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Do y'all have any favorite card games?

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Nadine Hwang pictured with her lover, Nelly Mousset Vos (second in from left) and other friends at a New Year’s party in their apartment in Caracas, Venezuela circa 1965.

via the Every Face Has a Name Initiative

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— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘The Third Hour of the Night’", published c. 2017.

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the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

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shallow waters

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family resemblance

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✸ FIC ASK GAME ✸

part 1 here

↻ FLIP FLOP: send me a scene from one of my fics and I’ll describe or write it from another character’s POV!

✰ NEW SHAPES: send me a fic and I’ll give you an alternate direction the fic could have gone!

☹ EVIL TWIN: send me a fic or scene and I’ll give you the unhappy ending version of it!

⇆ SLIDING DOORS: pick a character from one fic to drop into another!

✄ DVD BONUS: pick a fic and I’ll describe or write a deleted scene!

♬ THEME SONG: pick a fic and I’ll share a song that reminds me of it (and why!)

✑ PROCESSING: pick a fic and I’ll tell you what it was like to write it!

♡ SMALL THINGS: pick a fic and I’ll tell you my favorite minor detail from it!

∆ DO OVER: pick a fic and I’ll tell you if there’s anything I’d change or do differently if I wrote it today!

☉ SHARK TANK: make a case for why I should write a character, pairing, or trope that I haven’t yet!

☒ AMNESTY: send me a number, and I’ll count down in my asks and answer whatever’s there!

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ADDRESSING THE HOUSE OF THE TOMBMATES, ITS REVEREND WRITERS, ITS REVEREND ARTISTS, ITS REVERENT PODFICCERS

Salutations to the House of the Tombmates, and blessings upon its transformative works. Your celestial mods, the direful duo, beg the House to honor your favorite book series, and humbly ask for the fruits of your creative labor for the 2024 TLT Holiday Exchange.

Nominations: September 16 - 30, 2024 11:59pm PST Sign Ups: October 1 - 15, 2024 11:59pm PST Assignments: before Halloween Works Due: December 28, 2024 11:59pm PST Work Reveals: January 4, 2025 11:59pm PST Creator Reveals: January 11, 2025 11:59pm PST

There has been an update to the rules and dates, so please read through them carefully on our Dreamwidth.

Have Fun (we love you)!

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squire! my strap on,

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🌿Lviv, Ukraine💙💛

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How do Canadians have sex?

They feed each other timbits.

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do you think Harryanthe could do s6 Spuffy?

I see the vision (nasty hatesex to disguise feelings) (suicidal depression self loathing tenderness handcuffs bringing down a building with sex)

however. I don't think either of them is cool enough to be Spike

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This is Australia's current top news story

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there's something just amazing about john gaius being all "i saved the world, but not for me", blatantly riffing off of lord of the rings, which no one will ever call him on, bc he's the only person who remembers lord of the rings. to make matters worse better more, he's not even quoting the book. he's quoting the movie. so lame, you think, and then you remember where the movies were filmed and about the hobbit tax and the maōri stuntpeople who only ever got to play "evil ugly" orcs and easterlings and all of that and oh boy it's all connected here isn't it

but it also is unambiguously hilarious of him to compare himself to frodo. it's like if frodo set out to destroy sauron but orcs kept trying to arrest the fellowship and call him a charlatan on the middle earth news or whatever and also halfway through he gets hit up by gondor and they tell him that denethor just died and they need him to use the ring to reanimate his corpse and he just does it. and in the end frodo loses it and destroys all of middle earth except sauron who runs away on a spaceship

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in hindsight the funniest part of the recurring cow jokes is that john says he built the wall out of cows and a bunch of sheep, and no one, not a single soul, seems to have spoken up on behalf of the sheep at any point fjsdkfhsajk. why the livestock sympathy inequality. why the cattle bias. I recognize that sheep are -- to be fair -- quite annoying to deal with, but if you prick them do they not bleat etc., it doesn't seem fair for them to get forgotten in the middle of all this

(the description of 'it was at this point that he had the grace to look embarrassed (may we even go so far as to say... sheepish)'... god stop being the funniest bitch in the world john I'm mad at you)