#love from oq 2022

[vampnerd23]

Fanfic/WIP list

I had this on my last blog, and it had a super long introduction, but since that blog is gone....this will probably be short. I was just glad I had the list on a google doc. Some fics are started, some are not. Some fics are already posted, some are not. A choice few are finished, but most of them are not. Links to come later as I get time. For now, here's my archive of our own link and my fanfiction.net link.... List is below the 'keep reading line' for convenience.

Agents of SHIELD

Untitled Daisy/Sousa post s7 drabble

The Flash

Snowbarry

Untitled seasons 1-6 AU w/ original child

Snowbarry Week 2019

Unravel Me

Our Souls They Blend

But We Still, Hold On

Some Dumb Stubborn Martyr Hero Sacrifice Thing

SB Valentine 2020 - We’ll Be Counting Stars

SB Week 2021

Your Faith Walks on Broken Glass

SB April Minibang 2020 - Sat by the River and It Made Me Complete

SB April Minibang 2021 - The Hardest Part of Ending (Is Starting Again)

SB April Minibang 2022 - Tiny Boxes For Memories

SB April Minibang 2023 - Still Believe in Fairytales

Untitled Season 2 WIP

Snowstorm

A Promise Made

Snowells

Snowells Week 2020

Open Mind For A Different View

For Your Love, All You Are

I’ll Take You To The Dark Side

Keeping Up With The Wells’s 

The Stars in the Sky Illuminate Below

Want You To Stay

Snowells Week 2021

how can I stand here with you (and not be moved by you)?

You should stay away from the cheese curds - they’re addicting

Days Dark as Ebony Nights

Snowells Week 2023

Things We’re All Too Young To Know 

Untitled Sherloque/Cailtin season 5 WIP

Untitled Harry/Caitlin season 4 WIP

Untitled EoWells/Caitlin season1/season5 timetravel WIP

Killervibe

Killervibe Week 2020 - Celebrate Me Home

Arrowverse Quarantine Fic Exchange - Yes It’s True (Happy to Be Stuck With You)

Gen/Character Fics

Between the Lines - Caitlin and Frost season 6 conversation

Arrow

Olicity

Caught in the Riptide

In this Grief

Once Upon A Time

Amelia

Outlaw Queen

OQ Prompt Weeks:

Yours, Mine, & Ours

Home Sweet Home

A Glimmer of Hope

A New Beginning

Rose Petals

Leap of Faith

Operation Lupin

Fireworks

Shot Through the Heart

Operation New Adventure

Knight in Shining Dimples

OQ Fix It Week 2017:

Feather Light

Family Reunion

Of Arrows and other Remnants

Tea for Milady

A Bond in Time

The Heart of the Matter

Safe & Sound

Right Here With You

Vampire Diaries/The Originals

Delena

So Far Away

On the Corner of First and Amistad

Tell Me What You Want Me To Say

Holding On And Letting Go

Untitled season 1 Delena/Steferine WIP

Untitled season 4 DE WIP

Untitled AU DE WIP

Soul Bound

On Another Love

What Are You Prepared To Do

Rebuilding Blocks - single parent/therapist AU

Bonds Unbroken

Future AU

August Rush AU

Blended AU

Cure AU

Friends with kids AU

Family AU

Untitled future season 4 AU

The Devil Inside AU

Life as We Know It AU

Untitled season 1 warped WIP

Stelena

Where’d You Go

Fading Light

Need You Now

Datherine

Back to Humanity

Elejah

Apart No More

Steroline

Steferine

Lights Will Guide You Home

Together Again - season 1 reincarnation 

Kalijah

TVD Season 4 AU

Only For Her

Starting Over

Together in Normalcy

Unexpected

Diabolical Sacrifices

Untitled Klaroline/Kalijah in NOLA WIP

Klayley

Untitled WIP

Darkness I Became

Haylijah

Untitled AU

Hayley/Stefan

Spiraling Out of Control

Untitled AU

Gen/Character/multicouple works

Miss Mastermind - Katherine fic

Raising Jenna - Raising Helen AU 

TVD/Originals foster fic - Katherine was Hayley’s foster parent

Katherine season 2 fic

Charmed

Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel

Bangel

Always

Divine Interference

Uncursed

Annie

Waking Up

Redemption Fulfilled

Spuffy

Untitled season 5/6 WIP

Gilmore Girls

One Tree Hill

Naley

Once Upon a December

Leyton

Remembering Forever

Fringe

Untitled Polivia WIP

Crossovers

TVD Katherine Pierce/The Flash Killer Frost WIP

TVD Katherine Pierce/Angel Angel - Wait For You

TVD/Charmed WIP - Prophecy Girls

Buffyverse Spike/ One Tree Hill Brooke - 

Original works

TVD Fanfic conversion to original short story

Original guardian angels novel

[at-the-sign-of-the-fox-n-phoenix]

I appreciate how angry you are that people are scamming folx.  Your kind heart made my day.  AND!  You are SO RIGHT that some education is needed here! Taking your advice, I used Google and Google Scholar for this research.

WHAT I LEARNED:

1. The fucked up wellness influencers are often, though not always, neofascist girlies (of all genders) trying to get people with chronic medical problems that are UNDER INVESTIGATED & UNDER TREATED to feel appreciated as a recruitment tactic.  It’s a Problem.  And we all know a fascist Loves a GOOD GRIFT.

2.  The stuff that isn’t about vaginas and shit is actually about stuff that is UNDER INVESTIGATED & UNDER TREATED.  3.  Personal note on the subject of GETTING OUTDOORS AND TOUCH THE GRASS:  Most of the consequences of having under investigated and under treated invisible disabilities like the various types of arthritis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and many others limit how much and what kind of outside time you can do.  How much gardening you can do, for example.  I am in CONSTANT pain that varies in intensity.  My hands sometimes stop working altogether.  Me trying to prune a bush in my garden is not practical.  Me trying to weed my garden, or harvest there isn’t always something I can do.  This year, I couldn’t harvest my radishes in time due to a pain flare, so now i have the most BEAUTIFUL radish flowers!  Enjoying them, too.  So pretty!  So yeah, many of us who need some of the things on your list of scams the wellness influencers were making up really do feel very disconnected from Earth BECAUSE OF OUR INVISIBLE DISABILITIES. 

4.  NOW TO THE GOOGLE LINKS! 4a.  AIP is the AutoImmune Protocol used to identify what is making someone with an autoimmune illness unwell and here is what the CLEVELAND CLINIC (not a ‘fraudster’) says about it. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/aip-diet-autoimmune-protocol-diet/ Autoimmune diseases are horrible and most people tell people who have them that we just want ATTENTION.  No, we just don’t want to die because our body think our body is THE ENEMY.  Quite often the result is INFLAMMATION and CHRONIC PAIN which varies in intensity and location in the body.

4b.  The MAYO CLINIC’s thoughts on those annoying gluten free people (i’m one of them, alas!): https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/celiac-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20352220

4c.  There is clearly some debate among medical researchers about how valid the nightshade allergy might be as an across the board thing: (apologies, that these are behind paywalls)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10620-023-07955-9 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-88473-4_3 4d.  LINK TO THE TOMATO ALLERGY SEARCH I JUST DID ON GOOGLE SCHOLAR:  https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=tomato+allergy&btnG= apparently some people WILL die of eating a tomato, trust me I was surprised, too. 4e.  LINK TO THE DIETARY TRIGGER NIGHTSHADE VEGETABLES SEARCH I JUST DID ON GOOGLE SCHOLAR:  https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=dietary+trigger+nightshade+vegetables&oq=NIGHTSHADE+VEGETABLE

and nightshades seem to be causing inflammation issues all over the place which is one of the hallmarks of many autoimmune disorders.

5.  ON THE VAG NONSENSE - You’re right that stuff is a scam and it can make your body unhappy if you use them. 

6.  In case you want reliable, experiment and research based understandings of herbs as used in Germany - you can read:  https://shop.elsevier.com/books/the-complete-german-commission-e-monographs/blumenthal/978-0-9655555-0-0

which is THE COMPLETE GERMAN COMMISSION E MONOGRAPHS.  This book relates all the science done on each of 300 herbs commonly used by German herbalists.  Helpful.  Very science.  Much research.  COOL.  7.  LINK TO THE GOOGLE SCHOLAR SEARCH FOR ‘AMERICAN HERBAL MEDICINE RESEARCH’  https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2022&q=american+herbal+medicine+research&hl=en&as_sdt=0,48 8.  FINAL THOUGHTS Hope that helps everybody understand some of the stuff that is REAL that is still being researched and discussed and debated by actual medical experts and researchers.  

I know and deeply appreciate that you didn’t intend to throw disabled people without proper access to doctors who give a shit under the bus.  

Those of us with these oddball autoimmune diseases are overwhelmingly not taken seriously by doctors.  We are objects of intense interest to RESEARCH SCIENTISTS, so if we catch one of THAT SORT’s EYE we are guinea pigs.  

We spend a lot of time on Google Scholar finding everything to do with our WTF is wrong now experiences and then we bring that full ass note book to the doctor, who says 'oh you really want attention don’t you’ and how he knows best and won’t even talk to the authors of the study to see if your situation and the ones they’re investigating are a match.  It’s horrid and common.  ESP FOR WOMEN, and even more so for women of color.  

The wellness industry sprung up at first to serve those of us that the medical people generally don’t take seriously.  And then it morphed into a money grab by icky sorts.  Nothing more horrifying than watching people trying to heal while enduring medical neglect get coopted into weird toxic delusional shit.

i hate you alternative wellness natural chemical free vegan non-GMO herbal intuitive whole foods healing raw high vibrational plant based cleanse gluten free superfood supplement blend bullshit!!!! You're not healthier and more balanced and connected to the Earth because your smoothies are full of unidentifiable green and brown powders you got from a subscription box to ✨URTH-CRUNCH VAGINAL ENLIGHTENMENT✨!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ariestess]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Maleficent/Robin Hood Characters: Evil Queen | Regina Mills, Robin Hood (Once Upon a Time), Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Non-Magical, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Bar/Pub, Hyperion Heights (Once Upon a Time), Established Relationship, Threesome - F/F/M, Anniversary, Romantic Fluff, Kisses, Love From OQ | Outlaw Queen Secret Admirer (Once Upon a Time), Love From OQ 2022 | Outlaw Queen Secret Admirer 2020 (Once Upon a Time), Mild Language, Swearing Series: Part 4 of no one will mind Summary:

On the second anniversary of the life-changing date that Mal set up for Robin and Regina, the trio make a profound adjustment to their relationship and their lives.

[kmomof4]

I posted 2,210 times in 2022

102 posts created (5%)

2,108 posts reblogged (95%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@jrob64

@cssns

@hollyethecurious

@snowbellewells

@pirateherokillian

I tagged 2,199 of my posts in 2022

#cs ff - 551 posts

#captain swan - 299 posts

#killian jones - 234 posts

#otp forever - 161 posts

#captain hook - 147 posts

#enchanted swans - 139 posts

#colin odonoghue - 130 posts

#cssns22 - 118 posts

#krystal writes - 91 posts

#kwistowee - 76 posts

Longest Tag: 100 characters

#yeah emma… cos the natural thing is to grab someone by the waist and pull them tight to your body 👀

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Dance With the Gypsy: A Red Hunter story in the Universe of A Family Affair

I wanted to get Ruby and Graham posted in January, and here I am slipping it in just under the wire!!! Yay, me!!!

As you can see, Dance With the Gypsy is dropping as its own fic instead of simply a chapter in Love Between the Pages. When I saw how long this fic was and how long the OQ and Snowing portions were shaping up to be, I thought it’d be much better to make it a series instead. The series is named A Family Affair and will include the love stories of all the siblings introduced in LBtP. I cannot BEGIN to express the joy y'all have given me with all the love shown this verse. It means more than I can ever say!! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!

And now to give credit where credit is due. DWtG wouldn’t be here without the love, care, and attention of @snowbellewells​, @jrob64​, and @hollyethecurious​. Both for the fic and for me. They were there to lend me their eyes, their ears, and their unending support. Thank you so so much, ladies!!

And to all of you readers. Thank you again for all the love you’ve already shown this verse. I hope you enjoy this new offering and let me know what you think!!

Summary: Graham Humbert swore off love long ago- determined never to fall in love, never to marry. And that worked great. Until he met Ruby Lucas. What's he supposed to do when she sets her eyes on him? Maybe falling in love isn't so bad after all...

Rating: M (smut)

Words: 11k

Tags: Inspired by Dance to the Piper of The O’Hurleys by Nora Roberts, Broadway, Smut

Fic on ao3

Series on ao3

Under the cut, unless Tumblr ate it.

From a young age, Ruby was a dancer. When she got her first pair of tap shoes at the age of four, she began dreaming of a time when she would be a star on Broadway in New York City. All these years later, she was finally here.

She had come to New York at the age of eighteen, not long after Emma had left the family to marry NASCAR darling Neal Cassidy. Ruby supported herself by waiting tables in the theater district, in between dance classes and auditions, falling into bed in the wee hours of the morning before getting up and doing it all over again. She survived on Starbucks and reduced or free meals at the restaurants where she worked. She finally got her first chorus line contract after being in New York for three years, and her first lead about four years after that, allowing her to finally quit her waitressing job for good. Now she was on her second leading role after being in the show Six for two and half years.

Secrets would be opening in Philadelphia on the 4th of July weekend, bankrolled by Humbert Records, the producer of the soundtracks for legacy Broadway shows like Cats and Phantom of the Opera, as well as more recent hits like The Lion King and Hamilton. Ruby was thrilled to be a part of a show with that kind of clout behind it. Of course, there was no guarantee a particular show would be a hit, but with the kind of track record Humbert Records had, and her own instincts as to the viability of the show, she was pretty confident it would have a very long, very successful run. And would only open more doors for her down the road.

~*~*~

Graham Humbert was a second generation recording mogul in New York City, having taken over after his father finally retired from the business seven years ago. His father, Maurice had founded Humbert Records as a young man in the early eighties, when Andrew Lloyd Webber decided to take a chance on a young unknown with his new musical Cats. Humbert Records had been a powerhouse in the business for decades when Graham stepped into his father’s role, and that status had been confirmed when he’d landed the soundtrack for Hamilton not long after taking the helm.

Graham loved and respected his father tremendously and wanted nothing more than to make him proud, so when his father had come to him late last year with a recommendation for a new musical and a prospective leading lady- I have a good feeling about this one, he’d said with a grin and a wink- Graham hadn’t hesitated to pursue the recording rights. Now the musical was cast and in rehearsals, so Graham had decided to drop in to watch a portion of the rehearsal with the principals of the musical.

As he sat in the darkened theater with the director and choreographer, he watched as Ruby Lucas spun across the stage in a series of small turns before leaping into the arms of her co-star, Peter Wolffe, who’d just appeared onstage for a beautiful pas de deux. Graham knew who she was, of course, he’d seen her in Six and had personally approached her to offer her the starring role after his father’s recommendation, but watching her now, her strength and beauty took his breath away.

Once the rehearsal was over, Graham was invited on stage to meet with the stars of the show. He tried to school his features as he approached them and could only hope his nerves weren’t as obvious to Ms. Lucas as they were to him.

“Graham Humbert,” the choreographer, Cora Hart, began, “I understand you’ve already met Ruby Lucas,” she said, nodding at the star before turning to her partner. “May I introduce Peter Wolffe?”

He shook hands with Peter, commending him on the scene they’d just been rehearsing before turning back to Ruby. “It’s nice to see you again, Ms. Lucas,” Graham said, extending his hand for her to take. She was gorgeous, and he hoped his palms weren’t sweating. She smiled broadly, Graham was sure he could see every one of her teeth, and took his hand. Her green eyes sparkled and he couldn’t help but return her smile.

“Call me Ruby,” she countered with a wink.

~*~*~

Over the next few weeks, Graham made several appearances at rehearsals, and every time he did, Ruby’s heart beat double time. But she was a professional and couldn’t let this little infatuation interfere with her work. It took a few times, but when Graham made his fourth appearance in the space of about a week and a half, Ruby was finally able to put him in the back of her mind and concentrate fully on her rehearsal instead of half on what was going on around her and the other half on the handsome producer sitting in the front row.

She wasn’t blind to the way he looked at her, though. Every time she snuck a glance at him, he was entirely focused on her, sending a shiver of feminine pride down her spine. And when she was dancing with Peter, his stare about drilled a hole in her head. Since it appeared her attraction was not one-sided, Ruby decided to do something about it.

When rehearsal was over, Ruby approached him.

“Checking up on your investment?” she asked him with a grin.

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40 notes - Posted January 31, 2022

#4

Hotel Neverland: A New Fic for CSSNS22

Hello everyone!!! I am so thrilled to share my entry for this years @cssns​!!!! I’ve had this in my head for a while, and I’m so excited to finally post it!!!! 

All the love and thanks to the mods for hosting another FANTASTIC event, @hollyethecurious​ who helped me get it plotted back in May when I visited, and to @profdanglaisstuff​ for her beta services and her expert advice on how to make this a little more unsettling, a little more creepy, just a little more all the way around... Thank you all so much, ladies!!!

And finally, to my artist @thesschesthair​. Mandy is an ACTUAL SAINT for her GORGEOUS artwork for this fic and I am absolutely BESIDE myself for ALL of it!!! Please go give her heaps and loads of love for her work!!! She did several banners for the fic that I had a hell of a time choosing between, so I decided, why not use them all? And then, at the eleventh hour, she did another piece of work that sent me into TOTAL SCREAMING FLAILING CONNIPTIONS. It’s a bit spoilery, so it’ll be at the end of the fic.

But now, without further ado, here we go!

Fic Summary: A CS story for the Captain Swan Supernatural Summer ‘22

Rating: M (smut)

Words: 6611

Tags: CSSNS22, Inspired by Hotel California, Ghost Story, Smut

On ao3

Under the cut, unless Tumblr ate it.

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41 notes - Posted August 19, 2022

#3

Filming start June 6!!!!!! I can’t WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIT!!!!

47 notes - Posted May 16, 2022

#2

Apologies, Dr. Jones- A New Fic by @kmomof4

Happy birthday @zaharadessert​!!!!! It’s not quite your birthday here yet, but I wanted this posted before you woke up on your special day, so here you go!! You are a dear friend and I’m so glad this fandom has brought you into my life!! I hope this fic makes your birthday even better! Love you, babe!!!

All the love and thanks to @hollyethecurious​ for encouraging me to write this in the first place and to @jrob64​ for an incredibly fast beta and for her help with the artwork! Thank you so much, ladies!!! Love y’all!!! 😘

From a post here on Tumblr by @lifeinahole27​ 

How do I explain to my professor that the reason I didn't show up to class is because in my dream I woke up and checked my email and saw that class was canceled and I believed it?

Rating: M (smut)

Words: 3865

Tags: Teacher-Student Relationship, No Power Dynamic Issues, Consensual Sex, Smut

On ao3

Under the cut, unless Tumblr ate it.

 “Where were you?” Ruby asked, sitting down across from Emma at their usual coffee and breakfast spot. They always came here after their 9am British Lit class for the food they never had time to eat before class. And more coffee. Much more coffee.

“What do you mean ‘where was I’?” she asked, taking a bite of her bear claw.

“You weren’t in class,” Ruby said, incredulously. “Where were you?”

“I went back to sleep for a little while after the alarm went off, then came here,” she informed her friend. “I figured since you weren’t home when I got up that you must have gone to the library or something.”

“Nooo,” Ruby drawled. “I was in class. Where you should have been.”

Emma’s eyes got wide, as understanding dawned. “Class wasn’t canceled?” She pulled out her phone and frantically searched through her email.

Ruby grinned. “Did you dream that class was canceled?”

Heat flooded Emma’s cheeks as she looked up at Ruby. “I could have sworn…”

Ruby clapped her hands and threw back her head, laughing loudly. “Oh, Emma,” she howled, wiping the tears from her eyes. “No, class wasn’t canceled. And Dr. Jones stopped me after class to ask where you were. He seemed quite concerned about not seeing your face this morning, or the rest of you, for that matter.” Ruby’s eyebrows wiggled salaciously. “Mm mm mmmmmm,” she hummed. “If I were you, girl, I’d get me some of that…”

More heat flooded Emma’s cheeks at Ruby’s comment. “He’s my professor, Rubes,” she said, rolling her eyes. “That’s not gonna happen.” Until the end of the semester anyway, she thought, trying to hide a smirk at the thought.

But Ruby wasn’t fooled. She knew Emma too well and wasn’t blind to the attraction between her best friend and their professor that’d been simmering all semester long.

Emma dropped her head into her folded arms on the table between them. “How am I supposed to explain this? It must have been a dream. I woke up, checked my email and saw class was canceled. So why wouldn’t I go back to sleep? Ugh!”

“Well,” her friend tried to console her, “at least you’re not gonna be penalized for missing class. And you can copy my notes.”

Emma looked back up at her. “Yeah, but I was so looking forward to today’s class. You know how much I love Tolkien.”

“And you can tell how much he loves Tolkien, too,” Ruby informed her. “I’ve never seen him so animated during a lecture. And you know, that’s saying a lot.”

“Yeah,” Emma agreed, thinking about her hot professor and how she’d never had another that kept her attention so easily, no matter what time of day the class was held, much less first thing on Monday mornings. He obviously knew and loved his subject and it translated into his lectures. But today was the introduction to several lectures on Tolkien himself, and Emma wanted to kick herself for missing it. “I’m gonna have to go and apologize to him,” she said standing and checking the time on her phone. “He’s in his office for another hour. I’ll see you later.”

Ruby smirked at her. “Uh huh,” she murmured, “an hour’s plenty of time.”

Emma rolled her eyes at her friend. “Shut up, Rubes.”

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72 notes - Posted February 16, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

A One Time Thing? A new fic for the CS Neverland New Year!

I am so excited to finally be sharing my new fic for @neverlandnewyear​!!!! This is a canon divergence from the kiss and was basically just an excuse to write Neverland smut. I hope you enjoy it and let me know what you think!! 

Thank you to the mods for hosting another great event this year!! I’m thrilled to have something new to contribute! Thank you to @hollyethecurious​ for outstanding beta services and all the ladies of the CSNLNY and CSMM discords for their support and encouragement!

Summary: A canon divergence from the Neverland kiss

Rating: M

Words: 2,220

Tags: Neverland, Smut, Canon Divergence

On ao3

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A One Time Thing?

“Perhaps you’re the one who couldn’t handle it,” he said, a sultry smirk on his face and popping the T.

Emma inhaled sharply at the way his voice dropped into a sexy croon, wrapping itself around every syllable the way she wished he would wrap around her. He made no move toward her, however, other than to hold her gaze, always letting her lead, his own eyes hooded, his cheeks and lips flushed red.

It only took a moment for her to make her decision. Grabbing the collar of that damn coat he always wore- how he didn’t melt in the Neverland heat with that blasted thing on, she’d never know- she hauled him to her and captured his lips with her own.

His stunned surprise melted as she released one side of the collar to wrap her hand around his neck, holding him to her. Her fingers buried themselves into the softness of his hair as his own hand tentatively brushed her long golden strands. The moist heat of his mouth tasted of rum with notes of leather, the sea, and sweat as their tongues tangled.

Oh, god.

Oh, no.

Oh, no, no, no, no, noooo.

Oh, yesss…

Killian’s own thoughts were barely coherent, simply losing himself in the moment. Oh, yesss… Oh, Swan… gods above, below, and all the realms between. Emma Swan, the gorgeous and bloody brilliant woman he’d follow to the ends of the earth, and had, was in his arms and she seemed determined to kill him with the way she fully possessed his mouth and held on to him as if she was drowning and he was her savior instead of the other way around. He pulled her closer into him, his hooked appendage wrapping around her waist and drawing her into where he was quickly hardening. She wasn’t relaxing her grip on his collar, her movements jerky and desperate, so he slowed his own movements down, determined to enjoy this brief interlude as much as possible in this hellscape.

Emma grabbed his collar again, her shoulders rising as she sucked in some desperately needed air before diving back in. His hook circled behind her and pushed her hips into his own, drawing a positively obscene moan from her mouth. His hard length was hitting her just right and it was all she could do to keep from grinding against him.

Her kiss grew more desperate, breathing him in as he tried to slow the pace down, his tongue caressing hers rather than dueling.

No, no, NO!!

This was not happening. She couldn’t allow it. He may be helping them find her son, he may have saved David’s life, but she would not fool herself into believing this meant anything. This was nothing more than a flirtation for him. She’d been burned before and she’d be damned if she let it happen again. But god, she really wanted him...

She grabbed his collar tighter as their lips barely parted. Killian couldn’t open his eyes yet, but their heavy breaths mingled in the space between them. Once he forced his eyes at least partially open, he couldn’t look away from her red swollen lips and heaving chest.

“That was…”

The words were barely a whisper against her lips. If she’d been any further away, she probably would have missed them. Their mouths were only millimeters apart, his nose brushing hers in the perfect position to dive back in, to hell with the consequences. But Emma couldn’t let that happen. She had to get away. She had to put some space between them.

“A one time thing,” she murmured into the moist air between them before releasing him and taking a small step back. In an instant, Killian’s gaze hardened.

“We’ll see about that, darling,” he all but growled, catching Emma off guard. He’d never been that forceful with her before, always letting her set the pace in their little dance. Sure, it didn’t stop him from flirting, but with her declaration, she would have expected him to back off, not assert himself like that.

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77 notes - Posted January 11, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

FINALLY!!!! Only took 2+hrs for the Post now button to light up...

But anyway, I'm pretty excited that most of my top posts were fics I wrote this year and that only 11 of my posts didn't have tags!

[believingispowerfulmagic]

Ready for a New Adventure (Outlaw Queen Alternate Universe fanfic)

For their 40th birthday, best friends Robin and Regina decide to celebrate with a trip to the Bahamas. It promises to be a week filled with family and friends enjoying the sun, surf and sand - a magical experience. But will feelings that refuse to stay hidden threaten their fun...or lead to the next great adventure of their lives? 

(Written for the 2022 Love From OQ Valentine’s gift exchange)

FFN | AO3 | Wattpad

[grayravenartjournal]

current super cut of some research that I've been conducting...

it's all super loose notes on what I'm looking into at the minute. I feel like more than I wanted is irrelevant to me, and that I've let things run away a little bit.

I'm hoping that by getting the research out there I'll be able to narrow my research down.

Vitamin P

New perspectives in painting

Publisher: phaidon [2002]

Artists to look up:

Glen brown, again technically so you'll have to ask

Appropriates other art and recreates it as abstracts.

Dispelling the myth of originality presumed genius of artists

Smooth surface, removing painterl texture

Commentary on most people not seeing paintings in the flesh so that’s why his work is flat, it looks the same photographed

John currin [keeeps coming up]:

Mentions glen brown, sigmar polke [came up already], martin kippenberger, alex katz

'I find a cliché and try to belive in it, try to get to where I don't laugh at it'

Historical art references, started with things that were more clearly photographs

Layering image and historical time shows the interchangeable nature of image in contemporary culture

Vladimir dubossarsky and alexander vinogradov

Style described as 'completely synthetic'

Pull from a lot of sources; socialist realism, sots art, and contemporary media culture to soviet 1950s magazines, russian advertising

Starting with russian avant garde the socialist arts, to sots art

Not just a pop art, the nature of sots art is that pop is already a phenomenon to be used

Clement greenberg, 'avant-garde and kitch'

'Unreflective enjoyment' for the audience

Cecilia edefalk

'repetition is the means of emphasising unique quality of a painting'

Works with repetition

Often only the first painting in a series is derived from a photograph, then the next painting becomes the reference for the one after

Takashi murakami

Superflat art style

Richly varied and highly imaginative

Character DOB featured in a lot of his work

Has a team behind him that help him realise his work

Avoids 'production/machine' by producing highly conceptualised and personal blend of pyschcologuy/symbology/aesthetic

Hommage to ed ruscha and jackson pollock with 'splash' series

Amorphous shapes like surrealist painters matta and miro.

Michael raedecker

 landscape artist

'im not sure why I do landscapes, maybe its because they make us seem so small'

In door and out door landscapes are empty of people and give the impression of 'pathetic phallacy'

The canvases can be sparse but laid deep with emotional charge because of the abstraction with floating elements

Embroiders his canvases, used to work for fashion designer martin margiela

[alex katz mentioned again]

Looking at the journals in the library - frieze and artforum for artists to research, instead of making a new note page I'm going to put them in here.

*

Follow up: Alex Katz

American figurative painter known for his large-scale simplified images of family and friends

From <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alex-Katz-American-artist>

1950s, lots of flat art especially in the wake of pop art.

Angles and colour choices added orginality to his work.

While abstract expressionism was thew trendy art at the time, he and a group of his friends still made figurative works.

His work isnt that interesting to me but I can appriciate the scale.

Artforum summer 2022

Laurie simmons

Found from 'clothes make the man ii', 1991 - 2021

Laurie Simmons is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker. Since the mid-1970s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, objects on legs, and people, to create photographs that reference domestic scenes.

From <https://www.google.com/search?q=laurie+simmons&rlz=1C1GCEA_enGB1028GB1028&oq=Laurie+simmons&aqs=chrome.0.0i355i512j46i512j0i512l8.1231j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8>

'café of the inner mind' series reminds me of old goosebumbs book covers? I think it's goosebumbs

Look up the goosebumbs artist

'the love doll', I think because the doll is more realistic the idea of domesticity is easier to achieve? But because she's still a doll theres something not quite right that triggers the unncanny sensation, but there is a sense of care with the doll. She doesn’t feel like a sexual object despite the title. Even the photo were shes in the bath isnt that erotic.

Andrea bianconi

[this is mostly for baltic module]

'journey of the chair'

The Sit Down To Have an Idea series first began in the artist's studio in 2016 at a very important moment in Bianconi’s life. No ideas were coming to him that day, and he felt at a creative impasse…Thus was born the manifesto chair, an idea that has touched numerous people to date, and traveled many places since its inception.

From <https://www.barbaradavisgallery.com/andrea-bianconi-journey-of-the-chair.html>

"The journey of my idea chair centers around the notion of the human experience as it relates to being a thinker. The chair becomes a metaphorical object and is representative of the birthplace of ideas; it is where one returns to imagine, think, create."

Chloe wise

'in loveliness of perfect deeds'

A bunch of portraits and a conversation pit made of door mats. Even with the zoom tool its kinda hard for me to read the description of the exhibition. I like the colours and saturation in the paintings. I think that theres a level of distortion or exaggeratoin but I don’t know if that’s just my eyes

Centre pompidou metz

The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Metz, capital of Lorraine, France - wikipedia

[in relation to Eva Aeppli}

Eva Aeppli

In 1951, she married Jean Tinguely. “I was scared that his art would suffocate me. That is why I did not want to see any of his works, nor did I want to let myself be influenced by him,” she stated.

https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/eva-aeppli/

In 1952, E. Aeppli moved to Paris with her husband and created marionettes that she sold in toy stores to pay their rent. They lived miserably

Items that need transferred over to the main file at some point.

GWEN PEARSON

FEB 9, 2015

From the article:

A nonspecific fatty acid within the bumblebee mating plug prevents females from remating

Boris Baer,* E. David Morgan,† and  Paul Schmid-Hempel*‡

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Mar 27; 98(7): 3926–3928. 

Published online 2001 Mar 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.061027998

A "spare" compensates for the risk of destruction of the elongated penis of earwigs (Insecta: Dermaptera)

Y Kamimura 1, Y Matsuo

Affiliations expand

PMID: 11771475

DOI: 10.1007/s001140100259

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11771475/

Flower symbolism as female sexual metaphor 

Andrea Frownfelter Eastern Michigan University 

Recommended Citation:

Frownfelter, Andrea, "Flower symbolism as female sexual metaphor" (2010). Senior Honors Theses & Projects. 238.

Utopias (Introduction)

Name of Author: David Evans & Noble, Richard. & Whitechapel Art Gallery,

Name of Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery

'Pictures' was the forerunner of an appropriationist current that became strongly associated with certain commercial galleries in New York

Walter Benjamin… photography destroying the aura of traditional art, as well as being an accessible, reproducible medium that had emancipatory potential; all arguments that were used to characterize photographic appropriation as an inherently subversive activity

the assumption was that appropriation  art was a key component of nothing less than The Anti-Aesthetic, Art After Modernism, Postmodemism… thoroughly institutionalized by the 1970s, and that an alternative had to be formulated urgently

Matthew Teitelbaum's preface most explicitly sees continuities in the shared attempts to represent 'the realities of a modern, urban lifestyle' and 'the fantasy and desire of a consumer age'.

The Feminist Critique section … that visual culture is one of the principal sites where gender relations are produced and reproduced;

Work often utilising stereotypes and parodies that fall into cliches

Appropriation was integral to colonialism

Postcolonialism section is the re-taking of that which was possessed without authority

Malek Alloula's book The Colonial Harem (1981 )

Vailed and unveiled tographs of women were marketed in France to show off the colony. Alloula's commentry shows that these post cards should be 'returned to sender'

Making contemporary art: how modern artists think and work

Author: linda weintraub

Publisher: Thames and hudson

[I like the way that the book is broken down, I think being able to compare different artists being written about is helping me to understand the topics a bit better]

Notes along with the chapter titles [so that I can finally hand in this godsforsaken book]

Scoping an audience:

Choosing a constituant

One for all

Thomas kinkade

Focus on a mass market, kinkade has arranged his private and public life so that it conforms to the vision of his art so that he remains palatable to the largest audience he can

There was a point in American history where 'every' home featured some of kinkade's work, he has exclusivity deals that means that his work can be sold as prints to teacups, blankets to sofa upholstery

Wants people to be able to lose themselves in the fantasy of his art work and find a home there

One for some

Issac julien

Black, gay man into kink

Makes art for himself and those that would fall into his subcultures, its niche and click-y

Some of his work excludes the audience of purpose so that they challenge some of they perceptions by acting as voyeurs

One on one

Skip schuckermann

All art works are made with the client in mind, they are personal, intractable only for the person that was in mind at the time.

The works are non permanent so they are only for one person to enjoy in that moment. The art is seen by one and the one is seen by the art

[ive not really read enough of this im not going to lie, but the headers are kinda self explanatory I think?]

COMMUNICATING WITH THE AUDIENCE

Implicit Meanings-

-Metaphor and Symbol: Michal Rovner

Explicit Meanings-

-Instructional Maps, Notes, and Diagrams: Matthew Ritchie*

Obscured Meanings

--Squirming into Truth's Cracks: Eve Andrée Laramée*

RELATING TO THE AUDIENCE

Disrupting Assumptions: Charles Ray

Instilling Confidence and Inspiring Laughter: Will Schade

Imposing Corporal Punishment: Armaldo Morales*

Providing Free Food: Rirkrit Tiravanija*

Eliciting Secrets: Gillian Wearing

SOURCING INSPIRATION

INTERNAL SOURCES OF INSPIRATION

Soul-

Genus Fusion: Jan Harrison*

Harrison makes some cool clay sculptures, I think that I'll add her to my list of artists to research so that theres a bit of linking and it'll help my context web.

Emotion--

Rage Against Female Gullibility: Pipilotti Rist

Imagination

-Inspiring Inspiration: Julian LaVerdiere*

EXTERNAL SOURCES OF INSPIRATION

Corporate Hype, Spiritual Cool, Military Heat, Global Warming: Scott Grieger*

Apartheid and Redemption: William Kentridge*

The Kaleidoscope of Black Experience: Chris Ofili

First Moments in Art History: Hubert Duprat

EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL SOURCES OF INSPIRATION

History, Geography, Sensuality, Cosmology: Thomas Joshua Cooper*

CRAFTING AN ARTISTIC "SELF"

Disclosing Biography-Unabridged and Uncensored: Nan Goldin

Inventing Biography-Fictionalized Fact and Factualized Fiction: Kim Jones

Transcending Biography--Woman of Allah, Resident of Chinatown: Shirin Nesha

Epitomizing Biography-_Single White Female: Vanessa Beecroft

EXPRESSING AN ARTISTIC ATTITUDE

Obeying Ants: Yukinori Yanagi

Spoofing Biblical Miracles to Inspire Christian Faith: Reverend Ethan Acres"

Nurturing Data Bodies: Marcia Lyons"

Communicating Through Inexpressiveness: Lorna Simpson

Being Gently Subversive: Marco Maggi

CHOOSING A MISSION

Creating Time for Busy People: Victoria Vesna*

Fostering International Reconciliation: Wend Gu*

Inducing Empathy: Tony Oursler"

Envisioning Nirvana: Mariko Mori

Supplying an Anarchist's Arsenal: Gregory Green*

Updating Humanity's Collective Dread: China Adams*

Creating a Life: Alix Lambert

MEASURING SUCCESS

Ecological Success-

Honoring Water: Betsy Damon

Pious Success--

Eliminating Meaning: Xu Bing

Political Success

-Diffusing Concentrations of Power: Daniel Joseph Martinez*

Sensual Success-

-Deflecting Media Attention: Michelle Lopez*

Strategic Success

-Creating Resistance: Matthew Barney

Gilda Williams, How to Write about Contemporary Art

Williams, G 2014, How to Write About Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson, Ltd., Available from: ProQuest Ebook Central. [3 November 2022].

Section Two: The three jobs of communicative art writing

The three jobs of communicative art-writing

All art-writers can concoct a written response to art (the easy part). Good writers show where that response came from, and convince of its validity (the hard part; discussed in more detail in ‘How to substantiate your ideas’). Communicative writing about artworks breaks down into three tasks, each answering a question:

Q 1 What is it?

( What does it look like? How is it made? What happened? ) Job 1: Keep your description of the art brief and be specific. Look closely for meaningful details or key artist decisions that created this artwork, perhaps regarding materials; size; selection of participants; placement. Be selective; avoid overindulging in minutiae, or producing list-like descriptions that are cumbersome to read and largely inconsequential to job 2.

Q 2 What might this mean?

( How does the form or event carry meaning? ) Job 2: Join the dots; explain where this meaningful idea is observed in the artwork itself. Weak art-writers will claim great meanings for artworks without tracing for the reader where these might originate materially in the work (job 1) or how they might connect to the viewer’s interests (job 3).

Q 3 Why does this matter to the world at large?

( What, finally, does this artwork or experience contribute— if anything— to the world? Or, to put it bluntly: so what? )

Job 3: Keep it reasonable and traceable to jobs 1 and 2. Answering this final question—‘so what?’—entails some original thought. And remember that the achievements of even good art can be relatively modest; that’s OK.

> The three jobs of communicative art-writing

Here is a short extract from a catalogue text by critic and curator Okwui Enwezor.

In the late 1970s, [Craigie] Horsfield commenced one of the most sustained and unique artistic investigations around the governing relationship between photography and temporality. Working with a large-format camera, he traveled to pre-Solidarity Poland, specifically to the industrial city of Krakow, then in the throes of industrial decline and labor agitation [2]. There he began shooting a series of ponderous and, in some cases, theatrically anti-heroic black-and-white photographs comprising portraits, deserted street scenes and machinery

Section Three: How to write an artist's statement 

More so critics of things to avoid than anything directly meaningful. I know not to be too cliché or to over complicate what I write.

[avaliveradio]

British Indie alternative rock band Electric Enemy Releases New Love Song 'Sweet Tooth'

Artist: Electric Enemy

New Release: Sweet Tooth

Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, Indie Rock

Sounds like: : Royal Blood, Foo Fighters, Demob Happy, Tigercub, Yonaka, Muse

Located in: : London, UK

A very unique song with a distinctive, almost hypnotic vibe and a magical mixture of vintage elements going hand in hand with modern songwriting and production.

The music we are creating is about love and lust at first sight. It is about being in love with, or very attracted to, a powerful person or force. The subject is almost vampiric in its qualities, so the song is about being completely captivated by someone's light and shade and the depth that we can find in one another.

I think we initially launched into it intending to write something fun, dirty, and moshable, however, as is ALWAYS the case in Electric Enemy, a message found its way in. Love comes in all shapes and sizes, sometimes it's Hallmark and sometimes it's a badass in a leather jacket.

Right now we are very excited about the EP schedule to come in March. "Sweet Tooth" will be part of it. And we are working on our debut album to come later this year or early next year. Yes, we are going to have a new video for "Sweet Tooth", too! To be released simultaneously on Jan 27th. We plan to play a lot of shows in 2022, but at the moment only short-term planning seems to be possible due to Covid.

About the Band...

As well as releasing for his band, singer James ‘Jim’ Lawton also uses his talents in many different songwriting and production projects with prominent UK and US artists (including Daft Punk collaborator Todd Edwards' 2021 release 'My Angel') and also collaborated on Example's album 'Some Nights Last For Days', to which he contributed production and songwriting.

Electric Enemy appeal to everyone from the juvenile Millenial who has begun to search for her way in life to the long-time Brit-Rock fan who has heard almost everything before, those who demand from music not only quality and authenticity but songs they can revel in and relate to. 

Their live shows are powerful and showcase a band with the energy and talent to conquer the world. In 2019, long-time head curator John Giddings invited them to open the main stage at the Isle Of Wight Festival. They’ve now emerged from the starting blocks of the enforced Corona break and resumed touring. Looking ahead in the calendar there are the (rescheduled) support shows with Bang Bang Romeo to come, more headline & supports shows, and festival appearances in 2022. 

Jim's voice has a distinctive sound with an incredible range and gathers around him a well-coordinated band with chemistry that feels truly 'electric'. Such an almost magical power to combine real songs with compelling melodies and the dynamics of all emotions has - unfortunately - been heard far too rarely over the last few years. So it's all the more special to see one of these rare gems enter the big stage again with Electric Enemy. Rock with a mission - it still exists and it’s here.

With their previous releases, Electric Enemy started to build an ever-growing community of fans and supporters who already helped the band to become a new member of the ‘millionaires club’ with so far two songs achieving 7 digit streams on the streaming portals. 

'Sweet Tooth’ is the fourth single from a series of releases that will combine to form an EP release coming in March 2022. Meanwhile, the band continues working on many more songs to choose from for their highly anticipated debut album.

LINKS: 

https://instagram.com/electricenemy https://facebook.com/electricenemy https://twitter.com/ElectricEnemy_ https://www.tiktok.com/@electricenemyofficial https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-7VpIf8vYeQ7dsVAZel-OQ https://spoti.fi/3nxZUSL

New Indie Music Release Radar

Take all the newest Indie music singles from our broadcast with you on the go. This list updates daily with brand new releases. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/56otky5R0otGcyVdIBt4jx?si=d60751452f004e66

The 100 | Fresh New Indie Songs 

The indie music scene is overflowing with fresh new music, follow our daily updates to discover what's happening on the Indie Music Scene.  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3beDUCLBnklkqoe4scKjY9?si=50c145efaa584eeb

Top 50 Indie Music Songwriters 

Indie musicians offer honesty in their lyrics speaking on a wide range of topics. Discover some brand new songwriters from all over the world on this ever evolving playlist.  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4eSH6u0694MwgpParnXp0G?si=2f7f050ad2d84715

New Indie Alternative Rock Jams

Jam out with our indie alternative rock playlist  Curated by Jacqueline Jax. Instagram: @avaliveradio  

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4nisWqxN8CJ7y4vYhBF5Ux?si=6ae0ef6d575644d5

Love Bug Playlist 

This Valentines day playlist is for all our Love bugs. New Singles have been added to our playlist today. PUSH PLAY and ENJOY . GET READY FOR VALENTINE’S DAY WITH OUR TOP 50.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2PXBN32Bu4WQbSB2PajYqk?si=e9bda73d547e426e

New Music Monday Reviews:

Every Monday music curator Jacqueline Jax reviews new music for her playlists. Listen to who made the first cut. Instagram: @avaliveradio  

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1yvjvUqKQvk3Wtq0Lb14gD?si=d60cd46df3a14d57

Indie Rock Vibes on The Rise

Independent rock bands on the rise that you need to hear. Discover what's trending on the indie rock and alternative rock scene.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3J1nglWkgQxAkj279XXq4P?si=fddc04b58bc34500

Rock Mania Indie Music Playlist

A mix of fresh indie rock tracks that span from class influences to modern day infusions.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/73jnDJnNNmQfMEmtC4qIGS?si=848c3ef42c73422e

PRESS:

Noesfm is airing this single: They play "New and classic songs of indie rock, dream pop, shoegaze, alternative rock, experimental, indie pop..." https://noesfm.com

Saturday Jan 30 "Live”DJ Leo Switzerland -magazine on Radio Kanal K 97.5 fm: 21h CET : https://www.kanalk.ch infos and a link for livestream on FM-radio Kanal K under "events"). https://djleo.net

Newsletter will post your single after the song is available on Spotify .

Social media will post after the song is available on Spotify .

AVA Live Radio plans to add your song to their Playlists after the song is available on Spotify .

Indie Music Spin wants to post a blog about your new single and add you to their playlist. They also plan to post you to a new release recommendation page. 

From The Strait wants to share as a blog post / review. 

Kristen from the Strait wrote: “I’ll be adding this to an upcoming "Rundown" feature, as well as a Spotify playlist. Cheers! - Kristen"

https://fromthestrait.com

https://www.instagram.com/fromthestrait

https://twitter.com/FromTheStrait

Blue Skin Music plans to add you to a Spotify playlist. An indie Rock Invasion

“Hi There! Thank you for sending this! Hope you're good. We love the production and the mood! Good riff and great sound. We think this would be great in our playlist "An indie Rock Invasion" It's our selection for interesting Indie ROCK songs to discover. Share it on social, if you want :) Hope to hear more from you! Good Luck!” Blue Skin Music 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Wej3RRgMHzCLwK4aOVAfx?si=b498743a56c747d1

Samuel Järvinen of Kaaoszine plans to give it a "shout-out" in a Spotify playlist

Hi there! Thanks for the submission. I dig the vibe and the vocals. I will add it on our playlist, cheers!

https://kaaoszine.fi

https://www.instagram.com/kaaoszine

https://www.facebook.com/kaaoszine

Last Day Deaf wants to share as part of a blog playlist