#this was long!

[bleach-your-panties]

Hi Rosie! How are you? I’ve been wanting to answer this all day once I saw the questions for today but I was at work.

QOTD: What attracted you to your favs? Their looks, personality, struggle, determination? Or something else?

The stereotypical tall dark and handsome are my types. Personality wise I love the mysterious boys. I’m also a sucker for bad boys. I also tend to look at my favs hair. Long hair like Suguru is so hot.

Oops Satoru and Toshiro are glaring at me.

But honestly I go by looks and personality. Looks wise I love my favs eyes and hair *cough* Toshiro and Satoru *cough* I’m a sucker for blue eyes. And of course I’m a sucker for Satoru’s undercut and Toshiro’s hair.

TOTD: Is your fav rough in bed or softer? Do they like to pound you into the mattress or do they hold your hands and gaze into your eyes during lovemaking?

Hmm for my guys I have to say it depends on their mood. They both are doms, but they can be soft when they want to be. However when they have a bad day either due to the higher ups, in Satoru’s case, or some issue going on in the Soul Society, Toshiro’s case, they tend to be rougher. They honestly want to fuck all the stress away but they do make sure to take care of me after.

Satoru could be sweet when he wants to be. But he could also be rough and dominant which I don’t mind. He tends to be more in control and always wants me looking at him.

Toshiro on the other hand loves to be soft yet dominant. He loves to be holding my hand and staring into my eyes when he finishes.

What about you?

Heyyy, that's ok, bby!

OOOOO, these are HAWT!

I definitely agree with you on the hair and eyes; long hair on a man is SO sexy and I LOVE blue eyes (Izuru, Armin, Mirio, Chifuyu, Kisaki, etc..),

Toshiro was my fav when I started watching Bleach because of his voice and eyes.

I have an affinity for blondies and redheads myself🤭

For me, usually it's looks + personality that draws me to a character, as well as their backstory, goals, and struggles.

If I can root for a character, that makes me like them even more. Especially characters seen as the underdogs.

I see a lot of myself in my favs, as well:

Izuru - his struggles with depression, self-worth, taking on a lot of responsibility

Armin - high intellect + doubting his leadership abilities

Tamaki - shyness, anxiety, fear of public speaking, low-self esteem/self-confidence

Just to name a few.

As for the bedroom 😏...

My sweetie pie Izuru is def a switch and a soft dom. He is usually soft, but I love when he brings out his rough/dominant side.

I def expect to be tied up later if I was running off at the mouth a little, or if he's had a rough day at work. He provides the most amazing aftercare though, and always makes me tea after he fucks my throat raw 🤭

Tamaki is also a switch, but he's a hard dom and a brat tamer.

I know you're thinking, "not shy, anxious Tamaki who wouldn't hurt a butterfly!" PLEASE✋🏽

This is Pro-Hero Suneater, TAMAKI "LET'S GET FREAKY" AMAJIKI I'm referring to here 🤣🤣

He does not fuck around when he's in dom mode, and yes, he uses the tentacles. Often. At my request.

[roosterbruiser]

what inspired cruel summer?

it’s seriously probably the best fic i’ve ever read (and i’ve read a lot lol) but there’s just so much detail and intense plot points and i have no idea how you came up with all of it

first of all, I'm elated at your kind words. thank you so much. it is truly so humbling and exciting when people tell me they love Cruel Summer! so thank you so so so so so so much!

secondly--what a question!

I am a horror girl through and through. I love every type of horror movie, but have always been partial to slashers and supernatural stories. figured I could make a love child with the both of them and make this story.

I'm also so inspired by past decades--especially the 1980s. what a peculiar time!

I feel like when I think of the 80s, I think of kinky hair and colorful taffeta and scrunchies and Cyndi Lauper. but there was also something so horrific about it, too! ultra conservatism combined with the satanic panic and the threat of nuclear warfare...I mean, what a fever dream!

I was definitely inspired by 80s slashers like Friday the 13th, but I was also heavily inspired by modern horror and its take on grief as the central antagonist. plus the imagery of blood and guts in movies like Blood Feast and Assassination Nation.

super inspired by the images of nostalgic summer camp, especially as someone who was a camp counselor for three years! and the thought of being responsible for so many lives under such dire circumstances!

at the end of the day, I'm a pretty rotten-flower writer (which is what I call it when writers write a beautiful scene and juxtapose it with foul language or themes) and literal nature inspires me a lot.

plus humans just inspire me. touching noses with another human when we love them, putting cotton over cuts when we're injured, salt leaking from our eyes when we're sad--it's all so intriguing.

[marvelsmostwanted]

There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)

[lrndvs]

compliments from girls go hard

[itsscaredycat]

so ok yeah fine i watched gravity falls again and read the book of bill

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[ducktollers]

🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊

[rabid-transcendentalist]

Happy Holidays! Don't forget to grab a knife :)

[valdotpng]

an accomplice turned victim his apology, long overdue

[piedpip3rrr]

What is this? A crossover episode???

[climbingthefloors]

obsessed with this baby hippo from thailand's khao khew zoo.. she has been so utterly betrayed by the world

[gongyussy]

good thing from jp twitter this week is queen of old man yaoi michiru sonoo discovering the term old man yaoi

update: somehow it got impossibly more wholesome

quick translation: おかえり: welcome home あ 終わった 終わった: ahhh, it's over! it's done! コーヒー? お茶?: coffee? tea? コ~ヒ~ ありがと: coffee, thank you~ ネクタイレア★★ ネクタイ取るレア★★★★: seeing him with a tie on, rarity level ★★, seeing him take a tie off, rarity level ★★★★ にあうな~: it suits him~

also please do follow: AraigumaSha: sensei's twitter account marureviere: maru, who does such valuable work highlighting bl manga for an international audience

[thankstothe]

folk hero really

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[mintaii]

take responsibility