Pray tell...how YOU doing?

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[stealing-your-kittens]

Since I've gotten some OC blogs following me, now, I'm linking my WIP longfic. M/F, Canon/OC pairing, trauma recovery romantic drama revolving around (and fleshing out) the egocentric, traumatized disaster that is Piers Crispin. Indifferent GP and scandal-chasing breakfast tv host.

My OC, Alexis Wright, is also a traumatized disaster. Of the bad-tempered variety. A former teenage runaway who's never actually stopped running from herself and her problems. Both of them are walking red flags no one should ever date, and they sort of like that about each other. When they don't hate it. Unfortunately, they can't really stick together long enough to save the rest of the world from themselves. They're trying, though.

Lots of therapy. Lots of UST. One instance of very awkward sex that solved no problems apart from his virginity, and actually made everything worse. (They'll get that one right eventually, like the rest of it.)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[plain-flavoured-english]

As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

[plain-flavoured-english]

Excuse me???

[ruffboi-mags]

you are right and you should say it.

[instantduckninja]

Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

[fluffmugger]

The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags your favorite movie trilogy.

[stealing-your-kittens]

Just found out LCL is public domain, now, and that some people were writing “unofficial” sequels as early as 1931. Super curious, but don’t wanna pay money for them if I can help it

Also, just finished reading a more recent one from 1995, Lady Chatterley’s Confession on the Internet Archive, and it has managed to piss me off.

It’s pretty realistic in terms of the clusterfuck that Connie and PMO would be as a couple longterm, and has her becoming sympathetic to his ex once he turns the same vitriol on her, and he dies from his illness. Which pleased me a little.

It was thisclose to making me happy, buuuuut…not only did Connie stick it out to the end even when he showed signs of turning abusive to their daughter, Emily, and Connie, herself, was falling in love with someone else, and….sigh…Clifford died alone. Didn’t like any of that. He stayed somewhat in touch with Connie and kept refusing the divorce while trying to talk her into letting him adopt Emily. He even leaves Emily an inheritance despite the fact Connie refused to let him ever see her. So, all around it painted him in a more sympathetic light, too.

So, what pissed me off?

Ok, look, I can accept that it was all but spelled out he was in a sort of relationship with Ivy up until her death. She made him worse in the original, but them pseudo hooking up is still canon, as far as that goes. It makes sense. I’ll allow it, even though I have maaaaaaany many thoughts about what sort of sequel he really deserves.

But there’s one little scene before he dies, where Connie goes to ask for a divorce one last time so she can marry the new guy she’s in love with, Kurt. A German. Which scandalizes Clifford when they’re about to go to war with Germany again. Even moreso when finding out Kurt’s Jewish. And he’s all “what about everything you were brought up to believe?” And Connie self-righteously asserts she wasn’t brought up with any particular prejudice of that kind.

LOL

LMAO EVEN

SHE’S THE ANTISEMITIC ONE IN THE ORIGINAL NOVEL AND TOTALLY CHILL WITH PMO BEING CASUALLY RACIST

SHE LITERALLY HAS ALL THE PREJUDICES

Like, it’s not even a soul-searching, she realized she was an awful person thing and then started falling for him. She’s just full-on getting upset with the casual antisemitism from Clifford, and earlier from PMO.

It’s far more likely, with Lawrence being antisemitic and making Clifford his exact opposite in matters of taste, that it would be Clifford who would canonically do something as “horrible” as get involved with someone Jewish and never bat an eye. Like, if there was a plot point where Clifford started working with a Jewish businessman in the original, Connie would have been there internally sneering about how they were well-matched in greed or something.

Even when they’re being halfway nice to my boy they unfairly villainize him

SMGDFH

[jewishbarbies]

forgot that I caught this yesterday. they’re genuinely making up shit to be mad about and ofc it has to include minorities.

[deviantplum]

What shall we do with an Eldritch horror

What shall we do with an Eldritch horror

What shall we do with an Eldritch horror

Tentacles all flailing

R'lyeh and up he rises

R'lyeh and up he rises

R'lyeh and up he rises

Tentacles all flailing

Praise his Madness in the waking nightmare

Praise his Madness in the waking nightmare

Praise his Madness in the waking nightmare

Tentacles all flailing

[leonordchoem]

im singehandedly repairing jewish-goyische relations through my outreach with my facebook friends

[aerialsquid]

I briefly forgot there were normal humans named Elijah and wondered why this person thought they were getting messages from Actual Prophet and Messiah-Herald Elijah the Tishbite.

[findingfeather]

….yeah me too.

[lireavue]

Me three.

[star-anise]

Imagine getting visions of someone else’s holy prophet and having to text your friends like “….what am I supposed to do with that?”

[library-graffiti]

I have not laughed that hard in so long I literally cannot remember when.

[argumate]

explosive diarrhea has to be the worst kind of diarrhea at least until somebody invents armour penetrating or thermobaric or nuclear diarrhea

[argumate]

actually are there any diarrhea denialists, has it become partisan-coded like covid and ebola before that, are there people out there proudly munching raw unwashed lettuce to trigger the libs

[cowboy]

They Put Jimothy in roku citayyyy

[tilthat]

TIL Ray Bradbury first titled Fahrenheit 451 “The Fireman”, then called a local fire station to ask what temperature it would take to actually ignite books. The responding firemen placed him on hold and burnt a book, then reported that the heat required was “Fahrenheit 451″.

via reddit.com

[fourlughero]

That’s such a fire fighter thing to do.

“You know what? That’s a good question. I’m gonna put you on hold while I find out”

[verdigrisvagabond]

My dad used to design kitchens at Lowe’s and one day he got a dude from one of the national labs looking to buy a countertop. Dad sent him home with a sample of a quartz-composite countertop to make sure the color will look good with his existing cabinets. The dude asks my dad what the composition of the countertop is and whether it’ll melt if he puts a pot on it (since it’s a composite and not pure stone) and Dad gives him some rough numbers and reassures him that it won’t melt if he puts a hot pan on the counter. The dude comes back with week later without the sample. The dude gives dad a detailed list of the countertops composition, to the nearest hundredth of a percentile, and the exact temperature it melts at, because he took it to his lab and melted it down. tldr, it’s not just firefighters.

[kaijuunibyou]

Imagine giving someone a sample of the granite you use to make countertops and they come back a few days later just to tell you they fucking dematerialized it

[ferrous-princess]

Ok, but this is just, like, what people do if they have access to equipment. We just… put shit in it. Just to see. At this point, I’ll try and hit just about anything with an arc, just to see. I’ll sand and polish anything you’ll let me, if I’m bored enough. If I had a machine that could melt something down and tell me exactly what was in it? I’d be just waiting for parts of my world to become “trash” so I could de-materialize it and turn it into knowledge of what it was.

[dogpuppy]

[nineteenyearoldmeblog]

im fucking crying

[thememedaddy]

[hollowboobtheory]

one thing you need to know about 2014. is that what does the fox say was playing pretty much everywhere you went. and everybody was just relieved it wasn't blurred lines

[hollowboobtheory]

I canot stress enough that those were the only 2 songs in 2014

[adamsmasher]

WE WERE ON JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!

[rouge-the-bat]

thank you for coming to my this #mythis

[nedlittle]

Wildfires in northern Ontario force First Nations to flee

Several wildfires are forcing members of a number of First Nations to flee their homes in northern Ontario.

“I had time to run home and pack a bag and get to the beach where the boats were waiting,” said a member of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation (Collins). “We literally had minutes to get on the boats and flee before it took our town. “Once we left my house finally after packing what I could in a pack sack, the fire was right behind our place. We had to run to the beach and once we got there, it was only moments before the fire had jumped over the (train) track and was coming for us.”

it has since been confirmed that namaygoosisagagun first nation has completely burnt to the ground. if you would like to help the community navigate an ongoing crisis, i urge you to donate to the anishinabek nation 7th generation, a registered charity seeking to improve the lives of first nations people. donations are going directly to members of namaygoosisagagun first nation.

if you're canadian, you can e-transfer [email protected]. if you're outside canada, they accept paypal as well. see more information HERE

[desfraisespartout]

Their official website:

Individuals who support the goals and vision of AN7GC can make a donation. The ways to donate: call us, mail your donation, use Paypal or Ca

Their page on CanadaHelps / CanaDon:

[sunrisetune]

Article published July 14th, 2026

[productofaritual]

Love character relationships that can only be described as "whatever the fuck these two have going on"

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.