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One of my favorite genres of post

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hotel experience

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Some lines that keep shaking

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You are never letting a WIP rot. You are doing it a service. Your WIP is a sourdough starter and the five words you wrote that one day were all it needed to sustain itself. It will bubble and be ready when you are.

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Reply like it's 2016

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Finished it 🫠

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Annual Firefall event in Yosemite National Park.

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Character who doesn't get to die & character who doesn't get to live. Is that anything.

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I know there has been polls about this, but I'm asking again:

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The room was starkly lit from a single, unshaded light bulb overhead. Katsuki was sat at a small table immediately beneath it with a cigarette between his fingers, the smoke drifting slowly towards the bare window. He seemed calm in the manner of someone expending a great deal of energy to maintain control. He didn’t look up as Victor closed the door behind him and came over to sit in the chair opposite.

God, he was unfairly handsome.

Yuuri from this beautiful WWII-era fic Blackbird by @thetwoguineabook (which is so good and I’m urging everyone to give it a try)

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Inspired by Chapter 4 of Blackbird (and Victor’s ahead-of-his-time manbun) by sixpences/ @thetwoguineabook

The year is 1942, and Europe is at war. Captain Victor Nikiforov, an intelligence operative for the NKVD, has been trapped in Berlin by the German invasion of the USSR. Posing as a Nazi industrialist, his days are spent charming information out of Axis diplomats to try and keep the Red Army fighting another day.

Yuuri Katsuki, a foreign-educated bureaucrat in the Japanese Embassy, has secrets of his own concealed beneath his unremarkable demeanour. When he uncovers Victor’s real identity, it will alter the course of both of their lives forever.

This scene in ch. 4 gave me uncontrollable emotions, so of course I had to draw this. This fic is so amazing, in that it combines both historical spy AU and Yuri on Ice seamlessly. The author’s style of writing is so eloquent and lovely, and her take on Victor and Yuuri in this setting is just shy of heartbreaking. I will never not want more in this AU.

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Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina), family Phocidae, Ventura, CA, USA

photograph by Ashley McConnell/USFWS

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joining the war on porn on the side of porn

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if you have a popular post on this site inevitably people will tag it with something like “croggles to bringles when they lost the ploogie in ep 10” and it rules. i have no idea what you’re talking about but you’re right this IS so croggles to bringles when they lost the ploogie in episode 10.

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cell bio professor closed out today's lecture on free-radical oxidation in mitochondria and programmed cell death by saying "you've probably all seen those commercials for fruit juice that says it's got antioxidants, which are said to prevent this sort of thing from happening, or at least slow it down. well, they don't work. this is an inevitable fact of life— this process that lets us live is also the thing that kills us, and it's why all of us will die someday. there's no escaping that. it's been with us since the dawn of eukaryotic cells; our pact with mitochondria is to the death. anyway, enjoy the rest of your friday, and remember, exam four is next week!"

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Steve Rogers & Tony Stark in Avengers Assemble 1.02 The Avengers Protocol: Part 2