#i'm fairly excited about it

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Dungeon Meshi: Delicious in RPG!

(Sprites + bonus art here!)

[apoptoses]

OKAY a preview of said fic, in which armand is performing an upper GI endoscopy on daniel (don’t worry, there’s a point to this and it involves the blood, they’ll get there):

But there’s the matter of the screen to deal with first. Daniel presses the heel of his palm against his cock and looks at the image.

It’s a bizarre sight. Obscene enough Daniel’s eyes go wide and his blood rushes beneath his skin.

His esophagus is a delicate shade of pink, spider webbed with minuscule veins, and it seems to contract with his every breath. He watches with fascination as Armand’s gloved fingers wrap around his throat and squeeze, and on the screen his esophagus is deformed by the action. Just by pressing on his outsides Armand has the power to reshape his innards. If he squeezed hard enough he could crush Daniel’s throat entirely, and the act would hardly take Armand any effort at all. 

Daniel shudders with the idea of it. His fingers clench in the heavy cotton fabric of his jeans.

“Do you remember, Daniel, when I placed the speculum inside of you?” Armand asks as he drops the camera down another inch. “It’s unfortunate I had no camera then. If I had then you would know just how very similar in appearance your esophagus is to your anal canal.”

Daniel’s face is aflame, even the tips of his ears burn with it. When Armand drops the image of the inside of his hole, cranked open by the speculum, straight into his mind his hand flies up to grip Armand’s wrist in attempt to ground himself. If he doesn’t get ahold of himself he’ll choke or, even worse, moan.

“Your trachea would be quite different, of course. It would be ribbed and rigid. But your esophagus is lined with the same squamous cells as your anus and so it’s the same type of slick, smooth tissue,” Armand continues, voice as bland as any professor repeating a lecture, and it only serves to make Daniel more aroused. “No wonder they’re both a pleasure for me to touch. Swallow, Daniel, you’re beginning to drool.”

The command is tacked on so casually Daniel almost misses it. He goes to wipe at the corner of his mouth where he’s suddenly aware his saliva is running down his chin but Armand bats his hand away. He takes a piece of gauze from the tray and in act so humiliating and affectionate Daniel’s eyes prickle with it as he dabs the mess from Daniel’s skin.

He’s hard now, embarrassingly so. If he glances down he can see the line of his cock beneath his jeans. Another minute or two and there will likely be a wet spot there where he’s beginning to leak, and that makes Daniel squirm on the bed. The paper crinkles beneath him, a disarming noise in the otherwise quiet room.

why is my response to extreme stress always to write medical kink in which daniel gets pushed to his limits

[gnomeantics]

STARKID TRENDING CATEGORY 5 AUTISM EVENT

[beneathsilverstars]

Drew some family portraits to figure out how I want to draw everyone!! I was so brave and basically kept them in canon greyscale even though coloring is my favorite thing in the world 😤

[fromtheseventhhell]

Arya when she flowers in her second twow chapter, two seconds after she lied about being a maiden

[kimabutch]

Hate the feeling of not knowing whether you're truly disliking a book, judging it too quickly, or just in a bad mood

[starwritesficsandstuff]

I am so genuinely anxious for how the season finale of A New Wish is gonna go but whatever happens I'm going to make sure everything turns out okay for my kids. I'm not a huge fix-it fic person, but I will if I have to lol.

Also my theory on what's going to happen (since the crew has been hinting that Dev is gonna do something really bad) is that Dev might accidentally (or on purpose, but under emotional distress) wish away fairies or magic and have to fix it. Or possibly he'll only wish away Cosmo and Wanda, I don't know. Whatever he does, it'll be a doozy, but I legit could never hate this boy.

I would literally do anything to see Dev and Hazel keep being friends. T^T Like, I love having in-universe angst for them but I really want them to end up friends in the long run, even if I have to make it happen myself, I guess. Lost in Fairy World is my favorite episode, I really want more of that.

I don't even mind if we have to wait until season 2 to see them actually become friends for good. I can handle that. I just really want their friendship to pull through whatever happens. I want to believe.

Legit, even if I've gotten into a lot of shows over the years, this is the first time I'm hitting a season finale, especially one with such high stakes, while this deeply mired in hyperfixation since. Gravity Falls ended, I think. Which is quite a long time. I am not gonna shut up about this show for such a long time.

[flickeringflame216]

keep getting anxious about classes starting in two weeks and then I keep remembering CHOIR!!!!

[expatesque]

Okay as of Monday I'm officially taking my 6 months of severance!

[statementlou]

God I hold such a grudge against Niall for not supporting Louis at one of his concerts that I won't listen to any of his music. My friends think I'm super petty but Louis was there for him and Niall could find the time to go be seen at Harrys show but I guess he was too busy for every Louis concert. I'm so glad Louis didn't go to nialls London show.

I mean I think Niall went to Harry's show because he wanted to go, not to be seen and create publicity for Harry; but you have my full blessing to be as petty as you want, literally the ONLY reason you should listen to Niall's music is if it makes you happy to do that so if you don't feel like it for any reason at, oh well! That's that! But I will say that I don't think Louis and Niall are refusing to support each other: I think they just don't hang out/ their shows aren't on each other's radar. I imagine if Louis messaged Niall like "hey you should come to my show!" (or vice versa) that Niall would, but that Louis wouldn't even think of it, and they probably didn't even really know about each others' shows coming up. Whereas we know Harry and Niall still make an effort to hang out (and Harry probably did message him about it, it seems like the sort of thing he'd be on top of.) While I'm sure either would be so pleased to run into the other (as we saw when Louis was teased with the possibility at the Rolling Stone awards) it looks to me like Louis and Liam are in touch off and on, Niall and Harry make time to see each other, and we obviously have no idea about Louis and Harry as that's HIGH LEVEL CLASSIFIED REDACTED WE'D HAVE TO KILL YOU INFO but aside from that... they just aren't in each others' day to day lives and don't think about it that much is my guess and like... it is what it is. I mean I'll tell you, you get older you get busy and suddenly you don't see some friends for a year at a time. But like it's fine! You're still friends! It doesn't mean you don't like em it just... happens that way. IDK I'm not too worried about it

[sysig]

Starting out, things going Exactly to plan, as expected (Patreon)

[books-apples-socks]

listening to "the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires" is such a mixed experience because on one hand you're treated to a wonderful narrator (bahni turpin) whose voice acting is beautiful and who makes wonderful character choices in pronunciation and mispronunciation and on the other hand.... the book itslelf is racist and sexist

[cbartonscoffee]

I've been reading codywan fanfiction for a while now. But I have never watched Star Wars, so I know who some of the characters are because of exposure and some google searches. But I've just watched a TikTok, and...

THIS IS DOOKU???

I admit I have actually no idea what I thought he looked like now that I know the truth. BUT I'VE SEEN TIKTOKS WITH THIS MAN!! I think I had him as Palpatine? But I'm also pretty sure I know who Palpatine is? I'm not that confident anymore.

I think for some reason I pictured him as similar to Maul. I do not know why. He just seemed like the type. I'm kind of disappointed to be honest.

[magentagalaxies]

went to toronto again for new years weekend and spent pretty much the entire time hanging out with paul bellini which included us rewatching a bunch of episodes from kith s4 during dinner on new years eve. and y'know the second best thing about watching kids in the hall with paul bellini is getting to hear a bunch of behind-the-scenes backstory about the inspiration for sketches, previous versions that never saw the light of day, , etc. but the actual best thing about watching kids in the hall with paul bellini is when an entire sketch will play without comment and at the very end he goes "the fuck was that?"

[thyandrawrites]

You mentioned being Italian, how did you learn to speak or at least write English so well? Your Japanese translations are also pretty good too! I want learn Italian so what would you recommend that would help learn to read and write another language?

Thank you!

The genuine answer? Fandoms. Really. I've been studying languages for most of my life (english since elementary school, french in middle and high school, german since hs and japanese since college) but so far I've only gotten truly fluent in the only language I didn't just approach from a textbook learning angle. My fluency probably also comes from speaking english the longest, but what really improved my proficiency was consuming and engaging with my passions in my target language. Something that I struggle a lot with is staying motivated in the long run. I tend to run out of steam after a while, and I lose all the progress I made. But fandoms feed on my passions, so engaging with them helps me find the motivation to keep going, while also making it less like a chore that needs to be taken care of.

I was a B1 until I graduated high school, but then I started reading copius amounts of fanfic and meta in english, and began writing my own. Reading taught me a lot of common new words I had never encountered before in my textbooks, as well as several idioms, and the longer I kept at it, the more stuff I assimilated into my vocabulary. I spent a couple of years just reading ff, not thinking I had it in me to truly begin writing in my second language, but then it sort of... Just happened. I got a fic idea late at night and wrote a 6k oneshot in one sitting during an all nighter. The fact that I was tired and inspired probably lowered my remaining inhibitions and temporarily muted that part of my brain that was self-conscious. But suddenly, english didn't seem so scary anymore. When I reread what I wrote the next day, after getting some sleep, it wasn't as agrammatical and terrible as I had feared, and that motivated me to keep doing it. I find that a lot of the time what stops us from improving is the fear of making a fool of ourselves. I also didn't comment on fanfic for years in fear of outing myself, and on the rare occasions I did, I always prefaced my comments with an apology for my english. But when you finally get in the mindframe that people don't really care about any mistakes you might make, it was really liberating. Honestly, just have fun! Who cares! Native speakers make tons of mistakes too! I can see that so clearly now.

This was around the time I got into Tokyo Ghoul meta and timidly approached my first analyses. Meta is fairly different from creative writing, but it also helped me improve because it taught me essay writing better than my english teacher marking my mistakes in angry red. When you're trying to explain a concept so that others understand it, rather than just to get a passing grade, you will attempt to break it down into easier concepts and pace it better, instead of just paying attention to SPaG. This also had the side effect of teaching me how to better sort my thoughts and get them across clearly, which has always been a struggle for me in spoken conversations. My thoughts tend to be messy, and I trip over my words a lot (in my native language too), but thinking about going from point a to point b like I'm writing an essay helps me a lot, personally.

The last step was joining a discord server in 2019. I can't stress enough how language is constantly evolving, and how slang and everyday language isn't something you can passively learn from textbooks or online courses. Those are only good as the foundation of your skills. They teach you the grammar and the basic vocabulary, but then you have to engage with real people, you know? I've always struggled to hold a conversation because I'm socially awkward, but discord is useful to me because it is a group chat, so there is less pressure on my end to keep a conversation going. Interacting with people from all over the world taught me to be less self-conscious about my skills, and meeting people of different age ranges taught me a variety of slang expressions to pass for a not-boomer myself, at least at first glance :'D

Moral of the story, do follow courses and use textbooks (those are important!), but also keep in mind those are not the be-all end-all of language proficiency, like school and academia tries so hard to teach you. If you find yourself hitting a wall and not getting any better anymore, take it as a sign your grammar is good enough to take the next step in your journey. So then, try to think of something you have fun doing. A hobby of yours. And then think of ways you can engage with it in your target language.

I had different phases in my life where I explored various things thay way. I got obsessed with a band in middle school and started watching and rewatching the videos they posted online, trying to understand everything they said. This improved my listening skills considerably. Years later I got really into WoW and I learned vocab by playing it and by looking for tutorials online. If you read a lot, consider looking for titles in that language you want to learn. Stuff like this. Listening to music, watching movies or tv series with subtitles (esp if the subtitles are in your target language too). All this stuff helps a lot! And the added plus is that for however challenging it might be at first, you'll stay motivated because it relates to something you already enjoy

[violetsareblue-selfships]

good morning!! <3