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A Very Hullmark Yule: a modern romcom HOTD collab with @audreyii-fic

It's Christmas in June! Get your dose of Hallmark Christmas romcom cheesiness year-round!

@audreyii-fic and I are collaborating on this newest fic in the AHFOD series. We hope you enjoy!

Fic Title: A Very Hullmark Yule (AO3)

Rating: E

Summary:

(Modern AU.) Welcome to Yuletide in King’s Landing, where there’s fake dating, miscommunications, stressed-out workaholics, rekindled romances, convenient blizzards, craft fairs, locked doors, an attempt to simulate fascism via HOA, eighty-five thousand Targaryens, and ONLY ONE BED. Plus, someone’s gotta save that small-town dog shelter, right?

Or: the Targbros and Velargirls learn the Meaning of Christmas Yule (and the authors hope the Hallmark Channel’s copyright lawyers have a sense of humor). Can be read as a stand-alone.

Notes: This fic is not set in the same universe as Love Actually (Targaryen Version). However, it does share some backstory, particularly where Rhaenyra is Viserys's adoptive daughter.

We are experimenting with multimedia/HTML coding in this fic, so there is a custom workskin being used.

All the Targbros and Velargirls are starring in this fic!

lets-burn-down-the-post-office

Chapter 14 is posted!

Chapter Title: wrap me all up and take me home with you (from "December" by Ariana Grande)

Chapter POV: Aemond "I would like to emphasize the FAKE in fake dating so everyone remembers this is FAKE" Targaryen

gay-mormon-wizard

today I used the phrase "breasting boobily" in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil's sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn't god

“I’ve been at the devil’s sacrament so long I forgot he wasn’t god” is getting added to the tumblr line book

vocabulary-altering-posts

it sure fuckin is buddy

PHRASE ADDED TO INVENTORY!

selenekallanwriter

John Oliver gets it, as usual. AI Slop is one of the best episodes of Last Week Tonight I've seen so far. Gen AI is theft. Those who use it are not authors or artists, they're grifters profiting from real creatives.

transpigeon

STOP! before you decide you are irretrievably doomed, try one of the following options:

transition

bdsm

iron supplements

spirit-of-science

sleep study

ADHD medication

DBT

headedoutleft

vitamin D

go outside for an hour and observe birds

eat a snack

trackerkitsune

drink water

ineffable-writer

Maybe do these in reverse order

sioltach

Today's high schoolers romanticizing 2016 as if there weren't the clown incidents

wizardshark

This isn't even a shit post that actually happened

somehow we forgot that the rapture happened in 2016 and the chosen ones ascended, starting with David Bowie and ending with Carrie Fisher. folks, we're the left behind

A Very Hullmark Yule: a modern romcom HOTD collab with @audreyii-fic

It's Christmas in June! Get your dose of Hallmark Christmas romcom cheesiness year-round!

@audreyii-fic and I are collaborating on this newest fic in the AHFOD series. We hope you enjoy!

Fic Title: A Very Hullmark Yule (AO3)

Rating: E

Summary:

(Modern AU.) Welcome to Yuletide in King’s Landing, where there’s fake dating, miscommunications, stressed-out workaholics, rekindled romances, convenient blizzards, craft fairs, locked doors, an attempt to simulate fascism via HOA, eighty-five thousand Targaryens, and ONLY ONE BED. Plus, someone’s gotta save that small-town dog shelter, right?

Or: the Targbros and Velargirls learn the Meaning of Christmas Yule (and the authors hope the Hallmark Channel’s copyright lawyers have a sense of humor). Can be read as a stand-alone.

Notes: This fic is not set in the same universe as Love Actually (Targaryen Version). However, it does share some backstory, particularly where Rhaenyra is Viserys's adoptive daughter.

We are experimenting with multimedia/HTML coding in this fic, so there is a custom workskin being used.

All the Targbros and Velargirls are starring in this fic!

Chapter 10 is posted!

Chapter Title: so much has changed from the way it used to be (from “Christmas Memories” by Alabama)

POV: Jacaera “just because I’m having x-rated thoughts about my ex does NOT mean I’m interested in getting back together with him” Velaryon

#this is called self-control #it is not easy #and you may fail #because self-control takes practice #but it is worth practicing

or, everyone makes great decisions when they're horny

curiositysavesthecat

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lostxanadu

do you ever start writing a comment on the internet and then think “oh what the fuck am i going on about” and delete it

bramcrackerswrites

I also enjoy writing an entire paragraph, thinking "you know, I don't actually need to be involved in this conversation," and deleting it

arahir

i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.

youre-only-gay-once

"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

purgaytorysupremacy

if you’re wondering why spellcheck and grammar check is worse now, it’s because they replaced it with AI! 🥰

now, instead of maintaining a comprehensive, nuanced, and human-maintained encyclopedia by which to check your document, they have switched to an AI that just compares what you’ve written to what other people write in, say, Google Docs, and use the most commonly used iteration.

ever have it change something like “all intents and purposes” to “all intensive purposes” or “should’ve” to “should of”? that’s why!

people make the same spelling and grammar mistakes so often, AI thinks that’s the way you say it because it is a PATTERN DETECTOR and cannot THINK let alone use language.

youre-only-gay-once

"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

mrawkweird

Generations of locking the fuck in.

#final fantasy x-2 #ffx2 #kpop demon hunters #if you know you know

the way i yelled down the stairs "HONEY THEY MADE THE FFX-2 INTRO INTO A MOVIE"

okay, here's my new suggestion for saving the world: we feed My Immortal into every gen ai engine so many times that you can't use the word "ebony" without it automatically defaulting to "Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way"

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher educ

again, this can all be fixed by ebony dark'ness dementia raven way if we just have the gumption

#fanfic writing problems #fanfiction #pass the ovaltine please

A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

HELP US EBOMY DARK'NESS DEMENTIA RAVEN WAY, YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE

Radio station WJLX can no longer broadcast its AM programming since the incident.

“What do you mean the tower is gone? Are you sure you’re in the right place? I actually used more colorful words than that,” Brett Elmore recounted to NBC News. “He said there’s wires all over the ground and the tower is gone.”

My favorite tags so far:

baenling

so this lead me down a fucking hour-long rabbit hole. i watched a video (linked on the radio station's wikipedia page) where some young guys walk through the radio tower property a week after it was allegedly stolen, and it's an overgrown jungle. looks like it's been abandoned for years. the door is hanging open and there is lichen growing on the linoleum floor inside. down in the comments there are locals saying the area is not exactly out in the boonies, either; there are people and businesses on that road. not to mention that a 200 foot radio tower is fucking gigantic. there is no crushed vegetation from dismantling the tower. no sign of any vehicles recently on the property other than the 1 set of tire tracks from the police vehicle which came to check it out when the report was received.

the tower wasn't stolen. it hadn't been there for years before the report was filed. google earth shows the tower up on site in 2022 and gone in 2023 so in all likelihood, it fell down sometime then. ALLEGEDLY, the fcc had been on them for an inspection of their am radio tower, and then a week before the fcc were scheduled to come out and inspect it, the station reported the tower missing. so. that's an hour of my life gone. you're welcome? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

galaxy-sharks-and-bottled-ships

Then how… I believe you, but how…

how had they been broadcasting

had they been?

It's easy. They WEREN'T.

Hi, so admittedly I own one of the other radio stations in the same freaking town. And by own I mean it's in my name but I leave the technical stuff to my dad and pretty much absorb my information from being around him and the station all the time.

ANYWAYS!

The guy who runs WJLX isn't actually licensed to run an LPFM he is licensed to run an AM station. The AM station is supposed to be the one he plays his music on and he can run a translator to broadcast onto the FM frequencies as well. BUT! Only if his AM is still the main station. He can't do FM only.

That means two power bills basically. Those can be pretty hefty for a radio station.

And since no one really cares about AM these days he did the worst thing possible. He LET HIS AM STATION GO OFF THE AIR. His AM station has been off the air since as far back 2013. We have video of us testing his frequencies that far back. He's been running full time as an LPFM only for at least a decade now which in his case is illegal AF and is a $10,000 per day fine from the FCC if he's ever caught.

Well, low and behold he was caught and now he's trying to claim he didn't know because his tower was "obviously stolen".

For starters, it was eventually stolen. But only after it had already collapsed to the ground and rusted for several years. Metal scrappers will take nearly anything that looks to have been abandoned long enough.

TLDR; If he'd been running his station properly then he'd have known the exact moment his tower stopped broadcasting. He'd have known the moment it fell. There are these things called silence detectors (at least that's what we call them) and their whole job is to tell us we're not broadcasting anymore.