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I had a long post written up about Jeremy being out and Nicky not knowing + Kevin still saying to everyone that being gay will destroy their Exy career while having been friends with Jeremy for years and wanting him to be Court + Kevin and Jean still believing Riko's homophobia even when faced with a blatant example of a great, respected player who is also out and proud.

Except I realized that of course Jeremy is, in essence, not out. Sure, right after he was found at the party kissing/having sex with Dexter etc, the media outed him (per his words in TGR, the police and media called it "f***** orgy"), but the Wilshires made sure that it wouldn't be something that stuck, along with making sure that the drugs and Jeremy's addiction never became public.

Jeremy tells Jean about the huge amount of money they spent to make sure the police stayed quiet, Dexter stayed quiet and took the blame. Of course they also, inevitably, milked Noah's death and their grief for all they were worth to get sympathy points in society and politics. It's very very easy to picture them also bribing people into "forgetting" about Jeremy's outing and changing the narrative to "just a phase" or "college experimentation". It was after all 2004.

God but I hope Jeremy tells his family to fuck off soon in The Broken Cage.

And I still want an Canon divergence AU in which Jeremy and Nicky manage to meet and bond before TFC.

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painted some thoughts re: steve rogers and illness

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Books I read in 2025 The Riverside Trilogy: Swordspoint, The Privilege of the Sword & The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman

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“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated”  ― Thomas Paine, The Crisis

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This part-

They ruined me forever

I still haven't finished the third book but I needed to draw that scene

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How it feels to read a really good fic and find the author has dozens more like it 

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TO ANYONE WHO USES DISCORD- FOUR AI SCRAPING BOTS HAVE BEEN SECRETLY ADDED TO YOUR SERVERS WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT

Saw this going around and tested it myself, and I can confirm that this is unfortunately legit. Four hidden bots have been placed in any existing or newly created Discord server that are harvesting data, images, and most concerningly, one seems to be a face swap bot. It should be noted that it is stated that they cannot grab content not sent through bot commands, but knowing how things have gone on sites like A03 and twitter, it is impossible to say if it will stay that way.

Due to them being invisible, banning them from your servers isn't possible without their ID's, which I've typed out for easy access.

1153984868804468756 1288638725869535283 1090660574196674713 1104973139257081909

Banning is done with the /ban command with each string pasted in one at a time. Four ban commands in total.

Image proof below and further information. This was in my PERSONAL server that has existed for +5 years. Discord is harvesting your shit without your consent, fight back. The "partnered with" part appears to be false (?) in relation to one image talking about it, so some information is currently unclear.

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STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.

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I’ve never come across a more threatening magnet

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the bear fox

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STARTING TOMORROW

Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.

They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!

This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!

TUNE IN HERE

article I posted screenshots of here

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Eleven New Additions to the Gusu Lan Wall of Rules

From the Gusu Lan Department of Records 

On the 10th day of the 2nd lunar month of the 41st Year of the Reign of Xuanzheng, the Year of Gengzi (that is, 3 years after the downfall of former Chief Cultivator Lianfang-zun), 11 additions were made to the Gusu Lan's Rules within one day. These were: 

You shall not climb the Cloud Recesses' Wall of Rules. 

You shall not climb the Cloud Recesses' Wall of Rules just to avoid your former acquaintances. 

If you absolutely must do so, you shall only argue with your former acquaintances at a regular speaking volume. 

You shall not eavesdrop on the disagreements of others, no matter how loud or how public they may be. 

All medical procedures performed by Gusu Lan and/or any of its affiliated personnel require fully informed consent from the patient. For a complete definition of "fully informed consent," please refer to Rules #3199 and #4023. 

Be mindful of what you say or reveal in a moment of anger. 

There will be no emotionally significant shocking revelations in the Cloud Recesses. 

There will be no hypocrisy in the Cloud Recesses. 

If you absolutely must do so, you shall only cry in public at an acceptable volume. 

You shall not say the words "Wen patrol" anywhere near the vicinity of the individual named Wei Ying courtesy name Wuxian. 

The individual named Jiang Cheng courtesy name Wanyin is only permitted in the Cloud Recesses so long as he speaks at an acceptable volume. 

ao3

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Shel Silverstein predicting ChatGPT in 1981

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It’s 2025. BBC Sherlock ended 8 years ago. The last season was so bad the fans didn’t even want to talk about it when it came out. Occasionally a post resurfaces where we all laugh at struggling to plug our phones in and being called alcoholics. Every time, there are more and more people in the comments who don’t get the joke. There are two currently airing Sherlock Holmes audio dramas that both portray a queer Holmes (as well as several other excellent queer characters), and one of them now has Holmes and Watson in a canonical romantic relationship. There’s an adorable crowdfunded short film where Watson plans Holmes’ birthday party and they flirt with each other, share a bed, plan their retirement, and kiss on the mouth. A video game about retired beekeeper Holmes just released where he arranges a romantic picnic so he can finally tell Watson how he feels. A popular graphic novelist just released the first part of a queer comic book retelling of the complete Holmes canon and had to do several rounds of preorders because she kept selling out too fast. Sherlock is garbage and here’s why has 15 million views on YouTube. Nature is healing. ❤️🐝

Edit bc I forgot to drop the names: The podcasts are Sherlock & Co and Fawx & Stallion aka @224bbaker (the one with the canon gay relationship.) The short film is called The Adventure of the Furtive Festivity and it's on youtube. The video game is @beekeeperspicnic and it's on Steam. The graphic novel series is by Molly Knox Ostertag, aka @contact-guy) Please feel free to drop any other queer Holmes adaptations I may be missing.

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Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

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Éowyn, disguised as Dernhelm, among the Riders of Rohan ⚔️

Based on Eugéne Grasset’s “Jeanne chevauchant au milieu des hommes d’armes” (1894)