#various reasons include:

[guardian-of-da-gay]

for various reasons I feel pretty confident that in the Knuckles show/Sonic 3 they're gonna reveal that Knuckles and Tails are sharing the attic with Sonic, but honestly? tf they mean this house doesn't have ONE spare bedroom???

[tearlessrain]

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

[hotdrinks]

I've found it is possible to appreciate multiple aspects of a thing

[elvisqueso]

— "...What do you say to a tree??"

Pocahontas (1995)

Bonus:

[feshsticks]

pt 3 of re8/pokemon no-one asked for 👍 tbh this one has been waiting for my attention for about 20ish months and i only did it now to avoid doing something else :)

[neechees]

In addition to a large number of other reasons, I just dont really see the point of getting a driver's license unless I already have a car, and I dont see the point in getting a car because thats just another unneccesary expense that I don't have money for to not only buy, but to upkeep (and I know NOTHING about mechanics or car upkeep and I have no interest in learning), and that'd I'd be adding to my life.

But it's also just very weird that people act like you can't be a "real adult" if you don't drive. I am an adult, and it's my adult decision to not drive. Maybe I will in the future but that's my business. If I wanted to, I would learn. But I dont want to.

[pyaasa]

Christian Divyne @/xiandivyne on tiktok has made several videos talking about how he was offered money by the Democrat party (both Biden and Harris campaigns) to post pro-Biden / pro-Kamala content. Over the past months they have asked him to endorse/defend Biden, make negative content about JD Vance&Trump and also to post Kamala memes. And he also talks about the fact that influencers don’t have to disclose political ads.

I think this explains why there has been such a huge surge in support for the Dems all of a sudden. Influencers on tiktok and twitter are getting paid to endorse Kamala without having to disclose payment, and that propaganda has been filtering through to the rest of the platform and to here as well. It’s the only explanation I can find to explain how people had a problem with Biden for committing genocide but don’t care about his number 2’s complicity in that genocide. It’s cos they’re getting paiddddd

[unproduciblesmackdown]

OH and the Ah ah! Ah ah! Ah ah! Ah ah! harmonizing coming in on agtikbi. WAOGH....this like interlude within the love song pretending to be about jeremy but it's the section that's actually the little love song about jeremy hence what's Reprised, and originally it was "hearing that in the tiny desk concert taking me out as always" but now i'm listening to the obcr and the xylophone & gentle splash of chimes & the horns coming in thank you charlie rosen always & the melody it starts sort of wandering twirling away in & thinking about Thank You Glittery Hearts thinking about christine hugging jeremy amid their dancing together. and the whole song a bop. bmc ;w;

[charaznablescanontoyota]

ok real prompt: bearhands + haircuts

al knows his hair is getting annoyingly long when he starts having to tie it back in a small ponytail at the nape of his neck. he knows it's getting too long when his reflection, distorted in an arts & crafts car mirror, registers at first sight as a specter of his mother. the only reason the mug he's holding doesn't shatter on impact with the floor is because it's made of hard plastic.

he knows better than to try anything with the blunt scissors here. he walks across the bridge to the colosseum, takes a sturdy knife down off the wall, and stares at it, unsure of how to complete the process one-handed. the minotaur on passenger-greeting duty today - demetria, he thinks - gives him a strange look, and al can't summon up anything to say back to her.

"i could shave it all off," rachel offers, leaning in the doorway, arms folded over her chest. the sunlight from the arena glints off the golden wreath nestled in her hair like a halo. "or color it, if you want to go, like, the full crisis route. the mall's got a store that sells hair dye."

she has a gift, sometimes, for knowing what's bothering him. al supposes it's not hard to tell this time. not with him standing barefoot and shirtless in the colosseum hall, hair loose around his face, staring at himself reflected in the wide blade of the knife.

"i just want it cut," he says.

"how short?" rachel asks. al hears her footsteps against the stone floor but doesn't look up at her until her hand gently pries the knife hilt from his own.

"however you want," he replies, sullen, still too caught up in his own mind to make a decision. he hadn't thought the grief could still unravel him like this after so many years, but sometimes it's a dull ache and sometimes it's a live wire. it's harder when it hits him here; far from home, far from anyone else who knew trisha elric as more than a tertiary character in someone else's story.

rachel moves her free hand to cup the back of his neck, holding him still with a firm curl of her fingers and catching his gaze with her own. her eyes are predator-intense. al knows she can read every raw nerve in him just by scanning his face, but he can't make himself look away.

"you're somewhere else," she murmurs. sometimes she says it jokingly, when his mind wanders. sometimes, like now, she's dead serious. "where did you go?"

al closes his eyes. he breathes slowly, in and out, focuses on rachel's warm fingers resting on the back of his neck, and says, "i'm here now."

"where?" rachel prompts him.

"in the colosseum." he presses the pads of his feet into the floor, feels the grit and dirt dig into his skin. "with you. i couldn't figure out how to cut my hair with one hand."

"very carefully," rachel says, wry.

it wrestles a choked laugh out of him. he opens his eyes to see rachel still nearly nose-to-nose with him, fixed in place, face twisted in an expression that might be relief. al feels a surge of fondness for her that sits in his chest, warm at the center of his ribcage.

"are you good?" rachel asks. she takes a half-step back, but her hand stays on his neck, a grounding tether between the two of them.

"getting there," al says. he feels less in a dream-state, more present. less like ghosts are hanging just over his shoulder. maybe he could get away without impulsively cutting his hair today, but he'd rather this not happen again if he can avoid it.

rachel nods, once, and doesn't press any further.

"i'm not a good hairdresser," she warns him instead. "i'm serious. you might actually have better luck doing it on your own."

he offers her a small smile, and says, "i'll take my chances."

[velvetsqwyrme]

I saw ur tags and ran over here. What are ur favorite spicy UF! Papyrus fics?

HELLOOO LMAO you were so quick... sorry this took me a while to get together, but I hope you enjoy ( ù ᵕ ú )

Fair warning that some of these picks will include dub/noncon (and potentially other dubious content? I don't know what I'm going to add yet HAHA) so as always make sure to heed the warnings and read the tags before reading!! I've done my best to label them accordingly though :]

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READER INSERTS

Edge Discovers the Wonderful World of Subbing

You can tell exactly what this list is going to be like just from the title of this first fic... (title is explanatory, gotta love it!!)

Good EdgeLord

More sub Edge!! 💥💥

Caught in the Act

HELLO?? HELLO. Voyeurism? Low stakes semi-public sex? Double penetration ?? Sign me UP.

Pumped (Kinktober Collection)

Usually I refrain from including individual Kinktober chapters from rec lists BUT I really like this one ( '^' )!! It isn't even that explicit, but it's stuck in my brain because I GASPED when I read it for the first time.

Pyr's Favourite Keeper [DUBCON -> CON]

Love me a snakey boy!!!!!! There's also oviposition 👀!!

Wake

Sleepy sex <3! The bit with the SNAP part killed me and it's also such a fun detail!

Prime Time to Run

Mafiafell... he straight up murders someone in front of you and you fuck about it.

Bound Edge

Sub Edge again!! The reader has a dick in this- a rare but delicious treat !

Fall Out Bones [NON/DUBCON...????]

Technically this is linked to a series featuring both UF!bros, because I think that both are reslly good partially also because I think they're intensely hilarious at times. The titles are also great.

Boned [NONCON]

CLASSIC 2016 PREMISE. Reader is trapped in the fucking shed. (Fucking used as both profanity as well as a descriptive action)

Housekeeping [NONCON]

Weird location (sink)! But it works really well for the fic!!! Violenctce.

To Prove A Point ||| The Origins Of The Pap-wich - (Swap!Pap/Reader/UF!Pap)

Ahhh the good ol threesome ! The reader gets sandwiched between two very sexy skeletons~ !! I'm also a big Swap!Pap fan so this is just. *Mwah* so good!!!!! Double penetration again ~ also one of the few fics with squirting 🙏✨

All Dicks, No skeletons [DUB/NONCON DUE TO DETACHABLE ECTODICK SITUATION]

I cannot put into words how much I love this. It's got detachable ectobits... inconvenience due to detachable ectobits!! In this, Edge has a barbed dick and claws up a tree. It's crack but it's so so good!!!!!! I'm patiently waiting for updates and will ravenously consume the fic for lime the fiftieth time when it does.

OTHER SHIPS

Also! Here are a few fics with UF!Pap in other ships (namely various Papcest configs) because you didn't specify it had to be reader inserts lol

Little Wet Bones (Papcest: Farm/Underfell)

Bitty!Edge is soooo cute... and horny!! He's so self assured I love it.

Pepper Heat (Papcest: Edgepuff)

Heat fic! Heat fic!! Chili peppers is one hell of a heat scent... the only person who can handle a Papyrus is another Papyrus ;] The naming scheme here is also very funny when you realise what went on.

A Fallen Knight and his King (Papcest: Edgepuff)

MORE SUB EDGE ! This one delves more into the his exploration of dom/sub dynamics and it's so so good!!!!

Three Chance Meetings (Papcest: Spicyhoney)

Swap!Pap is (secretly) a prostitute and Fell!Pap finds out and shills out the money to spend a night with him. I looooove the character dynamics in this one too.

Taste of Blood and Honey (Papcest: Spicyhoney)

I forgot about this and was delighted to discover it again because ohhhhhh my god the premise is so good... also there's mirror sex and first times and those are always fun :3c

Mutt Lost a Bet (Papcest: SpicyBBQ)

Mafia AU setting where SF!Pap and UF!Pap make and lose bets resulting in sexual escapades. The second chapter is my favourite because it involves gloryholes and aphrodisiacs <33

Bro's Replacement (Papcest + Sanscest : Spicyhoney + Cherryberry)

LAMIAS AGAIN 💖 Honestly the setup is what gets me... but the smut is delicious so I'm adding it here :3c

Heat (Papcest - Spicyhoney) [HEAT INDUCED MUTUAL NON/DUBCON]

Why are there so many lamia fics in this list, I do not know, but heeeeeeey enjoy the snakeys! In this one the non/dubcon is due to UF!Pap being in heat, and both of them regret it after. Things get better though!!

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Anyway, that's all for now! Hope you enjoy some ^^!!!

[mariocki]

The Evil Dead (1981)

"Why have you disturbed our sleep, awakened us from our ancient slumber? You will die! Like the others before you, one by one, we will take you."

[lichtbrenger]

Lucifer Morningstar - Literal Legend, Ayesha Erotica

[jojotransparents]

diavolo transparent [ch. 571]

[0x28]

i really don't think you should be promoting organisations from other countries on social media unless you have direct ties to them. like people unfamiliar with the context will just end up sharing stuff that's pretty contentious with the local left and they just have no idea. for some stuff e.g. the swp in britain, yes some quick online searching will bring you up to speed, but for some other stuff the issues w various orgs mostly just spread by word of mouth. and while im happy to say that eg a certain org is known for being transphobic, some of the issues we have with orgs can't just be shared on our public social media on a website that doesn't respect privacy like tumblr, bc to explain them means to reveal (& therefore reveal to the state if we're posting on tumblr) our involvement/past involvement with them as political organisers.

[brushstrokes-art]

don’t mind me i’m just addicted to using hair as a visual storytelling device to communicate changes in a character over time

[writingforaliens]

Gale: info dumping about arcana, the Weave, theories, literature, and recipes. random mentions of Tara

Talara: 😍

Talara: info dumping about history, folk lore, and how there's this one dialect of elvish that is lost to time because no one bothered preserving the pronunciation

Gale: 😍

Everyone else: Please shut the fuck up