#Digital text - Compounds

[aiswaryavijayakumar]

[infiniteeight8]

Hi 💕 I like to request another part of the enemies-to-lovers series. I’m really hooked. It’s great!

We’re almost to the end of the story I have planned for this one! 😀 One more part in the main arc after this.

Previous parts can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/series/4654810

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The tagline on the news reads MALEVOLENT MYSTICS ATTACK AVENGERS. Tony grimaces at the “malevolent” tag, even though it’s nothing new. He doesn’t usually watch these battles, not since coming to the Sanctum, but Stephen had sought him out and explained beforehand, because this time he and his people would be kidnapping a fifteen year old girl. 

“The being which grants her powers is exceptionally corruptive,” Stephen had explained. “We have nearly two thousand years of records of it. Every host, without exception, and including a former Sorcerer Supreme, eventually turned dark and destructive before the being consumed their life energy to sustain itself. No amount of training the Avengers can give her will prevent this fate. She must be separated from it, before its influence reaches too deep to excise.”

But they couldn’t explain that to either the Avengers or the authorities, could they?

The news focuses on the battle at the front of the Avengers Compound. There’s a second team, sent to extract the girl, but no one has noticed that one yet. This battle is only a distraction, but Stephen is there, because Stephen is the biggest threat, the one most likely to focus the Avengers’ attention away from the true mission. Tony finds himself holding his breath at every projectile Stephen deflects, every swoop of an aerial hero that the Cloak pulls him away from.

Finally the sorcerers break off their attack and portal away. Tony closes the tab before they report that the girl is missing. Stephen finds him barely a minute later, which means everything must have gone according to plan. “Everyone okay?” Tony asks. 

“No injuries, and the girl is contained,” Stephen reports. He comes to sit next to Tony on the bed. “We’ll explain once she’s calmed down.” He lifts a hand, but hesitates.

Tony shifts over to close the distance, letting Stephen’s hand come to rest on his shoulder. “I watched,” he admits. “The news.”

“We did our best not to hurt anyone,” Stephen says softly.

Tony snorts a short laugh, because he hadn’t actually paid any attention to that. “I was more worried about you. And your people. I–” He breaks off. Stephen waits. “I felt like I should be out there. Helping.”

“Tony.” Stephen uses a gentle finger on Tony’s chin to turn his head so that their eyes can meet. His gaze is as warm as it always is. “You are helping. You��ve helped the Order immensely. Your digitization project has allowed the Masters to create working groups to study arcane texts in ways that weren’t possible when they couldn’t be practically shared. Your collaboration with Master Rayamajhi has changed the way we think about relics, and I’ve every confidence that together you will eventually rediscover how to craft them. The suit you made for me has saved me from several injuries. The improvements made to the Sanctum’s infrastructure have not only made it more powerful, they’ve made those who live here more comfortable.” Stephen smiles. “I could go on, but I hope you see my point. If you want to return to being Iron Man, that’s different, but it’s hardly your only means of contributing.”

Tony lets out a long, slow breath. After a moment, he takes Stephen’s hand in his, tangling their fingers together. “I’m happy,” he admits. “I’m happy here, with you, working behind the scenes.”

Stephen squeezes his hand. “There’s nothing wrong with that.”

“You’re just a little biased,” Tony says dryly.

Stephen laughs. “Yes, I am. But that doesn’t mean I’m wrong. You’re allowed to choose happiness, Tony. Even if you weren’t helping. Even if you were…” He casts about, then grins and says, “my kept man and nothing more. You owe nothing to anyone. Your life is yours to make.”

Tony holds Stephen’s gaze and knows that he means it. Even now, if he decided to leave, to go back to the Avengers and bring them everything he’d learned, Stephen would let him go. His life really is his own to make.

He knows what he wants.

“I’m staying,” Tony says firmly. “With you. With the Order. I’m staying.”

[theshiniestgemstone]

Gideon x reader who is really smart

okay so as I was writing this, it’s kinda giving the same energy as one of my upcoming series. v excited to share and this is almost like a little taste of a bigger project I’ve been working on

Gideon never saw himself ever gaining the courage to ask you out. You’d arrived at the Salvation Center on a Monday, bouncing your foot while waiting to meet with Jesse, Judy, and Kelvin. He stopped in his tracks, giving you a once-over before he felt his cheeks bloom warm and his hands get clammy.

You weren’t like the others that filtered through the compound. You had a sharp, focused look in your eye, like you were already solving problems before they hit the table. Even then, you still smiled politely when Jesse cracked one of his inappropriate jokes, and you nodded along with Judy’s enthusiastic rambling about worship aesthetics.

He was more than impressed when he’d read your resume over his dad’s shoulder. Multiple degrees under your belt, languages, and all in fancy font, he was soon afraid of you.

Like, actual fear. The kind that made him sit up straighter, brush his hair back, and pray you wouldn’t ask him anything math-related. He’d hide a smile when you crunched numbers in your head, writing them down before Martin had even finished his sentence. The way you clicked your pen, nodded to yourself, and then underlined a total. It was ridiculous how hot that was.

Gideon wasn’t used to being around people like you. People who were smart and cool. And funny. And terrifying in a really specific, spreadsheet-wielding way.

He figured you wouldn’t look at him twice. But then one day, you did. You caught him staring during a budget meeting. And instead of calling him out, you tilted your head and smiled.

Your first date was impromptu. Lunches overlapped and the last two chairs in the food court ended up with half-eaten meals, far too wrapped up in conversation to think of anything else.

You’d been explaining something. Some kind of funding clause in the bylaws he couldn’t quite follow, but he didn’t mind. He liked the way your hands moved when you talked, the way your eyebrows twitched when you tried to simplify a concept just for him. He made you laugh, too. Not the polite kind of laugh people gave the Gemstones because they were supposed to, but a real, surprised one that burst out when he called Judy the CFO, Chief Freak-Out.

You stayed there until someone from the center texted you both, wondering where you’d gone.

“I guess that was lunch,” you said, glancing at your barely touched salad.

“I guess it was a date,” Gideon replied, then immediately looked horrified with himself.

But you just grinned, standing up and brushing off your slacks. “Good. I like when smart investments pay off.”

He didn’t stop smiling for the rest of the day.

Now, Gideon never thought of himself as stupid. He earned good enough grades to get through high school with a special cord. It wasn’t valedictorian, but he was still in the top double digits of his class. He could fix engines with a fre tutorials and a thick enough manual, knew his way around a sermon, and had enough charm to talk his way out of a speeding ticket or into a job.

But when he got to know you, really know you, he found himself struggling to keep up.

Conversations drifted easily with you. One second you were breaking down the complexity of marketing Christianity in ways that were covert but not misleading, the next you were talking about the societal implications of algorithmic polarization. Then came developmental theory, bouncing from Piaget to Erikson like you were switching radio stations.

By the fourth date, Gideon was nodding along, until he wasn’t. He blinked and cut in gently. “I’m sorry, I don’t think I understand.”

You paused mid-sentence, blinking once, and for a brief second he braced himself for the usual reaction, disappointment, irritation, or that awful, pitying smile.

But instead, you softened. “I’m sorry, Gideon,” you said quickly, voice kind. “Sometimes I forget that I read too much.”

Then you backtracked, calmly and clearly, explaining everything without making him feel like he was back in high school again. And that was when he knew.

Not just that he liked you, but that he really liked you. Because you made him want to learn more. Not to impress you, but to keep up with you. To walk beside you instead of trailing behind.

He adored you. More than he ever thought he could adore someone. It wasn’t just the brilliance, though that alone would’ve knocked him off his feet, it was the way your mind never seemed to rest. You were always thinking, always calculating, always three steps ahead of the room. Sometimes too far ahead. Too smart for your own good.

He’d watch it happen: the way your brow would crease just slightly, your fingers tapping against your leg as your mind spun out into a dozen hypotheticals. What if you missed something? What if the numbers were wrong? What if someone found a flaw in your strategy or a hole in your logic? You chased perfection like it owed you something, and when it kept slipping through your fingers, it wore you down.

That’s when Gideon would step in. He would quietly, gently, with a steady hand on your back and a soft “Hey, babe,” like a grounding wire.

He didn’t try to fix it with solutions, not right away. Just with presence. Sometimes he’d drag you out for a walk, or settle behind you on the couch and start braiding your hair just to give your mind something else to focus on. Other times he’d pull you into his lap and kiss your temple until your breathing slowed.

“You don’t gotta carry it all,” he’d murmur. “Let me take some.”

And you did. Eventually.

In turn, you shared your world with him, not to impress, but to invite. You sent him articles you thought he’d like, highlighted the parts that reminded you of a conversation you’d had with him. You started watching documentaries after dinner together, curled up on the couch with popcorn and commentary. He didn’t always catch every reference or statistic, but he’d ask questions, and you’d light up all over again, because he wanted to know.

You made each other better. Stronger.

And on nights when you fell asleep mid-episode, glasses slipping down your nose and laptop still open on your lap, Gideon would just smile to himself and whisper, “God, I love you,” like it was the most obvious truth in the world.

[mrs-barnes-rogers-writes]

Pretty As A Picture - Chapter 1

Marvel

Pairing: Steve Rogers x Reader x Bucky Barnes

Theme: Soulmates - Feeling the connection as soon as you see each other.

Summary: When Bucky fell from the train, their soulmate was told he was gone. When Steve Rogers disappeared into the ice, their soulmate was again told one of her soulmates were gone. But she didn't believe it. Couldn't believe it. Committed to a mental health institute, she dies of a broken heart. That's at least what the hidden S.H.I.E.LD files say, but if that's the case than why is there a photo of her. A photo that shows her side by side two redhaired Avengers.

Warnings will be per chapter.

For this fic reader will be British, but let your imagination replace if needed.

Chapter Summary: The team are back together and their soul family back in place. Emotions run high, their exhausted and a photo is about to shake Bucky to his core.

Chapter Warning: Mentions of death, sad Bucky.

Natasha looked around the room, scanning her weary team mates. Her soul family. It had taken a while to get here but they had. Sure Tony and Steve continued to be at each other’s throats and Bucky’s face got more broody by the day but they were together.

Knowing Wanda was also back in the Compound, Vision at her side as they settled into their new quarters brought a smile to her face.

The rush of emotions of everyone being together had been too much for Wanda, and when Steve and Tony had squared up to each other for the third time in as many hours, Rhodes and Wilson forced to keep them apart as Bucky packed a bag to leave, she’d had enough.

Natasha had ushered Bruce away to avoid a code green, as Vision had tried to do the same with Wanda. But Wanda had reached her breaking point and had enough of the arguments, the intense negative energy that surrounded her soul family had brought her to breaking point. Her nights were plagued with nightmares about her family, Pietro, and her days were a living nightmare with her soul family at each other’s throats. Wanda had screamed as she’d nearer collapse.

“Enough!” she’d yelled as Vision looped an arm around her waist to keep her upright, “do you see? You never see do you? The damage you’re doing? To our family? To each other?!”

She paused as she took a breath.

“I’m leaving.”

There were calls of her name as Vision led her from the room. An hour later they were in a Quinjet over the Atlantic, directions to a safe house and a contact of Natasha’s. The rest of them didn’t speak to each other for a week following Wanda and Vision’s departure, the only exception their own soulmates. When Natasha wouldn’t say where they were, they didn’t speak to her for a few days longer.

Wanda’s return came three months later, sure there was still bickering but they’d learnt the hard way to keep it away from her. As much as they’d had preferred a longer break, missions and their skillsets had meant a need for them to return.

The Hydra clean up had originally been going well but a repeat of dead leads and bad intel had caused any more arrests to dry up. 

As the digital map displayed across the meeting room showed the dead ends and places still be searched. Natasha scanned the faces of her team mates and soul family in the room. Steve was seemingly staring into thin air. Tony flipped a pen between his hands. Rhodey rubbed his eyes. Sam had his eyes on a screen full of text but the movement of his eyes indicated he was reading the same sentence over and over again. Bucky stared at a spot on one of the maps. A no go area in part of Germany. An old Nazi bunker that they had very little chance of getting permission to search even with the New Accords. 

Unless she asked for a favour. A favour from you. Her attention was brought away from her stray thoughts as Bruce wrapped himself around her, a soft kiss to her forehead.

“They need a break.”

She smiled warmly at him.

“Guys, let’s take a break, half an hour and regroup.”

The only responses were sighs, stretches and yawns. Bucky was the first one up and out of the room rubbing his hand down his face in frustration as he went. Tony’s voice broke the silence. 

“Is there a reason he keeps staring at the same spot?”

“The same reason I keep rereading this.” Sam replied pointing at the screen. 

“It’s one of the no go areas left from the war, but it feels to me like that’s the next stop” Steve added.

“Has he been there before?” Tony asked.

“We both have.” Steve replied.

“Recently or before?” Asked Natasha, referencing before Steve was in the ice and Bucky was in cyro.

“Before.”

“Look if it’s a no go area you know the chances of us getting in there are real slim.” added Rhodey.

“Not necessarily.” added Nat.

“Let me guess” Sam enquired “you know a guy?”

“A girl actually.” she replied. 

Tony cocked an eyebrow and glanced round at his soul family.

“Spill it Romanoff.” 

Meanwhile down the hall Bucky splashed cold water on his face. He knew the next spot was likely to be that bunker and he knew he wasn’t going to like it. If they could even get in there it would bring back too many memories. 

Memories of when they’d raided it. Memories of when he was back there twelve years later. He needed coffee or something stronger. Where was Thor when he needed him. 

He headed out of the bathroom and along the corridor to the coffee station and began to start up the machine and root through the snacks. In the distance he could hear the hums of Wanda from the printing room. The room was barely used, the team opting for electronic devices or projections instead but Steve still liked paper copies and every mission had a pack of freshly printed paper maps just in case. Two packs in fact. One for use and one just in case. 

Every time Steve would drop the two packs on to the meeting room table or fiddle with them on his lap in the Quinjet he would give Bucky a sad smile and nod his head, which Bucky would return. 

It was silly really how things reminded them of their shared soulmate. Their soulmate had prepared maps for British Special Forces during the war and their eye to detail had been the best around, making Peggy quick to recruit their girl to her team. The fates leading her to Steve first and then Bucky. Their soulmate would do anything to keep them safe. Nagging Howard for better equipment and weapons. Telling him to “quit flirting and stop trying to fondue anything in a skirt and bloody get on with it”.

Howard never let on he was slightly scared of their soulmate, not to any of their faces but the panic in his eyes gave him away. Steve had nicknamed their soulmate a Spitfire, like the British fighter plane. The look on their girls face said he shouldn’t have.

Her way of keeping them safe was to slip extra bandages into their gear, sew small bits of metal into their suits to cover key areas but not too much to weigh them down. Then there was the packs. Always two packs of maps, just in case. Bucky sometimes wondered if their girl slipped extra copies to the other Howling Commandos. 

“Can’t have you getting lost lads. You Yanks are awful with directions.”

Bucky would always tap her ass playfully as she passed by for that comment. 

His thoughts were soon snapped back by Vision’s soft voice. 

“James?”

Bucky cleared his throat to answer, and wiping his face roughly when he realised he was crying.

“Yeah? You need something?”

“Actually I wanted to check if you needed anything.”

“No, I’m good, thanks Vis”

“Were you thinking of her again? If you’d like to talk about her, Wanda and I would happily listen.”

Bucky turned away, dipping his head, gripping the counter of the coffee station. He tried to take a deep breath but it came out shuddered. 

“James, I maybe speaking out of turn and uninvited but there is no shame in grief and you certainly don’t need to hide it from us. For anyone in the outside world it is a lifetime ago but for you, it is not, and there is no timeframe or timeline for grief.”

Bucky heard Wanda’s soft footsteps approach. 

“James, take it from someone that’s knows, it is better to talk than it is to keep it inside. You listened to me talk about my brother, I’d be honoured to hear about her.”

Bucky nodded and turned towards them both teary eyed.

“Whenever you want us to, we’ll listen” added Vision.

He rubbed his face and nodded again. It was then he noticed a pile of photos in Wanda’s arms. All different sizes clutched in her hands, he was puzzled as he had barely seen a printed photo since being out of cyro, Sam telling him that people don’t often print them anymore. He then noticed Vision was holding picture frames. 

“Did you print these? I didn’t think people did that anymore?”

“Not always but I like them,” Wanda answered “reminds me of home. This one Tony found for me on an old friend’s social media account” as she handed him a picture of Pietro. 

“This one is when we were away” she handed him another. A picture of the couple near a lake, Scotland, Bucky thought to himself.

“This one is from” Wanda started only to stop abruptly as some of the photos scattered to the floor. She cursed in Sokovian as she went to pick them up.

“I’ve got it” Bucky said as he reached for them. He passed the first two up to Wanda but the third made him freeze.

To anyone else it was a normal picture. Three friends side by side. Two red heads and a (Y/H/C). Only it wasn’t a normal photo at all. Because alongside his two redheaded soul sisters, Wanda with a soft smile and Natasha looking nonchalant, was another woman. A woman that haunted his dreams. 

His soulmate.  Their girl.

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[your-darling-gaze]

Cocks gun...exhales.....heart beating loudly...

Comms on my wrist beeping the text...

SURVEILLANCE BLINDSPOT APPROACHING IN : 5...4....3...2....1.....

Jumps over compound, enters a deserted hallway....hides into a wall wedge....heavy breathing...looks around to notice the HYDRA stature...

Shivers....looks at comms....whispers...

'Open up the tek-way entrance 17.... credentials 1943....'

Silences breathing and crawls towards the door with a beeping cred-lock...

VOICE ACTIVATION REQUIRED.

Fumbles through vest pockets....clicks on a snip-recorder...

Audio: 'Cut off one head, two more shall take it's place...'

The door slides open...revealing an empty hallway to various laboratories...

Enters the hallway.... careful of the surveillance blindspot....looks around the various door labels...

'Lab 043....Lab 043......'

.... Doesn't find a lab that matches the label, hurriedly begins to wander hallway, forgetting about surveillance....

Feels a cold gun barrel suddenly held against my neck...flinches...turns around and shoots without a thought.....

The person lands dead with a soft thud...gunshot echoing in the empty hallway...looks at the bloody, fallen body...

Dr. Anton Trojak. Agent 47.

Shivers at the sight...shoots him again...and again.

Crawls backwards...swallows...wipes blood on my face....sits against the wall... overwhelmed at the sight....heart thudding hard from anxiety...

Presses back to the wall...shivers...whispers....

'Please be alive, Bucky....'

Feels a latch clicking, pressing a little too hard behind...

MOTION SENSING ALERTED :

WELCOME Dr. Zola

The Wall slides off, machinery sounds emerging....crawls back into the opened room...looks at the very many monitors....a familiar view..

Exhales, quite disturbed..looks around for anything useful...notices a screen....

SYSTEM LOGGED ON: 21.07.24

SERVER UNDER VIOLATION AND ACTIVITY : soldat.barnes043.ver

Immediately lurches towards the screen...looking for the other Records...

'System running...no...system stats...no....Recovery and Log out.'

Begins the logging-off process...

'Uh....credentials....I....uh....'

Enters: 1943

ACCESS DENIED.

Enters: 0043'

ACCESS DENIED.

Thinking for a moment...something....some detail anybody would miss...something Zola would always hold on to....ah.

Enters: 1612091

ACCESS GRANTED:

DEACTIVATION AND LOG OUT PROCESS IN PROGRESS...

'Come on, come on, come on....'

Meter beeping as it processes...looks around to check for any surveillance...notices the closed door....

SUCCESSFULLY LOGGED OUT. ALL PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL ACCESS TO VIOLATED ACCOUNTS TERMINATED. ORDERS ISSUED FOR DISCLOSURE OF VIOLATION SUBJECTS.

SUBJECTS OUT OF VIOLATION: Asta R. B

James Buchanan Barnes

'I didn't....close it on my way in....did I...?'

Goes towards it...puts in the same credentials...

EXIT FAILED. TWO TRIES LEFT.

Begins to get confused...

'They had another code to go...out...?'

Decides to call in over comms to the Bucky from my universe....

'Bucky....I need you to come on the line....Bucky are you in...?'

Comms only giving out static....

'Shit.'

Tries again, another time....'Cyanide.'

EXIT FAILED. ONE TRY LEFT.

Sighs....

'This has to work...'

The last time...'0044'...

EXIT FAILED: LOCKING IN REQUIRED MEASURES.

SENT FOR INTRUDER ACTIVITY.

Heart beat quickens as the doorframe locks tight...an odor of phosphine filling the room...blinks...backs away from the door....Shoots away at the cred-lock....the gas having an effect on the eyes, irritating them....Shoots out the generator plug, powering out the circuits in the room....notices the disabled lockings of the jarred windows....

'There's no other way....'

Shoots at the window frame, hoping to disable the latchings...the glass breaking and gunshots echoing the empty lab....dashes into the hard pane in hopes of breaking it off....does once, twice, a few more times, shoulder slowly starting to bleed out...the odor becoming hard to adjust to....

With one hard hit of the head, hits my head through the hard glass...jumping out into the cold air...stumbles further out and away....vision blurring as I run into the night...comms beeping as I try to give out my positioning signal....losing balance as I fall unconscious in the middle of nowhere...

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( @that-punk-from-brooklyn @soldier-bucky-barnes @official-buckybarnes @tony-starkinator @iwasmadetobeasoldier @official-arnimzola @asta-barnes-rogers )

[jakey-beefed-it]

I watched Alien: Romulus tonight, after having wanted to see it since it came out. Spoiler-free review: It's a B that could've been an A. Probably the best Alien movie since Aliens, definitely the best since Alien 3. It's at its best when it's doing it's own thing, and at its weakest when too directly trying to be "just like Alien/Aliens!". If I have one chief complaint, it's that it would benefit from a stronger 'less is more' approach than it takes. Spoilers below the cut.

So one problem I have is the timing. The alien's lifecycle, as established in other films, takes time. It's fast as hell compared to normal things, but on the order of hours and days rather than months and years, rather than minutes. They could've tossed in a single comment to the effect of "the scientists extracted the black goo compound and refined it, testing it on the facehuggers and whoops their lifecycle got sped WAY the fuck up" but they didn't so that's the realm of headcanon rather than text.

EDIT: rewatched it today and there is some commentary over how the xenomorph has a measure of control over its metabolism; the reason it's able to mature so rapidly and yet also shut down for long-term vacuum survival. It's not quite as apparent as I'd like but it definitely qualifies as offering at least some textual explanation so my above complaint is less 'this makes no internal sense' and more 'this strains my suspension of disbelief even more than the things' ability to grow to prodigious size without seemingly feeding on anything already did.'

Speaking of the black goo, yeah, it ties back into Prometheus (which I saw, and personally didn't much like) and Covenant (which I didn't see owing to not having much liked Prometheus). On the whole I don't know that this was the right move for the franchise, but the film mostly makes it work. The final monster being essentially a xenomorph/engineer hybrid was not a premise I was excited about and the stills I'd seen made it look kinda stupid, but in the actual execution, it is suitably unsettling/uncanny and imo it actually works.

There were a couple of nostalgia lines that made me roll my eyes pretty hard- when Andy rescues Rain toward the end by zero-g divebombing an oncoming xenomorph, shooting it and saying "get away from her" i was like "yeah great, good callback, good moment". When he then adds "...you bitch" I rolled my eyes. Didn't fit the moment or the character, was strictly there to reference a better moment in a better movie.

Which isn't to fault David Jonsson, who plays Andy extremely well. Due to synthetic fuckery he has basically 2, 2 and a half personalities throughout the film, and he does them all very very well. Stand-out performance IMO, would love to see him in more stuff.

Cailee Spaeny does a good job as Rain, there were a couple moments early on where I wasn't 100% convinced of her authenticity, but as the film wore on, I saw that it was an acting choice to make Rain a bit socially stunted, coming across as awkward.

None of the actors were bad at all, and while I have some ethical concerns with digitally resurrecting a cgi Ian Holm circa 1979, the effects were cromulent and whoever they got to do most of his voice work was quite good, and Rook made for a decent antagonist.

On the topic of 'less is more' I mentioned above, I really wish they'd used fewer aliens in a couple of the big set pieces. You don't need a dozen scrambling facehuggers to be terrifying, you honestly don't need more than one, but the pair of them from the scene with Ripley and Newt proves that 'one per endangered character' is a fine guideline. Likewise when they get to the hive section of the station, they could've kept it every bit as terrifying (and indeed probably more so) with fewer, stealthier aliens than they used.

EDIT: the things a lot of horror fans care most about that I didn't mention on my first pass. The SFX are great, very effective. I'm not sure to what degree they relied on practical effects but there's a much more tangible feel to a lot of things that are very hard to get with cgi. There are a couple of cgi moments that are less effective imo- the zero-g acid blood wasn't 100% convincing though it was by no means bad -but for the most part, it was all very convincing and suitably visceral for a franchise so thoroughly rooted in body horror. The deaths were gruesome in a franchise-appropriate way, for the most part, and people who watch horror movies with that as their priority should be reasonably satisfied. The lighting was dark in a good way- not so dark you couldn't see what the fuck was happening, but dark enough that the shadows were ominous and potentially hiding threats. Set design was flawless, no notes.

From a scientific standpoint, i didn't like how solid the rings were. Planetary rings are absolutely a feasible astronomical hazard one would want to avoid crashing into, but that's less to do with their status as what looked like a frozen sea of bumper-to-bumper icebergs, and more to do with their being composed of eighty fucktillion objects moving at orbital velocities which will absolutely shred any object moving perpindicularly (more or less) through them. This is admittedly a pretty nerdy quibble that most viewers won't give a shit about and I'm willing to mostly overlook it for the sake of the film but it did make me pull a scrunchy Kermit face.

My most minor complaint was the (in my opinion) overuse of the Weyland-Yutani name and logo. A single use of the logo would've been sufficient. Since the film's mission statement was basically a return to the whole cassette-futurism of the first two films, calling it simply 'the Company' would've gone a long way toward that.

Probably my most significant complaint pertains to misogyny. Like, okay, this is an Alien film, it's going to be chock-full of reproductive body horror, big creepy bio-mechanical genital-lookin stuff, etc. But of the four characters who die, both men die of 'being attacked by a full-grown alien'. One dies by being impaled by a phallic tail, so that's something, I guess. The other dies by getting whomped upside the head and falling into the stream of some acid pouring from a distinctly vaginal alien coccoon. He'd just rammed a phallic tazer thing into it though, so maybe it's some weird sort of payback if you want to psychoanalyze it. Both women, however, die due to alien pregnancy- one from a normal chestburster, the other killed by the weird uncanny human-alien-engineer monster her fetus turned into after she tried to save her own life by injecting the black goo. Not by its birth, despite the size of the coccoon thing she passes and the accompanying blood loss, but when it comes back and chomps on her a bit with its more eel-like pharyngial jaw. Which is also rather phallic now that i write it out like that. Meh.

EDIT: there's also a bit of unfortunate implications wrt race. Two points, outlined below.

The most obvious is that the artificial person owned by the company is a black man, but given that previous synths in the franchise have all been white actors (Ian Holm, Lance Henriksen, Winona Ryder, Michael Fassbender) it probably gets a bit of a pass. Only a bit of one, in that Andy is outright stated to be a more menial model than, say, Ash or Bishop given the designed role of 'mining colony asset' rather than 'science officer' or 'colonial marines assset' which has some unfortunate implications. I might have more to say on the matter if I myself was black, but I'll leave that to other reviewers.

The other thing is that the survivors are the white woman and her synthetic brother (played by a black man, as mentioned above). Which could be worse, for sure, but it doesn't sit entirely right with me that the brown guys (I couldn't speak to their specific ethnicity though I'd take a stab at 'mixed' with some white ancestry in there too) and the brown woman (definitely a latina) get killed off. As a mixed white/latino guy, I just wanna see a brown person survive the whole horror movie sometimes. I'm often disappointed. At least the director is a latino guy? It's something.

On the whole though, it's a pretty effective, decent Alien film that could've been a very effective, great Alien film if it had a bit more restraint. Your mileage may vary, of course, but in my opinion, the weaker elements don't wholly overwhelm the stronger ones, only dragging it down a peg or so.

[toxicanonymity]

Brothel - Lincoln watch party

brothel master list

The brothel, aka real housecreeps, is a meta reality show about the Joels and other blorbos who live on the Toxic Compound. Normally everything is smooth sailing, but we mostly air the drama.

Slumber party edit by @iamasaddie 🥹. Next 2 my primitive edits. Guest appearances from Joels by @chloeangelic (father Joel) @gracieispunk (maintenance man) and @dark-scape (gladiator)

Saturday 9/16 - Jojo doesn't even live at the brothel but he picked me up on his motorcycle and took me to Starbucks, determined to help me finish Lincoln so he can move in. He keeps making comments about Lincoln like, "he's so careful." I nod and he adds, "chicks just wanna get dicked down, man." I look at him and he whispers, "sorry." But a minute later he's back at it. "when's the last time she had a nice, hard cock?" When I say, "Never," he asks, "NEVER?"

Friday 9/22 - Stepdad and Vampire stop by the writing room, which is a wreck, to ask if Lincoln is really doing this because if so, they're going to Costco to get stuff for their watch party. Cut to the interior of an SUV, Stepdad is driving and Vampire is in the passenger seat hanging onto the ceiling handle.

Vampire says, "Peaches is on her period, ya know."

Stepdad, "No shit. Why do you know that, man?"

Vampire gets self conscious, "It was in the last fic."

"You always read his fics?"

"Well, I read the warnings, then. . . Hey, what's on our shopping list?"

Stepdad takes a sharp turn and the camera angle goes crazy as a crew member slams into the back window. Stepdad asks the crew, "what kinda hijinks y'all think are goin' down in Costco, anyway?"

Stepdad and vampire realize they don't have a shopping list, so they call the Joel mansion. Thighs puts them on speaker. Slasher wants budweiser. Night Walks yells "TAKIS" in the background. Jojo wants cherry coke. Raider wants bison burgers and Trouble volunteers to grill. Stepdad asks if the "other guys" are coming back so they know how much to get.

Flashback to Stepdad's party in August

The doorbell rings and Night Walks answers it. It's a priest. Night Walks stares at him and says, "we're good, man" and closes the door. The doorbell rings again and Trouble answers it. It's a Joel in a toolbelt, talking to the priest.

Night Walks texts me to ask who are these guys? I say this is a big thing, all the Joels on tumblr are invited, plus all the blorbos on the Toxic Compound. It's @chloeangelic's Father Joel and @gracieispunk's Maintenance Man!Joel. Night Walks asks, "he's not, like, a prude priest is he?" And I respond LOL. Lincoln does a double take when he sees who walked in, and he gives them a what's up nod. I yell from off screen, "MY OFFICE IS BROKEN." Maintenance man sighs and adjusts his toolbelt. Raider tells him I'm joking and points to a chair for Maintenance Man to sit down. Someone else is at the door. It's a practically naked but battle-ready Joel. It's @dark-scape's Gladiator Joel, and he roars at the top of his lungs, "PARTY'S HERE."

The phone rings. It's a menacing, digitized voice. "room for a few more?" The line goes dead and seconds later, the door opens. It's Ghostface and behind him, a popcorn cart is being wheeled in. Production bumbles around trying to find the right place for the cart. The door is still open. Michael Myers walks in with Corey Cunningham. Slasher pops up out of his seat and Michael turns to walk the other direction. Instead, Slasher introduces himself to Corey who also wears a mechanic suit.

Everyone has a great time and cheers when Stepdad gets it in. They all slap him on the back and carry him around the room.

Back at Costco

On the phone, Trouble says no, just brothel Joels for Lincoln's party. The fic is too long, he's too unsettling, and we don't want to scare all of Tumblr away.

Stepdad is determined to make the Costco trip as boring as possible so production doesn't send a crew with them next time. They go around the store and Stepdad has an exaggeratedly straight face. Every time vampire gets excited about something, like the $1.50 hotdogs, Stepdad nudges him to remind him it's boring. Vampire straightens his face and nods.

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Watch Party

Later that night, the guys are huddled around watching. Vampire is on the edge of his seat, and even gets down on the floor to be closer. Then he sits back and tries to hide how aroused he is. Some of them cheer upon penetration but not as enthusiastically as with Stepdad. At the end, most of the guys give Lincoln a high five or fist bump, but a few of them clearly don't have their heart in it. Slasher is on Lincoln's side, "Hey what's wrong with you guys? been on his case for months and he finally did it"

"Just be straight with her, man," Raider says.

"I didn't lie to her," Lincoln claims.

Raider squints at him "Whatever, man. Glad your shit's over soon."

Vampire thinks it was the best episode all season. "Link, that was amazing," he tells him in all honesty. "Did ya get to keep the dress?"

"Yeah," Lincoln nods.

"And that was only day 2 or 3, right?"

Lincoln looks at Vamp blankly and asks, "day 3?"

Stepdad tries to come to vamp's rescue by saying "Day 3 of… this party," but Vamp doesn't catch on.

"No, I mean you've prob'ly got a couple more days," he gestures around his lower abdomen. Lincoln's nostrils flare and Vampire meekly adds, "if you're into it."

Lincoln asks, "are you tracking Peaches?"

Vampire looks at Stepdad, realizing his mistake. Everyone gets quiet. Lincoln repeats, "Are you tracking her period?"

The guys look at each other and shake their heads no, like Lincoln is out of line for the accusation. "No one's tracking your reader's period, Lincoln," Trouble scoffs.

They act like Lincoln is crazy for even thinking it.

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Thank you for reading!

[lemissingmask]

[ID: Sketch of Eliot Spencer with long hair and in a sleeveless top, tied to an upright chair with his hands bound behind it and his neck held to the back of the chair with a thick leather band. He has blood and bruises visible on his face. In the background, beyond him, is Alexandra Bligh walking towards him and talking, and in the foreground is a close up of someone drawing a bright red liquid from a vial into a syringe. Black bars above and below the sketch is the text 'COMPOUND 002 -- 15 % w/v' and 'DOSE # 1 12/26/22 -- 17.04', respectively. End ID]

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Day 15: Experimentation

Bligh makes a deal with some high ups in the FBI or CIA, gets released in order to oversee and run experiments into more effective methods for torture and interrogation using untraceable chemicals. Each experiment is recorded visually as well as notes taken.

Ficlet below the cut - part 2 of the three-parter started on Day 8

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Parker hated the velvet softness of the night. Almost as much as she hated the glimmering stars that broke the darkness like thousands of unattainable diamonds.

How dare the evening be so peaceful and calm and beautiful when Eliot was in so much pain?

Or probably in pain.

He wasn’t dead. He couldn’t be dead. He had promised not to leave her and he wouldn't break a promise.

But they knew by now who had him and why, and it was impossible that Eliot was enjoying anything less than torment.

Because that was the point.

That was why they took him.

Using Hardison’s hacking access, they had managed to find out who took Eliot after almost two weeks of searching, and what they found was horrifying.

Alexandra Bligh, released before ever really getting to jail, had been extremely active.  Expenses that took some digging to find revealed rental payments for a building on a private island off the east coast, the hiring of a complete security team and of several scientists from within various government institutes, and purchase orders of chemical ingredients for some of the most brutal enhanced interrogation drugs currently in existence.

The funding had come from within government, through several layers of secrecy, but ultimately under the ordinance of a former member of the CIA. Someone who Vance - after being made to understand that Eliot was in severe danger - revealed had worked with Eliot on some classified operations under his command.

The funds had been transferred under the name of an operation that had very little digital trace, beyond the purpose, whose lengthy wording boiled down to: design new chemical means for breaking people, and the person in charge: Alexandra Bligh.

Hardison had researched the components while his and Breanna’s programs worked to search for Eliot, and privately told Parker what he thought they would do.

Like red haze mixed with toxins designed variously to trigger pain receptors, alter the threshold for pain and other unpleasant stimuli, and cause something called central sensitization, which Parker didn’t understand but it sounded bad.

Hardison’s simplified summary sounded worse. All the memory and sensation heightening effects of red haze, but now with added very real and very strong pain.

They were using Eliot Spencer as the test subject to develop more brutal, untraceable, methods of enhanced interrogation.

And all that on an island almost inaccessible by any stealthy means.

Now Parker was standing with Breanna on a dock in the darkness, waiting for Dr Not-Dead-Paul to bring around the boat they’d need to get to the island. They'd called him in to help in the recovery mission, in part because they needed someone trustworthy who could fight, and in part because they didn't know what state they'd find Eliot in. Having a medic who Eliot knew on hand could prove very useful.

It was Paul who suggested Harry and Sophie remain behind. Having been told what they believed Eliot had been kidnapped for, he cautioned against having too many people around at the point of rescue. Only the three of them needed for the rescue itself - Breanna to stay in the boat or just beside the building, using the proximity to get into their servers and then guide Parker and Paul to where Eliot was, and the thief and temporary hitter would then break him out and escape.

“What if you need more muscle to get out and Eliot can’t fight?” Breanna asked nervously, watching the headlights of the boat as it approached, “Shouldn’t we call in another hitter? Bligh looks like she hired a hell of a lotta security...”

“No time,” Parker watched beyond the boat into the darkness that hid Eliot somewhere inside it, “And Eliot will be able to fight.”

“He’s been tortured for weeks…”

“He’s been shot, stabbed, beaten, drugged, poisoned, and hit by cars, trucks and carnival rides, and still been able to fight. He’ll be fine.”

"Parker's right," Paul said, and Parker thought he sounded sad, "Eliot can handle being tortured. And, usually before, he’s had to fight his way out alone. No team to back him up."

"But he does this time," Parker smiled at Breanna and hoped it looked reassuring, "Eliot's going to be fine."

He had to be fine.

Like Paul said, Eliot had been through torture before, and probably for much longer than this. He’d been injured physically and tormented mentally more than enough times for this to be almost meaningless.

In theory.

But theory didn’t stop her being on edge and upset and angry at the beautiful night.

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[weishenbwi]

Ambien Amortentia

Serial Killer Jungkook and Detective Taehyung (Dead Dove: Do Not Eat).Ch. 4/5 (ao3 version)

Jungkook slips from bed with the practiced silence of someone who's made this journey a thousand times. Movement requires choreographed silence. Hardwood planks know his weight, each board's potential for betrayal memorized through ritual repetition. The study door accepts his presence without protest, the soft click of the lock muffled by raindrops.

It had been Jungkook's idea to have separate spaces. A healthy marriage needs personal sanctuaries, he'd said, and Taehyung had accepted this wisdom. It's the one room Taehyung never enters. The forbidden space that exists in plain sight, protected by trust rather than locks, though Jungkook has installed those as well.

Wooden bookshelves hold his collection: leather-bound psychiatric texts, medical journals, and philosophical treatises on suffering. His credentials hang on the wall like trophies, each framed degree a testament to his understanding of the human mind, how it fractures, yields, reshapes beneath persistent, patient pressure.

The room maintains a sterile coolness, heating deliberately kept low. Temperature controlled. Environment controlled. Like everything else in his life, calculated for optimal function.

From his desktop, Jungkook opens a concealed directory, buried beneath layers of encryption. Each gate is keyed to an innocuous line of code only he can parse. The directory is a reliquary, housing dozens of meticulously organized folders. Not the kind kept for patients. These are private records, rituals disguised as data.

Jungkook's posture shifts. Shoulders straighten. The careful husband recedes, replaced by something more focused, more precise. He navigates past dated entries, each charting an incident, a deviation, a decisive moment of unraveling. Most are clinical in tone, sterile and spare. Others read like confessions, pathology veiled as love letters. All of them belong to him, born from his mind and nurtured by his hands.

He pauses at the most recent update. The timestamp is from earlier that afternoon, while Taehyung had still been at the station.

Subject: K.T. [Domestic proximity - extended exposure study] Observed response to indirect trauma consistent with prior behavioral profiles—narrative disintegration, dissociative conflict, increasing pharmacological dependency. Evidence of dream residue present (involuntary motor response during sleep). Dosage adjustment: 0.25mg increase in evening compound yielded notable improvement in sleep compliance. 

Jungkook's fingertips hover over the keys. He remembers the weight of Taehyung's head against his shoulder, the way those elegant fingers had trembled around the glass of doctored water. In this space, Taehyung becomes reducible, distilled to his essential components. The clinical framework contains what would otherwise consume.

Outside, the rain hesitates, then resumes with renewed force, smearing the darkness beyond the window into something fluid and uncertain. For a moment, his reflection stares back at him from the screen, features rendered spectral by the monitor's glow, eyes two pools of darkness in the half-light.

Test continues. Identifying facial features was an indulgence. Calibrate accordingly.

The words hang in the digital ether, nakedly honest in a way he allows himself only in these private moments. The cursor blinks—a digital pulse where his victim no longer has one.

In the bedroom, is Taehyung stirring now, his hand drifting across the sheets in search of a presence that isn't there, reaching for the empty space beside him, subconsciously searching comfort from the very hand that orchestrates his torment? Or does he lie motionless, finally claimed by the heavy pull of tonight's compounds, dreams full of crime scenes that smear into memory, where faces blur and blood pools in the folds of his sheets.

Jungkook saves the file, watching the data disappear back into its encrypted tomb. The silence that follows feels warmer somehow, as though the room itself conspires to protect his devotion. He traces a finger along the edge of his lower lip, where a small mole rests, the very detail he'd allowed the victim to notice, to speak of. An indulgence indeed. But the confession had been too sweet to resist; a signature hidden in plain sight, visible only to the one person who could never recognize its meaning.

Reckless. Beautiful. The closest thing to confession he'll ever allow himself.

Outside, the rain batters the windows like desperate fingers pursuing entry, each drop a tiny applause, and Jungkook smiles at the sound.

The storm will pass. His work will continue.

And Taehyung will never know how thoroughly, how beautifully, how lovingly he's being unmade.

The return journey maps itself in muscle memory. Each floorboard accepted in its proper sequence, each shadow navigated with grace. At the threshold, he pauses. Adjusts his breathing. Softens his expression. The transformation is instantaneous and complete. The bedroom door parts like water, admitting him to warmth and floral-scented peace.

Taehyung hasn't moved. Pharmaceutical paralysis holds him in perfect stillness. Moonlight through rain-streaked glass paints him in shifting silver, transforming familiar features into something ethereal, untouchable. Sleep cycle: hour three of projected twelve. Vitals stable. Subject unaware. The clinical assessment lasts only seconds before something else takes over, something hungrier, more personal. 

Jungkook slips beneath the covers, careful not to disturb the sheets. He allows himself this moment of pure hunger—drinking in the sight of Taehyung's defenseless form, memorizing the way shadows pool in the hollow of his throat, how his lips part slightly in a drugged haze. This is his masterpiece, breathing and warm and wholly unaware.

The warmth of Taehyung's body envelops him, and Jungkook positions himself close enough to feel it without quite touching. Even in sleep, physiological responses remain consistent. Exploratory contact. Requiring proximity. Dependency mechanisms functioning as designed.

The temptation to touch becomes unbearable. His fingers hover just above Taehyung's skin, close enough to feel a faint pulse of warmth from his sleeping form, but not quite making contact. The restraint is both data collection and exquisite torture, a dance of desire and control. This delicate space between desire and permission, impulses coexisting without contradiction.

He settles against the pillow and allows himself to study Taehyung's profile in the dim light. Even in his stillness, Taehyung radiates an achingly trusting vulnerability, something that invites protection and exploitation in equal measure. His breathing remains deep, untroubled by the peaceful sedation that holds him.

Jungkook shifts closer and Taehyung's presence seeps into him, a quiet claim Jungkook welcomes. He positions himself to mirror Taehyung's form, shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip—like two halves of the same broken thing. The intimacy is suffocating and perfect. They fall into their familiar dance: Taehyung reaching in his haze, Jungkook the anchor he’s been taught to need. The thought sends a thrill through Jungkook's chest— even in sleep, Taehyung seeks him. Needs him.

When Taehyung's hand drifts across the mattress in slumber, Jungkook catches it with careful reverence. He intertwines their fingers, marveling at how even unconscious, Taehyung's grip tightens around his. A reflex of trust so profound it validates every carefully orchestrated moment that led here.

Taehyung murmurs in his induced repose—fragments of cases, half-formed questions, occasionally Jungkook's own name spoken with such tender confusion. His limbs twitch as dreams fight their way through chemical barriers, fingers sometimes grasping at phantoms in his dreams.

Each small movement sends electricity through Jungkook's nerve endings. He catalogues every twitch, every soft sound, every unconscious gesture, filing them away in the museum of his obsession alongside all the other sacred moments.

Outside, the storm continues its methodical work, but here, cocooned in the quiet rhythm of Taehyung’s gentle breathing, there exists only the perfect synthesis of devotion and domination. Love refined to its most efficient form.

The mask fits so perfectly now, he sometimes forgets he's wearing it.

[mariacallous]

As Donald Trump’s administration continues its relentless reorganization of the United States federal government, documents obtained by WIRED showed this week that the Department of Defense is looking at cutting as much as three-quarters of its workforce that’s specifically focused on stopping proliferation of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the US Army is using its “CamoGPT” AI tool to “review” diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies per Trump administration orders. The military originally developed the AI service to improve productivity and operational readiness.

US civil liberties organizations are pushing the director of national intelligence. Tulsi Gabbard, to declassify details about Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—a central overseas wiretap authority that is notorious for also capturing a large number of calls, texts, and emails made or sent by Americans. And the US Justice Department on Wednesday charged 10 alleged hackers and two Chinese government officials over digital crimes spanning more than a decade as part of China’s extensive hack-for-hire ecosystem.

Ongoing analysis from a consortium of researchers led by Human Security found that at least a million low-price Android devices, like TV streaming boxes and tablets, have been compromised as part of a scamming and ad fraud campaign known as Badbox 2.0. The activity, which the researchers say comes out of China, is an evolution of a previous effort to backdoor similar devices.

And there's more. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the headlines to read the full stories. And stay safe out there.

Cybercriminals Allegedly Used a Backdoor to Steal Taylor Swift Tickets

Two people who allegedly worked as part of a group to access nearly 1,000 tickets to concerts and other events—many for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour—before selling them on for more than $600,000 profit were arrested and charged with the potential crimes in Queens this week. Tyrone Rose, 20, and Shamara P. Simmons, 31, of Jamaica, Queens, were arrested and arraigned in connection to the theft and sales, according to Queens district attorney Melinda Katz.

Between June 2022 and July 2023, it is alleged that 350 orders—totaling 993 tickets—on ticketing platform StubHub were accessed at a third-party contractor called Sutherland. “The Sutherland employees, defendant Tyrone Rose and an unapprehended accomplice, allegedly used their access to StubHub’s computer system to find a backdoor into a secure area of the network where already sold tickets were given a URL and queued to be emailed to the purchaser to download,” the district attorney’s office wrote in a statement.

They then emailed URLs to another accomplice who has since died, the office says, before posting the tickets to StubHub for resale. While the investigations are ongoing, the District Attorney’s office claimed the proceeds of the cybercrime totaled around $635,000 and also involved tickets for Ed Sheeran concerts, NBA games, and the US Open Tennis Championships.

Payment Provider Linked to ‘Largest Illicit Online Marketplace’ Loses Banking License

Every year, criminals make billions from the operations of highly organized scam compounds in Southeast Asia. As these operations have grown in sophistication, so has the wider ecosystem that supplies them with the technology and services needed to run the scams. And experts say there’s no bigger marketplace than Huione Guarantee—a Cambodian gray market selling scam services that researchers claim has facilitated more than $24 billion in transactions.

This week, according to a report by Radio Free Asia, the banking arm of Huione Guarantee’s parent company, Huione Group, had its financial license suspended by officials in Cambodia. According to the report, the Huione Pay service had its license withdrawn for failing to comply with “existing regulations.” The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and crypto tracing firm Elliptic previously had linked money moving through Huione Pay to cyberscamming. “They are willing facilitators of pig butchering and other fraud, so any regulatory action against them should be welcomed,” Elliptic founder Tom Robinson claimed to Radio Free Asia.

Russian Cryptocurrency Exchange Garantex Taken Down in Law Enforcement Action

The US Department of Justice announced an operation this week with Germany and Finland to disrupt the digital infrastructure behind notorious Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex. For years, the platform has allegedly been used for money laundering and other criminal transactions, including sanctions evasion. The DOJ claimed in its announcement that “transnational criminal organizations—including terrorist organizations” have utilized the exchange. Law enforcement said that the platform has processed at least $96 billion in cryptocurrency transactions since April 2019. US authorities said they froze over $26 million in funds used to facilitate money laundering as part of the Garantex takedown.

Scammers Are Impersonating Notorious Ransomware Attackers to Extort Targets

The FBI warned this week that scammers pretending to be attackers from the BianLian ransomware gang are demanding ransoms from corporate executives in the US. The demands include claims that the group has breached a company’s network and threaten to publish sensitive information unless a target pays up. Such criminal digital extortion is common enough that scammers apparently feel that they can plausibly make the claims and intimidate targets without even attacking them. The FBI says that the scammers’ ransom demands say that they come from BianLian and range from $250,000 to $500,000 payable via a QR code that links to a Bitcoin wallet. The real BianLian group has links to Russia and has targeted US critical infrastructure since June 2022, according to a November alert from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

[titleleaf]

Colledg, Colledg, thou art Diſeaſed, and I will tell the the Cauſ, Diagnoſticks, and Prognoſticks of thy Diſeas. The Cauſ is Mammon; Cornelius Agrippa affirms Mammon to be the Prince of the Tempting Devils; and that ſhews Riches to be the greateſt tempters to evil that is. And yet 'tis ſome queſtion whether your Diſeas be Simple or Compound: You carry with you the ſin of your firſt Father Adam; you would be little God-almighties, and have your Wives Goddeſſes; if you will not beleeve me, Take notice that if the firſt ſin incident to a child be not Pride, and that's inherent in your Bones. And ſuch corrupt Principles will be baſeneſs in the middle, and bitterneſs in the latter end. The Diagnoſticks are these. Ipſe dixit, ſeven miles about London, Lay him in Priſon; five pound a Month for practiſing Phyſick unless he be a Collegiate; Make a couple of Crutches of the Apothecaries and Chyrurgions; Be as proud as Lucifer; Ride in ſtate with a Foot-cloth; Love the ſight of Angels; Cheat the Rich; Neglect the Poor; Do nothing without Money; Be Self-conceited; Be Angry; for Impedit ira animum ne poſſit cernere verum; Be Witleſs, and ſo Die. The Prognoſticks are these: Pride goes before a Fall, and a haughty mind before deſtruction. Seeſt thou a Man that is wiſe in his own eyes; there is more hope of a Fool than of him. Though you bray a Fool in a Morter, his Folly will not depart from him. The Cure: Fear God; Love the Saints; Do good to al; Hide not your Talent in a Napkin; Be Studious; Hate Covetouſneſs; Regard the Poor; Know you are Engliſh Men, and upon your Throne; as a King ought to regard his Subjects, ſo ought you the Health of all Engliſh People; Be Honest; Be Careful; You profeſs yourſelves to be a Colledg of Doctors; Doctor comes of Doceo to Teach; Be Teachers. Take theſe for Simples. As for Compounds, take an ounce of Honeſty, half an ounce of fair dealing; mix them together with a little Oyl of Publick Spirit, and lay it to your Heart...

I really love how much of the introduction to Nicholas Culpeper's A Physical Directory is just Culpeper letting the London College of Physicians know how he really feels before proceeding to blow the lid wide off their ~*~*proprietary secrets~*~*~ (or trying to). I wish I had a nicer digitized version of this text (I transcribed this, long s'es and all, from the Warwick Digital Collections scans, but there's an OCR'ed version I wish I'd found earlier) but it's fascinating to see how heavily Culpeper invokes the legacy of the Protestant Reformation -- implicitly/explicitly comparing the College's gatekeeping of their medical knowledge behind a Latin-language dispensatory with the Church's withholding of Scripture in the vernacular! -- while also absolutely picking a fight in the bitchiest way possible.

Conscience dictated a few visions to my eyes, which are not supernatural. All the sick People in England presented themselves before me, and told me, They had Herbs in their Gardens that might cure them, but knew not the Virtues of them. They prayed me (for God's sake, and as I would answer it another day) that I would help them. For the College of Physicians were so Proud, so surly, and so covetous, that honesty went a-begging in Amen-Corner, and could find no entertainment. I did not ask what I should get by the Bargain, either did I see a vision of Angels, I saw Ancient people coming to me, sick, and coughing, and crying out, for the Lord's sake help us. I saw yong Children (even those that are unborn) desiring me to give them the grounds of Physick in their Mother Tongue; I thought good to give you notice of it (and if you wil not do it, I will). At your hands shall be required another day, the lives of all those that have perished through ignorance of wht Remedies should probably have saved their lives; The Lord is good to all, and His tender Mercies are all over his Works; But why are you good to none! Is not GODLINESSE, GOD-LIKENESSE? Do not outface God, He is above you, and wil call you to an account when your iniquities are full. Lastly, Do not harbor such a thought in your Brain, as to think I am your Foe. Do but follow my Advise, and you shall find me your Friend. Neither am I ashamed of my Name, for I am called Nich. Culpeper

Okay, so I stopped doing the long s'es in that one, because I'm fucking tired and need to go to bed. But really interesting shit nonetheless.

R.I.P. Nicholas Culpeper, you would have loved being able to bold your text for emphasis.

[daytura]

out of curiosity, what is telegraphy of communication?

Telegraphic thinking condenses amodal, propositional information; it is complex semantic clustering. This makes it ideal for rapidly wielding (findings from) sizeable topics while remaining durable enough for reuse amongst other telegraphic statements. Long-term telegraphy would also stimulate some idiolect, either repurposing existing phrases with new definitions or using haptic phrasing to "pull" semantic value closer to the "surface" of the text. But does telegraphy actually provide mass communicative value? Thought and communication may fuse and feedback into each other at the level of language, but they cannot be wholly interchanged nor should they be. Academics do not make their work as short as possible; they make it as organized as possible. Telegraphy is most effective as a transient functional response.

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Telegraphy of information is basically being as direct and terse with your wording as possible while keeping max information. It's a bit more rich than summarization — all the chatbots can summarize, ad nauseum. This is closer to Ernest Hemingway, thesis sentences, specific distributivity, etc. You condense your thinking, and triage what you actually care about for your intended recipient (e.g. another person, a piece of writing, your future self). I don't have it down perfectly, but I'm trying. The former shouldn't be a mandate for telegraphic writing; we all speak and write differently, so it holds that every person has a slightly different telegraphic style. I prefer to compound adjectives. Maybe someone else likes sticking individual nouns together; or they simply away with propositions, conjunctions, and other function words.

From Cevolini and Schmidt 2016, "Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe":

Whereas the early notes [in Niklas Luhmann's entire oeuvre of notes, from his time as a senior civil servant all the way to an academic and professor of sociology] from the 1950s and 1960s frequently tended to be more of the running-text kind and more closely reflected the original readings, they increasingly became more compact and thesis-like in the 1970s. Particularly, these later notes were not simply excerpts [...] for instance, the [bibliographic] notes from reading an entire book frequently fit onto one of these cards [A-6 European format].

And from one of his cards in the ongoing digitization project, translated:

536/2c18a Important consequences for the process of institutionalization: There is a lack of time to explicitly protest against everything implied. As a result, one becomes entangled in shared assumptions.

I think my last sentence sums up my stance on telegraphic writing well: it's not always sustainable or appropriate, and that's fine. If you wrote and spoke like that all the time, it'll impede your communication. Luhmann's publications were and still are notoriously difficult to translate into English, because he couldn't quite get out of this slipbox/condensing mentality. (Apparently his transcribed lectures are easier to follow.) You compare him to someone like Bob Doto who has been a writer long before he picked up the zettelkasten system: his book, "A System for Writing" is written as if he organized and drafted it like it were a regular book (because it is). Telegraphic phrasing serves an internal function to propagate and stimulate further thinking, but it doesn't (necessarily) constitute the blogpost you'll be posting to Tumblr or Substack.

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What is compound seo: A Complete Guide

The technique of implementing SEO into your marketing efforts is known as compound SEO. This method can multiply the effects and produce more significant leads than ever. Compound SEO requires the use of the combined impacts of several techniques. This strategy understands the complexity of search engine algorithms, which now consider various criteria when ranking webpages. Consequently, it is essential to take an in-depth approach that addresses these concerns.

Components of Compound SEO

High-Quality Content The king of the digital world is quality content. Producing high-quality, relevant, and exciting content is crucial for bringing in new visitors while maintaining. Compound SEO puts a lot of focus on creating content that relates to user intent and offers valuable data, which can increase engagement and improve search rankings. It must include high-quality content. Keyword Research To locate a topic that ranks highly in searches for the niche you are targeting, conduct comprehensive keyword Research. Try to find the best keywords for your top competitors.  Content structure Content collected and divided into different parts is referred to as structured content. In a CMS (content management system), the headline, byline, publishing date, snippet, and keyword tags are all examples of different structured content fields. Persuasive headline A good headline goes beyond simple wording to create feelings, draw attention, and represent value. It's your first chance to establish a relationship with your audience and tell them your material is valuable. On-Page Optimization This essential step is to improve the value and visibility of specific web pages. Meta tags, headings, text organization, keyword usage, and internal linking are all optimized. Better rankings result from on-page SEO, ensuring search engines quickly understand the content context. Backlink Strategy An essential part of compound SEO is creating reliable and valuable backlinks. Search engines can tell that your material is reliable and valuable when they see high-quality backlinks from trustworthy websites. Developing an extensive backlink profile can significantly increase your website's reputation. Here are some guidelines to help you to create a successful backlink strategy for compound SEO.  Guest Blogging Guest blogging, sometimes called "guest posting," is writing content on another company's website. Guest bloggers typically post for comparable sites in their sector to Bring visitors back to their website. Increase their domain authority by linking to high-authority domains. Increase the credibility and exposure of their brand, and Create connections with colleagues in their sector. Guest blogging provides mutual benefits to the guest blogger and the website hosting the guest material.  Broken Link Building Search for broken links on other web pages that point to your content. Describe the broken link to the website's owner. Contact them and offer to replace it with something more acceptable. Forum Posting Forum posting is an efficient off-page SEO strategy that involves participating in online community forums imparting knowledge, posing queries, and adding to relevant discussions on your company or niche. Bookmarking  Bookmarking in off-page SEO refers to saving and organizing links to web pages on social bookmarking platforms. These platforms allow users to manage, store, and share their favorite web pages, articles, blog posts, and other online content. As part of an off-page SEO strategy, bookmarking can help enhance the visibility, authority, and traffic to your website by leveraging the power of social sharing and online communities. Profile Sharing Profile sharing in off-page SEO refers to creating and optimizing user profiles on various online platforms to increase your visibility, showcase your expertise, and build backlinks. Directory submission Include relevant local directories and sites for your industry when publishing your website. These directories might offer beneficial backlinks that increase the ranking of your website. Local SEO Local SEO is essential for companies who want to reach nearby customers. Creating and maintaining Google My Business properties, collecting favorable ratings, and ensuring accurate NAP (Name, Address, Phone Number) information across internet platforms are all part of optimizing local search. Semantic Search By understanding the context of words and how they relate to one another, semantic search tries to increase the accuracy and validity of search results. Semantic search, in contrast with traditional keyword-based search, goes beyond only sense matching to understand the intent and context of the query.

Conclusion

Compound SEO is an efficient way to improve your website's search engine access and overall visibility in the dynamic world of digital marketing. You may develop a comprehensive approach that works with the latest search engine algorithms by combining the power of on-page optimization, producing high-quality content, technological skill, backlink strategy, increasing user experience, and local SEO. Remember that cooperation frequently has excellent results in SEO, and Compound SEO supports this idea. Read the full article

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Top 10 eCommerce SEO Services to Skyrocket Your Online Store in 2025

ECommerce SEO Services: The Complete Guide to Turbo-Charging Your Online Store’s Organic Growth

Estimated reading time: 8 – 10 minutes (≈ 1,000 words)

Introduction

In a world where 49% of shoppers start their product search on Google or another search engine, ranking well is no longer a “nice to have” for online retailers—it’s existential. Paid ads can propel short-term sales, but they’re expensive and stop the moment you pause your campaign. eCommerce SEO (search-engine optimization) services, on the other hand, compound over time, building a moat of sustainable traffic and revenue that grows while you sleep. This article unpacks exactly what eCommerce SEO services entail, why they’re different from traditional SEO, and how to choose a partner that can turn your product pages into high-converting, traffic magnets.

Why eCommerce SEO Is Different

Product-Level Complexity A blog might have 50 URLs; an online store can have 5,000 SKUs and tens of thousands of dynamically generated pages. Each must be crawlable, indexable, and unique enough to avoid duplicate-content penalties.

Monetization Directness Every incremental click translates into revenue potential. For most e-retailers, organic traffic delivers the highest ROI of any channel.

Technical Pitfalls Faceted navigation, infinite scroll, and filter parameters create duplicate and thin content issues that don’t plague most “brochure” sites.

Commercial Intent eCommerce queries often include modifiers like “buy,” “discount,” or brand + model numbers. Optimizing for these high-intent searches requires a granular keyword strategy.

Core Pillars of Professional eCommerce SEO Services

1. Comprehensive Technical Audit

Crawlability & Indexation: Ensuring robots.txt, XML sitemaps, and canonical tags guide search engines to the best version of every page.

Site Speed & Core Web Vitals: Google now measures user experience metrics—slow stores leak both rankings and revenue.

Mobile Usability: With over 60% of shopping searches on mobile, responsive design is non-negotiable.

2. Deep-Dive Keyword Research

Category vs. Product Keywords: “Running shoes” (category) vs. “Nike Air Zoom Pegasus 41” (product).

Long-Tail Opportunities: “Best budget trail running shoes under $100” captures laser-focused buying intent.

Buyer-Stage Mapping: Align keywords with awareness, consideration, and purchase stages to craft the right content.

3. On-Page & Content Optimization

SEO-Friendly Product Descriptions: Unique copy that goes beyond manufacturer blurbs, weaving in benefits, specs, and semantic keywords.

Optimized Meta Data: Click-enticing title tags (under 60 characters) and meta descriptions (under 155 characters).

Compelling Visual Assets: Descriptive alt text, original images, and high-resolution thumbnails improve both SEO and conversions.

4. Structured Data & Rich Snippets

Implementing Schema.org markup for products, reviews, price, and availability signals can unlock eye-catching rich results—star ratings, price ranges, “In Stock”—that boost click-through rates.

5. Authority-Building & Digital PR

Unlike generic backlink campaigns, eCommerce link building targets niche-relevant blogs, influencers, magazine gift guides, and supplier/brand partnerships to earn authoritative mentions.

6. Conversion Rate & UX Alignment

SEO traffic is only half the battle. Professional services often pair CRO best practices—clear CTAs, customer reviews, trust badges—with SEO to maximize revenue per visitor.

Advanced Tactics Today’s Top Agencies Deploy

Tactic

What It Does

Why It Matters

Faceted Navigation Logic

Uses noindex, canonical, or JS-rendered links to prune low-value filter pages while keeping high-volume variants indexable.

Prevents crawl bloat and duplicate content.

Programmatic SEO Pages

Scalably generates intent-driven landing pages (e.g., “sneakers under $100,” “laptops with 16 GB RAM”) based on keyword clusters.

Captures long-tail demand at scale.

Image SEO & Visual Search

Compresses images, adds descriptive alt tags, and submits image sitemaps.

With Google Lens’ rising use, image optimization can surface products in visual search.

Internationalization (Hreflang)

Serves region-specific currency, language, and shipping info via localized URLs.

Essential for cross-border stores targeting multiple markets.

Edge SEO

Deploys SEO fixes at the CDN layer (Cloudflare Workers, Akamai Edge).

Allows rapid experimentation without codebase bottlenecks.

Typical Workflow of an eCommerce SEO Engagement

Discovery & Goal Setting Benchmark current organic performance, margins, and priority SKUs or categories. Establish KPIs—organic revenue, non-brand clicks, keyword share of voice.

Audit & Roadmap A 60- to 90-day plan outlines quick wins (redirect fixes, metadata tweaks) and long-term projects (site architecture, content pipeline).

Implementation Collaboration with developers and content teams ensures changes go live without breaking checkout flows.

Content & Link Acquisition Regular blog posts, buying guides, comparison pages, and PR campaigns amplify topical authority.

Tracking & Optimization Monthly dashboards tie rankings, traffic, and revenue to every SEO initiative, enabling data-driven iteration.

How to Choose the Right eCommerce SEO Partner

Vertical Expertise: Do they have verifiable wins in your niche (fashion vs. electronics vs. B2B wholesale)?

Technical Chops: Ask for sample audits. Can they talk CDNs, edge rendering, and PIM integrations?

Transparent Reporting: You should own the GA4 property, GSC, and any dashboards—no black-box metrics.

Aligned Incentives: Performance-based or hybrid models can align agency compensation with revenue growth.

Full-Funnel Perspective: Look for agencies that integrate CRO, UX, and even email marketing, not just “blue links.”

Mini Case Study: From 0 to 7-Figure Organic Revenue

A mid-market outdoor-gear retailer migrated from Magento 1 to Shopify Plus and saw organic traffic crater 35%. Engaging an eCommerce SEO agency, they:

Rebuilt the Information Architecture around top-searched activities (hiking, climbing, trail running).

Implemented Programmatic Collection Pages targeting “best [activity] gear under $X.”

Secured 180+ Niche Editorial Links via gear review bloggers.

Within 10 months, non-brand organic clicks surged 220%, and organic revenue hit USD 1.4 million—outpacing paid search for the first time.

Emerging Trends to Watch in 2025

AI-Enhanced Product Copy: Large language models auto-generating first-draft descriptions, then refined by human editors for tone and compliance.

Voice & Multimodal Commerce: Optimizing for conversational queries like “Alexa, find me vegan leather backpacks under $150.”

First-Party Data SEO: Leveraging internal search insights and zero-party quiz results to fuel new content ideas.

Sustainability Signals: Eco-friendly badges and carbon footprint data in structured markup influencing both users and search algorithms.

Conclusion: Your Next Steps

eCommerce SEO services are no longer a luxury line item—they’re the backbone of modern, profitable online retail. By addressing technical foundations, crafting laser-targeted content, and earning authoritative links, specialized agencies unlock exponential organic growth that compounds over time.

Action checklist:

Audit Your Store: Use a crawler like Screaming Frog or schedule a professional audit to uncover hidden technical blockers.

Prioritize High-ROI Pages: Identify your top 20% of products/categories that drive 80% of revenue and optimize them first.

Invest in Content and Links: Build a scalable content calendar and outreach process—or hire a partner who can.

Measure What Matters: Track organic revenue, conversion rate, and customer lifetime value, not just rankings.

Ready to turn your product pages into perpetual revenue engines? An experienced eCommerce SEO service can get you there faster—while you focus on doing what you do best: delighting your customers.

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Telepsychiatry Market Expansion in Rural and Underserved Areas 2032

The global telepsychiatry market was valued at USD 14.20 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach USD 16.28 billion in 2025, with an anticipated growth to USD 51.79 billion by 2032. This represents a robust compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.0% over the forecast period. North America led the market in 2024, accounting for a dominant share of 46.9%.

The telepsychiatry market is experiencing rapid expansion as digital health technologies revolutionize access to mental healthcare. This market includes a range of virtual services—such as video consultations, remote monitoring, and e‑therapy tools—offered by psychiatrists, psychologists, and multidisciplinary mental health teams. Driven by growing demand for convenient and timely mental health support, especially in underserved or rural areas, telepsychiatry is reducing traditional barriers to care like travel and stigma. Technological advancements, including secure telehealth platforms, AI-driven assessments, and integration with electronic health records, are enhancing treatment personalization and clinician efficiency. Backed by evolving reimbursement policies and increased acceptance by patients and providers alike, the telepsychiatry market is poised for sustained growth, improving mental health outcomes through more accessible and adaptable care models.

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Market Segmentation

By service type, the telepsychiatry market includes assessments, therapy sessions, medication management, and crisis intervention.

The telepsychiatry market is segmented by delivery mode into video conferencing, phone consultations, and chat/text platforms.

According to end-user, the telepsychiatry market caters to hospitals, outpatient clinics, mental health centers, and private practices.

The telepsychiatry market also segments by age group, serving children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients.

Based on condition, the telepsychiatry market addresses anxiety, depression, PTSD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and substance abuse.

List Of Key Telepsychiatry Companies Profiled:

Array Behavioral Care (U.S.)

Teladoc Health, Inc. (U.S.)

American Well (U.S.)

Telemynd (U.S.)

Advanced Telemed Services (U.S.)

American Telepsychiatrists (U.S.)

Iris Telehealth Inc. (U.S.)

MDLIVE (U.S.)

Encounter Telehealth (U.S.)

Access TeleCare, LLC (U.S.)

Market Growth

The telepsychiatry market is expanding rapidly driven by increased demand for remote mental health services.

Rising mental health awareness and reduced stigma are major catalysts for the growth of the telepsychiatry market.

Integration of telepsychiatry platforms into healthcare systems and insurance coverage is fueling market expansion.

Technological innovations like AI-driven diagnostics and virtual reality therapies are propelling the telepsychiatry market forward.

The telepsychiatry market benefits from a shift toward hybrid care models combining in-person and virtual consultations.

Restraining Factors

Licensure and cross-border regulatory hurdles can slow the adoption of telepsychiatry market solutions.

Variability in broadband access and digital literacy can limit reach in rural and underserved areas within the telepsychiatry market.

Concerns over patient privacy, data security, and confidentiality pose challenges in the telepsychiatry market.

Resistance among clinicians unfamiliar with remote care technology may hinder growth in the telepsychiatry market.

Limited reimbursement parity and unclear insurance coverage remain significant barriers in the telepsychiatry market.

Regional Analysis

North America leads the telepsychiatry market, supported by progressive telehealth regulations and strong payer incentives.

Europe is a fast-growing market for telepsychiatry, aided by national mental health strategies and digital health initiatives.

The Asia-Pacific telepsychiatry market is emerging, driven by rising demand for mental health access and government telehealth programs.

Latin America’s telepsychiatry market is in early expansion, backed by growing telemedicine adoption and public–private partnerships.

The Middle East & Africa region is beginning to explore the telepsychiatry market, with investments in digital health infrastructure and mobile mental health solutions.

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