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youjibyers · 11 months

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Honestly this sounds ridiculous but sometimes I think the constant bowl cut jokes that the ga and reddit make about Will are basically them just coping and seething at the idea of Will being an actually important character. It’s like every time they only choose to focus on how silly they think his haircut is, they progressively devalue his character and take him less and less seriously. And it kinda seems like they’re just trying to convince themselves that Will could not possibly be important to the narrative, could not possibly be explored in a deep and significant way-not because they correctly understand the story but because they really do not want a gay male character to be focused on in “their” show. The amount of attention Will and his sexuality get already is probably too much for some of them.

Because stranger things is so mainstream, I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people just subconsciously view it as a “normal people show” even though it started as a show about/for outcasts. Thus, the more focus that’s given to a gay male character, the more it becomes a “gay show,” and if their “normal show” starts becoming a “gay show,” it will make a part of the audience feel duped and “forced” into confronting a subject that makes them uncomfortable: homosexuality (and its associated struggles). And a lot of these people would be especially angry at this development because they can’t even comprehend that competent, male creators might willingly tell a story about a gay boy, so they end up assuming that the creators must have been pressured to force the story into taking a turn for the gay, or that they’ve been brainwashed by the woke agenda-after all, they couldn’t just be progressive people who sat down and simply decided naturally that they wanted to explore homosexuality as a major theme in a sci-fi horror show from the start. That’s not even allowed, right? Gay stuff should be contained and quarantined in gay-specific genres like a disease, right?

Anyway, I just think it’s maybe not a coincidence that I see way less “reducing Will to his haircut” behavior from people who are invested in the complexity and humanity of his character compared to the people who clearly want him to stay small and hidden, out of sight and out of mind.

#can you tell I went on the subreddit again #don’t get me wrong though the bowl cut jokes are funny sometimes and not inherently bad obviously #also I feel like I’m going crazy when people talk about how awful the bowl cut is every season #because for the most part I genuinely think it’s fine and fits well enough with the time period #plus it’s the iconic Will Byers look so why change it now #especially if it’s meant to be a nod to other classic bowl cut boy characters #it seems like a lot of the ga view his haircut through the modern lens of it not being in style or common anymore #sometimes it’s not so hot but mostly it’s cute enough to me #will byers #byler #<- target audience #mine

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inf3ct3dd · 4 months

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streamer!ellie pt.2

summary: i hated the other one of this that i made, so REMAKE TIEM!!!

warnings: miiinor sexual content, shit talking, gay people 😒

authors note: heheheh ples don’t flop this time..

- during her faceless days, she opened up a po box so ppl could send her things, and she made an amazon wishlist and she unboxed stuff on stream 😍😍

- one day she was unboxing a giant box of cat toys. string, those little feather stick things, even that weird automatic flapping fish thing (that she secretly loves and taped to her back one time)

- she was playing with this one toy that was a little fishing reel, and it had string and a little fish on the bottom. she went on and onnn about how shes a self proclaimed “fishing master” while garf chased it around, letting out little meows and growls of frustration.

- eventually, she lost her grip and let go of the pole. she bent down to pick it up, forgetting that her face would be in view. thus, the chat started blowing up.

ewwwbruh: FACE REVEAL

ewwife: EW WE CAN SEE UR FACE

ewwife: JUST THE SIDE BUT WE CAN SEE YOUU

ewssidechick: her nose looks so rideable…

- she got distracted petting garfield, and didn’t realize anything until she stood up. she was getting tagged over and over again on twitter, blurry pictures of her face (curtesy of the shitty webcam) circulating through her subreddit.

- “guys. im gonna erase this from ur memory…” and she literally held up this goofy ass hypnotizer pendelum and started fake hypnotizing everyone like “that never happenedddd” “you don’t know what i look likeeee” “that was fakeeee” “chat that was not reallll”

- and everyone literally js went along with it and pretended it never happened. like ppl were tweeting about it and everyone was like “huh??? what are u talking about bruh??”

- she did the same thing after falling off her rainbow unicorn scooter 😞

- one time she revealed that the “ew” in her username stood for her initials, and everyone was making the most horrendous guesses. elliam willace being the favorite one.

- “guys, my name is not edward wilson??? i am…not a man”

- shes gotten into so much drama…multiple notes app apologies have been issued via her instagram story.

- people would ask her opinions on other streamers, and she’d literally just be like “…i have no idea who that is.” and people would get so MADDDD but homegirl is literally just blatantly unaware

- or she would know , and would literally be like “they’re honestly super annoying and i would rather kill myself than watch them but whatever floats ur boat ig!”

- she played that “womp womp womp womppp” sound effect on her soundboard afterwards.

- SPEAKING OF. she abuses that soundboard sooo much. its so obnoxious and annoying like I SWEARRR!!! she’ll tell a horrible pun and play the crowd laughing and cheering sound effects while literally no one laughed.

“guys. whats the best way to watch a fly fishing tournament??”

“…live streaming.”

(crowd cheering sound effect)

“nooo thank you thank you, you’re all too kind, really!!”

- meanwhile chat was dead silent.

- every time she gets to choose her own name on a game its some dumb shit like "jizzmaster" or "chris fucker"

- “it appears you have entered innapropriate content.” “OHHH LOOK AT EPISODE LOOK AT THESE CORPORATE BIGWIGS TRYING TO CONTROL THE LITTLE MAN???”

- she just ended up naming him “chris phucker”

- like when she played episode on stream and made up really annoying voices for all the characters and made her character look like an elderly man, and made the love interest look like you 😍😍

- she messes up sm on games when she streams normally, but when you're there? she is LOCKED THE FUCK IN. sitting there so focused the entire time just to show off

- whenever she randomly goes silent she just starts SINGING. it's either nicki minaj or some fucking fnaf song

"IS THIS THE THANKS THAT I GET FOR PUTTING U BITCHES ON???"

- speaking of, her favorite fnaf song is def “stay calm” cuz she loves saying “hey kids. Nice to eat ya.”

- bought one of those "i paused my game to be here" tshirts…ironically. you refuse to let her wear it in public

- beefs w kids on fortnite sm... she has definitely gotten banned for saying she was gonna bomb a kids house or fuck their mom 😞

- every time she plays a game, she'll literally sit there and watch an 8 hour long video about the lore. she'll plop down on the couch and watch it like a movie

"did you know everyone actually thought that fnaf one took place in 1993, but it was actually 1992?"

- she definitely had you sit next to her when she played through fnaf because she was lowk scared the entire time whenever she heard you walking around the house while she was playing she'd hear footsteps in the hallway and be like. WHAT THE FUCKKK

-she'd have you right next to her, laying your head on her shoulder and messing with her free hand. if you fell asleep, she would be sitting there slapping her hand over her mouth whenever she gets jumpscared bc she doesn't want you to wake up 😞

- sometimes, while she streams , she plays one handed games and lets you sit and draw on her arm for fun. even got you a whole set of those skin markers so u could go ABSOLUTELY HAM. she got one drawing you did that said “r + e 4eva” tattooed in ur handwriting…such a sap

- she loves watching fan edits of herself...AND OF YOU. she'll be on her burner account with a whole collection on tiktok of edits of you.

ewwsbiggestfan: shes so bad i want her to hit me w her car...

- speaking of. imagine her using that account to make shitty capcut edits of you like

- shes ur biggest fan ongod

-WHILE WE’RE ON THE TOPIC OF “fans”…what if i made a completely new origin story for streamer!ellie and reader. what if they were both streamers….

- OKAY SO BASICALLY.

- you had started streaming about a year before ellie did. butttt, you two did very different types of streaming.

- you weren’t very into like, SERIOUS video games. sure, you played some stuff, like animal crossing and roblox and the sims, but nothing more than that.

- that wasn’t what you were streaming though.

- ever since you were younger, you had been wayyyy into…literature.

-by literature i mean fanfiction. heaps of it.

- actors, anime characters, BOOK CHARACTERS, you were in DEEP

- sometimes, for fun, you used to read them out loud in stupid voices. when you were alone, or with your friends, it was very entertaining

- that’s when you got the idea to start streaming it. if it could entertain your friends, and you, whos to say it wouldn’t entertain other people.

- well, it definitely did. in your first year, you hit 10k followers. people loved you. theyd make edits of you, send in requests of fics for you to read, everything.

- a while later, ellie started gaining more and more popularity. out of all the incomes of fame, fanfiction was the most. abundant!

- one day, you got a request to read an ellie x reader fic. at the time, you barely had any idea who she was, but you decided to just go with it 🤞🏽

- “who the fuck is elliam willace???”

- the fanfic was definitely very…graphic!

- “your hips rolled onto her thigh, her slender, tattooed hand palming at your waist. ‘you’re doing so good babe, fuck.’-“ “GUYS. ISN’T SHE NOT ON MUTE RIGHT NOW???”

- you couldn’t help but giggle the rest of the fic, feeling a nagging heat in your core. you didn’t even know who the girl was, but if this fic was accurate, someone would have to sedate you.

-“im actually. gnawing at the iron bars of my enclosure. GUYS. who is this woman…is she real… if she is. things are about to get WICKED.”

- not very thankful to you at the moment, she was very real. apparently, you and her were streaming at the same time, and your followers raided her stream telling her she was reading about you. her curiosity was obviously piqued, and why would she NOT join the stream?

- creeperewman: im definitely real!

- the text on your screen literally made your stomach fall into your ass. you stood up and legit just walked out of the room, camera still on. was she there the whole time???

- creeperewman: aww 😞 where’d she go she’s so badddd

- you eventually returned after a minute of calming yourself down, and low and behold, she gifted you 100 subs and followed you on instagram.

- she was definitely very real!! and that fanfic was…lore accurate. to say the least 😊

- after you two started dating, the two of you would often show up on eachothers streams. ellie, teaching you how to play cod, and you, reading with her.

- she secretly loves reading the fics people write about her and making fun of them, and every time you stream with her shes “subtly” hinting that you should read about her

sitting there pulling on her collar, looking away like “gee, wonder who you’re gonna pick today” with the worst fake laugh ever.

- “ellie can barely ride a scooter, idk why she’s in the mafia rn…” “you fall off ONE TIME and all of a sudden you cant ride a scooter. bullshit.”

- she makes fun of all the dumb pet names like “babygirl” and “darling” and randomly calls you them and bursts out laughing

- you still read those fics when you’re bored sometimes. and ellie MERCILESSLY makes fun of you for it

“yknow, if you missed me that bad, you should’ve just told me.”

#streamer!ellie #ellie williams au #ellie williams x reader #ellie williams x you #ellie williams x y/n #ellie williams x f!reader #ellie williams x black!reader #ellie x reader #ellie x y/n #ellie x you #ellie x fem reader #ellie williams headcanons #ellie williams smut #ellie williams fanfiction #ellie the last of us #ellie tlou #ellie williams

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sophieinwonderland · 4 months

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Now, why would you dare me to embarrass you and your pals like that?

I appreciate how you wanted my attention so bad you posted me to not one, but two subreddits.

Makes a girl feel special! 🤣

I have actually never seen Wikipedia cited as a source about endogenic plurality. Though I do see anti-endos all the time, when asked for sources, telling people to just Google things.

Anyway, here's @guardianssystem's document filled with academic papers about endogenic plurality:

I've compiled my own, but honestly, theirs is better organized than mine.

And in the interest of fairness, here are all the anti-endo papers debunking endogenic plurality:

Sorry, I forgot. Those don't exist. Oops. 🤷‍♀️

Echo chamber? LOL!

Weren't you the one spouting a bunch of lies on Tumblr, got totally debunked, posted the people who debunked you to r/systemscringe to have a hugbox where fakeclaimers could assure you how the people who contradicted you are all fakers, and then blocked everyone who disagreed with you?

Weren't you also the one who, when shown a quote from an expert in dissociative disorders who worked on the DSM-5 saying that a disorder isn't a disorder if it doesn't cause distress, argued that the people who defined what disorder are must be wrong about that definition?

You're a misinformation machine who can only find support when huddled in cringe subreddits. Don't try to talk about people in echo chambers.

Also, you know most of psychology is just... listening to people? That's how it's been as long as the field existed. DID (or MPD at the time) was a recognized disorder since long before the first brain scans were conducted on DID patients. It's saying something though when basically every single scientist who has ever researched endogenic plurality has said they believe it's a real thing, or that it could be. While absolutely zero academic papers have expressed that it's fake.

There is also an fMRI study into tulpa systems that's been in the works, but results have yet to be published.

Sure, if that's what you'd like me to call you, Crazy. 😊

Anyway, Crazy, you should know that just because you personally find something scary doesn't mean everyone will or that the thing is bad. Personal preferences are a thing.

In a study of tulpamancers though, most generally reported their lives becoming better after the practice.

78% reported improvements in their mental health, and 91% on overall life.

There are many out there who would jump at the chance to have someone there with them that knows them intimately, and to never have to be alone again.

If it's not for you, then so be it.

But it's certainly not something to be afraid of.

And maybe, for those who are willing to commit to the practice while America struggles with an epidemic of loneliness, it's something worth being open to.

This is actually pretty fair.

But that's now, and I'm looking at course of history and trends of plural acceptance.

300 years ago, any plural would be viewed as demon possessed and end up tortured or killed for their plurality.

70 years ago, all plurality was seen as a mental illness, and it was common to force plurals, as well as anyone else associated with mental illnesses, into asylums.

30 years ago, the first real plural communities were able to connect on the internet and form in small numbers.

8 years ago, the first studies into endogenic plurality started being conducted. 4 years ago, the ICD-11 acknowledged that you could have multiple distinct personality states without a disorder. 2023 marked the first, but certainly not the last, time a system used their system name as an author of an academic paper.

Recently, new plural resources have been designed and put into use. More servers than ever are using Pluralkit. And Simply Plural went from 100k users at the end of 2021 to 210k at the end of 2022.

Progress is happening far more rapidly than you realize. And you had best be ready for it.

BOO! 👻

Oh, hey, I just realized... this is literal pluralphobia!

Liberté!

Egalité!

Fraternité!

And yes, The Future is Plural! 😜

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olderthannetfic · 9 months

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As someone who's college age: yeah, there's a TON of people my age who don't know how things work and don't try to learn. Can't unzip a zip file, want to know where to download anime but haven't tried looking it up, ask things on subreddits a Google search or quick search on the wiki would answer, ask questions answered in FAQs or by professors or in the syllabus, say they can't download and install a new browser or app or program because they don't know how and they never think to look up how to do so, go months without logging into their student email because no one explained to them how to do so and they never thought to ask anyone how to do it, go months without washing their laundry because they don't know how and they also don't know how to look up instructions on how to do it, don't know how to cook and can't Google a recipe so they throw things in a pan and pray it works out, don't understand how to back up files, don't know how to attach a pdf to an email to send to a professor, cannot manage to put stuff on a USB drive + go to the library + print it off of the library computer, etc.

I spent most of freshman year teaching people things. The year after, my patience got more frayed and "Google it" started coming out of my mouth a lot more. This last year I gave up and now if people fuck themselves over, that's their decision. I'm not going to stand there begging people to do basic things they should already know how to do.

It was really funny when someone from Career Services came to talk to us about resumes and said we didn't need to put down 'can use Microsoft Excel' on there because everyone knew that and all but three people said actually no, they didn't. People who are 40+ really think we're all good at tech by default, like we fall out of the womb clutching a little phone already making spreadsheets in Excel or coding computers or whatever.

Meanwhile in reality you see a ton of people posting on tumblr going, "How do I post fic on tumblr?" whose blogs proudly state that they're under 18. The thought that you could just type into a Word doc and then copy and paste onto here never hits. And it's not going to.

I hate to break it to millennials and older people but yeah, actually, my generation does in fact have morons. We're not a moron-free demographic. I'm pretty sure moron-free demographics don't exist, tbh.

It infuriates me that my father (in his 80s) is always saying to me that he needs to find a 12-year-old to explain his tech to him. I (40s) keep telling him it's more like a bell curve or something. We had a blip of people being taught in school or having their asses kicked about technology. But then it went away again.

I think we made computers and then phones much more accessible, which is great, but we forgot we still need to teach people things. I know not everyone got explicit instruction in school even in my era, but it seems like the US, at least, phased some of that out as we started assuming The Youth automatically knew it all.

That said... in my day, college freshmen were also terrible about doing their laundry, so some things never change.

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alpaca-clouds · 8 months

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Hear me out! Whalepunk. 🐳

Within those (potential) punk genres I listed a couple of weeks ago, there is one that absolutely fascinates me, even though it does not yet exist, if we are totally honest. The stuff I made up last week is partly more of a thing yet, than this specific one, though the name/idea is a bit older. As far as I can tell, it went something like this: "Yo, Dishonored feels kinda like a punk thing, right? And it runs on whale oil. So, like... Whalepunk? 😉" And given that there is a subreddit on it, there were definitely folks who really took to it. Yet, nothing much came from it. While I will argue that Dredge is also now part of that genre... That's it. Three games. Dishonored, Dishonored 2 and Dredge.

But I am super fascinated by the potential of this genre and now I am going to tell you why.

So, the entire Whale Oil thing predated the wide steam adaption by a bit. But of course it never got used in the way we see it used within Dishonored either way. For all intents and purposes, the whale oil in Dishonored might as well be called "magic whale goo", because it functions less as the oil and more as "energy source, but it is important it comes from whales". Because Dishonored brings in one other aspect: Some strange, almost eldritsch mysticism that is connected to the whales. And it is this, what makes the potential of the genre so interesting.

See, the thing about Whalepunk to me is, that there are three interesting things to explore within this genre.

The Whaling Industry as it existed was very cut throat and as basically the fishing industry still is today, there was ton of abuse going on. Because, duh, industries. Which would give an interesting start for the "punk" part to happen. Just explore people somehow surviving the life was a whaler and also... struggling with it. Because of their own misery, yes, but also because...

Whales are intelligent creatures. They are really, really intelligent. They are so intelligent that cultures living from fishing at times were able to co-work with the whales. So one can really work with the idea of "killing a being, that is almost human like in its intelligence" and how that might play out. And that would leave interesting places to explore. (Also: A story from the perspective of the whales?)

There is also the aspect of the ocean as this strange and unpredictable place. The one thing that to this day humanity is completely unable to tame. And the mysteries of the deep ocean. The same deep oceans the whales so often visit. Which is why this invites lovecraftian ideas so easily.

Between other people, who are interested in the punk genre, I always have heard: "But whalepunk is icky, because the poor whales." While I am sitting there like: "Whalepunk is interesting, because of that!" Because this senseless slaughter of another intelligent species can wonderfully play into the punk ideas.

And I don't know. I think this is neat. I think this genre would have a real potential on the basis of "the dependence on the ocean" vs "the unpredictability of the ocean". And I would love to see that explored a bit.

Again, so far there is not a lot within the genre. But man, I see some neet storytelling opportunities there.

#steampunk #whalepunk #dishonored #dishonored 2 #punk punk #dredge #lovecraftian #horroresque

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catgirlforeskin · 6 months

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The "egg" again.

I assume that my old ask (insecure anon) is buried forever, so I may as well restate it here.

Thank you, being a girl is cool, but it feels like lying. Girls love having boobs, and I don't want anything bigger than AAA, if anything at all. Some girls even want SRS, though you are different*. And girls don't say shit I said. I know that not everyone knows since age 5, but living until 17.5 years without feeling different is beyond pale. Like I felt different from other boys, and since at least 14 I considered myself more feminine than them (de facto I was always more feminine, but I didn't think that it was a good thing), but, as I said, I was completely fine making "relatable" memes about boyhood. I did like to consider myself more of a girl, especially when doing quizzes, but still.

(*Side note, but I went on r/MtF, and it feels like some girls straight up consider those without bottom dysphoria just crossdressers, they don't say it, but my feminine intuition tells me this. I guess it's only tumblr that celebrates girlcock)

So saying "Surprise, I am a girl now!" feels like lying. And I don't want to be a liar.

Saying that I am nonbinary also feels like just wanting to be special. I don't believe that someone can be raised in the West and not think that androgyne is a superior form of human being. So it sounds like "I am not just a boy, I am more special. Don't look that I don't socially transition, I am not a boy, trust me".

The label that I fancy somewhat is eunuch, because it doesn't make me sound like an attention seeker, but there are real eunuchs, and they are different, so it's not very chivalrous of me.

So yes, I am just sitting here, no idea who am I, no social transition, does it even matter?

17.5 is honestly an early age to realize for trans women. I personally know women who didn’t realize until their mid-20s or 30s, and there’s lots of trans people who realize at every stage of life.

Reddit trans women, especially ones who post on the big trans subreddits, generally are assimilationists and hate everyone who don’t want to assimilate like them. They’re cowardly idiots and I don’t care about any bad things that happen to them.

You keep going “well real women don’t do or want X Y and Z and I do so clearly I’m not a real woman” when like. Those things also apply to a majority of women. The enforced cishet standards of womanhood fucking suck and most women chafe against at least parts of them.

Theres plenty of women who like having small or no breasts and plenty of women who didn’t realize until late in life and all this other shit, and saying “well obviously I’m not a woman if I’m like that” is just kinda stupid.

Honestly it’s part of why I don’t hang out around a lot of recently cracked girls because they’re often so mired in that “I’m not a real girl because X” dysphoria shit when like. Half the people around them still have the trait they’re complaining about. Idk it’s just like, take your damn girl pills and shut up lol, have some lesbian sex and get over it

#asks

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omegalomania · 2 years

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highlights from the podcast that came out with that new rolling stone article about joe's book today, because i see some people out there are Worried(tm) and i listened to this whole thing and it was actually very lovely cause the article took the worst pull quotes lmao

joe's lit manager was like "you should write a book" and joe was like "oh i don't think i can write a book" and then his lit manager said "yeah you probably can't." to which joe went "YES I CAN." we love a man motivated by spite big mood joe

joe was very adamant that he wasn't publishing this book to dish dirt on his bandmates because he likes them and they're his friends. he didn't set out to sell secret fucked up stories about them or anything. this is not a tell-all, he likes his friends.

he talks about how his insecurities and imposter syndrome lead him to forget and downplay his contributions to the music in general: "it took talking to patrick to remember what i had contributed to this song or that song."

joe was diagnosed with bipolar type 2 and had no idea until his psychiatrist mentioned it to him

he talks about growing up with my chem and feeling a sense of camaraderie there since they exploded into the mainstream at the same time

he talks a bit about his back surgeries and the like and says that during more recent tours he's been able to move around a lot more. he thinks that fans think it might still look boring but for him it was huge because it's more than he's been able to!

re: new music, "i don't know if it's an album, we're just working on songs. [...] we're never not working on music."

"i'm proud of the majority of what we've done, even if i objected to some of it at the time and kicked and screamed through it, i'm still proud because we've continued to look forward rather than go back and say 'let's just make cork tree again'"

"if you haven't been hate-mongered, i recommend it. it makes you feel nice on the inside." joe??

"and then we got the emo moniker and i wear it as a badge of honor at this point" thank you joe for being the only member of fall out boy to say this ldfjlkdjfdfd

when mania was first conceptualized, patrick rented a studio in burbank for a month-long session and he and joe worked on a lot of stuff there together. a lot of the ideas got scrapped unfortunately.

"you have no idea the amount of unreleased music this band has. albums' worth of unreleased music. [...] at least 60-80 ideas i'd record on my own and that's LESS than patrick does. far less."

he talks about how it'd be fun to do a box set with old unreleased stuff but also says they have no idea where a lot of that stuff went. stuff that goes back to cork tree era that is probably "sitting on a hard drive somewhere"

"there is no album right now. there is nothing being made right now. we're just doing what we're usually doing, which is writing."

someone on the fob subreddit with an advance copy of his book says, "but in his book he explicitly says that the band (Patrick/Pete I’m assuming) has been very receptive to him having more input. He mentioned also this new album being delayed because he recently had back surgery and needed to just rest for a few weeks. He called up Patrick and they immediately postponed working on more music because they value Joe’s ideas."

"i don't see an end. i think as long as we still want to do it. [...] as long as we're continuing to make music that we like and we have fun playing the shows, we'll keep doing it. [...] if there's good music to tour on and we enjoy being around each other, we'll keep doing it. [...] we're so lucky, i don't think we're doing it for the money anymore. so what's the point anymore? the point has to be for good music and good times."

#fall out boy #joe trohman #*making poasts #i heartily encourage listening to the podcast all the way through because it really is very lovely #joe's a lovely speaker and i've always said it #this article picked like. the most brutal pull quotes ldkfjldkjfldkjfd #also DESPERATELY curious about what patrick and joe did in burbank for that month session. wtf guys.

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laelior · 1 year

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Short, angsty ficlet inspired by a prompt on the Kaidan subreddit

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The well stood in the middle of the apple orchard, ancient and immortal, built from river stones and a rough, patchy mortar that had been holding fast since long before his family ever set foot on the land. Equally ancient were the boards that covered the top of the well. Once, they’d probably been fresh and fragrant with that applewood smell that filled the orchard every spring. Now they were dark, covered in moss and ivy and ripe with the smell of decay that wafted up from the depths of the well.

There was a legend about the well in the orchard.

Or so his cousins told him, in tales whispered late at night around the orange glow of his oldest cousin’s omni-tool. A girl drowned there, cousin Lissa had told him in a conspiratorial tone, the kind that, at age eight, Kaidan understood to mean it wasn’t a tale for adult ears. Her parents boarded up the well after she died and she’s been there ever since. Don’t ever, ever, go in the orchard at night or she’ll drown you, too.

It had been a thrill to be deemed old enough to be a part of the Conspiracy of the Well. Less so when Lissa snuck out and called to him through his window in the middle of the night. Come out and plaaaaay, Kaidan. Come play in the well with me.

“Your cousins tell you the haunted well story, son?” his father asked him the next day, noticing his unnerved state. When he’d nodded, his father sighed. “I guess it’s an Alenko family tradition by now. My brothers and cousins did the same to me,” he said, which didn’t make Kaidan feel any better.

“There’s no dead girl in the well?” he’d asked. Adults like to be comforting, he knew, even if they had to lie to do it, and he was in no mood for comforting lies.

“Never was. Your uncles and I pried the boards off when we were kids to look down in there when we decided to find out for ourselves. Nothing but dirt and some rodents down there. Best we can tell it was boarded up when the well went dry.”

Nonetheless, Kaidan shivered with a deep, atavistic fear at the thought of opening up the well and looking down that dark, endless void held back by those boards.

But years later, at seventeen, Kaidan found himself sitting on the edge of the well, staring down that deep, dark abyss that echoed with the breeze whistling through the branches of the trees around him, so lost in thought he didn’t even hear the footsteps crunching through the leaves of the orchard.

“There you are, son,” his father said, shining a flashlight on him and startling him out of his reverie. “Your mother’s been looking for you. She said you missed dinner.”

Kaidan nodded slowly, never really taking his eyes off the well. “I just…needed to go somewhere to think.” The words echoed down the well and back up, temporarily drowning the tempest of his own thoughts.

“You took the boards off.” His father nodded at the pile of wood next to the well. Kaidan shrugged. He hadn’t really planned to. Hadn’t even planned to come here at all. But once he’d seen it, it just made sense. The wood was so soft he’d barely even scraped his hands prying it up.

“Guess I had to find out for myself,” he replied.

“It’s a bit dark out here,” his father observed. “Not much to see.”

Again, Kaidan shrugged. How could he explain that it wasn’t about seeing? That, on some level, he’d wanted his father’s assurances from long ago to be a comforting lie, to believe that there were some truths he could still find shelter from?

“Kaidan,” his father said gently, and this time he looked up to meet his eyes. “You take all the time you need, son. I’ll be here for you. You want to take a look down, I’ll shine the light down for you. You want to walk away, I’ll walk with you. I’ll tell your mother dinner can wait.”

Kaidan swallowed hard and slowly nodded. “Thanks, Dad. I…thanks.”

It was a long time before either of them spoke again, before Kaidan picked himself up and walked away from the well. But his father was there with him, every step of the way.

#mass effect #ficlet #my writing #lae writes #kaidan alenko #i have a lot of feelings about young!kaidan battling through the aftermath of brain camp okay

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Tamber Ghostfaces au

Imagine an au where Amber and Tara are both Ghostface and girlfriends in Scream 5.

Amber's motive is a mix of her original motive and Richie's motive mixed into one. . Tara’s motive would be Sam left her. Her father left her. Her mother is the town pariah who constantly leaves her for work, Wes was obsessed with her and the only guy she liked was stolen from her. Her life was shit and it started the moment that Sam left her. All she had was Amber. They became best friends, shared their love of horror and became girlfriends.

Suddenly the Stab franchise became shit. Amber was pissed and Tara found out where Sam is and she came up with the perfect plan. "Let's make the perfect Stab movie and get my revenge on Sam, babe." "OUR revenge, she hurt you baby and I can't let that go."

Tara would be the opening act. She would appear as the "helpless victim" to lure Sam back to Woodsboro.

They had to choose a fall guy and Amber plans to pin it on Richie cause she found some very DAMNING comments on the Woodsboro subreddit.

Movie goes pretty much the same. All the same people die, but Wes is kept alive.

Wes takes Tara to hide to keep her safe makes a pathetic confession to Tara and then Tara slices his neck open and says "sorry Wes, I'm gay."

Richie protests his innocence to Sam insisting he is not Ghostface and that he's not Amber's partner.

Tara enters the room, drops the inhaler and pulling a Doofy from Scary Movie and says "he's right Sam, I'm Amber's partner" and slits his throat ear to ear.

Tara and Amber turn to Sam and grinning in unision. Tara takes the voice changer. "Surprise, Sam?"

Sam is horrified about what she just saw. She's all alone and left at the mercy of her sister and her crazy girlfriend.

Tara lays it all on her sister. "Why? WHY??? YOU. LEFT. ME! All I wanted was your love and you left me. Then dad left after you RUINED our family's lives. And if that wasn't enough, I was left at the mercy of our drunken pariah of a mother's abuse. You left and I was the target of her abuse. I was the target of some fuckboy's pathetic crush, the one guy I did like chose Liv over me. My life was shit and the only person I had was Amber. My soulmate, my partner and my love." Tara and Amber kiss.

Amber tells her what she said in Scream 5. The plan to make the perfect Stab movie, pin the deaths on Sam and Richie with Sam as the perfect scapegoat being Billy's daughter, finally snapping, convincing her boyfriend to get revenge on Woodsboro. and the movie ends with Amber heroically saving her girlfriend from her murderous sister.

Tara and Amber were about to kill Sam together, but then Sidney and Gale appeared.

Amber burns(but not killed)

Sam has Tara at her mercy, but she can’t kill her. She leaves her alive and makes things interesting as the only Ghostface to be captured alive with Tara promising that she will finish what she and Amber started with Sam just hoping she can bring her sister back.

Meanwhile Amber is alive and returns to the Woodsboro subreddit to find like minded people and cause some chaos in New York.

Tara would be the Hannibal Lecter in this Scream VI scenario with Sam and Kirby trying to stop the New York attacks.

However. Amber is able to turn Wayne into the killer. Amber met some interesting people who could deepfake to make it look like Sam killed Richie and then the smear campaign happens. And when Wayne saw that footage, he went insane.

Scream VI MOSTLY goes the same. Wayne, Quinn and Ethan all somehow FAIL again LOL. But something happens. Sam sees what she thinks is a fleeing Ghostface but found nothing.

This was all a smokescreen. Amber used the chaos in New York to free Tara

We cut back to the prison. Suddenly someone is killing EVERYONE in the prison. Guards, staff and prisoners. Until someone arrives to Tara’s Max Security cell. Someone throws the Ghostface costume at her feet.

Amber unmasks and Tara smiles and embraces Amber. Amber tells Tara "Let's finish what we started, baby"

Thus teasing Be Gay and Do Crimes in Scream 7 that will never happen because fucking Spyglass

#Scream #Scream 5 #Tamber #Tara Carpenter #Amber Freeman #Ghostface #Sam Carpenter

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You once mentioned in the Actor AU that Gil once broke his back with a particular dangerous stunt. What if an old footage of it got leaked showing how the accident happened where everyone can see clearly what a terrible stunt fall he took and how you can hear bones breaking? How he lays there unconscious and bleeding?

What if Thena and Gil come home from another interview and see how Sprite watches the footage and looks at them and suddenly starts crying and asking Gil how the hell he is alive after that??

I think it would be super interesting to see them both comforting her after such an angsty video!

As soon as Thena and Gil got in the door, they heard sniffling.

Thena dropped her purse and ran in, "Sprite?!"

Sprite was curled up on the couch, watching something on her phone, laid sideways and wrapped in the blanket. "Hm?"

Thena let out a rough sigh, dropping her head before glaring at her sister, "don't scare me like that, kid!"

"Sorry," Sprite mumbled, emerging from her cocoon and sitting up. "I found some old videos on a subreddit. Dude, I had no idea it was this bad."

Gil blinked as both sisters looked over at him, "me?"

Thena rounded the wide, white sectional to come and sit next to her sister, still in the dress Kingo had picked out for their interview. "What are you watching?"

Sprite swiped at her eyes again and handed Thena her phone, "footage emerged of Gil's old back injury--the one you said broke it. I...I dunno, I guess I didn't think it was that bad."

Gil tilted his head as he walked over, although he soon recognised the sounds coming from Sprite's phone. "Oh, yeah."

Thena was horrified as Gil, on the screen, fell, his bones snapping loudly. He curled and rolled in agony, screaming from the pain. She put her palm over the screen, "Sprite!"

"I was curious!" the younger shrugged in her defense, but pulled her phone back to her. "I didn't think it was that...brutal."

Gil leaned over the back of the couch, behind the two sisters. "Yeah, it was pretty bad. I couldn't do anything for almost two months."

"Gil, this is," Thena just barely glanced at the screen - of Gil's terribly bent spine - and rushed her eyes away again. "That's-"

"It was pretty extreme," he admitted, ruffling the hair on top of his head. He leaned closer to Thena, "are you okay?"

"Are you, dude?" Sprite asked him more loudly, "holy shit, you got broken like a pretzel rod!"

"Sprite!"

He chuckled, though. The sullen teen had her ways of expressing worry and compassion and feelings. And that way was usually with profanity and wildly inappropriate statements. He ruffled her hair, "it's okay, kid. I'm fine now."

But Sprite regarded him with his held out hands and shrugged shoulders and pursed her lips. "There were rumours you were never gonna work again. I remember when the pictures of you in the wheelchair first hit--it was a big deal!"

Thena eyed her sister, not usually emotionally expressive.

"This video is totally different! I thought you died!--it sounds like you could have!"

Gil sighed, also coming around the other side of the couch and tugging off his tie. He sat down next to Sprite on the other side. "Okay, you wanna know the full story?"

Sprite nodded.

"It was bad," he admitted first and foremost, looking at Sprite and then Thena. "It was a pretty severe injury to my vertebrae, they had to do surgery, and they did tell me that they were unsure if I would walk again, let alone if I could ever work again after that."

Sprite teared up again.

"The surgery went well, I had to do some physio. I did have to use a wheelchair to get around for six weeks, but with that and my physiotherapy we saw...improvements."

"Improvements?" Thena asked skeptically, even knowing how well he had come out of it now in the present. She subconsciously rubbed Sprite's shoulder, who accepted the rare instance of affection.

"Improvements," he repeated with a chuckle. "Walking was going well, they gave me a walker, although I never used it in public. I went right from the wheelchair to a cane, just practising walking at home. Eventually I could jog a little again, and then we were able to start water aerobics and now...I'm back to normal, for me."

Sprite just stared at him, "bro."

Thena shook her head, even as a fellow actor and someone not exactly estranged from stunt work. "I mean, Gil, you were incredibly lucky."

"I know," he nodded gravely, not making light of the feelings in the room, "I know that. I try not to take it for granted when I think about it."

"Bro!" Sprite said again, poking him in the arm, "I watched the video of you getting bent like a paperclip. I'm surprised you came out of it at all."

He sighed. "You're right, it's rough. I can't believe this video is even on here."

Thena refused to look at it again. "The internet is a cesspool of this kind of thing."

Gil looked up at her with an attempt at a smile, "hey, I'm okay, though."

Sprite elbowed him, her voice dropping lower, "it's not funny, dude. You were, like, really messed up."

Gil ruffled Sprite's hair again, a gesture she had yet to allow for anyone else in the world. "Thanks for worrying about me, kid."

Sprite rolled her eyes, giving him one last affectionate little swat against the arm. "Whatever, man, I'm just glad you're not all scoliosis-ed anymore."

"Sprite," Thena sighed again. If only she had tact herself to teach to her ruffian sister child. She looked at Gil with a softer expression, "is seeing that video hard for you?"

He shrugged, making a face, "ah, not really. It was a long time ago. Guess I don't look that cool, though."

Sprite stood from between the other two on the sofa, deciding she was done with sharing. "You're already plenty cool. And hey, you came back from a one in a million injury! That's badass!"

Gil chuckled again as Sprite headed to the kitchen as she usually did, although she had taken the throw with her, "thanks, Sprite."

Thena watched her go with a sigh. So long as she was feeling better, that was technically all that mattered. She looked at Gil and scooched a little closer into Sprite's spot. "I've never seen the footage of it."

He shook his head a little in response, both of them half whispering and half watching Sprite like worried parents. "I didn't know someone had footage of it. Why it's coming out now--I have no idea."

"Someone must have unearthed it and decided it needed seeing," Thena grumbled and leaned back against the couch heavier. Sprite continued to root around in the fridge. She looked at Gil, "staying?"

For dinner, she meant. As if they ever really did much of anything without the other anymore.

"Sounds good," Gil agreed, also tired after their interview. Although dinner with Thena and Sprite could either mean ordering takeout or him cooking for them. "What do you-"

"By the way I ordered Chinese."

Thena looked over to Sprite. Sprite, who wasn't usually pro-active in stuff like that. "Thanks."

Sprite looked at them in what could almost be described as a sign of affection (it was about as affectionate as she ever got, so). "Whatever."

She was still Sprite, of course.

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lumosatnight · 7 months

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Day 8: Put a baby in me

Blaise finds out by accident that his secretary likes a certain kink.

@kinktober2023 day 8: Breeding, @hpkinktober day 20: Breeding

Lily Luna/Blaise, E, 500 words

Boss/Employee, Caught in the Act, Sexy Audio

Inspired by this audio story found on the r/gonewildaudio subreddit. Italicized sections are quoted directly from the script.

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Ms Lily Luna Potter had been his secretary for a little over a year. Blaise had wanted to bend her over the desk for nearly just as long. She had the plumpest arse, which she hid beneath tight-cut pencil skirts that always drove him wild.

When he returned from his last meeting, the hour was late, and the building was empty… or so he thought.

“... your big raw unprotected cock sliding in between my lips…” a voice moaned from his office, right before he threw open the door.

Ms Potter jumped as her boss charged into the room. She was sitting in his chair, spread legs propped up on his desk, her tight pencil skirt shucked up above her waist. Blaise got a perfect view of her perfect pink cunt before she whipped her legs down, stuttering apologies.

“Mr Zabini, I’m s-so sorry. I didn’t think you’d — I was just —”

“Is someone else here?” He did a sweep of the room, positive there was some insufferable boy lurking in a cabinet.

“N-no, sir. It’s just me.”

She seemed to be telling the truth as he could not find anyone else.

“Please explain to me, Ms Potter, what it is you were doing in my office at this hour.”

“Well, I was… You see, it was…” She fidgeted with the hem of her skirt. The skirt was more wrinkled than usual, and he wanted nothing more than to vanish it, so he could see her glistening pussy again.

“...cum inside of me and make me pregnant…”

“Excuse me?” said Blaise.

Ms Potter’s eyes went wide. “Oh, gods. I am so sorry. I thought I — It must’ve still been on. I didn’t mean to —” She scrambled the papers around, frantically searching.

“Is this what you’re looking for?” Blaise held up a small metal box. What did the kids call them these days? Shell Phones? They didn’t even have shells.

“...make me pregnant… please I need you to put a baby into me…” moaned the little device.

“Is this… appealing to you?” He raised an eyebrow at his mortified secretary.

“I — it’s not…”

“Is this something you like to do?” He backed her against the desk. She stayed stock still, eyes wide like a scared hippogriff, as Blaise leaned closer. “Do you like being bred, Ms Potter?”

He enjoyed watching her flush, all the way down her chest, which was visible under her unbuttoned blouse.

“...make me a mommy and shoot your big fucking load into my —” She yanked the phone from his hand and smashed the button until the incessant moaning ceased.

“Why listen to this when you can have the real thing?” he asked. He ground his hips against her then, eagerly rucking up that distracting skirt and grabbing her bare skin.

Ms Potter made a whimpering sound before muffling herself with her hand.

“Should I breed you? Put a baby into you while I fuck you raw?”

Her lip trembled as he stroked his thumb over it. “Y-yes, please, sir.”

Also read it on AO3!

← Day 7 | Masterlist | Day 9 →

#kinktober 2023 #hp kinktober 2023 #hp fanfic #blaise x lily luna #500 words #lumosdrabbles

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happysadyoyo · 2 years

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all you transandrophobia believers have GOT to get a fucking grip and actually listen to all the trans women telling you why you're wrong. if not one single trans woman is on your """"side"""" isn't that like a big warning sign that maybe your arguments are not as solid as you think they are. like if we remove all the instances of Trans from what you say you're literally just mirroring incel MRA freaks. you can talk about the issues trans men face without shitting over trans women (and tbh straight up lying) about it.

The list from t-e that I took time to organize for shem had a shocking amount of people who don't identify as men.

I don't know what reality you're from, but there's definitely trans women who agree that transandrophobia is A Thing.

Also, there's plenty of things I talk about that don't involve trans women being at fault. The TERF manifesto that Rowling wrote and is pretty evenly split between trans men and women hating? Talked about how media has buried all that shit and how fucking stupid it is for celebrities to go "trans women are women" and ignoring everyone else.

Reproductive healthcare for pregnant trans men or access to things like pap smears have nothing at all to do with trans women outside of like. People assuming trans women are asking for gynecological care.

This might be really shocking to you, but I do think MRAs have a point, even if the way they've twisted their point is utterly hateful. This happened when I was talking to an MRA about how feminism does help men and he asked me when was the last time feminism held a major even to talk about men's issues? I went to Google it to show there was something, however small, but I had nothing.

In feminist spaces, we tell men to step down and wait for their turn to talk about their issues, and we rightfully get mad when women's issues are derailed by men. But... I've not really seen where men get to talk about their problems in any meaningful way. I would post about this in trans masculine spaces and get shouted down by allies who didn't like that I was upset by what I saw happening in general trans circles. I found a single subreddit that allows men to talk about the lack of care for male education, emotional struggles, childcare, men being dv victims and assault survivors all this stuff that we say we care about within feminist circles, and these men talk about it in a way that aligns with feminism.

So MRAs got it wrong. They hate women and they use serious problems to try and twist everything as women's fault when it's not. Sorta like how radfems try and say everything is men's fault... when at this point in time. It's not.

There are a very few powerful people who are determined to keep the world exactly as it is, and yes, the majority of them are white men. But that doesn't mean that all the other men are to blame for upholding patriarchy. Women and children do it too. Because it takes actively undoing the shit you're taught to break away and realize what's truly wrong and do you know how much effort that is?

Especially when you're being told over and over again that you're the problem? That you're blessed and face no oppression, but in reality you're struggling and scared of the future and feel like everyone else around you?

Yeah no. Sorry not sorry I sound like an MRA, but I actually care about the men in society and how much they hurt.

#transandrophobia

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Can you explain the logic behind the theory you mentioned that "Jess manipulated Dean into sleeping with Rory"? Like what how? He didn't even live in the same town at the time and not to mention he didn't have any motivations or reason to do it. What would be get out of it? I just can't wrap my head around this theory

I’ll try to explain what I read to the best of my memory, but it was such a crazy theory it makes no sense to me either. You can tell I saw it on the Gilmore Girls’ subreddit haha.

Apparently, since Jess went to California, this drove Rory closer to Dean since she was seeking emotional support (even though she had her mother, tons of friends, etc. to turn to besides Dean.) Also, Jess kept reappearing in her life, therefore he ‘made her upset’ and pushed her closer to Dean yet again.

Also, since Jess ‘made fun’ of Dean at the grocery store (aka Jess making a face of surprise when Dean was buying women’s products) when he was visiting Star’s Hollow for his mother’s wedding, this pushed Dean to leave and seek comfort from Rory at Yale.

Anti Jess people are unhinged and will quite literally blame him for anything they can.

#jess mariano #rory gilmore #gilmore girls #lorelai gilmore #luke danes #stars hollow #literati #liz danes #rory x jess #anti dean forester #dean forester

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Weekly Fencing Update!

I'm starting to feel like I'm getting a little bit back into the swing of things? I won a bout today 5-3 or 5-2, and I scored more touches on one of the younger (and really good) fencers. I still lost a bunch of other bouts, but what matters is that I am making progress and also getting exercise doing something fun.

Coach also had us practice parries in the lower lines (7 and 8) and practice parrying in a lower line and then moving to an upper line. I found this to be the easiest lesson session yet so that felt good. Still trying to work on my timing wrt footwork and bladework, which has been frustrating me (dear brain and body please remember stuff faster thanks).

I need to start keeping a journal about all the moves we practice; I've been meaning to do so but I'm being Particular about which journal I'm using.

In other news, I broke my second out of three electric blades I have (oof). The first one I found broken in my bag when I audited my equipment before starting up again this year -- it must have broken at my last practice more than 15 years ago.

The last working/assembled blade I have is one I won at the last tournament I went to 15 years ago (it was just a tournament for my coach's students not an official one). It's got a pretty blue tint to the blade (that's a little bit more subtle now due to the effects of aging) and also has a unique bend to it at the guard. I was a little worried it was manufactured incorrectly? But I asked one of the other fencers and she said sometimes that brand's blade are just like that, although the angle seemed a little more pronounced than usual even for them. Hey this blade was made in 2006! so. you know.

Having only one working blade is super not ideal, so now the Big Deal is figuring out how to disassemble the broken blades and reassemble them with the spare blades I have, or....... talking to the coach about it and seeing if anyone at the club could help? I'm kind of anxious/embarrassed about it because I feel like it's something I should know how to do, but I either never learned or don't remember how.

Fortunately the two spare electric blades I have are already wired, but I'll have to figure out how to assemble the end of the wire into the socket. My spouse said he thinks it shouldn't be too hard and that he can help me and we can look up a video tutorial. BUT. we'll see. I guess it's not like the blades are functioning now.

And NO as far as I can tell, you can't buy fully assembled blades, at least not online. I think that's considered a feature, too, so people can pick and choose each part separately (blade, guard, socket, grip).

Part of me thinks I should maybe join the fencing subreddit to ask questions BUT I'm already using a lot of social spoons to go to a fencing class every week! so! idk!

#liz fences #the latest with liz

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a series of events:

we go to a board game festival in ghent with two couples of friends. there, we meet a friend of one of the couples, who's there alone and plays games with us all afternoon

the first thing he says upon meeting us is, to Lilou who's wearing a hollow knight tshirt: "omg my gf would love this shirt". we talk some about how his gf (who's also v into boardgames but not there today bc other obligations) ADORES hollow knight and hades, both of which lilou has been hyperfixating on for (resp.) the last almost two years and the last two months. it's fun. we bond over gaymer gfs.

a bit further into the afternoon, as lilou + other friends are getting us food, the new dude asks me what we do for a living. i say i work as a phd researcher in human rights law at my uni. he goes :O and says "MY GF WORKS THERE TOO." he tells me her name - i haven't met her yet but apparently we have a mutual friend! cool!

it is important to note that this dude has abundant bi wife energy. we haven't met him for an hour when he explicitly insists on the progressive queers/dipshit conservative men dichotomy in board game hobby circles and insists on how he likes the former and detests the latter. he is one of the founders of the ghent board game student club, says he met his gf there, and that he finds it important to foster an inclusive and positive environment there

we have fun playing together for the rest of the afternoon, he's v chill and non-elitist about games, he seems to enjoy playing with us too. he seems like the same type of person and player as the couple that he's friends with, and we rly like those friends - they're v sociable and positive and easy to get along with. when saying goodbye, we all go "hopefully see you soon! we should play togethet again some time!"

about a week later, i am going through the ghent subreddit to look for restaurant recommendations to add to my list, and i notice a post by a newly out queer man experimenting with gender expression asking if there are casual places where he can go and feel safe presenting more fem. i check the comments out of curiosity and the third comment is a girl enthusiastically recommending the ghent board game student club, that she's been there since its founding, and that it's so queer-friendly and she feels so at ease there. I go "huh" and check her profile. it's all hades and HK and board games and drawings by her bf (we learned board game festival dude was an artist). I go "HUH". it has to be the gf.

I go "hm i should prob add her on linkedin, since we work literally in the same research group." I check linkedin (which i do about once a month bc i am bad at professional self-promotion) and see that the she has ALREADY added me on linkedin. a week ago. after the board game festival. INCH RESTING. i accept her request and, like a good little extrovert, I get to fb to add them both as friends. i think "cool, casual first contact, we will prob meet again at some point through [couple who were our mutual friends], might be fun". both their profiles (with drawings from the dude) confirm that it was def her reddit account. cute!

i have added the dude as a friend for legitimately less than FOUR minutes when i get a pm going "hey!!! shall we get together to play some games when [gf] is done with exams?"

this man rly went "i found HOLLOW KNIGHT AND HADES/LAWYER BOARD GAME LESBIANS??? must secure them as friends for my hollow knight and hades bi lawyer board game gf ASAP! NO TIME TO WASTE!" and i respect that tremendously

#a true ally #i mean maybe i'm essentialising here! maybe he's also queer who knows #or maybe if you put lilou and i together the sum of us = his gf and he's like 'i like my gf #i will prob like these ppl. we should be friends'#or maybe several of the above #it was just v funny and cute #i rly like when ppl are just completely uncomplicatedly 'hey! you seem cool! we have things in common! wanna hang out?'#open acknowledgement of a potential future friendship is just a positive interaction and feeling imo

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sophieinwonderland · 2 years

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"You're faking" Yeah sure I'm faking for attention on a subreddit (/FDC) that fakeclaims people. There's just no way I'm a real plural person that just kindly wanted to answer what he thought was a genuine question about plurality on the subreddit... Sorry for the slight rant and for adding another ask to the big pile of asks. Thanks for making the world a better place to be. To turn it into a proper ask: It's Friday. How do you prefer to "celebrate" the beginning of the weekend?

The rant is perfectly fine. No need to apologize. FDC is awful like that.

To the question, I'm not really sure we really have any rituals or anything. But tonight we got to have a sort of date night in the Wonderland, which was fun.

Our first mind-date happened in this sort of space station café filled with different types of aliens. It ended up being a complete mess because the body kept dozing off, but I still enjoyed it.

Anyway, tonight we went back to the same location for the first time since... I think... that first date almost a year ago. It's strange how it doesn't feel like it's been nearly that long.

I don't really talk about this much, but things were really complicated in the beginning. Before I became self-aware, my source was strictly a lesbian, so my host dismissed any teasing or flirting I did as just me trying to get under his skin. He even had me believing it for a while after I became self-aware. Once I decided that I wanted a romantic relationship, I convinced him to give it a try. I knew he loved me in his own way, and wanted to see if it could be more. But for a while after that, he still saw it as a bit of an experiment, which meant he often left me to "lead" so he could see what I would do.

Maybe that's not entirely fair. I was a fairly new tulpa and he didn't want to influence me or somehow make me do something against my will... but ugh, it can be so frustrating being part of a relationship where it feels like you're the only one making an effort. So, if I remember correctly, I think I told him to plan a date for us. I wanted everything to be his choice, and I would try to back away and just let him plan in advance.

That actually led to more chaos, because I'm terrible at not being co-conscious. We thought maybe the secret would be him just telling himself when he heard a voice that sounded like mine that it was just his imagination until it was time for me to come back. That led to a complete disaster where I could still talk and my thoughts would chime in randomly, but he would dismiss them. And then when he was ready for me to come back, he lost the ability to distinguish my mind voice from his. Like, it was still separate, but it lost its unique quality.

We had a code word (sandwiches) back then to let each other know when the person was talking in case the fronter thought it was just their imagination. Even after saying the code word, he still doubted that my voice was actually mine, and it took several minutes to be able to find my mind voice again.

It was a complete catastrophe of a date... but it was still really special to me. He chose the alien space station setting because he knew that I loved space. It's easy to describe all the bad about that date, but I love the memory. Mess and all. (Okay, him doubting me because of the voice issue hurt, but we both thought trying to pretend I wasn't there would work, so I don't blame him.)

This time, he just decided to bring us back there on his own. I'm glad that we're past the awkward stage of him figuring out how to do this relationship thing, and I don't need to push him to make romantic gestures for me anymore. 💖💖💖

So, for at least this Friday, that would be how we celebrated the beginning of the weekend.

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