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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 4h

Absolutely. If we can simply become aquatic with no bones, the muscles will be good again. But as things are: no thank you.

Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 9h

Consider: do we actually need muscles???

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t know but it needs to fucking cope and stop complaining all the damn time

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 9h

If it's who I think it is, they blocked me for saying Pillion isn't queerbaiting (to a friend, without them being tagged anywhere in the conversation), so trust that you are RIGHT and CORRECT

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Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social · 1d

Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: [email protected].

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 9h

(In the end I changed it anyway because I felt it had the potential to confuse international readers. Editing is not a science.)

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Bethynyc @bethynyc.bsky.social · 10h

Yuletide Signups are open! #Yuletide

yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/128413.html

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 9h

Oh my god I love this

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 9h

It's code for "fits some dudes," but of course dudes also come in various shapes, so -- "fits some dudes and a few women," I guess.

Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 9h

I saw this once while editing, went "surely not," and looked it up in the American Dictionary of Record (Merriam-Webster). The first definition was handkerchief. (The THIRD was grandmother.) It was a Berenstain Bears moment, me just staring into space wondering if I was wrong or the world was.

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 20h

Please do! I’m so curious

Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 20h

I would like to hear it!

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 20h

Water is falling from the sky, and Nessie is not mad, just disappointed

A sad and disappointed silver dog who did nothing to deserve rain.

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 20h

Anyone looking at her could tell she’s never done one thing wrong in her life

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 1d

That’s where I am, and honestly it makes me feel a lot better. Imagining that there are people who just do not care about privacy at all was making me question my own humanity

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 1d

ARGH NO. Read the room, germs!

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty!

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 1d

It's a lot to take in! There are people who want, and go to some expense to install, toilets that directly face their beds with no walls or anything in between. That's hard to accept.

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 1d

I bought a new phone just before mandatory AI came in, and I'm hoping I can keep it until this horrible trend dies off.

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna be a busy week, so I posted my #Yuletide letter early. I honestly cannot remember who I said I'd like to the letter when it was posted, so I will just. Hope it is one of you reading this? thefourthvine.dreamwidth.org/203329.html

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 1d

Nessie thinks bees are probably tasty, but she is not really sure how one would go about eating one. (Genuinely. She cannot figure out how to eat anything that flies, which. She's a very smart dog! But her physical coordination is Not Great, so maybe she's just learned it's impossible for her.)

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 1d

Please do! This is my dream TV

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 1d

Someone get me an interview with the owners. I will turn Isaac Chotiner on their asses

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, ideally walls, but I am a broken woman and I will absolutely take frosted glass

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Thefourthvine @thefourthvine.bsky.social · 1d

I’m especially suspicious because the shower IS frosted, so presumably if the toilet area was, we’d see it

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