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Since we are losing review space left, right and centre, and Goodreads is making that worse, I'm now going to be doing regular romance review roundups on my blog. Get recs here! Share your own!

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Meng Yao braiding Nie Mingjue's hair in the bedroom. NMJ: How... much longer... MY: We're aaaaalmost done (it's not even close)

Xue Yang: Lmao you're letting me go? Why would you do that? Are you ok??? Meng Yao: No, those soldiers outside were mean to me. XY: "GASP" MY: I knooow... Together: MURDER TIME!

A parody of the Mean Girls with Jin Guangyao delivering the "So you agree?" quote in Guanyin temple.

Chibi Jin Guangyao sorting out characters between "to use" and "to get rid of" boxes in the method of Marie Kondo. JGY is holding Xue Yang plushie and asks himself: Does he spark joy? Have I used him at least once in the last six months? Text: the only one who sparks joy is lan xichen.

I used to make soooo many shitposts about him~ the gremlin den of a multiship fandom was super fun ^^)/
#JGY #dranart

Utterly delightful, thank you for taking us along for the ride, waiting for 5 on the end of 4 is truly too much to be borne

Omggggg it had somehow not hit home for me until you pointed it out right now, that this boy does not know how to have a friendship/human affection aside from hockey and sex, oh Ilya

When people say "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear." the correct response is:

"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are."

omggg your live reacts are so fun and so thoughtful and you caught so much i love this!!

It's the final countdown! The form will stay open while it's still Feb. 14th Anywhere On Earth. There are 5 hours left to get your prompts in and help us save the world with gay smut!

They look so cute!! Your art style is so pretty! Also lol of course Harris loves OFMD that's perfect haha

My first piece for the @iceouthr.bsky.social fandom fundraiser to support immigrant rights. Over 44k has been raised so far! #heatedrivalry #gamechangerseries #book5 #troyandharris Troy and Harris are snuggling at the farm in a post-Sunday dinner food coma. (Harris loves OFMD, don’t @ me)

Hey! We're clearing the ICE over here. What about you?

Donate to an anti-ICE or pro-Immigrant nonprofit and one of our creators will gift you with a #HeatedRivalry fanwork. Donations start at $5, which is way less than a beer down at the arena. Hop on!

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I am generally dismissive of these things but this actually feels scary. This isn't just a scam email, it is an elaborately worked out and callous deception scheme, enabled by AI, and it is hard not to feel targeted.

Be careful out there, authors. Be *very* careful.

AMAZING ahhhh every choice of scene was so perfect!! 'Everyone moved on' with rose, and then all the scenes of Ilya looking stoic and sad ahhhhh

#hollanov to Right Where You Left Me for @iceouthr.bsky.social, a #heatedrivalry fanwork event to support immigrant communities and denounce racism in the U.S.

Donate here until Feb 14th and receive a fanwork:
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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

#HeatedRivalry #ICEOUT is open for donations until Feb 14! Donate to a worth charity and get a Heated Rivalry fanwork gift in thanks from the community. Details in the carrd: iceouthr.carrd.co

Heated Rivalry ICE OUT promo image: Fandom Fundraiser to support Immigrant Communities

Heated Rivalry ICE OUT promo image: Love in, ICE OUT; Creator Signups Open; image displays Ilya licking the side of Shane's face and Shane with his tongue poking out of the side of his mouth, pointed towards Ilya. They both wear their national team uniforms.

Announcing 🏒 ICE OUT 🧊, a Heated Rivalry fandom fundraiser to support immigrant communities in the US and denounce fascism 🔥. Donate and receive an HR fanwork! Creator signups are open NOW until 1/30. 🔗 Details in th carrd: iceouthr.carrd.co

#heatedrivalry #hollanov #fandom

Getting off US tech: a guide I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

the future arrives, which ought to calm uncertainty but somehow we always manage to generate more. A king consults an oracle and gets called a dickbag.

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I am begging you. Please learn about stress/discomfort tolerance. Practice raising it. You need this to survive. If someone online can ruin your day with a throwaway comment, you desperately need to understand discomfort tolerance and consciously, systematically build that shit. Also! Stress tolerance is such an important skill that having a learning disability in that area is a major symptom of a whole lot of other disabilities/mental illnesses! Struggling with it is a huge part of life! It sucks! Am I saying everyone with misophonia needs to listen to chewing noises all day? No. But you need to find ways to tolerate it enough that you don't treat others like shit if they make a mouth noise near you. No, you don't have to read the fic with your trigger tags. But you do need to be able to handle scrolling past the tags without being upset. It is hard! But not having it also makes you so so so easy to manipulate. That grandma is racist AF because her mom raised her to be uncomfortable around black people and she never fought that discomfort. Trans people make so many cis people uncomfortable and that discomfort turns into bigotry real fast. Letting your discomfort dictate your actions and beliefs about things is a great way to become a terrible person. Learn. Discomfort. Tolerance.

Important shit that I’m still trying to learn.

If you're writing a SFF / thriller you can have all the gratuitous sex scenes you want but the murder and violence has to advance plot and character.

If you're writing romance, the *sex scenes* need to advance the plot, and the *murder and violence* are where you go to town.

simple.

I loved how this one’s hairs were so long they made a little skirt :’)

Gouache painted fan art of Reki and Langa from Sk8 The Infinity kissing with a pink glitter Infinity symbol in the background.

Happy 5th Anniversary #SK8THEINFINITY #SK8エスケーエイト
You, your characters and the fandom friends I have made are so special to me and I can not wait for S2!

#renga #fanart #gouache and some sparkle.

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"They made me feel really old,” he says. “They were like, ‘What is a wolf and why is it on parade?’ And I was like, ‘I hate both of you.’ And I was like, ‘Feist? 1,2,3,4?’ And they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, we watched that on Sesame Street.’ And I was like, ‘Again, I’d like to push you down a flight of stairs. Your youth enrages me.’”

I will read every interview with Heated Rivalry writer and director Jacob Tierney because his quotes are truly a reporter's dream: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Image is a digital painting of the characters wei wuxian and lan wangji from the Chinese xianxia novel series "Mo Dao Zu Shi" in the style of American artist John Koch, specifically his 1964 work "The Sculptor" with Wei Wuxian as the sculptor and Lan Wangji as the muse or model. Wei Wuxian is wearing a red shirt and a grey smock and is sat at an angle in an art studio on a bench with his feet pointed to the bottom right of the piece. In his right hand he holds a pair of calipers and in his left hand is a unlit cigarette. Lan Wangji is stood in front of him, completely nude, with his back to the viewer. He has his right arm up and leaning on a large floor easel, one leg leisurely crossed in front of the other, and his left positioned downwards towards Wei Wuxian's face in order to place a cigarette lighter under Wei Wuxian's cigarette. Behind the two is a large sculpture in progress on top of a large cart holding various sculpting supplies that depicts one figure atop a donkey reaching out to a small child who is riding on the shoulders of another figure walking alongside them. Their hands almost reach. In the lower right corner of the piece there is a small framed painting of two rabbits, one white and one black, positioned so that their noses are almost touching. Overall the piece is colored in warm tones and lit softly from behind and to the left. End ID.

I know this is now about 5 years old and was for a different fandom but every time I'm reminded of its existence I get forced into a state of shock like. How did I do this. What kind of mystery stimulants was I taking in order to achieve this and how can I do it again

Really happy with how this drawing turned out ! Li Yu from The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish 🐠

#DTBPF

Sneak peek of Hudson on Andy Cohen and receiving messages from closeted athletes following the release of “Heated Rivalry”.

Every time I see Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellan do something X-Men (or Star Trek / LotR) related I get mad at how the death of mid-budget cinema means there will never be a cozy old man romance movie starring two cozy old men who share an actual long-standing platonic love for one another.

A NSFW drawing of a busty curly haired woman, lifting her arms to tie her hair back and revealing some breast under her crop top. #peteart #peteNSFW

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