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Well, this gives me the hebejebes.
Congratulations, Amazon. This is the exact opposite of the spirit of fan fiction. I hope it crashes and burns.
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This is gross. I feel gross reading it :(
This gives me a bad feeling.
XMFC AU (is there such a thing as comedy noir?):
P.I. Charles Xavier & Mr Lehnsherr, the mysterious widower in search of Sebastian ‘McGuffin’ Shaw, embark on an X-citing First Class adventure.
“Mr. Lehnsherr? I’m Charles Xavier, we spoke on the phone. Please, come in,” Charles said. “May I take your coat and hat?”
His prospective client eased the trenchcoat off his shoulders, and his suit jacket as well, handing them over with his hat. He lacked a tie, and the top buttons of his dress shirt were open, baring the hollows of a strong neck, a glimpse of the ridge of his collarbone, unexpectedly provocative.
Charles hung his things from the coatrack and resumed his seat behind his desk, settling upright, folding his hands on the desk. “Please, sit. What can I do for you, Mr. Lehnsherr?”
His prospective client settled into the other chair, placing his briefcase alongside. “I’m looking—” Mr. Lehnsherr frowned slightly, his eyes drifting from Charles to the window behind him. “Would you mind putting down the blinds?”
“Certainly,” Charles said, popping up again to let down the Venetian blinds. His office darkened; he reached for the standing lamp.
“Not the lamp, please— you could just open the blinds a little,” said Mr. Lehnsherr.
“All right,” Charles agreed, a bit less readily. Put the blinds down, but open them… well, anything to put his client at ease. He opened the blinds, striping the dim room with bars of light. “Better?”
“Much, thank you.”
“Now, then,” Charles took his seat. “How can I help you?”
- Bryan Singer’s apparent boyfriend, Blake Parker, had James McAvoy’s hand in his mouth (some sort of drinking game with fire breathing idk)
- Parker met performer Amanda Lepore at a party/club/shindig
- Amanda Lepore was in a music video (“Road to Home”) by Girl in a Coma
- the girls from Girl in a Coma did a show in 2010, which I attended, and where they signed some of my stuff, and one of the girls hugged me for making the trip out to see them
That picture, WHAT
timetravelandrocketpoweredapes:
Jubilee Cosplay
Photo: Jason Tablante / Model: Bea Benedicto
adorable!
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and of course there’s the futuristic societies that are just crazy sex fantasies and everyone’s wearing brightly colored bondage gear
I don’t know what the context of this is but I like it.
Plot twist: The next companion is a normal girl/boy who only dies once in their lifetime and has no remarkable back story but he thinks they’re wonderful because they are human and the Doctor needs reminding that you don’t need to be a mystery to be remarkable.
#and the doctor never has to kiss them or sexualize them at all #in fact they are not even attracted to the doctor
Tumblr, are you just asking for Donna to come back?
Yes.
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THIS IS THE OTHER PART OF MY LIFE
<3
James McAvoy＠Julian Broad + Mouchette Bell(Stylist) - Harper’s BAZAAR / March 2009.
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Sometimes I believe I’m absolutely nothing and sometimes I believe I’m absolutely everything and I wish this could be a linear marathon rather than a ping-pong match between my past and my potential.
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TW: Sexual abuseElizabeth Smart became a household name after she was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, UT at the age of 14 and held in captivity for nine months. She was forced into a polygamous marriage, tethered to a metal cable, and raped daily until she was rescued from her captors nine months later. Smart was recovered while she and her kidnappers were walking down a suburban street, leading many Americans who followed her story on the national news to wonder:Why didn’t she just run away as soon as she was brought outside?Speaking to an audience at Johns Hopkins about issues of human trafficking and sexual violence, Smart recently offered an answer to that question. She explained that some human trafficking victims don’t run away because they feel worthless after being raped, particularly if they have been raised in conservative cultures that push abstinence-only education and emphasize sexual purity:
Smart said she “felt so dirty and so filthy” after she was raped by her captor, and she understands why someone wouldn’t run “because of that alone.”
Smart spoke at a Johns Hopkins human trafficking forum, saying she was raised in a religious household and recalled a school teacher who spoke once about abstinence and compared sex to chewing gum.
“I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, I’m that chewed up piece of gum, nobody re-chews a piece of gum, you throw it away.’ And that’s how easy it is to feel like you know longer have worth, you know longer have value,” Smart said. “Why would it even be worth screaming out? Why would it even make a difference if you are rescued? Your life still has no value.”
Now in her mid-twenties, Smart runs a foundation to help educate children about sexual crimes. She now believes that children should grow up learning that “you will always have value and nothing can change that.”
Social psychologists and sexual abuse counselors agree that comprehensive sex education can help prevent sexual crimes. Teaching children about their bodies gives them the tools to describe acts of abuse without feeling as embarrassed or uncomfortable, and it also helps elevate their self-confidence and sense of bodily autonomy. A shame-based approach to genitalia and sexuality, on the other hand, sends kids the message that they can’t discuss or ask questions about any of those issues.
When I went through abstinence only education they did an activity where they put different activity from holding hands to intercourse around the room and asked everyone how far they would go, and how far their parents would be okay with them going. I refused to do the exercise because I thought it was inappropriate and my parents trusted me to be safe and make decisions for myself. Now that I look back on that I can’t imagine how traumatic that could have been to someone who had been sexually abused. We need to keep this in mind when discussing sex education.
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Daario Naharis by ~Autumn-Sacura
Here you go, Jules.
