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#enemies to enemies-with-benefits to super enemies#banter is far more hateful than before AND now laced with knowledge of each other's sexual insecurities

not enemies-to-lovers or enemies-to-friends but a third thing (enemies to enemies-with-benefits)

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Nevertheless, I did not manage to get my shit together and start Estival on time.

Eh. It's fine. I rushed through last year's Sixth Coil storyline and didn't enjoy it as much. Maybe Estival season is just a bad time for me to play.

Actionable intelligence re: Estival 2025 1899.

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Pretty Koroit Boulder Opal with a steady mix of blue color tones.

Photo ©️ Natural Opals and Gems

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Pride and Prejudice: To Bear is to Conquer Our Fate by Shem

Posted by: beatrice_otter

Fandom: Pride and Prejudice Pairings/Characters: Kitty Bennet/Fitzwilliam Darcy Rating: 106k Length: teen Creator Links: Shem Theme: marriage of conveneince, rare pairings, old fandoms, book fandoms, epic works, novel-length, AU, happy endings,

Summary: The day after the Netherfield Ball, a simple walk through the countryside has wide reaching consequences for Mr Darcy and a certain young lady from Longbourn.

Reccer's Notes: This is such an engaging look at a very different pairing and what might have been. It's long, plotty, with lots of good character work and a great slow burn.

Fanwork Links: To Bear is to Conquer Our Fate

comments & original content @ fancake

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I slept funny last night and that triggered my occipital neuralgia and now I think I'm getting a migraine :(

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imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

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Actionable intelligence re: Estival 2025 1899.

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The King's Claw tells you to call them Isery. They are dressed in azure silk, and wearing clawed rings of enamelled metal and ivory on the fingers of their right hand. They are very beautiful, if you like them sharp and glittering and ambiguously gendered.

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The game is out.

Hurray. 🎉

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“Can it be possible there are morals for men and morals for women, or morals for women and none for men?”

In 1892, Ella Sheldon boarded the SS Belgic as the only woman among the crew on a 65-day voyage to Hong Kong. What followed was years of globetrotting and journaling.

Highlights from these writings include musings and observations concerning sexism in the workplace, divides between classes, and other moral conundrums.

Read more about Ella's voyages via JSTOR Daily, and have a look at more spreads from her diary courtesy of the University of the Pacific.

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Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it's not from Twitter, it's not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today's agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss." And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phrase edited over a piece of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”

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scarlet hollow has truly heightened my standards to an unsustainable degree on choices matter games and it's so fucked up lol

most "choices matter" games are like... "make these two big obvious decisions and you'll get a different ending based on what you pick" which like, yeah sure! that is what it means when choices matter! perfectly acceptable!

but then in scarlet hollow one of the first decisions you make in the opening scene is about whether or not to take a bag of boiled peanuts from a stranger on the bus, and that single interaction carries several possibilities to define aspects of your character and how they can interact with the world that WILL come up again MULTIPLE times

the chapters take years to come out, but it's because the devs are literally sitting there like "fuck, how could a person who is allergic to peanuts behave in a situation such as this. how do we give them two or three possible options specific to being allergic to peanuts" for every branching pathway, and i respect and fear them for that

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i love this extremely normal game with extremely normal mechanics

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sometimes i feel like im climing up this incline again alone but thankully sisypus and the itsy bitsy spider and here with me

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*grafittis on your genome*

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thinking again about vampirism as disability