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when Alyx made that stupid "zombine" comment? that was when Gordon decided if he was ever asked to take a chunk of his soul to use as a band-aid for hers he wouldn't even ask any questions

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Words Used to Describe Genitals

So at one point someone suggested we start a list of words used in fanfiction to describe genitals. After a particularly great Twilight fic was submitted, I decided to start that list, and Im providing what the phrase is describing. It will be updated as more words and phrases are found. And feel free to submit ones you’ve heard :3

Also check out the lube list!

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#nsft #this came up in a discord conversation and now you all must suffer #reference #(extremely cursed reference)

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i’m gay but i’m always gonna choose the well developed straight ship over the 2 bland and incompatible white dudes that have 500,000 fanfics written about them. you guys just hate women.

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Why are freeh*un shippers suddenly trying to bring back "butter pecan"???

#K talks #I've seen several posts with this tag recently and like #it's got a funny origin story but it's not particularly flattering #and it's from a time when the hl fandom was small and normal #it's weird to see people using it who don't even know the context and would send hate mail to the folks who coined it

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Things are great in the Half-Life tag (specifically the hyphenated one). 🙃

Begone, pornbots and weird AI art of women in bikinis!

#K talks

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tiny headcrab

#headcrab #lightning dog

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when Alyx made that stupid "zombine" comment? that was when Gordon decided if he was ever asked to take a chunk of his soul to use as a band-aid for hers he wouldn't even ask any questions

#you. you get it #freemance

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Headcanon: Vortigaunts are stereotyped as incorrigible gossips.

To be fair, it's got merit with their collective telepathy. One of them picks up on some tea and you know that information is going right into the metaphysical groupchat that binds all

#this is a plot point in one of my fics that may never see the light of day #the vortigaunts are up in everyone's business #especially gordon and alyx's after they get vort married #which is essentially a one-way gossip phone from their minds to the vortessence

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this couldn’t be said any better

#yeah #blocking only does so much

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you guys should watch this half life video

#barney calhoun

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Gordon commission for @purplebucket65!

#gordon freeman

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In writing, epithets ("the taller man"/"the blonde"/etc) are inherently dehumanizing, in that they remove a character's name and identity, and instead focus on this other quality.

Which can be an extremely effective device within narration!

They can work very well for characters whose names the narrator doesn't know yet (especially to differentiate between two or more). How specific the epithet is can signal to the reader how important the character is going to be later on, and whether they should dedicate bandwidth to remembering them for later ("the bearded man" is much less likely to show up again than "the man with the angel tattoo")

They can indicate when characters stop being as an individual and instead embody their Role, like a detective choosing to think of their lover simply as The Thief when arresting them, or a royal character being referred to as The Queen when she's acting on behalf of the state

They can reveal the narrator's biases by repeatedly drawing attention to a particular quality that singles them out in the narrator's mind

But these only work if the epithet used is how the narrator primarily identifies that character. Which is why it's so jarring to see a lot of common epithets in intimate moments-- because it conveys that the main character is primarily thinking of their lover/best friend/etc in terms of their height or age or hair color.

#this is such a good explanation #also 'idec abt most writing/grammar/etc rules like u can rip my -ly adverbs from my cold dead hands' #prev you are so correct

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Black Mesa office party

#colette green #gina cross #ginette

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By the way, even if you fully plan to vote for Biden in November (because Trump would be worse and has declared that if elected he would ban Palestinians from entering the US x, x, x, x)...

You can and I would argue should call Biden or whatever other Democrats represent you and just straight up lie about it. Tell them "I'm a constituent, and I've voted for you in x number of elections, and thanks to your support for the genocide of the Palestinian people, I will never, ever vote for you again."

Politicians, Democrats, and especially Biden need a fire lit under their asses, because the vast majority of them clearly aren't going to do shit without one. Or, worse, be like Biden and actively be the reason that Israel can continue its genocide on a political, monetary, and military level.

Tell Biden and other politicians that you will never vote for them again. It doesn't matter if it's true. It will help pressure US politicians to stop this genocide, and therefore it's the right thing to do.

Obviously this also applies to other countries where politicians are supporting Israel's genocide, especially countries that have cut funding to UNRWA (list here).

#when push comes to shove it's biden or project 2025 #but you can lie your ass off between now and election day and tell him to get his shit together

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Half Life: Full Life Consequences was a once in a fandom event and I am begging y'all to stop trying to emulate it.

This is obviously a personal gripe and not a suggestion to harass anybody, but god, I hate* people who write spam fics that have just enough "plot" to them that they don't technically violate TOS.

It's one thing to earnestly write a fic that happens to be bad. We've all done it, including me! It's another thing entirely to write deliberately shitty spam fics to entertain 3.5 of your middle school friends and then subject us all to them by posting them on an archive with legitimate-looking tags. Really wish people would stop fucking doing that.

#K talks

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This is obviously a personal gripe and not a suggestion to harass anybody, but god, I hate* people who write spam fics that have just enough "plot" to them that they don't technically violate TOS.

It's one thing to earnestly write a fic that happens to be bad. We've all done it, including me! It's another thing entirely to write deliberately shitty spam fics to entertain 3.5 of your middle school friends and then subject us all to them by posting them on an archive with legitimate-looking tags. Really wish people would stop fucking doing that.

#K talks #*'hate' as in 'I find them incredibly annoying but do not devote more than a few seconds at a time to being angry at them' #but this is my blog and I can bitch if I want #we had a brief moment of joy in the hl tag on ao3 and now we're back to garbage #and before anyone comes for me #I remember being an annoying teenager on the internet and trying to subject entire communities to my bullshit #I was quickly informed that that wasn't appropriate and to move it to a private chat #but if I gave some of these kids the same gentle wake-up call I received I'd be accused of harassment