"Leave, Just before Christmas? It's going to be my birthday, you know..."

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I'm not really that big on kpop but Halazia and Black Cat Nero are just

[ID: Still from the "When the sun hits the ridge just right" scene from the animated movie The Emperor's New Groove. The character Pacha is wearing a green tunic and brown hat. He is holding his left hand up in an "okay" gesture to signal satisfaction. /end]

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i have to say something and it's been on my mind every day I'm scrolling through Tumblr like it's the morning newspaper and can never decide if I actually want to know or not.

what the fuck is the queue.

why do you use it.

why are there so many puns about the word queue in the tags

are you just scheduling posts, is that it.

why

this isn't hoot suite

it's not a marketing platform

why give the queue so much power

post when you want to

and never let me see the word queue again

i don't recall telling you how that word triggers me, but i was surprised when you caught it... thank you. it meant a lot to me. more than you think.

🦇 Book Review 🦇

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

❝ Four-legged or two, when someone finds their purpose, magical things happen. ❞

❓ #QOTD If you could shift into any supernatural creature, what would it be? ❓ 🦇 Now that Rose Maxwell is no longer the next Prima witch on the Supernatural Council, she's at a loss with what to do with her life. Thoughts of her impulsive, steamy one-night stand with Damian Adams, a half-Demon, still swim in her mind. After a string of dead-end jobs, she finds herself sentenced to completing community hours at an animal sanctuary—the sanctuary where Damian happens to work as a vet. Still tingling from their brief encounter together, the two develop a friends-with-benefits arrangement, certain they won't catch feelings. Unknown to Rose, Damian will lose his humanity if he falls in love. Is the stubborn, sassy witch worth that risk?

💜 April Asher's writing draws you in from the get-go, inviting you to escape into a world of Supernatural beings, magic, and lovestruck mayhem. The prose is playful, enchanting, and witty, ensuring one page rushes right into the next. The book plays like a movie (fitting, since Rose is a fan of romcoms and grand gestures) with an attention to detail that sweeps you off your feet and plops you right into Rose's witchy world. This grumpy vs sunshine pairing bring the banter and sexual chemistry, but they don't overshadow the overarching plot and singular character development. Each side character contributes to the story with their own motivations as well (which will make you all the more eager to read the other two books in the Supernatural Singles series). Don't wait until autumn; whether you're ready for romantic witchy vibes or not, Asher's writing is sure to enchant you.

🪄 The only time the spell stalled for me was when the pacing hiccuped. Each time the story seemed to pick up, it stalled again. With how much information we're given about Rose's family, I do wish we'd received more of Damian's backstory than one flashback. Maybe I'm being selfish in wanting MORE of Asher's dynamic, realistic (despite the Supernatural bloodlines) characters.

🦇 If you're an old-school fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or OG Charmed, this book is for you! And if you're not, the hijinx, laugh-out-loud humor, and heat are bound to enthrall you. This book is pure magic!

🪄 Grumpy vs Sunshine 🔮 Paranormal Romance 🪄 Witty Writing 🔮 Friends With Benefits 🪄 Bwitchy Banter

🦇 Major thanks to the author and publisher for providing an ARC of this book via Netgalley. 🥰 This does not affect my opinion regarding the book.

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from “A Rant About ‘Technology’”

can ... can we have some kyle... cause he's just kyle.../ref

He's just Ken Kyle. For real

That's the most fun game yet!

"why should I get invested in shows if they'll just get canceled" I was deeply invested in Heroes (2006) and it was not canceled, it just got really terrible. I also got really invested in the sandwich I had a few weeks ago despite it only lasting like 15 minutes. You must embrace the ephemeral. You must be willing to love things that may not love you back, that might betray you, or that may die an untimely death. As the great philosopher Mr. Mitchell Lee Hedberg said "I'm not gonna stop doing something because of what happens at the end."

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🍪🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

my coogie

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.