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—𝙻𝚎𝚘𝚗𝚊 𝙺𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚛 𝙷𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚃𝚠𝚒𝚗 𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝙲𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝙳𝚞𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚗 𝙰𝚌𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝙰𝚕𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚖𝚢 𝙲𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚜—

Summary: Scenario/short scenario where Leona has a twin or a clone of him due to an accident in his alchemy class.

Pairing: Leona Kingscholar x GN!S/O.

CW: Fluff, swearing, slight comedy (?), grammatical error, OOC.

A/N: NOT ME RLY MAKING THIS AS A SCENARIO MABEFAKJFGBWKJB I HOPE U LIKE IT EHE (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.ﾟ Do u know Aomine Daiki (THE ONLY 1 WHO CAN BEAT ME IS ME-)

What a miracle, Leona went to his class! Thanks to you who blackmailed him (sweetly), so he can attend the class. Now that you remember it again, alchemy class in here is like a whole circus!

Yes, a whole circus! Remember that day when Grim almost set the class on fire? Or perhaps the ADeuce almost blown off the class (or they did it once)? Perhaps in a worse case is Rook’s experiments. It is hilarious, dangerous, but also fun at the same time! This time is more hilarious. Another accident happened in alchemy class, more correctly Leona’s class. The victim? Leona himself. The perpetrator? Let us search who is it later. The smoke starts to surround the room, the students are running out from the class and coughing.

Oh no, the lion beastman will tear whoever that person is who did this to him. Rook calls out at his name and searches for him. This class will get a long lecture from Crewel later after he helps Leona.

“Roi du Leon! Are you alright?”

Rook grabs his shoulder and Leona’s nostril feels like it is dead because of the poison’s scent. They thought they are the only students left inside the class, not until another familiar voice comes out from the smoke.

“What the fuck? Ugh, this is why I do not wanna attend these stupid classes…”

Wait, what? The hunter’s face looks very surprised and stares back at Leona. No, he did not say anything. Then, who? The mysterious person comes out from the smoke and stares both at Leona and Rook with surprise.

Oh, this is hilarious.

Before Leona could open his mouth, Crewel’s voice rings to their ears. As soon as the smoke becomes thinner, people still only can see half of their bodies. Even Crewel could not believe what he sees! Leona Kingscholar is TWO, NOT ONE! Twins? Clone? What? How? Even Leona himself does not understand what just happened! The teacher sighs and tells them to get out from the class first. The students stare at the twins! Clone? Twin? One Leona is more than enough, BUT TWO? Oh, dear Great Seven, please spare the students’ life. They are not going to make it with two Leonas. One is… A threat to their lives already.

“Who the fuck are you?”

“No, who the fuck are you, huh?”

“Stop imitating me, bastard!”

This scene is very hilarious! Leona vs. Leona himself. Gosh, Rook almost laughs at the scene! Who would not laugh in here? Leona cursing to himself! Gold moment, everyone. Crewel comes out from the class and explains the potion that got Leona. Of course, as a teacher of alchemy, he MUST bring his student back to their normal form. Crewel tells Leona to wait while he makes the potion to cure him.

The twins grunt and mumble about classes are stupid and waste their nap times. When they head to the Botanical Garden, they can hear Ruggie’s surprise’s voice. One Leona is enough to make the hyena suffers, AND NOW TWO? Good luck, Ruggie. Ruggie drops the bag accidentally from his hand. What is this? What? Two Leonas? Which one is the real one? Is this the end of Ruggie’s life? The left Leona growls and gives a short explanation about what happened. Now that makes Ruggie laughs. Come on, it is RARE for him to be a victim in the alchemy class, right? Unless someone is very desperate to die in his hand.

After a few minutes of them chattering, you come to the Botanical Garden. It is time to visit your lazy boyfriend! As you open the Botanical Garden’s door, two lions look towards you. Wait, why are there two Leonas? Who is this? Leona’s secret twin? Or perhaps someone is cosplaying as Leona? Is he Farena who disguise himself as Leona so he could watch over Leona?

The lion sighs and explains ONCE MORE just for you, their beloved herbivore. Can you handle two Leonas at the same time, herbivore? You will learn from now on, good luck for you too! Ruggie excuses himself and whispers good luck to you. This is going to be difficult and it is going to be a very long day. When you want to sit down, the right Leona pulls you to his lap and causes you to sit on his lap.

“C’mere, herbivore…”

“Hey! Don’t just snatch away MY herbivore!”

“YOURS? Who the fuck- “

“Stop it, Leona… S?”

They look at you with a sharp gaze. Alright, this is VERY difficult. They keep fighting whose herbivore are you! His or his, left or right, Leona or Leona, etc. Even during the whole lunch time, these lions cannot shut up.

“Ok, enough…”

As his, no, THEIR S/O, you try to make them shut up and stop the fighting. As you sigh and look at the two of them, you try to advise them that you are their significant other because both are the same person. Right?  When the nap time comes again, you feel like you are trapped in between two clingy lions. You cannot and will not be able to get away from Leona(s). You are lying down in the middle of two huge lion beastmen and you expect yourself to escape from there? How fool of you, S/O.

Even when Leona has a magift practice, you should have seen Jack and Epel reactions seeing two Leonas are going to play and practice magift. Is this what you call your biggest rival is yourself? 

“Le-Leona senpai?! Wh-who is this beside you?!” Jack points at the other Leona, who cares which one is real at this point.

“Leona-san?! Why there are two of you?!” Epel says right after Jack spoke.

The lion beastman only growls in frustration, does he need to explain it again and again? Yet for this time he only says it was an accident in alchemy class by a bastard student he is still searching their head, which makes them wonder who has the audacity to do this to the Leona Kingscholar.

When you watch the practice itself, you can see everyone is looking at you to help them escape this hell immediately. Why is that damn Crewel taking too much time to make the cure? Cannot he see that the whole academy is suffering with two Leonas (except Rook who enjoys it and thinks of it as a part of… Amusement to his own needs). Ruggie suggests to put one Leona in a team, and put the other to the other team, so it will balance each team (who wants to play magift with two Leonas in one team anyway?). Leona sighs, thinking that it does not sound bad either. Unfortunately, today’s practice does feel like hell itself. Each time is very exhausted dealing with Leona. Surprisingly Leona enjoys it, who would have thought that dealing with himself in magift is thrilling, unlike dealing the other weaklings. Maybe he should try to challenge the other him in a chess, that would be interesting.

At the end of the day, Leona prefers to have just one of him because he can have you all by himself. Right after Crewel gives him the potion for the cure, the other him disappears, making the whole Savannaclaw can breathe again. It is suffocating to have two Leonas for the Savannaclaw’s students. If they fuck up and make Leona’s mood worse, say good bye! May the Great Seven bless their souls. All he needs is your touch after he is back to normal and after dealing with a lot of annoying things. Oh, no worries, he WILL NOT forgive the perpetrator who did this to him. He sighs in relief and pulls you closer to his body. Now, you are all his alone.

I DO NOT OWN TWISTED WONDERLAND & DO NOT REPOST MY WORKS.

[kindersurprisebacterium]

Mister (Ghost/Reader)

CW: DILF Ghost, age gap, best friend's father, cunilingus, fingering, vaginal sex, overstimulation (kinda), alcohol use, reader is in college

Gender Neutral AFAB Reader

WC: 3.2k

On the corner of a caul-du-sac sat a cookie-cutter house. The front was adorned with terracotta brick walls. Nearly trimmed hedges and flower beds lined the driveway. It was suburbia. Different from the campus housing I was used to downtown. 

I was hesitant to come here. Sleepovers seemed…juvenile. But Audrey and I seemed to get along well, even after knowing each other for only two weeks. So I packed up a night’s worth of clothes and some toiletries and met her in the corridor after lecture. 

Her neighborhood was only fifteen minutes outside of the city. The speakers shook the car. Wind whipped through my hair as we sped down the highway. 

I felt odd being here, needless to say. Maybe it had to do with the fact that her dad would be home. I stepped out of her lifted truck, pulling my bag behind me. Her carabiner clinked as she unlocked the front door. I watched as she stepped inside and kicked off her shoes before following behind. 

“My rooms upstairs. You can put all your bags there.” Audrey said, pointing to the staircase. 

“Cool. You gotta show me that poster you were talking about” I grinned. She’d already started up the stairs. The hardwood creaked beneath my feet as I followed her. 

“I was in line for like…three hours? They cut the line of right after me.”

We turned down a corridor filled with picture frames. My eyes skimmed across each one. School pictures, beach trips, vacations abroad, and family photos that were obviously taken in a JC Penny. I jumped when my eyes met a pair of glaring brown irises. 

A man stood before me, leaning in the doorway of an office. Silver curls sat atop his head. Faded scars, years old by now, adorned his pale face. He had a stern look on his face, a look that was somewhere between apathy and annoyance. Maybe that was just his face. 

His arms, covered in intricate black ink, crossed over his broad chest. Even through a thick sweatshirt, I could tell he was well-built. My jaw clenched tightly as the man eyed me. 

“Oh dad, this is my friend from anthropology I was telling you about. They’re staying over tonight,” Audrey spoke up, gesturing to me with her painted nails. 

“Nice to meet you Mr. Riley,” I said, extending my hand. 

“Simon.” He gripped my hand and shook it with a jarring strength. His palms were big enough to nearly engulf my hand. He let go, sliding his hand into his pocket. I turned to face Audrey. She pulled me into her room, closing the door behind the both of us. 

She pulled a framed poster from the wall and held it out for me to see. In the bottom right corner in silver sharpie was a swirling signature from the lead singer of a metal band. 

“Isn’t it so cool?!”

I couldn’t focus on the movie, or the bottle of beer in my hand. My mind kept going back to Simon. I don’t know what it was about him. Maybe it was the way he looked at me as if I was nothing. Maybe it was his grip on my hand. Or his gruff voice.

I felt…embarrassed? I haven’t felt this way about someone since middle school. My mind kept replaying that moment in his head. The way he said his own name. The way his arms flexed when he crossed them over his chest. 

These scattered thoughts flooded my mind for hours. I couldn’t sleep. I glanced back at Audrey, who was out like a light with a puddle of drool on her pillow. Gritting my teeth, I slowly moved off of the mattress. My eyes stayed locked on her sleeping frame, looking for any sign of movement. Nothing. Sighing, I stepped out of the room. Maybe another drink would quell the thoughts. 

I crept down the hallway, walking on my toes. A beam of light caught my eye as I rounded the corner. The kitchen light was on. The steps whined beneath my weight as I descended. Brown eyes locked onto me. 

Simon sat at the kitchen island. His right hand was on his computer mouse, the other resting under his chin. He closed his laptop.

My skin felt hot as his eyes ran up and down my body. I tugged at the hem of my shorts, now acutely aware of how they rode up my thighs. 

“You’re up late,” he muttered. 

“I uh, couldn’t sleep,” I said with a smile that was a little too forced. I stepped into the kitchen and pulled open the fridge, jumping when I heard his chair moving from behind me. My fingers wrapped around the neck of another bottle. As I closed the fridge door, a head of grey hair appeared from behind it. 

He was closer now, leaning on the kitchen island with a glass in hand. 

“Anthropology…” he mumbled, “why’d you choose that?”

“It’s a part of my psychology course,” I explained as I twisted the top off of the bottle. I held the cap in my hand as I took a swig. The amber liquid made my throat tingle as I swallowed. This was more than I’d drank in a while, but I needed it if I wanted to deal with the man in front of me, the man who was slowly stepping closer. 

I could feel my heart in my ears as he approached the fridge. His arm bumped into me as he set his cup underneath the water fountain. Out of the corner of his eyes, he stared at me. My face felt hot. I pursed my lips, looking away hoping he wouldn’t see my flushed face. 

I heard his throat squelch as he swallowed, not daring to look. He sighed and reached his arm across me. The glass clinked as he set it in the sink. I was waiting for him to pull back, give me room to breathe, but he didn’t budge. My eyes traced up his inked arm, to his face. His eyes were fixated on me, staring through me. I felt naked under his gaze. 

“You’re shaking.” He placed a hand on my waist. If anything, his touch made it worse. My entire body was quivering. Whether from nerves or anticipation, I couldn’t tell. He stepped forward, close enough that his thighs brushed against my hip. 

“You’re shaking,” he repeated. His fingertips grazed my chin, gently tilting my head up to look at him. 

“I know.” My voice was barely a whisper. The corner of his lips curled up into a smirk. He was getting a kick out of this, and somehow that made it even hotter. 

“You nervous?” He asked. It didn’t seem like a question if he already knew the answer. His eyes flicked between my lips, and my eyes. Every time his eyes met mine, I could feel it in my stomach.

“I-” I couldn’t get the words out. His lips were on mine. The warmth of his kiss slowly melted away the tension in my muscles. By the time his hands were on my hips, I was putty in his grasp. I hooked my arms around his neck, pulling him down so I didn’t have to stand on my toes. His fingers slid into the waistband of my shorts. 

“Wait, I don’t want to wake Audrey,” I pushed my hands against his chest, breaking the kiss. 

“So we go to my room.” His tongue slid up my neck. The tips of his fingers grazed along my hipbones but didn’t date to go another inch forward. 

“But-”

“When’s the last time you’ve had a good fuck,” he asked, speaking against my neck. He punctuated his words with a kiss along my carotid. My lips pursed. I could feel my hands clench into fists. I knew I shouldn’t be doing this. Audrey was the first friend I’d made all year, and I didn’t want to jeopardize that. The throbbing in my core drew my attention. Every inch of my body craved his touch. My head was spinning with desire. My breath grew shallower, quicker, as lust swept over me in full force. I couldn’t take it. There was just something about him. I needed to feel him. 

“Please don’t tell her,” I begged. My fingers latched onto the collar of his sweatshirt. He pulled back, just to see the look on my face. My lips were parted, eyes half lidded, and I’m sure the blush on my cheeks had deepened to a red. 

“I wouldn’t dare.” He picked me up by my waist and slung me over his shoulder. His palm rested on the small of my back, while his other arm hooked around the back of my legs. Simon approached the stairs, giving my thighs a squeeze as he ascended. He turned right down the hallway. My eyes locked onto Audrey’s door. I could feel my jaw clenching. Should I really be doing this?

The bedroom door clicked shut behind us. My back met the plush bedding. The mattress creaked underneath my weight. Simon pulled his shirt over his head. His muscles were defined, illuminated by the soft lighting. Thickened scar tissue dotted his body like ivy on an old wall. I couldn’t help but feel intimidated as he crawled on the bed. 

He sat between my legs. His fingers idly stroked my inner thighs. His stubble scratched the skin of my neck as he leaned in. He pressed kisses to my neck, traveling up to my jaw. 

“Can I take these off?” He asked, tugging at the hem of my shorts. My stomach fluttered. 

“Yeah,” I spoke softly. He slipped his fingers beneath the waistband and began tugging, jolting my body as he pulled them down my hips. I felt my face heat up as his gaze locked onto my cunt. He swiped his index finger through the wetness pooling in my core. The tip of his finger brushed against my clit. A whine caught in my throat. 

“I just know you’re not gonna be good for me.” He moved to lie on his stomach. His sharp canines pierced the skin of my thighs. My teeth sunk into my bottom lip to quell the onslaught of moans. 

His thumb circled my clit. The movements were slow at first. His eyes locked onto my cunt, almost as if he was waiting for something. I bucked my hips into his hand, and then he stopped. I whined, pouting my lip.

Warm, wet licks against my skin diminished my protests. His hips rutted against the bed as he slowly ate me out. My brows furrowed as his tongue flicked against my clit in sharp movements. Fingertips circled around my entrance before slowly sliding in. He moaned against my cunt. I clamped my hand over my mouth in an attempt to muffle the cry that rose from my chest. 

Simon differed from anyone I’d slept with before. Foreplay was never a big part of my escapades, it was always straight to penetration. There was something about a man between my legs, moaning against my cunt, and looking up at me with pleading eyes that made my body heat up. 

Every movement of his was deliberate, from the way his fingers curled up ever so slightly with every thrust, to the way his palm rested on my stomach. It was as if he’d cast a spell on my limbs. My toes curled, fingers digging into the sheets. Each thought in my head slowly disappeared, replaced with the feeling of his tongue on my clit. I felt hot and sticky. Beads of sweat rolled down my chest. I gripped my shirt and pulled it from my body. 

His hand slid up my stomach until reaching my chest. He gripped my nipple between his index and thumb. My back arched off of the bed. His gaze seemed transfixed on me, soaking in my every reaction with those brown eyes. 

I tossed my head against the pillows. My stomach tensed as each flick of his tongue drew me further into bliss. His lips wrapped around my clit, sucking gently. My hand flew to his head, pulling his hair tight. A throbbing pain settled in my face as my eyes rolled to the back of my head. My muscles went taut as I came on his tongue. 

He pulled away, skin slick with my wetness. His fingers kept slowly pumping inside of me. He leaned in, pressing his lips to mine. I could taste myself on his skin. A whine swelled from within my throat. He slid another finger inside me, thrusting alongside the others.

“Simon,” I said against his lips. 

“Gotta make sure you can take me, love,” he groaned.

The nickname made my heart flutter in a way it shouldn’t. As the haze that clouded my head faded, I became acutely aware of what I was doing. I was fucking my friend’s dad. 

“You’re so tense. Come on, open up for me.” I couldn’t tell if he was talking to me or my cunt. My breath hitched when his mouth lowered to my chest. He gently bit down on my nipple, laughing at the way it made me squirm. His brows furrowed as he sucked my skin into his mouth. 

With a soft pop, he pulled off of my nipple, only to dive back in. He sunk his teeth into my skin. I clenched around his fingers, earning a groan from him. His thumb brushed against my sensitive clit. My voice contorted as the overstimulation made my head swim. 

“Fuck, there you go,” He spoke against my skin. “Such a pretty cunt.”

His words pushed me over the edge. I gushed around his fingers. My thighs quivered and clamped down around his hand. I took in heaving breaths as he worked me through my orgasm. I stared down at the man with half-lidded eyes. He smirked, watching my expression as I slowly came down from my high. 

The bed shifted as he moved. His grey hair vanished from my peripherals. The drawer to his nightstand slid open with a low rumble. I didn’t bother to turn my head. 

When he settled back onto the bed, his jeans were gone. My eyes skimmed down his nude body, settling on his cock, which was now resting on my stomach.

He was right. It was big. The heat that radiated off of his skin drew my thoughts into more perverted places. The head of his cock was flushed and leaking. A single silver barbell protruded from the head of his cock. He lifted my hips and slid a pillow underneath me. 

“You on the pill?” He asked, popping open the cap to a bottle of lube. 

“Yes.” I watched him slide the lube over his cock. 

“Good, cause I don’t have any condoms.”

He pushed one of my knees to my chest. His hand guided his cock to my entrance. With his eyes locked onto me, he slowly pushed inside of me. It burned, almost felt stabbing. I clenched my jaw and gripped his wrist. His hips halted. 

“You okay?” His thumb gently stroked my knee with a tenderness that drew my attention away from the pain. 

“It hurts,” I said through my teeth. 

“We can stop-”

“Please keep going,” I interrupted. He stared at me with wide eyes. With a nod, he pushed forward. 

The stabbing pain faded into a more manageable cramping pain. I felt undeniably full. He let go of my leg, instead moving to my stomach to gently stroke my skin. He whispered praises as he sunk deeper inside me. My brows knit as he bottomed out. His hips stilled, eyes fixated on my cunt. 

“That’s it, bein’ so good for me.” He groaned. I clenched around his cock, earning a grunt from his heaving chest. 

“Simon, please move,” I crossed my ankles behind his back. 

He shifted his weight onto his hands, placing them on either side of my head. 

“Since you asked so nicely…”

He began thrusting his hips into me at a steady pace. Every jolt of his hips made the mattress squeal beneath us. The sound of our skin slapping echoed throughout the room. He was rough and forceful, bullying his cock deeper into me. 

His moans were deep and gravely. Every little noise that came out of him sounded like music. I hooked my arms around the back of his neck, pulling him down to my level. His lips clashed against mine, tongue licking against my bottom lip. I parted my lips for him. A moan slipped from me as he slid his tongue into my mouth. 

Tears welled in my eyes as the stimulation grew. I wanted more, needed more of him. I bit down on his lip and pulled back, tugging his skin. Something changed in him then. He pulled away and gripped onto the headboard, using the leverage to thrust harder into me. His eyes screwed shut. I could feel him twitch from inside me. 

I Clenched around his cock, stomach tensing as my third orgasm rapidly approached. He gripped my chin between his fingers.

“Fuck, you gonna cum?” He asked with his plush lips parted. 

My response was an incoherent mess of words and a frantic nod. His thumb went to my clit. He rubbed tight circles into my skin, encouraging me to cum, begging even. I knew he wouldn’t last long with the way his thrusts grew erratic. 

With a snap of his hips, I came on his cock, squeezing around him. He grunted, stilling inside me as he came. A stream of moans rose from my throat.

My body felt tingly like tv static as every nerve in my body fired. I felt overstimulated, hot, and sore. I whined as he pulled out. The bed shook as he collapsed onto his side. 

He grabbed his phone from the nightstand and held the screen out to me. It was a “new contact” page. I smirked as I put my number in under the contact labeled “Derek”

“Derek…who are you gonna tell them I am when that name pops up on your screen?” I asked, swinging my leg over his hips.

“Old coworker.” He said with a laugh. 

“Old coworker with bomb pussy?” I raised my eyebrows and pouted, scanning his face for a reaction. He smiled and leaned in, pressing a soft kiss to my lips. 

“Audrey’s going on vacation with her mom in a couple weeks. Why don’t you come over then?” He ran his hand along my back. 

“I’d love to, but speaking of which, I need to get back.” I sat up, grabbing my shorts from the foot of the bed. 

I threw my clothes on and hastily tossed my sweat soaked hair into an updo. My fingers grasped the doorknob, gently pulling it open. I waved at Simon before slipping into the hall. As the door closed behind me I sighed.

My brain replayed every minute of our interaction over and over again. The way he touched me with care, got off on eating me out, and checked in on me. What seemed to be basic decency was something I’d been lacking. My stomach fluttered as I thought of seeing him in a couple of weeks. I didn’t regret this, in fact I wanted more of this. 

What did I get myself into.

Masterlist

[salchat]

This is my tiny, innocent Dean. I've drawn him for the story I'm working on at the moment, which I'm having tremendous fun with! It's a version of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and is my first venture into the omegaverse, because I needed Dean to be the young omega who gets swept off his feet by the older, widowed Castiel Novak.

It could be a couple of weeks before I begin posting, because I have quite a few things to work out. I may add some Secret Garden to the mix, or a dash of Jane Eyre, just for fun. But one thing's for sure - the path to true love will not run smooth! This relationship is going to have a lot of issues to work through!

Anyway, if you'd like to read a scene, there's one below the cut...

The maitre d’s voice rang through the dining room.  “Alpha Castiel Novak!”

“Oh, good heavens!”  Mrs Butters’ shrill exclamation jolted Dean out of his daydreams.  “It's Castiel Novak! No, don't look!”

He had no intention of looking.  It’d just be another more-money-than-sense alpha knothead, puffing himself up to be admired and fawned over.  Dean didn’t give a shit.  Whereas Mrs B wet her panties every time some new high society stiff arrived at the hotel.  Still, spilling her shit-load of toxic gossip meant that Dean wasn’t getting lectured or slapped or whacked with the hard wooden edge of her fan, so he’d put on his best listening face and count it a win.

She leant toward him.  “Castiel Novak is one of The Novaks.  The Novaks, Dean.”

Who the fuck were the Novaks?

“Fabulously wealthy, one of the best traditional families.”

Assholes, then.

“Their estate is in Eversett.”  She frowned.  “Or Meldonshire.  Somewhere like that.”  She waved an airy hand, her eyes glued to the alpha’s position.  “Lebanon, the house is called.  One of the few Great Houses still being managed as it should.  Oh, he's coming this way! Oh good heavens! Oh my!”

Dean anchored his eyes to the salt and pepper set in order not to roll them.  Mrs B might not want to be seen slapping her omega companion in public, but she had a retentive memory for any little slip-up and would be sure to save up one of her best for later if she caught him.

“But sir, we can set another table next to the dance floor for you.  Really, it would be no trouble.”  The maitre d’ was going full-throttle with the smarm.

Dean didn’t catch the words of the response – just a rumble, like something heavy dragging over gravel.

“Or with a view of the terrace.  It would be the work of a moment, Mr Novak.  And a much more pleasant situation.”

The rumble was louder but no more distinct.

“Then please, allow me to bring a bottle of our best champagne.”

The gravel scraped again.  

“Whiskey.  Yes, of course, sir.  And the a la carte menu.”

The gravel stirred itself into a snarl.  Jeez, this guy was more knot-headed than most.

“A hamburger.  Of course, sir.  Followed by a slice of… pie.”  The weird newcomer might as well have requested a lump of dirt followed by a morsel of shit.  Dean couldn’t stop the corners of his mouth curling into a smirk.  He couldn’t stop the rumble of his far from satisfied stomach either.

“Dean.”  The fan rapped his knuckles.  But she hadn’t noticed the smirk.  “Dean, stop daydreaming.  Sit up straight.”

Huh.  She was regretting taking the best chair now.  Dean, with the kitchen door flapping open and shut at his back and regular nudges to his chair from passing waiting staff, had a direct view to the next table-for-two.

Mrs B leant toward him.  “What’s he doing?”  Her pink lips moved in an exaggerated stage whisper.

“You want me to look at the alpha…uh, Mr Nover?  Novem?”

“Novak!  And yes, of course I want you to look!  Tell me what he’s doing!”

Dean looked up.  The alphas face was in shadow, downturned as if he were studying the thread-count of the tablecloth.  He had a lot of dark, messy hair.  One hand was visible, a fingertip pressing down on the blade of his fish knife so that the handle wobbled up and down.

“They say he can’t get over the death of his wife, you know.  Such a beauty, so spirited.  Amara was her name.  So sad.”  Restless fingers twitched at the stem of her wine glass.  “What’s he doing?”

“Nothing,” said Dean.  “Just sitting.”

“He must be doing something.”  Mrs B started twisting in her chair but caught herself in time, before she gave herself away as the insatiable rubber-necker that she was at heart.  “Tomorrow you can sit here and I’ll sit there!”

“Yes, ma’am.”  A passing waiter narrowly missed his head with a tray of soup.  She was welcome to Dean’s seat.

“Hasn’t he even smiled at the Contessa?  He must have noticed her, and I’m sure they know each other.  They were both at the Duke or Northerton’s ball two years ago last Christmas.”

The Contessa di Faraglione had been the object of Mrs B’s gossip for the past week since she’d arrived with her retinue of servants the week before.  She was old news now, though.  This Novak guy was the target now, and Dean would be used to help engineer an opportunity of speaking to him, which would be really embarrassing.  Like when Mrs B had made him take her card to the Contessa’s suite, claiming some kind of distant family connection.  The butler had told him to fuck off.  Probably.  Dean didn’t speak Italian.

A gust of warm, savoury air and a swell of noise at his back announced the opening of the kitchen door.  Dean hunched forward so he didn’t get a tray dumped on his head.  But the waiter was one of the more agile.  He swerved around Dean, hung a right and brought the tray down in a sweeping arc, perfectly timed to present its load to the occupant of the next table.

The occupant of the next table looked up at his meal and smiled.

And okay, yeah, it was a nice-looking hamburger.  Normally it would have had Dean transfixed, salivating with envy.  But it wasn’t the juicy patties and shiny, domed bun that brought Dean’s mind, his heart, his every-fucking-thing to a juddering halt.

Dean hadn’t seen the ocean until he was fifteen.  Before that it had been one dusty town after another, Dad dragging him and Sammy around like unwanted baggage.  But when a job had finally taken them to the coast, it’d been like all the heat and grime was washed away by that fresh, salty air.  And the colours in that huge ocean had taken his breath away.

It was the same now.  The drab, grey despair that made up Dean’s life was suddenly gone, and his world was full of ocean blue depths in the eyes of this strange alpha – strange but gorgeous, from his eyes to the soft bow of his lips to the commanding strength of his nose.  

Dean was heartily glad of his over-powdered cheeks.  Fuck, what was he thinking, blushing over some rich alpha who wouldn’t look at Dean once, let alone twice?  He really needed to get a hold of himself.

But the way that guy was looking at the burger was like he hadn’t eaten in years.  Imagine if he looked at Dean that way.  Although, maybe he’d been sick or something.  The shadows beneath his cheek bones looked sharper than they should and beneath his eyes too, little round ridges of dark cast by the bright chandeliers above them.  This alpha needed burgers and plenty of them.  Dean’s skin itched with the need to cook and cosset and caress, and Jesus fucking Christ, he was really losing it here, wasn’t he?  Really giving into his inner lapdog who just needed an alpha to boss him around to be happy.

The waiter flickered across Dean’s vision again and Mr Novak was left alone to enjoy his hamburger.  He picked up his knife and fork and raised them.  Which was a thing you did, Dean supposed, in a high-class dining room.  You ate a burger with a knife and fork.  But then his forehead crinkled into the suggestion of a frown.  He shook his head.  His rounded lips flattened into a tiny smile.  He put down his silverware.  And he picked up the burger in both hands.

“Close your mouth, Dean.”  Mrs B’s spoon scraped her bowl, chink, chink, chink, even though there was hardly any of the creamy sauce left.

Dean closed his mouth.  Then his eyes returned to the table over her shoulder.  Mr Novak hadn’t taken a bite.  He was still holding his hamburger in two hands, staring at it like he’d found the Holy Grail.

Then his eyes flicked up and fastened onto Dean’s.  Dean should look down.  He should drop his eyes like the shitty little omega-nothing that he was.  Instead he stared into the ocean.

And Mr Castiel Novak smiled at him.  Just a little smile.  Barely there before it was gone, and then he was chowing down on his meal, all his attention on his food, his eyes closing as he chewed his first mouthful, then opening again to get a load of the burger cross-section he’d created.  Did it have pickle, Dean wondered?  Mayo, cheese, the works?  Would he bite down through the whole lot, getting all the flavours in at once, in between those perfect pink lips?  And was Dean salivating over the man or the burger?

He was looking at Dean again.  Looking and smiling and nodding as if they were having an actual conversation about how great hamburgers were in general and this one in particular.

“Dean!”  

A sharp pain on his knuckles brought Dean’s attention snapping back to his employer.

“Dean!  Bridge!  The Spanish drawing room!”

“Yes, ma’am.  Sorry, ma’am.”  Bridge.  Of course it was time for bridge.  His world closed in with an almost audible snap.  Bridge was played at eight o’clock sharp every night and Dean and Mrs B were there, every single night; she to play and gossip and drink sherry, he to sit in a corner and try not to exist too loudly until he was needed.

He pushed his chair back, clumsily, and was sworn at by a passing waiter.

“Dean!”

Jeez.  He wasn’t the one who’d sworn, was he?

“Yes, ma’am.”  He rounded the table and pulled out his employer’s chair and collected up her purse and her wrap.  And he didn’t even glance over his shoulder to the most perfect alpha he’d ever seen, as he followed her to another evening of excruciating dullness in his excruciatingly dull life.

[ohtobeleah]

Iris is giving Jake head under the desk in an office when Mav walks in, almost busting them in the act but Jake plays it off and thankfully the desk is solid to the floor so Mav can’t see under it.

Even better, Iris giving Jake head at Mavericks desk after Mav asked Jake to do some administrative stuff for him while he was out at an appointment.

I.R.I.S Masterlist

P.S: I got so carried away with this one.

Warnings: Blowjob under desk. Male receiving. 

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Maybe it’s during that limbo period where you’ve just come back from a lecture and don’t have anything until after lunch so you’re sauntering through the halls just looking for trouble.

“Rebounds been chatting mad shit about the fact he almost had you in that last run.” You barged into your father’s office, having spotted Jake sitting at his desk. Rebound – He’d been in so many rebound relationships that the name just stuck. As a double entendre, it is believed that his F18 must have made of rubber, since he couldn’t figure out landing…till graduation day at flight school. “You seemed a little distracted up there? What gives?”

Jake knew he was catching feelings. He had to act fast. Make sure that wasn’t a possibility. That couldn’t even be in the realm of probability, ever. Not with you. Not with Mavericks kid. 

Jake wasn’t in the mood for your antics. He was stressed. He was trying to focus on the admin crap that made no sense to him and he couldn’t for the life of him understand why Mav asked him of all people to do it for him. Bob seemed like a great candidate, he just looks like the kinda guy who knows how to use excel. 

“Do you need something?” You just stared at Jake blankly, not having expected such a shape and monotone answer. Hell, Jake didn’t even look up from the computer to look at you. He just frowned as he rubbed his chin and leaned a little closer to the monitor because, well, was that a speck of dirt or a decimal point?

“I may have been told a time or two that I need an attitude adjustment but besides that? Nothing really, just thought I’d come hang.” 

“You and I don’t hang, Iris—“ Jake took a second to peel his eyes away from the monitor in front of him to finally look your way. “You’re Mavs daughter.”

“You don’t have to remind me.” You let out a gruff as you slumped in the chair across from your dads desk. Jake looked a little too fucking good in his service tans. 

“Well it’s probably time you start acting like it.” Jake just replied, again—as sharp as ever. You frowned at him, really trying to read the expression on his face. He had little frown lines running across the expanse of his forehead, worry in his eyes. Jake Seresin was stressed and for once it wasn’t about you. It was about his work. “I really need to focus, I can’t have you in here doing whatever it is that you do.” 

“Lieutenant Commander, I think you need a little stress reliever.” As you rose to your feet, biting your bottom lip, Jake rolled back on the office chair, pointing a finger at you. 

“Don’t you come anywhere near me.” It was all bark no bite. “I’m not in the mood for this shit.” 

“So—“ You began, stalking closer and closer to your dads desk. “If I told you that I had some time to kill and that I’d be pretty willing to give you head under this nice, sturdy oak desk, you’d say no?” Jake thought about it for a moment as you leaned over the desk. He was debating if he should, he knew his moral compass had been a little off lately since he’d first spilt those beers on you, three weeks ago. You were still here for another ten and Jake had to start being the bigger person at some point. 

“Damn don’t have an aneurysm thinking of an answer.” You scoffed, pushing off the table when Jake didn’t respond. “There’s Advil in the top draw, for the looming headache.” 

“Iris, wait.” Jake sighed, running his hands through his hair as he held onto whatever shred of decency he had left. “We just can’t keep doing this, alright?” 

“Doing what?” You played dump, you wanted Jake to say exactly what he meant. Something was eating at him, you could tell. Something had changed, something shifted in Jake but you just couldn’t figure it out. 

“You know what I mean, this—“ Jake sighed as he tried to get back to his work, he didn’t have time for games or impressionable honry Mitchell’s who can’t take no for an answer to anything. 

“No.” You chuckled softly, you knew what this was. It was casual sex. There was nothing to it. No emotion, no connection, just pure sex. But despite that you felt a little hurt, a little used. Jake knew who you were because you’d told him who you were. He was the one who started this. He was the one who still took you back to his and fucked you sensless knowing exactly who’d you’d be to him. 

You’d always just be Pete Mitchell’s daughter. Mirimars resident Nepotism baby. 

“No say what you actually mean, Hangman.” You challenged Jake as your emotions began to bubble, crossing your arms over your chest as you stared at him with a blank gaze. “You mean that you can’t keep doing, me.” 

“You’re gonna cost me everything!” Jake hissed through gritted teeth as he watched the way your usually overly confident self slumped at his statement. “My job, my whole career Iris, everything I’ve ever worked towards, gone because you’ve got daddy issues and decided to use me as a pawn in whatever fucking therapy technique fucking your TopGun Instructors is!” Jake didn’t mean what he was saying, but if there was a chance he felt a deeper connection to you then just a quiet fuck he knew that it was possible for you to. “Think about it, you came in here, with every intention to cause trouble.” 

“Maybe I did, maybe I didn't.” You had, but Jake didn’t need to know that trouble also meant you’d brought an extra Gatorade from the vending machine because you knew that blue razz was his flavour of choice and that the vending machine guy took forever to restock it when it ran out. So you got him the last one. “If you really think that about me then why did you fuck me that night? You know, after I told you who I was?” Jake just looked at you, there was a look in your eye he’d never seen before. You were usually so confident, so effortlessly in control of everything happening around you. So much like Mav in his ability to be a shit stirring little shit that Jake forgot that you had feelings besides a labido. “Why did you let this go on so long?” 

“I don’t know what you expect me to say or what you wanna hear?” Jake groaned, you’d called him out and he didn’t have an answer to give. “This just isn’t normal Iris!” It wasn’t normal to catch feelings for your mentor's daughter, that's what wasn’t normal about this. You knew this had to be about more than just the risks. Risks be damned, you and Jake were having fun. There were no strings attached. You were both consenting adults, your dad and his opinions didn’t scare you. They never had. 

“Yeah, well just because you’re struggling with your moral compass doesn’t mean you have to project that shit onto me.” You snapped, scoffing as you shook your head and bit back the lump in the back of your throat. “Nice knowing you asshat.” 

Jake should’ve left it at that. He should’ve let you walk away then and there, he should’ve kept his mouth shut but he didn’t. He watched as you stormed off towards the door and a pain slung in his chest. 

Fuck.

“I’m still your superior officer, you can’t talk to me like that.” Jake stood from the chair he’d been sitting on. He squared his shoulders and pointed directly at you. “Remember your rank when you’re addressing me, Lieutenant Mitchell.” Stunned, you paused in your tracks, what the hell had he just said to you? 

“Oh so you wanna play that way huh?” You chuckled to yourself, Jake looked so stupid up on moral outrage hill. “I’m still your student, yet you fucked my ass two nights ago! Now you’re telling me that you’ve had a change of heart?” You hissed back. “Fuck you Seresin, you wanna take the moral high ground be my fucking guest but don’t piss on my parade because you don’t have the guts to admit you’re fucking obsessed with me!” 

“That’s not what this is about!” It was. It was all this was about. Jake could feel the heat in his cheeks rising. Surely his face was red by now. 

“Bullshit! You’re falling in love with me around you, you fucking sap.” It was a rush, you could feel the adrenaline pumping through your veins. “God I should’ve known, but I’m not interested in marrying old men—“ That was a lie if there ever was one. “I just like to fuck them.” 

“Enough!” Jake growled, he hated that he was straining against his slacks, pre cum was just oozing into the fabric of his boxer briefs. He hated that he loved this, this fire and lust and anger. It was infatuating, you were infatuating. “Shut your mouth, before I shut it for you.” Oh, oh there it was. You took the bait willingly and took one step forward toward where Hangman stood, sending steam out of his ears and nose. Red in the face. “Don’t be a brat Iris, it doesn’t look good on you.” 

“Or what!” The way you asked? The way you challenged Jake? It kinda scared him. He knew you were a ticking time bomb. A hot headed inferno, so when he saw the fire in your eyes he backed up. You could still tell any of the admirals about any of this and it would be Jake's head on the chopping block. 

“Okay, you know what? We got off on the wrong foot here—“

“That’s all you got Jake! two wrong feet and fucking ugly shoes to match.” Jake was speechless as you kept stalking towards him. He was bigger, stronger, had a hell of a lot more pull around here than you do if you considered the ranks you both had—but as you backed him up into the corner of your dads office? Jake Deadman Seresin nearly came in his slacks. 

“You can’t stand to look at yourself in the mirror because you’re infatuated with someone you’ll never have!” Jake had had a gutful of your attitude as he bit his tongue, watching through hooded eyes as you backed him into the nearest wall. “You caught feelings and that’s supposed to be my problem? No—!” You weren’t going to let Jake treat you like someone lesser than. “I hope I ruin every other woman for you.” 

“You have!” Jake admitted as he finally snapped back. Finally reached out to cup your face and pull you close into his chest. Hot and lusty lips on yours in seconds of his admission. “That’s my fucking problem here Iris! You’re off limits! Nothing good comes of this entanglement or whatever you wanna sugar coat it as.” Your hands worked to undo Jake's belt as he pulled away from your lips. “All you do is cause trouble for me.” 

“And yet all you do is crave me more?” Oh how Jake loved and hated you at the same time. Because even if you wouldn’t admit it? He knew you and him drank the poison from the same vine. Trying to hide all of your sins from the light of day would be far harder than he ever thought it would be, because as he leaned in to take your lips hostage, leading you back towards the desk, Jake let you undo his belt, unzip his fly, and palm him off through his boxer briefs. “Tell me to stop and I will.” You mumbled into Jake's mouth. All he did was moan in response as you pulled the elastic of his boxer briefs back and snapped it against his lower abdomen. “Hangman—“ 

“Under the desk.” Jake managed to get out as his chest tightened, leading you back and down to the floor. “Just do what your told for once in your life Iris, get under the fucking desk.” You did as you were told and got under your dads desk. Giggling wildly as you did so with adrenaline pumping through your veins and nectar soaking into the panties you wore under your flight suit. 

“Gonna shut me up?” You asked as Jake sat down and fished himself from his slacks. He was throbbing, it nearly hurt how hard he was. No other woman had ever affected him the way you could. The way you did. Jerking himself off for a few seconds as he rolled forward. “Fuck my mouth—“ 

“I was going to.” Jake growled as he cupped your chin, rolling closer so you could take him in your open and awaiting mouth. “I’m sick of the shit that’s coming out of it.” 

It was on from there on in. Jake sighed in relief as you worked him over, expertly sucking his length under your fathers desk. Jake couldn’t control the way he wanted to buck his hips up to meet your lips or how he wanted to push your head further and further down on him.

“Oh fucking Christ your mouth is perfection—“ Jake moved your head up and down his length as you hollowed your cheeks, looking up at him through hooded eyes as you sucked him off from under the desk. “Ohhh—ahuuggh, fuck that’s it Iris—“ Jake had you sipping on his soul like wine, trading glances like you were both loaded. “Tell me if you taste my motive baby, fuck.” 

You would have answered except Jake pushed you down, held you down until you gagged around his tip and gasped for air as you pushed off him. There was a trail of spit connecting your plump bottom lip to his tip. The sight alone made Jake want to cum them and there. He was a fucking goner. 

“I think you like me out of focus.” You pointed out. All it took was a little head and Jake was putty in your hands, his guard was down and suddenly that stoic broad shouldered ass that brought up your daddy issues, was gone. Replaced by a man sick in love with you.

“I think I like you in the moment.” Jake replied as you went back to work, know exactly how to move your mouth on Jake’s length to get him where you wanted him, just on the edge but not close enough to fall. “Fuck Iris, keep doing that baby, just like that.” It was Jake's hand on the back of your head, coaxing you up and down at a rhythm he couldn’t get enough of, that had you giving some of the best head you’d ever given. You were determined to ruin Jake for any other woman. “Feels so fucking good.” 

It was at that moment, that all important moment where you were just about to kick things up a notch and deep throat the ever living shit out of Jacob Seresin, that the door to your fathers office opened. You felt Jake stiffen and roll the chair further up the desk, pushing you back and further under. 

No, it couldn’t be. 

“Mav!” Jake acknowledged Pete’s presence. “What’s got you back so soon?” You froze, trying to get a read on the situation.

Holy shit, yes—yes it was. 

“Have you seen Iris anywhere? I gotta have a chat with her.” Mav asked as he walked into his office, sitting in the chair across from Jake as he went back to working on the computer. You knew there was no possible way that your dad could see you, so what better way to rile Jake up than to keep sucking him off. 

“N-no!” Jake tried to keep a level head as he felt you take him in your mouth again, spreading his legs under the desk as much as he could to give you more room. 

“You right?” Pete just asked, all Jake did was nod with his lips pressed together in a line. Because how do you say: yeah, I’m good man, your daughters just sucking the ever living Christ from my cock as we speak, without having your head caved in?

“Yeah, I just hit my knee.” You couldn’t help but to smirk around Jake cock as he twitched in your mouth. He tasted of self loathing and denial. “But no, I haven’t seen Iris since this morning's training session.” Mav just nodded, he was angry, Jake could see it written clear as day in the lines on his face. “What’s up?” 

“I just got back from an appointment—“ Pete scoffed. “Or a meeting really, with the Admirals because apparently six of the recruits complained to Admiral Simpson.” Pete sighed, he hated every minute of this. “They threatened that if Iris placed at the top of the class they’d call for an internal review.” Immediately as if you’d been shot in the chest you stopped what you were doing. 

“You’re kidding?” Jake frowned, his voice dropped into an octave of concern you didn’t recognise. “Why would they do that?” You pulled away and just sat on your knees, listening in on the conversation you were trapped under the desk listening to. 

“Wish I was, something about favouritism, nepotism.” Mav explained as he leaned forward, letting his elbows rest on his knees. “If anything she’s had to work twice as hard to prove herself, because she was never gonna get a free ride from me, the kid always knew and respected that.” 

“Well it’s not her fault she’s the best in the bunch.” Jake felt your hand come up to rest on his knee, he moved his hand over yours under the desk as he played it off on the surface that the only two people in the room were him and Mav. 

“No, but it’s our problem because we’ve been told to pull her point.” 

“That’s bullshit Mav, how’s that fair on her?” Jake argued. “Why do these guys get to cry about the fact they suck ass? Now they’re taking the easy way out and blaming their incompetence on the fact Y/n is this generation's Maverick.” You felt your heart skip a beat at the compliment. 

Fuck. 

“They’re jealous sir, I want names—“ Pete just shook his head in response. 

“Cyclone wouldn’t give me names, but hey, I’ve gotta go chat to Bradley about this too—he’s basically her brother so it won’t look good if he keeps grading her name off at the top of his list after every class.” With that? Mav stood. “I was gonna tell her, but now I’m not so sure if I will.” 

Your dad left soon after he questioned if he should tell you or not, he was defeated—but not as defeated as you when Jake rolled out and offered to help you out from under the desk. An offer you didn’t take as you crawled out and stood up with a soullum look.

“Iris—“

You just shook your head. Humming as you pressed your lips together. You hated this, being here in this stupid office with your guard down and your emotions all out of sorts. 

“You’re worried about what getting involved with me will do to your career?” You just asked as you wiped the corner of your mouth clean. Jake could see the tears in your eyes as you tried your best to not let him see how much you hated yourself right now. “Least you have a chance to end things between us Lieutenant Commander, cut the cord, quit while you’re ahead and I really wouldn’t blame you for wanting to.” You had to pause, hold your breath and count to three. “Because at least you can do that, I can’t run from myself can I?” 

“Iris—“ Jake tried again but you just turned around and made a beeline straight for the door, making your way out of the room before Jake Seresin saw a side to you that you never let anyone see. 

“At least you have a career to worry about Hangman, mine was over before it even began.” You turned, looking at Jake over your shoulder.

He didn’t recognise you, the look on your face was something he’d never seen in you before. “You were right, we shouldn’t do this anymore.”

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[capitainerowen]

J'adore aller sur le #tlt parce qu'à chaque fois, je découvre des trucs et je ne sais pas si c'est une création fandom ou si j'étais juste trop bête pour comprendre quoi que ce soit à ce qu'il se passait dans les romans.

Le truc, c'est que je suis genre plutôt sûr que j'ai pas tout compris. J'ai su dès les premières pages que j'aurais du mal à tout comprendre, mais le souci c'est que c'est ma fiction préférée en ce moment et je veux vraiment tout comprendre. :')

Faut que je retrouve le tome 2, aucune idée d'où je l'ai pommé, et que je me refasse la trilogie d'une traite, en prenant des notes cette fois-ci. Peut-être qu'en fait, l'incompréhension qui m'a beaucoup plu et intrigué n'était pas normale à ma lecture.

Bref, j'ai une grosse envie de tout redécouvrir.

[andthesunrisesagain]

Conseils accessibilité graphique

Je me dis que c'est le bon moment pour re-poster ce post de 2021 qui trainait dans mon ordi, suite au message de @petrichorpg !

Point à noter :

L'accessibilité, ce n'est pas tout ou rien. On peut améliorer beaucoup de choses et d'autres seront plus difficiles car nous n'avons pas les connaissances, les compétences, le temps ou l'énergie. Le plus important, c'est de s'y mettre.

Même si je suis un fervent admirateur du design dit universel (bon pour tout le monde), l'accessibilité a aussi ses besoins de personnalisation. Certains handicaps, maladies, neuroatypies requièrent des aménagements précis et qui n'iront pas à tout le monde. -> Exemple : des personnes liront mieux en grand, d'autres en petit (vision tubulaire) ; un dark mode hyper contrasté conviendra bien à quelqu'un mais sera trop "bright" pour d'autres (c'est mon cas, j'adore le dark mode mais souvent, les textes sont trop lumineux pour moi).

Mais globalement, les conseils ci-dessous répondent à beaucoup de besoins et permettent d'améliorer l'accessibilité globalement. Ils sont majoritairement issus des recommandations internationales (et sinon, à travers mon expérience de graphiste).

J'ai encore pleins d'idées sous le coude mais bon, là j'ai déjà corrigé certains éléments de cette liste partagée en 2021. On verra pour le reste un jour aha

Je suis ouvert à toute question, clarification et correction en commentaire !

“Mais souvenez-vous que vous ne faites pas ce design pour des designers. Vous concevez un site pour des utilisateurices varié·es aux besoins divers, et avec différents outils pour y accéder.”

(terminologie : user -> utilisateur·trice / dys’ -> raccourci pour évoquer une partie ou l'ensemble des troubles d'apprentissage dont le préfixe est « dys »)

Typographies :

Textes tout en uppercase/capitales :  À éviter sur tout un paragraphe, à garder pour de court mot ou court texte (1 ligne) -> Pourquoi ? Globalement, les textes tout en capitales manquent de lisibilité à cause de l’absence des repères de lectures comme les lettres qui montent (l,d,k) et qui descendent (p,j).En majuscules, toutes les lettres sont à la même hauteur.

Textes tout en lowercase/minuscules : À éviter aussi, les majuscules servent de repère de lecture pour savoir quand une phrase débute ;).

Texte centré : Éviter les textes centrés quand ils sont trop longs (longues lignes ou beaucoup de lignes). -> Pourquoi ? Les lignes d'un texte centré ne débutent pas aux mêmes endroits et la lecture en est impactée. À garder pour de très courts textes type 2 lignes (citation, titre et sous-titre court...)

Texte justifié : Éviter globalement (oui je sais, 98% des forums ont leurs textes justifiés aha....) -> Pourquoi ? Sur le web, on peut difficilement gérer les espaces entre les mots. Un texte justifié va donc créer des espaces + ou - grands entre chaque mot pour combler l'espace et rentrer dans une largeur fixe, ce qui peut complexifier la lecture (l'oeil va plus difficilement sauter d'un mot à l'autre en gros).

Texte aligné sur la gauche : À privilégier au max, surtout les longs textes ! Je sais que le justifié rend plus "esthétique" car tout est aligné. Si on veut les garder, plutôt pour les textes de catégories et privilégier le texte aligné à gauche (dans le jargon on parle de ferré à gauche) pour la majorité des textes type annexes, rp...

Line-height (espace entre les lignes) : Pour les paragraphe, il est recommandé d'avoir un line-height de x1.5 de la taille du texte.  -> Exemple : paragraphe en 16px → 16x1.5 = votre line-height. Pour les grands titres, j'ai tendance à descendre à x1.3 généralement car normalement les titres sont courts et grands.

Letter-spacing (espace entre les lettres) : Éviter de changer les espacements de lettres, surtout sur ce qui est titre et paragraphes. Normalement une typographie a des espaces précis pour faciliter sa lisibilité. En ajouter peut créer des difficultés de lecture.

Niveaux de titres (ce qu'on nomme H1, H2, H3) : Choisir plusieurs niveaux de titres et s'y tenir. Il faut que chaque élément ayant le même niveau d’informations soit dans le même style graphique à chaque fois pour aider à comprendre la structure :) -> Exemple : tous les titres d’annexes = tel css / tous les boutons = tel css / tous les sous-titres = tel css.   -> Partage d'infos en plus : les Hr ont aussi un rôle de structure pour les lecteurs d'écran (logiciel qui restitue vocalement ou en braille l'information écrite. Ils sont utilisés par certaines personnes aveugles, malvoyantes, qui ont des troubles cognitifs...).Je n'en parlerai pas dans cette liste car je n'ai pas de connaissance sur la facilité d'usage de Forumactif avec un lecteur d'écran.

Taille de texte : Sur le web, il est recommandé d'écrire en 16px minimum pour les paragraphes.

Accent et texte : Garder les accents sur les majuscules (À, É) facilite aussi la compréhension des textes.

Largeur de textes : Normalement sur FA, on n'a pas ce soucis, mais on conseille globalement d'avoir entre 50 et 70 caractères, espaces compris, par ligne pour une bonne lisibilité. Le but n'est pas de calculer chaque ligne mais de se rendre compte de ce que ça signifie visuellement ( j'utilise le site compteursdelettres).

Mise en valeur :

Changement de typographie : Éviter les changements de typographies dans des paragraphes pour mettre en valeur des éléments ! Plutôt utiliser le gras, une couleur différente ou un surlignement en couleur discrète (mais visible, faut juste pas que ça soit TROP visible).

Nombre de mises en valeur : normalement, une mise en valeur ne devrait pas être trop présente car sinon...ça voudrait dire que tout le texte est important aha. Restons utile et efficace : un peu de gras, un surlignement si besoin d'avoir 2 CSS de mises en valeur mais ne faisons pas un sapin de noël.

Italique : Utiliser l'italique avec parcimonie (manque de lisibilité sur certaines typographies). En général, l’italique sert pour des citations courtes, des mots en langue étrangère à celle du texte, des noms propres ou d’ouvrages, pas juste pour “faire joli”.

Soulignement : Éviter d’utiliser le soulignement pour des éléments non-cliquable. C'est un code connu et reconnu dans le web pour visibiliser les liens alors autant l'utiliser comme le cerveau s’y attend :)

Liens et infos :

Élément cliquable (bouton, lien, flèche...) : pas trop petit et éviter des éléments cliquables trop proches les uns des autres.   -> Pourquoi ? Une personne qui a des troubles de la vision ou de la motricité pourrait galérer à cliquer au bon endroit si c'est trop petit / trop proche d'un autre élément cliquable !

Lien et css : je conseille toujours de garder le soulignement pour les liens, c'est un code connu du web alors autant de ne pas réinventer la roue. On peut ne pas avoir de soulignement pour ce qui est "logique" (genre les menus, on sait globalement que c'est cliquable) mais un lien dans un texte, on garde le soulignement ! -> Note : Un lien en couleur seule n'est souvent pas suffisant, surtout si on utilise déjà la couleur et/ou le gras pour mettre en valeur (il y a des cas à la marge mais j'essaye de rester efficace).

Cacher du contenu : Éviter de trop dissimuler du texte dans des collapses/accordéons. Plus les textes seront cachés, plus ça créer un sentiment de “mauvaise” surprise chez les users qui se retrouvent à lire 4x plus de texte que ce qu'iels pensaient.

Renseigner ce qu'on va trouver : Sur de longues annexes, ne pas hésiter à préciser le contenu avec une introduction courte qui résume ou avec un mini sommaire. Pourquoi pas y ajouter des ancres (html) pour faciliter la navigation dans l’annexe.Liens entre les informations : Ne pas hésiter en fin d’annexe/contexte à mettre des liens vers d’autres sujets qui serviront à mieux comprendre ce que les membres ont lu juste avant. Pas tous les liens, juste ceux autour des informations évoquées au dessus. En gros, aider les users à mieux comprendre en leur indiquant où se rendre ensuite !

Plan de forum : Sur un site, on conseille d'avoir une page "Plan du site", qui récapitule toutes les pages. Je me dis qu'un post "plan du forum", spécifiquement pour la partie annexe, peut-être très cool.

Couleurs :

Contraste général : Ni trop fort, ni trop faible. Dans les recommandations officielles d'accessibilité, on parle de ratio de contraste. Il existe des outils pour tester les couleurs de texte sur les couleurs de fonds pour voir si on est dans les clous. -> Comment s'y prendre ? Je vous recommande l'outil Color Contrast Analyser qui est un logiciel sur Mac et Windows : vous entrez la couleur de texte (1er plan) et la couleur de fond (2e plan) pour obtenir un ratio de contraste. L'objectif est de viser la conformité sur "texte normal" et "texte grand" du niveau "AA" (je conseille toujours le niveau AA car sinon on rentre dans des choses plus précises type si texte plus de 24px, on peut être moins contrasté etc...)

D'autres site de contraste (si besoin, je serais ravi de faire une vidéo pour montrer comment les utiliser) :  Colorsafe.co ou Contrast-finder

Couleurs pures ou vives : Éviter les couleurs dites pures (noir #000 sur blanc #FFF, etc) ou très vives. Privilégier des nuances comme un noir coloré, grisé ou un blanc cassé, une couleur descendue et pas flashy, surtout pour ce qui est texte ! Même si le contraste sera bon, certaines couleurs trop vives peuvent entrainer des migraines ou autre sensibilité à la lumière.

Gifs : Éviter les gifs avec flash de couleurs ( type spot de soirées) ou flash trop rapides / répétition. Ça peut entrainer une crise d’épilepsie photosensible chez les personnes épileptiques (et aussi des migraines). Ou alors prévenir en amont. Donc à éviter sur des headers, à un moment c'était assez tendance. -

Éléments animés : Toujours laisser la possibilité d'arrêter une animation (ex : un fond de forum qui bouge pour donner un côté grain de vieux film -> on a un bouton qui permet de stopper cette animation.) Ça peut être plus complexe à faire mais une animation qui tourne en boucle, niveau concentration, c'est chaud :/

Information et couleurs : Ne pas signaler une information uniquement par la couleur -> Exemple : "info importante en rouge" ou pour diviser une liste d'info "en rouge les malus, en vert les bonus".  -> Pourquoi ? Les personnes daltoniennes verront le rouge jaune/marron ou rose (il existe plusieurs types de daltonisme). -> Comment ? En plus d'une couleur, on peut accompagner d'un pictogramme, d'un symbole (triangle rouge = telle info ; carré vert = telle info), ou d'un mot, tout simplement. Ne pas oublier la légende ;) En plus, c'est top pour apporter un peu plus d'identité graphique !

Récurrence d'usage des couleurs : Utiliser chaque couleurs pour les mêmes éléments au fil des pages. -> Exemple : Une palette avec du bleu doux , du gris perle et du bleu marine : le bleu doux pour tous les boutons et liens, le bleu marine pour tous les titres, le gris perle pour les separateurs....

Autres :

Poids des visuels : L'accessibilité concerne aussi l'accès à l'information quel que soit notre matériel ou notre type de connexion. Tout le monde n'a pas la fibre et des headers de 3 mo (oui j'a déjà vu :/) peuvent être très pénibles à charger. -> Conseils : N'oublions pas de diminuer le poids de nos images en passant par des logiciels de compression (compress jpg ; compress png ; compress gif). Il est toujours possible de trouver le juste milieu entre qualité et poids !

Laisser la parole : que ce soit dans un post dédié, un questionnaire en ligne et anonyme, par MP au staff ou dans la fiche de présentation (le forum Maybe this time le propose par exemple), on peut intégrer la possibilité de faire des retours d'accessibilité ou préciser des besoins précis. On ne peut pas penser à tout et peut-être qu'un besoin remonté par un·e membre aidera d'autres qui n'ont pas osé en parlé !

Pour aller plus loin :

En anglais : conseils sur les couleurs pour les personnes avec des handicaps visuels

Designing-for-color-blind-users

Colour-accessibility

En français : accessibilité, design, webdesign

Le site design accessible

[ernestinee]

Je suis dans ce moment où la lecture était agréable mais trop courte, où j'ai encore envie de l'ambiance qu'elle m'offrait, où j'ai envie de savoir ce qu'ont fait les personnages après ce dernier verre au bar ou après cette conversation nocturne. Du coup j'ai envie de lire, encore et encore mais aucun des livres posés sur cette table ne me fait vraiment envie. Là j'ai le choix entre deux récits fantastiques, l'un dans la magie moyenâgeuse et l'autre dans une société dystopique, un polar, un manga d'horreur, une histoire de transplantation, une histoire familiale et une histoire de samouraï. Il y a aussi 1Q84- livre 2, qui me renverrait au Japon, un récit d'aventure au travers du Sahara et quelques BD.

Comme les événements de la vie, même mineurs, ne sont pas vécus de la même façon qu'on ait 10 ans, 20 ans, 40 ans, 43 ans et demi, il y a un temps pour chaque livre, un moment où l'on se fait écrin du joyau qu'il veut bien nous offrir.

[ohmuuuu]

Hi Tumblr, it has been a long time :)

"They can't kill me, I'm already dead" is my first long comic. I will be posting the pages as episodes on my Instagram and Tumblr, available for free reading. If you'd like to support me in this project, you can subscribe to my Instagram on a monthly basis for access to exclusive content, including behind-the-scenes of the comic. The pages will be posted in English, with a French translation included in the post captions.

At the moment, there's no plan for a non-digital release, but as the project progresses, I'd definitely love to make a print version. I'm still considering whether to go for self-publishing via crowdfunding or to approach publishing houses. Thank you so much for your support in this project, which is one of the biggest I've ever worked on and means a lot to me. See you soon for the first episode! // oh mu

instagram.com/ohmu_art

FR : Coucou Tumblr ça fait longtemps !

"Ils ne peuvent pas me tuer, je suis déjà morte" est ma première longue bande dessinée Je posterai les planches par épisode sur mon instagram et mon Tumblr en lecture libre. Si vous voulez me soutenir dans ce projet, vous pouvez vous abonner à mon insta par mois pour bénéficier de contenu exclusive en ce qui concerne les backstages de la bande dessinée. Les planches seront postées en anglais et je posterai la traduction française en légende du post.

Il n'est pas encore question d'édition hors digital mais plus les publications avanceront plus j'aimerais sûrement en faire une version papier. Je suis donc encore en réflexion d'autoedition participative (crowfunding) ou alors démarchage de maisons d'édition. Merci pour votre soutien pour ce projet qui est un de mes plus gros et qui me tient énormément à cœur. À très vite pour le premier épisode <3

// oh mu

instagram.com/ohmu_art

[nayelleya]

14 et 15 mai 2024

Je venais de quitter ma mère au téléphone lui disant que j'allais certainement rentrer à l'auberge ou bien me faire un trajet de métro et rentrer à pieds (j'adore me faire des tours de métro sachez-le).

Dans la station, je remarque un garçon qui m'a interpellé : son charme, ses nombreux tatouages et ce qu'il dégageait. J'écris directement à une amie "Je viens de trouver l'amour de ma vie, il est juste à coter de moi". Le métro arrive, peu de place on se serre tous, lui et moi comprit. Deux stations plus loin le métro se vide un peu, je savais que j'avais beaucoup de temps devant moi avant le terminus alors je décide de sortir mon livre "Rêveries du promeneur solitaire" de Rousseau. Je le vois se pencher, tentant de lire le titre. Alors, tout naturellement je lui montre ce que je lis. Puis il me dit "Tu lis ça pour la fac ou pour les cours" EN FRANÇAIS ? Je lui réponds que c'est pour le plaisir, lui me dit que personne ne lit du Rousseau pour le plaisir, que ce n'est pas possible.

On commence désormais à faire connaissance, me demandant qu'est-ce que je fais dans un métro à Vienne et à cette heure-ci (il devait être 21h30). On discute pendant deux trois arrêts jusqu'à que le chauffeur annonce que le métro a un soucis et que nous sommes tous obligés de descendre à la prochaine station. On se dit que c'est le destin, qu'on doit continuer cette conversation. Alors, on marche, on parle de nos vies, de nos auteurs préférés, de nos lectures.

On tombe sur un bar, par chance il fermait dans 30 min mais on a pu quand même commander. Heureusement, cet inconnu parle français car sa mère est née en France, qu'il a été au lycée français à Vienne et qu'il avait fait deux ans de prépa à Paris. Mais ce qui voulait dire qu'il était bilingue allemand (merci la vie j'en pouvais plus de commander et de commander en anglais surtout). Dès qu'on s'assoit, il sort son carnet et écrit directement la date du jour, mon prénom, la ligne de métro où on s'est rencontrés et écrit "couleur de cheveux inconnu" (nous n'avions pas réussit à déterminer si j'étais rousse ou si j'avais les cheveux rouges).

Je passe les détails sinon ce post ferait 10000 lignes. On finit par partir du bar, on marchait et il me lance un "Mais en fait on est dans Before Sunrise, on vit un rêve Leyan, je suis sûr que demain quand on va se lever rien de tout ça n'aura exister". Je lui avoue que je n'ai jamais vu ce film, film qui raconte l'histoire de deux inconnus qui se rencontrent dans le train et l'américain demande à la française si elle veut rester avec lui à Vienne le temps d'une nuit. C'était totalement nous, sauf que nous, l'amour était platonique. Comme il m'a dit "C'est la rencontre de nos deux âmes, pas de nos deux corps". Et, je pense que c'est la chose la plus merveilleuse que nos corps ne se soit pas rencontrés. De toute façon, on ne c'est pas parler pour se draguer. C'était spéciale.

Finalement, on se décide d'aller regarder le film dans le hall de mon auberge. Trop de bruits. Il réserve une chambre privative juste pour qu'on regarde le film. On a parler durant tout le film, on coupait le film pour se dire que par moment c'était vraiment nous. Après l'avoir vu, on s'est demandés "Et qu'est-ce qu'on fait quand le soleil va se lever ?". On a beaucoup réfléchit, on s'est dit que le meilleur moyen de continuer ce rêve ce n'était pas de prendre nos contacts. Juste un rendez-vous après ses examens de médecine. Il m'a écrit un poème de Pablo Neruda en espagnol, pour me montrer que je n'ai pas rêver de cette rencontre juste spectaculaire. Personnellement, je lui ai laissé une petite lettre, le remerciant d'avoir une âme aussi pure et saine. On avait l'impression de se connaître depuis toujours et en même temps pas du tout c'était très étrange. Je l'ai laissé dormir, je suis partie au lever du soleil. J'espère qu'il a prit mon message, qu'il a prit cette lettre. J'espère qu'il va venir au rendez-vous. Si un de nous deux ne peut pas finalement, on s'est dit qu'on allait se recroiser un jour de façon anodine, c'était sûr et certain. J'ai quand même mit à la fin de ma lettre "Et si on ne se revoit pas, souviens toi que tu as un visage pour être aimé". Car, c'est totalement vrai. Cet inconnu à un visage pour être aimé (et puis aussi lui rappeler qu'il doit lire du Paul Eluard).

[selidren]

Automne 1927 - Champs-les-Sims

5/5

Quand tu me parles de tes séjours à Kingston puis de ta visite de Montréal, j'ai l'impression que tu as une sorte de vie mondaine. J'aimerai bien voyager un peu un jour. Le nom de Montréal a quelque chose de très évocateur pour moi et j'ai demandé à Ange de me ramener un livre illustré de Paris la prochaine fois qu'il ira y faire un séjour. Pour revenir sur la question du français au Canada, j'en ai discuté avec Grand-Mère, et elle m'assure que c'est déjà un sujet qu'évoquait ton grand-père autrefois avec ma grand-tante Lucrèce. Je pense qu'il devait être aussi révolté que toi. Je suis assez surprise de toutes ces règles, mais étant française et francophone, je ne sais pas ce que c'est que de parler une langue minoritaire dans son propre pays.

Je suis également surprise que Grand-Mère se rappelle du contenu d'une lettre vieille de plus de trente ans. Je pense qu'étant donné son âge, c'est une sorte de miracle que cela arrive si tard, mais elle montre de plus en plus de problèmes de mémoire et elle est parfois désorientée. Oncle Adelphe a voulu se montrer rassurant, mais je vois bien qu'il est aussi inquiet que moi. Il lui arrive même de descendre en chemise de nuit à présent. Tante Rose m'a bien assuré que la Eugénie Le Bris d'autrefois se serait coupé un bras plutôt que de franchir le seuil de sa chambre ainsi vêtue et elle se souvient bien des remontrances quand elle faisait de même. Grand-Mère va avoir cent-sept ans cette année. En revanche, elle n'a rien perdu de son caractère opiniâtre ni de son sens aigu de l'observation.

J'espère que tes affaires se porteront comme tu le souhaites. Je voulais simplement que tu saches que je suis là pour t'aider au besoin.

Avec mon amitié,

Noé

P.S. Je viens de relire la première question que tu me poses. Non, ma cousine n'a pas la moindre idée de ce qui m'est arrivé. Comme tout le monde, elle croit que les jumelles sont d'Ange. Anna est rousse, mais c'est un trait commun chez les Le Bris. Je ne pense pas que ça vaille le coup de briser sa propre vie en lui en parlant, sachant qu'elle attend leur premier enfant (il s'agissait alors d'une fausse alerte). Oncle Adelphe veille au grain, le faire suivre partout où il va, afin d'épargner à sa fille la moindre infidélité. Je sais que tu ne penses pas à mal, mais j'aimerais à l'avenir que tu évites de parler de lui, car c'est une blessure qui me fait toujours atrocement souffrir et que je préférerais oublier une bonne fois pour toutes pour me consacrer à mon entreprise, mon mari et mes filles.

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Eugénie « Qu’attends-tu mon garçon ? »

Marc-Antoine « Rien de particulier. Vous ne deviez pas aller vous reposer ? »

Eugénie « C’est ce que j’ai dit oui. Mais je me disais peut-être que tu pourrais monter avec moi et me faire la lecture pendant que je me repose. Tu es désœuvré et tu erres sans but depuis un moment, au moins tu seras occupé. »

Marc-Antoine « Vous avez peur que je m’ennuie ? »

Eugénie « Non, tu as toujours trouvé de quoi occuper tes mains et ton esprit. Mais ces derniers temps, j’ai remarqué que tu importunais souvent Mademoiselle Laroche. Elle a son travail à accomplir et tu lui fais perdre du temps. »

Marc-Antoine « Je n’avais pas l’impression d’être à ce point dans ses pattes. »

Eugénie « Et pourtant si, alors tu vas monter avec moi et me lire quelques chapitres du livre de ta sœur. Et quand tu auras fini, nous lirons un peu la Bible tous les deux. »

Marc-Antoine « La Bible ? »

Eugénie « Oui, le Chant de Salomon. Cela fait longtemps que je ne l’ai lu et je pense que tu pourrais en tirer quelques enseignements fort à propos. »

[girafeduvexin]

je rebondis sur Taylor Swift et les gens qui se moquent des paroles - je les juge pas, elle gagne assez de thune pour supporter des moqueries sur internet mais. Bon déjà en tant que fan de Goldman, Dieu sait que certaines de ses chansons, quand tu les lis sans musique.... ça sonne moins bien mais au-delà du fait qu'une chanson, c'est fait pour être chantée et que la musique accompagne les paroles, que l'interprète joue beaucoup, que quand Goldman chante "Quand la musique est bonne, bonne, bonne" c'est un peu ridicule mais c'est cool quand tu es dans une salle de concert et que tu hurles avec lui, bref, au delà de ça...

Au delà de ça, c'est assez parlant je trouve de notre façon aujourd'hui de consommer de l'art et en particulier de la littérature. La mode est aux poèmes très courts, aux citations sur une thématique (les web weaving), aux scènes giffées, aux textes vraiment percutants en deux phrases, pas plus. Et je sais pas pour vous, même si j'adore le style de Proust, Borges, Bolaño, Racine, qu'il y a des citations que j'adore d'eux, je préfère quand même le livre dans sa globalité. "Car enfin, ma Princesse, il faut nous séparer" c'est beau, évidemment, mais c'est sublime dans le contexte, parce que Titus met une éternité à avouer à Bérénice qu'il faudrait qu'ils se quittent. Et c'est encore plus beau quand tu étudies la tirade et que tu te rends compte que Titus fait tout pour paraître fort et autoritaire, insensible mais il craque en disant "ma Princesse !" Et là, ça devient extraordinaire.

Je dis pas que c'est mal, c'est la mode du moment, peut-être que ça passera mais en tout cas, le décalage entre des œuvres faites pour être prises dans leur entièreté et une lecture volontairement sélective est intéressant. C'est ce qu'on fait en littérature après tout ! En cours, en 1ère, avec mes élèves, on étudie des œuvres dans leur globalité, on parle de la structure, de ce que les personnages représentent, des thématiques et on étudie également des extraits où là on va se pencher sur des détails du texte. Pour que le cours fonctionne, il faut un mélange des deux... que ce soit équilibré.

[mmepastel]

En revanche, j’ai dévoré Le rêve du jaguar du fringant Miguel Bonnefoy. Il est jeune et a déjà écrit plein de trucs, mais c’est maintenant que je le découvre, et je me suis régalée avec sa fresque historique et fantaisiste. Un portrait du Vénézuéla au XXe siècle à travers une famille (apparemment fortement inspirée de sa propre famille) qui est complètement incroyable. Antonio, le bébé abandonné trouvé sur les marches d’une église et recueilli par une muette qui vit dans les bidonvilles de Maracabio deviendra médecin et fondateur d’une université de médecine du Vénézuéla… entre temps, il connaîtra de multiples aventures (celles de son enfance sont particulièrement géniales) ; pauvre, il devra s’endurcir et devenir malin… un côté Oliver Twist dans cette partition, faire divers métiers, dont celui d’homme à tout faire dans un bordel avant d’accéder à d’autres sphères et d’autres horizons…. Laure Adler compare l’auteur à Victor Hugo ! Il y a de ça en effet dans la virtuosité de passer d’un milieu à l’autre, dans la peinture crue et émouvante des gens miséreux… un Victor Hugo juvénile d’Amérique du Sud, comme on se l’imagine, colorée et tapageuse, aux prises avec une histoire mouvementée et violente. (Encore que l’auteur soit Franco-vénézuélien, son livre fait d’ailleurs le grand écart entre les deux continents, et fantasme Paris.)

Mais malgré la violence des faits, la plume de Miguel Bonnefoy est légère, il virevolte et nous embarque dans les moments tragiques et les plus doux avec cadence et rythme, sans s’appesantir. Il a cette grâce et cette fantaisie, qui surprend sans cesse. Il mêle récits imaginaires, contes, légendes, mythologies locales et histoire avec malice.

C’est un vrai moment joyeux de lecture.

[kilfeur]

Y avait quelque chose qui me tracassait concernant le passage où Kazi et Callum découvrent le poème ainsi que le texte de la lame de Nova. Donc j'ai voulu revoir l'extrait pour voir si je pouvais avoir une seconde lecture.

"Et bien qu'éternel, il rendit son dernier souffle, Laurelion l'immortel n'était plus."

@starry-skies-writes avait parlé dans un post que ce passage est assez paradoxal. Disant que si une étoile meurt, sa lumière traverse toujours l'univers et c'est ce qu'on voit. Donc ce serait possible que quelque chose de similaire arrive à Aaravos. Même si il meurt, il sera toujours présent d'une autre manière, peut être qu'il deviendrait une sorte d'esprit par exemple ? Ça collerait avec le seul sort de l'étoile qu'on connaît qui est capable de réunir un esprit et un corps ensemble.

Puis vient le passage décrivant la lame de Nova :

"Blanc est le coeur de l'étoile qui l'a transpercé, l'ivoire draconique a infligé la morsure de la mort. Désormais connu sous le nom de Lame de Nova"

A mes yeux, la Lame de Nova est comme Excalibur, une lame incassable capable de couper toute matière. Il est même dit de son fourreau qu'il le protège de toute blessure (bien que je doute que la Lame de Nova a un fourreau). C'est intéressant car justement dans les légendes, Excalibur est surtout connu pour être un symbole de la légitimité d'Arthur en tant que roi. Et je pense que quelque chose de similaire va arriver dans la tour pour Callum, il pourra recevoir la lame selon deux possibilités : soit la lame vient à sa main dans un moment crucial ou bien il devra la retirer de son socle. Mais seulement si il en est digne. Car je pense que c'est l'arme qui va choisir son détenteur et non l'inverse. Le fait que justement Callum a un parallèle avec Harrow vu que tout deux ont choisi le bandeau sans compter la couronne. Ça ne fait que solidifier ma pensée comme quoi il va être légitime de la Lame de Nova mais aussi de la couronne du paradis.

En revanche, il y a quelque chose d'autre qui me tracasse au sujet de la lame de Nova. Si cette lame est aussi dangereuse, pourquoi elle est justement gardée dans une tour protégés par des elfes célestes ? Ça n'aurait pas été plus logique de détruire cette lame si c'est une menace pour eux ? L'une des seules description qu'on a du peuple des elfes des étoiles : c'est qu'Aaravos les voit comme arrogants, que selon Rayla ce sont les premiers elfes. Ils n'ont pas écouté les supplications de l'humanité et auraient provoqué des cataclysmes lorsque l'humanité avait utilisé la magie primale dans les histoires courtes.

Peut être que c'est justement à cause de leur arrogance, qu'ils se disent que tant que cette arme dangereuse est loin d'eux ils seront en sécurité. Ou bien justement ils pensent pouvoir être suffisamment puissant pour pouvoir surpasser cette lame. Du coup une question se pose qui a forgé la Lame de Nova ? Était ce l'humanité elle même qui a décidé de se venger contre les elfes des étoiles ? Ou bien il s'agit d'un elfe des étoiles lui même qui l'a forgé ? Et si la deuxième option est vrai, je pense que ce serait assez intéressant.

There was something bugging me about the part where Kazi and Callum discover the poem and the text of Nova's blade. So I wanted to see this passage again to see if I could have a second reading.

"And though undying, took last breath, immortal Laurelion was no more."

starry-skies-writes had talked in a post that this passage is quite a paradox. Saying that if a star dies, its light still travels through the universe and that's what we see. So it would be possible for something similar to happen to Aaravos. Even if he dies, he'll still be present in some other way, perhaps becoming something like a spirit? That would fit in with the only star spell we know of that's capable of bringing a spirit and a body together.

Then comes the passage describing Nova's blade:

"White is the heart of the star that pierced it, draconic ivory inflicted the bite of death. Now known as the Nova Blade."

In my eyes, Nova's blade is like Excalibur, an unbreakable blade capable of cutting through any material. Its sheath is even said to protect it from injury (although I doubt Nova's blade has a sheath). This is interesting, because in the legends, Excalibur is best known as a symbol of Arthur's legitimacy as king. And I think something similar will happen in the starscraper for Callum, who will be able to receive the blade in two possible ways: either the blade comes to his hand at a crucial moment, or he'll have to remove it from its base. But only if he's worthy because I think it's the weapon that will choose its owner, not the other way around. The fact that Callum has a parallel with Harrow, given that they both chose the blindfold, not to mention the crown. This only solidifies my thought that he'll be legitimate to the Nova blade but also to the Corona of Heavens.

However, there's something else that puzzles me about Nova's blade. If this blade is so dangerous, why is it kept in a tower protected by celestial elves? Wouldn't it make more sense to destroy the blade if it's a threat to them? One of the only descriptions we have of the startouch elves is that Aaravos sees them as arrogant, and according to Rayla, they're the first elves. They didn't listen to humanity's pleas and provoked cataclysms when humanity used primal magic in the short stories.

Perhaps it's precisely because of their arrogance, that they tell themselves that as long as this dangerous weapon is away from them, they'll be safe. Or maybe they just think they're powerful enough to overcome this blade. Which begs the question: who forged the Nova Blade? Was it mankind itself who decided to take revenge on the startouch elves? Or was it a startouch elf himself who forged it ? And if the second option is true, I think it would be pretty interesting.

[claudehenrion]

De l'âme

Une surprise : plusieurs lecteurs, sans doute ébranlés par le vide abyssal qui caractérise notre temps –et avec une inquiétante tendance à l'aggravation– m'ont demandé récemment de “parler de l'âme”. Mais si je me sens très capable de donner un avis –qui n'est que le mien, corrigé par nombre de lectures et d'emprunts– … je tiens à préciser que je suis évidemment tout-à-fait incapable de répondre à la question multiple “Existe-telle ? Quelle est-elle ? Que recouvre-t-elle –ou pas ?”, et surtout de me livrer à cet exercice… en une page “A4’‘ ! Mais quel meilleur moment qu'une Semaine Sainte pour esquisser un début de réponse 

Le mot ’'âme” lui-même, tiré du latin (“anima = l'air, le souffle, la vie”), recouvre tant de notions différentes que “ne pas y croire” ne peut avoir aucun sens : qui parle de “croire” à l'air, au ciel bleu, au chocolat… ? S'agit-il de l'Ame des peuples (André Siegfried) ? de l'Ame des choses (Auguste Blondel) ? des “objets inanimés” de Lamartine ? de l'Ame du monde (Frédéric Lenoir) ? (NB : je pourrais continuer longtemps). Ecoutons plutôt Camus : “Ne pas croire à l'âme est une absurdité”.

A ce moment où l'humanité semble “flirter” avec sa chute dans des abîmes qu'on peut craindre définitifs, l'âme –qui était un peu sortie de nos préoccupations consumérisées– semble faire un retour sur le devant de la scène, et nos lecteurs ne s'y sont pas trompés, en m'en parlant. Il faut reconnaître que sa définition a bien varié à travers les siècles : dans l'Antiquité, les grecs en avaient une vision bipartite (“corps et âme”)… alors que pour la tradition biblique, la vision était tripartite (“corps, esprit –pneuma en grec et spiritus en latin–, et âme –psychè, en grec et anima en latin, ce dernier mot animant la vie intérieure et la personnalité, mais aussi ce qui donne vie au corps. Ne ’‘rend-on pas son âme”, au moment du grand départ ? Mais n'allons pas trop vite : avant de la “rendre”, il faut la définir.

Pour les philosophes, l'âme est souvent une notion qui permet de parler de l'être humain dans sa totalité. Pour Platon, l'âme est en conflit avec le corps qui l'emprisonne, alors qu'Aristote insiste sur une conception non dualiste entre “âme” et “corps”, chacun étant plus ou moins indépendant de l'autre. Plus tard, pour le christianisme, qui tient un rôle de toute première importance dans cette “dissertatio” (que je voudrais tellement ne pas être une “disputatio”!), le mot “Ame” veut décrire comment est formé un être humain dans et par ses expériences fondamentales : la vie, l'amour, le désir, la maladie et la souffrance, le questionnement sur “après la vie –ou après la mort”, et l'âme se définit donc comme “autre” que l'esprit : d'un côté, un principe de vie, “ce qui anime le corps”, siège des émotions et des passions, et de l'autre, vie intérieure, et personnalité. On peut dire : raison, ici et liberté, là…

Mais en 1621, Descartes introduit une rupture dans la conception traditionnelle, en traduisant “âme” par “mens” : l'homme est d'abord un être pensant, et le mens latin, qui désigne d'abord le cerveau, l'intelligence, la raison, l'esprit… va peu à peu replacer l'ancienne “âme” au profit de ce nouvel arrivant, le “cogito’' . Une nouvelle logique bipartite est née, le corps et la pensée, séparés mais liés : ’'Cogito, ergo sum”.

Le mouvement phénoménologique, qui se targue d'appréhender la réalité telle qu'elle se donne ou se montre, considère que le corps, seul, joue un rôle (“Le monde n’est pas pour moi autre chose que ce qui existe et vaut pour ma conscience”, écrit Husserl en 1937), ce contre quoi réagit la grande Edith Stern, juive devenue carmélite et morte à Dachau : “On ne peut vivre sans âme, c'est-à dire avec une âme paralysée ou en sommeil’’… phrase où nous retrouvons ce qui est visible tout autour de nous… et ce dont l'humanité est en train de crever

Il fallut attendre 1953 pour que Crick, Watson et Rosalind Franklin, découvrent l'ADN, cette part d'éternité qui est en chacun de nous. Inséparable de nous, elle nous contient tout entiers et nous résume, tout en nous rattachant à nos origines… Question jamais posée mais qui me taraude depuis longtemps : ’'Se pourrait-il que cet acronyme, l'ADN, soit, en fin de compte, le support matériel de notre âme ? Son caractère ’'iso-éternel’'et son identité parfaite avec notre ’'être”, notre “avoir été” mais aussi notre “devoir être”, en font une parfaite réponse à ce que pourrait être ce “Corps glorieux” si difficile à imaginer mais sous lequel, disent les chrétiens, nous entrerons un jour dans notre éternité

En 1979, Joseph Rätzinger, grand théologien et futur grand Pape Benoît XVI, posa (“La Mort et l'au-delà” )que “il n'y a aucune raison sérieuse de rejeter le mot âme , cet outil verbal indispensable dans la foi des chrétiens… ce qui se vérifie à travers la prise de conscience actuelle… que une conscience, justement, ne peut exister sans objet pour la percevoir et sans sujet pour la traduire et l'expliquer”. Et voilà l’ “âme” qui fait à nouveau partie du vocabulaire de la philosophie, le besoin de cet éditorial en étant un début de preuve en soi.

Un dernier point, peut-être : en 2016, l'académicien François Cheng avait écrit un fort beau “De l'Ame” (Albin Michel) où il écrivait “A part le bouddhisme dans sa version la plus extrême, toutes les grandes traditions spirituelles ont pour point commun d'affirmer une perspective de l'âme située au-delà de la mort corporelle : l'âme de chaque être est reliée au souffle primordial qui est le secret de la vie-même. Animée par un authentique désir d'être, elle nous rappelle donc, quelle que soit notre croyance –ou notre non-croyance– combien notre vie participe d'une aventure unique, le Tao –la Voie– qui ne connaît pas de fin, contrairement à la vie”.

J'admets que tout cela n'est pas simple… Mais le moyen, s'il vous plaît, de parler de sujets eschatologiques avec nos seuls mots humains, et en un temps et un espace si réduits ? Par prudence, je vais donc demander à d'autres que moi de conclure. D'abord George Meredith : ’ L'âme est tout, ici-bas; le reste n'est qu'illusio'n’’… Puis Rivarol : “Sans le corps, l'âme n'aurait pas de sensations, mais sans l'âme, le corps n'aurait pas de sentiment”... Libre à ceux qui ont décidé de ne pas y croire, de vivre “sans”. Mais qu'ils ne comptent pas sur moi : je suis si bien, “avec”, surtout en cette Semaine, qui est Sainte pour un bon tiers de l'Humanité.

H-Cl.

[carraways-son]

jeudi

Depuis un moment je ne postais presque rien, et voilà que je publie des trucs tous les jours ?!? Bon, aujourd'hui fut une belle journée, commencée avec la lecture de la poésie de Cécile Coulon qui me touche tant (Je ne reste pas longtemps / pour ne jamais être déçue par ce que j'attendais / de vous, /pour la promesse d'un retour très bientôt, / pour le baiser qui vient naturellement / à ceux qui s'aiment (...). Journée poursuivie avec mon amie J, grande voyageuse interceptée à Port-Lauragais, entre canal du Midi et ciel immense, pour quelques heures ensoleillées, riches de douceur, de paroles, de sourires, de cadeaux, d'affection et de promesses. Plus tard, la lune s'est montrée à côté de l'antenne radio qui vient de me permettre de contacter pour la première fois les îles Fidji sur les ondes courtes. Et là, j'écoute Juliette Armanet chanter "Imaginer l'amour", et je me sentirais presque réconcilié avec l'univers. Au fait, c'est fou mais ça fait pile 10 ans que je suis sur Tumblr (blog Bluelongwave et celui-ci). j'aurais trop à dire, alors je me tais. Mais merci beaucoup.

[rollinginthedeep-swan]

Petite demandes pour un personnage sourd.

Bonjour à tous-tes,

Je me permets de lancer une nouvelle bouteille à la mer, bien différente cette fois. J'espère que la demande ne sera pas mal perçue et maladroite, si c'est le cas, s'il-vous-plaît, dites-le moi et j'apprendrais. Je suis la première à accepter de me remettre en question et à vouloir apprendre. Sachez que mes intentions sont totalement dans une démarche bienveillante et respectueuse. Le but est d'avoir un retour humain, chose que je n'ai pas réussi à trouver pendant mes recherches. Les réponses que je trouve sont souvent assez génériques.

Y a-t-il des personnes malentendantes/sourdes qui accepteraient de me donner quelques conseils afin d'être aussi réaliste que possible ? Ici mon objectif est d'éviter la moindre tuile ou facilité scénaristique pour mon personnage. Mais aussi de contrer les clichés que j'ai pu créer dans mon esprit involontairement à cause de la pop-culture. (C'est humain, on le fait tous-tes. Le tout, c'est de le reconnaître et de ne pas tomber dans le piège trop facilement.) Je viens juste de la créer et elle est à peine lancée dans le RP, c'est donc le moment où jamais.

Ce que je peux en dire :

Il s'agit d'une jeune femme qui n'est pas née sourde.

Elle s'aide des vibrations car elle ne perçoit vraiment aucun son.

Elle ne porte pas d'appareil.

Elle préfère largement l'ASL pour communiquer car la lecture labiale n'est pas assez fiable.

Elle a un TDAH, je ne sais pas si le TDAH peut être vécu différemment, dans le doute, je le précise.

Elle parle de manière fluide car elle a eu le temps de développer sa parole durant les premières années de sa vie. (Je m'y connais au moins plutôt pas trop mal niveau psychomotricité/développement neurologique de l'enfant donc de ce côté là, ça va encore. Mais je ne suis pas spécialiste non plus. La moindre information supplémentaire est bonne à prendre. Ne vous inquiétez donc pas me donner une info que je saurais peut-être déjà.)

Elle sait lire sur les lèvres et ce que j'ai déjà pu apprendre, c'est que la lecture labiale n'est pas à 100% fiable et qu'il peut y avoir des confusions.

Je suis preneuse du moindre conseil, de la moindre information, des petites choses qui peuvent vous agacer de la part des personnes qui entendent correctement et que vous aimeriez ne pas voir personnellement. Si vous plus à l'aise pour en parler en privé, n'hésitez pas à me MP.

Si la démarche ne vous semble pas correcte, encore une fois, n’hésitez pas à me le dire, du moment qu'on communique dans la bienveillance, tout me va !

Pour les personnes tentées de me dire que c'est que du RP et 'qu'on s'en fout', ma seule réponse sera : Non, je m'en fous pas. next.

Voilà, des bises sur vos truffes !