Where the Wild Things Were

AO3:Rivertalesien ^^ She/Her  ^^ Queer ^^

[rivertalesien]

We can't go quietly

[rivertalesien]

BTS docu of The Dark Crystal showing human beings making and operating things by hand: some amazing artistry and craftwork that AI could never. I'd love to see a return to this kind of work than another inch of CGI in anything.

[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'JK Rowling posted upskirt photos of a woman on Twitter' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]

No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.

JK Rowling deadnamed and posted 'upskirt' photo of trans woman on X

The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in

[solarishashernoseinabook]

Let's not beat around the bush: Children's author JK Rowling sexually harassed someone. In some jurisdictions, this would count as sexual abuse. JK Rowling has committed a sex crime against a woman and fell back on the old rape apologist standby of "she was asking for it".

I hope your nostalgia is worth it

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[cbarc]

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

[quasi-normalcy]

WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK?

[neonshroudedgraves]

Bluesky asks Texas users to verify their ages, citing new app store law

"Why do you need age verification on a site where everyone is 38?"

[stevishabitat]

idk who on earth could possibly need to hear this, but do NOT, under ANY circumstances, give out your SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER to ANY SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

☝️☝️☝️

[canmom]

worth noting that the atproto architecture makes age verification a lot easier to bypass than other platforms. though, you would have hoped to have a few more years before taking advantage of these features lol. but from a country that is unfortunately a couple years into this shit already, I recommend...

switch your PDS (thing that stores your data) from bluesky.social. some existing public PDSes include Blacksky and Eurosky. eurosky has a simple tool, linked, which makes transferring your data from another PDS very easy. (if you are more technical, you can also self-host a PDS on your own server, the way you would a website.)

then, switch your frontend (the thing that lets you read and write posts) away from bsky.app to one of the forks; I recently switched to using Witchsky, which is actively maintained at time of writing. this gives you a pretty much identical experience with a few extra features, notably including bypassing age verification nonsense for DMs in countries like the UK, and some of the bullshit moderation bsky has been imposing lately. (it also lets you change the colours).

to be clear, this mostly lets you see stuff that gets censored; it won't help your posts get seen if you're blocked and most of the users are still on bsky.app, but it's a good thing to do now before you have to, and you don't need to convince everyone to come along right away the way you would something like discord.

it's going to take a while to get bsky as decentralised in practice as something like fedi, but the way they're running it, we had better pull the trigger on that 'if you don't like it you can switch and take your data with you' promise asap

[rivertalesien]

I would bet Harrow telling Gideon to "cover up that ridiculous hair" isn't her voice at all, but probably her parents or Crux; when they were very little, Harrow probably loved to touch it all the time.

Until the love and playfulness was indoctrinated out of her.

[scarringstars]

— Herakles, Euripides

[rivertalesien]

Don't think about how Jeannemary was 14 when she met Gideon, who was 18 and how Hot Sauce was 14 when she met Nona, who was 18, and they just admired them and how Hot Sauce misunderstood too much and how Jeannemary understood too little and how scared they both were and still wanted Gideon and Nona as their friends, and how you can connect that dot and it doesn't have to Mean Anything Except It Kinda Does and how Hot Sauce is still alive and Nona was a cryptic amalgamation of Gideon and Harrow, but probably mostly Gideon, because Alecto couldn't live in a human meat suit for long without killing it and how she had to suppress her memories of being Alecto to protect Harrow's body, kind of like Harrow had to repress her memories of Gideon to protect Gideon's soul and don't think about how once Alecto started remembering herself Harrow's body began to fall apart and the unique person that was Nona disappeared and how Paul witnessed this up close after Camilla and Pal decided to create their own unique person because they thought Nona was a real merger of two people and don't think about how Gideon, stuck back in her dead body and forced to play another round of Fuck My Life gets to stand on the shore of a strange tomb and watch as Alecto spirits Harrow away from her (again) and how, maybe, somewhere, in the River, Jeannemary is wondering if her biceps will ever grow now that she's dead and Hot Sauce is wondering if she'll ever see Nona again. Just don't think about that stuff and you'll be fine. Promise.

[joey-regrets-nothing]

tng is so funny because picard has this random god whose for some reason obsessed with him not romantically not platonically not sexually but in a secret fourth way that is also all three at once and this god is like kind of an asshole and all the other gods hate him and also think he's an asshole. and everybody still has no idea why he's obsessed with this middle-aged french man but he likes putting him in situations and showing up in his bed. also he steals picard's girlfriend

[rivertalesien]

The only reason people are talking about The Odyssey is because a film studio paid millions for PR for it's film adaptation.

Otherwise, would you really be talking about The Odyssey?

I love how all of this works.

[rivertalesien]

I propose that any live-action adaptation of Gideon the Ninth simply be acted out by Elle Cordova (playing all the characters except Coronabeth, who will be played by Miss Piggy and Teacher and the other Canaan House "staff" also to be played by Muppets).

[dreamsaremywords]

Within Shattered Horizons

Field Commander Lexa Woods is part of an elite team sent to the stars to find something they'll need to save the world from catastrophe. She leaves behind her girlfriend, her family, her whole life to do what she's certain she's been destined for since she was a child: be the hero her people need. But even the best-laid plans can go awry.

Lead Glaciologist Clarke Griffin has spent her entire life trying to follow in her father's footsteps. As part of a team undergoing a highly secret mission to save the world, Clarke lives and breathes the job. When she rescues an astronaut who may hold the key to everything, her life will be challenged in every way.

Or: on a countdown to the end of the world, an astronaut and a deep sea diver must team up to save it, and love is a distraction they can't afford. Yet it's impossible to avoid each other on a secret base in a lethal place, and together they might just learn that maybe life should be about more than just surviving...

Read on ao3

[dreamsaremywords]

Chapter 8 update

[rivertalesien]

It isn't enough that cavaliers in the Locked Tomb series must train to be excellent knights and defenders of their necromancers, but they don't even find rest in death.

Should one be consumed by their necro, they're just trapped in a cycle of defending and protecting (without voice or agency) that could last for thousands of years.

Neither Naberius Tern nor Gideon Nav had any idea what Lyctorhood would do to them. Gideon, in particular, resented being an indentured servant to the Ninth and sought escape. In falling on a fence, she had no idea she was about to indenture herself forever, with no escape (her unacknowledged love for Harrow made any qualms moot). Tern, on the other hand, had no idea his death would not be the "end." and we see him struggling against Ianthe in their shared body. He's not happy.

That Gideon was given a way out (an act of love she had no idea about), only to be forced back into service by her father, is a shattering psychic schism, while Tern and Ianthe are basically becoming a new person that Ianthe refuses to acknowledge.

Did any of the Lyctors who successfully absorbed their cavaliers realize they were no longer themselves after a time?

As a cavalier who escaped the process, how much of Gideon's soul *was* absorbed by Harrow and how will this affect Harrow in the future?

Further, in witnessing Camilla/Palamedes "suicide," does Gideon think of Harrow's parents and what *their* suicide made of their daughter? Paul is, for some intents and purposes, the child of Camilla and Palamedes and still an unknown quantity. They did it, much like Gideon falling on a fence, to save lives (getting everyone through the River required a Lyctor). Harrow did not call Gideon's sacrifice a suicide; I doubt she would have seen Cam/Pal's sacrifice as one, either.

But what about Gideon who has always sought escape and revered a violent death as her likely end (thanks to those Cohort comics)?

So many people had knowledge she didn't; an understanding of the world that she didn't; Gideon had no time to really learn much of anything and for all her struggles to be *herself* that person never got to emerge, fully. Like Tern, she was simply expected to obey and do her job.

If we could separate Tern for a moment, what would he say about it all?

There's a built-in cultural cruelty some of these folks are only now realizing or acknowledging, while someone like Wake has been fighting it all of her life. No wonder Augustine and Mercy joined her, ultimately. The grief and horror of understanding what they had helped build was a devastation that they couldn't ignore.

The lessons of this story, though, means John's reckoning cannot resemble John in any way.

What will justice look like?

It can't be the violence John and Wake have produced; maybe it will look more like the ease of forgiveness Gideon once offered Harrow.

[communistkenobi]

something that's always stuck with me is Adorno's critique of liberal research on fascism - that liberal scientists believe you can approach fascism in good faith by simply asking Nazis what they think about the world and then writing it down. He argued that fascism is itself a bad faith ideology, and that Nazis will not usually answer the question "do you want to exterminate all minorities?" truthfully, especially not when asked by academics (who are all Marxists/Jews/etc plotting to destroy civilization). So in order to accurately capture fascist sentiment, you have to conceal your intentions and basically lie to them. And there are real moral imperatives for social scientists to do this, in the same way that journalists go undercover in white supremacist groups to report on their activities and beliefs. There's even that famous East German documentary where the directors lied to a Nazi military leader about being West German filmmakers, got him drunk, and then just filmed him saying Nazi shit lol. So like the conventions of science itself, the idea that good research is necessarily always transparent, is a political assumption that shapes how you conduct research and acquire knowledge

[rivertalesien]

Ragebait is used to divide communities.

Know it when you see it and fucking bury it.

[yeyinde]

Collins is gone.

Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.

Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.

All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.

After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.

It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of years—far longer than settlers have been in Canada—and made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotēn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.

And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racism—like Kashechewan—because it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.

The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.

Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.

ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.

Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.

*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.

If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.

items needed are: food, diapers, medical masks, men’s and women’s joggers (all sizes), children’s clothing (newborn to size 14), children’s shoes, summer clothing, men’s clothing, toiletries (lotion, Vaseline, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, etc.), strollers, adult depends-all sizes, dog & cat food

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