Ah, rereading the mausoleum scenes is such catnip for my brain. None of my players have read Scum Villain. Even if I throw the mausoleum at them as a dungeon with every detail kept intact, none of them would have the spoilers necessary to solve it the easy way. This is... Profoundly tempting.

One unfinished MDZS fic I really loved was the one where Wen Qing survived and had to marry Lan Wangji and they lavender marriaged their way through with kids and then WWX resurrected and was clueless about being dragged into polyamory. I think there was a WWX/WQ baby too?

I have Doctor Worm as my morning meds alarm, and my friend overheard it and was trying to figure out if it was "that same guy who did re: Your Brains" (which they were newly obsessed with, having discovered it last week). I had to take a moment to process that combined age gap and nerd unity.

"not as bad a decision as you might think" 💍2.9k, Rated M 💍#LiuCheng season 💍Jiang Cheng gets drunk in Vegas and marries a stranger 💍Modern American AU #myfic #svsss #mdzs archiveofourown.org/works/71252346

if I buy a software i want to get physical media or at least a one time access code that lets me use the thing forever. you can sell updates and improvements but you can’t yoink away what I bought already

Muse starting the ORV audiobook has inspired me, and so when I checked the bookstore for my class books (which they did not have) I also picked up this one. Gonna read this fucker in the original language. I bet Dokja is gonna be even MORE sassy than in the fan translation!

Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.

TO ANYONE WORRIED ABOUT BLUESKY'S FUTURE HERE'S WHY YOU SHOULDN'T LEAVE JUST YET bluesky was built with one goal in mind: make it possible to migrate AWAY from bluesky, without losing your handle, posts, follows, followers, lists, feeds, likes, etc...

They have this button on the right hand column that in addition to public shaming, lets you shame them in other useful ways

What would benefit us a lot more is giving us stronger tools to use ourselves to apply labels to our work, because we actually have very little interest in showing our work to people who don't want to see certain themes! We're good at that and this is taking that power away from us.

I was really excited that the new bookmarking feature made it feel possible for me to resume threadfics in terms of how I use bluesky. But they also updated their content restrictions such that I immediately felt unsafe posting anything again.

So we are required to /check notes/ get consent from fictional characters, AND ban a sensitive portion of classical art depicting myths and visual commentary on non consensual acts as well. Ah yes, the taste of censorship. museums and artists always go first. But as usual, violence and gore are ok,

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

The primary diff between writing fiction and nonfiction is when you write nonfic, you research a topic for 2 weeks and then write 1000 words on it and when you write fiction you research a topic for 2 weeks and get one sentence out of it.

i don’t even read noncon but you’re out of luck if you’re coming to ao3, a website created specifically to protect fanworks from being deleted due to purity guidelines, expecting it to ban fictional scenarios you don’t consider “consensual” enough

Oh, actually... That might genuinely explain it? I'm trying to think of exceptions to this that I have witnessed in terms of which word people prefer, and nothing is immediately coming to mind. I mostly stopped using either term because it's the least relevant aspect of my attraction, but still.

I've been thinking lately about how Liu Qingge must have been orphaned sometime before Luo Binghe joined the sect, but after he became a peak lord. And how that means there was probably nobody to hug him when it happened.

I will probably never actually finish this one, but I enjoyed writing this and the crossover references to my favorite webcomic.

Y'know how I love that "Liu Qingge is a transmigrator who never read the source material" AU I dreamed up? Well, let's make it worse. Let's make it an "Actually, EVERY Peak Lord is a transmigrator and Shen Yuan somehow simply hasn't noticed" AU. Imagine with me...

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

But sure let's talk about a dead Nazi for a fourth day thecradle.co/articles-id/...

The metric system is not really designed to a human scale. Inches, however, approximately correspond to finger joints. As a measurement system, you have a built in connection to a sense of scale.

ATTN FELLOW CANADIANS: An actual MP has created a petition to stop financial discrimination against adult creators by payment processors. You have to confirm your email but thats because its something that can actually be shown to parliament.

love fibromyalgia because you go through a thousand symptoms and a thousand tests to get diagnosed with Your Body Hurts And We Don’t Know Why syndrome

my friend was like "what a great title, I hope the author gets tenure" and I was like, "bud, this is an open access book called Sex Dolls at Sea by a video game scholar. this is QUINTESSENTIALLY the book of a professor who already has tenure."

Embroidering a monogram on a tiny dice bag as a gift for a new player. Because why not? Have I done embroidery before? No, not really. But these are rustic bags that can only hold about 2 sets of dice, so I think it came out okay for the purpose of making new dice feel special and welcoming.

Visa and Mastercard reportedly coming for FAIRIES and CAT EARS Get on the phone and ask them wtf is up because this even made me double take bsky.app/profile/dark...

Oh no. I updated the app to get bookmarks but now it quits every time I set one. I was going through and setting my old threads as bookmarked, because with that feature I can actually maybe start writing them again. I hated not being able to find where I left off, and I know readers hated it too.

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

Husband and I are very nearly done with Wano and I am CACKLING about Sanji sticking the equivalent of a GPS tag on his constantly straying swordsman. In his bellyband, without Zoro noticing, somehow...

This is exactly how I feel about it, too. If magic could fix my suffering, I'd want it fixed. Not just disability, either. Lesser Restoration is a second level spell that can cure one disease. Cancer is a disease. Hell yes, write me a fictional world where hero tier characters can cure cancer!

Anthropic should be forced to destroy their corpus and rebuild it based on consent from authors as to whether they want their work included for $3k per book. If the author says no, or does not respond, the work may not be included. This whole situation is bullshit.

Weird that it cost a TV production company £20k to license my books, but this company got to do it against my will and the will of my publisher for an order of magnitude less. And only *maybe* pay up because they settled out of court.

I think all companies should be worker-owned and run. The employees should vote every year or two for a new CEO, and candidates should include anyone who's worked at the company for at least three years. The CEO should be the person with a plan to keep the company profitable, ethical and humane.

Shit. My automatic thing where I just sortof count people's drinks when they're drinking a lot apparently applies to reading fanfic, too. It is unfair for me to be passively tracking alcoholic behavior in fiction. The fictional characters are no threat to me, there's no NEED to worry about it!

I also met (digitally) with WA State Rep. Brianna Thomas today about Visa/MC's porn bans (among other things) and when I told her one of the themed banned on Itch was "nonconsensual transformation," she IMMEDIATELY made a face and went, "So, THE INCREDIBLE HULK?!?! But no one's coming after MARVEL."

It feels as though I maybe slightly leveled up my Korean skills? The nurse called to discuss Michael's schedule next week, which is very full, and I just did the whole conversation taking notes in Korean rather than English. I translated them for Michael afterwards, but the THINKING was in Korean.

schrodinger's cat but it’s chronically ill people trying to make plans. i’m both going and not going until the second the door is open to go out, because there’s no way to tell how my symptoms will be beforehand.

This is scary as hell, but for news coverage? This is a GIFT. "You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here. People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.

I wish taking care of my CFS and getting to the point where I am physically capable of starting school tomorrow didn't require me to stay home and leave my husband alone at the hospital where nobody speaks his language. There are no good solutions and it sucks to keep having to juggle our health.

Watching a K-drama where the female lead time travels back to the reign of Yi Heon and she's been calling him Yeon Hui for two episodes now and Netflix has yet to explain that her getting his name wrong is half the joke. Have I got it wrong? It's been a couple years since I studied that period...

Look, all I'm saying is that if "Pool of Drowned Girl" had existed in PIDW, Shen Yuan would have contrived a way to be "forced" to dive into it. SQH: Actually, we can just— SQQ, already kicking off his boots: No time! I have to do this, for Reasons! LQG: This is stupid and so are you. MQF: -_-

Who's publishing the inevitable K Pop Demon Hunters licensed comic? They should totally hire Kim Hyun Sook and I. We have a Freeman Award and an Eisner nom for writing about Korea and lots of unused K Pop research for a book that didn't happen and we wanna help seal the dang honmoon.

...did Rob just fit mpreg into the final episode of the Adventurers of Azerim D&D campaign?! Aaaand they just randomly threw in a Bobger ship?

OMG, this is an actual vaccine, not PrEP!!!

Anyway I don't care *what* kink it is. If it's between 2 consenting adults and doesn't impact anyone else then you have no room to talk and no moral high-ground. Literally no exceptions. No not even that kink. No, not even *that* kink.

I adore Nukunya and their deadpan expressions but passionate objections to even a single hair of Kia's head getting harmed, tempered by respect for what she does. That is a delicious cocktail of some of my favorite things in a character. It helps that Nukunya also has an extremely dry humor.

Currently reading Her Subtle Investigations, and the only thing that could have made the first Knife/Masako/Nukunya threesome more apt was if at least two of them high fived at the end. What a delightful, fun, intimate romp full of new but eagerly enjoyed experiences for all three of them. 🥰

So, are we all supposed to just politely ignore Rumi's parents, or what? Because there are two possibilities for how Rumi's mom may have come to conceive her with a demon. One of them involves her choice. But REGARDLESS, at no point did Rumi's mom have a choice about dying to give birth to her.