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This weirdly aggressive male-male duet of Phantom of the Opera is so Yizhi & Qin Zheng coded

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Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

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Six Sentence Sunday: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li: The Real Ending

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li: The Real Ending

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

The underling swallowed hard as he paused in his report. He wished he had not lost the office draw on who had to give news to their boss. "The Thai government has seized the assets of the holding company, as well as stopped the demolition of the slums."

The man in the grey business suit did not turn from the plate glass window, looking down at the night life. "Enough assets were left behind to fool Interpol into thinking they crippled Shadaloo?" His accent was vaguely Asian, sounding even more so coming from so fair a Caucasian.

Summary: The Schoolgirl destroyed the monster who destroyed her family. Or did she?

Let me be straight up with two facts: Street Fighter: the Legend of Chun-Li was a bad movie and Neal McDonough was the reason I paid money to see it in the theater. The first Street Fighter movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia was campy bad, but fun. The plot and characters make sense within the movie. I've got no problems with using a video game as the source material and changing things as long as it makes internal sense and improves the story (see my Legend of Zelda fanfics for example). The movie becomes fanfiction of the video game, and enjoyable in its own right if done correctly. Now what makes me writing this little short story to fix canon material so odd is I did it to reverse something seen on screen. I have filled in plot holes, revealed more backstory, expanded characters, and extrapolated their futures, but if someone died in canon, they were dead in my fanfiction. But Bison's death was such a boneheaded, idiotic, and potentially franchise-killing move, I had to reverse it. I hope you enjoy the story.

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It's kind of incredible just how much the Country House Murder Mystery genre is, at its roots, a reaction to WWI and the social change that sprang from it.

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We all know what erectile dysfunction is but literally no one is ever taught what vaginismus is and it can cause people to feel extremely lost, broken, and cause people to take their own lives. Raise. Awareness.

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if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

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One would think the first step would be to repeal all the tax cuts for the rich in my life time and most particularly the one Republicans passed under W, capping social security taxes for the wealthy so they no longer had to pay in the same share of their income as everyone else. <.< >.>

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"The time has come."

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Yes, yes, yes!!! This is a great news! ❤️

Ready for your spoilers, guys!

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y'all it's about to get really fucking humid and hot

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Fanfic Friday: Three of a Kind

Summary: Deep Space Planet Future Rock ‘n Ride Action! A Trigun 1998 and Biker Mice From Mars 1993 crossover. Vash juggles helping out strangers to Gunsmoke and thwarting Legato Bluesummers’ machinations to further Millions Knives’ plans for the planet and finds more family than he ever dreamed he deserved to have.

Ao3 Chapter Twenty-Three

They sat in the spot Vash had claimed while eating supper with the rock outcropping where they could lean their backs against it. Vash's left hand crept toward his inner pocket for his sunglasses, but Meryl grabbed hold of his hand before he reached inside. She squeezed it reassuringly.

Vash took a deep breath. "Suspicious word choice is not proof positive that Knives is the guilty party."

Chuck plopped down on the sand between Vash and Hannah. "That depends on the words. Vile vermin means Limburger is trying out a new mask, or that person has talked to him a lot lately."

"Long enough to get a rant about the Biker Mice," Hannah added. "What's the suspicious word choice we should look out for?"

"Bluesummers called Chuck a spider," Vash said flatly.

Chuck nodded. "That's a new one. Limburger mostly uses vernal vile vermin because he has a thing for using all the same letters. So what does calling me a spider mean? I can't climb walls or make webs."

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And I said, 'What-ho! that absolutely whangs the nail over the crumpet.' Because the idea struck me, really, as being the caterpillar's boots.”

I love when Sayers makes Wimsey go full throttle Bertram Wilberforce Wooster

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Romantasy and dark romance authors need to stop making big brooding guys whose only personality is "touch her and you die" and consider the appeal of creating a hero whose face is likened variously to a worm wriggling out of old cheese and an adjutant stork and who says things like "don’t let’s bring Socrates into this” and “I had found you beyond all hope or expectation, at a time when I thought no woman could ever mean anything to me beyond a little easy sale and exchange of pleasure and I was so terrified of losing you before I could grasp you that I babbled out all my greed and fear as though, God help me, you had nothing to think of but me and my windy self-importance, as though it mattered, as though the very word of love had not been the most crashing insolence a man could offer you."

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Six Sentence Sunday: Tin Man/Medical Investigation: Alchemy

Tin Man/Medical Investigation: Alchemy

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

At first the people would say good luck had Princess DG and her companions visiting Finaqua when the town of Neverdale fell ill. Her compassionate heart would have made her travel with the Queen to see what new calamity had befallen the citizens of the O.Z. Instead the eldest daughter and the Consort accompanied the Queen, and the frenzied messenger had another member of the Royal Family as a destination.

He straightened his travel-stained uniform. All the Heroes of the Eclipse sat in the gazebo by the lakeshore. Wyatt Cain's reputation as the last sight whoever upset Princess DG saw was already legendary, but the Viewer and the former Headcase were just as bad. Oh well, at least he will die in service to his Queen. "Your Highness."

Summary: A mysterious illness suddenly puts DG in charge and she seeks help where no one in the O.Z. expected her to.

After ErinM_4600 introduced me to Medical Investigation and fanfic based on it, the muse was intrigued with somehow getting the MI cast to interact with the Tin Man cast. It lurked in the back brain for years, working the snarls out.

So when the TM Challenge 4th Annual Big Damn Challenge said crossovers were okay, I started writing Alchemy on June 4, 2011. Each section of the story matched up to a prompt from the prompt table, but I didn't use them all. I hope you enjoy the story.