#next few prompts might be a hair slower to be posted depends on how busy work is this week

[meraki24601]

Oh it depends on what your likes and dislikes are in whump :)

So here are some ideas worth mentioning I think:

- Recovery whump (personally, one of my favorite :D) Whumpee who’s been through… hella a lot, yet even saved they are struggling to establish a routine life alone - they are a survivor and sitting idly feels wrong to them. Maybe, Caretaker’s willing to teach them few things…

- Angst in whump — Whumpee has no Caretaker or the latter is simply far far away. Whumpee has to run away/fight Whumper, get well mentally and physically and avenge themselves; yes, nobody helps them on their journey and they are not very happy about it.

- Stoic/defiant Whumpee(within reason) + Reluctant/tough Caretaker/Carewhumper — wound care/fever stuff only to top it off with Whumpee who is not very cooperative. FIGHT!

Soooo those are more like prompts/requests/tropes, I do hope they will help you to write whatever you want :)

And yea, English is not my first language, so I probably made few mistakes here hehehe

Thanks for the awesome ask! I'm sorry it took me so long to get to it. Work has been crazy and I'm in the process of starting my own business! I hope you like it. I'll have a short post tomorrow for the defiant Whumpee and tough Caretaker.

If one more mundane, easy task went wrong, Whumpee was going to lose it. 

For nearly a month they had been trapped in that stupid hospital room. The next two weeks after they were forced to rely on Caretaker to move around as their legs continued to heal and they relearned how to move around their home with limited vision. Sometimes their eyes worked, and sometimes they didn’t to this day. Sometimes they could see, but they were so dizzy and their depth perception was so off they might as well not even try. 

The one thing they had wanted to do, had dreamed of while they were Whumper’s toy, was to steal Whumper’s car and drive until they ran out of gas. Now, they’re free. Their car is parked just outside the window, but they still can’t drive. Right now they can only barely see the blurry blob of their car despite the bright sun they can feel warming their arms and hair. Whumpee has been rendered useless.

Whumpee didn’t even have it that bad. They had seen some of the things Whumper had done to their other toys. The people they had ripped apart just to hear them scream. The hushed whimpers that turned into sobs and cries of terror or pain as whatever drug Whumper injected some of the younger prisoners with took effect. 

Really, the more they thought about it, the more Whumpee knew they should be doing better than they are. Whumper poured acid on their eyes and forced them to walk obstacle courses or find things. That was all. The pain mostly went away after the first few weeks. They hadn’t even thought about shattering Whumpee’s legs until Whumpee had refused to do what they said. Whumper had tried to keep Whumpee intact. Whumper had told them before that while they weren’t their favorite toy, they were Whumper’s funniest. They can still hear Whumper’s barking laughter as they watched Whumpee try to clean up and bandage some of the people who they’d considered their favorite toys. 

Yeah, Whumpee really was lucky.

Useless, but lucky.

Their vision had been relatively clear this morning, so they tried to make Caretaker some breakfast. They dropped it when their leg tensed and they fell against the table. Caretaker had to clean it up and help Whumpee to the bathroom to put medicine on their leg. They’re so useless they can’t even make breakfast without screwing up. 

After treating their leg, Whumpee had paused to blow their nose and ended up with a bad nose bleed. Blood covered the counter and the floor. The pressure messed with their eyes and they could only barely see as they tried to clean up the mess. Apparently they had missed some as a few moments after they had slipped into their bedroom to rest and let the slower bleeding finish, Caretaker burst in. Whumpee couldn’t see their face, but they could hear the way their voice shook as they asked what happened. They’re so useless they can’t even blow their nose without screwing up. 

Just a few minutes ago, they had tried to pour themselves some water from the fridge door. They had actually managed to get down a glass despite their dark and cloudy vision. They hadn’t even knocked any others out of the cabinet this time. Yet, as they were filling it, they hadn’t realized the glass was overflowing until their socked feet were drenched in water. 

They’re so useless they can’t even pour themselves a glass of water without screwing up.

“Don’t say that, Whumpee. You’re not useless.” 

Whumpee hadn’t realized Caretaker had come into the kitchen. Or that they had been talking out loud. Crap. 

“You know,” Caretaker started, “I admire you, Whumpee.” 

Whumpee can’t help the startled laugh that bursts from the bottom of their chest. “What’s there to admire?”

“Everything. You’re hurt. Your vision is unreliable for now and your legs are still recovering from being all but torn off. And look at you. Here you are, standing on your own in the kitchen getting yourself a glass of water without needing help. You’ve been through so much, and yet…” 

“I haven’t been through anything.” 

“Yes, you have Whumpee. You were…”

“I was nothing. You have no idea what Whumper did to their other toys. To, to the other people who were trapped there. Some of them actually did have their legs torn off. Did you know there’s a little girl who is 10 years old having surgery today because of what Whumper did? I never even learned her name because Whumper cut her tongue out before she could tell me. 

“I was nothing. Nothing happened to me. They hurt those people so bad and I did nothing. I couldn’t stop their bleeding because I couldn’t see the wounds. I couldn’t do anything then and I still can’t do anything now. I’m completely useless. I can’t even get myself a glass of water without spilling it all over the floor.”

Caretaker leaves the kitchen. Whumpee can hear their footsteps running up the stairs as far away from Whumpee as their home will allow. Whumpee’s words were cruel. Whumpee is useless. 

Loud footsteps stumble back down the stairs. When Caretaker enters the kitchen, Whumpee can hear how heavy their breathing is. “Dear Whumpee, I couldn’t tell you before, but my name is Kylee. Thank you for helping me.”

Whumpee shakes their head. “What are you doing?” 

“The little girl having surgery today wrote you a note. She says that you saved her. You made her feel better and were very nice to bandage where she was hurt. She says she wrote the note in crayon so you could feel the letters and know you helped her get back to her daddy. The last thing she wrote was that you were her hero and drew a picture of you with a superhero cape.” Caretaker’s hand grabs Whumpee’s and presses a paper into it. Whumpee can feel the wax from the crayon under their fingers. 

Carefully clear in their movements, Caretaker turns Whumpee and guides them back to the fridge. “Don’t forget Whumpee, this won’t last forever. The doctor said your eyes will be better and that little girl will be able to go home after her surgery today. Now. Do you mind if I show you a trick I learned from my ocular migraines?”

Caretaker’s ocular migraines came up randomly and mostly or completely blocked their vision when they happened. Whumpee knew that Caretaker had struggled with them at first and with feeling useless when they happened. Caretaker might not know what they had gone through at Whumper’s hands, but they can empathize with Whumpee’s vision struggles. 

A glass is pressed into Whumpee’s hands, now empty. “Put your finger over the edge. Like this.” Caretaker shifts Whumpee’s finger so it rests a reasonable depth below the edge of the glass. “When you feel the water on your finger, you’ll know the glass is full. You can also feel the temperature of the glass with the palm of your hand.

“You’re not useless, Whumpee. What you went through was different, but just as bad as what those other people experienced. Your experiences were not lesser, just different. You’re strong. You’re willing to adapt. You’ll do anything you can to help the people around you. Plus, you’re that little girl’s hero. Don’t forget to let yourself heal just like you told the others in the hospital. In the meantime, I’ll help you as much as I can. I promise.”

This time, when Whumpee fills their glass, it doesn’t overflow.

[thiswasinevitableid]

Found (Sternclay)

One of the bonus prompts was: Halloween Wedding

Halloween comes to Kepler on the first cold week of the year. A summer that lingered too long means the trees are still changing color, splotches of green, yellow, and orange painting the hillsides as a few off-season visitors weave through them. 

In the town proper, citizens of Kepler put the final touches on haunted yards and run to the store for a few more bags of candy, just in case. At the Cryptonomica, Ned Chicane, still moving much slower than he’s used to, posts up a sign reading “closed for the day” on the front door. 

Topside, Mama posts the same on the doors of Amnesty Lodge. The statement is not entirely true; they’ll still have guests in the rooms tonight, but they won’t be coming off the highway or over from the National Forest. Many of them will arrive this afternoon from a stone arch a mile away, smoothing down unfamiliar hair and studying their newly human faces. 

The Lodge lobby and porch are far more active than on a usual morning. Moira carries a tray of mugs through the main doors, passing them out to the residents who are busy slicing into pumpkins and dumping mounds of seeds and orange innards onto newspaper. There was initially a system but, as with so many plans, some degree of chaos is inevitable and their assembly line has become a circle for trading stories and predictions as they work. No one is all that worried by slowing pace; they’ll still have the Jack’O Lanterns spelling out “Congratulations Joseph and Barclay” long before the other guests arrive.

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Barclay knows from his years of watching rom-coms that if people daydream about their wedding day, the dress is the focus. But for him, it’s always, always been the cake. The flavor changed depending on the object of his affection; strawberry and lemon for the man he met when he first came to the Lodge. A play on Boston Cream Pie for another, a member of the Pine Guard who predated Mama and was lost to them soon after Barclay began helping with the hunts. 

The size and color shifted too, from towering with pink and white roses to a single layer with a chocolate mirror glaze. For a while he thought cupcakes could be fun. The only part of the daydream that never changed was that, the morning of his wedding, he’d be in the kitchen making it. And here he is.

Though, he’ll admit the bat stencils are a bit of a surprise.

When he and Joseph first sat down to plan, his fiance set a calendar on the coffee table along with a blank, bulleted to-do list and a cup of colored pens. Then he’d slid next to Barclay on the couch, writing things down as Barclay described all the things he wanted or thought might be sweet to include. It was only after forty-five minutes that he realized Joseph was using his professional skills to perform the world's most loving interrogation. So he stopped himself midway through a tangent on music and asked Joseph what the important parts were for him. 

“I…I’m not really sure. I spent years assuming I’d be married to my work so I never put much thought into how a wedding would look.” He pauses, eyes on some distant point, the murmurs, “not that I didn’t want one. I wanted a life with someone. But imagining it just made it all the more obvious why I’d never have it.”

“Baby..” Barclay murmurs, nuzzling his cheek, and Joseph smiles at him. It’s a dreamy smile, one he only does when it’s just the two of them, often when Barclay has done or said something especially corny.

“All I know right now is that I want us to be married at the end of it. Oh, and to break a glass. Sterns aren’t the most religiously observant but apparently we’ve done that one at every wedding.”

“Anything else?”

“Nothing comes to mind.” Joseph kisses his cheek, “like I said, the most important thing about the wedding is right here with me.”

“You’re sweet, babe. Are there, like, more out there things you think you’d want?”

Joseph thinks a moment. Then he chuckles, “It’s silly, but I’ve always thought it’d be amazing to get married on Halloween.”

So here he is, getting cream cheese frosting to just the right shade of dark blue. It’ll frost his four tier pumpkin spice cake, as well as the five tray pumpkin spice cakes he made just to be safe. Once the frosting is on, he’ll stencil bats swirling up the cake towards the moon iced on the very top tier. That tier is just for the two of them: espresso cake with a layer of chocolate ganache.

They both enjoy that flavor on its own merits. But for Barclay there’s the added affection of it being the recipe he was working on one of the first times Joseph really talked with him. The agent was the only person left in the restaurant on a slow, winter night. Barclay was tinkering with the batter, measuring out the espresso when a friendly, professional voice asked, “could I trouble you for a cup of that?”

He’d nearly burst out laughing. Because no, sharing coffee was no trouble. It didn’t even crack the top one hundred of the troubles that swirled around them, troubles that only escalated the longer Joseph was in his life.

The trouble is you’re hunting me

The trouble is I like you

The trouble is I can’t stop thinking about kissing you

The trouble is the world is ending and I’ll never get to tell you the truth

And then he’d said “fuck it” and one look on Joseph’s face told him all the trouble had been worth it.

The kitchen door whuffs open and closed, and he can tell without looking that it’s Mama. 

“Still can’t believe you went this way instead of payin someone for a cake.”

“I like making cakes. And I wanted to make this one.”

Mama fondly shakes her head “I know, you wanna show your fella just how much he means to you.”

“I mean, yeah, but…this is for everyone. I love him, but I love you all, too. I made this for my family, new and old.”

His friend rests a hand on his back, studying the cake, “I’m so goddamn happy for you. You got the biggest heart of anyone I’ve ever known. Glad you found someone who’ll treat it the way it deserves.”

He leans far enough to the side to rest his cheek on the top of her head, “Thanks, Mama.”

She ruffles the back of his shirt, “Aw, don’t mention it. I’ll leave you to it, gotta go help Thacker with the decorations. You need us, you know where we’ll be.”

A swell of emotion hits him right under the ribs, and he turns to bear hug her, muffling her resulting laugh while novelty Halloween songs drift over from the lobby. 

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“This really isn’t necessary.” Joseph sits back down on the bed as Lily, his oldest sister, lays her make-up out on the dresser. 

“It absolutely is.” Amy, his other sister, slides a DVD of Creature from the Black Lagoon into the player, “we’ll have some nice, family bonding while we get ready and–Joseph Michael Stern I see you eyeing those windows. Keep your butt inside.”

“I should just check to make sure-”

“Joseph, you told us yourself that you had everything planned to a T and that you trusted your friends, and our parents, to get things ready today.”

“And” Lily adds, “that our jobs for today were a) stand with you during the ceremony and b)keep you from spending your entire wedding day fussing.”

“Okay, okay. I’m relaxing, see?” He lays on the bed, “I’m completely calm. I feel like my heart is trying to tunnel out of my chest but I’m calm.”

“That’s pretty normal, wouldn’t you say Lil?”

“It’s how I felt when I married Carlos.” 

His sisters flank him as fake smoke fills the screen. Amy is still in pajama pants and a sweater, Lily is already sporting her pantsuit, the same midnight purple as the shirt Joseph will be wearing in a few short hours. They chose that and copper as the wedding colors to be on theme while still allowing for some semblance of sophistication. Joseph knows that, for all his comfort with the woods and the rougher side of life, his husband-to-be also craves elegance. 

That’s why Joseph arranged the catering to be a surprise. Barclay okayed the menu, but Joseph hasn’t told him it’s coming from his favorite, fancy, big city restaurant. 

“I’m glad you’re letting kids skip out on the reception to go Trick or Treating. Ellie was going to be pissed, excuse my french, if she had to miss that.”

Joseph nods; he’s not sure what favor Barclay called in to get Kirby to agree to chaperone a bunch of visiting kids through the Main Street Trick or Treat, but he’s grateful all the same. 

Amy nudges him, “Speaking of family, guess what dad gave to Barclay’s…mom? And sister?”

“Oh christ, not the ducks.”

“Yes, the ducks.”

He sighs; of all the traditions floating around, he doesn’t know why his dad’s family is so attached to giving little wooden ducks to the family members of anyone who marries in. Still, he’s glad they’re so accepting of his somewhat unconventional life in Kepler. 

(Who is he kidding, after the first time he brought Barclay to Chicago his parents decided the cook was their future son in law and made no secret of it).

“I think I’ll get changed-”

“The ceremony isn’t for another four hours. Now” Lily passes him a sparkling water from the mini fridge, “sit back and enjoy the fact this is the one day I’ll watch this kind of movie with you two.”

He takes the can with a grin, “I love you, too.”

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The clock ticks down the minutes until five p.m as the sun clicks closer to the horizon, creating a golden hour that renders the entire Lodge glowing as more guests pull into the parking lot. Wine red dahlias and deep purple roses bunch together at every door with orange coneflowers and remarkably metallic poppies. Black pansies sit in small, skull-shaped vases at every table, and guests are welcome to take bottles and cans from ice-filled coffins as they wait for the ceremony to begin. With the exception of the coffins, Dani grew them all (with a little help from Aubrey).

The ceremony is in the garden, and as the guests walk the path of purple rose petals to their seats, they speculate as to what the grooms are up to. 

Jake whispers to Aubrey that they’re probably getting in a little make-out session before things start. 

Mrs. Stern tells her mother that Joseph is no doubt going over things for the hundredth time so everything will be just right. 

Duck asks Indrid what he thinks they’re up to, teasing that maybe Barclay got cold feet and Joe will have to hunt him down all over again. Indrid glances briefly at the ceiling and then smiles. When Duck raises a perplexed eyebrow, the seer simply says, “not all futures are mine to share.”

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What Joseph is actually doing is pacing in a hallway just out of view of the guests. His sisters have already left to join the rest of the wedding party, and as he peeks through a window he can see they’re almost ready to begin. 

Everyone he loves is out there, dressed in their autumnal or gothic finery. The whole place looks amazing, everyone did what he asked them to. Yet his heart is still beating hard enough to break the world in half. 

A hand slips into his own and in an instant the beats return to a steady, quiet thump. 

“Thanks for giving me the morning to myself.”

“Thanks for letting my sisters more or less hold me hostage.” He turns to look at Barclay and lets out a breathless “oh.” His fiance is in a black suit with a copper pin-striped shirt and dark purple tie. Had he not clearly just brushed down his beard, Joseph’s fingers would already be in it, stroking him and telling him how gorgeous he is. 

“Not bad for a Bigfoot, huh?” Barclay rumbles.

“You put anyone, cryptid or human, to shame.”

“Right back at you, babe. But, uh, think you’re missing something”

Joseph looks down as Barclay takes his tie between his fingers. When he smooths it back down, there’s a silver tie pin in the shape of a Bigfoot.

“Perfect” they say as one just as Dani pokes her head around the corner and waves that it’s time. 

As per Sylph tradition, they walk arm in arm down the aisle. As per the online certification he got, Thacker is waiting between their respective grooms-people to act as officiant. Once everyone is welcomed, Thacker tells them it’s time for their vows.

Barclay holds his hands, looking at their joined fingers as he begins, “I, I know I don’t look it, but anyone who knows me can tell you I’m kind of a romantic. Which is why I asked about a dozen people if these vows were good or if they were too long and mushy.” He pauses for gentle laughter, “they told me it was fine, so here it goes.” This time he manages to meet Joseph’s eyes. Joseph doesn’t cry easily, but from the way Barclay is looking at him has him halfway there. 

“When I was younger I, I was kind of a wanderer. I felt like I was always far away from home, like there was somewhere waiting for me if I could just find it. I found a lot of it here, at Amnesty. Even then it always felt like there was a piece missing. Then you came into my life and little by little I realized my missing piece had found me. And that you made a life I already loved richer and fuller than I ever imagined.” His voice cracks, “I love you Joseph. I love you so much.”

Some of the guests are crying, and he tries not to join them as he takes a deep breath and grips his fiance’s hands, “Barclay, you are the kindest, smartest, most fascinating man I know. You’re an incredible cook and an even better friend. I spent so much of my life searching; searching for new challenges and for answers. But the funny thing about life is that what you’re looking for and what you find can be the same and be worlds apart at the same time. That’s how I feel when we’re together. You were, you are, everything I was looking for. And you’re so much more.”

He’s supposed to take the rings–two black bands shot through with orange crystal and obtained from Sylvain through a combination of favors, diplomacy, and updated trade laws–from his pocket so they can slip them on. 

But Barclay is wiping his eyes with the back of his hand and Joseph is close enough to hear the not quite human sounds rumbling from his chest. So instead he takes his husbands face in his hands and rests their foreheads together as he whispers, “it’s okay, big guy, I’m here.”

Barclay cups his face and kisses him so passionately he tastes fire on his tongue. The rest of the ceremony becomes a dim whirl of activity, and looking back he’s pretty sure they fumbled the rings onto their fingers during the embrace. Thacker pronounces them husbands, glass cracks, and all the while his world starts and ends with the man in front of him. 

By the time they’ve taken all the necessary family photos and joined their friends at the reception, he’s still walking on air but is at least able to take in new, complex information. Like how Barclay gasps when he sees that the black, bat-shaped ravioli and bloody heart fruit salads are from his favorite restaurant in the world. 

Jake already has the wedding playlist pumping through the speakers, songs about love, death, and monsters weaving through the air as they wind their way through the crowd of well-wishers. They find Ned, Aubrey, and Duck clustered near the drinks coffin, their Pine Guard patches replaced for the evening by matching, bat-shaped bow-ties. 

After congratulatory hugs (of Joseph as well as Barclay, something he’s still getting used to), Barclay smiles at Ned, “Y’know, this whole day is happening because of you. If you hadn’t shot that fucking video, my special agent would never have come here.”

“I would say it was my pleasure, but it did result in a non-zero number of threats directed at me from various parties, so that tempers things somewhat.” Ned smiles to show that whatever harm was done is water under the bridge. 

All the same, Joseph leans closer and adds, “I had a word with a few people in a few relevant counties. You have a remarkably clear record, Mr. Chicane.”

Ned barks out a laugh, “Being around us has rubbed off on you in the best possible way, dear boy.”

They excuse themselves to continue their circuit of the guests as more jack o lanterns magically flicker to life outside and caterers bring in crockpots of cider. 

“Did you really do that for him?”

“For the records I could find, yes.” 

Joseph can make polite conversation and accept compliments and congratulations all night, but as dinner time creeps closer he can tell Barclay needs a break from the noise. Luckily, they’ve both memorized all the side doors and stealthy exists in the Lodge. 

They wander to the edge of the hot springs, to a bench surrounded by plants that snuck over from Sylvain on the bottoms of peoples shoes (Duck found out and corralled all the errant sprouts into container gardens. 

Barclay leans against him, “Never thought this’d be my favorite place in the Lodge.”

Joseph slips his hand down Barclay’s pocket, “Even more than the bed in the room where I stayed?”

“That’s a close second. But nothing is gonna beat out our first kiss.”

“Can I say something a little sappy?”

“Any time you want.”

“I thought kisses were only that intense in the movies.” Joseph smiles, “it felt like the world was black and white when I closed my eyes and then I opened them to everything being technicolor. Did it feel like that to you?”

Barclay rumblepurrs and kisses him, “It felt like being found.”

[scriveyner]

kinktober (2020) #3

Prompt #3: Mind Control

Explicit, SSKK/AkuAtsu, ~3600 words

"I feel…so weird," Atsushi said, voice barely registering as a whisper. It was the first words he'd managed in an hour, seated huddled in on himself on the floor, knees to his chest and arms wrapped tight around his legs doing what appeared to be his best impression of a rock. Akutagawa had left him sitting there with his back to the couch and forehead pressed to the top of his knees, uncertain what to do with him.

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He'd taken a hit in the fight they'd found themselves in; a burst of strange, magenta energy that was undoubtedly from some ability user they hadn't identified on the field of battle���but the blast had barely staggered the weretiger, never mind slowed him down.

They were working together flawlessly now, benefits of missions run under the radar, secret meetings between the two of them that neither of their organizations were officially expressly aware of, and Atsushi hadn't missed a beat despite the direct hit, moving to Akutagawa's directions without hesitation.

Then, the clean-up…and when it came time for them to part, Atsushi just stood there, gaze somewhat vacant and unfocused. It was an unsettling expression worn on the weretiger's face, and when Akutagawa went to leave him to his own business, Atsushi instead followed silently behind him, trailing like a lost duckling.

Now at least he spoke, some modicum of normalcy restored as he sat in the main room of Akutagawa's flat. Akutagawa was dressed down now, home for whatever remained of the night; he cocked his head, lowering the book he'd been skimming while keeping an eye on Atsushi's weirdness. Atsushi was still seated on the floor and silent once again, and he might have misheard except that Atsushi had raised his head.

He was inviting Akutagawa to engage with him, clearly, but he couldn't see the weretiger's…or the ability's…endgame. "You were struck by an ability," Akutagawa said, and Atsushi lifted his tilted-forward head, actively attentive. "A pathetic showing, by the way. Your situation awareness is lackluster."

Usually, Atsushi would grow defensive to Akutagawa's derision, warranted or otherwise, and would snap a retort in anger—but he said nothing, although even in profile Akutagawa could see his brow furrow angrily. "Speak your mind, weretiger, don't sit there and make faces like an infant with gas."

Immediately, Atsushi snapped off, "the ability would have hit you if I hadn't gotten between you and it, asshole." He blinked, and said, surprised, "why couldn't I say that before? Ugh, I feel so weird."

Akutagawa tilted his head the other way, put his cheek to his fist, elbow resting on the armrest of the couch as he regarded Atsushi; still not looking in his direction but glaring at the wall and trying to figure out the origin of his malaise. "Weretiger," Akutagawa said, "look at me."

Atsushi twisted and shot him a withering look. "What? Why are you being so bossy all the sudden, what gi—"

"Shut up."

He immediately silenced mid-word, mid-syllable, and the look on Atsushi's face cycled through surprise and then went straight through to sheer anger, eyebrows twitching as he tried to force out the remainder of his thought.

Hmm.

"Stand up," Akutagawa said, and without a word Atsushi rose to his feet, turning to face Akutagawa. The expression on his face was almost comical at this point, mouth pressed into a flat line and anger turning his face a quite lovely shade of purple. "Interesting," Akutagawa mused idly, letting his eyes travel up and down Atsushi's figure very obviously, if only to piss him off further. He sat forward, finally. "I believe I understand the nature of the ability's effect now, if nothing else."

Atsushi remained silent, and Akutagawa smirked. "You may speak."

"WHAT THE FUCK," Atsushi didn't move, hadn't been released to do so. He ws trembling with the anger in his voice. "Akutagawa what the fuck are you doing me, fucking stop it."

"I am not doing anything to you," he said, although there was a heavily implied yet he left dripping off the end. "It seems that our phantom ability user has some sort of mind control power, or perhaps," he flickered his eyes over Atsushi's figure again, "it's more akin to being a puppet, as you certainly are still in possession of your mind."

"Well, fucking stop doing it," Atsushi said angrily. "Let me go."

"You're the one who followed me home like a lost little kitten."

Atsushi fumed silently. "Because of the ability."

Akutagawa honestly shouldn't be enjoying this, but he was anyway. He sat back and folded his hands in his lap. "Are you certain that was because of the ability?"

"Why the fuck would I want to go home with you?"

Akutagawa's mouth twitched. "You have developed an exceptionally filthy mouth, lately."

Atsushi didn't respond to that, snapping his mouth closed and glaring, and Akutagawa considered it for a moment, cocked his head, and said, deliberately, "why did you follow me home?"

"Because I wanted to remain by your side." Atsushi's eyes almost bugged out. "What the fuck, why did I say that!?"

Oh, this was going to be a fun evening. "Don't be obtuse, you know exactly why you said it." Atsushi resumed fuming quietly as Akutagawa weighed his options. He could always just leave Atsushi facing a corner until the ability wore off, or until Dazai turned up to collect him and negate the ability's effects… but why do that when they could have some actual fun?

He took a breath, looked Atsushi in the eye. "Do you trust me?"

Without hesitation, without blinking, Atsushi said simply, firmly, "yes." He didn't even look startled or surprised at his own answer, which was unfortunate because that was not the answer that Akutagawa expected from him. He'd honestly expected a 'no', or even a 'fuck no', as that seemed to be Atsushi's favorite vocabulary term of the evening, so an explicit indication of trust was literally the last thing Akutagawa was prepared to hear.

Atsushi noticed his surprise, his mouth tilting into a small, tight grin. "Weren't expecting that, huh?"

Ruffled, Akutagawa glared sourly at him. "Nothing you do surprises me, weretiger." He stood, and they were eye to eye for the moment, before Akutagawa tilted his head, indicating they were going to be moving the conversation along elsewhere. "Follow me," he instructed, and before he could help himself, added on, "we'll see just how far that trust extends."

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Atsushi stood just inside the door of Akutagawa's bedroom He had followed obediently, straining against each step with every muscle in his body and not having any measure of success. It was maddening, being trapped in his own body and boxed into the whims of fucking Akutagawa, and Atsushi was already thinking up deeply unpleasant things to do to the ability user who cursed him with this…that is, if he could ever track them down.

Akutagawa's bedroom looked distressingly normal. He'd never spared a thought for what Akutagawa's living arrangements must look like, but this was just a regular bedroom. A very normal looking, regular bedroom. Granted, it was a very nice one, given its location in Port Mafia headquarters; an entire wall was floor to ceiling windows, giving a spectacular view of the Yokohama bay and skyline, and instead of dizzyingly bright overhead lights that would have washed out the view, the room was lit instead with dimmer track lighting.

Atsushi realized Akutagawa was watching him look the room over. "Surprised?" he asked, and Atsushi didn't like how his first reaction was to spit out an appropriate response answering the question but found, somewhat pleased, that he was able to stifle the reaction. Akutagawa didn't seem to notice or mind, as it wasn't actually phrased as a direct command, just a question. "Come here," he said, standing in front of the bed; and this command Atsushi could not ignore, crossing the room to present himself before Akutagawa, cheeks flushed crimson.

They stared at each other silently, beneath the dim lights.

"So," Atsushi said, anger still tinging his tone. "You gonna force me to have sex with you? That why you brought me back to your bedroom?" Not…not that he was particularly averse to this idea, suddenly—and Atsushi didn't know if that was him or this whole mind-control deal deciding he was horny for him—but either way, Akutagawa didn't need to know.

He better not fucking ask.

"I could," Akutagawa said thoughtfully. He hadn't moved to lay a finger on Atsushi, and instead sat himself on the edge of the large, impossibly-soft-looking bed. God, a bed with a mattress. Atsushi had the urge to make a nest in its sheets and never emerge. "But there's no fun in just…ordering you. You'd just do whatever I said, and that's boring."

"Then what are we doing?"

Akutagawa kept giving him these considering looks, and it was beginning to drive Atsushi mad. The contempt and barely disguised disgust he was accustomed to, but whatever it was that was happening right now in Akutagawa's head he couldn't grok and he didn't like it one bit. "Why don't you," Akutagawa said carefully, eyes locked on Atsushi's, "tell me?"

Atsushi said, without a beat of hesitation, "strip."

The smirk that settled on Akutagawa's face was intolerable. He started on the buttons of his shirt, still half-watching Atsushi. "And here you were, worried about me forcing you," he hummed, clearly amused.

Atsushi swallowed, flushed hard, hated that he was exposed just that quickly. "I hate you," he muttered angrily. "I hate this stupid ability effect. Can't we just call Dazai-san?"

Akutagawa's fingers paused on one of the last buttons holding his shirt closed. He looked up at Atsushi properly, his expression neutral. "Weretiger," he said, "take out your cock."

His shoulders stiffened, but his body moved to obey the command, loosing his belt and popping the catch on his trousers, exposing himself with a flush of shame on his face. Atsushi was partially hard and hated it, but at least Akutagawa's verbal commands had no apparent actual control over his level of arousal.

Akutagawa rose to his feet, stepped in close. Atsushi didn't move as Akutagawa sank to his knees before Atsushi, he couldn't move if he wanted to, rooted in place as Akutagawa stroked him lightly, the heat of his hand electric on his sensitive flesh.

Atsushi swallowed hard, closed his eyes. Akutagawa's smirk was in his voice now, though, and Atsushi couldn't escape it. "Look at how quickly you grow hard, weretiger. Is my hand alone so pleasing to you?" He opened his eyes at the command, against his instincts, looking down to see that Akutagawa was looking up at him, watching his face.

"It's good," Atsushi croaked, answering the question as ordered, and Akutagawa continued to watch him closely. Atsushi wet his lips and closed his eyes again, savoring Akutagawa's strong grip, until he spoke again. "Tell me what you want."

"I want you to suck me," Atsushi said without opening his eyes. Akutagawa didn't like that, and he knew Akutagawa didn't like putting his mouth on Atsushi, preferred to use his hands but fuck, he asked what Atsushi wanted, didn't he?

All the air left Atsushi's lungs at the soft lips brushing over the head of his cock, parting around it, the broad, flat tongue pressing over the slit and sucking lightly. He tilted forward, eyes flying open, hands flailing for Akutagawa's head.

"Do not touch me," Akutagawa said, barely lifting his mouth from Atsushi's cock, and his hands froze in midair, curled into fists and left him without anything balance on or against; and he trembled in place as Akutagawa curled his tongue around the hot, velvety skin of his cock, sucking lightly the entire time.

Atsushi solidly lost track of time while Akutagawa's mouth was on him, a hot furnace enveloping a fixed point, shaking as he frantically raced toward the edge of his arousal—and then Akutagawa pulled off him, stroked him with his hand again, delicately wiping his mouth with the back of his other hand as Atsushi gasped and somehow stayed on his feet.

"You are not permitted to come until I tell you," Akutagawa ordered him pointedly, and Atsushi's entire lower body seemed to clench. Done fastidiously cleaning his mouth, Akutagawa rose to his feet, pressing Atsushi's erection back against the loose hem of his shirt with his palm. "Now," he said, "you strip."

Atsushi did as commanded, dropping his shed clothing to the floor all around him. He swallowed, flushed red; it wasn't like he had never been naked in front of Akutagawa before—but, truly, most of their encounters were brief, half-clothed quick fucks hidden away in alleys or on rooftops. He was vulnerable and exposed, now, and he really didn't like it.

Akutagawa slowly shed his own clothing to match, until he too was naked, and…he was even more vulnerable than Atsushi like this, cut off from his ability. Some measure of trust, indeed. Atsushi swallowed again, mouth dry, tried to even his breathing and only managed to gulp air like it was water. Akutagawa was hard as well; his thin frame pale in the moonlight. He ached with the idea of touching him, the need, the want…and Akutagawa's smirk, razor-sharp still, was the fine line between them.

"Tell me, weretiger," Akutagawa said, naked and unafraid before him, "tell me what, exactly, you intend to do to me."

Atsushi looked him in the eye. "I intend to push you down on the bed," Atsushi said, starting, felt the thrill of the words echoing in his chest at the same time his brain begged him to throw the brakes. "Where I will put my fingers in you to make certain you can take me. I'll suck you through to a climax, and then I will fuck you so thoroughly and so well that you won't even be able to walk to the bathroom under your own power after." God, how the fuck was he saying all this with a straight face, Atsushi wanted to sink into the floor and die of embarrassment despite the fact that his cock was clearly in support of this game plan, twitching and growing stiffer with each completed thought.

Akutagawa's lips parted while listening to Atsushi describe what was going to happen. He wet his lips, swallowed, and stepped forward, catching Atsushi's jaw in his hand and holding his gaze. "You presume much."

"I don't presume," Atsushi said archly, matching Akutagawa's tone. "I intend." His hand seemed to move of its own accord, he couldn't recall having been released but Akutagawa didn't seem surprised when he captured his wrist, pulling his hand away from Atsushi's face. Akutagawa's expression changed, shifted, but he didn't withdraw or try to pull away. "Are you going to stop me? You can."

Akutagawa's usually dull eyes were glittering. "You will fuck me," he commanded, tone as imperious as ever, "as you described, and harder." He wasn't done with his thought, but Atsushi knew, he knew where Akutagawa was about to go with his thought and lunged forward, already commanded once. His mouth covered Akutagawa's before he could say "make it hurt;" he'd said that exact thing before, sprawled on spread knees, face pressed to a dirty concrete floor…and despite everything, Atsushi didn't want to hurt him.

Debauching a usually prim and stiff expression, on the other hand, he was immediately down for.

They kissed, and kissed more; Atsushi's hands coming up and cradling Akutagawa's head, soft kitten kisses and deeper, savoring slowly the taste of him. They'd never really gone slow, never bothered to, and suddenly Atsushi felt the need to make sure that Akutagawa was very well and thoroughly fucked. They were already backed up to the bed and Atsushi pushed him down, stood there for a second with Akutagawa looking up at him, face flushed and chest heaving.

Without prompting, Akutagawa fell backward on the bed, hitching one leg up, his heel pressed into the edge of the mattress, legs cocked wide and exposing himself. It was an invitation, explicit and obscene, and Atsushi took it immediately, dropping to his knees at the edge of the bed and stroking Akutagawa's cock with a firm hand. The shudder that drew from Akutagawa was exquisite and he smirked, before putting his mouth on him.

#

Atsushi's dick was always bigger than he remembered. Akutagawa's head pressed back into the mattress, eyes squeezed shut as he fought his body's response to the intrusion. It didn't help matters that he had gotten impatient with the foreplay, demanded to be fucked now and had managed to forget for that split second that Atsushi was bound to follow his commands to the letter. He withdrew his fingers immediately and replaced them with his cock.

And, god, it was big.

(It didn't look that big.)

Akutagawa writhed, pinned, knew if he said to pull it out Atsushi would; even without this he couldn't stand to hurt Akutagawa and that weakness was something he despised even if, in the moment, he appreciated the sentiment. "Fuck," he pushed through clenched teeth, gave in and wrapped his arms over Atsushi's shoulders, held tight as they just existed, joined together for what felt like an eternity but was probably only a span of seconds.

Then, without waiting for any verbal indication from Akutagawa, Atsushi began to move.

He'd gotten good at this. Akutagawa had been training him since the first time he'd climbed on the weretiger's dick in the back of a warehouse still covered in the blood of their enemies. He'd been fumbling then, uncertain and tentative; now his strokes were strong and sure, each one pressing deeper inside, each snap of his hips as he pushed Akutagawa's legs back against his chest drove him that much closer to the edge. When Atsushi hiked his hips up even further, so that he was driving his weight down, into Akutagawa, it forced him straight past that razor's edge and over.

Akutagawa released, quick and messy down over his stomach, but he couldn't catch breath because Atsushi kept at it, fucking him relentlessly hard and yanking him straight through his climax. He tilted forward more, kept Akutagawa's ass in the air with his body, bracing himself on his palms and grinding down deep. Akutagawa realized with a blurry horror that the weird noise he kept hearing was his own panting, gasping voice; the raw vocalizations tearing from his throat unfamiliar to his ears.

He couldn't focus or think about anything else other than the cock splitting him in two, impossibly deep and hard; somehow the stimulation started to draw him toward another climax too fast, too fast. His fingers claws at Atsushi's back, legs jerking, caught in a spasm and unable to get away. "I told you," Atsushi said, staring down at him with a strangely clear expression, voice gone sex-rough in that specific way that just settled deep in his chest, "that I was going to fuck you until you couldn't walk," he leaned in close, still grinding deep, and said in the same low, pitched tone, "Ryuunosuke."

Akutagawa's hips pushed up against the weretiger's overbearing weight, jerking with the pain of another climax come too quickly—mostly dry, his cock giving a pathetic dribble even as Akutagawa choked out another sob. He couldn't…he couldn't, this was too much, Atsushi never slow, never giving him a moment to breath and collect himself, he had to be so hard he couldn't take It and he hadn't yet, he hadn't….

…oh, oh; Akutagawa arched his back like a bow, slid his hands up Atsushi's back and somehow found the words he hadn't realized that he'd lost. "Fuck, fucking…ah," he gasped, as another stroke slide along his prostate, lighting him up again, attempting for another dry run, "you can come inside me, fuck, fuck—!"

He hadn't even quite finished the thought and Atsushi loosed a choked, hitched growl; trying to get deeper and bottoming out even as his cock surged hot and pulsed deep inside. Akutagawa held on, unable to anything but ride out Atsushi's blindingly intense orgasm, so much so that when he finally passed through the other side he dropped Akutagawa to the bed beneath him, sliding off Atsushi's dick with a slick, obscene pop—and then collapsed straight down atop him, unconscious.

Akutagawa panted to the ceiling, amazed that Atsushi's weight hadn't crushed his ribs, and wrapped his arms around his weretiger. He knocked his forehead against Atsushi's, but Atsushi was well and truly passed out, so he kissed Atsushi's sweaty forehead and, as comfortable as he could be under Atsushi's warm weight, joined him in blissful unconsciousness.

#

Dazai frowned, looking Atsushi over, before touching one finger to his forehead. Atsushi winced, and for a split second that magenta shimmer appeared around him again, before being enveloped by a brief white flash and dispelling, Dazai's nullification ability doing its duty. "Huh," Dazai said, surprised. "You were being affected by an ability."

Atsushi wrinkled his nose. "I don't feel any different."

Akutagawa, arms folded and leaned against the couch for support, said, "shut up, weretiger."

"Hey, go fuck yourself." Atsushi looked surprised, and then pleased. "Oh thank god."

"Why should I," Akutagawa said with a tight smirk, "when I know you will do it so much better than I ever could?"

Atsushi's face flamed scarlet, and Dazai's eyebrows lifted, looking between them with a knowing—and amused—expression.

"Asshole," Atsushi hissed at him, still bright red, and Akutagawa covered his clear amusement with a cough, unable to gracefully retreat on his still-wobbly legs.

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Merging Two Blogs: Strategies for Content Success

Maybe you have two separate blogs that deal with two elements of your overall business. Maybe you’re rebranding your business and need to rebrand your blog. Perhaps you recently acquired another company and want to incorporate its blog into your own. Or maybe you purchased a relevant domain for the SEO juice and need to transfer your existing blog to it.

How do you combine two blogs into one? Here’s how. Before we do anything, though, back up each existing blog.

For the sake of simplicity, let’s assume you’re merging two WordPress blogs. It doesn’t really matter whether you’re combining two blogs into one new entity or merging one blog with an existing one. The steps are more or less the same.

First, you have the logistics of a WordPress merge. Then you have the sticky details.

Logistics

When you combine two blogs, one potential stumbling block is overlapping categories and tags. You need to take steps to prevent lumping everything together.

Option A: Fix overlapping categories and tags

You could rename the categories and tags with unique titles in the original blogs before you export or merge them. For example, if both blogs have “productivity” as a category, you could rename the categories in the first blog as “productivity 1” and in the second blog as productivity 2”. Then use that same “1” or “2” naming convention for all categories in each blog.

To rename categories and tags, go to Posts > Categories (or Tags) and click on Quick Edit and manually make the switch for each one. That simple solution could work in many cases.

Option B: Assigning everything to a new user (preferred option)

Your second choice involves creating unique users, which likely is the preferred option for most of you.

Create a new user for each blog that will be used to create the new or merged blog.

You may need to reevaluate organizational structure on the newly created or merged #blog, says @IAmAaronAgius. Click To Tweet

For our purposes, let’s pretend you purchased a relevant blog to merge with your existing blog. You should add a new user with the name “Merge” or something distinct to the existing blog. Go to Users > New User. The assigned role is unimportant at this stage as you’ll likely delete it later.

Export

Log into the blog that is being merged into the other one. Go to Tools > Export.

You can export “All content,” “Pages,” or “Posts.” Select Posts. You can narrow the list by selecting categories, authors, or status. If you’re transferring all the content, click on “All” and leave the date fields as is. Click “Download export file” to save the XML file with all posts from the blog to your computer.

Next, log into the site receiving the content. Go to Tools > Import > WordPress.

Follow the prompts. After importing the previously saved XML file with the other blog’s content, it will ask if you’d like to assign the content to a specific user. You would. Choose the newly created user you designated on that site for the merge.

The merged material now is available and organized by that unique user name. You can sort and tweak these transferred posts by visiting Users > All Users and clicking on the number in the posts column, or go to Posts > All Posts, and clicking on the author name.

Either way, you have all new posts on one convenient list.

Tweaking content

Once everything has been uploaded, you may need to reevaluate your organizational structure on the newly created or merged blog.

Add to a new category (or tag)

Go to Posts > Categories to create a new one. (The process is the same to create new tags.)

Next, on the author page, select all the posts to add to the new category, choose “Edit” from the Bulk Actions drop-down menu at the top. Click Apply.

On the next page, add the selected posts to the new category and click Update.

If you are replacing one category for another, you may need to manually remove them from the old category or delete the category after everything is assigned to a new one.

Once done, you have classified and organized all the new posts so that they fit into your freshly merged blog. Kudos, but you’re far from done.

Sticky details

Unfortunately, bringing all that content to a new home can mess up a great deal of tiny details.

Before we go further, you need to do two things to make this section a lot easier for you:

Save a copy of each blog’s XML sitemap using WordPress or an online generator.

Register the old and any new domains on both the Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.

Done? Good. Let’s move on.

Broken internal links

When you export and merge content with internal links, those links will be broken. You need to fix them.

You can do this with plugins to find and replace broken links like Search & Replace, Better Search Replace, or Velvet Blues Update URLs. Simply identify the new URL and link structure in the plugin settings and it does most of the heavy lifting for you.

SEO juice

To keep the SEO power of your merged content, install a redirection plugin like Redirection or SEO Redirection on the original blog. It will redirect traffic to the new or merged blog whenever someone tries to access a post via an old link from another website, social media share, directory, etc.

These redirects are important. Without them, you wave goodbye to whatever SEO power that content once held and that defeats the purpose of the merge or new creation.

Redirects are important. Without them, wave goodbye to #SEO power that content once had, says @IAmAaronAgius. Click To Tweet

While 301 redirects with a plugin are easiest to implement, they can result in potentially slower load times because of the increased load on your server.

If you’re comfortable fiddling with HTML code and your original blog has few posts and URLs, consider using PHP header redirects. Add the following text to the header of each page being redirected:

<? Header( “HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently” ); Header( “Location: http://www.new-url.com” ); ?>

Each page must be saved as a PHP file for this to work.

After your 301 redirects are set, submit the old sitemaps to Google and Bing search engines so they send their spiders to crawl your sites and make note of the changes and redirects. It’s also a good idea to request a change of address with Google (much like you do at the post office when you move).

Finally, submit the new blog’s updated sitemap to Google and Bing.

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Crawl errors

The Google Search Console has a virtual cornucopia of helpful toys, tools, and data.

Crawl > Crawl Errors can highlight lingering issues the spiders are having crawling your new two-in-one blog. Monitor for crawl errors every few days for at least the first month to make sure everything is tickety-boo.

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Conclusion

Migrations and merges can get complicated very quickly depending on the size and scope of the blogs involved. If you’re merging blogs with many posts and a complex architecture, it might be worthwhile to find a web developer with migration experience to do it all for you. The cost you incur will be small peanuts compared to the hair-pulling frustration you avoid. It’s a bargain.

And so is merging blogs. Done right, the payoff in SEO juice, content upgrade, and feeling of accomplishment is unrivalled.

Good for you, good for your business. Go forth and merge.

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Have you attempted a blog merge yet? What obstacles and solutions did you encounter? Leave your comments below.

Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space. Feel free to include additional tools in the comments (from your company or ones that you have used).

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