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During this Pride Month, I’d like to remind everyone that Cole Sprouse genuinely wanted to pursue asexual Jughead in Riverdale. 🏳️‍🌈

He also speaks to how Jughead is represented as both asexual and aromantic in different comics.

This is SO important and I hate RAS even more for taking this away from us.

WE COULD HAVE HAD IT ALL! ☹️

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#Riverdale polycule finale for the win

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Toodles, Riverdale (2017-2023)

“This is cuckoo bananas... But I'm also kinda feeling it.”

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Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

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Theo James as Hal Shelburn The Monkey (2025) dir. Osgood Perkins

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it’s the “date of birth: 1303 BC” for me...

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They sure do have a lot of Beatrice and Benedick energy 😍

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Loki's character progression

I think one of my favourite moments in the Loki series is when Loki time-slips back to that first meeting with Mobius, mostly because it perfectly reflects how he changed over the series (time-loop centuries).

We get post-Avengers Loki. Cold, detached, unrepentant. His voice sharp and harsh, biting.

Then the time-slip and we get post-loop Loki right before the end.

Soft, warmer, smiling, full of fondness/love for Mobius, and a tiny bit chagrined (yet loving) about his own past self.

I love this scene because this time we have Loki stumping Mobius. Yet, he engages in the conversation because he cannot help himself. Mobius is curious.

What I like about their interaction is that it is a perfect mirror to the first episode: First, Mobius was ahead, the one with the power, the one condescendingly ripping Loki from his pedestal. And now, we have Loki being ahead, but instead of revelling in the power-rush, he is patient about it, warm, ready for Mobius to catch up.

At the same time, I also understand why Loki would go to that Mobius. The Mobius who did not like him - obsessed with him yes, but with whom he had no personal relationship. Because his Mobius had changed alongside him and would not give him the "harsh truths" so to speak.

He already knew what he would do. He just needed confirmation, confirmation he would not get from Mobius because his Mobius would not let him. Because his present Mobius can't.

What I love so much about it, is that the bypass each other in terms of character progression, with Mobius ahead and Loki behind in the beginning, then sharp reversal during this scene, only for them to meet each other at the end.

Only to be separated.

This is why that finale breaks my heart so much. They are finally at a point where they match, where Loki is ready to build a family of his own, only for Loki's duty come in-between.

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if 50 million Americans shift just $20 a month away from target (or others) and to Costco that is $100 million less for target a MONTH, and that much more for Costco. $50 a month? Thats 250M. Thats not even one tank of gas, so you can see how it adds up quickly. You can protest fascism and non inclusive policies by how you shop. Your dollars talk. Support corporations that fight back. Costco is being sued by 19 red state AG’s for keeping its DEI policies and they’re doubling down. let’s support them.

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A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

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happy merlin finale anniversary to all who mourn celebrate!

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Photographs of musical notes vibrating in a bowl of water.

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perhaps some will disagree, but i think the world got worse when we changed the colour of the night