Updating my tag list and general guidelines since my old one's badly out of date at this point.
I'm a transmascish bigender butch (zey/he), aspec, a physically disabled DID system with AuDHD and TraumaTM, a slam poet, and a witch.
I'm freshly out of homelessness and currently unable to work due to disability. My cash app/venmo are both $thelurkinglark and anything helps. I am willing to do gift fic/meta.
Currently watching: Critical Role Campaign 4, Dimension 20 Starstruck Odyssey, Supernatural, Leverage
Currently reading/rereading: The Hunger Games, one million comics
This is functionally a comics blog.
My AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/lyricalark/works
My squidgeworld: https://squidgeworld.org/users/larkalliance
Incomplete tag list under the cut
general tags
ryder rambles: tag commentary and original posts
to do/to write/to make/to read: self explanatory, note that to make is mostly dessert and fiberarts and to do includes political actions
ryder reads: mostly comics read throughs but any book I'm reading can go here
ryder replies: asks
i want: wishlist, shopping
current events: serious topics and politics
the ongoing situation: posts that resonate or relate to the current living situation
raised out in the cold: tag for surviving trauma/abuse
oh no that's a feeling: self explanatory, lotta trauma or relationship stuff ends up here
oh big mood: general health and mental health tag
reblogging for no apparent reason: breakup venting and aspec feelings
individual headmates get [name] tag formats, there's some overlap between headmate tags and character tag, some headmates also have emoji tags
for ex. Sansa tag: asoiaf, Austen, period drama, Disney and particularly frozen/tangled
Fandom tags
DC u later: DC comics tag
Jason Todd boy of all time: Jason Todd tag
Or girl of all time rather: this gets added for genderbent and transfem JTodd
Just Nightwing it: Dick Grayson tag
BGC: stands for "Bad Girls Club", this tag has Steph, Harper, Stephcass, BUT Mia Dearden also gets this tag sometimes bc I couldn't think of one for her and so I decided she could be an honorary bad girl
Brucie bat: Bruce Wayne tag, not always complimentary
Damian tag: Damian Al Ghul Wayne tag
Cass Cass Cass: Cassandra Cain tag
Best batboy: Duke Thomas tag
Robins tag: multiple Robins or a character is Robin in the post
Disney princess of DC: Talia Al Ghul tag
Helena Bertinelli my beloved: Helena Bertinelli tag
GCS: Gotham City Sirens tag but occasionally gets applied to other female rogues
BOP: multiple birds of prey characters or birds of prey who don't have individual tags like Dinah and Zinda
Goat: Stands for girl of all time, Helena Wayne or Karen Starr individually
Kory Glory: Koriand'r/Starfire tag
Raven Way: Raven tag
Tara tag: Tara Markov tag
Rose rav: Rose Wilson tag
Donna tag: Donna Troy tag
Diana warrior princess: Diana tag
Cassie Cassie Cassie: Cassie Sandsmark tag
Pg2: Tanya Spears tag
Still small force: Jules Jourdain tag
Amaezing Supergirl: Matrix/Mae Kent tag
Soupman: Superman tag
Soupgirl: Kara Supergirl tag
Aim for the sky: general arrowfam tag
Roy Harper the man that you are: Roy Harper tag
Jaded: Jade Nguyen tag
All the Sandra feelings: Lady Shiva tag
Yja tag: Young Justice animated tag, functionally mostly an Artemis Crock tag
Molls: Miracle molly tag
otp: goats: HelStarr tag
timeout au: functionally a general DickRoy tag
girl crush: Sofia Gigante tag
All the terrible AUs: general Slade and Slade + Dick tag
marvel tag: marvel, both MCU and 616
xmen xmen: X-Men tag
northern lights: Jeanne Marie Beaubier/Aurora tag
Lorna bby: Lorna Dane tag
Laura bby: Laura Kinney tag
Illyana bby: Illyana Rasputin tag
Tash tag: Natasha Romanov tag
Yelena tag: Yelena Belova tag
system of the moon: moon knight tag
I have thoughts: GhostWidow tag that happened by accident
otp: home: Bishova tag
otp: half of my soul: katyana tag
beautiful yet tragic: magneto family tag
rose witch: wanda tag
Street level knights: Defenders and related characters
Best girl: Elektra Natchios
SPOP
spop tag: general She-Ra tag
Adora gayskull: Adora tag
Catra meow meow: catra tag
otp: Catradora tag
Other media
spin posting: supernatural tag
wrestling tag: combat sports tag
my best guy: Seth Rollins tag
miraculous the luckiest: miraculous ladybug tag
lord rings: lotr tag
gtn/tlt: locked tomb tag
star war: star wars tag
dr whom: dr who tag
dice dragons: dnd/ttrpg tag
leverage inc: leverage tag
impatient Octobers: October Daye tag
dolls on main: dolls tag
AU tag list
MFB: Stephanie Brown longfic that features Lonnie Manchin, protests and polyamory
Devil's bargain au: Dick as Slade's apprentice, Robterra
Timeout AU: eventual dickroyjade, Dick as Slade's apprentice
Needle au: Dick as Slade's apprentice, Shado
Destroying Angel au: Dick as Slade's apprentice, RaeTerra, karababs
Defy Heaven WIP: Dick as Slade's apprentice, team defiance wip, unposted
Fireflies au: sprawling space outlaws au
Death's Daughters WIP: assassins and daughters of assassins, League of Assassins - fic now defunct and has been repurposed ingo
Winding Road AU: Talia/Shiva raise Cass and eventually Damian AU
Huntress: Breakdown: HelSofia Ocean's 11 meets Monte Cristo fic, unposted
i go back and forth on if i'm going to, you know, actually do anything with my sw verse for various reasons, not the least of which is that i am playing fast and loose with canon in a way that's strange even for me
(short version: it's both a mix of legends and disney *and* the result of me not really keeping up with anything that's come out in the past however many years since ros and not feeling much need to change that)
but i just have this image of barriss in naboo handmaiden's robes for espionage reasons and i may have to do something with that
Yes there are actually 202 of them, the company sent 2 extra in the package, and I will be numbering them on the bottom with sharpie marker 1-250. This will ensure even if she manages to find all 202, she will never truly stop feeling like there might be a tiny duck somewhere unknown in the house. Lurking. Waiting to appear at the strangest time.
I meant to prank my friend by hiding hundreds of small ducks after saying I would hide small frogs, but it turns out due to some quirk of only 3 people on the entire Internet knowing what a prank is, it seems I have pranked hundreds of other people by saying I would put 100 small frogs in my friends house, when in fact the prank was that it was 202 small ducks.
#imagine the dread she felt when she found the first duck and realized op wasn't joking (via @robyn-goodfellowe)
The key to a good prank, imo, is that the person you're pranking should not feel bad. They should feel delight. My friend has 2 kids. She walked in the door from her vacation, and instead of having two cranky children to deal with as soon as she got home on top of everything else, she got two children excited to run around finding small ducks. My friend knows me well enough to know that when I say weird things there's always a chance I'm not joking, and she would have said no (and been respected) if she didn't want this. The prank was never that I was hiding the toys, just which toys they were, and how many would be hidden.
We finally figured out what makes Kristen Stewart smile: hot wings! The “Twilight” star posed for this amazing photo after dining at a Hooters restaurant in Texas recently. Get the details at Wonderwall.com.
I love it when a classicist has clearly gotten so lost in the BCE sauce that their perception of time has become deeply warped. Case in point: the article I’m currently reading just described the Byzantine era as “a period relatively modern.”
okay i have a long and complicated heterosexual steve/bucky au but what matters is that the super serum functions essentially like testosterone & steroids. and thus a cis female steve still passes for a man and ends up doing a whole mulan thing with captain america. which she has complicated feelings about but lets not get into that bc the point of this post is her accidentally stolen-valoring like half the identities within the lgbtqia+ community
sam thinks shes a trans woman who's transitioning in the modern era. super reasonable assumption based on what he knows ("captain america" is a man in all the history textbooks, but stevie actively makes an effort to get gendered right off the clock). he fumbles on pronouns like twice while figuring it out and then becomes Steve's Biggest Ally TM and never finds out he is aiding a cis woman with her gender dysphoria and not a trans woman. cool bro move regardless thanks man she needed that
natasha thinks steve is nonbinary and the gender role switching comes from that, because natasha has an insane relationship with her own body+gender and its connection to work. like her role as the femme fatale means she views being a woman as part of her job obligation/title; she views steve's gender situation as similar. she thinks steve is for real actually a man on the job and for real actually a woman off it and this makes so much sense to her.
tony thinks steve & bucky are gay men and refuses to delve into this because he is very worried steve fucked howard and he does not want the details. he makes a lot of mildly homophobic quips that he views as a status of him being progressively accepting (think the "no son of mine wears a skirt........that doesn't match his top!" jokes people made in the 2010s) which steve either totally misses or just views as sexist jokes that she ignores.
thor thinks steve & bucky are lesbians and is very happy for them. he's way more used to the muscular body-builder look on woman so he can easily tell that steve's a gal, but during his early days on earth when he had long hair a lot of people informed him that 'long hair is a girl thing' (it was 2009 after all). so thor assumes any human he sees with long hair is a woman, ergo bucky must be a woman. what a beautiful lesbian partnership. he hopes he gets an invite to the wedding
5) bruce thinks steve is a trans man because all of his deep delving into the serum means he understands that it essentially functioned as ultra-transitioning but he doesn't really get how fucking crazy steve was about Having to Fight in the War and thus he assumes this was gender affirming care for steve as much as it was anything else. hes misgendering steve so hard but he thinks hes being really supportive in doing so, and steve is both very used to scientists specifically disregarding her perspective and also coworkers in general getting it wrong, so she just. ignores it. in 10 years when bruce figures it out hes going to feel like the worst person alive. Bruce also assumes steve is bi because he buys into the peggy carter cover backstory for Captain America & is aware that steve is currently married to bucky.
6) clint has no idea what gender steve is and is too afraid to ask at this point. but hes pretty sure they (?) are asexual because they (?) haven't seemed to be attracted to anyone in all the time they've worked together, even when natasha does her classic "lets make out for a cover identity' thing and- oh they(?) have a husband(?). a partner of indeterminate gender also? clint gives up. thats captain america. he's just going to use the captain title in every sentence instead of pronouns.
8) t'challa assumes steve's a cis straight man until the events of civil war & hes like "oh okay gay man. gay man for sure." and then he hears sam using she/her for her and hes like oh god i'm fucking this up so bad. i have to stop guessing. he knows he should just ask but they've been working together for a year now and he's too embarrassed to do it so instead he starts using wakanda-specific gender terms for steve. he gives her the same gender terms as okoye which is a specific 'gender: warrior leader' and shuri starts cackling the first time she hears him do this bc he should notttt be using that for a white american are you fucking kidding me t'challa? and hes like i KN0W shuri but consider this is saving me from at least one really awkward conversation?? so congrats steve you're getting misgendered in ways no non-wakandan ever has been before
9) coulson thinks steve was a cis man but that the excess testosterone in the superserum partially converted into estrogen and that steve's now something of a 'femboy', mostly on account of coulson thinking with his dick. as steve gets more expressive of being a woman off-duty coulson gets more convinced that bucky is force-femming 'him'. can somebody cut this guys internet out
Thought it’d be nice to just have a simple vid without the fast editing to just show off the pots currently still available on the website. So enjoy a nice slow look at the pots and some smooth jazz 🎷
A recall for nearly 1.6 million dozen eggs has been upgraded to the highest risk warning by the FDA. Here's what that means for consumers.
On Aug. 12, the FDA reclassified a recall for nearly 1.6 million dozen white and brown cage-free eggs due to potential salmonella contamination. The recall is now Class I, which is considered "a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death," according to the FDA.
As of July 24, a salmonella outbreak linked to the recalled eggs has sickened at least 98 people and hospitalized 26 across 17 states. The illnesses were reported between Nov. 21, 2025, and June 30, 2026. The FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were aware of 26 hospitalizations due to the recall, but no deaths.