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The snowdrops are starting to flower, I am so excited.

Hello my dear ones. Thank you so much for being here and reading the next chapter. But first, I will explain a little bit what is going on, I think.
In this chapter, a new character appears who will play an important role later in the story.

This character is Linet, a young maid in a sexual relationship with Teárlach.
Their relationship is characterized by very intense, rough sex, but it occurs with Linet's consent, as I'm placing her within the realm of BDSM. This means we're entering the darker aspects of sexual experience, which are nevertheless based on Linet's consent.

I've done a lot of research on this topic, and I hope I'm meeting the needs of the sub/dom community (BDSM).

It's up to you whether you choose to read this chapter or not. Whatever you decide, please take care of yourself. ♥

Content Warning: Blowjob, Deepthroat, Dirty Talk, Dom/Sub

( The Mistress of the Shadowland, Second Book, The next Chapter )

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Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works.

Oh, I've done this some previous years, but it seems I'm gonna do it again. And with a trope I already talked about, but it was a very long time ago :D

So, one of my fave tropes is "Enemies forced to work together"
It can be against a common enemy, to save the world, to save themselves, because of an old promise they have to honor, all is good to :D

It can be the beginning of a long-time redemption, or, more rarely, corruption arc, or it can be something they agree to never mention again, both are good to me.

What do I love in it: the fact that they have to understand more things about each other. Or sometimes the fact that they already know so much things about each other.
I love the competence kink, the strengths complementing each other instead of fighting against each other, and how far they can go (one of the very rare versions I don't like is when when they join the heroes for a while the villains become very much weaker for absolutely no reason). I love when sometimes they have to show each other's weaknesses.
I love the emotional points, them realizing that oh no, they respect each other, they care about each other, maybe even they trust each other? Maybe they're right about it, or wrong?
I love when there is betrayal of principles for an enemy they can't let die. I also love when their principles or just pragmatism force them to save an enemy they hate so much.

The first encounter with the trope I can remember was a quite late episode in McGyver where Murdoc asks McGyver help to save his sister. The character asking their enemy for help because they didn't know where else to go is still a nice topping to the trope, even it it's not mandatory.

I love enemy shipping, and when two enemies you ship are doing this, inn canon or fanfic, it's always fantastic.
For a long time, i read a lot of fics like this about my ships. I think at the time one of my fave ships for it was Xavier/Magneto. it happens in canon (in the X-2 movie, and in too many comics to count, and in some of the nineties anime), and I wanted all the fics, that were the same, just with more ship.
I often say that my romance trope is not actually enemies to friends to lovers, it's enemies to enemies forced to work together to grudgingly trusting and understanding each others to friends to lovers :D
Sometimes it happens in canon! Buffy/Spike or Root/Shaw were such good enemies to lovers ships to me, for this!

But actually! I adore it in gen too! I think that it was the s2 episode from Veronica Mars, where Veronica and Clarence Wiedmann had to work together, that I realized, no, amount of shippy feelings: 0 but amounts of competence kink feelings: up the roof.

I'm lucky it's a very popular trope. In lots of fantasy/sf shows i was following, it was some kind of compulsory figure, be it as a funny episode that would never be talked about again, or as the Big Finale against a worst enemy.

But! Also! Sometimes I'm in a fandom where not only it happens but it's the main theme! And when it's well done, I'm so happy about it!
Last year, one of my friends lent me The Coldfire Trilogy by Celia Friedmann, and it's the main plot, a warrior prince having to ally with the main evil of his religion to save the world. their relationship and its evolution is absolutely perfect.
Last year, I also fell deep into Bungou Stray Dogs where the writer decided that past basic character introduction most situations should be resolved by some enemies working together situation, and the hero having to work repeatedly together with his enemy and their relationship slowly evolving because of that is one of the main plot points.

Please if you know fandoms like this, character arcs, romance arcs, or just very good individual episodes about this, don't hesitate to give me recs :D


But also, I hesitated about which trope to choose, so have a post to a non-snowflake post I made some time ago, about my shipping obsession for underlings with a crush on their boss.

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Hello~ This is my real post here (my first trades for the year!), but you can look through my pile if you would like to trade.

Since I am starting out, I don't have too much for now, but if you see any card up for trade that you want please feel free to let me know on this post or my card post! I am always open to trade.

Snake beans from the garden. Garlic, black bean chilli paste, soy sauce, and some water to steam. Add salt before the end.

So good!

Why did I start on so many things lol

• Jan. 19: FE Engage Rosado's birthday
  • Birthday art still not finished (coloring); also contemplating if I actually wanna line it but it's too far gone at this point
• Jan. 25: Sylvix soulmates AU for Sylvain Angst Weekend
  • I have like. 200 words down. Actually idek where I wanna go with this and how long it'll be? Went into it with zero plan
• Feb. 8: Blue Lions Big Bang fic final deadline
  • Currently reviewing comments and revising (etherealwill is an amazing beta reader and I love her so much 😭)
  • Currently sitting at 18k words but I expect this to increase to 20k once I am done with the other edits
• Feb. 12: MHA Asui Tsuyu's birthday
  • Sketch & lineart done; laying down flat colors
• Feb. 13-15: #ficwip hey, sweetheart
  • Fic 1 (BKDK) finished at around 1.1k words
  • Fic 2 (TDBKDK) wip at around 800+ words atm

I need to lock tf in tomorrow if I wanna post Rosado's art in time... though I always give myself leeway past midnight because I know it's still his birthday on the other side of the world, effectively giving me uhhh 36 hours or something idk I guessed the number.

I love him but there's something about drawing him that makes me give up halfway through LMAO this is the second time I've drawn him and lost steam, but I really really wanna draw my baby.

I also have some commitments irl so I might not be able to write or draw on some days... I'm past my GYWO goal for January though, which is good. I've been so talkative this month.

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Elizabeth Weir, Aiden Ford, Bates, Patrick Sheppard
Rating: Explicit
Length: 11,848
Content Notes: Author chose not to warn - my take would be that no AO3 warnings apply, although there's dubious consent at times, when John's being harassed as a sub.
Creator Links: Helenish on AO3, Ann ciudad on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Crack treated seriously, BDSM, Complete AU: BDSM, Friends to lovers, Worldbuilding, Trope inversion/subversion,

Summary: John entered the Air Force Academy in 1987; it was only the third year subs were accepted into the flight program. John wasn't the only one in his class, but he was the only one who looked like he did, and it didn't make him any friends.

Reccer's Notes: This story is well known in SGA fandom, and it's also crack treated seriously. The cracky premise is that it's set in a BDSM universe - almost everyone is bi and BDSM relationships are the norm, so there's no homophobia or DADT - but in this AU there is discrimination against subs. Unlike several other BDSM universe fics which are very much idfics revelling in the crack of John/Rodney being Dom/sub and the hotness and romance of their dynamic, Helenish turns the concept around, making John the attractive sub, and making the discrimination and "sexual" harassment he faces lifelong, especially as a sub in the military (and how that affects his character), the core of the story. It becomes an analogy for sexism and gender roles, and his expectations about being badly treated by doms come close to ruining his developing relationship with Rodney, an atypical dom who isn't "sexist", which disconcerts John. The story's complex and brilliantly written, and one I'll always return to. Very much recommended.

Fanwork Links: Take Clothes Off As Directed on AO3
The podfic read by Ann ciudad is also excellent.

Accidentally got desperately earwormed by a random vtuber/pngtuber who does super queer fantasy/horror covers and animatics. This is how I'm starting 2026.

• Another Love Story by RafScrap ft Lyra Pyon — Look, I'm just saying I need the Princess Principal AMV to this immediately. Or like fifteen things with this vibe? I know that "Villain is violently murdered and then comes back to romance/'romance' the protagonist" is the plot of a bunch of villainess isekai and danmei, but what if more. (I've still not read Heaven Official's Blessing, but genuinely the thumbnail looks like monster!Hua Cheng fanart I've seen.)
• Masochism Tango covered by Rafscrap and Gezeus Quiryst — WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU MADE A HORNY VERSION OF A TOM LEHRER SONG. THAT'S ILLEGAL. WHAT ARE YOU DOING. ... It's going on my Disaster Lesbian Who Flirts With Every Woman Who Tries To Kill Her playlist though. For obvious reasons. (The obvious reasons also explain why I saw so many comments being like "Gomez and Morticia Addams ♥".)
• Monster High's Fright Song covered by RafScrap ft. Gezeus Quiryst & Mortius — Did everyone know that Monster High had a song? Did I just miss that one?
• The Serpent and the Starving Girl by Rafscrap — I'm 90% certain this song/animatic is "What if a gay devil tempts a woman who was cast aside by her duplicitous married lover during the Salem Witch Trials" and I'm... More into it than I expected? The way the rage cracks out over "Didn't he promise" is fantastic.
• Monster covered by Rafscrap and Gezeus Quiryst — I spent a solid two hours doing a dance party/tidying spree to this one song because it's got the right energy level for it. I'm also irrationally convinced that the originally song was a voicaloid song (based on the only other song I know by Kira being vocaloid; sorry Kira), so that would explain some of the scanning/syllable stressing going on.
• Goddess covered by Rafscrap — I really like the rhythm of chanting the goddesses' names, ngl. And even if I have no idea what is going on with the story, I'm enjoying the art and the body horror!
• Hell Again by Ironmouse — And just for the sake of this post not being one person: a different vtuber! XD I was watching the video like "Damn, this looks like RWBY," and then according to the comments the lead artist actually worked on RWBY. Yeah, fair, I guess that would do it! And would explain the fights looking pretty good!

Theme Prompt: #287 - Hot water
Title: Nowhere is safe
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG. Pre-canon.
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Jack’s mission has gone awry and now he’s in big trouble.

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Last round's winner was Colors!



Hello, dear listeners! 5pb-chan is in charge of the music toplist corner once again, and it's entirely up to you and your votes which song will make it this week!

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This round ends Saturday, January 24, 2026.

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

Often when I'm reading a book or watching a show, I find myself wishing all the *plot* would stop so the characters could just hang out. I like quiet moments and small but significant gestures; I like seeing how characters interact when they're not trying to do Some Big Thing but rather navigating mundane reality together. So I tend to like slice-of-life type stuff, especially post-canon/future fics set after the dust settles and people have to try to adjust to a new normal, or to deal with some emotional stuff that was left unaddressed while they were busy trying to do Some Big Thing. I'm also less interested in seeing people get together or live happily ever after than wrestling with some challenges related to how exactly they want to be parts of each other's lives.

I've also always been really drawn to the theme of mind control. I can trace this interest to a specific moment in my childhood, when I caught a glimpse of some weird live-action Transformers performance at the local mall. One of the human characters--I forget who--had gotten their mind zapped by some villain (if anyone reading this is a Transformers person, maybe you have some idea who I might be talking about), and I found it simultaneously terrifying and captivating. I think I've always been interested in questions about why we think what we think, to what extent our thoughts are our own, and how our conscious and unconscious minds interact with each other.

That said, I don't tend to seek out fics based on tropes or themes; there are plenty of stories that have some of these elements but just didn't do anything for me, as well as fics that I found beautifully written but feature characters and tropes I'm generally disinterested in. I think I tend to be drawn to language first and foremost.

And *that* said, if anyone has any fic recs that sound similar to anything I described above, please feel free to share!

18. It’s Sunday – what was the best part of last week?

Last week wasn’t eventful. So yesterday when hubby said let’s go to Chili’s for lunch I jumped at his idea. It was 73° and sunny. Perfect day for a drive and lunch. We both had the triple fajitas. Beef, shrimp, and chicken. Everything was melt in your mouth tender. We both loved our choices. Then we drove around some more. I came home and whipped up a little story. It was a good day.

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Welcome back to COMBO BREAKER everyone! The ever lovely Yorigami sisters have returned to count your combos. How high has your combo managed to go? Joon is a brawler and and Shion is never far behind her in a fight (literally)! Joon is all ears for any new moves you might want to show her, especially ones where she can reap the benefits--because the two of them are misfortune goddesses and spending too much time around Shion might make your luck run out and end your sweet combo.

Rules

- Every week you will be able to pick a button, similar to how Pick a Color works. Every button can be either HIT or MISS. - The number of HITs in a row you accumulate is the length of your combo but the moment you get a MISS, you lose all of it. This means if you accumulate 3 hits, then recieve a miss, you CANNOT turn in those 3 hits. If you receive 2 hits, a miss, then a hit, You now only have one hit in your combo, not 3 not 2. - You don't have to play every week to build up your combo! Time that passes between your HITs doesn't matter as long as you don't get a MISS. Feel free to skip a round or two if you decide that it's too high risk or you just don't have time to play! - You are able to turn in your combos for prizes. Longer combos yield much bigger prizes but you have a greater chance of being interrupted so it's up to you if you'd rather take the risk or play it safe. - When turning in your combo, please provide links to all HITs that are part of it. Also, once you turn in a combo, you can't reuse these HITs for your next combo. - Please redeem your combos in the COMBO REDEEMING TOP LEVEL. There will be one posted with every round of this game, and it will always be the first comment on the post.

In This Round

10 buttons are hiding a HIT! 0 buttons are hiding a MISS!

Rewards
HITx1	2 Cards
HITx2	4 Cards
HITx3	8 Cards
HITx4	16 Cards
HITx5	32 Cards
HITx6	64 Cards
HITx7	128 Cards
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While claiming your rewards, please use this form <b>Combo Length:</b> <b>Links to your combo parts:</b> <a href="URL">HIT</a> <a href="URL">HIT</a> <a href="URL">HIT</a> <a href="URL">HIT</a> <a href="URL">HIT</a> <a href="URL">HIT</a> <a href="URL">HIT</a> This round ends on Saturday, January 24, 2026! coding courtesy of despedia ♥