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[romutforsker]

Always pissed off emo boy

[flameswallower]

THE BEST FICTION I ENCOUNTERED IN THE SECOND HALF OF 2024!!!

A much longer follow-up to this post. (Can you imagine how much I'd need to type out if I hadn't split them up???)

Once again, I'm not listing movies, TV shows, video games, etc. I AM listing some web fiction and comics/graphic novels, because I feel much more qualified to judge and recommend those things.

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Novels and Novellas!

Failure To Comply, by Cavar (2024): Reading Cavar’s Failure to Comply, I couldn’t help but think of the recent David Cronenberg movie Crimes of the Future. Both deal with dystopias in which bodies and their modification are strictly regulated, and people with unauthorized bodies form a vibrant, perpetually imperiled subculture on the margins. Both use this conceit to speak metaphorically about the plights of trans and disabled people, although Failure to Comply’s characters are also presented as literally, textually disabled and trans. But, although Crimes of the Future is often accused of being a “weird movie,” Failure to Comply is undeniably much, much weirder. Cronenberg is super normal compared to this.

Maej, by Dale Stromberg (2024): a doorstopper I found difficult to put down and finished inside a week; a work of very unapologetic genre fiction that’s equally unapologetic in its intelligence and dedication to doing strange, creative things with language; a high fantasy story I actually liked. The setting is the city of Sforre-Yomn, in the country of Hwoama, whose culture combines elements from across the continents of Asia and Europe. But Hwoama is matriarchal: men are subordinate to women, who dominate politics, business, the military, and nearly all other professions. As a result of this fact, almost all the major characters in the novel are female. By turns this presents a fun, simple, mischievous inversion of maleness as the unmarked default state for fictional characters, and meaty commentary on the social construction of sex, sexuality, and gender. Stromberg has cited Le Guin as an influence on Maej and, in the most complimentary way possible, this influence is evident.

Lote, by Shola von Reinhold (2020) is a gorgeous, funny, moving academic satire/mystery and love letter to Black modernism. It’s also very queer/trans and (in my personal opinion, perhaps not intentionally) very autistic. The title refers to a possibly-mythical clandestine circle of artists/magic practitioners who style themselves after the lotus eaters and seek transcendence via experiences of sensory and aesthetic pleasure. As with many novels that stand out to me, you won’t read anything else like it. I especially recommend this one if you want a completely unique, intellectually stimulating work of fiction, but are put off by the aggressively experimental and opaque style of Failure To Comply and by the SFF-ness of FTC, Maej, and Leech.

Walking Practice, by Dolki Min (trans. Victoria Caudle) (original 2022; English translation 2024) is a breezy, sexy *, gender-bending Korean novel about a poor amorphous space alien stranded on Earth after a spaceship crash. Unfortunately for us, this alien soon discovers that 1.) the most suitable food for it down here is human flesh, and 2.) with a lot of pain and effort, it can squeeze itself into the likeness of a variety of different human beings. It figures out hookup apps pretty fast, too, and then it’s off to the races. This may sound like creature horror, but it plays more as an exploration of identity and humanity, and a satire of sex, romance, and contemporary hookup culture. (*possibly less sexy if you don’t have a vore/cannibalism/consumption thing)

Love/Aggression, by June Martin (2024) is a BANANAS mundane fantasy-comedy about two trans women who are kind of best friends, and kind of enemies. Zoe (actress) is an arrogant, cartoonishly unpleasant minor celebrity who thinks she’s much more famous and popular than she actually is— but Martin manages to show how her personality is in part the sympathetic result of dysphoria and experiencing a lot of transmisogyny over the course of her life, and how she used to be a much kinder person before fame went to her head. Meanwhile, Lily (freeloader and aspiring tattoo artist) is a sweet, spacy, passive daydreamer, and a far more immediately likable character— but Martin manages to show how she is not entirely blameless in the ongoing drama with Zoe, how her passivity is sometimes the result of immaturity and selfishness, and how even when it isn’t, it’s a character flaw that keeps landing her in situations which kind of suck for all parties involved. They live in a magical Pittsburgh that is, conveniently, located right next to Los Angeles. Their friends include a BDSM cult leader and a nonbinary person whose name becomes “Dicks” in the first chapter of the story and who is never called anything else. (This character also happens to be the…owner? Custodian?…of an infinite, maze-like, reality-distorting building that is probably the most fun and least scary infinite, maze-like, reality-distorting building in all of fiction.) There’s vore in this one, too! But don’t go in expecting a particularly cohesive plot: Love/Aggression is far more about characters, relationships, and gags.

Maybe the Moon, by Armistead Maupin (1992) was inspired by the too-brief life of Maupin’s real friend Tamara De Treaux, a little person who depicted the title character in parts of the movie E.T. Her literary equivalent, Cady Roth, is a sardonic, fashionable, thirty-year-old little person who depicted a magical gnome called Mr. Woods in a beloved, albeit treacly, children’s fantasy movie of the same name. But since she played the role inside a thick rubber suit, and since the director of the movie felt it would spoil the magic to give her any credit, almost nobody knows that. Ten years later, she lives in obscurity on dwindling funds and struggles to find work…until, out of sheer desperation, she decides to take a job with a troupe of children’s birthday party entertainers. Romance, escapades, etc. ensue. Both a very funny book and a very sad one; it’s quite frank about death, about the ways Hollywood fucks people over, about the many ways that, especially if you’re marginalized and/or an artist, your life isn’t fair and isn’t ever going to be fair and “happy endings” probably aren’t what the world has in store for you. I think ultimately it’s sentimental in a good way; it has a big heart.

Leech, by Hiron Ennes (2022) is a total banger to finish out this year with! So glad I picked it up finally! Absolute genre jambalaya, this one: sci-fi, stuff that reads as fantasy despite having or probably having a “sci-fi” explanation, horror, Gothic novel (but not, crucially, a Gothic romance), mystery, medical thriller, character study, philosophical novel about ideas of consciousness, selfhood, individuality, and free will…there’s probably something in here for everyone reading this. You’ll love it, almost guaranteed, if you love the Gormenghast books. You’ll love it, almost guaranteed, if you love any Star Trek series. You’ll love it, almost guaranteed, if you love the science fiction of Peter Watts, or the horror of Gretchen Felker-Martin. You’ll love it, almost guaranteed, if you love The Thing (1982). The prose is lush, idiosyncratic, a bit purple, but it’s nothing too baroque, it’s all perfectly easy to read. The complicated, antiheroic protagonist/narrator is delightful and memorable, and I think Ennes did a great job at conveying unusual states of memory/selfhood/cognition through it/them/her. (Some of these states are not ones with which I have, or even could possibly have ever had, real experience, but some are, and I am always pleased to find those replicated in ways I can recognize and feel as “truthful.”)

Short Story Collections!

Stone Gods (2024) and Worse Than Myself (2009) by Adam Golaski contained several of the very best short stories I read this year— especially Worse Than Myself, which is also a slightly more accessible/“normal” story collection and the one I’d recommend starting with. Golaski writes eerie, dreamlike, bizarre fiction that frequently crosses over into horror— even including time-worn horror genre tropes like zombies, ghosts, and vampires. But let me tell you, Golaski’s “The Man From the Peak” (in Worse Than Myself) is a BAD time, like give-you-nightmares scary, and it feels like nothing you’ve ever read before, even though it’s about A Nosferatu. Not just a vampire, but a vampire that is explicitly described as egg-bald with big pointy ears and two sharp buck teeth. That’s the antagonist. And it fucking works. He makes it new. Please, please read Adam Golaski, you guys. It is astounding and unjust that he’s not popularly regarded as one of the 21st century’s best authors of weird short fiction. I don’t actually know if he could have/wanted to publish more than two collections over fifteen years, but I kind of feel like maybe if a lot of people and public libraries buy those two collections, he’ll have more space and incentive to write short stories, and/or more publishers will be interested in picking up another collection of his short stories?

Brave New Weird vol. 2 (2024) was a diverse, entertaining selection of stories. Some I’d read, some I hadn’t. A pretty good overview of the mostly small press horror/sci-fi/Weird fiction scene as it stands right this minute.

All Your Friends Are Here, by M. Shaw (2024) is almost the opposite of the Golaski collections, in a way: Golaski frequently deals with themes of nostalgia, the past, cycles that repeat without end, and timelessness or being outside of time. Moreover, most of his stories feel like they’d be immediately comprehensible to a person fifty years ago or fifty years from now, if not even further into the past/future (with, perhaps, a few footnotes of cultural explanation). But Shaw’s stories are, often aggressively, Of The Moment. And that’s not a bad thing, even if it means they may seem completely dated in a few decades. Shaw is interested in speaking directly to their place and time; directly to us. They’re not going to pretend we’re not all online, that we don’t all know (if against our will) what Ready Player One is— the longest piece in the collection, and one of the best, is a suitably pop-culture-reference-laden dunk/riff/spoof on, and rebuttal of, Ready Player One! These stories are angry and clever and sometimes suffused with a kind of exhausted tenderness. There’s clearly a Bizarro influence on some of Shaw’s work, but their writing is more sophisticated and restrained than what I tend to associate with Bizarro fiction proper.

Individual Short Stories (That You Can Read Right Now!)

“EGREGORE” by Samir Sirk Morató (2024) = clubbing, hallucinatory, girl on girl

“The Spindle Of Necessity” by B. Pladek (2024) = trans academic suspects dead author may have been a closeted gay trans man

“A History of the Avodion Through Five Artists” by Eric Horwitz (2024) = Borgesian, arch, Jewish

“Mad Studies” by Cavar (2024) = loneliness, cats, autism…like Failure To Comply, this is by @librarycards

“Alabama Circus Punk” by Thomas Ha (2024) = robots, the nuclear family, disintegrating language

Comics and Graphic Novels!

Tomorrow You Don't Know Me, by Raven Lyn Clemens (2024) is a subtle, moving, and unsentimental graphic novel about being a middle schooler with problems, and how sometimes those problems just kinda...persist no matter what you do or try or want, and no matter if it's fair. Even if you summon a demon to help you! Clemens is really skilled at depicting emotion visually, at communicating both the absurd goofiness and the deep, genuine pain of the outsize negative emotions her characters experience. All of her characters are at least a little wretched, and she also handles them all with great compassion, affection, and understanding. Check out her artwork at @ravenlynclemens please; it's fantastic cartooning even without any detailed narrative.

In Fair Verona, by Val Wise (2024) is a VERY gory, VERY nasty piece of lesbian Gothic fantasy horror-erotica. I love Wise's art. The bodies she draws, regardless of gender and build, are top-tier sexy and beautiful to me, which means he's often able to get me on board* with kinks and scenarios that would usually be too "extreme" for my taste. (*Genteel euphemism for arousal)

A Guest In the House, by E.M Carroll (2023) is an equally nasty and mean, but far, FAR less explicit and bizarre, lesbian Gothic horror story, told with the visual panache and inimitable art style everyone knows and loves Carroll for. It's a worthy successor to their previous material, and if it doesn't necessarily make enormous leaps from their earlier work in its writing, the drawing and coloring has gone from "already really good" to "some of these splash pages will blow your eyes out the back of your skull."

Expiry Date, by Sloane Hong (2024) is another lesbian/queer erotica comic. This one's science fiction, and is FAR more up my usual alley of kinks. Which is to say that the lovers are quite kind/polite with one another (in a lot of ways it reads as a meet-cute), but also one of them is a hired killer who dispassionately agrees to torture the fuck out of the other one David Cronenberg-style.

Once again, all my comic recs are by queer trans people! I think I made a pretty hacky joke last year about gay trans mascs specifically ruling in this field, but based on recent data, you just have to be a marginalized gender and not heterosexual to make amazing comics.

Web Fiction!

The Frenzy wiki is a fan wiki for an imagined TV series, telling the story of both Frenzy, a popular late 2000s ensemble cast drama-adventure-SFF show drawing equally from the likes of Twin Peaks and Supernatural, and how the existence of this show was mysteriously wiped from the face of our reality-- save in the troubled dreams of a select few. I would estimate it takes a couple hours to explore the whole wiki. (2022 or 2023?)

3D Workers Island is the phenomenal, if less ambitious, follow-up to Petscop. (I don't mean it's a sequel; it's just by the same guy and covers similar thematic ground.) Like its predecessor, it's more about dropping tantalizing hints than letting you in on "what's actually going on," and more about giving you a creeped out and vaguely depressed feeling than about scaring or shocking you per se. It's really smart and well-crafted in an understated way, and does a great job replicating early internet content. I would estimate it takes WELL under an hour to get through this story, although you will probably want to immediately go back and look for things you might have missed or not understood properly. (2024)

Martin's Movies is conventional, compared to the other two. It's a ghost story. But it's a very creepy, effective, well-told ghost story rendered through the unusual medium of letterboxd reviews (of course, these become increasingly diary-like and Not About The Film as the story progresses). I would estimate it takes under an hour to read the whole thing, it's like short novelette length. (2024)

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Law’s Type 

Summary: A list of headcanons describing Law's ideal type

Genre: Fluff

CW: None // SFW

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Someone from either the North Blue or a winter island in the Grand Line, someone who likes the cold and is more than content going long periods of time without sunlight. Also, someone who enjoys hot chocolate enough to get it for you both because he really wants to drink it but also doesn’t want to admit that he likes it because he doesn't think it's manly, so if he could claim you forced him to indulge in it, that’d be awesome. Marshmallows are an extra bonus, but he won’t eat them if you call any attention to how much he enjoys them. (I'm imagining Law with his cheeks stuffed full of marshmallows, send help.)  

A nocturnal creature for sure, just like him. Someone who prefers stargazing to cloud watching.

Someone educated, if not in medicine than in another field (this man played it cool but was sweating buckets in the presence of Dr. Nico Robin). Imagining a marine biologist with a rebellious streak joining the Heart Pirates to conduct research in the Grand Line/New World and give the middle finger to the World Government along the way; possibly a devil fruit eater (an algae fruit could be super cool), definitely a source of headaches for Dr. Law. 

The sort of person who says, "yes Captain," or, "of course, Doctor," with a sweet smile only to immediately disobey.

Kind of random but has a low-key thing for women with pretty hands and feet. It’s not a fetish, he just really likes soft hands and dainty feet, especially with well-kept nails (he’s super into blue nail polish, if anyone even cares). Really likes when a girl wears sandals, especially if they have high heels. Also has dreams about a woman slowly removing a glove, tugging it off finger by finger, and placing her bare hand on his cheek. 

More generally, dreams about a woman who's an odd clash of demure and edgy. (Is this about Nico Robin? Hmmm.)

Given that this man is both touch starved and repressed/suffering from severe trust issues, he would need someone who is willing to initiate the lion's share of physical affection, at least in the early stages of the relationship. He wants it so bad but is too scared to ask. When he does initiate, he typically only initiates things you've initiated, matching you. The exception is the first time he caught you by the hand and pressed a warm kiss into your palm; he's such a hand kisser it's unreal.

Would want someone who could cook, not for him but with him. He actually really enjoys planning out what to cook, going to the market and picking out ingredients, and putting it all together. He’s meticulous in his meal planning and wants someone who enjoys doing it with him. Also, someone who can teach him some new recipes. And someone who can make his favorite: onigiri (not the plum kind, though; he hates the plum kind).

Someone who can teach him new things in general. He enjoys learning and is attracted to people who can teach him. And if your passion for that subject shines through while you're teaching it, even better.

Also wants someone who can be sweet, but not in a suffocating sort of way. He really values his independence and would want a person who feels the same. 

Okay, I’m just describing Nico Robin. 

Someone with a slightly morbid sense of humor, someone who doesn’t get squeamish easily. 

And I’m describing Nico Robin again. 

Someone who admires his coin collection and the handful of action figures and comics in his cabin. More specifically, someone who doesn't let him put his own interests down as dumb and/or childish and, in fact, hypes him up, however awkward the positive reinforcement might make him at first. Someone who buys him a new action figure without asking.

Really wants someone who’s neat, organized, and collected, but is also calm like he is, like a very casual type A personality. He isn’t an opposites attract sort of guy, though he’d need someone at least a little more relaxed and open than him or else the entire relationship would probably just be a stalemate. 

It’s not just that he’s not much of a talker, he can get a little overwhelmed by heart-to-hearts, even if you’re the one doing all the talking, so if he met someone who likes to write and receive notes and, God forbid, actual love letters, he’d fall fast and hard. Your relationship initially blooms with the two of you writing notes in the margin of each others' work, which turns into Law drawing cartoons and you leaving dumb little jokes and eventually culminates in love notes.

Also has a thing for pretty handwriting. He probably keeps a box of things you've written because he's so obsessed.

Someone who is friends with Bepo, but more importantly, someone who respects Bepo and doesn’t treat him like a pet (so important!!!). Respect for Bepo might be more important to Law than respect for Law himself.  

He has a low-key competitive streak, and he’d definitely fall for someone who could bring it out. Someone who has a touch of Straw Hat crackhead energy. 

Someone who can be gentle and caring. Someone with a nurturing side. Someone who, weirdly enough, reminds him of Cora. Someone with a strong moral compass despite probably being a pirate.

Finally, someone who is forgiving of his flaws, someone who is patient, someone who is willing to wait for him to open up and get comfortable, someone who doesn’t get annoyed if he spends the week hiding in his office because it’s all a little too much at the moment, someone who doesn’t ask him to put his book down and pay attention (his ideal is you playing with his hair while he reads). Someone who is on his side. 

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Hope you enjoyed it! If you want more, you can check out my masterlist here!

[lucygriefer]

Apothecary Nightmare design

I've been listening to the Apothecary diaries anime dub and was inspired to make this idea. Enjoy. The original Dreamtale creator is Jokublog

This AU idea was inspired to me by "The Apothecary Diaries". There's a good bit of text explaining the AU as I want to leave myself some notes and ideas (Some that may be scrapped some changed who knows right now).

In this AU Dream and Nightmare are both heirs to the Floral Empire. Nightmare having more of a chance to take over as he was the first born. Nim having been killed when her sons were 4 by assignation via a slow acting poison. So she and the food taster didn't survive. Being picky eaters Dream and Nightmare were saved from the same fate. Nightmare wasn't as liked but no one really cared. Till the twins turned 5 Dream was about to be cursed by someone, but Nightmare pushed him out of the way and became corrupted. After that almost everyone of the empire secretly turned on him. The two not knowing till the two turned 6.

A group kidnapped Nightmare in the night. Placing special made restraints that are normally used for prisoners awaiting trial. To weaken his magic and prevent him from using his tentacles. They were cruel and gave him extremely heavy restraints despite how small he was. He never learned the true weight and simply guesses that they are possibly 60 pounds. They kept him drugged and carried him far away, wanting to sell him for a high profit. Only for an avalanche in the snowy mountains to happen and take their lives, with only Nightmare surviving.

When Nightmare finally awake he couldn't return home as he does not know how to return home. So he traveled. Trying to find help. During so he broke his crown and started hiding it around his neck under the metal collar not wanting to lose his crown.

Eventually finding a village and being taken in by some women who works in a brothel. Being raised by them while also becoming an apothecary. Working with poison and finding cures to them. Doing this for 16 years and seeing the women of the brothel as step parents. Eventually at the age of 22 he was kidnapped again and sold as a servant to the X empire.

One day he learned about two of the heirs having been sick and concluded that it was poison. So he left a written note to warn them and went on with his day not wanting to be seen as anything that important.

This caught the interest of Cross and his concubine (Killer, Dust, and Horror). So Cross worked to find who it was that saved his children Arch and Mo (Mochi just without the chi part). When they found out it was Nightmare and learned of his skills as an apothecary, he moved him up to poison taste tester, and is waiting to make him his fourth concubine. Being made into a concubine is a high honor. A tradition in Cross' family is to have 4 concubine. For now Nightmare is not a concubine and won't be for another year or two. As Cross wants Nightmare to get use to them all. They also don't know of Nightmare’s royal background.

I won't have Nightmare and Dream reunite for a while. There are also other empires that I'll be adding later. I'll be making artwork of all the other characters later, as I do wish to make some short comics with this idea. Also the restraint design might change, I'm still trying to figure out how it'll look. I might also change Nightmare's clothing design idk at the moment. So look forward to seeing Apothecary AU designs of Cross, Horror, Killer, Dust, Error, and others.

Pffh XD I just noticed this. The Nightmare in the corner eating a piece of sushi testing for poison. I accidentally drew the missing pinky tip on the wrong hand XD . I drew it on his right hand instead of left XD

[shark-myths]

do you have any book recs for books about girls that feel like girl out boy. i want to read about girls but i don't want to read about fall out boy yk

I love this question! I am constantly seeking for books that feel like Girl Out Boy because I want to live in that muggy girlspace at all times. These cut a wide swath of genres and probably only 2 of them are genuine read-alikes in tone; the rest share a headspace or ethos or were otherwise important in shaping that world. I would love to collect other peoples’ recommendations on this question, so please chime in!

Nonfiction:

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

Any book by Melissa Febos

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers by Sady Doyle

The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper

The Riot Grrrl Collection ed. by Lisa Darms

Fiction:

The Scapegracers series by H.A. / August Clarke—the most GOB thing I have ever read in my life!

Supper Club by Lara Williams

Anything Resembling Love by S. Qiouyi Lu

We Were Witches by Ariel Gore

It Goes Like This by Miel Moreland

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

You Know I’m No Good by Jessie Ann Foley

When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey

The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg

The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

Girl Mans Up by M.E. Girard

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages

Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman

Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson

Comics:

Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Man-Eaters by Chelsea Cain

Paper Girls by Brian K Vaughn

Girl Town by Casey Nowak

The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag

Okay, I'm stopping myself now, because this is clearly just becoming a "Book About Women Sharks Want You To Read". And I could go on, and on, and on. Please let me know if you read and like any! Reading and talking about reading are my favorite things in the world.

Go forth and read about girls!

[seriousfic]

Strange New Worlds season 2

-Feels like they overdid it with the silly episodes? Just my taste, but the Oops! All Silly episodes should be a sometimes food, and they have just about every other episode being silly. Serious, silly, serious, silly. I get comic relief, but this isn't a very heavy show. If we're going to have a quip machine like Ortegas, do we then need to do a whole episode of that, and often?

-Sam Kirk is Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Episode.

-The fact that these characters are destined to end up at TOS makes some of the wokening stuff hilarious.

Christine Chapel in her Twenties: I don't do relationships. Let's keep things casual. I have so many fuckbuddies lol.

Christine Chapel in her Thirties: Y U NO MARRY ME SPOCK?

Which probably wasn't their intent, but it's hard not to read that into this show and TOS supposedly being the same people.

-Also, they have literally twice as many women in the main cast as men, which is a good hint at how Hollywood really sees 'gender equality.'

Not pictured: Carol Kane

-I'm just saying, they have this episode Among The Lotus Eaters. One plot ends with Ortegas triumphantly declaring "I pilot the Enterprise!" The other plot ends with Pike apologizing to his overbearing girlfriend for having concerns about their relationship (when obviously their relationship is in wonderful shape when him voicing concerns about them as a couple results in her freezing him out and Pike having to beg for her forgiveness).

-The whole Human Spock episode is cringe. First, in premise. Could you imagine if they did an episode where a biracial member of the crew was changed to be fully black and he immediately started eating ribs and listening to hip-hop? This in the same season that did the most bald-faced minority metaphor imaginable with Augments. Not to mention the obligatory trans rights episode last season where we were supposed to buy that Spock was 'outside the human/vulcan binary' or something. Nope! It's absolutely possible to turn the dial to 100% Human or Vulcan.

I don't know, it's trying to be a character study of Spock, but it's trying way harder to be a "look at Spock do funny things" episode and it ends up feeling just kinda pointless. They themselves mention that Vulcan emotions are stronger than human emotions, so a Human Spock should be even better at controlling himself, but he just isn't for reasons. Wouldn't it be more interesting if Spock became fully Vulcan... something he occasionally seems like he would desire... which paradoxically strengthened his emotions and made them more difficult to control?

It's hard to invest in this Spock as a character when the show's basically telling you he doesn't matter as a person, they're just going to write him in whatever way gets a laugh.

-Call me hard to please, but it'd be nice to have a few arcs. I'm not saying I want one of those 'ten hour movies' like Picard and Discovery do, but even TNG had ongoing plots like the Borg, Lore, the Crystalline Entity, the House of Duras. I'm not asking for this show to go as lore-heavy as DS9 or ENT, but I would like a little more of an ongoing storyline than the Spock/T'Pring/Chapel love triangle. And we all know where that will end up, unless they're going to tell us that sometime after Undiscovered Country, Spock and Christine decided to make it official. You know, now that they're both as old as Carol Kane.

[aroaceswagcompetition]

Poll list part 2

Rouge the Bat(Sonic) vs Raphael Santiago(Shadowhunters)🎉

Death The Kid(Soul Eater) vs Tsubomi Takane(Mob Psycho 100)🎉

Berdly(Deltarune) vs Nausicaa(Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind)🎉

Din Djarin(The Mandalorian) vs Anzu Hoshino(Romantic Killer)🎉

Amethyst(Steven Universe) vs Steven Stone(Pokemon)🎉

Talfryn(The Penumbra Podcast) vs Stanley(The Stanley Parable)🎉

Clay Terran (Ace Attorney) vs Buttercup(The Powerpuff Girls)🎉

Sei Handa(Barakamon) vs Xu Xialing(Shangchi and the legend of the ten rings)🎉

Sunny(Wings of Fire) vs Beta(Horizon Forbidden West)

Dr. Sylvester Ashling(Epithet Erased) vs Marcy Wu(Amphibia)

Perry the Platypus(Phineas and Ferb) vs Lancer(Deltarune)

Serana Volkihar(The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim) vs Charlie(It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

Zhongli(Genshin Impact) vs Tatsumaki(One Punch Man).

V1(Ultrakill) vs Aziraphale and Crowley(Good Omens)

Shaggy(Scooby Doo) vs Itachi Uchiha (Naruto)

Reigen Arataka(Mob Psycho 100) vs Pyuko(Dannganronpa: Hope’s Chains)

Marie(Splatoon) vs Rose Cookie(Cookie Run Kingdom)

Joan D’arc(History) vs Morgana(Merlin)

Murderbot(The Murderbot Diaries) vs Royce Bracket(Transistor (game))

Ryland Grace(Project Hail Mary) vs Hollyleaf(Warrior Cats)

Wolf(Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts) vs Savathûn(Destiny video game)

Damian Wayne(DC Comics) vs Dr. Miranda Jones (Star Trek The Original Series, season 3 episode 5 Is There In Truth No Beauty?)

Keagan Máistirúin(Na Daoine Maithe (The Good People)) vs Sweetheart(Omori)

Kaitou Joker(Kaitou Joker) vs Piccolo (Dragon Ball)

Roach(Our Flag Means Death) vs Alex Fierro(Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard)

Aradia Megido(Homestuck) vs Hestia(Greek Mythology)

Zane Julien(Ninjago) vs Agatha Wellbelove(Simon Snow series by Rainbow Rowell)

Yelena Belova (Marvel) vs The Bear/Brent/The Pusher/The Fool/Shah Zaman(Ghost Quartet)

The Witch Queen(Old Gods of Appalachia) vs P03(Inscryption)

Lord Havelock Vetinari(Discworld Novels by Terry Pratchett) vs The Knight(Hollow Knight)

Power(Chainsaw Man) vs Jetstorm(Transformers Animated (2007 cartoon))

Athena Cykes(Ace Attorney) vs Grumbot(Hermitcraft)

Yuki Rurikawa(A3!) vs Anonymous/Someone(Our Dreams At Dusk)

James(Pokemon) vs Dipper Pines 1 Mabel Pines1(Gravity Falls)

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[thechocolatedetective]

I really do love some men

I really do love men cause some of them be wearing ghost cosplays, anime cosplays, death eater costumes etc. And are doing the most sexiest poses , words and funny videos ever. As a women I would like to thank you. You have made me smile and giggle like I am 13 again.

Ps. I am definitely making a short comic about two of mine OC who were engaged, one became a death eater. It will have a vibe of a lovers to Enemies but still in a way lovers

Very toxic very dark very angst

Love it, expect it sometime in the future

[saintgoths]

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CHAPTER SEVEN - ORPHEUS.

WORDS - 5,914.

RATING - 18+ [Serena being nasty, f/f fingering, dry humping, Will being desperate. Canon type violence.]

SUMMARY - Secrets are revealed between Serena and Cersei, and Will finds himself becoming more infatuated with Serena.

"I've tried to fight this, but you are my weakness." Iris by Pastel Ghost.

feedback would be appreciated! and i would like to say, this story is a will romance story, but i just want you to be aware that serena is a man-eater...

i also cross-post this fic on wattpad and ao3.

previous chapter - chapter six.

After a deep breath, Serena looked out of the carriage Thomas rode on, gently directing the carriage to its destination, the wind was soft, but Serena could still hear the low curly whispers with her enriched hearing. All her senses clear aside from her mind.

The time she shared with Will, kissing him, touching him and feeling him had been a permanent stap in her mind, and Serena was unsure if hated it or craved more of him.

However, Serena wasn’t sure if Will had actually liked her, had pondered if he was only sexually infatuated with her. Though, she couldn’t forget the soft hints of his fixation.

With a frown, Serena gently bit her lip. Had she overlooked Will? Had dismissed his signs of affection towards her due to the destructive mask of a personality he usually showed. Nevertheless, the story he revealed to Serena about his sister, Ella, and how he got her killed had been another focus point in her mind.

Now with her arms crossed, Serena had wondered if he exposed himself to other people so they could ease their suspicions of him. Like, Tessa?

Serena then touched her lip.

She wanted more of that kiss. She had wanted more of Will. She had remembered that night when she touched herself with him in her mind. Serena had now been content they had similar dreams of each other.

The carriage had then come to a stop, the halt had caused Serena to snap out of her thoughts, had now focused on Thomas who had now opened the door, she had stared at him, had wondered if she looked like a madwoman.

“You always go to interesting settings,” Thomas said as he helped her down.

Serena smiled, before she comically pointed her nose up. “That’s what happens when you’re popular,” she smiled.

As she made it to the surface, Serena had then pulled out something from one of her pockets Victorian women usually wear, it had been a bracelet. “A gift,” Serena smiled. “For always doing favours for me,” she said and then passed it onto Thomas.

He had quickly taken in, had saw letters on the bracelet and had anticipated to read it. He frowned. “What---vera…cal-e? osfa afri?” He poorly pronounced and as kickback, Serena had laughed before she corrected him.

“Veracale osfa afrae,” she said and Thomas stared at Serena as if she were mad. He knew many languages existed in the world, but he had never heard anything that sounded like that. “It’s a language from where I live---where I used to live,” Serena said. “It’s called bracelet of trust.”

“What language is that from?” Thomas innocently asked and with her arms behind her back, Serena pressed her lips into a thin line.

“I will tell you another day,” Serena said. “But remember, the bracelet is a reminder to trust me,” Serena reminded with a certain look in her eyes. “Trust me when I say, leave this place.”

Quiet, Thomas looked back at her. “The bracelet is beautiful, it has designs I’ve never seen before,” he commented and with a soft tap of his hand, Serena bid him a quiet goodbye as Thomas returned to his seat.

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Serena had felt everyone’s eyes turn to her the second she walked into the party, as if they had all sensed her, sensed the different essence and sweetness she carried. A couple of gasps had spread as if they were fallen dominoes, and the sentence ‘Venusian Spirit’ was shared by a couple of the Downworlders who had ogled at her.

Serena hadn’t said anything, yet had taken in what they each said about her. Though, a certain redhead had caught her attention, Angelika. “You’re finally here,” Angelika said in relief, her smile was bright but tight. “People were about to start leaving, calling me a liar.”

“My apologies for my lateness,” Serena said but Angelika bowed her head as she dismissed her tardiness.

“That’s fine,” Angelika responded. “It’s probably culture for Venusians to turn up late to parties,” Angelika joked as she had then motioned Serena to follow her.

The stares didn’t stop, but it didn’t rattle Serena. She was usually looked at. “I feel there is much Vampires here,” Serena said as she stood behind Angelika.

“There are much,” Angelika clarified as she then examined the people around them, almost all of them had behaved like hungry deviants ready to feast. “Much Downworlders are here too, all interested in you. There hasn’t been a Venusian Spirit here in the Mortal Realm since eons ago,” Angelika explained and with a short smile, Serena clasped her hands together. “You’re like a prize to them, someone they want to parade around, feast upon,” Angelika continued fore she looked back at Serena. “Both ways,” she winked as she intertwined her arm with her.

A moment later, a man had appeared in front of them, almost as if he had floated towards their direction. “Serena, meet a good friend of mine, Carlisle Ivanov, from Russia.”

Carlisle had been blonde, almost so blonde his hair appeared white, but it was different to the shade Jem had due to the Yin Fen. Carlisle’s hair almost appeared as bright as a halo, eyes blue as the sea and features perfectly sculpted. He had raised Serena’s hand and kissed the back of it. “You’re more beautiful than Angelika exaggerated you to be.”

“Thank you,” Serena kindly acknowledged.

Carlisle had then moved to look at Angelika. “She’s ravishing,” he pointed.

“Pounce off already,” Angelika joked. “You seem like you want to dig your fangs into her neck.”

Serena twisted her face as the two of the Vampires continued to joke, aware another presence had stepped into the trio, Serena furrowed her eyebrows, she had thought she had recognised this person. “I’ve heard a Venusian Spirit’s blood can be poisonous to Vampires if taken without consent.”

Serena knew exactly who he was, dark hair, dramatic flair, cat-like eyes. This is Magnus Bane.

Confused, Serena silently searched her mind to clarify where she had seen him before.

“Magnus Bane,” he introduced, aware of the confused look Serena had on her face.

With a neutral look, Serena commenced to introduce herself, but he was quicker than her, with a smile, he spoke once more. “Serena Venrosa?” He questioned, though with the tone of his voice, it was barely a question, it was as if he was sure. “Everyone here is speaking about you, sorry for your loss,” he said, and there had been a specific look that flashed in his eyes, as if they were emotions of guilt.

Serena sourly smiled, she had now planned to drown herself with liquor, and as if Angelika had read her mind, the woman gently nudged Serena. “I’ll guide you to them.”

It happened quick, their drinking, there had been a few people that had come across her and spoke to her, touch her, her hair, her skin as if she was an artefact or a part of a Petting Zoo. She didn’t know how to feel about it, but Serena had known that she had wanted to turn her bubbling pain into pleasure. Aware that Angelika had stared down at her, as if she had been exposed meat. Serena’s nose flared at the strength of the drink before she took another sip.

“You’re beautiful,” Angelika said and with a charming smile, Serena had thanked her.

“The drinks here are really strong,” Serena said as she downed another.

“They’re full with aphrodisiac,” Angelika informed and with a bright look on her face, Serena made a noise as things commenced to make sense.

With a side smile, Serena pulled some of her hair to the side. “I am beginning to feel lustful.”

“Lustful enough to kiss me?” Angelika teasingly asked, and with a brief pause, Serena stared at Angelika’s lips.

They were redder than before, as if they had begged for someone’s mouth to kiss them. “Yes,” Serena whispered before she moved to press her mouth against the Vampire’s. Angelika had been quick to moan whilst Serena’s hands hastily travelled around her body, passionate, Angelika had moved her lips to Serena’s skin, kissing the wings of her shoulders and the crook of her neck while she listened to Serena whimpered from her touch.

“You smell so sweet,” Angelika whispered, her tongue possessive as it licked over the area she had yearned to bite into. To fight against her thirst, Angelika moved her fingers to the wetness of Serena’s core, circling and rubbing her tightness.

Carlisle had appeared behind Serena, and with her mouth tucked behind her teeth after she moaned, Serena moved her face close to his as she began to kiss him while Angelika focused on driving Serena to her peak. Carlisle stared into Serena’s eyes. “Can I?” He whispered and without being able to form a sentence, Serena nodded before she gave the man space to dig his teeth into, and he was quick to do so, Serena gasped as she could feel her blood slowly drain from her.

It had felt good, everything had felt so good. Serena had now felt Angelika’s lips go to the other side of her neck and start to suck on her blood. Eyes screwed shut, Serena had felt her body tighten as she was close to her climax. With her arms around Angelika’s figure, she orgasmed, the sweetness of her blood amplified, and with a moan, Angelika pulled her teeth out of Serena, but Carlisle had been stubborn.

“That’s enough,” Serena frowned, and with a gentle nudge, Serena pushed Carlisle away from her.

He wasn’t offended, but Carlisle licked the blood of Serena’s around his lips. “They didn’t lie about Venusian blood,” he smiled and as Serena sat down against the closest chair, she breathed out a laugh.

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Serena had been asleep when it had happened, the lashes of her past confusing her, flashes of her younger self looking at herself in the mirror smiling, twisted into a circumstance with her eyes wide, face and hands smeared with blood as she stared at herself with wide eyes. It had all been her fault, hadn’t it?

Confused, Serena looked around as the scene morphed into an occurrence of Magnus Bane with his hand on her head, magic flowing out of his hand as he stared at her with an empty look.

With a big gasp, Serena had woken up, images of her dream slowly being pulled away from her memories, Serena scratched her head.

She had groaned, stroked her neck, aware that the holes had healed, Serena noticed a few alcohol bottles she had taken from Angelika’s party and sighed. She was still wearing her dress, when she returned to the Institute, Serena was so greatly slumped that she fell asleep the second she entered her room and met with her bed.

She had liked the time she shared with Angelika and Carlisle, but had remembered the look in their eyes once they tasted her blood.

Bored, Serena reached for the bottom of her bed and pulled out the book Lord Sapphire had given her. The Book of Aphrodite, had read upon the Venusian Language, and the Ancient Version of tongue, her name Venrosa came from Ancient Venusian, as it had meant ‘Of Rose’.

Her parents taught her some of Ancient Venusian, but it was her brother Vincent who had known it the best, second was Anya, her late sister, intrigued with the language, Serena’s fingers trailed along the lines until a short knock had echoed from her sealed door.

She had sensed it to be Will, and quickly she had pushed the book back under her bed. “Come in,” she said, and slowly, the Herondale boy unlocked her bedroom door. His eyes were dark but there was a bright smile he had on his face as he then spoken to her.

“You’re finally back,” he said and with a confused look on her face, Serena had sat up.

“Is there a reason you came to see me when everyone else is sleeping?” Serena questioned.

Avoidant of her question, Will’s eyes fell to the gown she had still worn, and his eyes softened. He had wanted to tell her how much she looked like a doll. “You’re still in your gown,” Will said as he closed the door behind him.

“Heavy night,” Serena replied and intrigued, Will’s eyebrows raised.

“Party?” He had asked. With a hum, Serena nodded her head. “Who’s? Maybe next time I can accompany you since you’re new to the realm,” he said with a mischievous sparkle in his eyes.

Serena cursed under her breath. “You still remember that?” She said, referring to the time they saw each other in Myrtle and Doves.

“That’s not something I can easily forget,” Will replied, his tone more serious.

“Right,” Serena sighed and without asking, Will sat on her bed.

“I’d like to know what realm you come from, the culture, the language,” he shared as if he was wishing.

Serena stared at him for a bit, a brief pause shared between them. “One day.”

Awkwardly, Will looked at his fingers, as if a coat of anxiety had draped over him. “I’m sorry for kissing you.”

Serena cocked her head to the side. “Don’t apologise, I liked it,” she smiled and with a sharp glint in his eyes, Will looked at her again.

He was in disbelief. The way she had left, it made him think otherwise. “But the way you left---” he began but Serena sat closer to him and looked into his eyes which had caused him to come to a halt. He had wanted to mention how dreamy her eyes were.

“Have you thought about the proposal Loras has given you?” Will inquired and shocked that she had forgotten, with guilt, Serena frowned.

“Truthfully, no,” she replied as she shook her head. “Honestly, I haven’t thought about Loras at all.”

At ease, Will’s shoulders dropped. “Loras, Davidson and even Lyonel,” Will named. “They all feel passionate about protecting you.”

“Because of what I am, I have people hunting me, it’s why my family died,” Serena reminded as she had then cupped Will’s face, he had been so quiet, compared to his usual state. “I cannot come back to my home because of it, and for now I’ll be here.”

Will leaned against her touch. “Do you have any idea of who is hunting you?”

“I don’t know yet,” Serena truthfully said. “But I will find out, my family’s death will not be in vain.”

Will had then looked around Serena’s room, he had glanced at the paintings, his hand around Serena’s wrist as he steadied her open palm against his face. “Do you like it in this realm?” He asked, his voice almost a whisper.

“I haven’t really gone to explore it,” Serena clarified.

“There’s an excellent café,” Will suggested. “It’s called Benny’s.”

Serena scrunched her nose, she didn’t realise how cute he was. “Thank you, I will check it out soon.”

“Alone?” Will perked, had moved as if he was a golden retriever.

With a smirk, Serena slipped her hand away from his face, and like a shadow, Will’s hand followed hers. “I never said I’ll be going alone,” she winked and Will grinned at her.

“It seemed like you brought the party home with you,” he smiled as he referred to the bottles.

“And what about it?” Serena asked.

With a face, Will stood up straight. “I’m not judging you,” he said. “I want to drink with you,” and relieved, Serena’s body language softened. “I will be coming back,” he said as he quickly got to his feet, and without letting Serena speak, Will hurried out of her bedroom, leaving her shocked.

He had been quick, almost too quick he almost tripped, Serena had laughed. He returned with two glasses for them to drink out of. Before he passed Serena one, Will filled her glass with the wine she had brought back, had gently glanced over the brand she had and looked back at her.

“These drinks are normally found in Downworlder parties,” he said as he passed her the recent filled one. “You went to a Downworlder party?” He questioned, confused with an arched brow, he hadn’t had the intention to judge her for going to their type of parties, he had merely wondered on who invited her.

Defensive, Serena hid her mouth behind her glass. “It was the most fun I’ve ever had compared to being here.”

“Touché,” he hummed as he sat himself down next to her, his glass filled, Will took a sip. “You reveal your powers but you don’t tell what you are. That’s quite annoying,” he said as he leaned on his elbow.

Serena laughed at him. “Well, I don’t because Charlotte told me not to. She told Henry.”

“Then I’m surprised he hasn’t put you in his lab,” Will joked and Serena laughed again. “Are you still reading those Greek Myths?” Will questioned before his eyes twinkled. “Oh, right, Greek Lore,” he corrected himself and with a side-eye, Serena smirked at him. “I’ve been reading the story of Orpheus.”

Surprised, Serena raised both of her eyebrows. “Orpheus?” She repeated. “Suffered great grief over his wife,” she whispered as her eyes then moved to the still wine. “Going to the land of the dead to bring back Eurydice, what a knight.”

Serena bit her lip, her family weren’t properly buried. Serena had pondered if they were stuck on their path to Neptune. Perhaps that was what her dreams had been trying to tell her, that she could bring her all back.

Aware of the pool of thoughts Serena had been in, Will smiled. “Did I just give you an idea?”

“Maybe,” Serena winked as she had then moved her wine glass to her nightstand. “My favourite book is Midas,” she said as she returned to her seat. “Having to be careful what you wish for,” she muttered, avoidant of his gaze, it wasn’t like she had been scared of Will, in truth, his stares were strong.

Surprised, Will tilted his head to the side, his drink had almost been finished and he was tempted to have a refill, thus he did. “I judged to quickly and thought your favourite book would involve Aphrodite’s…since she’s all about beauty…and you’re…” he had then trailed off and with a humoured expression, Serena took her drink again.

“That’s stupid,” she snorted. “The drink is getting to you.”

With a gentle pout, Will’s eyes traced the body of Serena’s. “I do believe you’re beautiful, everyone does,” he said, and gently with his free hand, he played with the fabric of Serena’s dress. “The way everyone looks at you, even the women, like Jessamine,” he listed and Serena scoffed at him as she moved her wine back to the nightstand. “Despite what has happened between the two of you, she looks at you as if you were a new idea…a new inspiration.”

Complimented, Serena’s cheeks became red. If she had known Will was so poetic. “I see your beauty of a Siren,” he said as he then moved his hands to the ringlets of her hair, twirled it between his index and thumb.

“I---Will---”

“Kiss me,” he begged and stunned, Serena stared at him, they had already kissed before, but his inquire for a second one had shocked her. Honestly, Serena didn’t know he’d want to kiss her again, but with the way he had set his cup down and returned his gape towards her, she had saw the look of desperation fill his eyes.

As if he had been a groom waiting for his bride. “Kiss me, Serena,” he begged once more and so she did, she locked her lips with his, her hands against his chest as she gently pulled onto the fabric of his garment. Her eyes had been shut as she had taken him in, unaware that Will’s eyes had been open, watching her kiss him, to see her pretty features twist and soften every other second.

Will shuddered before he closed his eyes, his hands worked against her back as his paws slid into her hair. He had pressed her against her bed and tucked himself between her legs, easily lost within her taste, he hadn’t realised he had pushed himself against her clothed heat, desperate to meld into her and her very own soul. Will had moaned into her mouth, frantic to her touch. “My Aphrodite,” he had moaned as he continued to rub himself against her, one hand weld with hers as the other hand had dug into the materials of the bed sheets.

His brows furrowed at the sound of Serena’s moans, her sweet moans that encouraged him to continue. He had wanted her, so intently he had felt like he was about to lose his mind. “My Aphrodite,” he continued to cry out, his covered cock had throbbed and jerked, the feel of her swollen pearl against his shaft excited him, she had tightly wrapped her legs around his waist and moved her hips in a circular motion, he had felt so good, so good she had wanted him inside of her.

To pound her and take her as his. “Will!” Serena whimpered as she could feel herself crave to climax, addicted, he had cupped her face, thrusted his hips forwards as he could feel his cum leak into his trousers, but he couldn’t stop, he didn’t want to stop, his eyes stared intently down into hers as he could feel a second wave push through as he animalistically humped against her, his moans caught in wild whines as he desperately licked the skin of Serena’s neck, never had he ever wanted to taste someone so much, be in someone, ruin them.

Serena had never thought her night would end up like this, under Will, being defiled by him as he roughly rubbed himself against her, she had been so close, her body had twitched and Will responded to every jerk of her body to a lower kiss down her body, he hadn’t realised he ripped her clothing, and Serena’s mind had been deeply warped with lust to realise the same.

“Will!” She cried out as she cummed against her panties, sensitive as she could feel Will chase for his third climax, and once he did, the two of them pulled away from each other.

Sat up, Serena hugged herself surprised.

“I need to go,” Will said, his eyes wide as he had realised what he had done.

“It’s best to,” Serena whispered and, on his feet, the Will left.

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The next day, Serena had taken Tessa to the café Will had suggested. Serena had wanted to help Tessa take her mind off Nate for the moment, on the other hand, Serena had remembered that Tessa had wanted to spend time with her.

Currently, the two had sat on the outside table of the Benny’s. Serena had noted the unsure look Tessa had on her face, she repeatedly played with her fingers as she spoke up. “I don’t know if it was right for us to leave.”

“Nate will be fine,” Serena sighed. “Relax, Tessa,” she winked and with a brief smile, Tessa had dropped her shoulders.

As the Venrosa woman drank her tea, she tilted her head as she gazed at the other woman. “Besides Nate, how is everything?”

“Jem,” Tessa brought up. “He’s feeling better after what you did,” she smiled, and Serena had noticed that was the first big smile Tessa had displayed today.

After what had happened with Jessamine, Serena took in that Tessa had lost much confidence within herself. “I wish you told me what you were.”

“Time will come,” Serena replied, her eyes now focused on the busy street behind Tessa.

“Will is much happier because of it as well,” Tessa brought up, and unsurprised, Serena raised both of her eyebrows. There was then a brief pause before Tessa questioned Serena. “Do you like Will?”

There was now a long pause, to hide her surprise, Serena pushed a side smile. “Why do you think so?” She played and embarrassed, Tessa shrugged her shoulders.

“I see the way Will looks at you, and sometimes I see you look at him the same way,” Tessa explained, there had been a pout on her face, but Serena was unsure if Tessa liked the idea of Serena and Will having a romantic relationship.

So, she shrugged. “I find many men attractive.”

“But Will,” Tessa pushed, almost as if she was a child begging for something.

Serena flatly smiled. “He can be charming and tolerable when he’s not spewing crap.”

Tessa laughed---the two women continued to speak to one another before they were approached by someone. it had been a Warlock---was what Serena easily identified. They had barely looked Tessa’s way, their eyes stuck on Serena as if she had been someone who stepped out of a picture. “It’s nice to see you again,” the Warlock said, and confused, Tessa looked at Serena who had appeared like she had tried to figure out who had been speaking to her.

The Warlock was a light blue woman with eyes of a frog, they had dark hair that they didn’t tie up, and even if how they looked was against Victorian etiquette, Serena had thought that their unique appearance suited them very well.

“You didn’t speak to me the other night, but I’m Arodine,” they introduced. “It was a nice show you put on at Angelika’s birthday,” she said and with narrowed eyes, Tessa had taken in the subtle information.

“Thank you,” Serena said, nervous that Arodine would speak about what she had done with Angelika and Carlisle.

On one hand, it had seemed like Arodine knew what Serena had been thinking with the smirk she had on her face. “Say, I have a party next month,” she said as she passed Serena an invitation card. ‘I would like for you to come, you as a Venusian Spirit attract many people.”

Serena tightly smiled; she could feel Tessa’s stare steep deeper into her skin. “And Carlisle wants to see you again, obviously he cannot tell you because the Sun is out.”

“Oh, Serena hummed as she played with the edges of the invitation card.

Before Arodine left, she had gently bowed to Serena as she was then gone, Tessa’s eyes were immediately filled with shock. “Downworlders?” Tessa breathed out and with furrowed eyebrows, Serena leaned back on the chair she had sat on.

“They’re more fun,” Serena shrugged with a dismissive look.

“What is a Venusian Spirit?” Tessa questioned and Serena gently breathed in, she wasn’t surprised Tessa would catch and hold onto what Arodine had said.

“It’s what I am,” Serena said. “And don’t tell anyone else about what Arodine said,” Serena commanded with narrowed eyes. “Not even Jem,” she frowned and stubborn, Tessa had sat up on her seat.

She hadn’t been intimidated with the rough tone Serena had, and had all intentions to argue with her. “You put yourself in danger,” Tessa pointed out and Serena comically scoffed at her.

“I can protect myself from Downworlders, I have the powers too,” Serena frowned, her usual bright eyes darker, commanding enough to silence Tessa who had then slumped herself on the chair.

“If you say so,” Tessa muttered.

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Serena had held the invitation she had received from Cersei; it was for the preparation of her bachelorette party and Serena had felt the most excitement she had felt for weeks. Other women from Venus had come to London for the preparation party, and Serena was sure most women from her home realm were going to be there.

A preparation party was of Venusian Traditions, for the women to be together before they partied like the Olympians. When Cersei sent the invitation card to Serena, she had written that her mother wouldn’t be there, but would be with Lyonel, which Serena had been thankful for.

As she knocked on the door, one of the servants quickly opened it and guided Serena to where everyone else had been. Serena’s eyes lit up, it had felt so familiar, it had felt like home.

Serena’s sight had then moved onto one of the ladies who was pregnant, a close friend of hers from back home, Mesona. Serena’s eyes softened. She didn’t realise how quick she had walked towards the pregnant woman and then held her hand, taking her from the conversation she had before Serena arrived.

“Serena,” Mesona smiled and uncaring for Victorian manners since all of them belonged to Venus. Serena immediately hugged Mesona. Had been careful to not be too tight due to the baby who she had easily sensed to be a Venusian Spirit.

With bright eyes, Serena placed her hand against her bump. “Oh, Mesona,” Serena breathed. “I’m so happy to see you, you---your baby, they’re a Venusian Spirit!”

“Hey!” Andrea waved as she stepped into the conversation, surprised to see Andrea here, Serena pulled away from Mesona and had moved to greet Andrea. “How is it at the London Institute?”

“Davidson should be there now,” Cersei said, she had moved away from the current gossip she had been in. Hands behind her back as she had a strange smile on her face.

She had looked beautiful, with her golden locks and halter dress. With how Venusian Cersei’s dress looked, Serena had felt verily out of place. Cersei’s hair was styled in an up-do, with some strands over her face, she wore flower-shaped pearl earrings and a beautiful diamond necklace. Serena felt breathless, she had well-matched the atmosphere of the party.

The room was lit with candles that gave the room a brownish and orange hue, there had been live music playing with violins and harpies, and there were a few servants who had kindly passed drinks and food to the women. “He’s such a good man protecting you,” Cersei went on and awkwardly, there had been a few shared glances by the other women in the circle.

“Yes,” Serena smiled. “He is,” she said before she returned her gaze to Mesona. She had found her fingers touching the pregnant lady and awkward, Cersei pressed her lips into a thin line. “Mesona, how’s your marriage with Atlan?”

Excited, Mesona had dragged Serena to where they could sit and busied herself explaining her marriage while Serena had informed Mesona on what had been happening in the Institute. The rest of the night had gone well, Serena was last to leave, and she had been last to leave due to her guilt over her affair with Davidson.

When she was on her feet to exit, she was stopped by Cersei. Uncomfortable, she turned to look at the Sapphire woman who had closed the door. She had a specific look on her face that had made Serena’s mouth run dry.

“Cersei,” Serena lightly joked. “The silence is killing me.”

Curt. Cersei shrugged her shoulders. “Okay,” she said as she placed her hands on her hips. Anxiously, Serena bit down on her lips, ready to defend herself about the truth between her and Davidson. “Have you been fucking my father?”

Shocked, Serena’s eyes widened, immediately she opened her mouth but with one finger pointed up, Cersei spoke. “Don’t lie to me.”

Ill-equipped, Serena’s eyes watered. “I used to,” she whispered, in fear of losing her best friend, Serena hadn’t been aware that dozens of tears had already fell down her cheeks. “I---”

“You once told Davidson and I that you lost your virginity at a young age,” Cersei shared, her eyes wide and clasped together. “Was it my father’s doing?”

Serena couldn’t be her usual defensive self and argue with Cersei. In shame, Serena had felt herself become small. “I---” she whimpered again and with clenched fists, Serena had felt herself begin to shake.

Unprepared for what Cersei would do to her, she had then felt surprised when she had experienced Cersei’s arms wrap around her. Cersei had been sorrowful. “I am not angry at you but my father for taking advantage of you,” Cersei whispered as she buried her face between Serena’s shoulder. “I wished,” she sighed as she pulled away to face her. “That you told me sooner,” Cersei requested as she wiped Serena’s tears with the pad of her thumb.

Serena’s lips trembled. “I didn’t know how to,” she softly cried and once more, Cersei hugged her again, had allowed Serena to cry against her shoulder.

“Thank you for not being angry at me,” Serena said as she rested her head against the wing of Cersei’s shoulder.

Had felt a huge relief pick her up, before she came to the Preparation Party, Serena had the intention to avoid Cersei majority of the times, out of shame and guilt due to what had happened between her and Cersei’s father, but then, there had been the affair between her and Davidson.

How would Cersei feel if she found out that she had not only been bedded by her father, but also by her fiancé. “It was my mother who had told me, had thought it would turn me against you, but evidently, it didn’t work, I’m better than that,” Cersei empathetically smiled.

Serena softly returned the expression back to her; the two women had let each other go. Cersei had called for a carriage for Serena to take her back into the institute.

Before Serena had left, she had thanked Cersei for her kindness. The trip back to the Institute was calm, thus she had drowned herself in thoughts to what would happen if Cersei found out that she had slept with Davidson.

Fingers tight, Serena was surprised when the carriage shook, as if someone had attacked it. Surprised, Serena immediately stepped out of the carriage to see what had happened.

They were here, the Rosehunters.

There were two of them, with weapons that she had identified to be of Venusian Steel. With an apologetic look towards the driver, Serena quickly gathered magic to defend herself and the carriage.

She had been quick, the power greatly flowed through her and attacked the two enemies who attempted to dodge, but Serena had been easily filled with rage, this had been part of the group who had killed her family. With a flared nose, Serena manipulated her chaos to turn into a long spike and easily darted it into one of their face’s, but strangely enough when they were attacked, they turned into a black smoke and ashes, as if Serena’s powers were of Holy Fire.

She had then turned to look at the one who had been left, there had been in a certain stance as if they were pondering to fight or flight. Though, Serena was quick, a huge blast of power ripped through them and just like their team-mate, they burst into smoke and ashes.

With a big sigh, Serena turned to the driver who had looked like they had seen a Hand of God pierce from the sky. “Go back to the Sapphire Household,” Serena commanded. “I’ll go back to the Institute by feet,” though there had been a hesitant look on the driver’s face that had then been encouraged by the power he had seen displayed in front of them, with a respectful bow of his head, the coachman left.

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[zarathelonewolf]

Hi, you can call me Zara or Z or Foxy!

🇮🇹 and 🇷🇴 but I mostly speak English and Italian.

I identify as a human woman/man (more a woman than a man), and a fox, and I feel that I am polykin as a result! I like to be defined as any of these two kintypes. The Fox self I feel the most has tail, ears, and mouth of a fox.

You can use He/Him when talking about me, but you should call me Aidan when you do so. I would strongly prefer She/Her. Like, very strongly. At least right now.

I feel that I am most likely arospec, very dubious on acespec for now. I could be:

AroAceflux

Demiromantic andDemisexual

Aromantic and Allosexual (aroallo)

Biromantic and Bisexual

and when I feel attraction I experience it mainly towards men and at times towards women. When It comes to my aroace/aroallo side, if I am aroace/aroallo, I am sometimes sex favorable and romance favorable, sometimes sex and romance repulsed. This Is due to trauma I believe, though also up for debate.

I want to be in a QPR one day. My ideal relationship includes emotional investment from the parties involved, and erotic stuff. I want to be cared for and care for someone in many ways, except for the romantic part most often, though sex is ok. My romance repulsion has become so frequent in a short span of time that I will roam my surroundings as if it were the default, lol

I am BDSM favorable. I also do not think that liking or creating dark content makes you a bad person.

I do not ascribe to veganism, and although I am not anti-vegan, I do not agree with the political side of veganism. Especially the misanthropic side of it. If you on a diet? Good. If you personally can't handle the thought of eating a non-human animal? Good. If you want to tell omnivores to end their lives and equiparate them to nazis? Fuck off.

FMA:B and IDW'S 2005 Transformers comic series are favs. Currently enjoying Gachiakuta, Dislyte, Fire Force, Soul Eater and Kimetsu no Yaiba!

The profile is from a Picrew made by @makowwka on Twitter/X, known as mischa.makowka on Instagram. The background picture was taken from the Art Against Apartheid toolkit, with artworks from artists in support of Palestine!

If ya do not support Palestine, get outta here! Also, if you're a TERF or generally homophobic, transphobic, ableist, racist, xenophobic, etnophobic, antisemitic or islamophobic... Kindly fuck off from this account!

I am basically copying what Is posted as profile of my account and using It as a presentation post as well. I added a few things.

If you want to chat, please feel free!!!! Foxy Is here!!!!

[chmerical]

mobile muse list.

animanga

MINAKO AINO: sailor moon.  she/her. REI HINO: sailor moon.  she/her. MALA ALBARN: soul eater.  she/her. CRONA GORGON: soul eater.  they/them. MARIE MJOLNIR: soul eater.  she/her. MAMIMI SAMEJIMA: FLCL.  she/her.   MEI CHANG: fma: brotherhood.  she/her.   FUYUMI TODOROKI:  bnha. she/her. HIMIKO TOGA:  bnha. she/her. KAINA TSUTSUMI / LADY NAGANT:  bnha. she/her. MEI HATSUME:  bnha. she/her. YU TAKEYAMA / MT. LADY: bnha.  she/her.   SETSUNA TOKAGE / LIZARDY:  bnha. she/her. MOMO YAOYOROZU: bnha.  she/her. NEJIRE HADO / NEJIRE-CHAN: bnha.  she/her. NOBARA KUGISAKI: jujutsu kaisen. she/her. KIRARA HOSHI: jujutsu kaisen. they/them. SHOKO IERI: jujutsu kaisen. she/her. ASA MITAKA: chainsaw man.  she/her.   POWER: chainsaw man.  she/her.   KOBENI HIGASHIYAMA: chainsaw man.  she/her.   YOR FORGER / THORN PRINCESS:  spy x family. she/her. MAOMAO:  apothecary diaries. she/her. SANGO: inuyasha.  she/her.   INO YAMANAKA: naruto/boruto.  she/her.   MISATO KATSURAGI: nge.  she/her.   MAMI TOMOE: puella magi madoka magica.  she/her. JOLYNE CUJOH: jjba: stone ocean.  she/her.

comics / lit

ENVY ADAMS: scott pilgrim.  she/her. RAMONA FLOWERS: scott pilgrim.  she/her. KIM PINE: scott pilgrim.  she/her. SOPHIE HATTER: howls moving castle.  she/her.   JO MARCH: little women.  she/her.  

video games

PRINCESS ZELDA: botw/totk.  she/her. ZELDA/TETRA: windwaker.  she/her. ZELDA: skyward sword.  she/her. MIDNA: twilight princess.  she/her.   ELLIE WILLIAMS: tlou/tlou 2.  she/her. KAITLYN KA: the quarry.  she/her. EMILY DAVIS: until dawn.  she/her.

request

LYLA: atsv.  she/her.   SEIKO AYASE: dandadan.  she/her. HARUKO HARUHARA: FLCL.  she/her. KAT STRATFORD: 10 things i hate about you.  she/her.  KATE SCHMIDT: fs: 1994.  she/her. ZIGGY BERMAN: fs: 1978, 1994, 1666.  she/her. SUGURU GETO: jujutsu kaisen. he/him.  private. YUTA OKKOTSU: jujutsu kaisen. he/him.  private. MAKIMA: chainsaw man.  she/her.  private. GIGI MCGOWAN: booksmart.  she/her.  for friends, iykyk. EMMA PERKINS: hatchetfield series.  she/her.  for friends, iykyk. GRACE CHASITY: hatchetfield series.  she/her.  for friends, iykyk.

test

HARUHI FUJIOKA:  ohschc. they/them. ANAN KUROSE / THIRTEEN: bnha. they/them.

* my ocs are available for friends. just too lazy to list them out but iykyk :3

[storygirl000]

i keep getting ads on instagram for "read comics!/we’re gonna say it’s manga but most of these are manhwa too!" apps and like 90% of the time they show off the same story

"my abusive relatives/step-relatives/employers are marrying me off to lord duke baby-eater of darkness for political reasons because i’m the most expendable among them and they hope i die or suffer but it turns out lord duke baby-eater chugs his respect women juice?!"

[lespicybrocoli]

10 fandoms / 10 characters / 10 tags ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ

Gracias a @rainy-days-and-nights por el tag!

Cloud Strife/ Final Fantasy 7

The original blorbo, my first love (the one you never forget), my first wet and sad man, the one hero who had mental illness before it was cool (jk, however It was the first I got to know), for him I downloaded the anime OVA in a process that took 3 days and 5 hrs per day on my local internet shop and i bought the original Advent Children movie and the extended. He defined my taste in fictional men.

Uriko/ Bloody Roar 2

My first crush, she made me a furry before I even knew what a furry was, she awoke in me my taste for fighting women and catgirls. Silly little weapon of mass destruction, best girl, best playable character in Bloody Roar (yes, Im biased, no I don't look to be corrected)

Raine Sage/Tales of Symphonia

I wanted to be her when i grew up, now older I come to undestand that maybe I wanted to fu--*gets kicked*

Best archealogist, best sister, takes no ones bullshit. What the world of research needs.

Roxas/ Kingdom Hearts

Righ in my teenager era, thought it was Cloud so I looked, stayed because of the tragic existencialism, best angry boy, he has never done anything wrong on his life, kicked Riku's ass like a pro, fave resident in Sora's Heart hotel. A little gremling out for blood.

Maka Albarn/ Soul Eater

My irrevocable call that I was, in fact, not straight. The most cool female character I had ever seen, fuck the perfect stereotype (even thou she was the academic sterotype of perfect student) she was a messy bitch with angry issues and it was so fucking healing to see her being that way. Made me realice you can have a boyfriend and a nonbinary partner at the same time.

Aqua/ Kingdom Hearts

My wife, she carries the whole BBS game on her back, not because something arbitrary like most powerful keyblade wilder (which she is) nor because she is the only one who becomes master of her group (wich she does) but because she, literally, pass the whole game,pulling together the shit her idiotic himbo crush and her best friend do during all the game. Her movements while fighting are top 1000 of sexy things

Riku/ Kingdom Hearts

He is the representation of the queer journey made game character, the ironic fact that he is the closest to the mascot of all that represents capitalism is incredible good for social study. Seeing him growing on the story resonated with my growing into a lgbta+ person and now we are both happy with who we are.

Dante/ Devil May Cry

I literally buyed the whole tri-pack of the DMC saga back in 2013 when I didn't even had a PS2, just to play it in a console a friend let me borrow. All the bro dudes buying his bad boy persona when he is a fucking depressed man that only knows happiness when he has his brother back, looked for the sexyness and irreverent style, stayed for the tragic sibling drama.

Dream/ The Sandman

The blorbo that pretty much brough me back to Tumblr. Goth, sad, twink, depressed, divorced dad of one poor soul with the most toxic family ever. Neil Gaiman saw that one comic about giving robot feelings and decided to do the same with concepts. No Neil, you didn’t give it feelings, you fucked up a concept.

Loki/ Marvel MCU

Sad wet snake, with queer tendencys ignored by most of marvel who is made justice on fanart/fanfic. My favourite "redemption" trope. Mama's boy. HE USES MAGIC, CAN SHAPESHIFT AND FIGHTS WITH KNIVES. May hate the world but loves his brother, that gets me every time. I just want them to be happy

I tag @umi-umita @agent-bee @seiya-starsniper

[tabby-shieldmaiden]

I think the other thing about Shonen with Women is like. It's more than simply writing Shonen with a female lead, or with multiple female characters. Because all those things already exist. We have Soul Eater. We have JoJo part 6. We have the Cutie Honey animes. We have Korra. But like, that's not necessarily what people say they want when they say they want Shonen with Women.

They say they want Shonen, but please tone down the ecchi/heavy sexualisation (which Soul Eater and Cutie Honey are guilty of). They mean Shonen, but focused on female characters from the start (JoJo and Korra are both continuations of older stories). Shonen, but better than what is already done, basically. Shonen, but it addresses the misogyny and effectively turns away from that. Shonen as escapism, but escaping to something better.

And I feel like that's why this type of thing will only really meaningfully happen in indie projects? Because like, we've been through this multiple times already. I just don't think the television networks and comic companies and toy companies who overwhelmingly are the ones producing media under the Shonen umbrella are going to produce media with women doing cool action hero things in that sort of tone. At least, not in large amounts. Not consistently. Not enough such that there is a SWW for everyone.

Someday I hope that there is enough things such that Sturgeon's Law can meaningfully kick in. That there are a fairly large number of things in the top 10% of works such that people can spend their lives happily engaging with those things. But that's only going to happen if more people make it. And sure, most people who make it will end up mostly as the 90% of work that isn't very good. It's worth the effort still, I think.

[dhampiravidi]

platonic connections wishlist (long)

Jayn: Gotham-based vigilantes especially Nightwing, the Gotham City Sirens*, the Justice League* (DC Comics); Simon Bassett* (Bridgerton); James Valdez* (Queen of the South-US); Alina Starkov, Nina Zenik*, Jesper Fahey, Inej Ghafa (The Grishaverse).

Naela: Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Rhaegar Targaryen, (ASOIAF/GOT); Chaotic Good & Lawful Evil characters (D&D)

Achilles: gods from Hellenic myth*, Arthurian knights* (Mythology); Kyle "Gaz" Garrick, Captain Price, Johnny "Soap" MacTavish, König (Call of Duty); Astarion or any D&D characters (D&D); Gambit*, Mystique, Wolverine*, Storm, any Avengers (Marvel)

Jasmine: Iron Man, Loki*, Wolverine, Brunhilde (Marvel); Isabelle Lightwood, Alec Lightwood, Magnus Bane*, the half-fey Blackthorns, Kieran Kingson (Shadowhunter Chronicles)

Skadi: Brunhilde, Black Widow, Spider-Man*, Winter Soldier* (Marvel); Simon "Ghost" Riley*, Johnny "Soap" MacTavish, Farah Karim (Call of Duty); Karlach (D&D)

Oraia: Emma Frost, Loki, Iron Man, She-Hulk, X-Men in general* (Marvel); Philippe (Versailles), anyone (The Old Guard), Jack Sparrow* (POTC); most characters (Shadowhunter Chronicles); werewolves, vampires, fey (urban fantasy); Artemis*, Hestia, Bast*, Isis/Aset, sea nymphs, heroes (Mythology)

Hestia: Cyclops, Iceman, Jean Grey, Storm, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Venom (Marvel); young!Coriolanus Snow, Katniss Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne (The Hunger Games)

Rose: Zatanna, Constantine, Dr. Fate, Raven (DC Comics)

Aurelia: The Marauders--especially Sirius & Remus!, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, prominent Order members and/or Death Eaters, any cool people from the Marauders/Golden Trio eras (Harry Potter)

Rela: Din Djarin*, Grogu, Obi-Wan (Star Wars)

Zehara: Sokka, Suki*, Korra, Tenzin (Avatar: TLA & LOK)

Eugenia: Bonnie Bennett (Vampire Diaries); Hellenic deities (Mythology); werewolves, vampires, fey (urban fantasy); Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

Fantomex: ngl he'll flirt even if it's just platonic but Storm, Wolverine, Monet St. Croix (Marvel)

Renée: Gambit, Mystique, Fantomex, Storm, Quicksilver, Wolverine, Daken, Loki, basically anybody who's had dubious morals from time to time (Marvel); Nightwing, Wonder Woman, Superwoman (DC Comics)

Shayera: DCAU!Wally, Wonder Woman, Black Canary (DC Comics)

Mu Lan: Simon Bassett (Bridgerton); any people who are unfazed by Strong Independent Women 😁 especially those from eras other than the modern one...

Lady Gotham: Gotham vigilantes especially Batman, Red Hood (or Robin!Jason), Nightwing, Batgirl (Cassandra Cain)...also magic users like Swamp Thing, Constantine, Zatanna, The Spectre, Etrigan (DC Comics); wouldn't mind crossovers like something with Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider, Loki (Marvel)

-- an asterisk means "zomg I've been wanting this forever!" --

thanks for reading!

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"...AND HERA... GODDESS OF WOMEN."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on an inked, published, & textless double splash page of Hera, Queen of the Gods of Olympus, Goddess of Women, from "Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons" Vol. #1. January, 2022. DC Black Label. Artwork by Phil Jimenez (among others).

"Hera sees with a thousand eyes. She is your queen bitch, your sin-eater. Hera bears the burden of foresight. A prophetess, Hera knows your pride and your rage before you do... Every bruise to your dignity burns her like fire. She is branded with it. And she loves you beyond reckoning, for you all belong to her."

-- "WONDER WOMAN HISTORIA: THE AMAZONS" Vol. 1 (story/script by Kelly Sue DeConnick)

Sources: www.thepopverse.com/wonder-woman-historia-mythology-redefined-dc, Comic Watch, & Reddit.