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Okay so. The Romans think that sex doesn't count as real sex unless Someone Is Getting Penetrated By A Dick Or Dick-Adjacent Object. Very sort of dick-centric system.

So Latin has six words for "to fuck", divided into three pairs: one pair for each of the possible Holes (ass, mouth, pussy). In each pair there is a word for topping and a word for bottoming.

Most people who know a little about Latin fuck verbs know 'pedicare' and 'irrumare' from the first line of Catullus 16 (Pēdīcābō ego vōs et irrumābō), which is a poem about saying "absolutely shut the fuck up and piss all the way off" to fandom antis and purity police who are making repulsive accusations about you personally, based on things they're reading into your work from a bad-faith perspective. Catullus was so real for that and it's incredibly endearing to me that he was dealing with the same thing we are still dealing with. I got a hater in my askbox doing this about The Wisdom of Emperors just the other day, but I took the high road and, unlike Catullus, did not tell them "I will assfuck you and I will facefuck you" So here sort of a chart about the verbs: Topping | Bottoming Mouth: irrumare | fellare Ass: pedicare | cevere Cunt: futuere | crisare

Another fun fact related to the fuck verbs was that the Romans didn't think about sexual orientation in terms of who you're attracted to, they thought about it in terms of "which is your favorite hole and what do you like to do with it." So you'll get graffiti (ancient roman subtweeting) about things like "Marcus is a fututor [cunt-fucker] and a pedico [ass-fucker] but omg girlies I also heard he's a fellator [cock-sucker] 👀👀👀👀" In the modern day we'd just call him bisexual, but in Ancient Rome it is not enough to know if someone is bisexual (they think it's kind of perverted if a man only fucks women, like do you have some kind of freaky pussy fetish???? you've never once even fucked a twink??? dat's gay, bro. gay to not be bi), you also have to know if he's being bisexual in a respectable sort of way

You will notice that pussy-eating is not on this list, because those words do not mean "to fuck", they translate more directly to just "pussy-licking" (cunnilingus), and because the Romans are sexist as all hell and think that's gross and filthy anyway. This is not ONLY because of pussy terror, it's also that the mouth is the most sacred part of the body -- so eating pussy or sucking a dick is actually considered slightly more "shameful" than getting fucked in the ass. (Please note as well that the fuck verbs are gender neutral -- if you're a roman man and your girlfriend owns a strap-on, she can [pedicare] you. but be careful because your sworn enemy in the forum will have a fucking FIELD DAY if he hears about that and will write a Mean Poem about you or subtweet you on a public wall)

i am 100% convinced (ok maybe not 100% but a good 87%) spider breathing pandoran air will have a powerful and negative impact on both of them (particularly neytiri) and i think they might even bond over it. they will both see it as like “eywa saved him but not my son/home” (even if i firmly believe his miracle will be kiri’s doing, not eywa’s, but that’s not the point). i feel like this will cause neytiri’s faith and identity crisis (paralleling what happened to varang after she lost her home), while for varang it will cement even more her hatred for eywa. neytiri might start feeling betrayed by her and even grow rageful towards her, emotions that varang has felt for years, and they’re only going to grow after spider’s miracle, which she will see as yet another betrayal by eywa. and if neytiri and varang find each other after neytiri’s crisis has begun… varang is not only going to see herself in her, she’s also going to feed her doubts and her rage even more.

but if coming back from that belief will be easier for neytiri, for varang it will be much different. she has spent almost all her life in grief and rage, holding on to them, embracing them, becoming one with them. if neytiri and varang are going to bond over their pain, they’re still eventually going to part ways, making their conflict grow even more. and i absolutely can’t wait to see it.

The parallels!!!!

The way Neytiri’s strength is channelled into a resolute bravery fuelled by courage and love - and anger and pain. For Varang, those feelings of rage manifest as bitterness, wanting to drag others down into the same hurt she feels. Her strength is transformed through her suffering into a sense of power.

Trying to force him to have sex with her should not have been swept under the rug.

I don't care if the end of the world was coming, I really feel like Allison had no business being a part of Luther's wedding after what she tried to do.

It's insulting as fuck.

She needs to be held accountable for her fucking actions. Her existence right now makes me so upset and sick to my stomach and I don't care who hears it and disagrees with me.

I don't care how much grief she was suffering from. She tried to sexually assault Luther, attended his wedding like it never happened, and now she has everything she could ever ask for?

Are you fucking kidding me.

I want to puke.

Just seeing her face makes me extremely nauseous.

Luther was even afraid to go back to the hotel because Allison was there and stayed with Sloane. I wish what Allison did was not so easily forgotten and if it's never brought up ever like it never happened I am going to be fucking pissed. I don't care if she changed her mind last minute, that was something she was willing to do. Use him even if he was with someone else because she wanted to feel better.