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ao3feed-mythology · 5 years

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Fandoms: Orange is the New Black, Steven Universe (Cartoon), A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV), Shark Tale (2004), Sharknado (Movies), Jaws (Movies), XXXTentacion (Musician) RPF, OK K.O.! 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Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other

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Relationships: Piper Chapman/Alex Vause, Nicky Nichols/Alex Vause, Parker (Leverage)/Alex Vause, Megan Bloomfield/Graham Eaton, Barry Benson/Oscar (Shark Tale), Pearl/Rose Quartz (Steven Universe), Lapis Lazuli/Peridot (Steven Universe), Amethyst (Steven Universe)/Sans (Undertale), Sans (Undertale) & Peridot (Steven Universe), Olivia Caliban/Jacquelyn Scieszka, Blue Diamond/Greg Universe, Sans (Undertale)/Shrek (Shrek), Papyrus (Undertale) & Sonic the Hedgehog, Noelle Holiday/Susie (Deltarune), George Milton & Lennie Small, Artesian McCullough/Maritza Ramos, Alex Vause/Reader, W. D. Gaster/Sans/Reader, Ned (Pushing Daisies)/Harry Potter, Amethyst (Steven Universe)/Harry Potter, Sans (Undertale)/Reader, Garnet/Jasper (Steven Universe), Alice (Alice in Wonderland)/Christopher Robin (Winnie-the-Pooh), Frank Castle/John Wick, Joel Luschek/Nicky Nichols, Alexandrite/Malachite (Steven Universe), Freddie Benson/Carly Shay, Star Butterfly & Steven Universe, Count Olaf/Esmé Squalor, Galina "Red" Reznikov/Gloria Mendoza, Enid (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes)/Pearl (Steven Universe), Enid/Red Action (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes), Carol Denning/Reader, Sans/Sans (Undertale), Chara/Frisk (Undertale), Tony Stark/Thanos, Peter Griffin/Johnny Test, Courage/Katz, Jane Eyre/Edward Rochester, Blue Diamond (Steven Universe)/Eugene Krabs, Gene Forrester/Phineas "Finny", Creeper (Minecraft)/Sans (Undertale), Creeper/Steve (Minecraft), Creeper (Minecraft)/Reader, Gene/Jailbreak/Hi-5 (The Emoji Movie), Jailbreak/Smiler, Lord Boxman/Eugene "Gar" Garcia, George Washington/Martha Washington, Alexander Hamilton/Sonic the Hedgehog, Jim Halpert/Michael Scott, Eievui | Eevee/Pikachu, Kasumi | Misty/Satoshi | Ash Ketchum, Satoshi | Ash Ketchum/Serena, Chica (Five Nights at Freddy's)/Harry Potter, Bonnie/Foxy (Five Nights at Freddy's), Freddy Fazbear/Reader, Freddie Benson/Nevel Papperman, Gibby Gibson/Nevel Papperman, Lorna Morello/Nicky Nichols, Lorna Morello/Vince Muccio, Liane Cartman/Quahog Residents (Family Guy), Lois Griffin/Glenn Quagmire, Glenn Quagmire/Joe Swanson, Benny (In the Heights)/Alexander Hamilton

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ao3feed-hamilton · 5 years

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by Zxrcon

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Words: 10, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply, Rape/Non-Con, Underage

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other

Additional Tags: Futanari, Orgy, Mouth Sewn Shut, Gay Sex, Everyone Is Gay, Lesbian Character, Lesbian Sex, Kissing, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Necrophilia, Murder, BDSM, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Must Read, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Porn, Discussion of Abortion, Abortion, Glasses, Alternate Universe, Crossover, Fuckin' Fluffy Mondays, Everybody Dies, Holocaust, I did this instead of studying for my finals, harambe trump, Cereal

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#IFTTT #ao3feed #Hamilton #fanfic

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madmen-ao3feed · 5 years

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Words: 10, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

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#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #mad men

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ao3feed-orphanblack · 5 years

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Words: 10, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

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#ao3feed #fanfic #orphan black #fanfiction #obfic

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ao3feed-babysittersclub · 5 years

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Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply, Rape/Non-Con, Underage

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#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #fanfiction #ann m. martin #the baby-sitters club #the babysitters club #baby

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astridstorm · 3 years

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Funeral Homily for Molly Kindred

Welcome to St. James the Less. I promised to send greetings from Father Newcomb, rector emeritus here who knew Molly well. Your mother must have known (by my count) seven rectors here, beginning, I believe, with George Kempsell, who was rector in 1955 when your parents joined St. James. I’m going to (humbly) count myself in that number, though I only met Molly twice: first where she lived in her final years, and then one year ago shortly before she died.

Welcome to family who’ve travelled here from near and far: Molly’s two daughters, Dorothy and Valerie, and their husbands; her four grandchildren; her sister and brother-in-law; two cousins; two nieces. I hope I didn’t miss anyone. I should probably say welcome back, because you know this space well.

Today is a big day for our parish. We're burying someone who spent years and countless Sundays in these pews--right over there, I’m told, was the Kindred section. It still is! Molly also married into a family that goes back a generation further. There’s a whole Kindred section of our graveyard, to which we’ll be processing together shortly. So, this is a momentous day for St. James the Less, but more than that, for the family Molly leaves behind.

Many of you know I collect quotes from writers who've lost parents, and especially mothers. This one I found just a couple years ago in a biography of author Laura Ingalls Wilder. On losing her mother, she wrote, "Every person in the world who has lost her mother will recognize the retrospective shadow of sorrow, regret, and crippling nostalgia that the news casts across her life. Some of us have received such messages. Those who have not, one day will."

No matter how many times we usher people through this experience, whether as friends or as (in my case) a priest, it never ceases to be startling, and singular, like it's never happened to anyone before. That's how profound and personal this loss is. Ms. Ingalls Wilder was one of three sisters, and herself had a daughter. And here all of you are, Molly's two daughters and three granddaughters. To be a woman and lose a mother--and to have daughters--well, let's just say, you've been given a lot to process. I pray today's service helps just a little bit with what will be a long letting go.

Today is a significant day to be gathered here for a few reasons. First, it's been a year since Dorothy, Val, Deacon Susie and I said prayers at Molly’s bedside at Dorothy’s home in Connecticut. It was a sunny spring day, very much like today. We gathered outside, and then went in to say the prayer of last rites, followed by one of Molly’s (and Dorothy’s) favorite prayers in our Episcopal tradition. The grandchildren will say it later on when we gather around the grave: O Lord, support us all the day long, until the shadows lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done. Then in your mercy, grant us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.

You know what I love about that prayer? It’s beautiful, without wasting a word. One of you--Dorothy or Val, I can’t remember which--said that your mom had a way of getting her point across without hitting you over the head with it. And that prayer in its spare, respectful, matter-of-fact beauty just somehow fits the mother you describe.

If there is such a thing as a good death, hers was one. And you gave her that gift.

Also today, May 22, is the Feast of St. Helena of Constantinople “Protector of Holy Places.” Helena was the mother of Emperor Constantine in the 4th century, a strong, influential and independent-minded woman. We have her to thank for the survival of several important churches in Christendom, hence her “protector” status. Insofar as Molly was such a significant presence here at St. James the Less, someone who certainly influenced and helped (in her many roles here over the years) “protect” this place for posterity, I thought that was a nice convergence of events.

And finally, today is the last day of the Easter Season. In just a few hours, at sundown, the new season of Pentecost will begin and the fifty days of Easter draw to a close. So you’re in just under the wire!

The Book of Common Prayer calls the burial service “an Easter service.” That’s true whatever time of year it falls. Even in Lent, we pull out all the Easter accoutrements for a burial: the white frontal, the Paschal candle, the white pall. Your mom was on the Altar Guild longer than some of us have been alive. She would have known all this. If she could, I bet she’d stay after to change all the hangings to red for Pentecost tomorrow. She would never have timed it so close. :)

Our prayer book describes the connection of Easter to burial this way: The liturgy for the dead is an Easter liturgy. It finds all meaning in the resurrection. Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we too, shall be raised. The liturgy, therefore, is characterized by joy. So you’re putting your mother to rest on this last day of Easter--poignant because of the season’s meaning, but also because of what comes next, Pentecost. All those years ago, the Holy Spirit descended on the disciples and they began to learn how to live without their guide and companion--their “Good Shepherd.”

It’s like life after a parent leaves us. It’s tentative at first. But then slowly, we get our strength, or inspiration back. We recall the things about them we loved—recall them at their best. We do that with the deceased--remember them at the best--for a reason. So that we can now take up their mantle, and live out in our lives what was best in theirs.

We never “conclude” services in the Episcopal Church; your mother would have known that. We “send forth” or commission. You’ll notice that later on in this service. Every funeral is a commissioning to those of us still alive, to go and do good with each and every day we have left. So I’ll say this now, in order that we really hear it later on, after we’ve put your mother to rest and before we continue with our day, and our lives.

The God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Shepherd of the sheep: Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight. Amen.

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ao3feed-mcufemslash · 5 years

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shark tale

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Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply, Rape/Non-Con, Underage

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#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #mcu

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ao3feed-lapidot · 5 years

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shark tale

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Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply, Rape/Non-Con, Underage

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other

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#lapidot #IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #steven universe #lapis lazuli #peridot

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ao3feed-voltronlegendarydefender · 5 years

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shark tale

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shark tale

Words: 2, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply, Rape/Non-Con, Underage

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other

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#ao3feed #fanfic #voltron #voltron: legendary defender #ao3feed-voltronlegendarydefender

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lindyhunt · 5 years

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How Prairie Dresses Are Redefining Sexy for the Current Era

In his novella Sell Out, American humorist Simon Rich tells the story of Herschel, a humble Jewish man who immigrates to Brooklyn at the turn of the century and accidentally falls into a pickle barrel. A hundred years later, he is fished out of the brine, not having aged a day, by a band of conceptual artists reclaiming industrial warehouse space. After emerging from his salty prison, Herschel must contend with the absurdities of modern Brooklyn, including blogs, Whole Foods and unpaid internships.

Now, one of the most prominent trends of 2018 is enough to make you wonder if you’ve stumbled into your very own pickle-barrel time machine in reverse. Walk down a major street in any sizable city—or scroll through the virtual town square of Instagram—and you’ll notice an influx of women wearing leg-of-mutton sleeves and frilly pie-crust collars that would likely make Herschel breathe a sigh of relief.

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The pioneer—literally and figuratively—of this new homesteader look is Batsheva Hay, founder of the label Batsheva, whose chintzy creations have earned her a spot on the short list for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award. She began designing dresses after she took one of her decaying vintage Laura Ashley finds to a tailor, who told her it was irreparable. Hay decided to remake the dress, and with a few tweaks to the pattern to update it for the current decade, her nostalgic past-meets-present line was born.

Since then, Hay’s wares have found celeb fans in Natalie Portman, Chloë Sevigny and Busy Philipps. (Somewhat ironically, Sevigny has donned the prairie look as much in her professional life as in her personal life, playing a Mormon sister wife in Big Love and, most recently, the axe-wielding murderess Lizzie Borden, who dons puffed sleeves that would make Anne Shirley hyperventilate, in the film Lizzie.) Batsheva’s pieces have also become the unofficial uniform of arbiters of downtown New York cool. They’ve been spotted on Vogue’s Sally Singer, on The Wing’s co-founder Audrey Gelman and on Hailey Gates, the host of Viceland’s States of Undress.

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“Hay’s dresses have a certain familiarity that feels fresh and unpretentious in this post-Celine streetwear climate we’re in right now,” says Jane Aldridge, the Texas-based blogger behind Sea of Shoes, who pairs her prairie dress with furry Chloé slides. Another Batsheva fan, Rachel Tashjian, fashion features editor at Garage magazine, attributes some of the look’s popularity to a rather counterintuitive ease of wear. The dresses might look fussy, but “once you put [one] on, you can almost forget that you’re wearing it—until someone looks at you like ‘Why is that person wearing that crazy dress?’” she says.

“Hay’s dresses have a certain familiarity that feels fresh and unpretentious in this post-Celine streetwear climate we’re in right now.”

At this point, you might find yourself asking “Isn’t it a touch regressive to adopt a style that hearkens back to an era when women were considered glorified property?” Not exactly. Prairie dresses are the epitome of IDGAF fashion; to wear a dress that’s so aggressively old-fashioned it verges on parody is the ultimate nonconformist move. The popularity of prim ankle-grazing styles is concurrent with the rise of modest dressing, which is no longer just the province of religious women who choose to mingle faith with fashion. The current relish for Laura Ingalls Wilder dresses is less a diktat from a villainous cabal of designers conspiring to make women look ridiculous than an autonomous sartorial choice that women (albeit ones who are primarily thin and white) are very much making for themselves.

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Which explains why Batsheva isn’t alone. Rather, it’s among a cohort of emerging brands that includes Bode, a menswear line that repurposes antique textiles into pieces like workwear jackets, and Dôen, a design collective whose sweeping floral dresses skew slightly more Laurel Canyon than American Midwest.

Even the big-name designers are hopping on the covered wagon. Coach has paraded high-necked maxi-dresses with a profusion of ruffles down its runways for the past two seasons—dresses that would read as demure had the models wearing them not adopted an attitude of total hostility. The always-ethereal Ulla Johnson showed modest girlish dresses with voluminous sleeves and crochet details for spring, as did Jonathan Simkhai. Even Raf Simons, the prince of aesthetic rigour, was honoured by the American Folk Art Museum earlier this year for his use of quilts in his designs at Calvin Klein.

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This widespread embrace of antiquated modes of dress challenges the current vogue for ironic dressing. (See: dad sneakers and Off-White’s dubious quotation marks.) In contrast, glorified prairie dressing is almost painfully earnest. “There’s so much interest and emphasis and excitement and hype around streetwear, and it doesn’t look like that,” says Tashjian. Perhaps the new-found appetite for fuss-budget frills demonstrates women’s desperation for clothing that requires a bit more effort and purpose to carry off.

A PR person once made an offhand comment that Batsheva dresses “are like the official wardrobe of the #MeToo movement,” Hay recounted in an article in Glamour. But it would be incorrect to suggest that correlation equals causation. “I just think women are looking for new directions of how to present themselves in the world,” suggests Naomi Fry, a staff writer at The New Yorker. “Women want to have more options, and [prairie dresses are] now one that looks fresh and cool, young instead of old, hip instead of dowdy.”

It just so happens that this particularly chaste form of dressing—once so retro that one suspected it would be consigned to the metaphorical pickle barrel forever—resonates more with the modern world than anyone could ever have anticipated.

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jessicakehoe · 5 years

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How Prairie Dresses Are Redefining Sexy for the Current Era

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@tira_tira_tira stood on a desk to take this moody picture of me at work. One thing I'm very into is a commitment to getting the shot!

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“Hay’s dresses have a certain familiarity that feels fresh and unpretentious in this post-Celine streetwear climate we’re in right now.”

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Look who I got to hang out with today! @jennymustard

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Bringing back this beauty from our Spring ‘18 collection very soon! We can’t wait 💙💙💙 #doencollective #comingsoon #soldress

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