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reading a story and the author gave the characters all this painful backstory as a reason to keep them apart, yet we are halfway through already, and the characters haven't even talked in any meaningful way about any subject because the author is more focused on throwing Events into the plot as an excuse to do funny dialogue.

well, "funny" dialogue.

sometimes a story can be sincere. it's okay. not everything has to be shown through a lens of irony and distance.

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anyway yeah DELETE YOUR FUCKING ADVERTISING IDS

Android:

Settings ➡️ Google ➡️ all services ➡️ Ads ➡️ Delete advertising ID

(may differ slightly depending on android version and manufacturer firmware. you can't just search settings for "advertising ID" of course 🔪)

iOS:

Settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ tracking ➡️ toggle "allow apps to request to track" to OFF

and ALSO settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ Apple advertising ➡️ toggle "personalized ads" to OFF

more details about the process here via the EFF

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This is for a coworker of one of my best friends, whose house was destroyed in the bomb cyclone in the pnw this week.

https://gofund.me/2a964e97

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Keep your priorities straight: post fic.

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purest american trumper brainrot is seeing someone comment on a post criticizing JK Rowling: why do you guys hate her? is it because she voted for Trump?

siiiiiiiiiiiiigh

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I love blocking people I've never interacted with based off their replies on some random popular post. Wow random user on a post with 50k notes with the worst take ever, I hope I never meet you and will make sure we never do

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I was rambling on the issue of museums and human remains and how certain populations are more likely to have their bodies put on display to be gawked at and then went "well I guess the Pompeii casts were of Europeans. there are bones in there right?" and Googled it to make sure, at which point I confirmed that yes there are bones in there, but more interestingly DNA testing revealed that a cast of an adult holding a child everyone assumed was a mother and child were, in fact, a man and a kid entirely unrelated to him. Honestly that's more moving to me. Maybe they were connected in a way other than blood, but maybe a stranger saw a child when the world was ending and thought the one thing he could do was hold them.

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decided to get started on the fanfiction oh/OH. print design. This one is getting released November 6. Selected chrysanthemums because of their meaning and cus they're pretty

there are

SO MANY FUCKING PETALS

i am going to BED

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chart with all my favorite fictional guys on it and it looks like this

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There are local elections as soon as 2025.

RUN FOR SOMETHING.

The Run For Something website is incredibly helpful for anyone who even remotely entertains the idea of running for a local office. They have all of the information you need and then some.

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drop of honey landed on my sweater :(

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Gellert's New Job now available in paperback!

Gellert's New Job, my short novella featuring a mean autistic trans man getting strong-armed into becoming the personal secretary of an insane gigantic Cockney vampire in a magical Yorkshire town is now available in paperback!

On Amazon here! / / Via Draft2Digital

I am in the progress of making many of my short novellas available as paperbacks on Amazon as well as via Draft2Digital - the former will be a good deal cheaper where the latter are a higher cost, though they're also higher quality print and design! Thank you everyone for your patience!

If there are particular works that you're eager to have in paperback form (or hardback), please let me know!

I've been having a much easier time with Amazon this time around wrangling the formatting, so I may be able to make Powder and Feathers available in 2 paperback volumes this year

That will still be with my original self-designed cover, though, and I'll do a big hardback release next year with a commissioned design and formatting, so if you'd rather wait for a nicer copy, bear that in mind!

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I love my people and it's amazing to see so many of us turn up today, but it's like herding very friendly cats 😂

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"Jayce has two hands" so do I. outta my way hammer boy, I'm about to get it

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11k celebration: top 50 m/f friendships (as voted by my followers) #09. steve harrington and robin buckley - stranger things