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LADY MARMALADE — Christina Aguilera, Mýa, Pink, Lil' Kim, 2001
Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.
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Ultimately, she spent 20 hours redoing the copy from scratch — and with her $100-per-hour rate, that meant her client was shelling out $2,000 for copy that likely would have ended up being far cheaper had a human just written it in the first place.
I love stories like this.
Get peer reviewed!
Every now and then I just remember how Riley was painted as the victim in his relationship with Buffy and it just makes me so mad. The writers keep telling us that she didn't appreciate him and his way of loving her, but we are SHOWN that it was actually the other way around.
Buffy was not perfect, and it's clear she first got attached to Riley because he was a normal dude and she very much needed something in her life to be normal - but when it turned out he also had a secret life, that he was also the "hero" of his group, she accept it. She continued to like him. She still wanted him around.
Riley meanwhile seemed to resent her for being the slayer, for being stronger than him, for having other stuff going on in her life, for having dated/being the object of affection of guys that were stronger than him.
His insecurity is ridiculous. He was literally willing to die just to be a very strong, but also very dead guy, instead of being a completely healthy dude with the strength of a regular dude. He even acts like him not being able to beat Buffy in a fight, even with the "power up" is what is causing her to be "distant" sometimes, not the fact that, like he said himself, she needs to prevent the end of the world every other week and that's kinda stressful and takes a lot of her free time.
He also complains about her asking him to take care of her younger sister, the most important thing in the world to her, so she doesn't have to worry about that while out killing vampires and demons - and he thinks of that as her "not letting her be useful", and then complains again when she gives him a bullshit role in the whole "stopping the doom of all of humanity", even though he just refused the thing that would make him actually useful. He also conveniently forgets things like Buffy asking HIM specifically to take care of her after she was wounded in a fight. He doesn't see any of that as her truly including him in her life and full on needing him like he wants her to - because it's not in the way that allows him to pretend he is THE hero, not the hero's boyfriend. Being important TO her doesn't actually matter, what he really wants is to feel superior, to be more important than her.
And even outside of the Slayer stuff: this dude really heard that his girlfriend's mother was potentially dying, and instead of thinking of how he can be there for her (something he CLAIMS he wants to do) all he can think about is "Why didn't she immediately call me? Why did she tell Spike first?" (I'm a spuffy fan, but come on, she only told Spike because he just happened to show up at the very second she was ready to open up about it and just needed a shoulder to cry on). Everything, even his girlfriend's struggle with the possibility of her parent dying and her needing to step up as a parent to her sibling, needs to be about HIM, his feelings, his wants and needs.
The fucker even has the nerve to cheat on her during all of this. Compare that to Angel going to Sunnydale to give her emotional support after Joyce died, or Spike comforting her before even knowing WHY she was crying and then sending flowers without a card to honor her mom and offer Buffy some compassion, but without disrespecting her very explicit "stay away from me, Spike." It's very clear which of these three guys never actually cared about her, even a little bit.
Hell, Riley is 100% sure that the only way for Buffy to "prove" her love is to suffer for him. Her sister tells him "I like you much more than her ex, you would never break her heart like he did" - and somehow, he doesn't take that as "Buffy and her family fully trust that I'm a good guy that would never do anything to hurt her" (something Buffy herself says to Angel's face in his show) but rather as a "Nothing I do would ever hurt her because she doesn't actually love me the way she loved Angel."
Not to mention: his assumption that Buffy was only ever attracted to Angel because he was a vampire, and thus any other vampire like Draculla or Spike could easily steal her from him, just shows how much he didn't understand her at all.
Buffy started crushing on Angel thinking he was just a normal human that knew about the supernatural and wanted to fight the good fight. She didn't find out about him being a vampire until he lost control for a second and went vamp-face after their first kiss, and it freaked her out.
She fangirled for a second meeting Dracula, but man, come on, OF COURSE the slayer will be excited to see the most popular vampire ever, and she was more than willing to kill him. The whole reason there were any flirty vibes between them was because the dude had literal mind-control powers.
Spike is the closest Buffy ever got to "dating a vampire because he is a vampire" and that was because she was literally craving death. Even then, she was horrified at her own attraction to him, AND there was a different side to their relationship, with Buffy liking Spike because he was the one person that wasn't disappointed and resenting her for being depressed.
For fuck's sake, she had a thing for PLENTY of normal guys - RILEY VERY MUCH INCLUDED!
He was the one that only cared about "who is stronger" and kept insisting that Buffy was the same even after overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
And for the show to then make HER go after him, make HER all sad when he is dating someone else, make one of her closest friends blame HER for everything that went wrong in their relationship, and then make HER basically claim he was right with bullshit lines like "I wasn't there for him like I was for Angel" is ridiculous - specially when, again, what made Buffy want to be with Riley in the first place was her trying to not fall into another unhealthy relationship like the one she had with Angel. They were codependent and when he left it nearly destroyed her. OF COURSE she's gonna try not being as obsessed with the next boyfriend (or with the one after him) because she knows that shit doesn't end well.
Again, say what will about both Angel and Spike, but at least Angel walked away after realizing their relationship was a dead-end that would never make Buffy truly happy, and Spike put himself through hellish torture to get his soul back and make sure he'd be a better man who would never make Buffy suffer.
RILEY being framed as "the perfect guy Buffy couldn't appreciate and let get away" is just insulting. Of all the guys Buffy has ever been with, he is the one that deserved her the least.
suggestion! When writing a fic set in the USA before, say, 2015, with same-sex marriage, maybe look up when that was legalized in that place. Because as a middle aged person, the presumption that these boys can get casually stroll in and get married throws me right out of a story.
The LA Times has a handy interactive timeline map!
Please double check that your gay hockey players are not waking up married in Vegas in 2009! That was not happening.
Actually, that's the wrong map for the gay hockey players!
If one of your characters is Shane Hollander, same sex marriage was legalized in his home province when he was 12.
Short timeline
1969: same-sex sex acts decriminalized in private, though remaining indecency laws continued to be used by police to criminalize homosexuality (ex the Toronto bathhouse raids)
1971: We Demand rally, the first gay public protest (August 18, still the date of Pride in Ottawa)
1981: Toronto Bathhouse Raids and resulting protests
1999: civil unions. They had most of the legal rights of marriage but weren't called marriage.
2003-2004 various provinces and territories legalized marriage
2005: Same sex marriage legalized by federal government
You'll notice Alberta didn't legalize before the federal law came in. In early 2005, my friend Christine from Alberta and a bunch of her friends wanted to show that support for gay marriage existed in Alberta, so they sewed a 4 foot tall, 150-meter long rainbow banner which they brought to Parliament Hill to show support for same sex marriage. It encircled all of Parliament Hill!
Pieces of it were used in people's marriages afterwards. There's a piece of it in the Canadian Museum of History.
Actually I think it was mostly sewn by Duff Bond, Christine's awesome mom.
Canadian-history-themed packages full of museum objects, archival documents, short interviews, activity suggestions and more.
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For a full timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBTQ_history_in_Canada
Timeline of LGBTQ history in Canada - Wikipedia
Homura's appearances in Walpurgis No Kaiten trailers
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is jake gyllenhaal gay??
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happy pride month to this post specifically
Nutella & Dark Chocolate Stuffed French Toast
by Chocolates & Chai
I’m not falling for the propaganda trying to tear apart the LGBTQ acronym, you can pry this community out of my cold dead hands. I love lesbians I love gay men I love bisexuals I love trans people I love nonbinaries and drag queens and kings I love asexuals I love the kinky people at pride I love all queerness get that divisive shit away from me I’m so serious
Stray (2022) developed by BlueTwelve Studio
lesbian couple on their wedding day after 72 years together, photographed by Thomas Greyer
When I was born, there was not a single country in the world where they could have gotten married.
In the year 2000, there was not a single country in the world where they could have gotten married.
The first country to legalize same sex marriage was the Netherlands in 2001.
Now, in 2026, there are thirty-eight countries with same-sex marriage, with another two on average being added every year (x). Including three of the most populous countries in the world (the US, Brazil, and Mexico, x).
Altogether, over a billion people now live somewhere that same-sex marriage is legal. Twenty-five years ago, that number was zero.
Things are hard right now, but in so many ways they are so much better than they have been for a very, very long time.
Never lose hope, never kill yourself, love wins.
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drug addicts deserve housing, food, water, and healthcare btw
Pokémon HeartGold ◇ 2009
this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.