#omfg: expand this!

[blindtaleteller]

...excuse me lmao wtf! MINUS ..?! SO THEY'RE CHARGING YOU; FOR YOUR WRITING NOW?!

Hey y'all. With the Writer's Guild of America on strike, you might be hearing a lot more about something called "residuals," which are payments that the writers get for the studios continuing to air their work on reruns and such. Already I'm seeing people trying to frame the union trying to bargain for better residuals as greedy and unreasonable, so I just wanted to give you guys a peek into my dad's full, 100% real residual payments for writing some of the most watched episodes of American late night television.

Yeah lol. If u hear anyone trying to frame the conversation around residuals as writers being greedy, please do me a favor and punch them straight in the face ❤️🙃🙃

[batcavescolony]

Reading comics is just

Readers: omg (character's character trait/thing that happened to the character) We could really go into it, imagine expanding on it? What if-

Comics: yeah, no. We're never gonna bring this up again.

Readers: but its-

Comics: NEVER.BEING.BROUGHT.UP.AGAIN.

[citrine-elephant]

wait, leon's failed sedation:

scares the fuck out of his abductors when he's suddenly against the driver's ear, slurring out, "hey, how much longer? gotta [unintelligable]"

nearly crashing the car, they aren't entirely worried once he starts grumbling about breakfast and the Tall one with two heads. he's in handcuffs it's okay.

flash forward to when leon's stumbling from the car after he's pulled out. he's been on the compound doing donuts for twenty minutes before anyone noticed. the initial abductees are dead in the backseat and he is still in handcuffs. (he slipped them from behind his back and hadnt made the connection to find the keys.)

what seems like an easy, albeit risky encounter turns into leon hunting down every last mfer there. no clue wtf is happening, but he still understands there is danger to be dealt with. how does this man destroy a whole convoy? uh... muscle memory?

his handlers find him while he's still under the influence. after he drives his way back to the office and you guessed it, donuts in the parking lot.

leon becomes the rizz master @ chris but he is rejected bcuz he's too out of it.

[sugar-omi]

Hello, not really a request, but i was wondering if you have any links to you self aware cove posts? I remember reading something about how you like those posts spiralled, it's cool if you don't tho. Thank you for feeding the olba community with your posts

Just finished the game and im...feeling a certain way about cove lmao ( I Am Missing Him Already)

sorry it took so long!!! i hope you see this omg.... i had trouble finding it myself, my archive definitely doesn't show all my posts lol (totally understandable bc omfg.... we've talked abt so much shit and in length!!!)

not all the posts are tagged, but some of the self aware cove posts are tagged with 'yandere cove holden" so if theres any i missed, maybe you can find some more that way

THE BEGINNING OF THE END /j (i think this is the first post??)

2nd post, cove realizing he's in a loop

link 3, suggestive

link 4

self aware!cove overriding mc with you (/small post before this where i brought this to the table, sorry mc🧑‍🦯)

cove seeing mc have a tough time irl

you sticking to your favorite cove

cove being obsessed with touching you (fluff)

cove altering the game

cove being jealous of himself (nsfw)

cove seeing your fics (suggestive)

mc making a plush of cove

mc becoming yandere bc cove replaced them

self aware baxter n derek

that's all i can find rn... but if i find anymore, or anyone else found some i didn't add feel free to share!!!

[fraternum-momentum]

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY SUHGGGHAAAAAAAAUAUAUU

OMHGGGGGG HAPPY (very belated) VALENTINES DAY POOKIE BOOKIE SNOOKIE WOOKIE 🫶🫶🫶🫶

[introcoryo]

can i just throw something out very quickly:

firebender!coriolanus snow, who aims to become fire lord someday (using methods deemed too cunning, although he refers to himself as ‘resourceful’). he utilizes his words to beguile his peers into loyalty, saving his firebending for times that call to instill red hot fear and discipline.

coriolanus has a strong distaste towards his classmate, sejanus plinth, who he adjudges too ‘animalistic’ and ‘grotty’ to live among firebenders, yet finds the airbending nomad he is to mentor alluring and mystical. the blond especially dislikes sejanus’ foolish rambles about how he wishes to become a healer someday, as he himself knows that the minute the brunet was born an earthbender, that dream was over, so surely sejanus must know that too?

he slightly looks down on his nonbender cousin, tigris, who has truthfully kept the two of them alive through scavenging and foraging for food, sewing up intricate outfits for him to fit in with the upper class atmosphere of the academy and keep up appearances.

for his final assignment to establish himself as the star student of the academy’s senior class, he must figure out a scheme to ensure that the airbender, his airbender, is kept alive when put in an arena with 23 other tributes, some honing their bending for years. coriolanus is aware that her only way out is through cheating on his part, but won’t that deem him as a traitor? if he’s not careful, he too will find himself trapped in an arena. air can very well live on without fire, but that same fire will extinguish without the presence of air.

[aaronthemoron23]

Stardew valley + expansion: The crow’s farm

Fan comic(?)

Prt2

(Might post the next part in a few 🫰🏻)

[gravesung-moving]

(sighing dreamily) chiaki in an awakened state is Fucking Terrifying.

[borathae]

i want to write a third Sanguis book

[ashmp3]

just watched ateez dingo and they did so well with the song choices like rmr when exo sang don't go and power like who was that for i would've preferred silence anyway what i wanted to say is atz has one of the strongest smash or pass contenders very polarizing group to me

[citrine-elephant]

watching some more news livestream right now. warmbo said he lays 12000 eggs everyday.

that's what we're doing to leon.

[tang3r1n]

okay i’m being a lil hyper today and i CANNOT get the idea of an island empress reader having Luffy wrapped around her finger, plus the island itself UGH i’ve already though of it all guys. pls encourage me to talk more cause i have a 4 page goodbye doc for this fucking reader.

kay so basically my entire thought is empress reader on a very distant yet powerful island, like she’s friends with everyone and her island has a neutrality agreement bc of this, meaning marines and pirates have to be chill and natural around each other or smth

anyways- some day the Strawhats are just sailing around when Nami starts freaking tf out abt ‘THIS FUCKING ISLAND I FUCKING FOUND HER YES FUCK’ and literally screaming to find their big ass transponder snail meanwhile everyone else is just shocked she’s genuinely tweaking

come to find out Nami n her family (might be agaisnt cannon but fuck off) we’re regulars of reader’s island back when they were both lil girls and they bonded so hard that they still write each other and Nami has slowly been nudging the crew to get closer n closer to her island just so she can geek out with her childhood bestie

so they all are like ‘lmao okay that’s chill’ and park it and Nami just takes off. i’m talkin they turn around and she’s bolting toward the massive ass golden castle or smth, and they just kinda chill while the islanders greet them and start slowly (normally) taking them to the castle. they’re like weirdly neutral abt Nami screaming like a banshee, mainly cause the older islanders remember her and know it’s a lot for her

so they literally barely make it to the first step of the entrance before two shrill screams ring out and Nami comes out dragging this gorgeous, young ass empress out, covered head to toe in jewels and charms, even her hair is filled with crystals tied to her braids and spirals of gold and silver are strategically placed everywhere. she’s got obviously tribal tattoos and symbols decorating her entire body, her thick form’s dressed in the more beautiful silk robes and she’s got the brightest smile as she openly sobs int Nami’s arms

and Luffy, for the first time in his life, is completely shellshocked from her, just like ‘:0’ and STARING at the empress while she tries to compose herself

Obviously she’s aware of who they are, shooting them all pleasantries and looking down at Luffy (mf is like 5’6 im sorry i’m 5’11 I LOVE SHORT LUFFYSS KAKDKSKQ) and giving him just the sweetest smile and soft lil ‘hello Captain’ and oh god he’s literally shaking his hands are sweaty what-

then Usopp’s just like ‘HAH srry he’s never seen such a pretty lady before’ and they’re all giggling at his absolutely stary-eyed face as he’s just dead silent, heart racing in front of this goddess.

[gothsuguru]

when y’all do dialogue do you just base line write the quotes and THEN later on add extra info? 🤔 also damn how do people Overall write their paragraphs so well

[glutaminase]

Oh my god this kind of "covid is WORSE THAN HIV" alarmism is just as unscientific as the opposite end of the spectrum i'm sorry you cannot just read that a virus affects T cells and interpret that as "IT ACTS LIKE HIV". im not willing to accept some twitter rando's interpretation of scientific papers. I dont have the time or bandwidth to find and read every paper she's citing but just from looking at some of them:

first of all many of the papers in that first NYT articles had not been published or peer reviewed at the time of that article's publication lmfao so that's one thing

second of all simply saying [x] cell line is low in both HIV and covid = covid will have similar effects to HIV in terms of immunosuppression is bad science, and a complete misinterpretation of any of these papers. e.g. Yeah HIV and covid both cause lymphocytopenia...Ok so do about a million other things including other infections, autoimmune disease, cancer, even just being critically ill in the first place (which is the population many of these studies were looking at). so is it then useful to compare COVID to like, a lymphocytic leukemia because you can find lymphocytopenia in both of those? obviously not

also multiple papers she's citing that discuss the t-cell response in covid only looked at patients with SEVERE covid infections. which again is helpful in assessing the management of people with severe covid, but conclusions u draw from critically ill patients cant just be extrapolated to the general population

Ok so all that aside lets look at what some of these papers are actually saying about T-cells and covid.

The preprint that this person looked at and drew the conclusion that "Covid causes more T-cell death than HIV" looked at a grand total of 7 cases of severe covid. If there's any literature out there looking at the long-term t cell response in healthy individuals with non-severe cases of covid feel free to correct me though! but as it is, it's not useful to look at these populations and draw the conclusion that for the average person getting covid will have an HIV-like catastrophic effect on your immune system

MANY VIRUSES CAUSE TRANSIENT DECLINES IN T CELL COUNTS and T cell exhaustion in general can happen in situations of persistent antigen presence

The NIH article did find that people previously infected with covid had a weaker t cell response to vaccination. but i don't see the usefulness in reading this and making the leap to COVID IS LIKE HIV!!! because they both affect t-cells. this paper found a disproportionate response in CD8+ T cells in people with previous covid infections; HIV specifically infects CD4+ cells and essentially hijacks and destroys them, which is...very much not how covid works

none of these have examined the long-term changes in cell-mediated immunity in healthy people who had mild cases of covid. If there's a newer paper that does look at that though please correct me!

TLDR: "HIV and covid are comparable because they both affect the immune system" is a useless and alarmist comparison; many of this research was conducted on patients who were critically ill with severe covid, and critically ill pts have unique immune physiology that can't just be extrapolated to healthy people; any kind of critical illness, and many viruses in general, can cause immune derangements and/or transient T-cell exhaustion.

this is not to say that you shouldn't wear a mask or be cavalier about getting Covid, but this kind of junk science alarmism is not helpful

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[unknownalone]

have been more invested in survival minecraft the past month or so than I have been in years idk what's in the air

[kissagii]

stifling the urge to write about isagi again