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a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

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bonded pair, do not separate

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Possibly the greatest NPR exchange ever recorded

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It’s wild to me to see transvestigator conspiracy theories online that could be so easily explained by natural human variation. That woman has a deep voice? Yeah, sometimes they do. A woman has broad shoulders?? Maybe she plays rugby or hits the gym a fuckton. There’s a “bulge” in her tight pants?? Maybe her vulva is just fat. All the “markers” of trans woman that transvestigators use to harass any woman aren’t even things unique to trans women.

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It's so weird when a celebrity you love dies. Auden wrote of Yeats' death, "A few thousand will think of this day / As one thinks of a day when one did something slightly unusual."

The first such day in my life: I'm 16. Nirvana's singer Kurt Cobain has died, and word is filtering in to my little school in Alabama. Kids are playing Nirvana on boomboxes, sitting in the grass on picnic blankets. This girl named Kate was crying.

I didn't feel like crying, but I still remember the day 30 years later.

The most recent: Today. A footballer I loved, Diogo Jota, died last night (alongside his brother). I found out in a text this morning from a friend who said, "I'm just devastated for his family." And I am. He'd been with his wife since they were teenagers. They had three little kids. Parents just lost two sons in the same moment.

But of course 155,000 people died today. Many of those people left behind kids; many were kids who left behind parents. And so my grief about Jota can't only be that; it must also be that I loved the way he opened up space without the ball, or the deft touch that led to a goal against Everton (his last, as it now happens). It must be that I loved his personality from whatever I gleaned of it in behind-the-scenes videos and so on.

I say, don't let anyone minimize your grief over these losses. You remember them thirty years later because they matter, because the people you lost mattered to you.

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TOG 2 THOUGHTS (I have so many)

spoilers under the cut

- Nile looks stunning in every scene. Shes badass and amazing and I love her so endlessly.

- Andy’s hair DID NOT grow that much in six months I refuse to believe it.

- in the first movie, Nile is so conflicted about the act of killing, and so in the first movie alone I was kind of disgruntled to see her immediately turn into a killing machine. I was hoping in the second we would have had a moment where this was reflected on in any capacity. (Like the team kill so many people that for all of the people they save and the good that comes generations down the line….they’ve cut off an equal amount of potential good from happening by killing everyone they see)

- I love that Andy is at peace with mortality. She has found a purpose. She is happy. All is well. The ultimate goal of life isn’t to live longer, but to make your like worthwhile while it lasts.

- I love Nile so much because she is so smart and perceptive and such an adaptive thinker. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDN’T THINK YOUR DREAM WAS IMPORTANT?!?! the writers really just made such a mischaracterization there.

- Okay I initially was so excited for the ‘I think I’m gonna take some space’ moment with Nicky and Joe because I think it would be SO interesting to understand how they remain as solid individuals while also in the most committed lifelong soulmates relationship to ever exist…and then they ruined it

- Off of that point. They chose the wrong immortal husband to be checking on Booker. We know from the first movie that Joe is so fiercely loyal and protective, and he holds his anger a little longer, especially when it’s being held to protect those he loves. We also know that Nicky is a softie who was…way less upset about everything even at the end of the first movie, so logically he probably would have reached out to Booker first.

- *edited addition* okay but now that I’ve thought about it…Joe absolutely is just a big ‘ol softy at heart and I don’t mind him checking on Booker compared to Nicky doing it. Because Joe’s loyalty does run so deep, so he would forgive quickly because he’s loyal to his friends?? And I do love Nicky’s Italian grudge holding abilities in this case. Anyway I’m actually more okay with this now that I’ve slept. Joe and Nicky can’t do any wrong imo

- I CACKLED when Nicky kidnapped Nile to go spy on Joe

- And I LOVED Nile just skedaddling the moment they started their argument. I too would make any excuse to leave that conversation.

- I NEED THE SCENE OF BOOKER CHANGING INTO THE TRACK SUIT PLEASE THAT MUST HAVE BEEN SO AWKWARD

- Tuah had the opportunity to be an interesting character and actually he’s just mostly irrelevant. What do you mean bro never shared any of his information with anyone?? What do you mean bro never researched anything else other than the immortals??? His whole character doesn’t have any depth.

- AND Tuah’s existence literally erases the need for Copley to exist. Like if Tuah knew all of these things about good things coming a few generations later, and he probably told Andy at some point in their friendship…then there is no basis for Andy’s entire character arc in movie one and no need for Copley as a character.

- I LOVE QUYHN’S RAGE like YES feel grief and pain and disappointment and anger and hurt and WANT vengeance. I too would be so upset after everything she’s been through and the betrayal she must feel.

- Quyhn’s fighting technique is beautiful. The description of her fighting like a pit viper makes so much sense. She’s so creative and fluid and unexpected!! Wow I became more queer just watching the alley fight scene with her and Andy.

- I feel like we glossed over the betrayal Nicky and Joe and Booker must have felt after Andy didn’t tell them about the older immortals. I also feel like Andy would have??? And also, would they all have been dreaming about the other immortals?? Like please the dreaming inconsistency is wild here.

- Loved the Joe and Nicky scene in the garden. Loved that Nicky got to be an incurable romantic. I did want some middle between the fight and the love declarations where they resolved the fight.

- Shout out Nile for reading Andy so well and always calling her on her bullshit. That’s why we love Nile.

- Discord is an app on my phone and a villain from My Little Pony. Bruh. What a sad, one dimensional villain. She has no substance, she isn’t interesting, etc etc etc. also if she was there when Jesus became a thing she probably shouldn’t be white.

- THE LEGEND/THEORY/PROPHECY THING MAKES NO SENSE! How did discord know Nile is the Last Immortal? The birth mark wasn’t there in the first movie?? How did Lykon die if Nile needed to injure him to turn him mortal? How did Discord turn mortal along that same line? Are you telling me Nile never once bruised the other three? Never once sliced them during training? Never once stepped on a toe?? I have questions about this.

- Similarly. I hate that Nile became an object due to this ‘destroyer’ theme. She lost so much agency. And also. Fuck you Booker and Tuah for NOT TELLING HER ABOUT IT OMG the amount of guilt she will eventually feel that she DOESNT DESERVE just because NO ONE TOLD HER.

- Booker. My man. I had SO MUCH HOPE. for his story line. But he had no arc. He was sad and suicidal in the first movie, was sad and suicidal at the end of the first movie but had much to contemplate, was sad and suicidal at the beginning of the second, and ended sad and suicidal. Which for being depressed is a natural character arc so like…I get it. Becoming less depressed takes time and a support network, which he didn’t have. But also. He was so selfish. And I was really hoping he wouldn’t be. I’m okay he chose to die. It’s what he wanted and that’s fine. I don’t like he never told Nile. I’m okay with him giving his immortality to Andy as like a reparations for his actions in movie one (not that it really counts) but then forcing Andy to watch him painfully die wasn’t very cool and was very selfish, and the selfishness part is was irritated me because there was no growth from movie one. (Also! Couldn’t bro have waited until AFTER the mission to save ten million people for this whole stunt??? Also the lack of communication on his end pissed me off)

- can’t believe Joe and Nicky got abducted again. Except this time they’re freeze dried??

- also Joe and Nicky just felt…less authentic this go around as a whole. Which makes me so sad. They were so three dimensional in the first movie and in this they just felt like cheap wish knockoffs. Not even store brand knock offs. GUYSSSSSS ughhhh

- Discords motives for being evil are LAME and ONE DIMENSIONAL

- Andy choosing to leave Quynh to go after the helicopters, even noticing that Quynh is mortal, is so complex and so in character I do love that decision.

- Bruh what a lame false ending watching the helicopters leave. Booo. Downvote.

- Andy’s version of doing research by flipping through pages and not reading a single word is an accurate representation of me every time I need to read a scientific paper.

- I LOVED the Quynh Andy scene at the end. It was cuttteeeeee

Can’t believe I waited five years for that. I’ve read fanfics that are so much better and the authors aren’t even paid, they just CARE about the source material, the characters, and their readers. Good art comes from a place of love and care, and this movie for me didn’t replicate all of the good work this fandom has produced in the past five years, and that disappointed me a lot.

Okay it’s 2:00 am and I must go to bed. May add to or edit these thoughts once I have a singular ounce of coherence in my body.

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Aside from *everything else* that made me upset, naming the main villain Discord in the year of our lord 2025 was certainly a choice that I indeed never got over

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AUSTRIA GP 2025 | Fernando Congratulates Gabi

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Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.

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Rewatching the extended fellowship of the ring compelled me to make this shitpost video of Legolas and Aragorn being besties

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Yo, correct me if I am wrong please, but didn't Hitler rise to power because he promised to fix the German economy and people really liked that so they looked past everything else he was doing??? Like exactly what's happening in America right now???

So many people said they voted for Trump, put a truly evil person in power, because he said he'd fix the economy, and a little voice in my head is going, "Isn't that what happened with fucking Hitler??"

But I've seen no one point that out so maybe I'm miss remembering???????

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I for one think the symbiotic relationship between Tumblr and AO3 is beautiful