#bait | calliope

[fanbun]

A heated gamer moment

[girl4music]

A tribute to queer warrior women that fight for life, love and the greater good. If you can think of any more, please add accordingly. They do not have to be in a ship but they do have to be either queer or queer-coded in sexuality (meaning: gay, lesbian, bi or pan) and they do have to be some form of a female warrior or fighter - whether that be physically, mentally or supernaturally.

I’ve only listed 10 in TV art/entertainment. 20 if you count them individually and not as a ships. Add more. For the sake of keeping to the gif format, please only list characters or ships in TV art/entertainment. Video games also count so long as it’s a popular video game.

They do not have to be canon but interpreted that way by a majority of viewers that watch/engage with it and by the creators/cast/crew of the content. I recognize that this is a very rare scope of characters or ships. In fact I can only think of Xena and The Legend Of Korra where they’re not explicitly canon but are interpreted that way so much, they may as well be explicitly canon. It’s the area of canonship where whenever you think of the TV show itself, you immediately think of the ship even if the ship was not confirmed as canon within it and the creators/cast/crew were not only aware but fully agreed and embraced those characters as a queer ship. So before you mention them,… Kara and Lena (SuperCorp), Emma and Regina (SwanQueen) or Jane and Maura (Rizzles) do not count for this tribute. They are not queer ships. They are queer-baited exploitations by both the homophobic networks and showrunners and to include them in this tribute is a grave insult.

I’m sure there’s many more. At least I hope there is. 👍

Xena and Gabrielle (Xabrielle or WarriorBard)

Willow and Tara (Tillow)

Waverly and Nicole (WayHaught)

Calliope and Juliette (Calliette)

Ava and Beatrice (Avatrice)

Caltlyn and Vi (CaitVi)

Sara and Ava (Avalance)

Clarke and Lexa (Clexa)

Korra and Asami (Korrasami)

Carmilla and Laura (Hollstein)

[davekat-sucks]

Well, let's suppose you can change some things and plots from the epilogues and hs2 that are straight-up rage bait/disgusting material, how would you make the post canon given that it's an angst-filled continuation?

Remove the dog dick plus Harley being overly desperate for one. Fuck them for Jade's character assassination. At best is that Dave and Jade have a kid, but then Dave fucks off and leaves the two alone because he thinks being gay is the correct choice, making him a deadbeat father. Unironically being worse than Bro that he left his kid. Some could say it is either Alt Calliope or Ultimate Dirk making Dave act this way as they plan to ship him with Karkat instead. No cheating involved so no Cucknaya or fucking Rose. It's just Jade being a single mother having to raise her child while still saddened that Dave left them. Same for Jane cucking Jake with Gamzee. Just follow the similar plan of her setting up to be a villain like it was implied in the Snapchats.

[trailmixedup]

Was fucking haunted by a calliope on my way home from a hike yesterday… it was legit so loud and I couldn’t figure out where exactly it was coming from. Hope this doesn’t mean I’m stranger bait

[gabessquishytum]

Immortal throuple time? Immortal throuple time.

AU where Hob has made other immortal friends over the centuries, and this includes Calliope, with whom they both recognize as immortal and make an instant connection. But they never really date or address it despite the sparks, as they’re each hesitant to jump into another long-term relationship after the traumatic endings of their previous marriages (not to mention Hob is also low-key pining for his mysterious Stranger (who unbeknownst to Hob is slowly falling in love in return with every meeting), and Calliope isn’t totally over her ex-husband (who as we all know also doesn’t really do the whole “falling out of love” thing as a rule)). They maintain a friendship for the ages though, and meet up relatively often.

Time passes, Dream is captured, Calliope is captured, and they each separately vow that as soon as they’re free and fix the problems caused by their absence, they won’t waste any more time and do whatever it’ll take to win Hob’s heart.

Dream gets out, regains his tools, is called by Calliope to get her out, he goes to finish restoring his kingdom and deal with the Dream Vortex while she goes to fix the Laws that bound her, and they both happen to finish up and seek out Hob at the same time. Cue a lot of “wait, you two know each other? How??” from all three of them and a bit of Spider-Man pointing meme. Everyone calms down enough to talk, and Hob cries a little when he learns both of his dearest beloveds friends were captured and he had no idea. Both Dream and Calliope move to comfort him, finally clock each others’ feelings, and their eyes narrow at each other.

When they have a moment out of Hob’s earshot, there’s an immediate whispered argument: “but I called dibs!” “No, I called dibs!” “I was here first!” “I was here more often, finders keepers!” And a battle of courtship is declared. Whoever manages to thoroughly woo and seduce Hob Gadling first wins the prize.

Poor Hob is utterly bewildered and flustered by the flurry of gifts and dates and touching coming at him from two directions, and when he manages to gather his wits enough to say something along the lines of “you know I do have two hands” they’re too busy hissing at each other like cats to notice.

They only ever call a ceasefire twice, once when some third party tries to shoot their shot at Hob, and Dream and Calliope team up to chase off the interloper (under a mutual agreement that they’re only willing to lose to each other, anyone else is simply unacceptable). The other is when Hob finally decides enough is enough, invites them both over, drops his pants and informs them that they can learn to share. The ceasefire becomes a permanent truce as they both pounce on him and prove once again what a fantastic team they make.

-🪽anon

Love these idiots <33

Hob "I have two hands" Gadling is fully just TRYING to get them to listen, but Dream and Calliope are very invested in their battle of wooing. Hob is so frustrated with the two of them that he almost goes off with the person who was trying to shoot their shot with him, just to teach Dream and Calliope a lesson. Almost.

The reality is that Hob is HORNY and as much as he likes the attention and the gifts and everything, he feels like he's missing out on precious fucking time here!!!! He's happy for Cal and Dream to spoil him later but he'd much rather they figured it all out and fuck him first.

So there he is, jeans and underwear around his ankles, sternly telling his two would-be lovers that they'd better learn to share or else. Fortunately they take the bait, and... well. Hob has never actually had two people give him a blowjob at the same time before. Especially not his two favourite people in the entire universe. He cums embarrassingly quick, and although Dream and Calliope engage in a little elbow shoving over who gets to take the shot to the face... the truce is sealed there and then.

Hob does have two hands and he's very skilled with both of them. He's all for equal opportunities - two fingers in Cal's pussy and two fingers in Dream’s arse at the same time? No problem. The opposite of a problem, actually.

[writing-for-life]

Analysis bait (if you want to):

What attracts Morpheus to a romantic partner in the first place? Like, is there a common "theme", or is each person different?

What's the main reason that Morpheus' romantic relationships fail?

Ah friend, I’m always up for analysis bait! This question has the fandom intrigued, and not for the first time 🤣

I recommend my aimless ramblings that I brought to the page here (more geared towards what might attract him in the first place):

And here (answers a lot about why they fail):

I also had an ask about Dream and Calliope a while back which answers a few additional questions:

I’d say the common theme is: They’re dreamers, or have a strong connection to the Dreaming or meet him there in the first place. There’s naturally also that pesky topic of Desire meddling here and there, but even so, I think the common theme still stands.

What does everyone else think?

@saiyanblood2 ask answered

[mmmmalo]

Coming to regard the black/white Auryn at the center of the trickster lollipop as the same thing as the yin/yang bomb at the center of Skaia. Partly because the shape of the lolly had already reminded me of planets with house-towers, possibly drawing the tricksters' sense of "solving their problems" into the language of Sburb's existing framework for arc completion. Also because this retroactively turns the Skaia-capped staves of kings (and their imitator Lord English) into giant lollipops, making me want to put them in little sailor suits. Also also because the way LE's staff turns into gun makes licking the lolly seem like suicide, turning their immense magnetism into the dark draw of the stump and bringing us back to the paradigm of Mobster Kingpin's diabetes, or the arsenic catnip of sugar, or Doc Scratch's revolver with a single loaded candy-coated round (implicitly for suicide).

I think... for Jane this superimposes a sense that on the worst day of her life -- where Jake's being a jerk and Caliborn bullies her and calls her fat and tells her her Dad's dead and everything she interacts with makes her more miserable -- she has, sort of ended it? In the context of Caliborn calling her fat and in the shadow of Mobster Kingpin's diabetes, Calliope sending her a lollipop (posed as a "pick-me-up") feels like a rhetorical candy-coating on like, mocking fat-phobic suicide baiting, I guess. Giving the perjoratively "diabetic" girl a big bag of sugar. Like the god-tiering bait-and-switch again, but with the element of death obscured. We even see Roxy attempting to inform Jane how they all need to kill themselves (in order to god-tier) while Jane alchemizes the juju! Poor Jane...

I think this subtext carries over into Jane's lollipop abuse in the Epilogues... her line in Meat 29 "citizens of the Human Kingdom delight in my Tricksy antics, and what kind of politician would I be if I were to deny my core voting demographic that sort of red meat?" functions as an allusion to Jane's corpse, in addition to Jane's metaphorical recognition of herself as a product for consumption. "I am hated, so I must annihilate myself" seems to be the underlying sentiment for both disguise and suicide. Having Jane place the lollipop on the mantle (like Nana's memorial portrait), after which Dirk warns Jane not to burn herself out (like Nana's ashes) also seem to be aimed at her sense of despair. As Jane freaks out over being deemed xenophobic, Dirk circles back to "red meat" by juxtaposing the maintenance of political appearances and suicide: "You either gotta roll with the woke shit, or decide to commit laborious, symbolic, melodramatic suicide in the process of utterly giving up."

[orionsangel86]

Hi! I wanted to wish you a good day. I have been reading your blog and now I understand more what is going on. It was honestly so confusing to see a ton of subtweeting in the main tag. Honestly it really got to a place that it was just rage bait posting.

Which it is shame as there is sandmanfemslash week coming soon and people I follow seems interested in participating and this is honestly a perfect opportunity for more people to try out new ships. We are a small fandom and for what I see, there is not many people posting stuff frequently now that the hype die down.

Hey, im sorry it spilled out into the main tag. Frustrations had clearly been rising for some time as I often came across angry posts in the main tags clearly raging at the state of fandom but tried to ignore them. I'm just disappointed that an important topic that does need civil discussion turned into such petty ship hate and targetted attacks.

I don't know who is organising Sandman FemSlash week, but I will support it regardless. We must must MUST devote more of our efforts to keeping these spaces welcoming to POC, particularly women of colour and I do think that to do that we need to raise up creators devoting their time and efforts to the characters of colour and the amazing women of Sandman.

I know there are some Gaultienne/Gaulcienne works on its way very soon. As well as some Johanna x Calliope work which I'm excited for.

I'll see if I can raise some more awareness and support for the SandmanFemSlash week as well. After all this hurt and discourse emotions are running high and we need to good event to channel our energies into.

[arleniansdoodles]

THE REVELATION IS CLOSE EVERYONE THIS IS NOT A DRILL

well...relatively close anyway lol

And Sindri's heart of stone is finally melting~

I really enjoyed the calliope-sindri interactions, i think this is my favourite from any sindri-calliope chapter. Calliope just being a sweetheart all the way <3

Its good that atreus finally broached the kratos subject. Obviously cause we've been waiting for the reveal with baited breath lol but also i think calliope needed to hear it. She cant exactly hide away forever (even if she wants to)

Great chapter! I cant wait for next saturday

lololl it's definitely getting closer!! Especially since I had to merge some more chapters together aaaaaaaa

I'm happy you enjoyed the Sindri-Calliope shenanigans! They're such cuties together hahaa :D And Atreus is definitely making a good call with giving both Kratos and Calliope a heads-up ... We'll just have to wait and see how it goes from there!

Thank you so much for reading! <333

[dangertoozmanykids101]

Paranormal Romance Book Covers & Titles - Tooz Prompt!

Over breakfast this morning I opened Tumblr and this post caught my attention - the book cover to the book "Morning Glory Milking Farm."

I had to look the book up, of course. The title was just so funny to me, let alone the perfect cover art. [Link to book on Goodreads.]

But I really had fun looking through the Recommended Books. I love a fun titles that make me laugh and sound ridiculous - so you know the author has a great sense of humor. Besides, y'all know I don't shy away from any monster. Don't these sound fun? Imagine your favorite author here writing a fic with a title similar to these. OMG, now I'm begging for some crazy stuff! Such as.....

"Titan: Romancing His Stone. A Daddy Dom Gargoyle Romance", by Jullian Graves.

"Love, Laugh, Lich: Sex Rituals Are Not OSHA Compliant", by Kate Prior.

"The Orc At The Office: Mate-Bonding With A Co-Worker Is Against Company Policy", by Kate Prior.

"Knot Today Satan", by Calliope Stewart.

And I can't forget "Morning Glory Milking Farm: A Monster Bait Romance", by C.M. Nascosta.

Okay.... Tag you're it. Add a fun crazy title and book cover for a Paranormal Romance, or whatever. Something that catches your eye. Maybe some of us will be inspired to write something off the wall? Or create your own book cover and title. Oooo, then maybe someone will write a story to it. Or someone might make a cover for your title? Challenge yourself!!

Here are a couple people I'm tagging to throw a monkey wrench of a challenge into your day - week maybe? Obviously no pressure. Just for fun.

Open to everyone!!!

Whatever muse you want - turn him into a monster or a paranormal creature of some sort!

Instructions:

Find a fun paranormal romance book cover and reblog, maybe challenge someone else?

IF you get inspired to write your muse as a paranormal creature, or do a mood board, artwork, book cover, - whatever creative outlet you do, it'll be amazing!!! Please tag me or message me.

@caffiend-queen @nildespirandum @latent-thoughts @ladyoftheteaandblood @wiypt-writes @so-easy-to-love-me @acidcasualties @deceitfuldevout @jtargaryen18 @tarithenurse @muddyorbs @michelleleewise @xorpsbane @talklokitome @mooncat163 @coldnique @emeraldrosequartz @kikster606 @nonsensicalobsessions @jtargaryen18 @lokischambermaid @lokisgoodgirl @holymultiplefandomsbatman @vbecker10 @ijuststareatstuffhereok89 @myoxisbroken @skinnylittleredwrites @redfoxwritesstuff @imanuglywombat @alexakeyloveloki

[chrisringrose]

“Gone Fishing” April poem #28, 2023. Writing a poem each day over 28 days gets you to wondering where they surface from, and it’s natural to think of depths and daylight, and even remember the look of a float on a lake at dawn . . .

Gone Fishing

Take a black-barrelled fountain pen

and a notebook from the hoard;

Ink some looping words

that become a fishing line

cast out upon a glassy lake.

The float knocks,

slides beneath the surface.

It may be a fat bronze tench

that takes the bait,

maybe a minnow.

They had been there always

lazing in the depths

till called by Calliope

to gasp for a few seconds in the grass

before being returned below.

CR April 28, 2023

[1stspectre]

"Here, wear my jacket."

CALLIOPE SMOOTHED HER HAND OVER THE LEATHER FABRIC, putting on the other woman's jacket. the woman who looked exactly like her. truthfully, had she not been flown into another universe—galaxy, whatever had happened—she'd have assumed she was a clone cerberus had made out of her dna. dutch, however, had a great sense of style.

" what are we doing about the hair? " shepard asked. if there were going to pass cal as dutch, something needed to be done about her choppy military haircut. dutch's killjoy clearance and shepard's ability to hack into a system and crack hard encryptions would be the ticket for the rest of the team to slip into the building undetected. with the module one of the jaqobis had given her, and her military training it should go smoothly even if she did run into trouble.

" it's not my first time as bait, " she said cracking a small smile towards dutch's direction. " but i've gone undercover only a handful of times. "

[29pageshomestuckeveryday]

Homestuck, page 5,103

Calliope: Tidy up a little.

You stow the delicious mess in your sylladex. You might be inclined to snack on it now, but due to the nature of your JUJU MODUS, you cannot access it. Once you captchalogue something, only your brother can use it. And vice versa. You always make sure never to captchalogue anything that is particularly important to you. You think sometimes he chucks stuff over to your side of the room just to bait you into captchaloguing it for him, and getting it into his inventory. You kind of don't think he was engaging in such machinations this time though. It looks like he was just being a petulant brat.

[tickldpnk8]

The other thing I hate is when an author unveils new tags as they write. I can see why folks wait for finished stories because of it. Because I try to curate what I’m reading based on tags. So if you suddenly up the rating or add trigger tags several chapters in, I’ve just wasted potentially months of becoming invested.

And ok, some things are pretty minor and I can skip over a scene in a chapter or two. I might read the fic anyways if I come across it in a tag and know it’ll be something minor to skip. Maybe you didn’t know where the characters would lead you. But imho, if you know, tag it upfront.

Meanwhile, I might miss out on something I’m looking for if you don’t tag it. I’d rather catch your fic in progress and cheer you on with comments as you write until it’s finished than miss it altogether or discover it the next time I’m searching.

Here’s a practical example: I’ll never be ok reading about rape. A lot of people aren’t, and for some it’s actively harmful to them: tag that, people! So for most fanfic, I filter that shit out. But for Calliope, it’s integral to her character, so I leave it in when searching and base my judgement on the other tags and the description.

TL:DR It’s just as exciting to me to figure out how we’ll eventually get to that thing you tagged. I’d rather know than miss your fic altogether. And there’s some things I just don’t want to bother with, so tag it early and folks can avoid the bait and switch.

me, a stupid baby fandom newbie apparently: hey, i think if people are triggered by a fic, that tags should be added for the triggering thing

quote unquote “mature fandom”, apparently: you just lack perspective and it’s harassment to talk about this

jeez, maybe it’s just me, but if people get triggered reading my stuff, i would desperately want to know so i could add warnings. it’s just for fun fandom, right? why the actual fuck would i want to risk someone getting triggered when they were only trying to have fun with me in our little fandom sandbox.

partial tags are much worse than no tags at all – it gives a false sense of security that is absolutely not real. if you don’t want to tag, have the honour to say “warnings are untagged, read at your own risk”

[marciliedonato]

If you can't accept first kill as anything else other than genuinely good you're weak and won't survive the winter....

[mr-marsmallow]

cal and jules deserve love