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Marcus stopped abruptly in the middle of the grass. A woman in a blue dress was already sitting on the Crisis Bench. He didnât recognize the dress. She looked up from where she was sitting.
âSorry,â he said, holding up his hands. âI didnât think anyone would be over here.â He didnât think he remembered an introduction to anyone in that dress. It was a memorable sort of a dress. âI believe I ran into your mother inside?â he ventured, because he ran into so many mothers.
âSheâs not here,â she said, which was not what he wanted to hear and which he absolutely could not handle at the moment.
âRight,â he said, trying to recover, pretending as if heâd just remembered something. âYour fatherââ
âWe havenât met,â she interrupted. âIâm not anyone.â
âOh thank god,â he said, abandoning propriety to collapse onto the bench, dropping his head between his knees. âThank you.â
âToo many people?â she said sympathetically.
âIâm really bad with faces,â he admitted.
âA lot of people are,â she assured him.
He dragged his hands down his face. âI just confused a Duke with a waiter.â
She bit her lip. âAs long as you arenât rude to waiters, you should be fine,â she said.
âI wasnât rude,â he said. âIâm never rude. It would have been better if I was rude.â He buried his face in his hands. âI tipped him,â he said, anguished, muffled by his palms. Why had he been dressed like a waiter?
She burst out laughing, loud and with her head tipped back, overwhelming the empty garden. He separated his fingers to stare at her.
âSorry,â she hiccuped, which immediately descended back into snorts. She laughed like she was hunting for truffles.
âThanks,â he said, though he almost did feel better. âIâm feeling very supported in my time of need.â
âThereâs only one thing you can do,â she said, wiping tears from her eyes, trying to dab at them to not destroy her makeup. Reflexively, he offered her a handkerchief, which she accepted. âYou have to flee the country. Itâs the only way.â She checked the handkerchief for signs of smeared eyeliner. âLeave your family. Change your name. Get a new family. Never tell them your dark secret.â
âI think my old family might notice if I got a new family,â he said, now resting his chin in his hands, elbows balanced on his knees.
âThatâs why you have to burn your house down,â she said matter-of-factly, now holding his handkerchief in a neat fold in her lap. âJust burn the whole thing. Everything but your favorite hat. You leave the hat on top of the ashes for your family to find. âThis must be himâ theyâll say. 'He would never have left his favorite hatâ. Itâs the perfect crime. Once itâs done, you become a pig farmer. Anyone comes around asking questions, you feed them to the pigs.â
âYou seem like youâve put a lot of thought into this,â he observed. âHow are your pigs?â
She looked him over sidelong. âHungry,â she said primly.
plonk ogay so i have this fic idea where hank and con are in a zombie apocalypse and con has pneumothorax (just means he has a hole in his lung, he coughs a lot and his skin turns blue from oxygen deprivation but its definitely not fatal). and hank has to cover cons mouth with his hand whenever zombies r near so he wont cough and attract them and hanks hand gets wet with connors spit and its jus really intimate and hornee. im probably never gunna write it (_ _).･oâ
ITS FINALLY DONE! đ˝ A redraw of the iconic alleyway scene with my genderbent designs!
Ugh it took me so long to finish this thingđ There are a few things that I donât really like abt it and would change but.. I just really wanted to post it alreadyđŤ
The idea of replacing corn with watermelons was from an anonymous in my inbox. Thank you for it đ
I think the solution to kids on the Internet is to have specific, kid friendly spaces on the Internet. Kids wouldn't come across "adult content" on YouTube if barbie dot com still had flash games and this is a hill I will die on.
Oh! Then I know the EXACT person you should be mad at! Michael O'Rielly! He's the one that gutted the Children's Programming Rules, which covered internet as well as television.
#so the death of the Saturday morning cartoon is THIS motherfuckers fault?????
Indeed it is! The FCC controls how much of broadcasting has to cater to children and that includes how educational that programming has to be, and exactly how much and in what way you are allowed to advertise to kids. That's why for the entire 90s and up to the early 00s, kids shows had shorter commercial breaks, and ads that talked about a website had to say "ask your parents before going online", and those websites had to be non-commercial--i.e. they could not be shops, and could not have any way you could spend money or were encouraged to spend money. That's why Barbie.com was flash games, and O'Rielly LIFTING that ban is why Barbie.com now takes you directly to a storefront instead.
If you're mad about Saturday Morning Cartoons, dark patterns in ads targeted at children, online protections for kids, or wondering why educational children's shows aren't as much of a thing as they used to be, get mad at the FCC and the person in charge of it who is gutting the Children's Brodcasting Rules (sometimes called the Kid Vid Rules), because those rules control all of that!
While O'Rielly is responsible for gutting the rules in 2019, he was replaced in 2020 by Nathan Simington as head of the FCC, and Simington resigned in June of this year. The post remains vacant as of the time of this writing (August 31, 2025).
And a side note: Things like KOSA and SCREEN and all those other censorship bills that use "think of the children" are not going to protect children at all; if you want to protect kids online, there is already a way to do that it's called the Kid Vid Rules and the FCC is the one that can update and change them to keep up with the times! It doesn't need a congress vote, it already got voted on in 1990!
if you rate other peopleâs fanfics â when the authors didnât ask you to, especially if youâre doing it publicly â I genuinely think you donât deserve to read any fanfics at all.
âthis one is 8/10â, âthis one is 7/10â âthis one is 10/10â âand this one is 5/10â fuck off. fanfic writers write as their little hobby and getaway. fanfiction is art created by the artistsâ love and passion for the characters, fanfiction is not created for strangers to grade them. I cannot begin to tell the level of entitlement someone has to think they can rate what other people do for themselves as a form of self-care. youâre privileged enough to read their works for free. if you donât like it (and you definitely are allowed to not like a fanfic, not everything is made with the goals to please you and thatâs okay), then quietly exit it. but donât be an entitled brat.
I do not celebrate death on principle but I do find it interesting that Charlie Kirk died via the thing he advocated for. Like whoâs writing this political novel weâre living in. The symbolismâs a bit heavy handed if you ask me.
Also, his last post on Instagram had the quote "play certain games, win certain prizes". Like, who tf is writing this season?? Chekov's gun was not only shown, it was swung around with wild abandon surrounded by big flashing arrows pointing at it.
There is literally no circumstance where I support age verification to access a website. As I've said before I'm very much the "there's nuance here" person on almost everything but on this issue there's no nuance for me, it's awful and horrible in and of itself and it also sets an awful and horrible precedent
all of my art for mine and @littleblackchatâs fic, xxx⌠there are many more under the cut [plus some extras], but if you havenât read the fic yet, maybe do that first, because spoooiillleeeerrrsss!!
