in no position to negotiate

all kink is art

and as for art? baby, that's all play

I don't think I'm qualified to answer whether or not all art is kink, that's up to you to decide

given skadi has 13 years of combat experience in 1097 (during Grani and The Knight's Treasure) and the amount of time it would TAKE to become the best Undersea Lighting Technician skadi's PROBABLY around 40 in path of life. My Cute Little Operator [gestures at traumatized middle-aged spec ops veteran]

You just know the ye olde peasants went NUTS at that last part

We don’t say sblood enough we should bring it back

I think that if you want relationships depicted in your fiction – whether primary media or fan-work – to be emotionally compelling, there's really no getting around the fact that one of the most compelling relationship dynamics in fiction is "hey, wouldn't it be fucked up if".