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Una puerta abierta (para que no sufras)

What if, in the lead up to the release of Anhelos, Marta had even *more* to worry about?

Or, Gaspar's cousin comes for a visit and Fina is, depending how you look at it, single.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66855568/chapters/172541647

This started as a one shot, but has grown into something... Else.

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How To Draw A Horse - a comic by Emma Hunsinger

ppl have been tagging me as the artist, and i dont want to take credit for someone else’s work!! emma hunsinger is an illustrator who does a lot of the New Yorker cartoons and made this comic (which was featured in the new yorker) glad to have bring some ~emotions~ to you all though :))

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the horrors persist but my friends write beautiful fanfic

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calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

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i love the -with mama trend but sometimes i get sad because that is clearly papa and he aint getting any credit raising those darn kids...

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/66713437

Little fluffy fic about Murderbot and gang having a watch party 💙

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glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg

Sometimes a house is so ugly, disgust boomerangs back into a form of respect.

This is a rare phenomenon, one which should be treated seriously. I've been looking at ugly houses professionally for almost a decade now and I can say with confidence that there are only a handful of true goose eggs that meet the mark. This house -- this remarkable, revolting house -- located, of all places, in Randolph County, North Carolina, is perhaps the finest goose egg a rogue and most certainly confused contractor could possibly lay.

Yeehaw, man. For the curious, the house is on the market for over 500 grand despite being badly sited and measly 2600 square feet. Most of that is devoted to the lawyer foyer which is not the choice I would personally make, but hey, to each their own.

Most of the houses on McMansion Hell these days are submissions from members of the McMansion Hell Patreon, either in our discord server or on our livestreams. This one, however was a total fluke. I came across it by accident because my brother is looking to move to the area in order to be closer to my folks. (I doubt he'd be interested in something this, uh, unique.)

Now, in all these years, I've never devoted an entire post to the exterior of a house. As they say, there's a first time for everything. There is so much going on with this house, all of it in direct opposition to the concept of taste, it requires a deeper investigation than the initial exterior image usually allows. (Also the entire interior is, as one might expect, entirely dark gray, complete with that awful washed out laminate flooring.)

(here is a sneak peek inside. the rest is not really important nor interesting.)

Anyway, without further ado, let's hit it from the top.

First off, no, I don't know what is inside this house's giant, hammerhead-esque forehead. It's not supported by anything so my assumption is, well, nothing. They put this in there for the sheer aesthetic love of the game.

Second, we have to talk about the siding. It's vinyl, and $500 grand is firmly in Hardie®™© Board territory. You can already start to see it ripple against the cornice, which is probably fine. The cornices are painted black in a cartoony, Roy Lichtenstein fashion, that is, if Roy Lichtenstein was drunk. The can lights are a nice touch. They help highlight important parts of the facade, such as:

The vinyl siding and black trim will continue until morale improves. Also, I zoomed out here to include the forehead (fivehead?) just because the scale is INSANE -- that's like a 50-50 wall-to-fivehead ratio. Honestly, even though things in the world are pretty dire, I wouldn't trust that cantilever with my life.

The window layout on this thing makes me wonder if the people who put it together have eyes that can see and a brain that connects to them. Now, I'm not going to invoke the Greek orders or anything, but I am going to say that every single architectural rule is being brazenly broken here. Total impunity. The window and door don't line up at the top, which is the bare minimum of common decency. Then there's that little guy pulling a Leeroy Jenkins up in the corner. You go dude.

The trim on these masses is starting to look AI generated but it's probably just the HDR every realtor uses. The FaceTune of the field. Anyway, I think it's a bad idea to put what looks like builder grade wood flooring on the outside of a house. It's giving mold. It's giving sunbleaching. It's giving Etsy.

As we can see, another familiar McMansion Hell enemy has also made an appearance: the prairie mullion window. There is no reason to use this window unless it involves building a fake bungalow, but the worst possible place to use it is in this particular situation. It's the only window with white mullions, it looks weird with the siding, and it's not exactly """modern""" or whatever this house is supposed to be.

(Often I wonder if some people believe that modernism is just "doing some stuff with squares" and the more squares there are the more modernist it is. Probably not true, but then again, I'm not the one pulling massive profit on houses that look like doo doo so jokes on me.)

Zooming out again because context still matters even in the most nonsensical situations. The funny thing about this house is that the only normal part of it is the front door and even then... what?? Also, look at that siding-less patch of brick on the right. As though to say: haha! Finally, I love how the stairs lead down into a bunch of rocks. Serves you right!

Thanks to advanced screenshotting technology, we can see that there are also prairie mullions on these other windows, it's just that they're a more reasonable black. Don't worry though, the windows are still offensive. They're two windows stuck together in order to give the impression of a single continuous one. (Remember the inside shot?) Nice try, bucko. Second, why don't the two windows meet where that little band of siding is? Well, we all know the answer to this question. (We don't, in fact, know the answer to this question.)

This is my favorite part of the house. It's almost good, to me, which is why I saved it for last. I have no idea what the hell that glossy composition book siding is but I love it. I've never seen it before. I also like how they're doing a weird entablature-quoin combo thing with it, but only on the right side of the house. There's some great five-cornice action going on but, thanks to the precedents set by truly mid postmodernism, it works.

Unfortunately there are some downsides here. What's the deal with that tiny, skinny stone? brick? veneer? Second, why is the siding just hanging off the edge like that? That whole little section where the three (four?) cladding meet is precipitous. The cheapo off-white developer special garage door with the little trad elements is a nice gesture, one that tells you life has no meaning. Why bother?

Anyway, after all that, if we put it all together again, we get this:

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SDL Mafin guía de capitulos 1-100/Mafin Episode Guide

Guía de Capítulos en dos idiomas/SDL 1-100 Episode Guide (897 words) by ash_madrone

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Sueños de libertad | Dreams of Liberty (Spain TV)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Marta de la Reina/Fina Valero

Characters: Marta de la Reina, Fina Valero, Carmen Recas, Claudia Díez (Sueños de libertad), Esther Pérez, Jaime Berenguer (Sueños de libertad)

Additional Tags: Meta

Summary:

What it says on the tin: a Spanish dialogue/English summary guide to the first hundred episodes of Mafin.

I needed this list for fic writing purposes and I hope you find it useful too!

The way it works is that i pulled my favorite dialogue from the capítulo and then summarized in English. Mostly.

Let me know if I missed things, this is really Mafin focused, other plotlines I cannot be held accountable for.

Hope to add the next set in the future!

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fandom is really cool actually sometimes you meet people that just fuckin rule and it's because you both want the same two fictional women to kiss on the mouth

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So many modern detectives have tried to emulate Sherlock Holmes, and none of them have even come CLOSE to touching Benoit Blanc. That man is Holmes' true spiritual successor. He's a silly little guy. He's gay. He's a drama queen. He has impeccable fashion sense. He loves music. He works with the cops but refuses to work for them. His voice is both goofy and incredibly fun to listen to. He sucks at playing Clue and Among Us. He mopes in the bathtub for weeks when he doesn't have a case. He loves hanging out with The Girls but gets incredibly uncomfortable when women flirt with him. The only reason he can afford his gorgeous downtown apartment is because his husband works a real job.* The only thing he hates more than Rich Assholes are Stupid Rich Assholes. He solved a double (attempted triple) homicide and the thing that made him most upset was plagiarism. He supports women's rights and women's wrongs. He refuses to break the law himself but actively encourages his client to commit arson.

And, most importantly, he and Holmes would fucking love each other. If most of the modern day detectives inspired by Holmes ever met him, he would probably want to kill them with hammers, but he and Blanc would probably end up being penpals and sending each other newspaper clippings about crime or some shit. And I can absolutely envision a teenage Blanc reading the Holmes stories and being like, "Wait, being a silly little gay private detective is a viable career option? Well, I guess I've finally found my calling in life."

Anyway I love the Benoit Blanc movies and I hope they make a million of them

*confirmed by Rian Johnson

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A~and Pearl 🩰

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I predict a Steven Universe spin-off will be announced!

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Okay I was going to be quiet about this, I really was, but it's come up on my dash like three times now and apparently that is my limit for letting things go.

I really.... Friends we know gatekeeping is fucked up, right? Haven't we learned this yet? Do we really have to build ourselves neat little brick walls around who is and is not a lesbian - and in a fictional context, to boot?

Who are you to declare a character not a lesbian because they're not with another woman on a show? Or not EXCLUSIVELY a woman? Excuse me. You've just invalidated pretty much every historical lesbian out there, or a vast percentage of them, because hello, hiding and covers were absolutely a thing we did to stay safe. Y'all remember that, right?

And the 'no men thing...' seriously. Seriously do we have to have the he/him lesbian discussion again. Seriously stop with the transphobic bullshit already.

Also. Also it is FICTIONAL. You're gatekeeping the fiction now?? Here in the country of the fic writers, the gif makers, the artists? You're gatekeeping fiction in the land of Tumblr, land of the imagination? Fuck all that.

I'm a lesbian who used to be married to a man, to make it real. I happen to find stories about lesbians who don't figure their shit out entirely when they're like twelve years old compelling. Don't tell me my beloveds can't be lesbians because they don't fit into your box. Being queer is about saying fuck the boxes.

for $1 name your favourite fictional lesbian. and no "straight female character popularly fanonized as a lesbian" or "this male character is a lesbian to me" allowed

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sdl ep. 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40.