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✨steph ✨🏳️‍🌈 @iridescentdreams.bsky.social · 53m

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

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The American Civil War Podcast @uscivilwar.bsky.social · 23m

Everything you have done, or are doing, or ever will do is written into the history of all that ever was or will be. Every single kindness or cruelty, no matter how trivial, is fixed forever. That is a power of which we casually dismiss, but it is awesome in its importance.

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val's haunted @teensith.bsky.social · 1h

like ok let me put it this way I literally have been laying on my couch reading alchemised since I finished eating dinner. 5 straight hours.

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The American Civil War Podcast @uscivilwar.bsky.social · 51m

It's late, and I am tired, but that is sometimes the best time to work. or maybe the best time to answer this question is always "right now".

AN/PRC-148 MBITRsweet Symphony @classywarfare.gobirds.online · 2h

Okay this is a weird ask but:

Does anyone know of any writing that explains exactly how/why people have inherent worth and value? Because I’m really struggling with feelings of self-loathing.

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Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 1h

and then this movie trailer comes out and it uses the FitA title font and a shot of a Dresden doll

she’s just going for it lol

Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 1h

it’s a pretty interesting contrast that in The Favourites Layne Fargo goes out of her way to say in the narration that this is WH but it’s NOT like Flowers in the Attic! It’s not incest you guys!! this is Modern Times and we can’t be too problematic!

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Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 1h

i think it will be a Bad Wuthering Heights and intentional ragebait, but a very good slideshow of images for dark romance writing inspiration and/or a perfect time capsule summary of the evolution of vibes in the dark romance genre over the past ~200 years

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 1h

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 13h

Tolkein continues to resonate. The new bank being set up by Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel is named Erebor after the “lonely mountain” in The Hobbit. This was also an interesting line in this rpt on the new bank by @tabbykinder.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/202d...

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Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 1h

you picked a great time

i can’t keep up with all the interesting stuff happening in nearly every genre 😭

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wox dawson 🔞 @larvallamp.bsky.social · 2h

moralizing booktok types: omg can you believe alchemised fans will correct you on what the book is about???!??!

me, <2 weeks out from fighting 4chan nazis and their freeze peach defenders trying to get their shitty racist pokemon hack on a prominent retro game site:

spongebob fish guy with a huge backpack. he is on fire, with a very "done with this" look on his face

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wox dawson 🔞 @larvallamp.bsky.social · 2h

sometimes a book person will say "OMG THIS BOOKS FANS ARE TERRIBLE" and its someone telling someone they're wrong. like if this is your metric for an awful fandom you gotta go outside

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vi ✿ @ikilledrobot.dftba.social · 1h

I have a feeling I’ll need a thread for this 😇

📚💙 CR: Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang

going into this book with only vague knowledge that the magic is cool. that’s it.

also, this cover art is gorgeous.

#currentread #booksky

a screenshot of the libby app showing page 1 of 1,054 of Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang

11:44 timestamp, battery at 97% lol

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Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 1h

this is the hypothetical “first” omegaverse fic

archiveofourown.org/works/719878...

I ain't no lady, but you'd be the tramp. - Chapter 1 - tehdirtiestsock (thatotherperv) - CW Network RPF [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

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Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 1h

look up the authors who were credited in the dedication

bsky.app/profile/till...

Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 8d

ok here’s the numbers to watch:

tehdirtiestsock

Top fic: freud would love this (SPN 37k hits, 958 kudos)

I ain’t no lady, but you’d be the tramp (J2, mentioned on the wiki page for omegaverse history, 36k hits, 779 kudos)

Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 8d

she is going to get so cancelled (again) for this l m a o

all these people are still public on ao3

I’m gonna write down the numbers on their fics and see how many hits they get over the next few weeks

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Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 2h

🙏 will do 💜

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Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 2h

and therefore het omegaverse is “appropriation and fetishisation of queer culture by straight women” with no literary merit

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Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 2h

bc something that puritan fancops like to get on their soapbox about is that het omegaverse shouldn’t be “allowed” because it was originally supposed to be a metaphor for closeted queer men (this is extremely obvious in the original J2 fic)

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Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 2h

otoh i thought that was very silly because it went on for over half the book

but i really like how she used the omegaverse biology inspiration as a metaphor for bias against women in healthcare

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watch beastwars 💕 @luvu2strdew.bsky.social · 2h

Catradora warm up!! #spop #spopfanart #catra #adora #catradora

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 4h

Any time somebody talks about "accountability" for fictional characters, I get a vivid mental image of, like, that one Jean-Paul Laurens painting of the Cadaver Synod, except instead of some kind of fucked up skeleton on the throne it's a printout of somebody's fanfic.

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TabbieWolf @tabbiewolf.bluestripedboxers.com · 6h

God, I hope this is true

Tumblr post by user novelconcepts:

“Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.

You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.”

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Rei 💖 @nocteacakes.bsky.social · 6h

people very obviously producing ragebait/grifting on alchemised hate is so funny to me. oooo you hate alchemised so bad you gotta make **multiple** videos monetising that hate ooo you're such a productive member of the book community

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Stine | Silver_Snidget @silversnidget.bsky.social · 5h

Helena Marino. 💔

Inspired by the "Two-thousand yard stare" by Thomas C. Lea.

#Alchemised @senlinyu.bsky.social

Helena Marino with a haunted expression on her face and a golden halo behind her.

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ash @flythesail.bsky.social · 3h

We need oshamir inspired novels. We need adaptions of the oshamir inspired novels. We need— WALK WITH ME

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 8h

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

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