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what if the phantom got a daughter el oh el

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"Why aren't the Democrats--" because they're not in power.

"But they should be --" they can't do that. because they're not in power.

"But they were in power under Biden, and--" they did a ton of good shit when they were in power. they are currently not in power.

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DDBA writers are cowards, actually. If they were braver, they would have let Foggy and Marci get married. And have a squishy little baby together. We could have had dad!Foggy. We could have had Foggy tearing up while his college bestie Matt holds his little baby for the first time. We could have had the softest Marci yet. They took that from us, actually.

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i’m usually not one to buy pride merch from massive corporations but i need you all to see Hot Topic’s output

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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

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really dwelling lately on weird LND erik/meg hookups where both of them are like "this is a proxy for fucking christine" but because that is so obvious despite being unsaid it does still very much work for the both of them. like same time at 9 when i'm working the closing shift and you're in your fifth hour of gazing motionless at the carpet in your clown office and we both come staring at that embarrassing freaky portrait? got it. and btw the staff room is outta paper towels

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Guyssss i'm not leaving the phandom here's the sketch of erik arguing with daroga as a proof

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...I don't have a title or whatever for this

It's based on a little scene I wrote with my Vampire!Christine idea (although it's such a basic concept it seems a little silly to say it's "mine" but I digress) but the details that relate to that are not very visible

Also ignore how this is a different Erik design then my other Vampire picture it's due to a bad habit of mine were if I'm imagining Erik with his mask it's musical inspired Erik but Erik without his mask it's book inspired Erik thus the inconsistency (I haven't come up with a full face mask design I like yet so perhaps that would fix this)

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Possible unpopular opinion: treating having a special interest as equivalent to being an expert on the topic is another form of the savant stereotype.

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When your boyfriends are more obsessed with each other than they are with you.

Grace Roberts, Jonathan Roxmouth, and Harry Mills, from Jonathan's Instagram. (x)

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I can never leave Tumblr because after years of sporadic therapy utterly failed to even approach the core of my problem some random tumblr user was like “I processed my trauma by writing a 10,000 word work of filthy fanfic erotica” and I was like “fuck it I’ve tried everything else” and now I’m 17 chapters and 20,000 words deep into an unpublishable work of obscenity and after careful literary analysis with one of the Beloved Mutuals I have come to some Terrible Revelations about my childhood and may now continue the process of Healing. Where else am I supposed to get this kind of experience. Who does this. Why are we like this. I’m never leaving. I love y’all.

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I swear I am going to start a seminar in How to Exist in Public. We do not block our coworker from getting their food out of one microwave while waiting for our food in the other microwave. We do not walk four carts abreast through the grocery store, nor do we park our cart next to an end cap and wander off to another aisle. We do not start making a left turn we will not be able to complete, thereby bringing the entire intersection to a screeching halt. We do not stop dead in the middle of the hallway to answer a text. We live in a society.

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LND is about a workplace situationship unfolding between a man who through a fluke of the cosmos is somehow not a kinsey 6 and a woman who is experiencing the classic "lesbian except i twirl my hair at creepy old dead nasty liches at the senior care centre" but the lich is not usually REAL. add in the clowns and we have the potential to stage the worst pride event new york state will ever see

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by far the funniest thing about reading fanfiction as a political professional is that I can always tell exactly who has and hasn't been to a fundraiser or gala based on how they write them

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I'd truly be the worst person to stick into a timeloop because I'd really just spend the first 5 years catching up on my book tbr, the next 7 on all the movies and shows that've Been On My List for ages, and then another decade on ao3. like sure nothing may stick but my memories will and i can just go into a supermarket to get snacks and wine each day, and i have art to indulge in. like thanks for the hints on how to get out but respectfully, I am busy