#tell me this isn't what you'd do

[vixstarria]

Kinktober Day 23 - Body Swapping

For every day of the month of October I will be posting a little snippet following prompts listed in this post. Most of these will not be full fics, but rather short snippets, set-ups, and, in a few cases, copied bits and pieces of fics I have already published. But, if there is a lot of interest and feedback on any of the snippets, they might just evolve into full fics, so keep that in mind.

Disclaimer: Tell me this isn't exactly how this would go, I fkn dare you.

“We’ll have about an hour. Are you ready?”

The scroll had cost a small fortune on the black market, came with no guarantees, and was illegal to possess to begin with. The vendor claimed it would fully swap their bodies. Not just provide illusionary images of one another - completely switch them, sensations, abilities, weaknesses and all.

“Do it.”

Asmodea braced herself and used the scroll before she could change her mind.

She was immediately struck by the heightened richness of her senses - she already had perfect half-elven eyesight before, but now everything she laid her eyes on was clearer to a degree she had never realised was possible. She could make out the most minute sounds from afar. Her sense of smell seemed to have gained a new dimension.

It worked! By the gods, the scroll actually worked…

After a few dazed seconds, she realised that her mouth had been gaping in awe, and she shut it. A fang immediately snagged on her inner lip, piercing it. Asmodea yelped in surprise, tonguing the cut. Within seconds, it healed completely. She carefully opened and shut her mouth again - the fangs feeling unnatural and obtrusive in her mouth.

“Godth,” she lisped, trying to get the hang of working her mouth despite the fangs. “How long did it take to get used to thith?” No answer followed, and she looked questioningly at Astarion, who was wearing her body.

He had stayed completely still, barely breathing, hardly blinking. He hadn’t taken his eyes off her, she realised.

Oh. Right.

“Come now, you’ve seen your mirror images,” she said, softly. “This shouldn’t be a shock.”

“They didn’t quite convey the… the finer details,” Astarion said, absentmindedly, continuing to stare.

Asmodea quelled her urge to cringe at the sound of her own voice, and instead did a little spin with a flourish, and flashed him her best imitation of his devilish grin.

“And what do you think?”

“I think you have excellent taste, darling” Astarion smiled, before finally tearing his eyes away from his own image. “Anyway. Let’s not waste time.”

Their clothes were quickly discarded.

“Do you want me to touch you..?”

“Not yet, just let me see for myself first… Gods, you may as well be half-deaf and blind, but I need to gorge myself on blood before my skin gets even close to this level of sensation…”

Astarion was careful and methodical, almost scientific in the way he glided his fingers over his female flesh, repeating the motions he’d performed on her countless times - no doubt making mental notes of the sensations and filing them away for later use.

Meanwhile, Asmodea was gyrating her hips, trying to get her penis to spin like the sails of a windmill.

“You need to be more aroused to get a proper idea of how that feels,” she said, watching him.

“In due course,” he murmured. “…And will you stop that?”

“In due course,” she mimicked him, looking him square in the eyes, the penis continuing to fly.

He sighed and resumed his efforts, his fingers slipping inside, probing and searching. He frowned in concentration.

“You really can’t reach it yourself,” he said thoughtfully.

“Yes, I’ve told you that,” she rolled her eyes. “But while we’re err… exploring uncharted territories and all… Can you finger my ass real quick?” she asked, turning her back to him.

“Finger your own ass,” he muttered, “I’m busy.”

She half-turned to look back at him over her shoulder, conjuring up the saddest, roundest eyes she could manage. Astarion swore under his breath as soon as he looked up at her.

“I had no idea it was that effective,” he muttered. “Fine! I’ll scratch yours, if you scratch mine... Is there any oil anywhere..?”

My Kinktober masterlist and prompts post

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

not enough discussion about the gavins' complicated relationship with feminine-coded/beauty products, i don't think.

[batemanofficial]

me rn if you even care

[mad-hunts]

barton being awkward at first or even completely throughout a whole interaction whenever he's trying to comfort people is so in character for him TBH and let me tell y'all why because i think it's important to his character:

he can fake a lot of things. barton can fake being nice to people, he can fake being innocent, and he can even fake having a much stronger sense of morality around people if he wants to — but whenever it comes to empathizing with someone on an emotional level... barton finds himself often struggling with faking it because of the nature of it. and this is due to it being different than whenever he's trying to feign something easily comprehensible like innocence. but empathy is something that's usually viewed as innate in us as humans and has to do with love, which doesn't depend on logic. it's something that comes from within, so it doesn't have clear parameters as to how you should do it, so whenever barton tries to fake it in the event that he's trying to make someone feel better; he'll stumble. and so although barton can cognitively empathize with someone, his efforts to actually put himself in other people's shoes fall flat, as he just can't physically imagine himself being in someone else's position probably more than half the time.

so if your muse were to ever come to him seeming upset, barton would likely not know what to do / how to comfort them, at least for a bit before referencing back on how he's seen other people do it. because i hate to say it (i don't, in reality, but y'all know what i mean LOL) but barton does actively mimic behaviors that he sees people do whenever he feels the absence of a certain emotion. he especially does this whenever he's trying to appear charming to other people, but like i said, he'll also try to use what he's seen his peers do as a guide as for what he should do in regards to empathy. and sometimes he may even seem a bit flustered before he's able to do this because he knows that it is expected of him to be able to empathize with people and can identify it in other people BUT knowing how to approach faking it has always been sort of hard for him even as an adult.

but yeahhh, that's just my own two cents about how barton sometimes break character that he is quote unquote ' normal, ' though he does try to mask this around people who aren't really familiar with him as simply being social awkwardness. however, it is part of a larger thing with him as despite the fact that he can blend in with the population REALLY well and also is pretty good at manipulating others, i suppose you could say that barton is still not an expert at ' constructing empathy ' because whenever someone is visibly hurt in front of him... he is more liable to act like he isn't sure what to do, than to put on an act immediately since he is likely to feel nothing first before anything else. and i realize that that is a rather unsettling thought, but i think that he is a lot more suspectible to doing this with people he doesn't know well / who he isn't particularly close to, as he's got a lot more practice with being falsely empathetic towards friends and/or sometimes even family members.

[death-rebirth-senshi]

Now that I've finished dungeon meshi I have to say, while I understand the disappointment with fandom's constant obsession with shipping two dudes in fandom typical ways and ignoring the women/men that don't fit a certain mold and basically ignoring the entire rest of the story...

People acting so indignant that people would do gay or even straight shipping, because this manga is such a super women-led yuri show that's all about the power of Marcille's all-consuming love for Falin, are absolutely fucking bonkers and have lost the plot.

That is not to say that these shippers are not insane or can't be annoying in the typical ways that they are, or that Marcille/Falin aren't the most shippable pairing and just about the closest you're gonna get to something romantic in Dungeon Meshi (it's a platonic ass story and I love that), or that it wouldn't be nice for the fandom around something to stay mostly devoted to the closest to a canon pairing most shippable F/F ship. It would. But like. I don't know I'm kind of upset by that attitude now

And my intention is not to be super negative about Marcille/Falin fans, because they are certainly not all like this, it's just. WHOO! That is just so not remotely what Dungeon Meshi is about to a degree I still wasn't prepared for despite being aptly warned.

[dredshirtroberts]

huh... the way my parents showed me the world worked was really kind of fucked up, it's no fucking wonder i have an anxiety disorder frankly.

[vengeful-horde-of-angry-ghosts]

Ok, let's talk about Kiriona Gaia.

I think her trauma and isolation demons have come home to roost and she's acting entirely in character. She's traumatized, stuck without the only person she truly cares about while simultaneously hating said person for spitting her sacrifice back in her face, has been handed her wildest childhood fantasy and realized it's totally...pyrrhic (whether it's joining the cohort, having a powerful parent, or getting revenge on Crux).

She wanted to get off 9th and join the cohort so she could have a life and stop being Harrow's metaphorical puppet, and now she's there but with absolutely no real future in any way that matters since she is literally a corpse puppet. She couldn't even control her own death and now has even been stripped of her very name. She has no hope, no agency, and is utterly alone in every way that matters.

She was always at least a little bit of an asshole, though a loveable one (and GtN was her own pov). My assholery would be turned up to 15 too under the same circumstances. Harrow isn't the only one undone without the other.

[t4tvglow]

it happened so early in the morning and i am STILL frothing with rage over this text my boss sent me

[gregoftom]

oh ok

[clevervonskelli]

I can take them making the Crosby/Landra thing explicit (even when keeping it vague would have been very doable and truer to his own memoir) but him pushing her about what she actually was doing was annoying. The call we'll see next week is fine, but whining about it in a pub instead of just being like "haha pretty sure my badass former-roomate is a spy, crazy times we live in, ammirite?" rubbed me the wrong way.

[yuseirra]

What are your thoughts on the claims that Aqua is heartless and psychopath like Kira (death note) and Lelouch (code geass)? I have read this on here and reddit however I can not agree do you think Aqua is misunderstood?

Heyo Anon! I wouldn't say I'm an expert on things, and I really don't prefer getting into arguments, so I cannot promise I'll answer questions like these in the future, pardon me in advance... there will be better people in the fandom who answer questions regarding the plot, I consider myself to be a fan artist who hangs here for fun and my thoughts aren't too important regarding how people should feel about things. I hope you all have fun with your takes!

With that being out of the way,

I... don't think there's even a need to answer this question, the answer is very obvious, isn't it? At least, I think so! How do you feel about such takes, anon? Are those ideas very important to you? Does it influence how you feel about the character? To add, in terms of Light and Lelouch, I haven't seen code geass but I read Death Note, I think Light is a very interesting character and Lelouch.. I bet he's a pretty complex character as well. They must all have their own charm, so labeling them as a flat-out heartless psychopath may be a bit unfair. Death Note was really good! I even bought myself a hard copy of the book. My favorite character is L (and I like Near too), but Light is a well-written character as well and that's one of the things that's made the series really charming and intriguing!

Comparing Aqua to Kira is kinda.. I might get it if people compare his DAD to Kira since people keep dying around the guy but if you've seen me, I take even him as someone who really may be kind but is being misunderstood and horribly unfortunate. I think they're very different to begin with, their circumstances and what they go through and their mindsets and everything, I personally can't find a lot of similarities between the two. But maybe people who feel that way may have their own reasons for feeling so. Everyone has their own reasoning.

Aqua used to be my favorite character when I picked up the series back last year, and so I wrote an analysis about how I feel about the character. My thoughts about the character hasn't changed so drastically, so this should be how I take him still.

What other people say about things can matter and affect your heart, I know where you're coming from because I get influenced very easily because I care about what people say, but I feel that in the end, it's really up to you to form a take and interpret the things you believe that make sense for you. Perhaps it could be a good idea to curate your dash in ways that won't negatively affect you. I never knew there were those takes in the first place, and even if I do, I don't think I would actively go looking for those or read it thoroughly, I'm not saying they would be entirely wrong or have no base, not worth reading and such, it's because it'd be very different from the way I see it and there would be no need for me to read them over on purpose.

Again, I didn't have any thoughts because I wasn't aware.. if people feel that way about Aqua, they must have their reasons upon believing so! I don't feel that way though.

[anto-pops]

and every time the baby kicks and moves in her tummy, sebastian turns into a mooncalf. dances around her and has the biggest googly eyes on his face. he puts his hands on her belly and it's like they are communicating with each other. it's magical.

"yes, you are right mommy is the best! she carries you like a kangaroo. what's a kangaroo you ask? that's a muggle animal. i will show them to you one day when you are there. but now you gotta let mommy sleep a little. take a nap with her. i love you more than everything. can't wait to hold you in my arms buddy."

I had just enough time to recover from the first few asks you sent and you follow up with THIS ??? Call an ambulance. I'm deceased.

[theriverdalereviewer]

everyone jumping to team kamala we will never experience true freedom in this country

[broodygaming]

idk if that poll means viv betrays you or like. solas. he kinda betrays you by wanting to end the world ig

Yes! Yes sorry i tried to say that later in my tags haha, I just mean the whole betrayal thing reminds me of this very intense first impression of Viv, that's all. Whenever I think about the whole "mage betrayal" thing, I think of that just because I knew that my hurt feelings over Anders "betrayal" REALLY colored my choices in that (fairly early) character quest, ya know? And I feel bad haha, like it sucks and I wish she'd just given me more context T_T

[sysig]

If your eye causes you to [fear], pluck it out (P1 | P2 | P3 | B) (Patreon)

[ronanlynchbf]

hell day today and i'm only two hours into my EIGHT HOUR SHIFT