#and she described him as like a siamese

[baylardian-1]

some art for a friend's birthday :)

[johns-prince]

John was prone to extremes in thinking, feeling, and doing. Either you did or you didn't. Yes or no. You're with him on it 110% or you're out.

Paul wasn't, still isn't. I've always got the impression Paul is much more willing to compromise, especially if it meant he'd be getting his cake and eating it too. Which... Might be it's own extreme.

This isn't to say this is strict; Paul could be stubborn and uncompromising, and John could be much more willing and easy in making truces, if it still benefitted him. Two sides of the same coin, push and pull. There's always nuance.

I only think, Paul's much more particular about believing he can have what he wants, what he needs, without having to make any major compromise. As long as he can have his cake and eat it too.

This is part of what I think put an extra strain between him and John.

I've always believed John is the exception to Paul's sexuality. Paul does love women, he's only ever shown explicit attraction towards women. The only noticeable, explicit exception to this has been John.

What John means to Paul, and vice versa, has always been complex and indefinable. Their relationship is a spectrum of best friends, partners/collaborators, brothers, lovers, rivals, allies, husband and wife, divorcees, widowers, etc etc and the whole thing goes around and around. Subconsciously and consciously.

I think Paul was attracted to John, personally and physically. John was a force, and he came from a higher class, and he was very intelligent and very talented, despite being very lazy and quick to becoming bored. Paul seems to have a fondness for recalling John's hands, how he stood when playing, his nose.

Paul likened creating music to that of sex and orgies, though if done with the right person. John was that person. He'd been that person for Paul since he was a teenager, and for ten years, and then a haunting muse and inspiration years after.

Whether they were ever sexually intimate together, honestly, we'll never really know. There's very interesting, eye-brow raising, side-eyeing moments and interactions between them that suggests something happened (looking at you India)

What I do know is that Paul and John were a very, very strong partnership. Their chemistry was obvious, watching them work together was always fascinating to outsiders. Attached at the hip, Siamese twins. They did in fact love and care for each other.

To what extent this love went, maybe or maybe not the physical realm, but it surpassed the normal bounds of platonic and familial.

I just think, it would've been kind of delusional of Paul to think, he could have John, his soulmate, collaborator, and best friend, making music and other artistic ventures together; and, get to have his wife, along with kids, too.

Not when these two would describe their relationship akin to marriage, girlfriends and boyfriends, fiances, their creating music like an act of sex.

Why it worked with John having a wife, Cynthia, is because in all honestly, she wasn't a threat. She didn't threaten the Beatles, and she really didn't threaten Paul's relationship with John.

Why it wasn't working with Linda, and why it most certainly didn't work with Yoko, is because both women posed a threat to, maybe not exactly the Beatles as a band as they did to the relationship that was Lennon-McCartney. They were serious, the real deal, because they were much more involved (intentionally or not)

Linda could provide to Paul what he, apparently, couldn't get from John, their partnership.

Yoko was willing to give to John what he yearned for, that Cynthia apparently couldn't give, and that Paul might've refused to give, or in John's mind, rejected him.

But you have Paul wanting both his cake and to eat it too and you know what, I'd probably be frustrated too, if I was John, and if John really did hold deeper feelings for his partner and closest friend.

No one is owed anyone's feelings of affection, but I have to speculate how exactly it went, between Paul and John, when the whole group was coming up to crossroads and what decisions made there would determine what happened next.

Paul picking Linda, marrying her, probably felt like an affront to John, by how he acted and behaved. The fear of no longer being the Most Important Person in Paul's Life. Paul didn't love him like John wanted him too.

But Paul did, of course, he was heartbreakingly obvious of how he felt towards John during Get Back, and his attitude towards Yoko.

Paul probably found it very rational that he could have his wife (sexual partner) and have John (his... Pseudo sexual partner? Creative partner) and it'd be just fine and dandy. But that's only true if their relationship was a normal one to begin with, if their friendship was a rationally reasonable one.

John was always possessive over Paul, whether it be with new friends (Tara Browne) or all his little girlfriends. He never liked them, John and Jane were known for disliking each other outright. John wanted to do everything with Paul, like LSD. John didn't share his people, he just didn't.

He chose Paul, made the conscious decision to do so, and up until the end, he believed Paul chose him too.

Paul did, he very much did, but I think maybe he overestimated just how dependent John was of him, and just how insecure he was in the love that Paul had for him.

Though perhaps the same could be said about Paul, because once John made it obvious that Yoko was now his everything, his New Creative ""Soulmate'', Paul nearly broke in half. Can no longer rationalize the "have my cake and eat it too" as John was not willing to compartmentalize his relationships and feelings to two different people, like Paul was. That's just not him.

So Paul got none of him.

And I know this post is dragging on but, one more, super interesting thought.

John had a sexual attraction to both men and women. Okay. It's not like he couldn't just, go get his kicks with another man, if Paul wasn't biting, wasn't giving.

But their relationship was not that simple. Sexual intimacy was probably not all John wanted from Paul, if my theorizing is correct in the slightest. It was either the last step or last leap of them becoming everything to each other. John did put those he loved through tests of patient, loving resilience. Why wouldn't this be one? Not even just the sex but just, giving everything to each other knowingly, and without guards and blinders.

John made the conscious decision to love, and obsess, over Paul. He makes these decisions, just like he did with Yoko. He didn't have too. Paul really isn't the only beautiful, talented man in this world.

But to John, he was. No one compared, I guess. No one could replace Paul. That's love. Not just, physical attraction and the idea of satiating a curious sexual desire with your best friend.

On the other hand, Paul, in my opinion, really is set on women. John's just the exception, and he's always been his exception. Which is probably frightening to confront, at least back then, so I can't really blame him if he'd fumbled it with trying to compromise with whatever John might've wanted from him and their relationship. Or him even rejecting John, despite the fact.

What Linda said, "Paul is desperate to write with John... John is just desperate to write again." That sticks with me, because it's so THEM. It's what I've tried encapsulating in this post, which I've probably failed.

Paul and John could stand on their own two feet, outside of the Beatles, I'll agree. Very talented in their own rights.

But Paul wanted to write with John again, not just, some nobody. Desperate, he was desperate to be around John, and to bring back that (sexual) creative bond they once had. He's never been this deadset on another man he's worked with, he's never been desperate.

John wanted to write again. Thing is, John had made his choice, picking Yoko over Paul (for various reasons) just like he could, and did, pick her as his new wife/sexual partner, over Paul (in spite of Paul) but he couldn't ever let go of Paul. Clearly, from what we know, he never stopped thinking about Paul. It's known he wasn't getting from Yoko what he had gotten with Paul, though, in terms of creative partnership... And even general.

I believe he missed it just as bad as Paul did. He missed them.

Linda saw it, knew it, could probably feel it the few times Paul and John did get together. What Paul may have told her, revealed his true feelings about the band, about John, to her.

I can't really fault Paul or John from the course in life they chose, not really. I don't think either of them knew how to deal with what was going on between them, twin flames, soulmates. They dealt with it in different ways, two different extremes, which was part of why it all ended so bitterly and tragically like lovers falling out.

Paul couldn't have his cake and eat it too, not here. John couldn't get Paul fully, completely, totally, and because of that, Paul couldn't have any of John.

[marcelllyn]

Best lovers- Oops, friends.

Sam is my boy of the month, and wow what a man!

Synopsis: Sam and Letty have been best friends since college, after a while they meet again at Bobby's house. But this time something strange is happening.

Warnings: English is not my first language, Possible mention of blood, mentions of pain and hallucinations.

In college, I remember being great friends with Sam, and we were glued to each other everywhere. Like conjoined, or Siamese, siblings. We both had crazy families who hunted peculiar things, with brothers devoted to their parents, and a dream of escaping that life. We were roommates, two Nerds, he graduated in law and I graduated in psychology, we were going to escape from that family curse that we carried. Together.

So when Jessica showed up, Sam left to live with her, which wasn't really a problem since he didn't ignore me. Whatever happened, he was scared that Jessica would find out about hunting, about his family, about his mother. The memory was vivid, me sitting on the cafeteria bench with some friends while he laughed with Jess on a bench far away, pretending to be someone he wasn't. He always wanted me if it was hurt or jealousy.

Anyway, the day I heard a knock on the door and saw him standing there and sad, with that puppy dog ​​look, and he hugged me tightly crying over his girlfriend's death, I knew that everything was lost, that he was lost and I didn't He was going to rest until he found the thing that killed his mother and his girlfriend. That was the last day I saw him.

Looking out the window of a truck that reeked of booze, I let my mind wander through the good memories I had at the college I dropped out of. Traveling the world and hunting supernatural things runs in the family. I chuckled as I remembered Sam. Even though a few years have passed, the longing for him never went away.

— So, how are your parents doing? — Bobby who was in my direction, questions, an old friend of my mother who has been a nanny on many occasions. — You know, after death, your sister.

— They are doing well, sad, but recovering. — I gave a robotic answer.

— Sad, but well, what a beautiful way to describe grief. – He murmured. — And how do you feel?

I looked at him smiling and responding:

— I feel good, strangely, it's as if she were still alive. Only far away, like she always was.

— She was a great hunter. You remove it from her. -Bobby laughed. — I remember that she played hunting vampires while you pretended to be a victim of the situation, when you weren't kissing the teddy bears saying that you had fallen in love.

— I've always been very soft-hearted and you know that. — I poked him. — She was really great, but unfortunately not even a great hunter can resist a shot.

Bobby agreed, shaking his head.

— You two have always been like two daughters that I never had, I have to say that having four children that are not yours is very difficult. — He laughed sarcastically. — I had to see her face when you left home to study psychology. She screamed, cried, I think she was afraid of being alone or jealous that you were brave enough to leave the hunt.

Four? I felt a pang of jealousy, who were these two other girls that Bobby considered his daughters?

— That's just like her. — I gave a painful laugh. —But I got back on track. Let the spirits and werewolves prepare! — I screamed.

We both laughed. I wanted to honor my sister, continue the family thing, and with the help of Bobby who was like family.

— I hope you don't mind. — He said as he parked in front of his house, which must have been a mess. — I have two other people accommodated, hunters too. Try to be kind, they are going through a difficult situation.

—What kind of difficult situation? — I got my backpacks. — Being in this house is already a difficult situation, how long has it been since you cleaned?

—Watch how you talk, young lady. — He took the backpack from my hands. — One of them kind of sold his soul to save the other's life, they're looking for a way to reverse it, and I swear I'm going crazy with them.

— That sounds interesting. — I turned the handle with more force than necessary, as it was super dirty and rusty.

I entered the house where I spent many good times with my sister, messy as always, but at least it wasn't smelly.

— I'm going to clean this place up. — I commented. —And where are the two visitors?

— They must have left, anyway, feel free to clean up, just don't touch the magazines under my bed.

I frowned, it was disgusting to think that he saw naked women.

— How disgusting! — I let out a shrill laugh. — If I'm going to spend time here, I better organize some things.

I settled in one of Bobby's forgotten rooms that were full of boxes and rubble, lucky for me that I had gotten there early. It took me a whole morning and most of the afternoon with Bobby to tidy up the room and get the dust out of that house. Cleaning the disgusting bathroom that was full of hair in the drain and expensive hair products.

At the end of the day, I was sitting on the couch painting my nails while Bobby watched the football game to hide his concern.

— What do you think of a pizza?

— I think it would be a good idea, my boys will be home soon and hungry. — He took a sip of beer.

— Your boys? — She said intrigued. — Don't tell me you hired…

-No! Obviously not! — He was so stressed that, if he wanted, he took the trouble to make a joke. — Order two, please.

I got up from the couch, leaving the red nail polish on the coffee table and picked up the phone, dialed the number of the pizzeria and walked around the house while ordering a cheese pizza and another Margherita. Being in the hallway, I heard voices coming from the room. For some reason, my heart seemed to be beating faster at one of the familiar voices.

I walked into the living room again, looking at my toenails, which were super smudged red.

— The pizza is about to arrive and I don't drink beer, so I'll buy some juice… — I looked up.

A man in a leather jacket was sitting on the couch messing with my nail polish.

-Goodnight. — He said gently. — You must be one of Bobby's boys. — I tried to say that without laughing.

The man raised his green eyes to see me and smiled, putting down his nail polish.

-Goodnight. — He gave a sideways smile. — Look, when you say it like that, it sounds weird, but what about you? Is that his girlfriend? I didn't know he was into that attitude.

I laughed and sat down next to him.

-No! — She said a little offended, but with a smile on her face. - Bobby is like a father to me, I'm just spending time here.

— Well, there are two of us, yes. — He got a little closer. — I'm Dean and wow, how lucky am I…

I turned my face away, choked on my words when I saw Sam there, standing there with a beer in his hand.

—Sam? — I got up.

—Letty! — He said excitedly. — But what… Are you and Bobby?

-No! — Bobby responded quickly, then taking a deep breath. — She is the daughter of some friends of mine, practically the same as you. Where do you two know each other from?

-Faculty. — We repeat in unison.

— Ah, so this is Letty… — Dean murmured. — Sam talks about you a lot, annoyingly.

I laughed, as if I was unable to understand anything. But I soon remembered what Bobby had told me when I arrived.

— Who was it… Sam, did you make a pact for Dean? Or was it the other way around? — I asked, taking a step closer to Sam.

— That's a long story for later! — Dean coughed, pretending to be melancholy. —Was she your college crush?

Sam laughed, shaking his head and said:

— Kind of yes, kind of no.

I opened my eyes wide, OK, that had taken me by surprise. But I cleared my throat, changing the subject.

— I'm really happy to see you again, Sam, and I'm really happy to meet you Dean. Sam loved talking bad about you. — I joked. — And I ordered pizza.

In addition to being happy, I was nervous. Sam or Dean had their souls at stake, and it was making me anxious.

— Bobby, how many children were you a father figure? — Dean said, getting up and grabbing a beer.

— Only four. Bobby laughed. — So, what did you find out today?

As he and Dean talked, my eyes were glued to this man who looked more like a double-door refrigerator. It was almost magical how handsome he was, how tall he was and how his hair was so well taken care of.

—So, what are you doing here? — He asked, approaching, I took a step back.

— I came to spend time with Bobby, help him with some cases.

— But you don't even like hunting. — Sam commented, taking another step closer. — And it’s dangerous

— The world is a danger in itself. So which of the two handsome guys died?

— Topic for later. — He pinched my nose. — And your sister? Didn't she come along?

— She… — I sighed and laughed. — He's traveling. — I lied, I didn't want him to feel sorry, he already looked bad enough.

— Crazy in both terms, Bobby as he is known. - He laughed, tucking his hair behind his ear.

— I think this proves that we are connected by something bigger. — I poked.

We heard the noise at the door. The pizza. I signaled with my eyes for him to excuse me and went to the door, I started to feel a sharp pain in my head. The voices in the room stopped, and a silence fell. I tried to open the doors with shaking hands, and when I managed to do so, I fell forward, in front of feet wearing pink boots. I looked up and saw myself there, literally, my ten-year-old self, with a sad face, wearing a pink dress and with both scraped knees. He held a strangely familiar necklace.

— Don't trust her, don't let him trust her. — Mine, I started repeating it several times. And then it stopped. — You have to protect him. She comes to get him.

She dropped the necklace to the floor, the pendant being a piece of stone shaped into the shape of an S but stained with blood. As she walked away, but without taking her eyes off me, I clutched my chest, it felt like my heart was trying to get out of my chest. My whole body started to feel cold, I screamed in panic and pain, but it seemed like no one could hear me. I closed my eyes and tried to take a deep breath and get up from the floor, but the pain in my chest and head was leaving me paralyzed.

— Letty, is everything okay?

At that moment, I couldn't distinguish which voice it was. But the moment I opened my eyes, all the pain was gone, I was in the living room, lying on the couch, with three men looking at me worriedly. I didn't feel any pain.

-Yes I am well. — I got up quickly by reflex. — Has the pizza arrived yet? — I asked bewildered.

Sam's strong hand placed me on the couch again.

— Look, you might have hit your head, or something. — Dean said, putting ice on my head. — I was lying in front of the door when we saw you.

— I didn't hit my head. — I took the ice out of my head. — It was a silly faint, I haven't been eating properly.

Sam laughed a little irritated, he hated it when he laughed in that superior and worried way. And I smiled at him, very genuinely.

— Fainting is never a silly thing! —Bobby and Sam said at the same time.

I got up again, I wanted to say what had happened, but I was embarrassed. So I simply said:

— It must be the contraceptive I'm taking, it's driving my body crazy! — I laugh nervously.

The three were silent. I walked to the kitchen with the pizza on the table. I tried to avoid them, trying to absorb what had just happened, the reason for that vision, the necklace. And of course the necklace represented Sam. But why? I thought it ended a few years ago, but no, apparently being the weird person who has visions is my charm. I took a deep breath, leaning on the sink counter.

I looked at the door. Sam was looking at me with furrowed eyebrows.

— I must have scared the delivery man. How long did I pass out? — I sat down trying to look normal.

— About ten minutes. — Sam replied, placing his hand on my forehead. — You should change contraceptives. And after all, why do you take it? You are in no danger of getting pregnant anyway.

I laughed and closed my eyes.

— Haven't I? — I provoked. — And I take it so I don't have to go through the unbearable pain of my colic. — He said dramatically.

— We both know you'll stay a virgin until you die.

It will be? — I raised my eyebrows.

— Terrible liar.

— Terrible… — I rolled my eyes. — I lost my touch.

He looked at me sideways with concern.

—Stop looking at me like that, you weirdo.

— You're the weird one here.

— You are more. — I got up, going to get a glass.

I was surprised with a strong hug. He placed his face in my neck and sniffled as if he missed my scent. I could have done the same if he wasn't so tall and my face wasn't so comfortable on his chest.

[everydayzefron]

Some facts about Zac Which you may or may not know!:

1. He turned down a big record deal.

Jesse McCartney said Zac turned down a record deal, with six zeros attached to the end of it (huge $ offer) Due to his preference for acting. The deal wanted him to put out a solo album. Not sure how many offers he got, but it is known Simon Cowell of all people wanted to sign Zac.

Additionally it was Zac’s love for singing that opened the door for him into the acting world.

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2. He knows how to play the piano.

Growing up Zac has mentioned a few times very briefly that he knows how to play the piano extremely well. He took piano lessons as a kid, and it was his piano teacher who took notice of how talented he was and helped aspire his parents to get him involved in auditioning for roles.

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3. Taylor Swift herself taught him how to play guitar.

Even though he knew how to play piano quite well, Zac said he struggled with learning how to play the guitar. He stated his previous attempts have all been failures and nobody could teach him. Up until Taylor Swift of all people (who he calls a legend) volunteered to teach him. Since being taught by Taylor, Zac continued working on his guitar skills and has said he knows how to play almost every song with the four chords Taylor taught him. One of his go to songs he learned to play is Santeria. All thanks to Taylor Swift for being an incredible guitar teacher, according to Zac.

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4. He has frog hands.

Picture is self explanatory!

5. He’s into song writing! Says he wants to write his own album one day or even a musical!

One thing a lot of people don’t know about Zac is his interest in songwriting, or rapping. While working on his comedy film, ‘Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates’ Zac wrote (and is credited on) for writing ‘Stang Life’ which is an offical sound track song for the film. Zac additionally raps on the track. The lyrics are understandable if you watch the film, as it’s film-based inspired lyrics. Zac also co-wrote his collaboration parody duet with Taylor Swift and wrote Vanessa Hudgens a song for her birthday.

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6. He likes to write poems, and loves to paint & draw which he does really well.

A Zac fact that most people don’t know but something he mentions often is his love for poetry & painting/drawing which he is good at.

His (now removed, or faded) feather tattoo on his bicep was actually designed (drawn) by entirely him. Which he once mentioned in an interview.

Quote: “I actually designed it (tattoo). I like to sketch - it’s my favourite medium. I’ve done drawings and paintings for girls, but mostly I do comic books. Sometimes it’s just nice to put thought.”

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7. He is super nerdy which was a big shock to Zendaya.

In an interview while doing press for The Greatest Showman, Zendaya shared her first impressions on Zac. She never expected that Zac would be what she calls a “super nerd” since he’d go on telling her about Stranger Things, which he’d passionately deep dive about. Growing up, Zac wasn’t the popular kid in school, and sometimes bullied. Although he did community theatre which was an escape for him. His teacher once described him as “shy and quiet” and spoke about his passion and determination for acting.

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8. He did extremely well in school growing up, with high grades and never slacked off. Leading him to be accepted into the University of Southern California (USC) & University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

Pretty self explanatory. Zefron is very smart, especially since USC has a very low acceptance rate. Always has been. Zac not only was a top performer in arts but also academically. Friends of his past said he would take studying very seriously since he doesn’t slack off anything he does.

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9. He is a huge animal lover! Who grew up with his Siamese cat Simon, and two dogs, Dreamer and Puppy.

This one is a more obvious fact! Since there are plenty of interactions with animals, since he is a big time animal lover. One of the very first pets he owned was a kitten he called ‘Cucko Kitty’ it was a kitten Zac found as a stray & rescued.

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10. He played on a baseball team while growing up and has a signed baseball from Dusky Baker.

Before he got into theatre, and singing & dancing. Baseball was one of the sports Zac would play growing up! Dusky Baker is also one of the players who signed his ball when Zac was only a kid. Promising after 35 minutes he’d return from church to sign it, which he did.

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11. He had a very large gap between his teeth while growing up, and has a whole lot of freckles!

His gap may be fixed nowadays! But time to time when he doesn’t wear his retainers his signature gap between his teeth makes a small comeback! Other than the bright eyes and gap, Zac also has a freckles all over his nose and freckles on his cheeks too.

[cosmicjoke]

How would you describe the personality of your cats?

Well, they're all very different, haha. I have five boys and one girl.

Loki is the second olderst and he's really more like a big dog than a cat. Very affectionate and talkative. He loves to rub his head on any and everything, haha. He'll stand there and rub his head on your foot repeatedly, and he's a big lap cat too, which can be difficult, because he's a big boy. About 15 pounds.

Poe is the exact opposite in terms of size. Probably the smallest male cat I've ever had. He's a total doll though, and he loves to play fetch. If you throw a toy, he'll run after it and bring it back to you and drop it, and actually nudge it closer for you to throw again.

Bonn is a wild child and has serious wander lust. He's also got a voracious appetite, but somehow has the sleek figure of a Siamese cat. He's very sweet though, but if you play fight with him, he bites HARD, lol. He and Poe are best friends, but Loki and him are sworn enemies, haha.

Felix is the scaredy cat of the group, which is funny, because he's also a big boy. But he's very gentle and always has a startled look on his face. He's constantly running from Poe, despite outweighing by probably ten pounds, lol.

Little Boots is also a wild child, lol, very vocal and restless, and macho. When he wants attention, he's super affectionate and excitable, but he'll also make it obvious when he's had enough.

And Gabi is the oldest and she is MEAN, lol. When we first adopted her, she went on a rampage like one of those cats you see in those videos where people have to lock themselves in their bathrooms. She just went ballistic and attacked all the other cats and me too when I tried to intervene. She's by far our smallest cat, but she has attitude to burn. Luckily, she's settled down since then, and she can actually be incredibly sweet. But she has a short temper and will scratch or bite you if you irritate her by petting her too much. I still think she's adorable though, lol.

[yibennianyaji]

1, 3, and 11? sorry idk the names of ur story(ies) so feel free to pick :)

hmmmm let's go with the head well lost, which is a project that's both very close to finish and very very far (not many scenes left, a lot of edits etc. though)

1.) how would you describe the world your story takes place in?

it's an urban fantasy story! our world in contemporary times, except with a bunch of mythological beings like dullahans, sirens, other fae etc. existing. it's definitely far from common knowledge, with fae either trying to isolate themselves into their own communities or trying to exist in the shared common public space, but hiding who/what they are. obviously different types of fae will have easier or harder time blending in with humans. i am definitely trying to avoid the tired ~fantasy racism~ tropes though here, while still making it another facet of societal tension (even if vast majority of human is fully unaware of this tension even existing). if i absolutely had to attach a sort of metaphor to my fae, it would definitely be more oriented towards disability than race, but also. Not The Point.

3.) any recurring images/elements?

Music is a very important part of the story, heavily leaning electronic, hip-hop. Not only is the male lead, Rai, a part of an electronic pop duo and a music producer, but I also using songs and song writing/composing as an important part of the development and communication between him and Francis, the heroine. (It's also important for the side character who's the other part of the duo).

Another big recurring bit is trying to tell a big chunk of narrative, especially in the early stages, through text messages, and later also phone calls - including visual depictions of chat logs.

11.) give a general summary of the plot/world/characters.

When Francis matched with Rai on a dating app, the fact that he's half of the electronic pop duo DRYDEN should have been the most shocking part. Despite the hiccups that naturally occur when a quiet librarian and an internationally famous music producer collide, they hit it off and eventually decide to meet up. The moment Rai takes off the futuristic helmet he’s known for always wearing, he reveals to Francis his biggest secret: he is actually a Dullahan, a mythical being who has no head.

While lugging around her own emotional baggage, can Francis make a relationship work with this nice young man who also happens to be a headless pop star?

The main characters are:

Francis Lin: a 29-year-old librarian, part-time barista, and full-time cat mom. She's gone through some trials which have made her rather cynical and reserved.

Rai Brennan: already a sought-after producer and pop star at the age of 26. Confident, hard-working, and sweet, this guy is the whole package...minus a head.

Vergil Onassis: famous and beloved 27-year-old pop singer. Rai's childhood friend, he oozes sensuality and charm, but is also prone to wild swings of emotion.

Francis has three cats: Misty (the oldest of Francis's three cats. A taciturn, a-little-too-intelligent Siamese cat who bosses the other two around), Creme (the cuddly, somewhat easily frightened Himalayan. According to Francis, she is the Sweetest Cat Ever™) and Phaeton (the youngest cat of the trio, what this Cornish Rex lacks in fluff and fur, he makes up for in attitude and side-eying).

Thank you so much for asking!

The ask game in question

[irisopranta]

Canary 😊

[ canary ]  do you have pets? if yes, how many and what?

Yes, Two Cats Yuki and Lily.

Yuki is a Snowshoe Seal pointe Siamese. I had have him for 10 years. Yuki is best described as a Tsundare. He likes to show his dislike to people but will cuddle with you once he gets to know you. He is a pretty sweet cat. He also likes to posture himself as a king of the castle in our home. He also likes to pin down arms.

Lily we've had for 3 years. She is a Lilac Pointe Siamese. She's a bit of a coward and doesn't want to be near anyone. Sometimes she will try to cuddle with me, and only me.

thanks for the ask @marce-the-redeemed

[loneforestwolf]

I also decided to try this generator, and this concept reminded me of my OC, which I did not share. Because I don't know how to draw, but I can still try to describe it in words.

So, the main host name is Alisa, or Alice. She is a very naive young girl suffering from acute sensitivity. There is nothing unusual about her - long black hair, gray eyes, very white skin. But what makes her special is hidden on her back.

That’s Alyosha, Lyosha (as Alisa calls him) or Lyoha (how one not-very-proffesional guy calls him) He is Alisa’s siamese twin. They were merget together in embrion state. So while Alisa is grown adult, Lyosha looks like a large black lump or hump on her back with one eye and a small protruding arm.

I created these Oc’s inspired by the symbiote from Spider-Man and the Prototype from the game of the same name. Lyosha is Alisa’s immune sistem, he can heal her wounds and transform parts of the body for a protection or self defense, but usually can’t go full crazy mode since he cannot use his abilities to the full without the necessary resource. And if he tryes he could just kill Alisa and himself by doing so.

They was in the facility since they were born (a huge black hump on the back of a baby with an eye is difficult to consider the norm) and was treated nicely, because, as it turned out later, Lyosha is able to absorb everything that Alisa touches in order to use it for defensive or attacking purposes.

They usualy speak to one another out loud, that freaking everyone out bc only Alisa can hear Alyosha’s speaking, in her head, while others around her only hearing her responses to him. After some acsidents they desided to try speaking nonverbally or whispering, if Alisa gets too tired or can't keep her words.

I also thought that their abilities could help Katya with her regeneration problems. And Katya, in turn, could provide the necessary resource for Lyosha to escape or for a possible battle.

I have already said that Alisa is very naive. Lyosha, on the contrary, considers everything around him as a danger that can harm his sister, and therefore constantly tries to shield her from anything. He often takes control of the body, which is manifested by a large black spot on the face with an additional eye under one of the main ones and tries either scare someone with words, or threaten to dismember an opponent with a hand turned into a bone blade.

Alisa hates it when he does this, but understands that her brother has good intentions. And yet she tries to negotiate with him first, before going to get acquainted with someone or take regular tests that scientists prescribe in order to avoid possible... incidents...

I still can't decide their code number, so I'll probably take the one that was generated. They will be ST001-656, Symbiote Type.

[late-to-the-magnus-archives]

Pedantic, chapter three - a Malevolent AU

Arthur Lester is the best IT architect in the world, and the reason Carcosa, Inc. has its fingers in every pie. Government, medical, everyone in the world uses its systems. Arthur is also going blind and nearly gives up… until a deeply annoying cybersecurity programmer prods him into trying something new.

Chapter Three: The choice is made. What does Arthur have to lose? (The answer is his heart.)

AO3

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John Doe began sending images around four in the afternoon.

Arthur checked. That meant John was goofing around at two in the morning his time.

The first was a sticker depicting a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Beneath it were the words, Licensed to bear small arms.

Arthur snorted his coffee as Cassilda described it to him. When recovered, he said, “Doe, what the hell?”

No Doe here. That name went out with the dinosaurs.

“It’s your name, idiot. Are you saying you’re old and extinct?”

Maybe I’ve got big teeth and little children love me.

Arthur laughed again. “That can come across all kinds of wrong.”

I’ll give you wrong. A pause, followed by a second text. That made more sense in my head.

“It’s two in the morning, you whacko. Why are you up?”

Waiting for you, princess. Also, Baldur’s Gate 12 is addicting.

“Excuses, excuses.”

John sent a picture of a cat.

It is a young Siamese cat, Cassilda said. Less than a year old. It stares up at the camera with an expectant look, sitting primly, tail wrapped around its feet. Beside it is a human leg in pajama bottoms, wearing a fuzzy slipper.

“Who’s this?” said Arthur.

Guy. She’s my buddy.

“She?”

I fostered. I’d say, “Hi, guys,” every time I came home, and this one got too used to it.

“I see. Doomed. You had to keep her.”

She kept me.

There was no reason for Arthur to know this reply was different from the others, like there was more to this than mere words said.

But there was. This had mattered in some big way.

He tried to shake it off. “I haven’t had time for pets. I get so focused on my work… they’d starve, or something.”

You just need a partner to share the load, is all.

Right.

Right.

There were a few ways to take that, and Arthur doubted all of them.

He let it go.

So John sent another photo. This one was a glorious setup; two meter-wide monitors, multiple keyboards, and ample desk space for the numerous snacks and drinks arranged as if in front of six stations.

One chair. It was spun to face the camera, as if whoever had been sitting in it hopped up just to take a pic.

“What’s this?��� said Arthur.

Where the magic happens, baby.

Arthur smiled, considering his own absolutely ascetic layout. “Why multiple snack stations?”

Because I have numerous systems running, taking up a portion of the screen. I slide between them, and they require different flavors.

Arthur laughed. “They what?”

That system we’re customizing for the fucking Migo? That’s spicy.

Arthur did not like them. They didn’t trust his ability to make things just work, and kept making requests that complicated the system for users. “I agree.”

The Yithian delegation is a challenge, but I like them, so they get barbecue chips.

“Oddly specific.”

Their biggest challenge is older tech. I like making them able to go toe to toe with the assholes in spite of it.

“I like that, too. You’ll have to show me how you’re getting around their iCore B11 chips.”

Sure. Anyway, enough about me. Decided?

Arthur fell silent.

He walked to his window, looking out. He could almost see the view from this office; or maybe he’d just spent so much time here that his mind overlayed memories—the tree-filled hill falling away, Melbourne stretching out below, the smaller stone bastion where his own home sat gleaming in the fading sunlight.

He held onto the memory, staring at blurs.

His feed dinged. Parker’d sent a message.

“Hold that thought,” he said to John Doe, and sat down to hear Cassilda read it out.

#

Well. It was a thing.

Arthur called. “Are you fucking serious?”

“When you said he came out of nowhere a year ago, I didn’t think you were literal,” said Parker, amused. “But yeah, I’m serious. Social security number issued last year. Birth certificate not found. No known schools. Not so much as a photo in a yearbook. He’s a ghost.”

“That can’t be,” said Arthur. “Carcosa would never hire someone suspicious, never mind put them in charge of security.”

“Well, Hastur de Amarillo did. And you’re gonna love this part: there’s no record of an application.”

Arthur hesitated for all of one second. “Hold on.” He had Cassilda open his system in the back end.

He had his own back doors. It wasn’t really legal, but Arthur had access to everything simply because it was his baby and he had to in order to fix things or tweak them.

This was worth doing himself, without help. Squinting, close to the screen, he took the mouse in hand and navigated.

John Doe’s employment began one year and two months ago. There was his address (wait… already in Manhattan?), his income (nice), and… that was it.

No interview. No notes. No contacts. No medical contacts or work history. No references. No resume.

He really had sprung from Hastur’s head fully formed, apparently.

“Nothing?” said Arthur.

“Nothing. Whoever he was before your boss hired him has been hidden so well that I can’t dig a fucking thing up. I don’t know what this guy is hiding, Arthur, but this unnerves me.”

It unnerved Arthur, too. John Doe might have the skill to cover his tracks, but it felt impossible to be that good in this day and age.

John had been smart enough not to invent a past. That would’ve been seen through immediately. Instead, he just… didn’t exist. How many systems would he have had to hack? This was upsetting.

“Thanks, Parker,” said Arthur.

“I’ll keep looking, but… he’s hiding something big. People can’t hide themselves this much and still get jobs.”

Arthur knew the answer was to ask Hastur. He didn’t want to ask Hastur. He didn’t want to have to answer Why do you want to know?

He sighed.

“You okay there?” said Parker.

“It’s just complicated.” The implications of being able to do this were staggering. John Doe…

John Doe was a dangerous man.

“Fuck,” said Arthur.

“Use a condom,” said Parker, knowing damn well that would pull him out of his funk.

Arthur laughed. “Goon.”

“Right. I’ll let you know what else I find.”

“Thanks.” Arthur sighed. “Thank you.”

“No problem.”

Arthur had no idea what the hell to do now.

#

Arthur liked to celebrate a successful launch. He didn’t like to do it alone.

In his twenties, he’d spent a lot of time in the local nightlife, just in the company of strangers, enjoying some booze, the laughter, the dancing.

He hadn’t done that in a few years. It was too scary when he couldn’t really see what was going on.

He sipped his champagne, anyway, mulling. Maybe it was the booze on an empty stomach, but he knew what to do. “Text John. All right, asshole, I’ll take your bet, but you won’t like what I demand when you lose.”

All right! What, you want me to mail you my balls or something?

It was definitely the booze. “No. You’re going to tell me who the fuck you really are and how you hid yourself so well.”

Silence for a long moment, which Arthur could have predicted. It was a rude thing to say, and possibly illegal, and showed he’d been looking into John.

None of which he cared about right now. He tried to refill his glass and realized he’d drunk the whole bottle. When had that happened?

Deal.

Wait, what was?

Well. This just got interesting. “Good. We start tomorrow.”

Good.

It was the most succinct John had ever been. Arthur suddenly felt bad and took a picture of his empty champagne bottle. “To celebrate our new relationship,” he said.

A beat. Maybe he’d pushed too far. Maybe he’d busted this relationship before it even got started. Maybe—

I can drink you under the table, said John, and Arthur knew they were okay. Sleep it off. Wow me tomorrow.

“I will,” said Arthur, far more petulantly than he was proud of, and was grateful text did not portray.

He didn’t remember falling asleep on his couch, but he sure did, and dreamed of programming all night.

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CHAPTER FOUR

[takasgf]

siamese cat be upon ye

i knew you loved me

Siamese: Who is chattier/louder, you or your f/o?

Double answer because it sorta applies to both selfships of mine. The chattier person is always my s/i (Morgen even more so than Frogeru) and the louder person is my f/o. They are. so loud. Taka unintentionally so, he's loud even when he doesnt need to be, whereas R.ocket starts yelling when he fights or tries to scare enemies off. Taka's not really that chatty unless he himself is passionate about the subject (he does not like small talk. i love you boy). Honestly R.ocket's not the chattiest person either, but he does seem more okay with talking to others casually. He's definitely more of a listener in the relationship, because Morgs is constantly telling him about something. Funny bug facts. Complaining about her hair. Complaining about her home planet. Complaining about Aeneas. Complaining about Q.uill. Describing a cute dress she saw and asking him for a second opinion. Complaining that the cosmic art world does not respect her as an artist! This girl can talk. Frogeru is super talkative as well, but she needs to be good friends with the person she's talking to, or she needs to have a common interest. Morgen talks to anyone and anything (to bugs, to plants, to objects, to people who dont give a shit etc)

But if we're talking about me - me . Uhm. I dont actually talk as much as id like. Id definitely be more comfy with my f/os in this regard, but unless you are my bestie (buna ria stiu ca nu citesti asta ca ti-ai dezinstalat tumblr dar tot te salut) then i'd much rather listen to you than talk about my own stuff because i stutter a lot and mix up words and go on a million tangents. I'm so impressed when i listen to my friends and they go on such coherent, fun and easy to listen to rants, like wow, lend me some of your swag buddy

[animal25]

Pug Dog Special Information Weight, Price, Image, Colors, Personality & More…

The Pug Dog is a breed of dog originally from China, with the anatomically distinctive features of a wrinkled, small-mouthed face and curled tail. The breed has a fine, shiny coat that comes in a variety of colors, most often light brown or black, and a compact, square body with well-developed and thick muscles throughout the body.

Pugs were brought to Europe from China in the sixteenth century and were popularized in Western Europe by the House of Orange and the House of Stuart in the Netherlands.

In the United Kingdom, in the nineteenth century, Queen Victoria developed a passion for pugs which she passed on to other members of the royal family.

Pugs are known for being friendly and gentle companion dogs. The American Kennel Club describes the personality of the breed as “even-tempered and charming”.

Dogs are popular in the twenty-first century, with some well-known celebrity owners.

Basic Info About Pug Dog :

Life span: 12 – 15 yearsChina Kennel Union: standardTemperament: Charming, Clever, Mischievous, Docile, Sociable, Affectionate, Stubborn, Playful, Attentive, Loving, Quiet, CalmColors: Black, Fawn, Silver Fawn, ApricotSize: Pugs are members of the toy group despite their solid appearance. They range in height from 10 to 11 inches and in weight from 14 to 18 pounds (six to eight kilograms). They are square dogs with substantial limbs. Pugs are the sturdiest dogs of the toy group, befitting their mastiff heritage.

Did You Know About Pugs?

Among the rich and famous fans of the pug are King Louis XIV; Josephine, Empress of Napoleon; Queen Victoria; The Duke and Duchess of Windsor; and fashion designer Valentino.

Purpose :

Pugs were bred to be the companions of royalty. They originated in the Far East and can be traced back to the first century B.C. They were considered royal dogs in China, owned by aristocrats, and bestowed as precious gifts – rather than sold – to rulers in foreign countries.

History About Pug Dog :

Pugs originated in China, and date back to the Han Dynasty (206 BC to AD 200). Some historians believe that they are related to the Tibetan Mastiff. They were prized by the emperors of China and lived in luxurious residences, sometimes guarded by soldiers.

Pugs are one of three types of short-nosed dogs that have been bred by the Chinese: the lion dog, the Pekingese, and the lo-sez, which was the ancient pug.

Some think that China’s famous “fu dogs” represent ancient pugs. Evidence of dogs like the pug has been found in ancient Tibet and Japan.

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The pug quickly became a favorite of royal families across Europe, and even played a part in the history of many of these families.

In Holland, the dog became the official dog of the House of Orange after allegedly saving the life of Prince William of Orange, warning him that the Spaniards were approaching in 1572.

When William of Orange went to England in 1688 with his wife, Mary II, to take the throne from James II, they brought their paws with them.

It is known that black pugs existed in the 1700s because the famous artist, William Hogarth, was a pug enthusiast. He portrayed a black Pug and many others in his famous paintings.

In 1785, Goya also depicted pugs in his paintings.

As the popularity of the pug spread across Europe, it was often known by different names in different countries. In France, it was called Carlin; Dogulo in Spain; in Germany mops; and in Italy, Caganalino.

Marie Antoinette had a Pug named Mops before she married Louis XVI at the age of 15. Another famous French woman, Josephine Bonaparte, had a Pug named Fortune.

Before marrying Napoleon Bonaparte, she was imprisoned in Les Carmes prison. Since her beloved Pug was the only “visitor” she was allowed in, she would hide messages in her collar to take to her family.

In the early 1800s, pugs were standardized as a breed, with the two lines becoming dominant in England. One line was called the Morrison Line and, reportedly, was installed on the royal dogs of Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III.

More details:https://animalatoz.com/pug-dog/

[paths-of-sound]

Muses

Note: Kanade and Kokichi aren't on this list, but they are also muses. <3

Name: Usagi Ouma

Age: 23

Height: 5'1

Likes: Candy, conspiracy theories

Dislikes: Abusers, weapons

Birthday: January 20th

Personality: Usagi can be timid at times, but that's mostly due to horrific bullying from past friends and coworkers she's been with. She tends to be kind and patient in most instances. Of course, that said, being a nurse, she has every ability to discreetly slip some 'extra medicine' into a patient's IV...

Name: Aki Ouma

Age: 20

Height: 5'0

Likes: Snow, Mysteries

Dislikes: Heat, Bandages

Birthday: November 21st

Personality: Often described as stoic and unemotional, Aki tends to shy away from most things that don't personally involve them. Many would suggest that they think of danger and homicide deep in their head, but this is just a rumor, and has never been confirmed. With that said, it is noted that they have little care for most people due to severe bullying when they first came out as non-binary. Although their parents and siblings accepted them, that wrath might just turn deadly...

Names: Kanon Ouma (Left) & Anon Ouma (Right)

Ages: 17

Heights: 4'11

Likes: Each Other, Reading

Dislikes: Fashion, Pizza Crust

Birthdays: March 7th

Personalities: These two are inseparable identical sisters, described often as being "Siamese twins" by those that don't personally know them. Despite their identical appearance, friends can distinguish the two based on personality. Kanon is outgoing and social, even oftentimes acting flirty or playful, while Anon is more shy, reserved, and even innocent than her counterpart, but despite this, they're the only siblings that haven't shown issues with their anger... yet.

Name: Machiko Ouma

Age: 14

Height: 4'10

Likes: Fashion, Animals

Dislikes: Reading, Studying

Birthday: August 24th

Personality: Machiko was decided as the Ultimate Model, and that really gave her sort of a superiority complex, treating non-family members as though they're inferior to her. She's never hesitated in physically harming anyone who disagrees with her and getting into catfights over the slightest disagreements. She even believes school is useless on her, given that her talent sets her for life. Despite this, if you win her parents' approval, she'll accept you as one of her own. And if you ask about her job, she'll excitedly rant to you about the latest trends. Just don't invoke her wrath...

Name: Seiji Ouma

Age: 11

Height: 4'9

Likes: Blocks, coloring books

Dislikes: Recess time, peanut butter

Birthday: June 5th

Personality: Like any little boy, Seiji is playful and sweet, and loves to make new friends. If he likes you, he'll invite you to color with him or play action figures with him, indicating a love of role-playing games, as well as the traditional games like hide and seek and tag. He's never been in a fight, but he isn't shy about getting verbally heated, but mostly prefers to stay out of conflict if he doesn't have a personal stake in the matter.

Name: Unknown

Age: <0

Height: N/A

Likes: N/A

Dislikes: N/A

Due Date: July 13th

Personality: N/A

[neil-gaiman]

How Did you come up with the first eve in the story about adams wives? I haven’t been able to find anything about her after I read it and I want to know if she’s an actual biblical character or just someone you made

She's from the Midrash. I learned about her as a 12 year old, from my barmitzvah teacher. There was a point in there, long after I'd put her into Sandman, where I was starting to think I'd imagined her, when I ran across her in Robert Graves's Hebrew Myths....

Excerpt from: The Hebrew Myths by Robert Graves and Raphael Patai (New York:  Doubleday, 1964), pp 65-69

Chapter 10: Adam's Helpmeets

(a) Having decided to give Adam a helpmeet lest he should be alone of his kind, God put him into a deep sleep, removed one of his ribs, formed it into a woman, and closed up the wound, Adam awoke and said: 'This being shall be named "Woman", because she has been taken out of man. A man and a woman shall be one flesh.' The title he gave her was Eve, 'the Mother of All Living''. [1]

(b) Some say that God created man and woman in His own image on the Sixth Day, giving them charge over the world; [2]  but that Eve did not yet exist. Now, God had set Adam to name every beast, bird and other living thing. When they passed before him in pairs, male and female, Adam-being already like a twenty-year-old man-felt jealous of their loves, and though he tried coupling with each female in turn, found no satisfaction in the act. He therefore cried: 'Every creature but I has a proper mate', and prayed God would remedy this injustice. [3]

(c) God then formed Lilith, the first woman, just as He had formed Adam, except that He used filth and sediment instead of pure dust. From Adam's union with this demoness, and with another like her named Naamah, Tubal Cain's sister, sprang Asmodeus and innumerable demons that still plague mankind. Many generations later, Lilith and Naamah came to Solomon's judgement seat, disguised as harlots of Jerusalem'. [4]

(d) Adam and Lilith never found peace together; for when he wished to lie with her, she took offence at the recumbent posture he demanded. 'Why must I lie beneath you?' she asked. 'I also was made from dust, and am therefore your equal.' Because Adam tried to compel her obedience by force, Lilith, in a rage, uttered the magic name of God, rose into the air and left him.

Adam complained to God: 'I have been deserted by my helpmeet' God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith back. They found her beside the Red Sea, a region abounding in lascivious demons, to whom she bore lilim at the rate of more than one hundred a day. 'Return to Adam without delay,' the angels said, `or we will drown you!' Lilith asked: `How can I return to Adam and live like an honest housewife, after my stay beside the Red Sea?? 'It will be death to refuse!' they answered. `How can I die,' Lilith asked again, `when God has ordered me to take charge of all newborn children: boys up to the eighth day of life, that of circumcision; girls up to the twentieth day. None the less, if ever I see your three names or likenesses displayed in an amulet above a newborn child, I promise to spare it.' To this they agreed; but God punished Lilith by making one hundred of her demon children perish daily; [5] and if she could not destroy a human infant, because of the angelic amulet, she would spitefully turn against her own. [6]

(e) Some say that Lilith ruled as queen in Zmargad, and again in Sheba; and was the demoness who destroyed job's sons. [7] Yet she escaped the curse of death which overtook Adam, since they had parted long before the Fall. Lilith and Naamah not only strangle infants but also seduce dreaming men, any one of whom, sleeping alone, may become their victim. [8]

(f) Undismayed by His failure to give Adam a suitable helpmeet, God tried again, and let him watch while he built up a woman's anatomy: using bones, tissues, muscles, blood and glandular secretions, then covering the whole with skin and adding tufts of hair in places. The sight caused Adam such disgust that even when this woman, the First Eve, stood there in her full beauty, he felt an invincible repugnance. God knew that He had failed once more, and took the First Eve away. Where she went, nobody knows for certain. [9]

(g) God tried a third time, and acted more circumspectly. Having taken a rib from Adam's side in his sleep, He formed it into a woman; then plaited her hair and adorned her, like a bride, with twenty-four pieces of jewellery, before waking him. Adam was entranced. [10]

(h) Some say that God created Eve not from Adam's rib, but from a tail ending in a sting which had been part of his body. God cut this off, and the stump-now a useless coccyx-is still carried by Adam's descendants. [11]

(i) Others say that God's original thought had been to create two human beings, male and female; but instead He designed a single one with a male face looking forward, and a female face looking back. Again He changed His mind, removed Adam's backward-looking face, and built a woman's body for it. [12]

(j) Still others hold that Adam was originally created as an androgyne of male and female bodies joined back to back. Since this posture made locomotion difficult, and conversation awkward, God divided the androgyne and gave each half a new rear. These separate beings He placed in Eden, forbidding them to couple. [13]

Notes on sources:

1. Genesis II. 18-25; III. 20.

2. Genesis I. 26-28.

3. Gen. Rab. 17.4; B. Yebamot 632.

4. Yalqut Reubeni ad. Gen. II. 21; IV. 8.

5. Alpha Beta diBen Sira, 47; Gaster, MGWJ, 29 (1880), 553 ff.

6. Num. Rab. 16.25.

7. Targum ad job 1. 15.

8. B. Shabbat 151b; Ginzberg, LJ, V. 147-48.

9. Gen. Rab. 158, 163-64; Mid. Abkir 133, 135; Abot diR. Nathan 24; B. Sanhedrin 39a.

10. Gen. II. 21-22; Gen. Rab. 161.

11. Gen. Rab. 134; B. Erubin 18a.

12. B. Erubin 18a.

13. Gen. Rab. 55; Lev. Rab. 14.1: Abot diR. Nathan 1.8; B. Berakhot 61a; B. Erubin 18a; Tanhuma Tazri'a 1; Yalchut Gen. 20; Tanh. Buber iii.33; Mid. Tehillim 139, 529.

Authors’ Comments on the Myth:

1. The tradition that man's first sexual intercourse was with animals, not women, may be due to the widely spread practice of bestiality among herdsmen of the Middle East, which is still condoned by custom, although figuring three times in the Pentateuch as a capital crime. In the Akkadian Gilgamesh Epic, Enkidu is said to have lived with gazelles and jostled other wild beasts at the watering place, until civilized by Aruru's priestess. Having enjoyed her embraces for six days and seven nights, he wished to rejoin the wild beasts but, to his surprise, they fled from him. Enkidu then knew that he had gained understanding, and the priestess said: 'Thou art wise, Enkidu, like unto a godl'

2. Primeval man was held by the Babylonians to have been androgynous. Thus the Gilgamesh Epic gives Enkidu androgynous features: `the hair of his head like a woman's, with locks that sprout like those of Nisaba, the Grain-goddess.' The Hebrew tradition evidently derives from Greek sources, because both terms used in a Tannaitic midrash to describe the bisexual Adam are Greek: androgynos, 'man-woman', and diprosopon, 'twofaced'. Philo of Alexandria, the Hellenistic philosopher and commentator on the Bible, contemporary with Jesus, held that man was at first bisexual; so did the Gnostics. This belief is clearly borrowed from Plato. Yet the myth of two bodies placed back to back may well have been founded on observation of Siamese twins, which are sometimes joined in this awkward manner. The two-faced Adam appears to be a fancy derived from coins or statues of Janus, the Roman New Year god.

3. Divergences between the Creation myths of Genesis r and n, which allow Lilith to be presumed as Adam's first mate, result from a careless weaving together of an early Judaean and a late priestly tradition. The older version contains the rib incident. Lilith typifies the Anath-worshipping Canaanite women, who were permitted pre-nuptial promiscuity. Time after time the prophets denounced Israelite women for following Canaanite practices; at first, apparently, with the priests' approval-since their habit of dedicating to God the fees thus earned is expressly forbidden in Deuteronomy xxIII. I8. Lilith's flight to the Red Sea recalls the ancient Hebrew view that water attracts demons. 'Tortured and rebellious demons' also found safe harbourage in Egypt. Thus Asmodeus, who had strangled Sarah's first six husbands, fled 'to the uttermost parts of Egypt' (Tobit viii. 3), when Tobias burned the heart and liver of a fish on their wedding night.

4. Lilith's bargain with the angels has its ritual counterpart in an apotropaic rite once performed in many Jewish communities. To protect the newborn child against Lilith-and especially a male, until he could be permanently safeguarded by circumcision-a ring was drawn with natron, or charcoal, on the wall of the birthroom, and inside it were written the words: 'Adam and Eve. Out, Lilith!' Also the names Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof (meanings uncertain) were inscribed on the door. If Lilith nevertheless succeeded in approaching the child and fondling him, he would laugh in his sleep. To avert danger, it was held wise to strike the sleeping child's lips with one finger-whereupon Lilith would vanish.

5. 'Lilith' is usually derived from the Babylonian-Assyrian word lilitu, ,a female demon, or wind-spirit'-one of a triad mentioned in Babylonian spells. But she appears earlier as 'Lillake' on a 2000 B.G. Sumerian tablet from Ur containing the tale of Gilgamesh and the Willow Tree. There she is a demoness dwelling in the trunk of a willow-tree tended by the Goddess Inanna (Anath) on the banks of the Euphrates. Popular Hebrew etymology seems to have derived 'Lilith' from layil, 'night'; and she therefore often appears as a hairy night-monster, as she also does in Arabian folklore. Solomon suspected the Queen of Sheba of being Lilith, because she had hairy legs. His judgement on the two harlots is recorded in I Kings III. 16 ff. According to Isaiah xxxiv. I4-I5, Lilith dwells among the desolate ruins in the Edomite Desert where satyrs (se'ir), reems, pelicans, owls, jackals, ostriches, arrow-snakes and kites keep her company.

6. Lilith's children are called lilim. In the Targum Yerushalmi, the priestly blessing of Numbers vi. 26 becomes: 'The Lord bless thee in all thy doings, and preserve thee from the Lilim!' The fourth-century A.D. commentator Hieronymus identified Lilith with the Greek Lamia, a Libyan queen deserted by Zeus, whom his wife Hera robbed of her children. She took revenge by robbing other women of theirs.

7. The Lamiae, who seduced sleeping men, sucked their blood and ate their flesh, as Lilith and her fellow-demonesses did, were also known as Empusae, 'forcers-in'; or Mormolyceia, 'frightening wolves'; and described as 'Children of Hecate'. A Hellenistic relief shows a naked Lamia straddling a traveller asleep on his back. It is characteristic of civilizations where women are treated as chattels that they must adopt the recumbent posture during intercourse, which Lilith refused. That Greek witches who worshipped Hecate favoured the superior posture, we know from Apuleius; and it occurs in early Sumerian representations of the sexual act, though not in the Hittite. Malinowski writes that Melanesian girls ridicule what they call `the missionary position', which demands that they should lie passive and recumbent.

8. Naamah, 'pleasant', is explained as meaning that 'the demoness sang pleasant songs to idols'. Zmargad suggest smaragdos, the semi-precious aquamarine; and may therefore be her submarine dwelling. A demon named Smaragos occurs in the Homeric Epigrams.

9. Eve's creation by God from Adam's rib-a myth establishing male supremacy and disguising Eve's divinity-lacks parallels in Mediterranean or early Middle-Eastern myth. The story perhaps derives iconotropically from an ancient relief, or painting, which showed the naked Goddess Anath poised in the air, watching her lover Mot murder his twin Aliyan; Mot (mistaken by the mythographer for Yahweh) was driving a curved dagger under Aliyan's fifth rib, not removing a sixth one. The familiar story is helped by a hidden pun on tsela, the Hebrew for 'rib': Eve, though designed to be Adam's helpmeet, proved to be a tsela, a 'stumbling', or 'misfortune'. Eve's formation from Adam's tail is an even more damaging myth; perhaps suggested by the birth of a child with a vestigial tail instead of a coccyx-a not infrequent occurrence.

10. The story of Lilith's escape to the East and of Adam's subsequent marriage to Eve may, however, record an early historical incident: nomad herdsmen, admitted into Lilith's Canaanite queendom as guests (see 16. 1), suddenly seize power and, when the royal household thereupon flees, occupy a second queendom which owes allegiance to the Hittite Goddess Heba.

The meaning of 'Eve' is disputed. Hawwah is explained in Genesis III. 20 as 'mother of all living'; but this may well be a Hebraicized form of the divine name Heba, Hebat, Khebat or Khiba. This goddess, wife of the Hittite Storm-god, is shown riding a lion in a rock-sculpture at Hattusaswhich equates her with Anath-and appears as a form of Ishtar in Hurrian texts. She was worshipped at Jerusalem (see 27. 6). Her Greek name was Hebe, Heracles's goddess-wife.

[13slovergirl]

ft. Catsuki Bakugou, Shoto Todorokitty, Kittentoshi Shinso, Shota Aizawa

Summary: S/O gets a cat that suspiciously resembles them.

A 'small angry ball of adorableness' was the very first words you used to describe the new addition to the family. He caught on pretty quickly.

The light orange fluff ball hated you until you came home with some cat treats and toys that you patiently waited for him to take. Meanwhile, Katsuki was watching angrily as you sang compliments to the scared kitten.

"C'mere Cat-suki, it's okay!!!"

Yeah, he caught on.

Imagine how surprised he was when he gave in to your begging for him to give it a try and the kitty accepted the treat from his hand with barely any problem. And then the immediate 'annoyance' when he catches the smug look on your face.

You guys would have to give the cat over to his parents, but they don't mind too much.

He lays down in bed and the cute kitten jumps up onto him and lays on his stomach, head on his nice rack. After a few seconds of processing, he starts gently petting it. It's a bit awkward but the cat purrs nonetheless. The soft noise and repetitive movement starts slowly lulling him to sleep....

And then his mom walks in.

She never lets him live it down.

When you found an adorable and elegant long haired calico cat that had a gorgeous pattern vaguely resembling your lover's half n half, how could you not adopt it on the spot?

His first words when he sees it? "How are we going to keep it?"

I mean, yeah, it's valid. Very valid. Oh god how are you guys gonna keep it. Pets aren't allowed in the dorms and you don't think Principal Nezu is going to accept 'But Tokoyami lives in the dorms' as an excuse.

Eventually the two of you come up with a way to safely keep the cat outside of the school. It's a bit upsetting that you can't keep it in your dorm, but it's safer outside the school than inside.

Anyways, for a cat who YOU adopted, it really likes Todoroki. Cats just love him. I mean same but still.

If Todoroki wasn't a busy guy that cat would never move off his lap.

It probably would like to lay on his boobies when he's trying to sleep. And I bet you wish that was you.

I think that instead of getting therapy or 'bothering' you with his problems, he just talks to the cat. The cat doesn't care, more time with their favorite person in the world I guess.

"Have you decided on a name yet?" "What about Roki :D" ".....No." "Why not D:" "...That's my nickname :("

You did not make the choice to have this cat. Neither of you did, the cat chose you. The cute little Siamese cat laying on your porch was a manipulative bastard but the two of you had no option other to take care of it for the rest of your lives like a spoiled child.

He loves being able to sleep with the cat next to him while you're training/studying. He'd rather be doing what you're doing or cuddling with you, but you're insistent that he gets some much needed rest and ever since you started being with him while sleeping it's gotten harder to sleep without you.

The brat doesn't usually allow cuddling though, so he just has to settle for sleeping next to it.

Like Bakugou he figures out pretty quickly that you think him and the cat are very similar and he loves to tease you with it a bit.

He sees the cat curl up in your lap for a nice pillow? He rests his head in your lap in as similar of a place as the cat did. You mention how adorable it is when the cat rubs against you? He does the same. You coo at the cat when it headbutts your hand? He kisses the same spot.

If you don't catch on to his little hints he might just go out and buy some cat ears and a human-sized collar :]]]

It just so happened that a slightly older black cat with unkempt fur 'snuck' into Aizawa's classroom the same day that you planned on dropping some stuff off straight to his classroom. What a strange coincidence. None of the kids are able to keep the kitten in their dorms so I guess you two just have to keep it.

'Shota the Cat' became the class mascot and Aizawa hated it. Not the cat, just the fact the kids asked you if you could name the cat after him and you agreed. He hates hearing his name and turning to look at the person who said it, only for them to be talking about the cat.

But it's all worth it every morning and night when he sees you sleeping with the usually grumpy cat, knowing that he doesn't need to worry about you being lonely when he has to work. He doesn't admit it but he gets why you guys see him in the cat so much. He'd love nothing more than to be where the cat is.

No one's surprised anymore when he rolls up to school with the cat in his sleeping bag. However, after the first villain invasion he stopped. It's for the best that he stays home with you.

When the two of you get into a fight he likes letting you take Shota the Cat to bed and just get all your emotions out like that. The first time you did it was just a joke of 'I'm taking our child, I expect child support' but it turned into a simple way of calming down and resolving the issue faster. It also makes him feel better that you have a source of comfort.

[mask131]

The other women of the Addams family (1)

 I will not start chronologically with Chas Addams’ work this time - rather I will begin with the two iconic 90s Addams family movies.

LOIS ADDAMS

Sorry for the poor-quality image, it is the one used by the Addams Family Wiki and I couldn’t get a screenshot myself.

Lois Addams can be seen in the movie during the Fester’s ball/ Mamushka scene. She doesn’t have any line and isn’t even named - she is just one of the Addams guests, a very short woman with a brown/gold dress, played by Patty Maloney. But quite noticeably she is one of the Addams women that provide the tambourines for the Mamushka dance. 

We have a tiny bit more information about her in the script for the movie, in which we learn that she is named Lois Addams and that she is the “child-sized wife” of Slosh Addams. Due to her being a small woman and her husband being described as “toad-like”, I strongly believe they are supposed to be the movie’s version of the “wall-eyed couple” from Chas Addams original drawings (though Lois Addams clearly doesn’t look the slightest like the wall-eyed wife, beyond a simple question of size). 

“HEIDI”

I do not have any picture for her, but she is like Lois one of the guests at the Addams great ball, and one of the women that provide the percusions for the Mamushka - she is recognizable by her very long blond braids. Played by Victoria Hall in the movie, she is merely called the “Swedish Blonde” in the credits for the movie, but in the script we get a slightly more detailed description of her: she is actually the date of Digit Addams (a four-armed man), and described as an “over-age Heidi, with thick blonde braids”. Due to her not receiving any name and just being described as the date of a “proper” Addams, I believe she might not be born into the Addams... 

THE AMOR TWINS

Flora and Fauna Amor are... technically not part of the Addams Family, and yet still part of it. They have a clearly different last name, they are only involved romantically with Gomez and Fester (so unlike you believe the Addamses aren’t again dating distant cousins or far-away branches of the clan...). BUT on the other hand they are not just invited to Fester’s grand return ball, they are also present during Debbie’s wedding as guests, AND they are part of the tambourine-players for the Mamushka... And in the script is is pretty much explicitely explained that the tambourines are wielded by “Morticia, Granny and all the Addams women”. All clues showing that they are actually tied and close enough to the family to be considered a part of it... All of this is really bizarre and murky. But hey, that’s the Addams we are talking about.

Played by the Lewis twins (Maureen Sue and Darlene) as adults, they first appear as teenagers in the memorabilia of Gomez and Fester: as we learn, they were twin sisters romantically involved with the Addams brothers when they were teenagers/young adults - the two brothers notably were the dates of the twin sisters during their “debutante ball”. As it is revealed, they are the cause of the feud between the Addams brothers: apparently Fester was quite in love with the twins but Gomez, prideful and jealous of Fester’s “dashingness” decided to wooe the two sisters out of spite, and this started the tensions between him and his brother. 

They reappear at Fester’s grand ball, where it is revealed that they are siamese twins. Dressed in mauves and lavenders, they are shown to be both very bickering and very flirty: Gomez, Fester, Tully, they are interested in ALL the men they encounter (though, while they just use Tully as an “amusement” and having moved on from Gomez even being friendly with Morticia, their real interest lies with Fester due to him being the “king of the castle” and the rightful owner to the manor and the house - they keep trying to seduce him as a result). As for the bickering part, they regularly spite each other: they regularly insult one another, each one always claims to be the “first” to do anything while the other is just a “copy-cat” or “tag-along”, and they cannot stand when people mistake one for another. They also seem to hold the delusion that each one can live separately from the other or be “alone” . The script actually clarifies a bit their bizarre behavior - on top of noting that, from youth to adulthood, they stayed beautiful red-heads, it is also said that they are quite insane. In their youth they were noted to have “dementia in their eyes”, and as adult they still look “quite mad”.

And if this wasn’t clear enough, when the Amor twins leave the Addams party their craziness is revealed by the fact that their “ride”... is a ride to a mental hospital for the criminally insane, coupled with a two-person straightjacket to wrap them in. 

COUNTESS APHASIA

This character might seem quite mysterious and out-of-the-blue for those who watch “The Addams Family Values”. One Addams woman, played not by a woman but by Charles Busch, a notorious drag-queen, insults Wednesday when she catches the bouquet at Debbie’s wedding saying “It is not binding”. This character, with her iconic line “Tramp!” is merely listed in the credits as “Countess Cousin Aphasia du Berry”.

And as for many of those small Addams Family characters, we must look back at the original scripts to find more information about her.

In the shooting script “Countess Aphasia” is described as one of the many guests showing up for Fester’s wedding. Described as a “tattered, gin-soaked actress” she is noted to have a “Tallulah basso” (of course a reference to Tallulah Bankhead) - the script explicitely writes “She might be a man”. 

Another interesting fact: when Morticia presents her to Debbie, her name was originally going to be “Countess Aphasia Dubarry-Addams” (not “du Berry” as in the finished movie). When Morticia says Aphasia is an actress, she says to Debbie “Enchante. Have you seen any of my films?”. Debbie replies she is not sure, to which Aphasia asks “Where you in the Army?”. We see her interact again with Debbie during the deleted scene of the gift-shower: Aphasia offers the future bride “something old”, as per the tradition... which turns out to be stained, ripped and clearly used lingerie. 

Beyond that, Aphasia was supposed to form a sort of “unofficial” duo with Ophelia Addams: they are the two Addams women that Morticia presents to Debbie one after another ; when Debbie throws the bouquet they are noted to be the two first women to launch themselves on it before a riot breaks out, and finally during the wedding ceremony there was this exchange written between them:

ANGLE on Ophelia and Aphasia, among the guests. Ophelia dabs at her eyes with a lace hanky.

OPHELIA: I do love weddings. Have you ever been married?

APHASIA: Oh yes.

OPHELIA: In white?

APHASIA: In Berlin.

Despite all of these scenes being cut, Aphasia can still be seen beyond the “Tramp” scene in the background during the wedding sequence: during the wedding ceremony she can be sit next to a weeping Ophelia on the second row, left square, right next to the middle alley ; when Debbie leaves the house she is again with Ophelia right next to the door cheering on them ; and during the scene of Debbie meeting with Margaret you can briefly glimpse Aphasia walking around the room, with red hair, a glass in her hand, and a big white fur stole. 

[kurosawa-family]

(( this isnt a pairing but give me OT3 child right neow 🫵🫵🫵🫵 ))

send me a pair name and I’ll tell you what I think it would be like if they had a child.

Name.

Jovi Sakamaki Kurosawa. Her name is variation of 'Jovan' meaning "majestic" in Latin.

Gender.

Female.

General Appearance.

She looks like a leek.

Personality.

Cunning, manipulative, and sly are the first words to describe her when people hear her name. She's fancy, a dominant young woman that just fears of rejection because of past relationships. The eldest of the duo, but one of the youngest Kurosawa kids. She has this reputation of being a little of a "I'm going to steal your man" type of girl, but joke's on them; she's just touch starved. Most boys like her for how fun she is to tease and how shameless she is at times. It doesn't feel like she's "forced" to be with them. Needless to say, she has more male than female friends, and even if that is the core of all rumours around her, she ain't really worried about it.

Special Talents.

Oh, she's definitely great at sparring, taking after both Yvonne and Richter. She's really good at mental games , being able to beat her mother a few times... Very few times, but hey! A victory is a victory!

Also, ten times "world champion" at Uno, not to brag.

Who they like better.

Hm. Well, her pops August is the one that lets her get away with almost anything... So-

Who they take after more.

She's definitely the perfect combination of Richter and Yvonne, but she takes more after Yvonne because she's a mama's girl without even noticing.

Personal Headcanon.

She can transform in almost anything, just like her mother, but she can be mostly seen in August's lap as a beautiful siamese cat, purring loudly.

She also has screaming matches with Kanato to establish dominance.

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Name.

Amadeus Sakamaki Kurosawa. The meaning of his name is "Love of God" in Latin. Yvonne and Richter begged August to name him that for ironic reasons.

Gender.

Male.

General Appearance.

Desperate Hopeless Romantic ™.

Personality.

My man. Is so. Clingy. Like, he tries to keep it all yo himself but once he feels comfortable enough he just... Uhg. He hates being so desperate to be in a relationship with anyone. He's been called things by other people his age, but the few friends he has are thankfully accenting of him. He also loves teasing them a lot. He's not really horny, but likes the feeling on excitement when he's called a brat. It gives him this adrenaline.

Special Talents.

He can definitely handle witchcraft like his Momma. His favourite spells are the ones that he can use to simulate space and stuff.

Who they like better.

Papa Richter is the best but he doesn't have the heart to say that near August. He loves Papa August, but he's too... Calm.

Who they take after more.

Richter, no a single doubt. He's a masochist, romantic, and tries to be serious most of the time...

Personal Headcanon.

He definitely had an Emo phase. He wishes that never happened.

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