several of you folks suggested whipping or flogging / scars on the back, so there we are! added twist: delivered by a loved one (he tries to not hit too hard but hard enough so they will be satisfied and not prolong this whole ordeal)

[This is going to feel like a public flogging.]

Public Flogging | JB and Claudia Para | 06.30

Claudia was right on time when JB opened her door. She’d pre planed putting on a strap on she had tucked into her jeans and paired it all with a black, strapless corset and met the kneeling girl at the door. JB clasped the black, leather collar around her neck and clicked the leash to it. The Domme put her bag of toys over her shoulder and proudly lead Claudia to the court yard, walking with Claudia walking next to her until they got to a large tree in the middle of the yard. “Put your hands up on the tree and spread those legs,” she ordered, pulling out her favorite riding crop first. “Remember to count and I wanna hear you thank me for the pain after every one,” she ordered, starting off with one hard strike to each cheek.

@claudia-lodge

I can fully acknowledge this is likely me being defensive, but while I completely get wanting to reevaluate your relationship to taylor, the fanbase etc and to come to terms with the fact that taylor is not a perfect person, some of y'all are getting a little too pretentious about it for my liking

my controversial(ish, maybe, idk) take on steddy hands is that two semi-apparently contradictory things have to happen first and they are both along the stizzy axis: 1) stede and izzy have to each recognize the other as competent. this takes more growth in stede’s part bc... look my dears, my loves, perhaps even my beloveds. as endearing as stede is, he still ends s1 as an incompetent pirate. he’s never taken a single ship and he has spent his entire life in the lap of luxury. (for his fuckery, he lets the danish board their ship. they live, but they don’t take any property - which is the entire fucking point of piracy). the boy needs to face a material hardship. it builds character, much like working customer service.

and 2.) izzy needs to accept some mild hedonism. pleasure for the sake of pleasure is gooooooood. anyone who tells you different is selling something. this is the one that takes growth on izzy’s part - he doesn’t see value in pleasure alone and like, god, my man perhaps i wish i vibed with you less but...

if these don’t both happen, i can enjoy it, but i can’t believe it, if you feel me. stede is a man who is insecure bc he doesn’t think that he deserves what he has... and up to this point this has lowkey been true. and izzy is fixated on being needed to the point where imo being wanted doesn’t occur to him. (ed is a whole ‘nother bag of worms and this post is toooooo Fucking Long)

but in the end, they need all need to both want and need each other. i think need comes first, but want shouldn’t be short to follow. the want has staying power.

also you can’t dom someone while also being a total incompetent i didn’t say that yes i did (guess im drunk enough)

I said this in the tags of another post, but I do wonder if someone is, er, distraught and slighted about an upcoming release because they genuinely didn’t think Taylor would reveal some of these things, because they knew better than anyone how painful things had been in the past for her to process and that she kept some of that under wraps for so long out of self-preservation. (Which is why songs like Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve, YOYOK, High Infidelity, etc. Were so shocking, because they touched subjects she previously kept a lid on or stated were too difficult to talk about.)

So they perhaps assumed that even in the event of a breakup, the really painful stuff would stay locked away in a metaphorical vault as well, or stay shrouded in metaphor. But they were, er, taken by surprise by the fact that a) she’s ripped the bandaid off (first on Midnights and then on tour and now with ~everything~ in her life e.g. publicly calling people out in interviews/going after DM and other gossip/etc.) b) done so so soon and c) done so so publicly (e.g. huge publicity campaign instead of a surprise album drop). Which is why their team is scrambling to put together a counter-narrative because the self-protection they counted on on her part and perhaps had even weaponized in recent years is potentially giving way to a public confessional…

People say weird shit all of the time, but I think I can positively connect my current problems (stumbling across a weird den of proshippers) to WW1.

Directions: post a screenshot of your Lock Screen photo, a screen cap of the last/current song listened to, as well as the last celebrity you saved in your phone.

So... my own art of Uwe Kröger as Dracula

Slime by Danny Gonzalez

Ben Chaplin as Basil Hallward

Tagged by @iminamanu aaaand...

QUICK! @fitzrove CATCH

Alright that was sufficiently embarrassing. Going to go wipe my armpit sweat now

god i fucking hate slack so much

#real

The only reason I can’t agree with the protesters is because they’ve endangering a number of other people with them like drivers and marshals

I hope everyone involved gets named and shamed