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[daughterofsarenrae]

Playing the Um, Actually board game and getting a question about your current hyperfixation is actually the most powerful you will ever feel

[fisheito]

The Yaku🔴sub⚫️dom⚪️neutral ratio check, SSR event units from left to right:

🔴⚫️🔴⚪️ ⚫️⚫️🔴⚫️ ⚪️⚫️🔴⚫️ ⚫️⚫️🔴⚫️

+⚪️⚪️OG SSR +🔴Story H +⚪️OG SR +⚪️SR Incognito Cafe

= 6🔴/9⚫️/6⚪️÷21

=29%🔴/42%⚫️/29%⚪️

Justifications for each room under the cut 🤨

Disclaimer: do i have an actual system for classifying what is subby vs. dommy? nope! i vaguely describe dom as "controls the pace/leads the actions" and that's it ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯

Cocoa Liqueur:

🔴 R2: eiden grabs yakumo by the dick/forces him to take a break ⚫️ R5: baby's first kabedon. yaku goes jealous 2000s seme mode

Ocean Breeze:

🔴 R2: woe, eiden's oral skills be upon ye (try not to squeak too loud) ⚪️ R5: yaku going "pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease" and eiden answering "sure"

Crimson Phantom:

⚫️ R2: lost in the bloodsauce, immediate regret ⚫️ R5: better grip on the bloodsauce, Count Domkumo fully awakened

Dark Nova:

🔴 R2: "don't think. just follow my instructions" ⚫️ R5: yaku lacks lucidity and is hopped up on snake senses. less self-control leads eiden to go on the defensive

Shadow Lineage:

⚪️ R2: veers into dom bc yakumo's pinning eiden/eiden has no leverage, but net neutral bc yakumo still acts on orders ⚫️ R5: yakumo puts on a show for his annual outdoor sex evaluation, and eiden submits fully to snake bondage

Fateful Aegis:

🔴 R2: NAKED APRON YAKUMO ON HIS KNEES ⚫️ R5: yaku caught too many emotions again and drills eiden into the floor

Abyssal Pearl:

⚫️ R2: starts with power of Eiden Suggestion, but ultimately ends up in dom territory due to phenomenon of Domkumo Voice. ⚫️ R5: yaku shows eiden how much he wants him (it's a lot)

Sword of Determination:

🔴 R2: behave like a good student and you'll get a salty reward ⚫️ R5: plumbing be damned, you're getting splooged in the shower

OG SSR

⚪️ R2: they compromise on their horny goals because they have to get up early tomorrow for character development ⚪️ R5: eiden provides live feedback so yakumo will continue railing him against the wall, also stop apologising

🔴 Story H: yakumo learns what (human) sex is

⚪️ OG SR R5: respectfully, let's fuck *pushes eiden onto the bed* (mostly eiden indulging a pent up yaku)

⚪️ SR Incognito Cafe: eiden holds the reins in the first half, yakumo gains control in the second. a truly riveting game of push and pull.

[simandy]

I think my exams are AI generated. Can i die now

[catzz089]

you might be my favorite lestappen writer oh my god i love you so muchplease dont go through writers block 🌹💔 any more works planned? that 24 is getting too clpse for my liking 😔 would you ever consider doing a royalty au? i would literally send you many many gifts and trinkets

Omg thank you so much. You’re so sweet

I write chapters ahead of time to COMPENSATE for writers block 💪💪 started chp.20 today. My best way around writers block is not getting bored!!! So if I’m ever bored I just start planning a new fic until I need to kick myself into gear 🙏

YES!!! SOOOO MANYYY!!!! I probably shouldn’t say anything but I’m so excited over them, the next one will probably be a getting back together fic (bc I crave angst) and (hopefully) it’s shorter than the monstrosity that is rcch!!! And then I REALLY shouldn’t say anything but I have at least two much longer fics I want to write, I’ve recently gotten SUPER excited over one of them, so there’s a very high chance you see the alien au first

OMG GET OUT OF MY NOTESSSSSS

YES I have considered doing a royalty au, but with my other potential fics I’ve got the rough story all planned out, I haven’t yet figured how I’d want the dynamics for lestappen royalty. Arranged marriage? Knight Charles and Prince Max? Knight Max and Prince Charles? SOFIA THE FIRST STYLE MAX VERSTAPPEN??????Both royalty from differnt kingdoms and they meet across balls??? RIVALLING kingdoms and Max gets married off as a peace treaty?? Rivalling kingdoms and its R&J style? Perhaps Charming perfect Prince Charles and rival Max who wishes to be seen that perfect and KNOWS Charles isn’t? Maybe they fight over horse riding races??? MAYBE one of them gets into a marriage with someone else and the other has to try and get it broken off?? MAYBE one gets into a marriage with someone else but it’s toxic, and Charles needs to come and save Max from it!!!!OR we take a COMPLETE curveball and go for fantasy royalty???

The choices are so endless and confusing I’d LOVE to do one, and I probably will eventually but I’d need to get it figured out first AND go through the other fics I so desperately want to do 😭😭

[unionizedwizard]

funniest thing ive learned (and that's coming from someone who had debilitating perfectionist tendencies) is that making your own mistakes is actually thrilling and really fun because it really feels like gaining xp and leveling up but irl. like ah shit i see. well i'll know that's a soak marker next time kinda deal

[egopathic]

If it helps the discourse still kinda exists in the aspd and npd community but it’s now in the form of accusing everyone of larping. I swear I have seen every and all ways ASPD can present being called fake on here. It’s so stupid and annoying but has its funny moments. But now I just don’t ever talk about my experiences because of it. 💀

aspd fakers this, npd fakers that.

enough idle talk. to find the One True Narcissistic Psychopath we must lock all of cluster B tumblr in the octagon and fight it out

[badaseyebags]

i might be gay but… if i had a wish from a golden fish that told me i can have 2 boyfriends i would pick woosan<3 ….without a second thought 😞

[queer-omens-in-the-archives]

Have you noticed your style change over time?

Hi!! Thank you for the ask. <3

We haven't really noticed that, no -- we're aware our older fics don't read quite the same as our more recent ones, but we don't tend to notice the changes happening in real time and would struggle to pinpoint exactly what changed.

Part of that is plurality-related. We don't all write the same to begin with -- actually part of our editing process now, especially for longer projects, consists of getting as many of us rereading the text as possible (separately over a period of time and/or together at the same time), so we can smooth out differences where needed or (more rarely) exaggerate them when warranted (e.g. for added character flavour in subjective narration). In the past we didn't go through that Collaborative Smoothening step, and we did a lot less editing to begin with (we same-day wrote-and-published a lot), so many of our older works are more clearly One Guy's Writing. We can usually tell who based on the way they're written, but this isn't style evolution so much as like... us writing differently at baseline.

Part of that is that we have two types of approach to writing: either we write so rarely that too much time passes in-between for us to remember our previous writings clearly, or we write so often that any overall changes are too gradual for us to notice. Nowadays it's more the latter -- with the MelloNears, we've been writing/editing at least a few words every single day since November 1st, in mostly the same two AUs/series, so we're not really seeing the style evolution that is probably taking place because we're standing too close to see the big picture.

[fanfic/author ask game]

[viperbunnies]

okay i will pass out now since i didn’t sleep a wink, only for me to be blasted with the most mind numbing questions on the quiz.

like seriously why are the choices:

a. ii and iii are incorrect while i and iv are not incorrect

b. i and ii are incorrect while iii and iv are not incorrect

and so on…

I don’t mind modified true or falses but that one is just too much. it is terrible for my dyslexia 💀

[indigo6f00ff]

had fun in my first therapy appointment today

[arsenicflame]

hey does anyone wanna bounce bellhands/they all went to pirate school together ideas with me? im trying to figure out the missing pieces of my personal set up and it might be easier with someone else!

[acesammy]

i know i complain about this stats class every day but i swear to god i get points docked for the most asinine things every fucking time

[mybreadsmybutters]

this site makes me feel like a liberal cuck for occasionally using AI to complete assignments like oh my GOD you dweebs dont even fuck with cheating in school!!!

[airenyah]

so for the past 2ish years that i've been taking this thai course i've been the youngest participant by far and also (mostly) the only girl

and because of that, even tho it's an online course so we're not super close with each other, despite that i still often feel like i have a bit of a status as the group baby (affectionate). and it shows in moments like earlier in class when someone asked about the word "inspiration" and then, when asked to give an example sentence, without batting an eye went "[airenyah] is my inspiration to learn more thai"

y'all. this man is one of the best (if not THE best) student in our course 🥺

[lovely-english-rose]

this happened a While ago but this comment on a fic i wrote just. bounces around my skull sometimes. they questioned how could two men have kids together and i just. you really gotta ask that? like theres so many fucking ways that could work

maybe the kids are from previous marriages. maybe they're adopted. surrogacy exists. one could be trans. depending on setting, magic or sci-fi stuff could be the explanation. good old mpreg even if you're not a fucking coward. pick your poison.

[grabyourpillow]

Because I can't help myself, here are the key points of the article disproving it:

The transfer of the mummy happened in 1976, not 1974

The fake-passport presents as a biometric passport, which are only delivered since 2008 in Egypt

The barcode on the fake-passport comes from the original blog article posted on the website heritagedaily.com. it's written underneath

This heritagedaily is a blog dedicated to paleontology and archeology that CLEARLY STATES THE FAKE PASSPORT IMAGE WAS CREATED TO ILLUSTRATE THE BLOG ARTICLE

The creator of the heritagedaily website confirmed to the fact-checking website linked above that he created it in 2018 and then republished it in 2020

Other versions are online, one more minimalistic, another in Arabic. All are false.

The mummy was received in France in a big show, with honors becoming of a sovereign. No mention of passport in any interview or article from that time.

The person in charge of documentary studies at the Egyptian antiquities Department of the Louvre Elisabeth David states that there is no fundament for the existence of a passport.

There is NO FRENCH LEGISLATION ACCORDING TO DECEASED HUMAN PEOPLE REQUIRE PASSPORTS

Mummies aren't even considered as "people" in case of a transport they are considered as "goods".

Elisabeth David cites a report from the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle (National Natural History Museum) issued in 1985 as possible reason for this confusion:

[Translation by me: "Obviously, for such a grand figure to leave Egypt, obtaining a "pass"(port) required reaching out to the highest authorities of both countries, after reaching a mutual agreement, after long and tedious negotiations."]

Okay so obviously I'm not a professional translator so I'm not exactly sure how it reads in English, but in french it's pretty clear that the person writing just uses the term "passport" as a metaphor for the long and tedious procedures required to get the mummy out of the country, just as for issuing a passport. She uses it so the sentence reads as "obtaining an okay [to pass through]".

(Anyone who's ever had to deal with the french administration will have similar feelings on such a matter.)

TLDR: THE WHOLE IMAGE WAS CREATED TO ILLUSTRATE A BLOG ARTICLE. THERE IS NO SUCH FRENCH LEGISLATION

Mostly English-speaking websites relay either the default faulty assertion, or the version according to which only the photo is fake but there was a passport, probably because they don't have to the original 1985 report that mentions this "passport" nor access to this fact-checking article that provides the full context. (The latter part of the sentence is a hypothesis by ME)

MISINFORMATION SPREADS FAST BUT FACT CHECKING TAKES HOURS

PLEASE BE MINDFUL OF WHAT YOU BELIEVE

The original fact-checking article cites and links all relevant sources. This website is a trusted fact-checking website operating under strict guidelines. It is a foundation with no political, commercial, or ideological ties.

it’s the “date of birth: 1303 BC” for me...