God fucking damn it I don’t want to live in America. I’m so angry. I am so so angry. What the actual FUCK. If you’re happy about this literally fuck right off.

God I fucking hate SCOTUS. What even the fuck is this country any more.

Wanna know what really grinds my gears?

When I, a physically disabled woman, talk about the intersections of being both disabled and a woman, and other, able bodied women decide that it’s perfectly fucking fine to shut me down.

I have MS if you didn’t know. Recently studies have come out about scientists wanting to explore certain hormones in pregnancy and why they cause (some) women with MS to go into remission.

All of these people were talking about a potential “breakthrough”, and while that is a possibility, I live in a country that just took away reproductive rights from women.

So forgive me if I’m not ecstatic about scientists yet-a-fucking-gain talking about using pregnancy to treat a condition that’s more common in woman.

Forgive me for pointing out the downsides.

Like seriously, someone in Australia had the fucking gall to tell me to “stop freaking out about it because you don’t live in Nazi Germany, yet”

Really Becky, cause from what I can tell the USA is one fascist dictator getting into office away from turning into the reincarnation of it. And since you used “yet” you seem to recognize that, but don’t want to acknowledge that a positive for you is a negative for other fucking women in the same situation.

I don’t want my insurance company to turn around and refuse to cover my Ocrevus because they decided that me getting knocked up is the cheaper option than covering the meds that cost approx. 69k dollars out of pocket.

I don’t want to be forced to become a handmaiden to replenish ACB’s “domestic supply of infants”

I want to be child free, and I want it to become unacceptable for any scientist or doctor to recommend fucking pregnancy as a treatment,

…but, ya know, I’m just crazy for pointing out the potential negatives should the recommendations from further studies be “get knocked up, it’s the only way” when a lot of women don’t even have a right to bodily autonomy anymore.

Starstruck

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Pairing ⍟ Rockstar!Bucky Barnes x Captain America!Steve Rogers [Shrunkyclunks]

Rating ⍟ E

Word Count ⍟ 6.6k

Major Tags ⍟ Shrunkyclunks, Modern AU, Prequel Fic, Bucky's Birthday, Rockstar!Bucky, Charity Auctions, PWP, Explicit Content, Strangers To Lovers, Getting To Know Each Other, Original Songs, Serenading, Everything Is Beautiful & Nothing Hurts, Happy Ending

Summary ⍟ Bucky's evening cannot get any worse.

“Our next bachelor up for bid tonight is a wild card.” The crowd chuckles, but a few at the front tables stay mum at the glare he sends the group. This is the last fucking place he wants to be. “Grammy award-winning musician and songwriter. He’s the frontman of Winter Star, branded by Rolling Stone as the “it” sound to hear. His passions include reading by the fire, romantic cooking, and long walks in the…snow?” The crowd laughs again, and he, despite his scantily clad concert attire, starts to sweat under the gaze and heated lights. “Bucky Barnes!” The MC announces too loudly, the mic cracking.

“Fuck me.” He hisses under his breath, clenching down on his teeth.

-

He closes his eyes attempting to starve away from the humiliation and tries to think of a happy place. He gets as far as his own apartment, in the bathtub before a deep voice has him jerking back with surprise.

“I’m sorry sir, please correct me if I misheard. But did you say—“

“I said.” The tall blond steps out from the shadows and into the spotlight in the center of the dance floor— holy fucking shit, that’s Steve Rogers, Captain America. “Five hundred thousand dollars.” Dark eyes lock on him, and Bucky bites back the squeal trying to leave his throat.

You know what they don't tell you when you pursing your dreams and shoot to fame? That it doesn’t make you any less of a fan yourself. That it does not diminish your own personal fandom in any way. His childhood hero, the man who inspired his gay awakening—just paid half a million dollars for a date with him. Okay, so it's for a good cause.

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RATING: Teen WARNING: Mob Boss AU, Tony Stark can be mean, Sam Wilson doesn't care, Peter Parker is adorable, "LANGUAGE!"

Nobody knows why there is a shipment coming from Washington DC or what it includes. They just know Tony didn't make it, and Tony doesn't love when people do things without telling him. | Steve Rogers/Tony Stark

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“Why the fuck would we be agreeing on shipment from Washington DC?” Tony asks in frustration across the room, sitting at a large table with those he trusts sitting around him. People who definitely shouldn’t have let this large of a shipment go underneath the radar until now. Sometimes it felt like Tony needed to do all the work between them. 

While everyone else looks around to weather scared of the outcome if they don’t find out, Sam Wilson plays with the gun on his waistband, unfazed. “Steve brought them, thought you knew about it,” he shrugs and as Steve’s best friend it is times like this that Tony is regretful to let him into the inner circle, “I think he mentioned about it being for Peter.” 

That is not as shocking as one might expect for it to be in a mob boss’ home. Peter had quickly taken over the home once moving in and Tony wouldn’t have it any other way. He loved Steve and he loved Peter even more because Peter was half of Steve with even chubbier cheeks and more quick wit than the adults knew what to do with. 

His brain was also incredible and Tony was proud that he could be trusted to nourish it. 

Tony bites his lip not sure how to respond. He was never good at holding his tongue, “what the hell is in that shipment?” Because he expects and hopes that it is not what their normal shipments consist of, drugs and weapons. 

Clint flips through pages and pages of shipping information and location details looking for details disclosing what is in the container stuck in Washington DC. If it is for Peter it could be anything. In the first few months (the first year even) of Peter and Steve living with Tony Steve didn’t feel comfortable spending the ludicrous amounts of money Tony had, but that has slowly changed in the last six months with Peter starting school. Some may blame Tony for always spoiling the younger boy (and Steve) which eventually would rub off on his partner. 

“I think it’s Lego?” Clint finally comes to the conclusion which makes Tony sigh. Lego is huge in their household, Peter, as most six-year-olds are, is obsessed and Tony is happy to indulge and help him build the large sets that his money can afford. It gives them bonding time in the lab which doesn’t give Steve a heart attack thinking the environment is unsafe. 

It isn’t like Tony to just shrug off a large shipment, but for this, it seemed okay. 

Sam rolls his eyes, “we are just letting one of our trucks ship 200 pounds of Lego from Washinton DC to Manhattan because Steve okayed it?” This is the reason that Tony lets Sam sit on the board because he sees through the bullshit that Tony often doesn’t when it comes to his partner. 

Holding his hand up Tony takes to his phone, quieting everybody in the room. The phone displays a Facetime screen, ringing until the person on the other side picks up. 

“Hey babe, is everything okay?” Tony smiles at just the voice of his partner. Steve displayed on the screen doesn’t seem to be bothered by the interference with his sunbathing time if his background of the mansions pool and sun chair is anything to notice. “Yeah everything is fine, I am just wondering what Lego is in the shipment from Washington? Something we can’t get here?” Tony asks with no malicious intent and it makes Sam think that they should let him speak to Steve more often in meetings if this is the reaction. 

Steve on the screen tilts his head from side to side, “I was talking to Natasha and she said that the white house used to get exclusive US Lego, which I thought was unfair, so I asked, politely. They agreed to send some for Peter, said he was so adorable the last time he was there, he deserves an award.” The proud look on both Steve's and Tony’s faces is alike in different ways, Steve is for Peter, and Tony’s is for Steve. 

It is just like Steve to think of the fairness in the world, even when it just comes to Lego distribution. 

Tony pausing gives Steve time to keep adding to his story and reasoning, “And I thought any of the spare Lego because I am sure there will be double ups with how much you buy him, we could donate them,” Tony, while offended, is also extremely proud, “or sell them off at an auction dinner if you think that’s a better idea.” Steve is right, there probably will be multiples of sets and there may be sets that Peter might not want, considering them too easy, and both ideas are great ones. It really shows that Steve is fitting more and more into their world. 

This life is much better with Steve, and Peter, in it. Tony smiles politely talking to the phone again, “I have to go, but we should definitely discuss your ideas later, maybe over a nice dinner.” The smile on Steve’s face is bright enough to light the entire room and maybe the one over as well, “love you, babe,” he responds to Tony mimicking the phrase before hanging up the call. 

The atmosphere shifts and Tony’s smile fades and becomes the stern look that he leads with. 

“What’s next,” he asks waiting for a quick response. Sam thinks to himself that they need Steve more often in these meetings because whoever is going next is not going to get the same type of treatment that Clint just got for his update. 

But he will just sit and wait knowing he’s okay, smiling even. 

“Why the fuck did you think talking to, fucking Hammer was a good idea!”

Yeah, he can just sit back and watch.

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I was curious what you thought of the news that the US Supreme Court "investigated" itself and couldn't find the Dobbs leaker. My money is on Alito being the leaker.

I mean, yeah. The Republicans screamed bloody murder for the first few days about how terrible the leaker was and how it was clearly a godless liberal who didn't respect tHe lEgItiMaCy oF tHe CoUrT and how dare the American people have any knowledge or forewarning of what the nine unelected god-kings holding séances with Thomas Jefferson's spirit might bindingly rule on their basic civil rights. Then (remember, every Republican accusation is a confession), the trail led straight to the conservative faction pre-emptively leaking it to lock in the most extreme version of the decision and making sure ACB or Kavanaugh didn't suddenly back out or water it down at the last minute. Then? Crickets.

Anyway, I believe that SCOTUS "investigated" the leak and "didn't find the leaker" the same way I believe Trump and his lawyers "properly searched Mar-a-Lago for classified documents" and "didn't find any more," which is to say not at all. I think you're right in suspecting Alito, as it was either him or Ginni Thomas. We have now learned that conservative lobbying groups have had access to Alito/the inner workings of SCOTUS for years, and he was the one whining the most loudly about people no longer trusting SCOTUS for some reason/"undermining its legitimacy." Gee, I wonder why that is. It's a fucking mystery.

Modern timeline bits we should have gotten in AC3 but we were robbed:

big city chase scene with diving into buildings and vaulting over cars to ditch pursuers. bonus points if it's in São Paulo, the portion of Manhattan we get is too vertical for a nice free running-heavy segment imo.

speaking of, small scene of the São Paulo assassin team welcoming the group and helping set them up with what they need to get around. (it was said they were moving locations but they never said they were moving away from the city, maybe just different hideouts. i sincerely doubt the brotherhood would let themselves be thrown off a major city like that.)

on the topic of Manhattan, we should have gotten a stealth escape sequence on the way out of the building. we went through a whole thing to jump from one building to the next, there's bound to be enough security to make this interesting.

which means, access to more gear!!! smoke bombs, sound poppers, flashbangs, gun silencers, hell even improvised weapons from office supplies. i know the brotherhood is stretched thin but c'mon!

Desmond finding and releasing more animus project test subjects. He's right in the heart of the whole project and he only walks out with his dad? Nuh-uh, if there are anymore subjects (and knowing Abstergo, there is a very high chance there are), then he's also walking out with them.

an actual, sincere, thesis-lead, fight and then confession with Daniel Cross. those two need to fucking talk more than exchanging a few snide remarks at each other, i am BEGGING.

Desmond! Riding! A MOTORCYCLE!!!! Perfect way to go full circle, the thing that got him caught in the beginning is the thing that saves his hide in a pinch.

access to Bill's emails, as well as Becca's and Shaun's. i don't care if it's sus, this is a brotherhood. they are stretched thin and with windling numbers, but all the more reason to keep in touch and find solidarity and companionship on one another. i wanna hear from the other teams, i wanna know what's going on around the world with them, and i want them to reach out to each other.

BONUS POINTS if Desmond opens up about reading the team's emails back in Monteriggioni and addressing the fact that they basically tried to schedule a dinner out without inviting of thinking about him. among other things too, he was so left behind in the socializing!!

on that note, Desmond gets to talk to his mom. i don't care if it's too dangerous, let him talk to his mom!! if you're gonna make your character feel sorry for refusing the call and regret being away, then make that mean something? hell, let him send her an email at least!

Desmond, Shaun and Becca break time. No Bill, just the three of them catching up and, discussing what happened back in ACB. you kill off one of your biggest side characters and we're supposed to just carry on? i'm not having it, this can't go unaddressed for the audience, it's so cheap. (no that bit from the Juno story hours doesn't count)

Shaun and Becca being more than voices on your ear. We should have gotten a bit of them having the spotlight, maybe infiltrating Abstergo's servers to wreck havoc and cover for Desmond's escape. Maybe even giving us environment cues to use on the fight against Daniel as mentioned above. A sliding door to break a chokehold, or overloading a server to make the power go out to give you an advantage, shit like that!

The team slowly but surely tipping the scales against Bill. Yes, we all know we're in a deadline, things are tense, yadda yadda. They are still people, and you make people overwork for too long, and they break in terrible ways. Desmond should be able to bring a measure of defiance to Bill's iron fist, telling him off often so that Shaun and Becca can catch a breather too, and it helps. Which would be a great way to segue into the Bill rescue mission, it's not what he would have wanted them to do but well, his orders are shit anyway, so let's save his ass.

i hate summer.

why. boob acbe.

BOOB. ACNE.

ive never had boob acne in all years of my life. and its not even like on my actual boobs no of course not ITS IN MY CLEAVAGE SO IT FUCJING HURTS AND IT ONLY GETS WORSE BC OBVIOUSLY THATS AN AREA THAT GETS SWEATY . this shits never going away until winter comes i swear to god AND IT HURTS

FUCK YOU SUMMER WHY ARE YOU DETERMINED ON MAKING NY LIFE MISERABLE THIS YEAR

Community characters as Crazy Ex Girlfriend songs

Yep I'm doing this because of course I am. Partially inspired by this post, but also I do this a lot at least in my head with a lot of different media.

Jeff: Let's Have Intercourse, Settle For Me, Don't Be A Lawyer, I Could If I Wanted To, Greg's Jeff's Drinking Song, I'm the Villain in My Own Story, End of the Movie (to Abed), Feelin' Kinda Naughty (about Rich), Get Your Ass Out of My House (to Chang), The Moment Is Me

Jeff and Troy: Sports Analogies, Fit Hot Guys Have Problems Too

Jeff and Britta: We Should Definitely Not Have Sex Right Now, Horny Angry Tango, Nothing Is Ever Anyone's Fault, We'll Never Have Problems Again

Jeff and Craig: Gratuitous Karaoke Moment

Britta: I'm a Good Person, Without Love You Can Save The World, This Is My Movement, You Stupid Bitch, What'll It Be, A Fuckton Of Cats, This Session Is Gonna Be Different (when she tries to "therapize" Abed), Oh My God I Think I Like You (about Jeff), The Darkness, I'm Not Sad You're Sad, Love Kernels (about pretty much every guy she dates tbh, yes even Actual Ray of Sunshine Troy Barnes)

Troy: I Have Friends (in high school), Thought Bubbles, A Boy Band Made Up Of Four Joshes Troys (in early Annie's head), Trapped in a Car With Someone You Don't Wanna Be Trapped in a Car With (driving everyone home on his birthday)

Troy's dad: Get Your Ass Out of My House

Troy and Abed: Having A Few People Over (housewarming party), You Go First (pillow war)

Abed: A Diagnosis, Gettin' Bi (yeah yeah not canon whatever, let me have this it's so cool in my head), Dream Ghost (to Jeff)

Gobi Nadir to Abed: I've Always Never Believed in You (I'm so very very sorry), Forget It

Annie: The Darkness, Love Kernels (about Jeff), Dear Joshua Felix Chan Troy (does he have a middle name?) Barnes, Romantic Moments, How to Clean Up (to Troy and Abed probably at some point), I'm Just A Girl In Love, You Do/Don't Wanna Be Crazy, Meet Rebecca Annie (Other Annie is the version in Jeff's head he imagines being married to)

Annie Kim: I'm So Good At Yoga Model UN

Evil Annie to Evil Jeff (unfortunately): Strip Away My Conscience

Annie's mom about rehab: Forget It

Abed and Annie to Troy: What U Missed While U Were Popular

Annie and Jeff in response to the ACB (Jeff is Paula being unenthusiastic): Back in Action

Shirley: I'm a Good Person, I've Got My Head In The Clouds, Maybe This Dream

Pierce: My Sperm Is Healthy (I'm so sorry, but if I had to think it you have to read it)

Britta, Annie, Shirley, and also Abed I guess? That time they encouraged him to insult other women they didn't like: Women Gotta Stick Together

Jeff, Britta, Annie, Troy, Abed sometimes I guess: The Math of Love Triangles Quadrangles Whatever the Fuck Kinda Shape That Makes

Craig: I'm Just A Boy in Love

Rachel and Anthony when Abed and Annie were trying to decide who would live with them: I Feel Like This Isn't About Me

The Fives in Meow Meow Beans: Friendtopia

Jerry trying to convince Troy to do plumbing: Flooded With Justice

The group when they try to get Abed to flirt with that girl, Jeff and Britta trying to convince Troy to like Annie, Annie setting up Troy and Britta: The Group Mind Has Decided You're in Love

Rich to Jeff: Research Me Obsessively

Nicolas Cage to Abed: Research Me Obsessively

Everyone except Abed about Frankie: Who's The New Guy

Frankie: I Feel Like This Isn't About Me

The group in Basic RV Repair and Palmistry: Trapped in a Car Van With Someone You Don't Wanna Be Trapped in a Car Van With

hetalia/AC crossover rambling

okay. okay. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla leaves a lot to be desired but it does make it easier for me to picture a lot of environments etc for hetalia. even as a straight up crossover, I think Sigrid/Norway and Mathias would at least get along with Eivor. and Arthur fits into the story very well by virtue of Alfred the Great being a main character, so presumably Arthur is just hanging out with him when he’s not captured by Guthrum.

(Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is the fucking best but absolutely does not crossover with hetalia very well so, RIP to that. haven’t played AC Origins so RIP to that too, though it looks great for Romulus to run around causing chaos.)

Assassin’s Creed I is perfectly okay with hetalia crossovers too, though the lack of caliphate nation-tans does cause a little difficulty. at the very least, Arthur is hanging out with Richard the Lionheart who you briefly interact with in-game, and of course Solène/Knights Templar has a very bizarre but fun role in the story since the Templars have the double role of the actual military order and this ancient conspiracy that acts as the franchise antagonists. 

Assassin’s Creed Ezio trilogy is interesting and has so much potential. AC2 is the heyday of Veneciano/Feliciano’s power and wealth, ACB is entirely in Rome so I guess would feature Romano, and ACR is in Constantinople just as it’s changing to Turkish rule, so we have great Herakles and Sadik potential as well.

Assassin’s Creed 3 was made for this crossover you can’t change my mind. American Revolution? Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre, all those events? the main character’s father is aligned to the British and directly opposes his goals? Connor Kenway is Connor Goddamn Kenway? the narrative being focused on the constant struggle for the colonists’ freedom versus the fact that that doesn’t include natives and slaves? George Washington is there, we get to stab Charles Lee, it’s all perfect. absolutely made for a hetalia crossover. 

and meanwhile the other fucking million AC games I simply haven’t played. >_>

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