#endurance test

[copperplatebeech]

​Sex to Music (Queen Edition) - Kinktober 2024 #18

(Prompt fills for Quefish's Ineffable Kinktober list.)

An amorous Crowley, true to form, is hoist once again with his own petard.

Chapter rating E, just barely.

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“Doesn’t sound like any of the music I remember,” said Crowley, picking up the cardboard sleeve. “Kinda – jazzy.” Herald trumpets, yes, but in a cantering, syncopated rhythm tossed back and forth with the string section. Crowley did a little bump-and-grind as he read down the track titles.

“Well, dear, Benjamin Britten is practically contemporary.”

“Know what that makes me think of?”

“Dear – “ Aziraphale had just time to set down the glass before Crowley slipped arms around his midsection, frankly humping his arse in time to the music which, according to the liner notes, depicted The Tournament. “Break a lance?”

(Author is virtually bebop-illiterate, so instead of the 20th century band, you get Britten's Gloriana suite, drawn from his opera about Elizabeth the First.)

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[johnschneiderblog]

Over the river and through the woods

Because I’m a natural worrier, this is the time of year when I most often entertain a certain fantasy. It goes like this:

We’re all living in the same general vicinity - Sharon and me, our offspring and their families.

Nobody has to endure a stultifying, virus-prone airport, or a 4 1/2-hour flight. Nobody has to drive hundreds of miles in unpredictable winter conditions because, in my fantasy, we all live only a few miles from each other.

In my fantasy, coming home for the holidays is not an endurance test.

[1time2study4ravages]

the long march and the slow burn of the ravages of time

attentive readers are aware at this point that The Ravages of Time has persisted (and is still ongoing) for over 2 decades as the longest-running 3K comic adaptation (as of today, managing to cover some developments in the halfway point of the standardized edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and it only took 73 volumes to match the novel’s 60 out of 120 chapters), though due to its slower publication schedule it trails behind Kingdom (which started 5 years later) when it comes to the number of chapters

this raises some questions as to how long the series can go (or rather, how far its composer can go in the years ahead even taking into account that Ravages would likely not reach the end of the three kingdoms), so this post will try to come up with a few projections based on recent trends

now assuming that Ravages would mostly stick to the current 7 chapters per volume format (the arrangement early on used to be 9 chapters per volume, then 8 in the middle, before settling to 7 sometime after the Chibi arc), by the time Ravages reaches the 1000th chapter (currently it has 571 chapters not counting the 3 side stories in 73 volumes) the series could have something like 998 chapters in 134 volumes (571+427, 73+61)

as for how long it takes to reach this far (assuming Chen Mou can stay healthy past 60 in 2030 or assuming regional or global crises won’t compromise the publication of Ravages), this is trickier to evaluate, so more stipulations would have to be presented to come up with some scenarios

so far one can safely estimate that in recent years 2-3 Ravages volumes have been published per year (thus we can extrapolate further that the annual output is somewhere between 14 and 21 chapters irregularly serialized in 2-3 week intervals with occasional delays), and if one further posits for the sake for simplification that Ravages would reach 578 chapters by the end of this year, the road to 998 (578+420) can take as short as until 2042 (21 chapters in 3 volumes per year for 20 years with Chen Mou at age 72) or as long as until 2052 (14 chapters in 2 volumes per year for 30 years with Chen Mou at age 82)

note that even if Ravages does reach 1000 (and this already a bit of a reach to put it mildly), it’s hard to tell how much stuff the series would be able to cover by then, and I am not at all confident that the story would be able to reach the end of Han at the 30th anniversary on 2031 (note too that it’s not even the duels or battles or the various subplots from the novel that slow things down too much, rather it’s how Ravages insists on making every step of the way part of a very convoluted scheming game, with a bunch of dramatic moments sprinkled in for good measure)

[thatvixenchick]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Peter Parker/Wade Wilson Characters: Peter Parker, Wade Wilson Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Mating Cycles/In Heat, All The Genitals, Smut, Humor, Oral Sex, Anal Fingering, Vaginal Sex, Marathon Sex, Multiple Orgasms, Overstimulation, omega!Peter, beta!Wade, this is either crack or body horror and I can’t tell which Series: Part 14 of One Shots Summary:

Spidey has been hinting around at something. Too bad Wade is utterly oblivious at the best of times. But, the secret Wade thought Spidey was trying to tell was just the beginning.

[xbubbledumbbx]

Remember when I saw this and say I’d get a VPN just to be able to watch this? 

Well...

I’m going to be streaming this live, all 3 hrs, if you’re interested in watching this feel free to join the stream. Come and test your endurance!

https://picarto.tv/xBubbleBubblex   (Link to the stream)

Streaming 7pm Pacific time

[internutter]

Challenge #02931-H008: Okay We Know That Was Silly | PeakD

Humans with too much time on their hands are a hazard to themselves.... by internutter

[electronicsquid]

Reading Mad magazine during an underwater endurance test

(Peter Stackpole. 1959?)

[internutter]

Challenge #02931-H008: Okay We Know That Was Silly

Two humans go to the infirmary with hands covered in blisters. At first, the medic thinks they got heat-burned. But the tests show the blisters are from frostbite. When asked, the humans shrug and went "We wanted to see who could hold ice in our hands the longest, and to make it more fun, we added salt to our hands, first. We were just goofing off." -- Anon Guest

The leading cause of dangerous injury to Humans was Humans "just goofing off" as they put it. It was so widely known that the EMT's had a special scramble alert for any security pickup that caught the phrase, "Hey, watch this!" There was a bigger one for, "Hold my beer." Humans are notorious that way.

Medik Rentsh sighed and said, "If I wasn't devoted to my work, I'd let you two suffer your consequences." Ze got out the dermal regeneration gear and assessed who had the most damage for small triage.

"The salt was a mistake," admitted Human Kin. "I remembered what salt does five seconds after the ice stuck to my hand."

"That's generally when the science kicks in," contributed Human Jae. "Five seconds after the derp moment."

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