All sorts of SFF, plus lots of sapphic and space stuff. Some hockey content. Reblogged art, photography, and poems. Fanfic and recs. AO3: thymidinekinase. Header art by Basementexplorer07
Maybe I'm just projecting, but to me, it seems so obvious that Kleya is Jewish-coded-- a child refugee possibly from Naboo, the home world of Padmé Amidala (who is explicitly Jewish-coded in the books complete with a mezuzah at her home), a survivor of genocide, demonized by the Empire as a disease-carrier who escaped quarantine... The parallels of the propaganda against the Ghor and Nazi propaganda were pretty obvious and commented on, but Partagaz's rants against the Rebellion as "spreading a sickness" were also a clear parallel to the Nazi propaganda that the Jews spread typhus on a literal level, and were an invading virus on the healthy body of the Volk on a spiritual level.
I enjoyed writing modern AU Kleya as a Reform Jew almost disconnected from her heritage, finding connection at Hanukkah. There were so many wonderful fics in the VelKleya holiday exchange that I fear mine got a bit lost in the shuffle.
I just checked and there are only five fics (two authors) in the “Jewish Kleya Marki” tag, so we definitely have room!
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the one that wants to help people search and filter better by demonstrating how I just realized that the way I was searching was stopping me from finding what I wanted
and the one that does not want to air out my particular interests on a platform of any size 😆
(anyone have a thing they've been trying to find and can't?)
So I was searching for "Jane Foster size queen" at first. But then I realized that putting both the character and the descriptor in the same tag wouldn't work.
In order for that to exist as a single tag, it would need to be a popular enough idea in the MCU fandom for at least three different authors to have used it. And with a fandom the size of the MCU, it's probably closer to 5 or 10.
So then I tried using the search form to find the character Jane Foster along with the additional tag size queen. But that returned zero results, and I realized that size queen isn't a canonical tag, so I was asking AO3 to find Jane Foster fics with the tag "size queen" instead of the concept.
So then I went to the tag search and looked up size queen and checked off the wrangling status as "canonical or synonymous" and that gave me 627 synonyms for the concept I was looking for and the first four results included a character name, but the fifth one was just "also he's a size queen" so I clicked on that and I found out that the canonical tag I could use to find fics with that concept was size kink
so I went back to the search form and looked up character Jane Foster and additional tag size kink and I got 39 results.
what I really like about all these vintage couple’s portraits is that there is a very certain romatic decorum kept up – certain themes and poses – which, while of course being the mainstream preferred view of couples repeated throughout many studios, are just… so nice to look at.
this staged affection, a mix of theatricality and intimacy, the couple holding still for a couple of moments and now immortalised in a very set sequence of embraces and kisses. there is a charm to it even when I can’t tell whether this was a genuine couple portait or just actors hired by the photographer.
the kiss on the bare shoulder (eyes perfectly averted), the cheek caress, the piano and the violin, the interrupted embrace, the woman tilted back as in a half-stopped dance…
and, at last (thank you for still being here and witnessing my recent fascination with vintage polish photography) my three absolute favourites outside of any particular categories (1910-1930)
Why is there a diarrhea parasite outbreak in America?
Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to disease prevention and control.
Why is measles back in America?
Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including RFK Jr, cut vaccine and measles prevention funding and programs.
Why is the New World Screwworm infecting cattle in Texas, when it had previously been eliminated from the area?
Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Elon Musk, cut USAID funding, which in part worked to monitor and prevent screwworm outbreaks.
Why was there a flu outbreak in our armed forces?
Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Pete Hegseth, cut vaccination requirements for our armed forces, putting all of them at risk alongside our military readiness.
What contributed to the Covid outbreak?
Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to a pandemic prevention program in his first term because Barack Obama had created it.
“America first” sends its regards. Trump voters, please learn your lesson. And if you don’t, it’ll be taught to you again with yet another diarrhea outbreak.
Please give credit to Matthew Cortland, the disabled lawyer and activist whose work is reflected in that last screenshot. They work hard on documenting what Trump and his cronies have been doing & they deserve credit.
You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.
not because it's bad or anything but because if you do it even once you're going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life
if u write in present tense enough times in a row, you can switch this problem around & get confused when your present-tense narrator is talking abt something that happened in Their past. I recommend this bc it keeps u on ur toes
I don’t remember where I read this, maybe a Heinlein novel? Hopefully it’ll jog someone’s memory and they can tell me.
It was a parable of sorts. Let’s say you want to find a horse that can jump over a tall fence. Every horse that fails, you shoot. Eventually you find a horse that can clear the fence. Or you run out of horses.
first base is ripping each other's throats out second base is fucking and then pretending it didn't happen after it's over. third base is falling unconscious from blood loss in the other's arms
Best-selling author Kleya Marki moves to a sleepy small town by the sea for a change of scenery. She expects the views to be beautiful and the coffee to be average. She doesn't expect to meet the local bookshop owner who loves Christmas music and holiday jumpers.
Submitted by @kinasecrystal
Submitter's comments:
It's a perfect Hallmark Christmas romance AU, a defining fic of the tag