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mypoisonedvine · 4 years

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Hunt (dark!Slayer!Bucky x vampire!Reader)

a.k.a. Bucky the Vampire Slayer

a.a.k.a. Bucky the Vampire Layer

full credit for this idea goes to @deceitfuldevout who shared her genius with us for the concept of witch/witch-hunter, which morphed over time into vampire/vampire-hunter, which I eventually adapted into a weird amalgam of a Buffy AU and a Supernatural AU

@giorno-plays-piano asked to be tagged if I ever did it!

Warnings: smut, blood play (just a lil tho, but lots of talking about blood bc she’s...literally a vampire), degradation kink, sex that turns dub con/non con, kidnapping

(we are sadly deprived of any gifs of Bucky in the new jacket but please know the pic below is the Bucky we’re working with here)

Bucky clenched his jaw in frustration as his head fell back against the headrest. His grip on the steering wheel tightened with a squeaking noise as his skin skidded along the leather.

He was irritated because he knew what was waiting for him at the end of this road. The headlights only illuminated a little of what was ahead, but the predictive power of past experience told him everything he needed to know.

You were going to be waiting for him, and he never looked forward to that.

Memories resurfaced of the last time he had seen you. He’d found you in the forest and though he couldn’t prove it, he was pretty sure he’d interrupted you feeding on a deer. It was disgusting. Yet, you moved with this grace he couldn’t ignore and spoke with a smile that he couldn’t forget. You greeted him with a familiarity that he wished wasn’t merited. He was a Slayer, you were a vampire; there shouldn’t ever be a second meeting. He should’ve killed you the first time, however many months ago it was. He couldn’t even remember why he didn’t, but you slipped away that night and he swore to track you down.

He did, but he didn’t kill you that time either, because you’d proven useful. You’d sold out a vampire who pissed you off and Bucky got to put another kill under his belt. That was definitely the only reason he’d left you alive.

Then the forest. You were more feral that time, and he saw more of your monstrous side than he had before. So why was that the time he thought about when he tossed and turned at night, when he was too pent up from years of solitude, when he forced his eyes shut and slipped his hand into his boxers under the sheets--

Destination is on the right, the GPS alerted with a robotic voice. Thank god.

Bucky pulled the car into the driveway of the dilapidated mansion, shifting into park and turning off the engine; the metal blasting from the radio halted unceremoniously.

He didn’t hear the commotion inside the house until he was quite a ways from the car and halfway to the door. Of course he considered that it was a bad idea to just walk in the front door of a suspected vampire coven as a Slayer, but he wasn’t here on a hunt. At least, not the normal kind.

Before he was even on the porch, the door opened with an outpouring of pink light. He shielded his face with his arm as his eyes adjusted, but put it down when he saw it was your silhouette in the doorway.

“Slayer,” you hissed with a smile that blended pleasure and disgust. He knew the feeling.

“You could call me Bucky,” he offered.

“It doesn’t suit you,” you explained, leaning against the splintered wood of the frame. “I wasn’t sure you were going to come.”

“Neither was I,” he admitted with a shrug, “but how could I resist a chance to jump into the lion’s den?”

“You’re here to take on a coven? By yourself?” you laughed.

“I’m not looking for a fight,” he denied. “I’m looking for information.”

You raised a brow as if to say go ahead.

“A girl in the city,” he continued. “Mysterious death. Coroner is stumped, thinks it could be anything from an animal attack to a blood disorder to a ritualistic murder. Has your name all over it.”

“‘Girl’?” you repeated, as if you’d never heard the word before. “Girl, no, I don’t remember any girl.”

“White, blonde, 5’2”, 26 years old,” he listed.

“Oh!” you stopped him. “26! You mean a woman. Yes, I remember feeding on a woman.”

“So you’re confessing?”

“To what crime? She was going to die in less than a year, easily,” you shrugged. “She did have a blood disorder. Leukemia. She didn’t know it yet.”

“And do I want to know how you knew it?” he shuddered.

“It’s a unique taste,” you grinned. He felt a little unwell hearing you say that.

“I’m not sure if you’re familiar with human law,” he frowned, “but it’s still murder even if they were going to die soon. It’s murder if they were actively dying.”

“I was human once,” you deflected.

“In 1447,” he growled. You would’ve blushed if you could; you were flattered that he remembered.

“Yeah, murder investigation at that time was… very surface-level,” you admitted. “Is your plan to arrest me, then?”

“I’m a Slayer. Not a cop.”

“What you are is a wet blanket,” you grimaced. “We’re busy in here, you know. Big party.”

“I was hoping so,” he smirked. “That’s what you promised.”

“Then why don’t you come in?” you asked coyly. You hadn’t really expected him to do it.

Everyone inside jumped and scurried away the second he set foot in the door. “It’s cool,” you told them, “he’s with me.”

That didn’t seem to comfort them that much, because what business would you have with a Slayer?

They must have figured it out when you slipped away to a secluded room and dragged him along with you. He didn’t seem to figure it out until you were pushing him back against the wall, running your hands over his body through his clothes.

“What I would give to feed on you,” you whispered, running your lips over his neck. You took in a deep breath and felt a little light-headed at the overwhelming smell of his blood. He, unfortunately, reeked of Slayer, and you pushed back your instinct of fear to appreciate the man underneath. AB positive-- your favorite. “Wanted you ever since I first saw you,” you admitted. “You looked so fucking delicious.”

You pulled back to look up at him and you didn’t need vampiric hearing to know that his heart was racing: just the way his eyes darted across your face and down to your lips was proof enough.

“Why did you come here today, Bucky?” you asked quietly.

“I’m on a hunt,” he answered in a low growl.

“For me?”

“For you.”

“You have me alone,” you noticed. “You could get out your wooden stake and end this for good.”

He nodded, but didn’t move. Instead you felt his hands trail along your sides; he jumped when he brushed the skin of your arm. “You’re so cold,” he realized.

Meanwhile you thought you could burn up from the heat of him, radiating out of his body and through the thick layers of clothing. He was so alive, so awake, so present.

You pushed off his leather jacket and he didn’t even think to stop you, letting it fall to the floor. You never cared for it. He looked as good as sin in it, yes, but it smelled of death and dead things, the skin of something you wouldn’t have eaten when it was alive 40 years ago, and you wanted only to experience the life of this particular being.

And what is life but wanting? Fuck, you wanted him so goddamn bad.

He wrapped a hand around your neck and pulled you into him, kissing you with instant need and dizzying aggression.

Even now you weren’t sure if he would let you live to see the end of the night. But you couldn’t see the sunrise anyway, so what difference would it make?

He made embarrassingly quick work of your dress, tearing it straight down the front. Downside of wearing something you’d had for nearly 100 years is that it’s flimsy.

His hands were back on you the second your skin was exposed. His touch was so hot that it almost hurt; his hands were so rough and strong that your heart almost clenched.

You clawed at his shirt and gasped with delight when you accidentally nicked him with a sharp fingernail and broke the skin. The flavor hit the air hard and fast; you grabbed his shoulders and pulled him forward so you could lean down and lick the thin red stripe you’d left on his chest. Just a taste, but the best taste you’d had in… you couldn’t remember anything tasting this good.

“I won’t kill you if you don’t kill me,” he offered breathlessly.

“Yeah, yeah, whatever,” you agreed quickly as you began to work open his belt because the last thing on your mind right now was survival.

You groaned when you felt his cock in your hand. There was a lot of blood in that thing and you could feel it pulsing in your palm. You knew better than to put it in your mouth; you didn’t have the restraint for that.

You were thankful you hadn’t drank any more of his blood because clearly he had a better use for it. It was so big you wondered how he hadn’t passed out from it getting so hard because seriously, this man’s cock was a monster; takes one to know one, eh?

“Fuck me,” you demanded, “I want you to fuck me, oh my god.”

He nodded as a low groan echoed out of his chest. His grip moved to your hips as he pulled you up and put you on the table, pushing you down and bending over you with another bruising kiss that trailed down your body.

“Don’t fucking tease me,” you whined, “I need your cock.”

“Wait,” he instructed, kneeling before you and licking through your exposed folds. You gasped, unprepared for how strange it would feel; your hand grabbed his hair and pulled harder than you meant to, but thankfully, he didn’t slow down.

Little moans and grunts were lost against your skin as he tasted you eagerly. You were so overwhelmed with the sensation that he had to hold your hips down to keep you from squirming away. You’d been feasting on humans for 600 years, and now it seemed like he was attempting to even the score. Even you never ate with this enthusiasm. But you’d never thought about a meal so much before consuming it as he had thought about you before this moment.

You were already embarrassingly close to orgasm, and it was apparent from the way you moaned and writhed and begged.

“I’m so fucking close, just like that, please don’t stop, yes, yes, oh fuck, yes,” you yelped.

It all came to a screeching halt as he stood up and grabbed your face with his hand. You looked at him with wide eyes, confused but still appreciating how good he looked with wet lips and dark eyes and his hair all fucked up.

“You aren’t gonna come,” he explained between raspy breaths, “until I’m inside you.”

You nodded in agreement, again arching your back as if you could will him to fuck you.

He slid his cock through your folds, coating himself in your arousal which was embarrassingly plentiful.

Finally, he pressed his cock into you all at once and you gasped, head falling back against the wooden table. He groaned as he gripped your hips, steadying you so he could piston into you with brutal force.

And to think you thought he was going to stab you through the chest with a wooden stake. To be fair, he still could.

He scooped you into his arms, pulling you up until your face was right against his. “You’re warm here,” he informed you with bared teeth, “did you know that? So hot and tight around my fuckin’ cock.”

You could only moan, your eyes darting to his parted lips, and then his neck. You were thoroughly tempted, but didn’t want to do anything that might stop him from fucking you so perfectly like this. His hand came up to wrap around your throat-- the metal one, specifically. You were pretty sure he’d lost the arm to a monster fight of some kind but that didn’t matter now. All you knew was that this one was strong enough to crush you and it was making your head dizzy and your pussy wet.

Your moans were lost to his grip as he choked you, and you could hear the ragged sounds of his breathing as he fucked you deeper and harder. “You like getting fucked by a Slayer, huh? You’re such a whore. My whore.”

You gasped when he released your throat and you could breathe again. “Yes,” you agreed with a sob, “yours, baby.”

He chuckled a little at that, slipping a hand between your bodies to rub your clit with his thumb; you yelped and grabbed his shoulders tightly.

“You’re gonna come already aren’t you?” he mocked. “Dumb fucking slut.”

You hissed at his harsh words but you were too lost in pleasure to complain. Your eyes shot open when you felt two of his fingers slam into your open mouth and hit the back of your throat. “Choke on my fingers while you come, bitch,” he growled. “And I swear if you fucking bite me, you’ll regret it.”

It was like asking you to take a sip of sweet wine but not swallow it. His skin tasted fucking delicious on your tongue, which you swirled around the digits eagerly. He laughed: “such a fucking slut, sucking on my fingers like that. You want it so bad.”

You nodded breathlessly, whimpering as you took his fingertips down your throat. He groaned and slammed into you harder, which only served to bring you that much closer to the edge.

“Come on my cock, right now,” he demanded, and you liked to believe it was just lucky timing and not his command that struck you at that moment. Your nails dug into his shoulders as you felt yourself flexing and clenching around his length, another gush of arousal easing his way as he relentlessly pounded you.

“Good girl,” he praised, pulling his fingers from your throat to hear you pant with exhaustion. He stopped to lift your legs onto his shoulders, pushing you back but leaning over you. When he slammed into you again that time, you nearly screamed-- he was hitting something so deep in you that it was actually painful.

“Stop, it’s-- it’s too deep,” you moaned.

You tried to move back but he held you down firmly, a dark glimmer in his eye. He thrust in again, even harder, and you cried out as you tried to grab onto the table for dear life. He grabbed your wrists with each hand and pinned them beside you, laughing as you tried to fight him off.

Any normal human you could overpower in an instant. But you were no match for a Slayer. Both of you knew that.

“Let me go,” you begged, “you’re hurting me.”

“I could do a lot worse to you if I wanted. You should be thankful I’ve let you live.”

“I could say the same,” you snarled. He pulled back and rammed his cock into you so hard that you instantly screamed, tears sliding down your temple.

“Don’t talk to me like that,” he ordered. “Just be a good little whore and take my cock.”

He started to move inside you, hard and fast, and you couldn’t help but struggle against him as he hovered above you.

“Apologize,” he demanded, and just as he sensed you were about to tell him to fuck off, he accentuated it by holding his hips to yours a little longer than normal, reminding you that he could hurt you so easily if you didn’t obey.

“I’m sorry,” you sobbed, “I’m sorry, Bucky, please don’t… please don’t hurt me.”

He grinned as he watched you cry. “This is what you fuckin’ get for teasing me. You killed that girl to get my attention. You wanted me to find you and fuck you the way you’ve been missin’ out on for the past few centuries.”

You shook your head to deny it but he suddenly let your arms go to slap you across the face. You tried to use your free arm but in an instant he had your wrists pinned to your chest, putting all his weight on you until you could barely breathe.

“Just admit it, baby,” he said in an oddly sensitive way, like he was taking pity on you. “Just admit you need me.”

“Please,” you sobbed, near-silent from the lack of air, “please…”

“Aw, look at you,” he cooed, “begging for more.”

He trapped your wrists under his left hand and used his right to roughly grab your jaw until your mouth was forced open.

“Show me your teeth, gorgeous,” he purred. You hissed as your fangs glistened in the candlelight. “Mmm, you wanna bite me, don’t you?”

You tried to nod but couldn’t move your face much.

“The feeling’s mutual,” he grinned. “Fuck, I’m gonna come. Gonna fill that tight little cunt.”

Your fight was renewed as you tried to kick and squirm away but it was useless. You grunted as his thrusts became erratic but even more painful, somehow.

“Beg for it,” he growled through his teeth. “Beg for my fuckin’ come.”

You tried to fight but only got another slap to the face, the sting making your eyes water instantly.

“Beg, whore,” he repeated, yelling. “I won’t come until I fucking hear it.”

“Please!” you yelped, and in a sense it was genuine, because once he came this would all be over, and maybe-- just maybe-- he would let his guard down long enough for you to feed on this evil son of a bitch. “Please come, Bucky, come in me, I need it!”

“Yeah, I know you do,” he laughed confidently, holding you down by your throat as he pumped into you one last time with a shattered moan. “Fuck!” he sighed, savoring the feeling of your unwilling body forced to accept his seed. The truth was, you were tighter when you struggled.

He only let you breathe once he was done, and you choked and spluttered for air as he pulled out. The second you thought you had your bearings together, you were sitting up to lunge at him. You felt something press against your chest and even before you looked down you knew it was over.

A wooden stake. He’d had it the whole time. You looked back at him and he was smiling, the bastard, even as he was still catching his breath from fucking you. The sight made you shudder.

“I was gonna fuck you, and then kill you,” he admitted, “but now I think I’ll keep you.”

You hissed with a grimace, flashing your fangs, but knew you had no recourse, no options, no way out.

“You look so cute when you’re scared,” he smiled. “Can’t wait to take you back to mine, trap you in a little salt pentagram, and fuck you senseless whenever I want.”

You whined, closing your eyes as you realized how well and truly fucked you were.

“It won’t always hurt so bad. You’ll get used to me. And I’ll feed you enough to keep you alive.”

Sounded like a cruel existence, but you weren’t ready to get the business end of your stake, so you swallowed dryly and nodded in acceptance of your fate.

He laughed and placed a chaste kiss on your cheek before guiding you to stand on weak knees. “C’mon baby, let’s get you home.”

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lyricpoets · 6 years

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I Am the Lion of War; I Am the Son of Kings: Hayqutan the Abyssinian and Kendrick Lamar

In 1915, W.E.B. Dubois published a book titled The Negro, which attempted a comprehensive historical survey of the peoples of Africa, their exports, inventions, inter-tribal relationships, and civilizational achievements. The work took to task the notion held by many whites that before the landfall of white colonizers and slavers, black Africa was an intellectually stagnant wasteland without any “history” in the European sense of the term (Great Men doing Great Things). Dubois’ history was the first of its kind published in English, and it set in motion a tide of revisionist history that aimed to recuperate a black presence in the narrative arc of “world history,” from asking why Egypt was so damn white in schoolbooks to, most recently, reminding people that (quel scandale!) there were black people in Europe throughout the time of the Roman empire, noble and slave alike. A similar call for historicizing black people’s presence in the Islamic world also has arisen in pockets of society. But in order to contextualize this, we need to go back 1500 years or so and explain how black Africans and the early Arab Muslims fit together in the first place.

Before Islam arose as a religion in the southwesterly portion of the Arabian Peninsula in the early 600s AD, three major powers had play in the surrounding regions: Byzantium, Sasanian Persia, and Axumite Ethiopia. The Byzantines generally held alliances and territories in Arabia’s northwest, the Persians its northeast, and the Ethiopian (aka Abyssinian) Axumites periodically carved out territories and trade relations for themselves in Yemen. In Yemen, for several centuries, a kingdom called Himyar had existed, ruled for significant swaths of that time by Jewish dynasts. Around the early 500s, a particularly non-chill guy named Dhu Nuwas came to power and began persecuting the Christian denizens of his realm, which seriously pissed off both Christian Byzantium and Christian Axum. The two formed an alliance, with Justinian supplying the Ethiopians with some extra cash, and Axum launched an invasion to secure Himyar for themselves. They succeeded, and would rule there until around the time the Prophet Muhammad was born (570-ish), when the Persians, in their effort to sweep through Arabia and disrupt Byzantium’s relationship with its western portions, would stage a military campaign in Yemen and kick Axum out.

That fracas, according to some historians, changed the demography of Arabia’s slave populace right on the eve of Islam, adding a handsome portion of Axumites to the mix. Even before then, African slaves had likely been traded in Arabia, but this is rather hard to trace for lack of source material. During the Islamic period, beginning in the 8th century, something now known as the “Trans-Saharan slave trade” would begin to be systematized, and networks connecting places like Fezzan and the Kanem-Bornu polity in Chad with predominantly Berber North Africa, which in turn relayed bodies and goods along the coast to Arabia, Iberia, etc., would form. The Islamic conquest would catapult Arab Muslims into a civilizational pride-of-place in the region, and the might of Axum on the eve of Islam, though still recognized in some historical annals, would slip largely from popular consciousness. Black people in Arabia were more likely to be slaves than kings. Language started to collapse and cohere around this fact, and before long, being black and being a slave were considered interchangeable conditions. To this day, the epithet ‘abd (slave) is an all-too-common way of referring to black people throughout the Arabophone world. Mauritanian and Moroccan blacks carry the memory of former enslavement embedded in their nomenclature as well, with haratin (freed persons) being one of the common monikers for them.

As early as the 9th century, literature recalling the black past and demanding a restoration of black civilizations to the Arabs’ account of history cropped up, and authors called to mind a network of black actors, both pre-Islamic and Muslim, who had left their mark on Arabian society—from the heroic ‘Antara b. Shaddad to Negus of Axum who sheltered Muhammad’s early followers in the minor hijra to Bilal, the first man to proclaim the call to prayer, and Wahshi, the Abyssinian slave who murdered the false prophet Musaylima. One such teller of truth and salvager of history was the Abyssinian poet Hayqutan, who we’ll look at below.

But the thing is, the erstwhile regality of black Africans that Hayqutan demands we remember is only half the narrative, too. The other half is, of course, the shitty half: slavery, anti-blackness, dispossession and forced migration, and on and on. The portrait of blackness that Hayqutan presents is uncomplicated and purely laudatory, and is fit to the conditions of his time and place in which that discursive mode was sorely needed, not unlike certain threads of Afrocentrism that still have play today. And this makes sense. If you’re from a marginalized group that is publicly disdained and doesn’t often have a chance to write its own history, when you wrest the pen away you’re probably gonna try to quickly write down all the good things about yourself that everyone else has failed to see. And draw on a few stars and suns. Maybe use some glitter (ok, a lot of glitter). W.E.B. Dubois even captured the urgency of this sentiment in his Souls of Black Folk when he said, “Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.”

However, as Frantz Fanon tells us, folks never really get to shake those other, more sinister societal perceptions: they’re projected onto their flesh like films onto a screen. Fanon phrases this as the “triple” existence of black people, in which their blackness in a white society entails a simultaneous responsibility for/consciousness of one’s own body, one’s race (and the history of racialization that led that race to be perceived the way it is), and one’s ancestors. So, to throw some mud into Hayqutan’s waters, I thought it best to stand him alongside the towering wordsmith Kendrick Lamar and his song, “DNA.”

Hayqutan:

^Miniature featuring the Negus (king) of Ethiopia and Arab delegates.

Not much is known about the poet Hayqutan the Abyssinian, but the poem translated below is found in an extremely well-known work, the satirist al-Jahiz’s ribald treatise, “The Boasts of the Blacks Over the Whites,” or Fakhr al-Sudan ‘ala-l-Bidan—a tongue-in-cheek vindication voiced by a group of blacks (called “Zanj”) against their scornful white peers. Al-Jahiz gives some context for Hayqutan’s declamation: the poet recites a poem about black Africans’ glories on the heels of a smarting, racialized insult to his dignity. According to the anecdote, the Umayyad-era poet al-Jarir, himself infamous for his acerbic flytings and rivalries with his peers, took one look at the dark-skinned Hayqutan dressed in a white shirt and remarked that he looked like “a donkey’s cock wrapped in parchment.” In addition to being absurd, this insult is also charged with a variety of significances: one of the most prized breeds of donkey in early Islamic lands was a genus called “Nubian” asses, who were noted for their dark pelts and whose name implies a sub-Saharan provenance. The organs of donkeys and those of black men were also often compared in size and appearance in early Arabic writings as a way of suggesting the priapism of black men, and this hyper-sexualization of black Africans was a great way of stoking fear of the “other” and legitimating mechanisms of social control that were raced and classed, and also gendered: keeping free women under close surveillance and away from certain types of people becomes a matter of preserving their “safety” and sexual purity in such a social ideology. Hayqutan was, rightly, sufficiently angered by this invective that he was motivated to drop some history on Jarir. In addition, though, since Jarir insulted his manhood, Hayqutan sees fit to do the same along the way. My translation of the poem below was made with reference to Tarif Khalidi’s, but I’ve added in some of the colloquial flavor that I think his version was lacking,

Though I be frizzy-haired, with deep-black skin, I am open-handed, and of resplendent mien And indeed blackness of color is not among my flaws, When on the day of battle, I strike forth with a sword If you so covet glory for inessential trifles, Then the troops of the Negus prove more glorious than you! While Julandā, Ibn Kisrā, and Ḥārith, Hawdha and al-Qibṭī and the august Caesar all disdained [the faith], Out of all the kings, [the Negus] attained prosperity through it, His rule lengthened before him, impregnable and enriched And Luqmān was among [the blacks], and his son, and his half-brother And Abraha, the ruler who is not to be ignored Abū Yaksūm waged war against you, in the Mother of your abodes And you were like a handsome pinch of sand, or even more, [Yet] you were like water fowl when, in the wasteland, A dark creature, talons hooked, lusts after her Were it not that God cast his protection over [Mecca], You would’ve learned something, And the man of experience is the smartest, after all And what all is [your] glory, except that before [the Ḥarām] You pitch your tents at evening, close by, your fires flaring? Every so often, a leader from among you toddles forward, grudge-bearing, Time and again we contest him; time and again he retreats! And for all you’ve remarked of being entwined with prophethood, You don’t even have custodianship over the cloth-covered Ḥarām! You have said, ‘[Ours is] a tax-free state, we don’t fork over tribute!’ Yet giving over tribute is easier than flight. And were there a desire to be crowned over [Mecca], Surely Ḥimyar would have alighted upon her with its sovereign Yet within her [confines] there’s no place to pass the winter, nor the summer, Nor do her waters spill forth like Baḥrayn’s Ju’āthā There’s no place to pasture livestock, nor a hunting-ground, But hey, there’s commerce… and trade makes people coarse. Are you not a little Kulaybī dog? And is your mother not a ewe? You achieve shame and fame but by fatness of your sheep!

Now, there’s a lot going on here, and the gender dynamics of the poem may not be super obvious at first glance. So, if I may get philological on y’all for a minute (sorry, I am so sorry), I’ll start with all of the little emasculating Easter eggs embedded in the poem. Hayqutan retaking control of his masculinity begins explicitly enough with the image of the poet brandishing his sword on the battlefield, but the image of differential masculinities also resounds in the following line, in which Hayqutan rebukes Jarir for “covet[ing] glory for inessential trifles (tabghī al-fakhr li-ghayri kuhnihi).” The verb tabghī, meaning also, “to whore,” places Jarir in the position of corrupting the purity and essence (kuhn) of fakhr, or pride and glory, while the bold warrior Hayqutan is rendered its defender.

The idea that the Arabs are ill-equipped to safeguard their virtue and that of their women is also encoded in the discussion of the Axumite siege of Mecca, in which the general al-Ashram Abu Yaksum, marched on the Ka‘aba. In addition to being his patronym, the term Abū Yaksūm also recalls al-Ashram’s role as the leader of the denizens of Axum, the territory of the Abyssinians. This “father” (ab) of a nation is cast as staging an assault against the “mother” (umm) of the Arabs’ abodes. Like the masculine figure assailing the feminine figure in this line, the Abyssinians are also masculinized and Arabs feminized in the following line, with the assailants manifesting as a dark, clawed beast that “lusts” (hawā) after the grammatically feminine flock of water fowl (ṭayr al-mā’). Even when the Arabs produce a leader, this figure is depicted as juvenile: he toddles (yadlif) forward, his temperament moody as he nurses an old grudge (ḥafīẓa). He is cast as retreating (yadbur), which may also literally mean to turn one’s back. One is reminded of the image, common to much wine poetry of this period, of the sexually yielding, inexperienced male youth. This general impression of unmanliness is clinched in the subsequent line, in which the Arabs are cast as unable even to guard the cloth-covered bayt al-ḥarām, meaning the sacred Ka‘aba enrobed in its traditional kiswa tapestry, but also evoking an abstract and putatively inviolable (ḥarām), veiled (musattir) feminine entity. All of these gendered putdowns are bracketed by recurrent uses of the root f-kh-r, connoting boasting, glory, and pride, as well as the genre of poetry in which vaunting of one’s qualities occurs (and of course, this also echoes the treatise’s title). Fakhr of the likes had by the unnamed masses of troops (rahṭ) commanded by the Negus, or Abyssinian king, is not found amongst the Arabs, least of all the Kulaybī Jarīr (whose tribe name also means “little dog”), whose people are only suited to being the caretakers of sheep.

So, in short, Hayqutan turns the civilizational tables: Mecca is a backwater with bad weather and—to judge by Jarir and his tribe—even worse citizens. Axum, meanwhile, is a nation of people who recognized the truth of Islam without it being hand-delivered to them on a silver platter. The Axumites, even at the height of their military power, wouldn’t have bothered trying to conquer such a place. The only reason that the Arabs manage to retain it themselves is because God is on their side. We may note, though, that Hayqutan begins his poem with a bit of apologia. Rather than saying, “black is beautiful,” and telling Jarir that he’s just plain wrong to have the views that he has, he begins, tellingly, with “though I be frizzy-haired, with deep black skin.” This “though” indicates that Hayqutan has, at least at some level, internalized the social devaluation of his physical features. When he claims that his blackness is not a flaw of his because he shows up and shows out for battles, he doesn’t mean that blackness is not a fault in the absolute sense, but rather than his character overcomes it, and that he cannot be “blamed” for his darkness in the final tallying. While Hayqutan regurgitates these commonplace notions of black inferiority reflexively, Kendrick Lamar’s video for “DNA” critiques this phenomenon by staging internalized racism as an external, real argumentative adversary: his fraught inner monologue is depicted at first as a conversation (held in an interrogation room) between two different characters with conflicted and conflicting visions of black culture and heritage, with one side upheld by Lamar himself and the other by none other than Don Cheadle. Peep the video and the lyrics below.

Kendrick Lamar:

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(And here are the lyrics.)

Ok, before we begin an analysis of Lamar’s song, let’s just make one thing crystal clear: he is a genius. I will not pretend to be able to account thoroughly for even an iota of all the content of this masterpiece, but let’s give it a shot [cracks knuckles audibly].

The title and conceptual centerpiece of the song is the idea of DNA, and this cuts in several directions. The one that the song structurally prioritizes is the capacity of DNA to mark, to incriminate, and to ultimately get one killed. The acronym is re-rendered not as deoxyribonucleic acid (nerds are gonna keep me honest if I don’t put this here…), but instead as “Dead N***** Association,” and this reconfiguration of the acronym is underlaid by a sampling of commentary about police brutality. Black men being killed because they are black here has its scientific context exposed, drawing it into analogy with other types of biologized racism that have justified the dehumanization and abuse of black bodies, in that in either case somatic traits mark you for specific treatment, and are even interpreted as signs that the treatment is “deserved.” While DNA can be used rigorously for evidence in criminal cases (evoked by the setting of the interrogation room), by linking it conceptually with death at the outset, Lamar forces us to recall DNA analysis’ much dumber, much more racist cousin in the form of eugenics. The core idea of racial eugenics is that you can genetically engineer an “ideal” (white, physically able, etc.) society. Black people being killed because they are black (i.e. because of their genetic makeup) also alters the fabric of society more broadly, changing its “DNA” by prejudicially reducing one section of its population. He makes clear, though, that it is his oppressors’ DNA that is the “abomination,” and not his own.

DNA can also have a positive valence: it is one way that our pasts and our ancestors are encoded into our own bodies. Lamar expresses pride at this heritage, saying that traits such as pride, hustle, ambition, wealth, and power are all part of his social inheritance, though they coexist alongside pain, poison, and rot. His DNA makes him unique (it is not to be imitated), but also places him in a genealogy of kings (he refers explicitly to having royalty in his DNA). When Lamar refers to money and power as the “Mecca of marriages,” he doesn’t simply mean that it’s the marriage of all marriages (with Mecca colloquially being used to mean a hub or an epitome of something), he is also referencing the massive wealth and power enjoyed by black rulers who had a relationship with the city, from the Negus mentioned above (who Lamar also references in his song “I”) to the famed Mansa Musa of the 14th-century Malian empire, who supposedly spent so much of his wealth in gold en route to make pilgrimage to Mecca that he disrupted the entire economy of the Middle East/North Africa region. In saying that he is “Yeshua’s new weapon,” Lamar hearkens both to his own Christianity and to the idea that, in making himself an instrument of God, he has joined yet another community: he is the creation not only of his African ancestors, but of his Lord Jesus Christ, who is himself part of a line of prophets and kings. Lamar mentions sharing DNA with soldiers “born inside the beast,” which gestures toward the more quotidian heroism of the people to whom he is related that have managed to survive in a hostile world. If we unpack the allusions buried in the song, we unearth a number of powerful figures that are part of a shared black heritage, both genetically and symbolically. This archaeological process of digging into hidden meanings that Lamar’s intricate lyrics compels is itself a reflection of the work that he and so many others have had to do in discovering their heritage, which is often not taught in school, to say nothing of it figuring in popular consciousness.

^Depiction of Mansa Musa in the Catalan Atlas.

Unlike Hayqutan, Lamar mixes the pain with the exultation and the contemporary with the past. Though his song is relatively chaste, he still advises towards the end of the first that the material he is discussing necessitates “put[ting] the kids to bed.” He follows this, though, not with a recollection of the horrors of the black past but rather morphs into a critical interlocutor who is calling out the imagined “evil,” the excess of riches, and the troubling pastimes of people of Lamar’s ilk, like driving recklessly in fancy cars (a staple image in the music video). This section closes with the accusatory statement, “I know just who you are,” seemingly voiced by an entity that wishes to negatively typecast Lamar and his peers, a sentiment later echoed by his sampling of Fox talking head Geraldo Rivera’s derisive remarks about hip-hop being a corrupting force more endangering to youth than racism. Thus, Lamar takes aim at society’s pathologizing rhetoric around black success, wealth, and joy—and especially that which is earned and expressed by artists who are articulating aspects of the black experience. In the next section of the song, Lamar talks about his own childhood and the difficulties of upbringing, adding that he has nonetheless achieved excellence through grit and hard work. In contrast to Hayqutan, who recalls a time and a society in which black people were able to freely exercise agency to effect their own collective success and could launch grand political endeavors, Lamar focuses on the current reality of a society stacked against such triumphs.

In short, Lamar’s song engages with the misleading nature of popular perceptions and the manner in which images and anecdotal evidence are amassed by society and labeled “facts” in such a way as to perpetually disadvantage black people, be it the scientific instantiation of social difference or the ascription of negative social impacts to aspects of black culture, and most specifically rap and hip-hop. Against the backdrop of all of this, though, there exists a set of common values and a cultural heritage that Kendrick Lamar feels are innate to his identity, and the entirety of his oeuvre shows that he is loth to let anyone forget them. Like Hayqutan, who emphasizes black valor, generosity, and piety, Lamar, too, emphasizes that he is a tool of God, descended from kings, and loyal to his people.

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What’s Bred in the Bone: Part III

Mass Effect: Andromeda

Jaal x Sara Ryder

A 600 year nap and a 2.5 million light-year journey to find out the answer: are humans and angara genetically compatible?

Rated M for strong language, some sexuality and violence. Alien-human pregnancy fic.

Spoilers for Jaal's romance and loyalty mission, and end of game.

Part III of ??? - Part I - Part II - Part IV - Part V

“She will be in good hands, brother,” Jaal’s sister Teviint snapped at him, her hand on his shoulder and practically shoving him out the door. Sara could see it did nothing for his anxiousness.

“Teviint -- “

“Jaal,” she responded back, exasperation laced through her voice. “You know as well as I do that Evfra will be very angry if you don’t make it in time. Go, brother. She is family now, and I won’t allow her to come to harm.”

Jaal looked Teviint squarely in the face. Unspoken words hung heavy in the air, and Jaal opened his mouth to say something.

“I trust her,” Sara said, injecting herself between Jaal and Teviint. And added very quietly: “She won’t make the same mistake twice.”

Jaal looked between his new wife and his sister, whose face was still set.

“Alright,” he relented, and bent his head down to place a warm kiss on Sara’s lips. Both of his hands found hers for a tender squeeze and he murmured softly in her ear. “There’s a pistol under the bed if you need it.”

“Go,” she sighed good-naturedly. It was surprisingly quiet (as far as dangers went) at the Ama Darav home; Sara doubted she would need it. And she did trust Teviint’s word.

The two of them still did not get along very well. Teviint usually avoided eye contact or stared at her, depending. Sara found it best to ignore it. When her pregnancy was announced to the family and the marriage was decided on, Teviint did voice her concerns. Often. And loudly.

But if it was one thing that Sara learned about angara was that family was everything. And Teviint, having had shot her own brother, had a lot to prove to the family. What better way than to protect the newest -- and pregnant -- addition? Especially when that one was disliked and alien?

Jaal gave her one last parting kiss before going to check her gear. Teviint stalked off back to the house, and Sara was left alone, watching the others climb into the shuttle.

“You okay?” Scott said, coming up beside her. He was in armor, ready to head out in her place. Her stomach twisted and she looked down.

“Yeah,” she answered dejectedly.

“Cheer up,” he said. “At least you can stay here and relax. We have to go and get dirty.”

“I loved getting dirty,” Sara mock-whined.

“Hey, you had your adventures. You kicked the Archon’s ass. It’s my turn now,” Scott said, putting an arm around his twin’s shoulders.

“Yeah, the Archon and Roekaar are totally equivalent,” she teased back. “I did all the hard work.”

“Ohohoh, excuse me, big sis, whose mind was being violated at Meridian again?”

“Uh, who has died like three times already? And also has to pee about a hundred times a day? And has heartburn that would put Elaadin to shame? And --”

“Alright, you two, this isn’t a pissing contest,” Vetra called over to them. “Spirits, I feel bad for your mother.”

“Remember what Mom used to say when we would give her trouble?” Scott said fondly, his voice low. “‘One day, you two will pay for your raising.’ Think your twins will give you as much trouble?”

“I’m just trying to get through this pregnancy without a nervous breakdown, I haven’t even thought about that. If they’re as bad as we were, I am so glad they’ll have such a big family and many mothers.”

“Yeah,” Scott said, shaking his head. “I still don’t quite get angaran families. Many mothers -- but they’re generally monogamous?”

“I think they embody the phrase, ‘It takes a village to raise a child.’ As far as I can tell, some of it has to do with how the translators were originally calibrated. They have several different words for brother and/or sister, depending on birth order or which mother they come from. Whoever did the translations just lumped it all under ‘brother’ or ‘sister,’ but Jaal has been teaching me the subtleties. Also, there are thousands and thousands of dialects -- ”

“You are such a fucking nerd,” Scott deadpanned.

“Shut the fuck up,” Sara sighed. “And get everyone home safe.”

Sara’s melancholy came back by the time she set foot in the house. Watching the shuttle take off without her was more difficult every time. Even more difficult was the thought of going with them again and leaving the twins behind.

One day, she would do that. She wondered how Sahuna or her father did it, time after time.

“Hey, Sara,” a voice broke her thoughts, and she was startled to see Teviint waving her over.

“Hey,” she said uncertainly, taking a seat next to the angara woman.

“Listen,” Teviint started, eyeing her with distaste. “I don’t like you, and you don’t like me -- “

“I like you just fine,” Sara interrupted. Teviint seemed genuinely taken aback by that. “I don’t expect you to like me, though. That’s okay. You may never like me, and that’s okay too. But… but I’d like us to at least be able to respect each other enough to work together. For the babies, at least. And Jaal.”

Teviint seemed to let go of some of the tension her body had been holding. “Yeah. I think I can do that. And… thank you. For trusting me.”

“You deserved the chance,” Sara said simply. She hoped it was the first step in gaining Teviint’s trust in return.

“Okay. Well, just… don’t wander off. I don’t want to drag you out of some predator’s teeth.”

Sara laughed at that. “I’d prefer not to have the bite marks anyways, so deal. Although it might be worth it to see how Sahuna would react -- “

The sound Teviint made in her throat was somewhere between an alarmed squeak and a warning growl. It made Sara laugh even harder.

“Watch that left flank!” Scott ordered into the comm, and Jaal dashed out from cover. The Roekaar’s gun tracked him, but uselessly fired only after he hit cover again. Akksul’s recruits were noticeably less well trained than before, and it only took Jaal a glance out to identify the best method of attack before executing it. The Roekaar was no more after that.

The battle raged on around him. It was a large one, and the din was almost deafening, but he could still hear Drack’s gleeful laughs over it.

It made him wince.

However wrong the Roekaar were, however misguided their views, and however much Jaal would defend himself and his Tempest crew with his dying breath, he still hated to fight his fellow angara.

He didn’t blame the old krogan for taking pleasure in battle. It was just his way, he had long ago learned. He just wished it wasn’t against people he once called comrades.

But this mission was too important to be distracted. Regardless of it all, the only thing mattered was getting to the command center, and hoped that Evfra’s intel was solid.

Ducking around a corner, he cloaked himself, reaching for his knife. With four great strides, and sliding over a fallen pillar, it was buried in the chink of the armor of his next target, and a second, before a third could even defend herself.

“Keep pushing!” Cora’s voice came over the comm, followed by a huge biotic explosion, above and to the right of Jaal. It distracted his opponent long enough for him to get a few good shots in, and she was gone as well.

He ducked down again, pausing to take a breath and check his ammo. Still good. He caught his second wind, and lept up over the cover into battle once more.

It was thirty more minutes before the Roekaar force broke and scattered. The command center was left undefended, and the team regrouped at the door, where Scott and SAM were hacking the door together.

“Hope this is the end of it,” Scott panted to Jaal. “She didn’t suspect anything, did she? Before we left in the shuttle?”

“No,” Jaal replied. “Unless you noticed something?”

“No. She was just… sad she couldn’t go with us.”

“In time, it will be the reverse.”

“Yeah. Okay, I think we’re through,” Scott said.

Cora nodded. “Okay. Drack, Vetra, you stand guard out here. Peebee, Liam, can you get up on the roof and give them some cover?”

She got affirmatives, and the team spread out. Scott, Jaal and Cora, however, readied their weapons and opened the door.

The command center was dark; the only lights came from the backup power to the consoles.

“Scans indicate no life signs in the room. It is abandoned,” SAM intoned. This puzzled Jaal. Abandoned, systems only on backup power… and he got a bad feeling in his chest.

A light flickered at a terminal nearby.

“I think… we’re getting a phone call,” Scott murmured. “What in the hell…”

“Do we… do we answer?” Cora asked incredulously.

“Perhaps we should answer… then be ready to run,” Jaal growled. The others agreed, and he punched the button.

Akksul’s face appeared on the screen.

“Jaal. I must thank you,” the other man started unceremoniously. “Those monstrosities you’ve sired have opened the floodgates for me. Where once the Roekaar were nearly fractured, now our resolve and our numbers are stronger than ever. Our people are starting to wake up to the fact that these vesagara are a danger to our way of life. First they move into our cluster, lay claim to worlds that should be ours by rights, and now… now they aim to dominate us by corrupting the very purity of us.”

“Akksul,” Jaal’s voice was very dangerous. “I warn you -- “

“No, old friend. I warn you. Mark my words very carefully: those things are abominations, ones I intend to rectify.”

“Why are you telling us your evil plan? We’ll just stop you,” Scott interrupted.

“A matter of honor, human. If you even understand the concept,” Akksul sneered.

“You have no honor left,” Jaal spat out. “This is only pretence. If you harm my wife or children, I swear on my bloodlines you will not know rest for the few days you will have left.”

“A chance I am willing to take for the good of our people,” he said gravely. The connection cut.

Scott swore loudly.

“This is much worse than Evfra’s intel,” Cora said. “What do we do?”

“We must get back home,” Jaal said, turning and hurrying out of the room.

His heart thudded against his chest during the shuttle ride home. Only when it touched down, just as dawn was breaking, and he dashed into his familial home to his room was he assured of his wife’s health. Sara was curled up in a nest of blankets, hair messily framing her face. He could see the steady rise and fall of her chest, indicating her deep sleep. She was fine.

He was able to breathe again. A quick kiss to her temple and a stroke to her belly and he silently closed the door behind him, leaving her in peace. She got too little of it, and there would be less now.

The team gathered in the comm room of the house -- the same room where Moshae Sjefa had offered Sara her wisdom on their wedding day.

“We need to talk about this,” Scott said quietly. Most of the household was still sleeping.

“Can we get her to a place out of the reach of the Roekaar? The Nexus?” Vetra suggested.

“And straight into Tann and Addison’s crosshairs? I thought the whole reason she was staying here was to avoid them,” Cora frowned.

“Better to deal with asshole politicians than a murderous angara,” Liam countered.

“We could keep her on the Tempest,” Scott said. “We’re always on the move anyways, and there’s no place safer. Lexi can care for her, and she can still feel involved in a Pathfinder’s role.”

Jaal stayed silent. The point of Sara living here, in his home, was of cultural significance to the angara. It made a political statement, and strengthened their claims of her status as his wife and mother of his children. And he very much wanted his children to be born in the same home he was, surrounded by his family.

But the Tempest crew was their family, too. And Scott did have a point.

He growled softly in thought.

“There is no easy answer. While Akksul’s warning was serious, he was also baiting us into doing something rash. Removing her from the family home would give his claims more weight. But not moving her would give him an opening,” Jaal explained.

“Would your people really tolerate the Roekaar attacking an angaran home? An entire family?” Vetra asked.

“Perhaps. Perhaps not. This situation is unprecedented and the politicians are scrambling. I would like to think Akksul is not fool enough to make his move unless things were more in his favor, but I believe he believes what he’s saying.”

“We have no choice,” Cora said. “Sara and the twins’ safety should come first, and to hell with politics. We can’t risk keeping her here. I’m sorry, Jaal.”

Jaal turned to Cora, fixing his gaze on her. “I hope you aren’t suggesting that I would not do what was best for my wife and children?”

“No, I mean -- “

“It doesn’t matter,” he cut her off. “Scott is right, the Tempest is the safest place, and that is where she should be.”

“Do you think…” Peebee started, and looked around. “I mean, she’s under enough stress. Maybe we shouldn’t even tell her about this? If she’s going to stay aboard most of the time, and have us around to protect her, does she even need to know until we’ve taken care of it? Because we are going to take care of it, aren’t we?”

“Peebee’s got a point,” Drack spoke up. “Sara’s tough, but I think she’s starting to crack. I don’t think the threat of assassination’s gunna help her any.”

“She’ll be pissed when she does find out,” Vetra said.

“And if she knows, she might be prepared incase something happens and we aren’t there,” Cora argued. “It might give her a fighting chance.”

“We just won’t leave her alone, then!” Peebee said brightly, as if it was so easy a solution.

“Jaal? It’s your call. It’s your wife and kids,” Scott said.

He hesitated. “No need to tell her for now,” he reluctantly decided. He hated hiding things from Sara, but he also didn’t want her to bear this burden. Not now, not when she had so much on her mind. She needed peace, and he would move the stars themselves to give it to her.

“Okay. So it’s agreed,” Scott finalized. “We’ll try to convince her to come back to the Tempest, and no one’s going to tell her about this assassination thing. Not until Jaal gives the go-ahead. Meanwhile, we need to find a way to stop Akksul. Think the Resistance could help us out with that?”

“Evfra was never willing to antagonize the Roekaar,” Jaal said. “But if we can get the government to see things more in our favor and accept Sara as a part of the family, perhaps Evfra would be willing to extend some protection to Sara, even if marginally. I don’t know, though.”

“We have to try.”

#jaal x sara ryder #jaal ama darav #sara ryder #rydarav #mass effect andromeda #whats bred in the bone

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i'm 17 now and will be in august i need to learn driving and get the license in this summer break i've the driving permit my dad is the only driver in the family's car insurance plan so, does the insurance charge more if i'm under 18? if yes, i'm going to apply it after my birthday thanx""

Would you switch car insurance companies after 10 years to save money?

Since 1997 I've been with the same car insurance company. Have had FANTASTIC service and support with claims and general questions. I use the same company for car insurance, home owner's insurance, life insurance, and to manage my IRA. When pricing out alternatives I realize that I could save about $50 a month by switching my car insurance to esurance. I attempted to get my current insurance to match their price without success. I'm very leery about possibly loosing my excellent service and support from my current company. Would you switch to a new company, and possibly a worse company, to save money?? I can easily afford my current company, but I'd obviously love having an extra $50 a month to plan with.""

Car insurance coverage help!?

Currently I have a financed car. And is still currently paying for it monthly. After doing some research and purchasing my car insurance coverage - State Farm. My dad insisted he will help me with all the process. However, after he and I got done with everything. My coverage are, A - Liability P20 - Personal Injury Protection U, W uninsured and underinsured And finally these two: D - 500 Deductible Comprehensive G - 500 Deductible Collision which I learn online it is OPTIONAL to have: ( SO WHY DO I NEED IT EXACTLY THEN? my dad try explaining it but it didn't get through my hot head. ) So can anyone please tell me is it a requirement for me to have those to coverage D & G, if not I would really like to get it off and save some money instead of throwing it out the window. Thanks.""

Do i need to add extra car insurance?

Hello. My father has a BMW and i am 16. When i am 17 i want to share the BMW with my father. My father has insurance on the car already. Its a full cover insurance. When i am 17 do i need to add extra insurance to the car or do i just leave it as it is? Do i need to add my name along with my dads name to the owner of the car?

Question about applying for health insurance?

Okay so I applied for medi-cal a few weeks ago and I didn't qualify, because i have more than $2000 on my savings account. I'm twenty one years old living with my parents and going to college with no job; would I qualify for Cover California?How much money can I have on the bank to qualify?""

Should I get insurance for my new puppy?

Just got a new pitbull about 2 weeks ago should I get insurance for her?

What is insurance company responsible for i had an accident with full coverage insurance?

I had a accident on my motorcycle 09/09/11. I had full coverage insurance, now my insurance company tells me they are not responsible for anything, I have to contact the other parties insurance. My insurance company has not even gave me a claim number,hasn't paid any dr bills. Also it totaled my bike! Why pay for full coverage if they don't do anything for you?""

Which 1 is the best and Cheap Car Insurance?

Plz Help! Just bought a Car and Looking 4 a good Deal! :)

Got a fine for no car insurance.?

I got a fine for no car insurance in CA, what will possibly happen to me? I'm fearing the worst...although there should be no excuse for it I didn't have the money at the time.""

Home insurance?

I am buying a home. How do I find a home insurance company? Will my mortgage company help me with that?

What kind of insurance would i get for a honda cbr 600 (im 16)?

im moving out to california after highschool to pursue the music industry so i figured it might pay for itself in gas money, but then i started to think about insurance...

I receive a health insurance stipend but keep it in savings instead. is this okay?

i went from being fully covered with my company in los angeles, but i moved to new york 7 months ago, where their insurance doesn't cover. in lieu of this, they give me a stipend. however, it's not nearly enough to cover cost of insurance here, so i've been putting it in a savings account until i can afford a plan in my budget and/or emergency health situations. my boss just asked me for proof of insurance. i will tell the truth of the matter, but what will happen? what can they do?""

What car has the cheapest insurance for a 17 year old new driver?

looking at cars, i would like something that looks alright like a clio etc""

Health Insurance for Newborn baby?

I get health insurance through my job but I think I can get a better quote than what they offer if I go about it independently. What suggestions do you all have in terms of a good health insurance coverage? Is it best to have a higher deductible and lower premium or vice versa for a newborn? I want what will be the best for him but the most affordable for us. Thanks! :)

I want to buy a Mazda RX8 with 69xxxx miles. is it a good car and how much does insurance cost for these cars?

How come i don't see many of these cars around?

How can I get my insurance cheaper?

21 years old 0 claims bonus first bike : 1998 r1 (already got it) what are some ways to get my insurance down? thanks

Do you need tax and insurance for little scooters?

I presume you do. I was going to buy one as a pressie for my partner who has does not have a licience. Just wondered what the costs of running a scooter was? UK only please. Thank you.

Can car insurance co. replace my damage car if they are at fault?

Car insurance?

my husband has just been sent a letter saying he has been done for doing 38 in a 30mph limit and has encured 60 fine and 3 penalty points. what is the situation regarding his car insurance . does he have to inform them about it? i think he should but my sister says you dont have to.

Why should anyone be fined for not buying health insurance?

What should someone do if he/she is unable to afford it? Also, wouldn't such a law actually hurt the people it was supposed to help?""

Are there any sites where I can compare average insurance rates by model?

I want to get an idea of how much it would cost to insure different cars, but I don't want a quote because they will never leave me alone.""

Whats a cheap insurance In nj?

For a person with a new lisence thats 18 years old

Looking to get a car insurance but...........?

Looking to get a car insurance but i am not sure what it covers and what should i ask my insurer to include in my policy?

""Renter's insurance, is it worth it?""

I keep on getting these ads from Geico on the renter's insurance packages that they offer. I am renting right now and has one roommate. I've gotten mixed opinions on the renter's insurance, some say it's not worth it some say it is. So what do you guys think? I don't think it's that much money, maybe like $20 a month or something like that?""

Car insurance.....???

What is the best Insurance Company for young adults? I'm 23 years old. Who can save me the most money??

Which dental insurance/plan?

i recently came to the US from UK and i have 2 teeth at front that were once chipped and now built up with 'cement'. i plan to possibly have a couple boxing matches while im here. so im looking for a purely dental plan that covers things like the possibility of my tooth chipping again etc. but would also like basic dental coverage while im here too (as my wisdom teeth are coming through n its possible i might need them removed?)

Do insurance companies raise premiums based on points or violations?

I have two tickets one for stop sign, and one for speeding. My question is which one should I turn in my traffic school certificate with to erase the point. I know they are both 1 point violations on my dmv record. Will it make a difference to my insurance rates? By the way I have USAA.""

Would using a motorbike for a year make insuring a car cheaper?

i'm at college and i am looking at learning to drive a car and i was wondering that if i used a motorbike or moped for a year without claiming on insurance would it decrease the cost of car insurance? because that is what my friends have been saying

What is grandfathered health insurance coverage?

I am trying to define the Health Care Reform Act of 2009 in plain English, and I keep coming across the phrase above. What does it mean?""

Does anyone know of affordable family health insurance?

i need an affordable family health insurance

How much would I have to pay for car insurance?

I'm 18 years old and I just bought my first car and have no legal driving experience. Dose anyone know what's the most money I would have to pay for insurance?

On average how much does it cost to deliver a baby in a hospital?

With insurance, what is usually the total parents have to pay?""

How much would this cost to insure?

Hi, I'm looking to buy my first car. Two I have my eyes on are an automatic 2002 Chevy Camaro and a manual 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder. Both cost just over 5k. I'm 17, a male, I have good grades, I don't smoke or do drugs, I'm in honors classes and I've taken drivers ed. Approximately how much would they cost to insure? Please don't say They're too challenging to drive , or They have too much power. I've driven cars with power before (both manual and auto) and I don't find it challenging at all. I have pretty good hand eye coordination. Also, my apologies if this somehow gets asked in the UK answers, I'm asking this fairly late at night.""

Whats the best and the cheapest insurance for a 20 year old?

im in las vegas but, can anyone help on how to obtain cheap insurance or whats a way to get cheap insurance even if its by getting on my mothers insurance""

Can someone else drive my car if i have cancel my insurance cover?

I am going on holiday for 5 months and thinking of cancelling my car insurance. My car is taxed until next year and wondering if my brother can drive my car if I have cancelled my car insurace? (he has his own insurance for his car), does he has to add my car reg on his insurance? Please HELP...""

""How much, on average, does it cost to add an umbrella policy to your homeowners insurance? i'm just looking

for a starting point. a general ballpark figure or range for how much this type of additional insurance costs. thanks in advance for any help.

What kind of insurance would i get for a honda cbr 600 (im 16)?

im moving out to california after highschool to pursue the music industry so i figured it might pay for itself in gas money, but then i started to think about insurance...

""I am a nursing student in California, where could I get a professional liability insurance in the amount of..?""

$1, 000, 000 per occurence/$3, 000, 000/aggregate. Please give me their internet sites so I could read on.""

Classic / antique auto insurance in ny cheap?

Im looking to get cheap classic auto insurance. for a car thats more than 25 years old. Its going to be a show car, and rarely be driven. Liability only. I live in NY, so company must be available in NY, and be cheap. Thanks.""

Currently on my parent's auto insurance plan. Can I get motorcycle insurance with a different company without it affecting my current plan?

""Buying a car tomorrow, being added on to parents insurance, do I pay up front or ?""

Buying a car tomorrow, being added onto parents insurance, do I pay up front or am i just added to the updated rate the next month?""

What type of insurance in Alabama covers the REVERSAL of a bilateral tubal ligation? what is the cost?

""Which is the best car insurance in uk, cost wise and service wise.?""

Which is the best car insurance in uk, cost wise and service wise.?""

What is the best rated and least expensive car insurance for a female age 19 with a clean driving record ?t?

The car is an SUV 94 ford astro van in California.Know that only need collision coverage...Thanks for helping

Does getting married change your insurance?

I am currently covered by my parents health and dental insurance plan, but if I were to be wedded, would I no longer be able to use their insurance? I've been told that it changes, but I've also been told It is no longer like that anymore since Obamacare.""

Could anyone recommend a decent car insurer for a 17yr old female in the UK???

I am looking for cheap car insurance, the cheapest I have found is 860 fully comp for a Fiat Punto. I would like to find cheaper, could anyone recommed an insurer??? Thanks, Jay""

How much is car insurance in New Jersey?

my sister lives in new jersey and she is wondering how much is the insurance going to cost. She doesn't have a car yet .. she is 17 .. what does she need in order to get a car. Like how much should she save up in order for her to be able to buy a car.. ..

Help me with a car tax/insurance question please?

I just bought a used car that isn't taxed I am trying to swap my insurance over to the new car but the problem is I heard you can't insure a car without it having car tax but whilst trying to tax it I read on the dvla website will this vehicle have valid insurance by the time the tax begins so what do i do first?

Do you get motorcycle insurance before or after you buy it?

Can I afford to get pregnant?

My husband and I are both in school and working part time. We currently don't have health insurance because we can't get it through our jobs and can't afford any outside insurance. We really want to have a baby, but are worried about paying for all of the pre/postnatal care. Is there a way to get help without putting us in tons of debt?""

""Should I get Jaguar car, which one, and how much will I pay to maintain it?""

I want a cool car. I totally fall in love with Jaguar. But, I also dont want to spend a lot on gas and insurance. So, should I get it? I'm 19 years old, male. How much do I have to pay the insurance probably? And what if it's a Volt? Is that better? And how much will I have to pay to maintain it? I'm California.""

Cheap insurance for a 16 year old female?? for a 2009 Toyota Corolla LE?

Student has 4.5 gpa? In California

Best Car Insurance For ME?

I am nineteen years old, have a child, am married, and am in college. Does anyone have any recommendations on CHEAP car insurance? I plan on getting a used vehicle that I can pay cash for on the spot.""

What would the minimum insurance for a 2008 Ford Ranger truck for someone over 30 w/ a good driving record?

...in Texas. A female. Can you recommend one?

Why does / or should my Car insurance RISE?

Since I have changed my car insurance co, my insurance rates had dropped... only in small amounts - but they have dropped over the past few periods. Suddenly, my rates RISE! =:-o I have had no tickets, no accidents, no reason on my record leaning toward any reason to rise my insurance costs. - I am calling my agent, tomorrow to ask about this. Should I expect the reply to be all insurance rates rise... there is no avoiding it! or how should I design AN ANSWER to this issue to develop a $aving reply?""

Is it shameful to let your son/daughter go without health insurance?

When I turned 21, I got taken off my parents' health insurance. I did not have a job at the time, and could not afford to buy insurance on my own, so I was forced to go without it. Well, I became very sick and was hospitalized for 4 days with food poisoning. The hospital bills total around $50,000, and I was denied Medicaid because I was paying $1400 a month in rent (money I accumulated through prostitution, if you want the truth), and the hospital's social worker felt if I could afford $1400/month in rent, I could afford the hospital bills. Friends of mine at the time were really hard on my parents, especially my mom, saying what kind of a lousy mother would let her son go without health insurance? No editorial comment from me. I'm just curious what other people think. Do I have lousy parents because they let me go without health insurance?""

Cheapest cars to insure for a 17 year old?

I was wondering what cars would be the cheapest to insure for a new driver, aged 17. I heard there is all these different groups which relate to the amount of insurance you would have to pay. Also, I would prefer a decent car, so if you know any decent, cheap to insure cars! pleaseeee let me know! thanks! :D""

""Where can I find cheap teen car insurance in Cincinnati, OH?""

Few people in my family actually drive with a license let alone insurance(not including my mother) she doesn't even drive. I'm only 17, how can I and where can I get CHEAP car insurance from?""

""Car with fault, expensive to repair. can it be and insurance write off job ?""

If i had a car with a fault that was too expensive to repair, is there any way i can claim insurance writs off with insurers.""

Need cheap insurance?

i need insurance 4 missus 24/f/bham housewife just passed first car 1.4 pug 106.

How much can i expect to pay for insurance?

Hi, Well im about to finance a Mercedes-Benz C300 and wanted to know how much should i expect to pay for insurance. Im 19 by the way, have a credit score of 710, dont know if insurance companies look at scores, but finally, this will be my first car. Hope that helps. Thank you!""

Car Rental Insurance?

Liability Insurance Supplement 11.95 USD Loss Damage Waiver 19.99 USD Personal Accident Insurance / Personal Effects Coverage 5.95 USD Which ones are really needed? We won't be carrying any luggage. We are only driving from San Antono to the coast and back for business. One day trip.

What kind of insurance would i get for a honda cbr 600 (im 16)?

im moving out to california after highschool to pursue the music industry so i figured it might pay for itself in gas money, but then i started to think about insurance...

How much do you insure for the Bodily Injury Limits?

What is Bodily Injury Limits on your car insurance? What is the limit should I have and why?

How much would Insurance be to lease a 2006 Dodge Charger R/T. I want to lease a car under my cousins name. ?

My cousin has great credit and she is 23. Would the insurance price differ alot between a 2006 & 2008 model? An estimate would be fine.

Car Insurance on a 2007 Dodge Charger SXT?

I am a 17 year old guy and i was just wondering roughly how much insurance would be on this car. I know its probably really high i just wanted kind of a rough estimate ! -I have my G2 -I completed Drivers Ed -I live in Ontario -The car is used

Insurance differences based on Gender?

I'm curious... If insurance companies made you pay a different amount of Insurance on your Car based on race, would that not be racist ? ie. How does this differ from Women and Men paying different Insurance rates ? How is that not Sexist ?""

I have a a term life insurance calculator?

I have a term life insurance calculator, i want to place the link in to other sites which are relevant to term life insurance. Can any one please suggest me list of those sites which are relevant to term life insurance or any article or blogs site which belongs to an individual person and is relevant to life insurance. Please provide me only US site. thanks""

Replace Old Car Insurance or Go With a New Policy?

I just bought a new car and quoted Progressive about replacing my old car with the new one, seeing how much a difference the premium would be. It got a little high, to say the least. When I tried just going through adding a new vehicle alongside the old one, the premium was about what I paid on the old vehicle originally, only with comprehensive and collision added. My question is, should I go with a completely different company rather than Progressive, let the old car insurance expire, and just get on a better rate elsewhere for new policy holders? I'd appreciate any help.""

Im 19 need health insurance?

Im 19 and I really need affordable health insurance. Neither for my parents can afford to put me on their insurance. Also i have a few preexisting medical conditions that makes it harder for me to find insurance.

On average how much does home insurance cost?

Or if you could help me out further, how much would home insurance normally run on a $200,000 house?""

Insurance policy??????

My car insurance is under my dad's name hes the policy holder im 22 years old from new york I was involved in a car accident 2 months ago i was at no fault since i was rear ended today geico called and said they are raising my dad's preimum by 200 dollars since now they will add me to the policy why are they doing this ....is it because of the accident they said the only way it won't be raise if he takes me off his policy and the car and has to provide proof that im insured by another company im going away for college so i wont need my car which belongs to my dad is there anyway to do somethin to not raise his premium and is it wise to go to another insurance company please help and advice

Motorcycle insurance requirements in KY?

My son is financing a motorcycle through HSHB. If he gets full coverage its $1000 a year. If he gets just liability is $400 a year. The dealer says he doesn't have to get anything but Liability in Kentucky. He has extended 36 month warranty plan. His bike cost $4000. My son wants to get just liability. My question is will he have any coverage if someone steals his bike if he doesn't have full coverage?

""Car Insurance, what Car shall i get?""

I am living in the UK and i am 18 i want to buy a car that has very cheap car insurance, but i don't want a car that a lot of people drive if its unavoidable then i'll buy one but i'd rather have somehing diffrent""

Is auto insurance cheaper in the U.S or in Europe?

According to my father in Europe auto insurance is cheaper because when you get a ticket they don't work with points you just pay the ticket and the car insurance never finds out about it anybody know if this is true.

Good auto insurance company in St. Jonh's Canada?

I'm looking for a cheap auto insurance companies in NL. Can anybody help me on this please? I'm from New Zealand and was paying $70 a year for my car insurance and was blew away with the amount of the insurance in Canada. I know it's depends on car type driving record etc, but I just need names of companies which is generally cheap.""

Car insurance for teen?

My dad says that by me getting my permit(haven't got yet) his insurance deductable will go from 200$ to 500$. I need help with finding a popular insurance company that has low-cost coverage for teenage drivers.

Shipping insurance? ?

I am selling my ipod on ebay. It will probably sell around $175-$200. I want to offer shipping insurance. How much should I say it is? Is there an actual percent?

Why do we care about the people who have no health insurance?

they chose not to get insurance... they chose to by 200 dollar shoes over health insurance.. why do i have to pay for them?????? why am i responsible for someone elses well being? i thought adults were good on their own. i would pay taxes for sal healthcare for ALL children but the adults can go **** themselves who dont have it. its not my problem. i dont have many things that i want to get... i dont see anyone else buying the things i want...

Why was my car insurance quote so cheap?

im a 17 yr old male and i have recently bought a 1.2 Peugeot 206 look for 700, i know car insurance for boys my age are stupidly expensive so when i was looking at quotes it came as no shock until i got a quote for 750 for third party fire and theft, i have no idea why its so cheap, i checked the quote through about 5 times to make sure i didn't make any mistakes but i hadn't . can anyone explain why its so low ? i don't want to buy the insurance just in case it turns out to be an expensive mistake.""

Question about car insurance on L PLATES in england?

Hi there,i was wondering if you could please help me here i am due to take my theary test soon but befour i do i was going to get a car and drive round on L PLATES with my lessons aswell so i can get extra experiance,i was just wondering if i am to do this il get the car inshored forwhat it costs me to insure say its 700 a year when i have passed my best i will wanna take the L PLATES off,will i have to pay more for my insurance after this or can i just take them off and drive as normal when i have passed my test?because if i got insured on LPLATES it is cheaper then a first pasts driver thas why i was confused.if you could please let me know because i really could do with the estra experiance....and also i was told that who ever i drive round with on LPLATES has to be insured on my car for them to be able to instruct me is this true? thanks for your time and help many thanks, Andrew.""

Why do i have to pay car insurance?

okay, ive been driving for about 3 years now (im18) and in those 3 years ive had to pay about over $200 a month for car insurance plus the yearly down payment of $600. and in those 3 years ive never been in an accident. im always cautious, drive good, etc... where has all that money gone? its a robbery i tell ya. its a scam, a waste of money. an extra burden on our shoulders. now my license is suspended for not paying insurance. i barely have enough to pay rent and other bills. so why pay $200 a month for something i dont need? there must be some other way. i know what you people are gonna say. your too young, you could get into an accident and all that other bull shte. and thats all it is. bull shte. or, you never know when the accident will happen. okay. but what about the 3 years? 3 times 600 down payment is 1,8000. plus the 200 time 36 months is. $9000 total... wtf? and if i ever did get an accident, it wont be as big as that of a bill. all im saying is. is there any way i can legally drive without having to pay insurance? i live in florida. what if i got a lawyer to fight the case. saying car insurance is a fraud?""

Do I need to have insurance before buying a car?

I canceled my car insurance a year ago, because I didn't have a car. Now I am ready to buy one again. Do I need to have insurance BEFORE buying the car, so I can drive it home? Or do I wait until after wards so I know what type of car to insure. I will be buying the car from the state auto auction if that makes a difference.""

I need to rent a car but I have no car insurance?

I am 25 and have a secured credit card and am looking to rent a car for my road trip in December but have no car insurance at this time since my car needs a lot of repairs and so basically it's just sitting in my parents driveway until I can get it fixed and is not registered therefore I don't have insurance on it. Long story short this is my first time renting a car ever and it's just going to be me driving but since I don't have car insurance then how does this work? Help is appreciated.

Hit a car. How much insurance can go up?

Have good driving record for 3 years and with Progressive. How much insurance can go up if I hit a car and damage like this... http://www.whymagic.com/html/images/front_bl_before_lg.jpg http://www.whymagic.com/html/images/before-after/front_before_lg.jpg

Who has the cheapest insurance for a 2004 Chrysler sebring lxi touring?

Car insurance - how short a time can you buy insurance for?

i want to get a new car but the insurance is more expensive than my current quote. my no claims bonus kicks in in a couple of months but until then my quote is quite expensive. i want to know whether i cn buyinsurance for this short time, and then get a new quote once my no claims is awarded, as otherwise im signing myself up for 12 months on an expensive quote""

Infertility insurance?

Does any one know of a good provider or some one with an insurance rider for infertility? I have great health insurance, except it dosent cover that! I should say that I live in Kentucky. Thanks""

What kind of insurance would i get for a honda cbr 600 (im 16)?

im moving out to california after highschool to pursue the music industry so i figured it might pay for itself in gas money, but then i started to think about insurance...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-daughter-wants-me-put-car-insurance-name-sharie-noena"

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