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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Guinevere (Choices: Stories You Play Visual Novel) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Guinevere/Lancelot du Lac/Arthur Pendragon Characters: Guinevere (Choices: Stories You Play), Lancelot du Lac (Choices: Stories You Play), Arthur Pendragon (Choices: Stories You Play) Additional Tags: this is the ending that exists in my head and I will never be dissuaded, THIS SHOULD BE A CHOICE, once again sara tries to solve love triangle drama with polyamory, it just makes too much sense here!!!, they are like 98 percent of the way to an OT3 by chapter 3 latest Summary:

Guinevere was as beautiful as she was fierce and intelligent, as captivating as she was kind and generous, and he marveled every day that she was his wife. He could not fault Lancelot for his feelings for her.

Lancelot was honorable and heroic, truly the most loyal and dedicated friend and knight he had ever known. He put everyone else before his own heart, his own happiness, even at great cost to himself. He could not fault Guinevere for her feelings for him.

He nodded.

“I love you too, my heart,” he said, bringing her hand to his lips and kissing her knuckles. “And I think it’s time I live up to the promise I made you.”

#evidently 2024 is the year of random fanfic #fanfic #choices: stories you play #arthur pendragon choices #guinevere choices #lancelot du lac choices

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People will look at kids who read 58 books per year and go "parenting done right! :)" while everyone I know who used to read like that as a kid now has CPTSD.

#well damn #just @ me next time #lol #irl lol #seriously I straight up CACKLED #indeed

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Leverage (US TV 2008), Leverage: Redemption Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer, Paul Orozco/Eliot Spencer, Maria Shipp/Eliot Spencer Characters: Eliot Spencer (Leverage), Parker (Leverage), Alec Hardison Additional Tags: you are allowed to be happy Eliot, For God's sake, Leverage: Redemption (2021), Past Relationship(s) Summary:

He stood there, staggered, like she’d just clocked him over the head. She picked up a single pretzel and carefully inspected it.

He thought about Maria. She was fierce and fun and a federal marshal who took her job seriously, and he’d enjoyed their time together. Maybe, deep down, some part of him had always known it was limited, even as he wanted…

What did he want?

#leverage #leverage: redemption #fanfic #parker x hardison x eliot #eliot x others (mentioned) #i found most of this in my phone's notes app... #apparently at some point in the past I blacked out and wrote leverage fic #who knew

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i love you adult women on tumblr i'm glad we all still have blogs

#lol #indeed

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"Why, Grace! Are you assuming that I, Pan, am some sort of…scoundrel?"

I absolutely adore that man so of course I will draw him whenever I can. Summerfall Studios delivered such a nice chaotic-neutral character.

#fun fact this was the line that made me immediately switch to romancing pan #the way khary payton says ‘scoundrel’ is without any doubt illegal #me on every new play through: okay what if I don’t flirt with pan this time #me on every new play through in response to this line: ‘hoping maybe 😘’ #stray gods #stray gods fanart #stray gods the roleplaying musical #stray gods pan #fanart

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remembering the fact that both Pan and Freddie wanted to run away from the city and I passed out for 2 days to this on my canvas

#stray gods #stray gods the roleplaying musical #stray gods grace #stray gods freddie #stray gods pan #stray gods fanart #oh my this is absolutely lovely #gah the colors are perfect #beautiful #has anyone written this fanfic yet?

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Freddie/Grace (Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical), Apollo/Grace (Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical), Grace/Pan (Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical) Characters: Freddie (Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical), Grace (Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical), Pan (Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical), Apollo (Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical), Hecate (Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical) Additional Tags: Polyamory, mentioned Asterion/Hecate, i don't trust greek god magic not to have weird aftereffects, it just seems unlikely Summary:

Pan has a theory about Grace's so-called mortality; Apollo has questions and far too many feelings; Freddie has an idea about Grace's relationship... with all of them.

#stray gods #stray gods game #fanfic #stray gods fanfic #grace x freddie #grace x pan #grace x apollo #I'm a polyshipper at heart what can I say #brb off to write a bajillion words of pan and freddie bantering

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I already commented but I saw your reblog and just wanted to add: Troy Baker's voice acting is incredibly hot, oh my god. Especially when Apollo is being sweet or bashful around Grace. You can literally hear the character blushing thanks to his voice.

Here for the Ride is also the only one started from Grace's POV! I also just really, really like that song. It's genuine and sweet and "I can help you and support you but you're ultimately the one who has to figure it out for yourself" which is a really lovely thing to hear in a love song.

But yeah. Apollo's bashful awkward pleased chuckles whenever Grace teases him give me LIFE.

Apollo enjoyers, why do you love him?

I dont get it, but i realy want to.

I feel sorry for him, and i feel, that "there is nothing to forgive", but i dont feel love.

He looks like a wet rat, cannot botton up his shirt and always going in this bad mood. I mean, how i suppose to love him, if he hates himself this uncharismatic way?

#stray gods #stray gods game #I actually went in intending to romance freddie first #then pan opened his mouth #so he was first #then I went back for freddie #literally did apollo's route last because I thought I wouldn't like him as much #and now I'm obssessed with apollo x grace #ain't that always the way #in fairness though I'm a multishipper and I am also still wildly in favor of pan x grace and freddie x grace #and actually now having seen some posts about it I'm also deeply intrigued by pan x grace x freddie #I do also enjoy grace x persephone but I feel like her best ending is without grace #where she reconciled with orpheus and destroyed the throne herself and is selling the club and moving onto something mysterious #but maybe after she gets back she can join the polycule #someone write that fanfic so I don't have to #grace and her harem of idols #PS I refuse to believe somehow managing to survive passing on an eidolon while in the UNDERWORLD makes you MORTAL #“there's more to an idol than their eidolon” #they're going to find out five months later that grace has some other weird as fuck power now #there'll be a whole other mystery around it #it'll be great

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PSA: if you wear a bra

You're probably wearing the wrong size. Most people are.

This is a screenshot of the bra company Pepper's size guide. Let's take a look at this, shall we?

Hmm, a 25-26" underbust and a 29-30" bust... sized as a 30A.

No. This is not how bra-sizing works. The band ought to match or be fairly close to the underbust measurement. It HAS to be, to provide any support and to be comfortable. Because, yes, bras can be quite comfortable! In the correct size. A band that is too big is going to ride up and shift and rub and move and be awful. A cup that is too small is going to squeeze your tissue into the band, making it feel tighter, and painful, because now your band is pressed into breast tissue.

Bra sizes are a ratio. The letter by itself is meaningless. There is no such thing as "an A cup" or "a D cup." Both A and D cups look vastly different on different bands. "Size DD+" as a bra size category is similar to a shoe store with a "size 6+" category, except worse, because shoe size really is generally only determined by one number. "DD+" being all the information you're going on to determine a bra size would be like answering the question, "How far away is that?" with, "Five." Minutes? Hours? Miles? Blocks? There's a whole range of things that could mean!

The letters correspond (roughly--people don't come in 2-inch increments) to inches of difference between the under and over bust measurement. So going back to our supposed "30A" up there... let's assume a 26" underbust and a 30" bust. 30 is 4 more inches than 26.

A: 1 inch, B: 2 inches, C: 3 inches, D: 4 inches.

Yes, that's correct. That person Pepper is trying to shove into a 30A should be wearing a 26D. A 30A bra would be for someone with a rough underbust measurement of 30 inches and a rough bust measurement of 31 inches. 1 inch difference. Whereas the 26D is for 26 under, 30 over. Notice how the 26D is actually a SMALLER total circumference than the 30A? Cup size scales with band size.

The reason this company pisses me off in particular is because if they wanted to be a niche "smaller boobs" bra company, there is a HUGE untapped market in people who need sub-32 bands. A few carry 30s and 28s but good luck if you need a 26 or 24. And they could help more people get into PROPERLY fitted bras, instead of tossing them into matrix sizes and pretending they're special.

I saw this on their website: "The industry designs for 36C. We design for AA, A, and B."

YOU CANNOT DESIGN FOR CUP SIZE INDEPENDENT OF BAND SIZE.

Also, the industry designs for fucking no one. The industry calls "A cups" small and "D cups" large, tosses out 32-40 in bands and A-DD in cup sizes and calls it good.

DD is five inches of difference between under bust and bust. 5 inches on a person with a 30-inch underbust is going to look MUCH different than 5 inches on a person with a 38-inch underbust. A circle with a total circumference of 43 inches is MUCH larger than a circle with a total circumference of 35 inches.

If you wear bras, and you want to make your life infinitely better, I beg, plead, urge you to go to abrathatfits.org and do the calculator. (Particularly if you've always been sized as an A or B cup, because those are actually very rare true sizes on any band.) The calculator actually takes into account 6 measurements, because for some people a leaning bust measurement is more important than a standing one. Believe the calculator. It will almost certainly give you a band size smaller than you expect and a cup size much larger than you expect. It's not perfect, so it's a good idea to try a cup larger and smaller, too, but it's generally very close. Try different sizes in the same bra--and NOT a t-shirt bra or any bra with molded/formed cups. almost no one properly fits those. Look for an unlined, seamed bra. Go by UK sizing, and stick to the UK brands. (Bare Necessities carries a bunch of them.) US bras are horribly inconsistent, especially in larger cup sizes. UK brands also generally have a far larger size range.

Any time you try on a bra, be sure to "scoop and swoop" to ensure ALL of the breast tissue fits into the cup. A big issue with ill-fitting bras is breast tissue that migrated to the armpit. You ever notice a little bulge on the side at the top of the band under your arm? There's a good chance that's actually displaced breast tissue.

Also check out The Irish Bra Lady on Instagram. She has tons of posts showing what properly fitted bras look like, in a wide range of sizes. If you're really in doubt about the size the calculator gives you, check her account first, she probably has a picture of someone in that size or close. It's helpful sometimes to see what it actually looks like.

Unfortunately, size is only one aspect of a well-fitting bra. Shape is equally important. Some bras have taller cups, some have shorter, which work better for different root sizes. There's fullness, is it mostly on the top or bottom? Even? Horizontally? Close set, wide set? Projected, shallow?

Go through all the resources at the abrathatfits subreddit. They have tons and tons of information to help determine your shape, what bras might work best for you, and the commenters are incredibly helpful if you need to make a post to ask a question.

I'm not going to lie, it took me probably 6-9 months to find a bra that fits? I have to buy mine from Poland. It was a bit of an ordeal.

But now? Now, I think about my bra exactly twice per day: once when I put it on in the morning and once when I take it off in the evening. I don't notice it. It doesn't shift. It doesn't poke. My straps aren't cutting into my shoulders or falling off them. I'm not constantly "reseating" my boobs. It turns out they stay put just fine if you give them a seat they actually fit into.

Finding a well-fitting bra is up there with medication and regular exercise in terms of its contribution to my quality of life. It's confusing, and there's a LOT, but it is SO fucking worth it.

You know that TIkTok trend question that's all, "if you HAD to start talking about one topic for 30+ minutes straight, what would you talk about?"

Yeah.

I will spend the rest of my life shouting all of this from the rooftops. Bras can be comfortable! It's actually true!

#in which sara has far too many opinions about bras #bra sizing #bra fitting #bras #a bra that fits #pepper is a shitty company and they should stop #do not purchase from them they are lying to you #their bras are not correctly sized #they do not give a crap #they want your money

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#lmao and she's 100% right too #stray gods grace #stray gods #stray gods meme

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APOLLO: [ancient, powerful, God of Sun and Prophecy]

ALSO APOLLO: [stutters and chuckles bashfully when a pretty girl calls him cute]

#stray gods #stray gods game #grace x apollo #I know it doesn't show in the art #but he's also blushing #the way that line is delivered YOU CAN HEAR IT #stray gods apollo #stray gods grace #stray gods the roleplaying musical

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#bg3 spoilers #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #the emperor #I’d bang Omeluum too if you could ngl #he’s a cute lil dweeb #and so sweet after you save him #seriously tho I feel like in universe it makes sense #like you know you’re going to survive and be fine afterward #and then you are probably the only person in the realm to have done that #that’s wild #how do you pass up that opportunity? #especially since my Tav is a cheery polyamorous pansexual who worships the god of LUCK and GAMBLING lmao #go big or go home

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Bg3 is a game that's like, "here's three overdramatic socially isolated men and three unhinged murderous women, you're in a psychic polycule with all of them now." and honestly it's so good. It's like they looked at the toxically codependent bisexual chaos of the kirkwall crew in da2 and were like, "that's fun, but make them experience each others thoughts and memories so they have no choice but to develop understanding and compassion for one another, or else they'll die. And for gods sake let them have weird sex with each other." What more could you ask for in your epic fantasy game

#baldur's gate 3 #lol #indeed #bg3 #I just need a dash more poly in my polycule and everything would be perfect

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Excuse me a moment while I YELL INTO THE FUCKING VOID.

Vyvanse is having shortage issues now. Had to call my pharmacy because I hadn’t gotten a notification on that one and wanted to see if there was an issue. Evidently yes, the issue is that it is out of stock and they don’t know when they’ll get it again.

I hate everything about how we handle ADHD meds in this stupid fucking country. Because now I have to either hope they have it in soon or call around to the other five pharmacies in town to see if they have it, and if they do, then I have to call my doctor to get an entirely new prescription sent, and THEN I have to call my original pharmacy back to have them cancel the old prescription in their system so the new pharmacy can fill it.

Why? Because it’s a schedule 2 drug and that means they can’t just transfer the fucking prescription.

Why? Because the War on Drugs has rotted our collective societal consciousness.

Why? Because there’s not a single fucking moral panic this godforsaken country won’t embrace with open arms, I swear to god.

So naturally that means we had to put the fucking drug cops in charge of medication quotas. And as we all know: ACAB.

“There’s so many new prescriptions!!! Zomg!!! Who knows if they’re legitimate because they were prescribed via telehealth!!!”

Oh wow so this disorder that makes it extremely hard to sustain and regulate attention and thus makes it difficult to do routine things like setting up doctor’s appointments (oftentimes multiple appointments) and then remembering them and getting to them on time… that somehow got diagnosed way more when we took away some of those obstacles? Madness! Witchcraft! Sorcery!

Before I was diagnosed/medicated there were literally days where I couldn’t even get out of bed. I would be laying there, staring at the ceiling, yelling at myself in my head to get up, get up, get up, you need to go to work, get. up. goddammit… to no avail.

Vyvanse has literally given me my fucking brain back. I can look at a task and think, “hmm, I should do that,” and then I just fucking do it. Do you know how many weeks’ worth of laundry I used to have just laying around in baskets because forcing myself to put it away was literally impossible? Do you know how fucking painful it is to look at a task that you have failed to complete, over and over, a simple task, a stupid task, you should just be able to do this, why can’t you just fucking do this…

I think people who have never experienced this can’t truly understand how horrific it feels to have to fight your brain on every. single. thing. Every single task is a calculation: can I do that now, if I don’t do that now will I be able to do that later, wait I already have to do task X and once I do that there’s no way I’ll have the mental energy to force myself to do task Y too. It’s like trying to get your work done on a computer with 80% of its resources being bogged down by bloatware. Can you get some things done? Sure, probably a few. But it’s going to take you three times as long and if you’re not careful the whole system will freeze and you’ll get absolutely nothing accomplished, and oh yeah, it’ll be wildly fucking frustrating the entire goddamn time.

It just absolutely infuriates me that we’re so fucking scared of the potential for “drug abuse” that we fuck over everyone, as if drug abuse is somehow the biggest moral failing in the world. Maybe if we addressed some of the things that lead to it, there would be less of it! Maybe just criminalizing everything is stupid, counterproductive, does not help in any measurable way, and oftentimes just makes everything worse!

And not for nothing, but if not for the truly incredible insurance I am lucky to have through work, getting diagnosed would have cost me $1200. My husband and I are doing well enough that we probably could’ve managed that in a couple installments, but for a large percentage of people, that prices them right out. And I live in a very low cost of living area. I can’t imagine what it costs elsewhere. How many of those “abusing” these meds just actually fucking need them but can’t afford to get them prescribed? Because even after the initial diagnosis, my first scrip cost $230 thanks to a deductible, and then $40/month after that. $40 isn’t awful, but there are plenty of people who do not have an extra $40 per month. (And my copay is on the lower end. I’ve seen people with insurance saying they’ve had to pay $200+ every month.) And then you have to have regular meds check ups, every 2 months or so. So add another $200 for each of those without insurance.

I’m extremely fortunate that the place I work not only offers great insurance but also pays 75% of the premium so that it’s actually affordable, and all of my outpatient mental health visits are covered at 100%. But I shouldn’t fucking have to be glad I won the employer lottery. I shouldn’t have to worry that I won’t be able to get the medicine that makes me functional just because we continue to exist in a society still fucked up by Calvinism to this day.

None of us should have to an endure a fucking asinine, callous, broken system that, whenever any of the myriad problems with it are brought up, has the audacity to go, “oh, don’t blame us, blame those other people who are also suffering!”

Fuck all the way off. We made all of this shit up. None of it is immutable. We just don’t give a fuck that people are hurting, and it shows.

#rant #adhd #adhd struggles #medication #medication shortage #this shit is why the villain is always capitalism

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guys i figured it out. So, Imelda Pulse and HV Lance - we were never told they divorced, even though it should have been expected with how whirlwind the romance was.

But of course they didn't! Because! Imelda Pulse is *exactly* the kind of person who would enjoy having a husband she is mildly estranged from, just for the purpose of saying so dramatically!

Also, I feel like their relationship would be very on-again off-again, to the point of living together when it's on, and having separate houses for when it's off. The cycle is probably short enough that sometimes paperwork for a divorce wouldn't even go through by the time they wanted to remarry, so why bother? When you can be dramatic without it?

it goes like this - Imelda runs off on an impulsive tangent, HV gets suspicious, tensions rise between them, eventually culminating in passionately talking more circles around each other while clearing up some things, and Boom! in love again

#mentopolis #dimension 20 #wait okay I change my mind #this is actually perfect #this is my new imelda/lance headcanon #I love it #imelda pulse #hv lance

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if you saw a sweaty man sprinting out of a building, clearly being chased, bump into you, apologise for not calling his sister (referring to a traumatic childhood incident involving ice skates), AND THEN offer you his number and a fistful of birthday cake he’s definitely stolen

would you go out with him?

#mentopolis #dimension 20 #I mean at the very least I’d be intrigued as fuck lmao #okay this is possibly a terrible idea but also #I have to know #who is this strange hot little nerd? #yeah elias can get it

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WAIT ELIAS IS IN HIS EARLY TWENTIES RIGHT?

Ahahahaha his prefrontal cortex is still developing!!!!!

HOW DOES THIS KEEP GETTING MORE PERFECT

#dimension 20 #mentopolis