A Pointless Side Blog

— summary: if he sits like that, he really shouldn't expect you not to jump on him right there. — word count: 1k — content: +18, smut !!! (minors dni), he's so big, smitten!dunk, descriptions of the reader having female genitalia, p in v sex, unprotected sex, creampie, riding, some porn with some plot, body worship, he talks to you through it!!! praise kink, sub!dunk. i looked at that scene and wrote this in the span of literally ten minutes, stay with me on this😭

You know he's not doing it on purpose; quite the opposite, Dunk is naive and innocent, which is precisely why you love him so much and would go to the ends of the universe for him.

He doesn't sit like that to entice you because you both know you can have him whenever you want, but still, you love it when he sits like that, with his legs spread wide, his big hands propped up on his thick thighs, the tanned skin on his forearms glowing faintly under the flickering light of the campfire in front of him, his sleeves rolled up, his bulging muscles flexing beneath his skin every time his long fingers bring his wine glass to his mouth.

He's talking to you enthusiastically about... shields? Spears? You have no idea because you're busy drooling over him as you sit pretty on the other side of the little fire.

Sitting like that, Duncan looks so big, so broad. He's such a man! 

What must have been nearly 10 years ago, I pitched this series for Sparklife but it was rejected (a couple of weeks later my contract was terminated, but it's not enough evidence that these two events were related). My computer broke down and I thought I lost it forever.

The first draft I sent in was James, and they were happy with the idea, but they were way less enthusiastic about the rest. I was still planning to do other male characters, but after they ditched the pitch, there was no point.

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Truly the most beautiful man I have ever seen in my life but I am once again losing my entire mind over the fact he brings his childhood teddy bear from home with him on his trips. That thing lives on his bed at home with him in London (I'm not a creep, he used to do all his press from his bedroom during the pandemic, the below pictures are from an instagram takeover in 2020 before the show began airing) and he packs it and brings it to LA for luck or comfort or whatever. This is not the first time the bear has travelled with him and it surely won't be the last. I simply can't be expected to go on in these conditions.

Jane Austen, Emma

Sufjan Stevens, Futile Devices

Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf

Hozier, Shrike

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Sierra DeMulder, Your Love Finds Its Way Back

Nizar Qabbani

“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds.”

joanne’s 1k follower celebration | requested by @trashcora​ → 🎲 javier peña or din djarin

New look at Michael Keaton’s Batman in the upcoming Batgirl film

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

Read if You Like:

Fantasy

Low Fantasy

Historical Fiction

Romance

Paranormal

Deals with a Demon/The Devil

Strong Female Lead

Female Protagonist

Recommended if You Enjoy:

Alix E. Harrow (The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches)

Erin Morgenstern (The Night Circus, The Starless Sea)

4.5/5

PART ELEVEN

Pairing: Josh x female!reader

Word Count: 15k words in this chapter

Summary: After a near-fatal accident that put one of your best friends into a seemingly endless coma, you’re feeling a little lost and hopeless. But are you desperate enough to do something reckless?

WARNINGS: (in this chapter) EXPLICT SEXUAL CONTENT!!!! 18+ ONLY.  Tons and tons of talk about Catholicism and Christianity, scary!Josh, talk of “virginity”

Editing and moodboard by the incredibly talented Erin ( @gardenvanfleet )

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“I absolutely love Halloween,” Josh says dreamily, and then flicks a vinyl werewolf mask with his fingers to hear the slapping sound. 

You’re a little distressed as you pick through a rack of packaged outfits and accessories because the only costume you’ve seen so far that you even remotely liked, you quickly realized was for children 10-14. “I can’t believe we forgot all about it.” 

let you down

run desert you

make you cry

say good bye

tell lie

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2006

Y’all really gonna just be vague about modern art and how “fantastic” it is or are any of you going to explain how pissing into the glued together pieces of restroom equipment is art? 

Brian Eno didn’t piss into Zhou Wendou’s 2006 Untitled piece (which is the glued-together broken urinal); he emptied a vial of urine into a replica of Duchamp’s 1917 piece “Fountain,” which was a mass-produced urinal laid on its side and signed “R. Mutt.”

Duchamp had a series of what he called “readymades” - mass-produced objects that he presented as art - and “Fountain” is the most famous of these readymade sculptures.

Plenty of people will look at a urinal in an art show and go “this isn’t art!” but in the early Dada movement nobody had thought to question whether a mass-manufactured urinal might be art. It’s a man-made object. What separates industrial craft from individual art? Is it the presentation? The context? The original intended purpose? Again, in 1917 this was a question that not a lot of people had asked before so in very general terms Duchamp put a pissoir on a pedestal and said “This is Art; Prove me Wrong.”

And then 102 years of arguing about art happened.

In 1993 Brian Eno (ambient musician and all-around weird guy) went to an exhibit that included “Fountain” and poured some urine into it. Several other people had done the same thing over the years, which is why Eno couldn’t piss directly in it and had to carry around a jar of his own waste in order to make a point.

So Eno’s point was “you’re glorifying this one particular bit of ceramic and it’s against the spirit of the original piece, this needs to be a pisspot again” and other people have peed in it to make the point that it has a broad context - it is both high art and a low urinal.

These are people who were publicly performing an action in order to make a statement about art - these were people doing performance art.

SO.

Back to 2006.

The Zhou Wendou piece takes a readymade urinal, breaks it down to ceramic, and then remakes it into a vase. It’s being very playful - conceptually remaking Duchamp’s piece into a piece of intentional art again instead of found art is clever and funny, especially when the intentional art it makes mimics something else that could easily be mass produced - it reminds me of Ai Weiwei’s 1995 work “Breaking a Han Dynasty Urn,” which also references Duchamp (it was part of Weiwei’s series about repurposing “cultural readymades”) and that’s likely intentional; I’d be surprised if Wendou wasn’t commenting on this:

“It’s powerful only because someone thinks it’s powerful and invests value in the object.” - Ai Weiwei

So that loops back around to the original piece in 1917.

Is putting a signature on a urinal art?

Is pissing in a piece of conceptual art performance art?

Is breaking an old piece of art art?

Is breaking a urinal and shaping it into a vase art?

And the reason I think all of these questions are so cool is because they boil down to this:

Is making people question the definition of art in itself art?