#yield to the night

[gatabella]

Diana Dors as a sales assistant at a perfume shop in Yield to the Night holding Shalimar perfume by Guerlain, 1956 (source)

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Yield to the Night (1956) J. Lee Thompson

January 1st 2024

[darlingbandit]

Watching Yield to the Night, and holy cow, it’s good. I have a newfound respect for Diana Dors. And now I feel like she never got the chance to really progress as a man actress.

[voxofthevoid]

I see that you reblogged adorably cute hydrid JJK art. Do you like the hybrid AUs? Does there happen to be any in your not-quite-100 plot bunnies?

I do! Catboys in particular do things to me, and there's so much JJK (and goyuu, specifically) art of that. It's delightful.

And yep, there is an anthro AU in my not-quite-100 (for how long, one wonders) list. I've talked about it a bit here (funnily enough, that anon was also prompted by the same art you're talking about).

Here are a few more notes from that AU, rather NSFW this time—a bunch of escalating intimacy scenes before the main course (fully shifted Yuuji fucking Gojou). They're also directly from my notes, so I just use a mix of letters and names for characters, and it's generally very bare-bones...and horny. To quote my tags from that linked anon: #the art: cute wholesome healed my soul immediately #my fic outline: balls-to-walls porn

Y asking G if he can help Y learn to shift voluntarily. Thin excuse for sex on both ends. Start with them topless. G shows off by sprouting fur all along his body for Y, who touches him all over and then gets distracted by G’s nipples. And G’s like, are you taking advantage of my time and educational spirit to cope a feel, and Y’s like uhh busted for a second before G tells him to commit to it then.

Gojou demonstrates his free shifting, and Yuuji's very gentle, innocent exploration (it's so white! And fluffy! And soft! He puts his whole face in it!) turns not so gentle or innocent until Gojou's rutting into the mattress and coming just from his student being mean to his tail.

Gojou hugging Y from behind after class or a mission and asking him to be more subtle unless he wants G to pounce on him midway—just like this. Handjob from behind, clean-up with a handkerchief (Y's like, do you just carry that around and G goes, how else will i accost cute, unsuspecting boys, and Y weakly says that sounds really perverted). Y can feel G's hard, but the others come looking then and they have to straighten out and go. M and N aren't fooled but just seem resigned + exasperated.

[livepasthope]

i've actually decided it's hilarious that they played it's been a long long time over that scene in endgame

[sanchoyo]

I’ve been wanting to reopen commissions soon but I rly need to make new examples, maybe try to figure out what ppl are most interested in (I think my most commissioned items are always icons, so? Those will be included) and what I can do…I also want to refigure my prices. Like I do want them to be affordable, and I do love drawing for ppl, but I also want to make sure I have the bandwidth + time for them and also feel like I’m being compensated properly since I do have a job now so they would be the Side Thing aaa TwT

but I’m finally at a place where I feel like. Not burnt out after every week and I’m in a nice routine now and pretty used to my job, so I feel like I can handle more on the side. Very excited abt that. Not excited abt making new examples or figuring out what I wanna offer etc tho I hate the logistics of commissions. Part of me wants to do a pay what u want thing with a set minimum and maybe start exclusively offering them thru kofi since it’s so easy, but we’ll see!!

I look to maybe open them around June so like. If anyone is interested, I’d love to hear what kind of stuff u guys would want? 🤨

[galactic-dragoness]

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[tetsuooooooooooo]

so like does Anybody know actually how old Muriel was when they sent him away cause of course im not gonna like the answer if it doesnt align with what i think already jgsfjtdg but like its gnawing at me im trying so hard to figure it out from just the writing and not looking for like bonus stuff n q&a n shit

like i keep wondering about his whole damn deal like a guy? brought him to vesuvia? and then what?? stayed with him for a bit then ditch him? if he was baby sized like i think like at most 3 ok thats not baby sized but fuckn you know did he like keep him until he could fend for himself in theory? did he sell him???? did mu run away for any reason??

liKE FUCKINGG Read this. read this again

like hes self aware? conscious? somewhat? entirely? how much should i take literally and how much as storytelling n exposition?

i dont have screens but in the uhh mural embroidery thing in his old house they did describe it like. lil packed up baby thing right? i am losing iq points vusibly as i am riting this i need the sleep but like it Sounded Baby Sized To ME🤨🤨🤨😤😤😤😤 like i imagined hed be sitting on it if he were bigger and able to like any other way but hes burritoed cause hes baBY lmao i dont know anymore hear me void

[anoteofcalcium]

everyday I go into work I'm haunted and tormented by this. FUCKUNG SIGn!!

[bright-and-burning]

apple keeps increasing my savings rate on the high yield savings account i have thru my apple card and it’s making me nervous for no reason. why have you increased it Again.

[gatabella]

Diana Dors, Blonde Sinner / Yield to the Night, 1956

[innytoes]

Fall prompts! 4 for Alex or Willie (or both!) with Julie (and/or Reggie if his brother exists)

Also special shoutout to @bananakarenina who basically prompted the same thing while I was already writing this.

Willie kind of loved the fact that his cute, tall, adorable, snarky boyfriend came with special perks. Not only did Willie have an excuse to be out of the house more, but he got to go to free concerts all the time. Hell, he got a free concert every week at band practice, when they let him chill on the sofa and draw as long as he didn't flirt so hard with Alex that he accidentally yeeted his drumsticks across the room again.

Listen, it had only happened one time but Luke was still traumatised.

He also liked the built-in friend group he now had. Reggie always had nice things to say, Luke was always down to clown, and Julie's entire family took one look at him and decided he was now part of the family too.

So with Halloween approaching, and Carlos and Reggie becoming more and more stoked, Willie carefully asked Alex what his plans were. "Dunno," he shrugged. "My parents never let me celebrate Halloween growing up, and I'm too old to go trick or treating now."

At Willie's heartbroken face, he back paddled: "It's okay. Luke and Reggie used to share their candy with me, and it wasn't like I couldn't use my allowance to buy some myself."

"But- but didn't you want to knock on the door and shout 'trick or treat' and have little old ladies tell you how adorable you looked in your costumes or... or whatever really happens during trick or treating?" Willie asked.

Reggie looked up from where he was fiddling with his phone. "You've never been trick or treating before either?" he asked.

Willie shrugged. "Not a lot of people wanting to take a foster kid out when I was little. And once I started living with Caleb, he usually dragged me to work his dumb rich-people parties." It had been fun the first few years, when he got to dress in all white and gray Victorian clothes, paint his face white, and scare the daylights out of club guests. But once puberty hit he was usually relegated to clean-up or playing waiter. He still got to be a ghost, because everyone working pretended to be a ghost, but it got less fun every year. "I've always wanted to go trick-or-treating like on TV."

"Well dude, you can join me and Stevie!" Reggie said, excited.

Julie grinned. "It's probably one of Carlos' last years trick-or-treating as well, I promised him I'd go with him so he can stay out later but not be seen being escorted by Dad. I'm sure he'd be thrilled for you guys to join us."

"Do we get to dress up?" Willie asked, breathless.

"Of course!" Julie said.

"Alex can we can we can we?" Willie asked, flopping over in his boyfriend's lap and giving him the most epic puppy eyes. Honestly, if Alex said no, he was still probably going to tag along if Reggie and Julie would have him. Luckily, Alex rolled his eyes and smiled.

"Fine. But if we're doing this, we're doing it right. Adorable cliché couple costume or bust."

So they met up at the Molina house on Halloween, ready to go. They'd settled on Peanut Butter (Willie) and Jelly (Alex). Carlos was dressed as a ghost buster, Julie as a little devil (but not a sexy one, since Mister Molina was Right There to take pictures of them all). Reggie and Stevie arrived in matching cowboy get-ups.

After a little photo shoot, they headed off. Carlos and Julie knew all the best houses to hit up and had set the route, and Stevie insisted on walking between Reggie and Willie, so he could interrogate him. Honestly, being interrogated by a six year old was way scarier than the lame-ass shovel talk Luke and Reggie had tried to give him once things with Alex got serious.

"You've never been trick-or-treating?" he asked for the third time, big eyes staring up at him seemingly unblinking.

"Never ever," Willie agreed.

Stevie seemed to mull that over until they got to the first house. Then, he grabbed Willie's hand, dragging him to the front. "Willie gets to ring the doorbell," he told Carlos seriously. "Cause he's never been trick-or-treating."

Carlos immediately stepped back to let Willie through, grinning. "That's totally fair," he agreed.

Willie looked back to see Reggie and Julie give him a thumbs up. Alex had his phone out, filming, because he was a supportive boyfriend. Or because he was mocking him. Probably a little of both. Still, Willie took a deep breath and then rang the doorbell, stepping back and shuffling so Stevie was in front of him. Nobody would say get lost to the guy with the cute little cowboy in front of him, right?

"Trick or treat!" they sang out, and it was Just Like The Movies. The lady at the door told them how adorable Stevie was, and how cool Carlos' costume was, and smiled politely at Willie. Carlos and Stevie grabbed a candy, putting it in their bag, and she went to close the door.

"Wait!" Stevie said. "It's Willie's first time trick or treating!"

"Oh buddy, that's okay, I already got to ring the doorbell," Willie started, only slightly embarrassed. But Stevie's lip jutted out stubbornly.

"It's his first house, too," Carlos said, fixing the woman with big puppy eyes that should be illegal.

"Well then," she said, holding out the bowl to him. He smiled shyly, taking one fun-sized Mars Bar from the pile.

"Thank you, ma'am."

"What do we say, Steve?" Reggie asked quickly.

"Thank you!" Stevie and Carlos sang out, and the woman smiled at them and closed the door.

He held out his hand for a high-five that Stevie returned happily and gave Carlos a fist-bump. Then, he turned around to see Alex watching him, face adoring.

The tiny Mars bar was the most delicious candy he'd ever had in his entire life, even as Julie scolded him you were supposed to wait until the end of the night to eat your candy.

"You know," he told Stevie, as he and Reggie each held a hand so he could swing between them. "It's Alex' first time trick or treating as well."

The look on Alex' face when Stevie dragged him to the door of the next house to make him ring the doorbell was almost as good as the Mars bar.

[darlingbandit]

Finished Yield to the Night, and phew, I’m going to need to watch a few Ealing comedies after that one.

[m0thisonfire]

S.O.S I got another digital pen-

Chaos.

Starscream’s screaming.

Zach’s being Zach.

Rascal wants to give me a mask. For some fucking reason-

I’m in pain. I haven’t slept in 48 hours since they’ve arrived. They won’t calm, they won’t consider, they won’t even let me be for a moment.

I know not what I did to deserve this, but considering these are the men I love I suppose it’s deserved one way or another.

I just hope they go back to the living room and finish their fucking movie I put on for them. I know I hope in vain, as Rascal has grabbed my leg and begun dragging me to our shared rooms.

I weep, for the other two grow louder at his actions-

[theghostwhotumbles]

The wild life and tragic end of Diana Fluck

England’s Marilyn Monroe https://billmichelmore.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/eotv45.mp4 She was born Diana Fluck. Not the best name for a girl who wanted to be a movie star. As she herself said: “They asked me to change my name. I suppose they thought that if Diana Fluck was in lights and one of the lights blew.” Diana Dors clawed her way to stardom by starting out in forgettable ‘dumb blonde’…

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

I have read and reread Early Mornings and Late Nights many times and I will always be thinking about it. Just something about how quiet it is, something about repetition and the same space with room to breathe. Something about these characters being older than they are in canon, and calmer for it. I always love gentle healing stories, but they are so hard to get just right, and this one is absolutely that.

Feathraly bless you, I actually owe you my life, omg, you are a star and also A Real One.

Yeah, high stakes/drama can be fun, but mellow stuff where people can just chill and have the space to be themselves are also good.

Thank you so much for always leaving such wonderful comments and feedback and now this. TT_TT