disseminator of discontent

Food: spicy ahi sushi burrito

Goodmorning to the Anthropic Claude AI training scraper that suddenly decided to request 660 thousand pages (exactly the number I had remaining on the starter plan) and brought Pikiwedia down. 

Sudden switch from diverse user agents like chrome, safari, messenger preview to Just Claudebot. I'm not even mad though, this is maybe the funniest thing possible, because I've inadvertently poisoned their training data with thousands of fucked up articles with normal urls. 

every calculation falls silent

Author: thehobbem

Rating: Teen

Relationship: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov

Additional Tags: Royalty AU, Arranged Marriage AU, Period AU, Drama & Romance, Mutual Pining, Fluff and Angst, Sissi AU, Alternate History

Chapters: 4 / 4 (complete!)

Chapter word Count: 7.1k (~total: 28.9k)

Summary: With an engagement arranged behind his back, Emperor Victor only wishes to have one last day for himself as a free man. But the last thing he will be is free, once he meets someone who seems to have the exact same plans, and perhaps motivations, for today.

Art by the incredible @iruutciv! ♥

From the other side of the room, Victor made his way to Mari, his pace brisk and the blue roses in his hands reflected into infinity in every single mirror. And yet, there was nothing in the entire hall that could rival Victor himself — his hair of silver outshining the excess of crystals hanging from the ceiling, his eyes far surpassing the beauty of the roses. And Yuuri knew, with a certainty that exceeded even his knowledge of his own self, that he’d be able to smell the lavender and honey as soon as Victor came closer, the scents having long been associated with him in Yuuri’s heart.

The crowd parted for the emperor, and the music gave way to echoing silence as Victor finally stood before the two of them; Yuuri wondered if everyone in the hall could hear his heartbeat, or if it was just in his own ears that it pounded mercilessly.