#Niagara Falls experience

[travelernight]

Ultimate Canada Journey: 10 Stops You Need to Make

[aubstacle-of-course]

Fucked around and made another one

[morgenlich]

it’s an 8 hour drive to the nearest actual border crossing but having crossed at that point (from ontario into michigan) before i think it’s safe to tack a couple hours onto the overall time just because you’ll be sitting in your car waiting to go through customs for a bit

[cmtravelstay]

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[mike-jacque-c-the-world]

10/02/22 - Niagara Falls, ON - FORCE OF NATURE - Got up early to beat the crowds on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and have taken tons of pictures from every angle. Like the close-ups the best because they do a great job of capturing this force of nature. The mist rising from the falls was a powerful force as well. It was the equivalent of a drenching rain which you absolutely wouldn’t expect on a bright sunny day when walking by, from what we thought would be a safe distance, a quarter of a mile away. Our morning walk along the river and falls was a truly spectacular visual experience: much better than what we observed from the American side several years ago. So glad we came back here to take it all in again from the Canadian side.

[elodieunderglass]

the first chapter of Moby Dick rewritten in tiresome modern idiom

CHAPTER 1. Loomings.

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - it's none of your business how many - being mostly broke, and bored with the land part of the world, I thought I would sail around a little and look at the watery part of the world. I'm probably the most mentally healthy person you know. Whenever I feel my face getting grim; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself accidentally reading the ads in the window of funeral homes, and following funeral processions through traffic; and especially when I'm hangry, and only my extremely strong moral principles stop me from deliberately going out in public and methodically slapping people's earbuds out - then I know it's high time to get to sea, ASAP. This is my substitute for getting in fights. I'm too mentally healthy to kill myself; I quietly and considerately put myself on a ship and sail myself away instead. There is nothing surprising in this. Everyone feels exactly the same way, and if they don't, they're lying.

You think I'm lying? Exhibit A: a city. Go to your local coastal city. Everyone is looking at the water. They drive over from other neighborhoods just to come to the water. They make a day of it. They're not doing anything, they're just staring at the ocean. Why? Is it because they all work office jobs? No! Here come more of them! They cram themselves up to the edge of the water and stare at it. WHAT DO THEY WANT? WHAT ARE THEY LOOKING AT. Perhaps the ships themselves all packed together, each one with several compasses on it, creates some kind of critical mass - all of the small compass-magnets on all the ships in the harbor combining into one really big magnetic field - and the people get sucked into the field and trapped there. That's science.

Exhibit 2: the countryside with lakes in it. Every path you follow in the countryside brings you to some water, such as a stream. There is magic in it. If you take your standard fool with ADHD dissociating in the middle of a supermarket and put them outside and give them a shove, they'll automatically lead you to water (if there is any nearby) (try it). Another good experiment to try is to get lost in the great American desert in a caravan supplied with a metaphysical professor! Try it in the great American desert at home!

Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are a match made in heaven. Married forever. That's science.

Here's an artist who wants to paint you the dreamiest, most enchanting landscape. What does he put in it? Trees, meadow, cows, a cottage with smoke coming from the chimney, obviously. He will probably put a path in it and make lots of triangular mountains in rows and have them be different shades of blue (naturally.) But there's gotta be a stream in it. Go visit the prairies in June, and wade for forty miles through knee-deep through tiger lilies. What's missing from this picture? Water!

If Niagara Falls was made of sand instead of water, would you travel your thousand miles to see it? Why would a guy given a handful of cash have trouble deciding whether to buy a coat (which he needed) or go to the beach? Why are all the best, healthiest, sexiest and most mentally healthy people obsessed with the sea? (You get me.) When you were first on a boat, did you not succumb to VIBES? Consider ancient Persia. Consider ancient Greece. They understood about vibes, and also gods.

SURELY ALL OF THIS IS NOT WITHOUT MEANING.

And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all! You get me! You understand it now.

Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I get weird, don't you dare imply that I buy a ticket and get on a boat. I have never had money in my life. How dare you. Anyway I don't go as a passenger - that's bougie, and something boring people do. Passengers never have a good time. And although my C.V. is incredible - I go to sea SO MUCH, you guys, I have lots of experience - I don't go as a boss, or a cook. That sounds like far too much work. Hard work. Disgusting, respectable, bougie, and far too responsible. I can literally only look after myself. Do not ask me to look after ships or shit. In fact, I have only a vague idea of what a ship is. There's so many different kinds of ships - don't get me started and DO NOT GET INVOLVED. Also, I'm allergic to glory.

It's kind of attractive to go as a cook. I mean, I'm allergic to glory and there's some glory attached to the position of the ship's cook, but, like, you're not management-track and so it's still credible. But I don't really want to cook (say) roast chicken. I really fucking love to eat roast chicken. I'm one of the best at doing it actually. I really appreciate when people go out of their way to butter, season, baste and roast a chicken for me. Picture a roast chicken and I am Looking Respectfully at it. Maybe something more, maybe I'm worshipping it. Don't make this weird. If you want to get weird about my relationship with roasted chicken, why aren't you getting weird about the ancient Egyptians? They ate roasted hippos (look it up) and the pyramids were basically pizza ovens. So it's pretty hypocritical to think that I'm being weird about roasted chicken when I've never made mummies out of chickens or built a religious pizza oven dedicated to honoring them: check and mate, haters.

Anyway - I like to go to sea as a manual laborer. A simple sailor. Salt of the earth… er… sea. Yeah, true: as a job it sucks. They make you jump around, order you around, treat you like shit. They expect you to jump around the boat like a grasshopper. And yes, at first, this sucks. It's degrading, especially if you come from a middle-class family. Worse, it's awful if you've already had some kind of professional job before signing on to be the dirt on the boss's boots - like, if you went to college and worked as a teacher and actually got kids to pay attention to you, really feeling this connection to work/teaching/identity or some shit, and now you are just literally the scum on this captain's boots, in the lowest possible job in the world. It hurts! It hurts your dignity. But the hurt, and also the dignity, both wear off in time.

So what if some old bastard sea captain orders me - ME! - to get a broom and sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, compared to the shit in the Bible, compared to the shit in the news, compared to the shit everyone else has to take. Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly and respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance? Who ain’t a slave? Tell me that. We're all just serfs under capitalism, right, so why not just be honest about it: I prefer the honesty. Anyway, however the old sea captains may order me about - slapping and punching of course - I have the satisfaction of knowing that it's the same experience everyone else on Earth has, but more honest. Everyone else in the world is being served the exact same way. Either in a physical or a metaphysical way - sometimes people get the shit beaten out of them in person, sometimes online, sometimes emotionally, it happens to you in EVERY JOB, you sign on to get pushed around and slapped in the teeth: so the point is that when you're a sailor, it's a clean and honest slap. All the workers of the world share the same universal slap to the face that gets passed round, one slap passed all 'round the chain, like paying it forward, but it's a slap; and we should all accept this Universal Slap as the price of living, and then offer each other healing back massages, brother to brother, and slap each other and then kissed the places we slapped, and be happy.

I could examine that but I'm not going to.

Anyway: I always go to sea as a sailor. I've said that already. You're welcome. BUT THE POINT IS, they pay you. If you're a passenger, they don't pay you, at least, not that I've ever heard of [citation needed] (do they pay passengers?? Is there a job I can get where I can be a passenger and get paid?? Look this up.) Yeah so passengers have to pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. (That's Adam and Eve. You get it.) But BEING PAID. GETTING PAID IS THE BEST. NOTHING COMPARES TO GETTING PAID. EVERYONE LOVES THAT SHIT. Which is surprising, since we also apparently believe that money is the root of all evil, and isn't there something in the bible about "no rich people can get into heaven," right? And yet it's universal, literally everyone loves payday. Ah! How cheerfully we send ourselves to hell.

Finally, I always go to sea as a sailor (I've said this already) because it's FRESH AIR AND EXERCISE. Okay so think about ships. Normally, bosses stand on the "bridge" thing, and because we're sailing a boat, the nose is going into the wind and the butt part of the boat is at the back. That's how wind works. But if you think about it, winds usually go in one direction more than other directions (unless the men have been eating beans and farting: it's Pythagoras, look it up) SO if you're a boss standing on the boss-deck, the wind is blowing FROM the sailors TOWARDS you, and YOU ARE ACTUALLY BREATHING THE AIR THAT SAILORS ALREADY BREATHED. The boss THINKS he breathes it first, but he doesn't. He gets the air at the BACK of the boat and sailors get the air at the FRONT. So it's better to be at the front of the boat (sailor) for health reasons. This is a metaphor for life and work, etc.

But I have smelled the sea lots of times as a paid sailor and WHY I should decide to go on a whaling expedition - ok so you know how there's an invisible police officer of the Fates who has me under constant surveillance, who secretly dogs me, and influences me in some unaccountable way? YOU get me. You know him. "The poor FBI agent tasked with reading my search engine history" YOU GET ME. Anyway, "Ishmael, why, after having a perfectly well-reasoned, and very smart of you, part-time job as a spontaneous random sailor, did you decide to escalate that to joining a WHALING EXPEDITION, which is worse in every way?" Well, ask my fucking secret FBI agent, he can answer better than anyone else. Including me. You get me. Also, obviously, this was predestined, part of the Universe's Grand Programme for its talent show, which was all scheduled way before our time. The concept of sending me on the whaling voyage comes in as a kind of interlude or solo between the main performances of the Universe's great talent show. I bet it was advertised llike,

"PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF THE UNITED STATES EMBROILED IN ONGOING LEGAL DISPUTE.

Whaling voyage by some guy called Ishmael.

BLOODY BATTLE IN AFGHANISTAN."

Like a commercial break in between the big acts. A filler episode. Lightens the load for everyone else. Though I can't explain why the stage managers - the Fates - chose such a shitty role for me, a WHALING VOYAGE of all things, when it feels like others were given magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces - it seems a little unreasonable at first. Why doth Ishmael get shat upon, etc. But then I think about all the circumstances, the plot points and motivations that were cunningly presented to me under various disguises - FBI agents, bouts of random hanger, gay awakenings, you get me - and you can see that actually, I was set up. And worse, between them all, these Fates and Circumstances conspired to make me believe it was all my own choice and good judgment. Is Free Will an illusion? Are my decisions bad? We will NEVER know because I, Ishmael, am just a little guy that the Universe plays head games with.

One of the ways the Universe tricked me into starring in this performance and then mocking me for it was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself (whaling expeditions usually contain whales.) Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity. Then of course, if you have a whale, you have the wild and distant seas where the whale rolls around with his body-the-size-of-an-island; the dangers and nameless perils of the whale; whales are also found in interesting places I haven't seen; this all tipped me over the edge. Maybe normal people could've resisted, but I am tormented with an everlasting itch for obscurity. I hate everyone else's oceans. I want the forbidden seas.

You know The Horrors? Of course you do. You might be surprised that I, the most mentally healthy person you've ever met, a person who is self-aware enough to go to sea when they're at their fucking limits, a guy who likes fresh air and manual labor and normal things, is familiar with The Horrors. Well, you'd be surprised. I know what's good, I'm an extrovert. But I'm still quick to perceive The Horrors. And how I deal with the horrors is a very extroverted thing: I'm social with them, if they'll let me. It's smart to be on good terms with The Horrors. You should always be on good terms with your permanent neighbors. That's how extroverts deal with The Horrors, and I recommend it.

I think that's enough explanation for why I welcomed the whaling voyage. The great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild figments of imagination that pushed me into doing it, the whales came marching two by two, hurrah, hurrah. They marched into my innermost soul in endless processions and occupied it, you see, I was quite helpless under this occupation - I consented to the haunting and the whales marched in to haunt me - and amidst them all was one grand shrouded white phantom, like a snowy mountain in the air.

You get it.

You know how it is, with whales.

(read the actual first chapter of Moby Dick here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-h/2701-h.htm)

[lizardsfromspace]

Do you ever get kind of interested in a subject where nothing weird has happened yet but you know something weird is going to happen?

Anyway, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. It was originally a upscale resort community, and also still is: it's where rich people from Chicago kept their lake houses, and maybe still do. Its heyday was in the early to mid 20th century, where its status as a vacation destination was so set that Hugh Hefner even put the first ever "Playboy Resort" there. I haven't been there myself, so I may be wrong, but it doesn't give me, like, Pigeon Forge or Niagara Falls energy. The list of attractions online seems to be spas and parks and a few theaters.

But Lake Geneva is more famous now for its most famous son, Gary Gygax. Over the course frigid Wisconsin winters, he and several wargaming friends who didn't become famous developed tactical wargaming into the game Dungeons & Dragons in the early 1970s. He also began hosting a small gaming meetup in Lake Geneva, later called Gen Con, which outgrew the town by the late 1970s.

As I understand it, Lake Geneva didn't really embrace its status as the Birthplace of Dungeons and Dragons. When Gygax died, there were fan-funded tributes here and there, and fans created a new convention in his honor called Gary Con where they played games from his time at TSR, but D&D was still a niche hobby and not the thing you define a rich people resort town around.

Then, whoops, shows like Critical Role turned D&D into one of the most popular entertainment properties in the world! Now there's D&D-themed events popping up all over the place. Some of this is normal, like efforts to fund a more prominent memorial for Gary Gygax, and a Dragon Days Fantasy Festival. But some are going further. Because there are now at least two proposals to create immersive, D&D-themed LARP experiences in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, population 8,227

One is a large themed restaurant/bar/wedding venue (?) called the Griffin and Gargoyle, which is supposedly opening in 2024, though all the art is concept art and they're still looking for investors.

The other one is Giantlands, the proposed theme park where the tickets will be NFTs, based on a game no one's heard of developed by the son of Gary Gygax by a company that legally can't call itself TSR anymore, but tried anyway before rebranding as Wonderfilled, and who also tried to make old Gygax games even more racist? I can't even begin to explain this. I think they got dunked on years ago but they were still hyping up its Lake Geneva theme park that's definitely going to exist this week (this is from August 11th)

What's incredible to me here is that they're boasting that their LARP theme park will be from the makers of Evermore Park. Nothing says quality in immersive fantasy roleplaying parks like someone whose main claim to fame is making that other one that failed. Wonder how many real tombstones and haunted dolls they'll buy this time. And this one appears to have fighting arena

I seriously doubt these are the only two pitches. Everyone with too much money and a love for theme parks feels the little voice in their head saying they can do the Star Wars Hotel right. I think what gets me here is, nobody would put anything like this in Lake Geneva otherwise. It's small, it's located in Wisconsin so it'd have to be seasonal, and it's less than two hours away from Wisconsin Dells - an entire town of kitschy roadside attractions - and even closer to Chicago, which is Chicago. Its tourism niche is beaches and homes around a scenic lake. The only reason to place anything there would be to honor Gary Gygax, and uh, I don't think the younger people who got into D&D with 5E really care about him, or even necessarily know who he is. Gary Con and most Gygax-themed events are for old-school gamers, not the Critical Role crowd. And they especially don't care about whatever Giantlands is. Giantlands as a game is so old-school there isn't even a PDF of the book, it's physical only. They want to build a full theme park around a game you can't even buy on DrivethruRPG. Anyway I hope all this open bc it would be funny

[graceofagodswrath]

Menstrual Cycles and Aliens

“I apologize, but Williams is doing what?”

Kate sighed, brown eyes rolling at Ka’oolai’s stiff confusion. “Bleeding Niagara Falls out of her uterus. She’s gonna need a couple days.”

“Katy.” Jasmine hissed. “That is not how you explain this shit to people.”

Kate’s lips thinned in exasperation. “It makes them listen! God knows how many times I had to describe it so graphically to get all the men in my family to understand that you can’t just ‘suck it up!’”

The three sat in the dining lounge, a room on the transport ship meant for relaxation for workers on their breaks. Ka’looai, the ship’s second-in-command, had inquired about Pilot William’s ask for absence. Kate Blanche, the engineer and second roommate to De’maya, had answered in her usually blunt way. Luckily, The third roommate and Quartermaster of the ship, Jasmine Lativos, had been there to cushion Ka’looai’s immediate confusion.

Ka’looai held up their four hands to the two humans, insectoid limbs the notable deep, iridescent purple of their native race, Yamogai. They resembled a mix of a beetle and praying mantis, tall with hard, spiny exoskeletons. They displayed a variety of colors like humans (tho more vibrant), but the most common was purple.

“I apologize… I do not understand. Does Pilot Williams have an open wound? Do they need to go to the medibay?” Ka’looai’s voice sounded like the vibrating of beating wings, so they had to pronunciate other languages precisely in order to be understood. So they spoke slowly and with a deliberate concentration. This voice also gave way to an accent that made them pronounce certain letters like ‘v’s. There was a running joke with humans that Yamogai were related to Germans, as their accents were similar when speaking English.

Jasmine shook her head. “No. She’s experiencing a part of her menstrual cycle, the human female reproductive cycle.” Ka’looai cocked their head, so Jasmine continued. “Every month, we expel the inside lining of our uterus, the organ that develops a human fetus if the female is pregnant. If a female isn’t pregnant, our uterus removes the old lining of tissue and blood and gets rid of it from our body to create a new lining in case she does become pregnant. It’s the same muscle contractions as childbirth, though at a smaller fraction. This process can be extremely painful for some, if not most people, and De’maya is one of them. So she just needs some time off to deal with and recover from this experience.”

Ka’looai stared for a moment, mantis-like eyes seeming to stare through the humans souls. “I… see. I will inform the captain, then. Is there anything else we must know about this… event? I assume you two experience it as well as you said every human female does?”

Kate shrugged, long brown braid shifting in her shoulders. “Mine isn’t so bad usually. I’m one of the lucky ones. I get irritable and the occasional back pains, but I don’t need time off recuperate necessarily.”

“Irritable?”

Jasmine smiled, more of grimace for those experienced in reading human expressions. “Annoyed. Aggressive. The process increases the amount of estrogen and testosterone in our bodies, hormones that can heavily influence our emotional states. So we can be a bit…” Jasmine paused to think. “Intense.”

“Ah.” Ka’looai’s antennae twitched emphatically. “That is why I sensed the rise in strange pheromones. So this increase of chemicals affects you physically, emotionally, and mentally. I see why Pilot Williams asked for an absence then. Will the two of you require the same?”

Jasmine made an expression that Ka’looai could not understands. She bared her teeth while narrowing here eyes and scrunching her nose, dark skin wrinkling. Her hands rolled synchronously back and forth, a gesture the Yamogai recognized as a sign for uncertainty. “My cycle is more chaotic. Many factors can influence the way it is, and I tend to be influenced heavily by those.” She gestured at the other human. “Whereas Kate’s average is light and less painful, and De’maya’s average is heavy and extreme pain, mine can be either depending on my situation. If I’m stressed and haven’t taken care of myself, it’s usually pretty painful. If the opposite, I can usually function pain free. It depends.”

“What do you mean by light and heavy?”

“That refers to the amount of blood and tissue we expel. Light is very little, medium is a bit more, heavy means a lot. Some people have more lining than others. The heavier the flow can also increase the amount of pain.”

“Is this process different for every human?”

Both women nodded.

“And you still work through such obstacles?”

“Pretty much.” Jasmine confirmed.

“Interesting.” Ka’looai hummed, the sound vibrating the air rhythmically. “So human females expel a large amount of their own blood and tissue every month simply for not reproducing. And it is incredibly painful, yet some of you still function through it. No wonder females are in higher demand than males. You are a hardy species.” Their laugh sounded like the erratic buzzing of fly multiplied by ten. “Is there anything else I need to know?”

“Oh, there’s a shit ton if you wanna properly educate yourself on human reproduction.” Kate waved a scarred, oil darkened hand. “But Jaz gave you the basics. Hah, you may know and understand it better than the average human male.” Kate chuckled dryly and Jasmine huffed. “But that’s a debate hole that can be saved for another time.”

“If you want to learn more, read some human biology books, and we can answer any questions you have.” Said Jasmine. “Make sure they’re recent ones tho, the outdated ones are full of a lot of misinformation.”

“I see. I will do so. Human biology continues to fascinate. I have always found learning about other races to be rather intriguing, and humans never disappoint.”

“Yeup.” Kate leaned back and threw her arms behind her head. “Just don’t start making jokes about us leaving puddles and shit everywhere, or not being trusted behind the wheel.” Her eyes narrowed and she bared her teeth in a not-friendly-smile. “I will commit some “transgressions,” if so.”

Ka’looai’s antennae twitched. “Understood.”

~~~~~~

I’m currently going through this month’s rounds, and felt like distracting myself. Finally had the motivation to write and of course it was during a shitty time of my life. Needed me some alien feels that understand my woes better than my own family. I know this prompt has been done a lot, but I wanted to give my own take on it.

[max1461]

From the preface to J. Randolph Valentine's Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar:

Writing a grammar is a profoundly humbling experience. Languages are almost unbelievably complex and represent the richest traditions that we as humans possess. What remotely compares with them, whether we are considering the massively intricate and fluid physical gestures involved in the articulation of sounds, or the systems behind the thousands of possibilities of distinct expression in the verb system of a language such as Nishnaabemwin? A language is a natural object with a beauty and a power to inspire awe on the order of Niagara Falls or Lake Superior, if we take the time to appreciate it. Writing a reference grammar provides the enjoyment of thousands of hours of careful scrutiny, though at the same time one realizes acutely the truth of Micheal Krauss's statement that a hundred linguists working for a hundred years could never get to the bottom of a single language.

[darkaviarymc]

Ok but imagine how funny it would be if the other shadow in Martyn.

Martyn and Ren being "normal" about each other? Doc jealousy? We KNOW from experience that Hels hath no fury like a goat father scorned. It all started when Martyn touched my Rendog.

The first war of HC10 is Martyn and Doc fighting over Ren.

Someone (probably Skizz or Scar) points out that "Doc Martens" are boots and something something feet. Grian immediately logs off once this is said and goes on vacation to Niagara Falls without telling anyone.

[tomscocksleeve]

After the video I need smut of Tom doing the good girl slap cause oml Like the reader just being all whiny and needy and he just gives her a little slap 😫

I fucking agree and I LOVE the way you think 😩🤤

Good girl🎀

Summary: Tom is your boyfriend of a few months and you decided you were finally ready to have sex with him.

Pairing: 2014 Tom kaulitz x Fem Reader

Genre: smut

REQUESTED

Word count: 952

Warnings; Hard Sex, p in v sex, head (fem receiving), cursing? Idfk

You finished up doing your stuff around the apartment you shared with your boyfriend. You did the dishes, cleaned up a bit, and walked the dogs. He came home and he seemed so tired and you walked over giving him a hug and kissing his cheek.

His smile was soft and sweet and he placed a few soft gentle kisses on your lips and he kissed your neck slightly. “Baby… there’s dinner for us okay? And I can tell you’re tired so let’s just eat.” He gave a little sigh but he nodded and grabbed your hand leading you to the kitchen.

After you both ate your meal you had cleaned up the dishes and then Tom wrapped his arms around your waist and pressed his chin to your shoulder. “Meine Liebe… I know you think I’m so tired but… I really want you right now” he began placing soft kisses on your shoulder and then your neck. You rolled your eyes but you had a soft smile on your lips and you couldn’t help but cave. In reality you were thinking about him all day while he was working on music stuff. The thought of his hands being so good on his guitar made your panties wet and it was so sexy. You kissed his lips gently and he gave a little smirk.

He took your hand leading you to the bedroom and he gently laid you down onto the bed and he climbed on top. He wanted to admire your body before even doing anything. He kissed your neck leaving marks and kissed your jawline, he even kissed your arm all the way down to your hand. He muttered how beautiful you were and how he loves you and you started getting impatient. He was such a turn on you needed him now. He held the hem of your shirt before taking it off and then he took off your jeans so now you were only in your bra and panty set.

He sighed with contentment before going by your thighs and spreading them open all the way. “Fuck you’re so beautiful” he said, before kissing your thighs and getting really close to your pussy. You started getting impatient once more. You could feel the wetness and you just needed him right now, fuck the waiting was unbearable. “Tom come on…” you whined. “Just fuck me please I want you.” You whined again. He had then got slightly annoyed and he pulled your panties to the side and slapped your pussy making you wince but it turned you on so much. “Be a good girl or you won’t get anything at all.” Fuck. You hated when he ended up annoyed because now you know he will fuck you rough.

He smirked and he unclasped your bra and he put a nipple in his mouth and sucked on it hard while he massaged the other tit with his hand making circular motions and squeezing it. Your breath hitched and you tried containing the moans. At this point your pussy felt like Niagara Falls. He then kissed both of your tits and he pulled your panties down. “Ready for me love?” You nodded instantly and he chuckled a bit at your neediness and he placed his tip at your entrance and he pushed himself in covering his dick fully. He groaned as he did so and you let the moans slip. He started going in and out picking up pace. You reached to hold his hand as he fucked you and he smiled and interlocked your hands tightly. He loved holding your hand while you guys had sex it made the experience better.

He cursed under his breath and he kissed your lips harshly. You moaned and whined and he started getting rougher, to punish you for whining earlier. He then pulled out and slapped your clit and pushed himself right back in. “Good girl… take it… I know you can…” he said, his breathing heavy. He buried himself and he liked the sight so much he wanted to switch things up. He pulled out leaving you feeling empty and you pouted and he slammed himself back in. You moaned loudly and the bed creaked. It was around 11pm so you pitied your neighbors knowing they would talk about the noise tomorrow.

Tom started fucking you at a desperate pace. He needed you to cum. He wanted you to cum. He was getting close but he wouldn’t let himself cum unless you had. You moaned loudly and he could feel your walls tightening and it made him smile. He pulled out one last time and he shoved a finger in and pumped it in and out at a merciless rhythm. He would suck on your clit as well as he finger fucked you. He shoved his second finger in and started going as fast as he could. He pulled his fingers out and fastly rubbed your clit.

You cried out and squirted all over him and he smiled and licked some of it up. “Delicious baby..” he said and he pushed himself back inside and you cried out overstimulated. “Fuck.. Tom… fuck…” you tried to tell him that you felt like you could explode but you couldn’t even think. He fucked you until he came inside you and by then you both were sweaty. He grabbed an extra blanket and wrapped you up and he lied down next to you making sure you could think properly before you bothered going to the bathroom or showering. You felt amazing. It’s what you’ve been craving and he did so well. He kissed your head and wiped some sweat off of you before cuddling you.

Holy shit guys… I finally finished a request 😅 I’ve been slacking off lately so I apologize for lack of content. Shits been nuts but once summer comes I’m posting everyday 😜

Anyways as always requests are open, DMs are open, so yall better text me🙄

[arya7stark]

We all appreciate how much Moonlight Chicken is grounded in reality, so I wanted to add another bit that I haven’t seen yet: the school Heart wants to go to is very real, and it makes perfect sense for him to go there. In fact, it’s probably the best option in the world.

He’s looking at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) in Rochester, New York (this is nowhere near NYC, for anyone unfamiliar with New York geography--it’s right on Lake Ontario and not too far from Niagara Falls). NTID is one of only two four-year college programs specifically for Deaf students in the US, the other being Gallaudet University, which is a liberal arts school and doesn’t offer an Engineering major. I am by no means an expert, but a fair bit of googling says that internationally there aren’t many options for Deaf students wanting to pursue higher education at an institution that specifically welcomes and is prepared to support them. At a lot of universities, they would be piecing together accommodations that many professors might be unfamiliar with, and that they might have to fight to get the school to provide. NTID is fully integrated and makes up a not insignificant portion of RIT’s student body: about 1 in 20 students are deaf or hard of hearing. There is history there, resources, experience, and a built-in community of support.

Anyway, not only is NTID unique in that regard, RIT also has a well-respected Engineering program. For a Deaf kid who wants to study engineering, it’s a fantastic choice.

We don’t know how good Heart’s English skills are, but he seems to have been a good student. And lucky for him, Thai Sign Language and American Sign Language are closely related, so that linguistic transition might even be easier than the written one.

I’m willing to bet Heart has known all about NTID for a while, but couldn’t bring it up with his parents. Him wanting to study in the US has nothing to do with Li Ming, that’s just a happy coincidence. That and the fact that Li Ming is forcing his parents to finally listen to him.

So as adorable as it is that these two lovebirds are going off on a grand international adventure together, I’m really glad that it’s grounded in reality, and that they both separately want to be there, for their own reasons. This story is not a fantasy, but reality can be even more beautiful.

[brewed-pangolin]

Mindful Arrangement

Here's a thought.

Soap is a flowers kinda guy...

Okay. Let me explain...

18+ MDNI Implied Sexual Themes

Soap is a smart man. He understands the significance and subtle undertones of certain bouquets. And not just the usual roses equals loves cliché. He knows those nuances can go deeper. More meaningful. More intimate.

And he'll send them at the most random and impromptu times. Never planned. He likes knowing he'll catch you off guard in your most candid of moments.

Even while on missions halfway around the globe. If he's got fifteen minutes, he's swiping through Flowers.com to see what arrangement catches his eye. Prices be damned, SAS has an unending budget.

And when he's home on leave, never let this man go anywhere alone. Doesn't matter if it's to the grocery store, Home Depot, Lowes, Costco, Walmart, the fucking post office. He'll come back with a truck load of full blooming perennials (because annuals will only last a year, and his love for you is eternal). And yes, he bought matching pots and planters because he's just that passionate about it.

But I digress...

So here's the goods. What they mean to him and what he's trying to tell you.

Roses

It may be cliché, but it's a universal sign that he loves you. But more than that, he sends these most often when he's on missions for one very specific reason. He's pining for you.

Perhaps he was on a recon mission, walked by a pastry shop and caught the sweet scent of vanilla and chocolate. And we all know how powerful the sense of smell is on repressed memories. He was then immediately thrusted into your kitchen where you were blissfully making your next confectionary experiment. Splotches of flour dusted on your cheek, quietly humming your favorite tune as you spin around to grab the vanilla extract from the cupboard.

Lilies

The lily symbolizes a lot, depending on their color, arrangement and combinations. But for Soap, it's all about his heart. And he will most often send these to you at work when he's on leave, because it's his way of saying he's thinking of you.

Some men send texts. Others send cards or write little post-it notes. Soap sends a bouquet of stargazer lilies. It's a simple arrangement, half a dozen with no accompaniments. But he knows the implications will be very impactful. Because he's going to be on your mind all day.

Edible Arrangement

I know what you're thinking. Chocolate covered strawberries. He's hungry. And your sweet pussy is the only thing he wants to feast on tonight. And as appetizing as that may be, it's not what his intentions are.

He will only send these when he's home, for this is your first indication that he's taking you out to dinner. And not some typical chain or easy dive in. No, he's going all out.

Expect a dress already picked out for you when you get home. And no, he's not telling you where you're going. That's half the surprise. And those chocolate strawberries are dessert, to be fully enjoyed from the platter of your exposed stomach.

Orchid

This is Soap's pièce de résistance. The crème de la crème. He makes a point to send these primarily when he's on his way home, for the orchids' significance is very particular. It's sex. (Seriously. Look at it. If you can't see it, you're blind)

He won't send this to your workplace, knowing how flustered and albeit ridiculously horny you'll get with just your first glance. He'll only send this to your home, and within two days of his arrival, because he wants you to fester in unrelenting neediness. He won't text. He won't call. He becomes the world's most thoughtful fucking tease while you have to somehow keep your mind off the fact your hormones are in overdrive and your pussy will be nothing short of Niagara Falls when he finally bursts through your door.

And he's thirsty, he's well equipped to manage that relentless flow. And ready to thrust himself into your cove the second his duffle bag hits the floor.

I know it's not Super Soap Sunday, but I'm tagging the Soap Squad nonetheless. It's been almost seven months since I wrote anything, and it feels so good to finally be back.

@deadbranch @punishmepunisher @sofasoap @d3athtr4psworld @macravishedbymactavish @jynxmirage

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Much love 💛

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[be-bisexual-eat-hot-chip-and-lie]

okay bear with me for this one

ransom is from toronto right? (i dunno if its canon or not but its canon to me)

toronto road trip experience to the east includes the big apple. for non south-ontario folks this is the big apple:

its a restaurant and store and bakery and souvenir shop and petting zoo and mini golf all rolled into one. it is weird and about 1hr east of toronto and it is a cultural experience.

ransom and his grade 8 grad trip to ottawa stop at the big apple, family trips to anywhere east of toronto include at least pointing out the apple, maybe even stopping there for treats.

now picture with me justin oluransi who thinks this is normal and brings it up someday at the haus and has to pull up pictures of this big red orb with a smiley face on it, shitty losing his mind a bit. bitty is unfazed, have y’all not seen the wacky stuff southern states have?

and then as a follow up one day he and holster stop there on their way back from their niagara falls trip back to samwell (*hand waves at plausible geography*) and bring pie back to the haus and they have a big old pie rating contest between the big apple and bitty (bitty obviously wins)

jack makes them work off the non diet plan pie

[broughtandborn]

Andy and I went up to Niagara Falls (Canada) on Friday for a little getaway. We had a lot of fun and the girls had a decent time with my folks and were in a great mood when we got back. This is definitely not guaranteed so we're super grateful when it happens!

I applied to be on our local library board a few months back. I was one of three applicants for two spots and I told the people I interviewed with that I've been on the other side of the table for situations like that and it sucks, so if they were having a hard time deciding, they could just take the other two and keep my application on file for next time there's an opening. I got an email last week that they were going to go ahead and do that, and then I got an email this morning that one of the other applicants had to withdraw so I'm in after all. It's funny, I'm the one who suggested this plan but I'm still like "why didn't they pick me first ☹️"

Andy bought a big, fancy-ass Breville espresso machine (new in box off Facebook marketplace) yesterday and now he's playing around figuring it out so I'm getting fancy coffee drink experiments and then eventually when he knows how to make a really good drink, I'll have him show me exactly how to do it!