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You can have Astarion as your dom daddy if you want, but I'M making him my pretty housewife
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PSA: Don't use Open Office
I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.
Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.
Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!
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i'm so fucking proud of every student, person, and faculty out there supporting palestine. it's beautiful to see the solidarity.
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The claims of Zionists not to feel safe on campus are by no means new and I do recall years ago when I was going to one of those universities, Zionists would block so much shit, spy on our events, and even try to suspend pro Palestine organisations during a time when we weren't organising protests or sit ins and the most we did was poetry readings, or that one time we built an "apartheid wall" with wood panels in an open area with each panel displaying info about Palestine and the occupation. That was the most we did that year, and the same year we had SO MANY Zionist complaints about feeling unsafe by the org, some of them literally fake crying in front of members of the administration.
Now I know I'm not saying anything new but of course they feel unsafe! Their entire existence has been propagandised by their own community and they have been shielded from any negative blowback by both government and private administrations for decades.
Of course they feel threatened, because why would they want to be faced with this ugly, ugly truth about Israel? They feel threatened by the amount of support and the tides shifting which is a constant reminder that their narrative had failed miserably.
Of course they feel threatened when they feel like they have lost their cozy bubble where they blocked out any mention of Israel being a terrorist state. They don't want to be constantly reminded and confronted by their complicity in this genocide.
Their cozy bubble has been burst and their safe space of genocide and apartheid denial has been burst, and now they are being forced into the reality of what Zionism actually is and what it is viewed as by the rest of the world, so of course they are scared.
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Jhooth bhala kyun bologe tum,
Sab sach Kehte ho
Meri nahi hai duniya jismein
Tum sab rehte ho
Saath tumhare aur Rahun main,
Mera toh mann tha
Sach hai , Yahaan pe jo bhi bura tha,
Mere kaaran tha...
Mainu vida karo
Mainu vida karo ji
Ab vida karo , mere yaar..
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Tamasha arts walo ke liye hai aur 3 idiots science walo ke liye
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It's either Sanjay leela bhansali's paro or imtiaz ali's laila
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Imtiyaz Ali movies are either cute rom coms with happy ending or completely tragic stories with the saddest ending possible 🥲✌🏻
(P.s I'm still high on Laila Majnu)
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sometimes the lack of indian/desi media content is a lil disheartening sometimes
like WHERE are the people fawning over zoya akhtar and imtiaz ali and bulbbul and delhi 6 and AR rahman and amit trivedi and the sheer depth and width of indian cinema ohmygod
please i beg you please find me a bollywood loving cinephile.
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so yeah it turns out at least half the country are disgusting psychopaths who want to see college kids beaten and arrested for peaceful protests. i've never been more disgusted to be american in my life.
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It's insane how casually the calls to end a genocide, not just the students in Columbia University but pro Palestinian views in general, are labelled as terrorists. The audacity to still publicly support Israel's actions even after the horrific bombings these last months and then turn around to say that the ones who oppose it are violent anti semites is just baffling
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Terrible Fic Ideas #38: Hallowed King, but make it HotD
One of my favorite - sadly unfinished - fics is Hallowed King by SpicyReyes, in which Severus Snape and an adult Harry Potter travel back to the events of PoA to prevent the Second Wizarding War. There's a lot to be said about it, but my absolute favorite part is that Snape and Harry are mistaken early on for a couple and have to keep up the charade.
So, naturally, since I've been on an Aemond/Lucerys kick lately, I thought: what if Aemond and Lucerys were both sent to their childhoods to prevent the Dance of the Dragons?
For clarity:
I lean more towards House of the Dragon than Fire and Blood here.
In this AU, Aegon II is two years older than Helaena, who is two years older than Aemond, Jace, Baela, and Rhaena; who are two years older than Luke and Daeron; who are three years older than Joffrey.
But just imagine it:
Luke dies at Storm's End as in canon. He watches the events of the Dance from the afterlife, as does Aemond after he dies over the God's Eye. This continues until Jaehaera throws herself from Maegor's Holdfast to power a spell of undoing.
Luke and Aemond wake up - alive - as children in their beds in the Red Keep, approximately half-a-year before the events that cost Aemond his eye. (Let's call them about 11 and 13 respectively.) They don't immediately realize that they've both time traveled, but confront each other within the first week of their return.
Naturally, they disagree - vehemently - on the best way to prevent the Dance, but they eventually come to some semblance of a plan that involves 1) getting Rhaenrya on throne, 2) getting the lords of the realm to want Rhaenrya on the throne, and 3) combatting the (self-)destructive tendencies of their various kin.
Their plotting involves a lot of sneaking off and whispering in dark alcoves and/or sneaking into each other's bedrooms to plot, and bickering like an old married couple.
After about six months of this, their family confronts them regarding the sneaking around - but have naturally come to the wrong conclusion. The entire royal family believes that Luke and Aemond are trying to carry on a secret relationship, or at least as much of a relationship as two young teenage lovers can have.
Luke and Aemond are horrified by this idea, but Aemond runs with it, as there's no way they can tell their family the truth. It is such an Oscar-worthy performance - or so shocking that no one can look away - that no one notices Luke gaping like a fish throughout Aemond's confession of undying love.
Viserys is the only one actually pleased by this development and orders them betrothed. This might work better in an a/b/o 'verse, or one where Targaryen magic allows for children from same-sex marriages, but Viserys might very well force the Faith to allow a same-sex marriage with no hope for children for his beloved grandson if it unites his family.
Pretending to be madly in love is... strange at first, but they both fall into it more easily than they could ever have imagined. After all, though Luke would never have admitted it, he spent most of his first life with the most embarrassing crush on his uncle, even after things soured between their families... and Aemond's obsession was equal parts love and hate by the end. (He will, reluctantly, admit he lost the plot a little bit after Luke's death.)
They eventually actually do fall in love with each other, though it takes a while - mostly because they're both idiots who think pulling on pigtails is a love declaration, but they eventually get there. It would be painful to watch if anyone realized their relationship was fake to begin with.
...and that's all I really have. They should succeed in avoiding the Dance and, preferably, reluctantly unite both halves of their families through the power of love and communication.
Bonuses include 1) Laenor being around for the initial love confession and being so very proud of his son for choosing to come out of the closet. This should be the most awkward conversation Luke ever has with his father, and should lead to Laenor choosing to come out of the closet as well and having his marriage with Rhaenrya legally dissolved. He retires to Driftmark with his current lover, Rhaenrya remarries, and there are no suspicious murders involved; 2) Aegon, 17, giving Aemond, 13, quite detailed - and unasked for - relationship advice. This should possibly be made worse by Daemon interrupting with his own advice, worse, advice. It should rival Luke's conversation with Laenor for level of embarrassment; and 3) The usual level of Targaryen family drama, but about half as much the usual amount of murder and maiming.
And that's it. As always, feel free to adopt this bun, just link back if you ever do anything with it.
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My most favourite one.
Terrible Fic Ideas #40: BST, but make it f!Jon Snow/Viserys III
One of the things I've noticed is that even in Game of Thrones fics where Rhaegar wins, his brother Viserys is an unlikable - if not outright villainous - character. This is understandable, as the books make it clear that Viserys in exile is a desperate, angry, bitter, and cruel man willing to go to any lengths for his crown. Any good traits he might have once had have been long lost by the time we meet him.
Which got me thinking: what if Viserys was slightly less of a terrible person? Or: what would it take to have a believable female!Jon Snow/Viserys III romance?
Aka: The Dyanna the Defiant Fic
Just imagine it:
Brandon Stark finds out about his sister's abduction two weeks later than in canon. This changes nothing about his death, but it is enough for him to marry Catelyn Tully and leave her carrying his heir. Their son Rickard is Lord of Winterfell for all of his brief life but dies six months after the Rebellion ends, leaving his uncle and regent Ned Stark the new Warden of the North.
This changes everything as far as f!Jon Snow - let's call her Dyanna - is concerned. Ned claims Dyanna as his trueborn daughter with Ashara Dayne. Ashara still dies as in canon, and afterwards Ned takes "their" daughter north with House Dayne's blessing.
Ned ends up marrying his brother's widow. It's an amiable enough marriage, but Dyanna being trueborn doesn't stop Catelyn from taking out her bitterness over Brandon's abandonment and baby Rickard's death on her. This turns into genuine loathing of her stepdaughter over the years.
Dyanna grows up passionate and kindhearted, skilled with a sword but equally skilled with the herbal remedies - and poisons - she learns from Old Nan and the "witches of the wolfswood." Her temper is legendary from a young age - and no one rouses her temper like her stepmother. It's she who coins the nickname Dyanna the Defiant.
Then the Greyjoy Rebellion happens. Dyanna, impetuously, decides she's not going to stay in Winterfell and put up with her stepmother's treatment. She runs away to White Harbor with the intent of taking ship to Starfall. Instead, by whim or misfortune, she winds up in Pentos.
In Pentos, she is taken in by a pair of elderly lesbian midwives who pass along their knowledge and treat her like the granddaughter they never had. She takes over their business after they die, and it is for this reason that when Daenerys suffers a female complaint some months before she is set to marry Khal Drogo, Dyanna is brought in to treat her.
Which brings us to Viserys.
Viserys is still very much on track to become the man we see in canon, but about six steps removed. (Perhaps Willem Darry lived longer in this 'verse, giving him a more stable childhood and time to learn how to use a sword before they end up on the streets?) He still can very much become the man who threatens to cut out his sister's unborn child, but not yet.
Dany's marriage to Drogo here is less selling his sister for an army Viserys too stupid to realize he'll never get as much as it is finding a husband who will give Dany the life she deserves in exchange for the gold for Viserys to buy an army - gold he'll only get when Dany births a son, which is why he hires Dyanna to ensure Dany won't have the same obstetric troubles many Targaryen queens do.
Dyanna and Viserys fight like cats and dogs, but Dyanna likes Dany well enough, so she agrees to accompany them for the time being.
While Dany's plot proceeds as in canon, Dyanna and Viserys have a belligerent sexual tension side plot that could easily fall into masochism tango. Dealer's choice on the details, but I envision the course of their relationship being genuine hostility to reluctant fondness to oh shit, I'm in love with them.
Viserys, stung by Dyanna's well-aimed barbs, seeks to prove her wrong about him and, in the process, becomes a better person. At least as good a person as a Targaryen can ever be - more Daemon than Aerys, at least.
Drogo dies. Dany becomes the Mother of Dragons. Rather than continuing to head east, the three of them decide to head back to the Narrow Sea and plan their conquest of Westeros.
I say the three of them because it's around this time Viserys and Dyanna get their act together. Viserys asks her to be his queen, Dyanna tells him he needs a kingdom first, and Viserys replies that he'll reunite the Seven Kingdoms for her dowery.
There's a long reconquest sequence with Dyanna very much leading the fighting and strategizing, but they eventually succeed. Viserys is crowned king, Dyanna his queen, and Dany gets Storm's End after they bring an end to House Baratheon.
Bonuses include: 1) Nobody finding out - even suspecting - Dyanna is really Rhaegar's daughter until Ned Stark comes to Dragonstone a la season 7 Jon Snow seeking aid to fight the White Walkers. Viserys should claim to have suspected it all along, as a dragon could only love a dragon, and be very blasé about it. Dyanna is less pleased, mostly because it means she'll likely have to spend much of her recently revealed pregnancy on bed rest instead of at the front; 2) Catelyn Tully as a truly evil stepmother, her hatred driven to its highest heights by Dyanna's combination of dragon and wolf blood; 3) Dany claiming her dragon as her second husband to avoid remarriage and having several children who later historians claim were truly fathered by Aurane Waters; and 4) Viserys and Dyanna continuing their tradition of cat and dog fighting at court, to the extent where many think they're about to watch one half of the royal couple murder the other, and making up just as publicly.
And that's... really a lot more than I was expecting. As always, feel free to adopt this bun, just link back if you do.
Other Jon Snow Headcanons: Aegon the Undying | Aegon the Unyielding | Aemon the Adventurous | Baelor the Brave | Daeron the Desired | Dyanna the Defiant | King of the Ashes | Lady Arryn | Lady Baratheon | Lady Lannister | Lady Stark | Prince Consort | Prince of Summerhall | Queen Mother
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