How does it feel when you turn on the light?

Blaine, 25, white, nonbinary (xe/xim), pan. A mishmash of various fandoms. ebw_writes499 on AO3, twiliblaine on most other platforms.

[farores-oak-tree]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Astarion/Tav (Baldur's Gate), Astarion & Cazador Szarr, Astarion & Halsin (Baldur's Gate), Astarion & Wyll (Baldur's Gate), Astarion & Karlach (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Tav (Baldur's Gate), Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate), Halsin (Baldur's Gate), Wyll (Baldur's Gate), Karlach (Baldur's Gate), Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate), Lae'zel (Baldur's Gate), Jaheira (Baldur's Gate), Cazador Szarr, Petras (Baldur's Gate), Dalyria (Baldur's Gate), Cazador Szarr's Vampire Spawn Additional Tags: Rite of Profane Ascension (Baldur's Gate), Vampire Spawn Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Vampire Spawn Tav (Baldur's Gate), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Panic Attacks, Trauma, Aftermath of Torture, Canon-Typical Violence, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Bittersweet Ending, Gender-Neutral Tav (Baldur's Gate), Unnamed Tav (Baldur's Gate), They/Them Pronouns for Tav (Baldur's Gate) Summary:

When Astarion's siblings infiltrate camp to bring him to the ritual, they take Tav instead. From there, it's a race against the clock to find them before it's too late.

Or: Cazador puts Tav in Astarion's place for the Rite of Profane Ascension.

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Man, the spring semester was ROUGH for me. For now, Escape the Executor is still on hold, but this fic has been spinning around in my brain for a while and I finally finished it! I hope my Astarion enjoyers have fun!

[your-fave-hates-jk-rowling]

YOU hate JK Rowling!

[lochnutmonster]

[ravioliet]

god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies

[ravioliet]

to everyone in the notes saying this is mean or rude or a callout, this post was autobiographical. we're in this together. take my paw

[vexwerewolf]

Tapping my sign that says "STEM graduates who openly mock Communication degrees are the exact kind of dipshits who get their organisations into massive trouble by publicly saying shit a Comms major would've caught and edited in 5 minutes"

[vexwerewolf]

Nobody thinks they need a project manager until they have to manage a project themselves

[vexwerewolf]

Let's not forget the insufferable (and usually cryptofascist) shitbags who rave about the importance of art, literature, music and philosophy to national culture while displaying naked contempt for anyone who actually studies or practices them at a graduate level

[theweirdwideweb]

I think we've lost the plot on ICE a little. The focus has become too much how their presence affects the local citizen population and not enough on the inherent inhumanity of the deportations in the first place.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

[dueseaworthiness]

[eggseventy]

discord's new terms of service DO have a mandatory arbitration clause for the United States and Canada, you have 30 days to opt out by emailing an opt out notice to [email protected]. this has been your standard "for the love of god do not waive your right to a jury trial under any circumstances" notice

[macavitykitsune]

@fox-bright's useful info on this:

Send your email to : [email protected]

Subject Arbitration Opt Out

Message: Hello, This message is to exercise my right to opt out and not be bound by the Discord provisions requiring arbitration.

User Information Name:

Email:

Username:

User ID:

Sincerely, [Name]

You can find your user ID with these steps: Settings: Under App settings, find Advanced , toggle ON "Developer Mode." Then back out, click on your profile tab and you should get a "Copy ID" option.

[enbycrip]

[enbycrip]

I’m reposting this with a link to some sources from the OP, btw; I’m sorry for not tagging them, but Tumblr won’t let me and I’m guessing it’s a privacy settings thing.

https://www.academuseducation.co.uk/post/ancient-mesopotamian-transgender-and-non-binary-identities

Ancient Mesopotamian Transgender and Non-Binary Identities - by Morg Daniels

There is evidence of complex gender identities in Ancient Mesopotamia, particularly in the cult of the goddess Inanna and her priests.

[sandcheeze13]

got another code red moment for us... :/

Federal Register :: Request Access

please actually reblog this post this time, as this one will gut national parks for more fucking paper. we have 14 days to stop it, giving us literally no time to do so.

they are literally betting on us to not do anything about it, because they're that desperate on keeping control, and ruining lives for everyone, but themselves.

[lingonberry24]

The proposed rule would rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (2001 Roadless Rule) (66 FR 3244, 36 CFR Subpart B (2001)), which prohibits road construction, road reconstruction, and timber harvesting in inventoried roadless areas, with limited exceptions.

[destiel-news-network]

(Source)

Only those who are over 65 years of age or have a "high-risk health condition" will be permitted to receive the 2025 COVID vaccine.

[weirdsociology]

this is a terrible development from a public health standpoint but from a personal standpoint if you want the vaccine: lie. lie your ass off.

your pharmacist won't ask what the qualifying health condition is (i don't think they're even allowed to), just make you check a box on the paperwork that you have one. your insurance may not pay for/reimburse you for the vaccine, but that won't keep you from getting it (as long as you can afford it - obviously big separate problem there.)

anecdotally: i have done this for years and no one cares. i've gotten a covid booster every 6 months for the past four years by checking the high risk box and absolutely no one has batted an eye, including my insurance, who theoretically probably know i don't have a qualifying condition.

so lie your ass off and go get your shot!

[thats-what-sidhe-said]

You may not even have to lie. Here's a list of "high risk" conditions.

[wyf-of-bathe]

ON IT BOSS

[tafkarfanfic]

Hey Americans! If you buy things from overseas, as of August 22 you probably don’t anymore.

Most foreign postal services have paused shipping of packages under $800 to the USA. You will hear that it’s “because of tariffs,” but that’s not exactly true.

It’s because the US:

Has not given anyone a way to pay those tariffs and

Has not been clear on what will ACTUALLY have to be paid. (The country’s tariff has been floated, but a US$80 flat fee has also been floated.

Many countries require people to pay tariffs when they receive a package. That’s fine. But you have to give people a way to pay the damn tariff. And there isn’t a way to do so. Apparently there isn’t even a PLAN for a way to do so.

So: if you have been buying from Etsy or eBay or a little shop overseas, if you subscribe to a foreign magazine, if you are an immigrant and you buy food from home via mail, now you will need to fly there and bring it home. Of course, the people who can afford that are also the ones responsible for this dumb policy.

[thebyrchentwigges]

I live outside the US. This is impacting businesses owned by my friends. This is impacting me, increasing the cost of sending items to friends and family (via courier or DHL now) . This sending-stoppage is a sensible global response to this badly thought out tariff imposition. This sucks.

[sunshine304]

Yes, Deutsche Post/DHL published a statement on this yesterday. I've been sweating about this issue for a while because I've got several books that I need to ship to the US in the next few months.

In Germany, all businesses cannot ship commercial goods to the US anymore using the "cheaper" services like DHL parcel and sales of goods parcel. They can use the express services which will be a lot more expensive. This is due to the fact that no-one fucking knows how high the tax will be and how it will be paid.

I'm sending my books as a private citizen anyway, so if I declare them as a gift (which I always do) and they're under $100 in value, I can still send them as a DHL parcel. It's likely that these parcels will be checked much more often now because businesses might try to send their goods as a gift to get aound all this hassle. So shipping times will go up all around...

[sunsetbuddie]

hey so anyone else just, feel thin. sort of stretched. like butter scraped over too much bread. like you need a holiday. a very long holiday. and you don't expect you shall return? or is that just me and bilbo baggins

[glozirina]

[bass-borot]

[officialmacgyver2-deactivated20]

Some ya’ll who are younger need to google Frank Serpico and read about his time in the NYPD and what the cops did to him and attempted to do to him up until the late 90′s. He literally had to go into hiding in Italy and Switzerland and multiple times people tried to kill him. He only came back to America after the mafia (who hated the NYPD a lot, obviously) said “you’re under our protection.”

[seriously-though-wtf]

Damn, NYPD is so bad, Mafia started protecting good cops

[helila]

Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop

I was a police officer for nearly ten years and I was a bastard. We all were.

[anobeko]

👆Really really good article by the way. Feels like a good piece to show to folks you know who are still on the fence about things like police or prison abolition. Plus the pseudonym the author uses is hysterical, and he's really quite a good writer.

[subsequentlysilly]

extremely good article, please read it. at the very least read the "how to be a bastard" section, it outlines a lot of the ways cops will try to trick you

[kentrix11]

[facelessoldgargoyle]

i fucking hate the “this is the good luck post.” Girl stop contributing to a superstitious environment with ur anecdotes there’s a million goddamn notes on it it’s statistically reasonable that a bunch of people remember the good things that happen after they reblog it

[yvfu]

this is the statistically reasonable post, reblogging it will have no effect except for putting this post on your blog

[moral-autism]

guys this post really works! I reblogged it and it really did put the post on my blog! you need to try it!

[drpepperfucker]

op turned reblogs off but i need this one so bad