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dave rubric
@daverubric.bsky.social
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In no particular order, this is about: OFMD (primarily stizzy), curséd politics, rhetoric, teaching college writing, soap, candles, and fiber arts || pfp: lovedhands || he/him, old, gay, and trans
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Your regular reminder of the romance novel cover of The Two Towers
The Two Towers cover where Legoland (with bangs) is falling in love with Gimli
December 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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What's going on? * It's annoying or not interesting * (Selected) I'm in this photo and I don't like it * I think it shouldn't be on Facebook * It's spam Is there anything else I can transcribe for you?
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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This one smells so good. It's a spicy ripe fig FO. I also put buttermilk in it to try something new. It set up so fast I couldn't do the design I wanted #soap
Square loaf of soap with a swirled top with shiny mica
December 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Just kind of rolling around in this paragraph about fandom and gender from Jacob Tierney (this is about Heated Rivalry)
Director Jacob Tierney: So part of the reason that the romance industry does not get taken seriously is because people don’t care about what pleases women. And this is a source of pleasure for women. Do I know why? No, I don’t. But one of the things that is so untapped in culture is our interest in women’s interests. And we’re not looking for intersectionality there. I think that we just don’t listen to women. My discovery has been that there’s a lot of this. There’s a lot of these books. And the fandom is rabid, in the best way. They are feral. The head of Crave is also a gay man and when we started posting things on our Instagram of the show, he could not understand that all the comments were from women. Gay men, we don’t know about this. We are starved for any TV show about ourselves, but what’s so much more interesting is that the baked-in audience, the fandom that exists, is women. And they are so excited to be getting this material. And it’s really cool. I feel like it’s this moment of gay men and women arm-in-arm being like, “We love this thing.” Being turned on by these two characters. Absolutely. That’s community.
December 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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I like how this scrappy batch turned out #soap
Speckled bars of soap
December 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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We need to invest more in turkeys and less in chickens. And that brings me back to my earlier point about corn. Corn, some of you have heard me say, is not the easiest crop to grow, but it is among the fastest. You can plot a graph that shows ease and resources vs time to harvest and get---
Rockwell man in meeting guy. I am quoting the man who was making very good points in the town meeting in TLOU S2 before Ellie argued everyone should avenge Joel
December 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Pleased with these. Chocolate cake scented #soap 🍫 🧼
Bars of soap frosted to look like cake
December 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Hard to see in this photo but I tried to dust the top with silver mica
Loaf of soap with textured top, dusted with silver mica
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Sculptural/collage-y soaps really fascinate me. I chopped up this orange/pink/green batch I did and added some additional shapes I molded and piped yesterday. I wanted to have them sticking out of the soap but then I realized I would not enjoy using a poky soap
A square of soap with abstract shapes in the top
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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More relevant than ever
Level 1 to 4 headcanon diagram Canon (Large circle enclosing Level 1) Level 1 Headcanon (Green circle, overlaps with Canon) includes and builds around pre-existing canon can fill in blanks/answers questions left unresolved in canon a casual viewer could easily digest the concept Level 2 Headcanon (Yellow-green circle, overlaps with Level 1 and Level 3) Takes elements from canon and explores them in a transformative way ignores some pre-existing canon views canon through a lens outside the intended way it was written Level 3 Headcanon (Orange circle, overlaps with Level 2 and Level 4) not rooted in canon material at all builds off of pre-existing fanon content great for when a fandom agrees that canon SUCKS Level 4 Headcanon (Red circle, overlaps with Level 3) you literally just made that up
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Do not eat #soap 🫧🧼
Slices of soap that look like cake
November 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Forbidden cake
Loaf of soap iced like a cake
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Sharing again bc I'm proud of it! Check out my OFMD AU set in Minneapolis, starting with an Ed/Izzy fic in the 80s, an Ed/Stede SMAU set now, and ending currently with a Steddyhands get-together fic (there is also a WIP where they figure their shit out).

archiveofourown.org/series/2955477
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November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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You must eat him to defeat him
Gummy elf on the shelf
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Orange boy
November 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Mushrrrrrrrooooommmm
Orange fly agaric mushrooms
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I have to speak at our campus Trans Day of Remembrance event today and I thought I'd share what I'm going to say
I came out as trans in 2011. I've been going to Transgender Day of Remembrance vigils for a long time now, and one of the things I've learned over these years is that trans people have to cultivate a very particular relationship to grief. It's not optional. It's something you learn how to work through, because you have to. So much of entering into trans relationships is knowing death. We fight every moment of our lives, and for some of us the fight is infinitely more difficult. Some of us have parents who betray us; some of us have friends who never quite get it; race, class, ability, and political conflict all compound with such a particular weight that it's hard to comprehend. Woven into this is the threat of violence from inside and outside our bodies and the lack of responsibility that the world feels for sustaining the presence of trans bodies. We hold these truths in our hearts but also have to protect ourselves. It's too much to constantly consider. But far too often the unthinkable happens. Over the years I've watched TDoR evolve. There's been growth in how people putting on the events understand intersectionality. When we think about trans death on a global scale, we have to grapple with what it means to speak for others, to claim a global trans community. And that's complicated. Most of the names we will honor are people who died in contexts very different from ours. But I believe it's important to mark and grieve those we have lost, even those we don't know. Our fates as trans people are intertwined and influenced by each other, even if we experience life very differently and in very distinct ways. The death of one trans person impacts every trans person in the world. I want to talk about grief in this particular moment we're in. We're experiencing one global crisis after another, and it can seem endless - the amount of loss, the weight of it. It's easier not to acknowledge it, not to make space for it. To keep pushing forward and pushing down what makes us uncomfortable, what makes us sad. In American culture, there's no space made for grief and mourning unless you make it yourself, or make it alongside others who care for those you've lost. And trans people know this. We have to cope with the potential for loss constantly in a way that many people struggle to understand. Part of this is because our community is numerically small and dispersed. For many trans people, connection to trans community may only be people online, or one or two people in your neighborhood or town. We are lucky to have a larger trans community in our region, but it can still feel lonely. When we lose someone, we feel it across that whole fragile web. I've been thinking a lot about what kinds of emotions bring about political change. We live in a world where anger has been the motivating force for social movements, especially in the last ten years. And we see how easily anger gets co-opted, weaponized, turned against the very movements it started in. There's nothing wrong with being angry. But it's important to make space for grief and sadness and loss. Space to remember and mourn and care for each other, to help keep us here in the here and now. That's what we are doing today as we practice grief. It's making space we're not usually given. It's saying these names and holding the weight of these lives, even briefly, even when it hurts. That's the work. That's how we keep each other here.
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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i can't escape stede (strawberry also cute)
lighthouse soap stamp
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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They're cute 🥰
Slices of the forbidden cake (soap). It's grey with bright pink and orange
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Baked potato with bbq
Aforementioned bbq baked potato
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Forbidden cake #soap
A loaf of dark grey soak with orange swirls
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Much more to learn but it's still pretty #soap
Bars of soap with swirls of color and black
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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That tracks
Sisyphus rolling "filling out a when2meet" boulder up a "innate desire for global communism" hill
November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Excited to cut this one, but I don't think the inside will look as good bc I poured before it was thick enough. Rhubarb mint scent
The top of a loaf of soap, with an abstract design of many colors
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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you know the tutorial is going to be extremely good when the first frames of the video look like this
title card with weird background image and "column swirl tutorial" in all caps in a silly font
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM