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#CurrentlyReading Castle of Hope by weepingelm - a second pandemic wipes out the majority of the population, but Arthur, Duke of Camelot, had feared something like this might happen & had prepared. He starts a commune…and then people start remembering past lives.
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Will endeavour to remember to credit you.

Going to have to steal this one.

Alt text?

For folks that like to call other people "snowflakes", these are literally the most baby shit soft people on earth. You were "threatened", by a former FBI director, with seashells? For real? Did you stop and say those words out loud to just hear how they sounded strung all together?

If only I could…
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So… I seem to have turned into a bit of an ace rights activist on tumblr?

Which is kinda odd because although I’m probably demi/grey-ace, it’s not the box I usually consider myself in. My partner is ace, though, so I have a vested interest. But yeah.

Tumblr is weird. Or I am. Or both.

#CurrentlyReading Canis, Corvus,Curses by jinkandtherebels - a modern post-canon #Merlin AU based on ladyhawke (?) with a reincarnated Mordred helping the Merthur plot along. Lovely stuff archiveofourown.org/works/475246...

I invite everyone on this website, especially people with more than 400k followers on their accounts, to use alt text, especially on their text-heavy images. It's good for you, it's good for your readers, it's the right thing to do. Be a mensch. Just fucking use alt text. Do it. do it do it do it

Can he hurry up and find it please?

Oh wonderful, thank you!

Yeah, I don’t think tiny indie publishers are likely to be in a place to do much unless they can get in with big companies - and then again, if your publisher is USian and you aren’t, how does that work?
As for academic stuff, goodness knows. At least I’ve pumped a bit of queer theory in, I guess.

Is there any chance you’d consider using ALT text for your pictures? It would be nice if they were accessible.

No, it doesn’t, Canada I think may have its own thing going on. Brits were advised to contact…I can’t remember who offhand but the advice THEY gave was to write a sternly worded letter, or some such nonsense.

Yup, they got novels, stories and an academic article from me, too. And not being in the US, I can’t join the class action law suit, apparently all the Brits can do is write a cross letter ffs.

Thankfully the only real relationship kid has had was with a girl a month younger than he was. I can deal with that age gap!

But yeah, my relationship has left me in a very difficult position for criticising but fortunately kid has always had more sense than I have so it doesn’t matter!

My parents were remarkably tolerant, all things considered. They wouldn’t let my sister’s older boyfriend sleep in her room with her when she was 16 and he was 23, but they didn’t refuse him the house.
I didn’t ask mine how old he was for some time because I knew I didn’t want to know the answer!

Seriously. I always find that weird. It’s like, as long as they look young, it’s fine? But if they look, say, fifty, it wouldn’t be, even if they were exactly the same mental age etc?
It’s like when people try and ship the Doctor in Doctor Who with humans. Just don’t. S/he’s too old.

My son is hugely disapproving of age gap rships, fortunately, as I don’t have a leg to stand on.
“I wouldn’t let MY 18 year old daughter date someone that much older than she was,” he told me about my rship with his dad (we’re still happily together and kid loves us, but we’re 15.5 years apart).

I have loved this commentary so much. I’ve never watched the show, but am addicted to the fanfic (don’t ask, it’s a Thing) and I have weird feelings about mixed age relationships because what was okay for me and my sisters kinda would feel weird if it were my son, y’know?

If God doesn’t make mistakes, why do I exist?

Oh, the spreadsheet is logging what I read after I read it. I’ve never done it before, but I thought I’d give it a go, though if I read short fics I definitely wouldn’t bother because I’d spend more time updating it than reading! Currently at 12.7 million words this year…

Very true indeed! Not the first I’ve read this year (which I know because I’m using the spreadsheet I got from someone on here to keep track of what I’m reading!)

#CurrentlyReading Cups and Saucerers by Camelittle
A modern #Merlin story with time travel and humanoid dragons and murder, oh my! It’s soooo good. Just make sure you keep an eye on the date at the top so you don’t get lost in time…
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I told kid I had made Arthur Pendragon in my Sims 4, Cats and Dogs edition, and given him a Golden Retriever Labrador, and he said, "but Arthur *is* a Golden Retriever, he doesn't *have* one" and it is the truest thing.

You are indeed awesome

#CurrentlyReading Sufficiently Advanced by idlestories
#Merlin meets #Firefly, pretty much. It is completely wonderful and I love it so much.
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YUP I just checked and this was turned on in my Zoom as well. I had to turn it off from the 'More settings' options in the website -- the option to do so wasn't offered in Zoom itself. >:(

THIIIIIIISSSSSS.

Best. Bloody. Scene.

(Too clearly love coded? But queer platonic relationships are valid too, even though it’s also equally valid to see that one otherwise…)