need Key biblically

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[jasmine-tea-biscuits]

Calling All Time of Iron Fans

Hey, do you like Sarah Rees Brennan and her Time of Iron series? Do you like making things to show your love? Do you like seeing things that other fans have made?

Then join us in the Eyam’s Vipers community as we plan an event for Long Live Evil’s anniversary this August!

It’ll be a week long event online where we create and post different fan works based on daily prompts. Fanfics, fanart, mood boards, and whatever else you can get creative with are welcome!

This isn’t a competition. It’s just our way of celebrating the books. Like a little fandom potluck of sorts.

So join us! We are currently coming up with a list of potential prompts, and if you would like you can add to it.

Eyam’s Vipers • Community on Tumblr

117 members, 204 posts about #long live evil #sarah rees brennan #time of iron • A community celebrating Long Live Evil/ the Time of Iron se

[creatingblackcharacters]

Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.

Anyway I miss him and hope he's doing better with his mental health 🙏🏾

[creatingblackcharacters]

Like say what you want about "bad queer representation", but this was the song that made me openly and happily accept that I was bisexual. To see him up there Black and beautiful, making music that I love, absolutely killing it? Yeah. You couldn't tell me shit. This man made me proud to be out. "This will make them think we're evil for being gay" hey newsflash dawg-

[alwaysfallingdizzy]

When I think of The Golden Cobra, Eric Mitchell, I think of Lil Nas X.

[sarahreesbrennan]

You are a hundred per cent right to do so! I was thinking about him as well. Both his dress sense (I mean, behold the fan) and general attitude.

There is also a reason I have Eric gracefully deploying a literal fan Rae is unsure about holding - and he’s the one who has in-depth correct knowledge about canon, though he’s working with an outdated text.

Lil Nas X ran a popular Nicki Minaj fan account on twitter back in the day. People have a notion in their mind about who fans are, what they look like, that they can’t be creators themselves, and I wanted to build a character who was all those things - cool, Black, queer, gender non-conforming, genre savvy, an intense fan, a celebrated creator and supporter of the arts, someone who embraced the villain aesthetic out of exuberant defiance but always went his own way. It is rough to be loudly joyfully yourself in a world that doesn’t want you to be even quietly yourself, and artistic depiction is discussion, not endorsement.

The week in which I did nothing but read up on the origins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and gnc fashion spanning from the 12th to the 19th century to find overlap was not Lil Nas X’s fault.

Anyway, I’m a fan.

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[starofhisheart]

Happy pride to those 5 seconds where Charlie Swan thought Jacob was coming out to him in the most insane way possible

[shesalittlelost]

Abandoning all your other children and loving the only child who inherited your power to compensate for the love you were deprived of by your own mother because of this very power but also dooming him in the process. I love whatever is wrong with baghra. Insane mother & son duo also one of the most interesting parts of the series if you ask me.

[mcfif]

Is this...? 🤨

[sarahreesbrennan]

Indeed. :)

I want this series to be a modern metatextual extravaganza so I try to keep my pop culture and literary references pretty balanced as I sprinkle them through the layers. One for you Hozier, one for you Shirley Jackson, one for you Leigh Bardugo, one for you Tennyson.

[mckitterick]

[astastories]

It’s not my favorite dress design, but decided to go with one that felt more innocent also while not my fav ship in the book definitely an intriguing couple 

[sarahreesbrennan]

So, happy Pride!

I love the detail on Lia’s sash, the glint of light on Emer’s axe, and the lock of hair escaping Emer’s bun for Lia to toy with (appropriate!) and Emer’s birthmark. Thank you for putting in the effort that adds up to a gorgeous whole @astastories

I know people may feel a liiiittle complicated about these two in light of Certain Events In All Hail Chaos, entanglements with lady blacksmiths (the hottest kind of blacksmith…?), morally indefensible decisions, murder plots, axe murder, lying and manipulation - and indeed I meant you to, all that may lead to a sticky end!

But I support women’s wrongs. Well, everyone’s wrongs, really. It’s in the title. Long Live Evil, baby.

[lacanthropy]

*rolls over toward you in the dark and dead of night* Are you awake? Cool, cool. Do you ever think about how, if given the chance, Key of the Cauldron would've been there for Rae when she was hospitalized?

He would've been by her bedside every day no matter what anyone else thought about it, he would have held her hair back when she threw up and tucked her in when she was cold and told her dad that he and his new family could go fuck themselves, the baby included. He would've skipped school and gone back just to tell Marlowe that Rae might not throw her out the window but he gladly would, and he would've learned to get along with Alice and he'd have memorized the whole Time of Iron series just to read it to Rae when she was awake. He'd steal the hospital popsicles for her and beat the crap out of anyone who made her feel bad when she started losing her hair, he'd have held her and raged with her *becoming increasingly hysterical* He'd have been there for her until the end and after that. No matter how mean and tired she got, no matter how m any times they tried to kick him out, he'd have slept on the hospital floor just to stay by her side. Love survives death.

Anyway, goodnight.

[sarahreesbrennan]

You guys get it. That was why the Emperor was Rae’s favourite character: he has what she desperately wanted and nobody could offer her. My boy may need to be committed but he commits. He would have.

And who knows? He may yet.

[rowanclair]

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.

[sarahreesbrennan]

And if I said the white knight looking into the Oracle’s pool to see New York, what then?

[tahthetrickster]

me: i have a very specific tumblr accent meme im thinking of that surely i should be able to pull up by searching the text in the meme

the most dogshit useless decimated search engine in the entire world:

[winepresswrath]

The rise of AI slop & the endless waves of books that feel written to spec by people who are terrified of their own audiences has given me a new appreciation for Anne Rice. It's not even that she didn't give a fuck; she cared passionately and was famously, publicly hurt by the reception of at least one of her novels, but she never let that distract her from her mission of writing whatever the fuck she wanted. No one could write Anne Rice's books except Anne Rice. They are singularly, entirely hers and while I won't pretend she was a perfect person or it's wrong for readers to be offended or uninterested in spending their one and only life on earth reading something that offends them, I also think her work is valuable and humane and also often hilarious and it's not a crime to have a muse you adore.

[sarahreesbrennan]

Let’s write something bizarre and unhinged with mama

I really don’t think it’s art or it’s love unless you get weird about it. And that makes people love you. And it makes people hate you. And it made me specifically sit through the musical of the Vampire Lestat even though half the audience left in the interval.

[the-punforgiven]

god I wish I had a pair of menacing black gauntlets with really sharp fingertip claws I bet it feels good as fuck to have your hands resting palm-down on a surface and then scratch some deep fucking gashes into it as you clench your hand a little closer to a fist when your evil minion delivers some bad news to you

[the-punforgiven]

ohhh fuck yeah, you understand

[sarahreesbrennan]

the people crave the Claws of the Emperor

[evenlyevi]

See you again

[thisauthorisscreaming]

Does it count as 'sword in the stone' if it looks more like 'sword in the cairn'...?

[canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit]

Marius "The Last Hope" Valerius, trying to express his affection & devotion towards the man he loves: you can cut my throat if you really want to, I won't be mad

[thesamuraiturnedpretty]

Key of the Cauldron has read the same romance tips

[oumaneklelathont]

Family traits....

[sarahreesbrennan]

‘I know it’s unkind but my own blood is much too dangerous…’

[spookberry]

Was reminded of my old monster Cinderella x Snow White story and felt like redesigning them a bit