#wordcubed

[loving-n0t-heyting]

Whoa missy, I see you trying to inject nuance into a heated Tumblr thread. Well this is the pissing on the poor website, so here's a death threat for only 90% agreeing with OP. And I think I'll call you a Zionist for equivocating between dead babies of different races. I'm doing good praxis.

some good, light satire there! but i regret to inform you that you failed to predict the actual anon hate that was about to succeed yr own ask

[andmaybegayer]

I'm surprised you said you associate "cars, handguns, and cigarettes" with America. The first two are obviously very true, but afaik, the US actually has an unusually low percentage of people who smoke. (If anything, I'd associate smoking with France, because it's a developed/post-industrial country where people still smoke a ton.)

oh, no, #cars cigarettes and handguns is a separate long-running category tag. They're grouped by being cool and bad for you.

[chaifootsteps]

As a longtime mutual with no interest in Hazbin Hotel, it's been very amusing watching you gain haters for, near as I can tell, not liking a cartoon.

That and passing along a screenshot from an employee. Clearly something that justifies calling my childhood sexual trauma into question!

[loving-n0t-heyting]

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/10/19/portland-church-cathedral-food-pantry-cime-homeless-meals-trinity-episcopal-oregon/

The virtue leaving people's bodies when they see a homeless person

It’s calm inside the food pantry, but the volunteers know what a chaotic summer it was for the neighborhood. This section of Northwest Portland, near the Pearl District and Providence Park, saw a sharp increase in visible homelessness and open drug use.

Those interviewed for this story point to a local McDonald’s, a weekly needle exchange event and Trinity as contributing reasons.

how fucking low can you go

“This cathedral could not have been designed better for dealing drugs,” LeRud said. “There’s lots of little hidden corners that are badly lit, so we’re trying to make it less hospitable to that kind of behavior.”

That means more lighting and cameras across the 118-year-old campus; Trinity now has security every day of the week, necessitating a $50,000 increase in its budget.

this is like lazzarini firing staff with "terrorist connections" in response to anti-unrwa allegations: these ppl are just malicious, there is no meeting them halfway, you are just shooting yrself in the foot in hopes of placating ppl who hate everything you stand for and wont be happy until everything you hold dear is ground into dust

[andmaybegayer]

🍓

an infrequent but welcome sight on the dash: remarkable commitment to the bit when called for.

[caesarsaladinn]

shared with me by @wordcubed. incredible.

[siliquasquama]

Never thought I'd see Dazzle Camouflage again.

[loving-n0t-heyting]

If your married argumate you could change your name to loving-n0t-hooting

If you married a horse you could change your name to loving-n0t-hayting

If you married a skater boy you could change your name to loving-n0t-skating

so many possibilities! you should definitely marry one of those things.

@argumate suffers from a dealbraker (australian). robnost is taken. last time i tried roller/ice skates was... over a decade ago, i think?

and anyway i still think the algebra pun tops most of these, sorry

[scrabbleknight]

Sasha and the Frogs S2: Pumped Up Pink! (Ep14 "Mending Broken Halves")

Art by @rqmdae (deactivated)

I am currently in flying school. I'll be doing my first exams in 2 weeks. Fucking rad.

Anyway, this chapter is LONG. Like, so very long. Idk how it got this long but I lost control of it so yeah. I've included some illustrations made by the great PapyJr13 (link to his Tumblr and Kofi below) which will make sense once you read it so if you do, check back here after you're done.

[Archive Of Our Own]

[FanFiction.Net]

Illustrations below (left is Edmun, right is Sasha's old unnamed shield. Credits: @papyjr13):

Read the chapter. It'll make sense.

tagging some folks: @lmjdraws @calebs-hangout-corner @srbleck @cartoons4ever

@sentretsparkle @fazar234 @writeroffanfiction @amphibia-ooc @wordcubed

@rickrossome @metalinjector95 @metalinjector75 @froggydoodles

[chaifootsteps]

Someone on here is accusing you of having doxxed and stalked people in different fandoms since like 2012 with text screenshots and I don’t want to believe it but… do you have any idea why that user has such a vendetta against you?

I’m inclined to take it with a heap of salt since OP and everyone reblogging it was tagging it shit like “UGH Chai’s a proshitter” and equating not inherently judging noncon and monsterfucking fic with… doxxing?? Which is insane (also imo anyone who uses the word “proshit” is not a serious person tbh, come on).

But I was wondering if you have any idea why that user is obsessed with you/why someone would say that (having claimed to be a ~personal friend of ten years~ only to… do that).

It seems incredibly sus but I don’t know the deal. I think the tumblr user is someone you’ve blocked because they tried to tag you in it but it didn’t highlight, so feel free to not answer if this is crossing a boundary—I’m just trying to figure out the other side of all this

Because I'm critical of their precious show and their precious Viv, that's why. That's literally the reason why, and they know it, and they do it because Viv's success has always been at least partially reliant on people silencing her critics.

Back in 2012, I was sitting on my ass reblogging Durarara posts...wasn't "stalking and doxxing" then, and I'm not now. I've made friends and I've lost friends over the years, and there's no denying I can be a confrontational asshole with spicy opinions, but when someone sticks around, I remember them. Just ask @wordcubed, who really has been here since the beginning.

I guarantee you that whoever this mystery person was, assuming they' exist at all, they were no "close personal friend of 10 years."

[siliquasquama]

"Healslut" sounds like a Scandinavian word

yeah my isekai adventure was going pretty well until I accidentally called the cleric 'healslut' and now he won't stop asking what it means

[ballsballsbowls]

2024 Reads in Review # 3-10

@wordcubed wanted me to answer all of the questions for this ask game. Because it's all of the questions, and I am still working on it, this section is going to be questions 3-10 (I wanted to save overall best/worst for last).

I guess it's worth a reminder that my ebook TBR has only been cleared to about September, so a lot of the true gems I have been getting from events haven't come up yet.

3. DNF With Prejudice: Book(s) you didn't finish on purpose

I DNF a LOT of books (print books, probably hovering right around 50% and with ebooks probably more like 75-80%). I’ll stop basically the second I realize I’m bored. Most of them are wholly unmemorable, but I keep brief-but-detailed notes on why I DNFd if I get past the 25% mark in a book (mostly so I know if I should try something else by the author or not). These were my favorite DNF notes this year, lightly cleaned up for other humans to read.

The Bride of Lycaster by Perci Jay – DNF notes: ~75% No fucking?

Suck It Up by Emm Darcy and May Sage – DNF Notes: ~70% Everyone here sucks so bad

Knot My Type by Evie Mitchell – DNF Notes: ~30% insipid and unrealistic even for a romcom

ETA: Mercy by Ian Haramaki - DNF Notes: ~30% "What's with the boob window?"

4. DNF With Regrets: Book(s) you didn't finish but want to get back to

I can’t think of a single one. Even the books I DNF’d in November/December, I don’t think I cared enough to go back and try again. I did set a few aside to try again later but I don’t count stuff like that as a DNF.

5. Crowd Pleaser: Book you would recommend to almost anyone

Bombshell by Sarah MacLean (Historical Romance MF). I recommend Sarah MacLean to anyone who thinks they’re “just not into” Historicals/Regencies. The fact that most of her series exist in an interconnected world makes it that much more fun. She was inspired to write this series based on historical accounts of a girl gang. Bombshell would be a fantastic entry point into her books and into Historical Romance/Regencies in general.

Dragon Blood Series by Lindsay Buroker (Fantasy Romance MF). I’ve read the first three books and bought the next three. It’s got WWI-style airplane dogfights; it’s got someone using magic to give a guy jock itch; it’s got a steampunk society; it’s got romance subplots; it’s got a sword infused with the spirit of a horny woman. If you’d rather not read sex scenes it’s got shockingly few of those, too.

Playing the Game by M.Q. Barber (Contemporary Erotica MMF). This came highly recommended to me, and I can see why. It’s really sweet and well-written.   

6. Dead Dove Do Not Eat: Book you would recommend to a select audience with a mountain of caveats

This one’s only really the caveat that it’s, you know, Phantom of the Opera, but Angel’s Mask by Jessica Mason (Historical Romance MF) was quite good. It’s just also, you know, Phantom of the Opera but hornier. If that’s a problem.

I also have been having a lot of fun so far with the Seven Omegas for Seven Alphas series by Vivian Murdoch (Historical Omegaverse Erotica MF), which starts with A Duke’s Christmas Rejection. But Vivian Murdoch is not playing around when she says a series is dark.

7. Wasted Potential: Great premise and/or characters but fell down on execution

House Isador series by Joely Sue Burkhart. The worldbuilding is fascinating and fun and there’s MMMMMF and it still manages to be shockingly unpleasant to read. I read the first 6 books in a sort of fugue state and remember saying “I am still reading this and I’m not even sure why” a few times.

8. Blorbo Of The Year: Perhaps not your favorite of the year, but contains The Character

This series could easily have been slotted into almost any other “not perfect but fun” category on this list, but The Wayward Sons series by L Eveland (Contemporary Serial Killer MM) has THE blorbos of 2024. Mind the trigger warnings, mind the continuity and timeline, mind fifty other things, but definitely my favorite of the suspiciously prolific “gay serial killer adopted brothers and the first one is a psychopath and the second one has OCD and the…” genre. I had a FANTASTIC time with them and read all 4 existing books this year and have been sending my loved ones screenshots of pages where my Blorbos are Blorbo-ing. I am not even much a person who ends up with Blorbos or Book Boyfriends and I’m deeply invested a few of these idiots. It’s a shame that they are such fun and interesting characters and that their boyfriends are all thoroughly mediocre by comparison.

9. Compels Me Though: Okay, maybe not all of it made sense, but you had a great time anyway

I’m not sure it’s quite as bad as the ask implies, but Merry Farmer’s MF historical romances that I’ve read are definitely proof that there’s value in books that aren’t an A+ read, too. Her stuff is fun and an easy read and a solid B+. She’s a prolific writer as well and has started getting into MM historicals and MM contemporary now as well.  

I think On Thin Ice by Calliope Stewart (Contemporary Omegaverse Romance MMF) fits in this category as well. There’s a TON of stuff in the book that simply doesn’t work, but what does work really, really works.

10. Sleeper Hit: Not a book that you have to force into people's hands, but well-executed

Lord Holt Takes a Bride by Vivienne Lorret (Historical MF). It was silly, it was touching, and even people whose opinions I respect are completely unimpressed with her work for some reason I currently cannot fathom.  

Come Undone by Madelynne Ellis (Contemporary Rocker Erotica MF). I’ve been a fan of hers for years and rarely hear anyone else talking about her, and the Black Halo universe is surprisingly complex for being marketed as an erotica. She’s currently doing a lot of promos for Reflex/Replay/Refrain/etc., since she just finished that series but Come Undone is the first in the overarching series and has a couple major plot points that come up later.  

[aorish]

ive just accepted that wordcubed and twocubes are the same person at this point

[quasi-normalcy]

15 Questions + 15 Friends

Thanks for the tag @shinraalpha

Are you named after anyone?

No. I used to claim to have been named after Captain Kirk, bit no, and certainly not anymore.

When was the last time you cried?

Last night. Finished Midnight Mass on Netflix.

Do you have kids?

No. And that's kind of a shame, though I suspect that I mainly feel that way out of familial obligation.

What sports do you play/have you played?

competitive swimming, water polo, fencing, kung fu (to the extent that this is a sport). None recently.

Do you use sarcasm?

Certainly not! Why, I'm not even capable of such an act!

What is the first thing you notice about people?

Voices more than anything.

What's your eye color?

Blue

Scary movies or happy endings?

I'm fine with both, although I confess some disappointment when a scary movie ends happily.

Any talents?

None. I go through life with no skills whatever.

Where were you born?

Somewhere far away from here, there's a frozen plain on which two shallow, muddy rivers intersect south of a vast lake. I was born there.

What are your hobbies?

I write a lot; I play the violin.

Do you have any pets?

Not here :(

How tall are you?

Tall enough that it's the first thing people notice about me.

Favorite subject in school?

Oh, all of them. Science, English, History. Math has it's moments. Made choosing a major difficult.

Dream job?

One day, I'm out in public and someone asks me "Are you [name]?" And I say "Yes, I'm [name]." And then they pump my hand and tell me that my book changed their entire understanding of the universe.

Tagging?

@ajax-daughter-of-telamon @who-canceled-roger-rabbit @batbrobeyond @wordcubed @tirlaeyn @alethinephrine @templatelord @afriendlyirin @thelongestway etc.

[siliquasquama]

Please! That one is hilarious.

[loki-zen]

https://www.tumblr.com/wordcubed/748876174809235456?source=share

man... no shade to people for whom this makes sense as a description of themselves, but it is like the most annoying sort of almost but not quite getting it when people have seen this Type of Guy self-described before and figure that that description must apply to me.

(screenshot bc it's like off topic and not directed at OP)