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i think theres this idea in the general public that the "best" fanfic gets turned into real books like 50 shades of grey. but the truth is that the best fanfic can never be published as an actual book because its intricately woven into the canon material so its inseparable even if you change the names

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This is how I've found out liquidfic.org is dead.

Anyway, for extensive exploration of this exact topic you want Katie Forsythe and her book-canon fics. Fortunately backed up on the Internet Archive.

You are all welcome.

i think a period piece sherlock holmes that portrays him as gay (which i find a plethora of support in the text—not just in an attraction to watson, but through complex connotations and contexts contemporary to victorian gender and sexuality) could do so much on the topic of criminality. 

what does it mean to be a criminal? what does it mean to police, but not be police? to dole out justice on your own terms? to be born a criminal? to be a detective in a period that collapsed the gay man with the criminal with the gender dissident, all of which were considered innate degenerative biological categories? how does someone deal with being born a criminal while also working within and outside the law as holmes does?

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Woke up in a cold sweat, remembering when I went into the Polish Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw to study traditional clothing only to be greeted by a lifesized Hatsune Miku statue.

I THOUGHT FOR YEARS THAT THIS WAS A FEVER DREAM! It's real?

They also made her sing a traditional Polish Song? And it's actually pretty good?

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...yikes.

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I know this might make people mad, but absolutely refusing to even attempt to treat your mental illness, and instead just endlessly inflicting your unmitigated episodes on the people around you, is abusive. Your loved ones are not stress toys that you can just squeeze every time you feel bad. It is bad if someone says your repeated behavior is hurting them, and you take no steps to change. I know damn well that you can’t always help how your brain acts, but I’ve also spent a lot of years trying to stop my spiraling brain in its tracks, work on strategies to calm down, and consider the impact I’m having on others, because I grew up in a household with people who have the attitude of, “I have the right to consume all the attention in the house and drain your energy every single day because I feel miserable, and you’re the bad guy if you say that I’m making you feel bad and that I need to get help. I can treat you however I want because of my anxiety.”

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there's no shame in continuing to live with your parents as an adult, but it does have an undeniable poisoning effect on your brain that you can't start healing until you live somewhere else

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I think it is never said outright, but the thing where cops will take a suspect and interrogate them non stop for hours without breaks in an attempt to get them to sign a confession is very much implied to be happening behind the scenes.

(Often upon visiting detention your client will be unavailable for hours due to being interrogated and return looking tired)

This is fine.

I love the incredibly fair and functional justice system in Ace Attorney

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#head tilt and all

btw if you tell me something and i reply with “oh???” that’s the equivalent of a dog’s ears perking up

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Ah yes, Holika Holika Aloe SPF50+ Waterproof Sun Gel my beloved. Just straight up use it instead of a moisturizer these days.

Only thing with SPF I've found so far that doesn't sting my eyes like crazy.

Apparently at least two ingredients are not allowed by the FDA, sorry guys.

Fun fact: it is totally possible to think that regulation is incredibly important, dare I say crucial, and also recognize that some regulations in the United States are so in need of an overhaul that you can understand the urge some people have to throw the baby out with the bathwater

I mean, FFS, maybe just allow the sale of things approved in Japan, the EU, and other recognized-as-good-about-regulations authorities. You could even slap a caveat on it!

But no.

That would be sensible.

Signed, currently slathered in grey-market Japanese sunscreen because getting the better-at-blocking-UVA active ingredients widely used elsewhere approved for use here is apparently too much to ask for, daily use of mineral sunscreen dries my face out painfully, and the chemicals approved for US use make everything sting.

Unlike the ones in Japanese sunscreens.

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we need to give every character a hooked nose

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It's really simple. If you're born with a vagina and you naturally have elevated testosterone levels, you're a man. If you have a vagina and you take testosterone, you're a woman. But also if you have a vagina, you'll never be a man. But also if you have higher testosterone then you were never a woman. Woman never yes man a vagina testosterone no was an elevated. Vagina man.

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@ august please be a little gentle with me I’m so tired

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#what do i do when this clarified nothing because i relate to both even the ones that seemingly contradict one another tho#the fact that my main argument for not being autistic is that i don't struggle with social clues#and in fact tens to get annoyed when others aren't as quick as me (i don't act on it tho i'm not an asshole)#i recently realized that i'm bad at reading people's facial expressions especially microexpressions#like ???#if someone is smiling and say they are happy and later someone tells me 'wow they were so upset' i'm like. BAFFLED. they were faking it???#anyway.....#what does it all mean

That means as a kid you were smart enough and observant enough to notice there are social expectations/cues and learned to recognize them from, well, observation and trial&error.

Possibly, anyway.

Sorry.

(cries in 'has stock gestures and face expressions they make solely to inform other people emotions Are Happening')

truly what is r the main differences like ACTUAL differences not things in common with adhd and autism

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The ear swag stays in.

They are all rings and flatbacks anyway.

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Procrastination in your 30s is looking at cookware on the IKEA website when you should be working

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Everything true except chanterelles dry and dehydrate like ass, you are much better off sauteeing and freezing, or preserving in oil.

Still thinking about how the dominant conception of mushroom-hunting in my (USAmerican) culture is fear and revulsion and the idea that anyone who eats a mushroom they found in the woods is courting a terrible death. And I don't want to push back too aggressively; it's better that people think the hobby is too dangerous to bother with rather than having people who are so blasé about the dangers that they end up poisoning themselves. But it still gets a little annoying sometimes. So, for the record, some more nuanced information:

There are a small number of mushrooms that will kill you if you eat them. Most field guides make sure to describe these species carefully so you know what to avoid.

There are a rather larger number of mushrooms that will make you sick but not kill you. Many of these are also noted in field guides, especially if they look at all like any of the edible species.

Many choice edibles are very visually distinct and don't have any non-edible lookalikes. Many foragers stick with these safe choices permanently. (I do this!)

Some edible mushrooms *do* have poisonous lookalikes. Individual foragers can decide how confident they are in their identification skills and what level of risk they're comfortable with accepting.

You need to learn how to use a field guide if you want to gather mushrooms for the table. For most people, this is not a difficult skill to develop, although it takes practice.

You need to learn how to see what is actually in front of you instead of what you want to see. Many misidentifications come from people ignoring obvious field marks out of wishful thinking.

You need to learn about what grows in your region, and if you move, stop foraging until you've had a chance to research the new region. Sadly, many mushroom poisoning cases are recent immigrants who mistook a toxic mushroom for an edible variety from their home country.

It is extremely possible to forage safely. It is also very possible to forage recklessly. You need to be aware of your own skills and temperament to decide whether it's a hobby that will work for you.

If you want to learn more about mushrooms (both poisonous and edible varieties), I highly recommend the book Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares by Greg Marley.