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narratively I am a fan of romances that don’t ever actually become romances

I don’t mean in an aromantic life partner way, I mean romantic tension that is never resolved or acted upon for whatever reason but by the end it’s clear that both characters experienced the love of their lives without ever acknowledging it as such. but they know. they know.

#alicole

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Im curious.

#no but sometimes i will quit a rewatch #also i quit watching ugly betty after alexis was written off #but that's not a death

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#sparks fly #get me with those green eyes baby when the lights go down

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As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

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woko thief of pronouns

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I believe the practice sabers and decoration from Arcann's date night are handmade by him. Of course, he is a man of intense devotion!

Did you know? The plaque on his decoration says "my purpose lies with you" (a quote from Unmasked Regret) in Aurebesh.

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every time i have a manic episode i blow like $500 on supplies for some random activity like yes this will be the hobby that saves me

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

#i have no idea why the graphic comments #but these AI comments are 100% ads #like especially the non-ChatGPT ones advertising alternatives i've never heard of #it's a brand awareness campaign

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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A Cautionary Tale

There are as many tales of Mandalore’s fall 

as there are Clans that remain.

Every tale is different, every tale is the same; 

the other Kryze sister is to blame. 

Dried Blood in my Father’s Beskar

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no offense but you guys need to learn the difference between someone implying their experience is universal and a post simply just not being about you

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Public speaking is actually really easy if you don't respect a single soul in that room. I've had an incredibly easy time delivering speeches when I hated everybody I saw and they all thought I did amazing because my disdain was read as confidence. I don't have any tips for you I'm just telling you a fact

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me as a writer: Oh no I can’t write that, somebody else already has

me as a reader: hell yes give me all the fics about this one scenario. The more the merrier

#a few years now someone commented on my fic #that they had a very similar scene they were working on #and i STILL check every once in a while to see if it ever happened #(it was nadia grell speaking to the jedi consular's holocron. just a very good character piece for any swtor oc)

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the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

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guys i need you to realize that smoking ANYTHING will cause damage to your lungs. inhaling smoke is just inherently bad for you im sorry.

#people who work in buddhist temples often get lung cancer from the incense #do not keep incense burning in your home full time

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do y’all remember before direct messages tumblr had a dumbass ask limit of 10 per hour and communication was impossible until they introduced dumbass fan mail and we were basically sending telegraphs back in forth trying to communicate those were…dark times

#i am. slightly proud of not shitting on any of the changes that aged well. #and though i am used to the 'new' post editor by now i stand by my original criticisms #(the old post editor used to share a lot of the interface with word/google docs) #(which is good for new users)

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i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside

#southern califonia and yes of course #when it rained there was not actually room in the cafeteria for any more people #so teachers open their classrooms or people get wet