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twiceinadream · 1 year ago

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“A More…Hands On Experience.”

Requested: Nope

Prompt: G!P Fem! S/O is a pool cleaner, Jihyo is a very attractive woman who asks S/O to rub oil on her.

a/u: Hey everyone! I’m back with a new fic that I hope you all enjoy. I can’t believe it’s already been 4 years since I started writing on Tumblr and I don’t have any plans on stopping in the near future! I want to thank you all for continued love and support after all these years. I love you guys!

Category: NSFW and Fluff

Word Count: 4.2k

The sun shone brightly over Guri, leaving the town in a beautiful glow. The air held a cool breeze and the warmth from the sun was just enough to heat the skin, more-or-less the day was pretty perfect.

You smiled to yourself as you hummed the last song you had heard on the radio under your breath. You were in good spirits, the weather was great, and you were on to the first client of the day. The house was very beautiful and you couldn’t help but marvel at all of the intricate botany.

The house itself looked quite modern as you walked up the little step to knock. It gave a hollow sound as you waited patiently, one of your hands in your pocket. It didn’t take long before you heard a faint, “Hold on, I’m coming!” From inside the house, the door was opened by the most beautiful woman you had ever seen and her attire - or lack there of - made your mouth go dry, “Hi, may I help you?”

You felt like your eyes were gonna pop out of your skull before you quickly shook your head and cleared your throat, recovering your professional demeanor, “Hi, yes, Miss Park?” The woman nodded and it finally clicked that your client was the Park Jihyo, “Hi, I’m Y/N from Palace Pool Cleaners. We have you scheduled for a pool cleaning this morning.”

It took all of your willpower to not look down since the woman before you was the subject of a very long standing crush and she was currently dressed in a very revealing bikini that was barely covered by a white dress shirt. “Oh goodness, you’re right. My apologies, it completely slipped my mind. I was actually about to lounge by the pool myself, it won’t interfere with your work will it?”

You shook your head, it wasn’t uncommon for clients to be out while you worked. Guaranteed most of your clients weren’t insanely attractive women who had been the object of your affection, but you needed to keep this professional. You couldn’t risk losing your job over a stupid crush, “Not at all, Miss Park. Depending on how much debris is in the pool and all the other little nuances I need to check up on for maintenance reasons. I should be out of here in two hours.”

The brunette smiled as she looked you up and down, you couldn’t help but stiffen your stance slightly as you flexed. Secretly hoping to attract such a gorgeous woman - you were only human after all. “Take all the time you need.”

With that, you gave a curt nod to not embarrass yourself any further, “Thank you, let me grab my supplies from the truck and I’ll get started. Is there a side gate I could use to access the backyard so I’m not lugging everything through your house?”

“Yeah, it’s to the right of the garage there’s a gate, it unlocks from the back so just reach over and it leads straight to the pool.” You nodded in thanks as you turned to leave. “One more thing,” you turned back around to see that the dress shirt had fallen down one of Jihyo’s shoulders and was now exposing a good amount of her cleavage that you fought not to gawk at, “you’re new aren’t you?” You nodded as you responded with a ‘yes’, making the brunette giggle, “I just wanted to say you are a lot easier on the eyes than my last pool cleaner.” You could barely believe your ears as Jihyo left you with a wink and disappeared back into her house.

How strange.

You finally let out a breath you didn’t know you had been holding as Jihyo closed the door, the front of your shorts felt uncomfortably tight as you turned to go back to your truck and grab the supplies you needed. You couldn’t help but laugh to yourself, ‘Fucking shit. I feel like I’m living in a bad porno.’

Once you had gathered everything you needed to get started with the cleaning you made your way to the backyard, through the gate that Jihyo had mentioned before and you almost stopped in your tracks at the sight. The brunette was propped up on a sun bed, sunglasses on her face and the white button down discarded. Revealing her large breasts that were barely contained by the straining fabric of her brown bikini top and the tiny bottom part that left nothing to the imagination that barely covered the woman’s slit.

You could faintly see the marks of an old tan line that she was probably working on getting rid of. Jihyo didn’t seem to pay any attention to you as you went to work as usual. you set your supplies down a little ways from the edge of the pool as you began assembling the pool skimmer. Screwing together the poll and attaching the net to the end as you dipped it onto the surface of the water and began collecting the stray leaves and occasional bug.

You hummed to yourself as you got lost in the monotony of your work - it wasn’t that you hated your job, you actually loved it, it was just simple and didn’t require much thinking after enough repetitions. The pool was a fairly decent size but wasn’t large enough that it took too much effort to get through. After you had skimmed the entirety of the pool you emptied the net into a trash bag you set off to the side and picked up the pool vacuum you had brought with you.

Thankfully, this pool didn’t have an algae problem as the low hum of the motor whirred to life as you plunged it beneath the surface and once again started your methodical walk around the pool’s edge. Making sure to cover every square inch so you wouldn’t have to do it over. The sun began to beat down, the temperature had risen to 86°F (30°C) and without the coverage of clouds or a breeze, you were beginning to sweat.

Once you finally made it all the way around you pulled out the vacuum and switched off the motor, sighing as you reached for the bottom hem of your shirt and pulled it off. You were wearing a black sports bra that covered everything but a low whistle suddenly reeled your mind back into the present as you remembered that you had an audience. You turned to face the woman still lounging in the pool chair, she had shed the white button down and was left in the skimpy bikini, your eyes wandered the the swell of her massive breasts as you bit your lip.

You were trying in vain to reign in your raging hormones as you felt your dick grow half-hard. But it was confined by your boxers and the lining of your swim trunks…for now.

The brunette had noticed your gaze as she chuckled slightly, “You can keep staring, jagi. I don’t mind.” Jihyo smirked as she pushed her chest out further, “I’m very proud of my body.”

You swallowed hard as you cleared your throat, suddenly feeling brave enough to flirt back, “My apologies, I was staring at your heart, but your boobs seem to be getting in the way.”

The singer was a little surprised by the fact that you had willingly matched her energy, “Funny and good looking, a very dangerous combo.”

You smiled as you headed back to your truck briefly to retrieve the bag of pool salt you needed to restore the correct ph levels in the pool. As you came back in, you noticed Jihyo staring as your muscles bunched slightly under the weight of the bag as you carried it over your right shoulder. Once you got back to the edge of the pool you set down the bag with the side of it facing the pool as you retrieved the box cutter from your pocket and created a small triangle at the bottom of the bag as the salt began spilling out.

After all the salt had been emptied out, you crumpled up the bag and stuffed it into the trash. Tying the elastic strings to keep it closed and everything you had taken out of the pool or used stayed in it. you were finally done and you went through without any more embarrassing incidents other than flirting back a little with the beautiful woman.

You made the short walk to where Jihyo was still lounging and stopped a safe distance away as you cleared your throat to grab her attention. The brunette turned her head as she lifted her sunglasses to properly look at you, “Miss Park, everything is finished. I cleaned and skimmed your pool as well as added more salt into it to restabilize the ph levels. If there’s nothing else you need, I can see myself out. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day!”

You wanted to heave a sigh of relief as you were able to get out your entire speech and not get distracted by the tempting pillows of softness that called to you. But before you could continue patting yourself on the back for not being a perv, Jihyo pursed her lips in thought before an idea came to mind.

She reached to the table beside her as she retrieved a bottle of sun tan oil, “Actually, there may be something you can help me with.” You nodded, “I need help applying this oil and you seem like such a nice person. I’m just trying to even out my tan lines and I can’t seem to do it properly. Would you mind doing it for me?”

You felt like your head was spinning with lust, “Yeah, I guess, I can.” The brunette’s smile was practically predatory once she heard your consent. She was finally able to set the plan she had been thinking of for the last hour and a half into motion.

“Since you’re new and all, I was hoping I could give you a better perspective on Guri. A chance to get a more…hands on experience.” As the words left Jihyo’s mouth, she released the hold she had at the front of her bikini top as she let it drop and slide off her arms.

Your eyes felt like you were going to bug out of your skull as you stared at the woman’s bare breasts. They were enormous and when she sat back on the lounge chair, they bounced slightly as they settled back into place after being jostled. You swallowed hard as all you could do was stare, “Shit, you’re beautiful.”

Jihyo giggled at the compliment as she reached down for the oil, holding up the bottle in front of you, “Care to help me, jagiya? I can’t do it properly myself.” There was a hint of a pout in her voice as you took it from her, you were very much in shock about everything that was happening as you uncapped the bottle and began drizzling the liquid onto the brunette’s chest. “That’s it, don’t be shy.”

You preened at the words that fell from the older woman’s lips as you watched the oil drip down the pillowy mountains of titty flesh. You reached a tentative hand up to rub the oil into her skin but stopped, unsure if this was what she really wanted you to do. Jihyo smirked as she grabbed your hand and placed it firmly on her breast, “Rub it in please.”

Your breath caught in your throat as you felt the pliant flesh beneath your hand. Rubbing the oil over the singer’s warm skin as you kneaded her breasts. Your movements became more bold as you chanced a pinch to her left nipple, eliciting a soft moan from your client as she pressed her chest closer to you. The tent at the front of your swim shorts was extremely obvious as the outline of your dick stood out proudly. You were painfully hard as you continued to spread the oil all over Jihyo’s chest while fondling her tits, ‘This can’t be fucking real. Whatever I did to deserve this, thank you Universe!’ You mused to yourself as you realized the brunette had been staring at you.

“Why don’t I get you now, yeah?” You quirked an eyebrow in confusion as you paused from rubbing the oil onto the older woman’s taught stomach.

“What do you mean?” Jihyo had a predatory gleam in her eyes as she urged you to stand, she followed suit as her breasts swayed with the movement.

“I think you could use some oil too. It would look just delectable on you.” Before you could speak, Jihyo poured a healthy amount into her hands and began rubbing it onto your abdomen and down your arms. The brunette bit her lip as she felt you up, her eyes drifting down to see a very obvious bulge. You followed her gaze as you suddenly felt self-conscious.

“I’m so sorry, I didn’t warn you. I have a…” But before you could continue Jihyo sank to her knees as she kissed the tip of your dick beneath the swim trunks.

“Don’t apologize for who you are. Ever.” The comment was incredibly endearing as your felt your heart grow light.

‘This woman really is amazing.’

It didn’t take long for Jihyo to bring you back to the present as she hooked her fingers into the shorts, “May I?”

It was now your turn to bite your lip as you nodded, “Please.”

In a slow and practiced motion, Jihyo began pulling down your swim trunks. She hit a snag around your erect cock before she was able to get the tight material around it and was shocked to see the sheer size of it in the open. The brunette made quick work of the shorts as you stepped out of them and kicked it away, leaving the singer to stare at your impressive length. You were both long and thick making you the perfect combination as your dick flexed up to your stomach.

“Wow, you’re the biggest I’ve ever seen.” Jihyo smiled as she reached a hand up to begin stroking your cock, “You just keep getting better and better.”

You wanted to respond but your mind was a bit more preoccupied with the sight of Park Jihyo on her knees as she stroked your dick. Opting for a nod and pleased hum.

The brunette leaned forward as she placed a kiss to your balls, moving up so she could lick a long line up the underside of your shaft to the dribbling head. The slightly salty taste of your precum coated her tongue as your hand found its way into her hair, tangling her locks in between your fingers. Jihyo took the tip of your cock into her mouth and she felt a spurt of cum as you groaned at the sudden heat around you, but before she could work down more of your impressive length she felt her head jerk forward as you pulled her closer to your groin.

More cock than she could handle was suddenly filling her mouth as the head of your length hit the back of throat and she gagged. And just as quickly as you had pushed her down on your cock, you pulled her off just as fast as apologies fell from your lips. “Oh shit, I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to be that rough with you, your mouth just feels really g….”

Before you could apologize further, Jihyo took you back into her mouth, but this time at her own pace. You moaned aloud as you felt her throat muscle contract as she took you all the way to the root, pulling back as she ran her tongue along the underside of your shaft. In an attempt to not choke the brunette a second time, you refrained from pulling at her hair as you carded your fingers through it instead. Thrusting forward every so often to chase the warmth that was being pulled off of you.

The head of your dick began leaking in a steady stream as you felt the coil in your abdomen tighten at how close you were to cumming. you let out a guttural moan, “Of fuck, Jihyo-ssi, I’m gonna cum.”

But just as the words left your mouth, the brunette completely pulled off of your length as a few ropes of cum shot out onto the singer’s face. You groaned as your balls clenched but you were left completely unsatisfied without any further stimulation, causing the tightening in your stomach to worsen. “Wh..what the h…hell?”

The ruined orgasm was borderline painful as your abdominal muscles grew taught but there was nothing else to combat the intense feeling. You groaned as you looked down to see your shaft even harder than before as it still rested stiffly against your stomach. But your heart seemed to stop at the view before you, Park Jihyo with lines of your cum on her face. She wore a very proud smirk as you panted, “I’m sorry, Y/N-ah, did that hurt?”

The brunette’s voice was full of false sympathy as she mocked you, which in turn pissed you off further. You growled lowly as you gripped her hair in your fist and pulled Jihyo to stand, still using her hair to guide the forceful movements as you brought her close to your face. “You must think you’re so clever. You’re gonna pay for that, sweetheart.”

Jihyo stared up to meet your eyes, accepting the challenge. “Oh, I’d love to see you try.” You pulled her into a rough kiss, void of the sweetness she had expected from you as teeth clashed and tongues wrestled for dominance. And Jihyo had to admit, she had never been more turned on in her life.

No matter what she threw at you, you gave it back to her ten fold, which was how she found herself hovering over your mouth. Her bikini bottoms completely soaked through, but you didn’t even bother to remove them as you pulled them to the side and licked a strip up the center of her pussy. Jihyo moaned at the feeling as she pressed lower trying to get more friction against her weeping folds.

You were arguably too horny to tease and you were quickly getting over your anger due to the ruined orgasm since the taste of the brunette on your tongue was just too enticing to abstain from. It had a sweet yet tangy flavor that you couldn’t get enough of as you ran the flat of your tongue almost to her clit, but stopped at the second, you weren’t letting her off the hook that easily.

But Jihyo was quick with her wits as she bucked forward trying to feel more of your tongue, “How about I give you a true taste of Guri?”

You laughed slightly, “Are you always this cheesy when you’re having sex or is this just for my benefit?” You didn’t give her a chance to respond as your tongue teased at her entrance, taking in more of her leaking arousal. But before you could dive deeper into the singer’s depths you pulled away to place a kiss to her inner thigh, “But, ever since I’ve gotten here, I feel like I’m living in a poorly written porn script.”

To her benefit, Jihyo had the humility to laugh as a genuine smile broke out onto her lips. “Well I’m disappointed that my seduction came off as poorly written porn. Was it really that bad?”

“To be fair, when you wanted me to touch your boobs you phrased it as a ‘hands on experience’.” You chuckled as you craned your neck to suck on her clit briefly, “I’ll give you the benefit of a doubt that it came off as cheesy rather than poorly written porn.”

Jihyo hummed as she lost focus on the conversation as she relished in the feeling of her clit getting the attention it so desperately craved, “I can accept that. But can we save the pillow talk for after, I think there are more pressing matters at the moment.”

You chuckled as you kissed her clit, “I agree. Why don’t you ride me, jagi, I want to see those beautiful tits bounce for me. Least you could do since you spilled oil all over me.”

The brunette smirked as she wiggled her way out of her bikini bottoms so that the two were completely naked, “I can definitely get on top of that idea and get on top of you as well.”

You both laughed out loud but your laughing ceased as Jihyo sank down on your cock. The feeling of being stretched open made the singer moan loudly as the rippling heat around your dick made you groan as one of your hands shot to hold onto Jihyo’s hip, guiding her down till you bottomed out inside of her. She breathed through her nose as she felt her inner walls adjust to the stretch, it had been awhile since she had been with anyone and her fingers were never this thick or this deep inside of her.

The brunette let out a breath she didn’t know she’d been holding as she slowly began to rise up from atop of your cock till only the tip remained inside of her then dropped down. Eliciting a moan from both of you as pleasure crawled up your spines. Jihyo bounced on your lap as your dick had enough curve to it to rub against the spot inside of her that made her see stars when she pulled out at just the right angle. Your eyes were transfixed on her wobbling tits as an unashamed look of lust adorned your face.

You even reached the hand that hadn’t found purchase on the brunette’s hip to continue squeezing and teasing her breasts. “Shit, just like that, good girl. You’re taking me so well.”

Jihyo’s breathing came out in clipped pants as she moved faster, the sound of her skin slapping against your’s made her blush as loud moans fell from her mouth. “God, only for you. You're filling me up so much.”

The singer sounded breathless as she began adding in the occasional rock of her hips to elicit more pleasure against her clit. You groaned beneath her as the hot and tight walls of Jihyo’s pussy gripped your shaft firmly, massaging it in a way that sent your head spinning. Everything felt amazing and the fact that you were even more pent up from the very unsatisfying release from before didn’t help. You felt dangerously close to the edge as you began thrusting up to meet Jihyo’s hips.

“Fucking shit, I’m so close, I’m gonna cum!” Your voice was strained as the idol’s inner walls tightened even more around you. There was only so much more of this that you could take before you were at the end of your wits.

“Cum inside, I’m on the pill. I’m almost there!” Jihyo’s voice raised an octave as her thrusts became a blur of short up and down movements. Not wanting to part from you for long as she reached a hand down to rub at her clit.

The sight of the woman atop you: riding you, touching herself, and her gigantic tits bouncing was enough to send you careening over the edge as you choked on a moan before feeling your abdomen contract and your balls tighten. Ropes of your cum shot deep inside of Jihyo as the feeling triggered the singer’s orgasm in turn and caused her walls to clench rhythmically around your cock.

Jihyo finally let out the scream she had been suppressing as she tilted her head back up to the sky as she came. Her release squirted out onto you ever so slightly as she felt your hot load in her womb. She sighed as her walls gave one final squeeze to your shaft after she had milked you for all you were worth. Jihyo looked down to see that your eyes had closed and a blissful smile graced your lips. She could tell you were awake, but barely.

That’s when her exhaustion seemed to hit her as well, she didn’t bother moving too much as she leaned forward to rest her body atop of yours. She could feel your dick softening a little inside of her as she placed lazy kisses on your neck, “That was amazing.”

You had started tracing random patterns on her naked back that she found oddly soothing, “I think amazing might be an understatement.”

Finally, you two broke the scene that the two of you had built as you wrapped your arms around your girlfriend. Placing a kiss to the crown of her head, “Thank you for doing this with me. I know a scene like this was a little weird.”

Jihyo grinned as she cuddled closer to you, “I’m glad you enjoyed yourself, jagiya. I haven’t cum that hard in a long time”

You laughed slightly before a yawn cut you off, “Tell me about it. You even squirted!” The idol could practically feel the smug smile on your face as she rolled her eyes.

“Don’t get too full of yourself, Y/N-ah.” Jihyo yawned as she felt her eyes start to droop, “I’m gonna nap for a little, the whole thing really tired me out. I love you, jagi.”

You smiled as you pulled your girlfriend as close to you as humanly possible, “I love you too, Jihyo-ah.”

#twice #fortwice #twice imagines #twice prompts #twice smut #twice fluff #park jihyo #twice jihyo #park jihyo x g!p fem reader #g!p reader #twice x fem reader #twice x reader #twiceinadream

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andiatas · 3 months ago

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The Royal Palace has announced that members of the Norwegian Royal Family don't want to be photographed by Hello or Netflix at Märtha Louise's wedding since the access for other media companies have been restricted.

- We are aware that exclusive rights have been granted to two media for the coverage of the wedding of Princess Märtha Louise and Durek Verrett, writes communications manager Guri Varpe in an email to NRK

- The members of the Royal Household have reserved themselves from being photographed and filmed by these two media, in cases where the press otherwise does not have access.

#norwegian royal family #royal wedding #princess märtha louise #shaman durek #royal reporting #nrk #240821

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calliopieces · 5 months ago

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headcanon: Kiyi and Tom-Tom help Maiko get back together after Smoke and Shadow

(this post doubles as sort of a director's commentary on my latest fic that literally no one asked for, but I thought it would be fun to do! LOL)

So we all know that Mai and Zuko broke up in the comics... but their last panel together in Smoke and Shadow Part 3 is them holding their younger siblings, which we can argue leaves things on a pretty hopeful note

(and if we REALLY want to push the Maiko agenda, dare I say it's a foreshadowing of some sorts?)

Additionally, at Emerald City Comic Con 2017 (timestamp 17:52), Gene Luen Yang implied that the breakup is only temporary.

Anyway, shipping aside, I love this part in Smoke and Shadow where Zuko worries about Tom-Tom losing his innocence after getting kidnapped by the 'Kemurikage'. We also find out that him and Mai babysat Tom-Tom on one of their picnic dates.

Going off of this, I have a headcanon that the abducted kids would occasionally gather at the palace after the Kemurikage incident to essentially have group therapy sessions (an initiative by the Fire Lord, because he's worried that the kids might be traumatized). This is how Tom-Tom and Kiyi became friends.

One day, they heard that Mai and Zuko are 'boyfriend-girlfriend'. Here's how it went down on my fic:

“You know, I heard from Dad who heard from other guards who heard from the kitchen ladies that the Fire Lord and Tom-Tom’s sis are boyfriend-girlfriend.” Hearing Guri, Constable Sung’s son, join in on the conversation made Tom-Tom hyper-aware that he probably shouldn’t say anything bad about Zuko, especially now after knowing that he’s the Fire Lord.

Between the events of the ATLA finale and The Promise Part 2 (which is where Mai breaks up with Zuko in the throne room), I think it's safe to say that Mai would be at the palace for a considerable amount of time. I think it would be funny if the news of their breakup didn't reach ALL of the palace employees---so Kiyi and Tom-Tom took it upon themselves to have their siblings spend more time together.

Another thing I had so much fun writing is this interaction between Mai and Kiyi:

“We already met before. That night in the graveyard,” Mai stated matter-of-factly, causing Kiyi to whip her head up with stuffed cheeks, noodle broth dribbling down her chin. She felt her previously strained smile give way to something more genuine, imagining her younger self. Instead of scolding her for poor table manners like what her own mother would have done, Mai took out a handkerchief. And, driven by instinct, she wiped the girl’s face—the movements gentle and unhurried.

Meanwhile, here's my favorite exchange between Zuko and Tom-Tom:

“Do you like my sister, Mister Fire Lord?” The question took him by great surprise, the fact that Tom-Tom still refused to drop his title never even registered. But despite the unprompted nature of the question, it was one that he could give an answer to at any time of day—and at any stage of his life. “I like your sister very much,” he declared, staring straight into Tom-Tom’s eyes. It was a truth that he has stood by since he was twelve, deeply rooted in the fiber of his being. It was an innate warmth that he believed he would carry forever—one that beats in tandem with his inner fire.

Near the end of the fic, Mai and Zuko also have a conversation about Azula, and how their messed-up nation didn't give her a normal childhood, while Kiyi and Tom-Tom happily chase glow moths in the background:

“Do you ever look at Kiyi and wonder whether Azula would have been as happy if this country wasn't so messed up?” Mai asked, her gaze curious. “Every day,” he replied, and generations of siblings being pitted against each other flashed through his mind. “That's why I'm doing my best to give her a normal childhood—with a country that hopefully isn't as messed up.” “I’m glad that kids today can at least have that much.” She looked at Kiyi and Tom-Tom who were laughing as they continued to chase glow moths, then turned to Zuko with a smirk. “Era of love and peace and all.”

If you've read my rambling all the way to the end, thank you! Here's the link to the fic if you wanna read (please give it some love)

#atla headcanons #maiko fanfiction #atla maiko #txt post #maiko thinkpieces #zuko x mai #pro maiko

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dojae-huh · 4 months ago

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I found time (=I'm waiting for my stomack to stop hurting, I can't work anyway, heh), so I will answer the question about DoJae being alike.

Similar:

Love for music and singing.

Interest in song-writing, composing. Interest in acting (musicals including for Jae, he auditioned).

Competitiveness. Ability to work hard and push oneself (survive on little sleep, do several projects at once).

Introverts. Shy. Insecurities about looks, awkwardness.

Smart. Good with science. Explore things that interest them, go into research.

Both can cook. Both have loving and caring families, parents are not divorced.

Both have analytical minds, can be reasoned with. Both can be emotional. Both are kind, but can be cold to others.

Have small circle of friends. Very loyal to their friends.

Like to spoil their lovers, take care.

Little care for authority, they need to agree with someone/something (rules) to follow/do as told.

Both want attention and praise.

Aquariuses (=weird). Have cold/bitch resting faces.

Judgemental. Doyoung much more, but Jae has it in him.

Like to laugh loudly. Have hard time supressing their strong emotions.

Stubborn. Won't change their opinion about something that's important to them. Like to argue.

Play piano. (Doyoung not as well, but the interest to improve is there).

Like outdoors, but not big enthusiasts. Doyoung say he is a bed fairy, but plans to go skydiving or snorkling with 127/his brother, can catch a lobster after diving after it, goes hiking when in Guri. Jaehyun talks about liking being active a lot, but it's Yuta who knows every mountain around Seoul, not Jae.

Overachievers.

Like to tease and be smartasses. Curious.

Both like exploring cities, sightseeing.

Like comfotable clothes and things. Soft, mush, classic. Soft toys for Do, vinyls for Jae. Mood lights and simple plants for both. Have little interest in fashion (only as far as it's needed for the job).

Both have a lot of patience. Resistant. Mentally strong.

DoJae are in the same field of work, they have the same interests and aspirations, they do the same things, have the same values and similar abilities. They move in the same direction at the same speed, one doesn't overrun the other.

Different:

Jaehyun is more of a physical type. He likes exercising, dancing, trying different sports. He is clumsy and doesn't have very good coordination (paintball game, how he often fails to score in soccer), but he doesn't get exhausted quickly. Doyoung doesn't like physical activities without a reason. He has good muscle memory and balance though (the way he memorises choreos and can recognise them by one pose; he is good at aiming with a gun).

Jaehyun is evidently an audial. He likes music more than Doyoung (Do likes singing, telling a story, conveyed messages in lyrics). I think the reason Do needs silence at home is because he gets overwhelmed by social activity and managing everyone during the day. He mentioned he likes to put relaxing music as background as well. So slence is not a rule.

Doyoung is better at soft skills, socialising. They are both liked by people they meet, but Do can be proactive, break the ice. He is more ready to spend energy on communication. Do is empathic, Jaehyun is not.

Doyoung worries more, he is more reactive. Jaehyun can be volatile, but generally he is calmer, reacts slowly.

Doyoung needs to control his enviroment and others. Jaehyun doesn't, he likes to go into his inner bubble.

There are some other differences, but the three major ones are "reactive-slow to respond", "social-antisocial", "attuned to the surroundings/lost in the inner world".

The important thing is these differences are complimentary. Jae and Do balance out each other's flaws.

In addition, these differences are not on extreme ends of the spectrum (to be opposites, to clash). Jaehyun is not a complete recluse, he can socialise and he likes team sports. Doyoung is not an emotional mess or a diva, he has the analytical/cold-blooded half in him, he just needs to switch into that mode. Do is not an extravert, he likes spending one-on-one time, he doesn't need raves. Do can go and watch sport games, he can show interest in arts and visit a museum. Jae can work fast and think fast, he can take care of others and be attentive to Do's needs and support him. Etc.

#anatomy of jaedo

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r3d-m3dic · 7 months ago

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my other scp oc (: Her name is dreamkiller, she's controlled by the mask. Her controller is named NifulKiller, and is the Evil God of Chaos. The mask makes D.K. follow Niful, and want to go along with her plans. DreamKiller is my very first SCP OC, and she has a lot of lore. She originally came from an SCP fan fiction started by my ex in 6th grade. He shifted the writing over to me, and it made her! She's basically a demigod, but only with the mask. Without the mask not only would she be free, but her powers would be stripped. She doesn't exactly exist in the SCP universe, as she's traveling across the multiverse with a total of 300 confirmed destroyed universes. With some help of Niful or Zickery of course. The only reason she doesn't go back to her home universe is because of Drew, an agent of chaos and also SCP scientist. An agent is basically someone chosen by a god/touched some magic rock thats now part of them 👍. DreamKiller has a husband named Тень, who has the same goal of destroying the universe and bringing humanity to its knees. She also has a daughter who is against these goals, but doesn't hate either of her parents. DreamKiller came to the foundation when she was 3, and eventually thrown into a thing called the S.O.C.U (it's being revamped currently, as it doesn't make much sense). It means simulated outside containment unit. Basically it's a large containment unit in Site-[Redacted] that simulates the outdoors. It holds large creatures, like Titanismelosis, and Titanisherangis. Those are also being revamped currently 👍. When she was in the S.O.C.U. she didn't look like this, she was blonde with little yellow wings and small ears and tail. She had to hunt little amphibians in there to live, and make many tunnels and treehouses. She managed to escape due to a group of people breaking into the now abandoned site. She finds the mask in a different containment unit, and puts it on, and is now under control of Niful.

Now, about Drew. Drew is 200 years old, born in 1824. She has a 19 year old son whos an MTF soldier and besties with Draven Kondraki. She has a sister named Guri. And guess what, Drew is part of the Bright family. Guri is Bright's father's mom. So Drew would be his grandma. Drew touched a black rock when she was 14, and got destruction powers. Her sister touched a green rock, and got healing powers. Her sister was 9 at the time. They have a 5 year age gap. Drew's parents were killed by a Titanismelosis when Drew was 9. Drew had a wife named Alisha, they met when they were about 13. They married at 18. Drew and Alisha began working at the SCP foundation at age 18 aswell. The reason they got in was because of an 05 at the time named Itri. Drew caught Alisha cheating on her when she was 36. Alisha was cheating on Drew with Itri. They threw Drew in the S.O.C.U. However, Drew has a lot of fucking PhDs in a lot of different shit, incredibly intelligent woman, and very crafty. So, after 5 years she built something to break her out into a hallway. She had decided to destroy the site, and let out all the SCPs in that hallway before getting into a physical fight with Alisha who had came to stop her. However, Alisha is nearly mauled to death by 682. Drew runs, and gets gasoline, along with matches. After coating the place in gas, she makes a trail outside so she could safely light it. However, she is intercepted when Alisha and Itri come out the building. Itri is holding Guri, and a gun to Guri's head. Alisha says that if Drew lights the gas, Guri dies. Alisha also says that her chains will do nothing, and are not fast enough. (drew has large chain whips. Very dangerous.) Drew nods, before pulling out a pistol and shooting Itri in the face. She throws a chain out, grabbing Guri and dragging her towards her, before lighting the match. Drew tells Guri to run as Alisha runs at Drew. They fight, Drew beats her, and knocks her out. Drew goes to Itri, to burn the body before noticing something odd. Itri is also an Agent. An Agent of fire. Drew retrieves the gem from Itri's hand, and it goes into her own, giving her fire abilities. Drew is now an Agent of Destruction and Fire. Drew grabs Alisha's knocked out body, and brings her back to her lab. Drew straps Alisha to table, and wakes her. Drew tortures Alisha before shooting her in the stomach. However, it also grazes the metal holding Alisha's wrist down, so Alisha grabs the gun and shoots Drew in the head. They both die. Now, Drew became immortal back when she was 14 and touched the rock (if you remember that), however, when Drew grabbed the fire rock from itri it cancled out the immortality for about an hour since the fire rock obviously doesn't give you immortality (since itri died.) Drew goes straight to hell (she's insane and experimented on D-class for fun. She said it was to further scp research. She wasn't questioned.) She tricked satan into sending her back, and was a little less insane and immortal again, now with demon form.

Drew finds most sites had been burned down in the time she had been dead. It was DreamKiller. DreamKiller did it. Drew helps rebuild, and watches over a temporary site holding every SCP whilst the others get rebuilt. DreamKiller shows up and Drew beats the fuck out her. DreamKiller leaves. Drew researches DreamKiller and finds out to defeat and what's her goal. Next time DreamKiller comes back, Drew mentions that she knows, so DreamKiller leaves and never goes back to the SCP universe that Drew is in. Drew makes peace with the most of the humanoid SCPs like 049. (drew was originally shit to the SCPs.) Drew tries to become better. A random ass person from a different universe, Lex Zaran! Drew assembles a team that consists of Bright, Clef, Kondraki, Gears, Iceberg, and Glass (to calm Lex. Because none of them know how to deal with human emotion.) Oh, it also has a couple of my OCs, Jamie (A GOC operative), Daniel (Los Vaqueros. Name taken from COD lmfao. It's a small cowboy organization that deals with anomalies in the desert), Bug, and Arachnid! Bug and Arachnid are SCPs that Drew was hiding from the foundation because she didn't want them found. They are intelligent, one is a tv head and the other a radio head that can hack into any radio she wants. They figure out how to get the guy back, and in the process drew upgrades her outfit. The sleeves, elbow down, are mechanical. They can shoot chains (rather then handheld chain whips), and can make a whole ass multiverse portal by having a sharp object come out the end that can literally cut open the fabric of the universe. They send Lex home, and begin their journey to find D.K. and Niful!

did i forget about Zickery? Yes i did. He's a little shapeshifter snake eating fella 👽

that's it.

anyways

SOOOOO our heroes (lmao) begin using Drew's Multiverse Person Finder Database Thingy™ to track down D.K. and Niful! They find D.K., and add more people, the entirety of Los Vaqueros, Francis Cooke, and Tobias Barlow! Wait.. Francis and Tobias? Pacific drive? PACIFIC DRIVE SCP COMBINED UNIVERSE BITCH! FUCK YEAH. they're not fighting, they r old at this point. Also yes tobias is alive :D

They r helping with research and science :)

Anyways they find the place, get there, beat the fuck out of D.K., who summons.. Alisha, the Agent of Chaos.. Wait wait wait. Alisha was killed? Nope. She's an agent of chaos, aka agent of.. Drumroll please...

NIFUL. SHE'S THE AGENT OF FUCKING NIFULKILLER. IT ALWAYS TIES BACK TO THIS BITCH.

anyways, drew discovers she's immortal, and gets out a device to take the rock out of her hand. She puts the rock in her own hand. Now Drew is an Agent of Destruction, Fire, and Chaos. Also she kills alisha because without the rock she's no longer imortal. Drew is collecting this shit like infinity stones.

They get the mask of D.K. They break it. Niful feels this.

Boss music intensifies. Niful comes out. They fight. Blah blah blah. Niful decapitates Bug, arachnid goes angry sibling and also almost dies. Drew stops this. Niful floats up, bringing up a whole chunk of land underneath her to throw at Drew like thanos throws a moon at tony stark. Drew launches both chains from her wrist canons at the giant chunk, latches onto both sides, spins it around before breaking it inhalf. She moves one chain to hook Niful like a fish hooked on a fish hook, slams her into the ground, and kills her.

Everyone goes back to Drew's workshop. Drew has Bug's TV head, hotwires it, plugs it in, and Bug turns on.

You just read 300 years of events in one tumblr post. Thanks for reading this bullshit. :D

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chanoyu-to-wa · 5 months ago

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The Chanoyu Hyaku-shu [茶湯百首], Part II: Poem 40.

〽 Ro no uchi ha sumitori fukube e-no-hibashi tōki-kōgō neri-kō to shire

[爐の內は炭斗フクベ柄の火箸陶器香合練り香と知れ].

“During the season of the ro [you should use], as [your] sumitori, a fukube; hibashi with [wooden] handles; [and] a ceramic kōgō [containing] neri-kō [練り香]: [you should] understand this [is what should be done].”

It is probably best to understand ro no uchi [爐の內] as meaning “during the season of the ro¹.”

Sumi-tori fukube [炭斗フクベ]: as I mentioned in the commentary on the previous poem, Jōō seems to have decided to use the ro -- and this was an immensely radical act of saku-i [作意]² at that time -- in response to the conundrum of how to possibly make use of the kiri-gama [桐釜]³ that, because it had been broken and repaired, could not be used the way any other kama had ever been used up to that time⁴. So, the kama was suspended over the fire in the ro on a chain.

The original fukube-sumitori seems to have been the kind known as a te-fukube [手フクベ = 手瓢] (shown on the left). The handle prevented the hibashi from falling off when the sumitori was carried into the room⁵.

Later, when Jōō started using a ha-gama [羽釜] (a kama with a projecting flange, allowing it to rest on the ro-dan, making it unnecessary to suspend it on a chain), he used the kan to stabilize the hibashi (as had always been done when the kama was resting on a furo), so the handle on the sumitori was no longer needed. Therefore he cut the handle off, resulting in the kind of fukube-sumitori seen on the right.

Irrespective of whether the fukube had a handle or not, Jōō’s rule was that the fukube-sumitori should only be used with the ro⁶.

E-no-hibashi [柄の火箸] means hibashi (the iron chopsticks used to handle the burning charcoal) with wooden handles.

The handles, made of mulberry wood (kuwa [桑]), are necessary because the host must potentially keep his hand in the ro for a considerable period of time (while he rearranges the burning charcoal, prior to adding new pieces), and the mulberry wood provides insulation against the heat (which rapidly rises through the iron).

Tōki-no-kōgō [陶器香合]: tōki means pottery, earthenware, ceramic. In other words, a small container made of fired (and usually glazed) clay.

As we will see (when we consider the earliest version of this poem), originally such ceramic pieces were not used as kōgō (because the crushed wood incense that was used in the beginning did not require anything of that sort, and Jōō preferred to eschew the superfluous). These small ceramic containers were originally employed as taki-gara-ire [炷殻入] (containers into which the burned-out pieces of kyara were discarded, during the appreciation of incense)⁷. Usually these taki-gara-ire were paired with a lacquered kōgō as a sort of informal set; and since the incense in chanoyu is burned in the furo or ro, the taki-gara-ire (in its original function) became useless. So, after Jōō began to burn neri-kō in the ro, he reclaimed the taki-gara-ire for use as the container for this variety of incense -- since neri-kō is sticky⁸, and could potentially damage lacquerware kōgō. The taki-gara-ire / tōki-kōgō shown above was owned by Rikyū, who referred to it as the ruri-suzume [瑠璃雀] (the name means a lapis lazuli sparrow; this taki-gara-ire had originally been paired with a red lacquered guri-guri kōgō [グリグリ香合]⁹ that has convolvulus vines carved into the surface, which Rikyū used as his kōgō when serving tea with the furo).

Neri-kō [練り香], as mentioned above, is a kind of incense that had been used to perfume the air of a nobleman’s private living rooms (shoin [書院]) since even before the Heian period. A shoin of this sort was generally a 4.5-mat room; and in this room there was usually a built-in writing desk (dashi fu-zukue [出文机]) and set of shelves (chigai-dana [違棚] -- built-in shelves for books and documents, but also used for the display of art-objects), with the rest of the room itself being otherwise uncluttered (since the resident’s bedding was spread out there at night for sleep, while during the daytime he might receive special guests there for private intercourse).

The air of this private living room was perfumed with the resident’s personal blend of incense (which was also made to infiltrate his clothing by draping them over a censer for several hours each time they were cleaned). It was because of Jōō’s establishment of the san-tan san-ro [三炭三露]¹⁰, where the tea room was now to be thought of as a sort of hermitage in which the host was cultivating his samādhi, that the idea of using neri-kō occurred to him¹¹. Since the tea room was now (at least in theory) the host’s residence, the use of neri-kō to perfume the air was thenceforth appropriate.

As a cautionary aside, neri-kō must never be burned (indeed, it gives off billows of highly noxious smoke if it does begin to do so). It should be placed far enough away from the fire so that it will only be warmed, which releases the fragrance slowly. The Genji monogatari [源氏物語] mocks those inexperienced attendants who accidentally heated this kind of incense too intensely, so that the censer began to smolder (“like an erupting Mount Fuji”).

As alluded to above, the older version of this poem harps back to the period before the institution of the san-tan san-ro, to the time when Jōō first began to use the ro.

〽 fuyu-nado ha sumi mo fukube ni e-no-hibashi kiji-kōgō ni takimono to kiku

[冬などは炭もふくべに柄の火箸木地香合に薫物と聞く].

“At such times as in the winter, the charcoal should also be [carried] in a fukube; the hibashi [should] have [wooden] handles; and, in an unlacquered kōgō, the takimono [should be placed] -- this is [what I] have heard.”

Kiji-kōgō [木地香合] refers to a simple kind of incense container that was frequently placed on the family’s altar¹². It was intended to be functional, rather than an object of appreciation.

This kind of kōgō was traditionally made of wood -- either something like ebony (which is impervious to aromatics) or some other wood lightly rubbed with lacquer (to render it so)¹³ -- it was used as a container for crushed incense wood.

When Jōō first began to use the ro, there were (of course) no precedents to which he could turn for guidance (the idea for the ro came from the sunken hearth in the farmhouse common room, where pieces of meat or vegetables were grilled over an open charcoal fire at mealtimes, to be eaten along with the barley gruel and miso soup). So he continued to use the same sort of incense that had been used with the furo -- crushed incense wood (usually jin-kō [沈香] or byakudan [白檀], or some combination of the two), a large pinch of which was traditionally drizzled along the length of the dō-zumi [胴炭] -- the largest piece of charcoal, laid horizontally (usually in order to prevent an excess of heat from blasting out in that direction¹⁴), against which the other pieces were inclined -- so that a gentle fragrance would be released slowly, as the dō-zumi slowly caught fire and burned from the center toward the ends.

After the articulation of the san-tan san-ro, Jōō‘s idea about the most appropriate kind of incense for use with the ro changed, so it seems reasonable that he¹⁵ rewrote the poem to reflect this change.

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¹More literally, however, ro no uchi [爐の內] means “within the ro,” “inside the ro” -- referring to the utensils that are used when serving tea with the ro (even though some of them, like the kōgō, never actually enter into the ro itself).

²Saku-i [作意] means intention or creativity, and by extension, the creative process itself. The idea to cut a ro in the floor in order to allow this repaired kama to be used for chanoyu was a shockingly revolutionary idea -- showing that Jōō was completely worthy of the high regard in which he was held by his contemporaries. This act literally took chanoyu to a place it had never gone before.

³The kiri-gama [桐釜]*, as explained in the previous post, had been made for use on the o-chanoyu-dana [御茶湯棚] that was attached to the Imperial sitting room, and so used when serving tea to the Emperor and his consorts. This was why Jōō held it in such high regard. But because serving tea from the o-chanoyu-dana had largely fallen out of favor by the end of the fifteenth century, in deference to tea served using a daisu that had been set up in one corner of the sitting room itself, the larger-sized utensils that had been made for the o-chanoyu-dana were frequently neglected (in the case of kama and mizusashi, simply left as they were with water inside), resulting in their rapid deterioration.

As the bottom and lower part of the sides below the kan-tsuki had rusted, a new bottom (which would make the kama usable) had to be attached at the kan-tsuki (which would have destroyed the Imperial kiri-mon [桐文]) if done in the usual way. Therefore Jōō decided to leave the original sides intact, only breaking away the diseased iron from their lower edges, with the new bottom attached to the interior of the kama.

While the result was a completely serviceable kama, it was not one that could ever be heated over a furo in the usual way. In response to this issue, Jōō came up with the idea of cutting an irori in the floor, and heating the kama there†. This was a major departure from the daisu, and changed the way chanoyu was approached for ever after. ___________ *During Rikyū’s final years, when he had the opportunity to use it during his own chakai, this kama was usually referred to as the ko-kiri-gama [小桐釜], which has lead many to become confused about its actual size. The diameter of the kama is 6-sun 8-bu, meaning it was made to be used on a large kimen-buro (鬼面風爐).

The designation ko-kiri-gama, “small kiri-gama,” refers not to the absolute size of the kama (which is far from “small,” since it was made to be used on the largest size of kimen-buro), but to its size relative to the much larger ro-gama that had come to be preferred in the years since Jōō first began to use the irori in his 4.5-mat room.

By comparison, Jōō‘s ko-arare-gama [小霰釜] is simply massive (here ko [小], which means “small,” is referring to the size of the hailstone pattern, not to the size of the kama itself). The ko-kiri-gama, on account of the replaced bottom, holds about 5 mizuya-bishaku of water, while the ko-arare-gama holds 15 mizuya-bishaku.

†Because this kama had been made for the largest kind of furo, it would have been impossible to do something like suspend the kama over such a furo on a chain -- since any movement in the kama might cause it to knock against the rim of the furo, either damaging the furo, or causing more of the rusted portion of the sides to break off, either of which would have been reprehensible.

The irori that Jōō created for this kama measured 1-shaku 8-sun square, but that does not mean that the mud-plastered box in which the fire was contained was commensurately large. Rather, Jōō made the space between the ro-buchi and the edge of the ro-dan several sun wide, so that there was room for the shaku-tate and futaoki to be stood on the ro-dan, allowing the kama to be used in the same way as when the kama was resting on a furo that was placed on the daisu. Jōō‘s idea can only be understood when we consider that chanoyu, up to that point, had only been performed with the daisu (or the naga-ita [長板], which imitated the ji-ita of the daisu), so, lacking any other precedent, Jōō projected the original way of doing things onto this new setting (rather than devise a completely new approach to the mechanics of the temae).

⁴Up to that point in time, the kama was always rested directly on the furo -- either because the bottom of the kama had been stepped so that the rounded bottom would fit inside the mouth of the furo, or because the kama had a projecting flange that extended outward from the side, with the flange resting on the rim of the furo. There was no other way that this had ever been done theretofore.

⁵At the beginning of the gathering, the hibashi were laid across the rim of the fukube in the same way as the chashaku is laid across the rim of a chawan -- though, since (unlike a chashaku) the hibashi are round, something was necessary to keep them from rolling off when the sumitori was carried into the room.

When the furo was being used, the kan were rested on top of the hibashi for this purpose (as can be seen in the above photo). But when Jōō first started to use the ro, he did this in order to use the kiri-gama, which he suspended from the ceiling on a chain. Since the kan were needed to connect the kama to the tsuru [弦], they were no longer available for the purpose of keeping the hibashi from falling off the sumitori, so some other mechanism was needed.

⁶Dried mature fukube, which had been used as storage containers since prehistoric times, are usually a little over 1-shaku in diameter. The reason why this kind of sumitori was preferred for use with the ro was because of its size -- a gourd-container of this size would hold enough pieces of charcoal for the entire day’s chanoyu when practicing san-tan san-ro.

⁷When the focus of the gathering was the appreciation of incense, this meant that several to many varieties of kyara [伽羅] will be burned -- making some sort of receptacle for the used pieces of kyara necessary*.

Most of these small ceramic containers were imported from the continent, where they had been made for use as containers for the red seal ink with which people of all classes affixed their names to documents. ___________ *The rule for the most basic kind of kō-kai [香會], in the spirit of wabi, instructed the host to prepare a minimum of two varieties of kyara. In addition up to two additional samples could be submitted by each of the guests (though they were not required to do so, and most did not). Thus some sort of receptacle was necessary to receive the burned-out pieces of kyara (along with the mica squares to which they usually fuse as the resin melts during the heating process), so as to make way for the next variety to be placed in the censer.

⁸The six traditional varieties of neri-kō were:

◦ Baika [梅花], used during the first and second lunar months;

◦ Kayō [荷葉], used from the third month to the beginning of the rainy season in the fifth;

◦ Jijū [侍従], used from the fifth to the middle of the eighth months;

◦ Kikka [菊花], used during the eighth and early ninth months;

◦ Ochiba [落葉], used from the mid-ninth month to the beginning of winter in the eleventh month;

◦ Kurobō [黒方], for use during the intense cold of the late eleventh and twelfth months.

(Today, however, the appropriate times for several of the classical varieties seem to have changed.)

The basic formulae for the different varieties, which were introduced from Korea in the eighth century, are given in the following chart*. (I converted the traditional ryō [兩], bu [分], shu [朱] weights† into grams, in the interests of making the chart more relatable to the modern reader).

Note that the formulae for Kikka and Ochiba are identical, according to this chart. This is not a mistake. What gave several of these traditional blends their special character was that some specific sort of vegetable matter was added to the basic formulae to create a seasonal aroma -- for example, a paste made from the flesh of plum seeds saved from the previous year was added to Baika, mashed lotus seeds and dried lotus-leaf powder to Kayō, and powdered dried chrysanthemum leaves to the Kikka blend. The amounts of these additives, along with the amount of honey that was added, revealed the skill of the perfumist. Since early in the 20th century, powdered charcoal has also come to be added (indeed, this constitutes the major ingredient today); but in pre-modern times charcoal was not used, only the ingredients listed above.

After pounding the ingredients together in an iron mortar with an iron pestle to reduce them into a fine powder (that has no larger fragments), honey was slowly mixed in to produce a dough-like consistency, and this was then rolled into balls. The balls were sealed into pottery jars (which were not glazed on the inside -- much as were the jars used to store tea leaves), and then buried in the ground in the upper bank of a small stream (far enough away so that the jar would not be infiltrated by water) to ferment for several months before use. ___________ *The ingredients listed in the chart are as follows:

- jin-kō [沈香], aloes wood;

- sentō [詹糖], spicebush;

- kō-kō [甲香], the dried operculum of the Rapa whelk (Rapana venosa);

- kanshō [甘松], spikenard;

- byakudan [白檀], sandalwood;

- chōji [丁子], cloves;

- jakō [麝香], deer musk;

- kunriku [熏陸], frankincense;

- ukon [鬱金], tumeric;

- gaku-kō [藿香], hyssop;

- ansoku [安息], gum benzoin.

Note that these are the classical names. Several of these substances are called by other (and various) names today.

†One ryō [兩], which is (the Japanese version of) the tael, weighed approximately 42 grams (though this value changed over the centuries, since this was the unit used to define the weights of the gold and silver coins issued by the government: most sources quote between 41 and 43 g for one ryō, though some go as low as 15 to 19 g). In this system, irrespective of the actual weight of one ryō, 4 bu [分] equaled 1 ryō; and 4 shu [朱] was equivalent to 1 bu.

⁹Guri-guri lacquer is a technique where many layers of lacquer (often alternating between red and black) are painted onto a wooden object. When the lacquer is dry, a burin is used to carve a design into the lacquer, revealing the alternating colors to enhance the effect.

The final coat of lacquer might be either black or red. In the case of Rikyū’s guri-guri kōgō, shown above, the final coat was red.

This set of kōgō and taki-gara-ire that were owned by Rikyū reveals the logic with which the pair was assembled: ��the kōgō features a stylized carving of convolvulus, while the taki-gara-ire is shaped like a sparrow, both natural things from the garden. These two objects were paired together by one of the great dōbō [同朋], and were originally part of the Higashiyama collection belonging to Ashikaga Yoshimasa.

¹⁰Jōō instituted the practice called san-tan san-ro [三炭三露], an approach to chanoyu as a way to cultivate samādhi. San-tan [三炭] means three [layings of] charcoal; and san-ro [三露] means three dewings [of the roji].

At dawn, the host cleans the tea room, transfers the embers from yesterday’s fire back into the ro, arranges a complete set of charcoal over the bed of embers, and then goes to the well to draw water for the day’s chanoyu. After he returns, he washes and fills the kama, and places it in the ro. Then he goes out to sweep the roji, after which he sprinkles it with water.

This was to be done every day whether or not a guest had been invited*.

At noon, the host would rebuild the fire in the ro with more charcoal, and add water to the kama, to replace what had been lost to evaporation, and return the kama to the ro. Then he would go out and sweep the garden again, before sprinkling it with water -- even if nobody had been invited for chanoyu.

At dusk, the host would empty the ro, clean its interior, and then return several burning pieces of charcoal, around which he would arrange a full set of charcoal. Then, taking the kama to the mizuya, he would empty it, and clean it, and then refill it with fresh water that had been saved since dawn in the large storage jar that was kept there. The kama would be taken back to the tea room, and lowered into the ro. Then, in the twilight, the host would once again sweep the roji, and sprinkle water.

Around 10:00 PM, the host would remove the kama to the mizuya, empty and clean the ro, and take the embers to the gan-ro [丸爐] in the mizuya. In the gan-ro, the fire would be banked to last the night, the kama would be cleaned thoroughly, and then placed in the gan-ro to dry slowly. This was Jōō‘s san-tan san-ro. San-tan san-ro could be practiced only when the ro was being used†.

If guests were invited for chanoyu, the host’s first action after they entered the tea room was to rebuild the fire in the ro, add more water to replenish the kama, and the serve them the meal. ___________ *Guests were traditionally invited for chanoyu either at the time of the morning meal (around 9:00 AM), or the evening meal (after sunset, perhaps 7:00 PM). This is why the old writings only talk about asa-cha [朝茶], the morning tea gathering, and the yo-kai [夜會], a chakai hosted at night.

By the time the guests arrived for a morning gathering, the fire laid at dawn would have brought the kama to a boil, and then both the fire and the kama would be starting to decline by the time the guests entered the room. At night, the charcoal arranged at dusk would have brought the kama of cold water to a boil, with both it and the fire beginning to decline when the guests entered the room for the yo-kai.

In both cases, the fire and escaping steam would have made the tea room comfortably warm for the guests when they entered for the shoza.

†This kind of thing cannot be done when using the furo, since the furo would become too hot -- either a potential fire-hazard (the furo is placed on a wooden board and the space between the bottom of the furo and the board becomes very hot), or because the heat would cause the lacquer painted onto a ceramic furo (do-buro [土風爐]) to crack and peal off (in Jōō’s and Rikyū’s day, do-buro were always specially made, and had to be replaced when the lacquer started to crack).

That said, when Jōō started to use the ro, his idea was that it would be used throughout the year (in the wabi setting -- indeed, the ro turned the 4.5-mat room into a wabi tea room), so the wabi-chajin would practice san-tan san-ro all year round.

¹¹The precedent for this was that when noblemen retired from the world, shaving their heads and becoming nyūdō [入道], they typically carried these sorts of practices with them into their new life, continuing to perfume their private cell and clothing as always (though often using a new blend of incense, one that focused more on the “heavier” fragrance of cloves).

Following from this, Jōō burned neri-kō in the ro of his wabi 4.5-mat room to emphasize that this was a hermitage in which the host was supposed to be focused on the cultivation of his samādhi. The use of neri-kō would have been as shocking to his guests as the change in the atmosphere of the nyūdō’s cell would have been to his -- since previously the smell of the tea room had always been of jin-kō and byakudan.

¹²Today this is usually a small shelf suspended near the ceiling of the main room of the residence, but in bygone days, it was often a dedicated room (Rikyū’s was of 2 mats size) in which a Butsudan was installed, at which incense and prayers were offered to the Buddhas and various Shintō Gods, as well as the deceased ancestors (who were represented by their memorial tablets).

The incense was usually a blend of crushed byakudan [白檀] and jin-kō [沈香], along with other aromatic herbs (usually producing a fragrance that was custom made for that household). It was burned by either placing a pinch onto a charcoal briquette, or else pressed into a cone on the bottom of the censer, to which a taper was applied to set the loose mound to smoldering.

¹³Perhaps because this kind of application of lacquer allows the natural wood-grain to be seen clearly, it was considered kiji [木地] -- which could actually be one way of interpreting the name. Today kiji is used to refer to unpainted wooden objects, and this has lead to the meaning of this version of the poem being unclear (since an unpainted object made of the kinds of wood available in Japan would quickly become contaminated by the smell of whatever was kept in it).

¹⁴When using a kimen-buro (or other metal furo of that sort), which has a second hi-mado [火窓] on the back side, the dō-zumi was usually placed on that side of the shita-bi [下火], as a way to help prevent sparks from shooting out through the hi-mado, since they could cause a fire.

In the smaller rooms, where one of the guests might be seated on the mat next to the furo, the dō-zumi is usually placed on the side toward the guest, for the same reason. This latter argument has traditionally been used when arranging the fire in the ro as well.

¹⁵Or perhaps someone else who was writing during the early Edo period.

It is unclear when the changes to this poem were made -- Rikyū’s 1580 manuscript copy of the poems still preserved Jōō’s original wording, though the details recorded in Rikyū’s own kaiki (from 1585 and after) can be interpreted to suggest that he may have been using neri-kō during his gatherings, at least after he entered Hideyoshi’s household (and perhaps under Hideyoshi’s influence).

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depizan · 1 year ago

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Yeah, the rescue/escape from Xizor's "castle" (why in gods name are we calling things castles?) is pretty well done, if with moments that are cinematic in a not-good way. (Mostly Guri randomly wanting to fight Luke, though the droids flying the Falcon is a little overly silly.)

After that, it's back downhill. Partly because people have started teleporting again (I hate that) and partly because the protagonists have ridiculous amounts of plot armor so they can survive Xizor ridiculously having his own navy. Because of course he does.

And then, in the end, its Vader who saves them and destroys Xizor. Which feels more like a cheat than it should. (Though it's written such that Xizor could have escaped. Maybe that's what irritates me about it.)

And then, in the end, we're ready for the beginning of Return of the Jedi. Which would be fine if the book were better.

Moral of the story: when you write a book, the things in it should make sense. This book violates that repeatedly. We don't even ever get an explanation of why Boba Fett didn't go straight to Jabba's palace. People just...do stuff. So there can be a plot. And somehow almost all of the bits that tie into the movies undercut them somehow.

All in, a disappointing read. And one that didn't even answer what Dash Rendar would be like in the hands of another writer since he was barely in the book even when he was in the book.

In the hands of another writer, he's a complete nonentity?

Bah.

#Mac vs fandom blue #Mac reads things #Mac reads Shadows of the Empire #Mac is not a fan

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stitched-mouth-vs-the-world · 1 year ago

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Maybe now is a terrible time to say I am now writing for Yandere Simulator characters, but whatever.

I don’t support Alex’s actions and am not fond of him in the slightest. I’ve always thought he had major pedo vibes and whilst he didn’t actually touch a kid, I don’t doubt he hasn’t dreamt about it or even possibly done it and not been caught…

I think Yandere Simulator started out as Alex’s fetishisation of teenage girls, the game very much so feels gears to men who are attracted to barely legal girls, even though I imagine the majority players who are interested in completing the game (IF it’s ever finished) are women.

But it was absolutely started to sexualise underage girls.

So when I say I write for the characters, I mean only in SFW ways. I will not be writing for any of the students in a nsfw way because they are all children to me. I think Alex has said before they are all 18… but come on, majority of them are 16/17. He clearly only said that as an excuse for the sexualisation.

I think the only 18 year olds in the game are Ayano and Megami. And I’m just guessing here, based on personality. But even so, I won’t be writing nsfw for them because I don’t know for sure they are 18+ and I’m not interested in attracting any pervs who play the game.

I will be writing smut for the Guidance counsellor though, can’t stop me.

Also, a few years ago I write a slightly nsfw work for Info-Chan. I’ve decided now that that’s problematic and will not be doing that again. I know we don’t know her age or if she’s a student for sure but I don’t care. I’m not writing smut for someone unless I know for sure they are 18+.

So the students will only be writing SFW for are:

• Ayano Aishi (Yandere-Chan)

• Ryoba Aishi (Student) (Yandere-Chan’s Mother)

• Megami Saikou (Student Council President, 10th Rival)

• Kuroko Kamenaga (Student Council Vice President)

• Shiromi Torayoshi (Student Council Treasurer)

• Info-Chan

• Uekiya Engeika (Garden Club Leader)

• Oka Ruto (Occult Club Leader, 4th Rival)

• Budo Mastua (Martial Art’s Club Leader)

• Miyuji Shan (Light Music Club Leader)

• Kaga Kusha (Science Club Leader)

• Midori Guri (Green Green)

• Homo Kurusu (Science Club’s Roboticist)

• Mutsumi Rokuda (Bully Leader)

• Honami Hodoshima (80s School Librarian)

• Kencho Saikou (Megami’s Brother)

So these are the characters I will write nsfw for:

• Genka Kunahito (Guidance Counsellor)

• Ryoba Aishi (Adult) (Yandere’s Mother)

• The Yakuza

• Mae Kunahito (80s Guidance Counsellor / Genka Kunahito’ Mother)

Don’t think for one second I’m posting positively about Yandere Sim to show support for Alex. I hope he drowns in pedo allegations because I’m convinced he’s done more than just inappropriate convos with minors.

In case you didn’t follow my previous blog, I’m quite strict when it comes to relationships with minors. I don’t interact with them nor do write smut about them. I also don’t age up characters just to sexualise them, I said that a lot on my last blog because I’m apart of BNHA fandom and there is so much age uping of minors just to sexualise them over there. Aging up a character just to sexualise them is just as bad as writing smut about a child.

This means I also won’t be age uping anyone in my SFW section above to write smut about them. So no, “Imagine adult Ayano’s kink—-“ requests, stop RIGHT THERE.

Alex doesn’t profit off fanfics about his characters which is why I’m so comfortable writing for them.

I’ll post a real masterlist when I’m bothered. I have so many masterlists to rewrite now, thanks Tumblr.

#stitched #stitched mouth #stitched talks #stitched writes #yandere #yandere simulator #ayano aishi #yandere chan

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princeguri66 · 11 months ago

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"our sergeant keeps kissing us when he's drunk, how do we tell him we'd like for him to kiss us while he's sober as well." -TF 141

TF 141 x very affectionate while drunk male reader

All fluff!

Building off of my old drunk clingy reader thing..

You have too much affection for the task force in your heart for your own good. When you're sober you at least hold it off, suppress it, unsure on how your friends would think about it. At most it's an arm around the waist or shoulder. Trying to not be too affectionate in fear of making them uncomfortable. Unbeknownst to you, they absolutely live for it.

When you're drunk all that self restraint goes away, other than clinging to their side you also very much enjoy giving them little pecks all over their face.

You have Soap leaning on your front, his back connected to your chest as you turn his head around to kiss his face, smooshing his cheeks as you do so. Kissing all the way from his brow to his jaw, rubbing your cheek against his and then resting your head on his shoulder and nuzzle your head into his neck as you leave him a blushing mess.

And when you're sticking next to Gaz, your hands wrapping around him, trapping him in your embrace as you leave kisses on his cheekbones and kiss the tip of his ear. Your lips touching every surface that you can get your hands (well lips) on. Leaving kisses on his shoulders as well.

Ghost sitting facing you as you intertwine your hands with his, and slowly lift said hands to your lips, kissing each knuckle and moving up to his covered face, placing kisses where he can still feel it through the fabric of his balaclava, like his cheeks and his chin. Maybe even his ear. You can't see it but he's beat red from his face down to his neck.

Sitting on the couch together with Price, your thighs touching and you have an arm on his shoulders, you can't help but keep staring at the man and as he turns to look at you you place a small kiss in the middle of his eyebrows, moving to kiss the corner of his eyes and moving your other arm to grab his face and smoosh his cheek in to your lips and give him an audible kiss and moving your lips to kiss the corner of his mouth. Only the best for your captain.

The next day always follows you furiously apologizing to the team, hoping you didn't make them uncomfortable but they always brush it off, always assuring you that it was fine and they don't mind it. They don't mind it at all, in fact, they're patiently waiting for the day you'll kiss them without having the help of alcohol.

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tbh I can't take much of anything from the group perpetuating hate too seriously. guri's doc is weird as fuck but after seeing the comments ( not just vulgar, like some are trying to play it off, but truly disgusting ) from that pack that went as far as to fake images of players saying things like hf staff should be k*lled ( among other things ) or that guri should assault an animal IRL and write about it while they complain abt these docs and someone else who said the r-slur ( who's country doesn't have the historical context of hate / oppression with that word like the USA does ) is just laughable to me at this point. if they had ONLY submitted the report that would b one thing. but the slew of gross, hateful and toxic comments against several people ( even if most were focused on guri ) just prove how it was never rlly abt those docs themselves. at least not entirely. i believe the screenies of what was said was submitted much earlier on the blog by rot ?? but i habe copies i can submit too if needed. its a lot of shit -- like 30+ pieces of evidence. they were taken by other members from that pack sick of all the shit talking, gross comments / jokes and drama. and it is some gnarly shit, way more graphic than anything I read on that doc, as fucking weird as it is. and that is why most of those ppl got banned -- not bc they submitted any report, despite the story they r trying to peddle for sympathy or whatever. but bc of their own gross ass behavior that they don't wanna admit ( at least not fully bc they keep trying to severely down play their part of it ) or own up to. if they were rlly concerned they just should have submitted those report(s) and left it at that. no shit talking, no vile comments, no forging images of people saying gross or fucked up things they never said for laughs. bunniache, ashe/vaun, ej, snail, sketchy, mush, kaikyu, grell and anyone else who we don't see in those screenshots all went so far beyond what was called for; even past venting or regular shit talking. having genuine concerns and even not liking people or how they do something isn't a crime, and u can express those things maturely w/o being gross and toxic. but that isn't what happened at all. and esp knowing some of those ppl involved had been staff at one point -- while criticizing other staff members too for how they handle things after doing all that? wild.

feel free to resubmit screens or add any missing as well since its been a hot minute! i dont forgive one party's actions cause the other's were also bad

ill post em again or ppl can check archives for previous ones we can judge both sides for their actions at the same time

#guri

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HI HANAAA HOW ARE YOU

— omg ellie, i know you're too shy to say it, but don't worry !! of course I'll write a ig*guri x ellie for you !! <3

“ellie, you know you're the love of my life right?” ig*guri said, bringing a hand to brush back the strands of hair from ellie's face.

“how will i know that when you didn't say you love me this morning??” ellie pouted, although she couldn't resist leaning in to ig*guri's hand.

“oh my pookie bear!! of course i love you !!!!! how could you EVER forget that” ig*guri whined, and ellie laughed.

“i was just teasing you pookie :P i love you so much too!!!” ellie couldn't help enveloping her arms around ig*guri.

“then call me the love of your life too !!!” ig*guri looked at ellie with stars in his eyes, and of course, how could she say no?

“you are the love of my life, my ig*guri!!”

they got married and lived happily ever after !!! <333

#ʚ ₊˚◞ 📎 ─ moots.#‧₊˚💭 ─ from: ellie!#its not much but its honest work #i hope you liked it ellie !! <3 #don't be shy to ask me to write more #i only barfed twice writing this !!#and im doing very good !!#hope you smile after reading this :P

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columba1234 · 1 year ago

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My ranking of all Norway’s Eurovision entries from 2007 to 2023:

17, Tooji - Stay (2012)

16, Maria Haukaas Storeng - Hold On Be Strong (2008)

15, Agnete - Icebreaker (2016)

14, Stella Mwangi - Haba Haba (2011)

13, Guri Schanke - Ven A Bailar Conmigo (2007)

12,Alessandra - Queen of Kings (2023)

11, Didrik Solli-Tangen - My Heart Is Yours (2010)

10, Ulrikke - Attention (2020)

9, Mørland and Debrah Scarlett - A Monster Like Me (2015)

8, TIX - Fallen Angel (2021)

7, JOWST - Grab The Moment (2017)

6, Subwoolfer - Give That Wolf a Banana (2022)

5, Alexander Rybak - That’s How You Write A Song (2018)

4, Carl Espen - Slient Storm (2014)

3, KEiiNO - Spirit In The Sky (2019)

2, Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love (2013)

1, Alexander Rybak - Fairytale (2009)

Every entry from rank 9th onwards is one of my winners/ winner in that respective contest.

Rank 9th, 10th, and 11th are my honorable mentions. The rest is just “OK” for me.

#eurovision #ranking #esc norway

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andiatas · 4 months ago

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Royal experts: -⁠The Princess title must go

- There are far too many blisters and slips, says one. Another believes it is "time" for Märtha Louise to give up her place in the line of succession to the throne.

Photo: Terje Bendiksby / NTB

Trond Norén Isaksen (42) believes that Märtha Louise should be stripped of the princess title.

"When the agreement is not respected, it is time to strip Märtha Louise's Princess title before King Harald's life's work takes further damage," he writes in Aftenposten.

He lists seven breaches of the Royal House's agreement with Märtha Louise, stating that she shall not use the princess title commercially.

– Stretches the elastic longer

Ole-Jørgen Schulsrud-Hansen (26), the Royal Reporter for TV 2, tells VG that Norén Isaksen is following up on what Nettavisen's royal house expert Tove Taalesen has written about, as well as what he said to VG earlier in the week.

Taalesen (52) believes that the Princess should be removed from the line of succession.

- Norén Isaksen stretches the elastic even further and says, "out with the title and all that is," all links to the monarchy. He doesn't say anything about the line of succession, so perhaps he thinks she should be allowed to keep it, says Schulsrud-Hansen.

- Too many blisters

[Schulsrud-Hansen] does not think Märtha Louise should be stripped of the princess title but believes that Isaksen has an important point.

- There are far too many blisters and slips when it comes to that agreement for it to be coincidences or oversights. She needs to pull herself together if it's all an accident, says TV 2's expert.

When he uses the word "miss", it is because that is what the princess's manager used when she explained the label error on the controversial wedding gin of Märtha Louise (52) and Durek (49).

Schulsrud-Hansen believes that the Princess sometimes gets a lot of undeserved negative publicity.

- But then it is precisely that she breaks this agreement to her advantage, which Isaksen lists. It's not lucky.

Tove Taalesen agrees with Norén Isaksen.

- Now it is time for Märtha to be taken out of the line of succession, which means that the princess title has to go away. As long as it is used as it is, it must be removed, she tells VG.

The Royal House does not want to respond

It is, nevertheless, the place that number four in the line of succession to the throne Taalesen is most concerned about.

- Märtha Louise should be freed to do what she wants. It is strange if there are no discussions in the back room about finding reasonable solutions for her and the Royal House. But maybe it is, for all we know.

Märtha Louise has clearly stated that she does not want to renounce the title of Princess.

Taalesen understands that it is a difficult situation for the family.

- Of course. And I understand that she will not give up the title. But what about the line of succession? Is there also something she won't let go of? Does the King think she should be allowed to keep it?

- We do not wish to comment, writes Guri Ofstad Varpe, head of communications at the Castle, in an SMS to VG.

The royal expert believes these discussions are only natural when Märtha Louise and Durek repeatedly make headlines.

- They steal attention from the important task of the King's work, which is very sad.

The Princess's manager, Carina Scheele Carlsen, has yet to respond to VG's inquiries.

The Royal House has consistently refused to comment on the recent turbulence.

- It may eventually become a requirement for the Palace to make a statement, Schulsrud-Hansen believes.

- It is a very good guideline for the Royal House to not comment on anything commercial about Märtha Louise. But when the press asks about things to do with the agreement, an agreement to which the King is a party, and it is about actual violations, they have to speak out in one way or another.

Schulsrud-Hansen says the Royal House cannot just turn its back and pretend everything is fine.

- They can say, "we will deal with this internally".

But he thinks the princess should keep the title.

- I agree with King Harald. After all, she is his daughter, and then she is the princess. Taalesen has a better point: remove her from the line of succession.

Norén Isaksen tells VG that he has not made up his mind at this point whether [he thinks] Märtha Louise should be allowed to keep her place in the line of succession should she lose the Princess title.

- Only theoretically

- The difference is that the title is in use. At the same time, the right of inheritance is only a theoretical possibility unless the Crown Prince, Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus should have an accident, he says.

- We currently have two princesses with inheritance rights, one princess without inheritance rights, and three non-princesses with inheritance rights.

He then refers to Ingrid Alexandra and Märtha, who have inheritance rights, Princess Astrid (92), who does not, and Märtha's daughters Maud Angelica Behn (21), Leah Isadora Behn (19), and Emma Tallulah Behn (15), who are not princesses but have inheritance rights.

- The right of succession has never been highlighted for marketing purposes, so renouncing it but keeping the Princess title will not involve any real change but be a blow in the air.

Norén Isaksen points out that Leah Behn also runs a commercial business.

- But she has no Princess title and, as far as I have gathered, has never highlighted her connection to the Royal Family. On the other hand, she has inheritance rights. Nevertheless, her commercial activities have not been problematic for the Royal House.

Noren Isaksen believes that it shows that the problem is not primarily the right of inheritance but the title.

- Especially now that three adults are in the line of succession before Princess Märtha Louise. And while you can stick a Princess title on a gin bottle or a tour poster, it's a little trickier with inheritance.

He adds:

- "The gin is specially made on the occasion of the wedding of No. 4 in the line of succession to the Norwegian throne, Märtha Louise, and Durek Verrett" does not seem as natural as "Princess Märtha Louise".

Translation and editing for clarity by me of an article by Catherine Gonsholt Ighanian for VG (Verdens Gang), published on July 5, 2024.

#norwegian royal family #princess märtha louise #shaman durek #royal reporting #verdens gang #240705

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