#jo.700

[kiun]

fans of female characters who dared to have feelings for one male character of a popular mlm ship and thus are subjected to years of fandom misoginy and vilification are stronger than any us marine

[absoloutenonsense]

Sunday Snippet <3

Hiiiiiii I’ve been in editing- and rewriting-land with my (almost) exes to lovers fic, which has been wonderful and frustrating and fun and awful (as writing goes). Thank you @kingsofeverything, @crinkle-eyed-boo and @uhoh-but-yeah-alright for tagging me in your snippets recently! It’s hard to share much of this one without spoiling something, but here’s a bit I was rewriting yesterday:

The limited interactions over the last 42 hours is why Louis is surprised to hear the hotel phone ring. He didn’t even think it was active.

He pauses the video and walks over to the nightstand, picking up the phone cautiously.

“Hello?”

“Fucking finally,” Perrie’s voice says. She lets out a heavy breath, one that sounds weighted with frustration and tension. “I’ve been trying to call you for hours now since I heard, but I think they put signal blockers around the hotel. I had to set up like six different VPNs for this to work.”

“Pez,” Louis sighs.

“How are you doing? What do you need? I can’t physically get you anything but I can bully someone else into doing it.”

Louis gives a short laugh. “Nothing right now. I’m just reviewing the footage, and I’ve got enough coffee in here to help. Right now at least.”

There’s a pause. “They let you see the video?” she asks, clearly surprised. 

“Yeah,” Louis says. He nods and hooks a hand over the other elbow as he holds the receiver up to his ear. “I had to steamroll Horan into it, of course, but he gave in. I’m guessing because another girl got taken.”

“There’s another missing person?” Perrie asks, even more surprised than before, this time twinged with anger. 

“He didn’t confirm,” Louis clarifies, “but he was checking on me and got a call. He put Davis on whatever it is immediately, so it’s gotta be more important, and I know that’s our missing girls. After that he let me have the footage.”

There is a longer pause this time, so long that Louis wonders if the call dropped. 

“What footage are you looking at?” she asks.

Louis furrows his brows. “The bodega footage.” He pauses and listens to the way it’s so quiet on the other line. “What did you think I meant?”

“Nothing,” Perrie says too quickly. “Nothing, the bodega footage is what I meant.”

Louis narrows his eyes at the wall. That’s not right. “What aren’t you telling me?”

“Noth—”

“Edwards, we do not lie to each other.” He pauses so he knows she’s listening. “You’re one of the only people I trust in the entire world. Don’t you dare.”

Perrie sighs. There’s an antsy pause then, like she’s wondering if she really has to say it or if she should try to lie again, before she says, “A USB was delivered to the Bureau via TaskRabbit messenger. It had a video on it. It was… it’s of Harry.”

Louis hangs up immediately, then picks the receiver up again, smashing the buttons as he dials the phone. 

“Horan.”

At the sound of his voice, Louis absolutely loses it.

“You motherfucker,” Louis says — seethes. “You fucking asshole, shithead, motherfucking dic—”

“Fucking Edwards,” Niall mutters while Louis continues to cuss him out. “Tomlinson, calm down.”

“—lying, conniving, fucking-fuckhead—”

“Honestly, you can’t expect that I would have actually told you—”

“You’re supposed to be in charge,” Louis shouts. “You think this is leadership? You’re a fucking toddler in this job and you’re fucking everything up.”

“I am your boss, Tomlinson, you better reel it back, real quick.”

“Or what? You’re going to put me in lockdown and keep me entirely in the dark with what’s happening to my husband? The love of my fucking life is out there in trouble and you’re lying to me -- I’ll be however the fuck I want!”

“It’s because it’s you and because it’s your husband that I’m keeping you in the dark. If it were any other victim, any other spouse, we’d be doing the same thing as to not compromise the situation. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean this isn’t protocol and I’m not doing my job. I am doing my job.”

Tagging you three back, and @disgruntledkittenface @daggerandrose @lululawrence @littleroverlouis @allwaswell16 if you have anything you’d like to share!

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[nerdieforpedro]

Cadet Gray

For Jo's Birthday Bash @undercoverpena

Tim Rockford x GN plus size reader

Summary: The weather is fairly somber, but there's still quite a bit to celebrate.

Warnings: Angst, silliness in an office, allusion to implied smut, two pinches, a few tears and sunshine ☀️

Word Count: 700+

Notes: Originally, I was going to write something with Javi G, but it just wasn't working. Then I was talking it out aloud with @soft-persephone mentioned Javi P, suits and sheets. Then made it over to Tim, still unsure how the dots connected. 🤭

Main Masterlist/ Tim Rockford Masterlist

Everything is coated in chases of gray. The sky has patches of white with periodic specks of blue. It’s not the type of day anyone would say that they were happy about being out and about it, but you happen to be. You’d been a bit sneaky with your plan, slowly gathering your information and numbers. The only snag in your entire plot was getting your own ducks in a row, surprised at the actual measurement of said ducks. It was difficult to accept but necessary since this was a special occasion after all. 

Detective Rockford is of course located in his office, behind his desk, surveying which pile of files to start on. At least, that’s how he is usually, but today he’s looking through his notebook. Going over any details that might shed more light on any number of cases. 

You’re not here for that today though. It’s noon and he promised to be out of here by one in the afternoon so you two wouldn’t be late. They would never forgive you. Despite the dark circles under his eyes, he greets you with a smile and squints at the large garment bag you have in plastic. Rockford knows very well what today is and is not looking forward to trying on this suit for the fourth time. It seemed despite going to two different tailors, it never fit quite right around the inseam or his waist. He was about ready to just show up in a tracksuit and throw in a wet towel. He got the sense that you enjoyed dressing him up a bit since he normally did the same for you. Picking out an outfit or two for you to wear, only to peel it off of you later that evening so he could get at those curves or yours. Might have been a time or two that a reservation was missed.

On top of his files, you laid his garment bag and told him to put it on, promising that this one would be the right fit. It was the same person who did your dress after all, they can be trusted. Shrugging, Tim gives your cheek a kiss, your rump a squeeze and closes the door and blinds to his office allowing for privacy. The two of you change into your matching gray attire. Yours fits you like a glove and he’s already thinking how to get it off of you this evening. The glint in his eyes has you pinching the bridge of his nose in jest. His crisp white button down fits like a second skin, with enough stretch that it moves with him. His gray slacks sit just right on his waist with the help of a charcoal belt to keep them in place. His tie matches his belt and shoes while the suit jacket is the same light gray of your outfit and his pants.Tim remarks how comfortable everything feels and that he might in fact stick around at the event a bit longer than planned. 

The precinct claps for the two of you as you leave, giving little waves to play along with their bit. On the way over to the venue, Tim is a little watery eyed, the normally stoic man is reminiscing of younger days full of small moments he holds dear. You pat his shoulder and tell him that it’s alright, he’s not really losing anything truly. Consider it a new phase of life for everyone involved.

Finally parked, little details are added like flowers and handkerchiefs. You sit on the bride’s side of the aisle near the front behind her brothers and sisters. The heavens still keep their steely color as the music ramps up and everyone stands. The bride makes her entrance in a beautiful white dress accompanied by a flushed faced Tim brimming with pride arm in arm. He was ambivalent about walking his daughter down the aisle, unsure if he was ready to fully let her go, but he finally reconciled it’s not about him but her and the new family she’s starting. 

You swear that even the wide expanse above agrees by having some sunlight shine on the newlyweds while they finish their vows. Tim appears at your side with an arm around you and a quick peck to your neck.

“Thank you sweetheart. Turns out it was a great fit all around.”

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Clay Jones, Claytoonz: The new GOP mantra

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

July 25, 2024 (Thursday)

Momentum continues to build behind Vice President Kamala Harris to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, and the national narrative as a whole has shifted.

Democrats appear to be generating significant enthusiasm among younger Americans. Yesterday, for the first time in their history, the March for Our Lives organization endorsed a presidential candidate: Kamala Harris. Students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, organized March for Our Lives after the shooting there in 2018. Executive director Natalie Fall said that the organization “will work to mobilize young people across the country to support Vice President Harris and other down-ballot candidates, with a particular focus on the states and races where we can make up the margin of victory—in Arizona, New York, Michigan, and Florida.”

Andrea Hailey of Vote.org announced that in the 48 hours after President Biden said he would not accept the Democratic nomination, nearly 40,000 people registered to vote. That meant a daily increase in new registrations of almost 700%.

People are turning out for Harris in impressive numbers. In the hours after she launched her campaign, Win With Black Women rallied 44,000 Black women on Zoom and raised $1.6 million. On Monday, around 20,000 Black men rallied to raise $1.2 million. Tonight, challenged to “answer the call,” 164,000 white women joined an event that “broke Zoom” and raised more than $2 million and tens of thousands of new volunteers.

Another significant endorsement for Harris came yesterday from Geoff Duncan, the Republican former lieutenant governor of Georgia, who wrote on social media: “I’m committed to beating Donald Trump. The only vehicle left for me to do that with is the Democratic Party. If that requires me to vote for, speak for, or endorse [Kamala Harris] then count me in!” Duncan’s public announcement offers permission for other Georgia Republicans to make a similar shift. In 1964, South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond similarly paved the way for southern Democrats to vote for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.

Harris’s appearances are generating such enthusiasm from audiences that when she delivered the keynote address this morning at the convention of the American Federation of Teachers in Houston, Texas, the applause delayed her ability to begin. After a speech defending education and calling out the cuts to it in Project 2025, Harris ended by demonstrating that after decades of Democrats being accused of being anti-American, Trump’s denigration of the country has enabled the party to claim the position of being America’s defenders.

“When we vote, we make our voices heard,” Harris said. “So today, I ask you, AFT, are you ready to make your voices heard? Do we believe in freedom? Do we believe in opportunity? Do we believe in the promise of America? And are we ready to fight for it? And when we fight, we win! God bless you and God bless the United States of America.”

Today the Commerce Department reported that economic growth in the second quarter was higher than expected, coming in at 2.8%, thanks to higher spending driven by higher wages. The country’s changing momentum is showing in media stories hyping the booming economy Biden’s team tried for years to get traction on. “Full Employment is Joe Biden’s True Legacy” was the title of a story by Zachary Carter that appeared yesterday in Slate; CNN responded to today’s good economic news with an article by Bryan Mena titled: “The US economy is pulling off something historic.”

With Harris appearing to have sewn up the nomination, the question has turned to her vice presidential pick. That question is fueling the sense of excitement as potential choices are in front of cameras and on social media advocating Democratic positions and defending the United States from Trump’s denigration. Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro listed the economic gains of the past years, and said: “Trump, you’ve got to stop sh*t talking America. We’ve got to start standing tall and being patriotic and showing how much we love this amazing nation.”

The vice presidential hopefuls appear to be having some fun with showcasing their personalities, as Minnesota governor Tim Walz did in his video from the Minnesota State Fair where he and his daughter went on an extreme ride. So are social media users who have dug up old videos of, for example, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg explaining how he would pilot a small starfighter that had lost its auxiliary shields, or Arizona senator Mark Kelly’s identical twin brother Scott pranking a fellow astronaut on the Space Station with a gorilla suit Mark smuggled on board.

That sense of fun is an enormous relief after years of political weight, and it has spilled over into making fun of the Republican ticket, most notably with a false story that vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance wrote about—and I cannot believe I am typing this—having sex with a couch. The story is stupid, but worse are the denials of it, which have spread the story into populations that otherwise would likely not have seen it.

Just two weeks ago, Vance appeared to be the leader of the next generation of extremist MAGA Republicans, but now that calculation seems to have been hasty. Vance is a staunch opponent of abortion—the key issue in 2024—and he has been vocal in his disdain of women who have not given birth, saying in 2021, for example, that the U.S. was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.” He went on to say that people who don’t have children “don’t really have a direct stake” in the country.

Republican commentator Meghan McCain noted that Vance’s “comments are activating women across all sides, including my most conservative Trump supporting friends. These comments have caused real pain and are just innately unchristian.” Actor Jennifer Aniston, who tends to stay out of politics, posted: “I truly can’t believe this is coming from a potential VP of The United States.” Vance had called out Harris by name in those 2021 comments, and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife Kerstin Emhoff took to social media to defend Harris from Vance’s attacks on her as “childless,” calling her “a co-parent with Doug and I. She is loving, nurturing, fiercely protective and always present. I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it.” Harris’s stepdaughter chimed in: “I love my three parents.”

Vance also ties the Republican ticket firmly to Project 2025. The Trump camp has worked to distance itself from Project 2025—not convincingly, since the two are obviously closely tied, but it turns out that Vance wrote the introduction for a forthcoming book by Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts, who was the lead author of Project 2025. The book appears to popularize that plan, right down to its endorsement of a “Second American Revolution,” and according to the book deal report, proceeds from the book will go to the Heritage Foundation “and aligned nonprofits.”

Now Vance’s words praising Project 2025 will be in print, just in time for the election. Yesterday, Trump posted: “I have nothing to do with, and know nothing about, Project 25 [sic]. The fact that I do is merely disinformation put out by the Radical Left Democrat Thugs. Do not believe them!”

Trump is clearly aware of, and concerned about, the changing narrative. This morning, he called in to Fox & Friends, saying, “We don’t need the votes. I have so many votes. I’m in Florida now…and every house has a Trump-Vance sign on it. Every single house…. It’s amazing the spirit…. This election has more spirit than I’ve ever seen ever before.” Tonight the Trump campaign proved their worry by backing out of debates with Harris, saying debates can’t be scheduled until she is the official nominee, although Biden was not the official nominee when they met in June.

The larger narrative shift has affected the media approach to Trump, who is accustomed to shaping perceptions as he wishes. Now, 12 days after the mass shooting at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, there is increasing media attention to the fact that there has still been no medical report on Trump’s injuries, although he wore a large bandage on his ear at the Republican National Convention and said at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday that he “took a bullet for democracy.”

Yesterday, FBI director Christopher Wray told Congress that it is not clear whether Trump was “grazed” by a bullet or by shrapnel, words that former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance called “FBI speak for, ‘it’s unlikely it was a bullet.’”

CNN chief medical consultant Dr. Sanjay Gupta noted last week that the people need a real medical evaluation of Trump’s injuries, explaining that “gunshot blasts near the head can cause injuries that aren’t immediately noticeable, such as bleeding in or on the brain, damage to the inner ear or even psychological trauma.” But, as Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has noted, much of the press has kept mum about the story.

Media outlets have reported Wray’s testimony, though, and in a social media post today, Trump called on Wray, whom he appointed to head the FBI, to resign from his post for “LYING TO CONGRESS.” Tonight, he reiterated that “it was…a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard.”

Perhaps eager to get back to their districts, House Republicans canceled their expected votes on appropriations bills scheduled for next week and left town today for their August recess. The House will not reconvene until early September. The government’s fiscal year 2025 begins on October 1.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[thommi-tomate]

Jo on Thomas :

It's crazy when you see the figure of over 700 competitive games. At Bayern, when things are going well, you have around 50 competitive games per season. You have to stay fit and healthy for 14 seasons. That in itself is madness. In addition to staying fit and healthy, getting the appearances is crazy. Apart from goalkeepers, I don't know if players can achieve something like that for a single club

[1800-fight-me]

hello! Hope you’re good, related to your post about practice makes perfect, would you please like make something related abour reader feeling a little bit insecure about her height? Idk i think it would be cute to see how Aemond will react, thank you 🫶

Soothed Insecurities

Aemond Targaryen x Petite!Female!Reader

A Practice Makes Perfect Fic - This can be read as a stand alone fic or part of the series!

Rating: Mature- This is still not for minors!

Warnings: Allusions to sex but other than that it's fluff!

Word Count: About 700 words...it's tiny

Synopsis: Aemond has his own unique ways of soothing your insecurities.

Author’s Note: Please accept this humble offering as my apology for not writing as much lately due to the craziness of my life!!

Important announcement!! I am no longer using a taglist! Instead if you would like to be notified when I post new fics follow my side blog @jo-writes-fanfic and turn your post notifications on!

Aemond Masterlist

You were newly wedded and therefore still new to court. It overwhelmed you at times. You were not used to such propriety and elegance at all times from the people that surrounded you. 

It made you feel, well- rather insecure, you supposed. 

You did your best to project grace, you were technically a princess now that you married a prince of the realm, but you feared that you fell short in that regard. 

Short… even the thought of the word caused you to clench your jaw. 

“My my, don’t you look fierce, sweet wife,” Aemond said as he entered your chambers. 

You blinked in surprise and realized you had been lost in your own mind and stared into the flames of your fireplace as you clenched a book tightly in your hands. 

“Put a dagger in your hand, and even I might be frightened,” your husband teased. 

“Oh, my apologies, I was lost in thought,” you said quietly in reply. 

“What worries your mind, beautiful?” he asked as he sat on the plush loveseat next to you. 

His casual, yet carefully selected, terms of endearment should put your insecurities to rest, but still the words spoken to you today by one of the ladies of the court struck deep. 

A gentle hand on your cheek caused you to finally break your reverie enough to look at him. 

Concern was obvious on his handsome face. 

“I fear I do not belong in court. That I stick out like a sore thumb,” you murmured. 

His thumb stroked your cheek in comfort and reassurance. 

“Whatever could you possibly mean by that? You are perfect,” he said. 

You shook your head slightly and his brow furrowed even more. 

“Not as I was reminded so politely today,” you said weakly. 

“What?” he asked, his tone now sharp. 

 “It was pointed out to me that I am much shorter and considerably less graceful than the other ladies of court,” you replied as you nervously toyed with the threads at your sleeve. 

“Who said this? I shall-”

“It does not matter. It is the truth,” you said. 

He hummed in discontent. 

“Would you not have been more satisfied with a woman like the ones here? Y’know, tall, elegant, graceful….” you trailed off, your voice higher with emotion as your eyes began to sting. 

“More satisfied?” he scoffed. 

You looked down at your lap. 

“Have I not proved to you my contentment with this marriage and brought us both to satisfaction each night?” he demanded, his voice strong and passionate. 

Your face heated as you flustered. 

“Aemond,” you protested softly. 

He slowly pulled you onto his lap. As you settled yourself, he kissed you gently across your jaw. He murmured your name against your skin and kissed your lips once, soundly, before he pulled back enough to stare you down. 

You shrank under his intense gaze, as your opinion of yourself was currently the cause of his ire. Normally an intense gaze from him meant you were the object of his desire, not because he disagreed with you so strongly. 

“I thought I made it clear to you that your size is something I appreciate about you, little wife,” he said, his voice gravely and low. 

You buried your face in his neck and hair to hide your embarrassment at his insinuations. 

“And, your lack of grace from time to time amuses me. I am always more than happy to catch you should you fall,” he teased as his hands ran up your sides. 

You giggled then squealed in surprise as he flipped the two of you over so you were beneath him. 

“Do you believe me, my sweet little wife or do you need more convincing?” he purred. 

“Oh gods, maybe more convincing,” you breathed out. 

He smirked and kneeled before you as he began to push up your skirts. 

“How about we work on mastering what we tried last night,” he said as you pulled off his eye patch. 

You cared so deeply for him, this man, your kind husband, who soothed your insecurities and in the past had allowed you to soothe his. 

“Yes, yes, yes,” you gasped as his mouth reached the most sensitive part of yourself.

[nhasablogg]

And I'll watch

Fandom: Little Women

Characters: Jo, Laurie

Summary: Jo is reminiscing about the past.

A/N: Not a tickle fic per se, as there is not actual tickling in it, but references to it.

Warnings: Mentions of death and grief.

Words: 700

Jo goes to seek her siblings out when it’s snowing. Feeling cold this morning, not at all like her younger self who would be plunging out into the flakes, forming her body into snow angels, digging her hands into the fresh snow. She feels older, strangely enough, and not necessarily in a good way. She misses Beth. Misses Beth so terribly much that she spends the first few minutes of the day by her piano, running her fingertip over the dust. She can hear Meg’s family outside, having come over fresh and early. She will joke, later, that the kids woke her up and that she’s angry with them, and they will giggle because they will not believe her.

She smiles at the thought. She misses Meg, too. It’s not the same when she never has time for her, but Jo will never complain. Not anymore.

“I was about to say,” a voice suddenly pipes up behind her and she jumps and snaps around to look at Laurie who looks apologetic.

“Say what?” she asks, moving her hair out of her face. It’s long again. Tangled and keeping her warm.

“That I knew that I could find you here,” he says, shaking his head. “Although I’ve never seen you at this piano before.”

“Well, things change.” She turns around again, placing her hands on the keys without pressing down. She hears him moving and isn’t surprised when he sits down beside her. Neither of them play, but he puts a hand next to hers, briefly.

A lot has changed with them too.

“How’s Amy?”

“Oh, you know. Extremely pregnant and somehow everything is my fault.” He says it with fondness in his voice. If she looks at him, she’s sure to find a smile to match it.

“That sounds like Amy,” she replies with a laugh. “It’s strange, seeing my sisters become mothers.” Beth never having the chance.

“I’m sure you’ll join them one day.”

The sound she makes and the responding one Laurie lets out takes her back to childhood, where any obligation made them snort. As if life wouldn’t catch up to them. As if the two of them were immune to it.

“Don’t ever threaten me like that again,” she says, shuddering, and Laurie laughs for longer than he has the past year. Around her, anyway.

“Sorry,” he says and doesn’t press for more. Doesn’t ask her if she really doesn’t want marriage and kids, and why that is. What else she wants. He knows. Jo knows that he knows. That was why it pissed her off so much that he had convinced himself they loved each other. She wasn’t sure she had forgiven him for it yet, but she was too tired for proper grudges.

She finally looks at him. He looks tired too, and so she bumps their shoulders together and wonders if he’s told Amy of the way he likes having his back tickled when he has a hard time sleeping, or if Amy’s told him of how she likes having her hair played with when her mind’s spinning. But maybe these things don’t apply anymore. Jo has to remind herself that the versions of her loved ones that she knows best are probably expired. That just because she’s holding onto the past doesn’t mean they are.

Amy used to hate being tickled when she was little, but Jo witnessed Laurie wrestle her to the couch not many months ago, making her giggle without having his life threatened. But then again, itäs different having your husband mess with you compared to your older sisters. For Jo it’s the opposite. She let her sisters see the weaker side of her, the one where she giggles and begs for mercy, while Laurie’s tickle attempts always resulted in her elbowing him as hard as she could and then turning the tables. She reckons that is the difference. She reckons that is why she couldn’t marry him. Among other things.

She looks at him and knows he’s happy. And she will be happy, too, one day. She will let someone tickle her silly, one day. And Laurie will watch just like she is now, and he will be happy for her like she is for him.

One day.

[fluffyprettykitty]

Hi I was wondering if you wrote a fic about Joaquin Torres and a brothel?

pairing: inexperienced!joaquin torres x sew worker fem!reader

warnings: heavy nipple play, premature ejaculation, lovebites wc: 700

a/n: Hi Nonnie, thank you so much for this req! last ask for my sleepover and letting you all know my requests will be open for now

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"Just relax, sit back." You instruct the young man as he sits back on the bed looking nervously at you.

"What's your name, love?"

"Jo-Joaquin." He says shyly and shallows. "I-I've never-"

"Shhh, sh." You say opening up a bottle. "It's alright, I can take good care of you. First you can tell me what you like and I'll make sure you'll get to have it."

"I-i..." He mumbles a little looking slightly embarrassed. "E-everything. I like everything."

"Hm-hm." You nod your head looking at him as you place the bottle of lube by the bed table. "When you look at a girl, what do you notice first?"

He looks down before locking eyes again. "Definitely the behind."

"Nice, typical for a man."

"Y-yeah. Not that, you know, tits ain't nice but yeah."

"How about I sit down next to you and you can point out to me all things you like?"

"S-s-sure." You sit down next to him, your loose corset exposing your breasts to him making him immediatelly lock eyes with them.

"You can touch them, you know. All yours." Joaquin shallows hard and his eyes lighten up, with peculiar enthusiasm he cups your breasts and smiles.

"They are very soft. Very very soft."

"Yeah very easy to sleep on." Joaquin laughs and he looks so handsome like that. "How about you loosen up your belt a little bit to have more breathing space?" You point out clearly seeing the tent in his pants. He obliges and loosens the belt of his army pants.

"How about taking off your boots, pretty boy?"

"Yes, yes, of course." Once he is done he comes back to the bed just as you are running your fingers over your body and he is looking at you his mouth open. He hesitates for a moment but then he goes for it and cups your breasts again.

You know you have to play it well, one movement and he'd cum right on his dick and you want this to be pleasurable for him.

"Go ahead and loosen my strings, you want to seem them jiggle, don't you?"

Joaquin frantically nods and does as you say loosen the strings of your corset until your breasts are free, slipping on his hands. He looks at them in awe before cupping them again and squeezing them. He starts circling your nipples in awe, pinching them slightly.

"Go ahead, suck them." You encourage him and he dives right in, wrapping his lips around your nipple and sucking slowly. He looks at peace, his dick painfully pointing in his boxers. You want to suck him so bad, but he will only spill the moment your lips go near him. He reaches out inside, grabbing his length as he continues sucking on your nipple, positioning himself accordingly.

He managed to do this for ten minutes switching from nipple to nipple, making you also very wet, his hand notoriously not going anywhere else.

"Are you close, baby boy?" You ask him as begins to whine around your nipple. "Take it all off and show me your cock, baby, I wanna see." Joaquin lets go of your nipple, pushing down his pants and boxers fast, his cock, leaking pre cum sprinting fast against his stomache.

"Where do you want it?" You ask him, reaching out for his cock, only slightly touching it with the tip of your fingers as he groans at the feelings.

"T-t-tits. Please." You grab his length and begin to pump, coming closer to his cock as he begins to moan. "That's my good boy, come on, do it for me." One, two more strokes and he is cumming on your breasts, spilling white strings of cum with an incredibly whiny voice. His chest rises up and down as he tries to gain his composure.

"Lay down and once you calm a little, I got plenty more things to show you, pretty boy."

Doesn't take him long to get hard again.

[im-a-real-tough-kid]

I feel like i need to say more about Little Women so here goes.....

EXTREMELY BORING AND DISAPPOINTING BOOK. God knows how I finished this in SIX FUCKING MONTHS. I skipped so much stuff because it added literally nothing to the story. But I kept going because 'there must bs SOMETHING that makes this book so popular, right??' well NO.

Meg has no personality except being 'a good housewife'. I sort of liked Jo but then she goes and gives up writing for a random old man who likes her(?????) . Beth's death was boring and soooo unrealistic and I don't know why she was in the book itself. Amy was simply infuriating. 'I'll be an elegant woman and marry a rich man and please the society', what kind of message is that???? (And this is supposed to be an empowering book???)

And their Marmee, who is always preaching everyone left and right and tries to teach her girls a lesson...all of it is just so dull😭. They are extremely poor but they give their Christmas food to someone even poorer than them. There is no portrayal of exactly how much money they have because they always get on well and hold parties and go to picnics??? And yet they are poor?

The four girls don't seem to be like sisters at all. Amy (or was it beth, i don't remember?) BURNS Jo's book, she has a minor outrage, then Amy starts drowning so Jo FORGIVES HER FOR BURNING HER GODDAMN BOOK?? I mean yes ofc you don't want your sister to die but those two things are totally unrelated, how can you forgive her for destroying your hardwork just because she was about to die?

And NOW comes the most senseless part of the whole book- Amy and Laurie ending up together. Biggest WTF? moment in the book because i had been ROOTING FOR JO AND LAURIE the moment they became friends😭. They had so much chemistry and were definitely good for each other. I didn't really understand why she rejected him and later regretted it.

But how did he start loving AMY of all people??? She was mourning her sister's death and comes and hugs him and suddenly his feelings have changed? One moment he was sulking about being rejected by Jo, now he's falling for Amy and marrying her?

Then comes the even bigger plot twist, Jo marries the professor, who is 15 years older than her and who made her give up writing stories. I don't even have words for this.

All in all, it was a very difficult read. It was just a bunch of different stories packed together in 700 pages, of which I skipped about 100. It all just came down to the women always needing men and fitting with the stereotypes of the society and being incapable of doing anything on their own. Probably the worst book I ever read.

Also, this was my first 'classic' and I've been hugely disappointed. So I need GOOD classic recs, please help.

[stefancrypto1]

Interacțiunea mea cu MoonWings

Am dat de proiectul MoonWings în urmă cu aproximativ 2 luni, prin niște recomandări de la niște investitori mulțumiți de serviciile lor și m-am hotărât să încep și eu. Am auzit doar păreri bune despre ei și am decis să îmi analizez cu atenție site-ul, whitepaper-ul și să mă documentez despre ei. Am prins un loc în proiectul DAO, achiziționând un pachet de 700 de dolari, care îmi producea zilnic 49 de dolari timp de 30 de zile.

După această investiție, am fost inclus în grupul premium al proiectului, unde am avut ocazia să interacționez cu ceilalți investitori. Am primit mai multe detalii despre roadmap-ul proiectului, capitalul investit în acesta, care era la acea vreme de aproximativ 290.000 de dolari. Deși încă nu am prins un loc în proiectele Private Sale, nu mă grăbesc, prefer să iau totul încet și să urmăresc cu atenție evoluția proiectului.

Sunt foarte mulțumit de profesionalismul și seriozitatea echipei MoonWings, care au reușit să revoluționeze lumea investițiilor crypto. Înainte de a-i descoperi, am primit doar tepe și nimic serios la acest nivel. Așadar, dacă sunteți în căutarea unei oportunități serioase de investiții în crypto, vă recomand cu cea mai mare încredere MoonWings.

În cele două luni de la investiția mea inițială de 700 de dolari, am obținut un profit semnificativ. Vă atașez mai jos o poză cu portofelul meu, care demonstrează că investiția a fost una de succes. Sunt încântat să vă împărtășesc experiența mea pozitivă cu MoonWings și sper că acest articol vă va fi de folos dacă sunteți în căutarea unei oportunități de investiții în crypto.

Site: www.moonwingsinvestments.com

[unclevladscorner]

Trans author in need of assistance

My good friend Gabe has been on a wild journey these last couple of months. While he's almost at the end of it, he still has about $700 worth of expenses to cover before he can get into his new housing situation.

You can always buy Gabirel Hargraves' books, join his Patreon or give through his ko-fi as well.

[karvoja]

Tokio–Karkkila–Tokio

Kun ryhmä japanilaisia Aki Kaurismäki -faneja saapuu pakettimatkalle Karkkilaan, tavoitteena on nähdä niin paljon Kaurismäki-kohteita kuin mahdollista – sekä toivon mukaan itse fanituksen kohde.

JOSSAIN täällä Irma kävi miehen kanssa sieniretkellä.

Kello on kahdeksan aamulla, ja ryhmä japanilaisia turisteja tähyää alas Ruuhilammen näköalapaikalta Karkkilassa.

Samoissa metsissä on kuvattu kohtaus Aki Kaurismäen elokuvaan Mies vailla menneisyyttä, jossa Pelastusarmeijan sotilas Irma ja muistinsa menettänyt mies kohtaavat ja rakastuvat.

Parikymmentä vannoutunutta Kaurismäki-fania on saapunut Tokiosta pakettimatkalle Karkkilaan.

Ensimmäinen etappi on aamukävely ja piknik Ruuhilammella. Kävellessä on maisteltu mustikoita ja kuultu Kaurismäen avohakkuuvastaisuudesta.

Matkaopas on karkkilalaisen Kino Laika -elokuvateatterin omistaja Mika Lätti. Elokuvateatterin toinen omistaja on itse Aki Kaurismäki, mutta hän ei ainakaan vielä näyttäydy faneilleen.

Ohjaaja on rakentamassa samana iltana aukeavaa Kaihon kultamaa -valokuvanäyttelyä elokuvateatterin tiloihin.

Mutta näyttelyavajaiset kuuluvat pakettimatkan ohjelmaan. Ehkä Kaurismäki vielä löytyy. "Kaikenlaista hienoa tulee tapahtumaan tänään, lupaan sen", Lätti sanoo matkaajille.

MENEILLÄÄN on ensimmäinen matkatoimiston järjestämä Kaurismäki-teemainen matka Karkkilaan. Reissun hintalappu on 468 000 jeniä eli noin 2 700 euroa. Pakettimatkaa järjestävän Fintourin nettisivuilla japanilaisten Kaurismäki-fanitus on nimetty Aki-maniaksi.

Japanilaisten erityisen innokkaan fanituksen puolesta puhuvat muun muassa Japaniin perustetut Kaurismäki-teemaiset kahvilat ja ravintolat sekä Kuolleille lehdille omistettu nettisivu.

Kaurismäen Japani-suosio on näkynyt Kino Laikassa Mika Lätin arvion mukaan noin puolentoista vuoden ajan.

Hän kertoo, että Karkkilassa käy lähes viikoittain yksittäisiä japanilaisia Kaurismäki-faneja. "Kun ne näkevät Akin, ne meinaavat pökrätä."

Laikassa on vieraillut esimerkiksi kiotolaisen Suomi-baarin pitäjä.

Hän toi tuliaisena Helsingin metroreittejä muistuttavan kartan, jossa pysäkkien nimet on korvattu Kaurismäen elokuvien suomen- ja japaninkielisillä nimillä.

TÄLLÄ nelipäiväisellä matkalla kierretään Kaurismäen elokuvien kuvauspaikkoja niin Karkkilassa kuin Helsingissäkin.

Matkalaisille on tehty myös "Laika-bingo". Siihen on listattu Kaurismäen elokuvista tuttuja kasvoja, joihin saattaa t��rmätä pakettimatkan aikana. Kärjessä on Aki Kaurismäen nimi, mutta myös esimerkiksi Lätti löytyy bingosta, koska hän vilahtaa Toivon tuolla puolen -elokuvassa.

Pakettimatkailijoiden aikataulu on tiukka.

Bussi on kuljettanut HelsinkiVantaan lentokentälle laskeutuneet japanilaiset Karkkilan Tehtaan hotellin pihaan jo aamukuudeksi.

Wakana Sekiyama kertoo, että lentokoneessa vietetyn yön aikana ei juuri nukuttu. Väsymys on kuitenkin vähäistä innostuksen rinnalla. Hän odottaa eniten kuvauspaikkojen näkemistä.

Mikä Kaurismäen elokuvissa on hänestä parasta? "Tunnen oloni onnelliseksi", hän vastaa.

Kun pakettimatkalle osallistuvalta Ko Murakamilta puolestaan kysyy parasta Kaurismäen elokuvaa, hän kaivaa puhelimeltaan esiin kuvan Suomi-baarin pitäjän Karkkilaankin tuomasta metrokartasta ja osoittaa suunnilleen Tapiolan kohtaa. Tällä kartalla pysäkin nimi on Varjoja paratiisissa.

Murakami on roskakuski – niin kuin elokuvan päähenkilö Nikanderkin.

Murakamin kumppanin Kazuyo Kusumin suosikkielokuva löytyy metrokartasta Siilitien suunnilta: Kauas pilvet karkaavat. Se tuo kuulemma toivoa.

RUUHILAMMEN näköalapaikalla raparperipiirakat ja laatikollinen mansikoita pitävät matkailijoiden nälän kurissa.

Piknikviltin välittömään läheisyyteen istahtanut Yoshito Shimamura on syömisen lisäksi keskittynyt valokuvaamaan tarjoiluja. Hän omistaa Japanissa leipomon.

Shimamuraa on auttanut leipomon perustamisessa ystävä, joka omistaa Tokiossa kahvipaahtimon nimeltä Tatjana. Paikka on nimetty Kaurismäen Pidä huivista kiinni, Tatjana -elokuvan mukaan.

Sanojensa painoksi Shimamura kaivaa kassistaan paahtimon nimellä ja logolla varustetun huivin.

OSA japanilaisista on ihaillut Kaurismäkeä vuosikymmeniä, Leningrad Cowboys -elokuvista ja Kauas pilvet karkaavat -leffasta asti, mutta matkalla on mukana myös faneja, joiden ensimmäinen Kaurismäki-kokemus on ollut Kuolleet lehdet viime talvena.

Muutama sanoo fanittavansa ennen kaikkea elokuvien musiikkia.

Matkan tulkkina ja oppaana toimiva Etsuro Endo kertoo olleensa fani jo ainakin 30 vuotta. Suomessa asuva Endo on opetellut aikoinaan suomea pitkälti Kaurismäen elokuvien avulla. Nyt hän tulkkaa niiden herättämiä tuntemuksia vaivatta vuoroin suomesta japaniksi ja päinvastoin. "Akin elokuvat on aika surullisia, mutta jossain on aina pieni toivo ja lämpö", hän kuvailee.

Endo on ollut mukana japanilaisen Aki-faniyhteisön toiminnassa ja hän tulkkasi Alma Pöystiä Kuolleiden lehtien Japaninkiertueella. Lisäksi Endo on näytellyt avustajaroolin Toivon tuolla puolen -elokuvassa – siksi hänestäkin saa merkinnän bingoon.

PALUUMATKALLA näköalapaikalta turistibussi karkkilalaisen metsän reunalla herättää ohikulkijoissa jonkinasteista ihmetystä.

Jos Karkkila on japanilaisturisteille jokseenkin erikoinen nähtävyys, niin on myös japanilaisten matkailijoiden ryhmä karkkilalaisille. Etsuro Endon mielestä Karkkilalla olisi potentiaalia suurempaankin turistivirtaan. "Akin maailman vetovoima on ihan uskomaton. Karkkila on suuri mahdollisuus."

Ainakin Aki-maanisesta näkökulmasta Karkkilassa tuntuu tosiaan riittävän nähtävää. Sen huomaa, kun ohjelmassa on vuorossa Karkkilan ympäriajo.

Tavalla tai toisella Aki Kaurismäkeen liittyviä maamerkkejä putkahtelee bussimatkustajien silmien eteen jatkuvalla syötöllä. Ensimmäisenä nähdään Kaurismäen These Boots -musiikkivideosta tuttu hyppytorni Pyhäjärven uimarannalla.

Mika Lätti kertoo, että rannan viereisellä tenniskentällä on vastikään pelattu valurautapannutenniksen MM-kullasta, mikä herättää bussissa hilpeyttä. Voittajaksi julistettiin Jukka Rautiai- nen, joka on näytellyt pieniä rooleja useammassa Kaurismäen elokuvassa.

Sitten ohi vilahtaa omakotitalo, jonka piha näkyy Mies vailla menneisyyttä -elokuvassa.

Jaloittelemaan noustaan Myllykoskella, jonne Shemeikka ja Maria menevät kesäretkelle elokuvassa Juha. Myöhemmin kierroksella turistibussi huristelee Turuntietä, jota Pidä huivista kiinni, Tatjanan avauskohtauksessa ajetaan moottoripyörillä.

Bussista kuuluu jatkuvasti oivaltavia äännähdyksiä. Tutulta näyttää.

YMPÄRIAJO päättyy lounaan jälkeen Kino Laikan elokuvasaliin.

Siellä esitetään Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö sekä Kaurismäen lyhytelokuvia. Salin punaisilla penkeillä turistiryhmä alkaa myös olla fanituksensa kohteen välittömässä läheisyydessä, sillä Lätti on juuri nähnyt yhä illan näyttelyavajaisia valmistelevan Kaurismäen vilaukselta.

Vaikka Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö ei ole esimerkki erityisen toiveikkaasta elokuvasta, pakettimatkailijat tuntuvat olevan yhtä mieltä siitä, että nimenomaan toiveikas tunnelma puhuttelee Kaurismäen tuotannossa.

Kun Ryosei Murabayashi näki Kuolleet lehdet elokuvateatterissa, hänelle jäi mieleen ennen kaikkea sen onnellinen loppu. Kielimuurinkin takaa hän pystyy tarkentamaan, miksi: "Love, love, love." Rakkaus, rakkaus, rakkaus.

PERIMMÄINEN syy japanilaisten Aki-maniaan on Mika Lätin mukaan mysteeri Kaurismäelle itselleenkin. Ilmiö otetaan kuitenkin lämmöllä vastaan.

Lähes 8 000 kilometrin matkan päästä saapuviin faneihin on Laikassa varauduttu: elokuvateatterin nettisivut ovat nykyään saatavilla osittain japaniksi.

Karkkilassa toivotaan, ettei ensimmäinen pakettimatka jäisi ainoaksi.

Kenties japanilaisessa faniyhteisössä haaveillaan samasta – ainakin kun neitsytpakettimatkailijat palaavat Japaniin Kaurismäen nimikirjoitukset mukanaan.

Elokuvanäytöksen jälkeen fanit nimittäin kohtasivat idolinsa valokuvanäyttelyn avajaisissa. Bingo!

[pupucino]

pitääkö jo antaa periks? mulla on 1600 seuraajaa, joista noin 700 on botteja D: