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decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

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use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

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use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

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this is absolutely just my obsession with misunderstandings in fiction coming through, but whilst I greatly enjoy fics where characters from TCF and/or TBOAH react to KRS!Cale's life, what I really want is a reaction fic that does NOT tell them everything. I want a fic that, instead of letting absolutely everybody know about everything KRS!Cale has done so that they more or less know the truth of things, creates new and exciting misunderstandings, and have THAT be the focus

Like most of the reaction fics I've read have an ending (or presumed ending in the case of WIPs) where all misunderstandings have been pretty much dispelled. There might still be some secrets in some cases, but all the misunderstandings are pretty much cleared up and a shit ton of secrets have been revealed

Fuck that. Give me a reaction fic where what they do/don't react to has been selectively chosen to cause MORE misunderstandings. TCF canon+fandom are both rife with misunderstandings it's kind of inherently part of it all at this point but look at me. Look at me. I PROMISE we can make it worse

(edit: I'll limit myself to one example of how that could be played per bulletpoint but trust me I have like 3+ examples for every bulletpoint)

Here's a few options I can think of just now, there's probably loads more, assuming we're starting with the premise of some form of reaction fic:

- knock out or don't include KRS!Cale in the reacting side of things, therefore all other reacting characters have to rely on what they see/hear and discussions with each other, with nobody there to clarify things. this would probably rapidly snowball into bizarre assumptions + interpretations that nobody corrects (or only corrects with weirder versions of what might be going on) very quickly

- you could easily create a billion misunderstandings about Kim Rok Soo and/or Cale!KRS. for example: simply not explaining the transmigration + regression

- what if you simply didn't let the characters know that TCF/TBOAH was another world. leave them thinking both things have happened/will happen in the same world they all live in. what then. for example: no duplicates of the characters you choose to react, take them from earlier in their respective timelines and/or people who have otherwise had no reason to meet, be extremely selective about what scenes you show, result: allow both worlds to think "woah. all this has been happening without me knowing about it? what the fuck"

- disproportionately show scenes in which a character has or acts on an inaccurate belief. do not show said belief being cleared up. let's have a montage of people assuming KRS!Cale is not human and scenes that inadvertently support that assumption and then clear none of that up, for example. let characters go home after this shit side-eyeing KRS!Cale and/or TBOAH Cale like no one's business

- show less scenes than most reaction fics choose to. for example, I know it's interesting to think about how characters react to Raon's rescue, but consider: how would they react to NOT seeing Raon's rescue? what if they just saw several scenes where KRS!Cale has no dragon and then suddenly scenes start showing up where there IS a baby dragon, and everyone in said scenes acts like that's normal, no explanation. I want to see the resulting conspiracy theories for that

- show roughly the same scenes/same amount of scenes as reaction fics tend to....but show less of KRS!Cale's thought process for such. for example: generally people either don't know abt it at all or they know he did it to get an Ancient Power, but please imagine a huge room of people trying to figure out why they've spent the last ten minutes watching scenes of KRS!Cale buying truly obscene amounts of bread only to dump it into a hole beneath some tree

- instead show MORE scenes than most reaction fics tend to include. for example, throw in a scene of baby!og!Cale listening to his mom tell him his time is warped, maybe alongside a scene of White Star's wild theorising about KRS!Cale, to maximise confusion. Now I'm gonna be honest and say that I've seen several fics with Jour telling og!Cale about his time but I legitimately do not know whether that's a canon scene I haven't read up to yet or a fanon idea that several people liked, so in case of the latter I'll add a second, alternate example of how the extra scenes thing could fall it. So, second example: let's include scenes of KRS!Cale talking to gods through whatever methods, and scenes of him talking to Cale!KRS and Jung Soo and Sui Khan. For added misunderstandings let's make whatever controls the scenes use the same method to clarify "this being is not a mortal originally native to this world" for all of those beings, because then if that's never explicitly stated then we could have the characters reacting assume that that mechanic actually indicate "divinity" and therefore assume that Cale!KRS, Jung Soo, etc, are gods. For even more added misunderstandings, keep that assumption but add "hey, KRS!Cale isn't a mortal /originally native to this world/ either, he transmigrated, ditto for Choi Han" and have the reacting characters wonder if they've made a mistake somewhere or if they have two gods (Choi Han and KRS!Cale) just....around. Maybe have them try to connect nonexistent dots with how in TCF Choi Han follows KRS!Cale and in TBOAH Choi Han and Cale met and immediately hate each other

- have them see a few scenes that just, are nor relevant to anything. not often but occasionally thrown in there there'll be a brief clip of Random Citizen 251 walking through town and then buying some fruit from the market or something. then let the reacting characters scramble to try and figure out the relevance of this because surely if they're being shown this scene it must be important somehow, right? right???

- whoever said these scenes had to be in clear chronological order, or let the characters have any idea of what happens when? no one. we don't have to do that. fuck, you could even show a few scenes from when KRS!Cale's Ancient Powers were alive, let them try to decipher THAT. you could for example show them Henituse County being attacked by wyverns and then show bits of the Plaza incident, which would probably result in the extremely unfortunate assumption that the celebration that will get attacked is a different later one than the one that actually gets attacked (...nobody said reaction fics had to have 100% easy-ish happy endings either-)

- most reaction fics I've read either have the characters reading something (TCF, Wikipedia, etc) or they have the characters watching TCF like it's a movie. Either way they figure out very quickly that KRS!Cale is at the heart of everything going on. New plan! They don't get to know who the 'main character' is for a long time. For example, have them watch TCF as though it's a movie BUT it's in first person perspective (from KRS!Cale's point of view) and minimise the number of scenes in which people actually use his name. Let's see the reacting characters be like "uhhhh well we're looking v slightly UP at the crown Prince of Roan so whoever this is is shorter than him by a tiny bit", "does anyone recognise this fancy place we keep waking up in? no? fuck [talking abt Super Rock Villa]", "do we even know what country this person' from? I was assuming he was at least from the Western Continent but then the last several scenes have all had him casually in the Eastern Continent..", it'd be really funny. Hell have them assume for a brief period of time, until another scene dispels that belief, that with KRS!Cale's nonchalance around Alberu, Witiria, Litania, etc, maybe the person whose perspective they're seeing these events through is a ruler from an unknown region, or something

- have all scenes be about/memories from past or future of Cale BUT interpret "Cale" really generously. What I'm saying is there should be scenes from Kim Rok Soo, TBOAH Cale, og!Cale, KRS!Cale, and Cale!KRS's memories/future events and it should be real fucking unclear what's what. Ideally in a way that maximises confusion

- reaction fics often include bits of KRS!Cale's thoughts, at least, the bits we see in the narrative of TCF. Why don't we also include random snippets of record? But without context. KRS!Cale knows that that snippet he suddenly remembered is from a novel he read three years ago, because he remembers yk reading the whole novel etc, but do the characters reacting to these scenes know how to distinguish between "random snippet remembered from (fictional) source" and "random snippet remembered from (nonfictional) source" and "KRS!Cale's actual, often random or seemingly off-topic thoughts"? No, no they don't, because they don't have the necessary context to do so

Okay now onto reasons the above bulletpoints could be included:

- whoever is in charge of showing the scenes genuinely just didn't realise it would be an issue; this could for example be how that last bulletpoint happens it just didn't occur to them that someone who doesn't have Record might struggle to discern what was that ability and what was usual thoughts/memories

- whoever is in charge of the scenes is trying to create misunderstandings on purpose. often people writing reaction fics elect a god to be in charge of that, so we could for example have a god of mischief trying to cause maximum chaos (I think I've actually seen that before, though they were trying to chase chaos by revealing secrets not by causing more misunderstandings) or maybe it is SOMEHOW One Final Hurrah from the god of despair who thought maybe causing enough confusion would make KRS!Cale feel misunderstood and isolated and miserable

- technical difficulties/someone fucked up the process of letting them read/see scenes. oops

- Neither Cale (KRS or og) can be here to clear up any possible misunderstandings because there's some inherent incompatibility with having them present and showing scenes/memories of theirs at the same time. Just can't do it. They can be here or you can have smth to react to but not both

- whoever is in charge of the scenes just doesn't have enough power/energy to present things in a clearer way (chronological, more scenes, etc)

- they could have done it in a way that was less confusing way (third person POV instead of seeing through KRS!Cale's eyes, for example) but they thought this was better for emotional impact, which they deemed more important. Maybe they thought the characters would figure out who it was eventually anyway and the emotional impact would make them more likely to understand+sympathise with KRS!Cale which was the ultimate goal orrr thought it would make TBOAH characters more likely to take this shit seriously and stop fighting each other to instead take notes and plan which was the ultimate goal

I'd also really like to not only see reaction fics that increase confusion/misunderstandings/etc but to then have the fic continue PAST when they've reacted to stuff. I want to the characters dumped back where they came from and I want to read at least another 10 chapters from there about the fallout

I feel like there was something more I wanted to add to this post but I forgot so I'll leave it here

more reaction fics that tell you stuff but clarify nothing! maximise confusion rather than minimise it! cause all the problems in the world! yeah!

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I randomly thought of a crack idea where Cale suddenly wakes up as the Evil Queen's magical mirror in a dimly lit underground room and all he can think of is 'Ah shit, here we go again. Got dropped into another shitty alternate dimension without my consent.'

He doesn't know why he woke up as a big-ass mirror hanging on the wall but as usual he quickly gets used to it and decides to take long naps for the meantime. He'll probably wake up back in his old world again. Until a door creaks open, and a dominating figure wearing an extravagant and flashy outfit (Cale needs to bleach his eyes for witnessing such a horrendous view) saunters toward him. If Cale has a jaw — but he doesn't because he's a mirror for who knows why — it would fall limping on the floor.

'IT'S THAT FUCKING WHITE SHIT!!!'

And that same 'White Shit' looks at him with that smug face of his, flaunting his ridiculous outfit. "Mirror, mirror on the wall, whose the fairest of them all?"

'What a stupid cliche question.'

"Certainly not you." Cale replies curtly.

White 'Shit' stares at him with a twitching eye. "You're acting unusually rude today."

"It's because I have the misfortune to have someone as ugly-looking as you as my owner."

"...When did you get such an attitude?"

"When you thought it was a good idea to disturb my beauty sleep with that face of yours." Cale shoots back.

White Star narrows his eyes. "Answer the question seriously."

"But I am being serious?"

"I'll be asking again and only once. Mirror, mirror on the wall, whose the fairest of them all?"

With full conviction, seriousness, and confidence, Cale answers with an unapolegetic smile. "What an obvious answer. It would be none other than Cale Henituse of course."

White Star looks at him in a mix of confusion, anger, and shock. "...Who the fuck is Cale Henituse?"

"Someone who definitely looks better than you, that's for sure."

"..."

*Cues the clamor of shouts, shrieks, and cries in a razed battlefield (which is actually just some kind of brutal beauty pageant and Og!Cale is utterly bewildered why the Queen or King in this case is yelling profanities at him when he was just drinking quietly in his room with the imperial army following right behind him — "Why the hell is His Majesty and his troops barging into my room unannounced?!") while Cale lives his slacker life peacefully as a mirror.*

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2 of my new classmates' surnames are cale and barrow. is this a tcf reference

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Old magical girl au things lol

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✨SPIN THE WHEEL TO GET YOUR CHARACTER✨

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Fully grown Qiong Ding Head Disciple Luo Binghe (from the timeline where Shen Jiu didn't attend those disciple selections + has a better overall set of relationships with the other peak lords) unearths some old documents that establish that in the past, actually, the Qiong Ding and Qing Jing peak lords would be expected to marry. Either legitimately or just ceremonially, as a sort of representation of commitment to the sect as a family above all other things.

The practice fell out of favor a few generations ago, but Luo Binghe is hellbent on getting it back into play. Not because he gives a shit about qijiu (he's on decently-good terms with YQY but SQQ still kind of wants to kick him off the top of the highest peak) but because if he can get the practice restored now, he's all set for eventually getting Qing Jing Peak's current head disciple, Shen Yuan, to marry him when the old generation ascends and finally hands over the sect.

He's playing the long game.

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Super silly AU/fic prompt based more on idea of Xin Mo just adoring SQQ. Like this is the worlds biggest hater and Xin Mo loves conflict.

SQQ accidentally touching Xin Mo at some point in Jinlan city and the sword seeing in mind, and the comment threads and is instantly like 'THAT ONE! THAT ONE IS MY DESTINED WIELDER! GIVE ME TO HIM!!'

LBH not wanting cursed sword anywhere near his Shizun..also HOW IS THE SWORD NOW ALSO HIS RIVAL! Shizun's charms are to strong.

Also Xin Mo instantly shutting off any encouragement it had to violence to SQQ

Xin Mo: Protec

LBH: I WANT TO YOU WERE THE ONE TRYING TO GET ME TO-

Xin Mo: I would never. Only protec

Just LBH and Xin Mo fighting over SQQ.

Sword suddenly appearing in water prison and SQQ is like The Fuck only for LBH to charge in 'IT TRIED TO SHOVE ME BACK INTO THE ENDLESS ABYSS'

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Luo Binghe is doomed narratively not because he's a demon but because he's a Masochist in love with a hater and the one person shen yuan loves unconditionally is him. So now he has to drink vinegar watching Shen Yuan verbally abuse Shang qinghua (IT SHOULD BE HIM!)

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Q1. What if Han Yoohyun was the older brother and Han Yoojin the younger brother?

If Han Yoohyun was born first, the probability of a younger sibling being born would have been extremely low. The parents would not have been able to endure for long and would have either divorced quickly, or Han Yoohyun would have been abandoned. 

If Han Yoohyun had grown enough to have some level of awareness about society, his parents would have been murdered before they could abandon him. Han Yoohyun would have judged it to be more favorable to have parents who were murdered by robbers rather than being a simple orphan. Any peculiarities in a young child in this situation would be accepted and understood as being due to trauma, and if he were lucky, he might even be able to inherit and keep some of the property and wealth.

If Han Yoohyun was successfully abandoned before that could happen, Han Yoojin might have been born. But in that case he would grow up completely unaware of his older brother's existence. 

In the low probability* Han Yoohyun could murder his parents after Han Yoojin is born. In this case, Han Yoohyun would probably judge that having a newborn younger sibling is more advantageous for receiving protection from adults, so he wouldn't kill Han Yoojin.

Note: *My reading is that the low probability in this case either refers to the the probability that Han Yoojin is born without Yoohyun having been abandoned, or... the possibly that an abandoned Yoohyun might come back and murder the parents for the optics of being a little orphan with a newborn baby brother? Would love to hear opinions/inputs on this.

But also ⊙﹏⊙∥

Q1. 한유현이 형이고 한유진이 동생이었다면 어땠을까요?

└ 근서 22.07.23 20:41

한유현이 첫째였다면 동생이 태어났을 가능성은 극히 낮았을 겁니다. 오래 버티지 못하고 이혼했거나 한유현이 버려졌겠지요. 한유현이 사회에 대해 어느 정도 인식한 시점이라면 한유현을 버리기 전에 부모가 살해당했을 겁니다. 한유현은 단순한 고아보다는 강도 살해 당한 부모를 두는 편이 더 유리하다고 판단했을 테니까요. 어린아이의 이상한 점이 충격으로 인한 것으로 받아들여지며 운이 좋다면 재산도 일부나마 가질 수 있겠지요.

그 전에 한유현을 무사히 버렸다면 한유진이 태어났을 수도 있습니다만 형의 존재를 까맣게 모른 채 성장하게 되겠죠. 낮은 확률로 한유진이 태어난 후에 한유현이 부모를 살해할 수도 있습니다. 이 경우엔 아마 한유현은 성체들의 보호를 받기엔 갓 난 동생이 있는 편이 유리하다 판단하고 한유진은 죽이지 않을 거예요.

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Regressor!LQG AU

Imagine if SQQ didn’t wake after five years (or even during) and LBH actually did get fed up with and kill LQG, who, in ORV style, woke back up in the Lingxi caves.

Since LQG obviously doesn’t know what happened the way SQQ did during his transmigration he’d be absolutely bewildered, perhaps think it was a dream, and launch himself at SQQ like a cat jumping from a particularly high shelf. SQQ thinks LQG is still attacking, even after his deviation’s been righted, until LQG stops his attack(?) and is just staring down at him with something akin to awe, near-reverently, “Shen Qingqiu?”

Anyway once LQG figures out that he’s in the past armed with knowledge of a future he doesn’t wish to come he’ll naturally do whatever he can to keep SQQ alive and get rid of LBH. This is the fun part- LBH has the protagonist halo, of course, so he won’t die. I’m thinking of a series of definitely-accidental-death (attempts) that LQG tries to pull on disciple LBH that are always inevitable Thwarted by seemingly Mother Nature herself. Idk if LBH starts to catch on (as I dont think LQG would be too obvious at first, setting up traps instead of poisons or outright attacking since he’s currently still a disciple- a beloved one at that) or if he thinks he just has the worst (or best) luck in the world.

This really got away from me but The Point of this AU was really to go ORV style and have LQG keep failing to save SQQ/kill LBH and regressing repeatedly. He didn’t go nearly insane enough during the five year gap and I’m here to fix that.

TLDR:

Peak Lord, renowned undefeated War God, vs. virtually untrained 12 year old boy (one-sided)

The war god is losing.

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bro last night was totally redacted! last night was fully expunged from the record. bro, do you... can you remember last night? what did we do...? what did... did we hurt someone? bro? why won't you look at me? what did I do...? whose blood is this...? bro...?

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List of webtoons that deserve an anime adaption:

- my s class hunters

- my s class hunters

- my s class hunters

- my s class hunters

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Crossover that lets me make my favorites good friends.

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TOTCF and Cookie Run? Yes!

Cale Henituse

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Wait- umm guys would calling Cale, Kim Rok Soo, be deadnaming him?? this question might seem quite offensive?? Idk what to say it but

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Shen Yuan revealing his real name to Luo Binghe can be very romantic in fics

But imagine how funny it would be if it's revealed by Shang Qinghua

Shang Qinghua: A-Yuan! How's it hanging?

Luo Binghe: A-Yuan?

Shang Qinghua: Huh? Has your husband never told you his real name?

Shen Qingqiu: No I haven't...

Shang Qinghua: Well shit, sorry for deadnaming you

Shen Qingqiu: What?

Shang Qinghua: Get it? Because that was your name before you died?

Shen Qingqiu: Get the fuck out of my house

Luo Binghe: SHIZUN HAS DIED MORE THAN ONCE?!?!