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nimble, a border collie-papillon mix, wins the 12” class in the 2024 masters agility championship. the first time a mixed breed has won at westminster ever.

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I think the wildest thing about the TikTok Ban is that TikTok decided to adhere to it beyond the letter of the law.

They bent their knee willingly and gave up space and a platform they did not have to. They consciously decided to fuck over their user base when there was no valid reason for them to do so.

I've seen people talking about how you absolutely do not want to obey ahead of authority, and to see TikTok do it is... weird. It's unsettling. It feels like a dangerous stunt.

Specifically, it feels performative. It's got the marks of a Great Drama™, and given Trump's first 4 years and his absolutely bonkers love for theatrics over anything else, this just feels hollow. Like TikTok is trying to turn it's - generally younger - user base into "fans" of the republicans.

They can't really scoop up youths any other way, honestly. But using a big impactful story and putting Trump as the "hero" who saves their beloved platform.

It's not even the 20th and I just don't like how this new administration is starting. I do not like a private company complying beyond the letter of the law in advance of that law either. Because the only thing the law laid down was that they couldn't update the app on Apple and Google.

There wouldn't have been any fines or legal ramifications.

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I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains

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you know how most of the things humans use as spices are poisonous or repellent to most other mammals? and you know how anything vaguely d&d inspired has dwarves being way more poison resistant than even humans?

dwarf cuisine shouldn’t be bland, it should be unimaginably spicy and potentially harmful or fatal to humans. like green potato and rhubarb leaf salad with a festive garnish of yew berries and deadly nightshade berries, that kind of thing.

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putting into motion the ban on an entertainment app that’s popular with the youth and young adults in your country just so you can swoop in at the last minute and play the hero who saves the day and actually brings the app back for everybody is such a cartoonishly supervillain plot, you’d think it came out of the children’s tv show. but no, it came out of the brain of the president-elect of the united states

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rest in peace you fucking legend

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“Fyp” we don’t do that here. I mean, Tumblr the app and website tries, but we don't do that here.

“But then how will anyone see it?” peer review.

“How do you get engagement?” by talking and engaging with other people. Or making a devastating typo. Either way.

“But—” Listen, you’re not doing solo stand up anymore. This is a group improv class being held in a SAW dungeon. Good luck.

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There’s a serial killer in your town. Unfortunately for them you are a necromancer and you have fun driving that maniac insane.

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Lab with a sense of humor.

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tiktok refugees i believe you are few but it is VITAL that you know on tumblr you can speak freely. kill. die. sex. fuck. you can say things here

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How I feel like everytime when I post some art

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Wait what's a buildings fire evacuation plan if you aren't supposed to use the elevator to get down

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i'm sure it's been said before but free school meals are the ultimate litmus test for if someone is worth talking to or not. if you don't think children deserve to eat then you are simply evil. end of story.

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The Bucket List

https://archiveofourown.org/works/6562918/chapters/15015295

Louis didn’t believe in forever. Well, he did but when his forever was about the length of this football season and it was already April it wasn’t much of a stretch. And he definitely didn’t believe in miracles because if they existed he would be a world famous rock star and Doncaster Rovers would be top of the Premier League.

Louis decides to have one last weekend before the end and he works through his bucket list with an unsuspecting boy he meets in the tea shop at the hospital.

Harry is the hospital radio volunteer who got more than he bargained for when he invited the cute boy in a beanie up to hear his jingle…

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Angry People Are Not Often Wise

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a closeted queer star in possession of a good career, must be in want of a PR romance.”

Harry has had a crush on Louis Tomlinson since he first saw him on The X Factor. Now he is in his house what is he supposed to do. Louis fights to be as professional as possible.

https://www.archiveofourown.org/works/32841133

This fic is part of the One Direction Wordplay Challenge and was written for the prompt “divide”. To read the amazing fics for this prompt, click here, and to see all fics written as part of the challenge (including years 1-4), click here. You can also find the masterpost for this year’s challenge here.

@wordplayfics​

Part 2 of Not A Jane Austen Hero

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Hi... Weird request but do you have any rec (or know someone who could rec) of fic with mcd?

Hi sweetheart. I really don’t read MCD, so this will be a short rec, but here you go:

Deux Fantômes by ohpleaselarry (E, 16K) So, let me start by saying I cried through ¾ of this. I promise it’s still a happy ending, but it’s heavy and very moving. Please read the tags as there are some triggering things, but it’s also so sweet and gentle and really well written. 

My husband (29/M) died and has been possessed by a demon and now he’s cooking eggs in my kitchen as if nothing happened, what do I do? by adoreloux (M, 4K) I’ve only recently found this author, but I love their fics. They’re definitely unique, just a bit quirky, and so well written. This one made me cry (I mean, Harry is dead. Sort of).

hoping the cold blue water washes me clean and spits me out again by phantasmagoria (M, 18K) Also known as “The Brain Cancer fic”, I haven’t read this, and I never will. But everyone I know who has said it’s beautiful and heartbreaking. It’s been deleted, but the link is for a dropbox download.

"Stay," Harry whispers desperately, pressing his lips to Louis' temple like he can somehow ease the pain that's blooming there, but he can't make the pain stop and no matter how hard he tries he can't make Louis stay.

Stranger on the Shore by CellarDoor (T, 3K) Ok, let me start off by saying that this fic is SAD. Like, not just angsty sad, sad like not a happy ending. BUT, if you can handle that, this is just beautiful writing. Listen….I cry over everything, but I did read this. And I did love it. But, man….

things have gotten closer to the sun by starseas (M, 49K) Otherwise known as “the solar flare fic”. Let me tell you…I could only read this once. And it was written back when no one tagged anything but I can’t exactly say this has a happy ending. Kind of? It’s beautifully written and man did I cry. One of those fics that lingered a long time afterwards.

But I’m Weak by @afangirlfantasy​ (NR, 2K) This was gorgeous. And SO sad. And I would read 50K of this if I was a masochist. 2K is about all I can handle of this level of angst, but boy was it beautifully written.

Fire For a Heart by anchor, freetheankles / @anymerrylilthought (E, 44K) Another one I haven’t read, again because it has MCD, but I’m a fan of this author’s writing. The fic has been deleted, but the link is to a download.

The Grey’s anatomy/Chicago Fire AU no one asked for where Louis is the captain of the firefighting Squad 78, Harry is a surgeon, Zayn is Louis’ second in command and Liam is the rookie. Niall and Sam are Harry’s fellow residents and have their own affair going on.

Coeur d’Enfants by lavenderforluck (E, 127K) And yet one more I haven’t read, but it comes highly recommended to those of you who like to suffer. Read the tags. It’s got some heavy topics.

As Marx said of the bourgeois class: all that is solid melts into air. St. Peter's verse.

You might also like my Sad/Open Endings fic rec

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This was too good not to share, and I am now putting out into the world the desire for an animated, animal friends version of Pride and Prejudice that does EXACTLY THIS. It would be AMAZING.