#I don't care if it's one entity. so the fuck was lord of the rings and we have deemed that three books at this point.

[essektheylyss]

I AM attempting to read at least four books this weekend and that IS ridiculous but alas, here we are.

[eldritch-spouse]

Krulu living through his first time having period cramps via admin. Admin is having a particularly bad time since it's the first one since Krulu is crammed into her tiny mortal body.

[Ah yes, p a i n ...]

(Minors dni)

TW: Mentions of period sex.

It's when you groan for what must be the hundredth time that he speaks up.

" What is this? "

" Nausea. " You'd figure he would be more familiar with it, given the time he had to spend in a void fighting for his life.

" After the cramps? "

" Yeah no, those will pop up again anytime now. " Just talking about it has you feeling one incoming.

" And you get incapacitated like this every month? "

" For as long as I am fertile, my lord. " You blink, stretched out on the bed, hungry yet too tired to move. " ... You didn't know women go through this? "

Krulu makes a huff in the back of your head, clearly offended.

" It has been long since I have had contact with lessers. " He warns, patience thinner than usual due to the shared effects of your cycle. " You are my first female vessel. "

" What an honor... " You groan again, feeling a wave of sickness wash over you, followed by a sting of pain in your lower abdomen.

" Your sarcasm is forgiven on account of your deplorable state. This is not an invitation. "

One of Krulu's arms manifests from somewhere on your back, fetching your phone, tapping and scrolling away in a hurry. You can't bring yourself to care about what he's up to. Especially not when he forms another long arm and places a palm firmly above your lower abdomen, applying both pressure and heat on the spot. The sigh you let out is visceral as you melt into a puddle on the mattress.

" Thank you, merciful god! "

You can sense the way your higher brightens inwardly at the praise. There's a low, pleased rumble thundering in your headspace as the entity sets your phone down, the very same large, bony hand tip-tapping along your curves before settling on top of your panties. You lift a brow when you sense Krulu start tracing slow circles over your clothed pearl.

" Woah wow, hold on- " You try to sit up, wordlessly forced back down by a third hand that keeps your chest glued to the sheets. " W-What are we doing, my worship? " Krulu continues leisurely, eliciting twitches out of your legs.

" Several medical studies from your kind reveal that orgasms often help menstrual pains. I want us functional as soon as possible. "

Somehow, you don't think that's his only motive here. Krulu snorts derisively but you interrupt before he can comment on it. " My higher, can we not do this on the sheets? I like this set. " You'd rather not soak everything in blood.

There's something of a frustrated snarl in your head, momentarily breaking your focus and turning your brain to pudding with its intensity. Yeah, that doesn't help the nausea at all. All hands are swiftly removed from your body.

" Fine then- Suffer as you so wish. "

Quite petty of him. Before the higher can put you in your place, the sound of the doorbell ringing jolts you up. You're not expecting anyone.

" Yes you are. "

" What is that supposed to mean?! "

" I ordered about ten separate take out meals. "

But?? Fucking why???

" Go fetch it or I will. "

This is going to be the worst, most bizarre period of your life.

[littleeyesofpallas]

I've been asked before what my favorite entity in the Mangus universe is, and I frequently reinterpret this question as which entity would I be an avatar, or at least a follower of. And that requires a stipulation, that to have an affinity for an entity is not to think it's cool, and it's not for it to be your greatest fear, it's for it to be the fear you're most drawn to or otherwise occupied by. And in this capacity my answer has been, The Corruption. Because while I'm not generally scared of bugs, I do have a long standing series of hyper specific situational fears that all include bugs.

As a kid I went to a farm with my school and some tour guide commented on something about barbed wire leaving cuts on the cows and flies laying their eggs in the open wounds. And that shit stuck with me.

Back when the internet was a dark lawless place and shit like CP and snuff films were just floating around out there where anyone could drop you a link to them, I saw a video of a little kid with a horrifying large hole in his head where dozens of maggots were eating away as his flesh and clearly had been for some time.

I knew a kid in middle school wrestling who had to have his head surgically opened because somehow he'd gotten a beetle larva in his ear and it had matured into a beetle and was stuck in there causing him pain.

I have recurring nightmares of bugs flying into my ear, not because I'm afraid of the bugs themselves, but because every time I have the dream I specifically get stuck in the process of trying to swat the bug away and the active attempt to get at it causing it to retreat deeper into my ear and me being unable to get it back out.

Remember that scene in The Mummy with the flesh burrowing scarabs? I had a nightmare(?) Once where I caught a ladybug burrowing into my skin, and as I failed to squeeze it back out I realized I had dozens of little bumps all over my arm all moving around. So I took a long nail --no idea why that was the tool of choice-- and cut a ring around my forearm and peeled my skin off like a glove to reveal all the ladybugs crawling around in there.

(All that not even touching on my general anxieties about illness and disease and my constant paranoid certainty that my bones are just withering away and riddles with holes, my irrational fear of contracting tetanus regardless of whether or not I've been in contact with any rust, and the nagging thought that my skin is necrotizing and just full of inexplicably unprompted rot... But this is about the bugs.)

And now there is this stupid issue my apartment building is having where our land lord never schedules the damn exterminator on a day when I'm actually home to let them in so we've gone I don't know howany rounds without the unit being properly treated. And while there wasn't actually much of an issue for the better part of the past 3 years, now we've got a roach problem. And I spend every fucking night, starting from the moment I wake up, and the moment I walk in from work combing over our kitchen counters and the corners of the room expecting to find at least one scuttling about. It details any/every other thought process I'm having as I put my whole fucking life on hold in order to start this like 12 step scan and spray and chase and squish process. It's becoming frustratingly routine yet at the same time engaging.

And worst of all is that again I'm not fundamentally afraid or grossed out by bugs, I think bugs are cool, I generally avoid killing them if I can, I even used to take care of the bugs in the pet store I used to work at because no one else would. But mother fuckers cannot be allowed to nest and procreate in my goddamn walls. So for practical purposes they just gotta go, which means I have to be hyper aware of their presence, which has turned into anticipation, paranoia, and anxiety.

Jane Prentiss, just take me now

[music-thestrongestformofmagic]

GAME OF THRONES S08E03 SPOILERS

I'm sorry but if anyone still comes up to defend this show after this episode I'm just gonna straight up call you stupid. There are so many things wrong with it I don't even know where to begin.

Like, GODDAMNIT these characters are DUMB. They aren't completely in the dark about their situation. They knew they were vastly outnumbered. They knew that killing one whight killed many others. They knew slain humans rise as walkers. They already knew all of that. They had a decently big army, they had the huge castle, they had some ideas how the zombies worked. They were NOT SUPPOSED to be caught by surprise so many times. And they could've worked out some strategy that gave them *some* chance of fending them off. Instead they go headfirst with their entire army on open field??? Are you fucking kidding me??? Even if they had no idea how the walkers worked, we got so many people there with experience in battle strategy. Even against a common army they should've known better. Hell, TYRION should have known better. TV TYRION IS FUCKING DUMB. UUUUGH.

And like. Jon and Dany were absolutely useless the whole episode?? What the hell??

And Bran was fucking useless?? Like, Bran has been being developed as becoming this powerful shaman who will be crucial to defeating the Night King and he???? Did absolutely nothing??? And now the Night King is dead??? And Bran literally did nothing useful the whole show????

And Melisandre... What the hell? She barely had a character arc in the show?? Her being revealed as an elderly woman made no difference (except to show the misogyny of dudebro fanboys)??? And her death was??? Absolutely pointless??? With no reason at all to happen???

And like, Arya killing the Night King??? Seriously??? Ok, kudos to her sneaky abilities (that actually make sense given her training as an assassin), but there was no build up at all for that?? She became Azor Azhai just... Because?? Just because it's shocking™???

And what's probably the most outraging thing about this episode: WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN NIGHT KING IS ALREADY DEAD??? THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF THE SHOW IS THAT WINTER IS COMING. THE WHOLE MAIN THING THAT HAS BEEN BUILT THROUGH ALL THESE YEARS IS THAT A WINTER ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IS COMING. THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT IS HOW FUTILE THE DISPUTE FOR THE THRONE IS GIVEN THE STAKES OF WHAT'S COMING. THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT WAS THAT THE NIGHT KING WAS THE BIGGEST ANTAGONIST, THE MAIN ENTITY TO BE DEFEATED, THE MAIN CHALLENGE OUR CHARACTERS WILL FACE.

AND HE'S ALREADY DEAD?????? AND NOW WE'RE GOING BACK TO THE DANCE OF THE CHAIRS????? GODDAMNIT, THE IRON THRONE WAS FUCKING SECONDARY. NO ONE CARES ABOUT IT NOW. AND WE'RE COMING BACK TO IT?????

And like. No one of any actual importance died this episode. This was supposed to be an episode in which the humans would be crushed and lose many loved ones. We were supposed to lose loved ones. Ok, there's Theon and Melisandre, who just ran into their death pointlessly??? Theon knew he wouldn't kill the Night King, why would he run to him??? Bran knew, for what purpose would he even encourage him to go??? And Melisandre??? Had just no reason at all???

Jesus fucking Christ. My mate said "Marvel was in Endgame more Game Of Thrones than this episode". And honestly, big mood.

And I'm not even mentioning the books here. I'm not even mentioning how, with this episode, they put the final nail on the coffin of any crumbs of the books' spirit that still lingered there. I'm just basing myself purely on the show. Goddamnit, this show gave us battles such as the fucking Blackwater. This show used to be fascinating because of how smart, intelligent, well crafted it was. Now it's just dumb, anti-climatic, cliché. The level of shitness a show that used to be so fantastic has reached is fucking painful.

And that all not even mentioning how you literally can't see shit of what's going on. Don't tell me it was that dark and impossible to see because it was night. Lord Of The Rings delivered clear night battles almost 20 years ago. Game Of Thrones has much more money, tech, and resources. And the creators claimed they were inspired by the battle of Rohan??? DON'T YOU DARE FUCKING SLANDER MY LORD OF THE RINGS, ASSHOLES

I just. Goddamnit. I seriously am so pissed right now I'm unable to find any joy or fun at all with this show. I've been hatewatching it since season 6, but mocking, laughing at how ridiculous this show was. But now I can't even mock. I just am so angry at this show I can't even draw any fun out of it. It's just absolutely disparaging.

I have no idea what they can even do to try and redeem themselves by now. I have no idea what they're even doing the next three episodes. It isn't because "wow anything can happen!" but because nothing relevant can happen now. It's like killing Voldemort in Order Of The Phoenix. It makes no sense whatsoever.

Sorry, but if you are in any way still genuinely entertained with this show's plot, you have some seriously low standards, to put it very lightly.

Fuck Game Of Thrones. I just want this shitshow to end.