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kitten4sannie · 1 year ago

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ᴛᴀꜱᴛᴇ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴠᴇɴᴏᴍ

ꜰᴇᴀʀ ᴘʟᴀʏ/ꜰʟᴏɢɢɪɴɢ ➠ ʏᴜɴʜᴏ/ʏᴇᴏꜱᴀɴɢ

pairing: enemy emperor! yunho x empress! reader x scribe! yeosang

genre: historical au, smut

summary: you have another tension filled meeting with the stubborn man that wants nothing more than to conquer and own you. your new dedicated scribe records everything.

w.c: 4k

warnings: hard dom! yunho, bratty pillow princess! reader, bricked up witness! yeosang, monster cock alerttt, cnc, light mxm, exhibitionism/voyeurism, name calling/pet names, degradation, dirty talk (this man…he’s so nasty in this i’m not even sorry…), lots of manhandling, spanking/flogging, dacryphilia, half dressed kink idk, spit, hair grabbing, threesome elements, some cucky vibes, a little dash of praise, rough wall sex, creampie, yeosang licks everything up… AHEM, oral (receiving), fingering, cum eating, squirting

a/n: i was extremely high when i wrote this and i am down bad astronomically for yuyu and yeosang so yeah something religious happened to me during the writing process !! i mostly blame it on jackson wang bc that song is sooooo…. rfhhehwh it turns me into a rabid animal ngl anywaysss i hope you enjoy lovelies xx

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As the empress of your country’s land, it’s always been up to you to partake in the anointed trivialities that required your royal attention. Aside from drawn out, traditional ceremonies to endless horse riding and archery lessons with a seasoned member of the congregation, you spent most of your time having meetings with your supposed suitors, having to listen to their boundless, self-important monologues about their days in battle, coming to know just how much knowledge they held in combat and war strategies, and fighting the urge to pull your hand away when they would hold onto it, pleading you with their eyes for your approval. It all bored you to tears.

Though, there was a particular individual that you couldn’t seem to keep your mind off of, no matter how hard you tried. Jeong Yunho, an emperor from the land that bordered yours. A man from a bloodline that your family had gone to war with many times over the years. Despite that you were quite literally sleeping with the enemy, you couldn’t help yourself. You had never met anyone like him before. Instead of asking and pleading for your attention, time, and body, he simply took it. Took what he wanted from you without a care in the world. He wasn’t even bothered by that fact that your dear scribe still sat in the meeting room with you, hazily scribbling down everything that occurred and what was said, spilling bottles of ink onto his scrolls due to how flustered he was from witnessing the way Yunho forcefully conquered his dear empress with a domineering smirk plastered on his sweaty face, the panting emperor’s cock routinely disappearing underneath your disheveled ceremony garments and into your willing cunt.

“Your Highness, Lord Jeong should be here any second now,” your fresh-faced scribe began from across the meeting room, setting up various sized brushes in a line, smoothing out a few creases he found embedded in the elongated sleeves of his ceremony robe. He suddenly looked up at you, concern present within his widened honey brown eyes. “Should I make more tea?”

“That won’t be necessary, Yeosang, but your intention is very sweet, thank you,” you replied softly, making your way across the room in your heavy garbs, taking the time to run your fingers through your newest scribe’s hair, offering him a smile that made him drop one of his brushes. “Lord Jeong doesn’t drink much tea. He…prefers to get straight to business.”

Yeosang’s smile dropped slightly when your hand left his hair, his eyes traveling your form as you sat on your knees in front of the meeting table, watching you take a sip from your steaming celadon cup and nod your head in approval of the flavor. “Have you considered his marriage requests? I’ve read some of the letters he’s sent to you…” The young scribe blushed suddenly, his eyes lowering to look at the blank spaces on his scrolls. “They’re quite intense. Does that sort of thing interest you?”

You rested your chin inside the palm of your hand, your gold bracelets dangling from your wrist, squinting your eyes at Yeosang, your lips curling up ever so slightly. “It does, very much so. Lord Jeong is one of the most interesting men I’ve come across thus far…I’ve greatly considered his offers, despite him being the enemy.”

Yeosang tilted his head, a few locks of his hair falling into his focused eyes. “If I may ask, your Highness…What’s stopping you from accepting?”

You ran your finger around the rim of your celadon cup, looking at your reflection within the black tea, your smile fading. “I don’t want the excitement to end, Yeosang.” You looked back up at him, unable to keep yourself from smiling gently at his confused expression. “Marriage, as beautiful as it is, brings monotony, which brings contempt…”

“Ahh, I see now,” Yeosang nodded slowly, giving you a sad smile back, feeling like he understood his empress a bit more in that moment. He squeezed his fingers around the intricately carved wooden brush inside his grasp. “Your Highness, may I ask you a question?”

Just as you were about to respond, the large, jewel-encrusted doors of your meeting room opened with a groan. A tall, handsome man dressed in an extravagant, hand-sewn traditional robe came strolling in like he owned the place, holding an expensive mahogany box within his large hands.

“Oh, princess, I’ve brought you a present,” Yunho called out teasingly, walking up to the table. He acknowledged Yeosang’s presence with a nod, who bent over to bow. The confident emperor sat down across from you at the table, his eyes hooded, his lips quirked up perversely as if he was reminiscing about your previous meetings. “Hi. Did you miss me?”

You rolled your eyes, pretending as if you didn’t care about the emperor’s arrival, despite your heart and core throbbing rhythmically from him simply sitting there across from you. “What did you bring me, Yunho?”

“Something that’ll have your little scribe here pulling at his robes when I’m done using it on you…Maybe he’ll even spill his ink all over himself like your last one…” Yunho’s eyes shifted from Yeosang, who gulped, to you, who simply sipped on your tea, his long fingers rubbing along the smooth edges of the mahogany box.

You tilted your head to the side, idly biting at the tip of your manicured nail. “Is that so? Well, get on with it. I’m a busy woman, as you know, and I don’t like when my time is being wasted with nonsense.”

Yunho simply scoffed, shaking his head slightly, sitting there silently for a moment, the only sound in the room being Yeosang’s wet brush expertly sliding across the scroll and your nails tapping against your tea cup.

All you registered was the sight of Yunho swiftly getting up onto his feet and heading in your direction, his feet thumping against the mat below. Before you even realized what was happening, you were laying face down on the table, watching your tea pool out onto the sleek wood, your intricately crafted tea cup now split in individual pieces. Yunho had you held down by the neck, his fingers closing around it, his warm body pressing against yours, able to feel his stiff cock against your ass, even through your thick robes.

He chuckled at the gasp you let out, bringing his lips near your ear to purr huskily, “Am I still wasting your time, princess? Or is getting your little cunt all nice and wet for me something worthwhile?” Instead of letting you answer, Yunho simply reached past you, flipping the boxe’s lid open, bringing it closer for you to take a good look at its contents. Inside the box sat a hand-woven flog, the edges of it decorated with a silver finishing, making it glisten in the light. “Do you like your present? I got it made just for you.” He rubbed his cock along your ass, his free hand roaming over your upper thigh to the curve of your ass. “Can’t you see? I’m in love with you…”

“Oh, please.” As you tried to get up, Yunho pushed his body weight down onto you, holding your wrists down with ease. “Do you really think I’m going to let you use your little toy on me in front of my innocent scribe, Yunho? Who do you think you are?”

“I’m simply a man who’s head over heels for you, Y/N…Take some responsibility…” Yunho quickly reached past your neck and down to your chest to rip open your garments, tugging on them while you continued to resist until your bare body was revealed underneath the many layers.

Yeosang dipped his brush inside the bottle of ink with a shaky hand, his cheeks flushed, unsure if he should speak up, his eyes fixated on you, never having seen you in such an indecent state before. “Sh-should…I keep going, your Highness?”

When Yunho forcefully bent you over his knee and pulled your disheveled robe up to reveal your ass, his large hands squeezing into it, you nodded your head weakly at Yeosang, feeling a bit dizzy from being treated in such a way with your lovely dedicated scribe watching on. “Please, don’t let us stop you from doing your job, Yeosang…you’re doing so well…”

“Thank you, Your Highness…” Yeosang blushed from the praise, dipping his brush back into the ink, before pressing it to the scroll, thankful that his garments were thick enough to cover his stiffening length.

You weren’t able to reply to Yeosang when Yunho abruptly slammed his open palm against the curve of your ass, a moan leaving your lips instead of words. He smacked the other side of your ass to watch it bounce and groped along it, squeezing your sensitive flesh between his slender fingers. “That’s it…just look at that color…Wish you could see it, princess. Shall I add some pretty shades of purple and pink too? You’re my canvas, Y/N…I’m sure you’ll let me paint you with my cum next, right? Just like every time, yeah?”

“Fuck off, Yunho,” you grumbled, attempting to climb out of his lap, throbbing at the feeling of him grabbing you by the waist and holding you still, knowing you couldn’t get away even if you tried.

“You weren’t saying that last time, princess. You were begging me for more…” Yunho picked up the flog, running his fingers along the woven leather, before he cracked it in the air, making Yeosang and you jolt from the sudden loud noise, bringing joy to the emperor. “Take a deep breath for me, Y/N…”

Just as you did so, Yunho brought the flog down onto your ass, watching the individual leather straps leave pretty red marks on your skin, groaning, “So pretty… you’re so pretty for me, princess…” and repeating the motion, lacking the proper self control to stop himself, even when you began to cry, his arm wrapped tightly around your middle.

“F-fuck…! Stop!” You kicked your legs and thrashed around until you were able to wiggle out of his grasp, just barely making it over to Yeosang’s large scribing table, before Yunho slammed you down onto it, knocking over one of the ink bottles with his rough handling of you.

“Crying just for me, princess? You’re making me so hard,” Yunho sighed into your ear, moving closer to your face to lick one of your tears away, his hot breath hitting your cheek, your ass stinging more when he grabbed it roughly, bolts of pleasure shooting into your core.

“You fucking asshole…” you choked out, about to pull yourself up when the emperor pinned your hands painfully behind your back, feeling his knee press in between your thighs.

Yunho tugged more of your garments off without a care in the world, huffing and as he shoved his hand in between your thighs from behind, rubbing two fingers along your clothed cunt, before tearing it off with ease. “Ahh, that’s what I thought…You’re so wet for me, Y/N.” He looked to Yeosang, who was blushing wildly, still just sitting there and haphazardly recording the chaos that was occurring right next to him, knowing it wasn’t his place to interact in any way unless either of you allowed him to. Yunho continued to rub at your cunt, enjoying the noises you and your gushing slit were making. “Hey, scribe, make sure you make a note about how fucking soaked your empress gets from getting manhandled by an enemy emperor. That’s an important detail, isn’t it, princess?”

You struggled underneath the man, starting to feel ink soaking into your expensive garments, some of it staining your cheek. “Yunho, get off of me, or so help me–” You suddenly found yourself gasping for air, having been flogged again, though this time some of the leather straps reached your cunt, feeling it sting pleasurably in between your trembling thighs.

Yunho looked over to Yeosang, who had his fingers clenched around his brush, his free hand in between his clenching thighs. “Hey, Yeosang, do you know why the previous scribe quit?” When he shook his head, Yunho grinned, admiring the pattern of bruises he left on your ass, running his fingers lightly over them. “He couldn’t handle watching his beloved empress cry and take what I so graciously gave her, but you can, can’t you, Yeosang?”

He bit his bottom lip, feeling conflicted, not sure if he should nod or not. He instead looked to you, his eyebrows knitted together with concern. “Your Highness…” Yeosang whispered softly, hesitantly placing one hand on top of yours, holding it tightly.

You looked up at him, smiling gently, blowing a bit of hair out of your hazy eyes, reaching your other hand over to rub the top of his knuckles. “It’s okay, Yeosang…I want this…”

Yunho grabbed you by the hair, forcefully lifting up your head so that he could get a good look at you, practically drooling at this point, his cock throbbing against your backside. “Say that again…Let me hear it…”

You turned your head to look at him, smiling sweetly, before you pursed your lips and sent a wad of spit onto his cheek, satisfied with the way it dripped down along his tightening jaw. “If you hurry up and fuck me instead of continuing on with this bullshit, I’ll think about it.”

Turned on beyond measure, Yunho grabbed your own jaw, forcing it open so that he could send a wad of spit straight down your throat, chuckling darkly at the moan that escaped your parted lips. “This is why you’re my favorite, princess. You’re such a bratty little thing, just aching to be put in your place, huh? You want me to do that? Fuck you into submission in front of your sweet little scribe? Just say the word….”

This time around, Yunho could see the desperation on your flushed face, your lips forming a pout. “Please…” you whined, surprising yourself and the two men watching you with your sudden act of obedience.

“Oh my god, that’s fucking it right there…” Yunho groaned, pulling at the sash wrapped securely around his slim waist and pulling it loose, so that he could gain access to his undergarments, quickly tugging his stiff, leaking cock out. “Do you draw portraits too, scribe? This slut’s pretty face should be kept in the history books…”

Yeosang nervously shook his head, starting to spread the ink across his scroll from watching the way Yunho pushed you up against the wall, so close to Yeosang that his garments spilled into his lap, forcefully wrapping your legs around his waist, just as he fully sheathed himself inside you, your soaked panties pushed to the side.

“No? That’s too bad…Well, at least jot down the fact that I conquer your Highness’s tight little cunt every time I give her a visit…” Yunho huffed out, smiling at you with his canines showing, his hands cemented tightly around your bare waist, bringing himself down to one of your tits to suck it into his open mouth.

“God, will you just–aaah–shut the fuck up and…nnngh…fuck me properly?” you asked in between pants, barely able to take the emperor’s thick, oversized cock without feeling like you were going to break, your nails digging into his straining upper back through his garments, one side of his robe starting to drape off one of his broad shoulders.

“Yeah? You want it rough just like every other time, don’t you, whore?” Yunho groaned against your skin, dragging his tongue up over your spit-laced tit to attack your neck with his lips and teeth, leaving your skin in various shades of red and purple. “Write this down too, scribe. The people should know that this pretty princess can’t cum unless she has a horsecock ramming into her cunt. Isn’t that right, Your Highness?”

You couldn’t even speak at this point, from the way Yunho lifted one leg up onto the scribe table, using the leverage to fuck into you as deep and hard as he could, about to cream yourself from the way he kept you pinned down, just using you like a doll made for his pleasure.

Now almost directly underneath his empress and the enemy emperor’s rapidly joining bodies, Yeosang couldn’t help but look up, fixated on the way your cunt spread open each time Yunho slammed himself inside your clenching hole, feeling a few drops of your mixed arousal drip down onto his face and roll down his warm cheek. He gingerly opened his mouth and held his tongue out, now pressing his brush directly into the soaked paper, leaning his back against the wall behind him, his hand beginning to rub at his pre-cum soaked cock that was still trapped underneath his heavy garments.

“God, you’re so fucking wet, princess…I think I might…slip out…” Yunho sighed heavily against your ear, roughly nibbling it with the aid of one of his canine teeth, slowly sliding his cock out of you and slapping his heavy cock against your abdomen, smearing his pre cum onto your skin.

The feeling of being completely empty just as you were about to cum almost sent you into a full-blown rage, practically ready to start another war with Yunho if he didn’t stick his cock back inside you. You abruptly grabbed him by the hair, clutching a tuft of his damp icy blond locks, leaning in so that your lips ghosted his. “Fuck me, you goddamn bastard. Make me cum.”

This time Yunho didn’t play any games, simply rubbing his cockhead back and forth over your throbbing clit just to make you shudder against him, before he slipped back inside, immediately pounding himself into you, essentially leaving you breathless. “Look at you just taking it, princess… I know it’s big…You’re doing so well for me…taking it so good, princess…I’m so proud…”

The sudden bout of praise coming from the enemy in such a sickly sweet tone, especially while he began to pump hot loads of cum into you, sent you barreling over the edge, not doing your dear scribe any favors when you began to babble nonsensically, tears beginning to fall from your eyes from the overwhelming pleasure taking over your body.

“Yeahhh, take it, princess…I’m gonna knock you up so you have to marry me.” Yunho chuckled darkly, his fingers squeezing into your hips, pressing a rough kiss to your lips, biting at your bottom lip before he pulled away.

“You’re disgusting,” you huffed, grimacing at him, despite the fact that your thighs were still trembling.

“Don’t say that, princess,” Yunho whined, leaning his forehead against yours, slowly pulling out inch by inch. “You know how hard that makes me…” He looked down to Yeosang, who was breathing heavily underneath the both of you, his mouth agape, splashes of arousal decorating his pretty, flushed face and damp hair. “Hey, scribe, you’ve been a good boy just sitting here and watching the whole time. You want a taste of your Highness’s used cunt?”

Feeling sufficiently dizzy, Yeosang looked to you for approval, feeling his cock pulse at your slow dazed nod, bringing his hands up to your thighs to caress them, bringing his lips up to kiss and lick at the wetness around your cunt with a gentleness that would’ve had you collapsing if your legs weren’t securely hooked over Yunho’s shoulders.

“Make sure you get it all…” Yunho murmured softly, completely pulling out of you with a wet, shlick sound, dribbles of his cum beginning to gush out of your gaping hole, allowing Yeosang to collect it inside his drooling mouth. Yunho brought a free hand to Yeosang’s head, holding him against your cunt, finding great joy in the desperate, sloppy manner in which he ate you out, like a delirious, thirsty man that had just found a hidden oasis.

It was when Yeosang slipped his slender fingers deep inside your pulsing cunt, his hot mouth closed around your sensitive clit, that you began to whine and whimper, one arm hooked around Yunho’s neck for support, your free hand going down to grab onto Yeosang’s hair when Yunho let go, gazing down to find him already looking up at you with half closed eyes.

“It’s so good, you’re so good for me, Yeosang, I’m going to…oh my god…”

Yeosang clutched one side of your bruised ass with one hand, curling three of his fingers inside you and rubbing them against your clenching walls, lapping at your clit, his thighs closing together, his cheeks bright red from the praise.

All the while, Yunho simply watched on, his chest swelling with pride, occasionally leaving kisses and licks on your straining, marked-up neck. “Cum for him, will you, princess? Won’t you soak his pretty face with your squirt?”

Having your lovely scribe in between your legs, eating your cunt like it was his assigned job to do so, having your sworn enemy pressing his heated, sweaty body against yours, more filthy words leaving his lips for your shared pleasure was all far too much. “Yeosang…!”

Yeosang found himself being covered in a warm spray of liquid, tasting your squirt on his tongue, closing his eyes for a moment to bask in the pleasure of it all, opening them back up just in time for you to pull him into your arms, your bare body against his half-dressed one. “Your Highness…”

“I didn’t mean to do such a dirty thing to you, Yeosang, I’m so sorry…” You used your sleeves to wipe some of the wetness away from his face, blushing more than you had during the whole night.

“Your Highness…” he repeated, softer this time, giving you a shy smile, pulling his robe apart until you could see what he had done to himself.

Your eyes widened at the milky stains of cum splattered across the insides of his ceremonial garments, looking back up into his eyes, returning his shy smile. “If I had known you had such an affinity for me, I wouldn’t have looked for suitors this long. Who needs them when I have you?”

Yeosang reached up to hold his heated cheeks, dumbfounded by the string of events, unable to believe that his beloved empress could feel such a way about him. “It’d be an honor to always be by your side…”

You giggled, reaching up to place a hand over his, your thumb brushing over his pretty birthmark.

Yunho cleared his throat, running his fingers through his sweaty hair, his robe already wrapped ornately around his body, looking like he did when he first entered the meeting room, besides the afterglow he was now sporting. “I’d love to stay here longer and experience this beautiful moment with you both, but my job here is done.” He patted both of your heads, as if he were a proud father, before heading taking a few elegant strides towards the door. Before he left, he turned back to look at you, his tongue poking into one of his canine teeth, giving you a shit-eating smirk. “Until next time, princess.”

“There isn’t going to be a next time,” you muttered to yourself, rolling your eyes, your arms still around Yeosang, watching your smug enemy leave the room with a soft chuckle.

Yeosang chuckled softly, reaching up to run his fingers through your hair, feeling confident enough to share his thoughts with you. “Now, let’s not kid ourselves, Your Highness.”

“Heyyy,” you whined, giving him a pout, watching him pick up his drying brush up from the table. “Don’t you dare write that down.” When he motioned to dip his brush into the spilled ink, you hugged onto him from the side. “Yeosangggg, I’m still your empress!”

Biting the inside of your cheek, you rested your chin on his shoulder. “By the way, what was that question you wanted to ask me?”

Yeosang gulped, studying the ink-stained table below for a second, before turning his head to look at you, your faces just centimeters away from one another. “Will you replace me one day, Your Highness?”

Your eyes widened slightly, taking in your scribe’s vulnerability, wanting to return the same energy to him, as he was deserving of it. “Never, Yeosang. You’re here to stay.”

Yeosang blushed fervently, dropping the brush back down to hug you into his arms, nuzzling your neck gently, his hair tickling your skin, about to melt inside his empress’s grasp. “Promise?”

You wrapped your arms tighter around him, pressing your lips to his cheek, waiting for him to look back into your eyes to whisper, “Promise.”

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Aegon Targaryen NSFW Alphabet

A = Aftercare (what they’re like after sex) Super Clingy, he wants you to hold him close to your chest and play in his hair. Maybe let him softly suck on your nipples while he lets out soft whines from coming down from his high. He adores skin to skin as well afterwards. If you were into to trying it he would love to cock warm with you and fall asleep still inside you.

B = Body part (their favorite body part of theirs and also their partner’s) His favorite part of himself is honestly probably his dick, the boy cherishes that thing, its probably the thing he uses the most on his body as well lmao. He is 100% a tit man, sucking them, biting, fucking them, it doesn't matter he adores your tits, he adores them no matter the size as well.

C = Cum (anything to do with cum, basically) He loves cumming inside you no matter what, it inflates his ego to astronomical levels to see himself leaking out of you knowing that he is the only one who gets to fill you with his cum. If you dom him though make him cum all over his tummy and lick it off of him and he will go absolutely feral.

D = Dirty secret (pretty self explanatory, a dirty secret of theirs) Definitely has stolen a pair or two....or more of your panties for him to wrap around his dick when you aren't around to please him. He loves the feeling of the soft lace going up and down his cock while he pleasures himself.

E = Experience (how experienced are they? do they know what they’re doing?) He is pretty damn experienced in the world of sex, i mean come on the man is a bit of a man hoe. (We love our little sad man hoe though)

F = Favorite position (this goes without saying) He loves trying all kinds of different positions with but he has two favorites to use with you. His first favorite is facing each other on your side with your leg over his waist and he will just thrust up into you while looking into your eyes. The second is cowgirl he adores when you ride him and take charge f the situation.

G = Goofy (are they more serious in the moment? are they humorous? etc.) He can really be both, sometimes he will be kinda goofy with you and make you chuckle then other times he is so into the feeling he gets from having sex with you that he just kinda zones out and becomes more serious into the moment.

H = Hair (how well groomed are they? does the carpet match the drapes? etc.) He has a very small bush o hair that borders on being a darker shade of a blonde, it certainly doesn't match the gorgeous silver hair that adorns his head. He doesn't really keep it tidy, but keeps it managed if that makes sense.

I = Intimacy (how are they during the moment? the romantic aspect) Depending on the mood of the moment, he can either be very intimate with you and kiss up your neck while he tells you how much he adores you or he can be very straight to the point which is what tends to happen of the point of having sex that day to simply make a heir.

J = Jack off (masturbation headcanon) He masturbates alot, even though you two have each other he just enjoys pleasuring himself when the moments you two can't be together arise. As I mentioned before when he does masturbate he usually wraps a pair of your panties around his cock and will moan the filthiest shit as if you are right there with him. "Oh fuck....baby....feels so good wrapped around me like that".

K = Kink (one or more of their kinks) Mommy kink Slight bondage feel like he might have a bit of a lactation kink as well pegging light spanking (like put him over your knee and give him a light smack to his ass, don't worry you'll see more of this later)

L = Location (favorite places to do the do) He doesn't give a flying fuck where you two have sex but his favorite place is without a doubt the throne. He loves setting you on his lap and letting you ride your king till he spills himself deep inside of you on the most wanted seat in the seven kingdoms.

M = Motivation (what turns them on, gets them going) Everything, Aegon stays in horny mood 24/7. He would get really into things though if you initiate things, like walk up to him and whisper in his ear "Be a good boy, Aegon and I'll reward you with your pretty cock in my mouth.""

N = No (something they wouldn’t do, turn offs) I think Aegon would be very firm on never hitting him, he doesn't mind you smacking his ass or something like that but never hit him in the face. It would just bring back alot of memories about Alicent he doesn't wanna have at that time.

O = Oral (preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc.) He loves to eat pussy, he would lowkey tell you it's his favorite meal. You will 100% have to push him away from you to get him to stop fucking you with his tongue. He will keep on till his face is soaked in your release.

P = Pace (are they fast and rough? slow and sensual? etc.) He doesn't have a preference on the pace sometimes he wants fast and rough other times he wants a slower pace and to savor the moment. He leans towards being slower and sensual more often then anything else.

Q = Quickie (their opinions on quickies, how often, etc.) He loves a good quickie, especially the ones where anybody could walk in at any second. His favorite place for a quickie is the dining room table, he loves to just bend you over it and fuck you to his hearts desire.

R = Risk (are they game to experiment? do they take risks? etc.) Oh he is definitely risky, he likes the thrill that comes with being so risky. We have already mentioned a few of the risky things he likes to do such as stealing your panties and the quickie locations.

S = Stamina (how many rounds can they go for? how long do they last?) Usually about 2 back to back, though if you have sex several times throughout the day then he can go for many more rounds then generally.

T = Toys (do they own toys? do they use them? on a partner or themselves?) He definitely owns a few dildos, both for you and for him. He loves being pegged as well so there is for sure a strap somewhere in his room.

U = Unfair (how much they like to tease) He definitively likes to tease and make sure you know that he is being extra needy for you. However if you tease him then he will be a whining mess.

V = Volume (how loud they are, what sounds they make, etc.) Loud, he doesn't care who hears. If the whole castle hears him getting fucked then so be it, he will let out the loud whines and whimpers. If you peg him he may actually scream when he cums.

W = Wild card (a random headcanon for the character) When he's been a brat bring him to your chambers and lay him over your knees. Give him soft spankings while telling him "Mommy wants you to be a good boy for her *Smack* I want you to learn to not be a brat *Smack*" 9 times out of ten he will whimper back "I'll be go mommy, promise"

X = X-ray (let’s see what’s going on under those clothes) Aegon is about 6 inches in length and has a medium sized girth. He is just big enough to make you feel the most sweetest stretch. Don't be fooled though he can still shove it down your throat and make you choke on it.

Y = Yearning (how high is their sex drive?) It's Aegon, he is possibly the horniness person in the world. He wants you all day everyday which I feel makes his yearning in the category of VERY VERY high.

Z = Zzz (how quickly they fall asleep afterwards) Almost instantly, He wants to be snuggled up to you first before getting nice and coxy under the blankets. He would adore if you played in his hair while he drifted to sleep.

#fanfic #alphabet #house of the dragon #house targaryen #aegon the second #aegon targaryen smut #aegon ii targaryen #hotd aegon #aegon ii fanfic #aegon targaryen x reader #aegon targaryen ii #aegon targaryen

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gaza-giving-tree · 7 months ago

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The Gaza Giving Tree: A Lifeline of Hope in the Making

This holiday season, I’m working on an initiative to make a real, tangible difference for families suffering in Gaza. The Gaza Giving Tree is currently in its planning stages, and I need your help to bring this vision to life! Together, we can bring hope and survival to those who need it most!

What is the Gaza Giving Tree?

This project will connect compassionate donors directly with verified individuals and families in Gaza who need it most. Each ornament on our virtual tree will represent a real person or family in need, linking donors directly to their campaigns. The money won't go through us—100% of donations will go directly to the people in need.

Here’s Where You Come In:

I’m currently:

1. Seeking Individuals and Families with Verified Campaigns: Do you know of families impacted by the conflict who need urgent assistance? Send me their verified campaigns or fundraisers, and I will feature them on a virtual ornament on our tree. (I'm hoping to have the tree up online within the week, either on Tumblr or on an actual website.) I'm going to start combing through lists of already vetted campaigns and making ornaments that way, but I still want people to submit all the verified campaigns they can find!! Let's make sure NO ONE is overlooked if we can help it!!

2. Looking for Volunteers: Are you creative, organized, or simply passionate about making a difference? Join me to help with designing ornaments, spreading the word, or organizing outreach!!

Why This Matters

The need in Gaza is urgent:

Astronomical Inflation: Families are struggling to afford basic necessities like bread and water.

Freezing Winter Temperatures: Displaced families face the cold without proper shelter or clothing.

Desperate Escapes: Many are raising money to leave the region in search of safety.

This project aims to shine a light of hope in the darkness and show that compassion knows no borders.

How to Get Involved

If you’d like to help or know of a family in need, please contact me:

My main Tumblr: @gardenofinkandstarlight

Email: [email protected]

I know it's a bit last second, but we can make The Gaza Giving Tree a reality and turn this season into one of giving and hope for those who need it most!!

#free gaza #gaza genocide #gaza strip #gaza #free palestine #save palestine #i stand with palestine #palestinian genocide #all eyes on palestine

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shadowqueenjude · 5 months ago

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I’m astronomically late but this was meant for day 1 of @rhystaappreciationweekend

AU of what if Nesta took Feyre’s place in the bargain:

Nesta gasped and wheezed as they reached the crest of the mountain. She and her companions were soaked in blood, sweat, and rain, and the cold seeped down to their bones. She knew all three of them had likely gotten a fever, but at this moment Nesta couldn’t bring herself to care.

Because at the crest of the hill lay an enormous wall that was falling into disrepair. The border between the human lands and Prythian stood before them.

“We made it,” Nesta croaked. Then she collapsed before the wall.

“They made it through the forest?” came a voice as though from a great distance. Was she in hell?

“Yes,” answered a different voice, this one sounding a bit more polished. “Three human women, two matching the descriptions of Feyre’s sisters. I am not sure who the third girl is, though.”

“It doesn’t matter; she is with Feyre’s sisters, so she must be protected.”

“But it does matter, Tam. Look at her weaponry- she’s been trained to fight the Fae. She must be some kind of guide for these ladies. They came here to save Feyre- likely from you. I believe Feyre has underestimated the depth of their regard for her.”

Probably not hell, then. But it sure felt like it. Nesta’s head felt so heavy, and her eyes glued shut. She couldn’t even muster the energy to open her mouth and speak.

Back to sleep it was, then, until she got more comfortable.

When she opened her eyes, she found herself on a bed so comfortable that Nesta felt like royalty. The mattress was soft yet supportive. The sheets were like satin, and the blankets were so warm that Nesta felt like a baked potato. She gently pulled off the blankets and her jaw dropped as she looked down at herself.

Her clothes were utterly spotless, and definitely not what she was wearing before. She was wearing an elegant green silk empire gown with real pink flowers stitched around the waist. Nesta reached a hand into her hair. No tangles and butter-soft beach waves. How??? She had just been asleep. Shouldn’t there be tangles?

She jumped out of bed, stomping towards the door and flinging it open. She was furious; who had touched her without her consent? Her heart went cold as she remembered Tomas Mandray’s hands on her skin…

By the time her anger dissipated just enough to have the rational thought that it was probably not a good idea to stomp around in the land of the Fae, but by then it was too late: her presence had already been discovered.

“Lady!” a voice cried from the body of a tree. Nesta looked up at her imperiously. “Was this you, tree girl?” she hissed.

The tree held her ground, raising a brow. “You can see my true form? And no, I am not a tree.”

“Of course I can see you,” Nesta snapped. “I am not blind.”

“That’s not what I meant,” she replied coolly. “I am Alis. It is nice to meet you.”

Nesta glared at Alis. She had not answered her question. She placed her hand on her hip and angled her head at her. “Somebody changed me while I was asleep. Who. Did. It?”

Alis didn’t look the least bit impressed. Perhaps she was already accustomed to this attitude from somebody else. “Just the maids. Nobody touched you inappropriately, I promise. We only gave you a clean shower and clothes.”

Nesta sighed in relief. Somehow, she believed Alis. “Where are my friends?”

“They have separate rooms. I can take you to them, if you wish,” Alis said.

“Ok.”

Alis led Nesta through several halls. Nesta was constantly doing double takes as she saw wind spirits scurry through the house. This place was just so weird; she couldn’t say she liked it.

Alis first led her to her sister’s room. Elain was still fast asleep, her hair artfully askew on the pillows. She seemed so peaceful with her face relaxed. She was the princess incarnate.

Nesta clasped her shoulder and shook her. “Elain, wake up,” she whispered.

Her little sister’s eyes fluttered open, and she looked Nesta blearily. “Just a few more minutes,” she mumbled.

“No,” she snapped. “We need to get up. We’re in Prythian.”

That sobered up her sister quickly. She sat up in bed, grabbing her sister’s hand. “But where’s Tiana?”

The mercenary who had bravely taken on the quest to reach Prythian after she and Nesta had already failed once. After Feyre was taken, she became quite close with the Archeron family. Nesta considered her a dear friend and close to a sister.

“The tree woman will take us to her,” Nesta said reassuringly. Elain slid off of the bed, revealing her shiny new dress: a lavender-colored chiffon dress with real hydrangeas all down the skirt. Her hair, a few shades darker than Nesta, was so glossy that it reflected the dimmest of lights. They walked back to Alis, who led them to Tiana, who was wide awake reading a book on the bed.

Nesta raised a brow. Her dark skin lacked sleep circles, suggesting that she had been awake a while. Her midnight hair had been braided and tossed over one shoulder. She wore a flowy black dress with butterfly sleeves and mesh on the shins. She looked like a mystic or a priestess.

“Oh good, you two are awake!” Tiana said enthusiastically. She slammed her book shut and slid off the bed, striding towards them with purpose. “This place is really nice, but I asked around, and your sister is not here.”

That was exactly what Nesta was afraid of. “Is she dead?” she croaked.

Tiana pressed her lips into a thin line, shaking her head grimly. “Worse.”

Nesta stormed through the house looking for Tamlin, Elain and Tiana hurrying behind her. She was going to have a few words with him when she found him.

At last, she found him holed up in his study, his head in his hands. Seeing him in inaction while knowing that her sister had been taken captive by the man who had assaulted her under the mountain made her see red.

“TAMLIN!” she roared. Instantly, he stood up, on alert. Nesta walked right up to his face and punched him with all the force she could muster. Tamlin did not even flinch, but he did look shocked.

“YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO TAKE CARE OF HER!” Nesta shrieked. She leapt onto him, trying to pull his hair out. Tamlin only grabbed her wrists gently, prying her off of him.

“I’m trying,” he said hoarsely. He sounded broken. “Rhysand has tricked her into a faerie bargain- it’s not easy to break. Lucien has gone to the Day Court to try and figure out a way to break it.”

Nesta could feel hot tears forming in her eyes. “Then I’ll go get her.”

“Are you insane?” Tamlin bellowed. “You have nothing to offer him, and no power to stop him.”

“Tiana has ash blades, and I’m certain it’s not Feyre’s power he’s after. What would he want with a mere human?”

Tamlin scrunched his nose and surveyed her. “You are also a human.” Not an insult, just a fact. But Nesta stared him down anyway.

“A human upon which Faerie glamours have no effect,” she answered.

They stared each other down for several moments before Tamlin sighed. “Feyre will never forgive me if you get hurt.”

Nesta angled her head. “There won’t be a Feyre to forgive you if she remains in this bargain.”

Tamlin slumped in defeat. He knew she was right. Nesta stood there waiting, arms crossed.

“I will take you to the Night Court border,” he said finally. “You’re on your own from there.”

Leaving Elain and Tiana behind, Nesta walked into the realm of the devil incarnate. It didn’t take long after she crossed the border for the High Lord of Night to be alerted to her presence. After mere minutes of walking in crunchy snow, a carriage came up to her claiming to be from the palace. It was utterly ostentatious with its dramatic silk coverings and threadings likely made from real gold, so Nesta climbed inside and awaited the palace of her sister’s captor.

When they reached the palace, Nesta stepped out and gazed at the palace in awe. The whole thing looked utterly sinister: a polished black with several spires coming to a sharp point. It looked like a castle of swords.

She was escorted inside by a broody batman who seemed to be surrounded by black smoke. When he moved to grab her arm, Nesta slapped his hand away.

“I am came here willingly; do you really think I’ll try to escape?” she snapped. The bat male merely blinked his hazel eyes before letting his arm drop to his side. Nesta held her chin up high, trying to memorize where he was taking her instead of focusing on her fear.

Nesta was taken to a throne room, where another batman lounged on the throne, legs hanging over one armrest and crown sitting lopsided on his head. His ears sat on the top of his head, long and furry and triangular. His eyes were completely black except for his violet irises. There were circular markings in bands all over his face, like some tribal symbols. In place of nails were dark talons. And each of his wings were as big as Nesta. He looked ethereal, wicked, terrifying.

“Leave us,” Rhysand commanded his stooge. The other bat guy scurried away instantly. Nesta sneered at Rhysand.

“Where is my sister,” she asked flatly. The High Lord of Night smiled sinisterly. “You do not mince words, do you, Feyre’s sister?”

“Where is she?” she demanded. Rhysand laughed seductively. “Mor, bring her here,” he ordered the woman standing by his right side. She swept out of the room instantly. Rhysand looked her over. “Human girl…you must love your sister a lot if you were willing to come this far.”

Nesta clenched her fists to keep from shaking. She was in the room with a bona fide High Lord, and this one was not so friendly. But she stood her ground; faeries respected power, so she had to act powerful even if she was not.

“It took your sister mere moments to dance for me,” Rhysand purred. “How long until you do the same?”

Nesta saw red at the man’s careless comment. “You caught my sister at her most vulnerable,” she hissed. “I promise that you will not find me in any such position.”

“We will see about that,” he murmured. “Dance for me, Nesta,” he whispered.

And then Nesta felt it, like a probe reaching into her head. In her mind, Nesta began to build iron walls. Brick by brick, she created an impenetrable barrier between her and that invasive force.

“Absolutely not,” she snapped. She pulled out her ash knife, gripping it like a vise.

Rhysand looked surprised for a moment, then intrigued. Then his eyes snagged on her weapon, and he smirked. “What do you think you’re going to do with that?” he inquired.

She tilted her head and placed her other hand on her hip. “Kill you.”

He chortled. “I am much stronger and faster than you, love. What in the world can you do?”

As if to prove his point, in an instant Rhysand charged towards Nesta, punching her forearm. She cried out as her knife went clattering out of her hand.

“You see?” Rhysand said in an erotic whisper. “You are no match for me.”

Nesta spat in his face. A cloud of dust formed over him, and he doubled over, coughing. Tiana’s ash chew had worked, then. While he was distracted, Nesta sprinted towards her knife.

“Do not underestimate me,” she hissed.

Rhysand clapped even while bent over. “Clever. Very clever, young lady…for your wit and courage, I’ll grant you one boon.”

There was only one thing to do. Rhysand would never agree to a bargain if he did not get something out of it, and he was too powerful to kill. So, she cleared her throat and forced out the words she was most terrified to utter.

“I wish to take my sister Feyre’s place in her bargain.”

Through the ash cloud, Nesta saw Rhysand laugh. “Very well, miss Nesta. I accept.”

#rhysta #rhystaweekend2025

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andromeda3116 · 1 month ago

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Chapter Six of Still Flying is posted! Actually, I think I forgot to ever share that I posted Chapter 5 a while back, so there's that one, also!

For people who may be new here, this is a revision of my old epic trilogy, As the Turn of the Worlds, aka "The Avatar/Firefly AU". I've completed the first book, and am now onto the revision of the second, for those who are interested in the new versions, or who may have never heard of them but are interested in the premise!

Aang never woke up from the iceberg, and the world went on without him. Over the next three thousand years, technology advanced astronomically, and the people of the overcrowded world took to the stars. Now, the Avatar is an obscure myth, bending is regarded as a relic of a dead past, and only two of the original countries still exist: the Fire Nation, one of the most powerful forces in the Union of Allied Planets, and the Water Tribe, clinging to life on the Outer Rim, still fighting for the dream of independence. The latest civil war ended seven years ago, in a landslide victory for the Alliance. Book One, Objects in Space: Katara is a Companion working on Sihnon, and was lucky enough to be picked by the Princess of the Fire Nation to attend to her surly brother, but there's strife in the family that spills over into her life: when she accidentally exposes the princess's plot to kill the Fire Lord, she finds herself in prison for conspiracy, and must call in a favor from an old friend, another Companion who travels the border with a band of thieves. Meanwhile, a man named Sokka is on the hunt for his long-lost sister, Admiral Zhao is on the hunt for an old mark, and a man smuggles a large box onto a transport ship... Book Two, Still Flying: Following the startling Alliance defeat at Sarqaq, Azula isn't the only one on the hunt for the Avatar: the Parliament has sent out its own hunter, an Operative who works with a strike force of powerful, secretive men. Meanwhile, the crew gets desperate and is forced to accept a damning job, and an expatriate of the Water Tribe comes back with an offer they can't afford to refuse.

Enjoy!

#zutara #sukka #jet/mai #objects in space rewrite #fanfiction; mine #avatar the last airbender #atla/firefly au #this is kind of a niche offering and many people may not have seen it before #so i figured that i would give a little background

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nemo-of-house-hamartia · 7 months ago

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SAILOR ARTEMIS- THE SAILOR OF THE HUNT

SAILOR ARTEMIS

CIVILIAN FORM

NAME: Diana Ardelean

NICKNAME: She doesn’t really have a nickname, aside from Didi or Moony, which is usually used by Aphrodites in a mocking way

NAME MEANINGS: ”Heavenly,Divine" "Forest"

BIRTHDAY: September 23rd

AGE: 18 years old

SUN SIGN: Virgo

MOON SIGN : Cancer

EYES: Dark Grey

HAIR: Pale Blonde (human form)/ Silver (Senshi and Goddess Form)

SKIN: Pale

HEIGHT: 1.83 m- 6'0''

WEIGHT: 76 kg - 167 lbs

BUILD: Slender, Athletic, Tallest among the girls and taller than most of the boys she knows

BLOOD TYPE: AB-

FAVOURITE GEMSTONE: Opal

MARITAL STATUS: Single, but truly smitten with someone, even though she hides it under her stoic, cool demeanor.

DISTINGUISHING TRAITS: A stoic demeanor that makes her appear almost without emotions. She's not a great talker, and usually is considered the most silent among the senshi, speaking only if needed. She has a terrific markmanship, and is known to never miss the spot. It happened only once in her life, when Hera sent her to kill the Senshi that defected her authority. She was on the borders of Morpheus' Garden, ready to shoot her arrow, when all of sudden she saw Hecate, dreamily gazing at the starry sky, singing to herself, in perfect peacefulness. Artemis couldn't bear herself to kill Hecate, an innocent Goddess that reminded her of her lost love, so she just shot the arrow against a tree, fleeing in shame for what she was about to do.

LIKES: Forest and trees, running and jogging, dogs, stargazing at night (she's a competent astronomer, being used to hunt trips throughout the nights, when she was back on Mount Olympus). She enjoys the silence and solitude that the night brings with itself, and love to look at sunsets that preannounce the peacefulness and stillness of the night. Even though she finds him obnoxious and too loud, she really care for her twin brother, Phoebos. She has a soft spot for Cynthia, and really, truly cares for her, even though she doesn't let it show through her cold façade (she doesn't do it on purpose, but she's so used to not let anything through that it just the way she is. Plus, she still feels a great deal of shame for what she was about to do to her, so many millennia ago).

DISLIKES: Doesn't really like to read or write, but likes listening to stories and audiobooks. Shallowness also struck a nerve to her, which is one of the reason why she stays away from people in general, but especially from those who do not try to see deeper under the surface.

SCHOOL: Junior student at St. Alexandros Academy, a private school.

FAVOURITE SUBJECT: Biology and P.E.

LEAST FAVOURITE SUBJECT: Literature and History

STRONG POINTS: Her loyalty and sense of honour are her major traits. When she commits herself to someone, she is bound by her loyalty to be with them, and when given her word of honour, she would do everything in her power to keep up to her word.

HAS TROUBLE WITH: Aphrodite, of all people, is the Senshi with which she doesn’t get along at all and for who she has no respect. Due to her history with Nehellenia, she had lost all faith in love and its power, and prefer to stay alone; the fact that Aphrodite pushes Artemis in finding someone to settle with just adds to her lack of respect for the Goddess of Love.

DREAM: Artemis is not really a romantic at heart, but she really hopes to find the way to put the pieces of her heart back together again. She realizes that she has become bitter and sullen toward people due to Nehellenia's betrayal, so she really hopes to gain back her ability to trust others as she used to. She also hopes to find the true Keeper of the Black Orb of Moon and, maybe, her true love.

ABOUT THE SENSHI

SAILOR NAME AND TITLE: Sailor Artemis, the Sailor of Hunt

OTHER TITLES: Goddess of the Wild Animals, Wilderness, Forests and Hills, Childbirth and Virginity; Protector of Maidens.

REALM OF INFLUENCE: Huntress Castle

PLANET OF ORIGIN: Planet Olympus

COLOURS: White, Silver, Lavander, Pale Blue, Pale Pink

EYES: Silvery Grey

HAIR: Silvery White

TRANSFORMATION PHRASE: Huntress Divine Power, Make Up

TRANSFORMATION ITEM: A medallion with the Triple White Moon Symbol in the center

SYMBOL: Triple White Moon

WEAPON: Her Sacred Bow

ITEM: Two Crystal Orbs with the power of the White and Black Moon of Olympus Planet. She always had them, ever since the beginning of her life, and always managed to draw the power from the White Orb, but she's unable to draw any kind of power from the Black Orb. She has deduced that probably the Black Orb belongs to someone else, and has sworn to find the rightful owner of the Black Orb.

FIGHTING STYLE: Due to her dexterity in Archery, her favourite fighting style is long distance and mostly a defensive one (she tries not to attack first, if she can avoid it).

SAILOR HISTORY: Existing since the beginning of time, Sailor Artemis is the second youngest of the Olympus Sailor Senshi, followed only by Athena. Since her birth, she has been designated to the role of Guardian of The Moon and Guardian of Sailor Hera and King Zeus, her father and step-mother. She's always been a capable huntress, and she has lived her youth with her twin brother, Apollo, on the Planet Olympus. One day, while riding her Moonlight Chariot in the Solar System in the Milky Way Galaxy, she met the most gracious and delicate Queen, Nehellenia. She fell in love with her, and was sure, by the way Nehellenia behaved, that she felt the same toward her, and decided to make something unheard of before that day: she decided to share with her the power of the Orbs of the Black and White Moon, strongly believeing that the Black Orb was meant for Nehellenia. Artemis knew that her decision was rushed and not thought through, but she was still really young and felt such a strong feeling that she was ready to be always on her side, and to swear eternal love to her, and share her domain of the moon. One day, however she realized that Nehellenia was never who she thought she was, that Artemis had always been delusional about her, falling in love with what the Thought of her, rather than her actual persona. Nehellenia ,in truth, used her to gather access to Olympus Planet, in order to obtain the very Orbs of White and Black Moon and use their power against Queen Selene, mother of Serenity. Brokenhearted, betrayed, full of grief but unable of any revenge on the woman she loved so much, Artemis hated herself for having been so blind and stupid, and decided to retreat back on Olympus, locking herself in her Huntress Castle with the Orbs, not allowing anyone to enter and swearing never to love anyone ever again. After millenia, she's still suffering from that wound, and she has yet to find the true Keeper of the Black Moon Orb, the one that's supposed to be her true love and co-sovereign over the Olympus' Moon Realm.

MISSION: Her main mission is to protect Planet Olympus from any possible threat, but after the schism between the Goddesses of the Olympus, she feels she's bound to find a way to bring back the peace between the two sides and reunite what was once One, in order to restore the equilibrium on Olympus Planet. In this, she has her best ally in Hecate, who shares the same wish.

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So. I was blabbering on my main about Sailor Moon and whatnot, so I HAD to retrive the old artworks that I did about a whole Senshi Squad that I created back in *checks dates* 2012.They were my take on the Greek Gods if they were Sailor Senshi, and of course, my two precious babies were Sailor Artemis and Sailor Athena, who were buddies buddies.

Please, consider that the artworks and story are OLD, so this is just me sharing old stuff here with you all <3 (though i might rework this. It's still intriguing me to this day).

Also, Sailor Hecate doesn't belong to me. Her character design and concept belong to an old friend that I lost contact with, and whom had kindly suggested back then that her OC would be the perfect match for broody Sailor Artemis (and I agreed tbh, though now I will have to think about a new lover for my poor Artemis loll).

#Nemo sketches #Sailor Moon #Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon #Sailor Artemis #my oc #old art #my art #Nemo writes

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klimkovsky · 1 year ago

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Summer 2024. Visibility of the planets

Calendar summer will begin in a few days. And climatic summer seems to have already arrived. There is also astronomical summer, although this period is quite arbitrary in its meaning, and on the time axis is located between the moments of the summer solstice (in 2024 it falls at midnight from June 20 to 21) and the autumn equinox (September 22). But no matter what “summer” we take into account, it is not very favorable for observing wandering luminaries — planets, first of all — because of the short duration of the night, and secondly — because of the low location of the ecliptic above the horizon during nights, which makes the duration of visibility of the planets very short. True, already in August the situation changes noticeably — the nights become darker and longer, and the morning ecliptic already rises quite high, and the planets moving along it find themselves in significantly more favorable conditions for observations.

On the other hand, in our climate zone, it is in the summer that the most suitable weather occurs, combining the transparency of the atmosphere and a temperature comfortable for observation. This factor to some extent compensates for the not entirely satisfactory astronomical circumstances.

Let’s start with the Moon

Traditionally, the Moon is visible low above the horizon in summer. This does not mean that it does not climb into the sky as high as the summer Sun — it does, but during the day, and in the form of a thin sickle, and is located close to the Sun. It is extremely difficult to see the thin crescent moon during the day near the dazzling summer Sun. Therefore, we see the Moon only when it moves away from the daylight and descends along the ecliptic closer to the southern celestial hemisphere. The morning Moon in summer is visible slightly better than the evening Moon. and this difference increases so much by the end of summer that it can be difficult to see the growing Moon at the end of summer, but the aging Moon is clearly visible in the morning. True, at the beginning of summer there is either no difference, or it is even slightly in favor of the evening Moon, but only before the solstice.

The beginning of calendar summer finds the Moon in the aging crescent phase on the border of the constellations Aquarius and Pisces, not far from the planets Saturn and Mars. It is visible for a short time just before sunrise, and every next morning it gets closer to the Sun.

The first new moon of the summer will occur on the evening of June 6th. But it will be possible to see the young Moon only on June 9, when it will pass near the stars Castor and Pollux from the constellation Gemini. The fact that the lunar path deviates from the ecliptic to the north will play in its favor, and the Moon will appear in the sky several degrees higher than it would have been without the inclination of its orbit. This has to do with the evening moon in June. This same effect has almost no effect on the visibility of the evening Moon in July, but in August it begins to work against it — the Moon will be below the ecliptic and, even more so, much lower than the Sun, which means the visibility of the evening Moon at the end of Summer is completely unattractive. But this is true for the northern hemisphere of the Earth. In the southern hemisphere it will be exactly the opposite.

On June 14, the Moon will reach the first quarter phase (the half facing the west), and on June 22 (the night after the summer solstice) the first summer full moon will occur — the Moon will be in the constellation Sagittarius at the lowest point available to it in this era. The declination of the Moon will be -29 degrees, and, for example, in Berlin the Moon will rise above the horizon only to a height of 8 degrees.

The Moon will meet the last quarter phase in June on the border of the constellations Aquarius and Pisces on the night of the 28th to the 29th. And a week later, the second summer new moon will occur — July 6, 2024. The Moon will pass 5 degrees north of the Sun — there will be no eclipse. The young crescent moon may be visible starting July 9, low above the horizon in a westerly direction.

The first quarter will reached on July 13 — the Moon will be in the constellation Virgo, near the star Spica. On the evening of July 17, the Moon, close to the full moon, will pass just half a degree from the star Antares, and will reach its full phase on July 21, but during the day. Which night is considered the night of the full moon — the previous or the next — in this case it is almost equivalent. Although the next night, which is from July 21 to 22, the Moon will be visible a little higher. But this is a matter of taste.

The Moon will meet the last quarter phase in July on the night of the 27th to 28th in the constellation Aries — quite high above the horizon. And this is already a clear manifestation of how much better the morning Moons in the second half of summer look than the evening ones. The half of the Moon facing east will shine in the sky literally from late evening until the rising Sun — almost all night, which is quite unusual for a halfmoon.

In subsequent nights, the aging Moon will meet the planets Uranus, Mars and Jupiter, as well as bright orange-red Aldebaran and the Hyades and Pleiades star clusters. These stars already belong to the winter constellations, although it is now the height of summer, but they are already quite visible in the early morning hours.

On August 4, there will be a new moon again — the last one for the calendar summer, but in the astronomical summer there will be one more — on September 3. After the August new moon, seeing the young moon will be problematic. Its path will lie quite deep under the ecliptic, and it will hide near the horizon, or even under it, for at least a week. And I even assume that until the evening of August 13, when the Moon is again in the Claws of Scorpio, we will not see it. But on the indicated evening, the Moon will already pass the first quarter phase (which will happen the evening before — August 12).

The nights of August 12 and 13 are very rich in “shooting stars” — meteors from the Perseid shower. The moon will not interfere with the observation of meteors, since it sets early in the evening, and the star shower is best observed in the second half of the night and in the early morning — in an easterly direction and high above the horizon. The constellations Perseus and Cassiopeia can serve as a reference point for the direction from which sparks of microscopic particles burning in the atmosphere will fly out in the sky. The last one is especially well known for its resemblance to the letters “M” or “W”.

The August full moon will occur on the night of August 19–20. And it will be a supermoon. Nowadays, humanity celebrates not one, but sometimes even three supermoons a year. This is one of them. On the night of the full moon, the Moon will be on the border of the constellations Capricorn and Aquarius at a distance of 361 thousand km from the Earth, which is much closer than average, but not a record close distance. About a month later — September 18 (this date still fits into the so-called “astronomical summer”) the full Moon will be even closer — 355 thousand kilometers, and the last full moon of the astronomical summer will be even more super.

The last “summer” new moon will occur on September 3. It will be preceded by the last quarter phase — August 26 (morning), when the Moon will again coexist in the sky with the Pleiades, Hyades, Aldebaran, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars. This star-planetary rendezvous will last until the end of August.

Let’s summarize the Moon

June:

New Moon: June 6 First quarter: June 14 Full Moon: June 22 Last quarter: June 28/28

July:

New Moon: July 6 First quarter: July 13 Full Moon: July 21 Last quarter: July 27/28

August:

New Moon: August 4 First quarter: August 12 Full Moon: August 19/20 (supermoon) Last quarter: August 25/26

September:

New Moon: September 3 First quarter: September 11 Full Moon: September 18 (supermoon) Last quarter: September 24

Visibility of the planets

The spring of 2024 has already been marked by the cessation of visibility of most planets. The planets themselves did not disappear, but almost all of them, and almost simultaneously, turned out to be in the direction of the Sun, which means that they were above the horizon only during the day — they rose with the Sun, and set with the Sun. Someone even called this coincidence a parade of planets. But if this is the parade that we deserve, then there is absolutely nothing to be happy about.

At the end of May, Saturn began to timidly appear in the morning sky, and by the beginning of summer Mars will join it, and then we will see the sequential appearance of most of the planets, and only Mercury will introduce some confusion into this measured planetary procession, although this is only at first glance .

Mercury

It is the fastest of the planets. Mercury’s orbital speed noticeably exceeds the speed of all planets in the Solar System and reaches 56 kilometers per second (although on average it is about 48 km/sec). But our point of view, firmly connected to the planet Earth, shows us Mercury fussily describing loops around the Sun, not moving further than 27 degrees from it. Therefore, Mercury makes a circle around the ecliptic in about a year, just like the Sun, and in this sense, its enormous speed does not give it any special advantages. But for observers, such restlessness of the planet closest to the Sun brings nothing but inconvenience. Because the visibility conditions of Mercury sometimes change extremely rapidly.

Mercury passed its greatest western elongation (greatest angular distance from the Sun to the west) on May 10, 2024, but ended up deep below the ecliptic. These were excellent conditions for its morning visibility, but in the southern hemisphere of planet Earth. In the north, where we live, Mercury was practically invisible and appeared above the horizon synchronously with the Sun. It could be observed through optics, but that’s all. With each subsequent morning, Mercury only got closer to the Sun and by the beginning of summer the elongation was reduced to 15 degrees. On June 14, Mercury passed behind the Sun (astronomers call this configuration a “superior conjunction”), and then began to move away from the Sun to the east, as if hinting that some time later it might appear in the evening sky after sunset.

This will be the case somewhere in tropical and equatorial latitudes — at the end of June Mercury will indeed be quite visible in the evenings, but not in the middle northern latitudes. Having reached its greatest eastern elongation on July 21, it will set behind the horizon while still in civil twilight. Only very experienced observers, and those who are armed with at least the lightest optics, and who know exactly where to look, will be able to see Mercury with their eyes in the northern latitudes in the evening.

There is no reason for frustration here — Mercury is the most elusive and difficult to observe planet, precisely because of its constant proximity to the Sun. And on top of that, evening visibility of any planets in the summer is difficult. However, shortly after its maximum eastern elongation (27 degrees), Mercury begins do the loop around the Sun. On August 4, the planet passes its stationary point and rushes towards the Sun in retrograde motion, and on August 18 it enters into an inferior conjunction with it (passes between the Earth and the Sun) to soon move away from it to the west. On September 4 — at the end of summer — Mercury reaches its maximum western elongation (only 18 degrees), and its declination turns out to be noticeably higher than the solar one, and therefore it can be visible in the morning — about an hour before sunrise.

Mercury will be quite bright — about zero magnitude, and by the time when the stars of middle brightness begins to fade, it will already be at an altitude of 10 degrees, which is enough to easily notice it with the eye in the constellation Leo.

Convenient marks for searching for Mercury will be the bright stars Castor and Polux in Gemini (they will be above and to the right of Mercury) and Sirius — Alpha Canis Major, which will be at the same altitude as the planet, but slightly brighter. The described situation relates to the early mornings of the first ten days of September, and it is on September 1 that the thin crescent of the old Moon will be clearly visible just above Mercury. Mercury can be observed in mid-northern latitudes until the middle of the month.

Venus

At the beginning of summer, Venus hides behind the Sun. It passes superior conjunction on June 4, and very slowly begins to overtake the Sun , moving along the ecliptic. According to the logic of the planet’s movement, we can conclude that since the planet is moving away from the Sun to the east, in the foreseeable future it should appear in the light of the evening dawn. But in the summer this does not seem possible for it, at least from the point of view of an observer in the northern hemisphere, because for him in the summer the evening planets are visible unsatisfactorily, and Venus strives to become just that. In addition, the speed of the angular removal of Venus from the Sun is very small.

By mid-summer, the angular distance of Venus from the Sun increases to 11 degrees, and this would be enough for the beginning of its evening visibility, but the problem is that Venus moves along the descending part of the ecliptic, falling down the declination ahead of the sun, which is why it sets below the horizon at the very beginning of twilight. And only at the very end of August Venus begins to timidly appear for a few minutes above the point of the west shortly after sunset.

In fact, in the future we will have very good evening visibility of Venus, but the circumstances of its visibility will begin to change only with the onset of Winter, when the Sun sinks to the bottom of the Ecliptic and Venus begins to lift. Until November, Venus will only be visible for a few minutes on the horizon. In November, visibility will become more confident, and from December Venus will appear as an evening star of amazing beauty and literally dazzling brightness. But not this summer. In summer, Venus is actually invisible.

Mars

The red planet passed superior conjunction with the Sun on November 18, 2023, and since then — for more than six months — it has been lagging behind it, gradually moving away to the west. But the visibility of the planet was in no hurry to begin, because after winter, when Mars was finally able to move away from the Sun at a sufficient distance, spring came, and in the spring the morning planets are visible so-so, or even not at all. Only since the beginning of summer we will get a chance to see Mars at the edge of dawn. But the brightness of the planet is still small — by the beginning of June it will be 1m — you can watch it as a star of the first magnitude at dawn, but you need to know exactly where to look. On the morning of June 3, the Moon, located just one and a half degrees from the red planet in the constellation Pisces, will help you see Mars.

But with each subsequent morning, the visibility conditions of Mars will only improve, because it continues to lag behind the Sun, rises north along the ecliptic, and the distance between Mars and Earth is reduced. On June 11, Mars moves into the constellation Aries, and the duration of its visibility steadily increases. Throughout June, the two brightest stars of Aries, Gamal and Sherotan, shine above it. Looking at this trinity morning by morning, you can see how the position of Mars is changing, and changing quite quickly.

On July 12, Mars moves into the constellation Taurus, where Uranus and Jupiter await it. True, the conditions for the visibility of Uranus have not yet fully developed — Uranus is quite dim, it rises to a sufficient height only when the sky is already brightening. But Jupiter is already clearly visible in mid-July.

The Mars-Uranus conjunction occurs on July 15/16 — Mars passes just half a degree south of Uranus, and this is a great chance to see both planets in the same field of view of a telescope or binoculars. What could be better than waking up on a summer morning before dawn and seeing several planets in the sky at once, and two of them very close to each other?!

A small magnification of around 50x is most appropriate. It will already allow you to notice that Uranus is not just a point, but a small distant greenish pea. Mars will not differ much in size — it is also very far from us in these summer months, but plus Mars is many times smaller than Uranus in its linear dimensions — 7 thousand kilometers versus 50 thousand kilometers. The angular sizes of the planets will be equal to 5.5" and 4" arcseconds, respectively — not to say that one is very different from the other, because Mars will be approximately the same number of times closer to us than Uranus, how many times it is smaller. ..with not a very large error. It will not be possible to discern any details on the surface (or in the atmosphere) of either planet with amateur telescopes.

In the last days of July, Mars will pass between the open star clusters of the Pleiades and Hyades. The most significant dates are the morning of July 27 and the morning of July 28. This will be a very beautiful arrangement of luminaries, among which will be a very bright and noticeable Jupiter.

The planets will be located exactly above the east point in the early morning hours. The brightness of Mars will already noticeably exceed Aldebaran, which is similar in color. And Jupiter will be several times brighter than both luminaries.

On August 14 and 15, in the morning hours, Mars will be close to Jupiter, so close that for the eye both luminaries can merge into one — even brighter.

This, perhaps, will be the main gift from heaven on the topic of summer visibility of planets. The conjunction of Mars and Jupiter will indeed be very spectacular — both for the naked eye, and in lite optics (scope and binoculars) and in telescopes. This can be easily photographed on almost any mobile phone that has a camera. Remember these dates: August 14 and 15, 2024. After them, Mars and Jupiter will separate for a long time.

In a telescope at low magnification, both planets and the Galilean moons of Jupiter will be visible in the same field of view. The minimum distance between Mars and Jupiter will be only 20 arc minutes — this is one and a half times less than the disk of the full Moon.

On the morning of August 27 and 28, the crescent moon will pass by both planets. By that time, almost the entire complex of Winter constellations will become available for long-time visibility — the sector of the sky richest in bright stars, including such constellations as Orion, Taurus, Gemini and Auriga. Mars and Jupiter will also add their radiance to this sparkling stellar abundance.

On September 6, Mars moves into the constellation Gemini, and its visibility from morning and pre-dawn will extend to most part of the night. In early September, Mars already rises before midnight and is visible most of the night, rising to the highest point in the sky accessible to luminaries moving strictly along the ecliptic. Some may think that Mars meets the dawn right at its zenith, but in fact its height above the horizon before sunrise will be equal to the height of the sun on the longest day of the year. The brightness of Mars gradually increases, tending to zero magnitude, and at the junction of summer and autumn it shines like one of the brightest stars in the sky, although, of course, it is not a star, and its light is calm, even, and non-flickering.

Mars will remain in the constellation Gemini until the end of October. In the longer term, we will see an opposition between Mars and the Sun — usual this time, not the Great. It will happen next year — January 16th.

Jupiter

We have already been able to talk about this planet in the context of describing the visibility conditions of Mars. Both planets will spend most of the summer together — in the same constellation of Taurus, or in neighboring constellations. The visibility conditions of Jupiter will be similar to the visibility conditions of Mars, with the only difference that its morning visibility will not begin on the first day of summer, but at best in mid-June, but most likely closer to the end of the first summer month. But then — thanks to its significant brightness, this planet will be the first to attract attention before dawn, and it will no longer be difficult to notice it.

The speed of Jupiter’s apparent movement is very low. Where Mars and Venus manage to cross three constellations, Jupiter will not cross even one. That’s why Jupiter is in Taurus all summer. In the first half of summer, it is visible exactly above Aldebaran and the Hyades open star cluster — it looks very beautiful there. But by the beginning of August, Jupiter is already moving away from its former stellar surroundings, but still very successfully complements the figure of the Celestial Bull.

On the morning of July 31, the crescent of the aging Moon will pass over Jupiter, Aldebaran and the Hyades. It will be an amazing sight.

In the same constellation, Jupiter will encounter opposition — it will happen on December 8, 2024.

Saturn

The first planet to open the spring-summer season of planetary visibility this year is Saturn. Morning visibility of Saturn began in mid-May. But to say that Saturn was convenient to observe would be wrong. The shortening duration of the night reduced the already insignificant visibility of Saturn — it was as if he was trying to escape from the dawn, but the dawn overtook him again. Although by the beginning of calendar summer, the duration of visibility of this ringed planet was already about one hour.

On the morning of May 31 and June 1, near Saturn — in the constellation Aquarius, under favorable circumstances you can see the waning Moon, but very low above the horizon.

The meeting of Saturn and the Moon, but in more favorable circumstances, will be repeated on the morning of June 27 and 28. And at this time the duration of visibility of the planet will reach two, two and a half hours. These are quite good visibility conditions, coupled with a sufficient height above the horizon — up to 20 degrees.

A very nice rendezvous between the Moon and Saturn will take place on the night of July 24–25, when the Moon will pass 1/4 degree south of Saturn, narrowly missing it. Of course, all approaches of the Moon and planets are illusory, because the Moon is always close to us, and planets are always hundreds and thousands of times farther from us — they cannot collide in the sky. But such meetings look very beautiful.

In addition, virtually all summer, Saturn is located near the rather beautiful “Frog’s Leg” asterism formed by the trio of stars ψ1, ψ2, ψ3 Aquarii, ϕ Aquarii and the irregular variable star χ Aquarii. The stars of this asterism are not bright, but if you observe the surroundings of the planet Saturn through binoculars, then these stars will keep Saturn in very good company throughout the entire calendar summer.

Since the beginning of July, Saturn has been moving backwards through the constellation Aquarius, that is, in the direction opposite to the movement of the Sun and Moon. The Sun and Moon always move in the same direction when projected onto the star chart, and do not describe loops. The planets regularly describe loops — these quirks in their movement are associated with the parallactic effect. The planets themselves also do not change the direction of movement in their orbits, but we look at them from the moving Earth, and when the Earth overtakes a planet, or a planet overtakes us, it seems to us that the planet is making a loop. If someone could look at the movement of the Earth from the surface of that planet at that time, it would also most likely seem strange to an alien observer.

In August there will be another meeting of Saturn and the Moon — on the night of the 20th to 21st. The Moon will be close to full phase, meaning that very soon the Saturn opposition on September 8th, and the couple of months around that date will be the best time to see the ringed planet.

By the way, about rings. Their opening will be small. It happens that the width of the opening of the rings covers the entire Saturn — it is as if it is surrounded by its rings on all sides. But not at this time. Things are moving towards the disappearance of the rings — not physical, but optical. This happens when Saturn’s rings turn edge-on towards us and become almost invisible. This has not happened yet, but will happen quite soon — in March 2025. Therefore, even now the rings of Saturn seem very thin, and can be difficult to discern in weak telescopes.

Until the rings disappear, Saturn will not leave the constellation Aquarius. This planet is so slow. If Jupiter takes an average of 1 year to pass through one constellation, then Saturn needs two and a half times more time for the same movement across the celestial sphere.

Uranus

We already flew past the planet discovered by William Herschel in 1781, quite by accident, in this review — when we talked about Mars. Indeed, Uranus ended up on the Martian path at the westernmost border of the constellation Taurus. In the summer of 2024, three planets will spend some time in this constellation at the same time. But, if Mars ended up here for a couple of months, Jupiter — for a little over a year, then Uranus is specifically stuck here — it will finally leave the constellation Taurus only in 2033.

But there is no reason to be sad about it. Taurus is a very favorable constellation for observing Uranus. Because it is located near the northern peak of the Ecliptic (the point of the summer solstice is actually located here). And when the Sun leaves Taurus, the planets and stars located here soon begin to be visible very high above the horizon, and for quite a long time. This is exactly what Uranus expects this year (albeit towards the end of summer).

I now remember the times when I just came to astronomy — 1980. Uranus and Neptune, the two most distant and slowest planets in the Solar System, were located at the very bottom of the ecliptic — in the constellations Ophiuchus and Libra. It was almost impossible to observe them in the middle northern latitudes, because their brightness is very weak, and their low position near the horizon only significantly reduced their brightness. And I thought — when will these planets finally turn out to be a little higher. It seemed to me then that almost never. But only 40-odd years have passed, and look, Uranus is in the highest zodiac constellation — in Taurus. True, on its western border. But, you see, this is a completely different matter than if it were in Sagittarius or Capricornus.

The morning visibility of Uranus begins as soon as the constellation Taurus appears in the pre-dawn hour at the eastern point. This has been around mid-July. It is useless to search for Uranus earlier. In addition, it is completely useless to look for it with the eye. You need optics, and skill with optics — you can’t just pick up binoculars in your hands, pointing them towards the stars, look there, and exclaim: “Uranus, I see you!”

You won’t see anything like that. Any optics must be mounted on a tripod, and you need to know well in what place, between which stars the planet Uranus is located on this day.

In brightness, Uranus corresponds to the faintest stars visible to the eye far from city lights. I saw him in Crimea — just with my eyes. But before that, I still found it through binoculars. And the darkness of the mountain night at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory is a unique condition in itself. I don’t think that my readers now have many chances to find themselves in such unique conditions. But almost everyone has a chance to see Uranus this summer.

First of all, miracles happen. This is the conjunction of Mars and Uranus on the morning of July 15 and 16. You will easily see Mars, and just half a degree higher (to the north) you will easily see Uranus.

The second amazing miracle is that all summer, all autumn (and almost the entire year — this and even the next) Uranus is located under the Pleiades — only 4–5 degrees south of this star cluster. And in binoculars with a wide field of view, the Pleiades and Uranus can be located together.

The conjunction of Uranus with the Moon and the Pleiades on August 26 can be considered quite attractive.

Neptune

This planet is even more distant from Earth, even slower, and is now considered the last large planet in the solar system. Neptune completes one revolution in its orbit every 165 years, and since its discovery by Johann Galle and Heinrich d’Arret in 1846, Neptune has only completed one revolution, completing the circle only in 2011. Neptune is fundamentally invisible to the eye — its magnitude is only 8m. You won’t notice this either in the mountains, or from the ISS, or from the far side of the Moon. But using a telescope or strong binoculars is quite possible. And it will require even more observational experience than in the case of Uranus. And no favorable circumstances — such as the moon passing by or some noticeable star or planet — will help you this summer.

The beginning of the season will find Neptune in the constellation Pisces, near the border with the constellation Aquarius, from where it relatively recently emerged. To some extent, the visibility conditions of Neptune will be comparable to the visibility conditions of Saturn, which is located 10 degrees along the ecliptic to the west all summer. But Saturn is bright, and Neptune is very dim and requires a completely dark sky, and this will only come to us in August. Therefore, there is no point in starting the search for this distant planet before the last summer month.

But in August and September, Neptune’s visibility conditions are simply excellent. The planet moves extremely slowly just south and east of the famous Western Pisces asterism, and can be found quite easily using search maps. Below I leave just such a map, which shows the position of Neptune on August 1 and September 1. But we can safely assume that over the course of a whole month, the apparent position of this leisurely planet will remain practically unchanged.

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fountainpenguin · 1 year ago

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"And I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem... but if I know you, I know what you'll do..." (x)

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New Dog's Life chapter today! ~ 3rd Life series fan-season

Chapter 29 - “Melt (Jimmy, Pearl, Sniff)”

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Jimmy's NOT about to lose this game. He takes the slimes' turf war banner where no one will ever find it... outside New Star Station's perimeter. Meanwhile, Pearl and Rhetoric visit Mumbo's flat to borrow his llamas. Scar and SnifferMyFeet unwind after a long evening of glitchy code.

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They'll never find him. Never, ever, in a billion years. Jimmy muffles his giggles in the crook of his sleeve, snuggling up in the sky blue wrinkles of his jacket. Overworld's sky, anyway. Voices echo outside the cave, half drowned in the noise of the moat from up the hill…

This is fun. Everyone's looking for him. They think they'll catch him - think he'll make a mistake - but they're not going to win. Nah, not him. It's like playing Decked Out all over again, except this time he's without Tango or Etho shouting encouragement in his ears. Jimmy wedges his shoulders back against the bedrock blocks, keeping every breath slow and even. His fingers curl more tightly around the banner in his hand. It's blue and green, marking slime territory. It's not a real rule about borders and where different species can go. Everyone's just having fun. It's a game. It's a point system. It's currency. It's play.

And I'm winning. He's staying alive. He's not getting caught; he's not the first one out. He hunkers in his long-legged ball of limbs, fluttering his wings, and listens with a tight-lipped smirk to the people walking around outside.

"Do you think he's hiding in Tango's room?"

"They'll be exes by morning, then. Can you imagine walking in on your blaze boyfriend with a slime border flag? What do you do- Thump it in front of the toilet so he can't use it this month? 'Babe, c'mon! Don't be like that!'"

Uproarious laughter. Jimmy breathes softly in his sleeves, smiling only to himself. It's not his place right now to correct them on the whole "boyfriend" thing. See, they'd catch him then. That's how he'd lose the game. He stays on the other side of the bedrock wall, rolling his thumb across the banner wool.

"Maybe they had a fight," chimes in a third voice. "Maybe Jimmy wants to bother Tango. Maybe he's breaking up with him."

"Didn't see him with a token tonight."

"I don't think he's seeing anyone."

New voice: "Yeah, he- I guess he thinks he'll be waking up betrothed any day now. Urges must be getting pretty serious. Not sure why he bothers, though. The chances his partner's in New Star must be astronomical."

"Didn't he use to date the mayor?"

Jimmy's fingers twitch. He doesn't open his eyes. Doesn't answer. He is winning this game, no matter what they say about him. It's the most important thing in the world. Everything pulsing in him is screaming for it. To burrow. To win. To stand up and fight, though he's trying to keep that urge tamped down.

"I think ZombieCleo's dating him now."

"Yeah, what happened to his ex? Wasn't he married to a bat girl?"

"I think so- I heard they divorced." The voices start moving away, heading farther along the border road. Someone kicks a rock. It bounces, smacking, and the last speaker lifts their voice again. "Say he is in Tango's room. Does that mean we own the turf all the way out here?"

"If it does, he's wrecked the borders. It's going to be a pain to manage a huge spike in the path."

The words fade out. Jimmy loosens his grip on his limbs, breathing deeper breaths. His foot comes down with a thump, heel pressed tight to bedrock. He unfolds his wings. The banner's soft and squishy in his hand. He gets off the block he's been sitting on and starts to stretch. It's dark in the cave, even with his brightness settings turned all the way up. But…

… It doesn't look so dangerous. Scott always made it sound, well… like this place was a death pit crawling with mobs. Jimmy turns his head, gazing farther up the path. He's definitely win the turf war if he took the slime flag all the way up there. The other slime hybrids are fussy tonight, but they'll appreciate this when everything is said and done. War isn't about who's right, but about who's left, isn't it? And there aren't any mobs. Jimmy pulls his britches up a little higher for the show of it, sticking his thumbs in the waistband. He's got the belt, though he could really use a cowboy hat and some boots with spurs. It's too bad Ranger's off the clock tonight. It'd be fun to get a little recording done.

Every step he takes up the bedrock path sends a shower of bedrock down behind him. It isn't steep, though sometimes it's easier to grip the walls and pull himself along that way. Luckily he has wings. His aren't too big. The tunnel's narrow, but flapping them helps him keep his balance. He wrinkles his nose, crumpled fingers pinching, and moves step by step up the path. At one point his foot skids. His hand scrapes the wall- he nearly lands on his wings. Jimmy hisses. He adjusts himself, bracing his palm against his knee, and starts moving again. And you know why?

"I'm not going out first. I have to do this. They're never going to find me now."

The cave doesn't smell damp or moldy. It's quite dry, actually. Almost unnaturally so. No dripstone. Jimmy listens for throaty witch cackles, ravager grunts, or passing wardens. None echo back at him. Maybe they're not real. Only the whirr of the bullet path. It hums and crackles with snapping white energy. Leaping. Guzzling. I didn't know the bullet path reached all the way out here. Is this a different one?

It only takes a minute or two of walking before he's at the top of the bedrock path. The ceiling's not as high as he'd like it to be, but it's high enough. The cave glows. The bullet path gushes, spraying data stream particles in the air, and rubs against its banks. There are no rocks in its center. Nothing but pure, empty energy. Jimmy takes every step with smothered breaths, dangling the slime flag from his hand.

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darkmaga-returns · 7 months ago

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Incoming border tzar and former director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tom Homan will lead the “zero tolerance” efforts for illegal migration. Legal immigrants are safe, despite the media’s claims. When asked if it were possible to carry out deportation efforts without separating families, Homan replied: “Of course there is. Families can be deported together.”

Immigrant advocacy group, the American Immigration Council believes it will cost $968 billion to deport 13 million immigrants over the next decade. Well, remember when Trump asked for a significantly smaller sum to build a wall and secure the border? The cost of permitting migrants to stay is astronomical as US citizens are currently paying for tens of millions of people to live taxpayer-subsidized lives, and the Democrats had no plans for those free checks to cease.

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Trump will invoke the 1789 statute called the Alien Enemies Act to rid the nation of all noncitizen gang members and criminals. Homan said that efforts will begin by cracking down on forced labor and sex trafficking. “Where do we find most victims of sex trafficking and forced labor trafficking? At worksites,” Homan said. Is Homan a hardliner? Yes. Will he get the job done? I believe so.

Homan has told Democrats attempting to stop mass deportation efforts to “get the hell out of the way.” They created this crisis and are responsible for what ensues. “If they’re not willing to help, then get the hell out of the way because [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] is going to do their job,” Homan, who was acting ICE director during the first Trump administration, told Fox News.

The efforts will be targeted and deliberate. There will not be a mass sweep of neighborhoods or raids. The claims of detention camps are fake news. Homan said the extent of the initial deportation efforts depends on funding.

“As a guy who spent 34 years deporting illegal aliens, I got a message to the millions of illegal aliens that Joe Biden’s released in our country in violation of federal law: you better start packing now – you’re damn right – because you’re going home,” Homan told a crowd. “When President Trump gets back in office, he’s going to designate you a terrorist organization. He’s going to wipe you off the face of the earth. You’re done.” There have already been reports of migrant caravans en route to America turning around because they know they are no longer welcome here. The border is closing in January.

As we saw in Italy, where Meloni needed the cooperation of African nations, Trump will need the cooperation of foreign leaders to prevent the inflow of migrants. Other nations must be willing to take back their citizens who falsely claimed asylum.

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talenlee · 7 months ago

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Naming Rights in Transformers

There are a lot of Transformers. There are so many Transformers that to make this list I limited myself in three major ways for this article and even then it still took me twenty minutes to just read through a list of the actual Transformers by name. When you have a demand to make a lot of Transformers, you have a lot of lot of demand for the things that make up those Transformers. That means colour schemes (you can generate these in bulk, these days), moulds (that get reused), background lore (which is bordering on the nearest thing to pre-LLM generative text), and names.

Names are hard.

Names are really hard when you have to generate hundreds of them, within the same genre, and without overlapping directly with one another. If you have a character called Sunstrike you probably don’t get the name Sunstreak and then Sunstreaker without a good reason, or unless you know you’re going deep in the well.

What’s more, with the long history of Transformers, see, italicising that one because it’s talking about the franchise not any individual toy, what a weird thing, anyway, there are some names that have been used and reused because (in my opinion) they’re pretty good, and there are also a lot of names that are uhm, bad.

Wanna see some?

Now, to make this list of good names and bad names, I set some rules. First of all, just to give myself a manageable number of characters to consider, I limited myself to the category we call Gen 1. That has some oddballs — like, Rung is a G1 character whose first appearance was in 2010 — but it’s still a first net to catch things in. Second, I avoided all the names that never appeared in English. Uncle Robo is a funny name, but it’s a name from Japanese series, and complaining about people who aren’t primarily speaking English using English in ways that are funny to us feels like both low hanging fruit and also kinda assholey. Third, I limited myself to actual Transformers, not aliens or humans or other, and fourth, to get on the list here they had to have a toy.

Good with that? Okay here we go, presented in a random order because who could rank these.

Heave

A name has to carry with it some element of what the character is and how the character behaves. You want the name to be an association and resonance with the character’s behaviour and mindset, which means it should be a word that, say, that character might use. In this case, Heave is a name that’s great for say, a heavy lifting hard brawling straightforward plain thinking kinda brute who perhaps you could imply drinks until he vomits, even if that’s not possible for Transformers.

Heave is an astronomer, he’s shy, and he’s easily bullied by other people because he’s never prepared for battles. Also, his name sounds like throwing up.

Nosecone

A nosecone is a specific thing, in the real world. It’s the tip of an aerodynamic design, usually a rocket. Planes also have nosecones, and so do bullets. Nosecone as a character is a mega nerd, a member of the Technobots, who deliberately takes his time thinking through every possibility, every little detail he can in the context of a plan or design. Despite being named after the fastest point on the fastest objects, Nosecone is notably deliberate in his actions.

Nosecone turns into a drill.

Hubs

This is one of those corner cases because Hubs isn’t an inherently bad name per se. Hub isn’t either — like I can see a character called Hub whose whole thing is being a communication network. But no, Hubs is a muscle car and he turns into a muscle car that’s meant to make sure he comes across as both young and energetic. To represent that, he’s named after maybe hubcaps, abbreviated?

It’s a rough name choice because it feels incomplete, especially when there’s another Transformer called Hubcap.

Flattop

This one sucks because Flattop is an incredibly cool toy. Flattop turns into a little jet, and he comes with a little aircraft carrier he can land on. That’s rad as hell. Then when you transform Flattop into a little dude, Flattop’s transport turns into a bigger plane that he can sit in and fly around, and that’s cool.

Thing is, a flattop is a haircut. It’s a haircut that sucks and makes you look like, at best, TV-series era Drew Carey and at worst, a Dick Tracey villain. And further irritating this name, Flattop is the name that should clearly belong to the transport not the actual jet!

Detectas

Alright, this is a bit of a niche pick, because Detectas’ name is originally a Japanese name. It’s completely reasonable that a Japanese speaker might pick this name without knowing it sounds silly to just take ‘word’-us and make that into a character’s identity. Especially because in the context of English, ‘detectas’ makes it sound like you detect, not that you avoid being detected.

But this is the name the character has in English as well, thanks to Ask Vector Prime and supplementary material, which I think makes this a valid name under my protocols.

Six-Gun

Six gun has Six Guns. He is made up of six guns, stuck together, that come from another Transformer. To get a Six-Gun you had to buy the 1986 Metroplex toy, which, complete to guarantee you have all of Six-Gun’s parts, will set you back a cool $750ish not counting shipping.

Six Guns is a subordinate mind for Metroplex – he’s basically a kind of micro-version of Metroplex, except as someone who imagines a way to approach the world as a thing you point guns at. Six-Gun is a marginal name here in that I think the name is too obvious to be good, but also the character it paints is much more of a cowboy kinda dude, and not… well, a guy made up of six guns.

Wide Load

There are a few names that are two-parters like this, with a space between them and a bunch of them are fun examples of names that while not good are definitely funny. For example, Grand Slam (can I buy pancakes off you), Sky High (can I buy weed off you), and Big Daddy (can you buy me weed and pancakes)?

But Wide Load is a dump truck who — yeah that kinda machinery has to wear signs saying ‘Wide Load.’ But Wide Load is also a term that’s used, overwhelmingly, to just insult fat people.

Maybe when society has moved on, we can have our fat king Wide Load. I just… wouldn’t do it. And the toy has a real ‘first idea’ design.

Powerglide

I’ve spoken about Powerglide in the past, and yep, that’s a name. It sounds like a lubricant. Oh well moving on. It’s not like these names are going to typically be wet sounding.

Gusher

Oh come on. Alright, dude’s name is Gusher. He transforms into a backhoe truck. No, not a tanker, that’s his friend Pipeline, the Tanker. They combine together as a Tanker-Backhoe, you know that kind of vehicle that definitely exists and people have seen all over the place.

Gusher feels like a character created five minutes before knock-off time. None of what’s here makes sense, the name was probably picked out of a list of ‘related’ words and then the personality of a debate bro were pasted together from those parts.

Mixmaster

Mixmaster is one of the Constructicons, and I’ve written about them in the past. A self-styled genius, Mixmaster’s name is notable for being both out of type for most of the Constructicons, but also makes it sound like the main thing about this character is that he works bar.

There are niche names too, where okay, this is kinda silly but in the greater context it has something that makes it work, names like Squeezeplay, Pincher, Sledge, Erector, Brunt, Missile Master, or Ground Hog. None of these are in my opinion good names, but the thing about them that makes them funny is something that also makes sense from a different perspective, like how an erector is a well-used term for a type of crane elsewhere, and a squeeze play is a thing talked about in American football. These are names that have some odd applications.

Originally when I started this article I had the plan to present a list of ten really great, iconic names that hold up over time and then contrast that with ten of the worst. This quickly became cumbersome, not just because it was a list of twenty things, but also, the ‘good’ names that have endured are sometimes pretty deeply obvious. Megatron, Optimus Prime, Jazz, Grimlock, Swindle, Starscream, Soundwave, Bumblebee, and that’s eight to start with. There are a bunch of great names already in play and some of them aren’t even being reused — nobody’s going to wear names like Vortex or Cosmos or Brawl better than the originals just because those names carry their vibes really well. I’m always going to love Beachcomber and Blades, too, those names that stand out to me as carrying their character perfectly.

The alternative, the well of wow, that’s embarrrassing? It’s kinda bottomless.

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