I don't know what I'm doing

[jenny-jinya]

Schrödingers egg

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[byjove]

whenever I see archeological remains of a human who suffered from a terrible disease that couldn’t be treated in their lifetime but could be fixed now, this wave of sorrow and mourning washes over me. a woman in the 14th century who spent her 35 years of life bent at the waist because of congenital scoliosis. a man from the 18th century who died because of a non cancerous mass on his jaw that made eating progressively more difficult. remains of a woman from the Neolithic who died in childbirth having evidence of peri-mortem trepanation on her skull.

and yet she survived to 35. and yet the physicians in his time tried to strengthen his jaw. and yet someone 4,000 years ago tried to save someone they loved from dying of preeclampsia/increased cranial pressure. we tried. we tried and we tried and we tried. we failed and we learned but we tried. that’s what makes humans so beautiful.

[lyricwritesprose]

My mom sometimes talks about a child in her neighborhood who was born with hydrocephaly and died of it. His parents strove to keep him alive for years, but he ultimately passed after a long decline. No treatment available. No hope at all, and the parents knew it from his birth.

Several decades later my sister had an MRI, as a long shot, to try to figure out why she was sick and deteriorating with a number of symptoms that were close to being written off as anxiety. She was sent straight to the hospital for adult onset hydrocephaly. Two days later she had brain surgery to put a shunt down her neck into her stomach and drain the fluid out. (No, you cannot usually get brain surgery that fast. Yes, it was that urgent.) Recovery was long and squiggly but it happened.

I think of that boy every once in a while. The one who died. I have no doubt that treatments developed for people like him, and tested on people like him, saved my sister's life.

He never knew he made the world better. His condition was severe, he never knew much of anything, I don't think. I think if I ever track down a God or something like one, that'll be somewhere on my List of Wishes. To make sure people like him know that they helped.

[mutedtempest]

I think about this a lot.

I've been type 1 diabetic since I was about one and a half, and was incredibly sick. If my mother hadn't also been type 1 and recognized the signs I likely would have died.

I was born in 1982. Insulin was first given to a patient in 1922, and he survived. Before that, type 1 meant death, often very slow and agonizing. Before insulin, doctors advised a super strict "keto" diet to prolong life, and it could work for awhile - up to a year, I believe. But it was a miserable existence as the body was literally eating itself as the blood turned acidic until the patient eventually died.

60 years. Only 60 years before my birth did that procedure work for the first time. That's absolutely nothing given the span of human history and I think a lot about the people who died from it throughout time.

But yes, people tried. Healers and doctors of all sorts tried all manner of things to allow these (mostly!) kids to live. The fact that it was accomplished at all is nothing short of a miracle. The fact that I've been alive 42 years is fucking insane considering my body doesn't produce a hormone necessary for survival. If you think that doesn't blow me away on a regular basis you have another think coming. It's nothing short of a miracle.

Every medical advancement is. The amount of work that goes into it and the vast amount of luck necessary to get it right even when all the research and information is sound is just astonishing.

Thank you, humanity. Thank you ingenuity and determination to save lives and make them better. Thank you to every medical practitioner and medical researcher in existence now and through all of time. Thank you to all the people who died so I could live.

[hyperactivehedgehog]

Diabetes is one of these illnesses that really throws medical history into perspective. It's so common, everyone knows someone who has it, people live pretty normal lives with it. And yet, a hundred years ago, it was an instant death sentence. And then we were able to treat people with insulin and yet - it was extremely disabling. The insulin was extracted from animal pancreas had severe side effects, even with how similar the hormones are, there is always an averse reaction to proteins from foreign species, especially during long-term treatment. Injections had to be given every few hours, at-home-tests were only available from the 70s onwards. Insulin pumps entered the market in the 80s. Genetically produced insulin - humanized insulin - was first available in the US in 1982, in many countries only around the year 2000.

In 1930, having diabetes type I would basically mean being hospital bound, being woken every few hours for regular injections.

In 1965, you'd be able to live at home and get by with a very strict diet and a few timed injections. You'd struggle with chronical side effects. Having children wasn't done - passing on your genes would be immoral, and it might not even be legal for you to marry.

In the year 2000, you'd have a device clipped to your belt that would measure your blood sugar and distribute insulin, you only need to change the needle a few times a day. You might even be allowed to join in P.E. class

In 2025, you stick on two patches that do the same thing. They're synchronized through your phone.

That wasn't fate. It's not natural development that made diabetes a common chronic illness. It was hundreds of people who cared. It was the people who created the keto diet. It was the people who came up with tests. The ones who went through different species, trying to figure out the closest analogon to human insulin. It was the people who fought in court to get genetically produced insulin approved for medical use. It was people who looked at a rare, incurable disease and said "but what if it wasn't?"

[dragonmasque]

Trees evolved and lived and died and did not rot long, long before the organisms that can break down and metabolize their corpses ever came along.

And now, humans are working with fungi that can safely break down petroleum plastics, and with techniques that allow us to actually recycle these materials.

The world is full of difficulties... Medical, mechanical, environmental, so much more. But the world is also full of change, and humans are capable of working with that change purposefully, intelligently, cumulatively across time and populations. There is always a value in trying, in learning, in making an effort or building a community. Even if we don't succeed, every effort helps build the support for the thing that will, even if we can't always see how.

We owe it to those who did the best they could with what they had then, to do the best we can with what we have now, so that those who will come after us will have even better, more useful, more humane tools for the problems they will face. Who knows what we can accomplish together, for each other, when we don't give up?

[obsidianpegasus-deactivated2025]

Fanfic writing is 50% actually writing and 50% staring at the screen whispering ‘how do words work again’?

It is also:

10% googling “synonyms for said”

15% contemplating your life choices

20% changing one sentence 37 times and then changing it back

25% “research” (aka wikipedia rabbit hole until 4am)

30% crying because the scene was better in your head

[drawnsnake]

First fanart has to be a meme

And the second, and the third...

[dear-ao3]

[cuubism]

do fic readers know that their comments actually influence the course of the story sometimes? i don't mean in a "you need to write it this way because i say so 😡" type of comment, i mean when people are asking questions or really engaging with the plot and the themes in the comments they sometimes bring up things that i didn't even think of, or dig into parts of the story that i've overlooked, or get really interested/fixated on something i was going to just kind of glance over--and it has me going 'oh wait that's actually really interesting, that's a good point' and fully adding or tweaking or changing things about the story going forward. i'm literally adding an entire additional chapter to something right now because someone's comment had me like "oh i didn't dig into that as much as i could have." you have impact!

[identitty-dickruption]

sorry, it's a GOOD thing if cishet people use non-conforming pronouns or dress in non-conforming ways or whatever else. for one, that person may not be cishet. but more importantly, living in a society where more people feel comfortable exploring their relationship to gender and sexuality is an undoubtedly GOOD thing

[ace-aussie-asshole]

”He’s queer baiting! He’s in a skirt!” I thought clothes weren’t gendered? What does a skirt have to do with gender and sexuality? Are you, perhaps, just a little bit bigoted?

“Girls with short hair are never straight.” Yes they are. It’s a haircut. I thought hair didn’t define gender? I thought we were allowed to do whatever we want with our hair? Why does she have to have long hair to be considered straight?

“you can’t use neopronouns, you’re not even non-binary!” I thought pronouns didn’t equal gender. I thought we could use whatever pronouns feels most correct. Why are you gendering these pronoun sets that were literally created to be used by anyone of any identity? Are you possibly trying to govern how other people express or experience gender?

Why are these things inherently queer? Are you stereotyping queer people? Are you trying to say that a specific type of person has to be queer? Why? Are you homophobic and transphobic? No? Then stop being a fucking prick and let people do whatever the fuck they want. Let cishet men wear skirts. Let straight woman have short hair. Let binary people use whatever pronouns they want. Stop pushing gender norms, it’s not progressive.

[hollowedskin]

Stop being a fucking cop about how other people live. It's free.

[its-more-than-just-a-fantasy]

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love Charlastor!

[gavranica]

I'll forever be a simp for a cinnamon roll+emotionally constipated sociopath, no matter the gender

[thememedaddy]

[wetandtiny]

I think she meant months

#me with alastor

#since february

[gavranica]

Five years *cough*

[clusterbuck]

actually what are your new year’s resolutions pls put them in the tags so i can be nosy

[andorology]

brooding men who cannot communicate their feelings if their life depended on it are only hot when they're fictional. if i have to deal with one in real life i will curse him and pray for his downfall every night before i go to bed

[kestrel-tree]

It's because the writer communicates their feelings for them. If people wanna pull that off in real life they need to hire a guy to walk around behind them narrating.

[bananonbinary]

#can i be the guy#ill narrate SO incorrectly#theyll all learn how to talk for themselves just to shut me up (via @cirrus-grey)

i'm loving the implication that this isn't something they hired you for, but something you'd do as some sort of public service.

[gavranica]

Absolutely hot and infuriating. I married one. Life is a perpetually turning wheel of ups and downs and mind reading exercises.

[suchapeculiargirl]

Angelina Jolie confirming that she always thought Maleficent was in love with Diaval was my favorite moment of the whole year

[gavranica]

Since I don't think we'll ever et M3, that moment felt so bittersweet, like finding a lost, long-awaited, unread letter with words of love from a loved one who is no longer around 😭

....buuuut then again, the fanfic potential which will never be destroyed by some pesky canon other Maleficent's love interest... 😎

[d-dormant]

diaval is a foil character to stefan in this essay i will

[d-dormant]

So a couple of people wanted me to elaborate and I will! I really suck at this though, so bear with me. I’ll be using both the movies and the books to illustrate my points.

Diaval can be seen as a foil character to Stefan because, in a way, he contrasts with him in every role they both have played — a servant, a partner, and a father.

— As a servant

At the start of their respective stories, both Stefan and Diaval are servants. Moreover, they are servants to masters who are evil or at least seen as such: King Henry and Maleficent, respectively.

Now, Stefan serves King Henry while evidently seeing that job as demeaning. He gets his job as a servant because he wants to live in a castle, because he’s striving for a better life, for luxury. He uses every opportunity to get into the king’s good graces, listening in to his conversations with the councilmen. We get the sense that he both envies and resents the King — in fact, he calls humans altogether “horrible”. Still, despite his morals not quite aligning with the King’s (at least at first. The movie gives him the grace of wavering until the bitter end), eventually Stefan goes as far as harming the only person who loved him for Henry. He refers to the act as “the unthinkable” — and yet he does it.

Diaval starts serving Maleficent because, for one, she saved him from certain death and he is grateful. And, on top of that, because, well, it’s the same lady she stood pensive and hurt in the castle ruins who caught his eye earlier, to whom he called out, concerned. (Maybe we’re getting into the fanon territory here… I see that very clearly implied, though lol). At no point does he harbour any self-interest. In fact, he's the one to offer her his help to begin with — and when he can’t take it in his stride, boy does he let her know.

The book canon offers even more insight. Doing “the unthinkable” still doesn’t get Stefan the crown he hoped for. When he broaches the idea after bringing the wings, King Henry laughs in his face. Stefan realises that all his efforts were in vain, that Henry will never do what he thought he would. So what does Stefan do? With no words as warning, Stefan kills King Henry by choking him with a pillow.

Let’s compare it to Diaval in a similar situation. The “I cursed her that way because there is no such thing” scene. Here Diaval, too, realises that all his efforts — years of looking after Aurora, years of gently nudging Maleficent to change her mind — led to nothing. Maleficent still doesn’t believe in love, the only thing able to save the girl. And she still doesn’t feel like lifting the curse either. Maybe she never did.

(the delicious question of whether diaval ever learns that maleficent tried and failed to lift the curse…… yeah……but let’s assume he doesn’t, since we aren’t shown the opposite).

And she laughs in his face.

What does Diaval do? Well he blows up, too! Except it doesn’t look like violence. It looks like saying, “That may be how you feel, but what about Aurora? That boy could be her only chance. It’s her fate, not yours!” (In the book he adds, “Haven’t you done enough?”, which is delicious) He risks her ire by standing up to her — and then he turns and walks away. Essentially, he chooses to call her out for her dumbassery ignorance and cruelty as directly as he can, to challenge her conscience, and then leaves Maleficent to do with it as she pleases.

And then, well, when she comes to her senses and wants to bring that prince after all, guess who gives her a ride and chooses to go to an apparent trap with her despite being told he’s free not to.

So, to summarise.

Stefan obeyed his master out of fear and envy, going as far as stepping over his own morals, until it stopped serving his interest — when it did, he killed his master.

Diaval served his mistress out of respect and sympathy (or “in awe”, as Holly Black put it), while still holding onto his integrity. When he reached his limit, he pulled out until she came round.

Now, this is not to say that uhhh being a servant is noble and disliking your shitty master and is a bad character trait. That monarchy is good and servants should know their place. Not really. If anything, kudos to Stefan for choking that ugly racist — except he only did it to be the ugly racist himself. He wanted more self-actualisation — but once he gained it, he did nothing with it. He helped no one, made no one’s life better. He spent years in his chambers neglecting his duties and his family, the most powerful man in the realm.

Diaval, though? Stays a fucking servant even after Maleficent gets her wings back! Why? Because that is the self-actualisation that he found suits him best. Helping, protecting, staying by his people’s side. “Though he’d begun his service in awe, he now stayed at Maleficent’s side because there was nowhere else he would rather be”, as Holly Black put it (the Diaval understander n.2) Or “a sort of submissive thing”, as Sam Riley put it (the Diaval understander n.1).

— As a partner/lover

And to segue to my other points about them two as partners. That is, how they both treat Maleficent.

The obvious one is, of course, that Stefan cut off and steals Maleficent’s wings, while Diaval gives her his own wings — or becomes her wings. If you see wings as a more of a metaphor for freedom, it’s the former. If you see wings as more of a metaphor for one’s heart, it’s the latter.

To elaborate on both phrasings:

- Stefan gives Maleficent up for freedom and power; Diaval gives up his freedom and the power over his own body and time for Maleficent.

- Stefan turns Maleficent’s heart cold to love and kindness; Diaval helps it thaw back by openly visiting Aurora every day to a point that Maleficent is irked enough to go see what on Earth he could be doing there (book canon again. But in the movies, of course, we have him gazing at her every time she helps Aurora or makes the mistake of being somewhat cheesy with her). Things that he cares about, she secretly cares about, too, until it’s not such a secret anymore. In a sense he becomes not only her eyes and ears, but her heart as well.

On a more romantic note, Stefan lies to Maleficent the night he stays on the Moors. He says he belongs with her, promises to stay, only to leave her mutilated and alone in the woods by the morning. Meanwhile Diaval grunts a spiel as he decisively follows her to the castle because he refuses to leave her alone in danger. Because he wishes she’d say, “We can do anything as long as we’re together” (as per Elizabeth Rudnick, the Diaval understander n.3) In the book he carefully helps her through the iron spike walls, too, so there’s that.

Now, this is more of a stretch, but I’m not above stretching. Between the movies and the book, we get a couple of moments of Diaval caring about Maleficent’s feeling, making sure she’s comfortable — desperately reaching out to her by the Dark Lake, easing the mood as they’re going to meet Phillip's parents, etc. In the second movie, he’s the only person who doesn’t think Maleficent was the one placing the curse on King John. Compare to Stefan being a talking cardboard coming to the Moors after the big battle with Henry and clearly distressed Maleficent. What you get out of it is that about Stefan Maleficent thinks, "but now she wasn't sure if she could trust Stefan", and to Diaval she says, "I expect you not to fail me".

Ah, and, well, Stefan brings an iron net over Maleficent. Diaval pulls it away. (And then knocks Stefan down as he's just about to strike Malegicent ah god the book is so good). Stefan loses his shit when she gets her wings back. Diaval does too, but in a different way. Essentially, Stefan tortures Maleficent. Diaval worships her.

— As a father

And, finally, and maybe most clearly (so I won’t have to write much), we see the contrast between Stefan and Diaval when it comes to the role of a father.

Stefan gives up on his daughter, sending her away from home. Diaval, on the contrary, raises Aurora as his own child — in “The Heart of the Moors” he refers to her as a fledgling. All those years as she was growing up, he played with her, made sure she was safe and happy alongside Maleficent, the way a father is supposed to, whilst her blood father was busy talking to the walls.

When Aurora runs to the castle and meets Stefan for the first time, he dismisses her after but a minute of looking at her, not letting her say a word to him. He pushes her away from the embrace, disparages her aunts, the only other family she knows. In “Curse of Maleficent”, Aurora describes their meeting as “not the happy reunion she had anticipated” and concludes that he is a mean man. She inquires why he never bothered to come see her and he never gives her an answer. Not to bring up the abomination that is the “Mistress of Evil” novelization, but in the novel Aurora is delighted and relieved to see Diaval upon returning to the Moors after the dinner, because “she needed a friend”. Both in the movie and the book he immediately hugs her back in a way that lets you know this isn’t the first time.

There are obviously more little bits of him being Aurora’s bird dad, but there aren’t more Stefan moments for me to compare them to, which I guess is a point of its own.

I can only add that, in the book canon, during the final battle in the castle both Stefan and Diaval fall from a great height: Stefan falls down trying to kill Maleficent while Aurora watches, Diaval leaps down after saving Aurora from falling from a crumbling tower.

What do we have in the end? Diaval is Stefan’s foil character is a sense that, basically, Diaval is what Stefan could be if Stefan did everything right. What happiness he could get if he had a kernel of morals or something. Stefan, if he cared about people.

Can’t not link my favourite post that compares them in a much more succinct manner than mine (the tags too!)

Also have to mention that I first thought of this post because I realised that Maleficent has a type, which are servant boys with accents who are also her friends.

[gavranica]

You nailed it, perfectly so.

There was only one and only detail missing from the official material to seal this in a way it would be instantly obvious even to the casual observer, and that is a confirmation of romantic partnership between Maleficent and Diaval. In that way, the clear point would be made that the cruel partner may tear a part if you away, while the kind one will willingly give you a part of themselves to help you heal. Now, those of us who remained invested in the fandom all these years and followed what the actors told us about the things that went unsaid in the movies can make that connection, but it's a pity it wasn't clearly canonized. I get tey wanted to keep the focus on Maleficent's motherly bond with Aurora, but Diaval's fatherly role wouldn't be out of the place to be accentuated alongside Maleficent's motherly one.

[ladynephthyss]

words to use when writing

Appetite:

craving, demand, gluttony, greed, hunger, inclination, insatiable, longing, lust, passion, ravenousness, relish, taste, thirst, urge, voracity, weakness, willingness, yearning, ardor, dedication, desire, devotion, enthusiasm, excitement, fervor, horny, intensity, keenness, wholeheartedness, zeal

Arouse:

agitate, awaken, electrify, enliven, excite, entice, foment, goad, incite, inflame, instigate, kindle, provoke, rally, rouse, spark, stimulate, stir, thrill, waken, warm, whet, attract, charm, coax, fire up, fuel, heat up, lure, produce, stir up, tantalize, tease, tempt, thrum, torment, wind up, work up

Assault:

attack, advancing, aggressive, assailing, charging, incursion, inundated, invasion, offensive, onset, onslaught, overwhelmed, ruinous, tempestuous, strike, violation, ambush, assail, barrage, bombard, bombardment, crackdown, wound

Beautiful: 

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Brutal:

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Burly:

able-bodied, athletic, beefy, big, brawny, broad-shouldered, bulky, dense, enormous, great, hard, hardy, hearty, heavily built, heavy, hefty, huge, husky, immense, large, massive, muscular, mighty, outsized, oversized, powerful, powerfully built, prodigious, robust, solid, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, strong, strongly built, sturdy, thick, thickset, tough, well-built, well-developed

Carnal:

animalistic, bodily, impure, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lustful, physical, prurient, salacious, sensuous, voluptuous, vulgar, wanton, , coarse, crude, dirty, raunchy, rough, unclean

Dangerous:

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Dark:

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Delicious:

enticing, exquisite, luscious, lush, rich, savory, sweet, tasty, tempting, appetizing, delectable, flavorsome, full of flavor, juicy, lip-smacking, mouth-watering, piquant, relish, ripe, salty, spicy, scrummy, scrumptious, succulent, tangy, tart, tasty, yummy, zesty

Ecstasy:

delectation, delirium, elation, euphoria, fervor, frenzy, joy, rapture, transport, bliss, excitement, happiness, heaven, high, paradise, rhapsody, thrill, blissful, delighted, elated, extremely happy, in raptures (of delight), in seventh heaven, jubilant, on cloud nine, overexcited, overjoyed, rapturous, thrilled

Ecstatic:

delirious, enraptured, euphoric, fervent, frenzied, joyous, transported, wild

Erotic:

amatory, amorous, aphrodisiac, carnal, earthy, erogenous, fervid, filthy, hot, impassioned, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, raw, romantic, rousing, salacious, seductive, sensual, sexual, spicy, steamy, stimulating, suggestive, titillating, voluptuous, tantalizing

Gasp:

catch of breath, choke, gulp, heave, inhale, pant, puff, snort, wheeze, huff, rasp, sharp intake of air, short of breath, struggle for breath, swallow, winded 

Heated:

ardent, avid, excited, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, frenzied, furious, impassioned, intense, passionate, raging, scalding, scorched, stormy, tempestuous, vehement, violent, ablaze, aflame, all-consuming, blazing, blistering, burning, crazed, explosive, febrile, feverish, fired up, flaming, flushed, frantic, hot, hot-blooded, impatient, incensed, maddening, obsessed, possessed, randy, searing, sizzling, smoldering, sweltering, torrid, turbulent, volatile, worked up, zealous

Hunger:

appetite, ache, craving, gluttony, greed, longing, lust, mania, mouth-watering, ravenous, voracious, want, yearning, thirst

Hungry:

avid, carnivorous, covetous, craving, eager, greedy, hungered, rapacious, ravenous, starved, unsatisfied, voracious, avaricious, desirous, famished, grasping, insatiable, keen, longing, predatory, ravening, starving, thirsty, wanting

Intense:

forceful, severe, passionate, acute, agonizing, ardent, anxious, biting, bitter, burning, close, consuming, cutting, deep, eager, earnest, excessive, exquisite, extreme, fervent, fervid, fierce, forcible, great, harsh, impassioned, keen, marked, piercing, powerful, profound, severe, sharp, strong, vehement, violent, vivid, vigorous

Liquid:

damp, cream, creamy, dripping, ichorous, juicy, moist, luscious, melted, moist, pulpy, sappy, soaking, solvent, sopping, succulent, viscous, wet / aqueous, broth, elixir, extract, flux, juice, liquor, nectar, sap, sauce, secretion, solution, vitae, awash, moisture, boggy, dewy, drenched, drip, drop, droplet, drowning, flood, flooded, flowing, fountain, jewel, leaky, milky, overflowing, saturated, slick, slippery, soaked, sodden, soggy, stream, swamp, tear, teardrop, torrent, waterlogged, watery, weeping

Lithe:

agile, lean, pliant, slight, spare, sinewy, slender, supple, deft, fit, flexible, lanky, leggy, limber, lissom, lissome, nimble, sinuous, skinny, sleek, slender, slim, svelte, trim, thin, willowy, wiry

Moan:

beef, cry, gripe, grouse, grumble, lament, lamentation, plaint, sob, wail, whine, bemoan, bewail, carp, deplore, grieve, gripe, grouse, grumble, keen, lament, sigh, sob, wail, whine, mewl

Moving:

(exciting,) affecting, effective  arousing, awakening, breathless, dynamic, eloquent, emotional, emotive, expressive, fecund, far-out, felt in gut, grabbed by, gripping, heartbreaking, heartrending, impelling, impressive, inspirational, meaningful, mind-bending, mind-blowing, motivating, persuasive, poignant, propelling, provoking, quickening, rallying, rousing, significant, stimulating, simulative, stirring, stunning, touching, awe-inspiring, energizing, exhilarating, fascinating, heart pounding, heart stopping, inspiring, riveting, thrilling

Need:

compulsion, demand, desperate, devoir, extremity, impatient longing, must, urge, urgency / desire, appetite, avid, burn, craving, eagerness, fascination, greed, hunger, insatiable, longing, lust, taste, thirst, voracious, want, yearning, ache, addiction, aspiration, desire, fever, fixation, hankering, hope, impulse, inclination, infatuation, itch, obsession, passion, pining, wish, yen

Pain: 

ache, afflict, affliction, agony, agonize, anguish, bite, burn, chafe, distress, fever, grief, hurt, inflame, laceration, misery, pang, punish, sting, suffering, tenderness, throb, throe, torment, torture, smart

Painful:

aching, agonizing, arduous, awful, biting, burning, caustic, dire, distressing, dreadful, excruciating, extreme, grievous, inflamed, piercing, raw, sensitive, severe, sharp, tender, terrible, throbbing, tormenting, angry, bleeding, bloody, bruised, cutting, hurting, injured, irritated, prickly, skinned, smarting, sore, stinging, unbearable, uncomfortable, upsetting, wounded

Perverted: 

aberrant, abnormal, corrupt, debased, debauched, defiling, depraved, deviant, monstrous, tainted, twisted, vicious, warped, wicked, abhorrent, base, decadent, degenerate, degrading, dirty, disgusting, dissipated, dissolute, distasteful, hedonistic, immodest, immoral, indecent, indulgent, licentious, nasty, profligate, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shameful, shameless, sickening, sinful, smutty, sordid, unscrupulous, vile 

Pleasurable:

charming, gratifying, luscious, satisfying, savory, agreeable, delicious, delightful, enjoyable, nice, pleasant, pleasing, soothing, succulent

Pleasure:

bliss, delight, gluttony, gratification, relish, satisfaction, thrill, adventure, amusement, buzz, contentment, delight, desire, ecstasy, enjoyment, excitement, fun, happiness, harmony, heaven, joy, kick, liking, paradise, seventh heaven 

Rapacious:

avaricious, ferocious, furious, greedy, predatory, ravening, ravenous, savage, voracious, aggressive, gluttonous, grasping, insatiable, marauding, plundering

Rapture:

bliss, ecstasy, elation, exaltation, glory, gratification, passion, pleasure, floating, unbridled joy

Rigid:

adamant, austere, definite, determined, exact, firm, hard, rigorous, solid, stern, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, concrete, fixed, harsh, immovable, inflexible, obstinate, resolute, resolved, severe, steadfast, steady, stiff, strong, strict, stubborn, taut, tense, tight, tough, unbending, unchangeable, unwavering

Sudden:

abrupt, accelerated, acute, fast, flashing, fleeting, hasty, headlong, hurried, immediate, impetuous, impulsive, quick, quickening, rapid, rash, rushing, swift, brash, brisk, brusque, instant, instantaneous, out of the blue, reckless, rushed, sharp, spontaneous, urgent, without warning

Thrust:

(forward) advance, drive, forge, impetus, impulsion, lunge, momentum, onslaught, poke, pressure, prod, propulsion, punch, push, shove, power, proceed, progress, propel

(push hard) assail, assault, attack, bear down, buck, drive, force, heave, impale, impel, jab, lunge, plunge, press, pound, prod, ram, shove, stab, transfix, urge, bang, burrow, cram, gouge, jam, pierce, punch, slam, spear, spike, stick

Thunder-struck:

amazed, astonished, aghast, astounded, awestruck, confounded, dazed, dazed, dismayed, overwhelmed, shocked, staggered, startled, stunned, gob-smacked, bewildered, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, horrified, incredulous, surprised, taken aback 

Torment:

agony, anguish, hurt, misery, pain, punishment, suffering, afflict, angst, conflict, distress, grief, heartache, misfortune, nightmare, persecute, plague, sorrow, strife, tease, test, trial, tribulation, torture, turmoil, vex, woe

Touch:

(physical) - blow, brush, caress, collide, come together, contact, converge, crash, cuddle, embrace, feel, feel up, finger, fondle, frisk, glance, glide, graze, grope, handle, hit, hug, impact, join, junction, kiss, lick, line, manipulate, march, massage, meet, nudge, palm, partake, pat, paw, peck, pet, pinch, probe, push, reach, rub, scratch, skim, slide, smooth, strike, stroke, suck, sweep, tag, tap, taste, thumb, tickle, tip, touching, toy, bite, bump, burrow, buss, bury, circle, claw, clean, clutch, cover, creep, crush, cup, curl, delve, dig, drag, draw, ease, edge, fiddle with, flick, flit, fumble, grind, grip, grub, hold, huddle, knead, lap, lave, lay a hand on, maneuver, manhandle, mash, mold, muzzle, neck, nestle, nibble, nip, nuzzle, outline, play, polish, press, pull, rasp, ravish, ream, rim, run, scoop, scrabble, scrape, scrub, shave, shift, shunt, skate, slip, slither, smack, snake, snuggle, soothe, spank, splay, spread, squeeze, stretch, swipe, tangle, tease, thump, tongue, trace, trail, tunnel twiddle, twirl, twist, tug, work, wrap 

(mental) - communicate, examine, inspect, perception, scrutinize

Wet:

bathe, bleed, burst, cascade, course, cover, cream, damp, dampen, deluge, dip, douse, drench, dribble, drip, drizzle, drool, drop, drown, dunk, erupt, flood, flow, gush, immerse, issue, jet, leach, leak, moisten, ooze, overflow, permeate, plunge, pour, rain, rinse, run, salivate, saturate, secrete, seep, shower, shoot, slaver, slobber, slop, slosh, sluice, spill, soak, souse, spew, spit, splash, splatter, spout, spray, sprinkle, spurt, squirt, steep, stream, submerge, surge, swab, swamp, swill, swim, trickle, wash, water

Wicked:

abominable, amoral, atrocious, awful, base, barbarous, dangerous, debased, depraved, distressing, dreadful, evil, fearful, fiendish, fierce, foul, heartless, hazardous, heinous, immoral, indecent, intense, mean, nasty, naughty, nefarious, offensive, profane, scandalous, severe, shameful, shameless, sinful, terrible, unholy, vicious, vile, villainous, wayward, bad, criminal, cruel, deplorable, despicable, devious, ill-intentioned, impious, impish, iniquitous, irreverent, loathsome, Machiavellian, mad, malevolent, malicious, merciless, mischievous, monstrous, perverse, ruthless, spiteful, uncaring, unkind, unscrupulous, vindictive, virulent, wretched

Writhe: 

agonize, bend, jerk, recoil, lurch, plunge, slither, squirm, struggle, suffer, thrash, thresh, twist, wiggle, wriggle, angle, arc, bow, buck, coil, contort, convulse, curl, curve, fidget, fight, flex, go into spasm, grind, heave, jiggle, jolt, kick, rear, reel, ripple, resist, roll, lash, lash out, screw up, shake, shift, slide, spasm, stir, strain, stretch, surge, swell, swivel, thrust, turn violently, tussle, twitch, undulate, warp, worm, wrench, wrestle, yank 

[colorado-springs]

[gavranica]

Oh my goodness, this was one of the first shows I ever obsessed about! My crush was of course Hank, because in the absence of a male servant to his queen, I'll reach for the biggest waving bag of red flags

[raainstorms]

[gavranica]

All this time, we didn't have gutter minds; she did 😁

[raainstorms]

I thought she was in love with Diaval. — Angelina Jolie

[gavranica]

Perhaps it's for the better that M3 is never made. We have this now, and the possibility of some producer to fk it up in any subsequent movie is quite big.