#warbride

[whittywhit86]

~Rage if you must. Weep if you must. Break if you must. But do so in my arms. Let me hold you as you fall to pieces. You are safe to break with me.~ WarBride

[notafuckingflower]

Prostitutes and War Brides: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on Military Bases

"...this guy came up to my counter to check out his shit, he asked me if i was Asian I said yeah. I forgot what he said but he said 'I love Asian Women'. It just felt weird and uncomfortable. I don't know this man. He was definitely older than me. I’ve heard in the past from men talking about preferring asian women. it’s always felt off” - Isabelle Couto, Student

What the hell is up with old men and their obsession with young, Asian women? Isabelle's encounter reflects attitudes among an older generation who have only viewed Asian Women through lenses of war, immigration, and prostitution.

The United State's overreach abroad has also contributed to the portrayal of Asian American and Pacific Islander women as inherently sexual. Military bases have a history of serving as a popular customer base for prostitution and it is a common phenomena to serve abroad and come back with a so called "War Bride". Military bases can be found in many Asian and Pacific Islander countries and often have long histories with those places because of colonization and/or imperialism (sometimes in forms of "intervention").

Labor- Page Act of 1875, Portrayal as Prostitutes

The Page Act of 1875 was an act that portrayed Chinese women as prostitutes and therefore banned almost all Chinese women from entering the United States. This act was based on the stereotype of all Asians being prostitutes or sexually promiscuous and used that to justify limits on women immigrating from China. This resulted in very few Chinese women being able to immigrate to the United States during this period. For the women who could immigrate to the United States, many of them had to result to domestic or reproductive labor, including prostitution. This is due to the fact that for WOC, labor is racialized. In order to support their families, WOC need to also pick up jobs, which tend to be low paying, exploitative domestic/reproductive jobs. Asian prostitutes were also villainized as they were seen as threats to the white, nuclear family because they were seen as the cause for STDS/STIS and against Christianity/Christian ideals.

Notably, the Page Act of 1875 produced a Chinese bachelor society, which contributed to the stereotypical portrayal of Asian men as simultaneously sexual predators (specifically towards white women) and as asexual men. This production of a bachelor society also fed into fears about interracial marriage and race impurity.

"Sex Among Allies" Katharine H. S Moon

"Sex Among Allies" by Katharine H.S Moon discusses the US military presence in South Korea and the prostitution that revolved around these bases. Moon discusses how essential the prostitution of South Korean women was to US- South Korea relations as prostitutions were deemed "patriotic" and "nesscary" but shunned from Korean and American society. Prostitutes were seen as important because both countries believed that prostitution contributed to the morale of GI's. It was also believed that by having a sector of prostitutes "normal" South Korean women would be shielded from American GI's.

“Where there are soldiers, there are women who exist for them. This is practically a cliché. History is filled with examples of women as war booty and “camp followers,” their bodies being used for service labor of various kinds, including sex. Contrary to common assumptions in the West, prostitution is not “part of Asian culture”

Historically, we can see that Asians and Pacific Islanders have been designated the role of prostitutes in American military history, which explains the continued portrayal of Asian and Pacific Islander women as inherently sexual as they have been commodified/frame as sexual products for the American military.

[stolenviolet]

At a Dark Wizard’s wedding, rather than a ‘first dance’, the happy couple shares a ‘first duel’!

[shadowwingtronix]

Chapter By Chapter> TekWar chapter 28

BW Media Spotlight's Chapter By Chapter> TekWar chapter 28

Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club. In our last installment it took two…

[boomerbroadcaster]

Canadian Writer's Mother Was A Russian Traitor

Russia and its people have always fascinated me. The country is vast—the only country in the world larger than Canada—and its people have a complicated history. The Traitor’s Daughter by Roxane Spicer is the true story of one of those people. Spicer is a Canadian writer, journalist, and film-maker who spent more than fifty years trying to uncover her mother’s history, her secrets, and her…

[ilions-end]

the way teucer's first action as he mourns ajax is to find ajax' young son and protect him, because "some enemy [might] snatch him up, like the cub of a lioness robbed of her mate" (and you know he's talking about enemies within the greek camp, ajax' and his comrades-in-arms). his immediate, almost instinctual, concern for a warbride's low-status son lacking a normal familial system of protection! it breaks my heart! he's so aware of the risks eurysaces faces. does teucer want to become to eurysaces what ajax was to him, or what telamon wasn't?

[transmigrationisunderrated]

I relate to Shen Yuan way too much in this fandom because I too am reading smut for the mere hope of plot.

Like, the other day, I read a fic where Shen Yuan got to make one narrative change before transmigrating in and he chose to have Binghe be away from Shen Qingqiu. This ended up with Binghe being taught by Liu Qingge. The only thing this really changed was that he was like gayer and more repressed than his PIDW counterpart, with Shen Yuan being his wife/husband. YEAH SHEN YUAN GOT TRANSMIGRATED INTO ONE OF BINGHE'S WIVES AND AS HIS ONLY ONE IN THIS REALITY.

He was a plant demon with some omegaverse tossed in flavor but the most interesting bit was the bits of lore we got for the person he now was. The Omega warbride (I think that was the title) had a jilted former lover and a morally questionable father and I need to know everything about those dynamics, like yesterday.

Don't get it twisted, the smut was good, thank you for the smut BUT IT WAS A ONE SHOT AND IT LEFT ALL THESE IMPLICATIONS AND IM SUFFERING

[startreksetplans]

Generations What If

[ Non-Canon ] An idea for an alternative to the climatic space battle in Generations

First the Duras sisters managed to aquire a rather beefier vessel than in the original film - something more on par with the Enterprise D

Either a Vorcha or a Romulan Warbrid - with the latter, the crew think they are dealing with Romulans and are surprised when hailed.

The two ships are too easily matched, so the Visor plan is used. It is only good for one shot before the Enterprise remodulates, but their first salvo of several torpedos takes out the shield generators on the starboard side of the star drive.

The Enterprise must now fight whilst guarding its starboard flank - this greatly limits its maneuvers

The Enterise takes too much damage to the warp core. A breach is imminent. Ejection is impossible - the area is a tangled mess from repeated impacts.

A collision course at warp is layed in - the destination: Duras ship.

However before the collision, the Enterprise does something the enemy ship cannot - it separates.

The saucer, propelled by a burst of the warp field, sails over the Duras ship. Moments later the stardrive slams into the enemy.

The Duras ship is destroyed by the stardrive explosion. With the saucer propelled by the warp burst, it is not hit by the shockwave, and instead continues out of the system.

The saucer is later picked up by the USS Redoubt and towed back to dry dock where a new stardrive will be built and the saucer refitted

The new stardrive could be a Galaxy class drive again, or it could always be something more "sovereign" for the next movie.

[Ross Class by Thomas Marrone used as an example]

[witchofthesouls]

You know what would tickle me silly?

A crossover between G1 and TFP because of all the stupid shenanigans with some twists with the Dionysian Effect verse.

Not only do the G1 and TFP crews try to find their universe and confront some Uncomfortable truths in each other's worlds, but-

The thing is, TFP!Soundwave is deep in the mysticism of the Cult of Megatronus, so not only do the G1!cons need to constantly compute that there's a Soundwave with only one drone, no cassettes, an absolute beast of fighter, and a mute cryptid. He's fucking married to boot. In the equivalent of a Vegas-style, mate-napping of yore, and sealed-in-the-dirt and blessed by a fucking Prime kind of thing.

Knock out: Surprised us, too. I never expected the mech to drag back a warbride on this dirtball. G1!cons: Who!?!? Knock out: No idea. Some sort of stray Wilder that got lost in this primitive aft-end of the boonies. She did escape the flying ship by jumping off. G1!cons: What the absolute fu-

Even TFP!Megatron, who played Unicron's blood to get a huge edge over the Autobots, basically lets Soundwave handle that situation on his own because 1) he knows how committed Soundwave is, 2) Soundwave did bring back a Primal Artifact into their grasp and essentially ensured it couldn't be used against them with the current conditions, and 3) bonded with the Cybertronian equivalent of an extinct class of strange, powerful beings (aka Cybertronian magic-users), and 4) is deeply entertained by their hunting game and how Cyber!June sets things on fire and is impressed by her aim with energy projectiles.

[stevetonyweekly]

Steve Tony Weekly - June 23 - Week 25

Hi, friends! I am so excited to about today! It’s my birthday!!! But more than that, it’s my kid's birthday! I’m gonna spend the day hanging out with her and reading, because--it’s my favorite thing to do. Enjoy this week’s recs!! 

* Birthday Wishes by Neverever

The multiverse council of Tonies think that they know what to get their Steves for their birthdays. But maybe they should have talked to their Steves first.

my thoughts: I’m a sucker for Tony spoiling Steve and Steve just wanting TONY. This balanced both of those things perfectly. 

warbride by Areiton 

It takes them twenty three days to reach Brookland.

Twenty three nights that Steve builds his tent and escorts him to the tent flap when the food and music have wound down, twenty three nights that Tony sits waiting alone until he falls asleep in a pile of furs.

Twenty three mornings he wakes to a present, flowers and berries and charcoal drawings and furs as soft as silk that he wraps around himself as they ride.

In twenty three long days, Tony learns what his name sounds like, in the harsh Northern tongue.

my thoughts: i forgot this fic? So it was fun to dive back into the worldbuilding and Tony’s confusion paired with Steve taking care of him. 

Awake, Dreaming by azuredragonsleeps

The thing is, Tony’s got one of the best minds of the century, and he knows it doesn’t make any sense for him to have been having weirdly vivid dreams wherein Captain America dies, when he hadn’t even known what Captain America looked like. He must, he tells himself, have watched an old propaganda film, or seen a photo his dad had, and his subconscious must have latched on.

or

Tony Stark has been dreaming about Steve Rogers all his life. It changes things.

my thoughts: hindsight being 20/20 and letting Tony change the way he interacts with Steve was so well done. 

Though Your Face Is Lovely by ChibiSquirt for gottalovev

Tony Stark is an experienced adventurer by the time he's working beside Captain America and the Howling Commandos... which is why he should have known better than to pick up the artifact. Transported into another universe, he's going to have to find a way home, even if it means dealing with these "Avengers" people, some of whom seem awfully familiar...

my thoughts: idk, y’all, it was just super fun, the interaction of noir!Tony with the Avengers is fantastic. 

Sunshine on Leith by AvengersNewB, KandiSheek

With the new government law prohibiting the employment of unbonded omegas, Tony has no hope of keeping his job at SHIELD, knowing full well that he has little chance of ever finding a mate. That is until he's officially claimed by a very special alpha: Steven Grant Rogers, also known as Captain America.

my thoughts: this was just so lovely. The worldbuilding was super fun, and Steve being so besotted with Tony who was so confused was fantastic. 

[toomuchpurple]

Hey so uh. You know when Armand is going thru young Daniel's tapes and Daniel refers to one guy who's a Vietnam vet who lives with his Vietnamese boyfriend with no legs...? That. That's definitely a warbride situation, right? Like that soldier absolutely kidnapped someone and brought him back to San Fran. Someone who can't run away because he has no legs.

[valve3nthusiast]

Hey have I ever mentioned that I'm a teeny tiny bit insane about Crystal City arc. My brain is chewing on wrift sexy kidnapping aus constantly... and then I get frustrated when I have no solid ideas because a barbarian au just doesn't have Crystal City vibes but I'm stuck on a pre-spacetravel setting

I've sort of settled on an ancient greece-esque warring city-states au??? And some wifeposting themes snuck in there too (this ended up more plot-y than smutty honestly) (I didn't realize how long this got so editing a cut here)

Deadlock's backstory is mostly the same with only setting tweaks: he's a Rodion mercenary who rises up and then falls out of Megatron's favor, got assigned to Turmoil and eventually skedaddled, etc

The Decepticon Empire he fought for is a coalition of city-states and conquered territories, led by Megatron, with the goal of uniting all of Cybertron under one banner. Autobots is an alliance of city-states that oppose them, yadda yadda you get the idea

IDK what plot setup needs to happen yet but Wing and "Drift" meet and get to know each other outside of Crystal City and bond a bit. I like the idea of Wing getting to know Deadlock before Wing's very presence and worldview radically changes his personality, with Wing first realizing he's intensely drawn and attracted to Deadlock

Then Wing rescues Deadlock from *handwaves* a situation and brings him back to Crystal City... but in this au, Crystal City has avoided being conquered by having *handwaves again* some kind of myserious, unknown, and impenetratable defense

A defense that get a lot less mysterious when Deadlock sees it from the inside, which now makes him a threat to Crystal City. Wing, of course, protests killing his friend? someone who hasn't yet done anything wrong, but they still cant let him leave...

To avoid alarming the populace by admitting an enemy soldier could threaten the secrets of the City, and to Wing's hesitance and Deadlock's outrage, "Drift" is to be integrated into life in the City as Wing's warbride

It's not uncommon for a mech in an invaded or conquered territory to catch a warrior's eye, and be brought back home as a "kept conjunx". Crystal City holds no outside territories, but venturing Knights still participate in this custom. If Deadlock doesn't want to spend the rest of his life in a cell, it's his best option for keeping some of his freedom in Crystal City

Wing, obviously, feels horribly guilty about this, not helped by his unspoken attraction to Drift. He swears to find a way for Drift to escape while still protecting the residents of the city. Drift was stripped of his guns, so he even secretly begins teaching Drift swordfighting, something that's banned for anyone other than the Knights of the Circle of Light. He doesn't want Drift to feel helpless, but if they get caught he's in trouble

But what they do in secret doesn't change the facts: terrifying deception Deadlock now has to act like a submissive conquest. He's expecing the next years to be torture, upholding appearances by being paraded about like a fancy pleasure drone as Wing yanks him around by a metaphorical (or maybe even literal) leash

That... isn't what happens

When the Circle said "integrated" they meant it. The other Knights have warbrides (I figure ocs) who accept Deadlock into the group with open arms. There's probably a little subplot I could do here with them being autobots and decepticons working together. It would be the first time Deadlock had ever actually felt a strong sense of community, Dead End and the Empire wouldn't have that, and it would start the path to shaking up his worldview on the war

And the way Wing treats him... Wing is... gentle. They go on dates, like a pair of ridiculous, smitten newbuilds. He sees the normal civilians of Crystal City, living a normal life unaffected by war. His instinctive reaction of disgust slowly changes over time, to something else that he can't quantify...

(A guiding hand around his hip, kisses pressed to his cheek. The most amorous thing they do in public is him cuddling into Wing's chest as Wing strokes his finials)

(They should be doing more than that. Crystal City isn't some utopia, plenty of Knights see fit to enjoy their warbrides in public in the "traditional" manner. Warbrides can and do take issue with their situation, hence why they've formed a community to support each other. But even under pressure from the Circle, Wing cannot bring himself to do that to Drift)

(Deadlock doesn't know how to feel when the other warbrides tell him that his relationship is like a fairy tale romance. They're right, after all: he is lucky to have a conjunx who cares)

The juicy part of this au for me is Deadlock realizing he likes the play-pretend. He likes how Wing treats him like something beautiful and delicate... struggling with the realization he's slowly grown to enjoy pretending to be "Drift", Wing's tamed former-deception wife, to the point where he isn't pretending anymore

Maybe some sort of plot thing happens that finally shakes the last of his loyalty to the Decepticon Empire and gets him more freedom, and after so many years of a loving relationship with Wing, he embraces being a resident of Crystal City. The City is far from perfect, but... it has Wing. It's painful, to finally choose to sacrifice being a warrior

He gets a rebuild that at first glance seems more civilian... but he would never be satisfied with being defenseless, so the new frame is covertly armored and insanely flexible (honestly I just want to give him his mtmte childbearing hips again)

The first time they have sex would be so emotionally crunchy, Wing trying so hard to apologize for the poor circumstances through action, tenderly making love to Deadlock like his nervous warbride is a virgin on his bonding night, the way Wing wanted to from the very beginning...

Constantly praising how beautiful he is, how indomitable in soul, how privileged Wing is to be able to call him wife... Deadlock is completely undone by the way Wing makes sure he feels special, valued, being so slow and careful with his pleasure, like he's a blushing noble waif instead of a hardened gun-for-hire

(Like he's worth the effort)

Either wrift lives happily ever after (for a given value of such, Drift is still kidnapped) or more bullshit happens and I write it up in a second post. Honestly will probably make a second post because I can't resist writing about pregnant Drift and I didn't even mention that in all this nonsense

[enkisstories]

Armitage and his "warbride" then returned to the First Order hideout.

For a glorious morning both groups of castaways worked together. There was a (scam) wedding to organize and digital inheritance money to collect!

Hux: "Believe it or not, I'm not in a hurry to leave this planet anymore. There's something here that I don't have at home."

Poe: "Like constant hunger, frostburn and diarrhea, you mean?"

Hux: "Speaking of, it would be bad form to let my future husband for a day starve. You may join us for breakfast."

Holdo: “Given the state your greenhouse is in, I better call BB-8 to bring some honey and strawberry jam from our camp over.”

Hux: “If we’d wanted any of that, we’d TAKEN it when we were there!”

Entering the common room, Poe watched Hux grab two slices of stale bread and cheese each and proceed to eat them in the company of Rose Tico.

Poe: "Wait, what, did I get this right? The "thing" Hugs would miss is ROSE?!"

Phasma: "'fraid so. They were thick as thieves from the moment they met.”

Poe: And yet he didn’t ask Rose to play his bride when he got forced to marry to claim his inheritance. I can’t tell whether the implication here is worrying or heartwarming.

[shadowwingtronix]

Chapter By Chapter> TekWar chapters 26 & 27

BW Media Spotlight's Chapter By Chapter> TekWar chapters 26 & 27

Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club. In our last chapter our heroes made it to…

[ataratah]

This fic was written for the @knotinmyname Event, where writers push back against the AI scraping our fic with a flood of omegaverse tropes.

This is for Day 6:

- gender swap

Shen Yuan takes the place of wife #136 but remains a man

- Omega Breeding 101

the System is ever-helpful and offers many classes

- "I don't trust anyone else but you."

:3

I got to collaborate with @jjtaylor again and we had a blast! So if you read it, I hope you enjoy it 💕

[loki-whump-recs]

Warbride by SatansSin

Summary:

Captured in a war between the Aesir and Jotnar, Loki, the bastard son of King Laufey, is kept in the Aesir camp as someone to sate carnal desires. And though he escapes unscathed later, it isn't the end of his problems. For he is sold in political marriage to his very captor; a Jotun slayer. He is ruthless and Loki is innocent. It is a match made in Hel.

Pairing: Thor/Loki Rating: M Word Count: 314k+

Tags: #crying #hugging and cuddling #mpreg #suicidal ideation #intoxication #domestic abuse #severe injury #minor character death #slavery #PTSD #Avengers fam #smut

Complete/Incomplete

Admin notes: Fantastic and a fave. Bros I cannot even count the amount of times Loki cries in this I think past a certain point he basically never stops crying tbh. There's no rape like the summary implies. Classic political marriage to true love trope with setbacks and miscommunication. Loki's a super timid, insecure little kitten with some slight Stockholm syndrome :< Oh and Balder's there! He's also nice to Loki.