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𝖄𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗

Chapters: ¾ Fandom: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types, Heated Rivalry (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov Additional Tags: Shane Hollander Has Sensory Issues, Sensation Play, Orgasm Edging, sounding if you squint, sensory play, Shane Hollander has Autism, Shane Hollander Loves Ilya Rozanov, Ilya Rozanov Loves Shane Hollander, Top-ish Shane Hollander, Bottom-ish Ilya Rozanov, Dom-ish Shane Hollander, Sub-ish Ilya Rozanov, Ilya’s Nine-Inch Cock, Nipple Play, Scratching, Marking, Rope Bondage, Shibari, Ribbons - freeform, Blindfolds, No Dialogue, There can’t be miscommunication if there aren’t any words, Pre-arranged non-verbal signals, Laughter During Sex, Fluff and Smut, Waxing Poetic About the Man You Love, Penis Boop, The Penis is a Participant Summary:

Ilya loves what he and Shane have, and he loves that Shane thrives in routine and boundaries. But what about creativity within structure?

Don't Trust Them (Trust Me)

Author: imaginaryprotagonist

Artist: Coplins

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester, past Dean/Alastair

Length: 25333

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con, Suicidal Thoughts, Drugs, Substance Abuse, Vomiting, Homophobia (mostly John)

Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Smut, Angst with a Happy Ending, Top Castiel/Bottom Dean Winchester, John Winchester's A+ Parenting, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat

Summary: Dean’s entire life has been a string of bad luck: some because he’s suffered the consequences of drug kingpin John Winchester’s terrible decision-making, some because he seems to have inherited the trait. After being attacked in an alley, Dean is saved by a mysterious man in a trench coat. Castiel turns out to be a cop determined to arrest two key players in Chicago's illegal drug game; a corrupt politician, and a murderous drug dealer with a dark connection to Dean. He offers Dean an opportunity to turn his life around, in exchange for helping Cas gain access to these people. Their cover story? Castiel, or rather, 'Jimmy', is Dean’s new boyfriend.

Writers, relax. Breathe. It’s going to be okay. You’re doing just fine. Your writing does not suck. Do you know what sucks? This. This sucks.

Found this in the original post tags and I just... SIGH

Here’s the thing, anon. Squick isn’t just ‘I don’t like this’, it’s ‘I think this is gross and it makes me deeply uncomfortable but I pass no judgement on those who enjoy it, because I acknowledge that everyone is different and those same people may have the same visceral reaction some of the things I enjoy’ and was originally made popular in the kink community.

So yeah, if you want to say that every time you come across a trope or whatever you find icky then go ahead, say that every time.

Squicks are things I find personally gross but may not be gross to someone else. They don’t upset me or provoke my PTSD, they simply do not pop my corn. Example: Omegaverse. I don’t like it, it makes me uncomfortable and I’m not going to read it, but if you like it, you do you.

Triggers are things which directly provoke my PTSD. This means that my triggers may seem completely normal and innocuous to someone else, because my triggers are so personal and intrinsically linked to a specific event in my life. My reactions to these triggers can include panic attacks and flashbacks to this traumatic event. Sometimes being triggered can affect me for several hours or even days.

If we encourage everyone to lump things that just make them slightly uncomfortable or simply aren’t to their taste in under the word “trigger”, it actually dilutes the meaning of the word. It makes it harder for us all to, for the most part, collectively agree on and understand what exactly is being described when the word gets used.

And that destruction of shared precise definitions is a problem! It is really useful to have the communal language to be able to clearly and quickly delineate between “this grosses me out, no thanks” and “this is going to set off a trauma episode, rattle my brain, and probably throw off the rest of my day/week as a result” while also maintaining your privacy, and to know that you will be understood in what you are saying. Not having it is actually detrimental to the effort of making our communities safe and navigable for people living with trauma. Which is a goal that is much more important to me, personally, than the idea of not being “cutesy” (a word which in this case which sounds a lot like it’s being used as a euphemism for “cringe”).

Gov. Abbott Calls Books “Pornography,” Attempts To Remove LGBTQ+ Titles From Schools

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ® has called on the state’s school boards to investigate and eradicate books with subject matter related to race and gender from public school libraries and classrooms. […]

Cason shared his statement on Twitter, referring to “Gender Queer” and other books that “may violate the Penal Code” as “criminal activity” that “should not be made available to children by the actual people who are tasked in educating them and keeping them safe from harm.” […] In the letter, Krause included a list with the titles of roughly 850 books that were largely related to topics of sexuality, gender identity, race, and sexual health. An analysis of Krause’s list by The Dallas Morning News found that “of the first 100 titles listed, 97 were written by women, people of color or LGBTQ authors.”

You can call a lot of things “porn” and “criminal” if you just squint enough. It’s never only going to be the content you personally hate and deem “immoral”. Never.