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Marvel Hero Ask-Me

Spider-Man: How have you dealt with some of the tragedies in your life?
Captain America: What are some things you believe in?
Iron Man: Ever had any epiphanies?
Thor: Talk about your relationship with your family.
Hawkeye: Talk about a time you got a second chance
Black Widow: Tell a secret?
Captain Marvel: Are you the recipient of a legacy?
Ms. Marvel: Talk about something new you’re doing.
She-Hulk: What keeps you busy?
Hulk: How do you feel about being alone?
Luke Cage: Talk about when you’ve been treated unfairly, on a small or large scale.
Black Panther: How do you feel about your country?
Black Cat: Do you have a code of ethics?
Daredevil: What is something others see as a weakness, but you know to be a strength?
Doctor Strange: Talk about a moment your life changed paths.
Cyclops: What do you worry about?
Jean Grey: What is something about yourself you can’t control?
Storm: What do people look up to you for?
Rogue: What makes it hard for people to get close to you?
Shadowcat: Talk about growing up.
Beast: Favorite book?
Nightcrawler: Religious beliefs?
Scarlet Witch: What things have you broken?
Quicksilver: Who do you feel protective toward?
Wolverine: What are things you regret?
Mr. Fantastic: How controlling can you be?
Invisible Woman: Talk about a process of finding your identity.
Human Torch: Can people take you seriously?
Thing: Your body– what are you insecure about? What do you love?
Black Bolt: What don’t you ever do?
Silver Surfer: (Where?) do you want to wander?

… Any others?

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Since you’re the only male writer of fanfic I know well enough to talk to… When you read smutty stories, what does not work for you because you go all ‘Wait, my body does not work like that!’? I’m really curious, because I’m sure most female writers like me commit some those things, that actually don’t work or seem strange to a man. Don’t care if you answer in public or private, but I’d really like to know (and I’m not talking about the obvious ‘no lube’ stuff and such)

copperbadge:

Nah, I’ve never really had a problem with it, though it took me a while to work out why. I was reading this essay on the amount of shaming that sometimes goes on for people writing “unrealistic” sex, and the person who was writing it hit the nail on the head so to speak – it’s a fantasy. This isn’t journalism. 

Literary erotica isn’t about describing a sex act, that’s not its purpose. In broad terms, literary erotica is usually about creating a fantasy. People write about sex for lots of different reasons, and they create those fantasies with different endgames in mind (titillation, creating a sense of emotional intimacy, because they’re horny, because they have this specific fantasy and want to live it out on the page, because they want to explore a kink in a safely fictional world) but the upshot is that the sex is about something other than the mechanics of the sexual act.

I don’t care about realism when I read or write porn because realism isn’t why the porn is there. Realistically speaking, people often don’t smell that great and kissing tastes mostly like mouth and almost everyone looks ridiculous during sex. People don’t come at the same time and hairs get in places hairs shouldn’t be and sometimes there are amusing noises. 

But we know all that, and we can get it in real life, so we don’t need it in fiction. Fiction is a place where the writer controls everything and the writer says what’s real and what’s not, and if the writer wants to write “unrealistic” sex, that’s in service of a purpose that I find laudable, the expression of fantasy linked to sexual desire. Whether the audience buys into the unrealism or not is dependent somewhat on the writer, but I think the high level of buy-in we see in fandom says that as a culture we’ve decided fantasy is an acceptable part of the sexual act in fanfic. I’m not saying everyone has to, but I certainly have, which is why unrealistic sex doesn’t especially bother me as long as it’s well-written or I can see where it’s going. 🙂

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seduce me with ur history knowledge 

vikings made their woman handle the finances because they thought math is witchcraft

During a military campaign, Vlad the Impaler, the basis for Dracula, once pulled his troops out of a major engagement in a valley at dusk so that the sun was in their enemies’ eyes. Once they were over the hill, they set loose a bunch of rabid bats who flew away from the sun (towards the enemy) and attacked them, leading to significant infection in their ranks, and Vlad’s eventual victory. Because of how the bats appeared from where Vlad’s soldiers appeared to be at dusk, myth stated that the soldiers turned into bats at night, which is where the “Dracula can change into a bat” thing came from.

raphael, the renaissance painter, literally fucked himself to death

during the Ottoman Empire, the Sultan Ibrahim I had 280 of his concubines drowned in the ocean after ONE of them slept with another man.

The earths carbon levels fell by 700 million tons because Genghis Khan killed so many people

King James (the one known for revising the Bible) liked to watch women give birth. That’s where the “tradition” of women laying on their backs to give birth comes from.

Previous to that it was common for women to have chairs with holes in them and straw underneath, so they could sit on this special chair and let gravity help with the birthing process.

Spicy foods were thought to increase libido and cause children to masturbate. To prevent kids from touching themselves at night, a man named Kellogg invented the blandest combination of cereals, marketed it at kids, and called it Corn Flakes

At the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, a small group of Union soldiers had run out of ammo against a large group of the Confederate Army. In a panic, the Union soldiers sprinted at them, screaming, with only bayonets drawn. The entire Confederate Army that was present turned and ran away in fear, not knowing that they had literally no ammunition.

When the Roman Emperor Caligula went to invade Britain he stood on the coast of Gaul with his army and suddenly declared war on Neptune, God of the Sea. He had his men collect sea shells from the shore as “spoils from the Ocean”.

Oh and he appointed his horse to the senate.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing then to the building of the Great Pyramid.