Most is Fear. Since coming to this time, his family has been Nicer to him, he's actually getting along to some degree with his brothers who used to ridicule him (or worse) and he Knows it's only because he's 'behaving' now, now that Creation is over and Life Has Existed. And he's scared or what will happen if he steps too out of line. He doesn't have the refuge of going to Eden to visit the Humans if things go south with his siblings. He isn't allowed on Earth, he's confined to Heaven, so he would just be stuck with the same sort of things that ultimately drove him originally to commit the Sin of giving Eve the Apple (not that he's Aware of how it culminated) And Also he has Adam. He doesn't want to know what the consequences would be if they were to decide that they shouldn't be allowed to stay together. It would absolutely break him.

If Lu were to find out about the exterminations, he'd be just as Appalled by it as Emily was. Lu doesn't know about Sin, what that entails, how Sinners destroy everything. He hasn't had to live with it so he can't see any contempt or justification for their destruction. Lucifer hates them because they came in a ruined the world he tried to build in Hell. Lu doesn't have any such associations with them. He would just see them much like Charlie does, souls who made mistakes and who should be given the chance to Do Better and make up for it. (That's sort of what he is, in a way, too.) He would absolutely be upset and scold the fuck out of Adam and Lute if he knew what his besties were REALLY doing once a year-

As for the sexual stuff, Both Lucifers started without having a concept of sex or sexuality, so both of them are specifically shaped by their partners (literally in a way). So the Lucifer who learned and explored with Lilith is going to be completely different from the Lucifer who learned and explored with Adam in terms of How they have sex. It's a skill they learn by doing, so it's not the Same.

Thank you for sticking it out this long, have a doodle for your troubles 🙏

[phoenixyfriend]

I'm having thoughts about the Jedi and romance and UGH

Listen to me

Listen

(This is a shitpost, please do not reblog to argue with me, it's not for that. This is me, an a-spec individual with a lot of feelings on how society affects the things we view as important, venting in stream of consciousness.)

"Missing out on love" isn't something that matters as much when your society isn't amatonormative

"But they aren't allowed to get married" what if they don't want to?

"But they aren't allowed to romance" what if they don't want to?

When your culture is one that emphasizes compassion for all, and the most important bond is that of child and teacher... Don't you think that people might just not think of marriage as something worth striving for?

And from @jebiknights:

Honestly the only reason it bothers Anakin is bc he already met Padmé when he became a Jedi tbh i bet it wouldn't even bother him as much if he hadn't met her and already had visions of marrying her In general though yeah lol, that's one of the things i kind of miss about legends, is they didn't always deal with the attachment/romance/marriage thing well but you consistently had obi wan exes even before satine where they were like yeah we love each other and always will but we have no need or desire to get married or continue this

When the world around you doesn't emphasize marriage and romance and all that, then wouldn't you view cultures that do as a tad odd? Not weird in a bad way, just different.

I just keep thinking about the real world and how so much of the obsession with marriage and so on is a sociocultural thing. You don't want a big white dress because it's a bit white dress: you want it because it is the symbol that your culture has been pushing on you since you were two. Girls are taught to fantasize about weddings and marriage and to like A Certain Look for it, sometimes to such a degree that they can spend decades in denial about things like their sexualities.

And we're unlearning that as a society, people are being more critical of the institution and how they engage with it, are starting to question what it is that our media teaches us, asking 'why is marriage the most important thing in a girl's life, or in anyone's life' and generally moving towards a world where marriage exists but is not treated as a universal life goal

But the Jedi are just. Already doing that. They are already Not Teaching their children 'you should want this.'

And when you aren't pressured into wanting something like marriage... why would you be offended that your community says "you can have that Legal And Religious Status, but not with us. We'll still be your friends, but we as a community are not compatible with that legal and religious status barring a handful of specific and necessary exemptions."

Just

Marriage is not an inherent human/sapient want

Companionship is! We are biologically wired to be social creatures! We are biologically wired to, on the average, want sex, as well! That's how a species continues!

But marriage? A signed sheet of paper? That's not... inherent.

Fidelity and monamory? Sure, maybe. Plenty of species mate for life. But... humans have been proving that's a choice for most of history.

Other species are other things but anyway

Even if we remove marriage, specifically, and go to discuss attachment as being fidelity and exclusivity and devotion to another...

IDK how to talk about this without just going "devoting your life to a single person for companionship, romance, and sex is not only not necessary, but actually kind of mentally draining and a bad way to support yourself, we all need support systems and if you value one person's friendship or companionship more than others, that's not inherently a bad thing, but if you define yourself around each other or start doing shit like Covering Up Major Crimes That Hurt Real Innocent People (or committing said crimes) then. Uh. That's a problem."

[eve-was-framed]

okay this is gonna be a bit of a long rant (with some SA and CSA mentions so pls don’t read if that will be too much for you rn) but I’ve been thinking a lot about the “male loneliness epidemic” lately and I have some Thoughts ™

we live in very isolating, depressing and scary times. we live in a hyper-individualistic capitalist hellscape that seems to punish people who need community support. and I truly believe that we as humans should try to help each other out in the ways that we are able to.

but I lose 100% of my empathy for lonely depressed men when they start using their own personal issues as an excuse to peddle ideologies that advocate for rape, pedophilia, child marriage, sexual slavery, and even murder of women and girls. I don’t fucking care how sad you are, if you advocate for other humans beings to be subjected to the cruelest treatment possible then you either need to get serious help or die (and not take anyone with you when you do).

you do not have a fucking paramount on suffering. you are not the only ones who experience loneliness. I know you think women get to just pick and choose whichever romantic partner/friends we want, but that is false, and also being seen as nothing but a sex object by men is so incredibly isolating too. that’s not real love and connection, that’s only being valued for what we can provide for men. so many people feel so alone and it genuinely is a big problem.

I was raised in an extremely misogynistic cult that preaches that grown men are not responsible for anything they do to little girls bc “they’re wired that way.” I had very bad things happen to me before I was even old enough to realize what it meant. and you know what the excuse always is? “well it happened to him when he was younger too so he can’t help that he does it to you.” I learned very early that male suffering is viewed as more important than the suffering they inflict on innocent people. and despite going through this, despite seeing nearly every woman in my life go through something similar, despite all of this, I still would never ever sympathize with any ideology that preaches rape, slavery, sex trafficking, pedophilia, white supremacy, etc. and that doesn’t make me some super hero, it makes me a mildly normal person.

so no, nobody “pushed” you into your evil ideologies, nobody made you do that. if true suffering at the hands of the opposite sex is really the root cause of inceldom then almost every single woman I know would be the most insane incel you’d ever meet in your entire life. but they’re not, even though many of them are lonely and long for true companionship, none of them feel so angry and entitled to it that they want to murder and rape men or little boys. not a single one. the root cause of inceldom is, and always has been, male entitlement. men who were raised to believe the world and every woman in it exists to serve them in some way, but then grew up and realized that actually nobody is owed sex and you don’t get to force women to marry you and have kids, because we are human beings who deserve to be happy too. and this makes them so mad that they start thinking it’s okay to do whatever they want to whoever they want, because after all, nobody on planet earth could ever suffer as much as incels do when a woman tells them no.

I’m fucking sick of it. stop saying “they pushed me to this” and start taking even an ounce of accountability for your deranged, entitled mindset.

[ofallthingsnasty]

Ah, but being a party girl... Getting to your late 20s/early 30s, feeling that shift within you; knowing that hey, this can't go on forever... Starting something light with Crocodile, maybe aiming for a little fun in the spring, just someone proper to take you out for dinners and to warm your bed - testing the waters, so to speak. You want to settle down soon, just not right now, just want to see how it is as an item. He's handsome, has a certain air to him and a lot of money to spend - so why not?

tw.minors dni, a little dark twist at the end bc it's crocodile 🤭

Of course, you butter him up. He's right at that age where his type of man gets a little wistful, would like to have a wife, a house, maybe a kid if it's in the cards, still? Twenty-some years of 50 hour weeks will do that to you, will show you that your body doesn't just bounce back like so when you step over a certain threshold. Well, he wants someone to put a ring on; you want some fun - so, selfish as you are, you play along. Humor him. Hang off his arm and entertain those silly thoughts of his - a vacation together, moving in with him after the summer's done (because well, why not smile and nod when you'll be long gone by then), pointedly ignoring the way he keeps burying you in expensive gifts. You should feel bad, the guilt should probably eat you alive, because as the weeks pass you can tell that he's really, really smitten with you while you're secretly texting some other guy your age when you return home from yet another chic Italian restaurant-

It's such a sad thing, really. He'll make some other woman stupid happy, especially if she's been yearning for a rich husband; he's the perfect example of the broody, grumbly type who mumbles on and on about her expensive taste but would rather die than NOT to buy her exactly what she wants. There is a certain appeal to him (or else you wouldn't have spent this much time with him) and he'll be just fine after licking wounds once you're gone, you're sure of it. It's definitely nice to have someone around who is serious about you - after years and years of boyfriends (emphasis on boy) who were only good for long nights of drinking and summer vacations, you feel spoiled and terribly grown to have a handsome man downright worship you, to plan a future with you after such little time. He's committed and doesn't play around. Yes, you think, you could get used to this, but you still need a few more years of being free before you'll let yourself be tied down - because as much as it is flattering, it can also be a little scary. The thought of you in a white gown and a matching ring on your finger in just a year is making you antsy; and with how fast he's moving he might just want to opt for a December wedding.

So you do what you do best: smile, kiss him goodbye after yet another lovely date and- ghost him. You avoid his neighborhood for a few weeks, go private on all your socials, block his number, duck away whenever you see that telltale black shock of hair that is dragging smoke behind it, act like he never existed. And it works, as it always does.

At least that's what you think. Because the one night you finally dare to venture out again ends abruptly and with you waking up in an unfamiliar room. You can barely lift your hand to rub your tired eyes because suddenly there is a weight on it and a familiar face is staring you down solemly from the bedside, that all too familiar smell of cigars all around you. Turns out, leaders of crime syndicates who operate behind the innocent fronts of bussinesmen don't like to be deceived and made a fool of, especially by naive little playgirls who think they're smarter than the rest of the world and when they weren't even able to glean that there was more to the person they chose to goad. And spoiled brats like you need to learn not to toy with other people's hearts and egos, both of which are dangerously fragile. You reeled him in with promises of marriage and love and that's exactly what you'll give him now, just without all the luxury that you could have had if you hadn't been dishonest from the start.

Time to grow up, princess.

[horizon-verizon]

I think people misunderstand medieval understanding of "bastard" as the modern understanding of "the" medieval understanding of "bastard". Which is this solid, unchanging, oversimplistic definition or condition of "not born into wedlock" and that's it. As if people had the power to even make it stick to that even in real life European politics.

Yeah, some wanted such a hard definition for their own interests and there were....but real life doesn't conform to human desires very well.

Bastardry is not a biological state. It is a legal identity that people have had many different conditions that changes throughout human history. How do these pre-modern people confirm or witness that the child is the claimed father's? Humans cannot magically understand a child is a man's just by looking at them, our eyes are not microscopes capable of seeing the DNA, much less are we able to--even if our eyes were--of understanding which genes show parentage for comparison. Thereby we always had external tools and practices and social mechanisms to confirm parentage and we always will need such if that is our objective. Like the relationships of the parents to other agents, timing, place, degree of time spent b/t the parents, looks, even the status of the parents and possible candidates of fathers themselves (William the Conqueror)!

The very institution of marriage making so that the medieval/Westerosi wife historically cannot have public lovers or even travel far from her castle like her husband can bc she is not the head of said household and all her "work"--or a huge valued part of it--is in the castle.

"A bastard is a person born out of wedlock! It doesn't matter if a father claims them!"

While yes people try and have tried to use "proven parentage" to define bastard as such, often they are forced to rely on other elements to prove such parentage or to confirm it and make it matter politically, legally--there IS a "becoming" process to bastardry because it is solely dependent of previous sociopolitical conditions such as gender inequality and resource handling in the instituion of Westerosi feudal/general marriage prior to that child's existence.

Like someone on TikTok said, "You can't 'pardon' someone who hasn't been convicted of a crime!" which is an excellent way to quickly describe Rhaenyra's kids' situation: at no point were they ever legally or politically known as "bastards", therefore Viserys (the monarch) had no need to "legitimize" them as Aegon IV did for Daemon Blackfyre and all his other bastards who everyone witnessed born to different mothers than Naerys. Or when Rhaenyra legitimized Corlys' supposed grandsons/sons Alyn and Addam of Hull-turned-Velaryon.

Since often people who argue the bastard thing and use show!Laenor's looks to make a "REALISM" point, I have to point out that REALISTICALLY, HotDLaenor, who is "biracial" and could have looked all manner of ways: could have had all manner and variety of hair textures, skin tones, features, etc. bc of that phenotypical heritage. Laenor could gone even lighter, with much looser curls, than any of his actors. Laena, too. And still, with the actors that we do have, what i will say below would still be true.

If such, by marrying a "white" woman like show!Rhaenyra and impregnating her, their kids can and usually would look very pale or have curlier hair, etc. Yes, ALL of them. Adding to this, Baratheons are knwon to be dark haired even if Rhaenys in the show is not. Which is why HotD insisting on their looks being a dead giveaway and then making Laenor unable to impregnate Rhaenyra being DEFINITE proof is weird and UNREALISTIC. Again, I'm saying that to make as if the looks are a dead ringer is too black-and-white if you want to be "realistic" about it.

Now, I argue myself that bk!Rhaenyra's kids are likely not Laenor's, BUT it doesn't matter to me nor even for the Targs' politics (if Alicent and Otto had not been there, and I say these two and not random/any noble bc yes you very much had real nobles of real life keep such "secrets", look it up or go read) because those kids were never "witnessed" as "bastards". REALISTICALLY, not every lord's son/child is his. It's statistically impossible AND the very socio-political conditions of Westerosi feudal marriage and the inequality of it rather guarantees it--women are human, they will search out comfort even if they come across dangers in it just as Robb with Jeyne Westerling or Cersei x Jaime getting it on.

[eddiediazismyhusband]

i really want a fic of eddie realising him and buck have been falling in love the entire time.

I keep seeing posts (and even had someone tell me) that it’d be unrealistic for Eddie to be in love with Buck and not realise. Like not even think of him as an option. 

But that’s such a real queer person thing- i’ve lived that experience. I’m a women and despite all the times I admired other women it took forever for it to click for me.

I mean I grew up with accepting parents and kind friends and even queer people on tv. I remember looking at girls as much as I looked at boys. And yet I still had the reoccurring thought ��I could be gay, I mean i’m not- but I could be. But most people aren’t gay and i’m most people”. (gay being used here in my head to mean “not straight”) AND YET despite it all I didn’t realise i was Bi until I was much older.

And even then, I’d had at least two long term crushes without realising they were crushes before it clicked. 

(I kid you not- it took a drag queen talking to me like i was a toddler for it to click, but that’s a whole other story SO-) 

Whether or not Eddie already knows he’s gay (or demi or whatever) doesn’t really make a difference, cause it’s that same sort of heteronormative internalising that causes these feeling to not be understood. 

Especially for Eddies character who’s had this messy norm with Shannon for so long, a stable thing to grasp (even when their relationship was a mess) and then her death and him chasing to find that weak grasp to SOMETHING again- something that can be another excuse to not go looking for himself. 

Like he’s internalised this behaviour of, “if i’m in a relationship, I don’t have to look deep and figure out why it’s not working” and never quite realising that maybe the reason it’s not working is cause he’s trying to replace something that was never really real.

(Speaking of, Eddie and Shannon are the epitome of loml by taylor swift. I mean- “we were just kids babe” “from one kiss to getting married” “something counterfeits dead” “what a valiant roar, what a bland goodbye” “i’m combing through the band of lies- “i’ll never leave” never mind”) 

babe you are speaking to the POSTER CHILD of raised in a religious household and convinced themselves they weren’t queer until it was staring them in the face

the biggest issue is that most (again i said most before yall try to jump down my throat) of the people who are against buddie are either straight people who don’t understand the nuances of queerness, or queer people who didn’t grow up in environments of oppression and have never felt the need to hide themselves

i used to tell my parents i had crushes on girls only to later realize that it was because i just had a genuine platonic connection with them (two of whom are my best friends and are also queer women) and i used to get confused about what the difference between attraction and admiration was— something a LOT of queer people go through without realizing.

comphet is literally such a widespread phenomenon that people truly don’t realize just how common it is— like even queer people don’t realize they probably know several “straight” people who are still lying to themselves bc sexuality isn’t black and white— it exists on a spectrum. I’m not saying that to invalidate anyone’s straightness, im just saying i know multiple men who are my dads age (60s +) who only recently came to the realization that they were gay.

it’s genuinely so disappointing to see some of the people in this fandom pushing homophobic talking points from history just to disprove a character’s implied queerness bc they view that character’s queerness as a threat to their ship.

anyway, i agree eddie and shannon’s relationship is soooooo unconscious lavender marriage coded to me and there are SO MANY beautiful TS lyrics that apply to that… another song that i really feel like captures Eddie’s pov of the relationship is Home by One Direction… especially these lyrics:

[victimsofyaoipoll]

Round 1

Propaganda Under Cut

Ginny Weasley

Okay hold on I know Harry Potter is bad its awful I KNOW BUT LISTEN- the way drarries have BUTCHERED and KILLED her character is something that truly needs to be studied because its one thing to make her and harry not date but oh my god they treat her like she is the DEVIL for EXISTING.

Tbh only remember the epilogue where they do a time skip and Harry and Ginny are married then they have a Bunch of kids boarding the train. In fics I see a lot of her either becoming psychotic trying to marry Harry and become lady potter or molly Weasley getting a contract to force a marriage. There’s a lot of m/m ships in the fandom but I think Harry and Draco are the most popular? Just wanted to throw someone different in here

The thing is, the deeper I got into the fics, the worse Ginny got? Like I read plenty of good fics where she was cool, but there was the same amount where for some reason she was controlling, or abusive, or dead. Like for Drarry? Come on! If you think Ginny sucks, I have some *shocking* news about Draco

Alyx Vance

She genuinely gets so much hate from fans who like to ship Gordon and Barney because she's Gordon's canon love interest and it's tragic because she's such an interesting character.

I LOVE HER SM but she's so often mistreated and shoved under the rug by not only ppl mischaracterizing her due to being a woman of color but also to shove her to the side for freehoun (gordon freeman/barney calhoun) bc she "gets in the way" of freehoun by being canonically into gordon ........ i need her to stay safe in my arms

Literally gordon freemans canon love interest, and she loves gordon so much. I love her and i love their relationship even if gordon is a bit of a blank slate character. Anyway Freemance (Alyx/Gordon) is way less popular than Freehoun (Gordon/Barney). Barney is some guy who appeared in half life 1 but didnt even have a name. He appears at like the beginning and end of hl2. He is a side character. And yet for some fucking reason people always push alyx out of the way to ship gordon with this random white guy (Should mention at this point that alyx is a black woman). Alyx and her relationship with Gordon have WAY more development than anything about Barney (did BARNEY get a whole game dedicated to him?). And yet. I literally saw a freehoun shipper try to say that freemance is pedophilia and freehoun should be alyx's "dads." The reasoning for this being that hl2 takes place 20 years after hl1, and gordon, at 27, was put into stasis for those 20 years. When he comes out Alyx is 24 and Barney is in his 40s. The argument is that gordon actually did age those 20 years even though he was fucking suspended in time. They even claimed that "gordon probably babysitted alyx at some point" which there is absolutely no evidence for - meeting Alyx in hl2 is pretty heavily implied to be Gordon's first time meeting her. But like functionally Gordon is 3 years older than Alyx and 20 years younger than barney!!! He did not have any fucking life experience while he was in time prison!!! It's an absolutely insane reach to try and justify why you are sidelining a black woman!!!!!! Basically I love alyx I love freemance and I do not trust freehoun shippers because there is some kind of racism and misogyny happening there to make them sideline Alyx for a random white guy

[themultifanshipper]

I don't know if this is worth sending because you look like you already have made up your mind but this is not a hate post so please don't take it as one.

While everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I will not attack you for yours I wanted to try and clarify some things about Perez. I am a woman too and I get why this is a sensitive topic but please don't hate me for this.

The comment he made years ago about "women belonging in the kitchen" WAS and inside joke (even Susie said so after the hate he received) that he apologized for millions of times because he agreed that he should've never said it and haven't said something like that ever since. (The comment about nappies was a joke that his wife made and honestly I found it hilarious, I'm not sure why that should say anything bad about him but maybe I don't realise something).

About the cheating - it was never confirmed and all that is online are some photos of parties that he was extremely drunk at and it never was obvious or clear, dancing with other women isn't cheating, especially since we know nothing about Checo and Carola's marriage and can't assume how they make it work. All I know is that they look happy (if you saw fragments of any of the documentaries about Perez or any footage of them together you would see that he cares about his family very much) and that I don't think all of the rumours are justified or prove anything.

Carola isn't stupid and she wouldn't stay with a man that treats her horribly or cheats on her regularly. He isn't that stupid either and wouldn't risk his already not-the-best image he has in the European media.If he was such a misogynist there is no way Alice would want to work with him. And she has the choice. Even the fans that meet him say he is nice and very respectful.

Also with the supporting Horner in this whole scandal - Sergio never said anything about supporting his actions or tried to justify it, he only said that he doesn't believe his boss could do something like that (and the thing wasn't clear and still isn't so it's a rocky territory to talk about) and that he supports him as a friend. Would it have been better if he stayed quiet? Sure.

Again, I don't want to change your opinion or attempt anything negative but among all the hate towards Checo that flows around lately adding the old reasons for the hate he receives is just painful. It's just my point of view anyway so feel free to ignore it.

Not saying Carola is stupid at all bc idk her and i'm not in their marriage, but if i was married to millionnaire with 2 (3? Idk) kids I definitely would not try to divorce him. Not going to go into details but I know a lot of rich (and i'm talking filthy rich like these guys) people and most of their marriages are either for convenience and/or security. (Love exists of course but it's not as common as you'd think)

And of course each seperate thing/event/quote can be picked apart until you eventually turn him into a saint. But all together they make a pattern that I personally reaaaally don't like.

And about the horner stuff, i believe the victim, i will ALWAYS believe the victim, especially if the person accused is an old white millionnaire at the (relative) head of a billion dollar company. And checo said and i quote "I will stand with Christian no matter what" so... believe what you want but that's my take.

[rottencoreflesh101]

Dracotaur!Giyuu TomiokaxReader idea

Just an idea I wanted to share before it poofs, its an idea, its not well written but imma post it since I don’t think I’ll come back to it x)

Content: Au where mythical creatures besides demons exist, humanxmonster, arranged marriage, suggestive, body worshiping, stalking, yandere themes(?), forced marriage.

You fell in love with a monster. You knew it was wrong, a human who’s a soon to be wife with a monster? How scandalous!

You first met Giyuu when you ran away from home at the age of 15 when your arrange marriage was being discussed. You didn’t wanted to marry a man who’s name you didn’t even knew. All you knew this man was older than you, wealthy and was your father’s right hand man on your father’s clan.

5 years passed and you went back to visit the place where you met Giyuu once again. You stalked him to study him, to know more about him bc you felt strangely attached to this creature but it was cut short by a cold breeze behind you, you turn and there he is, in all his glory. His pale cold wet skin, his long dark hair that shines like a raven’s feathers in colors, his pretty pure white canines and 4 front fangs holding a growl, his shiny crystal like horns and his icy cold blue eyes with a dark blue slit in the middle aiming down at you.

He knew about your presence for months now, his patience ran out, he didn’t like being watched daily, he was waiting for you to come out but you never did so he took it upon himself to force you out. He was a lung dragon, a very worshipped, powerful creature and you disrespected him by your stalking behavior neither you worshipped him or brought him gifts, he furrows his eyebrows like he noticed something disappointing.

He picks you up like if you weighed nothing, you were now pressed onto his upper body, it was wet, freezing cold but sturdy, you could feel how strong he was yet he was gentle. Then you were dropped, he wanted to force you onto the open of his territory from behind the trees.

“What do you want?.” He spits out, his voice sound emotionless, hard cold but straight foreword. You tried to think of na excuse but you didn’t had many options, you got nervous, many possibilities ran through your mind. He stands massively in front of you crossing his arms to assert dominance while looking down at you waiting for an answer.

“If you’re not going to say anything, I’ll feast on your body, you’ll be a lesson to anyone daring to step foot on my waters.” Another stab on the heart with his icy sharp words. Your eyes widen bolting on your feet, you hold your face high staring at him in fear as you fumble your words out “P-Please! I didn’t meant to disrespect you!” You quickly stand on your knees and with out thinking you put your hands on his cloth side skirt that covers the part where his humanoid body connects to the dragon’s.

His eyes widen looking down at you as his pale face turns a redish, his pupils shrink in surprise and his hands hesitated to push yours away but he help back in curiosity. You cling onto his side skirt as one of your hands place themselves onto his waist, you were worshipping his body in his eyes. Your warm hands making contact with his cold skin made him flinch, it felt too intimate, he has never been worshipped this way…

You noticed how you were making him feel, maybe this is your ticket out of here alive but do you really care? Do you want to come back to your shitty family? To the man you’ll soon marry that you simply didn’t want? Maybe being killed by this creature isn’t that bad.

You slowly stod up as your hands drag themselves slowly up his body, tracing your now cold fingers on his icy skin, you grind against his body pressing gentle kisses on his abdomen up to his chest area. He was perfect, gods too perfect, he’s so cute…

Giyuu looks away in embarrassment, he’s embarrassed how a human is making him feel things he hasn’t felt before, he wants to deny that a human is making him crave more of her when she is the one who’s supposed to want him! Not the other way around but gods, you’re too good to let go.

“My lord… can you please bend down a little?” You let out in whispers. Giyuu looks down at you in surprise, he doesn’t like being told what to do but it was you, he relaxed his face and bends down his body a little to your level. “Giyuu… my name is Giyuu, please… use it just for me… ok-“ he was cut short, that’s when you attacked. You wrapped your arms around him pressing your warm lips against his cold skin, he lets out a soft moan that had you both surprise.

He covers his mouth in embarrassment as you just stare at him in awe then giggle, you cup his face into your hands and force your lips into his. Giyuu widens his eyes but then relaxes into it, you both break out in a make out session.

Etc etc. Y/n then realizes she haves to go, she still has a mom who cares about her, you’re sad you have to leave so soon. You break the kiss as Giyuu looks at you in confusing, you stare at him in awe again, he’s just so cute.

“Giyuu… I need to go, back to my home, I can’t stay any longer” you let out with a disappointing sigh. Giyuu growls wrapping his arms around your waist to keep you close while he burries his face in the crook of your neck. You brush your fingers through his hair and then a sting of pain hit you like an water wave, you shortly realize Giyuu bit you and left a nasty bite.

“You can’t return like that… what will your family say when hey see a bite like that is on you?… it doesn’t look very lady like…” he lets out with his soft cold voice, you swore you say him smirk. You try pushing him off of you but it was useless, what can you do to a guy like him? Tsk.

“Y/n…. My sweet warm y/n… we’ll ve together… forever and ever…” you feel his hands, his claws creep on your body and then you were lifted from the ground. He carried you and began to walk the opposite direction of your home town. You wiggled and struggle to get away from him, how the fuck did he even knew your name?! You never even told him about your arranged marriage. “I’ll be the only man you need y/n, I promise I’ll make you the happiest human…” he purred while walking into his lake and suddenly you felt sleepy, you didn’t even knew why, you were just fine a few seconds ago.

You woke up in what it seemed to be a big nest, it was made with different materials like fur coats, pillows and futons. You got up and managed to get out of this so you called nest to figure out where even are you. Your eyes widen as you look around, it was some type of cave, it was decorated in all sorts of expensive things, this placed looked very cozy.

“Honey… I’m so glad you’re awake…” A voice echoed across the cave coming from the… entrance? The entrance didn’t even looked like there an exit, it looked like a window with a clear view of… fishes…

(I won’t come back to it but basically Giyuu’s home is an underwater cave very deep in the water. The entrance/exit is some sort of portal that helps Giyuu keep watch over his territories. Through this portal you can see the underwater life, fishes of different species, plants and his coral garden that he takes care of that glows! The only way in and out its to have great lungs bc the way to the surface is a long way making it impossible for any land creature to get to or get out.)

Giyuu reveals himself, he is now missing half of his dragon body, he looked like a normal human now, his claws and horns were still there but it seems he shift into this more humanoid version of himself, his below dragon body was now a pair of human legs and had a long fur tail like the one he had im his dracotaur form. You keep staring a him, studying his sudden form that you’ve never seen before.

“My little fuzzy bunny… you know its rude to stare but since you’re my wife, I’ll allow it…” he lets out with a soft smile.

Your what now?

[echofromtheabyss]

In some ways as a Jewish Gen x queer who basically was forced to retreat back into a hetero normie lifestyle I feel like it was actually easier to be queer when it was still gross and weird. Also before 9/11. It's not like I'm in a class rn that benefits from marriage anyway

When it was gross and weird to be queer, I was able to meet people across vast divides including racial and socioeconomic ones that are gatekeeps from queerness itself now

Nobody gatekept me from making out with drunk women at bars

Nobody gatekept my sexual identity based on my ethnicity nearly as much

Now that you can get gay married you have to be a Socially Appropriate Match

If this had been true earlier in my life I would never ever have dated anyone

The only reasons I got to queer date is because 1) bars existed 2) interracial relationships were more acceptable/queerness hadn't been colonized by the diet right wing posing as left yet which is important bc white middle class women universally shunned me 3) forums existed which is where I met my ex let alone most ppl

[papirouge]

"Deuteronomy has God commanding his people to raid cities and take women aNd wE aLl kNoW wHat MeaNs" NO YOU DON'T, you idiot.

Israelites were forbidden to have sex outside of marriage AND marry foreign/non Israelite women, so that excludes the possibility for them to rape the women they spared during war.

I swear you guys have your fricking brain rotten by your paranoid agenda that you automatically assume that a man taking charge of women means he's going to rape or abuse her. Totally deranged.

Deuteronomy 22:28-29 isn't about rape but (consensual) sex outside marriage. Again, this person is literally making shit up assuming that bc a man lies with a woman = rape. There's actually a whole another passage in Deuteronomy tackling the punishment of rape (death). I already covered this common lie here.

"tHe mIsoGynY iN tHe bIbLe iSnt sUbtLe"

Ah yes, sooo no subtle you have to make shit up (rape) to make your point.

If the Bible was misogynistic, women would be the only one to have specific obligations. You constantly focusing on women not being to have authority over men shows how MALE CENTRIC you are. You refuse to acknowledge CHRISTIAN WOMEN don't have to abide under any male authority because *ding ding* Christian women existence doesn't revolve around marriage or church assembly/teaching (the place where they can't teach men). But you are soooo obsessed with men that for you, not being able to "dominate" them in one aspect is an offense. If the Bible was forcing women to be under male authority, it wouldn't be the only religion to elevate CELIBACY over marriage.

The only white lies I see are people like you omitting all the other obligations & punishment abiding to men (sometimes, because of women's action) to act like the Bible was focusing on women alone.

Oh and one last thing: Eve having to bear the consequence of her sin isn't misogyny. She messed up and she got punished for that. So did almost all the biblical characters. Accountability isn't "misogyny". also why are you constantly leaving out how Adam TOO got punished and had his own curse (having to work HARD for survival)

Interestingly enough "tHe bIblE is MisogYnIst" squad NEVER brings up why the sin that Eve instigated is called ADAM'S curse....not Eve's curse...🤔 " If the Bible hates women sooooo much, then why does that curse took Adam's name who had to equally share the responsibility (when he sinned only because Eve told him to) ? "Adam didn't get deceived" is factually true. Cope. Women can do mistakes, IDK why you have such a hard time to downplay Eve's

....something-something..... Ah YES : reciprocity of gender roles. You seethe about women having no authority over men? just wait until you learn that men will share guilt for sins or actions perpetuated by WOMEN🙃 Samson anyone? Yael/Barak??...oh sorry, if you actually READ the Bible you'd know what I'm talking about.

And let's not forget how Lot got actually RAPED by his 2 daughters who went away scot free.... Funny how these anti Bible wack feminists have nothing to say about that 🤡 There are occurrence of women (sexually or emotionally) abusing men in the Bible and men aren't screeching about it as much as you do. Men in the Bible had to deal with much more injustice and struggle than biblical women but you won't shut up about how evil the Bible is bc you are a bunch of conceited self centered minsinformed ignorant ungrateful harpies.