#she will come for you ankles

[zarnzarn]

Penelope owns a golden chain.

It is a thick, large piece with two cuffs connected to one end of it, made of robust metal that still shines beautifully years later. It stretches perhaps some four metres, at most, and the clasp in the middle allows her to twist it tighter if she wants it to. The blacksmith she had commissioned it from had given her two copies of the key- one of which she'd tossed off of a high cliff, and the other that she keeps safe in a locked box in her room.

It can clasp to her bed, to the throne and to the bath flooring. She had it enchanted by a witch on the run from a neighbouring kingdom in exchange for security, to never cross the limits of the shoreline- so she never loses it, she'd said. She had won a favour off an alchemist in a bet and gotten it spelled to never break. She polishes it every day carefully to look it's best before she leaves the room.

It has only one use.

"I will hobble you like a horse," She hisses to her husband when he returns to her after twenty years. Adjusts herself and leans down to whisper in his ear, "I will chain you down like a common beast, cut out that silver tongue of yours so you can no longer get into trouble, break your fucking legs."

The chain clinks as Odysseus gasps for air. Penelope smiles and traces the edge of his adoring, breathless grin. "You are not allowed to leave me ever again."

Penelope owns a golden chain.

It looks wonderful around her husband's feet.

[yuwuta]

yuuta exhibits such previously abandoned, recently adopted dog behavior. incredibly anxious all the time, even though nobody’s out to get him or leave him behind. waits for you to return home or from school or from work excitedly, just to see you when you walk through the door. follows you around senselessly, hovering in your space just for the sake of companionship. initiates affection in prodding ways—starts off next to you, then a hand on your thigh, then deems it safe to lay all the way down, then slowly pushes his head into your lap. gets up whenever you need to get up, and resumes his position as soon as you’re ready. brings you gifts as a sign that he’s thinking of you, and maybe because he likes the affection it brings out in you, maybe because he likes the gentle affirming touches of a hand in his hair or a pinch to his cheek. rests his head on your stomach or his chin on your shoulder when he’s sleepy, stays there, immobile, and will not move unless absolutely necessary. sometimes he gets surprised when he hears you calling for him, there’s a moment of disbelief as he thinks “me? really? you need me?” but it’s very quickly overshadowed by this compulsive need to show up, to please, to do anything for you, which is why he always answers when you call. he doesn’t realize that he has puppygod eyes, especially when he’s excited or confused, but he does and it’s incredible endearing. very reluctant to share your space or attention after a while, considers that to be sacred and he won’t risk being let go or lost again, so as a safety precaution, he keeps himself right by you, waits for you always. 

[ratatatastic]

"[Tkachuk] said you are the player he's chirped the most. Can you tell us a little about that?" "Chucky's a funny guy... it's gonna be fun to play against him again."

Primetime Panthers | 1.22.25 (x)

i'm glad forsy is gonna have fun against him because maffhew sure isn't

[hrodvitnon]

SIGNALIS Big Teef Fic Preview!

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"Hey, when were you going to tell me you have fangs?"

Elster pauses, having just gotten engrossed in a scene of tense questioning.  "Excuse me?"

Ariane sits beside her at the table, lays down the Replika overview, leans her elbows on it and rests her chin on folded hands, giving the Replika a look that to any Gestalt would be similar to a parent wanting to know why their kids didn't do what was asked of them – or rather, like she's taken on the role of detective in the midst of questioning.  Elster lifts her eyebrows, waiting for an explanation.

Ariane elaborates as if telling an anecdote from her Rotfront years.  "I looked through the Replika overview again to see if there was anything I could pick up to help you out, or do something for you, when... in the corner of my little eye, I spy... a schematic.  A schematic, El Bell.  Of retractable canine teeth.  Which you are in possession of, and neglected to inform me."

Elster closes her eyes, knowing where this is going.

"Ariane."

"Now, I don't ask the time of day from a clock..."

"Liebchen."

"But I'm not shy about how hot I am for nibbles and love bites..."

"Light of my life."

"And you didn't think to tell me?  When were you going to tell me?"

"Settle down, dramatic.  They're for self-defense, not for sexy time.  Besides, it's not even unique to LSTRs – all Replikas have them."

Ariane blinks in surprise.  "Wait, seriously?  Even Eules?"  Having such teeth makes sense for a Storch or Star, but an Eule?

"Absolutely.  I once heard that a secretary unit back at headquarters almost bit the fingers off an untrained Storch who got too ugly with her.  Not sure how it ended, but I like to think Frau Beißer got off with a warning and the Storch never lived it down.  Self-defense, like I said.  With combat units it's a last resort in case one runs out of ammunition or doesn't have a melee weapon ready."

Ariane's eyes widen.  Eules always looked so delicate to her with how lightly they carried themselves, but it seems even those domestic units are made of sterner stuff than expected.  Her eyes lower to Elster's mouth.  Elster gives her a knowing look.

"No."

"I didn't say anything!"

"You have that 'in the interest of science' look on your face."

"I just want to see them for myself!  There's nothing wrong with that!  Show me, please?  It's not like I'll ever see them in a combat situation, unless we get picked up by aliens or something."

Elster stares.  Ariane stares back, pleading and doe-eyed, just seconds away from deploying the dreaded pouty bottom lip.  Elster gives in, of course.  She can never really refuse humoring her love, so she teasingly grouses like it's such a chore.

"Ach, fine."

Ariane tries not to drum her fingers happily while Elster pops the mandibles in her jaw, mouth opening.  Nothing out of the ordinary, just 28 white teeth – go figure Replikas aren't manufactured with wisdom teeth – and then Elster curls her lips back wolfishly, her canines extending with an audible click.

There is, of course, the knee-jerk flicker of saucy fascination since Ariane does so love when Elster bites her, but in the moment it's also tempered by actual scientific curiosity.  Elster's lengthened teeth are only sharp at the very tips, as Ariane knows from experience, so while they probably can pierce through flesh or biomechanical components they must be intended for crushing and tearing, clamping down and keeping a steady grip thanks to powerful jaws.

A rather specific detail from the Replika overview comes to mind: the LSTR unit has a bite force of 1250 PSI at minimum.  Ariane's heard of certain Vinetan animals having a comparable bite, capable of piercing through the skulls of their prey.  The knowledge of this results in a revelatory daydream of hostile alien forces intercepting their little ship and abducting Ariane, causing Elster to crush an extraterrestrial skull or spine between her teeth as she goes in a rampaging rescue...

"Ari," Elster drawls.  The extended fangs seem to mess with her speech, an added lisp causing her accent to border on nonsensical.  "Ye hab dat look."

Ariane shakes her head.  "I wasn't thinking of anything sexy this time, honest!"

"Uh-huh.  Cad I pud dese away now?  Iz hahd to talk."

[bmpmp3]

post ankle-twisting clarity

[esleep]

the whole "cats choose their owners" thing is really funny to me because ivy very much did NOT choose me. she was a slightly dim-witted and very rambunctious feral kitten, and that combination led to her getting herself stuck inside an old chipmunk nest halfway down the steep bank of the creek by my parents' house. from there she proceeded to scream her head off until both my mom and i came out to see what on earth was making all that racket, then we excavated her out of that hole like a sad little potato. she was grateful for the rescue, but definitely NOT grateful for the ensuing flea baths and conversion to indoor cat life at my apartment, which she reminds me of regularly. ivy i'm sorry for saving you from an early death due to predation/disease/cars, but can you stop biting me every day of my life please

[trebeksfault]

[2-kamikou-1]

i am so fucking pissed off

[tremsing82]

CC Character Rant

(I just started reading CC3 but this anger at this character started in CC2. I just read chapter 1 of CC3. I have kept myself mostly spoiler free for the over arching plot but for this character I hate my friend tried to help me understand her better and gave me some spoilers but yeah those spoilers did not help one bit. If anything I got even angrier which is why I had type this out and see if there are any other Lidia Cervos Haters out there.)

I HATE LIDIA!!!!! Like with all my being. With a passion. With anger I have never felt towards any character ever. I HATE THIS CHARACTER.

I hate the idea that I need to read this book and have SJM and fucken Lidia and any other bleeding heart character in CC who forgives her, GASLIGHT me into thinking she is some victim. She is a MURDERER. Her reason for being a double agent who murders her secret allies for the enemy are stupid and flawed and not worth the innocent lives she has MURDERED.

I👏HAVE👏NO👏SYMPATHY👏FOR👏THIS👏BITCH!!!!!👏

NONE 👏👏👏👏

She is not a victim, she is the abuser. And her excuse for doing what she does is stupid. She had some accidental babies which she kept secret from EVERYONE and hid away. No one knows about them and then she joins the asteri and becomes their death warden all to protect them. From WHO?!?!?! NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT THEM!!!!! YOU HID THEM!!!! YOU GAVE THEM UP YOU STUPID BITCH!!!! You cannot use them as an excuse for you murdering people to keep them safe. THEY ARE SAFE DUMBASS. Just stay away from them, they obviously don’t need you as their mother. They are better off without you in their lives.

And I am suppose to read this book and then feel sad for her FUCK NO!!!!!! She is in the dungeons order ruhns torture all while she is gonna be pleading in his mind to “please talk to me I feel sad for hurting you and your family and i need you to forgive me and tell me it’s ok I murder innocent people daily.” And the worst part is sweet kind Ruhn will finally give in and talk to her all while having his skin peeled off and tell her “it’s ok your just doing what you have to” because that stupid fucken mate bond of theirs is gonna make him do it.

If SJM ever wants to do a rejected mate bond plot it should be for Ruhn and Lidia. This bitch deserves no happiness for the rest of her life. She should live in an isolated cottage in the woods somewhere where none of her victims or their families have to see her walking in the street with a smile on her face, like everything is normal. She has a metal bar for a jacket collar because of how many people she has killed. Every single one of her victims or victims families have every right to hate her and not be lectured on forgiveness being the greatest form of healing. FUCK NO!!!! SOMETIMES FOR A TRULY EVIL PERSON THEY DESERVE TO BE HATED!!!! She is the worst character I have ever come across.

And I love CC. I want to finish this book for Bryce and Hunt and for Tharion and Ithan. And originally I wanted to see Ruhn happy but I gave up that hope. But this bitch makes me so fuming mad when she appears on the page that I am actually contemplating if I should just DNF it.

[hauntingblue]

I'm still scared in sabaody

This is crazy...

THS IS LIKE 300 CHAPTERS AWAY!!!!! THE SMILE... and mingo being the owner of the slave house for the tenryuubitos... OF COURSE

Look.... luffy enablers vs normal rational people

I was like yeah sure luffy was saying he wanted to become king of the pirates but rayleigh didn't explicitly say roger wanted to become pirate king just that people called him that so I am SURE shanks is saying luffy has the same dream we don't know about as Roger. Which lines up bc luffy said shanks knew of it and then in wano ace tells yamato and he says roger said the same thing and ace also knew of it!!! Which is crazy that it's set up this early but EVERYTHING is being set up here

I need to frame this btw.

Shakky the mother that stepped up.... also new conspiracy theory shakky is Hancock's mother bc she is a fan of luffy and hancock is too.... she was busy being a pirate to take care of hancock so she feels incredibly guilty about what happened to her so shakky either hasn't told her and hancock doesn't know or they have a difficult relationship. Yeah sure whatever. I dont care if rayleigh is her father or not bc as you know I believe in asexual reproduction in one piece thank you.

🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️what can I say

😳🫣

Here we fucking go again..... I can't do this

Incredible face sanji

SHE KNOWS!!!!!!

Luffy tearing up...... christ

Sanji getting away from his group with nami to save zoro will never get old like jesus christ look at this

CHOPPER 😭😭😭😭😭😭

CRAZYYYYYYY IM GOING CRAZYYYYY

LUFFYYYYYYY NOOOOO

NAMIIIIII NOOOOOOOOOO nami asking for help and luffy not being able to help her this time.... this is so sick and twisted

THE WAY THIS GETS WAY WORSE MAKES ME SICK!!!!!!!!!!! SICK!!!!!! TWISTED!!!!!!!!

[flowersandfashion]

turns out all I needed to do to make my mum watch pride and prejudice was to have a depressive episode so she could use it as bait to force me out of bed

I might go ahead and have a nervous breakdown next if it will convince her to watch downton abbey with me

[tvrningout-a]

chiyo, existing at 5'1'': this is fine

chiyo, noticing someone close to her is 6' or above: this is fine

chiyo after said person uses their height against her: i will destroy you and make you regret the day you insulted me like this >:(

[letterstotheflre]

why does my mom look at me like she's disappointed every time i tell her i'm going out w a guy

[irafuwas]

pics from today's walk 🌿

[lilac-melody]

hm.

[tinyorangepotato]

As much as I hate to say it, I wish I didn't have to take care of my aunt. I'm too much of a pussy to stop and I've been going over to her house for something like 7 years now. She used to pick me up every Thursday (maybe more I can't remember), I would go and clean her house or car or whatever, and then we go out to eat and I go home. Then she got COPD and 2020 hit and she gave me her car since she wasn't driving anymore.

And now I can't just stop going over. Every Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday I drive 30 minutes from work or an hour from home to go and clean up her mess and take care of her. After working 7-3 Tuesday and Friday, I go and do stuff there till usually 6 or 7 and don't get home till 8 most times. Sunday is an hour drive both ways and from 11am to usually 5 or 6pm I'm there. Not including the drive back.

And it's just evolved from what I'm doing. She needs help changing herself , and wiping after using the bathroom and can't shower, and alnost always has peed through he "underwear" ( adult diapers but that's what she calls them) along with the 3 lays of pads she puts in the. And her pants. Her house reeks of urine and I dont know how to change it.

She went to the hospital in October from not being able to even get up to use the bathroom and finally called the ambulance even though she had been getting worse for the previous months. Turns out she had a blood clot in her legs. Got admitted to a physical rehab and was out of the house for a month and a half.

Her sister that lives above her freaked about how her house was and went through and threw a bunch of stuff away and cleaned but also complained to her so it got shoved onto me. I was slacking but its hard to scrub walls when every 5 minutes she yells for me to come do something stupid. On top of only getting 20 dollars each day I go over. Yes a free car that I only pay for gas and half of what repairs are is a great deal, but not after 4 years.

Now I'm cleaning more on a schedule and she's doing better after being home but ugh. I'm so tired I can't do anything after I get home, even in days I don't go over. It turns my 8 hour days into 12+ along with just dealing with her being somewhat demanding, and difficult, and "just telling the truth" about how she feels about people. Shes back in the rehab after falling and Ita so much better but not. She just gets more crotchety when it's not just me her and her sister she sees. And I still have to take her to the bathroom and stuff when I visit her. Like there's not workers for that. (There is but also the place is horrible about staffing so she'll ring for help and an hour will pass without one person even checking in her. But she's also a selfish person and thinks the world revolves around her soemtimes. Legit told me she rung the button, guy came and said "why your ringing my button?(Probably light hearted but idk) And she responds with "first of all, it's the patients button " and somewhere in the convo gets in "just wanted to make sure you're doing your job")

And when she is home, I clean and just spend around 2 hours sitting there next to her until she tells me I'm free to go home. If I don't wait she'll make a 'joke' like "wow just want to leave huh?!🤨" Or whatever. Even when I seem a little too eager toget up and go after she says I can she makes those remarks. I usually make a little conversation and that turns into something else so I leave around 10 to 20 minutes after she said I can.

It's so exhausting, not even the cleaning or dealing with her, but also the drive. Her sisters have now seen how she is (sorta) and what I do every other day since she's been in rehab and theyve all said they're greatful for me and will help if I just ask. Which is great to know now but I know when she first got diagnosed her sisters said to her "we will not help you out like we did with mom" (which is what I'm doing with her now)

She has upped my pay to 100 a week (which yippe a 13 dollar increase for 5 hours of work) and has brought it up like it's a crazy amount and she's doing me a favor by paying me so much. On expecially harsh days or weeks she does give me more. If I have to change her after she diarrheas all over, I get another 20. Or have to give her a sponge bath even though she now has someone come every Monday to do it.

But God it's so much time and energy and I'm so tired from it. But, I keep saying this but it doesn't really seem true, she's a dying old lady with maybe a few years left so I can't just quit it because I'm the only one who will do what I'm doing. My bf gets so much time after work to go home and play games or build a table to even hang out at a park, but I go there and get home ready to eat and then sleep. And on days I don't go, I don't have motivation to do anything most days so I don't start projects or anything really. I get one day off a week and what am I supposed to do with that. Yeah yeah I get 2 days off my job, but on Sundays I go to her place and thats 11-6 I'm out the house and again, just burnt out when I return.

I just don't know. Everyone says "oh you're so nice doing that for your aunt (they don't know the half of what I do)". And my bf and his mom, and now sister that works in hospitality, say I'm doing too much and she's walking over me. Which she is. I know. But I don't know how to change it. She shit herself in my off day and wants me to come down to change her? Of course, I would feel horrible to let her sit there for another 24 hours minimum in shit. Like I feel too bad to say no because I mean I can and it's not that bad and if I don't, who will. Her sister that lives above her speaks her mind about anything and everything and will help if necessary, but will also get into screaming matches and just has her suffer/do things a harder way rather than make things easier. My aunt will also just not ask her for help unless an emergency because of this. I had to drive there on my off day because she couldn't find her pills or her glasses. I was annoyed, called her when I got off work to see if she needed me still, texted, and then drove down. Turns out her bathing nurse was there earlier and found those items. And her occupational therapist was there when I got there. So no, I did not need to drive down to find it because they already were found. I didn't have to waste nearly an hour of extra driving, gas, and milage on my leased car (which I can only put 30k in 3 years and I drive 40 miles not matter what Monday through Friday for work).

I dotn know what this is. I just wanted to get this typed up and my thoughts out and complain. Because God knows I do a lot of there recently and my bf doesn't know what to say and he's heard all this before and I dotn have anyone else to complain to really. And I know I should just say I'm done but I can't in good conscious. Literally when she was in the hospital the first time (last month) and I said I was getting myself a new car (so I didn't have to rely on her car that's months away from breaking down probably) she said "our deal still stands even then. Your still gonna come and help me right?"

And ugh. I guess. I can't just abandon you but you're making it seems temping. Again, just the first time she was in rehab (last month) and her sister freaking out and making me feel extra bad about not keeping up with keeping her home spotless, it was a super low point and I had breakdowns everyday either before or after or during going there and cleaning and then going to the rehab and visiting her. I started rushing to get myself a car independent of hers. I also never transfered her car into my name and so I got a clean title and stuck it in the glove box. I was so ready that once I got my car and she pushed me a little too far, of just leaving her the car key and having my bf pick me up and I never come back to her. Then she went home before I got the car and was back to her normal sometimes bearable self and the cleaning was done mainly and not as stressful and it's better. Mainly.

Again I don't know. Just wanted to type and make a rant. I'm so tired of doing things and it's not even stuff that makes me happy or even makes me more money. 100 a week is better than 0 but for the toll it takes and time, it doesn't do anything. I could be making shit to sell and make more (probably) or get a part time second job without having to worry about "I can't do Tuesday Friday or Sunday. And I have to be able to rush out if she calls and needs me" (also I would not have the energy for another job on top of these, technically, 2 jobs I already have)

Anyways. 12:30 and I got work in the morning. So good night. I'll stop my stream of consciousness.