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EA is a triple A gaming company worth billions. But BioWare? It's a subsidiary that is smaller than you think. (EA has about 13k employees, but BW has about 500).
Not pre-ordering or buying on the day of release isn't going to send a message to EA to improve its practices. It's only going to hurt BioWare and their remaining employees. (This isn't aimed at people who can't afford it, or don't like the game(s), or don't like what they've seen so far, or are very skeptical and want to hold off. I'm talking to people who are excited about the game and have the $60 to spare.)
Yes, there are things to criticize about BioWare and EA, I get it, I really do. What happened to Mary Kirby and those like her is awful. Fuck them for that, truly. The merchandise packages that don't include the game, kinda scummy. But if you don't take that as a sign that EA is pushing down, hard, on BioWare, then I don't know what to tell you. Do you think BioWare is somehow immune from EA's scrutiny? BioWare has two big misses in their recent history, after MEA and Anthem, they are on thin ice.
Will the game be buggy on release? Maybe. They do have a history of it. Hell, DAO is still buggy af, but we love it anyway. Will the game be bad? Possibly. There are story elements in each game that still piss me off to this day. It is a gamble, but if you like what you see and are excited, there is no reason not to support the franchise you love. Do you want more Dragon Age games? Do you want more Mass Effect games? If yes, then the best way to get more games is to buy this game.
The only thing that will happen if DATV sales suck, will be for EA to believe that Dragon Age games no longer sell and to nix or hold off on all future projects for it. By waiting for it to be on sale or pirating it, you could very well damn the future of BioWare and the DA franchise. You're not fucking up EA when you choose not to buy DATV, you are screwing BioWare, which is not the same as EA. BioWare can be dissolved, but EA won't. They won't care, EA will happily get rid of something that isn't making them money. EA is not gonna be hurt by DATV doing poorly in sales, they have their sports franchises that will always make them money. It will only hurt BioWare and the remaining developers. Do you like Weekes? Epler? Busche? Support them!
So if you are excited about Dragon Age: The Veilguard and want to see more Dragon Age games, don't let anyone convince you not to buy it, or pre-order it. Don't let anyone make you feel bad for doing so. If you have the money and like what you see, I encourage you to buy it and show support for your favorite franchise.
(Those worried about the SAG-AFTRA strike, don't be, DATV isn't included in the strike. More here.)
#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#datv#da4#I understand the criticism#And if you are really wary about the game#I totally get wanting to wait for reviews#If you're meh about the game#of course wait for a sale#But for those who love the series and love what they see#and are excited#there is nothing wrong with pre-ordering#or buying on the day of release#I know some want to see BW burn to the ground#this post isn't aimed at them
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talking about guardian
I have to be nice to the person who destroyed my entire life from the start and is still actively doing so because sheâs retarded and incapable of doing bedder like a baby , my guardian is a baby who refuses to move because she doesnât feel the need to. So I stay in a room my whole life and donât get any needs met and it threatens to kill me. um Iâm pretty sure this counts as torture, I call it neglect and abuse but this is more than what those words convey
#x#all she had to do was drive five minutes to a gym and she never did it#three minutes to the ocean and never did it#was told by social worker government lady if she didnât do these things theyâd take her to jail bc she was disobeying#direct legal order#lol and she still never did it#because sheâs a slave to her impulses or lack of them and is too retarded to care to do anything about that#and I just keep getting bad from lack of movement#she put me in a wheelchair#she made me become pre diabetic#I canât even describe the physical pain I have endured from muscle weakness. the chronic muscle spasms. the tension from stress#of living with her.#ALL OF THESE THINGS btw which i had to heal from on my own#emotionally and physically#because she did nothing for me to get help#I have had to teach myself to release tension and trauma when thatâs all Iâve ever known#and am actively >in<#and thatâs really fucking hard especially physically.#called my doctor and he was like you need to fucking do something about this now what is wrong with your mother#and she just doesnât move because she simply doesnât feel like it.
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Today's little reward for several months of hard work on my mental health is a new Ganondorf! Because nothing screams "well-adjusted" like getting your dopamine fix from a villain hiimbo!
#ganondorf#not my art#legend of zelda#loz#oot#tears of the kingdom#etsy is bad for my wallet#amiibo#custom art#now just waiting on my totk husband pre-order so I have them all#just to be clear#there's absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying a good villain
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now what if i open charm pre-orders again soon.... hmmm
#i feel vad opening pre-orders without anything new to show tho. idk why it makes me anxious even tho nothings wrong about it#mayve i can make some non-hs stuff to sell for once instead of just saying i will#levi pls#hazvin and mlp are lookin mighty tasty
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sitting in a blooming garden would fix me
#flowers WHEN#i have one teeny snowdrop just starting to form a flower đĽ˛#worried its going to get killed by the cold front coming in tho#its an early blooming fancy one that honestly probably won't live idk what i was thinking when i bought it#literally nothing else is close to flowering tho#i just get so anxious for spring flowers in january i start blowing money pre ordering stuff tho#i ordered a bunch of snowdrops and some bare root hydrangeas and roses#idek how im gonna plant them the ground is probably frozen and we're about to get a foot of snow#what is wrong with me#the hydrangeas tho were a gift from my mom#i've wanted the white kind for a really long time and i told her one of my friends might get married at our house in the next few years#so she ordered them so they'll have time to establish and we'll have big beautiful white flowers for her wedding#which was really nice of her#anyway my friend was so excited and touched when i offered :')#she's not officially engaged but she's halfway thru her degree and she and her bf are planning to get married soon after they both graduate#so in two or three years the hydrangeas should be pretty well established and nice for a wedding#anyway im off track but im excited for all the stuff i ordered to be beautiful and blooming this summer#less excited to figure out how to plant them đ¤#the roses are shipping at ideal planting time in april but the hydrangeas are coming this week for some reason#i cant plant those??? in january???#i will have to try ig#i probably can we'll see#this has been a shitpost
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X MARKS THE SPOT!
pairings: retired f1 drivers x retired f1 legend!yn.
faceclaim: jessica alba.
summary: being the first-ever female f1 world champion was hard enough. writing a tell-all about it, including all the details of your beef with that former driver? letâs just say the track wasnât the only place things got heated.
warnings: mentions of misogyny. like a lot. so if that is something that makes you uncomfortable, please donât read!! your comfort comes first <3
authorâs note: ignore timeline issues!! this was all inspired by that one anon who said something about yn writing a tell-all. if you liked this, maybe send me an ask? :D
now part of a trilogy!
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yourinstagram: it was so fun talking to jimmyfallon about writing my memoir âlucky girl syndromeâ! i talked about getting the call that i was being signed, getting name dropped in a kdot song (thank you for making me cool to my nephews!) and the legacy i want to leave behind. check it out!!!
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user1: MOTHERRR
user2: omg iâve already pre-ordered my copy!!
-> user3: iâve reserved it at my local library đŤĄ
user4: i hope she spills all the tea. i wanna know exactly who the misogynist motherfuckers are.
user5: sheâs the goat female driver idc!! first female championship winner!!
-> user9: during her time in mclaren, jenson was carrying her. but yeah letâs talk about that one rigged championship đ
user6: she still looks so hot. my first celeb crush.
-> user7: i had pictures of her all over my wall. i think my mom still has them up đ
user8: worst driver of all time. only there because she looked good in the race suit.
-> user11: if she wasnât hot, no one would care about her driving.
user10: this was always going to happen when you allowed women into f1. ruined the sport. she was nothing but a distraction on the grid.
-> user12: she was incredible. she clawed her way to a championship when everyone doubted her. she proved that women can do anything. the only distraction are people like you.
user13: please please please tell me she says that her and jenson were a thing. i always used to ship them so bad. the photoshoot for british vogue was imprinted on my thirteen year old brain.
-> user14: ANOTHER JENSONYN SHIPPER!!! baitclaren was my fav mclaren era. yâall can have your twinkclaren!!
-> user15: remember when jenson shut down a misogynistic reporter who tried to imply that yn wasnât a good driver?? that was his girl frfr!!
user16: iâm so proud of u yn. youâve been through so much and iâm excited to support you.
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âSHEâS NOT THAT FAST â SHE JUST GETS LUCKY SOMETIMES. THATâS ALL IT IS. RIGHT CAR â RIGHT TIME. LUCKY GIRL SYNDROME.â â a senior mclaren engineer.
dedicated to everyone who ever rooted for me. thank you.
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EXCERPT FROM LUCKY GIRL SYNDROME.
by yn yln.
when i signed with mclaren in 2013, i thought i was living my dream.
i was the only female driver on the grid, paired with jenson buttonâa world champion, a household name, and, to some, a certified heartthrob. they already loved calling him âpromiscuousâ in the press, and suddenly there i was: the pretty young woman who happened to drive fast. to them, we werenât driversâwe were a brand. two good-looking people in shiny cars. and that label stuck.
from the start, i wasnât taken seriously. iâd show up to meetings and realize theyâd given me the wrong timeâjenson would already be there, halfway through strategising with the team. he always looked uncomfortable when i walked in late, knowing i wasnât told the same things he was.
âyouâre here now,â heâd say, smiling politely, trying to ease the tension. i liked him. he wasnât the problem. he was respectful, and if anyone made an offhand comment about me, heâd interject with a joke to cut through the awkwardness. but even his kindness couldnât fix what was fundamentally wrong.
my first podium was a moment iâd worked my entire life for. it was a race where i drove faster than jenson, faster than most of the grid. but the photo they posted of me on the teamâs social media wasnât of me crossing the finish line, or holding my trophy.
it was me in the garage, leaning over the car, my race suit unzipped halfway down. the caption didnât even mention the podium. it was just⌠my body. i couldnât stomach looking through the comments.
iâll never forget calling my dad that night. he was furious. he asked me why i didnât make a fuss. why i didnât storm into the teamâs office and demand better treatment. but what he didnât understand was that it wasnât that simple. youâre the only woman in a room full of men, and theyâre already waiting for you to slip up. waiting for you to show too much emotion, to prove them right when they think women are too âdramaticâ to handle the job.
so i kept my head down. i smiled at the cameras, laughed at the jokes, and drove my ass off every weekend. and every time i was faster than jenson, every time i outqualified him or finished ahead, theyâd say, âshe got lucky.â when he beat me, theyâd say, âsee? this is why she doesnât belong here.â it was a game i couldnât win.
being the first woman on the grid wasnât just about being fast. it was about being everything they didnât expect me to be: calm, collected, agreeable. i couldnât afford to push back because i knew theyâd use it against me. so i swallowed it all, every little slight, every dismissive comment, every missed opportunity. i thought if i just kept my head down and drove, eventually, iâd earn their respect.
but now, looking back, i realize⌠they were never going to respect me. not really. not as a driver. they respected what i did for their brand, for their image. they respected how well i played the part. but as a person, as an athlete? i was just another pretty face to them. nothing more. and thatâs what hurt the most.
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Discussion Thread:
âLucky Girl Syndromeâ by YN YLN: Thoughts, Reactions, and the Drama Itâs Stirred Up.
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u/checkeredpast: just finished lucky girl syndrome, and WOW. she did not hold back. calling out mclaren for the way they treated her, the âwrong meeting timesâ sabotage, and the completely inappropriate podium photo⌠i canât believe this stuff actually happened.
u/fastlaneandfurious: the part where she talks about the team using her as a âwalking brand strategyâ instead of a driver broke my heart. like, they wanted her to be the face of the team but refused to actually treat her like a serious athlete.
u/f1fanfiction: letâs talk about the fact that she outsold literally every sports memoir in history. 2 million copies sold in the first week. yn doesnât just break records on the track, apparently.
u/nosteeringallowed: her calling out the media for labeling her as âluckyâ after she beat half the grid is ICONIC. âthey didnât call my male teammates luckyâthey called them skilled.â like, yes queen, drag them.
u/ynsthegoat: what got me was the chapter about the infamous team dinner where they wouldnât even let her speak during strategy talk. then she went out and out-qualified jenson the next day.
u/overqualifiedandundervalued: âthey said i was lucky, but luck doesnât drive faster laps or win races. luck didnât make me the first woman to win a championshipâit was skill, it was hard work, and it was me.â CHILLS. absolute chills.
u/gridgossip: is no one going to talk about the tea she spilled on that one driver? the âpolite but condescendingâ comments she got from him while he constantly undermined her. we KNOW itâs about seb.
u/wheresthefinishline: @ u/gridgossip no no no, itâs def about fernando. sheâs been shady about him for years, and the way she described the âoverly competitive teammate who couldnât handle being outpaced by a womanâ fits him perfectly.
u/holygrailpodium: the inappropriate photo after her first podium makes me so mad every time. sheâs standing there in tears, holding the trophy, and they choose to post a picture of her leaning over the car with her suit half-open?? disgusting.
u/gaslitandgridlocked: her dad being her biggest defender was such a beautiful part of the book, though. âwhy do you stay quiet when youâre the fastest in the room?â hit me right in the heart.
u/podiumqueen: not me crying over how she kept driving through all of this, knowing they didnât want her there. like, the strength it mustâve taken to win races when her own team wasnât even rooting for her.
u/championshipenergy: the way she calls out how different her career wouldâve been if she were a man was SO POWERFUL. âthey didnât need me to be fast, they needed me to be pretty. they got both, and they still werenât satisfied.â
u/mimosasontherace: i canât stop thinking about the last chapter where she talks about winning her first championship and how no one in her team even hugged her when the cameras switched off. like, they couldnât even fake happiness for her.
u/driversanddivas: this book isnât just a memoir; itâs a reckoning. yn exposed everyone who doubted her and proved that no matter what they threw at her, she came out on top. lucky girl syndrome my assâshe EARNED that title.
u/lightsoutandread: imagine being on the grid right now, knowing you were one of the people she called out. the absolute awkwardness.
u/trophiesandtrauma: if youâre on the fence about reading this, DO IT. itâs not just about racingâitâs about breaking barriers, sexism, and resilience. honestly, it deserves all the success itâs getting.
u/checkeredpast: sheâs already announced a limited series deal with a streaming platform. you KNOW itâs going to be messy when they dramatize the âwrong meeting timesâ scene.
u/bookishracer: âlucky girl syndromeâ is officially my book of the year. yn didnât just tell her story; she made sure no one could ever erase it again.
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ham1ltonshaderoom: f1 legend and now best selling author, yn yln, took to harperâs bazaar to discuss writing and her career. however, her memoir went viral for more than its record breaking sales. yln mentioned that there was a certain driver that would be her biggest fan in public and then undermine her in public. it has been dubbed âx marks the spotâ, with the hashtag gaining major traction on social media. what do you think ham1ltons? and who do you think the supposed driver could be?
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âthere was one driver who always seemed to go out of his way to remind me i didnât belong. he wasnât on my team, but his presence always lingeredâsharp, dismissive, condescending. letâs call him x. in interviews, heâd say all the right things, calling me a âtrailblazerâ and claiming he respected what i brought to the sport. but in the paddock, it was another story. during press conferences, heâd interrupt me, throwing in some smug joke that made everyone laugh but left me feeling small. once, during a rain delay, he walked past my garage and casually remarked to my engineer, loud enough for me to hear, âwell, at least sheâll look good sliding off the track.â and when i won my first race, beating him in the process, he didnât say a word. no handshake, no congratulationsâjust a quick glance and he was gone. iâll never know why he went out of his way to belittle me, but in the end, i didnât care. that win wasnât for him. it was for me.â
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user1: itâs definitely fernando. theyâve never liked each other, and heâs always been salty when anyoneâs faster than him.
-> user2: nah, it canât be fernando. heâs competitive, but heâs never outright disrespectful. iâm thinking nico.
-> user1: girl thatâs the point đ x was never openly disrespectful.
user3: okay but what about lewis? we KNOW their relationship wasnât always great. remember how tense they were in interviews back then?
-> user4: no way itâs lewis. heâs literally said sheâs one of the most talented drivers heâs raced against.
-> user5: lewis can say nice things now, but what if he wasnât like that back then? she didnât say the guy stayed disrespectful. she also said x was nice in public, who knew what he was saying in private.
user6: everyoneâs ignoring seb, but sheâs shaded him before. what if itâs him?
-> user7: yn has ALWAYS defended seb. if anything, he was one of the few drivers who actually supported her. itâs not him.
user8: it has to be fernando. the whole paragraph is giving fernando energy, and you know it.
-> user9: nah, i still think itâs nico. remember when he threw shade at her in a press conference after she outqualified him?
user10: youâre all wrong. itâs michael. sheâs talked about how intimidating he was to race against, and she never got along with him.
-> user11: yn literally called michael one of her idols. sheâd never write about him like that.
user12: yâall are missing the obvious answerâkimi. heâs the only one who would say something that blunt and not care about the fallout.
-> user13: kimi didnât even talk to her half the time lol. i canât see him caring enough to belittle her.
user14: okay, what if itâs no one weâre expecting? maybe itâs some random mid-grid guy like grosjean or massa.
-> user15: yn wouldnât waste a whole chapter on someone irrelevant. it has to be one of the big names. my moneyâs on fernando or nico.
-> user1: fernando for sure. ynâs always been lowkey bitter about him, and this just proves it.
-> user2: itâs not fernando!! why canât you just accept that some drivers are cocky without it being him??
-> user3: okay but if itâs not fernando, who else would it be?? the smug comments SCREAM his vibe.
user5: weâre all arguing, but ynâs probably laughing at us right now. she KNEW weâd be doing this.
user16: yn âattention whoreâ yln.
user17: at least we know it wasnât my king jb đť
user18: idk who tf yn is but this tea is so juicy đ
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[setting: thanksgiving dinner, complete chaos. plates of food are half-eaten, wine glasses are full, and cousin jess is recording everything on tiktok. the family is deep into an argument about âx marks the spot,â using jessâs infamous powerpoint as reference.]
uncle bob: jess, i still donât get why you made a whole powerpoint about this.
cousin jess: because the people need to know, uncle bob. ynâs memoir is the drama of the decade, and youâre welcome for organizing all the evidence.
aunt carol: honestly, itâs that fernando. slide four proves it. all the press conferences where he interrupted her? itâs right there.
aunt fiona: fernando wasnât that bad. he even congratulated her in, like, 2017. i think itâs nico. slide eight, jess literally wrote âpetty king energyâ under his name.
uncle hamish: itâs not nico. youâre all overthinking this. i say itâs jenson. didnât he once call her âintenseâ in an interview?
cousin matt: jenson literally defended her against the media every other week, hamish. you clearly didnât listen to slide six.
grandpa: i still donât understand why this yn person didnât just punch the guy.
grandma: because she has class, unlike this family. pass the stuffing.
aunt bobbi: wait, what about lewis? slide ten said they were âfriendly but complicated.â maybe he was fake-nice to her.
uncle craig: fake-nice? lewis was the only one who liked her, bobbi. slide nine has like five examples of him hyping her up in interviews.
cousin jess: uncle craig, youâre wrong. he was supportive, but thereâs that one time he ignored her after she beat him in qualifying. itâs suspicious.
aunt carol: you think itâs suspicious? no way. lewis isnât smug enough to be x.
uncle hamish: oh please, youâre all just picking names because they sound dramatic. if anything, it was sebastian.
aunt fiona: seb? absolutely not. slide seven shows he called her âone of the best drivers on the gridâ multiple times.
uncle bob: thatâs suspicious. who compliments people that much unless theyâre guilty?
grandma: compliments arenât guilt, bob. stop eating the cranberry sauce straight from the bowl and get a grip.
aunt carol: youâre all wrong. slide four, people! fernando cutting her off mid-sentence! the manâs guilty as sin.
grandpa: why does anyone care about this? itâs all rich people in fancy cars. sounds like nonsense.
cousin matt: rich people drama is the best kind of drama, grandpa.
aunt bobbi: jess, why is kimiâs slide just a picture of him smoking with â#needthatâ written under it?
cousin jess: because kimiâs innocent. everyone knows he doesnât care about anything but being my dream man.
uncle craig: so why isnât yn on the slide about drivers who were universally liked?
cousin jess: because she wasnât universally liked, uncle craig. she was fast, hot, and female in a male-dominated sport. they were all salty.
uncle bob: well, now theyâre all posting about how much they respect her.
grandma: of course they are. itâs called covering their asses.
uncle hamish: if i were yn, iâd name names. all this mystery is just fueling conspiracy theories.
grandpa: or she could just leave it alone so we donât have to argue about it at thanksgiving. what the hell even is f1? is that nascar?
uncle craig: formula 1, dad. jesus, keep up.
grandma (snapping): if someone doesnât pass me the cranberry sauce right now, iâm gonna be the next x.
[jess pans the camera to her grandma glaring at the table, muttering under her breath as the family keeps arguing.]
cousin jess (whispering into her phone): yâall, my family is losing it over x marks the spot. happy thanksgiving.
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ham1ltonshaderoom: an update on the âx marks the spotâ speculation. it started over who exactly is x, from f1 legend yn ylnâs memoir and it is causing a stir! with former/current drivers taking to social media and journalists to prove their innocence. kimi räikkĂśnen, when asked, said âyn deserved every win she got. people talked too much, but she let her driving do all the talking. always respected that about her.â
mick schumacher released a statement via instagram, with a montage of photos of him and his dad with the first female championship winner: âmy dad always believed yn was one of the most talented drivers heâd ever seen. he admired her strength, her skill, and her ability to prove everyone wrong, time and time again. he spoke so highly of her and what she brought to the sport, and i know heâd be so proud to see her telling her story.â when sebastian vettel made a rare appearance to the grid, he confirmed that he had bought a copy and thought that he was proud to watch yn âmake historyâ.
now the sudden flurry of support is making fans of the sport wonder just who is genuine and who is covering his ass? what do you think ham1ltons?
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user1: the way literally everyone is tripping over themselves to prove itâs not them is SO funny. one of you is lying, and we will figure it out.
-> user20: exactly!! the fact that EVERYONE is suddenly posting/talking feels so suspicious lmao. someoneâs definitely guilty, and theyâre trying to throw us off the scent.
user2: kimiâs response is so him. short, straight, and unbothered. itâs definitely not him.
-> user22: weâre all analysing this, but kimiâs out here just vibing like always. love that man.
user3: mickâs statement is beautiful and wholesome as always, but also low-key throwing shade at the others?? like, âmy dad always supported herâ is giving âcanât say the same for you lot.â
-> user21: honestly, mickâs post is the only one that feels 100% genuine. his dad was always so supportive of yn.
user4: seb really said âi bought the bookâ and dipped. man didnât even deny anything outright. sus??
-> user5: nah, sebâs always been a yn fanboy. remember when he called her âthe most talented driver on the gridâ? itâs not him.
user6: the lewis and nico posts are giving major âdamage controlâ energy. both of them trying WAY too hard to sound supportive.
-> user7: facts. lewis called her a âtrailblazerâ like we wouldnât notice how cold things were between them back in the day.
-> user17: tbh, i donât think itâs lewis. yn has said before that he was always encouraging her, and theyâve stayed friendly.
user8: fernandoâs post feels so rehearsed. like, when has he ever gushed over yn like that before??
user9: low-key think itâs nico. man was so salty about literally everything back then, and the âpetty kingâ vibes match the memoir perfectly.
-> user10: yesss, especially the part where she said he didnât congratulate her after her first win. sounds EXACTLY like something nico would do.
user11: not enough people are talking about jenson. just because he was her teammate doesnât mean heâs innocent. the whole âanswer my textsâ thing was cute, but heâs a smooth talker.
-> user12: nah, yn always spoke highly of jenson. he had her back when mclaren was treating her like a sex toy. iâm ruling him out.
user13: so weâre all just ignoring that fernando spent YEARS shading her in press conferences? india â13 is permanently engraved in my brain.
-> user18: canât lie, if itâs fernando, iâll be disappointed but not surprised. his 2013 energy was⌠a lot.
user14: honestly, theyâre all acting sketchy. the sudden love bomb of support is too much. one of you is x and we will find out.
user15: plot twist: what if x isnât even one of the obvious names? imagine itâs someone random like felipe massa lmao.
-> user16: watch it not even be one of the main suspects and weâve been dragging the wrong guy this whole time đ
user18: itâs giving âwe need to get ahead of the narrativeâ vibes, and iâm here for the chaos.
-> user19: everyoneâs pr team is in OVERDRIVE rn lmfaoooo
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Sometimes I think about how in order to be a writer today you cannot have internet privacy. I was reading an article in which a journalist recalls collaborating with Mary Oliver, who was notoriously private. Oliver refused to communicate with them through fax or email and said (through her publisher) that she would hand them written notes at an event she was doing in New York City. It struck me that Mary Oliver in 2024 would have almost no chance of becoming a successful poet. Writers today have to have a social media presence to have a built in audience so publishers can be assured that they will get sales and to bear the brunt of social media marketing. They have to be available and put themselves on the internet in every way possible.
More and more I read interviews from artists across many mediums talk about how if you cannot market on Tik Tok your chances of success diminish. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be an online influencer and I am surely not saying that the author-influencer is a new phenomenon, but it should not be a pre-requisite for being a successful writer. I love that writers like Mary Oliver, Elena Ferrante, and Donna Tart exist, and it is not talked enough about how they could not begin a career in 2024 and achieve the same amount of success unless they were well connected or extremely lucky. It makes me sad that this is the state of publishing.
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VALENTINEâS DAY SPECIAL
# jjk men ; ćčĄĺťťćŚçˇ ) x domtop male reader
synopsis special day with your lovely boyfriend
ft. gojĹ, getĹ, nanami, tĹji, & naoya
warnings non-specified nsfw, suguruâs part is shorter srry, slight homophobia & misogyny from naoya surprise surprise
wc not counted
It was your first ever Valentineâs Day with your boyfriend. Or rather, the first Valentineâs Day when neither of you was busy. Usually, one or the other had a job to do that day âseeing as work never restsâ but today, finally, you were both free.
And you were pretty excited.
See, youâve been planning a little something for a while. After a nice and romantic day filled with sexual tension and ending with a candle-lit dinner, a surprise was waiting for you and your boyfriend at home.
Your sex life wasnât lacking per se, it was more so some things went unexplored because of an insufficient amount of time. Usually (and sadly), you guys had quickies. There was nothing special about it, it was just a way to relieve stress and show each other that yes you still find the other very appealing. I mean, how could you not? Living with an insanely attractive man and whatâs that? Dating said, attractive man? Mmmm, yes, please.
Pushing the key into the lock after paying the bill and driving home, you were nearly shaking with anticipation for what was about to come. Opening the door to your shared house, you quickly pulled the man in, knowing damn well youâd get a noise complaint in the morning. Or at the very least, a nasty stink eye from your neighbours.
âGOJĹ SATORU ( äşćĄć ) : cock bondage
âFuck!â
âMmâ whatâs wrong Satoru? I thought you could take it?â
Right now he was spread out so beautifully for you, knees touching his shoulders and ankles near your shoulders as a result of you pushing his thighs upwards. You were fucking him deep and slow at the moment, making him see stars.
Oh, and how could you forget the pretty pink ribbon tied under and between his balls, reaching the base of his cute red dick and creating a small bow.
âI-I can! This is nothINGGGHH,â cried the man under you, moaning the last part of his sentence.
You laughed. âDoesnât seem like nothing, sweetheart.â
Satoru blushed even harder, whether from you calling him out or the endearing pet name, you couldnât tell. Pouting a little, he scratches the hands holding his thighs down. âJust take this thing off⌠I want to cum already and this stupid thing wonât let me!â
âAwe,â you coo. âOther than giving your cock a nice touch, that was the whole point of it.â
âYouâre a dick.â
âYeah, but youâre taking this dick though!â
âMan just shut up andâ FUUUCK!â
Your hips switched pace, from slow to fast, but equally as deep. You should thank all those stupid times Satoru dragged you out on a run for the insane speed you currently held.
âS-shit,â you groaned. âLook at your cute little dick. Looks s-so pretty with the bowâŚâ And although his length was perfect (just like him) and you were just teasing, it really did look pretty. The light pink of the satin ribbon contrasted nicely with the darker shade of him.
Satoru could barely respond, overwhelmed with both the feeling of needing to cum but not being able to, and feeling your cock touching his prostate with every thrust. Slight tears left his eyes, blurring his vision from fully seeing the way small amounts of pre cum ran down the satin around him.
You noticed this, and feeling pity for your pathetic boyfriend, you let one of his thighs go in order to untie the ribbon, knowing you were at your limit too. Immediately, he threw his head back, letting out a loud and whiny moan that would surely wake the neighbours if they werenât already awake.
Muffling his moan with a kiss, you pulled out right on time, both of your hot fluids mixing together and on his stomach.
âHappy Valentineâs Day,â you mumbled against his lips. Only receiving a slight laugh in response.
When you were about to pull away, his legs slid down, wrapping themselves around your hips and waist with surprising strength from someone who was just shaking.
âWhere do you think youâre going, babe? Weâre not done here yet.â Satoru said, staring at your eyes darkly, and all you could do was gulp.
âOh, boy.â
âGETĹ SUGURU ( ĺ¤ć˛š ĺ ) : collaring
âIs this really necessary?â
âWhat?â you questioned. âYou donât like it?â
âDarling, itâs embarrassing.â
You huffed. âWhich part? The leash or my name on it?â
âBoth.â You could practically see him giving you a side eye from your question, even though his back was facing you.
âWell,â you hummed. âJust donât think about it.â
âAnd how am I not supposed to do that?â
Expecting an answer, he didnât imagine you would pull the leash back while giving a powerful thrust. Which is why he couldnât control the loud and surprised moan that escaped from his lips.
âA-ah! A warning wouldâve been n-nice.â
You shushed him. âDonât think.â
âMmhâ this is going t-to make my throat soreâŚâ
âLiar,â you tutted. âIâve seen you swallow those curses. This is nothing for you, Suguru.â
He stayed silent, but not for long, because you started rapidly thrusting again with only one goal in mind.
âF-feels so good, darling!â He moaned, gripping the sheets below him, only being able to see your silhouette moving because of the small candles on each side of the bed. âHaaahhââ
Pulling the leash again, you lowered your body so your stomach was almost directly onto Suguruâs back and your face hooked onto his shoulder. In this position, his head was pulled back, and you were able to see the way the nameplate with your name on it moved with each of your thrusts.
Suguru moaned louder, somewhat liking how your name was engraved into something that was on him. He enjoyed the harsh feeling of the collar digging into his Adamâs apple. And he certainly savoured the sounds leaving your mouth that was directly behind his right ear.
Drool escaped his lips, having no choice but to let it fall out of his mouth because he wasnât able to properly swallow it.
With one strong arm holding him up, he let the other grab your head, pulling you into a necessary and messy kiss. Gasping with every breath, his fingers tightened more and more on some of your longer strands, feeling himself about to cum.
âDarlingâ Iâm ab-bout toââ
âItâs okay⌠You can cum more anyway.â
And with that, he knew the night was going to be long.
âNANAMI KENTO ( ä¸ćľˇĺťşäşş ) : wax play
Quiet pants slipped past your boyfriendâs lips. The heat of the wax on his skin was a great contrast to his cold body. It was embarrassing, how much he liked it. When you first brought it up, Kento was hesitant, never before trying something that was considered so⌠kinky (by his standards anyway, not yours).
âNghâŚâ he moaned softly.
You smile at him, eyes bright with happiness. âIt seems like youâre enjoying yourself, Kento.â
Pink dusted his cheeks, shamefully averting his eyes from your face. âItâs not as bad as I thought it would be.â
With amusement in your voice and a raised eyebrow, you ask, âNot as bad? But youâre making such cute noises.â Your teasing doesnât stop there. âItâs bad to lie to the love of your life, you know, and on such a special day too.â
âDonât tease. Fine, I like the warmth.â
âOf course you do, I knew you would.â
With that, you dipped the candle in your hand, hot wax falling and hitting the blonde man under you. His fit stomach clenched, abs pronounced more than normal as a result.
âBy the way,â you muttered. âThe wax turns into lotion.â To show him, you moved one of your fingers around some of the hardened wax, watching how it turned into liquid again, but this time it had a semi-cold watery texture. And to your enjoyment, you see the way his eyes watch and silently plea for your hands to move the wax somewhere else.
âThatâsâŚâ he begins, eyebrow twitching a bit. âNice.â
âVery.â
Continuing to pour the hot wax down, down, down. You reach his naked thighs, seeing his pale skin slightly tremble. He wasnât able to hold in the âhurryâ that he covered by putting his hand over his mouth.
âS-shit!â Kento said, being muffled by his hand, letting out an uncharacteristic squeal the moment the blistering heat travelled to his inner thighs.
You chuckled, appreciating the almost once-in-a-lifetime view.
Closer and closer, all Kento was able to feel was a need that he never thought heâd have. A shameful and embarrassing thought rushed through his head, one that he wasnât quite sure he could vocally tell you in fear that it was a little too much. But like always, you could read him like the back of your hand, so you knew exactly what he wanted.
âFffffffuuuuuckkââ Was all he let out the moment the wax made contact with the base of his dick.
With an idea in your mind, you swiftly stained his cock with the red burning heat, hearing the desperate cries he let out for you to continue. Even louder moans reached your ears the moment your hand went into contact with it, sweetly massaging up and down so the now lotion wasnât able to cool down quickly enough.
Kento unexpectedly reached down, grabbing onto your hand so the lotion could be spread everywhere. From his balls to his stomach and up his pecs, it didnât seem like he knew what he was doing, only trying to feel the fire-like warmth from smearing all over him.
With his moans in the air and his senseless voice sounding in the quiet night, you knew this was just starting. After all, you guys hadnât even fucked yet.
âFUSHIGURO TĹJI ( äźéťççž ) : riding crop
Never in your fucking life did you think he was actually going to let you do this? I mean sure, youâve explored a little bit before but you thought this was going to be too excessive for him, that he was even going to be annoyed with you.
But that wasnât the case at all.
Sure he looked a little ticked off at first, but after thinking about it for a bit he laughed and challenged you.
Which is what brought you to now.
Tojiâs strong form was lying on the rose-covered bed, something he scoffed at but you were sure you saw a tiny dust of pink on his cheeks before he turned away. His back was to you, a rare sight, seeing as it made him feel like he had no control. Although you were certain it also made him feel exposed and embarrassed if his red-coloured ears were anything to go by.
You could see his muscular back flexing with any slight movement he did, his veiny arms twitching and big biceps tightening.
All in all, he looked delicious.
The crop tightened in your hand, its leather end glided down the curve of Tojiâs spine. A perfect fit, touching every nook and cranny, leaving absolutely nothing unmarked.
An annoyed huff left his nose. âWould you hurry it up?â
You tsked, âPatience.â
âThatâs something I donât have right now and you know it. Unless you donât know what youâre fucking doing?â
With a hum, you decided to give him what he wanted, knowing this was going to be the last time you did so tonight.
A harsh slap was heard when leather hit unblemished skin, turning it into a soft pink.
Tojiâs shoulders stiffened, and you were sure he held in any sounds he was about to make.
âHey,â you called out. âDonât hold your noises in.â
âIâm not, youâre just weak.â
âRight.â
Hit. Again.
Hit. Again.
Hit. Again.
This continued on until his back was covered in colour, yet nothing escaped his lips. Not until the leather hit his ass.
âFuââ
Continuing your assault on his round ass, you never gave him enough time to complain. And even though it was embarrassing for him, he was glad you didnât stop, because he knew he wasnât going to be able to say anything anyway, and it felt so good.
When you knew bruises were going to form, you stopped to turn Toji around, letting the crop trail from his giant pecs to his twitching dick. Only then did you notice that he had come already, but the look in his eyes was telling you to hit something else.
And who were you to deny? Guess he really had you wrapped around his finger.
âZENâIN NAOYA ( 猪é˘ç´ĺ ) : feminisation
âWhat the fuck is this?â Were the only words to come out of your boyfriend when he saw the short red dress with a frilly skirt on your shared bed.
âA present.â
âItâs a fucking dress. Do I look like a damn woman to you?â
Ah yes, you decided this was going to be a slight punishment for all the times heâs said some dumb shit about women.
âYou call women whores. Maybe I should treat you like one so you can know the difference, no?â
Naoyaâs eyes screamed in rage, how dare you compare him to them? âItâs bad enough Iâm with you âa man who canât even give me an offspringâ but now you want me to be a stupid woman?â His fists were clenched and ready to beat some sense into you (as if he could). âYou fuckingââ
And then suddenly his top half was leaning on the edge of the bed, wrists pinned behind his back by your hands, and his legs trying to keep himself up to not slide down and fall to the floor.
He hiccuped, not understanding how one minute he was about to launch a punch at you, then the next he had the stupid dress on with the skirt flipped up so as to not get in the way of your continuous thrusts.
âAwe,â you coo mockingly. âWhat happened to all the talking back? I thought you didnât want to wear this, but look at you! Looking all pretty and taking me so well. Now arenât you a doll?â
Naoya was so fucking embarrassed, both by your words and what he was wearing. Why did he like this?
âS-shut the fuck uPâ NGHH!â
With only one of your hands pinning his wrists, the other slipped past the cloth of the dress on the chest area. Luckily, your arms were long enough, so there was no need to take your eyes off his hole swallowing your dick, just to pinch one of his nipples.
âIâm not a w-whore! Stop it!â He cried out, but really, he didn���t want you to stop.
âReally?â You pulled on his perky nipple, feeling the way he clenched around you. âBut your pussy seems to like it when I play with your tits?â
He whined, slight sobs making his shoulders shake. âNot a pussy!â
You moaned, liking how his voice rose when he said that. âYouâre so wet here though.â And with that, your other hand let go of his wrists, Naoya hastily having to grab the sheets under him.
Your hand slipped around his surprisingly slim waist, grabbing a handful of his nodding cock and tracing your thumb against the slit.
âSee? Youâre so sensitive when I touch your clit.â
Naoyaâs mind went blank, everything around him went ignored except for your words and the pleasurable feeling you gave him everywhere your hands and dick touched. Before he knew it, he came, panting against the sheets stained with his drool.
But, oh, you werenât done with him yet. You still hadnât come after all.
notes: better late than nvr! i ws planning on writing for sukuna & choso too but ran out of time so đ¤ˇ
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can you write a daeho smut where hes upset and gets hard while reader is comforting him then said reader makes him jerk off in front of her? then maybe after theres more smut with him as the sub? SORRY THIS IS MY FIRST REQUEST IDK IF IM DOIGN IT RIGHT
ngl this is so creative that iâm doing it right after writing hella đđ lowkey seeing the image of it đŠ
Comfort took a wrong turn (i had no idea what to name thisđ˘)
warnings: Smut, sub!dae-ho, lowkey some reason getting turned on, gentle fucking, praising
Youâve been noticing Dae-ho flinching or getting nervous every single time he hears a gunshot, you knew he was an ex marine so maybe he had trauma? your not sure.
Whenever they were gonna go shoot the guards to get to the control room , Dae-ho decided to stay back, after awhile he had heard a ton gunshots, he covered his ears, shaking in his bed
You had went up to him and crawled next to him, you looked at him in a bit of concern, âIâm sorry! iâm so sorry.. i just canât do this! the gunshots!â he whimpered out, his hands shaking still covering his ears as he shut his hair, âitâs gonna be okay..i promise, nothing is gonna happen to you if just stay here okay?â you said hugging him
Even tho his ears were covered he can still hear you but just a bit muffled, he finally put his hands down, still shaking he slowly wrapped his hands around you as well, âY/n..it wonât stop! im sorry.â he whispered, you stroked his hair a bit, he leaned into your touch, allowing you to stroke his hair, âShhh.. itâs okay, itâs gonna be okay, do you trust me?â you say back to him
He looks up at you a nodded, you get a little bit closer your hands wrapped behind his neck and one hand still stroking his hair, your body was against him, he barely realized and his body begins feeling a bit hot, his cheeks were burning up as well as he looked down as your body, your boobs slightly pressed up against his shoulder
He begin feeling really hot and looks down and notices he has a bulge in his pants. He gulped as his adamâs apple bounced along his gulp, âItâs gonna be okay dae-ho, just donât focus too much on the sounds okay? focus on me for nowâ you whispered as he nodded, he slightly moved you to be infront of him so kinda on his lap which you didnât mind, you kept hugging him as he begin rubbing and down your back, he was thinking about many lewd thoughts about you. He shut his eyes as bucked his hips, you felt him did so, as you backed up a bit in confusion and looked down noticing he was hard
He quickly flushed in embarrassment and tried hiding his bulge, âi-iâm sorry! i couldnât help it.. you were just so close to me and-â he begin quickly explaining but you cut him off with a chuckle, âYou got hard from me basically trying to comfort you?â you spoke, he nodded , âThatâs..thatâs kinda patheticâ you said while sitting on his lap on his bulge, he let out a whine âI-i know iâm sorry! i couldnât help it i promise it wonât happen again!â he quickly said âYea..make sure it doesnât. But for now i want you to take off your pants okay?â you said rubbing his cheek as he quickly nodded
You got up sitting on his legs instead of his lap, he pushed down his pants to his knees, His boxers strained with a small wet spot, his cock slightly twitching in his wet boxers, you smirked at him, âGood boy.. now take those off as wellâ, he chuckled nervously at the praise but quickly listen shoving them down to his knee, his cock was spilling pre cum as the cold air that hit his cock made him shiver, âStroke yourself for meâ you said simply, he looks at you with puppy eyes, just like a puppy he quickly follows your orders
He begin stroking himself, his hands going up and down his cock, his breath hitched as he looked down at his cock than back at you, he kept going small whines falling out his mouth, you smirked at him as you bit your lip and continued watching, feeling your pussy slightly throbbing, your desire to make him moan out your name but you wanted to wait, he continued stroking himself as moans begin falling out
He went faster, his cock twitching a bit, you traveled your hands under your pants and slightly rubbed yourself at the sight of him, he made a small gasp when he saw you, he kept jerking himself off and while a loud whine he came, his cum spilling over his hand as he panted, he shut his eyes a bit before looking at you, you had took your hands out of pants, âWow..what a performance you can put onâ you said quietly, âC-can i fuck you? please? i-i wanna be inside you!â he said breathlessly, you chuckled a bit and got closer
âAre you able to handle it?â you questioned him, he quickly nodded, âYes! yes please.. im able too!â he said looking like a puppy whoâs tail is wagging, he slowly got on top of you placing you down on the bed gently
he begins taking off your pants and panties, he looks at your cunt which was soaking wet, he smiled a bit as he spread your, he then placed himself between your legs, grabbing his cock a bit and lining himself on your entrance, âAre.. are you okay with this?â he gently asked, you nodded, he then begin pushing his tip in as he moaned at the warmth feeling, he pushed in nice and slowly making sure he doesnât hurt you, once his full length was inside you he gently asked you âDoes it hurt?â, you shaked your head âNoâ you simply said as he nodded, âOkay ima start moving..â he said as he slowly pulled back and begin thrusting into you gently making sure not to go too rough or too fast
you moaned softly as he leaned over you, his face in your neck and his hands on each side of your head, he moved his hips nice and slowly, âYea..just like that baby, nice and slowlyâ you spoke softly as he shivered, your hands went to his hair slightly gripping it as he kept pushing into you in and out, you kept moaning softly âA-am i doing good?â he questioned, âMhm..your doing just good baby, so good, what a good boy..â you spoke softly as his cock twitched when you called him a good boy, he tried hiding his big smile against your neck as he kept thrusting into you, his cock hitting deep and into the spot that makes you cum, âYea~ right there baby, keep going..â you moaned softly as he nodded and kept hitting that exact spot, your orgasm approached as he kept hitting your g spot, âShit baby- iâm gonna cum~â you moaned out as he tried going a bit faster making you cum quickly, you moaned out as you cummed, a white ring line formed, he stopped and looked at you with pure love, even tho he barely knows you, you looked back at him and smiled warmly
âi-i think iâm in love with you..â he said blinking at you as you chuckled and shaked your head
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coffee tables pt. 2 â jack abbot x fem!reader Jack visits his ex-girlfriendâs apartment to help build a coffee table, but as old memories resurface and quiet confessions are shared, the day slowly turns into a chance to begin again.
warnings: flashback to the past, nothing 18+
part one || masterlist
Jack stands in front of your apartment door, toolbox in hand, trying to calm the nerves he thought he'd buried months ago. It's Saturdayâhis day offâand he decides to spend it building a coffee table with you. Somehow, it feels more intimate than it should.
You've been texting all week, your messages short and sometimes teasing, but always warm. He takes a breath, finally lifts his hand, and almost knocks, but you open the door first.
You've been waiting for him behind the door, watching him. "Were you gonna knock or just keep standing there like a creep?" you tease, not realizing the irony.
Jack exhales a nervous breath and cracks a small smile. "Sorry. Was deciding between knocking or faking a maintenance request."
You step aside so he can come in. "Well, youâve got the toolkit. Might as well earn your keep."
The apartment smells just like he remembers it, he looks around to reminisce for a bit before spotting the half-assembled coffee table still sprawled across the living room floor.
"I figured Iâd finish what you started," Jack says, lifting the toolbox.
"Before it finishes me off?" you joke.
"It almost did," he reminds you that the piece of glass almost cut your femoral artery, "Are you recovering okay?"
"Yeah, I can walk without much pain now. The meds help."
He nods, "That's good. I can take a look for you later."
"Okay, yeah, sure." You don't protest.
The mood is awkward at first. Small talk. Dry jokes. "Tool sizes". But it doesnât take long before you warm up to each other. He fits a bolt in place while you read the instructions upside down, the rhythm of your banter slowly syncing. You snort when he grunts at the wrong size screw, and he rolls his eyes when you say you shouldâve just bought a pre-built one.
"Remember the bookshelf we built for your place?" you say at one point, legs tucked beneath you on the floor.
Jack pauses, head tilted. "The one that fell over after a week?"
"You insisted we didnât need the wall bracket."
He laughs. "And you still let me build furniture."
"TouchĂŠ."
"Alright so where does this screw go?" Jack holds up a singular screw that looks just like the other ten.
"Um... there?" You point to a threaded hole, squinting. "Oh wait, but it could also be the other one. Ugh, I don't know, they all have the same measurements."
Jack shrugs and screws it into one of the holes while muttering, mostly to himself, "That's right, it goes in the square hole..."
You freeze. "Was thatâ"
"Yes, yes it was," he replies without missing a beat.
"Who taught you??"
"Night shifts can get boring sometimes."
You laugh, the kind that escapes before you can think about it, and Jack glances at you with a smile that lingers just a second too long.
A few hours later, the coffee table is finally finished. It's off by maybe 1cm, but it'll do.
âWe did it. Functional table. No injuries. Only minor emotional peril.â Jack says as he stretches his legs.
âHonestly, Iâmâ.â
âHungry?â
You nod, "YES."
And he pulls out his phone. âYour usual order still the same?â
Your eyes flick to his. âYou remember?â
Jack only smiles and places the order.
You try to hide your smile and stand up. "I'm opening a bottle of wine. We're celebrating this."
"You're on meds."
"And you are on your day off." You smile at him, pouring two glasses. "I'll just have one." You try to convince him while he rolls his eyes.
There is no going between you and your wine.
"Mind if I use the bathroom?"
"You already know where it is."
As he steps into the hallway, he sees one photo still hanging on your wall. Cracked glass. Your arms wrapped around each other, blurry with motion but full of joy. The memory slams into him.
Itâs late, and your apartment feels too small for the fight youâre having. "Youâre always at the hospital," you say, voice shaking. "Even when you donât have to be." "Itâs not that simple," Jack snaps. "People rely on me." "And I donât?" He turns too fast. His elbow knocks the picture frame off the wall. It crashes to the floor, splintering the glass. You both freeze. Something in him falters. He picks up the frame and sets it on the counter. "I canât do this," he mutters before walking out.
Jack stares at the cracked photo now, throat tight. You wander over to where Jack is, and realize what he's looking at.
"You still have it." He states.
"I thought about throwing it away," you reply. "But I couldn't."
"I kept some things too," Jack says, but he doesnât elaborate. Not yet.
You fall into silence, but itâs warmer this time. He reaches for your hand, brushing his thumb over your knuckles. You let him.
"You know," you dare yourself to say, your voice barely above a whisper, "I used to sit in this apartment and think⌠maybe heâll show up. Say heâs sorry. Say he wants to try again."
"Iâm here now," Jack says. "And I am sorry. And Iâ"
Thereâs a knock at the door. The food delivery.
Dinner is quiet, softer. You split the last of the wine, and you laugh at his terrible jokes. When the bottleâs empty and the plates are cleared, you stay sitting on the floor, closer than before. Hands almost touching.
Both wanting to pick up where the serious conversation last ended, but also fearing where it might lead.
Jack reaches for his glass of wine and pauses. "You remember the night the power went out?"
You blink. "The storm?"
He nods. "We were stuck here. Couldnât even order food because your phone died and mine barely had signal."
"We lit every candle in the apartment. I think I still have wax stains on that old bookshelf." You smile at the memory. "That was probably a fire hazard."
Jack chuckles. "And you made us play that ridiculous card game. Loser had to answer a personal question."
"I was trying to get to know you better," you say, nudging him lightly with your elbow. "Youâre not exactly an open book."
He shakes his head with a faint smile, one of those rare ones that tug more at memory than amusement. âStill not, I guess.â
âI asked you your fears,â you continue, voice softer now. âYou told me you wanted to be a good man. That night. You said you didnât know if you were, but you wanted to try.â
Jackâs smile fadesânot from regret, but more longing. "Yeah. I remember. I was scared I'd let you down."
"You did."
He looks down, his fingers absently brushing a speck of dust from the tableâs edge. But then you add, just as gently:
"But you're here now."
He looks up. Meets your eyes. Thereâs something unspoken hanging between youâpain, promises that shattered and ones still waiting to be made.
And that silence, againâthis time warm, thick, forgiving.
He swallows, as if laying his heart bare, and asks, âCan you give me another chance?â
Your fingers find his, and you squeeze, quietly telling him yes.
He looks at you with that softness in his eyes, the one that makes your chest ache. His hand rises gently to your cheek, and your breath catches.
âI missed you,â he murmurs, voice almost shaking.
âI missed you too.â
And then, finally, he leans in.
So do you.
The kiss is careful at firstâlike testing the coffee table you just built. But when your hand slips to his chest and his thumb grazes your jaw, it deepens into something more certain. Something lived-in and familiar, and still electric.
Itâs not just a kiss.
Itâs a promise.
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stalker and slightly perverted simon riley!
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â mentions of: slight stalking, panty stealing, brief mention of age gap (i aged him up), masturbation
there was something about a pretty little thing like you, completely unaware of his dark desires and fantasies. recently, simon had just saved you from a rude encounter at the bar, though his actions may seem heroic, it really wasnât. it was your first encounter with him, though he knew you long before.
you worked at the local diner, prancing around in the tiny uniform as you took orders with your usual beaming smile on your pretty glossed lips. though sadly, you werenât the one serving him, but that didnât matter as his gaze was on you the whole time. eventually he learnt your routine, you worked monday, thursday and fridays and finished at 11pm each shift. simon found himself outside the diner, the neon lights now forever engraved in his mind as he waited. it was wrong, waiting for a girl probably a good decade younger than him just to follow her home and well⌠do nothing.
it always ended the same way, him following you home in his truck. sometimes he felt frustrated with your lack of survival skills, completely unaware that the same truck was waiting outside of the diner for you and followed you home as well. the moment you drove back to the shabby apartment that looked like its seen better days, you would go straight back to your unit, leaving simon alone once again watching you from the tiny window.
this time however, your routine was different. he usually stayed for an hour after you walked through the doors, and well you never came out. this time however, it was different. you came out in a few minutes, a laundry basket in your hands as you walked down the staircase, simonâs eyes glued to your smaller figure before you went to the small room which he assumed was the unitâs laundromat.
however you didnât stay there for long, leaving empty handed and going back up to your apartment. simonâs thoughts spiralled, the idea of your clothes in the wash just a few feet away was enough to have his cock straining against his pants. taking a small piece of clothing wouldnât hurt⌠right?
as much as your lack of survival and critical thinking skills frustrated simon, he was extremely grateful for it at the same time. without it, he wouldnât have your flimsy cotton panties in his hands. the moment he drove off he brought the material to his nose, sniffing it. somehow you had left it inside your basket, so he didnât have to wait for the rest to finish washing. it also meant that it wasnât clean.
he could imagine the way the material moulded to your pussy, the flimsy cotton barely doing nothing to conceal the outline of your pussy. the scent of it was enough to make his eyes roll back, with the slight remaining scent of your pussy and arousal he was going to come in his pants.
the moment he was in bed, all alone with the door locked he fucked his cock on your panties. tugging his briefs down before taking his heavy fat cock in his hand, the weight of it heavy in his hands. he dragged the material down his sensitive head that was leaking with pre-cum down to the base. âfuck,â he hissed as he spilled all over your panties, his hot sticky cone coating the material as shame filled his stomach as he stared at the cum stained material in his hands. he felt limp, his body shaking slightly. heâs never came this hard before, sweat dripping down his forehead, as his hand lazily rubs along his cock, heavy pants leaving his mills as his chest moves up and down. god he was a pervert.
though that didnât stop him from sneakily breaking into your apartment to steal another pair.
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jiung, who looks so good when his tongue is poking the inside of his cheek in concentration, fully immersed in the song heâs been working on for the last few hours. the two of you keep missing each otherâs glances, only looking when the other looks away or pretends to be too interested in whatâs on the soundboard in front of him, or in your case, your cellphone.
heâs tried to focus on the task at hand, he really, really has, but how can he when youâre laying on the little couch in his studio, jeans hugging your thighs, midriff exposed under your shirt that has risen up?
heâs not usually this easily distractedâa detail about him you know very well. countless times, youâd tried to tempt him to take a break from work and each and every time, your attempts had failed.
âiâll take care of you when we get home, baby,â heâd insist with a sweet, wet kiss on your lips, âbut i have to finish this now.â
even sitting on his lap and rutting against him while you kissed and whimpered into his neck had been useless. technically, not entirely useless, cause you could feel him get worked up beneath you, but even then he didnât budgeâhis outstanding and stubborn self-control won every time.
naturally, you decided to give up your fruitless teasing and convincing, but perhaps, the absence of your advances is exactly why heâs so worked up today.
subconsciously, he misses the way your arms wrap around his shoulders from behind, palms smoothing over his chest and fingers trailing paths through his soft hair.
âplease, iâm so needy,â he can practically hear the words dripping like honey from your lips, begging for him, needing his attention. and if he tries hard enough, he can feel your breath on his neck when you ask him to touch you, âjust for a little.â
but instead, youâre quiet and still, laying back on the couch as you patiently wait for him to finish. and as much as heâd like to get this adjustment to the song over and done with so he can go home and treat you to the pleasure you so rightfully deserve, he canât, because nothing heâs hearing in his headphones sounds good right now��not when his dick is so hard and swollen inside of his briefs that it physically hurts.
the melody is a mess, the lyrics are senseless, the beat isnât right, and his head is leaking pre-cum into his underwear.
with a scowl on his features, he yanks the headphones off and spins around to face you.
you donât look up from the phone, simply humming to acknowledge him as you shift onto your stomach. he swallows back a groan at the view of your pretty ass, now in perfect view.
âhoney,â he starts, but you only hum again. âiâm gonna take a break.â
âgood,â you mumble, âyouâve been going at it for over two hours. iâm starving.â
âi-â
âwhat do you wanna eat? iâll order.â
âbabyâŚâ thereâs a smidge of vulnerability in his voice, which is what finally makes you look up from the screen and at him. one of his hands is cupping himself over his sweats, the other reaching out for you desperately, âcâmere.â
your eyes widen as you glance down at his bulge and back up at him, the corners of your lips twitching up to form a teasing smile.
"what's wrong?" you play dumb. jiung rolls his eyes, letting his head fall back.
"please?"
"what ever happened to leaving that for when we're home?"
there's a strain on his voice when he answers, "i know, but... i can't. not this time."
"oh, but when i'm the one who's needy, it's fine?" you get up, walking over to him and stopping between his legs. instantly his hands come up to hold your hips.
when you grab his chin and tilt his head up to look at you, his dick twitches in his pants.
"i'm sorry," he whispers, lids heavy and lips drooling as his eyes trail down your figure, following every curve, every bit of exposed skin. "m'sorry," he repeats, speech a bit more slurred this time.
his index fingers hook onto the waistband of your pants, slipping along the hem until they meet in the middle where the button clasps your jeans closed. he tugs at them in a silent plea, and you nod slowly, running a hand though his hair.
jiung groans softly, leaning into your touch and making quick work of the button so he can work your jeans down your legs until you can step out of them.
not a moment later, he's shimmying his own sweats and underwear down until his angry tip is out, flushed and dribbling with clear pre-cum.
"come sit on it," there's a firmness to his voice, hands desperately tugging you closer until you're hovering over his lap. he can tell you're worked upâthe way your lips are parted, the way your eyes are hazed. once you're close enough that he can feel the heat radiating between your laps, he wraps an arm around your waist, keeping you in place.
as his hand guides his dick through your folds to coat it in your slick, his lips find solace in the crook of your neck where he whines and drools and bites, hiding his flushed face from yours. he's already worked up a sweat from the need to feel you around him.
"mmm.." every time he drags himself up and down your core, your grip on his shoulders tightens, beckoning him closer.
"relax for me okay?"
you quickly nod, bringing your hand over your mouth to muffle the way you gasp as he pushes himself in. he slowly moves to sink you down, his own eyes rolling back, until you're flush against his lap and whimpering softly at the feeling of being so full.
"you're too tight," he groans.
"maybe you're just too big." he chuckles breathlessly at your words though he can't deny the way they make him flush, bringing his palms down to grip your hips. he tries to encourage you to move, but you only whimper, mumbling "hold on, i'm so full, i-"
"fuck, darling, i need you to move." he hisses, feeling the way your walls flutter around him.
after a few seconds, you lift yourself up halfway and sink back down with a moan that he echoes the moment he feels his swollen tip poke at your walls.
he works you to a pace that has your legs trembling, unable to hold you up if it wasn't for his grip that steadies you. you hum, eyes squeezed shut, focusing solely on him, on the way he feels inside youâthe way his tongue drags up your neck until he stops at your jaw, ending his trail with an opened mouth kiss.
he moans against your neck, grabbing your face with his hand to turn you so you're looking down and at him.
"that's it," he praises when your eyes flutter open, glossed over and dazed. "there's my girl."
"ji-"
"sweetheart," his voice is tight as you roll your hips into his, chasing your high. the way you cling to him, nails scratching lightly at his shoulders, mouth letting out the most beautiful and addictive breathy whinesâit drives him crazy.
you gasp against his lips as he rolls his hips up to meet yoursâa slow, deliberate motion that has your fingers tugging on his hair, "jiungââ your breath hitches, the way he moves, the way he grips you, itâs overwhelming.
âi know, baby,â he groans, his lips tracing along your jaw, down to the base of your throat. his hands move, skimming up your sides, sliding under your shirt, palms warm against your flushed skin as he squeezes your boobs.
the tension thatâs been building finally snaps, the air filled with breathless moans, whispered pleas, and the sound of skin against skin. the wet sounds coming from where your bodies meet make his head spin, pushing him to fuck you harder as you gasp, walls tightening around him.
he mumbles the sweetest things against your skin as you go limp in his hold, as he sinks so deep into you when he finds his own release.
"fuck," he shudders, head falling back against the chair, arms keeping you in place, tightly tucked against his chest.
for a few seconds, neither of you speak. the only sounds are the faint hum of the unfinished track looping in his headphones and your synchronized pants as you both come down from your highs. jiung leans forward, pressing a lazy kiss to your temple, his lips lingering there as if he can't seem to pull away.
âyou okay?â his voice is hushed, tender. he brushes damp strands of hair away from your face, his other hand tracing mindless patterns on your back.
you nod against him, still catching your breath. âyeah,â you murmur, pressing a kiss against his jaw. âreally good."
jiung hums in approval, his arms wrapping around you fully. he leaves a kiss on your head, but before you can get lost in his warmth, he's shifting, adjusting you in his arms. âcome on, baby,â he says, his voice still a little hoarse. "let's clean up.â
you groan softly, nuzzling into his neck. âuh-uh. canât move,â you whine. âyou wore me out.â
he chuckles, smoothing your hair back with his hand, mumbling, âi did, huh?â before he sighs. âalright, sit tight.â
before you can protest, heâs gently lifting you off of him, setting you down carefully on the couch. his warmth leaves you, but only for a moment before heâs grabbing a clean towel from the studio's bathroom, using it to wipe the sheen of sweat from your skin and the mess he's left between your legs with soft, delicate touches. his focus is solely on you, unhurried, full of care.
âthere we go,â he murmurs, discarding the towel before grabbing the oversized hoodie draped over his chair. "c'mere, baby." he helps your arms through the sleeves and slides your panties back up your legs, fingers ghosting your skin. "all better."
you nod, your heart swelling. âyou always take such good care of me.â
jiung grins, cupping your jaw affectionately before tugging on his own pants. âof course. youâre my girl.â
for a moment, he pauses, glancing toward his screen where his unfinished song still sits open. âshit. i was supposed to finish that.â
you giggle, nudging his side as he drops onto the couch beside you, pulling you effortlessly into his lap. âmaybe next time don't get so distracted.â
he half-heartedly scoffs, pressing a teasing bite against your shoulder before pulling you into a proper kissâslow, deep, tongue swiping at your still swollen lips. when he pulls away, he doesn't go too far, nose still brushing yours. âhow could I not?â he murmurs against your mouth. âyouâre my favorite distraction.â
you instantly melt into him, curling against his chest, listening to the thump-thump of his heart as exhaustion begins to creep in.
"i wasnât expecting you to give in so easily,â you tease after a beat, your fingers absentmindedly threading through his hair.
"yeah, well," he starts, eyes flickering closed as you scratch his scalp, "you were quite convincing." when you sigh contently against him, he whispers ârest for a bit, Iâll finish up later.â
"are you sure?" you mumble, but you're already half-asleepâhe can tell.
he just nods softly, squeezing you in reassurance as your breath evens out and you fall asleep, tucked in his embrace.
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Time. iii.

Part One [i]. ⥠Part Two [ii].
Warnings: MDNI ⢠Explicit ⢠Aaron Pierre x Black!Reader, smoking, a lil angst, a lil fluff, teasing, p in v, creampie, slight overstimulation, pet names, DDLG kink, BDSM themes, Soft!Aaron, omniscient POV and more...
BKG/Summary: As you and Aaron maintain your budding love in your long distance relationship, your respective careers continue to grow exponentially. Your writing has picked up wonderfully, and your newest work is to hit local shelves with pre-orders out for delivery. When there is a snag in production and they print the wrong cover, fans are rightfully mad but have no one to blame but you. To help cope with the stress, you call Aaron, hoping that he can talk you down but as he's busy himself, all you get is solutions. To make up for his lack of sensitivity to a moment that may very well be formative to your career, he gets a one way flight to see you.
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A/N: â´ď¸Happy New Year!â´ď¸ Tell me how you liked this one đđŤśđž
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right now i need your loving, one way flight ain't nothin'... - NYL by Phabo
Light smoke billowed from your lips, taking the color of the bronze sky as you blew it out of your large window. Your eyes low and your mind clear, you gazed into the horizon, thanking God for the beauty He had painted ions ago. You gazed along the limited foliage and bustling street underneath your apartment building, and couldnât help giggling at the fact that everything seemed to be orange under the filter of the sunset.
As your mind was numbed from any of the day's events, you thought back to the person you would have loved to share this moment with. Earlier in your hectic day, you had called him for some relief from lifeâs unexpected symptoms but you did not get the reaction you desired. Wise but stern motivations took the place of the gentle words you thought you were sure to receive.
Then, your yearning tone turned defensive, and that was not pretty. Before you knew it, you and Aaron had had a small spat about his tone, and then you were hanging up in his face.
It wasnât like you needed him to make things better, but you at least hoped that he would love on you enough for you to see the solution for yourself. Instead, he made it seem like he was too busy to handle your emotions in the moment, like he was unable to make the time. Though, two short minutes of affirmations would have sufficed, no doubt.
Now, you were okay with not speaking to him for the rest of the day. You wanted to feel your high for as long as humanly possible.
With a levitating sway of your hips, you allowed your bare feet to usher you back into your living room, your patterned maxi dress flowing behind you as you turned up your speaker. As Jhene Aikoâs voice heightened in volume, you rolled your body to her sensual lyrics, joint in the air.
'Letâs go half on a son, how far do you wanna go? OhhhhhâŚ'
Just as you brought your herb back to your lips to take in a long puff, your phone rang, interrupting the music. Breathing out the smoke quickly, you rush to your phone, ready to decline the call when you see the contact photo. Aaron.
A deep sigh rushes past your lips as you press the green button, taking a drag from your j as you see the call connecting. Distracted by nothing in particular, Aaronâs eyes take a moment to focus on your face through the screen, but once he does, he scoffs in near disbelief.
âI see you found an outlet.â His deep voice is littered with droplets of venom, and you roll your eyes as you breathe out the smoke you were holding.
âI would much rather have something else for that but, here I am.â You are involuntarily calm, your logical mind wanting to give him back what he was dishing. But physically, the effects of the weed wouldnât even allow you to be phased. You were justâŚthere.
âAnyways, did you call for something or what? Cause Iâm busyâŚâ You bend down to your coffee table to ash your joint in your pretty glass tray, and then your red eyes meet Aaronâs on your FaceTime. He hears a hint of reciprocation of the energy he gave you this morning, and his eyes soften, his natural pout a bit more defined.
âUh, yeahâŚIâm outside.â Without much thought to his words, you smack your teeth, and look at your j, examining the neatly rolled herb inside.
âOkay, nigga.â All he can do is chuckle at your reaction, and you look at your screen to see whatâs so funny.
âNo, Iâm really,â He begins, and then you hear three knocks echoing on either side of your phone. âOutside.â
Furrowing your eyebrows, you set your joint down in your tray and go to your front door. A quick glance through your peephole is all it takes to see Aaronâs large frame waiting right on the other side, and you instantly hang up the phone. After unlocking it, you swing your door open and meet Aaronâs eyes.
Every feeling that you had been avoiding bubbled up quickly, like seeing him was the last straw. Shit. You cursed yourself internally. You didnât want to fold under his intense blue eyes, but as his softened demeanor waits to be welcomed in, tears sting at the sides of your eyes. Blinking to try and keep the waterworks at bay, you step aside and allow a space for him to make his entrance, looking off into the distance of your apartment.
Once he steps in, and waits for you to close your door, he watches you turn on your heel to face him. Soft steps in your direction lead him to the space right in front of you, and he leans his head down to be face to face with you.
âCome here.â His English accent sticks to his deep voice, and he places his hands on your hips to pull you in closer. You almost allow him to hug you, but as he begins to nestle his face in your neck, you reach your hands up to push him away from you.
âNo. You hurt me, Aaron.â He keeps his stature, silently flexing his strength over you, but he moves back a little to try and respect your wishes. The tears continue to flood your eyes, but at this point, you donât care anymore. You want him to see how he made you feel, you need him to.
Seeing you so upset with him makes Aaronâs chest tighten with worry. It wasnât his intention to make you cry, it never was. But he couldnât help but notice the tears threatening to spill over your lower lid at any moment.
âY/N, please. Iâm sorry.â His tone is soft, maybe the softest itâs been all day, and you find yourself looking up into his slightly upturned eyes. You want to kiss him so bad, just say âfuck itâ to all the points you had in mind to make to him. But you had to at least bring up the most pressing one, your mind wouldnât allow you to forget it.
âAaron, I-âŚâ You begin, shaking your head as you try to form your words in a neutral way. A tear falls onto your cheek as you find just what you want to convey.
âYou wonât always be able to pop up on me like this; phone calls are our primary form of communication right now. If youâre too busy for calls then maybe we should rethink this relationship.â
âIâm not too busy for your phone calls, Y/N. Today was just a bit stressful for me too but, I had no right to take that out on you.â His hands rub at your sides as he gazes into your eyes. âTruly, I apologize.â
A moment of quiet falls between the two of you, and you take in a deep breath, releasing it into the room.
âThank you.â Your voice was near a whisper, as you took in his second apology. Comfortable now, that the two of you were on the same page, even if only for tonight, you reach your arms around Aaronâs neck, peering up into his pretty eyes yet again. Instantly, he pulls your body into his and brings his hand to your face to wipe your fallen tear.
A lush peck laces the lack of space between each of your lips, and then finally Aaron gets the hug that he yearned for. His strong arms squeeze around your body as he rests his head in the space of your shoulder and his large hands find their ways to the skin of your back. You feel his supple lips on your neck and you breathe in slowly, smelling the distinct scent of his luxury cologne mixed in with his pheromones. Your mouth nearly waters at the perfection of the warm, clean notes of his fragrance.
"I don't like seeing you cry, pretty girl." He rasps against your neck, sending tingles down your spine.
"I know." You run a dainty hand down his neck, along his shoulder and bicep, squeezing at the toned muscle. Mmm.
"Not unless Papa is making you feel that good." He trails his hands down your body, resting at your plump ass to give it a squeeze. Hearing your whispered gasp at his gesture, he brings his face back parallel to yours so he can see your expression.
Doe eyes stare up into his lowered ones, the energy in the room long past shifted, and waiting to be acted upon.
"You want me to make you feel good?" Your eyes flicker from his lowered gaze to his full pink lips, your vision shadowed by your long eyelashes.
âYes.â As your vision is fixed on his pretty mouth, Aaron leans forward to seemingly give you what you want. But just when your lips get close, he pulls away, his intense glare demanding your attention.
Looking up into his eyes yet again, you press your body further into his, craving so desperately to feel his kiss. Instead of a kiss though, Aaron brings a strong hand to your shoulders, pushing your lovely black kinks out of his way. Sure enough, his tender hand wraps around your neck tautly, and he pulls your face right up to his.
âTell me what you want, baby.â His chest rises and falls quicker as he watches your lips purse to reply to him.
âI want you to make love to me.â He closes in on your lips but when your eyes donât leave his, he waits just a moment for your other requests.
âStart slow.â Your tone is breathy as you express just what you wanted and needed from your night. The ghost of a grin plays at Aaronâs lips, and then they finally connect with yours.
He parts his mouth almost instantly, the fulfilled desire of your tongue on his causing a soft moan to escape his lips. You aimlessly fight for balance, your tongues playing a tug of war you were okay with losing as long as it continued. Aaronâs hold on your neck stays firm for a few moments later, and then he slowly lets you go, bringing his strong hands to your ass through your flowing dress.
Your sure hands move to his shoulders to push his suit jacket off of his frame, and his arms leave your body to pull the tweed fabric off of him rather quickly. He throws his jacket to the side with no real regard for where it lands, and soon, his arms are back around you.
Aaron lifts you like youâre nothing, allowing your body to straddle his waist as he holds you up by your thighs. You donât disconnect for any longer than a second, as you continue to press your needy kiss into his thick lips, feeling his hungry reciprocation. As you focus on the warm breath filling the space between your lips, and the secure hold youâre in, your body canât help but react, your natural lubrication easing from between your thighs.
âMm.â You grind your body against his, the friction of the clothes between you both being just enough to stimulate your throbbing clit. You whine against his lips, and he pulls away from the kiss to see your flustered face, as you bite your lip.
Seeing just how dire it is for you to feel something right now, Aaron carries you to your couch, where he lays you down softly. He lays over you as you keep your eyes locked on him, bringing a hand to your cheek as he presses his lips back into yours. As he delivers one of his slow, torturously enticing kisses, he rubs his hardened shaft against your heated core, grinding his hips against yours through your clothes.
Your breath catches in your throat as you feel yourself get wetter because of his efforts, and energy rushes through your body.
âFuck, baby.â You breathe out, nearly being overcome with the feeling of him grinding into you. A deep breath leaves Aaronâs vocal cords in a gruff, stuttered tone, and he rubs himself against you just once more, pulling back just slightly to reach up your dress for your panties. But, when he feels nothing but your plush skin, he blinks slowly as he tries to contain his excitement.
As he takes his time pushing your dress up your body to reveal your moisturized melanin, his eyes trail past your hips, your navel, your torso and your chest to meet your pretty brown eyes yet again. Your eyelashes flutter against your cheek as you watch him intently, having a hint of an idea of what heâs about to do.
Gently, he tugs at the airy fabric of the dress you are barely wearing now, and his eyes turn stormy with desire.
âTake this off.â
You obey quickly, pulling the dress over your head and tossing it to the floor beside the couch. When your eyes meet his again, he lets a moment pass before heâs tugging his chocolate brown shirt off of his own body, revealing his soft, honey-toned skin and the rippled muscles under it. Your eyes instantly attach to the greek sculpture of his body, and you bite your lip absentmindedly as you caress his limbs with your gaze.
Under your longing specs, Aaron only leans himself forward, his body drawn to the thought of your willful and wanton touch. Catching on to his wants now, you sit up and allow your hands to grasp onto his waist, pulling him into you tenderly as your eyes flicker up to view his face.
Almost completely overtaken by the needs of your flesh, you place a series of supple kisses along Aaronâs abs. Your eyes donât leave his stare as you decorate his skin with small pecks, teasing him just a little. But as his mind is dead set on how pretty your face is from this angle âand the tingles that erupt underneath his skin wherever your delicate hands are holding himâ soft moans sneak through his lips.
Your skin heats at every moan, as they get more and more pronounced, and you get a bit sloppier with your technique. Instead of the innocent feather-light kisses you were delivering before, you part your lips to widen your kiss along his skin. Your wet kisses sound in the quiet room, ad-libbing over the music that had started back up on its own some time ago. The song you make is just enough to make Aaron even harder, and his whispered sounds of pleasure harmonize perfectly with your energy.
âLay back.â He keeps his composure the best he can, his mind swirling with thoughts of you taking control of him and doing whatever you wanted. Yet, as you layed against the yielding cushions of your couch, luscious brown skin glistening underneath the dim light in your living room, all he knew is the only place he wanted to be, was with you. And heâd be damned if he messed it up over a phone call.
Slow hands reached for the button of his pants, and he took his time undoing the fastens that kept the fabric up on his hips. His movements sped up just a little as he got the pants off of his legs, and across the room, out of the way. The black breifs that once decorated his lower body are close behind, and then itâs just you and him.
Aaronâs kisses start at your feet, feather-light, gentle. He allows himself whatever pacing he found reasonable, for cherishing every piece of you. His lips trail up your calve, his large hand holding your leg in place as he nuzzles his nose in your skin to smell the luscious lotions you had put on hours earlier. As he gives the same amount of attention to your other leg, his kiss tender as ever as he memorizes every detail of your skin down to tracing scars, you can see just what his intentions are.
Your eyes water just a little as you watch him make a mental note of all of your details, goosebumps raising along your skin as he runs his strong hand along every inch. A gasp leaves your lips as the dopamine surging through your veins makes way for your skin to be even more heated, more pliable, more sensitive to his touch. He looks up for a moment to check in and when he sees your beautiful eyes staring back at him, a small grin raises on his lips.
The smile falls as he kisses up each of your thighs, the puddle between them worsening as he got closer. His lips fall onto the side of your thighs, traveling to your hips and the stretch marks that came with your grown woman weight. He caressed the skin adoringly, littering smaller kisses on each stripe of lighter skin he found. The breath caught in your throat as you thought of the implications of his doting actions, and the tears that had welled in your eyes were threatening to spill over.
âAaron..â You called for him in a near-cry. Instantly, he brought his face right in front of yours, and you ran your hands along his shoulders, pulling him between your legs. His thick lips captured yours without any direction, and you kissed back eagerly, your manicured digits easing into the short curls on the back of his head. He drags the kiss on for a few more seconds, readying himself at your slick opening. When you feel his thick tip easing in just slightly, you wrap your legs around his waist tightly, trying to brace yourself for his length.
âYou are so special to me, Y/N.â He mumbles against your lips before he pulls away to look you in the eyes. âI donât ever want you to feel like I donât care.â You reach your hand up to cup his cheek, as he continues to speak his heart to you.
âI love you, Y/N.â Aaron gives your lips a lush peck before he presses his forehead against yours, easing his throbbing cock into your wetness. You growl softly at the familiar feeling, a slight pressure reminding you of your first time together.
âMmh, I love you too.â You whine, feeling him pull back out slowly, to thrust once again before he caught a swifter rhythm. All you can do is draw in more air, your exhales laced with high pitched exclamations of unexpected bliss.
âDaddyâs so sorry, princess.â He goes to nestle his face in the crook of your neck as he continues to make love to you a bit recklessly. Your breathing gets faster, your chest heaving up and down as you feel your climax rushing through your soma.
âAghhh.â You squeal lightly, throwing your head back at the overwhelming feeling of his thickness going in and out, in and⌠outâŚinâŚandâŚout. Aaron recognizes your falsetto-esc moans, and leaves kisses on your ear before he whispers to you.
âUgh, this alright?â He asks, his deep moans doing nothing but making it worse for you to concentrate on breathing right.
âYes, baby⌠ShitttttâŚugh y- so thick.â You almost hoped that he would take it easier on you, but Aaron had no such plans. His strong hands reached to your legs that were crossed behind his back, and pushed them up so that your knees touched your chest.
Carefully, he pulled out of you, staring down at your connection and the tracings of your pussy juices that decorated your folds, and his entire length. A gravelly moan leaves his vocal cords as he slides back into your opening, you welcoming him in with the tightest fit, and your eyebrows turn upward at such a fill.
âFuckkk. Iâm âbout to cum, baby.â Your whiny confession is followed by a hearty moan, and then you cover Aaron in your essence, dripping down your cunt to the couch beneath you, and circling his cock in the process. He slows down just a little bit, though he has no intentions of stopping, and leans toward you to give you the most silken kiss. Then, as he pulls away from your lips, gazing down into your eyes, he thrusts at this new, slower rhythm.
âMmh, pussy so good.â A growl laced his mumbled words, as he fought the urge to pick up the pace even slightly. With rushed, panting breaths, he reached his hand up to your neck and grasped it just tight enough.
You feel a jump in the pit of your stomach as he works your core, effectively digging yet another nut out of you. As you feel just a little overstimulated, you reach up to his hand that is wrapped around your neck, and hold his wrist in place. You wouldn't dare tell him to stop. But it was so much, and he was so girthy... you didn't know how much more you could take.
Eyes glossy, you let in a deep breath, hoping to regulate yourself but instead, all you do is moan out loudly. You throw your head back yet again, this time unintelligible whimpers and mumbles leave your mouth, and a tear runs down the side of your face.
"A-Aaron." You croak quietly, grabbing at his hips with your free hand. You find yourself grasping at any flesh of his that is visible to your hazy eyes, and he just sighs in delight.
He bites his lip to try and stifle his own cries but moans slip through his teeth so eloquently, you can tell he's close. His strokes never falter; they just get sturdier, firmer. Soon, he's squeezing his eyes shut for just a moment to hold on for as long as he can.
With a few more thrusts and a couple more loud moans, he was releasing all of his gooey, warm elixir right inside of you.
âOhh.â You breathe out tiredly, another wave rushing over you in your trembling climax.
Aaron pulls out of you tenderly now, hearing your combined moisture sound lewdly in the room. When he saw the mixture ease from your slightly stretched opening, he smiled boyishly and placed a kiss on your forehead and then your lips. You hum lovingly, revelling in the feeling of him giving you the soft Aaron you'd craved all day.
The two of you share a quiet beat, just trying to catch your breaths. And then a resolution pops into your head.
âI need this every day. Every once in a while ainât cutting it.â You express, still catching your breath from your great session. He chuckles at your forwardness, and pecks your lips yet again as he thinks about how he could make such a request happen for you.
âThen maybeâŚI move closerâŚ?â He ventures, just a bit unsure. With sparkling eyes, and a hand to his cheek you assure his suggestion with a bit of levity.
âMaybe you should.â
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They were warned

Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.
Truth is provisional! Sometimes, the things we understand to be true about the world change, and stuff we've "always done" has to change, too. There comes a day when the evidence against using radium suppositories is overwhelming, and then you really must dig that radium out of your colon and safely dispose of it:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction
So it's natural and right that in the world, there will be people who want to revisit the received wisdom and best practices for how we live our lives, regulate our economy, and organize our society. But not a license to simply throw out the systems we rely on. Sure, maybe they're outdated or unnecessary, but maybe not. That's where "Chesterton's Fence" comes in:
Let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_fence
In other words, it's not enough to say, "This principle gets in the way of something I want to do, so let's throw it out because I'm pretty sure the inconvenience I'm experiencing is worse than the consequences of doing away with this principle." You need to have a theory of how you will prevent the harms the principle protects us from once you tear it down. That theory can be "the harms are imaginary" so it doesn't matter. Like, if you get rid of all the measures that defend us from hexes placed by evil witches, it's OK to say, "This is safe because evil witches aren't real and neither are hexes."
But you'd better be sure! After all, some preventative measures work so well that no living person has experienced the harms they guard us against. It's easy to mistake these for imaginary or exaggerated. Think of the antivaxers who are ideologically committed to a world in which human beings do not have a shared destiny, meaning that no one has a moral claim over the choices you make. Motivated reasoning lets those people rationalize their way into imagining that measles â a deadly and ferociously contagious disease that was a scourge for millennia until we all but extinguished it â was no big deal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles:_A_Dangerous_Illness
There's nothing wrong with asking whether longstanding health measures need to be carried on, or whether they can be sunset. But antivaxers' sloppy, reckless reasoning about contagious disease is inexcusable. They were warned, repeatedly, about the mass death and widespread lifelong disability that would follow from their pursuit of an ideological commitment to living as though their decisions have no effect on others. They pressed ahead anyway, inventing ever-more fanciful reasons why health is a purely private matter, and why "public health" was either a myth or a Communist conspiracy:
https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-vinay-prasad-pick-me-campaign
When RFK Jr kills your kids with measles or permanently disables them with polio, he doesn't get to say "I was just inquiring as to the efficacy of a longstanding measure, as is right and proper." He was told why the vaccine fence was there, and he came up with objectively very stupid reasons why that didn't matter, and then he killed your kids. He was warned.
Fuck that guy.
Or take Bill Clinton. From 1933 until 1999, American banks were regulated under the Glass-Steagall Act, which "structurally separated" them. Under structural separation, a "retail bank" â the bank that holds your savings and mortgage and provides you with a checkbook â could not be "investment bank." That meant it couldn't own or invest in businesses that competed with the businesses its depositors and borrowers ran. It couldn't get into other lines of business, either, like insurance underwriting.
Glass-Steagall was a fence that stood between retail banks and the casino economy. It was there for a fucking great reason: the failure to structurally separate banks allowed them to act like casinos, inflating a giant market bubble that popped on Black Friday in October 1929, kicking off the Great Depression. Congress built the structural separation fence to keep banks from doing it again.
In the 1990s, Bill Clinton agitated for getting rid of Glass-Steagall. He argued that new economic controls would allow the government to prevent another giant bubble and crash. This time, the banks would behave themselves. After all, hadn't they demonstrated their prudence for seven decades?
In fact, they hadn't. Every time banks figured out how to slip out of regulatory constraints they inflated another huge bubble, leading to another massive crash that made the rich obscenely richer and destroyed ordinary savers' lives. Clinton took office just as one of these finance-sector bombs â the S&L Crisis â was detonating. Clinton had no basis â apart from wishful thinking â to believe that deregulating banks would lead to anything but another gigantic crash.
But Clinton let his self interest â in presiding over a sugar-high economic expansion driven by deregulation â overrule his prudence (about the crash that would follow). Sure enough, in the last months of Clinton's presidency, the stock market imploded with the March 2000 dot-bomb. And because Congress learned nothing from the dot-com crash and declined to restore the Glass-Steagall fence, the crash led to another bubble, this time in subprime mortgages, and then, inevitably, we suffered the Great Financial Crisis.
Look: there's no virtue in having bank regulations for the sake of having them. It is conceptually possible for bank regulations to be useless or even harmful. There's nothing wrong with investigating whether the 70-year old Glass-Steagall Act was still needed in 1999. But Clinton was provided with a mountain of evidence about why Glass-Steagall was the only thing standing between Americans and economic chaos, including the evidence of the S&L Crisis, which was still underway when he took office, and he ignored all of them. If you lost everything â your home, your savings, your pension â in the dot-bomb or the Great Financial Crisis, Bill Clinton is to blame. He was warned. he ignored the warnings.
Fuck that guy.
No, seriously, fuck Bill Clinton. Deregulating banks wasn't Clinton's only passion. He also wanted to ban working cryptography. The cornerstone of Clinton's tech policy was the "Clipper Chip," a backdoored encryption chip that, by law, every technology was supposed to use. If Clipper had gone into effect, then cops, spooks, and anyone who could suborn, bribe, or trick a cop or a spook could break into any computer, server, mobile device, or embedded system in America.
When Clinton was told â over and over, in small, easy-to-understand words â that there was no way to make a security system that only worked when "bad guys" tried to break into it, but collapsed immediately if a "good guy" wanted to bypass it. We explained to him â oh, how we explained to him! â that working encryption would be all that stood between your pacemaker's firmware and a malicious update that killed you where you stood; all that stood between your antilock brakes' firmware and a malicious update that sent you careening off a cliff; all that stood between businesses and corporate espionage, all that stood between America and foreign state adversaries wanting to learn its secrets.
In response, Clinton said the same thing that all of his successors in the Crypto Wars have said: NERD HARDER! Just figure it out. Cops need to look at bad guys' phones, so you need to figure out how to make encryption that keeps teenagers safe from sextortionists, but melts away the second a cop tries to unlock a suspect's phone. Take Malcolm Turnbull, the former Australian Prime Minister. When he was told that the laws of mathematics dictated that it was impossible to build selectively effective encryption of the sort he was demanding, he replied, "The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia":
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/australian-pm-calls-end-end-encryption-ban-says-laws-mathematics-dont-apply-down
Fuck that guy. Fuck Bill Clinton. Fuck a succession of UK Prime Ministers who have repeatedly attempted to ban working encryption. Fuck 'em all. The stakes here are obscenely high. They have been warned, and all they say in response is "NERD HARDER!"
https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/05/theyre-still-trying-to-ban-cryptography/
Now, of course, "crypto means cryptography," but the other crypto â cryptocurrency â deserves a look-in here. Cryptocurrency proponents advocate for a system of deregulated money creation, AKA "wildcat currencies." They say, variously, that central banks are no longer needed; or that we never needed central banks to regulate the money supply. Let's take away that fence. Why not? It's not fit for purpose today, and maybe it never was.
Why do we have central banks? The Fed â which is far from a perfect institution and could use substantial reform or even replacement â was created because the age of wildcat currencies was a nightmare. Wildcat currencies created wild economic swings, massive booms and even bigger busts. Wildcat currencies are the reason that abandoned haunted mansions feature so heavily in the American imagination: American towns and cities were dotted with giant mansions built by financiers who'd grown rich as bubbles expanded, then lost it all after the crash.
Prudent management of the money supply didn't end those booms and busts, but it substantially dampened them, ending the so-called "business cycle" that once terrorized Americans, destroying their towns and livelihoods and wiping out their savings.
It shouldn't surprise us that a new wildcat money sector, flogging "decentralized" cryptocurrencies (that they are nevertheless weirdly anxious to swap for your gross, boring old "fiat" money) has created a series of massive booms and busts, with insiders getting richer and richer, and retail investors losing everything.
If there was ever any doubt about whether wildcat currencies could be made safe by putting them on a blockchain, it is gone. Wildcat currencies are as dangerous today as they were in the 18th and 19th century â only moreso, since this new bad paper relies on the endless consumption of whole rainforests' worth of carbon, endangering not just our economy, but also the habitability of the planet Earth.
And nevertheless, the Trump administration is promising a new crypto golden age (or, ahem, a Gilded Age). And there are plenty of Democrats who continue to throw in with the rotten, corrupt crypto industry, which flushed billions into the 2024 election to bring Trump to office. The result is absolutely going to be more massive bubbles and life-destroying implosions. Fuck those guys. They were warned, and they did it anyway.
Speaking of the climate emergency: greetings from smoky Los Angeles! My city's on fire. This was not an unforeseeable disaster. Malibu is the most on-fire place in the world:
https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn/
Since 1919, the region has been managed on the basis of "total fire suppression." This policy continued long after science showed that this creates "fire debt" in the form of accumulated fuel. The longer you go between fires, the hotter and more destructive those fires become, and the relationship is nonlinear. A 50-year fire isn't 250% more intense than a 20-year fire: it's 50,000% more intense.
Despite this, California has invested peanuts in regular controlled burns, which has created biennial uncontrolled burns â wildfires that cost thousands of times more than any controlled burn.
Speaking of underinvestment: PG&E has spent decades extracting dividends for its investors and bonuses for its execs, while engaging in near-total neglect of maintenance of its high-voltage transmission lines. Even with normal winds, these lines routinely fall down and start blazes.
But we don't have normal winds. The climate emergency has been steadily worsening for decades. LA is just the latest place to be on fire, or under water, or under ice, or baking in wet bulb temperatures. Last week in southern California, we were warned to expect gusts of 120mph.
They were warned. #ExxonKnew: in the early 1970s, Exxon's own scientists warned them that fossil fuel consumption would kick off climate change so drastic that it would endanger human civilzation. Exxon responded by burying the reports and investing in climate denial:
https://exxonknew.org/
They were warned! Warned about fire debt. Warned about transmission lines. Warned about climate change. And specific, named people, who individually had the power to heed these warnings and stave off disaster, ignored the warnings. They didn't make honest mistakes, either: they ignored the warnings because doing so made them extraordinarily, disgustingly rich. They used this money to create dynastic fortunes, and have created entire lineages of ultra-wealthy princelings in $900,000 watches who owe it all to our suffering and impending dooml
Fuck those guys. Fuck 'em all.
We've had so many missed opportunities, chances to make good policy or at least not make bad policy. The enshitternet didn't happen on its own. It was the foreseeable result of choices â again, choices made by named individuals who became very wealthy by ignoring the warnings all around them.
Let's go back to Bill Clinton, because more than anyone else, Clinton presided over some terrible technology regulations. In 1998, Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a bill championed by Barney Frank (fuck that guy, too). Under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it's a felony, punishable by a five year prison sentence, and a $500,000 fine, to tamper with a "digital lock."
That means that if HP uses a digital lock to prevent you from using third-party ink, it's a literal crime to bypass that lock. Which is why HP ink now costs $10,000/gallon, and why you print your shopping lists with colored water that costs more, ounce for ounce, than the sperm of a Kentucky Derby winner:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/30/life-finds-a-way/#ink-stained-wretches
Clinton was warned that DMCA 1201 would soon metastasize into every kind of device â not just the games consoles and DVD players where it was first used, but medical implants, tractors, cars, home appliances â anything you could put a microchip into (Jay Freeman calls this "felony contempt of business-model"):
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon
He ignored those warnings and signed the DMCA anyway (fuck that guy). Then, under Bush (fuck that guy), the US Trade Representative went all around the world demanding that America's trading partners adopt versions of this law (fuck that guy). In 2001, the European Parliament capitulated, enacting the EU Copyright Directive, whose Article 6 is a copy-paste of DMCA 1201 (fuck all those people).
Fast forward 20 years, and boy is there a lot of shit with microchips that can be boobytrapped with rent-extracting logic bombs that are illegal to research, describe, or disable.
Like choo-choo trains.
Last year, the Polish hacking group Dragon Sector was contacted by a public sector train company whose Newag trains kept going out of service. The operator suspected that Newag had boobytrapped the trains to punish the train company for getting its maintenance from a third-party contractor. When Dragon Sector investigated, they discovered that Newag had indeed riddled the trains' firmware with boobytraps. Trains that were taken to locations known to have third-party maintenance workshops were immediately bricked (hilariously, this bomb would detonate if trains just passed through stations near to these workshops, which is why another train company had to remove all the GPSes from its trains â they kept slamming to a halt when they approached a station near a third-party workshop). But Newag's logic bombs would brick trains for all kinds of reasons â merely keeping a train stationary for too many days would result in its being bricked. Installing a third-party component in a locomotive would also trigger a bomb, bricking the train.
In their talk at last year's Chaos Communications Congress, the Dragon Sector folks describe how they have been legally terrorized by Newag, which has repeatedly sued them for violating its "intellectual property" by revealing its sleazy, corrupt business practices. They also note that Newag continues to sell lots of trains in Poland, despite the widespread knowledge of its dirty business model, because public train operators are bound by procurement rules, and as long as Newag is the cheapest bidder, they get the contract:
https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-we-ve-not-been-trained-for-this-life-after-the-newag-drm-disclosure
The laws that let Newag make millions off a nakedly corrupt enterprise â and put the individuals who blew the whistle on it at risk of losing everything â were passed by Members of the European Parliament who were warned that this would happen, and they ignored those warnings, and now it's happening. Fuck those people, every one of 'em.
It's not just European parliamentarians who ignored warnings and did the bidding of the US Trade Representative, enacting laws that banned tampering with digital locks. In 2010, two Canadian Conservative Party ministers in the Stephen Harper government brought forward similar legislation. These ministers, Tony Clement (now a disgraced sex-pest and PPE grifter) and James Moore (today, a sleazeball white-shoe corporate lawyer), held a consultation on this proposal.
6, 138 people wrote in to say, "Don't do this, it will be hugely destructive." 54 respondents wrote in support of it. Clement and Moore threw out the 6,138 opposing comments. Moore explained why: these were the "babyish" responses of "radical extremists." The law passed in 2012.
Last year, the Canadian Parliament passed bills guaranteeing Canadians the Right to Repair and the right to interoperability. But Canadians can't act on either of these laws, because they would have to tamper with a digital lock to do so, and that's illegal, thanks to Tony Clement and James Moore. Who were warned. And who ignored those warnings. Fuck those guys:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/15/radical-extremists/#sex-pest
Back in the 1990s, Bill Clinton had a ton of proposals for regulating the internet, but nowhere among those proposals will you find a consumer privacy law. The last time an American president signed a consumer privacy law was 1988, when Reagan signed the Video Privacy Protection Act and ensured that Americans would never have to worry that video-store clerks where telling the newspapers what VHS cassettes they took home.
In the years since, Congress has enacted exactly zero consumer privacy laws. None. This has allowed the out-of-control, unregulated data broker sector to metastasize into a cancer on the American people. This is an industry that fuels stalkers, discriminatory financial and hiring algorithms, and an ad-tech sector that lets advertisers target categories like "teenagers with depression," "seniors with dementia" and "armed service personnel with gambling addictions."
When the people cry out for privacy protections, Congress â and the surveillance industry shills that fund them â say we don't need a privacy law. The market will solve this problem. People are selling their privacy willingly, and it would be an "undue interference in the market" if we took away your "freedom to contract" by barring companies from spying on you after you clicked the "I agree" button.
These people have been repeatedly warned about the severe dangers to the American public â as workers, as citizens, as community members, and as consumers â from the national privacy free-for-all, and have done nothing. Fuck them, every one:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/privacy-first/#but-not-just-privacy
Now, even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and not every one of Bill Clinton's internet policies was terrible. He had exactly one great policy, and, ironically, that's the one there's the most energy for dismantling. That policy is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (a law that was otherwise such a dumpster fire that the courts struck it down). Chances are, you have been systematically misled about the history, use, and language of Section 230, which is wild, because it's exactly 26 words long and fits in a single tweet:
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
Section 230 was passed because when companies were held liable for their users' speech, they "solved" this problem by just blocking every controversial thing a user said. Without Section 230, there would be no Black Lives Matter, no #MeToo â no online spaces where the powerful were held to account. Meanwhile, rich and powerful people would continue to enjoy online platforms where they and their bootlickers could pump out the most grotesque nonsense imaginable, either because they owned those platforms (ahem, Twitter and Truth Social) or because rich and powerful people can afford the professional advice needed to navigate the content-moderation bureaucracies of large systems.
We know exactly what the internet looks like when platforms are civilly liable for their users' speech: it's an internet where marginalized and powerless people are silenced, and where the people who've got a boot on their throats are the only voices you can hear:
https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act/
The evidence for this isn't limited to the era of AOL and Prodigy. In 2018, Trump signed SESTA/FOSTA, a law that held platforms liable for "sex trafficking." Advocates for this law â like Ashton Kutcher, who campaigns against sexual assault unless it involves one of his friends, in which case he petitions the judge for leniency â were warned that it would be used to shut down all consensual sex work online, making sex workers's lives much more dangerous. This warnings were immediately borne out, and they have been repeatedly borne out every month since. Killing CDA 230 for sex work brought back pimping, exposed sex workers to grave threats to their personal safety, and made them much poorer:
https://decriminalizesex.work/advocacy/sesta-fosta/what-is-sesta-fosta/
It also pushed sex trafficking and other nonconsensual sex into privateforums that are much harder for law enforcement to monitor and intervene in, making it that much harder to catch sex traffickers:
https://cdt.org/insights/its-all-downsides-hybrid-fosta-sesta-hinders-law-enforcement-hurts-victims-and-speakers/
This is exactly what SESTA/FOSTA's advocates were warned of. They were warned. They did it anyway. Fuck those people.
Maybe you have a theory about how platforms can be held civilly liable for their users' speech without harming marginalized people in exactly the way that SESTA/FOSTA, it had better amount to more than "platforms are evil monopolists and CDA 230 makes their lives easier." Yes, they're evil monopolists. Yes, 230 makes their lives easier. But without 230, small forums â private message boards, Mastodon servers, Bluesky, etc â couldn't possibly operate.
There's a reason Mark Zuckerberg wants to kill CDA 230, and it's not because he wants to send Facebook to the digital graveyard. Zuck knows that FB can operate in a post-230 world by automating the deletion of all controversial speech, and he knows that small services that might "disrupt" Facebook's hegemony would be immediately extinguished by eliminating 230:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/zuckerberg-calls-changes-techs-section-230-protections-rcna486
It's depressing to see so many comrades in the fight against Big Tech getting suckered into carrying water for Zuck, demanding the eradication of CDA 230. Please, I beg you: look at the evidence for what happens when you remove that fence. Heed the warnings. Don't be like Bill Clinton, or California fire suppression officials, or James Moore and Tony Clement, or the European Parliament, or the US Trade Rep, or cryptocurrency freaks, or Malcolm Turnbull.
Or Ashton fucking Kutcher.
Because, you know, fuck those guys.
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Dear mr sex bat,
How much wear and tear is too much for a silicone dildo? I recently bought a brand new one but upon opening it I found some scratches and scuffs on the tip. Nothing huge, but definitely stuff that cut into the silicone at least a little. Is this a red flag, or just plain old "nothing comes off the assembly line in perfect shape"? I know that more nooks and crannies= more careful cleaning needed since bacteria like to nest in there, but do I just need to remember to boil this thing and go about my day or is this bad and I should look for a refund/better options? (Obviously no returns, since. Sex toy.) If details help, it's from Maia brand, bought from HappyBed, which is a retailer recommended by super smash cache, who in turn was obviously recommended by you. Which is a bit of a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend situation in regards to trustworthiness, but I digress. If it's not obvious, this was my first ever sex toy and I am hyperaware of all the possible ways it could go wrong.
Thank you for your advice and patience, hope you have a great day â¤ď¸
(PS: in your faq, one of your questions is listed as "how do i remove YOUR pubic hair?" Based on your expressed opinions on both bush removal and strangers getting in your business, this seems like perhaps it might have been a typo.)
hi anon,
personally, in the name of caution, I wouldn't generally use anything that arrived visibly damaged. I've personally never seen any sex toys pre-scratched, whether I've ordered them online or encountered them in a store, and that's definitely not standard.
in addition to harboring bacteria, scratches in a toy create exposed edges that can in turn abrade the inside of a vagina or anus, creating microtears that can harbor bacteria. all sex comes with risk, sure, but that feels like an unnecessary one to me.
I recognize that's a huge bummer given that there's not returns, and I'm so sorry for whatever cost you sank into your first ever toy only to get a dud :(
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Extinguish the Flames with Some Champagne and Pills
summary: your may or may not be in denial about your feelings for alexia
warnings: mention of smut, alcohol and drugs and nothing major
a/n: a whole lot of words based on this request. set after this but you donât have to read it if you donât want to
word count: 3k
part 1
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Youâve been ignoring Alexiaâs messages for weeks now, every one of them its own little bomb youâre too terrified to defuse. Every time her name pops up on your screen, your stomach flips, your breath catches, and you somehow experience the full spectrum of human emotion in a split second. But mostly thereâs terror and something closer to shame than youâd like to admit.
Itâs a game of avoidance that doesnât come easily to you; after all, youâre usually the one with a glib reply or some devil-may-care response, the kind of person who thrives on chaos. But this time, itâs different. This time, thereâs something closer to shame nestled beneath the familiar terror, a sensation like a splinter lodged deep under the skinâsmall enough to ignore at first but persistent enough to drive you mad.
Your friendsâof course, always your friendsâkeep bringing her up, as if they can somehow sense the crisis youâre trying to keep contained. Itâs usually after a few cocktails too many, when your circle is gathered around a dimly lit table in some trendy restaurant or at a rooftop bar where the music is loud enough to drown out the awkward pauses but not loud enough to stifle their teasing. âSheâs the best footballer in the world,â they slur with a kind of drunken reverence, like theyâre invoking some untouchable deity rather than a woman who once had her strap buried inside you in a strangers bathroom. âYou know she won the Ballon dâOr twice, right?â As if you havenât been low-key stalking her career, watching those achievements pile up like monuments youâll never come close to matching. âSheâs beautiful and talented,â they declare, their words slurring into a familiar refrain, as though her accolades have somehow slipped your mind, as though you might have failed to notice her brilliance or her impossible grace.
But the clincher, the one they love to throw at you, is always: âAnd sheâs Spanishâ
Thereâs a certain relish with which they say it, that singsong tone like theyâre divulging some magic spell or a punchline they know gets a laugh every time. Itâs as if her nationality carries some kind of exotic allure, like thereâs something intrinsically romantic or mysterious about being Spanish that youâre pre-programmed to fall for. Ridiculous, really, but your friends donât care about nuance. They only remember the endless stories you told about summers in the Balearicsâthe drunken nights under hot stars, the hazy afternoons spent nursing hangovers and catching fragments of conversations in Spanish that you pretended to understand. âYou love Spanish women,â they insist, as if your type is as predictable as your go-to drink order. Conveniently, they overlook the fact that your type mostly translates to âemotionally unavailable,â as if thatâs some universal trait of Iberian women.
Itâs not that theyâre entirely wrong, of course, but theyâre oversimplifying. Your attraction to Alexia isnât some exoticism or romantic fantasy youâve spun out of nothing. Itâs her unapologetic drive, her resilience, that hooked youâthough God forbid youâd admit that to anyone. âSheâs an athlete,â you shrug whenever the subject comes up, swirling the last melting ice cube in your Old Fashioned like itâs a magic eight ball that might give you a different answer this time. âTheyâre all players.â The line slips out with just the right amount of indifference, a practiced dismissal, as though youâve been brutalised by every athlete from Cristiano Ronaldo to Wayne Gretzky. Itâs a complete fabrication, of course. Youâve never actually dated a footballer, let alone the best in the world. But who can resist a good story, especially when itâs your own and you get to embellish the details?
Itâs easier, you think, to act disinterested than to admit youâve been replaying that night in the bathroom, the feel of her breath against your neck, every time you catch your reflection in some shiny surface. You thought you were done with all thatâhad filed her away in the mental drawer labelled âTemporary Distractions,â right alongside the male model who could never quite remember your birthday and the painter who had the audacity to try to psychoanalyse you on the third date. One-night stands are supposed to be transient, fleeting, the kind of thing you can bring up in therapy one day with a detached air. âI think this is worth mentioning,â youâd say, as if it happened to someone else, âbut itâs not really important.â Another plot point in the story of your life, never quite making it past the cutting room floor.
But Alexia doesnât stay filed away. She starts turning up everywhere, not quite a haunting, but a presence you canât shake no matter how you try. At first, itâs incidentalâjust a casual Instagram scroll, a stray click on some football gossip account that you donât even remember following. There she is, grinning in some post-match group shot, looking too happy for someone whoâs supposed to be just another fleeting chapter in your book. Itâs the kind of unguarded joy that canât be faked, not even for the camera, and you canât help but wonder if sheâs always this free, or if itâs something that only comes out when sheâs on the pitch, away from people like you.
You hardly even realise it, but suddenly youâre following three different Barcelona fan accounts. Then, as if by some magnetic force youâre unwilling to acknowledge, things escalate. She likes one of your postsâa shot from the Venice Film Festival where youâre all decked out in head-to-toe Prada, looking expensively bored, like you couldnât care less about anything in the world. She comments on one of your stories: just an emoji. A single fire emoji, to be precise. Harmless, you suppose. But the comments start getting specificâlittle in-jokes that only someone whoâd had their mouth on your skin could know. Thereâs a familiarity in her tone that feels invasive, like sheâs reminding you of things youâve deliberately chosen to forget.
You donât reply. Cowardice? Yes. Masochism? Possibly. The most crucial thing is that replying would imply thereâs something worth talking about, and something always becomes complicated. Youâve already got enough complicated in your life: a demanding agent who keeps sending you scripts for roles that are âoutside your comfort zone,â a wardrobe full of designer clothes youâre required to wear for sponsorship deals you didnât even negotiate, and an on-again, off-again affair with mindful meditation that never seems to stick. Youâre in the middle of wrapping up a film that everyone assures you will âchange the trajectory of your career,â though theyâve said the same about the last three projects, and you still get recognised more for that face cream advert you did when you were twenty-one than for anything of substance.
The filmâs an indie about a morally ambiguous antiheroine, a character so damaged and charmingly dysfunctional youâd think you were being typecast if the role didnât feel like an emotional excavation. Sheâs got a drinking problem; youâve always favoured substances that can be discreetly indulged in penthouse bathrooms, though youâre certainly not going to point that out to the director who keeps going on about âauthenticityâ and âmethod acting.â He seems to think youâve got some untapped well of emotion just waiting to be accessed, as if thereâs this depth beneath your flawless skin thatâs going to pour out on cue. If only. Most of the time, youâre trying not to let your co-star notice the faint tremor in your hands thatâs mostly a byproduct of too much caffeine and not enough sleep.
Then one day, while youâre lounging in your trailer, pretending to enjoy a green juice that tastes like the inside of a lawnmowerâanother post from Alexia. Sheâs on the pitch, holding some trophy aloft, her face flushed with victory. Her hair is slicked back, still damp with sweat, strands clinging to her skin in a way that seems impossibly intimate despite the vastness of the stadium behind her. That smile⌠Christ. Itâs like sheâs been sculpted out of bronze, an ancient statue come to life, as if sheâs somehow timeless and ephemeral all at once. Thereâs something almost mythic about her, an enduring quality that makes your breath hitch in a way that feels both familiar and unnervingly new, like an old friend whoâs overstayed their welcome but youâre not quite ready to let go.
Itâs moments like these when you notice how precariously youâre balancing on the line between fascination and obsession. You catch yourself humming the anthem of Barcelonaâs football club, the tune woven so deeply into your subconscious that it startles you. You arenât even sure where you picked it up, but it plays on a loop whenever your mind wanders, like a soundtrack you didnât choose. Then there are the little thingsâreading the match reports in the sports section like you actually know what half the terms mean, or memorising obscure facts about the teamâs history as if theyâre somehow relevant to your life. Youâve started following the scores like theyâre stock prices, pretending itâs just casual interest, though a part of you wonders why you keep needing to know how well she played, how many minutes she was on the pitch, whether she looked happy in the post-game interviews.
Itâs a form of self-deception thatâs becoming harder to maintain. Youâre drawn to her orbit, pulled in by a force that feels magnetic and entirely outside your control, as though your fascination is bleeding into the rest of your life, filling the gaps you didnât even know existed.
You decide, in a moment of what can only be described as poor judgment, to attend one of her matches. It feels impulsive and reckless in the way most of your decisions do, a haphazard pairing of curiosity and a kind of dangerous longing. You book a front-row seat like itâs the most natural thing in the world, like youâre just ticking another item off some glamorous bucket list rather than treading into unfamiliar territory. Naturally, you show up dressed to the ninesâyour favourite Gucci sunglasses perched on your nose, an Alexander McQueen coat draped over your shoulders with that deliberate, careless grace that suggests youâre either oblivious to or entirely aware of its price tag. Your hair is styled in that kind of artful chaos that takes hours to perfect but is meant to look like you rolled out of bed effortlessly chic. Youâre not here for the football. Youâre here for her.
The atmosphere in the stadium is overwhelming, almost suffocating, a heady cocktail of chants, horns, and the sharp, greasy scent of fried food that turns your stomach. Itâs a kind of chaos youâre unaccustomed to, this all-consuming fervor where the world narrows down to the pitch, to the twenty-two players moving with a purpose you canât fully grasp. You understand about three percent of whatâs happening on the fieldâjust enough to know when the ballâs in play but not enough to follow the strategies unfolding before you. Youâre mostly people-watching: the sea of jerseys, the faces contorted with passion, the rhythmic clapping that you canât quite catch the beat of.
When Alexia scores, it catches you off guard. The stadium erupts, thousands of people leaping to their feet with a collective roar that vibrates through your bones. You react half a beat late, your applause more polite than enthusiastic, like youâre at a black-tie gala instead of a football match. You stand, clap along with the crowd, and try not to feel like an imposter. As the cheers die down, you catch her eyes from across the distance, just for a flicker of a moment. Thereâs something in her gazeâan awareness, a sparkâthat slices through the noise and zeroes in on you. Itâs like she sees you, actually sees you, in the middle of this thrumming, chaotic mass of bodies, and for a split second, it feels like the two of you are the only ones in the entire stadium.
After the game, you somehow find yourself swept into the exclusive VIP area, a place filled with the kind of people who can glide between worlds as easily as they switch languages. A flute of champagne appears in your hand almost before youâre aware youâve been handed one, and you sip it absentmindedly as you let the buzz of conversation wash over you. Youâre halfway through your second glass when she appears, slipping through the crowd with a kind of effortless poise, her hair still damp from the shower, the strands curling at the ends. Sheâs wearing a loose tracksuit, looking every bit the casual athlete, as though she hasnât just been commanding the attention of thousands.
Thereâs an insufferable confidence in the way she moves towards you, that familiar swagger that borders on arrogance, as if sheâs amused by the fact that you actually showed up, that you dared to step into her world. âI didnât think you were a football fan,â she says, a teasing lilt to her voice, though her eyes betray something elseâa darker, more searching intensity that you recognise all too well from that night in the bathroom, the one you keep trying and failing to forget.
âI can appreciate a good performance,â you reply, lifting your glass in a mock toast, your voice slipping into that arch tone youâve perfected over years of industry parties and press tours. âIâve seen Cats live on Broadway, you know.â Itâs a flippant comment, the kind thatâs designed to deflect, to distract, to keep the conversation light and meaningless.
She laughs, a rich sound that feels like an indulgence. Itâs not so much at your joke but at the way youâre playing this little game, like sheâs letting you have your moment, humouring you. âAnd did you enjoy the show?â she asks, her voice dropping just enough to suggest that her question has nothing to do with the theatre and everything to do with the performance she just gave on the pitch.
âI think you already know the answer to that,â you say, holding her gaze longer than you probably should. Thereâs a challenge in the way you look at her, an unspoken dare, and for a moment, you wonder if sheâll take the bait. Her lips curl into a small, devilish smile, a private expression that feels like a confession meant just for you.
The moment stretches, teeters precariously on the edge of something youâre not quite ready to acknowledge. It feels monumental, like a line about to be crossed, but then she steps back, just a fraction, and the spell breaks. She turns away with a dismissive grace, leaving you standing there as if youâve just been defeated in a game you didnât know you were playing. âGood,â she says simply, and with that one word, she slips back into the crowd, leaving you with nothing but the faint taste of champagne on your lips and the lingering sense that youâve been left wanting.
After that, you start to notice the divide. Thereâs Before Alexia and After Alexia, and itâs not a clean break but a jagged line that cuts through your life, shifting everything off balance. You used to think of yourself as someone in control, or at least someone who could fake it convincingly enough to fool everyone else. There was always an understanding that if you messed up, someone would be there to fix itâyour agent, a publicist, some overworked assistant who could call in a favor to make the headlines disappear. But now, your phone has become an instrument of anxiety, vibrating with texts and notifications that you crave and dread in equal measure. It buzzes with messages from her that you read but donât answer, with updates from your agent about the press tour you keep dodging, with reminders of responsibilities you keep pushing aside.
Even after filming there has finished, you start booking last-minute flights to Barcelona under the guise of âbusiness,â convincing yourself that itâs all perfectly legitimate. Your agent rolls his eyes and hounds you to schedule interviews and appearances, but you find yourself at the airport anyway, boarding another red-eye that will land you in some unfamiliar city just in time to catch her match. Youâre finding yourself in strange places at ungodly hours, indulging in the kind of fan behavior youâd have found pathetic if you saw anyone else doing it. Ninety minutes of football passes in a trance, where the world narrows down to her figure gliding across the pitch, the fluid grace of her movements cutting through the static in your head like a hot knife through butter.
Afterwards, youâll send her a coy, inconsequential textââNot bad,â or âYou could work on your footwork.â And sheâll reply with that maddening charm that dances the line between sincerity and sarcasm, always leaving you guessing. âCome and coach me, then,â sheâll say, as if sheâs issuing a challenge, or perhaps an invitation.
Thereâs this one time, after too many drinks and not enough sleep, when you actually consider it. You catch yourself scrolling through Spanish real estate listings, as if browsing apartments for sale in Barcelona is a casual hobby rather than a subconscious form of planning. You tell yourself itâs just idle curiosity, a way to pass the time, yet youâre finding out the detailsâlocations near the stadium, neighbourhoods with the best views, penthouses with terraces that would catch the Mediterranean breeze. You click on the photos of sun-drenched balconies and tiled kitchens, pretending youâre only fantasising about a different kind of life, one where youâre not constantly looking over your shoulder for the next tabloid scandal or PR crisis.
But then you sober up. You stare at yourself in the bathroom mirror of a five-star hotel suite in Madrid, taking in the disheveled hair, the dark circles under your eyes, and you remember who you are. Youâre not the kind of person who throws away their life for someone else, certainly not for a woman you havenât even kissed since that one stolen night, a night thatâs become less real and more like a story you tell yourself to explain this unshakable obsession. Besides, youâd probably make a terrible coach.
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