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I come from a mental illness dynasty

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au where sirius did some modelling for stock photos in his early twenties when money was tight after getting disowned by his family.

several years later, remus is working a boring government job, and one day while searching for stock photos to add to a powerpoint, he has his breath taken away by the gorgeous man in some of the stock photos he finds. he starts using the model's photos in his presentations as often as he dares (but not so often as to be weird, just whenever it makes sense....even though his coworkers start to notice that it's the same handsome dude in all his presentations).

well, one day, representatives from a growing nonprofit are coming into the office where remus works to try and secure more funding. remus is asked to join the meeting to take notes. and who does he find leading the group from the nonprofit?

the handsome stock photo model, there in the flesh!!

remus's coworkers recognize him too and almost piss themselves but everyone has to remain professional and remus wants to die. and sirius is confused about why the cute guy taking notes looks like he's about the throw up whenever sirius looks at him.

edit: now a real fic!

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the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire

icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down

cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)

feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated

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So, the other day, when I was discussing AO3's policy on solicitation, a tumblr user came at me saying that AO3's "no monetization/solicitation" rules were "bullshit" because nexus mods allows fan created mods to get paid.

Look at me.

Look at me right now.

AO3 protects you.

AO3 protects you and your works. 

It protects your works from copyright strikes and DCMA takedowns.

It protects your work from advertisers.

It protects your work from overzealous legal challenges.

It protects your right to post adult content.

AO3 is non-profit and AO3 will never try to use you or your work to make a profit for themselves and AO3 will go to bat for you if someone tries to legally challenge you or your works.

Please respect AO3 and its mission.

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love it when a queer character's identity is the least interesting thing about them. like yes she's trans but that's less plot-relevant than the fact she's a wanted fugitive on 6 different planets

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It recently came up in conversation with my toddler that some birds can talk, and this has caused her great concern.

See, we were talking about how movies are pretend and how in real life, animals don’t talk. I mentioned that there are some birds who talk a little bit, but not like the animals in movies, and she just looked at me like “???”

So I informed her that some kinds of parrots can copy sounds that people make, and can learn how to say words. I thought this would give her a giggle, as fun new facts often do, but she was just deeply perplexed and a little worried about this.

“Birds can talk?” “Do they ask questions?” “What do they say?” Why do they talk?” “Do chickens talk?” “What about Blue Jays?” “Why do some birds talk?” “How do they talk?” “Birds TALK???”

We showed her a video of a parrot doing the “Hello, pretty bird, give a kiss” thing, and she was dead silent the whole time, hugging her comfort pillow with her knees to her chest. We asked if she wanted us to turn it off, and she shook her head. But we also asked if she wanted to see another one, and she shook her head even harder.

I don’t know why it has distressed her so greatly to learn that some birds can mimic human speech; but then again, I don’t know why it doesn’t distress the rest of us more to know that some birds can mimic human speech.

I keep thinking about that post that’s like “The first person to hear a parrot talk was probably Not Okay.” Because that’s exactly what happened. She had never been introduced to the concept, and her entire worldview got SHOOK.

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I thought y'all might like to see Niagara Falls lit up for Pride.

Hope you had a good one!

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Bothersome beast, comforting friend

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I haven't seen this version anywhere so I made one!

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People loooove complex characters until they’re women

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i dont really know how to articulate this but its crazy just how many people dont even realize they dont care about female characters. all their faves are men. they never talk about girls without being led into it. and when you try to point this out to them they try to defend themselves that their faves are just the archetypes they like, despite clearly not caring when that same archetype is a woman. like i feel like at a certain point it is your problem with the common denominator if you cant find a single female character to enjoy

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> read library book

> it's good

Thank you library

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Néstor Martín-Fernández | Museo Reina Sofia

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Sun, star en moon lamp by Meyda Tiffany

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people who use generative ai to write fanfiction will never know the satisfaction of being stuck on a scene in their fic for a while and turning it over in their head umpteen times and then figuring it out on their own and feeling like a million bucks because they just did that.

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i'm so suggestible and convinced i'm easy to read that if i was a celebrity reading rpf about myself i'd just be like wow....maybe i AM irrevocably in love with my co-star ...?