#Totally Reeks Of Awesomeness

[elkitot]

Real Cinema

[kcloveswrestling]

CAN TONY PLEASE JUST GIVE US ADAM COPELAND AND CHRISTIAN CAGE TEAMING TOGETHER AGAIN?!?! PLEASE TONY!!!

[stupidbluegirl]

[forsaken-headcanons]

WE ARE SO BACK 🙏🙏

two time is like. weirdly welcoming. you think theyd be totally creepy all the time but they’re pretty good at hiding it (cult lovebombing, they think they can recruit the others despite their situation) noob has almost fallen for it but the older people in the group (builderman, dusekkar, 007 etc) have warned them by now.

two times distaste for 007 is pettily disguised as devotion to the spawn (“…the spawn says I shouldn’t talk to you.” 😊)

taph was one of those kids who would wear a creeper Minecraft hoodie 24/7. it reeks.

snake 1x that’s all

coolkid has draconic/drakobloxxer esque horns, bluudud has impish/devilish horns, and pr3ttypriincess has one oni horn. hell of a skin condition

coolkidd frequently and accidentally would scare neighborhood pets by squeezing them wayyyy too tightly (has gotten scratched by many a cat)

scene noob? I counter you; emo sixer

-astrological anon

(sorry for complaining abt my asks not coming through before i was like. “There’s no way the inbox is that full!!” But then it was 💔)

The asks have jumped to almost double from me checking this morning, there's so many of you!/pos/aff I'm happy to take all your headcanons and read through them. Now, onto the actual headcanons. I love the concept of each kidd having different shaped horns! It adds personality and character to them. Taph, please, I beg you, wash that damn minecraft hoodie./silly/aff Oh I LOVE snake 1x. That guy would make an awesome serpent.

[imreadydollparts]

I really cannot be normal about Mattel's head glue, I hate it so much.

Before I got sick I had been doing some experiments to see how different head glue removal methods work and affect the dolls' hair and heads, and then completely forgot about it for a long time while I was recovering. I'm still completely exhausted and don't have much energy for these kinds of things anymore.

I dug up my original notes this morning and did some fresh observations of the heads I'd treated.

Get ready for a lot of cut up doll heads, boringly presented information, and not nearly enough photos because I always forget.

You get a cut for said mangled doll heads.

Important notes:

None of these dolls' hair was conditioned after treatment.

Each head was kept in an individual, sealed container kept in the basement which is consistently 62F since treatment.

Results would be better if I had a whole bunch of the same head with the same glue, but I don't.

If you're curious, I cut the heads with Dollar Tree gardening nips. it worked very well.

001 - Nikki treated with baby powder on Apr 17 2023 hair coated and powder funneled into neck, let sit, brushed a ton and tapped out of head this method dulls the hair's appearance

before - during - after

Jul 19 2024 Kanekalon hair is gummy and dusty, not terribly sticky smells of baby powder no change to vinyl glue inside head is coated in powder

Note: the hair falling out in the recent photos is from me cutting her head, nothing weird has happened to her head nor her hair

002 - 2Ks Barbie - treated with Tea Tree Oil mixed with L.A.'s Totally Awesome on Apr 17 2023 2 drops TTO applied to hair and massaged in 4 drops applied inside head T.A. added, didn't measure container shaken vigorously, T.A. turned cloudy immediately

before - during

Jul 19 2024 head reeks of TTO hair remains clean vinyl of head is supple and soft glue inside head is set and not sticky Saran hair is a bit dry

003 - Ken treated with Goo Gone on Apr 17 2023 sprayed liberally inside and out, massaged into hair, washed with dish soap

before

Jul 19 2024 Saran hair has a fine overall coating of glue glue inside head is sticky vinyl is fine if a little shiny, shine may indicate beginnings of degradation smells of citrus oil from Goo Gone

004 - Millie treated with Oxy Clean in tepid water on Apr 30 2023 Oxy Clean added to water, head placed in container, shaken vigorously

before

Jul 19 2024 head/hair smells moldy Saran hair remains clean vinyl is matte and soft white glue inside head is set (different from the yellow glue, can't say how this would affect the yellow glue)

005 - Summer treated with Triton X-114 on Apr 17 2023 1 tsp Triton massaged into hair with distilled water 1/4 tsp put inside head 1/2c distilled water in a container, put head in, shake vigorously

before - during - after

Jul 19 2024 moldy smell Saran hair is clumpy and sticky at nape of neck glue in head is sticky vinyl is soft and matte

006 - Millie treated with L.A.'s Totally Awesome on Apr 30 2023 done with normal process of putting head in a small cup, filling head and cup with concentrated cleanser, putting a lid on, and waiting. agitate the head now and then and change cleanser if cloudy

after (forgot to take a before)

Jul 19 2024 some stickiness at the scalp on one side, other side is clean Saran hair is a bit dry glue inside head is sticky on one side (same side as stickiness reappeared on the outside and where you can see a very thick glob of glue in the photo), and slightly tacky on the other side She would have benefitted from soaking a good deal longer.

[ilikekidsshows]

Am I putting miraculous on a higher standart than I should when I say "I expect this show to have the same interesting and complex story like cardcaptor sakua or shugo chara"? Two of magical girl anime I know that has their love interest having active role than just a support like tuxedo Kamen from sailor moon who rarely join the fight. Especially shugo chara because miraculous is more similar in the aspect of abused cat boy as love interest and also has massive supporting cast. Neither of the anime I mentioned use tagline like girl power or anything though.

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The thing about Miraculous is that it was also not sold as a “girl power” show. Astruc just started to claim the people criticizing his show hate when girls win and lead. It seems to be a bad case of the creator and publisher not agreeing on what this story is. Because, apparently he doesn't want to use the secondary lead he was told to put in to appeal to a wider audience. Only, he also claims it was the suits who didn't think Adrien could carry an episode so ‘Lies’ was really difficult to get, despite Adrien carrying episodes in the early seasons, like ‘Copy Cat’ and the Christmas Special the suits wanted so badly Astruc had to give them two. Like, is Adrien seen as an appealing character by the people paying for this show or not? Is Astruc suffering from having to write a character he didn’t want or being denied the freedom to write him? We'll never know the truth when Astruc is telling us because he’ll say whatever he thinks will make him look better on each day. “Oh, I never wanted him in a major role. The marketing did that against my wishes!” or “Oh, I really had to push to have a single episode focus on him because the suits didn't think he'd appeal to the audience (because Marinette is so much more appealing, you see).”

The “girlpower” approach is something Astruc himself is only kind of pandering to when he talks about how cool and awesome Marinette is while for other kid characters his usual comments are “I didn't even write that/that wasn't my idea”, and the show’s defenders love to use “girlpower” and “girlboss” as buzzwords, until it became too obvious that Marinette kinda sucks, so now the word of the hour is “girlfailure”. The fandom are the ones using the buzzwords. I don't think Astruc would straight-up promise the audience a girlboss protagonist, but, like, he would totally take credit for it if someone tweeted something like “Marinette is such a cool girlboss!” at him. 

At this point I'm convinced Miraculous is making its money off branded shit like shampoos and bedsheets with the cast slapped on them because I still don't see any variety in the not-Kwami Miraculous toys sold in my country. It's still the crappy action figures where the Marinette one doesn't have eyebrows and the Adrien one doesn't have Plagg that came out years and years ago. There's no way this garbage is selling that well, it reeks of overflow product they're too cheap to put on sale to get rid of. But the store I get milk from frequently has different Miraculous coloring books and bedsheets. And it makes sense that the toys aren't selling, since the show constantly fails to showcase any of the non-Marinette characters the toys are made out of.

I know the Digimon anime had the toy company gave them a list of which Digimon they wanted featured in the show, and the Tamers season went even further by them demanding video game characters and the official card game be featured in the show, but, generally, the writers were able to work with it, and Tamers' approach to their limitations created one of the most fondly-remembered Digimon seasons. I'm saying maybe the writers have too much freedom when it comes to Miraculous and they should be given a list of characters to feature so that we can get better toys than "Marinette with the other characters' Miraculouses".

[cheesecakeislazy]

JEFF THE KILLER HEADCANONS BECAUSE FUCK YOU! (Jk I love you and hope your life is great)

1. Him and BeN are besties for life, ride or die, would suck the poison out of each others dicks (not gay though)

2. Jeff has eye drops on him 24/7 so he doesn’t go fucking blind

3. Jeff has anger issues, one moment he’s chill as fuck and then EJ told him something that pisses him off- and now there’s a stab wound in Toby, a hole in the wall, and an angry Slenderman.

4. Jeff is totally straight. He totally thinks boobs are awesome. And totally only boobs. (He’s bisexual and swears on god he’s straight.)

5. He wakes up at 2 pm because he hates being awake in the mornings

6. He’s a metal head. He blasts music from his room so loud you can hear it across the mansion (slender mansion AU)

7. His deep gravely ass voice is perfect for metal songs

8. He likes to paint his nails black, and black only any other color is fucking gay

9. His vocabulary is 90% cuss words

10. He rarely showers. Ironically the gamer showers more often than him. Jeff prefers to be a stinky son of a bitch (take that fangirls)

11. He makes up for it with his dental hygiene (kinda) he brushes them twice a day and they look perfect (mostly)

12. He has extra sharp canines

13. He named his knife “Knifu” aka his knife waifu

14. The knife has been used so much that it constantly reeks of bleach and blood; it has permanent blood stains on it

15. Jeff bites his nails pretty often

16. Jeff isn’t good with throwing knives- he also isn’t that good at stabbing…

17. Jeff literally just stabs and stabs until he thinks his victim is dead, he doesn’t know any major artery’s (did I spell that right?)

18. Jeff is dyslexic

19. Jeff is horrible at math but refuses to admit it

20. Jeff wears eyeliner but refuses to admit it

21. He secretly loves the color pink but refuses to admit it (see a pattern here yet?)

22. Jeff is super sensitive to light due to the fact he doesn’t have any eyelids

23. He wears black gloves because he has burn marks on his hands and hates it when people look at them (fingerless gloves as his fingers aren’t burnt)

24. Jeff really wants tattoos and piercings but can’t get any due to his skin being extremely sensitive and fragile

25. Jeff hates the sun, it hurts his eyes and skin

26. Jeff likes going to playgrounds at night because 1. Fucking swings are awesome and 2. Creepy

27. Fucker is 5’11 and constantly calls BeN a midget

28. Jeff had a small crush on Toby for a while and lowkey has a small crush on BeN but…

29. Jeff is highkey downbad for EJ (it’s one-sided)

30. If Jeff ever tried to cook, he would burn everything

31. Jeff is fucking terrified of fire

32. Sometimes Ben likes to scare Jeff shitless by lighting a small fire inside Bens hands infront of Jeff

33. Sometimes Jeff throws Ben inside a kiddy pool and watches him panic about drowning (he is fully above the water)

34. Despite the fact Jeff and Ben both fuck with each other and their fears, they do it in tame ways to ensure the other doesn’t actually have a panic attack of any kind

35. Jeff lives in sweatpants, jeans are for losers and shorts are gay

36. T-shirts and hoodies, Jeff literally does not own a single sweater, long sleeve, or tank top.

37. His favorite T-shirt says “Fuck me in my ass (but not in a gay way)”

38. His second favorite says “Emo metal loving slut”

39. Both and almost all of his t-shirts are black with either white or red/pink writing

40. It is Jeff’s goal to have every photo taken of him (with permission) to have him flipping off the camera

41. Jeff watches South Park but thinks Family guy is stupid

42. He tries really hard to get on Liu/Sully’s good side but his anger issues usually get in the way

43. Jeff and Nina are actually really good friends that lowkey view each other as family

44. Jeff and Nina love to piss each other off constantly (Ben will prank whoever he is asked to)

45. Jeff has tried to kill Jane quite a few times, and Jane is constantly trying to kill him

46. Jeff personally isn’t into weed but he doesn’t judge BeN for being a stoner lowkey

47. Jeff is a virgin but he wouldn’t be nervous at all about having sex

48. Jeff is a kinky bastard

49. Jeff likes a good bowl of strawberry ice cream

50. Jeff likes banana smoothies

51. Jeff owns a few Nirvana T-shirts

[legend-the-dumb-jock]

Alright so I'm kinda tired of being this polite skinny gay man who just kinda let's others walk all over me. Is there anyway you can make me more of a douchebag? Like I wanna be a cocky, buff, gay himbo who reeks from his pits and feet who doesn't care about my smell, actually I would want to enjoy it. I wanna shove others' faces into my stink, make them experience it, and leave it all over their faces!!

My goodness. Someone actually wishing go be a douche bag!! I’m going to do you one better. I’ll even make your breathe smell of cum since that’s what you’ll be eating so much of. Your feet are going to be so smelly that they will burn the nostrils of people in other rooms. Your pits will be so sweaty and ripe that they will burn your own olfactory senses out and you wanted to be a douche bag so you’re going to be one. You’re going to aggressively cocky. Always flaunting how manlly you are. Flexing your muscles and telling people how awesome it is be so hairy and how much of a hindrance it is to have to shave so much. You’re going to be so sweaty from all the body hair you’re going to have but this is what you wanted. Even people will be confused if it’s dirty on your body of tattoos when they see think marking showing because how much of a douche bag you are. And you’re going to have every right to be cocky. With a 14 inch donkey dong and buffalo nuts a labido to match its going to power that testosterone more and make you leak all the time. Even when you aren’t touching yourself. You’re going to be shoving your sweating smelling body on everyone you can. And your smelly feet are going to be your pride and joy as they are the think that will make people really gag when they first see you. But you’ll be shoving their faces in your sweaty hairy pits to makes them your slave before long so it’s doesn’t matter. You’re a total douche bag now. You’re not even going to bathe after this change. I can tell.

[katyawriteswhump]

the freak in the penthouse part 2

E-rated (for sexual content), accidental millionaire eddie/sex-worker steve.

Part one here On AO3 or search #thefreakinthepenthouse

Part two: room service

Steve hopped up to grab another glass from the minibar and poured them both a double shot of vodka. He insisted on bandaging Eddie’s knuckles before they got on with anything else. 

It felt… odd, intimate. He couldn’t help thinking, though: This guy just smashed the plasterwork!

He’d stepped into this room feeling concern for Eddie. He should jack-knife right back to being anxious for himself. Next round, it could be my face that gets smashed.

Still, Eddie seemed more downcast than buzzing with pent-up violence. Steve continued worshipping Eddie’s slightly unsteady hands, dripping with weird silver rings. Which had fortunately missed the worst of the smashing stuff or Eddie really would be badly bruised.

Pianists’ hands, Steve thought.

Which brought a lump to his throat. 

Now was so not the time to think about everything that had gone to shit in his life or his crappy loser-ville dreams. He forced a smile, trying to catch Eddie’s eye. He consoled himself with the matter he found Eddie attractive, which was a rare win with a John, plus he seemed… nice. Edgy, fidgety, but an all right dude.

Steve neatly tied the end of the bandages and chugged back his drink. Down to business.

“What’s your trip gonna be, Eddie? What sector of paradise city you wanna go cruisin’ thru tonight?” He internally face-palmed. Way to go, Harrington. Real smooth. “You wanna party first?”

A smirk twitched across Eddie’s soft-looking lips. “Weeeell, I don’t party up here much.”

“You’re kidding?” Steve leaped to his feet, waving his arms literally everywhere. “How can you not? This place is wild! We’re gonna party, okay? We’re gonna have an awesome time, man.” Raking his hair from his eyes—that cheap gel never was worth jackshit—he absorbed a few more details of his plush surroundings.  “You got one of those sound systems that takes 8 CDs at a time? That’s totally mental! And… shiiiiiit! Is that your guitar?” Steve dived to grab one of the coolest six strings he’d ever seen, a slender beauty with two-tone cream bodywork. “It’s totally rad! Do you play? I mean, that’s a dumb question. You must, I guess…”

He trailed off. Eddie stared at him, squirming slightly. It bordered on creepy. Steve kept blabbering because he was already waaaay too far down shit creek without a paddle to stop.

“Hey, should we put music on?" asked Steve. "Or do you wanna jam? You know, I kinda dabble myself from time to time… Uh, you okay?”

Eddie had finally got up. He took two paces across the room and yanked the guitar from Steve’s grip. “Nooooo music.”

“Is that some kinda rule?”

That teeniest smile again. “Shouldn’t you be telling me your rules, Steve? Like how much is a ‘party’ with you gonna set me back? Not that I give a rat’s ass, so c’mon, hit me.”

Another internal facepalm. Steve had intended to be upfront about rules and prices. Then again, it was the first time he’d negotiated for himself.

“You want me to stay the whole night?”

Eddie shrugged. Up close, his dark eyes were intoxicating, sucking Steve in, which was probably why Steve said, flustered: “Two hundred bucks and I stay till daylight.”

You were gonna quote four! If Kline comes sniffing, he’ll have at least a hundred off you.

Eddie nodded, laughed. The air reeked of vodka now. As well as the weed. Steve cleared his throat, pressed on:

“Rules. Okay. Nothing that leaves any marks on my skin. No breathplay. Got any weird kinks?”

“Not right now.” Eddie started fiddling with his rings on his unbandaged hand. “Nothing other than a hankering to fuck a really cute guy.”

Steve blushed like an idiot, and his heart gave a crazy thud. What the fuck? “And we gotta use rubbers,” he said.

“Obviously. Anything else? Like, do you kiss on the lips?”

Steve snickered. “You watch too many movies, Eddie.”

“Not much else to do, stuck up here with cable. So, you do kiss on the mouth?”

“Sure thing.”

Truth was, Steve had been thirsty for Eddie’s lips since that first merest hint of a smile. He edged forward so they stood pretty much nose to nose. He slipped a hand to cup Eddie’s jaw and plastered his mouth enthusiastically to Eddie’s. Eddie gave a surprised grunt, not yet parting those tempting lips.

Steve panicked. Shit, too much?

Then Eddie plunged his tongue straight towards Steve’s tonsils and they started kissing for real, and… Wow!

It was some kiss.

Steve dove straight in with his best tricks, sweeping the depths of Eddie’s mouth, hands roaming everywhere, trying to figure out what Eddie liked best. He threaded his fingers down the length of Eddie’s hair, which was salon-smooth and silky to the touch. Trouble was, the kiss was too damn pleasurable, and Eddie was giving it some too, messing up Steve’s hair, mashing their faces so it got kinda bruising. Steve plunged a hand down the front of Eddie’s loose jogging pants, grabbing his package.

“Hello big boy,” purred Steve, as they broke for air. “You fancy a little kiss down there?”

Ugh. Way to go with the cheesy lines again, Harrington.

Eddie didn’t seem to hear anyhow. His gaze locked so hard on Steve that he seemed almost in a trance. “I want to feel… Oh shit, I don’t know what I want.” Eddie clamped a hand in the small of Steve back, crushing Steve so close that his hand got squashed between both their erections. “I want to fuck you, Steve. Basic stuff.”

Steve smacked another sloppy wet kiss on Eddie’s parted lips. “Your wish is my command. I’ll, uh… be right back.”

…

After Steve left, Eddie sank down on the couch, buried his fingers deep in his hair. Wtf am I doing? What the fuck, WHAT THE FUCK?

He’d got a giant erection from the kiss alone.

Steve was gorgeous, and yeah, Eddie wanted to fuck him bad, and he was already having the best evening he’d had in eons. Didn’t stop his stupid brain racing onward to the black hole of doom that would follow.

You pay for fuck-buddies, now? Seriously, Munson? Seriously! 

His heart was already dying a little death, and part of him withered with embarrassment too. He knew the staff of this place thought he was a weird-ass freak. The God-like Dungeon Master and the front man of Corroded Coffin wouldn’t have given a damn about that.

But now? Eddie was embarrassed, and Christ, that was pathetic. And where the heck was Steve? If he took any longer in the bathroom, Eddie’s nerve would snap, he’d ask him to leave. It would be yet another date with Mr Palm and his five sons.

Tentatively, he tapped on the back of the door—it was the smaller of two washrooms in the suite. The one without the plunge pool. “You okay in there? Getting lonely here, brother.” Shit, ain’t that the truth, and was Steve doing drugs or something? If so, the son-of-a-bitch should share.

“Yeah. I’m just… Look, I’m not powdering my goddamn nose, okay? It’s, you know… lube. Been a while since I… um… yeah.”

Eddie’s knee-jerk disappointment overrode his spiralling nerves: “No way! I wanna do that.” 

He opened the door a crack. And there was Steve—jeans around his thighs, no underwear, fingers plunged between sweetly rounded ass cheeks, eyes wide as a startled bunny-rabbit. Eddie’s grin made his face ache. Damn, he’d not used those muscles in way too long.

“Sorry, I… Look, man, I’m gonna be straight with you.” Steve had backed up against the sink as Eddie closed in on him. “Most clients just wanna get in there, and—”

“I want in , believe me,” said Eddie, still grinning. He’d pretty much forgotten how good feeling this fucking hot for somebody was. “Fingers first. Seriously, I love playing with a guy’s ass.” 

“Well, that’s kinda cool. Because you have the most gorgeous hands I’ve ever seen.” Steve grasped the wrist of Eddie’s uninjured hand, drew it up to his wet shiny lips. The hrrrr of Steve’s breath alone was enough to make Eddie’s cock spring even farther to attention. Steve sucked Eddie’s fore and middle fingers deep, rolling his tongue around them, even emitting a douchey little moan. Didn’t sound as fake as Eddie felt it ought.

Slowly, almost torturously, Steve mouth-fucked Eddie’s fingers, eventually dragging them free with a wet pop.

“Jesus Christ,” murmured Eddie. Steve had gotten some full-on come-hither-shit going on in those ridiculously pretty eyes, and it was almost too much, too soon. Eddie was going weak at the knees, just letting Steve take the lead, and his brains were disintegrating to mush. 

Steve—the slutty little torturer—dragged Eddie’s fingers around toward his butt, guiding them along that warm cleft between his cheeks. “You want in?” murmured Steve. “Then get in me. Though, seriously—you got a whole penthouse, and you’re gonna do me against the sink in your second-best restroom?”

They stumbled toward the bedroom. Steve almost tripped over the jeans he’d gotten tangled around his ankles, and Eddie nearly collided with another fake-marble pillar. They wound up on Eddie’s gigantic, four-poster Emperor size bed, with Steve splayed naked, ass upward, on the grotesque pink satin covers.

Eddie crawled up over him on all fours, ready to go. Damn, he didn’t wanna rush this. Didn’t want it to be over. Steve looked fucking edible, one knee hitched, chin tilted to the side, chewing his lower lip in a deliciously filthy fashion.

Eddie leaned back and gave his own dick a couple of pumps. He mingled his own precum with lube, rolling it gleefully between his thumb and forefinger, before sliding the latter into Steve.

Steve’s little hiccupping gasps were precious. Eddie snickered—he knew just how awesome it could feel, all those nerve-endings set alight. And Steve’s hole… Eddie wasn’t gonna complain that Steve had loosened himself up. It was like gliding into goddamn honey. He pressed another digit in, scissored, literally crumbling at the sound of Steve’s sexy hitched breaths.

“Oh God, Eddie… Yeah… there… fucking awesome. You got me dripping, man. I’m gonna fuckin’ come.”

“Liar, liar, ass on fire. Nobody’s that easy.” He curled his fingers, deliberate delving for Steve’s prostate.

“For you… I’m… uh… uh… whatever you w-want me to be.” Okay, that was a wake-up call. Eddie was maybe enjoying this a little too much. But the corny lines felt way faker than Steve’s needy sighs. He pulsed and clenched around Eddie’s fingers and Eddie revelled in it. He kinda wanted to slide his fist in, but Steve was still pretty tight, and…

“Oh Gooooood,” wailed Steve. “I should be paying you.”

“Nah. I’m having fun here, Sweetheart.” Eddie really was. 

“I… uh… uh… charge extra for pet-name. J-joking.”

“Okay, Princess.”

That earned Eddie a punishing clench. “Sh-shut the f-fuck up.”

“Gimme that tough lovin’ around my dick, Princess.”

Eddie grinned harder than ever, slowly eased his fingers out. For a joyful split second, he realized he was feeling himself again. Eddie flip-the-bird-at-the-whole-fucking-world Munson was back!

Nah, don’t think too hard. Don’t lose the illusion…

He gave Steve light swat on the ass.

“Ow! Uuuuh, Jesus, I feel empty.” Steve waggled that insane cute butt. “Eddie, you gotta fuck me. I want you, man. I need you.”

Eddie stared down Steve’s little hole, and the rest of the world might as well have gone nuclear. He slipped the rubber on his dick—Steve seemed to have lost it so far, he’d forgotten even to remind Eddie—then he slid into Steve’s tight body and fucked him hard.

…

“Can I have my two-hundred dollars, please?”

Steve hated asking the question of Eddie.

Eddie was nice. And hot. Even while peeping from beneath the bedcovers like a vampire scared shitless of daylight.

Last night was pretty damn good, really. Far better than Steve had any right to expect. So yeah, he hated asking, and his stupid fingers were shaking, which was annoying and weird and meant he really struggled with the buttons on his shirt, but… 

He needed the money. He needed his meds, and he’d still gotten that hopelessly colossal hospital bill from last winter hanging over him.

“Uh, Eddie? Look, I’m really fucking sorry I woke you, man, but I gotta go serve breakfast. Oh, and try not to limp. You got quite the python in your pants there, dude.” It was a dumb cheesy line, but not entirely flattery. Steve hadn’t been fucked in a while. Eddie had ridden him three times in the end, before they’d snatched a few hours of sleep. “So..?”

“Yeah. Right.” Eddie finally lugged himself into action, wandered into the lounge. “Okay… wallet. Not sure where I left it, uh… You need help with those buttons?”

Standing in the doorway between the rooms, Steve wrinkled his nose in surrender. “Please?” 

That just proved fresh torture. Eddie got up close and personal again with those hands, one still bandaged, and those lips, and…

Get over it, Harrington. He paid to dick you for the night. You got lucky that he’s a nice guy and now you’ve got a dumb crush on him?

“Uh, you might wanna do something about your face,” mumbled Eddie.

“Huh?”

“Eyeliner? You look like a stray member of Kiss, Honey.” Eddie gently dabbed beneath Steve’s eye with a fingertip, and Steve… kinda froze. Then he flinched away. Eddie wandered off again and still couldn’t find his wallet. Steve was gonna be late, so after he’d washed the rest of the crap off his face, he settled for a fifty-dollar bill that Eddie found stuffed down the side of one of the couches.

“I’ll have the cash later, promise,” said Eddie, rubbing bleary, blood-shot eyes of his own. “You’ll come back?”

“For my fee? You bet,” mumbled Steve. He grabbed his knapsack, and made for the door. Eddie caught his wrist lightly:

“Yeah, but… You wanna come back for more than that?”

Despite his rising stress levels—Kline was gonna flay his ass—Steve’s heart gave another crazy little pulse. He mentally slapped himself, schooled his features into a weary mask of don’t-give-a-shit.

“That’s up to you, not me. I mean, it’s gonna cost you another two hundred dollars on top of the one-fifty you already owe me.”

“Done,” said Eddie, almost too quick, and then… 

Shit, Steve couldn’t help himself. He leaned in, brushed his mouth lightly against Eddie’s. He sensed the moment when Eddie’s slightly parted lips curved toward a smile. He just about managed to smirk rather than grin back like a besotted idiot.

“That one’s on the house.” Steve tugged his wrist free and literally sprinted from the penthouse to the service elevator.

Chapter 3 on AO3

Chapter 3.1 on tumblr or search #thefreakinthepenthouse

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[spacedace]

It took me a second to realize that this was not in fact about various Catholic Church nonsense (the Pope Fights, the in fighting, ect) throughout history.

I'm not sure which fandom this is about, but to answer the question I *thought* was being asked it's for sure Saint Olga of Kiev burning the world down in vengeance of her husband's murder with her ruthlessness and cunning only to convert to Christianity and use an obscure church law to get out of having to marry Constantine (no not the one from DC, the other Constantine)

[arceespinkgun]

Hey I saw your Elita in One posting, and I just want to say that I totally agree abt the misogyny and I was thinking about it as well even before you posted abt it. That movie was actually my introduction to the fandom so I'm fond of it, (I've been a new fan of the franchise itself since last September hehe) but after having seen earthspark, all the live action films, a bit of cyberverse (working on it), reading all of the energon universe/Skybound so far, reading some bits and pieces of IDW1+2, and also having just finished the G1 cartoon (yippee!), the worse that Elita in One comes off to me. Even when it first came out I did not enjoy her character writing, but I assumed it was due to casting/the performance. But really, the fact that it didn't pass the Bechdel Test (a notably simple test to pass) in 2024 is a big part of what is still wrong with the franchise. Elita's arc in Skybound is so...cool! It is so damn cool. And she has so much agency + does NOT change her ideals for Optimus' sake. Even Elita in the G1 episode she was introduced in is characterized as someone who is already a leader in her own right, separate from Optimus for a long period of time. In One it's just so obvious how Elita was not prioritized as a character, and a lot of her character traits reek of "this is what's progressive now right?". It's not like I would expect Elita to be centered in a film abt the origins of Oppy n Megs but I feel like she doesn't get to be "cool" in the same way they and Bee are... 💔 An extended one on one (with actual dialogue) between her and Airachnid would have really helped, but also not framing her violence as humorous and delegitimizing it. I never even noticed that until you brought it up, and I feel like that's a big part of the way she doesn't get to feel as "cool". The pseudo sexually dimorphic design is also pretty frustrating at this point, there was no reason for her to be a motorcycle, and the fact that they tend to make the girls bikes really annoys me. If anyone deserves to be bulky it'd be her! Or at least let her have a builtin machine gun or something lmao. Anyway TL;DR I'm glad you talked abt the misogyny in the film bc it's an example of really subtle misogyny and the tokenization of women, which unfortunately just...does not truly make girls growing up feel included, even if that is theoretically the intent. Actually, thinking about it, it's really wild how the Bumblebee film feels less misogynistic, not just because Charlie is a girl + the protag, but Shatter! Despite her like 7 min of screentime, she gets to be as scary and violent as any other Decepticon + a triple changer! Which is *cool*. Not saying it's perfect of course, but I wish we could have female transformers taken seriously like that all the time

YES 100% THIS, YOU GET IT, ANON!!!

The TF franchise has a history of being super weird about women, but in some of the media you've been checking out that's not the case... and I just really don't want to see any backsliding! I remember a character like Shatter being praised and in continuities like Earthspark, Cyberverse, and IDW2, the gender balance of the casts is handled great. Even Elita-1's intro in G1 with her team, like you say, was surprisingly well-written (I think the fact that Beth Bornstein, the writer, is a woman is evident). When I'm in the middle of watching/reading those I don't even really think about how many women are in those continuities because I just see characters, and that's great. I feel like if there's the beginning of backsliding, fans should point that out.

And I kept really struggling trying to explain my discomfort with the portrayal of women in TF One because when other people have criticized Elita-1's writing in it it's often been because she's too "bossy" or whatever (sometimes people use another word that starts with "B" ;_;) but that isn't what I mean... Elita-1 in Skybound right now is this great, tragic character and is awesome like you say! Elita-1 in IDW started out as a tyrant. And I really love those characters. It's just like you say, it's that Elita isn't treated with the gravity of others, and even though the climax of her story in the movie is this fight with the one other woman character, they don't even say one word to each other....

Skybound and Earthspark are ongoing right now, so I think the contrast was extra clear!

[kingsmoot]

rank the books from ur favorite to least favorite and explain the reason behind it :D

1. acok

this is The Theon Book to me it will be my favorite forever and ever and even after that. prince of winterfell arc nothing compares 2 u. this book really has everything we've got theonasha. we've got early stage thramsay. tyrion and bronn make their way out of their honeymoon stage and into settled domestic life. brienne is introduced. arya treks through the riverlands with the night's watch and then serves as roose's cupbearer at harrenhal. jon gets two (2) new dads and is overwhelmed by the awesome splendor of the wilderness beyond the wall. dany burns down the house of the undying. WE'VE GOT. EVERYTHING. unfortunately the battle of the blackwater is also in here which is a total slog but small price to pay.

2. adwd

REEK CHAPTERS. THE TURNCLOAK. THE GHOST OF WINTERFELL. THEON. ARRAGHHRGHAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tyrion's nihilist k-hole bisexual almost awakening. joncon. VARAMYR POLOGUE. asha chapters. nabokov references out the wazzo. genuinely peak. a better book than acok in all aspects but i'm biased bc theon doesn't kiss the nape of asha's neck in this one.

3. affc

CERSEI POV CHAPTERRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSS. i love her chapters in adwd as well of COURSE but her affc ones hold a special place in my heart. BRIENNE. ASHA. THE KINGSMOOT HAPPENS. SAAAAAAM!!!!

4. asos

jaime chapters in asos hit like nothing else his internal narration is so deeply moving and conflicted and passionate genuinely one of THEE loverboys of all time forever. i love how much he does not give a flying fuck about the little roaches that crawled out of cersei whether they were his fault or not. anyway jaime brienne and roose at harrenhal. red wedding. jon and ygritte. the hound wrapping arya in a horse blanket like he's taking a feral cat to the vet. berric!!!!!!

5. agot

everyone is so babies. theon kicking the deserter's head and changing the course of my entire life for the next sixteen years and forever beyond that. tyrion taking jon under his wing. arya's dancing lessons. sandor was cersei's secret lover at this point. tyrion and bronn fall in love. some great joff moments even if acok is his peak. ned's stupid ass. petyr and varys.

I LOVE THEM ALL :D

[stupidbluegirl]

[captain4peeps]

What’s the over/under of me growing out the long hair again? Would it totally reek of awesomeness or do you think it’s past its prime?

[rcedge]

BREAKING: Biden has announced Kat rcedge as the new Democratic nominee for POTUS. "It's high time we had an Edgehead at the helm of our country," the dilapidated corpse-man is quoted as saying. "I believe her administration will totally reek of awesomeness."

[reel-fear]

Y'know, this could just be projection, but I do think there is a genuine argument I could put together for Norman being Autistic or generally Neurodivergent Coded. There's just something about him that reeks of being the kind of person who instead of going "I'm human no matter what" decides that in the face of being dehumanized for his stranger traits says "Yeah, maybe I'm not human and that sounds awesome tbh."

I think it's also because he's constantly seen as spooky and mysterious by others; his laugh is unsettling and Buddy mentions Hating it. His sense of humor is strange and startling and Miss Rodriguez is very aware of this and feels the need to explain it to Buddy after he tells the poor kid Joey DIED. To me at least, it reads a little bit as Norman having just something about him that makes him unsettling and strange to others and instead of being shy or anxious abt it, he decided long ago to totally embrace it as part of himself.

He loves being strange, he's learned about this part of himself others don't like and has decided he likes it so it's staying. He's just such a laid-back, kind fellow despite his strangeness, I love him for it so much and one day I want to make an entire essay on his character. However…

This also ties into the sadder parts of him… Spoilers for DCTL ahead!

This is what Buddy says upon finding his body

“Norman.

Oh no.

Oh, Norman.

Of course no one would notice he was missing. Of everyone in the building. He watched everyone, but no one really saw him. Not much anyway.”

With the context of Norman maybe being autistic or neurodivergent in any way, this hits really hard for me.

Norman was a nobody; people enjoyed his company sometimes, but he was strange, an outcast. Nobody would notice he was missing, if he disappeared, nobody would search.

He watched everyone, looked out for them, but nobody did the same for him.

Except for Henry.

Henry and Norman were friends, Norman holds no grudge over Henry leaving and Dot notes the kind comments Norman makes towards the animator are unusual for him. Norman doesn't disagree with her either, those two have always been implied to have an especially close bond.

Would things have been different if Henry, mysteriously the only person who seems to have had such a bond with Norman, was there? Would Sammy have picked someone else knowing Henry would notice Norman going missing?

Maybe Henry just had something about him that made the two of them understand each other, despite their very different personalities. Maybe Henry knew what it was like to be a little "different" and "strange" to his peers, in the exact way Norman was. Maybe Henry wasn't seen as spooky or mysterious for it because it manifested in different ways, or it was just assumed he was like that because he was an artist. Maybe sometimes that made him feel bad, knowing Norman really was a sweet guy and others simply wouldn't give him the chance to prove it.

Because he was weird in the "wrong way."

Then he has to swallow seeing him further dehumanized in the cycle. Not even “Norman” anymore. Now only going by “The Projectionist”. The exact name others used when talking about how Weird and Scary he was. Now it was the only name they'd call him. Now he is a monster; the mindless, terrifying, twisted form others always saw him as, with nobody who truly understood what had been lost. Except Henry, the only one who saw humanity in him...

Y'know...

It's food for thought...