prove you're human but what if you were a ninja turtle :(

Not remotely big enough but they are NOT letting that stop them

ok...TODAY we are unpacking our rice and putting it in a vessel, where pantry months won't get it. "so it's been how many months since you cooked your own rice" don't worry about it.

in baptist history class they are telling us about how roger williams would row himself across a body of water to argue with the quakers then row himself back home......diagnosable problem and i have it too

it's good i don't live in the heated rivalry universe bc i'd make jiang cheng levels of gay and homophobic look like child's play

We're flying to Pittsburgh with a men's wrestling team onboard and im soooo convinced we're going to crash and they'll eat my body while having homosexual entanglements

I, personally, saw plenty of news coverage about this, boosted by my friends. Maybe adjust your network! But also, on a very basic level, yes, it is normal to protest your own government's atrocities. In a very crowded atrocity field, it is normal to prioritize things you have a hope of changing.

i think it's a pretty sick worldview to act as if there's something wrong or suspect with people talking more about crimes their government is directly committing than crimes committed by individuals and institutions their government has sanctioned and bombed

i only use google drive for its intended purpose (making copies of fandom callout docs for perusal at my leisure)

CW: Whining

I don't feel the worst I've ever felt in my life but woo boy we are closer than we've been in awhile

fic excerpt: "Barbara looked between them with amused disbelief. "Bruce is going to be so pissed he missed this," she said. For some reason, that sent a wave of trepidation through Steph, cresting in both their chests. I need to clean out my fridge, Steph thought later. They were in the kitchen with everyone else, but while the others were sitting around the table dissecting the fight—Kon with a degree of alarmism that Cass thought was overblown—she and Steph sat a little bit apart, drinking tea at the breakfast bar and...well, thinking. With each other. Okay, Cass said in response to the worried images of Steph's sunny, cheerful apartment overrun with mold and sprouted potatoes. We can do that tomorrow. Don't worry. Steph sent back a flurry of unidentifiable emotion. If Cass had to translate, it felt like one of her awkward not-quite-laughs: 'haaaah'. Yeah, why would I worry, Kon only thinks we're about to turn into some kind of threat to the solar system. Kon is not an expert in threats to the solar system. The expert's not even in the solar system. Steph thought wistfully of Bruce. Cass missed him, too, but it was disconcerting to experience him through Steph's perception. In her mind's eye, he was frowning."

in related news: hit 15k on my cass/steph

mediocre for a lifetime or perfect for a year...

HEROIC: local woman goes to to-read bookmarks instead of seeking out new, non-bookmarked badfic to read

manager who had carefully avoided talking about the horrors was like "oh please tell me in detail what you've been doing" and i'm like ok well I'm Glad the suburbs care about this now but also it's upsetting to talk about...thanks....

fix excerpt: "The knowledge weighed heavily on Cass as she changed into her pajamas. She was alone, with Steph. If Steph screamed right now--well, in a real emergency situation a beacon would activate, but *still*. There was no real chance of Jason walking by and pounding on the door 'just to mess with ya', or Tim popping his head in to ask for a vial of blood, or Barbara popping her head in to ask for another biometric scan. The synchronicity had started to fade, they were dressing independently with their backs to one another, and Cass should have been relieved, but... Some awful, small part of her regretted it, even knowing Steph didn't want what she wanted, had no desire to try fucking each other in this state. She hated how badly she wanted it. She'd been hating it this whole time, trying not to look at it so Steph wouldn't hate it, her, too, and as they said goodnight, as Cass lay down in the bed next to Steph, she had to admit it wasn't really working. There was no way Steph didn't know what she wanted. But she didn't say anything, so Cass didn't either. "Goodnight," they said out loud. Same time, same tone, but with their backs to one another, at least. Cass didn't even have the luxury of insomnia. It had been trained out of her long ago. She closed her eyes and instructed herself to fall asleep, and within moments, her body obeyed. --- She'd also been trained to be a light sleeper, though. SILENT JERKOFFS IN THE MANOR, STILL IN MAGICAL MIRROR STATE"

[proximity curse fic] my third eye is wide open. almost as open as, well...

it's crazy some edgelord hasn't written a comic where alfred dies of dementia brought on by chronic sleep deprivation from supporting bruce's dumb hobby

it's very funny to apologize this vaguely for making a rothschild joke, quote tweeting a nazi talking about how the rothschilds have "bad genetics", while also separately writing a book about blood & soil nationalism. chat, are we dumb?

i was also tormented by the certainty that bugs were crawling under my shirt but that appears to have been false

while i had a fever i was tormented with visions of the kind of sex steph and cass should be having in my fanfiction...and now i'm implementing it

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badficcers hold up half the sky

Bsky users yelling at them is the critique of peers (that they’d rather not claim). Being yelled at on X gives you the authenticity of a “real” fight against a “real” enemy you can sneer at for gains and profit. Here they can only sneer for low-engagement and tedium.

it's not really about being mad. i think as a person she seems fine and could easily become a good journalist. but these aren't the traits of a serious-minded person who is responsible with their usage of social media, surely?

what if i just think she's a fucking moron who is deeply irresponsible in her use of social media, which both this "reaction" and her most recent verge "article" handily demonstrate. you should have higher standards!

i would lay money on not a single member of the spotlight team, current or former, quote tweeting a guy saying a rothschild has "bad genetics" with their own little commentary, before at least checking to see who precisely they were promoting by virtue of a qrt

like i'm sorry but to be blunt i have read archived issues of the nation, TNR, new york review, the new yorker, many others. you demand low standards because you, yourselves, cannot meet the standards of your predecessors. very sad for you. not my problem though yall be easy

so much of this - this appeal to bsky & "gaby"'s politics, the conversations re: how no one should unsubscribe to the verge over this or you have consumer brain - this is an insistence that you should lower your own standards, but from the left. no, sorry! i have a working brain, you should try it!

like at some point you are just stupid, you're not good at your job, you do not have any moral or ethical discernment and you lack intellectual rigor. work on it! but being pissed about this bullshit is not why bluesky sucks or whatever, please grow up.

also! it's actually a pretty severe deficit as a journalist not to be able to admit when you fucked up. first she spits on my state with her bullshit gossip column, then she retweets a post about a rothschild having "bad genetics" without so much as a sniff at the profile? bsky.app/profile/davi...

Here’s what del Valle is quoting.

bsky.app/profile/achi...