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[hannibal-is-my-comfort-show]

[manchesterau]

this is literally going to be me these next few days

[bmpmp3]

[daisychainsandbowties]

🫠 just signed off an email with bestCasper instead of,,um. putting in a paragraph break between those two and like… true, i am the BestCasper.

However,

[idknotgonnapost]

okay i got the book (ttoi: the missing dosac files) and we finally know how to write ollie correctly

[setaflow]

A friend is trying very hard to convince me to start donating plasma (he gets a referral bonus if he signs someone up) and ngl the idea of using it to pay for less important things like books and art commissions is appealing if only for the fact that I get to say "Yeah I'm paying for this with blood money"

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

Hi. Sorry to bother you. Was just wondering if you were working on anything Ted lasso at the moment? I've been rereading all your works! They're my fav

Thank you for the ask, I'm always happy to take questions! Unfortunately I continue to be incapable of working on more than one fic at a time, and at the moment, the one fic is my original sci-fi novel Arson and Other Fires. That being said, I do have ~4 TL fics in various stages of planning and might either take a break between parts 1 and 2 of AaOF to work on them, or take another stab at doing the multiple WIPs thing once I'm free from the admittedly self-imposed torment nexus that is applying to PhD programs.

Here's what I have outlined for 5 times someone suspected something was up with Jamie, +1 time they said something about it:

One (season 1): who remembers their first drink of alcohol, anyway?

Two (2x03ish): Sam mentions he got the idea for the Dubai Air protest because his dad was upset the team had them as a sponsor, and suddenly Jamie's being... weird every time he gets a phone call from Ola

Three: Things are weird after Wembley. Isaac tries to be a good captain.

Four: In which Roy feels bad for slapping food out of Jamie's hand, and Jamie doesn't understand why

Five: Jamie's depressed and talkative

+One: Jamie comes back form Manchester with a manic energy and a head full of stories about his dad. Everyone else is alarmed

[fennthetalkingdog]

Hi my names Wander my pronouns are it,its

it says your an adult and i have never seen an adult therian before so i wanna tell you i'm really happy about that

i'm a therian my theriotypes are a brown wolf an a golden retriever

Hi!! Your pronouns are really cool, it/its are some of the best pronouns I've ever seen omg! And yeah, I'm an adult! A newly crowned one (I don't have to pay taxes yet hehehe) but an adult nonetheless. I can't really describe the feeling of being the first adult therian you've seen other than... feeling honored, I guess? I've definitely seen a ton of therian minors on here so I mostly added "adult" to my page so minors have a chance to not interact if they want, but I didn't realize I'd be one of the first few adult therians folks see! 🥹 But there are definitely a lot of other adult therians out there, even if they might be hiding a little! Therianthropy doesn't stop once you turn 18, lol.

Also also your theriotypes sound super cool! I know canines, and especially dogs and wolves, are super common but it always makes me happy to see another canine therian out there!

Sincerely, from a fellow dog therian,

Fennec <3

[ptsilencedhill]

after the university of Oregon student body began making showing up to the football games against the university of Washington with signs that said “Ted Bundy was a husky” I have no doubt that we will soon see “UW helped engineer the imploding OceanGate submersible”

[adhdheather]

I OFFICIALLY GOT THE JOB!!!

[thekidsarentalright]

was just writing an email to my prof and almost instinctively signed it off w "[my name] :3" bc how often i type the :3 as a default like punctuation help mefsdjnfs

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Hey, I don't normally make my own posts about this, but.

Do not argue with an anti on their own terms.

Don't get me wrong, I get it. You see the hypocrisy. You see the way they take aim at your favorite ships or characters or tropes while enjoying something similar. And you think "if I can point out to them just how hypocritical and idiotic they look right now, everyone will see our argument, they'll see that the anti is wrong and a hypocrite, and then maybe more people will stop harassing the people who like my thing. Maybe the anti will see the light and stop being a hypocrite."

But it will not work. It will not work.

There is an extremely high chance one of two things will occur:

They will double down on their argument, and ignore what you've said. (Ex. They might say "This relationship has an age gap. That's p3dophi1ia. That's dangerous." And you might say "well you ship something with the same age gap. Is it not p3dophi1ia and dangerous when you do it?" And they will just double down and say "This ship is dangerous. The shippers are grasping at straws to make their p3d0 ship normal.")

They will agree with you, but in the worst way possible. (Ex. Someone says "Ew your ship are basically siblings because they're childhood friends and grew up together. 1nc3st apologist." And you might respond "And yet we allow our most popular ship in this fandom to be popular? They grew up together as childhood friends and were inseparable. Why is that not inc3st?" because you think they'll gain a sense of perspective here. But then that person responds "People who ship that popular ship are freaks too then." Maybe they believed that before the convo or maybe they didn't, but the point now is that (while not your intention or fault by any means) some people have gone on to harass shippers of a ship that aren't doing anything wrong. What you think will bring clarity ends up raising tensions between shippers instead)

Do not meet them where they're at on their preconceived notions. You will not make them believe that they are wrong or hypocrites. Do not concede to their heavy assertions of abuse, p3dophi1ia, 1nc3st, etc levied against the thing you like for the sake of arguing that they are a hypocrite, or with intent to make them feel dumb for inadvertently labeling 80% of a fandom with said labels. They will not "see the light". The best thing you can do, if you have to say anything, is double down with "I'm not hurting anyone and it's fiction. I can do whatever I want" or "I don't give a shit what harmless things people like as long as it's tagged and I can filter out what I dislike" (especially if this is your stance). Then block and move on.

Antis, like trolls, thrive on engagement. They want you to argue so they can continue to point at you or lie about you or make you look bad.

It is in your best interest to pick your battles, and to try to sus out the difference between a friendly argument or standing up for yourself versus feeding the trolls. You won't make the right choice every time, all of us are human after all, but I promise you that ignoring and blocking bad faith actors, deleting their hate anons, etc, is not the coward's way out. Sometimes you don't need to fight. Sometimes keeping yourself from platforming bad faith actors and giving them nothing to go on will do the job (because there are more antis that are just small blogs with little power to do anything than you think, the kinds of people whose inflammatory posts will die if no one touches them).

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[chilope]

i sent an email to my team to let them know id be wfh tomorrow and one of my colleagues replied and copied my email to announce that she would be wfh friday??? hello???

[crownconstellation]

I forgot about that silent hope game! Is it good? Would you recommend it for rune factory fans?

i personally liked Silent Hope a lot! 🫶 (i did not finish it actually because i got distracted and my game backlog is terrible, but i liked it a lot from where i left off. need to go back and finish it.) it's a really charming little game with definite thought & effort into it, and i like both the cast / their designs and how everything plays. i do think the worldbuilding could use a little more cooking, though -- i want to know more about how they conduct themselves in a world without any form of proper communication! (how do they think in words, in a world without them? i've been wondering this since i first read the character descriptions on the website.)

i think my recommendation would depend entirely on how much you like RF's combat -- because this is pretty much pure dungeoncrawling (with some minimal aboveground crafting and tending-to-things), you've gotta really like buttonmash combat to enjoy this. and i love buttonmash combat so 🫶 if you also like buttonmash combat: then yeah, i would definitely recommend this to RF fans!

it stands on its own pretty well i think, but the RF easter eggs are definitely there and are fun to spot + really add to it as a nice bonus.

[habitina]

this world is FORCING ME to be cold. and it is winning

[maydazey]

such a shame annabel died before emailing became a thing . i think she would have really loved emailing people just for fun. give the woman an outlook account and let her do whatever she wants with it