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theyabooklover · 8 months
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I just finished reading the new Mark of Athena graphic novel, and I needed to share this panel with y'all. That's right. It's the ironic Jason and The Brick moment! BRASON! And what I find funny about this panel is that the brick SHATTERS???? My dudes... Jason's skull... is so hard... that is shattered a brick...
@kanechroniclesgraphicnovel
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rabbleboy · 1 year
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See You at Henderson Reads Book Festival 2023
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sentient-stove · 7 months
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reading the graphic novel adaptations of heroes of olympus is just one long game of ‘whose goddamn white baby is that’ when it comes to any of the characters that aren’t explicitly white
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all-that-jazz-93 · 10 months
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I wanna get back into The West Wing and I wanna get back into White Collar and I wanna get back into American Dragon: Jake Long but I can't do any of those because I'm currently still on my Agent Carter bullshit and my stupid-ass ADHD brain only allows me to be obsessed with one TV show at a time
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des-no9 · 7 months
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live your dreams, guys
also, pointing furiously: slutty waist, cunty face
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olsibvdia · 1 month
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so that thing where the entire fandom was obsessed with this scene and...
the graphic novel...
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dogbites-puppylove · 2 months
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Hi! I’m new to your bling and was wondering How do you think Dick Grayson(Yandere) would react to his s/o being a dragon but they stay in there human form more than there dragon form because the form is too large for Blüdhaven? (If ya want to inspiration think of Drogon from Game of thrones. Black scales blood red horns and spinal plates. Red eyes. There flames are black and red?)
Dick Grayson w Dragon! Darling
TW: description of yandere mentalities and actions (obsession, possessive tendencies, stalking, etc)
Tags: Yandere! Dick Grayson x Dragon!reader
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Dick Grayson is a man deprived - always craving and hungering for his darling in ways that melt his brain from his ears until they drip on the sidewalk below. He licks up your identity and devours it from your highest dreams to the blood beading your scraped knee during a spring of your childhood - everything you are is also Dick’s - just as everything he is is yours. Hiding anything from him is a task impossible perhaps even to the divine - he’s addicted to you, his high’s are your breath in his lungs and his lows are when you're just feet away. With this in mind - his darling being a dragon doesn’t so much as change his opinion then change his approach. 
Dick is a man who is bound by the pleasure principle - his ultimate bliss is the idea of life and death in your arms - conjoined as if you entered this earth connected. Like Orpheus is never known without Eurydice - like the legend can never be told with only one of them - he needs this love to define him.  He feels the need to writhe, the way he feels bugs under his skin that chatter into his bones - eating him hollow until you can fill it. Dragons by principle are tougher - they can take more, last longer, and bigger in every sense - and this is something Dick loathes and delights at. 
He’s rougher with you - he knows you can take it - and he experiments more. What pleasure is best - what sounds can you make - how far can he push until he can see just a glimpse of what you are outside of flesh that mimics his own. It’s simply not an option to not know you inside and out - not when he rips himself open everyday to allow you inside - not when you have his organs clutched between your teeth. Don’t grow surprised when one day he comes home with a collar and a leash - but don’t be afraid he has one for himself too. 
However - Dick is a selfish man, and while he loves his Darling so painfully his heart might beat his ribs raw - he can’t bear the idea of separating from you at his death. He grows far more obsessed with how to take you with him - oh but don’t be scared. It’ll be soft, sweet - like cyanide in apple seeds - he’ll coddle you through any pain. Just as he is rougher with you - he’s also more fatal. His hands begin to mimic dulled swords that sharpen themselves against your skin - he feels for soft spots and pulse points - and at night he whispers about joints graves with a devastating need. Your train ride to hell had been confirmed the moment he laid eyes on you - the moment Dick Grayson fell in love. Not even being a dragon will let you fly. 
Dick Grayson is also delusional - just as strong as Nightwings ideals are. This means that Darling can physically do nothing that breaches the moral threshold of wrong - and if he must rewrite heavens law to have it ring true he shall. Dick not seeing Darlings full form is not an option  - you own each other - you’ve vowed yourself to each other. Nothing must take a higher presence in your life than that, if you don’t want to move far enough to shift without casualty then death becomes far less of a problem. To put it in simple terms - Dick Grayson will consume every last part of you - should citizens and Gotham itself have to perish under your form it would be a shame - but of no consequence. 
Though, the Darling should be warned to not get cocky - wings are just as beautiful on your back as they are mounted on the wall. He knows you’ll survive - and he has forever to beg for your forgiveness, so you can’t blame a starved man for taking a bite.
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Author's Note: This is so out of my field and I'm so out of practice omg. I hope you enjoy it though. 
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gabessquishytum · 24 days
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Hob was new to the city, so during his first full moon he put on his "collar" and walked about in his wolf-skin. Mostly he looked like a big dog and he chose a werewolf friendly city to move to, so he figured he wouldn't be hassled too much.
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While walking about Hob smelled something delicious! Following the smell lead to a tall pointy fence, but Hob wasn't going let a fence stop him,,,he jumped. Hob landed in a garden (only scraping his side a little).
The garden wasn't what he was smelling, though, as nice as it was. Hob continued to following the smell around the corner of a house where he came upon a pup and its father.
They were his smell!
Hob didn’t want to startle them too much, so he yipped from a distance. If wolves could sheepishly wave, Hob would have.
The larger wolf started to growl, when the pup shot out and started (cutely) yipping at Hob, wagging his tail and poking Hob with his nose.
Papa!wolf quickly changed back into his human form, sighing Orpheus; Hob used that as his signal to change back himself.....apologizing for intruding,, to the still fantastic smelling (beautiful) man.
Hob was screwed.
Himbo werewolf Hob!!! I love him!!! Also Hob in a collar... ajsjdbdhshs ANYWAYS.
Of course Orpheus is desperate to play with his new friend, the big fluffy brown wolf who is twice as broad as his dad. See, his dad is very protective, so Orpheus doesn't have a whole lot of friends to play with, either in wolf or human form! He wants to play!!!
Dream grumbles under his breath but agrees that Orpheus can play with Hob. Only five minutes, though. Hob quickly shifts back to wolf form and immediately engages in tag, play fighting, even a fun chasing game with a football! Little by little, Dream is also pulled into the game, until the play-fighting ends with Orpheus and Dream successfully pinning Hob’s big fluffy body against the ground. They caught him! And Hob has never been more pleased to be caught, it's fair to say.
Unfortunately Hob can't stay forever (and he's polite enough to excuse himself instead of waiting for Dream to shoo him away). But Dream surprises him by inviting him to stop by for dinner after the full moon is over and done with. For Orpheus's sake, obviously - it has nothing to do with the fact that Hob smells so good and is so handsome with his hair messed up and dirt on his face. He just deserves a proper welcome to the neighbourhood. Or something.
Hob accepts the invitation and apologises again for just jumping into Dream’s garden, but Dream just snuffles against him and gives his ear an affectionate nibble. So Hob is starting to think that following his nose wasn't such a bad idea after all...!
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whumpcereal · 8 months
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tales from the kennel
hello! a new mini-series is a brewing, starting with this horrific two-parter focusing on justin and tony, whom we met here. part of the kennel universe (master list here), but set before will and tommy are kidnapped.
content warnings for: extreme dehumanization, referenced noncon, future noncon, future dubcon, forced nudity, references to human trafficking, all the gaslighting, branding, restraints, pet whump, captivity whump, filmed whump, creepy whumper, adult language
orpheus, part one
Tony has tried so hard not to think. Thinking, he knows, is no longer required of him. Not here. Probably not ever again. 
He’s been sold. Fuck, the word makes his naked skin crawl. It still doesn’t make sense, no matter how long he’s been here. People are not bought and sold. Of course, Doc doesn’t call it that. Doc calls a kidnapping a “rescue;” trafficking is just “finding someone a good home.”
But when Tony lets himself think, he knows it isn’t true. He wasn’t rescued, and he doesn’t need to find a good home. He has a good home–or at least, he used to. 
It hurts to think of the little yellow house he and Justin bought together. They barely got to live in it before–well, before all of this. But when Tony curls on the floor of the doghouse at night, when he closes his eyes, he can see the wallpaper they chose for the front hallway–birds of paradise on an orange field. He can see the rack of copper pots hanging over the kitchen island; they were too expensive, but Justin insisted that anyone who cooked like Tony deserved the very best. 
It hurts the most when he remembers their bedroom. The overstuffed duvet, the matching bedside tables, the soft light of their twin lamps. Their bodies moving together in the dark. Safety. Comfort. 
Tony has neither here. And no matter what Doc tells him about the “wonderful home” he’ll soon be packed off to, Tony knows there won’t be safety or comfort there either. He won’t have a home. There is no home without Justin. There is no Tony without Justin. 
Tony knows he will disappear entirely once Doc sends him away. He’s already started to. It isn’t Tony who endures Doc’s training for the camera; it’s Fido. It’s Fido whose red collar is cinched a notch too tight. It’s Fido who sucks, who begs, who bends to be breached like a trained whore. It’s Fido who will be restrained in the waiting crate and shipped thousands of miles away. 
It’s Fido who wears the still-healing brand of his new owner between his shoulder blades. 
But it is Tony who feels the pain. Even if he knows better than to think, he can’t help but feel. 
Tony feels the rough heel of Doc’s hand against the puckered skin of his new scar, and he groans before he can stop himself. It’s only been a few days since Doc came into the doghouse with the branding iron, and Tony’s skin still feels like it’s on fire. Tony doesn’t even know what the damn brand looks like, but he bets he could guess the shape by the pattern of the blood throbbing beneath his skin.
Doc only chuckles. “Oh, now, boy. I know it’s a little uncomfortable now, but think of what your new gift means! Someone loves you enough to claim you for his own. You’re so close to going home!”
“No!” Tony cries hoarsely, but his words dissolve into animal keening when Doc hooks his nails into the brand. 
“Yes, you are,” Doc insists. His voice is still gentle, even as he digs further into Tony’s wound. “Don’t undo it by being a bad boy now.” 
“Please!” Tony begs. The burning is almost as keen as when the iron first landed on his skin. Doc slaps Tony between the shoulders, and Tony’s knees come out from under him; his belly lands hard against the cold floor.
“You don’t want to ruin your gift, is that right?” Doc chides, letting his hand slip up the back of Tony’s neck and into his dark hair. He scratches idly at Tony’s scalp. 
The humiliation is a brand all its own. 
“You know, it’s an honor to be adopted by someone so important. You’re going to have so much fun, and I know you’re going to be so good for him. He’s tuning in all this week so that he can get excited for your arrival next weekend. Imagine someone so important giving up so much of his time for a little rescue like you. Aren’t you a special boy, Fido?” 
Tony shakes his head. He doesn’t want to think about what’s coming. Doc’s already showed him the crate he’ll travel in, the special hood he’ll wear to dampen his senses, the fur-lined cuffs built into the box to keep him still. He’s been promised drugs that will keep him calm for the trip. Tony doesn’t know exactly where he’s being sent, but he knows it’s far. Far from here. Far from the little yellow house. 
Far from Justin. 
“I want to go home,” Tony says before he can stop himself. “Please, I–” 
Doc’s hand freezes in Tony’s hair. “But you are going home!”
Tony shakes his head. “No. You don’t–I–please, Doc, Please. I’ll be good. I promise. Just–” 
“Don’t make the people think you’re ungrateful, Fido. Not all of my rescues get the opportunities you have.” 
Tony wants to scream. Yes, he’s had so many ‘opportunities’ since he’s been here. The opportunity to be restrained and groped and filmed and drugged and starved and beaten. To be coupled like a brood mare with any one of a dozen faceless people in red collars. To know exactly how weak he is, to know for certain that it took almost no time to break him entirely. 
But he doesn’t scream. Because he knows better. 
“I’m grateful,” Tony forces himself to say. “I-I–” he swallows around the lump in his throat, “I just don’t want to leave you.” 
He pitches his eyes to the floor, but it doesn’t matter: Doc knows he’s lying. The man bursts into laughter. 
“Oh, my sweet little pup. What a performance!” 
“I’m not–” 
Doc’s hand presses against the brand, and Tony is silenced by the searing pain. 
“I know you have mixed feelings about leaving, and I know it isn’t because of me.”
Tony stares up at Doc through the blur of his tears. The pain in his back is white hot; the knot in his chest is worse. He never mentions Justin to Doc. He learned early on that there was no point; Doc won’t give him any answers. But now that he’s being sent away–
“The little mutt will be just fine without you,” Doc says. “You haven’t seen him in months anyway, have you? You should be used to it by now.”
But Tony will never be used to it. They didn’t get enough time. They’d only been married for a week when Doc found them. When Doc took Tony’s wedding ring, it hadn’t even had the chance to wear a groove in his skin. It was like he’d never worn a ring at all. 
“Please.” Tony shifts his weight back onto his stomach. He lays his arms prostrate on the floor. “I have to see him.” 
Doc shakes his head. “I don’t know, boy. Don’t you think it will be harder? He isn’t coming home with you. He might be jealous. I don’t want you to feel badly about your good luck–and I don’t want it to be more difficult for him. I haven’t found a place for him. Not yet.” 
Tony closes his eyes. He hopes Doc never finds a place for Justin, that there’s still a chance that Justin will make it back to the little yellow house, even if it’s without him. 
“I want to–to-to say goodbye. Even if it’s hard.” 
He doesn’t say that he wants to say goodbye because he’s almost certain it will be the last time he sees his husband. At the very least, it will probably be the last time Justin sees him alive. Tony is under no illusion that he will escape the situation waiting for him overseas. He knows he will be used until he is a dry husk, and then he will be crumpled up and thrown away. He can only hope that someday, Justin might have closure. That Justin will sit at the kitchen island with another man who will make him enchiladas and kiss that spot on the back of his neck and banish the nightmares that will surely haunt Justin for the rest of his life. 
Tony doesn’t have a choice. His nightmare is going to swallow him whole. But with the time he has left–he needs Justin to know that it will be alright, even if Tony won’t be there to see him through. 
Doc chuckles softly and tucks his fingers under Tony’s chin, forcing Tony to meet his eye. “You are an affectionate little thing, aren’t you?” 
“Please. Before–” Tony chokes on the lump on his throat, but he holds Doc’s gaze, “--before I go home.” 
Doc’s eyebrows raise. His mouth curves into a grotesque smile. “Well, look who’s decided to be a good boy.” 
“I won’t fight,” Tony whispers. “I promise.” 
“Do you?” 
“I do.” 
As though to prove it, he manages not to flinch when Doc shifts his grip and presses into the soft meat of his cheeks. Doc dips his thumb into Tony’s mouth and presses his tongue flat. Tony stays still. He wants Doc to believe him. It’s the only way that he will get to Justin. 
Doc sighs, slipping the calloused pad of his thumb back and forth over Tony’s tongue. “You understand that you’ll have to follow my rules? That you have to be obedient if you expect a treat?” 
Tony does his best to nod, even as Doc’s touch teases the opening of his throat. 
“And you’ll be a good boy on your trip home?” 
Another half nod. Doc pulls his thumb backward, but he keeps Tony’s tongue pinned down. 
“Then I’ll let you see him,” Doc says thoughtfully. “But you won’t say goodbye.” 
Tony’s brow wrinkles, and Doc laughs. 
“You won’t say anything, actually. You won’t speak at all.” 
Tony’s mouth twitches in an attempt to protest, and Doc seizes his tongue and yanks. The thin skin that connects his tongue to the base of his mouth flares with pain. Tony whines involuntarily, but Doc doesn’t let go. 
“He doesn’t know what it is you’ve been up to all this time. He doesn’t know that you’re being adopted. I didn’t think it was good for him to know, since the two of you were never going to find a home together. Makes it easier to wean him, doesn’t it?” 
Tony squeezes his eyes shut again. He and Justin found a home together. They just never expected it to be ripped away from them like this. 
“Look at me when I’m talking to you, boy,” Doc snaps. 
Tony complies. What else can he do? He promised he wouldn’t fight, didn’t he? 
“You’re not going to make any of this worse by spilling the beans. You may agree to stop fighting, but if he finds out you’re headed home, he won’t. He’s already a naughty little thing, and I don’t particularly want to deal with any more guff from him.”
For the sparest of seconds, Tony’s heart soars. Justin hasn’t given up. He’s still fighting. He can make it. He will.  
But Doc’s voice brings him back to earth. 
“See, he isn’t as valuable to me as you are, Fido. It’s going to be hard to find him a place. And I can’t have you making it any harder than it needs to be. I’ve got limited resources, you know? So, here’s the deal: I’ll let you see him if you promise not to say a word.” 
Tony nods again, even as his tears finally break free. He doesn’t want Justin to see him bitted or muzzled. He wants to kiss his husband, to tell him that he loves him one last time. He wants to say goodbye. But if this is all Tony’s got, he will take it. He’s learned to take what he can get. 
Doc finally lets Tony’s tongue go, wiping his thumb on Tony’s cheek. “But it’s a little performance test for you, boy. I’m not going to make this easy for you. I want you to show me that you mean what you say.” 
“I–” Tony rasps. He pushes himself up on his hands and clears his throat. “I don’t understand.” 
“You are not leaving the doghouse until it’s time to pack you up. That means I’ll be bringing the mutt to see you. And I expect you to do what you’ve been trained to do.”
Tony’s gut freezes. His eyes drift up to the camera closest to them. 
He can’t. He wants Justin more than anything, but he can’t subject Justin to this. Not when he won’t even be able to explain. There will be too many things he can’t explain. The cameras. The brand on his back. How sorry he is. And how much he loves Justin. 
It’s too much to ask. 
“But–” 
“I will bring him here, and you will show him what you’ve learned. If you want to see him before you go home, those are the expectations. Take it or leave it.” 
“He doesn’t know–” Tony tries, but Doc’s palm comes down hard between his shoulder blades. 
“And he won’t know.” Doc leans close, pressing harder against Tony’s ruined skin. “If you say a word, I’ll kill him.” 
“No!” Tony cries. Justin has to get out. He cannot die here. 
“I told you, he isn’t that valuable to me. The only reason I haven’t put him down yet is because my Annie’s taken a bit of a shine to him. She’s never had a pet of her own, and I like to see her happy.” 
Tony feels bile rising in his throat. Justin is no one’s pet. Maybe that’s all that Tony will ever be now, maybe that’s a foregone conclusion, but he has to believe that Justin still has a chance.  
“You can’t–” 
“I won’t, so long as you show us all what a good boy you are. I’m not even going to muzzle you; you’ll get a chance to really show off your training. I’m sure your new owner will be watching, and you’ll want to make sure he’ll be excited to see you.” 
Tony collapses over his knees. He’s going to be sick. He can’t do this. He can’t make Justin do this. He doesn’t know what Doc’s done with Justin, but Tony knows he isn’t a red collar. Tony would know if he were. Tony’s body knows every red collar, even the ones he hasn’t seen; he’s tasted them and felt them move inside. None of them were Justin. Tony would never mistake Justin’s touch. 
He can’t make Justin a part of this–but he knows that he has to. Doc has him trapped, sure as if he were already packed in the crate. He should never have tried to bargain. He doesn’t have the head for it anymore. After all, he isn’t meant to think. 
“You can’t go back on it now, boy,” Doc murmurs. His hand slips below the brand, scratching a gentle line up and down the knots of Tony’s spine. “And you get to say goodbye. Just like you wanted. Only not in so many words.” 
Tony doesn’t move. He falls into the gentle touch, just the way he’s been trained, and he stays still. There’s nothing he can do anyway. He knows if he fights now, Justin is as good as dead. 
“It’s romantic, in a way,” Doc says wistfully. Tony can hear the smile in his voice. “Do you know the story of Orpheus, Fido? My Annie has a big book of Greek myths that I used to read to her before bed, and that one was always her favorite. Made her cry, but I think she liked the tragedy of it all.”
Tony knows the story, but he can’t remember. Not right now. The only thing he can recall is Justin’s face. He shouldn’t have asked to see him. He should have let himself be packed away and lived with the memories they’ve already made. He curls in on himself. Doc keeps stroking his back. 
“Orpheus had a chance to rescue his love from the underworld. All he had to do was to lead her out without turning around to look at her. He just had to trust that she was there, and they’d both be free. But he turned around just as they were crossing the threshold, and she was pulled back into the underworld forever. Because of his weakness.” Doc leans close to Tony’s ear. “This is your Orpheus moment, boy. Don’t be weak.”  
Tony can’t stand it. “You’re not giving me the chance to save him from anything,” he says, his voice toneless and hollow.  
Doc’s fingers crook against Tony’s cheek. “No, because I’ve already rescued you both.”
Tony should laugh, but he only squeezes his eyes shut again. He’s dreamed about rescue, but he knows now that it will never come. Not for him. There is no escaping the snare he’s just set for himself. 
“But,” Doc says thoughtfully, “I am giving you the chance to protect him.” 
“From you.” 
Doc’s hand withdraws. “From himself. He’s got to learn, and you’re going to teach him. You’re going to show him what a good boy looks like.” 
Tony looks up at Doc, the older man’s image distorted by the pane of his tears. “Why do you hate us so much?” 
“Oh, Fido. I don’t hate you. I could never hate any of my rescues. You’re all such vulnerable creatures. But just like you’re going to protect your mutt, I have to protect you. I know it’s hard, giving up what you thought your life would be. But I saved you from something so much worse.” 
It’s bullshit, but Tony is sure that Doc believes it. The man abducts innocent people and strips away their humanity like bits of old wallpaper, but he believes that he’s serving the greater good. Tony only wishes he could believe too. It would make all of this so much easier if he could believe that this torture was saving him from something worse. 
But he knows better. He knows that someone else would have driven by the service station eventually; he knows that if they had been smarter, if they hadn’t gotten in Doc’s truck, they would be at home in the yellow house right now. They wouldn’t have died. Someone would have come. Doc didn’t save them from anything. Doc stole them. 
“It’s hard for you and the mutt, I know. But I can’t always place everyone together, so the separation was necessary. So you could get used to the idea. But I’m not a monster, Fido. And so I’m going to give you this chance to ease your parting. But if I let you off your leash, I know you’d run amok. And that’s not modeling good behavior, is it? So, there are rules. It’s as simple as that.”
“You’re insane,” Tony says. “You said you’d kill him–” 
Doc swats at Tony’s nose. “Bad dog. That’s enough. The mutt won’t be put down if you do as you’re told. But if you don’t, it’s no skin off my nose. This isn’t a charity, even if it is a rescue operation. Cost-benefit analysis. You’ve earned your keep these last few months; the mutt is a drain on our resources. But this little guest spot might just be his meal ticket until I figure out what to do with him.” 
Tony opens his mouth, to protest or beg, he isn’t sure which, but Doc’s hand stops his voice. 
“I’ve heard enough out of you. I think your new rules apply starting now. You make a peep, I won’t even go to the trouble of bringing him in. No bark. Do you understand?” 
Tony’s chest heaves with a silent sob, but he nods. He knows Doc is as good as his word. 
“Hup hup,” Doc commands, and Tony pushes himself onto all fours, even as his limbs tremble beneath him. Doc pulls a leash from his belt loop and clips it to the ring on Tony’s collar. “Fido, place.” 
Tony’s cheeks color with shame, but he crawls to the center of the glass box, his leash dragging behind. He knows that this is the spot with the most advantageous camera angles, that he’s expected to hit his mark so that his viewing audience gets exactly what they are paying for. 
“Sit.” 
Tony complies and lets his bare ass fall back over his heels. He sets his hands flat on the floor in front of him. Doc crouches down and tethers his leash to the anchor in the floor. 
“Stay.” 
As if there were any other option. 
Doc rises and goes to the locked door. He looks back over his shoulder. “You remember your rule, Fido. I’ll be right back with the mutt.” 
...to be continued
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coffee-rack-art · 3 months
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“It doesn’t matter what they say
I know I’m gonna love you any old way
What can I do?”
Some Baby It’s You by @machihunnicutt drawings!!! 👀
Aaaand spoilers ahead I GUESS but here are some of my fav lines because everyone should at all times remember who the best writer ever is. Anyway.
Trapper studied him. Hawkeye looked away, like he’d been commanded to, like he’d been Orpheus walking back from Hell and not from the showers in the early morning light.
Erin wondered if Hawkeye had ever had a summer like this, or Dad, or Mom, or Margaret: a summer where it felt like everyone was against you, and you couldn’t be bothered to care.
Watching his wife do a cartwheel was like having his whole world flip over, just for a moment. He’d keep realizing he was looking at her the wrong way until it was all over.
“You’re everything to me, and sometimes I get the idea that I could be anyone to you,” BJ said.
“You know he’d look at you like you hung the moon even if you were wearing a trash bag, Pierce,” Margaret said, fiddling with his collar.
“So you think I look like garbage?” he said.
And of course:
“Going to the dance without you would be like if the Beatles did a show without Paul,” Benny said.
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delta-pavonis · 3 months
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BONUS CHAPTER: you might be the answer to the sinner in me
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Dreamling (human AU) & Hob/Orpheus || rated E || complete
Alternate Universe (human), some non-linear storytelling, semi-epistolary, marijuana use, cheating, age difference (7-10 years), Hob marries Orpheus, and falls in love with his father, relationship problems, marital problems, failing marriage, break up, cheating, masturbation, proDom Dream, Dom/sub, sub Hob Gadling, dom Dream, oral sex, rough oral sex, face-fucking, sex toys, talking someone through sex, like some fucked-up D/s gay porno version of Pyramus and Thisbe, cowgirl position, handjobs, Dream is a horny weasel, fingering, orgasm denial, edging, cockwarming, talk of collaring
Read Chapter 11 on AO3
Hob wakes to bright, late morning light coming in through the cracks between the drapes. Then the soreness settles in. Then he remembers why he is so sore and turns to see Dream still asleep about an arm-span’s length across the king-sized bed. Holy shit all that really happened.
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blackjackkent · 3 months
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Camp scene with Lae'zel was sweet enough as far as it goes:
"It is not in a githyanki's nature to say 'thank you'. Our language doesn't even have a phrase for it. Chraith'kan zharn is the closest equivalent I know - 'May your enemies know agony.' But after releasing me from Orin's grip, there is only one proper response: Thank you. Sincerely."
"You're welcome."
"Ah, hm. Well. Good then. Let's carry on."
It was kind of cute - she approved and got a little bit flustered and awkward about it. But - realistically, the game can't offer me an actual scene that matches my specific Hector headcanons.
And I think there's a far more interesting way this reunion could play out. >:)
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There's a flicker of some magic dispelled as Hector unlocks the chains binding her to the altar; in a flash, Lae'zel's eyes are open and she is up off the stone, rocketing backwards away from him and the others. Gauging the situation in a quick sweep of her eyes, she comes up with a sword off the body of one of the dead cultists and has it up in both hands, warding off an attack that does not come.
Hector goes utterly still, both hands spread at his sides.
Silence. She stares at him with a baffled, hunted look; the point of the sword trembles minutely, then steadies as she redoubles her grip. "Hector?" she rasps.
He nods slowly. "It's me. It's all right--"
Even barely conscious, she moves like lightning - a sudden dart forward this time. He's weakened from the fight with Orin and not expecting the blow, which cuffs the hilt of the sword across his jaw with an impact that makes his ears ring. Her free hand grabs him by the collar and pulls him in a throw he's almost certain she learned from watching him fight; the momentum flips him up and over her hip and lands him in her place on the altar.
She kneels over him, the blade at his throat, her eyes full of blind rage and tortured pain.
"Is it not enough?" she snarls. "Is it not enough that you have tormented me, all these days, that you now appear before me wearing his face? Do you think me such a fool?" The cold metal presses over his jugular. "It is you who are foolish, Orin, to open my chains and think I would stay my hand on a mere pretense."
"Stop--" he hears Karlach shout.
"Stay back, doppelganger," Lae'zel barks without looking up. "One further step and I shall sever your queen's head from her body." She leans forward; Hector can feel the heat of her breath on his cheek as she hisses in his face.
"Cease your blaspheming of my friend's image, shka'keth. I would see your true eyes before I open your throat."
"Lae'zel--" he gasps out. "It's me! Orin's dead! It's me-- I promise you--"
She freezes. Her head draws back; the pressure of the blade eases just slightly. "So many days I have waited," she mutters. "I swore to myself I would not be weak when the moment came..."
"It's me." Hector's eyes flick wildly around the room as he grasps for some way to prove it. "You-- we met on the nautiloid. You thought I was a thrall. We escaped, we crashed... we found you in a cage with the tieflings... Shadowheart didn't let you forget it for weeks..." His breath catches on a slight, hysterical laugh without any humor. "The creche... you took me there, we saw through Vlaakith's lies together... we traveled in the shadows and you told me of the light of the Astral Sea..."
He feels, to his shame, that his voice is starting to shake, to crack-- the battle exhausted all his control and he barely has the strength to think, and seeing her staring at him with such fury, after all he has done to try and reach her, feels like a last brutal blow struck by Orin from beyond the veil.
"Ch'mar zal'a Orpheus," he mutters shakily, parroting the words he has heard her mutter in camp. "You opened your mind to me when you made your choice to turn away from Vlaakith... you trusted me then, please trust me now..."
She draws a sharp breath in; her eyes narrow. His words are breaking through the haze, bit by bit, a little of the mad rage starting to fade. Her head jerks and he feels the familiar prod of the tadpole connection in his mind, his parasite squirming in answer to hers. For the first time he can recall, he is desperately grateful for that connection, for the proof it offers.
Images begin to flash between them, a thousand upon a thousand memories of their shared struggle. He groans, his eyes rolling back in his head. "You almost broke my jaw, that night in camp, and said perhaps our pain would bleed out of our wounds..." he whispers. "It hasn't yet, but I have hope... put the blade down, Lae'zel, please... it's me..."
She draws back. The sword slips from her fingers, clattering onto the stone next to the altar.
"Kaincha..." she mutters. "You speak truth..."
He sits up slowly, rubbing involuntarily at his neck where the blade pressed. "Have I ever lied to you?" he asks softly.
Her shoulders are rigid, her whole body taut, and he can see that every bit of her strength is going into preventing her from trembling. "She came in so many faces. Every one familiar. Every one a mockery. I came to doubt my own eyes..."
"It's all right," he answers gently. "It's done with now."
He's dimly aware that Karlach has come up next to him, that one of her hands is resting on his shoulder, that she is bent forward on the balls of her feet in a protective aspect, ready to strike should Lae'zel show any further sign of violence. But the fight has gone out of the githyanki warrior now; with the moment of adrenaline gone, she looks beaten and exhausted. Ashamed.
He considers a moment, then deliberately pitches his voice a little slower - a sharper snap, like those he heard from the githyanki at Y'llek.
"The way out is clear," he tells her firmly. "Go back to camp. Rest. We'll talk when I return."
She blinks - and he sees a flash of something like relief through her eyes at having an order to follow. "Yes," she agrees with a crisp nod, standing at once. "I will wait there." She turns, looks around the bloody atrium as if fully registering it for the first time.
A slight pause, and then she adds, "I should offer my gratitude. But there are no words with which I was trained to express it. You came through fire for me, and I answered you with a blade."
"Thank you is enough," Hector says; a slight smile tugs at his lips.
She snorts softly. "Hm. Thank you, then," she mutters. "It is... insufficient, as is much in your barbaric tongue. But it will do for now."
Without another word, she stalks up the gore-slicked stairs towards the sewers.
They all watch her go, and then Hector groans softly and lets himself fall back to lie on the altar again, staring up at the vaulted ceiling. Karlach's face drifts into view as she leans over him.
"Same old Lae'zel, eh?" she says dryly. "Gods, I'd give her a thrashing for threatening you like that, if I wasn't so glad to see her."
"She was afraid," Hector says absently. "And I don't blame her for it."
Jaheira sits down on the edge of the altar with a weary sigh. "There are none of us, I think, who have not done something foolish in the name of fear." A smile flickers across her face. "That said, had she injured you, we would have made her feel it."
He shakes his head. "It's all right," he says firmly. "The Chosen are dead, finally, and we've stood against all their machinations; the last thing we need is to start tearing ourselves apart now. She's back with us. That's enough."
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crocodilenjoyer · 2 months
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enies lobby platonic orpheus and eurydice au except it’s luffy grabbing the underworld bureaucrats by their collective collars and going Give Me Back My Archaeologist You Losers
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undatablebracket · 10 months
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OUTDATED POST
Last updated 8/18/23, please check the bracket posts for the most up-to-date competitor list.
Sorted alphabetically by game for easy searching.
These are (almost) all of the bracket participants! There are a few who are still up in the air. Please do not get upset with me if your blorbo did not qualify; I did my best to research each game I was unfamiliar with. The most common reason for a character to be disqualified was being from a game without any romance at all.
Note that some of these may be removed, as my attempts at research may not have been sufficient.
Madoka Aoyagi from Aokana Four Rhythms Across the Blue
Reiko Satou from Aokana Four Rhythms Across the Blue
Nahara from The Arcana
Nazali from The Arcana
Nasmira from The Arcana
Natiqa from The Arcana
Brasidas from Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
Soma Jarlskona from Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
Alfira from Baldur's Gate 3
Volo from Baldur's Gate 3
Mallory from Black Closet
oniontheif from Blooming Panic: Full Bloom Edition
Mossie from Cattails
Guinevere from Code: Realize
Kotoho Sakuragawa from collar x malice
Antonio from Coral Island
Helene Leventis from Crown and the Flame - Choices (mobile app)
Owen Herriot from Cupid Parasite
Viktor Vector from Cyberpunk 2077
Johnny Silverhand from Cyberpunk 2077
Goro Takemura from Cyberpunk 2077
Mayor Mingus from Dialtown
Jerry from Dialtown
Pierre from Dialtown
Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club
The Arishok from Dragon Age 2
Varric Tethras from Dragon Age 2
Avaline Vallen from Dragon Age 2
Vivienne de Fer from Dragon Age Inquisition
Cole from Dragon Age Inquisiton
Scout Lace Harding from Dragon Age: Inquisition
Cremisius "Krem" Aclassi from Dragon Age: Inquisition
Sten from Dragon Age: Origins
Quizzmaster Quinn from Dream Daddy
Morgott the Grace-Given from Elden Ring
Matthew Gursky from Emily is Away
Magnolia from Fallout 4
Nick Valentine from Fallout 4
Phila from Fire Emblem Awakening
The Gatekeeper from Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Hypnos from Hades
Orpheus and Eurydice from Hades
Chaos from Hades
Charon from Hades
Sisyphus from Hades
Alecto from Hades
Azami Koshiba from Hatoful Boyfriend
Blanc Lapin from Ikemen Revolution
Lyla Park from Life is Strange 2
Kyousuke Natsume from Little Busters!
Javik from Mass Effect
Urdnot Wrex from Mass Effect
Zaeed Massani from Mass Effect
Mordin Solus from Mass Effect 2 & 3
The Illusive Man from Mass Effect 2 + 3
Samara from Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3
Evfra de Tershaav from Mass Effect Andromeda
Zevin Raeka from Mass Effect Andromeda
Jeff "Joker" Moreau from Mass Effect trilogy
Moss Mann from Monster camp
Gerard from Monster Camp and Monster Roadtrip
Tate from Monster Prom
Sadie from Monster Prom 3: Road Trip and Monster Prom 2: Camp
Jerry the Murderer from Monster Prom series
Mali from My Time at Portia
Jaehee Kang from Mystic Messenger
Vanderwood from Mystic Messenger
Shinbi from Nameless (the one thing you must recall)
Soi from Nameless (the one thing you must recall)
Thirteen from Obey Me! One Master to Rule Them All
Aurora Emery from Open Heart - Choices
Jeremy King from Our Life: Beginning & Always
Miranda from Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Terry from Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Rio Iwasaki from Persona 3 Portable
Junpei Iori from Persona 3 Portable
Yosuke Hanamura from Persona 4
Kanji Tatsumi from Persona 4
Goro Akechi from Persona 5
Yusuke Kitagawa from Persona 5
Ryūji Sakamoto from Persona 5
Eothas from Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
Grim from Romancelvania
Gaius from Rune Factory 3
Illuminata from Rune Factory 4
Porcoline Tulle De Saint-Coquille from rune factory 4
Ventuswill from Rune Factory 4
Lin Fa from Rune Factory 4
Volkanon from Rune Factory 4
Terry from Rune Factory 5
Malix from Seduce Me the Otome
Halek Prince from Shepherds of Haven
Bao-Dur from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Clint from Stardew ValleyGus from Stardew Valley
Jodi from Stardew Valley
Kent from Stardew Valley
Krobus from Stardew Valley
Linus from Stardew Valley
Marnie from Stardew Valley
Mayor Lewis from Stardew Valley
Sandy from Stardew Valley
Robin from Stardew Valley
The Wizard (aka. M. Rasmodius) from Stardew Valley
Clemens from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town
Jacopo from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town
Karina from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town
Flora from Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life
Lars from Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town
Brynjolf from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Cicero from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Erandur from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Faendal from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Hadvar from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
J'zargo from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Miraak from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Seranna from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Teldryn Sero from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Ondolemar from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Olivia Vanderwall Nevrakis from The Royal Romance - Choices
Iorveth from The Witcher 2
Vernon Roche from The Witcher 2
Julian Alfred Pankratz (Dandelion/Jaskier) from The Witcher 3
Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy from The Witcher 3
Karen Hanatsubaki from Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 3
Arihiko Inui from Tsukihime
Yumizuka Satsuki from Tsukihime
Alicia Rosales from XOXO Droplets
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Selina/Harley/Ivy vs Tim/Bernard/Kon from DC
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throwingbread · 5 months
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Eleanor Gadling lives in your modern AU challenge 2024. Eleanor Gadling who survives a miscarriage but her marriage doesn’t. AU where Eleanor and the baby live. Eleanor Gadling kissing her husband before he goes off his date with a hot goth. Eleanor Gadling finding black lipstick on her husband’s shirt collar and crying. Eleanor Gadling washing the sheets so her husband can fuck their boyfriend into the mattress. Hob Gadling washing the sheets for Eleanor when she invites Calliope over. Eleanor Gadling raising Orpheus like he’s her own. Eleanor Gadling dealing with Modern Aristocracy Problems. Eleanor Gadling is offscreen living her best life. Elanor Gadling in the thick of the plot.
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