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Spin this wheel and tell me if you got something you need/want.

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Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

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Cabin Pressure, Yuletide 2024, 1.2k

Fandom: Only Murders in the Building (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Oliver Putnam/Charles-Haden Savage/Loretta Durkin Characters: Mabel Mora, Oliver Putnam, Charles-Haden Savage Additional Tags: Trapped in an Airplane, Near Death Experiences, Budding Poly-V

Summary:

Trapped on a private jet is definitely not the best place to find out Oliver and Charles' new relationship status.

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Yuletide Letter 2024

Hello, I’m htbthomas on AO3 as well as here and everywhere. I’ve been doing Yuletide since 2007, and I love it. It’s fun to try new things and read things I’d never think to read. My previous letters are here on LJ, and here on Tumblr. Feel free to see how I’ve changed (or not, most likely, heh.)

General Likes and Dislikes:

I have a few bulletproof story kinks. Use them if you like!

Secrets - I love characters with secrets. Ones they’re keeping from their friends, from their family, from their coworkers, from the world-at-large. I like it when one or two inner circle people know, but not everyone they know. Secret identity is SUCH a thing for me.

Reveals - despite everything I just said, my favorite thing ever is someone finding out the secret. I always want the love interest to find out, or the enemy, or the neighbor, or the random acquaintance or stranger. Okay, pretty much anyone. I still don’t want EVERYONE to know, but I ache for the stories of when the select few learn the truth like burning.

Powers/Talents - I like characters using their powers, discovering new powers, using their talents in cool ways, or even making the mundane magical.

Humor - I like everything mixed with humor. Even the darkest fandoms need a little, sometimes a lot. Make me laugh and I’ll pick out all my favorite moments.

Canon-Typical - Unless I say otherwise, I like the humor, violence, and language of the source material to stay similar in fic.

Ship Content - I like anything from G-rated kissing to E-rated smut.

Other things I like: fake dating/pretend relationships, getting together, first times and family/group bonding are my jam. I also enjoy unusual formats, like interactive fiction, graphic/comic or epistolary.

DNWs:

No setting change/mundane AUs

Requests:

Colin from Accounts (TV 2022)

Ashley Mulden

Gordon Crapp

Colin

There's just something about the rocky romance at the center of this show that gets me. They're not suited to each other in so many ways, but they can't seem to stay away from each other either. (I'm also very taken by the real-life romance of the actors.) And though Colin was the tie that originally bound them, he's mostly an excuse now (a well-loved one!). A story from Colin's POV about the two would be adorable. What exactly is going on in his mind? Or maybe a first holiday road trip together (at a dog-friendly resort of course - or maybe not? Some influencer misrepresented the property or something? Or they have to hide him from the owners? I don't know, I guess I want a holiday with Colin where not everything goes to plan.)

Extraordinary (TV 2023)

Jen Regan

I'm still really into this show, and still wish I saw more love for it. Somewhere (not sure where) I saw a suggestion that Jen's power is to cause big changes in the lives of people around her. I like that idea, since there definitely have been some big changes! It's subtle enough that no one would really consider it a power. An exploration of this possible power would be fun, and how it affects the other nominated characters, or anyone in the show you choose. I also would enjoy more with Jen and her therapist, or Jen and that cliffhanger.

My Adventures with Superman (Cartoon)

James "Jimmy" Olsen

Kara Zor-El

Jimmy and Kara's meet-cute was so much fun that I want more of it, her figuring out life on Earth and human dating rituals. But I'd also enjoy a story that explores where their relationship is now post-season 2, considering all the emotional turmoil Kara experienced. A wide range of fluffy to angsty takes on these two would suit me well!

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Any prompt that uses some of my likes would be amazing! I am very open to treats, as well!

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you motherfuckers better be lifting with your legs and not your back

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sorry for missing stuff out or combining stuff this is the max number of options tumblr let me list

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The holy grail of searching through academic literature is coming across a string of publications that are like:

Here’s An Idea. Smith et al. 2016

Terrible Idea; a comment on Smith et al. 2016. Johnson 2016.

You’re Wrong Too; a response to Johnson 2016. Nelson 2016.

Guys Just Stop Fighting, None Of Us Know What’s Going On; a Review of the Current Literature. McBrien 2017.

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tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

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[video by soupygarbagejuice. original caption: stuie]

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I love watching shit with subtitles on and discovering that mumbled background conversations were not only supposed to be fully intelligible but are in fact plot-relevant. Like please, for the love of god, can streaming services start mixing their audio right?

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I love very specific cakes

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there are so many words to use in place of “penis” in regards to smut. there’s dick. or shaft. we got cock. member. organ. length. hell, even manhood! all are acceptable replacements.

but what do we have for the testicles? nuts? no thank you. ballsac or, lord forbid, just sac? i’d literally rather be tarred and feathered. using their government name and just calling them testicles? take me out back and gimme the ol’ yeller treatment.

how has the english language evolved so much yet we have no acceptable word for testicles in a sexy context? how can we claim we’ve advanced as a society when the best word for describing when two characters are fucking nasty and the noble and mighty testes are swaying about is balls?

BALLS

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And to think that it takes very little to make a child happy....

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Bill and Ben | Tom Cardy

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Orange juice