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i feel these needed to be compiled. feel free to add more genre related posts in the notes if you want

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example #58273 of absolutely wild lines from xena

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They should have been queer Tournament - Semi-finals

Disclaimer: This tournament is based on submissions! Please respect all identities, characters and fandoms! Hate will get you blocked instantly!

Why Spock should have been queer: spock and kirk are the original slash ship. there are constant examples on the show of spock not being interested in women and just straight up ignoring women who are trying to flirt with him. and that's not even talking about the way he flirts with kirk. I'm linking some posts here as propaganda:

Why Kirk should have been queer: He’s soooo bi/pan

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currently going absolutely feral over this rn

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Welcome to the Behemoth.

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Holden, baby boy, couldn't you think of a more normal way to ask your friends to start a company together? 🤣

Caliban's War, the second book in The Expanse series, by James S. A. Corey

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EXACTLY.

CC is hanging around hoping to right-place right-time replace Maxwell's late wife, and she's the kind of person who would remove every picture of his late wife from the house and secretly punish the kids if they dared to mention her, and after she feels she's established enough, she'd work on Maxwell about boarding school and try to get the kids out of her life as much as possible. She'd probably try for a child of her own not because she wants a kid but to try to make Maxwell focus on the baby and not notice what she's doing to the children of his first marriage. Her plans wouldn't work if she were unattractive -- she is banking on her looks helping her to bring this all home.

Fran, despite being the "wrong" sort of person, is also warm and caring and from the beginning wants Maxwell more involved with his children, not less. Her differences from (and with!) CC are all about what kind of "right" they each are: the right kind on the surface, or the right kind inside.

So the casting directors of The Nanny really thought "we have a character that is supposed to be this old, frumpy, unattractive, off-putting, just there to be an evil comedic relief punching bag, desperate for male attention woman" and then they chose her:

As if she wouldn't inspire whole generations of fashionistas, and have several lines of queer women ready to throw themselves at her feet?!? The 90's really were a time..

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ANDREW ROBINSON as ELIM GARAK with Alexander Siddig as Dr. Bashir in DEEP SPACE NINE, S2.E22 - The Wire (1994)

Maybe the most important scene of ds9 ever to me.

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On the "Jim" thing: the first time in TOS (by production order) that Spock calls Kirk "Jim" is in "Where No Man Has Gone Before", and Kirk does not react as if it's unusual. They are on duty at the time. He does it again in "The Corbomite Maneuver", immediately following in the production order, on the bridge. The first time by airdate order is "Charlie X" -- again on the bridge.

He does it much less than McCoy does, but it's present from the beginning.

How to write like Spock

Some Spirk writers tend to write like Spock anyway and that's why we write so much Spirk (cough cough, me. Let me tell you, people don't like it when you write like Spock in books). Others consider his voice a particular challenge, so this is for you.

Spock's level of formality can be a challenge if you're used to colloquial English. It includes things like an advanced vocabulary, convoluted sentences, and an avoidance of idioms.

My biggest tip is this: if you don't know how to do a thing, best not to worry about it. Don't use words if you don't know their meaning. If you need a sciencey word and don't know enough science, make one up. In the end, Spock can talk like other people if he wants to so don't tie yourself in a knot about it.

Kirk and Spock are both kind of Renaissance men. So they don't just talk about science, but may reference history, literature, psychology, whatever you like. Feel free to give them your interests and make them cite your favorite book or historical figure.

There are certain words the fandom loves and loves to misuse:

amenable: willing, agreeing to something. "I would be amenable to your proposal." The proposal isn't amenable, Spock is.

agreeable: this one can be used for the proposal. "Your suggestion would be agreeable to me."

reticent: reserved, unwilling to disclose. "He was reticent on the topic of pon farr."

reluctant: unwilling to do something. "He was reluctant to disclose the meaning of pon farr." Don't say he was reticent to go swimming. We don't really say reticent to do anything. It's an adjective that stands on its own for someone who's politely secretive (like Spock).

thusly: is not a word. People started using it as a joke around when I was in elementary school and now they seem to think it's real. It's not.

thus: in this way. It is an adverb already so there's no need to add -ly. "Why do you act thus?" "Thus I have always explained it."

Spock does use contractions, for instance in his classic line, "When I feel friendship for you, I'm ashamed." You can avoid them to help the ear hear his specific cadence, but it's not weird if Spock happens to use them and his friends would not be shocked.

Spock does not swear (till STIV, and then badly). If he cusses, Bones is going to whip out a medical tricorder to see what's wrong.

Spock does occasionally use idioms, but often in "air quotes" so he can pretend it is a human foible he wouldn't dream of using on his own. He understands them perfectly fine, but he sometimes pokes fun at them. Don't overdo this or he just seems obnoxious. Spock can read the room.

Despite his love of formality, throughout TOS, Spock uses "Jim" readily off duty or in moments of danger. Now of course depending on your fic, he might not be on a first-name basis with Jim yet. But they don't have to be sleeping together to be using first names.

Spock rarely admits to emotions but he does feel them. It's up to you whether he admits them in his internal monologue. There are a lot of strategies people use to show his emotion:

"He noticed a flash of fear and tucked it away to meditate about later."

"The threat of mortality had risen to sixty-one percent, but as a Vulcan he felt no fear about this, none whatsoever."

"His knees felt weak and his stomach churned. Perhaps he was coming down with a virus."

"He wondered idly if, when he died, the captain would weep."

There's no one right way to do it! We rarely see what Spock is actually thinking, so you can make him poetic, alexithymic, enlightened, whatever background makes the tiny above-water iceberg of his visible behavior make sense.

This deserves to be its own point: with all characters, there will be a difference between their inner narration and what they reveal on the outside, but that's especially true for Spock. Using his POV allows the chance of showing tons of stuff he would never show. Feelings, motives, Vulcan traditions that guide his reactions. Jim will often be aware of his feelings, but most people won't.

Okay that's what I can think of off the top of my head. I hope it makes you feel more comfortable writing his POV if it's something you've been afraid to try.

What did I forget?

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PSA: If you come to my fics and accuse me of having used AI to write them because you “see em dashes,” I will instantly block you. I will then place your username on a Wall of Fucknuckles at the very beginning of the fic so that each person who reads my work after you will see your name and know that you’re a complete fucknuckle.

AI stole em dashes from human writers, INCLUDING ME. Almost every work I’ve ever made available on the Internet has been scraped for training LLMs.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

With the utmost disdain,

Dodger

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With the whole rap thing I think a lot of people don’t know its fine to just. Not like something. You don’t need a reason. Like I listened to a bunch of rap and found a few songs I liked but overall it wasnt for me. It’s not inherently racist to like and dislike music genres

the thing is that I think there actually is a pretty distinct line between people who just Don't Vibe With Rap and people who can't vibe with rap because its proximity to Blackness scares the shit out of them. like I've gotten plenty of people in my replies who just haven't found rap that clicks with them and feel whatever about it, and while I definitely think a lot of people should take stock of how their tastes and interests can be shaped by white supremacy, I genuinely don't think it's racist to not generally enjoy rap any more than it's racist to not enjoy, like, kpop or reggaeton or whatever. nothing is for everybody!

but then I get these clowns who feel the need to like. stand up on a chair and announce that they don't like rap because of [insert antiblack stereotypes here] and still desperately want someone to coddle them and kiss their little heads and assure them that it's okay to hold some super racist beliefs as long as it's just a ~preference~ like. fucking miss me with that, fix your life.

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This exact reason is why my father (a physician) would not keep Tylenol in the house when we were kids. As it turns out once you have a few kids come into the ER with a Tylenol overdose you don't want that stuff near your own kids.

It's a very effective medication and, at low doses, very safe with minimal side effects. It's just that it's easy to end up taking too much, and it's a miserable, horrible, sometimes fast, but sometimes very very long, way to die.

One of the things I learned from having multiple surgeries and several major injuries (mountain biking is fun, friends! i promise) is that an effective, but much safer, OTC pain management thing to do is to alternate acetaminophen with ibuprofen, staggering them by about 4 hours, so you're taking 2 acetaminophen every 8 hours (well under the dangerous dose). If you can't take ibuprofen -- it has its own set of risks! you should always be aware of the risks of your medications! -- this won't work, but if you can, it is a good way to keep your pain/fever down without destroying your liver.

PSA:

Acetaminophen/paracetamol has a hard stop upper dose limit, above which it becomes extremely toxic.

That limit is 4g (8 “extra strength” (500mg) tablets) in 24 hours (about 2 tablets every 6 hours).

A single dose of 22 extra strength tablets can kill you.

Taking 12 or more tablets per day for more than a week can also kill you (this is about 3 tablets every 6 hours).

Symptoms of overdose take up to 24 hours to manifest, and are fairly difficult to distinguish from other problems. They include abdominal pain (especially right upper quadrant), nausea, malaise, and confusion.

The antidote (n-acetylcystine) must be given within 8hours of ingestion in order to be useful.

After 10 hours the only thing that will work is a liver transplant.

You might think “why would I ever accidentally take so much?”

Well, acetaminophen is in almost everything in the cold/flu/pain aisle. Migraine combos like Excedrin, cold and flu combos like NyQuil, basically anything that says “non-aspirin pain relief”, and anything that’s branded as a fever reducer. It’s all probably acetaminophen/paracetamol.

So the goal of this post is to get you to read the labels on your medications. Because taking taking Tylenol and NyQuil together for a week (like you might if you had the flu) could kill you.

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i want what david cronenberg has

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hey why are the Van Helsings always the Vampire Hunting Family in modern Dracula stories. Abraham Van Helsing might be the guy who knows stuff but his family is off in the Netherlands and/or dead and totally uninvolved in the plot. Abraham's great-great grandson has no reason to be doing backflips and chopping off heads or whatever

You know who is a family who hates Dracula so so much and would totally teach their kids how to hunt vampires? The Harkers. Give me a modern vampire story where the protagonists are about to die when out pops Quincey Arthur John Lucy Abraham Murray Harker the Fifth, armed with a giant knife and an encyclopedic knowledge of train schedules

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