#can u tell this is my dream

[soranker]

tomorrow :)

[ronanlynchbf]

[mblue-art]

late halloweeen dooodleee

[ur-ghostgirl]

i just think itd b cool to wake up to someone shushing me n telling me to go back to sleep while they fuck me ://

[cuubism]

cozy times at hob's cafe [pt. 8 of the adventures of hob, "normal" cafe owner, and dream, bookstore cryptid]

lil bit smutty under the readmore

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If he and Dream ever break up, Hob is definitely going to have to close up shop here and move to the other side of the country. He’s gotten so used to looking up from the till to the sight of Dream cozied up with a book and coffee in the corner that if he stopped having that it would probably break his heart.

As it is, he does have that. As he finishes up with a customer, he looks over, compulsively, at the loveseat in the corner of the cafe. Dream’s taken that spot over as his own, not just to sit but to lounge, sprawled across it with his head propped against one arm and his long legs dangling over the other.

He’s reading whatever book he’s brought today with a sort of pinched intensity. Hob had thought, early on, that Dream had already read every book in his library, through some kind of magic or bending of time, but it turns out that’s not the case. His matching of books to their readers is uncanny but he hasn’t actually read all of them himself. Though he seems to spend all the time when he isn’t working or talking to Hob remedying that.

As Hob watches, Dream plucks up his iced coffee from a side table and takes a delicate sip through the straw, not lifting his head and somehow managing not to choke himself in the process. Hob shakes his head in amusement and goes back to the next customer.

Later, he brings a pastry over to Dream. No scones today, this time he has lemon bars, but it hardly matters when Dream can be plied with almost anything sweet.

He sets it down on the table beside Dream’s now-empty iced coffee. “For my liege.”

Dream looks up and smiles with princely satisfaction but doesn’t adjust his languid sprawl. “Sweet Hob,” he coos, and tips his head back, and Hob obligingly leans down and plants a kiss on his lips.

He perches on the edge of the couch beside him. “What you reading?”

Dream shows him. Oh… it’s Hob’s. The one Dream had given him back when they first met—In Search of Nightingales. He probably nicked it from Hob’s flat upstairs—or rather, took it back, as technically all the books return to the Library in the end, according to Dream.

“What do you think, then?” Hob asks. Does Dream even have books that he likes or dislikes? Or does he just accept all of them as they are? Hob isn’t clear on how it works to be a library spirit, or whatever Dream is.

“I find the chemistry titillating,” Dream says, and it’s only because Hob is used to the way he talks by now that he doesn’t choke on air at the phrasing.

Though it’s possible that’s what Dream wanted in the first place.

“I find you ‘titillating,’” Hob says, and Dream’s satisfied smile deepens. “You’re a horrible distraction here. Look at you.” He taps his fingers up Dream’s terribly long legs, over his hip and up his rib cage. “All laid out like this.”

“I’ve no objections to being laid,” Dream says, and sets aside his book, stretching up a hand to run his delicate fingers through Hob’s hair.

“Not in the middle of my cafe,” Hob says sternly, and Dream pouts. It’s true that he’s incredibly tempting, even and especially when he pouts like that.

Dream looks at him beseechingly, still tickling Hob’s scalp with his fingertips. Christ but he’s pretty. Letting him lay here while Hob’s trying to work was both Hob’s best and worst decision ever.

“Fine,” Hob says, and it’s probably the easiest victory Dream’s ever had. It’s not like Hob needs to be wheedled into having sex with him, for Christ’s sake, but— “If I go out of business it’s your fault, you know.”

Dream seems unrepentant as Hob pushes himself back to his feet.

Hob points at him. “Upstairs, ten minutes. I’m not leaving the place to catch on fire because you’re horny.”

“Hypocrisy considering what we did in the Library yesterday,” Dream calls after him as Hob heads back towards the counter. “Those books still have yet to be shelved.”

“Little nightmare,” Hob grumbles, and can just see Dream’s smirk.

~

Dream is gone sometime between when Hob turns away from him and when he finishes situating the staff to take over for a while. Much of his staff are uni kids, and too nosy by half, definitely know what he’s up to when Dream’s around, but he ignores it for now. He supposes he can live with their gossip.

When he turns back, Dream has disappeared from the couch. He’s taken his lemon bar with him, which makes Hob chuckle, shaking his head fondly.

He follows Dream upstairs, and finds him in nearly the same position, sprawled now across Hob’s living room couch. Except now he’s shirtless, and engaged in delicately eating the lemon bar piece by tiny piece, licking his fingertips after each one. Little devil.

“Stop sexualizing my pastries,” Hob says, as he slips off his shoes and slides right onto Dream’s lap.

Dream gives a satisfied hum and licks the dusting of powdered sugar from his fingers, tongue lingering. “If you insist, I suppose I can tone down my behavior.”

Hob captures Dream’s mouth, hands to his shoulders and pushing him down into the couch. “Don’t you dare.”

Dream smiles into the kiss. He tastes strongly of lemon and sugar, and it’s definitely more satisfying a taste on Dream’s lips than when Hob had tried the first batch of lemon bars this morning.

“You taste good,” he says.

“That is your doing, I should think.”

“Mmm.” Hob kisses the curve of his throat, then the sharp angle of his collarbone. Dream sighs in the most spoiled, indulgent manner as Hob slides down his body to lay kisses on his bare chest, his belly, low on his pelvis above the waistband of his jeans.

“I should make you wait,” he says.

“You won’t, though,” says Dream, and he’s right. Hob is, as the uni kids say, a simp.

He unzips Dream’s jeans. He’s already hard in his underwear, and stretches languidly as Hob takes him out, a shiver running through him. Hob is hard too, but doing anything about it feels secondary to watching Dream in his sleepy, sensual satisfaction. Hob likes to see him like that, letting go.

“You just going to lie there?” he says, and Dream hums, tipping his head back. Petting lightly at Hob’s hair. He does tend to get drowsy in the afternoons, night owl that he is. “Course you are.”

Hob hardly minds. He likes to see Dream happy.

He gets to work trying to pull even more of that beautiful ease from him. Sucks Dream off slow and methodical, feeling a rush of success at every fluttering sigh and low moan. Dream keeps petting through his hair, gentle undemanding touches. His thighs tremble, breath coming quicker and sharper whenever Hob takes him deeper.

Hob knows well enough by now when he’s about to come. Dream’s thighs tense up, and his grip tightens in Hob’s hair, breath catching in the back of his throat. He comes with a drawn out sigh on Hob’s tongue, and strokes Hob’s cheeks as Hob pulls off him and swallows.

“Hob,” he pleads, tugging on Hob’s jaw to draw him up, and Hob chuckles.

“Don’t fall asleep on me,” he warns, and Dream rolls his eyes, though he does look quite sleepy. Hob’s own arousal is a low simmer in him, sparked brighter by Dream’s pleasure but undemanding, and he might have just draped himself over Dream’s body and let it be, except Dream is already slipping a hand into his pants.

“Dream—” He’s cut off as Dream gets his zipper open and pulls him out, then tugs him in with his other hand around the back of Hob’s thigh, encouraging him to grind into the crook of his hip. “Fuck.”

“Mmm.” As Hob grinds against him, Dream’s hand goes back to his hair, and he brings Hob up to his lips. Hob kisses him, messy, uncoordinated. Dream’s lips are sweet, his body delicious friction. It’s so easy with him sometimes, like now, lazy and haphazard and imperfect.

He comes with a groan over Dream’s stomach, tucking his face into his throat, limbs going pleasantly loose. Next thing he knows, Dream has recovered his shirt from somewhere and used it to clean himself off so he can pull Hob flush to his chest.

Hob chuckles, feeling about as sleepy as Dream had been before. “I’m your blanket now?”

“A warm one,” Dream agrees. “You are very cozy.”

“Glad I’m good for something.”

“Food and warmth,” Dream agrees, and Hob laughs. Though privately, he doesn’t think Dream has much of either in his life usually, and he’s glad to be able to provide. “Though not just that.”

He doesn’t need to elaborate. Hob gets it.

He lays his head down on Dream’s chest. The cafe’s just going to have to keep itself a bit longer, he thinks, because Hob’s staying right here.

Dream keeps petting his hair, and Hob presses in closer to him, and it’s not long before they’re both asleep.

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this was supposed to be a warm up

[radioroxx]

ok i know this is my second ghost themed au but hear mE OUT

ghost-hunter youtuber vanessa, part-time co star / little brother gregory, aaaand an oc i made up for the sake of… i needed more another person

(if she looks familiar no she doesnt. no she.doesnt.)

this au is just for fun tho :) no big lore or anything. feel free to ask stuff!

bonus v

the catch in this au is that greg can actually see and talk with the ghosts they come across (ness and steph dont know this)

[tenwhiteandalusians]

so no one was going to tell me if i got literally one episode further tenax drops that he’s the one who saved scorpus from his mom’s pimp AND that he’s intimately familiar with scorpus’ dick when he was younger. guys. guys.

[huellitaa]

𓍢₊˚⊹♡ love languages

happy (belated) valentines!!!! ♡ i love valentines day. i love love. i love the fact humans are so in love with the idea of loving they made a whole holiday revolving around love!!!! but the love we often lack the most is that of ourselves. and i will not have that !!!

──★ ˙ ̟🎀things to do for urself if ur love language is...

🧸𓂃 ࣪˖ physical touch

♡ hug urself !!!!!!!!

♡ blow urself kisses !!!!!!!

♡ hug your favourite thing really tight

♡ dress up pretty for no apparent reason

♡ put your hand on your heart and feel it beating bc thats You. Alive. like. Omg

♡ wrap yourself really tight in a blanket<3

🧸𓂃 ࣪˖ words of affirmation

♡ tell urself eeeeverything you could ever want to hear from another person

♡ affirmations !!<3 (self explanatory😭)

♡ brag to urself about how pretty you are and how talented you are and how amazing you are bc u literally are?!?!

♡ write yourself, past, present, or future, a letter telling them how proud you are of them and what you wanna achieve and how far youve come and anythig else <3

🧸𓂃 ࣪˖ receiving gifts

♡ buy urself something!! doesnt have to be big. doesnt have to be expensive. just something that means something to you & that you really love or want

♡ give something to another person and enjoy the warm feeling you get when you see the look on their face <3

♡ make yourself something to show your love + appreciation for everything u do for urself; i made a little bracelet with all my favourite things on it and i wear it everyday & i smile everytime i see it😭

🧸𓂃 ࣪˖ quality time

♡ spend time just breathing and sitting in silence with yourself and appreciating the life and the mind and the body you have

♡ journal and make an active effort to understand yourself more

♡ spend time w urself doing whatever you love with no distractions. just focus on solely yourself & your enjoyment <3

🧸𓂃 ࣪˖ acts of service

♡ take urself out someplace nice!!! dress up and be all pretty & cute just for urself, even if its just going to the park!!!!

♡ have an everything shower and pamper urself and reward yourself bc u deserve it!!

♡ do the things you dont like & get them out of the way and spent the rest of the day solely focusing on yourself . <3

i wish u a lovely lovely lovely valentines and i love you!!

all my love 💖🎀💘💗✨

[eightyuh]

(post this is in reference to) (og audio)

[melloneah]

SMOKESCREEN

"Near cradling a joint between his fingers was a strange sight - it felt like a tangible oxymoron. The ridiculousness was equal to imagining Roger snorting coke or Matt drinking water.

There was a stark contrast between Near’s delicate, paper white palms and the moss coloured, burning blunt. Its golden glow ricocheted off of Near’s pale skin on the backdrop of golden hour radiance. The clouds must have deserted the sky as a cruel taunt.

Underneath the absurdity, the image almost started to make sense.

Near - the exemplary, the infallible, the flawed.

Human.

Or, a story where two fools fall head over heels in love over a few smoking sessions."

AS IT IS VALENTINES DAY. HERE U GO. first chapter of my meronia wip <33333

Ship - Meronia Category - [m/m] Chapters - [1/?] Word Count - [3,787] CLICK HERE to read

CLICK HERE to view the high quality version of the graphic

[redlyriumidol]

The Evanuris Playlist Collection part 1... listen on spotify FEN´HAREL / ELGAR´NAN / MYTHAL / ANDRUIL / GHILAN´NAIN

PART TWO

[boxwinebaddie]

so i have...a deranged style concept:

quick to anger ( and even faster on the track ;) xx ), snotty, haughty, 'in your dreams, in my beams', 'if you're hungry, you can eat my dust', need4speed demon and world famous nas-t boi nascar racecar driver kyle broflovski ( think lightning mcqueen but meaner and greener )

ft. a super cute, awkward, down to earth, ( under the hood, ig ) armed and dangerous ( but only with his stanley drill, dorky yellow safety goggles and that million killawatt smile <3 ) lead pit crew mechanic stan from small town hick nowhere and his heart on his tattoo sleeve,

re: this picture on my pinterest that cured me of all illness.

( i have a lot to say about this, but i decided to be normal and wait until someone asks me about it before banshee-screaming at y'all )

[darby-rowe]

cw link leads to explicit sexual content

theres something about this video thats just so hot to me. the way she moans when he slaps her and how she slaps back. the RIDING??????? and how he looks at her uhhhgjfhfnfj i need this i need this

[rigelmejo]

Something that always annoys me is the idea only 1 language learning method works. Which is not true. While it may be possible that, for a particular individual, only a few out of many study methods may work well enough for That Individual to make progress and stay motivated... that doesn't mean all the other study methods won't work for anyone else out there, or that those few methods will work for every other given person.

Obviously if you've been studying a while, then you already figured out what kinds of things work for you and don't. If you're a beginner, just wading into studying?

I would suggest you simply look for study methods that: 1. Teach you new things regularly, 2. Review and practice things you've learned, 3. Include studying things you need for your particular goals (for example if your goal is to read X book then the study materials at some point should involve reading practice and some words the book contains, if your goal is to talk about Y then the study materials should include some information about pronunciation and words you'll need to be able to say).

As you can imagine, a TON of study materials will meet these requirements. And you can study a given skill in a LOT of ways.

(Reading is my focus lol so just for reading, a beginner might: do vocabulary study with lists or conversations with native speakers or watching shows and looking words up or listening to dialogues with a transcript like in a textbook or graded readers or a picture book with word labels in the target language or a video game with labelled objects in target language, all of those things as long as your vocabulary is improving or reading practice is happening would help you make progress). So to improve reading skill as a beginner: you could study with a textbook, a podcast with transcript, a classroom or tutor with words written down in target language (like TPRS), a video game, a TV show and a translate app on your phone, a friend you talk with (who either writes words down or you look up words you hear with a translate app), a friend you text with, srs flashcards like anki (provided there's text) etc. As long as there's new words, and/or you're practicing reading, the study method may work. If it works will come down to if you can stay motivated doing it regularly, and make sure you regularly learn some new things and review/practice things you've already studied.

So consider those things when you see people selling a study method as a product (especially when it's costing you money). Consider if it teaches you NEW things, and are those new things related to your goals, and how MUCH new stuff will it teach you before you finish it? Consider if it provides review or practice, or if you can use it's materials to review on your own making up your own method, or if you'll need to do separate review/practice.

So examples:

LingQ. Can it teach you many new words? Yes, thousands, since you can import any texts you want when you get done with their provided material (I have no idea how much their beginner material covers though in terms of words... I would hope 1000-3000 words but that can be researched). Is your goal reading? It's suited to reading, so you will practice and review often with it. Cost? I think it was $12 a month when I last had it, and the price may have increased. Is it worth it? Depends on a learner's needs. I found it was wasting my money, so I chose to use free tools like Pleco and Readibu apps - since those apps are suited for Chinese learners and have better translations, Pleco has better paid graded reader material if I was going to spend money, and both Pleco and Readibu let me import texts so I can learn thousands of new words just like LingQ but free. Now that I'm not a beginner, I often use Microsoft Edge to read chinese... since I can still click-translate words easily (all my web browsers have that tool free), and Edge's TTS voice is helpful for pronunciation and sounds quite good. I read webnovels online so Edge works well. But it's translations aren't as good as Pleco or Readibu, so if I still needed translations more I would use them. So... is LingQ a good study method? Its certainly a study method marketed to buy. Well... the method is suited to improving reading skill, at least. It costs money, which is a negative, but it does offer a lot. However: everything it does regarding reading can be done free with other apps or sites or web browsers on their own. So if paying money motivates you to read... sure. LingQ does have a few word tracking features a learner may find worth the money, keeping in mind the actual read-to-learn method can be done free without lingq. (Also... while LingQ is a valid option for improving reading, if the learners goal is speaking then it would be important to think of what study activities the learner will do OUTSIDE of LingQ to improve speaking... because I've seen how LingQ is marketed as "how to learn a language" but it's only focused on some skills. It has vocabulary and grammar in some sense, since you'll read a lot and encounter new words and structures. But it doesnt have speaking or writing practice at least last time I was on it. Those activities would need to be worked on, on your own).

You can do that kind of cost/benefit contemplating with any study method material you see being sold. Amother example: there's a beginner Mandarin course called Mandarin Blueprint. It teaches like 800 words. Thats all. It may be worthwhile for a beginner... who still needs to learn 800 common words. But if you already know a few hundred words, the benefit of the course is less, you'll need to find a new material to teach you more new stuff soon. And the price was like a few hundred for the course... which for me personally was too much to spend, when I had already learned 800 hanzi from a book that cost me 12 dollars and 2000 words from a free user made memrise deck. The course claimed to get a person speaking, competent, but anyone not a beginner would say speaking basically with 800 words is nowhere near the level of working in Chinese or just doing a lot of daily life stuff, or reading/listening to media. (Although for the motivated beginner if you're learning 800 words on your own like I was, its definitely close to the point of jumping to learn more words and start reading kids and teenager books, and watching easier shows if you're willing to look new words up). So to me... Mandarin Blueprint felt like overselling some basic beginner materials. (Again when I know several other things that teach beginner stuff either more in depth so HSK test prep classes, and college courses, or that teach beginner stuff to the same depth as Mandarin Blueprint but free).

Some study materials aren't going to act like they teach everything. I've seen chinese courses just for learning to speak tones better and general pronunciation - probably worthwhile if your goal is to improve speaking and a teacher could help improve the issues your having. But a learner needs to be aware for that course that they'll need to study vocabulary on their own, its JUST a pronunciation improvement course.

[rroaddkill]

I know it was fake, an act of pure manipulation, but it was a truly adorable era