#marco rose blurb

[footballffbarbiex]

Okay okay okay wait!

https://www.tumblr.com/footballffbarbiex/742936818232721408/smut-prompts-iii-nsfw

38 from this and THE GIF you’re talking about with Rose? How about it? What ya thinkin? 👁️👁️

I'm thinking that you have some fucking audacity to come at me like and also hell to the fucking yes.

the gif in question.

and I think we can picture him like this for this. enjoy. Credit for below gif is here.

“Quit eyefucking me and get over here so you can actually fuck me!”

It was a sentence that had come out of her mouth before she could stop it. Marco sits before her, legs spread apart, one arm resting against the back of the couch while the other hangs between his legs. The look on his face is one that she's seen before when she's been, in his words, "bratty".

He says nothing.

She lets the sentence hang between them and each second that passes by, she feels the tension thickening with each one. Marco continues to stare at her, keeping his mouth shut. This was easier for him than it was for her and they both knew it. He would bide his time until she was close to breaking - if not actually breaking - and that's when he'd begin.

She suspects that this will be similar.

She's about to break the silence when he holds up one, long finger and continues to stare at her.

"On your knees." he says after what feels like an eternity.

She does as she's asked, no. Commanded. The feel of the plush carpet beneath her knees and feet is slightly comforting but she knows being here long enough, it'll start to dig into her skin and leave imprints soon enough.

She kneels before him, hands on her thighs and waits for him to make his move, something which does eventually come.

He moves directly past her, the smell of his aftershave lingering despite him no longer being present in the room. Her arm hair prickles, standing on end as she keeps her head facing forward and strains her ears trying to listen for the lightest of noises for anything which would tell her what he's doing.

Minutes, she couldn't say how many, pass until she hears the soft sound of his footing.

"Hold your breath and count to ten." Marco says when he returns. It's not from directly behind her, but it is from behind her.

"One. Two. Three."

Marco gets closer. His steps matching her counting. "Close your eyes."

"Four. Five. Six."

His aftershave is stronger now, and she feels a cold waft as the air is stirred.

"Seven. Eight. Ni-" she pauses, feeling the soft fabric cover her eyes, lightly touching her face and the top of her nose.

"Did I say stop?"

"Eight." she repeats, "nine. Ten."

"Good girl." he says, smoothing some stray hairs from her face and traces the curve of her lips with his thumb. "Still want me to fuck you?" He asks, smearing his thumb over her lips until she parts them. Her tongue peeks out, the tip of it wetting the padding of his thumb.

"So eager." he smiles, the action of it seeping into his words. "So fucking eager to please me aren't you?"

"And if I am?" she asks.

"Open. Before I give you my cock like you so desperately need, then show me why you think you deserve it. I want to see you earn the right to have my dick inside of you."

+ smut prompts +

[tartagliove]

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[theonyxpath]

Let’s start serious and move towards our yearly Thanks blog at the end.

I’ve heard from a lot of you asking if the recent messages that White Wolf have posted on their social media are something that will be bad for Onyx Path. As of this writing, everything we’ve heard from over there is that it’s business as usual between our companies. We are still going to be sending projects over for approvals, they are still the ones who OK our pitches for new WW-IP projects, and we’re still running our successful Chicago By Night KS, the first licensed V5 TTRPG supplement.

So fear not, True Believers!

I mean, I just had to channel Stan Lee there, after last week’s MMN blog.

Which was, oddly enough, the least commented-on blog I think I’ve ever posted. Very strange, but I’m just assuming you were all in mourning for Stan, too.

In case you missed it last week, here is the lovely graphic our own Impish Ian Watson made to show what game lines are wholly Onyx Path‘s, the ones at the top, and which are licensed from whom:

I actually didn’t think we’d need it again so soon, but there does seem to be a fair bit of confusion out there, so feel free to point to this if you need to explain things to a friend.

And that’s one of the awesome Chicago By Night full-page pieces up there at the top, illustrated by the amazing Michael Gaydos. More Chicago Kickstarter news – we’re headed into the last week! – down below in The Blurbs!

    Trinity Continuum: Aeon art by Sam White

    A bit of related news:

One of the first times I ever heard of Matthew Dawkins, who is our Chicago By Night developer, was when he interviewed me for his YouTube channel a whole bunch of years ago. From then, his Gentlemam Gamer videos have taken deep dives into many of the White Wolf (and other) games, and were very helpful in explaining aspects of V5 during this last year.

Now, Matthew has agreed to create a series of Gentleman Gamer videos for our Onyx Path games starting with the pantheons in Scion 2nd Edition, and you’ll also be seeing Matthew in other ways too, as he helps ramp up our online gaming presence. More on that in the weeks to come!

BUT DON’T WORRY, his dulcet tones are still going to be appearing weekly on the Onyx Pathcast – which this coming Friday features Dixie interviewing Jacqueline “Jax” Bryk with a one-on-one covering not just her work with us, but throughout the TTRPG biz, and how she has become one of our industries leading lights for safe play game writing.

    Trinity Continuum: Aeon art by Marco Gozales

    And now, the thanks!

Let’s start with the newest member of our Monday Meeting team, Dixie Cochran:

I am thankful that the whole Onyx Path team gave me the opportunity to work on these books in a greater capacity this year. I am thankful that Eddy, Matthew, and Rich are always supportive and willing to answer my many questions, and that Rose Bailey recommended me for this job as she moved on to a new stage in her career. I am thankful for all of my amazing Chronicles of Darkness and Exalted developers, writers, and fans, who continue to do amazing work and be a wonderful community. I am also thankful for lovely editors and indexers, Word’s “track changes” function, and Oxford commas.

From the art and layout side of things, there are these points from Mirthful Mike Chaney, in no particular order he tells me:

Thankful our first Storypath IPs are really close to being done and ready to release.

Thankful our non WW stuff has been continually well received…

Thankful that Wraith 20 is almost done… and Scion…

Thankful my wife is still as into 40k as I am… now if I could only get her into D&D 5e.

Thankful that the midterms weren’t an utter shitshow.

Thankful that I still get to work with all of you and still get to make game books after all these years. 

Our marketing guru and developer/writer extraordinaire Monica Valentinelli shares these thoughts:

I’d like to thank fans for their continued support and enthusiasm. People are really excited for the games we make, and that’s the reason why I do what I do.

Here’s Eddy Webb, with his thanks:

I continue to be thankful for all of the fans of Realms of Pugmire.

I am thankful that Monarchies of Mau is shipping (and ahead of schedule!)

I am thankful to find so many people who are really excited about our upcoming Storypath games like Scion, Trinity Continuum, They Came From Beneath The Sea!, and Dystopia Rising: Evolution.

And I am thankful that there are still people who love and support Onyx Path Publishing.

Mighty Matt McElroy takes a long sip of coffee and sez:

I want thank everyone who has had the time and energy to introduce an Onyx Path game to someone new. Whether that is inviting someone to join your gaming group or running a demo at a convention, this past year has been an amazing opportunity to meet new gamers around the world.

Our behind-the-scenes keeper of the flame, LisaT has these thanks to share with all of you:

I am thankful again this year for the opportunity to work with so many talented and creative people. And this year I had the opportunity to meet a number of them face to face along with many fans of our products. I’m looking forward to meeting even more of you at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia in just a couple of weeks. So if you’re in town stop by and become part of what I’m thankful for for next year!

Impish Ian Watson, lord of Bloodlines modding, also does some other stuff he has thanks about:

I’m thankful that, after years toiling in the word mines, the Trinity Continuum and Æon are almost done, and we’ve done a significant chunk of the next two supplements, plus Aberrant. I can’t wait for people to see the fruits of our labours.

I’m thankful to Trinity‘s Kickstarter backers for having faith in us.

Let’s see what sort of thanks Mr. Dawkins has to share:

Yo Gentlemaniacs, it’s Thanksgiving night, and this is the happiest time of year for all the maniacs, brother! You know, me and all my little Gentsters, we got a lot of things to be thankful for. Number one: we’re thankful for being happy and very healthy. We’re thankful for having time to share with our loved ones. We’re also thankful that Gentlemania is still the strongest force in the universe. And after the turkey’s done, after the blessings are all done, I can tell you what the Gentleman is mostly happy about: it’s SURVIVOR SERIES TIME! And I’m thankful for my team of Gentlemaniacs!!

That, and Onyx Path are pretty cool.

Uhhhhh. He may be cracking under the pressure. Hard to say.

From me:

I sometimes sit at my desk, stunned by the realization that I still get to do this after all these years and I’m thankful for that – a lot! Thanks to our creative freelancers who continue to find delightful new ways to verbally and visually describe our game worlds, and our full-time folks who orchestrate all this rampant creativity into the formats and pages that we all love to read and play. Thanks to all of our associated partner companies that give us the reach to deliver and communicate this thing we do to all of you!

Which, of course, actually brings me to all of you and all of our community who have supported us through our growing pains, lo! these many years, and even through pains not of our choosing! Without this intricate eco-system that includes all of us and all of you, we just would not have been able to keep building all our game lines and worlds!

Thank you.

Many Worlds, One Path!

  BLURBS!

KICKSTARTER:

Lo the darkness that lies like a pall over Chicago.

The V5 Chicago By Night Kickstarter has passed 200% funding and continues to knock through Stretch Goals like the El through a sleet storm! Congrats to the whole team and all our backers, as we continue to build the Chicago Folio with Cam, Anarchs, and Independent sections and the Let The Streets Run Red Chronicle Collection, as well as activate additional projects too!

We’d be thrilled if you’d give it a look here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/chicago-by-night-for-vampire-the-masquerade-5th-ed/description

And here is a Q&A Matthew and several of his writing team held on his Gentleman Gamer YouTube channel that goes into a lot of their thinking about Chicago By Night and then they answer questions from the chat: https://youtu.be/v8YbbzEPuiI

  Next up, we’re working on the Kickstarter for They Came From Beneath the Sea! (TCFBtS!), which has some very different additions to the Storypath mechanics we’ll be explaining during the KS.  They take an excellent 50’s action and investigation genre game and turn it to 11! Our current plan is to start on Dec 18th but run it extra long into January!

  ELECTRONIC GAMING:

      As we find ways to enable our community to more easily play our games, the Onyx Dice Rolling App is now live! Our dev team has been doing updates since we launched based on the excellent use-case comments by our community, and this thing is both rolling and rocking!

Here are the links for the Apple and Android versions:

http://theappstore.site/app/1296692067/onyx-dice

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onyxpathpublishing.onyxdice&hl=en

Three different screenshots, above.

And our latest, the dice for Werewolf: The Forsaken 2e:

  ON AMAZON AND BARNES & NOBLE:

You can now read our fiction from the comfort and convenience of your Kindle (from Amazon) and Nook (from Barnes & Noble).

If you enjoy these or any other of our books, please help us by writing reviews on the site of the sales venue you bought it from. Reviews really, really help us with getting folks interested in our amazing fiction!

Our selection includes these fiction books:

Vampire: The Masquerade: The Endless Ages Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Rites of Renown: When Will You Rage II (Kindle, Nook)

Mage: The Ascension: Truth Beyond Paradox (Kindle, Nook)

Chronicles of Darkness: The God-Machine Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Mummy: The Curse: Curse of the Blue Nile (Kindle, Nook)

Beast: The Primordial: The Primordial Feast Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Vampire: The Masquerade: Of Predators and Prey: The Hunters Hunted II Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Werewolf: The Apocalypse: The Poison Tree (Kindle, Nook)

Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Songs of the Sun and Moon: Tales of the Changing Breeds (Kindle, Nook)

Vampire: The Requiem: The Strix Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Werewolf: The Forsaken: The Idigam Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Mage: The Awakening: The Fallen World Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Vampire: The Masquerade: The Beast Within Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Werewolf: The Apocalypse: W20 Cookbook (Kindle, Nook)

Exalted: Tales from the Age of Sorrows (Kindle, Nook)

Chronicles of Darkness: Tales of the Dark Eras (Kindle, Nook)

Promethean: The Created: The Firestorm Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

Demon: The Descent: Demon: Interface (Kindle, Nook)

Scarred Lands: Death in the Walled Warren (Kindle, Nook)

V20 Dark Ages: Cainite Conspiracies (Kindle, Nook)

Chronicles of Darkness: Strangeness in the Proportion (Kindle, Nook)

Vampire: The Requiem: Silent Knife (Kindle, Nook)

Mummy: The Curse: Dawn of Heresies (Kindle, Nook)

  OUR SALES PARTNERS:

We’re working with Studio2 to get Pugmire out into stores, as well as to individuals through their online store. You can pick up the traditionally printed main book, the Screen, and the official Pugmire dice through our friends there!

https://studio2publishing.com/search?q=pugmire

And we’ve added Prince’s Gambit to our Studio2 catalog: https://studio2publishing.com/products/prince-s-gambit-card-game

  Looking for our Deluxe or Prestige Edition books? Try this link! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Onyx-Path-Publishing/

Here’s the link to the press release we put out about how Onyx Path is now selling through Indie Press Revolution: http://theonyxpath.com/press-release-onyx-path-limited-editions-now-available-through-indie-press-revolution/

And you can now order Pugmire: the book, the screen, and the dice! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=296

    DRIVETHRURPG.COM:

This Wednesday is a cornucopia of delicious choices!

Featuring: electronic wallpapers previously only available to Kickstarter backers for Changeling: The Dreaming 20th, W20 Shattered Dreams, V20 Beckett’s Jyhad Diary, Pugmire, Dark Eras, and Prince’s Gambit on DTRPG!

Followed up by Monarchies of Mau symbol t-shirts on our Red Bubble store, as a lead-in to next week and the release of Mau in PDF and PoD versions to the public!

  CONVENTIONS!

Rich, Lisa, Matt, Eddy, Dixie, Danielle, and other Onyx Path writers and developers will be at PAX Unplugged in Philly, November 30th – December 2nd running demos of Scion, Monarchies of Mau, Exalted, and more! http://unplugged.paxsite.com/

Start getting ready for our appearance at MidWinter this January in Milwaukee! So many demos, playtests, secret playtests, and Onyx Path Q&As you could plotz!

  And now, the new project status updates!

DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM FAST EDDY WEBB (projects in bold have changed status since last week):

First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep)

C20 Novel (Jackie Cassada) (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)

M20 The Technocracy Reloaded (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

M20 Victorian Mage (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

City of the Towered Tombs (Cavaliers of Mars)

Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition core rulebook (Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition)

Scion Ready Made Characters (Scion 2nd Edition)

Scion Jumpstart (Scion 2nd Edition)

Geist2e Fiction Anthology (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition)

Memento Mori: the GtSE 2e Companion (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition)

Pirates of Pugmire (Realms of Pugmire)

Distant Worlds (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Dragon-Blooded Novella #1 (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Across the Eight Directions (Exalted 3rd Edition)

  Redlines

Deviant: The Renegades (Deviant: The Renegades)

Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)

Witch-Queen of the Shadowed Citadel (Cavaliers of Mars)

Heirs to the Shogunate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Scion Companion: Mysteries of the World (Scion 2nd Edition)

  Second Draft

Tales of Good Dogs – Pugmire Fiction Anthology (Pugmire)

  Development

Hunter: the Vigil 2e core (Hunter: the Vigil 2nd Edition)

CofD Contagion Chronicle (Chronicles of Darkness)

Night Horrors: Shunned by the Moon (Werewolf: The Forsaken 2nd Edition)

Lunars: Fangs at the Gate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

WoD Ghost Hunters (World of Darkness)

Oak, Ash, and Thorn: Changeling: The Lost 2nd Companion (Changeling: The Lost 2nd)

CofD Dark Eras 2 (Chronicles of Darkness)

  Manuscript Approval:

V5 Chicago By Night (Vampire: The Masquerade)

Spilled Blood (Vampire: The Requiem 2nd Edition)

Wr20 Book of Oblivion (Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition)

Trinity Continuum: Aberrant core (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

  Editing:

Signs of Sorcery (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)

Aeon Aexpansion (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

C20 Players’ Guide (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)

Dystopia Rising: Evolution (Dystopia Rising: Evolution)

M20 Book of the Fallen (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Adventures for Curious Cats (Monarchies of Mau)

In Media Res (Trinity Continuum: Core)

Tales of Excellent Cats (Monarchies of Mau)

  Post-Editing Development:

Ex Novel 2 (Aaron Rosenberg) (Exalted 3rd Edition)

  Indexing:

    ART DIRECTION FROM MIRTHFUL MIKE:

  In Art Direction

Dystopia Rising: Evolution – Sketches coming in, and they look good.

Geist 2e

The Realm – Fulls contracted. Talking to Gong and Gunship about availability during holidays.

Ex3 Monthly Stuff

Chicago By Night – KS moving along.

C20 Player’s Guide – Contracted.

Aeon Aexpansion

They Came From Beneath the Sea! – Getting more KS art since we have a little time, gonna start on KS assets.

Lost 2e Jumpstart – Art contracted – sketches trickling in.

EX3 Lunars – KS art contracted.

Signs of Sorcery – Contracted – sketches trickling in.

  Marketing Stuff

  In Layout

M20: Gods and Monsters – With Josh, progressing.

Pugmire Roll of Good Dogs and Cats

  Proofing

Scion Hero – Pre XX errata fixes.

Scion Origin – Corrections are in.

Ex3 Dragon Blooded

CtL2 Jumpstart – Awaiting more corrections.

Trinity Core

Trinity Aeon

  At Press

Monarchies of Mau and Screen – And dice and buttons, all shipped to backers. Waiting for PoD proofs.

Wraith 20th – Fixing some issues with the front cover emboss. Everything else good to go though.

Wraith 20 Screen – Printing.

Scion Dice – At Studio2.

Lost 2e Screen – Printing.

Scion Screen – Printing.

Changeling: The Lost 2e – Printing.

Fetch Quest – Proof coming this week.

Exalted 3rd Novel – Out to backers, getting errata.

VtR Guide to the Night – Inputting errata and prepping for PoD.

PtC Tormented – I think we hit errata shutdown on Wednesday.

  TODAY’S REASON TO CELEBRATE: 

Thanksgiving! Not necessarily the “school” holiday of pilgrims and first winters and all that, but the holiday of togetherness and actually looking at how things are in your life and being glad (thankful) for the good parts and the parts that you learned from. And MST3K new season dropping on Turkey Day!

[goodguyjean]

Some Thoughts about Jean’s Class Background in SNK

So, I’m relatively new to the Attack on Titan fandom, but I’ve been lurking around tumblr and the fandom for a few months and I noticed some readings of Jean that didn’t seem supportable from the information in the manga: namely, that Jean is of a little better station than the rest of the southern recruits and that his desire to join the MP is about maintaining this class hierarchy, or about moving from a relatively comfortable life to even better one. I don’t quite buy that reading, so I thought I’d break down what we know about Jean and what little information we have about his past and why I think he might actually be of a slightly lower class than quite a few of his fellow recruits, possibly including Eren. These are just my interpretations of what I’ve read, and I’m always open for discussion and corrections if I missed anything! :)

[As a note I take my quotes from my published volumes of Attack on Titan but for some of the pictures I had to grab scans from the internet so the translations don’t always match up!]

My argument depends on discounting the second OVA, which is currently the only direct information we have about Jean’s past. I think most of the ideas about Jean’s class come from this OVA, which, aside from the fact that I’m looking primarily at the manga in this analysis, I have trouble accepting as canon because its events are largely based off of the fake previews Isayama provides at the end of each manga volume. The humor of the fake previews lies in their absurdity—they’re so far from the events/tone of the canon that they’re funny. I think it was a mistake on the animators’ parts to try to rationalize these situations and fit them into the actual canon: it’s not as funny, it turns certain characters into jokes, and it doesn’t fit the tone of the series. I forgive the studio because it’s an OVA and therefore supplementary material, but—like the fake previews—I put it outside of the canon. Its presentation of Jean as joining the survey corps in order to escape his smothering mother doesn’t jive with Jean’s characterization or actions, particularly in the manga, and it’s based off of a non-canonical two page spread about Jean’s mom walking in on him during his “private time” so I feel pretty justified in taking it off the table.  

Now, I will admit that there is a panel in volume 18 that suggests Eren has met Jean’s mother and that she has a cutesy nickname for her son. It could be Isayama making a callback to the OVA, but it’s so small that I still feel like I can discount the specific account of Jean’s past presented in the OVA.

I will also admit that I haven’t read many interviews with Isayama or extras about Jean; this reading will be based primarily on what is in the manga and what is in a draft of the manga. I’m not entirely “death of the author” in my approach to analysis, since I am using a draft to think through Jean’s class background, but I am more interested in how Jean is presented rather than how Isayama or other creators might characterize him outside of the manga itself. How does he come across, what does he look like when he’s acting in the world of Attack on Titan?

So, down to business. What do we actually know about the manga’s version of Jean Kirstein?

We’re first introduced to Jean at the graduation party, where he is celebrating getting into the top ten and being able to join the Military Police. Jean is excited at the prospect of escaping “this shitty, suffocating front-line town” to have a comfortable life in the interior. A few panels later he makes fun of the propaganda that people who “choose” to live in these “human strongholds”—the towns jutting out of the main wall—and act as bait for the titans are “heroes” (there’s a blurb about these towns just before the graduation party chapter).

Eren points out that Wall Rose used to be the interior and that if nothing changes the titans will eventually break through to Wall Sina and Jean’s comfortable life will be shattered again. Eren’s response is meant to provoke Jean and perhaps get him thinking harder about fighting for his life, but instead of responding in anger Jean initially counters that he’s a realist.

I think Jean having grown up in Trost provides a lot of important context for why Jean feels and acts the way he does at the beginning of the manga. When we think about class in Attack on Titan we tend to think about it in terms of the walls: the further away from the center you are the lower your station in society. And this is broadly true, I think, but there are other considerations. For starters, people in the north are safer than people in the south because there are less active titans there, and the people in the towns outside the main walls are of lower standing than those within a main wall. There are also a range of communities within the walls, such as Sasha’s hunting village which is technically within Wall Rose. Trost, while part of Wall Rose, is a border town facing directly to the south, and it became the front line of military activity when Jean was about nine or ten. Refugees like Eren, Armin, and Mikasa would have swarmed it in 845 and Jean would have seen the cull of twenty percent of humanity firsthand as they went back out through that gate. Additionally, the Survey Corps canonically enters and exits the walls through Trost’s gate, so Jean would have also seen the aftermath of their missions.

It’s the cull specifically that informs Jean’s defeatism. He responds to Eren’s jibes with “I’m looking at reality more than anyone” and mentions that humanity lost nearly twenty-percent of its population on this operation to “retake Wall Maria”. We learn later that Armin’s parents were part of this operation and that he holds the government responsible for their murders. Whatever Jean’s life was like before 845, he would have had front row seats to how disposable someone like him—a southerner in a border town—could be. Marco makes a natural foil to Jean because he’s naïve; he’s not suspicious of the king at all, whereas Jean—like Armin—realizes there’s something deeply suspect about sending twenty percent of the population on a suicide mission. Unlike Armin, Jean decides to try to play the system rather than fight it in order to survive.

Out of the main cast of the 104th, Jean is the only one who is open about his motivations for joining the MP being first and foremost about his own survival. Marco thinks that it is noble to keep the king’s peace, Connie mentions that his family would be proud of him if he joined the MP, and Sasha desires to go to the interior to sample the comforts denied to her as a child from a secluded village in the mountains. Only Jean voices his cynicism—he genuinely believes that the titans will win and he wants to make the most of his life while he can. His suspicion and his disdain for Eren’s ideals suggest personal experience: even if Jean has not lost his family, who are not even mentioned until that brief scene in volume 18, he is aware of the stakes in a way that the other members of the 104th—except Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and the hidden shifters—are not.

Here’s where my thoughts about Jean’s class background get a bit more speculative, but I think Jean’s early hopelessness indicates that he could be of a slightly less privileged background than Eren, albeit one where he has been in less direct danger and suffered less traumatizing personal loss. I make this argument from the events of the published manga, but it’s also supported by the early draft of the early chapters published in the Attack on Titan Guidebook. While the drafts are not canon, I think they provide some insight into how Isayama conceives Jean that is supported by canonical material. 

As discussed above, the hierarchy of the Walled World generally depends on how far away from the center a person is, but there are exceptions based on lifestyle and occupation. Despite hailing from Wall Rose, Sasha is depicted as having a lower class status than almost anyone in the 104th except for perhaps orphans like Ymir or the outsiders Reiner, Bertolt, and Annie. While Eren, Mikasa, and Armin all hail from the original front line, Eren is the son of a respected doctor who saved the whole town from an epidemic. He has a nice home and admits he was pretty content to just live out his life until his best friend Armin showed him a book detailing the wonders of the outside world. What the early chapters make clear about Shiganshina is that even though it’s a “bait” town it’s also something of a haven for people who are resisting or hiding from the government. Grisha is a titan shifter from the outside world who is managing to make a living as a doctor, Armin can carry around his grandfather’s heretical books and talk about the outside world without getting arrested/killed (unlike Erwin’s father), and Mikasa’s parents—both from hunted bloodlines—can eke out a relatively peaceful existence. Not only is Eren’s father a big fish in a small pond, but living on the border grants Eren, Mikasa, and Armin certain freedoms that would be more difficult to attain at the center of society. They are also seem more educated than several of the other recruits, perhaps including Jean who may be intelligent but lacking in information about the world that Armin’s, Eren’s, and potentially even Mikasa’s families might have had.

Of course this freedom comes with a price: less rules means more crime—leading to Mikasa’s tragic backstory—and their town is the first to fall in the Marleyan attack. As a resident of Wall Rose, Jean is certainly safer than the Shiganshina trio in some ways, even if someone like Eren might have a higher status within his own community than someone like Jean did. We don’t know Jean’s exact status within Trost before the fall of Wall Maria and I think Eren, Mikasa, and Armin are definitely outsiders when they join the 104th, so it’s difficult to say specifically how their classes compare.

I think the clearest sense of separation that I get comes from the fact that Jean really envies Eren. Eren has hope when Jean does not, Eren has a support system in Armin and Mikasa that Jean wishes he could have for himself, and he—from Jean’s perspective—squanders these gifts by charging headfirst to his doom. Throughout the series Jean is presented as being incredibly empathetic despite his defeatist and somewhat prickly attitude (a topic I think should be a separate post), and it is ultimately his desire to protect his remaining friends after the battle for Trost that leads him to join the Survey Corps. In the early chapters it seems that Jean has kept himself at a distance from the 104th in order to make it easier for him to preserve himself—what Marco’s death causes him to realize is that he has in fact formed attachments and that these are what makes his life worth living, even if preserving them will eventually result in his death. Where he clashes with Eren is that Eren has these connections before joining the army and drags them into danger instead of protecting them from it (I don’t think Jean initially realizes that Armin may have gone anyway, given his desire to see the outside world). To me this suggests that Jean either had very few connections as a child or lost them, perhaps in the cull. His defeatism stems from his intelligence and his desire for self-preservation, which requires shutting down his natural inclination to empathy and seems sparked by some past event we don’t have access to.

In the draft published the Attack on Titan Guidebook, Jean talks a bit more directly about class and money in the graduation party scene. Jean points out that Trost is a poor area and that becoming from an MP means advancing in class status. When Eren gives him his speech about how Wall Rose used to be an “interior” he accuses Jean of stupidly thinking that they’ll be safe from titan attacks from now on. Jean’s counter is that he doesn’t think any such thing: he really does think humanity will die to the titans and he wants to live the best life he can until that occurs. When Eren calls Jean a defeatist and tells him he’s bad for morale Jean responds with, “And how did you make 5th while I made 6th, anyway? Connections through your rich daddy?”

Obviously, this scene is no longer canonical because Grisha is missing at this point in the published manga, but I think it clues us in to some of the canonical resentment that Jean feels about all the resources and connections that Eren has and reinforces that Jean is suspicious of people with any kind of power. Jean is cynical because he knows the poor are the first to get sent out on “retake the wall” operations, the first to starve, and the first to die. Jean thinks that they will all die based on his experience of living on the front lines for several years, but he doesn’t want to be the first if he can help it. Even in in the canonical material, Jean clearly perceives himself to be at risk and is struggling to get into the top ten so that he can ameliorate that risk. He conflicts with Eren because Eren has connections and doesn’t, to his mind, appreciate them. Of course, I also think that Jean admires Eren’s tenacity and does deep inside of himself wish that humanity could be free from the titan threat: I think his reluctance to kill other humans and how upset he is about the cull proves that. But he’s a pragmatist, so he doesn’t think highly of Eren’s chances and wishes Eren could actually appreciate what he already has instead of aspiring for the impossible. This is not the attitude of a particularly privileged person, I think.

So there’s my ramblings about Jean’s station: I think it’s hard to pin down exactly where he stands in relation to the other recruits, but I think the OVA clashes with the manga material on Jean in a way that undoes some of the more interesting aspects of his character. As I was writing this I started thinking more about Jean’s general preference for preserving human life and seeing the value in just surviving that I think I could write more about, but that seems like a content for another post xD.

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Jugador by Rose Croft

Jugador by Rose Croft

Title: Jugador Series: Mendoza Family #3 Author: Rose Croft Genre: New Adult Release Date: June 12, 2020 BlurbHe was the star athlete. Football player. MVP. A walking god among mere mortals. Everyone knew Marco Cruz was destined to be a supernova burning bright in the sky. On the outside, he seemed to have it all. On the inside, he was a troubled boy hiding his pain. He truly was a…

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Release Blitz & Giveaway: Murder in Cazenovia

Release Blitz & Giveaway: Murder in Cazenovia

Title: Murder in Cazenovia Author: Angel Rose Genre: Mystery, Romantic Suspense Publication Date: May 2nd, 2018 Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR Blurb: Two childhood sweethearts. One murder. Ten years ago, Sophia Quinn left her hometown and the love of her life, Marco, in the wake of a brutal murder in Cazenovia, New York. Shaken by the events that ended the life of a beloved wife and mother, she…

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RELEASE BLITZ- Murder in Cazenovia Author: Angel Rose

RELEASE BLITZ- Murder in Cazenovia Author: Angel Rose

Title: Murder in Cazenovia Author: Angel Rose Genre: Mystery, Romantic Suspense Publication Date: May 2nd, 2018 Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR Blurb: Two childhood sweethearts. One murder. Ten years ago, Sophia Quinn left her hometown and the love of her life, Marco, in the wake of a brutal murder in Cazenovia, New York. Shaken by the events that ended the life of a beloved wife and mother, she…

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RELEASE BLITZ- Murder in Cazenovia Author: Angel Rose

RELEASE BLITZ- Murder in Cazenovia Author: Angel Rose

Title: Murder in Cazenovia Author: Angel Rose Genre: Mystery, Romantic Suspense Publication Date: May 2nd, 2018 Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR Blurb: Two childhood sweethearts. One murder. Ten years ago, Sophia Quinn left her hometown and the love of her life, Marco, in the wake of a brutal murder in Cazenovia, New York. Shaken by the events that ended the life of a beloved wife and mother, she…

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A manager request you said?

How about she offers Marco Rose her mouth after a disappointing match to relief some tension? Either at the stadium or when he’s back home (maybe he barely makes it in the door before she’s on him. And if it’s at home, she could just offer herself and not just her mouth)

idk how many words are in this, I'm typing it from the ask so I'll die on my typo hill. smut from the start.

she'd joked previously about how Marco couldn't go a week without getting his dick wet from at least one hole and Marco had been adamant that he could. Insisted. Promised. Threatened too, that he could.

But watching his team fall apart in the way that they had had meant that he would be very much regretting his words. Regretting that this match had happened during this promised dry spell week.

She'd watched nervously from his box as the defence had fallen apart, the strikers were just not capable of finding the back of the net and yet, encouraged a very intimate relationship with the bar instead. She knew that Marco wouldn't mind losing, he wasn't dumb. He knew it would happen during the season and fully anticipated some losses, but it was the way they lost.

She watched as he paced along the side lines, gesturing wildly and angrily at times and knew that she couldn't let him stay in his head after this, because she knew him and knew that he would be over thinking it afterwards.

She waited until the players filed out after the match, having received a message from Marco saying to meet her in the car while he went over a few things before he met her. She didn't want that. Wouldn't accept that kind of message and instead, barged now into the locker room to find him.

He's in front of the large whiteboard with his tablet in his hand as he watched the "highlights" back. He double looks when he realises it's her and not a member of his coaching team and begins to argue that he'd told her to wait.

"No." She tells him, eyes never leaving his face as she marches towards him and strokes her hand over his crotch, realising now just how "free use" this seems.

"This isn't the time," he tries to scold her and though a frustration edging into anger is coursing through his veins, he can't deny the way his cock twitches as blood begins to rush there thanks to her palming at him.

"This is exactly the time. I'm not having you be pissed off all the way home and go to bed in a mood."

"We can do this at home."

"We can do this here too." she replies, hand now wrapping around his semi hard cock to stroke it a little better.

"Fuck," he hisses, breathing becoming more shallow as she unbuttons him, unzips him and dips her hand into his boxers. The short patch of hair nuzzles her wrist as her hand fills with the soft velvety skin of his shaft. Hot and thick in her palm, she palms him until he's fully hard and he's struggling to keep his eyes open.

"Tell me to get on my knees Marco."

"Get on your knees and suck my cock baby."

"Gladly" she replies before pressing the flat of her tongue at the base of his shaft and dragging it to the tip where she swirls the first inch of it around the head and sinks her mouth down over him.

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words: 1282 warnings: insecurity within a relationship (from bc of spouse), age gap, step parent, slight anxiety (but nothing too described)

Three weeks previously…

“I don’t know. I’d love to spend it again with Marco but I’ve still barely met anyone on his side properly.” There’s a pause as she listens to someone on the other end of the phone call speaking before she starts speaking again but not before she sighs. “I mean…I’ve briefly met his ex wife and I’ve spent a good amount of time with his children but not enough to say I could confidently walk into a room with his loved ones and engage without worry. And mine? Still not sure dad would approve fully, you know how he gets about these things.”

Despite everything that she’s told him about how she feels, Marco still feels his stomach drop and his heart sink further. He knew their age gap would pose problems, but the worry, if not fear, that they wouldn’t be accepted because of it grew tenfold but hearing her say it during a call that he probably wasn’t supposed to overhear, it hurts. Not wanting to keep listening, and in turn, hurting himself, Marco pushes himself to continue walking until he reaches the kitchen, leaving her alone in the living room none the wiser.

“No, I’m not saying it’s right. You know that I think it’s shit, but what can I do? Forcing him to accept it will do more harm than good. I want him to see that I’m happy before he finds out who is making me happy. Mum says he’ll need time to come around because obviously she knows and she’s fine with it but if dad can see how happy I am, that’ll help.”

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Now. 

Standing in the kitchen with her hands submerged in the water, she takes this time to gather her thoughts. She knew that meeting his family for the first time, properly, would be an experience but she wasn’t expecting to feel this welcomed by his parents and children. His mother had swept her into the house, engaged her in conversation and tried to do her best to make her feel as relaxed as possible given the circumstances. 

Occasionally Marco’s ex would be brought up, mostly in relation to what she’d bought the kids for christmas or when they’d be seeing her next, but it was enough to make her feel as though she was the odd one out in a way. This was the first year that his ex hadn’t been present for Christmas and she knew that she was responsible for this - not that she felt any sort of hostility from them for this, though she could have understood it if there was. 

Soap suds coat her hands, lathering them up and making her hands feel silky. His parents have a dishwasher, one that they were more than happy to stack but she offered to do the remaining ones so that she could at least be helpful. She’d caught the way his parents had looked at one another during the course of the day, pulling expressions similar to first time parents with a newborn who is experiencing many of their first “firsts” and though it had made her happy to see that they appeared pleased that Marco was happy, she felt a pang of sadness that this wasn’t something that she could experience with her own parents just yet. 

She smells his aftershave before she hears the soft padding of his footsteps behind her. She watches via the reflection in the window as Marco approaches and closes her eyes briefly as his arms wrap around her waist and he nuzzles into her neck. “Do you want me to dry if you’re washing?”

“I was going to do that after I’d finished everything else, but I wasn’t sure where it needed to go.” She admits, casting a quick glance over the pile of tableware that stands air drying. 

“I’m surprised mum let you do this, she’s usually particular about her kitchen. Clearly she’s trying to make a good impression.”

“That makes two of us then.”

“Your efforts have paid off. Believe me.” Marco presses a light kiss to her neck, the feel of his beard scraping against her skin makes her shudder. 

“You sound certain about that,” she pulls out one of the glasses and rinses it off under the tap before placing it on the draining board along with the others.

“I am. I wouldn’t say it if I didn't mean it.” He replies before kissing a light kiss to her skin once more and removes himself from her body. She feels cold almost immediately in his absence but notes that he collects a towel and begins to dry everything off - just like he said he would. He navigates his parents' kitchen like the back of his hand and puts everything away with ease. “You didn’t need to do this though, you know.” 

“I know. But your parents cooked and hosted and me tidying away is the least I can do to relieve some of their duties for when we’ve left.” 

“Speaking of,” Marco says as he opens one of the above cupboards and begins to stack the plates in there. “I can’t wait to get back with you, have a glass of wine and settle in for the night once they’ve gone to bed.”

“You say that like I’m staying,” she chuckles to herself and pulls the the plug from the sink to let the water go. 

“Wait, you’re not staying?” comes a little voice and she finds herself turning and facing Marco’s 8 year old daughter who looks between the two of them, disappointment clear on her face.

“Erm,” Marco’s girlfriend clears her throat and nervously looks at him before turning back to the little one, “I thought you might want to spend tonight with your dad and brother that’s all. I didn’t want to overstay my welcome.”

“We want you here. You’re part of our family now too. Right dad?”

If it was possible to feel a heart swell with both love and pride for a child, Marco would say he could physically feel his enlarge in this very moment for his child. He’d hoped that they’d like being around her and accept her as someone who he found himself falling in love with but to ask for her to stay on what was always their night together is more than perfect. “Right.” He says after clearing his own throat, unaware how the lump that had wedged itself there had grown so big in such a short space of time. 

“And…” his daughter plays with her fingers as she works out the words she wants to say and shifts nervously from foot to foot as she does so, “if it’s ok with you, we have a gift we’d like to give to you. Me and my brother that is,” she adds for clarification and when Marco turns to look at his girlfriend, she can see from his expression that he had no idea this was coming either. 

The thoughtfulness of such a premeditated gesture catches her off guard. Her eyes well up and her heart beats hard against her ribcage in such a way that she can feel it pounding in her ears. 

“Well,” she swallows hard and tries to laugh off her emotions, catching a stray tear with her thumb that she wasn’t able to blink back. “I guess I’ll have to stay then, if it’s ok with you both? And your brother of course.”

“As long as you like popcorn and hot cocoa.” His daughter asks brightly. “That sounds perfect to me.” 

And for the first time in weeks, if not longer, she feels as though everything is slowly clicking into place.

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For blurb day I’m thinking of Marco Rose meeting his ex at a grocery store or anywhere that he’s least expecting to meet her, when he’s not seen her for years? She’s in her early 30s with a toddler now, as single as ever, and he’s also as single as ever, when they broke up because Marco wanted something serious, and she didn’t. Marco being flirty, trying to see if there’s still a chance for him, and maybe she tries to turn him off by mentioning she’s a single mother now but Marco always wanted to be a dad (with her) so that’s really not a problem for him. Just a little cheesy, flirty but emotional and nostalgic Marco 🥰 I hope you like it 💞

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The one thing that Marco wanted, other than to put an engagement and wedding ring upon her finger, was to have a family with her. He knew she was the one for him early on and could not see himself with anyone else, and in a way, there hadn’t been anyone else. He’d given his body to barely a handful of other women, but his mind was never fully on them and he hadn’t wanted to lie and make them think more would be offered than it was.

For him, it was always her.

He knew she’d moved away for a job once they’d split, so he didn't have to feel as though he’d needed to hide away in case he saw her around the city. Which is why, when he turns the aisle with his shopping cart, the last person Marco expects to bump into, is her.

He catches the wince that she pulls before turning, fully prepared to cast her most scathing look in his direction when he catches her off guard. Her expressions change so quickly, he can barely take them in until she settles on confusion.

“Marco.”

“Come here often?” He says, kicking himself for appearing flirty so soon; especially after she all but broke his heart. Her expression holds for another few seconds before her lips twitch into a smile and he knows he’s got her again.

“Not recently, but it might become my local. Again.”

“You’re back?” This time, the confused expression is his. He scans her face for any sign of lying but when he finds none, he asks, “and what’s brought you back?”

“Work, as always. And a good school. Plus, y’know, my parents are here and I need all the support I can get.”

“You’re a teacher now?” He asks, eager for any nugget of information about her new life that she can give.

She almost laughs, he knows her body language well to know and suddenly he feels as though he’s the punchline of a joke he’s not aware of. “Not for me, no.” she gives a strained smile and coughs to clear her throat as she places the jar she’d been holding into her own cart before continuing. “For my son.”

“S…son?” He stammers, eyes widening as he feels he’s been punched in the stomach. For someone who didn’t want commitment, a child was certainly the opposite of that. The way she delivered the line was anything but confident and he realises now that she knows how this would all seem to him. “And, your partner? Boyfriend?” he pauses and swallows bitterly before quickly glancing at her hand, “husband?”

“Ex. And he is no longer in the picture. You could say that I got a taste of my own medicine from you with me now being a single mom.”

“I wouldn’t, no.” Marco shakes his head. Not even when she’d collected her things from his had he wished anything bad upon her. “But I also wouldn’t have left you if there was a child.”

“I know.” she nods, her words dripping with sadness. “You’re a world and league above him Marco.” She sucks in a breath as she debates how to say her next sentence. “It really was about me, and not that I didn’t want that with you.”

“I’m trying not to take it that way.” he gives a strained smile and the sight of it twists a knife in her gut.

“Look at me. I only came for something for dinner and I’m pouring out a sob story that you probably don’t care about.” she forces a laugh, running her thumb beneath her eye to wipe a stray, humiliating tear away.

“Not true.” He disagrees, “I wouldn’t have asked if I didn’t care.”

“I should let you go,” she says, straightening her back as she looks in his cart, “you probably have someone at home waiting for you to cook for them.”

A well played sentence, Marco thinks. Enough of a statement to disguise the question that lurks beneath the surface. “Just me. As always. Besides, you always complained that the place was too small. I wouldn’t want to put that on someone else.”

“You still live there?” She blinks in surprise, certain that he would have relocated by now.

“I’m happy there.” He shrugs. “But erm, I’ll let you go and finish your grocery shopping. But if you need a friend or anything, you know where I am.”

“After everything I did? You’d still be there for me?”

“I was never good at giving up. You should know that.” He replies, giving her a little nod and turning his cart around, needing to get out of the store and catch his breath in the cool air where he can think clearly and rationally. But if there was one thing Marco knew from this meeting, it was that it wouldn’t be the last he’d see of her.

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Thank you 🥹 my second idea is that marco keeps stealing someone’s parking spot at the block of flats he lives at so like the big woman our girl is, she scratches his car with her key after he ignored post it notes that she left on his car to ask him to not park there again. What she doesn’t know is that he saw her scratching it, that it actually isn’t her parking spot either, but also that the car she just scratched belongs to her hot neighbour 🤭 she’s lucky he finds her pretty and won’t ask for her to get his car repaired so the most she can do to pay him back is go on a date with him 🥰

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Marco watches from his apartment window as she gets from her car and all but stomps over to his. He knows what’s coming because both he, and a neighbour three doors down, have the same car. And it’s the neighbour who keeps parking in her spot. She often mistook Marco’s car, in his own spot, as her spot and the neighbours car.

He’d come down from the apartment complex many times to find an angrily written post it note stuck to his windscreen. It had amused him long enough to not react, especially as he’d kept his silence whenever she’d rant to him across their balcony about the asshole neighbour, even on the days it was his car she’d targeted. But today, today she was full of rage and a simple post-it will not suffice. Marco watches as she presses a button on her car key fob, pushing the key out and she takes it to the side of the car.

“Oh you’ve got to be shitting me,” Marco says, pushing away from the window and grabbing his jacket and hastily pulling on his shoes before heading to where she is. “Have I done something to piss you off?” Marco calls out as she begins to head back to her car.

“This isn’t your concern.” She yells over her shoulder and continues back to where her car waits with the car door open. “Go back inside.”

“It is my concern when you’re keying my car for no good reason.”

This has her pausing before she looks back at him. “Your car? No, no, no. You know this is his car.”

“No,” he corrects, “I know it’s mine.” he holds up his own key fob and presses a button, allowing her to watch as the lights flash and the unmistakable sound of the locks opening.

“You’ve been parking in my spot?” The look of betrayal etched onto her face.

“I’ve been parking in my own spot. Yours is there,” Marco gestures, pointing out the same make of car in her space. When he looks back at her, her expression has fallen, her cheeks have darkened in colour with shame and she’s trying her hardest to muster words but all she can do is open and close her mouth as words fail her. “But you just see the car and see red and all rational thought goes out.”

“I’d have known,” she tries to argue.

“I have enough of your notes in my home that says otherwise. Now, what will we do about this?” he asks, running his fingers over the deep scratches within the metal work. “If it wasn’t in my car, I’d be amused.”

“Marco, I’m so sorry.” Her cheeks deepen again, the tip of her nose catching a little of the colour too. “I’ll pay for the damage.” running a hand over her hair, she looks visibly mortified. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Didn’t realise you were prepared to take it this far. Anyway, you also said you’d go on a date with me a few weeks ago. So we’ll see which materialises first, hmm?”

“I’ll make it up to you. I promise.”

“What are you doing this weekend?” He asks her, swinging the keyring around his finger while he stuffs the other hand into his pocket.

“Having a date with you most likely.”

“Good answer.”

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player: unnamed - anyone you want OC: female reader who isn't described. type: smut theme warnings: theme of sugar baby / sugar daddy.

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the already impressive length of the text you're typing out to a friend is growing longer with each second that passes as you wait for him to come out of the shower. you're perched on the edge of the hotel bed, switching between replying to the texts and doing a little online shopping. the hotel that he's paid for is one of four that he books for these nights with you. he will only have the best room, in the best hotel and it shows.

the floor to ceiling windows boast the best 360 views of the city and you can still pinpoint the exact window that had your silhouette pressed against it like the touch from a ghost, leaving your presence within the room for hours after you've physically left it. the room is simple yet everything screams expensive. the mini bar is stocked with bottles of only the finest of champagnes, wines, and selection of spirits. you've image searched the art and it costs more than what he gives you a month. the bedsheets are the highest quality cotton and silk on a bed that was certainly not flat pack.

by the time you're dropping your phone back onto the bed and debating flinging yourself backwards too, he's stepping out of the bathroom in a blur of condensation and towards you.

"it's a good thing you don't have to pay me by the hour for these visits." you state, taking time to allow your gaze to linger over his body as he steps further into the room. the towel he's wearing is hanging low on his hips, not leaving much to the imagination at all.

"and why is that?" he's not oblivious to the way that you drink him in and there's already tell-tale signs of arousal. his own gaze drags over your body, admiring the new lingerie that he had sent your way as a "thinking of you in and out of this" gift. "You took your time," you comment, parting your legs and leaning back slightly as he fills the gap between your thighs and brings his torso close to yours. he's still slightly damp but you don't mind as you slot to him so perfectly it should be a crime to do so.

"you should already be nice and wet for me since you've been waiting so impatiently." he replies with a slight tone that brings a grin to your lips. he leaves enough of a gap to bring your hand between you both, hand reaching for his cock which is already stiffening against the towel. when your mouth opens to retort, he seizes the opportunity to claim your mouth.

Closing your fingers around his covered shaft, you stroke him ever so teasingly, enough to draw a slight whimper from him. you don't have time to be smug about such a thing, because you can already feel his own fingers brushing over the inside of your thigh and against your underwear.

your hips act with a mind of their own and buck up into his touch before you can stop yourself and you mirror the sound he made only moments ago. this arrangement was supposed to be financial only. and while there were no real feelings involved in a romantic sense, you did enjoy the genuine connection and chemistry that the two of you had which couldn't be bought.

"see," he says, middle finger stroking over the gusset of your panties, feeling the silky soaked patch increase as time ticks by. "so wet." "maybe that was from the thought of how I was going to be spending your money" you tease, and he grins; the action making your teeth clash together a little.

"you know what you did last time?" he asks in a quiet voice before his teeth nibble their way over your bottom lip. all you can do is hum your response as his fingers swipe over your swelling clit. "if you do that again, I'll pay for your shopping spree on top of this weeks payment."

the thought of having him powerlessly at your mercy once more is almost too great of an opportunity to pass up. you'd have done it again for free but if he was offering...

[footballffbarbiex]

Single parent multi player series

Yes yes I know. Hi, I'm Amy and I have an addiction to new plots and taking requests even when I shouldn't. So sue me. 

I will also probably look to do a multi chapter of one person with the idea that I have in mind, but because of so many people putting forward some excellent suggestions, I'm temporarily opening up single dad requests. 

You can request it be that he meets either a single woman or single parent too, or like with my idea, it features a single dad with his best friend battling through babyhood with one another (whether you want them to realise they want to do this together as a couple is up to you). 

I am open to maybe doing a second part to some of these requests if wanted or if the plot feels there is more to go on than a simple one shot. 

(I didn't know what to tag below as so I've included the tags for some of the players who were put forward. you can also request the likes of Charles Leclerc too if he tickles your pickle)

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bc my body decided to give me a second period in a month it's back to horny hours (we'll be having a Kostas fic up tonight btw) so I'm gonna work on some of the past blurbs that were sent in last horny hours.

but a question for you, because I'm older than all the men I write about (except Marco Rose), which player can you see learning a thing or two from an older woman? I'm desperate to write something about them being in bed together and it's her that's saying "oh, you didn't realise you liked this?" and she's making him lose his god damn mind with her experience.

idk if I'd name them or do it as an anyone you want, but yeah, I really wanna write about him realising that he doesn't actually know everything in bed and there's things that he can still experience for the first time / be taught and he's looking at this woman like "holy fuck where have you been?"

[footballffbarbiex]

this is what i'm hoping to come back with

these are on my first to write hit lists but that doesn't mean i won't be writing anything else too.

i know i have some more blurbs on here to write but this cold has knocked me on my ass so i'll get on them ASAP.

anything below you're looking forward to?

Antoine Griezmann

Antoine knows you’re watching at home (and there might be a sex ban bet) and plays up for the camera a little. 

Baby daddy anto and his little girl braiding one another’s hair. 

Watching a scary movie where one is terrified and the other can’t stop laughing

Enjoying some wine after a hectic day

What a better way to brush up on your french than a quick oral lesson?

A clear penalty that wasn’t given leaves a bitter taste in anto’s mouth so you take matters into your own hands and holes.

Baby it’s cold outside so you need warming up in the best way

Tracing his tattoos becomes a form of foreplay…

The only way to ensure you get what you want is to make sure it’s on his mind

Whoever cums first loses

He’s up for a threesome until he realises he doesn’t want to share

He’s thinking about what he wants from you while he’s alone in a hotel (smut)

Anto plans to edge you for as long as possible, even if it takes all day

________

Ben Chilwell

A continuation of the pillow humping drabble

“You’re not the man I married” angst. 

________

Ben White

Ben really wants to show you how much he loves the new lingerie

________

Beth Mead

Celebrating winning the euros with her (leads to smut)

________

Charles Leclerc

Charles is left to handle several children by himself, making him one stressed boy.

Enemies to lovers. Slightly AU - he’s an old money prep boy

Secret dating is about to become public

________

Daniel Ricciardo 

Cooling down on a hot day only leads to more heat

________

Dominic Calvert Lewin

His curls. Playful and dirty pulling of his hair examples

________

Emre Can

Walking in the summertime with his little girl. Playing with the flowers.

________

Eric Dier

Eric and your daughter are putting on a magic show and he’s the assistant

________

Jack Aitken 

Leaving love notes

________

Jack Grealish

Showing Jack just how confident you’re now feeling and dressing up for him 

________

Jadon Sancho

Jadon’s ex is causing trouble and their relationship is on thin ice.

Jadon’s dressing up your son to look like him

________

John Stones

Finally having untprotected sex with John. 

Unwinding at home with John after a long stressful week (fluff)

John likes to get handsy after some sun, sea and sand. 

Over protective baby daddy John

Out and about with the newborn

________

Kepa Arrizabalaga

They split when he was leaving Spain and though things didn’t end bad, it felt like there was little closure. Now they’re back in the same city, are those feelings still there?

________

Kylian Mbappe 

Dating Tuchel’s daughter in secret … until it’s no longer a secret. (smut)

________

Leon Goretzka

That first time sex and trying to be quiet

________

Marco Rose

An unexpected pregnancy leaves Marco unsure of himself 

________

Mason Mount

Mason takes it upon himself to decorate the nursery

Mason being a good egg during labour

________

Paulo Dybala

She’s a belly dancer and practices a new routine for him

Lazy day in after he’s been to training

Celebrating his birthday with a meal and dessert 

Drunken sex headcannon

________

Rodrigo De Paul

Helping her get out of her head (smut)

________

Rúben Dias

1 of 2 - they meet and bond over both being new to Manchester and not having many people around. One thing leads to another and ….

2/2  even though they’re just friends, jealousy gets in the way during a night out and there’s only one way to get rid of that. 

A bad mood of yours leads to cockwarming

Rúben doesn’t like that your ex is sniffing around again

You really shouldn’t have sent those nudes while he was away

A new on the pitch agreement leaves him feeling competitive (smut)

Trying to make a baby

You get a tattoo of his jersey number

Watching porn together

NSFW alphabet

She’s his neighbour and drunkenly locked herself out. He’s there to rescue her

You’re home late from work and he’s doing the baby’s bedtime routine

Spending the first night at his (fluff)

Ruben is all manly out of the bedroom, but you’re in charge between the sheets

Squirting for the first time

She’s not there at the ballon d’or with him but he sees what she’s up to and he’s not impressed (smut)

Being manhandled by Ruben

John’s challenged Ruben to No Nut November but can he last?

________

Sergio Ramos

A birthday present for the birthday boy. 

________

Trent Alexander Arnold

Sexting quickly escalates. 

When a switch meets a switch, who will come out top? (smut)

Your son has only just started walking but Trent’s determined to put a ball at his feet

Trent is trying to be her tour guide in another country but she knows more

________

Threesomes and moresomes

Poch’s daughter has caught the eye of several Liverpool players… ft Joe Gomez / Trent Alexander Arnold /  reader  / reader’s best female friend /  Virgil van Dijk

Thigh riding becomes more -  Kepa Arrizabalaga / reader / Mason Mount 

3 Lions aren’t just on shirts, they’re also inside you. Dominic Calvert Lewin / reader / Mason Mount / John Stones

________

Unnamed

Making you watch yourself cum + aftercare

Needing to make you forget about the shit day you’ve had

You receive texts throughout the day about what he wants to do to you

You’ve begged for him and he’s not giving you attention. But you’ll take what you want and pay the price later

Public teasing only gets you so far

Sub!player being made to watch and beg to touch you

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Virgil van Dijk

Restraining and blindfolding Virgil and having your way with him

Meeting your family for the first time