#uhhh anyway this cut exists for a reason because it's just filth all the way through after she gets off the damn rug LMFAO

[edrurysz]

╰ ☾ ₊  ⸻ @lvscinvs uttered ❝ I’m going to fill you over and over again. ❞ + on a rug in front of a fireplace | sugar & spice

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐑𝐔𝐆 made a wedding gift most fine. Helaena's breath had caught when she'd first seen it, so stunned had she been. She had immediately loved it, and even wished to have a sister to the piece commissioned. What is said of the Myrish craftsmen must be true, she had thought; they weave with fingers skilled enough to breathe life into the very tapestry itself.

Mother had found it to be in ill taste. She had insisted that a hunting scene, especially one so graphically depicted, had hardly been fit for the occasion. If treasures were to be brought from so far, why not the famed lace Myr was known for, or a looking glass?

Helaena did not need more lace, nor did she desire another looking glass. Surely neither could contend with the savage grace of the shadowcat prowling the woven scenes, she had insisted. For the beast gave pursuit most fearsome, with its loping strides and looming, dark shape and horrid white teeth. And while the cat always caught Helaena's gaze first, the fleeing mare was just as worthy of adoration. She, with her haircoat as white as driven snow and slender legs and spiraling horn of crystal. Even when her neck was finally caught between the predator's teeth, her eyes did not seem to be wide and afraid. She looked to be almost asleep as her throat ran crimson; her horn had driven into the shadowcat's flank in turn. She must have been at peace, knowing that they would die together, locked in a final embrace. How awful, and how wonderful ! Helaena had proclaimed.

That had been the end of that. Now it resides before the grand fireplace in her chambers, its beauty lit stunningly by the roaring of the flames. Many an hour has Helaena lost in quiet contemplation of the textile. Long, morbid hours in which she considered what it might feel like for her own flesh to be opened, to spill forth the rubies set in the rug instead of blood.

Never before had she thought to view it from this vantage point.

With her head turned like this, Helaena now meets the mare's serene gaze directly. Her own silvery hair spools under her and bleeds outward in starburst-tendrils, mussed curls covering much of the artwork. The length of her body and gaping dressing gown goes a ways towards obscuring the rest. Yet the mare still peers at Helaena, now turned voyeur.

A shiver passes through her. The cause is as much from being watched as it is Aemond above her, around her, nearly pressed inside her. Certainly, it is not from being too cold. The fireplace roars so close that sweat gathers between and under her tenderly reddened breasts, her thighs tacking against her brother's sides. It is a comforting heat that she craves, and as intimate as any coupling. She can swear that the fire licks at her so.

"Then have me. As many times as you'd like," she whispers back, for it seems a moment for them. She turns to meet Aemond's downturned face, and finds that the stark shadows have completely hidden the good side of it. His scar is turned monstrous by flame, looking so deep and so ugly that Helaena wonders how it ever stopped weeping. As ever, she does not flinch from it.

The sapphire fitted for his ruined socket glimmers wickedly. She wants badly to feel the facets with her fingers, the same way she craves to explore the exquisitely torn throat of the mare. Gently, as she would not wish to hurt him. The world has treated him with hands far too cruel.

Helaena resists the urge to ask the boon. She loves the blooming thing cradled between them almost as much as she thrills at the heat of him against her core, and she would loathe to ruin it. The tip of him merely kisses at her entrance, held just away from her enough to make her ache for the fullness he can grant her. She could cry for want of it.

A thought takes her, then. The fire is maddening, speaking, burning through her. She knows what Aemond plays at, what he desires most, and what may move him to end her torment. "But do it, before the flame dies down. Dragons need the heat to hatch, yes? Fill me, and give me dragons."

[lazywitchling]

Alright friends, buckle up, pretty sure this is going to be a long one.

Let me start off by saying that I am about to bring up a problem to which I have no solution. I will say what I think we shouldn't do, but I don't know what we should do instead. Someone smarter than me will have to cover that one.

Anyway, all this is regarding this post I made this morning after seeing yet another one of those asks floating around Tumblr. "What do you think of [website]?"

(Actually I'm going to toss this under a cut because it's WAY longer than I meant it to be, but I still think it's important to say)

It seems like a harmless ask. It usually comes with an explanation as to why there's something interesting there at that URL. Maybe not correct or good, but certainly interesting. Just enough to make you curious to go check the website. It's even in the phrasing of the question! They're not telling you they're good or bad, they're just asking what you think. That's harmless... right?

Yeah, no, it's definitely nazis. Not "nazis" as in "uhhh everything I don't like on the internet is nazi", it's nazis as in full-blown anti-Semitism, reptillian-people-control-the-banks... it's gross. I looked up what they're about just so I could tell you, and it's gross. 0/10, do not recommend.

Anyway, here on Tumblr, they send these asks out to various blogs. And over the past couple weeks, I've seen an increasing number of these asks published on my dashboard.

Now, every time I have seen them, the person publishing it has absolutely called it out for being what it is. They'll go into detail about why it's filth, or they'll go for the short-and-not-sweet "Fuck off, you nazi piece of shit". Every time I've seen the ask, it's been refuted.

But I've seen the ask. A lot.

Now... why is that a problem? Why is it a problem to publish the ask and call it out for what it is? Isn't it better for your followers to know what it is so they don't get taken in by it?

Let me tell you two stories.

1. The Cheeseburger

So yesterday for dinner I had a cheeseburger from... the Large Burger Chain (you know the one). Earlier in the day, I had read a post here on Tumblr about a lawsuit involving this Large Burger Chain, in which they had done a shitty thing. It was a funny story, where we got to laugh at the Large Burger Chain for being greedy and awful. "Look how awful those people at Large Burger Chain are. Aren't they the worst?"

So why did I go get a cheeseburger from them? Well, 'cause for the rest of the day, I kept thinking "Damn, a cheeseburger sounds delicious right now." It managed to weasel its way into my brain, and I couldn't stop thinking about cheeseburgers. And of course, that one cheeseburger place stands out in my mind. Until eventually, when out for a drive with Dad, he asked if I wanted anything in particular for dinner, and I said I had a craving for a cheeseburger from Large Burger Chain (It was Burger King).

Now why did I go there after having read about the shitty lawsuit?

Here's the thing about advertising. They know they can't sell you a cheeseburger from one advertisement. One commercial on TV does not make you go "I will now go get a cheeseburger from Large Burger Chain!" It doesn't work that way. But they want to be sure that when you DO want a cheeseburger eventually... they are the one you think of. They want to be the first place you think of.

Let me ask you something. How did you react when I said the name of Large Burger Chain? Because I said it up there in the strikeout. You might not have had a fully thought-out reaction, but I bet you had an instinctive moment where you either thought "I KNEW it was Burger King", or "Oh, I thought it was McDonalds."

Why did you think of the place you thought of? Is it because you like that one better? Is it because there's one down the road from your house that you pass all the time? Did you recently see a commercial for that one? This is a rhetorical question that probably doesn't have a specific answer. But somehow, for some reason or for many reasons, one of those burger places has made it's way into your head and is now the first place you think of when you hear "Large Burger Chain". One place stands out in your mind as The Fast Food Place With The Burgers. Even if you don't like either place, you've heard them advertised enough that they've got into your head.

You seeing where I'm going with this?

The more these asks show up on my dashboard, the more it gets into my head. I, knowing full well what that site is about, have wondered more than once "Hey, I've never actually looked at that website. What does it look like?" or "What is actually on there?" or "I want to go look at how bad it really is."

I can't name off the people who have received and published the ask. I didn't pay that much attention. Each time I saw it was insignificant at the time. But I've seen the website often enough that I can name its exact URL without ever having intentionally memorized it.

BUT JES, you say, WHY IS THAT A PROBLEM? If you KNOW the site is garbage, and you CALL it garbage, then no one is going to get taken in by it, right??

2. The Price Tags

So, I'm a cheesemonger. My job is to sell things to people. I've been in this business for nearly a decade, I've got certifications you probably don't even know exist. I am trained and paid to know how to get you to buy shit.

It's gross and I hate it and I don't use those skills if I can help it, but I have them.

But there's one very very easy tactic that I do use in my cheese department. It's very easy, takes no effort on my part, and it's really effective.

Every price tag is on the back of the piece of cheese.

These are cheeses that are cut to variable weights, with a certain price per pound. Because these cheeses are cut individually, they are priced individually. Smaller ones, bigger ones, whatever you need. Now, the thing is... if you are browsing my cheese wall looking for something interesting, you are going to see cheese, you are going to see names, you are going to see types. You are not going to see prices. If you want to see the price, which is on the back, you know what you have to do?

You have to pick it up.

I have now got the piece of cheese into your hands. And that's one step closer to it being in your cart.

It's not 100%. It's not even 50%. The majority of people who pick up a piece of cheese on a whim to check the price will then put it back down. But not all of them. A lot of people will pick it up, just to check, just to satisfy their curiosity. That one sounds odd, I wonder how much it is? And then it's in their hands, and they shrug, and they toss it into the cart. Because why not?

So WTF does this have to do with anything?

Look, it's a lot of fun to digitally punch a nazi. They come into our ask boxes, and it's so tempting to take a verbal (textual?) swing at them. But the goal is to get their name out there into the ether. It's to put that name in front of all your blog's followers, as many times as possible. Maybe you refute the ask and someone who has never heard of them before now knows who they are. OR maybe this is the fifth time they've seen it on their dash this week, and now they're curious. This group wants to make sure that you know their name off the top of your head, the way you know the name of that Large Burger Chain. And if they can get you to their site, even if it's just to satisfy your morbid curiosity, even if it's just to see how bad it really is, then they've got the piece of cheese in your hands. And yeah, maybe most people put it back. But sometimes it winds up in the cart.

So... what do I do?

Don't feed the trolls. Starve them. Block the anon. Delete the ask. Move on with your day.

As for how to teach people about these assholes? -shrug- That's where you have to ask someone smarter than me. I don't know how to educate people on this stuff without exposing them to it, but my instinct is to not let them control the conversation. Beyond that, you're probably best off listening to the people these groups hate. Find Jewish voices explaining what's so harmful about these people, and boost their voices instead.

Anyway.

That was a tome. Thanks for reading. Don't feel bad if you've ever published an ask they sent you. Individually posted, they don't have a whole lot of power. It's when it becomes a trend that it becomes a problem.