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Mastering the Art of Successful Negotiation: Strategies and Tactics
Negotiation is a critical skill that plays a pivotal role in both our personal and professional lives. Whether you’re discussing a salary increase, sealing a business deal or simply haggling over the price of a car, the ability to negotiate effectively can make a substantial difference in the outcome. In this article, I’ll summarise the essential principles and strategies that can help you…
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Best In Show
Simon "Ghost" Riley x Naya "Bambi" Walker (OC)
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Word count: 4.8k
CW: BDSM, Sexual Content, kink negotiations, hucow kink, speech restriction, themed lingerie, lactation kink, breeding kink, dirty talk, so much dirty talk, pre-nut insanity (one of my favorite flavors of Simon), fantasies of dub-con (no actual dub-con), post-nut laughter
Notes: This was supposed to be a short addition to the Kinktober prompts, but obviously I am bad at keeping things short. Also, the working title for this was "Moo Moo Moo."
Simon is hiding something. Maybe that’s the wrong way to look at it. There’s something he’s not saying, not making obvious. It itches at the back of your mind.
It starts with looking at your own nude body in the mirror after a shower. You’ve been going to the gym, just a little bit. Weight training and cardio to keep up with all of the sex you’ve been having since moving in with Simon. You haven’t really lost any weight. In fact, your hips are wider, with no real change in the pouch of your belly.
Simon makes an interested noise when he walks into the bedroom. “Guess we should ‘old off on supper, eh?”
“No, no, I want to try that recipe I found,” you say, ignoring his discontented noise as you pull on underwear. The pleased noise he makes when you tug on his shirt is predictable, just like the kiss he presses to your cheek. “I was just… looking at myself. Kind of surprised that I’ve got more hip. Still got the belly, though.”
Simon surprises you by saying, “Tit’s’re bigger, too.”
“Are they?” You bunch the shirt in the back, and take yourself in. “Huh.”
“More pectoral muscle,” he says with a shrug. “More breast.”
“That’s not how that works,” you scoff, shoving him playfully before leaving the bedroom. “Besides, I heard your tis are the first to go when you lose weight.”
“Then I hope you don’t lose weight,” Simon answers, following you into the kitchen for a kiss. “I like all’o you.”
He spends extra time worshiping your thick parts, that night. Kisses you and kisses you and kisses you while rubbing your belly and groping at your hips, stroking and pinching at your breasts, your thighs, your love handles, your arm fat. He’s ravenous as he eats you out. The two of you are loud as he takes you apart. You fall asleep completely drained and covered in sore spots.
It doesn’t occur to you that you’ve been missing anything for a while after that. In fact, nothing seems off until he catches you masturbating a couple of months later. One moment, you’re alone at home, in bed, and the next he’s climbing in next to you with a groan and a sigh of relief.
“Whatcha wachin’?” he asks over your surprised yelp. “Tha’s not y’r usual boyfriend.”
“What do you know about my usual porn,” you laugh as you pass him your earbuds to place on the side table. You roll to kiss him as you admit, “It’s not really exciting, I was mostly done.”
“What counts as exciting?”
“I dunno,” you shrug, cuddling up. He smells so good. “You know my usuals, why don’t you tell me?”
Simon chuckles into your hair. “Big dicks ‘n ‘elplessness. Bonus points for dubious consent.”
“…Well… You’re not wrong.”
“I know what my girl likes.”
“Okay,” you giggle. “Well, what’s exciting for you?”
If you didn’t know him, you would have missed the split second pause before his answer. As it is you barely catch the way his hand twitches against the curve of your ass.
But he says, “You know what I like. A beautiful woman asking for what she wants.”
“And getting it until she cries,” you purr, rolling on top of him.
“Lies and slander,” he deadpans, grinding his hips up into yours. “I’d never enjoy seeing you with those pretty tears in your eyes, beggin’ me t’ keep goin’ and t’ stop at the same time.”
Of course, you both prove him wrong in short order. After, he holds you while you tremble, pressing kisses to the crown of your head. He laughs, just a little, when you can’t sit up enough to get your water on your own, but he also helps you, so that’s okay.
The next day, you realize that you actually don’t know what porn Simon finds exciting. He’s shared some with you, of course, on the nights where sex was too much work until it suddenly wasn’t. Every now and again, though, he would scroll past something with a dismissive noise. It wouldn’t be noteworthy, except… well, they’re all videos he’s saved in his favorites. So he likes them, but doesn’t necessarily want to share them with you. Which is fine. Heaven knows you’re deleting your porn history regularly. Whatever you look up when you’re ovulating is between you, Bowser, and God.
But the last straw for your curiosity comes when you borrow his phone to do some quick online shopping. A friend is having a themed pool party and wants everyone in shades of blue. You’ve been on a pink and purple kick, so you don’t actually have an appropriate bathing suit. So you pull up the search engine and look up bathing suits.
And there, in the search history: ‘Cow Print Bikini’.
Your research brain goes, “Jackpot.”
There’s no way to tell what, if anything, Simon looked at in the search results. But you’re good at knowing where to look. More importantly, you know your man. And after a full 24 hours of research, you have a pretty good idea of the shape of things.
-
“Hey Simon,” you call, a week later.
“In the den,” he answers.
“Can you… actually, I’ll be right there!”
When you get there, he’s playing one of his video games. He turns his head to kiss you, then curses under his breath when a pink slime eats the fruit he’d been trying to harvest. It’s such a sweet, domestic moment that you almost don’t want to interrupt.
“Do you have space for a kink discussion?” You settle onto the couch next to him, and pull your legs up under yourself. “Nothing bad. Just… maybe some negotiations. You can keep playing.”
He taps the controller against one of his palms, twice, then says, “Sure.”
You take a deep breath, then ask, “Have you ever heard of hucows?”
The pause menu comes up immediately, but Simon doesn’t look at you. In fact, he’s so still that you’re sure he’s stopped breathing. When he doesn’t say or do anything for a full ten seconds, you look up at him.
His face is blank, and he looks back at you from the corner of his eye.
“I’m going to take that as a yes,” you whisper.
He blinks, then shakes himself back into his skin. He looks back at the television, but doesn’t resume the game. “Why do you ask?”
“I’ve been doing some research,” you answer. “And I thought you might find it… interesting.” When he looks at you again without saying anything, you confess. “And there were cow print bikinis in your search history.”
All of the air leaves Simon in a whoosh. He leans back into the couch and scrubs a hand over his face. “’M sorry. I don’t… I wouldn’t ever… You know I love you. ‘N that I respect you. I’d never-”
“Woah, woah, wait!” You grab one of his hands in yours. “Hang on. You love me, I love you. I trust you. Do you trust me?”
Simon doesn’t answer for a long moment, and then he says, without taking his hand from his face, “I trust you to be ‘onest with me. Trust you’ll accept a no. Trust you’re not g’nna yell. Trust you not to punish me if you’re upset.”
“Acknowledged,” you breathe against his bicep. “I trust you to be honest with me, too. And I trust that it’s okay to tell you if I’m not comfortable with anything we discuss or do. I trust that you won’t yell at me. I trust that you’re not going to hurt or harm me on purpose to correct my behavior. Acknowledge.”
Simon sighs, again, then peeks through his fingers at you. “Acknowledged.”
“Okay,” you say, coaxing him to release some of the tension in his shoulders. “So. I did a little research. But I just want to know for sure what you think, what you find exciting.”
He’s pink when he asks, “Y’ve seen the videos?”
“No!”
That finally makes him look at you skeptically. “No?”
“I wasn’t snooping through your stuff,” you protest. “I literally searched for a bikini on your phone and it had the little history symbol next to it. I got curious.”
“Hell of a distance between a bathing suit an’ niche kinks.”
The hint of humor in his voice gives you the permission you were waiting for. You climb into his lap and throw your legs over one of his arms. He hugs you exactly the way you want, just as loving as ever.
“So then,” he eventually says. “What did you find?”
“So much bad porn, oh my god,” you answer. “Not that the actual hucow stuff itself is bad. It’s just that the non-paywalled stuff is steeped in so much spam. And what isn’t pure spam doesn’t really seem like your kind of thing. Just… lots of humiliation and degradation and misogyny kink. Stuff you’ve already said takes you out of the mood. And if that’s sometimes the mood, that’s fine, too. I know we don’t always masturbate to things we’re usually into-”
“It’s not that,” Simon interrupts.
You’re both quiet after. You realize that his heart is racing under your hand, and your heart is beating just as fast. But he keeps holding you, and you keep petting over the dip of his collarbones.
Your stomach churns. “I shouldn’t have said the porn was bad. I’m sorry.”
“It is bad,” Simon snorts. “’S part of why I never mentioned it. Some of that shit is nasty.”
“I like nasty.”
He hums and rubs a hand over your back. “I know, beautiful. But this feels… bad. Some ‘f it… ’S ‘ard to find the words. But I didn’t want you t’ think I see you that way, that I ever want to see you that way.”
“Porn isn’t real life,” you remind him. “Things that happen in a scene that everyone consented to-”
“Yeah, yeah.” He rolls his eyes as you glare up at him. “Let’s not pretend that kink has no basis in reality. Our dynamic is special to me, Naya. I don’t want to… disrespect it, or you, or us, with this.”
“Okay,” you whisper, tucking your face into his neck. You take one of his hands back into yours. “We don’t have to keep talking about it, if you don’t want to. But,” you can’t help but add with a smile. “I did get cow print lingerie. And a headband. It’s got little ears and horns.”
Simon groans. “No, you didn’t.”
“I did!” You press a kiss to his chin. “I’m glad I didn’t try to surprise you with it.”
“Would’a given me an ‘eart attack.”
“That would have been fun to explain. ‘Oh gee, Captain, I didn’t think he’d like it that much.’”
“Oi,” Simon growls.
He dips down to press his lips to yours. You don’t hesitate to wrap your arms around his shoulders and shift to straddle his lap. The kiss is sweet, a reassurance. Like aftercare. Maybe it is. Both of your bodies relax, until you can’t even hold yourself up to keep your lips on his. You lay your head on his shoulder with a content sigh.
You’re like that for a long time before Simon speaks again.
“Its the idea that her body… your body… could be nothing but pleasure and instinct. That I could pull pleasure from you until it would be pain not to.” He’s quiet for a moment, then continues when you don’t reply. “There’s something about it. But it’s a fantasy I never intended to bring to the bedroom. It’s… just something to think about, sometimes.”
Simon presents the cow print bikini on a Thursday. At first, you’re confused. Then you’re amused, because a year ago you would have worked yourself into a tizzy trying to figure out what he was saying about your weight. But Simon loves your body, and you, and after months of avoiding talking about it, this is a huge step. So you stay silent, and look up at him expectantly.
“Would like to do a scene this weekend,” he says. “Acknowledge.”
“Acknowledged,” you answer, biting back a smile. “What are the parameters?”
Things seem downright vanilla for the first half. A whole day of pampering - spa, nails, hair - that means he’s been planning this for a while. Your favorite, just fancy enough food for dinner, and a dessert to go. All the usual rules apply: Simon’s in charge, you promise to be honest. All in all, a perfect date night.
And then he says something that boggles your mind.
“Okay, wait. I put on the cow print, and then I can only moo? After we get home?”
“No,” he surprises you by saying. He takes a deep breath, then continues. “I want you to wear it all day. An’ you’re only allowed to moo. Except durin’ your appointments. Please don’t moo at your stylists.”
“But at dinner…”
“I’ll order for you,” He says. His eyes flick away, then back to yours. “I’ll take care of everything.”
“But we won’t talk,” you press.
His ears go pink, but he cracks a smile as he says, “I’ll talk. And it’s not a rule that you have to be silent.”
He’s embarrassed, you realize. He’s finally acting on this thing you discussed so long ago, but he’s still nervous about what you’ll think. You have to stifle the part of you that wants to coo.
“Okay,” you say, taking his hand and pressing a kiss to his knuckles. “Unless I’m using a safeword, I can just… make cow sounds. All day. Acknowledged.”
The day of comes quickly. And then you’’e contemplating the lingerie you bought months ago. It’s much nicer than the flimsy thing Simon got, “just as ‘n experiment, no sense in wastin’ money ‘f things aren’t good as the fantasy.” The bikini he got you is… cheap. Your purchase will certainly fit under your clothes nicer.
As you pull on the silky material Simon apparently didn’t believe you actually ordered, you take a couple of deep breaths. You’re going to wear cow print for your partner. It’s not much different, you reason, from asking him to graze his knife over your skin while he watches TV. It’s not not his thing. And this isn’t exactly your thing. But you love each other. So you’ll do this thing, because his enjoyment can be yours.
Yeah.
-
By the end of dinner, you’re much deeper into a submissive headspace than you ever expected to be. You’re so aware of the urge to talk and the fact that you can’t. It’s a constant cue to look to Simon. More than once, you almost slip up. The words catch in your throat and you have to pivot to a lowing sound, a drawn out vowel that leaves you feeling helpless as he smiles and pets at your hand. You expect it to be maddening, but it’s not. Simon anticipates your needs so well that there’s nothing you need that he doesn’t already provide for you. All you can do is shiver at the way he gives you everything, touches you everywhere.
By the time you’re in the car home, you’re a mess. You can’t sit still, find yourself staring at the side of Simon’s face as he drives. You’re startled when he looks back at you at a red light. He reaches out and you lean in, then jump when he pinches your nipple just hard enough to make you gasp. He watches your face as he pets and plucks, chuckles as you pant and groan and moo.
When the light is green again, he stops. You’re very aware of your right breast.
At the next red, he says, “Give me the other one.”
You do.
“Sweet, pretty girl,” he praises as he tugs at you again. He hums, pleased, as you arch your back. His eyes are dark when he says, “Not wearin’ what I gave you. C’n se y’r nipples beggin’ for attention.
When you look down at yourself, heat flushes through you from your crown to your toes. He’s right, the thin bralette that you’d chosen does nothing to hide you body’s reaction to being teased. And the dress he’d picked for you was already tight around your chest…
The light turns green. You moan as he releases you and turns back to the road.
“What’re you wearin’?” He asks. When you look at him, he’s smirking. “Tell me. Wha’s my pretty girl got under her dress?”
You open your mouth, and your voice sticks. “…Moo?”
“Oh, tha’ sounds nice,” he chuckles. He takes your hand in his. “Lookin’ forward to seein’ it.”
Your thoughts and legs stumble into themselves when you finally walk through your front door. Simon doesn’t let you get far. He catches you around the neck with a big hand and brings you close for a kiss. As soon as the door is shut, his hands make their way to the back of your dress. He unzips and then guides the soft material down until it’s past your hips, and drops down to your feet.
When he pulls away to look at you, his breath catches, and his whole body goes still. You’re so caught in the way his pupils dilate that it takes you a moment to remember the bralette, the panties, the garter belt. The cow print feels like an exaggeration of itself, when you look down at your own breasts. You vaguely remember feeling silly, when you’d put them on, but you don’t remember why. Simon’s eyes are so hot when he looks at you, you can’t help but preen a bit.
“Thought you was jokin,” Simon murmurs, cupping one of your breasts in his hand. His other hand cradles your jaw and makes you look up at him when he pinches your nipple again. His thumb dips into your mouth when you gasp. “But my sweet girl don’t lie to me. An’ she’s always show ready, huh? My sweet, soft girl,” Simon murmurs, going to one knee. He takes one of your hands and kisses your knuckles before placing it on his shoulder. Then he gently lifts your calf to take one of your shoes, then the other as he says, “Not a worry in the world, an’ you still give me so much.”
Even kneeling at your feet, he takes your breath away. His hands smooth up your stockings until he can dip his fingers under the straps of your garters, then he groans. You groan with him. You never know what to do with yourself when he gets like this. Hungry. Reverent on his knees. With a sigh, you close your eyes. You don’t need to know what to do, because he does. The gravity of him makes you sway forward as he leans forward to kiss just above your belly button.
You must signal your mental shift, because Simon stands and lifts you into his arms in the same movement. He kisses your lips like he’s starving. And you try to meet him, try to put everything you haven’t been able to say into the drag of your lips against his.
I love you. Thank you. I love you, I love you, I love you.
You expect him to be rough with you, heavy handed. But Simon is gentle as he touches you all over. When he lays you on the bed, instead of diving into your chest, he keeps kissing your mouth, your neck, down to your shoulder. You can’t stifle a giggle as he sucks kisses into your bicep and down to your forearm.
“Fuck,” he growls. He takes a hold of your hips and gives you a little shake. “You’re so perfect. ‘Ips ‘n thighs ‘n this arse. So strong and still so soft for me.” He dips down to press a kiss to your hip, even as one of his hands starts pinching at your nipple through your bralette again. “Eatin’ good and’ workin’ out ‘n sleepin’ better. Gonna let me give you that life of leisure? No more workin’, pretty girl. Just whatever feels good, whatever makes you ‘appy an’ soft, whatever I c’n give you.”
You try to gasp something that might be “yes” or “please,” but it turns into another drawn out moan. It doesn’t really matter, because Simon flips you onto your hands and knees so fast that your head spins. You almost fall over, but he catches you.
“Sorry sweet girl,” he chuckles. “But you’ve got me so caught up. ‘M gonna take care of you, don’t worry. Just so pretty - distractin’ me.”
Then he’s kissing across your shoulders, then makes his way down to your hipbones. You moan and sigh as his hands grope at you. His hands squeeze at your breasts, then your belly, your thighs, back to your ass. When he bites you, you yelp and groan, arching away from his teeth and into the hands.
“Shh, pretty girl,” he hushes. “’M sorry, I’ll give you what you need. Easy, tha’s it.”
You’re surprised into a gasp by his fingers rubbing gently over your clit through your panties. His other hand eases your back down - from cat to cow, you giggle to yourself - with another shushing sound. The tension bleeds out of your spine at the sound. Simon’s got you, he’s going to take care of you.
“There you go,” Simon rumbles as you drop your head between your arms. He strokes a hand down your back as his other hand gives you just a hint more pressure. “Is that better? Feel nice an’ relaxed?”
You’re feeling less relaxed by the second. Simon knows how to touch you if he wants you to melt. This? Is not that. He’s giving you just enough to tease, to make you instinctively chase his fingers. You shake your head and whimper, shuffling your knees knees further apart and arching your back again. You don’t even try to swallow a grunt of frustration when nothing you do makes him speed up or give you more pleasure.
“Hm?” He presses his lips against your hip as he asks, “Wha’s wrong, pretty girl? You need something?”
You open your mouth to beg, then remember that you can’t say anything. This motherfucker. When you tilt your body to glare at him, his eyes are sparkling with mirth. It’s hard not to smile back, to hold your frown long enough to let him know that you know what he’s doing.
But as usual, he’s a step ahead of you. As soon as you open your mouth to moo sarcastically, he slips a finger under your panties and into you, just as his other hand shoves the bra out of the way to pinch your nipple.
“So wet,” Simon whispers against your cheek. “Took care of everything else today, but you still need more, don’t you? Greedy girl.”
You are wet, have been since before he plucked at your nipples in the car. Since dinner, when he’d explained the cut of his steak, why he liked it. Since he paused and visibly considered what he couldn’t see you wearing. Since he’d looked at you with so much hunger that you’d had to take a sip of your water to gather yourself. You couldn’t say anything, then, by his direction and your own body’s need. You couldn’t make any sound at all, had practically ground your teeth together so you wouldn’t moan like a whore at the table.
Your jaw isn’t clenched now. The sound you make as two thick fingers push in is exactly as obscene as you imagined it would be. They press into you exactly where you want it as his other hand sends sparks through your chest and down your spine. Simon echoes you, breath hot against your face. You can’t keep yourself from chasing his lips with yours.
“Yeah,” he pants between biting kisses. He growls when you rock back into his fingers, and pinches your nipple until you gasp. “Settle, Bambi, ‘m gonna take care o’ you.”
His words melt you. Even as he ratchets your body into more tension, you believe him, and the promise alone is nearly a relief. When he pulls his fingers free, you don’t even think to protest. All you can do is hang your head between your arms and try to catch your breath. Something like a sob scrapes it’s way from your throat when he pushes back in with three.
The sound of Simon undoing his belt makes you tip your hips back and up, automatic. He groans again, deep in his throat, and slaps the meat of your ass. The sharp sting of it reminds you to be almost embarrassed, and you drop to your elbows to bury your face in the bedding.
“There you go,” Simon grunts as he lines himself up. He pushes in slow, so slow, as you pant and writhe and make animal sounds. One of his huge hands comes down to grip the back of your neck as he grunts and shoves deeper. “There’s my sweet girl. Shouldn’t’a kept you waiting. You can take it now, tha’s it.” He leans down, pushing just that little bit deeper as he plucks at your nipple again. He growls against your shoulder, “Gonna do this every day, yeah? Quit your job so I c’n keep you soft like this all the time. Breed you up proper, bet y’re gonna taste so sweet when your milk comes, when it’s all y’ve got to do, just a life of milk ‘n honey.”
You almost can’t make out what he’s saying over the sound of your own noises and the wet sounds of him pushing in and out of you. The fireworks up and down your spine have you writhing back into his thrusts. You can tell he’s rambling, that he’s so lost in your bodies that he’s losing control of his mouth. A change in angle has you crying out again, every nerve on fire as he pushes into you just right. The orgasm that had been building steadily rushes over you. It’s impossible to stop, shakes through your limbs until you collapse onto your chest under him.
“Tha’s it,” Simon hisses, pace steady and devastating as he chases you down to the mattress. “This what you need? Need t’ be bred an’ fucked ‘til you can’t think of nothin’ else? Yeah, tha’s what you need. Gonna make you come on my cock again, fill you up the way you like. Then I’ll hook you up, huh? Can’t leave you wantin’ jus ‘cause I need a break. C’n put a pump at each o’ your tits an’ keep fuckin’ you with a machine, too, ‘til I’m ready to go again, yeah?
Jesus, you think, giggling under him. Your pussy flutters as he gasps something else you can’t quite make out over the rushing in your ears. He wants to ruin you. You want him to, to do all of these things he’s growling about. The thought that he might is thrilling and terrifying, that after he comes and breeds you full he could go to the closet and pull out the machine and the dildo you bought for when he’s deployed to keep fucking you…
Your stomach swoops as you get caught up in your own fantasy. He doesn’t have to stop. You’d be too weak to fight him. And if he tied you up, bound you where he wants to keep you, he could do whatever he wants. Did he actually have a pump, something to pull at your nipples while he watched across the room? Would this be the time he finally surprises you with something you hadn’t quite negotiated? He could, he could, you’d let him, you’d beg-
“Simon!”
The second orgasm hurts. It hits so fast and hard on the heels of the first. You can vaguely feel the wetness running down your thighs as you squirt, legs shaking. Above you, Simon goes abruptly silent as he comes, breath coming out in barely-there grunts as his cock kicks and twitches inside of you.
All of the air huffs out of your lungs as he partially collapses on you. Another giggle stutters out of you. It turns into a moan as he guides your legs down and open so he can grind into you some more until you’re prone. His own gentle chuckle tickles your ear.
“Fuckin’ ell,” he pants. The arm that’s braced to keep his weight off of you shakes a bit. “Gimme… fuck, gimme a minute. ‘Ll get up in a mo’.”
“Mmm,” you hum, kissing at his wrist. You tip your head back to grin up at him. “Moo.”
He crushes you a bit when his laughter makes him fall, but you can’t even pretend to be upset.
#dragonnarrativewrites fanfiction#Best In Show#kink fics#manic pixie dream ghost#simon ghost riley#simon riley x you#ghost x reader#black reader#PSA from Price sitting backwards in a chair: Remember to practice Risk Aware Consensual Kink#remember that kink is what you make it#negotiation means finding out what each person wants from an experience#and not just assuming based on whatever your research might tell you#also brain fantasies and real life sex can be different even when they're happening at the same time#this is a one shot#for now#who knows what the brain worms will do
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EngPortWeek @engportevents
Day 2 (May 9th) ~ Workplace crush/Teamwork
Modern!Sailortalia this time! 8D. Captain and First Officer of the Merchant Navy in a non-formal uniforms. The Methuen Treaty is working pretty well nowadays~. And both are good old sea lions in the oceans they ruled. So yeah, no pirates for now, but also a different thing!
Hope you like it, lovely crew!
Ps. As a funny detail, the Methuen is the most short treaty in all european's diplomatic history. Only 3 articles! So I imagine it a 3-lined dialogue after bed, like:
-Oi, husband, I want your wine, and you want my fabric. Wanna trade? -No taxes for me, and more sex in the morning. -... it's a bloody deal.
#hetalia#engport#aph portugal#aph england#porteng#hws portugal#hws england#engportweek#engportweek2025#modern sailors#sailortalia#rosas headcanons#sailors#merchant navy#navy#like the enemies of their own pirate egos lol#Port knows how to negotiate with the british empire#this was a hard prompt i have to confess#but it made me to do a little research
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I literally just wanted to listen to the song.
It sounds like it should be the end credit after you finish the main story and made it through an arduous journey, and now everyone is going to live happily ever after. This would be playing during an epilogue as it shows scenes of every single character going about their normal daily life. As the song ends, it will pan to the main characters, implying that this is just the beginning of the next stage of their lives.
#love and deepspace#videos#can you imagine#i would literally cry my eyes out#like i want to see thomas negotiating with people#jeremiah running his flower shop#tara doing her card reading#pie being silly and gluttonous around dr. noah as he is reviewing his researches#etc. etc.#and then it pans to#rafayel working in his studio#zayne taking a break from work and feeding clopidogrel#xavier setting his kitchen on fire - again#caleb is also here because i said so#sylus can be off being moody or something with his crow ig#and finally as the song wraps up it pans to mc somewhere majestic like a flower field or the beach#she smiles at the camera but also at the three main lis as they smile back at her#and the camera pans up to the sky with the game's logo#i have a vision#and that vision is making me sad#because i hate endings because of the bittersweetness#ugh#i'm gonna go listen to the guys meowing to make me less sad now#bye
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Don't drink coffee too close to bedtime, kids.

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I'm sure it's fine.

I can't wait for this to have absolutely no future repercussions 👍

Oh, no! Consequences!!
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#rimworld#gracie plays#A Mechanitor's Message#art#my art#traditional art#rimworld art#unpolished art#tw glitch#tw eye stuff#poor Mechi is going through it#I am excited for Anomaly stuff though#But we are researching coffee first#that's non-negotiable#coffee > survival because coffee = survival#mathematics *dabs*#can you tell it's late?#I am going to bed. Hopefully I don't dream of monoliths.#I don't have cute robots to beep-boop at me when I have mental breaks#have a good day everybody!! <3 <3
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MacGyver 1985 || The Negotiator
#MacGyver#MacGyver 1985#the negotiator#dating 101#see a pretty girl?#no problem#tell her about your acid rain research#is this literally the only time he asks a girl out on a date?#and it’s this wench?!#ugh!#richard dean anderson#rda#I made this
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Wrote the second half of the cover letter and updated my resume this morning. Just did one final chack then yote the apllication online. Let's wait and see...
#one day before deadline which does not help my chances#but i am an internal candidate this time thanks to my current parttime research positiom#so that should help#would be nice to get this#10 months of parttime research employment in which i can learn a lot#which would really help with apllying to a phd eventually#and also no need to negotiate with my other job about wanting more hours#but at the other hand there is no pressure to get this job because i have a job
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yeah yeah don't get caught up on worldbuilding blah blah blah but if I have a protagonist who's a professional dancer in a fantasy world I gotta unpack how the arts are structured into this society. I gotta determine what kinds of dance are performed, particularly in terms of having organized performance spaces and permanent dance troupes. is this a globalized enough world that there's cultural exchange and how does that come through. how has dance evolved over the centuries given how this world has changed. and I don't know SHIT ABOUT DANCE
#research only gets you so far when what you're setting out to do requires a degree in the history of dance. for ONE CHARACTER#she has to be a dancer btw. this is non negotiable.
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The Gospel of Immunity: A Sermon on the Sacred Shield of Vaccination
Behold, the paradox of human cognition: we champion progress, yet tremble before its fruits.
In a world spinning upon the axis of relentless biological warfare—our cells besieged by microbial marauders—vaccines stand as sentinels, the silent paladins of immunological defense. Yet, their divine efficacy is often questioned by those who worship at the altar of anecdote, forsaking the empirical cathedral of science.
Consider the Magnitude of Their Grace
Vaccines are not mere concoctions of modern alchemy. They are the crystallized wisdom of centuries, born of Pasteur’s tenacity, Jenner’s courage, and the accumulated trials of countless minds wielding microscopes like swords. They have subdued polio’s paralysis, exorcised smallpox’s specter, and shielded countless millions from the venoms of measles, tetanus, and pertussis.
And what of their adversaries? The infinitesimal specter of adverse reactions. Let us quantify the peril: the risk of a severe allergic reaction to a vaccine—a dreaded anaphylaxis—is approximately one in a million. To contextualize, the chance of being struck by lightning in one’s lifetime is 1 in 15,300. Shall we eschew umbrellas next? Or perhaps condemn electricity itself as too great a hazard to endure?
On Negotiation with Risk
Vaccination is not the obliteration of risk; it is a calculated negotiation with uncertainty. To vaccinate is to weigh the scales of harm and benefit, to face the specter of a one-in-a-million reaction and declare that the lives of millions are worth that gamble. Contrast this with the toll exacted by diseases unopposed: measles alone claims the lives of over 100,000 annually, most of them children. This is not conjecture—it is arithmetic, immutable and unyielding.
Shall we refuse the shield because it may chafe? Shall we spurn the ship because it cannot promise calm seas? Such is the folly of those who elevate potential discomfort above the preservation of collective health. They barter statistical insignificance for certainty of peril, trading herd immunity for herd vulnerability.
The Poetry of Immune Memory
The true marvel of vaccination is not merely its prevention but its pedagogy. Vaccines instruct our immune system, training it to recognize the invader before the battle has begun. They are rehearsals for wars that may never come. To vaccinate is to inscribe within the body a symphony of defense, a living testament to humanity’s ingenuity and resilience.
Without this foresight, the immune system becomes a tactician unprepared for the ambush. Disease ravages unchecked, leaving scars upon both flesh and society. Vaccines, therefore, are not just medicinal; they are ethical. They embody the moral imperative to protect not only oneself but the vulnerable—the infant, the immunocompromised, the elder.
A Closing Admonition
Let us not falter in the face of misinformation, for it spreads with a virulence rivaling the diseases we seek to defeat. Let us arm ourselves with knowledge and statistics, with reason and compassion. The act of vaccination is an act of faith—not blind faith, but faith rooted in evidence, nurtured by science, and borne aloft by the unassailable truth that humanity is stronger united.
Go forth, then, and spread the gospel of immunity. For in the armory of progress, the needle is mightier than the microbe.
#negotiate#bacteria#climate change#disease#evidence#facts#honesty#immunity#knowledge#pathogens#reality#research#science#scientific-method#study#truth#vaccine#virus#wisdom
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#got a MAJOR win at work today#successfully negotiated funding for a new program that will create 10-15 new paid research positions this summer#with potential to scale to 20-25 student positions next year if the pilot program goes well#all in an area/field we have been strategically targeting because student demand for opportunities there is so high#!!!!!#now [redacted] did present this proposal as her work to the higher-ups with no mention of me lol#even though i have been determinedly driving this forward for months#which is such a contrast to my boss at UT who was SO good/meticulous about naming people's specific contributions esp to their superiors#but honestly whatever! who cares as long as the work gets done!!!#now lots to do to get the program up and running for summer but#that is work i enjoy. finding funding is work i do not enjoy#anyway i am PLEASED
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Finally, a date AND time that I know I’m going home by sob
Going to be basically all day Thursday but I’ll be free… Friday is my time… Thursday night I’ll snork mimimi in my own fuckin bed…. 2 more days… 2 more sleeps…. I need all the mental strength I can muster to ask for the amount of money I’m owed 😵💫🙃
Anyways. Breakfast time OTL
#day-2-day#because ofc we didn’t negotiate beforehand why would we have with my terrible aversion to it#and the only price I have in our text history is outdated and compared to research on prices in this area grossly undercharged for the work#so I’m hoping to just. h. I just gotta text em day of what my expected rate is and the bill and then I just get to LEAVE#before they get home because it’s going to be Very Late#to clarify my tags about the aversion- he didn’t bring it up EITHER. he never does. supposedly it’s my problem to deal with so.#if he wants to argue with me that 300/week is too much he can hire somebody else#I’m sure they’ll do a shittier job or charge 400/week instead :)#and I know they’ll do a shittier job bc they’ve tried to replace me 5 times#and every person they’ve scraped off the street to do this doesn’t do the damn job.#they don’t walk the dog they don’t water the plants they drink the expensive wine they’re not supposed to and they don’t clean anything!#and they don’t stay in the house- me? I got no car. I live here. I barely ever leave. your house is SAT my man.#I walk the dog EVERY MORNING for half a fuckin hour at LEAST! I do your laundry! I water ALL the plants!#my family are busybodies so they come mow and edge! that’s not even part of the job description!
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The Alchemist Vampire Writer: Essential How To Guide
Have an incredible idea how to write an immersive first person tale about the mortal AND immortal life of the most mysterious character of the Vampire Chronicles, that could encompass and embrace all his contradictory aspects as written in the books, but then don't and instead research for a year to two years 🤷♂️
#I should have kept a record of how many cups of coffee correspond to researching a polymaths non-negotiable interests#the vampire magnus#dark ages daddy#tscr au
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another day of feeling slightly bewildered at the lab. sleep + calorie deprived edition
#i have to do a bunch of research ive been putting off 4 a while...#i feel like so much ass honestly but i negotiated a slight delay in my dxperiments since is doctor week#the week i go to the doctors#wish me luck lmao ill need it
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The atrocities happening to people in both Israel and Palestine are horrific, but the western media are spinning the narrative that it was an unprovoked attack.
Because after 75 years of displacement, oppression and violence by the military, being kept in an open air prison, having no control over water supply, internet, peaceful attempts at achieving freedom that resulted in violence-
And people are surprised Palestine are trying to liberate themselves?
from the river to the sea, always 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
#I'm seeing so many people saying that they should try becoming free peacefully#they should negotiate for better conditions#like come on#look up the history#do your research#No one is inherently violent#of course they tried other methods#palestine#free Palestine
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that SPN post + me flipping through a collection of story ideas has ne thinking of that time I looked at SPN and went "alright, if I wanted an Egyptian-American take on some of this, what would that be"
#cipher talk#I'm reluctant to talk about story ideas before actually having shared actual writing on them but man#This would be good I just kinda feel like I need more research/possibly a cowriter because of what one of my character concepts has implied#The idea is basically that there's a guy who handles monsters who has custody of his teen sister that's possessed by a zar spirit#And he can't help her because the way his father taught them to handle monsters is through violence not negotiation#And because they're in diaspora he can't find a zar congregation anyway and they're too poor to seek one out in Egypt#And while working he gets saved by a random guy he recognizes as taking odd jobs in the area#Who it turns out is the angel responsible for the indunation of the Nile in Egypt and is this weird half dead state because of the#Aswan Dam and left because he couldn't bear living in Egypt like that#I call him the angel-ghost and it's like#The process leading up to the Indunation still happens its just the last part that's weird#Like a record that gets stuck and skips right before the chorus in a song
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I like to pretend acne doesn't affect my mental health because I think that's silly and superficial. But... it definitely does. If I have any inclination not to leave the house to do something a frustrating skin day will absolutely tip the scales and end with me sitting at home feeling bad about myself.
I spent a full aforementioned day researching it, and I'm pretty decided I'm going to try accutane.
#I probably could have benefited from it sooner but I never stuck with a dermatologist long enough to get to that point#I always got frustrated that nothing really worked and didn't go back#but I don't think I was mature enough in my 20s to be smart about my health or advocate for my wants with a doctor#so I'm glad I didn't consider it until now#now I know how doctor's visits work and I know how to research and that there is room for negotiation it's not a one way street#and isotretinoin has serious potential side effects so I'm glad I didn't ever jump into it without being realistic or well informed#but yeah I think it could be incredibly helpful for me seeing as I have the exact same skin issues at 31 as I did at 15
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