ִ 𓏼 ears ; everyone enjoys being talked through it. but listening and aural reception aren't the only thing ears are good for. earlobes have hundreds of of sensory receptors on the outside. so if your character is looking to pleasure another, write them kissing, licking or nibbling an ear.
ִ 𓏼 inner wrists ; the inner wrist is highly sensitive due to a high amount of nerve endings and the position of major nerves. caressing the skin there can be great for foreplay. for sexual tension, have your character kiss their partner's inner wrist while holding eye contact.
ִ 𓏼 behind knees ; the curve behind the knees is an often neglected area despite the area being very sensitive to any kind of touch, from kissing to kneading to especially biting. many are even ticklish there. this small detail can work well with all kinds of positions, certainly when the character's face is near the other's legs or knees.
ִ 𓏼 scalp ; seriously, who doesn't love a good head massage. everyone knows the feeling when your eyes roll back and your ears start blocking out other noise, it's heaven. and severely underrated in the bedroom. pulling har is the surface. have your character grasp, press, rub their partners head and add to the pleasure.
ִ 𓏼 lower stomach ; the mound between you belly button and public area is surprisingly arousing when triggered. for people of all genders. for females this can stimulate the g spot and nerves from the outside whereas for males this can stimulate blood flow to other pleasure zones nearby. write your character using their mouth here or even pressing down here during sex. for more pleasure, a warm or cold cloth pressed over the area is most definitely an option.
ִ 𓏼 armpits ; if you can get past the taboo, armpits are highly sensitive. you can tell because they are so ticklish. in the same way, intimacy and physical stimulation of the underarms and side of the chest changes the game. if you're tired of vanilla, make your character dedicate some time towards this area. pecks, biting, sucking and licking work well here. like imagine a vampire sinking its teeth into your underarm ... fuck.
ִ 𓏼 achilles tendon ; if you’re looking for erogenous zones that take you away from, naturally, breasts and genitalia and maybe downwards, then a spot worth exploring is this tendon. this stretch of tissue can lead to more heat and intimacy if it's gently toyed with. if your character is on their knees, maybe taking heels off, have them kiss the achilles. that's desperation.
A Couple of Helpful Resources for making Scum Villain Fanworks All in one Spot
Disclaimers - If your resource is here and you would like for me to remove it or change something related to it, just lmk and I will do so as soon as possible! I did as well as I could to make sure these resources are reliable, but if you notice something is off, please lmk! Feel free to add other resources in the reblogs :)
1. The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System Timeline by VagabondDawn on ao3
2. svsss canon log by allpiesforourown on Tumblr/Google Doc
3. [Guide] The Scum Villain's Self Saving System by Jin_Mitel on ao3
(^^ An Index of Jin_Mitel's other guides, many look useful for this purpose/others are scum villain focused! Find them at A Guide to Fictions)
4. Guide of Locations in Scum Villain Self-Saving System by misfitmonarchy and stardust_falling on ao3
5. A Partial Beastiary for Chinese Mythology and Folklore by PyrrhaIphis on ao3
6. Guide to Writing Scum Villain (or XianXia and XuanHuan in general) by velveteentuzhi on ao3
7. Stallion Novels: A Guide by ibex_ascendant on ao3
8. Chinese Names + Naming Resources by lingxhr on Tumblr (Useful for OCs!)
9. Chinese Naming Basics for Fanfiction Writers by miqqumi on ao3 (Danmei/SVSSS Specific! Useful for honorifics! Contains a long list of resources for this subject)
10. How to Name your Chinese Characters by drwcn on Tumblr (Useful for OCs!)
11. ziseviolet on Tumblr (For hanfu fashion history, explanations, and inspo! A lot of helpful history and cultural information/resources as well! Extremely helpful, see their masterposts on their blog to start)
Ziseviolet's masterposts one and two
12. peekofhistory on Tumblr (Really incredible history/arts/crafts/guqin making and lessons(!!)/culture resource! Highly recommend to check them out!)
Honestly, y'all are so talented and the best! But let's talk about NHL locker rooms. They're not like high school locker rooms. No one slams the door of their locker. They don't lug their gear home.
The trick is to find your team's equipment managers on socials. Then you get to learn the good shit. Like that Kris Letang needs a lot of hair product:
In all seriousness, this is what the Pens call the Change Room, and what some teams call the Dry Stalls.
This is where you get out of your city clothes and into your base layers/warm up clothes and flip flops. Note, this is all here for you, you don't do your own laundry!
Then you move into the locker room, which confusingly has no lockers, just some specific shelves on which you'll find all your gear.
You're not sitting next to a goalie in the locker room, because goalies need giant stalls. Their gear is very wide. Also goalie is a gender. They need their own space.
Also this shit smells bad. Do not plan your romantic moments for an environment that requires industrial fans, unless, you know, you're into that.
Also, apparently this is something the Pens have and I mean I guess?? Seriously, these boys bring nothing to the rink.
When you're on the road, your equipment team lovingly recreates your special environment in the visitors room, right down to little mats on the floor and signs on the wall.
After a game, if there's a media availability, it happens IN the locker room. Not a press conference, no one has showered:
And then all that fetid gears goes in laundry carts, the players shower, change back into their ordinary clothes, and go home!
If you've made it this far and have a strong stomach, you can watch the former Pens equipment manager Dana delicately handle Sid's necrotic pads and jock that the Pens equipment staff have lovingly and continuously repaired every season for this freak (affectionate).
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I'm working on putting together a timeline of fictional British detectives and when they were active. This is what I have so far:
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Brother Cadfael - 1130's-1140's
Matthew Shardlake - 1530's-1540's
Eliza Scarlet - 1880's
Sherlock Holmes (original ACD stories) - 1880's-1920's
Amelia Peabody - 1880's-1920's (active in both Britain and Egypt)
Father Brown (book & 1970's show version) - 1910's-1930's
Phryne Fisher - 1920's (active in Australia, but with strong connections to Britain)
Hercule Poirot - most active 1920's-1940's, but continues into the 1970's
Lord Peter Wimsey - 1920's-1930's
Miss Marple - 1930's-1970's
Christopher Foyle - 1940's
Father Brown (modern TV version) - 1950's
Grantchester TV series, multiple "detectives" - 1950's-1960's
Sister Boniface - 1960's
Inspector Morse - 1960's-1970's; 1980's-2000
Tom Barnaby - 1990's-2000's
Jane Tennison - 1990's
DI Jack Frost - 1990's
Rosemary Boxer & Laura Thyme - 2000's
Robbie Lewis - 2000's-2010's
Sherlock Holmes (modern BBC series) - 2010's
John Barnaby - 2010's-present
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I'm sure there are zillions of others, from book series, TV shows and movies. These are just the ones I could think of and could remember roughly when they were active without needing to look it up, supplemented with ones recommended to me by other folks.
I'd love to get suggestions to add to the list. Reasonably well known detectives that I forgot about and better dates for the ones I remembered are all welcome. I'd especially like to fill in the large gaps before Sherlock Holmes.
I'm thinking of this as something that might be useful for folks writing fic in any of these universes, and especially for folks doing crossovers, but mostly I'm doing it because it's fun. 😁
So, I like making floor plans, so, I decided to go back to the books to find all the information I could regarding the layout of 12 Grimmauld Place. The following post is all the collected quotes divided into floors and rooms and notes about some additional rooms that are likely part of the layout due to it being a 19th-century townhouse in London. I also added a quick sketch of the floor plan, it's very basic, but it gets the point across, I think.
This is something I made for my own fic purposes, but anyone writing HP fics might find it useful too.
Basement
This is the floor we know the least about. See, the upper floors of townhouses were usually smaller, while the basement sprawled way more since it needed to include various rooms for all the servants, a pantry, a scullery, a still room, a kitchen, a cellar, a coal room to power the gas lights and more.
1. Kitchen
Harry, who had expected a better welcome, noted how hard and bitter Sirius’s voice sounded. He followed his godfather to the bottom of the stairs and through a door leading into the basement kitchen. (OotP)
I assume next to the staircase there is a door leading to the basement stairs and that the Impervious Charm was cast on it for this to make sense:
“Tonks told me how to find out,” said Ginny. “You just chuck stuff at the door and if it can’t make contact the door’s been Imperturbed. I’ve been flicking Dungbombs at it from the top of the stairs and they just soar away from it, so there’s no way the Extendable Ears will be able to get under the gap.” (OotP)
2. A pantry exists and connects with a door to the kitchen:
Mrs. Weasley was the only person in the basement when they arrived there. She was standing at the stove and sounded as though she had a bad head cold when she wished them Merry Christmas, and they all averted their eyes.
“So, this is Kreacher’s bedroom?” said Ron, strolling over to a dingy door in the corner opposite the pantry which Harry had never seen open. (OotP)
3. Opposite the pantry there is Kreacher's "room":
Harry peered inside. Most of the cupboard was taken up with a very large and old-fashioned boiler, but in the foot’s space underneath the pipes Kreacher had made himself something that looked like a nest. A jumble of assorted rags and smelly old blankets were piled on the floor and the small dent in the middle of it showed where Kreacher curled up to sleep every night. (OotP)
I assume the "old-fashioned boiler" is a copper boiler/wash copper (used for washing clothes at home before the washing machine) and that this is the scullery. The scullery was often attached to the kitchen or close to it and used to wash dishes and/or launder clothes, hence why the washing boiler is there.
4. Coal Cellar / Coal Vault
Since Harry mentions gas laps:
He heard a soft hissing noise and then old-fashioned gas lamps sputtered into life all along the walls (OotP)
These gaslamps would need to be poured by combustion, in the UK, the type of gas most often used was coal gas, which was still used in the UK into the 1970s. Many Victorian houses in London had a vault/cellar for storing coal in the basement to power these gas lights.
The basement is likely larger and probably includes a:
5. Wine Cellar
6. A still room (Was used to make household concoctions, from distilling alcohol, making candles, smoking foods, making medicine to literally anything else you need in your home. It's possible in a wizard house this room is basically a small Potion's lab).
7. Larder(s) (cold rooms to store perishables like meat or milk but also pastries and bread by the 18th century).
Potentially any other number of store rooms.
Ground Floor
1. Narrow entrance crridor:
He heard a soft hissing noise and then old-fashioned gas lamps sputtered into life all along the walls, casting a flickering insubstantial light over the peeling wallpaper and threadbare carpet of a long, gloomy hallway, where a cobwebby chandelier glimmered overhead and age-blackened portraits hung crooked on the walls. (Ootp)
2. Staircase Hallway (large opening above that the kids look through)
The three of them looked cautiously over the banisters. The gloomy hallway below was packed with witches and wizards, including all of Harry’s guard. They were whispering excitedly together. (OotP)
The staircase is at the end of the entrance corridor:
Pressing her finger to her lips, she led him on tiptoes past a pair of long, moth-eaten curtains, behind which Harry supposed there must be another door, and after skirting a large umbrella stand that looked as though it had been made from a severed troll’s leg, they started up the dark staircase, passing a row of shrunken heads mounted on plaques on the wall. A closer look showed Harry that the heads belonged to house-elves. All of them had the same rather snoutlike nose. (OotP)
The entrance to the kitchen (and basement as a whole. Likely it's just the door to the servants' staircase) is across the staircase hall:
“We’re eating down in the kitchen,” Mrs. Weasley whispered, meeting them at the bottom of the stairs. “Harry, dear, if youll just tiptoe across the hall, it’s through this door here — ” (OotP)
And visible from the Entrance Hall:
There were hurried footsteps and Ron’s mother, Mrs. Weasley, emerged from a door at the far end of the hall. She was beaming in welcome as she hurried toward them, though Harry noticed that she was rather thinner and paler than she had been last time he had seen her. (OotP)
3. Dining Room
They moved from the drawing room to a dining room on the ground floor where they found spiders large as saucers lurking in the dresser (Ron left the room hurriedly to make a cup of tea and did not return for an hour and a half). The china, which bore the Black crest and motto, was all thrown unceremoniously into a sack by Sirius, and the same fate met a set of old photographs in tarnished silver frames, all of whose occupants squealed shrilly as the glass covering them smashed. (OotP)
4. Possibly a parlor.
A drawing room is basically the family living room (although it could be used for hosting larger company), but it tends to be less grand than the parlor. The parlor would be a sitting room, usually on the ground floor that is meant to show off to guests. It's usually grander and more polished. And you know, the Blacks would have an ornate sitting room to show off to guests.
5. Maybe a library, but a library could also be on the first floor or even in the basement if they wanted a particularly large one.
First Floor
1. Drawing Room (essentially the living room)
Harry and Ron, who had dressed and breakfasted quickly, entered the drawing room, a long, high-ceilinged room on the first floor with olive- green walls covered in dirty tapestries. (OotP)
2. Bathroom
Harry hurried up the stairs to the hall and then to the first landing, where he dashed into the bathroom and bolted the door again. Grunting with pain, he slumped over the black basin with its taps in the form of open-mouthed serpents and closed his eyes. . . .
(DH)
Depending on when this bathroom was installed, it's very possible it's a larger room (the size of a bedroom) and not a small bathroom as that's what they did in the 19th-century when indoor plumbing was first introduced — transformed less used rooms into water closets.
As Harry, Ron, and Hermione all comfortably stand inside, it is a larger bathroom for sure (I'm just, not sure how large):
He had shouted out, he knew it. He got up and unbolted the door; Hermione toppled inside at once, regained her balance, and looked around suspiciously. Ron was right behind her, looking unnerved as he pointed his wand into the corners of the chilly bathroom. (DH)
3. The bedroom shared by Hermione and Ginny:
“Asleep, yeah, right,” said Fred in an undertone, after Hermione bade them good night and they were climbing to the next floor. “If Ginny’s not lying awake waiting for Hermione to tell her everything they said downstairs, then I’m a flobberworm...” (OotP)
4. Probably an office/library.
Second Floor
This floor likely has multiple smaller bedrooms. My guess is 4 (2 at the front of the house, 2 at the back):
1. Harry and Ron's bedroom. It could be on the first floor from text alone, I placed it on the second floor to: a) limit the number of bedrooms so they'll have a reason to share in the first place. b) due to how Harry describes the drawing room as being on the first floor, it gives the vibe the room he stays in is on a different floor.
He led the way out of the door and onto the landing, but before they could descend the stairs — “Hold it!” Ron breathed, flinging out an arm to stop Harry and Hermione walking any farther. “They’re still in the hall, we might be able to hear something — ” (OotP)
The following bedrooms are likely on this floor, one of them might be on the third floor though:
2. Bedroom used by Arthur & Molly.
3. Bedroom used by Remus.
4. Bedroom used by Bill.
Third Floor
There are likely 3 bedrooms on this floor.
1. The large master bedroom on one end of the house:
said Sirius, who had just entered the room carrying a bloodstained bag of what appeared to be dead rats. “I’ve just been feeding Buckbeak,” he added, in reply to Harry’s inquiring look. “I keep him upstairs in my mother’s bedroom. Anyway ... this writing desk ...” (OotP)
2. The bedroom Fred and George slept in, as it's mentioned to be upstairs from Harry & Ron's room:
“It would have taken you about thirty seconds longer to walk down the stairs,” said Ron. (OotP)
And when Harry looks down the banister at the Order, he looks up to see Fred and George on the landing above the one he and Ron are on:
A thin piece of flesh-colored string descended in front of Harry’s eyes. Looking up he saw Fred and George on the landing above, cautiously lowering the Extendable Ear toward the dark knot of people below. A moment later, however, they began to move toward the front door and out of sight. (OotP)
This also means there is a large opening around the stairs up to the third floor (and perhaps above).
3. Another bedroom for other Order members to crash / one of the bedrooms I placed on the first floor is actually here and the spare bedroom is on the first floor (or it's a bathroom). As Hermione says they cleaned most of the bedrooms:
“We have,” said Hermione quickly. “We’ve been decontaminating this house, it’s been empty for ages and stuff’s been breeding in here. We’ve managed to clean out the kitchen, most of the bedrooms, and I think we’re doing the drawing room tomo — AARGH!” (OotP)
It's possible this is one of the bedrooms they haven't cleared out yet (along with Sirius and Regulus' rooms upstairs).
Fourth Floor
This floor only has two bedrooms across from each other:
1. Sirius' bedroom
Harry continued up the stairs until he reached the topmost landing, where there were only two doors. The one facing him bore a nameplate reading SIRIUS. (DH)
2. Regulus' bedroom
He agreed, but grudgingly, and followed her out onto the landing and past the second door that led off it. There were deep scratch marks in the paintwork below a small sign that he had not noticed in the dark. (DH)
They moved over the threshold together, gazing around. Regulus’s bedroom was slightly smaller than Sirius’s, though it had the same sense of former grandeur. (DH)
It's possible this fourth floor has more rooms. This floor was often used for the nursery and the maid/nurse who took care of the children there. In a wizard house, there will be no need for a maid room, though, so it's possible Regulus' room was originally meant to be a maid room.
Floor Plan
I made a quick sketch of more or less what Grimmauld Place's floor plan would look like. More or less, this isn't perfect (Maybe I could make it in the sims, or make a better plan and edit/reblog it here later).
Some notes:
Usually, the basement would have rooms for the servants. As wizards don't really give their house-elves rooms, I just added a large library underground.
I added a library/office on the first floor since it's kinda functioning as both. It's an office with bookcases basically in my headcanon, but it can be whatever you want it to be.
The rectangular "area" that exists on all floors right above the main staircase is an open area where daylight can enter and allow windows for light in interior rooms that weren't on either end of the house. And ventilation for the larders.
I also included a small garden and the attached stables and coach house, which I assume isn't used as a stables/coach house. I put a greenhouse there that is in a unusable state by OotP, but it could really be anything.
I have no idea what they did with the loft above the coach house/stables if they had one, hence why I left it empty.
The bedrooms for the adults (Remus, Arthur & Molly, and Bill) can shift between their locations and also one of them could be the spare bedroom on the third floor. I change who's where often enough, this sketch is just to get the idea of how much space I'm working with.
Harry mentioned hearing footsteps of the Order coming upstairs after their meeting, so I put his and Ron's room next to the stairs.
Regulus is room can be passed by on the way to the stairs from Sirius' room, so I tried to get that to work.
