nxhc

Arrogant and unyielding.

[apas-95]

I cannot help but recommend the following short documentaries, providing a historical materialist perspective on the current crisis of imperialism.

An Atlantic Tide, taking a look at the growing NATO split between the EU and US, and the shortest, at 15 minutes long:

Everything Under Heaven, concerning the push towards escalation and nuclear war, at 30 minutes:

And History is Marching, a comprehensive, two-hour documentary detailing the modern crisis of imperialism:

[playwrongs]

Questions I think to myself a lot when confronted with certain kinds of Online Posting:

Do you want a better world, or do you want revenge on those you think aren’t doing enough to improve it?

Do you want a more just world, or do you want to see bad people suffer merciless punishment?

Do you want a less oppressive world, or do you want the reins of power for yourself?

Do you want to do the right thing, or do you want to feel righteous?

[magnetostits-deactivated2026031]

rip magneto you would have loved killing elon musk

[torn-a-sunder]

Probably with a cybertruck, let's be honest. And it would have ruled so hard.

[charlesoberonn]

Magneto: *raises hand*

Cybertruck: *explodes*

Professor X: Violence is not the answer, Erik!

Magneto: I didn't even activate my powers yet! It just did that on its own.

[nxhc4]

Slipped for a min and thought that it said Magneton lmao that still made so much sense

[tedcruzisthezodiackiller]

[apas-95]

An Actually Short Reading List

I’ve seen a lot of Short, Introductory, Beginner’s reading lists with ten or twenty links, and, well, they’re intimidating. While you might not want to leave off something important, if everyone gets scared off by your list, nobody reads anything. So, let’s try something a bit more approachable! Here are three easy-to-read works.

Principles of Communism

If you’re new to communism, this short-ish work will introduce you to… the principles of communism! Engels’s writing style can be a bit difficult, and he references a lot of old-timey stuff (what’s a spinning-jenny?), but it’s a good introduction!

Link: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

On Authority

If you like the thought of communism, but are wary of ‘authoritarian’ or ‘totalitarian’ communism, this very short (one page!) text might help you understand why historically, communists have supported those measures (hint: if they just wanted power, they wouldn’t be siding with the powerless!).

Link: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm

Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong

Quotations from Chairman Mao, while longer than the last two works, is made up of small, self-contained… quotations, which are individually easy to read (and reread), and if you’re interested in learning more about a topic, you can always check out the work the quote is referenced from. This ‘little red book’ discusses communist perspectives on topics ranging from education, the military, and study, to self-criticism and culture.

Mao’s writing style is, I find, much easier to read, and the little red book covers such a wide range of topics that, if you only try to read one of these, I’d say to try this one. If feudal peasants were able to study and understand it, so can you!

Link: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/index.htm

That’s all! Thank you for reading this, and I hope you give the works I mentioned a try!

[dramione-librarian]

god tier dramione fanfics

Manacled by senlinyu {https://archiveofourown.org/works/14454174/chapters/33390198}

Isolation by bexchan {https://archiveofourown.org/works/23461513?view_full_work=true}

Rights and Wrongs series by LovesBitca8 {https://archiveofourown.org/series/1007625}

Remain Nameless by HeyJude19 {https://archiveofourown.org/works/23875939/chapters/57393508}

Breath Mints / Battle Scars by Onyx_and_Elm {https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/35668776?show_comments=true}

Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love by isthisselfcare {https://archiveofourown.org/works/34500952/chapters/85870804}

Wait and Hope by mightbewriting {https://archiveofourown.org/works/22818646/chapters/54531817}

Bring Him to His Knees by Musyc {https://archiveofourown.org/works/24481312/chapters/59089624}

Dragon’s Heartstrings by pinkinku {https://archiveofourown.org/works/46585585/chapters/117313114}

Cherry Mint by dirtymudblood {https://archiveofourown.org/works/21053894/chapters/50081633}

Love In A Time Of The Zombie Apocalypse by rizzlewrites {https://archiveofourown.org/works/28137807/chapters/68944698}

All You Want by senlinyu {https://archiveofourown.org/works/15153092/chapters/35140268}

Apple Pies and Other Amends by ToEatAPeach {https://archiveofourown.org/works/8156101/chapters/18691246}

The Gloriana Set by ThebeMoon {https://archiveofourown.org/works/16821571/chapters/39485710}

Love and Other Misfortunes by senlinyu {https://archiveofourown.org/works/14380728/chapters/33204618}

This World or Any Other series by olivieblake {https://archiveofourown.org/series/502333}

[apas-95]

The thing about car-dependency is that… it sucks for people without a car. Big news, right. But, it’s not like that incentive curve is something we can just ignore. When our desire or ability to leave our house at all is conditional on being in a car, that affects all of our behaviour on every level.

Kids are the prototypical ‘person without a car’, and in a car-dependent area, they become dependent on their parents. In a normal, walkable city or suburb, children walk on their own to school, they cycle, they take the bus. Instead of needing to get parental approval - and enough enthusiasm to dedicate the time - to be shuttled around to any given activity, children walk to the park, or to a friend’s house. Even in rural areas, with the infrastructure, children will cycle to school. In a car-dependent suburb, a child is trapped in a single-family McMansion on the edge of town, forced to beg their parents to be able to go anywhere, always under supervision - is it any wonder they’d rather stay inside?

Even in a city, if it’s car-dependent, this is still an issue. When the roads are 100-decibel, 6-lane monstrosities, with cyclists expected to intermingle with traffic, and the busses stuck in the exact same jam, kids aren’t going to be able to get anywhere, assuming their parents even let them cross the street. This isn’t just about proximity, it’s fundamentally related to safety. Car-dependent places are a lot more dangerous to be in, on account of all the cars, so parents feel it’s safer for their kid to be in one of those cars. To boot, when everyone’s in a car, there are less people around, less people who can notice someone in trouble, less people who can help. When places are built with the assumption that everyone will have a car, they become places for cars, which humans can stupidly venture into.

This doesn’t just apply to children. We are all, at some point or another, a ‘person without a car’ - in fact, we’re a ‘person without a car’ most of the time, until we get into one. A lot of people would prefer to remain that way; driving a car is stressful, it takes a lot of effort and concentration, and not everyone likes it at 6AM. But, when your environment is built with the assumption you’re inside a soundproof, crash-proof metal box, that becomes a requirement. The second you’re outside of those conditions, scurrying across deafening, hot tarmac, and dodging heavy-duty pickup trucks (carrying solely one guy and his starbucks order), of course you’d decide that not being in a car sucks. But, the thing is, it’s designing for cars that made it suck, even for the car-drivers.

A place designed for cars, a place that people cannot walk, or cycle, or take public transit through, is a place full of cars - you are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic. Studies have shown that the average speed of car traffic, over sufficient time, is completely unrelated to the thoroughfare of roads. Eventually, because of induced demand, the new seven-lane arterial road will have exactly the same congestion as the two-lane it replaced. The one factor that sharply determines how slow road traffic gets is, listen to this, the speed of non-car travel. It is solely when alternatives become faster that people stop driving and free up traffic. Shutting down main street, only allowing buses through, would drastically increase the speed of the rest of the road network - because each of those buses is 40 cars not in traffic. If you like driving, you should want as many people as possible who don’t want to drive to stop doing it - and whoever you are, you should want to be able to travel without depending on cars.

When I was in the biggest depressive slump of my life, and I could barely get out of bed, I still went shopping for food nearly every day, and even traveled to visit my partner. The supermarket was 10 meters out the door of my apartment, and I could walk five minutes to either train station if I had to. It was peaceful and quiet outside. My disabled mother doesn’t like living in cities, but she loves public transit, and will always take a train ride over a long, tiring car journey - and when every store doesn’t need a parking lot twice as big as itself, whatever walking she does have to do is over a much shorter distance. When I’ve had to call an ambulance in a ‘car-hostile’ place, it has arrived inconceivably faster, on those clear roads, than when sitting in the traffic of the highway-lined carpark that makes up so many cities.

Car dependency sucks for everyone, including car drivers, but it sucks the worst for people already suffering. It strips you of independence, and forces you into a box you might not fit in - and I haven’t even touched on pollution. Car-dependency makes cities and suburbs into dangerous, stressful places, devoid of everyone except the most desperate. The only people it benefits are, really, the CEOs of car companies.

[nxhc4]

Sakura this year

[annacoleman]

“But, I’m… I’m so lonely!” Little Women (2019)

[atomtrails]

TOMIONE ; A CLASSIC

Pt 1

Atom trails By Nofootprintsinsand ;

Warpaint by Provocative_envy ;

Dimmuborgir by Nofootprintsinsand ;

Jörmugandr by Honeyskeleton ;

Murderers maze by ibuzoo

[omgjasminesimone]

Masterlist

Challenges/Drabbles/Ficlets/Headcanons Masterlist 1

Side Masterlist 2

Side Masterlist 3

Side Masterlist 4

Side Masterlist 5

Fanart Commissions

Prompt lists

A Good Night’s Sleep (Logan x MC)

Bonnie and Clyde (Logan x MC) Spring Break (Epilogue)

Last Name (Logan x MC)

Tequila Sunrise (Logan x MC) Part I Part II Part III Part IV Epilogue Soap Box Derby Progress Report

The Hot Exchange Student (Logan x MC) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 High School Reunion

The Happiest Place on Earth (Logan x MC) Epilogue

Juvenile Delinquents (Logan x MC) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Epilogue

The Talk (Logan x MC)

Community (Logan x MC)

Cheer (Logan x MC)

Send Off (Logan x MC)

Spousal Privilege (Colt x MC) Epilogue

Graduation Dinner (Colt x MC)

Donor Cycles (Colt x MC)

Running (Colt x MC) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Epilogue Interlude Ficta

Love the One You’re With (Colt x MC, minor Teppei x MC)

Public Pool (Colt x MC)

New Year’s Resolution (Bryce x MC)

Tattoo (Bryce x MC)

Domestic (Bryce x MC)

Homecoming (Bryce x MC) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Philosophical (Epilogue)

How to Make a Family (Bryce x MC), Interludes/Sequel

Kept Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 (Bryce x MC, Ethan x MC)

Masters of Sex (Bryce x MC), Part 2

The Thanksgiving Set Up (Bryce x MC)

His Place (Bryce x MC)

Proposal (Bryce x MC)

Cozy (Bryce x MC)

Girlfriend Part 2 (Bryce x MC)

Too Little Too Late, Afterbirth, Oblivious (Ethan x MC, Bryce x MC)

Timer (Bryce x MC, Rafael x MC)

Wedding Toast, Christmas with the in laws (Bryce x MC, Lahela Siblings)

Assistant (Bryce x MC)

Gave You My Heart (Bryce x MC)

The Morning After (Bryce x MC)

Conception, Delivery (Bryce x MC)

New Plan (Marc Antony X MC) 

Home (Marc Antony X MC)

FaceTime (Raleigh x MC)

Baby Daddy (Raleigh x MC) Baby Daddy Chronicles (Epilogue)

Pity Party (Raleigh x MC)

Matching Tattoos (Raleigh x MC)

Silence is Golden (Raleigh x MC)

Pictagram (Liam x MC) Triplets (Epilogue)

Barefoot and Pregnant (Sawyer x MC) 

Morning Routine (Sawyer x MC)

Consummation (Hunter x MC)

Cordonian Arrangement (Hunter x MC)

Endurance (Hunter x MC)

Life Goes On (Dakota x MC)

The Moments in Between (Dakota x MC)

[thefirstcourtesan]

Misha’s ACoR Fics

I am not linking 300+ fanfics here and all my work is housed on the Choices Fanfic Archive and available through my profile, but since this blog is pretty A Courtesan of Rome-centric and that is also where most of my current inspiration is coming, I did decide to create a masterlist of ACoR fics.

Antony x Portia

Canon (ish)

A Fitting Reward [Adult]- A missing scene from Chapter

Favours [Adult]- A missing scene from Chapter 11

Games That We Play- missing scene/alternative take after Chapter 2 

Just Us [Adult]- Missing scene from Chapter 17

Only You [Adult]- An alternate ending to Chapter 15

Parts to Play (also contains Cassius/MC)- A missing scene from chapter 13.

Victorius [Adult]- Alternate ending to Chapter 14

When in Rome [Adult]- A rewrite of the diamond scene in Chapter 9

When the World Stands Still [Adult]- Missing scene from chapter 18

From This Moment On [Adult]- Missing scene from the end of chapter 21. 

Marc Antony’s Woman [Adult] Chapters 1-10 A retelling of the events of A Courtesan of Rome Chapter 15 onward from the Portia’s POV. [WIP]

Portia: A Roman Tragedy A canon-divergent AU, telling the tragic story of Rome’s most celebrated courtesan and those who loved her. 

From the Shadows (also contains some Syphax/MC) [Syphax PoV]

Contradictions

And So We Begin [Adult]

Manipulations of the Heart (also contains Cassius/MC)

No One But Myself (also contains Cassius/MC)

All My Desires

Everything I Am [Adult]

What is Real [Adult]

To Be the Victor [Adult]

His Woman [Adult]

For Her [Sabina PoV

Darkness and Light [Delphinia PoV]

The Better Man (also contains Cassius/MC) [Cassius PoV]

The Ghost of You [Antony PoV]

The Deepest Wounds [Mature] [Antony PoV]

And Death Wears Her Face [Mature] [Antony PoV]

Antony and Portia: NSFW Alphabet [Adult] NSFW Alphabet Drabbles (so far A, B, E. H and N are done) [Adult]

For the Glory of Rome When Caesar finally returns to Rome, Portia must put aside her thirst for revenge and find a way to survive, and thrive, in Caesar’s Rome.

Nothing I Want More [Adult]

The Choices We Make

The Best Years of Our Lives: A College AU Portia is a college freshman with a mysterious past, hoping to start over. Marc Antony is an arrogant frat bro, who is determined to gain her attention.  Hello, Gorgeous Dare to Give In [Adult] In The Early Hours [Adult]

Other AUs

The Roses of Elysium- Co-written with @boneandfur, set in 1920s Chicago. [WIP]

Unprofessional [Adult]- An AU where Antony is the boss and Portia his new secretary. 

Syphax x Moira A Very Dangerous Man (contains slight Antony/MC) [Mature] Personal Vengeance [Mature] You Give Me Strength

Brighid x Cassius/Brighid x Antony

In Another Life 

[tomionefinds]

is there any fics where tom and hermione's relationship is purely physical at the star the grows into feelings later on? Thank you.

Hey Anon,

I'd check out almost any of Ciule's fics.

Honestly I feel like a lot of fics have this, because of the enemies to lover aspect usually their physical chemistry kicks in before any emotional attachments. Half the time with Tom you never know when he catches feelings or is just manipulating; and usually with Hermione, or Tom too, it takes a while to get over their own hate/biases and stubbornness. -JD

The Art of Secrecy by MrsRen E/Ma | Complete | 62k It had been the perfect one night stand until she, literally, fell face first at his feet and discovered he was her professor.

THE VIRGO VS. THE C WORD by desirable (countertop) E/Ma | One Shot | 22k What you think you don’t know and what you’re afraid to know are the same thing, just in different clothing.

Psychological Warfare by yuwoo E/Ma | One Shot | 18k Hermione has never mastered Occlumency, so she blocks her mind with violent thoughts whenever she and Tom Riddle cross paths. One day in History of Magic, she accidentally thinks of his penis while she tries to come up with new torture methods.

'Trust Riddle,' Hermione thinks, 'to not bat an eye at maiming and murdering, but the thought of me touching his prick makes him freak out.'

Shared Flame by Lady Miya M | Complete | 311k It all started when two normally clever individuals both had a really lousy day.

[highgaarden]

obsessed with your writing !! it’s so good! do you have any other tomione recs with the same level of excellent banter/dialogue? thank you!!

what a COMPLIMENT, thank you!! at the top of my head if you're looking for whipcrack, clever repartee whilst maintaining an incredible amount of chemistry, Jörmungandr by @honeyskeleton would be right up your alley!! 

Psychological Warfare by yuwoo balances humour + angst in a beautiful way. oh and in Handling a Dark-Lord Wannabe by cleighc, tom & hermione discover a profound sort of kinship after the initial violence mistrust intellectual sparring what have you.

i'm not familiar with tomione fics that have banter per se because a lot of the time the dialogue in the fics i read revolve around in-depth discussions on moral relativity / intellect / general corruption of both wizarding & muggle worlds which i LOVE! but banter is generally harder to find given the ~dark~ nature of the ship, which is why i decided to go FUCK IT and write something.

that being said i really admire these stories for their EXCELLENT voices/dialogue/pathos/humour and banter, just not specifically between tom & hermione:

unsphere the stars by @cocoartistwrites (it's a lot of heart and heartbreak and otherworldly magic and the quips are delightful and i sat in catatonic state for a bit after finishing it; one of those fics that have SUCH BREATHTAKING IMAGERY that you want to fucking live in it)

Ring the Bells, That Still Can Ring by sesquipedality (it lures you in with the lightness of its premise in the first chapter and then everything PUNCHES YOU IN THE GUT and the dialogue and the CHARACTER in all the players is just so achingly beautiful it's the muggleborn injustice redemption fic of my heart and just, ungh, hasn't been updated in so long so PLEASE LEAVE LOTS OF REVIEWS)

birds of a feather by babylonsheep (CHEF'S KISS!! the internal monologues of tom is so unexpectedly, endearingly funny after you peel back the layers that make you love a tomione fic. similarly on hiatus so review review review)

madam umbridge home for wayward girls @alovelyvillain (the tomione is breathtaking and there's PLENTY of banter to go around between the other characters! it's the first muggle!au i've ever read and the themes explored are dark but the dialogue cuts through all of that so, so, so gorgeously)

everything i’ve recced are quite long reads because i really, really, really love each of these author's world-building, something i cannot do for the life of me. you will find that they all have distinct voices that i desperately wish to emulate, fail to, so i just weep over them every so often.

others reading this please rec as you see fit! i'm quite new to fandom so i haven't properly explored.

[thefrogginbullfish]

[mum-hen]

Asexual Book Recs

In honor of Ace Week, I wanted to share my favorite asexual characters in books! This is a bit of a repost from last year, but there are a lot of new additions to this list. Even now, it’s still pretty rate for books to have confirmed ace-spectrum characters, but it’s always a delight when I do find them. It’s so amazing to have representation, and a lot of these books helped me figure out my own sexuality. For all my fellow asexuals and other ace-spectrum folks, I hope you enjoy this list!

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman. This was the first book I ever read that had some sort of asexual representation. One of the main characters, Aled, is homoromantic demisexual. Throughout the book, he slowly comes to terms with his demisexuality and his feelings for his friend Daniel. At the time I was reading this, I thought I might be demisexual, so having this representation was really important to me.

Loveless by Alice Oseman. This is probably one of my favorite books! It’s another one by Alice Oseman, who is aro-ace just like the main character Georgia. Georgia is a college freshman who has never been in love or had a crush, but desperately wants a fanfic-level romance. Just for the hell of it, she joins the Pride Society at her university and is sort of mentored by the society president, who is gay-ace. Eventually she comes to terms with her sexuality and realizes that platonic love can be just as wonderful and all-encompassing as romantic and sexual love. I feel like with ace representation in books, not many of them actually focus on the actual coming out/realization phase. Not that there’s a problem with that (your sexuality doesn’t define you), but it is nice to have that token coming out story like so many other parts of the LGBTQ+ community have. This book was incredibly important to me, and actually helped me realize that I’m aro-ace! 

Vicious and Vengeful by Victoria Schwab. Romance is a minimal part of these books, and it turns out that it’s because the main character, Victor Vale, is asexual. When mentioning a girl he knew in college, he says something along the lines of wanting her attention, and even her love, but not her sex. So definitely asexual, probably heteroromantic or biromantic. These are two of my favorite books of all time, just because of how amazing the plot and the characters are, and knowing that Victor is ace just makes me love them even more.

Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray. Another one of my favorite books of all time! Abel, one of the main characters, is on the ace spectrum. In the first book, he alludes to being somewhere on the ace spectrum. He falls in love with the other main character, Noemi, but since he is a robot his programming only allows him to experience sexual desire after his feelings are reciprocated. In the third book, he is confirmed to be demi-panromantic.

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan. I read this over the summer and it blew me away! I could write a novel about how amazing this book is, but that’s for another post. It’s about a girl during the Ming Dynasty who disguises herself as her dead brother in order to fulfil his destiny of becoming great. The main character, Zhu Chongba, is genderqueer and asexual. I appreciated that even though she’s very clearly asexual, she still has a loving, sexual relationship with her girlfriend Ma. They’re really great about setting boundaries and communicating their different needs with each other. This book gave me a lot of asexual feels and Gender Thoughts ™, so definitely give it a read!

Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo. This is a bit of a controversial one, since Kaz Brekker’s sexuality is kind of up for debate. His PTSD and trauma give him a strong aversion to touch, and he’s sex repulsed in most cases. However, there are specific instances where he’s able to feel sexual attraction (see: Inej and Imogen). Therefore, I view Kaz as demisexual, but I think he’s definately somewhere on the grey-ace spectrum. 

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. The two main characters, Aziraphale and Crowley, do not have any confirmed sexual or gender identity, and Neil Gaiman has said it’s completely open to interpretation. I, personally, interpreted them as asexual, and a lot of the ace community has claimed them as well. We love our asexual ineffable husbands! 

Dread Nation and Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland. I read this last year and really enjoyed it! In the beginning of the story, I was definitely getting queer vibes from one of the main characters, Katherine, and she turned out to be ace! I have not read the sequel, so I don’t know how much it’s talked about there, but it’s still nice to have that rep. The point of view character for the book, Jane, is also bisexual.

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. I read this at the beginning of quarantine and immediately fell in love with it. It is a pretty big book, so just make sure you’re fully committed before you decide to read this one! The author has confirmed not one, but two of the main characters to be on the ace spectrum: Tane and Loth. Tane is asexual, and she says that Loth is probably greysexual, but she isn’t 100% sure yet. This book in general is just full of queer characters and was a delight to read, so if you’re looking for queer fantasy characters I would totally recommend it.

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon. I have not read this book yet, but it’s on my TBR. I started it after reading Priory, but I was too busy to finish it. The main character, Paige, is confirmed to be demisexual, and I think the author said this would be explored more in the following books. Another character, Jaxon, is also asexual.

While I was making this list, I realized that a lot of my favorite books coincidentally have characters on the ace spectrum. Looking back, I can’t believe it took me so long to realize I was ace. I think that’s why it’s so important to have ace rep in books - so people can educate themselves about this and potentially come to terms with their own sexuality.

To all my fellow ace-spectrum folks out there: you are not broken. You are allowed to be proud of who you are. You deserve loving relationships, no matter the forms those relationships may take. Happy ace week to all, and to all a good night!

[colubrina]

Do you have any sickeningly fluffy dramione fics that always make you smile

But of course…

Bus Stop by Marmalade Fever Every morning, Draco and Hermione meet at the bus stop. A romance revolving around an umbrella.

The 50 Reasons I Hate Hermione Granger by Kiska King

Taming Granger by @jayciethingsIf there was one thing Draco excelled at, it was plotting. Granger didn’t stand a chance. D/Hr. 6th year; AU.

Sucks for Smith by @raviesnakeMarriage law fic

Hospital Stay by Cornwall Writes ( @unknown-authoress)Draco Malfoy is in the hospital. Hermione Granger is his Healer. Light fluffiness to make a bad day better.

And one of mine:

No One Minds Hermione and Draco are Head Boy and Head Girl in a Voldemort-free AU world of silly fluffs. Will she let him take her to the Halloween Masque? Will Pansy’s high heels trip her up before she asks her own crush out? And would someone tell Theo that’s not appropriate in public?

Also, if you know of a light one-shot, please link it in the replies.  I’m always looking for short, fluffy fics with the pairings I love.