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SUPERMAN (2025) dir. James Gunn

+ Kara

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SO... YOUTUBE AI AGE VERIFICATION

For anyone that is a little lost about this topic, I'll do a quick summary: This August 13th, Youtube implemented in the US an AI that goes through your search history, to determinate if you're under 18 or not, and the only way to appeal against the AI, is to show a selfie, your ID or similar. Which is BAD, link HERE

This has to do with other stuff, mainly in the UK about political bills, stuff that I don't have the capability to talk about.

First thing clear, DO NOT GIVE ANY OF THIS SENSIBLE INFORMATION TO YOUTUBE, you'll put yourself in risk if any information gets leaked out, similar case that happened recently was the "Tea app" data breach, that was hacked and leaked lots of IDs and drivers license of multiple women.

Second, this gives place to censorship (Reporters can get banned or have their channels linked to their IDs, to give an example), limits places of artistic expression and affects people who watches "childish" videos, besides is completely HYPOCRITAL with the types of ads that youtube sometimes has and the inappropriate videos in youtube kids.

That's why people wants to boycott youtube, starting today, August 13th.

I don't live in the US, so why am I joining? Cause this is REALLY WORRYING as a precedent of how things can turn out later and I don't want more people to go through this ridiculous censorship.

Before giving tips that I found around of how to deal with this, I want to give a warning:

DO NOT harass people who can't join, some people really need stuff like youtube to study and sometimes can't afford other mediums, besides, you'll push away people from the boycott, we need to bring people in, no push them away.

This is not a "won't be in youtube for a day", this most likely can take weeks to months, or even not work out, but if we don't try then we would definitely lose the battle.

If you're learning about this after the 13th, don't feel bad, you can still join anytime

Now that you know about this, what you can do? I searched for tips to the boycott to make a list (Still search about this if possible)

The majority of the tips comes from HERE, credits to him

Cancel Youtube Premium Subscription and if possible, list the AI age verification as the reason.

Refrain to use/watch Youtube (Or use it in your desktop with an ad-blocker and/or VPN)

Support content creators in social media, merchandise, kofi/patreon and similar (Only if you can afford it)

Download and archive stuff for you to watch

Use alternative websites to watch stuff

Use physical media if possible to watch content (Have an old mp3 that I filled with my music, other examples are CDs, DVDs, VHS, videogame consoles, etc)

Spread the word to family and people around you, especially vulnerable people like kids and elderly

I've never written a serious post and English isn't my main language, if I made any grammatical mistakes or misinformed, please call me out.

ALSO, gotta leave this here:

The best way to take this, at least for me, is as a way to detox a little from the internet, at least a part of it. Don't lose hope nor give up, the best thing you can do now for yourself is create stuff, in my opinion. Draw, sing, write, whatever, even if things look quite grim, we can just prepare for the worst and expect the best. Hope you all can have a good day and a better one tomorrow

I may try to make a list with ideas in the meantime, free games that I can find around, etc. Have to see if my studies allow me so...

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JURASSIC PARK (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg

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Me, a fool: I’ll probably be up till 3.

Me emerging hours later, feeling like I’ve passed through this realm into a simulation: wh … whh yy is it getting light outside ….

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quaker oats is disgusting and I will go out of my way to never eat anything made by them again. they kept at least one factory so disgusting that when the FDA said Hey you need to actually follow health regulations (in response to a MASSIVE fucking recall due to contamination that made a ton of people sick, and anecdotally myself and several people I know got sick from food that was NOT recalled) they said actually it would be too hard to follow health regulations and SHUT THE FACTORY DOWN INSTEAD

AND THEY TARGET SO MANY OF THEIR PRODUCTS AT CHILDREN

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beetle juice????? yikes !! ummm i think I’ll stick with APPLE juice if that’s okay with everyone !!!

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Sits on your dash

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I find it very offensive that the more unwell you are, the more things you have to do to maintain your health. Things like following special diets, going to medical appointments, making big and important decisions about what treatments to use. At the same time, the more unwell you are the less energy you have to do all of these extra things. It seems grossly unfair.

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The people have spoken: MOSTLY wanting anything but if given the choice, prefer x reader and may choose shorter, easier Loki x Reader content, favoring gender neutral/fem

Thank you to everybody who participated! And feel free to send in an ask if you have anything to add. C:

Out of curiosity . . .

I'm curious - especially considering how fandom spaces seem to be changing and becoming more fast-paced, and with the series being (apparently) done with .. Are people still interested? I'm sure there's got to be at least a few fans left, either from the 2012-2013 era or later. Maybe Rivals is helping spark interest too?

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reblog if you're corny and insufferable

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gentle reminder: you are loved and appreciated by so many people

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guysss look at this video the pokemon sleep account just posted 🥺 (animated by @/misato08280 on twt)

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Ao3 version that lets you open the 'director's cut' where I, the author, explain every detail in excruciating detail to you and what it is in reference to.

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Immensely proud of Cozy for completing this challenge. She’s got a ton of new stuff to enjoy - I highly recommend you check them out. This one is especially adorable (though I may be biased ;3)

Washed Up

Summary: For Loki, studying in Vanaheim hasn't been all it's cracked up to be - the masters don't want to teach him, the students laugh at him, and it feels that no one actually wants him here. Then, his host's daughter asks him to go swimming with her. Maybe not quite "no one."

@loki-hargreeves' July Writing Challenge Prompt 7/31: birthday kiss in the rain

Word Count: 2,544

Pairing: Loki x Sigyn

A/N: We did it! We made it to the end of the challenge! I can't believe I actually finished it - thank you to everyone who's read or interacted or commented with the stories I've posted this month. It was a lot of fun! I haven't written this regularly since finishing my senior thesis in college (which those of you who've been around for a bit will remember was an absolute disaster that I was scared had burned me out permanently), so it's felt really healing to get back into writing regularly again. I hope to continue it moving forward! Also, if you'll remember, I swapped the 7/11 and 7/31 prompts so that I could post the birthday fic on my actual birthday, so that's why I'm posting kiss in the rain today.

Thank you so much for reading!!

Warnings: None

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Read it on Ao3!

It was raining, but that was alright.  Loki hadn’t many plans for the day - nothing more than sitting curled by the fire with his textbooks, practicing incantations, maybe finishing his assignments for the week while watching the rain stream down the windowpane. It wasn’t like he could do much else. Vanir storms were monstrous. What they lacked in Asgard’s thunder and lightning, they made up for in sheer volume. Before his studies here, Loki had never seen such downpours. 

But it was for the best. He really needed to work. Learning seidr from Asgardian masters at home had been one thing. He had been the top of all his classes, running proverbial laps around his fellow students, the pride and joy of all his teachers. On Vanaheim, though, it seemed he couldn’t do anything right. Spells that had always come easy to him were now ones he couldn’t seem to do right. His incantation work was too sloppy, his spell form either too relaxed or too stiff - somehow both, sometimes, in the very same spell. Teachers barred Allspeak during class, and so he stumbled through his lessons in uncertain Vanir, pretending he didn’t notice how the classroom tittered every time his Asgardian accent got the best of him. 

The Vanir masters hadn’t wanted to teach him. Loki knew this, even before they made it abundantly clear in his lessons. His mother had begged them to take him as a student, even though he was not a true Vanir.

“He possesses a natural inclination to seidr far beyond his years,” she had argued with them in her scrying room, Loki standing still and silent by her side. “I was born and raised and trained on Vanaheim. Vanir blood runs through my veins. Surely my son is worthy of the same honor.”

 At the end of the day, though, it was his father who had managed to procure his acceptance, not through heartfelt beseechment, but through the command of the All Father, one that even the strongest in Vanaheim could not refuse. It seemed they were rather bitter over it all. 

No matter. Loki was determined to prove them wrong. Day after day, he threw himself into his studies, drowning in spellwork and theory until his eyes were so heavy they felt they might fall from his skull. Today would be no different. 

No different—

“Loki!” Sigyn’s voice nearly made him jump from his seat. She leaned over his armchair, brown curls practically vibrating with excitement. “Want to go swimming?”

And so, that’s how Loki found himself abandoning his books by the fire and instead stumbling after his host’s daughter through the marsh, blinking to see clearly through the pouring rain.

“Are you certain this is wise?” he cried out over the deluge.

Sigyn flashed her sparkling smile at him over her shoulder. “Sure!” she grinned. “Don’t worry, I do it all the time.”

That sounded about right. If anyone was the type to see a storm as perfect swimming weather, it was Sigyn Brynjarrdottir. When Loki had first arrived at her house (her father had been kind enough to host him during his studies, although Loki suspected he was about as pleased about his presence here as everyone else was), she had been on the roof of their mansion, standing on the edge in her stocking feet as she tried to place a bird back in its nest in a neighboring tree. She had nearly slipped as they were walking up the path, and for a moment Loki was certain she’d fall and split her head open, but she caught her balance with an airy little giggle, only to rappel down the side of the house with the crawling ivy as a rope.

“Couldn’t you have used seidr?” her father had asked in a sickened sort of disbelief.

She shrugged. “Probably. But I didn’t want to scare the bird!”

She was essentially Loki’s only classmate who seemed interested at all in speaking to him outside of lessons. Most made a point of ignoring his existence once they were released from their work, but Sigyn would sit down with him for meals and ask him questions about Asgard, about the palace, if the gardens were really as big as she had heard. It was nothing more than politeness, probably, playing the caring hostess, but Loki was grateful all the same. 

He was a little starstruck, too - he shared most of his lessons with her, and so he was well aware of how talented she was when it came to practicing seidr. While the rest of the class flailed about trying to alter the appearance of their chosen animal, Sigyn sat back in her place in the back of the room, the kitten sleeping on her desk turned pink as a rose like it was the easiest thing in the world, even leaning to the side and helping the person beside her when they had given up in frustration. It was one of the most impressive things Loki had ever witnessed. No wonder her father had wanted her to use seidr for the bird. 

And she was rather pretty, too. Not that that made a difference or anything, but … she was. Even when he was following her through a mud-sodden swamp for a mid-downpour swim.

She stopped at the crest of a hill, pointing to something that lay beyond it. “Look, there it is!”

Loki hurried to her side so that he might see. It was a pond, he realized, squinting through the rain - nestled into a little burrow of greenery, shielded by weather-worn branches, the surface churning with the fury of the rain. 

Next to him, with her dress sticking to her legs and her hair flattened down her back  by the weight of the water, Sigyn seemed wild with ecstasy.

“Usually it looks more like a puddle,” she explained. “It all drains out to see once the rain’s over. But during—“ She giggled, and hurried to the shore.

Loki followed with thinly veiled concern. “But our things - won’t they all wash away?”

“That’s why I do this!” She dropped the woven bag she had been hauling along with her on the embankment, and procured a length of rope. With practiced fingers, she looped it through the bag’s straps and tied it securely to a thick tree branch above her head, leaving it to dangle in the air. “Just put whatever you’re not wearing into the pond in here - it’ll hold.”

She was already unbuttoning the front of her dress, peeling the wet fabric from her body so nonchalantly that Loki had to glance away, cheeks burning. Norns - she had something to wear whilst swimming, didn’t she? He hadn’t expected - oh, praise Ymir, she had an underdress beneath it. It was thin, though, and white, and clinging to her form even more than the outer layer - Loki forced himself to keep his eyes trained on her face. 

Sigyn herself seemed completely unbothered, stashing her dress and then moving to her boots. They were bulkier, and already soaked in mud, and so instead of leaving them to her bag, she tied them together with a separate bit of rope and hung them over the branch on their own. 

She grinned back at him over her shoulder, the rain dripping down her form. “Well? You coming?”

Loki jumped a little bit without meaning to. “Ah - yes, of course—” He fumbled with the fastenings on his vest, hyper aware of her eyes on him. Norns, this was a first - never in a thousand millennia had he pictured stripping in the rain in front of a pretty girl … in front of any girl really. The blood rushed to his face again at the thought. 

Ultimately, he stopped at his tunic and his trousers, too anxious to undress any further. Once his things were safely stowed, Sigyn giggled and went splashing into the water. 

“Come on!”

Loki followed, a little more trepidatiously - the mud of the embankment is slick and squishy, squelching beneath his toes as he walked. He gasped once the water finally crashed around his calves, but even with the rain, it was much warmer than he expected. Sigyn  was already far ahead, waving at him from chest deep water. 

“Come on!” she cried out again, over the roar of the storm. “Race you to the center!”

“Race- Sigyn!” But she was already splashing off in a flurry. Loki huffed a sigh and kicked off after her. This seemed like a terrible idea. He liked swimming well enough, but the rain pounded his face like hail every time he tried to look up, with the hazy fog of the rain clouds making distance near impossible to gauge. How would they even know once they reached the center? Norns, that Sigyn - he could see her, at least, up ahead looking more dolphin than human. He supposed she’d be the star of the class, once they reach transformation …

His foot brushed against something slimy, and Loki flinched. A fish? Something else? What sort of creatures might live in this thing? No, there couldn’t be - Sigyn had said that this wasn’t a permanent body of water. Although he supposed frogs might lay their eggs in the muck … He felt it again, but firmer this time, stronger, colder … a rock. That’s what he had been getting worked up about, an algae-covered rock. Loki huffed. Norns, what a fool. Luckily Sigyn hadn’t been there to witness that, at least …

Sigyn. 

He had lost sight of Sigyn. 

“Sigyn?” Loki whipped around, trying to squint through the rain for any sign of a disturbance in the water, but everything looked the same in the stormy haze. There was no sign of her. He paddled further out - the center, she said she wanted to go to the center - but still, he couldn’t see her. How long had it been? She couldn’t have been out of his sight for more than a moment, that couldn’t have been long enough— “Sigyn?”

He was treading water now, the pond too deep for him to stand, moving as fast as he could as the panic in his chest grew to a frenzy. Where could she be? Could she have drowned that quickly? Oh, why did he ever look away? He should’ve known better, this was all his fault—

All at once, something grabbed his foot. Loki didn’t have the chance to yelp before he was dragged beneath the churning water. A sea creature? Had it attacked Sigyn? He thrashed, frantically, but then a light flickered in front of him.

It was Sigyn, grinning as widely as ever, her hair floating around her head in the water like a halo. In her hands, she cupped the light source - a simple trick, one Loki had learned as a child, an artificial fire one could summon to their palm. For a moment, all he could do was stare. She smirked at him and winked. 

When they finally came up for air, crashing through the surface to the deluge on the surface, Loki was sputtering in disbelief. Any relief of seeing her alive soon melted away at the sound of her teasing laughter, echoing across the water. He scowled.

“What were you thinking?” he cried. He wanted to grab her shoulders and shake her with every word. “I thought you had drowned—”

Sigyn only cackled more. “Why, your highness - I thought you liked tricks!”

“Tricks?!” There was a teasing lilt to her voice that cut into him like a knife. “Is that why you brought me out here? To mock me?” 

Her face faltered. “What? No - no, not at all—”

But Loki had had enough. He turned back towards the shore, swimming with all his might. He shouldn’t have come out here. He shouldn’t have come to Vanaheim at all - what good had it done? What has he learned, aside from the fact that he can serve as cheap entertainment to those who wish to bother with him? Mother had been wrong. He didn’t deserve to be here.

“Loki - Loki, wait—“ Sigyn was coming up behind him - Loki tried to shrug her away, but she was just as strong of a swimmer as he was, and caught up to him with ease. She grasped his forearm. “I’m sorry -“ she gasped. “I went too far. I was just trying to joke, I didn’t mean to hurt you …”

Loki huffed, and turned around. She seemed genuinely distressed - her brow all furrowed in worry as she looked up at him. Guilt pricked at his heart. He shouldn’t have snapped at her.

“It’s alright. I just …” he sighed. He was so tired of feeling stupid.  “… Ever since I’ve come here, I’ve only been seen as a nuisance or a joke. I’m not sure there’s anyone who truly wants me to be here.”

“Oh Loki …” she shook her head vehemently. “That’s not true at all!”

“It is - I’m not blind, Sigyn. If Odin hadn’t made his decree, I wouldn’t even be here to begin with.”

“But …” Sigyn pressed her lips together, letting out a soft breath. “… I’m glad you’re here.” 

Loki exhaled, looking away. The words felt nice, but …“You don’t need to say that—”

“It’s true!” She smiles gently - her bottom teeth were slightly crooked, he realized. He had never noticed that before. There was something charming about it. “You know, I’ve never brought anyone here before.”

That was a surprise. Didn’t Sigyn have no shortage of friends? “But - why bring me?”

“Because I wanted you to come.” She was grinning again, rocking slightly in the water as she held her hands together behind her back. The rain was finally starting to lessen.

Loki frowned. “… why?”

A beat passed. Suddenly, Sigyn was leaning forward, her lips brushing against his before he had any chance to realize what it was she was doing - soft, damp, salty with the taste of rain. It was brief, so very brief. By the time he had registered what was happening, she was already pulling away again. 

“That’s why,” she whispered against his skin.

Loki stared. It felt as though all of the air had been whisked from his lungs.

Before him, Sigyn swallowed - for the first time since he met her, she actually looked a bit uncertain. “Is … is that alright?”

The spell broke, and Loki remembered how to breathe again. “Oh, oh yes, I -” he let out a breathless huff of a laugh - what was happening?! “Forgive me, I’ve never - I mean, I didn’t expect—”

Norns - did this mean she likes him? That she wished to court? Loki had never courted before - in all honestly he hadn’t the slightest idea how to go about doing such a thing, did it necessitate a formal announcement? Or did she even want such a thing? Were things different on Vanaheim—

There was that grin again, smiling up at him - her eyes sparkled like stars. “You’re cute when you blush,” she teased.

Loki sputtered. “I - I’m no such thing—“

“Of course not.” Sigyn chuckled. She gripped his hand in hers, interlacing their fingers beneath the water. Her touch sent sparks up his arm. “Come, my prince. I have more to show you.”