she makes her own dystopia as she goes

Bedlam on Archive of Our Own.

[bedlamsbard]

59 words written today -- easily distracted. playing out how I wanted this scene to go in my head. (there is a chance we get a kiss in this chapter but it won't be this scene, and it's only a chance.) up on campus today to pick up some ILL books and sit and stare blankly at my work computer. I have felt like I've had a very unproductive summer, but going from the end of spring term, I finished and sent in a book chapter for an edited volume, wrote and submitted a book review, presented papers at two major international conferences, and served on a search committee, plus attended all the job talks for another search my department did. still doesn't feel like I did much, though. :( wait, maybe this is the reason it took me three months to write that last chapter of Flood. nah these things are probably unconnected.

[dollbandcry]

how do people hatewatch things, i can barely find the time to read and watch all the things i actively want to, how the fuck are you putting time aside to watch an entire season of dogshit telly thats just gonna make you mad

[macbethwitches]

new DB Cooper theory: he went up

[bedlamsbard]

once again worried about making Natasha TOO traumatized but I was radicalized by reading way, way too much fic where she is an emotionless well-adjusted girlboss. (the 2010s were...a time. and most early MCU fanfic was just reskinned comics fanfic and comics Nat and MCU Nat are two very different characters, but in the early post-2012 days no one actually gave a damn about MCU Nat's actual onscreen characterization. plus it was peak girlboss period in fandom in a way that I think is really hard to convey in 2026.)

[klapollo]

the mandela effect is so funny bc almost all of it can be boiled down to "you were a kid and memory is highly unreliable," "you assumed how a word was spelled based on how it sounded," or "you're confusing two different things"

[klapollo]

fruits and vegetables shown in a cornucopia is a highly common visual symbol, especially in the states around thanksgiving. rich old men are commonly portrayed with monocles in cartoons.

it's pronounced "chick." it's pronounced "berenSTEEN" and someone probably read it to you more than you read it yourself. It's pronounced Oscar "MAI-yer" and you probably remember the jingle more than the logo. It's pronounced "fuh-BREEZE" and you barely look at the logo even when you use it. you assumed it was looney toons because they are cartoons. you assumed there was a dash in kit kat because it sounds like a word that could be hyphenated. it's pronounced FRUIT loops.

you conflated the black on Pikachu's ears with his tail

"jiffy" is a word while jif is not + "skippy" is another common peanut butter brand

curious george is a chimp and thus would not have a tail but a child might assume all "monkeys" have tails

anything else

[fucktheflagandfuckyou]

its been 6 months and im still not over this. easily best and most hilarious play in baseball history

[enigmasalad]

I don’t know shit about baseball but I do know about tomfoolery

[aphel1on]

never stop being obnoxious about fictional character online. you will find like-minded people and it will literally save you

[hellenhighwater]

Ohh I just had a good thought.

I love when I can combine projects for more powerful presentation. Prometheus X The Last Sequoia!

More to follow.

[hellenhighwater]

Wait wait wait wait

[synthetic-ultramarine]

don't go on indeed dot com at 2am they start showing you the job listings for gnomes and talking squirrels

[livesbetweenpages]

Do you have a first line of a novel that has stuck with you, without the need to look it up, regardless of whether you read/finished the book in question?

Mine is: I blame it all on the Hobbit; that, and my supportive home life. (From Alice, I Think)

[willpowers]

white usamericans when asked how they're doing, will never say "bad". they'll just say "I'm hanging in there" and that is universally understood as them being so so bad. like. no american is happily hanging in there. we don't like the hang.

[divorcedwife]

look at the republican calendar and see which animal/plant/item is associated with your birthday ok. if you're born january 14 you get the day of the cat

[divorcedwife]

solidarity for everyone who was born on the day of the cistern or the watering can or something like that

[aidaughter]

t shirt that says I PUT A NORMAL AMOUNT OF THOUGHT INTO STUFF

[skopostheorie]

[bedlamsbard]

this is probably the deepest cut in the most recent chapter of Flood:

“What house? The Lake Lerna house?” Bruce said, naming the oldest and most expensive neighborhood in the Capitol.

[clementine-kesh]

obviously there’s nothing morally wrong with the projectionist lens through which a large portion of fandom operates but it does get kind of tiring to constantly feel like. hey guys what if we stopped talking about ourselves and instead talked about the character

[clementine-kesh]

and of course a degree of projectionism can be a very useful lens in certain circumstances, such as having unique insight into a character who shares certain aspects of your own experiences. but at the end of the day you still gotta recognize that there are going to be aspects of them that diverge from yourself

[minyard-05]

sometimes you just have to say "you are all so fucking stupid" and scroll past