holding space for gelphie

90s kid | she/her if you're an antivaxxer go fuck yourself

[localgaysian]

The Goodness of Glinda Upland, part 19

Famously private, the early years of Lady Glinda Upland’s life and career are shrouded in rumor and speculation, innuendo and outuendo. She has notably refused to speak about her connection to the Wicked Witch of the West. Nor is a directionless journalist, struggling to reconcile her unknown past with her ambitions as a writer. On the eve of Lady Glinda’s retirement, Nor receives an invitation summoning her to Pertha Hills, the seat of the Upland Arduenna family. To hear the entire story. To know the whole truth. – Canon Divergence AU. (Loosely) Inspired by The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

Elphaba Thropp/Galinda Upland. Other Tags: Galinda Upland & Fiyero Tigelaar, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story, Slow Burn, Pining, Tragic Romance, Eventual Mild Sexual Content, SPOILER TAGS ON AO3

Rating: M

Chapters 1-19 now up (112k words)

Thank you to @festivating and @blackseablacksky for support with writing this chapter, and always @gayverlyearp for reading and feedbacking every single draft!

Read on AO3 (from the beginning) ->

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[charl0ttan]

long distance friends pets feel like celebrities because you can only be parasocial with them

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[reasonsforhope]

Additional source and more details below. Absolutely thrilled to say that this is real. And yeah, it's huge.

For all the reasons above AND ALSO because this particular lawsuit is a defamation case

Privacy lawsuits are hard because most privacy laws are super super weak, and there's very rarely a lot of money or enforcement backing privacy laws for...twenty million reasons, really...

But defamation suits? Those have teeth.

(In large part because, at least in some countries and including in the US, defamation laws protect public figures the least - and "public figures" legally includes most if not all politicians, and a hell of a lot of other rich ppl too)

A Munich court ruled Google's AI Overviews are its own words, making it liable for false claims, a decision that, if it holds, could reach e

A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly liable for false claims made by its AI Overviews, a decision that could put a serious legal dent in the whole “the AI made me do it” defense. According to The Next Web, the Regional Court of Munich issued a temporary injunction after Google’s AI Overviews wrongly tied two Munich publishers to scams, subscription traps, and dubious business practices. The court treated those AI-generated summaries as Google’s own statements, not just ordinary search results pointing to third-party pages. That distinction matters. Search engines have traditionally had more protection because they index and link to other people’s content. AI Overviews changes the machinery. Google is not just showing the web anymore. It is summarizing it, rewriting it, and sometimes apparently hallucinating a tiny legal grenade into the results page.

-via Search Engine World, June 10, 2026

[juno-infernal]

sometimes the tragedy of distance is very simple. i want to get groceries with you

[90stvqueen]

Hi y'all -

I've been on the job hunt for about two months and have not had any luck. Rent is due pretty soon, and I need about $1,100 USD to cover it. If anyone can spare anything, it would be so helpful. Please let me know if there's anything I can do for you in exchange, too. I hate to do this, but I've reached a point where need outweighs shame.

I left my venmo handle in the screenshot if it's easier to just type it in. For PayPal, you can either scan the QR or go to paypal.me/jessajessa and ignore my deadname there pls

[gelphienation]

freshly single and fraternizing with a masc…Arianators grab your wicked movie tie in Walmart Mac and cheese becsuse it’s about to be the summer of Sappho in here

[izzythedemigod]

I just found the funniest font ever

Like. What is this. Why is this. Who is the target audience of this?

[skrutskie]

The font is called "Redacted Script," it's available for free here, and I just ran to download it because I am, in fact, the target audience for this

[pjharvey]

we have to start running a massive PSA campaign to young gay people so everyone understands there is a difference between being a dom and being a top and between being a sub and being a bottom. and also that sometimes you are neither a sub nor a bottom and you're just like shy. we need to be handing out flyers we need ads at every train station spreading the word

[buffygifs]

btvs + "i love you" buffy & giles | intervention

[nozoroomie]

@localgaysian MONTHS ago I commented on your fic promising pictures of the mourning doves that the pigeons in Nesting Box make me think of.

Happy to present to you this year's nesting neighbours of the Gelphie nest:

Anyway, thanks for a great fic! I can't wait to catch up!

I couldn't resist naming them after them. I've called the bigger, more pink dove Galinda ofc. Elphie is the smaller one at the back.

[nozoroomie]

@localgaysian cute fun little update-- meet their children Bi and Les (I first noticed them on June 1st so they got pride themed names)

They've grown EXTREMELY fast!!! Normally I see Elphie with them but Galinda is always close by 🥰

[localgaysian]

hi!! i hope you’re doing okay with work and life :)!!! i miss the doctors desperately… what are the odds of an update soon? and absolutely no pressure to even respond but figured you don’t know if you don’t ask ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ugh i miss the doctors too!! i am doing okay, a bit better than earlier but it's still kinda stressful overall. and thank you for asking, i don't mind at all! i hope there will be an update within the next few weeks? i am definitely trying to update once in june but i can't make any promises, i'm sorry :( i'd say there's like a 60% chance of an update within the next 3 weeks? i am starting to hit more of a flow since i rewrote a LOT but this is a good thing because it means the writing is going a bit more efficiently than it was. hopefully!!

[localgaysian]

I'm missing the doctors so bad! 🪺🫠

One of my fav fics for sure! It's so special and mature Idk.

Thank you for your work 💐❤️

aww thank you so much for the message <3 <3 i miss them too!! they will be back eventually

[levourdalak]

I dreamt that there was a new meme that went, “If I dids it, I dids it. If I didsn’t, I didsn’t.” There was a third line, but I forgot what it was.

[nifeandaccurate]

happy to report i’m back on my bullshit

and a rare variant

[levourdalak]

HOW DID YOU KNOW THEY WERE CAT MEMES IN MY DREAM

[nifeandaccurate]

>:3€

[levourdalak]

THAT’S IT, THAT’S THE MEME FROM MY DREAM

[ponk-fonk]

Happy pride month gelphie!!!

[boitterfly]

it’s so special to me that so much of fan culture is textual analysis for the love of the game. like thank god there are people in my phone who are also thinking about this thing i love so much that they are writing transformative fiction as character studies and setting clips of the show to music with theme-relevant lyrics and writing long text posts analyzing every line of dialogue like!! yay!!!

[sakurabraches]

"i've heard through the grapevine that [glinda] married a paltos baronet" elphaba looked annoyed and her back stiffened. "only a baronet? not a baron or a viscount at least? what a disappointment. her early promise was never to pan out, then." meant as a joke, her remark was stiff and unfunny.