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angy-mouse · 4 years ago

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BESTIE IM HERE AND I HAVE MCYT WHO WOULD LOVE BBW!!

First off Awesamdude! Like please he adore you and kiss you everywhere. Loves to see you be confident and will buy you sets of lingerie to see you wear. Gets full of hard thinking of you riding him.

Second Punz, like mans adores ass and tits but when his s/o has chub he just fuckinf looses it. Loves feeling all over you.

And of course sapnap mans would worship every bit of you.

This took 3 days and its 2500 words... I have no regrets *^* fluff first, then smut under the cut

Awesamdude strikes me as the kind of guy who says he loves all kinds of women, and he actually does. He’d never let you feel self-conscious just because of how clear he makes it that he loves your body. When you hug him he probably holds your hips as you pull away, giving them a squeeze as he just looks at you with a smile because you’re just so gorgeous. He's the kind of guy who makes you feel just as beautiful in a modest dress or something that shows every roll. He'd give you that cute little smile, take your hand and twirl you so he could get the full view, and give you a kiss on the forehead and tell you, "You look stunning, darling. Are you ready to go?"

Of course, just because he thinks you look beautiful in everything doesn't mean he doesn't prefer certain clothes over others. When you’re going out I think he’d wanna put you in a dress. He just seems like the kind of guy to love seeing his girl in dresses. A flowy sundress (with pockets bc he’s a feminist) when you’re going somewhere casual, but on the special occasions when you go out to a formal restaunt he’d buy you a tight fitting dress that showed off your figure. On the (now rare) occasion that you put on the dress and don’t like how it makes your fat look, he’d gently coax you out of the bathroom to come show him. “Oh, what’s not to like, baby?” He’d take your hands in his and put them on his shoulders to make you stop hiding behind them. “God, you look gorgeous.” He’d grip your waist and pull you into his chest, kissing your cheek before trailing his lips along your jaw. “If you really don’t like it I’m sure we can find you something else to wear, but you’ll still wear this just for me sometime, right?”

As for my emotional support chads-

I feel like Punz loves bbw. He’s the type to see a big girl across the club and instantly go “that bitch gonna be mine… at least for tonight”. He wouldn’t shy away from your fat- look me in the eye and tell me this man wouldn’t give you tummy or booty rubs when you cuddle. That’s right, you can’t. Because you’re absolutely right: Punz is the assiest ass man to ever ass (did that make sense? No, but I’m vibing so shut up) but he also watches anime and if there’s one thing I know about motherfuckers who watch anime (coming from a motherfucker who watches anime) it’s that they fucking love tiddies.

If you’re dating Punz then 1: mans is smacking your ass whenever you’re in reach. Especially if you decide to be sweet and refill his water bottle while he’s streaming. He doesn’t care if he’s got facecam, hand cam, all of the above- he’s smacking that ass. He’d get a good whack in as soon as you entered his peripheral, then grab your ass and pull you closer until you gave in and leaned down to give him a kiss. “Thank you, baby girl,” he’d hum as you traded his bottle for a full one. “Isn’t she so sweet chat? Fuckin’ wifey shit.” And 2: if he walks in on you laying on your back he’s faceplanting into your tiddies. If you’re laying on your front he’s faceplanting on your ass. Only way to stop him is to tell him seriously that you don’t like it but let’s be real you wouldn’t do that. Whether he’s on your tits or ass he’d mindlessly play with the fat, grabbing a handful and kneading, give a rough pat to make it jiggle against his face and make himself giggle- honestly more fat in Punz’s mind is just more to play with.

Sapnap is probably a bbw appreciator. He might not be as much of a fanatic as Punz, but he’s definitely crushed on a few big girls. I think he’s the kind of guy to not care much about someone’s body beyond ‘yeah I can acknowledge that they’re attractive’ until he starts crushing because we all know when you get a strong crush suddenly everything that motherfucker does is hot. Suddenly he’s watching you adjust your shorts after they ride up due to chub rub, he’s grinning like an idiot because you found something cute in your size and you’re just so happy about it, he’s seeing clothes and thinking about how good they’d look on you. He’d probably admit he likes you on pure accident, maybe you’re hyping yourself up after one too many people were cruel to you about your weight. And he’s watching you pace his room (because of course you had to get your best friend in on this) going between ‘fuck all of them I’m a bad bitch you can’t kill me’ and ‘is it really that difficult to find someone who likes big girls’ and he’s tired from staying up all night playing with George and Dream so he just mutters, “so just date me, then… I didn’t mean to say that out loud.”

Once you start dating he discovers the joy of ‘girlfriend wearing your clothes’ and can’t get over it. Maybe you avoid it, telling him you don’t think they’ll fit, but he looks so excited to see you in them, so you try. Some hoodies and shirts actually fit pretty well, but some are a little tight around your chest and stomach. The first time you felt embarrassed and tried to sneak out of the bathroom to grab a bigger one, but he was waiting for you. He let out a strained breath and you were afraid he was trying to not be mean. “Fuck, darlin’, you look so pretty in my clothes,” he’d breathe out, settling his hands on your hips and pulling you closer. He’d pull you into bed to cuddle, spooning you and loving the feeling of your plush body against him. His hands would constantly be all over you whenever your around- on your thigh when you sit next to him, cupping your tit when you’re spooning, rubbing your hip when you’re laying with your head on his chest, giving you tummy and back rubs when you don’t feel good- he just wants to touch.

Sam always wanted you on his lap. You tried to resist at first, all too conscious of your weight, but he’d pout until he managed to pull you to sit on his thighs, pressing a kiss behind your ear with a smile. “See, darling, I’m fine. Now come on, settle down so we can watch the movie.” And soon it became a habit to settle on your boyfriend’s lap whenever he was on the couch. Of course, often he couldn’t seem to keep his hands under control and he’d find himself reaching under your skirt to rub and knead at your thigh. He seemed to always find himself losing interest in the movie, much more concerned with trailing sweet kisses down your neck and slipping his fingers into your panties.

“My sweet baby,” he cooed as he made you come on his fingers again. You moaned, hand trying clumsily to get him off through his sweatpants through your own pleasure. He gently tsked, crooking his fingers and grinning when your hand faltered against him. “Let me focus on you, darling,” he persuaded, lifting your skirt up around your waist to watch his fingers work. He groaned as he saw the familiar black lace and set to work taking your outer clothes off. “You’re wearing the set I bought you, baby?”

You nodded, pressing a kiss to his jaw. “Wanted to look pretty for you,” you murmured as you helped him tug your dress off. He groaned as you exposed the full set to him, lace accentuating your gorgeous body, and turned yourself to straddle him, grinding against his hard on in his sweats.

“You look gorgeous,” he gushed. His hands roamed your body like he couldn’t believe you were letting him see- let alone touch you. “I want you to ride me, baby,” he whispered reverently, grabbing your ass and pulling you to sit directly on his cock so he could latch his mouth onto the skin above your breast.

You moaned, scrambling to pull his cock out. “Please,” you whimpered, pumping him in your hand as he marked up your chest. He pulled your panties to the side and let you sink down on him, throwing his head back as he was wrapped in your tight heat.

“Fuck, baby,” he panted, eyes flying as he watched you bounce on his cock, every part of your body calling his gaze. It was everything he’d ever wanted- seeing his goddess-like girlfriend use him for your own pleasure and take what you wanted from him, wearing what he picked out for you. His hands gripped your ass as he thrust his hips to meet yours, swallowing your moans with a sloppy kiss. “God, you’re so perfect.”

Punz nearly didn’t make it through the front door the first time he brought you home. He growled into your mouth as he pressed you against the hallway wall, your hands pushed under his unbuttoned shirt feeling him up while his found the zipper on your tight dress. You helped him get the dress off with just a hint of shyness that immediately vanished as he groaned and groped your ass with one hand and your tit with the other, grinding his body against yours. “So fucking sexy, bunny,” he groaned, bucking sharply against you and grinning when it pulled a sharp moan from your lips. “Mmm, come here, baby girl.” He picked you up by the backs of your thighs and wrapped your legs around his waist, grinning against your neck as you shreiked in surprise and latched onto his shoulders.

“I gotcha, bunny,” he promised, pulling you off the wall with a deep kiss and carrying you off to the bedroom. He sat on the edge of the bed with you on his lap, leaving one hand kneading your ass while the other slid up to thread through your hair. He purred against your lips as you grinded down on him, his hips coming up to meet yours. “Fuck, baby,” he groaned, giving a sharp pull on your hair so he could mark up the underside of your jaw and grinning at your moans- he loved every reaction he pulled from you. He needed more.

“Wanna eat you out,” he growled, helping you push his shirt off his shoulders. “You gonna sit on my face, bunny? Let me drown in your sweet pussy? You panted out a hundred breathy ‘yes's- he’d made it clear earlier, when he made you beg him to finger you while he drove, that he needed verbal consent. You climbed off his lap so he could lay back and as soon as he was settled he was tugging you over by the hips. You kneeled over his head, glancing down at him to double-check that he was okay with this.

He had a dopey smile on his lips as he looked up at your gorgeous body. When he caught your eye he grinned wider, sticking his tongue out and lifting his eyebrows invitingly. You giggled at him but it turned into a moan as he pulled you to his mouth, eagerly lapping at your folds and curling his tongue around your clit. You let out a breathy moan, trying to stop yourself from grinding against his mouth but as soon as you made the slightest movement his strong hands on your hips were pulling you to do it again. He growled against you as he ravenously ate you out, one hand holding your thigh like an anchor and the other guiding your hips- save for when he gave a swift smack on your ass.

He moaned almost as loud as you did as you came on his tongue, making positively obscene noises as he slurped up every last drop. “Good fucking bunny,” he cooed, using your shaky legs to his advantage and firmly holding you down on his mouth. “Can you do it again for me? I’m not done eating yet.”

Sapnap was just so touchy. You never had to question what he thought about your body because his actions told you clearly- but he still made sure to tell you.

“So- haaa- look so pretty, darlin’,” he panted, holding his hair out of his face so he didn’t miss a single second as you sucked him off. “Fuck, so fucking good to me.” You gave a pleased hum at the praise, pulling off his cock to nuzzle against his inner thigh. He leaned closer and cupped your cheeks to pull you up to meet him, covering your face in soft kisses. He pulled you up to sit sideways on his leg, distractedly pushing his fingers into your panties as your hand returned to his cock. He pulled away from your lips just enough to give a needy whine, hot breath fanning over your face. “Fuck, sugar. So fucking pretty- gorgeous, baby.”

You pressed forward, swallowing his praise as you rocked your hips, grinding your clit against his palm as he fucked you open on his fingers. He groaned into your mouth as your hand pumped his cock, stomach tensing as he resisted bucking into your hand- he had no right, he told himself. He should be happy that such a gorgeous, perfect person wanted to pleasure him in the first place- he should be grateful for anything you wanted to give him.

On that note he gently brushed off your hand so he could focus, pumping his fingers inside of you while he searched for your g-spot. He smiled against your lips as you started whimpering, one hand latching onto his shoulder and the other onto his wrist to ground yourself as he worked you closer to your orgasm. “Let me make you come, sugar,” he coaxed, nose brushing yours as he refused to pull away. He had pure adoration in his eyes as your hips jerked against his hand. “Just wanna make you feel good, baby.”

You buried your face in his neck to muffle your moans as you came all over his thick fingers and he carried you through it, cooing how wonderful you were and how pretty you looked when you came until you were pushing his hand away. He laid you down on your back on the bed, covering your face with sweet kisses as you came down from your high then moving down your body. He gently helped you out of your bra and panties then lay down between your legs, resting his head on your chest as he waited for you to come down.

When your hand came up to cup his cheek he looked up at you with a grin, propping himself up and kissing you softly as one hand drifted down to line himself up. “Gonna make you come one more time, darlin’,”

#angymouse #mice #squeakin #fluff #mcyt smut #sapsqueaks #punnysqueaks #awesamsqueaks #minors dni

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magicsmutshop · 5 years ago

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50 Minute Shower

Pairing: Jeon Jungkook/Reader

Genre: Smutty one-shot

Rating: Explicit

Word count: ~2500

Warnings: Unprotected sex, shower sex (be careful in real life bc that shit is slippery, yo)

Summary: Jungkook joins you in your hotel's amazing waterfall shower. Shenanigans ensue.

Hot water washes over your head, running down your body in slow rivulets. You’re in bliss as the warmth eases your sore muscles. You’d spent a long day hiking in the sun, and this luxurious shower was the reward you’d promised yourself. You’d been looking forward to this ever since checking into the hotel room and getting an eyeful of the bathroom with its gleaming white sink, tawny marbled walls, and huge walk-in shower. Your bathroom at home was teeny-tiny with sad water pressure, so this was an amazing change of pace, and you planned to take full advantage of it.

You crank the temperature up just a bit higher, and turn the Bluetooth player volume as well. Tori Kelly’s voice fills the air as you reach for the body wash. You get lost in soaping yourself off while you sing along to the music.

Suddenly, you feel hands run down your skin, spreading the body wash down to the small of your back, where you couldn’t quite reach. Goosebumps spring up in the wake of the slightly calloused touch.

You let out a little shriek, spinning around and promptly getting a faceful of water. Scrubbing your hands across your eyes, you squint at the man who’s just entered the shower and is blinking innocently at you. “Jungkook! What are you doing in here?”

“I missed you.” Jungkook’s eyes crinkle up as he flashes a toothy grin at you. His black hair slowly flattens to his head, forming little ringlets as he ducks into the spray of water.

“You scared me. I’ve only been in here for, like, ten minutes.”

Jungkook pouts a bit. “It’s been more like twenty minutes, and you said you were never going to get out of this shower, so I couldn’t take the chance you’d never return to me.” He waggles his soapy hands at you. “Plus, it looked like you needed some help washing your back.”

You scowl at him, but there’s no heat behind it. He looks too cute with his cheeks flushed pink from the heat of the shower. He shakes his long wet hair out of his face, revealing sparkling eyes.

“Well, if you’re going to join me, at least don’t hog all the water.” You crowd him back out of the spray, pressing up against his firm chest as you jokingly glare up at him.

Jungkook laughs, scrunching his nose up and bringing his hands around your waist. “There’s more than enough for both of us, have you seen how huge this shower head is?” Squeezing you a little more tightly to himself, he shuffles forward until you’re both under the waterfall. It feels good under the hot water, but his hard body feels even better and hotter pressed against you.

As he runs his hands up your back, you start to spread your legs a bit, rubbing your full body up against his. Your nipples start to tighten up against his wet skin, and you can feel his thickening cock nudge up against your center. Your eyes go half-lidded as you make heated eye contact with him. His lips part, revealing a hint of white teeth and his pink tongue. You focus on the little mole underneath his pouty lower lip, and start to bring your lips closer to his.

The moment is broken when Jungkook spins you back around to face the shower wall. You let out another little shriek, but he chuckles into your ear. “You’re not done washing up yet, babe. I want to help you out.”

He pumps the sweet and spicy-smelling body wash into his hands, and starts to run them up your front, slowly gliding along your stomach up towards your breasts. Briefly cupping your breasts in his big hands, he bypasses your nipples and instead skims along your collarbones, gently caressing your throat before reaching your shoulders. You involuntarily shudder as your neglected nipples harden further.

Deliberately misinterpreting your shivers, Jungkook crowds into your back. “Cold, baby? Let me fix that.” He tilts the showerhead slightly until the water is aimed at your chest. You shudder again at the competing sensations of the hot water on your front and his smooth skin against your back. Gathering your wet hair in one hand, he leans down to run his lips along the revealed skin of your neck.

When you try to grind back into his cock, which you can feel hardening up against you, he nips at your neck and grabs your hips firmly. “Still not done. You haven’t even washed your legs yet, have you?”

“Jungkook, stop teasing!” You try to squirm out of his grip, but he’s too strong. Craning your head back, you look into his dark eyes.

“Nope, don’t wanna.” His eyes crinkle up in that infuriatingly cocky grin as he peers down at you in between his long bangs. Shaking his bangs out of his face once again, he kisses you firmly but briefly, and then lets go to grab the handheld shower head.

You take advantage of Jungkook’s momentary distraction to reach back and trail your fingers along his cock, which is now fully hard and pressing up against the small of your back. You caress the silky skin and cup the head of his cock until he growls into your ear. Grabbing your wrist, Jungkook brings your hand up to his mouth and lightly bites down on your index finger. “I told you we aren’t done yet. Don’t you want to be a clean girl for me?”

“I’d rather be dirty,” you whisper as he sucks your finger fully into his mouth, running his tongue along the sensitive pad of your finger. Jungkook moans around your finger as your words sink in.

However, you don’t have the last word for long. Jungkook forcibly nudges one muscled thigh between your legs, pushing your thighs apart and exposing you to the handheld shower head, which he’s now aiming directly at your sensitive core.

You toss your head back and moan at the feeling of the water spraying against your pussy. Jungkook tilts the water until you audibly gasp -- he’s aimed it at the perfect spot, not directly on your clit, but close enough to send shockwaves of sensation throughout your entire center. He chuckles darkly, running his other hand down your side and firmly squeezing your hip. “Feel good?” He punctuates his question with a nip to your neck.

You’re too overwhelmed to answer him with anything except soft moans. All of your senses are assaulted -- the spicy smell of the body wash, the steam filling the air, the feeling of the hot water beating down on you and his tendrils of hair tickling your neck. You sag back into Jungkook, but he easily holds you up with the hand on your hip. He’s subtly grinding his hard, wet cock against your ass, but is more focused on what he’s doing to you with the showerhead.

Jungkook slides his hand around to your pussy, and gently spreads your lips to reveal your clit. You can feel the orgasm rising up in you as he inches the spray of water closer to where you’re throbbing, but it’s not quite enough to push you over the edge.

“Jungkook, please…” You grind down on his fingers, trying to get him to slide them inside you.

Jungkook growls and nips your neck again, using the strength of his arm wrapped around your hips to hold you still. “Don’t be greedy, baby. I know you can come this way. And then, if you’re a good girl, I’ll fuck you the way you want.” He aims the showerhead directly on your throbbing clit and bites down where your neck meets your shoulder. The wave of warmth inside you radiates throughout your entire body as you shake through your orgasm, leaving you gasping and shivering as Jungkook puts the showerhead back and wraps both muscular arms around your waist.

Weak-kneed, you turn around in his embrace and pull him down into a heated kiss. You can feel his need for you -- his hard cock is bumping into your abdomen, his hard nipples are rubbing up against yours, and his eyes are screwed shut as he plunders your mouth with his tongue. You need more, too--despite the orgasm, you’re not fully satisfied. You need something inside you now. His fingers, tongue, whatever he wants to give you… but preferably his cock.

Pulling away from the kiss, you look into his eyes. “Baby, you promised to fuck me now. I need you.”

Jungkook bites his lip, suppressing a moan at your suggestive words. His sparkling eyes have gone black with lust. You reach up to turn the shower off so you can take him to the bed, but he stops you. “We’ll do it in here.”

“In the shower?”

Jungkook nods, mischief crossing his face again. “You said you never wanted to leave this shower. Now hang on tight.” Before you can protest further, he grips your thighs, hauling you up until your legs wrap around his narrow waist. You shriek for what feels like the millionth time tonight, but quickly slide your arms around his neck, hanging on to his broad shoulders. He presses you against the cold shower wall, shifting his grip to hold you securely by your ass. The sudden change in temperature on your back only serves to heighten the heat of his wet body pressed up against yours. Jungkook leans in and slides his lips against yours, forcing your mouth open and slipping his tongue in. You tighten your grip on his broad shoulders, enjoying the feeling of his muscles flexing with the effort to hold you up.

Jungkook easily shifts you into position so that he can slide his cock right into your throbbing pussy. You both let out loud moans at getting what you’ve been waiting for. It feels incredible to be filled. He breaks the kiss to throw his head back, groaning at the feeling of your wet warmth surrounding him. The water is running into his face, damp tendrils of hair plastered to his flushed cheeks. You’re taken aback once again at his beauty--and his strength, as he starts to pound into you while holding you steady against the shower wall.

He’s keeping a steady, hard pace, and the angle is perfect--his thick cock is rubbing up against your g-spot, and your clit is being stimulated by his firm abs. You scratch your nails across his broad back, leaving little red marks that are soothed by the hot shower. You can see his biceps bulging and the veins in his neck throbbing from the exertion. You lean forward and attach your mouth to his throat, nibbling up and down, feeling the vibrations from his low moans under your lips.

Jungkook’s grip on your ass cheeks tightens as he hurtles closer to orgasm. “You feel so good, baby,” he groans, slightly out of breath. “I’ve always wanted to do this.”

You tighten your thighs around his waist, and run your hands up and down his arms, squeezing his biceps. “I knew these muscles were good for something.” You smirk at him, getting an answering grin.

“The better for fucking you with.” He leans in for another searing kiss, and increases his pace even further. You’re lost in a steamy haze, enjoying the view of his face lost in pleasure, the sounds of his moans and gasps, and most of all, the feeling of his hard cock pounding into you. You’re already so sensitive from your previous orgasm, it’s not taking much to push you over the edge again.

All too quickly, the thread in you snaps, and you shake through another orgasm. You tighten up everywhere--your hands around his shoulders, your thighs around his waist, and your pussy around his cock. The sensation pushes Jungkook into his orgasm as well. You feel his hips jackhammer forward, shooting into you as his hands tighten on your ass and he buries his moans into your neck.

Slowly coming down with heavy pants, he gently encourages you to unwrap your legs so he can lower you back to a standing position. However, your knees are too shaky, and you start to crumple to the ground. Jungkook laughs and catches you around the waist again, pulling you closer to him and pecking your lips. “Now you’re really dirty, huh?”

You pout up at him. “Get me clean again.”

Jungkook is always cute and clingy after sex, and this is no different. He gently runs his hands all over you, scrubbing you with body wash again and then rinsing you off, being sure to avoid the oversensitive spots. You wash each other’s hair, giggling as you form his long hair into a mini mohawk. It’s punctuated by soft, sweet kisses and caresses.

Finally, after a long time, you turn the shower off and step out into the bathroom which is completely filled with steam. You sigh happily--that was an amazing shower, and an even better experience. Jungkook nuzzles into you, sweeping lotion onto you in soothing up and down strokes. “I can see why you like that shower so much, I never wanted to get out either,” he mumbles into your neck.

“Luckily, we’re here for a few more days, we can do that again.” You run a towel through his sopping wet hair, sweeping his bangs back and revealing his bright face to you. He has that special grin on his face for you, the one where his eyes crinkle up. “Let’s go get into bed, I’m tired, babe.”

Jungkook follows you into the bedroom, but stops you as you’re about to slide naked under the cool sheets. “Wait, you forgot something.” At your questioning look, he pulls a simple band off the ring holder on your bedside table. He slides it onto your finger with a slight blush on his cheeks. “Don’t you want to put this ring back on, Mrs. Jeon?”

You coo happily, admiring the wedding ring on your left hand. “Thank you, Mr. Jeon.” He hadn’t taken his own ring off before jumping into the shower, and you can see it glinting on his hand as he crawls into bed next to you.

“You picked a great hotel for our honeymoon, babe. Should we see if we can make the hot water run out tomorrow?” Jungkook snuggles up to your side, wrapping a strong arm around your waist once again. “50 minute shower next time?”

#jungkook/reader #jungkook smut #bts smut #jungkook x reader

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my-chemical-friendzone · 7 years ago

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Ask Jane’s Creator (Part III)

I have two questions: How did Jane and Jester meet, and when did Jane first come to the castle?

-From Tara

Jane was born at the castle. Her mother and father were already in service to the Royal family. And so Jane first met Jester when he arrived with his family of traveling players to perform for the King. You can find that part of Jester’s history on the profile pages.

Will Jane ever get sent on an "urgent" mission for the king where she actually leaves the castle and travels to a different kingdom? And if she does, how do they react to Dragon?

-From Jolly, 12

Jane has been on several diplomatic missions. Part of the reason is so that the King can show off the fact that he has a young apprentice with a rather powerful dragon at her disposal. It’s a smart way to send a message when you know that your castle is under-powered with soldiers and guards!

In the episode "The Tooth Fairy," I noticed some cave paintings on Dragon's cave wall. I saw different animals such as a giraffe, a dolphin, and also a ship. Do these mean anything?

-From Rachael Jane, 15, Celina, Ohio, USA

Some of paintings were done by Dragon before he met Jane, when he first returned to his cave after all his adventures. He tried painting all the different animals and large vessels he’d seen in different countries. He calls them his "musings" and told Jane that he had seen others on cave walls all around the world, and hoped they were also the musings of other dragons from thousands of years ago. But some of the runes and paintings in Dragon’s cave are much older and were there 300 years ago when Dragon was born, though he was too young to remember them.

When will Jane be strong enough to wear full armor like a breastplate and vambraces and all that great stuff? And will she ever use any other weapon besides a bow and a sword?

-From Rhapsody, 15

Jane has also learned to use staves for single combat and lances for mounted attack. She also has to learn the assault machines such as the trebuchet and the catapult. She can wear her armor now as it is very light and strong, made from the same steel tempered in dragon fire as her sword.

Do Jane and Pepper wear bras? I was just wondering because they are the right age to wear them. I love Jane and the Dragon!

-From Tara, 12

Bras are quite a recent invention, but women have improvised clothing to give them support from as long ago as 2500 BC. In Jane’s time, they would tie strips of material rather like wide scarves around their chest as an undergarment.

I know that Jester wants to see his family again. Will he ever leave and try to find them?

-From Dingo, USA

Because Jester's family are travelling players, he gets word from them occasionally from traders and other travelers passing through the Kingdom. He hopes that one day he will be able to show them his own skills in the hope that they will be proud of him, and also to reassure them that the hard decision they made years ago for his betterment was well placed.

Hello! I was wondering whether you will create any progressive, chronological episodes instead of a different story each time? And I really love the show, I just discovered it last week!

-From Melody, CANADA

We have written some episodes like that. It remains to be seen if they will work within the series format as chronological episodes. Some territories where Jane airs will shuffle the episodes so much that it can be confusing. But I would love to see if we can achieve it!

I read that Jane wears leggings to annoy her mother, but shouldn't her skirt be longer? During her time, it was considered immodest for anyone, even men, to show their knees (unless they were very young children).

-From L-Michelle, 14, Woodstock, Georgia, USA

Jane refuses to wear dresses so that her mother will take her decision to train as a knight seriously. She wears leather leggings because that was a standard knight garment, just as bike riders wear leathers today for protection from scuffs and scrapes if they fall off their bikes. Jane isn't really wearing a short skirt over the leather leggings though, it's a fabric lining behind the waist armor she wears round her hips so it moves like a pleated skirt. I think Jane wears this so that she can look a bit feminine - a small token to appease her mother!

Do you illustrate your own books? I love the drawings in your books; they are so colorful and expressive. I love to draw dragons...not the scary and evil kind but those like your lizard-lipped Dragon. How would I go about becoming an illustrator?

-From Rachael Jane 15, Celina, Ohio, USA

I do illustrate my own books. I illustrated the Jane and the Dragon books over twenty years ago now. I like to use coloring pencils and pick out the edges and highlights in brown ink. To become an illustrator, the most important thing is to get lots of practice, especially drawing faces. I found the best time to practice was when my family were watching TV. I could watch them and sketch away as they went from happy, to sad, to frightened all in the space of one program!

First: Thank you for the wonderful show! I really enjoy it and appreciate all the work you and the people at Weta put into it. Second, I have recently acquired a copy of the illuminated manuscript "Jane and the Dragon" and it has brought up a question. If Jane's armor is special, as you have said in a previous answer, how did Jester get a hold of it?

-From Mara, USA

Yes, indeed, there is a long history behind the armor that Jester gives to Jane. How he came to own it, and the true nature of that armor and its link to Dragon, are all part of the long chain of discoveries that Jane and Dragon make as they uncover the truth about dragons and their own destinies. But I can’t give away those secrets here...sorry!

I love your show! My mum and I watch it all the time! But I have a question to ask. So, if dragon's fiery breath can melt a dragonblade, how can it be forged in dragonfire? It makes no sense to me!

-From Annelise, 9, Concord, New Hampshire, USA

Any metal has to be heated to the point that it goes soft if it's going to be beaten and worked into the shape of a blade. Metalsmiths heat blades in hot open braziers to soften them to be worked with a hammer and anvil. A dragonblade needs the extra heat of dragon fire to soften it enough so it can be beaten into shape. But if too much heat is applied, the blade will melt completely, just as other metals will if too much heat is applied. The trick is to get it hot enough to be soft, but not so hot that it melts!

I've been watching some of the more recent episodes, and Gunther seems to be softening up a bit. Will the poor lad ever go against his father and just stand up for what is right instead of just simply complying to his dad's wishes?

-From Kenzie, 15, USA

You are quite right, he is growing as an independent young man able to stand up to his father, but just a little. Gunther defies his father completely in one episode when Dragon is threatened with expulsion from the kingdom. It's the first time that we see the knight's code of ethics winning out in Gunther's heart over his fear and his sense of duty to his father.

Does it ever rain in the show or is it always sunny and beautiful?

-From Alissandra, 15, Albany, Oregon, USA

It certainly does rain! Have you seen the episode where Jane falls off her horse during a thunderstorm? The whole castle staff have to take shelter in the Throne Room where Jester tries to keep their spirits up with brilliant jokes. Gunther reckoned it would be less painful back outside in the driving rain.

Are there any other games Jane and her friends play besides Bandyball and Rock, Parchment, and Sword?

-From Ryan, 13, La Puente, California, USA

Some of the games and sports we play today were popular in Jane's time. Individual sports like archery, wrestling and hammer throwing were designed to develop fighting skills and fitness and were mostly played by boys and men. Team sports like bandyball, which was an early form of hockey, were played by everyone, as was a simple version of soccer called gameball. Cricket started a little after Jane’s time and was called stoolball because two milkmaid stools were used as the wickets. And a form of bowls called skittles was popular as were two early forms of golf called paganica and suigan.

How far do you plan to take this series? Will you keep on writing new stories about Jane and Dragon until they fulfill their destinies together?

-From Aly, 13, Houston, Texas, USA

Jane and the Dragon is doing very well all around the world with a wonderful and passionate following. If the series remains popular and the TV stations keep on playing it, then we hope to be able to go on making new episodes for a long time to come. I also plan to tell more of those adventures through books so that the everyone can see how both Jane and Dragon's destinies work out!

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Why Irish Music is Exciting to Listen?

By Johnny Hourigan

Irish music articulate very substantial the same in today’s world as it had over two hundred years ago. In case you don’t know what Irish music is, I am going to explain what it is in depth and what it consist of, when it started and how it is still living amongst of many people regardless if they’re born and raised or living outside but come frequent now and again.

History of Irish Music and the instruments

Irish music is a diversified genre of folk music which many different territorials has its dissimilarity. However, the majority of traditional Irish music is mainly for dancing but it is also a meaningful ballad tradition.

Traditional Irish music all started as a spoken tradition that had passed on from generation to generation by paying attention with an ear without writing the music notes on paper. This is still a practice for students that they are currently encouraged to select tunes they hear from others or learn to pay attention. The Celts were affected by the music of the East and it was assumed that the Irish harp may in fact have emerged from Egypt.

The harp was far the biggest popular instrument in the ancient times with harpists appointed to play for chieftains and to produce music for the nobles.

Even though Irish musicians play tunes by ear, the notes weren’t written down on paper until 1762 for the first time and collectors started to travel the country assembling music that can still be viewed today at the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin that holds the largest collection of traditional and folk music in the world.

In present day, traditional Irish Music had been incorporated with European and American music in which what was known as a Golden Age for traditional music. Irish groups for instance Planxty and De Dannan guided the way through the Golden Age and there has been a significant mass of Celtic fusion with supplemental popular music styles. These artists such as Sinéad O’Connor, Flook, Daithi and Dropkick Murphys all wield traditional elements throughout their music.

Irish music’s traditional instruments has the raw and organic natural that is still within the tradition such as

·Fiddle: Dated back as far as during the Middle Ages but it didn’t get recognition in traditional Irish Music until 17th century.

The fiddle is exactly like the violin like some argue it’s the same but old fashioned musicians prefer the word “fiddle” rather than saying “violin to separate their music and their style of playing of other music.

The word “fiddle” is a conversational term in traditional or folk music which is also known in modern Irish as fidil or veidhlín. The fiddle make strides among bucolic populations in Ireland due to its low-cost, low continuation and how it is easy to learn.

There are numberless styles of Irish fiddle music that differs from county to county such as Donegal, Sligo, Galway, Clare, Kerry and Cork to tag a few. Predominantly, most of fiddlers can play up-tempo music that you can dance to. A famous Sligo-style fiddler Michael Coleman popularised the fiddle in the 1920s with his commercial recording of high-spirited melodies and bouncy rhythms.

The fiddle can be recognised in New England’s country dance, western swing and upbeat bluegrass music in upper South outside of its traditional Irish dance music.

·Bodhran (pronounced as “bow-rawn) or simply the Irish drum: Dated back to the ancient times in Ireland with the origin date is currently unknown. Many historians believe that its genesis was from Africa and arrived from Spain while others believe that it was from Asian’s origins. This remained a big question when it was exactly invented.

Many people viewing the drum’s rendition prominence as a comparably new as this was because of the drum’s unexpectedly rise to fame during the 1960’s Celtic music revival when before that, it was mainly played by young boys in street parades.

The name “bodhran is an Irish word that extract from the word bodhar which meant as deaf or dull. Others claimed the word means skin tray because of is likely conception within agriculture.

The Irish drum is most generally played with a small piece of wood called a “tipper.” History stated that tippers were originally formulated from bones. In present day however, there are a variety types of bodhran tippers made mostly from wood.

· Wooden Flute: the straightforward system are commonly known as “Irish flutes.” The phrase system flute cites to the conical bore flutes that were in use prior to Theobald Boehm introduced his cylindrical bore flute deceptions in the mid nineteenth century. The outmoded simple system flutes had changed the Boehm system to designate into Irish, Scottish and Cuban traditional folk music.

The wooden flute are habitually made of timbers such as African Blackwood (Mpingo), boxwood, cocus wood and rosewood. They have six tone-holes and anyplace from zero to thirteen keys. Some Irish flute players preferred six to eight key flutes, although much considerable of the Irish repertoire may play on keyless flutes however they want.

Wooden flutes almost went extinct several decades ago when pior to the comeback revival of Irish music needed to ascend to avoid being wiped from history. When it revived in the 1950s and 60s, there were straightforwardly no prices on any wooden flutes. A small intrepid groups of players who played Irish music on Bohm flutes rushed to penetrate the void.

· Tin Whistle: known as the penny whistle. Tin whistle is a woodwind instrument utmost commonly heard in Irish music. It was dated back to the same year when Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was published in 1843 when it was developed by Robert Clarke. His creation, the present day tin whistle was made using a small piece of wood, some solder and a tinplate in a small village in Suffolk, England.

The tin whistle was considered as a toy that many households bought it for their children due to the instrument’s simple availability and cheaper prices. The instrument can be bought in various shops for only a penny and that’s where the nickname “penny whistle” began to advance into effect. Many people thought penny whistle got its nickname because of children playing the instrument in the streets for pennies, but some said believed its nickname came from of it prices. This was eventually picked up by Celtic and folk musicians and became a consequential mainstream instrument that it is fundamentally known to be in present day.

In today’s world, rather than being made from wood and tin like Clarke’s creation, much of tin whistles are manufactured using brass or nickle-plated brass and plastic fipple. Even though with the contrasts in fabricating, the tin whistle has still kept its name despite it’s no longer made of tin. Comparably this is almost exactly the same like how the nickname “penny whistle” is still referred as except it is sold most of places for more than a penny.

· Uilleann Pipes: also known as the national pipes of Ireland and they were initially known as the Union Pipes. The pipes have a system very similar like the bagpipes in which the bag is inflated by a set of bellows that are strapped around the waist and right arm. The history of piping in Ireland had extended over thirteen centuries with references arise in ancient Irish annals to the cuisleannach or pipe blower. It is not exactly when the bagpipes first appeared in Ireland but it seemed certain that in their untimely form they were comparable to the Scottish bagpipes of present day.

The earliest bagpipes in Ireland were substantiate in the fifth century Brehon Laws. Around the seventeenth century, the musette-type of bellows-blown pipes became progressively fashionable among higher and lower classes alike, notably in Ireland and France.

By early eighteenth century, the Irish pipes have somewhat boost Uilleann pipes were replacing the harp as the most favoured for much kinds of Irish music. By half of the eighteenth century, the initiation of the keyed chanter, the regulators and other clarifications by makers like Egan of Dublin lead to the unfolding of what is possibly the most cosmopolitan form of bagpipes on Earth.

· Irish Harp: also known as Celtic Harp. The Irish harp is not as universally well recognised all around the world as a shamrock for being Irish symbol, but as the official emblem of Ireland. This dates back several centuries as far as to the 2500 BC Mesopotamian graves of Ur and different forms incorporate travelled to Syria by 2000 BC. Harps are still used over from North to Central Africa and in Burma and Afghanistan. Since lyres were found from the Black Sea to the Atlantic, it was likely that early Celtic ancestors had adapted or became influenced by them. Though, it is possible that the exact triangular harp may had pre-Christian Celtic association In Ireland and on that account deliberately was not outline in carvings.

The traditional Irish harp’s discriminate features are the use of wire strings and its resonating chamber carved from an individual log. The singularly tensioned strings are played with fingernails, creating a very clear sound.

The extant triangular shape of the Irish harp was set eleventh century, its distinctly robust, heavy making much likely thrive to suit their climate. It included a soundbox of willow, a T-shaped pillar, metal strings and a string-bearer reinforced with metal. It was smaller than any other harps in the eighteenth century as this was depicted to be held on knee as was the Trinity College harp in the fourteenth century. The Irish harps didn’t get bigger until in the seventeenth century they were quite large and more for floor-standing instrument as of today.

Examples of artists used traditional Irish Music elements

Sinead O’Connor – Troy (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c4v7fp5GC8

The Pogues ft. Kristy MacColl – Fairytale of New York (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8

The Dubliners – The Wild Rovers (1964)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_4KboYi40I

The Irish Rover - The Wild Rover (1996)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYPuz0EYPSo

Ed Sheeran – Galway Girl (2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjHr-6Zl5P8

To conclude, the only reason why it is exciting to listen is because the instruments are very old but kept remained tradition to this day, even though it’s hard to pick up and learn if you’re not familiar with it. However, some people would tell me if I was new to this music, it goes to show that there are talented people who plays Irish music, gives a natural feeling like joy and happy regardless if we’re in Ireland or in some Irish pubs down the road.

Irish Music may not always be popular all over the world, it is still popular in its history and in today’s world (if you include Ed Sheeran).

I love the tradition of Irish Music because my Ma would always tell me stories about Irish Music that she used to go to a pub in Kilburn that plays traditional music which I went there earlier this year and I was amazed how they performed very lively and organic.

That is reason why I should recommend all of you to listen any Irish Music songs old and new and compare how you feel different to listen any pop songs of mainstream music and listen to Irish Music songs.

This is Johnny Hourigan, Creativity Works reporting Why Irish Music is Exciting to Listen.

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