#jun 7 2024

[fridayagaingarfiebaby]

Friday Again Garfie Baby

[andaniellight]

Love it when fictional character doesn't break the fourth wall but instead they're playing jenga with it and the fourth wall is quivering in its boots lmao

At this point bet Sang-cheol watched Mr. Sunshine and despised Kim Hui-seong to the point he admitted that the actor, Byun Yo-han, did such a great job at exasperating the audience with his antics hence the awestruck that happened that day where he first met Jung-woo, a stranger who looked awfully familiar, until he saved Sang-cheol's ass from getting severe concussion on the same day but much later at night. Cue to him frantically typing a text message on his old team's group chat: Can anyone find out then tell me if actor Byun Yo-han moved to Mucheon recently or is that illegal

An hour later, Ji-yeon (for some reason): Are you sober yet, at home, or should we send K-9 search party

[mikeywayarchive]

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[Jul 2, 2024]

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The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says while some of the children have been released, at least 240 others remain in Israeli detention. “Many have been subjected to torture,” the group said in a statement. Children in detention are “exposed to all kinds of retaliatory measures, including abuse, torture, as well as medical negligence”, the group added. According to the group, some children currently held in Israel’s Megiddo prison have been detained from the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip.

-- "At least 640 children detained in West Bank since October 7: Prisoners’ group" from Al Jazeera, 17 Jun 2024 15:55 GMT

[rinablet]

[ID: A screenshot of one tweet replying to another.

The original tweet is from Nougat Hand Bank / Wire Racing, and reads, "NPR just interviewed a young Zionist woman living in the Bay Area who says that reading pro-Palestine posts on social media caused her to have 'night terrors' and to spend hours per day crying in her closet. N G M I".

The replying tweet is by Jun [Palestinian flag emojio], [red triangle emoji]", and reads, "Don't ever think your posts aren't helping". It is from February 13 2024, 7:14PM.

End ID.]

[mikelogan]

TJ MIKELOGAN's HALLOWEEN 2024 EVENT

Day 17: POC in horror Names & films below the cut

From left to right, top to bottom:

GIF 1: Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out (2017), Amandla Stenberg in Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), Kid Cudi in X (2022), Betty Gabriel in Get Out (2017), Rahul Kohli in The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), and Jodi Long in Night Swim (2024)

GIF 2: Moses Sumney in MaXXXine (2024), Courtney Taylor in The Invitation (2022), Scatman Crothers in The Shining (1980), T'Nia Miller in The Fall of the House of Usher (2024), Justice Smith in I Saw the TV Glow (2024), and Park So-dam in Parasite (2019)

GIF 3: Sauriyan Sapkota in The Midnight Club (2022), Wunmi Mosaku in His House (2020), Kelvin Harrison Jr. in It Comes at Night (2017), Teyonah Parris in Candyman (2021), Jacob Batalon in Tarot (2024), and Adia in The Midnight Club (2022)

GIF 4: Laurence Fishburne in Event Horizon (1997), Michelle Ang in The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014), Nassim Lyes in Under Paris (2024), Kyliegh Curran in Doctor Sleep (2019), Gong Yoo in Train to Busan (2016), and Levy Tran in The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

GIF 5: Winston Duke in Us (2019), Tahirah Sharif in The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), Kang-ho Song in Parasite (2019), Avantika Vandanapu in Tarot (2024), Blair Underwood in Longlegs (2024), and Georgina Campbell in The Watchers (2024)

GIF 6: Steven Yeun in Nope (2022), Sophie Wilde in Talk to Me (2022), Giancarlo Esposito in Abigail (2024), Nathalie Emmanuel in The Invitation (2022), Colman Domingo in Candyman (2021), and Lupita Nyong'o in A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

GIF 7: Carl Lumbly in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Myha'la in Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), Will Smith in I Am Legend (2007), Moronke Akinola in No One Gets Out Alive (2021), William Chris Sumpter in The Midnight Club (2022), and Natalie Mendoza in The Descent (2005)

GIF 8: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in Candyman (2021), Cho Yeo-jeong in Parasite (2019), Evan Alex in Us (2019), Aya Furukawa in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Sope Dirisu in His House (2020), and Keke Palmer in Nope (2022)

GIF 9: Daniel Jun in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Iman Benson in The Midnight Club (2022), Malcolm Goodwin in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Kim Su-an in Train to Busan (2016), Djimon Hounsou in A Quiet Place: Day One (2024), and Annarah Cymone in Midnight Mass (2021)

GIF 10: Rahul Abburi in Midnight Mass (2021), Crystal Balint in The Midnight Club (2022), Anthony Ruivivar in The Haunting of Hill House (2018), Liza Soberano in Lisa Frankenstein (2024), Choi Woo-shik in Parasite (2019), and Shahadi Wright Joseph in Us (2019)

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Prison-tech company bribed jails to ban in-person visits

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in BOSTON with Randall "XKCD" Munroe (Apr 11), then PROVIDENCE (Apr 12), and beyond!

Beware of geeks bearing gifts. When prison-tech companies started offering "free" tablets to America's vast army of prisoners, it set off alarm-bells for prison reform advocates – but not for the law-enforcement agencies that manage the great American carceral enterprise.

The pitch from these prison-tech companies was that they could cut the costs of locking people up while making jails and prisons safer. Hell, they'd even make life better for prisoners. And they'd do it for free!

These prison tablets would give every prisoner their own phone and their own video-conferencing terminal. They'd supply email, of course, and all the world's books, music, movies and games. Prisoners could maintain connections with the outside world, from family to continuing education. Sounds too good to be true, huh?

Here's the catch: all of these services are blisteringly expensive. Prisoners are accustomed to being gouged on phone calls – for years, prisons have done deals with private telcos that charge a fortune for prisoners' calls and split the take with prison administrators – but even by those standards, the calls you make on a tablet are still a ripoff.

Sure, there are some prisoners for whom money is no object – wealthy people who screwed up so bad they can't get bail and are stewing in a county lockup, along with the odd rich murderer or scammer serving a long bid. But most prisoners are poor. They start poor – the cops are more likely to arrest poor people than rich people, even for the same crime, and the poorer you are, the more likely you are to get convicted or be suckered into a plea bargain with a long sentence. State legislatures are easy to whip up into a froth about minimum sentences for shoplifters who steal $7 deodorant sticks, but they are wildly indifferent to the store owner's rampant wage-theft. Wage theft is by far the most costly form of property crime in America and it is almost entirely ignored:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/wage-theft-us-workers-employees

So America's prisons are heaving with its poorest citizens, and they're certainly not getting any richer while they're inside. While many prisoners hold jobs – prisoners produce $2b/year in goods and $9b/year in services – the average prison wage is $0.52/hour:

https://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2024/0324bowman.html

(In six states, prisoners get nothing; North Carolina law bans paying prisoners more than $1/day, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution explicitly permits slavery – forced labor without pay – for prisoners.)

Likewise, prisoners' families are poor. They start poor – being poor is a strong correlate of being an American prisoner – and then one of their breadwinners is put behind bars, taking their income with them. The family savings go to paying a lawyer.

Prison-tech is a bet that these poor people, locked up and paid $1/day or less; or their families, deprived of an earner and in debt to a lawyer; will somehow come up with cash to pay $13 for a 20-minute phone call, $3 for an MP3, or double the Kindle price for an ebook.

How do you convince a prisoner earning $0.52/hour to spend $13 on a phone-call?

Well, for Securus and Viapath (AKA Global Tellink) – a pair of private equity backed prison monopolists who have swallowed nearly all their competitors – the answer was simple: they bribed prison officials to get rid of the prison phones.

Not just the phones, either: a pair of Michigan suits brought by the Civil Rights Corps accuse sheriffs and the state Department of Corrections of ending in-person visits in exchange for kickbacks from the money that prisoners' families would pay once the only way to reach their loved ones was over the "free" tablets:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/jails-banned-family-visits-to-make-more-money-on-video-calls-lawsuits-claim/

These two cases are just the tip of the iceberg; Civil Rights Corps says there are hundreds of jails and prisons where Securus and Viapath have struck similar corrupt bargains:

https://civilrightscorps.org/case/port-huron-michigan-right2hug/

And it's not just visits and calls. Prison-tech companies have convinced jails and prisons to eliminate mail and parcels. Letters to prisoners are scanned and delivered their tablets, at a price. Prisoners – and their loved ones – have to buy virtual "postage stamps" and pay one stamp per "page" of email. Scanned letters (say, hand-drawn birthday cards from your kids) cost several stamps:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/14/minnesota-nice/#shitty-technology-adoption-curve

Prisons and jails have also been convinced to eliminate their libraries and continuing education programs, and to get rid of TVs and recreational equipment. That way, prisoners will pay vastly inflated prices for streaming videos and DRM-locked music.

The icing on the cake? If the prison changes providers, all that data is wiped out – a prisoner serving decades of time will lose their music library, their kids' letters, the books they love. They can get some of that back – by working for $1/day – but the personal stuff? It's just gone.

Readers of my novels know all this. A prison-tech scam just like the one described in the Civil Rights Corps suits is at the center of my latest novel The Bezzle:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Prison-tech has haunted me for years. At first, it was just the normal horror anyone with a shred of empathy would feel for prisoners and their families, captive customers for sadistic "businesses" that have figured out how to get the poorest, most desperate people in the country to make them billions. In the novel, I call prison-tech "a machine":

a million-­armed robot whose every limb was tipped with a needle that sank itself into a different place on prisoners and their families and drew out a few more cc’s of blood.

But over time, that furious empathy gave way to dread. Prisoners are at the bottom of the shitty technology adoption curve. They endure the technological torments that haven't yet been sanded down on their bodies, normalized enough to impose them on people with a little more privilege and agency. I'm a long way up the curve from prisoners, but while the shitty technology curve may grind slow, it grinds fine:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware

The future isn't here, it's just not evenly distributed. Prisoners are the ultimate early adopters of the technology that the richest, most powerful, most sadistic people in the country's corporate board-rooms would like to force us all to use.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/#guillotine-watch

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“Oh I wanna keep it” Taylor in the chilly Edinburgh weather

- The Eras Tour in Edinburgh, Scotland (N1) on Jun 7, 2024 (x)

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[matan4il]

In today's edition of "The UN is complicit," we now have proof that this "respectable" organization has been sweeping under the rug a crucial report on the situation in Gaza.

On Jun 5 this year, headlines based on false statements from the UN released on that day were still being published, claiming that by mid Jul over 1 million people (about half the Gazan population) could be facing the highest level of starvation if the war continues. This was when we've been going through 8 months of war, in which the UN constantly made claims of imminent genocidal starvation, now, right now, truly, any moment now, if the war doesn't stop.

Except, it turns out that on Jun 4 already (a day earlier than the UN's starvation claims were being made and published), the IPC (an organization made up of several NGOs and UN bodies) has had to admit that there is no reliable evidence of starvation in Gaza, or that its existence is even plausible. This is particularly significant because it was actually the IPC's own Mar 2024 report that many of the claims regarding starvation relied on!

(please read the linked article if you can, it also links to researchers like Mark Zlochkin, quoting the findings of the Famine Review Committee, which are compelling in showing that there is no starvation in Gaza)

This means the UN has known for two weeks at this point (in an official capacity) that there is no starvation, but proceeded to ignore and even contradict its own people on this.

It means Israel has been slandered by false accusations of causing intentional starvation when there is no evidence that there even is one for EIGHT AND A HALF MONTHS, it means that the "clearest piece of evidence" of the supposed genocide in Gaza has never been substantiated, it means every Israel supporter accused of being pro-genocide has been deeply wronged, it means every antisemitic abuse of a Jewish person attacked over the situation in Gaza has been based on an antisemitic libel, it means countless anti-Jewish crimes have been justified using a lie that the UN has been actively enabling for two weeks (if we only count the time they've known about this on an official level, but since the UN has 13,000 employees on the ground in Gaza, it surely knew even before the Jun 4 report)...

And I find it particularly gruesome that I found out about the IPC report on the same day I learnt a 12 years old Jewish girl in France was gang raped as an antisemitic hate crime. This is the second time a Jewish female has been raped in France due to antisemitic motivation in recent months, when during the first rape (that we know of) the rapist was clear about his anti-Israel motivation. And we all know where the inspiration came from, to rape women just because they're Jewish, and knowing they will be victims who will not be listened to, or worse, whose rape will be justified as "resistance"...

IDK how anyone can have a conscience and not be bothered by this. All of it.

The UN is complicit.

The international NGOs are complicit.

The news sources that have not published the report are complicit.

The people who didn't believe rape reports from Oct 7 just because they came from Jews are complicit.

They all prove that Jews are NOT protected, or even just treated with basic human decency, as we should be.

My heart breaks for this girl. I wish I could do something for her, but there is nothing, except to scream here over this abhorrent injustice, and to beg people to raise their voice. Our sister's blood is calling out to us from the ground, and we CANNOT be silent.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[absolutebl]

This Week in BL - It's Wild Out There but the Kisses are Good

Organized, in each category, with ones I'm enjoying most at the top.

NOV 2024 Week 3

Ongoing Series - Thai

Kidnap (Fri YT) ep 11 of 12 - I’m really enjoying this show. But I will be glad when it ends next week. I’m ready. The motorcycle rescue in the middle of the kidnapping sequence was so absurdly bad I actually laughed. Meanwhile, in the hospital room did you notice Q’s dad used chan/nai with Min? I actually gasped out “oh, mad respect “ when he did. Papang it’s so damn hot, could he PLEASE get the lead in a BL? Please GMMTV.  

Love Sick 2024 (Sun iQIYI) ep 9 of 15 - I like Earn’s sincerity and open admission in the new version, and I like how genuine and delicate Noh is coping with someone crushing on him. Probably because he knows how painful it is from the other side. The conversation between Phun and Aim was much better and more kind in the new version, too. I'm chronicling my experience with 2024 as compared to 2014 here. 

Every You Every Me (Mon Gaga) ep 6 of 10 - I like this couple a lot, and not just because of all the sex positivity. I just enjoy their dynamic of artist and musician, introvert extrovert. Anybody wondering about that “up against the window blurring thing” with the shirt off the shoulder? That’s a very very old yaoi trope (mostly office yaoi from the early 2000s) that I haven’t seen in a long time. In fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it in Thai BL…… wild. 

Meanwhile, let the weird interweaving of the filming crew begin. The show within a show that we all suspected was due is now happening. I’m not sure about that. (I worry it will be some clumsy commentary on pair branding.) But how hot does Fiat look these days? 

Fourever You (Thurs YT) ep 7 of 16 - I really don’t like the second storyline. It find it unpleasant. I also don’t think the chemistry between Maxky and Bas is good. In fact I begin to suspect Star Hunter should cut Bas lose. Yes I said it.

Caged Again (Fri Gaga) ep 1-2 of 10 - Penguin escapes zoo by turning into a human. Gets trapped in a boys school and a panther falls in love with him. How does a penguin know how to read? OK I’m not gonna try to figure out the logic of this show. There is none. Do I like it? Not sure. I’m not mad about the dynamic or the setting but the main foundational conceit is…… odd. It’s not uncommon in BL, the “my cat boyfriend” thing has been done for many years now. So I know what to expect. It’s not that. Or is it? I do like how the actor playing Junior looks a bit like a bird. I also like how the actor playing Sun really does behave like a cat in his social interactions, it’s funny. I think…… I’m not wild about this so far, but I like it better than I thought I would. Love seeing Jaonine & Nokia in any form. 

Perfect 10 Liners (Sun YT?) ep 3 of 24 - I just don’t like Arc and Arm. Sorry not sorry. However, I do like the sides and future couples. So I’m sticking with this one. 

Jack & Joker (Mon IQIYI) ep 10 of 12 - Because I heard this episode was really rough and the world is a mess I gave this one a miss this week. We’ll see if I’m up for it next week.

Your Sky (Sun iQIYI) 12 eps - (starts tomorrow) A naive freshman and the campus’s popular senior agree to pretend to be a couple - but their fake deal begins to generate real feelings.

Ongoing Series - Not Thai

My Damn Business (Korea Sat YT) ep 7 end - Ooooo counter lift!!! And caught in the act. Very nice. It was a really good final episode and an absolutely fantastic kiss.

In summation: 

Two men work their last few days together at a failing company. I like this but I’m not sure I should like it. This is a classic office romance, short even for Korea, with more than usual workplace harassment (even for BL) in the guise of aggressive pursuit from older boss to younger employee. (The optics are NOT good.) It reminded me of Jun and Jun only shorter, colder, and with more dub con. Now, I happen to be one of the few who truly loved Jun and Jun, it’s very much my style of KBL. I think that’s part of why I liked this one so much. But I suspect that might have given this show too much shine by association. Still, eminently rewatchable and it’s nice to have Korean IP drop on YouTube. 8/10 

Our Youth AKA Miseinen: Mijukuna Oretachi wa Bukiyo ni Shinkochu (Japan Tues Gaga) ep 2 of 11 - Another one that is about abuse, but for some reason I don’t mind it as much as I did Let Free the Curse. Maybe it’s Japan? Maybe it’s the disinterested nature of the director’s lens? This show is examining the inclination of teenagers towards spectatorhood out of fear, while simultaneously giving us a contrived spectator’s perspective with its style of the filming. For example: there is a lot of shots in alleyways and looking in and out of apertures (like doorways and windows) at Hirukawa. He’s often seen from a distance, because Minase thinks of him as distant and somewhat like a specimen. It’s very clever and what I expect from Japan. But it also makes me feel distanced from the characters and their story (intentionally, I believe) which means it’s less raw than Curse, and a lot easier for me to watch. In other words, I am observing this BL, not living it. But that’s the point. And because of that, I’m also liking it. But I’m extremely wary. Japan never drops a kiss early on in a series without some serious trauma to follow.

See Your Love (Taiwan Weds Gaga) ep 5 of 13 - I love them all very much. Carry on.

Blue Canvas of Youthful Days (China Sun iQIYI) eps 5-6 of 12 - So far as I can gather it was episode five that got this one censored and kicked off the air in China. So now we are in unchartered (and presumably only lightly censored) territory. Honestly? I have no idea how they get away with what they get away with these days. Onto the actual meet of the show. I don’t think the teacher should be flirting with the kid if he’s gonna blow hot and cold like that. He is ostensibly the mature one in the relationship. Although if he’s flirting with a child, that is clearly not the case. I get the conflict of the main characters a bit more. Because it’s all about class and the risks that you can take with your identity depending on how much autonomy you have in society. 

Teenager Judge (Vietnam Sat YT) ep 8 of ? - Basically this is just a narrative about bullying. And I’d like to get onto the revenge portion of the program, and that doesn’t seem to be happening anytime soon. I do love that Dat asked for permission to kiss. Consent is very sexy. Also it was a good tentative careful cautious timid first kiss. The actors are older but it felt high school. (Although apparently Bach entirely kissed away Dat’s injury.) 

Love is Like a Poison AKA Doku Koi: Doku mo Sugireba Koi to Naru (Japan Tues Netflix?) 9 of 12 eps - Gosh I really do like this couple. And I like the legal proceedings. But I’m worried about whether this show is going to end well. 

Love in the Air: Koi no Yokan (Japan Sat Gaga) ep 3 of 10 - Frankly I didn’t want LITA the original, so I’m pretty sure I don’t want the Japanese cliffs notes version of LITA. It’s somehow softer, which I wasn’t expecting from Japan. But I don’t mind. The brevity and softness are improving matters, IMHO. I continue to unequivocally loathe the wardrobe department. I’m offended on the actors’ behalf. 

Eccentric Romance (Korea Weds Viki) eps 11-12 end - An odd and somewhat lackluster piece about two college friends, one Thai and one Korean, who get together and become boyfriends while investigating murderer - each speaking in their own language. Neither the BL component nor the murder component was well executed or engaging. It’s not terrible, but that’s no ringing endorsement. "Odd yet still somehow forgettable" is probably how I would put it. 6/10

It's airing but......

Love for Loves Sake got some kind of special supposed to air 11/9. Not sure what, why, or where. Only the rumor that it...... is. I'll believe it when I see it...... literally.

Bad Guy My Boss (Thai Sun Gaga) 10 eps - I DNF'd at ep 7, I couldn't make it. I am weak. Life is hard enough right now, this show is making it harder. It’s not what I want from my entertainment.

Secret Love (Sat YT) 10 eps - Another take on my beloved stepbrothers trope. Adopted into a rich family, boy falls in love. But when he is made the heir instead, everything goes wrong and he leaves. Now enemies the two boys reunite in uni.

DAMN IT! This is airing but in two minute increments on a proprietary app that’s mostly for Android, and it’s already up to episode 11. I’m not wild about this style of distribution, so I’m not gonna bother unless somebody cuts it together as a full piece. Although I do adore the premise.

Bad to Bed (Taiwan Sat YouTube) 10 eps - This is a little too low production value even for me. And just very very odd. DNF

Next Week Looks Like This:

Upcoming BLs for 2024 are listed here. This list is not kept updated, so please leave a comment if you know something new or RP with additions.

November BL still to come:

11/20 Winter Is Not The Death of Summer (Thai Weds YT) ?? eps - Criminals who meet in prison fall in love

11/20 The Heart Killers (Thai Weds Gaga) 12 eps - Jojo directs FirstKhao & JoongDunk in an action romcom about assassin brothers (Khao & Joong) who meet a tattoo artist ex-booster (First) and a mechanic (Dunk). I'm highly amused that Joong plays the older brother to Khao and that we have a take on the Taming of the ShrewBL. I like that everyone is morally gray. This has all GMMTV's best chemistry in one BL and some fresh concepts that I've only seen tackled in m/m romance novels (check out Amy Lane's Racing for the Sun, thank me later). I'm excited. My only quibble is Jojo, I like his style but his characters can get unreliably messy so…... this gonna be interesting.

THIS WEEK’S BEST MOMENT

Apparently I have feels about wardrobe departments this week, because, to use an old fashioned term, this look on him absolutely slaps. (Love Sick)

It's rare for Thai BL to beat out JBL in the fashion department.

(last week)

The tag BLigade: @doorajar @solitaryandwandering @my-rose-tinted-glasses @babymbbatinygirl @babymbbatinygirl @isisanna-blog @mmastertheone @pickletrip @aliceisathome @urikawa-miyuki @tokillamonger @sunflower-positiiivity @rocketturtle4 @blglplus @anythinggoesintheshire @everlightly @renafire @mestizashinrin @bl-bam-beyond @small-dark-and-delicious @saezurumurmurs

[henrykathman]

The Miraculous Horror of Stop Motion

From the same artform that brought you Coraline and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, comes three stories that evoke the existential fear of art.

Original Music by Molly Noise

Bibliography below

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[dbdpromptober]

Dead Boy Detectives Promptober 2024

Catch-up Calendar

The participation this October has been beyond my wildest dreams, but if you didn't manage to keep up with the daily prompts, don't worry! I've set up this weekly calendar to catch-up with the ones you've missed, or to start the challenge from scratch at a more relaxed pace.

The prompts are the same, but this time you'll have a whole week to fulfill each of them.

The rules are also the same:

- creative works can be of any type (fanart, fic, poetry, cosplay, photography... Anything you can think of!);

- post them on the week of the prompt or afterwards on Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter and/or AO3 tagging this account and adding the hashtag #dbdpromptober2024;

- you don't have to do all the prompts, just have fun!

More info on the original post:

The prompts:

1. Mirrors (November 11 - 17)

2. Death (November 18 - 24)

3. Eternity (Nov. 25 - Dec. 1)

4. Light (December 2 - 8)

5. Magic (December 9 - 15)

6. Books (December 16 - 22)

7. Blood (December 23 - 29)

8. Hell (Dec. 30 - Jan. 5)

9. Past (January 6 - 12)

10. Lantern (January 13 - 19)

11. Dream (January 20 - 26)

12. Eight ball (Jan. 27 - Feb. 2)

13. Demons (February 3 - 9)

14. Sorrow (February 10 - 16)

15. Crow (February 17 - 23)

16. Knives (Feb. 24 - Mar. 2)

17. Mushroom (March 3 - 9)

18. Friendship (March 10 - 16)

19. Forest (March 17 - 23)

20. Investigate (March 24 - 30)

21. Lighthouse (Mar. 31 - Apr. 6)

22. Downtime (April 7 - 13)

23. Sight (April 14 - 20)

24. Cats (April 21 - 27)

25. Dandelions (Apr. 28 - May 4)

26. Bones (May 5 - 11)

27. Snow (May 12 - 18)

28. Tricksters (May 19 - 25)

29. Doll (May 26 - Jun. 1)

30. Love (June 2 - 8)

31. Spooky (June 9 - 15)

[lovetaroandtaemin]

Kinktober 2024 Masterlist

NSFW CONTENT AHEAD! MINORS DNI!

This is where you can find all of the fics for this year's Kinktober! I hope you guys enjoy reading these as much as I'm enjoying writing them. If you'd like to read my non-Kinktober works, you can find my general masterlist here. If you'd like to see what I will be writing once Kinktober is done, you can find my upcoming works list here. Happy reading and happy spooky season!

WEEK 1

Day 1: Edging (DK)

Day 2: Shower sex (Baekhyun)

Day 3: Pegging (Wonbin)

Day 4: Mirror sex (Mingyu)

Day 5: Lingerie (Ten)

Day 6: Dumbification (Sion)

Day 7: Degradation (Eunseok)

WEEK 2

Day 8: Hand kink (Jun Han)

Day 9: Pet Play (Seungmin)

Day 10: Makeup sex (Chen)

Day 11: Feminization (Jun)

Day 12: Strength kink (Changbin)

Day 13: Exhibitionism/Voyeurism (Shotaro)

Day 14: Praise (Jongho)

WEEK 3

Day 15: Bondage (Beomgyu)

Day 16: Impact play (Yuta)

Day 17: Dacryphilia (Renjun)

Day 18: Cockwarming (Chenle)

Day 19: Cucking (Hongjoong and Mingi)

Day 20: Thigh riding (Kun)

Day 21: Knife play (Lee Know)

WEEK 4

Day 22: Brat taming (Jaemin)

Day 23: Breeding kink (Gunil)

Day 24: Face sitting (Kai)

Day 25: Sensation play (Xiaojun)

Day 26: Corruption kink (Mark)

Day 27: Phone sex (Soobin)

Day 28: Roleplay (Seonghwa)

WEEK 5

Day 29: Hate sex (Gaon)

Day 30: Biting (Taehyun)

Day 31: Sex with a demon (Doyoung)

Thank you for taking the time to read my works! If you enjoy them, please like and reblog!

[peevishpants]

elegy for my cellphone (2020-2024)

In loving memory of Choope Jr, I record its last days:

Jun 29: It fell out of my bag as I boarded the bus in a rush

Jun 29: Panic

Jun 29: I immediately bussed back to find it absolutely wheelblasted by the side of the road

Jun 29: I pronounced it dead and let out a wail of grief

Jun 29: sim card survived. sim card survived!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jun 29: sim card transferred to an old backup phone my mom had... from the days of 16gb storage space

Jun 30: My Morning Alarms On My Presumed Dead Phone Rang Valiantly and Vigilantly

Jul 1: Like a ghostly cry for help

Jul 2: For 4 Whole Days

Jul 3: At 8:30am, 9:00am, and 10:00am. Pressing the lock/volume up and down buttons randomly seemed to snooze it for 5 minutes at a time, but then it would ring again. Also, after the first day, the alarm noise itself reverted from a familiar tune to what I assume is the factory default, which sounded alien to me. As the days went on, the alarm noise also got more… gurgly? Like its soul was wading through thick syrup

Jul 4: It stopped ringing. I wake up in solitude

Jul 6: Phonelink on my laptop pinged me: Choope Jr is offline and has low battery. Charge it to stay connected

Jul 7: Phonelink stopped trying to connect to it, and finally showed the device as greyed out and offline, and thus, is laid to rest

[evermoredeluxe]

Taylor performing Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me?

- The Eras Tour in Edinburgh, Scotland (N1) on Jun 7, 2024 (x)