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madeline-ashton · 1 year ago
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im a tumblr newbie actually this is so scary how does this website work. anyways i heard the bmc fandom was way more alive here and ive been stalking without an account for a couple days and i!! finally decided to make one. so pspspspspspspsps BE MORE CHILL FANS COME HERE I WANT TO BE FRIENDS!!
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aeolianblues · 6 months ago
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FYI his stupid birthright citizenship ‘control’ laws will target ‘legal’ migration too. Right wing voters like to say ‘well we’re not unreasonable, we don’t oppose legal migration’ but that’s gone. If you’re a worker or a student on a visa (and many workers will, in fact, be on visas for a long time, a decade even, because the American system for residence—a ‘green card’—is so long that people have been in queue for years), your children born in the US will not be citizens anymore under Trump’s executive order. A child born and raised in the United States, having known no other home, is not going to be a US citizen. This is something that had been protected for decades— one of the requirements to running for president in fact is being a born citizen. Will that also change now, if people fucking born in the United States cannot be citizens of their own country?
I don’t trust right wingers one bit. ‘Oh you’re so unreasonable, you’re so paranoid’, they’ll never acknowledge that this is what republicans meant to do all along. Blur the lines between ‘legal’ and “illegal”. Make it so vague that of course people left to draw their own conclusions will go ‘not white = illegal’. They’ll never claim knowledge of what they’ve done. They’ll never stick to their word and rally to protect ‘legal’ migration, no. That goes against their milk-white christofascist panacea, doesn’t it? It’s just a bonus if everyone else suffers too.
Fight like hell for every child. Fight for every single one like they’re your own. There are no lost causes. There are no children worth leaving behind. There are no ‘illegals’ if you know what’s good for you.
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chxcxlateghost · 1 year ago
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ermmm coming out as a quotev user and wtf guys
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julesdraws · 9 months ago
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Ok i need some opinions cuz i'm conflicted. (Based on stuff i found out abt the whole in-fandom drama that idk if i wanna risk attracting on this blog- not that i m like super active or anything but ye)
(ic = individual characters)
(I'm evil and will force you to choose smth, there is no *show results* button hehe)
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richardmurrayhumblr · 6 months ago
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Fediverse is coming
When Tumblr's migration into wordpress is finished, with the quantity of the following systems alone useing the activitypub it will allow a huge outreach to tumblr.
Flipboard 145,000,000 Mastodon 9,630,383 Threads 130,000,000 WordPress 6,000+ blogs
to learn more
the fediverse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
activitypub
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub
From the post linked below
Good news! While it is still on the list, the Tumblr to WordPress migration will definitely unlock ActivityPub for Tumblr! In fact, one big reason for the migration itself is to get us into the Fediverse. When that’s done, we’re in.
The migration is still a work in progress, as we’ve previously detailed here, but we can say for sure that it will include support for WordPress’s existing ActivityPub plugins. We hope this comes as good news.
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blog2258 · 1 year ago
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Continuous Improvement and Optimization Data Migration process at Q-Migrator at Quadrant 
Data migration process at Q-Migrator is not a one-time event; it often serves as an opportunity to enhance and optimize your data management practices. This phase focuses on continuous improvement and optimization to ensure long-term success and efficiency: 
Post-Migration Review: Conduct a thorough review of the migration process to identify lessons learned and areas for improvement. This includes analyzing any issues encountered, user feedback, and overall system performance. 
Performance Tuning: Optimize the performance of the new system by fine-tuning configurations, indexing strategies, and query optimizations. Regularly monitor system performance and make necessary adjustments. 
Data Quality Monitoring: Implement ongoing data quality monitoring to maintain the integrity and accuracy of your data. Use automated tools to detect and address data quality issues proactively. 
Data Lifecycle Management: Develop and implement policies for data lifecycle management, including data retention, archiving, and disposal. This ensures that your data remains relevant, accessible, and secure over time. 
Scalability Planning: Plan for future scalability to accommodate growth in data volume and user demand. Ensure that your infrastructure and processes can handle increased load without compromising performance. 
Continuous Training and Support: Provide ongoing training and support to users to help them adapt to changes and fully utilize the new system. Regularly update training materials and support resources to reflect any system enhancements. 
Feedback Loops: Establish continuous feedback loops with users and stakeholders to gather insights and make iterative improvements. Use this feedback to refine processes, enhance user experience, and address emerging needs. 
Conclusion 
Continuous improvement and optimization are vital for maximizing the long-term benefits of your data migration project. By regularly reviewing and enhancing your processes, you can ensure sustained performance, data quality, and user satisfaction. Embrace a culture of continuous improvement to keep your data management practices aligned with evolving business needs and technological advancements. 
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yourcutelittlegayfriend · 8 months ago
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No More Chances
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✧ M A S T E R L I S T ✧
Yandere Platonic Batfamily x Neglected Regressing GN Reader
In which a sad little child of a Wayne is somehow curse by the fates to live again and again, facing death in the end just to relive their fears, trauma and neglect from their own family.
Will they find away to end this looping nightmare or to live another reset again just to find a good gooddamn ending?.
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Warning this Fic will contain:
Suicide and Suicidal thoughts, Death [Mainly Y/N's], Violence, Cursing, Drugs and substances, Guns and other weapons, Family Neglect, Talk about traumas or phobias, out of characters from the DC characters, mixed versions of the Batfamily [Will be mentioned if there are changes or implications of specific depictions of comics, games or other media for DC characters], Typos [ I can edit if there are typos but don't expect perfect or poetic English from me cuz I'm not that great in English ] and lastly This is NOT a Jinx!Reader I only had inspo of jinx and Arcane reference for this they are not fully Jinx because if they are then that would be a different fic now.
EXTRA EXTRA NOTE :
For the love of anything out there if you do not like to consume these type of fics in tumblr, DO NOT message or comment to me about how you don't like to read yandere or even x reader fanfictions in your feed, it's not my fault, I don't control your recommendation or what pops up in your screen, you have fingers SCROLL AWAY.
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PROLOGUE
Chapter 1 : Dear Mother, Goodbye
Chapter 2 : A New Reset, An Old Story
Chapter 3 : Hello Father, Die
Chapter 4 : Oh Love, Why can't I See You?
Chapter 5 : Poor Goldilocks, Nothing Is Just Right
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[ O N G O I N G ]
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Headcannons
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Fate's Chapter Assessment
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No More Chances Q&A [#No More Chances Q&A]
Flasbacks&Babies
Doodles& Hallucinations
BadguyOrNot?
-✧✦✧-INTERTWINED FATES-✧✦✧-
Melody composed by fate [song fic]
Death by Family
Father
Sons
Daughters
Grandfather
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✧✦✧ CRACKED VISIONS ✧✦✧
Imma finna rock yo' shit
Black Betty Bam Balam
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EDIT & UPDATES 07/04/2025
TAGLIST IS NO MORE I'm sorry but majority of the usernames here doesn't exist or I can't tag and it takes too much time for me to double check so I'll be doing my best to provide you Masterlist and Links instead.
This fic will start to migrate to different sites such as AO3 and Quote along with few upcoming fics I have planned so it'll take more time.
Q&A for No More Chances are open (Don't ask for updates you already know why I don't post much)
[ If you're having trouble finding the chapters for this fic all of them will be tag with #No More Chances or find #Masterlist ] (all images are from mixed media of screenshots, Pinterest, tumblr and google)
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simpurnatural · 6 months ago
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"Feelings" || Requested Oneshot
XO, Kitty - Min Ho Moon x Fem!Reader
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Note from Nat: "I received this oneshot request from @plutoOooO! And this is also how I'm announcing that requests are finally open again! *fireworks and confetti* Enjoy loves <3"
Warning(s): Cussing, Smut, Overstimulation,
Kitty plays Matchmaker once again while everyone's preparing for Chuseok at KISS. This leads to both yours's and Min Ho's untold feelings to step into the spotlight once and for all. Feelings quite stronger than just a crush
"I've brought the shopping!" you called out as you stepped into the boys' dorm room. "Q? Kitty?" you say, kicking off your sneakers and heading into the kitchen.
"Hey Y/n!" Kitty greeted after stepping out of her bedroom. "Thanks so much for wanting to help with Chuseok." she smiled as she gave you a hug.
"Of course! I had no idea that so many of us were staying in town for the holiday," you replied, pulling away from the hug. "So, what exactly are we making? Because all I did was follow the list," you said with a little laugh.
"It isn't exactly me and you cooking but rather you and Min Ho," Kitty explained with a knowing grin, which made you heartbeat quicken.
"Me and-"
"-Yep," she nodded, "You guys will be able to spend proper one on one time, totally undisturbed,".
Your lips formed a thin line as you turned to the kitchen sink, “I think I’m going to be sick,” you coughed.
“You’ll be fine, and plus-this is the perfect time to clear the air,” Kitty reminded, patting your back gently.
You and Min Ho had been friends for years. And for half that time, you’ve had feelings for the playboy. And what came with being a playboy? Countless girls, random or never seen again after a few days spent with the friend group.
You always felt as if Min Ho would never want something serious, let alone possible ruin such a good friendship with you. So, for such a long time, you pushed your thoughts and feelings for him away.
No one realized how deep your feelings for Min Ho were til Kitty showed up. She made it her mission as a self-proclaimed Matchmaker to get you two together. She says that “There is definitely some chemistry between you guys.”
“Hey Y/n,” a voice said cheerfully, that voice belonged to Min Ho. “Thanks for getting the shopping,” he beamed as he walked towards you.
“Okay I gotta get going,” Kitty said quickly, dismissing herself from the conversation and the front door shut behind her.
“Hi,” you said with a tight smile, awkwardly moving to grab a couple pans and pots. “What’s on the menu today?” you ask, trying your best to not act weird.
“Well, I do have a method, so I’ll just need you either chop or stir stuff,” Min Ho said as he got closer and placed an arm around your shoulders. “I deem you, my sous chef,” he joked but you couldn’t even find anything he said humorous.
Your stomach felt as if it was flipped upside down. And maybe you were sweating? Maybe you were turning pale? Who knows. But all you knew was that you had no escape and no backup.
“Y/n?”
You snapped out of your nervous daze and looked back up at Min Ho. His face flashed with concern, catching on to your lack of attentiveness.
"Ah yes, I'll just be stirring and chopping away," you say, hands motioning both actions before you quickly dropping them-feeling like a proper idiot.
"Right, let's get to it." Min Ho says, migrating all the veggies and herbs on the counter to the sink. "How come you didn't go visit family Chuseok?" he asks.
"It's quite the journey just to be there for 48 hours or less," you shrugged, clearing the counter of any shopping bags and trash. "What about you?" you questioned.
"As you know, my mom and I usually celebrate Chuseok together, but she couldn't this year. So, she sent me a basket." Min Ho explains, pointing to the gift basket that sat on one of the bar stools.
"That's sweet of her," you commented, glancing over at the present.
Yeah, but my dad? Not so much," he chuckled, drying all the veggies and placing them next to the cutting board. "Can you get started on these?" he requested with a smile.
"Of course," you nodded, absent-mindedly reaching for the onion that was still in Min Ho's hands. "Oh-I"m sorry," you said quickly; after watching it drop to the ground.
"Are you alright Y/n? If you're not up to it, I can get figure this out on my own," he said as he plucked the onion from the floor, wiping it down with a paper towel.
"I'm okay, it's just-" you paused.
"It's what exactly?" Min Ho asks curiously, looking deep into your eyes with his coal black ones.
You took a deep breath before saying, "Okay, Kitty left me here with you so that I could confess my feelings for you". Minho merely blinked so you continued to ramble on. "But clearly, the pressure of me explaining how I fell in love you but also don't want to risk our friendship literally eats my alive!"
"-And I totally understand that you don't feel the same way about me because of that blank look on your face. I just don't know how to stop feeling the way I do about you. I've tried talking to other people and even going on dates but always realized it's you who I wanted to be with." you sigh, and Min Ho squinted slightly with his head tilted to the side.
"-Don't even get me started on the total tens you bring to our hangouts," you add, referring to the girls he brings around. "You're out of my league and such a catch. So honestly, I seem pretty stupid for thinking you might even as much as like me back." you groan as you stormed out of the kitchen and began putting your shoes back on.
"-I just can't do this. I'll just leave." you say, your face feeling hot as you reached for the door.
"Do I not get a say in this?" Min Ho asked, grab hold of your wrist gently.
"I don't feel like hearing you shut me down right now," you grumbled as you turned back to face him.
"Y/n, I'm not going to," he replied with a smile, making your eyes widen.
"What?" you said quickly.
"Why would I? I've fallen for you so hard; a lot, not a little bit." he confessed. "I always thought you were too good for me," he said, now taking proper hold of your hand in his. "You are just so perfect and I'm just me," he shrugged.
You stood in the entryway in disbelief. Min Ho had felt the same way this whole time and you had not a single clue about it.
"If I had known sooner, I would've already done something about it," he said with a smile as he stepped forward and cupped your cheek.
"L-like what exactly?" you stuttered, your breathing hitched as your nose brushed against each other.
"This." Min Ho muttered, pulling you in for a kiss.
Min Ho's soft lips pressed gently against yours and it felt as if they moved in sink. Your arms were slung around his neck as his found their place at the small of your back.
The world felt still but also as if it were spinning, with your eyes shut-all you could focus on was on close Min Ho had pulled you in. It was like he didn't want to ever let you go or move on from this moment. Perhaps you both became the center of gravity, and everything was being put into place.
Both of you pulled away instinctively for some air and your eyes fluttered open, settling on Min Ho's gaze. Your faces remained merely a few centimeters apart, sharing the same breath before leaning once again.
This time, there was a certain kind of passion in the way your kiss felt. Your heart was pounding as your hands ran through Min Ho's well-kept hair. His lips left yours's and began a trail to your jawline, down to your neck.
A gasp escaped your lips as he began suckling on your skin. Quickly being able to identify your sweet spots. Your knees felt as if they were going to give out as he pulled your blouse down for more access. His lips felt like a heaven, you could only imagine how the rest of him was going to feel.
"Oh my-" you moaned as Min Ho worked his way around, leaving marks wherever possible.
"Yes?" he mumbled against your skin, watching how your thighs shifted against each other. "Tell me what you want," he said as he pulled away from your neck.
"You, I want you," you sighed as your chest rose and fell heavily.
Min Ho's hands drifted to the hem of your trousers, his fingers pulling the zipper down. You held breath as he pulled them down nice and slow.
“Is this, okay?” he questioned, his hand hovering over your clothed pussy. “Y/n?” He said as he looked up and into your eyes.
“Y-yes,” you nodded as he also pulled down your underwear, helping you take completely remove any clothing from your lower half.
Min Ho then stood up and led you around the kitchen and motioned for you to sit at one of the barstools. You wordlessly complied, getting comfortable in your seat just for Min Ho to pull you in. Both literally and mentally, you were on the edge of your seat.
He then placed himself between your legs, his face directly in front of your dripping cunt and your legs over his shoulder. Min began kissing your inner thighs, teasingly getting a bit closer every time.
“I wish I knew sooner how wet I get you,” he smirked before brushing his fingers against your fold. “How badly you wanted me,” he says, beginning to rub your clit gently.
In a repetitive circular motion, his finger worked your pussy. His eyes darkened with lust, watched as your chest rose and shuddered with every breath. Your head thrown back, but he could still hear you heavy breathing and soft moans.
He then pushed a finger through your fold and slowly. You gasped as you felt him slid into your pussy with ease. Min Ho chuckled due to the noises that escaped your lips, provoking him to insert a second finger.
Curving his finger slightly against your walls, your own hands were holding your position steady on the stool. Just then your phone rang, you and Min Ho both froze for a second.
“I think that might be Kitty,” you sighed as Min Ho pulled from you. “Hey,” you say after grabbing your phone and answering the call.
“How’s everything going?” She asks excitedly, unaware of the literal position you were in.
“Everything’s going just fine,” you reply as Min Ho pulled you away from the counter, guiding you to the couch. “What’s up Kitty?” you question.
“Well, I just wanted to know what the status was on the food,” she replied as you watched Min Ho take off his pants and boxers. “We are just setting up a couple more decorations,” she adds, while you both sat down.
It was difficult to focus on the call when the guy who just fingered was stripping down. His toned abs were where your attention was at. Your eyes noticeably widened and focused down south.
“Yeah, we’re a little behind but can definitely get things done in 20-30 minutes?” you guesstimated. “I sort of did forget a few things, so we ordered for them to be delivered,” you lied, Min Ho moving you into a laying down position and your legs in the air.
“Are you okay?” Kitty questioned with worry in her tone, “Your breathing is a little heavy,” she reasons while Min Ho took his position on top of you.
“I’m f-fine,” you tried to assure as he caressed the tip of cock against your folds. “Just a bit peckish,” you add.
“Well did you guys talk it out yet?” She asks, you could visualize the giddy smile on her face.
“Yeah, and you know-“ you began before the phone was taken out of your grasp.
“Now’s not a good time Covey,” Min Ho huffed, tossing his head back to remove his sweat gelled hair back. “I need Y/n-“ he blanked, “-For pot stirring.” He blabbered quickly before hanging up.
“Pot stirring?” You snorted as Min Ho placed your phone on the coffee table.
“What? Did you want me to tell her what were really up?” He asked with a brow lifted.
“No,” you replied, your face turning bright red.
“Better be quick,” he sighed, “Hope you can take it,” he smirked as he finally pushed his cock deep inside your cunt.
With one of your legs over his shoulder, Min Ho began slamming his hips against yours. A rush of cold air hit your chest as Min Ho lifted up your top along with your bra.
You were a moaning mess as Min Ho continuously drilled into your walls. Every thrust becoming rougher and quicker than the previous one.
“So bloody wet for me,” Min Ho smiled smugly, “You can’t even say anything back-too busy taking this dick?” He wondered before slowing down.
“Why’d you stop?” You muttered almost incoherently, being able to lay still.
“Turn around,” he instructed, and you did as you were told. “I just wanna feel you come for me,” he grunted, shoving his cock back in your cunt.
Min ho propped you up against his chest. His hands greedily squeezing your tits. Your hands found their way reaching and gliding through his hair.
“You are so sexy,” Min Ho whispered in your ear. “Your pussy feels so good around me,” he says, placing kisses along your neck.
“Fuck,” you gasp, feeling a knot begin to form in your stomach.
“You’re close huh?” He muttered as you feel his hand trail down to your clit.
Min Ho started rubbing your clit and the blissful feeling that overcame you sent you into overdrive. You moans became increasingly pornographic as he hastened the speed of his hips.
“F-feels too good,” you slurred, “Min Ho-fuck it’s too good,” you said again.
“Well, I’m not gonna stop,” he murmured, looking down and watching your ass bounce on his dick. “Not til you cum,” he huffs.
“Stop,” you moaned, your cunt squeezing around his length, “Oh God,”
“Cum for me,” he said, the speed of his hand and his hips not wavering.
Your body shivered as a wave of ecstasy hit you, but Min Ho didn’t stop. This time, he bent you over and got his dick slamming into your sweet spot.
“Cum with me,” Min Ho huffed, his hands pulling you in repeatedly by the waste
“I c-can’t,” you whined, your vision becoming blurry.
“You pussy squeezing around my cock shows otherwise,” he moans, the clapping sound of your hips echoing through the dorm.
You felt like you were gonna pass out, everything felt too good. The way he kept fucking into you made you begin to shake.
“That’s it,” you hear Min Ho say, your cunt tightly entrapping his length again. “Don’t let me leave this pussy til you cum,”
As if on que, you came once more right as Min Ho pulled out and covered your back in his hot seed. You finally slumped onto the couch, eyes shut and breathing hot.
“I don’t think we’ll never not do that’s,” he chuckled, going to grab a towel.
Gently, Min Ho wiped you down and due to you lack leg function, he helped you put your clothes back on.
He also quickly threw a meal together, enough to cater for everyone meeting for Chuseok. You admired him from the couch, since he insisted you rest while he cooked.
Still shirtless, he prepared everything for the trek back to main campus. Since you were going to have to walk, Min Ho decided to carry everything.
“Where have you guys been?” Q questioned; everyone was already finding their seats.
“Busy whipping up a good meal,” Min Ho replied as he handed off the food to Kitty. “Sit with me?” He asked as he turned to you.
“Of course,” you smiled as you both went to sit with your group of friends.
When everyone was finally seated and Kitty gave a little speech, Min Ho held your hand. Looking over at him, he gave a cheeky grin.
“I’m glad to have spent it with you,” he smiled.
“So sappy,” you joked as Kitty sat across from you before eating the dinner on your plate.
“You guys look like you did more than talked,” she whispered, and your eyes widened.
“And what exactly did they do Ms. Covey?” Lee questioned between bites.
“Made-uh such a delicious meal,” Kitty said quickly. “Chuseok really brings people together,” she laughed forcefully.
“Right,” Professor Lee muttered.
JAN 2025
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laterreurofficial · 1 year ago
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LT Doodle Stream Recap/Questions!
(Part 1/Part 2)
Hello everyone! Wisteriasymphony here. Yesterday the LT hivemind had the wonderful experience of our first doodle stream together!
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For the purposes of cataloging all of the questions we answered on our stream (because somebody doesn't know how streaming works yet *COUGH COUGH*), I'm going to be answering them all here!
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La Terreur takes place in 2002, and the events of the timeline last about a year. Of course, it's a retrofuturistic cyberpunk-y 2002, which explains later developments like the alliance ring and so on.
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They're the same au! Miracle Exposure has just been a tag Silu has used to categorize talking about the effects of the miraculous, but it all happens within LT.
Hawkmoth is already a pretty solid design as is. Shadowmoth and Monarch will probably get overhauls later on, but why fix what isn't broken? Hawkmoth is already just the right amount of gross and creepy and fancy and bald, so no need to revamp that.
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The consensus to far is that Felix arrived before the quarantine was instated, but he could easily have bribed officials into letting him into Paris if he needed to. The quarantine is mostly to keep people in, and if some idiot with a death wish high-paying member of the british aristocracy is willing to give money to a dying city just for a ticket in, then why wouldn't they let him?
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@gaussiansphere put it quite nicely in the stream when he said that the heroes aren't trapped in Paris physically, but mentally. There's nothing theoretically stopping Ladybug from blowing a hole in the defenses of Paris and going on the run, but she has a moral obligation to protect her city. Everyone else feels roughly the same way, though we did discuss the idea of having the concept of migration fit Max better by virtue of his big goals in life involving getting out of Paris.
Also, the miraculous will likely be passed out differently. We're not following exact episodes, only storylines.
On a similar note....
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Ladybug will probably alternate who she gives all of the minor miraculous to multiple times over the course of the story. She would find it ridiculous to pass them out to people "for keeps", as @sillysiluriforme put it, and before a certain point in the story will favor adult holders over teen holders. (Not saying why this changes though heehee, spoilers.)
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MUCHAS GRACIAS!!!!!!!!!! Los ships no son un foco de La Terreur, pero.. Adrigaminette 100% mejor del mundo JAJAJAJA XP. de lo contrario es lo mismo que el canon.
Opinions de los kwamis hacia sus portadores es q los ven como niños. Son indiferentes a la humanidad en realidad. Los kwamis también los vicios q usan sus portadores para obtener. (Adrien huele a tabaco Y queso apestoso :/ Marinette no se afectada porque Tikki quiere el sabores dulces en su vaporizador).
#wispanol arc hehe. also YES you saw that right English audience, the kwamis are smokers. Marinette has to ask Luka's bandmates for vapes because the closest bodega to her house is run by a sweet Chinese grandma who her mom likes talking to, so if she bought from there she'd be absolutely screwed. Adrien just buys all of the tobacco as Chat, though.
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We're not planning on having Aspik show up in LT, at least as far as we have planned. If he did, however, his rat eating desire would definitely go through the roof. He'd probably try and time his rat-eating specifically for when he's Chat Noir, just to make things easier for himself. (Until he eats one as Adrien by accident and has to live with the mental baggage for the rest of his miserable little life...)
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Well.. there are a lot of characters that really don't need redesigns! Or where redesigns would be extremely minimal. Marinette's dad only really needs to get proportional legs and then that's it, and the same philosophy extends to most of the other minor characters.
Here are some of @clemnoir's designs for the rest of the class, though!
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In fact, her lovely annotations somewhat answer another question we received....
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We haven't figured out everyone yet, but the scholarships group so far is: Kim, Max, Ivan, Rose, Nathaniel, and Mylene. Adrien, Chloe, Sabrina, Alix, and Marinette are all paid tuition.
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There could be! The ancient miraculous are indeed destroyed, much like the infinite amount of others like them, Bearinette and Lambdrien are just explorations of what it would be like if they hadn't been. The bear and lamb miraculous are not canon to LT, nor would any future ancients be. If we get any good ideas, you'll see them.
[wis is biting all of her fingers to prevent herself from talking about the coyote....]
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The big issue Marinette has with being Multimouse is that she's no longer respected as the leader, at least as much as she's used to. Because she sees Ladybug as more of a responsibility than fun superpowers, her side effects are more psychological by consequence, whereas Adrien's are more physical. She also feels some sense of jealousy towards Scarabella, as well as general insecurity over not being the leader when she's Multimouse... but despite this she continues to use the Mouse Miraculous more often than in canon just for the sake of "training" Alya.
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Silu dice muchas gracias!!!!! ...No conocen sus identidades fsgdss. Exposición al milagros del raton causa disocociación, duplicación no literal para Marinette jajaj. (Pero, no puedo decir si dos Marinettes aparecen en LT..... tal vez, tal vez no? huummmm)
Tambien, ellos comiendo ratones en privado. Nadie los trae en su almuerzo. Todos ellos tratan con sus síntomas en secreto.
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Violence and misery and horror and class dynamics. I'll get into it more in Part 2, but characters' relationships to power is a huge part of this AU, both of the magical and non-magical variety.
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stvrlightt09 · 1 year ago
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let’s do it, this is needed 😭😭
should we have a separate tag called “quotev feed” so we can post our very random out of pocket thoughts?
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bellatrixobsessed1 · 29 days ago
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Deertracks
Happy pride month! This one is a demo/tester for a larger idea that I have in my documents. For those of you who want to know what I had in mind when writing about the herding call it was this and this . This is the instrument that Icy was playing.
Summary: Bloom gets separated from the Winx in a frozen forest she runs into what very well could be the planet's sole inhabitant.
“Do you ever get lonely?” Bloom asks. 
The woman shakes her head. 
“But there’s no one around.” 
No one but the reindeer. There must be at least a hundred of them. 
The woman gestures to the reindeer. 
“But they can’t really talk to you.” Bloom replies.
At the woman’s shrug, Bloom realizes that it doesn’t matter.
She is as quiet as the newly fallen snow around her and regards Bloom with an apprehensive curiosity. Bloom wonders if she can talk, if she knows or remembers how. Or if she has been out here alone with her reindeer for so long that words have slipped her mind. 
“Aren’t you cold?”
She shakes her head. 
But, no, she definitely remembers language. She understands Bloom just fine. And so Bloom asks a more open ended question. “What are you doing out here on your own?” And so very far away from everyone and everything. 
The woman’s lips part and for a moment Bloom thinks that she will speak. Instead she takes the jingly reigns of the her largest reindeer—the one with the bright white tinsel like fur and the massive blue horns—and gestures for Bloom to follow. 
This time it is Bloom who hesitates. She doesn’t know the woman has never spoken to her before now. But she is already lost so she may as well keep company with the only person she has come by in days. Bloom wonders if maybe this woman had gotten lost too and simply adapted to this place. Or maybe she was born here in this frigid realm and never thought nor desired to leave it. 
She casts a glance over her shoulder and frowns.
There are a few stragglers—stubborn reindeer that haven’t moved an inch to follow the rest of the herd.
And finally Bloom hears the woman’s voice. It ripples over the otherwise quiet landscape like water on sateen sheets. It is a chilling sound with shrill tones, smooth as the ice atop the river that they are set to cross. It weaves and bounces around the trees like the curtains of light in the sky.
And the stragglers are now trotting by her side. She holds a hand to their fur; one at a time she gives them sturdy pats.
“Do you speak reindeer or something?”
The woman shrugs and Bloom takes that to mean ‘or something’.
“Where are we going.” she doesn’t expect an answer. And she doesn’t get one so she simply docs under the branch that the woman moves aside for her. She wonders if maybe the woman doesn’t speak her language. But if that were the case then she wouldn’t have responded to the first few questions. The snow is falling steadily and Bloom shivers deeper into her coat. The woman, dressed quite minimally for the weather, doesn’t seem to mind. Really the landscape is quite beautiful washed in a sparkling white. The branches of trees are coated in a glimmering case of ice. Some of which hang heavy with jagged icicles that swirl and spiral. Now and then Bloom spots a set of meandering tracks, possibly wolf, definitely reindeer and some moose. Clumps of feathers and pine needles rest partially buried at the bases of trees, fluttering in a breeze that will eventually carry them away.
They reach edge of the river where the water is still shallow enough to see the smooth black rocks and sand beneath the ice. The woman steps onto the ice but Bloom is still skeptical. She bites her lip. “Is this safe? Will the ice be strong enough to hold both of us and all of these reindeer?”
The woman glances at Bloom and gestures to the many reindeer and moose migration tracks. There are hundreds of them all following the same well loved path. And the woman steps onto the river. The ice makes a disconcerting crunching crackle but the woman remains not only unperturbed but also quite eager. 
The first reindeer follows her onto the ice and the rest follow. And finally, after all of the reindeer make it a good distance out onto the river, Bloom takes her first step. The woman waits for her at the river’s center, surrounded by the herd.
Impulsively, Bloom reaches for the woman’s hand and, to her surprise, their hands remain linked until they reach the river’s other side.
.oOo.
Outside, Bloom can hear the jingling of the bells that adorn the reindeers’ reins.
Inside she can hear the sharp plucks of a Kantele—each note piercing the air like icy darts. 
The space is surprisingly cozy. At the center of the room is a spread of pelts around a very small firepit with a kettle hung over it. She has a collection of spears and knives and a bow or two. The frosty ceiling is trimmed by small antlers while the doorless entryway is flanked by antlers of impressive size—moose, if Bloom had to guess. 
The woman also owns a bunch of miscellaneous bones, smooth stones, adn fur-lined cloaks that are almost definitely handwoven. Pressed into the snowy walls are thick pine branches. 
“Did you build this…snow fort…” she doesn’t know what the structure is properly called, “...yourself?”
The woman nods as she begins lighting a fire with a flint stone, a beaten knife, and a few frail pieces of peeled birch bark.
“The reindeer pens and feeders too?”
Another nod.
“You aren’t worried that they are going to wander off?”
She shakes her head. “They come and go.”
Bloom nearly gasps. The woman’s speaking voice is just as soft and ethereal as her singing voice. She strikes the flint again and finally a fire roars to life. 
“They just…wander?”
Another nod. 
“But they’re yours.” 
And another. 
“Do they know it?”
She shrugs and then, just when Bloom thinks that she won’t, elaborates, “They always come back.” She wanders away from the fire and over to a sizable box made of ice. She takes a few slabs of meat from it and plucks a few pouches from the branches that jut out of the wall. Herbs, Bloom notices. 
“I’m guessing that you hunted and foraged on your own too?”
She nods.
Very self-sufficient. Bloom supposes that she ought to be if she’s living so isolated and remote.
“What’s your name?”
The woman tilts her head and her brows scrunch. 
“Your name! Like everyone calls me Bloom.” 
“Bloom…” She repeats.
“Yeah. That’s me. Who are you?”
“Me.” She replies. 
“But what is your name?”
She places the slabs of meat onto a pan and sprinkles them with seasoning. And then she shrugs. 
“You don’t have a name?” Now Bloom’s brows are scrunched. 
But then, living this far away from everyone, what use would she have for a name. If it is just she and her reindeer.
“Can I give you a name?” That sounds so stupid and offensive. But the woman shrugs
The woman picks up a handful of snow, cups her other hand over it an Bloom catches a flash of magic. When she opens her hand, Bloom sees a small ice reindeer standing in her palm. She holds it out to Bloom.
“For me?”
The woman nods. 
“Can I call you Icy?”
The woman nods. Bloom is under the impression that Icy will let her call her by any name. But Icy seems to fit well enough.
“Do you ever get lonely?”
Bloom is met with another head tilt. As if Icy had ever thought to be lonely. “How often do you get to talk to people?”
The woman seems to ponder the question. “Now and then.” Likely in passing.
“Can you help me find my friends? I got separated from my group. We were on an expedition to find this crystal that could help break a spell cast on one of our friends.” And that group has all of the gear, all of the food, and the directions to get back to the Red Fountain ship that will take them home.What if they assume that she froze to death and just leave her!? It was a nightmare to enter Dyamond with a craft, she can only imagine trying to get out of it without one. “Do you ever leave this planet?”
Icy shakes her head.
“Did you ever want to?”
She repeats the motion and does so a third time when Bloom asks if she ever tried.
“Is this…was this your kingdom.”
Icy nods and Bloom’s heart tickles as it all starts to come together; this planet had been frozen over very recently, within her lifetime. The woman had family and friends probably just a decade or so ago… “I’m sorry.”
Icy removes the fully cooked meat from the pan and offers Bloom a plate. 
“Do you know where my friends might have gone to look for the crystal?”
Icy rises and beckons for Bloom to follow. She gestures to a loaded travel pack that is strapped to the large reindeer with the tinsel-like fur. And then she points at the plate in Bloom’s hand. The one that she hasn’t yet touched. “Eat first, travel later. Got it.” Bloom flashes a grin. She follows Icy back into the shelter. It is rather hard to eat when the woman is staring so intensely at her. And she begins to wonder what kind of travel companion the woman is going to be. 
Certainly not the chatty sort. 
It will be an interesting journey for certain.
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missconchshell · 2 months ago
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Okay, I read all of the Webtoon Cinderella Boy the other day, and loved it so much that after watching Punko's Q&A streams and hearing about her past comics, I decided I needed to read more of Punko's work. So today I hunkered down and read all of Stagtown. And let me just say, that was a BAADDDD idea (not really).
While I have a sorta morbid fascination with horror and have read a few comics in the genre before, I am unfortunately a very anxious person, which meant I was peeking around the corner and jumping at every noise in the house the entire time I was reading it. The first few hours weren't too bad, as I was reading in the daytime, but as it got darker, I got a lot jumpier (both the sun and the comic seemed to have coordinated to make things spookier for me). I even went so far as to migrate to my sister's room, where I now had a small child who would protect me from the creepy goop. Said small child managed to get me to audibly gasp at the sound of a rubber chicken, so I think that says plenty about how well this comic can set you on edge! And the sense of relief when the story finally ended was so palpable, I could feel the tension and anticipation slowly start to leave my bones. Unfortunately, before I could fully recover, I was subsequently kicked out of my sister's room and sent to brave the dark depths of the house on my own. I sit writing this bundled in a blanket on my bed with my lamp on and the door open, and I think it's gonna stay that way for the rest of the night.
Now that I've bared my childish fear of the dark, onto all the praise this comic deserves! The art is beautiful and haunting, with the limited color palette really enhancing the tone, and making those moments where things got bright hit all the harder. Punko had me panicking at just the sight of purple text, which is honestly so impressive. And the horrors, oh the horrors! The monster designs are so creepy, and the worst ones we never even see in full, and yet they stick out so much more! Even deer are no longer safe for me, I don't I'll be able to look one in the eyes any time soon without it sending a shiver down my spine!
The characters are also amazing. I didn't think I would love them nearly as much as Cinderella Boy's cast, but amidst the horror, Punko found plenty of time to establish everyone's personalities and to endear us to each character as we watched them grow close to each other throughout the story. Frankie and Felix were awesome buddies, and I loved learning about Jeremy and his history! I was so excited when I realized like halfway through that I recognized Frankie's design from some Cinderella Boy chapters! I immediately paused my Stagtown marathon to reread those chapters with fresh eyes, and it was so much more fun knowing who these people were and getting to see them escape from Stagtown for a bit!
As for the story, I loved the little segmented encounters that slowly built up into a grand plot, which constantly kept the characters and I on our toes. The slow drip of information about the town and the entities within it was amazing. There was a constant fear of what was to come, with some panels so spooky I had to pause my scrolling in order to mentally prepare myself. And yet, even with the fear, the mystery was so fascinating I just couldn't stop, giving me the courage to hit that Next Chapter button each time.
Also, Deer Mom's segments were always hilarious, and knowing what Punko went through during the creation of this comic, it was so nice to get to see her rest at the end of it all! She definitely deserved it for creating such a beautiful, horrifying tale.
Seriously, Punko's knocked it out of the park with everything I've seen from her (including her Cinderella Boy fanfics on AO3), and I hope she gets to breathe and enjoy life in return for all the joy (and fear) that she's brought so many people! She's certainly made a loyal fan out of me in the span of this past week! Looking forward to being a proud member of the WUB Club when Cinderella Boy comes back from hiatus!
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sorentymn · 3 months ago
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The Istanbul incident.
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A highly volatile piece of technology had been stolen from an MI6 courier. Suspected involvement with highly trained counterintelligence warrants the presence of 007 and the recently appointed Quartermaster himself.
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Content: Multi-chapters, 18+, mentions of violence and probably smut down the line. :p
A/N: I recently rewatched James Bond again, and the love I have for this ship is beyond unhealthy so here's a treat for fellow 00Q fanatics. 
This is set sometime after Skyfall.  
In which Bond has the fattest crush ever, honestly.
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CHAPTER II.
This was the handiwork of FSB agent Zhenya K., the very same operative responsible for a seismic leak at Interpol some years back, whose monitoring since has been a colossal effort.
Put up against the natural course of time, this leak's harrowing consequences faded in the minds of ever-changing MI6 staff. New terrors manifest every other day, and eventually, the big bad wolf of now fades into the topic of casual chit-chat at the coolers until it resurfaces to give everyone a great big headache. 
"CCTV surveillance last recorded her around here." Q looked up briefly to point out a lavish townhouse, then returned to his laptop, his fingers working the keyboard like a manic pianist. When he was certain the earbuds were in working order, he passed them to Bond like spare change, his mind already migrated to something else in his mental checklist. 
As Bond watched the young Quartermaster, a piece of information returned to him. Moneypenny had mentioned in passing that this was Q's first time operating in the field. If Q hadn’t been less verbal than usual, Bond would've never guessed. He'd followed the ritual without a hitch since they left the hotel.
It is one thing to remain tethered in an office miles away from danger, and then there is the real threat of physically being in it. To someone without years of exposure to direct violence, even the potential alone could be a heavy load. Bond couldn’t sympathise fully anymore, but he can remember the first kills. 
As Bond was putting in his earbud, he rested his other hand gently on the younger man's shoulder, which caused him to stiffen more than he already was. Q looked up for the first time since they entered the car with a puzzled look and was met with something tender.
That ice-capped gaze that made most people scurry and hide was saying something gentle without a sound, and briefly, the men exchanged the faintest of smiles before they returned to reality. 
Back to business.
As smoothly as breathing, Bond checked the cartridge, then smoothed the fabric of his dark long sleeves; a brief run of his fingers through his hair as the final count before he opened the door.
"Good luck, 007" 
Bond paused for a beat, then nodded at the young man. He always found Q's finishing touch comforting.
Bond enters the house through the back door with a deceptively small and efficient decryption device courtesy of the Q branch. The lights were off, the only sign of life being a faint tune humming from upstairs as if it was luring him in. He couldn't detect a voice amongst the sombre jazz, no footsteps either, only running water and his sturdy heartbeat.
So he followed the melody up to the third floor, positioned, poised to shoot all the while thanking the homeowner's aesthetic choice of carpeted floors for his muffled steps.
When he was finally pressed up behind a wall separating the corridor and the only room with lights switched on, he heard a window being pulled open harshly. Shit.  
Bond rounded the corner, narrowly avoiding a bullet, during the brief seconds Bond took to recenter, she slipped through the opening with the case in hand. It seemed something tipped her off, but he didn't have time to analyse his mistake. The hunt was on, and he leapt out of the window onto a neighbouring ledge, an uneven terracotta roof that shook with every rushed step.
The target is remarkably fast considering the weight she's carrying. He is now running at top speed, the adrenaline pulsing in his veins, silencing everything else around him as he steps out of her bullet path one after the other. Bond is now 007; all that he is condensed into one objective, and he’s willing to bet his mortality to win. 
After some daring stunts and high-speed home invasions, his lungs were beginning to seriously burn, a harsh reminder of his limits. His bad knee started to creak, pressuring him to end the pursuit.
He managed to close in on her, but just as he reached out, one of the tiles slipped from its place, sending Bond careening off the roof. He clung onto the rain grate seconds before falling off the edge. With that same momentum, he directed the swing up to fire his Walther and luckily managed to put a hole right in the middle of her right leg, subduing her.  
He found her clinging to the edge with one hand, the other gripping the handle of the case so tightly he could tell by the look in her eyes she was fighting whether to protect the case or her own life. At her creative string of profanities, Bond only looked on completely vacant, with a hand outstretched, beckoning for the case. 
He continued to watch her inner turmoil play out on her features, making no move to ease her situation.
"The case." He waited and waited; he had no reason to press her as it seemed like she was edging towards an answer, but as she lifted the case to him, the sound of a gunshot broke the air, iron and wetness everywhere as Bond fell back against the roof. He could feel the wetness sprayed across his face.
Someone shot her off the edge, and along with her body, the case fell to the ground with a gnarly sound upon impact. 
"Fuck!" 
Q, who'd remained silent over the comms since Bond entered the house, finally spoke. 
"007, it seems we've got company-" 
"Yes, I noticed Q." Bond bit back harshly as he picked himself up, eyes locked on the motorbike that appeared from nowhere to retrieve the case from the former target's lifeless clutch before speeding off. 
"Are you seeing this?" 
"Yes, I'm tracking him now, he's headed towards a highway leading out of the city he must be headed towards the airstrip." 
Q's voice remained still despite Bond's gnashing. With new intel, Bond rushed down the narrow alley and not so politely annexed a retro-looking bike from a teenage boy preoccupied with a group of girls who only gaped wordlessly in Bond’s direction as he sped off. 
For the next tense minutes, Q expertly relayed shortcuts after another, which required sheer luck and being James Bond himself to execute. (This man's pension for borderline suicidal athleticism will never cease to amaze.) Finally, he managed to deliver Bond right behind the shooter, and now it's the battle of motor strength. 
"007, get him, if you miss him at the next turn we might lose him." 
"Very helpful, Q. Don't suppose you've got magic words to make this bloody thing go faster than a geriatric donkey." Bond caught a sigh from Q. 
"That's not very nice" 
"Well, do you?" 
Bond somehow jokes in his bout of adrenaline madness, as he does, Bond dodges a collision that sends a car flying in a pirouette mid-air as they speed closer and closer towards a line of cement barricade that would effectively cut him and the target into separate tunnels. 
"007, you grab that case and I'll do more than recite magic spells." Q barks in an attempt to alleviate the pressure in his chest, which means that, unlike his usually filtered self, the mildly suggestive nature of his outburst was lost on him until it was too late. 
Bond despite being under the kind of pressure that would send any normal man into shock honest to god smirked and not that Q could see his face but somehow he was more than sure the agent was absolutely mocking him in that silence. 
"Is that a promise?" Bond said this as he sped the poor bike to its maximum, then leapt off onto an adjacent car that was steadily speeding to make the tunnel just behind the target. 
He put a bullet into the shooter's hind wheel, sending the bike sliding off the side of the road mere seconds before the shooter made the tunnel. Bond then jumped off, landing quite roughly on his bad shoulder, but was too hopped up on adrenaline to notice. 
He found the target in a gruesome position, confirming he did not survive the crash. 
"007 status report" 
"Target eliminated, I've got the case" 
"Is it damaged?" 
"No" 
"Good, excellent, well done, 007. We are on our way to you now." 
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They were driven outside of the city to a barren valley with no sign of civilisation. It was all rocky mounds with patches of green here and there, it looked apocalyptic and perhaps that's fitting for what they’re about to do.  
The two men hurried to flat ground, Bond and Q dropped their respective rucksacks to the dirt and then swiftly began unpacking the items into separate groups.
Q made as many deductions as he could manage about the contents of the case and brought several sets of bomb diffusing kits tailored to various types of explosives. A separate set should it be a biological component and several decryption tools of his own making.
Beside Q is a vigilant James Bond. As the quartermaster got busy organising tools for the operation, he remained on his feet with a rifle sturdy in his hands. The clearing leaves them vulnerable, but it was the closest location to extract the contents without compromising on time.
Bond finally crouched when he could sense no threat but his eyes continued to sweep along the mounds. The extraction process frankly makes him nervous; the not being able to dictate the process is something he'll always have a hard time trusting. Q had never failed him throughout the few times they'd worked together, and he is undoubtedly one of the brightest minds currently living, but the threat of what's inside chafed at him regardless.
When Bond peered behind him, Q was finally starting the process. In the same way, he easily became the young man behind the moniker, Q switched on his genius to tackle the threat. His focus is singular, effectively erasing just about everything around him save for the screen embedded in the case.
Q reached for a box containing a cubic machine with several wires attached and began to plug it into the exposed sockets on the case. The screen in the case blinks to life displaying complex web pixels to which Q starts typing long numeral sequences attempting to untangle the abstract lock. 
"Pandora, do be careful with that." Bond eager to assess the threat tried to draw out something from Q but his effort when wholly ignored. 
Q’s rapid punching of numbers continued until eventually the screen lifted from its mechanism exposing a screwed lid, what Bond assumed is housing the chip powering the case’s elaborate lock mechanism. Q started to unscrew the impossibly tiny screws but as he did a beeping sound announced itself, this made the two men pale. 
"Should I be saying my final words?" Bond joked again, but his face did not match the tone.
“If my little one here serves its purpose you might not have to" Bond frowned at this, noting the use of ‘might’
"Q, Is that you saying you're not sure?" 
"Not unsure, just calibrating, the lock mechanism on this case is not something I’m familiar with" Too candid. Q delivered this in a cold, analytical, and uncaring tone, Bond’s inquiry more a nuisance than anything he could be bothered to explain in the face of this deadly puzzle. 
"That's unsure" Q was determined to ignore this, but when Bond attempted to reach for his hand, Q swatted him away. 
"Oh, for Christ's sake! No, Bond, calibrating means I'm still figuring the bloody thing out. Would you like to die arguing semantics, or would you like to not be vaporised? Let me do my fucking job!”
Loud and clear. Bond squinted at him, and it's remarkably communicative, not to casual acquaintances but to those who've been around him enough to see more than a smirk or his resting poker face. Experts would conclude: "You little shit"
"Yes, I much prefer the silent brooding." Despite the alarming beeps, the cubic toy, Q’s trump card, seemed to have finished its battle with the ominous pixels. It announced its task done with a beep and Q with clinical precision, unscrewed the lid to reveal sets upon sets of tiny wires connected to the central chip. 
“Bond, I need your help” Bond assumed that the lack of beeping meant they were in the clear, but that was just the first layer because a countdown had started on the screen once again. 
“Bond”, Q repeated. The agent quickly moved to the opposite end of the case, grabbing the equipment laid out and quickly familiarising them with his grip.
His heart rate felt prominent before, but now it’s hurling itself against his ribcage, fighting its way out of his chest. He could feel the wetness at the back of his shirt, and Q looked no less dishevelled. 
"Alright, hold onto this wire", Bond complies, willing himself to do some meditative breathing only to make sure he is still in fact breathing. It won't do if his hands begin to shake. 
"And?" 
"Shut up, I'm thinking" Q was angling his wrist in different directions like he was choreographing the approach. 
"This one here, Bond", Q points at one of the blue wires, and Bond cuts it swiftly, only for it to backfire. The two cocked their heads to the timer only to see it cut by half. They now have exactly 10 seconds to disable the bomb. 
"Why is the timer down by half!" Bond roared. 
"Fuck.." Q genuinely seemed stressed, and that was one of the most terrifying things to witness. His life is put completely at the Quartermaster’s will, and he’s being all too revealing.
"Which one do I cut!" 
"...." 
"Q!" 
"Here the red one on three" The men's focus now clung to one another, They breathed in sequence 1...2...3...both wires were snipped, disabling the counter, and the screen that displayed their impending doom dimmed into nothing. 
There were successions of clacking sounds, and then the contents were revealed to them. Three vials sit neatly in their casing, inside which is a clear liquid that seems harmless if not for the several layers of clear casing and a series of interlocking lids. Identification will have to be done at the headquarters' secure labs.
Q hurried to the task, reassembling the case back to its initial state, effectively lifting the thick sense of doom permeating between them both.
A gust of wind exited Q as he put his tongs down into the kit box, and Bond threw them away as if they were burning his hands. They were both so taken by the sheer relief of not being exploded to pieces that the contents of that case no longer mattered.
They were both panting, staring at one another wildly as their chemicals hijacked their central control. Nothing was processing, no signals were going in or out, only sensations. 
If you asked Q, he would not be able to describe what happened in the seconds leading up to this. Bond seemed to lunge at him in slow motion with a look on his face like he was going to rip him in half, but it wasn't pain Q felt, no, he didn't get punched across the face for his life-threatening error.
He's now at this moment being kissed by James fucking Bond. 
His eyes fluttered shut out of instinct and shock. He was stone still, and only after long seconds later did he notice Bond’s lips gliding against his own, and he was kissing him back without realising it.
It was a tangled mess, like all the stress translated into a heated momentum. Finally, shaking hands pushed at James’s chest, and Q stared at him wide-eyed, lips beet red, and his glasses lopsided. 
"Bond wh-" 
"Sorry- I" He looked no less puzzled, which is bizarre on Bond's usually unreadable face. Q could see Bond bare for a brief second before they went cold again. The agent turned away, suddenly packing up the tools scattered around them with a very telling efficiency.
As Bond ferociously packed, Q lagged slightly behind, starting on the kit closest to him, unable to process the situation. All things considered, Bond's intentions were not concealed despite the surprise; what bothered Q was that he wanted more. So far, he'd been denying any attraction to the man, deciding it's a surface-level appreciation considering the agent's appeal and, well, his own lack of sex life.
Do I want him?
Before Q could reach out to him, the agent got up from his spot on the ground, along with two rucksacks slung on one shoulder to avoid the one he landed on. He staggered a little as he rose and began to limp in the direction of the van without a single word.
The ride back to the hotel was in uncomfortable silence. Neither one of the men looked at the other as they quietly processed the events. This silence extended to their return flight that same evening, without so much as a look shared between the two men as they parted ways after a dispatch team retrieved the case from them at the airport. 
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“Circe? That better not be you in the office!” Hearing no yowls in response to his call, Q sagged with the kind of exhaustion often seen on new mothers. The little witch in question had recently blossomed into an even more rambunctious teen, worse than she was as a kitten. Q is normally understanding to a fault, often spoiling Circe and Sybill the elder, but not today.
He’d had a particularly bad sleep, the source being the INCIDENT gnawing at him since it happened until now. So, there will be retribution for mugs knocked off tables this fine Saturday evening. And by retribution, he just means a particularly dirty stare at best. 
He stared emptily at a piping hot tea in his hand and decided against thwarting Circe’s onslaught in his home office and made for the sofa where Sybilla, his eldest feline daughter, was curled up with a look of pure hatred at her father. “Your sister, your turn today, Sibi, now scoot.” That she did, but more so to get away from him rather than tend to her sisterly duties. 
Q immediately fished for the remote somehow crammed beneath the slit in the sofa and flicked through the selections determined to settle on something as quickly as possible so he could ignore the gnawing bitterness in his chest.
Just when he was narrowing down on a sappy period drama, the doorbell sounded. Great. He reached for his phone and tapped on the surveillance app that connects all the cameras in and around his flat, ready to yell at a delivery man who did not deserve his temperament, but- 
“Q, my darling!” Eve. Of course, it's Eve. He hesitated, wondering if he’d rather pretend to be asleep. In some way, he did expect this visit. The woman seems to have some mystical abilities, he’s concluded, despite being a firm man of science. The way she always seems to know exactly what to say or when to manifest cannot be explained by excellent spy craft and audacity alone. 
This was his own doing, despite protocol which demands his presence at MI6 the minute he lands, he decided to take one out of Bond’s books and ignored his debrief meeting. He was too tired and too confused to pretend otherwise. So, seeing as the case got delivered safely, he dragged what was left of himself back into his flat and crashed face-first into deep sleep. 
This, of course, tipped off his best friend, who no doubt waited very patiently for the past week to hear how it all went.
“Q I know you’re awake, If you pretend to be asleep and ignore me I will tell Mrs Copeland you’re feeling under the weather” This part she whispered into the microphone (hidden behind a wooden panel she should have no idea is there), Despite the volume, the effect is instantaneous Q is more than anything terrified to catch the lovely Mrs Copeland’s attention again.
There were several incidents he would very much not like repeated; his elderly neighbour simply would not leave him alone, and the minute Eve learned of this ammunition, she’d been exercising it too often for his liking. 
Q groaned up at the ceiling and stomped his way to the door, and when he swung it open, there she was, dressed head to toe like she’d just walked off a runway. Q, however, is frowning at her behind his glasses that haven’t been wiped; he’s drowning in a large T-shirt that’s not his own, no doubt left by one of his one-night stands some century ago; oh, and his hair could rival Medusa’s.
“You look-” Eve did her best to look encouraging but that was the thing with Eve, despite her recent history as a field agent she would only pull up that mask when it was strictly business. Sometimes Q wished she’d extend the courtesy to their relationship, the woman is unrelentingly honest even if she pads them up nicely a lot of the time. 
“Like I’ve been run over, yes, I know, are you coming in or not?” 
“Alright, settle down this is supposed to be a lovely house call” She adjusts the shopping bags in her arms and makes her way inside sparing sickeningly sweet hellos to Q’s littlings that’ve come to the door. 
“I heard the case made it back to the labs safe, no one got hurt, why are you…this-” She waved her hand at Q’s entirety as she settled the bag down on the table, and he had to stifle a bitter laugh. 
“Did you come bearing gifts?” 
Of course, she did bring something; she always did. Eve peeled away the shopping bags to reveal two bottles of his favourite Merlot, and that managed to brighten him up a bit. So they settled into his sofa, the TV show softly murmuring away as the two started with something rudimentary at first, office happenings he missed that week and eventually after the fourth glass they revisited the topic. 
“You know, half the women on the top floor wanted to swap bodies with you” 
“Why on earth would they want to be an ache-riddled scarecrow?” Q mused as he let himself sink further into the back cushion enough to almost fold his chin back into his chest, the wine glass atop the flat expanse of his chest.
“I imagine the idea of getting to be in the same room as Bond for a few nights sounds like heaven to them” Eve turned to him with a knowing look that said: Bliss to those who've never had the pleasure, the man is actually a menace even if he is undeniably sexy.
“It’s hardly h- wait, how did they know we shared a room?!” Q's voice spiked, animated by the alcohol.
“One of your minions got cornered”, she smirked.
“Fucking Brian” 
“Yeah- fucking Brian” Eve grinned in a suspiciously fond way, he’ll have to pry that out of her later. 
“Exactly how much did ‘fucking Brian’ let slip” Q downed the remaining wine in his glass then pushed himself upright aiming for the opened bottle his eyes still glued on her determined to get to the bottom of this.
“He might’ve gotten threatened into snooping on you on the first night” Q crinkled his nose initially unfazed, but then it dawned on him.
“Oh-” 
“So what was that late-night riverside stroll about, Q?” 
“It’s not what you think it is” That sounded more believable in his head.
“Says every single person who’s about to lie” Eve is suddenly closer now, like she wasn't going to let the truth escape. Later, he will blame the wine, but Q relented.
“Listen, alright, yes, we did go for a walk. They were pulling the records, and we couldn’t work till then, and you know Bond being well, Bond” 
“He wanted a drink” 
“Yes, he wanted a drink"
“So you two went for a ‘walk’ and drinks," she squints.
“....” Oh, Eve, you bloody witch.
“It’s sounding a little like a date, sweetheart” 
“I could go for a walk and drinks with you, I don’t know why you’re making this a thing”, he waved dismissively, suddenly interested in his very mundane glass.
“Yeah- well, I don’t happen to be someone you eat up with your eyes every time he appears” At this, Q frowned, defensive.
“That's silly, I don’t do that” 
“You absolutely do” 
“You’re impossible, you know that?” 
“Think you’d be bored of me otherwise” They stared at one another challengingly but then they broke into a short fit of laughter at that sweet admission but no this did not erase the secret he's hiding. This is only an intermission.
After a knowing silence, Q cleared his throat.
“Oh fuck it-” He took a large gulp of the wine.
“....” 
“Bond kissed me” 
“WHAT!” He only nodded quietly at her explosive reaction.
“Are you joking?” He shook his head.
“Ok, so you’re not joking, how?” 
“I don’t know, adrenaline?"
“I did not expect a nuke when I came through the door, this is too good” 
“I’m glad this is amusing to you?"
"What is this reaction? This is exciting and sexy. Why do you look disturbed?" Eve is so close to him that their laps are almost stacked.
"I don't know, he looked disturbed by it. I know he kissed me, but why was that his reaction?"
Eve's head tilted, not following.
"He looked shocked and didn't speak to me the rest of the way back. I know rejection when I see it, but this is something else?"
"Alright, we're going on a mission"
"What- to unravel what that was?"
"Yes, I refuse to let this gnaw at you until you get over it"
"Oh—I mean," Q's glassy gaze trailed off into the distance. Eve is exactly right. He's not insecure about most things, but he is very much human, and rejection of him rather than his work often lingers way longer than it should.
He felt the warmth of Eve's hand atop his own, and when he turned to her, she already had an air about her like she was ready to hunt, and that was disturbingly comforting.
"Shall we open that third bottle?" Q asked, despite himself.
"Yes, yes, yes!"
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mysaintkitten · 2 years ago
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It’s All Yours | Davin McDerby x fem!reader
prompt: car sex with davin lol (NSFW, no minors)
WARNINGS: slight references to sunburn plot, fingering, brief nipple play, unprotected sex (p in v), car sex, slight praise/degradation??, slight come eating
word count: 1.9k
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roberts party was a bust. as soon as carolyn returned home, everyone quickly fled the scene. what originally started as a really nice get together, quickly became an overwhelming party, which then got shut down not long after. while everyone else had scattered elsewhere, all there was left was you and davin, sitting in his car. during this summer, a small fling had started to form between you two. nothing too crazy, no sex, barely even kisses, just flirting and palpable mutual attraction.
despite you all coming together as a group, you were alone with just davin, which rarely happened. but, you decided to make the most of the situation.
he broke the silence between you two by asking, “soo .. got any plans for the rest of the night?”
you shake your head no, “do you?”
“hm ..” he thinks, “i dunno, maybe, might try and pick up a girl.” he smirks smugly
you raise your brows, “pick up a girl?”
he nods and sighs, “been a bit of time since i’ve chased some tail, could really do for some company.”
he’s kidding, kind of, you can just tell. in the time you’ve spent together you’ve gotten good at reading him.
“chase some tail..” you repeat, laughing at his choice of words, “what are you? fifty?”
he scoffs, acting fake offended before saying, “you’re just mad that i can even get tail. aren’t you like a virgin?”
you roll your eyes, “no, i’m not, i just don’t normally give it up easy.” you teased,
he licks his lips before taking a moment to reply, looking over at you, “what does it take for you to give it up, y/n?”
“why do you wanna know, mr. mcderby? are you interested in getting in my pants?” you laugh, nudging him playfully,
he doesn’t reply. his eyes are fixated on your face, darting down to your lips every now and then, and finally after what felt like hours- he leaned into kiss you.
although it surprised you, you weren’t opposed in the slightest, eagerly kissing him back.
he moaned softly into your mouth, bringing one of his hands up to your face to cup your cheek. it didn’t stay there long though, as he started to migrate lower, he halts his actions and pulls away.
“is this okay?” he asks, wanting to be absolutely certain that you plan on following through.
you laugh softly at him, “such a gentleman..” you breathed, leaning back in to kiss him again- but he leans away
“if you’re comfortable with keeping this going .. we’re gonna have to move to the back, love ..” he purred, his voice low, but sweet
things started to suddenly become very real, and what initially started as a lingering sense of arousal quickly progressed into a distinct warmth between your legs.
while biting your lip, you crawl into the backseat. once there, you lean back against the car door, watching as davin does the same.
once he’s between your legs, he wastes no time continuing with the kisses, but this time they’re a bit different.
eager. hungry. you can really tell what his intentions are this time. he briefly pulls away again, making you whine in disapproval.
“can i take these off?” he asks, placing his fingers in the waistband of your pants. without saying a word, you lift your hips and indirectly give him your consent. it’s at this point he’s fully solidified that you’re game, and that he likely won’t have to ask for your permission anymore tonight. he slips them off and discards them on the car floor, quickly unzipping his pants to do the same.
you take it upon yourself to strip yourself of your shirt as well, revealing that you weren’t wearing a bra. he left you in just your undergarments. he grins at you, following your lead and taking off his shirt as well.
he leans back into kiss you. bringing his hips closer to yours and placing his hard, clothed cock directly between your legs. you moan quietly at the sensation, just before he begins to roll his hips. applying a more than satisfactory amount of deliberate pleasure.
your hands start to roam, they started slung around his neck, but they’ve quickly made their way around his upper body. feeling up his pecks, shoulder blades, back, then slowly down to his navel, sneaking your hand into his underwear, directly palming him.
he groans into your mouth before chuckling lowly, “so much for ms. doesn’t give it up easy ..” moving down to kiss your neck, continuing to grind into you.
this only continues on for a few more moments before he pulls back and starts to tug on your underwear, “need these off” he mumbles to himself before dragging them off and tucking them behind him, as opposed to discarding on the floor with the rest of the clothes.
he glares at your exposed, wet pussy and exhales softly, soaking in the sight beneath him. he kisses your neck again, but begins to creep down to your collarbone, and chest, where he pauses for a moment before sucking gently on your nipple, circling his tongue against the hardening bud. he uses his hand to grip the other.
“da-vin ..” you moan weakly, gripping the seat beneath you as you feel yourself becoming even wetter. he hums in approval before snaking his other hand down between your legs, sliding his now slick fingers up and around your clit and opening
you whine and begin to involuntarily shift beneath him. without warning, he slips a finger in, making a high pitched groan escape your lips. he starts to fuck you with the lone digit, taking his mouth off your tit to look at your expression, analyzing you deeply. he wanted to make you feel good, really good. normally when davin hooks up with people he doesn’t give much thought into foreplay, but with you he wanted to make sure you thoroughly enjoyed every single moment of this.
him seeing how much you were enjoying his touch made him harder, which he didn’t even know if that was fully possible.
while still examining your face, he slips in another finger, making your mouth hang open as small breathy moans fell out.
“god, davin!” you huff, he glances down at his fingers, watching himself finger-fuck you. he watches as his fingers glisten from your slick, he can feel you tense around him, he can hear how wet you are, his head is reeling.
he pulls out his fingers and places them into his mouth, sucking the arousal off of them. you watched as he did this, and you realized he wasn’t even doing that for you, he himself needed to taste you. he discarded his own underwear and his hard, flushed cock sprung out, standing to attention with a small bit of his own arousal glistening at his tip. he pumps himself weakly while looking at you, using his free hand to feel around your stomach and hips.
just as he’s about to put himself in, you stop him.
“do you have a condom?” you ask, rather breathlessly. you didn’t want to be a buzzkill right now, but you’d rather be a buzzkill than pregnant.
“not with me, baby” he starts, his voice quiet, him calling you baby made a knot form in your stomach, even though you knew he was only calling you it because of the circumstances, “but i’m clean, and i assume you are too, and i promise on my life i’ll pull out.”
with any other person, you would’ve said no, but davin looked too good and everything felt too nice, so you let it slide.
he resumes, running the head of his cock along your wet opening, groaning at the sensation.
“do you always get this wet? or am i just making you feel that good, baby?” he praises,
“i-i think it’s a mixture of both ..” you reply, finding it hard to make conversation when all you want is for davin to fuck the daylights out of you.
he seems to like that response as he chuckles lowly, slowly sliding himself inside of you, “guess i’m gonna have to use this pussy more often, aren’t i?” he says, leaning into your ear, his hot breath making your body jitter beneath him.
your hands make their way to his back, digging your nails in slightly as he begins to pick up his pace, fucking you roughly.
you feel almost breathless, as if each thrust was pushing all the air out of your lungs.
each time his hips connected with your thighs and ass, a moan would escape your mouth mixed with shallow breaths and small unintelligible phrases.
davins ego was through the roof, he thinks that even if he wasn’t fucking you, if he was just able to see you acting like this- he’d come in his pants. but knowing that him and his cock was making you feel like this, he felt a new sense of pride.
he tries to kiss you while still pounding into you, placing his lips against yours. you don’t kiss him back and continue to whine, not because you don’t want to kiss him back, but because the way he’s fucking you is making it difficult for you to do anything that requires even the slightest bit of brain power. mid kiss, he places his thumb between your legs and rubs quick, tight circles on your clit, making you nearly shout at the overwhelming amount of pleasure.
he’s still trying to kiss you, laughing breathily as you continue to fail to kiss him back. he pulls back, picking up his pace with both the thrusts and his thumb before saying, “poor girl, cock feel too good inside ya? can’t even kiss back because it feels so nice?” he taunts, knowing exactly what’s happening here
he feels you clench around him and drench him even more, making a guttural moan fall from his mouth as his jaw hung slack. at this point, your slick has definitely travelled down past your ass and down onto the car seat below you- but you couldn’t care less.
“davin, dav-in ..” you whine weakly, “‘m gonna come, don’t stop, please don’t stop!” you ramble, truly not even processing that you’re talking right now, your body almost going in autopilot at the influx of intense pleasure.
davin smirks proudly, exhaling breathy puffs as he screws his eyes shut, “come on my cock, baby. it’s all yours.” he praises, the mixture of pleasure emanating from your pussy mixed with the pain of your nails digging into his back, he was on the brink of coming as well.
his words are what send you over the edge, moaning loudly and whorishly on his cock as you come, legs shaking violently
he feels almost lightheaded, your cunt clenching around him was his final tipping point, “just like that … just like that .. good girl ..” he praises, his thrusts becoming weaker and more irregular.
moaning loudly, he pulls out and pumps himself, quickly shooting ropes onto your pelvis, stomach, and chest, huffing loudly as he rides out his orgasm in his hand.
once coming down, he looks at you, sweaty, messy, covered in his cum, he tutted and shook his head.
“dirty girl” he starts, swiping up some of his come from your lower stomach onto his finger, “made such a mess. go on, clean up after yourself.”
through half lidded eyes, you suck his come off his fingers, swirling your tongue around them before pulling off with a slight pop.
his mouth hangs slightly agape in awe, feeling his cock twitch at the little act you just preformed for him.
“keep that up, and we won’t be leaving this car tonight.”
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777-wailerchive · 1 year ago
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Dear Nobody’s Daughter, to Live Through This, you scrape off your Celebrity Skin; you know full well that you’re Pretty On The Inside...
HOW TO GET INTO HOLE?
• st. onan guide: I.
Aimed at @saintfrancis-ofassisi and whomever wants to get into Hole...
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HOLE is an American nineties’s kinderwhore band with a turbulent line-up and pure chaotic gold for music yet overshadowed by the controversial image of the lead singer and frontwoman of the band, Courtney Love. A staple in the grunge scene, the critically acclaimed sophomore record Live Through This of 1994 marked a peak in Hole’s career although the band was gaining audience for their 1991 debut: Pretty On The Inside. Celebrity Skin, the 1998 album, proved Hole’s peak which was rightly concluded by 2010’s Nobody’s Daughter thus finishing the legacy of Hole.
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DO TRY Hole if you are into: Jack Off Jill, Bratmobile, Nirvana, Babes In Toyland, L7, Veruca Salt, Mommy Long Legs, Bikini Kill, Lunachicks, et cetera. Or, if you’d like to try something dolly and chaotic with an edge of feminism and aggression. I promise, listening to Hole makes you feel like a doll.
DO NOT TRY Hole if you’re a filthy misogynist who can’t stand the fact that the wife of a popular artist does in fact make good music on her own.
Yes, Courtney Love is a cunt, but she makes good music. Seperate the artist from the art.
If you’re still present here, welcome! Now, moving onto the actual guide...
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FIRSTLY, I think to decode this, we’d have to learn about the albums individually. Of course, I’m going to leave my recommendation for listening, but to best suit yourself, you can find your own way around with the descriptions I give for each of these albums...
“ PRETTY ON THE INSIDE ”
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Slut-kiss girl... PRETTY ON THE INSIDE of 1991 is about beauty, which is the life as a sex-worker about Courtney Love’s time as a sex-worker. It includes Courtney Love on vocals and rhythm guitar, Eric Erlandson on lead guitar, Jill Emery on bass, Caroline Rue on drums, produced by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth and Don Fleming of Gumball.
tracklist. TEENAGE WHORE, BABYDOLL, GARBADGE MAN, SASSY, GOOD SISTER—BAD SISTER, MRS. JONES, BERRY, LOADED, STARBELLY, PRETTY ON THE INSIDE, CLOUDS.
IF YOU WANT... angry, chaotic, messy and sloppily mixed music that is very heady and makes you feel like a doll, listen to this album first.
Blending elements of punk rock, the album features distorted and alternating guitar compositions, screaming vocals from Love, and “sloppy punk ethics”, a style which the band would later distance themselves from, opting for a less abrasive sound on subsequent releases. Love’s lyrics on the album are often presented in an abstract narrative form, and describe disparate scenes of graphic violence, death, and female sexuality. The record was dedicated to Rob Ritter of the Los Angeles punk rock acts the Bags and The Gun Club. [< source, wikipedia.
If you want a more refined yet more depressed version of this album, migrate to Live Through This after; if you want a more refined and self-assured, slightly sarcastic but honest record after this listen, go to Celebrity Skin.
FUN FACT: the song BABYDOLL is allegedly inspired by Madonna.
“ LIVE THROUGH THIS ”
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Miss Worlds... LIVE THROUGH THIS of 1994 is about the changes that come with marriage and motherhood, themes mainly being motherhood, body image, depression, child abuse and elitism. It includes Courtney Love on vocals and rhythm guitar, Eric Erlandson on lead guitar, Kristen Pfaff on bass, Patty Schemel on drums, produced by Paul Q. Kolderie and Sean Slade.
tracklist. VIOLET, MISS WORLD, PLUMP, ASKING FOR IT, JENNIFER’S BODY, DOLL PARTS, CREDIT IN A STRAIGHT WORLD, SOFTER, SOFTEST, SHE WALKS ON ME, I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE, GUTLESS, ROCK STAR.
IF YOU WANT... a tragic and softly edgy listen with a harsh sensibility and pure womanly depression scrawled all over, listen to this album first.
Live Through This marked a departure from the band’s noise rock roots toward a more alternative rock format. Love had sought a more mellow sound for Live Through This. The resulting music was starkly less aggressive than the band's former work, blending more structured melodies and smoother arrangements with heavy guitar riffs. Consequently, this featured a mixture of songwriting techniques, including use of power chords as well as arpeggios, and occasional use of keyboards. [< source, wikipedia.
If you want a tougher, rawer, more journal-entry music than this, migrate to Pretty On The Inside; if you want a more refined and self-assured, slightly sarcastic but honest record after this listen, go to Celebrity Skin.
FUN FACT: Courtney Love’s late husband Kurt Cobain does backing vocals on ASKING FOR IT.
“ CELEBRITY SKIN ”
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Petals... CELEBRITY SKIN of 1998 is about the lost people, the more opulent Los Angeles and Californian culture, about the promises and agonies of Southern California; it was aimed to divulge greatly from the grunge sound of before. It includes Courtney Love on vocals and rhythm guitar, Eric Erlandson on lead guitar, Melissa Auf der Maur on bass, Patty Schemel on drums, produced by Michael Beinhorn.
tracklist. CELEBRITY SKIN, AWFUL, HIT SO HARD, MALIBU, REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL, DYING, USE ONCE & DESTROY, NORTHERN STAR, BOYS ON THE RADIO, HEAVEN TONIGHT, PLAYING YOUR SONGS, PETALS.
IF YOU WANT... a rock-fueled pop sound with many lyrics that are references and have layered meanings, a comforting almost listen, listen to this album first.
The band sought to use Los Angeles and the state of California as a unifying theme and began writing what they conceived as a “California album” in 1997. Unlike Hole's previous releases, the final songs on Celebrity Skin featured instrumental contributions from several musicians outside the band, primarily Billy Corgan, who co-wrote the musical arrangements on five songs. Auf der Maur's former bandmate Jordon Zadorozny, as well as Go-Go's guitarist Charlotte Caffey, also contributed to the composition of one track. Frontwoman Courtney Love, who wrote all of the lyrics, named the album and its title track after a poem she had written that was influenced by T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Motifs of water and drowning are also prominent throughout the album, as well as recurring themes of angels, Heaven and stars. [< source, wikipedia.
If you want a tougher, rawer, more journal-entry music than this, migrate to Pretty On The Inside; if you want a grungier yet more depressed version of this album, migrate to Live Through This after.
FUN FACT: Love clarified that she had derived the album name from a short-lived band in Los Angeles named Celebrity Skin, as well as a bootleg pornographic magazine featuring nude candid photos of celebrities.
“ NOBODY’S DAUGHTER ”
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Dirty Girls... NOBODY’S DAUGHTER of 2010 is about the time of rehabilitation that Courtney Love went through after a long cocaine addiction and legal troubles following that, written in rehabilitation; about feeling lost, confused. It was supposed to be a solo album of Love’s, but was made to be Hole’s last album after their 2002 dissolution. It includes Courtney Love on vocals and rhythm guitar, Micko Larkin on lead guitar, Shawn Dailey on bass, Stu Fisher on drums, produced by Michael Beinhorn, Micko Larkin, and Linda Perry.
tracklist. NOBODY’S DAUGHTER, SKINNY LITTLE BITCH, HONEY, PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY, SAMANTHA, SOMEONE ELSE’S BED, FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE, LETTER TO GOD, LOSER DUST, HOW DIRTY GIRLS GET CLEAN, NEVER GO HUNGRY.
I DO NOT RECOMMEND LISTENING TO THIS ALBUM VERY FIRSTLY, but, IF YOU WANT... a polished and the most mainstream-sounding of the four albums, sad, confused, lost record written during rehabilitation, this is your key.
Before the album’s release, former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson publicly disputed Love’s use of the Hole name, claiming it violated a previous agreement between the two, which Love contested. On its release, Nobody’s Daughter received generally mixed reviews from music critics, with some praising its instrumentation and lyrics, while others criticized it for its folk rock elements as well as production issues and Love’s vocals. Despite this, Love said in 2010 that she considered it the best record she had made. [< source, wikipedia.
If you want a tougher, rawer, more journal-entry music than this, migrate to Pretty On The Inside; if you want a grungier yet more depressed version of this album, migrate to Live Through This after; if you want a similar but more scattered listen, to Celebrity Skin.
FUN FACT: The painting on the cover is of Marie Antoinette and the tracklist page has the edited background of a painting of Anne Boleyn.
MY RECOMMENDED PATHWAYS...
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Lastly...
HOLE is a kinderwhore band, which is minutely distinct from riot grrrl. And, Courtney Love has a lot of beef with, to be honest, mostly everyone. So, yeah... For example, Babes In Toyland, a band often mentioned in the same vein as Hole, has their frontwoman, Kat Bjelland, in hatred with Love. I do not recommend looking up to these people as people, but please do try their music.
Die, cry, adore Hole.
FUN FACT: My favourite Hole album is Pretty On The Inside!
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Dear Nobody’s Daughter, to Live Through This, you scrape off your Celebrity Skin; you know full well that you’re Pretty On The Inside...
DID YOU GET INTO HOLE?
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yuk-tepat · 10 months ago
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Proto-Swiric
More work on Proto-Swiric, the protolanguage of the Swira and their language family, Macro-Swiric.
The Swira mentioned before here occasionally, are nomadic herder "barbarians" living north of Tepat.
In order to develop them more, the protolanguage had to be developed more, and because I didn't do that first, it requires changes to the Swira language. For a very general view, see this skeleton history of the Swira in flowchart form. Also, more examples of them here: https://www.tumblr.com/yuk-tepat/tagged/swira.
The language family ranges over a large part of northern Tiptum (the continent on which Tepat is). (The yellow part of this (old) map: https://www.tumblr.com/yuk-tepat/123295676038/linguistic-map-of-tiptum-at-the-height-of-the)
Anyway, about the protolanguage:
The speakers lived at or near the junction of the Eastern Cordillera and the interior plains, and perhaps spanned across it. They were nomadic, at least some of them migrating seasonally between mountains and plains - similar to many of their descendants. But at this point, herding had not been adopted; that would come later, and so many words for things like horses, riding, etc. cannot be reconstructed this far back, only to subfamilies. Instead, they hunted, including some large grazers that are now extinct.
Consonants:
Fortis: p t k kʷ q qʷ ʔ
Lenis: b d g gʷ (q qʷ ʔ)*
Fricative: s x xʷ χ χʷ h
Nasal: m n ŋ ŋʷ
Approximant: l
Stops distinguish 'fortis' and 'lenis.' *Fortis/lenis distinction erased in q qʷ ʔ. Also, at the end of syllables. Alternation between them is forced in some environments; all stop clusters are Lenis-Fortis. Dorsal consonants can be front (velar) or back (uvular), and distinguish rounded or unrounded; Labials are always rounded, coronals and glottals are neutral.
Vowels:
Short: a i u ɯ ǝ
Long: e: o: (a:)
Seven, possibly 8, though some linguists reconstruct as few as three. /a/ alternates with schwa in some forms, less commonly /e o/ alternate with /i u/.
The vowels form a hierarchy from "strong"  to "weak" like so:
e, o > a > i u ɯ > ǝ
This is relevant for a number of processes, from stress to how morphemes combine. Stress usually falls on the strongest vowel in the stem. Strong vowels displace weaker vowels when they collide. Weaker vowels disappear or coalesce to form stronger vowels. Schwa is never stressed.
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