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Happy Pride everyone, today is the tenth anniversary of the nationwide right to gay Marriage in the United States and the 22nd anniversary of nationwide legalization of Gay Sex. In 2 days is the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.

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Questions I think to myself a lot when confronted with certain kinds of Online Posting:

Do you want a better world, or do you want revenge on those you think aren’t doing enough to improve it?

Do you want a more just world, or do you want to see bad people suffer merciless punishment?

Do you want a less oppressive world, or do you want the reins of power for yourself?

Do you want to do the right thing, or do you want to feel righteous?

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Garlic Butter Shrimp, Creamy Mashed Potatoes, and Spinach and Mushrooms with Garlic from pie of birds and grief and ocean water by @catalists | Spaghetti with Marinara Sauce from Like Real People do from by @pellaaearien

After a long time, we have a combo post based on two fanfics today! Both the authors have a lot of different foods in their fics, so I'll have to come back to them again for future posts. I had invited a friend for lunch today and so I picked a few dishes from each fic. Fanfics have reduced one big chore for me--deciding what to cook! I just look up my Dreamling fanfic recipe list and create a menu based on that 😆. And my friend loved the food so much that she took some pictures too lol. Without further ado, here are a few lines about and from the fics!

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Fic 1 is an episode tag to "The Sound of Her Wings," which starts right after where we left off in the episode. As the conversation progresses, Dream answers where he had been, and food becomes Hob's way of soothing and supporting Dream, maybe also soothing himself, as he feels like he is doing some to help Dream. Hob orders different foods for Dream and himself at The New Inn. One of everything! I couldn't possibly make everything but there are so many good dishes that I definitely want to make more next time. Dream initially is skeptical but then devours everything. Below are a few lines referring to the foods I made.

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[Hob] He only stops his monologue to thank Sarah as she brings dish after dish to the table—... blue tortilla crisps with creamy spinach artichoke dip, shrimp dripping with garlic butter, ...

[I made the dip too but my online grocery delivery person couldn't find the chips, so we will keep that for another day.]

At first, he waits for Hob to take from a dish before he begins to work his way through it, but then he doesn’t wait for that—he eats the full plate of shrimp by himself and most of the creamy mashed potatoes that follow, scraping the skins off the bottom of his bowl.

Hob indiscriminately updates him on every aspect of the past century while his friend indiscriminately devours the inn’s full blend of traditional fare and gastropub-influenced dishes: spinach and mushrooms with garlic..., and then drains the cup of broth.

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Fic 2 is a post-fish bowl WIP fic. The food scene happens in the first chapter, when Hob comes from work and makes spaghetti for Dream. It's cute and domestic, and there's great poetry and music incorporated throughout the fic. It eventually moves from Hob's flat to various dream scenarios. There is some angst as Hob helps Dream process that his wishes matter too. I feel like fanfic Hob has to do a lot of Socratic questioning to help Dream understand himself or any issue, which is perfect because current Hob is a professor and that's part of his job lol. There is a new chapter too and I can't wait to read more!

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“Here.” He holds the cardigan out to Dream, who looks at it like no one had ever explained the concept to him before. His eyes flick from it to Hob.

“Try this on, love,” Hob prompts. “I wanted to get supper started anyway.”

Hob moves away into the kitchen, not wanting to put Dream on the spot by watching him put it on, and starts the water boiling for pasta.

“You insist on feeding me, Hob Gadling.” Having finished his examination of the cardigan, Dream joins him in the kitchen, where it is clear Hob is making more than one portion.

It’s a distracted meal, despite the quality of Hob’s spaghetti recipe, refined over decades. Hob can’t stop thinking about Dream’s skin: what it means for him to keep it covered, and what it means for him to choose not to. Dream, for his part, might actually eat a few bites, in between playing with the sleeves of Hob’s cardigan: pinching the fabric, twisting it, watching in apparent fascination as it falls back over his hands when he moves them. It’s unbearably adorable, but Hob does his best not to draw attention to it.

[Hob had a blue screen moment earlier, by the way, when he saw for the first time ..*gasp* Dream's arms!

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I hope you enjoy both the fics and join me for part 2 in the future!

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Flower Language Based Prompt List I made instead of writing 💐

I tried to make the prompts relate to each flower’s definition per the Victorian Flower Language without getting too repetitive.

The prompts are all fairly open ended and I figured people could use them for their own inspiration or request games!!

You know the “send me a ship and flower and I’ll write something.”

Anywho, if anyone does end up using this I’d love it if you’d tag me so I can read what you’ve written!! Either way, I hope someone can get use out my procrastinating 💖

Click here to view an unedited version of the document: The List

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only thing that comes to mind today.

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If Yeerks don't eat and get energy from their world's sun then ARE YEERKS PLANTS?

Hot take: animals don’t (that we know of) reproduce using more than two morphologies at once.  Plenty of plant types reproduce using more than two sexes.  Yeerks are either trisexual reproducers, or (snerk) sexisexual reproducers, depending on how you interpret canon.  Ergo, yeerks are plants.  There is no other possible interpretation of canon.

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the switch from ‘a girl worth fighting for’ to coming upon the decimated village in mulan is THE MOST kick-in-the-teeth mood change IN ALL OF CINEMA

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Imagine telling Gideon and Harrow from the beginning of Gideon the Ninth that in less than two years Harrow would be a lyctor and have restored the population of the Ninth House, and Gideon would be claimed by the Emperor as his long-lost daughter and appointed to lead the Cohort at the front

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I read an interesting post on Sandman ship potential, that quite fairly pointed out that in canon, Dream literally never tells Hob anything about himself. And that in some respects, it's a very unequal relationship in that sense. 

But it got me thinking about a different way to take Dreamling, to the way we often take the ship in fanon. If the true joy Dream finds in Hob's companionship is the complete detachment he offers from his duty. That the escapism of self for Dream, meeting Hob as a total stranger, is part of the appeal. Could we reframe this in an almost Mélusine way of, don't ask, just love?

A relationship based on, I don't want you to KNOW me, but I do want you to know ME. In which Dream purposely requests that Hob never ask who or what he truly is. He never wants Hob to know of his checkered history, his cosmic burden. Just love his ‘stranger’ unconditionally without that knowledge. Which to be fair, Hob's already been doing for the past how many centuries? 

Of course they'll be an inevitable fallout, in the way these myths always go. And a chance at reconciliation. (I have the idea of Hob breaking his vow, playing a part in Dream's self determined demise. Only for Hob to learn the truth and step in just in time to stop it, rotating round my mind at present.😅) 

But I thought it was a different kind of AU if nothing else.

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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Hirō Isono

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Reminder:

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The Endless—Chris Bachalo, coloured by Jon Hark

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Do not think for a moment that this admin is only going after trans folks. They are ultimately going after the whole LGBTQ community. They start small, like getting rid of a hotline option, then go BIG.

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Death - art by Vassilios Bayiokos