#shrew sub

[sweetshrew]

i need her hands on me so selfishly that she can’t help but softly run them all over my body but grip my hips tight to keep me still when i move too much.

so selfish that when she’s jerking me off with our fleshlight, she slows down and keeps it swirling around the tip. i’m so close to tearing up but i just look so pretty when i’m ruined like this.

so fucking selfish that she doesn’t stop herself from pulling out her own strap and lining herself up with my hole, pushing me to take just a little bit more as she taps the tip against it.

just selfish enough to not even wait for an answer before slowly pushing it in and watching me fall apart for her - my hips jerking, my heavy and uneven breathing, my eyes rolled to the back of my head, my soft then loud “uhhh”s when she changes her pace and how hard she’s fucking me, my strap flopping around so uselessly and slapping both of our stomachs while she uses me.

[lukolathoughts]

A pound of flesh

An English Teacher’s guide

Shakespeare is staple of any good English teacher. My favourite is of course Romeo and Juliet not only because it is easy to teach and the themes of love, violence, death, destiny etc. are as just as relevant today as they have always been. My fourteen year old self still emerges when setting eyes on a young Leonardo Dicaprio. He was truly something to behold as a young Romeo, excuse me as I dissociate for a moment. Ok, I’m back. There are other Shakespearean texts as a teacher that I teach including Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew and my least favourite is The Merchant of Venice. I do not find this play terribly exciting and honestly, neither do my students until we get to one specific part. The character of Shylock demands his ‘pound of flesh’. Shylock's insistence on his legal right to the pound of flesh being in opposition to his seemingly universal plea for the rights of all people suffering discrimination. Shylock feels he is entitled to his pound of flesh and does not shut up about it in fact. But what happens to Antonio if Shylock extracts the pound of flesh? It isn’t a good outcome I’ll say that.

ZG, where are you going with this? Well, today I want to touch on some similarities between literature and astrology in relation to our lovely main characters and adjacents. Yes, we are all fed up and tired of these incessant people and their crazed sub-fandoms. I am firmly still sat on the lido deck with my margarita partying like it’s 1999. The Sag awards was a glorious evening and one which us Lukola’s are holding onto with a death grip. We know what we saw, and we have receipts, and no one is taking that away from us or Luke and Nicola. Even a bit of sneaky half-hearted PR misdirection in the days after will not sway us. Nicola, you can call him your ‘buddy’ as much as you want, but in my opinion buddies don’t look at buddies that way. Luke had literal heart eyes when gushing over ‘Nic and I’ and Nicola looks at Luke like the sun rises and sets with him. So no, to put it bluntly, I ain’t leaving.

Tarot Talk

In tarot there is a card called the six of coins. ‘The Six of Coins is a tarot card that represents giving and receiving, generosity, and compensation. It can indicate a time when you are either receiving help or providing assistance to others’. (https://colibritarot.com/cards/six-of-coins-tarot-card-meanings/0). In the rider-Waite deck, the card depicts a man handing out gifts to two small children, one on either side. He is holding a scale of balance. This card has often appeared in my readings of the relationship between Nicola and Jake especially. I will touch on Luke and Antonia later, as I feel they have darker themes, but in essence in my opinion Luke offers the same things to Antonia as Nicola does to Jake. Money, success, fame, connections, materialism. I find it fascinating that these two younger adjacents are represented often in my readings as the two children in the six of coins card and they are receiving ‘payment’ from an older person in some obvious authority and higher status. Do not misinterpret my words for implications of prostitution or such things of that nature. What I simply see is an exchange of contract to balance the scales.

 But at what cost does this come to Nicola and Luke? What happens to them when this ‘pound of flesh’ that is demanded from the adjacent is fully extracted? It has already taken some toll as we can infer from Luke’s demeanour and behaviour at the Boss event in January. I have mentioned previously Antonia’s energy is like that of a succubus and anyone with a working set of eyes can see the stark difference in photos of him at Boss with Antonia in comparison to his photos and video evidence with Nicola at the Sag awards. It is like night and day, and I mean that literally. When he is with Nicola, Luke is like a ball of light. He cannot help it. She cannot help it. Nicola shines out her light and Luke reflects it back and out the world. I feel sad for those who genuinely can’t see this. But I do think a lot of people saw it at the Sags and it made a lot of people very bloody nervous. Including Luke and Nicola themselves.

As I was writing this blog last night, I noticed the notifications pinging on my discord and yes my friends, that only means one thing. New pap photos from People magazine. With a weary sigh, I opened the chat to see new People Magazine photos of lo and behold - a miserable looking Luke with a scruffy looking Antonia. Major eye roll again. I’m not sure what narrative they are going for at the moment, but this once again proves my point in this blog that Luke looks like he’s had the soul sucked right out of him or like he’s seen a ghost and Antonia is nonchalantly skipping along like she just rolled out of bed. The comments under the People Magazine Instagram post are brutal and I cannot imagine why Luke is allowing repeated hits to his image, brand and credibility for some girl who he appears to not even like. There must be a good reason. It is not love. We know what Luke looks like when he’s in love and this isn’t it. What ultimately does Antonia want from Luke and is he able to give it?

Jakey boy

Let us touch on Jake’s play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesse Williams. As most of you know I teach drama as well and I as part of my own studies of Drama and teaching, I know Tennessee Williams very well. I was shocked to hear that Jake had landed the leading role of Stanley. I furrowed my brows and thought hmm. Jake is quite young to play Stanley. You need a lot of ferocity and brute physical prowess, as well as being intimidating. But I thought, we’ll give him a chance. He obviously did well in his audition to land the part, right? Well, in an interview Jake did with Exposed Magazine on 5th March 2025, not only Jake seemed shocked he had an audition for the part, but he also seemed even more shocked he actually go it. What flummoxed me was Jake’s ignorance of who Tennesse William’s was and the fact he had never heard of the play. I’ll just give you a bit of context. In the UK you can’t just rock up to drama school age eighteen and hope for the best. At age fourteen you must start GCSE Drama in year 10. It must be one of your options to sit exams in year 11. I know for a fact at 16 I was taught A Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and The Crucible. You study Naturalistic Theatre by Stanislavski. Miller and Williams are good playwrights for this both being American and writing plays that are naturalistic in performance. This ultimately means that the audience is watching a real performance. Actors do not break the fourth wall. After you pass your GCSE Drama, you can either go on to A Level Drama that is further study of playwrights – definitely Tennessee Williams or you can do BTEC Acting or Performance Studies at Post – 16 college. These are less focused on the study of plays, but they are still definitely studies of practitioners such as Brecht, Stanislavski and Artaud etc. My point is, Jake would have had to have do these qualifications to get into drama school where again you study practitioners and playwrights. It is what I had to do to even get an audition at my university. Some Jakehole on X accused me of being ridiculous for implying that Jake would have read every script and playwright going. That is not what I am saying. What I am saying is, he should have heard of Tennesse Williams. He should have known who Marlon Brando as the original Stanley was. Why did he bring artist Jackson Pollock into it? Who advised him on that? Stanley is a Polish immigrant, wife beater and alcoholic. I get that Pollock had some of these traits, but he was flipping rich and highly educated in art schools.

If Jake was so ignorant of the play and his character, then how in the holy moses did he get the part? This is the most half – assed answer to an interview I have ever come across. I hope Nicola was seen disappearing into a hedge somewhere like Homer Simpson. “I don’t know, if I’m honest. I was surprised when I got to audition for the part, and even more surprised when I got the part. I hadn’t seen Streetcar before, so I didn’t have a relationship with it prior to rehearsing at the Crucible.” Jake Dunn. As his mentor, and that is what I firmly believe Nicola is, I bet she was silently livid. It’s no wonder she’s barely said anything about the play. But wait a minute, maybe Jake got the part because he’s such a good actor? Right? Right. Well, not according to most of the reviews that came out last week absolutely slating the kid. “Jake Dunn has the honed torso, surface swagger and below-the-surface anger required of Stanley, but not the sheer brutish charisma. More neighbourhood yob than full-blown Brando, he lashes out at Stella, hurls plates around in explosive bursts of fury and, in the climactic rape scene, is almost comically reptilian as he crawls onto the bed in his strange satiny pyjamas.” On Magazine. Cut to me snorting my coffee everywhere. And this is just one review my friends. What are the reviewers implying?

Did Jake land the role by sheer dumb luck? I find this next point quite hard to write as I want to be clear that I am not accusing Nicola of anything, especially not nepotism. But it has been alleged that Nicola has some connections to the Crucible Theatre and a friendship with the director. That is all I am saying. What cost do these reviews and Jake’s general attitude have towards Nicola’s overall reputation? What cost is that Jakola narrative having on Nicola? Every time I google Nicola; several articles insist that Jake is her boyfriend. I have a few theories about why Nicola has not set that record straight, one being she does not feel she has to, and she will not publicly out her friend without his agreement. In my opinion, Jake is open about his sexuality, and it is clear if you look through his Instagram account.

Astrology

Last Saturday, the fandom went up in arms after Becky from Jake’s friend group posted a Tik Tok video to her public Instagram of the air bnb details for a stay in Sheffield. I was again confused by this act, because who in their right mind makes a TT video of air bnb details and posts it publicly? I was completely baffled. It was deleted almost immediately, but not quick enough. It had the address details on it and the WIFI details. Uh oh, Becky’s in trouble. Also, the video featured a picture of Jake wearing “I love my Irish girlfriend” t shirt with Nicola’s face on it. Lukola FBI were quick and we learned it was an old t-shirt of Camilia’s and the ‘Jecky’ gang was going to be in Sheffield for St Patrick’s day. But the real question was, where was Nicola? Had her safety been compromised by these idiot twenty-somethings? As of this moment there is no evidence that Nicola was there. Nicola has had to suffer through Jake’s performance at least twice, I am hopeful she did not have to endure a third. Why did this anger me so much on Saturday? I felt like Nicola’s image was being used a joke. The ‘Jecky’ friend group are trolling the fandom at this point, and they all think it’s hilarious that their gay friend that has more boyfriends than I’ve had cooked dinners in 2025, is dating Nicola Coughlan. Also, if she was with them, Nicola’s safety was possibly compromised just like Luke’s safety had been in Sorrento. Us Brits do like to ‘take the piss’ as I have stated previously, but who are the ‘Jecky’ group taking the piss out of at this point? Us, Jake or Nicola? Is it even funny anymore?

What I find most interesting from the weekend was Dylan Brady’s post on Instagram on Monday morning. A very good reader friend of mine pointed this out to me after I had discussed with her the image that Dylan took and posted of Jake stood in front of the Crucible Theatre. What stood out to me initially was the bright full moon being revealed behind a rolling cloud. The moon is bright and clearly visible. The Moon card in tarot often comes up in relation to Nicola and Luke and the adjacents. “The Moon is fundamentally a card about misunderstanding. Something remains unclear, making it hard to discern fantasy from reality.” To me the card signifies illusion, and I find it fascinating that Jake is pictured standing in front of such a visible full moon. The full moon last weekend was also a blood moon. There are two other Blood Moons following on September 7th 2025 and March 3, 2026. A total lunar eclipse is often called a Blood Moon as the Full Moon turns a reddish colour during totality. “These three Blood Moon Eclipses will tell a story, a story that usually involves some sort of shedding and release. Blood Moons tend to strip away all that is unnecessary, forcing us to peel back the layers to a greater truth.” (Forever Conscious.com). How interesting that Jake is stood in front of a blood moon on Saturday 15th March. So, could it be Jake’s full eventual truth will be revealed by 3rd March 2026? Did I just hear a collective groan from the Lukola’s? Don’t tell us we have to wait another year! Well, this is Jake’s truth, it has nothing to do with Nicola. She is not pictured here; she is not in Sheffield. Dylan (Jake’s rumoured boyfriend) took the photo.

Another interesting point to note is the statue of Mercury that is pictured above Jake’s head. “Sheffield Theatres today announce the reinstallation of the Lyceum theatre’s famous statue. On Monday 22 July, the figure of the Roman messenger god Mercury – affectionately nicknamed by theatre staff as ‘Freddie’ – was reinstalled atop the dome of the Lyceum Theatre.” (Sheffield Theatres.co.uk.) Mercury is the Roman God of financial gain, commerce, eloquence, messages, communication (including divination), travellers, boundaries, luck, trickery, and thieves; he also serves as the guide of souls to the underworld and the "messenger of the gods". (Wikipedia). The words that are standing out to me are ‘messages’, ‘financial gain’, ‘trickery’. It is in my opinion that the real story of Jake Dunn is this photograph, it is who he is and the person taking it. Mercury is the messenger, and this photograph is sending a clear message. I’m not sure if Dylan is aware of astrology or the moon, but he was definitely intentional in posting this picture with a red love heart no less. He is basically screaming the truth, but certain people still aren’t listening.

It is interesting to note that Mercury was known for his promiscuous nature and for having many lovers and wives. He was not tied down to any one person. I often get this from my readings of Jake and that is why it hard for us as a fandom to pinpoint a definite lover for Jake. He is 25 (too old for my beloved Leonardo Dicaprio), but still young enough to sow his wild oats and live! I was doing the same at his age. If the Jakeholes honestly expect this young actor, with very little life experience to be an eligible match for our Nicola, you are sorely mistaken. Jake is no Lord Debling. It is in my opinion a relationship of transactions. Nicola helps Jake with his career and in exchange he gives her a plausible way of hiding her actual relationship. It is very clever, but no doubt extremely draining by this point for all parties involved.

So how will this saga end? Will Jake and Antonia take all they can from Nicola and Luke until there is nothing left? Will they successfully extract their pound of flesh? What will become of our Eros and Psyche? I wish I knew my friends. I wish I had all the answers. I am unfortunately not psychic, and I cannot predict what Nicola and Luke will do. What I absolutely do know is that we must not blame them in any way. They are human beings, and they are navigating things as best they can. All we can do is be patient, watch and listen and not try to extract our own ‘pound of flesh’ from them as a fandom. Let us be hopeful for our happy ending.

For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

[akkpipitphattana]

i am about to say something that i am AWARE sounds insane and i don’t necessarily think it’s a good thing but i am genuinely starting to think it’s what’s happening. i’m pretty sure that what they used to replace the fact that katherine and bianca are women and obviously fadel and bison are not… is the assassin plot

like i’m losing my mind as i type this because it just fucking hit me but that’s. that’s exactly what it is. because fadel and bison are assassins, it gives kant and style free reign to kind of act however they want in order to win them over without facing consequences for lying or doing anything crazy to them because what does it matter, they’re murderers anyways? whereas in the play, petruchio’s misogyny was allowed because at the time women were treated like property and even lucentio tends to treat bianca like a prop that’s meant to be won so that behavior gets excused.

the thing that made me realize this specifically was style’s courtship of fadel this episode, which i planned to make a separate post about but i might as well say it all here cause they’re very closely related. fadel parallels katherine very closely in that while you would think given who they are (for him an assassin, for katherine a shrew), they wouldn’t care as much about social norms or being embarrassed by other people, but that is exactly what is used to court them. in the play, petruchio uses humiliation on several occasions in order to widdle katherine down and to force her into submission. and we see style do the EXACT SAME THING! he yells at fadel in the grocery market to get him to help clean the veggies, he calls fadel’s name over the speakers to get his attention, he makes fadel let him deliver the food to the restaurant by using the excuse that it’ll be rude not to. because as much as fadel is an assassin and katherine a shrew, they both have a sense of pride that makes them do whatever their suitor wants to try and get him to stop embarrassing them in public

the fucking subbed in assassinphobia for misogyny. i’m in a state of shock

[bestanimal]

Round 3 - Mammalia - Afrosoricida

(Sources - 1, 2, 3, 4)

Our next group of Afrotherians is the strange order Afrosoricida. Afrosoricida is a Latin-Greek compound name which means "looking like African shrews”, another of the many groups of animals called “shrews” that is in no way related to true shrews. It contains the families Potamogalidae (“otter shrews”), Tenrecidae (“tenrecs”), and Chrysochloridae (“golden moles” - also in no way related to true moles).

Afrosoricids tend to be small. Most species are nocturnal and have poor eyesight. Their whiskers are rather sensitive and they can detect very minute vibrations in the ground to locate their prey. The three living groups have very little similarities otherwise, having evolved to occupy different niches. Potamogalids, the “otter shrews”, are carnivorous and semi-aquatic, preying on any aquatic animal they can find with their sensitive whiskers, particularly insects. Unlike most aquatic mammals, they swim by undulating their tail in a side-to-side motion. They are native to sub-Saharan Africa. Tenrecids, the “tenrecs”, are diverse, with some resembling shrews, some resembling rodents, and some resembling hedgehogs. Most are terrestrial, but some are semi-arboreal, some are fossorial, and at least one is semi-aquatic. All species are at least somewhat omnivorous, with invertebrates making up the largest part of their diets. They are native only to the island of Madagascar. Chrysochlorids, the “golden moles”, have short legs with powerful digging claws, very dense fur that repels dirt and moisture, and toughened skin, particularly on the head. Their fur varies from black to pale yellow or grey, and has an iridescent sheen of green, blue, violet or copper when viewed in light. Their eyes are non-functional and covered with furred skin, and their external ears are just tiny openings. An enlarged, dry, leathery pad protects their nostrils while the animal digs. They feed on small insects and earthworms or small vertebrates such as lizards or burrowing snakes. They are native to sub-Saharan Africa, mainly South Africa.

Unusual among placental mammals, afrosoricids have a cloaca, a singular orifice for both relieving waste and reproducing. Otter shrews have just two young per litter, golden moles one to three, but tenrecs can have as many as 32, depending on species.

Afrosoricida arose during the Eocene. The otter shrews and tenrecs are considered to have split about 47–53 million years ago, with all modern tenrecs descending from a common ancestor that crossed the Mozambique Channel 29–37 million years ago. While the fossil record of tenrecs is scarce, at least some specimens from the early Miocene of Kenya show close affinities to living species from Madagascar, such as Geogale aurita. Golden moles likely diverged from the group around 50 million years ago.

Propaganda under the cut:

Some species of tenrec are among the few terrestrial mammals that echolocate.

Some tenrec species are social, living in multigenerational family groups with over a dozen individuals.

The Large-eared Tenrec (Geogale aurita) (image 4) is heterothermic, meaning its body temperature fluctuates with the surrounding environment, although pregnant and lactating females may maintain a more steady, higher temperature. The animal is often torpid in the heat of the day, hiding in concealed locations such as hollow logs or holes, and waking up at night to hunt.

One of the smallest tenrecs is the Large-eared Tenrec at 6 to 7.5 cm (2.4 to 3.0 in) long, with a tail half as long, and weighing between 5 and 8 grams. Nevertheless, they are tiny predators, and will hunt for small prey, particularly termites, on the forest floor.

The endangered Jenkins's Shrew Tenrec (Microgale jenkinsae) lives only within the Mikea Forest, a semi-arid forest of sandy soil and relatively short trees. The forest is also home to several other species of tenrecs (though not unique to the forest), rodents, a shrew, lemurs, and many reptiles, including two vulnerable bird species. Mikea Forest is currently not protected, and is at risk of clearing for land and for commodity lumber.

Like humans, the Lesser Long-tailed Shrew Tenrec (Microgale longicaudata) can be active at any hour of the day or night. Each individual maintains its own pattern of rest and activity.

The Web-footed Tenrec (Microgale mergulus) is the only known semi-aquatic tenrec. It is strictly nocturnal, spending the day in stream-side burrows, only emerging at night to hunt. It feeds on aquatic insects and larvae, crayfish, crabs, small fish, and tadpoles.

The Greater Long-tailed Shrew Tenrec (Microgale principula) is one of eight species of Microgale tenrecs whose remains have been found in deposits in caverns at Andrahomana, alongside the bones of extinct birds including Elephant Birds (Mullerornis modestus) and Malagasy Sheldgoose (Centrornis majori). The animals may have fallen into the cave system through "skylights" in the roof. The cave is outside the present day range of the Greater Long-tailed Shrew Tenrec, suggesting it used to be more widespread.

The Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec (Echinops telfairi) is a tenrec which has convergently evolved to resemble a hedgehog. Like many other small exotic animals, they are growing in popularity in the exotic pet trade, resulting in these tenrecs being taken from the wild to fuel the industry. Like many other wild animals kept as pets, they tend to suffer from higher rates of malnutrition, abandonment, and morbidity when kept as pets.

The Highland Streaked Tenrec (Hemicentetes nigriceps) takes its quilled defense to the next level, raising its quills when agitated. The barbed spines can also detach and will remain lodged in the skin of an inquisitive predator, like porcupine quills.

The black-and-white pattern of the Highland Streaked Tenrec is thought to mimic the juvenile patterning of the Tailless Tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus), since the parents of the Tailless Tenrec are known to be aggressively protective.

The Tailless Tenrec is the largest species of tenrec, at 26 to 39 cm (10 to 15 in) in length and 2 kilograms (4.4 lb) in weight. As an omnivore, it eats large invertebrates, frogs, reptiles, mice and other small mammals, as well as fruits, leaves and other vegetation. It has small, needle-sharp teeth and, if threatened, will scream, erect its spiny hairs into a crest, jump, buck, and bite.

The Tailless Tenrec was the first tropical mammal observed to hibernate, for long stretches of time without waking periods, up to nine months at a time.

Tailless Tenrec females possess up to 29 teats, more than any other mammal.

The Lowland Streaked Tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus) (image 1) will not only raise its quills to deter predators, but may also aggressively headbutt them. It can also rub its quills together in a method known as stridulation, similar to the method of sound produced by crickets and cicadas. The sound produced is too high-pitched to be perceived by human ears, and is likely used to communicate with other Lowland Streaked Tenrecs. The streaked tenrec is the only mammal known to use stridulation for generating sound.

Giant Otter Shrews (Potamogale velox) (image 3) are solitary and are known to occupy between 500 and 1,000 m of stream, marking the boundaries of their territory with piles of dung, which they regularly visit to refresh.

The Nimba Otter Shrew (Micropotamogale lamottei) is able to dive for up to 15 minutes when frightened, temporarily slowing its metabolic rate to withstand oxygen deprivation.

Golden moles sense the world mainly through their heightened sense of hearing. They have been found to have ossicles (middle ear bones) that are larger than other similar mammals. These ossicles are believed to allow them to sense seismic vibrations, allowing them to be able to sense where they are. Many species also have long and highly coiled cochleas.

The Rough-haired Golden Mole (Chrysospalax villosus) sometimes feeds above ground, and, when it does, it roots about like a pig in search of worms and insects.

Golden moles may travel up to 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) a night in search of food. They seek promising clumps of grass by listening for wind-rustled grass-root stresses and termites' head-banging alarm signals, neither of which can be heard easily above ground, so they stop periodically and dip their heads under the sand to listen.

Cape Golden Moles (Chrysochloris asiatica) live in soil, but have been observed venturing onto sandy beaches, presumably to feed on amphipods and isopods occurring there.

In 2013 it was discovered that Hottentot Golden Moles (Amblysomus hottentotus) prefer males with larger penises.

The Giant Golden Mole (Chrysospalax trevelyani) is the largest golden mole species, at 23 cm (9.1 in) in length. It is also one of the rarest and most endangered of all the golden moles.

The critically endangered De Winton's Golden Mole (Cryptochloris wintoni) was last seen in 1937, and thought to be extinct. In 2017, it was listed among the 25 "most wanted lost species” for Re:wild's "Search for Lost Species" initiative. Using data and samples from surveys conducted in 2021, including environmental DNA, burrow traces, and sniffer dogs, a population was finally rediscovered in 2023, 86 years after its last sighting!

[kantbeloved]

what are the other 11 points on your marriage hints list tho 🤭

hello! 🧡 first of all thank you so much for the message! i'm happy to show you all the points i have written down so far including the one you have seen already with a bit more explanation let me warn you that some of them may be silly or a far reach, i'm aware of that but still wanted to add them so i have them all gathered and it will be easier to look at the "big picture" tbh i think a lot of these on its own wouldn't mean much but if you put them together like this i feel like the message couldn't be clearer: Kantbison AND Fadelstyle marriage is bound to happen! 🙂‍↕️💍

without further ado, lets get started 💨

"The Taming of the Shrew" ends with both couples married and THK is after all an adaption of it (a loose one yes, but still) and P'Jojo was so happy to make use of his english literature knowledge for this

Kant calling Fadel "Brother-In-Law"  once back in episode 5 where it was mistranslated in the subs (i think this time it was definitely mostly to tease fadel)

(cr: https://twitter.com/mileSmile__/status/1869409529139786009) and during episode 9 (where i think hes definitely more serious about it and this time Bison is also there to hear it and react to it hehe)

Kant calling Bison "househusband" also happened in episode 9:

"Such a mad marriage never was before" on the books happened at least twice on two different Shakespeares books Babe was reading first picture from episode 1 and the second from episode 6

Styles fake choking scene where he asks Fadel if he wants to marry him with ring! he came prepared

The upcoming scene of Kant on his knees even if its not a proposal per se (and i actually think it likely isn't) its still symbolic for one

Fadelstyles make up scene in episode 6 which has a pun about marrying post and explanation below by @airenyah who is the only one i have seen point it out and talk about it which i'm very thankful for 💛

Ring on Bisons right ring finger shown multiple times (sometimes on its own, sometimes together with other rings) but i think one of the most important and beautiful scenes with it is the northern lights scene in episode 6:

Style officiating JimmyPopcorns marriage also the preperation of it all with which Fadel surely helped as well

Khaotung saying the ending is something they have never done before which could mean a lot of things but is at least potentially about marriage (sadly i don't have a source of this, if someone else has it i would be very thankful if you could share)

That picture of the fancy table similar to above it could be for a wedding but it could be used for a lot of other things too

Rings worn by Khaotung on his right and left ring finger during THK EP1 event 🆕 (not a new moment but new addition to the list) Wether a wedding ring is worn on the left or right finger depends on country and culture. Based on what I have read Thailand leans towards wearing it on the left finger (but please correct me if i'm wrong). Now in the series Bison often wears rings on his right hand (either just on his ring finger or both ring finger and index finger) which i think might also be reflected by Khaotung wearing two rings on his right hand in the below picture. But I don't think I have ever seen Bison wear a ring on his left hand before (outside of fitting pics), especially not on his ring finger so if the other rings on Khaotung right hand are inspired by Bison, then the ring on the left hand might be too. Which is to say that I believe the left hand ring could be Bisons future wedding ring. I think it also has a cross on it (my best guess) which we know by now fits Bison perfectly. 🖐💍

(credit: https://x.com/ktmwsnw/status/1874743229419253911)

thats it so far! i hope it didn't disappoint and i am always happy to hear your or others thoughts about it, also always thankful about corrections or additions :)

[tamisdava2]

So, I did 3 different tests to see what my daemon would be:

1.First test I did was official BBC's test.

2.Then I took quiz and sub-quiz by firstginger

I choose my shrew to be brown.

3.Then I took this uquiz, I got Marsupial then I did the test to see what kind of Marsupial my daemon would be, the results didn't disappoint:

I'd be happy to get any of these honestly. But I need a name for my demon, since daemons are more often than have opposite gender of their owner mine will be male. I generated few of names from this generator and chose name for my daemon. His name shall be Kazinol. @themousefromfantasyland @ariel-seagull-wings I don't know if you had interacted with His Dark Materials in the past, but if you haven't and still want to take this test then go ahead.

[another-anonymous-idiot]

Ok this might be a longer post but I've been thinking...

So you guys know that trope, most common in like, medieval fantasy and similar settings, where The Main Character has to transport a prisoner from point A to point B and it's portrayed as a "I'm just following orders sorry dude" type of thing.

I feel like this has a lot of Whump potential both in a "Medieval Whump" and "Travel Whump" setting.

Whumpee could be an innocent bystander who got captured by Whumper, or they could actually be a criminal, depending on how you'd like your story.

Lemme tell you folks medieval society was CREATIVE about punishing criminals. So many horrible devices to use!

Example:

1. Scold's Bridle or Branks

Is your Whumpee's begging getting annoying? Do you wanna shut them up in a way that also makes them feel sub human? Well this device is perfect! A bonus is that eating with it on is quite impossible, so they have to depend on Whumper's mercy even more.

2. Shrew's Fiddle or Neck Violin

A very ridged thing which still allows for walking. Though, it's quite heavy, I can't imagine it would be comfortable to wear for long periods of time. I mean, holding your arms at a right angle in front of you must get heard, but if you let them fall you have even more weight on your neck... But hey, you can use it for multiple Whumpees!

3. Pillory, Stocks, or Stockade

Passing through town and have some errands to run? Well why don't you just leave your Whumpee in the town stocks for a day! They are very common and usually set up in the town square where everyone can see. That way you don't have to worry about Whumpee running off, and the prominent position lets you keep an eye on them. Could even leave them longer, if you don't wanna look at Whumpee in your room for the night.

An over all bonus of these devices, is that they are used to denote a person's crime. This is nice because then other people will know to also treat Whumpee poorly.

And the process of getting from town to town could be interesting too.

Is Whumpee tied up in the back of a cart, or are they being dragged behind one and forced to walk. Are they given proper traveling clothes, shoes? Maybe Whumper wants to humiliate them even more by taking their clothes away. Are they walking freely, or are they hobbled? Are other travelers seeing them?

Sooo much Whump potential folks!!!

[amysubmits]

You mentioned that when you brought up the D/s relationship to your husband, you sent him articles about it. Do you remember where you found those articles? My husband and I have been married 14 years, and together 19. We had a very limited sex life in the past due to sexual trauma I had from my previous relationship. I always had very bad feelings towards sex and viewed it as something that just hurt and the sooner it’s over the better and you just have to get him off to be done.

It wasn’t until I started reading erotica novels about BDSM that I even changed my view on sex and had my first orgasm…3 years after being married (5 years after I first had sex). Now I have a much healthier relationship with sex and I can have multiple orgasms, multiple ways.

My husband is very Alpha and amazing at making sure I’m taken care of and he prioritizes me and my safety. We’ve always sort of had that D/s dynamic. But I really want to go deeper into it. He’s open to discussing it. I just don’t know where to start other than the stereotypical stuff you see everywhere. I almost wish we had someone that could guide us and I don’t know how to bring it up to him that he needs a much better understanding of it just from having no familiarity of how in depth the dynamic is. The thing I’m mostly drawn to is the psychological aspect of it and when the Dom knows what the sub needs and demands it, regardless if the sub is aware what he’s doing. Thank you for all your posts and putting everything out there for people wanting to expand from a long term vanilla relationship to a new D/s relationship!

Hi there!

I'm so sorry that you've had the traumatic sexual experiences that have made it harder for you to find your way with your sexuality - but it's so cool that you've managed to do so now! Mine was a bit different from yours it sounds like, but it took me a while to figure out my sexuality due to trauma as well.

As far as what I shared with CD when I was first sharing the concept with him...

I came across the idea of domestic discipline (aka DD) before we knew about 'regular' D/s. It took a while before I realized that DD is basically a form of D/s. There's often a lot more D/s content out there than there is DD, so being limited to just knowing to search for DD made it especially tough. But anyway, the articles that I found early on where all on DD sites. There was some DD site that had a forum that was most of what I used as a reference from what I recall, and that site has since shut down. It was already really inactive by the time I was finding it like 10 years ago. But another that I can recall looks like it's still up. That is

I also recall a blog that was called A Shrew Tamed but I can't seem to find that. I think it may have been a Wordpress or blogspot blog?

That's what I recall starting with, anyway. While I gained a lot of info from those sources, I remember feeling frustrated that I couldn't find anything that was "spot on" for what I wanted. There are plenty of non-sexist DD people out there, but DD does bring in the sexist people more than regular D/s does, so there's a lot of sexism that can get mixed into most of the content I was finding early on... and that was always really offputting to me, but at the time it was the closest I could find to what I wanted. So I'd just share stuff with Cd but then point out the parts that I disagreed with or whatever. And he sometimes had additional parts that he disagreed with. So we had to kinda patch together our own path using some ideas from others but then crafting the rest based on our own ethics and needs and so on. Which I thought was kind of 'wrong' at the time, but I'm so glad we did that rather than feeling like we had to copy some guidelines from someone else that weren't right for us.

It took a ton of talking to get started, and that was pretty uncomfortable for me at the time as my communication skills were pretty bad and I had a lot of shame wrapped up in all of this so it was hard to talk about. But, to do D/s safely, I really had to get to a place where I could talk about it pretty in depth and openly so in hindsight, I'm glad that we did push ourselves to do all that talking. It was needed. Some of what we had to explore in depth were what both of us were wanting to feel about different aspects of D/s, what things we thought would give us those feelings and what things we thought would definitely NOT give us those feelings. And then once we started, we talked about what we were doing all the time in the beginning. CD wanted to know how everything he did felt to me, and we tried to keep adjusting if anything didn't feel good or right.

It's great that you know that a big part of what you're looking for is for your partner to know your needs and to prioritize them. Most likely, making it possible for him to know your needs in different situations will require you to share your needs with him a lot for a long time so that he can learn the patterns of what you need. And I know that sucks because a lot of times when we want someone to know our needs, part of what feels good is them 'just knowing' without us asking or telling, but realistically, our partners can usually only learn our needs in extreme detail like that, if a lot of communication happens early on.

It sometimes feels like CD 'reads my mind' and 'just knows' things - but that's almost always because at some point in the past, we openly discussed that need in some way or another. It also helps that he is very observant of my behavior and reactions to things, so he notices if I have a positive or negative reaction to something that happens or is said, and he tries to catalog that for future use. But that alone wouldn't be enough for him to know my needs most of the time.

I wish I had some specific article to point you to that would be exactly what you want, but I don't know of one. I do know that there's lots of great content here on tumblr that you could maybe use to send to your partner with commentary about what sounds good about it and what doesn't sound so good about it, the way I did with those early articles years go. I have a tag on my blog #vanilla to D/s that I use to tag any content I write or reblog that I think would be of interest to people transitioning from vanilla to D/s. @cherishedproperty has some of the best d/s content on tumblr in my opinion. Off the top of my head, I believe @tinybitsubby and @cybister015 are two more blogs you can follow for vanilla to D/s experience. And there are lots of others that are just good D/s examples even if they aren't vanilla to D/s. I tag most reblogs with #other writers if you want to browse that to see other blogs I've reblogged from and check out their content.

Hope this helps! If you have any additional questions come up feel free to reach out again. Best of luck to you guys. :)

[oraclekleo]

Tiny Tarot Game

Alright, folks! Time for our tiny tarot game!

I got some suggestions and while I actually liked the one with guilty pleasure fantasies, I firmly believe that unless your fantasies are straight up criminal, you should never feel guilty or ashamed by them and to support the positive view and the general acceptance of self, I'm going to come up with my own question as you are used to by now 😂

I'm really trying to teach you how to express yourself and think outside the box and outside the lines of conformity but you guys are so stubborn! 🤣

Anyway! This time, let's make the readings more spicy. Some general rules first:

I will pull only one card for each ask.

Anons are allowed.

You don't have to provide any info about yourself but you can give initials or zodiac sign or favourite colour or whatever you want to provide.

Minors do not interact - this is gonna be a spicy reading

Tarot isn't a science and this whole game is for entertainment only, I can never guarantee any of it.

I don't read energies, I don't meddle with yours or anybody's elses.

And the question for this game is:

CLOSED

What kind of a dom would be best for you?

(Their characteristics, the way they would handle you, their attitude and maybe even some physical traits if the card points towards some)

Sounds fun? I know I'm more about dominating others but you guys are in majority subs so let's give you some treat, too! 😘

And once again, a challenge for those who read cards, too.

You can do the reading for me! Pull a card and tell me what kind of a person would be able to dominate me, the untamed shrew Kleo 🤣

Take it as a practice 😏

I hope you can have fun, I'm looking forward to your asks.

[merlincersei]

Merlin BBC UK TV Show - A Psychological Analysis Series Part 2

The Gay Arc Of Our Protagonist and Antagonist

Using magic equals homosexuality motif, Camelot represents a homophobic society. Against this backdrop, is where Morgana and Merlins character arcs are formed.

For Morgana, the backdrop of an intolerant society is further compounded by a homophobic family dynamic. She is literally disowned I.e not acknowledged by Uther as being his child (a fear a lot of lgbt people have). She ultimately rebels against the society and her family by coming to terms with her sexuality. However all the oppression and the unpleasant coming out process (Merlin literally poisons her) has made her bitter and she lashes out in destructive ways namely against the token heterosexual couple of the show Gwen and Arthur. It plays into the homophobic stereotype of how militant homosexuals are a threat to traditional heterosexual society. Morgana is literally turned from a brave and loyal friend who helped a lowly servant by going to his village and helping him defend it to being this irredeemable shrew once she embraces her true identity I.e a goth lesbian ROFLMAO.

Merlin who has also grown in a homophobic society, however was lucky enough to experience a tolerant interpersonal dynamics. His mother and his friend are both aware of his identity and are supportive of him. However unlike Morgana, Merlin chooses to stay in the closet because, he has chosen to focus on his career of being this amazing sorcerer whose job is to enable a king achieve greatness. This parallels a lot of gay people who remain closeted I,e actors, athletes, politicians, even ordinary people who feel coming out will deprive them of opportunities.

To really understand why the tone of merlin tv series changes drastically in seasons 4 and 5 is to understand the primary motivation of our hero and villain.

Merlin character arc is driven by fear. Fear of being found out. Fear of being rejected. Fear of failing his destiny.

Morgana character arc is driven by hate. Hatred of Uther for not acknowledging her and forcing her to supress her true self. Hatred of Camelot for condemning her when she wanted to rebel against a system that vilified her for what she was.

In classic fashion, those who rebel against society meet an untimely end. Morgana just like Sal Mineo's character in the classic heavily gay Sub textual movie "Rebel Without A Cause" is killed off.

Merlin who plays by society’s rule by remaining closeted and denying his true feelings, lives to be an old man full of regret.

In a case of art imitating life, Richard Wilson, the actor who played Gaius, came out in his 80s and said that he regrets hiding all his life because he never got the chance to build a family with someone he loved. I think it’s very bittersweet how he played a role that frequently told Merlin to “be more careful”.

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[dustedmagazine]

Water Shrews — Red Eared Slider (Mossy Tapes)

Water Shrews are a Portland, OR based improvisational group with a line-up that ranges from founding member/organizer/Bud Tapes label person Emmet Martin warping tapes and droning on synths and reed organ by themself to a big band — the Free Water Shrew Ensemble — that creates half-hour or so bursts of ecstatic free-folk jazz. Most of these performances end up on a home-dubbed tape or CD-R, in true head fashion. The Shrew’s newest tape is on fledgling UK label Mossy Tapes, founded by artist Jonny Brokenbrow, recognizable for his artwork on many of the sleeves for the Worried Songs label, does not fit the above mold it lies somewhere in between the poles of the Shrew’s free-form galaxy. The music is still improvised, but this album features the original Shrew duo of Martin and multi-instrumentalist/producer Skyler Pia using mostly acoustic and folk-coded instruments in studio settings to go full arcane Pelt-mode over the four lengthy tracks.

Red Eared Slider opens with “Ambulation”, a factually ambulatory, wandering even, duet for acoustic guitars. Drifty, reeling fingerpicking cements the Fahey reference that is perhaps implied by naming the album after a turtle. This song crashes into the following one like a stone breaking the surface tension of a pond. “Water Refraction” fades in with a harmonium drone but begins to plant itself more and more in rhythm and melody over the 14-minute running time, with twinkling raga-like guitar in the background providing a territory for exploration by another guitar and a pedal steel in ruminative conversation. Peaks and valleys of reed organ sometimes bring the song into that heavy, dissonant zone of shadowy backwoods dread you might experience listening to the likes of Tongue Depressor, but Shrews don’t live in those moments, there is more ground to cover, the clouds clear, and by the end of the piece, the weight has dissipated into a call and response of staccato acoustic guitar notes, reminiscent of birds in the morning.

Side B starts with “Green Depths”, a song that evokes its title — if “Water Refraction” was the stone breaking the surface, “Green Depths” is that stone sinking and settling into the soft mud of the bottom. Electronic elements are introduced here; tape loops, a Shrew stand-by. They sound like a sub-aquatic alien om chant, mysterious and crackly, in a submerged temple with a harmonium for an organ. Surfacing from this space on a float of blown reeds comes “Aquatic Steps”, taking listeners full circle on this intra-terrestrial journey with another American Primitive adjacent guitar duet as sunny as the titular slider sleeping on a log in June — at least until it crumbles like a deadfall of noise to close out the tape.

Water Shrew’s discography is hard to pin down, owing to the habit of releasing a tape or CD-R of just about every time the collective sits down to jam. Red Eared Slider is a bit more intentionally produced but the performance is no less improvised, and the musical chemistry between Martin and Pia, their ability to move between sharp edges to smooth contours, is on full display. Red Eared Slider splits the difference between the minimal drone of solo Shrews and the joyful maximalism of the Free Water Shrew Ensemble, making it the perfect place to dip your ears in this group’s never-ending stream.

Josh Moss

[ao3feed-friendsatthetable]

Catch the Sun

by r0ryy

Chine and Duvall spend some time together, after everything.

Words: 2661, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Friends at the Table (Podcast)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Other

Characters: Chine (Friends at the Table), M. Leopold Duvall

Relationships: Chine/M. Leopold Duvall

Additional Tags: another ship that is sooooo t4t, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Vaginal Sex, Oral Sex, Light Dom/sub, Limophilia, Bugs & Insects, insect infestation of a human body, yall know the drill, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, gender euphoria, Post-Canon, Season: Sangfielle, you guys are soooooo lucky i didn't title this the taming of the shrew

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/48430804

[travelinglibrariansdesk]

Three Books That Made Me Smile Today

I spent most of my time at work today learning how to accept passport applications, so my blogging got cut short a little.

Also, a quick note on the links: I wanted to link every book I mention so that anyone reading this can find out more about them or where to find them - but I don't want to link to Amazon or any other commercial site. I don't want to market anything here, and I would like to encourage readers to use the library. So a colleague suggested I use WorldCat, which tells readers about the book, what nearby libraries might have it, and where you can buy it. Henceforth all title links will go to WorldCat - but you can always look in Amazon yourself if you're so inclined.

I'm no authority on children's books, though I have studied them off and on since ed school in the 1990s. Finding good professors in ed school is tough, and one of my favorites was an expert in children's literature, so I took a couple of classes from her. I hope to do the same at Kent State, once I get the core classes out of the way. Both in video (TV, movies) and books, the best children's literature makes adults smile and laugh along with their kids - think Bugs Bunny vs. Teletubbies or Barney. I imagine most parents want their kids to settle on favorite books (the ones they'll be reading over and over and over and over and over...) that bring a smirk to an adult face, too.

So even though I don't normally comment on children's books that just demonstrate rhyming words, Jan Thomas's Rhyming Dust Bunnies caught my eye today. Partly I think this was because I spent yesterday ridding my bedroom of dust rhinos. LOTS of rhinos. What cracked me up about the rhyming dust bunnies was the occasional interruption of their "teaching rhyming words" by the broom, the dust mop and the vacuum cleaner. One of the bunnies always interrupts the list of rhyming words with a full sentence like "look out for the broom!" and the others criticize it for not rhyming. Just a good giggle, that book.

Then I grabbed This Is Not My Hat from the cart. Something about the potato-print/batik quality of the art and the very-large-ocean, very-tiny-fish appealed to me. If This Is Not My Hat preaches anything, it's don't steal, and if you do, excuses won't help. But author Jon Klassen shows much more than he tells, and leaves the reader hanging a little at the perfect ending regarding the fate of the sassy little fish narrating.

The last one that grabbed me today was The Ugly Five. If you're not familiar with safari lingo, The Big Five (lion, elephant, leopard, rhino and buffalo) are supposedly the most desirable animals to catch on film when traveling in sub-Saharan African countries. Safari companies marketing the local wildlife have followed this list with "The Little Five" (leopard tortoise, elephant shrew, ant lion, rhino beetle, buffalo weaver), "The Shy Five" (porcupine, aardvark, aardwolf, meerkat and bat-eared fox), and "The Ugly Five". Author Jan Donaldson heard a reference to The Ugly Five while on safari, and determined to write about them. She created excellent singsong chorus dialogue between the wildebeest, the hyena, the vulture, the warthog and the marabou stork that I imagine will appeal to children, and she includes delightfully specific details about the animals that any kid would enjoy - especially how dirty and smelly scavengers like the stork and the hyena are. I expected a fairly silly book, but this has it all - information, rhyme, affection, charming art.

[wc-adventure-game-35e]

Creation Outline/Idea List

I will be using the following for an outline of how I plan to create this!

Note, none of this is set in stone! In fact, I always am taking ideas!

Races:

Domestic Feline

Wildcat (Non-Specific, but include options for creating different wildcat species)

Lion (Mythos Sub Supplement)

Tiger (Mythos Sub Supplement)

Cheetah (Mythos Sub Supplement)

Leopard (Mythos Sub Supplement)

Snow Leopard (Mythos Sub Supplements)

Dogs (Domestic and Wild/Domestic Hybrids, meant for worlds where a clan may adopt a non feline member)

Base Classes:

Note, I am not going to use the term medicine cat for this work! Instead, the healer class is non spiritual by nature.

Warrior (Fighter)

Warrior (Hunter)

Healer

Prestige Classes:

Leader

Oracle

Cleric

Animal Whisperer

NPC Classes:

Builder

Perma Monarch

Feats:

Clans (Referring to the Clan Bonuses in the WCAG)

Special Powers

Special Maneuvers

Beastiary:

Enemy Cats

Small Dogs/Foxes/ect

Large Dogs/Coyotes/Wolves/ect

Badgers

Rats

Snakes

Fish (Large and Small)

Small mammals (Such as mice, shrews, ect)

Deer

Bears

Ghosts

Extras Not Yet Planned At All:

Weapons

Armor

Magic Items

Creating Deities

Spells

Epic (level 20+ progression)

Afterlife/Planes of Existence

GM (May flavor to be a Feline Master [FM]) tools to create fan clans, monsters, and classes

[mlarayoukai]

Considering the animals look vaguely like Pokémon and that shrew’s sheer size compared to Red’s head I have a feeling they weren’t sure wether or not to use actual Pokémon for that scene and subbed them out.

Therez only 151 pokemon. I wish there was more to chose from

[cynicalrainbows]

Has anyone ever done a staging of Taming Of The Shrew where Benedict introduces Beatrix to dom/sub culture and it turns out she’s massively into it? The ridiculous demands he makes of her would fit so well with this!