omegaverse, even at its most dystopian, requires worldbuilding where capitalism is forced to bow to people's physical needs. society needs to be reordered to prioritize a physicality that is not only uncontrollable, but irrational and emotional. in a real world where emotional needs are devalued, irrational needs are dismissed, and physical needs are met with a "just push through it", omegaverse offers an alternate reality for disabled people. here, we can imagine a world where society is oriented around bodily, mental, emotional, and sexual needs, regardless of political or economic system. this can be intensely comforting to those whose needs are not met in real life. in this essay i will...

GIFT FIC- Extra Credit?

Fandom: Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Ship: Edelgard Von Hresvelg/Byleth Eisner 

Description: After Dorothea finds out Edelgard has a B in Professor Eisner's class, she tells Edelgard to ask for extra credit, knowing the other woman has a crush on the Professors Daughter who's also his teaching assistant.

Content Warning: Modern AU, College AU, Teachers Assistant Byleth

Authors Note: This fic was a gift for one of the kind people who donated to help my friend pay medical pills for their dog!

Read Below:

“...”

Silence interrupts the once cheerful conversation between the four girls. The other three had been waiting on a response, and were instead met with nothing.

Edelgard had, admittedly, stopped paying attention to the conversation at hand as soon as she’d gotten an email about their midterm grades being released.

She had to check immediately!

She expected what she always did.

Perfection.

Her whole life Edelgard had been kept to an impossibly high standard, and things truly hadn’t changed much now.

Really, the only change was that it was now Edelgard herself expecting too much of herself.

And when she checked her grades and saw that everything was not perfect and that they didn’t meet her regular perfection she was crushed.

There was no way she had made a mistake.

With all her studying, and the amount of hard work she put into every assignment, there was no way she’d earned only a B in Professor Eisner’s class.

Edelgard had never gotten a B before.

And it was unacceptable.

“Ede?”

Dorothea finally calls gently, breaking the silence.

All three women were capable of understanding that something was wrong, based both on Edelgard’s silence in turn of conversation, and the sour expression that had slowly taken her face as she looked at her phone.

Just seeing that expression on Edelgard’s face was enough to make Bernadetta nervous by proxy, her leg beginning to bounce under the table in an attempt at self-soothing.

“Sorry.” Edelgard says at the realization their lunch time conversation had halted because of her.

“What were we talking about?”

Petra and Dorothea share a look between them.

Clearly something was bothering the other woman.

Instead of answering her so that they could continue their mundane conversation, Dorothea decides instead to pry.

“Is something wrong?”

“Wrong? Why would something be wrong?”

Dorothea and Petra share another look.

The sharp, somewhat rushed tone of Edelgard’s voice was enough to give away that something truly was bothering her.

Exasperated Dorothea sighs a little, shaking her head.

“Well you were looking at your phone like it killed your whole family.”

A pause.

Edelgard simply sighs.

No matter what she does or says there’s no way Dorothea is going to let this go, it’s simply not in the other girl's nature not to pry when she thinks there is something wrong with one of her friends.

Although an admirable trait, in this specific instance, Edelgard hates it.

“I got a B in one of my classes.”

“A B?”

Bernadetta finally speaks up, it’s clear by the confusion in her voice she doesn’t understand the problem. For someone like Bernadetta, someone who doesn’t keep themselves mounted on a pedestal, a grade like a B is no problem.

However the meek girl immediately regrets speaking up at all when she gets a sharp look from Edelgard.

“Yes, Bernadetta a B. I got a B.”

Sensing the tension, and Bernadetta’s rising anxiety, Petra finally interferes, wrapping an arm around the other woman.

“We are going to have to be going now!”

Edelgard sighs as the other two retreat, leaving her alone at the table with Dorothea. She makes a mental note to apologize to Bernadetta later.

“Well...Which class is it?”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean,” The look on Dorothea’s face, that teasing smile that’s slowly taking over her expression, makes Edelgard regret this entire conversation.

“Is it the class with that cute Teacher’s Assistant you like so much?”

“...”

The silence is all the answer the other needs.

She practically squeals in delight, clapping her hands together.

“Oh Ede! You stupid Lesbian! No wonder you have a B in that class! You’re too busy staring at her!”

“No. I am not- That is- That is ridiculous.”

It’s not ridiculous.

Dorothea is right, she knows she’s right, and Edelgard knows she’s right. Still, even if they both know the truth, that doesn’t mean she has to admit to it.

“Well it’s only a midterm.” She points out, knowing there’s no use to get Edelgard to admit she’d slacked off due to her crush on the Professor's daughter.

“If you’re saying it doesn’t matter because it’s only a mid-” “Relax.”

Edelgard’s spiel is cut off by Dorothea gently resting a hand on top of hers, and gently squeezing.

“All I meant is you still have plenty of time before grades are final to turn that B into an A.”

She smiles gently at the other.

Dorothea can never entirely understand why Edelgard is the way she is, but she tries her best to be supportive.

“And for someone like you that’s easy right?”

It’s barely noticeable, but...Edelgard does relax a bit.

“You’re right…”

“And besides!” Dorothea chirps out, “If you really want it fixed now, you could always ask Byleth for some extra credit!”

And as if worried Edelgard wouldn’t understand the extra meaning in her statement, Dorthea winks for emphasis.

Ignoring the pink that comes to her cheeks in response, she just rolls her eyes at her friend's statement.

Although the idea wasn’t entirely a bad idea.

Professor Esiner would never give out extra credit, but his daughter, the TA, might.

It was worth asking about if nothing else...even if that means humiliating herself by admitting that she needs the extra credit in the first place.

The next time Edelgard has Professor Eisner’s class she once again struggles to focus. She is, as usual, distracted. Although for once her distraction has less to do with Byleth’s existence, and more to do with her extra credit.

Instead of actually paying attention to the lesson Edelgard is trying to figure out how she can ask Byleth about extra credit without embarrassing herself, or without making herself out to seem like some kind of idiot who’s failing the class.

When all the other students start piling out of the classroom, Edelgard stays. For a while it’s just the four of them; Edelgard, Byleth, Jeralt, and Leonie.

And the longer Edelgard finds herself waiting on Leonie to leave, the angrier she finds herself becoming, until she’s firmly glaring at the redheads back.

It really doesn’t seem like she’s going to leave at all, still talking the Professors ear off, and so instead Edelgard makes the decision to take the L on this.

After all, Dorothea was right when she said there was time before grades finalized.

She gathers her things, heads to the door, but then she’s stopped, a hand reaching out to grab her wrist.

It’s a subtle action, gentle but firm, but still enough to cause her to jump, whipping around quickly to be met face to face with Byleth.

“Hey-”

Edelgard hopes she doesn’t look stupid, she can already feel the heat rising to her cheeks, lavender eyes flickering from her wrist and the fingers around it, to Byleth’s calm face.

“You waited all that time,” Byleth says softly. “Did you need something?”

Getting defensive is an instinct, something that triggers before she’s actually able to stop it. “Need something? Why would I need something?”

But Byleth keeps looking at her, obviously not buying it, expression blank as ever, and it’s enough to make Edelgard crumble apologetically.

“I was...just wondering about extra credit.”

“Extra credit?”

Edelgard curses Byleth.

Curses how cute she is.

Her thoughts immediately drift from the topic at hand, and to the way Byleth always seems to tilt her head just slightly to the right when expressing confusion. She wonders if the other woman is even aware she does it.

“Extra credit, yeah…” Edelgard clears her throat, using the moments pause to regain her composure.

“My grade fell from an A to a B for seemingly no reason, and so I thought…”

“I won’t sleep with you.”

…

What.

Edelgard’s composure quickly falls apart.

Although that’s what Dorothea had originally been joking about when she’d told Edelgard to ask about extra credit, she had no intentions of actually-

Surely Dorothea hadn’t talked to Byleth about this?

But then...how else would she have known to say that?

“I-I don’t understand what-”

“That’s...That’s what happens in movies, right?” Byleth seems just as confused as Edelgard, at least.

“Someone asks for extra credit, and then they have sex?”

Edelgard is even more perplexed.

That sounds like a bad porn plot more than a movie.

Does Byleth watch porn?

No! Bad horny brain! Focus on the task at hand.

“I was…thinking something more like worksheets.”

Her entire face has become engulfed in red, and she finds it more difficult to actually look at Byleth.

“Oh.”

The other woman pauses and then turns to call out to her father, “Hey, can Edelgard do extra credit?”

Great.

Now not only did the Professor end up finding out she wanted extra credit, but Leonie overheard as well.

This is becoming worse and worse, more humiliating by the minute.

“I...think I am just going to leave.”

She hadn’t realized until she tried leaving again that Byleth hadn’t released her wrist. It’s easy to tug free of her hold now that the surprise of being grabbed has long past.

Edelgard quickly makes her way out of the class room and down the hall. She just wants to go back to her dorm.

It’s likely irrational, and she realizes it, but she feels like she was made a fool of both by, and in front of the girl she likes.

The girl who probably is completely unaware she likes her.

She’s trying her best to avoid the heat in her cheeks, and the tears threatening to spill from her eye due to the humiliation of it all.

“Edelgard! Wait!”

Byleth jogs down the hallway, catching up with the other easily.

“I brought you these.”

Worksheets. She’s offering Edelgard a handful of work sheets.

Clearly Jeralt must have agreed to the extra credit work.

She’s relieved if nothing else, at least all this humiliation hadn’t completely been in vain.

“Thank you.”

Edelgard takes the worksheets, but notices that Byleth seems to hesitate for a moment. She raises a brow, waiting for the woman to speak.

She’s usually not the type to show any form of hesitation, and so she gets Edelgard’s full attention.

“I’m sorry about before,” She says softly. “I was trying to make a joke but...I’m bad at jokes.”

That is an understatement, but it at least makes Edelgard feel a bit better about the entire situation, knowing that it was just an attempt at humor.

“I didn’t mean to embarrass you,” Byleth continues.

“And...Dorothea told me you like me?” It’s said with just the tiniest bit of emotion in it, a curious, hopeful upturn to the last word.

Edelgard decides in that moment she has to kill Dorothea.

“So...I was wondering if you wanted to go on a date?”

Edelgard decides that she will not kill Dorothea.

When she doesn’t get an immediate answer Byleth panics a bit.

“Not like- Not as extra credit! Just like...in general. Just a normal date?”

“...I’d like that.”

Baba Suwe A Veteran Comedy Actor Died At Age of 63 Years

Babatunde Omidina, often known as Baba Suwe, a legendary Nigerian comedy actor, has died. He was 63 years old when he died. On Monday, his son Adesola Omidina confirmed his death on his own Instagram profile @Omo Omidina. "This is to inform you of my father, Mr. Babatunde Omidina's, untimely demise. The fabled and rare jewel " Babasuwe ° More information will be available soon! In the message, Adesola said, "May your soul rest in perfect peace Dad." Since his struggle with the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) eleven years ago, the comic actor has been suffering from a partial stroke. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested the veteran actor in 2011 on suspicion of possessing cocaine-like substances. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency charged him with drug trafficking, an accusation that the Lagos high court of law dismissed as unfounded and defamatory. The late actor said that shots given to him in NDLEA prison disabled him and that he was later discovered not to be in possession of hard drugs. "I have not forgotten about my issue with the NDLEA and I will never forget because I am still experiencing the aches and suffering from that encounter," he stated in a June interview with newsmen. The injuries they inflicted on me at the time continue to affect me. "As I speak with you, I am unable to walk on both legs. I have to be carried to my room's toilet just to use it. Using the restroom is also a difficulty. "Despite the fact that I travel abroad for medical check-ups, my body is still not in good shape." As I previously stated, I am unable to walk to my toilet without assistance. This has been going on for about a week or so. Before that, I couldn't even walk correctly, and everybody who saw me would know I had trouble walking." "When I was in the custody of the NDLEA, they searched me, injected me, asked me to go to the bathroom, but they never found any cocaine inside my system," the veteran actor remarked while describing his ordeal with the NDLEA. They didn't see anything because I defecated there. Omidina began his acting career in 1971 and rose to prominence after appearing in the film Omolasan. After appearing in Iru Esin in 1997, he became more well-known. Written By:- NaijaGenre Read the full article

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How You Should Hold Your Tote Bag Like a Celebrity?

People are very critical about their appearance and are willing to take all necessary steps to improve the way they look. The clothes that a person wears, the facial beauty, the hairstyle, all have impact on the appearance of the person. And at the same time, the accessories that you use are important as well. This is especially true when it comes to women because they are the ones who use different types accessories. And while speaking of accessories, the most important one is the bag. The fact is that there are countless styles and types of bags available in the market and it is up to you to choose the right one. And one of the most popular type of bags is the tote bag.

Knowing about tote bags:

There are various things to keep in mind while choosing a particular bag. The use of the bag is a very important factor, that is, if the bag is to be used on a daily basis then the durability is something that needs to considered importantly.

In the case of tote bags, there are ones made from light materials and ones made from heavy materials. If the bag is intended to be used daily, then light material bags should be preferred. And if you are looking for a travel bag then the heavy materials should be selected. The most popular tote bags are leather tote bags.

The size of the bag is also very important. Always make sure that you buy a bag which is suitable to the usage. For example if you are about to buy a bag for daily use and need not carry a lot of articles, then buying a large bag would be an unwise decision. Alsothere are specially designed bags for different utilities. For examplewomen’s bucket bags, shoulder bags for work, laptop bags for women, etc are some of the different types of bags available in the market.

Holding the bag in style:

Holding the bag is also a very important thing and there are numerous styles of holding a bag. The MODESTY HOLD is suited to those who think that their short skirts are a bit too short. Holding a small bag by the handles would be sufficient.

The GO LONG style is also quite stylish. bags with long straps can be held in this fashion. This style can also be called the messenger style. The style is suited to those who take bags daily.

The NECKLACE STYLE is wearing the bag around the neck. This can be possible if the bad is light and small. If standing out in a crowd is the aim, then this style would be the right choice.

The CLASSIC STYLE is perhaps the oldest style of holding a bag. The tote bagis held in the crook of your arm and the advantage is that you can use your hands even when carrying a bag with you.

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okay vampire chronicles friends. so i know anne was like vampires are sensitive everywhere so they don't have sex cause genitals aren't anything special yeah yeah okay

but what if we took that "sensitive everywhere" part to its natural conclusion and Daniel's playing with Armand's hair and like "did... did you just cum from that"

A weak dollar ‘good’ for the U.S.? It’s complicated

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A dollar rout intensified on Wednesday after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said a lower greenback was “good for us” – though a weaker U.S. currency may not prove a long-term economic boost.

It was a highly unusual remark for a Treasury secretary, as it is seen as a break from previous White House administrations’ public stance for a stronger U.S. currency, even as they wrangled with trade partners to open up their local markets to U.S. companies.

“Treasury secretaries in the past have always spoken in favor of a stronger dollar, not a weaker dollar,” said Sireen Harajli, currency strategist at Mizuho in New York.

Yet, while a weaker dollar is seen helping American exporters to compete abroad, it may undermine the greenback’s status as the world’s top reserve currency and fan concerns about a protectionist trade agenda espoused by U.S. President Donald Trump, who is set to speak in Davos on Friday. On Tuesday, Trump signed into law a steep tariff on import solar panels and washing machines to counter lower-cost products from China and other Asian producers.

A weaker dollar could also have repercussions on stocks, corporate bonds and other risky investments.

“If the dollar slide were to accelerate, then foreign capital flows could decline rapidly, which would cause a sudden rise in interest rates which could shock markets and lead to unintended declines in risk assets like stocks which could damage growth,” said Guggenheimer Partners’ global chief investment officer Scott Minerd in New York.

In another unusual move, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross later attempted to dial back Mnuchin’s remark, telling CNBC television that the Treasury secretary was “not advocating for a weaker dollar.”

But Ross failed to push back dollar bears.

On Wednesday, the index that tracks the dollar against a basket of currencies on a trade-weighted basis =USD fell 0.8 percent to 89.153, the lowest since December 2014.

The euro EUR= advanced to a three-year high of $1.2415 per euro on Wednesday, Reuters data showed.

The currency of the world’s biggest economy also tumbled to a four-month low of 108.97 Japanese yen JPY= and a two-plus year trough CNY= at 6.3646 Chinese yuan per dollar.

SKITTISH DOLLAR

Prior to Mnuchin’s comment in Davos, the dollar had fallen on speculation about overseas central banks moving away from the extraordinary measures they adopted to combat the global credit crisis in 2008 and the global recession that followed.

Futures markets signaled speculators last week built the most bearish positioning against the dollar since mid-October.

Analysts in a Reuters poll published on Jan. 5 anticipated a tough 2018 for the dollar coming off its worst annual performance in 14 years when it lost 10 percent.

On Tuesday, the Bank of Japan signaled it would stick with its easy policy stance as inflation remains below its 2-percent goal.

European Central Bank policy-makers will meet on Thursday where traders will look for clues on whether the ECB will pave the way to not renew its 2.55 trillion euro ($3.16 trillion) bond purchase program when it expires in September.

The euro’s year-long rise, some analysts say, would offer ECB officials a reason not to change its course.

“The strength of the euro is not something the ECB wants to exacerbate with the euro knocking on $1.24,” said Omer Esiner, chief market strategist with Commonwealth Foreign Exchange in Washington.

Some analysts said the dollar selloff is overdone as the economy remains firm footing and the Federal Reserve is expected to raise rates further in 2018.

Moreover, U.S. yields remain low enough that the greenback remains an attractive currency to fund “carry trades,” or bets on buying higher returning assets such as emerging market bonds with money raised by selling dollars.

DOLLAR‘S STATUS

In addition to anxiety about trade friction, Mnuchin’s dollar remark fueled further questions about the dollar’s status among foreign central banks and sovereign wealth funds as the world’s top reserve currency.

A severe deterioration in the greenback can end up hurting the U.S. economy by ballooning the trade deficit as a result of higher import costs. It might also spur foreigners to pull money out of the country if a further weakness in the dollar sours investing in the United States.

In November, China and Japan, the two largest foreign U.S. creditors, scaled back their holdings of U.S. Treasuries.

Last month, the International Monetary Fund said the dollar’s share of global currency reserves shrank in the third quarter of 2017 to 63.5 percent, its smallest since mid-2014.

Despite these developments and possibly more protectionist rhetoric from the White House, the dollar should remain on its perch as the No. 1 reserve currency.

“I don’t think this will deteriorate the view of the dollar as a reserve currency of that world. That will be radical change,” said Lennon Sweeting, chief market strategist at XE in Toronto.

Additional reporting by Karen Brettell, Saqib Iqbal Ahmed, Jennifer Ablan; editing by Diane Craft

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​Mista Xto Drums Support for Governor Udom Emmanuel at his Homecoming in Udunguko

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To any vampire-loving friends who are confused about the "de" and "du" in Louis and Lestat's names, a quick explanation:

These last names function like "Robin of Locksley" or "Lawrence of Arabia". Pre-dating modern last names, people were identified most often by their parentage ("Martin son of John" or "Samuel Davidson") or in the case of land-owning nobility, by their land.

(Like how in Downtown Abbey Robert Crawley is the Earl of Grantham and often addressed as "Lord Grantham" but never as "Lord Crawley". He is associated with the land he owns--Lord Grantham is probably a shortened version of "Lord of Grantham", or in French "Monsieur de Grantham".)

The important part here is that French didn't drop the "of" in these titles. And these titles either referred to a place or family line. Therefore:

Lestat de Lioncourt = Lestat of [the family] Lioncourt*

Louis de Pointe du Lac = Louis of Peak of the Lake ("peak of the lake" being the name of the estate)

*Lestat's family name might well come from their coat of arms--a lion on the coat of arms could have turned into Lioncourt

So why all this context? Well it's interesting but because it brings me to grammar:

"de" = of

"du" = of the (this is a contraction of "de le")

So both Lestat's and Louis' names are followed by "de" to indicate who/what they are associated with. Louis then has "du" between pointe and lac because "peak of lake" doesn't make sense grammatically.

These little two letter words are easy to confuse especially if you don't know why they're different. Hopefully this helps!

tl;dr it's "Louis de Pointe du Lac/Louis of Peak of the Lake" and "Lestat de Lioncourt/Lestat of Lioncourt"

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