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You're about to close on your very own, suspiciously affordable and comfortable house. Just before you sign the contract, the realtor shows you the required legal disclosure: your new house is haunted by the type of presence you'll get from this spinner wheel.

Of course it is.

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You die on a Monday, quietly? :)

this one is original fiction! it'll be a short story if i get it done.

But: death in your sleep. Not a bad way to die, not for you. You don’t even notice when it happens. You don’t notice a lot of things. When you wake up, it takes an entire loop for you to realize it should have been Tuesday.  

I'm going to take a stab at a kind of time-loop story. sort of. maybe.

i just started playing with this today and im not sold on keeping second-person beyond the introductory 200 words but 2nd person is how the idea came to me, so i wanted to honor that at least in the beginning.

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some more details on "drank all the blood that i could" and "devotion as a bruise" please? <3

absolutely!!

drank all the blood that i could

Astarion can tell that Kira started her period on the road to Baldur's Gate. He offers her some assistance.

Kira’s breath catches. “You don’t mean that.” “Oh, but I do.” He stares down at her, and she’s never—for all the times that he’s snarled at her, drunk from her, flashed his eyes or his teeth at her in the dark—she’s never felt as much like caught prey as she does in this moment. Her heart pounds in her chest with the feeling: she’s exactly where he wants her to be, and he’s so damn pleased with himself. Slowly, deliberately, Astarion says, “Let me between your thighs, darling. A feast for me, an orgasm or two for you—we both win.”

devotion as a bruise

I'm still not sure if this will be the title of the fic or if this will be the series, because id like to write more than one story, but: Ophelia, cleric of Ilmater, and how she fell in love with a cleric of Shar. (the same Ophelia as mentioned in homing instinct) the fic takes place entirely in act 1.

Mildly, Ophelia says, “That was more than a wince. And it’s happened several times now.” Once in the Grove. At least twice in camp, and once more leaving it. This is the second time today and Ophelia hasn’t been able to pick out a pattern. She isn’t sure there is one. She isn’t even sure what’s happening, because Shadowheart wont talk to her, all she ever says is— “My pain is none of your concern, Ilmatari.” Shadowheart rises to her full height, glaring, but she’s inches shorter than Ophelia. The defiant effect is undercut somewhat by the subtle motion of her hand edging out of sight. The tiefling allows this with a nod, her horn chains clinking softly together. “But it could be.”

thank you for asking!!

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wip gaaaaaaaaaaame

i was tagged by the amazing @aevallare AND @gilded-glitter

Rules: In a new post, post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the titles that most intrigue them and then post a little snippet or tell us about them. Tag as many folk as you have WIPs.

listen. im working on a lot of stuff but i also started a new job and my mental health? we dont talk about her. i cannot defend myself. but my wips are as follows:

true colors 6

the only meaning as i knew it 2

incorporeal movement

eldath's mercy 3

troubled thoughts 2

that's the kind of love 2 (ill be real its on the pile but idk about it)

drank all the blood that i could

devotion as a bruise

obsequies

the bones of old grief

You die on a Monday, quietly.

i cannot possibly tag that many people adskjfa uhhhh @again-pls @mutualcombat @socalledfreethinker @septemberskye and YOU if you have wips you want to talk about

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me burning the candle at both ends: oobh i got plany off wick

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PSA

Just a heads up, there are bots going around on AO3 accusing people of using AI. Considering the timing, this is likely AI bros' retaliation for AO3 users calling them out for scraping their work. Examples of what you might be sent:

Screenshots from here.

If you get a comment like this, just report for spam and delete.

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the original pikmin are like. speak evil. hear evil. sniff evil

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"What made you follow your mutual" I don't know. I don't remember anything. In my mind we were mutuals at birth. Since the dawn of time. The start of the earth's spin

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Polygon employees who did not get laid off:

Tasha Robinson (entertainment editor)

Maddy Myers (I forget her exact title lol editor)

Zoe Hannah (games editor)

Ari Notis (guides editor)

Oil welsh (senior reporter I think)

Simone de Rochefort (senior video editor)

Matt Patches (executive editor)

Russ frushtick (I also forgot his exact title lol)

Another guides editor (Matthew Reynolds) was given the opportunity to stay on but declined it. I don’t fault anyone who stayed on because man ain’t it tough to find a writing job in this economy. And they’ve all expressed outrage on our behalf’s. But it appears valnet gutted everyone in the union and then the top tier management, leaving only some middle management

Also, full disclosure: my last piece will go live on the ghost of polygon dot com in the next few days. My manager had reached out to me letting me know it was up to me whether or not it did, and I said yes because I wanted it to be the last thing attached to my byline. It’s a good one!! I had fun writing it and I want to go out with something I’m proud of

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Me and the mutual I pulled by being actually I have no idea why they followed me but I'm glad they did

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if theres anything you want crushed and ruined just let me know

ill put it in my mangle

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Jesus Christ. Polygon's done.

Plante is out as editor. Massive layoffs across the staff, including Nicole Carpenter, Petrana Radulovic, Michael McWhertor, maybe Charlie Hall...

Fucking hell. I wouldn't have even tried to start writing about games without that site. Goddamnit all.

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[so horny my penis is whistling like a tea kettle] what? i cant hear you over my penis

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A dress made of cotton muslin, gilded metal thread and Indian jewel beetles (sternocera aeqisignata), Britain, 1868-1869 CE. Over 5000 beetle wings or parts of wings were used to decorate this dress.

Now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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The way everyone is so quick to turn any mention of depiction of feet in art into a fetish joke is so annoyingggg. What about bare feet as humility, reverence, vulnerability, servitude, youth, et cetera. Nobody's discussing this anymore because of Big foot fetish joke. Not trying to create a dichotomy either btw obviously art inspired by fetish holds equal merit to all other art and can still be analyzed from different perspectives. Just pointing out a prevalent online trend. Also just in general I can think of grosser parts of the body people are getting off to