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eretzyisrael · 2 years
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Good News From Israel
In the 13th Nov 22 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
Israeli nitric oxide device helps hospitalized Covid-19 patients recover.
Israeli surgeons repaired the heart of a Syrian baby flown in from Cyprus.
Huge number of Israeli climate-tech and food-tech innovations.
Record number of tourists return to Israel.
Israeli technology powers UK retail giant’s autonomous stores.
Israeli runner is NYC Marathon runner-up.
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In the Book of Ecclesiastes, it states that there is nothing new under the sun. While that may be strictly true, Israeli innovations are certainly making good use of the sunshine to generate pollution-free energy and grow food to feed a hungry world.
This week's positive Israel news includes using solar energy to produce hydrogen from water, generate water out of the atmosphere, power buildings using solar paint, and create zero-emissions Israeli factories. Israelis are designing solar power plants on the Moon, installing solar panels in farms, and creating solar water heaters that operate in cold climates. Israelis are using the sun's rays to grow micro-algae, create natural sugar substitutes, and boost crop yields. They even allow impoverished Lebanese farmers to harvest Israeli olives. To maintain clear skies, Israeli technology reduces the fuel used by ships, creates "green" ink for printed circuits, cuts methane emissions from cattle, grows coral reefs, and converts CO2 into minerals for the glass industry.  It is therefore not surprising that the improved environment has attracted more rare, endangered species to the Israeli coast.
The photo (TY Sharon) is of olives ripening under the Jerusalem sun.
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heyitssashag · 1 year
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Is it weird that I’m trying to plan out when is the absolute earliest I could possibly start training for a marathon? Yeah, I thought so. The earliest would be the end of August, by the way. lol. At this point in time, I don’t know if the surgery has done much so I’m probably jumping the gun a little. Maybe I could train for a half. lol.
I was looking at some old pictures of hiking up the Grouse Grind. I’d go up sometimes twice in row (yes, on the same day /humblebrag). If you haven’t heard of the Grouse Grind it’s a 2.5 km hike up the face of Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver. Elevation gain is 2,624 feet (800 metres). You’re only allowed to hike up. You either need to take the gondola or another trail (BCMC) back down.
Beginning of the Grouse Grind Trail
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I remember way back in the day, if you hiked up, you got a free ride down. Now it’s $20. lol. (It’s $75 for both up and down ticket which includes the mountaintop activities like the scenic chairlift). Anyway, it’s a big tourist destination both in the summer and winter (for skiing). It’s the closest mountain to downtown Vancouver. There’s some fun stuff to do at the top of the mountain (ie lumberjack show, birds show). My favourite is to say hello to Grinder & Coola (the 2 resident grizzly bears) or ride the chairlift and go up the Eye of the Wind (a massive wind turbine). At the top of Grouse, you can hike into the back country: Dam, Little Goat and Goat Mountain. Goat is challenging and you’ll need to use provided ropes and chains to summit but it’s a great view.
I’d also hike from Lynn Canyon to Grouse Mountain (along the Baden Powell Trail). Lynn Canyon also has a suspension bridge which is fun (and free) to walk across. Lots of trails and hikes around there - most are easy to moderate. You can also go swim at the 30 ft pool.
There’s a little nature centre which is great for the kids. I had one of the best cups of coffee at the cafe at Lynn Canyon. (Although, it’s been a few years so I’m not sure if it’s still just as good. lol.)
We have another “touristy” attraction called the Capilano Suspension Bridge (very close to Grouse Mountain) but it’s around $70 for entry into the park. Lots of scenic areas (but there’s no hiking).
Old photo of Ella crossing the Cap Suspension Bridge.
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Anyway, those are just a few areas of North Vancouver that I used to hang out at. I was trying to calculate if I could make a day trip out there and do the Grouse Grind. lol. The average person takes a little over 2 hours or so to hike it. Back in the day, I could do it in about an hour. I definitely need to be stronger and more healthier to be able to hike that, again. *sigh* Not sure if this is wishful thinking or something to work towards. I guess I’ll soon find out over the next few months.
I started back on the Ibrance, today. I was supposed to have started it last Tuesday but I wanted to make sure I was healed up a bit more. These cancer meds do a number on your immune system. I just realized it’s been 3 weeks since I’ve taken it, though. I don’t want to push it any longer. Next week I have a bone scan. I don’t have an MRI until August but I’m okay with that. It can take a while for the new hardware to settle in. I don’t want them to heat up while I’m in the machine. That happened a few years ago when I had the original hardware put in my neck. It was horrific - I could barely breathe. I had to abandon the test.
This morning I chatted with my participant with the health coaching program and helped with their action plan. This afternoon I have groceries delivered. I’m hoping once the kid gets home from school, they can take me for a walk to the cafe.
My hives are gone but it feels like parts of my face are flushed and super hot. That happens sometimes but it’s really annoying so I’m going to put a cold cloth on my face now.
Here’s some other old photos around Capilano & Grouse.
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runcoachmike · 7 months
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Great to join #RVRR running club for the breast cancer awareness month run! A bit on the warm side, but got it done! 🏃‍♂️🏃🏃‍♂️🏃😎👍
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capnpen · 2 years
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Quick Thought – Friday, July 29, 2022: Cheering from the Stands
Quick Thought – Friday, July 29, 2022: Cheering from the Stands
Read Hebrews 12:1-19 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us… Hebrews 12:1 Reflect The track and field events at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo will start tomorrow, and it brings to mind the time I was able to attend a session at the 1996…
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afreakingdork · 2 months
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Weak Spot - Chapter 64
RotTMNT Donatello x Reader
EDIT 4/30/24 DUE TO A HATEFUL REMARKS THIS CHAPTER ART HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY REMOVED
Warnings: Aged-up Turtles, Romance, Meet Cute, Villain Donatello, Cussing, Crushes, Xenophobia, Fear, Intimidation, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Hurt/Comfort, Love, AFAB Reader, Vaginal Sex, Sex Rough, Sex, Penis In Vagina Sex, Creampie, Teasing, Scent Kink, Sexual Tension, Breeding Kink, Multiple Orgasms, Cunnilingus, Fellatio, Marathon Sex, Somnophilia, Bondage, Feral Behavior, Feral Donatello, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Public Sex, Dom Donnie, Human/Turtle Relationships, Turtle Noises, Roleplay, Sexual Roleplay
Synopsis:  A love story of villainous proportions! Though it hadn’t come easily, as these things rarely do, you found yourself in a whirlwind romance with a handsome and mysterious mutant. His idiosyncrasies had been easy to ignore as attraction grew into something more. However, will love endure when the unknowns about him end up being far darker than you ever considered?
I’m dedicating this chapter to Drakkensdatter who gave me quite the insight which I got to employ here! I hope you like it!
Fem!Reader References/Warnings Below Cut
Also available on Ao3
First 💜 Previous
LAST WARNING FOR THE 🍋 UNDER THE CUT. MINORS DNI!
Fem!Reader References/Warnings: slit, cunt, vagina, clit, pregnancy thoughts to the millionth degree in every dang version you can think of, breast, boob, cervix, womb, uterus, tubes, eggs, what can I say you finally get peed on, and reader gets called mother (joking) then for real?
The beginning of July found you making sandwiches. Almost a week had passed since the Hamatos’ had finally departed and you and Donnie were still devouring time together. Nearly inseparable, there wasn’t much left before you returned to work the next day. A little overdue, but something you imagined couldn’t have been helped since there was no way you could have left Donnie alone with the other turtles, you had a meeting scheduled with the higher ups.
You’d already fielded both Donnie and S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. from interfering.
You knew what was going to happen. It was the same thing that happened to Tami when she was diagnosed with cancer. She was demoted to an ancillary position where her repeated absences wouldn’t hurt the company workload. She could keep her health insurance in full. She’d just have to take a pay cut. All things you were ready to account for and only minorly irritated as you had been on the road to a nice increase before your many ‘illnesses,’ you’d resigned yourself.
You could only hope this would stop happening and you’d be returned to your regular position in no time.
Grabbing toast, you maneuvered around your boyfriend where he was comically bent at the hips. It was a prime watching position where his arms were folded on the counter and his head was tucked down in them. You jostled him affectionately with a little bump as you laid out two plates. “Still marveling at my sandwich skills?”
He lifted his mouth from his sleeve only long enough to speak. “None have compared to that days.” 
“Thanks.” You gave him a dry look and saw your bread was the same.
“Rarity enhances importance.” There was the slightest sway of his shoulders that said his tail was making lazy rounds. “I am indulging in my mate as of current.”
You made a big move of smooching his forehead. “Let’s indulge in that new mustard too then.”
He gave an affectionate bow of his head.
You turned to grab the cute jar and returned with a knife. Slathering a careful amount on, you assembled the ingredients. You then pressed the breads together and with a quick guillotine, cut them in half for the sake of it. “What do you want to watch while we eat?”
For a moment, Donnie didn’t respond and you figured he was thinking.
Turning a plate to admire your handiwork, you felt time linger for too long and turned to check what was holding him up. You expected a little reverence as he’d been pouring it on thick. What you didn’t expect was to find him vacantly staring. Not all there, he was both looking at and through you.
The familiarity of the gaze haunted you.
You recognized that look.
It had been seared into your brain.
You knew what it proceeded.
Not just your blood pressure, but your entire center of gravity plummeted and you had to lean further into the counter.
“Oh no…” You mouthed in horror.
Donnie watched on with an unfocused gaze.
“No. No, no!” You pushed the plates away to grab and shake him.
He snapped out of his stupor and blinked wide. “What is it? Is something wrong?”
“You’re going into heat!”
He gawked.
“Do you remember the last few seconds?! The question I just asked?! Staring?!”
He only had to search you for a single second before he lifted in a similar horrified fit. “No.”
You pressed your fingertips right into your eyes as you stepped away.
You weren’t sure you could handle his mating season right now.
Hell, you were downright confident.
It took not only an extreme physical toil, but a mental one too.
There was so much care.
So much to think about.
“That can’t…” Donnie mouthed.
You’d only been walking without an aid for a couple days and that was more of a trial run.
You were going to bring your crutch to work.
“I missed it.” A purple light warmed your lids in a way that signaled he’d summoned some screens. “May 17th marked the official start date of my last. It was proceeded by about a month of signaling.”
Then there was the apartment. You loved your home, but there was no way in hell you were going to be constrained to this room for another few weeks.
“Viable mate!” Donnie’s voice held a sense of urgency. “That is what we hypothesized! It held true! You were not viable and therefore I did not go into heat!”
You finally looked at him, ever weakening.
He took you in with growing misery. “We missed our anniversary, Valentine’s…”
Something about the weary look on his face reminded you of the good.
You saw feral Donnie remorseful and affectionate.
You remembered how he doted on you.
Curled up together, you could hear the faint loving chirps he cooed.
No matter how embittered you’d exited that time, you’d also been brought undeniably closer.
It was the point you’d started thinking of each other as mates.
That intimacy flushed over you and you looked away with metered guilt.
Beside you, you could sense current Donnie raise with concerns regarding your changing attitude.
You imagined your shift confused him.
It confused you.
You weren’t really considering it.
It would be nice though.
To feel close to him.
You did.
There was no question.
You also didn’t, to a certain extent.
Everything felt like catching up.
You yearned for that easy intimacy.
The one you didn’t have to think about in a sense of relief.
The one that came because you knew how to weave around one another.
You hadn’t even fucked.
Putting your face in your hands, your breath puffed into your palms as you thought about sex.
It was an integral part of your connection with Donnie, but it had been so tame and slow since. Nothing you regretted or disliked, he used too much care as neither of you knew where the bar was anymore. He’d gone down on you and was in a constant state of unsure how to hold your legs around him. You had lost the same strength to squeeze him between your thighs and had little in the way to signal him. Alternatively, when you’d teased his slit, it’d been done so wary of your aching shoulder and a bubble of sadness that you no longer could hook his thighs in the way you wanted.
Heat Donnie knew none of that.
He’d only plow you because you were there to breed.
It sent a rush or arousal through your body as you peeked between your fingers at your partner.
You expected scolding.
You were even prepared for him to roll his eyes.
Instead, he had a similar forlorn expression.
He wanted you to.
Even though his heat was time technically lost for him, he’d felt that same draw afterward.
You both yearned to reconnect.
You moved into him and pressed to his front.
His arms came around you in a lazy tenting.
“The data came off regular softshell turtle seasons, right?”
His body moved with a nod.
“How long are those? It sounds like it should be over…”
“It depends on the weather, but typically in the middle of the spring season till early summer.”
You wanted to thump your head against his plastron. “Meaning…”
“If the viable portion holds true, you’ve healed enough for my instincts and we-”
“Just barely didn’t miss the window.” You groaned into him.
He held you for a long moment. “Let me lock myself away this time. The P.O.P. suit is long completed as is a new device to ease the constant drop.”
You vaguely remembered him showing you the finished pieces.
He brushed your back. “’No more injuries of any kind.’”
“We’d be apart again.”
His hand stopped, dead.
“You might not remember, but I will…”
You could feel his whole being tense.
“You said we wouldn’t be apart.”
You hated it.
You hated playing that card.
You weren’t trying to sway him.
It’s not like you wanted to go through another bout of heat when the thought of just getting through your meeting tomorrow filled you with enough exhausted dread.
You were tired.
You were beyond fatigued of being forced apart.
This season was meant for you.
It was designed for coupling.
Your real vacation had been interrupted.
Any subsequent time off had been forced.
Mating season was something you’d been looking forward to once.
You’d banked your paid time off on it.
It was supposed to be yours.
You wanted it.
You were so going to get fired. “Donnie.”
“Y/N.” He had as many reservations as you.
“There’s time…. Or there should be?” 
He was wound tightly. 
“You signaled for about a month before it kicked in. That means we should have the same amount of time…” 
“Conjecture.” 
“Isn’t all of it?” 
He had no response. 
“Do you remember how I thought I could handle it? The lead up, if we do it right… this can work.”
“Again, betting on instinct…” He rubbed up to your shoulder to coax you away.
“Your whole mating season is a hypothesis!”
He could argue that and you finally looked up at him.
He looked down with swirled concern and obvious desire.
“We try together and I swear to you that if anything happens at all, I will use the P.O.P. protection and anything else you make. I’m not going to be rash. Together. I want to try.”
He undeniably wanted to. “You’re sure…? I can’t control him.”
You nodded. “I can’t either, but you’re easily swayed.”
The faintest wry edge twitched his lips. “Work?”
“The point of the meeting tomorrow is to discuss my future. Maybe I loose my job, maybe I don’t. I’ll start sending resumes elsewhere while we plan. It’s not the best, but hey, if I do get accepted somewhere, I can always say I already had this vacation booked!”
 “This… I shouldn’t be considering this…” Donnie lamented with closed eyes.
“Same. Trust me.” You leaned against him. “I really… really… want to be with you. When it was good, Donnie… It felt amazing.”
He gave the lightest churr.
You rooted into him to turn up the volume.
It came with a vibration. “We will require extreme transparency. Unlike any before.”
“I’ll start taping when you phase out. I’ll help you study it where you can’t and I’ll tell you everything I have in mind.”
“We’re doing this…” He had an uneasy note to his voice. “I am going to hope my staring bout was a momentary lapse. We’ll prepare for nothing.”
You patted him knowing that was absolutely a form of bargaining. “One request.”
“Your second.”
“The first was a mutual agreement.” You looked up at him with cool irritation.
He wouldn’t be budged but amused guilt wrinkled his gaze. “Go ahead.”
“We do it in the biodome: your oasis.”
The request caught him between surprise and titillation to manifest in an involuntary excited chirp.
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The next day was characterized by highs and lows.
Your ‘trip’ was authorized.
You were demoted.
Donnie had helped you rebrand your time off as a health retreat which your company was fine with indulging as you were already partially written off due to ongoing illness.
As much as you prepared, the meeting’s reality still stung. You felt as though all of it was a slight that was covered by pleasantries, but you tried to take it in stride. You’d sent out a few resumes, even though you sort of assumed you might not hear anything back. Whether you wanted more or not, it seemed like something out of your hands so for the time being you took what you could get because there was more to deal with.
It came in the form of Donnie’s second drift which came soon after you were home from your first day back to work. You’d dutifully recorded it and as soon as Donnie came to, you showed him. He accepted with a tempered sigh that said he already knew this was actually his heat. He only needed the evidence to cement it for him. Already prepared, he’d gotten up to present you with blueprints.
A lot of thought was put into preserving the biodome’s ecosystem, so a small natural cabana sort of building would be built as a nest in an area where there was space. Construction was arranged to minimally disturb the creatures who lived there and the only other larger project was a bathing station connected to a far wall where there was plumbing. Something that couldn’t be as well integrated, you’d have a state of the art restroom at your beck and call.
For your body, there would be inoculations prior to fend off bodily invaders in the way of bacteria and the like. Donnie had even plucked a new insect repellent formula from his many patents and finished it so it could be safely implemented to you after a few weeks of testing. His plans were all directed toward you being able to focus only on pleasure and you turned into him with a prepared list of your own.
Not anything like his presentation, you instead walked him through how you thought you could offset the violent start to his heat. You hypothesized that he didn’t initially recognize you as his mate and you thought that was because you hadn’t responded to any of his preceding interest. Following through and reassuring him each time he went through one of pre-heat phases as you both now called the staring fits, you figured you could make it known you were his prior. He then wouldn’t be compelled to jump you so aggressively which would overall make the heat smooth sailing.
Donnie wasn’t convinced, but agreed before putting forth the next item of business: a sort of rebreather mouthpiece that was promised to have the power of a fully functioning oxygen tank.
A small device, you’d looked over the notes and he only mentioned the prototype would be ready tomorrow.
You’d been in the pond before and felt confident enough in the water so you pressed him as to why he created it.
“I have a feeling I will drag you under.”
He already had in an emotional sense and you wrapped your arms around him to daydream about underwater sex.
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The next few weeks flew by in a busy coordination. There was work at the forefront. Your new position had you organizing long neglected documents. Then there was planning what was essentially a roughing it sort of camping trip whose duration was thought to be up to two weeks. Finally you had Donnie’s phases to attend to which had long morphed into a solace. 
His next had started two days after your plan conversation and had happened yet again in the kitchen. You’d immediately dropped what you were doing outside of setting up your phone to record and curled into him. The dulled version of him tracked you as you pressed into his body and nudged up against the underside of his chin to gather his scent.
He chirped.
A sound quiet and without too much specificity, it was the first time he’d ever reacted to anything in the stupor and had you startling away.
He woke from your jarring and together you watched the footage to see his eyes had closed to a sort of contentedness from your move.
Donnie was a little flushed as he told you both he thought it would work and that the feel good chemicals released from the transaction were still coursing through him.
You were fingered right there on the counter and came fast to his satisfaction.
It became a routine that worked in both your favors. Little moments where the world shrank down to the two of you, Donnie taught you how to properly scent him. You mapped out his glands in nuzzles and Donnie stopped wearing his neck wrappings around the house in case it interfered with transference. You made up for his lost support with massages and found he especially loved to be scratched at the joints between his jaw and throat. It stretched sensitive skin just above his scars and was one of the few areas he still had accurate feeling around his throat.
Often kissing there for the sake of it, Donnie began to nudge you when he phased out. Nothing overt still, he bumped your heads which conscious Donnie identified as part of a softshells mating ritual. A question of whether you were receptive to him, you worked together on how best to respond as pacificity was usually how a male knew to go ahead. You tested out cuddling him, which phased Donnie approved with churrs so later the response was approved with a fierce kiss as soon as your mate came too.
Rebreather tested.
Work settled.
Construction completed.
Shots administered.
The time between Donnie’s phasing was lessening and it was a weekend morning when your boyfriend loomed obsessively in a way that felt just like that long fateful day. You made an excuse to leave, not that his tympanum picked it up, and only left a note behind saying it was time.
You grabbed your last properly cooked meal from a shop before heading to Donnie’s work. It had been something light, but tasty and you entered his building with a carefully filled stomach and your ID card. Unlike before, this time you were paid little mind and you wondered what kind of instructions Donnie had given considering you would clearly be going in and not exiting for days on end.
It mattered little as you pressed the elevator keys in the way he showed you to access the biodome and you saw the appropriate letters appear where floor numbers usually sat. There was still no Darling Protocol here and you knew you only had temporary access as the elevator scanned fingerprints along with a million other metrics. You liked that Donnie preserved a space of his own and. as the door’s opened, you welcomed the humidity like an old friend.
You were excited.
Waiting for the doors to seal up, you heard the latch click and elevator disappear down the shaft before you began to strip. Avoiding the pitfalls of yesteryear, you placed your clothes in an awaiting receptacle and plucked out the bottle of lube there. Taking your time, you warmed some fluid and probed yourself in preparation before stepping out, nude, onto the path. The steps were freshly swept and you could picture Donnie tidying up the space in a nervous fit as he waited for you to arrive. Smiling at it, you took the path’s slow curve and came out to the body of water where you could see Donnie, similarly naked, standing with his carapace to you on the opposite side.
“Hey!” You called out.
“Welcome!” He responded without moving.
“You ready?” You began to round the pond.
“Scared.” He spoke clearly.
“We’ll be okay. How’s P.O.P.?”
He held up the wrist where his primary tech gauntlet usually sat and showed, in a calculated rotation, that light reflected off the barely there band of the new system.
“If you try to take it off I’ll stop you.” The grass felt plush underfoot.
His head dipped in a nod.
You were edging the no-return zone where he’d catch your scent. “Donnie.”
“Yes?”
“I love you.”
He gave a metered sigh and you saw some of his anxiety fall off. “And I love you.”
You chuckled and crossed the invisible threshold.
Donnie turned in time and you watched cohesion fall off your mate as he caught sight of you. Dropping first his head and then his entire body, he wove a curious back and forth tilt. You didn’t give him too much attention as you approached, only watching his darkened eyes out of your periphery as you examined the nest. You’d seen it a few times for preliminary checks, but now that it was about to be your primary home, it felt the most like a vacation than it had yet.
Donnie openly churred as he closed in and you couldn’t help but finally turn to him.
“I keep telling you.” You reached out a hand and he only sniffed it once before shoving his head against your palm. “You’re still you. Look, even like this you refused to churr before. You’re so silly.”
He nipped lightly at your fingers when you tried to pet him and you relented as he rose into your space. Clearly scenting you, he then bumped his head to yours and this time you withheld indulging it.
He vibrated against your throat and nosed right into your mating mark.
You chanced lightly brushing his arms.
His head deviated at the touch before he commingled into you. Breathing him in in a very literal sense, you took the last leading steps onto the soft cotton in the nest. There it devolved into a soft haven and you knelt down into it in a slow show as he shadowed your every move. Getting onto your hands and knees, you adjusted the height of your buttocks to present before you slowed and waited with just the faintest tinge of anxiety.
Part of your mind tried to crop up memories of the pain from the last time, but you shoved them away in favor of all the success you had in coaxing his phasing. You reminded yourself that he had already bruised you by now and this current Donnie had yet to truly touch you.
Uncoordinated fingers grazed your side just to prove you wrong.
He didn’t do his mating dance.
Was that bad?
You tried to hush the flurry of thoughts.
There was more than one way for a softshell to mate.
You and Donnie had been over this in painstaking detail.
One route had the male swim down from above to mount the willing mate.
You were presenting that exact scenario, just out of water.
Donnie’s hands slid to almost hold your waist.
Mounting.
He’d mount you.
You were okay.
You were ready. 
A tongue pressed scorching hot into your sex.
You cried out at its presence and arched on reflex.
He didn’t let up and licked further into you in a way that made you realize he was distracted by the lube. Something neither of you had considered since last time he hadn’t seemed to notice, it occurred to you only now that you hadn’t started with it so by the time he might have, it would have already been mixed with his spunk. Eating the foreign substance out of you, you panted as he scrubbed his beak to reach as deep as his tongue allowed. Invaded and with huffs of his hot breath scalding your perineum, his focus wasn’t on your pleasure, but its insistence wound you up.
The messy process brought you a certain distance, but nowhere close enough when he finally retreated. Your ass sank from the assault and you could hear him messily licking the mixed slick presumably off his hands where he’d tried to rub the wetness away from his cheeks. Probably smelling more like you by the second, you sighed once before raising back up and giving a needy version of your mating call.
You could hear Donnie grind to a halt just before he gave an interested trill in return.
“Why not say it back?” You complained before shaking your head and trying the noise again.
This time you heard him land on his hands before he appeared in your vision with a curious tilt of his head to the blankets. He peeped there as if it were a greeting and you sat up to appraise him.
His body fell over nearly instantly and it had a cat-like ploy to it as if he were showing his belly.
You looked past his plastron since it was all the same and saw the tip of his cockhead just barely peeking out of its entrance.
“It’s harder to get a read on you like this…” In a slow show you ran your hand over the flat area over his belly and downward.
He cheeped accordingly and you didn’t pause as you trended down between his legs. 
“You can’t be stuck right?” You pressed the puckered lips around his slit where he cock was plumping them out.
He gave a mangled chirp and you saw a very obvious flexing of his pelvic muscles.
He was fighting the drop.
Hand retreating, you moved in close to snuggle up to his side.
“What’s wrong? Why are you resisting?”
He churred at your attendance and nosed you warmly.
“What is it…?” You moved to touch him and he let your hands rove amongst the many little noises he made.
One such around the sides of his shell had him shift and turn where he shoved his head directly into your bad shoulder. Not a painful maneuver nor an accidental one, it was like he was curling to protect it and it was there you understood.
“You’re you. You’re always you.” You told him and pulled him up for a kiss that tasted of your essence. “I got hurt, but I’m okay. Those are scars. You have nothing to worry about.”
You crawled on top of him.
“Look.”
He fell back onto his carapace and watched you.
“Not like perfect obviously, it still hurts, but I’ve been getting my muscles back.”
You aligned your pelvises and you watched him hesitate at your positioning.
You took a moment to take his hands and plaster them with kisses as you chirped your own affections.
He gave a few back.
“How dare you prep me and not follow through though. So mean. You’re so mean like this. So selfish.” Spreading your legs a little farther than you had yet dared, your slit pressed flush to his.
His squeak warbled with warning.
You shushed him and were deliberate in stroking your sex against his.
His cockhead caught your clit and both of you called out different cries.
Catching his plastron the best you could, you watched his expression pain and you shook your head as you repeated the maneuver. It came with a few weak squeaks before he outright squawked and you readied yourself. He flew on slipping hands to hoist his torso up so instead of piercing you, his cock slid out heavy along your sex and you were left perched atop its midpoint.
He panted heavily there, seemingly satisfied with himself for saving you.
You kissed hard into his face and he grunted from the force.
It was just enough distraction that you caught hold of his length and lined him up.
He clicked with anger and you gave your sternest mating call along with a glare.
Something about the pair had him searching your face with those blackened eyes of his.
“Please…?” You poured on sweetly, but he clicked a few times as you tried to close in. “Okay… Fine.” 
Still kissing his cheek where he turned his head away, you dismounted him and he stopped to watch you. Curious, he tilted his head and you laid on your back before spreading your legs wide for him. You watched his erection pulse and he opened and closed his mouth as if the line of saliva was puppeting him. Remembering a certain involuntary show you had once put on, you dipped your fingers into your sex to tease yourself. You got exactly two strokes before he slapped your hand away.
“Well?” You held up the whetted fingers for him and his beak leaned in, intoxicated by the scent. “Don’t like it when I touch me? Do something about it.”
He caught your wrist and sucked your digits into his mouth. Messy swipes of his tongue came next and you tried to time rolling your hips in presentation for him. He extracted your hand with a pop and clicked one sharp time. You gave your cutest mating call and waited for him with an arched brow. Almost growling, he dropped down and walked up the length of you, his erection dragging against your leg before he sent uneven displeasure down to you via his expression. 
You wriggled ready beneath him.
He chuffed so hard you felt the warm air before he looked down and watched where his cock edged close to your cunt. You gave your best questioning chirp. He clicked in response, but moved his hips the slightest bit closer. With a shift, you angled your pelvis in a show. He exhaled slow and long like deflating pressure before his cock finally brushed your center. You exaggerated a mating call and he nosed you so hard up from your chin it felt like him flicking you.
You chuckled through the sting and he clearly grouched as his glans slid along your wet folds. You gave a puffy breath at the feeling of him and chewed your lip to keep from chasing him. It gave him space to test and each uncoordinated swipe had him losing will. With you and his body betraying him, his hips rolled for presses until his glans pressed to enter you.
You caught a noise in your throat and best pleaded with your expression. He watched it with a narrowed gaze before he pushed again, his cock bending to breach you the slightest amount. You tried to keep him in your vision, but your gaze swam at the spreading pressure. His churr multiplied at the sight and with a few more inaccurate rolls of his hips, he passed the tighter ring of flesh for both of you to moan.
Everything after that was a given.
Three total times on the first go around and you could only count by the sudden bursts of his cum. You’d nearly forgotten they happened without warning and the first time you sobbed at the amount. It unnerved him, but you trapped him in place with locked legs and a few clicks of your own. Clearly wary, but still compelled, he licked the salt from your cheeks and you kissed him lazily where he could not return it.
You came somewhere between two and three as he was still getting the hang of your pleasure. Something you akinned to like riding a bike, he had to fight off instinct and in that battle he lost a few key details. You minded little as sweat stewed your bodies together and the soup you created was one all your own. Seasoned with your favorite ingredients the streak ended only because you felt a tug just above your knee.
The bones were mended and sealed, but strain sometimes made it feel like they threatened to buckle for the strangest sensation. From Donnie’s third overflowing load, you nudged him as best you could and gave a withered squeak. He came away instantly and slammed down against your side to best monitor you. You shushed his concerns, body tingling pleasantly and tried to convey that you hadn’t passed your limits; you just needed to set them.
He didn’t understand, but you also needed your strength for something else. While another fuck was possible, you didn’t want to incapacitate yourself quite yet and sat up. Doing a little stretch, your mate curled around your hips while you searched the nest. Hidden away under a pillow, you found a purple cylinder and brought it up to him to sniff.
He only barely stuck his beak out before black marbles were once again staring at you.
You gave a single chuckle as conscious Donnie had predicted this. He’d kept the object close to his body so the scent was wholly his. It meant current Donnie would accept the objects place amongst his nest. That hypothesis ringing true, you found the quick release latch and opened up the device that reminded you very much of an instrument case for one particularly lewd flute.
“Okay… this is going to be a thing. Think you can at least try for me?” You looked to Donnie as if you were trying to get an unruly kid to the dentist.
He stared back without comprehension.
You sighed and got up on your knees to approach where his cock hung heavy and ready for use. “This is a step beyond a cock sleeve.”
He didn’t react much as you laid the case open like a book beside his member for him to get used to.
“What did I joke it was? A cock shirt or a cock briefcase? Something stupid like that…” You flicked a switch to turn it on.
You couldn’t hear anything, but Donnie shot upright to stare down at the object.
It began to glisten as the inner mold was lubricated. “Either way, I need to put this on you so you don’t get that irritation like last time.”
His head tilted to one side as if he could find the exact mechanism that buzzed.
You were delicate in picking his cock up and holding it.
He gave what you could only hear as a nervous churr.
“You’re going to freak out… please work with me…” You switched to hold him dangling in one hand and carefully moved the sleeve between his legs.
A twitch of his thigh said he was absolutely going to run.
“Hey.” He didn’t look so you chirped loud for his attention.
He snapped to your face with a blink.
“Quit tuning my talking out. Rude. So rude.” You scolded him and he at least seemed to get your intention because he leaned into you.
You lightly kissed his head and pumped his cock the best you could with one hand before making a very slow move to lay him down into the sleeve.
He gave an almost imperceptible nervous peep. “I know, so scary. Your cock is really sensitive, but this is going to help take the edge off when I can’t.”
He sounded a few more times, but you kept him still long enough to lay him down into the mold made exactly for him.
He had a flighty air to him and you wove your free arm through his to keep him in place. “I’m not going to close it yet, but feel that? It’s warm and the fluid is something you came up with. It’s a special balm that mimics your insides.”
You stroked over the top of his member to lightly press him into the device.
He gave a few stunted seconds of churring for it.
You continued to run your hands up and down, mapping him out, and fighting the desperate urge to lay down.
“Think you’ll let me close it? Please, sweet. I really want to rest.” You traced his glans.
He rolled out the softest churr, still staring hard at the sleeve.
You moved your hand away in a big show of taking the other half device. “Please, Don?”
His body tightened up.
You shushed him and kissed into that spot between his jaw and neck.
His lids fell unconsciously and you moved to close the sleeve.
As soon as it locked into place, he was off.
You huffed with irritation and watched him several feet away in the grass as he tried to tear the object off his cock.
“Damnit, Donnie!” You got up on wobbly legs to chase him down.
He succeeded as soon as you exited the nest and ran while you retrieved the sleeve.
You then spent the next couple of hours trying to get it on him. Three times you got the thing sealed only for him to run off. It was your actual exhaustion that kept him coming back and you eventually won out because you collapsed on top of him while trying to get it on the fourth. It meant when the latch hooked that final time, he couldn’t bolt without bucking you off. He sat in clicking misery as you dozed off to that broken stove.
When you awoke, you were tucked into his side and he was watching over you.
Taking a moment to wake amongst his honey-filled greeting, you shot your gaze down to find the sleeve still over his dick.
“You didn’t…?” Tipping your head right back up to search him, he gave one loud, put out chuff.
You tackled him, opened it, and mounted him in one fell swoop.
He accepted the sleeve begrudgingly after that, but you always made sure to make it worth his while. You figured he also liked how it soothed his member and it tickled you that even in this feral state, he was just as frustratingly stubborn. It all sang true to him and you couldn’t help the affection that overflowed no matter how different the scenario was.  
It was bathed in an orange glow that you ate your dinner. Enjoying the hues of the sunset openly pouring in from the dome, you had a stock of provisions all for ease with maximized health benefits. Hanging just outside the nest to avoid crumbs, you enjoyed the scenery. Birds tittered in their spots to sleep and the jungle-like foliage whispered of whatever was amongst it. You then sucked heartily from a big water bottle you could refill that had long dissolved the tablet within. Another addition for your safety, it did something about dehydration and had added minerals that didn’t affect the taste, but added the faintest grittiness which you hoped you’d get used to.
When you crawled back into bed after dusting yourself off, Donnie waited with eager chirps and you thought you might go again, but he seemed content to rest. You pondered aloud to him and he listened attentively about how he wasn’t as eager as either of you thought he’d be. He wanted you, that was clear, but his drive had been curbed from last year making you wonder what exactly was the cause.
Was it your injuries?
If that was the case, why did he go into heat in the first place?
Was he still catching up emotionally?
You knew you were stunted by the prior lack of intimacy and just being beside him satisfied you to a certain point.
Was it because he’d finally proclaimed his love?
This theory more tangential, you thought maybe revealing those final pieces had abated his desperation in claiming you. There was nothing else in that regard for him to hold back and that translated to him as a beast still ready to breed, but one that didn’t need to pin his mate down. He was honest with himself that you were his and he was himself no matter the form.
You figured it was all of the above and, as the stars came out for the barely there pockmarks in the New York sky, you rolled over and looked up through the sheer layer above the canopy. The cabana had been constructed mostly of poles with some dangling cottons draping down them for the sake of it. It created an open air feel that hid nothing away and only marked off where the nest was. The many pillows and blankets had been scented by you both a few nights prior before Donnie constructed a large enough space where both of you could lie out. From the plush nature, you knew there was some sort of base mat under it all, but you cared little because it was wonderfully comfortable.
You dozed off meaning to alleviate Donnie once before doing so, but that dreamy vacation feel came for you like that charm that had been on a bed you once liked.
You awoke deep in the night and were a happy bleary as you could barely see.
Donnie was right there in an instant, nosing you with affections in both a way that could be seen as rousing or as nudging you back to sleep. You supposed the choice was up to you and you kissed him in a test of not knowing which to commit to. He churred soft and encouraging and amongst the rolling sound you freed yourself from some covers you dredged up. Donnie slid a testing hand over your cotton warmed flesh and you knew you’d chosen to have him. Curling close, you both moved in a gentle tandem and you unhooked the cock sleeve before moving under him. He kicked the object away and his dampened cock spread eager pre-cum against your thighs before you spread.
Slotting himself between your legs, the leak reminded you of that certain level of desperation and you caught him to swipe the spunk on thick. It spread in globules that you stroked against yourself until he entered. A careful push, he didn’t force the matter and you dreamily cuddled him close as he rocked where he seemed resistant to pull out. It felt like a lullaby in the night cooled air and you watched the thin lines of his face you could barely make out in the dark. Whispering your love to him, he came first with you close behind to then languish in the fill.
You awoke to a bird’s happy trill.
Something like a confection, it invaded your dreamscape and coaxed you up. The once darkened sky now glowed a hue of opening lids and you hummed contentedly. Looking down, you found Donnie curled up and dozing beside you. Another new rarity, something about it assured you that every single one of your theories had been correct about his change. A mixture of things gone right, no matter how wrong the road there had been, Donnie protected you and felt safe enough himself to commit to a nap.
You were careful not to jostle him as you rolled over onto your belly and crawled up to the edge of the nest. It gave you a good vantage point to look out and you hydrated on silted water while you watched the sunrise. It didn’t come into distinct view, but light cracked and slipped into the space. It broke through the trees where the birds stirred with wakefulness. It poured out along the grasses where green did their morning stretches. It then reached the cabana where the cotton dropped its reddened sunset orange for the golden glow of a day anew.
When Donnie stirred, it was your turn to pour on the greetings. Staying in your same position, you were able to bend at the waist to curl overtop his tucked head. He chirped drowsy and you lined up a dozen happy ones for the sake of it. When he pulled his head from his hole, it was with a dopey sweet smile and you nuzzled and nosed him to join you in sunrise. He came with soft peeps speaking of how much he liked it and when you looked out toward the scenery, he followed suit.
Adjusting so his body could be butted up against yours, you only had to turn your head for him to be there and he gave you a sugared mating call. You responded in joyous kind and he pressed his beak to your shoulder. The opposite one of both injury and your mating mark, he mouthed it lazily in a way that you thought was him tasting you. The flash of wet heat felt good and cropped up a warmth in your belly.
Not sure exactly how to translate your feeling, you poured it into a chirp that came out needy to your ears. Its meaning met, he nibbled with purpose and began to climb atop you. Perking up your ass for him, he pressed it back down into the nest with his plastron and you sighed as he continued to lick down your spine. He sucked and bit flesh where he could, but all of it was without hurry.
It had you squirming and a morning drench of fluids felt sticky between your pressed thighs. Desire flared, you arched beneath him and he nipped to keep you in place. Outright whining because you were finally truly as needy as he presumably wanted you to be, you couldn’t understand why your back was more pressing than breeding. Wanting to be marked and flooded by him, you gave a few strangled squeaks until you stopped dead when you heard a sharp plastic click.
You instantly knew the noise to be the latch on the sleeve and had to crane a head over your shoulder where you caught the tail end of Donnie tossing the piece away.
You not only did not remember putting it back on him last night, but you were floored he’d figured out the actual mechanism to get it off in just one day’s time. The latch had been made for that purpose, but even when he tore it off yesterday it had been with yanking palms and kicking feet. He swept his gaze up to you in what almost looked like his usual smug nature and you felt the heat spread up from your gut and through your cheeks.
He gave a sultry mating call before slicking his wet cock against your ass crack. You tensed and sighed eager for him, but he only lazily swiped. Groaning your protests first before clicking a few, when you finally sent him a glare over your shoulder, he was watching with that same smarmy look.
“What?” You huffed.
He gave a questioning trill and looked down at where his pre was starting to drip.
You tried bringing your hips up but one of his palms came down to stop you.
You grumbled.
He gave a sweetened chirp.
“Seriously? What?!” You glowered at him the best you could.
He gave the start of a sharp noise.
It sounded sort of leading.
It also came familiar to your ears before you ground out a flat stare.
“I’m starting to think I like you better sex crazed!”
He did nothing more than what he’d been doing.
You summoned a deep breath before you gave the loudest mating call you could.
He gave one happy chirp before his unfocused fingers mashed hands into your ass. Your breathing warbled as he pressed and kneaded the dough there before splitting it into two where his cock moved to nestle betwixt. Pressing the flesh up and around him the best he could, he rocked there and no matter how many times you tried, he refused to let you arch. You were stuck flat on your stomach and felt irrationally submissive as he stroked himself.
You wanted him and gave spindly chirps in hopes he’d change his mind, but he only stroked himself through the crevice before he pulled a metered amount back and pressed his glans to your rectum.
You squeaked loud and in warning.
Now wasn’t the time to test that out.
You had no prep and subsequent washing was out of the question. Even with its new bathroom, the biodome wasn’t really built with a proper shower and you still had the marathon of however many days Donnie’s heat would last. It had been a nightmare enough trying to figure out the logistics of how his dropped cock would inevitably submerge in the pond water and then be later pressed into you.
Whimpering once more, you realized he was gone and looked to find him off and to your side. 
There he chirped apologies where he seemed to think he hurt you.
You softened your worries in noises and nudged your head underneath his chin in hopes to soothe him. It didn’t immediately and he held onto his usual stubbornness as he fussed over you. You gave in to a point before the frustration of denial reared once again and you urged him with a soft mating call. He returned it with a questioning edge and you made a show of laying flat for him to get back on. He nosed your face up one last time to make sure confirmations were etched there before he was careful to mount you again.
Still soaked in both your slicks, this time he allowed you to pop your ass some to reveal just enough of a cavern down to your cunt.
He churred loud and proud at the soaked sight before he angled himself down the pressed line of your thighs. A rail straight to where you needed him most, it was a direct shot and he slid right in for both of you to mewl dreamily. He rocked his hips twice to seat himself how he liked before one hand slammed onto the small of your back and the other squeezed your hip. He then thrust and you wound your hands into the sheets to hold on.
Each pulse bumped down from the angle and you felt it prodding outward from the inside. It pressed further into the plush nest and, as he picked up speed, you began to realize how little strain the position put on your injuries. Unsure if he even realized it, his strokes devolved into eager pistoning.
You pulled up a pillow to stuff your moans into and one sharp buck had you crying out as an indication he wanted to hear you. Giving him a quick glare where he was hyper focused on only your connection, you faked a few cries which spurned him. Driving deeper at a new angle, his plastron cut your ass cheeks and he scraped your walls morphing the faux sounds into real ones. Losing focus as it wound you up, you felt his strokes shift as you clamped down on him. He savored the tightness and prodded you just right until cumming was an inevitability.
You did so with a gasp of his name and he gave you only a few seconds before he reset his earlier pace. Crying from oversensitivity, something about the long overdue nature of being used had you babbling an affirmation off your lips. “Yes, yes, yes!”
His churr warped into a nearly delirious noise and the hand on your back disappeared. It manifested on your opposite hip and, in what must have been a full body bend, you felt Donnie’s forehead slam into your spine as he arched all of himself into you to cum.
Each thick rope lashed you and you broke it down to a microscopic level. It was millions of invaders wriggling in a fight into your womb to break through the surface of your eggs. All for you, your repeated prattle picked up now in begging hopes that it would stick. One bouncy spring would shove a white coil through a relenting cell wall and the immediate multiplication would make up the cell knocking you up.
Bucking backwards, you wanted more and you wanted it in the right place.
Instead of resisting, Donnie seemed to catch the candor and used his hold on your hips to press you back down first there and then with his whole body. You chirped for him, begging, and he came with soothing ones as his large body meant his head appeared over your shoulder. Rolling your ass back into him, he obliged to keep rocking into you and mouthed at your mating mark.
You prepared for this.
You knew how to properly bandage it.
You wanted him to bite you.
Giving your mating call as loud as you could in an effort to deafen him, he seemed unbothered as he grazed his teeth and watched you with darkened eyes. A cool burnt cap to the molten underneath, he thrust with purpose and you felt the whole of you bounce as you began to slide in the sheets. No escape, he closed his arms in around you, trapping you there first, before his legs spread to cage your hips in. Utterly at his whim, you continued your desperate plea for more and it was around the time that tears were starting to drown your tongue that he finally sank his teeth into your shoulder.
Unlike the bite from last year, he metered the move more to hold you and you didn’t feel the skin break.
Tired of being treated like some breakable object, you thrashed in the barely there space afforded and he clicked angrily at you. Drool taking your ability to do it back, you snapped wet fingers for a similar sound and retribution took his last sense. He bit harder, finally breaking skin like the satisfying burst of a balloon and you cried out happy as he tried to fuck you still.
You extended your claws from the fabric they were buried and found his hands to shred flesh. He hissed wet bloody bubbles beside your head and shoved with so much downward force that you knew your back was going to be an exact map of his plastron groves. All pieces meant to fit together, you saw that elastic snap of sperm penetrating an egg over and over until you realized it was manifesting on your lips as a broken mating call.
He answered it in a growl and rush of cum that nearly took your vision because it felt as if it had nowhere else to go. You drowned in it, welcoming the gurgle and heat that threatened to consume you. He stuffed you and submerged his own cock in the meantime before he broke to gasp as if he forgot to breathe. You saw flecks of red saliva string off of him in a pant and your core ached, unsatisfied.
Throwing both your elbows back against his hold, he squeaked and relented enough that you got up. It took more shoves that he fought against with nips, but you knew he wouldn’t fully commit and called his bluff. He answered by having to back away, but you didn’t let him escape. When he fell back onto his carapace, you came with shaking legs that refused to break your connection. Sat reverse cowgirl, delirium spun you around and he outright moaned at the twisting feeling of your cunt on his cock.
You got one glimpse of his fucked out figure before you descended on him. He gave a mating call with a fearful edge as you went straight for your litany of mating marks and dragged your teeth in to tear the stubborn flesh. You were almost off his cock, but the spread tried to hold on and he caught you in a fumbling hold to at least stroke his tip.
The pressure of his wide glans tugging at your entrance bred a pleasant sensation and when you finally came up for air similar to him, you could feel the red staining your teeth. You used it to grin him a vicious smile and he liked his violent mate because he forced you straight down his shaft. Shoving his beak against yours in an unknown move, you tangled tongues and tasted each other as you were bounced in his lap.
You were going to find the upper limit, you decided right then. You would see if that endless amount of semen this version of him touted was actually true. You were going to see just how much baby batter he could stuff into you. You were going to make that belly distention a reality. You were going to see just how long that dropped cock could stay out. You’d scare it back into the safety of his body. You’d carve it back out of him. You’d shove it back into you where it belonged. He was yours; you were his.
His mate.
His mate.
His mate.
You lost track and count of anything feasible. There was no charting a thing that didn’t stop; one could only follow the duration. That came in glass above where the sun rolled over head and you assumed looked away from the lewd display. That cosmic deity could only run and hide in sight of you both. Even the reigning royalty of incomprehensible beings would think what you’d done was irreconcilable. The weight of your current erotic misdeeds would tip cosmic scales and all that was left would be scorched earth and you with child.
You awoke with a delirious start and your entire body screamed in agony.
Donnie was there.
He was always there.
He was everything.
He was also doting.
He was sweetness.
He was nuzzling you and trying to get you to lay back down.
You were upright.
Altogether as if not knowing had been the only thing holding you up, realization came with a snap of your muscles and you collapsed where none of your body would respond. You gave a withered squeak, confused as to why you’d lost coordination and Donnie chirped worries all around you.
He went on like that for what seemed like hours until you could finally see up out of the cabana over the nest. It was the dead of night and the only lights came from the building above and the faint glow around the edges from the city below.
All day.
You’d fucked what had to be non-stop all day long.
Making up for lost time, you thought.
Only you weren’t counting the last three months; you were only counting the first day of the heat.
Only four times on day one?
Pathetic.
You had so much more in you.
You had an entire legion in you to be exact.
Populations the world over were poured into your vagina.
Little swimmers that then passed the cervix, into your uterus, and to the tubes to do their jobs.
You threw a lead arm over your face and felt the shame in how determined you’d been to be bred.
The birth control was fully operational, you had to remind yourself.
You’d fucked yourself stupid as opposed to the usual other way around.
Groaning, you felt something move and fall off your chest.
Pretty sure those parts of you were safely attached, you lifted your arm the few inches you could and looked down your body. While you were left comatose in your mind, Donnie had been busy. It looked like he’d brought you a total of three water bottles along with at least four packaged foods that you could see. There was also now a set of those specially made mineral tablets, of which the set had slid from the pile on your chest before disappearing into the sheets.
You laughed.
It was weary and dry, but it came out bright nonetheless.
Donnie only squeaked with further concerns, but you waved him in before promptly passing right back out amongst your care package.
 You slept straight through until what had to be the next day’s late afternoon. Shadows starting to morph, you had been cleared of everything plopped on you and Donnie bobbed in your vision with clear concern. You nuzzled into the side of his head for reassurance before you left to clean up and use the restroom. You threw a sterilized pack over your mating mark and came out with some disinfectant on cotton for Donnie.
He was already prepared to dodge at the oncoming smell, but as soon as you tried to dab his bite marks, he scampered off. You rolled your eyes as you’d at least gotten a few good pats at it and walked out after him into a small patch of natural grass. It came up in thin spindly strands and was drenched in sunshine. Falling right back into your nudist ways that came with season, it was oddly comforting to feel the rays hit your body. Your weary body begged you to sit so you soaked up the sun until your boyfriend wandered close.
“Let me clean that properly and you can join me.”
He stayed a metered amount away as if he understood.
“More grass for me.” You tilted your head up and gave a dreamy sigh.
He gave a whiny chirp.
You held up the cotton ball and waited.
With a few clicks, he eventually came over and you were slow in blotting his already healing teeth marks clean. “Good boy.”
He grumbled and you traced down to the purple casket between his legs.
“So you are putting it back on?” You gestured to it and he sat as if ready to take it off.
Your hand wilted and the non-committal nature gave him pause.
You thought for a moment before reaching out for a new offering. “Wanna snuggle?”
He came forward to set his chin in your palm.
You thought you might explode and akinned the moment to being accepted by a feral animal. “So cute…”
He chuffed lightly and you released him to get into his space. He watched you with a lazy wide pupil as you mingled close. He chirped curious when you nosed the line of his jaw and eventually gave into a churr as you pressed your lips to his. You felt the rumbling through your teeth and lined up kisses over his cheek. He bent to give you better access and you peppered his face with presses. Keeping them from being ticklish, you were pointed with each and he accepted them all with great honor.
You drifted to the side of his head, edging his scars for numbness and kissed heavy against his neck to keep the move more chaste. It put your throat on view for him and he must have felt compelled to respond in kind to the gesture because he gave a kitten’s lick to what he could reach. You giggled at the sensation and did the same to him in the equivalent spot before waiting to see what he’d do.
He found it in him to test because he nosed against the centerline of your esophagus which you again mirrored. He liked it and pressed his beak in taps down to your collar where he followed the bone to your shoulder. You shuddered at the puffs of his breath on your exposed skin and methodically copied him with brushes of your lips.
You both peeked at each other at the same time and you giggled at the coyness of it all.
Here you were, in an approximation of nature, with nothing on, and having a romp with your boyfriend in the grass.
It all felt compellingly romantic even if your partner wouldn’t consciously remember this moment.
A dreamy sound came from you and in a shove from his beak, Donnie knocked you over.
“Hey!” You scolded without heat and liked the soft grass tickling your back.
He hovered over in a non-dominating way and seemed to observe you.
You gave him your brightest smile as it was honestly there.
He seemed to inhale at the sight before he slowly descended to pick back up where he left off. Touching his beak and his lips in the process against your skin, he dotted taps over to the bulb of your shoulder and back to your sternum. He nuzzled there before licking up something he smelled which you couldn’t imagine was anything more than sweat. The sensation tickled and perked your nipples which caught his eye. Your breasts still gave him no interest in his heat, but the involuntary movement was suddenly of great importance to him.
His narrowed gaze was the last thing you saw before he enveloped the right bud in his mouth.
You cried a soprano’s note as he swiped his tongue without focus and instead to taste.
Nothing there, he unlatched and looked you over as if you were the strange one for making the erogenous noise.
“Mean…” You panted as the saliva he left behind meant the air differential teased the bud.
His gaze flicked, revealing very little white until he descended to lick a fat stripe up to the other nipple.
This time your body arched before he bit straight down.
“Ah!!” You shoved him and he squeaked as he let himself fall away.
You cupped your boob and hissed.
A quick check found no blood, but you rubbed to ease the sting. “Geez. You were so careful… Still feral. I need to remember. You’re smart, but not here here…”
After a few worried seconds, he came close with an apology oozing off of him.
“I know. You didn’t understand…” You patted his leg.
He gave what was almost a whine before bumping his head into your left shoulder.
You rested yours against his.
In a quick dip he had your breast in his mouth.
“W-wait! Why would you-!?”
He swirled his tongue and you shook against him.
It turned into a full body affair and this time he pressed you back into the grass as if laying you down. “Donnie…”
He released and nosed over the area as if sending his apologies directly to the source.
“Forgiven. You’re forgiven…” You sighed up until he repeated the process to your first nipple. “You learn too fast!”
Persistent and obviously proud of himself, you could just see his tail wagging furiously as each twist of his tongue had you writhing more and more.
You reached with fumbling fingers down the flat of his plastron.
He moved his hips closer in a shuffle and you toyed with a sleeve latch a few times before you freed his cock.
“It’s all sex to you.” You teased and pushed him away enough so you could present yourself for him.
He churred loudly as he settled down to take you and pressed his cock in.
Once seated he stopped to watch you from overhead with a rolling churr.
“Or… not?” You brushed his cheek and felt a sense of déjà vu.
With one last beak press to the plump of your cheek, he then settled with his head beside yours.
You lounged in the sun until it started to hang heavy.
Did he know?
It wasn’t possible. 
There was no way this or lucid Donnie knew about your wish. 
You hadn’t told anyone how much you wanted to just stay in stasis with his cock inside. 
You felt warm and filled and drunk from his attention and the sun’s before he finally began to move. A slow start that came with him stretching lightly. Your warbled breath from the connection spurned him on. With increasingly heady presses, he kept you intertwined and you held onto his carapace. 
You got your romp for real where it left a permanent imprint of crushed greens. Finished up, you locked Donnie’s dick up before heading back to the nest to finally eat. Having neglected to for so long, you were starved and ate your fill. You must have made it look pleasurable because you got Donnie to munch on a few morsels. More than anything you downed water in droves until you were sated and made an exaggerated collapse to curl up.
In the night you awoke again for a short sleepy session before promptly passing right back out. It seemingly fixed your sleep schedule because you were up with the birds. However tempting, you decided moderation was better for your body and staved off the idea of marathoning to instead go in spurts.
A good morning, a forenoon hello, and you broke for lunch.
Setting up beside the pond with your rebreather by your side, you ate with your toes just shy of the water. Donnie appeared only to give you a confirming once over before he dove straight in. Barely disturbing the surface, you watched him swim seemingly for the sake of it and relaxed in watching him as you ate. He came up just as you were almost done and you offered him the last bite. He sniffed at it before his beak wrinkled and he turned away to dive back in.
Shrugging to yourself, you finished off your food and were nursing a bottle of water when he emerged with his head down. You watched him lazily flicking your toes as he approached. Wet or dry mattered little to his turtle instincts so you weren’t concerned that he’d shake. You imagined he’d probably lay down next to you so you readied for the damp press when his head dipped further near your thigh. Droplets speckled your leg and he retreated with a single happy chirp.
You look down to find actively bleeding fish twitching with the last of its life.
You didn’t even have it in you to scream.
Your eyes went bug-wide and you turned them up to Donnie who gave you a second, now encouraging chirp.
Eat.
He wanted you to eat it.
From where he’d grabbed it from the water. 
With his mouth.
“No!” You bellowed and shot to your feet.
Your sudden move startled him, but he was too close to the water and fell in.
Dancing on your toes, you looked around for something to flick the carcass in after him. 
Donnie burst through the water’s surface already clicking.
“No! I had food! You always bring me my food! Real food! Why would you give me this?!” You pointed at the accursed fish.
He continued his clatter and moved up shore as if to defend his catch.
“Don’t touch it! Donnie!!” You reared.
He chuffed loudly, evacuating water from his nostrils before in a huffy show he dipped down.
“Don’t you dare!!!”
In a single gulp he swallowed the fish and you kicked him right back into the pond.
“Gross!!!” You complained to the air and stormed back to the nest. “I can’t believe you ate it!!!”
You heard a splash as Donnie emerged once again raging like a broken car starter.
“Don’t you dare! Leave me alone!! Ugh!!! I’ll never get you to brush your teeth!! Why did you do that?!”
Protests were had from both sides and the standoff lasted until the sun began to set. You were sure your mate had long dried, but both his stubbornness and your cold shoulder kept him elsewhere. With the sun rushing to clock out, you figured you’d be sleeping alone when you heard a soft peep.
 You barely turned your head and in your periphery you saw him doing the same.
It was comical and you shook your head to finally look at him. “You don’t get the boob thing, but you get it feels good to me so you did it. I don’t like the fish thing, but that’s something you refuse to understand?”
He gave you the barest glance and almost seemed to purse his lip.
“I like kissing you. You don’t get that either.” You sighed and fully turned to him. “Both our mouths are gross right now! Conscious you makes it a big deal! Like, okay, it’s hard for even me to routinely brush my teeth in these conditions so I get it, but that was a live fish from a scuzzy pond!”
He came as close as the edge of the nest.
You shuddered. “Now when and if I kiss you, I’ll be thinking of kissing that fish.”
His head tilted where he didn’t understand.
You deflated. “You refuse to eat. I haven’t seen you drink. What can we do…?”
Donnie bowed as if to show guilt and he waited.
“Wait, wasn’t there …?” Memory jarred, you moved over to your provision pile. You dug through the many supplies that were neatly packed until you found a little packet of breath strips and read the label aloud, “’Kills 99.9% of bad breath germs.’”
He chirped curiously.
“I’m gonna assume that includes fish.” In a bob, you stepped out and approached him. “You are going to take this and hate it, but you will do it because you love me, got it?!”
He only stared at your stern pointing.
You opened the package and dropped one on your tongue where it burned before approaching him. He had a fighting stance to him and you tucked the package into one palm. With the other hand you caught his chin and, under a slight tug to his lower lip, his mouth opened. As fast as you could, you cracked the package, picked a strip, and slapped it down on his tongue before he could bite you.
His teeth still grazed your knuckle and he screeched at the taste.
You collapsed for the mental effort and watched him tussle with himself in the grass. Knowing the strip was long stuck and doing its work, you didn’t care if he ate the blades because that seemed more palatable. Feeling vindicated, you didn’t think much when he stormed toward you. He came in close and shoved his mouth to yours as if to share the pain. You only had a similar minty freshness there and when you licked into his mouth to tease him with it, he clicked so loud it percussed in your eardrums.
You released him with an evil cackle and he stayed on the far side of the nest that night. You awoke feeling cold in the early hours of the morning and tried to crawl over to him. He vacated the nest as soon as got near and you stared after him feeling only a slight tinge of guilt before you curled up to steal the last of his warmth from where he’d been.
When you got up for the day, he was waiting nearby and pointedly looking away. You chirped lonely and his aura only soured. You tried again in hopes your prevailing sadness would sway him, but he staunchly refused. Not unlike the cold you’d felt that night, the nest felt like a chilled place so you exited it to take a walk. Moving around the fresh air of the biodome, you traversed through the thicker foliage. It was where Donnie would often run to, but you found little evidence of him having been there. Instead it was an undisturbed ecosystem and you got to observe the birds from their perches. They watched you with flighty tilts of their head. An avid watcher for the time, you emerged around midday based on the sunlight.
Donnie was a lump of his carapace, pointedly not watching you from your nest.
You gave a heady sigh and looked out across the water. From the debacle yesterday, your rebreather sat where you’d left it by the shore. Staring hard at it, you circled the pond to gather it up. Once you reached it, you held the piece in your hands. Donnie’s words about dragging you under seemed unlikely. You imagined you’d probably only get to use this if you got in yourself.
Clutching the mask tight, you cocked a sort of smile before you donned it. Going through the checks Donnie taught you to make sure it was operational, you then toed into the water as quietly as you could. You told yourself you were doing this for you and waded in. Water lapping warmth around your thighs, your waist soon dipped below and the ground disappeared. Goosebumps coated your flesh and you threw out pockmarked stems as you swam towards the center.
It was there you pumped your arms, once, twice, and then dove down the best you could. The rebreather kicked in and you focused on breathing through your mouth as you looked down into the water. It was murky towards where you’d kicked up silt, but on the opposite side you could see the bottom of the pond. A layered memory, little fishes swam around the muck and you heard a splash through the water.
You tensed a little, not sure how Donnie would react, but you only saw a flash of him before he headbutted you in the stomach. Coughing out and losing the rebreather from force, you were shoved to the surface and then dragged up on land as you continued to cough.
Donnie squeaked up a storm and you swatted him away.
“Why’d you do that?!” You turned on him only to freeze when you saw how much distress painted him.
He silenced and his black orbs almost looked like they might shed tears.
He was scared.
He must have thought you drowned.
He didn’t understand how the rebreather worked.
How could he?
You tackled him in a hug and chirped as many apologies as you could muster.
He returned a few and curled around you clearly blocking you from the water.
“I’m okay. I’m okay.” You repeated and petted his carapace. “I’m sorry, but look… I need…”
Turning, you saw your rebreather floating on the water.
“Donnie.” You lifted his head so he’d look at you.
He blinked at you in a withered state.
“Can you get that?” You pointed towards the object.
When he didn’t look, you pushed his chin until he finally relented.
“That. Get that.”
He took a little unsteady breath before he got up. Very aware of you, he watched you nervously with little flicks of his pupil toward the pond.
“I’ll stay right here.” You nodded down and shifted your ass to show you were staying put.
Though he couldn’t glean the meaning, he searched you for a long moment before chancing it. He darted away as fast as he could, diving only in the water long enough to grab the piece before returning to you with a latent spray. You rubbed some off your face before taking the rebreather to show him.
“I can breathe with this.” You poured out the pond water and wiped the mouthpiece the best you could before putting it on.
You hummed for him to look and he did with a dart of his head.
It was a bird-like concern and you exaggerated breathing through it. A wheezy noise came out of its use on dry land and had Donnie bristling. You nodded your head so he could tell you were fine and he only relented with an anxious chirp.
Taking the item out of your mouth, you looked at him. You knew he liked swimming, but not once had he tried to get you to join him. He often slipped away to do it while you were otherwise occupied. It was both a testament to how settled he was and how the entire dome felt like his own secured space. It also made it seem like being in the water was his own version of self-care.
Donnie’s thigh was close to yours and a drip of water streaked from your leg to his. It reminded you of the many watery moments you’d shared from rain to showers. Actual memories giving way to seen ones, your next thought was a video of two softshells spinning around each other underwater.
You wanted to do that.
You already satisfied his instinct, but you wanted to do it to the fullest.
You only had to convince him, which was annoying, but not impossible. Brushing some errant droplets away, you placed the rebreather between your teeth before nodding to the water. Donnie immediately stiffened as a barrier and you sent him a honeyed look since you couldn’t properly verbalize. He watched on, ready to stop you and you only brushed your hands over his arms.
Flexing muscles rippled under the dotted moisture and he relaxed a certain amount. You’d been angrily separated for about a day, but your supposed brush with death had made him forget those concerns. His primary directive was your safety and you curled closer to him. He gave a faint churr and the dip of his lids said he missed this. Carefully resting your forehead to his cheek, he chirped a few sweet sounds among the rolling vibration and you settled your weight against him.
You were mostly dry by the time you moved again. Muscles loose from lounging in the sun, you slid the putty of your body towards the water. Donnie’s hackles rose a little too slowly, but you squeezed his hand for reassurance. He didn’t exactly hold it back, but his fingers twitched as you got your toes in the water. You paused there, flicking droplets with foot flexes and looked back at him with metered excitement.
It took him a while to think, but he eventually broke apart from you to slip into the water. He then floated, his eyes and carapace visible just far enough off shore where he could fit. You were slow in shuffling down, pressing against leaf blades and mud until your waist was submerged. He kicked off and his arms barred around you to lift himself out of the water. You touched the rebreather to the tip of his beak and he gave a faint churr at the reassurance.
Taking it as a go ahead, you pushed off a bit more, where he hovered around you like a hungry shark. You got off the bank and pumped your arms in an obvious show that you could swim. Donnie continued to circle, first out of concern until each rounding seemed to change. More fluid motions, you saw hints of the dance he’d attempted in your apartment once and it took you counting as if readying yourself to jump into a skipping rope before you kicked off to swim with him.
Clunky in comparison, he didn’t seem to fault you where you couldn’t keep up and instead swam to match you. You felt bad you couldn’t compare to his elegance, but the excitement of the moment wrinkled your gaze. Heart leaping, you chanced darting towards him. He first playfully dodged you as he examined your swimming strength before he too took his time breaking the circling to chance brushing you. All coy flipper flaps, they were questions answered by the dance. Instinct took your boyfriend in a dive and you sucked in a final breath through your nose before pursuing.
His eyes shifted to an uncharacteristic white from the nictitating membrane and he immediately broke his rounding to examine you. You waved at him to show you had your facilities and he pressed his beak to various spots of your body to assure himself you were safe. He then came around to your face to send his confusion there and you tapped the rebreather in hopes he would understand that it was the thing giving you the ability to breathe.
Though there was no pupil to tell for sure, you saw him study the way the bubbles would emerge from it and he was satisfied even if the mechanics were lost on him. Doing your best to stay submerged, you kicked lightly against one of his thighs to give yourself momentum and he gave immediate chase to twirl around you with ease. You watched the sun’s rays shine off of his scales as he twisted and the whole of him was so stunning you felt like time slowed.
In a quick spin, he spiraled the water and a little current twirled you around him. He seemed to similarly be enjoying the view because he stilled momentarily before he came into you with purpose. Finally catching your body, he held loosely to your hips and you reached between you to grab his cock sleeve. With learned ease, you undid the latch and pulled it enough away that it’d float to the top. Some sort of mechanism Donnie had installed, you both watched the object fly to the yellow tinted sky before you came together.  
Donnie had some swipes and bobs to him as he cascaded around you and tugged you to the bottom. Not deep enough for the pressure to really shift, you still had a bit of anxiety and snuck a glance up to see how far you’d have to swim if something were to happen to the rebreather. Donnie nuzzled between your shoulder blades as you did and you read the move as soothing. His palms slid up and down your arms as if testing and he soon settled himself behind you for what you’d seen to be the preferred positioning.
Preparing yourself, you knew he’d bite you to hold you in place. His beak skimmed up from your back towards your mating mark and you arched into him to show you were ready. He only brushed the spot before nuzzling into the side of your face and you felt a sort of heated confusion as his cockhead bobbed eager against your ass. The water filled your ears for a near soundless churning and you could only look at your partner confused.
He held a knowledgeable air as if this were his field of expertise and he disappeared from your line of vision. Still behind you, you felt him cascade down your arms with tiny pumps of his body to keep you both submerged and in place. Now at the pond’s floor, it kicked up some silt and you closed your eyes to save them. It enhanced his little touches and he trended toward your sides. He then gripped hard which you took as a signal of readiness and he trended his glans down your ass crack to what lay beneath.
You flexed your thighs in a tease and he wasn’t the least bit perturbed to stroke himself with those as opposed to your sex. He pumped a few lazy times where his glans breathed life between your legs. Your body heat coaxed them to spread, but the moment he pushed through to the other side, the cold water caused them to recede and you chanced looking down to see it. It came with stinging around the murky water, but you watched the gabbing nature of his spade shaped head flex.
It had you spreading on a backstroke where you let your eyes closed in time with him lining himself up. He swiped heavy, dragging his awaiting glans over the full of your slit before he pushed to find your entrance. It split for him ready with the water and titillating excitement of doing the deed underwater and you felt him press in at an achingly slow pace.
Unlike his usual rutting self, you squirmed at the fill and it almost seemed like he wanted to take his time in setting his spread glans. All to lock you best, he eventually settled himself deep inside and you thought you could almost feel the stretched prongs of his glans catch your pulsing walls. They’d hold you tight and ensure you’d be bred and you whine heavily into your rebreather.
It resulted in bubbles tickling your cheek and you felt some motion. That meant you couldn’t open your eyes and you were lowered until the soft mud at the bottom claimed your torso. Supple, it clung to your pointed nipples as Donnie settled above in his mount. He was using the whole of him to keep your body in place and with a few little kicks to make sure his cock was as deep as it would go, he stilled.
You waited.
You waited for a thrust.
You waited for a push.
You waited for any movement at all.
Instead he held his position firm.
You could almost feel the disturbed muck particles settle around you and there was something odd about the buoyancy. Donnie didn’t need to fight it for however his body was made up and only you had a metered weightlessness in comparison. He had you caged in place, with his plastron poured over your back and his arms holding your waist tight along with his cock. A decorated aquarium, you were the free floating plant whose roots were woven into the bespeckled rocks.
Then you felt a slow gurgle of heat.
Something like the trickle of a tapped spring, there was no eager rush but instead the tap had been turned on low. Your cunt clenched near the source and it took you a few seconds too long to realize it was his cum. A little more than the anticipatory leak, it reminded you of the way he held you down. A relaxed pace was set and it poured an even stream. He wasn’t desperate to dump as much into you as fast as possible as if you’d escape.
The implications struck you. 
You weren’t just held in place, you were stuck.
There was no exact reason for it, but something about the persistent, but slow fill made you believe he was going to hold you here for however long he was able.
In any of your studies, had you ever looked into how long underwater mating took place?
You couldn’t remember it.
All the articles had been so clinical.
Parks service notes or wildlife examinations weren’t some kind of porno.
Donnie hadn’t stopped ejaculating.
You were already submerged, but something about the whole thing made you feel as though you were trapped in a small room rapidly filling with water. 
You squirmed the slightest amount and it proved to be the only wrong action because Donnie’s teeth warned at your shoulder.
Your heart thumped loud in your packed ears.
This was different than marking possession. 
He hadn’t bitten you because he hadn’t felt the need.
You hadn’t fought back so he hadn’t felt compelled to hold you in place more than necessary.
You were stuck and couldn’t move.
Fear lighting up receptors in your brain and body, you shuddered ever so slightly and Donnie only boxed you more in as if you were cold.
You wanted to whine.
More bubbles appeared from your mask as your breathing picked up.
Cum continued to pour in.
No, pour was too fast.
Trickle was too slow.
Labeling it felt like palming metaphorical prison walls. You were looking for the escape hatch or even a barred window to shove your face into for a single breath of fresh air. It would stave off your eventual drowning. This was a puzzle. You only needed to find the key out. You were stuck in an escape room, except the means to succeed felt like fertilization.
Your cunt pulsed at the thought and you could feel Donnie’s churr more than hear it through the water.
Stuck for what felt like a long haul, your eyes cracked open to find the dust had actually settled. You were topped at the bottom of a pond and the weight of the water was a caressing one. An odd partner to Donnie’s heat, it was the good cop that told you niceties as Donnie’s cock threatened otherwise. Tossed out praises of plump stomachs and waddling walks were contrasted by a nine month sentence and you wanted to sob.
You’d asked for this.
You initiated underwater sex. 
It wasn’t anything like you imagined.
The flow continued.
Even and determined, you felt it fill your baby room and then inflate against his cock. The other fat intruder in your space, it felt no need to breathe and welcomed the suffocation. It held as a tight seal and presumably the feeling of his own body-warmed spunk caused Donnie to readjust.
A barely there press of his hips, he made sure he had you sealed up the best he could without his knot.
It was his spread holding him fully and nothing could wrench it from you.
With no off switch, the dump persisted.
It grew like a lead weight inside you and you eventually felt as though it was the thing holding you down. Pressure mounting by the second, your other organs felt like they were being shoved out of the way and you desperately wished you could pant. Losing sanity for no exact reason, you dug your teeth hard into the rubber seal of your rebreather. Both to keep it in place and to keep yourself from lashing out, you clawed your nails into the ground where they were free.
Donnie adjusted again and movement felt like steam escaping a pressure cooker.
Sperm would have floated thick from where it was desperate to escape.
He then clogged the leak and relaxed to keep forcing more into you.
You spasmed.
Not involuntary, but because you thought you might burst, Donnie immediately made good on his biting promise.
It came directly to your mating mark and it took the very last of your brain cells to keep from screaming the rebreather right out of your mouth. You were doomed to pop like a water balloon and your tears felt hot against the cool water.
It was everywhere.
All consuming.
Either water or cum.
With no end trying to invade you.
You imagined white particulates flowing from out the cracks of your nose.
The empty shell of your body bloated and sperm would emerge wherever it could.
Delirious and hot, you wondered why the you of just two days ago, wanted this.
Why had you recreated the point of fertilization over and over?
Why had you obsessed over sperm and egg?
It was too much.
It also hadn’t stopped.
It couldn’t have.
Not with the way you felt.
Not with all the heaviness of your hips.
Not with the way your body squashed like a seal against the slimy sea floor.
Your consciousness slipped.
Not passing out, but feeling as though you floated away from your body, you saw yourself mounted.
You saw the humanoid version of two softshells doing what nature compelled them.
They were settled and one would come away to grow the clutch.
You’d lay eggs near the shore where you’d dig into the same soft kind of soil you were currently buried.
Your hatchlings would fight free and you’d watch on, unable to help because that’s what instinct dictated.
They needed to fend for themselves.
Strong genes.
They’d survive.
You saw both the future and the current scene.
An odd diorama, the time now seemed as stuck as you.
The only darts were fish far away, only now brave enough now that the predator had settled.
There was also a sparkle of sunlight.
It was beautiful in a way.
It just never seemed to end.
The future tapered off, washed out by the water.
You didn’t know how much time had actually passed, but it seemed like an eternity until Donnie animated.
It slammed you right back into your body where you struggled as soon as he released you. In a flash, water rushed around you like a geyser and you erupted onto the bank. Spitting out the rebreather, You gasped, starving, on fresh air and couldn’t manage to get off your dense belly. Elbows sinking into the wet shore, you coughed for the sake of it and only felt a dribble ooze between your legs.
You imagined that would be as endless as whatever you endured.
Numb and weak, you gave up clawing to collapse.
Cheek in mud you’d kicked up, the biodome was blissfully unaware to your plight and continued on as a luxurious space. 
Something scalding splashed your lower back. 
First a jolt to your oddly taxed body, it melted muscles that had been stationary until you put together what it was. 
As much as he designated his turtle status, he’d still spoken of marking once. 
Fulfilling one feral instinct must have bred another. 
He peed out a surprising amount considering he hadn’t taken a drink, but you also hadn’t seen him use the restroom since his heat started. Stuck on what seemed like a conundrum, you could think of how that’d make it especially potent. Other than touch, little more came to your dulled senses and you almost enjoyed the heat of it. Unlike the one that had scorched the earth of your interior, this one mimicked hot stones that your battered body almost needed. 
Flowing along your spine, it pooled warmth in the dip in the lowest part of your back. Stopped by your butt, it trailed to the sides where it dripped off. Not clingy, the cascade then disappeared and you supposed there was a certain level of intimacy to this. Something about sharing fluids and then the larger idea of marking that appealed to Donnie made sense. 
The stream stopped and you could almost see Donnie lost with the whites still consuming his eyes from dark urges. 
He then appeared to prove you wrong and you only stared at him with a murky gaze. He dipped his beak down to nudge you. You made some sort of sound and it must have been a worrisome one. You also hadn’t moved which was probably troubling for him. He was gentle in pulling you further up the bank.
The drag made you feel like you were trailing white slime.
You were a slug and the sun was just as intrusive as your partner.
They’d meant to eradicate you so you curled up into yourself and eventually something came overtop you.
It made no sense as to what, but the harsh light was offset so you gave up your last will and succumbed to sleep.
You never really dreamed during Donnie’s heat.
It was the first thought that occurred to you as you surfaced.
It felt like an ambiguous revelation and you groped for more.
It only resulted in grass between your fingers and a brush of fabric overtop.
That wasn’t your nest’s make-up.
Your eyes were open then and you saw white cotton dyed with orange.
It took you a few more seconds to blink off exhaustion and pull down the sheet that had been thrown over your body. The dome’s lattice sat dutifully overhead, but the sun was no longer glaring you down. It was gone somewhere, walking its usual trip across the sky and ready to clock out.
You never had asked Donnie if anyone in the upper floors could see down in here.
It seemed like a moot point as you’d already been naked for days, but you still wondered.
With an ache, you sat up from sleeping on the hard ground and felt your abdomen pulse.
Reaching down and pressing a hand to the usual curve of it, it didn’t seem out of sorts, but the memories of what had transpired underwater rushed you.
You then snapped side to side where you found Donnie awake, laying beside you, and patiently monitoring.
You tackled him onto his carapace and shouted in his face, “What was that?!”
He peeped, unsure.
“That was so much!” You released him and hovered over top. “Too much cum!”
His head lifted to watch you closely.
“Where do you keep it all?” You felt crazed and fell onto your hip beside him.
Freed, he perked further up and his gaze roved as he examined you.
You caught his chin and tipped him up to kiss him. His muscles went slack against you and you had to chase him back down to the ground. You felt a similar toll on him and gave up making sense of it all. Donnie was his own kind of being and, while you could make educated guesses, he couldn’t be so easily compared.
You pressed with purpose, trying to siphon a response from him where he could not. He allowed it and stunted churrs broke as he lost oxygen during each kiss. It caused him to pant against you where you swallowed up his sounds with a dip of your tongue. Siphoning off this life force in contrast to the one he’d forced into you, you wound your tongue around his with desperation.
Each time you came up he squeaked and gasped against the supposed suffocation. “You literally spent hours fucking me underwater. Don’t pretend like you can’t breathe.”
You scolded him with your tongue and teeth and he met you with as much open mouth enthusiasm as he could muster. However the act was conveyed to him, he clearly found it a pleasurable one and you were moving farther onto his plastron to get the necessary height. He then chased you on one of your head lifting retreats and you berated him by crushing him down into the grass.
He churred needy, but you made out at most, until he began to chirp deliriously. 
Only then did you finally throw a leg over his torso.
The sides of his plastron nipped your thighs and he nervously palmed your hips to push you down where he needed you.
Biting down on his tongue for a hard suck, he gave a sharp mating call and finally you slid far enough back.
You bumped each other in a grab to unlatch the sleeve. 
Once freed it was a quick lift and drop before his cock was buried into you.
Muscles battered, you wilted slightly and he lifted up to bend and chase your lips.
You caught his head the best you could to drink him in and upon the next slide of your tongue against his, he came hard and fast.
Moaning into his mouth, your eyes rolled back. “How-!?”
He ground you down onto him and shoved his mouth open against yours.
“-does-?” A press stole your words and you kissed him the best you could under his insistence. “-this turn you on? You don’t even get it-!”
He refused to let you have more and you toppled over where he began to roll his hips straight through his orgasm.
He was perfectly positioned and the ache of having never cum crushed you with a million times more force than the pond ever had. “Oh, fuck! Donnie!”
Another mating call for your excitement, you found your arms and encircled him to hold on.
He readjusted himself for an even better connection and you cried out his name again and again as targeted pleasure wound.
With a slight nudge to your cheek, you turned into him and he kissed you.
While nothing had, you felt like everything stopped.
You then watched as Donnie pulled his head back to look you over with a semi-focused gaze. “G-good…”
“D-Donnie?!”
For however he was there, he also wasn’t and curled closer to you. “Mm, feels good, love.”
“Donnie!” You pulled him into another kiss and he gave it with practiced ease.
He mewled a little to reluctantly part. “You… okay?”
“Good, so good! Is it… is your heat almost over…? It hasn’t been long at all!” You sent your attention downward and didn’t feel the thick of his knot.
“Hmm?” He drew out the hum and dipped his arms to hike your legs up.
It sent him to even more of your favorite spots and you babbled how much you missed it.
“Good mate.” He groaned, feeling you squeeze him. “A-Amazing.”
“I-“ Your voice bobbed with your body. “-don’t-” You felt your chest bounce. “-understand!”
“Gonna cum for me…?” He slurred affection.
“M-missed you!” You tried to find a better hold on him as your orgasm loomed close. “I missed you! I missed you!” 
“Missed…” The word struck him odd and his hips didn’t stop, but his brow ridge creased. “M-mating…season…?”
“Yes!” You sobbed in pleasure and response.
“Are you…?” He seemed to look you over with the most comprehension yet.
“Good! Incredible! We’re good! So, so good! It’s been the best!!” You were so close you felt your neurons misfiring on your tongue.
“My heart…” With a final hoist of your legs, he plowed your g-spot and you came hard.
It wrung your mind out and the dripping wet juices came down in your vision as cerebral stardust.
“Love you!” He shouted through the void.
“L-love!!” You drooled and felt him grunt with his own orgasm.
No knot.
All you could think was his knot hadn’t expanded.
What did come down was the drawbridge of his body.
Moat accessible, you were still cozy in the castle and panted after what felt like a triathlon.
The rush of your own blood ringing in your ears, the weight of your mate became too much and you gave a wobbly push with your arms against his.
He gave a broken chirp and abated some of his weight where he didn’t seem able to fully retreat.
“Do-nnie…!”
He chirped again and nosed close to you.
You tilted your head to find darkened eyes staring back. “Don…?”
His lids closed as if he hadn’t heard you.
He’d surfaced for only a moment, a dull thought came.
You had no idea why, but he’d momentarily come to.
What a nice surprise.
In and out of attention, you were eventually carried back to the nest. Placed with as much care as incoordination could afford, you curled up against a pillow. Donnie kicked up some things for the sake of it and eventually settled down beside you with a few exhausted cheeps.
You mostly slept until a few hours before your call with S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N.
Scheduled for noon day five, you had a lot of cleaning up to do when you woke. There was the fact that you’d tracked half the pond’s mud into your otherwise pristine nest. Donnie had a minor fit over you tossing brown stained sheets, but settled when you brought in the new ones that he had scented prior for this instance. You were barely able to keep him from mucking those up and somehow got him to rinse off in the outdoor shower.
With him mostly clean, he scampered off where his mind demanded he fix his nest and you took your turn. Actually washing yourself in contrast to your mate, you found the tenderness where he’d bitten your shoulder the day before. It was sadly left subjected to its environment so you scrubbed as best you could and hoped those antibiotics worked amongst the pond scum. Refreshed, you hung a towel over your head and air dried while you downed water like you hadn’t had one in days and ate with a sudden starvation that you hadn’t known was percolating.
Donnie’s season was something else and you were perched on a pillow right at the edge of the nest when you dialed your phone.
S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. picked up after one ring. “Good news!?”
You leaned away from his volume. “Hey, Shelly.”
“Y/N!”
“What do you even mean by that?” You chuckled and toed at where Donnie was laid out by your feet.
Your mate looked at you with a sleepy expression from all his hard nest work.
“I mean…!” S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. started and stopped. “I mean I guess you did call me exactly on time so that’s a good sign.”
“It’s going good?” You clarified.
“Yeah?”
“Yup, everything accounted for minus Donnie killing a fish and trying to give it to me like a cat and a whole underwater fiasco.”
“Did he Black Lagoon you?” S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. fussed.
“No, no. It was a totally different thing you’ll think is gross, that we didn’t guess.”
“Oh huh…” Your son hummed.
“But food’s good. Water’s good. All supplies, yeah. I could crush some fast food, but that’s just like the ‘please feed me carbs’ side of my body from all the working out.”
“Hm, hm.” S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. gave a scholarly hum.
“It’s good.”
“You sound happy.” He softened on the line.
“I am… Donnie… kind of… surfaced? Yesterday. It’s  hard to explain, but he spoke and was present for a few minutes.”
“Weird!” S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. stretched the word out.
“Yeah. Now he’s back to being his old feral heat self though.” You finally reached him in a stretch and he gave a faint chirp as you tapped his arm.
“Gotcha! Well… I don’t want any details so as long as you both are happy…!”
You laughed. “Thank you for worrying.”
“Yup! Always!”
“We’re still having our Donnie-free weekend after this?”
S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. revved so loud you could hear it. “Yes! You owe me!! Sleep over at my house!!!”
“I do. After the hospital and the whole you not being able to come over because Leo is terrified of you.”
“He cried like a baby!” S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. sang. “He’s so funny.”
“Shelly!” You pretended to scold. “Stop! He was a broken man!”
“Broken man scared of a kid like half his age!” S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. cackled.
You booed him.
Coming down from clucks, S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. sighed. “Yeah, well. He’s fine now so whatever! Anyway, we’re gonna have so much fun! Play all the video games! Make up for lost time!”
“Why do I feel like by lost time you mean all the way back to when you weren’t ever a baby.”
“Okay, I may have one or two story books…”
“My wicked son.”
“My patient mother!” S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. cooed back.
You chuckled.
“Plus, isn’t it practice?”
“Hopefully not anytime soon.” You tapped Donnie again and this time his lids stayed shut.
“Yeah, but still.”
“Nah. You aren’t practice. You’re my first.”
The quiet ticked on for so long that you pulled your phone away to make sure the call was still connected.
“Shelly?”
“I-I-I-!” He blubbered.
You weren’t sure if that was good or bad. “You okay? I’m sorry if I said something wrong…”
“No!” He hiccupped and snorted as if he had a congested nose.
You made a sad, unsure sound.
Donnie’s head came up.
“No, no!” You heard a clink of metal and imagined S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. was wiping his face. “I’m not upset! I guess… I guess I just always thought… I mean our family thing has always been a joke so… Is calling you ‘mom’ insensitive? What am I-!?”
“It’s not a joke!”
He quieted.
“It was… Obviously, it was at first, but Shelly, you are my son. I don’t care. I’ll sign the adoption papers even though you’re an adult. If anything were ever to happen to Donnie and me…” You stared hard at Donnie who’d come closer as the conversation turned. “Even if we stopped dating, you’d still be my son. Even if you moved on, I think I’d always think of you that way.”
There was another bout of silence and you felt anxious.
Donnie rested his chin against your thigh.
You pet him reassuringly.
“I-I’m so-sorry…!” S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. eventually choked out.
“No, I am. I’m upsetting you and I can’t be there to-!”
“No!” S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. screamed off the speaker before he returned. “No! All these ‘no’s haven’t been complaints! I don’t know how to process this! I’m saying stop being sorry! I’m overwhelmed! These emotions are confusing and new!!”
“O-oh…”
“Yeah!” S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. came down with a huff of air though none of it translated on the receiver. “I love it. I love you. I’m just… you know, experiencing familial emotions for the first time in my life and freaking out a little!”
“Ah!”
“Yeah!”
“I want to apologize again!”
“Don’t!” S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. sighed. “It’s good… Ugh I feel weird though. I like, want to run around, but I also don’t so it’s all… ew!”
“Gross human feelings.” You chastised. “Like love!” 
“Yeah.”
“Welcome to… being a child? Or having a family? Which sounds better?”
“Both?” He seemed just as unsure.
“You going to be alright?”
“Yes!” S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N. scoffed. “It’s a happy thing! Just weird! New weird!”
You smiled. “Okay, okay. Text me if you need anything.”
“That should be my thing! Stop! Subverting our cool new official roles!”
“You’re not some caregiver!”
“Blah blah blah!! No more emotions thank you! I’m hanging up! Love you! Bye!”
“Love you too! Bye-!”
He hung up.
You pulled the phone away and laughed as it timed out.
Donnie chirped curiously beside you.
“Our son is so much like us and not.” You tucked the phone away and then scooped up your mate’s face. “That’s being parents, I guess.”
Donnie churred a little even though his face said he was confused.
You kissed the tip of his nose. “Look at you. You weren’t threatened by the phone call at all. You’re so comfortable now! You don’t even get jealous of Shelly anymore!” Throwing your weight, you bowled him over.
He fell with you, chirping happily in the sheets.
“I’m proud of you. Proud to be with you.” You told him as you came down.
He leaned forward obviously ready to receive a kiss.
“I’d be more proud if you could figure out something simple like kissing back!” You shook your head and gave him one anyway.
He gave a mating call against your lips and you returned it into his face. You moved to wrestle him and he was in just the right mood for it. Tumbling, there was a distinct lack of sexual drive to it and he only gave into being playful with you. You giggled all the while and he eventually collapsed back to let you win which you nipped at him for. He clicked a protest, but it devolved into happy chirps as you threw a pillow over his face.
You lasted a few hours until you made love again and it felt like a whole affair. Intimate and careful, there were contrasts amongst the drive. You weren’t sure if the last time had been such a blur or if this was the true norm, but you cherished every second. You got to watch the deep satisfaction pass over your mate’s face during his release and you etched it into your mind. The whole of him was yours and you cradled him close long after he’d given up chirping curiously at your subdued change.
When you awoke late that night, you were buried in a divot that had both of you pressed flush. With a bit of sheet pulled up to protect you from his pectoral scutes, you were otherwise tucked in together and you looked up at his sleep slack face. Feeling then specifically how connected you were, you nudged him lightly if only for him to see it as well.
He roused first with a few concerns, then surveying your happy mood brought sugary churrs. You kissed into his cheek lazily and pressed close to him. In a thump, you sensed your hearts beating together and you knew this would carry far beyond when Donnie’s season ended. Like last time, he’d known you’d drawn closer, but this time he would understand why. He’d know as soon as he saw you consciously that any separation that had still been lingering was eradicated. There was no longer some distinction between him and this supposed other persona. You were all his on all levels and nothing more would pull you apart.
💜NEXT💜
Never enough love for all that my betas put up with @tmntxthings and @thepinkpanther83
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In October this year, I will be running my first marathon to raise money for Secondary1st - a UK charity that helps fund research into the prevention, diagnosis and causes of secondary (metastatic) breast cancer and the development of more effective treatments. Secondary breast cancer is hugely underfunded and currently there is no cure.
I will be running the Royal Victoria Marathon (in British Columbia) in memory of my Mum, Lisa, who very sadly died of secondary breast cancer on July 1st, 2022 at age 59. My Mum's positivity, strength, and enjoyment of life inspires me every day and has helped me to deal with my own grief.
Running 42km is going to be a huge challenge but only a fraction of the challenge that my Mum was faced with. While I'm running to raise money for an incredibly important cause, I'm also completing the event to celebrate her as a wonderful person, who I think about every day.
Thank you so much for any donation you are able to give!
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Louis has donated £1,000 toward Eleanor Dinnadge’s efforts to raise money for breast cancer research, in memory of her and brother Matt Dinnadge’s mother, Lisa.
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Matt Vines has donated as well.
More information and donation link HERE.
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Happy 47th birthday Scottish TV presenter  DJ and model. Jenni Falconer, born February 12th 1976 in Glasgow.
I always like when Jenni’s birthday comes around, not just because it gives me a chance to admire this Scottish beauty, but I always post the pics of her wsaring that saltire style dress!
Falconer spent her formative years in Bishopbriggs and Milngavie, before the family relocated to  South of England when she was seven.
Jenni Falconer was introduced to the world of TV in 1994, when she appeared as a contestant on Blind Date. Her good looks, bubbly personality and easy manner in front of the camera were noted by BBC Scotland, which invited the then university student to do some presenting. She spent 3 years cutting her teeth with Dougie Vipond in the show  The Big Country
It was in 2000 that she got her big break, when she was asked to host GMTV’s new entertainment segment.
Jenni ended up interviewing some of Hollywood’s biggest stars among them Tom Cruise and Will Smith in exotic locations. A self-confessed work-a-holic, she’s fronted a wide range of programmes, including The National Lottery Big Draw and Sky One show Cirque De Celebrite. When she isn’t travelling the world on assignment, Jenni, who shares her London base with former Cutting It boyfriend James Midgely and her dog Alfie, likes to keep fit by horse riding Jenni and James have a daughter, Ella born in 2011.
In July 2020 Falconer became the new running coach in the Start 2 Run app, guiding and motivating others to start and keep on running. 
Jenni has supported a number of charities,she was celebrity patron of the charity Breast Cancer 2000. In 2012, Falconer took part in her first London Marathon, raising money for CLIC Sargent,  she has run the race 8 times now, raising money for The Children's Trust the UK's leading charity for children with brain injury and neurodisability, and Cancer Research UK. Jenni is currently in training for this years London Marathon in April having returned from injury, my wee sis is hoping to run in the race, but is carrying an injury herself just now.
Falconer is a host on Smooth Radio, she also has a podcast series, RunPod guiding and motivating others to start and keep on running and welcomes special guests who share that passion for running.
Though she’s spent most of her adult life in the south of England, the presenter who’s proud of her Scottish heritage - still thinks of Glasgow as home.  
The final pic is probably Jenni's most recent just 8 days ago at Twickenham, with hubbie, actor James Midgley where she helped cheer Scotland to victory in the Calcutta Cup 6 nations match.  
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Pink Week - Amy Rose Charity Marathon!
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Getting Geared up for Pink Week 2023! The idea is simple, I play a handful of Sonic the Hedgehog games as Amy Rose, and as more donations for the Nation Breast Cancer Foundation come in, the more games are added to the week's list! This even kicks off 10/15 @ roughly 11:30PM Pacific, hope to see ya then! Donation milestones:
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Donations are live right now!!
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trampgong23 · 2 years
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What Are Normal Testosterone Levels? Ages, Males, Females, And More
The Organon group in the Netherlands were the first to isolate the hormone, identified in a May 1935 paper "On Crystalline Male Hormone from Testicles ". They named the hormone testosterone, from the stems of testicle and sterol, and the suffix of ketone. The structure was worked out by Schering's Adolf Butenandt, at the Chemisches Institut of Technical University in Gdańsk. This might cause acne, subcutaneous fat in face decreases. Effects before birth are divided into two categories, classified in relation to the stages of development. The plasma levels of various steroids significantly increase after masturbation in men and the testosterone levels correlate to those levels. Before puberty, effects of rising androgen levels occur in both boys and girls. These include adult-type body odor, increased oiliness of skin and hair, acne, pubarche , axillary hair , growth spurt, accelerated bone maturation, and facial hair. Usually you'll get a total testosterone test as a screening test. To diagnose certain conditions, doctors sometimes look only at free testosterone levels. One study tested the effects of this herb on infertile men and found a 17% increase in testosterone levels and a 167% increase in sperm count . It also affects other important body functions not directly related to sex like maintaining normal blood counts, bone strength, muscle mass, and mood. Testosterone is used as a medication for the treatment of male hypogonadism, gender dysphoria, and certain types of breast cancer. This is known as hormone replacement therapy or testosterone replacement therapy , which maintains serum testosterone levels in the normal range. Decline of testosterone production with age has led to interest in androgen replacement therapy. It is unclear if the use of testosterone for low levels due to aging is beneficial or harmful. So, let’s dig deep to learn what nature has to offer us. Building muscle mass triggers the body to produce testosterone. By Niagaraxl , endurance exercises like cycling for hours or running marathons can actually reduce your testosterone level. Increased testicular cancer hasn't been reported, though. The studies also concluded that supplementing with testosterone significantly increases lean muscle mass, reduces body fat, and makes the body more sensitive to insulin. Data from these same studies suggested that with no change to exercise or diet, just adding supplemental testosterone can reduce body weight by up to 11.5 pounds in two years. Topical testosterone, specifically gels, creams and liquids, may transfer to others. Women and children are most at risk of harmful effects from contact with them. You should take care to cover the area and wash your hands well after putting on the medication. Be careful not to let the site with the topical TT touch others because that could transfer the drug. It is bound 65% to sex hormone-binding globulin and 33% bound weakly to albumin. In males, testosterone is synthesized primarily in Leydig cells. The number of Leydig cells in turn is regulated by luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone . In addition, the amount of testosterone produced by existing Leydig cells is under the control of LH, which regulates the expression of 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase.
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LOUISE BUTCHER // RUNNER
“She is a Breast Cancer survivor who started running topless to bring awareness to the stigma over mastectomy scars. She gained popularity in 2023 when she did the virtual London Marathon (in a person record of 4:46). She said there were “double takes, shock and people saying ‘wow’ and clapping” and, as she got closer to home, “there was more support and people clapping”. She also ran the Barnstaple Marathon topless in October 2023.”
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Holidays 3.3
Holidays
Africa Environment Day
Bonza Bottler Day
Caregiver Appreciation Day
Common Fumitory Day (French Republic)
Creation Day
Discovery Day (a.k.a. Magellan Day; Guam)
Ear Day (Japan)
Family Day (Mexico)
First Sitting of the People's Majlis (Maldives)
Flag Day (Kyrgyzstan)
Free Pass Day
If Pets Had Thumbs Day
International Ear Care Day
International Omega-3 Awareness Day
International Sex Workers Rights Day
International TAPS Day
International Threesome Day
International Tripawd Awareness Day
International Writers’ Day
I Want You To Be Happy Day
Japanese Girl's Day (Hawaii)
Kentucky Meat Shower Day
Liberation and Freedom Day (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Martyr’s Day (Malawi)
Minnie the Moocher Day
Missouri Compromise Day
MIstress Day (China)
Moonlighting Day
Mother’s Day (Republic of Georgia)
National Academy of Sciences Day
National Accounts Receivable Appreciation Day
National Anthem Day
National Deskfast Day
National Dry Cleaning Day
National Hair Removal Day
National Henry L. Hooks Day
National Jackson Day
National Rita Day
National Robin Day
Navy Reserve Day
Nintendo Switch Day
Peach Blossom Day (Hunan, China)
Princess Festival (ポケモンひなまつり; Pokémon Girls' Festival)
Read the Ingredients Day
Samjinnal (Korea)
Simplify Your Life Day
Sportsmen's Day (Egypt)
Star-Spangled Banner Day
Stop the Epidemic of Police Violence Day
Talk in the Third Person Day
TB-303 Appreciation Day
Teacher’s Day (Lebanon)
Top Gun Day
Triple Negative Breast Cancer Awareness Day
Unity Day (Sudan)
Veterans Day (East Timor)
Wangari Maathai Day
What If Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs Day
World Birth Defects Day
World Dyscalculia Day
World Healing Day
World Hearing Day
World Wildlife Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Canadian Bacon Day
Heart-Accelerating Sodium-Enriched Cold Cuts Day (a.k.a. Cold Cuts Day)
International Irish Whiskey Day
International School Meals Day
International Tripel Day
National Cold Cuts Day
National Moscow Mule Day
National Mulled Wine Day
National Noodle Day
National Soup It Forward Day
Pork Belly Day (a.k.a. Samgyeopsal Day; South Korea)
33 Flavors Day
1st Sunday in March
Children’s Day (New Zealand) [1st Sunday]
Clean Up Australia Day [1st Sunday]
Daughters’ and Sons’ Day [1st Sunday]
Finisher’s Medal Day [1st Sunday]
Girl Scout Sabbath [1st Sunday]
Grandmothers’ Day (Belgium; France) [1st Sunday]
International Children’s Day of Broadcasting [1st Sunday]
Namesake Day [1st Sunday of Name Week]
National Day of Reflection (UK) [1st Sunday]
Vasaloppet (Sweden) [1st Sunday]
World Japanese Spitz Day (Japan) [1st Sunday]
Weekly Holidays beginning March 3 (1st Week)
Celebrate Your Name Week [1st Full Week]
Chocolate Chip Cookie Week [thru 3.9]
Dental Assistant Recognition Week [1st Full Week]
Groundwater Awareness Week [1st Full Week]
International Women’s Week [thru 3.9]
National Consumer Protection Week [thru 3.9]
National Newspapers in Education Week [1st Full Week]
National Procrastination Week [thru 3.9]
National Professional Pet Sitters Week [1st Full Week]
National Schools Social Work Week [thru 3.9]
No More Week [thru 3.9]
Read An E-Book Week [1st Full Week]
Save Your Vision Week [1st Full Week]
Teen Tech Week [1st Saturday]
Women in Construction Week [thru 3.9]
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week [From Sunday before 3.8 to Next Sunday]
Words Matter Week [1st Full Week]
Independence & Related Days
Alista (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]
Azrania (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]
Celebration of the Throne Day (Morocco)
Florida Statehood Day (#27; 1845)
Liberation Day (Bulgaria)
Myrotania (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]
Obscurium (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]
Scoria (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]
Festivals Beginning March 3, 2024
Coffee Fest New York (New York, New York) [thru 3.5]
Kosher Chili Cookout (Houston, Texas)
San Diego Restaurant Week (San Diego, California) [thru 3.10]
Tokyo Marathon (Tokyo, Japan)
Feast Days
Aegir’s Day (a..k.a. Ægir, brewer to the gods of Asgard; Celtic Sea Festival)
Aelred (Christian; Saint)
Alexander Gabriel Decamps (Artology)
Anselm, Duke of Friuli (Christian; Saint)
Arachne’s Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Arnold Newman (Artology)
Arthelais (Christian; Saint, Virgin)
Asger Jorn (Artology)
Chapchâr Kût (Spring Festival; Mizoram, India)
Cunigunde of Luxembourg (a.k.a. Cunegunda or Cunegund; Christian; Saint)
Day of Remembrance for Prince Igor (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Emeterius and Chelidonius, in Spain (Christian; Martyrs)
Eutropius (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Purification (Bali)
Festival of the Girlchild (Pagan)
Gervinus (Christian; Saint)
Herodotus (Positivist; Saint)
Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival a.k.a. Girl's Day; Japan)
Isabel Bishop (Artology)
Katharine Drexel (Christian; Saint)
John and Charles Wesley (Episcopal Church (USA))
Lamalisse of Scotland (Christian; Saint)
Marinus and Asterius of Caesarea (Christian; Martyrs)
Marriage of the March Nymphs (Shamanism)
Momo no Seekuh (Peach Festival; Shinto)
Mr. Smellsalot (Muppetism)
Mulled Wine Day (Pastafarian)
Newmar Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Non (Sainted Mother of St. David; Celtic Book of Days)
Nonnita (Christian; Saint)
Third Sunday in Lent (Western Christianity) (a.k.a. ... 
Oculi Sunday
Scrutiny Sunday
Septuagesima Sunday
Veneration of the Cross
Triple Goddess Day (Everyday Wicca)
Wenchang Wang Day (Chinese God of Literature)
Winwaloe (a.k.a. Winnal or Winwaloc; Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [15 of 71]
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Premieres
Aquamarine (TV Series; 2006)
Banquet Busters (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1948)
The Brave Engineer (Disney Cartoon; 1950)
Broadway Folly (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)
The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1965)
Carmen, by Georges Bizet (Opera; 1875)
The Carnival of the Animals, by Camille Saint-Saëns (Musical Suite; 1886)
The Castle of Llyr, by Lloyd Alexander [Chronicles of Prydain #3]
Corn Plastered (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)
Daisy Jones & The Six (TV Series; 2023)
Daria (Animated TV Series; 1997)
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (Comedy Film; 2006)
A Day in June (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1944)
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita’s Treasure Island (Anime Film; 2018)
Dream a Little Dream (Film; 1989)
Essays in Persuasion, by John Maynard Keynes (Economics Book; 1931)
Flashdance… What a Feeling, by Irene Cara (Song; 1983)
Frenesi, recorded by Artie Shaw (Song; 1940)
Horton Hears a Who (Animated Film; 2008)
(I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea, by Elvis Costello (Song; 1978)
Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye (Disneyland Ride; 1995)
I Sing the Body Electric, by Ray Bradbury (Short Story; 1969)
Jerry and the Goldfish (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1951)
Juno and the Paycock, by Seán O'Casey (Play; 1924)
Lateral Thinking, by Edward de Bono (Philosophy Book; 1970)
Link: Legend of Zelda (Short Film; 2017)
Lionel Lion (Phantasies Cartoon; 1944)
Logan (Film; 2017)
The Massacre, by 50 Cent (Album; 2005)
Master of Puppets, by Metallica (Album; 1986)
Matlock (TV Series; 1986)
Miniature Golf (Atari 2600 Video Game; 1978)
Minnie the Moocher, recorded by Cab Calloway (Song; 1931)
Moonlighting (TV Series; 1985)
Our Flag Means Death (TV Series; 2022)
Plastic Beach, by Gorillaz (Album; 2010)
Playful Pluto (Disney Cartoon; 1934)
Quack-a-Doodle-Doo (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1950)
Rocket 88 recorded, by Ike Turner (Song (possibly 1st R&R track); 1951)
Rocket Man, by Elton John (Song; 1972)
Rockferry, by Duffy (Album; 2008)
Serenade No. 1 in D, by Johannes Brahms (Serenade; 1860)
The Shooting of Dan McGoo (Tex Avery MGM Droopy Cartoon; 1945)
Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, “The Scottish Symphony,” by Felix Mendelssohn (Symphony; 1842)
Table 19 (Film; 2017)
Topper, by Thorne Smith (Novel; 1926)
Vikings (TV Series; 2013)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, by Henry Farrell (Novel; 1960)
Wonder Woman (WB Animated Film; 2009)
Today’s Name Days
Camilla, Friedrich, Kunigunde (Austria)
Asterius, Kamila, Kunigunda, Marin, Marinko, Maroje (Croatia)
Kamil (Czech Republic)
Kunigunde (Denmark)
Egle, Haili, Halliki, Helliki (Estonia)
Kauko (Finland)
Guénolé, Marin (France)
Camilla, Friedrich, Kunigunde, Leif (Germany)
Kleonikos (Greece)
Kornélia (Hungary)
Cunegonda, Tiziano, Viola (Italy)
Marts, Matejs, Matīss, Tālis (Latvia)
Kunigunda, Nona, Nonita, Tulė, Uosis (Lithuania)
Gunnbjørg, Gunnveig (Norway)
Asteriusz, Hieronim, Kunegunda, Lucjola, Maryna, Wierzchosława (Poland)
Cleonic, Eutropiu, Vasilisc (Romania)
Bohumil (Slovakia)
Celedonio, Emeterio, Marcia (Spain)
Gunborg, Gunvor (Sweden)
Alasdair, Alastair, Alec, Alejandra, Alejandro, Alex, Alexa, Alexander, Alexandra, Alexandria, Alexia, Alexis, Alexus, Ali, Alondra, Dale, Darnell, Lex, Lexi, Lexie, Lexus, Sandie, Sandra, Sandy, Sasha, Xander (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 63 of 2024; 303 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 9 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 15 of 28]
Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 23 (Bing-Yin)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 23 Adair I 5784
Islamic: 22 Sha’ban 1445
J Cal: 3 Green; Threesday [3 of 30]
Julian: 19 February 2024
Moon: 60%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 7 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Thales]
Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 9 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 74 of 89)
Week: 1st Week of March
Zodiac: Pisces (Day 14 of 30)
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heyitssashag · 1 year
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Three years and two months ago today, I got my implants removed. They were cold, heavy and it was hard to get in a deep breath. This caused anxiety and chronic sleep issues. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, they were also recalled by the government because they caused cancer. I was told I didn’t need to get them out as I was low risk (which was very odd to me. I just had breast cancer, after all.) Anyway, that became the last straw and final reason why I had them removed. While my chest still feels tight and sore, at least I don’t have fake bags hanging off them. My pectoral muscles were removed so I’m mildly concave. I remember the plastic surgeon telling me if I changed my mind again, I could come back and see her. I thought that was a weird thing to say. lol. However, the first year of having them out, that thought crossed my mind. It would have been entirely for superficial reasons, though. I wanted to start dating again and figured no man would be interested in a woman who was flat. I understand how human nature works and it would be hard for certain men to get past the idea that I have no breasts. (Especially if they’re a “boob man”.) That being said, I wasn’t going to go through more surgeries so I can feel worthy enough to date. That was pure insanity. Instead, I decided to stay single so I can do more inner work around my self-esteem and body image. Now, after everything I’ve gone through, I’m pretty grateful for my body and how it keeps going under all the drugs, tests, procedures and surgeries. The human body is a weird but miraculous thing.
I don’t think I’ll ever be one of those women that will walk around topless after a mastectomy but who knows. 😉 Maybe one day, if the time and space is appropriate.
I took this picture shortly after my surgery. I was trying to look badass. It took me 3 years to realize I don’t need to try… I kinda am. 😎😏
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For the first time in my life, I accept my body the way it is. Flaws and all. It’s done a lot of cool things like given birth, hiked mountains and ran marathons. It’s also done some not-so-cool things like chemo, radiation and many surgeries. This body has gone through a lot and I appreciate the hard work it’s done trying to heal and keep me moving.
Almost a year and a half after my explant surgery, I found out I had metastatic breast cancer. Since then, I haven’t been into dating or being in another relationship again. I, officially, have way too much baggage and can confidently say that I’m extremely high maintenance. 🤣 I wasn’t expecting that, but it was just another part of my life I had to move through and grieve. Acceptance really helps with the happiness factor. If I adjust my expectations and go with the flow, it makes things a lot easier. This has been a never ending journey of learning curves. I hate using the word “journey” because it sounds like something fun but I don’t want to call it something negative (like a “war” or a “nuclear bomb” or a “shit show”). Attaching a negative word to it makes me feel like my whole life these past 4.5 years have been crap - which isn’t true at all. A lot has happened that’s been wonderful. It is possible to experience fantastic things while going through Hell or chaos. I know this now. A tip that has helped, is trying to always have something to look forward to. Doesn’t have to be big, either. Simple is often better (so no one is disappointed when I’m having a rough day). Sometimes it’s just picking out a movie on Netflix that I can watch with my kid, while snacking on something yummy. 🎥 🍿
And now, for your clever gif. ⬇️
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brookstonalmanac · 3 months
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Holidays 3.3
Holidays
Africa Environment Day
Bonza Bottler Day
Caregiver Appreciation Day
Common Fumitory Day (French Republic)
Creation Day
Discovery Day (a.k.a. Magellan Day; Guam)
Ear Day (Japan)
Family Day (Mexico)
First Sitting of the People's Majlis (Maldives)
Flag Day (Kyrgyzstan)
Free Pass Day
If Pets Had Thumbs Day
International Ear Care Day
International Omega-3 Awareness Day
International Sex Workers Rights Day
International TAPS Day
International Threesome Day
International Tripawd Awareness Day
International Writers’ Day
I Want You To Be Happy Day
Japanese Girl's Day (Hawaii)
Kentucky Meat Shower Day
Liberation and Freedom Day (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Martyr’s Day (Malawi)
Minnie the Moocher Day
Missouri Compromise Day
MIstress Day (China)
Moonlighting Day
Mother’s Day (Republic of Georgia)
National Academy of Sciences Day
National Accounts Receivable Appreciation Day
National Anthem Day
National Deskfast Day
National Dry Cleaning Day
National Hair Removal Day
National Henry L. Hooks Day
National Jackson Day
National Rita Day
National Robin Day
Navy Reserve Day
Nintendo Switch Day
Peach Blossom Day (Hunan, China)
Princess Festival (ポケモンひなまつり; Pokémon Girls' Festival)
Read the Ingredients Day
Samjinnal (Korea)
Simplify Your Life Day
Sportsmen's Day (Egypt)
Star-Spangled Banner Day
Stop the Epidemic of Police Violence Day
Talk in the Third Person Day
TB-303 Appreciation Day
Teacher’s Day (Lebanon)
Top Gun Day
Triple Negative Breast Cancer Awareness Day
Unity Day (Sudan)
Veterans Day (East Timor)
Wangari Maathai Day
What If Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs Day
World Birth Defects Day
World Dyscalculia Day
World Healing Day
World Hearing Day
World Wildlife Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Canadian Bacon Day
Heart-Accelerating Sodium-Enriched Cold Cuts Day (a.k.a. Cold Cuts Day)
International Irish Whiskey Day
International School Meals Day
International Tripel Day
National Cold Cuts Day
National Moscow Mule Day
National Mulled Wine Day
National Noodle Day
National Soup It Forward Day
Pork Belly Day (a.k.a. Samgyeopsal Day; South Korea)
33 Flavors Day
1st Sunday in March
Children’s Day (New Zealand) [1st Sunday]
Clean Up Australia Day [1st Sunday]
Daughters’ and Sons’ Day [1st Sunday]
Finisher’s Medal Day [1st Sunday]
Girl Scout Sabbath [1st Sunday]
Grandmothers’ Day (Belgium; France) [1st Sunday]
International Children’s Day of Broadcasting [1st Sunday]
Namesake Day [1st Sunday of Name Week]
National Day of Reflection (UK) [1st Sunday]
Vasaloppet (Sweden) [1st Sunday]
World Japanese Spitz Day (Japan) [1st Sunday]
Weekly Holidays beginning March 3 (1st Week)
Celebrate Your Name Week [1st Full Week]
Chocolate Chip Cookie Week [thru 3.9]
Dental Assistant Recognition Week [1st Full Week]
Groundwater Awareness Week [1st Full Week]
International Women’s Week [thru 3.9]
National Consumer Protection Week [thru 3.9]
National Newspapers in Education Week [1st Full Week]
National Procrastination Week [thru 3.9]
National Professional Pet Sitters Week [1st Full Week]
National Schools Social Work Week [thru 3.9]
No More Week [thru 3.9]
Read An E-Book Week [1st Full Week]
Save Your Vision Week [1st Full Week]
Teen Tech Week [1st Saturday]
Women in Construction Week [thru 3.9]
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week [From Sunday before 3.8 to Next Sunday]
Words Matter Week [1st Full Week]
Independence & Related Days
Alista (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]
Azrania (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]
Celebration of the Throne Day (Morocco)
Florida Statehood Day (#27; 1845)
Liberation Day (Bulgaria)
Myrotania (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]
Obscurium (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]
Scoria (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]
Festivals Beginning March 3, 2024
Coffee Fest New York (New York, New York) [thru 3.5]
Kosher Chili Cookout (Houston, Texas)
San Diego Restaurant Week (San Diego, California) [thru 3.10]
Tokyo Marathon (Tokyo, Japan)
Feast Days
Aegir’s Day (a..k.a. Ægir, brewer to the gods of Asgard; Celtic Sea Festival)
Aelred (Christian; Saint)
Alexander Gabriel Decamps (Artology)
Anselm, Duke of Friuli (Christian; Saint)
Arachne’s Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Arnold Newman (Artology)
Arthelais (Christian; Saint, Virgin)
Asger Jorn (Artology)
Chapchâr Kût (Spring Festival; Mizoram, India)
Cunigunde of Luxembourg (a.k.a. Cunegunda or Cunegund; Christian; Saint)
Day of Remembrance for Prince Igor (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Emeterius and Chelidonius, in Spain (Christian; Martyrs)
Eutropius (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Purification (Bali)
Festival of the Girlchild (Pagan)
Gervinus (Christian; Saint)
Herodotus (Positivist; Saint)
Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival a.k.a. Girl's Day; Japan)
Isabel Bishop (Artology)
Katharine Drexel (Christian; Saint)
John and Charles Wesley (Episcopal Church (USA))
Lamalisse of Scotland (Christian; Saint)
Marinus and Asterius of Caesarea (Christian; Martyrs)
Marriage of the March Nymphs (Shamanism)
Momo no Seekuh (Peach Festival; Shinto)
Mr. Smellsalot (Muppetism)
Mulled Wine Day (Pastafarian)
Newmar Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Non (Sainted Mother of St. David; Celtic Book of Days)
Nonnita (Christian; Saint)
Third Sunday in Lent (Western Christianity) (a.k.a. ... 
Oculi Sunday
Scrutiny Sunday
Septuagesima Sunday
Veneration of the Cross
Triple Goddess Day (Everyday Wicca)
Wenchang Wang Day (Chinese God of Literature)
Winwaloe (a.k.a. Winnal or Winwaloc; Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [15 of 71]
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Premieres
Aquamarine (TV Series; 2006)
Banquet Busters (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1948)
The Brave Engineer (Disney Cartoon; 1950)
Broadway Folly (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)
The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1965)
Carmen, by Georges Bizet (Opera; 1875)
The Carnival of the Animals, by Camille Saint-Saëns (Musical Suite; 1886)
The Castle of Llyr, by Lloyd Alexander [Chronicles of Prydain #3]
Corn Plastered (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)
Daisy Jones & The Six (TV Series; 2023)
Daria (Animated TV Series; 1997)
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (Comedy Film; 2006)
A Day in June (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1944)
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita’s Treasure Island (Anime Film; 2018)
Dream a Little Dream (Film; 1989)
Essays in Persuasion, by John Maynard Keynes (Economics Book; 1931)
Flashdance… What a Feeling, by Irene Cara (Song; 1983)
Frenesi, recorded by Artie Shaw (Song; 1940)
Horton Hears a Who (Animated Film; 2008)
(I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea, by Elvis Costello (Song; 1978)
Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye (Disneyland Ride; 1995)
I Sing the Body Electric, by Ray Bradbury (Short Story; 1969)
Jerry and the Goldfish (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1951)
Juno and the Paycock, by Seán O'Casey (Play; 1924)
Lateral Thinking, by Edward de Bono (Philosophy Book; 1970)
Link: Legend of Zelda (Short Film; 2017)
Lionel Lion (Phantasies Cartoon; 1944)
Logan (Film; 2017)
The Massacre, by 50 Cent (Album; 2005)
Master of Puppets, by Metallica (Album; 1986)
Matlock (TV Series; 1986)
Miniature Golf (Atari 2600 Video Game; 1978)
Minnie the Moocher, recorded by Cab Calloway (Song; 1931)
Moonlighting (TV Series; 1985)
Our Flag Means Death (TV Series; 2022)
Plastic Beach, by Gorillaz (Album; 2010)
Playful Pluto (Disney Cartoon; 1934)
Quack-a-Doodle-Doo (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1950)
Rocket 88 recorded, by Ike Turner (Song (possibly 1st R&R track); 1951)
Rocket Man, by Elton John (Song; 1972)
Rockferry, by Duffy (Album; 2008)
Serenade No. 1 in D, by Johannes Brahms (Serenade; 1860)
The Shooting of Dan McGoo (Tex Avery MGM Droopy Cartoon; 1945)
Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, “The Scottish Symphony,” by Felix Mendelssohn (Symphony; 1842)
Table 19 (Film; 2017)
Topper, by Thorne Smith (Novel; 1926)
Vikings (TV Series; 2013)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, by Henry Farrell (Novel; 1960)
Wonder Woman (WB Animated Film; 2009)
Today’s Name Days
Camilla, Friedrich, Kunigunde (Austria)
Asterius, Kamila, Kunigunda, Marin, Marinko, Maroje (Croatia)
Kamil (Czech Republic)
Kunigunde (Denmark)
Egle, Haili, Halliki, Helliki (Estonia)
Kauko (Finland)
Guénolé, Marin (France)
Camilla, Friedrich, Kunigunde, Leif (Germany)
Kleonikos (Greece)
Kornélia (Hungary)
Cunegonda, Tiziano, Viola (Italy)
Marts, Matejs, Matīss, Tālis (Latvia)
Kunigunda, Nona, Nonita, Tulė, Uosis (Lithuania)
Gunnbjørg, Gunnveig (Norway)
Asteriusz, Hieronim, Kunegunda, Lucjola, Maryna, Wierzchosława (Poland)
Cleonic, Eutropiu, Vasilisc (Romania)
Bohumil (Slovakia)
Celedonio, Emeterio, Marcia (Spain)
Gunborg, Gunvor (Sweden)
Alasdair, Alastair, Alec, Alejandra, Alejandro, Alex, Alexa, Alexander, Alexandra, Alexandria, Alexia, Alexis, Alexus, Ali, Alondra, Dale, Darnell, Lex, Lexi, Lexie, Lexus, Sandie, Sandra, Sandy, Sasha, Xander (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 63 of 2024; 303 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 7 of week 9 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 15 of 28]
Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 23 (Bing-Yin)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 23 Adair I 5784
Islamic: 22 Sha’ban 1445
J Cal: 3 Green; Threesday [3 of 30]
Julian: 19 February 2024
Moon: 60%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 7 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Thales]
Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 9 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 74 of 89)
Week: 1st Week of March
Zodiac: Pisces (Day 14 of 30)
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xxniax · 4 months
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"Breast cancer awareness"
Apa benda awareness tu? Kenapa sepanjang aku sihat, aku cuma pernah nampak BC awareness offered mammogram to those 40 above? Why they make me think mammogram is the only way to detect breast cancer? Why can't they emphasize breast cancer to younger women too? Especially us below 40. And what the hell is awareness if it's only pink ribbons and pink marathon run. Why are all the ads are only showing breast cancer must have all those changes on your skin? I didn't have that. I'm so mad. Nobody was there to teach me. I'm a fast learner. I always read a lot. I follow some cancer fighters the same year. She died in february. I know her type is bone cancer and again of course it have symptoms. But nobody told me breast cancer have no symptoms/pain? I can be perfectly healthy and have cancer. It only takes a lump. No pain, no discharge, no bleeding, nothing. Am I mad at myself? Yes. Given my benign diagnosis in the same breast 7 years ago, I should've known better and to check regularly maybe once in every 6 months. Why am I stupid? I thought those scans at normal clinic only for your stomach. I thought for breast you have to go to the big hospitals.
But why is breast cancer awareness is contained to 40 above? And pictures of old women?
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toughgirlchallenges · 5 months
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Sarah Thomas - Ultra Marathon Swimmer - Breast cancer Survivor and the first person to complete a four-way crossing of the English Channel in 54 hours and 10 minutes.
Sarah Thomas, aged 41, is an ultra-marathon swimmer who achieved the current world record for the longest continuous swim in current-neutral conditions, performed without assistance or a wetsuit. This record-breaking feat spanned 104.6 miles over the course of 67 hours and took place in Lake Champlain, USA, in August 2017.
Shortly after this remarkable swim, Sarah faced an aggressive form of breast cancer diagnosis at the young age of 35. During her cancer treatment, which included chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation therapy, Sarah remained unwavering in her pursuit of an extraordinary swim that many considered impossible.
One year post-cancer treatment, Sarah made history by becoming the first person to complete a four-way crossing of the English Channel, accomplishing this incredible feat in a remarkable 54 hours and 10 minutes.
More recently, Sarah achieved another groundbreaking milestone, becoming the first individual in history to conquer a two-way crossing of the North Channel, enduring 21 hours and 46 minutes in frigid waters inhabited by enormous jellyfish.
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Who is Sarah
Her story of becoming a long-distance open-water swimmer
Early memories of comfort and joy in the water
Begging her dad to sign her up for the swim team
Getting introduced to open-water swimming by a friend and found her passion in it
Swimming through high school and in college for the University of Connecticut
Trying out other sports after college
Growing up in Texas where swimming is super competitive
How she transitioned to open-water swimming after college
How she returned to swimming after a 2-year hiatus
Discovering her passion for open-water swimming in 2007
Signing up for Catalina Channel in 2010
Training for the English Channel by swimming around Manhattan in 2011 and booking a slot for 2012
Struggles with cold water and building up tolerance
Refusing to take cold showers, and values warm showers as a luxury
Poor weather and not wanting to swim the English Channel
Returning to England with a reformed crew enjoying a beautiful, sunny swim across the channel
Falling out of love with swimming
Setting her sights on longer swims, including a 42-mile swim across Lake Tahoe
Swimming for 24 hours and the challenge of mentally preparing for such a long distance
Having her husband next to her helps her prepare for each swimming session
Sarah's experience of swimming 104.6 miles in Lake Champlain
Reflecting on her childhood and meeting her potential
Feeling on top of the world after completing an incredible swim
Having digestive issues during long swims and eating liquid-based nutrition
Swimming and craving for giant cheeseburgers
Finding a lump in her breast and being diagnosed with breast cancer
Her treatment and how it would impact her ability to swim
Finding solace in swimming during chemotherapy
Sarah and her doctor working together to find solutions
What makes her uncomfortable after a mastectomy
Being glad for keeping her left side intact
Swimming the English Channel in 2019 after completing an 80-mile swim in Lake Powell in 2016
The difficulty of her swims, particularly in the English Channel
Struggles with nausea and vomiting, seasickness and mental exhaustion during her swims
Battling a strong current caused hours of delay in the swim, causing mental and physical exhaustion
Her desire to complete the Oceans Seven Challenge
Having two remaining swims in the Oceans Seven Challenge
Swimming the Strait of Gibraltar and the Tsugaru Strait
Why the swimming organization in Japan stopped accepting swimmers
Final words of advice
  Social Media
Website: sarahthomasswims.com 
Instagram: @SarahSwims04 
Twitter: @SarahSwims04 
Facebook: @SarahThomasMarathonSwimmer 
  Check out this episode!
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influencermagazineuk · 8 months
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Amy Robach, A Journey Through Journalism
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Amy Robach, a prominent figure in the world of journalism, has left an indelible mark with her career that spans decades. Her passion for storytelling, dedication to her craft, and remarkable ability to connect with audiences have made her a household name. In this article, we delve into the life and career of Amy Robach, shedding light on the path that led her to become one of the most respected journalists in the industry. Born on February 6, 1973, in St. Joseph, Michigan, Amy Joanne Robach's early years were marked by a keen interest in the world of broadcasting. She pursued her education at the prestigious University of Georgia, where she graduated with high honors with a degree in Broadcast Journalism. This educational foundation would serve as the launchpad for her career. Robach's foray into journalism began when she worked as a general assignment reporter at various television stations, honing her reporting skills and gaining firsthand experience in the field. Her hard work and dedication did not go unnoticed, and she soon found herself with opportunities at larger networks. One of the pivotal moments in Robach's career came when she joined NBC News in 2003 as a national correspondent. Her role involved covering a wide range of stories, from breaking news to feature segments. During her time at NBC, Robach interviewed notable figures and reported on significant events that shaped the world. In 2007, Amy Robach made a significant leap in her career by joining ABC News. Her role as a correspondent on ABC's "Good Morning America" catapulted her into the national spotlight. Her warm and relatable on-screen presence endeared her to viewers across the country. Robach's reporting prowess was evident as she covered major events such as Hurricane Katrina, the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and the Boston Marathon bombing. Her empathetic approach to storytelling allowed her to connect with the people affected by these tragedies, making her a trusted voice during times of crisis. In addition to her role on "Good Morning America," Robach served as a substitute anchor on the show, further solidifying her position within the ABC News family. Her versatility as a journalist shone through as she seamlessly transitioned between reporting and anchoring duties. Beyond her work on the morning show, Robach's career continued to evolve. She became the co-anchor of ABC's "20/20," a newsmagazine program known for its in-depth investigative reporting and compelling human-interest stories. Her contributions to the show were instrumental in its continued success. Robach's personal life has also been the subject of public interest. In 2009, she married actor Andrew Shue, best known for his role on the popular television series "Melrose Place." Together, they have blended their families and created a loving and supportive home environment. However, one of the most profound moments in Amy Robach's life came in 2013 when she faced a personal health crisis. At the age of 40, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Robach's decision to undergo a mammogram live on "Good Morning America" as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month not only raised awareness but also underscored the importance of early detection. Robach's journey through cancer treatment was marked by resilience and an unwavering commitment to her journalistic duties. She shared her experiences with viewers, offering a candid look at the challenges she faced. Her courage in the face of adversity inspired many and reinforced her status as a respected figure in the media industry. As Robach emerged victorious in her battle against breast cancer, she continued to excel in her career. Her reporting received critical acclaim, and she was recognized with several awards for her contributions to journalism. Her ability to combine personal experiences with her reporting added depth and authenticity to her storytelling. In recent years, Amy Robach has remained a prominent figure on "Good Morning America" and "20/20." Her dedication to delivering news with integrity and compassion has solidified her reputation as a journalist who connects with viewers on a profound level. Read the full article
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