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translation: “My sheep! [bah! bah!] You are my life. [bah! bah!] Walk behind me…[bah! bah!] Sing (after me).”

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that ‘pakige?’ post but me, a couple hours after posting a fic, like ‘comints?’

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you're the only one who understands me mr strobbery

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"well, not my circus not my monkeys"

"oh God it's my circus and my monkeys now"

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The Impossible That Happened To British Airways 009 | Falling From The Sky | Mayday: Air Disaster

After flying through volcanic ash in 1982, British Airways Flight 9 lost all four engines. The captain calmly told passengers, “We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”

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it is my experience that people with dermal implants and eyeball tattoos and 34 visible piercings are the sweetest people you'll ever meet and will cry if they see a pigeon with a broken wing. it is also my experience that clean-cut people in polo shirts with perfect smiles will vote against your rights and say the most disgusting things imaginable once they think you're out of earshot.

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Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Vincent Benítez (Conclave) Additional Tags: Vincent Benítez Needs A Hug (Conclave), Character Study, Internal Conflict, Religious Content, Catholic Character, Catholic Guilt, Identity Issues, Depression, Crisis of Faith, Existential Crisis, Suicidal Thoughts, Self-Discovery, Self-Acceptance, Intersex, Turner syndrome, Mix of book and movie canon, Headcanon, Unresolved Emotional Tension, Ambiguous/Open Ending Summary:

Of course, Vincent has always known that he isn’t particularly… well endowed, in the same way that, standing at only 5 foot nothing, he’s always been a head shorter than other men around him. He’s also aware that he never developed as much as his peers in his teens, and that he’s always looked noticeably youthful for his age, even now into his mid-60s. And he’s never needed to shave even once in his adult life. But he’s never really given any of this too much thought until now, because he hasn’t seen cause for alarm. Everyone’s different, after all, and none of that had to mean anything. Certainly not when also factoring in his partly Indigenous Mexican heritage. But this? Before he really has time to register what’s happening, he throws up every bite of the banana they managed to coax into him back in post-op. The doctor and nurses assume his nausea is a result of the anaesthesia he was given for his surgery. Vincent doesn’t correct them. He never eats banana again after that day.

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Vincent Benítez, at the age of 64, grapples with the discovery of his intersex condition

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The author, at the age of 28, processes the realisation that his condition is an intersex condition

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Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Vincent Benítez (Conclave) Additional Tags: Vincent Benítez Needs A Hug (Conclave), Character Study, Internal Conflict, Religious Content, Catholic Character, Catholic Guilt, Identity Issues, Depression, Crisis of Faith, Existential Crisis, Suicidal Thoughts, Self-Discovery, Self-Acceptance, Intersex, Turner syndrome, Mix of book and movie canon, Headcanon, Unresolved Emotional Tension, Ambiguous/Open Ending Summary:

Of course, Vincent has always known that he isn’t particularly… well endowed, in the same way that, standing at only 5 foot nothing, he’s always been a head shorter than other men around him. He’s also aware that he never developed as much as his peers in his teens, and that he’s always looked noticeably youthful for his age, even now into his mid-60s. And he’s never needed to shave even once in his adult life. But he’s never really given any of this too much thought until now, because he hasn’t seen cause for alarm. Everyone’s different, after all, and none of that had to mean anything. Certainly not when also factoring in his partly Indigenous Mexican heritage. But this? Before he really has time to register what’s happening, he throws up every bite of the banana they managed to coax into him back in post-op. The doctor and nurses assume his nausea is a result of the anaesthesia he was given for his surgery. Vincent doesn’t correct them. He never eats banana again after that day.

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Vincent Benítez, at the age of 64, grapples with the discovery of his intersex condition

or

The author, at the age of 28, processes the realisation that his condition is an intersex condition

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“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain.”

— Isaiah 10:1-4a

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it is the year 2025. you are a cardinal appointed by the late pope whom have just died. you do not know how to run the elections that brings a new pope in place. fortunately a movie published the year before was made regarding your entire job process. the movie that brought along old man/pope yaoi to the masses. you are now watching said movie for guidance.

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disabled people who do not directly "contribute" to society and need large amounts of care and resources to survive deserve not only to survive but to have comfort, stability, and fun within their lives while they do. no compromises.

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stop rping with ghatgpt. you should be rping with a bisexual internet woman u have a relationship that constantly straddles the line between platonic and sexual with. tyou're ruining the ecosystem

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CONCLAVE 2024 | dir. Edward Berger

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What if we were the answers to each other's prayers and we were both cardinals

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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.