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Fanfiction’s Total Cultural Victory | Defector In 2012, a self-published author of erotic Twilight fanfiction, whose books had gained a large fan base online, was offered a seven-figure contract by a major American publisher. E.L. James’s Fifty Sh...

you may think fanfiction's influence on the novel stops at bargain-bin romance books; you would be wrong - it's everywhere. i went deep on the relationship between fanfiction and contemporary publishing for @defector.com

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they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

A page from a children's book reading "Kindness is a choice we make every day with everybody we meet." In bubbly colorful text

From a book on kindness my kiddo got at the library 👏👏👏

❤️

Elon Musk chatting it up with his friend Jeffrey Epstein five years after he was convicted for child sex crimes 👍

I love Jet Lag the Game

Is that not what actors like... Do

strange Umbreon

two oblivion npcs talking in the imperial city

"hello!"

"what's new with you?"

"nothing i'd tell you about."

"i hear the united states has armed paramilitary in the streets attacking their own people, and even kidnapped the president of venezuela."

"the united states seems to be getting more dangerous by the day."

"take care."

"bye."

@thewheatgerm.bsky.social JUST BOUGHT THIS SAME ONE ON THE NEW EPISODE OF JET LAG. Plo Koon IS freaking cool.

me ignoring the main quest

Knuckles x Dale x Sandslash

Master Plo Koon doodles! Been enjoying watching the Clone Wars show and hes just awesome

#starwars #clonewars #plokoon #masterplokoon #art #sketch #doodle

this is genuinely incredible

To a toddler there is no food that cannot be improved by ketchup. You just have to let them dip their apple slices in it and know there is nothing you can do.

A fairy stitched on green felt. She's facing away from the viewer with a leg kicked up like she's skipping or dancing, one arm upraised with an open hand and the other mid-height with a loosely curled fist. She's got blue knots in her hair and blue butterfly wings. One wing stands in relief off the fabric. The fairy stands on fuzzy grass or moss, with three-dimensional leaves and pink and purple flowers. It's framed in a vintage, brassy filigreed frame.

The same embroidery, but from a far left angle to show off the way the wing stands off the main plane of the piece

The same, but from a far right angle

Same, but from a far low angle because I'm so stupid proud of the three dimensional elements

FRAMED! Genuinely my favorite piece. One of those "I can't believe I made this" kind of pieces. It's almost exactly as I initially envisioned it at first! 🥰🧚‍♀️🪡

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people

really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

I love low infant mortality and Ben & Jerry's

can u pick me up at seyda neen im fucked up

a big larva sitting on an office chair, with pink hearts around it and red text that says "posture reveal"

Can I offer you a gummy worm Tangela in these trying times?

WHAT

"Instead, we’re getting headlines that treat Grok’s generated text as a substitute for corporate accountability. And that’s exactly what xAI wants. They get to avoid answering questions while the press reports that their chatbot is ‘urgently fixing’ the problem. It’s the perfect dodge."

If you're still active on twitter I'm judging you 💕Harshly💕

Elon Musk's AI bot generating CSAM is just not even surprising. What the fuck is anyone still doing on twitter genuinely.

happy birthday to horses

It took twenty full minutes between starting the car and getting her in it to go to the grocery store

There were multiple meltdowns today about not being able to play with her dad, who went back to the office today after being home for a full week

And I know it's bc the holidays have her all messed up and out of routine and she got really into getting everything she ever wanted the last few days but alas we must return to normalcy