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Possession (1981), dir. Andrzej Żuławski

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Queer (2024), dir. Luca Guadagnino

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fun fact about me: my mom was really into signing me up for experimental trials at the local teaching hospital (i got a swine flu vaccine, a universal flu vaccine, did brain scan tests, etc etc etc and they’d pay me for participation lol) and one of them in particular involved getting my blood drawn a lot so i’m actually quite fascinated by it and loooove watching them stick me. anyway!

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i think id like to try being drenched in blood at least once. who's blood it is doesnt really matter i just want the life experience yknow.

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i need you to understand something, right? me and a small group of people have been supporting ammar for months. he's just a baby we watched grow up. and you know? babies are supposed to gain weight over the months. he hasn't. it's horrible. the recent crisis with his medication? when i wrote that post i was in such a state of despair because i was convinced this infant i had watched and supported at great personal expense over several months would die. samah has lost hope for treating her own medical conditions - she's not fully healthy either - but she can't raise the money. people have NEVER donated consistently. me and a few others are at the end of our ropes having depleted ourselves trying to make up for what crowdfunding hasn't done. and i'm so overwhelmingly grateful to everyone who proved me wrong and got ammar's medicine.

but please...

can you help him again?

ammar needs milk too. it's not possible to get in gaza at a reasonable rate. it's $468 per carton and he needs 4 per week, for $1872.

and the thing is.

if ammar doesn't get milk, he will die.

0/1872

proof that this is going to her + her vetting here

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—Franz Kafka, "The Diaries" (from the travel diaries, 1912)

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Lev St. Valentine

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— the revenge of the goddesses / Artemis vs Orion | g.f.

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anyway, I love adult content. I love erotic art having a space to exist online. I love seeing people making connections over creativity and shared hog cranking. I don’t love everything everyone is cranking their hogs to but it’s also none of my god damn business. fuck the evangelical rise of censorship. fuck ruining people’s livelihoods.

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first 2k words of chapter nineteen written!

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fragile chains by @notenderhands

the ancient destruction, and the fall of kings. the death of a father. a confession made. a gift bestowed.

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(cw: sexual assault) the pedophile -as it is understood outside of academic circles- is a mythical creature. the idea that a complete stranger who kidnaps and sexually assaults kids is their biggest threat is absolutely insane; not one case of CSA (child sexual assault) in a hundred looks like that. CSA is committed almost uniformly by adults in a preestablished position of authority (such as family, family friends, clergy, or teachers) and in a way that a victim who doesn't know what sexual assault looks like will be left unsure what happened to them. without knowing concretely how sex and sexuality works, would you be able to tell the difference between molestation and the various other forms of unwanted physical touch and abuse kids are regularly subjected to? would it even seem that different? but parenthood and the submission of youth to adults as institutions are threatened by the reality of CSA. adults need to justify their ownership of children through an imagined outside threat constantly held at bay through their diligence. the truth - that putting yourself in such a position of authority over children directly enables abuse (including sexual abuse) - is thrown aside.

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Tl;dr how you can personally make Neil Gaiman lose money (and not be a jerk to others.)

I see a lot of folks upset that NG will financially benefit from residuals and other compensation surrounding his involvement in the adaptation of Sandman and Good Omens (and he will.) But the answer isn’t “rage at the fans who are so emotionally attached to their blorbos because they grieve differently, and then somehow NG will be financially punished.” That’s lower-class/middle-class thinking. NG is too rich and financially diversified to really be hurt by little boycott or a couple of show cancellations (though said cancellations can cause life-changing poverty to the little guys who signed contracts and turned down other opportunities before all of this came out. Boy does NG love women in poverty 🤮)

So if you want to substantially reduce the wealth of someone at NG’s financial level—you need to do it with professional services fees.

Details below the cut:

The firm that NG has apparently engaged for online reputation management (ORM), called edendale, was once paid for their professional testimony in an unrelated slander lawsuit, which was delivered in the form of a report (2) outlining the strategy ORM firms use and (2) just how ludicrously expensive those professional services cost. (Credit to horrornobody77 for digging up the report.) We’re talking hundred of thousands of dollars for a small potatoes case, where NG’s could easily get into the millions for ORM and associated legal fees.

It’s not that long of a read, but to summarize the key action items you can take:

📆 -ORMs wait for the discourse to die down, because active discourse is much more expensive to counter. Wanna cost NG money? Talk about the accusations over time. Set a quarterly calendar event in your phone to remind yourself to post (and otherwise engage on other people’s posts) about the Vulture article. This needs to happens for years, so that NG has to pay for more comprehensive ORM and for longer.

✅-Make discourse that is Google-friendly. Use the words edendale will find concerning (they’re already running fluff pieces with the terms Neil Gaiman Uncovered to try and bury the similarly named subreddit.) If you just post a link without much comment, it’s not gonna be prioritized by search engines. Similarly, if you make a low effort post and then no one else engages with it—it’s not going to make it to the top ten search results. Engage with each other, for heaven’s sake!

🦾-Don’t let the fluff sit unaddressed. If you see random bot posts sharing NG quotes captioning random fantasy art (possibly AI or misattributed /stolen) with the comments turned on? Respond! Make it hard for the bots to understand your comment but easy for humans. “Nice quote! Mega bummer about what NG did, I used to really like him,” is hard for a bot to auto-delete. “Fuck NG,” is practically doing the bot’s autodelete command for it.

✍️ -If/when you post fan works for properties strongly related to Neil Gaiman, leave a lil callout in the author’s notes. Nothing that will get you sued, just a few words like: “I would definitely personally choose to not ever meet Neil Gaiman at a comic con.” Maybe throw in a link to your fav tumblr summary.

Anyway, to the person being paid hundreds or thousands of dollars per hour by Neil Gaiman for professional services—you’re welcome for the extra billable hours 😘

Also Edendale sounds like a law firm in a Good Omens legal AU fic, and I can’t believe it’s real.

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sick to death of everyone being rail thin and wearing their hair in a slicked back bun. this summer and forever i'm all about big thighs big boobs big butts and perhaps most importantly big hair

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Wake up hoe!!!!! no one connected to Jeffrey Epstein got exposed for trafficking all those girls and none of them will see any punishment for it, P. Diddy not guilty, Brad Pitt image rehabilitated by the media, American president is a known rapist, roe vs. wade taken away last year, female corpses kept on life-support just so they can be used to incubate babies, Active campaign to restrict women from voting - it all sounds too heavy handed 

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god I forgot how much fun writing FC is! Like I am giggling and kicking my feet having such a good time!! Medraut on the other hand is not. He is undergoing psychological torture! And that is why I am giggling and kicking my feet!

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mutuals to go to a bookstore with