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This war has to stop. Israel is stopping aid from getting into Gaza and people are starving.

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Oh goody, I'm not the only one that realized that pointy nymph ears might be a problem!

Methinks we were DENIED the best of the Hera/Kronos fight and only got the joy of seeing his fingers get broken.

Yes, now that Kronos has FINALLY been dealt with, let's move on to the next important thing-- helping Melinoe go back home. After that, we can contend with Uranus Ouranos and Asspollo Apollo.

This week Lore Olympus: Timely Terminations

Shiny rocks. I feel like we've had this chapter title before? Also oh it's an episode about Hades

How did I know that Kronos would try some fuck shit like this. Nah nah Kronos that ain't working.

Hera what is that fighting stance. Looks weak sauce.

"we are both equal in power and strength". Are you though? Are you really?

We won't fight??? Booo. I wanted to see Hera kick his ass

Okay?? But. It doesn't have to be a fair fight. Can can fight him And kick his ass Hera.

Why are you two talking? Why are you talking and not taking him down?

Hera ✨ flamboyant hand gesture ✨

"today I will not be flattering you" great can you kill him instead? Also what is that face.

Oh good I was hoping she was going to break his fingers. Break more of his bones please.

... What is happening

A Persephone decoy???! And you think the nymph ears wouldn't be a dead give away or are we admitting the nymphs look just like Persephone so much so that people confuse them and there's nothing to differentiate them.

That Daphne with Hecate?

That poor nymph just getting shoved aside

Where the fuck did she get this ginormous cup from? And why does she need it. Why is she thirsty.

Yeah you wanna tell everyone you left Hera alone with her abuser Persephone? I know she said too but still.

What do you mean where isn't she she's not lost in time you should know.

Again the only thing that matters is how good Hera looks... Smh

Ah! She's looking right at the camera wtf! Fish eyes!

Is she breaking the fourth wall now. "No i didn't talk to Erebus silly! Why would I need to? That was our original plan but I just needed to believe in myself" feels like a threat somehow.

Why does Kronos keep changing colors. With Hera he's like red/purple and blue with Hades

Would he not be in one piece? You stopped attacking him.

Also is Hades now giant like Kronos??

Cause you're paralyzed with fear probably Hades.

Oh look he learned a lesson. And no therapy too. Wow.

"you couldn't protect your mother, your brothers" bitch whose fault was that? You attacked them.

You know I actually like this visual interpretation of Kronos knocking Hades down emotionally back to a child-like state. It's a good visual of making him feel small and powerless and like he was as a kid.

That said, what happened to Persephone? She's fine? What is Kronos talking about. Does he know about Apollo? How?

Ah no. Hades is back to regressing. Dude I thought we were making progress. (He still needs therapy).

Ah yes. Like father like daughter.

And also parallels between HxP - needing their kids to carry the emotional weight I mean remind them of their inner power to defeat the big bad.

I like that Kronos is gripping his chest as though Hades words are physically affecting him... Somehow.

Yeah why are you letting him put that onus (responsibility) on you Hades? Again we've been through this how many times? I know it's hard to deflect a parents harsh words and not internalize them but damn we do this back and forth with Hades so often.

No it's not but I say again again we have been through this how many times Hades. You know it's not your fault. The audience knows. Persephone knows. Everyone. Fucking. Knows. You are going through a rinse and repeat character arc at this point.

Oohh. He's inside Kronos and doing that thing he did when Kronos possessed him and choked Persephone. He's making shiny rocks again.

Well sometimes people are assholes Hades and teach what their taught.

It took us.... 275 chapters for Hades to have his epiphany?

"I want you to know something" please don't say you forgive him. Please don't say you forgive him. I hate narratives that make the child apologize for their parents shitty behavior and forgive them. (*Cough* Thanatos)

Fuck me. Godsdammit.

Ayy Hera stomping on Kronos.

I mean... That's valid. Forgive and move on. (You don't Have to forgive him though. Thats very cliche).

Why is Hades now bigger than Kronos?

Also man I wanted see Hera kick Kronos' ass. All we got was her stepping on his face and snarking at him.

Is Hera calling down starlight wtf is going on. How would this hurt Kronos.

Oh he turned him into a diamond. Course he did. Those expensive fucking things.

Oh okay. That's it I guess? End of time?

Now are we gonna go back and deal with Ouranos or Apollo?

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Lore Olympus is a fight this week, but not quite what was expected.

The battle commences with Hera not only telling Kronos that she's not going to play nice anymore, but affirming that she is definitely kicking his ass.

Kronos tries the "we're equals, let's rule together" bit.

Nope, not happening.

*crunching of Kronos' fingers*

Whoa whoa whoa..... wait a minute..... Hecate really thought a Persephone look-alike was a good idea?

If Demeter saw that, she'd pick up on it right away. And we would likely have more Demeter rage.....

Also, the nymphs have pointed ears. As a goddess, Persephone does not. It's one thing when humans cosplay elves by ADDING pointed ears, but I imagine it'd be a lot harder to hide pointed ears. Magic COULD potentially be used to hide them (and Hecate IS the goddess of magic), so it's not IMPOSSIBLE, but potentially IMPLAUSIBLE.

Persephone is back!

Hecate: *physically telling the nymphs to fuck off*

Persephone is a thirsty girl after her trip to Tartarus!

Glad Persephone is amazed by Hera's titan-form, but yikes almighty! What happened to YOUR proportions????

We shift over to Hades' confrontation with Kronos. Hades tries to mentally defend himself, but Kronos' abuse still cuts deep. He shrinks him down to a child and swallow Hades yet again.

Even as he does so, Kronos continues to torment him...

...that is, until Kronos mentions Melinoe. At this, Hades comes out of stupor. Hades reiterates the conversation he had with his future daughter, that Kronos' bullshit is not theirs to fix. It is not their job to pay for Kronos' horrible deeds.

As he does so, Hades gradually "grows up" physically and mentally pushes through the fog....

...and, at last, he escapes from Kronos' hold on his own. (Well, maybe not ENTIRELY on his own; Hera is also kicking his ass elsewhere simultaneously.)

As a final word, Hades "closes" the encounter with Kronos, not with a violent blow, but by somehow sealing him up.

This is the closure Hades needed. Hopefully, this is enough to hold the titan away for good. We certainly don't want Kronos popping out of this gem like a pokémon anytime soon.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my LO post!

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okay on the tiktok ban— i think the key point everyone is ignoring is that the us government is BANNING an ENTIRE APP. like i do not care if you hate tiktok or not you need to realize how huge that shit is. an ENTIRE FORM OF COMMUNICATION IS BEING BANNED.

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I don't personally use Tiktok, but I see the ban as censorship and, therefore, I am against it being banned.

Also, a lot of the first-hand footage coming out of Palestine is getting through on Tiktok. You know, all the stuff the mainstream media doesn't want you to see or know about.

A bill that President Joe Biden approved mandates that ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, give out its assets within nine months to a year in order to prevent the applicability of an effective ban in the US.

What You Think🤔 About It Tell Me In Comment💬

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Those who protest against Israel's genocide are punished for antisemitism.

But for some strange reason, authorities have never cracked down on antisemitism any other time. Any other time, antisemitism is considered free speech.

It's almost as if they know damn well that protesting against Israel is not antisemitism.

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JEWISH PEACE ACTIVIST: "THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT DOES EVERYTHING IT CAN TO SILENCE US."

📹 Jewish German peace activist, Udi Raz, based in Berlin, accuses the German government of suppressing peace protests against the Israeli occupation's genocide in Gaza.

According to Raz, the German authorities continue to suppress the Palestine solidarity movement, accusing the German authorities of doing all it can to silence protesters.

The activist slams the Israeli occupation, which publicly accuses the pro-Palestine peace movement of antisemitism, while at the same time, the Zionist occupation declares its ability to speak for all Jews around the world.

"Israel cannot speak in the name of Jews," Raz tells Anadolu News Agency. "Whoever claims otherwise, to my understanding, this is an antisemitic claim."

"Jews are diverse. Jews live in diverse and different geopolitical contexts and national contexts," the Jewish peace activist continues.

"We Jews who live here in Germany, of course, we care about other Jews who live elsewhere, but it does not mean that we are ambassadors of a racist state called the state of Israel," Raz added.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

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Quite the photo.

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🚨 Students at Harvard University launched an encampment in support of Gaza in Harvard Yard moments ago, calling for an end to Harvard's moral and material complicity in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

Harvard has invested over $200 million of its over $51 billion endowment in companies with ties to zionist settlements in the West Bank, while most of its investments to the zionist entity are kept secret.

The students are demanding financial transparency regarding investments related to the zionist entity, as well as genocide and occupation in Palestine; divestment from these investments and reinvestment in Palestine; and dropping all charges against student activists.

The University has suppressed student voices in support of Palestine time and time again, suspending the Palestine Solidarity Committee just this week on baseless grounds. They have also enabled attacks on pro-Palestinian students from the media and politicians. Today, the students say enough is enough, and that they will no longer tolerate their institution's support for genocide.

This brings the number of ongoing encampments to 19, with more to come.

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Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.

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This machine kills AI

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There is a special place in hell for all the people behind these bot attacks that harm AO3 and the communities we built.

A reminder that Archive of Our Own is not Instagram or TikTok. It isn’t run by a big company with money and power. The site is a non-profit site run by volunteers (fans), for fans. And its main purpose is to bring people within the same fandom together and connect artists with audiences who would love and appreciate these artists’ works. It’s the only platform without any ads, without any censorship, without any of these capitalism bullshit. It doesn’t make users pay for any features and the only source of money they get, to keep the site up and running, is through donations. It’s literally a safe place for every fandom.

To think that it’s a target just because it’s easier to attack than those huge companies is just so sad.

Not to mention that there are so many genuine guest users out there (people who aren’t logged in / don’t have an AO3 account), and these people are directly affected by this whole thing, because they are no longer able to comment and connect with their favorite creators — and this still affects creators directly because I know for a fact that getting comments and being able to connect with their audience mean the world to them. I don’t blame AO3 for disabling guest comments altogether.

I do blame and curse the fuckers behind these bot attacks though.

If you try to sabotage AO3, out of all the other platforms out there, you are pathetic. You’re not just attacking a small, independent company, you’re trying to tear apart people’s communities and safe place. Disrespectfully, fuck you. Burn in hell.

Mad respect to all the brave soldiers that are AO3 volunteers who work harder than god fighting these scums.

I know these brave soldiers will win in the end (they always did, this isn’t their first battle, mind you), but in the meantime I’m sending them all my love and respect. They truly are the heroes.

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Alright, to ao3's soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:

1.) Unlike Wattpads vote system that let's you like each chapter, the ao3 equivalent kudos only allows one per work. Everyone is generally quietly annoyed about this. To engage with each chapter, you're heavily encouraged to comment. Trust me, it makes people's day.

2.) Ao3 has no algorithm. By default it's latest updated work first. You can find things to your taste through searches, filters and tags.

3.) 'No archive warnings apply' and 'user has chosen not to use archive warnings' mean two very different things. No archives warnings means the work is free from any content that could require a warning tag (character death, graphic depictions of violence, non-con, etc). User has chosen not to use archive warnings means it could contain any of the warning content, be it hasn't been explicitly tagged. Treat it like an allergen. No archive warnings apply is allergen free. User has chosen not to use archive warnings, may contain traces or whole chunks of the allergen. If you're likely to have a bad reaction, maybe don't take the risk.

4.) Speaking of warnings, ao3 has very few restrictions on the type of work that's allowed. Whatever your personal thoughts or feelings on that are, thats how the site is. You're likely to run across some dark subject matters and a lot of people are uncomfortable with reading that. You're well within your rights not like these works and have your opinion on whether they should be allowed, but harassing the authors of such works (or any works) is more likely to come back on you than them. Ao3 operates on a strong policy of 'don't like, don't read'. Use the tagging system to your full advantage to only engage with the kind of works you want to see.

We look forward to welcoming you all and seeing the fantastic works you create. Happy writing!

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The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.