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ok im ready to be converted. what f1 fics do u recommend to start my full brain rot?
EXCELLENT, my plan is working (make people like what I like). Here is a very small and somewhat random selection, mostly Daniel/Max except where stated. Extremely loosely grouped. I've said if they're focused on them racing (grid), even if it's an AU. I have not associated anyone's ao3 handle with their tumblr name, so apologies for that. Do come back and tell me your thoughts and feelings. (!!)
F1 TASTING MENU (Maxiel Flavour)
Amuse Bouche: an opening vid
maxiel x 2022 season - “i would just draw it at like, i wouldn’t say love” by @daniel-enchante
Starters (shorter (ish) fics)
Cool Things to Say to Your Soulmate - words by powerfulowl, art by loveleah (grid, E): Only dumbasses get goosed. If a Soulmate Goose of Enforcement comes to intervene in your love life, it is a clear sign you have fucked up. You’re so bad at navigating human relationships that the universe thinks a violent waterfowl impervious to damage and capable of walking through walls will actually improve the situation.
i carry your heart with me by capsize (grid, M): “What’s up little guy?” Daniel asks – because like his car, Max’s heart is a boy too – and moves the heart from the desk into his lap. “Is Max not paying attention to you? He can be a bit of a cunt, yeah? No, I know.” Or, five times someone found Max’s heart, and one time they kept it.
Just kissed you hello by charlotte_stant (grid, M): Everything freezes for a long moment—and then Daniel’s heart is back to beating and it’s fine, he can see how funny the situation is. “Maximus, my brother, my comrade,” he says, “what the fuck, mate. I’m not gay, ok?"
Amuse Bouche: another vid
max and daniel at redbull by @love-leah
Main Course (longer fics)
Good To You by TheNorthRemembers (grid, E): Max walks and talks like he has a big dick. He always has, and it’s not like Daniel ever really thought about Max’s dick, but he just- He assumed, maybe. That the equipment would match the attitude. That at the very least what Max is packing, would be completely average. The fact, that apparently it’s not- Well. Daniel doesn’t know what to do with that information, in more ways than one. Or: Max a small dick, Daniel is into it; lots of sex and a bit of angst ensue
my kind's your kind by hardlythewiser (grid, series, E, Max/Kelly/Daniel, resolving with Max/Daniel): Max can talk about it now, out of bed, casual. Kelly helped him practice, talking about it like it was just another activity, like her tennis lessons or nights out with friends, ever since that first time. But she doesn't say anything now.
To the Victor Belong the Spoils by powerfulowl (hunger games AU, E): Daniel didn’t kill anyone in the arena. He’s the one untarnished Hunger Games victor. The beautiful boy who stole the hearts of Panem with a fishing net and a smile. He can kiss babies and sell sun cream and fuck who they tell him to fuck and suck on the fingers that feed him– he’s not gonna bite. But then Max wins the Hunger Games. Max bites.
Amuse Bouche: vid time
"what's going on between you and max verstappen?" by @love-leah
Dessert (where the focus is on sex)
Sweeter than I ever knew by purples_all_the_way_down (grid, girls, E): Daniel has never had an orgasm. Somehow (Charles, it's always Charles), Max gets involved. Things get complicated.
I just want to know you like nobody ever has by 33Max (grid, E): They are in the bathroom, Daniel had insisted that he needed a shower if they were going to do this. He’s still damp, Max hadn’t even waited for him to dry himself off before he was pushing Daniel against the counter and dropping to his knees behind him.
Coffee (something different)
both hands tied on the wheel by kayshea (George Russell/Toto Wolff, grid, E): George feels, stupidly, like a cat that’s been stroked. Like his skin is electric. It’s what everyone has been saying to him all day, but it feels different, somehow, coming from Toto.
if i should come upon your house lonely by withfeathers (Lewis Hamilton/Hanna Prater/Sebastian Vettel, grid, E): The summer after Sebastian's retirement, Lewis visits Switzerland for a week. Nothing about it goes as he expected.
#fic recs#maxiel#f1blr#fics I wish I was reading#(again)#maybe I will just reread them all right now#also if your fic is on this list and i haven't commented yet#it is coming#feral primer
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sometimes it's hard to be in hockey fandom because i sadly take the sport itself kinda seriously but i take all the players so unseriously
#like because the tylers seguin-brown incident i doubt i'll ever indulge myself too much in publicly shipping again#but that doesnt mean my ass doesnt stay glued to ao3 ya know?#like sorry when a hockey player tweets out a primer about his friendship where the implication is clearly romantic#and youre tangentially responsible even if its not your primer youre mentioned by username in it#then we can discuss my phobia of like publicly talking about hrpf again#anyway#i do love hockey tho#and the boys#and unseriously being feral when they're Weird About Each Other#but i absolutely can't deal when people are Very Serious about rpf :/
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I'll Eat You Up, I Love You So
A Primer For the Small Weird Loves, Richard Siken | The Embrace II, Ron Hicks | Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love,” The Unexpurgated Diary (1931-1932) of Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (@theoptia) | the night belongs to lovers, Ilaria Ratti | Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems, Linda Hogan (@feral-ballad) | Intimacy, Angelica Alzona | Shame is an Ocean I Swim Across, Mary Lambert (@synbeam) | The Kiss, Edvard Munch | Summer Morn in New Hampshire, Claude McKay
#richard siken#ron hicks#henry miller#linda hogan#angelica alzona#mary lambert#edvard munch#claude mckay#webweaving#web weaving#dark academia#classic academia#light academia#poetry#literature
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okay so... Yesterday I went to "El Primer Viernes" (something related to Holy Week in my country or whatever, y'know... Catholics) and where I live it's like a tradition to go and buy stuff and other shit (I'm trying my best to explain this, I'm sorry)
The point is that in one plushie store they were selling FUCKING POMNI AND CAINE PLUSHIES HAHAHAHHAHAH
THAT'S NOT CAINE, THAT'S COCAINE LMAOOOOOO 💀💀💀💀
I was going feral when I saw them, too bad that there was no Jax plushie...
#the amazing digital circus#tadc#tadc caine#the amazing digital circus caine#tadc pomni#pomni#the amazing digital circus pomni#caine#pomni plush#caine plush#rambles with phoenix
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Suits Primer - Part I
Given the recent success of Suits on Netflix and my newfound feral status over the show, I thought I would make a quick primer for those interested in dipping their toes into the fandom. The main ship discussed herein is Mike Ross and Harvey Spector, which is the most popular slash ship in the fandom, and while not canonically romantic, the most important relationship in Suits.
The Premise
Suits is based on Harvey Specter, the best closer in NYC, hiring a fraudulent lawyer, Mike Ross, to be his associate. Mike has an eidetic memory and is generally just smart as hell, and Harvey becomes his mentor / overworking boss / friend / protector. Harvey is a Type A, seemingly non-feeling lawyer who lives in a penthouse in the sky, and preaches about emotions being the downfall to all man. Mike is a former-stoner who has befallen a series of unfortunate events in life due to the deaths of his parents and the influence of his not-so-great friend Trevor. Mike cares too much, but slowly we see both Mike and Harvey become more like each other than dissimilar.
The fandom dynamic which drew a lot of people to the show is Harvey and Mike's instant relationship and the mentor/mentee relationship they share at the start. The show codes their dynamics in D/s undertones and fandom read it as such and ran with it. What kept people around post season-1 and 2 is the developing characterization of all the characters, but mostly Mike and Harvey. Over the course of the show, Mike and Harvey do most anything for each other--they fight, they fuck, they protect, they go to the ends of the earth for each other.
If you want to see Part Two with recs, let me know.
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for the ask meme: your pick of tortall characters/ship, roller derby au
Oh no, there are SO many squads that would make perfect AUs for this (Kel and Maura of Dunlath should get to bond, and also "Aly does roller derby and Alanna objects because she thinks it's not an Honorable Sport" is really funny). But I've done so much with the second generation, so maybe this is a night for the original generation!
Thayet and Buri start the team and are the primary drivers behind it (they're ummmm the Dominating Jewels or something?). They are both absolutely BRUTAL
Alanna gets recruited to their team after--see, I want to say she was on an ice hockey team, but that's just because of the Tortall Knights Fandom Primer, so maybe we'll say she played rugby and then due to Roger Reasons she got cut loose, and roller derby is what she's filling her time with while she plots revenge only she falls in love with it.
I also think that Delia of Eldorne joins this team eventually because she needs a productive outlet, she and Alanna are never going to LIKE each other but they can at least take some opponents out together.
Kara and Kourrem are teenagers Alanna is mentoring and she recruits them to the Jewels. Kourrem takes to it SO much. Kara takes longer to get into it, but when she commits she COMMITS. (Kara and Buri make out at least once, I think, a while into this AU?)
Some years down the line, Onua (absolutely another team member) turns up with Daine and her teammates all sigh and prepare for another feral teen, but they aren't prepared for quite the level of feral that she is.
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the hookhausen story primer
Hey wrestling, I heard you like primers...
Are you a fan of delicious flavor, slow burn, and enemies to lovers, but you are overwhelmed by a list of links and kind of just want things explained to you in one spot so you can understand a story?? I gotchu, boo, let's talk about Hookhausen, since the fandom be WAKING UP AGAIN as we approach the eve of potential new content. I've put links to videos and such in here if you would like them but you don't have to click on them if you don't want and you will still get the whole story. Please consider this your one-stop shop! It's such a fun story and I hope more people can find it as compelling and wonderful as we do!! Additionally, for anyone new to wrestling, I've included explanations for lingo and such, so it is easier to read. (This is also for my mutuals who keep seeing me post shit and are like ‘please what is this why are these people half-naked and why are you so feral please explain this’ OKAY I AM TRYING.)
To start with, let’s meet our cast of characters! First, we have Danhausen.
Danhausen is originally an indie wrestler who went through a few gimmicks before settling on the one he’s got now, which is a slightly goofy, awkward demon who may or may not be from another world and curses people when they do something he doesn’t like and/or to win matches. He likes money. He doesn’t like people swearing. Sometimes he goes evil and pours teeth in people’s mouths. He may or may not also be one of the most powerful wrestlers on AEW’s roster in terms of cult following, merchandise sales, and using his social media almost entirely in kayfabe (in-character). This is important; a lot of his character development happens on SM.
Next, we have Hook.
Hook is a legacy, nepotism baby whose father, Taz, is a famous wrestler from the 90s/00s. Taz remains on AEW’s roster as a commentator who also, for awhile, had his own stable (team) called Team Taz. Hook started helping out with Team Taz during the pandemic, and after becoming sort of a staple behind the scenes, debuted in late 2021 on his own. He is a murder kitten who usually refuses to talk, be nice, or generally just do what people want him to. He can normally be found eating chips, wearing a hooded sweatshirt, and sulking. His signature move is his father’s old submission technique that he’s renamed Redrum. Currently, Hook has never lost a match. He is very, very, very pretty. It probably should be illegal.
You might think all of this Hookhausen stuff starts when the story begins in AEW canon (split between their shows: Dynamite and Rampage), but actually, it starts well before this point. I KNOW, it’s insanity. So in late 2021, Hook debuts in AEW after hanging around for a year or so with his dad. This is a big deal for him! And at the same time, Danhausen was benched with a massively broken leg from a match in October. Danhausen tweets several times about how cool Hook is. It’s enough to be noticeable, mostly because at this point, Danhausen is not signed with AEW. He continues to do this through January. In fact, he doesn’t officially appear in AEW until January 26, 2022, when he shows up on the show and they announce his signing on social media. The very next day, Danhausen uploads a photo of him and Hook together to his Instagram, captioned, “Send Hookhausen.”
But nothing much happens with this strange hint until February 24, when Danhausen finds Hook backstage and gives him chips, filming it for his vloghausen. But things go sour, for some reason, when, on March 25, 2022, Danhausen attempts to curse Hook on Rampage. Hook had just thrown a dude through the certificate of accomplishment that his former mentor, QT Marshall, attempted to give him. Nobody likes QT, so we don’t really care. However, Danhausen cared for some reason, and came out to curse Hook. It failed! Hook walked away without anything happening, and Danhausen expressed dismay and alarm that it hadn’t worked. Danhausen then began tweeting about how Hook had become “too powerful.”
Danhausen spends a few weeks trying to curse Hook on television. He tries during an interview, after popping out of a trash can, and then, after a tense altercation between Hook and another wrestler, Tony Nese (with Mark Sterling, his lawyer), in a gym. His last attempt is during one of Hook’s actual matches, when Danhausen emerges ringside and tries one last time to curse Hook. Naturally, it continues to fail. During this match, Tony Nese and Mark Sterling are also ringside, taking notes and talking together about Hook. Danhausen is so frustrated by his lack of success that he goes into the ring after Hook wins and challenges him directly. If Hook won’t be cursed, well then dagnabbit, he will fight Danhausen.
Hook sort of ignores this, because he’s Hook, and he doesn’t really care. This means Danhausen has to resort to the most EXTREME of measures: taking a bag of Hook’s potato chips and DESTROYING THEM ALL BACKSTAGE. Finally, a reaction! Hook slams Danhausen into the wall and says, “You wanted my attention? You got it now.” The feud officially begins.
Danhausen calls Hook out the next week to settle things. It’s not an official match, but it’s definitely going to be a fight when Hook comes out with his hands taped and his murder face on. The two are about to get into things when Mark Sterling comes out and asks the crowd if they really want to see the two of them fight. Of course, the crowd says yes. Danhausen and Hook are beloved crowd favorites. But then, Tony Nese attacks them both, because he’s angry that Hook keeps getting so much attention just for being a legacy brat. Hook drives them both off with some well-timed suplexes, and the crowd picks up the chant of “Hookhausen.” Danhausen decides this incident has united them, and offers his hand for a handshake. Hook just grabs him, yells in his face, and stalks out of the ring.
But after that, Tony Nese challenges Danhausen to a match, which is weird anyway, since Hook was the one who beat him when he launched his little ambush on them. Hook has another match, and at the end, Danhausen comes out to ask him to “be in Danhausen’s corner” during the match with Tony Nese. This match takes place on Hook’s birthday, May 4. Hook is still not budging an inch on this partnership thing, and shoves Danhausen after Danhausen touches him. But then Danhausen pulls out a little bag of potato chips with a bow on top and drops it into the ring before slinking out, leaving Hook to stare down at the birthday present. His face goes through some actual emotions. The crowd goes wild when he reaches down to pick up the bag…and then boos after he drops it again. Hook leaves it in the ring, offering nothing.
Danhausen’s match with Tony Nese happens on May 11, 2022. It’s his AEW debut! He loses in a shocking 32-seconds after Tony smacks him with his knee and knocks him loopy. Afterwards, Nese remains in the ring to celebrate and Mark Sterling taunts the crowd about how great Nese is. Nese attacks Danhausen again, after the bell has rung. He’s actually about to do it a third time when Hook’s music starts. He comes out with murder face on, gets in the ring, and drives Nese and Sterling back up to the tunnels. Danhausen, after struggling to his feet, offers his hand again. This time, Hook shakes it. Partnership time!
After this handshake happens, Hookhausen has a bit on the after-show (which is only for people watching in the audience). Hook comes out to fight CM Punk, who ends up skipping out of the ring and starting back up the ramp to avoid him. Danhausen emerges and drives Punk back into the ring, where he gets down on his knees to plead with Hook not to murder him. Hook shakes his hand…and then chokes him out. Danhausen is happy. Hookhausen leaves Punk in the ring and exit together. (After-shows aren’t “canon,” but it’s sure as hell fun to watch.)
Hookhausen challenges Nese and Sterling to a tag match, which gets scheduled as the buy-in for AEW’s big PPV show in Las Vegas. They even get a training montage video leading up to the show, and a ride with RJ City on “The Road to Double or Nothing.” The tag match sees them victorious, after Danhausen gets a little thrown around and Hook suplexes them into oblivion. Hook tags Danhausen back in for the pin, because love is real. Then they hold their hands up as winners. This is important, because Hook never lets the ref hold his hand up after matches, and it’s the first time anyone ever has.
Afterwards, Hookhausen give an interview where Danhausen says they will eat chips to celebrate after taking their winnings, and Hook looks at Danhausen like he hung the moon, offering one of his only canon smiles.
They also buy “PT Cruisers” for an interview spot and drive them around the parking lot. They appear to be the best of friends now! Doing silly shit together! But then…
Hook gets challenged in June. He’s offering another not-interview when Danhausen shows up and talks about how they will “eviscerate” enemies together. Hook puts his hand out on Danhausen’s chest and says, “I got this,” and walks off. This, unfortunately, is the last official canon on-screen appearance they will have together in 2022. It’s very strange. And quite heart-breaking. AEW continues to milk the Hookhausen train, though, by throwing a graphic of them together in a canoe on the “Quake in the Lake” promotional poster. The graphic designer had a great day with that one.
After they separate, Danhausen challenges Hook's fellow Team Taz member Ricky Starks for the FTW Champion Belt he holds. He loses, but right after he does, Ricky opens up a general challenge for anyone who wants it. Hook comes out, much to Ricky’s chagrin, and wins. He's the current FTW Belt holder now. (The belt, originally, was introduced by his dad Taz!) Following this, Team Taz officially disbands, which means he also doesn't have a stable. During all of this, Danhausen has been orbiting around a stable called the Best Friends. He's never officially become one of them, but he goes out with them during matches and is an assumed staple with them.
In the fall, Danhausen begins a series of in-canon and social media work in which he gets hit multiple times in the head; eventually, this triggers a different version of himself that fandom refers to usually as "Evilhausen." Evilhausen comes out in November during a 5-man tag match with the Best Friends and Rocky Romero versus the Factory.
We then never see Evilhausen again, but the strange tweets and lyric drops continue on social media. This likely will still be important. Danhausen does a ton of character work on social media. It is also worth noting that in late October, Danhausen abruptly stops talking about Hook and Hookhausen altogether, everywhere. There are months of silence.
In December, Hook begins a somewhat confusing partnership with another wrestler called "Jungle Boy" Jack Perry. The entire storyline they have closely parallels a lot of the original Hookhausen story, complete with a handshake. During this, Danhausen begins mentioning Hook and Hookhausen again in various non-canon sources. The tag team, coined as JungleHook, culminates supposedly in a "one night only" match against a stable known as the Firm. JungleHook wins. However, the Firm is still targeting Jungle Boy for some reason. They challenge Jungle Boy to a one-on-one after the tag match.
A few hours before the match, Danhausen finally tweets about the entire situation…like a jealous ex.
And during the match, Hook comes out when Jungle Boy is nearly done for, surprising the Firm enough that Jungle Boy is able to win. They are then challenged to another tag match, which they accept. Danhausen begins posting angry break up songs on social media.
And that's where we are at present!! For a full video masterlist, including all the fun bits that they’ve done in Danhausen’s vlogs, please see the video primer! We would love to have new people equally pumped about seeing their FAR TOO SHORT STORY finally continue, because they sure as hell ain’t done with each other. (We have a 9 page document to prove it.)
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I just took your uquiz (got Madhouse at the End of the World) and I'm obsessed - I think I might have found a new special interest!!! Please talk polar expeditions to me, I'm foaming at the mouth, absolutely feral. Just infodump like crazy please, I'm on my knees and begging
I'm so glad you liked the quiz!!
Apologies for turning this post into a larger primer!
I hope you enjoy Madhouse--secretly I think it's the best result on the quiz (though it's not my own result; that's A First-Rate Tragedy). Madhouse has a bit of everything & if you're looking for truly insane anecdotes to regale your friends with, it's your best bet. A smattering of what you'll find in Madhouse: an army of rats, toxic gases sickening the expedition leader, scientists drawing cartoons about poop and butts, a man being mistaken for a seal at the worst possible time, brutal disregard for cats by a man who would go on to co-found the International Astronomical Union, the invention of light therapy, really bad uses of petroleum jelly....& that's just scratching the surface! And it all takes place during the first overwintering in Antarctica. thisisfine.gif
The one downside (not a downside depending on your perspective) for Madhouse as a starter book is it has nothing to do with Shackleton or Scott, and you'll soon find the majority of the English-language books on the Heroic Age, for better or worse, relate to those two. Madhouse DOES have a young Roald Amundsen (later the first man to the South Pole), who is a FASCINATING figure, and his first trip to Antarctica was often overlooked before this book afaik.
So I chose my three books for the starter quiz very carefully. Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton, A First-Rate Tragedy by Diana Preston, and Endurance by Alfred Lansing are all accessible secondary sources. They are readable (not overly academic) & don't require background info, doing a good job introducing people and terms (polar exploration has a whole associated vocabulary). Just as importantly, they're all exciting & well-paced & gripping! Once you've found your bearings, there's a whole specialist literature of polar history for polar scholars and enthusiasts. Broadly, I break it down thusly:
- Primary source expedition narratives: firsthand accounts of expeditions by people who were there. Within this there are a few subcategories: books always intended to be written by explorers when they returned home (this was a significant source of income for expeditions), like Scott's The Voyage of the Discovery, Mawson's Home of the Blizzard, or Shackleton's The Heart of the Antarctic. There's books not-originally-intended but the author decided to write them years later (The Worst Journey in the World by Cherry-Garrard, Saga of the Discovery by Bernacchi). And then there's diaries that were never intended to be published--often, they were written for the explorer's family, or perhaps to help the expedition leader write the narrative. But they weren't meant to be published verbatim. Time, fame, tragedy, and general interest sometimes led to them eventually seeing publication--this is especially the case for a lot of the Terra Nova diaries, & was most famously done for Scott's own diary, which he had intended to edit into a book, but not to publish in raw form. Providence, of course, had different ideas.
- Secondary source expedition narratives: Madhouse and Endurance from my quiz both fit this category, for the Belgica and Imperial Trans-Antarctic (better known as the 'Endurance') expeditions, respectively. (First-Rate Tragedy I'd moreso call a Scott biography). These are accounts of expeditions written by authors/historians who were not on the expeditions in question. There's a LOT of these, and they vary widely in quality. Some offer new scholarship or cover something that hasn't been covered before; others are...less rigorous. Have a browse at your local thrift store/charity shop/secondhand bookstore. If you're lucky they'll have some polar books. Flip through and see if there's a robust citations section, or footnotes, and ideally in-text citations for quote attributions. This can give you some sense of the quality as you're wading into the sea of books!
- Biographies: Exactly what it says on the tin! Instead of picking an expedition to focus on, these books are about one explorer and his life (almost always "his", though there are a few exceptions like Ada Blackjack). There are, once again, a lot of these! Scott and Shackleton in particular have a lot of biographies. I personally didn't read many biographies before this obsession, and I find them a really interesting format in which the biographer is important too, not just the subject. I'm developing opinions about when and how biographers should include relevant cultural context, the amount of the author inserting their opinion that I prefer and how it should be indicated in the text, etc. Similarly for the secondary sources above, check the indices and citations. I'm constantly flipping back to check sources while reading, one of the reasons I prefer physical to e-books!
- Other: There's always another category, isn't there? There's tons more! Cultural histories like Spufford's I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination (I recommend you get a few books under your belt before reading that to get the most out of it), travelogues mixed with history like Sarah Wheeler's Terra Incognita, Bea Uusma's The Expedition which flips back and forth between time periods, & more!
Like any taxonomy, there's flaws with the above, and things that don't fit, but that's broadly how I see the landscape!
Tips, tricks, & things to know:
- Polar books are most often found in the "Travel" or "Travel Literature" section. Sometimes you can find stuff in "History" "Biography" or even "Sports" lol. A parallel interest is Mountaineering, so if a place has Mountaineering books, they may well also have polar.
- It can be very helpful to familiarise yourself with the Edwardian era in general -- it's a fascinating cultural history in and of itself, and its the most modern era before the great global "end-of-innocence" of the First World War. Sometimes the things these guys are up to really ARE crazy, sometimes it's just that they're Edwardians and something is lost in the translation.
- Like many subjects historians have been writing about for over a century, polar exploration history authors have their biases. The most common one is whether or not the author likes Robert Falcon Scott. This goes back to a controversial book called Scott and Amundsen, published in 1979 by Roland Huntford. (It's also found under the title The Last Place on Earth, based on its TV show adaptation.) Huntford retells the "race to the South Pole" elevating Amundsen and in the process doing a very good job of destroying Scott's reputation by debunking him as an incompetent bungler. From what I've heard from others (I haven't read it yet, though will eventually for its historiographical value) it's a good source on Amundsen but everything he says on Scott should be ignored due to highly selective quotations and...well, active malice toward the guy. Basically, it's a callout-post/bombshell of a book that has had almost every subsequent historian touching on the topic going to great lengths to debunk in turn. Fwiw, I've also heard people say Huntford's Shackleton biography is good. Just. Don't listen to him about Scott.
- Imperialism motivated a lot of these expeditions, and frankly in my opinion this is something more of the literature NEEDS to talk about! A few that do a good job are Spufford mentioned above, & Larson's An Empire of Ice.
- I'd actually recommend don't start with diaries, bc they usually need some context to understand. Exception? Scott's final entries.
There you go! Happy reading! Also check out @areyougonnabe, she's got some great polar posts!!
#polar exploration#and I didn't even touch on the fictional adaptations#sorry this probably isn't want you wanted but its what ive written!
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tips on how to lyft from u1ta/ s3ph0ra??
So where I live we don't have u1ta but we do have s3ph0ra (cause where isn't there s3ph0ra?)
I actually have gotten away with quite a lot at s3ph0ra, like I don't do huge hauls from there but I do manage to get some stuff.
My tips are as follows:
chat up the workers, and ask questions. if you brush them off it seems sus IMO but you don't have to be tooooooo chatty. just be nice, ask questions about stuff, and ask for a color match maybe.
the second tip is the magic bag/long sleeves trick. so I have this lunchbox that allows me to slip things in very discretely. like the strap is very close to the opening and so if I hold it like at my wrist, and I'm wearing long sleeves which cover the "hole", it's pretty easy to just slip whatever in there.
3- the squat and conceal. Wear a coat or a sweater for this. you squat down with something discretely in your hand (or basket) and either on your way down/ or already down, slip this in your purse. hold your purse close to your body, and "in" your open sweater. you'll squat down and pretend to look at the bottom row of products. maybe swatch a bit, read ingredients, whatever, just make it believable that you're actually just squatting to check something out.
four! the sleeve-in. easy, been there, done that, just be discrete.
5- don't get too greedy. especially if you're new at lyfting.
six- their security system- at least at my location- is a joke. they use visible (but discreet) RFID stickers. I have never seen an RFID inside a box so far. AGAIN I SAY SO FAR BECAUSE MAYBE THERE ARE SOME I JUST HAVEN'T SEEN. Always, always, always, look inside the box. just make sure. you can never be too safe. always carefully inspect the box from the outside, peel off any RFID. I notice they're always just simple white stickers with an electromagnetic chip inside.
test things out, swatch, whatever. even shit you don't want. so that you really look like you're looking around and aren't going in for specific items that *suddenly* vanish from their stock.
if they ask if you need help or guidance, what I like to do is tell them that I got a gift card for Christmas/my birthday or whatever, and I'm trying to figure out what to buy with it. I say that I don't really wear any makeup so I'm just looking around until something pops out to me. I accept to look at whatever they offer. (till this one bitch showed me a color corrector for my naturally red cheeks. ma'am, it's built-in blush why would I color correct that?)
Anyways: here's the stuff I got from there over the last six-ish months.
skincare:
m1lk makeup c00ling water stick
gl0w recipe avocado nyacinimide dr0ps
lan3ige lip mask in berry
lan3ige primer in that sparkly little pink bottle
makeup:
di0r backstage pink blush
di0r backstage concealer (not a fan, creases like crazy, but the applicator is out of this fucking world. considering emptying it and filling it with my favorite concealer)
di0r lip glow in 001 light pink (can you tell I like di0r???)
di0r lip glow oil in cherry (meh I don't love the tint it leaves behind)
b3n3tint (LOOVE i'm feral for b3n3fit)
b3n3fit highlighter in tickle (LOVE LOVE LOVE)
b3n3fit H00la (too dark for me because i'm literally so fucking pale)
b3n3fit moonsomething blush (too light somehow? maybe i'm just doing it wrong though)
1l1a concealer
i'm forgetting stuff
fragrances:
jul1et has a gun mini
g00cci the pink one in a mini rollerball cause I have the big one but i hate carrying it around.
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whatever the fuck is going on with nathan mackinnon and artturi lehkonen
this is my natelehky primer because i'm insane about them and need more people to also be insane about them.
*clears throat*
it all started on the evening of may 5th, 2022 and this insanely intimate OT celly on the bench
so like...seeing that...clearly something going on, yeah?
then it also comes to people's (my) attention, that Nate/Lehky have an end of warmies routine where they are always the last two on the ice together...just fun, newly created routines with my new teammate things <3
then, during the edmonton series, nate decides to just SHOVE his face into lehky's titties and they tumble to the ice together ??? like what was my good sir thinking why are they just fully having sex on the ice?
then in the presser after that game nate talks about how he'd trade 10 first rounders for lehky?? just say you're in love buddy it's okay
lehky's brother wore a nathan mackinnon jersey (not his own brother's jersey, but nathan's) to the finals games and you can see nate meeting him here:
nate commented "best player" on lehky's cup instagram post. nathan, who rarely ever uses instagram, commented best player on lehky's instagram post
nate went ABSOLUTELY FERAL during a PRESEASON game coming to lehky's defense. and there are barely any video clips of it????
this (tw) spittin chiclet's interview where he just raves about lehky then goes on a long ass tangent about how weird he is cause he likes elves and shit and doesn't know drake songs lmfao [clip--they start talking about lehky at 1:46:56]
paraphrased full quote: "he's an animal...this guy just sits around crossed legged--heart rates at 26 all day then gets on the ice and is an animal, it's so funny....he loves like uh..mystical shows and Game of Thrones, and he's tellin' all the boys about the new Lord of the Rings series on Amazon and the elves and shit...yeah he's awesome man, I love that guy, he's so...*laughs* i wouldn't call him weird cause he's not weird..he's Finnish and he loves breaking down elves and stuff....*gets asked about music* ..no but he [lehky] hasn't heard like half of Drake's songs, he'll be like 'oh i've never heard this one before' and it's like Drake's most popular song....he's a chill guy and it's cool when someone that relaxed gets on the ice and is an animal and forechecks and back checks and blocks everything..."
and of course, nathan raymond mackinnon, who rarely ever uses instagram ever, posting a photo of him and lehky on a coffee date??? in finland with the caption, "the finnish king"
THE FINNISH KING????
then Nathan just completely loses his cool and looks at Lehky like a man deeply in love in the sauna video
*end scene*
i believe, as of today, november 10th, 2022, those are all of the major natelehky crumbs to be gathered, but if more arise i shall add them (or if you can think of any more let me know).
come be insane with me <3
#nathan mackinnon#artturi lehkonen#natelehky#nathan mackinnon x artturi lehkonen#hrpf#men's hockey rpf#this took a while to gather so i'd appreciate reblogs LMFAO#anyways they are insane and they make ME insane#colorado avalanche#avs
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SEATTLE KRAKEN PLAYER PRIMER
I promised the beautiful @madroxed a Seattle Kraken current player primer so she can get into a West Coast (best coast) NHL team and then I went mad so it ended up too long for ask box without a read more. So here it is for your enjoyment, babe. 🦑
IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW:
1. When Kraken started playing their first season in 2021, there was a lot of discussion about the expansion plan, how many years they would take to become as successful as other expansion teams (cough VGK). That plan… has not fully panned out. So even though they made it to the playoffs last year, they're not super successful this season and likely won't squeeze their way into a wild card spot. This is okay because the Kraken are full of love.
2. This is important enough to say twice: THE KRAKEN PLAYERS ARE FULL OF LOVE. They don't need to be good if they're having fun and being friends! And they are!
3. Kraken has no captain right now, just four As. Democracy, baby! Every game there is tons of talk on reddit about how it's a good thing because it's made the guys closer, or how it's a bad thing because they don't have a leader and they keep losing. IDK, it's just our thing. There will be a C eventually.
4. There's a joke on tiktok that Kraken is a team of beautiful shy horses, treated badly on their last teams and now learning to love again. Keep this in mind when you see them interacting with Coach Hakstol. They all deserve to have their hooves (skates) farrier-ed gently, ribbons braided into their manes and to be tenderly fed sugar cubes. Anyways.
5. Haha, Seattle runs on love and tentacles.
THE OLDIES:
- Jordan Eberle (Jordy, Ebby, Ebs, Ebber) - Ebs was MY MAN for the longest time because I was soooo fond of him and the mid aughts pre-McDavid Oiler rookie crew. Now he's 33 years old, everyone calls him dad, and just had his 1000th game ceremony. It makes me verklempt.
He just signed a 2-yr contract this month, which people agree is mostly because of his role on the team and less because of his points (which are just okay).
He is also a noted Nickleback fan :(
Also, Jordan Eberle... naked... singing.
- Jared McCann (Canner, also Jordan's on-ice wife) - Kraken's lead scorer right now. Has the saddest backstory ever (he's had troubles with his teams since draft) but the Kraken team loves him. I love him too. Jordan was in his wedding party! Fun fact: Canner is the one who KISSED Ebs' head after an OT win this year, the organization framed & posted the picture, and it's the most romantic thing that has ever happened on Kraken ice. Recognized PC gamer boy. He also wears really really ugly hats with his game day suits.
- Philipp Grubauer (Grubi, The German Gentleman) - Gruuuuu. The more experienced goalie on the team. Noted horse girl (loves horses, there's a video all about his volunteer efforts with them). Gets a lot of undeserved shit from dude fans for being a conservative goalie, the man is NOT gonna move. He straight up close lined a player yesterday because they got too close to his crease lol.
- Vince Dunn - You already know this guy. Feral, but also submissive and breedable. I sent you the "screaming with a bloody face" vid but here's one where he drop gloves for a Matty hit and another from Juniors where he fights OFF ICE. His nickname is Dunner but because he's a pretty princess, he also goes by "Vincess" in hrpf. He's very popular this season both for his looks and his performance this season. Unfortunately injured right now due to a bad hit. Noted "gamer (fornite) boy" lol.
- Adam Larsson - You also know this guy. Big Cat. Quiet but a leader to the D rookies. Surprisingly funny - he's a silent prankster and the custom t-shirts this season with his face on it were a hit. Outside the hrpf space, he's engaged to a beautiful blonde Swede and about to be a dad this month.
- Jaden Schwartz (Schwartzy) - Peak millennial. Is it wrong that I think Schwartzy is the hottest Kraken after Vince? Because I don't care. He gives hot dad, with two dogs with girl names.
He changed his hockey number to match his sister's who died of cancer :'( Has been injured a lot this season and we miss him :'(
- Yanni Gourde (Gourdo) - FERAL!! FRENCH (CANADIAN)!!!! A tiktok star, sassy, charming, and also part of the team leadership.
Married and dad to little girls, who he has allowed Matty to babysit, if you can believe it. There was a super cute vid of them at the pumpkin patch this year. I'm a proud member of the GOURDO IS HOT club but even people with bad eyes and no love for goofy faces love Yanni.
- Andre Burakovsky (Burky) - You might remember him from his Cap or Av days. He's a beautiful little bird who is so good at scoring but so broken. The man has two Stanley Cups but he's played like 2 games for Kraken where he was both healthy & productive lol. People ship him with Gru sometimes in hrpf because they have cute nicknames for each other and also vacation together. He also just had a baby like two months ago so my sisters and I call him a teen mom even though he's like 29, lmaoo.
- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (Belly) - His shirt is always off in every video I have ever seen him in. Handsome. Beard. French, like literally from France, but we won't hold it against him. He's an older guy who was brought in to help the team with offense (which we badly need).
- Oliver Bjorkstrand (Bjorky) - I always describe Bjorky as like a less handsome Dylan O'Brien if he played hockey. A chill, smiley dude who cares a lot. He played in Portland for the Winterhawks back in Juniors and I saw him a lot there! He's playing super well this year, he even was at the ASG!
THE YOUNG ONES:
- Matty Beniers (Matty, Benny) - OUR BEAUTIFUL FIRST DRAFT EVER. A baby boy. Ebs and Canner are his mom and dad. If you're on tiktok, he made that viral "Yes, Yes, Nope, Nope" sound while mic'd up.
He's growing up :') but also is having kind of a bad season :'( Part of the planned growth of the Kraken team though!
- Will Borgen (Borgy) - One of the baby D. He kinda looks like Canner but more frog. Matty and Borgy are roommates & pretty much BEST FRIENDS during the season. There's a lot of good locker room videos of them giving each other shit. He has also bullied Karts lol. Self describes himself as a little deer.
- Joey Daccord (Joey, Dacs) - Baby goalie. Gives the F1 recaps on tiktok. One of the biggest joys of my year so far was chanting "Joey" in the crowd after his shutout in the Winter Classic. Sometimes he strays too far from the net and makes boo boos. We love & cherish him.
- Kailer Yamamoto (Yamo, Yams, Yammer) - Little man. So little. Great at shootouts & stealing teammate's jerseys. He's the only Washingtonian on the team. Was a Oilers rookie and I've heard he featured in the whole Draisital hrpf narrative thing (idk I'm not an Oilers fan rn lol). Has a terrible goatee right now.
There's a funny af tweet about a reporter seeing a huge cheering section for him at a game and assumed it was friends & family but went over and it was just random people rooting for Yamo purely because he's short.
- Ryker Evans - The newest baby D. Has the deadest eyes you will ever see but he also spent an entire Firebirds youtube interview series just hanging out in a child's pool. He's played great since being called up from the Firebirds and we love him. So new he doesn't have a Breaking the Ice sheet yet :( Also his middle name is GARTH!
- Tye Kartye (Karts) - It's important that you know his last name is pronounced like "Cart-che" but even the announcers say "Car-ti-eh" like the jewelry brand. A quiet-ish sweetheart but also kind of spicy while playing. Rooms with Ryker. They're flirty and have been since the Firebirds. Scored his first NHL goal in his first NHL game, during the Kraken's first ever playoffs!
- Cale (& Haydn) Fleury - REAL LIFE BROTHERS. Not actually related to Flower. Haydn is on the Lightning now and we miss him. Cale mostly plays for the Firebirds but he's developing well and has gotten called up several times this season.
- Ryan Winterton (Wints) - A goofy little baby. He's still playing mostly with the Firebirds but he had his NHL debut this season.
- Shane Wright - I don't actually know his nickname. (EDIT: I have been informed it is Shaner or Wrighter!) Big boy. Our SECOND DRAFT EVER. Playing with the minor leagues right now. We'll see him playing a line on Kraken next season or so, probably (?). If Coach Dave is willing.
THE OTHERS (THAT I OFTEN FORGET ABOUT):
- Brandon Tanev - Turbo. He's fast. Has beautiful long hair. Keeps getting hit by pucks because he's in the way. Fun fact: he helped start the 'Kraken are horses' thing because there was a video on Tiktok where an equipment manager was adjusting his skates and they used a hoof care video sound and it went viral. We might lose him when he's a free agent and that's fine.
- Jamie Oleksiak - Big Rig, Riggy. In my shit list right now because he's playing bad and I hate his stupid credit card commercial that they always play during games. Member of the 'my sister is prettier and a better athlete than me' club. People speculate there's a chance we might lose him over the summer when his no-trade clause opens up as well. He's often Borgy's d-partner, and he and Borgy are very very sweet though.
- Tomas Tatar - Tuna, he's fun and nice. I like his accent. Sometimes I forget he exists.
- Eeli Tolvanen - Tolvy. I also sometimes forget about him. Sorry. He's a buddy to everyone on the team though.
- Justin Shultz - Shultzy, he's fine. Gets injured a lot. Not the best player. I think we're gonna lose him eventually too.
- Brian Dumoulin - Dumo, he's also fine. He's won a couple Stanley Cups. Cute baby face for an older player but he gives a kinda empty brain, 'there's not a thought behind those eyes' feeling lol.
HOPE THIS HELPS. I ALSO HOPE THEY DON'T CRUSH THIS PRIMER OVER THE OFF SEASON WITH TRADES LOL but who knows. Whatever happens, happens. Just remember this team runs on love (and tentacles).
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Hello, I came across the 'fighting in Ice Hockey' Wikipedia page and was very intrigued! Now several youtube compilations (Best nhl fights, then funny moments, then best goals etc) and several Hockey AUs for pairing I'm already a fan of later, I'm ready to continue my hockey journey (descent?) - do you have any blogs you can recommend? Also do you have a place to start re teams and or like essential viewing or reading? Normally I can just watch a show or read a book, but this feels a bit different and I don't know where to start 😅
Also I see the is quite a bit of RPF on Ao3- totally chill with that good writing is good writing after all, but is there any like background on why certain pairings are popular?
oh goodness, hi! and welcome to the madness that is hockey fandom/hockey rpf! i'm probably/definitely not the best person to answer this as i'm pretty new to hockey fandom and only closely follow three teams, but i'll do my best <3
okay *most* hockey blogs are focused on one or a couple of teams. so it's a little tricky to point you in a direction if you aren't already attached to anyone. you can find a lot of good hockey primers on tumblr if you search for a team or a ship + primer.
if you have a local or localish team, maybe start there? descend into tumblr tag hell. many of us start out going oh haha i'm just going to read fic, and maybe reblog some gifs, and then end up attached to teams that are far away and spend obscene money to see those teams when they travel close to us. (my favorite team is in a different conference, so they only come to my city once a year).
there are definitely teams that have more fandom activity and those that have less. all based on the narratives, baby. my local team isn't very fandom active on here, so while i generally root for them and follow them and go to games, i'm not fandom feral about them.
MY team is the pittsburgh penguins. i do not, nor have i ever, lived in pittsburgh. but the pens have the longest serving trio in professional sports, and i am completely and utterly in love with them (but not as in love with them as they are with each other). our captain, sidney crosby (fat of ass and genuinely one of the best hockey players EVER) and his two alternate captains, evgeni (geno) malkin and kris letang, are all obsessed with each other. sidgeno is definitely one of the most popular pairings in hockey rpf. i read and write a lot of them. you can browse #fave 8771 and #sidgeno on my blog to get a glimpse of why.
(note that hockey ship names are unpredictable. sometimes numbers mushed together, sometimes names mushed together, sometimes something else, sometimes there's not really a ship name).
some other big ships are travis konecny/nolan patrick of the philadelphia flyers (love these two... they don't play together anymore... theres a lot of backstory there. theres lots in #tknp on my page), auston matthews/mitch marner of the toronto maple leafs (not my jam i'm no help), alexander ovechkin/nicklas backstrom from the capitals, leon draisaitl/matthew tkachuk (more of an enemies to lovers type scenario), and jamie drysdale/trevor zegras of the anaheim ducks. these ships are popular bc they are insane about each other in some way. oof there's so many more though? these are all popular on ao3 so there's lots of fic out there; perhaps a good starting place.
let me know what you're looking for and i'm happy to point you in a direction! a team, a ship dynamic, a type of 'character' you like, a type of fic you like; we got it all. tell me what you're into and i can spin you around and give you a gentle shove towards some unhinged gifs, a lovely fic, or a nice fancam :)
dying to know which pairings you're already into and why 👀 that might also be a good starting place. (you're welcome to dm me if you'd rather do that)
hockey friends PLEASE feel free to chime in!
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Ok i’ve seen you post about it a few times and now i’m interested - what hockey rpf fics would you reccomend for a buddie shipper?
omg anon!! i’ve been waiting for a reason to post a bunch of hrpf recs, and you’ve just given me the perfect excuse <3
the fun thing about hrpf is that it’s such a big universe, so there’s tons of ships that have excellent fic written for them. the downside of that is that it’s a lot harder to get a grasp on the characters and their stories because, again, there’s so. many. of them. i normally start off by doing a quick scan of wikipedia and then googling events as they come up in the fic (for instance, the 2020 asg), but you do whatever works best for you! i know there’s a fair number of primers floating around on the internet, especially for newer ships, but i haven’t read most of them in detail, so i can’t really vouch for any of them.
i found the easiest way to categorize this is in terms of what kind of buddie fic you like, so here we go - apologies that it got so long!!
if you like…
buck and eddie as coparents
you’ll probably be a fan of brioux! this article sums it up well, but the tl;dr of it all is - a twenty-something guy moves in with a newly-single father and his three sons and uh. proceeds to basically coparent them. (they did a christmas card together, y’all. it included their dogs. it still makes me feral every time i think about it.)
some personal favourites of mine include:
this exes-to-lovers wedding fic
this one where danny goes back to school, which gives off the Strongest eddie vibes
season one disaster buck
you’ll probably like tyler and jamie! disaster himbo + awkward, anxious captain - these two are wonderful and they have so. much. fic.
some faves include:
the fic of all time, or the soulmate time loop au
the one where tyler works in pr
the obligatory amnesia au
this one, which basically answers the question of “what if season one buck dated eddie”
best friends in love
you’ll probably like tk and nolan! enjoy bitchy teasing, enough hurt/comfort to make you cry for a week straight, and some of the most fun aus i’ve ever read.
there are so many I could pick, but reccing:
the. uh. the onlyfans au
this one, featuring tk as a teacher with the biggest buck energy
this small-town werewolf au
and, if you feel like getting your heart broken, this one about the 2022-2023 season
the dynamic from 2x01
no one does hatesex and rivals to lovers like mattdrai! if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like if buck and eddie stayed enemies longer, here you go.
recs include:
this one, where they both wait out the lockout in germany
this secret relationship amnesia au
this 2022-2023 season au, which owns my entire heart and soul
this one, where they both end up playing for st. louis
the dynamic from 2x01, but with even more inadequacy issues
first overall and second overall that were constantly pitted against each other leading up to (and following) the draft. jack and connor are everything to me, tbh.
some of my faves include:
this estranged husband au (soooo many buddie vibes)
the words with friends au that lives in my head rent-free
this one where they take a road trip, which fucked me up for a solid week
the fucking. parallel universe au
this one, which kills me every time i reread it
and then just some other favourites:
this one, which is just. so fucking well-written
this jack/nolan bitch4bitch fic
the entirety of this warped tour au
this ghost hunter au
this one, about messy 20 year olds in love
there are sooo many more i could include but in the interest of keeping my sanity intact i’m going to stop here!! for further recs, i’ll direct you over to @grittyreadsfic, who is genuinely a joy to have in both the 911 and hrfp fandoms.
happy reading <3
#is this going to become my brand now? whoops#asked and answered#anonymous#i don't even know how to tag this#fic recs#hrpf recs#also!! the normal caveat about rpf applies - these are fictional stories based on the public personas of real people#keep it locked within ao3 - don't tag the people involved in it ever!!#anyways anon i spent my afternoon on this instead of my job i hope you enjoy xoxo
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Follower influx and some clarifications
Holy shit guys, I leave for a couple days for an intensive BDSM workshop / play party getaway and I come back with a follower count that's almost doubled???? What the fuck happened here?! XD
I think this is tied with the Sleep Token band primer I wrote last week? Cause that post blew up way more than my usual stuff does. Which means at least some of my new followers (after I'll go do a deep clean for the damned porn bots) decided to follow me for intelligent, instructive Sleep Token and/or music related content. For yall's sake, and so your dashboards may not be flooded by shit you have not signed up for:
Hi, new people! Thanks for your interest! Reminder than this is a Ghost blog primarily. There will be some Sleep Token or other bands I'm into sprinkled in, and some general aesthetic stuff, but by and large, this space of mine is Ghost-fandom centric.
My blog is a NSFW blog. If you stay here, you will come across:
shipping. This is a fanworks-centric blog. Most of what I reblog are fanart and fanfics and fan artists supporting each other's work.
kink and BDSM. I am a lifestyler, I consume and produce kink content!
queer content, I consume and produce gay content, queer stuff, poly ships, etc.
I AM BUCKWILD FERAL HORNY and I will not tone myself down. In the tags, in my posts, in my writing, etc. If you say here you will see naked characters doing some wild filthy shit and you gotta want that.
education, in terms of kink / BDSM, poly / open relationships, queerness of gender and orientation, etc. If you are not open for that, or you expect some well thought out music education, this happens once in a blue moon, and you'll see a thousand posts about dicks before you see another band primer like you followed me for.
You are responsible for your own tumblr / internet experience. If any of this is not your jam, please kindly unfollow me and preserve yourself, because I will not change my ways for new followers who didn't read the small text under the contract and followed me for content that is not my typical jam. Consider yourselves warned.
If you are down for all that, then welcome into my little mad corner of the world! ❤️❤️❤️ I hope you enjoy your stay!
New fic drop at the end of the week;
New leather pics coming in the next days too ideally.
Stay horny, stay creative, keep educating yourselves, love yall!!
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Primrose and tulip pair well together, so those two for the flower asks?
primrose— how long does it take for you to get ready for the day what does your routine usually consist of?
tulip— do you wear makeup? if so, how do you like to wear/style it?
These do pair nicely! If I'm not going to work then getting ready is showering, deodorant, moisturizer, then into jeans/shorts with graphic t and sweatshirt as needed. I take long showers, so probably twenty-ish minutes depending on how long the hot water holds out.
However, for work...something I said long before I came out even to myself is that I have 'work drag'. I put on a work persona in the morning. For me that persona wears a full face of makeup. I've gotten my timing pretty tight with it by now, so my make takes roughly ten minutes (order is: primer, concealer which doubles as eyelid primer, eyeshadow, eyeliner, mascara, foundation, blush, powder, lipstick). Then I put on my 'uniform' which is either black dress with fun patterned leggings or fun patterned dress with black leggings and black flats. I have constructed my wardrobe over time to require very little thought in the morning, pick dress, pick leggings, same exact shoes and go. I get in the shower at 7:45, usually totally reading to head the door by 8:15 so I can get kiddo on the bus.
I dress and do makeup about two degrees more formally than my coworkers. It's intentional since I'm public facing and the patrons I interact with the most are elderly and respond well to me looking a certain way. It makes my job easier. It's also great as a mask that keeps 'me' safe from work stuff. I get to come home and wipe all that away and just be 'mama' or 'spouse' or 'feral fic writer'. I like the mental barrier a lot.
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hi lovely! so i was just rereading your "football" au, the one with the roommates and the definitely not in love with his teammate pierre etc... and first things first, it is fabulous. completely and utterly WONDERFUL, really! chef's kiss throughout.
but. but i do have one thing to say. my friend and i were both reading this and going feral, but we're also both very british and very confused. so to set the scene: we read "football au" and thought oh we know this! this is going to be fab! but then there was something about giants. and also quarterbacks. or was it linebacks??? and listen i really do think you're a marvellous writer. but sincerely. what fuck is a quarterback?? i only know a quarter pounder, and that's a burger, mate 😭
i know that gif is awful and sorry about it but. but THAT'S what i understand from quarter pounder. and pierre definitely isn't a burger tho i bet charles would love to eat him like one so YEAH. you are a goddess indeed, but please enlighten us about the mysterious and confounding world of american football 🙏
GJDSKLGMDSLKGDS oh my god bestie i have been thinking about this ask all day and dying. i am so sorry for being american.
i won't go into the details of american football bc literally i dont even get it sometimes jklgdmsgklmds BUT. here are my answers to your questions, and a little of what ya need to know:
giants = the team name! they are one of two New York City-associated nfl teams. here's the shitty little moodboard i made a while back for colors/aesthetic :) lmao
quarterback = player on offense who throws the football! they're usually the biggest stars on the teams, and they're the players generally responsible for scoring. (if you've been on my blog on tumblr desktop(tm), the man in my sidebar gif is the quarterback for the giants right now!)
in the au, pierre is a runningback, which is a player who runs with the football! usually the quarterback will hand the ball off to the runningback, who tries to dodge the defenders and get as far down the field as he can before he gets tackled to the ground.
charles is a kicker, which is a player who kicks the football! when a team scores, they can get an extra point by kicking the football through the uprights.
when i get closer to actually finishing this fic i'll like. find a football primer of some kind and/or have a lil dictionary for people to reference <3
#I HOPE THIS MAKES SENSE LMFAO the semantics of football are actually sooooo stupid#also lmao when the nfl season starts its gonna overlap w/f1 so i might be inconsolable for EXTENDED periods of time on here through like#november. kgndslkgmdslkgmds#ask reply#singsweetmelodies#NFL au
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