#earth 460

[ijustreallylikecaptainamericaok]

Marvel 1602 #7

[literallymechanical]

!!

@fishteriously sent me the most incredible paper. 460 million years ago, Earth might have captured an asteroid and torn it apart into a ring that lasted tens of millions of years.

[vestaignis]

Озеро Медуз — озеро в архипелаге Скалистые острова (Палау). Озеро расположено на востоке острова Эйл-Малк, в более чем 20 км к юго-востоку от Корора. Этот естественный слабо-солёный водоем имеет глубину до 50 метров и размеры всего 460 м на 160 м, он сообщается с расположенным примерно в 200 метрах Тихим океаном через трещины и поры в горной породе.

Озеро Медуз разделено на два слоя — бескислородный и с большим содержанием кислорода. Первый, нижний слой (приблизительно от глубины 15 метров и до дна) обладает высокой концентрацией аммиака и фосфатов, чем опасен для дайверов, которые могут получить отравление через кожу. В этом слое живут только бактерии. Зато другой слой, насыщенный кислородом (примерно до глубины 15 м), населяют разнообразные микроорганизмы, несколько видов рыб и веслоногих ракообразных и, конечно же, медузы.

Образованное движением земной коры более 12 000 лет назад озеро известно своей обособленной популяцией двух видов сцифоидных — золотая медуза (Mastigias papua) и лунная медуза (Aurelia). За время, пр��веденное вдали от моря, живущие здесь золотисто-оранжевые медузы эволюционировали и утратили свою способность жалить. Весь день они следуют за солнцем, перемещаясь по глади озера, а к ночи опускаются на дно, где подпитываются водорослями. Лунные медузы питаются веслоногими ракообразными, для чего ночью поднимаются на поверхность озера. Считается,что общая численность медуз, обитающих в этом необычном озере, достигает двух миллионов особей. Количество медуз так велико, что их массу легко можно заметить, даже находясь в самолете. Золотая медуза имеет огромное численное превосходство над лунной.

Кроме того, в озере Медуз не разрешено нырять с аквалангом. Воздушные пузырьки, которые образуются во время дыхания аквалангиста, попадают под купол медузы и могут привести к ее гибели. По этим причинам в озере плавают только в верхнем слое воды, используя ласты и маску. Погружение в воды этого медузового озера – удивительная возможность попасть в иной мир, оказавшись в самом центре гипнотического танца медуз.

Jellyfish Lake is a lake in the Rocky Islands archipelago (Palau). The lake is located on the east of Eil Malk Island, more than 20 km southeast of Koror. This natural, slightly saline body of water is up to 50 meters deep and measures just 460 m by 160 m, connecting to the Pacific Ocean about 200 meters away through cracks and pores in the rock.

Jellyfish Lake is divided into two layers: anoxic and highly oxygenated. The first, lower layer (from approximately a depth of 15 meters to the bottom) has a high concentration of ammonia and phosphates, which is dangerous for divers, who can become poisoned through the skin. Only bacteria live in this layer. But another layer, saturated with oxygen (to about a depth of 15 m), is inhabited by a variety of microorganisms, several species of fish and copepods and, of course, jellyfish.

Formed by the movement of the earth's crust over 12,000 years ago, the lake is known for its distinct population of two scyphoid species - the golden jellyfish (Mastigias papua) and the moon jellyfish (Aurelia). During their time away from the sea, the golden-orange jellyfish that live here have evolved and lost their ability to sting. All day they follow the sun, moving along the surface of the lake, and by night they sink to the bottom, where they feed on algae. Moon jellyfish feed on copepods, for which they rise to the surface of the lake at night. It is believed that the total number of jellyfish living in this unusual lake reaches two million individuals. The number of jellyfish is so large that their mass can be easily noticed even while on an airplane. The golden jellyfish has a huge numerical superiority over the lunar jellyfish.

Additionally, scuba diving is not allowed in Jellyfish Lake. Air bubbles that form during the scuba diver's breathing fall under the dome of the jellyfish and can lead to its death.For these reasons, people swim in the lake only in the upper layer of water, using fins and a mask. Diving into the waters of this jellyfish lake is an amazing opportunity to enter another world, finding yourself in the very center of the hypnotic dance of jellyfish.

Источник: //www.stepandstep.ru/biologiya/ozero-meduz, //cameralabs.org/aeon/fotokonkurs-siena-international-awards /foto/ 46069-pooshchritelnaya-premiya-v-kategorii-krasota-prirody-2021-ozero-meduz-avtor-khenli-spajers,//www.cawater-info.net /all_about _water/?p=14456,dzen.ru/a/XbytncBccQCufY29, //topwonders .ru / palau/ozero-meduz-na-palau.html,omyworld.ru/9937,//www. stepandstep.ru/biologiya/ozero-meduz/,/www.airpano.ru /360article / jellyfish-lake-palau/,/www.tripadvisor.ru/Attraction_Review-g294136-d795830-Reviews-Jellyfish_Lake-Koror_Koror_Island.html.

[buckets-and-trees]

Do You Remember

Characters/Pairings: Minotaur!Bucky x Botanist!Female!Reader Word Count: 460 Summary: You belong to him.

Content Warnings: monster fucking, vaginal sex

Logistical Notes: For the @bucks-and-noble Summer Send Off event. Using lyrics from the song "September" by Earth, Wind and Fire for some of the thematic elements (bolded).

Additional Notes: Follow up to Sacrificial but just a moody smutty drabble that can be read without context.

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As tangible as your surroundings were – the dirt, the lush green jungle, the sounds of exotic birds whose song was now so familiar – the situation hardly seemed real, and your brain didn’t know what to make of your waking state. Dream or nightmare?

Many mornings you woke from golden dreams that bled into shiny days.

Some mornings you awoke troubled, and he was always too perceptive and knew. And he didn’t let you stay troubled if he could help it.

He was very clear that he wanted you happy and content. How could you not be? This is still what you wanted, what you signed up for. What did you lack? Nothing. Your contract was essentially being fulfilled. You had pledged to three years of research. You wanted for nothing in your lab for research. You had known it would be remote, had agreed to being cut off from the rest of the world due to your remote location in the Amazon.

That you were his and that it was clear you were not to leave – would never be able to leave, why would you want to leave, little lamb? – was not part of the agreement.

And when it was like this, your clothes torn off to the side, with your fingers digging into the dirt beneath your palms, on hands and knees, with his hulking form kneeling over you, his bare chest pressing against your naked back, and his thick cock pressing into your stretched and slick canal, your hips pressed back against him, it was hard to remember why you would want to leave.

“Yes, lamb, it doesn’t hurt, does it? You take my cock so beautifully now, make such pretty noises, and I can have you anywhere. Your body is so willing to take me. You were that first day, and you have been every day since.”

You whimpered helplessly. He was right.

As terrified as you had been when the figure of the minotaur had appeared to claim you as the village’s sacrifice, you had also easily become his. Your body craved him now.

It doesn’t matter that you’re naked being fucked by this half-man, half-beast in the rain forest. No one will find you. You’re certain of that.

One of his rough hands came to your chest and he groped your left breast before tweaking the nipple painfully. “You’re mine.”

“Yes,” you yipped. He knew how to ply your body and make you desperate for him, and that was more dangerous than his mere existence as the beast that he was.

Body trembling beneath him as he railed you in a state of nearly mindless pleasure, you couldn’t remember if you wanted this or not. Do you remember anything before this? Before him? Before this September? Was there anything before him? He’s giving you nearly everything. Do you remember? What else would there be to remember in comparison to this?

Commentary/additional pieces on the Minotaur!Bucky saga:

"haunting thoughts" on THIS PIECE for the Dark Forest Fest

"haunting thoughts" on Sacrificial for the Dark Forest Fest

brief insight into what reader's life is like now

physical appearance of Minotaur!Bucky

easy and challenging parts of writing the fic

the writing of the story from concept to completion in one night

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[evilweasel]

Locked Tomb Necro-Cav Dynamics

I'm probably either reaching or stating something really obvious, but - if the necro/cavalier partnership is supposed to be a metaphor for marriage under patriarchy (in being that it was created by a guy who seemed to have taken bullet points from the previous society and its power dynamics, in which one party holds all the power and the other is supposed to submit and serve blindly), then a lot of the necro/cav pairings we see in Canaan House reflect a lot of marriage tropes from Earth.

Judith and Marta

They seem to reflect a "stereotypical" necro-cavaliership, akin to a stereotypical marriage. Judith and Marta appear to have known each other in school ("I have studied energy transferral aptitude with Lt. Dyas since our school days." [GtN: P.456]) and were sworn to each other not long after school , not dissimilar to how a lot of very "traditional" marriages begin in high school and are quickly consummated after. They are also very professional and close with each other, and through Cohort military training are the pinnacle of everything a necro and cav should be, even down to Judith having to watch her cavalier die for her lol.

Ianthe, Coronabeth, and Naberius

Necro-cavalier bonds are typically partnerships, HOWEVER in this case Ianthe makes a third, and so she and her twin have to share a cavalier, which is very much frowned upon. My initial thought is this is a metaphor for polyamory, despite Ianthe and Corona being twins. But also them being twins hasn't stopped them from being very... attached to each other, to the point where several characters in the novels make references to their incestous-bordering relationship. (Palamedes comments about it to Nona I can't find the exact quote rn it's very late). So maybe it's not that far fetched.

Isaac and Jeannemary

The "arranged child marriage" trope, as they are the youngest necro/cav pair, having been sworn to each other at age 9/10, and Jeannemary being modelled into Isaac's cavalier from birth ("Intended to be Isaac's cavalier from birth, swore the oath with him and gained the title at age nine." [GtN: P. 460]). This is not unlike a lot of marriages between throughout the ages as families betrothe their young/unborn to strengthen ties and forge alliances.

Magnus and Abigail

Magnus and Abigail are a weird one again, because I'm saying the necro/cav relationship are a metaphor for marriage, and yet Abigail and Magnus, who ARE married, are reviled for it. The metaphor isn't perfect, and I'm willing to be wrong about this. Honestly just read this post by @katakaluptastrophy because honestly it was this that got me thinking in the first place.

Silas and Colum

Silas and Colum are a play on many marriages being incestuous; it's not unheard of for medieval marriages to be between uncles and nieces or aunts and nephews, especially to keep blood purity in noble families, which is very much a mindset of the Eighth and their need to "breed batteries". (Source)

Harrowhark and Gideon

Honestly, for these two I'm... not sure which part would be the metaphor. The sham nature of their necro/cav partnership? The power dynamics of an indentured servant being boosted up to the partner of a figurehead? All of it?

And from here I can't think of other marriage tropes that fit the others. The two left are the Sixth and Seventh but as we don't know anything about the relationship between Dulcinea and Protesilaus (since both are a bit... out the picture during GtN), it's hard to comment on. Unless, that's the commentry? Cam and Pal also don't fit anything that immediately comes to mind, apart from maybe mild incest again? But then, we have the Eighth to fit that trope already,,,

Let me know if you think this idea has any merit!! It's 4am, I'm tired, and I'll go back and fix sourcing issues at another point lol.

[quiltofstars]

Merope (23 Tauri) in the Pleiades (M45) // Gaillard Jérôme

Merope (23 Tauri) is a blue-white subgiant star about 460 light years from Earth. It is about 4 times the mass of the Sun and radiating over 900 times the light of the Sun. However, this is still the faintest of the stars in the Pleiades. Surrounding Merope is the Merope Nebula (NGC 1435).

Its name comes from Greek mythology: Merope is one of the Pleiades, the daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Mythology explains why Merope is the faintest star: she was the only one of her sisters to marry a mortal man, Sisyphus.

[thorn-rosed]

Evan is a crazy scientist who believes he can turn into god, and regularly lets people disappear to experiment on them. He's not religious, but one day he decides to give satanism/witchcraft a go. The ritual he did was meant to summon a demon, he even sacrificed humans and all that stuff, but instead of a demon appears... Barty!

At first, Evan is disappointed, but then Barty reveals pretty fast that he's a 460 year old vampire, and Evan is delighted. He never got to experiment on something undead, only on living things. Technically, Barty should be creeped out by his maniac personality and the twinkle in Evan's eyes, but he isn't and listens to what Evan is going to do to him instead. And he even agrees to trying it out!

From then on, Evan studies EVERYTHING on Barty: He cuts him open, looks what Barty reacts good and what bad to, even studies what will happen when he "kills" Barty. Evan's test subject is very turned on by the experiments, which is something Evan thinks he should explore further and gets Barty off multiple times. Hes even documenting everything (to what Barty reacts, does he actually have cum since he's dead, does that cum have sperm in it/can barty as an undead creature produce new life?). Evan uses the fact that Barty needs human blood as a way of killing people who annoy him, sometimes he even kidnaps them himself.

As a scientist, Evan also produces drugs and stimulants, sometimes he "steals" people he kidnapped for Barty and experiments on them, also he kills them to explore the difference between "killing" Barty and living people.

Barty knows about Evan's studies and is very fascinated by them. Because he is smart and gathered/learned a lot of information in his many years on earth, he sometimes even helps Evan figure out formulas or comes up with his own ideas to try out.

Evan is demisexual, yet heavily necrophilic. Because he got Barty off multiple times already, they are very comfortable with each other and due Barty not being able to actually die, he helps Evan explore his sexual likings. They include fucking Barty while he is unconscious, woundfucking (it is no health risk for Barty, he can't get sick from bacteria) or even "killing" him during the act.

At some point, they know each other well enough that Evan allows Barty to take a sip from his blood from time to time. Also he studies if that has any effect on him. When Evan agreed to let Barty properly bite him and actually drink his blood, not just sip it, he knew that he would turn into a vampire too. Evan documented the process of turning, and after this event it would get even more bloody in the bedroom than it did before.

[ghaniblue]

Drarry. 460 words. Written for Drarry Creative Collective: Daily Creations. Prompt: sky

After the war came the funerals. Harry stood with Ron and Hermione, and looked down into the churned earth. They buried friends: Fred, Remus, Tonks, Colin, Lavender—and people he barely knew. On and on and on he stood under a blue summer sky with the sun shining merrily. He stood under dark rain clouds with the howling wind drowning out people's sobs. Hermione squeezed his hand so hard it hurt. Ron stood silently at his shoulder.

Harry stood and looked down into the fresh graves, and wondered how it would feel to lay down in the cool earth and close his eyes.

Eventually, Hermione and Ron left for Australia. Ginny got invited to join the Harpies, and fought and fought and fought with Molly. The Burrow stopped being a refuge. Grimmauld Place at least was quiet.

Harry just needed some rest, just a little pause. His mind kept churning and churning, but he couldn't grasp a single thought. He was bone tired, but when he closed his eyes he saw an endless parade of death. He needed to sleep, and then he'd join the Aurors, tackle the next big evil. Maybe he just needed a vacation. Hadn't he done enough?

He was still resting when Ron and Hermione got married, Ginny left him for good, and Kingsley stopped asking about the Aurors. He blinked and two years had gone by. Another blink, another year. The world kept turning, people lived their lives. Things moved on.

Harry joined the Aurors eventually, because he said he would and he had nothing better to do. Ron was leading his own team already when Harry sat through hours upon hours of training. He listened to instructors lecture about de-escalation and disarming techniques, gesturing at him: "Our own Harry Potter here defeated You-Know-Who with only an Expelliarmus as his weapon."

Harry wanted to scoff: No I didn't. Just because I didn't AK the bastard. I don't even remember why not. Crucio and Imperio isn't even all that difficult if you put your mind to it. But he didn't want to give his fellow trainees any ideas; they were so young.

Instead, he walked out without a word, walked past the security desk and handed back his trainee badge, and stood outside of the Ministry, tilting his face up towards the sun. It was a warm day, spring had come early, fluffy white clouds chasing each other across a cornblue sky. The sun felt good on his skin. He thought, I'm a flower, and had to laugh. And then he couldn't stop laughing, great big barks of laughter that hurt his sides and squeezed his lungs. And still he laughed, bent over, hands on knees with tears rolling down his cheeks. He was a fucking flower.

[ijustreallylikecaptainamericaok]

Marvel 1602 #2

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Hi! Do you have a post for recs on hidden/secret relationship (dating, marriage, etc etc)?

Hi Nonny!

I actually recently replied to a similar ask that came back around the queue, and I sadly I don't have very many personal recs! I've been asked this enough that I think I'll go through both of my offline lists and make a new updated list because I need content, LOL! So here you are, and if anyone has fics to add, as always, please do!

SECRET RELATIONSHIPS (Sept 2024)

See also:

Lestrade / The Yard Finds Out

Lestrade / The Yard Finds Out Pt 2

BOOKMARKS

A Sofa with a View by nondeducible (G, 1,855 w., 1 Ch. || Domestic Fluff, Schmoop, Secret Relationship) – Lestrade loves football, John and Sherlock love each other.

The Internet Is Not Just For Porn by cyerus (G, 1,911 w., 1 Ch. || Different First Meeting, Humour, Fluff, Crack) – John is Sherlock's internet boyfriend - from CANADA. No one thinks he's real.

This is my friend, John Watson by aaronisgay (T, 3,691 w., 5 Ch. || Established Relationship, Secret Relationship, Yard Finds Out) – Lestrade has known Sherlock for over three years, yet in that time barely learned anything about the man. Then one day, Sherlock walks onto the crime scene with a short army doctor in tow. As time goes on, Lestrade wonders why neither of them ever go on dates...could this mean something? Otherwise where Sherlock is married and the Yard doesn't even notice.

5687 (Approximately) by prettysailorsoldier (T, 6,771 w., 1 Ch. || Est. Rel., Alternate Canon, Christmas, Pining, Fluff, Soldier John) – When John's leave request for Christmas is denied, Sherlock is nothing short of devastated, not that he's letting it show. The holiday season now something he's just waiting to end, Sherlock doesn't think anything can possibly make it worse. That is, until he realizes no one in his life believes his army "boyfriend" is even real, but, luckily, everyone is in for a surprise. Part 13 of 25 Days of Johnlock

Performance In a Leading Role by Mad_Lori (E, 156,714 w., 21 Ch. || PODFIC AVAILABLE || Hollywood / Actor AU, Secret Relationship, Falling in Love, Slow Burn, Romance, Coming Out, Fluff and Angst, Pining) – Sherlock Holmes is an Oscar winner in the midst of a career slump. John Watson is an Everyman actor trapped in the rom-com ghetto. When they are cast as a gay couple in a new independent drama, will they surprise each other? Will their on-screen romance make its way into the real world? Part 1 of Performance in a Leading Role

MARKED FOR LATER

No place on earth they’d rather be. by gelos (bia_mpinto) (G, 460 w., 1 Ch, || Established Relationship, Fluff, PDA, Secret Relationship) – John’s thumb is caressing Sherlock’s skin and thinking how soft it is and how lucky he is right now. This is the first time they’ve held hands in public, only because they seem to be alone in the street and there’s nobody to see them.

I've Got Him by AnneCumberbatch (NR, 1,182 w., 1 Ch. || Established Relationship, Privacy, Semi-Secret Relationship, Domestic Life, Caring, Sick John, Flu, Annoyed Sherlock, Protective Sherlock, Sleepy John, Forehead Kisses, Papa Lestrade) – He returned to the living room and looked down at John. “You’re going to weigh so much more than I’m prepared for, aren’t you.” Sherlock grimaced slightly as he mapped out the best way to lift his partner. Part 9 of the Sometimes in the Evening series

A Study In Partners by LonelyThursday (T, 3,051 w., 1 Ch. || ASiP Divergence, Humour, Established Relationship, Attempted Murder, Secret Relationship, Tired Greg, Papa Lestrade) – Sherlock and John met years before ASiP, but nobody told the Yard that

Alibis by JohnlockRelapse (M, 6,645 w., 1 Ch. || Established Relationship, Secret Relationship, Implied Mystrade, Secrecy, The Yard, Fluff) – Sherlock is away for the weekend, John indisposed. And Greg would never admit to himself how desperate he was for Sherlock’s help. A series of phone calls to concerned parties, and a frustrated Detective Inspector later, alibis would prove to never be enough.

Illusory Correlation and Confirmation Bias by VanillaBroompolish (T, 10,464 w., 6 Ch. || Alternate Canon || Soldier John, Secret Relationship, Relationship Reveal) –  Looking back, there were a few things that should’ve tipped Greg off long before that night at the pub. A few things Sherlock left fairly obvious, that on reflection, made Greg question how he’d gotten his job in the first place.

The Moaning Detective by Imjohnlocked87 (E, 14,873 w., 5 Ch. || Oral / Anal, Threesome w/ Lestrade, Secret Relationship, Top John, Bottom Sherlock, Multiple Orgasms, PWP, Sex Toys / Dildos / Vibrators, Gang Bang / Group Sex, Dom/Sub Undertones, Dirty Talk, Accidental Voyeurism, Fantasizing) – Theoretically, Sherlock Holmes doesn't like sex, and John Watson is not gay. Theoretically, because when accidentally the Yards listen to what is happening at Baker Street, they found the practical truth is totally different...

Sanctuary by a_different_equation (E, 15,437 w., 7 Ch. || Medieval AU / Canterbury Tales Fusion || Blacksmith Sherlock, Guard John, Secret Relationship, Dom Sherlock, Sub John, Porn With Plot, Rimming, Blow Jobs, Anal, BAMF Female Characters) – England, 1230: John Watson is an ex-soldier who works as the head of the guards in his hometown. Sherlock Holmes, the local blacksmith, is his secret.

The Sweetness Makes the Smoke and Stings Worthwhile by  221b_careful_what_you_wish_for (M, 70,032 w., 31 Ch. || Historical 1920′s Unilock AU || Summer Romance, Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, First Kiss/Time, Inexperienced Sherlock, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Drinking, Period-Typical Homophobia, Sexual Tension, Hand/Blow Jobs, Dancing, Secret Relationship, Skinny Dipping, Angst with a Happy Ending, Closet Sex, Hotel Sex, Emotions, Falling in Love, Mutual Pining, Letters/Epistolary, Heartache, Minor Violence, Separations, Reunion Sex, Love Confessions, Victor & Mary in this Fic) – After nearly being expelled from university, Sherlock is banished home to Musgrave Hall for the summer. A friend introduces him to John Watson, a handsome medical student visiting the area. Sherlock and John find themselves drawn to each other, falling into a summer romance that may be as painful as it is sweet. Although they follow different paths, their feelings for each other still haunt them, their love finally coming full circle years later. For those concerned about Mary and Victor, they appear only briefly and as very background characters. My version of Mary is not modeled on the BBC version. She is more of an original character, if anything.

combat fatigue by simplyclockwork (E, 75,714 w., 30 Ch. || Military AU / Different First Meeting || Captain John, BAMF John, Violence, Betrayal, Developing Relationship, Hurt/Comfort, Whump, Secret Relationship, Whump, Angst, Mutual Pining, Happy Ending) – When Sherlock is deployed to Afghanistan with his brother and the 4/73 Bravo Sierra Bravo patrol unit, he is thrown into a terrifying new world. Developing an unexpected connection with Captain John Watson complicates things, and the two begin to wonder if they can keep each other safe when betrayal lurks in unexpected faces.

This Is Your Song by agirlsname (E, 79,990 w., 19 Ch. || Moulin Rouge Fusion || Prostitute Sherlock, Poet John, Acting, Singing, Dancing, Writing, Poetry, Musical, Song Fic, Heavy Angst, Unreliable Narrator, Sherlock is French, Love at First Sight, UST, First Kiss/Time, Frottage, Coming in Pants, Anal Sex, Switchlock, Clothed Sex, Crossdressing, Secret Relationship, Forbidden Love, Jealousy, Terminal Illnesses, Grief/Mourning, Breakup/Makeup Sex, Past Drug Use, Attempted Rape, Canon-Typical Violence)– When John Watson is invalided home from the army in 1895, he moves to Paris to rediscover his writing and find a new meaning in life. His old friend Stamford invites him into a group of artist friends, and suddenly John finds himself auditioning to write a show for the famous brothel across the street. There, he meets the most beautiful man he’s ever seen - Sherlock, the star of the Moulin Rouge. But Sherlock is already promised to the investor of the show, the rich Duke Moriarty.

Of Ice and Men by SinceWhenDoYouCallMe_John (E, 176,906 w., 20 Ch. || Olympics AU || Paralympics, Prosthesis, Disability, Established Relationship, Threesome - Johnlockstrade, Angst with Happy Ending, Coming Out, Secret Relationship, Asexual Sherlock, Pilot John) – Greg wants Sherlock to win his first Olympic Gold medal. Sherlock wants John to win his first Olympic Gold medal. John wants Greg to come to bed wearing all four of his Olympic Gold medals, and you didn't really think this would be that terribly serious after reading that title, did you? Bundle up, it's a Winter Olympics OT3!

[lulublack90]

Prompt 4 - Smile

@jegulus-microfic August 4, Word count 460

Previous part First Wolfstar part

James had never seen the Black family's ancestral home. Going there was the only thing his parents had ever forbidden him from doing. Sirius had forbidden him as well. He’d been close a few times to going when he hadn’t heard from Sirius over the holidays after a few particularly bad letters, but he’d kept his word. Once Sirius had run away, there had been no reason for him to go to Grimmauld Place at all. Well, apart from Regulus. But there was no way the younger Black brother would want him there, so the point was moot. 

He looked up at the three-storey town house. The bricks were an odd shade of grey, almost black. He could feel the waves of dark magic coming away from the centuries of Black family members performing powerful spells within its walls. A chill ran through him. If the outside was this foreboding, what on earth was the interior like? 

“You ready?” Sirius whispered to him, pulling him out of his thoughts. He turned to look at his friend. He wrapped an arm around him. Sirius was trying to look confident and carefree, but James spotted the slight tremor of his fingers and the wavering in his voice. When their eyes met, Sirius’s were haunted by memories of his past. 

“Yeah, let’s do this,” James’s smile didn’t quite reach his eyes, but he tried his best for Sirius as he slipped his invisibility cloak out of his bag. 

Remus stepped forward and took Sirius into his arms. They gazed at each other and silently conversed. 

“I mean it, Sirius, the first sign of trouble, and you get yourself out. I can’t lose you again,” Remus pleaded with him. 

“I promise, Moony. I love you,” Sirius replied, standing on tiptoe to reach up to Remus's lips. 

“I love you too,” Remus told him before grabbing the front of his shirt and pressing them together. 

“Do not let him die in there,” Remus warned James once he’d released Sirius. 

“I won’t”, James promised, as he threw the invisibility cloak over them. 

“What the fuck just happened?!” Marcus exclaimed, waving his hands around in the space where James and Sirius had been. 

“Shhh, idiot. I’ll tell you in a minute.” Remus hushed him. Marcus fell silent, but James and Sirius were already walking through the little iron gate at the entrance to the property. 

This was it. They had no idea if Sirius would still be allowed past the house’s protection charms. Regulus didn’t know if their parents had changed them or not. They’d find out in a second either way. Sirius raised his hand and turned the giant brass door knob. The door swung open with ease, and they walked into the gloomy entrance hall.

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[whencyclopedia]

Germ Theory

The Germ Theory, which emerged in the late 19th century, demonstrated that microscopic germs caused most human infectious diseases. The germs involved included bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, and prions. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), a French chemist and microbiologist, and Robert Koch (1843-1910), a German physician and microbiologist, are credited with the discovery of the germ theory in the 1860s-1880s.

Regarded as the most important discovery in the history of medicine, the germ theory challenged the medical profession to reevaluate how disease was thought about, offered possibilities for both the prevention and treatment of disease, as well as the discovery and implementation of new technologies to combat disease.

Previously, doctors assumed that disease was an internal process of the human body especially Hippocrates' long-standing four humors theory notion that excesses or deficiencies of four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, yellow and black biles) led to illness and disease. The germ theory contradicted that idea by separating the disease from the afflicted persons. Furthermore, the new theory ushered in a regimented way of classifying diseases (nosology) according to the type of microorganisms causing the disease.

Historical Theories of Disease

Prior to the discovery of the germ theory, various theories were advanced as possible explanations for illness and disease in humans. The earliest theory was the miasma theory attributed to Hippocrates (460-370 BCE), a Greek physician. Derived from the Greek word meaning pollution or "bad air", the miasma theory suggested that decomposing particles from organic materials, plants or animals, poisoned the air. Although easily detected by smell, people who inhaled the "bad air" would become ill. Additionally, planetary movements, disturbances to the Earth, poor hygiene, and polluted water often contributed to miasma. Attempts to remove waste along with cleanliness were thought necessary to improve the atmosphere to avoid infection and disease.

Aristotle (384-322 BCE), a Greek philosopher, offered the spontaneous generation of disease. It was possible, Aristotle thought, for living organisms to spring from non-living matter. Furthermore, this process, like maggots appearing from dead flesh, was a regular and natural phenomenon.

Galen (129-216 CE), a Roman physician, extended Hippocrates' earlier speculation about the imbalance of bodily fluids as the cause of disease. Galen attached each of the four humors to a particular season characterized by hot, cold, dry, and wet. For example, colds and flues occurred most often during cold and wet weather. Any change in the weather or season could upset the balance of the four humors so treatments were devised to restore said balance e.g., purges, bloodletting, enemas, and vomits. These ancient theories dominated Western medical thinking about illness until the 19th century.

Another theory of the origin of diseases referred to supernatural causes. A person's sins resulted in contracting a disease or illness as a punishment from the gods or God. Ghosts, demons, and evil spirits also possessed the ability to afflict a person with illness. Magic, divination, spells, exorcism, and various drugs were used to diagnose and treat illness. It fell to a variety of healers – shamans, priests, diviners, medicine men – to drive away the evil spirits. Illness as a punishment for sins, as well as a test of faith, was later offered by Christian theologians as an explanation for disease.

Additional theories on the origin of diseases continued to emerge. Girolamo Fracastoro (1476-1553), an Italian physician, is credited with first using the word "contagion" when describing the transmission of illness. His "seeds of disease" theory argued that disease could be spread by direct or indirect contact or over long distances through no contact at all. A German chemist, Justus von Liebig (1803-1873), one of the early founders of organic chemistry, suggested that as a result of a chemical process from decaying organic matter, disease simply emerged in the blood (the body's "chemical factory").

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[lonestarflight]

The Douglas-built S-IVB upper stage intended for Apollo 1 SA-204 mission was erected at Launch Complex 37B, Cape Kennedy, Florida. It was repurposed for Apollo 5 to send the unmanned Lunar Module (LM-5) into Earth orbit later that year.

Date: April 10, 1967

NASA ID: 67-H-430, 67-H-460

[yandereunsolved]

✗ 𝚇-𝚖𝚎𝚗 & 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚟𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 ✗

"Mind you, I can't help thinking, if resurrections are all the rage...shouldn't we be counting the days until you-know-who returns from the white-hot you-know-where to reclaim her dear old husband? Won't that be fun? Oh dear, late for my medical, must run -- toodles, Emma darling!" — Betsy Braddock (Uncanny X-Men #460)

"I'll follow him to the end of the earth, through perdition's fire, until he breathes blood and rolls over, split, broken, finished!" — Angel (X-Men: The Animated Series: Obession)

"I’m a bad guy who is paid to fuck up worse guys." — Wade Wilson (Deadpool Movie)

— 𝙼𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚋𝚘𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚜 —

Alex Summers

Charles Xavier

Deadpool

Erik Lehnsherr

Kurt Wagner

Logan 'Wolverine'

Peter Maximoff

Raven Darkholme

Scott Summers

— 𝙰𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚋𝚘𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚠/ 𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚋𝚕𝚎 —

Yandere Charles Xavier

Yandere Erik Lehnsherr

Yandere Peter Maximoff

Yandere Poly Cherik

Yandere Scott Summers

— 𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗𝚜 —

Yandere Peter Maximoff with a captive s/o ⋆

⋆ unpolished: not a full set of headcanons (still spellchecked)

[talonabraxas]

Venus is shrouded in a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere with swirling clouds of sulfuric acid, making the planet look fuzzy and yellow from the outside, unlike our serene planet of blue, green, and white. The Venusian atmosphere also creates extremely different conditions from those we see on our planet. Whereas Earth is a watery oasis, Venus is too hot for liquid water to exist, with surface temperatures as high as 460 degrees Celsius (860 degrees Fahrenheit). That heat comes from the greenhouse effect caused by the atmosphere of Venus, which is so thick that it creates crushing pressure at the planet’s surface. Venus "Earth's Twin" Talon Abraxas

[buckets-and-trees]

haunting thoughts on Do You Remember?

read it here: DO YOU REMEMBER?

Fandom: MCU Title: Do You Remember Characters/Pairings: Minotaur!Bucky x Botanist!Female!Reader Word Count: 460 Content/Concept Warnings: monster fucking, unprotected vaginal sex

RECAP: A smutty little drabble that's all sex and feels, some thoughts/reflection on reader's situation, but next to no plot, just revisiting the pair we met in Sacrificial.

There's a LOT of story in my head to tell for Minotaur!Bucky, but this has none of that. I was looking to write something for the @bucks-and-noble Summer Send Off event where the challenge was to use lyrics from the song "September" by Earth, Wind and Fire as part of a creation and... my brain had been trying to think of something more vivacious in spirit of story, honestly, because that song catch af, gets your soul moving, right?

But nothing was really coming together, so I looked at the lyrics again, and muse went what if smutty minotaur!Bucky? And then it poured out rather quickly.

I see this interlude taking place four to six weeks after reader being sacrificed to and taken away by Bucky. You're starting to settle into a routine, into each other, but there's still hesitancy and guards up. Guards for both of you. Bucky watches you, rarely leaves you unattended, but he's implementing and encouraging the science/research part for you. He wants you occupied. He's also fascinated and engrossed by you. And when you can't be occupied or distracted by other things, then he pulls out the sex, will pleasure and ruin you, emptying your brain and making you pliant and boneless. There begins to be a lot of consensual engagement, but there are still times when it skates on dubious consent, on manipulation, but you do crave and want him more and more. You're both in deep, and he's made it clear he's keeping you, so your brain is trying to sort and negotiate that.

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