You Lay Your Bets And Then You Pay The Price

First of all, I've absolutely loved the fic, I love how you write them interacting with eachother. Secondly, I'd love to hear more about your lube research because from what I've gathered Vaseline was invented in 1872, but it became a popular lubricant in the mid 1900's and the first comercial lube was invented in 1904.

Thanks for your fic!

I full body CACKLED at this ask 🤣 thank you for liking my fic! It means the world to me that people are liking it!

As for the research…

I am no historian by ANY means, so I just waved my hand around some technical things and made up a rhetoric for myself:

If one person from this couple is a more seasoned veteran on being gay, he’d know more about **things**

Said person is not rich (by the era standards) but he’s probably got good connections in a community that is marginalized and persecuted (meaning, they’ve got each other’s backs and would help out with almost anything, to their abilities)

Probably has had more than 1 partner in the past so it’s trial and error, practice makes perfect, and experience mixed all together

Taking all of this into consideration… while yes, petroleum jelly was **just** invented but hadn’t actually gained a popular status in the market, what were other historically known substances used prior to its invention?

Oils.

And Henry could probably get his hands on some better quality ones (both by his presence as a photographer and how alluring people used to find that profession [ie. payment through services or favors/products for **explicit** photography]). So think, more than the cooking olive oil or oils you’d find in a kitchen, he’d probably have access to things like clove oil or even hemp seed oil. Maybe even GOOD quality ones that come from outside England (importing them would’ve made them wayyy more expensive, but if poppy sold for cheaper than bread, surely some seller would sell nice oils for a more affordable price).

… or they could’ve easily raw-dogged it and used saliva.

Coanda Effect - JJK F1 AU

MY KOFI IS HERE! Any tips are appreciated :3

Coanda effect: noun (Co·an·da effect) (kō¦andə-, -än-) : the tendency of a fluid jet, such as airflow, to be attracted to a nearby surface. Used in motorsport and car design by aerodynamicists to help divert airflow to specific areas of the car.

“Yo, Satoru.” Getou Suguru looks older. His hair is longer. He still has the same small scar along the left side of his forehead from 2013. It’s fainter, now, than it was then. “It’s been a while.” It's been seven years, but who's keeping count?

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Jujutsu Kaisen Formula One AU / Satosugu & Minor/Background Itafushi / Slowburn / Childhood Friends to Enemies to Lovers

FULL FIC on ao3 here!

Chapter-by-Chapter:

i - out lap

ii - lock-up

iii - camber

iv - flat spot

v - out-brake

vi - gravel trap

vii - slipstreaming

viii - parc ferme

ix - telemetry

x - apex

xi - retirement

xii - understeer / oversteer

xiii - summer break

xiv - delta time

xv - shakedown

xvi - traction control

xvii - multi 21

xviii - extrication

xix - porpoising

xx - blistering

xxi - pole position

xxii - HALO

xxiii - Blue Flags (In progress)

xxiv - Winner Take All (In progress)

Word Count 237,482 - 22/24 - Ongoing

Tommy isn’t Bucks bi training wheels. There isn’t going to be any tacky infidelity plot lines, especially for a character who just accepted himself as bisexual. Tommy isn’t Ghostface. There’s no secret murder/revenge plot. He’s also not going to leave Buck because he’s the new bi boy in town and doesn’t have his degree in the University of Bisexual arts.

They’re boyfriends who will kiss and hold hands and hug a lot and get physically/romantically close and they’re gonna go on dates and have intimate conversations and flirt a lot and kiss some more and probably have hot firefighter and pilot sex. That’s all.

Get on board or get out of the way!!!!

RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE ↳book > screen

“I’m not like you. I can’t afford to be reckless. I don’t have a family who will support me. I don’t go about shoving who I am in everyone’s faces and dreaming about a career in fucking politics, so I can be more scrutinized and picked apart by the entire godforsaken world. I can love you and want you and still not want that life.

I’m allowed, all right, and it doesn’t make me a liar; it makes me a man with some infinitesimal shred of self-preservation, unlike you, and you don’t get to come here and call me a coward for it.” 

Alex takes a breath. “I never said you were a coward.”

Kyle Soller as D.I. Alfred Hillinghead and George Parker as Henry Ashe

BODIES (2023)

On another note to what’s happening rn in the 911 fandom:

Media literacy is very important, and I’m choosing to believe that people just never learned what this means. So, in light of recent developments, I’m sharing one of my favorite YouTube channels where you can learn about good/bad representation of queer folk in mainstream media. I encourage you to watch it for a multitude of reasons, but the main one is:

If you ever actually cared about seeing queer characters on your screen and it NOT being a fetish you have for some god forsaken reason, then you’ll sit down and learn that putting aside your ship wars and appreciating something as monumental as a character getting a healthy queer sexual awakening is more important than your faves kissing or not.

YouTube

A Story Worth Telling

Where diversity meets discussion. We’re Alex and Josh, the dynamic duo behind this channel, and we’re thrilled to share our journey with you

I’m about to lose my worried mind

“Human’s are complicated, they do things dogs can’t understand, like leave…”

And he just bawls his eyes out.

Or: Buck watches a movie, breaks down, and gets a hug.

That time was so right

Marigold likes to think she’s a good dog. No, scratch that. She knows she’s a great dog. Despite her previous “owners” not sharing the sentiment, she knows that her family does. Chris constantly tells her how good she is, Eddie always smiles fondly at her when he compliments her, and don’t even get her started on Buck. The guy is practically head over tail about her. Well, her and Eddie. But in different ways.

Her point is, she knows that she’s more than just a pretty face. She’s smart and kind and everything a human would need in a canine companion. She’s a catch. And for a while she doubted it. But that changed when Buck came along.

(Or: a look into our favorite golden retriever’s POV, from the moment she met her new family, to new moments shared with them)

Did you ever actually love the character? Or did you just like them if the writers made your own headcanons come true?

(Yes, this is about Evan Buckley.)

Hot take: if you are one of those people that would literally have buddie or nothing at all (bi!buck being canon) then you are no better than the Buckley parents… I’ll repeat that one more time, in case it didn’t register with you:

You are no better than the Buckley parents.

Nothing Buck ever does is good enough for you: him discovering this new part of himself and exploring it isn’t enough, him being giddy and infatuated and HAVING AND HONEST TO GOD CRUSH isn’t enough, him being HAPPY isn’t enough.

He isn’t enough. Perhaps he never was enough for you.

But he is everything and more to so many people. His story means THE WORLD to so many people. People that literally never watched the show before are either now watching it or have just heard about it BECAUSE of his current storyline. This story matters. He matters. And if you can’t put aside your ship for one second to appreciate how huge this is, both inside and outside of the show, then you never actually loved this character in the first place.

So, I've had an idea for a fanfiction and I needed to create something before I wrote it.

So, behold! FirstPrince Kingsman AU!

If anyone has any ideas for what they want to read in the fanfiction, comment below!

I'm really excited for this AU!