Over Ice Cream by justheretoread-ao3

"God, you're such a brat. I oughta - " take you over my knee. Darcy bit back the second half just in time, flushing. Thaaat is not work appropriate, Darce, even if it was tempting as hell. Before she could start fantasizing (too late!), she glanced sidelong at her screen and found her doc was writing itself now. Still in Norse Runes. “Loki. Change it back. Now.”

Loki’s spine straightened automatically, quite without his meaning to, and he blinked at her. What in the Nine…He’d never heard her take that tone before: so commanding and expectant and he nearly wanted to obey.

It only takes one chance revelation for Darcy to realize: a) Loki miiight just be into submission and b) she really, really wants to Dom him. Chatting over ice cream, Loki realizes he wants that too.

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NSFW, Gentle Dom Darcy Lewis, Loki has a praise kink (and PTSD), lots of communication, light BDSM/bondage, mutual pining. Additional tags in link. WIP

Chapter One

Chapter Thirty-Two: Double the Mischief, Double the Fun

me every day without fail: I'll do [chore] when I get home

me when I get home:

me every single week: I'll do it on the weekend!

me the entire weekend:

all of us rn

"should we tell authors on ao3 when we have discord conversations about their fics" i don't speak for everyone here but if y'all ever find a group chat discussing my fics you can should must and WILL send me screenshots of the whole damn thing. inflate my ego. gimme

Coastal walk    -    Anke Roder , 2024

Dutch, b. 1964 -

Encaustic and oil on wood, 56,5 x 37,5 cm.

“Loki Sketch”

(Rare) Appearance of the goofball - when Tom is forced to watch himself

*exasperated but secretly heart-eyed sigh*

"if it's cold you can put on a sweater but if it's hot you can only remove so many layers" is a completely valid statement, but it fundamentally misunderstands the mentality of humans who prefer balmier environments.

Some people's ideal temperature is cooler, and some is warmer. We like to ignore that nobody in either camp enjoys being TOO cold or TOO hot. Indeed, either of those extremes can literally kill us.

So my spicy take is this: nobody actually likes objectively freezing temperatures. Cold weather enjoyers like getting cozy. They like doing the things it takes to get and stay comfortable without a risk of overheating. They want to be warm and comfy! But they want full control over how much warmth they experience.

Naturally, they assume that warm weather preferrers have an identical-but-inverted mindset.

However, warm weather enjoyers are typically disinterested in achieving a cool and comfortable status. There is no downward mission towards an ideal climate, no shedding of clothing, no cool compresses in place of heated blankets. To warm weather proponents, heat IS the coziness. Heat is the huge comfy sweater wrapped around everything, that lets its wearers enjoy microdosing cold via iced coffees and swimming pools.

In this sense, weather enjoyers are somewhat akin to snakes basking on a flat rock. They're enjoying a big hug from the sun. There are no layers to add or remove.

Now, in fairness, there is still a desire to have control over how hot one gets - just as cold enjoyers don't actually want to freeze, so indeed do hot weather enjoyers wish to avoid boiling. In that sense, and that alone, both groups' experiences are similar.

The mutual lack of understanding in the cold vs hot weather discourse is emblematic of an overarching and woeful human tendency to interpret interpersonal differences through the deeply narrow lens of one's own, highly individual experiences. In this essay I will -

It's so crazy how "Don't feed the trolls" was like the Motto of the internet & in forum culture of the 00s and early 10s and now you log onto a certain website and it's just an endless sea of people pouring gruel into the troll trough day in day out and no one seems to realize or care that their internet experience being a constant deluge of misery and bad faith discussion might in fact be their own fault

Joy Sullivan, “My Mother Says Kissing a Man Without a Mustache Is Like Eating Eggs Without Salt”, Instructions for Traveling West

Okay sure, parrots talk. Ravens talk. Big deal! Check out a vegetable garden, you’ll see that beanstalk.

Flaws and Quirks in Male Characters That I’m BEGGING Writers to Explore

✧ Dudes who are bad at sports. Yes, Chad, not every male character needs to throw a perfect spiral in high school. Let him get hit in the face with a dodgeball. Let him (please) suck.

✧ The “pretty boy” who's not vain, just vibing. Like he knows he looks like he walked out of a Renaissance painting but has the self-esteem of a lost ferret.

✧ Shy, awkward boys who don’t magically become suave by Chapter 6. No, he’s still weird at parties and says “you too” when the waiter says “enjoy your meal.”

✧ Flirtatious guys who are actually super respectful. He's flirty but not a walking lawsuit. Shocker. He’s playful, not predatory.

✧ Male friendships that aren't emotionally constipated. Yes, two guys can say “I love you, bro” and not immediately punch each other to cancel it out.

✧ The soft-spoken leader. He doesn’t need to scream orders or have a “gruff, commanding voice.” He just talks, and people shut up and listen because he’s competent.

✧ Dudes with weird hobbies. like, your guy MC collect antique spoons or have a YouTube channel rating old vacuums. Why not. It’s his passion.

✧ Guys who are clingy and insecure in relationships. Not abusive, just genuinely terrified of being left on read for too long. He's trying his best, ok?

Unrestrained summer fun

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