#the slow unraveling

[bluebeesknees]

Stages of dealing with the ex that won’t leave you tf alone

[johnslittlespoon]

omg it was so hard to pick butttt could i request 1 and 2 from the smut dialogue list (list 3) with buck and bucky!

prompts | "i want to hear you beg" + "arch your back for me" + playing around with smth a little different for their dynamic <33 ~800 words of filth below the cut >:-) this was so much fun ahh thx sm for the request!!

“Oh, baby,” John rumbles appreciatively, sitting back to get a good look at Gale while he rolls his hips languidly into him. “Look at you.”

Golden hair frames Gale’s head on the pillow like a halo, blue eyes half hidden by heavy eyelids, doll–like lashes fluttering each time John sinks his cock in deeper. Messy love bites mark a trail south, scattered across his chest and stomach and increasing in numbers where angular hip bones and soft thighs had just begged for John’s teeth to make themselves at home.

Gale rocks his hips down, dragging his kiss–bitten bottom lip between his teeth to muffle a needy little noise as John’s eyes rake over him. That just won’t do.

John stills, wrapping firm hands around Gale’s thighs where they drape over his own, squeezing gently.

“Keep going,” Gale breathes out, eyebrows knit together in frustration, still trying to fuck himself on John’s cock.

John purrs out a laugh, heart twisting in his chest at the glare Gale shoots him; it’s hard to look intimidating when he’s laid out pliant and pretty and cock–drunk beneath him, but John doesn’t tell him so. He just snaps his hips forward once, watching with satisfaction when the scowl leaps off of Gale’s face as flushed lips fall open to let out a gasp.

“John,” Gale almost, almost whines when he makes no move to continue, lithe hands coming up to wrap around John’s wrists imploringly, and John hums thoughtfully, stroking his thumbs over Gale’s thighs.

“You need something?” He tilts his head, feeling a little thrill at the huff he gets in return.

Gale levels him with an unimpressed look, but the light flush that creeps over his cheeks betrays him.

“I want you to ask for it,” John murmurs. He grants Gale with the smallest roll of his hips to egg him on when he stays silent, and he feels his hands tighten around his wrists.

“Want you to fuck me, John.” 

And oh, that’s something– his cock twitches at the rare vulgarity, and judging by Gale’s sharp inhale, he feels it. But it’s not quite what John’s looking for.

“That’s good, baby,” he praises him, delighting in the way his flush deepens. He leans down, sliding his hands up Gale’s hips as he goes, settling them on his waist. He brushes his lips against Gale’s in a ghost of a kiss, trailing them along his jaw until he reaches his ear.

“But I wanna hear you beg for me, Gale,” he whispers. 

The immediate pressure around his cock as Gale reflexively clenches down has his head dropping into the crook of Gale’s neck momentarily, cursing under his breath. He can’t help but press his hips forward, needing just a bit of relief, sitting back up once he collects himself, determined to keep the upper hand.

“C’mon,” he rasps out, running his hands up and down Gale’s sides, fingers splaying over his ribcage. “I know you can do it, angel.”

Gale does whine this time, high and desperate in his throat, eyes slipping closed to hide from his own embarrassment. But–

“Please, John,” he says, barely above a whisper. “Need you.”

“Jesus, Gale,” John breathes, head spinning. “Good, so good, baby.”

John’s not going to push– that’s already a lot more than he’s usually able to goad out of Gale, and he’s going to unravel a lot quicker than he intends to if he keeps talking like that.

“Arch your back for me, pretty thing,” John prompts instead, beginning to shallowly fuck into him, and Gale does, tilting his head back on the pillow to bare his neck as his spine curves beneath John’s hands.

The sight nearly knocks the breath out of John, and he groans, sliding one hand under Gale to flatten his palm against the small of his back, feeling the way it flexes as he jerks his hips forward.

Gale cries out so sweetly when he really starts driving his cock into him, grasping desperately at John’s arms, face going slack as he finally gives him what he needs, and it gets to John like nothing else, forever dizzy with the knowledge that he gets to make Gale feel so good.

Dragging those pretty noises out of Gale and feeling him tremble because of him is what really does it for John every time, and it’s what inevitably has him tipping over the edge seconds after Gale spills over his stomach with a broken whimper.

John sinks his teeth into Gale’s collarbone just to feel him squirm beneath him as he fills him up, hands digging into his hips, rutting into him like he can bury his cock impossibly deeper, feeling nails scrabble at his back as the softest mewls escape Gale’s mouth.

He laves his tongue over the fresh indents in apology before lifting his head to capture Gale’s lips in a messy kiss, swallowing his gasps and sighs as he gives him a few more lazy thrusts, chest warm and fuzzy and lovestruck. 

John smiles into the kiss, and Gale laughs softly, and god, he’s going to be the death of him.

[ahalliance]

qsmp francophone cubitos and their dynamic drive me wild, they all know they’re mutually lying and obscuring the truth to one another, they all know they’re keeping each other at arm’s distance, they all know they’re not as open as they once were when it was just them and the aftermath of a plane crash, but the love is still there. the worry and the concern. they pry information out of one another in supposedly subtle ways that really just convey how much they still care about each other. what’s your stance on the federation. how’s your code arm doing. even if in the end you don’t turn to me, please call out to someone. maybe looking out for yourself is looking out for others as well. i don’t know you anymore but i will protect the unknown anyway

[canisalbus]

I thought your dream story was amazing and so intense and yeah bad, lol clearly, but that has manifested itself as a whole AU in my head. Geriatric V and mentally ill M experiencing doomsday in a pastel grandmacore cottage be reminding me of an a24 film or some cult movie where you are experiencing the -wrongness- What a whole concept.

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[infamous-if]

how many chapters will the whole game be?

I...have no idea. My first outline was a good 20 or so chapters (yikes) but i managed to merge a lot of things in the demo that flowed much better so that already cut it down. i follow the outline but i also give myself wiggle room because sometimes the pacing works better

im just vibing we'll see idk

[transboysokka]

so sokka's problems mostly swept under the rug because he doesn't have time to deal with huge and heavy emotions when he has to step up and keep his tribe and his sister and then later the gaang safe. i keep thinking about what that must mean after the war is over, how sokka would get the first real calm in his life for years and suddenly be hit by a train of trauma that needs unpacking. maybe not directly after the war, but a few years later, when things have stabilized, he just emotionally collapses and needs help from the gaang (and specifically zuko cmon now) in order to pull himself back up

YES I obsess over this concept.

WOULD he deal with it in a healthy manner? Ever? Or would he just keep himself busy, keep moving onto the Next Big Thing because that’s all he knows how to do? Would he throw himself into his work? Massive engineering projects to improve the world? His new version of saving the world, and we’ve SEEN the changes between the first show and Korra. Did he do all of that? To keep himself from thinking about his trauma? Does he become a workaholic? Does he end up spending less time with loved ones than he ought to because he’s so busy giving them a better world to live in??

I DON’T KNOW but I do know that boy wouldn’t WILLINGLY go to anyone else about his issues because HE is supposed to be the responsible one and burdening anyone else with his insignificant problems (from his perspective) is UNTHINKABLE

[rotteneldritchhorror]

If I actually had a project pile for all the clothes I have to mend or modify in some way I don’t think I’d have any clothes to actually wear

[nativehueofresolution]

tbh i think pacing out devil's minion so it takes several seasons to get the full story makes sense. i know some folks are hoping for like, flashback heavy stuff that bring things up to speed in s2, but i think stretching it so it takes longer for daniel to unravel what happened, deal w armand in the present, decide what future he wants, etc fits with the way the show has restructured the books to be more relationship focused. like they've already basically said they're going to tell the story in a way so louis and loustat stay the heart; since daniel is louis's foil it would make sense to me to try and make his primary romance + accompanying emotional issues a multi-season storyline so it can compare/contrast w where louis is at with lestat (or whoever his romantic partner is at the moment).

[wastelesscrafts]

hey, sorry if this isn't very clear, english isn't my first language, but do you know if this can be fixed and, if so, how? the sleeve of my sweater got like unknit in this part

[ID: the sleeve of a sweater knit in variegated yarn in shades of red, green, and purple. Part of the sleeve has unravelled, creating a large hole.]

Fixing unravelled knitting

No worries, English isn't my first language either.

The yarn must have broken somewhere, or maybe a woven-in end came loose. Either way, there's bound to be a loose thread in there. It would be helpful if you could locate it without undoing any more stitches.

Judging by your picture, it looks like most of the yarn is still fine. One thing you could try is to grab a crochet hook and to pick up those dropped stitches. Check out The Spruce Crafts for a written tutorial and VeryPink Knits for a video tutorial on how to do this.

Start from the bottom and work your way up line by line: you've got a lot of loose threads in the middle of the hole and those will be difficult to work with if you don't fix the stitch structure (the V-shaped stitches) below the large hole first.

Once you reach that last stitch, or the broken end, you'll have to secure it in place. As there's no working yarn since you're mending a finished item, you may have to get some extra yarn or thread to do this. Knitted fabric is basically a bunch of loops: when one loop comes loose, the rest follows. The idea is to fix that last loop in place so it can't unravel and cause a chain reaction in the future.

You'll have to work very carefully as to avoid unravelling more stitches.

If that doesn't work, check out my post outlining techniques on how to mend knit fabrics to see different methods on how to fix something like this. Darning or patching are also good methods to fix something like this, but your mend will be visible.

(Image source) [ID: a drawing of a piece of knitting that's still in progress. A crochet hook is used to pick up dropped stitches at the centre of the work.]

[digitalafterlife]

the lodger feels way too meta for an episode that contains james corden in it

sidenote is that nick fucking cave

[enpr-ss]

LOOK AT THAT COCKY EYEBROW. THAT UNNECESSARY FLICK TO HOLD THE STRAIGHTENED SPOON IN A COOL HAND GESTURE.

I BET RITSU PRACTICED STRAIGHTENING OUT BENT SPOONS FOR EXACTLY THIS MOMENT. THIS WAS HOW HE PLANNED TO REVEAL HIS ESPER POWERS. HE HAS BEEN WAITING HIS ENTIRE LIFE FOR THIS MOMENT. LOOK AT THIS BOY, HE'S SO HAPPY.

[mightymizora]

Just remembered I own Hannibal on Google Play of all things. All of it. From back before it was streaming anywhere in the UK.

Guess it’s time to rewatch

[wihlted]

15 ASSOCATIONS !

repost and fill in the answers you most associate your character with to each question.

ANIMAL : swan.

COLOR : white.

MONTH : may.

SONG : that's okay - the hush sound.

NUMBER : 0.

DAY OR NIGHT : day

PLANT : lillies.

SMELL : extremely expensive floral perfume. almost smells like you imagine it glimmers. it's elegant , and decadent.

STONE : opal.

SEASON : spring.

PLACE : church pews.

FOOD : cupcakes.

ASTROLOGICAL SIGN : pisces.

ELEMENTS : air.

DRINK : pink lemonade.

tagged by : @debelltio tagging : @saintshope

[ms-poltergeist]

If we have to wait for the last finale for Luz’s palisman I’ll be so upset. I need it to hatch early second special, the bond between a witch and their palisman is so important!!!!! It would suck if they hatched just to get Luz out of a sticky situation and then we never see them bond. I need to see Luz and her palisman being besties I need them to do that cute thing where it makes snakebat sounds at her and she understands it perfectly I need her to have it wrapped around her arm and stick out it’s forked tongue in affection I am so desperate for luz/palisman bonding. Dana I’m on my hands and knees

[senadimell]

It’s been several weeks since I started watching Nosferatu, and I finally picked it up last night since I now have a knitting project suitably mindless that I can do without having to look at it and can watch the movie in peace. I’ve finished the third act, and I have to say, this is honestly really faithful to Dracula. Since it’s never been a secret that Nosferatu is heavily inspired by Dracula (read: an unauthorized adaption), I’m going to assign Dracula names to the roles characters play in the story rather than use their actual names most of the time.

The character combinations are interesting, but make a lot of sense given the large cast of characters in the book. I haven’t gotten far enough for most of the secondary characters to be a major presence, but I’ve read that they’re mostly absent, so the focus remains mostly on the Jonathan and Mina figures.

One of the biggest changes so far is that Mr. Hawkins and Renfield are combined into Knock, a now-malicious solicitor secretly in kahoots with the Count.

Narratively speaking, this actually makes a more of sense than it might sound at first. Mr. Hawkins is mostly a plot device in the original story, not really a character, and given the restraints of a silent film, it would be rather challenging to establish why and how the Count wants to visit England. When you strip down the conversations from the captivity portion of the novel, you’re left with the challenge of how to convey the Count’s desire or to establish how exactly he made arrangements with a foreign solicitor, so giving him an agent abroad is a pretty economical way to convey that. Then, when the Count is travelling, using Knock as a Renfield-figure and thrall of the Count serves to heighten the tension, and while the “the life is in the blood” speeches are a little less mysterious, they do pair very well with the back-and-forth between the not-Demeter and not-Van Helsing teaching a botany class about carnivorous plants. 

The major downside of that choice is that it removes much of the nuance present in the books regarding the characters under the Count’s sway. Renfield and Seward’s back and forth about the nature of sanity is so far completely absent, and I expect this will be the case through the movie, going off of the visual language’s cartoonishly malicious depiction of Knock. Renfield’s humanity is really just not shown, and while Knock’s gleeful manner while eating bugs is quite similar to Renfield’s manner in the book, I highly doubt the element of resistance will show up.

Still, overall, this feels like a simplification rather than a warping of the story. Unfortunately, it’s a simplification that results in a caricature of mental illness, and yet I don’t think it’s a fundamental misreading of the story, unlike Drac/Mina pairings.

The second major change so far is that Mina and Lucy’s role have been combined into one, and given their similar narrative roles as vulnerable and beloved targets, this makes a lot of sense. Now, the Mina-figure is the sleepwalker. There is a slight change in that the prophetic dreams start earlier, but it also serves to emphasize her connection with Jonathan without the letter and journal devices. It also establishes her vulnerability early on, pretty much as soon as we realize that Jonathan is in peril, which is an effective way to convey the peril of Lucy-Mina without diary entries and serves to jump-start the middle act of the story (which I admittedly found rather slow during Dracula Daily)

In a related vein, there’s another convenience change that’s either big or small depending on what you view as an important theme. In Dracula, the Count seems primarily interested in England, and his later vendetta is the result of his predatory nature, not the driving motivation. In Nosferatu, that’s flipped, and his primary motivation to leave his castle is to track down not-Mina. He presumably did first send for a solicitor, though, so the motivation isn’t absent, it’s just less developed.

Apart from character changes, the biggest other change is that the Count spreads plague rather than just killing or turning characters. So far, it doesn’t feel fundamentally different from the book, but I don’t know yet if it will have larger plot implications down the line.

I will say, though, that the time period is always waiting a little bit uncomfortably at the back of my mind. It came out in 1922, and there’s just so much going on in the Weimar Republic at this time. It’s a culturally wild time. I don’t know a lot about this film, or its make, or how it was received, so I’m just left with vague implications about the various changes and how they would be received. What does it suggest that he spreads a plague? What does his increased focus on preying on Mina mean? What are the implications of the fact that he has an apparently willing agent abroad, or that Renfield is only a slavish caricature, totally devoted to the count?

I don’t know the answers to these questions, but they’re always looming somewhere as I watch.

[iamthekarmapolice]

yeah stan me too