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The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos

🚨 You WILL Be Impacted 🚨

Every photo, every message, every file you send will be automatically scanned—without your consent or suspicion.

If you live in the EU*, contact your MEPs NOW and tell them to vote NO! Go here to learn more & FIGHT BACK!

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

*especially if you live in Germany - they have not yet decided, and their opposition is crucial!

Please reblog! If the EU passes this, it weakens online privacy worldwide.

[tarakau]

The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos

🚨 You WILL Be Impacted 🚨

Every photo, every message, every file you send will be automatically scanned—without your consent or suspicion.

If you live in the EU*, contact your MEPs NOW and tell them to vote NO! Go here to learn more & FIGHT BACK!

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

*especially if you live in Germany - they have not yet decided, and their opposition is crucial!

Please reblog! If the EU passes this, it weakens online privacy worldwide.

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a brief look into my twisted world

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i feel like people forget that sometimes characters in fic are written like that because it's a reflection of real life.

people have sex without setting boundaries. people have unprotected sex without talking about their sexual histories or producing recent sti tests. people play with kink without discussing it ahead of time or establishing a safeword. they have anal without 'enough' prep or lube—they may even prefer it like that.

and none of this is really a fantasy. it's all pretty normal. you can feel that it's inappropriately normalised, and you'd probably be right! but it is normalised: one study found that 58% of female undergraduate students on the campus studied had been choked during sex. 20% of those students said that they'd never been asked if it was ok; another 30% said they'd only sometimes been asked if they consented. fully half! (non-paywalled journal article on choking during sex here, including these numbers.) despite a rise in stis of all sorts, condom use is declining. (pdf link to the full text of this study about declining condom use in the us; aidsmap article about an australian study with similar results.)

even when people do talk about things—sex or anything else—they communicate imperfectly. 'yeah, but don't go too far' is consenting and setting a boundary, and also relying that the person you're talking to has the same metric for 'too far' that you do. for some people, 'the trash needs to go out' is a neutral, factual observation; for others, it's a request that the person they're speaking to take out the trash.

even when people understand each other perfectly, people react unpredictably to things sometimes! we behave irrationally! people laugh uncontrollably at funerals, or get angry at the straw that broke their back rather than the enormous load they were already carrying. they get scared and lash out at people trying to help them. when hurt, most people do not instinctively reach for therapy-approved grounding exercises and 'i feel' statements.

pretty much any bad choice that characters could conceivably make is a choice that people make in real life, on purpose, all the time. people do things that can have catastrophic, life-changing effects because it felt like a good idea at the time, or they're leaning into the vibe, or they just didn't think about it all that much, or an infinite number of other reasons.

fiction isn't intended as a guide on the best, safest, and most responsible ways to live your life, and fanfic isn't any different. it's not a narrative flaw to let characters do things that are messy or harmful or downright stupid—it's a reflection of what people are actually like, and not something that authors should feel they have to apologise for.

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So I nipped over to Mad At You Island for like five minutes, you know how it is with leaving dishes in the sink, and I saw that you had a little shack built there. Like with a bedroom and a garden, all set up for long holidays. Nobody else was there but you've put up a bunch of pictures of people you know? Look mate, the real estate is dirt cheap there for a reason; nobody wants to fucking go to Mad At You Island. Come with me, we can go looking for somewhere else to build a holiday home together.

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Presenting to you my writing cycle

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i know that image anywhere. who’s drawing white pharaoh on adelaide

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i think it is important to recognize the ways in which your favorite thing sucks. i think it keeps u normal

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1926 c. Two young ladies in scalloped-hem dresses. For a middle-class girl, these would be worn for fancy afternoon or evening party dresses. From The Glamour of the 1920s, FB.

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Okay

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L'Art et la mode, no. 33, vol. 43, 19 août 1922, Paris. Voici queques jolis créations de Lucy. 69. Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Scintillante

Robe de crêpe Georgette "lilas", perlée cristal et coquilles de nacre.

Lilac coloured Georgette crape, crystal beaded and mother of pearl shells.

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Salomé

Robe en lamé Venitien, se drapant de côté. Petite cape et grande pointe en dentelle d'or.

Venitian lamé, draped by side. Small golden lace cape and large point.

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Camargo

Cape en velours Frisson noir; dos en lamé "vieil or" et lamé couleur, doublé de velours Frisson "fraise".

Black Frisson velvet; antique gold lamé and coloured lamé back, lined with strawberry coloured Frisson velvet.

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we have GOT to go back to this

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Nadia Waheed (Pakistani, 1992) - Dream Mythology I (2025)

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Every single time someone mentions police role-playing in a sexual context I think of this tinder interaction and I instantly become absolutely stricken with laughter