we hurt the innocent in order to stop the evil

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[azalea-blooming]

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Be sure.

call me Azalea. I don't share my age because basic internet safety. my pronouns are she/her and I am aroace. I'm Chinese American but am absolute, utter dogshit at speaking Chinese.

blog title is a quote from Animorphs #30, The Reunion, chapter 16. I think about it every waking moment. ask page title is a reference to In An Absent Dream (Wayward Children #4), in which the actual First Rule is ask for nothing.

DNIs are useless so I don't have one, but I will block you if you're a bigot. if you vaguely annoy me I might block you. apologies!

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things I am going to post about: whatever I want.

but more specifically: Dimension 20, Animorphs, and Wayward Children. also Hatchetfield, to a lesser extent. I love Hadestown but I don't post about it often. same goes for Alchemical Journeys.

my blog is primarily reblogs but I'll occasionally reread Animorphs and go on a slightly incomprehensible posting spree. will always and forever be Adaine Abernant's #1 fan.

my Rachel (Animorphs) webweave is here, and the first and second drafts of my Marco (Animorphs) webweave are here and here. Cassie webweave is currently in progress.

my ao3 is here. am attempting to finish here comes a killer whale to sing you to sleep.

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I have a largely incomprehensible (even to me) and perpetually in-development What If The Characters Of Fantasy High Went Through The Plot Of Animorphs, and my tag for it is #fh/animorphs lovechild from my brain. I cannot promise consistency in any posts because it is always changing. please send me asks about this.

while I'm at it, you are always welcome at any time to send me asks about anything I write, and/or things I want to write.

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I have made it my mission to read every book Seanan Mcguire has ever written (that I can get my hands on). am beginning with the ones published under the name Seanan Mcguire, but I'm going to read the ones published as Mira Grant too. so far I have completeed:

all of Wayward Children, including the short stories

all of Alchemical Journeys, but not the Up&Under books

all of InCryptid, including Ghost Roads, not including the short stories

both Indexing books

all of Velveteen Vs.

Midway Relics and Dying Breeds

Laughter at the Academy

currently I am working on the InCryptid short stories, and then it's October Daye.

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I CANNOT DONATE TO YOU. I CANNOT COMPLETE ONLINE TRANSACTIONS.

[artoatsblog]

[microsff]

The goddess listens carefully. "Granted. Then this will be your last mission as a Magical Girl Warrior." "Yes," I say. "I'm sorry, but-" "Ssh," says the goddess. "I love you and am proud of you." I transform to a MGW as usual, fight the demon, and at last, finally! revert to my real form.

A boy.

[jayalaw]

The version of Kade Bronson with a happy ending

[corrya]

I really want a d20 sidequest that's a little acofaf style but it's just about trying to survive christmas with your extended family

[what-even-is-thiss]

Nobody does a proper Greek chorus anymore. Everybody just has the chorus actors speak one at a time.

I know that choral chanting is difficult to do but come on why can’t we have a hive mind once in a while

[concerningwolves]

Holy **** oh right okay. So I was about to make a post about how using speech to text has already been a game changer for me but as you can see by the line of asterix at the start of this post the bloody thing auto censors swear words. (Yet bloody got through, ig Because it is a description and also British slang.). Hint: the word I was trying to say there starts with F and ends with K.

Oh and guess what else you can't say you can't say? **** [Nipples]. had to type that myself. penis is ok but **** [clitoris] isn't, and all my attempts to say "clit" were Misunderstood, which may just be my speech but at this point I am not willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Vagina is OK too but every time I say it there is a moment when an * shows up on screen first before the full word does. this doesn't happen when I say the word penis.

It is completely heinous. Anybody who needs speech to text is immediately forced to comply with the rules set out by people in a position of power and then enforced by a machine — a machine that is a very powerful accessibility tool. Imagine trying to dictate a letter to a doctor or fill in an E consult with speech to text, only to have words of your anatomy censored as if they are taboo. there is already far too much stigma around genital physical health — and note that I could say genital but can't say **** [clitoris] — for it to be okay for these words to be censored.

And even if somebody just wants to swear In a message to their friends or write smut/**** [pornography], they should be able to. There is no justification for this feature. No reason for it to be default.

I'm trying to find a way around this. There is a settings icon on the little speech to text bar that comes up, but this only gives me options For the speech typing launcher, auto punctuation, and to set the default microphone. it's making me extremely angry

[aangisdead]

sometimes…….things that are fanon………are worse

[audible-smiles]

When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

[ziekaramaik]

I was today years old when I realized: That endless joke of "Don't call me Prince." "Yes Prince Jake."

That was because Ax never understood the request. Because Ax WASN'T calling him "Prince", he was calling him "Prince Jake".

Jake would have saved himself a lot of aggravation if he simply said "Call me Jake".

[nchntd]

In the club

[vacuously-true]

I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.

[dimmadoome]

I just love that this very video is an accumulation of thousands of years worth of art made by people who have never met each other. The concept of this video was so completely unfathomable to every single artist who made the sculptures and yet they’ve all put something toward the creation of it.

[i-restuff]

ITS BACK ON MY TIMELINE

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[fox-c-rabbit]

[Image ID: A screenshot of a tiktok with the comment section covering most of the video. The text on the tiktok says "Hey guys I'm struggling mentally, but I don't want kind responses. I want you to respond like a mentally absent parent. Thank you.", and the rest of the first image shows the comment section. Shown comments include:

"Well Kate, I don't know what you want from me" from Liz

"The phone goes both ways. When's the last time you checked on me?" from Kay 🦻🍉

"You're the strong one, I never have to worry about you." from withLoveTtawni

"Go in there and mentally struggle them dishes" from Erin, with a reply from the tiktok creator, Kate, that says "Yes ma'am"

"Reacted "👍" to your message." from user428490018208

"I struggled my whole life you'll be fine" from ☆renay☆

"it's always something with you" from Laura Hannah

"Well I guess I'm just a bad mom" from RoseInThePit /End ID]

[waterlilyworld]

i still haven't forgotten about ray muscat. nor the response from everyone in the wake of his murder. his girlfriend, a trans woman, shot and killed him, her cis brother, and then herself. his family's gofund me never reached it's goal. his murderer's parents hosted a zumbathon to raise money for the trevor project for suicide prevention. in multiple news articles he is not even named, he is simply 'the boyfriend'. most people don't seem to remember his name. and where is name is put, on the trans day or remembrance page, 2022, you'll find right next to him the name of his killer. on the other side of her name, a precious disabled black trans boy, morgan moore, who died from parental neglect. a killer memorialized between them. i have to be honest, the bitterness is growing sharp in my mouth these days. please keep his memory alive, both of them, ray muscat and morgan moore.

ray was known as a kind soul with a glowing smile, he was twenty four. morgan was known for being a great kid, with a natural talent for music and a love of cooking, he was seventeen.

[genderkoolaid]

Ray Muscat, a Trans Man, Was Shot and Killed in Michigan

His death marks at least the 13th trans or gender-nonconforming person killed in the U.S. so far this year.

Maryland Parents Charged With Murder Over Death of Transgender Teenager

<p>Morgan Moore, who had diabetes and multiple sclerosis, died last year at 17, weighing only 79 pounds.</p>

[cosmovain]

is it weird if i say i genuinely wish there was more positivity aimed at people w large chests

[cosmovain]

"having a large chest is the beauty standard" no having a large chest is the Sexual standard theres a difference. i can only even be Hot and everything i ever wear will be deemed too sexual for every single situation. tank top shows too much cleavege or side boob a button up is always too busty and a crop top will always show too much skin. having a large chest leads to so much back pain and sexualization and complaining about it makes people go "ahh grass is alwahs greener/you are the beauty standard, why complain?" like genuinely i urge yall to watch anything with a larger chested woman and notice, REALLY notice, that her chest is her entire personality. notice that people critiqing misogynist charavter designs alwayd tend to rally in the statement that large chest=misogny, casting aside the Many Many Many women and people who look like Me and just . have a large chest? and exist? and deserve respect and not to be seen as nothing more than a sex symbol by both sides? idk ikdayy

[loveipromiseimnotinsane]

Kinda insane just how much the accommodations and consideration for Patrick Page's disability improved the show and gave Hades a whole new layer of depth. Every show should be so good to their disabled actors

[nedlittle]

people always talk about the doomed love timeloop when they talk about hadestown. look i love that shit as much as the next homosexual but can we please talk about the revolutionary politics. genuinely one of the best anticapitalist pieces of art of the 21st century. can we watch act 2 with our brains please

[charlemane]

the costuming in Hadestown is so insane. Orpheus standing out for his red bandana and whiteish shirt, Persephone standing out in her bright green summertime dress in a world that is otherwise so dark and dull. but then you ALSO have Hades's suit and Persephone's mourning dress standing out for how black they are - in a world that's otherwise so worn and faded, the gods wear pure pitch black right off the tailor's table. and don't even get me STARTED on the way red is used to highlight emotion and vulnerability

[a-weather-eye-on-the-horizon]

I just had a religious experience in the Hadestown proshot. I felt like my third eye opened and then Eva Noblezada shot me 57 times. Thank you Anaïs Mitchell for this absolute masterpiece.