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Joey. 28, bisexual, demisexual, theoretically poly, cis-female, liberal, white and English. She/her. I live with my girlfriend Tally and our cat Clive. I really love baking, cooking, dancing, knitting, cats, historical fiction and would love to be able to time travel. I'm super into gratitude, mindfulness, wellbeing and work for my local NHS Mental Health & Wellbeing Team which helps me fight my own battles with anxiety, panic attacks and depression.

I'm a voracious reader and a history nerd - especially Tudor & Elizabethan England, both fiction and non-fiction. Some of my favourite writers include Alison Weir, Philippa Gregory & Hilary Mantel. I have some interest in the industrial revolution, the victorian era and would love to know more about the ancient world. I'm also curious about tarot, horoscopes and divination. I grew up as a member of a congregational church and have a complication relationship with God.

I have a completely unexplainable passion for disaster and apocalypse movies, the current world situation is giving me an interest in epidemiology and I've always been fascinated with aliens and UFOs. I'd probably be quite the sci-fi geek if I let myself - although I would run away with the Doctor in the TARDIS in a heartbeat!

My favourite colours are green & silver, my favourite flower is a sunflower, my favourite is mint and my favourite season is autumn. I love fresh flowers, warm bread and scented candles. Mani/pedi's make me happy. I need sunshine like I need oxygen.

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Deadline September 30

Finished Fics
Ropes
Still
All Jack has to do is stay still. As long as he doesn't move, the ropes won't squeeze his balls. Of course, the position Daniel has him in makes staying still almost impossible
Stargate SG-1, Daniel Jackson/Jack O'Neill, predicament bondage, rope bondage, cock & ball torture

In Progress Fics
Object Insertion

( Ideas )

Facebook is making me cranky, it's insisting I use my 'proper' name, and not my nickname - which is the name everyone has known me by for most of my life. They even deactivated my account until I changed it! I had to provide proof that I'm a real person as well. Like, what the fuck?

My given name is Joanne. I don't like it, never have done. Does anyone actually like their name? I was Jo as a child but didn't really gel with it into my tweens and teens, I didn't want a 'boys name'. I tried 'Annie' out for one summer but that didn't fit. I started being called Joey about 15 years ago and it's stuck. I generally don't answer to anything else.

The only person who calls me Joanne is my mum when she's pissed off at me. And when she's really pissed off it's Joanne Rachel

Then there's my paternal grandmother who insists on using everyone's given name, so she always calls me Joanne. And my mum is called Anne but goes by her middle name Grace but grandma insists on calling her Anne. "If your mother wanted you to be called Joey, she would have named you Joey." *sigh* She makes me glad there's no-one, as far as I'm aware, in our family who's transexual or gender neutral because I don't know how she would cope with that.

But I digress. I'm always known as my nickname, essentially a shortened form of my given name. The same for Tally, who's full name is Talia.

And on the J/D discord server, we've been talking about that and there's a member who doesn't like their name being shortened, or being referred to by a term of endearment, which I completly respect. We all have the right to be addressed how we prefer but it's made me aware how much I shorten other people's names, often without their permission so I'm making a concerted effort not to do that. I'm aware I don't like being called a name that's not my preferred, so it's not right that I do it to other people. I respect people's preferred pronouns and have been trying to get into the habit of asking what they are, so I'm going to also ask this (except for my brother. He's always going to be Pip because it pisses him off, and as his little sister, that's my job in life! (I do feel I need to clarify that if he ever seriously asked me not to call him it, I wouldn't!))

Current Mood: thoughtful

I want fanfic that includes the fact that you can have/have previously had feelings for or relationships with other people. Because these characters are all grown men and women with history and baggage and life and relationships are complicated!

I want Jack/Daniel fic where its recognised that they were married to Sara and to Sha’re, and that those relationships were just as valid.

Or where Jack is in a relationship with Daniel but his feelings for Sam (or hers for him) are recognised without it being this huge angsty teenage girl type reaction.

Or where Jack is in a relationship with Sam but his feelings for Daniel (or Daniel’s for him) are recognised.

Or maybe he was in a relationship with the other prior and it didn’t work out.

Because hey, your feelings for person A are still valid and don’t go away, just because you’re in a relationship with person B. It doesn’t mean you’re cheating, it means youre human and humans are complicated and healthy relationships talk about these things

Or Jack/Sam where she’s wary about being in a relationship because of her experiences with Jonas and Pete. Or maybe feels she can’t measure up to his memories of the mother of his child.

WITHOUT BASHING OTHER RELATIONSHIPS OR PAIRINGS OR CHARACTERS!

And fic that actually deals the age difference between Jack and Sam or Daniel. And the command structure. Or both!

The cast is off my leg, physio is going well, I'm hoping to be back in work mid-September and we have Internet again!

hi everyone

I'm pleased to report that my wrist is healing nicely, I've pretty much got full range of motion in it again and typing no longer hurts.

I also reached out to my GP after my last depressive episode didn't ease up and am back on a low-grade anti-depressant. It's been less than a week since I've been on them so I'm going through the roller coaster of side effects at the moment. That's super fun as always. I'm looking forward to the end of the month when I should start seeing some improvements.

I've got a fracture clinic appointment this coming Friday to see how well my ankle is healing. I'm a little anxious because I don't know what to expect. I'm assuming they'll be taking an x-ray and will be able to tell? I've been in cast 7 weeks now so I'm really hoping it's going to come off and I can start getting back to normal!

Other than that, I've mostly been just reading and watching TV. I started logging the TV I was watching on trakt.tv but I've completely forgotten for the last couple of weeks. I'm not sure I can bothered to back and catch up. I do need to update my goodreads as well.

I've fallen down a total Youtube blackhole. I started on crafting videos, ended up on planners, then somehow went from that to DIY/decorating, to home renovations, to watching people make clothes. I have absolutely no idea what happened there!

And while all of that is enjoyable for me, it doesn't really make for interesting blog posts for you. Since

sunshine_challenge finished, I'm really struggling to think about things to write about. I've even thought about googling how to write a book review. I enjoyed the random art/history nerding sections of my posts and would like to figure out a way of incorporating that going forward as well, but I'm not quite sure how.

I think I need to find some other kind of blogging/posting challenge, I guess pinterest or somewhere would be a good place to look?

Current Mood: thoughtful

Clive the cat hates me. It's the only possible explanation.

I broke my ankle at the end of June when I tripped over him and fell down the stairs. He likes to wind in and out of your feet when you're walking.

He doesn't like the crutches, and I'm still not exactly an expert at maneuvering around the flat on them. Which is how I managed to trip over him again last weekend and go ass over tit on the kitchen floor. Thankfully this time there were no stairs to fall down but the floor wasn't exactly soft as I landed it on it. Nothing broken, the cast protected my ankle. But I did manage to sprain my wrist as I tried to brace my fall. And one of our cupboards is going to need a new door - I'm guessing one of my crutches went slamming into it.

I've been super immobile over the last week - as you can imagine, using crutches when your wrist is strapped and braced is... kind of not possible. Tally couldn't get the time off work, and neither of our sets of parents were able to come and stay with me because both Leicester and Greater Manchester are locked back down again (and that's a whole other stress right there that I'm not ready to process yet)

I'm getting to be able to type again, resting it has definitely kick-started the healing but this post is starting to make it ache again. I know I've still got at least one

sunshine_challenge post to write, plus there's fic I want to write and I need to catch up on your posts.

I'm hoping usual service will commence next week - I just wanted to check in and let you know why I've been missing a few days. It's because the cat hates me... either that or my journal name really should have been bloodyclumsy!

Prompt 6: Indigo
Indigo is a rich color that is associated with a variety of things including: magic, experience, truth, dignity, virtue, dreams, profanity, inferiority, imagination, luxury, wisdom, spirit, destiny, elegance, intuition.

The world is full of magic things,
patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper —W.B. Yeats

What magic have you experienced in your life? Have you come to appreciate it differently as you grow older? What experiences have brought you wisdom?

Please feel free to answer in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it a memory you share or an artwork you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: write a letter to your younger self about things you’ve learned that relate to the indigo theme (can also be a character writing to their younger self).

I've been struggling with this prompt and what I was going to write for a couple of days now. It all comes down to one main thing - I don't like the colour indigo. I wasn't quite aware of how much until I had such knee-jerk reaction to the prompt of 'DO NOT LIKE'. I don't know why I don't like it, but it's... draining and dramatic. It makes me feel super uncomfortable. I know that's a strange reaction to have to a colour but I can't help it.

I'm trying to think if I know any interesting art/history nerdings about the colour. It's named for India because the dye was originally imported from India. I know it's connected with the third eye and all things new agey - intuition, perception etc and I think I remember reading about a connection between indigo auras and ESP.

Current Mood: grumpy

I've seen a couple of people over the last few weeks posting about Music Monday and I'm torn between thinking it's a great idea and wanting to share the music that I love, and the realisation that I have absolutely terrible taste in music and do I really want to admit to loving the music that I love?

In my defence, I grew up in the 90s and was a teen in the 00s, so I can't take the complete blame for the cheesy pop music that I love. I just love music that puts a smile on my face, makes me want to dance and sing along. I like to think that there's nothing wrong with that, except see point one about my taste in music being terrible!

With that said, however: fuck it!

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Bring It All Back is probably my all-time favourite song ever. I was maybe 7 or 8 when it came out, I learned the dance routine and can probably still do it - although very badly. Also, among my first crushes were Hannah (still is!) and Jon. I know it's not 'cool' to like bands like S Club 7 but, like I said, it always makes me smile and it makes me think of sunshine, blue skies and the beach - mostly because of the video. And as I've got older, I've appreciated the lyrics and the sentiment behind the song more

Don't stop, never give up
Hold your head high and reach the top
Let the world see what you have got
Bring it all back to you

Now that we've got that out of the way LOL I've had a really good day, it's been productive AND fun. I even left the flat! Although I did take the stairs down to the street on my ass, not sure I'll ever be confident enough on the crutches for stairs!

I went out for lunch with my friend, Jane - a belated birthday celebration, her birthday was 10 days ago. I was super nervous about it but ended up being really impressed with everything the pub had in place - you had to pre-book, the tables were spaced out and only so many in use, there was a one way system throughout and you could order your food and pay from your table using an app.

Once she dropped me back off home, I sorted out the recycling. I couldn't take it downstairs to the bins, but it's all sorted into type and ready for Tally to take down to the bins tomorrow - recycling comes tomorrow morning so that was important to get done.

I also got my inbox to zero which was my main goal for the day.

Next up, dinner (mince with a tomato/pepper/onion sauce and rice), followed by sitting down and properly planning out my

seasonofkink bingo card and hopefully writing more of the 'object insertion' prompt.

Hope you've had a good Monday!

Current Mood: pleased

Prompt 5: Blue
Blue is a tranquil color that is associated with a variety of things including: balance, discovery, peace, calm, openness, patience, honor, grace, trust, depression, recovery, prophecy, respect, empathy, flexibility, and water.

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue – that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished. – Georgia O’Keeffe

Blue is often introspective and deep in its calm stillness. When you have been blue, have you been patient with yourself? Have you taken the time to explore your inner self and discover ways to progress?

Please feel free to answer in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it a memory you share or an artwork you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: share with us some songs or albums that remind you of the color blue or its theme.

THIS is the art/history nerding & fandom post you've been looking for.

Blue. So, in the 12th Century the Roman Catholic Church dictated that painters in Italy (and the rest of Europe consequently) to paint the Virgin Mary blue. Why? Because ultramarine was the new, most expensive pigment from Asia (and made from ground lapis lazuli). And that's why the Madonna is so often pictured in blue - and in the middle ages the colour became associated with holiness, humility and virtue.

I'm also going to do my usual pointing out of some Van Gogh paintings because at this point we've very much cemented the fact that I'm a bit of a fan so why the hell not! Yes, there's Starry Night, but there's also ( Starry Night Over the Rhone ) and there's ( Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds ), but you should also look at his paintings of irises!

Fandom-wise, I go to two main places.

The first one is Stargate and that gorgeous rippling blue of the Event Horizon.

My dad is a sci-fi fan, he's the one who introduced me to everything as a child that I still love as an adult - Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Stargate etc etc. I still remember the first time I watched original Stargate movie and how incredible it seemed the first time the gate was dialled and we got the kawoosh. In fact it still fills me with glee every time.

And in SG1 Children Of The Gods, Sam's reaction to it was just as awe-inspiring, that smile on her face and the way she was geeking out and touching it and Jack just pushes her through. I'm grinning just thinking about it.

Dialling the gate never fails to inspire excitement in me - it's the adventures it leads to and, despite MALP telemetry, never really knowing what's on the other side.

The second fandom place really has to be Sexy herself: the TARDIS.

Again, it's the adventures she promises - it's all of Time and Space at your fingertips. I always say that I would run away with the Doctor in a heartbeat. The new series essentially shaped my teenage years, I don't know how much of my interest in history and art is inspired by the idea of being able to go there, and the things the show introduced me to - combined with some super passionate teachers of the subjects in school. (Not that I'm an artistically creative person but I love learning about art which Miss Albert fully encouraged).

There's just something about "Hello. I'm the Doctor. Basically. Run" that speaks to me like nothing else has!

Current Mood: geeky
Current Music: Emma Bunton - What Took You So Long?

Prompt 5: Blue
Blue is a tranquil color that is associated with a variety of things including: balance, discovery, peace, calm, openness, patience, honor, grace, trust, depression, recovery, prophecy, respect, empathy, flexibility, and water.

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue – that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished. – Georgia O’Keeffe

Blue is often introspective and deep in its calm stillness. When you have been blue, have you been patient with yourself? Have you taken the time to explore your inner self and discover ways to progress?

Please feel free to answer in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it a memory you share or an artwork you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: share with us some songs or albums that remind you of the color blue or its theme.

Blue is sadly how I've been falling all week. I struggle with depression and anxiety, have since my teens, and I've been teetering for most of the pandemic, but I've been able to keep it under control for the most part. This last week though, not so much. I didn't want to write a blogpost about it because no-one wants to read about me whining, I don't want to but then I also know how cathartic it is to journal, to get everything out of my head. Will I post this? Who knows... but getting it out and making sense of it is helping.

Tally went back to work on Monday which hasn't helped. A little backstory is that we only moved in together in January, we rescued our cat Clive in February and then lockdown happened a few weeks later. Tally was furloughed and I was working from home. I was supposed to have gone back to work on the 6th but breaking my ankle put the kibosh on that and my team leader wasn't able to get approval for me to continue working from home.

So I was alone for the first time in months. I hadn't realised how much I'd got used to having Tally around. Poor Clive was so lost on Monday - he kept sitting in front of where Tally usually sits and mrrowing so mournfully.

I've also been struggling with insomnia - I've been having issues with it on and off throughout lockdown but this cast on my ankle isn't helping the sleeping issues, as well as not being able to shut my brain off, I can't get comfortable. Then I feel like I'm disturbing Tally and guilt creeps in. Insomnia makes the depression worse which makes the insomnia worse - it's a bitch of a cycle. I've got some sleeping pills so will try to break the cycle... I just hate the zopiclone hangover the next day.

However! My parents have come to visit. I haven't seen them since Christmas and although we've been video chatting etc, it's really not the same as a big hug from my Mummy ♥ (Tally's parents live about 30 minutes away so we've seen them a few times in the last couple of weeks but mine are over 2 hours from us). They came yesterday and they're going home again on Sunday. Just after arriving, they took one look at our kitchen and drove to the supermarket to stock up our cupboards and fridge/freezer so now we have all the easy to prep food (Tally is not talented in the kitchen and I can't stand easily so yeah).

I was going to continue this post onto the art/history nerding and fandom side of things, but it doens't feel like it fits the tone, so I'm going to leave this here, and make a 'Sunshine Challenge: Prompt Five (part deux)' post for that

Thank you for reading.

Current Mood: melancholy

Prompt 4: Green
Green is a rich color that is associated with a variety of things including: awakening, growth, renewal, productivity, intelligence, exuberance, prosperity, money, luck, envy, greed, survival, nature, spring, and birth.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. —Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Green can be the fresh growth of spring plants after a long winter. Green can be the good fortune waiting for you around each corner. What green things have you enjoyed this year?

Please feel free to answer in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it a memory you share or an artwork you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: share with us some books or fanworks that remind you of the color green or its related themes.

For your regularly scheduled history/art nerding - Green was the color commonly associated with wealth, merchants, bankers and the gentry, and if I remember correctly, that's why da Vinci's Mona Lisa is wearing green, and why the seats in the House of Commons are green.

Fandomwise, my first reaction is the Doctor Who serial 'The Green Death' which is one of the first Classic Doctor Who episodes I ever saw. I don't know if it was a repeat or my dad had a copy or what. But it's a Third Doctor story from the 1970s: When a dead man is found glowing bright green at an abandoned coal mine, UNIT and the Third Doctor travel to the South Wales town of Llanfairfach. Convinced that pollutants from the nearby Global Chemicals are responsible, the Doctor faces opposition from the company director Stevens, the mysterious BOSS and deadly giant maggots...

Also River Song's eyes are green.

There's also the green of Luke Skywalker's lightsaber.

On a more personal note, green is my favourite colour and has been for as long as I can remember. My childhood bedroom was green (still is, unless my parents have decorated it in the last couple of months) and its one of the colours I wear predominantly. If I had my way, pretty much our whole flat would be green - sadly, Tally disagrees (but the kitchen has hints of green at least!). For me, it indicates balance, harmony, stability and growth, and it recharges me.

Current Mood: okay

Usually, as that there subject line suggests, I prefer blondes. Most of my fictional crushes have been on men and women with blonde hair. Currently we're looking at Thor or Captain Marvel or Harley Quinn or Seven Of Nine. Or the Thirteenth Doctor. Or Daenerys. Or Buffy or Sam Carter etc.

Side note: Tally is not blonde, go figure.
She does, however, have beautiful curly auburn hair ♥

But we've been watching Star Wars this last week. We've watched 1-6 so far, and we're starting the Sequel Trilogy (which neither of us have seen) tonight. And I'd forgotten how much I adore Luke (blonde-ish, at least), Han and Leia. And I may have come out of the prequel trilogy with slight crushes on Obi-Wan and Padme.

The Original Trilogy are still my favourites. I don't know how many times I've seen them, I can quote most of them but I still get really nervous when Luke goes in for his shot at the Death Star, and I sit there with my fingers crossed and cheer. I still flail when Luke loses his hand, the "I am your father" gets me every time. It's great story-telling that even though I know what's coming, I get so caught up in the story that I still react.

The Prequel Trilogy I appreciated more as an (and I use this term loosely) adult. Especially watching them back-to-back and seeing how carefully, calculatedly and skillfully Palpatine manipulates Anakin - pretty chilling, actually. The Jedi really should have let a more experienced Knight train Anakin- maybe one who had, idk, experience in doing so? I wonder if things would have turned out differently? Poor kid was doomed from the start.

I'm nervous about starting the Sequels. I've heard so much about them, and such a mixture of good and bad. I'm mostly excited about meeting new characters, seeing old friends and having new adventures... but there's that edge of hoping Disney haven't fucked it up.

We're also planning on watching Rogue One, Solo and The Mandalorian - I've only heard good things about Rogue One and Mandalorian, and mixed about Solo. I guess we'll find out over the next few days.

This was not going to be a Star Wars post, but apparently it now is.

Current Mood: amused

Prompt 3: Yellow
Yellow is a bright color that is associated with a variety of things including: joy, enlightenment, enthusiasm, alertness, danger, clarity, summer, expression, deceit, cowardice, confidence, satisfaction, and optimism.

All I feel is celestial desire
A distant joy is dancing all around me
All I see is yellow in the spring air
How beautifully the color worked itself in —CITIZEN, “Yellow Love”

Yellow can be a polarizing color, for some invoking the bright joy of optimism ... while serving as a symbol of duplicitous gutlessness for others. When has yellow been a prominent color in your life? Were you torn in two directions, or was its meaning clear?

Please feel free to answer in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it a memory you share or an artwork you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: tell us a story that reminds you of the color yellow or one of its listed qualities.

You've all been so nice about my history nerding responses to red and orange, so I kind of feel like I'm letting everyone down by not having something very cool to share about yellow and history. I probably do know something if I stopped but it's not being an automatic reaction like 'only peasants can wear orange'. I think one of the chakras is represented by yellow, for example, but it's not a strong enough urge to write about.

The two places my mind goes to are sunflowers and The Beatles.

Sunflowers - they're my favourite flower. They make me think of sunshine, and that makes me happy. I remember growing them in the garden as a child, my brother and I each picking a growing sunflower and 'racing' to see which one would grow the tallest and who'd 'win'. And there's a whole series of photos of both of us standing against sunflowers taller than us.

And, of course, I can't talk about Sunflowers without going just a little bit of nerdy love for Van Gogh (*points to default icon*) - he is, after all, rather well known for his paintings of them. I prefer the Arles series (the ones in vases) which, if I recall, he was trying to prove you could create an image with numerous variations of a single colour, without any loss of eloquence. 'Three shades of yellow and nothing else'

If I had to pick a favourite, it would probably be ( Sunflowers (F455), repetition of the 3rd version ) because the turquoise background makes the yellow even more vibrant, but the only one I've seen in person is the ( Sunflowers (F454), fourth version: yellow background ) in the National Gallery in London.

My other immediate reaction to 'yellow' is The Beatles' Yellow Submarine. #

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My mum loves The Beatles. I don't think she's old enough for the main Beatles-mania (I don't know enough about them to know dates and stuff - but mum was born in 1961) and she used to play their music all the time. Little Joey loved Yellow Submarine and there's probably still home videos of me aged like 4 or 5 singing and dancing to the song. Super embarrassing. I'm glad my main childhood wasn't posted all over social media - I'd just die from cringing! But it's a fun song and it triggers happy memories and makes me smile... and I still know all the silly words to to

I have not been very good care of myself the last 10 days or so.

It's weird, working from home I still had a schedule, much like I was still going to work; getting up, eating, sleeping all at regular, 'normal' intervals. But now I'm signed off with this broken ankle, I'm all over the place. A lot of that has been how drowsy the painkillers were making me, and the fact I've not been sleeping well because of the cast. I've also kind of just been grazing on junk. It's not been very productive

Last night I slept all the way through without the help of medication. I was able to get comfortable and slept. It's amazing the difference it 's made on my mood and behaviour today. I was asleep by 11 last night, awake by 8 this morning, ate breakfast, I had lunch around 1pm. I've felt much more awake, although I did doze on the couch for an hour or so this afternoon - but that was after pain medication. I'm getting around a lot easier on the crutches as well which is helping me feel less sluggish - I'm not just laying around all the time.

Tally's mum brought us round some groceries. She'd also cooked for us and brought round a few days worth of roast pork belly with apple sauce. It is amazing tasting. I sense roast pork sandwiches and apple sauce sandwiches in my tomorrow!

I want to try and keep to the 'normal' schedule as much as I can, especially how much better I feel for it. It's been a good day filled with kitty cuddles, girlfriend cuddles, Doctor Who and good food!

Current Mood: good

I had so much fun writing that sub!Jack predicament bondage fic that I've already started writing another fic. I see why people call them plot bunnies now, they certainly multiply like one. It's another Daniel/Jack BDSM fic, that started off being inspired by the

sunshine_challenge prompt of orange and by ( this NSFW picture ) and then developed a mind of its own and now nicely fits the 'object insertion' square on my

seasonofkink bingo card.

( Speaking of my bingo card, it's under this cut as its also rather NSFW )

Current Mood: horny

Still (520 words) by bloodydemonic
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Daniel Jackson/Jack O'Neill
Additional Tags: BDSM, Bondage, Predicament Bondage, Stress Position, Cock & Ball Torture
Summary: All Jack has to do is stay still. As long as he doesn't move, the ropes won't squeeze his balls. Of course, the position Daniel has him in makes staying still almost impossible

Current Mood: nervous

Prompt 2: Orange
Orange is a warm color that is associated with a variety of things including: excitement, vitality, invincibility, speed, vigilance, dedication, loyalty, family, success, friendship, power, change, harvest, and warmth.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Orange can be the warm sunrise after after the darkest night. It can be the bountiful harvest at the end of your hard work. When was a time where dedication and vigilance have reaped their rewards? What future harvests excite you?

Please feel free to answer in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it a memory you share or an artwork you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: paint or share a picture that evokes the theme of orange.

I tell Tally the theme, mostly because I'm thinking out loud and she just looks up and says well at least I can't link that to Medieval history. I wasn't GOING to write another history-related post but... really, that's a challenge, isn't it? And I don't back down from one of those!

You can all blame Tally for this

Elizabethan Sumptuary laws dictated what colour and type of clothing (including furs, fabrics, and trims) were allowed for people of various ranks or incomes. In the case of clothing, it was partially intended to ensure that people did not dress 'above their station'. Orange was normally worn by those in lower social rankings because it was very cheap and easy to access.

What I was going to talk about was Van Gogh although I realise that also makes me pretty nerdy. I am, but that's not the point! Van Gogh has been one of my favourite painters - probably my absolute favourite actually - ever since I first saw Starry Night. I fell in love with the swirling and the colours.

Orange was an important colour for post-impressionists, and no other painter used orange so often and dramatically as Vincent van Gogh. For Van Gogh orange and yellow represented the sunlight in Provence. He created his own oranges with mixtures of yellow, ochre and red, and placed them next to slashes of sienna red and bottle green, and below a sky of turbulent blue and violet. He put an orange moon and stars in a cobalt blue sky. He wrote to his brother Theo of "searching for oppositions of blue with orange, of red with green, of yellow with violet, searching for broken colours and neutral colours to harmonize the brutality of extremes, trying to make the colours intense, and not a harmony of greys."

You only have to look at ( Willow Trees at Sunset ) or ( Still Life with Basket and Six Oranges ) to see how vibrant the oranges he used were!

Current Mood: nerdy

Prompt 1: Red
Red is a strong color that is associated with a variety of things including: courage, power, glory, love, passion, inner strength, romance, sensuality, defiance, tenacity, violence, life, pleasure, fire, and revolution.

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams
Into a common light of common hours
Until old age brings the red flare again. —William Butler Yeats

For some, the color red can signify personal power and tenacity. When something flares red for you, what does that mean? When was the last time you felt the power of a red concept or emotion?

Please feel free to answer in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it a memory you share or an artwork you create. If you’d like a more specific idea to kick things off: try writing a poem or a drabble that encapsulates the red theme.

My mind went to two very different places with the colour red.

The first one was the Tudor Rose.

The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the House of Tudor, which united the House of Lancaster and the House of York. The Tudor rose consists of five white inner petals, representing the House of York, and five red outer petals to represent the House of Lancaster.

When Henry VII took the crown of England from Richard III in battle (1485), he brought the end of the retrospectively dubbed "Wars of the Roses" between the House of Lancaster (one monarch of which had sometimes used the badge of a red or gold rose) and the House of York (which had lately used a white-rose badge). Henry's father was Edmund Tudor, and his mother was Margaret Beaufort from the House of Lancaster; in January 1486 he married Elizabeth of York to bring all factions together. On his marriage, Henry VII adopted the Tudor rose badge conjoining the White Rose of York and the Red Rose of Lancaster.

Did I mention being a history nerd who loves War Of The Roses, Tudor England and Elizabethan England?

The second thought I had for red was it's use as a safeword in BDSM - ( with a little Stargate SG-1 Daniel/Jack scene under this cut as it's NSFW )
I might see if I can figure out writing that as an actual fanfic, rather than just the image in my mind although I'm not entirely sure how I would do that

Today I have mostly been grateful for pain medication - my doctor has me on quite a cocktail of painkillers, anti-inflammatories and something to ease my stomach from taking those. Combine these with the sleeping tablet I had to take last night, and I've felt all day today sleeping, feeling a groggy and out of sorts. I've not been the best Joey I could be, sadly.

Tonight we treated ourselves to a fast-food delivery. It's not something we do. I don't think we've done it since we first moved in together in January this year. But we ordered a KFC and had a bit of a feast - mini fillets, popcorn chicken, corn, fries, baked beans, and a bottle of Tango. Let me tell you, reader, it was wonderful.

We've also been talking about life after lockdown and, thankfully, are both on the same page about the easing measures coming in this weekend. Neither of us are in any rush to start going to shops, or pubs, or restaurants etc etc. We're both going to carry on as we have been for the last few months, and wait and see what happens over the next month or so. I'm expecting another peak, another wave, and I'm not risking it until we know if it's safe or not.

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