#with practice

[beetlethebug]

Oooh I would like to know about the Daeron x Baelor spanking that turns tender, please

hehehe!! that one doesn't have a lot for it currently but i do have the messy premise written in the doc!

"Baelor disciplines him and daeron freaks thinking it's going to be like how Maekar does and then he's spanked and praised and tended to after and he just weeps and baelor comforts him during the panic attack before and the panic attack after and let's daeron "make it up" to him by sucking his cock maybe. But not before kissing the poor punished boy better"

i do think it'll be very fun to write! i think it'd take place sometime before the tourney! in my head aerion got them into trouble and/or aerion is ALSO in trouble at the same time and requires more immediate attention so baelor offers to help his brother out and take the "lesser" or maekar's trouble making sons. i think too in this that daeron has a crush on baelor or at least like? hungers for the sort of gentle positive attention he gives his sons? he'd like to be treated tender and like not a fuck up once in a while, you know? and baelor sees that hunger and wants to provide for him (he has a favorite nephew after all).

i know a big part i had planned is that daeron puts up a fuss about getting undressed and baelor is surprised because he's been very compliant thus far and when he realizes it's because he doesn't want baelor to see the scars on his legs/feet baelor gets all soft and kisses them so tenderly and RAHHH

[groenendaze]

every year our disc club gives gifts to the top 10 ppl (point wise) in the club and this year it was personalized jackets. it’s so cute ❤️

[curiosity-killed]

While I am grumbling on the internet this is also the point where I would say that tragic and dark and, yes, horrific content is important not only because it is art in and of itself but also because of the impact that media and narrative consumption has on our socialization and ability to understand and engage with complex scenarios in real life.

We live in a very very large world with a trillion different things happening all at once, smashed together on our timelines and dashboards and front page news. It is very difficult to navigate that, period. It’s even harder to navigate the nuances, biases, and factors contributing to those if we have no experience or framework for doing so on our own.

Fiction provides a relatively safe and low-stakes place for us to interact with concepts like—what if this person is rlly likable but has also committed atrocities? What if this person seems like a shithead or hits my personal dislikes but is actually trying really hard to do the right thing? What if there simply are no “right” answers? How do I decide how I feel about that and how/whether to act on those feelings?

Without having practice thinking through these things and coming to our own conclusions, we will always fall back on the frameworks we have been provided—religion, national values, family practice, etc. And these things can also be useful and helpful—but as we’re pretty well aware, they can also be dogmatic and rooted in prejudicial beliefs and harmful practices. If we aren’t used to questioning and making decisions on our own, we are more susceptible to making judgment calls that align with those ingrained beliefs.

And if we’re only ever exposed to obvious moral scenarios (knight in shining armor vs evil greedy dragon), then we are more likely to replicate those perspectives with each new problem we encounter—despite the fact that very very veeery few real world issues are so clear cut.

So yeah, I don’t think minors should be forced to read traumatic material that’s really going to fuck them up. I don’t think anyone should be. But I do think there is unique value in teens especially being allowed to and supported in decisions to engage with difficult, dark, or gruesome material precisely because they are at a transitional point in maturity and aging where they are starting to more actively build their own frames for viewing the world and are of an age where they can either handle the material or can make the decision for themselves to close the book and move to something else.

(And obv tbc I don’t think you have to engage fiction as a Learning Opportunity or whatever. You can read/write about your sexy little murderer mew mew or about your heroic golden savior and not fuss over the real world application of the philosophy reflected in the work. But I do think there’s value in recognizing that fiction can and does provide opportunities for critical thinking and development.)

[p1tstop]

😫🙃🤐🥴🥲

[izucrew-bakusquad]

Limit Comfort with Small Might

Small Might: I understand that you’ve been pushing yourself too hard. I know you want to do your very best at whatever it is you’re up to, but you aren’t going to do the best you can if you’re pushing yourself past the limit. Even if you push yourself up to the limit, that still isn’t good. This isn’t to say that slacking off is good, no. But there’s a gray area in there, and it’s a little bit bigger than you may think. You’re going to do great as long as you don’t burn yourself out. Please take care.

[thedaytoday]

Little moments

Waking up to a hot coffee in hand and a gentle forehead kiss

Cooking dinner together, lights dim & candles on. Music in the background, wine flowing

The crunch of fresh snow beneath my feet

The pastel hues of houses here

Warm thought of returning home to friends

Finishing the work I needed done for the day, satisfied

Laughing over silly voices and strange impressions, knowing full well we sound ridiculous to anyone else and loving it anyways

[dontdowhatisayandnobodygetshurt]

It always amazes me how Derek is going around being a Grumpy McGrump Face, and then Tyler Hoechlin is just an actual puppy/ball of sunshine given human form.