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@bitemerogers
TikTok live is such a waste of time there are no good….
this is how we should generate power for cities
contextual storytelling from that sign in the back
muttering "the hamsters control the wheels" as i wander around like a blind medieval soothsayer
“You are responsible for the minors in your fandom!!!”
No, I’m fucking not. I’m not your parent. My past-times do not automatically sign me up to act in loco parentis. If you need someone else to monitor your own content consumption online, go get mommy and/or daddy to set up a content blocker on your computer.
Louder for the minors in the back, please.
What I’m responsible for in my fandom:
1. Making a good faith effort to include relevant and informative tags and labels on my creative works.
2. Making a good faith effort to use the “author chose not to warn” rating, a “contains potentially upsetting content” note, cuts or community ratings, or otherwise indicating that there might be untagged, triggering content if I’m not up to or don’t want to tag it.
3. Being a good fandom citizen; not sending death threats or hate, not bullying people, being kind and thoughtful to those I interact with, and leaving alone things that would prompt me to act otherwise.
4. Curating my own experience; not engaging with people or material that I know will be harmful or upsetting to me, disengaging when I realize that something is harmful or upsetting to me, and using tools such as blocklists and tag filters to hide content I don’t want to see.
5. Doing the opposite of whatever the fuck bullshit is going on in tiktok at all times.
Being a good fandom citizen; not sending death threats or hate, not bullying people, being kind and thoughtful to those I interact with, and leaving alone things that would prompt me to act otherwise.
It is simply JUST that easy. All the fandom shit exists because people choose to behave badly and it’s too often younger ones holding fandom spaces as societal influence & activism spaces instead of a HOBBY SPACES.
Fandom online is overwhelmingly dominated by women.
You don’t see people insisting that men in male-dominated hobbies “protect the children”. It’s just misogyny.
let em keep thinking we’re dead
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"Intertwined"
"The Heart of the Herald"
The great Harry Dresden, ladies and gentlemen.
Harry Dresden at his enemies:
“It's not fair.” The little ghost kicks impotently at the chalk lines around her feet. “I ain't done nothing.”
I nod, setting down my chalk and spellbook. “It does sound like there might have been a bit of a misunderstanding.”
“She took against me, that's what happened,” the dead girl says with a scowl. She looks about fourteen, round faced and spotty, with whisps of brown hair peaking out from under her mob-cap. Her face and her crossed arms have a tell-tale bluish tinge to them. A cholera death.
“I been here for don't know how long and never gave any trouble. Nobody ever complained about me 'till her.”
…well, that's not strictly true.
Number 12, Barclay Street has been attracting rumours of haunting since the mid nineteenth century.
Sounds of faint singing and crying in the corridors at night. Cold spots. Doors that open and close by themselves. Animals acting strangely. Harmless, mid to low-level stuff, typical for a bored teenage poltergeist.
Still, pointing that out isn't likely to achieve much, and certainly the most recent complaints of blood running down the walls, screams in the dark and paralysing night terrors seem distinctly out of character.
The ghost toes the chalk again, more tentatively this time. It stays resolutely unbroken.
She could get out if she wanted to. I'm not one of those assholes who brings out their full arsenal of wards and sigils for a first meeting with a level 2 spectre. The summoning circle will keep her in one place for as long as I need her to talk, but it wouldn't hold for a moment if she really fought against it.
I take it as a good sign that she's still here. Pouting or not, she's clearly willing to work with me.
“None of the others could do this,” she says. “None of 'em even saw me.” She looks up. “Are you here to exise me?”
“Exorcise,” I say instinctively, and curse myself when she flinches. “Sorry, no, no! I don't exorcise people from their homes without good reason, not if they're happy where they are.”
“I was happy. Till she started calling in all them ghost hunters.”
Mrs Delaney had been quite persistent in her attempts to 'fix' her haunted house. Most of the people she found were charlatans, of course, but I'd still arranged an appointment as fast as I could once word reached me. It wouldn't have been long before she happened upon somebody with Talent, and unfortunately not everybody in this field knows how to behave like a professional.
“I think we might be able to help each other,” I say, careful to keep my voice calm and level.
“Don't see how. Not unless you can exorcise Her.”
“Not quite what I had in mind.” I pull out my phone and scroll through my photos. “You say that you're not the cause of the most recent incidents of paranormal activity?”
A pause. The ghost gnaws on her lip. I wait, patiently, keeping my body language open and nonthreatening. “I… I knocked her coffee cup over,” she admits at last. “She was being mean and talking on her telephone, saying I done all these things when I never did! So I decided to show her what I could do if I wanted.”
“Hmm.” The ghost eyes me nervously, as if expecting me to pull out a book, bell and candle and banish her on the spot.
“I only tipped it,” she adds. “I didn't break it or nothing!”
“You shouldn't have touched it at all,” I say sternly. “But… I can appreciate that you were frustrated, so let's say no more about it.”
The ghost looks relieved.
“My point is,” I continue, “if you weren't the one making blood rain from the ceiling or tormenting people in their sleep, then what was? There's no other ghosts on the property.” I find the picture I was looking for. “You can get anywhere around the house, right? Including behind the furniture and in the backs of cupboards?”
“Yes'm.”
I hold the phone up so that she can see the picture on the screen. “I'm going to let you go free in a moment, and I need you to see if you can find anything that looks like this.”
The ghost wrinkles her forehead. “What's that when it's at home?”
“Black mould,” I say, reaching out a foot to break the binding circle. “And I'm pretty sure it's the cause of this haunting.”
Read this in harry Dresdens voice
“That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.”
There's a recurring element in Dresden Files in which Jim Butcher will use pop culture references as a means of demonstrating whether a character should be considered good, likeable, or trustworthy.
Harry Dresden makes a lot of pop culture references. References are fun, and they help the reader feel more related to Harry. Likewise, these references are how Harry can relate to his friends. It's one of the primary ways he enjoys joking around with them.
However, the antagonists of the series, the vast majority of whom are supernaturally long-lived beings, have not bothered keeping up with popular works and media of the last century. They haven't bothered maintaining connection with the everyday human experience, the art and pastimes most people have in commonality and can bond over.
Madeline Raith has never heard of Buck Rogers. Nicodemus doesn't know who Peter Parker is. Drakul doesn't even know how baseball works.
This lack of interest in pop culture is equated to a lack of interest, connection, or care, for humanity in general.
References can be a signal for the reader that a character is someone to be trusted or empathized with before the story even confirms it.
Thomas wears a Buffy the Vampire Slayer shirt a whole book before he's revealed to be Harry's family in Blood Rites.
In Skin Game, Harry and Goodman Grey have a good-natured back and forth about the film The Black Hole several chapters before it's revealed they were secretly working together. Fittingly, the reveal itself is initiated by a reference, with Harry using "Game over, man. Game over" as a signal to drop the facade.
We learn Mab has been to rock concerts and Disneyland in Cold Days, the same book in which we're hit with the line, "I was mortal once, you know." Going further back, the first time Harry met Mab in Summer Knight, he makes a comparison to Godzilla, but he can't actually tell whether she understood the reference, which, in hindsight, she likely did.
And then we have Marcone, who, when faced with one of Harry's references, opts to ignore it.
"'Elvii?'" Marcone inquired. "The plural could be Elvises, I guess," I said. "But if I say that too often, I start muttering to myself and calling things 'my precious,' so I usually go with the Latin plural." Marcone did smile that time. It was a cool expression. Tigers with full stomachs wear smiles like Marcone's when they're watching baby deer play. "Ah. I hope you can find something to suit your tastes tonight."
and
“Do you at least have a gun?” I asked. “Maybe you can distract her.” “I have a knife,” Marcone said. “Jusht like a gangshter,” I said. “Bringsh a knife to an apocalypshe fight.” Marcone gave me a level look and then said, in a much more conversational tone, “Honestly, Dresden. If you used your mind half as much as your mouth, you’d be running the place by now.”
John "Who do you think I am, I am not a charitable organization, I am a professional monster" Marcone, does not directly acknowledge the reference. He won't go as far as to pretend he's not at least passingly familiar with Gollum, or that he never watched The Untouchables. But he refuses to respond or play off of it the way one of Harry's friends would.
Doesn't change the fact that he does get the reference though.
Me fully employing my free will by imagining a Dresden Files series sequel following Maggie from teenager to young adult woman, accompanied by Mouse and Harry/Hank Carpenter
Me when Harry comes out the other side kinder, gentler, more understanding, a better father/brother/friend, surrounded by community, wanting to live, doing his best:
putting on the high vis corset and running in front of cars across a dark country road like a deer
Item: Corset of Visibility
Pair this with a black skirt and boots, and you, too can be a Visigoth.
RIDE OR DIE (2026)
watched one episode of ride or die and I am immediately in love. wdym we have one hot woman who strides down the stairs like she owns the place and can probably kill someone in a hundred different ways, and another equally hot equally badass woman who is introduced by deftly plying a security guard with tea to get an edge in an antiques show and is masterful at political maneuvering, and they’ve known each other for 20 years and have delightful chemistry and say I love you in a way that is maybe not platonic nor romantic but a secret third thing. icons.
“our age of bronze is collapsing” is this beautiful random burst of monty python dialogue amidst the drudgery of nolan’s vision and i think it should win the first-ever oscar for best solitary line
[wringing my hands as i look out my window directly overlooking wall street, watching the sun rise on october 29, 1929] aw fuck it’s the great depression
beautiful things happening to me right now (criston cole finally dead)
