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@rosecamillawoodwrites
Hello all, bit late on the post but there's still plenty of week left! What DO the Sixth learn from a book? What DOES the Ninth do with bones??? What do our friends from one House misunderstand about our friends from another? Can't wait to find out!
I have started following the journey of a German soccer fan in the US for the world cup
@laeffy the euros have found buc-ee's
Thoughts on Griddle fanon characterization:
It is very important to me that Gideon Nav is seen as a Losergirl. Seriously, she isn’t suave. She THINKS she’s suave, but she isn’t. She IS funny, especially when she’s the one narrating. Gideon is, in canon, a homeschooled teenager from a religious backwater planet and has canonically never touched a titty that wasn’t printed on paper or attached to her body. Don’t get me wrong, she is The Character of All Time.
But we all need to remember that this motherfucker blushed and stuttered when an older woman so much as batted an eyelash at her. She’s got as much game as Luke Skywalker going to Toshi Station to pick up some power converters. She’s amazing. Losergirl representation.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2609/
theres ALWAYS a relevant XKCD for everything huh
Greetings 69ers, it is June 9th! The 9th day of the 6th month! And that means..... week one is upon us!
This week the theme is meetcutes / introductions / first impressions. Share your fic and art, both new and already published! Share other people's fic and art that you love! Here on tumblr or on ao3, where the collection is live: Summer of (Team) 69 | Archive of Our Own
We are so excited to put the Ninth House and the Sixth House in a jar and shake them around a bit. Let's go!!!
Hey everyone, it's June 3rd! That means it's SIX more days until the NINTH of June and the start of our event! Amazing.
Collection on ao3 will open the 9th: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/SummerOfTeam69
Can't wait to see and share all the team 69 things! If you share a post on Tumblr you can tag #summer of (team) 69 or #sot69 or tag the blog.
Your event hosts are both planning on sharing some of their existing team 69 works throughout, so please don't be shy to do that. Self promote, baby. You are awesome and your creations are awesome.
See you in 6 on the 9!
don’t worry about the ‘dies irae’ notes in my leitmotif i’m totally fine
Hey everyone, it's June 3rd! That means it's SIX more days until the NINTH of June and the start of our event! Amazing.
Collection on ao3 will open the 9th: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/SummerOfTeam69
Can't wait to see and share all the team 69 things! If you share a post on Tumblr you can tag #summer of (team) 69 or #sot69 or tag the blog.
Your event hosts are both planning on sharing some of their existing team 69 works throughout, so please don't be shy to do that. Self promote, baby. You are awesome and your creations are awesome.
See you in 6 on the 9!
before pride month ends does anyone wanna admit they have a crush on me
posting this on the first day of june so you all have plenty of time to gather your nerves and whatnot
When I was 22, I realized I was attracted to women.
I'd always said rather gay things like, "Of course boys like sex better than girls do, THEY get to have sex with GIRLS." And, "Everyone knows girls are just objectively more attractive than boys." But I met a bisexual girl, as one does, and things clicked.
I figured that must be what I was: bisexual. I had a boyfriend, and I was attracted to girls. (Do you see the hole in my logic? It would take me 13 more years to see it myself.) I wanted to be with a girl so badly. But I had a boyfriend who had done absolutely nothing wrong, and I did want to get married and have kids one day. I'd always wanted a family.
I went away for the weekend with this boy and his friends. I got drunk and we played the game of Life. My drunken little self yearned, so badly. When I landed on the marriage space, I picked up a pink peg. I held it so only my boyfriend could see and I asked him with my eyes: pleeease?? Can I get gay married in this board game?? He shook his head "no." So I put a little blue peg in my car and tried not to cry. I didn't want to embarrass him in front of his friends.
Later that weekend, one of the guys in our group got all angry and toxic-masculinity about a problem with a boat. One of the other guys immediately started to appease him. My boyfriend and I made eye contact and he made a face like -_- at me. I decided yes, this. This is the boy I want to marry. Having been explicitly told one day prior that I was not allowed to marry a girl, not even in a board game, I looked around at my options and he was it. And I still stand by that! If I had to marry a boy, he is the best of all the boys I've known.
I kept my desires, my deepest wishes, buried in a closet of shame for years. I didn't want to embarrass anyone. I didn't want to hurt anybody. My thoughts and feelings were shameful and they were wrong. When I expressed them, I made people I loved sad and insecure. They weren't okay.
Over two years ago now, my girlfriend told me that those thoughts and feelings were right, and they were beautiful. That I am right, and I am beautiful. It took until I was 40 years old to start to understand this. Shame comes from sources we may not realize at the time. It comes when every time we express something about ourselves, we're told, with or without words, that it's not okay. Well, it is okay. I'm okay. You're okay.
Happy pride month everyone. Tell shame and anyone who would make you feel it because it makes things more convenient to go fuck themselves.
Harrow and Palamedes entirely one sided bitter rivalry is actually one of my favourite parts of this book. She goes the entire time stressing about not falling behind him or showing a hint of weakness that he can pounce on because he’s her most concerning competition. She’s terrified of slipping up around him because obviously he’s judging her entire house as inferior and beneath him and she can’t even contend with him, she’s so far behind and he must be gloating so hard.
Then for a decent portion of the book every time someone dies she thinks he killed them.
Every time he talks to her she’s so paranoid about him trying to manipulate her into giving something away or otherwise screw her over, she never accepts that he’d want to work together for anything other than sinister reasons.
Meanwhile Palamedes is casually telling anyone who will listen that he thinks she’s an incredibly cool genius who is objectively terrifying because she’s so amazing at everything she does but also he’d trust her with her life because she’s honourable like that.
And he’d really like to be her friend but it’s no problem if she doesn’t want to call it that and would prefer to hiss at him from the corner like an angry cat. They’ll get past this stage eventually and then he can be nerd friends with the cool and definitely traumatised autistic girl.
Prompts! Come get your prompts!
Summer of (Team) 69 starts in a little over 2 weeks! Get a head start on creating or ruminating with these delightful prompts, many of which were suggested by the lovely girlcommaplease, notable prompting genius. An ao3 collection will be up by June 6th. Go Team (69)!
I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense
Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.
My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.
Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.
He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM
Okay but actually. It was a similar argument that brought me around on abortion when I was younger and still deconstructing my evangelical youth. I had no idea how any one could convincingly make a case for when life begins. But I learned a lot about medical ethics in college, and one of my main takeaways was that bodily autonomy was sacrosanct. If Person A needs a blood transfusion to survive, and Person B is the perfect donor and right there on hand, you cannot force Person B to give up their blood. If the reason Person A needs the transfusion is because Person B shot them in the waiting room, you still can't force Person B to give up their blood - even to save their victim.
Blood donation is much safer and less invasive than carrying a pregnancy to term and giving birth. So even if you believe that life begins at conception (I don't) or that women are at fault and should be punished for unwanted pregnancies (I certainly don't), forced birth still isn't ethically justified. Even if a fetus is a person in the same way a pregnant adult is, and terminating a pregnancy means killing an innocent, you still cannot force one person to allow the use of their body to keep another person alive.
For a supposedly gender-neutral society, it's fascinating how the only mortal woman over the age of 30 that we meet at Canaan House is persistently framed by other characters' expectations of domesticity, despite being one of the most powerful people in the system and famous for her professional achievements.
Gideon describes Abigail's confident and unsettling demeanor, before adding "but she was wearing an apron and it was hard to feel intimidated by her."
Later, Cytherea asks her about children, and Abigail has to "bracingly" steer the conversation back to her work, and the manuscript which she has been "married to longer than I have to Magnus". When later confronted about murdering her, Cytherea dismisses that work as a "hobby".
It's not until Harrow the Ninth that Harrow - a narrator who spends much of the story being unwillingly bracketed into the Mithraeum's horrors of familial domesticity - offers a perspective on Abigail that doesn't focalise her primarily as a cook, wife, barren hegemonic foster mother, or unwholesome hobbyist.
@procrastinationaccount It sure is...
Imagine a girl partying in her ostentatious bedroom on Ida (you know, before the horrors).
Coronabeth Tridentarius (skimpy nightie version) is @skeleshancreative
📸 photo by Elise Marie Images
Hello to all team 69 enthusiasts! This summer, prepare for a celebration of the beautiful reality that the Ninth is bosom with the Sixth, no matter what sorts of lies Harrow wants to tell herself.
Running from June 9th through September 6th -- 6/9-9/6 or 9/6-6/9, however you write your dates!
The idea is to write, draw, post, and share links to team 69 content. Get your Harrows and Pals, your Cams and Gideons, your "Masterful work, Reverend Daughter"s, your "Ask me how I am and I'll scream"s.
Get your Palamedes holding Gideon's hand, your Camilla telling Harrow how to hold a sword properly! Your "Do you know, I miss Harrow terribly."
Put them in canon, post canon, or canon divergence, put them in an au, share an ao3 link of your favorite team 69 work. The world is your oyster.
We will be sharing weekly prompts/categories to work with, but you should feel free to create whatever you want! The prompts are intended to inspire works of any rating, smut is welcome, wholesome works are welcome, there is room for one and all. Just please make sure everything is tagged appropriately!
Credit for the concept, the name, and a majority of the prompts goes to members of The Library discord server.
Happy 69ing!
