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On Your Left! â Changes to Captain America Fandom Tags
Hello! In the near future, Marvel tag wranglers will be updating fandom tags on AO3 to separate the upcoming Captain America movies featuring Sam Wilson as Captain America from the trilogy of films with Steve Rogers as Captain America.
To do this, we will be renaming the fandom Captain America (Movies) to Captain America (Chris Evans Movies) and creating a new fandom named Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies). Both will be made subtags of Marvel Cinematic Universe and Captain America - All Media Types.
In summary:
Captain America (Chris Evans Movies) will refer to the 2011, 2014, and 2016 movies featuring Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, and Bucky Barnes.Â
Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies) will refer to the 2025 movie Brave New World featuring Sam Wilson and JoaquĂn Torres. This fandom tag will also refer to any sequel Captain America movies starring Sam Wilson in the title role.
Fans interested in reading about both movie series can include both Marvel Cinematic Universe and Captain America - All Media Types in tag filtering. The current fandom tag for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), which is a subtag of Marvel Cinematic Universe but not Captain America - All Media Types, will also be unaffected by these changes. Weâve included more details of our reasoning below, which better explains why weâre making this change.
Why are you making two separate fandom tags? Canât everyone just keep using âCaptain America (Movies)â?
Despite both having the superhero name âCaptain Americaâ and the same continuity, fundamentally the main character has changed between the original trilogy and the new 2025 movie. We also wanted to hopefully make it easier for fans to differentiate between which movies and continuities theyâre discussing. Many Sam Wilson fans will likely want to filter for the movie where heâs the central focus; conversely, many Steve Rogers fans will likely want to filter out movies where he doesnât appear.Â
Weâre specifically using âChris Evansâ and âAnthony Mackieâ in the fandom tags as theyâre the most recognizable and consistent aspect of the movies. Thereâs no consistent set of directors between all Chris Evans Captain America movies, and actor names are much more recognizable than including multiple years in the fandom tags. This style of making fandom tags named after actors is similar to other fandoms on AO3. For example, there are many James Bond movie fandom tags which differentiate via the actorsâ names.Â
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is also not the only time Captain America has been adapted to the big screen: thereâs a 1944 movie starring Dick Purnell, a 1979 movie starring Reb Brown, and a 1990 movie starring Mat Salinger. The current fandom tag Captain America (Movies) is worded in a way that technically encompasses these unrelated movies as well. It doesnât make sense for these unrelated continuities to share one fandom tag, so we would have changed the existing Captain America (Movies) tag to be more specific regardless of the release of Brave New World.Â
Like we mentioned above, fans interested in reading about both MCU movie series at once can filter for both Marvel Cinematic Universe and Captain America - All Media Types.
Why Mackie Movies instead of Brave New World?
The movie title has already changed several times in between promotion and release. Itâs also highly likely Marvel will make sequel movies. Formatting the tag as Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies) prevents the disruption of renaming the fandom tag in the future.Â
We will be creating an Additional Tag for Captain America: Brave New World, similar to how there are Additional Tags for Movie: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Movie: Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). We hope the Additional Tag will help fans filter for specific movies within the broader series of movies.
Why does Brave New World get a separate fandom tag while First Avenger, Winter Soldier, and Civil War would still share?Â
Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Captain America: Civil War all encompass the trilogy centering around Steve Rogers. While Captain America: Brave New World is also set in the same continuity, the main character and actor has changed, and the role of Sam Wilson has changed from being a supporting character to the main focus.
Itâs likely that Marvel will release sequel movies to Brave New World, which will not receive separate fandom tags and would instead also be covered by the new Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies) tag. We hope that separating the fandom tags now will prevent the messiness of renaming tags again in the future, and also allow fans to filter for works that focus on the specific Captain America they are looking for.Â
(From time to time, ao3org posts announcements of recent or upcoming wrangling changes on behalf of the Tag Wrangling Committee.)
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I cannot talk about the many insulting and disrespectful things that Emilia Perez has about Mexico and the issues that this movie so superficially, and insensitively talks about; to me, just the fact that they made it into a musical is a mockery of all of that, but that's just my opinion. I say I cannot talk about those things because I'm from Spain; I've never been to Mexico, so I will never claim to know things that I don't.
What I can talk about is the Spanish language in this movie; to say that it's bad is an understatement; all the dialogues in Spanish in this film feel like they've been written in French and then google translated. Some verbs are not conjugated properly; there are expressions that have never been used and never will be; anyone who speaks Spanish and watches this film realizes (before it's confirmed by the cast and crew) that no one responsible in the making of this film speaks Spanish.
About selena Gomez particulary, I have no idea what she was saying, her Spanish is atrocious, I literally couldn't understand anything she said, so if someone can investigate what language that was I would like to know, I'm genuinely curious.
I don't understand why they didn't make her character speak in English only and that's it, it wouldn't have changed that many things, and she would have been more comfortable with the role, but since the director cannot be bothered to investigate anything at all now I get why no one cared about this
Her explanation was that she didn't have enough time to learn, and I'm sorry but no, her father is from Guadalajara, she had 32 years to learn Spanish, so Spanish and "being Latina" is good enough to get fame and money from it but when it comes to actually learn.......
Then we have the casting director, who claims they went to Mexico and Spain and couldn't find talented actresses for these roles. Please, someone give this woman a map, maybe then she'll realize that Spain and Mexico are in 2 different continents, so our Spanish is very, very different, but the sheer audacity to claim that in Mexico are no good actresses enrages me, I can think in 10 just on the top of my head that would have made a much better job.
Well, in conclusion, Mexico is angry, the Trans community is angry, and anyone who speaks Spanish or knows anything about music is shocked that this is the final product, yet today I saw the director saying that he doesn't understand why people are angry. Ok dude, tell me you're an egocentric, narcissistic asshole without telling me...
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I really need directors to stop putting characters into bed wearing jeans! Iâm not suggesting nudity or anything, but seriously, boxers, shorts, sleep pants, anything besides jeans.
Klao getting up and putting his jeans back on to go have a smoke makes sense, but Warit was legit dozing in bed after being railed and wakes up properly once Klao comes back into the room only to initiate round two⌠wearing jeans!? Why would he get up after screwing around with his boyfriend to put back on his jeans only to then crawl back into bed to enjoy the post nut clarity? Come on man, itâs one quick costume change. I did more costume changes for much smaller reasons when I was doing theatre, and that had a time crunch!
I know PâNew isnât known for his steamy scenes, not even back in the LBC era, but my dude, come on, basic understanding of the continuity of a chain of events should not be underestimated. Just change their damn clothes!
#perfect 10 liners#p10l#klaowarit#new siwaj#these are the small little nitpicks that drive me insane lol
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"Sure am!" Simon said, "When you're able to pretty spy through any camera and save footage as you need, why wouldn't I keep anything that we might want to watch again any time we want? Nice, Willow. We could make a director's commentary edition."
"It won't hurt to check if he does," Antonio said, "Or at least it won't hurt me. It'll emotionally hurt him an actual lot. I hope the Twins got to enjoy some of the music."
Of course, he wasn't going to go into too much detail about what he was doing, given that Russell was in the room and it looked like his nerves were a bit frayed at the moment.
"Well, of course, if they weren't smart enough to find somewhere different, I still have the location from when I tracked Russell's phone to find him after those thugs snatched him up," Simon said then.
"Wait, that was their actual base?" Travis said, "I just thought Custard l had managed to escape to that point before passing out."
"Well, I didn't want you to go running in, potentially risking your life trying to wreck everyone in there, when you just had Custard passing out and only one of your gym buddies on stand by," Simon said, shrugging, "You're my little brother too, you know."
"All right, good point and well made," Travis had to admit, "So you know the location, provided they've not changed it. Good to know."
"Yes, so we can possibly plan from that," Simon added, "And yeah, good thinking. See, this is why I said about not going for the achilles tendons."
"I might have been able to heal that if it happened," Leofric said, "Seeing as depending on if they decide to work for us, I can heal most of the damage caused."
"I, I was thinking of, of telling them that, that whatever Five is, is paying them, I, I can pay more," Russell said, "Which um, you know, I, I can. I was thinking of, of offering, offering free coffee too, since they, they seem to, to like the coffee I made."
"And the extra incentives could be Willow not kicking their asses again, or Antonio not turning their brains to mashed potatoes if they try anything funny," Bill suggested, with a small grin of his own.
Leofric just rolled his eyes. Of course Bill would be thinking of some more unpleasant alternative.
It seemed the Twins weren't about to try anything yet and were saving their energies while they waited to see what kind of horror they were in for.
Though even if they tried to make a run for it, there weren't many ways they could go unnoticed. Erica decided she could relax and have a snack. Willow had been so nice buying her some fruit, though pizza was one of the less healthy foods she could never say no to.
"Oh boy, we're making a compilation." Rook snickered, nudging Willow, "I bet you're loving the idea."
"As a matter of fact, I believe we should record our greatest moments for the family photo album." Willow replied, flicking her hair back, "I will gladly provide my own point of view, as soon as I have the chance to convert it to a supported file format."
"Oh, that ego isn't going to fit in the matrix anymore." Rook added, earning a smirk from her clone. She then grabbed another bag of chips and shoved it in Lucien's hands. They were his favorite. That should placate the fae man for a short while.
"I bet he doesn't know Five's name." Erica said, "It feels like he'd be paranoid like that."
"That would be an acceptable loss." Willow replied, "Our priority should be learning the position of their base of operation and what sort of defenses they established there, if they have any."
That information would be more useful at the moment. Five and what remained of his team were severely outnumbered. Their abilities were mostly known by now as well. All that was left was designing an attack plan and end this dispute once and for all.
Willow nodded when Russell brought up the idea of recruiting the Twins. "Indeed. They are mercenaries, they could actually be swayed more easily than the tech rat. We should make them an offer that they can't refuse."
#theotherrookie#Adorkable Astrophile | Russell#Druidic Dogtor | Leofric#Bloodsucking Bardbarian | Bill#Mordant Meowsmerist | Antonio#Redeemed Rogue | Travis#Reclusive Researcher | Simon
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Does anyone else hc that Nightmare can like, absorb his tentacles back into his body sometimes? Like the way Stitch does with his extra arms?
#UTDR#UTMV#Nightmare Sans#I just realised earlier I've been just kinda assuming this as fact and I don't know where it came from#cause I don't think it's canon and I can't think of seeing it anywhere else#So maybe it's just me idk#Anyway it's something I wanted to be more prevalent when I was doing the truce au comic (which if I ever work on again I'll probably restar#cause I didn't really know what I was doing and there's stuff I wanna amend)#But the idea was that at the start of their attempted truce the tentacles made Dream uncomfortable#(Not only because Nightmare often used them against him in battle but also it's something different about his brother from his#childhood memories and it was jarring to see his one constant be changed)#He didn't say anything about it but obviously Nightmare could feel it#So whenever Dream was around I would make a point of drawing him with the tentacles sucked in#It was his little unspoken effort to make the truce work. because he wanted it very badly but would rather die than admit it#(or try to figure out why)#But over the course of the truce Dream would notice and start encouraging him to have them out and be himself#Showing Nightmare a little acceptence because despite the differences that's still his brother#You ever write six times more in the tags than the actual post lol#These are the DVD extras of the post you have to go looking for these#Director's commentary of my silly little thoughts :3#Anyway thoughts?
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new suicide squad anime got me thinking about the genderbend batman au i made when i was 16 again.
extra (nsfw??? body horror + shirtless doodle lol) art under the cut + drabble.
A mysterious actress appears in Gotham!
Production for the long-anticipated remake of the 1930s classic horror film, "The Clay", is saved in part thanks to the audition of one woman with no credits to her name, just a face and demeanor identical of the late leading actress of the original film.
However, the cast and crew have bigger worries than their limited budget and endless demands from their producers -- everyone involved seems to be disappearing one by one!
While the average gothammite worries that the cult classic's "cursed" reputation might be a little more than an urban legend, The Batman refuses to entertain such unfounded silliness and aims to get to the bottom of this crime against cinema!
presenting BATMAN '63 - THE RISE OF CLAYFACE coming not actually ever lmao
(her hair is brown now because I like the idea of her appearance never being fully consistent lol. shapeshifters gotta do their thing)
#batman au#gotham rogues#genderbend#clayface#dc comics au#i have no idea how to tag this. hi guys.#anyway i rlly do like how silly they made clayface in the isekai anime. i definitely took some inspiration from that iteration but#this version of fem clayface has been. in the back of my mind for literally years. i like the film actor angle for him too much#might do more of these might not. depends on how indulgent i feel ig.#anyway some misc headcanons for this clayface:#she was a struggling actor who was incredibly insecure about her appearance.#before she became clayface she would undergo plastic surgery for every new role she landed. her over the top passion for getting into (cont#(cont) character frightened directors. she gained a moniker for herself as âthe woman with 1000 facesâ#in this story specifically she's working under the penguin to get rid of some loose ends in a sensationalized way because the targets (cont#(cont) are famous. and she's more than happy to comply because a good chunk of the cast on set have been bad to her in the past.#her shapeshifting abilities have some limitations. she can morph into anything she has had skin to skin contact with however (cont)#(cont) she cannot change her total mass. which is why she has so much hair lol#she also can't copy powers cus that's whack. also only living things she can't turn into a car.#i probably forgot something important but yeah. goddamn you au i made as a teenager#goddamn you stupid ass suicide squad anime for making me think about this au again#cw horror#body horror#oh yeah she's also probably got a weird gender but she doesn't know that#she also can't maintain her not-clay-monster form for long or she starts to literally melt away.#my art
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#cat creech#cat creech is my vent tag i think. block it if you donât want my venting#venting in these tags pls ignore this post if you donât want to read vent#I feel like I donât care about stories enough. I donât read books watch movies or shows#the games I play Iâve already played before or have no story at all. I feel childish and trapped in familiarity#if I could slightly different versions of the same story over and over again Iâd be happy. I donât need stories at all it seems.#I even avoid it often. would opt for comedy or something baseless over a story.#and I wouldnât be upset over this if I didnât major in animation#I donât want to be a director I donât want to be a writer I donât want to be in charge of story#but this stupid fucking school makes you do every part of the pipeline. I donât read or watch anything so unsurprisingly my story is boring#my story for my thesis I mean. itâs uninspiring Iâm not proud of it. and itâs changed so much from where it was in the beginning#it doesnât even feel like mine anymore. I donât like it and itâs not mine. I donât want anything to do with it#and I think I realized that being a storyteller means having lessons to tell people or experiences to share#I donât have either of those things. my life is uninteresting and I donât learn from my mistakes. my mistakes themselves are boring#all my issues are boring and privileged. no one needs a story or lesson from me. what the fuck can I say that hasnât been said#and even if I did have a story to tell I donât want to? I donât care to teach people or share my experience. thatâs never been what art-#-was about for me. art is a selfish escape for me. nothing more. nothing artsy feely or intellectual. âwhy do you drawâ idk itâs fun#I remember old classes where people answered why theyre artists. everyone had interesting answers and here i was-#- I said because itâs fun. like a fucking childish moron. never should have pursued art as a job. you have to want to be an artist to make-#a living from it. I donât want to be an artist. I just am one as a byproduct of drawing. not the same thing.#I donât even want to fucking animate anymore. I donât know what the fuck happened to me but I hate it I hate it so much#I miss when making art wasnât a task or a job or homework. I really fucking do#Iâm tearing up#anyway#weasel speaks#vent
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the yoohankim truther + han sooyoung fav character experience for me has rly been just. shipping jd when i first finished the novel and slowly being less and less into it because now whenever i see jd art my first thought is 'wheres han sooyoung :('
#orv mumbles#is this like. the link click fan + qiao ling main experience SJKHDFKJSHF#i stand by what i said in the tags of that one yoohan art i did these days i'll basically draw any yhk combo if the bit is good enough#wasnt there a post thats like..... doksoo is doomed yaoi yoohan is toxic yuri or something like that. yeah thats the vibe#but ALSO. i was gonna say this in the tags of the yhk alignment chart post and then i forgot but like in the process of#looking for art for that post i found like. 1x hsy selfcest draft and 1x full hsy like director of the false last act lineart that i just#completely forgot about. and like i'll need to redraw some parts of it bc the way i draw hsy has#changed WILDLY in the past few months for some reason but like. damn i gotta dig those out of my drafts#that other one would make the second hsy selfcest art ive drawn btw. Why
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So, I don't know if I'm ever going to watch the 5th Wave movie based on reviews I've seen for it now (even though I also feel bad saying this--and think maybe I should--because I'm also someone who thinks you should judge things for yourself), but I have watched a few amvs for it... and just based on that (though I admit that that might not be a fair metric to base it on), I do agree with people who think that Evan Walker was miscast (it also might have been direction issues). He just seems too earnest to me? Too trustworthy? And that's sort of a problem, of course, because you needed to have so many moments in the film where you didn't know if you could trust the guy or not. And based on the scenes I've seen, he doesn't seem mysterious/sketchy enough. He also doesn't give off the vibes where Cassie was like, "I'm going to kill Evan Walker!" because he was pissing her off so much. IDK. -shrugs-
#i also hear that ringer doesn't feel like ringer? and i haven't seen any clips of her to judge yet? but if so that's also a shame#i feel like they needed someone like how david boreanaz played angel or something#and i admit he wasn't always the best actor back then (he got better in his own show) but he definitely gave the 'i don't know if i can/#should trust you' vibes. and also the 'this guy is an asshole and i want to punch him in the face for it' ones sometimes#robert pattinson. too. in twilight. like... i have my issues with the twilight movie and even some of rob's casting in it believe it or not#but he also gave 'is this guy really trustworthy?' and asshole vibes in it#like i said: i don't necessarily blame the actor it truly might have just been bad direction#also... this might just be me. but i feel like some lines in things really should be read kind of matter-of-factly?#or at least that's how i read them? and i feel like if maybe if they were read that way they would have the intended affect? but in movies#actors put their whole heart and soul into them. and i GET why. but it's like 'no this character#isn't necessarily like that. or they have a certain time for that with the character. you don't have to read every line of theirs like it#was a life-changing moment for them.'#idk.#you know what my guess with ringer is? just kind of based off of polandbananasbooks description of movie ringer vs. book ringer is?#i think book!ringer was kind of based on anime characters who kind of talk emotionlessly (sometimes to seem/sound badass) and/or a lot of#times because of trauma#she seemed very homura akemi-y to me... and i feel like american directors don't know what to make of that. or probably don't even read tha#at all when reading the book (because they don't know the archetype). and so in the movie adaptation we get âwhinyâ instead#and to be fair... times when american media has tried to adapt that archetype it hasn't always worked. it DOES sound badass in japanese#but in english it often sounds like you can't act/can't emote#but yeah: both polandbananasbooks and i read ringer as kind of emotionless (rather her emotions were under lock and key) because of trauma#and badass so i do think that's how she's meant to be read
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one goofy ass thing i like about my job is we all really like having staff feedback after programs (like after in service, after summer reading, etc) because it just makes it easier to make it actually helpful and easier next time around and thatâs all we want right, like PERSONALLY i donât want to be anxious about a program and dreading it all year, which means i get to do what i Love which is offer my opinion constructively so i can be like âi think some people just donât understand paylocity, it is a little confusing & for them, going through that app is this scary time sink so they donât open it ever.â and no one is taking it personally because five other people wrote in âbeanstack scares meâ and âiâm not using teamsâ and we can just adjust our expectations of our older coworkers instead of writing people up for it akskd.
#i was like âânot me tho i get it but maybe ask [tech person] to do an explainer? i believe they have a whole bit about thisâ#and then we get a explainer on it the next in service and all the tech afraid people are like âoh you can turn it on on the desktop?â yes đ#we had a whole thing about office bc theyâve tried to explain they pinned the âPOLICIES AND PROCEDURES ON REPORTED LOST CHILDâ on the#share point bc itâs a library thatâs something that happens on a semi regular basis and we live off a busy street itâs important to make#sure the kid didnât wander out of the building those cars Will mow you down.#and the collective âOH!â when they showed us how to get to the sharepoint. i figured that out day 2.#i bookmarked the page and added my own books marks. like half of them were shocked.#they have been here 10 years or more. đ#i like to say âi love hearing about what the director does during the day i think the projects are all fascinatingâ bc i think phrasing a#compliment for like ~admin transparency~ as a compliment is imo the best way to reward admin transparency.#also tbh yes it Is interesting to me like being a director is honestly a lot about Building Maintenence as it is budget and networking and#managing big problems with staff etc. itâs honestly fascinating how much she has to know about upkeep as director.#also. listen iâm sorry i love being bribed with food. have office hours with snacks. give me an excuse not to work.#i loved staff day at goodwill too i loved not dealing w work and badgering the corporate guy while the managers worked the front#and then getting pizza. they would grill for us on employee appreciation day.#do u know what my department store did. they gave us a payday bar.#that shits insulting like just donât do anything? u Kno u pay shit and have is on these ass schedules whatâs your problem why are u gloating#now ya closed!#itâs karma!#anyways this one is nice i think my manager is really bad at schedules and this is a gripe iâve heard from wveryon so itâs not just me but#itâs other wise as everyone puts it ânot nearly as toxic as other librariesâ like no one here is actively committing psychological warfare#over some office job nonsense. our patrons arenât actively trying to get us shut down. thatâs a nice change.
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Man I love apparently talking in such a way that no one gets what I'm saying, or acts like I'm talking in a different language or conversation to them. It makes me feel so fucking loved and cared for. I am succeeding at communication and definitely do not want to throw myself into the nearest lake and become the next bog witch. Never ever. /s
#noel's talking again#work blogging#i'm just...very tired today#work's started a campaign after basically berating the higher ups for us having high turnover/low moral#got asked what things i'd want changed around *insert generic bloodbank*#and having all of my thoughts basically shoved out the door under âthose would be structural changes and impossible to doâ#makes me want to scream#the last question was why are you still here#and to be real i bullshitted an answer because my boss dismissing every comment i had fucking sucked but in truth i dunno#its obvious they dont care about actually changing#raises were brought up and were shot down fucking immediately by the director#add on today's lack of understanding/ apparently i'm just extra fucked for anyone not neurotypical to talk with#and i'm about ready to just say fuck it and go home
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Article | Paywall Free
"The Food and Drug Administration approved new mRNA coronavirus vaccines Thursday [August 22, 2024], clearing the way for shots manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna to start hitting pharmacy shelves and doctorâs offices within a week.
Health officials encourage annual vaccination against the coronavirus, similar to yearly flu shots. Everyone 6 months and older should receive a new vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends.
The FDA has yet to approve an updated vaccine from Novavax, which uses a more conventional vaccine development method but has faced financial challenges.
Our scientific understanding of coronavirus vaccines has evolved since they debuted in late 2020. Hereâs what to know about the new vaccines.
Why are there new vaccines?
The coronavirus keeps evolving to overcome our immune defenses, and the shield offered by vaccines weakens over time. Thatâs why federal health officials want people to get an annual updated coronavirus vaccine designed to target the latest variants. They approve them for release in late summer or early fall to coincide with flu shots that Americans are already used to getting.
The underlying vaccine technology and manufacturing process are the same, but components change to account for how the virus morphs. The new vaccines target the KP.2 variant because most recent covid cases are caused by that strain or closely related ones...
Do the vaccines prevent infection?
You probably know by now that vaccinated people can still get covid. But the shots do offer some protection against infection, just not the kind of protection you get from highly effective vaccines for other diseases such as measles.
The 2023-2024 vaccine provided 54 percent increased protection against symptomatic covid infections, according to a CDC study of people who tested for the coronavirus at pharmacies during the first four months after that yearâs shot was released...
A nasal vaccine could be better at stopping infections outright by increasing immunity where they take hold, and one is being studied in a trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
If you really want to dodge covid, donât rely on the vaccine alone and take other precautions such as masking or avoiding crowds...
Do the vaccines help prevent transmission?
You may remember from early coverage of coronavirus vaccines that it was unclear whether shots would reduce transmission. Now, scientists say the answer is yes â even if youâre actively shedding virus.
Thatâs because the vaccine creates antibodies that reduce the amount of virus entering your cells, limiting how much the virus can replicate and make you even sicker. When vaccination prevents symptoms such as coughing and sneezing, people expel fewer respiratory droplets carrying the virus. When it reduces the viral load in an infected person, people become less contagious.
Thatâs why Peter Hotez, a physician and co-director of the Texas Childrenâs Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, said he feels more comfortable in a crowded medical conference, where attendees are probably up to date on their vaccines, than in a crowded airport.
âBy having so many vaccinated people, itâs decreasing the number of days you are shedding virus if you get a breakthrough infection, and it decreases the amount of virus you are shedding,â Hotez said.
Do vaccines prevent long covid?
While the threat of acute serious respiratory covid disease has faded, developing the lingering symptoms of âlong covidâ remains a concern for people who have had even mild cases. The CDC says vaccination is the âbest available toolâ to reduce the risk of long covid in children and adults. The exact mechanism is unclear, but experts theorize that vaccines help by reducing the severity of illness, which is a major risk factor for long covid.
When is the best time to get a new coronavirus vaccine?
It depends on your circumstances, including risk factors for severe disease, when you were last infected or vaccinated, and plans for the months ahead. Itâs best to talk these issues through with a doctor.
If you are at high risk and have not recently been vaccinated or infected, you may want to get a shot as soon as possible while cases remain high. The summer wave has shown signs of peaking, but cases can still be elevated and take weeks to return to low levels. Itâs hard to predict when a winter wave will begin....
Where do I find vaccines?
CVS said its expects to start administering them within days, and Walgreens said that it would start scheduling appointments to receive shots after Sept. 6 and that customers can walk in before then.
Availability at doctorâs offices might take longer. Finding shots for infants and toddlers could be more difficult because many pharmacies do not administer them and not every pediatricianâs office will stock them given low demand and limited storage space.
This yearâs updated coronavirus vaccines are supposed to have a longer shelf life, which eases the financial pressures of stocking them.
The CDC plans to relaunch its vaccine locator when the new vaccines are widely available, and similar services are offered by Moderna and Pfizer."
-via The Washington Post, August 22, 2024
#covid#long covid#vaccines#vaccination#covid vaccine#covid19#public health#united states#good news#hope
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#new director at work has Higher Up Disease (myopic viewpoint that doesnât account for employee morale)#and Iâm frustrated with the changes being put in place because you can see why higher ups would like it#but in the end itâll just cause higher turnover whichâll lead to spending more money#but they wonât make that connection. so đŹ#anyways hereâs a pretty moth from last night#she was HEFTY
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Alright, so: I want to explain a little more about this connection between the Twilight fandom, Fifty Shades of Grey, and seemingly, the self-publishing industry as a whole. It's a lot, so I'm going to have to chip away at it a bit at a time, and I think the best place to start is by describing the scene in late 2000s Twilight fandom.
In 2009, Twilight was one of the biggest fandoms in the world, although it was nearly invisible to outsiders because it
Was about a straight couple, while most other fandoms were predominantly gay, and
Was conducted almost entirely on fanfiction.net among a group of people who had little other background in fandom. (x)
That meant for many Twilight fans, Twilight was fandom. It was all they knew, and many had no path out. That also made it a corked champagne bottle with the pressure building.
Because of these community dynamics and the declining quality of the Twilight books themselves, Twilight fanfiction evolved to be mostly AUs so alternate they were more-or-less original romance novels that used Bella and Edward as broad character templates. (x)
Seriously, Twilight fandom got really crazy big for a few years there. It was not totally uncommon to get multi-million clicks on a semi-popular story. It's weird looking back on it and calling it "Twilight fandom" because it was really more like "Romance Novel fandom". For real, for a period there, calling a Twilight fanfic author a 'Twilight fan' would be the ultimate insult. But they never stopped writing about Edward and Bella! It's so weird. (x)
If you were in 2000s era fandom, you're probably aware of the phenomenon of Big Name Fans and the various social-climbing dynamics that happened around them. The Twilight fandom took this social power game another level:
This wasn't even just an author thing. There were Big Name Authors (BNAs) but there were also Big Name Readers. These were basically like... full-time rabid fans of a BNA. They devoted so much of their time to helping out the BNAs, reviewing their chapters, making them fanart, promoting their fics, kissing their asses with cringe-worthy intensity, you name it. Which is why you saw what looked like BNAs having 'employees', such as Moi, tby789's Director of Marketing. (x)
It became apparent that these power games weren't just for fandom clout. The fandom was proving that that social power could be translated into real-world dollars. You see, the Twilight fandom used to organize charity auctions where big name authors would auction off custom fanfiction, and the money generated was substantial:
Mostly authors would auction off stories. So if you donated in my name, I'd write you 10,000 words of porn in my Tattward universe, or something new, etc. That's how it worked. The 2009 auction raised $80,000. The 2010 auction raised $140,000. The 2011 auction raised $20,00. [NOTE: this is likely a typo] (x)
A lot of these dynamics were not unique to the Twilight fandom, but it was the combination that created a perfect storm of opportunism. This would end up changing not just fandom dynamics but the publishing industry as a whole.
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Can you write kinich x reader smut
ââââ i w'na ride?!
đđ synopsis. whatever position he wants >_o
đđ pairings. kinich x gn!afab!reader(?) see this however u want cuz in som of the bullets i use boobs or discreetly mention chests (kinich is also a lowk perv)
đđ director's notice. i'll explain why he'd like this trust me, !!nsfw content ahead!!
inspired by the moments where he kept hitting the pose where his hands behind his head plus the one scene where he sat in a tree with his hands behind his back (or maybe i'm imagining things.)
kinich who reluctantly visits the beach(es) plus hot springs in the toyac springs region because mualani says you both need it, seeing as how much you both work beside each other, you'll definitely need a nice bath! especially the rumors of the heated conditions the springs seem to excrete.
kinich who no matter how long you and him have met each other, he'll never get used to seeing you in a bathing suit. even when you both were still kids fooling around on the beach with mualani. the atmosphere back then has almost never changed, walking along the sandy coast, feeling each little particle fall over your toes, the sun roughly about to set, the scenery was a sight to behold!
now that you both were older.. he would be lying if he said he wasn't attracted to you, your way of fighting, your appearance, how well you compliment him, it was almost like a corrupt addiction. even ajaw mentions how cheesy it is each time he sees kinich looking at you, whether it be lust or love in his green eyes.
mualani was overjoyed to hear that you've never gone out to swim, especially in the temperature she's usually in. kinich decides to tag along, totally not because he definitely wouldn't mind seeing you in different swimsuits/trunks.
kinich who you didn't mind letting him stay outside the changing room while you put on different suits while mualani actually help you choose (unlike someone who just kept ogling his eyes at you)
mualani who chose something that revealed more than appropriate portion of your skin (which was a lot, and imagine this similar to the one lumine wore!!), kinich who couldn't stop eyeing you up and down, ajaw teasing with digital sunglasses over his face; "y'know sunglasses help cover up what you're tryna look at!"
cue kinich smacking bro away again :pray:
you only got more attractive in his eyes. watching how you walk up to him, holding out a bottle of sunscreen to him, asking if he'd put some on your back before you'd go surfing on mualani's shark.
kinich didn't wanna admit but he was a little more than just turned on while spreading the lotion over your shoulders and back down to your back, his calloused hands feeling you up and down..
kinich who felt a little guilty but couldn't help but always slowly let his view dip down to your ass. shit he could already imagine what it'd look like without that last piece of clothing. too bad he can't rip it off you right here and now.
kinich who ran his hands around your chest, your sides, every curve that you wouldn't suspect him from.. he could already feel the tent in his pants rise.
kinich who couldn't resist looking at your pretty body through the blurriness of the water, almost forgetting to swim back up from being a little more than distracted. only coming back up after mualani mentions he's the winner of holding their breath underwater challenge.
a sigh of relief.. or maybe pleasure rather remembering yesterday on how close he got to be to you, palming his erection with hurriedness, thinking of how soft you felt under his fingers, only a thin layer of sunscreen that wouldn't make it weird between you both, kinich catches himself moan your name quietly in the changing room before he goes back out to you and mualani for day two of your summer break of 5 days in total.
sitting under the comfortable shade of an umbrella he brought, putting sunglasses on to rest for a bit before going in the water, or at least that is what it looks like. in all real reality, he was taking sneaky glances at you from less than appropriate angles, he would be lying if he said he didn't enjoy it.
kinich could barely hold himself back for the next 2 days, wherein you all toured around mualani's hometown (for the sixtieth time, but then again it never gets old seeing a different culture every now and then!)
on the last day of your adventures with mualani, she offers for you both to finally bask in the warmth of the hot springs! the natural wonder of her home! kinich was reluctant at first, but agreed seeing how you were just oh-so happy to oblige.
this time, mualani got you a different swimsuit, one muuuuuchhh more revealing this time. it's clear now that she knows kinich's little crush on you, and now she knew that you liked him back.
mualani who coincidentally forgot the milk, and silly snacks she baked earlier that morning, oh would you look at the time! i guess she has to go get them... kinich who lowkey panicks, he already is a little flustered from your new look (but manages to quickly cool himself down)
kinich who is gentle while letting you slowly dip your feet into the water, this wasn't his first time here but he knew it was yours, stepping into the water first while holding your palms softly.
you two finally both sit in the springs comfortably, right in front of him, talking about whatever you and mualani did while he sunbathed (under an umbrella). building sandcastles and such.
"ahhh... kinichhhh! you should've been there. i would've wanted you there at least, dunno about mualani-" it felt like almost immediately his trunks tightened.. maybe he got the wrong size?
oh but the sound of you verbally saying you needed him definitely is a huge turn on. well you didn't necessarily say 'need' but you definitely wanted him there, good enough.
kinich who already has you straddled on top of him, directly on his boner, fuck he could feel it already. his hands are already on your hips letting you grind over his erection, this felt better than he could've ever fantasized of!
kinich who lets you ride him, the water you both were already surrounded only made it sound all the more dirtier. it didn't help that the sly little smile on your face, all he could do was bury his face into an arm of his own, looking away from you.
kinich whose hands were in his hair, intertwining with every little strand, the flush on his face only worsened each time you bounced on it, he could barely make eye contact with you, not because he didn't want you.. ohh it was because he thinks if he did he'd come immediately!!
kinich who holds you close as his climax comes closer as well, holding you tight in his embrace, he could feel your warmth, your skin, your everything, all he could was quickly drift his calloused palms back down to your hips, making sure no drop of cum was waaaasssttteeedddd
you could see how good you made him feel, even with just a sneaky, yet lustful glance, yet plop plop plop is all you can hear echoing throughout the cave, your hands propped up on the wall as kinich pushed against your back, his grunts only getting louder, eager to please you. seeing how your eyebrows knotted
kinich who felt intoxicated as hell in your scent, almost breathless as his head fits into the empty slot right beside your collar, fire pooled down inside your abdomen as you slowly reached your peak, watching how beautifully your eyes rolled back, feeling warm semen shoot up in your stomach. holy shit were you a beauty to see.
the musky scent of sweat mixed with the warm water below you both, kinich could still feel you clench harshly on his cock, even after release, fixed & still processing what you both had just done.
kinich who brings you out the bath, wrapped in a towel, bridal style and all, before mualani can come back with the milk and snacks- "hey what is that white stuff mixed in the water- what did you two do?!"
kinich who holds your hand while you both stroll throughout the shops opened up at nighttime, the constellations in the sky connected like it was used to it, the fresh scent of grilled fish was clear in the air's aroma, filling everyone's noses, mualani couldn't just give all this fish just to you two anyway!
kinich who fully confessed his feelings to you, no sex no lust, just him wanting you to sense how much he's been longing for you, in hopes you'd reciprocate it. in which you did with open arms!
m: "aha! i knew it! you both finally told each other you like each other didn't you!!", k: "no need to shout.", y/n: "i suppose!"
mualani will stop teasing for now, and let you two be, just with each other as the stars reflect off the light you've shone into his life.
kinda cringe might delete :100:
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CAN'T CONTROL IT
pairing: Franco Colapinto x Fem! Driver! Reader
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just something a little short and sweet for franco colapinto. also i think the can't control their mouth and can't control their face would suit him well?! idk bro
The F1 social media team had a new favorite hobby: catching YN's reactions to everything Franco Colapinto did.
It started during pre-season testing in Bahrain. Franco, fresh in his Williams racing suit, had spun on his installation lap â a rookie mistake that had the paddock chuckling. The TV director, whether by instinct or divine intervention, cut immediately to YN in the Alpine garage.
Her expression was poetry in motion: eyes rolling skyward, lips pressed together to suppress a smile, followed by a head shake that somehow conveyed both "I can't believe this" and "that's my idiot" in one fluid movement.
The clip went viral within hours.
"Have you seen this?" Franco bounded into the Alpine hospitality area, phone already extended. "'Every Time YN Dies Inside Watching Franco Colapinto: Testing Edition' â they even put sad violin music over your faces!"
YN didn't need to look. She'd already seen the compilation â a masterfully edited collection of her various reactions to Franco's testing adventures. Her personal favorite was the slow-motion zoom on her face when he'd described his first F1 car as "spicy."
"I'm starting to think you do these things on purpose," she muttered, but her treacherous face was already softening at his enthusiasm.
"Maybe I just like seeing your reactions," he winked, dropping into the seat beside her. "Remember in F3 when you said your face wasn't that expressive?"
"Remember in F2 when you said you'd learned to think before speaking?"
His laugh echoed through the hospitality area. "Some things never change, no?"
The Australian GP brought new material for the ever-growing collection of "YN Can't Control Her Face" content. As Alpine's reserve driver, she was in the garage when Franco scored his first F1 points â a remarkable P8 in a chaotic race.
His radio message was pure, unfiltered Franco: "P8! P8! YN, are you watching? Better than that time in F2 when you said I'd never score points because I was too busy talking!"
The cameras found her instantly: pride blooming across her features before she could school them into professional neutrality.
"Every time they show your face, the comments explode," Esteban teased later. "I think you've got more screen time than some of the actual drivers."
YN groaned. "Don't remind me. Someone made a TikTok trend out of my different 'Franco Reactions.'"
"At least you're not 'Can't Control His Mouth' Colapinto," Pierre chimed in. "Did you hear him in the press pen? He spent five minutes explaining how you once bet him he couldn't qualify top 10 without talking on team radio."
"Did he mention he lost that bet?"
"No, but your face when they asked you about it said everything."
Monaco was where things reached new heights. Franco, running in P6 during practice, had been providing commentary that somehow always circled back to YN:
"YN's watching, no? Tell her this is how you take the hairpin properlyâ" Franco spoke through team radio confidently before scraping through the hairpin. "Ah. Maybe not like that."
The camera cuts to YN's perfect face-palm, followed by a head shake that somehow conveyed both "I knew it" and "why am I even surprised" in one swift motion.
The resulting clip went viral on Tiktok and became F1's most-watched social media post of the weekend.
"You know what I think?" Franco asked one evening, as they shared takeaway in the quiet of the paddock after everyone else had left. The cameras were finally off, but YN's face was as expressive as ever in the dim light.
"That's a dangerous start to any conversation with you."
He grinned, nudging her shoulder. "I think you like that I can't control my mouth."
"And what makes you say that?" she asked, trying and failing to keep her expression neutral.
"Because every time I talk about you, you make this face â like you're trying not to smile but can't help it. It's my favorite one."
"I do not have a special face for when you talk about me."
"Si, you do! You're making it right now!"
She threw a napkin at him, but her smile â soft and genuine and completely uncontrolled â gave her away.
The next day, during the drivers' briefing, Alex caught Franco staring at YN with an expression that mirrored all of hers â soft and fond and entirely unguarded.
The photo went viral with the caption: "Looks like neither of them can control anything anymore đ"
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