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Fannish geek, elder queer. Please interact if you're friendly. I REPORT and block ~SPAM~ and FUND REQUESTS

[hawkesque]

sorry but i shrimply can’t believe there’s a movie where sterling k brown fucks mark duplass pregnant and practically no one on this, the mpreg website, talks about it. what are you people even good for

[ngbri]

I'm sorry but these two posts needed preserved together.

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[lil-leviathan]

My clasped weft cowl is finally off the loom! I can't believe i warped this up a whole month ago. I'm absolutely loving the technique and how it all came out. I just need to wash it, trim ends and block it!

This will be my entry into the state fair for the 'woven scarf or shawl' category!

[cpericardium]

at the euthanasia party everyone gets a sip of the forbidden lean

[tastyrepulsorboots]

Yeah, same

[kosmogrl]

[howisthepope]

Do you think the pope has ever touched the Chicago bean

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

[spitblaze]

I'm gonna get phthaloplasty. Oh yeah my shit's all gonna be a serene sea green, or perhaps a tidal blue

[florencemachines]

Costume appreciation series: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) dir Stephan Elliott

Costume Design by Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner

[sixth-light]

In the spirit of bringing back rec lists, I have finally gone through my bookmarks and curated a collection of Due South fic I enjoyed enough to recommend which is by and large not going to show up easily if you sort the fandom by kudos/bookmarks/hits, i.e. will not be in the first ten or so pages. Some of it is I think underrated, some of it is much older fic which was automatically imported to AO3 and probably got plenty of love in its day but is hard to identify now, some of it is just of more niche appeal (see: my endless search for good poly fic.) It broadly tends towards what I see as the canon endgame ships for the series (i.e. Fraser/Kowalski and Stella/Vecchio) but not exclusively. Have a look around! Give these stories some love!

NB: because this is an older fandom there's a lot of very light tagging and 'Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings'; I don't think there's anything where it won't be obvious early if something modern fic etiquette would tag for is happening, but YMMV.

[pentapoda]

Remember my Homemade Quilt Prize for Being Registered to Vote in the US Midterms 2026? Well, we have our FIRST WINNER.

@dactylicpentameter won the first quilt! Step one: picking fabrics! They like blue but also warm colors, so I'm leaning into blue and gold batiks on a cream background.

Do you want a chance to win a quilt made by me??? You can! Just be registered to vote in the 2026 US midterms AND make a social media post letting your followers know that you are registered to vote!

If you do those things, send me an email ([email protected]) with a link to the post or a screenshot and voila! You are entered to win! The next winner will be drawn in early November 2026.

Link to the original post with the details (and some minor caveats)

[sorenkingsley]

[morggo]

wifey got me a camera for my birthday so of course i had to run outside and take photos to start my reference library lol

would anyone be interested in reference photo packs?

[crankydevon]

I used https://www.picturethisai.com/identify and got these likely results. (the photo ID apps are not reliable. I check the results on en.wikipedia.org to see if it's a good guess. The same app will ID the same photo as different plants if it's not sure!)

1 - Blueblossom, Ceanothus thyrsiflorus (I'm least certain of this one)

2 - Highbush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum

3 and 5 - Lavender (there are many varieties)

4 - Aizoon stonecrop, Phedimus aizoon

Great shots!

[canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit]

hey, tag this with a food people get really upset about you not liking

[inlandwest]

[ratsquinks]

miso loves pea fishing!

[ratsquinks]

i think it's very important for you all to know it looked like this behind the camera

[stay-the-knight]