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the prince has begun practicing curtseying in the mirror. which could mean nothing.

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all the "x with mama" posts are getting to me i just drew a butch girl with her mom (who is also butch) and thought "let's look like men with mama"

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"Closest we can drop you in is a few kilometers below the array. After that you're on your own- vocal or close-range telepathy only. You know the drill. Give those yankee bastards hell."

Joint Sino-Soviet psiker operation. California front. 20xx.

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"exercise will give you more energy" gets said a lot as a common piece of health advice but I think it needs to be expanded into "exercising will make you tired while you do it, and you will continue to be tired immediately afterwards, sometimes even the next day too, but over months of consistent exercise, your muscles will get stronger and therefore get less tired out by everyday activities, making you feel like day-to-day life takes less physical energy than it used to"

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What was this restaurant thinking when they put up this molding?

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Okay, so, here's some info of the info I've put together for those interested: one of the big groups moving propaganda against porn and sex right now is Collective Shout. They're Australian based, largely conservative (white) ladies.

Their website is run on a charity/non-profit thing and you can report them (It might only work if you're in Australia, I'm not sure), for violating the rules of a charity/non-profit here! You just need their ABN, which is 30162159097!

(This is a guide here!) (You can also report their website directly to the charity website they used here and request the charity website make a statement against them or take them out or ask why they support them! They won't take them down but making any kind of response would be valuable!)

(Their group is also on youtube, tiktok, twitter and more, if you're interested in reporting them there too.)

This is also a list of their Team, their board members and their ambassadors, all largely Australian. If there's anyone specific you want to be reporting, contacting, etc, it's the ambassadors.

In particular, people like Susan McLean (website here) and Andrew Lines (website here) explicitly because they have companies, books, associates and strong online presences outside of Collective Shout and you want to make it clear associating with and giving support to this group will have significant backlash.

You want to make them back out or at least make their associates back out. You want to create continuous noise. Not just for a couple days but sustainable noise that builds on itself.

For example, if you push them into making a statement (whether that statement supports Collective Shout or not), it gives you press. You want this to stay in the news cycle and press is good.

Frankly, contact the press! Write your local news, especially if you're in Australia! Tell them what this group is doing.

The longer it's in the news cycle, the more companies like mastercard lose. So make your noise strategic.

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can someone explain to me like i'm 5 why do we have ao3 for text but not ao3 for art? is the problem the hosting of the art itself or there are restrictions as to what's allowed to be written vs what's allowed to be presented in visual mediums?

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Art is more difficult to host on a legal level, particularly because people looking for hosting for actual child abuse photos will always find you and try to use you. But even if you keep those shitheads out, the US still has slightly more restrictions on visual stuff than on writing, and other countries are much worse.

Art is significantly more expensive to host, especially if you're doing an infinite uploads model.

LJ fandom was focused on fic with a sideline in vids but art wasn't as integrated, so it just wasn't as much of a do-or-die priority for AO3's founders.

As for why art was less integrated... a little of it was the platform's features, but I think a lot of it was how commercialized art already was in its own spaces and how that just didn't fit the vibe of LJ fic fandom. Of course, people still liked art and, of course, there was still some present, but it wasn't this core part of the experience the way it was on DeviantArt or wherever.

And, of course, there's the real reason:

4. Every 6 months, something is on fire at AO3.

Hosting at least some visual stuff was always intended, but it just kept getting pushed down the priority list because Shit Keeps Happening. Like when China blocked AO3, it meant that tons of Chinese people suddenly found out what AO3 even was, so there were actually more new users who didn't speak English, not fewer. Or when lockdown happened, AO3's traffic jumped by like 50% in the course of a month. Or, hell, in 2012 when AO3 was just finding its feet, fucking FFN decided to do a sweeping cleanup of the porn, driving eighty bajillion people to AO3 way before anyone expected or could handle that kind of jump in popularity.

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My brain is going down its regular The Wicked And The Divine spiral. This always happens, I'm minding my business and then out of nowhere the memory of the 6000-year montage in issue 36 hits me like a sledgehammer, and the rest of the series comes pouring in through the cracks.

Every time I think "Maybe I should actually physically own that series someday," and this time I'm finally buying it rather than borrowing the books from my friend for the 50th time.

Is any of this relatable 😂 What's your relationship with the series now?

Oh my god, I'm so sorry I didn't see this until now! WicDiv spiral for the win!

Oh man, 6000 years of murder just. hits, sometimes, doesn't it? The scale, the magnitude, the sheer craft of it all. @ferronickel and I routinely quote WicDiv to each other, as in like multiple times a week. It's also totally the reason I know anything about comics.

I absolutely recommend buying your own copies, if you haven't already. I have all of the trades and all the singles starting with Imperial Phase II. Ferro has every issue uuuhhhhhh, I think at last count, four separate times over? Singles, trades, hardcovers, digital releases, and now the compendium. Shit, like five??? He's also got almost every single variant, because he's nuts. When we get more settled into our house (yes yes it's been over a year -_-) we're going to try to put the WicDiv wall back up and display all of them again.

See, now I want to do a reread. It's going to be okay.

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My brain is going down its regular The Wicked And The Divine spiral. This always happens, I'm minding my business and then out of nowhere the memory of the 6000-year montage in issue 36 hits me like a sledgehammer, and the rest of the series comes pouring in through the cracks.

Every time I think "Maybe I should actually physically own that series someday," and this time I'm finally buying it rather than borrowing the books from my friend for the 50th time.

Is any of this relatable 😂 What's your relationship with the series now?

Oh my god, I'm so sorry I didn't see this until now! WicDiv spiral for the win!

Oh man, 6000 years of murder just. hits, sometimes, doesn't it? The scale, the magnitude, the sheer craft of it all. @ferronickel and I routinely quote WicDiv to each other, as in like multiple times a week. It's also totally the reason I know anything about comics.

I absolutely recommend buying your own copies, if you haven't already. I have all of the trades and all the singles starting with Imperial Phase II. Ferro has every issue uuuhhhhhh, I think at last count, four separate times over? Singles, trades, hardcovers, digital releases, and now the compendium. Shit, like five??? He's also got almost every single variant, because he's nuts. When we get more settled into our house (yes yes it's been over a year -_-) we're going to try to put the WicDiv wall back up and display all of them again.

See, now I want to do a reread. It's going to be okay.

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Random lurker, feel free to ignore, but what do you love about Albuquerque?

(I've spent my life telling anyone who'll listen all the things I love about Cleveland. Though I do think about the waiter in Ohio who, when he found out I was from California, went on about how it should fall into the sea. As they're now recruiting people from red states to "police" blue cities

But still, what do you love about Albuquerque, if you to say?

Oh man, what a question!

Well for starters, my mom's side of the family has lived in this part of the Rio Grande valley for about three hundred years now, (Spanish settler colonists; we've probably got a few Indigenous ancestors, but have always identified as Hispanic) and it's the place I most feel connected to anywhere in the world. I love New Mexican and Burqueño culture. We're a loosey-goosey, laid-back kind of people. We joke about New Mexico being 'the land of mañana', which is kind of true. If you need to be meticulous about punctuality, you probably won't enjoy it here, but we tend to be extremely accommodating.

We're very kind, imo. People moving here from out of state remark on that to me a lot, that we tend to be friendly, huggy, ride-or-die kind of people. New Mexicans in general and Burqueños in particular have like negative self-esteem and we put ourselves down a lot, but we're honestly pretty damn nice to people according to newcomers and out of towners.

This is probably vaguely cringey in the way liking your own local culture frequently is (or at least gets portrayed) but I fucking love Albuquerque/Southwest/Latino art culture. I love low-riders cruising Central with epic paintjobs blaring Mexican rap on Friday nights, and old tin retablos of La Virgen, and everyone's uncle's painfully earnest paintings of old adobe houses or cranes flying over the Bosque. I love Albuquerque's edge compared to other places in NM too. We have a rotating goth night that bounces between different bars, clubs, and breweries once a month, and a ton of local artists, and street performers downtown. There's an old guy who's lived here like forty years who parades up and down Central and Nob Hill bareass naked but for his little denim booty shorts, extolling the virtues of gay sex and living below the poverty line to avoid paying war taxes to anyone who'll listen. He's fucking great, really cool dude. He's got a public access tv show where he reads poetry.

I love the high desert (minus the summer heat jfc) and the way you can always orient yourself by finding the Sandia mountains. I love the scent and sound and taste of roasting green chile in the late summer/early autumn, and the way you can buy a bushel full from guys roasting it on the side of the road, and a bag of piñon nuts as well. I love the State Fair, and the dubious fair rides, and the arts buildings, and the animal shows. My complicated feelings aside, I love that a city of only about 500k people loves its libraries enough to have nineteen of them. I love that Burqueños are some of the least judgmental people you'll ever meet. I love that we're a sanctuary city dedicated to protecting immigrants and offering abortion access to people from out of state. I love how many pride flags I see, and how many visibly queer and trans people are here, and how much we've striven these past few years to be more, not less, inclusive.

I do just genuinely, cringily, unironically love my city and my state, y'know? I wish we were more proud of ourselves. I also wish that folks living in *other* parts of New Mexico would stop acting like Albuquerque is some kind of warzone, for the love of christ.

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Siwa Oasis, Egypt. The 95% salt concentration increases the density of water and buoyancy, making it so you can't sink.

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the dynamic shift after jamie joined the party

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dont see any issue continuity-wise with any parts in the first doctor era where he describes himself as human. clearly he's attempting to adhere to the time lord non-interference policy via just straight up lying.

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Jo Grant + shouting at the Master

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