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The only way to play the game is to work the crowd 🎤

Get ready for Crowd Control - a new series hosted by Jacquis Neal

The 6 episode season premieres September 8th - only on @dropoutdottv

Pics 1 - 2 📷 Jill Petracek, Pics 3 - 6 📷 Kate Elliott

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A bit belated, but I wanted to share - I have finally gotten my craft area set up! And to celebrate, I made a tiny little book, and then put that lil book on a strand, so now it can live on the cool jewelry board too!

And a good reminder that just because I didn't do things on an anticipated timeline does not mean I am doomed to never do them. Sometimes life gets in the way! Still, we craft.

Hello! I am moving, and packing up my crafting supplies, and I am a little worried that when I get to the new place I won't prioritize crafting again. So! I would like, 30 days from now, to have my crafting space set up again, and to have done *something* creative, big or small.

That's a very good use of an egg! @sassysnowperson, how'd it go?

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Hello! I'm trying to the original post that inspired your The Glorious Ascension of Emperor Solo fic but the link on AO3 is broken and I can't find it on either yours or copperbadge's tumblr blogs (or pages? feels like names for things keep changing and I've been here too long to bother keeping up).

Help, please?

Well, you've given me quite the conundrum and no answers!

Here's what I can tell you: I did not actively change the link, and confirmed that both the link I created on Ao3 and the link that the lovely people that podficced the fic created to a few of the different reblog chains have changed. I also checked my "uh oh these posts got flagged!" Page, and there's no evidence on my page that Tumblr removed them from that. I also tried using google to search Tumblr, and while that did lead to my own promo posting of the fic, it did not lead to the original post.

I am baffled! What would make it disappear like that?? I haven't done the post by post review of my own blog, putting that on my to-do list, but that is a mystery for sure. I'm sorry I don't have answers but you are not alone in your questions!

Anyone who sees this, throwing it out there, any other ideas of things I can check to find a lost post (reblog of someone else's post)?

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Every so often my boyfriend asks me to resend him the link to "Surrender Denied" because he can't remember what it was called and doesn't want to hunt through our DMs for it. I don't think I can give a higher compliment than that.

This is a compliment of the highest regard and I receive it with so much joy!

Another thing I love about this message is that it reminds me that our work has a life so far beyond what we know! A periodic guest appearance in a DM thread, enthusiastic chatter between roommates, someone else's daydreams, the list goes on. That's so important for me to remember when writing feels lonely, and I thank you for letting me know!

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Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about the name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

(Six months ago, I did a version of this poll with about five hundred options on the spinner wheel. For this one, I more than doubled it.)

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One of the little joys in my life has been watching my cat get better at cuddling.

My sweet boy adopted us one fine day when I was trying to go to work. He decided that instead of hiding under my car he was going to come out and headbutt my legs. He was nearly an adult cat - vet guessed 11 months when we gave into his persistent charms and brought him in. No chip, no tag, no evidence he'd ever been anything but feral, aside from his very friendly personality and determination that he was going to be a housecat now, thank you very much.

He's been friendly right from the beginning, but just.... awful at cuddling. He wants attention! He wants affection! He does not understand the idea of a cuddle. His version of it was walking back and forth across my lap, wiggling happily from one hand to another.

Then, one day, he discovered he could tip over on one specific chair, sort of slide down the arm, and he'd be cuddling! He loved this move when he figured it out. Did it all the time! Just. On that specific chair. On that specific side.

It went on like that. I sorta figured once he was a full adult, a few months after we got him, that was as cuddly as he was going to get. But no! With all the intensity of a mathematician finding a new formula, he keeps figuring out new angles on this 'cuddling' thing. Seven years later, he's just figured out he can walk on top of me when I'm laying down, loaf, roll onto his right side, and then mash his little kitty head into my chin, purring madly.

Can't wait to see what he comes up with next.

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Ben Daniels as General Merrick in Rogue One (2016)

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I will say, the overwhelming sound of construction machines occurring near my house is made about a thousand times more bearable by the glorious whooping coming from the same direction. Have fun, you manic pixie dream construction worker. May we all find such joy in our work.

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New Mobile Report Gundam Wing -Operation 30th- (x)

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I think Killie either narrowly avoids an egg, or gets a small egg. Call it a quail egg.

It turns out there are Ongoing Negotiations regarding where the crafting room should be, and out of deference to housemates I have not bullied it into existence without considering their feelings. An Accord shall be reached but diplomatic protocols must be honored.

However, I did take a minute to do something creative - in the midst of unpacking chaos I took the time to turn my jewelry from a tangled mass of utter uselessness into an Art! This way I will actually use it AND enjoy looking at it!

Hello! I am moving, and packing up my crafting supplies, and I am a little worried that when I get to the new place I won't prioritize crafting again. So! I would like, 30 days from now, to have my crafting space set up again, and to have done *something* creative, big or small.

That's a very good use of an egg! @sassysnowperson, how'd it go?

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/66992527

Y'ALL THIS IS THE COOLEST FANFIC I'VE EVER SEEN.

It is a complete narrative about SecUnits on a Planetary Survey trying to communicate and keep their clients safe while dealing with the restrictions of their govmod.

IT IS ALSO A FULLY INTERACTIVE GAME OF MINESWEEPER.

The story is told BY PLAYING MINESWEEPER.

This fic is criminally underrated go look at it!!!

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Houston, we have a second season! 🚀🧑‍🚀🍔☀️

Gastronauts is BACK for season 2, premiering August 15th only on Dropout - with host Jordan Myrick, dozens of professional chefs, and some very not-professional judges to give them the most unhinged cooking challenges imaginable 🧑‍🍳

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I wonder if I haven't picked up writing in awhile because I've wanted it to be A Thing. For me to have a plan, a story idea. Maybe I just need to write? Maybe I need to accept that I am not A Thing kinda writer. Maybe I just need to yell and see what story comes.

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nicole byers' most recent why won't you date me episode where she has lou wilson on and she asks the customary question "would you date me" and lou says actually we went on one date in late february 2020. and nicole has just completely forgot. exquisite listening

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Hello! I have written over one million words of fic on Ao3, and most of it in Star Wars. Come, I shall reveal to you the secret.

Confidently make shit up.

Okay yes I'm out here exposing myself. There goes the last of any writerly mistique I had. But honestly, here's the truth, it's confusing to everybody. People will assume you found a wookiepedia article they haven't. But there are some steps to make it feel like Star Wars, and I will share them with you now.

How to Name a Star Wars thing when you don't want to open wookiepedia

Paper is flimsi, coffee is caf. Just memorize these two, throw em in early, people will assume you know.

Don't name everything. The eye glides over most things. Even if there is a name for it, you're allowed to decide that name is stupid. Your character is allowed to just have a bed or a desk, or whatever.

Focus on the tech, and any item that matters to the scene, that your character is interacting with.

Think of the thing from our world, and then add one thing that makes it feel futuristic. Think visual - Andor was a TV show, the tech changes are ones that would look cool. A list of sci-fi options - make it more angular, make it float, make it a hologram, make it do something automatically, make it blue.

Add a prefix or suffix to the real world name based on these new traits.

If it doesn't feel sci-fi enough, find a synonym for the real world part of the name.

An example:

Okay I'm writing a scene that involves a (looks around room) paper shredder.

Oh! We know paper=flimsi

Flimsi shredder. That's enough honestly. But if it's important, if Cassian is trying to destroy important rebel information before and Imperial walks through the door, we may want to do more.

Okay, well, most of the documents are actually little holograms in the show. Hologram.

Holo-shredder?

Now we're cooking! Something still doesn't feel right. Shredder isn't giving the right vibes.

Holo-scrambler!

"Cassian quickly fed the data sticks into the holo-scrambler. He kept his breathing steady through will alone, the air wanted to leap out of his chest as he heard Imperial boots walk down the hallway. Getting closer? He couldn't tell."

See! The eye glides right past it. Go forth! Write fic without fear!

Andor makes me want to write a Star Wars fanfiction but it's so scary. What if I write "Glup Shitto was sitting on the balcony, drinking coffee and reading his favourite book", but someone comments "didn't you mean he was drinking glop-goppy and reading a holo-journal? 🤨" so I open wookiepedia to check it out and it turns out that they also never invented balconies in the star wars universe and Glup Shitto can't read because of the freak accident he suffered in the episode 10 of the 2024 show "Jar-Jar and Babu Frik". What then.