#the alpha experiment

[poisindonottouch]

Queer Reads: Eliot Grayson

For rec 15, we have more werewolves! And also a very salty were-bobcat. 

First off, I love Eliot Grayson. Seriously. I have devoured everything she’s written, and she’s written a lot. Featured in the little graphic are the Mismatched Mates books, of which there are 10 total books. The first three follow the Armitage Pack, then we get vampires (First Blood), and werewolf academics (The Werewolf Experiment), and then we get into darker waters, following some characters who have escaped from a lab run by evil warlocks doing nasty magical experiments on people (Lost and Bound and Lost Touch). And then we finish up with two very different brothers from the Castelli pack, with another vampire book thrown in there.

I should say, these books deal with alpha weres, the most common of which are alpha werewolves, but this is not omegaverse. There's no mpreg, and no omegas in these books, though there is lots of knotting, and if you need to google that, uh, I'd recommend you don't.

Grayson is currently working on another series, The Twilight Mages, set in a fantasy world where magic is a gift from the gods, unless you’re born at dawn or dusk, when the magic is far more of a curse than a gift. I read a review about these books that called them indescribably horny, and that’s very accurate. There is a plot, but it is 100% centered around banging. Luckily, all this horniness is surrounded by feisty characters, laugh-out-loud banter, and spicy chemistry resulting in well-earned HEAs. 

Grayson’s writing has been described as having too much graphic sex, so if you like your romantasy to be heavier on the plot than the porn, Grayson is probably not for you. But if you like any excuse for sex as a plot device, check her out. 

[girlzoot]

The straps and cuffs went to the very back of my closet hidden in an old suitcase, because I couldn’t bear to throw those away—and you couldn’t exactly return, donate, or sell used sex toys. That ranked right up there with video chatting in a movie theater on the list of ways to go straight to hell. —Eliot Grayson/The Alpha Experiment

[neostellarjpg]

trying to figure out how to draw these silly kids

[profanepurity]

Some of y'all seemed to really like Alpha with a ritual blade, so I doodled this lol. Primo always gives the ghouls little 'reminders' before rituals.

[shblackwoodart]

learning to use lasso tool for cool effects

[many-gay-magpies]

teen wolf is essentially a show where all the bad guys look at little golden boy scott mccall and say "you will stoop to our level eventually, naïve child". then scott looks at all of them, goes "no. fuck you," and does it better than them.

[gremlins-hotel]

"Your voice soothes us, little starlight. Why, why, why?"

"I can't answer that for you, Lightwarden. I can only ask you to listen."

"We listen, moonbearer. Dear, sweet moon. A decade without the night, without you. Oh, how we listen..."

"Then hear me and know this pain will soon be over. Do not cry, great sun, and let go of your burning fear."

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ffxiv (shadowbringers) au w/ @artistically-hershie!

[doodlejoltik]

my greatest accomplishment in PLA yet

bow before your new Almighty Sinnoh, peons

what're you looking at? there's nothing weird at all going on here

the view from up here is actually really nice XD

a wonderful use of the great and powerful Wyrdeer!

i thereafter took my newfound power entirely too far.

[trashinyourpockets]

Blur team.

[islandofspice]

Kamala Harris at Howard University

[bucksboobs]

“Fandom is better than canon” a Teen Wolf fan once theorized that the show’s (at the time) only recurring Black characters were secretly devil worshippers because she didn’t like that the Black guy cared more about the main character than her teen fave that she liked to ship with a grown man

She was considered the leading academic mind of the fandom.

[witchofthesouls]

The image of the false prophet haunts us all

OHHHHHHHHHH, what a title!

One, TFP canon compliant exploration of Alpha Trion and why he kept himself buried in the Archives - the reasons and motivatiors as he's the last of the Guiding Hand with Prima's death and Alchemist's disappearance along with his Primal Artifact that allows him glimpses of the future and the multiverse. He tried calling on Vector, and his brother only sent him the very insignia that would come to represent the Autobots.

Two, Bayverse fic that focuses on Sentinel Prime's ascension to a new Prime and what drove him to become the mech in the films. After the death of Zeta, his own position became unstable with only Star Saber as his Lord Protector. The foundlings that would eventually become Optimus and Megatron had sparked hope, but a nearly successful assassination attempt had gotten him. Only Star Saber sacrificed himself to ensure the Sentinel's spark didn't gutter out. The catch: Star Saber and Sentinel had melded together, and the zealot that left a huge imprint of what a Prime was meant to be. And it cements canon events. Any personality changes were thought to be a trauma response as, once again, Sentinel Prime stood alone.

Three, TFP fic that focuses on Soundwave in the Shadowzone. Delves deep into the life of the gladiatorial clades and the motivations that drove him to serve faithfully to Megatron. He talks to the 'ghosts' of Ravage, Frenzy and Rumble, and a few other mecha that shaped his outlook in his youth.

Four, is a messy crossover between TFP and One. (Messy because I haven't seen the film, but my boy Megatonus Prime didn't Fall?! Oh, I'm interested!) Specifically, Other!TFP AUs were a cyberized June Darby who ascended to the Primacy as Nemesis Prime because of the Fallen (like directly taking his mantle in burn your sins and wash away your virtues or as a direct descendant) had summoned into Transformers One verse. Go forth, Juno Nemesis, and execute Sentinel and devour the Quintessons! Get yourself a bladed staff!

[girlzoot]

“Is there an emergency that can’t be handled with beer and/or a machete?” —Eliot Grayson/The Alpha Experiment

[high-voltage-rat]

something I do appreciate about red vs blue is its particular brand of “came back wrong”. you were brought back, but you’re just a memory of the person you’re supposed to be. you’re just the expectations of them. you’re just the pieces everyone else saw and remembered. you’re tough like the original, but you’ll always fail no matter how tough you are, because the original failed, too. you’ve got a personality like the original, but it’s not quite right because you didn’t actually live the life they did. there’s this person you love- who you would kill or suffer or die for- but you don’t know why, you just know you’re supposed to be together because that’s what you were made for.

[the-red-planet-mars]

I'm concerned about Gen-Alpha

They seem to be reverting back to the fat-shaming, name-calling, ableist, racist behaviours of the past generations.

The same jokes and everything- it's disgusting and worrying to see. Gen Z has worked so hard to get rid of this culture and we did make good progress but now Gen Alpha is literally making the world turn back.

At least from what I've been seeing. Anyone else?

[delineate-creates]

Day 15: Dagger

But even with the cuts, he can’t stop himself from touching his knife every time he lies down. Even during the day, he reaches inside his pocket, where it’s secure in a sheathe, and touches the hilt. It’s reassuring to feel it there.

It’s a gift, he thinks. A courting gift. If it was only for practicality, Voldemort wouldn’t have bothered to carve such a nice hilt.

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From chapter 2 of @metalomagnetic’s Prison Blues