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[piratesexmachine420]

I love you emacs i love you M-x i love you M-: i love you C-h i love you C-x SPC i love you magit i love you org-mode i love you eshell i love you *scratch* i love you C-x b i love you M-q i love you M-x add-file-local-variable-prop-line i love you C-x 8 RET i love you calc i love you customize i love you elisp i love you TRAMP i love you dired i love you artist-mode i love you DocView i love you C-x 2 and C-x 3 i love you C-x r m and C-x r b i love you dunnet i love you indent-region i love you comment-region i love you LSP i love you MELPA i love you defun and add-hook and progn i love you C-x ( C-x ) C-x e i love you C-x z i love you recentf i love you M-x man i love you emacsclient i love you M-g g i love you describe-char i love you customize i love you zone i love you M-w and C-w and C-y i love you C-x u i love you C-g i love you eww i love you emacs i love you i love you

[ilybigman]

i wonder how he used to cope before king's letter.

[usercelestial]

anyone else still sad

[yooboobies]

By day, one way, by night another...⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

{cr. 0613data, namuspromised, dwellingsouls}

[luthqrs]

"There goes my sin to win weekend in Atlantic City" "Sin to win?" "Yeah... and I always win big." EMILY PRENTISS in CRIMINAL MINDS 5x20 | '...A Thousand Words'

[fiepige]

Compilation of EVERY single time they changed Hobie's filter in the digital version:

Left: Theatrical release Right: Digital release

You might have to click on some of them to get a better look at Hobie, sadly I don't have a video editor that allows me to make better edits than these :')

[mymainwastoocluttered]

[smallerdelusions]

Smaugust, Week 1: From A Book

(template from @mist-the-wannabe-linguist!!!!!)

Don't expect this much effort from me for the entirety of Smaugust, but I was really inspired by the template and have been wanting to do species pages for these guys for a while. (if Mist is reading this THANK YOU!!!) There's also more fake book designs in my Observations on the Order Draconia tag.

I've been meaning to draw an updated Temeraire since forever. You can take him being long and fuzzy out of my cold dead hands.

More Smaugust to come! Thanks, as always, for reading.

[muffinlance]

Wait, what’s going on with Embers???? That fic has been on my read later list since 2021, what’s happened with it???

Brief overview, then I'm likely never touching this topic again, because this is not a Drama Blog:

Context: Embers is a super old AtLA fic that was written during the early fandom days, read widely at the time, and was the origin of the widely-used fanon name of "Wani" for Zuko's ship (kind of by default that it was one of the first popular fics to give his ship a name, I think?), even though most fic writers don't seem to realize it's from there anymore.

"What's Going On": I used to include a link in all my stories to it, because I believe in crediting other writers for borrowed elements, and I was using "Wani" in all my fics. But BOY did I not want to be sending readers that way anymore, so I've adopted a new name for Zuko's ship, and removed all Embers links.

None of the criticisms about Embers itself are new; I'm assuming they date back to when the fic was being written, because this isn't an "it aged badly" thing, this is an "actually yeah this gets worse the longer you think about it and I shouldn't have ignored my bad feelings just because some of the worldbuilding was interesting" thing.

An Incomplete List of Why I Made the Change:

I don't actually like the story that much anymore, and don't want to rec it

I tried to re-read it recently to see if some things were as bad as I remembered and it turns out they were So Much Worse Oh Yikes. More specifically, the treatment of Katara and Aang and their respective cultures has... rather a lot going on. One example: The Fire Nation and Air Nomads are both given multiple backstory elements in an attempt to make the average Fire Nation soldier's participation in the genocide/war in large part the fault of the Avatar and the Air Nomads themselves, and also fully justified from the Fire Nation perspective. And I do mean fully. One of its core tenants is "People from the Fire Nation (and only people from the Fire Nation) who don't follow orders Literally Die, therefore murdering pacifists and babies and continuing the war (and their regularly scheduled war crimes) is the only thing it is physically possible for them to do". I cannot emphasize enough how literal that is.

Also the name "Wani" means "Alligator" and is... objectively a pretty lame name for Zuko's ship? Where's the personality, where's the deeper meaning, where's the resonance with Zuko's themes? @tuktukpodfics initially thought I was calling the ship "Wanyi", and that's what I've switched to, because it is Objectively So Much Better. In their words: “Wànyī (萬一): Literally ‘one in ten thousand,’ ‘perchance.’ Used grammatically in Chinese to mean ‘what if’ or ‘just in case.’ I think a ship called ‘The Perchance’ is perfect for a boy clinging to false hope.”

TL:DR; I don't rec Embers anymore, because I don't actually like the story anymore, and there are things about it that get worse the more I think on them. I've removed links to it and renamed Zuko's ship to "Wanyi" ("The Perchance") because our boy deserves a ship name that reflects his character arc.

[bu99erfly]

JOY CHILL KILL TRAILER MAKING, 2023

[jcshallenqb]

am i the only one who HATES those sigma alpha heavily filtered homelander / antony starr edits??? like CHILL OUT PLZ 😭🙏

[deoidesign]

"I'm the dog they put with cheetahs to keep them from going crazy in captivity" x "I'm the cheetah that is threatening to go crazy" 4 ever

(I make a webcomic about them)

[marlynnofmany]

I was reading about how big and apocalyptic hailstones can be, as you do (we only get the tiny ones where I live), and I can't help thinking it seems like such a fantasyland concept. Lumps of ice big enough to kill you just fall from the sky sometimes? Usually a lot at once? Clearly you've pissed off something supernatural, and you'd better figure out what.

(Alternately, you might cast your own spell that makes the hailstones splash into water on contact, or flowers, or who knows what else. Repopulate The Frog Population With This One Simple Trick Mistake. Whoops, that was the wrong spell. No one will notice, right?)

[ohnoitsz1m]

Hello hlvrai fandom

I made an animatic

[radioactive-earthshine]

NGL I have STRONG opinions about digital releases omitting the letters to the editor section of older comics. I feel like the letters are a part of comic history and should be aggressively preserved.

[marshmallowgoop]

No matter how special it is, a kid's lunch is still just a kid's lunch.

I dunno, I liked "The Genius Restaurant" (Episode 1,089).

Happy (belated) birthday, Jimjam.

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