#book banning is the devil

[vicontheinternet]

Not they got to ao3 too

[booksandrandomfandoms]

Tarotoctoberbpc day 25

The devil - banned books

Do you keep up with banned books?

honestly not really 😅 so I was surprised to find I actually owned and have read a few on the list for Texas … but considering almost any book that has “mature themes” or mentions the lgbtqia+ community is basically on the list … maybe it’s not so hard to believe 🤔

[his-eternal-hell]

...The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind...

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis De Sade

[starrsbby]

they amount of bills that i keep hearing that ron desantis has signed is so fucking alarming and scary

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

Middle School Monday: Attack of the Black Rectangles by A.S. King 

Mac has always been encouraged to say what’s on his mind. Sometimes this would get him into trouble, or annoy the people around him. But when Mac and his friends Denis and Marci are all assigned to Ms. Sett’s 6th grade class, Mac will get into more trouble than ever before. Because Ms. Sett makes a lot of rules that don’t make sense to Mac, like going to church and not eating junk food. And because when Mac opens his lit circle copy of The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, he discovers that some of the words have been blacked out … and he soon learns why.

Many kids would stay quiet when they discover that their books are being censored, but Mac is not one of those kids.

Give this book to older kids and younger teens who are interested in emotional stories, school stories, censorship, banned and challenged books, protests, and independent thinking!

[thatoneluckybee]

I was just like. Bee seems like she was a gacha like kid. Dark side and devil's don't fly and saints and dynasty and who am I and human and angel with a shotgun are proooobably all songs you recognize. And I love giving random :)'s

COUGH COUGH

I also recognize Clarity, Bamboleo (? how was it spelled) and others if you’re wondering. And many Alec Benjamin songs.

[theresomeone1]

Human Embryo as an elite dish

This article is an explanation of the symbol in the book "Ingredient". In the book, customers eat, order the “Forbidden Fruit” - it is this symbol that will be discussed.

Eating an Embryo is not a dinner, it is a Rite, and now I will explain everything to you about the ritual in the “underground” restaurant, the restaurant itself does not exist, everyone has their own “underground”, the entrance to the restaurant is only for crazy people.

GREETINGS FROM CHINA

Traditional Chinese medicine relies mainly on the healing properties of natural remedies, but some of its recipes can greatly shock civilized Europeans.

In a conversation with media representatives, Mr. Cheng, a businessman from Hong Kong, said that he consumed soup made from aborted human embryos for 6 months. The man learned about the healing properties of the soup from his old friends in Shenzhen. According to him, good connections and bribed employees of medical institutions on the mainland helped him obtain embryos. “Of course, it was all very unpleasant at first, but the doctors gradually convinced me that eating aborted fetuses would help get rid of my asthma. Believe it or not, my asthma is almost gone,” Cheng said.

However, I personally do not know anything about whether this is practiced in modern China, or whether these are all just common gossip and urban legends based on forgotten legends of days long past. As for the nutritional value of the human embryo, it can be a good source of proteins, fats and minerals.”

According to available information, currently in China the “healing” dish is served only in closed restaurants (by prior agreement with the administration of the establishment). The exact cost of the soup is unknown: different sources give different figures — from several thousand yuan to several thousand US dollars. Traditionally, the basis for preparing the dish is aborted female fetuses 3–5 months old. First-born boys are held in high esteem by Chinese “gourmets,” but they are very difficult to get, and the cost of the soup will be many times higher.

(This photo is just the work of a photographer, art artist from Beijing, Ju Yu) — ALL the photographs presented are not real — it’s just a silicone doll.

At one time, the Hong Kong monthly magazine Next Magazine published an article in which it was said that soup made from aborted embryos had become a rather popular delicacy among the Chinese rich. The main material for the article was the terrifying revelations of a woman who served banquets for a successful Taiwanese businessman. She said that the corpses of babies, as well as fetuses obtained as a result of abortions, are very popular among wealthy Chinese, who sincerely believe that eating tender baby meat can have a beneficial effect on health. However, such dishes are not available to everyone — those who do not have the necessary amount and connections in certain circles have to sign up on long lists in anticipation of embryos.

And let’s not forget about cases from Russian tourists: several years ago information leaked online that in one of the closed restaurants in China, Russian tourists were offered special delicacies — embryo soup. Or baby soup, as the Chinese themselves call it. Then the news The Chinese do not believe in the miraculous targeted properties of embryos that can get rid of any disease. They begin to move from any facts.

It is now generally accepted that the Chinese, if they prepare “children’s soup,” do so exclusively from aborted embryos, the fate of which in any case will be unenviable. In the last century, Chinese mercenaries, taking advantage of the connivance of the Soviet government, could pamper themselves with newly born babies, because only an experienced expert could distinguish them after cooking. However, getting both an aborted embryo and a newborn baby was not very difficult then. For a certain bribe, the Chinese were given the forcibly aborted fetuses of women sentenced to death. They were also supplied with babies who, unfortunately, were born behind bars. There are known cases when the Chinese ate aborted human embryos that came straight from hospitals — bribed employees of medical institutions informed the expectant mother during the examination that her fetus was dead, and thereby provoked her to have an abortion. Sometimes even newborn babies from parents sympathizing with the Soviet regime ended up in restaurants, who were told by greedy doctors that their child was stillborn. Meanwhile, the “dead” children were already in the hands of Chinese chefs, who were trying to pamper their compatriots with tasty and healthy food.

Of course, there are rumors that many honest clinics perform abortions illegally and without warning women - clients - who want to get rid of the fetus, so their fetus is sent to the hospital as food. (or miscarriage, parents tell you that you had a miscarriage, and the dead baby is already delivered to the restaurant). How do they say emboiron or dead children you hear in the book Ingredient.

Naturally, this is all just “urban legends” But someone actually believes in the truth and claims that such delicacies from embryos exist — in closed, underground establishments… but it was this myth that I used to create my book, the book can be read for free here https://getinkspired.com/ru/story/375405/ingredient/

Abstract to the book. Emmanuel is the manager of a closed establishment for the elite, where the main dish is not only the various delicacies served on the table, but the human SOUL. You will learn about all this in detail from the manager of the establishment.

Finding and Preparation of the SOUL.

“Underground” is not a specific place. Entrance to the Underground restaurant is only for crazy people.

“…. “There have always been people dissatisfied with the dominants of conscious life. The hero of the book had to understand that his experience of “NIGREDO”, the first stage of work, which in alchemy was felt as “MELANCHOLIA” and now corresponds to a collision with the shadow in psychotherapy.” The main character of the novel, Emmanuel, has to pay in a very sensitive way — he is less and less able to understand himself. He does not see that, with all his rationality and all his skill, he is guided by uncontrollable “forces”. His gods and demons did not disappear at all, they received new names. And his life is a new place — the Underground. Irrepressibility, vague premonitions, psychological complications, an insatiable craving for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food and, above all, a lot of neuroses — do not give him any rest.”…

“Parole parole” (from Italian — “Words, words”) everything in the book is just “meaningless words” that drive the hero crazy — The absurdity of the hero’s life, all the “words” mean nothing, like life, the hero, like This whole book is stupid! Throughout the book, the hero meets only psychos, the girl is a fucking drug addict, and all the heroes are also schizos — but everything is fine with the hero, he just has a difficult fate, he is weak, poor, he is forced to work (work is a synonym for neurosis and schizo), a beggar is doomed to survive, the hero is completely conditioned by circumstances (determined from the outside), the Hero will have to become infected with schizo from others — in order to free himself from schiza (go through schizophrenia), to emerge from his psychosis into reality…

- I, of course, also borrowed a lot of philosophy, since the hero and the clients love to talk about life and death at the table… all the dialogues are conducted at the table when the clients place an order “forbidden fruit”, the hero just does nothing but idle, but the money is given with great difficulty, poverty is not a sentence to give up on life, the hero is a nihilist-atheist, an egoist who is obsessed with mass consumption, but this only causes him pain and loneliness, he must go through his own path of knowledge and establish relationships with the world of his existence, From many Wisdom has much sorrow, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. WE must try and fight for Joy as the Lord Jesus Christ did.

“Everything returns to its place: everything came from dust, and everything will return to dust. Everything goes back there: everything came from the dust of the earth and everything returns to dust. And everyone has the same fate: they came from dust and will return to dust. The body of an animal and the human body equally comes from the earth and goes back into the earth.” Ecclesiastes 3 verse 20

“not all people have a Soul, it still needs to be earned — which a hero can do,” but why? It’s an Ingredient! “

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. John 3:6

I, of course, also borrowed a lot of philosophy, since the hero and clients love to talk at the table about life and death… “not all people have a Soul, it still needs to be earned — which the hero can do” but why? It’s an Ingredient!

“Truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, there will be no life in you.” Gospel of John 6:53.

READ FREE https://getinkspired.com/ru/story/375405/ingredient/

[elvesofnoldor]

can't believe blackwood farm is just a cheesy text-based supernatural fantasy romance rpg game. quinn is just a blank-slated self-insert player character. He gave off "player character who can be selected as either "male" or "female" on the start-up screen but the choice doesn't impact the story whatsoever because the dialogues and choices would be literally the same" vibe. Meanwhile, lestat, former villain, current anti-hero, now a featured bisexual love interest that everybody calls "playersexual". This book has only one purpose, and it is to let you imagine what's like to want to fuck lestat through the perspective of the most pathetic most livejournal fanfiction.net self-insert character ever who also happens to be a bit louis look-alike. This book is so fucking bad, but at least it's hilarious.

[2tonestarot]

Ron (Tiny D Pudding Fingers) DeSantis

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[necessiteez]

HONGJOONG SMUT FIC RECS LIBRARY

disclaimer: I do not own any of these works and they do not represent the real kim hongjoong. all rights belong to the respective writers who made them.

everything listed will be only hongjoong x reader (fem/male/gn) pairing and it will contain suggestive/smut themes. if it includes another member, I will also indicate it. fics will be categorized into aus so it will be easy to find.

I won't be including mtls, bullet lists, and other members' fics. if you are looking for recs with different members I'm sure other atinys have posted their own lists. These are all personal favorites and I'll only be including tropes/aus that I'm comfortable with (there won't be a/b/o, master kink, hybrid aus etc. sorry).

lastly, please let the writers know if you love their works so we can enjoy more of their content. have fun reading!

1. First Floor

˚̣̣̣ ꒷︶†︶꒷˚̣̣̣︶ ͡𑁬 you are here ໒ ͡ ︶˚̣̣̣꒷︶†︶꒷ ˚̣̣̣˚̣̣̣ ꒷︶†︶꒷˚̣̣̣︶ ͡𑁬♱໒ ͡ ︶˚̣̣̣꒷︶†︶꒷ ˚̣̣̣

1.5 Secret Room

˚̣̣̣ ꒷︶†︶꒷˚̣̣̣︶ ͡𑁬♱໒ ͡ ︶˚̣̣̣꒷︶†︶꒷ ˚̣̣̣˚̣̣̣ ꒷︶†︶꒷˚̣̣̣︶ ͡𑁬♱໒ ͡ ︶˚̣̣̣꒷︶†︶꒷ ˚̣̣̣

2. Second Floor

˚̣̣̣ ꒷︶†︶꒷˚̣̣̣︶ ͡𑁬♱໒ ͡ ︶˚̣̣̣꒷︶†︶꒷ ˚̣̣̣˚̣̣̣ ꒷︶†︶꒷˚̣̣̣︶ ͡𑁬♱໒ ͡ ︶˚̣̣̣꒷︶†︶꒷ ˚̣̣̣

2.5 Banned Books

˚̣̣̣ ꒷︶†︶꒷˚̣̣̣︶ ͡𑁬 ???????? ໒ ͡ ︶˚̣̣̣꒷︶†︶꒷ ˚̣̣̣˚̣̣̣ ꒷︶†︶꒷˚̣̣̣︶ ͡𑁬♱໒ ͡ ︶˚̣̣̣꒷︶†︶꒷ ˚̣̣̣

3. Third Floor

⚠︎UNDER CONSTRUCTION⚠︎

✶ - favorites

╔══ first♕floor ══╗

「 ✦ Vampire!Hongjoong ✦ 」

✶ Honey and Blood - @nateezfics (wc 8.6k)

In the Night feat. Seonghwa - @ja3hwa (wc 2.53k)

✶ People, Running poly, multi-chapter- themoonlightfae on ao3 (wc 50k+)

Sweet Trouble feat. Wooyoung - Atiny_DazzlingLight on ao3 (wc 6.2k)

vampire! hongjoong - @xuchiya

✶ Delicious feat. Seonghwa - @jagibangbangchan (wc 5k)

「 ✦ Friends with Benefits!Hongjoong ✦ 」

✶ I Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way - @severetimetravelnerd (wc 9k+)

Leave Me With Nothing - @min-gis (wc 5.7k)

✶ Mine feat. Seonghwa - @smileysuh (wc 3.4k)

Naked Truth - @essenteez (wc 6.1k)

Late Night Rendezvous PART 1 - @sanjoongie (wc 1k)

Nightclub Affair PART 2 - sanjoongie (wc 3k)

Voicemail - TgemstoneT on ao3 (wc 3.4k)

「 ✦ Sugar Daddy!Hongjoong ✦ 」

✶ Wetting Your Lips - @k-hotchoisan

Avaritia - @hwaightme (wc 8.3k)

Baby Said feat. Seonghwa - @destiny-fics

Taken - @hwanchaesong (wc 8k)

Never Too Much - @iwannasuckyourmonstercock

「 ✦ Incubus/Demon!Hongjoong ✦ 」

✶ Say My Name - twinmoles on ao3 (wc 7.6k)

Incubus! Hongjoong - sanjoongie (wc 2k)

The King chapter from a series- @destiny-fics

The Library of Illusions - Restricted Section finale of a series - @kwanisms (wc 9.6k)

✶ Jealousy, Jealousy - destiny-fics

The King's Games series - @hanatiny

Their Pretty Pet feat. San, Seonghwa- @written-in-flowers (wc 7k)

The King of Rot chapter from a series - pearlypearlypearl on ao3 (wc 8k)

Demon Line feat. San, Seonghwa - HalaHollow on ao3 (wc 4.7k)

Day 1 - @ocean-ai (wc 2.8k)

✶ Wings and Thorns - @kitten4sannie (wc 3.4k)

Hotel California part 7 poly,multi-chapter - mint-yooxgi (wc 9.9k)

✶ Paradise Gardens part 15 (Hotel California 2nd volume) - mint-yooxgi (wc 23k)

Inferno - pyeonghongrie (wc 1.6k)

Fallen Angel feat. Yeosang- darkmulti

Devil Eyes part 1 - @hwashotcheeto (wc 2.3k)

Devil Eyes part 2 - hwashotcheeto (wc 1.8k)

All Hands on Me - k-hotchoisan

「 ✦ Hongjoong at the Studio ✦ 」

includes: Producer! Hongjoong, Idol! Hongjoong

✶ Sharing is Caring feat. Mingi - @byuntrash101 (wc 5.2k)

0:126am At His Studio - @sanflowerseeds

✶ Audio Angel - @marigold-doms

Make You Feel Better - @hongthoven (wc 3.2k)

Studio Sessions feat. Jongho - Atiny_DazzlingLight on ao3 (wc 5k)

To Make an Album - @bambikisss

✶ Make You Cry for Me (When I Put My Lips on You) - wonuha on ao3 (wc 5.7k)

Studio Time feat. Mingi - @yuta-senpai (wc 1.9k)

✶ Public/Recorded Sex feat. Wooyoung - @hongism (wc 4k)

Fragile - @ilwonuu

Attention feat. Seonghwa - @beginningofwonderland

22:48 - @beatteez

Two's Better Than One feat. Mingi - @ateezscupid

After Hours - nateezfics (wc 500)

「 ✦ Soft!Hongjoong ✦ 」

includes: Soft Dom! Hongjoong, Service Top! Hongjoong, Needy! Hongjoong, lots and lots and lots of praise my favorite

Morning Haze - nateezfics (wc 1.4k)

✶ All Mine - hongthoven (wc 2.6k)

✶ Oxygen - whatudowhennooneseesyou (wc 820)

✶ Addicted - @justaaveragereader (wc 1.8k)

HJ & Shibari - @mia-tiny (wc 729)

Precious - @latte-fairytaekwoon (wc 3k)

✶ Pretty Pink - nateezfics (wc 2k)

My Angel - @mirror-juliet

✶ You're My Desire - hongism (wc 1.3k)

Day 17: Body Worship - @ateezreactionsandscenarios (wc 1k)

Scream It Louder - atinywooyoung on a03

Keep Me Close - crimsonbubble

Early Mornings - ddeongsami on ao3 (wc 3.3k)

✶ Good Morning Captain - iguessireadfanficnow on a03 (wc 2k)

✶ Sleep Better - @tinyidle (wc 2k)

Need You - @luvryeo (wc 500)

✶ Untitled drabble- @atinycafe (wc 900)

Stay - atinycafe (wc 1.2k)

Be Hongjoong's cockslut - k-hotchoisan

Take It Easy gn!reader- ocean-ai (wc 700)

✶ Through It All feat. Mingi - @felixsramen

Glad You Came - @frenchkisstheabyss (wc 1.8k)

A Hazy Evening gn!, high sex- cheollipop (wc 1.8k)

Untitled drabble - byuntrash101

* First Time

Philoselene - @ncteez

Untitled drabble - k-hotchoisan

✶ First Time - whatudowhennooneseesyou (wc 2k)

「 ✦ Non-Human!Hongjoong ✦ 」

✶ Here Were Fairies fairy!hongoong - pearlypearlypearl on ao3 (wc 10k)

Ugly Dragon dragon!hongjoong- @thelargefrye (wc 2k)

✶ Shells mermaid!hongjoong - @last-words-ofashootingstar (multi-chapter)

Something Sinister feat. Seonghwa- @hansols-yoda-boxers (wc 5.2k)

Day 3: Mirror Sex Grim Reaper!Hongjoong - sanjoongie (wc 1.8k)

Project Omen dragon!Hongjoong feat. Wooyoung- @atzfilm (wc 40k)

Drowning in Pleasure siren!Hongjoong- @twisted-tales-of-all (wc 2.3k)

🆕✨ Gaze of Stone gorgon!Hongjoong - @ilovejeongintoo (wc 5k)

「 ✦ Bad Boy!Hongjoong ✦ 」

includes Goth, Emo, Punk dark aesthetic Hongjoong

✶ Ohmami - bambikisss

Dark Kiss part 1 - latte-fairytaekwoon (wc 5k)

Dark Kiss part 2 - latte-fairytaekwoon (wc 8.5k)

Ugh, As If - @ennysbookstore (wc 11k)

Ugh, As If bonus 1 - ennysbookstore (wc 5.4k)

Ugh, As If bonus 2 - ennysbookstore (wc 5.5k)

˖ ࣪⭑last updated 07/05/24 ˖ ࣪⭑

[strangersteddiex]

Steve has been a librarian at Hawkins Library for a few months before he starts seeing the curly-haired metalhead coming in.

It takes him three weeks to learn the guy's name is Eddie, mainly because the head librarian - Beatrice - prefers to tut and shake her head while muttering about 'devil worshippers' under her breath.

He also learns that Eddie is the bane of any librarian's existence.

He leaves the weirdest shit in the books - things that had obviously been close to hand and easy to use as a bookmark, the best had been a folded piece of paper with a dragon drawn on it, the worst had been a suspiciously stained tissue that Steve refused to touch.

He never returns his books on time, in fact, it got to the point where Beatrice's mutters were steering towards banning him so Steve secretly covered all the late fees. He believed in free knowledge... and he kinda liked seeing the guy floating about the library.

When he decides to read books there, he sits with his ridiculous, chunky boots on the damn table like he owns the place and the chains hanging off them always make a horrendous noise against the wooden surfaces.

And that's not even getting Steve started on the Walkman he's always wearing that's blasting loud metal music through the headphones at a volume that is definitely going to give him hearing damage.

Steve is obsessed.

So much, in fact, that all of his kids have taken turns visiting him at work so that they could see who exactly was taking up so much of their babysitter's thoughts.

Things continue like this - Eddie being annoying, Steve yearning from a distance and various teenagers hiding between the shelves - until one day when Steve is flicking through Eddie's returns for whatever bullshit bookmark he's left in them this time, only to find a note aimed at him instead.

If you like staring so much, how about you do it over milkshakes tonight? 6pm?

Steve lets out a ridiculous sound that he would never admit to, fumbling with the note and the stack of books that then topple off the desk, drawing Eddie's amused gaze.

He also spills his milkshake that evening, but thankfully Eddie just laughs and helps him mop it up with napkins.

Steve learns three things that night:

Eddie only started using that library so he could also stare at Steve.

His voice was so deep and enticing that Steve wanted to wrap himself up in it.

Eddie didn't know libraries had late fees.

Steve thinks he falls a little in love on that date, mainly because he knows that even with Eddie's new knowledge of the library system, he'll still pay the beautiful boy's late fees if it means he can keep staring.

[olderthannetfic]

I think preferences in fiction does have some (keyword some) correlation to what your irl morals are though. If someone's favorite movie is Birth of the nation unironically it does say about them a lot of things. If someone enjoys a dark romance book between KKK member and a black woman where the black woman is not questioning the KKK members politics and is secretly enjoying being kidnapped by him (yes a book like this exists) it says something about that person.

There are conservative movies. Created and written by conservatives specifically that align with conservative values. If someone watches and thinks they are a pinnacle of art that does say something about the audience.

If fiction didn't have effect on reality there wouldn't be so many book bans and books about queer and POC experiences wouldn't be removed from libraries and schools.

I understand that a lot of this usually is aimed against women who enjoy things for their own escapism, but like we gotta have this conversation. And just saying "don't like don't read" really doesn't help.

--

"we gotta have this conversation"?

So I, a stranger, owe you a specific conversation I may have already had with people I know for decades?

I don't, buddy, and that's the root of most of the problems with this kind of discourse.

--

A lot of people like shitty or dark or immoral art for reasons other than finding it the pinnacle of art. The more the art in question is about lust or fear or disgust, the more likely it is that they like it for some lizard brain reason and know perfectly well that it's Bad™.

Yes, sometimes, media tastes do correlate to other things, just not in a simplistic way, and not in a way where I owe you a detailed account of my entire media diet and inner life.

Pro-censorship people believe that media will turn their kids gay or into devil worshippers or whatthefuckever. It does not matter whether they are correct. Their behavior is based on the assumption, not evidence. If you give them evidence, they will continue to operate on the assumption.

Book bans happen because someone feels uncomfortable and mistakes discomfort for morality. This is a separate question from the relationship between fiction and reality.

--

Me saying "Don't like, don't read" doesn't help you know my politics or sort out how you feel about anything, but it helps me not waste my day on sealions.

I consider that a win.

[renthony]

When I was a strange little 13-year-old, my equally strange parents looked at my vampire obsession and went, "well, if you're gonna be into vampires, you may as well get into the classics, and you already read Dracula, so..." and handed me a copy of Interview With the Vampire.

This came full circle last week at family D&D night when I convinced them to check out the AMC show. I told them we're headed into Devil's Minion territory, they got excited about Armand, my musician dad made comments about what direction they should take Rockstar Lestat. It was great.

They're already speculating about what things from the books are going to be on-screen, and they haven't even started watching yet. I've officially been banned from discussing the plot in front of my siblings so they can experience the angst unspoiled, because neither of them have read the books.

[pangur-and-grim]

okay now I want to write a book about a kid who grows up possessed by a devil. it will be banned in every US state.

[innerfare]

Random Sabo Headcanons

Summary: A collection of random Sabo headcanons

Genre: Fluff

CW: None // SFW

———

Never really gave up on his dream of writing a book about his adventures. He keeps a journal and wants to assemble it all into a manuscript, but he has a lot of self doubt regarding his abilities as a writer. A lot of his journal entries are reflecting on the inequality, injustice, and even outright war crimes he has witnessed the World Government commit. When he publishes it, it will 100% be banned by the Government. Also wants to publish some comics based on his childhood with Luffy and Ace, actually has a knack for it. 

Has a few habits from his aristocratic upbringing that not even his time in the woods with Ace and Luffy broke him of. He holds his teacup and eating utensils a certain way, he makes at least some effort to adhere to dress codes, etcetera. Most of these habits are in regards to women, whom he treats with the utmost respect; very chivalrous. 

That being said, he definitely keeps a switchblade in his boot. He’s a very dirty fighter, won’t hesitate to pull it. 

Also cheats at monopoly. And nobody ever suspects him because he benefits from pretty privilege.

Has argued with Koala until his voice is hoarse that dragon claw is way better than fishman karate. Could also write an entire book on the merits of fighting with a lead pipe over any sort of fancy sword or spear. Also used to talk serious smack about devil fruit users before he ate his fruit, expects every devil fruit user in the Revolutionary Army to disregard his previous taunts after the fact.

Secretly such a cuddle bug, craves the affection he never received in his childhood. Except it’s not really a secret because he once fell asleep in a meeting and woke up to everyone laughing at him because he snuggled into Dragon’s side.

A pretty good cook, but weirdly enough, can only make a meal in the wilderness. If it’s over a campfire, he’s a chef, but he always causes some sort of accident when he tries to recreate these dishes in an actual kitchen. Credit a childhood in the woods for this one.

Can be a little clumsy, can’t really be trusted around breakable valuables. Makes it all the more insane how agile he is during a fight.

His scars aren’t just on his face. He has them on his body and hands, too, even down to his ankles, and he doesn’t actually like showing them off (thus the reason he’s basically the only character in this universe who is fully clothed) because they symbolize his traumatic past/leaving Ace and Luffy, which feeds into him blaming himself for Ace’s death. Actually spent a fortune on scar creams in an effort to make the scars fade but none of them worked. Is trying to make peace with that part of his appearance.

Has a skincare routine. Nothing fancy, but he exfoliates and applies moisturizer to his face, and he has a special hand cream. Also always has chapstick on, and he carries it around with him. Has multiple extras scattered around. It has a slight pink tint to it that he pretends not to notice. He makes kissy lips at Koala if she tries to tease him about it. Low key the sort of guy to go through your purse in search of hand cream or concealer.

Speaking of, it’s pretty much impossible to tease him/get under his skin. He takes everything in stride, hardly ever gets pouty. He’s also the only person in the Revolutionary Army who is brave enough to tease Dragon and even argue with him, which is one of the reasons he became Dragon’s second in command. 

Doesn’t do anything special to his hair. It falls like that naturally. Could literally wash his hair with a bar of soap and it still dries as though he had it blown out by a professional.

He doesn’t know how to read palms, but he pretends he does to flirt with people. He’ll make things up about the lines in their palms, using it as an excuse to initiate skin to skin contact. He’s a shameless flirt. Members of the Revolutionary Army often joke about their Chief of Staff being a honeypot. Some Army communications about the matter were even intercepted, and the World Government, not knowing the RA was joking around, actually has it in their file on the Chief of Staff that he will use seduction to get what he wants. When an RA spy find this out and fed it back to the Army, the entire base keeled over in laughter, Sabo included.

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Hotel room: filthy chav tf

It was an imposition. An absolute imposition. Having to spend the night in a youth hostel was unbelievable. But in a triple room? Without your own bathroom? Using a communal shower room? That had to be a joke. Yes, his company had to cut costs. There was a new travel policy that banned five-star hotels and business class flights. All well and good. But a youth hostel?!?!?!?!! He called the travel agency and insulted his colleague in the worst possible way. She just replied dryly that everything else was fully booked because of the trade fair and that she had even written Alexander an e-mail asking if the booking was okay. And he had replied with a curt "yes". Unfortunately, there was nothing more she could do, he was still on the waiting list for two hotels. But if there was no answer by now…

Alexander moved into his room. It smelled like a lad's changing room in a community school on a council estate. Of course, he had no idea what it smelled like. But that's how he imagined the stench. Without greeting or acknowledging the teenager lying on the bed playing with his cell phone, Alexander went to the window and pulled it open. "Oi, did someone crap in yer head, mate? Shut that window, innit?" the chav yelled at him. "I don't understand a word you're saying," Alexander replied and began to unpack his suitcase. I don't know how the chav could live like this, he thought to himself. He needed order. He then changed into his bedding, which he saw as a further humiliation, and lay down on the bed. The chav was listening to music so loud that Alexander could clearly hear the bass. He found it more than annoying. But he tried to ignore it. He put on his headset and called his fiancée. Alexander assumed that the chav lying in the bed above him couldn't hear anything, as loud as he was listening to music. So he complained without a care in the world and blasphemed about the young man with the disturbed relationship to personal hygiene and the impossible haircut. "Honey, I have to stop, I have to get out of here and have lunch somewhere civilized." Alexander ended his phone call. He looked up. And he was looking at a dirty white sock.

"Oi, I'm Callum, but me mates call me Cal. So you call me Callum. Did ya just say my smell's botherin' ya? I thought posh gits like you love the scent of real man's feet." Alexander almost threw up. Without saying anything, he jumped up, grabbed his coat and left the room. He had a lunch date with an old school friend at a trendy steak restaurant. It was supposed to distract him and save the evening as much as possible. As he stood in the subway, he wondered what the devil had possessed him not to take a cab. It smelled almost as bad here as in his hotel room. Suddenly he realized that the smell was coming from his armpits. Damn, had he forgotten the deodorant this morning? The journey seemed like an eternity. People wrinkled their noses. My God, that was embarrassing. In the restaurant, he went to the toilet first, wet a towel, took off his shirt and jacket and wiped his armpits. In the stress, he didn't even notice that instead of a white microfiber undershirt with a V-neck, he was wearing a worn-out, yellowed fine rib undershirt. The waiter eyed him a little disparagingly as he brought him to his table. His friend was already sitting there and stood up to greet him. Alexander gave him a fist bump. His friend looked irritated and returned the greeting. "My best man, what kind of ghetto attitudes are these? At least it goes with your casual footwear." Alexander looked at the floor. He was wearing rather expensive-looking sneakers. And white socks. He stammered something about a suitcase that had gone missing and that he'd been a bit stressed. His friend grinned a little disparagingly and poured Alexander a glass of red wine.

The conversation was somehow wooden. Marcus told stories from their school days. But Alexander couldn't remember any of them. The wine was quite tasty, the steak was too rare for him, but he didn't dare complain. With lots of ketchup, it was fine. When the waiter asked if he should pour more wine, Alexander replied with his mouth full "Oi mate, gimme a big beer, yeah? And some mayo with them chips." The rest of the meal passed in silence. All you could hear was Alexander smacking his lips. And after he had finished, a loud and passionate burp. Marcus looked horrified at first. Then he laughed uproariously and burped at least as loudly. "Blimey, mate! That was a good one. Now off for a fag and a fart outside?" "You can proper bet on it, mate. Got a spare cig for us?".

Marcus and Alexander had to put their last few pounds together to pay. The waiter looked disgustedly at the stale bills. "You got a problem, mate? Our money not good enough for ya? What's it gonna take for a blowie, eh? Would ya prefer that?" Alexander could barely stop Marcus from starting a fight with the waiter. He waved for security. A few minutes later, the two chavs were thrown out the back exit.

The evening was still young. Alex called Cal to see if he would like to have a beer in the pub at the youth hostel and watch the game. Cal replied that he had just taken a punter up to the room and had to fuck him first. Blimey, Cal was always lucky. Mack suggested he stand by the mess hall exit. Maybe you could pick up a customer there too. Alex looked in his wallet. He was broke again. He could do with a few pounds. They had at least managed to scrounge two fags from a passer-by. The evening was off to a good start. And at some point it would end with a hot threesome in their room.

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