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queenhollyberry90 · 1 year

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My OCs/FANFICs I'm Working On

Why am I posting this? Cause lol. It's taken me years to become confident in my writing to actually post what I've been writing so I thought I'd share. I'm writing this in reverse order so it'll be from my most recently conceived to my oldest.

Adela Kunzli - Attack on Titan; Eldian from Paradis and member of the Scouts. Her story is A Love Like This Burns So Deep, and each chapter has a section from the past and the present. The story is rated Explicit for both loving and dark reasons. I came up with her back at the start of the year. Like, I had her one week and went fuck it, I've got to write this lol. She's one of two OCs I have that I have a bunch of What If's/One-Shots for.

Sarah Evans - AEW/Wrestling; Only fic/oc to take place in the real world. Sarah's a wrestler who goes by Diana Spector in the ring. She exists because I became horny for some wrestlers and am not a fan of celeb x you/reader style stories personally, but I like the concept of them, so I came up with this. Originally started out as an Orange Cassidy/OC but is now Preston Vance/OC. My threesome chapter for her is just sitting in my drafts, and nothing else has been written outside of drabbles I keep deleting and re-writing.

Bryn Olasdotter - Teen Wolf; A Valkyrie and member of the McCall Pack. She is in Only The Moon Howls. Originally she was named Brandi Hale and was Derek's cousin and Stiles's love interest before evolving into Brandi Segher and being a weretiger after the episode came out where Derek said he's the only member of his family left. Between the airing of seasons one and two, she became Bryn and a Valkyrie. Bryn initially had a love interest named Miguel, who was a werejaguar, but I scrapped that because as Bryn evolved and the show continued, they didn't make sense together. Bryn has always, since the beginning, had body image issues (though she used to suffer from body dysmorphia and was bulimic) and has a contentious relationship with her mother.

Akiko - Naruto; I have a bunch of Naruto OCs, but she is my most prominent. Originally thought up back in 2003 (?), her name was initially Hikari Jasmin, and she was the great-granddaughter of Ebizo. She became Akiko more recently, and her family has changed, but her personality, looks, and skill set have all stayed the same. I'm currently writing the first chapter of the story, which is a Kankuro x OC and is mostly smut with some plot, lol.

Hal - Saint Seiya/KotZ; Hal stayed the same the most out of all my OCs from the time she was conceived till now, with only three changes happening. Originally her name was Alexandra; she was a Kido kidlet like the other Bronzes and had armour but was not a Saint of Athena but worked for another deity. Her name is now Hal (a nickname), and her father is the British Ambassador to Japan, and she's not a Saint/Knight/Warrior or whatever you want to call it to a deity. Originally she was the love interest for Hyoga, but I switched her over to Ikki once I realized that even though it was opposites attract, Hyoga's non-manga love interests aren't even close in personality to Hal's, and she is better suited for Ikki. And omg, was that the best thing because I think Ikki and Hal are absolutely adorable together, and I just can't with them. They're so wholesome but smutty at the same time, lol.

Amaunet - X-Men/Marvel; My first ever OC was not Amaunet; it was actually a mutant named Reign, but as I began creating other mutants and Marvel characters, she went from being the top to just being there, and Amaunet became the main. Her real name is Jochebed Nassar, and she is from Palestine. I won't go too far into her backstory as I am writing her story up, but where she grew up is extremely important to who she is. Originally her name was Jennifer Howlett, and she was Wolverine's daughter from Egypt, but that didn't last long once I realized her name didn't match; she did stay as a Howlett for a time, but I scrapped that back when I re-worked her to fit into New X-Men Academy X, becoming the person she is now. Jo is my main character in multiple X-Men multiverse fics, such as 'House of M Doesn't Happen,' and Universe 161, aka everything, is canon up until when I stopped reading comics because I hated how cross-overy it became and just made up the rest on my own. Jo is the only one I have drawings of because of her various gear/costumes. She has aerokinesis.

#fanfiction #original characters for existing work #oc's #i love them they are my babies and I just want to talk about them #x-men #saint seiya #naruto #teen wolf #aew #attack on titan

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birdyn · 4 months

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lovestruckvoltage · 4 years

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Gangsters in Love Heroine (she/her, bisexual) Aurora James (she/her, lesbian) - romanceable Skylar Locke (she/her, bisexual) Amelia Wu (she/her, bisexual)

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Love & Legends Heroine (she/her, bisexual) Iseul Idreis (he/him, pansexual) - romanceable Altea Bellerose (she/her, lesbian) - romanceable Helena Klein (she/her, lesbian) - romanceable Sophie Lawrence & Solaire Lightwing (she/her, pansexual) Ryland Goldhart (he/him, bisexual) Imohn Idreis (they/them, non-binary, aromantic, asexual) Ishara Idreis (she/her, pansexual) Witch Queen (she/her, bisexual) Mireille Mercier (she/her, lesbian) Lisette Hallis-Falke (she/her, lesbian) Della Falke (she/her, bisexual) Heloise Falke (she/her, questioning) Caligo Hawkeye (he/him, pansexual) Amelia (she/her, queer)

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To Love & Protect Heroine (she/her, bisexual) Ellis Cooper (he/him, pansexual) - romanceable Madison Lane (she/her, lesbian) - romanceable Cal Egret (she/her, lesbian) Kashvi Dabral (she/her, lesbian)

Havenfall is for Lovers Heroine (she/her, bisexual) Mackenzie Hunt (she/her, lesbian) - romanceable Jordan 'JD' Davies (they/them, queer) - romanceable Razi Nassar (he/him, pansexual) - romanceable Vanessa Helsing (she/her, lesbian) - romanceable Antonio Vasquez (he/him, bisexual) - romanceable Annabelle Sheppard (she/her, bisexual) Damien Rider (he/him, bisexual) Grace (she/her, bisexual) Gwen Doran (she/her, pansexual) Hikari Hayashi (she/her, pansexual) Mothman (they/them, bigender, queer) Roshni Nassar (she/her, pansexual) Liliane Labasque (she/her, lesbian) Evangelina Vasquez (she/her, trans, heterosexual) Rahim Nassar (he/him, gay) Levana Helsing (she/her, asexual biromantic) John Lapin (he/him, asexual biromantic) Nessie (she/her, pansexual) Baphomet (they/them, queer)

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Queen of Thieves Heroine (she/her, bisexual) Nikolai Stirling (he/him, demisexual pansexual) -romanceable Vivienne Tang (she/her, lesbian) -romanceable Remy Chevalier (he/him, bisexual) -romanceable Zoe Banks (she/her, lesbian) -romanceable Jett Slater (he/him, bisexual) -romanceable Jace (they/them, queer) Ariana Nassar (she/her, lesbian) Daisa Khoury (she/her, bisexual) Raveena Patel (she/her, demisexual) Clemance Bardot (she/her, bisexual) Claudia Ribeiro (she/her, bisexual) Domino (she/her, lesbian) Inez Serrano (she/her, bisexual) Nadia (she/her, lesbian) Penny (she/her, pansexual) Casimir Vederevsky (he/him, gay) Benoit Dupont (he/him, gay)

Sin With Me Heroine (she/her, bisexual) Wrath (she/her, lesbian) - romanceable Onyx Wren (she/her, bisexual) - romanceable Malakai Collins (he/him, demisexual) - romanceable Yvette Holte (she/her, lesbian) - romanceable Ripley (she/her, lesbian) Vinca (she/her, lesbian) Nero (he/him, pansexual) Nahara (she/her, bisexual demisexual) Nitsa (she/her, lesbian) Sage (she/her, lesbian) Trudy Goode (she/her, pansexual)

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Tales of the Wild Della (she/her, bisexual) Revi (she/her, lesbian) - romanceable Maeve (she/her, bisexual)

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stretchjournalemerson · 4 years

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Do Aphrodisiacs Really Make You Sexually Aroused?

By Athena Nassar

You are sitting on a picnic blanket with your lover. You feed her strawberries dipped in dark chocolate, because you think she enjoys them. Or maybe you are hoping that she will embody the spirit of Persephone and swallow them like pomegranate seeds. Either way, she is sitting in front of you with strawberry juice dripping down her chin onto her floral dress. She calls you to taste her, and her spaghetti strap tastes like the cherry stem at the bottom of an Old-Fashioned, but what are your intentions? She might sleep with you in a few hours, but will it be because of the chocolate strawberries that you so purposely fed her earlier that day? According to a recent study in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the chocolate itself certainly doesn’t have enough phenylethylamine to make her jump your bones. Although it may feel as if you are closer to the Promised Land of unclothed women after a few cocktails, aphrodisiacs do not actually play a hand in his/her sexual arousal, and here’s why.

The movie 9½ Weeks, also known as the genesis of all S&M movies, lays out this utopia solely comprised of food and sex. In a scene that occupies a fat ten minutes of the film, Mickey Rourke feeds Kim Basinger an assortment of foods that I never knew could taste good together. The camera is zoomed in on Basinger’s mouth while she consumes a jalapeño pepper followed by a maraschino cherry. Just when I think things couldn’t get any worse, she downs a diced egg before the jello has the chance to get all the way down her throat. To top it all off, Mickey Rourke rubs honey on her breasts, and I just know that can’t be comfortable. Besides Kim Basinger being all too compliant, there is a critical misconception that this scene perpetuates. The visual of Basinger eating a variety of condiments while blindfolded suggests that she is being stimulated by the food itself, but Bettina Pause, a psychologist at Heinrich Heine University, claims that “a lot of our communication is influenced by chemosignals.” Considering the fact that humans have a pheromone nerve running from the nose into the brain, Basinger was most likely drawn to Rourke’s individual odorprint rather than his odd selection of petit fours. According to Pause, the aroma that emanates off of breastfeeding women encourages other women without infants to reproduce.

Now, I’m not arguing that aphrodisiacs don’t bring us any pleasure at all, just not the kind of pleasure that might first come to mind. The Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation confirms that the scent of banana nut bread has the power to arouse women more intensely than any regular old banana, so there must be some truth to this aphrodisiac claim after all. My guess is that this boost of sexual arousal is due to the nutmeg, especially since the scent is amplified in the process of baking the banana nut bread. According to The National Center for Biotechnology Information, herbs and spices such as red ginseng and saffron are the only scientifically proven aphrodisiacs. Surely there is a certain satisfaction that we feel when we bite into a succulent piece of watermelon, but does this trigger some sort of sexual longing or are we just content with the fact that we fulfilled a strictly nonsexual craving? As humans that need food to survive, it would make sense to say that our brains feel pleasure when our stomachs are full. A study by The Journal of Neuroscience seems to agree with this assumption, concluding that “eating prompts the brain to release feel good hormones known as endorphins.” Of course, overstimulation of these endorphins can lead to obesity, or in other words, too much of a good thing is ultimately a bad thing. Although some sugar-filled foods generate more pleasure than others, this is not to be confused with a titillating sensation.

If I were to ask Google about the sexual enhancements of any food, the internet would surely find a way to muster together numerous articles about how that food makes you better in bed, so where do we draw the line? Does every food magically make you better in bed? What do we classify as aphrodisiacs? In the middle ages, people determined whether a food was an aphrodisiac or not based on the doctrine of signatures. Coined by German philosopher Jakob Böhme, the doctrine of signatures is defined as “the belief that natural objects that look like a part of the body can cure diseases that would arise there.” Similarly, foods that resembled human sex organs such as oysters, asparagus, and sea cucumbers were thought to heighten passion. Foods that were warm or moist such as chili peppers or curry were thought to provoke a similar feeling. Of course, we know that this theory is drastically wrong, and many classic pieces of literature have been written on the basis of this flawed ideology to further the belief that consuming oysters will contribute to vaginal wetness. In Bradley C. Bennett’s essay “Doctrine of Signatures: An Explanation of Medicinal Plant Discovery or Dissemination of Knowledge?” Bennett advises us to not try to cure a heart disease with a heart-shaped leaf, because there happens to be 2,584 leaves with the same exact shape. In my opinion, we shouldn't try to cure heartbreak with erotic food either.

The romance novel Like Water for Chocolate illustrates a new Mexican recipe for every month. Although her true love Pedro asks for her hand in marriage, Tita, the youngest of three girls, cannot marry, because she is forced to care for her aging mother. In the month of December, the heartbroken Tita makes chiles in walnut sauce for her niece’s wedding. Upon ingesting these chiles, the guests cannot resist the urge to make “mad passionate love wherever they happen to end up… some under the bridge between Piedras Negras and Eagle Pass… the more conservative, in their cars, hastily pulled over to the side of the road” (Esquivel 242). Tita, overwhelmed with lust, grabs Pedro’s hand, and they both go into a dark room. The room is so saturated in passion that it drives the doves, the pigs, and the chickens to flee the ranch. Tita is described as “experiencing a climax so intense that her closed eyes glowed, and a brilliant tunnel appears before her,” and suddenly, she opens her eyes to Pedro lying beside her, dead (Esquivel 243). Although Like Water for Chocolate depicts two lovers who die naked in each other's arms from the effects of a single chile smothered in walnut sauce, the United States Food and Drug Administration does not recognize any chemical in particular as a natural aphrodisiac. For these results, you would certainly need an abnormally large dose of sildenafil, also referred to as viagra.

In fact, one of the most popular aphrodisiacs, the Spanish fly, causes a very non-sexual reaction if it is consumed. Cantharidin, a chemical which is secreted by blister beetles, can cause a rash to form on the urethra, as well as a painful erection that can potentially last for several hours known as priapism. In extreme circumstances, ingesting this so-called aphrodisiac can even lead to death. Although chiles and diluted pomegranates won’t influence your libido, they are definitely a safer option than any version of the Spanish fly, whether it be emulsified, powdered, filtered, or so on. Marketing companies continue to advertise the Spanish fly as a love potion, either not knowing or not caring that it causes an allergic reaction. The Spanish fly is advertised on Amazon as “the number one aphrodisiac” in a bottle labeled “LOVE SEXPLOSION” with the price of $99.99, and that is not including shipping. Around fifty percent of the reviews say something along the lines of “did not work at all,” “not what I was hoping for,” or “will return later.” The customers were unsatisfied with the results to say the least, but when they are purchasing products that look like the image on your right, who is really to blame?

When you think about it, it isn’t that difficult to believe that aphrodisiacs are completely buried in mythology. After all, aphrodisiacs did earn their name from the goddess Aphrodite who emerged from the stomach of a large scallop shell, hence seafood being rumored as a sexual stimulant. Oysters, among other shellfish, are considered to be a natural aphrodisiac due to their supply of zinc and amino acids. According to Michael Krychman, a gynecologist at the Southern California Center for Sexual Health and Survivorship Medicine, “there is a very large placebo effect” that occurs in the experience of eating oysters. Sex is laced in the action of slurping something gooey down your throat, and often times, the experience itself can produce adrenaline. Oysters do contain zinc which increases testosterone levels and male sperm count, but the quantity of sperm produced by the testes has absolutely nothing to do with attraction. Barry R. Komisaruk, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University, presents an interesting question: “Could oysters possibly satisfy sexual deprivation?” The answer is most likely no, unless you happen to have a wet and messy fetishism or any other fetish pertaining to food.

Food and its correlation to sex is a major component of many films and works of literature, and the bible is no different. In the story of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman are unashamed of their nakedness until a serpent tempts Eve into eating an apple from the tree of knowledge. This depiction of the forbidden fruit as a temptation results in a further sexualization of these fruits beyond the biblical meaning. Circling back to Komisaruk’s question of sexual deprivation, do we only yearn for things that we are deprived of? If the bible had placed sloppy joes instead of apples in the Garden of Eden, would we sexualize that too?

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Laura Esquivel for writing Like Water for Chocolate.

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Post 4: Classical Rhetorical Theory, Cont.

Consider the art of inventing legal arguments that is theorized by both Aristotle's Rhetoric and the anonymous ad Herennium.

1. The material topics of invention for ethos and pathos

Ethos, depending on the personal character of the speaker, and pathos, coming from putting the audience in a certain frame of mind.

For Ethos, Aristotle states that, “Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible”. This credibility comes, not from what the speaker says but from what the audience thinks of the speaker before they even open their mouths (Aristotle Book I Pt.2 ).

For Pathos, Aristotle focuses on the orator’s emotions that are imparted on the audience once they begin to speak. These are just as important in persuading the audience (Aristotle Book I pt. 2)

2. The material topics of invention for legal rhetoric, or forensic (sometimes called)

Conciliation of the listener while pacifying any internal issues the judge may have on the matter to thus make them listen with partiality (Aristotle Book I). Through the use of enthymemes and syllogisms, legal rhetoric either attacks or defends* (Aristotle Book I Pt. 3).

*Judicial, in concept

3. The common topics for inventing arguments (across all genres)

I very much do not understand this, I feel slightly lost overall.

How do you see these topics of invention working in legal case studies?

II. Consider what Aristotle has to say about law as an inartistic means of proof:

1. How does Aristotle define law? Written and Universal?

Aristotle on laws, “laws are made after long consideration, whereas decisions in the courts are given at short notice” which results in the justice that is met often being expedient rather than what is moral. Aristotle also makes the distinction between written law and universal. Written law relates to the cultural norms within the society and do not reflect the universal laws that is mandated by the gods and/or fates.

Bibliography: Aristotle. Rhetoric. Translated by W. Rhys Roberts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. classics.mit.edu. Web. 6 Feb. 2018.

Mifsud Comments- Your interpretation of Aristotle's ethos is off point! We need to debrief in class! There is artistic ethos which Aristotle is theorizing as being produced through what the speaking says, NOT from audience attitudes about the speaker prior to the speech!!!!!great notes on material topis of invention for legal rhetoric, let's keep exploring this and moreThe common or universal topics are more/less, past fact/future fact, and possible/impossible. They can be used to invent any form of argument, whether deliberative, epideictic, or legal, but we will focus on the legal: in Eumenides, Athena invents through more/less: the father is more of the parent than the mother. In Gorgias' Encomium of Helen, he invents through possible/impossible: it is impossible for Helen to be blamed for her departure was made possible by either fate, force, love, or persuasion. Judge Aqualina invented through more/less: it is more likely that Nassar's actions were sexual violence than medicall procedure. She also used past fact/future fact for sentencing: Because of the aggregiousness of Nassar's past actions, and the entrenched, long-standing pattern perpetrated against hundreds of girls, his future actions are predictable, continuing this pattern. And again past fact/future fact: because of his past actions, his future actions will be policed and punished in a lifetime of imprisonment. When reading Aristotle on "laws" recognize that he is giving examples of how various material and common topics are available for inventing arguments in legal settings. He is not writing a legal theory, but rather showing how the art of rhetorical invention can invent any needed argument in forensic settings!!! This will be key for us to explore together in class.

Response

After closely reading Dr. Mifsud’s comments I’m somewhat embarrassed to say that her comments would go on to be comprehension issues that would plague my posts and in class discussion for the entirety of the class. Some of the most important takeaways that I should have focused on were

The common or universal topics: more/less, past fact/future fact, and possible/impossible.

artistic ethos: Aristotle theorizes are produced through what the speaking says, NOT from audience attitudes about the speaker prior to the speech

The articulation of more/less, past fact/future fact, possible/impossible

Aristotle is not writing theory but instead focusing on showing how invention works within forensic settings.

There were obviously made clear in classroom discussions as well as by Dr. Mifsud’s comments however I somewhat blew past them because they called for in class discussion and so I prepared to talk about them in class more than understanding the concepts on my own.

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