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RQG 126 Interesting Times

“Notable absences”

Einstein in full tactical gear, the place has been furnished and fortified

A year and a half !! A Time Gap !!

Cut to, the same place, different time - Sasha and Grizzop escape from an (ancient Roman) orgy

Back to the “current” time

Australasia fell, east Asia seems ok, everything north is occupied

“People have been taken over by something”

Go to Cairo, then to Curie

Distant past

Hiding Grizzop in the cloak - a hideous, ailing child. Trying to find a safe place.

End Of Season Three. Gods.

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Excellent game play, amazing worldbuilding, such suspense.

Eldarion screaming, and falling, and “something impossibly huge” arrives… a huge hand…

“You just saw a god… you just got away from a god.”

[right at the end, 5 minutes to go, interrupted]

Reflex save. Damage. Fort save.

Einstein’s voice.

Everyone’s here, except Eldarion. And Sasha. And Grizzop.

Oh no! From Azu. Helen. Everyone.

RQG 125 Don’t Let Go

Harrowing journey between planes

Stone circle and doorways - found Ed, found Beeman

Sasha’s magic ice dagger explodes 😬

Ed Smites ☀️

Crystal ball 🔮

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Took a month’s break, starting up again.

Fun fact, I first listened to the Rome arc [the whole thing] at this time of year, three years ago.

Here we go… again…

Sasha’s failed reflex save 😳 good catch Grizzop and Hamid

RQG 125 Don’t Let Go

Harrowing journey between planes

Stone circle and doorways - found Ed, found Beeman

Sasha’s magic ice dagger explodes 😬

Ed Smites ☀️

Crystal ball 🔮

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Fic writers amplifying canon

Fic writers defying canon

Contributing to a healthy fandom ecosystem

we need all types of art in fandoms

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“I just have to sound like I like it.” “That’s acting, isn’t it.”

Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw discussing marmalade.

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Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

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Just so like... it's clear... anyone who censors words that contain "man" or "men" to anything like "xxn" that's TERF shit.

Any reference to women/womanhood that solely revolves around having a uterus or "womb" is TERF shit.

Any sentence where the OP says they support people being "trans identified" with quotes around ""transwomen"" or ""transmen"" is TERF shit.

I'm seeing a lot of you baby Tumblr gays out there not knowing what these specific TERF dogwhistles look like.

"Wombxxn" is an incredibly dumb way of spelling "woman" that treats the word "man" like a slur and also reduces women to their ability to give birth.

"Trans identified" is their way of saying "this person calls themselves trans, but I don't believe they are."

Saying "People should be allowed to identify however they wish, but we still need to protect women/children" IS TERF SHIT.

Learn to identify this garbage, because not all TERFs are going to spell out their intolerance for you. Some of them are going to try and seem reasonable and polite and normal, and it's fucking dangerous to our community.

Also unpack any internalized transphobia and your transmedicalism, because both those things will have you quickly siding with TERFs and bigots.

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Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

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To the world and everyone in it: I'm not going to lie, this is going to be a rough four years. This is going to be awful and cruel and oppressive. There are going to be times when you wonder what god you pissed off to have this happen to you. There are going to be times when you wonder if you should stay in a world that does not seem to want you.

This is going to be awful, but please don't disappear. I don't know you, and you don't know me, but accept a little bit of truth from a stranger: the world would be a far crueller place without you in it. Everyone would mourn your loss; your mutuals and your irl friends, your co-workers and fellow students.

You are amazing. Please don't vanish. Don't rid the world of a beautiful spark of light. It will be tough, but you are far stronger than you think you are.

I don't know you, but I love you. And I desperately hope that you all make it through the next four years.

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Happy Birthday, Neil Gaiman.

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Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

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On twitter I’m seeing dozens of threads from Black activists warning people against burnout, giving all sorts of useful tips about preventing and managing it for the sake of a long-term, sustainable effort.

On tumblr I’m seeing a hell of a lot of young white kids yelling at anyone who actually follows those steps, and acting like burnout is a moral falling rather than a well-proven psychological phenomenon.

Be careful who you get your information from. Don’t let guilt lead you to make choices that will harm both you and the movement.

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Wait, I have something to give you!

[The heebie jeebies has been added to your inventory]

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So grateful for the beauty and insight 💜 @foxsoulcourt @cicerfics @shoshililly

Hi! I just wanted to say thanks for all of your posts - especially right now - and the messages of hope you put with them. I'm having a hard time with accepting the election results and what it means, so it's nice to see the encouragement and the reminder that we will get through it all. 🙂

Big, big hugs to you. I don't want to seem like I'm being glib about any of this: it's a really hard and scary time and I understand the tendency to panic. My stomach was in knots all last night, to the point I felt like I was going to throw up! I literally emptied out a trash can to put by my bed, just in case my stomach couldn't cope with the stress!

It's A Lot to cope with. Especially after the insanity and stress we've all experienced since the start of the pandemic. We're all exhausted and sad and burned out. Believe me, I know.

But I do believe that we can and will get through this. Obviously, none of us wanted to be called upon to live through this type of Major Historical Event. But we will not be the first set of people (nor the last) to face this kind of thing in their lifetime.

Famines and natural disasters happen. Unpleasant and malicious political regimes rise and fall. Plagues sweep through the land. It's part of how the world works. Nothing is ever perfect. We have always inhabited a flawed world and a flawed society.

But humans are, broadly speaking, really good at surviving things and a sense of community is our superpower. We can (and will) take care of each other. Humans can be awful, but we can also be so very wonderful.

And when I manage to persuade myself to step outside my bubble of human-centric concerns, I'm blown away by the sheer beauty and wonder of the world we get to live in. Even though it's flawed and imperfect, it's so lovely. It's downright magical sometimes.

I was opening a pomegranate the other day and just marveling at the seeds. How beautiful it is! And how lucky I am to get to be here, eating these sweet juicy seeds! How lucky I am to toss a small handful of seeds to the birds in my backyard, and watch them gobble down their food before fluttering up into the trees!

How lucky I am to send a photo of my pomegranate seeds to friends, and receive in return a picture of their dog, or their garden, or their new throw pillows! How lucky I was last night, in the midst of all my anxiety, to get to go outside as see a really spectacular sunset and share it with my loved ones!

We have a beautiful world full of beautiful creatures. We have so many fellow humans who see this beauty and want to protect it and share it with one another. We must not lose sight of that. Things are still good, and we will continue to take care of each other in the days ahead. 💖

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