#benefits of classified ads

[aaravsharmasblog]

Categorized Success: A Comprehensive Guide to Types of Classified Advertisements

For decades, classified ads in newspapers have served as a reliable platform for individuals and businesses to connect with their desired audience.

[realestatemalldotus]

Benefits of Writing Online Classified Ads to Grow Your Cleaning or Janitorial (or any) Business

Benefits of Writing Small Ads to Grow Your Cleaning or Janitorial Business

Let’s talk about a way to get new and local customers for your cleaning or janitorial business.

Writing small classified online ads is an effective way to get your business noticed by potential customers. It is a great way to reach out to the local community, build brand recognition, and drive sales.

Let’s discuss the benefits of writing small ads for your cleaning or janitorial business or really any small or local business, and how it can help you reach and engage with your target audience.

What are the benefits of writing small ads?

Small businesses often struggle with marketing due to their limited budget and resources, but writing classified ads can help them reach a wider audience for free or at least, without having to break the bank.

One of the primary benefits of writing small ads is that it is a targeted way to get new customers. By targeted, I mean, you can write ads specific to someone who is looking for your service and not the rest of the town who would maybe never use you.

By doing this, you can specify exactly who you are trying to reach, like maybe owners of small offices, and how you want to reach them.

You can tailor your ad to a specific demographic or location, like people living within 5 miles of your business, allowing you to reach potential customers more efficiently and cost-effectively than traditional advertising methods.

Writing classified ads also allows you to reach a larger audience without spending a lot of money. Many classified sites are free or offer discounted rates for small business owners.

Additionally, writing small ads is a great way to quickly test out new ideas and strategies to see what works best for your business.   Try changing your offer monthly and see which offer worked best for your business.

Overall, this can be a great way to get new customers and promote your business. It’s an effective, cost-efficient way to target new customers and get your message out there. With the right approach, you can use online classified ads to attract more customers and grow your business.

How can writing small ads help my business?

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These ads allow you to reach out to people who may not have been familiar with your business before.

By including keywords and phrases that potential customers may be searching for, you can ensure that your ad will be seen by the right people when they are searching online for your product or service.

Online classifieds are picked up from search engines, which increases the chances of your ads coming up in those local searches.

Additionally, by including details about your services and pricing, potential customers can easily assess whether they would like to take advantage of your services.

By taking advantage of small free to inexpensive ads, you can ensure that your business is seen by potential customers and that they know what services you offer and how much they will cost.

With the right approach and wording, you can target new customers with classified ads and give your business the exposure it needs to grow.

Here are some tips for writing effective online classified ads

Keep your message simple and direct. Make sure to communicate the main benefit of your business in a few words.

Use action words to grab your readers’ attention. Action words like “discover”, “save”, “enjoy”, and “unlock” will make your ad stand out and create a sense of urgency.

Use a compelling headline. This is the first thing people will see, so make sure it grabs their attention and entices them to read further.

Make sure to target your audience correctly. Different audiences respond to different messages, so you should tailor your ads accordingly.  Talk their talk, walk their walk.

Highlight any special offers or promotions. People love a good deal, so make sure to include any discounts or promotions in your ads.

Include a call to action. Let your readers know what they need to do next to take advantage of your offer. Whether it’s calling for more information or clicking through to your website, make sure you have a clear call to action that encourages your readers to take the next step.

Be consistent.  One ad isn’t going to have customers banging down your door.  The more they see your name and ad come up in searches, the more familiar they will be with your services or products and how it can benefit them.

Post your FREE ad now on http://RealEstateMall.US .  No credit card needed, free to post, free to join.

We look forward to seeing you there, Karyn Murphy

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Tech’s benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipeline

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/10/bdfl/#high-on-your-own-supply

Silicon Valley's "authoritarian turn" is hard to miss: tech bosses have come out for autocrats like Trump, Orban, Milei, Bolsonaro, et al, and want to turn San Francisco into a militia-patrolled apartheid state operated for the benefit of tech bros:

https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

Smart people have written well about what this means, and have gotten me thinking, too:

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-did-silicon-valley-turn-right

Regular readers will know that I make a kind of hobby of collecting definitions of right-wing thought:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/29/jubilance/#tolerable-racism

One of these – a hoary old cliche – is that "a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged." I don't give this one much credence, but it takes on an interesting sheen when combined with this anonymous gem: "Conservatives say they long for the simpler times of their childhood, but what they miss is that the reason they lived simpler lives back then wasn't that the times were simpler; rather, it's because they were children."

If you're a tech founder who once lived in a world where your workers were also your pals and didn't shout at you about labor relations, perhaps that's not because workers got "woke," but rather, because when you were all scrapping at a startup, you were all on an equal footing and there weren't any labor relations to speak of. And if you're a once-right-on tech founder who used to abstractly favor "social justice" but now find yourself beset by people demanding that you confront your privilege, perhaps what's changed isn't those people, but rather the amount of privilege you have.

In other words, "a reactionary tech boss is a liberal tech boss who hired a bunch of pals only to have them turn around and start a union." And also: "Tech founders say things were simpler when they were running startups, but what they miss is that the reason no one asked their startup to seriously engage with the social harms it caused is the because the startup was largely irrelevant to society, while the large company it turned into is destroying millions of peoples' lives today."

The oft-repeated reactionary excuse that "I didn't leave the progressive movement, they left me," can be both technically true and also profoundly wrong: if progressives in your circle never bothered you about your commercial affairs, perhaps that's because those affairs didn't matter when you were grinding out code in your hacker house, but they matter a lot now that you have millions of users and thousands of employees.

I've been in tech circles since before the dawn of the dotcoms; I was part of a movement of people who would come over to your house with a stack of floppies and install TCP/IP and PPP networking software on your computer and show you how to connect to a BBS or ISP, because we wanted everyone to have as much fun as we were having.

Some of us channeled that excitement into starting companies that let people get online, create digital presences of their own, and connect with other people. Some of us were more .ORG than .COM and gave our lives over to activism and nonprofits, missing out on the stock options and big paydays. But even though we ended up in different places, we mostly started in the same place, as spittle-flecked, excited kids talking a mile a minute about how cool this internet thing would be and helping you, a normie, jump into it.

Many of my peers from the .ORG and .COM worlds went on to set up institutions – both companies and nonprofits – that have since grown to be critical pieces of internet infrastructure: classified ad platforms, online encyclopedias, CMSes and personal publishing services, critical free/open source projects, standards bodies, server-to-server utilities, and more.

These all started out as benevolent autocracies: personal projects started by people who pitched in to help their virtual neighbors with the new, digital problems we were all facing. These good people, with good impulses, did good: their projects filled an important need, and grew, and grew, and became structurally important to the digital world. What started off as "Our pal's project that we all pitch in on," became, "Our pal's important mission that we help with, but that also has paid staff and important stakeholders, which they oversee as 'benevolent dictator for life.'"

Which was fine. The people who kicked off these projects had nurtured them all the way from a napkin doodle to infrastructure. They understood them better than anyone else, had sacrificed much for them, and it made sense for them to be installed as stewards.

But what they did next, how they used their powers as "BFDLs," made a huge difference. Because we are all imperfect, we are all capable of rationalizing our way into bad choices, we are all riven with insecurities that can push us to do things we later regret. When our actions are checked – by our peers' social approval or approbation; by the need to keep our volunteers happy; by the possibility of a mass exodus of our users or a fork of our code – these imperfections are balanced by consequences.

Dictators aren't necessarily any more prone to these lapses in judgment than anyone else. Benevolent dictators actually exist, people who only retain power because they genuinely want to use that power for good. Those people aren't more likely to fly off the handle or talk themselves into bad places than you or me – but to be a dictator (benevolent or otherwise) is to exist without the consequences that prevent you from giving in to those impulses. Worse: if you are the dictator – again, benevolent or otherwise – of a big, structurally important company or nonprofit that millions of people rely on, the consequences of these lapses are extremely consequential.

This is how BDFL arrangements turn sour: by removing themselves from formal constraint, the people whose screwups matter the most end up with the fewest guardrails to prevent themselves from screwing up.

No wonder people who set out to do good, to help others find safe and satisfying digital homes online, find themselves feeling furious and beset. Given those feelings, can we really be surprised when "benevolent" dictators discover that they have sympathy for real-world autocrats whose core ethos is, "I know what needs to be done and I could do it, if only the rest of you would stop nagging me about petty bullshit that you just made up 10 minutes ago but now insist is the most important thing in the world?"

That all said, it's interesting to look at the process by which some BDFLs transitioned to community-run projects with checks and balances. I often think about how Wikipedia's BDFL, the self-avowed libertarian Jimmy Wales, decided (correctly, and to his everlasting credit), that the project he raised from a weird idea into a world-historic phenomenon should not be ruled over by one guy, not even him.

(Jimmy is one of those libertarians who believes that we don't need governments to make us be kind and take care of one another because he is kind and takes care of other people – see also John Gilmore and Penn Jillette:)

https://www.cracked.com/article_40871_penn-jillette-wants-to-talk-it-all-out.html

Jimmy's handover to the Wikimedia Foundation gives me hope for our other BDFLs. He's proof that you can find yourself in the hotseat without being so overwhelmed with personal grievance that you find yourself in sympathy with actual fascists, but rather, have the maturity and self-awareness to know that the reason people are demanding so much of you is that you have – deliberately and with great effort – created a situation in which you owe the world a superhuman degree of care and attention, and the only way to resolve that situation equitably and secure your own posterity is to share that power around, not demand that you be allowed to wield it without reproach.

[ipseitydelrey]

Sei!! I'm obsessed with your writing!

Since your requests are open... I was thinking maybe.... NSFW alphabet with Reid? 👀

aaaa thank you so much !!

nsfw alphabet ☆ spencer reid

ship spencer reid x afab!reader

warnings smut, use of protection (wrap it before you tap it, kiddos!!), p in v penetration (i feel like this goes w/o saying), oral (m and f receiving), hair pulling, mutual masturbation, wet dreams, teasing, sex toys, he’s self-conscious :(, slight mention of what cat adams did (only implied), also he’s bi <3

A = aftercare (what are they like after sex?)

it’s quite possible that spencer loves aftercare more than actual sex. he’s so enthusiastic about taking care of you; he’ll get food and water, run a bath, cuddle, etc.

B = body part (their favourite body part of theirs and of yours)

although he’s pretty self-critical about his looks, he does like his hair. his hairstyle changes frequently so he always appreciates it when you compliment him or you run your fingers through his hair.

spencer probably feels awful that this is his favourite part of your body, but he loves your boobs. no matter the size or shape, he lives resting his head on your chest like it’s a pillow.

C = cum (anything to do with cum)

either in you or in a condom. he doesn’t really like it when it gets everywhere. although, if he does end up cumming anywhere else (like on your stomach or face, etc.), he will definitely try to clean it up quickly.

D = dirty secret (a dirty secret of theirs)

it’s not too much of a secret but it still sort of counts: spencer has wet dreams about you. since you also sleep in the same bed, during those dreams, he would subconsciously rut against your leg and moan in his sleep. so far (at least to your knowledge), this has only happened once because you woke up to him doing it. you both are aware of this fact, but spencer isn’t aware that you know. you haven’t told him because you don’t wanna embarrass the poor guy.

E = experience (how experienced are they? do they know what they're doing?)

with women, very little; not even sex or second base, at most he has made out and gotten his shirt off but that’s it (we’re not including cat adams in this discussion of course). with men though? he’s not a virgin, so he does have some experience.

although if we’re counting what he knows through books and articles, then in theory he would be amazing in bed.

F = favourite position (this goes without saying)

if he’s on top, he loves missionary. the position gives him the opportunity to kiss you while he thrusts into you; he loves the romance and intimacy of it too.

if he’s bottoming, then he likes it when you ride him, especially if you’re facing towards him. he can still kiss you — giving him his much needed intimacy — and he loves to watch the way your chest heaves as you bounce on him. fondling your boobs is an added bonus! another position he loves is when you fuck him with your tits. that one doesn’t need an explanation.

G = goofy (are they more serious in the moment, or are they humorous, etc.)

he thinks he’s serious (he’s trying soooo hard, he wants it to be perfect) but he’s unintentionally goofy. usually during sex, he shares little tidbits about the benefits of an orgasm, or how eating pineapple can make cum taste like the fruit…and it’s hilarious. it doesn’t really bring you out of the moment, just makes you laugh.

H = hair (how well groomed are they, does the carpet match the drapes, etc.)

spencer has a mouth-watering happy trail. much like up north, down south it’s unruly, but can still be classified as well-groomed.

I = intimacy (how are they during the moment, romantic aspect...)

not much can be said, but expect tons of “i love you”s as he cums. he’s a romantic at heart, of course he wants some romance during sex.

J = jack off (masturbation headcanon)

he doesn’t masturbate a lot, maybe once or twice per two weeks at most; that’s if he’s not with you. in your presence is a whole other story. it was a bit awkward jerking off in front of you at first, but over time he’s come to love it (ngl kinda wanna write a drabble for this one).

K = kink (one or more of their kinks)

why do you think he keeps his hair long? it’s just begging to be pulled! seriously, during a makeout session, you got a little curious and your hand trailed to the back of his head and you gave his hair a lil tug. the result? an involuntary moan. and as mentioned before, mutual masturbation is on the table.

L = location (favourite places to have sex)

he believes any sort of sexual intimacy should be confined to the bedroom. he values his privacy and he doesn’t want to risk getting caught in the middle of having sex by anybody.

M = motivation (what turns them on, gets them going)

you being smart, especially when you teach him something new (which doesn’t happen often but when it does, he’s so turned on). that’s pretty much it. genuinely loves it when you correct someone else, or if you work with him in the BAU, when you realize something about a particularly hard case that causes a breakthrough.

N = nope (something they wouldn't do, turn offs)

doesn’t want to hurt you in anyway shape or form. it’s likely that later in your relationship, when you trust each other more, you both might experiment with biting or spanking, but that’s as far as he’s willing to go. sensory deprivation (especially with blindfolds) are also a no.

O = oral (preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc.)

he’s so different, yet so similar when both giving and receiving oral; he doesn’t have a preference.

if he’s giving, then he’s giving. at first, he wasn’t too good at it (you had to keep giving him pointers and tell him what you like and don’t like, but he has the basics down), but over time, he does get the hang of it. in short, his tongue has other uses than just rambling about statistics.

if he’s receiving, it is the hottest thing you have seen and heard. he gets so flushed in the cheeks and so sweaty, his hair starts to stick to his forehead as he’s panting. and the noises? the noises he produces makes you want to rut against the bed, the couch, his leg, wherever you can.

P = pace (are they fast and rough? slow and sensual? etc.)

if he’s bottoming, he does like it when you go fast, especially if he’s pent up (and maybe has been edged for a while too). but if he’s on top, then he loves to go slow. although most of the time, he’ll go whatever pace you want him to go.

Q = quickies (their opinions on quickies rather than proper sex, how often, etc.)

he doesn’t like quickies, especially early in your shared sexual life. he does prefer to take his time and not have any interruptions and the like, but quickies are bound to happen with how many cases there are.

R = risk (are they game to experiment, do they take risks, etc.)

this is a man of science we are talking about; of course he’s game to experiment in the bedroom. with his limited experience (especially with women), he doesn’t know exactly what he likes and doesn’t like. but as for risks, almost never. the closest he’ll probably get to fucking in public is in a motel/hotel. he doesn’t want to get caught in such a compromising position.

S = sexts (yes? no? pictures?)

he doesn’t really understand why people would sext when they could just A. say it to their partner directly or B. just call and listen to their voice. he understands why people send nudes even less; he doesn’t want to take pictures of himself in that way, or even risk sending them. the technophobia is real with this man.

T = toys (do they own toys? do they use them? on a partner or themselves?)

doesn’t own any, but he isn’t vehemently opposed to using them (either on you or him) if you own some.

U = unfair (how much they like to tease)

spencer doesn’t really like to tease so much as he likes to be teased. it gets him all riled up, especially if you tease him in public. as long as the teasing is masked well, he’s all for it.

V = volume (how loud they are, what sounds they make)

the way this man moans is symphonic, it’s mind boggling. he is loud, his noises can reverberate through the room. he doesn’t just moan, he’s got a whole arsenal of sounds; whimpers, whines, cries, etc.

W = wild card (get a random headcanon for the character of your choice)

the first time he got hard in front of you was a complete accident and he was so embarrassed, rapidly spitting out apologies and slight self-deprecating comments. you tried to calm him down - which sort of worked, thankfully - and asked if he wanted help with it. the event didn’t escalate into full-on sex, but hands were enough for him and you both.

X = x-ray (dick size)

like him, his cock isn’t particularly girthy, but it’s long, definitely above average. in fact, it’s long enough that you could still feel the aftershocks of it even when it’s been a day.

Y = yearning (how high is their sex drive? how many rounds can they go for, how long do they last...)

the man is so touch-starved that at this point, any form of intimacy would be near too much for him. so, his sex drive would probably be high, but he would still only be able to go maybe one or two rounds. later in your relationship, he might be able to go longer than that.

Z = zzz (how quickly they fall asleep afterwards)

spencer is the type of guy to feel sleepy after sex, even if he cane only once. the activity takes a lot out of him, but he would still prioritize you first before himself. after he does his whole aftercare routine, he’s out like a light. this could be different if he has a migraine, in which case he’ll probably be up for a couple more hours (yay insomnia).

[transmutationisms]

do you feel like SSRIs are mostly pseudoscience? I'm not sure if I should be open to trying them or avoid them at all costs since I'm not sure if they even work or if they will mess me up permanently

a preliminary note that i don't find the category 'pseudoscience' to be useful & would classify SSRI research more as 'methodologically shoddy science' or 'ideologically slanted' or 'part of a centuries-long effort on the part of psychiatrists to secure themselves professional prestige by claiming neurobiological etiologies where none are shown to exist' &c &c. imo the notion of 'pseudoscience' is itself pretty positivistic, ahistorical, and ideologically noxious (particularly apparent in any analysis of epistemological imperialism).

that aside: you raise two major issues with SSRIs, namely whether they work and whether they will cause you harm.

efficacy of SSRIs is contested. a 2010 meta-analysis found that in patients with mild or moderate depressive symptoms, the efficacy of SSRIs "may be minimal or nonexistent", whilst "for patients with very severe depression, the benefit of medications over placebo is substantial". a 2008 meta-analysis found a similar distinction between mildly vs severely depressed patients, but noted that even in the latter population, drug–placebo differences were "relatively small" and argued that the differences between drug and placebo in severely depressed patients "seems to result from a poorer response to placebo amongst more depressed patients" rather than from a greater efficacy of SSRIs. a 2012 meta-analysis found some SSRIs consistently effective over placebo treatments, but several authors disclosed major relationships with pharmaceutical companies. a 2017 meta-analysis concluded that "SSRIs might have statistically significant effects on depressive symptoms, but all trials were at high risk of bias and the clinical significance seems questionable" (emphasis added) and that "potential small beneficial effects seem to be outweighed by harmful effects".

when evaluating any of this evidence, it is crucial to keep in mind that studies on antidepressant trials are selectively published—that is, they are less likely to be published if they show negative results!

A total of 37 studies viewed by the FDA as having positive results were published; 1 study viewed as positive was not published. Studies viewed by the FDA as having negative or questionable results were, with 3 exceptions, either not published (22 studies) or published in a way that, in our opinion, conveyed a positive outcome (11 studies). According to the published literature, it appeared that 94% of the trials conducted were positive. By contrast, the FDA analysis showed that 51% were positive.

meta-analyses are not immune to this issue, either. in addition to the problem that a meta-analysis of a bunch of bad studies cannot magically 'cancel out' the effects of poor study design, the authors of meta-analyses can and do also have financial interests and ties to pharmaceutical companies, and this affects their results just as it does the results of the studies they are studying. according to a 2016 analysis of antidepressant meta-analyses,

Fifty-four meta-analyses (29%) had authors who were employees of the assessed drug manufacturer, and 147 (79%) had some industry link (sponsorship or authors who were industry employees and/or had conflicts of interest). Only 58 meta-analyses (31%) had negative statements in the concluding statement of the abstract. Meta-analyses including an author who were employees of the manufacturer of the assessed drug were 22-fold less likely to have negative statements about the drug than other meta-analyses [1/54 (2%) vs. 57/131 (44%); P < 0.001]. [...] There is a massive production of meta-analyses of antidepressants for depression authored by or linked to the industry, and they almost never report any caveats about antidepressants in their abstracts. Our findings add a note of caution for meta-analyses with ties to the manufacturers of the assessed products.

so, do SSRIs work? they are certainly psychoactive substances, which is to say, they do something. whether that something reduces depressive symptoms is simply not known at this point, though it is always worth keeping in mind that the 'chemical imbalance' narrative of SSRIs (the idea that they work by 'curing' a 'serotonin deficiency' in the brain) has always been a profitable myth. look, any medical treatment throughout history has been vouched for by SOME patients who report that it helped them—no matter how wacky it sounds or how little evidence there was to support it. this can be for a lot of reasons: placebo effect, the remedy accidentally treating a different problem than it was intended for, the symptoms coincidentally resolving on their own. sometimes the human body is just weird and unpredictable. sometimes remedies work. i'm sorry i can't give you a more definitive answer about whether SSRIs would help you.

as to potential risks: these are significant. SSRIs can precipitate suicidal ideation, a risk that has been consistently downplayed by pharmaceutical companies and studies. SSRIs are also known to contribute to sexual dysfunction and dissatisfaction, again a risk that is minimised and downplayed in much of the literature and in physician communication with patients. further (known) side effects range through emotional blunting, glaucoma, QT interval prolongation, abnormal bleeding & interaction with anti-coagulents, platelet dysfunction, decreases in bone mineral density leading to increased risk of osteopenia and osteoporosis, jaw clenching / TMJ pain, risk of serotonin syndrome when used in conjunction with other serotonergic substances, dizziness, insomnia, headaches, the list goes on.

i don't mean to sound alarmist; all drugs have side effects, some of the ones above occur rarely, and you may very well decide the risk is acceptable to you to take on. i would, though, always encourage you to do thorough research into potential side effects before starting any drug, including an SSRI. more on SSRI side effects in david healy's books 'pharmageddon', 'let them eat prozac', 'the antidepressant era', and 'the creation of psychopharmacology'; 'pillaged' by ronald w maris; and 'the myth of the chemical cure' by joanna moncrieff.

in addition to the above, SSRIs are known to come with a risk of 'discontinuation syndrome'—that is, chemical withdrawal when stopping the drug. this, too, is often downplayed by physicians; many still deny that it can even happen. some patients don't experience it at all, though i can tell you purely anecdotally that SSRI withdrawal was so miserable for me i simply gave up on quitting for over a year, despite the fact that at that point i was already thoroughly experienced with chemical withdrawals from other, 'harder' drugs. again, i am not telling you not to go on SSRIs if you decide these risks are worth it to you! i simply think this is a decision that should always be made with full knowledge (indeed, this is a core, though routinely violated, principle of medical 'informed consent').

ultimately this is not a decision anyone should make for you; it's your body and mind that are at stake here. as always i think that anyone considering any kind of medical treatment should have full knowledge about it and should be making all decisions freely and autonomously. i am genuinely not pushing any agenda 'for' or 'against' SSRIs, only against prescription of them that is done carelessly, coercively, or without fully informing patients of what risks they're taking on and what benefits they can hope to see.

[dean-winchester-is-a-warrior]

Call Interrupted

Summary: Jensen is on a call that seems to be stressing him out. Y/N has some ideas to help him de-stress.

Warnings/Explicit 18+: Smut. All smut. Oral (m receiving), unprotected PinV sex, slightly rough sex (it could just be classified as very energetic! 😉), very light spanking, very brief fingering, public sex if you squint.

Pairings: Jensen x Reader

Word Count: 1,358

A/N: So, sometimes my brain is just very unruly. I have a gazillion things I should be writing, requests that I'm so excited to get to, next chapters that I'm happy to continue with, etc. But did I write any of those this evening? No, of course not.

Instead, my stupid brain got caught up in a little conversation I was having with @suckitands33 about her post that I reblogged and added a few more pictures to. The conversation was regarding the picture of Jensen that I included in the title card above. That conversation wouldn't leave my brain, and this is what came out. It's all filth, of course. 😏 Enjoy! 🥰

The beautiful dividers here were created by @plum98

"I don't know, Shelia, what are the benefits?"

Jensen's voice was frustrated and stressed as you walked into his office and saw he was on a call. He had his AirPods in so it looked a bit like he was talking to himself. But he was obviously talking to his manager, Sheila. Discussing some upcoming projects, no doubt. 

You'd only come in to ask him what he wanted for dinner. But he seemed so stressed - his shoulders were rigid and he was holding his head in his hand - that dinner flew out the window. 

He needed some stress relief right now.

You walked towards his desk and he looked up and gave you a tight smile. You peered around his computer monitor to see if he was on a video call. But the monitor was black, so you were good to go. 

You spun him in his office chair so he was facing you instead of the desk. He gave you a quizzical look, but then you sank to your knees and reached for his zipper and the look became scorching hot. You got his zipper open and were reaching for the button on his jeans when he grabbed your wrist. He pointed a finger at his airpods, obviously telling you he was on a call. But you just shrugged and raised your free hand, putting a finger to your lips.

"Shh..." 

You pulled your wrist free of his slackened grip and unbuttoned him. You reached in and pulled out his heavy, half-hard cock, licking up the underside of it and making him clench his jaw and drop his head against the back of his tall, leather office chair.

You wasted no time in going down on him, bobbing your head up and down, quick and then slow. After a few minutes of alternating speeds, you wrapped your lips tight around the head of his cock, and sucked hard. He sank his teeth deep into his plump bottom lip as he fisted his hand in your hair.

Then you took him all the way in, letting him sink an inch or two down the back of your throat and then swallowing around him. His fist tightened in your hair and he pulled hard, as his other hand clenched into a fist that he pushed against his mouth as he tried desperately not to make a noise.

You came up off of him gasping slightly and slurping up the spit and come that still connected your lips to his cock.

You stood up and quickly shed your t-shirt and leggings. You wore no bra. You turned away from him as you pushed down your panties, bending over when they reached your ankles so you could pull them off, giving him a straight on view of your glistening cunt.

"Fuck." He groaned quietly. 

And then he spoke louder."No, no Sheila. I'm just uh...just thinking...it's good. Keep...keep going. I'm listening."

You giggled as you straightened up and walked over to him and climbed onto his lap, straddling him. You braced your hands on his thick, round shoulders and lined his cock up at your entrance. You nibbled on his lips as you sank down on him. It was almost impossible for both of you not to groan out the pleasure sweeping over your bodies. 

When you were fully seated on him, you began to unbutton his dark blue shirt, pressing your lips against every new inch of skin you revealed. 

When you licked his right nipple into your mouth and bit it gently he bucked his hips and you couldn't hold back anymore. You started raising yourself up and down slowly at first, but the exquisite stretch of his thick cock made you impatient, and you were soon riding him hard and fast.

You pushed your hands under his open shirt and gripped his shoulders again, using them as leverage to slam down on him. 

He squeezed your left breast in his hand and began to flick his tongue back and forth against your nipple. You sank your hand into his hair and moaned loudly. 

You slapped a hand over your mouth, but Jensen was quickly apologizing to Sheila.

"You know, Sheila, sorry," his voice was tight and incredibly strained, "sorry, I've gotta. There's like a weird, something with the call. I'm gonna have to call you back." 

He abruptly ended the call, slamming his hand down on the end button on his phone. He pulled his AirPods out, and you couldn’t help laughing. 

"Sorry, baby! I was trying to keep quiet."

Jensen gave a playful growl and easily pulled you off of him. He stood up and flipped you around, shoving his chair back, and quickly bending you over so you had to press your hands against the desk.

As you looked over your shoulder at him, he pushed his jeans all the way off and yanked his shirt off completely, positioning himself at your entrance. Before he sank into you, however, he brought his hand down with a soft slap to your ass; it was still hard enough to make it jiggle. You gasped and he reached over his body to slap your other cheek.

"Unh!" You grunted and dropped your head down to dangle between your arms where they were braced against the desk. 

Jensen spoke with a rough growl. "That was to punish you for disrupting an important phone call." He slammed himself into you, so deep you swore you could feel him in your throat.

He leaned down and slid his lips against the shell of your ear. "And this," he said moving in and out of you with a silky, languid rhythm, "is to thank you for it."

His thrusts were targeted, slowly sliding his cock along your convulsing walls to perfectly slam against your sweet spot. The pleasure was so thick that it was almost excruciating and you were soon begging him for more.

"Please, Jensen, harder, faster."

"Okay, baby." He placed kisses down your spine. "Hold on tight."

Your hands were flat against his desktop, and you tried to brace yourself there.

But he slammed into you so hard, your arms folded and you had to shove his keyboard and some papers out of the way so you could lay yourself across the desk.

He didn't stop, slamming against you so hard, you knew the fronts of your thighs would be bruised from the hard wooden desk. But you didn’t care, you wanted him to fuck you black and blue.

The coil low in your stomach was tightening and tightening until it finally exploded, making you scream and drag your nails over the desk uselessly, scratching at it without purchase.

Jensen still didn't stop, fucking you through your climax and the next one too, before he finally pushed his hands against your shoulder blades, crushing you into the desk while his hips pistoned forward, jackhammering into you until he let out a shout of ecstasy, shuddering and bucking into you over and over as he spurted hot and thick into your soaked cunt. 

His breath was hot and harsh against the back of your neck, until he finally moved to brace himself against the desk, slowly pulling out of you. He pulled his chair back over to him and sank into it so he could watch his cum slowly drip out of your pussy.

"Fuck." He swore, his voice ragged. He grabbed hold of you and pulled you back into his lap, turning you so you could rest your exhausted head against his shoulder. 

He let out a soft chuckle as he let his hand trail over your body, and up and down your legs. 

"Was this what you came in here for?"

You smiled and shook your head. "Actually, I wanted to know what you want for dinner. But you seemed stressed."

"Hmm." he said softly. "Well, mission accomplished. I'm not stressed anymore."

His smile was wicked as he ran his wandering hand over your pussy, sliding two thick fingers through the sloppy mess of your cunt. 

"And I definitely know what I want to eat."

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[antennaed-kenzy]

Gift, Money, Fame, Love [Mikage Reo]

❄ Mikage Reo x f! reader

❄ notes: proofread, characters above 18+, slight suggestive, fluff, occ

❄ Day three of the Christmas Series.

❄ Extras: Work count 2k+ The third one of the best Christmas Series. We love our rich king and queen. Masterlist of series

being held high in society isn't always best for some people, even some relationships.

Gifts, money, fame, love, and shouts were all she would ever receive. Either if they were for people she classified as her fans, or were from a famous football player Mikage Reo. 

The two of them, Reo and {Y/n} had an interesting relationship. They weren’t together but they were close to each other. Close enough for him to give her gifts and love, close enough for her to go to his games, cheer him on, and give him a sense of love. 

{Y/n} was currently at a photoshoot. She was one if not the best models in the world at the moment. She was busy with photoshoots, runways, and agency calling from north to south, east to west. Though she does get her rest occasionally, she mostly works with high-end companies, which benefits her and them. 

“Pose for me,” The photographer says as he takes more photos of the women. 

She was dressed in a robe, but not just a simple robe. No, it was a long pink sheer robe, the material feeling as light as a feather. The hems of the fabric were made of feather material, making them soft to the touch. Since the fabric was see-through, she was wearing an undergarment that matched the light pink color. 

Reo was watching her do all different poses each time the camera flickered and the lights flashed in the room. He watched her and soon got bored of the cameraman talking to her like a puppet, even though it was her job he didn’t like one bit of it. This cameraman seemed to be possessive over her and wanted things to fall his way.

[E/c] eyes follow a certain figure out of the room. Snapping in her face made her face back to the cameraman. “Focus on me, {Y/n}-chan. Who gives a shit about him.” He snapped another photo. “You are a top model, one that motivates others.” Snap. “That raises beauty standards.”

SnapSnapSnap

“I think we are done for today.” {Y/n} bows at the cameraman. She walks out of the room and sees Reo standing outside on his phone. “Good, you’re still here.” She heaves a sigh. “I thought you had left already.”

Reo looks up from his phone. Eyeing her up and down. “Yet you are still in the robe.” He smirks at her.

“It’s a gift. They said I could have it,” She smiles at him giving him a little spin. 

“Even though it is not a gift from me?” He lightly laughs seeing her spin around, the robe lifting from the ground as she does. 

When she was done spinning to show off the robe she faced Reo. “Really. It’s not like you would get this for me in the first place.” 

—

The warm weather shuns over the busy streets of Tokyo– the busiest part of the streets following {Y/n} as she walks with Reo. Hoards of people surround the two, while bodyguards do their best to fend people off. This happened anytime she wanted to go out of a shop, she was always bombarded by fans. It didn’t help that Reo was with her as his fans also trailed along. 

The two walk into a store and the crowd of people dissipates within seconds. Reo looks at the female beside him who seems on her feet again like she has just woken up, though they have been at this for at least an hour. 

Bags were around his arms, along with more bags around a servant's arm who accompanied them. None belonged to the purple-haired male, they all belonged to {Y/n} who was now walking around the store and placing items in her hand. Reo's purple eyes trailed every step she took around the store, grabbing items, looking at them, and assessing them, either putting them back or adding them to the stack forming in the cart. 

“Your total is 64,422 yen.” The words snapped Reo out of his starning. He slowly walked up to the check out standing there as {Y/n} took his wallet from his pocket and paid using his luxury business expense card. 

The cashier smiled at the two, handing the man yet another bag to carry. She thanked them for shopping when they were already out the door. 

A smile on her female face while looking at Reo’s and the servant's disheveled faces. “I think we can be done for today. Don’t you think?~” She sing-sung her last sentence leaving a tone to remember by Reo. 

Both of them nodded their heads. The servant called over a limousine driven by Ba-Ya. The men load the bag in the limited trunk space before joining {Y/n} in the back of the limo– or Reo joining her and the servant getting into the passenger seat with Ba-Ya as he didn’t want to disturb the two. 

“Did you have fun today, {Y/n}?” Reo looked at the plenty full of bags and then at the smiling female. 

“Of course, Reo!” She beamed with excitement. {Y/n} scooted her body toward the male. Her arms wrapped around his next pulling him close for a hug. 

His hands naturally found themselves around her hourglass-like waist. His hands traveled up her back, as her hands traveled down his back. Reo traced circles, squares, stars, and any shape he could. He didn’t let go of her for an instant and neither did she. She melted into his touch as the snow melted to the coming spring days. 

“Tomorrow is the first day of the summer,” Reo whispered soothingly in her ear. “Are you going to wear the swimsuits I got for you?”

He felt her nod against his shoulder. Reo counted to trace on her back, and surely he heard her little sleep whispers for her. Ba-Ya did her best in the driver's seat to make sure it was a smooth drive for the young master and his lady. 

When they got to her house, Reo and the butler started to take in her items. {Y/n} was on her door holding it open for them as it was the least she could do for all the work they were providing her with. 

All the items were in her house, and Ba-Ya had already left along with the butler. Reo stayed behind, helping her unpack all the items, putting them where she wanted them, following her finger to a spot, and placing the items in their spot. 

—

Lights flashing on the water. Clicks bounded off the sand. Pose of pose. In the water or on the sand. Click after click pose after pose. She wished she could take a break.

“Break!” A crew member called out. 

{Y/n} dropped her pose, her body falling back into a better living position. She ran over to Reo, arms swung open. Her body collides with his. Every part that wasn’t covered by fabric touched his body even closer. 

She got her tippy toes to whisper in his ear, which he bent slightly for her. “Kiss me.” 

Reo looked at her, his purple eyes shot open, “What?!” He whispered-screamed back. 

“Kiss me so this guy will stop looking at me weirdly.” She quietly yelled in his ear while pointing back at the guy who was ogling her. 

Reo eyes follow where her finger is pointing and sure enough a guy is looking straight at her up and down. The male hands slithered to her nape rubbing the spot. He held her face up, his lips landing on hers that tasted like cherries.

Reo kissed her deeper, his tongue licking her lips. {Y/n} slightly opens her mouth letting his tongue slide in exploring every inch. She tasted too sweet and he wanted more like an addict. Reo other hand wrapped around her sinched bare waist pulling her closer to him. 

A moan escaped from her mouth. {Y/n}’s hand glided up to his face cupping his face and pulling his grasp closer. He tasted like fine rich smother wine that you could only get made personally for you– he was made perfectly for her. 

—

“Pose!” The photographer spat as they clicked another photo. 

“Sorry,” {Y/n} apologized posing for another picture.  

After a while of snapping photos {Y/n} along with the crew took a break. She grabbed a robe to place over her body and went straight toward her changing room. I hate this outfit. She partially ripped the clothes off when she made it to her room. I hate this makeup. She wiped the makeup off with a makeup remover. I hate this. She changed back into the clothes she wore when she arrived, laying up to head out into the cold.

{Y/n} stormed out of the building leaving the other clothes behind. The team tried to grab her and pull her back but no one was able to reach her by the time she was at the door.  She waits at the train station waiting for the next train to arrive. 

It has been six months since she last saw Ba-Ya. She was always there ready to take her home after the shoot due to Reo’s request– It has been around five months since she last saw Reo. Since he left for a game, since their last kiss. 

She wanted to taste him again, kiss his soft lips, and encase her body into his. The train swooshed the wind, her hair blowing past her face as her eyes followed the train. 

The female boarded the train. She found an empty seat to sit down. The train filled with people and {Y/n} was watching them all pass by, with music playing in her ears. Purple short-haired crossed her eyesight. Her head cocked toward the direction of where she saw the figment go.

{Y/n} got up from the chair in the direction she saw. 

Purple eyes meet her [e/c] watering gaze. “Reo?!” Her voice cracked when she realized who she was staring at. 

“{Y/n}?” Reo stood up from his seat. 

Now they stood eye to eye, face to face. Inching closer toward each other, Reo's hot breath tickled her neck as he grabbed her in for a hug. She stood there for a second before wrapping her arms around his strong body. 

The people encircling them realized who they were. The sound of clicking and flashing surrounded the two.

Oh right, that’s why they have let each other go. The summer had gone and snow hit the ground changing seasons– changing people. Changing how the world works and how people act. News spread like wildfire when Reo first kissed {Y/n}, well first kissed her in public. The people went crazy. Two completely different individuals were down each other throats on a job site nonetheless. Her job site.

But they loved each other and always have. Even if they never said it to each other. They would buy each other gifts, each of them trying to top the other whether money-wise or value to the heart-wise. They didn’t let the fame intercept their relationship, which is why they never said they were dating, but to them rather loving each other had given each other what they needed to know how they truly felt. 

When the news got out of their make-out session, they had no choice but to leave each other. It was best for each as they lived separate lives. One was a famous football player, while the other was the best model of this century. They weren't made for each other in the public eye but in the comfort of their own home, where they could hold each other and melt into each other, one a wix, the other a candle. They fit perfectly. 

“Please don’t leave me again, Reo,” {Y/n} gripped tight around his waist. 

Reo cups her face making her meet his gaze, “I will never leave you again my dear, {Y/n}.” He kissed the top of her head and the noise of others withered away. Now it was just the two of them. Just them, as it should have been from the start.

a/n: i see you

[covid-safer-hotties]

Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted - Published Dec 17, 2024

Today in too little, too late. Nice to see this finally done, though.

By Cathleen O’Grady

Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds

A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment was retracted today, following years of campaigning by scientists who alleged the research contained major scientific flaws and may have breached ethics regulations. The paper was pulled because of ethical concerns and methodological problems, according to a retraction notice.

The paper in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents (IJAA), led by Philippe Gautret of the Hospital Institute of Marseille Mediterranean Infection (IHU), claimed that treatment with hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, reduced virus levels in samples from COVID-19 patients, and that the drug was even more effective if used alongside the antibiotic azithromycin. Then–IHU Director Didier Raoult, the paper’s senior author, enthused about the promise of the drug on social media and TV, leading to a wave of hype, including from then–U.S. President Donald Trump.

But scientists immediately raised concerns about the paper, noting the sample size of only 36 patients and the unusually short peer-review time: The paper was submitted on 16 March 2020 and published 4 days later. On 24 March, scientific integrity consultant Elisabeth Bik noted on her blog that six patients who were treated with hydroxychloroquine had been dropped from the study—one of whom had died, and three of whom had transferred to intensive care—which potentially skewed the results in the drug’s favor. Larger, more rigorous trials carried out later in 2020 showed hydroxychloroquine did not benefit COVID-19 patients.

Critics of Raoult’s paper have pointed out more damning problems since. In an August 2023 letter published in Therapies, Bik and colleagues noted the cutoff for classifying a polymerase chain reaction test as positive was different in the treatment and control groups. The letter also raised questions about whether the study had received proper ethical approval, and noted an editorial conflict of interest: IJAA’s editor-in-chief at the time, Jean-Marc Rolain, was also one of the authors. (A statement saying he had not been involved in peer review was later added to the paper.) The letter called for the paper to be retracted.

The retraction notice states Elsevier and the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, which co-own the journal, decided to retract the paper because of ethical issues, “as well as concerns raised by three of the authors themselves regarding the article’s methodology and conclusion.”

An investigation by Elsevier could not establish whether the researchers had obtained ethical approval for the study before recruiting patients, nor whether the patients had given informed consent to be treated with the antibiotic azithromycin. This medication would not have been part of standard care for these patients in France at the time, the investigation concluded, so would have been considered an experimental treatment that required consent.

According to the notice, the three authors who raised concerns about the paper “no longer wish to see their names associated with the article.” Gautret and several other authors told the investigators they disagreed with the retraction, and the investigators did not receive a response from Raoult, the corresponding author. To date, 32 papers published by IHU authors have been retracted, 28 of them co-authored by Raoult, and 243 have expressions of concern.

In a press release, the French Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics says the now-retracted study was the “cornerstone” of a scandal that saw millions of people take hydroxychloroquine unnecessarily, endangering patients who experienced side effects including heart attacks. “This series of events serves as a reminder of an essential point when it comes to medicines: Even in times of health crisis, prescribing medicines without solid proof of efficacy, outside the rigorous framework of well-conducted clinical trials, remains unacceptable,” the society says. “One of the fundamental principles of medicine—primum non nocere (‘first, do no harm’)—has been sacrificed here, with dramatic consequences.”

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez at Rolling Stone:

In the highly tumultuous closing days of Donald Trump’s first term in office, BuzzFeed News received an angry letter from his outgoing administration. The subpoena, issued on December 1, 2020, was delivered as Trump was preoccupied with efforts to overturn the democratic order and nullify the results of the presidential election he had just lost to Joe Biden. As BuzzFeed reported at the time, “Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators issued a subpoena this week demanding BuzzFeed News identify its sources — an extraordinary attempt by the government to interfere with a news outlet acting under the protections of the First Amendment, and a move that the agency’s former chief lambasted as ‘embarrassing.’” 

The aggressive letter from the Trump-era ICE read: “Failure to comply with this summons will render you liable to proceedings in a U.S. District Court to enforce compliance with this summons as well as other sanctions.” It added, “You are requested not to disclose the existence of this summons for an indefinite period of time. Any such disclosure will impede this investigation and thereby interfere with the enforcement of federal law.”

To many media and political observers — including officials who served in the Trump administration who were aware of the document at the time — the subpoena wasn’t worth the price of the paper on which it was printed. It was a temper tantrum, not a real legal threat. For starters, Trump and his officials would be out of a job in less than two months. There wasn’t much will, much less the time, within the federal government to make good on this threat to an investigative reporter, his sources, and his publication. There wasn’t even a chilling effect, per se, because their guy had failed at winning reelection. That was then. Now, after vanquishing Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, Trump and his team have four more years to try to intimidate and target leakers, whistleblowers, and foes in the media — especially if situations involve what they claim is highly sensitive information or classified intel. They intend to use the opportunity.

In reporting this story, Rolling Stone spoke with attorneys close to the president-elect, incoming Trump administration officials, and other Republicans who’ve talked to Trump about staunching embarrassing press leaks during a second administration. Two of the sources with knowledge of the matter specifically cited the Dec. 1 subpoena as a model, and something that Trump allies and lieutenants are expecting to issue more of during the second term — this time, with the benefit of years, not days. It’s merely one facet of sprawling plans to clamp down on whistleblowers and bully Trump’s enemies in the press, after Trump’s inauguration once again in late January. Expect more communications seizures, more whistleblower prosecutions, and more personal lawsuits or legal threats from Trump against news outlets.  “Oh, it’ll be brutal,” says one conservative lawyer who’s discussed certain plans and ideas with Trump and his inner circle. “Gloves off [because] we’ve learned our lessons from the first time and one lesson is you have got to be even more aggressive.”

[...] This is, of course, a matter that Trump cares about deeply. During his first term in the Oval Office, intra-office paranoia and frenzied leak hunts — both officially by federal investigators and informally by zealous Trump aides — were a hallmark of the administration. But Trumpland isn’t only worried about stamping out leaks, of classified information and other details, from members of what the president-elect and his cronies deride as the “Deep State.” Often, the backstabbing is coming from inside the house. According to two sources familiar with the matter, Trump has personally grown furious about some of the leaks that have occurred from the current presidential transition process, and has in some instances fumingly demanded to know who in his midst could have possibly whispered certain information to the press.

[...] Among committed Trumpists close to the president-elect, there has also been discussion of potentially creating new offices in the FBI or DOJ to focus exclusively on hunting for leaks and plugging the deluge of media leaks. In the summer of 2017, Trumps’ first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, mentioned that the FBI had formed a new unit to deal with leaks, including of classified info. Sessions also announced that the Trump administration had tripled the number of criminal leak investigations in the time since President Barack Obama left office. “In cases where there have been leaks that are criminal in nature, U.S. law enforcement and the incoming attorney general should follow the evidence wherever it leads, regardless of what the prior administraiton’s attorney general thinks, or what the internal memorandum was,” says Steven Groves, who worked as a lawyer in Trump’s first White House.

Both the Obama and Trump administration attracted significant uproar from press-freedom groups for their secret DOJ seizures of records from reporters and others. Whatever record Obama and his Justice Department set, Trump and his senior officials were determined to shatter it. Gurgling beneath the first Trump administration’s rhetorical and propaganda war on his nemeses in political media, there was a ton of real action. For instance, the first Trump administration referred a record number of leaks to the feds for criminal investigations.  “Obama’s Justice Department indicted eight journalistic sources under the Espionage Act, more than all U.S. presidents before him combined,” The Intercept reported back in 2019. “Donald Trump is now surpassing Obama’s eight-year record in just over two years in office.”

That amped-up war on government whistleblowers was powered in part by the same Espionage Act under which Trump was criminally investigated and charged in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s now-defunct case. The war is set to come roaring back and then some after Trump is sworn in. So far, the twice-impeached former (and future) president, who also became a convicted felon during his 2024 campaign, has named ultra-loyalist Pam Bondi as his choice to lead the Justice Department. Early this month, Trump announced that another hyper-MAGA-devotee, Kash Patel, was his new pick to serve as FBI director. 

[...] The sources close to Trump add that non-government actors will be integral to their plans for combatting who they deem overly meddlesome reporters. Multiple sources say that as sitting president, Trump still intends to have his small armada of personal lawyers who aren’t working in the administration handle his (often frivolous) lawsuits — or, more often than not, enraged legal threats that don’t result in suits — against media outlets that cross him during a new term. 

[...] In campaigning on a platform of retribution, bloodlust, and authoritarian impulse, Trump made no secret of his longstanding desire to punish his enemies in the media. In recent years, Trump has even made the idea of journalists getting raped in prison — and thus tortured into naming their confidential sources’ identities — into an audience-pleasing laugh line at some of his rallies. As he prepares to take office once again, the president-elect is not hiding his interest in going after journalists.  Last month, the president-elect personally pressured Republican senators to sink the PRESS Act, bipartisan reporter-shield legislation. Trump posted to social media that conservatives “MUST KILL THIS BILL.” But it wasn’t just a social-media post. Trump was invested enough in this matter that he spoke privately and on the phone with certain GOP lawmakers about making sure President Biden never signs this bill, a source with knowledge of the situation and another person briefed on it tell Rolling Stone. This week, Senate Republicans dutifully blocked it.

Rolling Stone has a good piece on Donald Trump’s war on the press and those who leak to the press. Times are going to get scary indeed.

[midnightfantasiez]

Twisted Love | 셋 (chp. 3)

SUMMARY: you were certain that you would never find love nor ever lose your virginity throughout university, that is until a man named Lee Sangyeon came into the picture and offered to become your tutor; in exchange for keeping your grades up, and most importantly, teaching you everything you needed to know about sex. it was all just for fun & games, that is until one of you started to develop feelings for the other.

PAIRING: tutor!Sangyeon x afab!reader

GENRE: smut (18+ MDNI!!)

WARNINGS: hakkie is here folks (poor man walks in on reader having sex), mentions about different kinks / positions, fingering (reader receiving), cum tasting (again Sangyeon makes you do it 😃), petnames (baby, princess), kissing, face riding, handjob, mentions of reader losing their virginity, teasing (friendly ones from hakkie and umm....the unholy ones from sangyeon 🤡), reader also starts to get bold 👀, hickeys, Sangyeon gets a nightmare...and he's not having fun.

WORD COUNT: 4,310

A/N: and so Haknyeon comes into the picture 👀

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It all felt as if the first day you met Sangyeon was but just a dream. Who would’ve thought that a simple drunk make-out with a random stranger would eventually end up as your very own tutor? 

You didn’t really know if you would want to classify this as karma or fate—frankly, you have no idea what exactly you have gotten yourself into. 

Even after three whole months. 

Ever since you both agreed on this friends-with-benefits situation, you have been on a roller coaster of emotions every day. You won’t deny that Sangyeon is actually good at his job, as a teacher’s assistant. Being your tutor came with another benefit: you always had access to what you were expecting for the upcoming lectures. Sangyeon would often teach you ahead of what you needed to know. Hence, you were always fully prepared whenever you entered your professor’s classes, understanding the content way better than before. 

Your grades have slowly been improving too, rising from a whopping 3.1 GPA to a 3.4, and you eventually were awarded as one of the best students who scored for their mid-term exams. In other words, your studies have been improving way better than you expected, if it wasn’t for Sangyeon, you would be fine just staying at a 3.0 GPA till you graduate in a few years. 

Spending time with Sangyeon has also made you realise that he was a former senior at your university, and he even won the dean’s award for being the top student during this time. It was no wonder that he was a genius in his field, and he was likeable by all students and professors alike. Not only did he help your professor loads, but he also made sure that the other students were improving in their performance, with most of them being at 3.0 and above. 

Though, you had something that the other students did not. 

Sangyeon was a friend with benefits, or rather, your sex buddy. 

You really didn’t know what to make of it at the start, and you certainly didn’t expect yourself to be filled with having tons of sexual activity with someone throughout your semester. You were certain that you would be single till you were in the workforce, or even not losing your virginity till then.

But then Sangyeon seemingly came into your life, and things just haven’t been the same. 

Not only was he teaching you about your course, but he was also guiding you on how to pleasure your significant other in the best way possible. If it wasn’t for his current job, you were convinced that he would be much suited to be a sex guru and coach for a living or even a pornstar. 

He had everything—good looks, mannerisms, and god he knew exactly how to treat a woman right. 

There are a few times when you both have had rough sex, just like how you both went back to the auditorium when you both first made your agreement. Most of the time, it would be Sangyeon coming up with suggestions that you both could try out—cowgirl, breeding, you name it, you have mostly done them. 

However, there was one thing that he had always kept consistently without fail. 

Making you feel good. Every. Single. Damn. Time. 

You craved Sangyeon’s touch; you absolutely love it when he makes love to you. Sure, it may be all just a treat for your hard work, but yet you have become dependent on them, and Sangyeon was more than happy to give it to you. 

So here you were, sitting down at your wooden low table in your living room, where your textbook was opened, with some stationery and a cup of coffee and biscuits at the side. Sangyeon was tutoring you as usual, sitting beside you while giving you some little quizzes to finish today's revision.

With his fingers rubbing your now wet underwear. 

“Tell me, Y/N. So what happens when you mix these two substances together?” 

“T-They…will not…mix together because…hhhngh…of the different particle sizes…” 

As much as you loved Sangyeon touching you, you were also having a mental breakdown trying to recall the things you had learnt for the day. His fingers are the ones to blame. 

It was the way how you are always able to get wet for him easily with just a simple touch, your body often tenses up and sends signals all the way throughout your body. Next thing you knew, you would often find yourself wetting your underwear, turning him on as he begins rubbing them with a steady rhythm. 

“S-Sangyeon…p-please let me cum…” 

“Did you think you got the answers right, baby?”

“I-I’d like to think that I did…aaaahh!” 

Immediately, you squirted all over your underwear, and it was now completely wet, your liquids oozing out from the sides that slowly flowed through Sangyeon’s fingers before he placed them in his mouth, sucking them completely. 

“Aww, baby. Look at you all being all wet now; it was just a little fingering,” he teased.

Oh, right. You forgot to mention how not only was he good at pleasuring you, but he would also get cocky almost every time whenever he saw you becoming all vulnerable for him. 

“S-Sangyeon…” you slowly crawl up to him, resting your palms on his chest as you give him a pleading look. “I…I need you…please.” 

He gave you a sly smirk as he looked into your eyes. Then, he immediately snaked his arms around your waist, pulling you in for a kiss. 

“Thought you’d never ask.” 

You both decided to go for a different route than what you were usually used to, as you crawled on top of Sangyeon, and your dripping wet core was facing right up at Sangyeon’s face. You, on the other hand, were bent down where your mouth was right at the tip of Sangyeon’s cock. 

Trying your best to focus on his cock, you gently grabbed hold of his cock as you moved up and down and a rhythmic movement. But oftentimes, you would stop in your tracks, for Sangyeon’s tongue just got deeper into your core, eating you out as good as always. A sudden rush of euphoria swept over you, causing your whole body to shiver just from that alone, making you unable to respond by returning the favour to Sangyeon. 

You still held onto his cock, gliding your hands up and down as best as you could before you would often let out a whimper every time his tongue hit your g-spot. 

“S-Sangyeon…I-I can’t…”

As much as you tried pleading with him, it didn’t seem he was planning to stop anytime soon. Instead, he picks up his pace, causing you to turn your whimpers into moans. At the back of your mind, you knew that you were always receiving from him, and you ought to return the favour. Pushing yourself with all of the energy you have had left, you then slowly took his cock into your mouth, slowly pushing it towards the back of your throat, before trying your best to pleasure your tutor just like he did to you. 

In return, you could hear that he began groaning at that move that you made, causing you to quicken the pace to match his. 

If he is going to make me cum loads, then I will do the same for him too. 

You pick up your pace faster each minute, not giving each other room to breathe. Suddenly, you felt a tight knot form within your stomach; you knew that it would be anytime now that you were going to cum all over your tutor’s face. At the same time, Sangyeon’s precum was slowly oozing out from this tip, and you tried your best to make him cum just like you did at the same time. 

Within a few seconds, you both finally came too, and you couldn’t help yourself as you basically gushed out all over Sangyeon’s face while his cum was dripping down your mouth rapidly. Your eyes suddenly widened at the way Sangyeon looked, and you quickly turned your positions around to apologise to the male frantically. 

“Oh my god, I’m so so sorry, Sangyeon! I swear it wasn’t meant to be like this; I could’ve controlled myself better—” 

Before you could even finish your sentence, Sangyeon immediately rests his hand on your neck, pulling you down rapidly so that he completely shuts you up with his mouth—taking his sweet time swirling his tongue around yours. Eventually, you both immediately broke apart for a gasp of air before he gently laid your head down onto the very same pillow he was lying upon. 

“You have done your deed in memorising what we have discussed earlier today; I’d say this is more than enough to repay me, don’t you think?” 

Again, he leans close to you, sealing his lips with yours. But this time, it was all slow and sensual. Sangyeon carefully took his sweet time showering you with kisses, sometimes breaking apart to place them on your forehead, down to your cheeks, and neck. Ultimately, his lips will always find them back to yours, as if he hasn’t had enough of them yet. 

You have practically lost count of how many times you’ve shared kisses with the man himself; you both have been in this whole friends-with-benefits situation for three months. But it seemed as if his kiss always meant something—it wasn’t all just for show and about having sexual intercourse; it was almost as if there was something there between you both, something indescribable. 

Multiple times, you have always wanted to justify what exactly the two of you were, but you knew that deep down he was just a teacher’s assistant. He was here to tutor and help you improve your academic performance as well as your grades. Who would’ve thought that Sangyeon was nice enough to tutor you on other things at the same time, your sex life, to be exact. It was basically like  killing two birds with one stone. 

Isn’t it? 

There are times when you have thought that meeting him back at the frat party was the best and worst mistake you have ever had. The good part about the whole situation was that your grades were improving significantly while you were pretty much having a pretty healthy sex life. However, it came with a cost: you being stuck in this uncertain feeling and constantly dealing with messed up emotions. 

Was it a blessing? Or a curse? 

Sangyeon doesn’t stop caressing your cheeks as he continues kissing you. Frankly, you both have been going on for at least ten minutes by now, taking some air breaks in between and then reconnecting your lips. It was like an addiction; you couldn’t stop, and neither could he. 

All of a sudden, you heard a knock on your bedroom door, and it was too late for you both to recollect yourselves before the individual turned the doorknob and the door swung open. 

“Y/N! It’s been a while— HOLY FUCK!!!” 

It was total chaos there and then. Both you and the individual at your door screamed at the top of your lungs before the male slammed the door shut, panting and trying his best to get rid of the sight he had just seen before him. 

You quickly got up, ran straight towards the bathroom, and slammed the door shut before leaning against it, quickly burying your face into both hands. 

I messed up. 

“For the hundredth time, it is not what it seems okay,” you reassured the young male, trying your best to rub his back as he took several deep breaths to calm his fast-beating heart down. 

“The hell do you expect me to believe what you’ve said after witnessing whatever that was!!” The young male screamed out loud before turning his back to face you as he puckered his lips. 

Haknyeon has always been like this. Although you both were the same age, he always felt like a brother to you. You have both been together since middle school and eventually even enrolled in the same university you were in. However, Haknyeon was away for the past year as part of his transfer programme abroad. You knew he was coming back sooner or later, but you weren’t expecting it to be today.

And how your first meetup was him walking in on you and Sangyeon having sex. 

As much as you and Haknyeon have been texting one another every single day without fail for the past six months, you have omitted the fact that you met your tutor at a frat party who eventually became your teacher’s assistant for the entire semester and that you both have been in this messed-up friends-with-benefits situation for a good three months now. 

And how you actually lost your virginity to this man. 

Well, now that Haknyeon has witnessed it firsthand, there was no point hiding it back anymore because your childhood best friend actually reads you like a book—even the slightest shift in your usual demeanour, he would definitely be able to catch you red-handed within seconds. 

So you did it, telling him about how you both met and ended up in the current situation, which you then earned a very concerned look from your friend. He slowly grabs your shoulder, squeezing them before looking deep into your eyes. 

“Y/N…I don’t want to intrude. Well, I mean, it’s your own sex life. But are you completely certain about what you are doing? Or what you have gotten yourself into?” He asked worriedly; it seemed like he was about to cry for you. 

In order to make it up to him, you gave him a little friendly peck on his cheek like how you’ve always done in the past when you both were younger, as it always seemed to calm him down and make things feel like it was all under control. 

“Don’t worry, bestie; pinky promise that I’m all okay and great,” you stretched out your pinky towards him, making him sigh aloud before giving in to return the favour. 

After the two of you talked things out for a bit, you quickly pulled him up from your couch and dragged him towards your front door, insisting that he put on his shoes and coat before leaving the house.

“Now, where the heck are you bringing me to this time?”

“Well, my best friend is back in Seoul. I think it’s time for a little bonding time together, no?”

“Y/N L/N, give me your bank account number right this second,” Haknyeon mumbled as he kept shoving almost all of the toasted waffles and ice cream right into his mouth, leaving you with little to no portion left to consume. 

“Hey! Slow down! I paid for it; I deserve to eat more than you do!”

“Well, too bad you’re still as slow as you were back in kindergarten; that’s why you’re always second to last when it comes to getting the fresh pastries back in the school cafeteria,” he teased. 

“You jerk.”

“You love me.”

It was just like the good old times—all of the endless bickering, competition, and taking things easy for a while. It seemed that whenever Haknyeon was around, your daily routine would suddenly go at a much steadier pace, rather than rushing through your unending assignments and university work, as well as the part-time job you often worked during summer breaks. 

In fact, it always brings joy to you whenever you witness your best friend chow down on all kinds of food. He wasn’t awarded the best mukbang vlogger in town for no reason. Every time you witness your friend eat with the biggest smile on his face, you feel full, and seeing him eating so happily is more than enough to fill your hunger. 

Ultimately, you decided it was best to give up. You propped your arms on the table and rested your chin on the palm of your hands, all while witnessing Haknyeon finish off the final few bites before he took the napkin situated at the corners to wipe off any excess cream on the side of his mouth. 

It turns out your friend wasn’t the best at cleaning himself up, so you had to step in and lean forward to use your thumb to wipe it off for him instead, making his ears turn a crimson red almost within seconds. 

“Weakling.” 

“Shut up. I could’ve cleaned myself up squeaky clean if you’ve given me a couple more seconds,” he spat, clearly refusing to admit that he was terrible at what he did. You chuckled at his response with a pout, and you decided to lick off the cream that was on your fingers right in front of him, purposefully. 

“Stop it,” he responded sternly. 

“Stop what?” You asked playfully in return.

“Y/N, don’t act all dumb. You know exactly what you’re doing right now.”

“Hmm, yeah. I have no idea what you’re talking about,” you continued to piss him off by licking your fingers dry while adding in the pop sound effects. 

It wasn’t until Haknyeon finally grabbed hold of your arms that you stopped what you were doing mere seconds ago. “You’ve changed, and I’m not too sure if I like the new you.”  

“What do you mean I’ve changed?” 

“You tell me, Y/N. Ever since you started this whole “tutoring session” with that teacher assistant of yours, you’re just…not the same anymore.” 

You have gotten cocky.

Now, that is something that you definitely did not expect to come right out of your best friend’s mouth; causing you to stare at him blankly while your eyes widened upon that response. At that time, something in you snapped, and you weren’t going to back down that easily from him, not when you both are also rivals for life. 

“I’ll take that as a compliment, Ju Haknyeon,” you deadpanned. 

Just like that, it was more than enough to make Haknyeon yank your arm slightly so that you were merely inches apart, and you could feel his warm breath on you. That once cheerful look on his face was now long gone, replaced with something a lot more sinister and dark, sending chills down your spine. 

“Just wait till we get back, Y/N. I’ll make sure you’ll regret what you just said to me.” 

Little did either of you know that a familiar figure stood across the street, witnessing the scene unfold before his eyes and clenching his fists together.

Now you knew that you were to never mess with your best friend, for you left campus the following day with a few numb spots all across your body. Upon arriving home, he immediately dragged you into your bedroom, took one of your pillows and landed a powerful wack towards your shoulders, causing you to return the favour before your bedroom became an entire mess.

Turns out that your friend was far from done because you both eventually ended up on the bed brawling against each other, mostly Haknyeon tickling you all over your body and at certain spots where it would intentionally cause pain so that you wouldn’t be able to walk normally for the next 24 hours. 

Serves you right, Y/N. 

His words would constantly linger in your mind, and you would always furrow your brows whatever that image of his cocky face popped up mentally. 

However, it was all fun and games, as this was something that you would often do whenever you were kids; both of you have always been competitive. 

Now that Haknyeon was back from his transfer programme, he was finally back on campus, which also meant that you both were able to hangout a lot more often than before. Thankfully, both of your schedules more or less matched one another, and you both would often meet up for lunch and even walk back home together after lectures. 

In the blink of an eye, a couple of weeks had passed, and it was now spring break. All the students were off for the entire week, and you decided to head back to Jeju Island with Haknyeon to visit his family. It has always been like a second home to you, and you would often spend your summer holidays there without fail. 

While you were busy spending time with your best friend Haknyeon throughout the new season, that also meant that you weren’t seeing your tutor as much as before. In fact, multiple times, you would’ve either cancelled or postponed your tutoring sessions because Haknyeon insisted that he could help you with your assignments. 

As a result, you have spent little to no time with Sangyeon ever since that encounter with Haknyeon, witnessing you both having sex at your apartment back then. Sangyeon only managed to spend about a day or two before you completely vanished from his schedule. 

Allegedly, now that you weren’t hogging up his schedule any more, Sangyeon should’ve got a lot more time to focus on his actual work and help out the rest of the students in class—which he did since he no longer had to focus solely on you.

But the problem is, it just didn’t sit right with him. 

Sangyeon ultimately has no idea why that is so, considering that you both made a pact when you first agreed on this whole contract situation. He knew he would eventually have to leave when his job was done and move on to his next job. 

But he wasn’t ready to let that go just yet for some reason.

In fact, he was nowhere to be done with you. 

You have no idea how you ended up the way you are right now. 

At one moment, you were gaming on your PS5, which you had just gotten not too long ago since you were keen on hopping onto the craze of the latest Spider-Man games. The next thing that happens, you are now sitting on Haknyeon’s lap, your shorts pulled all the way down and eventually thrown towards the other end of the room.

Your legs were spread apart with Haknyeon’s strong muscles, and he was now rubbing your wet underwear in a circular motion, causing you to moan softly and eventually forget about the game that you were preoccupied with minutes ago. 

As you have gotten one of your arms wrapped around his neck, Haknyeon takes in the opportunity to also lean closer and begin licking your neck, leaving subtle kisses while sucking on them eventually, intentionally leaving a hickey behind. 

“Hmm…Haknyeon…keep it coming, it feels so so good…”

“Yeah? You like it when I kiss you like that?”

“Very much…”

“How about this?” He pauses for a moment before pulling your underwear to the side so that now he was now rubbing your dripping clit, making you raise your volume slightly. 

“Aww, look at you, being all so wet for me already when I haven’t even inserted my fingers into you,” he teased, not letting you think straight as he began sucking on another spot, this time closer to your collarbone.

“N-No…Haknyeon…you can’t do it there…Sangyeon is going to find out—”

“And what if he does? What is he going to do, come for my ass? I’ll make sure he knows who he will be messing with.” Just like that, he immediately inserts two fingers into your cunt, pumping them in and out rapidly, causing you to yelp at that sensation. 

“N-No Hakkie! I will cum- FUCK!”

“Just like that baby, cum for me,” he groans, quickening the pace as he feels that you’re coming close. 

“Ugh! Faster! FASTER!!” You shuddered, all while your grip against his t-shirt tightened, and his fingers finally hit your g-spot. 

Within the next few seconds, your moans echoed throughout the whole room as your liquids came gushing out from your body, basically creating an entire puddle on your couch as you came down from your high. 

Immediately, Haknyeon forcefully grabbed your chin and turned you to face him before kissing you feverishly, not giving you space even to catch your breath.

“I bet- Sangyeon couldn’t- make you gush out- so much juices like I’ve done-” he muttered between the kisses.

“N-No…It’s just you…you only, Haknyeon-ie-” you answered.

“Now that’s my good princess,” he smirked before pushing you down onto the couch before hovering over you. “You know what will make you feel better?” Haknyeon asked as he yanked down his pants, his erected crotch was now already dripping wet, just like you were beforehand. 

Instantly, he brought his tip close to your entrance, rubbing it up it down, making you whine and beg for him to insert it into you right this moment. 

“Please…Haknyeon…just give it to me…I need you so badly…”

“Tell me that again, princess. I need to know if you want me more than the other guy.” 

“Y-Yes! I just want you, and you only,” you cried, and that was when Haknyeon immediately pushed his member fully into you, not caring if your screams were going to tear down your apartment. 

“Fuck- fuck- FUCK!!” 

No.

No!

NOOO!!

Sangyeon immediately shot up from bed, sweat dripping down his face as he tried to calm his fast-paced breathing. It was currently only 3 in the morning, and he had about 5 more hours left before he eventually needed to get up to head out for work.

Unlucky for him, he was now wide awake and shocked to the core. That nightmare felt so real, and he couldn’t even believe he had ever had such a dream. 

With that, Sangyeon forcefully lies back down on his bed with a loud thump, bringing one of his palms up to cover his eyes before his fist clenches again. 

This time, he was fucked.

A/N: team sangyeon / team hakkie? 👀

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Please talk about traumagenic systems formed from psychosis and delusions, not DID or OSDD, and IFS parts and how brain fragmentation works on psychosis or delusions!

I just got diagnosed with it last month, I’m interested about what you have to say.

Oh... This is... actually really complicated.

My views on this have evolved a lot over the years and I find myself often wondering where the line even is between psychotic and dissociative experiences, if there is one at all.

I think many of the systems who say they formed from psychosis could qualify as having DID, OSDD or Partial DID.

Further complicating things is that individual headmates can have delusions of their own.

Say for instance that someone is hearing a voice that claims to be an alien. This voice is heard in a way that is similar to an inner monologue.

This is what's called a thought insertion delusion. A belief that thoughts in your head are coming from an external source. That's what psychiatrists would consider it. The "person" has a delusion that someone else is putting thoughts in their heads.

But I would argue that this form of delusion inherently involves dissociation. If the "alien" thoughts feel coherent and intelligent enough, then perhaps the issue is a headmate who has a delusional belief about themselves.

And this isn't just me saying this. Actual psychiatrists have been arguing that many psychotic symptoms might actually be dissociative in nature.

Others have said the intelligent voices psychotic disorders may be dissociated parts of the system.

And that traditional strategies focused on getting rid of voices in these voice hearers may actually be harmful to them.

That particular paper was published in 2016 before Partial DID was added to the ICD-11 in 2019. But it makes me believe there's a need for Partial DID to be a diagnosis in the United States, and to apply it with these cases of intelligent hallucinatory voices.

Additionally, it's not just voice hearing and thought insertion either. Another big one is so-called "delusions of control" where control over some of your actions are attributed to an external source.

That sounds a lot like how motor intrusions from other headmates are described. And it's hard to look at case studies of delusions of control and not think these are a lot of systems who are misdiagnosed and treated using ineffectual methods.

This case study even seems to describe the problem mentioned in the earlier paper on treating hostile voices. She's diagnosed at 23 and responds to the voices by telling them to leave her alone. They become more aggressive and even start controlling her. And she's still suffering nearly 20 year later.

The belief the actions are from external people may be a delusion, but I'd be inclined to believe what she's experiencing could just be a result of an introject who believe they're actually their source. And if 20 years of traditional treatment didn't work, I wonder if she might benefit from the sort of treatment proposed in the article on treating hostile voices.

Here's an instance of a man in the same paper whose controlling voice was believed to be a woman he met in his youth.

The paper claims this as pure delusion and nothing more. And obviously, he's not being mind-controlled by an external woman he used to date.

But the possibility that this is a headmate (or "dissociative part" as psychiatrists would call it) who is merely believed to be that woman is never brought up.

That's despite it being well-documented that alters can have false beliefs about themselves, such as believing themselves to be an angel or a demon.

THIS IS IN THE DSM-5!

So if we accept possession states like this are dissociative, and that the alter is simply believed to be an external agent, why aren't psychiatrists treating these "thought insertion delusions" and "delusions of control" the same way???

...

This might have been a bit rambly, but my main point is that I think A LOT of experiences that are currently classified as psychotic would be better classified as dissociative, and should be recategorized.

It wouldn't be the first time. ASD was considered a form of childhood schizophrenia until the 80s, and DID was once a type of hysteria.

In my opinion, there needs to be similar restructuring when it comes to these intelligent voices and "delusions of control", where they should be reclassified as as dissociative. Particularly under the new category of Partial DID.

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betty broderick's murders of her ex-husband (age 44) and his mistress-turned-wife (28) has always stuck out to me as the perfect case study of why women should NEVER assume the 'provider' role for a man. men are not good investments, EVER.

having grown up in an insular religious community, she had little odds of defying her conservative upbringing, which she said groomed her into housewifery since early childhood. she met her future husband at age 17 (he was 21) - he was already mostly through college while she had just begun pursuing her own education. she married him at age 22 and immediately began having their 5 children, 4 of whom would survive to adulthood. in addition to housework and childcare, she was the household primary earner so her husband could attend law school after earning his medical license. after earning his license to practice law, his career experienced a quick upward trajectory. he hired a young 21 year old legal aid, whom he eventually began an affair with.

once his infidelity was exposed, the couple divorced; it was her husband who moved out and filed the petition for the separation. given betty's strict catholic upbringing, she likely would have chosen to stay together and try to fix their relationship issues. the process was bitter, and difficult for betty, who in addition to processing the betrayal from her soon ex, also struggled to acquire and finance proper legal representation. her husband's reputation and position as the president of the city's bar association, she alleged, prejudiced the legal community against her, and she feared she would be left without any money or custody of her children, and that he would sell their house from under her. by that point, betty had been a stay-at-home mom for many years, and had little assets or money set aside that only she was entitled to. once her ex-husband moved in and married the younger mistress, she became completely unhinged and began what could only be classified as a harrassment campaign against the new couple. she alleged the hostility was 2-sided, accusing the new wife of adding insult to injury by taking digs at her physical appearance by subscribing her to anti-aging and weight loss catelogues that were delivered to her mailbox. she engaged in vandalism and destruction of property. this culminated to her breaking into their home and shooting them both.

during the trial, she was falsely diagnosed as "histrionic" and "narcissistic." the real story is quite simple, no need for formal diagnoses. this woman was driven to insanity by the betrayal of her husband, for whom she sacrificed what could never be recouped: her time, her youth, her love - only for him to discard her as if she was trash for a younger woman who had invested nothing into him, and leverage the power she helped him obtain to strip her of their joint assets, including their children. i am sympathetic to her probably moreso than the general public because she was a woman born in the 40s. the betrayal runs deeper than her singular man's actions. she had been indoctrinated since birth to believe that if she was her man's loyal helpmate, she would reap the benefits of his success and be loved and cherished by him forever. the pain of that rude awakening, i could never imagine.

male partner or no male partner, we need to encourage women to invest first and foremost into THEMSELVES. do not help or finance a man's education, career or social standing - he will leave for the woman who didn't have to.

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Did you see that Vogue article on rise of babygirls in men's fashion? They included Jimin Felix on the cover pic but then in the writeup mentioned RM has earned the moniker of babygirl ???? I mean out of all 7 of them I'd argue RM is the one who least exudes babygirl energy (but idk if they're including any and all gender neutral or feminine leaning fashion pieces as " babygirl " ) but anyway I digress... Thought you'd enjoy it!

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I find it not that suitable, especially if we think of the label itself. I know it's already understood that way in the pop culture zeitgest, but to me, the term evokes plays on gender traditional understandings of Lolita-like figures while simultaneously bringing a twist to it when assigned to men. I don't know if that makes sense. It's like taking the playful/cocky nature and you mix it with a bit of fragility. It's an archetype that gets transformed, it has another dimension added depending on the gender and the subsequent effects it has on gender expression. But maybe my definition is about something else and not the 2023 baby girl term as explained in Vogue. It being about hotness and how interesting a guy is seems pretty basic/simplistic to me and perhaps not a very appropriate moniker.

RM is not a babygirl for carrying a Bottega Veneta bag when he's just promoting the brand. Just like Jimin wearing Dior at airports is not the thing that contributes to him being classified as one. He could wear nothing and he'd still be one.

Anyway, I find that for me, there's one true supreme that governed the 2023 babygirl archetype and it's none other than Kookie. Quintessential babygirl from looks, behavior to temper.

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So

Some housekeeping before I list today's question.

Eventually we are going to get to the point that I can't just list off a bunch of labels I've thought of.

For example, let's say desire breaker won. I could make up a bunch of stuff it could feed off (attention, strong emotions, parasite etc) but I might not think of everything and you guys definitely have cool ideas.

So from this point onwards I will have a 'next questions' part, where I will say what the next question is and if I want audience suggestions on options to vote on. If you have suggestions, either message me, comment or put them in reblogs. I will attribute them to whoever does so (unless they don't want me to).

Additionally, for some minor questions I will put up 2 at once. Or for major questions I feel should be voted on at the same time. For those I will put a clear indicator at the start of the post, and any additional polls in the reblogs (as I can't have more than one poll per blog)

Q5: What type of stranger is the power?

Current results:

Q1: How many power categories? 2

Q2: What categories? Breaker/Stranger

Q3: How powerful? Mid tier, rating 4-6. As this poll was done under a reblog, it may be neccesary to redo.

Q4: What type of Breaker? Fate Breaker. Benefits after you transform, consequences when you transform back. A focus on action and consequences.

Wildbow explicitly noted that fate breakers have some issues with their civilian identities due to the negative consequences.

A future question will be what the benefits and consequences are. If anyone has suggestions they can start early.

Now I tried to use the weaverdice doc for this, but I ran into some difficulties. While the breaker categories were fairly clear and distinct, the stranger ones were less so. Apparently wildbow has redone stranger a few times, and to be honest? I couldn't really tell what some of them were supposed to mean or how some were classified as stranger. Some I could see as stranger, but not purely stranger.

For example, Ambush strangers are described as

"Ambush strangers are heavy damage dealers or combat capes with very conditional strength.  This may require flanking, timing, careful use of battlefield, or disadvantaged targets."

Which I understand what it's telling me but I don't know how that translates to a stranger power. I could see a brute that's stronger when undetected could fit there, but not a pure stranger.

Similarly a creep stranger is described as

"Creep strangers are strangers who can avoid danger or obtain access by way of agility, movement modes, or physical adaptations"

Which feels like it will always be a mover stranger.

Bedevil strangers also fit here

"Bedevil strangers produce effects that are more offensive sort, primarily focused around debilitating and crushing others without directly harming them. They might bind, tie, mire, and hamper, or set up effects that threaten foes but only if conditions are met. Often utilize effects that involve poisons, parasites, or other vectors that may have a weak initial effect but provide the opportunity for a greater effect later, often with timing involved, (non-emotion) master-like influence or personal benefits."

As such I ain't using all the categories.

Additionally I've added a category, mislabel, as I felt strangers like Nice Guy would fit in multiple sections and like those sortof effects enough that I wanted to cordon them off. I am biased

So here's the categories:

Machination - indirect effects that make combat and infiltration easier, in a way that isn't just increased combat strength.

For example, gasconades power will erase any trace of his presence after a short period, earning him a small stranger rating.

Abandon - strangers that can make themselves dissappear. Stereotypical stranger, makes themselves invisible, produce less sound etc.

Unsense - effects that mask them from others senses. Abandon strangers go invisible, unsense prevent people seeing them.

'Mislabel' - abandon strangers are hard to sense, unsense are masked from senses, Mislabel causes people to incorrectly label you or your actions. For example, Nice guy, who gets labeled as a non threat.

Mask - produce illusions or misdirections.

Nox - powerful always on rules for interactions. I believe August Prince (cannot be conciously attacked) and blindside (cannot be looked or aimed at) are examples of this.

Charm - influences emotions to produce stranger effect. Stranger (rating) by way of master (effect) if you will.

Warp - strangers who can avoid attacks, danger, or slip through defenses by way of bent rules, distortions, otherworldly details or disruptions in the standard rules.  

Next up:

2 concurrent questions:

Does this power physically affect its user?

Does this power mentally affect its user?