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So I dove back into my old BillDip folder and as it turns out

I DID write a single chapter of the Reverse Falls version of the story and I think I had wanted to write more but just. Never did. But there IS a beginning. HUH

So that being said. I may upload that AND the one-shots. Might as well put em out there. In the meantime I'm gonna keep trying to think of art I can draw for it since that's winning right now :D

So June 10th of this year actually marks the ten year anniversary of me completing Payment in Blood, that is WILD to me. I feel like I should do something special to celebrate but I’m not sure what. I did have a couple ideas though

One idea was to share a couple of old one-shots I wrote playing around with the idea of Payment in Blood taking place in the Reverse Falls AU, and rather than it being Bill trapping Dipper in a deal, our lovely fucked up Dipper Gleeful manipulates Will Cipher into serving him, and has Will teach him magic and strengthen his abilities, and Dipper uses this to go about killing people he wants gone. And Will can only help him, at first horrified by it, but eventually getting used to it and even enjoying it

Of course I never wrote a beginning setting up all this, at least I don’t think I did. The only actual writing I did for this concept took place once Dipper and Will have grown closer and actually care about each other in their own twisted way. One fic involved Will obtaining a human vessel for himself, the second is him in said human body helping Dipper out with some murders, having embraced his demonic blood lust, and Dipper is very proud of him. Both turn into smut because I’m me

So yeah, I considered cleaning those up and posting them to the Payback series on AO3 as a fun surprise for anyone subscribed to it, and I’ll of course link to them here too.

My other idea was simply drawing some artwork for the fic, though I don’t have any specific ideas for what to draw yet. I can figure something out though. Or if anyone has an idea they can comment it :)

But I was thinking! Perhaps I should do a poll and see what readers would be more interested in! Don’t worry, there’s a chance I could do both, but I still wanna see what I should prioritize. So here goes!

There is no both option, both might still happen but I’d still rather you choose one or the other, but feel free to throw support for both in the comments as well. Same for if you have a third idea, let me know!

But yeah I just really want to try and do something to celebrate ten years of this fic existing, it was SUCH an amazing time writing it and I had so many great conversations with the readers, and I may have mostly moved on from the Gravity Falls fandom but I still think of that time very fondly. <3

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It’s been a few days now, but I saw that someone showed you a photo of the world’s smallest dog (Pearl), and I think it’s vital that you see her photo shoot with the world’s largest dog. His name is Reggie, he is a Great Dane, and THIS is what their comparative paw sizes look like together 🥹

I mean, are you kidding?!

Oh my godddddddssssddddddd#ffdd what a baby 😭😭😭😭😭

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went to a local Mexican restaurant yesterday for Cinco de Mayo and as is the tradition

I took on the mechanical bull again

sorry it was filmed in vertical 😔

but yea I think I held on pretty good this time. also my legs are gonna be sore as hell

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How the mane 6 would react to getting handed divorce papers

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EEE

He's so pretty <3 Thank you so much, I'm happy you enjoyed it! And I love the way you drew him, especially with the feathers falling out.

Ohh poor slowly corrupting angel.. (pets him)

Today I have some fanart of Ranboo from @spyroforlife's fic Who Knew Falling From Grace Could Feel This Good (rated E), an AMAZING 22k fill to a prompt I submitted to this year's MCYT Dead Dove kinkmeme :D I love love love guardian angel AUs, and your descriptions of Ranboo sounded sooo pretty I just had to draw him <33

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So June 10th of this year actually marks the ten year anniversary of me completing Payment in Blood, that is WILD to me. I feel like I should do something special to celebrate but I’m not sure what. I did have a couple ideas though

One idea was to share a couple of old one-shots I wrote playing around with the idea of Payment in Blood taking place in the Reverse Falls AU, and rather than it being Bill trapping Dipper in a deal, our lovely fucked up Dipper Gleeful manipulates Will Cipher into serving him, and has Will teach him magic and strengthen his abilities, and Dipper uses this to go about killing people he wants gone. And Will can only help him, at first horrified by it, but eventually getting used to it and even enjoying it

Of course I never wrote a beginning setting up all this, at least I don’t think I did. The only actual writing I did for this concept took place once Dipper and Will have grown closer and actually care about each other in their own twisted way. One fic involved Will obtaining a human vessel for himself, the second is him in said human body helping Dipper out with some murders, having embraced his demonic blood lust, and Dipper is very proud of him. Both turn into smut because I’m me

So yeah, I considered cleaning those up and posting them to the Payback series on AO3 as a fun surprise for anyone subscribed to it, and I’ll of course link to them here too.

My other idea was simply drawing some artwork for the fic, though I don’t have any specific ideas for what to draw yet. I can figure something out though. Or if anyone has an idea they can comment it :)

But I was thinking! Perhaps I should do a poll and see what readers would be more interested in! Don’t worry, there’s a chance I could do both, but I still wanna see what I should prioritize. So here goes!

There is no both option, both might still happen but I’d still rather you choose one or the other, but feel free to throw support for both in the comments as well. Same for if you have a third idea, let me know!

But yeah I just really want to try and do something to celebrate ten years of this fic existing, it was SUCH an amazing time writing it and I had so many great conversations with the readers, and I may have mostly moved on from the Gravity Falls fandom but I still think of that time very fondly. <3

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what if the new pope is problematic :/

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The Oblivion Remaster?? Yeah that’s fine but personally I’ve been REALLY getting into Minesweeper lately

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"Tim Friede’s YouTube channel is home to a collection of videos depicting the Wisconsin-native truck mechanic subjecting himself to purposeful snake bites, blood slowly dripping down his arms.

For the past 20 years, Friede has been one of the most notorious “unconventional” medical researchers, undergoing over 200 bites from the world’s deadliest snakes — and more than four times as many — 850 — venomous injections. 

He did it all in the name of science.

According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 100,000 people are killed by snake bites each year, with countless more being disabled by the venom of the deadly reptiles. 

While life-saving anti-venom is available, very few countries actually have the capacity to produce it properly, given that most bites occur in remote and rural areas, and anti-venom requires arduous sourcing and accuracy. 

But Friede’s blood is now full of antibodies, following decades of strategic exposure to the neurotoxins of mambas, cobras, and other lethal slithering critters.

His blood is now the source material researchers are using to develop an anti-venom capable of neutralizing a broad spectrum of snake bites...

Friede started this hobby — which he is indeed adamant no one else tries at home — out of sheer curiosity in childhood. After playing with harmless garter snakes in his youth, he began keeping more dangerous species of snakes as pets. At one point, he had 60 of them in his home basement.

In 1999, he began extracting venom from his snakes, drying it, diluting it, and injecting himself with tiny doses — keeping meticulous records as he went.

He had one major hospitalization in 2001, when he was paralyzed and in a coma for four days. But instead of giving up, he doubled down. 

“In hindsight, I’m glad it happened,” Friede told The Times. “I never made another mistake.”

Jacob Glanville, an immunologist and founder of biotech company Centivax, stumbled on Friede’s videos.

Now, Friede is the director of herpetology at Centivax and serves as something of a “human lab” to Glanville.

“For a period of nearly 18 years, [Tim] had undertaken hundreds of bites and self-immunizations with escalating doses from 16 species of very lethal snakes that would normally a kill a horse,” Glanville told The Guardian.

“It blew my mind. I contacted him because I thought if anyone in the world has these properly neutralizing antibodies, it’s him.”

To develop the new anti-venom, Glanville and his fellow researchers identified 19 of the world’s deadliest snakes — in the elapid family — which kill their prey by injecting neurotoxins into their bloodstream, paralyzing muscles (including the big, important ones, like the heart and lungs).

The trouble is, each species in the elapid family has a slightly different toxin, meaning they would each require their own anti-venom.

But Friede’s blood contains certain fragments of each of these toxins; protein molecules seen across the various species. Because of his decades of service to science, his blood also contains the antibodies required to neutralize these toxins, preventing them from sticking to human cells and causing harm.

Combining the antibodies LNX-D09, SNX-B03, and a small molecule called varespladib that inhibits venom toxins, Centivax has successfully created a treatment effective against the entire range of 19 species’ toxins.

Their work, which was recently published in the journal Cell, will soon be tested outside of the lab. 

Trials will start with using the serum to treat dogs admitted to Australian veterinary clinics for snake bites. Assuming that goes well, the next step will be to administer human tests.

Researchers also believe that because the serum stems from a human, this should also lower the risk of allergic reactions when being administered to other people. 

“The final product would be a single, pan-anti-venom cocktail,” Professor Peter Kwong of Columbia University, a senior author of the study, told The Times.

Or, he added, they could make two: “One that is for the elapids, and another that is for the viperids, because some areas of the world only have one or the other.”

As for Friede, he maintains his affinity for snakes, though his last bite was in November 2018, when he said “enough is enough,” according to The New York Times.

By then, he had certainly done enough. His pursuit of immunity could feasibly save countless lives.

“I’m really proud that I can do something in life for humanity,” Friede told The New York Times, “to make a difference for people that are 8,000 miles away, that I’m never going to meet, never going to talk to, never going to see, probably.”

-via GoodGoodGood, May 2, 2025

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You're about to close on your very own, suspiciously affordable and comfortable house. Just before you sign the contract, the realtor shows you the required legal disclosure: your new house is haunted by the type of presence you'll get from this spinner wheel.

Of course it is.

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my AO3 bumper sticker came in and with that I was reminded that I still had a Tortuga Twins bumper sticker laying around that I got from the Renaissance Festival last year and just hadn't stuck onto my car at the time since the car was dirty

I've washed the car since of course but just never bothered to take the sticker out to it

But today I gave my car a fresh wash so it'd be nice and shiny and put the AO3 sticker on, and the Tortuga Twins one over it. Those are its only two stickers. But now I kinda want to get more

I won't go out of my way to get bumper stickers but if I see any more cool ones around I might pick em up

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im waging war on mint flavoring being the standard for all dental supplies, to the point where no one ever thinks to ASK whether or not you are okay with mint. i fucking hate mint. its sensory hell for me. we have the technology for toothpaste and floss and mouthwash to be flavored differently or not at all and YET!!!!!!!!!!!!! im sick of this world's pro-mint agenda.

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i re-read the golden age that never was by not_poignant on AO3 an idk they are just all i can think about right now an they are driving me up the wall again -_-

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Got a couple nice Oblivion (classic) clips yesterday while I was playing. One of S'fara glitching out right outside the Strange Door, doing very well as you can see

and this one of Ahdarji being racist about Argonians as usual but with very very bad timing

I'm sure the Remaster has all the same wonkiness underneath the shiny new coat of paint but ya just can't beat classic Oblivion <3

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Seethe and cope 😚✌🏻

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If there’s anything I’ve learned in life it’s that being confident and having self respect will sometimes evoke some of the most irrational obsessive hatred and anger in other people. Particularly if you’re perceived as someone who doesn’t “deserve” to feel that way about yourself there’s a very specific type of anger that comes from people who can’t understand why someone who they think should hate themselves doesn’t