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What if Jack Harkness and Dorian Gray were in a relationship?
It would be toxic as fuck, that's what. I now proudly present my third book:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Welcome to what's planned to be 19 chapters and 50k+ words of pure heartbreak and hot as fuck sex, with a bit of mystery thrown in for good measure. You're welcome.
(I promise I'll get back to updating when I can!)
how does it feel to be the funniest person on earth
DIRK IS A REGULAR GUY. HE CAN DO A HOLISTIC.
being on my period makes me feel like a wounded forest animal trying to find a warm dark small place to die
just blocked a bunch of terfs, and as op may well be aware already, theyāve been rbing the unedited version of this post. on the brighter side, you can now hover over several radfem blogs and see some variation of this
Yeppp. Thatās why I had to add the banner. Blocking them is like whack-a-mole.
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my bf found the image so i can explain it now
my mom would write bible verses on like anything when i was younger so this happened
OH THATS REALLY FUNNY
"comparing apples and oranges" has always been funny to me as an expression because people's go to exampe of two things so radically different that they defy any useful comparison are apples. and oranges. like you would struggle to find a more comparable pair of objects than that. theyre literally sold right next to each other in most stores.
wikipedia has a whole ass section dedicated to international variants of the idiom so let me quickly run through them
see this is even worse than oranges. pears and apples are like the most comparable things ever. france takes another L
ok so this is what i mean. these are measures of temperature and texture and are in fact not very comparable. Š¼Š¾Š»Š¾Š“ŃŃ ŃŠµŠ±ŃŃŠ° ŠæŃŠ¾Š“Š¾Š»Š¶Š°ŠµŠ¼ Š² ŃŠ¾Š¼ Š¶Šµ Š“ŃŃ Šµ.
colombia wins most vivid image invoked hands down. would not want that to happen to me.
and i think we can all agree romania wins this hands down. everyone give a big round of applause to romania
Hey do yāall remember when Boeing fucking killed a guy last year. And we all said āhuh I guess Boeing fucking killed a guyā and then went on with our lives. And everybody knew that Boeing had fully just fucking executed a guy and nothing came of it. Like there was no police investigation no justice no nothing. Like literally EVERYBODY knew that Boeing had full on murdered a guy to silence him and there wasnāt any consequences for them. Kinda crazy.
and there was even less talk when openai did the exact same thing more recently
So for those who are, very understandably uninitiated on this story:
On 23 October last year (2024) the New York Times published an interview with former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji who worked on organising and gathering data for OpenAI until 2022 when he begun thinking about the morality of it. He eventually came to the conclusion that what OpenAI is doing blatantly violates copyright law and decided to leave the company altogether in August 2024.
After he came out with this accusation he was set to appear in court to testify against OpenAIās data-gathering practices, something which had the potential of being a complete disaster for the company and the generative AI industry as a whole.
That was until 26 November, just days before he was due to appear in court, when he suddenly and mysteriously was found dead inside his own apartment. Investigators concluded that the death was self-inflicted, something which his family has disputed.
There was also āsign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like someone hit him in the bathroom based on blood spotsā, and his apartment showed signs of having been ransacked for evidence: āThe pin drive is missing. His computer was messed up.ā.
Overall it feels pretty clear-cut what happened, that is to say that OpenAI had him killed because he was a legitimate threat to their business, indicating that they are fully aware that the way theyāre gathering data is completely illegal.
Sources:
Alys Davies, 14.12.2024, OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment. BBC News
Barney Davis, 16.1.2025, Suchir Balajiās family demand outside investigation into OpenAI whistleblowerās death. The Independent
Cade Metz, 23.11.2024, Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law. The New York Times
im sorry what?
The nurse who prescribes my HRT is great, zero complaints, but he can put the ball a little too in-my-court. In my most recent checkup we were talking about adjusting my dose, and he asked what dosage I wanted, and like, that's not a question I am qualified to answer, my guy.
So I said, "My ideal dose is basically that I'm holding an erlenmeyer flask of pure estrogen and someone offscreen yells, 'Doctor, you can't!' and I say, 'Just watch me!' and then I drink it and contort violently around and then fall out of frame and when I pop back into frame I'm played by Anne Hathaway."
And he didn't give me that dose but he did up it, so, like I said, zero complaints.
i hate the "we should only have queer actors playing queer characters" argument for several reasons. but what annoys me the most is that people who argue this straight up don't realize that it's illegal to ask someone about their sexuality in relation to a job interview. like an audition. i don't think breaking anti-discrimination laws to screen people's sexualities to determine their employment is the woke take you think it is.
"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit
To wit:
I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.
In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought sheād try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:
āSo hereās the thingā¦ I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and youāre doing interesting things with them.
āMy biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Donāt hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.ā
Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didnāt limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.
Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Donāt limit yourself based on other pplās tastes. Theyāre not you, and you are incredible š
This is the most inspirational thing I've read all week. Possibly all year
I genuinely donāt understand how Dirk Gentlyās Holistic Detective Agency isnāt a bigger hit on this website! I mean the main characters are literally a pathetic cringe fail wet-cat of a man and his incredibly traumatized neurodivergent best friend boyfriend!
Thereās a hot goth lady who gets adopted into a polycule group of incredibly kind punk-looking guys who live in their car! The car might be sentient!!
THERES A WOMAN COVERED IN BLOOD WHO KILLS PEOPLE FOR FUN! She also adopts a guy!
This show should be like catnip for yāall! GO WATCH IT! ITS AMAZING! THE PLOT IS THE WEIRDEST (IN THE BEST WAY) FUCKING THING THAT YOUāLL SEE THIS YEAR! THE WRITINGāS SPECTACULAR! EVERY SINGLE PIECE IF PLOT IS LITERALLY CONNECTED AND WILL COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU! THE CHARACTERS ARE SO SO SO AMAZING! GO WATCH IT!!!
astarion: i hate those stupid fairytale romances where the trapped, helpless princess is rescued and swept off her feet by some dashing noble prince
wyll ravenguard: *exists*
astarion, fervently wishing that wyll had swooped in and rescued him from cazador and then princess carried him into the night: ....alright fine maybe i somewhat see the appeal
hey boy don't kill yourself. green's dictionary of slang is available online and allows you to explore 500 years of english vulgarity. you can search by part of speech, source, time period, etymology, and usage. there's a whole category for gay slang. they even have specific citations listed so you can see the exact context for yourself. boy did you know that in 1927 "to kneel at the altar" was slang for "to sodomize"
some other hits:
Princess: an effeminate and relatively youthful male homosexual or lesbian (1931-4)
Daffodil: effeminate young man (1925)
To throw a fuck into: to have sex with (1919)
Top sergeant: a masculine lesbian (1939) [āshe takes command of the girlsā privatesā]
Lily: penis (1919)
Wolf: sexually aggressive man (1847); a homosexual top (1918)
Soul kiss: a deep kiss, involving putting oneās tongue into oneās partnerās mouth (1907)
Tom: a lesbian (1909); [in 'old tom'] prostitute catering to lesbians (1966)
Church mouse: a male homosexual who frequents crowded churches in order to fondle any potential sex partners. (1941)
Discover one's gender: to accept or acknowledge oneās homosexuality (1941) / Lose one's gender: To return to living as a heterosexual
Minty: a masculine lesbian (1941)
Also a lot of early 20th century vulgarity is recorded in Letter from My Father, which is a collection of letters published by a man who's dad was, in short, a major slut and human disaster who wrote about his sex life for his son. It's insane. You can find copies of it online & it's a wild fucking read (literally!) and I think a really interesting look at the life of a person who goes against our stereotypes of what people in the past were "supposed" to be like.
Anyways feel free to add y'all's favs to this post. & if you use this for gay historical fanfic please share with the class
#OH THIS IS EXTREMELY EXTREMELY HELPFUL#writing#resources#saving for later#maybe i should move my 1920s story from '25 to '27 because..... bro..........
note for writers: these are dated to the first time they were recorded, not necessarily to their first use. I imagine for many of these, they came about naturally through spoken language before they were written down anywhere. This is especially true of more underground slang because it's probably being recorded (in ways we still have) the least. So if you wanna use a term but it's a little off date-wise, give yourself some wiggle room.
also gonna take this moment to highlight two more i found recently:
Best boy: a sweetheart, a boyfriend, a husband. (1893) [w the obvious equivalent term 'best girl']
Honeydripper or honeydrips: a sexual partner (1917)
Like. Honeydripper?????? That's so horny I can't stop thinking about it. We need to bring THAT back
Photographers Hawaii captured what scientists say is the first documentation of humpback whale sex.
let's hear it for gay whale sex
no you do not need to hold fictional characters "accountable". they are not real.
"Guy" and "man" have different connotations with adjectival nouns. Like "tree guy" = arborist but "tree man" = he lives in a tree, or maybe he is a tree.
"I know a guy" = "I have a useful contact."
"I know a man" = "I am about to tell you a story."
āHeās a great guyā = he is pleasant and fun and well-intentioned
āHeās a great manā = he has saved countless lives and changed the world irrevocably
