#in further experiments I had to very slowly practice and say words at a snail’s pace

[arihi]

I kept trying to say something, and Spider would interrupt me with pleasure/trance every single time. She’d wake me back up, ask what I was going to say, and interrupt me again. Eventually I took it as a non-verbal suggestion that I couldn’t say it - I knew what I wanted to say, but couldn’t form the exact words. Pantomiming worked, texting didn’t. Mind blowing.

Eventually I wound up overcoming it by describing myself wanting to say the sentence, instead of just saying it outright. If that isn’t witch magic rules lawyering, I don’t know what is. Hypnosis is bullshit. (But also magic?)

[guccisvt]

New Year, New Me

Genre: Smut (Was supposed to be fluff) Word Count: +1.6k Warnings: Car sex, Slight alcohol consumption Summary: Meeting a handsome stranger was certainly not on the to-do list for tonight. Letting him take you in his car certainly wasn’t something you’d normally do. But hey, you wanted to be more spontaneous. As they say, new year, new me.

As you stood in the corner you had deemed as yours with a glass of champagne in your hand, a sigh passed your lips once again. You had wasted money on a gown and high heels you would probably never wear again just to impress these high class people. Your boss was throwing his annual new years ball and invited the office to come. You knew about the ball before you even began working there, always thinking that it was more for those of high society. But here you were. Instead of socializing however, you were sadly staring down at the fizzing in your drink. 

You downed the drink before bringing the glass to eye level and staring at a few streaks of bubbly that fell back to the bottom.

“If you were going to swallow it all at once, might as well have gotten something stronger.” a voice whispered by your ear which made you jump.

“Maybe I should have.” you muttered before looking at the voice beside you.

The man wore a white suit with gold trimming. His leather shoes were buffed so well that they had a certain gleam in the lighting of the room. His lips were a bright red and his pale skin only seemed to accentuate his pouty lips further. His eyes looked directly into yours, watching as you had checked him out. what you didn’t know is that he had done the same before approaching you.

“What have you had to drink?” you asked him.

“Just a glass of scotch.” he shrugged. “Don’t want to get black out drunk so early in the evening. Especially in a place like this?” he gestured to the ballroom and the mass of guests.

“Yeah, I guess not.” you whispered once again as you looked at the empty glass in your hand.

“Seungcheol.” he said when you seemed to lose interest.

“Y/N.” you say in response, looking back at him.

“You seem bored, Y/N. Care to explain why you’re not out chatting like everyone else?” he leant in.

“I could ask the same of you. My reason is because I don’t know anyone.”

“Isn’t that why people come to these things? To get themselves out there?”

“I guess so. I’m just not the debutante type I guess. I’m trying to change that in the new year.” you awkwardly chuckled.

“Any resolutions?” the man questioned with a tilt of his head.

“Be more spontaneous. Be less scared to try new things.” you answered after a moment of hesitation. “You?”

“Something similar...” he trailed off as he eyed your gown openly.

The low, drooping neckline of the glittering red dress was the biggest attraction yet his eyes flitted over to the slit in the dress that ended dangerously high by your leg.

“It looks like your already setting your resolution in motion.” he said as he licked his vermilion lips.

“I’m trying. I don’t usually wear stuff like this.” your cheeks heated up as Seungcheol bit his bottom lip before slowly retreating his teeth.

“I think I can help you with being more spontaneous.” he whispered as his face approached yours.

“Oh yeah?” you breathed back.

“Do you trust me?” he asked as he snatched the empty glass from your stiff hand.

“Should I? You’re still a stranger.” you tried to counter which made him chuckle.

“That’s the thrill of it.”

You don’t remember how you ended up in this car, heavily making out with a man you had just met but you couldn’t think of doing anything more exhilarating in your life. You had followed Seungcheol to his car, not even paying attention to what kind it was. It was clean and the leather upholstery seemed very expensive but that was all you could make out before your lips and neck were attacked.

Teeth clashed with teeth as hands began to roam. Seungcheol pulled you onto his lap, grasping at your ass as your arms wrapped around his neck. You soon began to unbutton his blazer only to reveal smooth skin rather than another layer of clothing.

“Couldn’t be bothered with a shirt?” you panted as your hands covered the expanse of his warm chest.

“Less work for you, isn’t it?” he smirked against your lips.

Seungcheol lifted your dress past your ass, past your chest, making you raise your arms so he could take them off. 

“Matching?” he asked when he saw the pair of red panties you had chosen to wear for the evening. You only nodded as his cool hands began to slowly rise from your hips to your waist.

His mouth attached to your naked chest as he planted open-mouthed kisses all over. Your hands gripped his hair and pulled his head back to resume kissing his cherry red lips. While you were gyrating your hips on his growing erection, Seungcheol groaned into your mouth, appreciating every sensation. The swiveling of your hips was starting to frustrate him though, making him pull your hair. One hand gripped your breast as the other went down to your panties. His middle finger made its way to the middle of your womanhood and pressed lightly.

“So wet already?” he smiled.

You only grumbled before whining when he began rocking his finger back and forth. You threw your head back, exposing your neck to Seungcheol’s inviting lips. He attached his mouth to your neck, biting and sucking on a particular spot to make sure his mark remained.

Your moans only spurred him on. He felt light-headed when it came to the situation. Especially when it came to you. Your smeared makeup and heavy breathing were making him go wild. Wild enough to lead in a most spontaneous way. Seungcheol let a growl pass his lips before your panties were being ripped off of you, making you yelp.

“Seungcheol!”

Seungcheol surveyed the small fabric before tossing it towards the front of the car. Your eyes were wide in both surprise and arousal and your mouth was slightly ajar, trying to confirm what just happened.

“I can’t wait much longer, Y/N.” he panted as he began to push you off of his lap. He positioned you beside him with your ass up, face down. His hand groped at the flesh of your ass as you whimpered into the seat.

“I absolutely this ass.” he asserted.

 His hands separated your cheeks before he let go and began to make tight circles on your clit.

Moaning into the leather cushion you managed to ask, “Do you have a condom?”

He stopped his ministrations to reach for a compartment by the driver’s seat. Pulling out a foil packet, he held it in between his teeth before unzipping his slacks and pulling out his length. Ripping open the packet with his teeth, Seungcheol haphazardly rolled the condom on and positioned one leg on the seat he was previously sat in and the other awkwardly bent to fit the limited space he had to move it.

His length slowly made its way inside of your pulsating heat, allowing you to feel every ridge along his length. He hissed as you groaned into the cushion, balling up your fists. Agile fingers found purchase on your hips and slowly pulled you back against him to smack against his hips. His dick slowly sunk back in, setting such a snail-like pace.

“Can you please speed up?” you asked Seungcheol.

He surprised you by pulling out to his tip and snapping his hips back against yours eliciting a scream from you. He continued to pick the pace, bringing your hips back to meet his at every thrust. Steam began to cover the interior of his windows and your hand pushed out in front of you. One met the handle by the locked car door while the other smudged a hand print onto the steam-covered window.

“Isn’t it exciting?” he said thorugh heavy breaths. “Doing this... somewhere so public. Bet this is a new experience.” he leaned over your back, pushing you further. “Spontaneous, now, aren’t we?” he whispered into your ear.

You could only nod as your moaning reached a crescendo along with Seungcheol’s low grunts. It wasn’t long after that his movements became sloppy and his hips started stuttering. 

“Come on... come for me...” he gritted through clenched teeth as he started to draw sloppy circles on your clit. The knot in your abdomen uncoiled fiercely, hitting you with a mind-numbing orgasm that had you practically babbling random words along with Seungcheol’s name.

Seungcheol allowed himself to come undone as well, unloading himself into the condom before pulling out carefully. His knee was sore and his neck felt cramped but it was all worth it. He tied the rubber and placed it in a compartment in the front. Your legs finally gave out and you fell breathlessly onto the plush seat below you.

“Guess it’s a good thing you got your coat before we left.” Seungcheol chuckled before his eyes landed on the pair of ripped panties.

He began to feel bad although it was a spur of the moment action.

“Need a ride home?”

“What time is it?” you said almost groggily as you searched for your discarded dress.

“Eleven fifty-nine. Seems like we finished right on time.” Seungcheol said as he looked down at his watch. It seemed he had managed to dress himself and fix his appearance (for the most part) pretty quickly.

“In time for what?” you inquired as you tugged the dress back on and stared at the ruined pair of panties that were laid out in the front of the car.

“What else? A new years kiss.” he smiled before pulling you into him by the waist.

His wristwatch made a beeping sound before he smashed his lips onto yours, smiling into the kiss when you reciprocated gladly.

“Seems like we kicked the year off right.”

[di-sss-learning-engineering]

Increase Your Average Reading Speed - 3 Powerful Tips I know why you want to increase your average reading speed. Time is short, and there is too much to read! But you also want to remember what you read. Otherwise, what's the point? Here are three powerful tips to help you read faster and remember more: Tip #1: Use your finger as a pacer, to eliminate fixations and regressions. Tip #2: Use visualization techniques to memorize facts such as names, numbers, and dates. Tip #3: Expand your vocabulary, so you don't stumble on unknown words. Practice these tips until they are habits, and you will soon be zooming through books, essays, articles, and any other reading material. Whether reading for school, work, or recreation, you'll read faster and retain more. Recommended by Tip #1: Your Finger as a Reading Pacer Increasing your average reading speed can make you a more effective learner. As Peter Kump, author of the speed-reading course Breakthrough Rapid Reading, says, "...mind organization starts with the ability to absorb printed material rapidly." I've been working through his course book (shown at left), and it's been a real eye opener. My average reading speed, which I measure with a timer, has nearly doubled. Speed reading techniques help eliminate behaviors that tend to lower your average reading speed. Instead, you learn reading habits that take advantage of your brain's potential. There are a number of different speed reading exercises you can do to raise your average reading speed, as described in Kump's course. But, according to him and other speed reading experts, all the exercises require you to adopt this new reading habit first: Use your finger as a reading "pacer". Kump didn't invent the finger pacer. Many classic speed reading courses, including Evelyn Wood's famous course, recommend the same thing. You may find this curious at first, as I did. 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It's possibly the best way of knowing whether or not you've learned something. (Breakthrough Rapid Reading, p. 171) As you read that paragraph, your eyes did not glide smoothly through the text. They jumped from word to word, or at best from phrase to phrase. Which runner will win the race: the one who runs continuously from start to finish, or the one who stops every ten feet? Stopping slows you down. Eye fixations are stops. They hold you back from achieving a higher average reading speed. While reading a book, you can have literally thousands of fixations. They add up! Regressions also slow you down. The next time you read, notice how often you are forced to re-read sentences or sections. Going back to re-read is a regression. Regressions occur because you did not absorb the information the first time. Regressions should be unnecesary. They waste time, decreasing your overall average reading speed. Reading with your finger as a pacer eliminates fixations. (Try it, you'll see). 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Try this: Read the following paragraph at a snail's pace, super slow, with lots of pauses, and you'll see what I mean. The way to consciously concentrate on something is to find simple ways to become actively involved with the object. Try to use all channels for receiving stimuli that you can: touch, sound, sight, taste, smell. In most instances sight, touch, and sound will be all that are practical. To become involved you must find things to do. For instance, if you want to concentrate on a painting, you might see how many different colors were used (that you could determine), or count the number of persons depicted in a crowded scene. Such activities would easily allow you to keep involved. It is certainly much better than staring at the painting with an intensely furrowed brow. (Breakthrough Rapid Reading, p. 170) Did you notice how difficult it was to hold in mind what you had already read? We don't talk to each other in slow motion for the same reason. 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