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just heard a weird noise outside. posting mv1 girl driver before going to check 👍

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Here they are

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FRANCO COLAPINTO | Post-quali interview Qatar GP 2024

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In a normal year, @flourish & I would have made a list of five big fandom trends for our annual "Year in Fandom" round-up. But the podcast is on hiatus, and I was left with MANY THOUGHTS about fanfiction seeming to break containment this year and nowhere to put them. So this is a "Year in Fandom" segment of sorts, about a set of related fanfiction trends that I'm pretty unhappy about!

I get that sense that a lot of fandom folks are, like me, worried about the way the ground seems to be shifting beneath us: in meta after meta, I’ve seen frustration over a larger but increasingly passive fic readership; dismay that traditional publishing has a growing influence over a practice that partly exists in opposition to it; and anger that some guy can just copy-paste your work and charge money for it, and no one outside of fandom seems to care.

What happens when fanfiction scales—but participatory fan communities do not? Read or listen to an audio version via the link above!

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Carcar waxplay???

got a bad desire

Oscar walked slowly into the apartment, passing his open palm over one of the flames. Carlos could only stare as it sputtered beneath Oscar’s hand, steadily burning again once he moved away. “Bit of a fire hazard, don’t you think?” Oscar asked. Carlos frowned. He thought it looked nice. Romantic.

carlos/oscar • 2k • rated e • read on ao3 🔒 🕯️ prompt list

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did i eat or did i eat

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Charles and Pierre. (Photos via Charles Leclerc).

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this is the funniest thing I’ve read in my LIFE

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they should invent friends whose schedules line up with yours

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actual film directors could neveeerrr btw

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imagining your otp doing the forehead touch is literally the most important thing in the whole world. everybody take a second and stop scrolling and imagine your otp doing the forehead touch. okay. you can move on now.

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me and the bad bitch i pulled exploring the legendary bank at the old monza circuit

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The lovely @officialmood and @ctimenefic tagged me to give my favourite books of the year - thank you I have already added several books to my tbr from other people's lists 🥰👀

While not being the best reading year for me (work is so all-encompassing 😭), I was pleased to read a good few non-fiction books, my favourite of which are above - I've found that listening to these on my runs and while doing admin is great for me. The Fintan O'Toole was maybe my top book of the whole year.

Prophet Song stuck with me long after finishing it, and I plan on reading The Bee Sting I think this year (wanted to give it a bit of space. If you've already read both, I also enjoyed Skippy Dies a few years ago but not on the same level I would say). Eyes Guts Throat Bones is UGLY and GROSS and GORGEOUS and I really liked it.

(Editing to say I got my Pauls mixed up but these points still stand, Prophet Song was great and I would like to read The Bee Sting, they are just not, as I thought, by the same person. Oh well.)

I am a genre fiction girl at heart though so I mainly read sci-fi and fantasy. Tombs of Atuan is my favourite Le Guin (so far!) other than The Left Hand of Darkness, and Solaris really struck a chord with me. The Sandersons are a reread before I dive into Wind and Truth (I'm reserving my next bank holiday weekend for it!) and say what you want but I love them, I don't think they're too long, and they make me want to strive to Be Better.

If I may, my reading goal for the next year is to stop forgetting my book at home when I go into the office.

tagging @rockyteriyaki, @utopiastri, and @saapphicx if you'd like, I'd love more recommendations 🧐

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*puts the tip of my sword in your mouth* enough, you will only talk when I tell you t- stop sucking on it

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just remembered i was watching this last night