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Personality hire

Working Cats

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People with kids VS people without.

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Monthly Members' Fics — Jul 2025

La Petite Mort by proosh (France/Prussia) The experience of military catastrophe and the Franzosenzeit was harrowing for the Prussian population. On the night following the battle, French troops flooded into Jena and Auerstedt, and ‘new violence began, repeated maltreatment and plundering and yet again one could hear the loud lamentations of the robbed, the woes of the abused’. ‘Maltreatment’ (Mißhandlung) was often a euphemism for rape. - Surviving Crisis: The Napoleonic Upheavals and the ‘Time of the French’ as Cultural Trauma in Prussia, 1806–1812 (Christopher Thomas Goodwin, 2022) October 1806. The battles are won, and France claims his prize.

If I Were Happy by Random_Obsessions (South Italy/Spain) Lovino has spent countless hours with the guidance counselor after an incident his junior year of high school. Despite things looking up, he remained pessimistic. Why then, as senior year begins to wrap up, does he suddenly have hope for his future?

Alkonost by WetNightmares (Female America/Canada) Matthew meets a harpy in the woods.

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Eating a green chicken nugget.

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the dark knight

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Band-winged Dragonlet (Erythrodiplax umbrata), male, family Libellulidae, SE TX, USA

photograph by Bobby Jones

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me

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Can't believe I dreamed I beat off too many times in one day and caused my eye to explode. Like reached up to probe it, got blood on my fingers, went and looked in a mirror, and my eye was gone. Pulped.

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Wife and I After Going Through a Krispy Kreme Drive Through And Finding Out that It's Been Poorly Automated By an AI That Legitimately Does Not Work

Wife: I'm furious.

Clove: Yeah it's rough.

Wife: I'm going to email corporate.

Clove: Read 'em to fifth, babe.

Wife: We're both going to email corporate.

Clove: huh?

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How do you exist in DC fandom for more than a week and not know what found family is? How do you exist in the *world* and think that a piece of paper, a court ruling, can make someone not family in the ways that matter (love, trust, mutual caring)?

If Bruce Wayne wasn't rich and privileged, and had his adoptions denied by the courts, would he stop thinking in a fatherly sense of his kids?

No. If Duke and Cass feel like they're siblings, and think of each other and relate to each other that way, then they are siblings in the ways that matter.

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i WISH more people knew about age of bronze, it's literally the 'historically accurate' comprehensive and GAY adaptation of the trojan war all the accuracy warriors are clamoring for

it's a comic series written and drawn entirely by Eric Shanower, started in 1998 with those exact parameters

historically situated in the Mycenaean/Hittite cultures

drawing from nearly every text on the war from Homer to Shakespeare

explicit about the possibility that achilles+patroclus may have been meant as lovers. Shanower is gay himself, and found it important to depict them as such all the way back in 1998.

it can be read here in part or here completely (🏴‍☠️), but i also highly recommend supporting the artist, since this is a multi-decade passion project.

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PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) Dir. Joe Wright

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the teen titans powersets are so crazy because it’s like. girl whose father is the devil, from the bible. girl who can make the earth swallow you. alien princess with laser beams. boy who can do a backflip

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The kindergarten-ification of society

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complimented a cashier on her turtle pin this morning and she said "oh thanks, I am a little bit of a Turtle Person" with the carefully contained energy of Cookie Monster telling you he's mildly fond of chocolate chips

I hope she and the multiple tons of turtle merch she definitely has at home are having a wonderful day