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Readalong is a great way to connect with others in this fabulous community and experience fics in a different way. Makes a great Fest goal!

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The long fic readalong is temporarily transitioning to oneshots! After finishing our last long story, we are moving back to stories we can read in one night for the remainder of June and probably all of July. We hope this means more people will be able to come join us and not feel like you have to worry about being caught up.

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Better living - more beautiful living - through chemistry. Amazing.

This scientist crafts stunning visual art through chemistry.

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I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:

IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.

1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.

2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.

3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”

4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”

5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.

TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.

Reblog this to keep other users aware. Suicide isn’t a joke, and neither is someone’s life. If you didn’t know this, someone else may not, either. Pass it on.

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The fact that Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian Mckellen are best friends in real life makes me so happy

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Love this idea!

"The Mechanisms is Jon's college band"

Okay, but what about "Rusty Quill Gaming is Martin's club DnD session"??

I haven't see RQG just yet (but I am planning to), but really guys, we need more of this, there are currently none, as far as I know.

Imagine Melanie coming to make a statement and act like she and Martin are best friends. How hilarious would it be for the other archive crew to see that turns out Martin knows the ghost youtuber personally. Melanie knowing Jon has been very rude to Martin immediately pick a fight with Jon in Martin's defense.

(Perhaps then the Not-Sasha situation can go earlier and more smoothly because I think Martin would trust her (and definitely won't, you know, buy an axe in central London))

Character wise, though, might need to make original charcters because if we pick the characters that is voiced by the people in RQG we'll get Martin, Melanie, Elias, Melanie's therapist, the guy who gives a fake name and thought his friend got taken by the secret government, and the guy who's deadly afraid of spiders who's got sent to The Lonely by Peter Lukas, LMAO.

Of course, Laverne, "John Smith", and Brian Finlinson can still be their friends, we don't know their canon age, just make them into actual fleshed out character and tadaa. The problem is Elias.

If we think about the timeline, Elias won't ever be able to be inserted no matter what, because Elias "became" the Head of the institute when Martin is 9. Now, we also don't know Elias' canon age, but we can assume he's an adult.

I saw a post that had a similar idea about this, maybe that one could work, but now I'm imagining Martin coming for an interview and saw this guy who used to play DnD with him when he's a child and went "Oh, Elias! Long time no see!" XD He become horrified immediately because he knows Elias would know he lied about his age.

(And how horrifying is it for Martin and Melanie to find out what Elias had become, some added angst if you will ;]) - 💻

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Blessed are the dykes, for their rage shall be triumphant.

“Dyke rage is blessed”

Dyke March, San Francisco, June 27th, 2015, by skamalas on flickr. (source)

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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

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There are a couple of things about current shipping culture that confuse me.  

1. The focus on whether or not a pairing will become canon as a reason people should ship something or not.  Do you not understand what the “transformative” part of “transformative works” means?”

2. This idea that saying “I ship that” means “I think that, as presented in canon,this is a perfect, healthy relationship that everyone should model their relationship after.” 

Sometimes shipping something does mean that.  Sometimes shipping something means “Person A is a trash bag who doesn’t deserve person B but I would love to explore how Person A might grow to deserve Person B.” Sometimes it means “I want these characters to live together forever in a conflict free domestic AU.”  Sometimes it means “I want Person A to forever pine after Person B.  Nothing is beautiful and everything hurts.”  And sometimes it just means you like their faces and want to see Person A and Person B bone in various configurations and universes. 

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Happy Pride Month to everyone who gets this joke, laughed at it, or isn’t a homophobic or transphobic etc asshole.

Happy Pride Everyone.

Stay Gay.

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I laughed so fucking hard at this

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just got home from a long quarter, hanging out with my family when the cutest pair of lesbians pull up by the water and get married in front of us💕

Happy pride month everyone but especially to eloping lesbians

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S is for Sacrilege!! Yay!!!

This is my contribution to the RQG A to Z fan project!! wahoo!!

You should check out everybody's at this link!!

https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/170943904

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Fish Love Campaign, 2015 Photographer: John Swannell

*My absolute favourite photo of Dame Judi - posted across all the Judi Dailys for World Oceans Day.

Fishlove is a series of striking and iconic photographs of famous people with fish which has uniquely succeeded in getting the subject of overfishing and the need for marine conservation onto the front covers of the global media. For more information, visit the Fish Love Campaign website: http://fishlove.co.uk/

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had to redraw my classic nap pile for the letter Z :,) happy 10th birthday rqg

this time with bertie and brutor included and all! also, four years later i did everything full body wooo 😎 got my anatomy DOWN

ID: a fully rendered digital drawing of all the player characters from RQG in a large cuddle pile in their pyjamas. Azu, Hamid, Cel, Zolf, Sasha and Grizzop are in one pile, while Bertie lies on Brutor below them.

Grizzop, furthest to the right, is flopped, face down on top of Sasha, his face in her chest and limbs across her body. Sasha is on her back with a hand resting on Grizzop's shoulder and her head resting in Zolf's armpit. Zolf, also on his back, has one hand on his stomach, the other behind Sasha's head. His head is tilted towards Sasha. He is not wearing his prosthetics. On Zolf's other side is Cel, lying on their side and resting their head on Zolf's shoulder, hands wrapped around his bicep. Azu is below that, on her back between Cel's legs. One of Cel's legs is over Azu's shoulder, the other under her arm, their foot touching Sasha's. Azu holds Cel's leg across her chest, and rests her head on Cel's other thigh. Hamid is curled up at Azu's side, lying on his side with his head in her armpit, Azu's arm holding him to her safely. On the bottom right, Brutor lies on his side, tongue out as he sleeps in a running position. Bertie is on lying his side with his head on Brutor's rib cage, his hand resting on Brutor's shoulder.

Grizzop is wearing wide leg brown trousers with a baggy green shirt, Sasha wears a dark purple long sleeve with loose grey trousers, Zolf is in a grubby white tshirt and grey boxer shorts, Cel wears a cream button up shirt and green knee length shorts, Azu is in a pink smock with a gold neckline, Hamid and Bertie both wear satin pyjamas, Hamid’s are purple and Bertie’s are red. The background is a warm purple. End ID

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pride month!!!

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I was exactly the right age at exactly the right transitional period in history to have been an unsupervised preteen on dial-up BBSes, Usenet, IRC, and first-generation web forums, more or less in that order, so all things considered I think I'm doing pretty well.