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sketchfanda · 8 months ago

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Kirishima's Mystique Party:Herron Hassles

Princess Brat

As soon as Laura had felt he was finally good and ready after a few, well hours to days of their "Special Herron Resistance Training", it was time for him to begin his part in her observational investigation on the Herrons. For his first target Kirishima is tasked with following the shortstack valley girl diva named Jenna to figure out her supplier if any. It was no secret according to her that those gals partciularly that new age bohemian Julia were all about that 420 life. So far though not much to report aside from the fact that Jenna had a real knack for draining balls and wallets alike.

If need be, first chance he got soon as she was distracted, he'd get his hands on her cellphone, which according to Laura, she theorised was sure to have potential evidence stored. However, she catches Kirishima in the act of his attempted stealth stalking, much to his shock and annoyance. Just his luck that for a bimbo looking girl, she wasn't so airheaded that she wouldn't notice a himbo like him sticking out like a sore thumb. But thankfully, she just seemed thinks that he's an admirer of hers, no doubt she was used to guys more or less pulling similar as She calls him a coward for staying far away and insist he come over and show he was worth her time.

This got Kirishima thinking that this unexpected situation presented an opportunity wherein he can get the information out of her so what the hey, Laura did say that if those size queens showed an interest in him? All he had to do was maintain enough sense of dominance so that those living breathing wet dreams wouldn't break and emasculate him. But within seconds of obliging and approaching her, he experienced first hand a most notable trait about Jenna....she was a goddamn fucking brat!! Like every word out of her mouth was either barking orders or calling him insults like meathead and how she'd bust his balls if he wasn't at least packing more than 9 inches, that is if he actually knew how to use it.

All the same, it was easy enough to massage her phenomenal ego and get her to a nearby no tell motel where even then, she still continuously insulted him, which was starting to seriously get on his nerves. It was like someone took Bakugo, made him a shortstack bimbo brat and ramped up that garbage pile covered in sewage personality, which was saying something given he figured he'd be used to that sort of thing. But he did his best to let get to him until the moment she well and truly crossed a line was when she mentioned the girls back home, calling them them freaks that she'd put to shame once he showed him what a REAL woman was like. Just the very idea, the implication that she was smacktalking many of his lady friends back home, classmates, senpai and kouhai alike but most all, HIS beloved Mina and Maya?!!

That right then and there was when when Kirishima snapped and decides to let her have it, of course this was all part of her plan as Jenna's specialty was getting under the skin of her potential boytoys and making them want to just hatefuck her. Licking her lips with minxy delight as the sturdy, majorly riled up himbo started getting naked before her eyes. Buuuuuuuut soon as he'd stripped down and activated his quirk, she looked on in shock at all his hardened, naked glory and started to realize that juuuuust maybe, she bit off more than she could chew. The chivalrous brute looming over her, looking like something out of Joy's twisted, satanic goth wet dreams ready to destroy her sexually.....

Jenna:"OOOOOOOH FUCKFUCKFUCKINGFUCK ME YOU'RE WRECKING ME DADDY!! AAAHN FUCK ME FUCK ME FUCK ME!!"*Such were the few words the shortstack bimbo coud utter from her pretty little dick-sucking lips as Kirishima effortlessly manhandled her. The powerhouse currently having her arms and legs trapped in his grasp as he made her bounce and ride on his jackhammering cock while his feet were firmly planted on the ground, fucking her in a full nelson position. Her jackhammered pussy spraying like a busted open fire hydrant from the intense, deep fucking and of course he was just getting started. For this brat, she'd be sure to have less braincells than she was likely born with!!*

Such was how Jenna's punishment proceeded as Kirishima made her feel like a literal fuck toy, a full body onahole fit only to be good for jerking him off as he utlised his raw strength and powet to advantage. Trashing the motel room throughout as the bed became destroyed from pounding her into the mattress while folding her ina mating press or jackhammering her fat bubble butt of an ass as he mounted and pinned her down prone bone. To holding her legs by the ankles as she found herself riding him like a rodeo bull while he thrust his pelvis, causing her bounce and shake like she was experiencing a quake or holding her by her puffy pigtails in his grasp as he gave her a deepthroating, powerforce facefucking. And she was honestly loving every fuckdamn second of it!!

Yes being the Herron brat that she was, the only thing that really drew Jenna in and got her slutty motor going besides a big cock was a hung stud who not only knew how to use it. But all the above who had really knew how to use a woman like the way she was right now, a himbo bull who had no issues putting a bimbo like her in her place and right now she found Kirishima was ticking off all her boxes. Ass, mouth and especially her pussy, all being moulded to the shape of his penetrating length and girth as she memorised and became mesmersied alike by the potent scent and taste of his manjuice. Orgasm after orgasm hitting her like a tidal wave crashing on the shores until she just couldn't keep up anymore and unconsciousness calimed her.....

Kirishima:*Some intense hours of hate sex,and a few noise complaints later, Kirshima had finished venting his hatefuck on the shortstack Herron girl. Leaving her on the trashed remains of the motel bed, face flat in the mattress with her fat tanned ass up in the air as he went over to get her phones (figures a material girl like her would have so damn many), but only finds contacts for her family and booty calls. In other words, a total bust for any leads as he got dressed while he leaves her where she laid, simply stating...*"Not impressed."*With that, he made his exit with intentions to shower soon as he got back to homebase...and did something about the excess energy he had to spare, that hatefucking still had him feeling pent up.*

Jenna of course could only shudder in orgasmic delight at finding herself left in such a state. Her mouth, ass and pussy alike overflowing with Kirishima's essence, her booty cheeks red from the sting of his firm grip and swift, stining slaps. Her brain empty of all real thought except for running the replays in her head of that intense marathon. Pink glowing hearts forming in her eyes as she dreamt lewd dreams of her big stud redheaded shark daddy.....

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sky High

It was one of those occasions where Kirishima was by himself at the house, Laura leaving him to hold down the fort while she tailed Veronica Herron in her ongoing investigation (though you could say it was more of a personal crusade or vendetta). Which meant first chance he got, he'd need to get his way in on the Herron family premises by making some nice neighborly meet and greet with the more, friendlier girls to speak. One such opportunity presented itself when he spots the resident Bohemian, Julia doing Yoga next door (and looking fucking hot doing so, naturally), Kirishima seizing it as he politely called out to her, asking to join. Which the hippie girl gladly obliged as she'd rather been looking for a chance to get acquainted with the quite charming cute guy who moved in next door with his...step mom or step siser?!

Soon as he came on over into the yard, she was really getting him worked up as She showed off her flexibility, which really stunned the sturdy himbo intern. He was always a sucker for limber girls (among his many notable turn-on types) who could contort themselves in ways that were sexy, after all just look at his break dancing alien queen. And Julia's body language really came off as saying she was down to fuck and how could she not be with the sounds of Laura's cries of passion that they heard around the clock? That woman was jsut determined to ensure had the will,power and endurance to handle Herron women…

When they were finally finished, leaving Kirishima with a hell of a raging boner, the hippie hottie offered him a treat as thanks for his participation. It was a speciality of hers she called a herbalist brownie, the sturdy himbo finding it quite the tasty baked good to bite into. It was then and there that Kirishima found himself going on a little trip with his head heading into the clouds and into a more tangled session with the Herron Hippie babe, much to her delight of course. Nothing was more wild and fun than a hung stud going down on you while he was totally naked with a little 420 flavoured brownie….

For Kirishima nothing had seemed off at first, just that it had been a tasty brownie and it seemed to have a little extra flavour in between the chewiness and crunchiness. The next thing he knew, his vision was getting real psychedelic, the sky shifting through all the colours of the rainbow and the movement of his own hands in motion seeming really interesting to look at. And Julia was looking like an immaculate golden goddess clad in just a simple strand silk toga inviting him into her arms. An Invitation she accepted as he poiunced on her and found himself feeling like head playing out the sex scene from lawnmower man…before it went all mindfuck of course.

From a point of view of someone watching from the outside in, you’d be seeing a sturdy himbo and a bohemian bimbo going at it in the yard like minks in heat. The muscle mountain pumping and flexing his physique as he pumped and thrust into Julia who displayed and used her yoga class flexible body to its limits. Twisting and contorting herself like a human pretzel all the better to deepen the reach of Kirishima’s length and girth as the chivalrous undercover stud grunted like a caveman. Seemingly so high that he’d regressed to a primal state of mind…

From Julia’s naked view point, she was seeing Kirishkma as the likes of a Frankenstein’s monster, a burly dragon man or a Japanese style Greco-Roman god. Ravishing her, plundering her inner most womanhood in ways no average man could ever hope to meet or match. Her 420 surreal fantasy vision shifting with each and every orgasm, more so whenever this behemoth hunk would blow and pump his hot load into her. Feeling herself inching closer and closer to erotic Nirvana….

Kirishima wasn’t exactly a lightweight but for someone like him who could usually be a teetotaller professionally, his first time being high as a kite was quite something. Seeing Julia in a bariety of looks and get ups that certainly suited her before she was soon shapeshifting akin to Maya, looking like each and every single woman in his sex life. To then being surrounded by them as he found hiimself the centrepiece of attention in an inverse gangbang, drowning in a sea of tits and ass. Before soon drowning in a tsunami wave of what clearly tasted like pussy juices….

Outside of this psychedelic wet dream vision, the pair were still going it with their own little yoga porno marathon, Julia keeping the sturdy himbo close to her as they kissed and made out. While their respective visions seemed to start mixing and clashing together as the Hippie stoner babe and her muscle mountain came together to make a Big Bang and created a whole universe. Which had just been the pair having a simultaneous orgasms together, laying in the soft mowed grass as the afterglow took hold of them. Making idle small talk and groping each other as they made small talk, with a Kirishima letting slip what he was here for, Julia of course gladly giving him her phone…..another dead end but hey, she had more brownies…

That had lead to another erotic Yoga session that left her happy and sated, currently laying in nice, warm bubble bath. When some of her relatives came back, the wondered what had her in a good mood though they figured she just had some real good hit of her best shit. Or she just got laid real good, perhaps both though she could remember it’d been the hunk next door but hadn’t he also told her something else? It had to do with her phone and that not step mom of his….. As for Eijiro himself, hsd long since returned back to Homebase with a major case of the munchies. Which Laura came back to find her intern having himself a little junk food binge, wondering what had gotten into him soo of sudden as she reached out for the tray of pot brownies he’d brought back with him. Not knowing this of course she eats one which naturally resulted in leading to her getting high and sexually hungry as she pounced on Kirishima and rode him into the sunset. The size queens next door once more hearing the pair go at it like jungle beasts…yeah don’t try asking me where Julia gets her stuff, I’m better off not knowing….

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Shining

Kirishima is relaxing at Homebase(aka Laura's house), enjoying another rare little bit of downtime with some idle channel surfing when he heard s knock on the door. Coming to open it and find he is being visited by none other than the infamous twins among the Herron brood, Vanessa and Valentina. Naturally the two initially creeped him out, just how calm and cool they seemed as they stared at him with those cold emotionless eyes of theirs. but he agrees to have fun with them as he could tell it was why they had come all this way to see him so why delay the inevitable?

Vanessa and Valentina of course more than enjoyed and appreciated the directness, their cool, calm blue eyes gazing in the sturdy himbo as the mentally undressed him with their eyes. Taking turns kissing him in ways that were quite a contrast to their ice queen like vibe, their tongues dancing with his inside her mouth even taking the measure to kiss him together at the same time. Monotone voices gasping and panting in the midst of this sloppy thread dance of of slit swapping and tonsil hockey. Encouraging him to touch snd feel up their bombshell bodies with his hands, which he obliged as he copped a good feel of their firm, perky tits snd their juicy, skirt clad bubble butts.

It wasn’t long before the twins got to stripping both snd themselves of their clothing, feeling the heat of arousal build build up within their bodies to a point that the articles of silk and cloth were feeling far too constricting. Kneeling naked on the floor as they grasped and pulled down Kirishima’s pants, boxers and all as they gasped at the sight the muscle mountain redhead’s stiff, erect cock. The scent snd the raw heat pulsing from it as it twitched with the intent of wanting to fuck them as hard as they desires. Uncharacteristic blushes on their cool faces as their pussies quivered snd dribbled, soaking their thighs as puddles grew on the floor.

Kirishima wasn’t all that surprised to soon find the twins proceeded to move on with their lewd intentions as they commenced with a tandem blowjob assault. Their distinct bind making them quite a synchronised and coordinated team as they licked, kissed and sucked his cock and balls all over. Taking turns in sequence at deep throating and blowing on his shaft as their moans somehow began to sound…a little less monotone and cold. Almost more passionate, emotive as they caressed hips bucking hips and thighs and massaged those washboard abs of his.

There was only so much the sturdy himbo coild endure of course before Vanessa and Valentina had him riled up to a primal caveman state of mind. Proceeding to utilise his experience in threesomes to advantage in a way that was sure to be effective against the Herron clan’s creepy twin duo, much to the pair’s welcome, unspoken delight. As they go at it, Kirshima quickly wound up drawing actual emotion out of them, leading to passionate wails that the other Herron girls next door don't initially recognizeuntil they do a headcount leading to disbelief. There was no way that could’ve been the twins, could it?!!

But indeed it was them and they were finding themselves in Heaven as Kirishima unknowingly achieved quite the feat with his sexual prowess and skills. The normally stoic ice queen duo sounding more erotic than porn stars, their ever calm faces expressions of raw pleasure from the rush of bliss and ecstasy flooding their nerves from head to toe. Sensual howls and cries of Harder, Daddy and other such words luring forth from their Ruby red dick suckling lips, that is when they could form sentences or a vocabulary. From his strong jackhammering cock penetrating them to his equally skilled hands and tongue working away in their slutty holes, dare It be said the twins may been falling in love?!

Whatever the case, Kirishima didn’t let up in his relentless fucking, from having one twin straddling his lap as he fucked her in a seated lotus while the other sat in his shoulders to have him set out her snatch. To fucking one in doggy or missionary as she ate her sister out, while making out with him in turn to one riding him cowgirl style as the other sat on his face, the sisters making out with little to no troubles being so intimate together. It often seemed like Vanessa and Valentina shared a psychic link of sorts, sharing one mind and able to feel wha the other did. Which was likely why this sex felt so fantastic to them and the fact Kirishima was such a sexual bull certainly helped out with that.

Throughout this threesome twin marathon at some points when one twin needed to catch her breath, she’d stay close by her sister as they held hands while this muscle mountain alpha male plowed and fucked away like the beast he was. Whether it was being taken prone bone as he fucked their asses to filling their mouths with power force facefucking or his nonstop barrage of fucking their wombs. Ensuring their pussy walls would be shaped and moulded to his length and girth, flooding them and laity if them white with his virile seed. Feeling less like hollow dolls in need of their voids beef filled by his soul and more like women being made love to by a real man…

After such a vigorous, rigorous session, the kinky twin girls would leave, returning to their homestead actually smiling happily which creeped their family out. Which for them was a small bonus as they sell later that night with sweet, sensual dreams of their shark teethed, red spikey haired alpha male. Holding hands together as if somehow the kink and the bond they shared as sisters had only grown stronger. Their hesrts besting as one for the man who had rightfully conquered them with his fur lit…

Back with Kirishima of course who was currently soaking in a nice warm bath after that. Soothing his aching muscles while annoyed at the fact that once again, no information was found. The twins phones had only contained numerous pictures of one another, back and forth monotonous texts and men of interest. At this rate he was starting to wonder I he’d ever get pay dirt in this assignment, Laura could only be kept happy with sex for long. Even if she make some of the cutest faces and noises when she was riding him….

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Screen Queen

It was another case of opportunity presenting itself for our hardening hero in is ongoing internship and the Herron investigation. Currently finding himself in enemy territory as Jacqui, the resident cosplay and cam girl streamer among her brood had simply invited him over and wanted to shoot a video with him. She had been waiting for a chance like his and the recent romps with some of her cousins and that hot single step mom of his, she felt so motivated and inspired right now!! The fact she currently had the house to herself also helped which meant no interruptions and all the time to enjoy this beefcake to herself…

As our sturdy himbo followed the cosplay size queen to her room, which she shared with Joy (the scary satanic goth), she got right down to explaining what she did and what she had in store him of course. Just a simple little stream and shoot, adults only of course which he wasn’t surprised by, which consisted of starting off Showcasing her as a villainess captured and seduced into giving up her life of crime by Kirishima, who gladly goes for it. Much to her delight of course, loving he is enthusiasm as she went to go get her outfit ready and set the livestream up. Which for Kirishima was a perfect timing to start doing a little digging around, he wasn’t one for snooping around a girl’s room and stuff, he knew Laura wouldn’t want him to pass up this chance.

But of course her phone and her laptop and desktop pics had turned up zero, zilch and nada in terms of anything incriminating. Laura may not have been his mom step or otherwise but she sure as hell would be as annoyed and disappointed like one. All Jacqui had was folders upon folders of videos and pictures of her cosplays shoots and streams and hot damn she was an artist to say the least. Even ones based on some of his class,ates from class A and B and hot damn it was giving him some naughty ideas reminding him of the antics Maya could get up to with her shapeshifting.

That aside he could've just cut his losses and call it a day but Jacqui did take the time to personally invite him over and it seemed she put a lot of effort into it and had been looking forward to it. The moment she came out in the outfit she had in mind of course, as she struck a sexy little pose and shot him a wink and a smile? He was thankful he didn't pop a boner so raging and sudden that it would tear through the crotch of his. And of course his libido would never forgive him for passing this up in favour of major blueballing, he was a MAN damnit!!

Soon as the event kicked into action, Jacqui’s loyal early bird viewers on Hornyfans were treated to quite the sight of their favourite cam girl deepthroating what had to be the biggest cock they’d ever seen her handle. No other rando John or toy outside of the insanely custom sized ones had anything on the length and girth currently facefucking her, the sight of her neck making a swishing, swelling bulge everytime that cock went past tickling her tonsils. It was making the comments fly fast but not any faster than the string of tips and donations flying in as as the opinion was divided between cheering Jacqui on to tame that bull stud or call for that lucky bastard to destroy her and make her his bitch. Not that Kirishima or Jacqui were laying any min or attention to that, getting too lost in the mutual pleasure forming a bond between them.

More so especially once they got the main course of their lewd session as Kirishima in his role a the Hero had Jacqui in the rasp of a full nelson hold, proceeding to dominate her villainess by fucking the evil out of her with his righteous cock. The cosplay size queen’s genuine pleasure adding to the vibe of their kinky roleplay as it was flawless for her to get into her chracters, hollering wantonly as she declared herself a sex slave to justice, unable to resist her enemy’s vigorous drive and will to win. Plenty of the female viewers were plenty shameless in expressing how they wished they were in Jacqui’s place more than the guys who wished they were her sturdy himbo partner right now. Some wondering why he maybe seemed so familiar thst is when they weren’t being distanced by that cock jackhammering into the Herron girl’s heated snatch.

it was a pace and intensity Kirishima was able to keep up especially when thanks to his quirk giving him a little extra boost as viewers watched this livestream in awe and disbelief. From Jacqui now the heroine finding herself enslaved by a brutal villain to either one of them in the classic cops and robbers dynamic to her as the magical girl falling to the vicious lusts of a demonic mutant looking to corrupt and sully her. Prone bone, standing fuck, downward dog into full on soggy style, oral, anal and vaginal a plenty as Jacqui fel herself making and breaking quite a few records. Often letting out words like Daddy to Onii-sama like the kinky web she was as her pussy went and practically moulded itself to Kirishima’s cock, not wanting to forget the shape of his length and girth….

If here was one upside to this for Kirishima, besides the fact Jacqui was rather nice if somewhat peculiar about her kinks of choice (especially if her toy collection was anything to go by), she was one hell of a lay. It was small wonder he found himself getting drawn into her erotic games but hey it wasn’t like anyone he knew was going to see his right? Admittedly it added a little thrill of anonymity to it as he continued plowing the Herron girl for as long as she needed him to when she called the show over. Reminding himself to maybe see about exchanging contact details when the chance came up because damn if he wasn’t maybe thinking of arepeat performance down the line……

Unknown to him, Mina and Maya were subscribed to Jacqui’s channels and platforms and so they got to see the video. The candy coloured Red Riot Alpha girl duo hunkered down and watched while they hear Mineta screaming in denial in the distance. No doubt cursing and lamenting Kirishima and his own lack of fortune yet also the fsct this was seriously making him horny!!! When lord, when was his chance?!!

Never if the writer of this story has anything to say about it you little grapehead!! 4th wall break aside there, suffice to say Jacqui's recent upload proved to be her most popular to date even picking up a surprising number of female fans and subscribers!! Who of course were requesting plenty for further collaborations of her and the sturdy himbo. Who of course was yet again soothing his spent body in a nice, warm bath knowing this was going to be a looooong mission.....

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thecharlieverse · 5 months ago

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Fancast for the Untitled Celebrity Story, please??

@dancingsunflowers-ocs ♥️

Yes ofc. So when I first started this I did get a fancast, but only a couple were actors so for the two that didn't I also said what actress for them

Jonah Reed ; Avan Jogia (this is who he has always been, Jonah is the OG the catalyst of this book and he was always Avan)

Maya Wells ; Luanna Perez, but for acting stuff maaaybe Anya Taylor-Joy with red hair? idk I'm not sold on any actresses tbh

Bethany Meadows ; Rachel Hilbert, acting wise, maybe Meg Donnelly or Virginia Gardner??

Kian Sawyer ; Stephen James (the actor)

#answered #answered: characters #dancingwithsunflowers #untitled celebrity story #jonah reed #maya wells #bethany meadows #kian sawyer

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stylestream · 1 year ago

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Maya Jama | Harris Reed gown | BRIT Awards | 2024

#pc: thesun #maya jama #harris reed #brit awards #2024 brit awards #2024

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happytreetale · 1 year ago

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I LOVE JERCES. but I kinda want to know how the story of landon and cecily would have evolved if they were a couple. Cecily being in love with landon and landon not acknowledging her in the beginning and all that. Man I would die to read that shit. OMG THE PARENT'S REACTIONS?!?!?!!?? Shit I want it now

#legacy of gods #cecily knight #jeremy volkov #landon king #rina kent #xander knight #levi king #kimberly reed #god of wrath #maya sokolov

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godtiercomplex · 1 year ago

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are ya ready?

it's a reincarnation story with Yuuko and Clow!

Summary:

The world doesn’t stop, doesn’t bend to his most sincerest, ardent wish as it might have in the past. It doesn’t bear to think about what would have happened if it had. A reincarnation story with Ichihara Yuuko and Clow Reed that takes place in the flowers on our graves verse.

Edit: probably would’ve helped to also include the link here right?

#xxxholic #yuuko ichihara #clow reed #clowyuuko #yuukoclow #maya fics #my fics #maya misadventures #txt it king

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365dressestome · 1 year ago

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2024 Favorite Red Carpet Dresses 064/366

Maya Jama Wore Harris Reed To The BRIT Awards 2024

#maya jama #harris reed #brit awards

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ometochtli2rabbit · 5 months ago

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13.0.12.4.18

ka'a[2] ETZ'NAB/ TIJAAX [flint]- jun[1] PAX

galactic tone: duality/polarity

spend time in reflection & introspection - MAYA

ome [2] - TECPATL [flint knife]

Tlaltecuhtli | Chalchihuitotolin

quetzalhuitzilin [green hummingbird]

lord of the night: Mictlantecuhtli

trecena[2]: Tlazolteotl

x: caxtolli[15- toxcatl - NAHUA

on this day in 1908, my grandfather. Juventino "Daddy John" Lopez was born. Some songs that remind me of him:

Willie Nelson: Immigrant Eyes & I'm My Own Grandpa

Jerry Reed/Buck Owens/Roy Clark: Pickin' & Grinnin'

John Denver: Wooden Indian

The Judds: Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days)

John Fogerty: My Toot Toot

Patty Loveless: The Grandpa That I Know

Randy Travis: He Walked On Water

Al Stewart: Manuscript

Alabama: Alabama Sky

Jim Morrison: Dawn's Highway

Toots & the Maytals: Reggae Got Soul

Arctic Monkeys: The Car

Snotty Nose Rez Kids: Creator Made An Animal

Eels: Grandfather Clock Strikes Twelve

Johnny Cash: My Grandfather's Clock

Hoyt Axton: Indian Song

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Now That the Buffalo's Gone

Talking Heads: Mommy Daddy You and I

Chris Cornell: Nothing Compares 2 U

The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night

Lana Del Rey: Grandfather please stand on the shoulders...

Hank Williams: Lost Highway

Alone and Forsaken

Everything's Okay

Kaw-Liga

Move It On Over

I Won't Be Home No More

Window Shopping

Nobody's Lonesome for Me

I'm Sorry For You My Friend

Crazy Heart

I Saw the Light

Half as Much

I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive

I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living

Mind Your Own Business

Waylon Jennings: Ain't No God in Mexico & Honky-tonk Heroes

Dan Fogelberg: Leader of the Band

Louis Armstrong: What A Wonderful World

Jorge Negrete: San Luis Potosi

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meggriffinau · 8 days ago

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I like it thanks.

Art Request for the lovely https://www.tumblr.com/meggriffinau of their FG oc Maya and Donovan! Hope you like it! ^^

#family guy #family guy ocs #my ocs #donovan reed #maya

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specialagentartemis · 10 months ago

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godddddd i have disliked becky chambers' work since long way to a small angry planet and I agree that that fish scene is SO much of what is wrong with contemporary SFF especially queer SFF. refreshing take, great review, thank you. would love to hear what authors or works you think of as the antidote to that sensibility.

The thing is, I enjoyed The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet when I first read it - it was a fun, light adventure, clearly a debut novel but I was excited to see where Chambers would go from there. And I actually really do think the sequel, A Closed and Common Orbit, was good! It did interesting things with AI personhood and identity.

... and then Chambers just kinda. Did not get better. She settled into a groove and has a set number of ideas that I feel like she hasn't broken out of, creatively. And they I M O kind of rest on an assumption that "human nature" = "how people act in suburban California."

As an antidote to that sensibility, I'd say... books where people have a real interrelationship with the land they inhabit, a sense of being present, and reciprocal obligations to that land; books that recognize that some things can never be taken back once done; books with well-drawn characters, where people have strong opinions deeply informed by their circumstances, that can't always be easily reconciled with others, and won't be brushed aside; books where these character choices matter, they impact each other, they cannot be easily gotten over, because people have obligations to each other and not-acting is a choice too.

And it's only fair that after all day of being a Hater I should rec some books I really did like.

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - A man lives alone in an infinite House, over an equally infinite ocean. Captures the feeling that I think Monk & Robot was aiming for. Breathtaking beauty, wonder at the world, philosophy of truth, all that good stuff, and actually sticks the landing. The main character's love, attention, and care to his fantasy environment shows through in every page. (Fantasy, short novel)

Imperial Radch by Ann Leckie - An AI, the one fragment remaining of a destroyed imperial spaceship, is on a quest for revenge. Leckie gets cultural differences and multiculturalism, and conversely, what the imposition of a homogeneous culture in the name of unity means. (Space sci-fi, novel trilogy)

Machineries of Empire by Yoon Ha Lee - An army captain's insubordination is punished by giving her a near-impossible mission: to take down a rebelling, heretical sect holing up in a space fortress and defying imperial power. She gets a long dead brain-ghost of a notorious criminal downloaded into her head to help. Very, very good at making you feel like every doomed soldier was a person with a past, with a family, with feelings, with hopes and dreams and frustrations and favorites and preferences and reasons to live, right before they brutally die in a space war. Also very much about the imposition of homogeneity of culture as a force of imperialism. (Space sci-fi, novel trilogy)

The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed - Maya Andreyevna is a VR journalist in high-tech dystopian future Russia, and she decides to investigate the truth that the government doesn't want her to. She might die trying. It's fine. Also has digital brain-sharing, this time in a gay way. It's bleak. It's sad. It feels real. Not making a choice is a choice. Backing out is a choice. And choices have consequences. Choices reverberate through history. About responsibility. (Cyberpunk, novel)

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez - Nia Imani is a spaceship captain, a woman out of time, a woman running from her past, and accidentally adopts a boy who has a strange power that could change the galaxy. Spaceship crew-as-found-family in the most heartbreaking of ways. Also about choices, how the choices you make and refuse to make shape you and shape the world around you. How the world is always changing around you, how the world does not stay still when you're gone, and when you come back you're the same but the world has moved on around you. About how relationships aren't always forever, and that doesn't mean they weren't important. About responsibility to others. It's a slow, sad book and does not let anyone rest on their laurels, ever. There is no end of history here. Everything is always changing, on large scales and small, and leaving you behind. (Space sci-fi, novel)

Dungeon Meshi / Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui - A D&D style fantasy dungeon crawl that stops to think deeply about why there are so many dungeons full of monsters and treasure just hanging around. Here because it's an example of an author thinking through her worldbuilding a lot, and it mattering. Also because of the characters' respect for the animals they are are killing and eating, their lives and their place in the ecosystem, and the ways that humans both fuck up ecosystems with extraction and tourism, but also the ways that you can have reciprocal relationships of responsibility and care with the ecosystem you live in, even if it's considered a dangerous one. (Fantasy, manga series)

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang and How Long 'Til Black Future Month by N. K. Jemisin and Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel by Julian K. Jarboe - Short story anthologies that were SO good and SO weird and rewired the way I think. If you want the kind of stuff that is like, the opposite of easy-to-digest feel-good pap, these short stories will get into your brain and make you consider stuff and look at the world from new angles. Most of them aren't particularly upbeat, but there's a lot of variety in the moods.

"Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self," "Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black," and "Termination Stories for the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist" by Isabel J. Kim - Short stories, sci-fi mostly, that twist around in my head and make me think. Kim is very good at that. Also about choices and not-making-choices, about going and staying, about taking the easy route or the hard one, about controlling the narrative.

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells - Security robot with guns in its arms hacks itself free from its oppressive company, mostly wants to half-ass its job but gets sucked into drama, intrigue, and caring against its better judgement. This is on here because 1) I love it 2) I feel like it does for me what cozy sff so frequently fails to do - it makes me feel seen and comforted. It's hopeful and compassionate and about personal growth and finding community and finding one's place in the world, without brushing aside all problems or acting like "everybody effortlessly just gets along" is a meaningful proposal. also 3) because it is one of the few times I have yet seen characters from a hippie, pacifistic, eco-friendly, welcoming, utopian society actually act like people. The humans from Preservation are friendly, helpful, and motivated by truth and justice and compassion, because they come from a friendly, just, compassionate society, and they still actually act like real human beings with different personalities and conflicting opinions and poor reactions to stress and anger and frustration and fear and the whole range of human emotions rather than bland niceness. Also 4) I love it (space sci-fi, novella series mostly)

#long post #asks #anonymous #book recs #lol sorry that got long. there ARE books I like! I swear!

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remnantglow · 11 months ago

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Maya Andreyeva is a "camera," a reporter with virtual-reality-broadcasting equipment implanted in her brain. What she sees, millions see; what she feels, millions share. And what Maya is seeing is the cover-up of a massacre. As she probes into the covert political power plays of a radically strange near-future Russia, she comes upon secrets that have been hidden from the world…and memories that AI-controlled thought police have forced her to hide from herself. Because in a world where no thought or desire is safe, the price of survival is betrayal - of your lover, your ideals, and yourself.

happy (re)publication day to The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed, the lesbian cyberpunk cult classic that's been out of print for almost 3 decades!

it's a dark, intense, haunting book (if somewhat dense and undeniably demanding) about the place where noble ideals and brutal reality meet, about human nature, about how far you're willing to go for your principles, or for love, or for survival, about the erosion of privacy by technology, and about a whale.

it's some of the best cyberpunk has to offer, i'm really glad it can finally reach a wider audience 👁📷🐋

#yayyy now i can recommend this book without the caveat that it's near impossible to find!#.txt #books #the fortunate fall #also since queer scifi history is kind of my thing:#it's worth noting that this is one of the *very* few 20th century sci-fi novels (that i know of at least) written by a trans woman!#old gay scifi saga

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kaijuno · 9 months ago

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I was at the river, hidden in the reeds, hoping to take photos of wildlife when I espied a man tenderly carrying his dog into the water and gently setting her down. The old dog seemed soothed and contented to be in the water and moved around using her front legs.

When she got into deeper water, the man lovingly scooped her into his arms again and brought her back to shallow waters and there they stood together in companionable quietude.

I approached the man as I was leaving and shared that I couldn't resist taking photos of him and his dog. I learned that the man's name is Tony and his 13-year-old dog is Maya, who slowly lost movement in her hind legs after an accident five years ago. Tony had inherited her from his son who went into the Marines 11 years ago, and he and Maya have been inseparable since that time. He likes to take her to the river where the water makes her light enough to move around easily on her own.

While Tony and I chatted, Maya approached me for greetings and gentle affection. I shared my contact details with Tony in case he wanted snapshots of their candid moment together with Maya. After sending him the photos, he reciprocated with a heartfelt message.

Out of the river and back into the fray of everyday life I went, strengthened by the Grace I had witnessed.

Credit : Cameron McClure Photography

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in-case-of-grace · 5 months ago

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TTRPG Devlog: Qet and Inaccessible Names

I've been boiling a thought in the back of my mind lately, in regards to Naming Things in Fiction.

Newer folk may not know this, but my longest running creative endeavour has been Qet; a dark fantasy eldritch horror setting with inspiration from various Mesoamerican cultures and histories. It's a worldbuilding project, narrative setting, and TTRPG-- relegated to the backburner for over a year now. I needed a break.

Herein lies my problem: Qet's "common" equivalent language is a conlang inspired by Nahuatl.

English-first speakers, particularly fellow Americans, struggle a LOT with Nahuatl and anything similar to it. I'm American so my audience would...include a lot of Americans. Naturally a lot of the friends I'd want to run the game for are also American.

People struggle to read a lot of the proper nouns in Qet. An early first draft campaign took place in the deep caverns of Tchaoxlik, and the players were given Zykeutuezyl-- little light-emitting lizards-- as their primary source of light, to care for.

The bottomless lake Chluetichlon is significant in the lore, the Coulqepluex are a major ethnicity, and Qeplueoytz are shape-shifting monsters entire campaigns could center around. I've more examples, but you get the idea by now, I'm sure.

Part of Qet's inception was me noticing that US/UK fantasy overwhelmingly takes inspiration from European cultures, and That Sucks! There's so much more in the world, for one-- and this is fantasy! I want to see UNIQUE worlds that aren't just England But With Magic. Qet was my first worldbuilding project, and at the time I began, I had yet to develop the ability to just...make new stuff off the dome.

So I needed a solid inspiration from the real world as a starting point, and I chose something I thought was severely underrepresented: Mesoamerica. There is no 1:1 "this is the Maya but they're blue" or "here's the Olmec but they're birds" type stuff in Qet, rather, there's bits and bobs spread amongst original cultures and the world they live in. Corn is a staple food. The climate is hot and humid with a lot of shared flora from the real world Mesoamerican region-- but more differentiated fauna. One culture wears Aztec-inspired capes but live in Pueblo-inspired adobe homes. Polished obsidian mirrors play into eldritch magic. Some cultures sit and sleep on reed mats. One regional religion is a blend of the Aztec faith and Catholicism. Alongside these and many other bits of inspiration, the trade language of the world is Qetlec, which is inspired by Nahuatl.

I quite like a lot of the Qetlec names and words I've come up with over the years. I find several to be particularly satisfying to say! But I do have to admit that I, myself, had to train and practice to pronounce my own conlang. It may be second nature after years of working with it, but I often run into the dreaded "sbah...sbshs...uh...however you say it" or blatant word-butchering from new readers. It's an accessibility problem, after a certain point.

When I think of naming in fictional settings I return time and time again to what I believe to be a shining example of strong, accessible naming: Destiny.

Everything players need to know has a simple name that's typically just straight up English, no matter how alien. The Eliksni? Well that's a difficult name for some, so to players they're just...called "The Fallen." Other alien groups are simply titled: The Cabal, The Vex (who are actually made of radiolarian fluid-- another difficult name), and The Hive.

When they do concoct unique names for things, they do so in a way that should be easy to pronounce for their primarily English speaking audience. Fikrul. Mithrax. Oryx. Savathun is probably the most difficult one and that still seems fairly easy for players to pick up on.

Sometimes Destiny takes proper nouns from existing languages on Earth, but does so in the same manner-- sticking either to words English spakers already know or could feasibly pronounce with ease. Rasputin. Osiris. Ahamkara.

Destiny's player-facing setting is one that is crafted to be accessible. They're careful with their names. It's in the weird background lore that things may get complicated from time to time-- where it's not essential for players to be able to pronounce everything.

Qetlec isn't the only conlang in Qet, there are several others, but I'm less worried about them. It's reasonable to expect that English readers can pronounce Lhehd names like Hanviehl, Ahndel Veha, and Linnh; Tolech names like Mochog, Romtol, and Kupuch; or Auroullott names like Beuttep, Tteunor, and Auroboll.

Eldritch names are fine to be a bit difficult, I think, but I ride the line with those too-- Ul'jvot, Gaegoed, Kub-glorrha. Yaesheuhnahl is right at the edge but, it is a god made of 3 separate entities (Yaesh, Euhn, and Ahl) so I think it's not totally unreasonable.

It's Qetlec in specific that I think causes problems, which is a really big shame because I think it adds a lot to the world's flavor. But it includes a lot of sounds that aren't readily apparent, with things like "x" actually being pronounced "sh" or tight consonant/vowel pairings unfamiliar to the English reader like "ytz" "zyk" and "qeu." Hell, even beyond pairings-- the letters q, y, and z aren't super common in English! (Y is common at the *ends* of words but not at the start.)

I've tried some halfway measures here and there. I include pronunciation tooltips on every word I think folk may have difficulty with-- but that's only really doable on a webpage. In recent years, anything I added that I thought might be difficult to pronounce included an English alternative name. Gaiwej: Whispering Mouth. Asdeom: Adaptive Flesh. Zeloutihue: Lunatic of Lliaq. P'qur: The Labyrinth of Gods.

You get the idea.

I think it did work in making things more accessible, but it did bother me a little that this made the titles of each article much, much longer. It did make for names that were easier to remember, and, crucially-- look up. It was a bit of a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too solution.

However, while this might work for a setting presented in a wiki format-- it doesn't work for a book or TTRPG. If you find yourself in a canyon and spot something in the distance you wish to warn your comrades of-- are you really going to shout "everyone look out for the Asdeom: Adaptive Flesh?" No. You're going to pick one or the other-- "Asdeom" or "Adaptive Flesh."

If your comrades have internalized only one of the two names, especially the one opposite what you called out-- they might be confused. We solved one problem only to create a new one! The easier solution is to simply have one, memorable-- and pronounceable-- name.

And that's where I'm stuck, I suppose. I'm attached to the many unpronouncible names of Qet and I know I must do away with them. I need to make new rules that limit how many syllables they may have, and cut out sounds that are difficult for English speakers.

Part of me thinks I need to start entirely from scratch on Qetlec instead of just reworking what's there. That I'm going to be too blinded by familiarity to spot all the problem areas, or too attached to change key nouns. Is "Zeloutihue" totally fine and pronounceable for the average English speaker? I can't tell! I'm lost in the sauce here!

If words like zykeutuezyl and olxlikliz are totally easy for me by now, how can I judge everything else fairly?

This is all to say, hey, think about this from the start. Don't make my mistakes and end up in this pit with me-- if you want your project to be accessible to your intended audience, consider the language(s) they might speak. What sounds are they familiar with? Could they feasibly pronounce all the important terminology in your work?

I'd love to hear folks' thoughts on this, what do you think? What would you do in my situation? What good or bad examples of accessible conlang have you come across? How have your own projects approached conlangs and names?

#qet #ttrpg devlog #indie ttrpg #ttrpg design #conlang #incaseofgrace

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