#and always being willing to help with a spreadsheet

[artsyunderstudy]

“I lean over the pool, let him sink back and run his fingers across my horns. His eyes shimmer as he studies them, his mouth tweaked in fascination. He’s so beautiful.”

What Remains After the Storm by @hushed-chorus

Carry on Countdown | Day One: Creature

This year I decided I wanted to honor the incredibly talented fic writers of this fandom, so I chose one fic per prompt to do an illustration for. I didn't double up on authors so that I could do this for as many people as possible. I realized while planning this that there are way too many fics and authors that I love, and even after having picked 30 of what I consider some of my very favorites, I could have easily kept going. Please check the fics out if you haven’t, they all come highly recommended.

[wannab-urs]

Outtakes - Long ass fics

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Howdy folks!

Here's a list of fics I've read that are either over 100k words or have 20+ chapters.

Summaries and tags are, in most cases, provided by the author - please be sure to read them as some of these fics may have content you do not wish to read.

Pedro boys currently included are: Din Djarin, Frankie Morales, Javier Peña, Joel Miller, Dave York, Dieter Bravo, Oberyn Martell, Jack Daniels, and Pedro Across the Street + a Din x Joel fic (no reader insert)

updated 3/27/2024

Din Djarin

Starlight by LovelessDagger | 300k

Summary: Nothing ever truly dies. Not the Empire, not the dark, not her. The Mandalorian should know this, and somewhere deep down he does. Whether he cares is a different story. Consequences and the whole of them be damned.

Tags: Assassins & Hitmen, Enemies to Lovers, Slow Burn, Blood and Violence, Explicit Language. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Morally Ambiguous Character, OFC, Trauma, Found Family, Betrayal, Secrets, Touch-Starved Din Djarin, Filled with existential dread, Sexual Tension, Heavy symbolism, two idiots with family issues form a family, Past Child Abuse, Mutual Pining, Angst, Eventual Smut, Clones, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, Sith, Imperial Inquisitors, Secret Past, No one tells the truth, Metaphorical Addiction

I Only See Daylight by @millersdjarin | 141.6k

Summary: You’ve stayed in one place all this time, knowing that any move to leave could lead them to find you. When a Mandalorian and his child crash land on your home planet, you can't turn them away for help.

Tags: Smut, slow burn, post-canon, trauma, past emotional/physical abuse, relgious trauma, scars, negative self-image, found family, injury, heavy angst, fluff and love

A Fresh Start by @theidiotwhowritesthings | 140k

Summary: When you made plans for your future they never involved being hired by a Mandalorian to baby-sit his adorable, green gremlin of a child. However, after your life fell apart in the span of one disastrous night, you found it to be the only feasible option you had left. Nevarro was a far cry from Coruscant, but the thriving community turned out to be exactly what you needed. Every day you spend in Nevarro you fall more and more in love with your new life, but when your past rears its ugly head you find that perhaps peace wasn’t meant for everyone.

Tags: use of fake name, reader is hiding from a shady past, depressive symptoms, jealousy, pining, angst, hurt/comfort, medical trauma, nightmares, blood, injury, traumatic past, scars, slow burn, shooting training, sick child, fear and panic, canon typical violence, blackmailing, anxiety, self doubt, sexual tension, heavy petting, panic attack, male masturbation, arguing, mentions of alcohol and a bit of binge drinking, angst, people getting drunk, non descriptive torture, murder, fluff, mentions of death, non consensual groping of reader by a stranger, smut, oral f receiving

Stitches by @djarinsbeskar | 190k

Summary: What is a former combat medic to do when an injured Mandalorian stumbles upon her clinic one night on Klatooine?

Tags: Smut, action, fluff, angst, canon-typical violence

Beskar Doll by @justagalwhowrites | 232.4k

Summary: You have a knack for finding trouble, be it in the midst of Galactic Civil War or when trying to live the quiet life after getting out of the game. So when you're stuck fleeing your new home planet after pissing off the wrong people - again - there's only one person willing to take you: the Mandalorian. But after years of fighting faceless men, you're not the trusting type toward someone always wearing a helmet and the Mandalorian quickly suspects there's more to you than he knows.

Tags: Slow Burn, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Canon-Typical Violence, Pre-Canon, Eventual Smut, Eventual Romance, Dry Humping, Torture, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Mando'a Language (Star Wars), Protective Din Djarin, Touch-Starved Din Djarin, Din Djarin Removes the Helmet, Past Domestic Violence, Brat Tamer Din Djarin, Vaginal Fingering, Soft Din Djarin, POV Din Djarin, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Angst, Mandalorian Culture (Star Wars), Mutual Masturbation, Masturbation, Fluff, Fluff and Smut, PIV, Unsafe Sex, Consent King Din Djarin, Din Djarin's Helmet Stays on During Sex, Vaginal Sex, Din Djarin talks you through it, Making Love, Pregnancy

Best Kept Secret by @lincolndjarin | 188k

Summary: Married off to a prince on a planet that you hate? New husband doesn't know you, and doesn't want to know you? New husband gifts you a personal Mandalorian body guard as a wedding present? Mandalorian is a wiseass who won't leave you alone? Lucky you.

Tags: no y/n, Enemies to Lovers, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Eventual Smut, Canon-Typical Violence, Princess!Reader, Arranged Marriage, bodyguard!din, Smut, Angst, Fluff and Angst, Eventual Happy Ending, Masturbation, Oral Sex, Glove Kink, Light Dom/sub, Switch Din Djarin, Switch Reader, Body Worship, Din Djarin Has a Breeding Kink, Hate Sex, Creampie, Sex Toys, Anal Play, Overstimulation, Multiple Orgasms, eventual pregnancy (right at the end)

Be-All and Endor by @djarins-cyare | 400k

Summary: Languishing in a dull and lonely existence on the forest moon of Endor after travelling there to help salvage Death Star wreckage, a nearly fatal encounter with a mysterious bounty hunter out in the forest heralds an opportunity to utilise long-forgotten skills and develop something more profound than you ever thought possible.

Tags: Slow Burn, Slow Build, Romance, Love, Sexual Tension, Eventual Smut, Smut, Sex, Sexual Content, Explicit Sexual Content, Fluff, Fluff and Smut, Fluff and Angst, Light Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Injury, Dark Past, Additional Warnings In Author's Notes, Bounty Hunter Din Djarin, Soft Din Djarin, Touch-Starved Din Djarin, Din Djarin Needs a Hug, Smart Din Djarin, Soft Dominant Din Djarin, Ewok Species, Mandalorian Culture, Mando'a Language, New Razor Crest, Thoroughly Researched, Worldbuilding, No use of y/n.

A Place of Safety by The_InvisibleWoman (AO3) | 178k

Summary: Persuaded into picking up one last quarry on his way home, an exhausted Mandalorian is in no mood for you, but he slowly begins to think that things are not as they should be. You’ve been on the run for so long and you don’t even know who from, but when you are captured by the bounty hunter, you think it’s all over.

Tags: Smut, slow burn, protective!Din, touch starvation, Din Djarin's point of view, fluff, angst, mutual pining, enemies to friends to lovers, rescue, falling in love, flirting, close proximity, gentle kissing, gentle sex, cuddling, threats of sexual assault, attempted sexual assault, self harm, tickling, noncon

Wrest Pin by BalletOrchard (AO3) | 366k

Summary: “I can help you escape the planet,” Mando said sharply, “But I want information in return.” She looked up at him through the small hairs on her face and she whispered, sounding almost lost…As if she didn’t know what else to say… “I have no information.” Something Mando did not believe.

Tags: panic attacks, force sensitive!reader, unprotected PinV sex, smut, mando is a dick, angst, slow burn (romantically), touch starved!din, bickering, arguing, post season 1, fluff, ofc!evangeline, she like doesn’t get off the first time they fuck which i feel like is worth noting, feelings of regret, minor character death (evangeline’s whole fam), follows canon, mando lowkey keeping evangeline against her will but like she’s hiding from the empire so, near death experience(s), the helmet comes off, oral f receiving, blindfolding, shower sex

Somewhere Beautiful by @peetiespetals | 235k

Summary: You have been working as a slave since the demise of your people and destruction of your planet. A stranger passes through your life and you make a bid for freedom, thwarted by the very man who inspired you to reach for it. In a twist of fate, the two of you are thrown together and must learn how to live with each other as the lines between slave and master begin to blur. Can you really tell the difference between duty and devtion?

Tags: smut, fluff and smut, angst, rough sex, bdsm, abandonment, neglect, physical abuse, love stories, shower sex, mutual masturbation, dom/sub undertones, oral sex, shameless smut, praise kink, bondage, biting, slow burn, spanking, orgasm control, orgasm delay/denial, cock warming, master/slave, vaginal fingering, deep throating, breast worship, pussy spanking, ball play, public creampie, edging, anal sex, foot jobs, handcuffs, cock bondage, panties in mouth, aftercare, jealous din djarin, hurt/comfort, overstimulation, strong female characters, hurt no comfort, porn with plot, sexual tension, porn with feelings, canon typical violence, slow romance, fluff and angst, anxiety, manhandling, pov second person, vaginal sex, nipple play, dirty talk, hair pulling

I Think of You by @prolix-yuy | 107k

Summary: A Mandalorian and a woman spend a night together, neither expecting the other to return. But the galaxy works in mysterious ways and many years later, despite a mission and a Creed and the cruelty of their lives, they find each other again and begin a journey of their own.

Tags: graphic smut, drinking, smoking, dirty talk, The Helmet Stays On, safe PiV sex, drinking, suggestive language, canonical-typical violence. mentions of past sexual experiences, angst and yearning, female masturbation, grinding, descriptions of male and female bodies, illness (not graphic), fingering (f receiving), male masturbation, sexy massage, hand kink, mutual masturbation, fingers in mouths, semi-unprotected PiV sex, descriptions of injuries, blood, and medical-ish procedures, allusions to sexual acts, hurt/comfort

Tied by @radiowallet | 26 chapters

Summary: Dr. Din Djarin is the top cardiothoracic surgeon in his field. His work is meticulous, his judgment unquestionable. And then he get’s a new first assist, who couldn’t give two shits about anyone’s reputation.

Tags: Smut, Cursing, Graphic violence, some questionable power dynamics.

Take Me to Church by @frannyzooey | 31 chapters

Summary: Set in a brothel in the late 1800’s in the Wild West, you’ve only been working there for a month when Din Djarin shows up. A bounty hunter who makes stops into town between jobs, he is known at the inn for his generous appetite and demanding preferences. Asking for you one night, he is pleased to learn you are well suited for him: your sweet nature soothing to his gruff temperament and surprising him with your ability to handle his rougher tastes. Demanding that you be made available to him every time he is in town, neither one of you is ready for where this request leads.

Tags: MFF, oral sex (female/male receiving), vaginal sex, dirty talk, mentions of murder, rope play, mutual masturbation, idk man lots of smut

Losing My Religion by @oonajaeadira | 108k

Summary: A Mandalorian comes looking for you with an assignment from an old friend, sending you on a mission and a union that you both need.

Tags: Smut, canon-typical violence, post-season two canon, reader is force sensitive, alternating point of view, angst, fluff, yearning, mind control, injuries, mourning a lost spouse, alcohol, feelings of betrayal, touch starvation, implied masturbation, kissing, bounty hunter kink, grinding and fingering, Mando'a language

A Shade That's New by FallenFern (AO3) | 111k

Summary: After Mando and Grogu part he goes back to bounty hunting. But its not enough. Desperate to feel again Mando accepts a more dangerous line of work. He joins your small crew on a new job, putting you in close proximity wether you like it or not. Wary of anyone, especially Mandalorians, you try to keep him at arms length. After all, anyone and everyone could be an enemy and you were going to treat him like one.Yeah, thats lasts long…

Tags: OFC!Shade, described as smaller than Mando, curly or wavy hair, able bodied, can blush/flush, Alternating 2nd Person POV. Smut, making shit up, not canon, after grogu and AU, emotional pain, plot with porn, enemies to lovers, slow burn, trauma, sexual tension, action and romance, blood and injury, blood kink, the helmet stays on, but it also comes off, blindfold, light bondage, sexual assualt, threats of rape (not by Mando), praise kink, begging, semi public sex, blaster kink, cock warming, daddy mando, oral sex (f and m receiving), smut marathon, I’ll kill anyone that touches you trope, demanding mando, comfort sex, minor character death, betrayal, mando to the rescue, revenge, reunion sex, say my name trope, edge play, rough sex, throat grabbing but not exactly choking

Frankie Morales

Between the Raindrops by Jazzelsaur (AO3) | 148k

Summary: Two lives fall apart, then together. A journey told in parts and pieces. Frankie’s life is coming apart at the seams, when Ellie, a widow facing her own share of struggles, moves in next door. Together they find friendship, healing, and something more.

Tags: Widowed reader, divorced frankie, neighbors to friends to lovers, grief, mourning, angst, masturbation, pining, allusions to sex, eventual smut, slow burn, past drug use, alcohol, infertility, miscarriage mention, ptsd, handjobs, oral sex, smut, food, strained friendships, healing, allusions to verbal abuse, angst with a happy ending, idiots in lovedivorced!Frankie, widow!OC/reader, no one has kids, slow burn with great spicy scenes, smut! with plot

Sex Worker!Frankie AU by @prolix-yuy | 21 chapters

Summary: You’d never thought you’d be sitting on a hotel room bed, phone to your ear as you waited for someone on the other end to pick up. After a messy divorce you wanted something to ease the pain of loneliness. That something just happens to be the most gorgeous man you’ve ever seen, even if you had to pay for him.

Tags: Sex Worker!Frankie, implied other Triple Frontier Boys!Sex Workers, watch me make up shit about sex work, descriptions of male and female bodies, oral sex (F receiving), like super descriptive oral (there might be over 2500 words dedicated to Frankie’s talents), female masturbation, fingering (f receiving), safe PiV sex, a touch of Feral Frankie, one ass slap, fingers in mouths, some angst and feelings sprinkled in there for flavor.

Frankie Morales Box Set by @frannyzooey | 20 chapters

Summary: A series of one shots in which Frankie Morales shows you just how much he likes movie night.

Tags: oral, PIV, cum eating, hand job, cockwarming, mutual masturbation, dirty talk, thigh riding, dry humping, lots of other shit

Javier Peña

Lie to Me by @iamskyereads | 151.8k

Summary: A recent transfer to the DEA from the FBI makes you a target of hazing from your co-workers. Choosing to forget your bad first day at a bar puts you on a path towards meeting a new acquaintance. An expert on deception and psychological profiling, you are adept at catching liars. What happens when an increasingly stressful work environment begins to test the limits of your personal life and the one man at the center of it all, Javier Peña? Afterall, everybody lies about something. But how many are you keeping from yourself?

Tags: An AU of Season 3 of Narcos.Language, Alcohol/Drinking, Smoking, POV Switches, assholery, office pranks/hazing, hatin on the FBI and the DEA too, but we all hate on the CIA the most, Praise Kink, Dirty Talk, thigh grinding, PIV sex, soft Javi, Pining, Sexual Frustration, Use of A Sex Toy, Edging, Oral Sex, Canon-Typical Violence, Guns, police raids, Parallel plots to the show, Smut, sloppy blowjobs, Shower Sex, Social Anxiety, Nightmares, Rough Sex, spitting, Semi-Public Sex, Office Sex, Love in an Elevator, death of background characters, kidnapping of background characters, Shootouts, Masturbation, Breeding Kink, discussions of fertility, kink negotiations, Spanking, Brat behavior, Mild D/s vibes, Creampie, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, Sex in a Church, Unprotected Sex, TacVest!Javi, Orgasm Denial, Angst with a Happy Ending, Period-Typical Sexism, Hospital, scar, accident of background characters, historical classism/sexism/racism, Grief/Mourning, Body Insecurities, Cockwarming, threats of kidnapping reader, light teasing, Flirting

Learning to Live by @wheresarizona | 382k

Summary: While grocery shopping, you happen across a handsome man confused by some produce. Coming to his aid leads to an invitation for drinks, and next thing you know, you’re falling head over heels for Javier Peña—a good man who has trouble believing he is. Sparks fly when you meet and ignite an insatiable need that you both try to fight for the sake of taking things slow; Javi determined to do things right by you. The problem is, the two of you only have so much self-control.

Tags: Post-Colombia and Narcos S3, Story Starts in June 1998.POV Alternating, Soft Javier Peña, Meet-Cute, First Dates, Javier Peña Needs a Hug, Whirlwind Romance, Javier Getting the Love and Happiness He Deserves, Javier Is Stubborn At First, Javier Peña in Love, Javier Being a Consent King, Multiple Orgasms, Vaginal Fingering, Dirty Talk, Praise Kink, Hand Jobs, Come Eating, Phone Sex, Mutual Masturbation, Vaginal Sex, Creampie, Cunnilingus, Blow Jobs, Edgeplay, Body Worship, Shower Sex, Biting Javis Butt, Deepthroating, Biting, Javier Coming So Hard His Soul Leaves His Body, Spanking, Car Sex, Dry Humping, Public Thigh Riding, Face-Sitting, Dirty Dancing, Post-Sex Smoking, Aftercare, Feelings, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Slow Dancing, Protective Javier Peña, Jealous Javier Peña, Getting Tipsy With Javier, Javier In Grey Sweatpants, Alcohol, Small Towns, Food, Road Trips, Post-Canon, Face-Fucking, Breeding, Rimming, Anal Play, Romantic Comedy, Cockwarming, Grief/Mourning, past relationship trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Horseback Riding, Love Confessions, Miscommunication, Arguing, Angst with a Happy Ending, Period-Typical Sexism, Canon Typical Drug Talk, Nude Photos, Overstimulation, Dysfunctional Family

Just Dumb Enough to Try by @whatsnewalycat | 108k

Summary: In 1993, you met Javier Peña in San Antonio. You made an emotional and physical connection with him. Now it’s 1998 and you’re starting a new chapter of life in Laredo with your fiancé. And who else walks back into the picture, but the man who left you high and dry five years ago.

Tags: alcohol use, Binge Drinking, Swearing, Recreational Drug Use, Cigarettes, Voyeurism, Smut, Bisexual main character, Touch-Starved, Female Masturbation, Vaginal Sex, Unprotected Sex, Dirty Talk, Teasing, Flirting, Mutual Pining, Cheating, Infidelity, Sexual Tension, Attempt at Humor, Soft Javier Peña, Movie Nerd Shit, use of daddy in a sexual context, Vulnerable Javier Peña, Angst and Feels, Family Issues, Mostly Post Season 3, Existential Crisis, Banter, Mental Health Issues, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, friends to lovers to friends to lovers, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Fluff and Humor, Oral Sex, Slow Burn, No beta idk I just got here, Fluff and Smut, Not Canon Compliant, Impact Play, Pain Kink, Domestic Violence, Praise Kink, Unplanned Pregnancy, Breeding Kink, Blood and Violence, Mild Gore, Kidnapping

Joel Miller

Feelings on Fire by @joelscruff | 110k

Summary: Back from school for the summer and staying with your devout Catholic parents, you ask Joel Miller to teach you guitar as an act of rebellion. Turns out, there's a lot more that he wants to teach you too...

Tags: Smut, age gap (reader is in her 20s, Joel is in his mid 50s), inexperienced/virgin reader, loss of virginity, corruption, mentions of religion/Catholicism, praise kink, pet names (babygirl, sweetheart, darling), dirty talk, masturbation, unprotected penetrative vaginal sex, creampies, cumplay, oral sex (female and male receiving), exhibitionism, size kink

Lavender by @justagalwhowrites | 253k

Summary: You're a college student in Austin, Texas, who gets a summer job nannying Sarah Miller. It's not long before her dad sees you as more than a babysitter - or more than a friend. But life - and an apocalypse - have other plans.

Tags: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Pre-Canon, Friends to Lovers, Protective Joel, Parent Joel, Joel is Bad at Feelings, Soft Joel, Fluff and Smut, Fluff, Angst, Smut, Vaginal Sex, Oral Sex, Loss of Virginity, Miscarriage, Sexual Coercion

Closer by @beardedjoel | 193k

Summary: you are staying with your parents, helping them move into their new house in austin. what happens when joel miller, the attractive neighbor you've been eyeing obsessively starts to show you some much wanted attention?

Tags: smut, age difference (joel is 42 and reader is 25), porn with some plot, inexperienced reader, soft!dom joel, boyfriend! joel, possessive! joel, mutual masturbation, rough sex, spanking, creampie, unprotected piv, oral (m + f receiving), dirty talk, overstimulation kink, praise kink, so many pet names it’s not even funny, consensual somnophilia, cockwarming

Yearling by @justagalwhowrites | 186k (as of ch 27)

Summary: After years of surviving in the wilds of Wyoming after the cordyceps outbreak, you find yourself in Jackson. It's a town filled with friendly faces and the kind of world you hardly remember, let alone can connect with or understand. But one man - Joel Miller, another loner, like you - makes you think that trying to find your place in society again might be worth it.

Tags: Slow Burn, Hurt/Comfort, Protective Joel, Parent Joel, Angst, Soft Joel, Smut, Eventual Smut, Eventual Romance, Past Sexual Abuse, Friends to Lovers

Hot and Heavy by @tieronecrush | 130k

Summary: Over the course of three summers, Joel Miller has become woven into the fabric of your life. You nanny his daughter, sneaking around in an illicit love affair. You keep coming home, and he keeps coming back to you. The last summer, you're home with no plans of leaving—and Joel seeks you out again. What chances do you have?

Tags: Neighbor!Joel, age gap, canon-divergence, no outbreak, alcohol consumption, mentions of food, pet names (sweetheart), familial and self pressure, reader is in college, nanny!reader, smut

Dave York

Notes on Tutoring by @honestly-shite | 189.9k

Summary: Mr. York becomes your new classical guitar tutor in your final year at music college. A dark, mysterious man, you struggle to get a read on him but that doesn’t stop you from finding many ways to push his buttons.

Tags: Smut, alternate universe, music college, age gap, teacher/student relationship, slow burn, PiV sex, power dynamics, angst, pining, alcohol and drinking

Dieter Bravo

Recovery Road by @chronically-ghosted | 108k

Summary: Dieter Bravo is on his last chance. Six months out of a two year stint in rehab, his marriage on the rocks, and his starlight fading, he reunites with an old director friend on a project that might save his career and his personal life in a single go. Enter Natalie Lorraine, his new enigmatic co-star. Together, they go on to lead a film that comes to define a generation – and are both mysteriously absent the night the film receives an Oscar for Best Picture. Their reasons for missing such a landmark event are their own.

Tags: Smut, age gap (Dieter is 35, reader is 22), drug usage, alcohol, smoking, infidelity, discussions of addiction and withdrawal, toxic relationships, masturbation, pining, angst, anxiety and anxiety attacks, mental illness, bad coping mechanisms, named reader, descriptions of reader's hair, bi!Dieter

Psychomanteum by @whatsnewalycat | 132.7k

Summary: You’ve recently taken on the customer-facing responsibilities of the small-scale cannabis bakery you and your late husband ran out of your apartment, which introduces you to occasional customer, Dieter Bravo. A friendship is sparked when you realize you have something in common: you’ve both died. What Dieter doesn’t tell you about his near-death experience, though, is that it foretold his life with you.

Tags: Smut (including - alternating power dynamics, consensual unprotected sex, penetrative vaginal sex, oral sex, anal sex), gried, alternating point of view, physical descriptions of OFC (including - tattoos, scars, being lifted by Dieter), drug use (including - smoking cannabis and consuming edibles, dropping acid, drinking alcohol, cocaine and morphine use), substance abuse, addiction, fame & paparazzi, canon divergent, suicidal thoughts and planning, divorce, near-death experiences, Bi4Bi romance, supernatural elements, ghosts and psychomanteums, spirituality, drag performance, long-distance relationship, friends to lovers dynamic, OFC is infertile, familial and relationship trauma - please refer to chapters for all warnings.

For the Love of Horror by @coulsons-fullmetal-cellist | 80 chapters

Summary: Dieter meets and falls in love with someone who absolutely loves horror films. The problem is, he's a big scaredy cat!

Tags: loose fit series, series of one shots and drabbles, tags on each chapter

Oberyn Martell

In Name Only by @forever-rogue | 21 chapters

Summary: Reader, the only daughter of late Lord and Lady Beesbury, is sent off to be married to Prince Oberyn Martell. After having been parted from her first love by her horrid mother, she refuses to marry a man she does not know or love and be pushed into a life of misery. But after threat of being cut off from everything she knew and loved, she finds herself leaving her home in Honeyholt and arriving in Sunspear, married to the Prince. Being the charming and kind Prince he is, Oberyn promises her that it does not have to be a true marriage, it can be a marriage in name only. Little does the newly anointed Lady Martell know, that being married to the Prince is so much more than she bargained for.

Tags: Smut, language, fluff, kissing, period-typical misogyny, angst, sensual touching, mentions of violence and injury, discussions of pregnancy, mentions of death

Jack "Whiskey" Daniels

Down the Rabbit-Hole by @absurdthirst, @wardenparker | 208k

Summary: When Jack accidentally shoots a civilian on a mission he takes on not only the guilt of the man’s death, but inherits his soulmate as well. To you, it’s a dream job with more perks than you can imagine - but for Jack it’s a nightmarish complication. Even more so when he starts to develop feelings.

Tags: mentions of deceased spouse, a lot of food and alcohol consumption, family recipes, age gap, cursing, Canon typical violence, Death, gun use, angst, Jack has a temper and Tequila has a dumb first name, Making Out, a bit of groping, heavy flirting, sexy shower time, a whole truck load of anger, Fisticuffs, a bunch of angry people being upset with each other, Kidnapping, Torture, burning victim with cigarettes, Broken Bones, a whole lot of gun pointing and talk about murder, medicine by injection, oral sex (f and m receiving), Outdoor Sex, Public Sex, Unprotected Sex, Vaginal Sex, Cream Pie, Cum Play, Anxiety, Accidental Hurt, panic attack (symptoms based on my own personal experiences), intrusive/racing thoughts, physical symptoms of anxiety, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Guilt, Possible Unwanted Pregnancy, Lies, Nausea/Illness, Talk of Abortion, canon typical injuries, Family Planning, Mentions of Sex Toys, Lingerie, Spanking, rough sex, Flirty and somewhat explicit banter, Pregnancy, Discussion of symptoms, Mood Swings, cemetery/deceased loved ones, speaking to deceased loved ones

Pedro Across The Street (Calls)

Good. Things. Take. Time. by @oonajaeadira | 22 chapters

Summary: PATS is a massage therapist with special services. Or so he claims. He gives you a three-hour session you’re both going to enjoy.

Tags: Explicit marathon wall to wall smut, masseuse!PATS, sex worker!PATS.

Din Djarin x Joel Miller

Cosmic Oddities by fromthewhales (AO3) | 106k

Summary: Turning a clan of two into a clan of four and asking the very important, albeit unhinged question: What if space dad and apocalypse dad were Weird About Each Other?

Tags: parental bonding, parallels, angst, everyone has issues, everyone needs a hug, touch starved din djarin, injuries, strangers to ??? to lovers, smashing the space western and the zombie western together like 2 ken dolls, trauma, crack-fic adjacent at times, hurt/comfort, soft not super explicit smut, self harm, found family, din djarin eventually removes the helmet, blindfold, long distance relationship, survivors guilt, angst with a happy ending, non sexual intimacy, it gets worse before it gets better, alcohol mention, game II canon divergent — but boy does it come close, canon typical violence, minor character death, major character injury, bi!din djarin, bi!joel miller

Various

The Infinity Cube by @littlemisspascal | 20 chapters

Summary: When you play with a strange cube, you’re transported out of your current reality with your boyfriend Marcus into brand new ones starring alternate versions of your boyfriend who look and act entirely different every time. With each encounter, you start to wonder if you’ll ever make it back to your real universe?

Tags: language, fluff, angst

[mamas-filly]

A Recipe for a Gold Star Girl- An analysis of @mama-scarebear ‘s posts

Given how many girls are (correctly) trying their hardest to make mama-scarebear feel nice, and gain her attention, I thought I would share what I have learned over the past few days!

A brief talk of methods first though! I spent 5 hours categorizing each of Miss Grizz’s posts with a discernible theme and put them into a spreadsheet (available on request) with separate categories for posts she made, posts she reblogged, images, text, and an additional consideration for things that she has posted more than once! I then put that into a simple calculation to see what percentage of posts fall into which category, and then ranked the categories (okieee, they might just be fetishes, but it's fun to use big words) based on how much Mama posted about them!

Based on my findings I can say definitively that every girl looking for Miss Grizz’s attention should be DIAPERED composing 45% of all indexed posts! (WOAH). That's nearly 4x as much as the runner up! Every little girl should absolutely be ready to be using their pants as opposed to the potty from now on! What if, however, you don't have any diapers to wear? That's just fine cuties, since #3 on our list covers using your panties just like a diaper anyhow, what's important to note is that potty training is just far too difficult for any Gold Star Girl. We skipped over our second most dominant category, but it's something you can do every day! Humiliate yourself, at least a little, it's good practice to know you're better off debasing yourself for Mama than clinging to some shred of adult pride. It is a well known secret that Mama’s of any kind like to feel wanted, and our #4 category Dependence shows that well. Its okay if you are still embarrassingly self sufficient (I struggle with it too it’s okay) since that's something that little girls tragically must be at times, but if you're struggling to tie your shoes, or look pitifully to Mama for help with some basic tasks, you might just make her swoon. Gold Star Girls live to please, wanting to make their bodies and minds as accessible as possible! Being dumb can just help with most everything we’ve discussed so far, and if your brain is small and pliant (like A Gold Star Girl!) you can still help mama feel nice, by letting her have free run of your body! An important side note on being dumb, is that with some help from Mama, you can become even more attractive! Just be willing to let her warm steady hands guide you into a shape she likes. A Gold Star Girl should also have a high pain tolerance, pleasing Mama isn't easy, and you should expect to make some mistakes! In order to help us be our best selves for her though we might be punished to help us stay on the right path, and the better we can take those punishments the better girls we are!

In order to cover absolutely everything that Mama’s talked about would take a very long time, and undoubtedly get far too long (might even make me smarter, Goddess forbid) so instead I'll mention the two most important remaining points at once. You, prospective Gold Star Girl, should be Obsessed, and Corruptible While they fall into the single digits of the percentage of total posts, these two attributes are what Mama Grizz herself posts very frequently! You can always be worse for her, you can always indulge more, and you should be very glad that she helps you be that way.

[iamamythologicalcreature]

Can I be real for a second?

I’ve gone back and forth in my head about whether or not to post about this very real side of me online or not. There’s nothing shameful about being disabled, but I don’t want to be known as my disability, either. I don’t want that to be my identity.

But I’m hoping to post some of my writing tomorrow for Six Sentence Sunday. Post something I’ve written, albeit just a small bit, online where anyone can see it. It will be the first time I’ve done so since the car accident three years ago. And the truth is, the terrible truth is, my writing is what hurts the most.

Stories have always been a part of my life. They have always been my motivation, why I slogged through everything else - my reason for existing. I wrote novels and hoped to publish, and I fell in love with the writing community and made it my home. I volunteered and organized events. I created an extremely successful and fulfilling teen writing club where I taught creative writing. I was in love with stories, and writing them. I have never not been in love with stories.

(Before I was a writer I was an artist. I’m not going to go into that part of my life in detail, but it was just as heavily affected.)

At the beginning of 2020 I was in a car accident. The driver at fault was pulling out of a bar parking lot in the middle of the day. Make of that what you will. The accident he caused left me with more than a few issues, but for this post I’m focusing on the vision impairment.

Because of COVID, I wasn’t able to seek any diagnosis or treatment until June. I didn’t even begin physical therapy until August. Due to a myriad of issues and unfortunate reasons, I couldn’t complete my treatment. That meant a year and a half of work and struggle went down the drain.

This continues to affect me in many ways. Sometimes it’s things that you might expect - I can’t read Tumblr, or books, most days. Some limitations are less obvious, like how I’m afraid to ask questions (e.g. “what kind of car did Fiona drive?”) because the resources to find the answers myself are out there. Why don’t I just google it? Or reference that amazing spreadsheet someone did? Why am I asking other people to do the work for me? Am I just lazy?

People don’t mean to judge (and I’m sure there are plenty who don’t). But my issues aren’t apparent, so they won’t know unless I take the time to explain it. Able-eyed people should be able to find these simple answers. Just look in the book.

So I don’t ask. Or I apologize a lot for asking. Because it’s just too hard to explain why I need such basic help. (And sadly, some people still don’t believe me and treat me as thought I’m making excuses.)

I lost most of my friends simply for being unable to chat online, particularly during lockdown. I kept three people in my life - the three people willing to break with their comfort zones and talk to me on the phone instead of via text or chat. Those people probably saved my life. I know everyone went through isolation issues in 2020. But I went through them unable to even use a computer or read a book.

Since I’m typing this, you can guess that I’ve recovered somewhat, or made some accommodations that help. Yes. I have. Both of those. But I still have more bad days than good. Typing too long, or playing a phone game, surfing Tumblr - anything done for too long can break my eyes and send me back into total isolation for days.

I was a really good writer. I would regularly write 10-20k every weekend, and I wrote well. I wrote great stuff. (Rough drafts are always rough drafts, but I felt good about what I wrote.) I would sink into a character and go for hours.

Here’s the part that’s relevant to me now: I can’t do that anymore. I can’t write for hours, I can’t take the time to slip into character. I’m doing really well if I can pound out a speedy 1k in 30 minutes and have it not break my eyes. (It usually breaks my eyes.)

If you’re a writer, though - or any kind of creative - you know that the need doesn’t just go away.

(I have tried to record notes on my phone, but I just cannot dictate writing fiction. Only my fingers know how to speak well, and in character. And no, I’m not going to learn braille. It would not be helpful.)

So I’m going to try to write. It’s going to suck, because the things I did to write well before are things I can’t do anymore. I will cry. And then I will wait a week or however long it takes for my eyes to chill the fuck out, and I’ll try again.

(I’ve also started treatment again, just this month. I have to start at square one again, which means it will get worse before it gets better. It will take time, and money - lots of both. Like years. But I can’t give up.)

Anyway. This is why I chose the Simon Snow fandom to try again, for the first time in forever. Because that’s the story, and those are the characters, and these are the people. I know it. So. Hi.

[mayakern]

thank you for the advice on pins ! i am in the process of researching how to set up my shop and i have a couple more questions if you don't mind- at what stage did you feel it was time to open your shop, follower-wise? did it take a long time to become profitable ? i saw you go through a manufacturer for your prints, is it because making them is too expensive? i see you don't make stickers, is there a reason? is a laser cutting machine worth it when debuting ? or superfluous? what did you use to design your website (it's very pretty btw)? do you have advice on getting people interested in checking it out?

how does one deal with sales being down, mentally, and how to be patient in the beginning?

does managing orders require a lot of organization? is a label maker worth the time it saves? in general, do you recomment buying your own machines (printer, or button maker) or stick with manufacturers? also, do you have advice on reconcialiting it with anticapitalism because im feeling conflicted about outsourcing labor and adding products to this world... is setting up shopify very hard ? are taxes a hassle ? sorry if it's a lot, i have trouble wrapping my head around every step i'll have to do and want to avoid beginner mistakes if i can. if you have any other advice and traps to avoid i'd be very grateful

dude this is SO many questions.

the short answer is: everything is hard and takes work.

there is no “right” time to start a shop or start selling stuff. you just kind of do it and hope. i opened mine in college (around 2012 or 2013) because i had already made some merch for a local convention and i wanted to sell the leftovers. my store didn’t become viable as a full time job until around 2017—it was a means to subsidize the income i had from working as a freelance artist.

also i never went into debt for the store so there was never a moment when my store “became profitable.” unless you’re willing to go into debt for this (not something i’d recommend), it’s a slow slog to get to a point where you can afford to sell items with a higher price point at a high enough volume that it is viable as a full career. inventory costs money and the more profitable items cost more money. it takes a lot of time and work and momentum to make this your whole job.

buying your own equipment is only worth it if you plan to use that equipment for multiple years to get a good return on investment.

however a label printer is almost always worth it, but i wouldn’t buy one until you’re getting at least 20 orders a month.

low price point items like buttons and stickers can be good to start out (i used to sell both) but at a certain point, unless you’re selling a massive amount of them there is a limit to how profitable a $3 item can be.

managing a store takes an amount of work/organization that is proportional to the number of products you have/sell. i will say i was an absolute disaster at this when i handled everything myself, which is why the store only became viable as a full time job once devin joined me.

i use squarespace for my portfolio site and shopify for the store. they’re relatively hassle free.

if you’re making most of your income from store or freelance work, find a local CPA to help you do taxes. also keep a running spreadsheet for all your expenses and income. separate your expenses into groups based on the different types of deductions (i.e. office equipment, travel, etc.) and update that spreadsheet, at minimum, once a month. then taxes are easy.

as far as anticapitalist mindset goes… do your due diligence when it comes to sussing out the manufacturers/companies you work with and try to create thoughtfully.

anyway next time you ask for advice please just pick like 3 questions at a time. this was… a lot.

[colorfulstage-en]

hello mr. sekai unofficial :>

I was wondering if you could help me with something. i'm a huge honami fan, love her so so much, so i save up 60k crystals to pull on little bravers when it comes to global (as a friend advised me to do.) i've got everything saved up, so there's no worries of not having enough in time. the problem is i have no idea when it comes to global! could you please tell me when the expected arrival date would be approximately? also if you could direct me to any sort of fansite (or official site!) that would tell me the dates in advance of when things happen? (an example of the kind of site i'm looking for would be something like makotools is for enstars english server)

wishing you all the best, and thank you!

-bear

Congrats on the 60k! Little Bravers is set to release January 21st 2024 - January 29th 2024

As for a site like Makotools, personally I just use the fandom site for events (here) as since Beat Eater we've been exactly one year behind JpSekai, so all dates for the events on Jp will happen exactly a year from when they first occured. The only exception being reruns (for some reason Smile of a Dreamer reruns came earlier on Eng and we can't be entirely sure of when the Evillious collab will rerun because it's a collab) + songs (they seem to be around the same time of year but not exact unless it's an event song).

As another resource there is sekai.best although, the site goes down often and is not allowed in any official Project Sekai servers (such as the discord). I'll be honest this was my first time looking at the sekai.best page so I can't help with any navigation of the site.

Despite playing Enstars myself I actually made my own spreadsheet for the events and gachas so I've never used Makotools, so I hope these help! I'd always be willing to put together one for Project Sekai as well.

Good luck bear!

[readwing]

It has occurred to me that aside from off-handed tags, vague references, and the occasional poll result that I don’t really share-share stuff about me online.

So allow me to break that streak for a moment to gush about my job:

I am, without being too specific, a Fancy Data Accountant. Let me explain.

I am not a CPA and I did not go to school for this, but I did take a variety of loosely related classes when I was in college. These classes + the slow grind of being An Employee During the Recession + a general thirst for knowledge + good organizational skills = a solid understanding of business fundamentals and a willingness to learn Accounts Receivable (A/R) and Accounts Payable (A/P) without fucking it up.

If any of you younguns don’t know - A/R and A/P are positions that are always in desperate need of smart people willing to learn. If you add to this even a basic knowledge of General Ledger accounting then congratulations you are 95% more competent than most of the people currently doing that job. The reason for this being that for small businesses, it’s usually a filler job. It’s usually passed on to like, whoever seems to have the most time leftover to do it.

Receptionists and owner’s wives. Lots of times it’s those people. And lots of times, they do not want to being doing that job either.

And since accountants tend to want to actually make good money and pay off their degrees, they also do not want those jobs! They’re mostly decently paying jobs, higher than entry level for sure, but they’re not CPA-paying jobs.

So there ends up being a knowledge gap between the people who are inputting all the financial data and the actual accountants who really really would prefer it if the data was better organized. Accountant and Tax Prep people, in fact, tend to need this so much that they sometimes hire people to work for them internally who can help business owners pretty things up so the data is fucking usable.

Enter me.

So I bounce around for a bit doing my thing - which is Easy, it’s so Easy that the only challenge I get is coming into a Messed Up set of books and fixing it. But then at a certain point…they are fixed. So what now?

Well my what now was ‘you know, this business (that I was working for at the time) has a stupid amount of manual input data. Not only that, but the data that’s being input is only a fraction of what we could be using to analyze and make decisions, and that’s because the industry relies on third party software for its A/R but a completely different software for its A/P. Since the two don’t talk to each other, we’re stuck relying on truncated reports out of our A/R that are somehow both watered down and crowded with unnecessary noise. No bueno!’

So bored little me signed up for a free library class on coding. I’m kind of shit at it, but that’s okay because that was the first time in my life I actually understood what syntax was in programming.

By the end of the class what I realized was that while I was too lazy to ever properly code something, it didn’t matter. What I really needed to know was:

1) what raw data I had available from System A

2) what the simplest, bare minimum amount of functions / formulas I needed to manipulate that data-

3) -so that I could then package it and download it into System B, preferably with minimal typing!

So that’s what I did. That was my new challenge. When I had a free moment at work - and boy did I find lots of those - I would play around with my little spreadsheets and these clunky programs. There needed to be checks and balances, you see. Whatever the output numbers said had to equal the new input numbers, or the accounting would be off. If Karen down the hall accidentally fat-thumbed in a new product or department, I needed it to 1) not break the formulas, and 2) be easily identified as an anomaly. Whatever happened between export/import needed to be cleaned, checked, and verified for the integrity of both systems.

So that’s what I built. Between doing my job and browsing Reddit at work. I built this whole system that would take this very boring part of my job and make it easy.

And yeah the place I worked for sucked, and I had plenty of issues happening personally, but this I was good at!

And the results kind of made me look like a god, which is always nice. And it got me a raise.

The pay bump was almost worth the mind-numbing boredom of the variety of other tasks I usually had to do to get to the fun bit. Almost.

Then last year in a moment of fed-up-ness I applied for a slew of jobs. Just slinging rezzies into the void on Indeed like a pizza maker flinging ‘za. Mostly for the same positions, just with better perks and pay. I wasn’t hoping for much. One of them called me back. Scheduled an interview. Did the interview. The next morning I had a job offer.

Y’all. I lucked in so fucking hard.

Not only were their books a mess, not only were they running a separate A/R and A/P system PLUS ANOTHER TWO INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC SOFTWARES, but they were actually excited to hear my ideas on how to fix it.

(And they were fucking soluble as all get out, which was a first for me.)

They were so excited, in fact, that it’s gone from being maybe 15% of my job to being about 80-90% of my job to just slowly fix and maintain everything they’ve got going on. Why the investment on their side? Because they’re looking to enter a potential partnership with X-number of other companies, all of whom have messy books that I could potentially end up fixing. Also the company has just started to open up a new location. Also the main owners are looking to start X-number of ancillary companies spinning out of the current one. All of these companies, of course, will have slews of data that need analyzed, with multiple Point-of-Sales systems that need to talk to each other, and good gosh golly, they know just the kind of person who likes to do that kind of shit now don’t they?

Then there’s little old me, sitting at my computer with my chunky spreadsheets and my limited amount of Visual Basic, somehow producing goddamn magic. Because programmers don’t understand generally accepted accounting practices, and accountants care even less about best data practices and management.

I have somehow waded through mires of bad decisions and late stage capitalism to find myself an oasis. I feel like I have somehow tricked the people around me into paying me good money to let me have fun at work. This in spite of the fact that I know that no one can do or even wants my job. Even AI can’t touch me, because that would require the robot be capable of standing up and asking a room full of otherwise intelligent people ‘what the fuck is this? Why did you enter it this way. Yes, I know it was easier for you and yes it’s technically accurate but you are going to accidentally break the law if we leave it like this Kenneth’

I am a cog, yes; but I am a well-paid cog, who gets to learn and feel challenged and buy ridiculous toys for my cats and fund Patreons now. And books. And sushi. And paints. I even splurged on a gym membership.

And y’all - it’s nice. It’s really really nice. And I really hope it keeps going like this, ‘cause I’m really happy with how things are going.

[nightfoot]

Thinking about how in Jurassic World, one of Claire’s defining character traits was “Is not good with kids and doesn’t want them.”  And in Dominion, he primary trait and motivation is, “Is a dedicated and passionate adopted mother.”  So... what happened between that?

Growing to like kids was the primary character growth Alan had in Jurassic Park.  For him, the development went:

Doesn’t want to be around the kids and is annoyed by them

Helps them escape the T-Rex because he’s a decent person who won’t sit back and watch children die

Tries to calm Lex down and gets Tim out of the tree while speaking to them very directly and stressed

Shares a moment with them and the brachiosaurus, engages with them and shares his passions with them

Engages with Tim once again before the gallimimus stampede, guiding him to identifying the dinosaur

Jokes around with them at the fence and then was emotionally invested in saving Tim

Affectionately joked with Tim after he was shocked

Puts himself between the raptors and the kids in the final showdown in a last-ditch effort to protect them

Gives Ellie that Look in the helicopter as the kids sleep leaning on him

There’s a steady progression throughout that one film.  In the beginning he reacts to the kids with annoyance, in the middle his scenes with them are more frustrated and obligated, and by the end he shows real affection for them. 

So... what was Claire’s arc?

In the beginning of Jurassic World, she didn’t mind kids but spent very little time with them and didn’t really know what to do with them

She wanted to rescue her nephews as soon as she found out they’re in danger, because they’re her nephews

Reunited with her nephews, she keeps them by her side and spends the rest of the movie trying to protect them

She never really... interacts with them.  She wants to save them because they’re her sister’s kids.  She has no scenes of bonding with them, and her attitude toward them never really changes.  She didn’t dislike kids in the beginning; she just didn’t want any of her own and didn’t know how to deal with them, but was still happy to see her nephews.  Her arc wasn’t about “coming to like kids,” but about not being such a workaholic and appreciating family and life beyond corporate spreadsheets and data points.

Then in Fallen Kingdom, the first time she interacts with a child, it’s Maisie in the mansion.  Immediately she reaches out to her gently and warmly.  I guess between movies she learned how to interact with kids?  In JW, we never actually see her interact with a child who isn’t a family member so maybe she was always capable of this? She also never has any warm or affectionate moments with her nephews in the first film, even after they’re reunited.  Most of their interactions are all three of them panicking together, or her trying to be reassuring, but neither boy respects her or sees her as particularly protective so the moments are treated more as jokes than anything else.

There are never any quiet moments between Claire and Maisie in Fallen Kingdom, but then Dominion starts, and it turns out Claire and Owen adopted her.  That made sense - where else was she going to go? But the movie went hard on “They’re her parents now! They’ll stop at nothing to save her!”

When did this happen?  When did they create this parental bond? It isn’t even something that they build up to, like Claire not identifying as Maisie’s mother until close to the end, after realizing how much she’s willing to go through for her and deciding, “I really do love this girl so much, I’m her mother now.”  No, they just immediately start referring to Claire as her mother without any discussion, without Claire ever protesting it or struggling to accept the title.  Claire was a character who did not want children, then spent one evening running away from a dinosaur with this girl, and as soon as the next movie began, she’s fully settled into the mother role.

I think they wanted to write a proper character arc about a workaholic coming to appreciate family and creating a found family of her own, in a way that echoes the central arc of the original film.  But then, they just didn’t write that arc.  They wrote the starting point and the ending but forgot all the little scenes along the way to show that this is an arc and not teleporting from one character point to the other.

The question is just what is the exact ratio of bad writing to sexism. Did they want to write this and really show the progression but just flubbed it terribly?  Or did they get so stuck on “Woman given responsibility of child = immediately becomes maternal” that they didn’t realize they had to actually show us any growth? 

(Owen is absolutely not off the hook for being declared Maisie’s father when we barely ever see them interact, but “learning to like kids” was never meant to be Owen’s arc.  In fact I have no idea what his arc was ever supposed to be other than ‘look cool on a motorcycle’ but that’s a rant for another day).

[onlyroar]

Hey there! I’m a big 40k fan, and I found your map of the Ixaniad sector while I was writing up a Necron fanfic.

I wanted to ask for a couple things: firstly, if you would be willing to help me brainstorm some concepts to work with in my story in the Ixaniad sector. Secondly, if that’s not an option, I’d like for permission to borrow some elements of your worldbuilding in my own interpretation of the Sector, albeit tweaked to suit my own writing style and setting.

In any case, thank you so much for providing me a foundation to write about this interesting galaxy from! Now that I know you have a tumblr, I’ll be sure to credit you when I work further on this! <3

Oh boy, I’ve been off tumblr for some time now, apologies for getting to this incredibly late! So, here’s the thing about this project: I lost almost ALL the data behind the scenes, apart from the spreadsheet I was using to generate planetary bodies. The stuff posted here is more or less all that survived two consecutive data losses, aside from the spreadsheet used to generate guaranteed habitable worlds and some very brief notes I had on a separate device. I spent a lot of time putting all the map assets together at about 2-4x the resolution posted on tumblr (the warp storms were fun to make but involved ~5 layers of photoshopping on their own) so I was Not Happy about losing it all, along with all notes for the adventure it was made for... The worlds I generated (ie whitetext) might occasionally contain or refer to canon info but they and the stats are all based off stuff I generated using a complex set of tables kludged together in excel and placed using a coordinate grid that was hidden on the exported map. If you want to use or alter them, feel free but please keep that stuff fluid enough so that is another person comes along and wants to alter and interpret it differently, they can as well. Feel free to riff on this stuff however you like, if you haven’t already.  If you do, I recommend keeping the rough locations of the subregions and the sector structure intact as those are things that took the most research in aligning with the source material. For example, the Fydae Great Cloud is a critical element of the Sector as it constrains further trailward expansion of the Imperium and as a Warp Storm, this would impact systems closest to it. The dangers involves mean that’s where you’re most likely to find dangerous backwaters, lost relics and all else that being further from the Emperor’s light entails. The Ptolemaic Reach, as the name implies, should be a relatively straight but permeable barrier that constrains the flow of trade into whatever navigable channels it has. Worlds on such routes are likely to be more prosperous for the same reason railway junctions were historically - every time you’re forced to change your course through the Warp and recharge or resupply, is an opportunity for merchants and opportunists to peddle their wares and services. Defining Hecuba and Hillica as Subsectors within Ixaniad was done as an expedient to cut down bloat, since despite those being in this general region, there’s no space for extra sectors given in the main sources from the FFG era (i.e. Calixis and Finial). Hecuba has been referred to both as a Subsector and a Sector. Mandragora being a whole ass sector and including an adjective in the name  is dumb and I will die on this hill. 40K isn’t Star Wars. Canon is fluid and always open to interpretation based on what makes sense and gives you a place for Your Guys. Just as I played with stuff, you should feel free to as well. My philosophy behind this was always to figure out the geography first and using it to inform the rest of the design process and I think that helped greatly later on as I started placing non-canon or semi-canonical systems and features. As I mentioned on the map, my work on this is itself broad interpretation of all the canonical sources I could find on the Sector. It is likely outdated canon-wise since right as I was making it, the most recent 40K RPG was making stuff relating to Dread Mandragora/Mandrigora/Mandagora and further muddying its already mixed references on the opposite side of the galaxy, but hey, it’s more fun to pretend there’s two similarly-named sectors that occasionally get deliveries from the Imperium intended for the other.

[holmesgleninternship]

Entry 3 - Becoming an effective team member and contributor: how did utilise the support of your supervisor/co- workers to help build your confidence and become more efficient as an intern (this may include feedback, training or other support/opportunities)

I had to find ways to work or contribute to the organisations so they knew they could rely on me when doing the job. If I do this, the internship will allow me to improve and discover skills while gaining experience. Studies show that if you gain more skills and feedback, it can illustrate how you can work in an organisation from hiring companies (Finch et al., 2013 as cited in Kapareliotis et al., 2019).

In my Baseball Australia internship, I was informed there was an Australian Women’s Tournament event that was happening, 3 weeks before the event. It was a one-week event where there were 3 to 4 games a day. So, me and the other intern still take turns recording the games. But when I was not doing anything, I was able to direct the live stream and scores for the Australian Women’s Tournament. It was a really good experience because I was not into being part of the sports industry in the media department. But when there was an opportunity to gain some new skills, I always gave it a go and gained the experience.

In my Hockey Australia internship, I was always willing to contribute and assist the departments with their needs. Whether it is developing and fixing a template for them or moving physical types of equipment in preparing a shipment for the events. There were times I was asked to fix a spreadsheet that was too complicated for them to work with. So, I was able to fix it for them quickly and hopefully, they can give me more jobs after. I was also asked to do a Kahoot quiz for the all-staff meeting, which I had a lot of fun doing it. It looked like it was fun for everyone too when they did the Kahoot quiz. When there is nothing to do, I always try to ask each employee if they need any help with their work. Most of the time they say not at this time, which could be annoying to hear. But it is what it is, and I just must wait if they ask me to help them with their work.

Having interns in the organisation can give them something fresh and give them more ideas for upcoming projects and events (Indeed Editorial Team, 2023). Contributing more can lead me to more opportunities in the internship and something that can gain me more confidence in the workplace.

References:

Indeed Editorial Team. (2023). What Are the Benefits of Interns and Why Do Companies Hire Them? Indeed. https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/why-do-companies-hire-interns

Kapareliotis, I., Voutsina, K., & Patsiotis, A. (2019). Internship and employability prospects: assessing student’s work readiness. [Internship and employability prospects] Higher Education, Skills and Work - Based Learning, 9(4), 538-549. https://doi.org/10.1108/HESWBL-08-2018-0086

[ridingthatbike]

Bike Tour in the Age of Climate Collapse

Part one: escalation (as is often the case)

Erin and Q head out on a short bike tour, which is quickly cut even shorter by a dead derailleur. Erin and Q make a tentative plan for another attempt, and think how much nicer it would be to do a point-to-point, except then the logistics get harder, with orchestrating rides. Erin and Q suggest that Colin would probably be willing to pick them up. Then Colin suggests that he’d be into riding from the other end. Then Emma and Colin decide that we’ll ride the same route, from south to north, while Erin and Q ride it from north to south. 

Part two: planning and existential crises (plural)

The logistics of the cars is very easy (each team drives to their starting point and just leaves a car there, so a car will be waiting for the other team) but it turns out that dividing up households makes it so much more complicated: we all have all the stuff to do a bike tour, but need a convoluted spreadsheet to keep track of which team is taking along which item, and who is staying where on which night so that we can orchestrate a group camp in the middle. Then the wildfire smoke from Canada blows in just as we are about to roll out, and we aren’t sure if we are going to be able to go at all. We oscillate between total panic (several sets of lungs among us have asthma and there is a LOT of lung disease in my family) and being utterly cavalier (“well, I’ve only gotten pollution hangovers if the AQI is over 70 so as long as it’s under 70 I think we can safely ride and camp for a week straight in trash air…”) and back to panic (it hasn’t rained in almost a month, it’s so hot and dry, there are small wildfires appearing in Pennsylvania, so even if the smoke from Canada mellows out, will we even be able to ride our planned route???). A number of tears are shed in a number of locations. It feels like so much planning for absolutely nothing, a good time canceled by climate collapse. What are we going to do?

Part three: wait it out We wait. I obsessively check every air quality site and every smoke map and every fire forecast I can find, just clicking through one after another again and again. It is not healthy and I’m deeply aware of it being unhealthy, but can’t seem to unhook myself from the cycle. In the end, we have dinner together on the day we were intending to depart, so we can Have Our Feelings and make a plan. We decide to delay our start a bit, and shorten the route to accommodate the delay. Erin and Q reconfigure their camp plans, while Colin and I are able to keep ours the same. We’re going.

Part four: here comes the rain

The rain comes our first night – we are delighted, because we desperately need it, and it will help clear the air and will lower our local fire risk. But also, we are not really thrilled about riding in the rain. Ultimately it is pouring rain for about fifty percent of the time we are out on tour. I’m not mad. 

Our first day, we leave the car and roll out to a weird isolated group campsite with nobody in it, along a lake. I’d hoped to go swimming, but the water is very low and there are a lot of motorized boats out in the center, so we elect not to get in, and feel a little sad about it. The air is thick and hazy, and the well water is hideously orange, and there is this feeling of imminence – the vibes are a little unsettling. We decide to just throw our sleeping bags on the picnic tables in the shelter instead of heading into the woods, and give ourselves the gift of a dry packup in the morning. 

The first night of camping is always uneasy for me, as I adjust to the sounds. A whippoorwill calls and calls and calls as dusk settles, and after it gets dark, I hear chewing sounds nearby and get up to investigate: a porcupine nibbling bark in the woodpile by the shelter. Neither of us sleep well at all.

The second day, we head out to see about the Terrace Mountain Trail, which Q and I attempted a number of years ago and just … couldn’t find, as it sort of petered out into some wild roses and deep leaf litter. That time, we bailed on the plan and rode the mountain bike trails instead. Maybe should’ve done that this time too. We pushed our bikes uphill in foot-deep loose leaves covering loose rocks in the rain, lifting our bikes over downed trees every hundred feet, for MILES. We were so mad! We met a guy named Josh heading the other direction on the trail, soaked to the bone, with a flat tire, who said “this isn’t even fun, man.” We made it through Terrible Mountain Trail and to the edge of town, where we’d planned to stay in a hotel. Colin looked us up and down and said “let’s at least give our bikes a bath first” so we walked into the river with our bikes, shoes and socks on, to get some of the grit off. Couldn’t get any wetter. The hotel gave us a second floor room and the elevator was out. A cherry on top of a truly hilariously difficult day. 

The third day was an absolute joy – the kind of joy that is only possible after a stretch of difficulty and weird energy and trying to keep morale up, the kind of joy that feels like a reward, like a gift, like a treasure. Every road was the best road, all day long. We’d slept hard and woke up feeling great, got fancy coffees in town before rolling out, and had spectacular climbs up those long lovely mountain gravel roads we love so much. Ate a trash lunch at the top and ripped a little singletrack down. The mountain laurel is in peak bloom – I have never seen so many flowers in my life! We ride hard and feel amazing, and roll up to the campsite we’ve reserved, and feel so let down: it’s a sad, sun-baked, hard-packed field covered in dead grass. But lo! A little mossy path at the edge! Surely that goes somewhere! OH AND IT DOES! It leads back to a perfectly flat little edge along an ice cold creek, with just enough room for a tent and hammocks and bikes. We set up hammocks, do a freezing skinny dip in the creek, and thus revived, take some drugs and wander around, enthralled: touching moss underfoot, watching a catbird imitate a wood thrush and a towhee and warblers, enjoying the experience of being alive.

The rain came early that evening - we climbed into bed in the rain, packed up in the rain in the morning, and rode in the rain all day. It was our favorite kind of day, though: great backroads, wild doubletrack, climbs up to vista (or a “mist-a” as Colin called it. Welcome to the abyss, you can’t see shit!). All day we were making plans for when we’ll come back and ride these roads again, unloaded, so we can really rip it up. And since I’m only now getting around to writing this up, I get to tell you that we’re going to do that this coming weekend! Huzzah!  We rolled into our group camp, envisioning a large picnic shelter where we might hang our gear up to dry a bit, but instead, found our accommodations were in fact the smallest backpacker shelter I’ve ever seen, complete with a nest of baby phoebes in the very back, and a very anxious mother hovering nearby. Colin strung up a hilarious criss-cross of cord to hang up as much gear as we could in a very small space. Q and Erin rolled up about an hour later, also soaked. Q rolled up to deliver me a tulip tree blossom and a kiss. It’s strange to be on bike tour with Q but not with Q, and I am so happy for us all to be together for the evening, having tea, looking at maps, sharing route intel and stories. Colin fixes us Fancy Dinner (using both stoves!) and we crash out. 

In the morning, Erin and Q are solidly engrossed in the Not Hurry Up Camp lifestyle, while Colin and I are already fed and packed up and ready to roll. We kiss our sweeties, cruise out to the first big climb of the day, and get warmed up in a hurry. We hauled ass to get our miles in early so we could make it to the snack shack at the state park before it closed, and BLISS! We got black raspberry milkshakes and loaded up on treats for now and for later, set up hammocks and a timer, dozed for an hour, and rolled on out. The last miles of the day were slow and lovely, and we found another creek for skinny dipping, and then got a lil stoned and blissed out in a beautiful campsite for the evening. Again, the rain came in overnight, and Colin slid a secreted-away pack of Oreos to me under my rain fly as we packed up in the rain. Breakfast of champions. The rain persisted and persisted and persisted, as temps dropped and dropped and dropped. The roads were lovely and the mountain laurel was euphoric, but as I got wetter and colder, my reflexes got slower, and I made a bike handling mistake that I wouldn’t have made in different conditions: I braked hard to avoid missing a turn, and Colin was hotter on my tail than I’d realized, and I caused a crash. Ugh. We both hit the ground. Our bikes were fine, I was fine, Colin got some gross road rash. It could have been so much worse. We keep riding, and I’m starting to lose feeling in my fingers, and Colin notes that it’s 46 degrees. We’d been planning to ride further and camp that night, but decided to see about getting a room to warm up, dry out, and clean some wounds. Success! The very same spot that saved our sorry soggy asses back in 2016 pulled through again! Did a quick grocery run, made and ate a dinner sitting on the floor, and slept like kings. 

The following morning, I am so itchy that I am crawling out of my skin. Turns out I was an absolute feast for the bugs at our campsite two nights before, and just didn’t notice it in the pouring rain. Colin says that he heard me moving during the night and thought I was awake, but I was just scratching my bug bites in my sleep. We stop for some topical benadryl and I slather myself in it before we roll out of town onto the rail trail, which felt boring to us, so we hauled ass. We stop at a little ice cream shop for more black raspberry milkshakes, ride along Goldfinch Alley (there are SO many goldfinches on the trail!) and stop to nose around a spot I checked out years ago in the fall with another friend – turns out it’s the best swimming hole I’ve ever been to. We revel in being submerged. Later Colin says that we are dogs, and every body of water is an eleven out of ten for us. He’s not wrong, but this is absolutely top tier swimming. Pure joy. We roll back out, and the air quality is terrible again. I feel a little sad and a little stressed about it. But we are feeling good and feeling strong, so I hit the inhaler and we ride on to our camp for the night. It’s open and unshaded, so once again, we post up under a picnic shelter with hammocks. I contemplate staying in the hammock for the night, but haven’t brought an underquilt since I’m tent camping. It gets below 40 that night, and in the morning, my tent is heavy with condensation, but I’ve slept deeply and feel good, a little emotional as I often get toward the end of an adventure.

In the morning, we drink our coffee on the bank of the fog-covered creek, and ride on out. As the gorge gets steeper and taller and narrower, I revel in feeling hugged by the mountains. I am made of these hills and this stone and these forests, as surely as I am made of blood and bone and muscle. 

[harperhealthaz]

How to Find Your Passion and Turn It into Your Career

Do you love what you do? Are you excited to wake up every morning and start working on your projects? Do you feel fulfilled and satisfied with your work?

If you answered yes to these questions, congratulations! You have found your passion and turned it into your career. You are one of the lucky few who can say they are living their dream.

But if you answered no, don't worry. You are not alone. Many struggle to find their passion and make a living out of it. They feel stuck in jobs they don't enjoy or know what they want to do with their lives.

But it doesn't have to be this way. You can find your passion and turn it into your career, too. It may not be easy, but it is possible. And I'm here to tell you how.

I'm a project manager who loves working with Excel and Google Sheets. I create spreadsheets, charts, formulas, and reports that help me organize and manage complex projects. I enjoy solving problems, finding patterns, and optimizing processes. I also love learning new skills and tools that make my work more efficient and fun.

But this was not always the case. I didn't know that I wanted to be a project manager or that I loved working with Excel and Google Sheets. A lot of trial and error, experimentation, and exploration led me to discover my passion.

Here's how I did it:

I tried different jobs with different skills. I worked as a dishwasher, a salesperson, a customer service representative, and more. I learned something from each job but I needed to find a better fit.

I paid attention to what I enjoyed and didn't enjoy in each job. I liked working with data, numbers, and being creative. I also realized I preferred working independently rather than in teams or with customers.

I looked for opportunities to use Excel and Google Sheets in my jobs. I discovered I could use these tools to supplement my work and make it easier and more enjoyable. For example, I used Excel as a customer service representative to track my teams' stats and progress.

I took online courses and tutorials to improve my Excel and Google Sheets skills. I learned to use advanced functions, macros, pivot tables, charts, dashboards, and more.

I applied for jobs that required Excel and Google Sheets skills. I searched for jobs that involved data analysis, project management, business intelligence, etc. I highlighted my skills and experience in my resume and cover letter. I also prepared some portfolio projects to showcase my work.

I got lucky and got recommended for a job as a data analyst who works with Excel and Google Sheets daily, along with project management. I love my job because it challenges, rewards me, aligns with my passion, and continually evolves.

Now you may wonder: How can you find your passion and turn it into your career?

Well, there is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question. Everyone's passion is different, and everyone's path is unique.

But here are some general tips that may help you:

Try different things. Don't be afraid to experiment with different jobs, skills, hobbies, interests, etc. You never know what you may discover or enjoy.

Pay attention to your feelings. Notice what makes you happy, excited, curious, fulfilled, etc. Also, notice what makes you bored, frustrated, stressed, etc.

Follow your curiosity. Learn more about the things that interest you. Read books, watch videos, take courses, join communities, etc.

Seek feedback. Ask for opinions from people who know you well or who work in the fields that interest you. Find out what they think of your strengths, weaknesses, preferences, etc.

Be flexible. Don't limit yourself to one option or one goal. Be open to new opportunities and possibilities. Be willing to change your mind or direction if needed.

Be persistent. Don't give up easily or settle for less than what you want. Keep trying until you find your passion and turn it into your career.

Finding your passion and turning it into your career may not be easy or quick. But it is worth it. You'll be amazed at how much happier and fulfilled you'll be.

[akaraboonline]

How To Be Amazing In Bed

To be amazing in bed, you don't need to have Kim Kardashian's physique or adult movie celebrity moves. Here are a few options for you. How To Be Amazing In Bed Don’t be afraid to initiate. Taking the lead and initiating every now and then will go a long way in helping you get there before you even take your clothes off if you want a man to think you're amazing in bed. There's something incredibly sexy about a woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to go after it. Although we frequently expect men to take control in the bedroom. Set the mood. I don't suggest decorating your chamber with lots of candles and rose petals. (though if the guy in your life is into that, go for it). The stage will be set for what could be a fantastic night, though, if you can create a laid-back, welcoming environment where the two of you can be by yourselves and really delve deep into your intimacy. Be willing to experiment. Avoid always remaining in your typical missionary posture. Instead, be willing to try new positions, tricks, and even joint acts that might make sex exciting for him and extremely pleasurable for you. Yes, he enjoys being near to you and is content to be laid regardless. However, surprising him with something a little out of the ordinary makes you wonderful in bed. Be vocal with your feedback. Speak up if something feels right to your companion. Use your hands and words to direct him there if you want him to do something to you that he isn't already doing. Speak up, for instance, if you're really feeling one of his bodily parts or are extremely attracted to him. You don't have to get down and dirty, and not everyone is good at dirty talk right away, but being ready to express what's on your mind will really enhance the experience for him. Make your partner feel special. Contrary to common belief, men are not just interested in getting their rocks off. Like us, they desire to feel loved and valued. Make small gestures to let him know that you value him more than just a bit of meat and that your work together is important to you. Even though he won't say it, he feels like a million dollars. Let go of your insecurities. Is there anything more distracting than someone who is so preoccupied with how they appear from a particular angle or how they carry themselves that they are unable to even appreciate the moment? You have to let go of it so you can genuinely be in it, whether you're worried about looking fat or what he's thinking. You'll be fantastic in bed if you can let go of your self-consciousness for even a short period while you're spending time in the bedroom with your partner. Confidence is everything. Go the distance. Even though you undoubtedly need a break after giving him the ride of his life, be prepared to continue going as long as he can tolerate it. Your insatiable sexual appetite is remarkable. His vanity is boosted by the notion that he is so alluring that you can't get enough of him. Don't you want him to feel that way? Stop comparing him to your previous partners The clown you once carried home from the circus did that, and your ex used to do that. So? All of that nonsense is no longer pertinent. It won't help to vocalize your sexual exploits on your mental spreadsheet. It might lead your companion to believe that you haven't moved on from your ex or that you don't value him. In either case, you invite problems. Zip it. Leave the butthole alone unless you ask first. You'll get put on his roster of "butt breaching bitches" if you dive in there without first talking to him. Many guys find the butt region to be uncomfortable and taboo in all the wrong ways, while others find it to be stimulating. Unless he informs you or sends you a clear signal, there is no way to be certain without him telling you. Read the full article

[xoxo-bunnydumpling]

So I'd been asked to "help" with some financial shit at one of my jobs, workload was a lot for the one numbers guy we have, so yeah I guess I can do some spreadsheeting but I told them I'm 100% NOT an accountant and y'all need to let that one marinate.

I was asked today if I'd be willing to take on the rest. I said no. They asked me why and I asked finally asked them just what in the shit is going on here?

They FIRED the accountant in November and didn't tell anyone.

None of us are under an NDA (which is stupid as fuck tbh) so because I'd always been friendly with dude I just decided to call him and he didn't say a lot but told me I should take my name off the work if possible and that he was fired because he brought some stuff to their attention.

This is a problem with working in the "non-profit" sector that a lot of people don't realize. It's easy to get excited about the mission if it sounds good and looks good on paper so far as you know. Human beings are helpful and generous and loving as a species no matter what anyone tries to tell you, and as such we will not tend towards looking behind the curtain.

But there's always more paper. There's always more to it than you think. Some things are honest oversights and mistakes that any human person could easily make but when you see a pattern...

I should have dropped this project six months ago but I wanted to believe it could get back on the right track. People were coming and going and there was some turmoil and it was hard to get our asses back on right and what I started seeing made me think it was just that. We needed to get settled, and come back stronger. I didn't think our financial losses were intentional.

So I've tendered my resignation starting today. I don't like to not give notice but I don't want to be wrapped up in this when shit hits the fan. I'm so disappointed but I still believe strongly that we should help where we can. I still believe that kindness is alive, I just might need to live that differently for a while.

[simple-profits]

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