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For @fandomtrumpshate this year I had the opportunity to make a cover for @seventhstar’s fic, “one-handed tie”

Shang Qinghua accidentally adopts a baby, turns down a proposal, starts some fires, and discovers that he, too, can change.

With a dash of Dadbei-jun and Bingqiu drama for flavor.

Or: a baby falls into Moshang's laps. Chaos ensues.

Rated M

Moshang, Post-Canon, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Getting Together, Miscommunication, bingqiu subplot, Dadbei-jun, Demon Culture & Lore (Which I Made Up), Competent Shang Qinghua, Soft Mobei-jun

I had such a dope time making this! Thanks for giving me such high drama sqh scenes to work with!! ❤️

(This art also available on Ao3)

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心血來潮 by userlu

moshang, E, 4k

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they are hanging out :]

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Happy Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day!

Whether it's published or not, no matter how many notes/hits it has, or what fandom/ship/AU it's for, every fic makes the fandom experience more pleasant and more creative and engaging - and, frankly, it makes people happy!

So, thank you to all writers who are taking the time and putting in the effort to share stories and, well, share love <3

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come on Barbie, let's go party

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Four year old beekeeper distracted by a roly-poly.

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Armour of a cuirasse du carabinier holed by a cannonball at the battle of Waterloo, 1815

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Yeah, no, heads up, we've got a Republican Christian Karen type, Audrey Richards, running for the AO3/OTW board. I love how the US has devolved to the point where we risk Christofascists in our fucking GAY FANFICTION WEBSITES. I think a Republican party candidate whose main platform is literally "think of the children" is the absolute antithesis of everything AO3 stands for, but that's just me.

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Declutter Tumblr

The new layout it a whole mess. Thankfully Xkit can already help with a bunch of this! I'm sure it'll give more options soon.

Vanilla Tumblr:

(I have marked in red what can be removed. The tabs can be set not to stick, so you will really only see them at the top of your dash. Empty box on the left for hidden notifications and shop sparkle, i just didn't have any. I'm EU so no Live for me).

Xkit Rewritten Tumblr:

The settings I use:

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Argh. So. It's so incredibly clear in DE that Harry has a difficult relationship with his sexuality and his gender and that it's tied up together with his warped/fictionalised idea of masculinity too, with a lot of this anxiety surrounding his performing masculinity to an adequate standard for the "male-centric workplace" that is consuming his life. Like. It's a central theme of the game imo. The constant needling and teasing; "where's your homo, homie?" and the seemingly long-running joke of "heterosexual life partners," and the homophobia of the world around him too, eg. "fucking... homo-cop" from the Racist Lorry Driver, Measurehead's reference to everything he doesn't like as "homo-sexuality" and the constant stream of learned slurs from Cuno.

He's canonically bisexual and was at least somewhat aware of that before the memory loss (gestures to the entire Smoker on the Balcony scene and Kim's reaction, and. You know. The entire thought project dedicated to figuring out his sexuality- "twenty hours or more!" of thinking it over- combined with the hints that he's familiar with bottoming- "Not many people know that. But you do. Go figure." The hug with the working class woman where he notes that he would prefer a man. His "preoccupation" with and anxiety over his sexuality takes precedence in his mind over the case. Kim even calls it his "idée fixe," a reoccuring preoccupation that to an extent dominates his thought processes) and there are some hints towards him questioning his gender identity too, but he's repressed all of it to the point that it's a reoccuring joke at the Second Tribunal that he "[doesn't] seem to *know* what homo-sexuality is..."

He shares his brain-space with multiple Skills desperately trying to keep those parts of him as far in the closet as they can manage; Half-Light's panic at the leotard is a good example ("Drop it now! This thing will *eat* you," "this is *irreversible peril*") as is Coach Physical Instrument's constant fingers-in-ears wilful ignorance ("I've seen them homos with my own eyes"). Sexuality in general is fear to Harry- it's unimaginable to him to consider having sex without alcohol as "the master of ceremonies to guide them," and there's hints that he's lived through some pre-amnesia sexual trauma that his brain, Half-Light in particular, wants to protect him from. And intertwined with that is also the kind of dread that comes from repressed queerness, the avoidance that grows and warps the longer it is not acknowleged. The fear is even built into the censorship of the dialogue; although this is obviously built into the game by design so that the player doesn't have to see slurs written out as they play, it can also be extrapolated that the blurred out words are also what Harry actually experiences. Harry's own brain censors out "f****t" because clearly it causes him a significant amount of distress, and in one game-over being called a slur by Cuno can actually cause his death.

His fear of androgyny, of being laughed at- for example in conversation with the dicemaker about the hairdressers in the doomed commercial area. "You wouldn't like it either. The others would laugh at you." It's a paralysing fear, a yearning and a complex longing to lean in to the experimentation (Conceptualisation chimes in right away to point out that "a bit of experimenting every now and then isn't bad"), but also an inherent fear of what he will find if he indulges his desires. Once the door is opened, once the feelings are acknowleged, he can't take them back. "Just know that once the leotard goes on, it never comes off. *You* will change irrevocably." There's a pervasive fear that the softness, the self-acceptance that comes from untangling this repression is something that he doesn't deserve, something "decadent," luxurious, not for people like him- all these deeply ingrained stereotypes holding him back. "Working class men don't like genderless haircuts. They're scared of that word." Harry's working class status impacts his feelings on what he's allowed to feel, the level of masculinity he feels he has to perform. In response to Harry calling himself a "proper man," Lilienne says "Believe *me*, everyone here is a 'proper man'. Must be something about poverty that makes all the men *real*." The language associated with the homo-sexual underground throughout the game is such a contrast- that of "decadence," of "gold" and "honey," of "a vertiginous, ever-changing society where all there is a razzle dazzle of gold." Something beautiful, something "devastatingly cool" and desirable but still out of reach. Something that is always "leaving [him] behind."

There is a parallel too between the Lamby scene where Little Lily tries to pursuade Harry to press his cheek against the "soft" cuddly toy lamb, and he responds that "I don't deserve it. I'm scum." The "silky" comforting softness of the leotard, "like a warm summer lake," and the comfort of self-acceptance are a luxury that he resists because he does not believe he deserves it. Making the choice to accept the softness in the lamby dialogue heals morale, and accepting the leotard gives the affirmation that "Yes, *this* is the type of animal I want to be," one of the many moments of hope dotted throughout the game. The potential for Harry to heal and accept himself, maybe.

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All the faves 🌶️🍅🍓🍎🍒

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that was one of the shortest hospital stays of my life, but the highlight of the whole event is that i got the paramedics to read homestuck and listen to lemon demon.

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*places an orange just outside a fairy ring to see what comes out* science is more of an art than a science

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So I thought this was commonly known internet navigation (but apparently it might just be those of us who have been using the internet since the 90's who still know it). Or so it seems based on... a grumpy comment I got.

When you see an arrow like this:

It means you click it to expand out a hidden section.

It's an accordion section/menu! It's useful in web design to hide information that may be overwhelming under specific headers so people can only see what they need.

Here I'm using it for people who need the content warnings to be able to check, but for those who don't need them and don't want to be spoiled to just move right past without accidentally reading anything.

It's still the user's responsibility to click the arrow and read things as they need! But it is all warned. (And, yes, the all encompassing issues are already a tag on the fic, I'm just providing additonal warnings per chapter.)

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the reason i absolutely will not do the Should The Jedi Have Freed The Slaves debate with randos in my tumblr notes is because someone, sound of mind, once thought it was reasonable to argue that if qui-gon had killed watto to free shmi, that would have resulted in a war. like someone, whole of chest, once tried to tell me that the hutts would go to war with the republic over the death of one man who owns an o'reilleys in space arkansas. i had to read that, and then i had to keep reading it because they doubled down on that assertion. i have had to take "debating theoretical fictional sci-fi politics" off of the table of things i will talk about because those are the kinds of things i have to address because you guys just type the strangest shit on your keyboards. let's start space WWI because david from the bodega got stabbed because david from the fucking bodega surely matters that much to the Space Governments