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dapperrokyuu · 2 months

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While I do wish we can see more about the Anakt quartet's relationships, it was incredibly funny for me to be, like, "*Round 2 just got released* Oh, Till doesnt even KNOW or has ever talked to Mizi, hes just projecting and obsessed and heteronormative-" to "*experienced all the official art and Round 3 and 6* Oh, they were, like, actually friends to an extent and the meaning Mizi has to Till is very sweet even if its born of and is a reflection of just how desolate his lived experience just Is Constantly, ultimately a guy with a cute crush made buckwild due to- *gestures vaguely* -and hes heteronormative."

#dee p thoughts #alien stage #alnst #vivinos #sorry ivantill stans as much as Id like to think till could in any capacity return ivans feelings #and its current result may or may not be how their interactions was not favorable in that direction #the lyrics ''Error: No Better Options'' is certainly. a lyric in tills song sjfkrkfkekc #what options? the two girls you interact with? the three people? the lyric was such a funny read for me at first because it made it seem l #like till ''settled'' on mizi because shes cute and pretty and a girl...which.....was kind of the reason at first iirc?#then I personally believe it grew into more after but #considering ivans lack of presence in round 2...unfortunately Id have to say.....he was not even a consideration in the first place shcjjdc #till...straightest man in the world.....#I do kind of have to wonder how much of the art is Truly Canon per se some definitely are but some definitely feel in a space outside of l #everything so theres wiggle roon #typos? on my phone typing? inevitable sowwy.........

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1-ufo · 3 months

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Matt (or in reality probably Jar) just posted this on twitter. The Delorean.

#I’m p sure Jar is running both Matt and Muse’s social media now full time #either way #I certainly don’t mind the daily postings #the delorean is admittedly probably my favorite of Matt’s Manson guitars after all this time #it’s a classic #it’s a reference to back to the future #which is such a dear series to me #and was also number one in the box office the day I was born #I love that it’s slightly too big for him compared to the other mansions #I love that it’s the first custom Manson of many to follow #also I have a picture with it #bc #it’s the delorean #also red hair #and the sunglasses on his head

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sysig · 7 months

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Gotta sweep up all this Dust (Patreon)

#Doodles #Mother 3 #Duster #I am still thinking of He and yet he still hasn't completely come back into my crosshairs #If you can believe it - it was actually the fic printing that was like halfway to the goal of going out of my mind about him again and well-#Lol ♪ I do still plan to! I just underestimated how much of a run-up to him it would be #I'll get there! Certainly keeping busy in the meanwhile lol #But he does get /some/ screentime in the meantime at least haha #I actually injured my own ankle a while ago :P Couldn't tell you exactly when or what but it's been kinda flaring up lately #Mostly when I got for walks - doesn't have to be super long walks either which I'm not super jazzed about #But I did get an ankle compress-brace which has been good for it :) Can walk a bit more regularly!#It was mostly giving my pain away that prompted him back lol sorry Duster #I did at least power up the game to try and see which side his limp is on - it's hard to tell!#It looks like his strides are more confident/longer with his left leg but with the way his sprite mirrors sometimes but not other times #I don't know if he actually says which leg it is somewhere in the game either so I'm just projecting for now lol #I imagine it's only easier to stress out the strong side by overextending - why not both!#It's also still really fun to draw him covered in scars haha #Probably could've gone for arm hair too but it might've muddled the scars and aren't those the important part lol #And a little singy Duster/Lucky to round out :)#I imagine he has a weak voice if he tried projecting but hmm I'm not sure! I really do want to get to know him better!#There's gotta be a reason he was put on the bass right haha #Probably a nice whispery singing voice ♪

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antirepurp · 4 months

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Talking about bad Youtube videos reminds me of how I recently watched an 06 rewrite by some random gaming Youtuber that was SO bad. Literally almost every scene from the original game was gone, mostly because he removed Elise and all of Shadow's interactions with Mephiles (They literally NEVER INTERACT directly in the rewrite, what the hell was this guy doing). He even had the gall to call it "What if Sonic 06 had a good story"

ok i know taste is subjective but that doesn't sound good at all, if anything 06's narrative problems stem from the way time traveling is handled from a couple paradoxes you can look over to the stories overlapping in ways that makes building a choronological timeline of events difficult (not unlike sa1 just taken up to 11). mephiles would not be mephiles without shadow having been the one who sealed him away, and though elise is largely reduced to a damsel in distress she also holds the other half of solaris in her which is kind of important for the whole story. removing either of those elements uproots 06's story entirely and at that point you might as well write a script for an unrelated fangame or do some fanfiction or whatever goodness gracious

#i avoid sonic-related videos like plague for these sorts of reasons #my most recent experience is glancing at a video thumbnail claiming p-06 is the best sonic game #which is a take that you can have. and i certainly don't agree with it #old man yells at silver the hedgehog controlling like sonic and shadow in levels designed for puzzles and platforming etc

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laufire · 9 months

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unpopular opinion but I don't think pride & prejudice is jason's favourite book. I think he loves it. I think it's a comfort read that makes him think of easier times. I think he thinks austen is fucking hilarious (with alfred as an influence, ofc he considers that english character the height of humour). I think he loves lizzy but the character that lingers in his mind the longest after a reread is lydia. I think darcy reminds him of bruce. but I don't think it's his favourite.

#idk what his MOST favourite book is yet... maybe he doesn't have just one. i certainly can't choose mine lol #hell get back to me when i've read the rest of austen's novels. p&p might not even be his favourite among those #certainly the most reread but i could easily make an argument for persuasion which is the other one i read this year #talking to the void #my thoughts #dc #dc thoughts #jason todd

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mariocki · 2 months

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I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses (Drop Dead, Dearest, 1978)

"What is this? What is this? I'm not a suspect, am I?"

"I didn't say that."

"Goddammit, why aren't you doing something? Why aren't you out there looking for the person who did it? Look, look, look. I don't have to be treated in this...this, this manner! I'm not some motorcycle punk you've dragged in off the street! I'm a wealthy man!"

#i miss you hugs and kisses #drop dead dearest #video nasty #blood tw #gore tw #1978 #canadian cinema #murray markowitz #elke sommer #donald pilon #chuck shamata #george touliatos #cindy girling #george chuvalo #cec linder #richard m. davidson #migual fernandes #michelle fansett #corinna carlson #linda sorensen #highly atypical entry in the video nasty canon; it's formed more like a tv movie than a horror film‚ a courtroom drama crossed with #a murder mystery (albeit with a couple of minutes of real nastiness‚ which is what landed it on the dpp list). the irony (which is not #unique to this film) is that banning this film ended up giving it a legacy which has kept it alive much longer than it would have otherwise #who'd be seeking out a cheapo canadian killer thriller with a cast of minor b listers if it wasn't immortalised on a list of brain frying #gore flicks? well.. I might have? maybe. idk. but i mainly watched this bc of the video nasty thing and i gotta say it certainly isn't the #worst from the list I've seen. the format is interesting‚ opening on the central murder and then drifting back and forth between the events #leading up to it and the trial it resulted in. the plot is based on a true case (the Peter Demeter case; he's still in Canadian prison but #was presumably p happy with his nuanced portrayal here‚ if he ever saw the film). more melodrama than horror‚ except for those few scenes #of excessive sex and violence. remove those (and they'd be easily trimmed) and this is basically afternoon tv fodder

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karinyosa · 3 months

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being trans with ocd is so fucking exhausting dude

#slash sexuality questioning i suppose #slash uestioning in general i suppose #i’ve been half in half out of every label i’ve used for like a year and a half which is very un slay #anyway i told you guys my middle name slaps did i not. and well my indecisive ass is considering making it my first name #one day i will look back on all the gender stuff i did and be glad i did it and/or ill be like this man needed to get rawed #i’m also in like closet purgatory where i’m out as QUEER to p much everyone but what type of queer varies #which may??? be fucking up my mindset in regards to all of this??? having like 3 different normals in kind of an accidental way #thinking and talking about it is exhausting but i probably should lol lmao #the name slaps though. unrelated but i am happy about that #im taking a very long time to decide on a name bc there are a bunch ive cycled through like a BUNCH and i do want to try them all #part of me is like ill only ever start to have more of a handle on this if either i start transitioning and/or live alone at some point #it will stay like this if i keep doing This #karinyo.txt #and it might not be the ocd it might be a bunch of other things (scary) but it certainly doesnt help

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pallases · 3 months

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#your girl did NOT finish and what she did do was almost certainly not correct #for one problem at least. probably two #im mad i tried to do the last problem instead of finishing up the inductor power one bc i probably could have gotten full points for that i #i had gone back to it and now that’s an automatic 10% knocked off and i probably won’t even get partial credit for the last problem <3 #it’s fine!!#<- i did do half the inductor problem and am p confident it was right but then i got to part ii of it and was like oh shit i need to see #what else is after this bc the clock is ticking i’ll just wrap this up real quick later but then prof collected our exams immediately after #end of class which he didn’t do last exam :/#personal #the engineering chronicles #also pissed bc my issue is that i ran out of time not that i didn’t know how to do the stuff. which makes it sm more frustrating like if i #had just been faster.#whatever. onward now to exam prep 2 electric boogaloo (physics)

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painfully-unoriginal · 1 year

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#p #i have to try so hard not to get irritated when ppl ask me over and over again to draw the same thing #like. i feel so mean bc i kno u dont mean to be forceful or whatever.#but after a certain point its like #...... first of all unless i state otherwise i am not taking requests and i am going to draw what i want to at my own pace #and second of all u kno that thing where like #ur already doing something. and then someone tells u to do the thing ur already doing. and then u dont wanna do it anymore #yeah. lmao #and third of all ive already replied to these ppl. ive already given them an answer and yet they continue #either be patient with me or just move on? u asking me over and over isnt gonna make me draw what u want me to #and it certainly isnt gonna make me do it any faster than i already am??#idk maybe I'm being unreasonable or whatever but it just kinda gets on my nerves #delete later #plus like i have said i have A JOB #a job with very long and demanding hours and as such i have limited time to draw which im absolutely not happy abt either #im doing things as fast as i can and its stressing me out bc i have so much i wanna draw and no time to do any of it #so please. please understand when i say i need to draw what i want at my own pace its for my own sake LMAO

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chekhovs-harpoon · 10 months

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the problem with getting obsessed with podcasts from before 2010 is that there's absolutely zero fandom for them and I'll just have to stew in my own insanity

#podcast blogging #to be fair this is tru of most podcasts but #at least new shows are being promoted by their casts and that is certainly not the case for these shows #and I'm gonna have to make it everyone's problem which i totally can but God that's exhausting #i found the twitter of the line podcasts creator and they're still p active so I'm thinking i could plausibly #log back in to my normie account and message them about this show #the line ended on a really good place but it left some threads loose and i wonder if they planned on making a third season #or if it was an intentionally semi open ending

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13eyond13 · 1 year

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(keep scrollin' if you don't want Disco Elysium rambling with possible spoilers in the tags)👇

#more dumb disco elysium posting but #did anybody else start petting the hanged corpse's hair #and then just keep petting it #and then say 'there there baby' to it #i certainly did but when it came time to look at the corpse's uh nether regions i couldnt bring myself to actually do some of those actions #aaaahahah the options it actually gives you in this game are truly wtf sometimes and i respect that immensely #i always wanted to make a choose your own adventure or text based adventure game that actually got this weird and full of like.#intrusive thoughts and socially awkward moments and it's so much fun to play #ALSO don't even talk to me about the balcony smoker guy bc let's just say i looked at his wiki and i feel like maybe #I've already done all i can with him which is devastating to say the least #i did internalize the gay thoughts thing and then had the conversation with kim afterwards without reading any spoilers first though #and i was like !!! about kim #i think he's such a good character btw? just like complex and realistic and likable and understated #i love having him around #also safe to say harry is bi right? and safe to say that's why kim smirks whenever hes just like dumbstruck by smoker man's cool aura #yes I'm glad we agree #disco elysium spoilers #p

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sysig · 6 months

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I’ll be fine, I just have to get it all out of my system (Patreon)

#Doodles #Spoiler alert: It has been got out of my system by this point lol #I had a bad writing day and it was terribly demotivating :P I've gotten over it lol #It was an Offline Monday and the previous several days had been such good writing days! To the point where I was worn out lol #But not recognizing that and expecting to just be able to Keep Going - well it led to a minor crash lol #Again nothing bad just complainy and demotivating I'm fine ♪#I am a little :/ about my devices being in the state they are that certainly doesn't help #My laptop's hinge and my iPod being so old and janky and my poor old tablet - still the main one I'm using lol #I think most of my USB drives are shot on this poor laptop so my new tablet that needs more than just the one just....doesn't work lol #It's a good backup to be sure tho! I do still kinda want a standalone proper-like... Investing in an iPad at some point is probably...#Well I'll worry about it more when it's an Actual Problem - for the moment everything is still working! Not the best but it's Doing!#Back to the writing et al lol - It was my Big Project which I think I've pretty clearly gestured at being an Adventure Time comic lol #I have not in fact rewatched the series beginning to end since finishing it - I've watched certain episodes but not just a front to back #I think a rewatch would be very entertaining! Seeing how all the pieces align from knowing the ending going in :)#But I'm good for the moment lol - I've got enough to work on to keep me going for a while yet haha #And as always I want More More More Tamagotchis #I've got my three but I want more!#Always about money huh :P Slowly but surely

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giantkillerjack · 2 months

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Okay, maybe Vaggie won’t die, but absolutely she will be blind by the end of the series, that was set in stone when she spared Lure after she said “I’m going to tear that other eye out of your face.” A real “Remember what I promised you?” scene, like the Omni-Man vs. Homelander ‘Death Battle!’.

I'm not sure what this is a response to, but that is okay! Hi!

I think your theory is a pretty apt read on the potential foreshadowing in the writing there, so maybe you are right!

I just hope that if they do choose to blind one of their characters, writers are smart enough to do the leg work of ensuring that the disabled character is written respectfully and not just a cheap metaphor equating blindness to ignorance and inhumanity, like in Kubo & The Two Strings, which is a kind of blindness representation the world could very much do without. The ableism of that film absolutely kneecaps its quality in the last 10 minutes of runtime.

Otherwise, I have no strong feelings for or against that potential plot beat.

#original #vivziepop #hazbin hotel #vaggie hazbin hotel #hazbin lute #I have not seen the death battle of which you speak. I assume it's part of a YouTube series.#my graphic novel is largely about a man developing and coping with a permanent disability #so my standards are p high for seeing this done well. i know exactly why disabling a character serves my story #so i hope they put the thought into doing so that such a plot point deserves.#I think it would be stupid and irresponsible to just throw it in for flavor and general tragedy. but if done well it could certainly add.

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imaginarypasta · 5 months

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one of the things i’ve noticed that changes between this series and the last is the newfound emphasis on diplomacy & decorum. i do understand why, both in how the narrative changes w the introduction of new ideas and frameworks as well as how it might want to adapt to have its own voice, themes, etc. but gone are the days of yes-anding oneself into strange situations and in are those of yet another scene highlighting the importance of a letter of introduction—and that was personally a huge reason why i liked the original series so much. i don’t even mind like diplomacy as a narrative device when it’s equipped in interesting ways but when it’s constant introductions to new characters that go relatively similarly every time & a very clear narrative voice insisting that original solution wouldn’t work when it’s 1. more interesting to me personally and 2. not even working any better practically, then that starts to get super boring

#personal #even when i was a middle schooler reading these books i was never much a fan of the roman camp but i just didn’t have the skills or words #to put together why. i think a lot of it comes from this. because i certainly enjoy the characters a lot but this aspect just makes them #very boring to read about. i’m invested in the characters’ emotional lives but when it comes to practical stakes i find it draining & dull #which i want to emphasize is not my natural response to these things being present. it’s these specific characters in this specific world #written by this specific author that makes it not really my thing in this instance #bc stuff like political intrigue is probably my favorite type of conflict (besides like deep personal ones) and yet i’m SO picky in how it’s #done and so the stuff i like i really like #but it’s also very hard to come by #that’s not the only reason i struggle with it. i think esp coming into the third book (i’m a little under halfway through)#that it’s a bunch of things: the huge cast that sticks with us the whole time (i do like how they’re constantly broken into smaller quests #like i think that’s well done but it’s just so many characters to deal with for so long)#the rotating perspective. the emphasis on relationships (and how that’s framed w/i the text. shadow & bone s2 did something really similar #to this). etc. but yeah. in good news: the writing is much improved from tlh even for the characters i really didn’t likes’ perspective #chapters. i do think the way the cast is broken up is good and so is the conflicts between them (with some exceptions. insecurity in #relationships is kinda boring to me but so are ships in general so that’s not a surprise). there are still characters i don’t like but they #are much improved by this book (although you can basically figure out which ones i like vs. don’t based on which book they first appeared in #in this series).#so yeah that’s my review so far :p we’ll see if i stick with it because i remember not really enjoying the next two books either when i #first read them. but my tastes have changed a lot (i say. keeping nearly my exact same rankings thus far)

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osaemu · 6 months

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GOJO SATORU: IT'S GONNA FEEL SO GOOD, I PROMISE!

.ೃ࿐ he's dreamt about fucking you for months, and now that you're finally in his sheets, he has no intent of letting you go—especially when he finds out that he's your first time. NSFW

contents: fem!reader. virgin!reader. kinda sorta subtle coercion, corruption kink, slight dubcon, fingering, p –> v, lots of praise!!, mentions of prior dirty dreams (about you).

author's note: had this stuck in my drafts for a while so uhhhh. yea enjoy. tagging @mymegumi bc i love selene ꨄ︎

"please, baby, it'll feel so good," satoru cooes, threading his fingers through your hair and pulling your face closer to his. "i promise i'll be gentle."

you shrug, scrunching up your nose at satoru hesitantly. "i don't know..."

your boyfriend presses his lips to yours briefly and smiles tenderly. satoru's soft eyes are fixed on you, only you as he widens them pleadingly. "i wanna teach you how to fuck. please, sweetheart, we can stop anytime. jus' wanna make you feel good, i promise!"

it's only partially a lie—yes, satoru certainly wants to teach you to fuck, but he's not entirely certain that he could just stop anytime. especially because he's well aware that fucking a virgin is such an addicting experience—satoru knows you're gonna be so tight that you'll just suck him in, and he isn't that confident that he'll be able to stop once he's started.

but whatever, that's a problem for later—for now, he's focused on persuading you to spread those legs for him and show him your pretty pussy.

you pause, considering his proposal. after a couple seconds, you nod hesitantly. "you promise you'll be gentle?" you ask meekly, averting your eyes.

satoru nods, tucking a strand of your hair behind your ear. "of course—now c'mon, let's get those clothes off of you, baby." and a couple agonizing minutes later, you're half naked underneath a shirtless satoru, and his fingers trace the inside of your thigh.

"so first, i'm gonna make you cum on my fingers, 'kay?" satoru informs you. "needa loosen you up so you can take my dick."

"o-okay," you whisper, swallowing nervously. "i'm a little scared," you admit, fiddling with the waistband of your lacy underwear. "will it hurt?"

after a moment, satoru nods in response. "at first it will. but then you're gonna feel so good, i promise."

"you promise?"

"i do."

satoru tugs down your panties and grins at the sight of your pussy, untouched and reserved just for him. he's dying to just fuck you then and there, rough and no prep, but he made a promise. and satoru has no intention of breaking it.

"ready?" he breathes, positioning his fingers just outside of your entrance. when you nod, he shakes his head. "i'm gonna need to hear it from you, baby. use your words."

"i'm r-ready," you confirm, inching your thighs farther apart for him.

"good girl."

then satoru slips his fingers inside, and you can't suppress the sudden moan that slips out of your lips. to you, it's embarrassing, but to satoru, it's music to his ears. he steadily pushes his fingers farther and farther into your tight cunt, and satoru can't help but marvel at the way you just suck him in.

"you're so fuckin' tight," satoru mumbles, eyes fixed on your pussy. "and so wet, too. i've barely even touched you, fuck."

it's agonizing, really—the sensation of having someone else's fingers inside of you is so new and so strange that you can almost ignore the pain (which is present but not as throbbing as you had feared). satoru makes sure to be as gentle as he can, which unfortunately isn't quite as gentle as you'd like—but it's not too rough for you to handle.

satoru starts widening his fingers in a scissor-like motion, stretching you farther apart to make room for his already rock-hard dick. you squirm around him and whine about how deep his fingers are, but satoru dismisses your complaints with a laugh. "c'mon, this is barely the beginning. if ya can't take this, how're you gonna take my dick?"

a couple minutes later, when satoru finally deems you loose enough, he pulls out his now-drenched fingers. looking you in the eye with a smug smile, he slips his fingers into his mouth and licks your slick off of them. "mm, you taste so good, pretty. lemme see if you feel as good as you taste, yeah?"

and that's how he convinces you to keep your thighs nice and spread wide open for him as he positions the head of his dick at your entrance, practically trembling from the effort it takes to not just pound into you. you're so compliant and perfect for satoru, and it takes every ounce of his willpower to resist the urge to push you up against the headboard and fuck you until you pass out.

but somehow, he manages to control himself. "alright, baby, this is gonna hurt," satoru warns, touching his reddening tip to your soaked pussy. "you ready?"

"y-yeah," you breathe, distantly noticing the way your hands start to tremble. satoru exhales softly and shakes his hair out of his eyes before gently pushing himself inside of you, and the first thought that enters your head is that he's ridiculously big—it feels like you're getting torn apart every second he goes in farther.

"satoruuu," you whine, starting to paw at his chest when he goes in farther, and it's too much, too fast, but he only grins down at you in response. "it hurts, ow... y're too—"

"uh uh, just shut your pretty mouth n' take it," satoru groans, shifting the angle of his hips and going in a little deeper. you cry out in pain, face scrunching up in an effort to numb the stinging sensation around your waist. satoru dips his head and kisses your forehead, murmuring praises on how well you're doing.

"it'll feel so good soon, i promise, baby," he insists, pressing his lips to the spot in between your eyes. "you're takin' me so good, fuck— agh, you're so damn tight, this one's gonna hurt like hell, but you can take it, yeah? my pretty princess, you'll do anythin' i say, won't ya..."

satoru doesn't give you a chance to respond before he says something about this being the last stretch, but his words don't really sink in until he's two more inches deep into you. his last thrust is so sudden and jarring that it makes you cry out his name, over and over and over until the pain evident on your face starts to turn into something that looks a lot like... pleasure?

a self-assured smile grows on satoru's flushed face when he sees the chance, and a thousand more words of praise fall from his lips. your vision's a little fuzzy in the corners, and your mind is all but gone—it's hard to focus on anything but the slowly fading pain.

satoru starts to move his hips back and forth, easing your loosening cunt into him and nodding at the way you slowly start to show signs of wanting more. your eyes brighten up a little and you seem more alert the longer satoru opens you up.

"startin' to feel good now?" he asks, smiling smugly when you nod your head. "yeah, told you so." the prominent blush on his face starts to creep down his neck, and when you reach up and tentatively touch his cheek, that's when he loses it.

it takes every drop of self-restraint in his body to not flip you over, face-down and ass-up and fuck your tight cunt the way he's dreamed about for months. satoru's imagined it for so long that it's practically a reality for him—the way you would whimper his name and claw at the sheets, the way you would cum all over him too many times to count, all of it. he's seen it a thousand times in his head, but having his fantasy so close and yet so far drives him insane.

but as you smile up at him, the almost unnoticeable tremble in your bottom lip assures him that this probably isn't the time. after all, you're not leaving him anytime soon, so he might as well train you first before even attempting any of that on your perfect, untouched body.

"what do i do now?" you ask, and the simplicity of the question is almost childish. especially when satoru almost laughs in response, soft blue eyes glinting with amusement.

"jus' lie there and stay pretty f'me. and keep your legs spread wiiide open," satoru cooes, shaking his hair out of his eyes only for it to fall right back in.

"yeah, you're doin' so good that i don't even buy that you were a virgin—or are you just naturally made for me, huh? maybe that's it, 'cause i swear on my life that i've never fucked a cunt this fuckin' pretty, heh."

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a-book-of-creatures · 2 months

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I think I stumbled upon some kind of ichthyological forbidden knowledge. Opened up a book of names that were never meant to be read.

You've probably heard of "can-opener smoothdream", right? It's practically a meme by now.

But the thing is, it's a deep-sea fish. And deep-sea fish have historically not had English names because nobody drops them into the conversation over a hot cuppa. Sure, there's generic stuff like hatchetfish and barreleye, but when you want to refer to the actual fish you're probably saying such euphonious phrases as Diretmus argenteus, Sternoptyx diaphana, or maybe even Opisthoproctus soleatus.

So whence "can-opener smoothdream"? Certainly no non-ichthyologist has ever used that name. It's not even a direct translation of the scientific name Chaenophryne longiceps - that would be "long-headed gape-toad". Which to me is even cooler than "can-opener smoothdream".

But I digress. The "dream" bit comes from the anglerfish family Oneirodidae, from oneiros, "dream", because those marvelous fishes look like they came out of a dream (Pietsch, 2009).

Note that Pietsch (2009), more or less the anglerfish bible, uses English names at the genus level only. So Chaenophryne is the smoothhead dreamers genus but no mention is made of "can-opener smoothdreams". So no luck there.

Wikipedia, root cause of a lot of misinformation, has this to say.

"Longhead dreamer" is a far more accurate name. And in fact, despite Wikipedia prioritizing "can-opener smoothdream" (because it's funny?), the links listed use "longhead dreamer" and "smoothhead dreamer" as the name and "can-opener smoothdream" as an alternative.

So. Again. Where did "can-opener smoothdream" come from?

The answer, as it turns out, lies with McAllister (1990).

In the book A List of the Fishes of Canada, ichthyologist D. E. McAllister sought out to list every single fish known to Canadian waters, providing both an English and a French name.

And when there wasn't an English name, like for most deep-sea fishes, he arbitrarily gave them a name. And his names "differ in many instances from the widely accepted names" (Holm, 1998)

This had varying results. This is his name for one of the netdevil anglerfishes.

The humpback anglerfish or blackdevil anglerfish becomes a werewolf (????).

This one is just confusing.

The white-spotted lanternfish or Rafinesque's lanternfish instead becomes...

And most embarrassingly, the Mediterranean spiderfish gets saddled with something that "violates the tenet of good taste" (Holm, 1998).

This then is the original source of "can-opener smoothdream". It was invented by an ichthyologist in 1990, and has seen little to no use outside of how bizarre the name is.

Maybe McAllister's goofier names will catch on. Who knows? They certainly aren't very popular in the scientific community though.

References

Holm, E. (1998) Encyclopedia of Canadian Fishes (review). The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 112, p. 174-175.

McAllister, D. E. (1990) A List of the Fishes of Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa.

Pietsch, T. W. (2009) Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea. University of California Press, Berkeley.

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