#Monopoly for mac free

[shortcakesturns]

you should write a fic where the reader asks chris (or matt) to try something new and he’s like “what do you have in mind?” and she asks him to titty fuck her, so he does and he cums on her boobs, all the way up to her mouth and face

𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒

𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐎 𝐗 𝐅𝐄𝐌 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑

𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐑: 𝟏𝟔+, 𝐍𝐒𝐅𝐖 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐖 𝐂𝐔𝐓

𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘: 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟏 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐱 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰

𝐀/𝐧: 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐬𝐦𝐮𝐭 😩😩

Matt sat across from me, we were playing monopoly with Nick and Chris. I could feel Matt eye fucking me the whole time. When Nick ended up winning the game, and Chris and Nick went to their rooms. Matt wasted no time pulling me into his room and pinning me up against the wall.

“Your such a tease ma.” He says aggressively grabbing my neck and kissing my lips. His tongue intruding into my mouth, our tongues fighting for dominance. He pulls away smirking. “My fucking slut.” He starts attacking my neck with his lips.

“baby..I have a question.” I gasp, as Matt pulls away.

“Hm?” He looks slightly concerned, tilting his head but look into my eyes.

“Can we try something new?” I ask.

“What do you have in mind my love?”

I take control pushing Matt on the bed, his eyes widen and a smirk paints his face at the sudden dominance taking over me. I get on top of him, making out with him. Grabbing his jaw to further the kiss. Suddenly I pull away, Matt whines at the sudden loss.

“Fuck ma, what has gotten into you.”

I grind on his dick, throwing my head back in pleasure. “just wanna switch it up babyyy.”

“f-fuckkkk good girl baby good girl.”

I move down so my face is by his hard on, I pull his pants down. Slightly freeing his dick, fully freeing his dick by pulling his underwear down. “daddy your so big” I take my hand stroking his dick, licking from the base of his dick to the tip. “fuck baby don’t tease me” I take him into my mouth his dick hitting the back of my throat. “o-oh s-shit y/n baby holy fuck”

I speed up my pace hearing the moans fall out of his mouth, his hand grabbing my hair. I pull away, he whines at the sudden loss.

I spit on his dick taking my hand and stroking it, “what are you doing baby??” he asks confused panting. “You’ll see matty.” I push my boobs together taking him in between my tits moving up and down.

opening my mouth, sticking my tongue out letting spit fall onto his cock and I start moving faster, matt’s panting and moaning slipping out faster.

“ngh, fuck ma, i’m g-gonna”

his cum interrupts me, shooting onto my tongue and face and my tits. “holy shit ma, I love you.”

“Now it’s your turn ma.” he says flipping so he’s on top, kissing down my body tugging my pants down and spreading my legs open. He licks his lips before lapping and sucking on my clit.

Inserting two fingers at a fast pace, “oh my fucking god Matt” grabbing a fistful of his hair, grunting at the pressure. “yeah you fucking like that ma?” He says before going back to aggressively eating me out.

“fuck i’m gonna cum Matt, Matt fuck”

I release, as Matt pulls away sticking one finger down my throat. pulling one finger out and putting the other in his mouth.

“you taste so good ma.” he says kissing me.

———

i’m officially out of requests now 🤕 sorry it was so short I really want mac and cheese

[humorisstoredinthetits]

Random Heathers Headcannons

These all take place in an AU where JD be more chill and decides that murder and slushies are not in fact the best ways to deal with mental illness and goes see a therapist, also Modern Times and PolyHeathers+V

The Heathers + Veronica have lots of money after Chandler and Duke's parents die in a "freak accident"

So maybe JD didn't fully shed his homicidal tendencies, just turned them on people who actually deserved it bc they were all shitty people who traumatized people he begrudgingly cares about

Big Bud Dean also mysteriously dies around this time in a freak accident involving being in a building right before it blows up

Being the only children of rich assholes whose family abandoned them for petty rich people reasons means they inherit the mansions and money, meaning the four of them can live in peace and don't have to get jobs unless they really want to

Veronica decides to write, since she doesn't have to worry about making it in the real world she can focus on her passion projects

Mac works with her Dad, who is alive because he did not contribute to her issues, that would be how society fails to meet the needs of autistic people, especially in education

She eventually is going to take over the engagement ring business, which is a pretty decent amount of income on top of their massive fortune

She also volunteers at animal shelters in her free time bc she loves animals

Duke initially says screw jobs but she quickly gets bored and decides to go into Child Psychology, she wants to help kids who were like her and had nowhere and no one to turn to, and help those in abusive situations to get out of them, bc JD can't just murder all of the abusive parents in the world, as great as that would be

Chandler thinks they are all crazy for taking jobs when they don't have to, but she gets bored as well waiting for them to get home so she starts doing all the chores

What she thought would originally be meaningless busywork actually becomes fun for her

It turns out she likes to cook, which is good bc if she didn't her gfs would would subsist entirely on hot pockets and coffee

She learns how to bake and the rest of them would often come home to fresh cupcakes or cookies

She also takes up gardening, which surprises her bc she thought she would hate having to get all up in the dirt

She's always buying different kinds of flowers to plant in the yard

Obviously she gets the most of heathers, duh

It feels like a final fuck you to her parents, who wanted her to become a rich asshole like the rest of their family

They sell the Duke residence to JD, Betty and Martha for cheap bc they don't need 2 houses (and bc they feel bad about how they treated them) while they all move into the Chandler Mansion

Life is chaotic as hell, but they all love it

Everyone besides Mac is a Night Owl, she has to drag them to bed at a reasonable hour otherwise they would stay up all night

They cannot function without their morning coffee

They occasionally play games, but this always turns out horribly

Take the Mario Party Incident for example

Mac just wanted them to all play together and have fun, so she booted up Mario Party, quickly forgetting how competitive Duke and Chandler are

They scream at each other the entire time, Veronica gives up around Round 4 and throws

At the end Chandler has the most stars, but Duke somehow gets all 3 bonus stars and ends up winning

Chandler fucking throws her controller through the TV

She sleeps on the couch that night

Or the time they tried to play Monopoly, but Duke set the board on fire after landing on Chandler's property with 3 hotels

Mac really wants to get a pet, she loves animals and there's plenty at the shelter waiting to be adopted

Duke is the holdout, she hates furry animals, but relents when she can get a snake

Veronica brings her cat JFK from her parent's place, Chandler gets a Maine Coon who only likes Mac and will hiss at everyone else, Mac gets a rabbit bc she loves them, they're just so tiny and fluffy and cute, and Duke gets a ball python

Chandler tried so hard to get the cat to like her, buying her all these toys and shit, but she'll always go to Mac for attention and hiss whenever Chandler gets close

Chandler hates the snake, in reality she's just scared, a fact which Duke takes full advantage of, like after the monopoly incident

Chandler goes to put on her war paint (makeup) when everyone hears a scream

Chandler is hiding in the corner, shaking at the sight of this small little ball python sitting in the cabinet

Duke is a chaos gremlin

Duke also sleeps on the couch that day

Veronica is a weeb and will binge anime all day if she has nothing else to do

She finds this one called I'm In Love With The Villainess bc one of the characters, Claire, looks a hell of alot like Chandler

She forces the Heathers to sit down and watch it with her, and they all agree Chandler is literally Claire

She starts calling Veronica 'commoner' after that

[fishedeyelenz]

I'm gonna be so upfront with you, DILF Billy is still a new concept for me personally but I'm already obsessed with it. BEGGING for some tasty random headcanons abt him, anything and everything I can get my grubby little baby hands on so I can open my head up and pop em right in my brain 🤲

ok let me see what comes to mind first

Has chronic back pain problems that developed from a lifetime of sleeping in places he shouldn't have slept in. It's mostly his lower back, but honestly his whole back needs a good massage

Works as a cinema projectionist (this au takes place 90s, 20 years later after the movie) it's a job that doesn't require that much interaction with other people, so his anti social ass isn't so overwhelmed

Almost everything he owns is bought from flee markets or thrift stores, his whole house is pretty mismatched and a bit cluttered

Everything is also covered in cat hair from his six cats

Bad and naughty kitties get put into the sock of shame for time out

Dresses eighter in a sloppy white T and sweatpants or like Guillermo What we do in the Shadows. On special occasions he dresses like a laid back college English professor but that's only for formal events

Bitch is blind as a bat

Can cook!!! Omg they though him how to cook in psych ward and he's decently good at it let's go!!!!!

Favorite things to make are french toast, pesto pasta, some sort of home cooked stew of his own making and Mac and cheese

Unsocial but loves playing board games lol things like monopoly, ludo, various card games etc.

Number one Garfield fan, cuts out every strip out of various newspapers and magazines he collects, and keeps the in a special drawer (different from his other special drawer wink wink, nudge nudge)

Also owns a Garfield plush he broke out of a claw machine

Has an extensive VHS collection of movies of various genres, from the most acclaimed movies to low budget art films to porn. Most of the tapes were stole though

Doesn't understand kids these days

God, there's more from where that came from, if anybody has anymore questions about him feel free to ask

[ahordeofwasps]

10 Songs 10 People Tag Game

I was tagged by the wonderful @jamieanovels! Thanks for the tag! The rules of the game are to list 10 songs, then tag 10 people to pass it on, with bonus points for song from a WIP or character playlist! 

I’m going to shuffle the playlist for my main WIP, Crying Wolf, and share the first 10 songs, plus the reasons why they’re on the playlist because I want an excuse to talk about Crying Wolf. But, before that, the no pressure tags!

No pressure tags: @afoolandathief, @aohendo, @loopyhoopywrites, @worldstogetlostin, @whimsyqueen, and open tag!

Onto the songs!

1 - The Hearse by Matt Maeson

Added onto the playlist mainly for the chorus (”I will never go backwards, I will never be free, I will never be free when you sing down to me,”) vibes really well with the events of Crying Wolf. There’s a lot of running and a lot of escapes... “to something that is worse,” involved, as well as many points of no return just sort of leaped over without looking.

2 - March of the Ignorant by Crown the Empire

The themes of the song (zealousness, denial) fits the Order of Grav, a militaristic gravity worshipping cult in Crying Wolf, really well. Due to having a monopoly on pre/syn-apocalypse technology, this cult is heavily relied on by the government to deal with problems pertaining to run-ins with this technology. However, due to a combination of the Order fitting the BITE model in its structure as well as its reluctance to share what it has found with others, they have a lot of misconceptions about both the pre/syn-apocalypse technology and how the world works. The Order does more harm than good in their “crusade”. 

3 - Diamonds and Rust by Judas Priest

This song fits the character Ogwut Izzdat! This is another one, where it’s on the playlist mainly for the chorus (”We both know what memories can bring, they bring diamonds and rust.”) Ogwut is a 10 ft tall robot who, at the beginning of the story, thinks he’s just a weird human. He learns that he is not human a few chapters into the story. A good portion of his character development deals with him reinterpreting his memories and coming to terms with what (and who) he is. I also intend to continue this character development when I get around to writing the sequel. 

4 - Under the Milky Way by the Church

This song was one I liked to listen to while writing the calmer moments in Crying Wolf as well as doing some of the world building. The song has a sense of wonder to it which I like. 

5 - Dream On by Aerosmith

Another song that fits Ogwut! The lyrics fit his character development quite well (e.g., “I know it's everybody's sin, you got to lose to know how to win, half my life's in books' written pages, storing facts learned from fools and from sages”), especially in regard to him wanting to do the right thing when faced with multiple... trolley problem-esque... situations, and his stubborn refusal to give up and hope for a better world.

6 - Heel Turn 2 by the Mountain Goats

Crying Wolf is about a revenge-cycle. This song (”You found my breaking point, congratulations, spent too much of my life now trying to play fair, throw my better self overboard, shoot at him when he comes up for air, come unhinged, get revenge.”) fits revenge-cycles really well! 

7 - Pink Cloud Compression by Mister Heavenly

This song fits the character Claudine! She is the character that causes problems on purpose! Usually in an attempt to fix other problems. She is probably the most stubborn character in Crying Wolf and the song (”I see the madness brimming in your eyes, a child who's never been told no”)  fits that quite well.

8 - The Chain by Fleetwood Mac

Wotan has unrequited feelings for Theo and, despite loving Theo, disagrees with him on a few plot-important choices on a moral level. He loves some parts of Theo and hates other parts, and it stings all the more because Theo barely sees Wotan as a friend, let alone anything more. A break-up song seemed fitting for these two, though the song fits Wotan better than Theo.

9 - The Wolf by SIAMES

The song has wolf in the title and I really like it. That’s pretty much it. It’s a good song.

10 - Evil in Your Eye by the Church of the Cosmic Skull

I listened to the album this song comes from a lot while writing Crying Wolf. This song (”No one can save you, you're under their spell, no one can save you at all, no one can touch you and no one can see, no one can save you”)  fits a lot of the scenes quite well. The main characters often feel both helpless and alone, facing a villain that has power beyond their comprehension while others refuse to listen to their warnings let alone help. Sometime they do the opposite of helping and make things worse.

[maiosx]

White ppl buying new Macs on the day they launch is the biggest white privileged bullshit I have ever seen.

They don’t even pay rent, and they get a ton of flair for being “smart” yet you ask them where their rent records are and they’re like my mom lets me live rent free in her old studio apt or basement. Ofc they run the country, they pass go and collect 200 on the monopoly board every fucking month. You can’t even design a MacBook, what the fuck are you doing buying one…

[fishmech]

Lol monopoly. Use real words, Microsoft operating systems are successful, good, and human oriented. Linuxailures love to affect oppression.

If anything apple exercises extremely more monopolistic practices in its business and always has since Jobs returned (and since he killed his idiot self trying to apply his management style to cancer). To pretend the Mac os and its descendants is on the side of free as in freedom or w/e the fuck is to be willfully ignorant.

if gabe newell dies and valve gets taken over by some generic silicon valley ceo type then pc gamers are going to be so fucked lmao

[shreya11111]

alternate m!leven names:

a loooong list of m!leven nicknames that i have been compiling for weeks (in bold are the ones i came up with and haven’t seen anyone else use before. in bold and italics are the ones i came up with but can’t remember if anyone else has used before)

- motorcycle

- mitotic index

- middlemen

- marriage counselors

- monetary policies

- mr miyagi

- mockingbird

- monogamous relationship

- marriage ceremony

- minecraft

- my story animated

- migraines

- motion sicknesses

- material girl

- maternal clothes

- mandarin

- mongoose

- moby dick

- little mermaid

- milkshake

- mango mussolini

- mango mousse

- melted butter

- magic school bus

- merry-go-round

- mitosis

- mr bean

- mint magnums

- spilt milk

- mopey sharks

- mentos

- milky way

- mitskivan

- mitochondria

- moon pod

- oven mitts

- microorganism

- microscope

- microphone

- microwave

- missgetti

- minivan

- minibus

- mickey mouse clubhouse

- mineral water

- malaria

- measles

- marijuana

- marilyn monroe

- maroon 5

- mesopotamia

- milestone

- muffin

- minimart

- mini golf

- mario kart

- macbook air

- mount everest

- M&Ms

- mint chocolate chip ice cream

- milkman

- mechanical engineering

- motorway

- madagascar

- minnesota

- macarena

- macaron

- mac & cheese

- milk curdle

- morbius

- mason jar

- mashed potatoes

- minced beef

- mosquito

- mona lisa

- mildew

- megamind

- monsters inc

- monster high

- my little pony

- measuring tapes

- lady marmalade

- machine gun kelly

- marmite

- macbeth

- mama mia

- medieval

- mannequin

- moldy cheese

- moldy bread

- molotov cocktail

- merriam-webster

- manila envelope

- mozzarella sticks

- metamorphosis

- mac demarco

- microsoft

- mosquito repellant

- marinated chicken

- multiverse theory

- moroccan oil

- maltesers

- monopoly

- microbiology

- molasses

- my chemical romance

- methamphetamine

- mcdonald’s

- mcchicken

- mcnuggets

- methane

- milk chocolate chip cookie

- mouthwash

- mollycoddle

- military equipment

- milky oats

- milk stain

- morse codes

- mayo, quebec

- mandela catalogue

- massachusetts institute of technology

- mcgill university

- metahumans

- mirkwood

- metallic slime

- marine biology

- marshmello

- messy bun

- monochromatic nail polish

- french manicure

- messi

- mushroom

- millipede

- motivational speaker

- methemoglobin

- manbun

- monster energy drinks

- manhunt

- micropenis

- masoleum

feel free to comment additional ones! i’ll update this list as i think of/see more <3

[jabbage]

This McDonalds officially belongs to a fictional Victorian surgeon because my life is ridiculous.

As you may know because I won't shut up about it, I'm running an email book club next year called Letters from Watson where you can receive the Sherlock Holmes stories in your inbox throughout 2023. Because people can reply to the emails I decided to set up a burner email under the name Dr John Watson so they don't clog up my personal inbox.

McDonalds does this monopoly promotion every year where you can win various prizes, and I actually managed to win a free meal… Except when I claimed it I didn't realise I was signed into Watson's account.

So this meal? Officially belongs to Dr John H Watson.

… I claimed it at the McDonalds on Baker Street and sat eating it in the upper front room, because it felt right.

"Though the world explode, these two survive, and I'd like to order a Big Mac and fries."

[roryosullyauthor]

Writing wasn’t the kind of career that brought with it a great deal of routine. Not that Rory particularly minded as he was a certified night owl, going to bed in the early am and not rising again until the sun was at its highest point in the sky. It also meant that the moments where he wasn’t sitting in his writing nook and frowning over a plot hole of his own making, it appeared to others that he was advertising his supposed ‘free time’ to be open for anyone to make a monopoly of.

Normally, this consisted of babysitting his agent’s kids on the days where Bonnie was allocated her own time off. Sometimes, he was in charge of the groceries, hubris prompting him to claim he didn’t need to take a list with him only to return from Trader Joe’s with half the items required and Alison shaking her head and muttering something under her breath about ‘weaponised incompetence’. In comparison, shadowing Bonnie on her date wasn’t as much of a chore. And yet-

“What d’you need me t’do it for?” he’d asked then flinched when Missy’s palm lightly collided with the back of his head.

“Because Kian and I are working and she’s a girl on a first date with a stranger,” the brunette explained, brown doe eyes fixated on him like she was a Disney princess talking to a very, very dumb cartoon deer.

He had narrowed his eyes at her, rubbing sorely at the back of his head despite it not having hurt at all.

“You can’t take the night off? S’not like another dinosaur’s goin’ t’go extinct,” he reasoned. This time, he managed to dodge the blow she sent his way. But then she began prodding him incessantly until he had no choice but to relent, understanding that tagging along with Bonnie for a little while was a fate much preferable to receiving a stern talking-to from Missy.

It wasn’t as if he didn’t care about the wellbeing of Bonnie. He’d been the one to indoctrinate her into their rag-tag little group of misfits after all, ever since he’d walked into the living room of his boss’ penthouse apartment, half-dressed in a pair of boxers, and found an amused-looking young woman standing there clad in a TARDIS sweatshirt. He had a lot of time for Bonnie and didn’t want her to get turned into a human Big Mac if her date turned out to be a creep, but he just wasn’t sure what he was meant to do. Sit and stare at them from across the coffeeshop like some sort of creep? And how long was he meant to stay there for? If they took things to the next level, was he meant to go along with them and sit in a corner of the room with a paperback while they got to know each other in a more biblical sense? Don’t mind me, lads, he pictured himself saying. Carry on. The Terror’s just gone and slaughtered a Vulcan science ship, so I’ll be grand for a few another few hours at least. Y’need any water?

With reassurances from Missy that he could leave as soon as his assessment of this Roger fella deemed him safe for Bonnie to be alone in his company with, he relented and followed Bonnie to the coffee shop. Some hipster sounding place that he figured would be shut down within the year.

As they walked - or rather, as Bonnie marched ahead and left him trailing behind - he cupped a hand around his cigarette so he could light it properly. Muttering when it refused to catch, he tried his best to follow his friend along the busy street. The Autumn chill swept around his thighs, and he was reminded that he hadn’t exactly dressed for the weather, clad in an old rugby shirt and a pair of shorts that his sister, Aoife, declared “were a few inches away from being a glorified pair of budgie smugglers.” He liked the shorts, but the cold made him ache that little bit more for the warmth a hit of nicotine would give him. If he could only get the damn thing to light.

“Jesus feck,” he said, thumb slipping against the lighter until it finally caught. By that time, Bonnie had come face to face with her date and Rory watched with narrowed eyes as the man in question took one look at her inhaler and turned away.

Slowly raising his eyebrows, cigarette dangling gormlessly from his mouth, Rory stood where he was as the prick began walking his way. Without thinking too much, Rory inhaled and then blew out the Dante’s Peak of all cigarette smoke clouds. Roger walked right into it and immediately began spluttering out hacking coughs. He turned on Rory with hateful, watery eyes.

“Mate, what the hell?” he spat, in an accent that would have been enough to damage Rory’s opinion of him even if he hadn’t insulted his friend.

“Looks like you’ve got some trouble catchin’ your breath yourself, lad,” Rory said before cheerfully clapping the man on the shoulder and walking to catch up with Bonnie.

“Alright?” he asked her, knowing she was probably the opposite of alright but now that his services had been deemed unnecessary, he couldn’t help but think that Missy was far more equipped to deal with this part. Grimacing, he awkwardly placed a hand on Bonnie’s shoulder. “Bit of a waster, if you ask me.”

Dating apps were an unbeatable game, in Bonnie’s experience. Though a lot of people repeatedly tried to remind her that they weren’t a game, nor were they a means to make new friends, their exclaims fell on deaf ears. She enjoyed the thrill of getting to know new people, of learning all their quirks and the things that made them tick. She often found herself immersed in new hobbies as she fixated on the interests of a brand new human that she’d matched with on tinder or hinge. Brayden from Manhattan had loved horse riding and astronomy; The latter interest had reeled her in within a matter of seconds, the former had lead to a sprained ankle, a week of wearing a neck brace and a special feature on Maggie’s perfectly curated grid as she ripped the shit out of her roomie. Gabriella was from the Bronx, and she’d been an avid fan of tennis, resulting in Ariadne introducing Bonnie to her friend Colin for tips. Gabriella may have ghosted her, but Bonnie had learned hard and fast just how good Colin Nash was on his knees.

Sufficed to say, Bonnie didn’t exactly fit the dictionary definition of a romantic, but she liked being busy. She loved people and the distractions they brought with them, just as she adored the idea of embracing new ideas and environments and cultures, positively obsessed with the concept of somebody liking her so much that they might some day define it as love.

All the same, she was shit out of luck and had a tendency to run her mouth and drive people away. That, or she was prone to getting catfished several times a week.

Today’s date was Roger. He was from London, built like a marble sculpture, and richer than God. He was hot in a way that implied one night with him would shatter her spine and leave her destitute and being fed from a tube for the foreseeable future, and who was she to say no to that? Admittedly, Kian had rolled his eyes immediately upon seeing his profile, the all too familiar singsong of catfish spilling from Missy’s perfect lips, and Bonnie had groaned, stomped her feet, and then promptly begged a nonplussed Rory to shadow her date to make sure he was real and not a slimy, murdering murderer prepping to chop her up to sell her organs to Armie Hammer.

“Oh my God, I’m late. I’m so late. Sexy Hannibal Lecter’s never gonna rearrange my guts if you don’t GET! OUT! MY! WAY!” Bonnie found herself snapping as she came to a halt in front of a group of tourists, the oldest of them wide eyed and clutching her pearls as — presumably — her granddaughter covered her ears, jaw dropping in mortification at every word that had just been screeched in their general direction.

Bonnie kept moving, only sparing a glance over her shoulder to ensure Rory was still on her tail. He was moving at a far more sensible pace — stupid, sexy Irish man and his manly, athletic thighs that had no business belonging to a dweeby sci-fi author — and he wasn’t fumbling around in his jacket pocket for an inhaler the way that Bonnie was. The sharp chill of the Autumnal air had hit her like a bullet train the second she’d stepped outside, an ice-cold ache washing over her lungs, tightening in her throat as she pushed through crowds of irritable New Yorkers.

Finally, she came to a stop in front of the coffee shop she’d agreed to meet Roger at, drawing the piece of plastic to her lips and inhaling sharply. Relief washed over her as she felt that hit of salbutamol, her airways clearing as sweat dripped down her neck, her hand coming up to clutch desperately at her ribcage. She spun on the spot as she searched for Roger, her gaze landing on a man a mere 3 feet away from her who, she guessed, vaguely resembled her date? He was about 7 inches shorter than he’d claimed, a little scruffy, and nowhere near as ripped, but she supposed he’d have to do.

Before she could get a single word out or even so much as wave a hand to greet him, Roger was speaking.

“Nope, sorry. Asthma? Massive ick, babes,” he said in an accent that sounded nothing like Matt Smith’s, and promptly turned on his heels and walked away.

Exhausted, perplexed, and perpetually disappointed, Bonnie’s shoulders deflated as she scowled after her failed tinder match. With as much gusto as she could manage considering her current state of irritation, Bonnie flipped him the bird — or rather, the back of his head — and let out a loud, petulant whine.

“Seriously? God for-fucking-bid I need to pause for breath while going down on pencil-dick over here,” Bonnie bitched, silently banking on the fact that Rory was within earshot. She supposed she was lucky that she didn't have to worry about it ever getting that far, but she had wasted a banging outfit on the dickhead.

[cryptic-underground]

Red Son - Sitcom AU

Finally able to think about someone other than Sun Wukong or Macaque in this au, props to me!

Humor aside- I've been thinking of nothing but Red boyo so y'all get spur of the moment things about him for sitcom, though I can't promise it to be angst free- enjoy!

Is either high honors or principal's list in terms of grades (somewhere between 85-95 is his average)

He is so stressed all the time, my guy needs to chill

Gives himself his more homework in hopes of becoming better

Puts most of his self worth into getting good grades similarly to how he does in the show with schemes

Rich boy/girl, not necessarily the spoiled kind but definitely was a little entitled at the beginning

Has a curfew

Parents are the type to blow up her phone when their even just a few minutes late to coming home

Mk and Mei add him instantly to a group chat when they first meet

Says it's to communicate about their project without needing to be in first but it's mostly used to send memes, much to Reds dismay

They grow to find comfort in the group chat when she's having trouble with his parents

Gender fluid because ofc

Has a lot of books comprising of many different genres

Textbooks through the years, books they got to use for projects, a lot of ones on mechanics and engineering as well as just general science stuff

Is a big science nerd!

Mostly a big fan of chemistry and physics

Swk is still his uncle like in jttw but the ties between the bull family and wukong are complicated (talk about it in another post since it isn't red related)

Pif and dbk are still not good parents in this(at least until what would s3 of the au), I don't want to completely rewrite them since I want this to be close to lmk canon

I'm just going to have them be a tiny bit different

They are very strict to red and belittles him when he gets even a bit lower grade than expected

Red is very uncomfortable being touched by them like in the show

Mac is also kinda his uncle but they only briefly met when she was really young

Sucks at most art things, when they have to do an art project they tend to do something with mechanics

After she started hanging out with Mei and mk more frequently, and not just for school projects, he would try to find ways to show they were worthy of being their friend

Doing a lot of favors whenever they needed help with something, asking if they needed something fixed, using his allowance to buy them gifts or food as a way to convince em to let her stay

Is a stickler for rules and regulations

Will call someone out if they cheat at monopoly, will have them restart an entire game because someone broke a rule

Comes over to mks house whenever they hang out, the trio rarely go to red's or meis house

Mei and him confide in each other about their strict parents

Is one of the few people in the group to have a fashion sense

They got the pretty genes your honor

Gets acne breakouts from being overly stressed

Has multiple pairs of glasses in her bag incase they forget their usual pair at home

Is the type to go to sleep at seven or eight at night and wake up at like five in the morning

Is solely a tea drinker and refuses to drink coffee

Believed for the longest time that coffee stunts your growth

Has a full skin care routine

Puts hot sauce or something spicy in pretty much everything

Hates most cold foods

Literally heater

High pain tolerance

Very picky and tends to stays to a lot of their safe foods

Has MK and Mei's favorite and least favorite food memorized

Has said foods ready at her house when they're planned to visit

Will comment on how childish a show is, watches ironically to make fun of it in more detail, them finds them self hyper fixating on the show

The one that brings the shopping list to the store

Once mac gets redeemed, is thankful to have another person with a brain cell to converse with

Tutors mk sometimes

Struggles with basic money math but is able to do complex calculus in her sleep

Has given their two friends a scare because they went on a book reading binge and was too hyperfocused to answer their texts for a week

Phone background and home screen remains whatever the default was when he got the phone, doesn't see the importance of changing it

Until Mei stole their phone and changed everything, it was something he liked but still

Has one thing from every hyper fixation she's had in a box in their closet

Even though he's a heater, puts on thicker/warmer clothes at the briefest sign of fall or winter

She needs to set an example for the rest

Sandy's pets love them in the colder months, especially the cats

Owns both the girl's and boy's uniform for his school

Somehow extremely hated and liked at the school

Is far sighted(can see things that are far away) and has astigmatism

Can only sleep when their body is a plank and doesn't move in her sleep

Can cook since he gets left alone at home quite a bit

Is oldest out of the trio

Tw for the next few///

Hits self when frustrated or really angry

Picks at skin until they bleed

Has forgotten to eat or sleep for days because they were trying to perfect a project

[evelynendar]

Made sum fun interactions

Hydrus: Kuai, brother, help, how to talk to girls, Kuai Liang please

Sub Zero: I don’t know why you’d expect me of all people to be able to help with this

Hydrus: Bi Han is dead, Kuai please-

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Ermac: WE HATE YOU!

Reptile: OH YEAH, WELL THEN NEXT TIME DON’T STEAL MY MONOPOLY!

Kenshi: Syzoth, give ‘Mac his 24 dollars, you landed on his property.

Reptile: NO! HE’S IN JAIL, I’M NOT GIVING MONEY TO A CRIMINAL!

Ermac: THAT’S NOT HOW YOU PLAY!

Erron: Dear god y’all don’t gotta yell-

Kenshi: Shut the fuck up Erron! You don’t get to talk after stealing my last railroad!

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Noob: I need your help

Hydrus: I’d love to, small question, aren’t you supposed to be dead?

Noob: Dude that was months ago. Things change

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Erron, kicking down the door: MAC YOU’RE A FATHER!

Ermac: what the fu-

Erron: *gently plops down a baby duckling he found on the side of the road*

Ermac: *surprised pikachu face*

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Kenshi: okay... maybe playing ‘who’s family is the most dysfunctional wasn’t our best idea....

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Erron playing ‘Here comes the sun’ on his guitar

Reptile, singing: 🎶Apple bottom jeans-🎶

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Little note, if y’all have any suggestions as to what I should write or draw feel free to drop an ask or comment!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Facebook algorithm boosts pro-Facebook news

Facebook is a rotten company, rotten from the top down, its founder, board and top execs are sociopaths and monsters, committers of non-hyperbolic, no-fooling crimes against humanity. They lie, they cheat, they steal. They are some of history’s greatest villains. Because Facebook is a terrible company run by terrible people, it periodically erupts in ghastly scandal. Sometimes whistleblowers or reporters reveal historic crimes, including (but not limited to) deliberately helping to foment genocide.

Sometimes, the scandals are contemporary: either Facebook blithely announces it’s going to do something terrible, or we learn of some terrible thing underway from leaks or investigations.

Thanks to a history of anticompetitive mergers — Whatsapp, Instagram, Onavo and more — based on fraudulent promises to antitrust regulators, Facebook has grown to nearly three billion users — except FB doesn’t have users, really — it has hostages.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/dont-believe-proven-liars-absolute-minimum-standard-prudence-merger-scrutiny

As Facebook’s own internal memos show, the company doesn’t just buy up competitors so users have nowhere to flee to, it also engineers in high “switching costs” to make it more painful to leave the system.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs

For example, Facebook’s internal memos show that the manager for its photo products set out to seduce users into entrusting FB with their family photos, because that way quitting Facebook would mean abandoning your memories of your kids, departed grandparents, etc.

Everybody hates Facebook, especially FB users. The point of high switching costs, after all, is to increase the pain of leaving so that FB can dole out more abuse to its users without fearing that they’ll quit the whole enterprise.

FB’s mission is to increase the size of the shit-sandwich they can force you to eat before you walk away. But they’re not mere sadists: shit-sandwiches have a business model: the more hostages they take, the more they can extract from advertisers — their true customers.

The polite term for what FB has is a “two-sided market” (selling advertisers to users and users to advertisers). The technical term is “a monopoly and a monoposony” (a monopsony is a market with a single buyer).

The colloquial term?

“A racket.”

A scam. A bezzle. A blight.

Facebook gouges advertisers on rate cards, then lies about the reach of its ads (like when it lied about the popularity of video, evincing a media-wide “pivot to video” that bankrupted dozens of news- and entertainment-sites).

Facebook didn’t set out to destroy journalism by price-fixing ads, lying to advertisers and media outlets.

FB set out to acquire a monopoly and extract monopoly rents from advertisers and publishers, with a pathological indifference to how these frauds would harm others.

Having shown a willingness to destroy journalists and media outlets to extract a few more billions for its shareholders, Facebook has attracted a lot of enemies in the media.

If you’re a whistleblower with a story to tell, there’s a journalist whose editor will allocate the resources to report your story out in depth. The combination of a rotten company and a lot of pissed off journalists produces a lot of bad ink for the company.

But the fact remains that FB has a vast pool of hostages, billions of them, and it gets to decide what they see, when and how. I used to joke with my human rights activist friends that the best use for Facebook was showing people why and how to leave Facebook.

FB’s response was predictable. As Ryan Mac and Sheera Frenkel write in the New York Times, FB’s Project Amplify is a Zuckerberg-led initiative to systematically promote positive coverage of FB and its founder — including articles that originate with FB itself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/technology/zuckerberg-facebook-project-amplify.html

That is, FB staffers are charged with writing puff pieces about how great the company is, and FB’s algorithm will push these ahead of reporting by actual journalists who present detailed, factual, multi-sourced accounts of the company’s fraudulent and depraved conduct.

Project Amplify marks a pivot from FB’s longstanding policy of issuing insincere apologies for its scandals. Company sources told the reporters that everyone figured out these don’t convince anyone, so the company turned to pushing happy-talk quackspeak instead.

One of the leaders of this project is Alex Schultz, “a 14-year company veteran who was named chief marketing officer last year,” but the major impetus comes from Zuck himself, one of the most hated men on the planet.

Amplify is just one of FB’s strategies for distorting the discourse about itself. In July, it neutered Crowdtangle, an widely used analytics tool that showed that FB’s top posts were unhinged far-right disinformation and conspiracies.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/15/three-wise-zucks-in-a-trenchcoat/#inconvenient-truth

And Facebook has declared all-out legal warfare (accompanied by a disinformation campaign) to kill Adobserver, an NYU project that tracks paid political disinformation on the platform.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/comprehensive-sex-ed/#quis-custodiet-ipsos-zuck

By shutting down Crowdtangle and Adobserver, FB hopes to control the academic findings about the company’s role in disinformation, hate, and harassment. The company runs its own research portal where academics are expected to access data about the platform.

But as with the journalists who report on it, FB has heaped abuse on the academics who research it.

Its portal data was bad, leaving PhD and masters’ theses are at risk of retraction. Mid-dissertation researchers have been set back to square one.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/2020-election-misinformation-distortions#facebook-sent-flawed-data-to-misinformation-researchers

In retrospect, Facebook’s decision to game its own algorithm to push pro-company quackspeak seems inevitable. It’s not just that no one believes the company’s apologies anymore (if they ever did) — it’s that the company seems incapable of hiring competent spin doctors.

Take the WSJ’s blockbuster “Facebook Files,” a series of reports detailing the company’s willingness to harm children, commit fraud, and allow millions of favored, powerful people to violate its rules with impunity.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-09-16/facebook-s-promised-to-gain-the-public-s-trust

FB’s response was genuinely pathetic. In a perfunctory blog post, its top flack — the widely despised British politician Nick Clegg, paid millions to front FB on the global stage — vilified the WSJ’s reporting without producing any factual rebuttals.

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/09/what-the-wall-street-journal-got-wrong/

It’s the kind of ham-fisted policy advocacy that Facebook is (in)famous for. Who can forget the absolute shitshow in India over its Internet Basics program, when it bribed telcos to exempt FB and the services it hand-picked from their data-caps?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/12/facebook-free-basics-india-zuckerberg

This Net-Neutracidal maneuver, falsely billed as a way to bring the internet to poor people (something is absolutely does not do), was the subject of a consultation by India’s telco regulators.

FB pushed deceptive alerts to millions of its Indian users, tricking them into sending a flood of form-letters to the regulator urging it to leave Internet Basics intact.

But whoever drafted the form letter didn’t bother to check whether it addressed any of the questions the regulator was consulting on. That made these millions of letters non-responsive to the consultation, so the regulator ignored them.

FB lost! It’s almost as though people who are good at fighting policy battles don’t want to work for Facebook, and the only talent they can attract are the kinds of opportunistic blunderers that no one takes seriously and everyone hates.

Weird, that.

[kittynugg]

To Zim, using the microwave comes with great risk. It's not, like, a risk to his safety or anything, just his fucking eardrums. The microwave they have beeps really loudly, with a really high pitch, and can't be stopped once it beeps unless you just wait it out. Whenever he makes food in it he'll fucking patrol the kitchen, waiting for it to hit one second so he can turn it off. It's like FNAF to him. (Especially when he decides to make mac 'n' cheese at three AM. It's more likely than you think)

Zim noticed Dib looking at a girl in their class and blushing around her so he decided to be his wingman and help him ask her out. (Without his knowledge, of course!) He walked over to her and told her that his Dib-thing liked her and when she inevitably said "Ew" he pulled out the organ harvester.

Dib was like one of the kids who just sit around and play with bugs during recess when he was younger, but instead of bugs he went out looking for Bigfoot.

Eventually, Dib managed to rope Zim into his paranormal antics. They went ghost hunting at an abandoned mall and didn't find shit. Zim did get a lot of weird chills in there, though..

Every Friday, Zim Dib and Gaz will stay up extra late to watch movies. They usually rotate and take turns choosing what to watch but occasionally will agree on one thing and watch it. In which case the order always gets fucked up and next week there's a huge argument as to whose turn it is.

Zim still uses the Voot Runner. He's been pulled over multiple times and always has to explain that he's a fucking alien and he doesn't need a goddamn license. He once just handed the cop a Monopoly "Get out of jail free" card with his explanation written on the back and sped off.

FNAF kind of fucked Zim up. Whenever he's alone in the dark and it's too quiet he'll go into Markiplier mode and start checking doors and windows and all that shit. Even installed a camera in his closet so he wouldn't have to run over to it and check it.

Zim thinks snakes are cool. He's learned how to hold one and once caught one in the bushes near the house. Dib, on the other hand, is fucking terrified of them and hasn't looked at those bushes the same way since.

Zim has tried his own version of "exposure therapy" to help him cope with his fear of animatronics, also known as locking himself in Bloaty's for three days straight until Dib found him and took him home. He's just even more traumatized now.

Zim likes Dr. Pepper. Like, it's his favorite soda. Dib would make a joke about him not being human if he liked such a bad soda, but..

Invader Zim scenario HEADCANONS:

Brought to you by dumbass ™️

Zim can eat as much as GIR can, but chooses not to, because it’s “impolite”

Zim and dib have “special no fight days” where they hang out or whatever like 4 days out of the month, except summer where it’s 5, when those land on school days the skoolkids act like the raptures coming

Keef once dramatically professed his love for zim in front of everyone (flowers a huge ass speech etc) and zim promptly threw up and beat Keef up after school for embarrassing him. Keef though he was playing hard to get (he was not. There was no love involved whatsoever.)

Zim fucking loves earth pastries, he will postpone his “evil plans” if dib bribes him with a couple of cupcakes.

^ when zim, gaz and dib were at a state fair, zim entered a pie eating contest, he just wanted pie, but it was the worst thing dib and gaz ever witnessed, he ate 3 pies in 5 minutes. It looked like the dark harvest but with blueberry pies. Dib still can’t eat pie, but zim did win.

Zim actually likes girs soap waffles, he just eats them in moderation

Since doughnuts are rarities for the tallest, the first time zim had a doughnut was when letter M brought them in for his birthday, zim was confused, ate it, and promptly cried at how delicious it was, like full on nearly sobbing, (his classmates were like “BRO?” “Is you good??!!”)

Membrane once invited zim over for dinner, because “he’s such a polite young man! With his passion for science, he’s a wonderful influence for you dib!” And zim was well behaved, dib however…..

Gaz and zim once played cuphead together, after fighting over who got to be cuphead (gaz won) they played… two dumbasses with anger problems playing a rage game…. Membrane and dib curled into a corner and cried of fear

Zim can cook actually really well because his time on foodcourtia, he just does not like to. He once cooked for a schools bake sale and dib accused him of buying it.

Zim hacked into the membranes Netflix account, and for some reason it cannot be removed, like he hardwired it into the account.

Zim and gaz and GIR Play video games together, (Minecraft, Roblox, supersmash bros, Mario kart and animal crossing are their specialties) “GAZ DONT CONSPIRE WITH THE ENEMIES!!” “Shut the fuck up GIR just found diamonds and if we don’t get to him he’s gonna die and lose them in lava”

If you have any please reblog this with them PLEASEEEE!!! I wanna seeeeeee

[butternuggets-blog]

OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER

@baldwin-montclair @adowobsessed @sylverdeclermont @nicki-mac-me @thereadersmuse @kynthiamoon @adowbaldwin @profoundme444 @beautifulsoulsublime @lady-lazarus-declermont

Part Forty-Seven

Summary: Baldwin de Clermont manages to upset an ancient hag. He wakes up.. different.

Also on Ao3

By an amazing coincidence the twins' seventh birthday was one day before Liv's, so they decided to hold a joint party to celebrate. It was also an excellent excuse for Liv to stuff her face with sugary food and watch the antics of a small rampaging horde of screaming children.

Margaret Wilson was leaping through the blow-up bouncy castle after a giggling Becca. The little girls were as close as cousins, often using their powers to get each other in and out of trouble.

'Mind the back of her dress Maggie! Don't step on the hem!' Agatha Wilson warned, waving a miniature quiche in her granddaughter's direction. 'And you're going to ignore me, I see.'

'They're young, Agatha' Ysabeau smiled proudly as she watched her granddaughter scurry away. 'Youth rarely listens to experience.'

'Speaking of youth, where's the baby?'

'He's with Daddy' Liv pointed to a small white tent where Pip was sitting on a stool while a woman painted his face to look like a tiger. Hugo was strapped to Baldwin's chest, facing outwards; the two-month-old was sucking on the ear of a grey stuffed elephant that was the same size as him, watching the woman's brushstrokes as she painted, entranced.

'It seems we may have an artist on our hands' Ysabeau turned to Liv. 'Remind me to give you an easel when he's old enough for one. I'm sure I recall somebody storing an easel in one of the attics.'

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'NO, Eric'

Gallowglass whined, his shoulders slumping.

Baldwin rolled his eyes again. 'I said no'

‘But-’

‘You are not using my only child as a stand-in so you can win Musical Chairs!’

Gallowglass turned imploringly towards Liv. ‘Auntie-’

‘Exactly what he said’ Liv laughed, shaking her head.

Vampires were notoriously competitive, Clermont's’ especially. Board games were officially banned from Game Night, as was backgammon, Twister and Marco Polo. Liv had found a Monopoly board in a cupboard that had been sheared into thirds and stained with dry blood, so she wasn’t about to question it.

The music stopped and there was sudden burst of violence as twenty children shoved each other out of the way to scramble onto a chair. One little girl jumped onto hers so fast that it lost balance and tipped over; she clung on to it with determination, her knuckles turning white. House rules stated that if you were still touching the chair by the time the music started up again, it didn’t matter if you weren’t technically ‘sitting’ on it.

Becca had made it, as had Maggie, but Pip got pushed out of the way by his friend Wayne, who leap up onto chair, spun around, and poked out his tongue. Pip stuck out his tongue back at him, and went to stand with the rest of the disqualified children.

Baldwin’s eyes narrowed.

‘Wayne didn’t mean anything by it’ Liv said lightly. Hugo babbled and shrieked, waving Nellie the elephant furiously in one tiny fist.

‘Exactly’ Baldwin murmured, sticking out his pinkie finger. Hugo noticed it, and wrapped his free hand around it. ‘Our honour has been besmirched!’

Liv snorted, shaking her head.

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The party began to wind down towards the middle of the afternoon as the sugar crashes set in. The horde of tiny terrors were sent on their way clutching gift bags, while Pip and Becca waved them goodbye.

Maggie was sleeping over and the children helped each other set up a pillow fort in the living room until ‘building’ devolved into a pillow fight. Baldwin and Liv curled up near them on the floor, nursing glasses of wine and giving pointers.

‘Sweep the leg!’

‘Harder! Give it some oomph!’

‘Ooh nicely done!’

‘You’ll have to teach Hamish some moves so he can keep up with them when he’s old enough’ Baldwin murmured into Liv’s neck as he kissed her shoulder.

‘Only if you promise not to be mad at them for beating him because they’re older and stronger than him’ Liv smiled, curling into Baldwin’s chest.

[longsufferingcritic]

What is copyleft and why does it matter?

In short: copyleft is the antithesis of copyright.

Copyright claims exclusive ownership/authority over something (a computer program, a work of writing or art, etc.) and restricts if or how others may use it. In modern society it is the norm for almost everything that can be found on computers, where it is often referred to as unfree or proprietary software. Some particularly (in)famous examples include Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, iTunes, etc.

Copyleft, on the other hand, gives everybody the freedom to use, deconstruct, modify, and redistribute something however they please, with the inherent caveat that they must grant others the same freedoms (reciprocation) if they distribute a derivative version. In the context of computer programs it is often referred to as free open-source software (FOSS) - note that "free" in this context refers to freedom of use, not necessarily to lack of cost.

Copyleft licenses require four essential freedoms to be granted at all times:

The freedom to use the work for any purpose.

The freedom to study the work and modify it.

The freedom to redistribute the work to others.

The freedom to distribute modified versions of the work.

The most famous copyleft license is the GNU General Public License (GPL) for computer software, which is found on examples such as the Linux kernel. However, there are other copyleft licenses available for software, as well as for other types of works entirely, such as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) which is often used for photos/art/etc.

Something important to note is that copyleft is not the same as public domain. Public domain licenses are not copyright, but unlike copyleft, they do not require reciprocation, which can be problematic because it allows someone to turn their modified version into a proprietary/unfree work. One (in)famous example of this is Disney taking old fairytales or legends and modifying them to create copyrighted works which they then jealously guard from "infringement" of any sort. The reciprocation clause in copyleft seeks to prevent that sort of exploitation.

Why does this all matter? Because "intellectual property" is a scourge upon utility and art alike. Copyright laws ensure that corporate monopolies, and all the degradations that come alongside them, are practically inevitable. Here is a video covering some specific examples in more detail. I am against the concept of intellectual property and therefore I believe copyleft should be the norm.

I make a point of using FOSS whenever possible and I recommend you should too - not only for moral reasons, but also because it's often safer and more reliable than proprietary software. The source code being publicly available allows people to check that there is not something bad like spyware lurking within; even if you don't know how to parse coding yourself, usually others have already checked it. Additionally, a work being copyleft often provides you with more alternatives in the form of "forks", which may have improved features or updates compared to the original. Check out sites like opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com as a starting point for examples!

[fruti2flutie]

msby bj headcanon: "family game night"

proposed by captain meian (2016) as a fun team bonding activity during the season every few weeks or so, where everyone participates regardless of how often they're on the court

includes various board games, card games, charades, etc.

very difficult to coordinate with over ten grown men, so teams of 2-3 play together as one player or multiple decks of cards are combined to have a free-for-all

quickly morphed into competitions so intense that a team meeting was held by coach foster to forbid trash-talking, gambling, violence, etc.

(this was largely attributed to monopoly. the miya/sakusa pair was responsible for stealing from the bank & creating a mutiny in less than three turns. there was no teamwork. no one came out unscathed. again, this was monopoly)

added digital multiplier games when hinata shouyou joined the team, due to the rookie's surprising connection to an influential tech mogul despite never owning a gaming console

(when sakusa learns of this, he asks for kodzuken's autograph. hinata does him one better by sending the youtuber's friend code. kodzuken visits the island of umeboshi & compliments the complete collection of fish in the museum. sakusa immediately saves the gameplay footage)

uses the nintendo switch as the platform of choice, played on a flat screen TV at coach's house, with joycons from miya (4), sakusa (2), bokuto (2)

several months after its release (early 2019) super smash bros ultimate is as its name implies the Ulimate Game for the msby bj; sakusa has all the fighters unlocked as well as the upcoming fighter packs preordered

up to eight people can play at a time so they decide to do it tournament style, three groups, where the top2 advance. three stock lives each, no time limit, no cpu, all items with high spawn rate & big battlefield stage

miya mains ice climbers, sakusa mains villager, bokuto typically chooses random but mains ike for consistency. the rest pick fighters that look cool: inuaki chooses fox, thomas chooses palutena, meian chooses captain falcon, hinata chooses sonic, barnes chooses little mac, etc.

spoiler alert: it's a shit show

bokuto doesn't go easy on anyone, smacking them all with his sword and taunting. sakusa keeps towards the edge & back-throws whoever comes near him into the abyss. hinata doesn't know how to attack & just runs around until bokuto tells him he can't win like that. miya continuously sacrifices the blue ice climber to survive, though it seems intentional. barnes keeps falling off the stage for some reason

("you must've given the guy the joycon that drifts, tsum-tsum" -bokuto

"asshole, they all drift" -miya

"but that one drifts the worst" -bokuto

"no, i just think he sucks" -sakusa

"fuck you millenials i'm over thirty" -barnes)

hinata, who has never played before, wins the tournament & miya almost punches him in the jaw

ssbu is subsequently banned from family game night until further notice