#archiving friends quotes

[uabppgang]

“Chefs butthole lick on god”

- Anonymous source (VictorLUVR69)

[lena-oleanderson]

love & friendship - collected writings from side wounds and other poems

[grilled-chez]

tma characters as things my friends have said:

[jeena-says-hi]

Jon's past comes back to haunt him when the Spotify wrapped comes out:

Tim: Right then gang! Who was everyone's top artist on their Spotify wrapped?

Jon: Tim, I don't think this is of any importance

Tim: Sure it is, boss! I for example had Chappell Roan as my number 1, I was even in the top 0.05% of listeners!

Sasha: Yea, that isn't surprising, you played hot to go on repeat whenever there was a statement about fire

Tim: What can I say, it's a banger!

Tim: Anyway, what about you Sasha?

Sasha: you are talking to one of the top 0.1% of listeners for The Cardigans

Martin: Ooh I love them! I got The Crane Wives, their songs are just so calming and relaxing

Tim: Oh yea, I've seen a few cool animations to their songs! That definitely aren't from a Minecraft series or anything

Sasha: Don't lie Tim, I know you cry every time you see a cactus

Tim: WE ARE GETTING OFF TRACK!

Tim: Who did you get Jon?

Jon: I don't really listen to music, too distracting

Tim: Oh rubbish. Cmon, lets see!

*he goes to grab Jon's phone*

Jon: No Tim, don't-

*Sasha grabs it when he's distracted*

Sasha: Got it!

Tim: Oooh, lemme see, lemme see!

Sasha: It's some band called "The Mechanisms"?

Jon: Oh no, this can't be happening

Martin: *googles them*

*see's Jon in full the full Jonny D'ville getup*

Martin: Oh

Sahsa: My

Tim: God

Sasha: YOU WERE IN A BAND!?!?

Tim: A STEAMPUNK SCI-FI PIRATE BAND?!?

Jon:

Jon: Right, I'm going to light the archives on fire

[martinhug]

Elias in Hades

[fifiistar]

Harry’s smile was so tender, Draco could have died right then and there. "You carved yourself into my soul, Draco, left your fingerprints on my darkest thoughts, and now I can’t remember where I end, and you begin."

[the-knight-of-kisses]

Peter: I just don't want my tombstone to read, "Peter Lukas: Three divorces."

Tim: Don't feel worried about that! Your tombstone can say whatever you want it to say! It could say, "Peter Lukas: Good at Marriage!" Y'know? Mine's going to say "Tim Stoker: Buried Alive."

[taradactyls]

Trying to Tread Water: Chapter Thirty

The Elizabeth/Darcy Marriage of Convenience fic no one asked for

Chapter Thirty: Elizabeth's first ball in town - and the first official dance she is attending as Mrs Darcy - has arrived. As have the Darcy family's collection of jewellery, which Mr Darcy sent for. Of course, despite that their marriage was made to secure her safety, his love for Elizabeth means he wants none but her to wear them. They stay close to each other during the ball, and he cannot keep his eyes off her. Especially when they dance.

Read on Ao3 here

First reviews of Chapter Thirty: "Honestly when I get the email this story has updated I get very excited and it’s a proper treat! I made a coffee and sat down to read it as soon as possible." "Loved this update! Oh man the vibes during that dance were just perfect." "I'm literally so unreasonably happy that they had a nice night out😭😭 grinning in public like a lunatic rn..." "I really loved the ball in its entirety, honestly. The descriptions of the room and atmosphere, and especially the last dance, all speaks to your writing prowess. 12/10, would recommend." "This story is my absolute favorite notification and I seriously enjoy reading it so much! The characters, the world building, just so incredibly well done!"

Story updates on Ao3 fortnightly, with Chapter Thirty-One coming out on the 17th May.

Story tags: Elizabeth/Darcy, Marriage of Convenience, Unrequited Love, Not Really Unrequited Love, Slow Burn, Pining, Pining Despite Being Married, Mr Darcy thinks his worst enemy is Wickham but maybe it's himself.

[cherryblossomshadow]

Hallmark movies are fascist propaganda

Excerpts (all bolding mine):

Hallmark then flip-flopped, apologizing for pulling the ads and claiming they have been "a progressive pioneer on television for decades" and "committed to diversity and inclusion." Which is, of course, laughable to anyone who has even glancing knowledge of the channel's offerings. Running down this year's schedule of Christmas movie offerings is like a trip into an uncanny valley of shiny-teethed, blow-dried heteronormative whiteness, with only a few token movies with characters of color. It's like watching "The Stepford Wives," but scarier, since the evil plot to replace normal people with robots is never actually revealed. None of this should be a surprise, because Hallmark movies, as cloying and saccharine as they are, constitute the platonic ideal of fascist propaganda. That is probably a startling statement to some. When most of us think about fascistically propagandistic movies, we think of the grotesque grandeur of Leni Riefenstahl's films celebrating the Third Reich — grand, but cold sweeping shots of soldiers goose-stepping and flags waving, all meant to inspire awe and terror. But the reality is, even in Nazi Germany, the majority of movies approved by the Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, were escapist and feather-light, with a Hallmark movie-style emphasis on the importance of "normality."

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Instead of characters driven by real feelings, therefore, the guiding hand of "normalcy" pulls the characters along through narratives — and unsurprisingly, that idea of "normalcy" doesn't have a lot of room for the true diversity of American experiences.

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Sadly, it's hard to imagine it being any other way. The qualities that people cite when they defend Hallmark movies — comforting, formulaic, soothing — are all a result of the aggressively conformist impulse that drives them. And that impulse and fealty to the dominant culture stands in direct contrast to the values of diversity Hallmark facetiously claims to hold. Hallmark movies, with their emphasis on returning home and the pleasures of the small, domestic life, also send a not-at-all subtle signal of disdain for cosmopolitanism and curiosity about the larger world, which is exactly the sort of attitude that helps breed the kind of defensive white nationalism that we see growing in strength in the Donald Trump era.

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If you don't believe me, listen to authoritarians themselves. At the Federalist, which is ground zero website for generating frankly fascist "culture war" arguments, Hans Fiene argues that, "culturally speaking, Hallmark Christmas movies are noticeably Christian." By this, Fiene isn't talking about characters who actually go to church or pray — even self-identified conservative Christians don't want to see that — but a set of patriarchal and authoritarian values that are more about white evangelicals defining themselves as an ethnic group, and not about a genuine feeling of spirituality. The movies always depict a "heroine who begins the story loving her self-involved life in the city chooses family and a life of self-sacrifice in her hometown," he writes, arguing that it's the "last remaining hideout" for those who want a fantasy of a world where "the cynicism and immorality of modern life aren’t allowed." By "cynicism and immmorality," Fiene explains he's talking about "fornication" and acceptance of "sexual deviants," by which he means LGBTQ people.

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None of this, of course, means that everyone who watches Hallmark Christmas movies is some kind of fledgling fascist. These movies are not for me, but I believe people when they say they find it relaxing to watch these predictable movies that have low stakes because none of the characters feel like real people. I've got my own flavors of trashy entertainment I fully enjoy without mistaking it for high art. (Baby Yoda, what's up?) Still, it's critical to be mindful of the role that Hallmark movies are actually playing in our society. The very fact that they're presented as harmless fluff makes it all the more insidious, the way they work to enforce very narrow, white, heteronormative, sexist, provincial ideas of what constitutes "normal."

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Ultimately, there's a reason that authoritarian religious right groups like One Million Moms and American Family Association — who made the initial demands on Hallmark to end the lesbian-inclusive ads — believe that the Hallmark Channel "belongs" to them. They may use euphemisms like "family friendly," but as there is nothing more family friendly than light PDAs from loving couples at weddings, we can say for certain that is not what bothers them. Instead, it's because they believe Hallmark is "safe" because it excludes people who don't fit their extremely rigid ideas about what constitutes "normal." "So many people feel betrayed because this is one of the very last channels that families could go to and not be bombarded with politically correct commercials and the LGBTQ agenda," the American Family Association griped in a press release. Note that the language is solely that of exclusion. This isn't about Christian conservatives wanting more Hallmark movies that show characters who actually go to church or anything like that.

What makes something "family friendly" and "Christian" is who is not allowed inside the fantasy land of impossibly expensive rural houses and women who are realizing that they wanted to just get married to the boy next door all along.

Ultimately, there is probably no way to square the claim to believe in "diversity" with fascistic impulse that guides the current crop of Hallmark movies, which center always around these frankly MAGA-style ideas about what constitutes "real" America. As the Jewish movies show, the best that Hallmark can do is some token "diversity" that wipes out most of what makes people actually diverse. Their money comes from selling a vision of America that increasingly authoritarian conservatives wish to believe once existed and can be restored again — an America that excludes most of an increasingly urban, racially diverse, cosmopolitan nation. That won't change no matter how many inclusive Zola ads the network airs.

[koko-heads]

desuhiko, walking into the kitchen: morning, sunshine!

yuma: hello desuhiko.

desuhiko: i gotta say, after last night, i'm a little weak in the knees.

halara: *walks out from behind the refrigerator door and slams it shut*

desuhiko:

yuma:

halara: here's an idea; you walk into the room... take a quick scan.

[soulren]

You all have no idea how much I restrain myself from talking about The Magnus Archives

[motheryves]

going from wattpad to ao3 is like fanfiction puberty.

[zmyaro]

“This is proof that just because you turn into an eldritch abomination, it doesn't mean your life is over!”

(TTRPG quote of the night)

[ao3-crack]

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[ratatatastic]

tbh did not care a single ounce abt the florida panthers but in the span of a month ive seen so much abt them from you that you're my goto panthers blog and i now have genuine feelings for this silly ass team who are so insane abt each other

also that one post you made of forsling and the fish prose lives rent free in my head unironically thanks

converting to florida panther-ism? BIG. IF. TRUE. honoured that my propaganda has worked in unimaginable ways, we shant be the only ones around here consumed with thoughts of the team that loves eo theyre a little crazy with it

noooooo not the forsy fish prose i wrote at 2am when the clutches of madness were strongest PLEASE 😭😭😭 that one kinda haunts me a bit ill be so real with you sometimes i think about it and snort to myself going jfc this bitch is off their fucking rocker like ohhhhhh the course of their life change forever like its that bad you can tell huh

[liathgray]

Im such a loser nerd that im currently working on a set of archival theories and practices, specifically with decaying archives and living archives, told in the form of a dnd player handbook