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this is so valgrace coded and i'll let you decide who's who

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There's an open pit in the middle of our office plan that drops down into a bunch of very sharp spikes that kill you instantly. This is bad. People keep falling in there and dying. Someone put a sign up, the other day, all bright yellow so you can't miss it, that says "Beware!!! Spikes!!!"

The office immediately split into two factions over it. One says that if anyone falls in the spike pit it's their own fault for being so stupid and not watching where they're walking, so we should remove the sign. The other says that the sign is an insult, there shouldn't be a spike pit in our office at all, and having the sign up like that is just normalising the existence of the spike pit, so we should remove the sign.

We ended up removing the sign. Probably for the better. Still... for a while there it looked like it might have worked...

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Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.

Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.

I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅

Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.

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I have a plan to help me with my Christmas List, Me and my dad renewed his library card (although he forgot to renew mine), and i'm planning to pick some books out from the local public library. Specifically, I'm mostly going for the Rick Riordan Presents books, and Rick Riordan's novel Daughter of the Deep. Then I'll skim them and see if they seem to be up my alley. If they are, I'll add them to my Christmas list. If not, then I guess at least I'll know they're not for me? Either way, I'm pretty much all set for books on my Christmas List now. All I might want to pad my list out with is video games and dvds, now. So I just need to think of some of those now. sigh...

In doing this, I also realized my public libraries website has changed a lot over the years. The last time I used it was probably five years ago. And wow, it's really changed a lot over the years. It looks nice, but it certainly felt harder to navigate than the old website. Maybe that's just the nostalgia and reminisce talking, but it's true. It felt harder to navigate, so let's just hope I actually did put all the books on hold.

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Pretty much ever since my mom died (give or take), I've been taking these online social skills classes (comprised of autistic kids in grades 7-8 of Elementary School and grades 9-12 of High School). It started because my dad and I both felt I needed more practice with social interaction, but I only kept with it because the people who run the program are really, really nice. But for years i've been taking this program (since I can take it as long as I'm in High School). I've been taking it for so long that I don't even remember how many times I've taken it. But I know that this year is going to wind up being my last year of High School. And so that means this is probably my last (or possibly second to last) chance to take this social skills class. And I have very, very mixed opinions on this.

On the one hand, the kids in the classes have been a very mixed bag. Some have been very obnoxious, to the point where I dreaded making a phone call with them. They were noisy and weird and all around uncomfortable to deal with. But some were pretty tolerable. Some of them I still vaguely remember (I suppose it makes sense I can only remember some of them vaguely), and they weren't awful kids. If I were a braver and bolder person, i would have tried to keep in touch with them. But I was never brave or bold enough for that. I have some of their phone numbers, but i'm too cowardly to try to keep in touch with any of the other students.

But beyond the students, the teachers have been amazing too. I actually have sort of kept in touch with one of the teachers, but mostly because my dad helps by making first contact through email. But the teachers for the program are wonderful, and they're probably 90% of the reason I stuck with the thing (because the lessons are always the same each time, and the students are a very mixed bag). But i'll admit, I also kept taking the class because I didn't want to forget the lessons. We practiced social interaction by making phone calls to other students. And even though i always got my dad to help me script some discussion topics for the calls, just making the phone calls themselves was very good practice for me.

So the classes have been very useful for me, I think. I mean… I haven't actually made any new friends from the classes (probably because I don't keep in touch with the people I've called, and they don't keep in touch with me). So on the whole, my friend count is still zero (besides my dad). But I think it's still been good practice for me. Even just practicing calling people and learning the rules of basic social interaction has been helpful for me.

So I'm a little sad that this might be my last time taking the course. I'm scared that if I stop taking it, I'll lose all the lessons it's taught me and i'll end back just as bad socially as I was before I began taking these courses. So thinking about it being my last time makes me feel incredibly nervous, and I really don't like that. It's just yet more stress if an existential variety, shoved on my plate against my will. I hate the passage of time.

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Bacchus calls Jason John Green (i wonder how the real John Green felt about that. Complimented?). And we get references to a time Jason helped Bacchus with a missing leopard in Sonoma. If we ever do get a Camp Jupiter prequel series, I need to hear about Jason's adventure with Bacchus in Sonoma. The same way I need to hear about the time Jason met Aeolus while hunting a Sea Monster. We get references to all these things Jason did, but we never get any elaboration. I know that was a conscious choice to keep the story moving, but come on! We need to revisit all these things! We need a five book prequel series about Jason at Camp Jupiter, and there's so many reasons why!

We could humanize Octavian, maybe make him and Jason friends. We could show Reyna arriving at Camp Jupiter! We can see Jason helping Bacchus in Sonoma! We can see him hunting a Sea Monster and running into Aeolus. We can see more of Dakota and Gwen at Camp Jupiter! We can maybe meet Ceres, or Mercury, or Neptune or Minerva! So much we could see! I'll repeat again: we need a five book prequel series about Jason at Camp Jupiter! Jason Grace and Dii Consentes, that's a title that works! And that's the story I'd really push Rick Riordan to be writing.

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For once, I think the Greek and Roman gods are equally matched. Dionysus and Bacchus both seem pretty likeable. Bacchus definitely has it easier, though. Dionysus is separated from his wife, stuck babysitting a bunch of immature teenagers all year. I don't know how he does it. I'd have probably snapped and screamed at one of the kids long ago.

By comparison, Bacchus is living the high life. He isn't stuck at Camp Jupiter like Dionysus is stuck at Camp Half-Blood. He's free to roam, enjoy himself, and if he has a wife (i'm not sure if there is a roman form of ariadne), he's surely free to spend more time with her.

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My birthday is a holiday I don't really feel excited for. If anything, I feel a bit of dread regarding it. I turn 20 in three months. 20! I'm not remotely prepared for that truth, and it's hitting me like a truck. Gods. 20, unable to cook, unable to run baths by myself, unable to shave by myself, no friends in real life besides my dad, a severe dependency on my dad (despite my anger issues often making me lash out randomly too), it's a mess. I feel like it was just yesterday that I was 15. And now I'm rapidly approaching 20. I know it could be worse (I could be approaching 90 or something). But still. For me, at this point in my life, turning 20 is painful enough. My last year in high school...my last possible year before everything begins feeling like it's changing again... sigh...

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DC Super-Heroes by Gene Gonzales.

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maybe i'm being excessive, but one more full list before school:

I'll boost this one more time, by tagging everyone again:

@v4guelyv4mpiric @kryptonbabe @munchkinmarauder @c00c00pig @0asta0

@molovesbooks @berf-a-smurf @beauty-queen-official @loganjptaylor @deafening-radio-silence

@spiritbox713 @dougielombax and here's the people i tagged earlier: @ihauntmyhouse @thewordsmith3.@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodaries

@ltwharfy @billybatsonmylove

And now, for the people I don't follow back but who i appreciate for liking and interacting with my posts: @onewordaway @emperorcandy @good-person3 @demigod-jack-hearth

Which oddly specific colour palette are you?

Thank you for the tag, @citrus-moonlight!!! This is... quite literally my wardrobe color on top of the eyeshadows/lipsticks I wear on the daily so this is actually quite spooky skfjsdkf

Link to quiz.

No pressure tags (and you if you see this!): @sixpennydame @nube55 @littlerequiem @pinkberryfox @thechaoticarchivist

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damn it, two of my tags keep failing. So let's fix that. @ltwharfy @billybatsonmylove and now let's just boost some of my main followers: @ihauntmyhouse @thewordsmith3 @yourfriendlyneighbourhoodaries

Which oddly specific colour palette are you?

Thank you for the tag, @citrus-moonlight!!! This is... quite literally my wardrobe color on top of the eyeshadows/lipsticks I wear on the daily so this is actually quite spooky skfjsdkf

Link to quiz.

No pressure tags (and you if you see this!): @sixpennydame @nube55 @littlerequiem @pinkberryfox @thechaoticarchivist

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Yes! That's what i've been thinking! Penguin should be dapper, gentlemanly, silly and weird! Let me give you the best four penguin actors (in no particular order): tom kenny, burgess meredith, danny devito, paul williams. I've also heard great things about the actor in Gotham, but I never watched Gotham.

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Oswald Cobblepot should be a dapper gentleman, a goth slut, a monstrosity, or some combination of those three things.

Oswald Cobblepot should not be just a guy from the Sopranos.

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My dad likes this song. I like it too, honestly. My music taste is much my own, but it was shaped by my family too. And I don't know how big the song is outside Canada (hopefully it gets some recognition), but i've heard it on the radio stations a good few times over the years:

And a complementary link to the meaning of the song by the singer and songwriter:

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malcolm pace is autistic. that's it that's the post.

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the dash is in tatters. please say something nice to the person you reblog this from. it's so sad to see you all so sad

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headcanon that percy is historically hard to beat at monopoly. and it's intially the most mind-boggling thing ever watching him turn the tide of a game. because he's definitely losing at the beginning. but percy is not only an amazing strategist. he has a deep understanding of money and knows how and when to bet on the board. he knows when to test his luck. and he's amazing at getting into people's head.