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Enemies? They go in the square hole. Allies? They go in the square hole. Self? That's right, the square hole.

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stressed. tired. writers block. my asmr is turning me into a labubu. is there ever peace

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I love how Avatar perfectly balances "the kids are going to save the world!" with "which is pretty fucked up, actually."

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"i asked chat gpt" "i asked grok" well I asked Alden Vacker and he told me that there's no reason to worry. so

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WHAT

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Skipping the ad isn’t enough I need the liberty mutual guy to be sentenced to the chamber of eternal torment

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I've seen a lot of good conversations about anti-Blackness happening on Tumblr lately, and I wanted to kick up some dust on KotLC Tumblr.

Y'all.

The number of fanworks Maruca and Wylie have compared to characters with the same amount of pagetime is abysmal. And the shipping? You'll ship characters who have never spoken a word to each other just based on vibes, and yet somehow there isn't a single popular ship on here for either of the Black main characters. Weird.

It's funny how you love a tortured man with a tragic backstory—until he's Black. How you love to ship tortured guys with their torturers, and dive into their heads and trauma, and write fic after fic about their recoveries through their relationships—until they're Black.

It's funny how you love protective familial relationships, until they're a Black girl demanding she manifest an ability to help her cousin. Who, by the way, manifests literally the most protective ability there is, becoming a Psionipath. And in turn, her cousin doesn't want her to be in harm's way, and they battle over this, because there's so much love there. You guys go crazy over these dynamics! Until the characters are Black.

There was this edit war I used to get into on the wiki after I made the "Main Characters" category for the navigation menu. I put into it the eight main characters who showed up in all the promotional materials: Sophie, Fitz, Keefe, Dex, Biana, Tam, Linh, and Wylie. Simple.

And yet... People kept taking Wylie out of the category and replacing him with Marella, insisting that she was more of a main character. Despite the fact that Wylie is way more relevant to the overarching plot of the series, being a main feature in the plots of several early books? Despite the fact I was basing this decision on the canon materials? Weird.

Look. I like it on here. But I think a lot of you need to spend less time patting yourselves on the back about being "better than the other platforms" and being so good at "picking out the flaws in canon," when sometimes you're actually making canon more racist. I think a lot of us, myself included, have some homework to do.

There are a wealth of good characters in this series. Go on. Play with them.

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Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who participated in this!!! It genuinely turned out so much better than I ever expected!! You guys are awesome and if you havent yet I highly suggest going through the rumble tag because theres so much amazing stuff in there 💖💖

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE MARELLA AND MARUCA TEAMS!!!! 🧡💙

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Don'tcha just love when a bug stabs you/your rival?

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loml, the libby app

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today's mini fellas are uhh ppl who fell off the ladder!🪜

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Joel fourth wheeling the secret society guys in the nether was so funny, poor lad

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what if i told you i stopped pressing buttons?

cain, josé saramago | tumblr post by filmnoirsbian | the hairpin turn, quynhorlose | a brother named gethsemane, natalie diaz | cain and abel, cantor vera broekhuysen | the plagues, the prince of egypt | qabil reflects upon the death of habil, amatullah bourdon | i'll give you the sun, jandy nelson | after abel, dante émile

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Season 1: Stament Begins, I'm Jonathan Sims, im a cunt and this is all bullshit. My assistant can jump in a paper shredder for all I care. Statment Ends.

Season 2: Supplemental, my assistants want to kill me, execpt Sasha even though she obviously wants to kill me. Martin is trying to kill me because he's being too nice and he needs to fuck off. I have a cigarette addiction and a crusty old man is living in the basement. Magic is real.

Season 3: No one loves me and I have no job because my boss killed the crusty man and blamed me. My only friend is my ex and I have 53 million scars from meeting various gods. And oh my lord Tim exploded from facing a Sentient puppet.

Season 4: No one loves me, Martin hates me, the lesbians hate me. I just got out of a coma. Sasha and Tim are dead. I speak French now and I'm a monster. I am God. Martin, love me, love me, say that you love me. And shit I started the apocalypse, my bad.

Season 5: My and my boyfriend will stab Jonah if he doesn't let us be gay.

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Probe of the Forbidden Cities <- ao3 link

This piece fought me for so long, but it's finally done! Huge ty to @lemontarto for beta reading. Your comments and reactions were delightful. I hope everyone enjoys please tell me every thought you've ever had :)

summary:

Fitz glanced at the picture again, then back at this Sophie--her height, how far from the other kids she stood, her quick, detailed answers… It wasn’t possible. There was no way. And yet, as she rattled on, he ducked around a nearby exhibit wall. Opened his mind only long enough to check nobody was looking. And turned the obscurer off. ~ Or, the first part of Keeper of the Lost Cities from Fitz's point of view.

warnings: everything's identical to canon, only notable thing is sophie drugging her family

word count: 30k

@camelspit @synonymroll648 @the-way-astray

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littol fitz <3 @camelspit

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Tma has overcome my brain over the past few months therefore I present Web!Dex. What if Dex realized he could use his tech for more than vandalizing files?