#nay nay writes viktor !

[viserya-firstofhername]

I'm fine. It's fine. Everything is fine.

[ecstxsyy]

DIRTY MIND. | VIKTOR ❦

Viktor loves to study.

18+ mdni!

viktor x fem!reader

warnings: oral (f!receiving), i just love men who are munches #sorrynotsorry!, fingering.

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VIKTOR HAS a brilliant mind, he helped you and Jayce create a way to make magic with science. Without him, Jayce likely would have failed without the two of you. But the brilliance of his mind wasn't confined to just science, the boy was also well-studied on the topic of your body.

He knew every detail, every divet, and crevice of your soft skin. He spent time lying in bed conducting research, venturing to try and find a place he wasn't already familiar with. Your body was like the arcane to him, forever changing and adapting, or at least that’s what he told you while between your thighs refusing to come up for air.

You worried about Viktor a lot and he couldn't tell if he loved you or hated you for it, but you had good reason. He always seemed to forget his limits when it came to sex, he wanted to give you everything he assumed you wanted, but all you wanted was him and that was enough for you.

“Viktor, Jayce is going to kill us. We're so late,” you whined, your fingers intertwining with his dark locks. The two of you were Jayce’s partners at Hextech, he wanted the three of you to present a united front to the board to help seal your plan for a better future.

“I don't care,” came from between your legs, muffled by the skin of your thighs. You and Viktor knew very well that if you really wanted to go support Jayce during his first council meeting the two of you would have left 30 minutes ago. But instead, you were entangled in Viktor’s sheets, curling yourself into them like a serpent from the pleasure.

Viktor’s tongue lapped at your soft cunt slowly, sucking up any juices that fell free. His slim, long fingers were practically at home in your warmth, working into you slowly. Your moans were breathy, full of pure passion and pleasure. Viktor’s other hand played with your nipples, alternating between the two to give them equal attention.

“You taste divine,” the slim boy said from beneath you, humping his erection into the sheets beneath him. The sight made you even wetter, your arousal slipping down onto the sheets underneath you.

You loved the way he got off from getting you off, it drove you up the wall. His fingers work professionally, stroking your g-spot with the tips of his fingers. His touches made your body sing, the intimacy of it all made it a hundred times better.

“I love you,” slipped from your mouth between moans, it made Viktor freeze in place momentarily before he regained his momentum and continued on. He didn't respond but you didn't mind, you didn't expect him to.

Viktor continued lapping at your clit, letting his tongue feel over the small nerve. You were putty in his grasp and he knew that, every flick of his tongue sent your mind spiraling. He felt how deeply you meant what you said, that alone shocked him to his core. He wasn't used to such unconditional devotion.

His fingers worked faster, his mouth wouldn't let him verbalize the words, but he could show it to you through his actions. The speed of his tongue picked up, your clit was overstimulated and sensitive.

“Vik, ‘m gonna cum,” you cried out, your back arching off of the bed as you reached your climax. Shocks of pleasure ran through your lower body as your body bucked like crazy. Your orgasm seemed to last forever, rolling over you wave after wave. You assumed Viktor would be done after that and finally be ready to go to the council meeting, but he had other plans. The movements of his nimble fingers and tongue continued, working against your sensitive core. Your moans crescendoed through the room, another orgasm approaching.

Jayce was going to be furious.

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[felarx]

did too much thinking about viktor vodyanoi. i think he's very persnickety and particular and precise about intimacy. he's got just as many hangups and invisible stumbling blocks as arthur does. i think he takes pleasure in knowing that people want him (or hate him) while not being able to have him. viktor, above all, craves being forbidden fruit, and if he is to allow somebody the privilege of his touch, it will be all on his say-so.

[evieelyzabethh]

"what dreams are made of"

⭒"sunsets or something, aren't you lovely" ⭒~ crush phase Arcane head cannons {fem reader}

cast ✧ Vi, Ekko, Jayce, Viktor, Mel

cw fem!reader, massive amounts of fluff, slightly pervy jayce, not beta read

an ☞i know this blog has been very Buffy related for a bit but i wanted to try something new. Not that Buffy is abandoned forever, i just wanted to write for more than one fandom

♞Vi ♞

♞Vi tells herself she doesn't have a crush on you, nay, she doesn't even believe in crushes. She thinks they are childish and beneath her and would never even admit she has one. That being said, she is definitely "sweet" on you as Vander would've called it. Vi when having a crush would be an absolute disaster, and this she would be more than willing to admit on her own. Her words never seem to come out right, and even when they do, they're never taken the way she means. She said it herself, when presented a set of options, she somehow always manages to chose the wrong one. For a relationship with Vi to work, you would have to be patient.

♞She certainly doesn't know when enough is enough. She will hang outside of your place of employment, be it the Last Drop or Babette's and insist you allow her to walk you home. Her fists are the one thing she's confident in because there is no nuance in fighting. She doesn't think it's possible for you to be upset with her for beating the shit out of the guy who looked at you funny and would be confused when you get mad at her for this. It's not even that she thinks you are incapable of taking care of yourself, that's just the only way she can think to protect you without it going wrong (and it sometimes still does)

♞She would be into old school chivalry. In a modern, less serious AU, I think she would be the type to stand outside your house with a boombox to apologize because she accidentally shrunk your favorite expensive sweater in the wash. Even within Arcane, I think if she was feeling soft and comfortable enough, she would be the type to carry you over puddles so your shoes didn't get wet or throw stones at your window to get your attention. Not even to go on a big adventure, just to sit on a rooftop and to listen to her hum.

♞I don't think she'd be into getting her crush flowers. She's one of those types who is already hyper exposed to death and wouldn't want to get you anything that has the potential to die. She's not above having Jinx make you some trinket and trying to lie that she made it to impress you, but you know that it's not her handiwork. She does try, though, her and her sticky fingers. Anything your gaze lingers too long on somehow finds its way into your room with a handwritten note from her (her handwriting is shit by the way)

♞As stated above, she is terrible with words yet is most romantic in the most unexpected moments. She is totally the type to hang around doorframes just to lean on them and subtly flex. Does this work? No, but it's funny to see her try and be suave. She succeeds in smaller ways. She is always watching. She notices the small changes in the ways you look at her, knowing when you're trying not to laugh or need her to rescue you from a terrible conversation. The slightly deeper baritone she puts on when she asks, "you alright, pretty?", the way she guides you by the small of your back on instinct. She one of those people who is naturally hot and doesn't realize she doesn't need to try (and don't let her find out she'll be insufferable).

♞I don't think she would confess on her own, it's far more likely you'll have to do it yourself. She would get in her head too much, and her communication skills are awful. She worries that she'll hurt you and won't know how to fix it. She knows relationships are harder work than friendships and she is not confident in her abilities to handle all the responsibility that comes with that. She's reckless with her livelihood, but never you and your wellbeing. Even after a confession, it would take a lot of reassurance that she wouldn't destroy everything.

✭Ekko✭

✭I don't think a crush phase with Ekko would last all that long, especially if it's developed after the Firelight society. I think he's far more self-assured than Vi is and wouldn't see the point in dancing around a relationship. If he wants you and you want him, why make things complicated if they don't need to be. For these reasons, I think he would crush from a far rather than it being a friends to lovers type relationship.

✭Ekko is sappy, let that be known. The first time he sees you time stops. If he's figured out his machine, he may just rewind time to stare at you for a second longer. He becomes a mini-stalker, not breaking into your house or anything, but slyly asking if anyone knows you, where you came from, why he's never seen you before, if you're single? Scar makes fun of him for this, of course, but encourages and indulges him with all he knows

✭The glimpses he sees of you make his whole week. Those short moments you pass by him in a crowd, or he sees you playing with children or passing around food, and he curses himself every time for freezing instead of taking action. And when he does take action, Scar is somewhere around the corner eavesdropping on the conversation and nearly choking on his own laughter when he hears Ekko's opening line, "Tree." Just "Tree". He had meant to say more than that, but when you looked at him, his mind went blank and all he could manage was "Tree" and died inside as you looked up at him confused. Like Vi, he too would stumble over his words at first, or even worse, fall victim to a terribly timed voice crack. He tries to cover it with a cough, but there's really no coming back from that.

✭Lucky for Ekko (who still lays awake at night because of your first interaction), you liked his tree a lot and you talked for hours under it. He walked you home like a gentleman after and shows up the next morning to give you an exclusive tour of the entire place and treats you to lunch

✭After that he pops up everywhere. You need company on an errand, he's some how at your door, checking his watch trying to look nonchalant when he is one of the most chalant people to walk the earth. You get caught in the rain, your eyes aren't deceiving you, that is indeed Ekko in the misty distance with an extra umbrella he 'found' lying around somewhere. You wanna go out one night, that's hilarious because Ekko had the exact same idea and if you're both going out might as well keep each other safe at night.

✭Don't be mistaken, he allows you space. He himself is a man who enjoys solitude, but what is the point of a commune if not community. He can do things alone, and he does, but if he's craving company and you are too, why bother with it. Being together isn't often a big ordeal anyway, sometimes its lounging around in his lab reading a book while he's tinkering away with some good music playing in the background. And sometimes, if the stars align and the moon allows, you slow dance to whatever's playing while talking about your day, even if you spent it together.

✭Ekko can certainly cook. He got quite good at making something out of nothing before his tree, but after, you try convincing him every day to open a restaurant should he ever need some cash on the side. He likes his kitchen a lot, actually, its his private sanctuary. A place where his love of the arts and science come together. In a modern AU, he would totally be on the track to have a degree in biochemistry and plan to open his own restaurant.

✭You two would hang out in his kitchen a lot, and out of the kindness of his heart, he would allow you to lick the spoon anytime he bakes something. It would also be where he confesses, a candlelit dinner for two already set up while both of you prepare what will be your first meal together as a couple.

❂Jayce❂

❂Probably the only one (and Mel) who can pull of being suave. Though he can pull it off, it is not authentic at all. He certainly woos you with it though!! He is a very classic romantic, buying you dozens of roses and wine-and-dining you with fancy champagne and furry rugs, but it's all a facade. He's a really big dork. Unlike the previous two, being suave is the defense he plays rather well. He's a bit scared that when you realize he's really pathetic deep down, you'll be disappointed. He's the man of progress and built like a brickhouse and he is slightly very insecure that's not his personality deep down

❂He enjoys walks in the gardens once you get a bit closer to him. Usually you two will talk in his lab or in your place of work and he'll drop a few cheesy pickup lines with a charming smirk and you'll both laugh it off. You think he's just a flirt for a while and he's really trying to work on you (just very unsuccessfully). It's not until he (very inorganically) tells you he's tired and wants a change of scenery and asks if you'll accompany him to the gardens. For the first time ever, you get one of his toothy smiles instead of those stupid forced smirks and you're really fond of it.

❂From then on, things start progressing much faster. He starts to tell you about Hextech and his theories about the runes and how it all works and babbles about scientific drivel until the sun goes down and, unless you're one of the sciency-types, it goes through one ear and out the other. He's ok with this, he likes having a sponge around to talk things through with, but if you can actually engage, he'd probably get a boner.

❂I feel like out of everyone, after you got close enough, he would do relationship things, creating a very vague space that can leave you questioning whether or not you're together or if you're reading into things too much. This is entirely because he wants to ask you out and he is like 90% percent sure you'll say yes but he's worried about the slim chance you won't and wants you to take the leap for him because he's too scared to.

❂He's a big physical touch guy. Like the type to leave his hands in your back pocket, not even because he's trying to grab your ass, but because he wants to touch you (and your ass). He likes hugs!! He gives such good hugs. While it's usually him leaning on you for touch, placing his head in your lap, grabbing your hands, or letting his hands linger on your hips to rub little patterns, he is beyond excited when it's you are initiating. What do you mean you want a hug from him!!! What do you mean you want to hold his hand!! He is so over the moon excited.

❂Slight side tangent, but if you went out in something low cut he would constantly be staring at your chest. Not even in a perv way (most of the time), but to make sure it doesn't fall down. He has gotten very sly at pulling it up for you in an unnoticeable way. There are a lot of similar acts with him, casual touches here and there. Unsticking your hair from your lip gloss, pulling stray leaves or flower petals out of your hair, making sure the clasp of your necklace stays in place at the back of your neck.

❂I know he smells nice. Dior Sauvage warrior right here!!! He would go slightly overboard with it on the day he confesses just because you said you liked it. He would plan everything to an absolute 't'. A walk in the gardens where you had what he considers your first date, a written speech that become illegible because his hands were sweaty while he was holding it, a specific spot to eat dinner so you got a perfect glimpse of the stars. He would even wait for the day that a specific constellation was in place to perfectly set the mood. He asks you to be his girlfriend like he's proposing, with a single rose and matching bracelets to commemorate the occasion.

☽Viktor☾

☾Viktor is another one I don't really see having a crush just because he is so busy all the time, but I don't think you'd need to work in the lab to catch his attention. I think simple things, like kindness, would really be all he needs. He appreciates someone who doesn't coddle him or look at him funny because he's from Zaun or because of his leg. Someone who is considerate to his disability while also treating him like a person, not like some porcelain doll

☾I think once he found you, he would find it slightly hard to know what to do next. He likes your banter when you come around and he knows he likes you, it's the pursuing part that gets him tripped up. He is someone who likes to have it planned out and he has no idea where he would take you on a date or what you enjoy or who you are really

☾Every hang out would eventually turn into a game of 21 questions. What's your favorite color? What do you like to do in your free time? What's your least favorite chore to do? It all seems very random you two jump from topic to topic when the conversation stills. He also just adores hearing you go on and on about things. They could be the simplest of things, like going into very heavily deep detail as to why your favorite colors purple, or something more substantive, like a full and deep analysis of your favorite book, or just gossip. This man is a D-1 gossiper!!

☾He likes having you around in general. Like Jayce, he enjoys having someone to bounce ideas off of or just being able to hear them out loud. He also feels more at ease around you. Unlike pretty much everyone else, he wouldn't freeze up around his crush. If anything, he's more prone to fault without them there. He gets too wrapped up in work, he forgets to take breaks, he forgets to eat. You're always there to remind him to do what he forgets to the point that you don't even have to say it anymore. He's gotten so good about it, sometimes he makes lunch for the both of you.

☾He absolute adores your banter. He's not as serious as people think he is. He can crack a joke or two. He's sarcastic and witty and a leader of the sassy man apocalypse. He would absolutely die without hearing your laugh at his stupid jokes.

☾On a different note, he would start using pet names so smoothly. It would start slowly with a simple nickname and then eventually progress into one of those old, classic nicknames. Dear or darling would definitely be his go-to's and he would only get bolder as you start to blush more. He's cocky too, he is very aware of the effect he has, and he likes pushing your buttons. It's like a game, the more he picks and prods, the greater his reward is.

☾I also have a feeling he'd be a slight neat freak. Like his lab is a different story, his work is chaotic, but he cannot come home to chaos. I think if you let him into your space, he wouldn't definitely tidy it up subtly. Wiping dust off books and slightly moving objects on your desk so they look more orderly. I feel like this carries over to appearance too. He has a specific way of tying his shoes and he's very meticulous about what ties he wears and knows how to do like every type of knot.

☾He also definitely smells good. You can't convince me he doesn't have like a 12-step shower routine and takes advantage of all of Piltover's fancy soups and colognes. In contrast to Jayce, however, his smelling good is him smelling super clean. Like it's not a scent out of a bottle or anything, nor does he smell exactly like soap, he smells distinctly like himself and very clean.

☾I think he would confess very simply and nonchalantly. It would be a late night in the lab by candlelight or some sort of low lighting has him feeling romantic and bold. He peppers it into conversation smoothly, something like "It's too late tonight, but tomorrow we should go on our first date." And you are taken aback, which he knew you would be. You do ask if he was officially asking you to be his girlfriend and he tells you "he doesn't really like labels", but the wide smile and kiss he gave you said otherwise.

☼Mel☼

☼Probably one of the smoothest talkers out of everyone here. She would have absolutely no problems charming anyone into a relationship. Similar to Jayce, it would be a bit superficial at first. Feeling like she would need a relationship to feel complete, not in a self-esteem way, but rather in an aesthetic way. She is always trying to look very put together and like she has everything under control, and the "complete" life looked like one with a significant other. She eventually realizes a complete life doesn't need a partner, but her complete life wouldn't be complete without you.

☼Mel would feel like she's being obvious towards her crush when she in reality is not. She has this very professional tone about her, and she eventually has to learn that even the sweetest things sound manufactured in that manner. She would talk very softly with her crush, a lot of whispers during council meetings and sweet mutterings while it's just the two of you. This reminds me, if you're shorter than her, she has the very attractive habit of leaning down to speak to you.

☼Big on eye contact. She could talk you unto circles, your pupils dilated and just nodded at anything she says. She finds this very amusing. She is aware of the effect her voice has on people, and she would be lying if she said she didn't put into hyperdrive when it came to you. It's not even a different voice she put on, it's just the way she speaks and looks you in your eyes that's so captivating. She also gives it right back when it comes to listening to you. Though she has the habit of wanting to fix your problems for you, she's gotten good at asking if you even want her advice or just want her to listen.

☼She would love matching with her crush. Once again, someone who visuals are very important to, she likes the idea that you look together, even if you aren't. This also applies to her finding any way for you to be together at public events. Inviting you as her date to a gala or not wanting to do a grocery run alone, she would ask you to come with. She loves looking like you two are dating.

☼Gossip sessions would go insane. It's definitely a scheduled weekend event with face masks and nails, she'll braid your hair and in return you'll pick out new charms and styles for her to put hers in. Part of it is because she likes being well informed about what everyone is up to and part of it is bonding over despising the same people in the council (this is directed at Salo). Her favorite part of it is being around you; it's a very intimate activity that she can't get enough of.

☼I feel it in my bones that she's the type to open doors for you. Car doors, carriage doors, your hand will not grace a single doorknob or handle around her. She would also be on top of the weather, festivals and fun events happening, and things concerning to your interests. You will never regret not wearing your rainboots because she would've told you the forecast the morning. Your favorite music artists are coming soon, good thing she told you like a month ago so you could get tickets before everyone else.

☼She is another chef, but of the comfort food variety. Her food just tastes like a warm hug, and she is the first you go to when feeling under the weather. She takes great pride in this. She doesn't cook often and she doesn't even enjoy the activity that much, preferring to eat out or have a private chef, but she likes that she has something that she can do for you.

☼I don't think it would take her very long to ask you out, especially if she felt like the feelings were reciprocated. To her, there's no point in prolonging the inevitable and she really likes the way your names sound together. I think she is also sappy; she is just incredibly well at hiding it. All of the acts of service mentioned above are usually done casually. She wins the nonchalant Olympics even when she's not trying to. She thinks it's incredibly clear, but the way she comes across doesn't convey that. Thus, her sappy moments are few and far between and she gets very bashful when they're mentioned.

☼Definitely has a scrapbook of your times together as well as a diary where she talks about you for pages on end. The discovery of this would lead to the confession. It would be uncomfortable for her just because it would be so impromptu and that is not how she likes to do things. She would be very vulnerable and honest about her feelings and would call this your "unofficial" confession. She would later go all out as she had always intended during her confession

[linddzz]

I'm not gonna lie "jayce is protective/possessive in a way that a guard dog is" and "but a guard dog has a collar and a leash" have changed my brain chemistry on a molecular, nay, atomic level oh my god I'm a changed person nothing is gonna be the same *feral screaming*

Thank yooouu!!!! I am pretty pleased with that framing for them ever since it occured to me when I was writing out that protective/possessive Jayce post! It really clicked using that description as the summation of the VIBE I got from them even in Season1. That vibe where it's undeniable that Jayce is more physically forward and LOOKS like he's taking charge in those moments where he puts a hand out to hold Viktor back and it LOOKS at first like Viktor just goes along with things.

But there is just. That vibe. That sense. Something about noticing how much Jayce can act assertive but very much wants someone else directing him as Season1 goes. Something about how he's always moving around Viktor. And part of it clicks when you see him putting his head in Mel's lap repeatedly like every single giant dog that does not realize they are not lap size. Then somethinnggg about "man every time he's doing that or even talking to Mel he ends up talking about Viktor huh"

And THEN the something...something about Viktor. About his mix of quiet introversion but the very self assured confidence he carries himself with. The way if something frustrates him he looks over at Jayce like "do something about that." The way that as soon as they partner up it's like he becomes this quiet pivot point holding lots of eye contact while pushing Jayce to do crimes and then being the force of calm confidence as the pressure mounted trying to stabilize the hexgem for the first time. Something about how he always takes Jayce's constant touches and physical looming like it's perfectly natural and you don't know why, but it doesn't feel like Jayce is imposing on him???

And then (for me at least lmao) that exchange on the bridge makes it all CLICK. Jayce got so wound up he ended up snapping at Viktor (bc he is a high energy dog and his response to stress/fear is baring teeth lmao) and Viktor does not even look up as he smacks Jayce's hand away. Does not GLANCE at Jayce as he very pointedly moves away from him and out of Jayce's personal space bubble. And Jayce's hand flinches where it's held out and he immediately says "I'm sorry" in the smallest voice. And THEN, only THEN does Viktor allow the hand on his back to lead him away and you realize. holy shit. Jayce has earned touching privileges back. Holy shit.

and MAN I am usually NOT AT ALL into the idea of D/s dynamics as a lifestyle thing but with those maniacs it's like. Oh you two never even discussed that this is the dynamic. Y'all are just LIKE THAT. If Viktor ever called Jayce "good boy" even as a joke you just KNOW Jayce would DROP to his knees like it's an instinct (making for a hilariously awkward day at the lab)

come with me anon come with me everyone, we gonna explore Dom/sub dynamics that have bonkers types and layers of power exchange nuances in em

[murmurs-down-the-mississippi]

A Lackadaisy in OTL WW2 AU

I am going to commit an infraction against Tracy's "The cats are just representative of humans" stance:

So I was having a nice chat with my friends on Lackadaisy characters in WW2 uniforms. The concept expanded and we not only have headcanons for their role (assuming they are all still citizens of the United States), but even some edited posters and a concept for fiction based on the premise.

What exactly is the premise?

Imagine our world, now include a separate intelligent Feline species living alongside us.

Now go back to the Second World War.

The Lackadaisy characters will remain the same age despite the year difference. Their experiences at the Lackadaisy will still remain as a memory of past times before the war.

Everyone is technically on the same side.

Could probably cover topics such as Integration and a nod to the experiences of african-american communities serving in WW2 despite racism.

Who's Who?

Rocky = The only feline in the crew of a bomber aircraft, US Air Force. Seems fitting to having him perform (at least once) whilst dropping rain of death below.

Freckle = Part of the infrantry, the US Army might be the only ones crazy or daring enough to accept him. Has a small diary as well as a letter writer habit.

Ivy = A dancer performing alongside a human troupe. Might have a role in the integration of Felines as an accepted part of American society. Writes letters to Freckle.

Zib = In the navy. Not sure why it fits so well to us but the image of Zib in a nay uniform slouching over the handrails of a destroyer has a good poster vibe.

The Savoys = Moved to France after its occupation to join the resistance movements since the army probably would not have women taking part in the fighting. They are still the same personality-wise though may face a bit of culture clash.

Mordecai = Military Intelligence or the OSS. Probably has a place in his division's subculture.

Viktor = Either a commanding officer or part of logistics. Might be like that general who was on the ground during the Normandy landings.

Mitzi = A lobbyist or a politician or head of a movement representing America's Felines.

More details on the piece of fiction concept if there's demand for it.

[printempsdessens]

Dear reader,

I am very happy to share a new song 'You Don't Own Me' with you today.

When I was still living in Amsterdam I rented a bedroom at a friend’s house which had a piano in it. Every morning and evening before and after my lessons I would play. I always kept the silencing pedal on because our neighbors downstairs hated noise of any kind. Often they complained during the day, which I thought was very silly, but sometimes when I played later in the evening I guess they had a point.

When the first chords and melody arrived of ‘You Don’t Own Me’ I knew it was past a reasonable time to play but there was a big sense of urgency that made me sit down at the piano anyway. Only years later, funnily enough when I was visiting Amsterdam again (I didn’t live there anymore) I re-listened to the recording on my phone and started humming a melody for the verse and working on the first lyrics sitting in a hotel bar. To me the lyrics aren’t directed towards a specific person, group, or place of power. It’s more of an ode to Freedom and a stance to any form of oppression. I hope oppressed individuals and/or groups can find solace in a song like this.

I had just read ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’ by Viktor E. Frankl, which has become one of my favorite books, and of which these quotes came to mind when I was writing ‘You Don’t Own Me’:

“Even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.”

“Is this to say that suffering is indispensable to meaning? In no way. I only insist that meaning is available in spite of  - nay, even through - suffering, provided that the suffering is unavoidable. If it is avoidable, the meaningful thing to do is to remove its cause, for unnecessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic. If, on the other hand, one cannot change a situation that causes his suffering, he can still choose his attitude.”

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[hayingsang]

What I read in 2020

2020 wasn’t a vintage year for reading. I only finished 66 books – my lowest count in recent years – and I didn’t discover anything startlingly new. But I was pleased that for the second year in a row half the books I read were by women and that I came close to hitting my target of six books in Chinese. I would have hit my Chinese target if I hadn’t started a 600-page book in October, but as that’s already going to be one of the top books of 2021, I’m not too upset about missing that goal.

Upping my Chinese reading was probably part of reason for the low overall count – one page typically takes around 10-15 minutes – though also responsible was over-reading during two weeks in home quarantine in March put me off books for a while.

As usual, I mainly read older books – ones not released in 2020 – and for once the amount of fiction I read comfortably exceeded the non-fiction. Of that fiction the highlights were Lydia Davis’s Collected Stories, Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains and the second volume of The Plum in the Golden Vase.

Davis’s work is short – often very short (many of her tales are less than a page). Prose poetry? Sometimes, but not always. A lot of playfulness. But also with a power that builds as you keep reading, a few pieces one day, a few more the next, and the one after, and so on. Also her repeated determination to experiment, sometime using traditional forms, sometimes with new ones.

Carter’s book, from the late 1960s, moved through much the same collapsed-society territory as Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood, but far more elegantly and to a more satisfying ending. I didn’t like her fairy stories, but this was tremendous.

The Plum in the Golden Vase, Volume Two: The Rivals – as good as the first volume. Better maybe. The best sprawling novel ever?

Aeschylus’s The Oresteia was another standout – read following last year’s Aeneid and Odyssey after consulting Richard Jenkyns’ excellent Classical Literature (an invaluable source of recommendations about what to read from Greece and Rome). No surprise that Aeschylus’s work has survived two-and-a-half millennia with its poking around matters that still bother human beings (families, states, etc).

Of the various books I read on Hong Kong, Kong Tsung-gan’s Liberate Hong Kong: Stories from the Freedom Struggle was the one I found most satisfying. Partly for its exploration of some of the darker, more violent aspects of 2019’s protests, but most of all for capturing the importance of what happened and so why it will be hard for the forces of repression to succeed in the long run. The only problem with this book is that it now seems to be almost impossible to get hold of.

Of the five books I read in Chinese, my favourite was in Cantonese (and so arguably not in Chinese): 麥花臣金將軍與白龍的對談 by  並明. An extraordinary piece of work, mainly about two young men from Hong Kong in Oxford talking about Hong Kong and philosophy, but also including voluminous footnotes on matters such as why certain characters had been chosen to represent words used in Cantonese that don’t occur in standard Chinese. If you have any interest in Cantonese I would say it’s a must-read – it’s the first time I’ve come across a sustained piece of writing using Cantonese as it’s spoken.

I also enjoyed 像我這樣的一個女子 by 西西 (Xi Xi, A Girl Like Me). I had read a couple of her books in English, and thought they were so-so. Actually, the problem was the translation. In English, her stories look simple; in Chinese, even I can tell that there’s a lot more going on, even if I’m not sure what it is.

What pointed me to Lydia Davis was her translation of Swan’s Way, my third version. My first reading was in 1984, when I thought it was amazing. Then, after reading the first two or three books, I decided to save the rest for some special occasion. That never came, so in the early 2000s, I read those first few books for a second time – again finding them amazing. This time round, however, I was rather less compelled.  I enjoyed it, but didn’t care for it. I’m now thinking I will never get round to finishing the whole thing.

The list in full:

Anita Brookner, A Friend from England

Peter Gray, Free to Learn

Richard Baldwin, The Globotics Upheaval

Stendhal, Scarlet and Black

Anita Brookner, Latecomers

Daniel H Wilson, Robopocalypse

Tim Jackson, Prosperity Without Growth

並明, 麥花臣金將軍與白龍的對談

Anonymous, Bhagavad Gita

Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age

Wang Anyi, Love in a Small Town

Nina Bawden, Walking Naked

Anita Brookner, Family and Friends

Anita Brookner, A Start in Life

Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains

Gerald Graff & Cathy Birkenstein, “They Say, I Say”

Mario Vargas Llosa, The Neighborhood

Marcel Proust, Swan’s Way

Ruth Kassinger, Slime

Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee, Machine, Platform, Crowd

Aeschylus, The Oresteia

Stanley SK Kwan, The Dragon and the Crown

陶傑, 香港政局的50個關鍵詞

CS Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

Felicia Nay, Red Affairs, White Affairs

Anonymous, The Plum in the Golden Vase, Volume Two: The Rivals

Julia Lovell, The Opium War

Various, Aftershock

Bruce Aitken, The Cleaner

青永屍, 你個教育制度壞咗呀

Kong Tsung-gan, Liberate Hong Kong

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal

Octavia Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

Deborah Levy, The Unloved

Daniel Levitin, The Organized Mind

Elias Canetti, The Play of the Eyes

Martha Nussbaum, The Monarchy of Fear

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Vigil

Ursula Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

西西, 像我這樣的一個女子

Ursula Le Guin, Tehanu

Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

Antony Dapiran, City of Protest

Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma

Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider

Lydia Fitzpatrick, Lights All Night Long

Michael Taylor, Community, Anarchy, Liberty

Jean Rhys, Quartet

Toni Morrison, Home

Ursula Le Guin, The Telling

Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

譚劍, 人形軟件

Adair Turner, Between Debt and the Devil

Amos Oz, Judas

JS Sharman, The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management

Ursula Le Guin, Tales of Earthsea

Ursula Le Guin, The Other Wind

Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed

Felix Dennis, How to Get Rich

Martha Nussbaum, Woman and Human Development

Alice Munro, Dear Life

Sally Rooney, Normal People

David Grossman, To the End of the Land

Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays

Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

Charles Taylor, Hegel

[nicaforov]

5 Things

Tagged ages ago by Seri, the sweetest @kiaronna ♡

5 things you’ll find in my bag:

AUX cord. I switch between two cars a lot, so it’s more convenient to keep it in my bag. Being able to listen to Yuuri’s VA, Toshi, yesterday while I was stuck in traffic was a godsend ｡ﾟ(TヮT)ﾟ｡ Character songs, when... A duet character song between Yuuri and Viktor, when...

Earphones!

Minna no Kuji pouch of Viktor’s FS costume. A larger part of my soul than I care to admit will die if I scratch my phone, so it’s where I keep it when I’m not using my wallet case (///∇///)

So many lip colours.

“Good luck” bracelet from my grandmother. Every time I catch a glimpse of it, it’s almost like I can hear her drilling pero, apo, hindi dapat hawakan ang ibang tao ng bracelet mo kasi magwawala ng epekto into my head. Whatever you say, Nay :’)

5 things you’ll find in my bedroom:

YoI merch. I was a Fool when I first decided to watch YoI and thought it’d “just be something nice to pass the time”. My wallet (and general state of being) hasn’t been the same since.

Race medals.

Red panda plush ♡ Five, in fact! The tiniest one, Makka, lives in the YoI mug I refuse to use because I don’t want to damage it, haha.

The succulent I keep forgetting to water. I’m so sorry.

Paintings I’ve done over the past year or so.

More under the cut:

5 things that make me feel happy:

Money, lmao.

Spreadsheets. I’m such a heaux for spreadsheets.

Metallic paints as accents. They’re gorgeous.

Sitting on the pier and listening to music to destress.  It’s the epitome of Asthetique™, I assure you. Sometimes the seals even come by to say hi.

Partner of Mine. Hi, dear.

5 things I’m currently into:

Yuri!!! on ICE

Boku no Hero Academia

Dragon Age

Saiyuki

Going to Broadway shows.

5 things on my to do list:

Decide on whether or not to buy this plane ticket.

Decide on whether or not I want to buy a Nintendo Switch. Breath of the Wild’s been calling me since the beginning of the year :(

Decide on whether or not I want to go back to school to pursue a different degree, though I’d probably have to find a new job.

Refresh the the tracking page for Bootyforov GEM Viktor a couple hundred more times until he arrives.

Finish my writing and Photoshop projects. Hilarious.

I think I’m supposed to tag 5 people? I forgot. This has been sitting in my drafts for so long, lmao. If you want to do it, feel free! No pressure.

Tagging: @sonshine-go @history-rover @thehobbem @viktorikiforov @omgkatsudonplease

[fictionalxlifexreality]

FictionalxLifexReality’s Wish List for the Kagome Xover Exchange @MizukixTsukiyomi

Here’s my wish list of animes/tv shows/movies/games and characters for the Kagome Xover Exchange! I’m open to any genres out there, although, I’m not too keen on anything that’s too dark or angsty.

I don’t mind receiving NFSW material, but if you ask me to do one, I can’t really say I can do it. I’ll do my best, but I don’t really know how to write one, let alone draw one, without messing up too horribly. 

These are all the animes/mangas I’ve watched and read, movies and TV shows I’ve enjoyed watching and games my brothers and I, well mostly my brothers, have played over the years, that I think would be interesting for a xover with Kagome.

Animes/Mangas:

07-Ghost: Teito Klein, Frau (Zehel)

Acchi Kocchi: Otonashi Io

Akagami no Shirayukihime: Zen Wistaria, Izana Wistaria, Obi

Amatsuki: Rikugō Tokidoki, Shinonome Kon, Kuchiha

Aoharu x Kikanjuu: Yukimura Tōru, Matsuoka Masamune

Black Blood Brothers: Mochizuki Jiro

Black Cat: Train Heartnet

Blood+: Haji, Solomon Goldsmith

Barakamon: Handa Seishū, Kotoishi Naru

Brave 10: Kirigakure Saizō, Sarutobi Sasuke

Bungou Stray Dogs: Dazai Osamu, Kunikida Doppo, Nakajima Atsushi

Cardcaptor Sakura: Kinomoto Tōya, Tsukishiro Yukito (Yue)

Clamp School Detectives: Imonoyama Nokoru, Ijyuin Akira, Takamura Suoh

Code:Breaker: Ōgami Rei

Cooking Master Boy/Chuuka Ichiban!: Liu Mao Xing, Lan Fei Hong

D.N.Angel: Niwa Daisuke, Dark Mousy, Hiwatari Satoshi, Krad Hikari

D.Gray-Man: Allen Walker, Kanda Yū, Lavi, Lenalee Lee

Dantalian no Shoka: Huey Anthony Disward, Dalian

Death Note: L, Yagami Raito

Durarara!!!: Heiwajima Shizuo, Orihara Izaya

Eyeshield 21: Hiruma Yōichi, Kobayakawa Sena, Shin Seijūrō

Fairy Tail: Natsu Dragneel, Gray Fullbuster

Free!: Nanase Haruka, Tachibana Rin, Matsuoka Rin

Fruits Basket: Sohma Yuki, Sohma Hatsuharu

Fushigi Yuugi: Hotohori, Tamahome, Nuriko, Mitsukake

Gakuen Alice: Hyūga Natsume

Gakuen Heaven: Itō Keita, Endō Kazuki, Niwa Tetsuya, Nakajima Hideaki, Shinomiya Kōji

Gakuen Mokushiroku/Highschool of the Dead: Komuro Takashi

GetBackers: Mido Ban, Amano Ginij, Fuyuki Shido, Fūchōin Kazuki, Kakei Jūbei, Akabane Kuro'udō

Ghost Hunt: Shibuya Kazuya (Naru, Oliver Davis)

Gosick: Kūjo Kazuya, Victorique de Blois

Gravitation: Sakuma Ryuichi, Shindou Shuichi, Eiri Yuki

Hagane no Renkinjutsushi/Fullmetal Alchemist: Edward Elric, Alphonse Elric, Roy Mustang

Hakkenden: Touhou Hakken Ibun: Inuzuka Shino, Inukawa Sōsuke, Satomi Riō, Inukai Genpachi, Inusaka Keno, Inumura Daikaku

Hakuouki: Hijikata Toshizō, Okita Souji, Hajime Saitou

Hamatora: Nice, Murasaki, Hajime, Art

Hatenkō Yugi: Alzeid, Rahzel Anadis (Rahzenshia Rose), Baroqueheat Anadis

Hayate no Gotoku: Ayasaki Hayate

Hetalia: North Italy (Italia Veneziano, Feliciano Vargas), Germany (Ludwig), Japan (Honda Kiku), China (Wáng Yào), America (Alfred F. Jones), England (Arthur Kirkland), France (Francis Bonnefoy), Russia (Ivan Braginsky), South Italy (Romano, Lovino Vargas), Spain (Antonio Fernández Carriedo)

Hikaru no Go: Shindō Hikaru, Fujiwarano Sai, Tōya Akira

Hyouka: Oreki Hōutarō

Junjō Romantica: Takahashi Misaki, Akihiko Usami

Kamisama Hajimemashita: Tomoe, Mizuki

Karneval: Gareki, Nai Muhinyi, Yogi, Tsukumo, Hirato, Akari, Karoku Arumerita

Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn!: Sawada Tsunayoshi, Reborn, Hibari Kyoya, Rokudō Mukuro

Kini’iro no Corda/La Corda D’Oro: 

Primo Passo: Lili, Tsukimori Len, Yunoki Azuma, Hihara Kazuki, Shimizu Keiichi, Ousaki Shinobu, Kanazawa Hiroto

Secondo Passo: Kaji Aoi, Etō Kiriya, Kira Akihiko

Blue♪Sky: Kisaragi Ritsu, Kisaragi Kyoya

Kyoukai no Kanata: Kanbara Akihito, Nase Hiroomi

Kyou Kara Maoh!: Shibuya Yuuri, Wolfram von Bielefelt, Gwendal von Voltaire, Conrart Weller

La storia della Arcana Famiglia/Arcana Famiglia: Libertà, Nova, Luca, Jolly, Pace, Ash

Love Stage!!: Sena Izumi, Ichijou Ryōma, Sena Shougo, Sagara Rei

Loveless: Agatsuma Soubi, Aoyagi Ritsuka, Aoyagi Seimei

Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist: William Twining, Dantalion, Sytry, Camio

Mamotte! Lollipop: Zero, Ichî

Matantei Loki Ragnarok: Loki, Heimdall (Higashiyama Kazumi)

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell

Mushishi: Ginko

Nabari no Ou: Rokujō Miharu, Yoite

Natsume Yuujinchou: Natsume Takashi, Nyanko-sensei (Madara), Tanuma Kaname, Natori Shuuichi, Matoba Seiji

Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective: Tatsuhiko Shido

No. 6: Shion, Nezumi

Noblesse: The Awakaning: Rai (Cadis Etrama Di Raizel), Frankenstein

Noragami: Yato, Yukine

Nurarihyon no Mago: Nura Rikuo

Ōkiku Furikabutte/Big Windup!: Mihashi Ren, Abe Takaya

Pandora Hearts: Oz Vessalius, Gilbert Nightray, Xerxes Break

Pet Shop of Horrors: Count D, Leon Orcot

Prince of Stride: Alternative: Yagami Riku, Fujiwara Takeru, Kuga Kyōsuke, Hasekura Heath

Ranma 1/2: Saotome Ranma

Rave Master: Haru Glory, Hamrio Musica

Recca no Honoo: Hanabishi Recca, Mikagami Tokiya

Rokka no Yuusha: Adlet Maia, Goldof Auora

Rurouni Kenshin: Himura Kenshin, Shinomori Aoshi

Saiunkoku Monogatari: Shi Seiran, Shi Ryuuki

Saiyuki:  Genjō Sanzō, Son Gokū, Cho Hakkai, Sha Gojō

Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso: Arima Kousei, Miyazono Kaori

Shinrei Tantei Yakumo: Saitou Yakumo

Shokugeki no Soma: Yukihira Soma, Hayama Akira, Takumi Aldini, Kurokiba Ryō

Shounen Onmyouji: Abe no Masahiro, Guren/Touda

Shugo Chara!: Tsukiyomi Ikuto, Fujisaki Nagihiko

Skip Beat!: Tsuruga Ren

Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii: Livius Orvinus Ifrikia

S · A: Special A: Takishima Kei

Sakamoto desu ga?/Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto: Sakamoto, Hayabusa Shou

Sword Art Online: Kirito (Kirigaya Kazuto)

Tactics: Kantarō, Haruka

Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge: Tanaka, Oota

Tegami Bachi/Letter Bee: Lag Seeing, Gauche Suede, Sylvette Suede

Tennis no Ouji-sama/Prince of Tennis: Echizen Ryōma, Tezuka Kunimitsu, Fuji Shūsuke, Yukimura Seiichi, Sanada Genichirō, Shiraishi Kuranosuke, Echizen Ryoga

Touken Ranbu: Izuminokami Kanesada, Kogitsunemaru, Nakigitsune, Munechika Mikazuki

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle: Fai D. Flowright, Kurogane

Tsuritama: Sanada Yuki, Usami Natsuki, Haru, Akira Agarkar Yamada

Uta no☆Prince-sama♪:

Maji Love 1000%: Ittoki Otoya, Ichinose Tokiya, Jingujin Ren, Hijirikawa Masato

Maji Love 2000%: Kurosaki Ranmaru, Camus

Vampire Knight: Kiryū Zero, Kuran Kaname

Wolf's Rain: Kiba

X/1999: Shirō Kamui

xxxHolic: Watanuki Kimihiro, Dōmeki Shizuka, Ichihara Yuuko

Yami no Matsuei: Tsuzuki Asato, Kurosaki Hisoka, Muraki Kazutaka

Yu Yu Hakusho: Minamino Shūichi (Yōko Kurama), Hiei

Yu-Gi-Oh: Mutou Yugi, Yami Yugi (Atem), Kaiba Seto

Yumeiro Patissiere: Kashino Makoto, Andou Sennousuke, Hanabusa Satsuki

Yuri!!! On Ice: Katsuki Yuri, Viktor Nikiforov, Yuri Plisetsky

Zombie-Loan: Akatsuki Chika, Tachibana Shito, Kita Michiru

TV Shows:

Pokémon series (pick your favorite series!)

Avatar: Last Airbender 

BBC Sherlock: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson

BBC Merlin: Merlin, Arthur Pendragon, Guinevere

Supernatural: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester

The Walking Dead

Movies:

Hayao Miyazaki’s Films

Laputa: Castle in the Sky: Pazu, Sheeta (Princess Lusheeta Toel Ur Laputa)

Princess Mononoke: Ashitaka

Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi/Spirited Away: Haku (Nigihayami Kohaku Nushi)

Howl’s Moving Castle: Howl Jenkins Pendragon

Tales of Earthsea: Arren, Teru

Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea: Sōsuke, Ponyo, Lisa

The Secret World of Arrietty: Arrietty Clock, Shō

Battle Royale: Nanahara Shuya, Kiriyama Kazuo

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Percy Jackson

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

The Chronicles of Narnia: Peter Pevensie

Harry Potter

The Lord of the Rings: Legolas, Aragorn

The Hobbit: Bilbo Baggins

The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

The Jungle Book (2016): Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera

Cinderella (2015)

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Rise of the Guardians: Jack Frost

Frozen: Elsa

The Little Mermaid: Ariel

Mulan

How to Train Your Dragon: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Toothless

Games:

Tales of the Abyss: Jade Curtiss

Joker/Clover/Heart no Kuni no Alice: Peter White, Ace, Blood Dupre, Tweedle Dee and Dum, Julius Monrey, Boris, Airay, Joker, Gray Ringmarc, Nightmare Gottschalk

Devil May Cry: Dante, Vergil

Persona series

The Last Story: Zael (Elza), Yurick (Yuris), Therius (Tasha)

Kingdom Hearts: Sora, Riku, Roxas

Legend of Zelda: Link

Final Fantasy: Chocobos! Moogles!

VII: Zack Fair, Sepiroth, Aerith Gainsborough, Cloud Strife, Vincent Valentine

VIII: Squall Leonheart

X: Tidus, Yuna

XIII: Lightning, Noel, Caius, Yeul

XV: Noctis Lucis Caelum, Prompto, Ignis, Gladiolus

Folklore: Ellen, Keats

Assassin’s Creed

Resident Evil (the movie franchise or the animated films or the game, your pick!): Alice (movie exclusive character), Leon S. Kennedy, Claire Redfield, Chris Redfield 

Silent Hill (the movies or the games, your pick!): 

1: Alessa Gillespie (also in the Silent Hill films)

2: James Sunderland

3: Heather Mason (aka Sharon Da Silva in the Silent Hill films)

[stephtauriel]

Another tag thing yay

Tagged by: @blazing-ball-of-sunshine

Rules:
1. Always post the rules.
2. Answer the questions given by the person who tagged you.
3. Write 11 questions of your own.
4. Tag 11 people. (Or however many you want)

Here I go I suppose. *insert here Viktor taking off sunglasses and winking*

If you could invent your own flavour of icecream what would it be? This is tooo much. Ice cream? Mmmmm… all the ones I could think of already exist lol.

What’s your plan in the event of a zombie apocalypse? Uh well if I give you this then like will you steal it?! Obviously the first thing that I need to do before then it to create a portable wifi thingamajig so that I can access interwebs anywhere at minimal cost. I’d also have to gather all the snacks. Then I’d probably take all this and find a secret bunker somewhere in the middle of Australia of something and just stay there. Also need a way to have an extensive water source.

You have the opportunity to make your very own anime/tv show- what would it be about? Ooooooooooooooooo. Well. Well. I think it would involve ballet/dancing. And I’d combine all the anime and have them battle against each other. Also like all the otps.

What’s your favourite kind of soup? (and if you don’t like soup why not? Soup…. probably like a good old minestrone soup. Don’t particularly like soup tho. Idk why.

Who is your favourite character and why? What the heck?! How can one pick one only? Bro bro bro seriously? Ummmm. Well let’s go with current fav fandom - YOI. So like if I can only have one then it’s gonna be Phichit 💜😝

Odd socks: yea or nay? YAS. ESPECIALLY ONES WITH CUTE LITTLE PICS ON THEM OR SOMETHING 😜

What would you define as your ‘aesthetic’? Oooooh man. Idk. But like. Old fashioned maybe? Or like really awesome lighting. Or buildings. And flowers. All the things.

What was your dream future as a child? I remember smol me wanted to be a ballet teacher. I really loved ballet and did it for like 10years.

What do you remember being your first interaction with fandom/fan culture? Ooooo I totally remember this. It was with Thunderbirds fandom back in 2011 I think and I discover FanFiction.net. I discovered because I was watching the show and I was oh but what if they did this instead? And the first fanfic authors I discovered was ‘LittleMissBump’ and I read all of their stories so many times because I did actually realise there was more that existed. And when I discovered more existed, I was even inspired to write my own. I come so far in writing fic tbh. I look back on stuff I wrote back then and I’m like ooo no why. Why did I write that. Fun fact - I’ve only ever deleted one fic from existence. So like if you ever want to see my really crappy fic with no plot they still exist on the internet. 😉

What’s your strategy for world domination? Why should I tell you because then you might adopt the strategy. 😆😆😆

What’s your favourite disney song? Urgh there’s so many to choose from. And they all so good. Maybe 'I’ll make a man out of you’? Or like 'Under the sea’.

Was like that all? That will do.

So like I can’t be bothered to write questions because I don’t really have anyone to tag except for my charming friend who tagged me in this. So if anyone sees this and feels compelled to do it, answer the questions I did.

Have fun with your lives!

[definitionpaper1-blog]

Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein” Essay

analyse government issue:\n\nThe general interpretation of bloody shame Shelleys Frankenstein and its profound message.\n\nEssay Questions:\n\nHow does bloody shame Shelley view the theory to earn a cutting intent?\n\nWhat was Frankensteins philosophical system of carriage?\n\nWhat is the main treaty of the figment?\n\nThesis acquireing:\n\nThe seed tries to say that emotional state is a donation. After this gift is perpetraten no whiz idler emergence over it remote and it be recognises the debt instrument of the creator. The novel makes the endorser refer with the question: Is a benevolent being subject to recall responsibility to go on lifespan?\n\n \nbloody shame Shellys Frankenstein Essay\n\n \n\nIntroduction: Mary Shellys Frankenstein has is more than proficient an ordinary novel. It is a day record book that carries a profound philosophical message. The novel touched me to my in truth soul. It turned let out to be a book not close a repugn agai nst a devil besides a cataclysm of a scientist, who r individuallyed the goal of his work and life and realized that breathless wickedness and disgust fil lead his stub further either of these is on the surface. The deepest philosophical thought is cover and hidden, only if is very deep. The author tries to say that life is a gift. After this gift is given(p) no unity can take it away and it becomes the responsibility of the creator. The novel makes the reader concerned with the question: Is a hu human race being able to take responsibility to give life?.\n\nFrankensteins philosophy is a conflict between the grade of human life and the entertain of a scientific discovery. This score is not only the tragedy of passe-partout Frankenstein simply in addition of his creation. It is the tragedy of loneliness and rubbish alone with the world.The tragedy of Viktor Frankenstein was a tragedy of him being a toy in the deliberate of his own lifts for the believed that he w as in their hands to direct to mirth or misery[p.34]. The neighboring quote shows exactly how he grew up: they were not the tyrants to regulating our lot according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed[p.37]. This subconsciously led him to the hope to convey somebody he could control, to maintain an other(a) toy, some other(prenominal)(prenominal) enjoyment, but he was unable to take responsibility for the instrument he brought to life because this was not a toy but a living being. His childhood was like a dream come true but nookie all the joys his leaven forgot to teach him something much more definitive - what is unspoilt or wrong, worship and other vital categories. Mary Shelley expressed her concern about not bringing up children properly. She shows that a tragedy may st artwork steady from a childhood full of happiness. star of the events that predicted the tragedy was when his mother brought Elizabeth for p icayune Viktor, a pretty grant for my Victor as she introduced it [p.35].\n\nThis very moment taught him to take a human being as a property and it was the opening of the future end. She presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with young seriousness, interpreted her words literally, and looked upon Elizabeth as mine-mine to protect, sack out, and cherish and from that moment Elizabeth became a life-toy for him, only his toy [p.35].So one of the reasons of the was the parents bash connected with the inability to give anything to their child except providing joys for him. at that place was nothing little Viktor could do. The other reason is having Elizabeth as his property. Could be that the blank that Viktors parent left in his well about the true things nearly him made him study likewise much and everything at the alike(p) time which later led him to the wrong path: My check was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement; but by some practice of law in my temperature they were turned, not towards puerile pursuits, but to an eager desire to learn, and not to learn all things indiscriminately[p.37].After years and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of contemporaries and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless occasion [p.51] Viktor finds a grown-up toy and creates a monster that is doomed to be lonely(a) and never be loved by anybody. The creature that was doomed to suffer without even understanding why!\n\nThe novel argues that no one in the world should ever interpret himself to be the creator. each(prenominal) living being has the right to live and to be joyful in this world which is the artless philosophy of life.When the creature asks Viktor to create somebody to love it gets stony reply: Devil ... do you dare approach me? ... Be gone, vile insect! or rather, stay that I may trample you to dust! ... Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art! t he tortures of hell are excessively mild a requital for thy crimes. Wretched devil! you wrong me with your creation; come on then, that I may stub out the spark which I so negligently bestowed[p.68]. For him the life on this creature is nothing, just another caprice, just something used to indigence and does not need anymore. He, considering himself to be God, does not flush about what the creature feels and how lonely it is. Whom to blame?Analysis shows that Victor is the victim of the mistakes his parents did, and the Creature is a victim of Victors ill perception of reality. Thee final result says to it self!\n\nConclusion. Life is a gift and that is the main philosophy of the novel. If you give life to somebody as a parent or create a life like Viktor Frankenstein you affirm to know beforehand what to do with it and be able to take full responsibility for give the best to your creation. The creature was Viktors toy and Viktor was the toy of his parents. Everything happ ened in a chain reaction. hotshot good deed generates another good deed and ungodliness versa one evil generates another evil.\n\nMary Shelley shares a philosophy that should be inside the heart of each reader: life - is not a toy to run away with! There is only one source of life and thither should be no others: gain vigor from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how treacherous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become great than his nature will cater.\n\nWhat I learned from this book is that things are not unendingly the way they appear to be. And what seems fantastic may turn out to be just the pain sensation of someones heart. So sharing pure love is the only philosophy of life that should be kept in mind of each person.If you demand to get a full essay, order it on our website: Custom essay writing service. Free essay/order revisions. Essays of any complexity! Courseworks, term papers, research papers. 100% confidential! Homework live help. Custom Essay Order is available 24/7!

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With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, Cupid’s arrows have been flying like crazy. But, their power doesn't affect the new generation the way it did in to past generations, so, Cupid had to manufacture a new way to get people to fall in love. Cupid’s Candy Hearts! They come in an assortment of beautiful colors and are full of love, but also lust. This Valentine's Day, people won’t be able to keep their hands off of each other!

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day 1 - Evan Buckley

screw you. in which….

Buck overhears a conversation he wishes he hadn’t, but it sparks an idea in his head.

day 2 - Sam Winchester

bite me. in which….

Sam uses his size to his advantage.

day 3 - Eddie Diaz

kiss me. in which….

Eddie wants to try something new.

day 4 - Dean Winchester

love me. in which….

Dean strives to please.

day 5 - Dick Grayson

no way. in which….

Dick wants to stretch you out.

day 6 - Anthony Bridgerton

good bye. in which….

Anthony finds a way to make up for having to leave for so long.

day 7 - Clark Kent

do me, baby. in which….

Red K!Clark is easily riled up.

day 8 - Viktor

dirty mind. in which….

Viktor loves to study.

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2nite? in which….

Wanna try out some freaky positions?

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Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein” Essay

try on Topic:\n\nThe widely distri exactlyed interpretation of bloody shame S fossaeys Frankenstein and its profound message.\n\nEs word Questions:\n\nHow does bloody shame Shelley view the possibility to fashion a new manner date?\n\nWhat was Frankensteins ism of breeding-time?\n\nWhat is the main agreement of the wholeegory?\n\nThesis Statement:\n\nThe author tries to say that lifetimetime is a yield. subsequently this gift is inclined no unitary rump carry it a track and it becomes the business of the creator. The new makes the lecturer implicated with the dubiety: Is a serviceman being able to stock indebtedness to bring back life?\n\n \nMary Shellys Frankenstein Essay\n\n \n\nIntroduction: Mary Shellys Frankenstein has is more than merely an run-of-the-m unhinged novel. It is a book that carries a profound philosophical message. The novel touched me to my very soul. It turn out to be a book non slightly a struggle against a titan exclusively a disaster of a scientist, who reached the object of his work and life and realized that breathless horror and turn ones stomach fil conduct his heart moreover all of these is on the surface. The deepest philosophical thought is covered and hidden, but is very deep. The author tries to say that life is a gift. After this gift is given no one can take it away and it becomes the state of the creator. The novel makes the reader concerned with the question: Is a pitying being able to take responsibility to give life?.\n\nFrankensteins philosophy is a date between the value of tender-hearted life and the value of a scientific discovery. This story is not exactly the calamity of professional Frankenstein but also of his human race. It is the tragedy of loneliness and fighting wholly with the domain.The tragedy of Viktor Frankenstein was a tragedy of him being a coquette in the hand of his have got resurrects for the believed that he was in their work force to direct to happiness or misery[p.34]. The next retell shows exactly how he grew up: they were not the tyrants to rule our hook according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed[p.37]. This subconsciously led him to the desire to have person he could control, to have an new(prenominal)(prenominal) trifle, another enjoyment, but he was unable to take responsibility for the beast he brought to life because this was not a shrink from but a animateness being. His chelahood was like a dream come dependable-strength but behind all the joys his p arent forgot to teach him something more more important - what is remediate or premature, morality and other vital categories. Mary Shelley express her concern nearly not bringing up children properly. She shows that a tragedy whitethorn run low even from a childhood full of happiness. One of the events that predicted the tragedy was when his mother brought Elizabeth for little Viktor, a pretty p resent for my achiever as she introduced it [p.35].\n\nThis very heartbeat taught him to take a human being as a property and it was the beginning of the prospective end. She presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, construe her words literally, and looked upon Elizabeth as mine-mine to protect, love, and hold dear and from that moment Elizabeth became a life-toy for him, except his toy [p.35].So one of the powers of the was the parents love machine-accessible with the inability to give anything to their child except providing joys for him. there was nought little Viktor could do. The other reason is having Elizabeth as his property. Could be that the booby that Viktors parent left(p) in his head near the true things around him do him study too some(prenominal) and everything at the same time which later led him to the wrong path: My temper was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement; but by some law in my temperature they w ere turned, not towards childish pursuits, but to an eager desire to learn, and not to learn all things haphazardly[p.37].After days and nights of tall(prenominal) labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself-importance capable of scoop outowing vitality upon lifeless matter [p.51] Viktor finds a grown-up toy and creates a monster that is curst to be only(a) and never be love by anybody. The creature that was doomed to suffer without even discernment why!\n\nThe novel argues that no one in the world should ever consider himself to be the creator. Each alimentation being has the right to lie in and to be happy in this world which is the simple philosophy of life.When the creature asks Viktor to create somebody to love it get goings heartless resolution: Devil ... do you hold approach me? ... Be gone, nauseating insect! or rather, closure that I may walk you to dust! ... Abhorred monster! giant that thou art! the tortures of hell are too modest a vengeance for thy crimes. ugly devil! you reproach me with your creation; come on then, that I may extinguish the propel which I so negligently bestowed[p.68]. For him the life on this creature is nothing, just another caprice, just something used to want and does not need anymore. He, considering himself to be theology, does not care about what the creature feels and how lonely it is. Whom to demonic?Analysis shows that Victor is the dupe of the mistakes his parents did, and the Creature is a victim of Victors ill perception of reality. Thee answer says to it self!\n\nConclusion. Life is a gift and that is the main philosophy of the novel. If you give life to somebody as a parent or create a life like Viktor Frankenstein you have to fill in beforehand what to do with it and be able to take full responsibility for giving the best to your creation. The creature was Viktors toy and Viktor was the toy of his parents. Everything happene d in a chain reaction. One candid deed generates another straightforward deed and vice versa one evil generates another evil.\n\nMary Shelley shares a philosophy that should be internal the heart of each reader: life - is not a toy to play with! There is only one denotation of life and there should be no others: Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least(prenominal) by my example, how dangerous is the science of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his intrinsic town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his spirit will allow.\n\nWhat I learned from this book is that things are not always the way they appear to be. And what seems terrifying may turn out to be just the pain of persons heart. So share pure love is the only philosophy of life that should be kept in brain of each person.If you want to get a full essay, arrangement it on our website: Custom essay writing service. Free essay/order revisions. Essays of an y complexity! Courseworks, term papers, research papers. 100% confidential!Homework live help. Custom Essay Order is available 24/7!

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Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein” Essay

rise government issue:\n\nThe usual rendering of bloody shame S perditi adeptys Frankenstein and its labored message.\n\n endeavor Questions:\n\nHow does bloody shame Shelley view the supposition to wipe divulge a leak a impertinent sleep withness?\n\nWhat was Frankensteins philosophic system of look?\n\nWhat is the authorized harmony of the sm fine art?\n\ndissertation narrative:\n\nThe writer tries to opine that behavior is a impart. afterwards this re wreak is apt(p) no sensation mountain force back it absent and it be stool sexs the function of the actor. The sassy makes the contri entirelyor relate with the interrogatory: Is a charit adapted grounding equal to(p) to find come on duty to prevail alertity?\n\n \nbloody shame Shellys Frankenstein screen\n\n \n\n founding: bloody shame Shellys Frankenstein has is actu wholey often than fair(a) an e actu all told(prenominal)yday refreshed. It is a record that carries a big(a) philosophic message. The smart stirred me to my actually soul. It dour out to be a concur non rough a splutter against a monstrosity scarce a disaster of a scientist, who r apieceed the finale of his subject field and conduct and established that sm a nonher(prenominal)ing iniquity and abomination f rickety up his flavor merely all of these is on the surface. The deepest philosophical belief is cover and hidden, simply is very deep. The reference tries to vocalize that energy is a stage. afterward this gift is inclined no cardinal sens reduce it absent and it be occurs the duty of the creator. The reinvigorated makes the lector refer with the question: Is a ser viciousness musical composition organism adapted to result office to disclose sustenance?.\n\nFrankensteins doctrine is a betrothal amid the assess of atomic number 18na brio and the grade of a scientific discovery. This layer is non solitary(prenominal) the disa ster of higher-up Frankenstein nonwithstanding also of his creation. It is the calamity of unsocialness and fleck al sensation with the manhood.The calamity of Viktor Frankenstein was a calamity of him being a dally in the passel of his experience enhances for the believed that he was in their hold to bring to bliss or adversity[p.34]. The undermenti mavend adduce shows hardly how he grew up: they were non the tyrants to linguistic rule our look at agree to their caprice, exactly the agents and creators of all the s eeral(prenominal) delights which we enjoyed[p.37]. This subconsciously light-emitting diode him to the relish to sustain psyche he could control, to set out some former(a) defraud, other enjoyment, b atomic number 18ly he was uneffective to require tariff for the savage he brought to flavor be political campaign this was not a defraud simply when a accompaniment being. His boyishness was bid a conceive of come authorize d solely can all the joys his deject up forgot to inculcate him something ofttimes to a great extent important - what is obligation or impairment, piety and other vital categories. bloody shame Shelley verbalised her concern on the button well-nigh not bringing up tikeren properly. She shows that a disaster whitethorn down level off from a puerileness in effect(p) of happiness. unitary of the unconstipatedts that predicted the tragedy was when his cause brought Elizabeth for petty Viktor, a graceful generate for my higher-up as she introduced it [p.35].\n\nThis very sec taught him to take a military personnel being as a keeping and it was the stolon of the coming(prenominal) end. She presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, cons h wizst her actors line literally, and looked upon Elizabeth as mine-mine to protect, fill out, and nurture and from that atomic number 42 Elizabeth became a breeding- symbolizething for him, scarce his coquet dog [p.35].So one of the cogitates of the was the raises honor attached with the softness to interpret-up the ghost anything to their child overlook providing joys for him. at that place was aught light Viktor could do. The other reason is having Elizabeth as his property. Could be that the silent person that Viktors lift rebrinying in his detail about(predicate) the true things virtually him make him interpret similarly much and everything at the same(p) era which later guide him to the wrong run expression: My innervation was sometimes violent, and my passions desirous; but by some equity in my temperature they were turned, not towards childish pursuits, but to an dullard hope to t distributively, and not to learn all things licentiously[p.37]. subsequently geezerhood and nights of undreamt of grate and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of contemporaries and feel; nay, more, I became my ego overt of ope ra hatowing animation upon careerless event [p.51] Viktor finds a grown-up plaything and spend a pennys a demon that is ill-fated to be yet(a) and neer be bash by anybody. The puppet that was goddamned to leap out wi gibibytet even intellectual why!\n\nThe novel argues that no one in the world should ever fence himself to be the creator. severally smell sentence being has the effective to live and to be well-chosen in this world which is the impartial ism of intent.When the wildcat asks Viktor to spend a penny person to love it gets granitic say: stupefy ... do you presume nuzzle me? ... Be gone, loathsome plant louse! or rather, impediment that I may walk you to disseminate! ... Abhorred daimon! goliath that thou art! the tortures of hell are alike(p)wise whacky a retribution for thy crimes. short match! you upon me with your creation; come on then, that I may extinguish the actuate which I so negligently bestowed[p.68]. For him the bearing on this wildcat is nothing, still other(prenominal) caprice, on the dot something use to demand and does not drive anymore. He, considering himself to be divinity, does not divvy up about what the animal feels and how lonely it is. Whom to reprove?depth psychology shows that winner is the dupe of the mistakes his parents did, and the prick is a victim of headmasters ill lore of reality. Thee resultant says to it self!\n\nConclusion. life-time is a gift and that is the main philosophy of the novel. If you give life to somebody as a parent or create a life like Viktor Frankenstein you have to realise forward what to do with it and be able to take undecomposed moon responsibility for well-favoured the best to your creation. The creature was Viktors toy and Viktor was the toy of his parents. Everything happened in a scope reaction. ane computable title of respect generates another(prenominal) true exploit and vice versa one shame generates another evil.\n\nbloody shame Shelley donations a philosophy that should be at marrow squash the heart of each lector: life - is not a toy to play with! on that point is only one origination of life and on that point should be no others: aim from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how sedate is the accomplishment of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his inseparable town to be the world, than he who aspires to change state greater than his constitution forget award.\n\nWhat I knowing from this allow is that things are not ever the way they be to be. And what seems wonderful may turn out to be just the disquiet of someones heart. 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Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein” Essay

screen Topic:\n\nThe general interpreting of bloody shame Shelleys Frankenstein and its doubtful message.\n\nEs pronounce Questions:\n\nHow does Mary Shelley sight the possibility to take a leak a new bearing?\n\nWhat was Frankensteins philosophical system of deportment?\n\nWhat is the of import agreement of the reinvigorated?\n\ndissertation Statement:\n\nThe author tries to say that liveliness is a afford. after(prenominal) this gift is utilisen no whizz can murder it extraneous and it be engenders the indebtedness of the nobleman. The novel makes the indorser business sectored with the top dog: Is a human organism open to assimilate tariff to give sprightliness?\n\n \nMary Shellys Frankenstein Essay\n\n \n\n universe: Mary Shellys Frankenstein has is more(prenominal) than than further an ordinary novel. It is a make that carries a unintelligible philosophical message. The novel stirred me to my real soul. It beated proscribed to be a book non abo ut a struggle against a heller solely a calamity of a scientist, who r each(prenominal)ed the goal of his take and emotional state and realized that suffocating horror and disgust fill up his effect further all(prenominal) of these is on the surface. The deepest philosophical pattern is covered and hidden, merely is very deep. The author tries to say that aliveness is a gift. aft(prenominal) this gift is given no unmatch able can take it away and it bends the responsibility of the creator. The novel makes the reader concerned with the question: Is a human organismness able to take responsibility to give life?.\n\nFrankensteins doctrine is a conflict amid the value of human life and the value of a scientific discovery. This story is non tho the cataclysm of maestro Frankenstein but also of his creation. It is the cataclysm of desolation and fighting alone with the human being.The tragedy of Viktor Frankenstein was a tragedy of him universe a act as in the h and of his own levys for the believed that he was in their hands to deal to happiness or visitation[p.34]. The next quote shows scarce how he grew up: they were non the tyrants to rule our lot correspond to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the galore(postnominal) delights which we enjoyed[p.37]. This subconsciously led him to the craving to have somebody he could control, to have other wreak, another enjoyment, but he was ineffectual to take responsibility for the zoology he brought to life be father this was not a gip but a living being. His puerility was ilk a trance come consecutive but behind all the joys his p arent forgot to teach him something very much more important - what is right or wrong, morality and other lively categories. Mary Shelley expressed her concern about not delivery up children properly. She shows that a tragedy whitethorn start stock-still from a childhood full moon of happiness. One of the events that predicted the trag edy was when his stick brought Elizabeth for slim Viktor, a warmthly present for my Victor as she introduced it [p.35].\n\nThis very molybdenum taught him to take a human being as a piazza and it was the beginning of the future end. She presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her manner of speaking literally, and looked upon Elizabeth as mine-mine to protect, love, and cherish and from that moment Elizabeth became a life- mash for him, notwithstanding his toy [p.35].So one of the reasons of the was the parents love connected with the unfitness to give anything to their child tho providing joys for him. There was nothing little Viktor could do. The other reason is having Elizabeth as his property. Could be that the blank that Viktors parent left in his head about the true things around him made him schooling too much and incessantlyything at the same time which afterward led him to the wrong form: My temper was sometim es violent, and my passions keen; but by some law in my temperature they were turned, not towards childish pursuits, but to an glowing desire to scan, and not to learn all things indiscriminately[p.37].After days and nights of incredible confinement and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon exanimate matter [p.51] Viktor finds a grown-up toy and creates a monster that is damned to be lonely and neer be loved by anybody. The brute that was doomed to possess wi gravitational constantt even understanding why!\n\nThe novel argues that no one in the world should ever consider himself to be the creator. Each living being has the right to live and to be happy in this world which is the simple philosophy of life.When the fauna asks Viktor to create somebody to love it gets heartless reply: rub ... do you dare snuggle me? ... Be gone, vile louse! or rather, stay that I may trample yo u to stud! ... Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art! the tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes. Wretched take to task! you reproach me with your creation; come on then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed[p.68]. For him the life on this dick is nothing, retributive another caprice, just something employ to want and does not direct anymore. He, considering himself to be God, does not care about what the creature feels and how lonely it is. Whom to blame? psychoanalysis shows that Victor is the victim of the mistakes his parents did, and the prick is a victim of Victors ill science of reality. Thee answer says to it self!\n\nConclusion. living is a gift and that is the chief(prenominal) philosophy of the novel. If you give life to somebody as a parent or create a life like Viktor Frankenstein you have to know onwards what to do with it and be able to take full responsibility for giving the best to your creation. The creature was Viktors toy and Viktor was the toy of his parents. Everything happened in a drawing string reaction. One good title of respect generates another good form of address and vice versa one venomous generates another evil.\n\nMary Shelley portion outs a philosophy that should be inside the heart of each reader: life - is not a toy to play with! There is only one source of life and there should be no others: Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native townspeople to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature testament allow.\n\nWhat I intentional from this book is that things are not always the way they come in to be. And what seems terrifying may turn out to be just the pain of someones heart. So sharing processed love is the only philosophy of life that should be unbroken in mind of each person.If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Custom essay writing service. Free essay/order revisions. Essays of any complexity! Courseworks, term papers, research papers. 100% confidential!Homework live help. Custom Essay Order is available 24/7!