#maybe it's in the original dub idk
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it bothers me that May (anime) is originally from Johto (allegedly). can I please get sources and citations on this
#pokeani#i think the only way it was mentioned in canon was that norman is referred to as the new gym leader???#but that in itself isn't actually an animeverse confirmation.#well one could also argue that unbeatable lightness also mentions it#because drew's like 'hey i'm going to johto if you wanna come with'#and may says something like 'johto's supposed to be nice this time of year'#which implies she knows stuff about johto#but like idk. i know stuff about italy's climate and I've never been there.#see. i'm not doubting this because I know it's in line with the other norman family canons (pokespe specifically. right?)#but idk. I know it's probably true for animeverse too but i just want to know WHERE it's true. yk?#not doubting. just nosy.#either way I'm not a lore person. I'm kind of just here to shitpost but this has always bothered me for no reason lol#maybe it's in the original dub idk
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I skip all Hiccstrid scenes in Rtte because buffstrid is not canonđ
#am i mentally ill?#maybe#but do I also possess the power to redraw Hiccstrid scenes with buffstrid#yes#I do#hiccup#Astrid#hiccup x astrid#biblically accurate hiccstrid#hiccstrid#buffstrid#httyd#Rtte#shit post#I wish I was joking#Iâve fried my brain to the point where I just cannot watch them#and if Iâm being honest a lot of the Hiccstrid scenes are kind of hard to watch anywayđ#donât get me wrong I absolutely love the ship#however#they make me kringe#yes kringe with a k#because the normal âcringeâ word is used too often and too negatively just to insult people having fun#So Iâm using kringe and hoping it doesnât already mean something extremely offensive#okay I googled it itâs fine#I am now dubbing âkringeâ to be a friendlier version of âcringeâ and only to be used in a situation where you are expressing your opinion -#-and not directly insulting someone else just because theyâre a little different#what the fuck was I originally on about#oh yeah I kind of find canon Hiccstrid kringe#hot take mayhaps?#idk my opinion manđ€
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Hot take but yâall can pry the English dub of Haikyuu outta my cold dead hands like idk how to tell yâall this but it is objectively funnier and I will die on this hill
#idkkkkkk maybe itâs just me being American and Iâm SORRY#but I watched season 4 originally with subs before the dub was available and like. the humor just wasnât the same??#like the jokes and name calling just didnât hit the same#and I see some of the sub screenshots yâall post and Iâm like. meh đ€·đ»#idk I guess they just sound more like goofball teenage boys in the dub since the subs translate as more formal#haikyuu!!
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is it controversial to say i don't enjoy the jastblue translation for dmmd. it's giving DRAMAtical Murder If It Was Written By Viziepop, i'm sorry......
#origin#also like. okay#I'm not great at Japanese by any means but there are times where even someone like me can tell that some lines don't really match the audio#like what was going on in koujaku's route#the use of 'ganked' to convey 'tsujigiri' was strange#(tsujigiri = attacking a passerby)#LIKE I CAN SEE WHY I GUESS? if i think about it maybe it makes sense??? but ive also never heard that word in my life idk#oh my god. and the slang.... the slang and gratuitous use of the word 'bro'.... died 2014 - born 2021 - welcome back dmmd anime dub#anyway i'm gonna replay parts of the original fan translation soon just to compare
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I'm about to set asian activism back 20 years but tbh I don't mind when white people are a little too into asian stuff. like those koreaboos that say "omo!" and "jinjja?" and their twitter DNs are like their english names written in hangul. idk I think they're funny and endearing in a certain stupid little way. it's when they're on the other end of the spectrum and refuse to acknowledge the korean-ness of the korean things they like that I get pissed off.
#shut up boo#leftists gave the kboos too much shit about ~~~cultural appropriation~~~ and now kdramas have to be dubbed in english#for katie from vermont to even add them to her netflix list#idk to me it's the same as my stance on subs vs dubs. ppl make it a debate about the acting performances or subs being hard to read blahbla#but it's not about that dumb shit. it's about reminding foreign audiences of the original cultural context of the work#bc if you let them forget that then you get shit like that one idiot on reddit who said squid game was commentary on america#for the same reason i think old fanmade subs that kept things like 'senpai/-chan/-kun' and created 'TN: keikaku means plan' were better#remind the non japanese viewer that THEY ARE WATCHING A JAPANESE THING! SHOVE IT IN THEIR FACES!!!#if they dont like it?? TOUGH! MAYBE REEVALUATE WHY YOU DONT LIKE IT DUMMY!
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i often think about the episode of sonic x where sonic was missing for a bit and knuckles had been standing outside every night waiting for him to come back and rouge comes up to him like Seeing you staring at the moon every night waiting for him like this makes me sad too :( and knuckles starts blushing and goes IM NOT STARING AT THE MOON AND THINKING ABOUT HIM. what did they mean by that.
#there are several sonic and knuckles moments that make me go What did they mean by that.#but this one especially makes me go what did they mean by that.#and people will say that was a kn/uxouge scene somehow. but i know the truth#also this post is based on the subbed version not the dubbed version#idk how different it is in english but i do know that the ''im not staring at the moon and thinking about him'' line was changed#so maybe other stuff was changed too idk. ive never actually watched the english dub aside from a couple episodes from season 1#just because i knew the english dub changed a lot of stuff and i wanted to watch the original version#maybe ill watch the dub one day just for funsies
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this talk about arknights translation reminds me around when the eng dub was first added someone made an accusation that the reason amiyaâs one voiceline was changed was because the voice actor was too lazy to say the full line (??)
for reference, this is the change:
ignoring the obvious stupidity of thinking voice actors have any say over the script (or that they'd do that even if they did...) that is a pretty significant change which makes you wonder... why?
luckily you can look up the different versions of the voicelines pretty easily
CN: ćżćżïŒć棫ïŒææćèŻäœ äžä»¶äșââæéæ°ćŒć§ç»ć°æçŽäșă JP: ă”ă”âŠćźăŻç§ăăŸăăŽăĄă€ăȘăȘăłăźç·Žçżăăć§ăăăă§ăăä»ćșŠăźăăŒăăŁăŒă§ăżăȘăăă«ă”ăă©ă€ășăâŠâŠă ăăăăŻăżăŒăăżăȘăăă«ăŻć
ç·ă§ăăâŠâŠïŒ EN: Hehe⊠Doctor, let me tell you something: I picked up the violin again. KR: í€í€, ë°ìŹë. ìŹì€ ìŽê±Ž ëčë°ìžë°ìâŠâŠ ì ë€ì ë°ìŽìŹëŠ° ì°ì”ì ììíìŽì.
turns out, the part about secretly practicing for a party is only in the JP version of the line
what this means... I'm actually not sure, since Arknights was originally CN text + JP voice, so you can't say for sure either is the "right" one regardless, the reason for the EN text change is pretty easy to see--the original translation was based on the JP voiceline, but when they redid the translations in preparation for the dub, they referenced the CN line instead
so... even if you gotta mtl it actually looking at the original text can be pretty helpful in understanding why some things ended up as they are in the en version
#arknights#idk where that was even from but it still pisses me off#so sorry if this sounds overly bitter lollll#eng va get so much shit#look you don't have to use or like the eng dub#but you don't have to act like these guys are desecrating your sacred weeb game for shits either#they're just doing their job#anyway. i really want to know why this difference exists between jp and cn in the first place??#my theory is that the jp is actually the original#at least before they added cn dub#because you have some extra info (hi. destreza) there#now that they have the cn dub maybe that's changed...?#but i got no way to confirm
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saw a post asking everyone's disliked characters in zelda games and i gotta say .... some of yall need to play botw in japanese dub
#im not rbing that post bc i dont wanna be annoying#& im not trying to police anyone#and i do think they did a lot of characters wrong like so much of miphas scenes should be focused on her duties & her love for her family#instead of her affection for link....botw could go an entire game without any romance#i mean ive only played botw so i cant talk abt any other games#but idk maybe im just so into botw and fleshed out all the characters in my head#that i forgot how they seem to most#but also botw is kinda . not about the other characters if that makes sense#in comparison to totk its mostly a very lonely ptsd game#anyeays to return to my original point#yeah i would hate zelda more if i listened to her british dub đđđ
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Sometimes i feel that way about old Star Trek episoedes because i see what they were trying to do and i'm sure the execution was groundbreaking at the time but when you look at it now... oh boy what?
The thing you have to keep in mind about Moby Dick is that itâs an explicitly anti-racist text written by a white guy in the 1850s. So you end up with stuff like Ishmael spending an entire paragraph complimenting a Polynesian guy on his skull shape.
#the entire nazi episode is so weird to me as a german person#especially since it didn't air THAT long after ww2??#i'm also 90% sure that it didn't air in germany at the time#simply based on the fact that bones has a different voice the entire episode#so i'm sure the dub happened after the original dub and maybe deforest kelley's original german va quit or passed away?#idk
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â i am afraid i will love you forever.
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ambessa x sugar baby!reader x sevika. men & minors dni.
synopsis: ambessa & sevika are married for business reasons but cannot stand each other. however, they love youâyou who are unaware that they are together.
cw: age difference, older woman/young woman, polyam but is it really bc they just love you and not each other, sugar baby!reader, business moguls!ambessa & sevika, power dynamics, power imbalance (you're a sugar baby, lol), sw, pining, non-sexual intimacy, sexually explicit content, threesome, cunnilingus, vaginal fingering, oral sex (everyone is receiving at some point), masturbation, exhibitionism, voyeurism, dom/sub, sub!reader, dom!ambessa, switch!sevika, mommy kink, strength kink, face-sitting, face fucking, possessive sevika & ambessa, y'all there's a lot of nastiness in here idk if i can warn for it all, discussions of sexuality, implied assault (non-graphic, within conversation), slightly dub-con, angst, angst with a happy ending, misunderstandings, arranged marriage, sexual tension, hate sex, bisexual!reader.
wc: 10.3k
PLAYLIST.
notes: y'all, i'm going to hell. i had fun with this. i have such a soft spot for plots like this.
ACT I: CONCEPTION. you were used to feeling like a guest in your own life, everything fleeting, everything temporary.
sugaring was something inherently lacking permanence, even in name. it was sweet for a moment, full of gleaming gifts that you accepted with perfect tears in your eyes.
you had more than enough money, saved from endless months in which you traipsed across the world in the hands of older men. maybe it was about the attention now, this idea that you were still young enough to be considered enticing without effort. maybe it was the desperation to wring what you could out of an age gap connection before you became the older one.
still, in the beginning years of your twenties, you found it increasingly grating. very quickly, you understood that the men were the main problem.
they were all the same: fleshy jowls wiggling as they chewed thickly through caviar and jasmine rice, their boisterous laughs sailing across tables when you attempted to join conversations. they took your interests and re-explained them to you, returning them pulpy and distorted as they attempted to convince you that you didn't understand them the way they did. their self-importance clung to them like cheap cologne.
the rare occasions where you actually slept with them were mercifully short, and you learned to suspend yourself out of your body. you would imagine hovering somewhere over yourself, banished to the lavish mirrored ceiling of the ritz or whatever opulent hotel they'd chosen. they shuddered awkwardly above you, and afterward, you'd come back into yourself only to scrub viciously at your skin under the unforgiving spray of the shower.
the women were differentâusually. you found yourself drawn to their luxury perfumes and high society drawls. it was because of this that you dropped working through an agencyâwhich you had originally chosen to better protect yourself from male clientsâand began independent contracting.
you kept a private log of the ones you liked best. there was the private university professor (who was really a nepotism baby) who loved to wear le labo matcha 26 and smelled so deliciously of fig whenever she kissed you that you sometimes bought the fruit just to continue tasting her. her nickname for you was something in greekâÎŒÏÏÏ ÎŒÎżÏ
, you think. moro mou. she told you it meant 'my baby', but in all honesty, she could have called you anything. you just liked hearing her speak.
you were a dreamy, distant creature. your appeal lay in your ethereal quality, moving through the world in a way that suggested you were detached from it. people described your presence as lingering, smokey and soft, like a fading perfume in a sunlit room. there was something endearing about the tilt of your head, the deliberate pause in your movements and speech as you stewed in thought, that made people stare a second too long.
you had plied yourself with romantic imaginations since you were younger, when you first grew to hate your mother. that hatred had led you across far waters into a glittering life of your own making. but you'd learned that women could be just as dangerous, if not more so. they could ensnare you, shatter your heart with just the flicker of a glance.
so, of course, this meant that you were bound to get caught in the tides of extensive affection at some point. you just didn't expect it to be with them.
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the first sign should have been the unusual nature they coaxed from you.
you typically focused on one relationship at a time, securing yourself to a single person until you became too honest or too sensitive or too old. but with them, you foââund yourself with what you called a rosterâa term your best friend and fellow sugar baby clleo (yes, two l's) took issue with during your weekly brunches.
"it's not a roster when it's only two women, [name]," she said, stirring her mimosa with a silver straw.
"it's more than one, no?"
"i feel like you have to have a minimum of three." she raised an eyebrow. "though i have to admit, even two is unusual for you."
the first was ambessa.
you'd met her when you weren't even looking, at some jazz show clleo had received tickets for from her newest beau. you had been perched inside the red velvet of the box, eyes roving over the insides of the other open balcony seats. you loved to observe, to look into others' lives and pretend they could be your own.
that night, you'd worn a navy slip dress that pushed the line of being dress-code appropriate, but it was comfortable and you had been tired. your hair was elaborately braided away from your face, threaded through with silk ribbons of the same color. despite its usually disagreeable nature, you'd managed to make it look elegant enough. your skin was littered with goosebumps from the fervent blasting of the air conditioning.
for once, you'd done your makeup the way you preferred itâless blushing ingenue, more cool nudes and a dark, bold lip. in the bottom of your purse sat two rolling bullets of lipstick: one a berry shade, the other a satiny red slightly subdued by a touch of brown pigment.
your feet had been curled beneath you, your ballet flats cast aside in the corner. the rounded tops were slightly scuffed, but you only saw it as a testimony of love. again, you looked out into the crowd only to find a woman looking back.
she was utterly beautiful, and your body flushed with heat for a moment, eyes wide like a doe. her skin was a dark, rich brown that gleamed with a sheen of oil and perhaps a shimmering body mist. her hairâblack and streaked with thin rivers of grayâwas pulled up into a tight bun, though the front was cornrowed. her mouth was full and smooth, a small gold cuff inserted in the middle of her bottom lip.
that night, she'd worn an oversized blazer over tailored pants. your eyes caught on her diamond cufflinks, and you felt your fingers clutch tighter around the bulk of your vintage ysl clutch.
she watched you with a sense of urgency, as if you might take flight like a bird and never return. bashfully, you turned back to watch the performance and clapped politely as it came to an end. her gaze never strayed from you, and as you rose to leave with clleo, you knew that she would be waiting.
you don't remember much of what happened after, of arranging the contract and indenturing yourself to her wealth. you only remember how she made you feel, her great body towering over you as she pierced you with her shrewd gaze. she'd cupped your elbow, pulled you gently to the side so that you were less in the way. the movement was easy; you trusted her with your body immediately.
now, ambessa reigned over the entries of your leather journal as your clear favorite. everything she did further endeared you to her, and you found yourself tumbling out of bed to check your phone where it lay on the floor, desperate for her messages. you watched the device all night, its flat body connected to a limp white cord plugged into the wallâwilling it to ring.
and when she did call, you were almost delirious with joy.
ambessa's world was a carefully curated exhibition of power. noxus corp dominated the skyline with its obsidian tower, all sharp angles and tinted windows that reflected the setting sun like spilled blood. you'd learned early on not to ask too many questions about her work. the corporate merger making headlinesâsomething about expanding into the industrial district of zaunâwas just background noise to the way she'd trace your collarbone with cold fingers heavy with rings.
belatedly, in the midst of your betrayal and anguish, youâd berate yourself on your refusal to engage with real life when it inconvenienced you. you couldâve caught on, dived deep into the hole of information that was the internet as clleo did when taking up with someone new. but you didnât, you just answered her call.
she liked to dress you up. tonight, it was a paper-thin black dress that cost more than your month's rent, the fabric liquid against your skin. you'd paired it with kitten heels that made soft clicking sounds against the marble floorsâambessa preferred when you were shorter than her, easier to maneuver, to possess. your lips were stained the color of coffee, and you'd lined your eyes with something dusky and soft.
the restaurant was the kind of place that didn't list prices on the menu, where the silverware felt weighty enough to be used as weapons. you liked this style of dining; it allowed you to escape further. you could pretend that since there were no prices, every morsel you ate was free and that the woman across from you was someone whom you loved and received love back from instead of bills.
âpull your hair back,â she commanded softly when you sat down, reaching across to brush a strand from your face. her touch lingered longer than necessary. âi want to see you properly. you should never feel a need to hide from me.â
you obliged, using the elastic around your wrist to gather your hair into a loose knot. the movement exposed the necklace she'd given you last weekâa delicate thing of white gold and diamonds that probably cost more than your university education. her eyes darkened with satisfaction. she liked marking you with beautiful things, preferred to communicate through touch and gifts rather than words.
you preened under her clear pleasure. the idea that youâd done something right flowed through you, sweet as sugar as was the phenomenon of female favoritism. your tongue settled behind your teeth as she skimmed the menu, ordering for you as she always did. she seemed more aware of what you liked and needed more than you had ever been.
âare you alright with sharing the roast monkfish tonight, little lamb? iâm not all that hungry, so i think we should deal with something light.â
you nodded and she smiled, chucking your chin as she flagged down the server. you squeezed your thighs together, resisting the urge to rise from your seat and sit at her side with your head resting in her lap.
the waiter arrived with a bottle of wine you were unfamiliar with, which meant it was far more expensive than your beloved six-dollar gas station sémillon. as ambessa swirled the dark liquid in her glass, her phone buzzed. her expression hardened for a fraction of a second before smoothing over.
"business," she said simply, standing. "order whatever you'd like. i'll return shortly."
you caught fragments of her conversation as she walked awayâsomething about zaun's infrastructure and liability concerns. one hour bled into two. the waiter refilled your glass with practiced discretion, and you watched the ice in ambessa's water melt completely. your phone remained silent except for a single text: an urgent matter requires my attention. car service will take you home.
the words blurred on your screen. you'd grown used to her absences, the way she could withdraw completely into her world of corporate warfare, leaving you adrift in these expensive spaces. but tonight, the emptiness felt sharper somehow. you had, more than ever, wanted her to take you home.
it was then that the woman entered the restaurant, right as you blinked upward to dispel the gathering tears. the air seemed to shift with her presence as she absentmindley looked in your direction.
she moved with the fluid grace of someone who knew how to handle herself in the cruel maw of this world, efficient and forceful despite wearing an expertly tailored suit. her left arm caught the light strangelyâsome sort of advanced prosthetic that spoke of military tech or private healthcare. a significant scar bisected her face, but rather than diminishing her beauty, it enhanced her striking features.
your paths crossed at the bar while you waited for a fresh glass of wine. she ordered whiskey, neat, and her voice was rough velvet.
"you're wearing that necklace wrong," she said, not looking at you directly. "the clasp should be centered at the nape. here."
before you could protest, her fingersâwarm, unlike ambessa'sâwere at your neck, adjusting the chain. you caught a whiff of motor oil beneath expensive perfume. you swayed slightly, pressing into her touch. she steadied you with a single finger at the beginning knob of your spine, strong where you were momentarily weak.
"i'm sevika," she said, finally meeting your eyes. something in her gaze made your breath catch. youâd never seen eyes that grey. "you look like you could use something stronger than wine."
you smiled, albeit shakily, which avalanched into finding yourself talking to her about everything and nothingâabout the book of poetry you kept on your nightstand for late night reading, about the way you collected vintage coats, about how you sometimes felt like you were floating three feet above your own life.
she listened with an intensity that made you feel anchored, present in your skin in a way you hadn't felt in months. her questions were sparse but precise, each one drawing out another story, another piece of yourself you hadn't meant to expose. and then she asked you to leave with her, and the answer was quick and easy. a light, eager âyesâ.
the speakeasy she took you to was hidden beneath an auto shop, all exposed brick and piano medleys that wrapped around you like rope. in the dim light, you noticed the way her prosthetic arm moved with incredible precision as she gestured, the way her eyes softened almost imperceptibly when you laughed. she noticed you shiver and draped her jacket over your shoulders without comment, the leather still warm from her body.
"i manage specialized acquisitions," she said when you asked what she did, her smile suggesting there was more to the story. "currently dealing with some complex merger negotiations. but that's boring. tell me more about that poetry collection you mentioned."
you talked until your voice grew hoarse, until the early hours when the city felt like it belonged only to those who were lost or hiding. when she dropped you home, she fixed your broken porch light without being asked, her movements quick and purposeful. you found out later she'd also left her number saved in your phone under 's'.
what you didn't knowâcouldn't have knownâwas that across town, ambessa was returning to the penthouse she shared with her wife of six months, their marriage a carefully hidden clause in the merger agreement between noxus and zaun's industrial empire. their shared living space was largely ceremonial, each woman keeping to their own wing, intersecting only for appearances and board meetings.
that night, sevika found ambessa in their shared study, both of them surrounded by contract papers and acquisition reports.
"the zaun infrastructure reports," sevika said, dropping a thick folder on the desk. her wedding ring caught the lightâa simple band worn only within these walls.
"you're late," ambessa replied without looking up. "the board expects updates by morning."
"i had a personal matter to attend to."
"as did i."
neither woman acknowledged sevikaâs missing jacket which she never was without, nor the faint perfumeâyour perfumeâthat clung to ambessa's blazer. their arrangement was clear: their marriage was business, their personal lives their own. they had trained themselves not to care what, or who, the other did in their free time.
but that night, for the first time since their arranged union, both women found themselves thinking of the same person as they worked in silence. it was one of their more agreeable evenings together.
ACT II: GROWING PAINS.
âwhere do you go?â
you turned, half-lidded, your hair mussed into an untamed birdâs nest. sevika lay beside you, her smile a lopsided thingâteasing, warm, a little worn. you leaned toward her instinctively, pressing a lazy finger into the shallow dimple that cut into her cheek.
she caught your wrist before you could withdraw, lips brushing the tender pulse beneath your skin before pulling you into her chest. her hand slid across your stomach, warm and heavy, before it wandered higher to pinch your nipple just shy of too hard.
the two of you had met in a hotel, yet somehow, it felt less clinical than it should have.
âwhat do you mean?â you murmured, breath catching as her hand stilled.
âyou go somewhere,â she said, âwhen we fuck.â
the words hung between you, and you felt your body shift under her scrutiny. her gaze trailed the uneasy motion of your shoulder blades as you shifted upright. honesty clawed at your throat, but you tried to swallow it back. youâve never been the tiger, only the tigerâs bride.
âi oftenââ you broke off, tongue darting to wet your lips. her arm tightened around your waist, as if sensing your instinct to retreat. âi tend to disassociate when i do this part of things. iâm notâwhat i want, i usually canât achieve. i donât want to make it anyoneâs problem, so i float.â
âfloat?â she repeated softly. her tone was unreadable, but you refused to meet her eyes.
âi pick a spot on the ceiling,â you admitted, voice small. âfrom there, i phase myself out of my body. itâs like itâs happening to someone else.â
sevika said nothing at first, and the silence thickened as you focused on the slow, steady rise and fall of her chest. then, carefully, she shifted you into her lap, holding you there like a delicate thing. her lips found the center of your chest, pressing a kiss over your heart before trailing up to the vulnerable line of your throat.
âyou do this with me?â
ânot always,â you whispered. âyouâreâŠdifferent. you pay attention to meâwhat i need. only two other people have ever been that way. both women.â
âmmm. do you still see them?â her voice was calm, but you caught the subtle current of possession beneath her words.
âonly one.â
âand?â
âitâs good with her. one of the best.â
âand what do you want?â she pressed. the question lodged itself in your chest. âyou said you canât achieve it.â
your cheeks burned, and you squirmed in her lap, but she held you fast. âiâthis is embarrassing.â
âthereâs nothing embarrassing about your desires, baby girl,â she murmured, her tone soothing. âi wouldnât be here if i didnât want you to enjoy this too.â
âi do enjoy it, butâŠiâd like to go further. i like to go under.â you hesitated, then added, âyou know that iâmââ
âsubmissive,â she finished for you.
you nodded, your voice softening as you continued. âi donât really like the harsher aspects of submission, but i love being taken somewhere elseâbeing softer. i love being told iâm good, that iâm doing well. i love being pushed past my limits, to the point where iâmâŠhazy. overstimulated. freed from my worries through my body, through the pleasure i give and receive.
âwhen you manhandle me, when you pull me close and push into me like youâre starving for it, when you break me apart with your mouth, i get so close. i hover in this warm heaven where iâm nothing but what i feel. you know?â
sevikaâs expression softened, her face almost unbearably open. before you could process it, she moved, pressing you into the mattress beneath her. her broad frame blotted out the light, sheltering you in a cocoon of warmth and safety.
âyou are good, baby,â she finally said. âso good.â
her lips fell again to your neck and you felt her slide her thick fingers into the warm walls of your cunt. a sound slid from your throat, something gutteral and worn. she began to move, curling her fingers as if you pull you closer. there, in the back of your mind, was that heaven.
she kissed your temple, her lips lingering there as your body arched into her hands. âthank you for telling me.â
then, softer: âthat heaven? i want to take you there.â
the words sank into your skin, heady and heavy, as if sheâd whispered she loved you.
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ambessa had endured a long dayâone filled with tedious negotiations and the peculiar frustrations of ruling over people who thought themselves her equals. she'd craved just one moment of quiet in her house, but fate, it seemed, had other plans.
when she stepped through the door, the sight of her wife pacing their kitchen dragged a weary sigh from her chest. sevika's movements were sharp, her broad shoulders taut beneath the worn leather of her jacket. even now, after months of marriage, seeing sevika in their shared space felt like an intrusion.
for a fleeting moment, ambessa considered turning around, but she hadnât built empires by running from conflict.
âsevika,â she began, voice clipped, âif this is about zaunïżœïżœïżœs profit percentage in the acquisition, i suggest you take it up with legal. iâve no patience to discuss business tonight.â
âitâs not that,â sevika muttered, her tone bristling with frustration. âbut thanks for your grace, medarda.â
ambessaâs eyebrow arched. âthen what?â
sevika stilled, the weight of her gaze pinning ambessa in place. âare you the other woman?â
for a moment, the words didnât register. then irritation flared, swift and hot.
âi thought we agreed we werenât in love,â ambessa replied, dry as the desert. âwho i see outside this house is none of your concern, unless it compromises our arrangement.â
sevika exhaled sharply, the sound edged with restrained anger. she reached into her pocket and retrieved her phone, its screen casting a gentle glow across the marble counter. with a few taps, she pulled up a recent conversation.
she paused, a smile stealing across her face as she took in the selfie you'd sent of you and clleo in matching milano blaniks. the tenderness in her expression was something ambessa had never seen before.
my feet hurt but it might be worth it!! you'd texted. she had responded in record time.
looking cute, baby girl. i like the purple.
me too! they had a navy and gold pair i would kill for, but i'm trying to be responsible.
sevika's smile deepened, and this time she sent a bank transfer along with her next message.
you can be a little irresponsible.
oh, sevi. that's not what i meant.
i know. i don't mind. get them both.
"i'm sorry, but were we not having a conversation?" ambessa's voice cut through the moment like frost.
sevika snapped back to reality, her face twisting into something uglyâthe expression she reserved solely for ambessa. she selected another image, and ambessa stepped closer, her eyes narrowing at the familiar necklace adorning your throat.
she recognized it instantlyâit had rested on her desk just nights ago, a small token of indulgence sheâd gifted you during one of your afternoons together.
you were smiling, beaming, caught mid-laugh. your hair was damp, clinging to your cheeks, and a sea lion nudged at your side. it was an image of unfiltered joy.
"she was talking to me the other night," sevika began, her voice tight as a wire. "mentioned some other woman. i thought it was a client thing, but then she showed me this." she gestured at the screen. "that necklace. it was on your desk when i saw you."
ambessa said nothing at first, her jaw working. finally, she sighed, the sound heavy with something like resignation. âi didnât know. i assumed she might have other clients, but i didnât pursue her because of you.â
sevikaâs shoulders sagged slightly, but the tension in her face remained. she bent her head, palms pressing into the cool marble of the counter. âwhat the fuck.â
âdoes she know?â ambessa asked after a beat.
"what would it matter?" sevika shot back, her voice rising like tide. her gaze locked on ambessa, and her lips twisted in disbelief. "holy shit. are you in love with her?"
the question hit like a blow, but ambessaâs reaction was instant.
âas if youâre any better,â she snapped. her tone turned venomous, sharp as a blade. âyou sulk through the door, reeking of her sex, then slink into the shower as if i canât hear you simpering in there.â
sevika straightened, anger sparking. âand youâre what? innocent?â
ambessaâs laugh was cold, cruel. âiâve never been innocent a day in my life. but youâgod, sevika, youâre pathetic. youâre worse than i thought.â
sevikaâs fists clenched at her sides, but she didnât lash out. instead, she held her ground, her gaze fierce. âwhat do we do now?â
ambessa hesitated. her mind raced through the implications, the potential fallout. finally, she crossed her arms, her posture stiff. âwe donât tell her.â
âand keep lying to her?â sevikaâs voice cracked slightly. âhow long do you think thatâll work?â
âas long as it has to,â ambessa replied, her voice low and final. âthis arrangement isnât just about her, sevika. itâs about us. about what weâve built. if you care about her as much as you claim, youâll think before ruining what little stability we have left.â
âfor fuckâs sake, ambessa. sheâs a sweet girl. she wonâtââ
âyou have no idea what she will do if she finds out,â ambessa hissed. âand i know how sweet she is. sheâs the only goddamn person i know who can stand me. who do you think iâm really protecting?â
for once, sevika had no retort. the silence between them was loud, heavy, filled with unsaid things.
âiâll handle it,â ambessa said after a long pause, her voice softer now but no less firm. âbut donât let your feelings make you sloppy. if you canât compartmentalize, this will all fall apart.â
sevika turned away, her shoulders tense. âitâs already falling apart.â
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ambessa didnât sleep that night.
not because of sevikaâs wordsâthough they lingered like a sour taste in her mouthâbut because of you. sheâd grown accustomed to the softness of your skin beneath her fingers, the way your presence softened the edges of her world, made it almost bearable. and yet, she couldnât shake the nagging thought that you might be nothing more than collateral damage in this carefully constructed house of cards.
the following morning, as sunlight filtered through the sprawling windows of her office, ambessa reached for her phone. her fingers hovered over your contact, her mind warring with itself. sheâd always prided herself on her control, on her ability to compartmentalize. but now, for the first time in years, she felt the cracks forming.
her phone buzzed before she could decide, sevikaâs name flashing across the screen.
âwhat now?â ambessa answered, her tone clipped.
âthe gala,â sevika began, her voice unusually subdued. âthis year itâs your turn to host, right?â
ambessaâs grip tightened on the phone. âyes. and what about it?â
âand,â sevika said, dragging out the word, âsheâll be there. she got an invite through one of her clients.â
the air seemed to still around her. âyouâre certain?â
âpositive,â sevika replied. âwhat do you want to do?â
ambessa leaned back in her chair, her gaze fixed on the skyline. the decision should have been simple: handle the event with poise, maintain appearances, and ensure that you remained blissfully unaware. but something about sevikaâs tone made her pause.
âweâll stick to the plan,â ambessa said finally. âshe doesnât know, and she wonât find out. not from us.â
they both knew it was only a beautiful dream.
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and then suddenly, it was different. it was horrible in its subtleness, but enough to make you less comfortable than you were before.
you went to dinner. ââambessa watched you with eyes as sharp as her diamond cufflinks, and you wondered if she knew how small you felt in her presence. you let her brush her thumb over your lower lip, and you leaned into it, hoping she doesnât notice your hands gripping your clutch too tightly.
âis something wrong?â you asked her, throat closing around the end of the question.
she seemed to startle, and leaned back with a shake of her head. you knew what was coming next. she was going to blame work or her family, which you barely knew about, or maybe something as clandestine as the weather. you suddenly felt entirely too sick. you took a sip of wine, eyes falling on the little brown bag that sat next to you.
every gift you unwrapped felt a little like a goodbye, the sparkle dulled by the unspoken terms behind it. you kept smiling, face stretching tediously through the pain though your heart was sinking because nothing ruined a good arrangement faster than too much honesty.
you mustâve overstepped somewhere down the line, and she had grown weary of it. you were sweating now, looking away from her. it didnât help that your phone had stayed dark all evening, your slew of messages to sevika read and unanswered.
âi finished that book you gave me,â you offered and ambessa nodded. âit was lovely. a little macabre, but i managed to push through.â
âbessa?â you asked, voice small.
the nickname seemed to spur her back into herself and she reached across the table, clutching your hand. her rings pressed cold indents into your skin. you'd grown to love the weight of them.
"the annual noxus environmental gala is tomorrow night," she said finally. her thumb traced circles on your palm. "i'd like you to come."
your heart stuttered. she'd never invited you to a public event before. "another client already invited me. iâll be there."
she squeezed your hand once before letting go, unfazed by the mention of someone else. "good."
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the evening was opulent in a way that made your skin prickle. the ballroom shimmered with soft golden light, chandeliers casting their glow across marble floors that reflected everything like still water.
you'd been invited by marcusâa client who preferred your company over dinner to discuss art and literature, who looked at you like you were made of gold but never asked for more than conversation. he was safe, a spiderweb you could free yourself from anytime without losing any skin.
your dressâa gift from ambessaâfelt like a confession of infidelity. marcus had said nothing in the car, but his face had been momentarily confused. he kept track of what he gifted you, and he hadnât seen this before. you offered no explanation, just smiled softly and held his clammy hand.
the fabric whispered against your skin with every movement, reminding you of her touch. you held your champagne glass like a shield, watching the bubbles rise and disappear, each one carrying a fragment of your certainty with it.
the past week had been strange. ambessa's usual sharp edges had softened into something almost tender, while sevika's messages had grown shorter, more distant. sheâd eventually responded to the ones that had been read, but you felt as though you had disturbed her with them. you'd attributed it to work, to the upcoming shareholder conference business weekly had written about. you were good at making excuses for the people you loved.
and then you saw her.
ambessa stood on the stage like she'd been born there, her voice carrying across the room with the kind of authority that made everyone else feel small. her dress was long and white, with a delicate slit framing the plump skin of her thigh. it clung to her frame with an elegance that made your heart ache. you didn't want to admit how your chest tightened at the sight of her, how your body betrayed you with its instinctive pull toward her presence.
but before you could fully process the sight of her, another figure emerged from the crowd.
sevika.
she stood near the base of the stage, her broad frame impossible to miss. her presence was quieter than ambessa's, but no less commanding. the way she held herselfâlike she belonged here, like this was her world tooâmade something cold settle in your stomach. you shifted away from marcus, moved slightly forward with a furrowed brow.
it wasn't just their proximityâit was the way they moved. the way sevika's gaze lingered on ambessa, the subtle nods they exchanged, as if communicating in a language only they were privy to. and then, as if to confirm your worst fears, ambessa's hand brushed sevika's arm in a gesture so familiar, so natural, that the truth hit you like a truck.
the matching rings caught the light. the world tilted sideways.
the soft hum of conversation turned to static, the lights too bright, the room too warm. you tried to steady yourself, clutching the edge of a nearby cocktail table and nearly taking it down, but the weight of realization pressed down on you like a tide. marcus was asking after you, but you snapped at him.
you thought of the giftsâhow similar their tastes had been. the way they both knew too much about each otherâs companies, about each other's worlds. the little moments that should have added up but hadn'tâbecause you hadn't wanted them to. you'd ignored the signs, wrapped yourself in their separate affections like blankets against the cold.
someone nearby whispered, "isn't that theirâŠ" the words trailed off, heavy with implication. you spun, eyes wide and searching. you couldnât tell who had spoken.
the champagne glass slipped from your fingers. it didn't shatterâcaught by a waiter's quick reflexesâbut the sound of it leaving your hand seemed to echo through the room. both women turned at the noise, their expressions shifting from professional neutrality to something raw and complicated.
âdo you know her?â the question came from a guest nearby, their curious tone laced with amusement.
the tension shattered. the murmurs began, the subtle shifts of the crowd as more guests turned to watch the unfolding spectacle. your voice was barely above a whisper, but it cut through the gathering noise like a blade.
âhow long?â
ambessa stepped forward, her movements slow and deliberate, as if approaching a wounded animal. âitâs not what you thinkââ
âdonât,â you snapped, your voice trembling with anger and heartbreak. âdonât you dare lie to me.â
sevika tried to intervene, her hand reaching out as if to steady you, but you recoiled, your fury spilling over. âyou both knew,â you said, your voice rising. âyou knew, and you let meââ
sevika tried again."babyâ"
"don't." the word came out hard and cold.
you backed away, your heels suddenly unsteady beneath you. the crowd parted like water, their whispers following you like shadows. you felt that your dress was transparent, exposing your body to the their ravaging gaze. you made it halfway down the marble steps before sevika caught your arm. her touch was warm, familiarâeverything you'd grown to love and now couldn't bear.
"please," she said, her voice rough with something like desperation. she couldnât possibly understand what it meant to be desperate. "please."
"let go of me." you tried to pull away, but she was stronger. had always been stronger.
"we never meantâ"
"what?" your voice cracked. "to hurt me? to make me look like a fool? do you think i love being a loser? that i would be fine because i would view this as some way of knowing what it was like to win?" you yanked harder, and suddenly you were falling.
the puddle wasn't deep, but it was enough. your dressâambessa's dressâsoaked through instantly, clinging to your skin like shame. you stayed there on your hands and knees, watching your tears make ripples in dirty water.
"stand up," ambessa's voice came from behind you, softer than you'd ever heard it. âcome inside. we canââ
"no." you pushed yourself to your feet, water streaming from ruined silk. your makeup was runningâyou could feel it tracking down your cheeks, and somehow that small detail destroyed you more than anything else. for the first time in a long time, you felt ugly. "i donât want to come inside."
when you looked up, they were both there. ambessa's perfect composure had cracked, showing something raw underneath. sevika looked like she wanted to reach for you again but didn't dare.
"were you laughing about it?" your voice was barely audible. "about how pathetic i was, falling for both of you?"
"no," sevika said quickly. "god, no. we didn't even knowâ"
"until when?"
"a week ago," ambessa admitted. the truth fell between you, landed hard.
you stepped back, barefoot now, heels dangling from one hand. "oh my god. were you ever going to tell me?â
their silence was answer enough. the air around you grew thin.
a scream rose up from the depths of you before you could stop it, and echoed wildly from the sides of surrounding buildings. you clutched at your face, eyes screwing shut as you let out a terrible heaving noise. you knew they were seeing you now as you really were: a frantic girl who clasped desperately at whatever she could get in order to save herself.
âi hate you,â you screamed at them, hurling the words like they were knives. âi hate you! i never want you to speak to me again.â
it was rendered useless because the three of you knew that simply wasnât the truth.
âjustâleave me alone,â you said, your voice barely above a whisper.
their expressions were unreadable. if you gave in to your delusions, you could believe that ambessa looked slightly ill.
you walked away, legs shaking, each step carrying you further from everything you'd thought was real. behind you, you could hear them arguing in harsh whispers, but you didn't turn around. the city lights blurred through your tears until everything was just a soft shape and shadow.
your apartment felt suffocating when you returned, the silence oppressive in its stillness. you sank onto the couch, your dress pooling around you like a shroud. the tears came in waves, each one more relentless than the last.
you thought of ambessaâs calculated charm, sevikaâs quiet strength, the way theyâd both made you feel seen, cherished. and then you thought of the lies. you reached for your phone, your fingers trembling as you typed out a message. but no words came. what could you possibly say? that you hated them? youâd done that. that you missed them already? that you wouldnât know how to exist without them?
instead, you deleted their numbers, one by one, the act feeling both liberating and excruciating. for the first time in what felt like forever, you were truly alone.
your mother was right. you were such a fun girl, but impossible to love. when someone looked at you, theyâd never see someone worth settling down with. another wail unearthed itself, reverberating through the grave of your body. you twisted, holding yourself with your own arms as you felt the grief break you down.
you would never see them again. there was nothing worse than this, not now. you felt like youâd be better off dead.
ACT III: DEFORMATION.
ambessa hadnât slept in days.
the boardroomâs fluorescent lights cast harsh shadows across her sharp features as she reviewed contracts she couldnât focus on. every word blurred into the next, her thoughts returning to the look on your face when the truth unraveled.
âi donât think i can fix this,â she had told sevika the night it happened, her voice hollow as they sat in the dim confines of her private office.
sevika hadnât responded, her silence cutting deeper than any argument could. ambessa could tell her wife blamed her, and in some ways, she couldnât disagree.
sevika, in response, buried herself in her work. her nights were spent overseeing global operations, her jaw clenched tight as she barked orders to underlings down the phone who didnât dare question her unrelenting pace.
but even the chaos of the companyâs industrial sprawl couldnât drown out the memory of you. the sound of your pleausre haunted herâhigh and wispy as she ate at you. her dreams were vivid, stuck on the way youâd lit up when you talked about the things you lovedâthings she hadnât known enough to ask about.
theyâd both lost you, and they felt it in the empty spaces youâd left behind.
ambessa, meanwhile, pulled back. she gave the reins to her daughter for an indeterminate amount of time, something viewed as largely positive and a sign of trust. but those who knew her interpreted it as a sign of grave danger.
her days were spent much like yours, wrapped in the endless heart of her bed which she only left to sink underneath the soapy water of a warm bath. there were several evenings where sevika would stumble home, slightly drunk but coherent enough to check on ambessa and yank her from the bottom of the bath.
âno,â she rasped, her hand tight on ambessaâs thick wrist. âyou face it.â
and you?
well, eventually you realized that the world would continue to move on. blessedly, your breakdown hadnât hit the headlines or social media platforms. you knew this had to be the work of them, but it was the least you deserved. you cut all arrangements you had leftover. the gifts were boxed up and put into storage.
despite your dramatics, you reminded yourself to not be stupid. all cash you had kept was deposited into your bank account, in increments so it wasnât flagged as suspicious. you had well over thousands, so you broke your lease and found a block several miles from where you used to be.
youâd invited clleo to live with you, but sheâd refused citing her current suitor as her preferred living situation. she felt that he was the one, that they would marry. you felt your bitterness rise up, but you shot it right in the middle of its scaled head. you were happy for her, you said instead of âhe doesnât mean it. please donât believe him.â
please send an invite.
sheâd cupped your face and kissed your cheek. of course. youâve been with me through everything.
so, you broke another lease and left the city.
ACT IV: REVIVAL.
true to her word, clleo did get married, and she did more than invite you. you were her maid of honor; the only bridesmaid at that. this meant that you were captured into a lavish gown that showed more skin than you thought would be appropriate.
âwe canât forget where we came from,â clleo had said coquettishly, pressing a soft kiss to your shoulder. she treated you so fragilely now, and you clung to it. you were pretending it was something else.
the wedding was a spectacle of opulenceâivory drapes cascading from every corner of the venue, chandeliers dripping crystal tears, and flowers so fragrant they felt like an embrace. the air buzzed with the cloying sweetness of a celebration meant to declare love eternal. you floated through it all, a wraith in your own right, bound by duty and the magnetic pull of clleoâs joy. you wore the dress she picked for you: black satin that crushed in on itself like paper whenever you moved and clung like sin, with lace so delicate it felt like a secret. it revealed too much and not enough all at once. you wondered if sheâd done it on purpose, if sheâd wanted you to stand out or to feel exposed. to embarrass you.
no, this was clleo. you were simplyïżœïżœïżœparanoid now.
the ceremony was a blur, a kaleidoscope of vows and veils, of clleoâs radiant smile and the way her hand trembled in her husbandâs. you caught the bouquet because sheâd aimed it at you, her laugh like champagne bubbles bursting in the air. it was later, during the reception, that you felt itâthat electric hum at the back of your neck, the awareness of being watched. you turned, and there they were.
ambessa and sevika.
they stood together, an impenetrable force against the crowd. ambessaâs gaze was as sharp as ever, her golden gown gleaming meanly, a study in power and restraint. sevika, beside her, had the air of someone caught between worlds, her hand resting on a glass of something dark, her eyes locked on you. they hadnât been invited. you knew this because clleo would have warned you. yet here they were, as if summoned by the threads of some cruel, cosmic joke.
your stomach tightened, but you refused to look away. instead, you tilted your chin, the soft wave of your hair catching the light, and took a slow sip of wine. if they wanted to haunt you, they would have to work for it.
it didnât take long. ambessa approached first, her steps deliberate, her presence cutting through the crowd like a blade. âyou look beautiful,â she said, her voice low enough that it felt like a secret. you hated how your skin warmed under her gaze.
âyou shouldnât be here,â you replied, though the edge in your voice felt dull, worn down by something deeper.
sevika joined her then, her expression inscrutable but her proximity unnerving. âwe needed to see you,â she said, her voice rougher, as if it cost her something to speak.
âat a wedding? how romantic.â you let the words hang, your lips curving into a smile that didnât reach your eyes. âgood thing itâs not mine.â
sevikaâs lips twitched, and you scowled. your pain was not for her amusement.
â[name], we made mistakes,â ambessa said, and for the first time, there was something fragile in her tone, a crack in the glass. it distracted you from your ire. âbut we havenât stopped thinking about you.â
you set your glass down, your fingers trembling against the crystal stem. âi donât think this is the time or place.â
âwhen is?â sevika countered, her voice steady but her eyes revealing something raw. âyouâve been avoiding us.â
âi said i never wanted to speak to either one of you again and yet, here you are,â you said, your voice sharper now, cutting through the haze of alcohol and longing. âdo you think crashing a wedding will fix what you broke?â
ambessaâs jaw tightened, but she didnât look away. âweâre not here to fix it. weâre here because we canât let it end like this. and itâs not crashing if the groom extends an invite at the behest of the bride.â
your heart stuttered, and for a moment, the noise of the reception faded into a dull roar. clleoâs laughter rang out from somewhere behind you, a reminder of where you were, of what youâd tried so hard to rebuild. why did everyone betray you?
âi canât do this,â you whispered, stepping back. the movement felt like tearing yourself in two.
âbaby girl,â sevika said, her voice low, almost pleading. âlook at me. this isnât some big scheme, okay? letâs talk. we donât even have to do it here. we can go anywhere you fucking want. just like before, mama.â
you shook your head, the weight of their words pressing against the fragile walls youâd built around yourself. âi need air,â you said, your voice barely audible, and before they could respond, you turned and slipped into the crowd.
â[name!]â ambessa called.
fuck being the tiger's bride, you were the tiger. you stood your ground, kept walking.
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the gardens were quiet, the air cool against your skin as you leaned against the wrought-iron railing. the night sky stretched endlessly above you, an intricate canvas of stars that felt too indifferent to your pain. but the world wasnât responsible for soothing you.
youâd thought the distance would help, that the cool air would clear your head, but instead, it only magnified the ache in your chest.
you heard them before you saw them, the soft crunch of gravel underfoot. you didnât turn, didnât acknowledge their presence, but you felt itâthat charge, that unbearable pull that had slaughtered you repeatedly since the beginning.
âi didnât ask you to follow me.â
âweâre not asking for forgiveness,â ambessa said, her voice soft but firm. âwe are willingâweâre willing to take what we can get. we want to make this right.â
you turned then, your eyes meeting hers, and for the first time, you saw itâthe vulnerability, the regret. sevika stood slightly behind her, her expression shadowed but her eyes fixed on you with the same intensity.
âand what does that look like?â you asked, your voice breaking despite yourself. âwhat could you possibly do to undo the damage?â
ambessa stepped closer, her hand hovering near yours but not quite touching. âwe canât undo it,â she admitted. âbut we can promise to be better. to show you that youâre the only thing that matters.â
âyouâre both so good with words. but words donât mean anything if theyâre not backed by action.â you laughed then, a bitter sound that cut through the stillness. âyou always made me feel like i mattered. thatâs why it hurt so much. i have no place between you.
sevika finally spoke, her voice quieter but no less resolute. âthen let us prove it. on your terms.â
âyouâre not good for me.â
ambessa glided forward, caught your chin inbetween her thumb and index finger.
ânothing in this world that we want with so much intensity will ever be good for us.â
you looked between them, your heart a battlefield between desire and self-preservation. the silence stretched, heavy with the weight of everything unsaid. finally, you broke out of her grasp, a small, tentative gesture that felt like stepping off a cliff.
âi have no place between you,â you said again, your voice barely more than a whisper.
sevika's shoulders sagged with disappointment, but ambessaâs lips curved into the faintest hint of a smile. she was like a bloodhound with weakness.
âis that what you want, lamb?â you looked up at her, sensing a shift in the air. âyou want to be between us? coddled, warm, and safe?â
âambessaââ sevika began, but the other woman held up a hand.
âyou wouldâve been fine if you had know that we were married from the beginning, hmm? is that it? your conscience wouldâve been sated, right? because itâs not homewrecking or infidelity if the partners are aware of the others transgressions.â
âthatâs not fair,â you snapped.
âmmm, well life isnât. besides, you must be stupid if you think every client youâve been with hasnât once had someone waiting at home. this is your life, little lamb. your permanent affliction,â ambessa sneered. âi think you like it.â
you knew this game well. she pushed you, said the best things to make you act your worst. if you gave in, she won.
âfuck you, ambessa.â
âgladly,â she said with a small smile.
you scoffed, irritated beyond belief and moved to storm past her. by doing so, you gave her what she wanted. as you made an effort to leave, she cinched your waist with her arm and pulled you back into her chest. you could feel her breasts against your back, full and ripe like fruit.
âwhat are you doing?â you asked incredulously.
she didnât answer, only hiked your dress up to press a ringed hand to your cunt. she held it there, groping the warmth of you until you were leaking in response. you let out a strangled squeal, legs kicking to no avail.
âsee? you want us so badly. itâs like an instinct.â
you glanced at sevika, hoping for some fucking common sense but found her gazing at your lace-clad panties with something unfathomly angry lurking across her face.
âwho the fuck gave you those?â she said quietly.
you stopped struggling, looking at her fully now. her stormy gaze lifted, piercing you like a spear through weak flesh.
âit wasnât me, and ambessa never gifted you shit like this.â
âi hadâi had other clients,â you answered and she rolled her shoulders, skulking forward. âbut i bought these myself. i donât see anyone else anymore. i canâtâi couldnât. it was hard.â
her face softened at that, and she came closer. her large body covered the front of you, shielding your exposed body from any prying eyes. this meant that ambessa could slide the fabric to the side and dip a finger into your cunt. the slide was slick due to your drooling arousal, but the pain still startled you.
she was large, almost too much, but it seemed to burst a part of you that had been straining at its locks. you let loose a silent cry, shuddering desperately in her grasp as she explored you tenderly. sevika cooed, claiming your mouth in a bruising kiss.
âhold on,â she murmured into your mouth and you clutched onto her, gripping tighter as ambessa gave you over.
sevika walked you over to a small alcove, expertly hidden from immediate vision and grunted as she held you up with one armâremoving her jacket with the other. once the concrete floor was covered appropriately, she lowered you on top of it carefully.
you released her, but barely had a moment to thank her before she was on you. your first thought was that it was like before: relentless, tender, and crushing. her hands slid up your thighs until they grasped at your hips. you rocked into her, moaning softly as she squeezed the soft meat of your stomach. your breath came fast, labored and fueled by aching.
âitâs okay, baby. âm right here,â sevika said, her voice low and firm.
she pulled back, spreading your legs till the pink of your pussy was revealed to her hungry gaze. it winked at her, clenching around nothing the longer she looked.
âjesus, iâve missed this,â she murmured.
you flushed, body pulsing hot with flame. from the side of you, ambessa came prowling. she lowered herself to her knees, back arching neatly as she crawled into the apex of your thighs. her mouth descended upon you with a fervor, her lips closing around your clit and sucking. your back bowed until you were practically hunched over her, hands in her thick hair.
she only adjusted herself so that she could better lick into you, her tongue lapping at every crevice of your cunt. you were dripping all over her face, hips bucking as you fucked forward onto her tongue. her hands came to cup the peach of your ass, squeezing and tugging until you felt like nothing more than a piece of meat. after a moment, ambessa pulled back and laughed as you tried to follow.
âsorry, little lamb, but i need to know if iâm doing a good jobâ she watched you, eyes sharp. âi know you are.â
you shivered at that, and she smiled. impatiently, you further opened your legs and pushed your sopping pussy toward her.
âcâmon. please.â when nothing happened, you let out a groan. âyouâre doing a good job.â
âwhoâs doing a good job?â ambessa asked, moving closer.
you shivered again, your brain beginning to mottle and smear.
âyou are, mommy.â
âfuck,â sevika groaned.
satisfied, ambessa suctioned her lips back over you. you let out a high moan, pushing your chest out. sevika reached over, tugging the bust down and exposing your tits. your nipples were straining toward her, so she dragged one in between your teeth. with a cry of surprise, you slammed your thighs closed around ambessaâs bobbing head. she did nothing to open them herself, only slapped a hand on your inner thigh to get you to correct yourself.
âyes, fuck,â you cried. âfuck, please. please. ohhhh.â
ambessa shook her head back and forth, letting herself get messy as she pushed her face deeper inside of your pussy. you were fully fucking her face now, your clit engorged and begging. whatever filter youâd had before was gone now; your mouth ran like water from a faucet.
âyeah. yeah, mommy, like that. eat your babyâs cunt. lick your girlâs pink little pussy.â
ambessa moaned, her nails digging into the skin of your ass. you bounced as much as you could, that warmth coiling deep inside your stomach. sevika was still teasing your tits, but she had a hand inside of herslef nowâher pants pushed down for better access.
when you realized she was trying to rub one out, you came with a primal grunt. ambessa attempted to pull back but you kept her where she was with a firm hand at the nape of her neck. breathlessly, you coaxed sevika up for a kiss and then pulled her away by her hair.
âi want you to touch her,â you instructed. your voice was shaky as you edged toward your second orgasm.
it took her a minute to register what you meant and you watched her cheeks darken, her eyes flickering toward ambessaâs rippling back inbetween your legs and then back to you.
âi know you want to, sevi,â you murmured.
your mind was almost gone now; you were so close to heaven.
you could see her warring with herself, but you also knew her love for you would win out. with a curt nod, she moved until she was behind ambessa and lifted her dress until she was face to face with her naked ass. with an efficent movement, sevika pushed ambessaâs legs open so she could smell the musk of her large cunt. there was a moment where you werenât sure if she would obey, but then she dived inâlicking a large stripe between ambessaâs folds. you seized around ambessaâs tongue as she squealed in surprise, your orgasm pouring from you like honey.
you puhsed her off of you and crawled onto all fours, squatting slightly to make the push of your fingers easier as you entered yourself. despite not pleasuring you anymore, ambessa made no effort to move as sevika slapped a hand on her ass as she slurped at her pussy.
âholy shit,â ambessa muttered and you grinned.
âhave youâhave you touched each other like this before?â you asked, voice breaking as you reached that spot long your walls. âdid you fuck when i left to try to stave the guilt?â
there was no answer, but ambessa stiffened. you laughed, bright and a little unhinged. it was confirmation that theyâd thought about, but had never actually followed through. you were in a squatting position now, positioning your hips as you rode your own fingers. you wrist twinged in discomfort, but you were more determined to cum for a third time.
faster and faster, you rode. your head was turned up toward the ceiling of the alcove, your tits bouncing as you began to crest that wave. you closed your eyes, focusing on the shaky inhales of ambessa and the wet squelches of sevika feasting on her.
there was a pause, so you opened your eyes and found sevika flipping ambessa over so that the bigger woman sat on her face. like this, she was even more insatiable. she rocked ambessa back and forth on her face, spreading her own thighs weakly as heat cascaded through her.
you werenât sure what did it: sevikaâs newfound desperation to actually fuck her wife, ambessaâs unrelenting eye contact as she came, or the high whine sevika released when ambessa leaned back to fuck two fingers into her frantically pulsing cunt.
but whatever it was ravaged you. you screamed as you came for the third time, legs trembling as you squirted all over yourself and sevikaâs suit jacket. the comedown was impossible. you were incoherent, moaning wildly as the pleasure possessed you.
you heard them both scrambling to move toward you, but you held a hand out. your neck bent, your body settling onto all fours like a lame animal as you let your cunt flutter and clench through the remnants of your orgasm. your chest heaved frantically, but you were euphoric. youâd done it, reached Heaven and taken control.
you glanced up at them and know from the look on their faces, youâve never been this beautiful. if this was what the french called a little death, you wanted to die forever.
âthis is your place,â ambessa said hoarsely. âyou belong right in the center. you are the only one who understands. you are our center.â
sevika lay next to her, and she said nothing for a long while. then her face turned toward you. you met her gaze unflinching.
âbaby girl, please. please.â
you thought you were the loser.
âit has to be different,â you finally said. the two women broke into identical smiles. âit has to be. i want you to be transparent with me. iâm not a little child.â
you thought you were down for the count.
âlike you said,â you continued, staring right at them. âyou are my life. this is my life.â
but here you were, the last woman standing.
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mfm fans really make everything soooo dramatic whenever they break away from the normal format
#and i do agree at the very least since they partnered with amazon it's definitely different though i don't think that's the sole reason#but i haven't listened to today's ep and apparently it's a dubbed version of an old episode#and people are like 'omg people shouldn't be listening to a murder podcast with their kids and it shouldn't ruin things for us'#like hey sure i wouldn't listen to that stuff with kids but it sounds like it's pretty clearly a joke#and....you can literally just listen to the original episode with the cursing#which is CLEARLY what people wanna do anyway bc they complain about everything#and like i said i did love it more before it became more business-y though i know how proud they are of what it's become#just bc like when they were doing thier own research sure it wasn't perfect but it was clear they were more interested in their stories#but yeah like i was not mad when last year like every couple weeks they were doing interviews/crossovers#like there was still new content in there!#oh and people on ig were like 'they used to release live shows as new episodes' like yeah and they probably ran out#and haven't toured since before covid sooooo#and i rmr them saying even as things were ~improving~ they were gonna be in the last wave to start touring again#like they said multiple times AND ya know there could be any number of reasons they're not comfortable starting to tour again#be it covid or something else but like. idk just chill?#maybe some of these people have gone back and listened to old episodes a million times and that no longer works#but i bet a lot of them have not and would find that much more satisfying but. they would rather whine on instagram#god when i saw TWO HUNDRED comments about something posted this morning....bonkers
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the danish dub of monster high freaky fusion goes so hard
#very random but that is just a thought i've been having#either that or i'm just incredibly biased and think that everything sounds better in danish#but in the case of freaky fusion#it really does!#for instance#hexiciah's original english voice always struck me as self-centered or arrogant. and then when i read his wiki description and found that it#described him as a generally good guy i was so confused#but then when i watched the danish version i understood it completely#his danish voice just fits him so much better#and when he goes 'det lyder sjovt :)' after getting robecca's note is just... oh its so perfect#i could also very well be overthinking it. but that's how i found it#and sparky's voice???#i like both versions but he sounds so good in danish too#and when he went 'hvor fascinerende......' after getting blinded by science is so. yes very good#and also!!!!! i always thought that the line revealing his orphan status was pretty badly timed and done#but the danish version is so good. it sounds far smoother#the only thing i don't like all that much about the dub is frankie's voice#she just sounds like an ordinary girl. but maybe that's the point. idk and its also so different from her original english voice#but it's just too ordinary. she sounds like they just picked out a random teenage girl to play her. like they just went to some school and#just raffled out some random girl#but i love how her accent sounded. it's just so mmmmmmmm. so i think her accent makes up for it#but yes hexiciah's voice is so perfect in the danish dub i love it so much.#and sparky's voice is so good too because his voice is such an important part of his character and they just nailed it#man i love the danish language so much#just mmmm. danish#my favorite language fr fr#today i just looked up a bunch of random news articles in danish just to read them out loud. like the gigachad i am#true gigachads watch monster high#oh i want to rewatch the danish dub of freaky fusion so bad now. but i already did it this morning#oh man. danish
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The Muse of Her Ruin
Artist Modern AU: Chapter 1/? â Caramel
Summary:
Los Angeles was supposed to be your perfect canvas, but the struggle to make it leaves you feeling burnt out â until Agatha Harkness paints you into her world.
In her hands, youâre more than an artist, and she knows exactly how to mold you into her newest masterpiece.
Tags:
agatha!reader, age gap, mommy kink, slow burn, mean!agatha, possessive!agatha, AU: Art world of Los Angeles, portrait of a witch on fire, reader is babygirl, the witch wears prada, sugar mommy vibes, slight Rio/reader but only to make Agatha jealous, agatha canât beat the AI allegations, dacryphilia, eventual smut, angst, MDLG, bratty bottom, BDSM, praise kink, degradation, strap-ons, anal, dub con, slight piss kink, squirting, power dynamics, possible memory loss and magic maybe idk, kitten play, electrostimulation, humiliation, overstimulation, exhibitionism for the art, let the bodies hit the floor, more tags later because iâm sure iâll find something else to be foul about
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Chapter 1: Caramel
It isnât the first time a beautiful woman has stopped you in your doom scrolling on the internet. Youâve had your share of rabbit-holing through Instagram profiles, tagged photos, your finger hovering over the DM button with a wave of confidence that only comes when youâve had a drink or two in your system.
But this woman, this one comes with an extension of discovery.
Just by googling her name, a thousand articles pop up. Art piece installations cascade every website, timeline, and city cultural journal. Jesus, then the red carpet photos multiply as the SEO of your web browser catches on to your sudden enthrall of dark brown hair and piercing blue eyes.
Oh, and the hashtags. #WitchyArt #HarknessAndDesire #CursedCanvas. Layers of art plummet before you, most requesting to select if youâd like to view the art or not because of its lewd nature, violating community guidelines.
#AgathaHarknessUnveiled
A public invitation to forbiddenness. Youâre intrigued.
Then more pictures of her show up, next to her work, her models, famous celebrities that you never knew were part of the same circle. You realize youâve been following her art closely for years, and had even gone to one of her art installations at the LACMA a couple years back.
She has no social media and you quickly piece together why you havenât been able to put a face to the name until now. The Agatha Harkness.
You curse yourself for living and breathing on Instagram, reading little excerpts about her pieces here and there, never proceeding past searching her name up one single time after seeing her most famous artwork grace the official Broad Museum verified account:
The Unbound: Agatha Harkness - A Palette of Desire contemporary collection of â22.
Ask AI or Search: Agatha Harkness
âŠ
However, you were met with the reflection of: ââ ïž zero search results foundâ staring back at you on your phone screen, and that was that.
Now, you pull open your âPainting Inspoâ Pinterest board to see a piece of hers pinned neatly between other modern art you admire. The pin is plainly titled and paired with a now-purple hyperlink to an article, with one of the most commanding portraits of her in a suit, standing sharply next to her work.
It had all been right there, connected, laid out before you. You scold yourself again. You couldâve been in this womanâs circle the moment you moved to Los Angeles. Only now sheâs magically moved from your subconscious to reality.
All it took was a simple Google search to be completely floored.
Right place, right time, you think, as it were. Originally, you were filtering through junior-level marketing positions, revamping your resume for the umpteenth time. Waitressing just wasnât cutting it anymore, you needed a big girl job. Even if you didnât have the experience.
And, to be honest, people really do act like that in Los Angeles. Customer service is nothing short of unbearable.
Youâd huffed and slammed your laptop, tired of the almost-hour it took to submit one clean job application, flopped on your bed, and began the inevitable doom scroll.
And there she was, in all her glory. Featured in one major headline that caught your eye (apart from every photo ever of her maddeningly hypnotizing smile).
Grand Opening of the Harkness Collection, March 2025 â DTLA, Seeking Social Media Manager Position.
You could do it, you think.
The link to apply for the position already looks infinitely better than the bland, morose copy/paste templates thrown around every typical job website like a hot potato.
This just might get your foot in the door.
Youâve painted your whole life, always the kid doodling in the corner of your notebooks in class. Youâve done your fair share of moronically smacking people with your big art portfolio at the end of each year in high school when you rounded corners.
Art school in Portland had its ups and downs. Your father used every last penny he had to see your dreams come true, and your mother hated you for it. Blamed you, even, for sucking his wallet dry. But it was of his own accord to pay for tuition, and you had nothing else to show for it. You had a real talent.
At least, thatâs what Mrs. Montgomery had told you.
Your art teacher for grades 11-12 was someone who was stern but had a motherâs touch. You really only knew the stern part back home, and then some, after the divorce.
But Mrs. Montgomery not only put you on a pedestal, she really critiqued you. She actually pushed you, improved your skills and adorned her Letter of Recommendation to your chosen college with accolades of admiration you couldnât possibly achieve from your own mother.
If it wasnât obvious already, you were completely smitten. And you know what else? You could trust her as far as you could throw her.
The after school meetings, the one-on-one sessions after class to help finish up an end of the year project. Anything to get a sliver of praise. Anything to prevent the bus ride home.
After college, though, you moved to Los Angeles in hopes of joining a gallery or an art community. You got sucked into the limelight, the overbearing and overwhelming nature of the city of angels. Everyone seemingly looks better than you, doing more than you, everyone trying to prove themselves somewhere. Nothing felt real.
You felt like a failure.
Email threads to galleries went stale and not to mention renting out studios could carve a hole into your credit card. Itâs been three whole years since moving here after college, stuck in the same job you started with. The only real friend you made was from college, Oliver, who really was the one who dragged you out to California in the first place.
One friend, one lame job, one-room studio apartment, and no art to show for it. You start to think that this dream was meant to fizzle out and youâre supposed to become another cog in the wheel of Capitalism just like everybody else.
Whatever. You craft a partially-truthful resume, and an overzealous cover letter.
Somewhere in there you lie about managing a social media page for a cafe that doesnât exist, and that youâve worked with a few semi-recognizable artists in the industry as their interns. Right.
But for the record, this is working for Agatha Harkness. Youâve got to make it look like youâre somebody. You imagine yourself at her side on those red carpets, getting to pick her brain about all the art sheâs created. Youâll get to show her the paintings you made, sheâll praise you, youâll blush, and youâll fall pathetically under her spell. Fuck.
Do you want the job or do you want her?
You suppose wanting both isnât selfish. Itâs ambitious. And youâre sick of circling around a realm thatâs just out of reach.
You look at the unfinished canvases stowed in the corner of your apartment, the murky âmystery soupâ graying in several mason jars that scatter your work area. The dried paint, the tubes of acrylics strewn about. You canât even remember the last time you painted.
If a hot, older woman was the motivation to be the artist you were always meant to be, then fuck it. You hit âsubmitâ on the application and sigh, closing your laptop with a better feeling of finality than the first time.
You never really get your hopes up about a job position, but for the rest of the day you find yourself tapping away anxiously, your mind scattered with the possibility of Agatha Harkness, of all people, becoming your boss.
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The next morning youâre disruptively awakened by the buzzing of your phone. You begrudgingly hit âacceptâ on the unknown number and pick up the line.
âHello?â you answer and do your best not to sound utterly corpse-like.
âHi!â a sweet voice greets you from the other end, âmy name is Jennifer Kale, calling about the social media manager position for Ms. Harkness. Is this â?â
âYes,â you shoot up, now seated in bed and exclaim before she can even finish her sentence. âThis is she.â
She goes on to tell you how impressed she was with your resume and your expert copyright. You did always have a way with words, you forget how powerful they are as a way to get you exactly what you want.
âI saw in your CV that you have your work displayed at a cafe in Echo Park, is that right?â
You tell her of the few pieces you have displayed there and how youâve made good friends with the owner. Jen mentions sheâs relayed your portfolio, website, and resume to Agatha already and your breath instantly hitches.
She then goes to say that Agatha would like to personally meet you at that cafe for an interview. Tomorrow.
You nod and stutter a quick âyesâ into the speaker, forgetting you were on the phone at all. Lost in the possibility â no, actuality â of meeting Agatha.
After exchanging times and contact information, the line clicks blank and all the roaring thoughts begin to pour in. The anxiety, the expectations, the thought of being examined, let alone perceived by this powerful woman.
Your stomach kind of flutters at the thought, though. Her domineering presence picking you apart until you tell her exactly what she wantsâŠand then sheâll hire you.
The confidence you feel mixed with the sheer horror of pretending youâre more than you say you are. You hope she doesnât see through the lies.
But then again, so many people in the world have jobs they arenât qualified for. They donât even know what theyâre doing, especially bosses and CEOs. So youâre sure Agatha can appreciate a little âfake it til you make itâ; particularly from someone who really wants this.
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You arrive infinitely early to the interview in the car you never use since everything in Downtown LA is right outside your apartment door.
The parking was the biggest hurdle but you gave yourself ample time to prepare.
The sun beats down on you as you exit your car, despite the crisp air of the early Spring morning. You shuffle down the hill to the sprawling city strip of hipster cafes, vintage thrifts, and mom ân pop shops. Your favorite cafe is squished between them, a true hole in the wall.
One of your favorite baristas greets you from behind the counter when you walk in. It looks like you beat the morning rush, everyone already taken to their seats, noses pressed to their laptops in concentration.
You order your favorite iced latte and wait at the bar, albeit with impatience. The barista questions your nervousness and you lean in with excitement.
âI have an interview,â you smile.
âHere?!â
âYes, here, well â not here here, but yeah. Itâs with one of the most well known artists. SheâsâŠfascinating.â
And you gush over her for a moment, her art, her looks, the job position, while periodically checking the clock that sits behind the espresso bar, like, every five seconds.
You notice their smile grows wider as you wrap up your story, handing you your latte. But what you donât notice is the person who just walked in, approaching the next spot in line.
âHave a great interview,â the barista dazzles in a cheeky whisper, eyes flitting to someone behind you.
Your realization hits when you turn and your latte hits her, square in the chest.
The cold liquid clashes between you two as you bump into each other, the cap coming clean off, with bits of ice clattering to the floor.
âOh my god I am so sorry,â you babble, reaching for napkins and grabbing a fistful from who knows where.
You scramble to wipe up the mess, avoiding eye contact as Agatha steps back to examine the huge spot now staining her crisp white shirt. She canât even get a word in before you scurry to the bathroom.
How stupid can you possibly be?
You beat yourself up in your thoughts as you gather yourself, and, clumsily, several ice cubes that managed to fall into your bra.
With a wet paper towel you clean the coffee off your front as much as you can before taking a deep breath, fixing your hair in the mirror and hoping when you step out of the bathroom, sheâll still be there waiting for you.
The bathroom door teeters and squeaks awkwardly as you push it open. You survey the cafe lobby and find Agatha opening a notebook and pulling out papers, and your resume.
You donât think she realized youâre the one sheâs supposed to interview. And you canât even weigh what scenario would be more embarrassing.
You slide into the chair across from her, snaking your bag down to the floor and pulling out your own resume copy. You notice her blouse is completely drink-free and it catches you off guard. The coffee stains on your shirt are terribly evident despite your efforts in cleaning yourself up.
âYou shouldâve written your name as Caramel at the top of your resume,â she states while still looking down at the paper. Oh, of course she knows itâs you.
Looking down at yourself you realize thereâs a streak of caramel syrup dripping down your cleavage.
Your eyes flick to hers, and sheâs looking at you now, for the first time. Thereâs a long beat that clenches your throat and you forget how to speak.
You know her eyes are blue but holy shit, theyâre palpably blue. And they hold yours in suspension, her gaze lingering for a moment too long before returning to her paper.
Your cheeks warm with a feverish blush, and you take a napkin to wipe the syrup away, leaving your skin sticky and shiny.
Her eyes move to your cleavage again as she shifts slightly in her seat, adjusting her stature. She scans over your resume agonizingly slow now and this long gap of silence has your nerves bubbling.
Maybe itâs a good thing the coffee spilled, because youâre sure the caffeine would give you a panic attack right about now.
âIt doesnât state in here that you use condiments as a painting medium, so, tell me your process,â Agatha jokes, but her tone is blunt.
You breathe a laugh and smile anyway, wanting to squash the awkwardness and tension so badly. Taking a second, you muster up an ounce of courage. You have to prove yourself now after this train wreck.
âI could probably use caramel as a medium,â you shrug, meeting her stark gaze again.
Agatha quirks one brow, egging you to go on.
âItâs got a similar consistency to a fast dry. Could probably even be worked into a glaze too. It could make a really nice maple color over some oils. I work with acrylics, watercolors, too, but it probably would leave paintings like that,â you take in a ragged breath, your mind catching up to just how stupid you sound, ââŠsticky.â
She smiles for the first time, a wicked smolder perking the corners of her lips. Amusement flares in her eyes, and you swear you can almost see them darken.
âYour skills?â
You take a deep breath before you begin, grounding yourself. âTime management, organization, Iâm ambitious and work well with others. I also have really good memori ââ
âYou know,â she dawdles, ânone of your references called me back,â she states, practically disregarding the answer to her last question.
Your mouth parts in silence.
âOh,â is the only pathetic word you can assemble. âThatâs weird,â you breathe, thoroughly fucking failing.
âIâm sure theyâre all busy artists.â
And you just know sheâs seeing right through you.
âButâŠyour copywriting is very good. Iâve seen your social media, your website, youâve got a way with words, hon.â
Your neck and chest must be as red as your face now. But the way she looks at you, blue eyes dark yet twinkling with intrigue, youâre blushing for an entirely different reason.
âThank you,â you manage, and you give her a truthful look that you really need this, that you really want this. Because you just want something to go right for once in your life. You need to find your purpose again.
Itâs like she can hear your thoughts as she studies you. Itâs hard to look away when you meet her eyes again. As if sheâs holding you in the palm of her hand, weighing you, rolling you between her fingers, testing to see if she should clench and squeeze the dream right from your heart.
âYou know, I donât normally meet with artists in this circumstance, or even in such aâŠsticky manner.â
And you blush for the millionth time.
âBut Iâd like to test your writing skills. Iâm hosting a live painting session this weekend that I want you to come to and write a little mockup article for. If I dig it, you get the job, sweetheart.â
Her words drip like honey, the opportunity laid out before you, sounding sweet to your ears. Itâs almost unbelievable.
âWow, thank you so much Ms. Harkness,â you fawn, beaming a smile.
âAgatha,â she says warmly, holding out her hand for you to shake.
You hesitate for a moment before taking her hand in yours, her slender, delicate fingers just barely grazing the inside of your wrist. Something flutters in your stomach at the contact, like a chemical reaction right in your core.
The embrace is subtle, but it carries the weight of something more than just a job, more than just a task sheâs asking you to complete. You tug your hand away, but the air between you stays charged.
âI wonât let you down,â you exhale earnestly.
Agatha blinks at you slowly, that smile never faltering, âgood girl.â
She rises now, collecting her papers and notebook, storing them inside a black tote bag. âMy assistant will be in touch.â
You absentmindedly nod to her, feeling her presence leave, with the click of the cafe door echoing in your ears. Youâre completely dumbfounded. What just happened?
Did you actually manage to fake your way to the top? You have a real shot now at getting this position. And the way she looked at you, like she just knew what you were capable of?
Her request is simple, just a mockup article. Nothing truly serious. The significance of her words, though, make your heart race. The heady mix of exhilaration and nerve wracking anticipation makes you dizzy at the thought. And her praise.
Good girl.
Youâre completely slack-jawed at the thought of it again. You just know youâre in for something more than just a mere task.
Whatever she wants from you, youâll give it â willingly, completely, without question.
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Welcome to the Q&A! A space where I can answer related or similar question about the Shadowpeach Bio Parents AU! If you submitted your ask anonimously, then youâll have to check the whole post if itâs answered here, if itâs not, worry not! Your asks might have been used for a future comic or just in the queue~
@pandorainabox ha chiesto: Hope this isn't a dumb question,but do you plan to/already are posting the bio parents ah anywhere where it can be viewed all in one piece? With the between posts in tumblr,it gets confusing and I still don't quite know how to navigate it so I was curious if I could binge read it anywhere all in one clean read? (I constantly want to re-read it lmao,it brings me so much joy,its so damn cute!!) Anyway apologies for the random question!! I love your work,you're doing so good and I hope you have an absolutely wonderful rest of your day/night! Thank you so much for taking your time to read and respond if you do so!! đđđ
i mean⊠I THINK the masterpost is the easiest way to read it for now (and once you read one chapter you press âNEXTâ at the end of it.)
if I would put it, letâs say, on Webtoon (which I canât) it kind of would be the same thing. A list if chapters, when you click on one it opens the chapter with the 10-20 panels and then you click the ânextâ to go to the next one.
i donât think putting all chapters from one part would be nice since it would be a super duper long list of panels (and the page would take a lot to load with so many medias) and one Part of the comic contains multiple arcs.
iâm open to suggestions though!
@robinpika ha chiesto: I was just wondering why is wukong kaiju form unstable? What inspired you to go that route
it was an headcanon of my of why we never see it in the show, even though it is present in JTTW AND war forms are⊠well normal in LMK, so I figured he must have a reason why he didnât use it, considering it could have spare them a lot of trouble giving its power.
@imafluffycupcakey ha chiesto: I can't find the option to ask anonymously oofâ Enyway this is Tumblr and that's what I'm here for. Ever made a design for a Red son and MK kid? From your AU I mean (ignoring every nature law for a second). Also, where did you got that name for MK from? Is something from Jurney to the west? Mainly thanks to your AU I am going to try and read that book (has more them a 1000 pages :') )
we all subconsciously agreed that the spicynoodle lovechild is Kai from lego ninjago and MK real name is his name in the chinese dub.
@avencaeheng ha chiesto: Can you reccomend any websites to watch lmk? đ
You can find MOST of the episodes on youtube. BUT you need also the specials to understand the story. If I link you a site in 2 weeks it will be down. The best is that you join the Lego Monkie Kid Fanspace discord. They have links to see the show and they update them every once in a while.
@astro-lmk-enjoyer ha chiesto: Another silly headcanon <3 Since MK unlocked heâs monkey form he started teething like a baby monkey but⊠adult. I donât know how baby monkey teethe but when dogs teethe they get a lot more bite-y and the bites hurt a lot more than before teething. I can imagineMK getting a lot more bitey with things, like chewing food longer then needed be and maybe when heâs play fighting with the baby monkeys he bites one and it chirps and Wukong is like: ! One of my children is in need! And he discovers MK is teething and does something idk yet. After having given my evidence⊠Do you think this would happen? Does MK have fangs in his human form like how some people draw him?
hi! I guess he did have a period in which he had a little teething.
no, his human form doesnât have fangs, because his human form is just a kind of glamour/shapeshift. In the AU the monkey form became his normal form (since it always has been his original form to begin with)
toomanylegos ha chiesto: Hey, I just want to say I absolutely adore your ShadowPeach comic and the beautiful art with it. I went through nasal surgery on the 19th, and seeing an update from you really helped soothe my nerves about it, so thank you! I can't wait to see more updates throughout my recovery :D burry-penguin ha chiesto: As a spicynoodle shipper I love your work sm and what ur doing for this community KEEPING US FEED FOR DAYSSS!! đ„đ đ„đ Youâre so amazing and keep doing what youâre doing because youâre a damn good story teller and artist. Youâll go so far someday! Youâve helped put a smile on my face on my best and worst days just from seeing each new update and going absolutely fuckin feral over it and I thank you for that 𫶠imafluffycupcakey ha chiesto: Not really a ask. I would just like to say I inhaled your AU comic like a vacum cleaner in less them a day, also big fan of the art style. Anonimo ha chiesto: I'm recovering from a toxic relationship and the shadowpeach bio parents au is helping me think through everything ,, The love these monkies show me how relationships are supposed to make you feel good... thank u
turtlewearingclothes ha chiesto: Howdy! I just wanted to say thank you for making your amazing comic, and being the reason I got into Lego Monkie Kid. I've heard of the show, but I never watched it. Then I came across your comic like, 2-3 weeks ago? And after binging it, I decided to watch the show, and now I'm obsessed lol. Thank you!
AWWWW THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE LOVE!!!â„ïžâ„ïžâ„ïž
@selfdestructivecat ha chiesto: Hey so I recently binged your LMK comic because I absolutely fell in love with your ISAT x COTL comic and knew anything you made would be amazing. Iâve never seen LMK though so Iâm sure I lost some of the context (it was still so good though, Iâm really rooting for everything to work out for the characters!) But I decided to give the actual series a try because of the comic! And here was where I planned on writing you a message after a few episodes to thank you for getting me into a new series, but⊠Iâm on episode one. I only watched the intro. Dude. IM ABSOLUTELY HOOKED. THE ANIMATION! THE STYLE! THE CHARACTERS! Iâm so so excited to watch more (which Iâm gonna do now!) but thank you so much for bringing this series to my attention!!!
ahaha welcome to the club!, now you can enjoy both comics!
@therivergirl ha chiesto: I remember back in the beggining of eclipse arc you mentioned that Mac feels insecure about his body being part of the reason he's hesitant to take of his clothes even in front of Wukong and it being part of the reason (aside from basic decency) that Wukong looked away. And now in this part Mac appears butt-naked to help Wukong out, adding yet another layer of vulnerability...gah! (Maybe I should finally watch LMK because I feel I would be doubly obsessed with this comic then...)
For Mac being exposed was the last of his issues considering that what he was seeing was Wukong at his lowest and most naked. Now excuse me while I cry.
@astro-lmk-enjoyer ha chiesto: You probably know ChangâEâs story from LMK, but did you know there is a second version of her story that I like better? In the second version ChangâE and her husband(I forgot his name), are getting used to living as mortals after being kicked out of heaven. But someone hears of the immortal elixir they have and try to steel it while ChangâEâs husband is out hunting. After getting beat up a bit she decides to drink the elixir so the robber couldnât get it. But she instead went to the moon so she could be closer to her lover. Her husband dies because heâs still mortal, and ChangâE is left be herself. I have silly little headcanon the day MK and the others went to the moon was her and her husbandâs anniversary đ Bye <3
AH. OK.
Anonimo ha chiesto: Do you think that wukong and macaque act like cats?
as in they would purr? I moslty think Wukong wants to cuddle and stroke his head on Mac neck like a cat, while Mac is that one cat that sometime is annoyed when people touch him but eventually let them do it.
Anonimo ha chiesto: âšHear me out :3âš MK can hear the past. He heard the fight of of prentice and held his eye like he was getting hurt by Wukong and not Macaque. So now picture this: MK has a vision again, his this time it is about how the monk used the circlet on him :3
AHAH. NOW HE CANâT SEE TANG THE SAME WAY AGAIN. FUCK.
Anonimo ha chiesto: When I first found your comic in your TikTok account, I thought it was something very silly... How very VERY wrong I was.(As I get shot 57 times.) I hope you are taking very good care of yourself because when I downloaded Tumblr to keep myself updated to your comics(which was somewhere around 13-16 December probably) there are a LOT of panels. I enjoyed the newest and most recent parts of the shadowpeach bio parent au and can't wait for the next!!! Don't work yourself to the bone too much! Remember to take mental and physical breaks.
AGHDMHSMFYS THANK YOU!!!
Anonimo ha chiesto: Are there others who flirt with MK ? He looks good, is very powerful and has a sunshine personality. I bet there are others who are interested in him
I guess there havenât been any for NOW.
Anonimo ha chiesto: After reading the post about swk's circlet, I srsly want him to look at mk and say "oh, hey we're matching!" ... "OH SHIT WHY ARE WE'RE MATCHING?!"
NOOOOOO!!
@delightfulcupquakequeen ha chiesto: Hey there!!! Been awhile sincenI've written an ask, just wanted to send love and being greatful that you are doig this amazing AU!!!! Appreciating ever pannel you make and gosh dammit hitting me right in the korokoro!!!! Keep being your fabulous self!!! Until next time!
THANK YOUUUUU
@l1br4rycrypt1d ha chiesto: Feel free to ignore this if it's spoilers for the comic, but are we gonna get to see the Gold Star of Venus? Just curious, since you reblogged the meme post that mentioned him during the takeover
There will be a small space for them as well, yes.
@kaothedemon ha chiesto: Fun fact, while I doubt Pigsy has all of Zhu Bajie's powers, his ancestor did have a kaiju form, which he could use if he ate a fuckton I'm sure it's not gonna appear in the story, but the idea of Heaven having to deal with 3 Kaiju dads (+ theoretically a sworn uncle) is extremely funny to me (picture courtesy of OSP's latest JTTW episode cause even when I read the book there weren't any illustrations of this)
I SAW THAT!! Man now they must add it to the show. Yeah I don't think he has ALL of Zhu Bajie's powers (I don't think he would ever want to have them) but it would be interesting if it was a high stake situation
@roseltelle ha chiesto: I think Macaque would actually enjoy working/ volunteering at the playhouse specifically doing shadow plays. But he does regular plays as well. His favorite days are when classes of children come in for field trips. Wukong often paints the backdrops, scenery, and other items for plays. They both enjoy their hobbies.
Awwwww yeah I think Macaque would totally love that.
@lmk4ever ha chiesto: Can you imagine Wukong just being out of it after he distracted the celestials for too long in his war form?
I think that as soon as he sees Macaque again he immediately switch back and become behaved again.
@peach-fury ha chiesto: I think I know the answer but theoretically... Who's war form/kajiu is stronger Wukongs or Macaque's and how would it go? I don't know it started as a thought. Now I can't stop laughing.
Wukong's is stronger.
blbllblblblll ha chiesto: do you know the pronunciation of xiaotian? ive been stuck on how to say his name for so long đ
I know that the "Qi" is pronunced "Chi" and I think "xiao" is pronunced the same as you would read it, while I THINK the "t" in "tian" is more of a mix between a t and a c/k? I aint chinese and the way I pronounce things or read them is probably different from u cause I'm italian.
eerieqloss ha chiesto: Okay question, is Wukong's war form bigger/taller than MK's?
it's taller.
@elliboom ha chiesto: I was wondering, will Erlang Shen ever appear in the Shadowpeach parent series? (And questa domanda la scrivo in italiano giusto per levarmi unâaltra curiositĂ in futuro, preferisci che le domande vengono scritte solo in inglese o vanno bene anche in italiano? So che non ci sono molti italiani ad essere fan di LMK e JTTW, posso capire la scelta di scriverli solo in inglese per rispetto e far capire ai altri fan, e generalmente per scrivere le domande uso google translate, perchĂ© faccio pena con la grammatica inglese, mi scuso se in futuro farĂČ domande con qualche errore đ„Čđ„Č)
Si apparirĂ . Manda pure in italiano shalla ahah.
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when we begin again
ao3 â main masterlist â series masterlist
pairing: Joel Miller x f!reader rating: Explicit (18+ only!) warnings: dub-con (reader was paying a debt, less so now), oral (f receiving), fingering, masturbation, thigh slaps (three small ones), small description of a hand injury, cumplay/cumshot/cum marking, praise kink, maybe Joel has a bit of a pain kink idk, possessive slutty Joel, derogatory names ("whore"), drug reference, unspecified age gap word count: 4.1k summary: He wasn't one to lick his wounds, but after a deal gone wrong Joel finds something he'd much rather put his mouth on.
A/N: and here we be, the first of the SWAT oneshots that serves as a sort of bridge between the main series and the few ideas I have brewing and ready to go. This is a whole re-write in less than 24 hours because the original fic I was almost finished with felt too me and not enough SWAT. no one needs sad girl monologuing about life and death and grief with their porn. you're welcome.
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"Hrrrmph!"
Joel's lips crash into yours the moment you step inside. One moment he's running an anxious hand through his graying hair, and the next he's making quick work of the space between you, striding across the floor to grab you and plant his lips firmly on yours.
It's not what you'd come here for, funnily enough. You wanted to talk and, glorious as it was to have your lips against his, you couldn't talk like this.
Wretching yourself away is stupid. After everything you know it's stupid, yet you do it anyway.
"Joel -"
Cupping your head in his hands his lips find yours again before you can get another word out, teeth knocking together as he licks into your mouth, and you briefly lose yourself, turning to putty in his arms, ready to sculpt into whatever he sees fit that day. Before the bonelessness takes hold completely, you pull back once more.
Searching his face you look for the sudden need, the sudden rush, the desire to kiss you and have your face in his hands that hadn't been there any other time until now. You see nothing, his dark eyes refusing to meet yours as his hands find themselves at the front of your pants, deftly unbuttoning them before you can even question him. Before he can unzip them, your hands find his, holding him gently in place.
Joel freezes, hands stilling on your zipper, and he pulls a small, sharp breath of air in through his nose as if you hurt him, wounded him by daring to slow him down.
"You want me to stop?" he growls.
"No, I just -"
"Then quit your complainin'."
You do. Briefly. Until the zip snags as he pulls on it again and he curses in frustration.
"Let me do it." Until last time, which wasn't really like any other time, he'd always asked you to strip yourself, made you strip in front of him before he touched out. His clumsy hands on your clothes felt alien, and as it was he was being too slow, even in his desperation.
"You not want me to touch you or somethin'?" he snaps, frowning down at your pants now as he fiddles with the zipper, trying to get it to budge.
"I never said that."
"Then quit your fuckin' complainin'."
And this time you really do when you finally see the tremble in his hands and the blood on his knuckles, and it occurs to you that maybe you did hurt him, that grabbing his hand to stop his frantic movement caused him pain.
Joel hadn't been in a rush before you got here. He'd been the opposite, pacing the floor, willing himself to slow down, calm down. And it had been working - each turn he could feel himself relaxing, all the pent up energy from a deal gone to absolute shit steadily leaving his bones. But your delicate knock on the door had sent his blood boiling in a different way. He'd fought with himself to ignore it, to tell you through the door to fuck off for another day, but the idea of something warm and wet and compliant to soothe his aches and pains was too enticing to pass up. Making you in particular moan and writhe and give in to him was even more impossible to let go. In the end, the door had practically let you in all on its own.
So when his hands pull at your zipper again, yanking it in frustration, you will it down, beg with your mind for it to not snag again, and you sigh with relief when it doesn't.
In one fluid movement your pants are unceremoniously pulled to your knees, and Joel is crowding you back against his dining table, rough and aching hands on your hips to guide you. Your exposed ass collides with the solid wood, and he's pressing into you, the hardening lump in the front of his jeans poking into the softness of your belly. You can feel the frustration in him and how it twitches through his fingertips, swells in his cock, and each time you feel how the need wins out over frustration as he grinds into you, latching him onto you as his veins hunt for some kind of relief.
Another yank of your jeans and he's pulled them to your ankles, stepping on them as he pushes you to sit on the table. Your jeans stay behind, dragging your shoes from your feet with a dull thud, and Joel kicks them away. Winters in Boston are bitter, none moreso than this one, and your frozen ass barely registers the feeling of the wooden surface as you sit on it, still kitted out in your hat, coat and gloves. When you move to pull them off his hand pushes between your breasts, knocking you back onto the table. A second later there's a harsh scrape of a chair across the floor and, just as you manage to tug one glove off, he's yanking you down the table toward him.
You sit up and look down where he sits between your legs, enraptured by the softness of your skin beneath hands that glide up and down your thighs, gripping and squeezing the soft flesh more gently than the wounds on his knuckles suggest he's capable of. He's holding off, you realize then as you watch his hands, trying to slow himself from taking what he needs.
Tossing your hat to the side you lift your hips, shimmying your panties down just enough for Joel's fingers to work them down the rest of the way. Sitting back in his chair he looks between your legs, and you know that he can see what you've been feeling since you stepped onto his street. By this point, the response was Pavlovian. Each step closer to Joel's apartment you could feel yourself getting wetter and wetter, your cheeks feeling hotter and hotter. You wonder if one day he'd stop having this affect on you, or if he'd stop responding to it exactly how you knew he would, but with a knowing quirk in his brow, you know that day is not today.
"Fuck me, sweetheart. You sure no one else been down here today?"
Shaking your head, you manage one more look at him before he's pulling your legs up, hooking them over his shoulders and diving into your slick folds with a firm lick.
"N-no," you gasp, bucking slightly into his face with your legs spread over his broad shoulders. He should know that you haven't, that you wouldn't, but you think he just needs to hear the confirmation, needs to know that this thing in front of him right now is just his for the taking, and so you let him have it. "Haven't even touched myself today."
He moans into your cunt, cold nose pressing into the softness of your mound as his tongue laps and laves you. With a slurp, having cleaned up the arousal that had leaked out of you on your way here, he looks up at you, ticking his head to the side and nodding down to your bare pussy. "Well, shit, looks like all o' this is just for me, huh?"
There's no air left in your lungs for you to respond when his tongue circles your clit and makes you groan into the cold air. Whatever he needs, if this is how he was going to take it, you were damn well going to let him take everything you had.
And so, pinning you to the table he begins to devour your cunt, licking messily all over you, coating you in his saliva. He pulls you open with his arms hooked over your thighs, spreading your lips further for him. The chill hits you for just one second when you're fully spread to the cold air, but his mouth soon descends on you and all you can see are his eyes and the curve of his nose, his mouth hidden as he buries it into you.
You shuffle your jacket off, the room suddenly feeling much warmer than when you first entered it, and earn yourself a small slap to your thigh, making you squeak out a yelp of surprise, when Joel's mouth involuntarily pulls from your cunt.
"You gonna keep still? Or you gonna keep fuckin' wrigglin'?"
You shift again, biting your cheek as you test him. Channelling his energy into eating your cunt is working wonders for him and he seems calmer already, but that doesn't stop him lightly slapping your thigh again, shooting a warning look up at you.
"Got a way to keep you still if you can't fuckin' do it by yourself, sweetheart," he warns and, as if sensing you're about to test him again, he unhooks one arm from you and pushes a finger straight into your wet heat.
You moan, gasping again when he sucks your clit for good measure.
"Huh?" He's coaxing you, trying to get you to wiggle again and earn yourself another surprise. Not one to push your luck you simply moan, letting your back arch slightly when he begins to move his finger inside you. "What was that?"
"Fu-nothing. Just - fuck - so good."
You mind is liquid, seeping out of your ears and making a mess of your jacket when he licks you again, dancing the tip of two fingers around your entrance before sliding both into you. If it hurts him, he doesn't let on, but you can tell it does something to him by the groan he makes into your cunt as his fingers curl in you, making your walls clamp and twitch around his fingers.
"That's it," he murmurs. "Like gettin' this pussy ate, don't you?"
"Mm."
"Thought so. Needy fuckin' pussy. Not just your mouth that wants to be kissed is it, she needs it too?"
"Oh god, yes please, she needs it too."
And you can feel it, the moment he switches from eating your cunt to kissing it. You know the shapes, the trails he kisses, the way his tongue dances. You'd committed it to memory the past week, made yourself come at the thought of his mouth, the scratch of his beard, the feel of him beneath your fingertips, touching him as much as he was touching you. His mouth and the memory work together then, bringing you so impossibly close to coming you can feel as your moans leave you more high pitched, how you push into him, chasing and chasing that feeling that's right there -
"See," he says, stopping your orgasm in it's tracks when he pulls back, a knowing smile on his face. He pushes another finger into you too, watching as your legs twitch open wider to take him, the rim of your pussy spreading across his fingers with slicked up ease. "Don't even gotta stuff your mouth, just gotta keep this thing right here stuffed and suddenly you're actin' all nice and polite."
There's a brief hope in you that he'll go for a fourth finger, stretch you out across his sore knuckles and ready you for his hard cock, but the hope fizzles away, cast to the side and forgotten, the second his mouth joins his hand back between your thighs.
You're almost there again already, the crest of the orgasm he stole from you a moment ago barely behind you. His tongue laps rhythmically, never ceasing, and his breaths come in heavy, fanning across your folds as he feasts on you, fingers pumping so deep you're sloshing around them. You're hot, so impossibly hot in spite of the cold. You want to shed more layers, bare yourself for him, but you're so close and he's getting you there fast, goading you on with each satisfied groan into your cunt.
"That's it," he mumbles into your twitching pussy. "Fuck that's it sweetheart, come on my fingers."
You can feel it build, Joel's mouth engulfing you and lapping at everything you have to give. The beginnings of your orgasm start to shudder through you, your legs stuttering with every flick of his tongue. Your back arches from the table, toes curling in thick socks as your heels press into his back, pushing him into you. And then it hits you.
The coil in your belly snaps, letting loose an orgasm that swamps all your senses. Held down by Joel's muscular arm and pinned by the fingers hooked in you, you buck into his mouth. Quivering thighs have clamped around his ears, attempting to draw up and pull back as you squirm in his firm grip. You're screaming too, you think, a breathy high pitched shout of his name that you just can't hold back, that gets shakier and shakier the longer it goes on.
And it does go on. Joel doesn't stop, determined to wring from you as much as he can. His fingers are locked inside of you, forced to stillness by the pulsing in your pussy. Still, he can flex them, curling his pruning fingertips into you while he tongues your clit, groaning with each twitch of it beneath his tongue. You know that sound, how it's gotten deeper and more desperate as he's devoured you. It's a sound that tells you he's hard, that he needs relief and will be desperate for it the second he pulls away from you. That thought only makes you come harder, and by the time your cunt has stopped its erratic pulsing around Joel's fingers and you've fallen limp, deaf, and winded against his table, he's already standing, pushing the chair back and letting it crash to the floor.
Dragging his fingers from you he pushes between your legs, pulling his jeans open as best he can, wincing when he rasps his knuckles on the fabric a little too harshly. You reach for him, wanting to help, wanting to be a relief for him like he is for you.
"Let me -"
But he knocks your hand away, tugging down his jeans a moment later, his cock springing free and knocking into your thigh before he can capture it in his fist. It's hot against you, burning and dripping, likely feeling as achey as his knuckles do.
You expect him to plunge into you immediately, to take advantage of the position between your thighs and your pussy still fluttering with want at the sight of him, but he doesn't. Instead you watch for a moment as he strokes himself, the bloody scrapes on his knuckles contrasting harshly with the smooth, solid plains of his cock.
"Your hand, Joel, I can -"
"Fuck, my hand," he growls, resting his unmarred hand on your though to hold you still.
Your legs fall open further, his touch light on your thigh barely applying any pressure to open you up for him. Still, he doesn't take the clear route in, and you're rocking forward trying to notch his tip on your entrance just as the rough scrape of his knuckles drags across your sensitive inner thigh.
"Please put it in me," you finally beg, needing to feel the deep stretch of his cock as it pierces you.
"Nuh-uh, sweetheart, you get what you're given and you be grateful. You gonna take it?"
"Yes," you say quickly, following on with a small, "Please."
He groans at your eagerness to please. Making a man like Joel desire you so much he can't help but moan, just with small words and gasps of your own, makes you feel a power you've never had before and your eyes just about roll back in your head.
"Use your hands, show me that hole," he demands, giving you a little space to reach down and spread yourself for him. Your pussy is leaking, still, you can feel the slick spread on your fingers as you spread yourself for him. "That's it, hold yourself open. Fuck she's still twitchin'. Fuuuck. That's it."
His strokes become longer, more fluid, as he stares at your aching, empty cunt. You still want him inside, would do anything to get him there, but the desire in his eyes tells you he's getting exactly what he wants right now, and you almost want that more.
Tilting his head back as he strokes his cock with pussy drenched fingers, his bruised knuckles rub against your cunt with every stroke. Holding yourself open is easy, but keeping your legs from snapping shut each time his fist rubs your clit feels almost impossible. As if noticing, Joel pulls back, looking down where your cunt is spread open for it.
"That's it, keep it open. Good girl."
You know you're glistening for him, he'd eaten you so fiercely his saliva had been dripping from you, mixing with your own slick as you came on his tongue. He can see the evidence of it now, and the evidence of what his words do to you at the tell tale twitch of your cunt at his praise.
You can't take it any more and you beg in desperation again. "Please put it in, please."
It does nothing but earn you another soft slap to your thigh, which he rubs, grabbing the meat of you and squeezing in his large hand as his cock twitches and drips in his damaged one.
"No," he grunts, breath coming in more ragged now. "Want you to fuckin' wear me. Know who's pussy this is?"
"Yours."
"Fuck," he hisses. "Yeah it is. Pussy's mine, sweetheart. Mine."
Gripping your thigh tighter he moves in closer again, his hand bumping your sensitive nub as he jerks so closely you slick up his knuckles, soothing the soreness and jerking your clit in tandem.
"Oh fuck, that's it, sweetheart. Keep it just like that, show me that pussy. Show me," he's saying, over and over as he watches you.
A second later he's looking up, staring straight into your eyes and pinning you there on the table with them. You nod, words stuck in your throat when all you want to scream is for him to come, to cover you in it, to claim your pussy just like he needs, just like you want.
The sneer on his lips tells you he wants it too, and before you know it his tip is pressing firmly to your clit, jerking it with every frantic movement of his fist, his hips thrusting minutely into it like he can't control it, can't hold it back any more. And neither can you. The pressure and the movement on your clit is too much and you're coming again, so soon after the first it brings tears to your eyes.
"Ohhh, f-Joel, pleasecomeonme."
Looking down where he's pressed to you, he hisses a breath in through his teeth, holding it for just one second until it pushes out of him with a deep, shakey moan, cum exploding out of his tip and coating your folds, dripping through you until the last spurt coats your mound and he's left breathless.
You flop onto the table, grateful for the padding your coat offers your bones as you collapse into the wood. He's leaning over you, finally releasing his grip on your thigh and running a thumb across his mouth, cock still in his aching fist. Using the oversensitive tip, he smears the cum into your bare cunt and the insides of your thighs, catching your eyes just in time to watch them turn from glassy to rattling in your head, your mouth in a small O when he jerks your clit with his head, making you both gasp.
"You did say this pussy was mine," he says, letting a small wry smile tug at his cheeks. He pulls back then, letting go of his spent cock to run his fingers through your cum covered folds, scooping up a drop with his thumb.
Leaning leaning over you, he swipes his cum slicked thumb against your lips. You suck on it, tasting him, salty and bitter and sweet and Joel exploding on your tongue all at once. You want to thank him for it, but he pulls your mouth open with his thumb and pushes two fingers in, making you clean them with broad soothing strokes. You're careful not to catch him with your teeth, still aware of the wounds on his knuckles as you taste yourself off of his cum soaked fingers. If his hand looks like that, you wonder what the person on the receiving end looks like - the thought shouldn't make your cunt twitch, you know it shouldn't, that it's likely sick and twisted and wrong, but it does, and you moan around his fingers just has he pulls them from your mouth.
When your eyes flick to his lips, he smirks, knowing what you want without even asking. Cupping your face with his bruised, wet fingers, he makes you look at him, waits for the desperation in your eyes to ramp up to the point of frustration before he gives it to you.
Just a peck, that's all he gives, soft lips and the tickle of his facial hair so fleeting you could have blinked and missed it, before picking up the chair with a groan and settling back in it with a deep sigh, inspecting his wrinkled fingers. They'd spent so long buried in you the tips are starting to pucker, the ache that your warmth had soothed slowly crawling back down his knuckles.
Your mind is slowly pulling itself together, slowly crawling back into your ears and taking root in your skull again. Joel's eyes scan across you before finding something apparently considerably more interesting on the floor by his dining table.
"Where the fuck you shoppin' this late in the day?" he says with a frown, and you sit up, following his gaze to the floor.
Your pants are in a tangle, a sprawled mess on the floor with your shoes from where Joel had dragged them from your body and there, next to them in a messy pile, is a small stack of cards that you'd brought with you.
"Oh."
Right. You came here to talk to him, to renegotiate your arrangement, before Joel had needed more from you than a chat in that first moment through the door and pushed all thought of conversation from your mind. You clear your throat and square your shoulders, pushing away the last haze of orgasm and look back up at him. "I'm not. They're for you."
With a groan, he bends to pick them up, counting them as he stands and then raising them to you with a question on his lips.
"What're these for?"
"For the pills," you say, like it's obvious, like you hadn't been using your body as payment for months.
"I've already taken my payment," he says with a look to your cum coated cunt. "'n' if you wanna pay me for your daddies pills, you know it's more than this, right?"
"I can take 'em back if you don't want 'em. I just figured we can pay a bit now and, y'know... I wanna come here because I wanna come here, for me, not just for pills all the time." It sounded better when you rehearsed it in your head this morning, but coming out of your mouth now it sounds ridiculous.
He looks at you for a moment, taking you in, sat pantsless and dripping on his dining table.
"Y'know, there's a simpler solution to this than dumpin' cards on me without warnin', right?" If there is, you haven't thought of it. "Stop only comin' by when you need pills." Oh.
"If you want somethin' else, you know where I am. Now, if you don't wanna whore yourself for meds anymore, if you wanna be respectable, then that's fine. I'll take your cards. But I ain't takin' all of 'em. I'm keepin' these," he says raising a few cards up to you. "And you're takin' these," he pushes the remaining ones into your hand along with a small bag of pills he slips out of his pocket and you frown. You already weren't offering him enough.
"Now I get a nice respectable, good girl to fuck, and you get to pretend you're not a whore. Win-win."
"I'm not a whore," you insist, rolling your eyes, even though you know it's not exactly true.
Joel simply shrugs, shaking out your jeans and throwing them on the table next to you before placing his hand by your ass, thumb stroking delicately along the soft skin there, and leaning down toward you. He tilts your head up to face him, his nose catching yours as your eyes meet his.
"Whore or not, sweetheart," he smirks. "Pussy's still mine."
You weren't going to argue with him there.
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Every now and then I think about how subtitles (or dubs), and thus translation choices, shape our perception of the media we consume. It's so interesting. I'd wager anyone who speaks two (or more) languages knows the feeling of "yeah, that's what it literally translates to, but that's not what it means" or has answered a question like "how do you say _____ in (language)?" with "you don't, it's just ⊠not a thing, we don't say that."
I've had my fair share of "[SHIP] are [married/soulmates/fated/FANCY TERM], it's text!" "[CHARACTER A] calls [CHARACTER B] [ENDEARMENT/NICKNAME], it's text!" and every time. Every time I'm just like. Do they though. Is it though. And a lot of the time, this means seeking out alternative translations, or translation meta from fluent or native speakers, or sometimes from language learners of the language the piece of media is originally in.
Why does it matter? Maybe it doesn't. To lots of people, it doesn't. People have different interests and priorities in fiction and the way they interact with it. It's great. It matters to me because back in the early 2000s, I had dial-up internet. Video or audio media that wasn't available through my local library very much wasn't available, but fanfiction was. So I started to read English language Gundam Wing fanfic before I ever had a chance to watch the show. When I did get around to watching Gundam Wing, it was the original Japanese dub. Some of the characters were almost unrecognisable to me, and first I doubted my Japanese language ability, then, after checking some bits with friends, I wondered why even my favourite writers, writers I knew to be consistent in other things, had made these characters seem so different ⊠until I had the chance to watch the US-English dub a few years later. Going by that adaptation, the characterisation from all those stories suddenly made a lot more sense. And the thing is, that interpretation is also valid! They just took it a direction that was a larger leap for me to make.
Loose adaptations and very free translations have become less frequent since, or maybe my taste just hasn't led me their way, but the issue at the core is still a thing: Supernatural fandom got different nuances of endings for their show depending on the language they watched it in. CQL and MDZS fandom and the never-ending discussions about ç„ć·± vs soulmate vs Other Options. A subset of VLD fans looking at a specific clip in all the different languages to see what was being said/implied in which dub, and how different translators interpreted the same English original line. The list is pretty much endless.
And that's ⊠idk if it's fine, but it's what happens! A lot of the time, concepts -- expressed in language -- don't translate 1:1. The larger the cultural gap, the larger the gaps between the way concepts are expressed or understood also tend to be. Other times, there is a literal translation that works but isn't very idiomatic because there's a register mismatch or worse. And that's even before cultural assumptions come in. It's normal to have those. It's also important to remember that things like "thanks I hate it" as a sentiment of praise/affection, while the words translate literally quite easily, emphatically isn't easy to translate in the sense anglophone internet users the phrase.
Every translation is, at some level, a transformative work. Sometimes expressions or concepts or even single words simply don't have an exact equivalent in the target language and need to be interpreted at the translator's discretion, especially when going from a high-context/listener-responsible source language to a low-context/speaker-responsible target language (where high-context/listener responsible roughly means a large amount of contextual information can be omitted by the speaker because it's the listener's responsibility to infer it and ask for clarification if needed, and low-context/speaker-responsible roughly means a lot of information needs to be codified in speech, i.e. the speaker is responsible for providing sufficiently explicit context and will be blamed if it's lacking).
Is this a mouse or a rat? Guess based on context clues! High-context languages can and frequently do omit entire parts of speech that lower-context/speaker-responsible languages like English regard as essential, such as the grammatical subject of a sentence: the equivalent of "Go?" - "Go." does largely the same amount of heavy lifting as "is he/she/it/are you/they/we going?" - "yes, I am/he/she/it is/we/you/they are" in several listener-responsible languages, but tends to seem clumsy or incomplete in more speaker-responsible ones. This does NOT mean the listener-responsible language is clumsy. It's arguably more efficient! And reversely, saying "Are you going?" - "I am (going)" might seem unnecessarily convoluted and clumsy in a listener-responsible language. All depending on context.
This gets tricky both when the ambiguity of the missing subject of the sentence is clearly important (is speaker A asking "are you going" or "is she going"? wait until next chapter and find out!) AND when it's important that the translator assign an explicit subject in order for the sentence to make sense in the target language. For our example, depending on context, something like "are we all going?" - "yes" or "they going, too?" might work. Context!
As a consequence of this, sometimes, translation adds things â we gain things in translation, so to speak. Sometimes, it's because the target language needs the extra information (like the subject in the examples above), sometimes it's because the target language actually differentiates between mouse and rat even though the source language doesn't. However, because in most cases translators don't have access to the original authors, or even the original authors' agencies to ask for clarification (and in most cases wouldn't get paid for the time to put in this extra work even if they did), this kind of addition is almost always an interpretation. Sometimes made with a lot of certainty, sometimes it's more of a "fuck it, I've got to put something and hope it doesn't get proven wrong next episode/chapter/ten seasons down" (especially fun when you're working on a series that's in progress).
For the vast majority of cases, several translations are valid. Some may be more far-fetched than others, and there'll always be subjectivity to whether something was translated effectively, what "effectively" even means âŠ
ANYWAY. I think my point is ⊠how interesting, how cool is it that engaging with media in multiple languages will always yield multiple, often equally valid but just sliiiiightly different versions of that piece of media? And that I'd love more conversations about how, the second we (as folks who don't speak the material's original language) start picking the subtitle or dub wording apart for meta, we're basically working from a secondary source, and if we're doing due diligence, to which extent do we need to check there's nothing substantial being (literally) lost -- or added! -- in translation?
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