#longrunning

[petnews2day]

Dog at centre of ownership row believed stolen from Auckland home

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Dog at centre of ownership row believed stolen from Auckland home

Sam Duncan says his family is hurting after armed police came to take Ziggy – AKA Tui – away. Photo / Supplied The owner of the dog at the centre of a long-running ownership row is without his pet again after the animal went missing in the early hours of Boxing Day – and he […]

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[spooksier]

THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE DID Y2K

[meadowlarkx]

we are lady parts fans are you out there.... i'm sailing a tiny momtaz/saira ship

[primsycoldbottles]

feels correct that porter "paladin of his (raging, conquesting, pillaging) ancestors" cliffbreaker is a white aussie . mhm yeah

[tearwolfe]

Why is the starshine au not in the master document for your aus? Are you still thinking about what the story could be about in a long way??

i just haven't updated the document in a while!! i made it before i decided to make starshine an actual AU instead of a one-off thing. monster detective among a few others aren't in it either because they're newer.

[clonerightsagenda]

#recently read 12/23

What You Are Looking For Is In the Library by Michiko Aoyama. A series of vignettes following different people unsatisfied with their lives who find new direction thanks to book recommendations.

A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. Terrible Space Facts: The Book. A great read unless you really want to believe in space settlements in your lifetime. (They are not happening.)

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan. Zhu, Ouyang, Madam Zhang, and Baoxiang's ambitions all lead them further on bloody paths to the throne.

Starter Villain by John Scalzi. Struggling teacher Charlie inherits his uncle's estate and learns he was a supervillain, complete with volcano lair - but he's also inherited his enemies.

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. The unexpectedly connected stories of a lonely old man, a novelist (or is he?), and the girl named after a character in that novel.

The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu. Hamlet retelling where the family was working on cutting edge biomedical research and Horatio is a sentient AI.

The September House by Carissa Orlando. Margaret has endured her house's violent haunting, but when her husband goes missing and her adult daughter insists on visiting, she can't keep all her secrets.

[shippofuri]

I am unfortunately a huge stick in the mud about canon compliance in everything i enjoy but i suffer in silence so as not to make people feel bad about not playing by the rules. mentally censoring and disregarding anything i deem incorrect when reading others works the same way they do looking at canon so i don't go insane

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

The verb shanks uses being also break up/divorce is sending me. I’m going to be delulu and decide it is what Oda meant. Buggy burned their wedding certificate. /joking

Btw if you ever feel need to talk about buggy just go for it, it was one of the best analysis I saw recently on this site. /genuine

Where were you hiding all those years I needed you/joking

(context for the divorce comment)

the joke usually goes that the person burning the marriage certificate thinks it's like a receipt and now their partner can't get rid of them... of course buggy knows it's much more like a product registration form, and without it shanks can't get any of the support promised in the warranty!

& thank you!! people have been so very kind in their response to my thoughts! i don't have anything new and buggy-specific to say at the moment, i'm afraid—i have fic ideas, but i think we may be at the point where i need more material to read before i can generate meta without someone prompting me—though i did just find some buggy meta that was posted not long after 1082 came out that melted my brain a little. that should be coming out of my queue in a week or so!

[zombiepatch]

there's a LOT to appreciate about fallout nv, but I never see anyone point out the fact they didn't give your character a backstory. just... you were doin a job and got shot in the head about it. and then fallout 4 is like "your character is married and has a child" and I'm like "no he is not. whose baby is this"

[thesaddestjoysandthesmallestlies]

The amount of euphoria I got from that >>>>

[multi-lefaiye]

GUESS WHO HAS 200 HOURS IN BG3 AND HASN'T BEATEN IT!!!! CAN I GET A HELL YEAHHHG 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[lifesupreme-if]

what everyone was like as a grub (child):

dylan: insanely sticky child, got told to be the dog a lot when playing house and was significantly more of a follower than a leader in regards to anything. drew on her arms with markers and had a new crush or "boyfriend" every week, wrote love notes, passed out valentine's. still cried a lot. over everything.

stéphanie: sheltered, unsociable, studious. focused on her books at school and didn't hang out with anyone outside of school—helped her mom run her own diner a lot, learned to cook with her. found doing chores more often than like. going outside. not a sticky child because her mom made her wash her damn hands.

dorothea: INSANELY muddy child. lazier than she is now, shy around adults, curious and bubbly around other children. played in the mud and picked up trash to keep a lot. screamed at bugs. still kind of screams at bugs. started adoring cars early on and getting in trouble for taking things apart without asking.

[locked]: hell on wheels. playground bully who only bullied you if she had a crush on you, and she had a crush on everyone. always injured and sticky. literally bit people. went home and watched movies because being that much of a terror doesn't leave you with very many friends after school.

[eleplay]

larklights

[gisellelx]

Twilight Advent Calendar, Day 6

Dec. 6 - What was it like for Eleazar to see the Volturi/his fellow guards again in Breaking Dawn?

Masterpost/Prompts

Eleazar? Did not intend to be in the middle of this.

Aro lets a few people walk away from the Volturi, mostly because he thinks they'll come back. He figured Carlisle would be too weak and lonely; he figured Eleazar would miss being so powerful. He misjudged them both, severely, and worse—they're now very good friends. And he's the one who handed the Cullens an incredible defensive weapon by telling Bella what none of them had managed to figure out.

He could see all those eyes on him. He didn't need Edward's gift to figure out a lot of what they were thinking—what was he doing here? Why were his eyes like the Cullens'? And Aro's...that under no circumstances were Carlisle or Eleazar ever coming back. For a second, it was triumphant. And then, it was just Oh, shit.

He left the Volturi to find peace. And he had found peace. And now, thanks to Carlisle, he has accidentally majorly stirred the shit.

Everyone else left the field that day relieved. He and Carlisle, though, hooked up a few weeks later in northern British Columbia and made some decisions about what the hell they are going to do when the Volturi come back.

Because they're coming back. Neither of them are confused about that.

[j-august]

Xun Yu said, "O Leader, you are brave, but we must consider the present circumstance. We cannot start a sudden war just as the capital has changed. However, there is a certain ruse known as 'Rival Tigers and One Prey'. Liu Bei has no decree authorizing him to govern the region. You, Sir Prime Minister, can procure one for him, and when sending it, and so conferring upon him the right in addition to his might, you can enclose a private note telling him to get rid of Lu Bu. If he does, then he will have lost a vigorous warrior from his side, and he could be dealt with as occasions serve. Should he fail, then Lu Bu will slay him. This is the 'Rival Tigers and One Prey' ruse: They wrangle and bite each other."

Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms (trans. C.H. Brewitt-Taylor)

[grogumaximus]

Max is doing better in this practice but his car is having issues 😕