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i love you people still wearing face masks i love you people wearing them for strangers i love you people wearing them for themselves i love you people wearing them for family members i love you people wearing them for friends and coworkers i love you people wearing them despite it no longer being mandated i love you people wearing masks

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(original caption) The devil wears an n95

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some blogs i follow for fan content but others i am 100% just there for the person so when theyre like oh sorry for turning into a so-and-so blog im like. i would watch you liveblog the phonebook.

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non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc

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nerdsforliteracy.com

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em dash is so fucking sexy. puts her in a paragraph 8 times.

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Do you love Resident Evil? Are you an unhinged sapphic? Do you want to be enveloped in deep lore and a story that takes over your senses??? Do you want to be destroyed by large women in a carnal way????

GO READ THIS!!!! Bestie is SUCH an amazing writer. This fic is a goddamn masterpiece!!!

Summary:

What an absolutely bullshit time to be confronted with the fact that the unusual way you've interacted with the Black God your whole life is probably frying your ill-equipped human psyche. You really could have only dodged that bullet for so long after all, but holy shit. This might make everything so much harder but it for sure is going to get so much worse on a long enough timeline. Stephana is a real girl's girl. Your Idiot Human Brain and your abilities team up to humble you for no good reason and you briefly end up mentally in a kamehameha crater but, like, it's tea time, so...

The juxtaposition of the tone of my writing and my chapter summaries are prolly a lil silly, but they're accurate. Honestly I had a stopping point in mind but thankfully came to a good chapter break. It's still a chungus of a chapter though which is why I'm only updating a couple times a month

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most recent windows 11 update is wiping SSDs

there's been multiple reports of people's computers not booting properly after the windows 11 24H2 KB5063878 update due to it essentially wiping the hard drives (specifically SSDs) on computers and laptops. users have reported their SSDs aren't able to be read/recognized and unable to be seen in bios settings either.

sources: - https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/08/20/microsoft-is-investigating-windows-11-kb5063878-ssd-data-corruption-failure-issue/ - https://www.nichepcgamer.com/archives/windows11-24h2-issue-with-writing-to-the-ssd-is-this-caused-by-kb5063878-kb5062660.html

it's safe to assume all SSDs can be potentially affected by this update, so if you haven't updated yet turn off autoupdates

the bug caused by this update is seemingly triggered by installing/moving/deleting large files (50+ gb), which as simmers is what a lot of us do very pften

if you're unsure what windows version you currently have:

go to settings > system > about (at they very bottom) > and scroll down to see the current OS version

if you do currently have windows 11 24H2:

in settings, click 'Windows update' > 'Update history' > and under 'Quality Updates' check to see if the KB5063878 update is in the list of recently installed updates

don't panic, you can uninstall this update!

while in 'Update History', scroll to the very bottom and click 'Uninstall updates', and click 'Uninstall' for 'Security Update for Microsoft Windows (KB5063878)'

from there, give it some time to remove the update and after pause updates for as long as possible (5 weeks is the longest i think), but it will force an update if there's a big/official update for the fix

if you've already been affected and your computer is not starting or giving errors regarding your hard drive, i recommend visiting small pc repair shops to try data recovery as some have reported placing their SSD in an enclosure seems to work to recover the data

hopefully this is helpful is any kind of way! friendly reminder to back up your data to an external drive routinely!

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There's a local café here that's located in an old post office building and they kept the pneumonic tube system. And they use them to deliver food to you. You just open the tube and there's a whole basket of fries inside. It's so funny.

Like, this is on their Google info:

where the hell are my pneumatic tubes this is not the future jules verne promised

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It is your sworn duty, when you're in your 30's, to do something every day that would have gotten you viciously bullied in high school.

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the second panel was originally going to have words but I decided it was better without them

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3 buttons required so you don't want to kill yourself on tumblr

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Just leaving this here as a reminder. [X]

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For anyone wondering, this is from the 2003 webseries 'Time Belt'. You can find a few episode clips on YouTube still.

GUYS DO WE KNOW ABOUT THIS???

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As OP said, yes, the PTB and fans now coexist in many online spaces. But that doesn't mean you should be tagging them, or sharing works directly, or inviting them into our houses!!

I have SO many issues with this changein fandom, but the main factors here are these:

Firstly, many people seem to have forgotten that, at its foundation, fandom is supposed to be FOR THE FANS, BY THE FANS. We make fanworks to create community with other fans who love the same media as us, NOT for the express purpose of trying to gain clout by posting and tagging the PTB on socials to try and get 5 minutes of fame.

If THAT is the only reason why you post fanworks, then you are part of the problem and I challenge you to reevaluate your priorities.

Secondly, social media has created the idea fans have 'instant access' to their favourite actors/writers/PTB and the parasocial obsession with these people only fuels this change of where the boundaries lie between them and us.

Specifically, when talking about NSFW fanworks, not only does tagging the actors on these posts hurt the fandom overall, it's also SOOOOO inappropriate and just straight up sexual harassment. (Don't even get me started on tweeting actors with your sexual fantasies about them 🤢😒)

The actors are NOT their characters. And a lot of people online seem to forget that.

The PTB involved in creating your favourite media are doing THEIR JOBS, the same way a cashier is doing theirs when they ring up your purchase. One just happens to be performed in front of a much larger swathe of people, that still doesn't mean you know them or have any sort of relationship with them!!

It's wild that in an age where so many people are obsessed with purity-politics, those same people refuse to acknowledge that sending celebs fanworks is the equivalent of a stranger walking into your job and handing you smutty art they drew of you and a coworker.

fandom spaces were better when the media creators didn't know we existed and we didn't want them to find out.

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