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💖💜💙 Do you know what we could always use a little more of? Bi books! Here are a few coming out in February that would make fabulous additions to your never-ending TBR! Happy reading!
💖 In Plain Sight by Siobhan Muir
💜 Big Date Energy by Bethany Rutter
💙 Wine Ghost Goes to Hell by Sage Coffey
💖 Disciples of Chaos by M.K. Lobb
💜 Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria Koops
💙 Rupture in Total Eclipse by Sem Thornwood
💖 King Cheer by Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm, Jamie Green
💜 Master and Favorite by Rachel Cherry
💙 Hannah Tate, Beyond Repair by Laura Piper Lee
💖 A Vicious Game by Melissa Blair
💜 It's Ours to Write by Blanche Maze
💙 Projections by S.E. Porter
💖 The Girl, the Ring, & the Baseball Bat by Camille Gomera-Tavarez
💜 Witch Boyfriend Wanted by Colette Rivera
💙 Tune Me Up by Renée Dahlia
💖 Cloti's Song by Dani Finn
💜 Prove It by Stephanie Hoyt
💙 Mewing by Chloe Spencer
💖 Snowed In With Summer by Tiana Warner
💜 Green Dot by Madeline Gray
💙 Falling For You by Mariah Ankenman
💖 Breaks by Emma Vieceli, Malin Rydén
💜 Signals by Nika
💙 Mortgage of Convenience by Dani McLean
💖 Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner
💜 The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
💙 An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson
💖 Truthfully, Yours by Caden Armstrong
💜 The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton
💙 The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett
💖 Daniel, Deconstructed by James Ramos
💜 Letters to Her Love by Katherine Grant
💙 We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller
💖 Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan
💜 You Had Me at Merlot by Melissa Brayden
💙 Redsight by Meredith Mooring
best kisses of all time iydm?? I think about the midnight library kiss in what I did for a duke at least once a week<3333
they are sensual enough i guess but nowadays I just don't see some good old, toe curling, actually romantic, a kiss for the sake of the kiss-kiss you know? the kind that racks a havoc in the very being of the mcs?? ahhh the good old days
Anyway thats the ask, thank you❤❤❤❤
For sure, yes! I will say, because I often say it... Lady Chatterley's Lover has one of the best onscreen kisses of all time.
Anyway:
Mafia Madman by Mila Finelli. I think of a kiss in this book a lot, because while these two have a lot of SEX, they don't have a lot of tender kissing or like, loooovemaking type sex. There's a scene where the hero has a panic attack, and the heroine helps him breathe through it, and they start having sex, and I think she calls him baby during or something (and it's also the first time they've had sex with her on top) and he like, grabs her and kisses her... it's so good.
Regarding the Duke by Grace Callaway. This is recent, but it's their first kiss in flashbacks, and he's all cold and calculating and trying to seduce her into marrying him for her connections, and she's sweet and gentle, and it's like... so good... When they kiss for the first time and it kinda goes out of control and he's like "SHIT".
Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas. There's a really passionate kiss around the line where Derek tells Sara that sometimes, he wants to punish her a little... And he's basically like "you need to stay the fuck away from me" but we all know he's falling in love with her, and he can't resist kissing her.
Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid. The kiss during the scene where Ilya is like "oh let's like chill and have an snack after sex", which turns into a handjob lol, but it's like the first time they really start getting EMOTIONALLY intimate (and the first time they switch out of using last names only), and you see the horror of FEELINGS happen.
American Queen by Sierra Simone. I really love the angsty ferris wheel first kiss between Embry and Greer because it does feel kind of doomed? Like, you're very "oh nooooo this is baaaad" because of the setup you've already seen and what you as the reader know that they don't know, but you're also reading so fast because the tension has been building and it all feels so fated.
And though it's not from their perspective, in the same book the mistletoe kiss between Ash and Embry is. SO. GOOD.
Lothaire by Kresley Cole. The kiss when Ellie is all "fuck you dude I'll make you yell to the rafters" (she does) and during they get really out of hand and start making out and he bites her lower lip and it starts bleeding... and as she withdraws he's like "she is going to lose her shit and run away", kind of WANTING that to happen because he's an asshole and is losing the upper hand... But she basically smiles at him through the blood and kisses him HARD. It's the entire relationship in a kiss.
When the Duke Was Wicked by Lorraine Heath. The first kiss in this book is one of those "he has many emotions including jealousy and can't stand it so he grabs her and kisses her" moments... and he feels so bad about it... and she's so pissed at him... and it's incredible. Waking Up with the Duke also has an amazing first kiss, especially because after that Jayne demands that, though they'll be having sex, there CANNOT be any more kissing. Because the kissing is Too Much.
Thief of Shadows by Elizabeth Hoyt. The masked kiss, which very much gives HARD Sam Raimi Spider-Man vibes.
Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas. The kiss while their hands are still tied, obvi obvi lol. I also love the first kiss in Seduce Me at Sunrise so great, because Kev can't stop himself (common Kev skill issue) and it's so angsty and so passionate and Win just leaves the country right after because he won't just put it in her, basically.
Between the Devil and Desire by Lorraine Heath. Olivia goading Jack into kissing her by being like "and that's what I DON'T want you to do" because she knows he does the opposite of what she tells him to lol.
The Duke Gets Even by Joanna Shupe. The first kiss in the ocean when they're strangers and he tells her to pull his hair harder. It sets the tone in every way for the rest of the book.
*Minor character x minor reader (Minor reader insert ok sans pairing)
*Pedophilia
*Smut
*Incestuous relationships
*Turning canonically straight characters gay/LGBTQPIA+ characters straight (Doesn’t apply to Billy x Stu and other confirmed characters that aren’t out canonically)
*Isms and phobias
*All the usual no-no’s for writers
*What I will write*
*Fluff/angst/the usual non smuts
*x reader
*Friendship
*Imagines/headcannons
*POV/situational x reader
*Reader insert/no pairing
*Crossovers
*Character x character
*Fandoms I write for* (Not exhaustive)
*Scream 1996
Stu Macher
Billy Loomis
Randy Meeks
Dewey Riley
Tatum Riley
Sidney Prescot
*Friday the 13th (various)
Jason Voorhees (specify movie)
Tommy Jarvis
*F13: The Game (specify setting)
Tommy Jarvis
Jason Voorhees (specify movie)
All counselors
*Texas Chainsaw (various)
Leatherface (specify movie)
Hitchhiker
Sheriff Hoyt/Charlie Hewitt
*The Terminator (1-3 only)
T-800
T-1000
John Connor
Kyle Reese
*Halloween (various)
Michael Myers
*Misery
Paul Sheldon
*The Shining
Jack Torrance
*Stranger Things
Eddie Munson
Jason Carver
Peter Ballard/Henry Creel/Vecna
Steve Harrington
*Goosebumps
Mr Shivers/R.L. Stein
*TWD
Basically anyone but Negan x reader unless it’s post war Negan when he stopped being a rapist pos. The Governor is also a sussy rapist and I won’t do him x reader at all.
*Ghostbusters
Dana Barrett
Janine
Ray
Egon
Peter
Winston
Louis
*Boy Meets World
Eric (must be 18+ to be x reader)
Cory (see above)
Shawn (etc)
Topanga
Rachel
Harley
Johnathan Turner
Angela
Stuart Minkus
*This list is not exhaustive, as mentioned above. Send a request my way and as long as it fits the parameters listed in the rules, I’ll try my best :)*
Tagged by @loisfreakinglane bout a billion years ago!
but much like Beyoncé's Renaissance visuals i am worth the wait orrrrr i simply don’t exist at all.......which wouldn’t that be wild? if i just been a ghost blogging all these years and like i’d been dead for 50 years and everything yall know about me is about some woman who tragically died half a century ago................i mean i swear im alive but what if im a ghost who THINKS im alive and doesn’t know im dead????????????????? SOMEONE GET JORDAN PEELE
Rules: Tag 9 people you want to get to know better/catch up with, and answer the questions below!
Last Song: In My Head by JOSEPH
Last Movie: Something Borrowed (2011). with you and the girlies. yesterday. and it sucked just as much as it did when i first watched it in 2011. a total PICK ME HEAUX fantasy. Darcy did nothing wrong but be fun and likeable. All Rachel had was bangs for a personality. AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THE MAIN GUY.............
Currently Reading: End of Story by Kylie Scott
Three Ships: right now in this moment Kit/Jade from Willow, Hoyt/Kate from Windy and Ed/Stede from OFMD
Craving: i’d murder some Hawaiian Pizza right now. DON’T HATE!! RE-EVALUATE AND ACQUIRE SOME TASTE!!!
Between Pre-Cult Joseph/Hoyt and then twenty years later Nora/Rachel-Faith my big Far Cry ship dynamic seems to be “person who’s clinging to a form of morality that doesn’t serve them anymore / person who inspires them to adopt one that is much, much worse”
Barbarella #1 (2021) Lucio Parrillo Cover & Madibek Musabekov Pencils, Sarah Hoyt Story
#Barbarella #1 (2021) #LucioParrillo Cover & #MadibekMusabekov Pencils, #SarahHoyt Story The Siren of Space returns for a series of all-new adventures. SAVE ON SHIPPING COST - NOW AVAILABLE FOR LOCAL PICK UP IN DELTONA, FLORIDA https://www.rarecomicbooks.fashionablewebs.com/Barbarella%202021.html#1b #RareComicBooks #KeyComicBooks #DynamiteEntertainment #ComicBooks
Película
AFTERSUN
Runner-Up: Nope
Director
Charlotte Wells | AFTERSUN
Runner-Up: Jordan Peele | Nope
Actriz
Renate Reinsve | VERDENS VERSTE MENNESKE
Runner-Up: Frankie Corio | Aftersun
Actor
Paul Mescal | AFTERSUN
Runner-Up: Ben Whishaw | Surge
Actriz de Reparto
Stephanie Hsu | EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
Runner-Up: Ximena Lamadrid | Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades
Actor de Reparto
Anders Danielsen Lie | VERDENS VERSTE MENNESKE
Runner-Up: Ke Huy Quan | Everything Everywhere All At Once
Guión Original
Jordan Peele | NOPE
Runner-Up: Charlotte Wells | Aftersun
Guión Adaptado
Joel Kim Booster | FIRE ISLAND
Runner-Up: Peter Craig, Matt Reeves | The Batman
Edición
Blair McClendon | AFTERSUN
Runner-Up: Nicholas Monsour | Nope
Fotografía
Darius Khondji | BARDO, FALSA CRÓNICA DE UNAS CUANTAS VERDADES
Runner-Up: Hoyte Van Hoytema | Nope
Diseño de Producción
Ruth De Jong, Samantha Englender, Leandre Lagrange | NOPE
Runner-Up: Eugenio Caballero, Roberto Bonelli, Carlos Y. Jacques | Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades
Diseño de Vestuario
Ruth E. Carter | BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER
Runner-Up: Jacqueline Durran | Spencer
Make-Up & Hairstyling
Camille Friend, Joel Harlow | BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER
Runner-Up: Adam Johansen, Matteo Silvi | Thor: Love and Thunder
Efectos Visuales / Especiales
Scott R. Fisher, Jeremy Robert, Guillaume Rocheron, Sreejith Venugopalan | NOPE
Runner-Up: Guillaume Rocheron, Olaf Wendt | Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades
Edición de Sonido
Nicolas Becker, Martín Hernández | BARDO, FALSA CRÓNICA DE UNAS CUANTAS VERDADES
Runner-Up: Johnnie Burn | Nope
Mezcla de Sonido
José Antonio García | NOPE
Runner-Up: Santiago Núñez, Frank A. Montaño, Jon Taylor, Ken Yasumoto | Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades
Score
Jonny Greenwood | SPENCER
Runner-Up: Michael Abels | Nope
Soundtrack
AFTERSUN
Runner-Up: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Canción
“This Is A Life” — Son Lux, Mitski, David Byrne | EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
Runner-Up: “Con la Brisa” — Foudeqush, Ludwin Göransson | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Diseño de Créditos
Aaron Becker | NOPE
Runner-Up: Duncan Elms | The Batman
Trailer
Marvel Enterteinment | BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER
Runner-Up: Strand Releasing | Mogul Mowgli
Poster
LA | NOPE
Runner-Up: P+A | Aftersun
Poster en Cortometraje
BIEN PARECIDAS
Runner-Up: Cruise
Actuación en Cortometraje
Anna Dzieduszycka | SUKIENKA
Runner-Up: Joanie Martel | Lune
Realización en Cortometraje
Emita Frigato, Rachele Meliadò | Diseño de Producción | LE PUPILLE
Runner-Up: Nadège Feyrit | Diseño de Sonido | La Neige Incertaine
Guión en Cortometraje
Marion Boisrond, Ada Hernaez, Marie-Liesse Coumau, Gwendoline Legendre, Romane Tisseau | LA NEIGE INCERTAINE
Runner-Up: Oscar Sarmiento Schultz | Parece que va a nevar
Dirección en Cortometraje
Daniel Soares | O QUE RESTA
Runner-Up: Alice Rohrwacher | Le Pupille
Cortometraje de Ficción
O QUE RESTA
Runner-Up: Ala Kachuu
Cortometraje Documental
ACUEDUCTOS
Runner-Up: Fuego en el cielo
Cortometraje Animado
LA NEIGE INCERTAINE
Runner-Up: Last Summer
Película Animada
TURNING RED
Runner-Up: Flugt
Off-Screen Performance
Chris Evans | LIGHTYEAR
Runner-Up: Rosalie Chiang | Turning Red
Non-Anglo Performance
Renate Reinsve | VERDENS VERSTE MENNESKE
Runner-Up: Anders Danielsen Lie | Verdens Verste Menneske
Performance Mexicano
Daniel Giménez Cacho | BARDO, FALSA CRÓNICA DE UNAS CUANTAS VERDADES
Runner-Up: Karla Souza | La Caída
Featured Actor
Luis Couturier | BARDO, FALSA CRÓNICA DE UNAS CUANTAS VERDADES
Runner-Up: Scoot McNairy | C’mon C’mon
Stunts / Choreography
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
Runner-Up: Prey
Breakthrough Actriz
Frankie Corio | AFTERSUN
Runner-Up: Stephanie Hsu | Everything Everywhere All At Once
Breakthrough Actor
Brandon Perea | NOPE
Runner-Up: Daryl McCormack | Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Rising Filmmaker
Charlotte Wells | AFTERSUN
Runner-Up: Stephen Karam | The Humans
Ensamble
Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea, Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, Jacob Kim, Terry Notary, y Keith David | NOPE
Runner-Up: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Hong, Tallie Medel, Jenny Slate, y Harry Shum Jr. | Everything Everywhere All At Once
Escena
This is our last dance | AFTERSUN
Runner-Up: Jean Jacket | Nope
Wide Release
NOPE
Runner-Up: The Batman
Limited Release
AFTERSUN
Runner-Up: C’mon C’mon
Non-Theatrical Release
FIRE ISLAND
Runner-Up: Prey
Documental
FLUGT
Runner-Up: Ermitaños
Película Iberoamericana
MEMORIA
Runner-Up: Los Reyes del Mundo
Película Mexicana
BARDO, FALSA CRÓNICA DE UNAS CUANTAS VERDADES
Runner-Up: Nudo Mixteco
Richard Derr and Barbara Rush in When Worlds Collide (Rudolph Maté, 1951)
Cast: Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt, Larry Keating, Rachel Ames, Stephen Chase, Frank Cady, Hayden Rorke, Sandro Giglio. Screenplay: Sidney Boehm, based on a novel by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie. Cinematography: W. Howard Greene, John F. Seitz. Art direction: Albert Nozaki, Hal Pereira. Film editing: Arthur P. Schmidt. Music: Leith Stevens.
This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but with a bunch of white folks rocketing off to another planet that looks like it was painted by Chesley Bonestell. Well, that's the way it ended in 1951. Today, one hopes that the survivors would be a good deal more diverse and the preparations for their flight a good deal better organized. (Actually, today it looks like it will end with a lot of coughing and political posturing.) When Worlds Collide is very much of its era, sacrificing plausibility for sentiment (small boys and puppies) and romance (tinged with much self-sacrifice). It's a movie that can't be taken seriously for a minute, which is part of its enduring charm for many people. I find that, after many years of serious science fiction, the charm has worn thin. I hunger for some serious treatment of science and for some semblance of actual human behavior. Even though I was 11 years old in 1951, I can't believe that we were dumb enough to swallow what the movie gives us.
Barbarella (Vol. 2) #5 preview. The dominos keep falling, but still, there are more to tumble as Barbarella seeks the source of a malevolent evil that enslaves, mutilates, and now can add mass kidnappings to the list #Comics #ComicBooks
Barbarella (Vol. 2) #5
writer: Sarah Hoytartist: Madibek Musabekovcovers: Lucio Parrillo (A), Derrick Chew (B), Carla Cohen (C), Celina (D), Rachel Hollon Cosplay Variant (E), Lucio Parillo (RI-F/BW), Mike Krome (RI-G), Carla Cohen (RI-H/BW), Derrick Chew (RI-I/BW)FC | 32 pages | SciFi/ Adventure | $3.99 | Teen+
The dominos keep falling, but still, there are more to tumble as Barbarella seeks…
When I first began to see signs in the cards while playing poker, I couldn’t understand why God would want me to use the skill in that way. I wasn’t comfortable ignoring the logical, mathematical approach to the game and couldn’t forget the fact that the book which taught me the meanings of the cards says that you should not use the deck of playing cards which you use for tarot to play games. I…
So I gave myself a deadline for the multi-character prompt responses for Christmas/Dec 25th. I have most of them done, tweaking a little here and there, and circling the last few. I do hope to have them posted tomorrow, if not, they will be posted very soon after.
💖 In Plain Sight by Siobhan Muir
💜 Big Date Energy by Bethany Rutter
💙 Wine Ghost Goes to Hell by Sage Coffey
💖 Disciples of Chaos by M.K. Lobb
💜 Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria Koops
💙 Rupture in Total Eclipse by Sem Thornwood
💖 King Cheer by Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm, Jamie Green
💜 Master and Favorite by Rachel Cherry
💙 Hannah Tate, Beyond Repair by Laura Piper Lee
💖 A Vicious Game by Melissa Blair
💜 It's Ours to Write by Blanche Maze
💙 Projections by S.E. Porter
💖 The Girl, the Ring, & the Baseball Bat by Camille Gomera-Tavarez
💜 Witch Boyfriend Wanted by Colette Rivera
💙 Tune Me Up by Renée Dahlia
💖 Cloti's Song by Dani Finn
💜 Prove It by Stephanie Hoyt
💙 Mewing by Chloe Spencer
💖 Snowed In With Summer by Tiana Warner
💜 Green Dot by Madeline Gray
💙 Falling For You by Mariah Ankenman
💖 Breaks by Emma Vieceli, Malin Rydén
💜 Signals by Nika
💙 Mortgage of Convenience by Dani McLean
💖 Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner
💜 The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
💙 An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson
💖 Truthfully, Yours by Caden Armstrong
💜 The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton
💙 The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett
💖 Daniel, Deconstructed by James Ramos
💜 Letters to Her Love by Katherine Grant
💙 We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller
💖 Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan
💜 You Had Me at Merlot by Melissa Brayden
💙 Redsight by Meredith Mooring
What is your favorite oral sex scene? Contemporary or historical
Uggggh there are a lot of em that I just love
Fellatio:
I think Thief of Shadows by Elizabeth Hoyt still has one of my favorite BJ scenes. Because it's Winter's first orgasm with another person EVER, and it's so fraught, and there's a lot of tension and emotion and they're literally hiding behind a curtain (classic historical move) and you also get the sense that a lot is being said just trough this one moment. And she cries, which. I love a tearful BJ scene, it must be said.
I mean, I also ADORE the Mount Rushmore novelty tie BJ in American Prince by Sierra Simone, because it's like... a specific thing in Embry and Ash's dynamic that Ash doesn't go down on him that often, and when he does it's usually more to tease, so the whole "let me show you my undying gratitude" thing is so silky and smooth and hot. I also very much, of course, love the "you lose so choke on my dick" BJ he gives Embry in American King. I CAN DO BOTH. (I think he cries in that one, but it's more of a gag reflex thing than an EMOSHUNS thing lmao.)
Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid has the "Ilya blows Shane while Shane is on the phone with his bestie" scene, which. Again. We love to see it.
Cunnilingus:
I really love the pool oral scene, which is actually cunnilingus and fellatio, in The Duke Gets Even by Joanna Shupe. I just really love that Lockwood is like "I HOPE SHE SMOTHERS ME". Good man.
I mean, again, American Prince with the "IS MY PUSSY SWEETER THAN HERS" apology oral scene. Yay apology oral!
Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt has an amazing scene where Maximus eats Artemis out in this very worshipful way while I think he has her sitting in a chair or something.
Analingus:
I mean. The Salt Kiss face sitting scene. OBVIOUSLY. If there's one thing Tristan Thomas is gonna do, it's GO WITH THE VIBE.